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Series: Rolex DEEPSEA
ID: Rolex Deepsea 116660-98210 Replica Black Plate Silver Starp Watch
Movement: Automatic mechanical
Gender: Men
nickname: Water Ghosts
Watch diameter: 44 mm
Water depth: 3900 meters
Watch plate Color: Black
Watches Mirror Material: 5 mm anti-scratch sapphire crystal glass arched
Watch Crown Material: Stainless steel, screw-in Triplock triple waterproofing system
Watch band color: Silver
Watch band material: stainless steel; Oyster, three rows of chain links
Watch Clasp Type: Fold clasp
Watches Buckle material: stainless steel; Rolex Oyster Insurance Discount Hotels Glidelock extension system; Oyster discount telescopic link
Watch Case Material: Stainless steel, grade 5 titanium case back; 60 minutes progressive scale unidirectional rotating outer ring, with anti-scratch Cerachrom word ceramic rings, platinum coating and a digital scale
Historical Background: Rolex has been committed to the development of diving watch, watch in 2008 can cope with the challenges of deep-sea born, it can reach a depth not specifically for the study of deep-sea submarine to be deep, but deeper than most submarine exploration, or even a hundred times the depth of the depth of humanity can survive. So advanced diving watch its name is Deepsea Series 116 660 black plate watches, Rolex designed for underwater exploration and make.
Movement principle: Rolex Deepsea series 116 660 using a 3135 self-winding movement, the movement is completely self-produced movement Rolex, Rolex is now one of the few self-produced movement of all brands. Movement internal gear is less, so that the movement is more reliable. Bridge splint make more stable the balance wheel, inside the blue gossamer is a sign of advanced watch. And certified by the Swiss chronometer testing center, called the generation of the classic.
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LOCATION MGM National Harbor Resort & Casino
101 MGM National Avenue
Oxon Hill, MD 20745
Located in The District
DATE ESTABLISHED December 8, 2016
Inspired by the current trend in fast casual dining, National Market is a food market dining experience offering approachable cuisine at affordable prices. The first of its kind in the MGM Resorts International culinary portfolio, the market boasts ten unique venues, offering an open floor plan and vibrant indoor and outdoor seating that overlooks the glistening Potomac River. Designed to feel like a lively, outdoor market, National Market features porcelain tile mimicking weathered wood, a wood ceiling trellis, rope pendant light fixtures that tie into an overall color palette representative of winding cobble stone streets and distressed brick and gray paving stones. Finishing touches include blackboard menus and industrial-inspired wood and steel furnishings.
Amo Los Tacos
Bringing the flavors of the Southwest to the East Coast, this modern taco stand serves up customizable tacos, quesadillas, burritos and tostadas along with salads and authentic sides. Al pastor, carne asada and fresh fish are some of the meats that are used to fill freshly made flour or corn tortillas, which are topped with traditional fixings such as house-made guacamole and salsas.
Banh Mi Vietnamese Kitchen
Vietnamese sandwiches served on soft baguettes, salad bowls topped with pickled vegetables, spring rolls and pho noodle soups are served at this traditional outpost. Guests can expect flavors such as Thai basil, toasted peanuts, chiles and green papaya to add some spice to their visit.
Staying true to its name, everything at this Japanese counter – including sashimi, nigiri, specialty and hand rolls. Fresh selections of fish such as salmon, tuna, hamachi octopus and halibut are expertly prepared by a team of skilled sushi chefs.
District Deli
Named for the nation's capital, this sandwich haven is the ideal lunch spot. Sandwiches feature carved meats roasted on site daily; fresh deli-style breads such as pumpernickel, sourdough and seeded rye; and regional cheeses. Bottled, cold-pressed organic juices made in-house also are available for those looking to add a healthy boost to their meal.
GWBW George Washington Beer & Wine
A sure-to-be-social gathering place, this contemporary bar offers a wide selection of beer and wine with a focus on regional varieties and local craft beers. Varied portions are available including flights and large pours.
Honey's Fried Chicken & Donuts
A Southern-style restaurant designed to satisfy both savory and sweet cravings, Honey's Fried Chicken cooks up inventive dishes inspired by Southern classics like fried, honey-infused chicken thighs. A mouthwatering selection of doughnuts in homespun varieties also is available.
Pappas Crabcakes
Pappas Crabcakes is a Maryland-based restaurant concept that has been serving award-winning crabcakes for 40 years. The scrumptious seafood delicacy is made from an old family recipe and includes the finest colossal lump crab meat available. The menu also includes homemade soups, sandwiches and sides.
Adults and kids alike will delight in this retro, 50s-style ice cream shop. While the vibe is nostalgic, the flavors such as salted caramel with truffle and farmer's market strawberry are far from dated. All ice creams are made in-house by MGM National Harbor's talented pastry team.
Shake Shack
Shake Shack is a critically acclaimed, modern day "roadside" burger stand known for its 100% all-natural Angus beef burgers and flat-top Vienna beef dogs (no added hormones and no antibiotics ever), 100% all-natural cage-free chicken , spun-fresh frozen custard, crinkle cut fries, craft beer, wine and more.
