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Apple (Aa1/AA+) was out with a 10-part trade that includes its first ever Green bond, and is expected to raise US$10bn to US$12bn in total.
IBM (Aa3/AA-) also jumped into the primary market, along with Toyota Motor Corp (Aa3/AA-), Comcast (A3/A/A-) and BNY Mellon (A1/A/AA-).
"We had a drought of issuance last week and investors do have cash to use," one syndicate banker told.
Issuers were adopting a defensive bookbuilding approach, and almost all the deals were offering at least 30bp in new issue concessions embedded in their initial price talk levels.
"You have got to come up with a decent concession to do these big deals, coming back into a market where there hasn't been a lot of issuance," one investor told IFR.
In uncertain conditions, high-grade issuers typically start with wide IPTs and then tighten levels as order books grow.
This time around, however, the investor said that levels might not be able to be tightened too much, leaving some value on the table for the buyside.
Bookrunners should be mindful to not push levels too tight and risk seeing the new bonds trade poorly in secondary markets, as that would impact future supply, he said.
SOLID RESPONSE As such, market players expected a solid response to the reopening of the primary, which came amid an uptick in sentiment in the broader markets.
Bonds and stocks were up, while oil showed some stability. The US high-grade CDX IG25 index was 1.15bp tighter at 120.58 on Tuesday morning.
The response to Apple's deal however would be critical to see whether more issuers would follow through with deals this week, the syndicate banker said.
The early going looked good, with the order book heard at US$7bn by mid-morning - not a surprise given the implied 30bp-35bp concessions on offer.
Apple had IPTs of Treasuries plus 75bp area, 90bp area and 115bp area on two, three and five-year fixed tranches. It is also eyeing two, three and five-year floaters.
Apple is also offering fixed-rate 10, 20 and 30-year bonds at initial talk of Treasuries plus 160bp area, 200bp area and 215bp area, and a seven-year Green bond at T+145bp area.
Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan are bookrunners.
Market participants expect IBM to do well also, though having a popular tech name like Apple in the market at the same time could take some interest away from Big Blue's bonds.
"We prefer Apple to IBM," one investor said.
IBM is offering five tranches of three, five, 10, and 30-year fixed rate notes along with an 18-month floater.
Initial price thoughts on the fixed were 95bp for the three year, 115bp for the five, 180bp for the 10, and 215bp-220bp for the 30.
Nearest comps were IBM's 2024s and 2042s, which were trading at a G-spread of 147bp/142bp and 207/203bp, respectively.
Bookrunners for the deal are BNP, Barclays, Citigroup and JP Morgan.


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PepsiCo denies it is changing either the taste or the formula of Diet Pepsi in 2013, but according to the Wall Street Journal the soda giant is considering switching the drink's current artificial sweetener, aspartame, for a more stable ingredient.
Such a move carries huge risks, and given Pepsi's history could become yet another misstep in a yearslong series of screw-ups that have bedeviled the company and its brands. Pepsi tells us it is not going to change the soda's formula—we've published its statement below—but the devil is in the details.
- VIDEO: The case against changing Diet Pepsi -- on CNBC (video below).
First, here are all the reasons why this is an insane risk for Pepsi:
- Habituation is a powerful force among consumers. In some categories—like soda, cigarettes, coffee and breakfast cereal—consumers want the exact same thing, the exact same way, every time. Once you're locked in to a brand, you're probably there for life. That's why you can start such fierce arguments in the office over whether there's Pepsi or Coke in the lunchroom fridge. Changing Diet Pepsi is thus and existential threat to the brand.
- PepsiCo is considering the change because aspartame is apparently not very stable in heat or when shaken. Fine. But what if it's the case that Diet Pepsi's core loyalists like the way it tastes despite what's happened to it on the way to the supermarket?
- Worse, many consumers also have strong habituation around sweeteners. There are Equal loyalists and there are Splenda loyalists. And then, of course, there are the rumors that never die: that some sweeteners cause cancer. (Basically, they don't, but here's a fact sheet if you want to read up on it.) So the changeup crosses two battlefronts in consumer habits.
- The change will instantly remind people of Coca-Cola's disastrous decision in 1985 to alter the formula of Coke. That fiasco—it was reversed in days—is still taught as a worst-case scenario in business schools.
- Even if the switch was successful—and Diet Pepsi tasted exactly the same afterwards but stayed "fresher" longer—that won't magically boost sales. Sales are far more dependent on distribution contracts and catering lock-ins than they are on the actual taste of fizzy flavored water.
Knowing all that, why would Pepsi even consider this risk?
PepsiCo tells us:
"While we are always looking at ways to provide the best consumer experience, we have no intention of changing the Diet Pepsi formula or the great taste that our consumers know and love."
However, there is also this quote from a recent (offline) edition of Beverage Digest:
"The currently planned innovation, say sources, involves making Diet Pepsi taste "fresh" for longer. In the recent past, the major soft drink companies have modified some of their diet soft drinks, which had been sweetened only with aspartame, by adding another sweetener such as ace-K. That extends the product's shelf-life and the life of the sweetener potency. Sources say the basic formula and taste profile of Diet Pepsi will not be changed and that the change would most likely involve tweaking the sweeteners."
Soda companies often adjust sweetener formulas on a brand by brand, and country by country basis. (You've probably heard of the Mexican Coke issue.) Consumers rarely notice.
But this is Diet Pepsi, the No. 7 soda brand in the U.S. and an American brand icon.
Here's the context: Q2 2012 sales at Pepsi's soda division were down 5% to $5.3 billion. You can see why the company might be tempted to meddle with its flagship assets.
Under CEO Indra Nooyi, the company has made a series of snafus on its brands. They include:
- A period in which 27 senior brand managers left the company.
- Continuing to sponsor Penn State despite the Sandusky child abuse scandal.
- Using Michael Jackson's image in advertising despite the fact that he's dead and was an alleged child abuser.
- Letting the trademark lapse on its historic "Choice of a New Generation" tagline, allowing it to be snapped up by another company.
- Failing, initially, to secure the brand name Pepsi on Pinterest.
Although the company as a whole has not performed badly—the stock is up since 2009, now at around the $72 level—investors and consumers expect more consistency from flagship American brands. CEO Nooyi is on a mission to transform the company from a junk food brand into a healthy snack brand.
But is that what people really want or expect from Doritos and pop?
Expect the calls for Nooyi's resignation to continue, especially if Diet Pepsi tastes the slightest bit different in 2013.

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One of the nice things about working in evolutionary biology (or any of the related, indistinguishable-for-all-practical-purposes Wild Thing Sciences) is that I was connected to a great number of cool people working on a great number of very cool creatures, in a great number of very cool places. Furthermore, the bureaucrats controlling modern-day Wild Thing Science are safety-paranoid enough that everyone doing "fieldwork" (working in the wild) must bring at least one buddy. That's one of the reasons I always brought volunteers on my trips, and why Wild Thing Scientists are constantly advertising for volunteers. If you're willing to work without getting paid there are many cool opportunities to work with a variety of wild animals worldwide. I know one evolutionary biologist who works solely on theory - all she needs to do her job is a working computer, essentially - but she travels the world going to exotic places and seeing incredible animals simply by tagging along with other biologists. It's actually an enviable system, as the "work" parts of fieldwork, like conducting experiments, collecting and preserving samples, and even just finding whatever animal you've decided you'd like to study, can be incredibly challenging, time-consuming, stressful and expensive. But tagging along on someone else's fieldwork? All the cool parts, none of the stresses!
