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Today we are going to share here fully solved general awareness questions asked in NABARD Assistant Manager recruitment exam held on March 1, 2015.
GK questions of NABARD Assistant Manager 2015 exam held on 01.03.2015 with answers
- Headquarter of UNICEF? (Ans- New York)
- Chairman of CAFRAL?(Ans- Raghuram Rajan)
- Baba Ramdev is the brand-ambassador of which state? (Ans- Haryana)
- Where was Pravasi Bhartiya Divas 2015 hosted? (Ans- Gandhinagar, Gujarat)
- Contactless credit cards and debit cards have been recently launched by which bank? (Ans- ICICI Bank)
- Name of the present foreign secretary of India? (Ans- Subhramanyam Jaishankar)
- In which field Grammy Award is given? (Ans- Music)
- Slogan of Vistara Airlines? (Ans- Fly the New Felling)
- World's Largest Stock Exchange? (Ans- New York Stock Exchange)
- Name of the first lady officer who lead the inter-service guard of honour? (Ans- Pooja Thakur)
- Name of the scheme for direct benefit transfer? (Ans- PAHAL)
- From which country Samsung Company is originated? (Ans- South Korea)
- Who issues One Rupee Note? (Ans- Finance Secretary)
- How many numbers of credit information companies in India? (Ans- 4)
- Where was SWIFT founded? (Ans- Brussels, Belgium)
- ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 is being hosted by which countries? (Ans- Australia, New Zealand)
- Minimum capital required for setting up a small bank? (Ans- rs. 100 crore)
- Who was the costliest player in auction of IPL-8? (Ans- Yuvraj Singh)
Note: These questions have been shared by the candidates collected from their memories.

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As if the procedures in place for handling cases involving sexual assault on college campuses weren't muddled enough, things have just gotten more complicated.
On Friday, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals threw a wrench into the current landscape. Or rather, they threw a bone to male defendants everywhere who've been accused of sexually assaulting women on campus.
The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals revived a previously dismissed case involving a male student at Columbia University who was accused of sexually assaulting a female student and subsequently suspended from the university for a year. The defendant then claimed that Columbia mishandled the case because the university's investigator didn't do her homework while researching whether the allegations against him were true.
Not only that, but the student's legal team claims the university's investigator and Columbia's officials operated with a particular bias against their defendant because he was a male student accused of sexual assault and the university didn't want the bad publicity associated with the case.
All of this now means that the Court of Appeals has effectively allowed a male student to proceed with a case claiming protection under Title IX, which bars gender discrimination in federally funded education institutions. Historically, Title IX has been used by women to fight against discriminatory policies. Now, "John Doe" can proceed with his claim that the university operated with an "anti-male bias."
Male defendants haven't previously been able to successfully move forward with cases where they claim that they were discriminated against because of their sex. But this particular case at Columbia has some details that gave the court pause, such as not informing the student of his rights during the proceedings.
Universities and colleges across the nation have been under increased pressure to better handle cases involving sexual assault and it's not too hard to think, the court said, that the university acted out of a fear of public reprimand.
"[I]t is entirely plausible that the University's decision-makers and its investigator were motivated to favor the accusing female over the accused male, so as to protect themselves and the University from accusations that they had failed to protect female students from sexual assault," wrote Second Circuit Judge Pierre N. Leval.
The court didn't rule on the merits of the case, but rather on whether the male student's claims could potentially hold up in court. But this might have some more serious repercussions for universities that reprimand accused students, according to Inside Higher Ed.
"The decision will encourage many more courts not to dismiss comparable Title IX complaints at early stages," Gary Pavela, editor of the Association of Student Conduct Administration's Law and Policy Report and former president of the International Center for Academic Integrity, told Inside Higher Ed via email. "That means more litigation, more discovery and more settlements. More settlements are likely because not many university defendants (or their insurance companies) want juries deciding these matters, especially when standards for consent are so broadly and vaguely written."


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Tate's Comics, inc. is the brainchild of Tate Ottati, who as a seventeen year old high school senior, opened his store on March 28, 1993. While "playing" his high school economics class' stock market game, Tate also invested in Marvel Comics stock in real life. He and did very well in the "game" as well as in the "real-life" stock market! Lucky for Tate, he sold the Marvel stock when it was at the highest it was ever going to get. Shortly after he sold it off, Marvel went bankrupt and the stock was not publicly traded for a few years. That original Marvel seed-money helped to open the store! With the help of his supportive father, Tony Ottati, Tate opened the doors to Tate's Comics, Inc. In those first months, the store was only open when he was out of school, 3-8pm!
Tate's first location was a 1,000 sq. foot store that was home to all his favorite things… featuring a variety of comics, graphic novels and toys. With Tate's youthful eye for new merchandise and personal taste, the store did well and expanded quickly. Within two years the store was moved to a larger location around the corner, 4942 was the address number. Tate soon expanded the store's merchandise to include Japanese animation videos, Japanese comics and garage model kits. In 1995 anime and manga was very hard to find and word quickly spread that there was a local store catering to this "new" medium! That same year, TATE'S began renting rare Japanese anime import VHS videos to South Florida customers, who were thrilled to have the opportunity to see at home what was mostly only shown in anime fanclubs at the time. This was 1995 don't forget… the internet was just getting started!
In 1996, Tate met his wife Amanda (who was a customer at the store, of course) …and as the years passed she began to contribute her favorite things to the store's offerings as well. By ordering a small selection of lowbrow art and popular culture books, as well as adding cult/horror movies to the video & rental sections the store became even more diverse. Then, in 1997, JoAnn (currently store manager) joined the TATE'S family. She was just a 16 year old high school gal when she started, but her passion for Sailor Moon and all things anime led to the further expansion of TATE'S rental selection and anime merchandise. The store now had just the ingredient it needed to grow even more, a woman's touch! See what our store looked like back in the year 2001... and also gawk at some photos documenting our big move out of there! What an undertaking!
After a successful 7 years at TATE'S 4942 location, it seemed that we were bursting at the seams with merchandise and ideas!
Tate decided to move his shop up the street, to a much larger location in Lauderhill's historical "Promenade Shops", which was once home to the local indie record store Uncle Sam's. After spending nearly 6 months working on the design & 'theme' of our new 4566 superstore, the doors were opened to our current location on July 31, 2002. See photos of the work in progress, way back in '02! The store was bigger, better and cooler than ever before, we were really excited to offer our customers more merchandise and a more unique shopping environment! We had some fun things when we first opened this location… in addition to all the artwork & sculptures that remain on the walls today, we also had an actual photobooth (which was always breaking down, so we had to get rid of it… sad) and an original Tron standup arcade game (same sad story as the photobooth).
Even with the truly wide variety of merchandise that TATE'S carried, there WAS one thing missing… games and a place to play them! In response to an outcry of customers looking for "a better place to game", in October 2003, TATE'S Gaming Satellite was opened. It started out as a tiny 500 square foot shop, just a few doors down from the "big" store, and had a full selection of gaming merchandise and supplies – including tables for gaming, tournaments, snacks and drinks. The Gaming Satellite was a success and quickly outgrew it's first home. In March 2005, TATE'S Gaming Satellite relocated a few doors north into a much larger 2,000 square foot location. It now offers more merchandise and lots more room for gaming!
Tate had always dreamed of expanding the store "just one more" time… somehow we still needed more space! So, when the tenants on our north side left the shopping center in the summer of 2006, Tate's dream became reality. It was quickly decided that TATE'S would expand once more, this time an additional 2,000 square feet – bringing our store to a total of over 6,000 square feet!! The huge wall between the two bays was removed and after much work on everyone's part the expansion project was completed in October 2006. But wait! We're not done yet! In January 2015 we took over the empty store on our south side, expanding the main headquarters to over 10,000 square feet!
Part of Tate's "expansion dream" was to include an art gallery and boutique inside a 700 square foot loft area that was upstairs in this new section of the store. So, after many years of working full time elsewhere and helping to run the store, Amanda quit working for 'the man' and started working for 'her man'! Dubbed Bear and Bird Boutique+Gallery, it features original artwork, gallery shows and unusual merchandise! Opening for the first time on February 3, 2007 with a massively successful first art show, For Love of Munny, the gallery was off to a great start. With a focus on new artists and creating new art collectors, Bear and Bird is a perfect compliment to the varied people and merchandise that have made TATE'S successful since it's beginnings.
