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Scott Reeder
American Dick
Oil on canvas 101.6 x 76.2 cm
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A day later in Basel, I heard another story, this one about a famous industrial designer who, after he received delivery of a classic '60s Aston Martin, took his penis in hand and rubbed it across the length of the automobile.
Dicking around was clearly the theme of the moment. On my way from Zurich to Basel, I was confronted with a Cameroonian taxi driver who tried to sell me an African mask -- "a replica of which was currently on view at the Beyeler Museum" -- and then offered to scout young talent for me in Africa.
Like my driver, I had not signed up for the main fair or any of the ancillary fairs (for once). As a result, I felt a newfound freedom to roam, to see and enjoy the peripatetic event, living outside the Willy Lowman-esque ball-and-shackle of gallery proprietorship.
In the process, I ended up with more business cards and feeling less beholden. The social hierarchy within the fair is comically demonstrated by the VIP Lounge, which itself contains VIP-VIP lounges, the most exclusive of which is sponsored by Netjets, a sort of a time-share for Gulfstreams. After managing to get myself smuggled in like so much excess baggage, it was hot and uncomfortable inside, just like being stuck on an airless plane.
Through it all, art is being consumed this way and that, right under your nose, and after getting caught in the whirlwind, sometimes by you. It's an elating experience to behold. Sure it's rather gross in a depression, but art excites and, someone told me, has a measurable neurological effect that prolongs your life. Viva la credit crunch, the hiatus is over, I'm starting to collect again -- though I must admit, after my return to reality and the collapse of my past five deals, I hope it didn't amount to premature ejaculation.
A dealer in the fair was quoted on Bloomberg confessing to a dirty little secret those in the art business are nowadays all too familiar with: selling at substantial losses to maintain liquidity in order to keep things moving. It's reassuring to know I'm not alone. Though many dealers seemed to be selling, I heard stories of just as many who were not.
But it's the age-old lie, the art world's version of original sin -- to state publicly that they sold like hotcakes when in reality they lost a fortune. Are my peers becoming the model of a new sociological type of the YUPPIE variety, namely MUDs: Middle-aged, Urban and Downwardly mobile? Spending money used to be a profession; now finding any is a chore.
As I was actually sitting with a client, a specialist from a major auction house called him to tell how I had burnt the works in his collection by shopping them around too aggressively. Art is the only field where you are enlisted to sell something only to be accused of diluting its value and ostracized for doing the very thing you were asked to undertake in the first instance.
No sooner had my client hung up on his call from the auction house, than my phone rang with the very same expert asking me to lunch the following week, knowing that only I had full access to the work. Talk about a zero sum mentality, for which the art world is famous. One dealer sells, it is perceived, only at the expense of another.
A few days later another dealer (who might be from Canada) called my client to state he had seen the very paintings we were offering for sale on the Internet, which was the death knell for any kind of discrete transfer of title. Nothing could be further from the truth, but that was beside the point, which was, so to speak, backstabbing.
Emblematic of the degree of gossip, innuendo and disinformation swirling around the art world in the attempt to undermine business are the following: One dealer "friend" called to relay that he had heard that a painting I was selling through a dealer participating at the fair was being sold, for more than I was let on to believe, to a Russian with a famous girlfriend. Although the pricing story turned out to be false, the identity of the collector was entirely correct. The reconnaissance of the art world is worthy of the CIA and MI5 combined.
In the end, the show of public consumption for the sake of the girlfriend was followed by a swift cancellation, made only after the fair and invoice were complete. A few deals later I was contacted by the same deep-throat dealer who again knew the precise details of a multi-million-dollar deal I was in the midst of. The only upside is that I was relieved to know I wasn't suffering from extreme paranoia due the accuracy of the third party information I am constantly bombarded with. Can someone explain why art-world insiders have such big mouths?
Museums and auction houses are cutting more and more positions after the spring/summer 2009 sales declined by three-quarters to 80 percent. At the London auctions in June, two important late Picasso paintings of musketeers, bought in 2005 for £2.7 million and in 2000 for £4 million, respectively, sold for £5.75 million, and £7 million. Picasso you could sell even in a post-nuclear apocalypse.
Funny too with the sale of a Richard Prince "Nurse" painting for $3 million, versus last year's result of $8 million for the same-sized nurse. With price depreciation like that, you would need a nurse. Amazingly that was the only work in the sale with a third-party guarantee.
For the most part though, the favorite artists in today's market are dead ones. Mine, too -- they are a hell of a lot easier to deal with. Even so, just when it appeared the auctions stopped making records like the music industry, 18 were set at Phillips London in June for primarily younger artists. Only a short time ago, in my London neighborhood, I witnessed two Ferrari test-drives in one morning -- if that's not a ray of hope, what is?
And there are always smart plays, even in a down market. I had assiduously avoided the recent group of hip, young New York, until one became an auction highflier at a tender young age. I decided that if you can't beat them, join them. So I bought one and was able to resell it for twice what I paid before I paid for it, which was still only fair market value, thus the glory of the inefficiencies of the market.
Fittingly, the subject matter of the work was an abstract depiction of animal shit.
KENNY SCHACHTER operates Kenny Schachter / Rove on Hoxton Square in London.
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"Untitled," 2007, collage on wood by Dash Snow.
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His death, at Lafayette House, on East Fourth Street, was confirmed by his grandmother, the art collector and philanthropist Christophe de Menil. The cause was a drug overdose, she said.
Mr. Snow was known to be a heroin addict, but Ms. de Menil said he had been in rehab in March and had been off drugs until very recently.Mr. Snow was a rebel as young as 13, when his parents — Taya Thurman, a daughter of Ms. de Menil's, and Christopher Snow, a musician — sent him to a reformatory-like school in Georgia. He stayed there two years. After his release, he returned to New York and began living on his own. With no more than a ninth-grade education, he was largely self taught. His art would eventually include photography, drawing, collage, installation, zines, film and video. But he began, in his teens, as a graffiti artist known by the tag "Sace."
Handsome, heavily tattooed, with waist-length blond hair and a full beard, he soon became something of a downtown legend. He began taking Polaroids of the sex- and drug-fueled young bohemian circles in which he moved, recording his life and times in a style similar to that of his close friend Ryan McGinley and older artists like Nan Goldin and Larry Clark. Several of these images were included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
Mr. Snow had his first solo show in 2005, at Rivington Arms, a gallery on the Lower East Side. (His work is now represented by Peres Projects of Los Angeles and Berlin.) By then, Mr. Snow had become close with a group of artists that included Nate Lowman, Adam McEwen and Dan Colen, all of whom were experimenting with appropriation, or found-image, art in various mediums.
He began using newspapers in different ways, drawing in colored pencil, for example, on historic images, like a photograph of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy. He made large collages out of headlines and strange, delicate, sexually suggestive ones that evoked the medium's Dada origins. He had also started making short Super 8 films and converting them to video.
Sexuality, violence and life's fragility were frequent themes in Mr. Snow's work, but there was also an air of exuberant misbehavior. A 2007 article in New York magazine, "Warhol's Children," highlighted Mr. Snow's art, antics and underground stature, bringing his notoriety to a wider audience. It mentioned that he and his friends liked to turn hotel rooms into "hamster nests" by littering them with torn-up telephone books.
That summer, Mr. Snow and Mr. Colen went public with this practice. In their installation "Nest," they filled Deitch Projects, a SoHo gallery, with several feet of shredded phonebooks and invited visitors to hang out, party and add graffiti to the walls. Many cooperated.
Mr. Snow was born in Manhattan in 1981 to a family whose cultural contributions included the Menil Collection in Houston and the Dia Center for the Arts in Manhattan and Beacon, N.Y. When he was 18, he married Agathe Aparru, now the artist Agathe Snow. The marriage ended in divorce.In addition to his grandmother and his parents, Mr. Snow is survived by a grandfather, Robert Thurman; his sister, Caroline Snow; his brother, Maxwell Snow; his companion, Jade Berreau, and their daughter, Secret, all of Manhattan.
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We got together at mom's house last weekend for all the birthdays in January. We did this the week before also but it is always fun to get together and eat pizza! Happy birthday everyone If you want to see these in full resolution you can see them here
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We built a photo booth for Peyton's 16th birthday party. Here is a quick video of the pictures it took that night.
