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It was a weekend for football lovers across Africa as matches in Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa all produced sparking entertainment, albeit with a lack of goals. Mamelodi Sundowns remain leaders in South Africa while Dolphin FC are emerging as the side to beat in Nigeria. But it is in Ghana that a potential champion is already emerging, with Berekum Chelsea looking to be running away with the lead.
Ghana: Championship in sight
An 11-point lead for Chelsea of Ghana puts them well on course for a first Premier League title as they reaffirmed their credentials by halting the comeback bid of the country's most successful-ever side, Asante Kotoko. Champions Aduana Stars, just two weeks away from their CAF Champions League debut, moved second after beating AshantiGold SC.
Big game: There was no love lost when former African champions Hearts of Oak hosted Heart of Lions in a bid to continue their mini revival after a bad start to the season. But the visitors from Kpandu brought those hopes to a swift end as Gilbert Fiamenyoh scored for a three-point haul, with the Phobians missing a hatful of chances.
Headline-grabbers: Emmanuel Clottey's credentials as a goal scorer are already well established as he topped the goal-scoring charts three years ago and has also had brief spells at clubs in Austria and Denmark. His value to Chelsea was no more evident than in the game against Kotoko, where he robbed opposing midfielder Frank Boateng of the ball in the centre circle and played a swift one-two with Abdul Basit before scoring the game's only goal.
South Africa: FIFA World Cup flashback
Mamelodi Sundowns have extended their lead at the head of the standings, bouncing back from two successive defeats to turn in an emphatic second half performance in their 3-0 defeat of Maritzburg United. But the country is all a-twitter over the pulsating action served up as Ajax Cape Town beat Kaizer Chiefs, to usurp them into second place. Orlando Pirates also lost ground on the leaders as they were held to a 0-0 home draw by Santos.
Big game: All 40,000 seats made available at Cape Town's FIFA World Cup™ stadium were taken and the sell-out crowd were richly rewarded with one of the best Premier League games in years. Kaizer Chiefs found themselves outfoxed by a rampant Ajax Cape Town, who revelled in a World Cup atmosphere as they snatched second place with a second-half penalty from Brent Carelse. The game was played at a furious pace and filled with thrills and spills, but it took a defensive slip to eventually decide it.
Headline-grabbers: Veteran Dutch coach Foppe de Haan spent two decades at SC Hereenveen and then had a successful spell coaching Dutch youth national teams before arriving in South Africa in late 2009 for a career-concluding foreign adventure. He has worked assiduously in moulding Ajax's young players into an effective unit, their crisp passing and rapid movements now beginning to reap dividends.
Nigeria: Leaders start to pull away
Dolphin FC's lead over Sunshine Stars remains at two points after both sides won again at the weekend. But after several weeks of early season congestion at the top of the table, a pecking order is now starting to establish itself. The gap between Dolphin and third-placed Rangers International FC and Warri Wolves remains at six points.
Big game: Defending champions Enyimba have been desperately trying to find some consistency through the opening 10 matches of the season - winning five and losing five. So far failing to find the momentum which carried them to last season's title, they were hoping to move back among the contenders at home against Warri Wolves. But despite both sides producing some sparkling form at Aba, their weekend clash ended goalless. It was Enyimba's first draw of the season and also saw Wolves slip away from the leaders.
Headline-grabbers: Ejindu was top scorer for his club last season and Dolphin FC were happy to hold on to his services for the new campaign, with their captain linked with a possible move away in the off-season. Their pleasure was even more marked after he scrambled home the only goal of a tough home match against Lobi Stars, his 61st minute strike his second goal of the new campaign.
Cameroon: Gap stays at three points
The gap between champions CotonSport Garoua and second Union Douala remains three points as both pulled away from the rest of the Elite One field at the weekend. CotonSport inflicted only the second defeat of the season on Sable Batie 2-1, while Union won 3-2 away at bottom placed AS Lausanne Yaounde.
Big game: Coach Maurice Mpondo warned his Union Douala players about teams at the bottom posing problems, and so it proved as winless AS Lausanne Yaounde fought back hard but could not conjure up a late equaliser. Two goals from Ngome Ntombe had Union coasting before Lausanne's second-half resurgence.
Headline grabbers: CotonSport's Hilaire Momi has now grabbed seven goals this season to go to the top of the Elite One goal scoring charts. The Central African Republic international's 14th-minute effort was followed by a second goal straight after half-time from Ewangue Mbongo.
Army club USFAS helped the chasing pack in Mali's national league by holding leaders Djoliba to a goalless draw.
A convincing 3-0 win for USO over last season's cup winners USFA means they are two points ahead of champions ASFA Yennega in Burkina Faso's national league.
Manzini Wanderers might be at the top of the Swaziland league but coach Thabo Vilakati was sacked before the weekend, leaving assistant Christain Thwala in charge for 3-2 win over Hellenic.


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Spicy Garlic Shrimp
Per Serving: 171 calories, 14.5g fat, 3g carbs, 8g protein
25-30 large shrimp, peeled &
3 tablespoons garlic, minced
¼ cup coconut oil
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon parsley, finely chopped
Pinch paprika
¼ cup green onion, chopped
- Mix garlic and oil together in a large bowl.
- Add shrimp, tossing well to coat evenly.
- Add spices and mix well.
- Let sit 10 minutes at room temperature.
- Sauté in skillet over medium heat.
- Flip shrimp once the underside turns
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday—Yesterday evening, in New York City, I sat on a panel which inaugurated a series of forum discussions to be carried on through the spring for the benefit of the New York Infirmary for Women and Children. I was was delighted to find my cousin, Mrs. Joseph Alsop, as well as a number of pleasant acquaintances , on the panel. The subject was women's work in the war and an effort was made to cover as many outside activities outside of actual industrial work.
The President's speech was heard over the loudspeaker at the hotel where we assembled and everyone listened eagerly. I think his closing stories about the heroism of some of our men fitted in particularly well with an appeal which one of the speakers made for the USO. She had mentioned the fact that some people wrongly think that the services rendered outside the camps to men of the armed forces are apt to make them "sissies." Somehow, that seems to me a poor word to apply to the average boy in our services. If we needed corroboration on her stand, the President's speech gave it.
These stories are illustrative of hundreds of thousands of equally heroic deeds which are being performed every day in the line of duty. Some of them will never be reported. Others will receive recognition in time. One need never worry about the heroism of the youth of America.
Almost any day, any newspaper can supply you with innumerable acts in civilian life, which require courage, initiative and quick thinking and are the background for heroic deeds.
Miss Thompson and I took the plane back to Washington this morning, and I was here for my press conference at 11:00 o'clock. Miss Katharine Lenroot attended to talk about the Pan-American Child Congress, which will open on May 2nd. I was particularly pleased to hear her say that the advances made since this congress first met were really notable.
