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Lunch With François Pinault
The elusive billionaire art collector refuses wine.
Venice or Paris? Five years after I first asked him, elusive billionaire art collector François Pinault has agreed to meet me for lunch and even offers a choice of location: Venice, where his showcases at Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana form one of Europe's biggest private displays of contemporary art; or Paris, where his home is a hôtel particulier or grand townhouse in the centre of the city.
The non-negotiable element is that our conversation be in French, so I opt for Paris and e-mail his office to apologise for not being entirely fluent. The reply, in English, comes back instantly: "Monsieur Pinault is very kind about these things, and I am sure will behave as a gentleman."
The fact that this needs saying is revealing. A self-made luxury goods magnate, Pinault is internationally acclaimed for his cutting-edge art collection, consisting of 2,000 works, many acquired directly from artists such as Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons. But in France he has never shaken off a reputation as something of a wide-boy who made his wealth through takeovers of ailing companies, aided by political friendships; he is close to Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. "French people ... look at Pinault as a pirate," Le Monde journalist Harry Bellet told Forbes Magazine, which last year estimated Pinault's fortune at $8.7bn—reportedly the third-largest in France.
When I arrive at Sormani, a Michelin-starred restaurant off the Champs-Elysées, Pinault is already there: a lean, silver-haired figure with crystalline blue eyes, mobile features and a questing, slightly sarcastic expression. He darts out from among a gaggle of waiters to greet me: exquisitely courteous but also restless and looking at least a decade younger than his 74 years. Soberly dressed in sleek grey suit, blue shirt, dark purple tie, he apologises immediately that he must leave early, for a funeral. So we begin lunch at once, with Evian water and a plate of succulent mortadella presented on the house.
Pinault says he has chosen Sormani for its Italian connection, since we are marking the fifth anniversary, this weekend, of the François Pinault Foundation's inauguration in Venice. Pinault is a regular here and the maître d', knowing he will not bother with a menu, suggests asparagus to start, then fish. Pinault requests coquilles Saint Jacques (scallops), and when I decline shellfish, recommends the turbot. We both refuse wine: "I only drink in the evening, otherwise it gets complicated," explains the owner of Château Latour.
Sormani appeals because "c'est pas trop snob": important for a man such as Pinault whose empire treads a tightrope between exclusive art and fashion—from Gucci, to Yves Saint Laurent and Christie's—and a defiant non-elitism. I think this is why he favours expensive conceptualists such as Hirst and Koons, whose work depends on branding but is also aggressively anti-bourgeois. By contrast, "in France", says Pinault, "people think art stopped at the end of the 18th century. Well, perhaps a few curators go on to the 19th, and the impressionists. But then there is un moment de blocage. They close the curtains."
At his Paris home, he has negotiated an "arbitrage" between new art and the ancien régime furnishings selected by his wife Maryvonne. Less successful was an ambitious, long-running project to build a museum on the site of the former Renault plant at the Ile de Seguin outside Paris, which was halted in 2005 by bureaucratic obstacles. With the parting shot that "eternity is for art, not for projects designed to serve it", Pinault took his money to Venice, where he was embraced as rescuer of the Palazzo Grassi, languishing since the death of its former owner Gianni Agnelli of Fiat. Within a year, he transformed the Grand Canal palace into a contemporary museum, designed by Tadao Ando; after a fierce battle with the Guggenheim Museum, he also won control of the Punta della Dogana, Venice's former customs house.
"Italy is plus gaie," he says, with a wave at Sormani's glitzy decor of red-painted chandeliers, mock-classical reliefs and crimson velvet walls. "The Italians live well. They have problems, like all countries, but they are well-dressed, the women are pretty." Italian artists, especially Rudolf Stingel and Maurizio Cattelan, are prominent in his collection; French ones are not. "I don't look at an artist's passport," he protests. "My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't." The French, he notes, "don't buy art—perhaps it is the Catholic religion, they don't spend money on things that are superfluous."
The exception is Pinault's rival Bernard Arnault, an even wealthier luxury goods billionaire, whose plans to build his contemporary museum in Paris did get the green light: his Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, designed by Frank Gehry, opens next year. In advance, international dealer Larry Gagosian recently launched in Paris, suggesting that the French capital will become an increasing force in contemporary art. Does Pinault now regret relocating?
"Je ne regrette jamais," he says. "I have no sense of nostalgia. Tomorrow is what interests me." His collection will tour to Seoul this autumn, Brazil in 2014; art from Asia, Africa and Latin America is influencing western artists and vice versa, he says. "We're on our way to globalisation, this is a vision I like. Everyone knows Venice. It's Italian but belongs to the world, it's open to the orient. And the presence of the old, Tintoretto, Titian, in confrontation with the [contemporary] Biennale: we see art continue here. We must die but life continues in art. During wars, the crisis in Japan, art always delivers this small hope, never despair. Artists have a capacity to anticipate the world towards which we are going. The glory of Tintoretto is that art is not dead, the movement hasn't stopped."
Two plates of fat juicy green asparagus arrive. Pinault methodically cuts the tip off each spear, dabs it in mustard vinaigrette, eats it at a measured pace and leaves the remainder. As a symbol of the self-made entrepreneur's flight to quality, it is comically apt. For Pinault "started with nothing—no money, no qualifications, no diploma".
Born into a peasant family in Champs-Geraux, a village in western Brittany, he was mocked at school in Rennes for his rural accent and shabby clothes, and left at the age of 15. "I saw a bit of art in churches, things like that," but never entered a museum. Then, when he was 30, "a friend in Brittany, a Sunday painter, took me to an exhibition in Rennes of the Nabis and Pont-Aven school. There was no Gauguin, the things were not well-painted but the colours were vivid. My friend said, 'Look! Look!' I saw nothing, understood nothing but I went a second time, I made him go back. To insist: that is the Breton character".
That tenacity was also responsible for the success of his initial business, in the timber industry. Then in 1980, in London, he stepped into an auction house for the first time. "I saw a small canvas by [Pont-Aven artist] Paul Sérusier, a Breton scene of a farm with an old woman. I bought it because she resembled my grandmother. That was my first significant purchase. Then I looked, I read, and I galloped through the twentieth century—Picasso and the cubists, surrealism." A landmark was Mondrian's "Tableau Losangique II", bought for $8.8m in 1990, which announced the rigorous, cerebral nature of his taste.
"At first, you want to show you can do it," Pinault admits, punching the air with his fist, eyes gleaming, when I ask about the pleasure of the chase (his holding company is called Artemis, after the Greek goddess of hunting). "You buy in the mainstream, then you develop your taste and you don't need to follow anyone."
In the 1990s, he realised that from the postwar period onwards, "one could still find major things". "Everything earlier was already in museums, it was too late," he says. "Then—voilà!—I arrived at the contemporary. Two things mattered: the first, to do with my character, my curiosity for knowledge; the second, to be able to buy artists who count."