My oldest daughter turned 16 last Friday! She celebrated by having a glow party. It was a lot of fun, the pictures are a little grainy because of the low light. Anyway we had a lot of fun, I can't believe she is 16 If you want to see any of these in full resolution […]


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Anna Watkins
|Personal information
|Birth name
|Anna Rose Bebington
|Full name
|Anna Rose Watkins
|United Kingdom
|13 February 1983
Leek, Staffordshire, England
|Wokingham, Berkshire, England
|Natural Sciences
|Alma mater
|Newnham College, Cambridge
|Years active
|6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
|Great Britain
|Double sculls
|University team
|Newnham College Boat Club
|Rob Roy Boat Club
Leander Club
|Turned pro
Medal record
Anna Rose Watkins MBE PhD (née Bebington, born 13 February 1983), is a British rower.
Double Olympian, Watkins won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, both in the double sculls. She has also won four medals in the World Championships, winning gold in successive years, in 2010 and in 2011.
Early life[edit]
Watkins was born and raised in Leek, Staffordshire, where she attended Westwood College.[1] She studied Natural Sciences at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she started rowing in 2001.
Sporting career[edit]
She took her first strokes with Newnham College Boat Club and was captain of lower boats and then secretary for the club. Watkins represents Leander Club in rowing events.
At Cambridge, her college crew were Head of the Cam in 2003, before she moved onto the World Class Start talent identification programme run by UK sport, and based at Rob Roy Boat Club.[2] In 2004, she made her international debut, winning a gold medal in the Coxless IVs at the World Under 23 Regatta in Poznań, Poland with crewmates Natasha Page, Beth Rodford and Alison Knowles.
In 2005, Watkins made her senior international debut with the Women's Eight, achieving a fifth place at the World Championships in Gifu, Japan. She also won an Under 23 bronze medal at the World U23 Rowing Championships in Amsterdam.[3]
In 2006, Watkins switched to sculling and began competing in the double scull, a boat class she has remained with since then. The World Championships in 2006 were on home water at Eton Dorney. Watkins partnered Annabel Vernon, and they came in fourth place, having won the World Cup series earlier that season.[3]
For the next two years, Watkins's partner was Elise Laverick. In this combination, they won bronze medals at both the World Championships and at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Olympic medal came after a difficult season battling with glandular fever, and at the time was the closest any British oarswoman had come to an Olympic gold with the three medal winning crews separated by 0.23 seconds.[4]
In 2009, Watkins once more partnered Annabel Vernon and won a silver medal at the World Championships in Poznań, Poland.[3]
In 2010, Watkins joined forces with Katherine Grainger for the first time. In their double scull they had an unbeaten season, culminating in their victory at the World Championships in New Zealand. They were named World Rowing Female Crew of the year[5] and also "The Sunday Times Women's Sports Team of the Year" for 2010.[6] Individually, Watkins became Champion of the Thames in the annual championships, the Wingfield Sculls.
In 2011, Watkins beat Grainger in the British Rowing Team trials.[7] They joined forces again in the double scull and continued their unbeaten run, finishing the season with another World Championships gold. Watkins retained her title in the Wingfield Sculls, setting a new record time.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Watkins and Grainger broke the Olympic record in the semi-final of the double sculls. Subsequently, they won the final to take the gold medal.[8][9]
Watkins was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours, for services to rowing.[10][11]
In August 2015, six months after the birth of her second child, Watkins announced her intention to return to competition, and to target the 2016 Rio Olympics.[12] Had she been successful, she would have been the first mother to represent Great Britain in rowing, and possibly the first woman to compete in consecutive Olympics whilst having two children in between.
In February 2016, she announced that she was pulling out of the British Olympic rowing programme for Rio 2016, citing her performance, saying "This is not a decision that I've taken lightly. I guess I would have always wondered about what might have been if I hadn't given it a go."[13]
Personal life[edit]
In September 2009, she married Oliver Watkins, a part-time rowing coach, who was studying for a PhD in engineering at Cambridge, where the couple met.[14] The couple live in Wokingham, where Oliver works for the McLaren Formula One team as a suspension specialist. Anna announced in March 2013, that the couple were expecting their first child, due in September 2013.[15] Anna gave birth to a boy which they named William James.[16] Anna had a second boy in February 2015.[citation needed]
Anna holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Reading.[17]
Olympic Games[edit]
World Rowing Championships[edit]
- 2011 Bled – Gold, Double Scull
- 2010 Lake Karapiro – Gold, Double Scull
- 2009 Poznań – Silver, Double Scull
- 2007 Munich – Bronze, Double Scull
- 2006 Dorney Lake – 4th, Double Scull
- 2005 Gifu – 5th, Eight
World Rowing Under 23 Championships[edit]
- 2005 – Bronze, Coxless Pair
- 2004 – Gold, Coxless Four
GB Rowing Team Senior Trials[edit]
- 2012 – 2nd, Single Scull
- 2011 – 1st, Single Scull
See also[edit]
- ^ "Town honours its Olympic ace Anna". The Sentinel. 16 November 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2008.
- ^ "Internationals". Rob Roy Boat Club. Archived from the original on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ a b c Anna Watkins at FISA WorldRowing.com
- ^ John Simpson (10 April 2011). "The Times | UK News, World News and Opinion". Timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ "World Rowing Awards". World Rowing. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
- ^ "Watkins and Grainger win Sunday Times Women's Team of the Year Award". British Rowing. Archived from the original on 27 December 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ "Watkins in eye-catching win over Grainger at GB Rowing Team Assessment". British Rowing. Archived from the original on 27 August 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
- ^ "Olympics rowing: Anna Watkins & Katherine Grainger smash record". BBC Sport. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ^ "Olympics 2012: Great Britain win four golds in 24 hours". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 25.
- ^ [1] Cabinet Office
- ^ "Anna Watkins: London 2012 gold medallist makes rowing return". BBC Sport. 11 August 2015.
- ^ "Anna Watkins pulls out of GB Olympic rowing programme". BBC Sport. 10 February 2016.
- ^ "Olympic medallist weds man who set her on path to glory". thisisstaffordshire.co.uk. 30 October 2009. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
- ^ "Anna Watkins: Olympic rowing champion is pregnant". BBC News. 17 March 2013. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
- ^ "Congratulations". British Rowing. 24 September 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ^ "SportsPark | BUCS | British Universities & Colleges Sports". Sport.reading.ac.uk. 28 April 2011. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
External links[edit]
- Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
- English female rowers
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic rowers of Great Britain
- People from Leek, Staffordshire
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Members of Leander Club
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Great Britain


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It has been a challenge to develop rapid online characterisation techniques for nanocellulose given the fibrillar structure of the nanoparticles. The crill optical analyser uses optical response signals in the infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) wavelength ranges to evaluate the particle size properties of micro/nanofibrillar cellulosic materials. In this work, the crill analyser was used to measure the projected areas of UV and IR light sources by measuring the light blocked by nanocellulosic particles. This work uses the crill methodology as a new, simplified technique to characterise the particle size distribution of nanocellulosic material based on chemi-thermomechanical pulp (CTMP), thermomechanical pulp (TMP), and sulphite pulp (SP). In the first part, hydrogen peroxide pretreatment of CTMP and TMP in a wing mill refiner followed by high-pressure homogenisation to produce microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) was evaluated using the crill method. In the second part, TEMPO oxidation of CTMP and SP combined with high-shear homogenisation to produce MFC was studied using the crill method. With 4 % hydrogen peroxide pretreatment, the crill values of the unhomogenised samples were 218 and 214 for the TMP and CTMP, respectively, improving to 234 and 229 after 18 homogenisation passes. The results of the TEMPO method indicated that, for the 5 mmol NaClO SP-MFC, the crill value was 108 units at 0 min and 355 units after 90 min of treatment, a 228 % improvement. The CTMP and TMP fibres and the MFC were freeze dried and fibrillar structure of the fibres and microfibrils was visualised using scanning electron and transmission electron microscopy.
