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Yaroslav: One Thousand Years Ago (Iron Lord) (subtitles)
- Availability: In Stock
- Subtitles: English
- Languages: Russian
- Format: Color
- Soundformat: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Genre(s): History , Drama , Adventure
- Year of release: 2019 (2010)
- Recording length: 103 min.
Young Russian Prince Yaroslav fights the robbers, tribes and the invaders. He is the first to unite Russian lands and to create the original Russian state.
The beginning of XI century in Russia or Rus. Kievan Rus is
composed of the principalities that are governed by the sons of Grand
Prince Vladimir of Kiev. Princes with their men collect tribute then
sending it to their father in Kiev. In the north-east of Russia is the
most distant principality of Kiev - Rostov. Prince Vladimir sends his
son Yaroslav to rule in Rostov, when he turns 11 years old. Jaroslav
grows under the tutelage of the boyars, who run the principality, while
he is small. Growing up, Jaroslav takes power into their own hands,
expanding the principality, and attaches the new lands. But this is not
an easy task. Bandit gangs keep ruling in the woods, along the roads and
rivers. Their main occupation is the slave trade. Gangs sell people to
the Bulgars and the Khazars, and they send the slaves for resale to the
lower reaches of the Volga. More and more often the Jaroslav's squad goes for tribute and finds empty, ransacked settlements of the tribes


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Reasons For AV - 1974
Was it the elected government?
Or Authur Scargill and the NUM?
Ted Heath, the Conservative Prime minister called the election after a wave of strikes. He made it plain that the issue of who governed the country was the primary issue in the election.
But instead of getting the government with the highest popular vote, the country got the loser.
It got Harold Wilson.
Wilson's Labour Party won the most seats, even though they got a smaller share of the vote than the Tories. Because they got the most seats they were given the first opportunity to form a government
Wilson, on the day of the election called a surrender parley with Arthur Scargill and the TUC to ensure the security of his minority government.
He then went on to form the Lib-Lab pact, (a poor mans coalition).
The country was in crisis. It needed popular leadership.
It got a coalition of losers. Courtesy of First Past The Post.
Heath was not asked to form the government because the Tories had won fewer seats than the Labour party. Even though the Tories had a greater share of the popular vote. What a travesty.
Wilson, the grand appeaser, forced a false boom and then held another snap election in October 1974. This time he won legitimately though at terrible cost to the nations wealth.
The country got a supine Labour administration that sleep walked the country though devaluation and economic collapse when the country really should have got something a little more "popular" and dare I say, effective.
The country ended up on a rudderless pre-Thatcherite course to the Winter of Discontent. Internally riven by extremists and in the middle of the depths of the cold war the country was, as in 1929 and 1951, bankrupt. It remained that way for a long time.
The current First Past the Post system abjectly failed this country in 1926, 1951 and 1974. The intrinsic flaws in FPTP and particularly its sensitivity to swing seats mean it will fail again unless replaced.
FPTP has the potential to randomly foist either a coalition of losers or (much worse - as in 1951) promote a government with an absolute majority that clearly came second in the election.
FPTP must be replaced. To simply go along with the current system would be to fossilise our democracy and deny our children the right to a dynamic forward looking democracy.
There is only one way to vote in this referendum. Vote for fairness. Vote for AV.
4 comments:
- Unknown said...
We sent our postal votes yesterday, both "yea", it would be a blow to democracy if the "nay" win through.
In Wales things are tricky, we also voted Labour for the first time ever, we just had to help keep Plaid Cymru out in Caerphilly.
- April 24, 2011 at 6:52 PM
- BilloTheWisp said...
Hi John,
I understand the Labour vote - after all you are voting tactically, which is really simply what AV would do for you automatically if it were in place!
- April 24, 2011 at 7:27 PM
- Dilettante said...
I'm anti-AV, and I outline why here:
Interestingly, the fact that people would be less inclined to vote tactically under AV is one of my most serious objections.
You never explain how AV is less likely to foist random coalitions of losers on us, meaning the article doesn't make a positive case for AV at all.
- April 25, 2011 at 6:47 AM
- BilloTheWisp said...
Dilettante, You are right, I need to fully explain why AV is less likely to foist a losers coalition on us. I'll do this after my next scheduled posts on voting fraud.
But briefly - Wilson got 1st chance to form the govt because he got the most seats, though he had less vote share. Under AV, because it eventually boils down to straight fight the largest 2 candidates in any seat is virtually g'teed the largest vote share goes to the party with most seats - assuming the electorial commision has done its job and seat populations are roughly equal.
Tactical voting - all tactical voting is under FPTP is a poor man's AV where you have to guess where your vote would transfer to. TV also then denies a true image of voting intentions.
- April 25, 2011 at 9:47 AM