Pinault is a formidable player. At the 2007 Venice Biennale, for example, he bought the installation of Sigmar Polke paintings in the Italian pavilion just before interested museum directors arrived "un peu après". Nevertheless, there have been complaints that his programme in Venice changes too slowly, and fails to attract the visitor numbers achieved under Fiat's reign. The new display of works beginning this weekend, however, is addressing some of the criticism; notably there will be a more clear-cut division between Palazzo Grassi, to be used for short-term exhibitions—The World belongs to You opens there in June—and Punta Dogana, where In Praise of Doubt, a long-term museum-style presentation opens on Sunday at Punta della Dogana. This includes works by Koons, Subodh Gupta, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Cattelan and—significantly positioned at the entrance to the exhibition—Donald Judd.
"Mon propre goût," Pinault says suddenly, as our main courses appear, "is minimalism—Donald Judd, Robert Ryman, things assez mystique, big white paintings." He stabs at his scallops, pushing the accompanying spinach to one side as irrelevant. "But I didn't want to be a maniac, collecting just one thing, imprisoned in a sole period. So—j'ai enlargi la palette de ma connaissance [I widened the scope of my knowledge]. Also a spirit of tolerance made me look more broadly."
As I savour my buttery turbot, served with delicate morels and spring vegetables, I wonder what drives an entrepreneur in the desire to possess and then share works of art. Is it a penance for the ruthlessness of business, or a civilising veneer, or a balance to worldliness?
"There is certainly a form of equilibrium between the material life of business and the life of art," Pinault concedes. "The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion—others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love."
This is said without irony, and confirmed by anecdotes: consultant Philippe Ségalot, for example, recalls accompanying Pinault to see a Carl Andre floor sculpture; after half an hour of silent viewing, Pinault said, "I have no choice" and paid $7m for it. Like many collectors, he is particularly enthused by his newest discoveries—he mentions Algerian installation artist Adel Abdessemed and Leeds-born sculptor Thomas Houseago ("he looks like Rodin!"), both significant presences in this weekend's Dogana opening.
Does he ever make mistakes? "I can go wrong but not heavily. Collectors are like artists, there are days when you are less en forme, you are tired, it's not so good." It is a "fixed rule" that he sees everything he purchases, mostly at studio visits. I propose that he is too powerful to go wrong: his interest in an artist is enough to make a career soar. At this, the competitive streak, politely downplayed so far, rises. "Yes, Gagosian comes to my shows and a fortnight later goes to see the artists and puts them under contract!" Pinault laughs, adding, " He is terriblement efficace, j'aime bien cet homme! He has the energy, the regard, the intelligence."
A good collector, Pinault says, "needs an eye, emotion, the capacity to feel something in a work. You can be a cold brute in business; you don't need feelings: it's effective to eliminate them. But in art everything is about emotion."
I quote Sergei Shchukin, great Russian collector of Matisse: "If you feel a psychological shock before a work, buy it without further ado." "It's the same with me," Pinault exclaims, recalling a visit to African-American artist David Hammons. He was so shocked by the work that he left, then returned and bought two pictures. "You don't want anything trop aimable—c'est la séduction. There should be no seduction. You need shocks—Damien Hirst, for example, is having a difficult time now but that's experience. Anyone who goes through life without tests and difficulties—huh!" He shrugs dismissively and apologises again that he must leave for the funeral. As I sample a violet meringue from the sprinkled array of petits fours that comes with the bill, the prince of luxury hastens away from the table with a grin: "I live as if I have eternity before me but every morning I say, 'It could stop here.'"
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Well, my recent trip to Calcutta, rounded off the only metropolitan city that I had not been to, in India. And it lived up to its reputation. Staying at Salt Lake City, going in the famous yellow taxis and the underground metro train and into the new and old city, was an experience in itself.
The city is very crowded though. But the difference between the rush in Calcutta and the rush I find in other Indian cities lies in the pressure that people place on themselves to have a life outside of office. People have time here, or, ensure that they create time for themselves and their loved ones. Of course, during winter the sun sets at 5 p.m., so that helps matters, as people get home really early. There did not seem to be a concept of long hours here and extensive high-pressure life. During the day, I found many people sitting along the maidan area and watching club cricket. This form and league of cricket is taken very seriously here, and many a punter is debated, discussed and disputed at these clubs. The grounds are massive too, much bigger than I am accustomed to seeing back home in Bangalore.
Perhaps the star attraction of the city is the Victoria Memorial (VM). A phenomenal architectural wonder that has a museum with flavours of sculpture, paintings, photographs, Indian freedom fighters, evolution of Calcutta. There is a tremendous amount of history in this building too - frames and sculptures of British rulers, kings, viceroys, etc don the ramparts of this museum at different spots. Some names I remember are Lord Curzon, Lord Dalhousie. The highlight of them all, is the fantastic sculpture of Queen Victoria - standing tall, with a bright smile and overlooking the entire museum, right from the centre of the main hall. Great sight. It almost made me wonder, how could such a good-looking woman, be part of such a brutal agenda to rule us for 180 years!
The VM is quite spectacular at dusk, and even better at night. It overlooks the horizon of downtown Calcutta in a manner of royalty, that I have possibly only seen in New Delhi at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Fantastic! And white marble, well-lit, in the evening, is a great sight!
Of course, my trip had its fair share of drama. I lost my cellphone! As I stood at the main gate of the VM and was busy clicking photographs, I guess my phone fell somewhere. Only after I got to the nearest railway station to get back to my guest house, did I realise that I had lost my 15 day old phone! So much for loving something so dearly in life - more often than not, it goes away from me. Sigh!
The drama didn't end with the lost phone. Given the recent coverage on the Bombay terror attacks, the last thing I ever wanted was my phone getting into the hands of some untoward elements in an alien city. So, I went up to the cops and reported the loss of my phone. They hardly spoke Hindi, and I didn't know a word of Bengali! It was quite amusing for me to speak Hindi slowly and try to get my point across to the cops. I have an observation about the cops, which I will write about later. Finally, I hopped onto the police van and went to the nearest police station and lodged an FIR, about the loss of my phone. It was such an old building, with even older furniture and files. No information technology in the Calcutta police forces, for sure!
In between all this, I must say that I had a good glimpse of modern Calcutta. I went around the maidan region, saw the famous Eden Gardens from the outside, the B.C.Roy Club House, and the Cricket Association of Bengal. Names that I had seen on television for years and which I had associated with the likes of Jagmohan Dalmiya and Saurav Ganguly. It was refreshing to see so many upcoming cricketers playing in the vicinity in the massive maidan region, trying to follow their heroes and make it to the top. I got the sincere feeling that this modern part of Calcutta strongly encouraged sports and had so many facilities for the club cricketers to display their wares, right outside the Eden Gardens. What was disappointing for me was the fact that I was not permitted into the Eden Gardens for the tourist visit. Of course, courtesy, the recent Bombay terror attacks. Anyway, just another one of those long-cherished things in my life, that didn't happen.