In 2009, we were awarded the prestigious Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award! The Eisner Spirit Award is presented annually at San Diego Comic-Con, "the largest comic book and popular arts event in the United States". Since 1993, The Eisner Spirit Award has been presented to an individual retailer who has performed an outstanding job of supporting the comics art medium both in the community and within the industry at large". It really and truly meant a lot to Tate to be recognized by the industry and his peers. It is an international award that can only be given once per store's "lifetime" and we couldn't be more proud and honored to have won!
After many, many years of spending all their time and energy on making the store a better place, Tate and Amanda started a family. Rosemary Jane was born on her mother's birthday in May 2010 and spent most of her first two years 'working' at the store with her mom. She was often on hand to 'rearrange' the shelves and smile sweetly at customers, she loves visiting 'daddy's store'. In March of 2012, the male heir was born. Named after his father (of course) little Tate Wolfgang is still too little to realize that he won the kid lottery! Both of the little kiddos are usually present at our many special events, but spend more time at home now. Two munchkins running around is just too much destruction… even in an over 6,000 square foot store! But, it is only a matter of time until we put them to work pricing merchandise and running the register! You can be sure that these two little people will transform and improve our store even more in the years to come! We take pride in always evolving and changing, while still staying true to our roots.
News Archive
5/16/93 – Sun-Sentinel
8/5/93 – Miami Herald
6/24/03 – Sun-Sentinel
3/16/05 – City Link Magazine
5/27/05 – Toy Shop Magazine
December 2008 – Paper Magazine
December 2008 – Clutter Magazine
December 2008 – Top Cow's 'World Moos'
December 2013 – Inked Magazine
December 2013 – S FL Business Journal
February 2014 – BUST Magazine
January 2018 – ICV2
2003 City Link 'Best of Hall of Fame'
2004 City Link 'Best Comic Book Store'
2005 New Times 'Best Comic Book Store'
2005 City Link 'Best Comic Book Store' & 'Best Movie Night'
2006 New Times 'Best Comic Book Store'
2006 City Link 'Best Comic Book Store'
2007 New Times 'Best Comic Book Store' & 'Best Boutique'
2007 City Link 'Best Comic Book Store' & 'Best Place to Buy Affordable Art'
2008 Miami SunPost 'Best Geek Mecca'
2008 New Times 'Best Comic Book Store' Reader's Choice (no writeup)
2008 New Times 'Best Place to Meet Intelligent Women'
2009 New Times 'Best Comic Book Store'
2009 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailing Award
2013 New Times 'Best Bookstore' Reader's Choice (no writeup)
2013 Channel 10's Local Top Ten List '1st Place' Art Gallery, Place to People Watch, Antiques and Memorabilia
2014 New Times 'Best Comic Book Store'
2014 New Times 'Best Bookstore' Reader's Choice (no writeup)


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Erin, 17, getting her face painted, isn't she gorgeous.
This was at the San Diego Zoo, on Wednesday. It was a great day.
yes she is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Everyone looks great. Everyone (even the teenagers) looks like they are having fun. My favorite shot has to be you with the two kids. I might have to have someone take my picture with the kids when everyone is here for the wedding..ReplyDelete
She is indeed! Happy Independence Day Jan!ReplyDelete
She is gorgeous! Love the paint, someone is very talented!ReplyDelete
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Ebola outbreak: Sierra Leone in lockdown
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The authorities in Sierra Leone are enforcing a three-day lockdown to curb the spread of Ebola, with the entire population ordered to stay at home.
There is a two-hour exemption on Friday to allow Muslim prayers and a five-hour window for Christians on Sunday.
Volunteers are going door-to-door, looking for people with signs of the disease and reminding others how to stay safe.
Dozens of new cases are still being reported in Sierra Leone every week.
However, the three West African countries worst affected by Ebola - Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea - have seen a steep reduction in infections in recent weeks.
Journalist Umaru Fofana in Freetown says the normally bustling streets in the east end of the capital Freetown was deserted first thing in the morning, except for a few children fetching water in jerry cans.
Do lockdowns work?
By Smitha Mundasad, BBC News health reporter:
This lockdown comes amidst some rare good news. According to official figures from the World Health Organization, there were just 33 new confirmed cases last week - the lowest number since June 2014.
But with these falling figures there is danger of growing complacency, the government says.
This is one of the main reasons behind the lockdown - volunteers will remind people how to protect themselves against a virus that is still a real threat.
They will focus their efforts on northern and western areas where some infections still come as a surprise to officials - 16% of cases last week were not known Ebola contacts.
Experts have criticised previous stay-at-homes as too heavy-handed and top-down in their approach. Concerns were raised that some people did not have access to food.
The hope is, a year after the outbreak was declared, such logistical problems have been ironed out and that this measure will bring the country closer to its goal of zero Ebola infections by April 2015 - an ambitious target that is just two weeks away.
The lockdown ends at 1800 GMT on Sunday.
This is the second time Sierra Leone has enforced a national lockdown, asking its population of about six million people to stay home.
The last one, in September, was criticised by the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) which said it would force people underground and not help contain the virus.
The nationwide lockdown was needed because "complacency has set in - people seemed to relax", the spokesperson for Sierra Leone's National Ebola Response Centre, Sidi Yahya Tunis, told the BBC's Newsday programme.
"We want to re-energise people's commitment to the fight against Ebola," he said.
Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea have set a target of having no new cases by the middle of next month.
The outbreak has killed more than 10,000 people in the three countries over the past year.


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Thank you for ever being there in my consciousness. You are an inspiration. It was a joyful day I stopped by your booth in San Marco so many years ago. ( we will not talk about how many years ago that was LOL ) Love and Blessings to both of you.
Our seasonal juice fast, and about finding outrageous joy
Our seasonal juice fast, and about finding outrageous joy
I am a big believer in doing a seasonal detox four times a year.
Recently, I heard a nice saying: "Almost everything will work better if you unplug it and then plug it back again, or after you reboot it, including YOURSELF…."
So it is the time of the year for our NZ autumn seasonal detox.
Whenever I read detox recommendations by fitness gurus or famous nutritionists, I realize that for me, what they suggest eating is not a detox, but just the way I normally eat.
For me, a real detox is a juice fast.
It felt fairly difficult for me this time, to do the ten day seasonal fast.
So instead of doing ten consecutive days of drinking only four or five fresh squeezed juices per day, I decided to break the juice fast into a series of three days of juicing, followed by a day of light eating.
We plan to repeat this until we have fasted a total of 10-15 days.
A good help in our juice fast has been the huge, overgrown cucumbers in our garden.
When we left NZ, the cucumber plants in our veggie patch were so small.
Now they are huge and some of the cucumbers were the size and color of pumpkins.
Still, they tasted good when I juiced them, and I have used them as a base for many of our juices.
I must admit that even though I have felt hungry, I have also noticed that I feel lighter, healthier, happier and most of the time, in a light-hearted, joyous mood.
My mood also feels elevated because the process of selling our house is going very well.
We have a wonderful real estate agent and lots of qualified people who have absolutely LOVED seeing our house.
Some said it is the nicest property they have seen thus far in their whole search.
Yes, some of the people still have to sell their properties in order to buy ours, or are planning to relocate from overseas, but it is so nice to see how positively and eagerly people have responded to our lovely property.
We are now sure that it will only be a matter of time before we pass over the keys and title to this fabulous property to the new owners.
I truly wish that the new owners will experience the same peace, bliss and expansion that we have felt while living here.
I am also sure that our little community will benefit from the new owners, who no doubt will bring the new horizons of their life experiences to blend with those of the community.
After all….It is truly a magical place….
Some local people have already expressed their regrets to us for not being able to see us again, once we move away from the area.
It felt very heartwarming to hear this…
Nowadays, I look at everything in this place with an almost nostalgic appreciation.
