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"You can get killed just for living in your American skin." — Bruce Springsteen
On Aug. 7, 1930, two young black men were lynched in Marion, Indiana.
A photographer named Lawrence Beitler had a studio across the street from the lynching tree. He came out and snapped what became an iconic photo, which he made into a postcard and sold. It shows Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith hanging dead and their executioners, faces clearly visible, milling about as if at a picnic. Though authorities possessed this damning photographic evidence, they never arrested anyone for the crime. It was officially attributed to "persons unknown."
This was not a unique thing. To the contrary, it happened thousands of times. And African-Americans carry this knowledge deep, carry it in blood and sinew, the understanding that the justice system has betrayed us often, smashed our hopes often, denied the value of our lives, often.
This knowledge lent a certain tension and poignancy to the wait for a verdict in the Jordan Davis trial last week. Davis was the black kid shot dead by a white man, Michael Dunn, at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, in November 2012 after an argument over loud music. Dunn's story was fishy from the beginning.
He claimed Davis pointed a weapon at him. No weapon was ever found. Nor was Dunn ever able to satisfactorily explain why he fired off a second round of shots as the SUV in which Davis was riding tried to retreat. Or why he left the scene and failed to call police. Or why his fiancée, who was inside the convenience store when the shooting started, says he never mentioned Davis' phantom "gun" to her.
A guilty verdict would seem to have been a foregone conclusion. It wasn't.
Indeed, the verdict was mystifying. Dunn was found guilty on three counts of attempted murder — meaning the three other young men in the SUV with Davis — but the jury deadlocked on the murder charge. It makes no sense: If Dunn is guilty of the three charges, how can he not be guilty of the fourth?
The jury's inability to hold him accountable for Davis' death only validates African-Americans' grimmest misgivings about the "just us" system. Brittney Cooper, an assistant professor at Rutgers University, put it as follows on Twitter: "This is not just about jail time. This is about whether white fear legally means more than black life."
It is an observation pregnant with painful truth, truth that was already old in 1930 when Shipp and Smith were butchered.
Dunn decided Davis was — his word — a "thug" and shot him. And we've seen this movie so many times before. George Zimmerman decided Trayvon Martin was a thug and stalked him. New York police decided Amadou Diallo was a thug and shot him. And so on.
These decisions are made independent of anything a man actually is — or does. They are made on sight, out of the same impulse that finds African-Americans committing a minority of drug crimes but doing, in some jurisdictions, 90 percent of drug time. They are made, in a word, in fear, the unspoken but clear recognition that black boys and men are our national boogeymen — they threaten by existing — and therefore it is … understandable if occasionally one gets shot by accident.
If Davis had been a white kid in an SUV full of same playing their music too loudly, does anyone really think the confrontation with Dunn would have escalated to the point of gunfire? And if for some reason it had, is anyone so naive as to believe the jury would have failed to convict Dunn of murder?
But Dunn, unlike the killers of Shipp and Smith — and Martin and Diallo — is at least going to jail for something, right? Indeed, at 47, he may spend the rest of his life behind bars. And yes, you could call that progress.
But you could call it some other things, too.
(Leonard Pitts is a columnist for The Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla., 33132. Readers may contact him via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.)
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The OTW is pleased to announce the following candidates for the 2021 Election (in alphabetical order by given name):
- Antonius Melisse
- E. Anna Szegedi
- Kari Dayton
- Laure Dauban
Because we have 2 seats to be filled and 4 candidates, the 2021 election will be contested – that is, the members of the OTW will vote on which candidates fill the seats.
The Elections Committee is excited to introduce the candidates to all of the members of the OTW! Included in this post are links to short Bios and Platforms written by the candidates. Information on the voting period and how to vote will also be posted shortly.
In the meantime, there is a timeline of Elections events available here for your reference. Read on to learn more about our candidates and how you can submit questions for them!
Platforms and Bios
We asked each candidate to provide us with a bio that sums up their professional and fannish experience, as well as to write a Platform about their goals for their term on the Board by answering the following questions:
- Why did you decide to run for election to the Board?
- What skills and/or experience would you bring to the Board?
- Choose one or two goals for the OTW that are important to you and that you would be interested in working on during your term. Why do you value these goals? How would you work with others to achieve them?
- What is your experience with the OTW's projects and how would you collaborate with the relevant committees to support and strengthen them? Try to include a range of projects, though feel free to emphasize particular ones you have experience with.
- How would you balance your Board work with other roles in the OTW, or how do you plan to hand over your current roles to focus on Board work?
You can read both the candidates' answers to these questions and their bios by following the links below.
Question & Answer (Q&A)
Candidates will also answer questions from the public. Anyone may submit questions via the Elections form. Please submit all questions by 11:59pm UTC on June 27 (what time is that where I live?). All candidates will answer each question submitted, subject to the following restrictions:
- Questions can be a maximum of 50 words long.
- Questions must not be repeats of questions from the Platforms. This is to allow candidates to spend their time answering new questions.
- Similar questions will be grouped together so candidates don't have to repeat themselves. Elections staff will decide which questions are similar enough to group.
- If you have a follow-up to a Platform question, please specifically mention that it is a follow-up so it isn't treated as a repeat.
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13th May 2013
Stolen from the boys: chestnut-brown brogues
Trench – H&M Trend. Crop-top – American Apparel. Trousers – ASOS. Brogues – Melvin & Hamilton. Bag – Kurt Geiger. Belt – Vintage LV; Thank you Charlie for helping with the shots.
Boy, girl, I don't even know anymore; it's that time of the month and I feel like wearing my husband's trunks as shorts with some 'bro'-gues and a monocle.
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Beyond Freebase and DBpedia
The triumph of generic databases
The computerization of commonsense knowledge goes back at least to Ross Quillian's paper from the 1969 book Semantic Information Processing. Ross used methods that aren't that different from what I use today, but he was able to store just a few hundred concepts in his computer.
The Cyc project, starting in the 1980s contained about 3 million facts. It was successful on it's own terms, but it didn't lead to the revolution in natural language processing that it promised. WordNet, from the same era, documents about 120,000 word senses, but like Cyc, hasn't had a large engineering impact.
DBpedia and Freebase have become popular lately, I think because they're a lot like traditional databases in character. For a person, place or creative work you've got the information necessary to make a 'Pokemon card' about the topic. With languages like SPARQL and MQL it's possible to write queries you'd write in a relational database, so people have an idea what to do with it.
DBpedia and Freebase are much larger than the old commonsense databases. The English Dbpedia contains 4 million topics derived from Wikipedia pages and Freebase contains 24 million facts about 600 million topics. It's hard to quantify it, but subjectively, people feel like Wikipedia contains most of the concepts that turn up when they are reading or thinking about things. Because the new generic databases are about concepts rather than words, they are inherently multilingual.
DBpedia Spotlight is the first of a breed of language processing products that use world knowledge instead of syntactic knowledge. Using a knowledge base created from DBpedia and Wikipedia, Spotlight gets accuracy comparable to commercial named entity recognition systems — although Spotlight uses simple methods and, so far, has made little of the effort a commercial system would to systematically improve accuracy.
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Anybody worried about how Bruno Mars would do on one of the world's largest stages had obviously never seen the young star perform live. That all changed Sunday night when tens of millions got their first chance to see why he's one of the most exciting live acts of his generation.