Now, at its eighth session, we can fix our minds primarily on the needs of the children in the war. We still can feel that well-established social legislation will carry forward the program and improve the agencies now set up in the different countries on this continent, so that the children will be cared for in peacetime as well as during the war period.
I am sure that everyone has the same feeling that I have, a sense of relief that we are going to be told what we should do in this war period in our homes. It will surely reach down into our lives . Some of us may find some adjustments difficult, but, after all, the adjustment of the boy who leaves his job and goes into the armed services is a far more drastic one.
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My Day by Eleanor Roosevelt, April 30, 1942
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Has Calista Flockhart Had Plastic Surgery?
That is the question of the day for many of her adoring fans.
Best known for her role in Ally McBeal, she has an extensive exposure on the television.
How else could a middle-aged mother look so good for so long?
Long rumored to have suffered from eating disorders, she's not an obvious candidate for celebrity plastic surgery.
Maybe, maybe not. Let's see what the evidence has to say.
The Story So Far…
Calista Flockhart was born November 11, 1964 in Freeport Illinois. After graduating from high school, she attended the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988, she moved to New York City. She got her first professional role in A Guiding Light in the early 1990s, and began her trip to fame and fortune.
A natural beauty, she seems to have aged gracefully with the passage of time. The only rumors that do follow her are possibly anorexia or bulimia, started when she made an appearance on the red carpet in very revealing clothing.
She has always stated that those were never diagnosed, but later admitted to too much exercise and too little nutrition. With an admitted sweet tooth, she has always worked on her figure diligently. Pictures dating over the last 20 years, of both body and face, do seem to reveal some variation in her weight.
This is normal for most women. Having been raised firmly upper class, she has always had the resources to maintain what nature gave her.
Calista Flockhart: Little Evidence of Plastic Surgery?
Unlike some other bad plastic surgery before and after pictures, such as Michael Jackson and Carrot Top, the evidence seems scant. She certainly does not fall into the Heidi Montag plastic surgery category.
In 2008, there were rumors of a rhinoplasty, which may be borne out by photography. A blog purporting to reveal such mishaps, says that the skin is thinned, and "her resected greater alar cartilage on one side almost pokes through the tip".
These are allegedly from a rhinoplasty. On another site, she is accused of having her lips augmented.
Calista Flockhart Marries Harrison Ford
Calista's life has been radically altered in the past few years.
Adopting a child and getting married to Harrison Ford are two of the many. Perhaps the soccer mom does not suit her, or makes her feel old.
There is nothing like turning 40 to make a beautiful woman take a long hard look at what needs to be fixed. In the above picture from 2010, she looks pretty good but her face appears to be somewhat drawn. These pictures are from the LA premiere of Extraordinary Measures.
Despite all these rumors, innuendos, and pictures, she has steadfastly refused to comment on plastic surgery. There are plenty of references about her vigilant exercise and stringent diet, as well as her own admission of prior struggles with anorexia.
If she has had the surgery, the results are so subtle it is hard to be sure.
Has Calista Flockhart had plastic surgery? Look at her over the years, and make up your own mind.


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Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 14, Diamondbacks 6 – April 7, 2016
Now for some particulars …
John Lackey's first pitch as a Chicago Cub was an elevated fastball that Jean Segura took out the opposite way.
In retrospect – or I guess just creating a narrative after the fact – that pitch portended some bad things. Obviously the particularly bad thing was the Kyle Schwarber injury in the outfield, and we'll just have to wait for more information on that.
The other bad thing was the middle-up part of the strike zone where Lackey's fastball kept living. It's not where he wants to be, and he got smacked around for his trouble. To his credit, Lackey managed to give the Cubs six innings, with the final three being scoreless. But I'd be lying if I said he looked all that much better in the second three innings than the first. Tons of pitches up, tons of hard contact. Hopefully it's just a bad start that he can shake off next time around. Lackey seems like the kind of guy who doesn't really let a bad start impact him the next time he's out there.
Offensively, the Cubs did what they do: saw so many pitches, put so many runners on base, scored so many runs – and yet somehow still left you wanting to see them score many more. When Anthony Rizzo capped things off in the 9th with a three-run homer, I guess I was ready to settle for 14 runs.
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A team of firefighters were called to Barnsley FC when an alarm was activated by a man standing on the roof of a portakabin at the grounds on Saturday. The Daily Star reports that the man had fallen asleep on the toilets at half time. He had had "a few beers" and woke up seven hours after the match ended (Barnsley lost) and found the entire stadium locked up and in darkness. He climbed on top of a portakabin to seek help and found that he couldn't get down. The Star interviewed a firefighter who said, "He had no shoes on and had lost his mobile phone and his hat. He was more bothered about his hat though. He seemed a smartly dressed lad."
The Bangor Daily News (Bangor in Maine, not Bangor in Wales or Bangor in Northern Ireland) ran this blogpost by a retired economist who is infuriated by the lack of public toilet facilities in Maine now that his bladder is ageing. He posits that the new state motto should be "Maine – Just hold it!" He goes on to list various day trip destinations from Bangor and ranks them according to the quality and/or presence of their toilet facilities. He only gives the I-95 southbound on Newport an F. Apparently you would need to a trained guide to find a toilet there. On the other hand, he gives Schoodic Point an A grade, claiming that the toilet facility there "makes winter visits a treat for locals and tourists alike", which is wonderful, but seems like an exaggerated importance on the value of toilets, and that's coming from an actual toilet blogger.
eNCA reports on students from South Africa, who are currently holding the largest protests in the country since the end of Apartheid in 1994. According to this report the student campaign "Fees must fall" has been remarkable for being so peaceful, in spite of its size. The writer of the story is impressed with the behaviour of the student protestors, who have been seen cleaning up after their protests and even organising study groups during the protests. When some portable toilets were damaged in one of the protests, some of the students even started a campaign to fundraise to pay for the damage done to the toilets, which you can donate to here.
Finally today, we look to that always satisfying source of toilet-related news, Japan, where the Japan News reports on the winner of the Japanese Toilet Grand Prix, which is run by the national government and apparently rewards "toilets filled with interesting ideas". The winning toilet was at Shinseiwadai Kindergarten in Kawanishi, Hyogo Prefecture, where, according to the article "small children frolicked with delight". The toilet "features an objet d'art in the shape of an apple tree about one meter in diameter. Its branches stretch up to the ceiling, where a blue sky has been drawn. When the kindergartners enter the space, a sensor activates a cat, elephant and giraffe and music begins playing." I have added it to my must-see list of toilets.


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On this "Throwback Thursday" (#TBT)…
At a time when "slave cinema" (and TV series) seem to be all the rage, this is a film that must be restored and reintroduced.