I bought some Maori icons to wear around my neck, and many days I reflect on the fact that this visit might be one of my last here…
I remind myself to look on ALL things and all people with love, appreciation and open-mindedness.
I believe that your journey here on earth was never meant to be a struggle.
It is about remembering and realigning with Your Source Energy.
It is about reawakening to the light, beauty, clarity, goodness, and POWER that is really WHO YOU ARE.
You are not an individual ego identity.
You are a powerful Spirit.
You contain multitudes of individual identities, of everyone you've ever lived in your many incarnations.
If you could ever remember some of your many incarnations (like some spiritual masters do), you would be able to refer to yourself as did the kings and queens of the past, when they used the royal "We."
You truly contain multitudes….
Your eternal Spirit has taken on many incarnations and thus you are a collection of all that you've ever been, are now and are yet to be.
It is possible to always feel this power, and to value your own personal perspective.
This 'Non-Physical Source Energy' that creates worlds upon worlds, actually flows through your very being and informs all of your decisions.
This powerful Source Energy can be channeled through your intentions, gaining more power by your every thought, for the creation of that which you set into motion in your reality.
You ARE an ETERNAL SPIRIT, which is perfect, complete, wholly lovable and good.
You are a Co-Creator, and beside creating your own reality and guiding your own perspective, you are also part of the creative force of the universe.
Your body is an energy field that reflects your inner ideas and beliefs.
It is constantly changing, as you continue to change your mind about this and that, and above all, about who you think you are.
You cannot help but move forward.
But you are not here on a quest to move forward — you are here to experience outrageous joy.
This is why you are here!
Allow me to repeat this:
You are here to experience OUTRAGEOUS JOY!!!!
Your life was NEVER meant to be hard or a struggle against time, hardships, a myriads of illnesses and lacks.
It is about finding unbound joy INSIDE of you….
But first, you need to learn to differentiate between joy and pain.
Because you do not remember who you TRULY are, you do not know what is good for you.
Ultimately, the joy in your soul, will make you outrageously happy.
What feels truly joyous, can feel painful to your ego.
Not feeling like you need to defend yourself or your point of view can be VERY liberating, but the ego does not like it.
It feels misunderstood and vulnerable, both feelings that with the right perspective, can feel very light and liberating.
I have my beliefs.
They make me feel joy.
I see no need to preach them nor to convince anyone.
If other people's perspectives work for them, that's truly great.
I am delighted for them.
I did not come to this earth to fix anyone, not even myself….
I came here to be joyous and to learn how I create my own misery.
Leonard Cohen sang in his song "A Singer Must Die:"
….And I thank you, I thank you for doing your duty
You keepers of truth, you guardians of beauty
Your vision is right,
My vision is wrong,
I'm sorry for smudging the air with my song….
So it is in this ego-defying, humble attitude, that liberty is found:
"Your vision is right,
My vision is wrong,
I'm sorry for smudging the air with my song…"
The ego often tells you that you are right.
You may be right in your reality and it is best to listen to your own inner drummer.
Certain things that your ego tells you are fun (like eating a rich cake,) can lead to bad health, bad choices and to having much conflict and worries.
Once you let JOY or bliss be your guide, you find that ego victories are so short lived and do not lead to anything that is lasting.
REAL JOY comes from finally remembering and realizing your true Nature, calling upon your forgotten REAL powers and resting on the shores of the ocean of your inner peace…..
In the "outside" world, you may be a truck driver, a writer or an artist, a shop keeper, an educator or a factory worker.
It does not matter.
Inside, you hear an inner Guide that is eternally wise who leads you towards your greatest joy….
My days here in NZ are very quiet.
We work in the garden or I paint in the studio.
The painting is going very well.
I relish the quiet and the views.
I look at the birds, butterflies and the trees and take in the vibrational peace.
We took a few days and planned our upcoming trip to Japan and made some bookings in hotels and beautiful Ryokans (Traditional Japanese Inns), as well as our apartment rentals in Fukuoka.
I have loved so many places on this earth…
I loved every inch of the countryside, sea, mountains and desert of Israel…
I loved so many places in Europe, India and Asia, America…
Some places I loved and left, knowing that I will return one day, and some places I've left taking with me the beauty in spirit, and thus never felt that I went very far away from it…
From the shores of the Hokianga, I send you thoughts of LIGHT…
To bless your journey here on earth….
I urge you to look within and find your own outrageous joy….
It is after all, why you came here to begin with….
2 Comments on "Our seasonal juice fast, and about finding outrageous joy"
My Dearest Ray,
it is so good to hear from you! Thank you for your sweet words.
I am also glad you stepped into my booth at the San Marco Art Show….
We stayed soul friends ever since….
lots of love,


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It's hard to believe how much has changed in two and half months.
The last time Minnesota (16-7-1, 11-3-0 WCHA) and North Dakota (11-8-2, 7-7-0 WCHA) met, November 4-5, the Gophers swept the Fighting Sioux to raise their record to 9-1-0 and were the number one team in the country. Since then they have gone 6-6-1, losing their last two games to Northeastern and Notre Dame, while North Dakota has gone 8-2-1 and rebounded from what seems to be an almost annual slow start.
With both teams teetering in different directions, it makes this weekend's series at Ralph Englestad Arena in Grand Forks that much bigger for the Gophers. They still are tied for the WCHA lead with Minnesota Duluth (UND is sixth, 8 points behind) but there is little margin for error.
Of course it's not like either Minnesota or North Dakota need much to be motivated against each other. Both teams hate hate hate each other (that's 3 hates) and it's one of the best rivalries in college hockey. It's not a UND series if at some point a mass fight doesn't break out or either team has more players in the box than on the ice.
Another change from the last time the two teams played is North Dakota's name, or lack of one. This is the first home series since UND retired the "Fighting Sioux" nickname after a long NCAA battle for the nickname-less team west of Minneapolis (that's sure to catch on, right?). It's sad, even for someone like me who grew up hating UND, but at least the team will continue to wear the logo on their jersey through the end of the season.
On the ice, North Dakota has played well recently despite being bit by the injury bug. Heralded freshman Rocco Grimaldi has been limited to four games this season while Corban Knight, Derek Forbort, Mario Lamoureax and Derek Rodwell have all missed games due to injuries. Forbort, who was injured playing for Team USA at the World Junior Championships, and Knight, who missed North Dakota's last 3 games, are both game-time decisions while Grimaldi will miss this weekend's series.
Two players to watch for UND are goalie Aaron Dell and forward Brock Nelson. Dell, who found his groove in the first Minnesota series, has continued to shine as the senior has one of the better blue lines in the WCHA in front of him. Nelson, a 2010 first round pick by the New York Islanders, is tied with Danny Kristo in points with 24 and has been the team's catalyst with 15 goals.
Minnesota, on the other hand, is looking to improve special teams and get more secondary scoring. With both not having the same effect as earlier in the season, getting guys not named Nick Bjugstad, Zach Budish or Kyle Rau on the score sheet even-strength and not taking bad penalties will help the Gophers put a damper in North Dakota's second-half surge. It's not an easy feat to win at the Ralph - just look at a few years ago where a top-ranked Gophers team went to Grand Forks and got swept, losing 6-0 - but they have won in tough environments.
Regardless, both games this weekend should be great. Minnesota-North Dakota games rarely disappoint (unfortunately I haven't forgotten about that 6-0 game) and the two earlier this year featured a 2-0 goalie duel and Kyle Rau capping a two-goal comeback with less than a minute left. Plenty has changed since then but with only 14 games left in the regular season, the four points at stake in Minnesota's final WCHA trip to Grand Forks might be more important than the rivalry.
Well almost. Some things haven't changed.
Minnesota and North Dakota play two games in Grand Forks Friday and Saturday. Friday's game starts at 7:30 PM on Fox Sports North while Saturday's game begins at 7:00 PM on FSN Plus.


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Music icon David Bowie's estate has sold the publishing rights to his "entire body of work" to Warner Chappell Music (WCM) for more than $250 million.