This thesis deals with processing of nanocellulose originating from pulps, with focus on mechanical pulp fibres and fines fractions. The nanocellulose materials produced within this research project were tested for different purposes ranging from strength additives in paper and paperboard products, via composite films to foam materials. TAPPI (Technical Association of Pulp & Paper Industry) has recently suggested a standard terminology and nomenclature for nanocellulose materials (see paper I). In spite of that we have decided to use the terms nano-ligno-cellulose (NLC), microfibrillated cellulose (MFC), nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) and nanocellulose (NC) in this thesis . It is well-known that mainly chemical pulps are used as starting material in nanocellulose production. However, chemical pulps as bleached sulphite and bleached kraft are quite expensive. One more cost-effective alternative can be to use fibres or fines fractions from thermo-mechanical pulp (TMP) and chemi-thermomechanical pulp (CTMP).
In paper II-IV, fractionation has been used to obtain fines fractions that can easily be mechanically treated using homogenisation. The idea with this study was to investigate the possibility to use fractions of low quality materials from fines fractions for the production of nanocellulose. The integration of a nanocellulose unit process in a high-yield pulping production line has a potential to become a future way to improve the quality level of traditional products such as paper and paperboard grades.
Paper III describes how to utilise the crill measurement technique as a tool for qualitative estimation of the amount of micro- and nano-material produced in a certain process. The crill values of TMP- and CTMP-based nanocelluloses were measured as a function of the homogenisation time. Results showed that the crill values of both TMP-NLC and CTMP-NLC correlated with the homogenisation time. In Paper V pretreating methods, hydrogen peroxide and TEMPO are evaluated. Crill measurement showed that hydrogen peroxide pretreatment (1% and 4%) and mechanical treatment time did not improve fibrillation efficiency as much as expected. However, for TEMPO-oxidised nanocelluloses, the crill value significantly increased with both the TEMPO chemical treatment and mechanical treatment time. In paper V-VII TEMPO-mediated oxidation systems (TEMPO/NaBr/NaClO) are applied to these fibres (CTMP and Sulphite pulp) in order to swell them so that it becomes easy to disrupt the fibres into nanofibres with mechanical treatment.
The demand for paperboard and other packaging materials are steadily increasing. Paper strength properties are crucial when the paperboard is to withstand high load. A solution that are investigated in papers IV and VI, is to use MFC as an alternative paper strength additive in papermaking. However, if one wish to target extremely higher strength improvement results, particularly for packaging paperboards, then it would be fair to use MFC or cationic starch (CS). In paper VI CS or TEMPO-based MFC was used to improve the strength properties of CTMP-based paperboard products. Results here indicate significant strength improvement with the use of different levels of CS (i.e., 20 and 10 kg t–1) and 5% MFC. The strengthening impact of 5% MFC was approximately equal to that of 10 kg t–1 of CS.
In paper VII, NFC and nanographite (NG) was used when producing composite films with enhanced sheet-resistance and mechanical properties. The films produced being quite stable, flexible, and bendable. Realising this concept of NFC-NG composite film would create new possibilities for technological advancement in the area of high-yield pulp technology. Finally, in paper VIII, a new processing method for nanocellulose is introduced where an organic acid (i.e., formic acid) is used. This eco-friendly approach has shown to be successful, a nanocellulose with a uniform size distribution has been produced.
Vid tidpunkten för disputationen var följande delarbeten opublicerade: delarbete 5 och 7 inskickade, delarbete 6 och 8 manuskript.
At the time of the doctoral defence the following papers were unpublished: paper 5 and 7 submitted, paper 6 and 8 manuscripts.


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After many delays since its announcement in 2013, January 28th to February 2nd, people who pre-ordered The Division (or some lucky individuals that were on a long waiting list) got access to a closed beta for The Division. As this is a beta, it is entirely possible that any and all grievances or admirations can be changed. The version of the beta I got to play was on Xbox One.
Let's get the obvious out of the way. Yes, the graphics have had a bit of a downgrading since The Division's initial reveal. This is unfortunate, but I suppose it's to be expected considering the developer/publisher. Besides this, the graphics actually were still quite impressive. The Division really benefits from having a day/night cycle and this is mostly evident during nights and early morning.
As the sun rises, sun rays pour out from between buildings and, at night, snowflakes begin to fall and even a small blizzard will sometimes roll in. Although, it's still a shame to think that the graphics could have been much better if there wasn't a downgrade.
Textures are a bit of another story. Character models are decent, and textures on clothing look good, but environment textures all look flat and dull. And, besides sun rays in the morning and headlights in blizzards, the lighting is pretty flat overall. It's as if more work was centered around one aspect of graphics than others. There also appears to be a character customization feature allowing the player to create his or her's desired face, but the beta limited this into a few default choices for male or female.
Some of you may roll your eyes when I say that The Division is a cover based shooter, and that's understandable. The cover based shooting is, admittedly, rather dull. There's a lot of cover so you can flank and get around the enemy, but all encounters are usually the same. Run up to a group of enemies, take cover, shoot, change cover, shoot, win, repeat. It's standard and doesn't do anything to reinvent the wheel of this sort of gameplay, but there is one flaw that ultimately hurts the entire side of gameplay.
You can not crouch or go prone in The Division. This is absolutely unacceptable for a game that touts itself as a more tactical focused shooter. Without crouching, stealth is no longer an option (even though you can still equip your guns with suppressors) and it's too difficult to coordinate a team that can only stand around and get shot unless they tap 'A' to take cover. Perhaps not being able to go prone is acceptable, because not all third person shooters let you do this, but not being able to crouch is not.
As well as being able to take cover, you can also climb on top of cars and other large objects to shoot down at enemies, but you'll just be standing on top of said object looking like an easy target since you can't crouch or go prone. Just don't expect the tacticality and player interaction that can be found in other Tom Clancy games like Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon.
Something that surprised me right off the bat is that guns have actually weight to them. It didn't feel like pulling the trigger on cap guns. Weapons also sounded fairly accurate as well. The Division also claims to be both an MMO and an RPG. Both of these elements are really simplified. You can team up with a small group of players, but you won't see huge groups of people like you would in other MMO's like WoW. The Division does have RPG elements. You can choose perks from three different tiers, but it's very simple. Almost to a negative point.
The Division is also loot based. Meaning that enemies will drop weapons and items. In the PVE (player vs enemy) areas, enemies won't always drop worthwhile loot. You will have to go into the PVP (player vs player) area known as "The Dark Zone" to get good loot. Inside The Dark Zone, you have a completely new level system and a brand new form of currency to use at Dark Zone vendors. The Dark Zone is actually pretty interesting. You can either choose to team up with other players to hunt down enemy NPCs and get loot from them, or you can choose to either go solo or team up to kill other players to steal their loot. The only catch is that the loot is infected with a virus so you have to call an extracting helicopter to take your loot from you whilst in The Dark Zone. You are a huge target while waiting for it.
Like previously stated, all grievances and admirations can all be changed in The Division's official release on March 8th. Yet, overall, The Division still hooked me and got me very excited to play it when it finally is released. Some things like not being able to crouch and go prone are borderline unacceptable, but here's hoping that is fixed for it's release. Let's just hope that The Division is worth the long wait from it's 2013 announcement in March 2016.


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Title:CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF INDIAN ENERGY
Authors:Mahesh M.,
Harishma Mohandas, Dr. Girish S.
1Mahesh M.,
1Harishma Mohandas, 2Dr. Girish S.1. Post Graduate Research Scholars, Department of Commerce, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
2. Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
MLA 8 M., Mahesh, et al. "CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF INDIAN ENERGY SECTOR COMPANIES - A STUDY ON CSR ACTIVITIES OF SELECTED INDIAN ENERGY SECTOR COMPANIES." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 4, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 380-395, ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=31. Accessed Jan. 2019.
APA M., M., Mohandas, H., & S, D. (2019, January). CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF INDIAN ENERGY SECTOR COMPANIES - A STUDY ON CSR ACTIVITIES OF SELECTED INDIAN ENERGY SECTOR COMPANIES. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 4(1), 380-395. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=31
Chicago M., Mahesh, Harishma Mohandas, and Dr. Girish S. "CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF INDIAN ENERGY SECTOR COMPANIES - A STUDY ON CSR ACTIVITIES OF SELECTED INDIAN ENERGY SECTOR COMPANIES." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 4, no. 1 (January 2019), 380-395. Accessed January, 2019. ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=31.
