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Join us and Lucy Fenn for a morning of Yoga and delicious food!
If you're looking for some February motivation, or just some fresh ways of working out, then training with a friend could be just what you need to get fit and have fun.
Having an exercise partner can be the push you need to get off the sofa in the evening, and get into the gym. Working out in a pair provides an incentive and motivation.
Here's why you should be training with a friend:
1. You'll be accountable
The idea of working out post-work doesn't seem so fun does it? You may want to skip a gym session with yourself, but when there's a friend counting on you for a training session, you are much less likely to cancel. What's more, once you're in the habit of working out, it's much less likely you'll even think of bailing.
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It's no surprise that the treadmill can get a bit dull after a while, but with a buddy in tow you can mix up your training sessions; don some boxing gloves and try a bit of sparring, spot each other weightlifting, or even race each against each other on the bike machines.
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Jackson got a backstage pass at one of Sepultura's recent shows to catch up with guitarist Andreas Kisser for a look at some of his go-to Jackson guitars.more
Randy Rhoads was the guitarist I first heard that inspired me to play guitar. 30+ years later, I finally got my own. When I started looking it was obvious I needed to get the Pro Series for the features I wanted like neck through construction and an ebony fret board. These are outsourced to Samick and made in their Indonesian factory. I imagine its slightly less perfectly crafted than a custom shop USA model but I've had it almost 2 years and and have not had any issues. The price of these are not that bad for what you get.


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What do I know about death?
I am a cat.
But I know something. Or maybe it's another one I do not know.
Where is Edwin?
Who is Edwin, you say? He is the man I lived with.
The man who was there, in the bed. The new one, not the other.
At the old house.
I am talking about this place, here.
He was there, under the covers, silent. Eyes closed. Motionless.
By the way, what does it matter?
It's not the look, the true proof? Ours and everything around us?
The noise of the voice and the awkwardness of action are useless pieces in the mosaic living.
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After moving around the past couple of years between Kith & Kin, Graham Elliot, EL Ideas and, most recently, the Monarch, chef Andrew Brochu is ready to settle down. He's joining Grant Achatz, with whom he worked at Alinea, at the Aviary to head up the cocktail lounge's new culinary program.
The Aviary posted a note to its Facebook wall Wednesday evening saying the restaurant group, owned by Mr. Achatz and Nick Kokonas, was excited to welcome him back. No one, seemingly, was more excited than Mr. Brochu.
"Just to have him call and even talk to me about coming on board as a chef is an honor," Mr. Brochu told us. "It's one of those things you think about and then realize you're sitting in front of one of the best chefs in the world . . . it's humbling and exciting." Though Mr. Brochu and Mr. Achatz have had a personal friendship for about eight years, Mr. Brochu admitted he "left the meeting shaking a little."
Mr. Brochu wrapped things up at the Monarch Saturday night and starts with the Aviary on May 16. The two are still working out the direction of the new food program and will focus on research and development for the next couple of weeks. "We're mainly trying to figure out how we can put more food on the tables without having to change how the Aviary is," Mr. Brochu said. "We know we're going to make the food delicious, so we're not worried about that. Our talks are about how do we still make it new and over the top and modern and something people haven't seen before."
He said that Mr. Achatz "wants people to know I'm doing the food program" and "wants my thumbprint on it." People can expect to see Mr. Brochu's style of bold flavors that pop, a lot of acid and the techniques he first learned working under Mr. Achatz while at Alinea from 2005 to 2007.
The food will change, but one thing you still won't see at the Aviary are large plates. "We want to come up with something new for a lounge," Mr. Brochu said. "No matter what, you won't be able to come in and get an entrée. It's still going to be dainty, with finesse and on the smaller scale, just not bites. It's maybe going to be some sort of progression or something where there's a little more thought behind it than just one bites."
It seems the goal for the upscale cocktail lounge, which on May 6 took home a James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar Program under mixologist Charles Joly, is to get people to stick around longer. Mr. Brochu, who will also oversee the menu at the exclusive downstairs Office, where you will see more large plates, said they're designing new services to "get people to not leave and go somewhere else" to eat.
Also not likely to go somewhere else? Mr. Brochu. He said he's planning on settling in at the Aviary. "I spent a lot of time at Alinea in my early career and always thought it would be cool to work with (Mr. Achatz) again as a chef," he said. "The most exciting part for me is to be back working with that restaurant group."
When will we be able to start tasting Mr. Brochu's new menu creations? "We'd like to move as fast as possible, but with ease," he said. "We talked about maybe the first of June to have some stuff ready to go. It could be sooner. It won't be a long transition."
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Public Programs
Artists, critics, scholars, and performers reflect on Storm King's current exhibitions.
Thursday, March 21 @7PM: Mark Dion in Conversation with Nora Lawrence at SVA Theatre at 7pm
Sunday, May 19 @1PM: Children & Families: Birding for Beginners
Sunday May 26 @1PM: Children & Families: Constructing Curiosities
Saturday June 1 @2PM: Special Exhibition Program: Outlooks: Jean Shin
Sunday June 23 @1PM: Children & Families: Sorting Stories
Sunday July 14 @1PM: Children & Families: Maple Prints
Sunday, August 4 @1PM: Children & Families: Create, Collect, Investigate
Sunday August 18 @1PM: Children & Families: Make a Folly
Sunday September 8 @1PM: Children & Families: AGRISCULPTURE + Follies
Saturday, September 21 @2PM: Special Exhibition Program: Mark Dion
Initiated in 2013 by the Art Center, Wanderings & Wonderings invites visitors to engage with artists in creative and unexpected ways. Participating artists have created tours, maps, performances, poetry and movement workshops, new media, and deeply thoughtful conversations. Since 2015, Wanderings & Wonderings has been co-presented with Nicholas Weist, Director of Shandaken Projects, and features select alumnae residents and their collaborators.
