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Today we feature musicians participating in the #SingItFwd events at The Vogue Theatre Jan 14 and 15! Tickets on sale. Kast night's #SingItFwd lineup: Dear Rouge, K-OS, Frazey Ford, Five Alarm Funk, The Zolas, MBF, Gay Nineties, Twin Bandit and #SingItFwd Friday January 15th lineup: Mother Mother, Hey Ocean, Said The Whale, Humans, Top Less, The Pack AD, Chin Injeti, Jocelyn Alice.
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15:00 #SingitFwd is uniting musicians to raise money to support #DTES children's communit-based music education. Today we hear from some of those artist including MotherMother and Frazey Ford.
20:00 RedxTalk featuring Carrielynn Victor, Sto:lo Artist: "What I Know Now."
Carrielynn Victor currently lives at her home in Cheam, a Sto:lo village on the banks of the Fraser River. She works for the Stó:lō serving in a liaison role, and providing research for Rights & Title matters to community leadership. Among the ways Carrielynn is compelled to express herself are: Blues and hiphop music, singing and songwriting, harvest and preparation of local indigenous plants for foods and medicines, contemporary Coast Salish Design in various forms and mediums, traditional Salish dance and song, Storytelling, and writing. Plus we hear Rapsure Risin one of Carrielynn's music projects.
36:45 Dr. Joan Sangster. "Rediscovering Radical Histories: 'Second Wave' Feminists and the Popularization of Canadian History." We preview a talk by Dr. Joan Sangster (Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Trent University) speaking tonight as part of an SFU Gender and Women's Study talk, Friday, 15 January, 2016 at 7:00 pm at SFU-Vancouver (Harbour Centre: rooms 1400-1410), and it is co-sponsored with the Department of History.
48:45 David Mivasair, US Democrats Abroad talking about the rise of Bernie Sanders and the left in the USA. Galvanized by his demands for economic and social justice, hundreds of thousands of Americans have packed Sanders' rallies, and over 1 million small donors have helped his campaign shatter fund-raising records while breaking the stranglehold of corporate money. The Nation and MoveOn both endorsed Sanders this week. How can US citizens vote? Find out at 7:45 from David Mivasair. Register by Jan 31 to VOTE for BERNIE in the Democrats Abroad Global Primary, Mar 2 – 5.


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50% off at Tony Roma's
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Ribs, seafood or steak. Yumm. I don't think I need to say much else. Groupon is featuring Tona Roma's with some 50% off deals. This might make a nice Christmas gift!
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12 Days of Giveaways – Cooks Corner
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Today's giveaway in our 12 Days of Holiday Giveaways is a $10 Gift Card from Cooks Corner.
You all know Cook's Corner, right? The self-proclaimed Nation's Largest Kitchen Store has anything you could possibly need for cooking or baking. Their new store on Oneida Street has room to grow, too!
Cooks Corner also features many gourmet foods. And let's not forget their signature fudge. Yumm-y!
To enter today's giveaway for a $10 Gift Card from Cooks Corner, visit our 12 Days of Holiday Giveaways page where you can also read the contest rules, too.
Bulk Priced Food Shoppe Grand Opening Dec. 6 – 8
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I am so excited that this store has come to town! The Bulk Priced Food Shoppe has made their way to the Green Bay area and are planning a grand opening celebration.
The store, located on Hansen Road in Ashwaubenon, will have many items to sample as well as many sales.
You'll also be able to sign up to win a variety of prizes such as gift baskets and Green Bay Gamblers tickets.
For more information, check out the Bulk Priced Food Shoppe Facebook page.
You can also find the Bulk Priced Food Shoppe on Hwy 15 in Greenville.
School House – Black Friday deals start today!
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School House is starting their Black Friday sales a day early!
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What a month we've had here at Blueleaf HQ! Having been shortlisted for four awards, the team were lucky enough to attend no less than three ceremonies.
First up was the Cheshire Business Awards held at Chester Racecourse, where we were 'Highly Commended' for our contribution to the education, business and charitable communities within the region. Competition was very strong with the award being won by Equilibrium Asset Management who have set up their own charitable foundation with the aim of raising £250,000 within 10 years, focusing on helping the young and the elderly in the immediate areas where their clients live. Watch our introduction video for the awards here.
Next was the UK Digital Entrepreneur Awards hosted by UKFast at the Hilton in Manchester. Our very own Rob Smith was a finalist in the 'Young Entrepreneur of the Year' category, but narrowly missed out to Shaun Loughlin of FreestyleXtreme Trading Ltd. We were absolutely ecstatic though to win 'Digital Business of the Year' which was judged on strong growth, innovative strategies and market prominence. The judges examined previous form, current performance and future potential, looking at the creativity and innovation used to drive the business forward. They particularly looked at the policies and structures in place to stimulate, nurture, develop and implement.
Finally, Adrian was a finalist in the 'Digital and Media Entrepreneur of the Year' category at the EN for Business North West Entrepreneur Awards held at The Mere in Knutsford. Other finalists included Al Mackin from the EWord and David Grimes & Paul Haydock of MyParcelDelivery.com, with the winner being Matt Bullas of Click Consult. Watch the showreel we produced for the evening here.
That's not all folks, as we've been shortlisted for a DADI award and we're a finalist in the National Business Awards, so fingers crossed we'll have more great news in November!


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Cost: $95 for the day (all payments non-refundable, non-transferable)
Join Andrea and Sat, owners of Nectar Yoga B&B, for a day long journey into silence.
This retreat will take place at Nectar Yoga B&B, a beautiful sanctuary 20 mins off the coast of Vancouver. To read more about Nectar Yoga B&B, click here.
Our day-treat will offer you a chance to dive inward, listen deeply to the call of your heart, learn new meditation techniques, get clarity on the year ahead, relax with restorative yoga and submerse yourself in nature!
This retreat is a blend of meditation, breath techniques, and restorative body movements that will deeply nourish the mind and body. Leave behind the usual distractions of life and arrive in a space of self-reflection and discovery. Reconnect with your internal happiness.
Sat & Andrea will lead you through guided meditation sessions that will help you to gain clarity for new possibilities to flow. If you are new to meditation, this retreat is a perfect immersion. If you are a seasoned meditator, you can take this opportunity to deepen your practice.
We will be preparing one simple, vegan, plant-based, nourishing lunch. Dietary restrictions can be accommodated.
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1 Restorative Yoga Session
1 Guided Walking Meditation
1 Vegan Lunch
Guided Journalling and intention setting for 2019
Herbal teas and water available at all times.
All yoga equipment and accessories.
10:30am Arrival
Introductions and easing into silence
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Vegan Lunch
Walking Meditation
Guided Meditation
Restorative Yoga
Closing Meditation
4pm Departure
A smile or two
Layered clothing for the season
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Water bottle
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You want some time for introspection, for yourself
This retreat is not for you if…
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You cannot sit (in any position) for 30 mins straight
You cannot eat vegan food
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- Payment in full required to secure your space. Non-refundable, non-transferable.