Zizi's Pizza
This New York-style pizza hotspot captures the essence of wholesome Italian cooking with a homemade flair. Reminiscent of the cuisine that inspired National Harbor Executive Chef Jason Johnston to become a chef, the menu showcases his grandmother's recipes including delicious pizzas by the slice, whole pies, Sicilian-style pies, calzones, meatballs and garlic knots.
EXECUTIVE CHEF Jamie Knight
GENERAL MANAGER Yolanda Biar
DESIGNER Marshall Moya
CREDIT CARDS All major credit cards accepted
CAPACITY Occupancy: 441
Square footage: 14,967 ft.
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(Working slightly better in 3vs3 over 5vs5)
With this build you actually want to get the use of his passive.
A kassadin usually cant take much heat, but now you want to be in the fray.
By taking reduced damage and converting spells into attackspeeed you will carnage rather nasty.. BUT there is one issue with most of the dps builds out there, usually kass is to squishy.
Flash gives you a supperior advantage in diving fast, long, early, late.
It also gives you fantastic escaping, a riftwalk is not always enough, and mana might not always be in your stock.
Adding heal to your spells is a great way to survive a bit longer, it does a huge diff in 3vs3, in 5vs5 you might switch it for teleport.
By taking a trinity force as your all-around stats and a hefty output to your damage, you got the base.
By adding a sunfire (mostly preferds in teamfights over frozen mallet)
You gain armor, since people will target kass, the mindset of players is most of the time "kass-squishy-diefast", you gain hp, and a nifty fireaura. :)
Depending on how its going and the role of the others, your next pick is either a bit more surv or dps, most of the time he now wants a bloodthirster, staying longer in fights, and adding a HEAVY damage output.
You never want to go to much beefy into tanking.. issue #1, they will ignore you, ignoring you means no passive, means even less dps, meaning, useless.
The runes gives you a hint whats tasty and whats not, how much you want and what you want is up to you.
With this build your a rather solid all-arounder, you need to survive a burst inorder to do damage, you can do damage without the burst on you, but hey.. who wants to stand outside fights until they are over?
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The City Council has selected three finalists for city manager, all from out of state, and expects to do more interviews in mid-May.
Roderick L. Bremby, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Social Services, was appointed to that role in 2011, the city said in news release.
David Cooke, the director of business development for Mulkey Engineers and Consultants in Raleigh, N.C., has worked in county and city government.
Penny Postoak Ferguson, deputy county manager of Johnson County, Kan., was previously an assistant city manager in San Antonio.
The council tossed out all four of the original finalists in February and started over, re-advertising for the job and bringing in new candidates.
The search began after City Manager Tom Higgins, who has been with the city for nearly 30 years, announced his retirement in October. Higgins, who makes $233,400 a year, agreed to stay on until a successor is chosen.
Mayor Betsy Price has said the council is searching nationwide for someone who is fiscally responsible, has industry and city government experience, is a visionary and is an innovator who is tech-savvy.
Roderick L. Bremby
Bremby oversees a budget of $5.7 billion for the health and human services agency in Connecticut. He has led initiatives in healthcare program restructuring, technology advancements, and implementing budgets and program changes, according to a city news release.
Bremby was the cabinet secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in 2003-11, was assistant city manager of Lawrence, Kan., from 1990 to 2000, was an administrative analyst for Fort Worth in 1984-86, and was assistant to the city manager in Fort Worth in 1986-90. He also worked as a professor at the University of Kansas.
Bremby got his Bachelor of Arts in communication studies and psychology from the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1982 and received a master's in public administration from the Edwin O. Stene Graduate Program there in 1984. He also received training from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem.
David Cooke
Cooke started his current position, which includes consulting for municipal and private-sector clients, in February. He was county manager of Wake County, N.C., from 2000 to 2013, deputy county manager of Wake County from 1996 to 2000 and held several roles at Charlotte, N.C., in 1985-96 including budget and management analyst and internal consulting manager.
Wake County has nearly 1 million residents and the county employs 3,600 people with a budget of $1.2 billion. Cooke led 13 bond elections, helped recruit companies such as Fidelity Investments and Metlife to Wake County and helped plan and implement a new convention center in Raleigh, according to the release.
He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned a master's in public administration there. The years were not available.
Penny Postoak Ferguson
Ferguson has served as deputy county manager of Johnson County, Kan., since August 2012, after two years as the assistant county manager. Johnson County has 3,800 employees, an annual budget of $810 million and a population of 565,000.
Previously, she was an assistant city manager for San Antonio from 2006 to 2010, deputy city manager of Overland Park, Kan., from 2005 to 2006, assistant city manager of operations for Overland Park from 2002 to 2005, core manager and executive director of budget and research for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan., from 2000 to 2002, and assistant city manager of Hays, Kan., from 1997 to 2000.
She received a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of Kansas in 1992 and a master's degree there in 1994. She also attended the Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kan.