Saturday, May 11 @12PM: Wanderings & Wonderings: Phoebe Berglund
Saturday, September 7 @12PM: Wanderings & Wonderings: Phoebe Berglund
Saturday, September 28 @2PM: Wanderings & Wonderings: James Allister Sprang
Sunday, September 29 @2pm: Wanderings & Wonderings: James Allister Sprang
H. Peter Stern Concerts present Western and Indian classical performances, inspired by the interests of Storm King's Honorary Chair and Founding President. Other performances feature such diverse genres as indie rock, experimental guitar, contemporary classical music, African drumming, dance, and theater.
Saturday, June 8 @1PM: Tyrone Birkett Emancipation
Sunday, August 25 @2PM: H. Peter Stern Concert: Saraswathi Ranganathan
Sunday, September 22 @2PM: H. Peter Stern Concert: Tessa Lark & Michael Thurber
Explore Storm King Art Center on an after-hours guided tour under a full moon.
Friday, May 17 @8PM: Moonlit Walking Tour
Friday, June 14 @8PM: Moonlit Walking Tour
Friday, August 16 @9PM: Moonlit Walking Tour
A consistently popular start to Saturdays at the Art Center, outdoor yoga is offered weekly at 10:15AM, June through September. Sunset Yoga offered on select Friday evenings between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Saturday, June 1 @10:15AM
Saturday, June 8 @10:15AM
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Saturday, June 29 @10:15AM
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Saturday, September 28 @10:15AM
Saturday, October 5 @10:15AM
A beekeeper leads tours of Peter Coffin's Untitled (Bees Making Honey) (2012), at the apiary at the far edge of Storm King's property.
Saturday, June 1 @1PM and 2PM
Saturday, June 29 @1PM and 2PM
Saturday, July 13 @1PM and 2PM
Saturday, July 27 @1PM and 2PM
Saturday, August 10 @1PM and 2PM
Saturday, August 31 @1PM and 2PM
Saturday, September 14 @1PM and 2PM
Saturday, September 28 @1PM and 2PM
Saturday, October 12 @1PM and 2PM
Saturday, October 26 @1PM and 2PM
Storm King's public programs invite contemplative, creative, and joyful participation from a diverse cross section of visitors. Artists, scholars, teachers, students, families, community organizers, and other cultural organizations are critical partners in both creating and participating in programming. We offer a number of public programs throughout the season, as well as in the off-season.
Artist talks are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Support for education-related programming is provided by generous lead support from the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts. Support is also provided by The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Sidney E. Frank Foundation. Special thanks to Goldie Anna Charitable Trust.


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TREASON! Treasonous asshats.
Oh fuck.
Under s46 of the Criminal Code, a person commits "high treason" who a) kills, attempts to kill, wounds, imprisons, or restrains the sovereign, b) wages war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto, or c) assists an enemy at war with Canada or any armed force against whom Canadian forces are engaged in hostilities, even if no state of war exists. The punishment for high treason is life imprisonment, without parole eligibility for 25 years. A person commits "treason" who a) uses force or violence for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Canada or a province, b) discloses, without lawful authority, military or scientific material to agents of a foreign state, if he or she knows or should know that the material may be used to impair Canada's safety or defence, or c) engages in certain listed conspiracies or attempted offences. The punishment for treason is life imprisonment; normal parole rules apply. Canadian citizens and persons owing allegiance to Her Majesty in right of Canada who commit acts of high treason or treason are punishable under Canadian criminal law even if the acts were performed outside Canada.
The Criminal Code also penalizes such acts as alarming the sovereign, assisting an alien enemy to leave Canada, failing to make reasonable efforts to prevent the commission of high treason, intimidating Parliament or a legislature, sabotage, incitement to mutiny and sedition.
Some of that may apply, I suppose. Or it should. LET US VOTE AGAIN. Then we'll see.


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Where can I find the physician's signature form?
There is a specific form that will be created for you once you finish the online health form. If you do not save it when you initially finish the health form, you can log back in to your account and find it.
Can I just turn in a sports physical form?
No. There is a specific form that will be created for you once you finish the online health form that says the camper has completed a physical in the past 12 months. The only option for getting a physician's signature is bringing or sending this specific form to the doctor and having them fax it directly to the number on the sheet, 866-381-4156. The form can be signed by a doctor, physician's assistant, or nurse practitioner.
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Design and Evaluation of a Cybersecurity Awareness Training Game
Serious games are becoming more popular because they provide an opportunity for learning in a natural environment. Although many concepts included in cybersecurity awareness training are universal, many forms of training fail because they are based on rote learning and do not require users to think about security concepts. The main objective of this study is to design a candidate cybersecurity awareness training tool which provides an environment for helping users to understand security concepts while playing a game. To reach our goal, we applied a newly developed model, which is Activity Theory-based Model of Serious Games (ATMSG), to design our own game. According to the design, we implemented a game demo and assessed its gameplay. The results indicated that the story gameplay can help players improve their understanding of cybersecurity problems and resolutions.
KeywordsSerious game Sybersecurity Game design Activity theory ATMSG
The authors wish to thank the anonymous referees for their constructive comments that helped to improve the article considerably, and the group of students who participated in the survey of this study.
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"Do you like fish salads? This salad takes its name from the Ile du Pollet, off Dieppe, and you will love it… At Le Manoir de Graincourt, we serve it cold as a starter and it is very popular with our guests." (Anne-Lise Baron)
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MarketsandMarkets forecasts the global RTP market size to grow from USD 6.8 billion in 2018 to USD 25.9 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 30.6% during the forecast period. The major growth factors expected to drive the growth of the RTP market include the high proliferation of smartphones, adoption of cloud-based solutions, customers' demand for immediacy of payments and quicker payment settlements, and the government initiatives. The lack of of interoperability between schemes and the increasing market competition are expected to restrain the adoption of RTP solutions in the emerging economies, which in turn, may restrain the market from growing.
The Person-to-Person (P2P) nature of payment is estimated to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period
The RTP market by nature of payment has been segmented into Person-to-Person (P2P), Person-to-Business (P2B), Business-to-Person (B2P), and others (Business-to-Business (B2B), Government-to-Business (G2B),Business-to-Government (B2G), Person-to-Government (P2G), and Government-to-Person (G2P)). The P2P nature of payment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR, as it is used by consumers for different use cases, including repayment of a movie ticket to a friend, repayment of money to a friend, and gifting money to a child or a grandchild.