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Pinball Arcade: The Addams Family
Here at FarSight Studios, we have over 20 years of experience developing video games on consoles, phones and tablets. We are also pinball fanatics. For the last eight years, we've been developing modern videogame recreations of classic pinball tables. We have licenses from the original manufacturers of the tables (Bally®, Gottlieb®, Stern® and Williams®) to do this. The Pinball Arcade and is currently available on a wide variety of platforms: the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Ouya, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Play Station 4, PS Vita and Steam for PC and Mac, with the Nintendo Wii U coming soon. Check us out at www.pinballarcade.com and https://www.facebook.com/pinballarcade.
Here's what the gaming press has to say about the Pinball Arcade:
"Rolling thunder." 9.0 -IGN
"Mobile Game of the Year." -G4TV
"Top 100 product of 2012." -PCWorld
"FarSight Studios has been making digital pinball for nearly a decade, and Pinball Arcade is the culmination of that effort and experience… a must-own" -IGN
"An impressive title, and one that is bound to please pinball fans" -148 Apps
"As close to the pinball experience as you will ever get in the palm of your hand" –Pocket Gamer
"This game is superb along with great presentation" –Inentertainment
"Authenticity is the name of the game here, and Farsight has absolutely nailed it" –GameLive.TV
"Pinball doesn't get any more real or fun" –Gamezebo
"Simply one of the best pinball games I've ever played" –Touch Arcade
"Superb: A hallmark of excellence." –Destructoid.com
"The most fun I had all weekend: Pinball Arcade" –CNET
"The Pinball Arcade provides a safe virtual home for your pinball worship, complete with accurate re-creations of real tables and appropriately realistic physics." –Giant Bomb
"It's a carefully curated selection, designed to showcase some of the best-loved tables from the heyday of the pinball industry" –Euro Gamer
"Passion is contagious. When you do things with passion, enthusiasm, and drive, it shows." –1985FM
"FarSight's steel balls have something special that sets their title apart – realism… you can trade in your heavy pocket of change for a pocketful of some of the best classic pinball tables ever created." –Push Square
The process of digitizing these tables is very complex. We first acquire the actual physical pinball table we want to digitize. We want our videogame version to play exactly the same as the table played when it was new. We strip the table down to the bare wood playfield and take high-resolution digital photographs of every part. We use these to create three-dimensional computer models of each of the components on the playfield. When the modeling is complete we export the data into our graphics engine, which displays the table on each of our target platforms.
Next, we implement the table logic and sound. We do this by emulating the electronics from the original pinball tables. Most complex tables were controlled by what are by modern standards primitive computers. We've created ROM-emulation technology that allows the same program that controlled the original table to run on our target devices. This means that every rule, sound effect and light sequence is exactly correct in our digital version. The idea that you can run the original code that controlled a huge cabinet-based pinball machine on your iPhone is pretty cool!
The last step in digitizing a table involves tuning the pinball physics. We've continuously improved our pinball physics engine for the last eight years and we're very proud of it. We can individually control reflection angles and physics parameters for every section of any component on the playfield. We use the original table as reference when doing this to ensure accuracy. Finally, the table goes through a review process where it's critiqued by pinball experts and approved by the table manufacturer. The end result of this painstaking process is an exact digital recreation of the pinball table you can play on your handheld device or in your living room!
What we're most proud of is that we're preserving these tables for future generations to enjoy. We can remember when these tables were in every arcade, pizza parlor and bowling alley, but they are becoming increasingly rare. If you find one, chances are it's not been well-treated and many features are burned out or broken. If you're a pinball fanatic like us you can buy one and restore it, but they are expensive, maintenance-intensive, and there are fewer of them every year. In fact some of these tables can cost more than $15,000! We want everyone to be able to appreciate these tables, not only people who can afford to spend as much money on a pinball table as a car. Chances are very good that our children will never get the opportunity to appreciate the great pinball table we did- unless these tables are digitally preserved.
Some of the greatest pinball tables were based on licensed properties. Often when a manufacturer created a special new table they'd base it on a popular cultural feature of the times: a movie, a band or television show. Their original license to use these properties have long since expired, so when we want to create digital versions of these tables we must research who now owns the rights and negotiate with them. Sometimes the discussions are easy and sometimes they are very difficult. In addition if the table features actors on the backglass or playfield we must secure licenses to use their likenesses (sometimes from their estates if they are deceased). Some table also featured popular music of the times that we must secure composition and performance licenses for. It can be a daunting task!
This time we want to digitize the most popular pinball table of all time! This table was released by Williams in 1992 and is unquestionably one of the greatest pinball tables in the history of pinball with over 20,000 units sold (More than any table ever!). It was designed by the legendary Pat Lawlor and Larry DeMar (who also designed Twilight Zone, Banzai Run and Funhouse). This table was integrated more deeply to the movie than any other licensed pinball table of its time. The Addams Family® featured the first ever optical target bank (in the bookcase), and the "Thing Flip" which was the first time a pinball tables flippers could be controlled by the tables CPU. When the "Thing Flip" is active the table can actually make shots for you. Another great feature is "The Power" which causes magnets to dramatically effect the direction of the ball on the playfield. It's one of our favorite tables ever!
We've succeeded in negotiating all of the licenses we'd need to digitize The Addams Family® and bring it to the Pinball Arcade. Unfortunately there are several licenses involved: in addition to the Williams license, we need a license for The Addams Family®, the actor likeness of Raul Julia (Gomez Addams) and Anjelica Huston (Morticia Addams), on the backglass and play field, and the right to use the actor voiceovers during gameplay. When we add up the costs of each required license and calculate what we'd have to charge for the table, we've concluded that The Addams Family® is just not commercially viable. The more we charge for the table the fewer people will be able to buy it- and our goal is to expose as many people as possible to this great table, not just a select few.
Here's where you come in! The licenses we've secured for The Addams Family® will cost $101,000 (and that's just for the licenses- we'll cover all of the development expenses ourselves). Thanks to the amazing generosity of pinball fans throughout the world, our previous Kickstarter project for the Terminator 2: Judgement Day pinball table raised $3,360 more than we needed for the Terminator 2: Judgment Day licenses and we're applying this towards the license costs of The Addams Family®. If we can raise the remaining $97,640 we'll be able to digitize the Addams Family and preserve one of the greatest pinball tables of all time. If we don't reach our goal no credit cards will be charged, but if we raise more then the goal we'll be able to digitize other licensed tables as well.
We've put together a tempting list of rewards to say "thank you" for helping out. Please join us in preserving this amazing piece of pinball history!
With all of the help from supporters like you, we have been able to digitize some of the greatest and most popular pinball tables in history. Our past three Kickstarters for the Twilight Zone®, Star Trek: The Next Generation® and Terminator 2: Judgement Day® funded successfully and are currently available in our game. If you are new to the Pinball Arcade, we recommend you download the game and give it a go! Check out the list of platforms below.
- iOS : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinball-arcade-free/id497189134?mt=8
- Steam (Windows /Mac): http://store.steampowered.com/app/238260/
- Android (Google Play):https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farsight.AndroidPinball.javaProject&hl=en
- PS4:http://us.playstation.com/ps4/games/pinball-arcade-ps4.html
- PS3/Vita: http://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/pinball-arcade-ps3
- Kindle (Amazon App Store): http://www.amazon.com/FarSight-Studios-Pinball-Arcade/dp/B0084HDG8Y
- Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinball-arcade/id509675654?mt=12
- OUYA: https://www.ouya.tv/game/Pinball-Arcade/
Risks and challenges
We've digitized over 50 of these tables, and we are very confident in our ability to deliver a digital version of The Addams Family® table that our fans will enjoy. However, the process of creating these tables is very complex and delays sometimes occur. We're targeting a release date of February 2015, but it's possible this date might slip if we encounter unforeseen problems in development. Also, the lead time for deployment on some platforms (particularly the consoles) is longer, so it is likely the table will release later on these platforms.