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. Screenplay by David Koepp; story by Jeff Nathanson, George Lucas; based on characters created by George Lucas, Philip Kaufman. Produced by Frank Marshall. Music by John Williams. Photographed by Janusz Kaminski. Edited by Michael Kahn. Production designed by Guy Hendrix Dias. Starring Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Igor Jijikine.
The problem isn't the fridge.
Whoops. I started in the middle of things. Well, that's okay, because just like in the proudest tradition of its series and adventure serials, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull starts in the middle of things, as Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) runs afoul of some nasty Russian spies. Indy escapes captivity and makes his way to a suburban town that he discovers is actually a facsimile of a suburban town, one that has been set up as part of a nuclear blast test. A countdown begins. At the last moment, Indy climbs inside a refrigerator (lead-lined), and then holds tight as the ensuing nuclear blast sends the fridge (and Indy) barreling through the sky, depositing him miles away in the desert sands. He stumbles out of the refrigerator, having survived. When the film was released in 2008, numerous fans seized on this sequence as the moment that Indiana Jones "jumped the shark." Or "nuked the fridge," as the meme went, regrettably.
Now let us pause for a moment to acknowledge the improbability of such a chain of events. Let us agree that Indiana Jones, now in his 60s, would probably be dead or lethally poisoned by this adventure, to say nothing of the fact that his fission-powered fridge ride through the desert air probably would have broken every bone in his body on impact. But I ask you: so what? Is this any more ridiculous than Indy being thrown out of a truck and finding his way back in, or surviving for miles while outside a submarine? (Raiders of the Lost Ark [1981]) Is this any more implausible than a mine car that runs above boiling lava and can negotiate huge gaps? (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom [1984]) Or a stone bridge over a chasm that's painted to perfectly align with the perspective of a thousand-foot drop? (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade [1989]). We don't go to an Indiana Jones movie, or any adventure film, to see realism. We go to see astonishing sights, crazy stunts, and outrageous set pieces. Just don't insult us, and we'll want to believe.
As I said, the problem is not the fridge. The real issue is that after that elaborate opening sequence, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has no clue where to go or how to top itself; the movie is regrettably front-loaded. It latches onto a neat gimmick: moving the series forward in time to the 1950's, and updating its formula to now be a pastiche of Cold War-era sci-fi movies. It comes up with a cracking MacGuffin: the eponymous crystal skulls, which are ostensibly humanoid but are so odd-looking that they defy Darwinian thought as we know it. And then, at first, the movie teases us with the possibilities. Could they be alien in design? We get our answer early. Yes, they are. And what does that revelation build towards? Not very much. The movie is so tickled by the conceit of introducing aliens into the Indiana Jones universe that it never arrives at a satisfactory payoff. The aliens are hinted at, then they appear, take care of some plot business, and leave. It's a big "so what?"
The sense of discovery that thrummed through the earlier installments has vanished. It was getting pretty weary by the time of Last Crusade, in which it wasn't enough for the climax to end with the discovery of the Holy Grail—there had to be the life of a beloved character hanging in the balance. But here the wonder is just flat-out gone, perhaps because the earlier films were buoyed by an overall reverence for differing theologies that segments of the world hold pretty seriously. But there's a big difference between the Bible and Chariots of the Gods. Crystal Skull's central conceit isn't a thriving religion at all but instead a cracked-out conspiracy theory that has a low opinion of human beings in general, as it posits that we're too stupid to have built the wonders of the world; clearly aliens did it for us. It's not life-affirming, and it's not much fun to be led there, especially since Crystal Skull chooses the path of least resonance for all of its sci-fi gobbledygook.
These issues, however, are symptoms of a greater problem. The major concern with Crystal Skull is not that it is off-model compared to its predecessors; at a nineteen-year remove from the others and existing in a different decade with its own myths, I'm not interested in an Indiana Jones movie that is a formulaic rehash of Raiders. If Steven Spielberg and George Lucas want to reenvision their character for the 21st century (informed now by the 50's rather than the 30's), then they are welcome to. In for a penny, in for a pound.
What's centrally missing from Crystal Skull, however, is a protagonist who cares a whit about the adventure that he's on. As played by Ford, Indiana Jones is now so grizzled and weathered that he's literally seen it all and isn't surprised by anything, not even, say, finding a secret chamber inside a Mayan pyramid where alien skeletons stand guard. The screenplay (by David Koepp, based on a story by Jeff Nathanson and Lucas) makes jokes, most of them unfunny, about the fact that Indy is past his prime as an action hero, and you can sense the writers reflexively agreeing with critics who might suggest that Ford is—gasp—too old for the role. But the script over-acknowledges this by delivering an Indy who is so jaded and wise that he's never allowed to be wrong, even when he is. Example: Indy is "skeptical" about the whole skull thing, but the movie doesn't even take joy in knocking Jones down a peg when the alien theory turns out to be genuine. In fact, Indy isn't really given a reaction to play at all. Also missing is the traditional moment where Indy looks on in wonder at an artifact; instead, Indy just doesn't seem to care. Why should we?
Ford's performance as Jones has two modes in Crystal Skull: sour and affable. The former is the gruff, no-nonsense Ford performance that has now settled on him like a soup skin, so much so that it permeates interviews and public appearances. He generally looks uncomfortable, wishing he were somewhere else. He'll make sarcastic jabs from underneath his growl, like Clint Eastwood, but there's wit and soul underneath a typical Eastwood performance, while Ford is just surly. As for affability, it feels like phony shtick, lacking the warmth and dryness that made his performance in Raiders so infectious. So desperate is Skull to recapture the Raiders magic that it even brings back Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), under convoluted means, and his reaction to seeing her, after years, is the rare time that Ford looks like he's playing Indiana Jones. The rest is the kind of stuff that Ford could pull off in his sleep (and has). No one really works up much of a sweat in this movie, which for an adventure film is pretty unforgivable.
The emotional crux of the film is meant to rest upon the relationship of Indy, Marion, and Mutt (Shia Le Beouf), a James-Dean wannabe. The only thing this arc has to do with the crystal skull subplot is the fact that both have twists that are obvious to any and every viewer. It's clear that Mutt's true identity is a mystery, which makes it inevitable who he really is, and once that stuff happens, the movie settles into alternating scenes of bickering and bonding, made more complicated and dull by the presence of Marion and an unwieldy supporting cast (John Hurt shows up and embarrasses himself as a Ben Gunn figure, Ray Winstone plays a mercenary who keeps changing sides as if we're supposed to care to keep score, etc). The screenplay breaks with the formula of Indiana Jones being a roguish loner and gives him a whole family to tow along for the adventure, but that's not a problem. That the script doesn't really know what to do with these characters is, however, a problem. Let's not even mention the bright ideas that don't even go anywhere like Indy falling under FBI suspicion.
The villain is a Russian colonel, Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett with a sub-Natasha accent). She's really a villain in name only; she does point guns at Jones and orders soldiers to find him, and she wants to find the crystal kingdom, has a hand in Soviet psychic experiments, blah blah blah. But she doesn't seem evil or pose much of a threat, especially since when she does take action, the film shifts into busy CGI action sequences that play like video games. She brandishes a rapier solely so she can set up a duel with Mutt atop parallel trucks tumbling through a jungle road, shortly before Mutt is whacked in the crotch by plants while monkeys attack Spalko. Both characters (and Marion, driving one of the trucks), seem mildly (mildly) concerned about all of this. Doesn't it defeat the purpose of a big action scene if the characters can't be bothered to be actually thrilled by events?
It's at this point that we may ask if Spielberg and Lucas ever truly understood their own success with Raiders of the Lost Ark. That movie had tons of humor, but it was painted on with a gentle touch. After the darker-in-tone second installment, all stops were pulled to lighten up the series, and here we get the ultimate conclusion of that philosophy: the film is self-consciously jokey, and many of the jokes are killed by bad writing, bad delivery, or bad direction. Spielberg once had a gift for humor, a gift that has consequently left him as he's matured as a filmmaker. The result here is something that tries for the middle-brow entertainment value of a Brendan Frasier-era Mummy movie, and it doesn't succeed.