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Went to the zoo yesterday with a bunch of other mom's. Had a crazy fun time. Great weather. Spent a load of money on trees and other shrubs for our land. Want to plant today....we'll see. Lots going on today. Have a great day!
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Out of town
Sorry, I was out of town and I've been running around all day. Got some cute stuff at the scrapbook store in Flagstaff! Can't wait to create with it! What this guy thinks is so funny I dont' know. This week is Spring Break so you probably won't see me around very much. Take care.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Green Dinner & Happy Birthday to Aaron
We had Green Chile Rellano caserole which was VERY green on the inside thanks to the help of some food coloring. Guacamole, no help needed there, green gatorade and green applesauce with pineapple mixed in. The kids called it "alien" brains. The kids complained that the chips weren't green and I guess if I had planned better we could have had guacamole chips which ARE green...maybe next year. We decided to forego the usual corned beef and cabbage and set our own theme this year. We had a lot of fun with it, and used plasticware because we wanted to have time for Family Home Evening.
Today is Aaron's birthday. He turns THREE!!!!! Now, we just have to get him fully potty trained before we can officially call him a big boy. Aaron is just going to be one of those people that makes others smile. It just comes so naturally to him, even at such a young age. Travis totally plays favorites sometimes (Aaron really takes after his daddy), and I have to remind him that he would have never let one of the other kids get away with Aaron's antics. I love my baby but pretty soon he'll be a big brother, I hope he transitions into that roll easily. Have a great day.
PS How do you like my new table cover? I gave in, I was SO tired of scrubbing dried up spilt cereal and milk off of the wood that I became my grandmother and bought a plastic cover! I think she would be proud. It might not look super stylish but it REALLY cleans up easily.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Pay it Forward...Finally!
So, I'm finally getting back into the swing of things and I really wanted to post. Jill over at Inkgenious sent me a wonderful Pay it Forward package. I in turn would like to pay it forward to the first three people who let me know that they would like to participate. You have to have a blog in order to "spread the love" as Jill says. I'll take a pic of all the goodies I received tomorrow when the light is better. Take care.Just a little pic of Tessa in her new dress to brighten your day/night!
PS. THIS is my actual baby. I just love that pert little nose. Travis thinks it's a boy...don't tell him but I kinda do too. Even though having a girl would just make "things" easier... things like sleeping situations and space and Tessa wouldn't be sad to go to her room alone at night. We'll see next month though. Look at that skinny little leg sticking WAY out there. Weird that the baby is only about three to three and a half inches long in these ultrasounds. Amazing what technology can show us.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Pay it Forward and Birthdays
Birthday card for Tiffany. Another one of my friends is having a birthday. I made this card for her with my new wheel. I adore it. Thanks to Jill for the primas and the super Cowboy Kid card!!!! I got them with her pay it forward package. Later on after I go visiting teaching I'll post about the pay it forward fun. This is just a quick post to get me back into the swing of things after the long weekend. My dh and I actually had a date on Saturday. It was very nice. BTW I love the shrinky dink cowboy on Jill's card. I haven't done that for a while.
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Friday, March 07, 2008
I'm in Love
I'm in love...with Wild Wasabi! When I had my party I was able to get a package of In Color cardstock. How did I ever live without it?!?!?! I hope the person I made this card for likes it. It's giong in the mail today. I thought I was using SCS sketch but upon reading the rules my panels don't go to the edges so it doesn't quite qualify. Oh well. I embossed the sentiment and flowers in white from the One of a Kind stamp set. The red strip is cuttlebugged with the polka dots.
Just thought I'd share this adorable pic of my little guy playing in the snow yesterday. Frozen fun.
Yesterday at the ultrasound the kids were so excited to see the baby in mommy's tummy. The technician gave them all their own copies of the pictures. Each got three; the foot, the profile and the 3D-4D pic. I got a lot more but I thought that ws really nice of her to do that for them. Aaron kept saying, "That's not me." So cute. I'll post a reall "pic" of my babe later. Have a great day.
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
I just about hate that phrase now. I want a "SPRING DAY". Last night the snow began and it didn't stop for a long time. We got about a foot of snow. The sad thing is is that two days ago we were outside doing yard work in our T-shirts. Ughh! So my plans for today were to go to my dental cleaning at 10:00am...we'll see because that's out here with all the snow and then I have an ultrasound at 1:00pm in town. Hopefully some of the snow will have melted off by then. Living in the country sure has it's drawbacks sometimes, but I love it. The stars at night and the cool summer evenings. Oh yeah, and here's some super exciting news. Our Smith's grocery store remodeled and now there's a Starbucks. We're very shi shi now. My friend, Natalie, who IS a coffee drinker is extremely jealous. The Smith's remodeled because of our other super exciting news. Our very own Super Wal-Mart is opening tomorrow. At first I totally resisted because I was like, "NO, this is small town America, I don't want no stinkin' WM out here!" but then gas prices kept going up and my resolve kept weakening. Sorry, I gave in to the pressure.
Enough about that.
Look at the AMAZINGLY cute card I made. My mojo has definitely made a comeback.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Mama got some new stamps!
Update on the boy... he is grounded from all forms of media for a week and he has to clean the entire bathroom by himself. Cleaning has to be approved by mom. I think that's made an impression.
Update on the smaller boy... he's almost potty trained and was doing very well until yesterday. He was outside a lot with friends and had many accidents. Today will be a better day. I will be there when he needs to "go".
Update on the girl...she's perfect! Not always but it seems like it compared to my boys. She had crazy hair day yesterday at preschool and today is pajama day. This very moment she informed me that, "Mom, I just love having a dog and a cat." How cute is that?
Oh and this is apparently what my baby looks like about now.
Deelio: I created this card using Julee Tillman's Mojo Monday Sketch#27. I used my new One of a Kind stamp set with Soft Sky cardstock fo the background. The large flower is stamped in soft sky and the small one in Blue Bayou. I sponged around the edges of the panel with Wild Wasabi and Blue Bayou. Sentiment stamped in Wild Wasabi
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Monday, March 03, 2008
I know, I know. Everyone and their grandma has made this onsie card, but I just couldn't resist any longer. I need a baby boy card for Wednesday. A friend of mine is due in a couple of weeks and it's for her shower. I'm sure it will be a big hit especially since no one at the party will ever have seen it before. The airplane image is from Rubber Soul. I outlined it with a quickie glue pen and then added glitter. You can see the tutorial on Lauren Meader's blog.
PS Last night my oldest decided it would be "Cool" to pee in the sink and show off for his siblings...I guess he didn't realize what a big tattle tale his sister is (even if it was two hours later and she was trying to get out of going to sleep when she tattled). I was SHOCKED and we're at a loss of what to do for a punishment. What on Earth was he thinking, and what should we do? Help.
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Saturday, March 01, 2008
Nicole's Birthday
I wanted this card to be funky and vibrant. We're going out tonight to celebrate my friend, Nicole's, birthday. I wonder if we'll go see The Other Boelyn Girl. Chic Flic! Birthday girl gets to pick so we'll see. Have a great day.
We're going to Arizona for Spring Break. We'll be seeing the famous Mesa Easter Pageant at the Mesa LDS Temple. It's so beautiful and has such a great spirit.
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I am traversing a fine line between having two lives. In one life I am the devoted husband and father, who trudges off faithfully to work in the morning, returns home in the early evening to kiss the wife, send paternal greetings to my daughter, eat a leisurely dinner and then shuffle off to bed around ten o'clock. I repeat the pattern four or five times a week, until I start the weekend pattern. With minor exceptions, this is the pattern of my life for maybe ten months a year.
The other two months of the year I am traveling. A week or two of it will be with family and for leisure. The rest of it is business traveling. Alas, that is what I am doing this week again. I spent last week at home. However, the previous week I was in Maine. Now I am seventy or so miles from home in Shepherdstown, West Virginia where I have parked my tuckus for the week.
I am not entirely clear why I am rooming and boarding here at the Office of Personnel Management's Eastern Management Development Center. I could in theory commute to this weeklong training class. It took me seventy-five minutes or so to drive here last night from my home in Northern Virginia. I am here to wrap my brain around this leadership stuff. I know leadership is important. I have been doing my best to be a leader, but I have been doing it based on my intuition. Apparently, there is something of a science to the leadership business. By Friday, I will have spent about three thousand dollars of your tax money, will have not fully succeeded avoiding the voluminous food at this resort, and have a neat looking certificate to add to my pile of training certificates. I hope that I will embrace new skills that will show the world, or at least my organization, what a powerful and effective leader I am.
At least for this trip all I had to do was throw my suitcase into my trunk and drive for an hour or so. This makes it much more bearable than the usual routine of air travel and airport navigation. Generally, when I travel for business, at least one full business day is taken up getting there and back. This Management Development Center is physically attached to a swanky Clarion Hotel here in Shepherdstown. I am sure that most of its business comes from government travelers here attending seminars. Room and board come with the seminar fees. The hotel puts out a good spread of food. As well they should, considering the $800 a day my employer is paying for tuition. Fortunately, Shepherdstown is rapidly joining the civilized world. Two years ago when I was here my cell phone could not pick up a signal. The only way I could access the internet was to use a computer in a kiosk in one of the buildings. In 2006, my cell phone now reports four bars and the 11 mbps wireless LAN at the hotel is very sweet.
In my last business trip, I spent four nights in Augusta, Maine at The Senator Inn. For Augusta, it was premier lodging, but it was nothing out of the ordinary. The biggest surprise there was the hotel's food. Its dining room, Cloud 9, was not quite a four star restaurant, but was three and a half stars in my book. Even if you found the entrees less than perfect, all its desserts were outstanding. However, here at the Clarion Hotel meals are business standard fare: good to very good in taste, bad to very bad for your waistline. The same addictive food runneths over at lunch and dinner, which are also complementary for us seminar attendees. Stop me before I hit the dessert bar one more time!
"It's like a cruise ship, except it never leaves port," our instructor told me today over lunch. That is it precisely, except the rooms are bigger. It provides all of life's amenities. The rooms are clean, upscale and comfortable. At night, the hotel is eerily quiet, perhaps because it is so far out in the country. You can walk indoors a few hundred feet and cross into the Management Development Center. There you sit at tables with half a dozen other classmates, listen to lectures, absorb PowerPoint slides, work on group exercises and shuffle off to frequent breaks where the sodas and coffee are plentiful (and complementary, naturally).
It feels a bit surreal. It is work, I guess, but it also feels like a vacation. At 5 p.m. or so when class is done for the day, rather than endure the hassle of a commute, you can be in your room in just a couple minutes. A few minutes after that you can be in the exercise center on a cardiovascular machine, or dipping into the clean outdoor pool. Then, unless you are anal like me and feel some obligation to read your office email, you can drift off to the dining room with a fellow classmate for dinner. Then it is back to your room where can read, play on your laptop computer, or watch HBO as takes your fancy. You can do this for many guiltless hours until fatigue gently overtakes you and you drift off into a gentle and restful sleep. Thank you Senator Robert C. Byrd, who used his influence to populate Shepherdstown with federal largess. No Motel Six accommodations for us movers and shakers of the United States federal civil service.
It is true my family is not here. I do not have my wife sitting next to me, happily writing her latest fan fiction story on her computer for her internet friends. I do not converse with my daughter to hear how her day went. (She is on summer vacation anyhow, so her days rather run together for her anyhow. I am not missing anything.) Consequently, offsite training like this does start to feel like a vacation from responsibility and routine. All of life's needs can be conveniently met and I do not even have to leave a climate-controlled space.
Most of my business travel, alas, is not like this. More typically, business travel means days of meetings followed by evenings spent socializing with others from my agency. Nevertheless, it does begin to run together after a while. Whereas it used to seem strange and disconcerting to wake up in a hotel room, now I hardly give it another thought. It feels almost as natural as shuffling to the field office in the morning in a rental car. The airports, the airline delays, the security bottlenecks, the announcements from the flight attendants, the taxi rides and the jet lag all blend together after a while. The rooms and locations may change, but somehow it seems familiar, as if I have been doing this much of my life. It has slowly become something of a second life for me.
I do not know whether I like it or not. It came with the territory of my latest job. I can expect to be at a minimum on the road for six weeks or so a year. I take some solace in knowing it could be worse. I know a fellow unit chief whose travel is much more demanding. He can easily spend three months of the year on the road. No wonder he is single. Not too many spouses would put up with this degree of absence.
In any event, another dimension to my life has opened. I have this new part time gig: business traveler. When I travel, it is as if I am in living a different life. After a week, I am transported back into this more familiar place called "home". I find my wife lying next to me in bed again in the morning. I tread a different pathway to the bathroom. I relearn how to use my toilet (lever is on the side) and the shower (hot water on the right). After a day or so, memories of my vagabond business traveling life recede. Until next time.
I am hopeful that I have only one more business trip to go this year. There is no telling for sure. I am already looking at next year, and I see at least three trips to Denver and at least two other trips on my agenda. I suspect there will be a few more thrown in there for good measure.
It will feel strange, probably upon retirement, to close out this new part of my life, and once again resume a full time and homebound life.