The late 'Changes' hitmaker died of cancer in 2016. He released a total of 111 singles in his career, and the deal with Warner Chappell Music (WCM) includes tracks from his 26 studio albums, his upcoming posthumous record 'Toy', the two albums he released with supergroup Tin Machine, and songs featured on soundtracks and other projects, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
WCM co-chairman and chief executive Guy Moot said they were "proud" to be "chosen as caretakers" for the 'Space Oddity' singer's "extraordinary" music.
He said in a statement: "All of us at Warner Chappell are immensely proud that the David Bowie estate has chosen us to be the caretakers of one of the most groundbreaking, influential, and enduring catalogues in music history.
"These are not only extraordinary songs, but milestones that have changed the course of modern music forever. Bowie's vision and creative genius drove him to push the envelope, lyrically and musically – writing songs that challenged convention, changed the conversation, and have become part of the canon of global culture.
"His work spanned massive pop hits and experimental adventures that have inspired millions of fans and countless innovators, not only in music, but across all the arts, fashion, and media. We are looking forward to tending his unparalleled body of songs with passion and care as we strive to build on the legacy of this most extraordinary human being."
The new agreement follows a previous deal between Bowie's estate and Warner Music Group for them to oversee his full back catalogue of albums between 1968 and 1999.
WCM Co-Chair and COO Carianne Marshall added: "This fantastic pact with the David Bowie estate opens up a universe of opportunities to take his extraordinary music into dynamic new places. This isn't merely a catalogue, but a living, breathing collection of timeless songs that are as powerful and resonant today as they were when they were first written.
"We were pleased that the estate felt that Warner Chappell has the knowledge, experience, and resources to take the reins and continue to promote a collection of this stature.
"All of our global leaders and departments are incredibly excited and primed to get to work with these brilliant songs across multiple avenues and platforms. And with both sides of WMG now representing Bowie's career, we couldn't be better set up to represent this illustrious body of work."
The legendary singer's estate are "truly gratified" by the deal, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
On behalf of the David Bowie Estate and RZO, Allen Grubman said: "We are truly gratified that David Bowie's body of music will now be in the capable hands of Warner Chappell Music Publishing. We are sure they will cherish it and take care of it with the greatest level of dignity."
Although the cost of the deal hasn't been disclosed, variety.com estimated it to be worth "upwards of" $250 million.
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Jazz pull away in 4th quarter, beat Timberwolves 120-108
SALT LAKE CITY -- Donovan Mitchell scored a season-high 39 points and the Utah Jazz beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 120-108 on Friday night.
Mitchell added six rebounds and five assists in his return from a two-game absence due to a back strain. With both Mike Conley and Joe Ingles sidelined, he handled point guard duties in his first game back and shot 57% from the field, including 6 of 11 from 3-point range.
'I thought we executed well offensively with a group that hasn't played together as much,' Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. 'And then we got stops. We were able to run out and get some things in transition.'
Bojan Bogdanovic added 24 points and 12 rebounds, Jordan Clarkson chipped in 20 points and Rudy Gobert added 14 points, 16 rebounds, and four blocks.
Utah went 35 of 41 from the free throw line.
'You look at last year how they guarded us, how they played us with physicality. It kind of gave us trouble,' Mitchell said. 'So this year, the way we were able to combat that, get to the free throw line and continue to play through it with force (and) pushing the pace. As a group, we did a really good job of just continuing to put pressure on them.'
Minnesota's Anthony Edwards scored 26 points in his return after a six-game absence due to health and safety protocols. Malik Beasley added 22 points for the Timberwolves.
Minnesota was short-handed offensively with both Karl-Anthony Towns and D'Angelo Russell, who are still sidelined due to health and safety protocols, absent from the lineup.
After Patrick Beverley hit a go-ahead 3-pointer a minute into the fourth quarter, the Jazz scored 22 unanswered points to pull away from the Timberwolves. Mitchell ignited the run with back-to-back baskets and scored 12 points during the outburst. Gobert and Mitchell finished it off with back-to-back baskets that gave Utah a 113-92 lead with 5:51 left.
'Guarding them is tough,' Edwards said. 'Our lineup, I think everybody held their own. Guarding them is tough because they got so many shooters on the floor.'
Utah built a 13-point halftime lead, going up 63-50, by knocking down 3-pointers and repeatedly getting to the free throw line.
The Jazz made seven outside baskets - with four coming from Mitchell - and shot 54% from the perimeter before halftime. Utah also shot 22 of 26 on free throws in the first half. Bogdanovic and Gobert each had eight free throw attempts, equaling Minnesota's total free throw attempts in the first two quarters.
Minnesota rallied in the third quarter and erased Utah's lead. Jaden McDaniels capped a 12-2 run with a go-ahead jumper that gave the Timberwolves a 79-78 edge. Edwards and Naz Reid each scored a pair of baskets to fuel the spurt.
'I didn't think we brought the right amount of intensity in the first half,' Minnesota coach Chris Finch said. 'I think we ran out of gas because we had to exhaust so much (energy) in the third quarter.'
Timberwolves: Jordan McLaughlin had a season-high three steals, all in the first quarter. '» Jaylen Nowell has totaled 11 assists in his last two games. '» Edwards and Nowell fouled out in the fourth quarter.
Jazz: Joe Ingles (lower back strain), Mike Conley (rest), and Eric Paschall (personal reasons) were sidelined for Utah. '» Trent Forrest made his first career start. Forrest finished with four points, three rebounds, and three assists. '» Hassan Whiteside did not return after halftime because of concussion-like symptoms. Clarkson inadvertently struck Whiteside across the face during a collision in the second quarter.
Gobert registered an emphatic fourth block against Beverley with 5:55 left near the tail end of Utah's game-clinching 22-0 run. Beverley publicly downplayed Gobert's defensive playmaking abilities after the previous meeting between the teams.
The three-time NBA defensive player of the year denied having any extra motivation to make that sort of statement play on Beverley specifically.
'I always play with emotion,' Gobert said. 'It was a good moment. It was a key moment of the game. We were playing great. We were making a run. Just a cool block. I think if it had been anybody else, I would have reacted the same.'
Minnesota: At Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday.
Utah: Host Golden State Warriors on Saturday.
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LONDON: UK retailer John Lewis has described the five-week period to December 27, 2014 as a "logistics Christmas" as sales totaled a record £777 million, an increase of 5.8 percent compared to 2013 and up 13.4 percent from 2012.
With online sales rising 19 percent over last year's holiday season, the company says its 'Click & Collect' delivery option - buying on line and collecting from a store - totaled 56 percent of online orders, overtaking home delivery services for the first time.
Andy Street, managing director of John Lewis commented: "This year confirmed the new shape of trade for Christmas, with an early peak at the end of November driven by Black Friday and last minute gift buying.
'With Black Friday driving a higher proportion of online sales and customers increasingly wanting more convenience, this has meant a real concentration on fulfillment, making this a truly logistics Christmas. The investments we have made and the new capabilities we have built in recent years in distribution and IT have been fundamental in ensuring we successfully navigate this changing shape of trade."
The company says 'Black Friday' on November 28 led the biggest weekly sales bounce in its history with sales up 22 percent year-on-year as its website saw a 300 percent increase in traffic during the first hours of trading on the first day.
John Lewis operates 43 shops across the UK and is part of the John Lewis Partnership, the UK's largest example of worker co-ownership with all staff partners in a business that also includes the Waitrose supermarket chain.
Group revenue for the first half of 2014 was £4.46 billion to produce an operating profit of £176 million and profit before tax of £129.8 million.


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In 1992, the local school council at Darwin Elementary School in Logan Square won an award from Ameritech for its efforts to improve the school. By the end of the year, council wars were raging, sending the school into a four-year tailspin. The school went through three principals in three years, and test scores faltered. When the battles ended in 1996, Darwin was on remediation and not far from probation.Today, the council speeds through its monthly meetings without fuss—often in less than an hour. The current principal has been in place for almost three years, test scores are climbing, and the school is off remediation.
Peace came the old-fashioned way: One side won—decisively. Looking back, the former combatants stand by the actions they took. "It was ugly," says former teacher representative Art Ryden, who served through most of the council wars. "It was not the way school reform was meant to be. I'm very grateful that it's in the past, I'm grateful that the school is run differently now, and I'm grateful to be separated from it."