Mars, 28, took his high-powered live show to Super Bowl halftime, creating what felt like an intimate show in the arena in East Rutherford, N.J., and supersizing it in what has become a defining moment for those who preceded him on the list of halftime performers in the big game.
The Grammy Award-winning singer eliminated any doubters from the second he appeared on screen in a skinny tie and gold jacket almost as dazzling as his smile. He played a deep-groove drum solo while rolling across the field on a raised, motorized platform, then joined his smoking-hot live band for a series of energetically executed hits that were clearly not lip-synced. He then seamlessly integrated the Red Hot Chili Peppers into his set.
"There were a lot of doubters and my man delivered," Fox commentator Howie Long said after the performance.
Hard to disagree. There were no flubs, no negative moments that will live on at the water cooler Monday morning. And while you can argue about the entertainment value of watching shirtless Chili Peppers gambol about the stage, the 50-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famers managed to match Mars' energy in a brief appearance that was no less memorable.
Mars trades in shared memories, taking the best of acts that have come before like the infectiousness of Sting and The Police, or the groove of James Brown, and updating them with lyrics and sounds that capture the freshness of the current moment. He opened by displaying the beauty of his high tenor with the sing-a-long-inviting "Locked Out of Heaven" and "Treasure" before transitioning to "Runaway Baby."
That song, with its Brown-flavored beat, allowed the Hawaiian-born singer to dance in homage to "Soul Brother Number One," complete with an impressive gymnastics-style split as part of his moves. He broke down the band to silence and killed the lights for a moment, allowing the crowd's screams to be heard at home, before transitioning to the Chili Peppers and the funky "Give It Away."
The Chili Peppers, which included singer Anthony Kiedis and bassist Flea sans shirts in temperatures that hovered in the 40s, powered through the song, then joined Mars and his Hooligans in a quick few bars from Black Sabbath.
Mars and his eight-piece band, The Hooligans, were dressed from head-to-toe in custom-made clothes from Saint Laurent by Hedi Slimane.
Fox cut to video segments of soldiers around the world dedicating the next song to loved ones before going back to Mars. He appeared alone on a small stage in the center of the field where he sang the ballad "Just the Way You Are" with the stands full of lights and the sky aflame with the biggest fireworks display in NFL Super Bowl history.
It was a powerful moment and compared favorably to past performances by stars like Prince and Bruce Springsteen.
There was never a dull moment. That's about all you can ask, especially in a game that was full of them.
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Pro Plugin Page | Videos | Demo | User Guide
Organize links and content around categories and present them as a curated collection. These lists are valuable tools for content marketing and knowledge sharing alike.
You can display each curated list on any page or post using a shortcode, and users can easily filter the information by using a live search filter, categories, or tags.
Our plugin's curated lists are simple to customize, work seamlessly with any theme, and are user-friendly for all skill levels.
Support Content Marketing
Our curated list manager plugin is an excellent content marketing tool that enables users to create favorite lists, recommend content lists, or organize knowledge into categories and subcategories.
It is also ideal for building a professional knowledge base of all related articles and links in a specific subject area.
Curated Content Plugin Premium Editions
The Curated List Plugin Premium editions includes even more powerful features, such as: support for multiple lists, advanced list filtering options, thumbs up support, links error automatic check and much more.
Curated Content Plugin Introduction Video
- Content Curation – Build a curated list of articles and links on your site
- Knowledge Base – Build a small knowledge base arranging information by categories and subcategories
- Reading List – Prepare a reading list available for students
- ToDo List – Prepare a todo list with checkbox to mark what was already done
Basic Features
- Create a list with any number of categories and subcategories
- Add as many links to a given category
- Use a shortcode to display list on any page or post
- Each link can have a favicon
Pro Version Features
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- Create multiple lists – User can create multiple lists and place them anywhere on page or posts on site.
- Added tags support – tags are placed near links with background color and user can filter list by tags. User can set color for each tag.
- Add fast filtering support – user can filter list by text, categories or tags. All relevant links will be shown.
- Add category background color – User can choose to set a background color for each category.
- Styling options – User can define several options for look and feel of the list such as tooltip colors, remove elements from list and more.
- Last update date – For each list show last update date.
Number of items included in list – Foreach list show the number of items included in list.- Ordering options – Order categories within each list and links within each category using drag and drop interface.
- Link type – Link can have an icon or a checkbox. Once used with a checkbox plugin remember user selection using a tracking cookie. This is good for todo lists.
- Extended shortcode possibilities – Display curated content on any page or post based on chosen parameters – lists, categories, tags. Specify the appearance parameters of the curated content.
- Phone or email instead of a link – Insert a phone number or email address instead of a link. The plugin will display relevant icons and buttons to let users know that they can call or send a message by clicking on them.
- Subtitle – Each link can have a subtitle text which appears under the link title.
- Image – Each link can have an image beside the favicon which appears on the right side of the link. Users need to specify for each link the image URL.
- Mark new links – You can define in the plugin setting to automatically mark links not older than X days with the tag NEW.
- Easy Admin Editing – The admin can has shortcuts to edit links and categories from the Front-end.
- User customized personalization – Each user can personalize the display by unchecking the categories they do not want to view in a specific list for more effective content curation
- Bookmarklet – You can easily add links to your curated list while adding a bookmarklet to your browser bar. Clicking on it will open a pop-up showing a link to the most important fields.
- Category widget and shortcode – Supports both a widget to display a category with all links and also a shortcode to be placed on any post or pages showing all links related to category. Support category access restriction by user role.
- Import and Export – Export all links to a CSV file which contains the category, URL, Title, Description and slug. Easily import it to another site.
- Order Links in Category – Ability to define how links are ordered by category.
- Social Sharing – Option to show each list with a social sharing and like buttons near each item in the list.
- Import Blog Categories and Links – Site blog posts and categories can be imported to the curated list manager.
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Climate change is coming like a freight train, or a rising tide. And our food, so dependent on rain and suitable temperatures, sits right in its path.
The plants that nourish us won't disappear entirely. But they may have to move to higher and cooler latitudes, or farther up a mountainside. Some places may find it harder to grow anything at all, because there's not enough water.
Here are five foods, and food-growing places, that will see the impact.
Wheat, source of bread and a foundation of life in much of the world, will suffer from hotter temperatures — and the country where the impact may be greatest also is among least well-equipped to cope with a shortfall. India is likely to see a large drop in wheat production due to heat stress — about 8 percent if average global temperatures rise by 1 degree Celsius, according to one recent study. Temperatures are expected to rise more than that; according to a recent report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius will require heroic and dramatic action. It will take significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions within 15 years, plus efforts to recapture some of the carbon that's already been emitted, perhaps by planting new forests.
Globally, though, wheat may not be in short supply in a warmer world. Russia, which is already a major wheat exporter, may be able to expand the amount of land devoted to this crop.
Despite Georgia's claim to be the Peach State, California is the country's biggest peach producer. Farmers there grow about half of the country's fresh peaches, and almost all of the fruit that's canned and processed in other ways.
Many fruit trees, including peaches, have a peculiar requirement. If they don't experience enough chill during wintertime, they get confused and don't bloom properly. No bloom, no harvest. The peach trees currently grown in California's Central Valley require about 700 "chilling hours" during the winter. But scientists are predicting that by the end of the century, only 10 percent of the valley will reliably see that much chilling. And even if plant breeders create peach varieties that need less chilling, there's another problem: Peach trees also yield less fruit when it gets too hot in summertime.