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Ace Bass & Drums coming to Manchester
Quite possibly one of the longest ads you'll see maybe; this'd cost a fucking fortune in print:
Can't say too much about ourselves right now - we're playing with someone at the mo, and can't quite let the cat out of the bag yet to the world that we're off. We're both in our 20's, (22 and 26), experienced, small-time records out, extensive live & studio experience. We're not in this to piss around basically and can pick stuff up faster than a crackhead in an unlocked chemist. Will be free as birds come June, July, but for the right people we might be able to squeeze in some sessions sooner.
We're looking for a hideously good-looking singer/guitarist and/or singer/bassist (either really) to put together fast, melodic garagepunkrock 3 or 4 piece. If you are female too this would be mega, as birds in bands are frankly better. Actually, females get first refusal. Blatant sexual discrimination I know, but fuck it.
We're into allsorts of stuff but have a very similar mindset. At the mo we're listening to allsorts but particularly The Bronx, Fucked Up, Dananananaykroyd etc, that kind of stuff. And the rest. Ideally, we are looking to start up with people who've got tunes ready to go. We have some, but not loads. We are very, very good but also very, very picky, sorry. If you have myspaces/demos of tunes and the like of your stuff, then you get first consideration. Absolutely no metal by the way, thankyou very much.
Apologies if this comes over as being a bit cocky - we're very nice boys, honest – but we are just trying to avoid the usual deluge of inexperienced 17-year old kids with no tunes and just an acoustic guitar to their name. You'll get there one day son, but you're not for us. However if you're ready to take on the world but can only find shit drummers and bassists, then we might be for you. Alternatively if the drummer and bassist you already have are shit, get rid of them, and get us in instead. Easy.
Oh and finally, we come as a duo, or not at all. Unless you're offering money.
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The U-N-I Panthers will be looking to bounce back this weekend when they host South Dakota State in non-conference play. The Panthers were stunned in their home opener last week by division two North Dakota and dropped to 12th in the latest 1-AA poll.
Panther coach Mark Farley says he can't predict what will happen Saturday, but he knows what he'll do to his team to get it ready. Farley says the core of the team is headed in the right direction.
Farley says there will be changes this week, as he says anytime you have a loss like last Saturday, there has to be consequences. Farley says some other people will get a chance to try and win positions.
Farley says the Panthers made too many mistakes against North Dakota. He says the things he feared in the first football game, happened in the second game. Farley says they did not have the energy needed to play the game and had mental breakdowns. Farley says the upside is that it wasn't a conference game and they have a chance to clean things up. Farley says a ground football team is an alert football team, and they will be ready for this week.


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Welcome to the latest episode of the Charm City Bird Watch Podcast! On today's episode, WBAL Radio Host and Anchor, Brett Hollander, joins Jake McDonnell.
On Sunday, the Baltimore Ravens opened up their 2017 season with a 20-0 rout over the Cincinnati Bengals. What did the Ravens do that impressed Brett? How will the Danny Woodhead injury impact Baltimore's offense? What are the keys to beating the Cleveland Browns on Sunday? Football is back in Baltimore, hear Brett and Jake break all of this down.
The Ravens are not the only professional sports team in Baltimore that has hopes of making the playoffs. Unfortunately, the Orioles have lost six straight and must win a big chunk of their remaining games to even have a fighting chance at snagging a Wild Card spot. Where did the 2017 season go wrong? Why is Buck Showalter not giving players like Austin Hays and Chance Sisco some playing time? The O's season is wrapping up, hear Brett's assessment of where the team is heading.
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Beverly Hills Film Fest 2017 – Eight Feature Film Reviews
So many amazing film fests – so little time! The recent star-studded 17th Annual Beverly Hills Film Festival happened this past week (at the famed TLC Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood!) and it was a massive five day movie event indeed. Not only were there amazing docs and features, but also a slew of short films in various genres guaranteed to please every moviegoers. (There were a whopping 87 competition films!) Of course it's impossible to check out everything (again, I'm only a single movie geek!), but the power of a passionate one still prevails as I managed to check out eight feature film hopefuls. From flicks about the pleasure of dream life and not giving up to docs about tigers, underdogs, former movie moguls and Aussie hotshots, we're hitting the films of the BHFF fest hard and fast to provide some cinematic insight into what to possibly seek out in the future. Check out the Encapsulated Movie Reviews of Zen Dog, The Girl Who Invented Kissing, John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs, Mable, Mable, Tiger Trainer, Golan A Farewell To Mr. Cinema, Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches, Gun and Legendary AD below!
And now on with the reviews!
In what can only be described as David Lynch filtered through the eyes of Richard Linklater, Rick Darge's debut Zen Dog is one utterly unique film that never ceases to amaze. Going on the adventures of a seemingly mundane young man (played by the fantastic Kyle Gallner who was in last year's Top Ten selection Band Of Robbers – he knows how to pick 'em!) who after a traumatizing event begins to experiment with everything from hallucinatory herbs to controlled lucid dreaming to escape the day to day makes for one terrific trip. Complete with wacky side characters (creepy couple Devin and Wendy are right out of Slacker!), psychedelic visuals and fittingly featuring the voice of famed British philosopher Alan Watts as a tour guide of sorts, Zen Dog goes beyond being enlightened entertainment and achieves five-star status.
Moving drama about a free spirit female (played by the vibrant Suki Waterhouse) that stops in a small town and has a dramatic effect on everyone she comes into contact with. Love the Of Mice And Men story influences between the two lead brothers and even the smaller players bring memorable character color. (Luke Wilson hits a home run as a small town record shop owner!) But the real five-star turn in this one is the tear inducing turn by Dash Mihok as the slower older brother Victor. So layered, so effecting and so wonderfully nuanced is his performance that it both deeply devastates and captivates – brilliant is an understatement.
This doc chronicling the cinematic exploits of seasoned Rocky Director John G. Avildsen proves to be not just entertaining but surprisingly candid. There are of course telling childhood tales alongside detailed dissection of various big hits (viva The Karate Kid!), but also bold examinations of mistakes (he got taken off both Serpico and Saturday Night Fever!) and regrets (he should have made Rocky 2 but a passion project with a girlfriend took priority at the time!) right from the filmmaker himself. It's a moving, real and raw, yet at times sad doc that reminds us what a masterful storyteller can accomplish when left alone – and why such a visionary doesn't work in Hollywood today.
This grand and engaging doc on renowned 1920's tiger trainer Mable Stark – the first female tiger tamer – is as salacious and fantastical as the woman herself. From her early days as a girl with spirit (her cut family ties solidified her as a gal of serious strength!) to the height of her fame with Ringling Bros. (she trained through non-violent means!), but not skipping her tragedies both inside (she was mauled by the cats on many occasions – and came back for more!) and outside (she was married multiple times but true love eluded her!) the cage, filmmaker Leslie Zemeckis paints a complete and honest portrait of a feisty female fully in touch with her inner animal.
This doc featuring former Cannon Films movie mogul and Israeli filmmaker Menahem Golan in his final days wonderfully shows the two sides of the fast flick hustler. Witty filmmaker Christopher Sykes, who has a pinch of Nick Broomfield wryness, uses his all access pass to show both a passionate movie-loving gent, who understood and appreciated the escape films provided, as well as an unrealistic and caustically curt pitchman who refused to stop even in the face of death. (Even in his eighties he wanted an Oscar!) Gotta say this about old Menahem – his flicks may have been B-movies, but in the class of unwavering determination Golan gets an A+.
While this expose of Aussie acting sensation Rod Taylor is definitely not short on fun (Taylor himself is a wonderful ham!), the cheesy Beach Blanket Bingo vibe of the piece definitely feels like something you would expect from the E! Network. Meaning there is little in terms of sincere and thoughtful personal stories (his childhood is merely touched upon!), instead focusing its upbeat surface style wares on everything from his various film exploits (he scoffed at being James Bond!) to his famed friendships (John Wayne kept all his checks due to losing at poker in a frame!) for a fluff flick that your mom would love.
The saddest thing about the highly emotional film Gun is the raw potential it possesses. Meaning the turn by leading man Sam Upton as a down and out former boxer turned alcoholic father is so rich, raw and real that it kneecaps all who watch. Problem is Upton also takes up duties as writer and director and both areas lack the proficiency of his on-screen stuff. His characters' bottoming out comes way too late in the film, his recovery way too quick and there's an abundance of distracting side plots and characters that just aren't needed. With Upton seemingly biting off more than he can chew, Gun feels like a shiny lethal weapon that's not loaded.
Originally I thought this was a doc about creating ads for films and they savvy that goes into movie marketing, but turns out this one is all about the second in command assistant directors (hence A.D.) and sadly it's about as exciting as it sounds. An important but not exactly captivating job, the various folks here describing the ins and outs, new technologies and advise to future hopefuls makes for a ho-hum watch. Things do get better mid way when the subjects start to talk in detail about specific films (love the David Fincher shooting Se7en story!) and people (anything De Palma gets me excited!) but sifting through the multitude of mundane movie rocks to get to the tall tale gold in Legendary AD is a thankless task.