This part of Calcutta had corporate offices, five star hotels, small malls, restaurants, lounge bars, and a number of foreigners. My next stop was Park Street, which I felt was a striking replica of some of the main downtown areas in Bombay, like the Fort area. Old historical British buildings, head offices of famous companies, host of people running from pillar to post in the regular rush of their lives, roadside juice bars, famous landmarks such as St. Xaviers' College, Archbishop's Residence and so on. A mix of the old British life and the modern Calcutta, trying to put its best foot forward in a competitive world. I also felt that this was the only part of Calcutta that was possibly not affected so much by the crony socialism that the entire state of West Bengal is famous for. Maybe, I had the forward-looking eyes of the Indian youth, that this struck me. But, I am pretty sure that, this would be the observation that anyone makes about Park Street.
As I finally got back to Salt Lake City, trying to balance the rush on the metro and my need to be on time for a wedding reception at the Lake Club, I was greeted by the Calcutta traffic. Scores and scores of vehicles going from the expensive part of the city (Park Street & the like), to their respective homes. What was good about this traffic though was that it was free-flowing. The roads are quite wide in the main streets of Calcutta. Any average main road could accommodate 3-4 lanes at least.
On my return to the guest house, I quickly changed into my new red kurta and headed out to the Rowing Club, apparently, a famous landmark in the city. Took some time to get there, but, eventually did. Sprawling lake, and a fantastic setting to host a wedding reception. Thankfully, my friend had invited very few people, so it was not very crowded. I ended up being a topic of conversation, as nobody around had come in all the way from Bangalore! That made a few heads (read, Bengali girls!) bob towards me. I wasn't complaining, given that they were all looking so good! Enough number of them came over to me and mentioned that they were particularly appreciative of my trip all the way from Bangalore to Calcutta. I should thank my close friend for inviting me over, I guess!!:)
One thing I must say is that Bengalis are very proud people and their women take pains to look beautiful. The difference between the Calcutta version of beauty and the Delhi type of beauty is the natural flavour of these Bengalis. I never found even a single Bengali girl over-dressed, or smacked with a few litres of lipstick. They just seemed to be adept at carrying themselves very well, and their grace just added to the beauty. Maybe, just maybe, the fact that I found Bengali women more intellectual and possessing a good ability to carry on a conversation well, made them appeal to me a lot more!
Anyway, coming back to the reception, I made a couple of new friends there and we were talking about the recession and the politicians and the Bombay terror attacks. A couple of them were busy marketing the modernity of Calcutta in the form of a few interesting malls in the city, as a close competitor to Bangalore's growth story! Made for interesting conversation though.
I did not forget to have the famous rosagollas and sandesh sweets at the reception. Slurp! Simply terrific!
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Despite her remarkable beauty, Xia Man Li (Vivi Lee) has always been unlucky in love, until she runs into her old crush Zheng Ying Jie (Bobby Dou) — still handsome, warmhearted and single. Meanwhile, when Xia Man An (Huang Pei Jia) returns from years abroad, she's devastated to discover Ying Jie, her lifelong crush, is rushing to the altar with a mysterious bride. Is Man An destined to be a third wheel in her own love story, or is there more to Man Li and Ying Jie's whirlwind romance than meets the eye?
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Starring Leon Lai and Feng Shao Feng
Based on the true events of the Qin Dynasty's downfall, two sworn brothers, Liu Bang (Leon Lai) and Xiang Yu (Feng Shao Feng), rise as rebel leaders as the nation falls into chaos. But when King Huai of Chu conspires to bring them down with a mission built for betrayal, Bang and Yu ruthlessly contend against one another for supremacy and for the love of Yu Ji (Liu Yi Fei), leading up to an epic showdown at the Feast of Hong Gate — the infamous event responsible for the birth of the Han Dynasty.
1. Producer
Starring Kim Soo Hyun, IU, Cha Tae Hyun and Gong Hyo Jin
A group of young television producers — Ra Jun Mo (Cha Tae Hyun), Baek Sung Chan (Kim Soo Hyun), Tak Ye Ji (Gong Hyo Jin), and Cindy (IU) — work tirelessly around the clock within the entertainment division of a major broadcasting network. Amidst their dynamic and challenging workloads, serious drama reaches new heights in this backstage glimpse of the people who make television magic happen. Producer marks the second collaboration between actor Kim Soo Hyun and screenwriter Park Ji-eun after working together in the 2014 international megahit My Love from Another Star.
Baek Sung Chan (Kim Soo Hyun) is a fresh new producer. He was a law graduate of an ivy-league school who now works in the variety department of KBS. He made the career switch after following in the footsteps of his first love, which didn't exactly work out for him. Although he is intelligent, he is also clumsy. As the new intern he has a lot to learn if he wants to succeed in the Korean entertainment industry.
Tak Ye Ji (Gong Hyo Jin) is a hot-shot producer who gets things done her way. She has ten years of experience in the industry. She is smart and ambitious, but can be caustic in her criticism, as she doesn't sugarcoat her opinions. She is the director of the popular show "Music Bank". If Baek Sung Chan wants to succeed, he'll need outperform her expectations…or avoid Tak Ye Ji completely, neither of which will be easy tasks. Gong Hyo Jin was the lead of recent fan favorite It's Okay That's Love and previously starred in the drama Master's Sun.
Ra Joon Mo (Cha Tae Hyun), is a seasoned producer and director who has worked in the industry for ten years as well. Yet despite his immense experience and his contributions to numerous shows, he has yet to develop a single hit show that he can be proud to call his own. Chae Tae Hyun is a cast member on the real life variety show 2 Days 1 Night. His role as Ra Joon Mo in Producer will include a turn as a producer of 2 Days 1 Night. He is most well known for his lead role in international hit My Sassy Girl.
Cindy (IU), is a top-star and temperamental singer. She debuted as a child at the age of 13. Now at the young age of 23, she can actually be considered a veteran. She has the nickname "Ice Princess" for her coldness and lack of emotion. In real life, IU is one of the Korea's most beloved K-pop stars. Her first album debuted to success. As an actress, she starred in You're the Best Lee Soon Shin and was previously the host of real life music variety show, Music Trend.
Producer has numerous cameos, but the biggest would be Kim Jong Kook from Running Man. He's real life friends with Cha Tae Hyun. In the show, he'll be joining the cast as Cha Tae Hyun's "Sunbae," ("Work Senior") which is a position of respect and social power. In reality the two friends are equals, which adds a dimension of comedy since respect between senior and junior colleagues is central to Korean workplace culture. This will be Kim Jong Kook's acting debut after being in the entertainment industry for twenty years as a singer and real life variety star.
Starring Yoo Yun Suk and Kang So Ra
Desperate to escape the drama and stress of modern life in the city, Baek Gun Woo (Yoo Yeon Seok) and Lee Jung Joo (Kang So Ra) take off to South Korea's idyllic Jeju Island. But when these two urbane strangers meet on the island, they discover the magical island's restorative qualities include unexpected romance.
Starring Cecilia Liu and Eddie Peng
Based on the hit romance novel, Sound of the Desert traces the fate of Jin Yu (Cecilia Liu), a young orphan who was adopted by the nomadic Xiongnu tribe. When political turmoil forces Jin Yu to flee, she finds herself in the company of two very different, but alluring men: Mo Xun (Hu Ge), a kind soul, and Wei Wuji (Eddie Peng), a cold general. As Jin Yu travels throughout a vast desert of possibilities, she must ask herself who she loves most in this delicate dance of love.