Most of the principal actors in Darwin's saga entered the fray with reputations as effective, hard-working people of good will.
John Ayers, now president of the corporate group Leadership for Quality Education (LQE), was a community representative on the first LSC. His campaign flyer, headlined "Reform Will Work at Darwin!" featured what he calls a "politician-style" picture of himself, his wife and their daughter Maya, then 17 months old. "One of my campaign promises was that I would put my kid in Darwin school, assuming that we turned it around," he recalls. At the time, Darwin's test scores put it in the city's bottom quarter.
Having lobbied for the 1988 state law that created local school councils and having worked with LQE for more than two years, Ayers already had a stake in reform.
During his two-year stint on the council, he gravitated toward other professionals, including the Rev. Bruce Ray, pastor of Kimball Avenue Evangelical Church and father of a Darwin student, and Audrey Donaldson, the newly-appointed principal, who had been chosen with input from a parent committee chaired by Ray. Ayers thought that with its new principal and new council, the school was headed in the right direction.
Carmen Feliciano wasn't so sure. As a parent representative who had served on a subdistrict council and worked to get new schools built to relieve overcrowding, Feliciano was suspicious of what she calls Donaldson's "buddy buddy" relationship with Ray; she felt Donaldson was trying to co-opt the council. Feliciano saw herself as a spokesperson for parents who didn't know how to get what they needed; it was a mission fueled by memories of how her own mother had been treated by school staff. "They would just push her aside because she didn't know English," she recalls.
For the first couple of years, most tensions stayed beneath the surface, and Darwin started to work its way out of the school system's bottom 100 elementary schools. Thencame a prolonged, emotional debate over a proposal to use year-round schooling to relieve Darwin's overcrowding. From then on, conflict escalated.
In early 1992, Feliciano proposed that parents sit on a personnel committee; some teachers worried that she meant to evaluate—and weed through—current staffers. Feliciano said she only wanted parents to have input in the hiring process; she wondered why teachers would shut them out. The committee was eventually established.
A meeting in early May stretched to four hours as Feliciano and other members pressed Donaldson for more details on the next year's budget, according to council minutes. Donaldson expressed annoyance that these questions were being raised just a week before the budget was due in central office. Feliciano thought Donaldson was resisting her attempts at scrutiny, which only fueled her suspicions that something wasn't right.
By fall of 1992, meetings routinely lasted two to three hours; for several meetings running, the council debated whether a $6,000 purchase of academic calendars for students was—or should have been—explicitly authorized by the council.
In November and December, Darwin approached administrative meltdown. For several weeks, Donaldson stopped buying paper and supplies as the council tried to figure out how and when they wanted her to get LSC approval to spend school funds. Finally, on the advice of school board lawyers, Feliciano withdrew a motion to require the council's OK for any expenditure over $500. Donaldson started buying supplies again, and to placate council members, she reported her expenditures in detail.
There were other issues, and some of them got personal. Donaldson hired Ray's wife, Karen, as a special education teacher at Darwin over the objections of Feliciano and her allies, who complained that Rev. Ray—then the LSC chair—was pulling strings. (In 1996, the board prohibited schools from hiring close relatives of the school's LSC members.) Karen Ray says she went through Darwin's personnel committee just like everybody else. "I know the quality of work that I do," she adds, "so I just kept on keeping on."
The council was gridlocked for months. An assistant principal position went unfilled for more than nine months.
Large chunks of several multi-hour meetings were devoted to arguments over the minutes from previous meetings. A debate over one word—whether Feliciano "felt" or "knew" that school funds had been spent without council approval—stretched across two meetings. At the time, the council secretary produced extremely detailed minutes that summed up each council member's contribution to every discussion, thus adding fodder to the running antagonisms. Later, he switched to a more general recording of what happened.
In May of 1993, Donaldson resigned to become principal of Gage Park High School. The Darwin council couldn't muster enough votes to choose a successor, so the district superintendent assigned an interim principal in August.
Three months later, the council voted to look for someone else; in January 1994, Feliciano and her allies put together enough votes to offer the rest of Donaldson's contract to Tony Dieppa, then an assistant principal at nearby Pablo Casals Elementary.
But Feliciano's influence proved fleeting. By spring of 1994, three or four members who had been voting with her started to question her. One of the new dissenters was Ines Diaz, who had joined the council in late 1993. "I started to be concerned about how these people were doing things," says Diaz. Only recently arrived from Puerto Rico, Diaz spoke little English when she joined the council, but she made a point of learning so she could get her concerns addressed. Diaz quickly gained support from other members, especially teachers who had bitterly opposed Feliciano.
Even so, chaos continued. In June of 1994, the council found that it had cost the school $48,000 in discretionary money because members could not agree on how the funds should be spent. Meetings continued to be marathons, and the new principal's reports to the council became increasingly defensive.
By the end of 1994, the school was back among the city's bottom 100 schools, and its bilingual program was out of compliance with state laws. Meanwhile, Principal Dieppa's frustrations were mounting. "I would like to ask the chairperson why I, being the principal, never get to see the LSC agenda before the meetings," he said at the December meeting, two months after Diaz had become chair. "It seems that nothing here at Darwin has changed."
A month later, in a noisy, turbulent meeting that lasted all afternoon, a council majority voted not to offer Dieppa a new contract. Feliciano and parent representative Ena Martinez objected strongly to the move and were supported by an angry group of parents. Dieppa left within two months, and the district superintendent sent an administrator from his office, Graciela Shelley, to serve as acting principal. He also recommended to the district council that Darwin be considered for remediation, which would open the door to sanctions. A few months later, Darwin became one of the first Chicago schools put on remediation.
From then on, Feliciano and Martinez repeatedly raised emphatic questions about LSC decisions, especially the May 1995 offer of a four-year contract to Shelley, but they were outvoted on every issue.
The final step for the new council majority was ousting their challengers. Diaz zeroed in on the school's Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO), repeatedly asking Feliciano, the group's president, and Martinez, the group's treasurer, to see its financial records. The two officers declined to submit their work to people they viewed as enemies.
By the fall of 1996, both sides were calling for outside help. Diaz asked the Cook County State's Attorney's Office to investigate; to clear their names, Feliciano and Martinez begged the School Board for an audit. There was no official audit or investigation, but a board official who met with both sides did look over the PTO books and said that everything looked OK to him. The PTO account was closed, the organization was reconstituted, all accusations were officially withdrawn. Martinez transferred her son out of Darwin and left the council. Feliciano's children had already graduated, and she continued serving as a community rep.
That was supposed to be the end of it, but it wasn't. In the spring of 1996, when Diaz and Feliciano each organized a slate of candidates for the April LSC election, Diaz circulated flyers that asked, rhetorically, "WHERE IS THE PTO MONEY?" Feliciano and Martinez, running as community reps this time, were outraged at what they saw as a smear, but they had little recourse. They got clobbered at the polls. Feliciano and Martinez charged election-day irregularities; the board nearly ordered a new election, but finally officials let the results stand.
The council has been quiet ever since. Minutes from the last year and a half show no long meetings and no heated discussions, even though the council has had to deal with cuts of hundreds of thousands of dollars in discretionary money. Most of the people elected in the bitterly contested 1996 elections have left the council because their kids graduated; they've been quietly replaced. At a recent meeting, three members were brand new.
Meanwhile, test scores have risen to the point where the Reform Board took Darwin off remediation. The school also is reaching out to the wider community. Early last year, Darwin joined the Parent/Teacher Mentoring Program, which the Logan Square Neighborhood Association has run successfully at nearby schools. (For details, see the March installment of CATALYST'S School Reform: What Matters Most.) Parents in the program commit to 100 hours of help for a teacher; in return, they get a $600 stipend, leadership training and some counseling from teachers and other staff.
To principal Shelley, no news is good news. "I have the best local school council," she says. "No one comes to the meetings anymore to watch. It's not a circus anymore. Teachers used to come and just sit, eating snacks, watching and making fun of everybody."
Ines Diaz stands proud. "Now, the LSC is doing business," she says. "Before, people could only think about the fight between them." Diaz left the council shortly after the 1996 elections, when her daughter graduated, but she occasionally attends meetings.