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Following Radamel Falcao's departure from Monaco to Manchester United on Monday, fans of the Ligue 1 side are banding together to demand the refund of season tickets.
A blogpost "Planete ASM speaks on the matter of refunds" was published Tuesday evening that said the following:
"This Tuesday morning, after a short night spent up late waiting desperately for official word, the team of planet-ASM.fr published an article that encouraged disgruntled supporters to seek reimbursement from increased subscriptions.
"With these two departures and with almost no new signings during the whole transfer window, Monaco fans are swinging between anger, confusion and frustration. The fans feel betrayed today – for having believed the club's promises and having accepted a significant increase in season ticket prices at Stade Louis II.
"There's nothing to indicate the club will accept these demands, but at least they will show our general unhappiness."
The fans are believed to be upset not only by the loan of Falcao but also the sale of James Rodriguez to Real Madrid and the club's collective failure to replace the Colombian stars with players in similar positions, let alone strength. Not a good thing for Monaco or French Football. So how'd it all go wrong?
In 2011 Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev purchased AS Monaco, as it was toiling in Ligue 2, and announced an ambitious project to raise the club up to Europe's elite.
Over the next three years Rybolovlev poured more than $285 million into acquiring players and just last summer purchased Colombian superstars Radamel Falcao and James Rodriguez, as well as Portuguese playmaker Joao Moutinho. Monaco finally had the firepower to compete with the likes Paris Saint Germain and faired quite well, finishing runner-up in Ligue 1.
Signing Falcao and Rodriguez had just as much to do with acquiring talent as it did filling the stadium, as the Stade Louis II only holds 18,521 fans. And yet, despite those big names in the side, under 9,000 fans showed up for the home matches. It wasn't that the fans didn't like the team, there simply weren't enough of them to go round as the population of Monaco is only 36,000 and only 20% of them are Monegasques, people originally from Monaco. The rest are French and Italian. Further complicating matters was how the French Football Association responded to the principality's lack of an income tax – which acted as a pretty strong pull for top players – by slapping the club with a $65 million fine to stay in Ligue 1.
Which brings us to this summer where Rybolovlev permanently off-loaded Rodriguez to Madrid for $92 million and loaned Falcao to United for $9 million and an option to buy without purchasing replacements. These moves have raised eyebrows not only among Monaco supporters but even competitors in Ligue 1.
"I hope that Monaco's ambitious project is not going to disappear," Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser al-Khelaifi said. "I spoke to their president and vice-president and I hope they are going to stay and invest, it's important for French football.
"I have some doubts at the moment, to be honest, but I think they have a big vision and a big strategy. I am little worried about the level of French football. We want to improve the level and for that it is very important to have competition."


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Army Commander, Lieutenant General Crishanthe de Silva's service has been extended by a year as of 22 August 2016, said Military Spokesperson, Brigadier Jayanath Jayaweera.
President Maithripala Sirisena extended his term yesterday. Lieutenant General de Silva was appointed as the 21st Commander of the Army on February 22, 2015 by President Sirisena.


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Two suburban Kansas City teenagers were charged Monday with threatening to carry out a school shooting to mark the anniversary of the attack on Columbine High School, officials said.
Trevor P. Fattig and Sean M. Amos, both 17, face felony charges of making a terroristic threat after they told classmates they planned an assault on Platte County R-3 High School, county prosecutor Eric Zahnd said.
Amos was arrested Monday afternoon, said Jill Brockman, a spokeswoman with the county prosecutor's office. Fattig was arrested later in the day.
Bond was set at $15,000. If convicted, the two teens face a maximum of four years in prison.
According to court documents, a principal at the high school reported he had learned Fattig and Amos planned a "Columbine-type" incident on April 20, the seven-year anniversary of the attack in which two students killed 12 classmates and a teacher, wounded 24 others, then committed suicide.
Police interviewed five witnesses who said Fattig and Amos had told them they planned to plant explosives and bring weapons to school, the prosecutor's office said. According to court documents, one of the suspects told witnesses the attack would "mark the anniversary of Columbine."


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How do you simultaneously bottle-feed your babies when you're a twin mom and have a never ending to-do list? To put it simply: with great difficulty.
As twin moms, we are made very aware of the number of benefits that exist to feeding your twins at the same time: it helps to get them into a routine; it's comforting for the babies; it allows you to get a little more rest, and so on. Plus, there's nothing quite as heartbreaking as hearing one baby cry while you feed the other.
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Choosing a freezer is best done by having a look at the options available and then deciding which type is best for your situation. There are 3 main types of freezers to choose from, which can be portable, upright, and combinations. Two other kinds of units are contradictory in that sense.
In case you have a family who likes to stock up on food by buying in bulk and freezing products, this may be the ideal choice for you because this style allows a large amount of food to be stored and are usually kept in another room from the kitchen.
On the other hand, there are cold rooms and trailers for those who have a home-based or large food business. Whatever the purposes, you can hire and buy cool rooms via Coolroom Hire Perth and avail of its highly specialized cooling features to keep your items fresh and safe.
By having such equipment on their side they can save their huge amount of food and goods that are perishable thereby enhancing the shelf life of their stock. Some families with bigger houses may, however, choose to keep this unit in the kitchen for easy access every day.
One aspect to remember about them is that they should be thawed. They are sadly not available in the frost-free version. This does need a little bit of effort, but it is not essential to be carried out very often and is cheap. Freezers, on the other hand, comes in both manual defrost and frost-free models.