In addition, we have had problems in the past with deployment on some platforms. In particular, our publisher for the Xbox 360 version of the Pinball Arcade filed for bankruptcy last year, and we have been unable to ship new tables for the 360. Microsoft has recently granted us the right to a new publisher and we will be releasing the Addams Family® table along with all of the tables currently available on other platforms. And we haven't forgotten backers of our previous Kickstarters for Twilight Zone® and Star Trek: The Next Generation®.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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Turmeric is an anti-inflammatory, cancer-fighting wonder-house. Try this lemon turmeric tonic as a healthy elixir to drink everyday and keep the body optimized.
If you follow my Facebook Page, and you should, you know that I have more than a crush on turmeric. I'm slightly obsessed, but not at the point of stalking...yet.
Turmeric helps to calm inflammation and has been great in providing me with relief from a two-year running injury that I've been fighting for way too long. I took turmeric for a while and then stopped, not sure it was working.
The pain came back, bigger than ever when I wasn't consuming turmeric, so back I am to the turmeric tribe. And it doesn't get much easier than making this recipe for an anti-inflammatory lemon turmeric tonic.
Not convinced on the merits of turmeric yet? Mind Body Green reported that roundworms grown on small amounts of curcumin (found in turmeric) expanded their lifespan by 39%. Similar effects were found in fruit flies and mice. Then there's a whole host of benefits, to just name a few:
It is a natural antiseptic and antibacterial agent, useful in disinfecting cuts and burns.
When combined with cauliflower, it has shown to prevent prostate cancer and stop the growth of existing prostate cancer.
It may prevent melanoma and cause existing melanoma cells to die.
It's a natural liver detoxifier.
Turmeric may prevent and slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease by removing amyloyd plaque buildup in the brain.
It may prevent metastases from occurring in many different forms of cancer.
May aid in fat metabolism and help in weight management.
Has long been used in Chinese medicine as a treatment for depression.
Because of its anti-inflammatory properties, it is a natural treatment for arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Kansas State University research found that adding certain spices, including turmeric, can reduce the levels of heterocyclic amines — carcinogenic compounds that are formed when meats are barbecued, boiled or fried — by up to 40 percent.
Rodent studies at the University of Texas indicate that curcumin inhibits the growth of a skin cancer, melanoma and also slows the spread of breast cancer into the lungs.
OK, ok, I'll stop gushing. You know how good turmeric is, so now what.
As I mentioned, you can take it by capsule, use it in powder form, or better yet, get the root whole, which you can find at most grocery stores.
I also love it in my broccoli turmeric fritter recipe and it's really good in this tangy salad dressing.
While turmeric is powerful, it also has great staining capabilities, so definitely use gloves, paper towels and/or parchment to keep the fresh turmeric from leaving its mark.
Turmeric has an earthy, peppery taste and pairs well with its pale-colored cousin, ginger.
Adding some lemon to the tonic lightens things up and then you can also throw in a little sweetener if you like.
It's always a good idea to include ground black pepper when using turmeric since it helps increase its bioavailability, which just means you can put the turmeric to better use in your body.
Better still is to drink your anti-inflammatory turmeric tonic with a meal that includes some pepper and fat. You'll get it where it needs to go in no time, without having to pass through much of the liver.
So join me in my love of turmeric by starting with this anti-inflammatory lemon turmeric tonic.
Anti-Inflammatory Lemon Turmeric Tonic
Makes 4 servings
4" fresh turmeric root (or 2 teaspoons dried turmeric)
3" fresh ginger root
Juice of 2 organic lemons
1/4 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
4 cups coconut water or filtered water
Optional: Sweetener of your choice like raw honey or stevia
Cover your working area with a paper towel or parchment and scrape the skin off the turmeric using a spoon. Point the top of the spoon on the top of the root and just move gently down and you'll see how easily the skin comes off. Use gloves or another towel to prevent your hands from getting stained. The spoon will also work to also take the skin off the ginger.
Place the turmeric, ginger, lemon juice, pepper and water in a high speed blender and blend until combined. (Alternately, you can also juice all of the ingredients). Taste and add sweetener if desired. Keep refrigerated.
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Sara and I just landed in New York City for a whirlwind trip; we're heading back tomorrow afternoon. While we'll probably do a little shopping and enjoy a meal or two, our main reason for being here is our fourth appearance on the TODAY Show.
For several years, Stampin' Up! has been involved with other DSA companies in donating to the TODAY Show's Holiday Toy Drive; we've given hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of crafting supplies over the years. The show's producers and hosts have graciously invited us to appear on the show for several years now, and it's both an honor and a bit of a nerve-wracking experience.
This year, however, is different. For me, it's simply an honor! I'm leaving the nerve-wracking part of it to Sara, who will actually be representing Stampin' Up! in her first-ever TODAY Show appearance. (I smile as I write that. . . .I'm so proud of her, and so glad it isn't me!)
I hope you'll get a chance to watch Sara. She's scheduled to be on during the fourth hour of the show, which is the segment that Kathie Lee and Hoda host. (It's on from 10-11 EST.)
I hope to post a few Facebook updates tomorrow morning, so check out my Facebook page when you have a minute, and join me in wishing Sara good luck! (I know she'll do a fabulous job!)


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Well, that's something. I'd be a lot happier if they'd also announce that they were wrong about sobriety checkpoints.
- April 17, 2013
I would like to begin by offering my deepest sympathy to those who suffered a loss of a love one or was injured physically or emotionally from the situation occurring around Boston. I would like to thank the law enforcement that are putting themselves in harm way to up hold the law.
I been watching the news coverage and find myself terrified by the possible repeat of history in the search for the suspect. This will probably label me as a conspiracy nut but it needs to be mentioned.
How many civil liberties are being violated in the lock down and search for the suspect in Boston. How many houses are being cataloged as having weapon and cashes of ammo? How many people are being denied the right of free assembly? How much potential economic and industrial espionage might be gathered? The house to house search and building searches done by military and law enforcement reminds me of history lesson that I was taught about the rise of Hitler and the atrocities done at the beginning of WW2.
I understand national security is necessary but is it worth it if we lose personal security.
- April 19, 2013
Vicki B.
Having been an EMT and then Paramedic for more than 10 years, I don't feel the least bit sorry for someone who complains about a damn Sobriety Checkpoint.
What in the world would they need to be "afraid of?" Do they know ahead of time that they're going to get so sloshed that they fear they'll never pass it? Then don't even take your keys when you go out and let someone else drive you.
Otherwise, forget you.
On July 7, 2005 when I'd been a paramedic for less than 3 months, we received this call about a large van that had driven up over a small car and the occupants in the car were injured. That's all the information they had when we got the call and I was sort of prepared for hidden factors on the scene since the call had been so vague but not what I saw when we arrived.