Which new dramas did you watch this week? Which new dramas are you looking forward to next week? Comment below!


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Hey everyone,
So this is a secret we've had to sit on for nearly a year, and it's fine time we got this off our chests. Our very first game and our finest release, Ravenmark: Scourge of Estellion, will finally head to Steam on August 6th. We couldn't be prouder.
Head over to the official Steam page and add it to your wishlist! Pricing isn't confirmed as of this writing, but we're thinking about US$19.99 with a launch week discount.
We've dug in and made all the adjustments you'd expect of a proper PC port, but wait! There is (of course) exclusive content in the form of the Epilogue campaign, comprising 8 new missions that delve into the aftermath of the Scourge following the Empire's fateful battles against the Kaysani at Lastwall. If you've played Ravenmark: Mercenaries, you'll see a familiar face or three!
Our publishing partner for this release is none other than Slitherine Ltd, purveyor of fine strategy games for the truly dedicated wargamer. Hopefully, if things go well, you guys will see Mercenaries on PC as well in the future! If you'd like a little trivia – the genesis of this deal traces back to a clandestine meeting I had all the way up in Helsinki, Finland during a Pocket Gamer conference. It's pretty cool to see how a quick conversation turns things into reality (albeit with lots of work along the way!).
PS: 4 months since my last post? It's time to admit we're bad at social media in general. Yup. *dusts off cobwebs* I promise a post regarding Masquerada very soon!
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So, have you ever been on a rabbit hunt with PeopleCode? You know, you're trying to trace down a bug (undocumented feature) and you have to keep opening another record in the Application Designer, then another, and then another.
Then at the end of the day you just want to save your project and go home. Then you start getting the "do you want to save" messages and you can't really remember if you made any peoplecode changes or not…
I know I've been there more than once. So I decided to take on the task of taking all the PeopleCode and creating webpages out of them so I could quickly surf them with my browser. It looks something like:
Note the first page (index is the first two letters of the record:
So let's say that you want to look up the FUNCLIB records, you would of coarse start at the FU page (funny how that worked out) and that page would look some like:
Notice the record name is an h1 and then you have a list of fields, not all the fields, just those with PeopleCode events. Lets explore the RowInit event for the field DYN_REF_DATA2. Clicking this link will bring you to:
And now you need to chase down the select_ref_value function. Well just click the hyperlink and you're there.
I find that having these pages available is a great time saver for research. However, I'm not sure others would. I think so, but who knows. This is mostly an automated process to create these pages but if I find there is a lot of interest in the community, I'll polish up the scripts and make them available or offer a service to do them for you.
Currently this only includes record PeopleCode. It does not include Page PeopleCode, Application Engine steps, or Application Package PeopleCode. If there is interest these could be added.
These processes require that you dump your PeopleCode to a text file through the Application Designer. It's not a complicated process if you've never performed it before, but it does take a long time, best to start the process as you are leaving for the day. I can walk you through the process quickly if you have any questions. Note: just having this PeopleCode dump file is excellent for quickly searching your entire PeopleCode database for specific terms. The Find In function is so poor it's unbelievable, this will find results in seconds, not hours.
For a 9.2 Financials database, this equates to about 85k web pages at about 1.2 gig of space. This is obviously meant to be stored on a lan somewhere and not available to the general public. Of course you could, just be aware that your would be exposing your customizations if you did so.
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Notebook (Jan-Apr 1917)University Of Oxford First World War Poetry Digital Archive
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- In 2006, 30 per cent of all visible minorities in Canada were Canadian-born and 66 per cent were immigrants.
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PALM BEACH — Town Council members on Tuesday ordered revisions to the worker identification law to make it less discriminatory following a federal court decision to throw out the controversial measure.
They also made it tougher for film makers to work in the island community by requiring producers to have $10 million worth of insurance coverage.
Previously, producers were restricted by a zoning ordinance against blocking a public right of way.
In addition to the insurance, film makers now must also sign an agreement protecting the town from any personal or property liability, plus pay in advance for any special services, such as police overtime.
``What does film making do for the community? Not one damn thing. It`s just creating a hassle,`` said council member Nancy Douthit, who appeared on national television after balking at requests by Peter Falk to shoot Happy New Year here last summer.
Council members said they wished to preserve their right of appeal of the ruling in the identification card ordinance and ordered Town Attorney John Randolph to file a notice of appeal before tomorrow`s deadline.
On Dec. 16, U.S. District Judge Norman Roettger Jr. found the law unconstitutional because it violated interstate commerce. The judge said that while the ordinance did not directly discriminate against non-residents, in practice it adversely affected non-residents.
The ID law, which cartoonist Garry Trudeau lampooned as comparable to South African apartheid in his nationally syndicated ``Doonesbury`` comic strip, required 17 types of generally low-wage workers to be fingerprinted and photographed by police.
The notice of appeal gives the town the option of appealing to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, but does not bind it to completing the process.


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Alexander Meyer
June 3, 2011
This past Saturday, the 28th of May would have been an interesting day for Thomas Jefferson had he still been alive. In the heart of Los Angeles he would be dancing along side hundreds of others in celebration of his message of liberty, which was the focal point of the Nullify Now conference. Whereas, had Jefferson been performing the very same dance in the halls of his own memorial, in the heart of the nations capitol, he would have been assaulted and arrested.
This paints the very real picture of our times. We have unchallenged Federal power coming face to face with the boiling passion of a grass roots revival for liberty.
An enthusiastic and diverse segment of that grass roots movement was out in force at the Nullify Now conference, along with live music with a message like Jordan Page and a handful of liberty minded vendors. The standing room only crowd filled the 30th story penthouse hall of the AT&T building; all to see inspiring talks from Scott Horton of AntiWar, John Dennis (Republican challenger to Nancy Pelosi) , Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, and the key note speaker for the evening Thomas E. Woods Jr. As the title of the event implies, the conference sought to educate concerned Americans about the tyranny blocking firewall that Jefferson introduced into political discourse, Nullification. As Tom Woods puts it in his latest and aptly named book "Nullification":
"Nullification begins with the axiomatic point that federal law that violates the Constitution is no law at all. It is void and of no effect. Nullification simply pushes this uncontroversial point a step further: if a law is unconstitutional and therefore void and of no effect, it is up to the states, the parties to the federal compact, to declare it so and thus refuse to enforce it. It would be foolish and vain to wait for the federal government or a branch thereof to condemn its own law. Nullification provides a shield between the people of a state and an unconstitutional law from the federal government."
This succinct expression of nullification is illustrated in the infographic below.
There may be a few mainstream media viewers out there who have heard pundits blurt out distracting buzz words at every mention of nullification. Such as the Rachel Maddow favorite of labeling those who would opt to use this populist power as "Neo-Confederates". I need only address this absurdity by directing you to an interview with a zombie; What could be the perfect breakdown of the MSM's treatment of the issue versus the expert himself, Mr. Woods.