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Doctrine and Race
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews
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2017. 216 pp.
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2018. 216 pp.
Religion and American Culture Series
Doctrine and Race
examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.
By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism,
Doctrine and Race:
African American Evangelicals and Fundamentalism between the Wars
demonstrates that African American Protestants were acutely aware of the manner in which white Christianity operated and how they could use that knowledge to justify social change. Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews's study scrutinizes how white fundamentalists wrote blacks out of their definition of fundamentalism and how blacks constructed a definition of Christianity that had, at its core, an intrinsic belief in racial equality. In doing so, this volume challenges the prevailing scholarly argument that fundamentalism was either a doctrinal debate or an antimodernist force. Instead, it was a constantly shifting set of priorities for different groups at different times.
A number of African American theologians and clergy identified with many of the doctrinal tenets of the fundamentalism of their white counterparts, but African Americans were excluded from full fellowship with the fundamentalists because of their race. Moreover, these scholars and pastors did not limit themselves to traditional evangelical doctrine but embraced progressive theological concepts, such as the Social Gospel, to help them achieve racial equality. Nonetheless, they identified other forward-looking theological views, such as modernism, as threats to "true" Christianity.
Mathews demonstrates that, although traditional portraits of "the black church" have provided the illusion of a singular unified organization, black evangelical leaders debated passionately among themselves as they sought to preserve select aspects of the culture around them while rejecting others. The picture that emerges from this research creates a richer, more profound understanding of African American denominations as they struggled to contend with a white American society that saw them as inferior.
Doctrine and Race
melds American religious history and race studies in innovative and compelling ways, highlighting the remarkable and rich complexity that attended to the development of African American Protestant movements.
Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews
is an associate professor of religion at the University of Mary Washington and is the author of
Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South
Doctrine and Race
is an important book, and it teaches us that 'for African Americans, the question was not conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or modernist, traditionalist or progressive.' Instead, the churches developed generally conservative theology, progressive politics, and a hope that modernism might end the racism of the by-gone era that fundamentalists longed for."
The Master's Seminary Journal
"To move us beyond categorizing black religion as conservative or liberal, Mathews suggests using the terms traditional and progressive. Black Protestant stances on religion were traditional; their views on race relations were progressive. But even these terms fail to capture the nuance and diversity within just four denominations' periodicals. We need to understand black churches in this period on their own terms, and to that end,
Doctrine and Race
serves the field well."
Journal of Southern Religion
"Mathews deals with the connection between African American religion and the quest for racial equality. Her focus is unique: she looks at the subject from the perspective fundamentalism, as practiced by conservative Protestants, both black and white, in the years from 1915 to 1941. Recommended."
Doctrine and Race
—which considers the evolution of black evangelicals during the interwar period through their struggle with the modernist controversies and white fundamentalism's rise—is an extremely welcome contribution to the study of black religious history."
—Clarence E. Hardy III, author of
James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture


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As a comedian-turned-film director, Richard Ayoade cites Woody Allen as his greatest inspiration. But it wasn't Allen's comedies that first lit a spark for Ayoade, whose debut "Submarine" was picked up by the Weinstein Co. at the Toronto film fest.
"At school, I had a friend whose parents were both psychiatrists, and I was introduced to Woody Allen through them," he recalls. "So the films I started watching were the serious ones. Most of my interest in film came from simply finding out what Woody Allen liked: directors like Bergman, Fellini and Kurosawa," he explains.
Perhaps Ayoade's love for Bergman explains why his own work walks a fine line between laughter and something darker. "Submarine" is a sly coming-of-age comedy, told from the perspective of a 15-year-old with a wide vocabulary and a surfeit of self-belief who's trying to manage his parents and seduce the girl next door.
The hero of Joe Dun-thorne's source novel isn't entirely likable, which Ayoade admired. "Very often in coming-of-age material, it gives the author's somewhat rose-tinted view of himself when young, with his faults excused by youth," he says. "This felt different. 'Submarine' isn't a flat-out comedy. Even films as violent as 'Taxi Driver' and 'Badlands' are two of the funniest films ever."
Ayoade is a passionate student of cinema, his conversation thickly peppered with movie references and quotations from great filmmakers. His own path to features came through writing, directing and performing comedy shows during his university studies, then at the Edinburgh festival (where he won a Perrier Award) and on Channel 4.
As an actor, he appeared in cult British sitcoms "The Mighty Boosh" and "The IT Crowd." Directing musicvideos for Warp Films led to the chance to adapt "Submarine."
Ayoade is heading further to the dark side with his next project, a version of Dostoevsky's "The Double," to be set in contemporary America, which he's co-writing with Avi Korine (brother of Harmony).
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Age: 33
Homebase: London, England
Inspired by: Woody Allen
Reps: Agents: Hugo Young, Independent Talent (U.K.), Philip Raskind, WME (U.S.)