What we saw was an entire family of 2 adults and 3 children, who were returning from a family outing. Every last one of them was injured. Two were dead at the scene, a baby being one of the two, and three were in critical condition.
By the time we got the living to the hospital one more was dead.
Another died in the emergency room and the third boy lived - for one year and then died of complications directly related to the accident. None of the kids in this car were older than 6. They were 6, 18 mo. and 3 mo and all were killed in an instant, like the song by that old band Exodus declared: "A fuckin' drunken lush coming from the bar, kills you in an instant driving in his car."
The person who'd run over this family received 16 years in jail for killing 5 people. Well 4 initially and the 5th after the boy died a year later.
She was highly distressed at the sentencing, saying outright that she thought it was "too harsh, that nobody gets that much time for manslaughter," which is what she thought it was.
But she hadn't felt the slightest bit sorry that she instantly killed two people and injured three more at the scene of the event. When we were doing our extraction of patients from the car, she was upset at police for taking her away from things she "needed to be doing" AND she failed to show up at her first hearing.
What happened to the family in the car is common, although usually they don't die in fours and fives all in the same car and never in my previous experience had every minor child been under 7 years old.
But the drunk driver almost always walks away with less injuries than the people they hit b/c their muscles are damn near ataxic (they have almost no ability to control their movements) and that decreases their possibility of receiving more serious injuries.
Which is why I have no desire to listen to MANY complaints about the drunk driving issue. Why wouldn't you just leave your vehicle at home, walk to the bar or have someone drive you?
- January 20, 2014


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There's just something special about handmade quilts. When I was a little girl, my grandmother made both my sister and I quilts for our bed, made from scraps of clothing from my mother. I remember going to bed that Christmas Eve, sleeping under my grandmother's quilt, all wrapped in love. Later, she made my mother a huge king size quilt with scraps of clothing from both of us girls. Since my mom and grandmother made most of our clothes, it was even more special. We used to sit on Mom's bed, and be able to tell the stories each of each square. Later, when I married, my grandmother made me a wedding quilt. It's 27 years old, but it's been on my bed ever since. It's starting to become worn in spots, and you have to be extra careful when pulling up the covers, but it's a daily reminder of the love we shared.
My mother started quilting when she retired 10 years ago. She began making baby quilts, and sold a few here and there. She combines machine embroidery with her quilting. Far from a traditionalist, Mom has found her niche in more modern, free-style quilting. These are a far cry from the familiar patchwork quilts we grew up with. Mom has carried on the tradition of making quilts for her grandchildren. All three have beautiful, personalized quilts crafted from love. Though they aren't made from clothing scraps, the fabrics and patterns reflect the personalities of each grandchild.
I've even tried my hand at quilting and have taken home blue ribbons from the county fair for my small lap quilts and wall hangings. I love designing them and piecing them together, but I hate finishing them! I have several hanging about in a closet, just waiting for me to have the patience to bind them. That's the main reason I love papercrafting; I can start something and finish it in a short amount of time!
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Possible merger between Britannia building society and Co-Operative
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The Britannia Building Society and The Co-Op have confirmed rumours that they have commenced negotiations with the Co-Operative Financial Services [CFS]. Britannia commented that the negotiations are broad and wide ranging. They have also stated that is may lead to the possibility of a merger in the near future.
The second largest building society in the land, Britannia, boasts a well established network of branches and a well established savings and a large mortgage base of clientele. Co-Operative Financial Services, part of the Co- Operative Group, is the largest consumer Co-Op in the world. Co-Operative Financial Services has a strong personal and business banking presence along with years of experience in the life and general insurance sectors.
If the two financial institutions were to merge, their customers would the beneficiaries. The business as a building society or co-operative would be wholly owned by its customers and it would be a very ethical operation. Being a co-operative or a building society would give the new formed company the added benefit of not having to be exposed to fluctuations in the stock market as with Public Limited Company.
The newly merged financial institution would have added strength both in terms of their combined assets and their customer base; if successful the merger would see an organisation born with approximately £70 billion worth of assets and a total of approximately six million customers.
The Britannia Building Society said that the negotiations were still at an early stage and that they had not as yet arrived at any firm or substantial decisions. They said that it was too early to say what impact this would have on their customer base and their huge workforce. They continued to add that they would still remain committed to their Staffordshire headquarters, their extensive network of high street branches and their strong Britannia brand name.
At this moment, according to United Kingdom banking regulations, it is prohibited for co-operatives to merge with the building societies because of their distinct differences. This impending legislation will soon see the law amended to remove the barriers. Co-operatives and Building Societies will soon be able to work together and even merge without any hurdles.
Owing to their rule, building societies usually operate in a somewhat different manner from banking institutions. There are however conditions that are set in order to prevent them from entering into risky deals. No building societies have ever collapsed and they are traditionally seen as by many people as the best option for saving their money with; this is due to the fact they are owned and run by their members instead of being a Public Limited Company.
What is a Public Limited Company (PLC)?
A public limited company is a form of limited company, which by its very existence is allowed to sell its shares to members of the public, hence the word public. A Public Limited Company can be recognised by its name; all such company are required to include either 'Public Limited Company' or the abbreviation 'Plc' at the end of their name.
The rules and regulations surrounding a Public Limited Company, or PLC, are very different from a traditional Limited Company. For starters the minimum amount of shares that can be issued for a Public Limited Company is equivalent to £50,000, whilst for a normal Limited Company the subscription amount starts from just £1.


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Martin Guptill led the way with some power - packed batting as New Zealand posted a challenging total of 180/5 in their World Twenty20 Group 2 match against Pakistan at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here on Tuesday.
Guptill smashed 80 runs off 48 balls with 10 boundaries and three sixes. Ross Taylor, who remained on 36 off 23 deliveries and Corey Anderson (21) played useful knocks in the later stages of the innings.
Pacer Mohammad Sami (2/23) was the best performer among the Pakistan bowlers, although he did take some punishment from Guptill in his first spell. Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi (2/40) also bagged a couple of wickets.
This is New Zealand's third match of the tournament. The Kiwis have made themselves near certain candidates for advancing to the semi - finals by winning both their previous matches, against hosts India and Australia. Another victory on Tuesday will see them through to the last - four stage as the top team in the group.
Electing to bat on winning the toss, New Zealand were off to a superb start with openers Guptill and Kane Williamson going great guns.
Guptill was the more aggressive of the two, handing out some rough treatment to the Pakistan bowlers while Williamson gave him steady support from the other end as the duo put together an opening partnership of 62 runs by the eighth over.
Irfan struck the first blow for Pakistan when he outfoxed Williamson with a slower one. The Kiwi right - hander mistimed his attempted drive as Shahid Afridi pulled off an easy catch at cover.
Incoming batsman Colin Munro did not last long as Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi struck in his very first over after coming on to bowl. Attempting a switch hit of a delivery which was pitched on the middle stump, the left - handed Munro hit the ball straight to Sharjeel Khan at sweeper cover.
But that did not affect the New Zealand run rate too much as Guptill and Corey Anderson continued to score at a brisk pace. The duo added 52 runs between them before Guptill tapped the ball onto his stumps while trying to dab an incoming delivery from Sami to third man.