Long time readers of this blog may remember Med Hondo, the Mauritanian director, producer, screenwriter & actor, who claims that Danny Glover's Toussaint Louverture project is in fact based on his (Hondo's) own original screenplay; it was in 2010 when we reported on the damning open letter to Glover that Hondo penned, expressing his concerns.
As a recap, the intriguing short version of the story goes… Hondo said he'd been working on a biopic of Toussaint Louverture when he first met Danny Glover in 1991. Glover, taken by the project, made it known to Hondo that he would like to play the role of the Haitian revolutionary in, presumably, Hondo's film.
Hondo claims that Glover then paid for an English translation of Hondo's script, before disappearing with it, allegedly cutting off all communication with Hondo and his co-writer Claude Veillot.
And thus, Hondo states that the film Glover has been trying to make for about a decade or more now, is his own original screenplay.
Hondo, by the way, is essentially one of African cinema's seniors. His directorial debut, "Soleil O," was made in 1967, a year after Ousmane Sembene's first feature "La Noire de."
"Soleil O" screened at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival where it received critical acclaim. He went on to direct some 10 feature films, and acted in 18 others.
And it's one of the films he directed, titled "West Indies," that I'm drawing your attention to.
The full title is "West Indies: Les Negres Marrons De La Liberte" ("West Indies: The Black Freedom Fighters," specifically the Maroons). It was initially released in 1979, and undoubtedly was a landmark in African cinema; and it's also a film that many probably haven't heard of, and thus haven't seen, but really need to!
Good luck finding it on Amazon, Netflix, or even Ebay. From what I was told, it doesn't exist commercially on any home video formats; not even VHS apparently.
"I wanted to free the very concept of musical comedy from its American trade mark. I wanted to show that each people on earth has its own musical comedy, its own musical tragedy and its own thought shaped through its own history" -Med Hondo on "West Indies."
A project that took him upwards of 7 years to get made, it's an absolutely stunning piece of work – a $1.35 million (about $4 million today) color musical epic of a production, made possible by an international cadre of investors – although much of it came from within the African continent.
And while I don't have concrete evidence to prove this yet, I can say with some certainty that it was (and still is, especially when adjusted for inflation) one of the most expensive African films made by an African filmmaker. Although the story it tells takes place primarily in the West Indies, as the title states, and France.
In a nutshell, ambitious in scope, it documents the experiences of black people, starting from the slave trade, to colonialism, to post-colonialism, to neocolonialism, and satirizes French imperialism in both Africa and the West Indies. It's a scathing satire, telling a story of Western oppression told with the stylistic flourishes of a big-budget American film, with a distinct take on the Hollywood musical. It's a one-of-a-kind film that needs to be reintroduced.
The fact that it was adapted from a stage play ("Les Negriers" – "The Slavers" – by Daniel Boukman) makes sense, because it's filmed entirely on a stage set; I give the production designer mega-kudos for the work they did in recreating a number of different worlds all using the very same location and space. It's impressive work, avant-garde grand theater, that doesn't always appear to be happening on a stage.
The film was released in 1979 in France, with Hondo a bit ambivalent about showing it to white French audiences who might not appreciate seeing themselves portrayed in an unflattering light.
Initial reviews weren't stellar, not surprisingly, although it was reported at the time that black audiences loved and exalted not only the film, but also the Pan-Africanist spirit in which it was made – featuring a cast and crew from across the Diaspora.
Of course there was criticism from some black people, who didn't appreciate the film's satirical, comedic and musical elements, which they felt made something of a mockery of the rather grave subject matter.
But it's a technological and artistic achievement of African cinema history, and not even just continental Africa; but the entire diaspora. And it's a shame that Hondo is largely unknown beyond maybe academic and cineaste circles, and that the film isn't widely available!
This is the kind of material that's begging for a Criterion Collection restoration, revamp and release!
If it happens to be screening anywhere near you – more than likely at a festival, which is how I saw it (the CariBBeing Film Festival), or at a college institution – you should go out of your way to check it out.
It demands repeat viewings!
And after seeing it, no offense to Danny Glover, but I'd love to see what Hondo would've done with Toussaint L'Ouverture.
As you'd expect, there's no trailer for "West Indies;" I couldn't even locate a clip or a good still photo to use at the top of this post, which is incredible.
While a filmmaker like Lars Von Trier is celebrated as bold, for the minimalist stage sets he used in films like "Dogville" and "Mandalay," here's an African filmmaker who did something somewhat similar, except with fuller, more lush sets and production design, and, I'd say, done a lot better – and done 30 years earlier, by the way! But few know about it.
And in a time when slave cinema seems to be all the rage, it would be a perfect time to restore and re-release "West Indies."
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Teaching the Civil War: Debate still alive
The controversy over Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell's proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month--first without mentioning slavery and then adding it after an uproar--revealed a continuing debate about how to teach the Civil War.
First the governor said he left it out because he had focused on those issues "I thought were most significant for Virginia," and, apparently he didn't think slavery was one of them. Obviously someone explained history to the governor, and he later issued a mea culpa and a strong statement about slavery's role in the Civil War.
But the apology cannot gloss over the fact that the issue is still alive. While there is little disagreement among professional historians that slavery was the central reason for the secession of 11 Southern states from the union and the eruption of the war, it is still taught as only one of the issues in many Southern schools.
I'm posting an article I wrote last year for The Post's Education page about how teachers in different regions approach the subject.
Here it is:
By Valerie Strauss
Washington Post Staff Writer
The Civil War began 148 years ago this month with the assault on Fort Sumter and ended when rebel forces surrendered in 1865, but the battle over how to teach the conflict to new generations of Americans has never stopped.
Ask Northerners the cause of the war, and the answer often is a single word: slavery.
In many places in the South, the answers can vary: states' rights, freedom, political and economic power.
As students across the region begin springtime Civil War lessons, historians say the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president offers an unprecedented opportunity to break through stereotypes and view the era in broader ways.
''His election means we can be more honest. We can stop giving one-word answers," said Edward L. Ayers, a Civil War scholar who is president of the University of Richmond, in the city that became the capital of the Confederacy.
Obama's ascent, historians say, has opened the door to a national discussion about race. There is renewed relevance to issues surrounding the country's racial past, including the origins and aftermath of its deadliest conflict, said Randall Miller, professor of history at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
"This doesn't mean the subject will be any less controversial," Miller said, "but it does mean that we are again talking about issues such as slavery, freedom, race and fundamental identities.
"Debate over teaching the conflict traces back to the late 1800s, when Confederate supporters propagated the "Lost Cause" view of Civil War history, according to Ed Bonekemper, an adjunct professor at Muhlenberg College and author of several books on the war.