Coffee can't take freezing temperatures, but it doesn't like extreme heat, either — at least the highly prized Arabica type doesn't. So it's mainly grown on relatively cool mountainsides in the tropics. Brazil is the biggest coffee producer in the world, by far, but as the globe warms up, most of its main coffee-growing regions probably won't be suitable for growing this crop anymore, due to heat as well as more frequent rainstorms. Coffee could move to cooler parts of the country, but researchers don't think those new growing areas will make up for what's lost.
Meanwhile, rising temperatures could threaten native coffee trees that grow wild in the forests of Ethiopia and central Africa. The wild trees represent an irreplaceable storehouse of coffee's original genetic diversity. The world's commercial coffee trees are genetically very similar to each other, and those genetically diverse wild trees could be the source of genetic traits that plant breeders may need in order to create commercial trees that can thrive in tomorrow's climate. Some of the wild trees, however, are preserved in "gene banks" in Ethiopia and Latin America.
Nothing says Iowa quite like fields of corn. Climate models, though, see a different future. They're predicting that a warming climate will bring several changes, most of them bad for growing corn. Rain will come less often, and when it comes, the storms will be more intense — neither of which is helpful for a crop that demands frequent rains, but doesn't do a good job of preventing soil erosion. In addition, corn suffers when it gets too hot — especially when it's too hot at night. Add it all up, and one study estimates that corn yields in Iowa will fall substantially, anywhere from 15 percent to an astounding 50 percent. "By 2100, the Corn Belt is going to be in Canada, not in the United States," says Jason Clay, senior vice president for food and markets at the World Wildlife Fund.
So what will replace corn on Iowa's fertile land? According to one study, by the end of the century this part of the Midwest will be more suited for growing cotton, soybeans, grass and forests.
California, the biggest single source of America's fresh vegetables and nuts, and the primary source of almonds for the entire world, is a dramatic illustration of how subtle shifts in climate can have huge effects. California's farms rely heavily on snow that piles up in the Sierra Nevada mountains during the winter, and then slowly melts during the summer, delivering a vital flow of water to the state's irrigation canals. As the climate warms, though, winter precipitation will arrive more often as rain, and the snow that does fall will melt much more quickly, leaving farmers scrambling for water to keep crops alive in late summer. Also, there will be more variation from year to year; wet years will be wetter, and dry years will be even dryer.
Both trends increase the chances that from time to time, farmers will face catastrophic shortages of water. And that's especially bad for tree crops, of which almonds are the biggest, because losing an orchard is much more devastating than losing a single crop of, say, tomatoes. California's farmers may be forced to reduce the amount of land devoted to orchards, since there there's a chance that they will not survive a major drought.
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Edmonds CC offering free electronics recycling
Instead of collecting and wondering what to do with that outdated electronic equipment, why not get rid of it?
Edmonds College will offer free electronics recycling to the public 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at the college, 20000 68th Ave. W. Signs will be provided from the entrance at 68th Ave. W and 200th St. SW. Download the college's parking lot map at www.edmonds.edu/parking.
The recycling event is sponsored by Edmonds CC and Lynnwood-based E-Waste, an electronics
Free to recycle will be computers, laptops, monitors, TVs, and cell phones. Other
electronics — such as washers, dryers, VCRs, and printers — will be accepted for a
small fee. Collected cell phones will be used to raise funds for a Susan G. Komen event to the help in the fight to end breast cancer.
Concerned about private information stored on hard drives? For $2, E-Waste will provide
certificates that ensure the data will be destroyed.
Mercury, lead, cadmium, and other hazardous and toxic material can be found in electronic
waste, and the Environmental Protection Agency reported in 2009 that more than 82
percent of used electronics went to landfills and incinerators.
The recycling is part of Edmonds CC's participation in RecycleMania, a nationwide competition aimed at reducing waste and increasing recycling on college
campuses. Free electronics recycling for students and employees is Wednesday, March
For more information: E-Waste at 425.239.4118 or www.e-wastes.com.


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Sat, Sep 30
|UWM Mitchell Hall, Studio 256
Youth Drum Class
This fun and energetic class is designed to teach the fundamentals and intermediate styles of West African drumming. Learning how to play djemebes and doundouns. Ages 9-Up Due to the limited number of available class slots, registrations are non-refundable after the session begins.
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
UWM Mitchell Hall, Studio 256, Mitchell Hall, 3203 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53211
About the event
Join us for our Fall Community Drum Class session starting Saturday September 15th! This 6 week session class is designed to teach the fundamental technique and rhythms. Taught by members of our Adult Performance Ensemble, this class is a great fit for beginners and more experinced students alike! Drum rentals available.
Each class is limited to 20 students and you must register online prior to class. Registrations are non-refundable after the session begins, and WALK UPS WILL BE PERMITTED but must register at the door card only. Masks are strongly encouraged for all particpants.
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Our last word in business also comes to us from the Consumer Electronics Show. And the word is "Electric City." That's the name of a new animated science-fiction series created by - and starring - Tom Hanks. It's being promoted at the Vegas show in part because it will be airing - or rather it will be shown - on the Internet site Yahoo this spring.
Entertainment trade publication Variety reports that the project's actually been in the works for eight years. It's Yahoo's first effort at original scripted programming. Yahoo's already had a reality show, an advice show, as well as news bulletins.
With "Electric City," Yahoo is banking on some positive attention and extra ad revenues. The series is made up of 20 interactive cartoon episodes, each three or four minutes long. It's set in a post-apocalyptic world that is utopian on the surface but under the surface something else. According to one Yahoo executive, it is secrets and heavy-handed state control.
All right. That's the business news here on MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm David Greene. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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On behalf of everyone here at Honeycomb Consulting, I'd like to wish you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving.
Before you leave for the airport, or finish up your to-do list, add this event to your calendar. The good people at Morgan Franklin have been organizing the Pivotal Play event series for over a year now, and they are always quality events.
Date: Tuesday, November 27
Time: 4:00pm-7:00pm
Location: USA Today's Gannett Center 7950 Jones Branch Drive McLean, Virginia 22107
London Fletcher, linebacker for Washington's professional football team
Catherine Meloy, President and CEO, Goodwill of Greater Washington
Tom Davidson, Co-Founder and CEO, EverFi
MODERATOR Chick Hernandez, anchor and reporter, Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic
Guest emcee - Mike Wise, columnist, Washington Post and radio host for 106.7 The Fan
4:00pm-5:00pm | Registration & Networking
5:00pm–6:00pm | Panel Discussion
6:00pm–7:00pm | Cocktails & Networking
As always, here are a few articles that I recommend that you read (maybe while watching some football Thursday afternoon!).
5 Major Challenges Marketers Face (And How to Solve Them), by Sarah Goliger, HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog
Number one? Driving traffic and generating awareness...
Four Reasons It Pays to Have a Company Blog, by Chris Lee, MarketingProfs
- Tying Together Your Online and Offline Efforts
- Demonstrating Knowledge
- Fostering Customer Relationships
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Thu, Dec 28
|Bylecreme Home
Luxury Perfume Making Experience
A luxury perfume making experience in the heart of downtown atlanta
Time & Location
Dec 28, 2023, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Bylecreme Home, 141 Mangum St SW #106, Atlanta, GA 30313, USA
About the Event
Join us for a hands-on LUXURY PERFUME MAKING CLASS where you will learn the art of crafting your own signature 1.7oz eau de perfume. This in-person event takes place weekly in Downtown Atlanta.