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Come taste fine wines from Lazio and Castels of Rome bests wineyards.
Discover Venice and Gondola Ride
Walk with an expert and official guide to discover many treasures of the "Minor Venice". External visit of Fenice Theatre, Scala del Bovolo, Rialto Bridge. At the end, enjoy the quiet gondola ride along the Grand Canal and minor canals.
Combined sightseeing tour with gondola ride
Gondola Ride along Grand Canal & Minor Canals
Fenice Theatre
Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo
Rialto Bridge
We will enjoy a quiet gondola ride along the Grand Canal and minor canals. Simply enjoy floating through the beautiful canals of Venice. After the gondola ride we will enjoy a guided walk, where we will discover the greatest treasures of the "Minor Venice".
First, we will see the famous Fenice Theatre from the outside. Fenice theatre is the world renowned opera house, which was completely destroyed on 29th January 1996 by an uncontrolable fire, which entirely burned down the building. Venecians still mourn this dreadful day. However, the theatre was reconstructed in the time between 1996 and 2003 following the motto "the way it was, where it was". In order to celebrate the re-opening of Fenice, the city of Venice organized a series of special events and concerts in 2003. Most notably, Riccardo Muti opened the Inaugural Week in the newly renovated La Fenice Theatre, with the Orchestra and Choir of La Fenice theatre on December 14th 2003. In the audience amon others was the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and the event was broadcasted on national television.
Following, we will pass by the Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, which is a Gothic construction in Calle della Vida. The building shows a high variety of arcades and a parapet with little columns that follow the salient line of the staircase. Due to its wonderful exterior, the Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo is often considered to be one of the architectural jewels of Venice. Intriguingly, the Palazzo is hidden at the interior of a small courtyard very close to Campo Manin. It dates back to the year 1499. It reflects the typical Venetian character of the period, where first elements of Renaissance merge with the techniques of Gothic-Byzantine.
We could not have a walk through Venice, without seeing the Rialto Bridge, which is the most famous bridge across the Grand Canal and possibly one of the most famous bridges in the world. The Rialto Bridge in its present form was constructed from stone arch by Antonio da Ponte between 1588 and 1591. Its structure is formed by two inclined ramps, which are flanked with shops on each side and covered by a portico. There were severe difficulties during the construction of the bridge, mostly deriving from the statical instability of the construction and the height of the sea bottom.


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Railway Children Day Care Ltd
Day Nurseries, Breakfast, Afterschool & Holiday Clubs
Elsecar Day Nursery & Wrap-Around Care
• The Nursery is on the ground floor of Building 13 and has access to a
secure enclosed garden area.
• Our standard opening times are 7.30am until 6.00pm Monday to Friday.
We will consider earlier and later start and finish times upon request.
• We are closed between Christmas and New Year and all bank holidays.
• We don't offer sessions but offer the flexibility of an hourly rate, so you can
fit around your work and other commitments including shift patterns.
• We take children from 6 weeks to 11 years.
• There are 3 open plan areas all on the same level: 0-2, 2-3 and 3-5 years.
• The 3-5 area is also used for children up to 11 years for before, after
school and holiday clubs.
• We offer government funding for 15 hours per week for all 3 and 4 year
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• We have an experienced cook onsite who prepares all meals from fresh.
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text: India is host to maximum number of b-schools in the world, and with this escalating pace, India will overshadow the world soon in quantity, but probably not in quality. It is important for students to differentiate between a good b-school, with a commercial b school, set out to ruin the career of innocent students. These commercial oriented b- schools are smartly supported by education agents, who are not even mere graduates, and misguide the students for a small monetary gain. There are also few good professional consultancies as well, but they mainly cater overseas education, and not the domestic clients.


text: Hi, This black Friday, GameStop is going to be selling used Gamecubes for $40. I'm planning to pick one up and install a drive modchip to play backups. All I need is a drive modchip, because I have my softmodded Wii for all the fancy stuff. I want it to work and run backups just like a regular gamecube. In fact, the only reason I'm getting this is because softmodded Wiis can't run gamecube backups yet, and I'm not hardmodding my Wii. Most importantly, what is the best drive modchip out there? I would like one that is simple to install, but very reliable. I've heard of Duo Q and Xeno GC, although It seems like Xeno GC is hard to install because it has no wires. What exactly will I need to open everything up? I know I could order a gamebit screwdriver, but can't I make one by heating up a pen and molding it to the screw? I hear that works. What will I need to attach the wires? I'm assuming I have to solder it. What soldering equipment will I need? What kind of solder gun and solder would you recommend? I would also like a replacement case so that I can use regular-sized DVDs with my Gamecube. I know that I could use the ghetto method and take it off and tape the drive sensor down, but I don't want my Gamecube looking like a piece of crap. Where can I find replacement cases to buy? I live in the USA.