This pro-Confederate interpretation held that slavery did not cause the war and that the South fought heroically despite having no chance of winning. Many historians nowadays say the outcome was not, in fact, inevitable.
There is little disagreement among professional historians that the South's effort to maintain the institution of slavery was the central reason that 11 Southern states seceded from the Union and civil war erupted.
Today's textbooks have largely caught up with this view. But that doesn't necessarily translate to the classroom.
"The way courses are taught depends on the teacher, and changes in textbooks can only go so far," said prominent historian James M. McPherson, a Princeton University professor emeritus.
Les Albers, a history teacher at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington County, agreed: "The Civil War is taught in Alaska a whole lot different than the way it is taught in Tennessee."
Teacher Sharon Drow at Belmont Ridge Middle School in Loudoun County said she teaches her sixth-graders that the war was fought over states' rights.
One of her teaching teammates, Kevin Bartell, said students come into sixth grade thinking that the war was caused by "hands-down, 100 percent slavery," but he teaches a more nuanced view: that slavery was the common thread that ran through other equally important causes, political and economic.
Ron Richards, a veteran social studies teacher at Broad Run High School in Loudoun, said he teaches students that "the war was about power, whether the power should be centralized or fragmented."
Ayers said there has been so much evasion and argument over the years about the war's causes and the role of slavery that many people wind up giving a one-word answer to something that is more complex.
This tendency has become so ingrained in the American psyche that it has been lampooned on the television show "The Simpsons," which Ayers cites in his book "What Caused the Civil War?"
In that scene, a South Asian immigrant is asked on his U.S. citizenship quiz, "What was the cause of the Civil War?"
After launching into a complicated answer about abolitionism and economic factors, he is interrupted by the official, who tells him: "Just say slavery." When he does, he becomes a citizen.
Albers, too, likes to recount that episode. "I tell the kids it's a very simplistic answer," he said.
Albers said he is a living example of the regional mentalities over the war. He grew up in New York, where, he said, he learned "the Northern philosophy" of the war, which was: "The war didn't hit us. We won the war, so get over it. . .Northerners don't really think about it. There's a monument here or there, but that's about it."
Then he joined the Army and trained in the South, where he got a whole different perspective: "The South lost and was occupied. The entire economic system was turned upside down. That gets to the point about how the war was about political power."
Ayers said it is time for both sides to face facts.
"We do understand the centrality of race and slavery in all of American history," Ayers said. "But we also understand that the stereotypes about the war are not accurate. The North did not go to war to bring slavery to an end . . . and without slavery there would have been no Confederacy.
"This means everybody needs to give up something. The self-righteousness of the North and the defensiveness of the white South. It's time."
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I went to a bilingual elementary school in Mexico where we got taught in Spanish in the morning and in English in the afternoon. One thing that continues to stick out in my mind to this day is the widely divergent presentation of the attack at Pearl Harbor. The Mexican textbook mentioned how the Japanese for months openly announced their plans to attack Pearl Harbor, and how the best ships in the fleet were moved away from Pearl Harbor just before the attack. Those facts appeared nowhere in the English textbook.
The version of history you get depends on who you're getting it from.
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TOWN OF KINGSTON, N.Y. >> An elderly couple escaped injury midday Thursday when their vehicle went off Sawkill Road, became airborne, went down an embankment, struck a tree and wound up in the Sawkill Creek, according to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
The driver tried to maneuver the vehicle out of the water but couldn't get past a small waterfall under the bridge that carries Sawkill Road over the creek, near the Kingston Town Hall. The waterfall is created by an 18-inch city of Kingston water main that is encased in concrete, according to city Water Superintendent Judith Hansen. She said the main was not damaged.
"Everybody was lucky: We were lucky, that couple was lucky," Hansen said. "It's very harrowing when you see the pictures. I can't imagine what it was like to be them."
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A sheriff's deputy at the scene said the vehicle, a dark Jeep Patriot, was coming from Woodstock when it skidded on ice at a bend in the road, setting off the chain of events.
He said hitting the tree caused the vehicle to divert away from a deeper area of the creek.
The names of the people in the vehicle were not immediately available, but the deputy said he believed they are in their 80s and live in the town of Kingston.
Town of Kingston Highway Department employee Tom Cole was exiting the Town Hall parking lot just before the incident when he saw the Jeep hit a guard rail and continue through some front yards before going down the embankment.
"I thought, 'Oh, my God! Did I just really see that or not?'" Cole said.
Asked if it appeared the driver was speeding, Cole said, "No, not at all. They weren't even doing the speed limit."
Cole said he went back into the Town Hall and asked co-workers to call 911 before he slid down the creek bank looking for the vehicle. He found the driver and his female passenger sitting on the bank but said they would have been unable to get up the hill without assistance.
"They had no broken bones, no scratches or nothing," Cole said. "It was lucky all the way around."
Had the vehicle landed just a few feet to the right of where it did, Cole said, the couple might not have survived the crash. He said they landed close to a deep spot that's popular as a swimming hole.


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Keiko Kagawa (Soprano)
Japanese born and educated, Keiko's operatic roles include Cio-Cio San (Butterfly) in Madama Butterfly with North Bay Opera, Montana's Rimrock Opera, Oregon's Rogue Opera, San Francisco Lyric Opera, and Golden West Opera Company. Other roles include Violetta in Traviata, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Micaela in Carmen, Nedda in Pagliacci, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Suor Angelica in Suor Angelica, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Marguerite in Faust, the First Lady in The Magic Flute, the Mother in Hänsel and Gretel, Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, Tosca in Tosca, Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, and the First Lady in Christopher Sly. In addition to the operax companies already listed, Keiko has also performed with Golden Gate Opera, City Summer Opera (San Francisco), Oakland Lyric Opera Company, Goat Hall Productions (San Francisco), Marin Opera Company, Cal State East Bay Summer Opera and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has also made a number of appearances as the Soprano Lead in Handel's Messiah. Keiko also gives occasional recitals, as well as participating in an annual vocal concert in Japan.
Keiko will be performing in "Sisters and Friends USA" in Saratoga, CA in May 2017. She will be performing Adina from Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love" in April/May 2018.
Musical theater and dance work includes performances with the Oakland Lyric Opera, San Francisco City Light Performing Arts Company and Infinite Reflections Dance Company.
In Japan, Keiko's recorded appearances include several works of Praise Songs and Contemporary Christian Music. In the U.S. Keiko can be heard on recordings by Noel McFarlane and the group "Hikari." Keiko is also the former band leader, keyboardist and lead singer of "Lovely Wind," a Tokyo based Gospel Jazz Trio.
Keiko's on-air television work include performance in Japan and on "Morning Sunrise" on KRON in San Francisco. Keiko is also the former on-the-air hostess for the "Miemasuka Ai" program on Fuji TV, KTSF Channel 26 in San Francisco. Behind the scenes television work includes professional make-up work for shows on KQED ("Yan Can Cook"), KTVU ("Mornings on 2″), KRON and corporate clients such as AT&T, Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard.