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You're considered an international student for admission purposes if you are not a citizen or permanent resident of the United States. Here's an overview of the international admission requirements for international students and a step-by-step guide to the application process.
For graduate admission requirements, please visit the graduate admission webpage.
WSU Tri-Cities, located in Richland, Washington, USA, is part of the Washington State University system. The main campus in Pullman, WA, USA maintains helpful F-1 information.
Remember that there is an International Student Advisor on the Tri-Cities campus who will help explain immigration rules and regulations for you or anything you read on the WSU's Office of International Programs site.
Applicants must complete at least 12 years of elementary through secondary school, culminating in an appropriate secondary certificate or external examination. Grades must be distinctly above average.
Applicants graduating from accredited high schools outside the United States of America (USA) must have a minimum grade point average of 2.70 (on a 4.00 scale). Your schooling should include preparation in humanities, mathematics, basic sciences, and social sciences.
You're considered an international transfer applicant if you have completed the equivalent of a "B" average (2.5 on a 4.0 scale) in at least one full year of study at a recognized or accredited post-secondary school. As an international transfer applicant, you don't have to submit secondary school information — instead, you'll be considered for admission on the basis of the college-level work you have completed.
You may qualify for guaranteed admission. To request more information, please fill out the guarantee letter request form (below).
All international students need to demonstrate basic proficiency in the English language and there are three ways you can meet this requirement:
Take a language exam.
The two most commonly accepted exams are the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and IELTS (International English Language Testing System). Other examinations may also be accepted. You will need to score at least 550 (paper-based), 79 (internet-based), or 213 (computer-based) on the TOEFL. The IELTS minimum score is 6.5. The minimum score is 77 on the MELAB.
The required competency level for the transition from the Intensive American Language Center (IALC) to undergraduate admission will remain at Level 5. We will continue to monitor international students' progress and other ramifications associated with this change in admissions criteria.
Please see the current International Student Application for up-to-date information.
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Applicants from these countries are exempt from the English proficiency requirement:
Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, British Guyana, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Jamaica, Liberia, New Zealand, Trinidad, Tobago, and Zambia.
Along with the admission application, you'll need to submit the Certificate of Financial Responsibility to demonstrate that you have adequate financial resources to meet your educational expenses. Please read the instructions on the form carefully.
If you meet the prerequisite requirements, you're ready to apply for admission.
Follow these steps to apply for admission to WSU Tri-Cities.
1. Complete the international student application.
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Scores must come directly from the testing agency to WSU; do not send copies. Request official TOEFL scores from Educational Testing Service (phone 609-771-7500). For other ways to meet English proficiency requirements, please refer to the English proficiency information under "International Requirements" on this page.
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Freshman applicants should send a general secondary school evaluation report while transfer applicants should provide a course by course/detailed transcript evaluation. Materials sent directly to Washington State University will not be returned.
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DeShawn Timothy calls on Sugur Shane for a remix of "Jumpman" and "Be Real"
DeShawn Timothy's latest mixtape is available online for streaming in full!
DeShawn Timothy calls on Sugur Shane for a remix of "Jumpman" and "Be Real"
DeShawn Timothy's latest mixtape is available online for streaming in full!
"Hot off the presses, a fresh original from Main Course co-founder, Astronomar, and one of Philadelphia's longest standing queer musician, Sugur Shane, is revisiting classic vogue themes while playing up some unconventional lyrical content. Of course, unconventional and groundbreaking have been the pair's primary sources of inspiration….."
Sugur Shane drops his Kill Da Bitch Music Video Premiering on Billboard.com
"Pairing Philly hip-hop sensibilities with house-inspired beats, Sugur Shane delights in defying classification.
The title track off the animated rapper's new Kill Da Bitch EP reflects this indefinable approach, layering chopped vocal snippets and searing rap verses over grumbling synth bass and stuttered four-to-the-floor beats.
"'Kill Da Bitch' was from the My Night with Junior mixtape, and the goal with that project was to recreate the classic ballroom sound with a new twist, something a bit different from what the ballroom scene is used to hearing," says Shane. "The track is a battle track, and when we battle it's all about show and tell, taking tricks and forms and moves to the next level." And despite the title, there's no misogyny intended: The out-and-proud rapper's song refers to it being a vogue battle anthem.
Watch the full premiere of the track's music video exclusively on Billboard:
Shane directed the high-octane music video with Harry Paris and Sage Caswell and says the clip was intended to impart the visceral energy and excitement inherent to Philadelphia's underground ballroom scene.
"We threw a party to shoot this video, it was a little mini ball with performances in Old City, Philadelphia," says Shane. "There was no rehearsal, no story line, just a display of how Philly really vogues. Everyone is so stuck on the New York scene, so we wanted to portray what a ball in Philly is really like."
Sugur Shane's Kill Da Bitch EP is now available through Main Course on iTunes and SoundCloud."
Check out the latest on Complex with Sugur Shane
"You might find it difficult to stand still while listening to "Kill Da Bitch," Sugur Shane's pounding new single. The Complex premiere of the track comes a day before his EP release of the same name. Hopefully the four additional songs on that project match this effort's wild intensity. Though Shane might not ring a bell, the house-influenced rapper has been crushing tracks and club rooms for more than a decade now.
Blacking out over a dynamic beat, this Philly spitter also doubles as a DJ. Thanks to flurried vocal samples, heavy bass and upbeat drums, Shane proves himself more than capable of moving a crowd. Stream "Kill Da Bitch" below and pre-order Shane's Kill Da Bitch EP on iTunes, out on Main Course tomorrow (August 12). "
Kill Da Bitch can mean many things, but at the end of that day if you aren't Killin Da Bitch, you may as well stay home and snuggle with a body pillow. On "Kill Da Bitch", Sugur Shane lunges at you like an upset puma, spitting acid & clawing you to shreds with his rapid and cunty flow. The bass rumbles, the crashes deliver enough impact to shatter your mom's fine China, and the levels of shade are at dangerous levels. How'd this battle turn into a fight?! On the flip side we finally see the release of "Buddah VS Sugur", which was famously played by Total Freedom at Hood By Air's showcase finale during 2014's New York Fashion Week. The chants and stabs guide you while the distant air horns shriek at you drawing you into the circle at the center of the dance floor.This is the definition of a Vogue battle anthem. The EP is complimented by remixes from New Orleans natives Kid Kamillion & Jesse Slayter, Team Supreme's power house Colta and M.O.D.'s #1 shooter Lil Texas.
Shane currently resides in Philly and draws heavily from 90's dance music and hip hop, citing Gillete & Notorious B.I.G. as some of his major influences. The touted Butch Queen is a staple at Balls & Vogue nights up & down the East Coast, and is proceeded by his long list of collaborators & supporters including scene purveyors like Tom Stephan, Evian Christ, L-Vis 1990, Sam Tiba, Dubbel Dutch, Jubilee, Mike Q and Vjjuan Allure.. and thats just the tip of the iceberg. Shane truly possesses a very unique and animated delivery previously unseen. If you don't recognize the realness, shade on you.
01. Kill Da Bitch
02. Buddah vs Sugur
03. Kill Da Bitch (Colta Remix)
04. Buddah Vs Sugur (Kid Kamillion vs Jesse Slayter Remix)
05. Kill Da Bitch (Lil Texas Remix)
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Sugur Talk starts with a nice sweet drunk
introduction with Shawna and Shane. Bad service at the diner as usual
at 4am in the morning. Just a fun intro, as we inform you
we have upgraded our Sugur Talk with some new HD equipment for your
viewing pleasure. We then introduce our newest guest Jamal! Jamal is a very good
friend of mine, and he wanted to spill the latest tea. He doesn't hold back at all.
Aparently a whore was going around spreading rumors about him. So we blast him
on this episode, JUICE! Ending this Sugur Talk with some Sugur Shane exclusives!
Special thanks to my friend Jamal for coming on our show! Sure he will be back
very soon! Stay tuned for that!
Pay attention to the statistics in this video. It's very dangerous in this area.
It seems a common thing is for everyone to fuck each other in a tight circle of
friends or ex's. Its disgusting, one minute someone's fucking his ex here and
then his ex there without protection mind you! KNOW YOUR STATUS, GET TESTED! I guess when your head gets so big thinking everyone wants you, you literally fuck
EVERYONE! Keep it cute ladies and gentlemen.
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You probably know that was a supporter of Meek Mill's music when he first came on the scene. After listening for a while, it started to sound all the same; he never switches it up. Same beats, same flow, and the lyrical content is not the best either. Just giving you a fair warning before you read the rest, yes I am probably bias. Recently Meek Mill called into the radio to defend his music to a pastor who is boycotting his song Amen. Basically turned into a screaming match with himself. Listen to the audio below and let me know what you think. Here's my take on the situation and Meek Mill himself.
I side with Meek but to an extent. First of all the reason I side with Meek is simply for the fact that I believe this pastor is very fame thirsty. On the other hand Meek was very childish about it and couldn't use a sophisticated word to save his life. He doesn't make sense in anything he is saying. Screaming on the air at a PASTOR is not going to get your point across. He states that if the pastor wanted money all he had to do is ask for it?!?! Are you serious Meek? You're stating that you would just pay him off basically. Let's be real, your album will probably never hit stores and if it does it will bomb. Enjoy the money while you have it. You can tell how big Meek's head got by listening to the things he is saying. You have not made any history yet for philly artists, yet you run around here like you are the king. I seriously think you came out the sewer along with the rest of the philly rats. And to the pastor, girl sit down! You just doing this to get more followers or fame or whatever! THIS WHOLE THING IS STUPID!
"Meek Mill & Pastor Jomo K Johnson Argue On Radio Over 'Amen.' Pastor Calls For Boycott"