For those interested in learning more on the power of nullification check out Mr. Woods' book, or kick back and watch the entire talk he gave at the first annual (hopefully) Nullify Now conference.
A special thanks to Judd Weiss for providing the great photography. Please check out his blog at HustleBear.com
Alexander Meyer's article first appeared on The TrepaNation.


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In for a penny, in for a pound. Apparently the world didn't crumble when Toshiba folded and fell to the irresistible force that is Blu-ray and, now confident, the company has launched three more BD players at CES 2010.
Top of the tree is the Toshiba BDX3000, which like the other two, has Ethernet and USB ports with BD Live access. They playback MP3, HD-JPEG, WMA and AVCHD files as well as 1080p/24fps content both from the disc and streamed live. What this cookie adds to the jar though is that it's embraced the BD 3D standard and will play back all those depth-savvy movies on launch in Q3.
Like the other two models, it will also support both Dolby TruHD and DTS Master Audio standards in 7.1 set up plus you can get online access to Netflix, VUDU, Cinema Now and Pandora for extra content.
Both the BDX3000 and BDX2700 work wirelessly as well, but the BDX2500 needs a wireless adaptor module plugged into the USB port for that functionality.
The latter two players are out in the spring for $250 and $200 respectively. Expect to see them in the EU as well but with differing online partners. Sadly still no Pandora over here.


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Canada's beaten soccer players accused Norwegian referee Christiana Pedersen of bias towards the United States after their dramatic 4-3 extra-time defeat in their Olympic women's soccer semi-final on Monday. By MIKE COLLETT
In a rare move, Pedersen penalised Canada goalkeeper Erin McLeod for holding the ball too long after making a save in the 80th minute, awarding the U.S. an indirect free kick in the penalty area.
The law states the keeper should release the ball after six seconds, but it is hardly ever applied in either men's or women's soccer.
While that decision appeared to Canada's team to be harsh, Pedersen then awarded the U.S. a penalty resulting from Megan Rapinoe's free kick. The ball struck the elbow of Canada's Marie-Eve Nault with the player turning away.
The referee was not available to comment but Rune Pedersen, the head of refereeing for the Norwegian FA and a former World Cup referee came to her defence.
"The semi-final was intense and demanding. There were many battles, but the referee was in control all the time. Christiana was very close to the play.
"There were two difficult decisions in the match – an indirect free kick to the United States with a subsequent penalty for handball. Those decisions were tough to make and it showed Christiana was not afraid to do what she thought was right. We hope FIFA supports her in these decisions."
FIFA, world soccer's governing body said in a statement: "The Disciplinary Committee is currently analysing incidents that occurred after the conclusion of the match (between Canada and the U.S.).
"Further information will be provided only after the committee are in possession of all the elements of the case."
Earlier, FIFA said it would not comment on the specific allegations made by the Canadians, adding: "In any case, the referee's decision is always final."
Canada's coach John Herdman initially shied away from the controversy but then added: "She (the referee) has got to live with that. We will move on from this. I wonder if she will be able to."
McLeod told reporters: "The referee said I had the ball for 10 seconds. She obviously counted the time I was on the ground with the ball. Once I got to my feet I calculate I only had the ball for five seconds.
"We feel like we got robbed in this game. The referee was very one-sided. I have never known this to happen before in a game, referees never make this kind of decision."
Skipper Christine Sinclair, who scored all three of Canada's goals, added: "When she gave the penalty, she giggled and said nothing, Classy!
"In an important match it's a disappointment the referee had such an impact on it. We feel cheated."
Canada will meet France for the bronze medal on Thursday but Sinclair added: "Maybe the referee will wear a Canadian jersey for this game."
Canada had already felt hard done by at these Games when equestrian rider Tiffany Foster was disqualified before the team show jumping final on Sunday because of hypersensitivity in her horse's front leg, a decision team captain Eric Lamaze called "a complete miscarriage of justice".
The soccer match was as dramatic as the scoreline suggests with the winning header from U.S. striker Alex Morgan coming three minutes into added time at the end of extra time.
Canada led three times thanks to Sinclair's goals with the U.S. equalising each time, twice through Rapinoe and once from Abby Wambach's contentious penalty which took the game into extra time.
Thursday's gold medal match is against Japan at Wembley where the U.S. will aim to win their third successive Olympic title against the team that beat them on penalties in last year's World Cup final. DM
Photo: USA's Abby Wambach (14) scores on a penalty kick past Canada keeper Erin McLeod (2nd L) in the women's semi final soccer match against at the London 2012 Olympic Games at Old Trafford in Manchester, August 6, 2012. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis
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Books Discussed in this Section
Martin Buber (2008) I and Thou, Hesperides Press
Hannah Arendt (1958) The Human Condition, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Bonnitta Roy (2006) A Process Model of Integral Theory, from Integral Review Journal, Issue 3 at www.integral-reivew.org
In a very real sense, the central subject in a political act is not an individual subject, but a subject-to-subject actant. Not unlike Latour's equation of humans and non-humans enfolded into each other, in an authentic encounter, aka a political act, subjects are enfolded into each other as an I-Thou. The notion of I-Thou-ness is not specifically a relational one, since this is a situation of complete reflexivity, parody and equanimity– whereas for two thing to be related, there must be a third term namely the scale of their relatedness. In an authentic I-Thou encounter, there is no third term. Of this encounter, Martin Buber has written
Beyond the subjective and this side of the objective, on the narrow ledge where I and Thou encounter each other, is the realm of the in-between. This reality, whose discovery has begun in our day, points the way for coming generations, leading beyond both individualism and collectivism.
This I-Thou enfoldment might be considered to be vis-a-vis the intersubjective realm, a reconstitution of the originary, primordial process described by Roy that, along with layers of affect, image, body and world, also enfolds the sense of "other" in the microgenetic series of the cognitive occasion that is responsible for the primary unification of these pre-subjective levels into the "unified subject." In this sense, it is a re-cognition of a pre-subjective inter-face "between self and other," in the special case where "self and other" are pre-subjective surrogates of the conventional level, standard meanings, of "self" and "other." At its most fundamental level, this subject-to-subject encounter is a re-en-actment of a prior, pre-subjective occasion, in which the surrogate subject allows (acknowledges, accepts, invites) "otherness," the surrogate other, in inimical communion as a vital and necessary step to achieve union as a "self"– in other words, as a necessary component of the question "who am I?" Normally, the pre-subjective component of every moment-to-moment arising of cognitive occasions remains unconscious, hidden in the preconstitutional components of self. Occasionally, this pre-subjective, a-conceptual "experience" revitalises itself through intense I-Thou encounters in which something of the below, beneath, behind the self-other formulation discloses its originary aspects. Still, even at the level of fully formed subjects, the subject-to-subject encounter continues to provide essential components of the individual subject's question of the "who I am," as the Greeks fully understood. According to Arendt,
Action and speech are so closely related because the primordial and specifically human act must at the same time contain the answer to the question of every newcomer: "Who are you?" This disclosure of who somebody is, is implicit in both his words and deeds. …
[Moreover] … it is likely that the "who" which appears so clearly and unmistakably to others, remains hidden from the person himself, like the daimon in Greek religion which accompanies each man throughout his life, always looking over his shoulder from behind and thus visible only to those he encounters.