One of the worst things you can do when doing comedy is to underline a joke, and the absolute worst thing you can do is explain a joke. Crystal Skull does both, often. In an early moment, Indy asks some unfriendly troops for a compass: "You know, north, south, east…" Mac, still under the guise of a friendly, helpfully adds "west…" Indy gives a rueful smile, as if that was really funny, when of course it wasn't. Or how about when two KGB agents match Mutt's challenge to a knife fight by brandishing pistols, and Indy quotes the Untouchables line about knives and gunfights. Because telling the joke visually (as is done moments before) is certainly not the province of, say, a motion picture. Perhaps the worst gag in the movie is where a whirlwind chase through Indy's college campus is punctuated by a student who asks a question mere moments after he was nearly run over by a sliding motorcycle but inexplicably failed to move out of the way. This set-up and pay-off isn't funny, because humor typically comes from specificity and understanding, not from contriving a sequence where the people in it do things that doesn't remotely resemble human behavior. Then again, how much literacy can you expect from a screenplay with this climactic line: "Their treasure was knowledge. Knowledge was their treasure." Yikes.
The film is a hodgepodge of lazy technical credits. A Jones film can typically be counted on for superior craftsmanship, but here the production design is chintzy and cheesy; the earlier films used a lot of sets and you couldn't necessarily tell, whereas here you can't think of anything else. The film looks cheap, having used a lot of green screen to approximate places rather than going on location, and the shortcuts show. It's not helped by the harsh lighting of DP Janusz Kaminski (a Spielberg collaborator since Schindler's List). Kaminski steps away from the beautiful work that Douglas Slocombe did on the original trilogy, going for garish, overexposed shots that abuse his fondness for backlighting. His style, so artificial, is not welcome in an Indiana Jones movie. Even less inspired is John Williams' score, which recycles the classic "Raiders March," recalls a few brass rhythms and wind flourishes from earlier, better Williams scores, and then calls it a day.
There are things I like in Crystal Skull. I like how the Russians make serviceable bad guys; maybe not as evil as Nazis, but in a pinch, they'll do. I especially enjoy how, when they make camp, two jokers start dancing, because of course they do. They're Russian. (That kind of goofy stereotyping is part of the fun.) I like the shot where Blanchett, holding the skull like a baby, smirks at Indy while standing in a jeep, smiling as she makes a bumpy getaway. And I like how the movie takes pains to preserve the careful iconography of Indy's hat. And there are other things. The movie's not awful. Just deeply flawed.
Much of the blame for Crystal Skull has been shuttled to George Lucas, who conceived the story and then valiantly fought for it for years against Ford and Spielberg, who act as joint guardians for the character. And yes, Lucas' fingerprints are all over this mess. But Spielberg isn't blameless. As one of cinema's most populist directors, his career has reached a point where he alternates between mature, thoughtful dramas of varying quality (Munich, War Horse) and blockbusters that suffer severe identity crises (Minority Report, War of the Worlds, or the depressingly mercenary The Lost World: Jurassic Park). Spielberg made his mark as a director of supremely successful entertainments, but his attempts to recapture his youth after pointedly leaving it behind in Schindler's List have been unfruitful, and have only proved that he doesn't have it in him to make this kind of movie anymore (see also last year's Tin Tin, which also had an adventure without stakes and a tin ear for comedy).
I don't begrudge Spielberg for growing up. I just wish he would leave that sensibility out of Indiana Jones. He tries to give Crystal Skull depth by playing up the family elements, but this franchise has always had knowingly shallow character development, and his attempts to add frivolous weight and phony legitimacy have only made the whole enterprise schizophrenic. What should end at emotional catharsis ends with dramatic white noise, because the whole thing is just unforgivably trite. I just don't think Steven Spielberg believes in escapism anymore, and yet he just can't get away from telling stories about escapism. There's an irony buried in there, but it would take an Indiana Jones to dig it up. No, the young Indiana Jones. Or older Indiana Jones. Whatever.
NOTES: Michael Kahn's editing is fine, except there's one really weird moment in the beginning where he spoils what's supposed to be a shocking reveal through careless shot selection. Pay attention during one key moment to who is pointing a gun at whom.


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How to Design and Craft a Killer Author Bio Readers Will Love
To many, author bios are an afterthought. An easy way to give some significance to the creator of a certain piece of content—nothing more, nothing less.
Pushing forward to an age of authority and authenticity, it would seem that author bio features must have some importance past mere vanity. In fact, CodeinWP made sure to add prominence to theirs in order to fix a major SEO issue. In a transparency report where they reveal that a mix of issues (including host reverse proxy, no-indexing on content, and problematic affiliate links) culminated in a major SEO penalty that led to a loss of 50% of their business overnight.
It's weird to think about published content that lacks an author bio of some sort. You might even go as far as to say that an article lacking any information besides the author's name feels just a bit sketchy.
Adding detailed author bios wasn't the singular reason for CodeinWP eventually fixing their recent major SEO issues, but it's interesting to note the fact that they even played a role. Google's search engine spiders may not be human, but they're working to figure out exactly what humans respond best to on the internet.
As such, the human user experience lies at the center of almost every major new Google initiative: Mobile-first search, Google AMP, and even their newest super tool: Google Optimize. It seems to make sense that they'd preferentially index pages attributed to authors who contribute authority and authenticity by putting a face behind each topic.
At the absolute minimum, an author bio feature has to communicate the article writer's name. But the best author bio features add a layer or two of context to the person behind the article. Besides a name, the best author bios share elements that include things like:
- The person's title
- The person's credentials, like high-quality publications they write for, or huge projects they successfully launched
- The person's interests and relationship to the industry represented on the blog
- A link to their home online
- A link to relevant social profiles
A byline is considered a perk when it comes to writing. Most authors charge more per word to take it off (also known as ghostwriting). Conversely, most authors are actually willing to charge less for the ability to write under their own name for your blog. The more attention you give to the byline, the better quality writer you'll attract. This is especially true if your blog offers guest blogging opportunities that don't necessarily pay but provide the author with an opportunity to promote themselves and their business.
Working with a well-known writer in your industry is a win-win for both parties: you benefit from exposure to their audience and association with them, they benefit from the ability to make money doing what they love, and to be recognized for it. Many writers have a passion project they're working on in addition to writing, and building an audience is important for that passion project to really take off.
Knowing all of these nuances when it comes to working with writers, it becomes easier to understand the importance in providing a prominent author bio for the people you hire to write articles for your website. So, if you've decided to add more visual interest to the author bios on your multi-author WordPress site, the next step is to choose the right design to showcase them properly.
How to Make Your Author Bio Look Good
Your existing WordPress theme will help to define the style of your author bio feature, but you can also customize elements within the plugin settings, or with a bit of custom code.
While you're in the process of designing your author bio feature, consider the following:
Author Bio Features You Should Include
The design of your author bio feature will be in some way a function of the contents within. Here are a number of elements to consider for satisfying your writers and readers:
- Headshot: A custom upload or an image pulled from Gravatar. Gravatar is a WordPress.com project that shows a picture of you that shows up on any blog you write for when it's enabled. In order to use Gravatar, the email on the connected blog has to match the email on your Gravatar account.
- Social Links: Social icons with a consistent color scheme (as in, all one color) look especially daft. If you decide to allow authors to share only 1 or 2 social links, make sure to first survey your team to see which ones are the most common/important to your writers.
- Backlink: A link back to an author's website that specifically provides SEO benefits in terms of passing on the authority of the referring domain (no-follow links can't offer these benefits).
- Short Bio: A place for readers to get to know the author. As a best practice, let the author draft this and let them know if any changes need to be made so they're aware of them before article publication.
Two additional features to consider:
Allow Contributors to Edit Their Own Bios
Trust writers enough to not use this special perk to harm your website, or do something weird. Writers appreciate the opportunity to refresh their bio as they take on new projects or explore new niches, but hate having to bug the editor to make these changes. If necessary, provide guidelines regarding what's allowed, and what won't be tolerated.
Incorporate a Sidebar Display in the Design
An author bio feature typically occurs at the bottom of a post, or potentially at the top. But if your blog pages have a sidebar, offer the added perk of the author bio repeated there. Authors will appreciate this additional exposure opportunity, and readers will have easier access to information about the author as they read. Meks Smart Author Widget makes it easy to implement this functionality on a multi-author WordPress website.