You will be guided by expert perfumers who will teach you the basics of perfume making and help you create a unique fragrance using the finest ingredients.
Indulge your senses and discover the secrets of creating a luxurious scent that reflects your personality and style. Whether you're a perfume enthusiast or just looking for a fun and creative activity, this class is perfect for you.
Don't miss out on this unforgettable experience. Register now to secure your spot and get ready to immerse yourself in the world of luxury perfumery.
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Latest Edition of Disney Interactive's Best-Selling Video Game Series Will Include Five Play Sets, New Toy Box Expansion Games and a Variety of Fan-Favourite Characters From Across The Walt Disney Company
SINGAPORE – Disney Interactive today announced that the Star Wars™ universe will join Disney, Disney•Pixar and Marvel in Disney Infinity 3.0 – the latest installment of the best-selling "hybrid toy / video game" of 2014. The Disney Infinity 3.0 Starter Pack will be available this August at a suggested retail price of USD $64.99, and Disney Infinity 3.0 promises to deliver kids and families with a wider breadth of content and variety of gameplay than ever offered from Disney Infinity, including:
- Three Star Wars Play Sets, one set in the timeline of Episodes I-III, the second set during the original trilogy, Episodes IV-VI, and the third based on Star Wars™: The Force Awakens™
- Additional Play Sets offering distinct gameplay and environments, including a Disney•Pixar Play Set based on the upcoming film Inside Out, and a Marvel Play Set featuring Hulkbuster Iron Man, Ultron, and other Marvel characters
- A fully enhanced Toy Box with two new multiplayer Toy Box Expansion Games, Toy Box Speedway (kart racing) and Toy Box Takeover (action-adventure)
- More figures of fan-favourite characters from across The Walt Disney Company, like Mickey and Minnie, Sam Flynn and Quorra from Tron: Legacy, Mulan and Olaf, among many others
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As part of the BJJ Revolution Team, NG Davis strives to provide the highest quality of authentic Carlson Gracie Style Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and physical conditioning instruction to the community. As a member of our team you will have access to the highest quality instruction of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under the watchful eye of BJJ Masters Mauro Ayres, Toco Albuquerque and Rodrigo Medeiros. It is important to understand that BJJ is a lifestyle and that our students become a family that focuses on becoming stronger through the sharing of ideas and philosophy of BJJ. Following the Carlson Gracie Legacy, we believe that our Family is responsible for continuing the beliefs that Grandmaster Carlson instilled on our Masters. Our program focuses on both the fundamentals of BJJ, and the competitive components that have been proven under the highest level of competition in both MMA and BJJ. Each student of Nova Geração Davis is responsible for helping the new members improve, as we believe that we are only as strong as the members of our academy.
Pricing options vary and there is a membership for everyone. Enrollent Options Here, Contact firstname.lastname@example.com for info about coming in for a visit and to answer all your questions. All Memberships are MONTH TO MONTH. We believe that our program quality speaks for itself and do not lock any members into annual contracts. This academy is building something special for the community of Davis, CA and we believe that the legacy of Carlson Gracie and the traditions of authentic BJJ are to be preserved.
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2009-08-25 22:52:24 I was quite impressed. I moved here for school and I hadnt wrestled since high school and I handnt done Judo since I was a kid. I liked grappling and I was curius about BJJ. I was very impressed with their BJJ class. Elite Instinct came highly recomended by martial artists in the community, VERY resonably priced and their arent those extreme contracts.
Sadly I got hurt at work and require surgery on my knee :'-(. But when it heeals I WILL be attending their BJJ classes. —Dozer
2009-09-01 10:50:43 Thanks for the comment. We look forward to seeing you when your knee heals. —EliteInstinct
2009-12-20 10:07:58 If it's true that this place is closing, it's too bad. It was the only place to get legitimate MMA instruction in Yolo County. Unfortunately, a college town like Davis just couldn't support their business model. In order for a place like this to survive (considering how high their fees are), they've got to have an active stable of amateur and professional fighters and the Davis demographic just won't support that. College kids can't afford the outrageous prices, especially when good martial arts classes are available at the ARC for a song. Most people who think they're interested in learning MMA soon discover it's not as easy as it looks, and don't come back. Soccer moms and miniature karate kids won't want the grueling workout a place like this demands. Professional level fighters are training at better-known and similarly-priced gyms in Sacramento, i.e. Urijah Faber's Ultimate Fitness, especially since other gyms offer classes from morning until night, not like Elite Instinct, offering one or two classes per day. Elite Instinct was catering to the wannabe/beginning/amateur MMA fighter in a college town/suburb where there aren't any.
Unfortunately, I don't think the owner knew what he was getting into. The entire Dave Hagon scandal that was the subject of much debate among the martial arts and MMA community shows that Michael didn't know anything about MMA or BJJ, just that he wanted to open an MMA gym. He smartened up and brought in legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructors, the only BJJ blackbelts in Yolo County, but that still wasn't enough.
Whenever I visited the gym, I had to do so by appointment, as Michael wouldn't discuss prices over the phone. Whenever I did make it, there seemed to be about 4-5 people in the gym, including myself, Michael and the class instructor. I'm sure those one or two students were nevertheless dedicated, but how good can you get if you only have 2 or 3 sparring partners? The fact that Michael wouldn't let me take a free class, but offered a $40 intro week of lessons reeked of McDojoism. Most MMA gyms I've ever called or visited are more than happy to discuss pricing over the phone or via email, let you watch classes until blue in the face and will always offer a free class. Once you got done with your "consultation" with Michael, he'd bring out the binder with all the lesson plans and options and the prices were outrageous. I paid less for unlimited classes at Urijah's gym in midtown, and he offered classes 12-13 hours a day.
The instructors at Elite Instinct were legitimate, unfortunately Michael's business practices were not.