Diaz sees herself as a prime example of how council membership can pave the way to self-improvement. Encouraged by Darwin teachers to return to school, she's now a junior at Northeastern Illinois University, studying education, and hopes to teach at Darwin when she graduates. Meanwhile, she works for the School Board, administering Darwin's Parents As Teachers First program. "I'd like to encourage other parents: Don't be afraid to be on an LSC," she says. "You don't have to speak English. All you have to do is want to help your children."
Feliciano and Martinez are still active in the neighborhood, mostly with community policing. (Darwin withdrew from a police-sponsored parent patrol program after they left the council.) They remain convinced that they lost an important battle to a bunch of people who were mainly interested in jobs for themselves. "If I was interested in having a job, I could have sold my vote a long time ago," says Feliciano, "but that's not what I'm about."
Feliciano is not without admirers. Vergene Lester, a teacher rep in the early 1990s, tips her hat to Feliciano and Martinez for the commitment they brought to the school and for the questions they raised. But she acknowledges that their style can rub people the wrong way. Lester is concerned about the current calm. "They've got a wonderful gig going here," she says of the current administration. "There's no one to question the budget." Lester says she now lacks the energy and the allies to question it too aggressively herself.
Ayers believes that despite the turmoil, Darwin benefitted from local governance. "We got some terrific new teachers in there, and we cleaned up around the building," he recalls. Most important, he says, was getting new blood in the administrator's position. "There was a 75-year-old white guy who kept parents out of the school for 25 years," he says. "You can imagine when he retired, we'd have another political hack in there, if not for school reform."
Ayers never sent his kids to Darwin. "Five years in, I couldn't put my kid in it, given that I had better options," he says. "You don't sacrifice your kids to politics." His daughter went to Francis Parker, an elite private school, until the family moved to Oak Park.
Rev. Ray left the council in 1993, but Karen Ray still teaches at Darwin; they transferred their son to a magnet school last year. Karen thinks that though the school is still struggling, it is on the right track. "Darwin's a really large school," she notes. "Communication tends to be difficult to really keep on top of. And I told Mrs. Shelley, 'I think we've had cumulative morale slump.' Change upon change is kind of exhausting."
Audrey Donaldson, who was greeted as a peacemaker at Gage Park, is philosophical. "I don't think conflict is always negative," she says. "I think conflict is sometimes very healthy. It certainly helps you to review certain perspectives, certain policies and procedures. And it may cause you to change—and change for the better."


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Thanks to Teefee for pointing out Wendy Williams' status update on Twitter on Tuesday.
I was nervous about clicking the link, but this is the video it led me to. In it, Wendy discusses the recent harassment of Mary Martinez (she mistakenly refers to her as "Mary Hernandez") in a Detroit area Target. Take a look.
I was so happy that Wendy didn't say she had a problem with public breastfeeding, but I am still more than a little bit annoyed at the idea that women are purposefully going around trying to flash their boobs at strangers while nursing their babies. I have yet to see a breastfeeding mom who didn't try to be discreet (and just because you don't use a blanket or one of those ridiculous aprons doesn't mean you aren't trying to be discreet). The thing is, babies aren't discreet. When your kid needs and wants to eat, you have to feed him! Particularly a four-week old!
So while I'm slightly disappointed by this response, it doesn't really surprise me. What did surprise me, however, was this black woman in the audience proudly announcing she nursed her youngest until age 4!
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I looked at him in amazement when during preaching he said he didn't believe he would die; he was trusting God not to see death. At that I realised that brother John Mark's faith knew no limits.He had a reason to live like that: he had such a close walk with God, and so much faith that all things were truly possible with God for him.
From Zambia I had arranged with brother James Veremu for Brother John Mark to visit Zimbabwe. From there he would come back to Zambia and then move on to Kenya. One day whilst eating and chatting with him on a table in the sittting room we were talking about his itinerary, and how it would be good for him to visit Asia again. Smilingly he said, "You know, the Lord had spoken to me about this. He told me that he would raise someone for me to have another round of moving to different places to preach." After saying this, brother John Mark wondered, "After all the things I have seen in my ministry, I wonder what great things will happen again."
Those words sunk into my mind. My thoughts went back to some months earlier when I was driving home with my wife and I suddenly stopped a conversation we were having, saying, "Lets arrange for Brother John Mark to come, Won't it be wonderful?" It wasnt long before I informed brothers and sisters at Believers Assembly of the need to start raising money for the transport and upkeep costs of brother John Mark. Well, the rest is history. We were able to bring him over to Zambia where he moved about in different congregations to preach. In all this, one thing caught my attention – the simplicity of the brother's apostolic ministry and how it didn't excite many people in a manner they get excited when it's some European or American missionaries visiting. But here in our midst was a man who had such a unique and supernatural calling into the ministry!
Shortly after brother John Mark had returned to his home in Karamoja, I phoned him. His voice sounded frail and I wondered why he sounded like that. He spoke slow. Later on when I was informed by his eldest son that he was critically ill,I realised the reason for his ill voice. Later, after I had travelled to and returned from Singapore, we received the devastating news that brother John Mark had gone to be with the Lord on 26th February 2015. This shook our souls. About a week after that, our fellowship received a comforting word from the Lord through brother Annel Silungwe, a brother at Believers' Assembly. Here is his testimony:
In my dream, to this day, I remember so vividly the sentence "Do not worry about the passing of Brother John Mark" like it happened yesterday. After much interaction and travelling to the southern province of Zambia in Choma, with Pastor John Mark, where we stayed for one week I was personally inspired by his humility. Many times at our lodge Pastor John Mark and I shared moments especially when he spoke of very simple but powerful testimonies of how he recovered his stolen bicycle and money on a bus. Some years before I had read his testimony of how he was called into the ministry and I was very much privileged to have accompanied him on this trip.
When Pastor John Mark was finally back home in Uganda I phoned him to just check on him and find out if he travelled safely but he sounded so low that I thought he had not recognized me. I said, "It's me brother…" As I tried to introduce myselt he responded saying, "I know brother". We spoke for a short time and the network connection got cut.
I kept wondering what was wrong until the day I received the news of his passing. I was confused, heart-broken and I kept asking "why Lord have you permitted this to happen? A gallant servant, an anointed man to die?" It was unbelievable. A thought struck and I remembered that he had run and fought his fight well. Then I had a very strange dream in which I was crying and mourning, still asking the Lord as to why he had taken brother John Mark. Suddenly a voice came and said "Do not worry about the passing of Brother John Mark". I woke up and found tears still running down my face., I was literally crying. I testified of this incidence during the main Sunday service at Believers' Assembly.
In pondering over all these events, I realised that brother John Mark's visit to Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Kenya was "another round". The messages he preached admonished believers to stand on the Word and to have faith. More importantly, before his journey, he had a strange dream of seeing ministers naked. He was distressed by the dream as he wondered, "Why are these ministers naked?" The Lord answered him that the nakedness meant the lack of the Holy Spirit in many men who are professing to preach. In this round, this apostle of faith bid farewell without knowing that his ministry had run its course.
The next post will be a sermon by brother John Mark that I have transcribed from an audio recording. It's a message that believers should hear – The Way of Escape. Although already available on our YouTube Channel, other people may not be aquinted with his Ugandan accent and hence miss out on important lines of thoughts brought out in the message. May God bless and keep you.


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03 Oct High Caliber Fest Battles it's Place Amongst Festival Superpowers
High Caliber Fest Battles it's Place Amongst Festival Superpowers
By FeFeline
This past weekend High Caliber set sail for battle; to earn rank amongst its big established festival competitors. This was High Caliber's inaugural event. To draw the masses to the party, Unlocked promotions had to think outside of the usual and came up with a festival aboard a naval battleship, the New Jersey BB-62.
The ship first launched December 7, 1942. In its 48 years of service, the New Jersey earned the Navy Unit Commendation for its Vietnam service, nine battle stars for World War II, four for the Korean conflict, two for Vietnam, three Campaign stars for service in Beirut, Lebanon, and Persian Golf. The ship was decommissioned in 1991 and donated to serve as a museum on January 20, 2000. It's retirement brought with it 19 Battle and Campaign stars earning it the title as most decorated surviving warships. On September 30, 2017, the ship was recommissioned into service in the role of its second calling. The host of a beast Bass rave featuring over 20 artists on 3 stages.