Among regions, Asia Pacific (APAC) is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period
APAC has distinctively been one of the fastest-growing markets in terms of rapidly adopting RTP solutions. The RTP market is also termed as the next big boom with regards to the ever-increasing adoptions across the APAC region. The RTP market in APAC has gained traction, due to the rising demand for quick, hassle-free, and secured payment systems.
Moreover, the rapid growth of the RTP market in the region can be attributed to the active online engagement of consumers in the emerging countries of the region. The extensive facilities to deploy and manage RTP solutions at a low cost of ownership is boosting the market growth in this region. Furthermore, various international and domestic enterprises located in this region are partnering with RTP providers to enhance and provide tailormade offerings to local clients. The developed APAC countries, such as Australia, Japan, Singapore, and New Zealand, have expansively considered the use of RTP solutions and services. This growth of this region can be attributed to the increased demand for RTP solutions and advancements in digital technologies, benefitting all stakeholders present in the RTP ecosystem in the APAC region. The increase in the number of mobile subscribers and feasible RTP solutions provided by banks, financial institutions, and payment agents are the additional factors contributing to the growth of the RTP market in APAC. China and India are among the key countries considered for the RTP market analysis in this region.
Additionally, the rapid expansion of domestic as well as global enterprises in the APAC region is also one of the important factors that is influencing the growth of the RTP market.
In-depth interviews were conducted with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), marketing directors, innovation and technology directors, and executives from various key organizations operating in the RTP market.
The report includes the study of the key players offering RTP solutions. It profiles major vendors in the global RTP market, which include ACI Worldwide (US), FIS (US), Fiserv (US), Mastercard (US), Worldline (France), PayPal (US), Visa (US), Apple (US), Ant Financial (China), INTELLIGENT PAYMENTS (Gibraltar), Tmenos (Swtizerland), Wirecard (Germany), Global Payments (US), Capgemini (France), IntegraPay (Australia), SIA (Italy), Obopay (India), Ripple (US), Pelican (UK), Finastra (UK), Nets (Denmark), FSS (India), Montran (US), REPAY (US) and iCon Solutions (UK). It also includes an in-depth competitive analysis of the key RTP market players, along with their company profiles, business overviews, product offerings, recent developments, and market strategies.
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Imagine Washington policymakers one day proposing a spectacular renewable energy and jobs program, one that assigned a laborer equipped with a lovely Spanish-style but, of course, American-made, fan to every home.
The symmetrical logic of reducing our loathsome dependence on fossil fuels while creating more than 114 million jobs is powerfully alluring. If you could resist the impulse to ask what this revolutionary program would cost.
Something on a much less ridiculous scale has been going on for decades at the intersection of power generation and your government, which has insisted, through its policies, that American taxpayers support alternative energy sources like wind power.
To give you an idea of how competitive the wind power industry is, the possibility a federal production tax credit for wind farms might not be renewed for the first time since 1992 has sent companies in the nation's wind power capital, Texas, into a panic, the Texas Tribune reports.
This in spite of the $7 billion state electric ratepayers contributed to build power lines from West Texas wind farms to cities where the power could actually be used. And that all of the taxpayer and ratepayer support produces a very small number of jobs at a cost of $1.6 million each.
Vestas, a Danish turbine manufacturer, is closing its Houston research and development facility in advance of the tax credit vote, the story says. William McWhirter with Trinity Industries in Dallas says a decline in wind tower production next year will hurt the manufacturing company.
Sarah Howell, a spokeswoman for BP Wind Energy, a creator of Texas wind farms, says the impact of a lapsed tax credit on the industry would be "devastating."
Little remarked upon by the people opining in the story is how much supporting the wind power industry costs and that those costs have always been borne by taxpayers and ratepayers.
Without subsidy, the actual cost to generate wind power on-shore is expected to be at least 50 percent and as much as 75 percent more than for natural gas, according to projections made in a June 2011 study by the Electric Power Research Institute. (Please see projection charts on pages 1-11 and 1-12 in the study.)
Offshore wind power is expected to cost two to almost three times as much to produce as natural gas, the Research Institute study says. And those cost differences are not expected to change appreciably by 2025, the study says.
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At each stage of his career Adam has always returned to a few themes:
Identify the size of the market, client needs, and gaps from competitors
Surround yourself with the best people. Build highly collaborative and execution focused teams
Iterate and Execute. Not just on product but process as well. Tight feedback loops with your teams and your client base are a must
Build to scale. Architecture, User Experience, and Cost based on size of company, industry, and the needs of the client base.
He has 10 years of hands on development and architecture experience, followed by 10 years of product and technology leadership. Adam has been lucky to build some great software with amazing teams and clients. To name just a few products: Key Total Treasury, Key Business Online, Explore, Conversation Insight, Moveband, HealthSpective Engage, and Kalibrate.
His experience spans from fortune 100 companies to early stage startups covering the Finance, Healthcare, Marketing Automation, IoT/Embedded (Wearables), and Retail industries. Adam graduated from Baldwin Wallace University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Systems.


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2015-16 - Finished with a 20-19 record...Had 23 takedowns...Recorded 14 pins...Placed third at the Findlay Open at 197...His 14 pins are tied for the second-most at UF for a single season.
2014-15 - Went 1-2 on the season.
Prep - Earned varsity letters in wrestling, football, and baseball...Was three-time All-Ohio honoree in wrestling...Holds Ohio High School state record for pins in a career.
Personal - Born Dalton James Ishmael...Son of John Ishmael and Joanne Gerdeman...Has two brothers, Wade and Derek Ishmael...Has two sisters, Catlin Cook and Haley Caldwell.