According to Arendt, it is this special quality of the subject-to-subject encounter which distinguishes authentic human action versus the instrumentalization of human deeds. This space of human action– "the space of appearance in the widest sense of the word, namely, where men exist not merely like other living or inanimate things, but make their appearance explicitly"– is not a comfort zone. On the contrary, "the conviction that the greatest that man can achieve is his own appearance and actualization is by no means a matter of course."
[both homo faber and animal laborans] will inclune to denounce action and speech as idleness, idle busy-bodyness and idle talk, and generally will judge public activities in terms of their usefulness to supposedly higher ends– to make the world more useful and more beautiful in the case of homo faber, to make life easier and longer in the case of animal laborans.


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Open Thread: Talk About What Matters Most to You
Discuss and debate the issues that mean the most to you.
That makes it sound awful. It's not. It wasn't. I've talked before about what I did before I came to work full time at xoJane with literally no editorial experience. I was an office drudge. Well, maybe not; to be clear, I was a spectacularly flamboyant office drudge. Like a slightly more subtle Mimi. My job was so boring that the only thing I looked forward to every day was getting dressed. I did that for eight years, after I received my last PhD rejection in 2003; eight years of penance for not being smart enough for academia.
That last bit isn't entirely accurate either. The years in between have helped me understand the issue was never my intelligence, but that I just wasn't willing to do what it takes to succeed as an academic, which should have been a signal that it wasn't the best place for me. Instead, I clung to the shattered pieces of the self-image I'd constructed of Me as Professional Scholar and Knower of Things for years—years! so ridiculous—before letting it go.
I was writing for xoJane prior to the site launch, and came on full time four months later. This was 2011. It was terrifying, taking that job, where I had no idea what I was doing and was afraid of screwing up every hour of every day. Also, my practical side felt very threatened; I still had reservations about whether it would be a good fit for me, and being a little bit of a pessimist, I wasn't fully convinced that the site was going to last a year, and wouldn't it be irresponsible and reckless to leave my very comfortable and mind-rendingly boring desk job—with no chance for advancement ever and which was making me miserable and dull but was also delivering a reliable if modest paycheck and a really sweet amount of paid vacation time—for a job that might not last very long?
Lesson #1: My practical side needs to shut the fuck up sometimes.
So I jumped and it was great. Great! I discovered I was a good editor, as well as being a good writer. And I was learning new things every day and I found out that living in terror of making mistakes was a really excellent way to challenge myself. And also—and this is of even more value—I learned that making mistakes is not all that debilitating as I'd thought.
I'd spent a long time as an activist and a blogger and a wannabe academic, and the one thing these fields often share in common is a need to be RIGHT and CORRECT and to never screw things up, because I thought that being wrong or making a mess would irrevocably destroy any authority I had built and ruin my reputation as a person who is always wise and trustworthy.
Lesson #2: Mistakes are cool.
Aging is totally rad for lots of reasons, but one of the greatest is that for many of us, it comes with the opportunity to recognize our own bullshit. I spent the whole of my twenties needing to be a know-it-all—I took PRIDE in it, for fuck's sake, even describing myself that way in online profiles like it was a positive thing—and resisting ever being wrong, or asking a "bad" question, or otherwise betraying my conceit that I was the wisest and most correctest human in all the land.
It was a tragic period. Because as a result of my dedication to sustaining the illusion that I was omniscient, I didn't learn much in that time at all. There are no "bad" questions. And while willful ignorance is dangerous and unacceptable, trying to remedy a sincere lack of knowledge or understanding on a given subject, even when people are going to call you an idiot, is an admirable thing. Looking stupid, or even like an asshole, is never a wasted effort if you take a positive gain of knowledge away from the encounter.
Also, looking like a stupid asshole ultimately isn't that bad when viewed as the occasional cost of making yourself a more well-rounded person, and realizing how much you really don't and sometimes can't understand about the world and other people's experiences. Today, after many years of being that stupid asshole, I get that my momentary discomfort is a minimal price to pay when compared to the realities of systemic oppression that I will never have to experience firsthand, but I wouldn't have understood that without getting comfortable with being discomforted.
Lesson #3: I thrive best when I am spending every day feeling like I don't know what I'm doing and yet doing it anyway.
This is probably the most important lesson of all for me, now and forever. It's partly why I quit a stable (!) full-time job at xoJane, where I had over four years of seniority and where people trusted and valued me so much they wanted me to take on more and more responsibility. That's a huge compliment, and I don't want to sound ungrateful about it.
But I realized again—quicker this time—that I can't let my worries about other people's perception of me rule the decisions I make for my own life and happiness. I didn't want to let anyone down. But the truth is I was in despair. I was miserable, not because the job was objectively bad or what I was being asked to do was bad, but because it simply wasn't in line with where I saw myself going professionally, and it was no longer the job I'd been happy with in the past.
Remember before when I talked about being scared to leave my comfortable-but-wretched office drudge job exclusively because it was safe and reliable? So much so that I wound up lingering there for EIGHT FREAKING YEARS while I noodled on my blog and ran some online communities (oh, and I guess I wrote a book too) and squeezed what fulfillment I could out of side projects like that?
Yeah, I learned that lesson well: Don't spend eight years of your adult life doing something that you don't really want to do, if you have any other choice, simply because it's the devil you know. Too often—and this is especially true of pragmatic folks like myself—comfort is the enemy of personal growth. I was stagnating. I didn't want to poison all the incredible experiences and opportunities I'd had, and spoil the true fact that my time at xoJane was overall a positive, even life-altering experience.
I realized I had to leave.
Lesson #4: Believing in yourself is terrifying.
Let me be the first to acknowledge that I'm fortunate to be in a situation where I could quit my job and choose to freelance for awhile. That should go without saying, but I'll say it anyway. There are a million ways things could be different for me such that quitting my job wasn't even an option. Even now, I will probably wind up taking work I'm not 100% jazzed about at some point. That's okay too. I'm learning from it, and that makes it worthwhile for me.
There's a truth that all the positive uplifting destroy-your-goals-you-boss-person memes don't tell you. That truth is that believing in yourself is actually terrifying. Terrifying! It's not soft and pink and glittery; it's laborious and ambitious and if it looks glittery that's only because it's made of extremely coarse sandpaper. It requires you to put all your faith in your own competence, and to rely on your persistence and effort to turn your life into something you really, really want. It means you have to cultivate an unshakable faith in your abilities to do things you've never done before, and to accomplish goals where even trying feels impossible.
It also requires you to accept that plain old luck is a huge part of success, and that sometimes it comes down to being in the right place at the right time, and all you can do is clear enough ground to make yourself available when that moment happens. And sometimes, no matter how hard you work, or how badly you want a thing to happen, you will fail, fail, fail and your heart will break and you'll have to fight the urge to consider all of it a terrible mistake.