text: Thiruvananthapuram: Pathanapuram in Kollam district is located around 85 kilometre from Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram and more than 150 kilometre from Infopark, Kochi. Even in the heart of Pathanapuram town, in front of the grama panchayat office, the mobile phone was struggling hard to detect the Edge connectivity. Why would somebody set up a product-based IT startup in this part of the world? Varun Chandran, the Founder and CEO of Corporate360 (www.corporate360.us), too had every reason not to choose his hometown to set up his office in Kerala. But, before his sheer passion and love for his native place, nothing looked impossible. A Big Data software company, Corporate360 (C360) offers B2B marketing data cloud software that helps companies discover sales leads, ideal buyer profiles and competitive intelligence. The products include Tech SalesCloud, ProspectR and EmailR. The platforms are available as a subscription model with real-time data refresh and data maintenance support. With an annual turnover of $5 million, the venture is perhaps the only zero-debt startup in Kerala. Using the profit, Varun has now constructed a 12,000-sq. ft. three-storeyed building, which will be inaugurated by Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala Chief Minister soon. Apart from the office of C360, the building will also host a startup incubator with seed funding from the company, internship facilities for aspiring students and a hostel. A visit to this self-made IT professional's office may change your concept about a startup ecosystem. The southwest monsoon had just begun and it was raining heavily. Clad in a white T-shirt and a short trouser, Varun was busy directing the construction of a drain besides the road that leads to his upcoming office. It is a few hundred metres away from his present office. "We had approached the local body for the road work. But, due to elections it got delayed. So we have decided to do it on our own," said Varun, amidst discussing the work with his elder brother Arun, an ex-service personnel who now heads the India Operations of C360. A footballer-turned IT professional Born and brought up at Paadam, a remote village 13 kilometre away from Pathanapuram, Varun had a challenging childhood. "Back then, children of our village mostly went to school till fourth standard. Later, they would assist their parents at work. However, my maternal grandfather K V Sadanandan, who was a Communist leader, persuaded our parents to send us to school. My father was a head-load worker while my mother ran a small shop. Yet, they sent us to a relatively good school. After joining St. Stephens High School at Pathanapuram, football became a fascination for me and I rose to become the captain of the school team and later got a scholarship to join Sports Hostel in Thiruvananthapuram," Varun reminisces about his school days. With the spirit of a professional footballer, he made his mark in the game by becoming the captain of the Kerala University Under-19 and vice-captain of Under-21 teams. He also bagged the G V Raja Gold Medal for the best footballer of the State. An unfortunate shoulder injury, while he was pursuing his final-year BCom, changed his destiny. "I stopped playing football and also could not attend two final-year examinations. I returned home and was desperate to find a job to tide over the financial crisis. As a footballer, I got opportunities to mingle with players from different states while participating in inter-university tournaments. This, clubbed with my internet exposure made me aware of job openings in Bengaluru. Raising Rs. 2000 by selling a golden bangle my paternal grandmother gave me, I left for Bengaluru in search of a job in 2001," says Varun, who still looks very much a professional footballer. "I attended more than 40 interviews in the first three months, without any success. Though a door was opened for me finally, I was fired after a month citing my poor English-speaking skills. I managed to survive for three months in the second job. In between, I joined a library and started reading books to improve my communication and language skills. Finally, I got a chance to go to the US while working for the fourth company. "I worked in the US for four years and later moved to Singapore. In all, I have nine years of experience working with Oracle and SAP. Looking back, I was really lucky to have joined a product company initially. Even today, I would recommend aspiring IT entrepreneurs not to get fascinated by service companies and instead go for product companies," he adds, sitting on a cozy recliner at his residence. 360 degree competitive intelligence While working for SAP, Varun developed certain codes to perform better in his job. "Seeing this, my ex-boss suggested that it was time for me to start my own company. In 2012, I set up a company with the help of my wife. Though we struggled initially, within nine months, we were able to generate business worth quarter of a million dollars. Then I quit my job, hired some freelancers in Manila and California, upgraded the product and increased the staff strength," says Varun. Corporate360, as the name suggests, provides 360 degree competitive intelligence to corporates. "Ours is a B2B product. We create algorithms that would go all over the web, collect data and run analytics on top of it to gather intelligence to help companies run their marketing campaigns. For instance, IBM is the competitor of HP. We collect details about HP's products that are competing with IBM, their pricing, customers, refresh cycle and the like. This information is very valuable for IBM as they can launch marketing campaigns based on intelligence rather than pushing them throughout the year. We are the first company in Asia to develop such a product. Initially, we built this competitive intelligence for IT, then moved to Telecom and to other sectors," he says. When he learned about the startup ecosystem gradually evolving in Kerala, Varun decided to set up a company in the State in 2013. "We approached Startup Village, Kochi and KSUM (Kerala Startup Mission). But, there was no space available and the fitment was not forthcoming since we were already generating revenue. My brother suggested that we try a socially relevant business model by starting something at