This brings me to Dave. Dave is a friend of mine, and Scottish, which is why, when he got married, I got to wear a kilt. It was among the more exciting experiences of my life:
Dave is doing his PhD on Tasmanian Devils, one of the coolest mammals around. I took the opportunity to be a volunteer during his fieldwork, and for a week I got to go out every day and see Tasmanian devils in the wild!
Dave is working in the far north-west corner of Tasmania, where the facial tumour disease is still spreading into healthy devil populations. If you haven't heard of the devil facial-tumour disease, and the destruction it has wrought on the world's last Tasmanian devils, check this out.
Dave catches devils by setting traps for them. Each trap is a big PVC pipe blocked at one end, with a door at the entrance and a piece of meat dangling at the back of it. Here's what a trap looks like set, ready and waiting for a hungry devil to come along:
Inside the trap, the meat is dangling by a string at the very back. The string is tied to a pin which is holding the door open. The devil enters the trap, grabs and pulls on the meat, the meat pulls the string, the string pulls the pin, the pin lets go of the door and the door falls, trapping the devil inside.
To ensure that the devils spend as little time in the traps as possible, Dave and his volunteers get up before the crack of dawn and drive out to his field site to check the traps. This is what they hope to find:
Sometimes the initial excitement about a devil in a tube is unfounded: devils aren't the only predators prowling Tasmanian forests at night, and Dave sometimes has to deal with bycatch. If the bycatch is a tiger quoll, that's just icing on the devil's cake. Tiger quolls are another spectacular Australian marsupial currently going extinct, and getting to see one in the wild is just as much a privilege as seeing a wild devil. However, sometimes Dave catches feral cats, which are harbingers of death to native Australian animals and destruction to the Australian wilderness. Dave takes cats to be euthanized by a local veterinarian.
Sometimes traps are closed with nothing inside. I like to think this is the result of Tasmanian tigers, because they'd be so big that they wouldn't fit completely in the trap, which would prevent the trap door from closing on them. More likely than not, though, it's due to trap malfunction or some other mundane explanation.
If the closed trap proves to contain a devil, now, for better or for worse, you have a devil in a tube. This may seem like a challenge, and devils do have a reputation for being scrappy little balls of teeth and claws, but I learned by watching Dave that as long as you handle them with care and precision they're actually really calm. I watched Dave take measurements from a lot of devils and never once did one try to bite him or scratch him. This is as much to Dave's credit as a professional wildlife biologist as it is to the devil's relative docility: handling wild animals, especially ones with sharp teeth and massive jaw muscles, is not for the uninitiated.
The first step of processing a devil is, of course, to get it out of the tube. To do this, the tube is lifted and tilted, the door opened, and the devil slid gently into a burlap sack:
Once the devil is in the burlap sack, it generally stays pretty calm. Dave manipulates the devil-within-the-sack into different positions so that he can inspect it, determine how healthy it is, determine if there's any evidence of the facial tumour disease, and take various measurements:
Dave also inspects the female's pouch to see if they're currently nursing:
Tasmanian devil pouches: the pouch on the left belongs to a female without pups, the pouch on the right to a female with pups.
Finally, Dave takes a look at the devil's business end: its jaws. Tooth wear is a good way to estimate the age of a devil, as it is to estimate the age of a lot of mammal species. And around the jaws are where any signs of facial tumours will turn up, though the population Dave was working on when I visited had never had any evidence of devils with the facial tumour disease. Here's an inspection of the jaws of a healthy devil:
Dave, and all Tasmanian devil researchers and conservationists, are very concerned about the potential for humans to spread the facial tumour disease between devils. Notice that Dave is wearing disposable latex gloves: those go into the garbage and are replaced in-between each devil. Dave and all the volunteers also use alcohol disinfectant gel in-between each devil just to be safe. A brand new burlap sack is used for each devil. And after the devil is removed from a trap, the trap is thoroughly washed and disinfected before being reset: another job for volunteers!
Finally, it's time for the fun part! After being processed, the devils are released into the woods. The process of getting them free of the sack can be cumbersome, and is an opportunity for pictures to be taken with a devil! Usually, however, the devil takes off like a bat out of hell:
But, there's that rare occasion where the devil pauses for the briefest of moments to say goodbye, and, if you're lucky enough to have a photographer (another volunteer job!) quick on the shutter, it can be captured for all eternity:
Photos by Connie Leon.
Helping Dave work with Tasmanian devils in the wild was an experience of a lifetime. And he's looking for more volunteers!


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The 2017 Arena Pro Swim Series stop in Santa Clara is now in the books, as competition concluded on Sunday night at the George F. Haines Aquatic Center in Santa Clara, California. The final night of competition brought one of the standout races of the meet: The men's 200 IM final.
In the final, age group phenom Michael Andrew and U.S. Olympian Jay Litherland went head-to-head, and they put on quite a show. The 2 men traded the lead back and forth throughout the race, eventually hitting the wall for a tie.
Andrew took the lead on fly, but Litherland outpaced him to take the lead after the backstroke leg. Andrew once again took the lead on the breaststroke leg, but Litherland, who is well known for his closing speed, made big moves on the freestyle leg. At the finish, they touched simultaneously, as both won gold with a pair of 2:00.48s.
Check out the video below, courtesy of USA Swimming's YouTube channel. For a full recap of Sunday night's events, click here.


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There are no cheesy roadside attractions in Europe informing drivers that they've entered a new country. No official borders to cross (and thus no colourful stamps to add to a passport). It's easy to miss the small, generic continent-wide EU signage and thus one needs to be observant of a sudden change in the language. A shift in the written word. The easiest way to confirm that you've entered Germany for instance, is seeing the "Ausfahrt" sign everywhere. This was clearly a highlight for my father who strained to get a non-blurry photo of one as we drove the Autobahn at speeds exceeding 130km/hr (in the slow lane). If you can't bond with someone over laughing at a flatulence reference, the relationship is probably doomed.
It's hard to separate the Deutschland of today from the Deutschland of the relatively recent past. One overcast day, we visited the Helmstedt-Marienborn border crossing that once was a checkpoint into Eastern Germany. It was a proper creepy experience as we were the only ones exploring the decrepit structure in silence (including an abandoned morgue) while large "I See You" signs glared down on us from above. It certainly wasn't Disneyland.
But the Bavarian region could be mistaken for it.