But then you get up and you do it again. Or you walk away and try something else. And you keep surviving. You only get one lifetime. And I don't have hard statistics on this but someday, when I am old, I suspect I'm a lot more likely to regret the things I didn't try than the things I did.
Lesson #5: My plans rarely work out as I expect, but they do work out they way they need to.
I have ideas! So many ideas. So many plans and machinations. So much energy and motivation. Probably 80% of it won't work out the way I want it to, or even in ways I've anticipated. A seemingly-solid opportunity may crumble and disappear; a vague prospect I wasn't taking too seriously may turn into a specific project; a long-forgotten connection may proffer itself as a chance to do something tremendous. You never know who might turn up with a task for you, or where that task may lead. Open-mindedness is crucial. So is a willingness to say yes to things, particularly things that scare you.
Particularly things that scare me.
When you leave a job as I have, the first thing people ask is what you're doing next, because this is what responsible people do: they have a plan. I have plans. I am scared to death of not having plans. But I've also had plans my whole life, and plans are not reliable, because the world is not predictable, and no matter how carefully you plot your every move, you cannot account for the inevitable bolt of chaos that will interject itself.
My advice to myself today is this: don't fight the chaos. Don't try to put things back the way they were. It will never come together again as it was. Accept that your life will not unfold exactly as you'd intended it, and embrace the things that force you down paths you never thought you'd go. Those paths are where you find parts of yourself you didn't know you had. Take a calculated risk, sometimes. Don't fear your fear; when you feel afraid, let that be a signal to chase after whatever it is that's scaring you.
I don't know where I will be a year from now. Or even six months from now. But I know that however my professional future unfolds, it won't be something that happened to me; it will be something I did for myself. Failure doesn't faze me much anymore—I've experienced it too often and seen the long-term good it can do—but I can't bear the possibility that I might miss out on a chance to grow because I was too nervous to take a leap. I'd rather leap and fall than stay safe on the edge.
I'm leaping. It's good.


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The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition
From the Library of Congress Webcasts site:
"On May 1, 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago opened its gates to an expectant public eager to experience firsthand its architectural beauty, technological marvels and vast array of cultural treasures gathered from all over the world. Among the most popular of the fair's attractions was the Woman's Building, a monumental exhibit hall filled with the products of women's labor, including more than 8,000 volumes of writing, by women and collected by women—the first important library of its kind. Hundreds of thousands of women visited the library and took what they learned to develop local libraries."


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This easy raw gazpacho is like liquid guacamole. This blend kicked me into a pleasure-induced coma and had me ready to coat-check my teeth. I'm now dreaming up a recipe for a taco in a glass. Hmmm...
Tweak the onion, lime juice, chile, and salt to taste. I serve this soup as a main meal with lots of veggie toppings. This way, it serves about 4 people. But, this blend is also sensational served in shot glasses for parties. A splash of tabasco is magic, too.
Just use avocados that are ripe with no bruising or brown spots to avoid avo flavor funk.
Avocado Gazpacho
- 2 cups (240ml) filtered water
- 2 medium avocados, peeled and pitted
- 2 cups diced English cucumber
- 1 cup firmly packed fresh cilantro leaves (1 bunch)
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice, plus more to taste
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped red onion, plus more to taste
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic (2 cloves)
- 1 small green chile, ribbed and seeded, plus more to taste
- 1 1/4 teaspoons Celtic sea salt, plus more to taste
- Pinch of freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste
- 1 cup ice cubes
- 1 medium avocado, peeled, pitted and diced
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped green onions (white and green parts)
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro
- Throw all of the soup ingredients (except the ice) into your blender and blast on high for 30 to 60 seconds until smooth and creamy.
- Tweak the lime juice, onion, chile, salt, and pepper to taste. Add the ice, and blast again on high for 10 to 20 seconds until chilled and smooth.
- Serve immediately topped with avocado, green onions, and cilantro.
Photo by Trent Lanz; styling by Alicia Buszczak


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Amanda Butler
Amanda believes living FHIT should be fun and easy. To her it is all about finding balance and living your best life. Her goal is to motivate you and help you realize that living a healthy lifestyle is easily attainable and that you can be stronger than your excuses!
After graduating from Oklahoma City University where she studied Dance Management, Amanda's love of dance took her to the high seas of Royal Caribbean ships. While aboard Royal Caribbean, Amanda performed for thousands of people and traveled the world; quite a change from her Nebraskan roots. Now settled in her hometown of New York City, Amanda has integrated her background in dance and movement with her passion for fitness and health as a group fitness instructor, personal trainer, and fitness model. Her contagious passion for fitness and keen eye for good form are evident in every class Amanda instructs. Learn more about Amanda here: www.amanda-butler.com.
Professional Certifications:
AFAA Group Fitness Certification, AFAA Pre and Post Natal Certification, NASM Personal Trainer Certification, Kettlebell Concepts, and Nutritious Life Certified
21 Questions
1 First FHIX experience?
My first FHIX experience was as one of the original FAB FOUR instructors when The Fhitting Room first opened in March 2013.
2 Personal theme song?
Don't Stop Believin' by Journey.
3 Who you would love to meet and have dinner with?
I would love to meet Ellen DeGeneres because she is hilarious, generous and brilliant.
4 Who is your FHITspiration?
Women who empower themselves and work hard!
5 Celebrity doppledanger?
Don't have one…Insert sad face.
6 Favorite guilty pleasure?
Levain's Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookie… They are insane!
7 What is it about group fitness?
I love the energy, the camaraderie, and of course the friendly competition. I just love a big ol' sweat session!
8 Post workout snack?
My homemade oatmeal peanut butter balls.
9 What did you want to be when you were growing up?
A DANCER! And I was! I performed as a professional dancer on Royal Caribbean cruise ships and got to travel the world.
10 Perfect Sunday afternoon activity?
I LOVE massages on Sunday afternoons; it's the perfect way to end the weekend.
11 Best vacation you have ever taken?
Riveria Maya, MEXICO... FOR MY WEDDING!!!
12 Food you can't live without?
I can't live without sweet potatoes. Yumm!
13 Favorite sneaker brand?
14 What is always in your fridge?
15 Your biggest accomplishment?
Being featured in FITNESS Magazine.
16 Favorite athlete?
The Stallion, LeBron James.
17 Celebrity you would love to train and why?
LeBron James because he is HUGE, yet athletic and very quick.
18 What is your favorite movie?
19 Dive bar or bottle service?
Dive Bar.
20 Favorite restaurant in the city?
21 The best time of the year in New York is…
Fall because the temperature is perfect jacket & boot weather, the leaves are changing, and it's football season!
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Curtailing once to the pressure of newspaper editorial boards on the issue of the city's previously-ironclad contract, Kriseman cut a less-than-ideal deal with the Rays to look at possible stadium sites outside city limits. Still, Kriseman is learning: 1) you can't please everyone…and 2) it's not easy to preserve the city's interests and financial equity in MLB (as predicted on this blog two and a half years ago).
Just this past week, Kriseman was hit with a Times article on the slow pace of "Baseball Forever" stadium discussions in St. Pete, a letter from a powerful Pinellas senator who wants to be involved in stadium discussions, then a Times editorial suggesting his administration is bumbling the process in more ways than one.