Anderson also went back to the pavilion in the very next over as he mistimed a googly from Afridi. But Taylor ensured that the Kiwis finished their innings on a strong note.
Brief scores:
New Zealand 180/5 in 20 overs (Martin Guptill 80, Ross Taylor 36 n. o. ; Mohammad Sami 2 - 23, Shahid Afridi 2 - 40) vs Pakistan


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The Second Step
by Jonas Kyratzes
On the plane to Moscow I got into a conversation with an old man. This always happened to me; something about my face made people open up. It was probably a big part of what made me a good journalist, and while it could be irritating when I wanted to be left alone, in this case the distraction was welcome. I was supposed to be reading my notes, of course, but I knew that all I'd end up doing would be obsessively refreshing my newsfeed. Was the mist spreading? What were the Americans doing? What about the Chinese? Had something new happened in India? Every day I expected some idiot to blow up the world. It was why I'd asked for this assignment. One more week of trying to keep a straight face while pretending that the latest mindblowingly stupid development could be treated as serious geopolitics and I'd put a gun in my mouth and redecorate the ceiling.
"So, what brings you to Moscow?" the old man asked, his English accented but otherwise excellent.
"An interview. I'm a journalist."
"Who are you interviewing? A politician?"
"No, thank God. A group of scientists."
"Ah, about the mist?"
"Yeah, more or less. Well... I hope I can make the article about more than that."
"Good, good. I don't read the news much anymore. It's all nonsense. No offense."
I laughed.
"None taken. It is mostly nonsense. We just recycle press releases and try to look like we know what we're talking about."
"Then tell me, why do you keep doing it?"
There was something oddly sharp and penetrating about the old man's gaze. I hesitated.
"I don't know. I guess I keep thinking the next assignment will make a difference. Maybe if I can get a tiny bit of truth out there..."
"Do you think that's the problem? A lack of truth?"
"What, you think truth doesn't matter?"
The question came out sounding more aggressive than I'd intended.
"Ah, I must apologize for interrogating you," the old man said. "I used to be a teacher. Sometimes we slip back into old modes of speaking. I am simply curious. Do you believe that if more of the truth was known, things would change?"
"I guess that seems obvious to me."
"But think of how much is already known."
"What do you mean?"
"So many scandals. Corruption. Stupidity. Waste of resources. Policies that never worked but get continued anyway. People already know all this."
"So you think that people will just never do anything, no matter what's going on? Telling them the truth doesn't matter because they don't care? That seems awfully cynical, and that's coming from a journalist."
"No, no, you misunderstand. It is important that people know. That is the first step. But you keep repeating the first step, telling them more and more. What is the second step?"
I couldn't answer that.
I'd been to Moscow once before, years earlier, to report on the centenary of the Russian Revolution. Armed with a copy of John Reed's magnificent Ten Days that Shook the World, I'd wandered the streets in a haze, composing what I imagined would be the non-fiction piece of the year, an epic account of the past, present, and future of Moscow and how it reflected the fatal contradictions of the Soviet Union, utterly gone and yet utterly present. I poured everything I had into that essay, overwhelmed by a young man's melancholy and passion.
My editor cut it down to 500 words, most of them not mine. I published the full version on my blog, where it got fewer hits than a photo of my cat puking. That was the first of many lessons.
I left my bags at the hotel; the first meeting was scheduled for later that day. In the reception area, everyone was clustered around a television set. Apparently another ship had been lost to the mist.
"It was an American research vessel," the receptionist told me. "But it wasn't the mist. I mean, they had the new environment suits, they say they're safe. It was something in the mist. The people on the ship said they saw something moving towards them. Then they were gone. No radio contact."
I wasted a few minutes watching the news. None of the talking heads could agree as to what was going on. You could see that none of them had the slightest clue, but they were being paid to keep talking, so they just speculated. One of them suggested the Chinese had actually sabotaged the ship. Another was certain the ship was destroyed by a Russian long-range torpedo, a suggestion which drew boos from the hotel audience. An "expert" suggested it was actually the people of the Hollow Earth, who had decided the humans of the Upper World were too weak because they didn't breastfeed enough. This was treated as a serious suggestion.
There was also an actual scientist, an older Japanese man whose name I didn't catch.
"It is not useful to try to impose our own ideologies on this phenomenon," he said. "We have to approach this carefully and analytically."
"This is exactly the problem I'm talking about!" the Hollow Earth theorist shouted. "Science has failed to explain the mist! Just like it has failed to truly explain most things in the universe, except on a very superficial level. But there is a deeper truth! A kind of truth science can't understand. This is what my contact with the Theosophical Masters has revealed."
"Ridiculous," the scientist muttered.
"Now, let's not be arrogant here," the host interjected. "We should always keep an open mind."
During my first stay, I'd met a scientist in the vast, towering Main Building of Moscow State University to talk about the Soviet Union's scientific achievements and Stalinism's scientific blunders, particularly the bizarre history of Lysenkoism. Now I was back in Moscow, talking about Lysenkoism to another scientist, but our surroundings were decidedly less impressive: a lab constructed inside an old industrial facility, its equipment top-notch but its aesthetics appalling.
"Oh man, Lysenkoism. It's hard to believe something so stupid can happen. A whole branch of science taken over by a total fake just because he has political backing. Pseudoscience made law, dissent punished. It's crazy. But there's a lot of stupid stuff in the history of genetics. It just freaks people out, you know? They're willing to believe anything, so long as it fits their ideology. And when you've got leaders who are hated, whose power isn't rooted in the people, pseudoscience often benefits. Real science is always a challenge to ideology, because real science is objective. That was the basis of Marxism. But Stalinism was the opposite of that, so it needed a kind of magic, a kind of religion..."
"Nikolai, shut up, you're rambling."
I was supposed to be interviewing Nikolai, but he and Stanislav - Stas for short - seemed to function like a single organism. Their banter flowed in a constant stream, occasionally switching between two or three different languages. One moment they were making jokes based on obscure scientific principles; the next they were referencing the latest meme (a photo of a lumberjack on a boat in the mist, with the caption IN CANADA, WE CALL THIS SUNSHINE).
These two men were the founders of a radical, controversial project to study the effects of the mist and ways of averting its influence.
"You could say we both came out of the same political milieu, although that's not really that accurate," Stas explained. "Nikolai's an old-school Marxist. I'm an anarchist. When he was writing political pamphlets analyzing the class structure of modern Russia, I was fighting cops in the street."
"Yeah, in Saints Row."
"Shut up, Nikolai."
Nikolai burst out laughing.
"He did, he did fight the cops. He fought the law and the law won. The law tends to win unless you have the people on your side."
"See, we still argue about this stuff. But my point was, we actually had very different ideas, in many ways. We argued day and night, even before we were dating."
I asked them how they met. I was interested in their project, but the article I'd pitched wasn't just about their work, it was about everything that surrounded the project as well.
"Oh, it was on a dating site for queer radical Russian geneticists," Nikolai said with a grin. "It was just me and him. We were the only users."
"But it's true!"
"It's not true. We actually met at a protest against cuts to science funding. Nikolai was handing out pamphlets."
"Stas was playing Saints Row on mobile."
"Shut up, Nikolai."
"Do you think your identities played a part in your politics? In starting this project?" I asked them, knowing this stuff was always popular with our readers and feeling dirty for thinking that.