Some of my greatest memories in life are from visiting Disney theme parks. They are truly magical places that can bring out the genuine wonderment of being a child in anyone at any age. My father has told me previously that HIS greatest memory in life was seeing my face light up the first time I saw Cinderella's castle at Walt Disney World. I was five, obsessed with the original Disney princesses and under the belief that one of them actually lived there. Fast forward to this trip in which we visited Neuschwanstein Castle, the original inspiration for many of Walt Disney's creations. Located in a picturesque setting nestled against the start of the Alps, the castle is actually not that old (construction was completed in 1892, although it is still unfinished). The interior and exterior however are straight out of a medieval fairytale. Photographs were not permitted inside, but my favourite room was an interior grotto complete with waterfall. King Ludwig lived large…until he was dubbed "mad" and died mysteriously at the age of 41.


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Islamabad- Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk took oath as 22nd Chief Justice of Pakistan at a ceremony today.
The oath taking ceremony was held at Aiwan-e-Sadr where President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath.
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, federal ministers, Speaker National Assembly, Chairman Senate, three chiefs of armed forces, former Chief Justice Tasadduq Hussain Jilani, judges and senior lawyers participated in the oath taking ceremony. Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk will serve as Chief Justice till 16th August next year.


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|Question 1: In Japan it was released under Sony Music Japan where it was the third biggest selling electronica album of ________.
|Question 2: Nick Dresti,[1] [2] better known by his stage name Space Cowboy is a ________, record producer and singer.
|Question 3: ________ - "Around the World" (2005)
|Question 4: He also had success with single "Up to The Wildstyle" in ________ as The Porn Kings vs.
|Question 5: In 2009 Space Cowboy once again worked with Lady Gaga for her new album The Fame Monster co-writing the songs "Monster" and "So Happy I Could Die" with Gaga and ________.
|Question 6: DJ Supreme where in the ________ it charted at #10.
|Question 7: His first hit was "Tha Wildstyle", which peaked at #39 on the ________ in 1996,[3] then reached #24 after a reissue in 1997.
|Question 8: He is a protégé of ________ and a producer for Lady Gaga.
|Question 9: The track would have charted at number 10 in the ________, had it not been for an error with the CD format, made by the record company, that made it ineligible to chart.
|Question 10: In ________, under the stage name, Space Cowboy, he released a cover of the Prince song I Would Die 4 U, topping the UK dance charts.


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Mark Lause, in his denunciation of Democratic Socialists of America's support of the leftmost Democrats, claims that every single Democrat is a "Wall Street flunky." I must assume that this means that he thinks that every single Democrat is taking cash from finance capital, if not some other corporate source.
But this simply isn't the case. What Wall St. firm would be fool enough to provide campaign funds to John Conyers, to Keith Ellison, to Barbara Lee? Obviously most Democrats represent the ruling class. Some do not.How can this be? Because the Democrats and Republicans aren't real political parties anymore, and haven't been for decades. The machines with their party bosses that used to control who could run for office on which party label are overwhelmingly a thing of the past. One would think a professor of American history would discuss this, but Mark fails to do so.
Today, the Democratic and Republican Parties (DP and RP, respectively) are not structured like political parties anywhere else in the world. They are state-run ballot lines whose membership consists of registered voters rather than dues-payers. It is the state, not the party, which controls who can register as a Democrat or a Republican or anything else.
Parties which can't control who is "in" the party or who runs on the party ballot line aren't real parties.
So contrary to what Mark and other might think, the DP isn't a capitalist party — because it's not a party. It's a state-run ballot line which is usually held by ruling class politicians who win Democratic primaries — but not always. (Only the fundraising committees are pure shills for corporate America — but left-liberals and leftists running as Democrats aren't required to take any money from those committees.)
This change in the structure of the DP and RP didn't happen all at once but the evolution has been steady at least since the 1930s. It explains why it is why open leftists have been able to get elected as Democrats, without some central committee of the DP (there is none) throwing them out of the party. It's impossible to get thrown out of the DP or RP once one is elected on those lines. At most, one gets kicked off of Congressional committees for disloyalty. (People can get kicked out of DP or RP clubs — but those have no real power over what the elected officials do and hence don't really count.)
If what I'm saying seems insane, ask oneself — how else was it possible for the Maoists in the League for Revolutionary Struggle to have been Jesse Jackson delegates to the Democratic National Convention in 1988 — without hiding that they were Maoists? You think the DP leadership wanted MAOISTS in the DP ranks?
So class-struggle politics in the electoral arena is far more complex in the U.S. than it is anywhere else in the world. I agree that a labor party based on the unions should've been formed at least by 1948, when 35% of the U.S. workforce was unionized, and the United Auto Workers in particular was a real power in the country. But Walter Reuther didn't do what he should've done, and today we are where we are. A mass independent workers' party isn't forthcoming in the near future. I wish it was. So when leftists run for office, they're often going to have to do as (dissident, disloyal) Democrats or not do so at all — that is, if they intend to win the office they're running for.
Contrary to the "Bernie Sanders as sheepdog" argument, there's hardly anyone at all to "sheepdog" — no quasi-mass movement for a left-wing third party.
If there was, my judgement of Sanders would be different.
I acknowledge with Mark and others in and around Solidarity (and other groups from the Trotskyist traditions) that Dennis Kucinich in 2004, Jerry Brown in 1992, Jesse Jackson in 1988, Ted Kennedy in 1980, even John Edwards in 2008 — all of them ended up endorsing the pro-war neoliberal victor in the Democratic presidential primary. And they should not have done so. But they weren't required by party laws to do so in the first place. Look at Ron Paul. He very openly didn't support John McCain in 2008 or Mitt Romney in 2012. And yet he remained an elected Republican. Look at the Seattle Democratic officials that have endorsed Kshama Sawant's re-election campaign. Do you think such a thing is possible anywhere else in the world? It isn't.
I wish Bernie Sanders wouldn't endorse Hillary Clinton if he loses to her in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary. Socialists active in his campaign should pressure him to "pull a Ron Paul." If he doesn't, well, he can't force us to vote for her. (She's not even a lesser evil as far as I'm concerned.)
So to make a long story short — because of the peculiarities of the U.S. electoral system and the effective structurelessness of the two major "parties," SUPPORTING DEMOCRATS WHO RUN ON LEFT-WING PLATFORMS AND DON'T TAKE CORPORATE CASH IS NOT AN ACT OF CLASS-COLLABORATION. It's no worse than supporting the workers' party wing of a popular front — and the Democratic Party, in 2015, is more like a popular front unto itself than a genuine political party.


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I was inspired by a beautiful card by Lin, which you can see here. Isn't it beautiful! I just wanted to make a little vase of flowers and had to think of a Hero Arts stamp I have, and hardly use.
I mixed up some colors with distress inks and water and after gold embossing, started painting. The vase was printed on a scrap paper (a stamped project not yet used) and after arranging the flowers I added a little branch of leafs.
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|Is that Burton on Trent I see before me?