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1767 : Charter from Mother Kilwinning
The original charter of the Lodge was granted on the 21st of December 1767 by the Mother Lodge of Kilwinning. The Lodge was recorded under the name of "Largs Kilwinning", No.67 on the roll of Mother Kilwinning daughter Lodges. The charter was signed by Claud Thomson, Master of the Mother Lodge of Kilwinning
1789 : Charter from Grand Lodge
The charter from "The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in the Kingdom of Scotland" was granted on the 2nd of November 1789. The Lodge was recorded as "Largs St. John", No.232 on the roll of the Grand Lodge of Scotland. The charter was signed by the 37th Grand Master Mason of Scotland, Francis, 8th Lord Napier.
Bro. William Murdoch, PM, PSPGW, served as RWM from 1942 to 1944 and was installed again in December 1988 to serve as RWM, 1988-89, during the Lodge Bi-centenary year [of the Grand Lodge Charter]


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Has the Argument Blown Over? + Bobby Abreu, Mike Trout and Angels Closers
When last we encountered our heroine, her Angels were mired in distress, largely of their own causing, and she was more than mildly annoyed with the situation. I believe the term livid was bandied about? So she did what anyone who is that mad at a loved one should do – she stepped away until she could approach the situation more rationally. Specifically, she said she would avoid watching the Angels play for the duration of the weekend while she was biking, wining, snapping photos and generally goofing around on the Central Coast…
…Yeah, any guesses as to how long that lasted? Mmmm hmmmm…uh huh…well, then…I see…Okay, all of you who said first pitch on Saturday greatly underestimate the depth of my anger. Those of you who said first pitch on Monday greatly overestimate the strength of my will power. And as for those of you who said the beginning of the third inning on Saturday? Well, you know me pretty darned well and it's not your fault that you didn't know that my in laws' place has no television and no internet connection sufficient for, say, streaming baseball games. We know. We've tried. The middle of the 5th on Saturday. That's when my resolve broke and we watched the game.
We were picking up amazing barbeque from the Main Street Grill – seriously, you can tell when the tri tip and brisket are ready each day from two blocks away when the perpetual heavenly aroma of the smoke shifts from a wood smell, to that of wood and meat to that of beautifully cooked meat. Yum! …but I digress. As I said, we were picking up barbeque to take with us, when Seth noticed that the game was already on in the dining room, in the 5th inning and that the Angels were actually winning. Yeah, I know. Already on TV. In Giants country with a heavy dash of A's! What are the odds? Clearly this was meant to be. 😉 We might as well eat here, Seth suggested, as the guy at the register laughed at us good naturedly. We could probably watch the rest of the game by the time we're done. Can we say 'enabler'? Also, 'awesome'!
I'm glad we changed our minds. It was a good game, though the offense still needs a lot of work. And I am equally glad we really were too busy to watch the game on Sunday (Yuck!!!) but not Monday night's game. (Overly exciting in the 8th but, still, yay!!!) Suffice to say, I may get mad from time to time, but I'm in it for the long haul and I have a handful of hastily snatched up cheap tickets to prove it, because I plan to be there as the Angels turn this around…a lengthy process I think just may have started already. We'll see.
Besides, the Angels released Bobby Abreu and brought up Mike Trout! You've all seen my posts about Bobby. I appreciated his efforts for the team in '09 and '10, I admire his career and, quite frankly, I like the guy, but this was a move that needed to be made. Bobby can't contribute on the field anymore and his bat hasn't been helping much either. With Trout, we have a lot of possibility. Is he the answer? Absolutely not. The answer to the Angels woes is a lot more complicated than anything one 20 year old top prospect can solve. But bringing Trout up is a great start as is moving Jordan Walden out of the closer's spot until he can regain some control. I think that crafty and reliable Scott Downs is an excellent temp or even temp to perm if it comes to that. Now, I've never been one to desire a gift gesture as a form of apology after an argument. But if the Angels were intending to offer one even so, this is an excellent start to getting the team back on the right track and oh, so much better than any old roses. Now can we just put all of our big bats in the lineup at one time, already? Pretty please with some of that wonderful Central Coast barbeque on top?
A Little Excitement Before the Regular Season Begins
So, everyone's getting really excited about the first Regular Season games starting in just a few hours, right? I mean, we're all getting up extra early, with elaborate brunch, beer and calling in late to work plans so we can watch the games, right? *crickets* Yeah, that about sums it up. While I like the idea of exhibition games in Japan and other countries, I think that having the Mariners and A's play two regular season games there is just ho hum. The timing will always be awkward, both in terms of fitting the games into the Regular Season calendar and in terms of the games themselves taking place at a time when the teams' U.S. fans can easily watch. For this reason, I doubt MLB will ever get teams that are predicted to contend to participate and so what we're left with is just blah. Two games stuck in a weird sort of baseball limbo. They count towards the regular season record, so they're not quite exhibition games. But most folks aren't paying any attention and the games are occurring completely outside the Regular Season calendar, well before the official Opening Day on April 4th, so it's almost as if they aren't really Regular Season games either, leaving me for one wondering, Why bother?
I'll tell you what is exciting though, Magic Johnson buying the Dodgers. Ding Dong, the McCourts are gone. The wicked McCourts are gone! Yes, I root for the Halo'd ones down in Anaheim, but I'm an L.A. girl raised going to games in Chavez Ravine by a Dodger lovin' family. As long as we aren't specifically in the middle of a Freeway Series, I will always have a soft spot for the boys in blue. Besides, I like to think that baseball fans everywhere were rooting for the Dodgers to come out on top of all this – Come on Giants fan cousins of mine, you know you were rooting for them too…come on. Hey. That's not the gesture you really want to be making. Seriously, knock that off right now or I'm telling your mom. See, that's much better. Don't you feel better now? Ummm…never mind. 😉
Anyway, moving right along…Magic Johnson is a shrewd businessman who has managed to create businesses that are simultaneously good for the community, good for local sports and entertainment, and also profitable. And for those of you who don't have a lot of experience with business and politics in L.A., trust me, that's no easy feat. Plus, Magic Johnson has been an L.A. guy by choice since his retirement. I see him as the kind of owner who will cultivate a good team on the field (and it's not like he doesn't have plenty of good players to work with already), while pleasing fans and leaving the important traditions intact. At least, this is what I hope will happen…even though I still hope they lose every single Freeway Series game. Hey, Dodgers soft spot, Angels heart. My goodwill is extensive, but not boundless. 😉
Which brings me to news even more exciting than that: Kendrys is hitting over .600 since his Spring Training debut and continues to see regular playing time, and I saw my first lit Halo of 2012 driving through Anaheim the other night. Okay, so it's only a lit exhibition Halo, but still. Lit. Halo! The Regular Season – the real Regular Season – is so close I can taste it!