"Eh, not really, not for me," Nikolai said. "I come from a family of labour organizers. Like Stas said, we're pretty old-school Marxists. Our guys legalized homosexuality in 1917. That's the tradition I come from."
"My family was pretty conservative, though," Stas said. "They were not so happy when I came out. But they take their Christianity pretty seriously, so they still loved me, even though they thought I was a sinner. That's not the origin of my politics, though, and I want that to be clear. I'm an anarchist because I question the idea of the state. You can write about me as a scientist or an anarchist or both, but please don't write about me as the gay dude who happens to do science."
I apologized for becoming too personal.
"No, that's not it. I can talk to you about queerness in Russia for several days, if you want to. Tell you all my personal experiences. But what the hell does it matter? We're doing what we're doing because it's the right thing, and because humanity is facing a serious threat, not because I'm pissed off about some reactionaries not liking who I sleep with."
"I get that, I do," I said. "Not trying to reduce you to your sexuality. Just trying to get the bigger picture. So let's get away from the personal stuff and talk about how you started this project. I think, Nikolai, you were the first to suggest it?"
"Well, I was at a conference in Rome, in the very early days of the mist. I was talking to a group of fellow scientists who wanted to study the mist, but the whole thing was being treated as a national security issue. Nobody was sharing information, everything was being done in secret. Which is the very worst way to do science, especially when you're talking about a global phenomenon. There's just so much data, so many different types of scenarios playing out simultaneously... you know the story about the blind men and the elephant? Everyone is touching a different part of the elephant, and each of them thinks what they're touching is the whole. That's our governments right now."
"The pandoravirus carries a huge genetic payload," Stas added. "It's unlike anything we've ever seen. To assume it's only capable of one behaviour is a serious mistake. This is a very, very complicated little bastard. You see that even figuring out how to filter the mist has been a huge challenge."
"So, anyway, I was at this conference. And we started getting the first reports of the mist rolling over islands and people just vanishing, walking into the sea. The official line was that it was all rumours and exaggerations, but there were videos all over the internet. That's when I suggested that maybe we needed to organize, because this was all much worse than we'd been told, and our entire system was only optimized for profit. It could deal with what was coming even less than it could deal with its own internal crises."
I asked him what he'd proposed.
"Oh, it was all much more ambitious than this," Nikolai laughed regretfully. "Claiming the scientific resources of the capitalist states and all that. But the threat of this mist was vague, and whenever someone says National Security, middle-class people get nervous."
"What happened then?"
"First I got really depressed. Every day I saw more reports that freaked me out like nothing's ever freaked me out before. Some research was leaked and it raised a thousand terrifying questions. It all seemed really hopeless. Then Stas suggested this completely crazy plan."
The crazy plan was to crowdfund an independent lab that would publish all of its results on the internet. The lab would have no national affiliation, no objective except getting to the truth.
"If the state fails to do its job, alternative structures have to be created," Stas said. "Nikolai doesn't actually agree with this, in theoretical terms, but it was better than nothing. It was a start."
The crowdfunding campaign had been successful, raising money from all over the world, allowing Stas and Nikolai to purchase the extremely expensive equipment their work would require. They decided to set up the lab inside an old industrial facility - partly because it had certain useful features, partly because it was cheap. Then they had to assemble a team.
"Most of them share our political convictions," Nikolai told me. "Except Fred, who's a libertarian. I have no idea what he's doing here, but we try not to hold his primitive ideology against him."
"Shut up, Nikolai!" an American-accented voice shouted from somewhere in the lab.
"Fred, is that aggression?" Nikolai shouted back, grinning.
Once the lab was finished, the team was ready to get to work. They only lacked one thing: a name. I asked them how they came up with the Firebird Initiative.
"Oh, it was a joke," Stas told me. "We were trying to come up with a good name, but all we could come up with was silly jokes. At one point, Nikolai was seriously trying to pitch calling ourselves the Phoenix Project, after that UN division that got shut down. Just to spite people, basically. Nikolai is a troll at heart, I'm afraid."
"It's true," Nikolai sighed.
"So we were just joking around, coming up with variations that would sound close enough to the Phoenix Project to piss certain people off, but were still somehow distinct. The firebird is a creature from Slavic mythology, and I think Nikolai picked Initiative because it reminded him of some old TV show he likes. At first we just used it internally, on our server and so on, but eventually we got so used to it that we decided to just go with it. And then we got Vlad to do this awesome logo, and here we are."
With the basics covered, it was now time to ask them about the major controversy surrounding the Initiative. Although the atmosphere was pleasant and I was enjoying the interview, I wanted to be careful in broaching this subject.
"So... about your sources. I don't want to sound judgemental. I'm just curious as to what you can tell me."
Nikolai and Stas exchanged a telling look.
"We have a variety of sources in the scientific community," Stas said neutrally. "If someone wishes to share information with us, they do so. We don't contact anyone, we don't go looking for info. We're just open to input."
"Can you comment on the accusation that you're working with classified materials that were leaked by insiders?"
"We can't. We wouldn't know. Like Stas said, we're just open to input. I'm sure it's all perfectly legal," Nikolai said. I could see the shadow of a grin in the corners of his mouth.
"After all," Stas added, "it's not technically illegal to research the mist, or the pandoravirus. All the information is anyway out there, floating around in the mist. We could be obtaining our data in any number of ways."
"Even data that could only come from the middle of the ocean?"
"Some of my best friends are sailors," Nikolai quipped.
Despite their jokes, the truth was that the Firebird Initiative had attracted a great deal of anger and controversy. They were accused of recklessness, of spying, of encouraging leaks, of publishing information that could be useful to terrorists. Even their groundbreaking study of the impact of the pandoravirus on phytoplankton was overshadowed by the fact that they'd used a proprietary algorithm owned by an Australian military-affiliated research firm. A prominent Australian politician had denounced them as "degenerate Russian traitors." Nikolai had changed his social media username to DegenerateRussianTraitor002 and was using a photo of said politician as an avatar.
"Doesn't this worry you?" I asked them. "Whistleblowers and dissenters haven't exactly fared well, historically speaking."
"The ruling class doesn't scare me," Stas said seriously. "They're a threat, but I understand them. They are a very obvious function of the system. Even Fred can agree with that."
Something about his face made me think there was more to this. He wasn't afraid of the ruling class, but he was afraid of something.
Stas hesitated. He looked at Nikolai for confirmation. Nikolai nodded.
"We've been getting threats. A lot of them. Have a look at this."
He took his tablet, opened the email app, and handed it to me. There was a folder called Death Threats. It contained almost a thousand emails. Most of them were in all caps, with titles such as TRAITORS TO NATURE WILL DIE and STOP PLAYING GOD.
"Go ahead, read some."
"You are the ENEMIES OF NATURE," the first one began. "Tampering with the secrets that humans are NOT SUPPOSED to know. Why do you think the genomes are so well HIDDEN? WE WERE NOT MEANT TO DO THIS. What makes you think you can change what NATURE created? She is your MOTHER and you should OBEY your mother or it will not end well for you."
That was one of the harmless ones. The next one contained graphic descriptions of how those who wanted to poison the world with genetics and chemicals should be tortured and put to death. The one after that just stated plainly and openly that every member of the Firebird Initiative should be killed for interfering with God's plan.