The point of all this is not to show how prescient I was, but to demonstrate how the warning signs have been there all along. You could take the view that no harm has been done, Sharp's Brewery has been expanded, the draught beer is still brewed in Cornwall, so what's the problem? The problem is a little thing called honesty. Why not announce they were moving the production of bottled Doom Bar to Burton on Trent because of capacity problems, while confirming that the draught version will continue to be brewed in Cornwall? As the BBC tells us: "The labels on bottles of Doom Bar contain seven references to Rock Cornwall, but none to Burton-upon-Trent, but the small print reads 'brewed in the UK'."
This suggests an intention to deceive: Molson Coors has probably now forfeited the trust of those drinkers who had been prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt after they had acquired a small British brewery. In May 2013 I said that, "If we see any more good news stories concerning Molson Coors, it's worth bearing in mind that any good PR from this company is just a mask." That still applies, perhaps even more now that they've been caught out.
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Mortgage rates showed no clear direction today, but one key rate notched higher. The average for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage saw an increase, but the average rate on a 15-year fixed were flat. Meanwhile, the average rate on 5/1 adjustable-rate mortgages remained steady.
Mortgage rates change daily, but they remain low by historical standards. If you're in the market for a mortgage, it may make sense to lock if you see a rate you like. Just don't do so without shopping around first.
Compare mortgage rates in your area now.
30-year fixed mortgages
The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage is 3.81 percent, up 1 basis point from a week ago. A month ago, the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage was higher, at 3.88 percent.
At the current average rate, you'll pay principal and interest of $466.53 for every $100,000 you borrow. That's an additional $0.57 per $100,000 compared to last week.
You can use Bankrate's mortgage calculator to get a handle on what your monthly payments would be and see how much you'll save by adding extra payments. It will also help you calculate how much interest you'll pay over the life of the loan.
15-year fixed mortgages
The average 15-year fixed-mortgage rate is 3.23 percent, unchanged over the last seven days.
Monthly payments on a 15-year fixed mortgage at that rate will cost around $702 per $100,000 borrowed. Yes, that payment is much bigger than it would be on a 30-year mortgage, but it comes with some big advantages: You'll come out several thousand dollars ahead over the life of the loan in total interest paid and build equity much more quickly.
5/1 ARMs
The average rate on a 5/1 ARM is 3.99 percent, unchanged since the same time last week.
These types of loans are best for those who expect to sell or refinance before the first or second adjustment. Rates could be substantially higher when the loan first adjusts, and thereafter.
Monthly payments on a 5/1 ARM at 3.99 percent would cost about $477 for each $100,000 borrowed over the initial five years, but could climb hundreds of dollars higher afterward, depending on the loan's terms.
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Really Simple Dependency Injection
Having just started a new job I find it interesting to see the way that the other developers I'm working with do things. One of the things I found in the code was for doing dependency injection. I'm not going to analyse that code as but what I will say is that I managed to replace 10 lines of code with just 3.
Without further ado here is the C# code:
public static T Get<T>() where T : class
string implName = Program.Settings[typeof(T).Name].ToString();
object concrete = Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetType(implName));
return (T)concrete;
So what can you do with this code? Well, the way it is written means that you can create an object, the class of which is defined in a configuration file. This allows you to program to an interface but decide the concrete class in the configuration file. The method above will find the class defined for the interface being passed in, create an object of that type and return the object cast to the type of the interface.
The code used to call the method:
IPlugin plugin = PluginFactory.Get<IPlugin>();
plugin.OutputMessage("hello, world!");
The definition in the config file:
<setting name="IPlugin" serializeAs="String">
I'm sure I haven't explained terribly well, so I've thrown together a simple example that you can download. I should point out that this code a very simple example of dependency injection, it doesn't handle passing values to the constructor of the object being instantiated, although it would be simple to add that. Also, the example I have included statically links to the two plugin assemblies, this could be changed such that the plugin assemblies are dynamically loaded using
If you want a more fully featured implementation of dependency injection you should check out the Spring.Net framework.
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[This is a review of Vikings season 2, episode 6. There will be SPOILERS.]
Vikings takes a break from the war-centric first half of season 2, for an episode focused on the political maneuverings of ambitious men and women. Even without the plethora of violent skirmishes to fill your television sets, 'Unforgiven' was not without its share of bloodshed.
This week's tale broadened the geographical scope of the series more than ever, with Wessex and Scandinavia vying for importance in terms of plot. Ragnar, though not in a bad way, is no longer the most important character in the series, as Athelstan and Lagertha stole the spotlight from our favorite blue-eyed Viking.
Let us begin by discussing the priest and his interactions with the formidable King Ecbert in Wessex. Linus Roache (Batman Begins) is doing an excellent job of portraying the mysterious king from England. Until now, Ecbert had not yet revealed his true intentions for keeping Athelstan alive. Apparently, his ambitious appetites are even more ravenous than Ragnar's. In a way, Ecbert wants to learn what power the pagan gods possess. Unlike many of his Christian brothers and sisters, the kings respects the old Roman gods and Caesars, and desires to learn more of their power. It's unclear if he wishes to conquer the known world like Alexander the Great, but there is clearly no limit to his ambitions. Presuming Ragnar attempts a rescue mission for his lost brother, will Athelstan even want to go back?
The Seer's (John Kavanagh) words about brave women always being honored by the gods ring true for Lagertha and her plight with her abusive husband. Most likely, there were many of you (this reviewer included) who jumped for joy when the lovely shield-maiden stabbed him in the eye after publicly humiliating her. Where Siggy seeks power, Lagertha only desires for her family to be safe; however, her bravery and honor have earned her the respect of her people, who now look to her for leadership. Whether she wanted power or not, it is now hers to do with as she will. What will Lagertha do now that she is in control?
Back in Rangar's village, revenge is being served up buffet-style. While King Horik wants to use Jarl Borg's men and boats to attack Wessex, the viking brothers have a debt of blood to pay for past transgressions. Part of Ragnar and Rollo's charm is that they never do what you expect, but it also gets them sidetracked. There would be less blood and confrontation if the two forgave Borg and journeyed West in search of Athelstan, but hey, it wouldn't make for good television. With Jarl Borg in chains, what's to become of the strange man who talks to his wife's skeletal remains? Will this cause a rift between Ragnar and King Horik's relationship?
Unfortunately, "the game" of politics leaves many bruised and broken on its dangerous road, and there was none more so than Siggy. While she has never been a crowd favorite, there is no denying the sorrow in watching her being used for sex, like some prostitute. Unlike Lagertha, Siggy did not stab Horik in the eye, yet she may have her moment to channel her inner Valkyrie in a future episode.
'Unforgiven' was another exemplary episode from an already strong sophomore season written entirely by Michael Hirst (The Tudors). With revenge on the forefront of Ragnar and Rollo's mind, will Athelstan be stuck in Wessex for the rest of season 2, or will the Vikings come to the rescue? Stay strong with our Scandinavian brothers and sisters to find out.
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Rosemary Chicken with California Fig-Orange Sauce
Servings 4 servings
- 8 ounces Blue Ribbon Orchard Choice or Sun-Maid California Figs
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (about 1 lb.)
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
- 4 thin slices prosciutto or ham about 1 1/2 oz.