A Loony Musical Interlude in between Angels Spring Training Matchups
So, LeAnne Rimes has this song…
Yes, sometimes I like my country a little pop-py. Don't judge me. 😉
Ahem. So LeAnne Rimes has this song called Big Deal. It's a catchy little tune about a young lady who dumped a guy a while back and, while she's 99.999…% over him at this point, she's still plenty miffed that her best friend has started dating him and won't shut up about how amazing he is. So the young lady is encouraging her friend, perfectly politely of course, to adopt a more tactful topic of conversation…right now.
Anyway, last night Seth and I watched the Giants/Rangers game. Ho Hum. But nothing else was on. Certainly not the Kendrys Morales batting cleanup behind Albert Pujols because Kendrys is looking that good game that I actually wanted to be watching even though it's only a Spring Training game but couldn't be watching because none of the stupid networks were airing it…*pauses to take a deep breath…finally*…not that I'm bitter about it or anything even though he hit a home run. *pauses to breathe again* 😉 And we capped it off with the Rangers edition of 30 Clubs in 30 Days.
Mike Napoli was heavily featured in this MLBN preseason rundown, naturally, and, also naturally, we kept watching because we both like the guy. He was a great Angel and one of those players you wish all the best…just much, much further away than Texas in an ideal world. It was enjoyable and yet not so enjoyable at the same time and, as Dan Plesac and the Rangers began laying on the Napoli accolades thicker and thicker I was eventually moved to begin singing LeAnn's catchy ditty: Yeah, you call yourself a friend, but you just keep rubbing it in. Big Deal. So what!…
Seth began cracking up almost immediately and took up the refrain: Who cares! You just got lucky that's all. It was. Shut up! I swear…
But here we paused and looked at each other giggling, unsure of how to go on because the "candle light and long stem roses nd how you're falling head over heels, in love…"of the next line, unlike its predecessors, hardly fit Mike Napoli and the Rangers.
Seth: If I hear another word about…?
Me: If I hear another word about…?
Seth: If I hear another word about…?
Ah hah! Inspiration. Me: …about catching right and grand slam home runs and…and…
Seth, grinning: and…? And…and World Series MVP! So what. Big deal!
And by that point we were both laughing too hard to extemporize any further…and to follow the thread of the rest of the analysis truth be told. Anyway, we both thought we were pretty darned funny…perhaps the Friday night wine ritual helped that sentiment along a bit, but it still seemed worth sharing, especially this weekend. With Rangers/Angels match ups both today and tomorrow, I am sure the Napoli trade and his stellar 2011 season couples with the Angels anemic 2011 offense will be rehashed ad nauseum along with both teams' offseason acquisition exploits.
Besides, the song, both the original lyrics and our little reworking of them, fits my feelings on the situation perfectly. I'm over the Mike Napoli trade. I am. I didn't want him traded away, but it's not like fans have any choice in the matter, and it's not like he played like this for the Angels anyway. (And don't bring up playing time. He actually had significantly more playing time for the Angels in 2010 than he did for the Rangers in 2011. The whole playing time thing is a myth.) Don't get me wrong, last season was painful in bold 48 pt. font italic all caps covered in sparkles, just for good measure…awful, Twilight Vampirey sparkles. *shudders*
…But trading Mathis and acquiring a catcher that seems capable of hitting above the Mendoza line has helped a lot. Retooling the offense has helped even more. I'm absolutely not saying, 'Who needs Mike Napoli?' But I am saying, it's over and done with. I have moved on. I really like the team we have now and I am at peace with the whole trade ick. But, much like the main subject of LeAnn's song, that doesn't mean I will ever enjoy hearing the announcers, the press and everyone else go on and on. And on. And on about the whole thing.
Weekend Gourmet, Wine Festival and Angels Blogger Spring Training?
A belated Happy Saint Patrick's Day from the Emerald Isle!…
…Yeah, I wish. 😉 Though as not-Ireland places for a St. Patrick's weekend getaway go, Paso Robles, CA is plenty nice enough. And although the particular shades of green in this landscape are all wrong for Ireland, it is still quite lovely and the mist and rain were at least accurate. So what's a diehard Angels fan like me doing in a place like Paso Robles when there are games going on Arizona, you ask?
Well, with Pujols-mania bringing folks out to Tempe in droves, hotel stays and such suddenly got more expensive and harder to book, so we decided to wait and go to Spring Training another year. Oh well, I was a little sad but that does mean more money for the regular season ticket budget, which certainly makes up for missing out…and, besides, it's the Zinfandel Festival which means I just spent a lovely weekend going through my own little baseball blogger's Spring Training, which came none too soon if you ask me. Between Albert Pujols heating up the lineup, the rest of the bats following right long, the starting rotation looking great and even more formidable with the addition of C.J. Wilson, and what is looking more and more like the very real possibility of Kendrys Morales returning to the 25-man roster, this could be a very special season in the making. A blogger's got to prepare. Training and drills are a must.