Keiko also teaches voice and piano and serves as the conductor for Choral Cosmo/Silicon Valley Community Chorus www.choralcosmo.com. Aldersgate United Methodist Church of Palo Alto choir director and Calvary United Methodist Church music director/choir director.
Keiko holds the degree of Master of Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her undergraduate degree, a Bachelors degree in Vocal Performance and a Teaching Credential in Music Education are from Tokyo's Kunitachi College of Music(国立音楽大学).
Yuko Matsumoto (Soprano)
Yuko is a member of several performing arts groups in Japan and participates in concerts with group "Reki 礫" annually. She has sang in Handel's Messiah and Bach's cantata as a soloist. Her Japanese art song recital in 2015 received rave reviews. She is the original member of "Sisters and Friends" concert series in Japan. This is the group's 15th season. In recent years, Yuko specializes in Japanese art songs. Yuko holds a Bachelors degree in Vocal Performance and a Teaching Credential in Music Education from Tokyo's s Kunitachi College of Music(国立音楽大学).
Krassen Karagiozov (Baritone)
Baritone Krassen Karagiozov was born in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, where he began his musical studies as a pianist. In addition to concert work as a collaborative pianist in Bulgaria, Turkey, and USA he appeared as baritone soloist for a recital and recordings for the Bulgarian National Radio. During the 2008 – 2009 season, he made his debut as a member of Opera San José's resident principal artists, appearing in the title role of Eugene Onegin, Sgt. Belcore (The Elixir of Love), Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Escamillo (Carmen). Among the roles that he has performed are Papageno, Conte di Luna, Enrico, Germont, Marcello, Vallentin, Figaro, Sharpless, Vronsky, Count Almaviva, Dandini, Don Giovanni, Tarquinius, Silvio, Schaunard, Lescaut, Masetto, Gianni Schicchi, Harlequin, Peter, Daniello, Angelotti, Rambaldo, Raoul de Gardefeu. Mr. Karagiozov has appeared with opera companies such as New York City Opera, Caramoor Festival, Opera San José, Opera Carolina, Opera Santa Barbara, Lake George Opera Festival, Spoleto Opera Festival, Aspen Opera Theater, West Bay Opera, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, The Opera Company of NorthCarolina, Opera Roanoke, Piedmont Opera Theater and Capital Opera Raleigh. He has also appeared as a soloist for the Fresno Community Chorus and Orchestra, Santa Clara Chorale, Symphony Silicon Valley, the Bulgarian Radio-Symphony Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, Carolina Chamber Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra, and Enid Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Karagiozov is a North Carolina district winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and First Prize winner of the Charlotte Opera Guild Competition as well as a finalist of the Irene Dalis Vocal Competition and Heinz Rehfuss Vocal Competition.
"Baritone Krassen Karagiozov gave a superb performance as her beloved Silvio; their love duet was a high point of the performance."
Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, November 13, 2011
"As Count Almaviva, baritone Krassen Karagiozov was excellent, his voice mellow and burnished, his character a despicably self-important man, but one capable of reflection — and funny."
-Richard Scheinin, Mercury News, San Jose, CA February 7, 2010
"Baritone Krassen Karagiozov (Guglielmo)… sang with ardor and dramatic flair."
-Scott MacClelland, Metro San Jose, CA, February 10, 2009
"Baritone Krassen Karagiozov as Belcore, the army sergeant and Lothario… sang with buttery ease …"
-Richard Scheinin, Mercury News, San Jose, CA, November,10, 2008
"Her sorely-tried fiancé, Masetto, was strongly portrayed and sung by baritone Krassen Karagiozov."
-William Thomas Walker, CVNC, Charlotte, NC, March 30, 2008
"The true male lead is Alfredo's father, Giorgio, whose music calls for pages of smooth, powerful singing. Krassen Karagiozov's confidently supported, attractive baritone brought out much of the part's beauties, especially in the aria 'Di Provenza il mar'."
-Roy C. Dicks, Raleigh News and Observer, October 22, 2007
"The man who gave a bravura performance in La Traviata was the magnificent baritone, Krassen Karagiozov, as Giorgio Germont, father of Alfredo. Later, Karagiozov demonstrated in two great arias all the qualities one listens for in an excellent baritone: vocal strength and authority, beauty of tone, great range, and the ability to utilize all these strengths to sustain his part in the drama."
-Martha A. Fawbush, CVNC, October 19, 2007
"Bulgarian baritone Krassen Karagiozov was excellent as the Father."
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-Seth Williams, Roanoke Times, September 29, 2007
Mayumi Ashiya (Yamaha Electone)
Born and raised in Japan, Mayumi began taking lessons on the electric organ at the Yamaha Music School when she was four years old. She continued her studies through college where she majored in electric organ. Upon graduation, Mayumi became an instructor of electric organ at the Yamaha Music School. In 1992, while teaching there, she won the 1st place in "Classical Category" at Yamaha Japanese National Electone Festival & Competition. She was subsequently chosen to represent Japan in the Yamaha International Electone Competition where she won the Bronze Medal. In each case she played Rachmaninoff's very demanding "Symphonic Dances." Since then, Mayumi has given a number of solo concerts in and around Tokyo. Other performances include collaborations with various choral and opera groups including Toyama Civic Opera, Ibaraki and Takatsuki-shi Civic Operas, playing Humperdinck's Hänsel and Gretel and Onna wa Suteki. In the choral music area, she has collaborated with Keio University(慶応大学) and Nihon Joshidai (日本女子大学)in Dovorak's Requiem and Fauré's Requiem, and with Nihon Gakuen (日本学園)where she played the organ transcription of Rigoletto by Verdi. She has also performed Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love" and "Don Pasquale", Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Verdi's La Traviata, and Puccini's "Tosca" and "Madama Butterfly". Mayumi and Keiko have collaborated and performed together since 2003.
Miho Ogawa (Soprano)
Miho was born and raised in Yamagata, Japan. She graduated from Kanazawa University with a bachelor's degree and master's degree in Japanese Education. After for two years working as a Japanese teacher at a public high school in Yamagata, she traveled with her husband to Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, visiting more than twenty countries along the way. She has lived in Austin, Texas, Anchorage, Alaska and San Francisco, and currently resides in Tahoe. She has a seven-year old daughter, three-year old son, and a boxer puppy.
Though she grew up playing the piano and the flute, she now focuses on singing. She has sung with many chorus groups, including the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa Chorus (led by Music Director Hiroyuki Iwaki), where she performed as a soloist and member of the opera chorus.
Miho is a former member of the Chorus Austin, the San Francisco Forest Choir, and the San Francisco Choral Society. She is currently a member of the Reno Philharmonic Chorus and the Tahoe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus.