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary or 2 teaspoons dried
- Cut stems from figs and cut into quarters. Place figs and orange juice in a small microwave-safe bowl. Cover and microwave on HIGH 1 minute. Set aside. Place each chicken breast between 2 sheets of plastic wrap and pound until thin. Combine honey and mustard. Spread 2-3 teaspoons on each chicken breast; top with one slice of prosciutto. Place about six fig pieces in center of chicken. Reserve orange juice and remaining figs. Fold in sides and ends of breast; secure with toothpick. In skillet over medium high heat, melt butter. Add chicken and cook 4 minutes on each side. Combine broth, cornstarch, orange peel and rosemary with reserved orange juice and figs; pour over chicken. Cook covered 2-3 minutes until sauce is slightly thickened. Remove toothpicks and serve.


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NIU point guard Eugene German earns second NBA pre-draft workout
NBA scout: 'He can shoot from anywhere'
DeKALB –�Northern Illinois point guard Eugene German has earned his second NBA pre-draft workout, a team source confirmed Monday.
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The Odyssey + orange Sparkling
An epic Greek poem deserves an epic Greek wine. Like a sparkling deep orange wine the color of the sky when the sun's just fallen below the horizon.
Not familiar with orange wines? Or Greek wines, for that matter? Well. You are in for a treat. This lil urn-like bottle holds a fuzzy, fizzy orange from Ioannina that's deep and full and tastes like semi-sparkling baking spices; uncapping it is like discovering some secret fall-themed Olympian mead—maybe Demeter's, goddess of the harvest and the very first fall-loving basic bitch. Except this is anything but basic. Make no mistake, this wine is a lot, but unlike many orange natural wines, it's not funky. It's deliciously clean, in fact, much like Emily Wilson's translation of Homer's famous epic.
Why reread The Odyssey? Chances are you read it in high school, part of the required English lit curriculum of classic books. Maybe you liked it; maybe you thought it was unnecessarily boring to read something so old; maybe you Sparknoted the whole thing and barely remember it. In any case, this newest translation, the first ever by a woman, is more intuitive, intelligently wrought, and the words more thoughtfully chosen (perhaps because it's by a woman) than whatever you read back then. Consider her telling, in the New York Times magazine, of how to translate the very first adjective in the poem, landing on "complicated" to describe the hero—making him not the glorified hero that prior (male) translators did, nor a passive actor in the midst of turbulence that he simply had to weather, but a not entirely good man with his own flaws. This refusal to capitulate to heroic tropes rings true throughout the poem, making it radically different from any prior translation, made for people who love considering the power in the meaning of singular words, the implications of a sentence, and the history in ancient texts.
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The pace of this year's harvest in Iowa combined with the record-setting yields can stress the labor of any farming operation. Making sure that help is available to run equipment and haul grain is important in keeping the wheels of harvest moving.
Recently farmers from around the world met in Des Moines to discuss important issues they face with their farming operations. All agreed that labor issues are a major concern.
Fourteen farmers gathered to take part in the Global Farmers Roundtable and World Food Prize Symposium last week. The farmers from countries spanning five of the seven continents said that farm labor supply, farm labor costs, and labor work ethic can be a limiting factor in the future for their operations.
Levi Wood, a grain farmer from western Saskatchewan, Canada, has difficulties in finding labor due to the pressures that other industries place on the labor force.
"We're competing against other industries. In Canada, those industries are mining, oil, and gas. It's a barrier because even people that grew up on a farm or work on a farm can make $80,000 to $100,000 U.S. dollars a year at 18 with no skills," he said.
In India, low wages have forced laborers to find other jobs to sustain a living. That puts farmers in the difficult position of choosing expensive machinery to do the work or limiting the size of the farm because of the labor shortage.
"We cannot pay wages that are deserved by farmers," Balwinder Singh Kang, a farmer from India said. "Expenses have increased so it limits how much can be paid. I don't think $500 a year is enough for a worker to live and feed a family. But even if we are willing to pay more we can't get the people to come."
Farmers in Argentina and Australia are facing a pull of labor from small rural towns to the larger cities according to Maria Beatriz Giraudo Gaviglio of Argentina and Sarah Sammon of Australia.
"We lose a lot of our youth to the big city which is four hours away. So we start with a lack of availability for helpers," Sammon told the group.
The story is the same in Argentina according to Gaviglio.
"Everybody wants to live in the cities these days," she said. "We need people living on the farm, but they prefer to live on less money in the city. The government also gives subsidies for people that don't want to work."
To help with the problem, she has been proactive in working with other farm groups in Argentina to create training centers in small cities to help train workers that might not have the opportunity to go to universities in the city.
"The problem is limiting our production, and it is a very big problem in my country," Gaviglio said.
Kees Huizinga, originally from the Netherlands, has farmed in Ukraine for the past 12 years. He raises soybeans, winter wheat, and other row crops along with 850 dairy cows and 750 sows, farrow to finish. He currently employees 350 people. For his operation, he sees a large labor pool to draw from but he feels the workforce is not motivated to work because of government incentives.
"In Ukraine there is enough labor but there is a shortage of jobs," he said. "There is an enormous workforce, so it comes down to management. We have to stimulate people to work. We have to spend time teaching people the jobs and then retaining them."
Kang sees the issue of labor as a crisis in his native country of India with ramifications around the world. He believes that it goes beyond a labor shortage to the willingness of farmers to keep farming.
"In 10 to 15 years no one will be willing to farm if things continue," he said. "All of these things are problems we are facing. Labor is not there; technology is not there it is all combined together."
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The coming years are full of promise, adventure and fun! It all starts in November of 2016 and will grow and expand throughout the years to come. Here are some things we're adding to the mix:
Highbridge Hills Sports Complex Membership
In an effort to provide the best experience and facility in the world for your enjoyment, we are a "Pay for Play" Sports Complex. We are now adding a new membership policy. By becoming a Member of Highbridge Hills Sports Complex you help us maintain our property and facilities in the best possible manner, and support our continuing efforts to come up with new ideas for fun at Highbridge. For those of you who only visit us occasionally, we will offer short-term length-of-visit memberships for a nominal price ($5/individual or $15/family). There will be several benefits to becoming a long-term member, including a Facebook Members Discussion Group. Check out our MEMBERSHIP page for details. We will be adding online payment for membership to our website soon.
United Recreational Players Association
John's latest vision is an association for recreational disc golfers of all ages and genders, offering all members the opportunity to compete in tournaments leading up to a World's Championship Tournament to be held annually at Highbridge Hills Sports Complex! Join in the fun! Become a member soon and enjoy the added benefits of early membership! LEARN MORE ➤
Monthly Events the Whole Year Round
Check our CALENDAR or UPCOMING EVENTS pages often to find out what's being planned.
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Business Partner Sponsorships
John will be working with businesses in the area in an ongoing effort to offer discounts and special deals for members and guests of Highbridge Hills Sports Complex.