Pathanapuram itself. And it was decided to go for the gamble. Now, when we look back, we are happy that we did it. We have our foreign clients who want to come to Kerala because of our peculiar business model. Otherwise, we travel abroad and the deals happen in the US or Singapore," he adds. Besides Pathanapuram, Corporate360 has now offices in California and Singapore and employs 42 persons directly. Around 900 people are associating with the company on a part-time basis globally. Major clients of C360 include HP, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, Wipro, Cognizant and HCL and the company generates 80 per cent of its business from the US market. According to Varun, the location does not matter as long as one has a unique product. "Being part of an IT park will certainly help you a lot. But I would not say that this is good or that is bad. It depends. Nothing matters as long as you make the most of the opportunity that you get. We did not enter the startup domain to build a firm, raise money, get into the media and transform into a sexy company. Rather, we experienced a problem, made a product and went to some customers, asking them to try it. Some of them readily accepted it. We got money and we grew organically," he says. Within the next two years, Varun wants C360 to become a $25-million company and employ 150 people. "We are growing at a very steady pace by reinvesting the profits back in the business. We will certainly look into options to raise capital when we find the right partner and have the right terms in place," he says. In a bid to support aspiring entrepreneurs, Varun has set apart a sum of $20,000 as seed capital for startups. "There are so many engineering colleges around Pathanapuram. Interested students can make use of the facilities available here. We will fund if we get good startups which would complement our existing products or an idea that can be taken to global markets, preferably in healthcare or big data space," says Varun who is ideating on an internet-based company in healthcare sector. Under its social responsibility arm, K V Sadanandan Smaraka Trust, C360 has adopted Paadam village and has so far spent $25,000 towards building houses and toilets, operating ambulance service and providing assistance for children's education. 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Shipping a Car OverseasTuesday, August 14th, 2007
A few years ago my other half and I were almost relocated from California to England. As part of the process, we investigated the cost of shipping our Subaru Forester across the pond. We learned that if you live near a major port, it's not that expensive, and that you're actually allowed to pack the vehicle full (since it's going in a container, anyway).
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By Tracey Bivens
Let's face it. Jeff Clark is a creature of habit. The Shriners Silver Gardens Center played host to I Love Steppin's 6th Year Anniversary weekend festivities…AGAIN. The "fishtail" stage was in full effect. I will say this though…the 400 plus attendees on both nights have clearly out grown this facility…so Jeff Clark…get to shopping for a new venue in 2015.
I always like the anticipation that goes along with the mega weekends in Detroit. Travelers from the Detroit Metropolitan area, Chicago, Toledo, Akron, Cincinnati, Ypsilanti, Muskegon, Milwaukee, Columbus, Florida, Atlanta, Cleveland and California love the I Love Steppin brand enough to brave the unpredictable Michigan weather. Thank goodness it didn't snow…this weekend at least.
DJ Mykel "MrMakeYouDance" provided the sounds for both Friday and Saturday night. Men and women came dressed to impress themselves in their "come as you are" outfits. So you had some people looking as though they were about to do yard work and some people who looked as though they had just attended a wedding. I guess it works. At this time, I want to shine the spotlight on four of Detroit's class of 2014 steppers. Remember these names, Kisha Nabors, Amanda Anderson, Tim McGray and Melvin Munningham. They are hungry, competitive and are pulling out all of the stops with this dance…stay tuned! Also, Darby "Mr. Debonair" Settles your walkin' game has officially been activated and is set to win!
A historical moment in the evening occurred when Sherry Gordon acknowledged Chicago's Larry Thomas and Kim Thomas for
their contributions in establishing steppin in Detroit back in the late 90s. In other words, no Larry Thomas…no Detroit steppin. Larry has always rocked some interesting suit colors with his Chicago Westside gear while Kim stepped in four inch heels never missing a spin and gliding like silk across the floor. When it comes to smoothness and style…Kim Thomas is a force to be reckoned with!
Also new this year was the addition of Chicago steppin pioneer… Jannice Robertson. For those of you who don't know, I had the pleasure of taking part in an interview with Jannice about 7 years ago when I was hanging out at Chistepper.
For lack of a better term, Jannice does the "JB" (James Brown) style of steppin. This is the quick "shuffle, shuffle,shuffle…slide…slide" that you may have seen her doing this weekend with various people. Although it appears to not have a set pattern…it does… but it is totally instinctive in its execution. Chicago reveres Jannice because since 1977 she helped to elevate the steppin game with Little Alfred, Ice Ray, Ya hir Israel, Ice Rob, Donnie Davis and a host of others from the Chi. When you talk about the living legends of steppin…Jannice Robertson leads the pack.
When steppin came to Detroit, original style and new skool steppin was the focus for instruction. Walkin was not in demand like it is now but most assuredly, "JB ing" was nowhere on the list because it is the most intricate of all of the steppin dances. You have to have the energy, the timing and the ability to execute the dance with another person. Detroit instructors…get ready…people are going to want to learn this form of steppin.
Saturday's Firewater steppers set did not have the contestants for the Grab Bag contest and I'm not sure why. Being in a room where there is so much talent packed into it would intimidate most anyone…I guess. Hopefully, DJ Rockin Rodney Mack can revisit the Grab Bag contest idea during his Thursday night White Party in June.