Kaori Izutani (rehearsal pianist)
Christopher Bengochea (Tenor)
Praised as having "power, sure intonation, and fine diction that come in a package tied with a ribbon of 'natural sound.' tenor, Christopher Bengochea has delighted audiences with his unique combination of vocal and dramatic interpretations in performances ranging from oratorio to opera. It is a unique, broadly-projected "wide" sound that can serve lyrical or heroic music equally well."
This Basque American tenor began his musical career as a pianist then moved into the study of opera at age 18 during his time at Montana State University and later the University of Montana. After becoming an award winner at the Northwest Regional Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and winning third prize at the Internationale Societa Concertistica Vocal Competition in Santa Margherita-Ligure, Italy, Bengochea decided to pursue singing entirely. It was in Italy where Bengochea had the opportunity to study and work with reknowned tenor, Gianni Raimondi who described Bengochea as "having a voice most brilliant and romantic: that will become very important in the future of opera".
Mr. Bengochea's operatic repertoire embraces a wide range of roles, including Rugeero Lestouc in La Rondine, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana, Erik in Alva Henderson's Nosferatu, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Alfredo in La traviata, and Cavaradossi in Tosca. Companies with which Christopher has performed include: Opera San Jose, Atlanta Opera, Opera Idaho, Opera Canada, da Corneto Opera, Center City Opera, Opera Company Brooklyn, Jarvis Conservatory, Intermountain Opera, Townsend Opera, Rimrock Opera, Pacific Repertory Opera, Livermore Valley Opera, West Bay Opera, Teatro Felice, Caramoor Opera, and the Tigulio Festival Opera.
Bengochea performed the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Ernani. Where Richard Covello of the Chicago Tribune described Mr. Bengochea's performance as "flawless….He has command of Italianate style along with ringing top notes and a smooth legato – a fine, even dramatic, tenor in the making". This award winning tenor also performed the title role in Poliuto where Laura Emerick of The Chicago Sun Times acclaimed, "with his ringing sound and elegant phrasing Bengochea was the very model of a martyred hero."
For the past three seasons Mr. Bengochea has been a resident artist of Opera San José where he has been heard in a variety of roles from Reverend Samuel Parris in The Crucible to King Gustavus in Un ballo in maschera. Richard Scheinin of The Mercury News described "to hear Bengochea expand into big, lusty high notes — Verdi specials — were thrilling…. Bengochea, could be the tenor the company has been waiting for." During his residency at Opera San Jose he performed Rodolfo in La bohème. The San Jose Mercury cheered, "He sings lustily, gamely expanding into high notes- a throbbing high C… he's got soul". He also performed Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, the title role in Roméo et Juliette, Alfredo in La traviata, and Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, the title role of Werther, the Duke in Rigoletto, and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte.
At home on both the operatic and concert stages, Bengochea was heard as the Evangelist in Bach's Weihnachts Oratorium with the New York City Chorale Society. Other Oratorio engagements include: Mendelssohn's Lobgesang, and Tallis's The Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet and Mozart's Great Mass in C minor, Beethoven's infamous Symphony No. 9, and Verdi's Messa de Requiem, the world premiere of Alva Henderson's "From Greater Light," performed under world renown Carl St. Claire and the Orange County Symphony Orchestra.
Future engagements for Mr. Christopher Bengochea include Vasco da Gama in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, in his Carnegie Hall debut, the title role in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffman, Pablo Neruda in Il Postino, the title role in Mozart's Idomeneo, the title role in Rossini's Othello, Tamino in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in Spain.
Michael Boley (Tenor)
American tenor Michael Boley is rapidly climbing the operatic ranks. A native of Ohio, Michael began his career with Columbus Opera. Mr. Boley appeared there in productions of La Bohème, Aida, Rigoletto, Tosca, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, Susannah and Camelot. Of his Columbus Opera performances, the COLUMBUS DISPATCH extolled, "tenor Michael Boley sings with operatic power and resonance—a true find!"
An exponent of the romantic French and full-lyric Italian repertoire, recent performance highlights for the tenor include the title role in Les Contes de Hoffmann, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, Lenski in Eugene Onegin and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte. Career highlights for the tenor include Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Helena Symphony Orchestra, Calaf in Turandot for Dicapo Opera, the world premiere of Anton Coppola's La Coupe et les Lèvres at the Danny Kaye Playhouse in New York City with Inter-Cities Performing Arts and The Crucible at the National Theatre of Pécs and the Szeged National Theater in Hungary with performances telecast internationally.
With Dicapo Opera in New York City and on tour with National Lyric Opera, Mr. Boley created a significant impression in Puccini's La Fanciulla del West. Reviewing his performance, the CAPE COD TIMES was effusive in praise of his craft, "Outstanding among these, was tenor Michael Boley. Boley's firm ringing tenor and suave stage demeanor augur well for a rewarding career in opera." Further successes include his turn as the Chevalier de Danceny in Susa's The Dangerous Liaisons, and the Beast in Giannini's Beauty and the Beast for Dicapo Opera, of which the NEW YORK TIMES commented, "Michael Boley sang the Beast ardently."
The 2011/2012 season included Scriabin's Symphony No. 1 with Helena Symphony Orchestra, Eurofest with Opera Naples and Carmen with Denyce Graves in a critically acclaimed production for Opera Charleston. This season finds the tenor as Cléon in Gluck's rarely performed The Reformed Drunkard for Little Opera Theater of New York, Lenski in Eugene Onegin for Opera Company of Middlebury and Rodolfo in La Bohème with Staten Island Philharmonic among others. In the 2014-2015 season, Michael will be a Resident Artist with Opera San Jose, where he will assume principal assignments in Verdi's Rigoletto, Weiser's Where Angels Fear to Tread, and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.
Michael holds a BA in vocal performance from the College of Wooster and an MM in vocal performance from the University of Akron.
Michael Taylor (Baritone)
Michael graduated from San Francisco Conservatory of Music with his masters degree in 1990. He has appeared as soloist with many opera companies including Sacramento Opera, Opera San Jose, Marin Opera, Oakland Opera, West Bay Opera and Townsend Opera Players where he sang such roles as Gianni Schicchi, Escamillo in Carmen, the Count in The Marriage of Figaro, Scarpia in Tosca, Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Don Giovanni, Belcore in The Elixer of Love, Tonio in Pagliacci, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Dandini in Cenerentola and Marcello in La Bohème. Mr. Taylor has appeared in concert with the Masterworks Choral, Berkeley Symphony, Vallejo Symphony, Fremont Symphony, Sacramento Choral Society, Schola Cantorum and performed as a vocal soloist with the Oakland and San Francisco Ballet.