Hopefully Ty, Mauro and Flavio will land on their feet (perhaps at Morrissey's in Woodland or Cia Paulista in Sacramento) —LS95814
2009-12-21 16:31:39 We are not closing. Our classes are offered through out the day and our memberships cost vary depending on the number of classes you wish to attend. I'm sorry that you could not find a membership that you could afford, however our prices reflect our class sizes, Davis lease pricing, quality of instructors, and the individual instruction that you receive at our academy. We have A $10 trial discount for prospective members on this site. As for our limited schedule, we have unlimited potential based on the demand of the students. If you would like more sparring partners feel free to come in to one of our evening classes. Our BJJ Beginner class has at 8-16 students nightly. Muay Thai has 6-12 students each evening. If you would like another class... all you have to do is ask and we are willing to be flexible. Thank you for your feedback. -Michael —EliteInstinct
2010-02-23 16:06:20 I'm very surprised to see the comment left by LS95814. I researched MMA gyms on the internet very throughly until I found Elite Instinct. I drive 30 miles (60 miles round-trip), four times a week just to train at E.I. The membership package I purchased includes 2 nights of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, 2 nights of Muay Thai, and open mat on Saturday and Sunday....So, if I wanted to I could train everyday. And no, they are not "catering to the wannabe/beginning/amateur MMA fighters in a college town", as LS95814 said. I'm a single, working class woman and I've had no problem affording the membership fee, keeping up with the workouts, OR traveling the distance to receive quality training. I believe the cost is very fair. We are learning from/with black belts and world champions! Several STUDENTS have earned gold medals, and World or American titles, including the owner, Michael Quigley. You can't get any better than that. And you cannot expect to receive quality training and instruction for the same price you'd pay to work out at the local health club. Receiving individual instruction and attention from professional trainers is a bonus. The evening classes are always full and there are more than enough partners to spar and train with. I'm very happy that I chose Elite Instinct. —Laura707
2010-03-14 15:02:31 I was able to sit in on the BJJ class a time or two. Looked great. I wrestled in high school and have done some Judo. Their practices looked great. I have checked some other martial art places and I have seen a lot of lazy practices. Where they just stretch, do some kicks and barely anyone is sweating. I come from a tough wrestling program (We have spawned 2 UFC fighters)and if youre not sweating, youre not working. Believe me, I come to work and it seems like E.I shares that goal. Looking forward to starting BJJ and maybe some kickboxing. —Dozer
2010-07-25 14:24:58 The "Dave Hogan Scandal" was hardly a "scandal". It was brought to the owner's attention that the way Hogan acquired a black belt was sketchy and, before you could blink, they had shipped Hogan out and brought in TWO LEGITIMATE AS HELL BJJ black belts. This "business practice" is evidently a proactive one. Also, the pricing is comparable to nearly all MMA gyms. All you have to do is look at the credentials of the BJJ instructors and it should be clear as to why the rates are what they are. Call any given gym and ask for prices over the phone. Being a former asst. manager of a gym, I can tell you that the practice of not giving rates over the phone is STANDARD to say the least. The only thing I had problems with is the size of the gym....besides that, I have no gripes. The guys\girls were all cool there and fun to train with. —CaseyCaseOne
2012-01-21 10:58:39 I came to Davis for school but was also looking to continue training in BJJ. I've learned more and improved my game more in the last year at Nova Geracao than I did in three years at my old gym. Great instruction and everyone at the gym is very friendly and helpful. —StephenGumpert
2012-01-29 22:15:59 I started practicing BJJ about 2 years ago at the ARC. The instructor at the time, Mauro Ayres (black belt under Toco Albuquerque who's a black belt under the late Grandmaster Carlson Gracie), was also the instructor at Elite Instinct. I started to train at Elite Instinct, now Nova Geracao, and I haven't left since. I can't imagine leaving such a focused, authentic and rich program. Everyone that I train with is like family. We all push each other to become better BJJ practitioners and better people outside of the gym. The instructor is knowledgeable and cares about the progress of the students and the BJJ Revolution Team. The gym is clean and has never had an outbreak of ringworm or anything else in the time it's been open. I definitely recommend! World-class training and conditioning with flexible payment options. You can't go wrong!! —RayGrogan
2012-02-22 14:46:02 nova geracao has been my second home for the past two years. i began training when I attended UCD and continue to travel from sacramento to train here because of the quality of instruction, the family-like atmosphere, and the great workout i get. id recommend this gym to everyone, and especially to people who are new to and curious about bjj. the instructors personal training background combined with the bjj curriculum makes for a structured, rigorous class perfect for those who are serious about training jiu jitsu. great foundation and family to fall back on if you plan to train even upon leaving davis.
2012-06-08 21:00:01 Brand new competition style mats just went in today —StephenGumpert
2013-02-21 13:51:08 Nova Geracao is by far the best bjj academy I've been to. Started to come when I was a student at UCD. The instructors, Michael and Mauro are down to earth, very technical, and geniunely cares about the students. Everyone there is really like family and willing to help each other out no matter what. This is the one place I miss after leaving Davis. Come by to check it out, you won't regret it! —Randallleung
2013-05-14 12:42:35 I'm glad I found NG Davis because if it wasn't for this school my progress in BJJ would've come to a 2 year halt. NG Davis offers seminars with black belts from the Carlson Gracie/BJJ Revolution team(if you haven't heard of these schools, look them up and you'll know they are among the top). Although it isn't a requirement, competing in BJJ tournaments is encouraged and competition training is intense, fun and it's the best way to improve your jiu jitsu. You have the option of training every day except Sunday and there's always a bunch of people to learn from/roll with. —AliAtt
2013-05-24 14:26:31 I have been training here the 2+ years now, my 5 yr old son has started training and my girlfriend's son who is 14yr old has been training for 2 yrs as well, one of the best quality of instruction, and also the only actual BJJ focused academy in the area. The kids program is great and fun for kids, Michael has incorporated some MMA training for them to make it fun and change it up with them but the main focus is BJJ, (Michael does have training and knowledge in other martial arts as well). The program here is authentic straight from Brazil and the seminars provided are excellent Michael brings in the best Black Belts from the BJJ Revolution team and Nova Geracao and the best part is, that there is no extra cost for the seminars they come with your membership no other academy provides that kind of instruction or service. The atmosphere is great and family like, the instruction is great, as the wall of medals indicate and showing the progress of students that are on the competition team competing in major IBJJF tournaments. If you are looking for a great place to join and train there is plenty of space on the mats for you, your family and friends. —tonyperez
2014-11-20 20:53:48 I trained at Nova Geracao for two years while I was living in the Davis area. It became a second home to me while I was there and I built lasting friendships. Michael is an excellent instructor and pushes his students to succeed. He is always bringing in other black belts to enhance and add to what we are learning. When I moved away i was sad to leave my Nova Geracao family, but thankful for the relationships and BJJ foundation that I was taking with me. —SarahMannix


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* Full range of RYA Yachting courses * Tuition for both novices and more experienced sailors * RYA Practical and theory * Own boat tuition * Learn to be a qualified crew member or yacht skipper
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Simon is a first rate skipper , a first rate teacher and a first rate human being. He made the course fun , exciting and I learned more than any other course I have been on with RYA. It's quite a skill to teach and Simon has that skill. He fills the student with confidence. His knowledge of sailing is amazing and unlike many who teach he is not frightened of sharing that knowledge. His boat is spotless and a joy to sail. All in all I cannot recommend him enough to beginners and also those who think they know the sea ! I will be booking with him again.
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A fantastic five day experience and Wings is the perfect boat for learning on. Robin is such an amazing instructor with so much knowledge of every aspect of sailing and I really appreciate him for his calmness , patience and advice regarding our recently purchased yacht.
Thank you from an extremely happy student.
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Keith made the Day Skipper course interesting, informative and fun, particularly in some of the challenging conditions we had through the week F5-6 most days. He was very good at explaining things in different ways. I also appreciated the efforts to provision for L who's lactose intolerant. Thanks very much for a great 5 days.
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Simon was a great instructor. Very considerate to individuals' previous knowledge and experiences. Very attentive to our questions and answered them well. Made learning very easy and enjoyable. Was good to explain any technical information in a clear and understandable manner. We all got plenty of opportunities to practice all elements of sailing. Wings is a very clean and comfortable boat to be on as well as easy to manoeuvre. Accommodation was very comfortable with good food being served, taking into consideration any dietary requirements. We all had a really fun and enjoyable experience. Will definitely be coming back to do future courses and leisurely sails. Thank you!!
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Gift an amazing sailing experience to your favourite seafarer wannabe! You can buy this now at the link below for just £105.
Buy a personalised voucher for a taster sail, yachting course, or any of our other fun-filled seaborne adventures on the gorgeous Suffolk coastline or beyond.
Our sailing vouchers can be used to pay for one of our Day Sails, or to offset the cost of any of our courses, charters or cruises.