Once you've decided what you want to include in your author bio feature, consider the following design trends before actually building your author boxes:
Author Bio Design Trends
Author bios are an interesting study in term of design. Most online publications don't give them the attention that they deserve, so the following design trends can help you to give them the respect they're craving:
- Author Page Feature: Most author pages just link to an archive of posts written by that author. A step up from that is an author page that also displays that person's bio, as well. But the best of the best author pages provide a nice showcase and add additional context to the author, separate of the author bio and their post archives. Search Engine Journal provides a nice example of this latter mentioned type of author page.
- Circular Avatar Images: These make almost any picture somehow look more interesting, and they stand out more than the standard square design. They also help to standardize your author bios.
- Focus on Twitter: Even if it means forgoing other social media icons. Twitter is considered as one of the best platforms for writers building their audience and will help drive readers to the most appropriate outlet to keep up with their favorite authors.
- Social media icons with a specific color theme: As mentioned above, a consistent color scheme helps to standardize your author bios, and adds some design flair past just using each social network's standard associated colors.
- Total Minimalism: If the outlet has a bigger presence than its writers, it's fair to adopt a completely minimalistic design to focus on the content. Sprout Social incorporates this type of author bio feature on their blog, though they also draw more attention to it on each person's author page.
Before you eventually decide on an author bio design, you'll want to first decide upon a plugin to assist your efforts in displaying your author bios.
Author Bio Plugin Recommendations
You could certainly custom code your own author bio plugin, but why bother before giving these tried and tested options a chance?
As mentioned earlier, some plugins have widgets that allow you to display the current author of an article's bio in the sidebar. In case you forgot or completely skipped that section, that plugin is the Meks Smart Author Widget.
Every WordPress installation comes out of the box with a basic area on the WordPress dashboard for managing each user's information. An author box plugin essentially adds additional fields on top of the ones collecting information under the user area in the dashboard, while also making it easy to format this information in a more aesthetically pleasing way.
Here are some of the top author box plugins on the market as of this article being published:
Starbox offers a fairly functional free version, with many customizable fields to add author information. The number and nature of these fields are limited in the free version, but you have complete control and numerous options to choose from when you buy the premium version of the plugin, which costs $39.99, as a one time purchase. The premium plugin also offers a number of themes to choose from, incorporating HTML5.
Simple Author Box
Simple Author Box lives up to its name in that it allows you to create a beautiful minimalistic design without having to break into the code. The free version incorporates mobile responsiveness and is fully customizable to match your existing theme design.
Sexy Author Bio
Sexy Author Bio supports single and multiple authors (more on that in a minute). It's a sexy looking plugin with multiple sets of social icons to choose from, mobile-responsiveness, and lots of social networks supported.
Co-Authors Plus
Co-Authors Plus isn't an author bio feature in that it helps to define the design and structure of this page element. Instead, the plugin makes it simple to credit more than one person for the creation of an article. As such, this plugin is great for an article with two or more authors, giving both equal credit for their contributions. Another interesting feature is the ability to add bylines without having to create a user account for each author.
Designing a Sexy Author Bio Feature
When it comes to designing an author bio, make sure to:
- Keep the article's author and readers satisfied by choosing specific design elements
- Consider up and coming trends to make your author bios really stand out
- Incorporate elements of your company's branding (like color choice) to bring it back to your publication


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No matter in which gym you train there are always some guys that are always bulked up.(kinda fat but still muscular)
These guys have been talking about cutting for years but never seem to manage to lose those pounds of fat.
They just end up being what we call "forever bulkers".
The only thing they are concerned with is building mass and if they try to cut they fail miserably.
Why is that?
Why is it so hard for some guys to lose fat and get that shredded physique?
They may have a lot of muscle mass but the fat is ruining their physique and many of them WANT TO lose that fat and reveal their six pack abs.
They just don't know how to.
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The Reasons Why Some Guys Cannot Lose Weight
Not staying on their diet long enough
One of the most crucial challenge we face when cutting fat is staying on our diet long enough to get results.
We have to trust our diet and the process it takes to drop fat.
It may take up to 3 months of hard work to get six pack abs! (If you started out fat)
Many guys give up after 2-3 weeks of hardcore dieting and that's why they never see results.
You have to eat at a calorie deficit for a consistent period of time to lose fat.
This is especially true if you are starting your cut out fat!
Their Testosterone levels are low
Fat guys have lower testosterone levels than lean guys.
Fat suppresses natural testosterone production and as you may know testosterone is responsible for how we store fat.
So if we have low testosterone levels our body stores more fat on our stomach and thighs.
That's why it's always a good idea to never take your bulk to the extremes and get too fat.
You can reverse this process by losing weight and your natural testosterone production will increase again.
You can also use ingredients that naturally boost testosterone production.
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Many guys have a slow metabolic rate.
This means that they burn fewer calories than someone who has a high metabolic rate.
We can increase our metabolism by building muscle, exercising and using certain supplements.
A great way to kickstart our metabolism is to lift in the morning and do some cardio post lifting.
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Losing fat requires discipline, consistency and hard work.
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Author: Helen Silverwood ⓒ 2008-19
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Well here we are at the wedding,
Of Simon my oldest best mate;
He's marrying the woman of his dreams,
A wonderful lady called Kate!
I was with him when he first set eyes on her,
One morning on a helicopter flight;
He spotted this vision hanging out washing,
And swooped in for a closer sight!
He said "There's the woman I'm going to marry",
Then we landed in a field close by;
He sheepishly sidled over to her,
Saying "How do you do, I'm Si"!
He asked her out on a romantic date,
Why she said yes is a mystery!
But she met him that night and they hit it off,
The rest, as they say, is history!
I was so sure that Si would never get married,
It's great to see them in domestic bliss;
But there 's just one thing I'm unhappy about,
Now he hardly ever comes out on the piss!
I remember when we were younger,
Given a choice between diy,
And going out on the lash with me,
It was "Hammers and screws, bye bye"!
But many do-it-yourself jobs later,
He's well under the thumb now is Si;
He prefers to be at home in his slippers,
Look at Kate and it's obvious why!
It's hard to believe she's married him,
When I know she's seen him at his worst;
They're absolutely perfect for each other,
But I so wish that I had seen her first!
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When Mahalia's Corner opens its seventh season this weekend, it will be a season unlike any other.
The five-week show, produced by 2 Mile Hill's Nexworld productions, will feature a stellar lineup, including Biggie Irie, Marzville, Nikita, Lil Rick and, for the first time, Trinidadian soca artiste Patrice Roberts who will headline the season finale on October 15.
Lil Rick will open this season on Sunday, September 17 at 8 p.m. at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. He debuted at Mahalia's Corner last year to a sold-out show.
The highly popular Mahalia's Corner provides a platform for new talent as well as showcases seasoned performers in a different light.
Each show also features a performance by 2 Mile Hill, an open mic session for anyone brave enough to sign up on the night of the show, and a Spotlight Artiste segment where the audience is surprised with an up-and-coming local artiste.
2 Mile Hill's front woman, Mahalia said she's excited about the growth of the show over the years.
"I believe that there's a welcoming energy that the Corner brings that's a big part of it; a reassuring feeling that you will discover something new and leave satisfied," she explained.
With regard to this year, Mahalia told fans to expect great things.
"Expect a bit of everything this year – nostalgia, discovery and just all round good vibes. This season is special. We're marking a first – our first regional featured artist, Patrice Roberts, who is an immense talent and has so much to share," she added.
An impressive range of artistes, including Edwin Yearwood, Livvi Franc, Jaicko, Hal Linton, Alison Hinds, Marvay,Nikita, Biggie Irie, Buggy Nhakente, and Tamara Marshall have graced the stage of Mahalia's Corner in the past.


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May 10th, 2011 7:03 AM by Lehel S.