Okay, training and drills. Fine, you say. But at a wine festival? Of course at a wine festival! Where else could I get all of this practice and prep in? Take photos, for example. If you read this blog last season – first off thank you! – you know I like to take photos when I go to Angels games so that I can pepper my posts with photos that are as much mine as the commentary. Well, taking baseball game photos can be tricky. There's a lot of action. Your subjects are constantly on the move, sometimes in unpredictable ways. It's all too easy for the rusty blogger to end up with a large collection of photos like this one, which I like to call Not-So-Still life with Aybar:
Or even this one. Mike Trout and Peter Bourjos were both well in frame and in focus when I started to take the photo…:
You've got to warm up for tricky action shots. Practicing on things that don't move but require a lot of detail and focus can be helpful, like this vineyard (I love the gnalred, wintery vines and the lines created by the three distinct fields with vines running at three different angles):
Or this gorgeous tasting room:
Then you can move on to some simple action subjects, like these Paso Robles wild turkeys:
I say a simple action shot because, although this is an impressive little dominance display here, with a lot of action going on, turkeys (the real ones with feathers at any rate) don't generally muck up photos by adjusting themselves. Still, although no Spring Training can ever replicate the real thing I think I have gotten enough "innings" in with the camera to be ready for the regular season.
As for the rest of my blogger's Spring Training? Well, I got to study plenty of tasty treats in preparation for my Friday Gourmet, Wine and Angels nights, like this glorious roast pork panini and sundried tomato salad from Farmstand 46. They call it The Goat:
…or the Zinfandel sliders, the tacos al pastor, the paella or any of the other deliciousness I was too busy nom-ing to take a photo of. Would I really make a roast pork panini or paella just for our Friday Gourmet, Wine and Angels enjoyment? *laughs* Will Mike Scioscia change the Angels lineup a minimum of 60 times this season? Hell. Yes.
Speaking of Friday Gourmet, Wine and Angels, what better place to stock up the old wine cellar than at Zin Fest? Yes, I think it's going to be a beautiful season:
I even got my usual pre-season gabfest in with some of the Giants fans at the Barrel 27 pick-up party. Not surprisingly they are every bit as thrilled to be getting Buster Posey back as we are with the positive Kendrys outlook. Not to mention it was fun talking rookies and just barely not rookies with them. The Giants have some great younger players in the mix or soon to be in the mix too – one gent I was chatting with is particularly enamored with Baby Giraffe, Brandon Belt – so our two fan bases have some fun things in common.
So, I have my trusty camera at the ready, my Opening Day tickets in hand…er…inbox, plenty of wine options (seriously if I actually showed you the full collection of options, you would laugh at me!) and my typing fingers limber and warmed up. 19 days until Opening Day and I. Can't. Wait!
How Do You Enjoy the Post Season When Your Team Doesn't Have a Post Season? + Really Josh Hamilton?
I answered one facet of this question in one of my very first blog posts, wherein I talked about choosing a team to adopt for the postseason. But that is only one aspect of the answer. For some folks the entire answer is a simple, you don't. But that just doesn't work for me. The stakes are too high, the players too good and the action too exciting to ignore…besides, this is the last small slice of baseball we get to enjoy before the cold lonely baseball-less months of late fall and winter begin.
So, how do you enjoy the post season when your team doesn't have a post season? For me the answer is eagerly, excitedly and with a sense of fun, but also distractedly and with a sense of detachment. Witness, I am watching the games, as many as we can when so many of them start while we are at work, but our kitchen is clean. Our bills are filed. When the game is one the east coast and starts early for us, dinners are more elaborate than slapped together sandwiches. (Okay, we ate sandwiches for dinner this evening, but they involved left over pork loan, brie, sautéed apples and onions and a chipotle peach jelly. They were absolutely not slapped together. 😉 ) The laundry is not only folded but — gasp! — put away. Both my husband and I are more willing to pick up a few mid-week groceries on our way home from the office instead of trying to cram the trip into a lunch break while crossing our fingers that no one swipes them from the office fridge. For better or worse, these things are simply a lot less true during the regular season…even more so during an Angels post season.
So the answer is, you enjoy the post season much the same as you would otherwise, but with a passion that is purely generic in nature. Oh, many of the teams in the current post season excite me and there have been several truly great games so far to be sure. But I can tear my eyes away from the screen for a little while for even mundane chores…and I do. That would never happen with the Angels, but I can't think of a single other team that would inspire adopted passion on the same magnitude. The only teams that come close for me are family teams.
If the Angels were out but the Dodgers, my childhood team and the team half my family roots for, were in? I know could summon a fair bit of passion. Not the same as for the Angels by any means but passion even so. When the Giants, the team whose orange and black colors the other half of my family bleeds, made the series, it wasn't even the same as the Dodgers would have been, but it was in fact more special than the current post season's offerings. That's it…and those two teams still aren't even close. So, I will continue to hoot and holler and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, but I think the kitchen won't have any problems staying clean.
Oh, and for the record, my answer to the "who am I rooting for part of the question" is not as cut and dried as it was last season. My favorite non-Angels teams heading into the post season were the D-Backs, the Brewers and the Rays… *sigh* I wanted badly for the Rays to be able to go further, but what they accomplished was nothing short of miraculous and a joy to behold. So, I have been rooting for the D-Backs (though I won't mind if the Brewers win instead…I do like them too), the Rays, the Cards and the Tigers. I will narrow it down further, of course, after the ALDS and then again for the World Series.
I'd love the D-Backs to take it all, because I adore Joe Saunders — and I miss him even though I wholeheartedly approved of the Dan Haren trade — and because Kirk Gibson was a childhood hero whom I still admire. Ryan Roberts grand slam against the Dodgers, where he paid homage to Gibby's famous homerun as a Dodger with arm pumps down the first base line? Chills. Absolute chills. But I could find myself happily rooting for one of the other teams I mentioned should the D-Backs not make it past Friday. Because when you're strictly a for the month of October, adopted fan, switching allegiances based on who won and any number of other frivolous reasons is not only acceptable, it's darned necessary. 🙂
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As several media sources reported, just before Tuesday's game Josh Hamilton was asked about the success in a Rangers uniform of Vlad Guerrero last season and Mike Napoli this season. A leading question to be sure, but still…
Hamilton's response? "I think we're going to look at who we can get from the Angels next year." Ouch. But whatever obnoxious truth there may be in that statement, nice Josh. Way to stay classy. Especially considering that the Rangers dropped Vlad like a hot potato the second they could no longer say 'Who cares how much money we spend?! We're filing for bankruptcy!'