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Alice in Chains Singer William DuVall Tapped to Front Giraffe Tongue Orchestra
The grand mystery of who will be fronting Giraffe Tongue Orchestra has finally been revealed! The supergroup formed by the Dillinger Escape Plan's Ben Weinman and Mastodon's Brent Hinds has experienced numerous lineup changes since forming in 2012, but they've solidified one of the biggest voids in the band, adding Alice in Chains frontman William DuVall to the fold.
When the group were recording their long-awaited debut record, it was revealed the DuVall, along with a series of other musicians, were involved in the project. In the past, Weinman had stated that actress and singer Juliette Lewis was working with the group, but never confirmed her as the full time singer. He added that others were working on the project as well. Now, in an interview on Riffing With Christina, the guitarist locked in the news.
"[Juliette Lewis is] actually not our main singer. She guested… Yeah like everybody kinda takes an Instagram picture and makes their own press around it," Weinman started off, "But me and her have been working on songs, some of which are for Giraffe Tongue, some of which were just jams that we were working on or whatever. And she did some cool vocals on some of the GTO stuff. Actually, William [DuVall] from Alice In Chains is who has been singing with us."
Talking about the writing process, the axeman went on, "Most of the music was written before [William] got involved. So it is a similar thing [having the vocalist brought in last] actually. But everybody is definitely in this band, it's a real democracy." Weinman is the brainchild of his primary outfit and is enjoying the role reversal sharing band duties, stating, "You know, it's a little different for me, it's been great. Because Dillinger has obviously been my baby since the beginning. You know while everyone contributes, it has always been… it was my vision and baby. So with GTO it's really a combination of all the elements, all the pieces. So it's really interesting, it's been great for me to collaborate like that." As for the result, he is pleased, adding, "And I think when you hear it, it really does sound like all of us in one band somehow."
Giraffe Tongue Orchestra is rounded out by Thomas Pridgen, former drummer for the Mars Volta and bassist Pete Griffin who plays in Dethklok. The group were busy working on their debut album in the studio at the end of last year.
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11-Year-Old Spends The Summer Mowing Lawns To Raise $16K For Tornado Victims
There are all kinds of kid businesses young people can run in order to rake in a little extra cash — lemonade stands, babysitting gigs, and the time-honored trade of lawn work. But while most whippersnappers take on summer work to rustle up some green for spending money, one Texas boy mowed a whole lot of lawns and gave all the money he made to help victims of the Moore, Okla. tornado.
We're not talking a few extra dollars here and there, either — a summer's worth of work pulled in about $16,000 for the 11-year-old boy's hard work. That's a good chunk of change that could go toward a car, or a college education. But it's instead earmarked to help others, reports WAFB.com.
In two months said he mowed almost 90 lawns. And he wants everyone to know this isn't some sort of parental task he's been set.
"A lot of people are saying my mom is making me, but I actually decided to mow for Moore, Oklahoma," he explained.
Even daunting temperatures didn't stop the young do-gooder.
"I worked in 104 degrees. That didn't stop me," he said. "I'm still going on my feet. My dad always says, 'You're going to work it to the bone, [son].'"
Someone treat that boy to a free lemonade at the corner stand, at the very least.
Texas boy mows lawns, raises $16K for Moore, OK [WAFB.com]
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Cost Per Lead (CPL) Formula: 3 Ways to Reduce Your CPL
On this page, we'll look at the formula for calculating CPL, as well as tips for reducing CPL to produce better results for your business. If you need help lowering your CPL, call us today at 888-601-5359 to speak with a strategist.
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What is CPL?
CPL is the amount you spend to obtain new leads. These costs stem from any advertising campaigns you run to obtain leads and get them to convert.
To figure out your potential CPL, you need to use the CPL formula. This formula helps you see how much you will spend per lead. You must take the cost for your advertising campaign spend and divide it by the total attributed leads to get your CPL.
For example, let's say you spent $1000 on a pay-per-click (PPC) advertising campaign and obtained 50 leads. With these numbers, your CPL is $20. You spend $20 for each lead you converted.
So, how do you know if your CPL is good or bad?
This depends upon how much your leads spend when they convert. If your CPL is $20 and your leads spend an average of $100, then this is a good CPL rate. If your leads spend $20 or less, you're going to start digging into your profits.
You can use the CPL formula to determine different aspects of your campaign. You can use it to determine how much you need to spend on your advertising campaign or how many leads you need to obtain. This is very beneficial if you have a CPL in mind because you can use the CPL formula to figure out other aspects of your campaign.
What methods track CPL?
Now that you know a bit more about CPL, you may wonder how you can track your CPL using specific marketing strategies. Let's take a look.
1. PPC advertising
PPC advertising is a great place to track CPL. These ads appear at the top of the search results, above the organic listings. PPC ads attract leads that are ready to convert.
When you run a PPC advertising campaign, you can track your CPL. Since PPC allows you to choose the budget that works best for your business, you have more control over your CPL. You can set a budget that will keep your CPL low, so you can earn a better profit.
PPC advertising is an effective method, too. It helps you obtain valuable leads that are more likely to convert. In fact, PPC leads are 50 percent more likely to convert than organic leads.
2. Social media ads
Social media ads make it easy for you to target people that are interested in your products. This leads to more conversions for your business, which positively impacts your CPL.
With social media ads, there are two main focuses for advertising campaigns: impressions and conversions. When you focus on impressions, you want your ad to reach as many people as possible without worrying about who clicks on you ad. This can lead to a higher CPL because you aren't focused on creating ad content that gets your audience to click on it.
You can also focus on earning conversions. Since social media ads are targeted, they end up in front of leads that are more likely to convert.
Like PPC, you set the amount you want to spend on your social media advertising campaign. The amount you set with affect your campaign's success, as well as your CPL.
Social media ads are a great place to monitor your CPL. You control the budget, which helps give you more influence over your CPL.
3 tips for reducing your CPL
When you keep your cost to obtain leads low, you create a larger margin for profit. Here are three tips to help you reduce your CPL.
1. Zero in on your target audience
You may find that your advertising campaign isn't attracting as many leads as you like. It's giving your business a high CPL. What can you do to improve your ad's performance?
One solution is to narrow in on your target audience. If you have a large target audience, you may not be seeing results because you're not getting specific enough with your ad campaign. To see better results, you need to narrow in on the people you want to reach in your target audience.
Let's say you own a clothing store that sells men's, women's, and kid's clothes. In this case, you would want to hone in on one group (let's say women) and create multiple subgroups that share similar characteristics. You can base this information off demographics, socioeconomic status, and marital status, amongst other criteria.
This will help you create subgroups within your women's demographic. You can then create ads and campaigns that appeal precisely to those groups. This ensures that you won't waste money trying to reach leads that aren't interested.
Audience segmentation is extremely beneficial to any campaign. It helps you deliver the right message at the right time. You'll create a more effective campaign for your business because your ad content will be more appealing to your audience.
By narrowing your focus, you will create a campaign that resonates better with people in your audience. This will lead to more conversions and lower your CPL. It's a great way to produce a better campaign for your business.
2. Focus on creating relevant content
Relevant content is crucial for earning conversions. If you want to earn conversions, you must deliver content that aligns with your audiences' interests.
This is where audience segmentation benefits your business. When you segment your audience, you can figure out what content appeals the most to them. It allows you to deliver a tailored message to your audience.
Not every member of your audience wants the same thing from your business. A clothing store caters to different types of people beyond just men, women, and children. They appeal to mothers, fathers, grandparents, young professionals, teenagers, and more.
If a clothing store sent one marketing message to all women interested in their clothing, it wouldn't produce the best results. On the other hand, segmenting those women by their career status, family status, or marital status would help deliver a more relevant message to each of those groups.
A young, single professional woman wouldn't want to see ads for children's clothing, but a married mother with two children would be interested in that ad. Even though they're both women, they have separate interests with a clothing company. It's important to segment your audience by these differences to deliver more relevant content.
Relevant content leads to increasing engagement. Your audience is more likely to interact with your content if it aligns with their needs.
3. Use remarketing
Remarketing is a great way to get leads to convert. Sometimes people will see your ads and take interest, but they just don't act. A remarketed ad can help them convert into a customer.
These ads cost very little to run and are extremely effective. When people see remarked ads, they think about buying your products or using your services again. Many times, it is the final nudge they need to convert.
Remarketed ads help your business earn more conversions. More conversions mean that you lower your CPL. Remarketed ads will help you reduce your CPL to make a profit.
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The star symbolizes honor, achievement, hope, divinity, intuition, the feminine and guidance.
For centuries, the symbol of the star has been used to reference divinity, intuition, the feminine, hope and guidance. Stars offer the ability to guide us through the night. They can also refer to your need to discover their own inner light. Stars exists above us as well as within us. They encourage us to trust in something much greater than ourselves.
One of the most popular associations to the Star is its reference to our aspirations, dreams and hopes. They represent our ambitions and desires. They remind us that when things may appear to be out of our grasp, through diligence and faith we can travel beyond our current limitations.


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The Sportsmans Outpost has been East Alabama's destination store for outdoor enthusiasts since 2008. Located on Highway 280 in Waverly, Alabama, we're just a short drive from Auburn-Opelika and Lake Martin. We feature brands like Browning, Primos, Realtree, Summit, Millennium, Code Blue, and many more of the brands you've come to know and trust. If you're looking for something that we don't carry, let us know and we'll get it for you!
We now offer more products and services than ever before. Just in the past three years, we've added a new 2,400 square foot whitetail deer processing facility, a ten-lane outdoor shooting range, and an onsite gunsmithing shop. We are an official Glock handgun range program.Come check out our unique 20 targets 3D archery range that lets you run through 10 acres for a "real-life" hunting experience. While you're here, you can sharpen your archery skills with our indoor archery range.
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June 19th 2004 - Gusts of wind and showers hit the athletes in the 5000 meter race in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Races at the European Cup are often tactical, but in Bydgoszcz the athletes started at a pace even the webmaster could run. First kilometer in 3:20, 3 km in 9:35. Fifty meters past the 3k mark, Kamiel picked up the pace. The Swedish runner couldn't follow, the others could, despite the good pace (5:12 for the last 2.000 meters) and waited for the last lap. Kamiel was leading all this time, but did not have the speed for a fast lap after his 10k race last week and lost a couple of places. He managed to keep the runners from Sweden and Germany behind, passed the Polish runner in the final 50 meters and took 5th place.
1 MAYOCK, John GBR 14:44.71
2 IVANOV, Sergey RUS 14:44.75
3 BENHARI, Moktar FRA 14:44.78
4 VINCENTI, Salvatore ITA 14:46.96
5 MAASE, Kamiel NED 14:47.46
6 SHEGUMO, Yared POL 14:48.08
7 GOMBERT, Thorsten GER 14:54.14
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Uche Jombo is set to premiere her new movie "Lost In Us" in Dallas on July 2nd at the African Film Festival Dallas.
"Lost In Us" stars Uche Jombo, Ruth Kadiri, Lilian Esoro-Franklin, Okey Uzoeshi, Mary Lazarus, Vincent Opurum, Desmond Elliott and more.
The movie follows the story of a young man with erotomania (a delusion in which a person believes that another person, typically of higher social status, is in love with them) and an actress, who he believes is in love with him.
Watch the trailer below.