"It started with the emails, and at first we didn't take it seriously," Stas said. "Most people who work in genetics have encountered this kind of reaction. People find it incredibly upsetting to be forced to face the material reality of their bodies. Even the thought that they have DNA and that DNA could be affected is deeply frightening to them."
"The shit really hit the fan when we published our results from exposing human stem cells to the virus," Nikolai added, his grin now gone. "Suddenly we were public enemy number one."
That particular bit of research was still being studied by the international community, but the insights it offered were potentially revolutionary. The way the virus had hijacked cellular processes, its ability to reorder and recombine DNA in a similar way to acutely transforming retroviruses - these and other facts, which were beyond my limited understanding of genetics, were a real step forward in understanding the strange ecological disaster that was playing out in our oceans."
"I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw those results," Nikolai told me, looking genuinely nervous. "What is this thing? Where did it come from? To be honest, it looks designed, but I'm not sure any country on this planet has the tech to create something like this. I hear all these people saying it's a bioweapon, and yeah, it looks like one, but I don't think we made it."
The idea that we were dealing with an extraterrestrial phenomenon of some kind had been raised more than once, but it was still considered a fringe idea.
"Well, you know, it doesn't help that the news are filled with these crazy people claiming it's all the Martians or the Hollow Earth goblins or something," Stas said, unable to keep the frustration out of his voice. "I mean, they're everywhere. All these frauds promising people easy answers, and they're treated like they have something worth saying, but we're borderline terrorists. Or enemies of nature, whatever that is supposed to mean."
The death threats were becoming entirely too real. Only last week, someone had torched Nikolai's car. They couldn't be sure it was related to the emails, of course, but it seemed likely. Two days before I arrived, several windows in the lab had been smashed with rocks, and someone had tried to pry open the door.
"What I can't understand is the hate," Stas told me tiredly. "The politicians oppose us because they think everything is a power play and we're disrupting their schemes. I get that. But these people, they hate us viscerally. They treat us like a threat to the purity of existence. Even coming out to my family scared me less."
"You know, at least a third of these emails say that even if the mist wipes out humanity, that would be a good thing. I mean, we've heard some weird stuff. We had an offer to sell our research to Vanadium, you know, the arms dealers. We had a crazy religious group that wanted to know how to control the virus to achieve transcendence. Hell, we even got a donation, a pretty massive donation in cryptocurrency that I swear to God came from some part of the Phoenix Project. I'm sure of it, although Stas doesn't believe me. Anyway, my point is, the world is strange and we're doing strange things, but nothing freaks me out like someone who has lost touch with their humanity so much that they would actually embrace the end of civilization. You know, me and a capitalist, we have something in common: we want to keep building, keep expanding. We disagree about the system, we disagree about inequality, but we want humanity to keep growing. These people... how can you hate humanity so much? How can you glorify Nature but not see the most wonderful thing Nature has ever produced? Oh, hold on. It's sandwich time!"
A door opened behind me and another member of the team came in, carrying sandwiches for everyone. The interview was over. We had another session scheduled for the next day, but somehow I knew that we couldn't regain the intensity and openness we'd had. There's something special about the first time you talk to someone, when you really get into it.
Soon we were distracted, arguing about favourite movies and whether post-Waters Pink Floyd albums were any good. The sandwiches were excellent.
I was sitting in the hotel room, working on my first draft of the story, when I saw the news about the explosion. A homemade bomb had gone off just outside the lab as the team was leaving the building at the end of the day. An ecoterrorist group claimed responsibility, announcing they had saved the planet from another human-manufactured threat. True salvation, however, would only come when humans renounced the sickness of technology and embraced a more natural existence. The text went on, but I didn't read the rest.
I visited Stas and Nikolai in the hospital. Not as a journalist, just as a person. Stas had extensive second-degree burns, but would be more or less OK in time. Nikolai had been permanently blinded, his right eyeball completely destroyed by shrapnel. He was lucky to be alive. I was there when he woke up and they told him what had happened.
"It was a bomb?" he whispered.
"Somebody tell those idiots," he coughed, "that a bomb is also technology."
It was funny, but I found myself crying.
Days later, I still hadn't gone back. On the news, they were talking about the mist moving inland, coastal cities being evacuated, thousands of people being seen walking off into the sea. I only half-listened. I hadn't finished writing my article. I didn't know what the point was anymore. I kept thinking of what the old man on the plane had asked me. What is the second step?
Stas and Nikolai were still in the hospital. Two others, Vlad and Natalia, had died of their injuries. The Firebird Initiative was on hold, maybe forever. But others were still out there, still trying to find solutions, still willing to fight for humanity, even those parts of humanity that hated them.
What is the second step?
On the TV, the talking heads kept arguing about which country was the best and which was the worst. Increasingly, they sounded like children. Lost children, mean children, confused children - anything but the adults they pretended to be. A photo of the mist swelling around the Statue of Liberty caught my eye. It was like something out of a kitschy old disaster movie, but at the same time it was poignant, it was real, because that statue had once represented something much bigger than any one nation. It had represented the hope of revolutionaries all across the world: that human beings could seize control of their destiny, could wrest the reins away from the cruelty of Mother Nature and build a society that valued growth and freedom and hope. From America to France to Russia, people had fought and died for that idea. In every part of the world, people had given their lives for the idea that humanity should keep going - whether the engine of progress was capitalism or communism, the point was that they had believed in our capacity to grow.
The statue vanished in the mist. Would the mist reach Moscow, too? I wasn't from here, but I was human, and this city was mine as much as anyone's. I remembered the walks I'd taken the first time I was here. The monuments, the places where people had fought. The awful things that had happened in this city. The wonderful things people had reached for.
What is the second step?
I walked out into the streets of Moscow to find out.


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Julio Cotto knew that moving from Charleston to New York wouldn't be easy. But he didn't know it would suck as much as it did those first few months after leaving the Lowcountry last December. The artist struggled to find a place to live, and when he did, someone broke into his house. For months, he had nowhere to paint, and he learned the hard way that most TV extras in New York are paid much less than their Charleston counterparts. And then he and his dog were viciously attacked by another dog.
"It's New York. It's good and bad," Cotto says over the phone from his Brooklyn apartment. "It's tough, but it definitely has its perks as well."
Since moving to Charleston in 1998, Cotto earned fans for his graphic novel-inspired paintings (City Paper readers voted him their favorite local artist in 2004, 2006, and 2008) and roles in local films and TV shows (Butterflies Wake, Army Wives). He left in search of more opportunities in New York, but he returns this week for a show at Social.
Cotto's new work is heavily influenced by his new hometown, even those early dark days. "After the dog attack, once I took care of everything, the next day I painted a piece that was really moving and different, very raw," he says. "I started looking at my work and I began to change as a person. It's just a completely different world up here. It's kind of dangerous. It's easy for things to fall apart if you're not on top of it."