A regional finalist in both the San Francisco Opera Merola Auditions and the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, Mr. Taylor was also a participant in the San Diego Opera Apprentice Program. A winner of the 1989 Bel Canto Foundation competition, Mr. Taylor spent 6 weeks in Siena, Italy studying with coaches from La Scala. Mr. Taylor was also a member of the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera at the Curran Theater in San Francisco from 1993 to 1998. In addition to performing, he is also an active voice teacher and stage director.
Masae Nagai (Soprano)
Masae Nagai, soprano, came to the U.S.A from Japan in 1995. She studied vocal performance and graduated from Notre Dame de Namur, Belmont, CA. She participated BASOTI program and has been featured in productions with Lamplighters, Goat Hall, Opera Rouge and Berkeley Opera. She also enjoys performing in Kokoro Vocal Trio, which was formed in 2006 and has been performing locally at church services and community events. The group enjoys Japanese traditional folk songs and classical music from various periods.
She is a licensed Kindermusic teacher. She taught music fundamental classes for children, piano, voice and choir at Myriad Music School in San Mateo until 2009. She spent recent past 2 years in Japan and returned to US in 2011. She resides in San Francisco and works at YesStyle Fashion Inc. Besides singing, she enjoys rock climbing and hiking.
Kazuko Oishi (Piano)
She is currently a conductor of the women's "Choir Florian" and is an accompanist of the mixed chorus groups "Tokyo Rakuyu Harmony" and "Cosmo Japan" in Tokyo. She has been a full member of the Fortnightly Music Club in California since 2009 and she performs in Fortnightly Music Club concerts.
John Minágro (Bass Baritone)
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A NATS First Place division winner, he has performed the title roles in Gianni Schicchi, Aleko, Ruslan and Ludmila, Noyes Fludde, and the Mephistopheles in Faust, Scarpia in Tosca, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Amonasro in Aïda, Alfio in Cavelleria Rusticana, Sarastro in The Magic Flute, and two of the Kings in Amahl and the Night Visitors (along with his son Jeremy as Amahl) with various companies.
John has performed chorus or solo work in locations from Lincoln Center in New York, to the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle, and locally at the Concord/Chronicle Pavilion. He was a featured soloist on a 1993 PBS children's special performing his own composition called The Piano. He played the laced and coifed figure Don Attilio in the San Francisco tour of The Phantom of the Opera, which played for 5 years at the Curran Theater from December 1993 to 1998.
He has also been the guest soloist with the San Francisco Symphony at their Summer Broadway Pops Concert, and can be heard singing "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch!" on the Christmas CD Christmas Center Stage, an album featuring the San Francisco cast of The Phantom of the Opera. He can also be heard on the world premiere album of the new opera Corpus Evita singing the role of Juan Peron. This CD was nominated for a Grammy in 2005 for Best New Classical Recording. For the past few years he has traveled to Osaka, Japan performing at the Ritz Carleton Hotel.
In the fall of 2004 he covered several roles with San Francisco Opera, including that of Astrodamors in Ligeti's U.S. premier of Le Grand Macabre. Just recently he had the privilege of working with Philip Glass and Christopher Hampton in the world premiere production of Appomattox, originating the role of Confederate General Howell Cobb. In June 2009 at San Francisco Opera he performed the role of the Coroner in Porgy and Bess, and can be seen and heard in the soon to be released DVD in 2011.
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Young Adult Poster
I'm really excited to post this new poster. I was commissioned to make this poster for a secret pop-up screening at Chicago's Music Box theater of the upcoming Jason Reitman/Diablo Cody film, "Young Adult". Each audience member received one. We got to go to the screening and there was a great Q&A with Jason, Diablo and Patton Oswalt who co-stars in the film with Charlize Theron. Thanks to Jason from Delicious Design League for printing the large run!
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- emily b said...
I LOVE this! Great work. And it's especially cool to me because my daughter is currently OBSESSED with princesses. This new spin makes me laugh!
- November 1, 2011 at 10:04 AM
I also want to chime in and say nice work! I was at the sneak preview screening, and got one of your art prints. I'm planning to release a review on my Entertainment Blog, and intend to use your design as the poster image at the head of the review, along with a link back to your blog.
- November 26, 2011 at 2:44 AM
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The footage also shows Paul Staines shouting "c***" at a Labour staffer.
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Camerawoman confronts Guido Fawkes bloggers
The footage also shows Paul Staines shouting "c***" at a Labour staffer.
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I don't understand why they want to remind people that Boris Johnson thinks the £250,000 he earns in addition to his job as mayor is "Chicken Feed"?
- 14 March 2012 at 14:58
- Tim said...
There's much about this behaviour that warrants criticism, but the spin is dizzying, and deserves special mention; the @GuidoFawkes account this afternoon tweeted that the lady they knocked down hadn't really been knocked down because - by her own admission, you see - SHE WAS ALREADY ON THE GROUND, YOUR HONOUR (The jury gasps!)(dramatic sting) (cut to black) (ad break). Harry Cole under his own/main account pressed this point further, to the extent of portraying their critics/accusers (all Ken Livingstone's staff, obviously) as liars.
- 14 March 2012 at 23:03
- AdamB said...
They're liars and unpleasant liars at that. The woman was crouching down and was then knocked over. I spoke to her afterwards and she was quite angry about it. I had to explain to her who they were as she'd never heard of them.
Like most bullies they're also cowards. See how they react when she confronts them.
- 14 March 2012 at 23:23
- Mike said...
I suggest that, in repeatedly swearing at the staffer, Staines has breached Section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986. With a different recipient, it would have provoked an immediate violent response. Given the footage, can someone bring the charge?
- 15 March 2012 at 01:44
Mike, just the police/CPS I'm afraid.
I am pretty sure it does breach the Act, but it's pretty de minimis so wouldn't get anywhere.
- 16 March 2012 at 03:22
When you look at these Tories in their entirety from the Bullingdon Club days right to the bare faced lies before and during the election campaign 2010 you will realise that these Tories behave more like a Mafi organisation.
Also you have to remember during the last Mayoral election Boris Johnson and other Tories accused Ken Livingstone and others of stealing City Hall funds. This started an investigation/enquiry that was in progress during that Mayoral election. Just after the Mayoral election and once Boris Johnson won that election and became Mayor for London that investigation/enquiry into Ken Livingston found him innocent of all charges and everything to do with City Hall funds was correct and totally above board. It is my personal opinion that Boris Johnson and others used dirty tricks throughout that last Mayoral election at Ken Livingstone's expense (Losing the Mayoralty).
It is now crystal clear that the Tories have started to use dirty tactics for this Mayoral election campaign and this thuggery and unacceptable behaviour by two Tories demonstrates that they have embarked on dirty tricks yet again trying to create a violent confrontation. Those two men should be arrested for such behaviour because it was breach of the peace with the objective of deliberately trying to cause confrontation.