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Being parent is messy, hard, rewarding, exhausting, exhilarating, overwhelming, lovely, funny, and really, really great. I write about my parenting journey here on Red Shutters for two reasons. First, I hope, by writing about the twists and turns my life has taken since my son and daughter were born, I can figure it all out (you know, life, motherhood, my kids, and everything in between!). Second, I hope these stories resonate with you, my readers. I hope you find something familiar in them, and maybe even my tales help out on your journey. Or at least I hope they make you laugh.
On this page, I'm sharing a few of my many posts about being a mom and parenting in your 40s. Read on and enjoy.
Parenting Dilemmas
The Struggle to Raise Independent Kids
First Parenting Lesson of 2014
3 Things I Learned from Having the Flu
Strategies for Promoting the Sexual Safety of Children
3 Things I'm Doing This Holiday Season
Getting Ready for Kindergarten – check out my series here
6 Lessons from Being a Field Trip Chaperone
Read more of my parenting posts here.


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You want a new look for your Serendipity blog? No problem. There are some beautiful themes you can choose from and here is one of them: Timeline
Timeline is a brandnew theme written by Don Chambers. It has many features and options you can set in the theme configuration wich make it easy for beginners to modify the design of the theme. The articels are sorted along a "timeline" from wich the theme has its name. If you don't like this view you can turn it off via the theme options.
Of course timeline is optimized for mobile devices so everyone can enjoy your blog on every screen size.
I also use the theme here for abouts9y.org and i like it very much. There is a demo page where you can try many features live clicking the button with the gears on the upper right of the page. There is also a short documentation how to use and configure the theme for your S9Y blog. Have fun and thanks to Don for his work.


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San Roque Real Estate Year End Review 2015 - Santa Barbara
San Roque Year In Review
Peabody School in San Roque
- Overall there was a 12.8% increase in the median sold price for San Roque in 2105. The median sold price was $1.1 million.
- The lowest sale was $725,000 and the highest sale was $1.975 million.
- San Roque homes sold for an average of $9 more per sqft. than in 2014. The average was $700 per sqft., the lowest sale was at $423 per sqft., and the highest was at $1,141 per sqft.
- San Roque homes in 2015 were on the market for an average of 17 days more than in 2014. The average days in 2015 were 42 days. The shortest was 1 day and the longest was 184 days.
- In 2015, San Roque had 68 listed homes which translated into a 1.5 month supply which counts for a very strong market.
- San Roque homes sold at 97.6% of their asking price on average.
- In total there were 57 homes sold in San Roque in 2015, 11 more than in 2014.
I hope you find this information useful. Please let me know if you would like to be added to my San Roque mailers and market updates. I would be happy to include you.
Further Reading:
- Santa Barbara Market Statistics
- Real Estate and Homes For Sale in Washington School District
- Real Estate and Homes For Sale in the Peabody School District
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For more information on Real Estate here in Santa Barbara, Montecito and/or our surrounding areas, as well as any other aspects of life in our wonderful town, please don't hesitate to contact Kevin Schmidtchen at Berkshire Hathaway Home Services.
Thank you for reading. I hope you find Santa Barbara Real Estate Voice informative. Please feel free to contact me or comment below with any thoughts.


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At this time we have 1 fox red female, 2 fox red males, and 2 white males that are ready to go. The fox reds are $1,800.00 each with limited AKC registration and the white males are $2,000.00. The fox reds from this litter are available with full AKC registration for $3,000.00. We are located in Hatley, WI, but offer air shipping to loving forever homes. Please contact us with any questions.
We have 2 males and 1 female (Coral) left in this litter. All puppies are picked in deposit order.


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Pegasus Solutions names Scott Gibson as CEO
Pegasus Solutions has named Scott Gibson chief executive officer. An industry veteran and experienced technology executive, Scott assumes the role following the recent purchase of Pegasus by Regent Equity Partners.
"Scott Gibson is a proven leader who will bring vision, focus and a wealth of experience to Pegasus. We are confident that Scott's extraordinary track record and his passion for building innovative products will help solidify Pegasus' position as the premier technology provider in the hospitality industry," said Michael Reinstein, Managing Partner, Regent Equity Partners.
Most recently, Mr. Gibson served as Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Distribution and Strategic Planning for Best Western International.Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for both Kerzner International Resorts, Inc. and Cendant Corporation.
He began his technology career with Ramada, followed by six years at Anasazi developing custom hotel central reservation systems. While at Anasazi, he was a member of the development team that created the widely adopted RezView CRS, which was ultimately purchased by Pegasus in 1999.Mr. Gibson will be based in Pegasus' Scottsdale corporate office.


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I was invited, as guest artist, to create an original looping videoart installation for The Cleveland Museum of Art's Summer Solstice 2011.
Co-sponsored by The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Art, and The Cleveland Institute of Art.
Yes, I know this is absurdly long, but if you let it load, you'll be rewarded with a fun little remix of Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally" at the very end
My work is generously supported by The Guggenheim Foundation and The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture.
"Kasumi is a Creative Workforce Fellow. The Creative Workforce Fellowship is a program of the community partnership for Arts and Culture, made possible by the generous support of Cuyahoga County citizens through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture."


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Twisted Electrons
Cells is a dual unipolar control voltage generator. Each of the 16 touch sensitive pads can be "fed" two 12bit values (semi-tone quantized or free scale), ranging from 0V to 5V
Although intended to be used as a duo-phonic instrument/sequencer, Cells can also be used to modulate filters, amps, anything with a cv input!
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Recently, the Givenchy Noir Couture Waterproof Mascara ($35, available here) became available at Sephora in Canada. It was like the Gods of Mascara have answered my prayers for a waterproof version of my all-time favourite Noir Couture mascara which I reviewed earlier. A mascara ranks highly on my must-have, and must-wear makeup product when I leave the house. It doesn't help that my pin straight eye lashes does not compliment my features without a good coating of mascara.
For a value-conscious (not cheap, but value-smart, and frugal!) buyer like myself, the math of a high-end mascara never really made much sense to me, especially when the product has to be discarded within 3 months or less. However, if a mascara like this on can impress me so much, I would be more than willing to shell out the bucks.
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The packaging of this mascara is super sleek and the weight of the tube feels like a million bucks. I like to have this mascara out for display purposes on my vanity just because it exudes luxury. It is my achilles heel of all makeup because dinner table manners be damned when I have this in my handbag, ready to make an impression on other diners.
Givenchy Noir Couture Waterproof Mascara – It Works.
Like its sister, the mascara delivers an amazing result with just one coat. My pin-straight lashes immediately appear longer, and fuller, making my eyes look more awake and brighter. With this mascara, I look like I have fake lashes on, even though I hate applying falsies. The mascara does an amazing job at holding the curl for a whole day, which I can attest to given my 12-hour on campus schedule. I can be running around from class to meetings in any weather, and the mascara stayed put. The formula is even better than the non-waterproof version as it holds the curl without weighing it down for much longer. One coat of mascara is usually what I need, but when I'm trying to achieve a very dramatic look, I'll apply two coats of the mascara. I try not to overdo it because my lashes will start clumping and appear spider-like.
Original vs. Waterproof – A Comparison
Exactly like the non-waterproof version, the mascara wand has three sphere "bristles" which takes a while of getting used to. I highly recommend playing around with it for some time before making your judgment about the mascara. I find that I needed to try different techniques/methods for some time before it became second-nature in application. Coating your lashes with this mascara is not the simple up/down technique you may be used to with the typical mascara wand. The shape of the brush allows you to use different angles to get all the hairs and this technique really helps getting to all the hairs, including the baby lashes and making the product more effective.
Read More: Worldwide Couture | Givenchy Noir Couture.
Why I Would Repurchase
I am very happy with this mascara and definitely will repurchase both the non-waterproof and waterproof version when needed. It is a reliable backup that I can always count on in delivering a dramatic look without a fuss. The brush helps get the product on all the hairs, including the baby hairs that tend to get missed. This is a mascara that I use sparingly, and I instantly feel so much more glamorous with this mascara.
Have you tried the Givenchy Noir Couture Waterproof Mascara? Do you plan on picking it up?