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Choosing the Right Legal Structure for Income Tax
While deciding which type of legal business structure is best for securing capital and managing their business, owners should also consider the income tax factor. They should know the key differences between the two kinds of business entities from the income tax point of view:
Taxable-entity, C corporations: These corporations are subject to income tax on their annual taxable income. Plus, their stockholders pay a second income tax on cash dividends that the business distributes to them from profit, making C corporations and their owners subject to double taxation. The owners (stockholders) of a C corporation include in their individual income tax returns the cash distributions from the after-tax profit paid to them by the business.
Pass-through entities — partnerships, S corporations, and LLCs: These entities do not pay income tax on their annual taxable income; instead, they pass through their taxable income to their owners, who pick up their shares of the taxable income on their individual tax returns.
Pass-through entities still have to file tax returns with the IRS, even though they don't pay income tax on their taxable income. In their tax returns, they inform the IRS how much taxable income is allocated to each owner, and they send each owner a copy of this information to include with his or her individual income tax return.
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WrestleMania 32, Network, Stars Pile-Drive WWE 2Q Numbers To New Records
Special to NYSportsJournalism.com
July 30, 2016: Led by the likes of Roman Reigns, John Cena, Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins and Sasha Banks, and citing record numbers at WWE Network, increased digital engagements and a successful WrestleMania 32, WWE said its Q2 revenues increased 32% to a quarterly record high $199 million and that North American revenues increased 39% from 2015 Q2.
Even without the impact of WrestleMania 32, which was held April 3 in AT&T Stadium, home for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, WWE said that revenue increased 13% over the same quarter a year ago.
WWE, during a conference call this past Thursday (July 28) with analysts and media, made a point to stress its numbers with and without WrestleMania 32 due to the fact that WrestleMania 31 was held in March 2015 and counted toward Q1 last year rather than Q2 revenue.
According to WWE, "WrestleMania had a significant impact on subscriber growth in the second quarter of both years. Therefore, the timing impact of the event on second quarter 2016 results is best estimated by measuring the direct contribution the event generated from ticket, merchandise and pay-per-view sales and production costs (excluding any attribution from WWE Network subscriptions).
"In aggregate, these items increased second quarter 2016 revenue by $29.4 million," according to WWE.
Among its reported numbers, WWE Network hit a record of 1.52 million average paid subscribers during Q2 2016, a 25% increase from Q2 2015; and that through the first six months of the year, "digital engagement metrics continued to grow with video views up over 100% to nearly 8 billion and social media engagements up 39% to 570 million versus the prior year."
WWE said it is on pace to add more than 300 hours of original content to WWE Network's featured programming in 2016, and more than 1,500 hours of archival content to WWE Network, bring the on-demand library to nearly 6,000 hours at year-end 2016.
Among the Q2 offerings, WWE Network added Camp WWE and Swerved Season 2, "which rank among the network's top original series to-date."
The 39% increase in North American Q2 revenues increased 39% from the prior year quarter were "primarily due to the impact of WrestleMania ticket and merchandise sales as well as by the growth of WWE Network subscribers and the escalation of television rights fees," said WWE. The quarter also reflected "higher ticket sales and prices at other North American events and increased digital advertising revenue."
During the conference call, WWE said that WrestleMania 32 "achieved record-breaking attendance (101,763), ticket sales, viewership and social media activity," with WWE Network reaching a record 1.82 million total subscribers following the event.
During WrestleMania 32 Week, WWE said that WWE Network featured 19 hours of prime-time, premier programming and that subscribers watched nearly 22 million hours of content, averaging 12 hours per subscriber.
WrestleMania 32 "achieved record-breaking attendance, ticket sales, viewership and social media activity," with WWE Network reaching a record 1.8M subscribers.
WrestleMania 32 generated more than 2.5 million mentions on Twitter in one day and more than 250 million video views across WWE digital and social platforms during WrestleMania Week, per WWE.
During Q2, WWE repositioned SmackDown as a live event; and unveiled a multi-year content distribution deal in China with PPTV, the return of a WWE live event to Shanghai in September and the signing of the first-ever Chinese talent.
"I continue to be pleased with the execution of our strategy to optimize the long-term value of our content," Vince McMahon, WWE chairman and CEO, said during the conference call.
"Progress on this objective is evidenced by the continued year-over-year growth of WWE Network, the transition of SmackDown to a live format every week and the completion of our first exclusive content agreement in China," said McMahon.
WWE's John Cena Has A Hefty Brand
WrestleMania 32 Throws Down Winning Numbers
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Kelso's Advanced Sports Betting: Scout the Red Sox and Yankees This Weekend
Submitted by Kelso Sturgeon on Friday, June 29, 2018 at 1:00 PM
Usually your homework assignment isn't something as basic as sitting and watching some baseball. But, I want you to do that this weekend with the Boston Red Sox/New York Yankees series because those teams are both going to be very important through the second half of the regular season and deep into the playoffs.
*Obviously, these teams will meet again several more times this season. You might pick up something this weekend that helps you bet winners in later meetings. Be on particular lookout for key pitchers who can't quite figure out how to disrupt the most dangerous hitting threats on the other side.
*They might meet again in the playoffs, though one will definitely have to survive a Wildcard game, probably against Seattle the way things are shaping up. The American League is so well-defined right now that the playoffs are simple to visualize. This weekend's series will definitely help you plot out postseason betting strategies.
*Either could win the AL and play in the World Series. Houston will have something to say about that. Cleveland might as well if they can get things together before October. (Seattle probably won't, but you never know). If I were you, I'd be paying close attention whenever Boston, New York, Houston, and Cleveland are playing head-to-head against each other…or against any NL power (the Yankees will face Atlanta beginning Monday). I expect you to be OVER-prepared for the playoffs this October. At least in the AL. Study how championship threats perform against other championship threats.
*Both teams are so good that oddsmakers are having trouble posting lines high enough. You'll often see teams with good straight up records barely showing a profit because their day-to-day money lines are so high. Not the case with either of these guys. Boston is plus 13.5 units entering this series, while the Yankees are plus about 9.5 units. Personally, I think one of these teams might make a run at plus 20 units for the season, while the other is going to cool off a bit soon after the All-Star Break. Profits await any analyst who can recognize when that divergence starts to happen.
What keys should you be looking for? It's not like there are a lot of secrets about these high-profile media-heavy teams. Betting lines will be based on what is publicly known. It's your job to uncover the secrets that are still hiding.
*Look at how these teams handle pressure. It's one thing to crush lesser teams like bugs. It's another to maintain composure when the bug is trying to crush you back.
*Look at how hitters deal with relief pitchers. One of the dangers of the way the Yankees structure their bullpen to own the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings is that a postseason opponent will get a read by the middle of the series. Aroldis Chapman is less scary (and less fresh) under repeated playoff shots. These teams have seen each other enough this year that evidence of that dynamic might already start happening this weekend. Let's hope for close games that will help us evaluate key relievers.
*Evaluate the bench and role players. The media tends to focus on a few marquee names. I don't even have to list them for these teams because you already know them. But, it's often lesser names who rise to the occasion in clutch baseball. Use this weekend to better familiarize yourself with guys like that who could determine who wins and loses bets down the stretch and in October.