Saturday night let us see Michelle Mason "DJ Butta" making a guest appearance at the DJ station with Mykel. Michelle has such a lovely spirit and disposition and I want us to all continue to uplift Michelle in our prayers for her to continue to stay that way.
By the way, Detroit's Keesha Anderson had on one of the baddest dresses of the evening. Chicago's Dana-White Scott was also representing the fashion dial too. As always, Maurice "Reece" Thomas created fashion moments as well.
I stayed until the very end of the set and almost got out the door but Lynne "Ms. Chessecake" Batten's desserts were tempting me like Eve with the apple. That Red Velvet flavor is going to keep me on the wrong side of the scale.
Sunday's brunch hosted by Friends United was on point. There was a lot of food (burp), music and dancing. A highlight for me was when I saw Drew Alexander, "The Phenom," do a Walkin Trio which I had never seen anyone do before…anywhere. This young man is an endless array of creativity and flawless executions of combinations. I also want to recognize Detroit's "The Dark Knight", Ed Donaldson.
If there are 60 minutes in an hour and four minute songs being played, that's 15 dances an hour. I never saw Ed sit down during the last three days. While he is not the only man that does this, I can attest that he continuously gives of himself 100% while he dances with each and every lady that gets to him and that he gets to.
Never one to be at a loss for nicknames and concept names, I have created my new phrase for the month. Perimeter People.
There are two kinds of Perimeter People. The first kind of Perimeter People are the couples that dance close to the edge of the floors so they can gauge their lines, spins and spacing better. It's a great place to dance so as not to get caught in the middle of the floor where couples tend to drift, constantly bump into you and change the grain of the dance pattern. You know…the ones that will come on the dance floor and everyone is dancing in a north/south direction and they get on there and do an east/west direction.
The second kind of Perimeter People are the ones like I saw Friday and Saturday night. They might as well be wearing t-shirts that say, "LOOK AT ME! I NEED ATTENTION!" I saw six separate incidents of couples being bullied out of their positions by overly aggressive perimeter people who refuse to dance anywhere else except by the bars. Maybe Jeff can start a line of shirts for these people that say, "I Love Steppin so much…I'll knock you out the way!"
Stay tuned. On Wednesday I am submitting a commentary called "Slaves to the Rhythm" on I Love Steppin. It will explore the belief system of…well…just stay tuned. It will not disappoint.
In the house (Oh boy…I hate this part because I can't name everyone) Cleveland's Greg Rashid, Kendra Willis, Jamal Brown, Kelli Harris, Darlene Mans, Karen Ware, Qiana Wilson, The Steady Steppers, Detroit's Golden Couple Ira and Gail Blakely, Miles Adolph, Tyrone "The Godfather" Bradley, Bonita Williams, Amanda Anderson, Niecy Johnson, Mary Canty, Gina Ellis, The Big Hat Gentlemen, Ann Hunter, Richard Cochran, Steven Johnson, Denise Mack, Atlanta's Cheryl Powe, Rebecca "Becky"Atkinson, the I Love Steppin Crew, Nicolle Holsey, Deborah "Party People" Dixon, Rose McDaniel, DJ K-Mix Kirk Peterson, and Stan Brooks (Laughing). Also, I want to hug through this review Debbie Rhodes and Marshawn Hubbard for their never ending encouraging words.
Until we all meet again at DJ Rockin Rodney Mack's White Party, June 12-16…continue to educate your steppin!


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Fellow foodie, Merh and I got together one weekend for lunch at Pearl Castle, the Richmond Centre location. I've visited this location and the one on Sexsmith several times, but mainly only for bubble tea and light snacks, never for a full meal. I have to say it is a go-to spot in Richmond for bbt, and when you absolutely can't decide what to eat.
The restaurant was completely full at lunch time with the line up of people spilling out of the restaurant. I didn't think it could ever be that hectic! The wait was around 20 minutes before we were seated.
We were starving and I wanted a fun lunch, meaning little nutrients but good tasting and not boring.
Such components on that day would include Taiwanese-style fried chicken, and anything hot to thaw us from this freezing cold weather. Whether it was due to hunger or ambition, over-ordering is something common to us and this was just another occasion. For us girls, 1 set of entree and one appetizer to share would've sufficed, but, of course, that's not how we roll. I wanted fried chicken, so we got both the wings and nuggets. We wanted something warm, so we each got a hot pot set. After the second plate of appie arrived, we realized we had, once again, overdone ourselves.
Crispy fried chicken nuggets $5.75 with skin on and a load of seasoning. You'll never eat KFC popcorn chicken again. They are crispy and majorly addictive. I could not get enough of them and want some more, like right now......
Fried chicken wings, 6 pieces for $5.50. These wings were pretty big and meaty (except for maybe one), but I still preferred the seasoning on the nuggets.