Click the link below to buy one now – a personalised voucher will be in your inbox within a few minutes – or contact us for other options
What better way to watch an epic sporting event than to have a grandstand seat? Better still, how about a seat that moves around with the action, with a coffee and nibbles never more than an arms reach away? Where, still firmly attached to your seat, you can graze away at your lunch without queuing for hours to fetch it?
No such thing? Think again!
We have opportunities aboard our beautiful yacht Wings for companies, private groups and day sailors to do exactly that. Contact us to discuss your preference and enjoy a fabulous day with your friends, family, staff or clients, or simply treat yourself in the company of like minded sailing fans.
Dates currently available from 6-11th August, leaving from/returning to East Cowes Marina on the Isle of Wight.
Accommodation on board can be arranged at no extra cost, subject to availability.
If you're a more experienced sailor looking for a challenging trip, why not join us on a cross-Channel trip to Dunkerque, before heading to the Solent via Eastbourne? At least 2 'qualifying' passages (60 miles or more) and the opportunity for some night sailing (subject to weather conditions).
Dates: 5-9 September 2023
Prices & Availability: Please contact us
Another great opportuity for some serious cruising as we head back to Shotley from the Solent via the South Coast and France. A fabulous sailing adventure for those who want to enjoy more serious passages, or who are looking to build crewing or skippering experience or miles to put towards some of the higher level RYA courses.
For many crossing the Thames Estuary or English Channel under sail would be genuine 'bucket list' contenders. Join us on this trip to tick both off in one hit. Sail past iconic British coastline landmarks that most people will have heard of, but few will have witnessed close-up – Beachy Head, the Seven Sisters, Selsey Bill, and the 19th century forts built to protect the Solent.
It will be a few days of adventure, and maybe a glass or two of French red, plus some time to explore Brighton – maybe shopping in the Lanes or a stroll along the pier.
The journey will start from the Solent (probably Portsmouth) on the weekend of 15/16 June 2019.
* a 5 day cruise in our classic 42′ Moody yacht 'Wings'
* crossing the Thames Estuary and the English Channel
* stopovers in Brighton, Eastbourne, Boulogne and/or Dunkerque and Ramsgate.
* opportunity for skippers to practice their passage-making skills with mentoring from seasoned instructors
* ideal for cruisers/milebuilders/passage makers/those wishing to achieve their RYA Competent Crew or Coastal Theory tickets.
Each leg is 40-60 miles (with the exception of the 20 mile hop from Brighton to Eastbourne. If you haven't yet visited Boulogne, the old town is a beautiful place to wander along the cobbled streets and maybe enjoy a plate of moules frites and a glass of something, whilst Dunkerque, of course, is famed for its wartime memorials.
At this stage the trip is available to either individuals who wish to share, or for exclusive charter.
Price & Availability: please contact us
We could turn right, head north up past Brightlingsea, duck into Pyefleet Creek and pick up a mooring buoy (or drop the hook). Then watch as your pre-ordered box of crab, lobster, king prawn, mussels – not to mention locally sourced oysters – is delivered to the boat. Yes, really. It's a bit like a drive thru without the driving or the queuing! And then, replete with fruits de mer, you could sit and watch the sunset over Mersea Island.
Or go straight ahead. Past the Colne and up the Blackwater to West Mersea. Thumb a lift from the yacht club ferry to the jetty, and stroll ashore to make a late lunch table booking at the famous Company Shed. Perhaps (hopefully!) there's time for a quick drink in the West Mersea Yacht Club beforehand. Followed by a fabulous seafood platter in one of the simplest but most fabulous restaurants you will come across.
Hey, if you're a real seafood junkie you could even do both!
Talk to us for prices and availability. This is a two or three-day trip.
Contact UsThe Annual Pin Mill Barge Match, one of a series of regional barge matches, is held in late June/early July. Starting on the River Orwell, and following a course dictated by the day's weather and tide conditions, the match is a true spectacle of years gone by.
Once coastal cargo carriers, these beauties have been lovingly restored and maintained, and several are available for day trips, charters and social occasions.
This is very much a day sail with a difference, as the itinerary will be geared to a very satisfying combination of match watching – with the endless photo opportunities this will entail – plus time to enjoy your own bit of sailing up and down the Orwell and Stour rivers. You will see a veritable forest of brown sails, gaffe rigs, and more 'ropes' than you can shake a stick at.
Prices & Availability: Please contact us
We will need to leave Shotley by 1000 latest, after coffee and a safety briefing. It's a 2 ½ hour sail down to Clacton, and once there we drop anchor as close to the 'fairway' as possible. The fairway is a cordoned off area of the sea just off Clacton Pier, and it is above this area that the serious flying is done. Which means the planes seem to almost clip the top of our mast as they zoom past!
The line-up for the show is still evolving but according to the show's website it will include:
The Red Arrows
The Battle of Memorial Flight
The RAF Typhoon
Bremont Great War Display Team
Plus lots of other aerobatic displays
You can see the full line up at the show's website here……
When we've nibbled our way through the 3-4 hour show, it's time to weigh anchor and head back home after a truly memorable day.
Price: £80 (offered on bring your own lunch basis). Please contact us for availability
Our skipper will work with you before your trip to create a passage plan to suit your requirements and the experience of your party. This will obviously depend on tide predictions and the number of days you choose to book for. There are many fantastic destinations to the North or South to choose from, and a variety of 'challenges' ranging from passages which are (relatively speaking) 'just around the corner', to Thames Estuary and Channel crossings. Possible destinations include Southwold, the River Blackwater, Burnham-on-Crouch and, further afield, London, the South Coast and the Continent.
Price & availability will depend on duration and destinations agreed, please contact us to discuss options
Contact UsYour skipper gives you the options for the day (weather and tide dependent) and you decide the agenda. A river sail, a short coastal cruise, a bit of both – whatever 'floats your boat'. Your day starts with a coffee and the essential safety brief on board, and then you head out on your sailing adventure. Maybe you'll choose to explore the rivers in the morning, or head round to Hamford Water if the tides are right. After anchoring for lunch** on board you might decide on an afternoon at sea. Maybe checking out Rough's Tower (the 'Principality of Sealand'), or a round trip past Felixstowe to the Deben entrance, before returning through the lock to Shotley Marina.
Base Price: weekday from £270* (half-day) or from £390* (full day), weekend from £450* (minimum full day)
* These are our base prices which cover two adults plus up to four children (aged 16 or under). There is a supplementary charge of £15 per additional adult (half-day trips) and £20 per additional adult (day trips).
** You can choose between bringing your own lunch to enjoy on board, or we can provide lunch to suit your needs. We can discuss this when you book.
Up to four children (aged 16 or under) go free when accompanied by two adults.
Why not extend to a Sleepover Sail for an additional charge of £90? Stay on board the night before, enjoy dinner at a local restaurant, and enjoy a bacon roll breakfast before sailing the next day.
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Contact UsA lot of people do most of their sailing at weekends, and that's when we are often at our busiest. But if you're lucky enough to have time for some sailing on weekdays then one of our Day Sails might be just the thing for you. You will get the same fabulous sailing experience but at a great price of £105 per day. In order to minimise costs we ask you to bring your own lunch, and the only other proviso is that we need a minimum of 3 people to run the day.
Simply register for our newsletter (sign-up is available at the foot of all our website pages) and we will let you know the Day Sail dates when they are available along with all our other news and offers.