Artist included 12th Planet, Ganja White Night, Bleep Bloop, Gentlemen's Club and Squinto all DJ's who have earned stripes within the Drum and Bass and DubStep genre. The group I ventured with had peak interest in Ganja White Night and Bleep Bloop. I, however, was excited by Um.., their set was killing the game. The 3 stages included the main stage on the pier. The other 2 stages were on the stern and the bow of the ship. As you headed down the corridors of the ship you really have the experience of it being a battleship. They did not remove the structures, for example, the fighter plane that was landed on the deck. They even had a lookout on the top level which overlooked the crowd of the main stage. That was a hot view.
Overall, I felt the concept was nice. Some improvements as they grow bigger should include better weatherproofing. Only one stage had a tent, therefore, the other stages were frigid. There was not enough dancing that could keep me warm, 62 degrees Fahrenheit in September off of the water is crazy cold. The vendor selling the rave shawls, I'm sure they made a killing that night. I bought 2 for $30 and it was a major key. I guess now I need to invest in a black cat spirit hood. Also, the light show was far from impressive. I know, equipment is expensive, so I am hoping to see growth in that area in the future. There were also certain areas of the ship that were blocked off. I would have wished for the entire ship to be open for viewing. Just as EDC has rides you can wait in line to play, I would have loved to see below deck, which I'm assuming is the museum portion of the ship. I feel if they operate it as a tour allow small groups at a time, it would make for a great side activity while enjoying the party.
The light show was far from impressive. I know, equipment is expensive, so I am hoping to see growth in that area in the future. There were also certain areas of the ship that were blocked off. I would have wished for the entire ship to be open for viewing. Just as other festivals have secondary activities, like the amusement rides at EDC or the roller skating at Lolla, I think High Caliber could accommodate the same concept with tours of the museum. I feel if they could pull that off it would add to the excitement of being on this amazing battleship.
I think anyone who loves cool party locations and Bass music will definitely enjoy watching this festival grow. Let's see if High Caliber will make its mark on the scene. They have a long road ahead in this battle of festival dominance.
Do you love Big Bass and Big Ships??
Well, keep an eye out for this festival in the future.
For more information visit High Caliber
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Friday, March 1, 2013
Chris Brown responds to Team Breezy's Solid Message to Him & Critics in New "Project X" Video
Spoken By Kayki
First of all HELLOOOOOOO BabyKayKs. Let me start by saying I'm sorry for like.. one post this week, and a sudden twitter break. I recently started a new venture in life and I was totally overwhelmed this week, but I promise it is just for this week!!!!! Now on to this video.
..I'm always happy to see these tribute videos. I'm honestly a mush for them. This one was very special. I got to watch it unfold via twitter from start to finish and I must say it is beautiful. Chris Brown is blessed in many ways. I've said this many times. He has a praying mother, is extremely gifted in the arts, and has a rock hard fan base that has stood by him through the toughest of obstacles.
Throughout every attempted set back it appears that Team Breezy has become stronger. They've also acquired a few other qualities while enduring the negative press surrounding their fave. For example, I wouldn't like to find myself on the bad side of the fan base notorious for their ability to snap back on anybody who seeks to demean Chris. They can hang with the best of them in a war with words in defense of him, but they decided to take a different approach to negative media today. They decided to focus on the positive... Thats why I love this video (named after Chris' next album out this year).
CB has done a lot of positive things. Just in the past month he's- given away scholarships, he took time out of a party filled All Star Weekend to support an organization bringing awareness to the issue of domestic violence. He even stopped by the Sir Elton John Aids Foundation's annual Oscar viewing party to help bring awareness to the disease. This is a huge deal for someone who much of the media tries to make out as a homophobic monster. Team Breezy, led by one of my fave tweeties Chrissy (also s/o to Dee) & her girl Lisa... decided to speak to CB on a personal level for all of the good he's brought to them and the world. A breath of fresh air for him I'm sure.
According to his digital media producer Jake, CB actually took the time to watch the video and he, "Said it was awesome and how much he loves ya'll"..
So... who really cares how some have decided to label Chris. When you have a fan base who has been through it (and none has been through it like TB), yet they are still here riding with you as you become a better person and artist- your propensity for success is immeasurable. Kudos to TB for this tribute video & kudos to Chris for the things he's gotten right in life...some of us see those things.
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Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant can apparently add insult to his injuries suffered during the All-Star game, as he will reportedly have to pay $40,000 in fines for missing a couple of mandatory events during All-Star weekend, according to USA Today.
Kobe decided to skip a press conference as well as a mandatory charity event for the league's NBA Cares program during the weekend's festivities. He wasn't the only one slapped with a fine though as Boston Celtics' Rajon Rondo and Paul Pierce also will be fined $20,000 for missing the charity event as well.
That is likely the least of the Black Mamba's worries as his Lakers hit the road Wednesday ngiht to take on the Washington Wizards in the nation's capital.
For more news and notes on the Purple and Gold, make sure you head over to Silver Screen and Roll to get in on the action and show off your fanhood.


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Tartu's 3 Absolute Treasures
If Tallinn is the popular face of Estonia, then Tartu is its heart and soul, steeped in history and tradition. Situated between the former and Riga, and with plenty of connections to both, it offers something different from the glamorous walled old towns of the Baltic capital cities.
More than 80 per cent of the people who live in Tartu are Estonians, compared to 55 per cent in cosmopoli-Tallinn, and I found fewer tourists on the streets (no hens and stags too, thank goodness). Instead, students make up a large part of the people I came across, at least during the academic year. English is more useful than Russian in Tartu, and it worked where my weak command of Eesti keel failed me.
Tartu University
Tartu ülikool is the country's oldest and most prestigious university, and the city centre is interspersed with its buildings. Or is it actually a university with a city built around it? After a few hundred years it's hard to tell, but I would love to have studied in such a place. A late dash to the Reserved store to get a rain jacket is not only possible, it's achievable. And hanging out with friends at the pub is an option I'd propose very often.
In contrast, my alma mater was 20 minutes from the nearest shoppping mall by public transit, light-years from home for most of the student population, and we worked our timetables to travel as little as possible. Need to get new clothes after a disastrous lab or workshop session? Forget it.
You're constantly reminded that you're never far from a place of learning, or some adolescent shenanigans. The statues of great students, scientists and thinkers dot the banks of the Emajõgi and Toomemägi, the green hill adjacent to the city that is its main attraction. Young faces fill the galleries and cafes (but not the churches) and greet you when you enter. And free public wifi is everywhere in the centre, putting it firmly in the 21st century.
It was graduation day for another batch of students when I was in town. Smartly-dressed graduates carrying bouquets and their family members surrounded the main entrance. From the outside, however, it looked like a dignified affair. I'm sure they still had as much fun as my classmates and I did at our convocation, even without the gaudy Harry Potter gowns and the mortarboard-throwing silliness.
Old stones and the occasional young stoner come together on Toomemägi, a pleasant green space which overlooks the city. It's dotted with the aforementioned sculptures, fabled bridges and the ruins of St Peter's cathedral.
The old Dorpat Observatory was quite possibly the highlight of the hill, and it'll captivate astronomy geeks for hours. I took a guided tour with a young researcher who was chirpy for an Estonian. I was introduced to what was once the world's largest telescope and many other wonderful instruments that I was afraid to touch or trip over. There are some hands-on exhibits too. Some evenings, the dome opens up for night sky viewings.
Elsewhere in the building, you'll find more national and world heritage treasures, like the Struve Geodetic Arc. This was where Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve worked and taught.
The neighbourhood of Supilinn lies just north of the hill, and it's worth the jaunt for the wooden cottages that you won't see in urban Tallinn. Many of them pre-date the Soviet occupation, to the days when the area was a slum. The situation is rather different now, as indicated by the cars parked on the streets. It's still peaceful and not gentrified by any stretch of the imagination.