- 18 March 2012 at 00:25
- Jimmy said...
You're right. The embedding thing is a bit hit and miss. For example I managed to put it on Guido's site but then for some reason it disappeared.
- 19 March 2012 at 14:14
- EtonMess said...
Guido Fawkes, charmining, not only didn't retract what he said, but repeated it on Twitter: http://twitpic.com/9a75sr
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One Direction star Niall Horan fell ill just hours before the start of the band's world tour on Friday (25Apr14) when a rigorous workout caused him to throw up.
The singer has been battling back to full fitness since undergoing knee surgery in January (14) and he decided to team up with his personal trainer Jarvis for his first gym visit since the operation.
He was put through his paces at a fitness centre in Bogota, Colombia ahead of the opening night of the tour on Friday, but the rigorous workout, combined with the high-altitude atmosphere, sparked a nasty bout of vomiting.
Horan later posted a photo of himself on an exercise bike at the gym alongside the message, "First session back with Jarvis! Knee feelin (sic) ok! Threw up because of the altitude, me and Jarv called it #altitudeoosshhh (sic)."


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With our country finally headed in the right direction, some people are beyond ready to undo the damage inflicted by former President Barack Obama. Proving just that, Wisconsin just hit every freeloader in the state with some very bad news – and the entitled brats are downright furious over what they must do now for their favorite freebie.
Welfare fraud is running rampant throughout the country, and it has been that way for quite some time. Of course, those who pay close enough attention can probably figure out that it's all part of the plan – at least if you're a Democrat.
Those on the right want to tighten requirements for government handouts while those on the left want to give them to whoever feels entitled to them because, in the end, it's nothing more than a pay-for-vote scheme.
Democrats hand out hard-earned taxpayer dollars in hopes that recipients will vote blue. In return, the money keeps flowing. The cycle continues as these entitled freeloaders learn that if they want the freebies to keep coming, there's only one requirement – get out there and vote Democrat during the next election cycle.
It's a smart strategy if you're a crooked politician. For those of us who pay taxes and see our national debt continuing to climb, well, it's another story entirely. Add that to the fact that some dishonest freeloaders are seen wearing new clothes and buying expensive accessories, such as jewelry, purses, and shoes, and it's enough to make anyone blow their top.
Too bad for freeloaders everywhere, the time of Obama's government handouts is over because we are under new leadership that actually cares about the hard-working Americans who fund these programs that are plagued by fraud. Even better yet, individual states are taking advantage of the situation and reducing their financial output by making sure they're only giving money away to people who actually need it.
Take, for example, Wisconsin. According to Star Tribune, "Gov. Scott Walker moved ahead Monday with his plans to make Wisconsin the first state to drug test able-bodied adults applying for food stamps."
Wisconsin's plan was approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature more than two years ago, but it languished because it conflicts with federal rules prohibiting states from imposing additional eligibility criteria on food stamp recipients…
Walker asked then-President elect Donald Trump's administration in December 2016 to make clear that drug screening is permissible, but it has not taken action and now Walker is moving ahead anyway. [Source: Star Tribune]
Currently, state legislators have 4 months to review the law that was approved by Republican leadership over two years ago. From there, it could take an additional year before it goes into effect.
People have been saying for quite some time that we should feel secure in where our money is going and who we're helping. Too often, we see people taking advantage of the system while having all the luxuries in life, and then some.
Considering the fact that people are getting somewhere around $150 a week in food stamps but still have the cash to buy drugs, it's not hard to understand why people are ticked off. Of course, Democrats have bashed the new rule, saying that the government shouldn't be spending their "scarce" resources on a "witch hunt."
Then again, these are the same people who don't mind giving out whatever amount of money they can to ensure they're reelected. Sadly, even the AP is trying to downplay what would happen:
Wisconsin presses forward with plans to become the first state to drug test adults applying for food stamps. https://t.co/Yrb9KuZrXH pic.twitter.com/ELS9FadiFq
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) December 4, 2017
Drug tests generally cost between ten and thirty bucks, depending on the type of test. Compare that with the $7,800/year (at $150/week average) you would save on denying a druggie benefits that they don't deserve and the picture becomes rather clear. Not to mention all of those drug users who would be deterred from even applying, knowing they'd be subjected to drug testing — that's where the real savings is at.
Even if the information provided by AP was true, the 220 people found to be doing drugs, would save the state roughly $1,716,000 every year — and I'm guessing it's actually a lot higher. In the end, it's laughable that anyone has the gall to complain. They should be thankful for everything they get.
When you start contributing to society by paying taxes rather than taking them, you can have a say in how we, as a society, spend that money. Then again, if everyone who had a problem with this had a job, it wouldn't have been an issue in the first place.


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Jamie Foxx is making sure no one forgets about Trayvon Martin. On Saturday, February 8, the Oscar winning actor participated in a peace rally in Miami to honor the teen who was slayed by George Zimmerman two years ago.
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It's been almost 2 years since Trayvon Martin was killed, and Jamie Foxx made it clear Saturday … it's still fresh in his mind.
Foxx — along with members of Trayvon's family — attended a peace walk in Miami benefiting the foundation Martin's parents founded in their son's name back in 2012.
The 46-year-old actor has been outspoken about the shooting, and his campaign marches on … Fox will be speaking at a remembrance dinner tonight — just days after what would have been Martin's 19th birthday.
We're guessing he's happy the Zimmerman fight was 86'd.
Props to Jamie Foxx for representing for Trayvon. Check out footage of the peace walk below.
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Tracy Morgan Plans to Get Everyone Pregnant in His Saturday Night Live Promos
Tracy hosts this Saturday with musical guest Demi Lovato.
After his near-fatal car crash last year, Tracy Morgan has finally returned to the place he called home for seven years — not his actual home, mind you, because his is "way bigger than this." And he definitely plans on getting everyone in the building pregnant.


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It's a pity that all things scatological and micturatory are viewed as taboo in the West because we're missing out on some artistic opportunities. Most purely functional items can be made to be beautiful; just think about your car, your home sound system, cutlery, curtains, crockery, TVs, telephones ... yet the poor old toilet has remained dull and, it must be said, fairly poorly designed. We hide it away in the smallest room of the house when it's the one item we couldn't live without.
But, nowadays, I'm delighted to say that a new wave of artists are creating whimsical pissoires for us all to use and enjoy. Check out Clark Sorensen's extraordinary flower and shell urinals (example above) or the extraordinary Gothic masterpieces on display at the John Michael Kohler Arts Centre or Bathroom Mania's infamous 'Kisses', for example.
Let's get sanitary ware out of the water closet.
Honest to God officer... I was only in there taking photos of the art ...