As an attempt to balance her meal, Merh ordered ginseng chicken hotpot ($8.95). The portion was large for the price. Like I mentioned, the two of us could've shared this and be moderately full. The ginseng broth was mild, and herby. It tasted "healthy" and had a lot of chicken and mushrooms. It came with a side of thick chili sauce to give more flavour to the chicken.
For some reason, for maybe that day in particular, I found the service to be pretty fast. Or maybe I didn't notice that they were slow because we were caught up in conversations. Us hungry girls didn't complain about our hunger while waiting for food, though. Their bbt is good, but imo, Estea at Aberdeen Centre food court reigns supreme.


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By Gautaman Bhaskaran
It is never easy for someone like me to cull out favourite films from the dozens and dozens I have seen over the course of 12 months in 2016. For, there is always something in every movie – or just about – that endears me to it. It can be an engaging story that is also well told. It can be a great idea plotted with panache. Or, it can be a fine piece of performance – like Vidya Balan's in Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh in Hindi, which is one of my 10 most favourite films this year.
I admired Balan's pluck in going completely de-glam and daring to look her own plump self (like Kate Winslet in some movies) to play an ordinary employee in a school at Kalimpong – a hill station in West Bengal. This is of course no sequel to Kahaani 1, and director Sujoy Ghosh deftly takes us far away from the first to narrate a story of child molestation involving an uncle and his mother (!). Balan's Durga Rani Singh notices this in the six-year girl, Mini, who finds it difficult to stay awake in class. "They never let me sleep at night", she blurts out to Singh after persistent probing. Kahaani 2 takes off with Singh having to flee Kalimpong with the child to land in Chandan Nagar (Once a French settlement in Bengal) – where she meets a cop played by Arjun Rampal in a controlled avatar. Balan helps us not just watch a lurid tale unfold, but also feel the trauma with her brilliant portrayal of a woman – herself a victim of sexual abuse – anxious to save the child. Kahaani 2 has its flaws – the climax was unreal and there were a few contrivances. But as Ghosh asked me, "Can't a director take artistic liberties." So be it.
There is another actor who floored me. Manoj Bajpayee, whose Aligarh (in Hindi, helmed by Hansal Mehta), premiered at the Busan International Film Festival. Bajpayee as the wronged homosexual professor at the Aligarh Muslim University literally carries the story from frame to frame with feeling, with a sense of utter dejection. Set in a conservative town in Uttar Pradesh from which the movie gets its name, Aligarh, it is about a professor (Bajpayee), fired from the university for his sexual preference, and a young journalist (Rajkumar Rao) who tells this tragic tale to the world.
Alankrita Shrivastava's Hindi work, Lipstick Waale Sapne – which I saw at the Tokyo International Film Festival – appealed to me for its freshness of treatment and its novel way of elaborating some of India's burning social issues. It plots the experiences of four women, two Hindus and two Muslims, who live in Bhopal. They are unfulfilled and unhappy, but with the gutsy ability to dream and dare. Beautiful Rehana (essayed by Plabita Borthakur) hails from a family of tailors, goes to college and is enamoured of all things feminine. She cannot of course buy them, but she can steal them, and shoplifts with a devil-may-care hidden beneath a veneer of disarming innocence. Then there is Leela (Aahana Kumra), who on the day of her engagement with a rich guy, does not flinch while taking advantage of a short power outage to engage physically with her boyfriend. And she is all game for this, having been in love with him, but forced into a marriage with a guy she does not care for. Shirin (portrayed with nuanced ease by Konkana Sen Sharma) has three little sons and a husband, who has just come back from Saudi Arabia. He treats his wife with unimaginable coldness, even forcing Shirin to go through a series of induced abortions. What is even worse, he blows a fuse when she finds out about his mistress, and stops Shirin from working as a salesgirl. The fourth woman is a 55-year-old widow, Usha (played with superb finesse by Ratna Pathak Shah) – a darling of the "mohalla". Addressed reverentially as "Bhuvaji" (aunt), she whiles away her time reading pulp fiction, and when she meets a hunky swimming coach, she fantasises through mobile telephone conversations with him, pretending to be one of the characters in the novels she reads.
Another Hindi film that caught my eye was Shubhashish Bhutiani's Mukti Bhavan – which I saw at the Dubai International Film Festival. When an Indian movie stops itself from going overboard with emotional dramatics, it seems such a refreshing relief from the kind of over-the-top kind of cinema we are battered with day in and day out. And Mukti Bhavan fits perfectly well with the cinema of the subdued. The young Bhutiani, barely 25, presents a poignant plot of 77-year-old Dayanand Kumar (and what a marvellous piece of acting here by Lalit Behl), who wants to spend his last days at the holy city of Varanasi after he has a dream that is recurrent and ominous. He feels his end is round the corner, and he would want to die on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi. A death there is believed to stop the cycle of birth. But his son, Rajiv (another superb performance by Adil Hussain), is in a quandary. With a wife and a daughter, who is all set to get married, and a boss at office who just cannot exist without Rajiv, he somehow agrees to take the old man to Varanasi. The journey completely changes the way they feel about each other.