For pure entertainment purposes, it's kind of annoying that things are so locked in for the AL playoff picture right now. And, if you've been watching baseball for years (or decades), you're thinking "not the Red Sox and Yankees AGAIN." Get over that. Use this extra time to your advantage. Hey, if you see an edge this weekend, bet it. But, your homework is to study and evaluate so you can make multiple smart bets in games involving these teams for the next few months.
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The Dean of Sports Handicapping greatly appreciates your devotion to my College of Sports Betting and Handicapping. You may have heard already that Las Vegas sports books had a HUGE month of May. I take that as a personal affront because informed bettors are winning. That means books are taking way too much advantage of uninformed money. Spread the word. Teach your friends how to win, by letting them know about our coursework.
As sports betting becomes legal in more states, media coverage will only intensify. Make sure some of that "dumb money" from fans who are in over their heads makes it into your pocket. Do your homework, and you'll become the smart money.
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2018 Country Clipper XLT
Vehicle Description
Features 54' Cutting Width
Joystick Steering
Stand-Up Deck Kohler Engine
Twin Hydro- Gear ZT- 3100 Drive System
8 MPH Ground Speed
5 Gallon Tank
Adjustable, High Back, Enhanced Comfort Seat
Pivoting Front Axle & Deck
Wide Front Step
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The Tigers were swept by the Twins.
It's ok, people, it's only May.
On Wednesday night the Yu Darvish Tour continued as Darvish beat the Oakland A's 4-1.
Darvish's line for the night: 7 2/3 innings, 4 hits, 1 run, 2 walks and 7 Ks.
Adrian Beltre had a 2-run homer.
The Athletics rebounded, today, and beat the Rangers 5-4.
Brandon McCarthy had a bit of a rough outing, giving up 8 hits, 4 runs and being the subject of a controversial call.
The score was tied 3-3 in the 6th inning when McCarthy played a pop-up bunt by Elvis Andrus and fired to third base to get the runner for, what he thought would be, a double play.
Nope. The home plate ump ruled that McCarthy had trapped the ball.
A's skipper Bob Melvin came out to argue and was ejected.
Kila Ka'aihue drove in the game-winning run in the 10th inning.
Oakland put Brandon Inge on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right groin. The move was retroactive to Sunday..
Inge will be back just in time to join Manny Ramirez who will return to the A's on May 30th - ManRam's 40th birthday - after serving his 50-game suspension for violating baseball's performance-enhancing drug policy.
In other A's news, only two remaining MLB teams continue to play in craphole stadiums - Tampa Bay and Oakland..
The Athletics are itchin' to play in new digs, but their jerk-off neighbours are putting the kibosh on their aspirations..
The San Francisco Giants don't want the A's to build a new facility on their preferred site - about 40 miles south of Oakland in San Jose - which is part of the Giants' territory..
Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff, a California real estate developer, wants to keep the team in the Bay area..


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So there's HALO 3, HALO Wars and then this new untitled one. Bring it on, baby! Another reason the Xbox 360 is going to continue to roll strongly into the next generation – the $199 HD-DVD player add on coming this November. It already plays DVDs in 480p, but finally we'll be able to enjoy the fullest resolution 1080i and higher. Yes!


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Larry Blustein
Despite losing coach and senior talent, Miramar poised to reload
After being upset by Palm Beach Gardens in the Class 8A state playoffs and then watching the most successful coach in school history take a college job, there some who were quick to write off Miramar as a contender for the 2014 season.
Although this program has been one of the best in Florida over the past five years, some felt that Miramar might fall from the elite this upcoming season after losing coach Damon Cogdell and a quality class of seniors.
Fearing that many of the remaining players might be persuaded to transfer to other schools, Miramar High administrators worked quickly to hire a replacement for Cogdell, who had taken his alma mater to levels the program had never been since opening in the early 1970s.
Before leaving to take an assistant coaching position with the Mountaineers, Cogdell helped the Patriots to quickly name a successor. The decision to hire Miramar assistant coach Matt Strout was an easy one because the staff that had so much success working under Cogdell would remain in place for a smooth transition and the players would be content to stay.
Although several key players graduated on both sides of the ball, it was the offense that really took a hit as two quarterbacks, a number of quality running backs, receivers and linemen departed, leaving Strout and his staff with a huge spring assignment.
"This spring was so much easier because of the staff that remained," Strout admitted. "We realized that our defense would be solid, but there were many questions to be answered on the offensive side of the ball, where a new quarterback, several new linemen and a coordinator all had to gel."
Class of 2016 quarterback Demari Simpkins (5-11, 170 pounds) was the perfect place to start for a team that featured some impressive returning talent. Simpkins, who is still a work in progress, picked things up quickly — and with a 13-day trip planned this summer to several colleges — learning all facets of the spread offense will come easier.
"We are very excited about what Demari brings to this offense," Strout explained. "We lost two senior leaders at the position from last year, so it was essential that he came in and picked things up almost immediately."
Although Simpkins will manage the offense, he will not be asked to do it all. The senior class is loaded with playmakers, including running back Alex Anderson (6-0, 205), who is regarded as one of the best in the state, and Sanjai Bruno (5-9, 180), who saw extensive playing time a year ago. Receivers Khalil Lewis (6-1, 195) and Kevin Purlett (6-4, 200) are quality players as well.
The offensive line, which lost some depth, features University of Miami commit Leeward Brown (6-4, 320), Stewart Boyd (6-3, 285) and versatile Jaquan Owens, who made the move from defense last season.
"This senior class has experience and leadership," Strout pointed out. "That was huge in our spring game win at a very athletic Lake Wales squad."
Class of 2016 prospects such as running back Greg McCrae (5-11, 165), receiver Kyle Anthony (6-4, 180) and Everglades line transfer Obinna Nwankwo (6-3, 280) give this program plenty to work with during the summer.


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Burnout Crash is the most recent game in Criterion's Burnout franchise. It wasn't a true sequel, but rather a spin-off downloadable title on the Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network. That game has been ported to iOS with some really mixed quality. The gameplay is fun, but gets tiresome.
The soundtrack and voice-overs are awesome, showcasing Criterion's excellent sense of humor, but a lot of those found in the original are missing in this port. On top of all of that, the game is excessively buggy upon this initial release.
Crash! is based on a specific game mode from previous burnout games called 'Crash Mode.' Your job is to speed into an intersection and create as much carnage as you possibly can, and your score is measured by dollars in property damage. After your initial crash, you'll still be able to move around when your crash meter is filled by exploding again and again and again. This is done by simply swiping around the screen, always nudging your car around. Plenty of special cars will drive onto the scene, such as the Pizza truck, which takes you into the 'wheel of pizza' mini-game once destroyed. Other special cars include an explosive tanker, police cars and taxis, and even bank trucks with loads of extra money.