The neighbourhood follows the river, and it's a very different world just a 20-minute stroll from the city centre. It was here where I encountered some kids on a traditional Estonian swing and joined them.
Song Festival Grounds
Historically it's very significant as this was also the venue of the first song festival in 1869. The Song Festival Museum is not far from here too The latter's a fantastic place to learn about the tradition that was part of a national awakening and united people during the Soviet occupation. I'd never known anything like The Singing Revolution of the late 1980s.
Sitting in the middle of the empty arena, it seems tiny compared to the size of the present day festival venue in Tallinn, but it's hard to imagine 20,000 people singing Mu Isamaa on Minu Arm in unison without stirring inside. Just play the video if you can't, and maybe you'll wish you could attend the festival.
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3 March 2010
Wordless Wednesday
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Since the late 1970s, how young people transition to adulthood has been shaped by changes in global industry. As job opportunities in the UK have moved away from industrial roles, young people have become more likely to remain in education than ever before, and increasingly strive to gain educational qualifications to enable them to compete in a shrinking labour market.
However, these changes have been accompanied by an increasing anxiety in the UK, the global north and elsewhere about the position of boys and young men. There is still concern that boys are underachieving in school compared to girls, that they are suffering from high rates of suicide and poor mental health, and that boys are increasingly involved in offending and anti-social behaviour.
Policy makers, the media and social commentators have suggested that the problem is down to young men suffering from a lack of male role models – although there is often frustratingly little detail offered as to what a role model is or what a suitable candidate might offer to young men.
These problems are often framed as outcomes of a "war" on boys – or as MP Diane Abbott put it, a "crisis" of masculinity. But men still tend to hold the key positions of authority and control throughout society, and across the world, so how real is this problem?
"Boys" – and girls – are extremely diverse, and there are multiple ways of being a boy. What we really need to be thinking about when we talk about these issues, is which boys and which men are struggling.
In reality it is those boys and young men from working-class backgrounds who live in de-industrialised places who are most likely to be struggling. These men are the ones who are most often associated with the "crisis" and with public fears of disorder, disrespect and delinquency.
Due to economic restructuring over the past half century, working-class young men are no longer likely to be learning to labour, working in mines, factories or elsewhere like their fathers, but learning to "serve" in the growing service industry.
From labouring to learning
So how do young men from post-industrial communities adapt and change in insecure times and make sense of their position as they transition into adulthood? When young men are left with the legacy of industrial labour, do they perform and articulate masculinity in different ways or by different means? In terms of education, do academic or vocational pathways impact upon specific classed identities? What are the broader social and spatial networks within their communities that mediate the identities of these young men and how do space and place impact on who they are and who they can become?
To address some of these questions, I followed a group of about 30 young working-class men living in the de-industrialised south Wales valleys for two and a half years. I shadowed them from their last week of compulsory schooling, up until some of the young men started university. I spent time as an active participant in school lessons, playgrounds, assemblies, dinner halls and parents evenings in order to understand their school lives.
As the boys grew older, I also followed them beyond the school gates: hanging out in the cars they drove, the fast food places they ate in, the pubs and nightclubs they drank and danced in, at university open days, and their places of work. I attended sports events, went shopping, to the cinema and to 18th birthday parties. On one occasion we visited a lap dancing club. On another, I attended the funeral of a young man after a tragic car accident.
What I learnt is that life for these modern young men is not as simple as the media and policy portray it to be. They are seen as feckless, out of control and educational failures, lacking aspiration – but this is simply not true. In fact, for this group of young men in a community of social and economic deprivation, expectations and transitions to adulthood are shaped through the industrial legacy of the region. This legacy has an impact on class and gender codes and what it means to be a man – and what behaviour is deemed acceptable and what is not. This then plays a huge part in educational decision-making and future life chances.
We simply cannot classify young men's issues into neatly defined categories. Really we need to look at how their lives are shaped within specific contexts and localised cultures. It is these issues which need tackling if some of the concerns surrounding young men are to be resolved. Home life, street life, individual neighbourhoods, regions and nations all shape the performance of different masculine identities. And it is these local expectations of manhood that are a huge influence on who they are and the possibility of who they can be.


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Hawaii Rep. Sean Quinlan told Glixel's Brian Crecente, "'Ultimately, it's best for the industry to self-police'" because "'The fear when you introduce government legislation into private enterprise is that we are going to overreach.'" Quinlan went on to say "'The ideal solution would be for the game industry to stop having gambling or gambling-like mechanics in games that are marketed to kids.'"
GamesIndustry.biz's Rob Fahey has an op-ed out going through the industry shift toward microtransactions. Here's a snippet: "Every major publisher is undertaking a strategic shift in a direction they know perfectly well is going to annoy many of their core customers."
Industry names like Richard Lewis and Duncan "Thorin" Shields are not enthused with an article written by PCGamesN's Hannah Dwan titled "The esports industry has a problem with who it is choosing to represent it."
It is highly critical of the pair and names multiple other people and companies. Here's a snippet: "Esports are being represented by people whose histories include racist, misogynist, homophobic, and/or transphobic views, as well as those with violent or deceptive pasts."
Lewis fired back on Twitter, saying, "I told you the hitpieces were coming last night. They focus on two incidents in a career that has spanned 13 years, ignoring everything positive I've done, ignoring testimonials and even who I live with. Let's see if @PCGamesN give me a right to reply as they should." He received support from people like Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles, OpTic Gaming owner Hector Rodriguez, League of Legends player Maria "Sakuya" Creveling and many more.
It's unclear why the piece was not labelled opinion or commentary. TheDW reached out to both PCGamesN and Dwan but has not heard back.
Today is World AIDS day. Twitch and Coca-Cola RED are partnering "on the Arena of Valor channel for the (Coca-Cola)RED Game-A-Thon. Eight of your favorite streamers will square off in an Arena of Valor tournament to raise money for the fight against AIDS," the press release reads.
The Nintendo Switch took the top spot for Thanksgiving weekend sales, Gamasutra's Alex Wawro reports. "the Switch was the top-selling item across all (surveyed) online retailers on the 23rd (U.S. Thanksgiving), the 24th (Black Friday), and the 27th (Cyber Monday)."
Nintendo is also putting an amiibo in a cereal box. Eurogamer's Tom Phillips reports that "Nintendo and Kellogg's are launching a Super Mario breakfast cereal whose box is also an amiibo."
"Digital video game spending was 15 percent up year-over-year in October," VentureBeat's Stephanie Chan reports. "Sales on PC, consoles, and mobile totaled $8.5 billion, as compared to $7.4 billion in October 2016."
Persona 5 tipped over the two million copies sold threshold, GamesIndustry.biz's Haydn Taylor writes.
ESP Gaming is a new "production company for esports and competitive gaming events," according to VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi. "The focus in the events is on making the esports athletes more interesting to follow by telling stories about them with video interviews, [Jeff] Liboon said."
HyperX is partnering with the Dallas Mavericks, Dot Esports' Nicole Carpenter reports. "HyperX will sponsor the future Dallas NBA 2K League team, as well as the rest of the organization. The partnership includes in-arena activities at the American Airlines Arena."
You may notice Pittsburgh Steelers' Le'Veon Bell wearing some Call of Duty cleats. They "represent the Call of Duty Endowment, which is a non-profit organization that works to help veterans find careers after they've completed their military service," Dot Esports' Justin Binkowski reports.
Brendan Greene touted some of the specs for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds on Xbox One X, Engadget's Richard Lawler reports. "Developers are expecting to have it running at 60 fps on Microsoft's just-released Xbox One X, however it may be lower on Xbox One."
HP's global marketing manager Josh Kocurek is optimistic about Blizzard and Riot's franchising for Overwatch and League of Legends. "'With relegations and not having a solid infrastructure inside these leagues, you never knew who was going to be around tomorrow, and it was difficult to place bets and form strong relationships with everyone involved,'" he told AListDaily's John Gaudiosi.
What's going on with Fortnite? "Epic talked about how they plan to improve things like teaming up with friends, team killing, and improvements to the game's visual fidelity," according to Game Informer's Imran Khan. "Epic wants to revamp the way players can play together, trying to fix the current system of Duos and Squads."