The Aamir Khan-starrer Dangal in Hindi by Nitesh Tiwari is certainly no Lagaan. But Dangal, based on a true story of a father determined to make wrestlers out of his two daughters in a State like Haryana (known for its male chauvinism), is exciting – especially its fight sequences that begin in mud pits and later travel to matted arenas. When wrestling champion Mahavir Singh Poghat does not get a son – with his wife giving birth to four daughters – he decides to make the two eldest ones Geeta (Fatima Sana Shaik) and Babita (Sanya Malhotra) into wrestlers, much to chagrin of his community and the ridicule of male wrestlers. But Poghat cannot be dissuaded, and finally his girls win medals for India. Khan is superb – his silences, his economy of words and his rare angst when he finds Geeta rubbish his years of teaching in favour of a new coach at the sports academy where she trains for the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.
Another movie on sports, this time in Tamil, Irudhi Suttru by Sudha Kongara, has Madhavan playing a failed boxer (with a failed marriage) who suddenly finds meaning in life when he finds a young fisherwoman, Madhi (Ritika Singh) with magical potential. He trains her despite her catty ferocity, and fiery red-tape which hinders his every forward step. Lovely acting by Madhavan and Singh and beautiful romance subtly shown. Rare to find a Tamil work with such controlled narration.
Another Tamil film that was amazingly restrained was Manikandan's Aandavan Kattalai. Once, the helmer gave us a delightful work called Kaaka Muttai – on the travails of two little boys angling for a pizza. In his latest outing, he takes us to a completely different theme. Vijay Sethupathi – in his usual subdued performance (that has often reminded me of Marlon Brando) is a bit more evocatively expressive here as Gandhi, a strapping youth who journeys from a village near Madurai to Chennai in search of a British visa. He plans to get a tourist permit, enter the UK and find work. But there are obstacles. The travel agent who promises to arrange the visa insists that the papers can be easily had if Gandhi were to be married. Unfortunately, the visa does not come through, with Gandhi true to his name, refusing to lie at the British Consulate. A unique script that has been executed with finesse by Sethupathi and his love interest, Ritika Singh.
Adoor Gopalakrishnan's 12th feature, Pinneyum in Malayalam – which came after an eight-year hiatus – takes us back to the 2000 era in Kerala, which was beginning to see the ugly face of consumerism. It was a time when Kerala's Gulf boom was on with just about every other household having at least one member of its family on the deserts of Arabia. It was not uncommon to see Malayalees flush with money. And those who did not have these, aspired, often desperately, to up their status with Gulf money by chasing sometimes almost impossible dreams. The Nair family in Pinneyum also has its aspirations – only that in this case they stoke the fire of avarice. The Nairs' dream begins on a low key, but when their needs multiply, they stoop to committing the most heinous crime. A masterly work with Dileep, Kavya Madhavan, Nedumudi Venu and Indrans.
Sanal Kumar Sashidharan's Sexy Durga (Malayalam) – is one of the finest movies I saw this year. Sashidharan has this amazing ability to surprise even a hardcore critic like me, and his debut feature, An Off-Day Game (Ozhivudivasathe Kali), in Malayalam, was almost magically unpredictable that narrated the drinking bout of some friends on a holiday in a desolate bungalow which turned notoriously evil. In contrast, Sexy Durga attempts to tell us that men can be magnanimous when they want to be. And this emerges on a dark night, on a lonely highway. The film opens with a woman, Durga (Rajashri Despande), anxiously waiting on a deserted road in the middle of the night – till Kabeer (Kannan Nair) arrives. We do not know whether they are married, but we are sure that they are eloping from an undisclosed destination to Chennai. They have to reach a train station, and have to thumb a lift to get there. Unfortunately, the small van that stops by has two men, all sozzled up. And the ride for the couple turns nightmarish. The style reminded me of Hitchcock – where fear is conveyed without undue blood and gore.
Brothers Satish and Santosh Babusenan's Ottayaal Paatha, also in Malayalam, is a heart-tugging tale of a father and son. The brothers narrate through a series of sparse frames and economy of words how a grown-up son, Akhil (played by Sarath Sabha), is caught between the love for his girlfriend, Nina (Krishnapriya), and his affection for his old father, Vikraman (K Kaladharan). The elderly man is practically bed-ridden with complications arising out of diabetes severely restricting his mobility. When out of bed, he has to hop on to a wheelchair, and he needs constant care. The family is not well-to-do and lives in a ghetto of sorts, and Akhil has no job, and in any case the city where he lives offers very little opportunity. And when Nina, hailing from an upper class family, suggests that the two go away to Bengaluru, the invitation is tantalisingly tempting. For Akhil, the new city will be like a breath of much-needed oxygen, but the son is wracked by dilemma. Can he possibly leave his infirm father behind to be taken care of by paid employees? The work competed at the recent Cairo International Film Festival.
*Next week, Gautaman Bhaskaran will list his 10 most favourite films in languages other than Indian, and he may be e-mailed at [email protected]
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