The Social show, called Bones of the Bad, includes all-new pieces along with what he calls his "Reborn" works, older paintings that he's changed and, at times, completely covered up. "I started looking at my older work, and it just didn't fit me anymore," he says. "I painted over some stuff, and some stuff I kept as part of it." While the paintings still retain elements of Cotto's bold style, his new body of work is deeper and darker. In one piece, previously of a beautiful woman staring into the distance, the woman has been covered in a dark shadow, the outline of a toothy horse surrounding her face. In another of a woman wearing a wolf's head, the entire canvas has been covered in a wash of bright pink, with red drips and sharp fangs added to the girl's face. The overall effect is much more abstract.
"My life seems more abstract in NYC," Cotto explains. "I used to be a perfectionist when it came to my artwork ... I actually used to strive to not leave visible stroke marks for years in my early work. People used to ask if my paintings were screen printed. I was a comic book artist, an illustrator, painting the way I knew how. Now, I'm a painter that paints what I want, the way that I want, however I want. If I want to suddenly stroke the wet paint on my canvas with my fingers, I do it. If I get the urge to pour or drip paint randomly on my painting, I do it."
His new urban surroundings are a constant source of inspiration. "I'm this weirdo at the subway taking pictures of tiles," he laughs. He's been photographing things around the city, like numbers and traffic signals, then he uses them his work. He's also been incorporating more text. "Sometimes I write down random things I hear," he says. "I hear the craziest things, violent things, things you don't really hear in Charleston."
Though a few familiar faces have been covered up, Cotto revisits his Peacemaker character in much of his new work. He created the character as part of an ongoing graphic novel project while still living in Charleston. He represents the human journey, a search for love, revenge, riches, and redemption. The rider's horse, Clive (named after Cotto's dog) is another recurring figure. "Sometimes he is a loyal beast that would carry the rider until one or both of them died," he says. "A lot of times the horse is a part of the rider. Something he needs to carry on with his journey. Something to believe in. Sometimes, I give the horse a halo whether he is a saint for his undying loyalty or if he represents God carrying the rider when he can no longer stand on his own. Sometimes I like to mix it up and the rider is a Native American or conquistador riding a bison or velociraptor."
As he continues to settle in, Cotto hopes to find more work in the Big Apple. "New York's so big, but it's still small circles," he says. "It's surprising how many people know each other. It's really strange. You can't think about how many people live here, how many people are trying to do the same thing, or else you'll just be completely discouraged. The same thing with acting. You almost have to be naive about it or else nothing will ever happen."


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In recent years, golf shoe makers have seemingly have been trying as hard as they could to make shoes as lightweight as possible. Light is still right, but many of this year's footwear releases include more comfort and stability to create a more well-rounded shoe.
PUMA: With Rickie Fowler carrying its torch, Puma Golf has always exuded coolness as a brand. And to hammer home its point that its new TitanTour shoes are the "coolest shoes in golf," the shoes in its booth here at the PGA Show are packed in ice.
The reason: The TitanTour features proactive Outlast cooling technology – which was created to help astronauts stay comfortable in their spacesuits – to regulate the temperature in the shoes and keep golfers cool throughout their rounds.
To achieve this, Puma applies its Outlast coating to the shoe's insole, and the coating stores excess heat away from the foot. If the temperature inside the shoe cools off, the shoe releases the warmth. And if not, it keeps the heat away from the foot.
The TitanTour also features Puma's Shapelock memory foam – like that in beds – for comfort and stability, an ultra-thin "Power Frame" in the midsole for flexibility and stability, and low-profile cleats. It's available in seven color options: black/white, white/vibrant orange, white/strong blue, white/gray violet, brown/mustang, white/black, and "flash" (a reflective material).
They'll be available at retail on Feb. 1, with a suggested retail price of $190.
FOOTJOY: One of the shoes that hits this new sweetspot of comfort and stability is the HyperFlex from FootJoy – which looks more progressive and less like a traditional FootJoy release than perhaps anything the company has ever created.
The HyperFlex's most distinctive feature is its FlexGrid 2.0 exoskeleton, which is made of a high-performance material that helps to control the foot during the swing. If the exoskeleton pattern looks familiar to Northeasterners, it's because it was inspired by the cable-like structure that supports the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston.
"Our designers have carried out research in civil engineering and construction to create the distinguishing aesthetics of HyperFlex that are also fundamental to its performance," said Doug Robinson, FootJoy's vice president of design and development worldwide. This outer layer also incorporates a breathable membrane that's guaranteed waterproof for two years.
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Stability comes from the bottom as well as the top of the HyperFlex. An Optimized Performance Stabilizer (O.P.S.), which you can see on the rear of the shoe, provides support and motion control to the heel during the swing, and the sole is outfitted with SoftSpikes' brand-new Tornado cleats that provide even more grip that standard SoftSpikes models.
The HyperFlex comes in four styles (Navy/Electric Green, White/Grey/Blue, Black and Grey/Orange) for $190, along with three styles (White/Grey/Blue, Grey/Orange and Black/Red) with the Boa Lacing System ($210). The standard model will be available Feb. 15 for $190 per air, while the Boa version will be available April 15 for $210 per pair.
ADIDAS: In its new adipower Boost golf shoes, adidas focuses on optimizing energy return – storing and releasing energy during the golf swing. The company is adapting this technology from its running and basketball shoes to golf for the first time.
In the Boost, thousands of TPU (Thermoplastic Polyurethane) energy capsules are imbedded in the show via a high-pressure steam molding process. The integrity of the EVA foam used in many other shoes can get hard in cold weather and break down in the heat, adidas says, but its Boost material retains its cushioning and responsiveness in all weather conditions.
"During the swing, the energy return is noticeable – as if you can feel the technology in action," said PGA Tour player Jason Day. "They feel good, and look good, too."
Adidas rounded out the shoe by adding gripmore spikes of varying sizes, and placing them in strategic locations on the outsole for improved traction and stability.
The adipower Boost will be available Feb. 27 in four colorways, and will carry a suggested retail price of $190 per pair.
NIKE: The big news about Nike's new Lunar Control 3 shoe is that incorporates a lot of feedback from world No. 1 Rory McIlroy. His big suggestion – make the shoe more stable so he can swing more aggressively without having to worry about slipping.
The Nike designers listened. They widened the shoe's base to improve its stability and remain in contact with the ground longer through impact. They also added a lightweight carbon fiber midfoot shank to make the shoe stronger yet still flexible.
The Lunar Control comes in four colorways: Black/Pure Platinum, Pure Platinum/Bright Crimson, White/Pure Platinum and White/Volt. It is available now with a suggested retail price of $210 per pair.
ECCO: Danish shoemaker Ecco Golf is out with its BIOM Hybrid 2, the next generation of its best-selling golf shoe. This new edition – worn by Fred Couples, Ernie Els and Graeme McDowell – is 15 percent lighter than the original model thanks to an extra-thin midsole that helps bring players closer to the ground.
The shoe also has a dual-density TPU outsole, which is harder in areas that need the most stability and softer in the key comfort zones around the foot.
Like all Ecco golf shoes, BIOM Hybrid 2 is created using a direct-injection process that bonds the upper and outsole unit to make a one-piece shoe without glue or stitching. This, the company says, gives it an exceptionally water-tight seal as well as comfort and flexibility without the need for a break-in period.
The shoes contain soft and breathable uppers made of yak leather and treated to resist both staining and water. The bottom is outfitted with molded bars that offer hundreds of traction angles for superb grip.
They're available now at a suggested retail price of $195 per pair.


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