Hey Josh, chances are Fernando Rodney is going to be available next season. Likely for a bargain price. Since the Rangers are so excellent at finding diamonds in the Angels rough, I suggest they dive on that grenade. With gusto!
The Bay Area Baseball Extravaganza Concludes with a Trip to AT&T Park
First things first – Welcome back from the All Star Break in style Angels!!! Okay, okay. So the Angels' All Star Break lasted a little longer than that of most other teams…pretty much until Wednesday, round about the 3rd inning actually. But after a crazy comeback win against the Rangers Wednesday and shutting the Rangers out on Thursday, I think I can cut the Angels some slack. After all, who among us hasn't experienced "vacation lag"? I know I'm experiencing it this week!
So, about that vacation. We wrapped up the Bay Area Baseball Extravaganza with a visit to the beautiful and luxurious AT&T Park on Monday night to take in the Giants vs. Dodgers game. And if I was late enough to the game that I missed first pitch, so were all of these fine folks. Hmmm…I think L.A. has been unjustly maligned on this point 😉 :
Late for the game? How does this happen on vacation? We went for a bike ride late Monday morning on the Marsh Creek trail in Pittsburgh, CA, along marshes and canals off of San Francisco Bay. It was so beautiful and fun that we didn't hit the car again until 24 miles and a few hours later. So much for catching batting practice, but darned if we didn't have a blast:
AT&T Park is gorgeous, from the front gates to the seating areas to the view out over the right field all to the tops of ships in McCovey Cove.:
My college friend and his partner, Giants fans, both, accompanied us to the game and clued us in to some of AT&T Park's finer details. For example, I had no idea that the grates in right field are open to the public walk that runs between the stadium and McCovey Cove. Fans strolling by are invited to stand and watch some of the game free of charge. Very cool:
There is not a bad seat in the house, certainly not our second row seats in the club section just above left field – vacations are for splurges after all! And there are lots of fan friendly touches in the seating sections. Club section ushers politely only allow fans past the doors to their seats in between plays and at bats, so seated fans don't miss a pitch. In the outfield "bleachers" there are wide, lower concourses in front of the seats, so fans can pass by without blocking anyone's view.:
If the Coliseum is no frills, AT&T Park is all frills possible. The food is phenomenal and there is quite a diverse selection. And in the club section, there are full bars with actual bartenders! I ordered an Irish coffee to keep the chill away in the later innings, and the bartender wisely never touched the Bailey's while preparing my drink. Eureka!
Though I was amused to note that for all its frills, AT&T Park is still a mixed use facility. Note that from this vantage, in a different uniform, Cody Ross could be playing goalie:
Being on vacation, I was really out of the loop on trade news. Imagine my surprise, when this friendly face appeared on the Jumbotron in Dodger Blue. Welcome back to sunny Southern California, Juan, and best of luck to you!
When you're not really cheering for either side, a competitive game is the most fun to watch, and this game was better than the 5 to 0 shutout score would lead one to believe. The Dodgers made a couple of really good plays and had several strong hits, but just couldn't string any of it together long enough to get on the board. The Giants played very well throughout.:
So with all of this wonderfulness, were there any drawbacks AT&T Park? Just one actually, and it really surprised me. I love Giants fans. I went to the Bay Area to stay with and attend the game with two of them. I have rabid Giants fans in my family. I attended playoff parties with scores of them in Paso Robles and count several in their number as friends but, oh my goodness, when they all get together in one large group at AT&T Park, an awful lot of them choose to be dicks. In the club section for crying out loud! Not in the "we all came to get drunk and obnoxious but can't name more than a handful of players on the team" section. Now I don't know where the "we all came to get drunk and obnoxious but can't name more than a handful of players on the team" section is at AT&T Park, but they must have one. All ballparks have one. We certainly do. 😉
I am not some delicate flower that cannot cope with heckling. Hello, how much time do I spend at the ballpark? Cheering. Heckling. Being passionate for your team. All are very important, traditional parts of the game for home fans and visiting fans alike. But isn't it supposed to stay in the stands? In my experience at the Big A with rival fans and walking through Dodger Stadium and the Coliseum in Angels gear, the concourse, the bathrooms, the food stands, the ticket lines, etc, are all neutral ground, free from any of the fan on fan heckling that may or may not be going on in the seats.
Not so at AT&T Park. Walking through the concourse on the club level, past the carving station, the full bar and other wonders, Seth turned to me with a huge smile and said, Wow, this makes the club level in Anaheim look pretty plain. And he's right. I love the Big A, but it is nowhere near this luxurious. A random Giants fan heard us and said loudly, that's because the Angels suck as his friends all nodded and laughed and it wasn't friendly laughter. Really? We weren't even talking to him. "Not when they play the Giants…not in 2002." Well that wasn't nearly as funny, apparently, and the group of them quickly dispersed.
Random jerks and an isolated incident, right? Well, not for the Dodgers fans in attendance. I saw three separate instances of lone Dodger fans being heckled, and not in a "we're friends who came together and are giving each other grief" way either, by small groups of Giants fans while we walked to our seats. I saw more instances later. On the concourse! On the club level!! For all I know, this goes on in reverse at Dodgers stadium, outside of the aforementioned "we all came to get drunk and obnoxious…" section. But the impression I got is that some Giants fans are wearing their new World Series title a lot more gracefully than others.
I'm not saying that the Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown mean kids "We're number one! We're number one!" vibe ruined my trip to the ball park. I had an amazing time. What I am saying is that amenities are lovely, frills make any experience that much more special, and given the chance to return to AT&T Park again as a baseball fan with no real ties to either team, as I did on this occasion, I would do so in a heartbeat. But as for attending a game as an out of town fan of the visiting team? I'd take the Coliseum over AT&T Park any day.
Sometimes You Win. Sometimes You Lose to the Yankees. Sometimes it Rains…All in One Weekend
Well, if the Angels had to lose two close games to the Yankees, at least it happened while I was out of town. It's so much easier to stay detached you only check in with one of the games on your phone from time to time. You're a lot less invested and barely notice all of the runners stranded in scoring position when you're merely regaling your husband with your own rendition of the game day play by play ob the way back down the coast.