Dear Liz: About two years ago, I bought a new car but was lied to about how much it would cost. After a year I simply could not afford the car and could not refinance as I was incredibly upside-down. The auto lender wasn't willing to help, so I did a voluntary repossession. Nissan came after me for the balance remaining after auction but eventually wrote it off as a bad debt (this shows on my credit report). The debt has been sold twice to collection companies that call me on my cellphone and at work but don't leave messages. I can see they're checking my credit but they haven't reported the debt on my credit report. Is this legal? I feel if Nissan wrote the debt off (and I am suffering from that via credit reporting), there should no longer be debt to collect.
Answer: When a lender charges off a bad debt, the debt itself doesn't disappear. The lender is simply declaring that it doesn't think it will be able to collect. The debt can be sold to collection agencies, which can post the collection account on your credit reports.
The charge-off is what typically does the most damage to your credit scores, although the collection accounts increase the toll.
There are limits to how long creditors can pursue you in court over debts. The limits vary according to each state's statute of limitations. There is also a limit on how long bad debts can show up on your credit reports (typically seven years and 180 days from when the account first went delinquent).
But debts only disappear when you pay them or have them legally erased in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
One of the things you should learn from this experience is not to trust a lender to tell you how much you can afford to borrow. The other is that you should always arrange financing in advance before you venture onto a car dealership lot. If the dealership can beat the deal you get from your bank or credit union, great. Otherwise, you've got financing you know you can afford.


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Oscar Gamble rocketed 2 homeruns and had 4 RBI and Chris Knapp tossed a complete game as the Chicago White Sox beat the hopeless Toronto Blue Jays by a score of 10 to 2.
Gamble helped send the fans home happy. He lofted a three-run 'big-fly' in the 3rd inning, doubled in the 5th inning and smashed a bases-empty 'big-fly' in the 7th inning. Chicago totaled 15 hits on the afternoon.
The winning pitcher was Knapp(4-6) who allowed 2 runs for the game. Bill Singer(2-7) was given the loss. He allowed a few too many baserunners giving up 9 hits and 3 walks in 4 and 2/3 innings.
With this win, Chicago has a 47-38 record. They have been 4-6 lately. Still in a bad slump, with this loss, Toronto is 2-8 lately and 27-59, worst in the division on the year.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
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Written by Julie Kelly
Oct. 27, 2014
I was asked recently about the types of kitchen tools I use. Pots, pans, electrics, the whole lot. At first, I blushed because I really don't use anything fancy or exotic. Why would anyone want to do what I do? Then I realized, it's probably really important to share what I do for EXACTLY that reason. I truly believe cooking should be something everyone learns how to do. It shouldn't be elitist, daunting or intimidating. Accessibility is key. By giving you a peek into my real-life kitchen, you'll see that it doesn't have to be glamourous, new, expensive or staged, to get the job done.
I approach the kitchen as a 'cook first, blogger second.' I live my real life and try really hard to capture as much of it as possible to share with you as content. I love food photography, but more-so for the food and less for the photography. I don't use props and rarely use filters, edits, or retakes on my photos (I'm sure you can tell!). It is a rare day when I can cook just for the blog and take pictures with something other than my phone. No time for fancy.
I generally feel the same way about kitchen gadgets. I used to think I needed the latest and greatest "thing" for each little task in the kitchen. I get the obsession, really I do! I have a similar affinity for office supplies. Someday I hope to have a chance to design my perfect kitchen with all the trappings. But the truth is, you can get away with doing almost everything in the kitchen with very few tools. This has become even more clear to me as we have traveled more and more in our little Eurovan. Efficiency is key.
So in an effort to pull back the curtain on what I do, here is a tour of my tiny kitchen. It's not organized the way my former Type-A self would like it to be. Let's face it, I have a toddler who likes to open cabinets, drawers, and anything that's not bolted shut. Unlike our last house, this kitchen is also not super modern. I don't have a gas stove. I don't have granite or marble. Even though it's a rented house, and maybe not my dream kitchen, I still manage to make nourishing, beautiful and delicious food here EVERYDAY. I hope this makes this whole thing of preparing real food more approachable and inspiring!
My Work Space: 1) Stuff I don't need that frequently plus some of the tools that aren't pictured here, but I wouldn't want to be without, including my FoodSaver and my Paderno Spiralizer. 2) Spices, salts and my stash of coconut milk. 3) Oils and vinegars, I love this one and this one. 4) Where I keep my glass bakeware and some extra serving pieces that don't get a ton of use. 5) My main work corner. I keep my cutting board out here all the time and I have a few things at the ready on the countertop all the time. Like butter, salt, pepper, olive oil, and my citrus press. 6) We don't use the bar for seating. It's my standing work station, where we keep our blood glucose monitor and ketonix for measuring ketones, and our day to day junk like keys and wallets, and overflow squash. 8) My main cupboard for dishware, mason jars, glasses, and serving pieces. 9) Non-breakables like pots and pans, sturdy glass storage containers, lids, kitchen gadgets. Things Ivy loves to reorganize while I cook. 10) The inside of #8. 11) My most favorite work bowls that I got from my mom and inherited from my Great-Grandmother.
My Go-to Tools: 1) This is a new pan, but I have used primarily one main pan for all my cooking since I started living with my husband. His ruthless efficiency in the kitchen used to annoy me, but it's rubbed off on me in a lot of good ways. We like the ceramic non-stick, non-toxic variety of cookware. 2) Trusty fat separator that we use when we make bone broth. 3) My braiser or dutch oven. I love this thing and cannot wait until I can afford to buy a bigger one. This one is a generic brand from Costco that I got as a gift and it works great. I'm lusting after this one. 4) The other brand of cookware we have. I have the small, large, stock, and sauce pan. 5) Meat thermometer. An instant read electric one would be nice, but this one works well and was really cheap at the market. 6) My favorite monkey peeler! This was my husbands before we met, but I have grown to love it. 7) I've had this microplane since college and it's held up so well. I use it all the time to zest citrus, make fine chocolate shavings, and all sorts of other things. 8) I have several types of tongs in different shapes and sizes because I use them so much. 9) I hate this spatula but I keep using it because I have it and keep forgetting to get a more reasonably sized one. Another this my husband ordered on Amazon without considering the size. 10) This is actually a dough scraper for making bread. I however use it for scooping and chopping herbs, clening up my cutting board, and also cleaning up spills. I love this thing. 11) Kitchen shears are so necessary. Get two because one is always in the dishwasher.
Electrics: 1) Our newest gadget, the Blendtec Blender Can't say anything bad about it. Great addition. 2) Another great blender that I inherited from my mom when she got her Vitamix. Great for making Paleo mayo! 3) My all time favorite food processor It is well loved and used weekly. 4) One of my longest owned kitchen tools. My mini-food processor 5) My beloved pressure cooker. A gift from a dear friend. I'm considering purchasing another one to replace #6. 6) Slow cooker. I like this one, but I'm just not a huge slow cooker fan, especially now that I know the ways of the pressure cooker.
Knives: 1&2) These knives are ridiculously wonderful. Hammer Stahl. I seriously have the best friends ever, what a great gift! I'm still getting used to how great they are, but I can quickly see that the little Santoku is going to be a favorite. You really have to develop a relationship with a knife over time. Get to know it's quirks and strengths. My husband is banned from using the large Chef's knife after his first attempt to use it resulted in five stitches. 3) This Wusthof is a great all purpose knife. I love the weight of it and the rounded end means less chance of serious injury.
See anything that blew your mind? I didn't think so. Get creative with what you've got, get comfortable in your space, and get cooking!


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The news comes days after ISIS admitted its 45-year-old leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in an air strike in the Iraqi province of Nineveh.
Sayed was killed "in a strike on the group's headquarters in Kunar Province on July 11.
Defense Secretary James Mattis told reporters on Friday that Sayed's death was a "victory on the [American] side in terms of setting them [ISIS] back."
"Significance is, you kill a leader of one of these groups and it sets them back for a day, a week, a month, depending on who it is, what kind of people are below them…[This] is the right direction," Mattis said.
ISIS chose Abu Sayed to lead the group as its "third emir" after U.S. and Afghan forces killed previous two emirs, Hafiz Sayed Khan in late July 2016 and Abdul Hasib in late April.


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"Vagina Monologues" open eyes to worldwide abuse
As socially aware as I thought I was, for the first time in my life I was introduced to the global horrors of violence against females. For instance, many African tribes practice female genital mutilation.