If you would like to buy a Day Sail as a gift for someone else, take a look at our Sailing Gift Voucher option – when you buy we will send you a PDF by email, and your lucky friend can contact us directly to arrange their date.
Price £105 per person (£100 per person if you bring one or more friends)
Availability: Please see our sailing schedule or contact us
Join with up to 5 others who want to share the cost of sailing and meet new people.
Your day will start at Shotley Marina where your skipper will give you a safety briefing over a cup of coffee on board. You'll help prepare the boat for departure, exit the lock gates, hoist the sails and head out for an adventure on the local rivers and coastlines. You will get the chance to participate fully in the running of the ship – hoisting, helming, trimming – hey, you can even put the kettle on if you like! After a morning sail we will drop anchor for lunch on board, maybe at Hamford Water (Secret Water), Wrabness (beach huts on stilts), or somewhere on the very beautiful River Orwell. After lunch, more sailing, more fun, and more tea (and perhaps a cheeky biscuit) before heading for home.
Price £105 per person (offered on a 'bring your own picnic' basis)
Suffolk Coast Sailing runs classroom-based Day Skipper and Coastal/Yachtmaster Theory courses at Shotley Marina and venues in the East Anglia region. We can offer private, one-to-one courses, and courses for groups (businesses, clubs and associations) at your chosen venue. Face to face courses are best if you prefer to learn in an interactive environment, as you benefit from wider discussion prompted by questions from other participants.
See more about our classroom courses.
We also offer online theory courses which you can complete in your own time and in the comfort of your home or office. These are delivered by our partner company, Sailing Course Online, who are a RYA Recognised Training Centre specialising in online training. The course content is specifically delivered for an online experience, with bite-sized modules, regular auto-marked tests, and full support from the instructors at Sailing Course Online whenever you need them.
Find out more about online theory courses.
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A comprehensive introduction to cruising for inexperienced skippers.
This course equips you with enough knowledge to navigate around familiar waters by day. A basic knowledge of lights is also included to introduce you to night cruising.
The course is taught over 40 hours with two exam papers.
Course topics include:
Advanced training for more experienced skippers building on the Day Skipper course. This course equips you to navigate safely on coastal and offshore passages.
This course will take your theory knowledge to the standard required for the Yachtmaster™ Coastal and Yachtmaster™ Offshore practical exams, concentrating on advanced navigation and meteorology skills.
The course is taught over 40 hours with three exam papers.
Course topics include:
Own Boat Tuition
All of our RYA courses can be run in the comfort of your own boat, or we can tailor a programme to focus on what you need to learn, practice or perfect the most. The agenda is very much up to you, and we will discuss your needs thoroughly before recommending a program for you.
Suitable insurance and a reasonable level of safety gear will be needed on your boat, you can see our requirements here
For prices and availability
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Coastal Skipper
Advanced skippering techniques for yachtsmen and women with considerable knowledge of sailing and navigation, wanting to undertake coastal passages by day and night.
Like the Day Skipper course, this course consists of skippered passages in a variety of situations. Each trainee will skipper more challenging passages and learn more about passage planning, pilotage by day and night, boat handling, safety and emergency situations.
We will expect you to complete the Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster™ Offshore theory course beforehand as there is insufficient time to teach you theory during the week.
Coastal Skippers should be able to undertake more difficult passages by day and night and handle the yacht in more demanding conditions.
Requirements & Outcomes
Pre-course experience: Minimum 15 days, 2 days as skipper, 300 miles, 8 night hours.
Assumed knowledge: Boat handling to at least the standard of Day Skipper and navigation to shorebased Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster™ Offshore
Minimum duration: 5 days
Minimum age: 17
Course content: Passage planning, Preparation for sea, Pilotage, Passage making and ability as skipper, Yacht handling under power, Yacht handling under sail, Adverse weather conditions, Emergency situations
Ability after the course: Able to skipper a yacht on coastal passages by day and night
Prices and Availability: £760 per person please Click Here for Course Schedule or
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Day Skipper
A course for aspiring skippers with some yachting experience and basic navigation and sailing skills.
Learn to skipper a short passage with the instructor on hand to give advice and encouragement and ensure your safety. Experience being in charge, taking credit when it all goes well and being responsible when it doesn't.
If it's help with navigation that you need, you should take our Day Skipper shorebased or online course.
Requirements & Outcomes
Pre-course experience: 5 days, 100 miles, 4 night hours on board a sailing yacht
Assumed knowledge: Theory to the level of Day Skipper. It is recommended you take our Day Skipper shorebased or online course beforehand.
Minimum duration: 5 days residential
Minimum age: 16
Course content: Preparation for sea, deck work, navigation, pilotage, meteorology, rules of the road, maintenance and repair work, engines, victualling, emergency situations, yacht handling under power, yacht handling under sail, passage making, night cruising
Prices & Availability: £760 per person please Click Here for Course Schedule or
Contact UsCompetent Crew
This course is for beginners and those who would like to become active crew members rather than just passengers.
Experience living on board and really get to know the boat. Virtually all the course is hands on. You are the crew – without you the sails won't go up and the boat won't be steered.
By the end of the course you should be able to steer, handle sails, keep a lookout, row a dinghy and assist in all the day to day duties on board. You will also have visited some interesting places and had an enjoyable holiday.
Requirements & Outcomes
Pre-course experience: None
Assumed knowledge: None
Minimum duration: 5 days.
Minimum age: None
Course content: Knowledge of sea terms and parts of a boat, her rigging and sails, sail handling, ropework, fire precautions and fighting, personal safety equipment, man overboard, emergency equipment, meteorology, seasickness, helmsmanship, general duties, manners and customs, rules of the road, dinghies
Ability after the course: Able to steer, handle sails, keep a lookout, row a dinghy and assist in all the day to day routines
Prices & Availability: £760 per person Click Here for course schedule or
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A short introduction to sailing for complete beginners, this course is available by arrangement to groups of 3-5 people.
By the end of the course you will have experienced steering a yacht, sail handling, ropework and be aware of safety on board.
Holders of the Start Yachting certificate can go on to complete the Competent Crew course in a reduced time of three days.
Requirements & Outcomes
Pre-course experience: None
Assumed knowledge: None
Minimum duration: 2 days
Minimum age: 8-10 years old
Course content: The yacht, ropework, underway, rules of the road, man overboard recovery, clothing and equipment, emergency equipment and precautions, meteorology.
Ability after the course: Basic knowledge of yachting.
Prices & Availability: If you have booked a charter of two or more days with us, we may be able to build the Start Yachting syllabus into your itinerary. If you have a party of 3 or more people, we can arrange a course to suit your schedule.
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We like to think we have a fairly rich pedigree of female pop talent here at Neon Gold, as we gaze fondly at the busts of Marina & The Diamonds, Ellie Goulding (who makes her NYC live debut tonight) and Mr. Little Jeans lining the halls in the pantheon of Neon Gold leading ladies. So it's with great pleasure that we pass the torch on to a special newcomer by the name of Spark, who's brilliant sophomore single "Revolving" will bear our crest when it drops this November.
We first fell in love with Spark (quite literally born Jess Sparkle Morgan) via the breathtaking Monsieur Adi remix of her debut single "Shut Out The Moon", so it only seemed right that we invite the Italian Frenchman back for another round of remixing Ms. Morgan on "Revolving". The result is a stroke of minor genius, as Adi forgoes the stale electro beats that plague the blog remix scene in favor of electrifying strings arrangements while Spark bares her soul over his dramatic orchestal backdrop. Experience the remix for yourself below, and be sure to visit Spark's Soundcloud where you can hear the original version of "Revolving" and its accompanying B-side "Wrap".