Seriously, when you can't watch the game on TV, or hear your announcers' commentary on the radio, you really only notice the good stuff – Bobby's hitting streak, Trumbo's homerun, Fleet Pete doing his thing, the fact that Howie's back. All of the bad stuff – the missed scoring opportunities, the botched plays, the Yankees homeruns – barely even registers. …You know, except for the part where I'm totally lying. April or September, squeaker or blow out, glued to the action before you on the field from the first pitch or just catching the score the next morning, losses always sting…especially when they seem to be coming in streaks.
It's a marathon not a sprint. It's only June. It's just two losses. And all of the other clichés which, of course, are clichés for a reason. Yes, we're only four games out of first and it's just the beginning of June. Anything is still possible and I believe that this team can turn things around but it's disheartening to be back under .500 on June 5th…and to have the AL West standings finally spread out by more than two games and be in third place and four games out. Absolutely fixable, but completely frustrating even so.
Anyway. Me? Out of town again? So soon? Well, that at least that's more fun to write about than griping about the Angels. This weekend is the reason I was not going to go up to the wine festival last weekend until the Am Gen Tour was coming through and I decided that practicality and responsibility are really terribly overrated concepts. So this weekend, we were back up in Paso Robles for the Seafood and Sangria Summer Kickoff Party at Rio Seco, the baseball winery.
It was pouring rain for much of the weekend so the summer kickoff took place indoors, but the evening was a lot of fun. The Hinkle family were gracious hosts as always. This was a mostly locals crowd but they made sure we felt right at home – the older daughter who we usually chat with in the tasting room even asked how the Angels were doing. They remember their baseball and baseball fans here. The food was excellent. I now have several great ideas for sangria later in the summer, including one with the MVP reserve, apples and berries. More please! And the party favors were half cases of wine – the Grand Slam Cab/Syrah blend no less, ensuring that the party will continue at several Friday Gourmet, Wine and Angels evenings at our house later this summer. We had a nice time hearing some of the local gossip and all about the Giants – central coast California is absolutely not Angels country. They're disappointed about Buster Posey but not exactly calling for Scott Cousins' head or any rule changes in Paso Robles. Bruce Bochy take note…and a lesson or four.


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text: Hi Boris, I think it takes too long to read through all of your messages, so best to define a smaller proposal with exact details for each feature you want. On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 4:33 PM, boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky) <boris / iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: > > Issue #8223 has been updated by boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky). > > > So with another apology, I will use this space to write down a few more r= emarks so that I do not forget about them. My line of thinking was as follo= ws: The first step to the systematic solution of this problem would be to g= eneralize zero. It means that the matrix elements would be required to be o= f a class that has #zero method defined. As for Matrix.zero and Matrix.empt= y, I think that there should be an option to tell them what this zero is (o= r tell them the class that has #zero defined). Or perhaps we could play the= abstract algebra terminology and call it "additive_identity_element" inste= ad of "zero". That would mean that Matrix would require its elements to com= ply with at least monoid definition for matrix addition and multiplication,= and monoids necessarily need to have the additive identity element defined= . > ---------------------------------------- > Feature #8223: Make Matrix more omnivorous. > https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8223#change-38316 > > Author: boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky) > Status: Open > Priority: Normal > Assignee: > Category: > Target version: > > > Let's imagine a class Metre, whose instances represent physical magnitude= s in metres. > > class Metre > attr_reader :magnitude > def initialize magnitude; @magnitude =3D magnitude end > def to_s; magnitude.to_s + ".m" end > end > > Let's say that metres can be multiplied by a number: > > class Metre > def * multiplicand > case multiplicand > when Numeric then Metre.new( magnitude * multiplicand ) > else > raise "Metres can only be multiplied by numbers, multiplication= by #{multiplicand.class} attempted!" > end > end > end > > And that they can be summed up with other magnitudes in metres, but, as a= feature, > not with numbers (apples, pears, seconds, kelvins...). > > class Metre > def + summand > case summand > when Metre then Metre.new( magnitude + summand.magnitude ) > else > raise "Metres can only be summed with metres, summation with #{= summand.class} attempted!" > end > end > end > > Now with one more convenience constructor Numeric#m: > > class Numeric > def m; Metre.new self end > end > > We can write expressions such as > > 3.m + 5.m > #=3D> 8.m > 3.m * 2 > #=3D> 6.m > > And with defined #coerce: > > class Metre > def coerce other; [ self, other ] end > end > > Also this expression is valid: > > 2 * 3.m > #=3D> 6.m > > Before long, the user will want to make a matrix of magnitudes: > > require 'matrix' > mx =3D Matrix.build 2, 2 do 1.m end > #=3D> Matrix[[1.m, 1.m], [1.m, 1.m]] > > It works, but the joy does not last long. The user will fail miserably if= ze wants to perform matrix multiplication: > > cv =3D Matrix.column_vector [1, 1] > mx * cv > #=3D> RuntimeError: Metres can only be summed with metres, summation = with Fixnum attempted! > # where 2.m would be expected > > In theory, everything should be O.K., since Metre class has both metre su= mmation and multiplication by a number defined. The failure happens due to = the internal workings of the Matrix class, which assumes that the elements = can be summed together with numeric 0. 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Cameron Diaz, Robin Williams and Tom Hanks are just a few on a growing list of stars who will spurn the limo and take a hybrid or electric vehicle to the Academy Awards Sunday.
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Last year, nearly a third of adoptive parents in the United States were single women, according to the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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With 60 percent of Americans overweight, many fast-food patrons are looking for alternatives to the 760-calorie Whopper or 590-calorie Big Mac.
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Things have become worse in general for banking app Revolut, you might be amused to hear. The startup/challenger/unicorn bank app thing was already facing a backlash over its apparent singles-shaming Valentine's Day advert; now it's been referred to the Financial Conduct Authority because the numbers it used to make its clumsy point were entirely made-up.
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