There are three main game modes at each intersection. Rush Hour gives you ninety seconds to do as much damage as possible. Pile Up has you destroying cars until your inferno meter is filled, but you also have to keep any cars from escaping. Each car that escapes will lower your inferno multiplier. You can only let five cars escape before it's game over. The final mode, Road Block, also has you keeping cars from escaping, but builds up to three pre-set 'features,' which range from special vehicles showing up to meteor showers, massive sink holes, and eventually a level ending destructive force unique to each area of the game. The game is divided into six differently themed areas, from regular neighborhoods to beaches to Roswell, each with three unique intersections to play all three game modes in, totaling up to 54 levels.
The game is very novel and fun at first, but it gets old pretty quickly. The lack of any proper tutorial is also confusing as you try each mode for the first time, having to learn by trial and error. The game requires far more strategy than you would think. Positioning of your car is crucial, as accidentally blowing up in the middle of a pile can easily clear up an intersection. A special ambulance will occasionally drive by, and if he can get through the map without crashing, he'll take away one of your escaped cars, but he's an idiot and will crash into anything. There is some strategy in which vehicle you use for each level as well, as some have more destructive explosions, while others are more maneuverable.
The graphics are simple and colorful, although, playing on an iPad you'll notice some distinctly bad looking textures. The soundtrack is still excellent. Game Center is supported, but I and many other people are seeing a bug that tells us the game isn't recognized by Game Center. Oh, the game was published by EA, by the way, so Origin is also supported. The app is iOS Universal as well, and only reason I chose to play this on an iPad is simply because it can be harder to follow the chaos on a smaller iPhone screen, but both work great. Burnout Crash is available for five dollars at the time of this review, and while I really enjoyed it overall, many people will not, and there are too many minor issues to wholeheartedly recommend it. Luckily, EA has sales very frequently, so I'm sure this game will drop to a dollar sooner rather than later. If you're interested, I'd wait for such a sale.
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I met Mary Hanafin, Minister for Tourism, Culture, and Sport, in the lobby of the Pavilion Theatre before a forum in Dun Laoghaire designed to give people in the arts a chance to feed ideas into the government's cultural strategy. I was impressed by her warm congeniality and obvious enthusiasm for her job, but when I quizzed her on the logic of combining three of the country's profitable but seemingly unrelated activities into one government department, I wasn't convinced that even she saw the relevance of sport to the arts. I suppose it all comes down to definitions. What is 'culture', after all? According to Wikipedia it is
• excellence of taste in the fine arts and humanities;
• an integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior and;
• the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization or group.
That's quite a range of responsibilities she's got there! And how can you combine all the many and various aspects of 'the arts' into one amorphous lump and somehow give that word any real meaning? Being a cynic, I suspect that this was all a tenuous marriage of convenience driven by ulterior government motives, and that culture and sports were simply there to create revenues from tourism. By the time the event had finished, I had come to my own conclusions as to why at least 90% of those in the audience were wasting their time and what really needed to be done.
Mary: It all looks good
Mary launched the event with a sparkling explanation of what her department was doing, how it was supporting the arts and what progress had been made. She was followed by a nice lady from the Arts Council who waxed lyrical about how much it supports artists, handing out grants, developing partnerships with business and so much more. She could barely tear herself away from the microphone to allow the discussion to start. Brilliant, I thought; all is well in the world of the arts in Ireland. As a relative newcomer to the country, I was almost convinced.
Artists: We're dying on our feet
The story that the audience had to tell was so different it was hard to believe it came from the same planet as the two nice ladies on stage. There were complaints about high costs—rents, rates and more—and lack of facilities. The general picture was of dispirited artisans passionately trying to operate on hopelessly inadequate budgets in an environment of minimal, if any, support from government and the Arts Council. Many felt abandoned by a system that was unresponsive and cumbersome. However, all this was expressed with polite deference to, and even appreciation for, Mary's genuine attempt to reach out to the arts community. Expressions of frustration were understandably muted, as the two ladies on stage represented potential resources and investment in their arts endeavours. Where else could they go for essential support?
As Mary herself admitted, only about 10% of the arts community received any support from the Arts Council, and she was, understandably, trying to maximize the effect of the scarce resources available. Considering the 90% left hanging, however, she faced an impossible task.
Strong culture—the foundation for growth
Ireland is well-known for its rich cultural heritage. But it's also had its share of strife, hardship and Catholic condemnation, resulting in a pessimistic mentality that has left the country morally, emotionally and financially bankrupt. Add to this a disorganized arts community and things don't look too good. Not only that, but many arts practitioners often have a weak business model. But that's okay, because the true value of the arts is not in their business potential. The arts are there to enrich our lives, to challenge fixed concepts, to entertain us and to enhance our leisure time. They form the bedrock of a country's culture and they are drivers of social change—something Ireland badly needs. Yet, at this event, it was clear that art was being sidelined and marginalized.
By definition, creativity is dynamic. It's not enough for the country to concentrate on developing the traditional arts—as wonderful as they may be—into blockbuster tourist moneymakers. New ideas birthed in the studios and workshops of struggling artists all over the country need to be embraced and developed. Doing so would benefit the whole of society, helping to mend broken communities and inspire and uplift individuals. It would also foster innovation and improve quality of life by empowering those who embrace a truly creative path. Politics, finance and business cannot create the fundamental shift that Ireland needs to undergo, because that kind of profound change starts in the hearts and minds of every individual, and the arts are crucial to that process. Ironically, politics, finance and business would also benefit from such a process.
The true value of the arts—for everyone
One of the reasons for organizing the Dun Laoghaire event was to try to bridge the communication gap between the Arts Council, government and artists. But there also appeared to be a communication gap between and among artists and their communities, seemingly driven by a feeling that the arts are a non-essential add-on to life—a 'spare time' activity and something to keep the kids occupied. Many of those in the meeting stressed the importance of encouraging children to take part in the arts but failed to recognize the pressing and largely ignored need for adults to do the same—thus reinforcing the notion that the arts are somehow not a 'serious' activity. Artists are ranked in terms of 'young', 'emerging' and 'established'—preposterous and damaging labels that merely serve to establish elitism and market value. However, until each individual—not just professional artists—acknowledges the personal value of their own unique creativity, and starts to nurture and express their right brain, the arts will remain in the sidelines. The true value, relevance and importance of the arts as a central pillar of society will never be realized. And unless artists become organized, empowered and relevant in people's lives, they will never gain the status they deserve or be fully integrated into the everyday cultural landscape.
Back a strong culture for success
Governments are transient. Culture is enduring—and it's much bigger than government. Even if the funded 10% became 20% or 30%, that wouldn't fix things for the arts, let alone society as a whole. Equally, establishing a few shiny high-tech innovative companies won't turn the economy around. But of all the things that a government can do, supporting the arts arguably has the greatest potential to resuscitate the soul of the nation. In doing so, it will generate the human platform for cultural growth, enabling everything else to move forward in healthy ways. It's a difficult one for ministers to get their heads around and act upon, preoccupied as they are with firefighting, but it's a dynamic, creative approach to bolstering the country's morale, empowering innovative individuals, and ensuring the nation's success.


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