MP3: "Revolving" (Monsieur Adi Rework, Allegro in C Minor) - Spark [exclusive]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
We've been fully on board the Lissie wagon ever since we experienced her literally AMAZING duet with Ellie Goulding at this year's Great Escape festival (phenomenal footage of which is viewable above), and her debut album Catch A Tiger and its lead single "When I'm Alone" were two of our favorite surprises of the summer. Leo Zero must have felt similarly, so keen was he to remix "When I'm Alone" that he approached Sony to let him have a go at the track long after the single campaign had run its course. We're glad he did, though, as the results are nothing short of magnificent. Not unlike the brilliant remix of Florence & The Machine's "Rabbit Heart" that he turned in last summer, his rework of "When I'm Alone" is a sprawling epic, an anthemic leviathan looming large in the mix for 8+ minutes of balearic bliss. Leo Zero we salute you, the world needs more remixes like this.
MP3: "When I'm Alone" (Leo Zero Remix) - Lissie [exclusive]
MP3: "When I'm Alone" (Leo Zero Remix) - Lissie [exclusive]
ellie goulding,
florence + the machine,
leo zero,
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
"The Recluse" was our favorite track off Plan B's amazing The Defamation of Strickland Banks, easily the most impressive comeback record of 2010, so when we heard a remix was coming from dubstep extraordinaires Nero - whose immense rework of The Streets' "Blinded By The Lights" remains one of the biggest remixes we've ever heard - it's safe to say we got a little bit hot and bothered. Now it's arrived and we're pleased to report it doesn't disappoint, with Nero smashing it out of the park on one of the heaviest mixes of the year... this shit is LOUD. Shouts to Discodust for the tip.
MP3: "The Recluse" (Nero Remix) - Plan B
MP3: "The Recluse" (Nero Remix) - Plan B
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Way back in late 2008, Bag Raiders changed our lives with their amazing "Shooting Stars", which remains to this day one of the most magical - and in our opinion most underrated - singles of the past few years. Now at long last their debut album is visible on the horizon, preceded by what their press release calls the official sequel to "Shooting Stars", the absolutely immense "Way Back Home". Featuring WIM's Martin Soloman on the vocal, the track utilizes the same formula that made "Shooting Stars" so special, it's brooding gloom-pop gradually giving way to anthemic majesty on the chorus before ultimately climaxing in an epic breakdown of tribal percussion in the song's final act. It's one of the best tracks we've heard in a long minute and has us beyond excited to experience the fruits of the Aussie duo's labor when their self-titled debut album drops October 1st on Modular.
MP3: "Way Back Home" - Bag Raiders
MP3: "Way Back Home" - Bag Raiders
Thursday, September 16, 2010
All aboard the Clare Maguire express, next stop: the stars. After what seems like an eternity, Ms. Maguire's debut single proper has finally arrived in the form of "Ain't Nobody", a dramatic stunner that showcases the Birmingham chanteuse's booming voice and knack for the epic. While it lacks the chart toppling potential possessed by some of the other Clare tracks we've heard behind closed doors, it's a perfect introduction to her expansive pop sound. Complete with a brilliant remix package featuring killer efforts from the likes of Coyote and Memory Tapes (download the latter below) and a windswept epic of a video that channels "Frozen"-era Madonna, "Ain't Nobody" drops 18th October as Polydor readies her debut album Light After Dark for release in early 2011.
MP3: "Ain't Nobody" (Memory Tapes Remix) - Clare Maguire
MP3: "Ain't Nobody" (Memory Tapes Remix) - Clare Maguire
We won't front like we know all that much about Australia's Kimbra, but she's clearly got a good head on her shoulders, going straight for the crème de la crème of remixers when she hit up our dude Penguin Prison for a mix of her latest single "Settle Down". While the original finds Kimbra intent on settling down, Penguin's all about shaking things up on his remix, upping the BPM and breathing new life into the track via churning synthesizers and the buoyant booms and bips he's become known for. All frenetic minimalism and soulful swagger, it's just another step away from the rest of the pack as Penguin further establishes himself as the freshest new remixer in the game.
MP3: "Settle Down" (Penguin Prison Remix) - Kimbra [exclusive]
MP3: "Settle Down" (Penguin Prison Remix) - Kimbra [exclusive]
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
We've been banging on about how amazing Fyfe Dangerfield's cover of Girls Aloud megahit "Call The Shots" is for quite some time, so the fact that it's taken until now to get an mp3 up on the blog is somewhat unforgivable. Fyfe played NYC a few weeks back though and fully reignited our love for the track, swiftly helping us to realize the err of our ways in sitting on this track for so long. The Girls Aloud original is one of the better mega mainstream singles of the past decade (right up there bumping shoulders with "Rude Boy" and "Ms. Jackson") and boasts a Xenomania-penned topline that's one of the best in recent pop history, so the source material is pretty strong in itself, making Dangerfield's ownership of the track on his cover all the more remarkable. The mp3 below is a live recording from a recent BBC Radio 2 session, and while we still pray for the day a proper studio recording of the cover becomes a reality, this is pretty damn great for now.
MP3: "Call The Shots" - Fyfe Dangerfield
MP3: "Call The Shots" - Fyfe Dangerfield
Friday, September 10, 2010
You'd be forgiven for trying to determine the sample in The Knocks' "Make It Better" - after all, it was the first question we asked when they first played it for us - but on the real it's an original vocal from The Knocks' Mr. JPatt, just pitched up and fucked with. But the sample question came up so often they decided to go back and write a retro original track, as if it were the track they were sampling on "Make It Better", even though it was written after the fact. Confusing, we know, but it'll all make sense when you hear it below. "When You've Got Music", as it's called, is not only a kind of genius idea, but it's also on some unreal vintage soul shit, with JPatt absolutely murdering it on the vocal and stepping out as one of the most talented new vocalists in the game.
MP3: "When You've Got Music" - The Knocks
MP3: "When You've Got Music" - The Knocks
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The third and final installment of Russ Chimes' Midnight Club mini-film has arrived and it doesn't disappoint, wrapping things up in an epic finale soundtracked by EP highlight and next single "Targa", featuring a killer vocal from our main man Cass Lowe. The EP will be available for purchase soon, but for now revel in its accompanying mini-film directed by Saman Keshavarz, the finale of which is above.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
With the release of The Naked & Famous' anthemic debut single "Young Blood" cresting over the horizon as we prepare to drop it next week, it's time to dip into the excellent remix package that's coming together around it. Earlier today Popjustice premiered the epic Sound of Arrows remix as his Song of the Day and made it available for free download on the main page, and now it's time for us to follow suit with the immense Pink Ganter remix. Reinventing the massive central riff of the original as a nearly oriental chimes progression and laying down a relentless, churning bassline along the backbone of the track, it's a brilliant reinterpretation that comes off like The Knife and Diplo getting down in the studio after ordering in one too many dumplings from their local Chinese takeout.
MP3: "Young Blood" (Pink Ganter Remix) - The Naked & Famous [exclusive]
MP3: "Young Blood" (Pink Ganter Remix) - The Naked & Famous [exclusive]
pink ganter,
the knife,
the naked + famous
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