Geraldo takes a shot at the sniper in Hooters
Nothing says reverence for the dead like an ice-cold pitcher of brew, wings, a Sharpie and some sweet, young coed's orange-attired moneymaker.
Beat that nasty hangover
Anyway you cut it, Vaquero's offers a cheap, tasty late-night treat and the option of keeping your head out of the toilet after a night of binge-drinking.
Political Cartoon: Iraqi war
Political cartoon by John West
Mall Rants: Brian Buck
ASU students rant on the recent Brian Buck media blitz.
Hall of Fame: Pentland helped lay foundation
Former starting pitcher Jeff Pentland, who captured a national championship as a member of the 1967 Sun Devils, will be one of the 12 people inducted into the ASU's athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 26.
Football: Devils get national attention, help for recruiting
Junior wide receiver Shaun McDonald and junior defensive end Terrell Suggs have put up numbers this season that would surely make anyone blush.
Hoops: Sun Devils have more depth than before
It looks as if the ASU men's basketball team will not have a distinct go-to player. But what head coach Rob Evans can count on is the luxury of having more depth than in his previous four years at the helm.
Volleyball: Seven teams still alive in Pac-10 race
Seven Pac-10 volleyball teams are within two wins of each other, meaning this weekend's matches are sure to keep the competition tight.
Pre-law students meet with schools from across country
ASU's annual Pre-Law Day welcomed 106 law schools from around the nation to the Arizona Room of the Memorial Union today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Police Beat: Woman agrees to oral sex for $20
The incidents that Tempe police reported for Wednesday, including one in which a 43-year-old prostitute was arrested for agreeing to perform oral sex on a man for $20.
Student group works to end world hunger
Sharon Madson wanted to shine light on hunger and poverty issues not often addressed on ASU East campus and many others. As a result, the ASU East agribusiness graduate student organized "World Food Day."
ASASU proposes new constitution
A porn scandal and accusations of harassment have impeded recent decision-making among the members of Associated Students of ASU. However, gears may change after Oct. 21 - 22 when students will be able to vote whether to approve or reject the new constitution to change the structure of the government.
Students detached from ASASU
Many ASU students think a new Associated Students of ASU constitution makes sense but are still uninformed and apathetic about the student government in general.
Carnies come clean
The carnie stereotype is embedded in America's history. Empty stares and name-calling are just a part of life for a carnie. However, carnival companies are trying to turn the industry around and create a new image.
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World-famous violinist plays to ASU audience
The ASU School of Music welcomes world-famous violinist Sergui Luca as special guest and soloist at the ASU Chamber Orchestra and Choral Union concert tonight.
Peep show
Cole Robertson thinks that voyeurism is a beautiful thing. To prove it, the 23-year-old photography senior has titled his current exhibit at ASU's Step Gallery, peeps.
Secrets of the 'Heart'
Trying to get inside the head of Tobias Nathaniel is analogous with deciphering meaning from the name of his band, The Black Heart Procession.
Ablaze with Oktober
We decided to give Oktober its 15 minutes of fame to preview its performance today on Hayden Lawn as part of The Blaze's 20th Anniversary show.
Peter Gabriel's Up
Fans who only dig Peter Gabriel's pop hits, such as "Sledgehammer," "Solsbury Hill," or the ethereal "In Your Eyes," may not find much to like on the artist's 12th album, Up.
Kottonmouth Kings's Rollin' Stoned
It's hard to believe that the Kottonmouth Kings, which rocked the music industry with lyrics about fat blunts and legalizing pot, are now singing about peace and love.
Sera's Sera
Sera's self-titled debut album brings the listener on a journey to California Beverly Hills, 90210, to be exact. The lyrics are beyond cheesy.
Burning up
In the garage located next to the Assembly of God Church on Baseline Road, the dreams of five young men, known as Ember Coast, are slowly coming true.
A risk worth taking
Euriska's members now number five, and its music haunts the ASU campus. But the band isn't freshman anymore, and it wants local audiences and venues to know it.
Crap counts
The Arizona State Fair gets a bad rap. Some people think it's a bunch of crap. OK, so maybe the above sentences are true and could very well be entered as a poem at the fair, but who's really being fair to the fair?
Americans got their first glimpse of Stuttering John at a press conference in 1992 when Gennifer Flowers revealed she had sexual relations with then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton.
Poster boys
The members of local band Leo's Invention are on the move. Running around ASU's campus, they have an especially important task if they want to get noticed: fliering.
Shakespeare gets made
William Shakespeare and Francis Ford Coppola bring similar elements to the theater and cinema. Getting kissed, for example, will often be followed by an untimely death.
The Raw Deahl: Fairwell to carnies
I tried my hardest to become a carnie a traveling freak. After all, I was called the "freckle-faced freak" as a child, so I thought I was a shoe-in. And that was coming from my mother.
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Dear Self, I don't know what is going on but you have got to start feeling better. Find a Dr and find a yoga routine by this time next week. MOVE YOUR ASS.
Dear Scott, Thank you for the camera's. I love you very much and appreciate everything you do for me.. for us. Have a great day at work!
Dear Mom, Sorry about Noah. I know its hard but I promise it will be ok. Get your butt working so you can go on the cruise with us!
Dear Brittany, with each passing day, I miss you. I know we are close but I wish I could give you a big hug right now.
Dear Russia, How you got to host the Olympics this year is beyond me. I love your nasty hotels that our athletes are living in. I couldn't go to Russia right now on a bet. The pictures coming from there are horrific and I really feel sorry for everyone having to deal with that. Its just gross and you shouldn't be able to host anything let alone the Olympics.
Dear Trina, So sorry you have to go out and battle that cold weather in the mornings. I wish I could move my feet and have a garage appear! Just drive safe and be careful because we love you.
Dear Jordan, I hope you are doing ok. Don't you miss talking? You have an entire family who loves and misses you.. not to mention who have been waiting for you to come around for years. I guess we'll just keep waiting until you get the courage. You don't have to be scared because we love you. You have not been forgotten.
Dear Dylan Farrow, I believe you about Woody Allen. You don't have that much smoke for there not to be a fire. Just know that no matter how much Hollywood celebrates him, God will have more questions for him one day that he won't be able to lie about. You did the right thing in telling the truth and now maybe you can start to heal.
Dear Jackson, I know something is going on. You know I love you with all my heart and I am here to help. Just talk to me and know that your entire family will always be here for you.
Dear Shanna, Sorry your feeling so bad. Wish we were closer so I could bring you some warm chocolate soup. Feel better!
Dear Hair, You just keep growing. I suppose its worth it to make Scott happy but I wouldn't think twice about cutting you off again.
Dear Philip Seymour Hoffman, I can't imagine how your family is feeling right now. I hope you are at peace on the other side but I have to wonder if you really wanted to to die on that bathroom floor. Some of our decisions lead us to unexpected places and I am pretty sure you are figuring that out right now. I am very sorry your addictions got the best of you. I just hope someway, there comes good from your death. RIP.
Dear Laura, I hope you are doing good. Glad to know that you are trying to work things out and be happy. We worry a lot about you and love you very very much!
Dear Carnival Cruise Lines, We are coming back aboard June 12! Woooooooo-hooooooo!!! Totally excited to get on the big boat and have a week of fun! Husby and I need the vacation!
Dear Art, I am shipping the box off today. Keep a look out for it.
Dear Zane, It looks like its just going to be us this summer. I miss you too and hope you are doing ok. I wish we could talk more but I understand that's beyond your control. I just want you to know that it's ok for you to love more than one person at a time. Hope you liked you card!
Dear Neighbors, I wish I could lock all of you up for a week for abandonment. None of you have a problem throwing out your cats like they are garbage. I am going to broke feeding your shivering hungry cats assholes. You shouldn't treat animals like you do.
Dear Dad, I miss you so much. I wish more than anything that I could see you again. So many talks we had, walks we took together, laughs we giggled together and I miss you so much. Come see me in my dreams.
Dear Bloggy/Youtube Friends, I hope you are all staying warm. I know its been really cold for so many of you. Thank you guys for all the inspiration and love. You guys are seriously some of the best friends a girl could have.
Happy Friday!