Look, the Times may be right about Kriseman putting St. Pete's interests above the region's, but as Bill Foster always said, the mayor was elected by the people of St. Petersburg to look out for St. Pete tax dollars and interests first. In hindsight, Foster may have actually done a pretty good job preserving the city's leverage and keeping the Rays in-place for four years.
The Rays and the region have asked St. Pete to make a financial sacrifice to keep the team in the region long-term. Kriseman granted that wish. But he's going to find it harder and harder as the demands for St. Pete's sacrifices continue to grow.
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More than 40 per cent of eligible Canadian adults didn't bother voting in the last federal election — the lowest turnout since Confederation. And so far, there's no evidence the May 2 vote will yield a better result.
A recent poll found that 57 per cent of Canadian adults are "certain" to vote, says Darrell Bricker, CEO of public affairs for Ipsos Reid. He says the proportion of people who respond this way tends to correspond closely to actual turnout.
Why such low interest? Simple.
"People show up for elections when they're really passionate about the result," he says. But the current campaign "seems to be a Seinfeld election — an election about nothing."
"We might get a small bump, but I would expect numbers to probably be as low as they were last time," agrees Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, a professor of political studies at Queen's University.
While there have been exceptions, the numbers show a general trend of progressively weakening voter turnout.
The 2006 election that brought Stephen Harper's Conservatives to power did produce a bump: turnout rose to 64.7 per cent from 60.9 per cent in 2004. The Tories benefited from a surge of public anger toward the Liberals over the Quebec sponsorship scandal.
In 1993, 70.9 per cent of Canadian voters cast ballots to give Liberal Jean Chretien his first mandate. In 1984, when Brian Mulroney first came to power, 75.3 per cent of eligible voters participated, and voter interest held at this level when Mulroney was re-elected in the "free-trade" election of 1988.
It's possible the regularity of federal elections in recent years — the May 2 vote will mark the fourth in less than seven years — has led to declining interest.
But Elections Canada data show voter turnout was at its highest — at just less than 80 per cent — in the three elections that were held over a five-year period from 1958 to 1963. John Diefenbaker, Conservative leader, improved his status to leader of a majority government from a minority in 1958, then was reduced to a minority in '62. Lester Pearson's Liberals won a minority government less than a year later.
Goodyear-Grant says election turnout dropped when Chretien's Liberals seemed unbeatable. But "certainty or uncertainty about the outcome is only part of the story," she adds. Today, there seems to be an overall cultural trend that puts less value in political participation.
Jaideep Mukerji, vice-president of public affairs with Angus Reid Public Opinion, says more people could be lured out to vote if they saw a pressing need.
A former chief of staff to Liberal MP Bob Rae, Mukerji said it's conceivable that the possibility Harper might win a majority could prompt more supporters of other parties to vote.
In terms of issues, Mukerji says he doesn't see anything "polarizing" enough to make a substantial difference in how many votes are cast.
Mukerji also downplays the role of social networks in getting the vote out.
"Social media certainly has proven itself capable of rallying tens of thousands of people in Canada to join groups or to sign online petitions, but its record in terms of actually mobilizing people to get out and vote . . . has been somewhat more muted."
Though much has been made of the role social media played in Barack Obama's U.S. presidential election win in 2008, data show voter turnout in that election increased only marginally, to 56.9 per cent from 55.4 per cent in 2004.
Despite shrinking voter participation in Canada, Bricker argues that it's not a sign people are becoming more inward-looking or less concerned about what happens outside their door.
"People are probably more worldly now than they've ever been," he says. "And in fact, people are more interested in political and social issues than they've ever been."
What's turning people off from elections, Bricker says, is how Parliament, political parties and the electoral system make people feel their vote doesn't count.
And there's general distrust of politicians; Bricker says even when people hear an appealing idea from a politician, they doubt the candidate will follow through on the promise if elected.
Negative politics may also make politics unattractive to people, says Mukerji. "If you look at commercials for cars, they very seldom take direct potshots at other cars," he says. "They just talk up their own vehicle because they realize (negative statements about other automobiles) might just damage people's desire to buy cars overall."


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Tributes paid to long-serving councillor
A CAITHNESS councilor who is stepping down from Highland Council has been praised for his contribution over the years.
Highland Councillor Robert Coghill, who represents Landward Caithness, has given notice of his intention to resign, with effect from Thursday 28 February.
Councillor Coghill, who helps run a farm at Halkirk, is standing down on medical advice.
Councillor Coghill, who is a member of the Independent Group on the council, said: "I am disappointed that I have had to resign but I cannot ignore medical advice. I have really enjoyed my time on the council and have been impressed by the dedication of our staff in providing high quality services to our communities."
Council Convener Jimmy Gray said: "Robert has always been committed to Caithness and the Highlands and has served the council with distinction during his six years with us. We wish him and his family all the best for the future."
Leader of the Caithness and Sutherland Area Committee Councillor Deirdre Mackay said: "'I have known Robert for a long time. He is very committed to his home area and this was always reflected in his work on The Highland Council."
Leader of the Independent Group, Councillor Carolyn Wilson said: "Robert has been a valued and effective member of the Independent Group and has contributed greatly to the work we have achieved over the years. We are really sorry he has had to stand down but his health must come first."
Councillor Coghill was elected to Highland Council in 2007 and was re-elected in May of last year. He is one of the four Ward members for Landward Caithness. The other Ward members are Councillors David Bremner, Willie Mackay and Alex MacLeod.
Between 2007 – 2012, Councillor Coghill was vice-chair of the Caithness Sutherland and East Ross Planning Applications Committee and more recently was vice-chair of the North Planning Applications Committee.
Due to his ill health, he recently stood down as vice-chair of the North PAC and his position has been taken by Councillor Audrey Sinclair, Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh.
He also serves on the Planning Environment and Development Committee and the Audit and Scrutiny Committee.
A by-election will be held on Thursday 2 May, with the count taking place the following day.


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By Diane Small
Beloved superstar Audrey Hepburn was–and is–loved around the world by millions. The Dutch born icon is remembered for three main things: her doe-eyed beauty, her acting skills, and her big heart. She loved animals and worked tirelessly with charities such as UNICEF, and also set up her own: the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.
Now, stunning Chinese actress Li Bingbing seems poised to step into Audrey's shoes. The star of several huge Chinese films, she's bringing her talents to Hollywood in Transformers 4, but more importantly, she's using her high profile in the world's most populous country to draw attention to pressing environmental issues.
Working closely with the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), Bingbing has highlighted the plight of the elephant, educating Chinese consumers (who comprise the main market for ivory) about how their demand for the material is putting elephants at risk of endangerment. In fact, Li Bingbing is the first ever Chinese Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme.
A dedicated environmental campaigner, Li Bingbing founded the L.O.V.E Green Movement in 2009, which encourages Chinese citizens to adopt resource-efficient, low-carbon lifestyles.
She has also extensively promoted the Think.Eat.Save: Reduce Your Foodprint campaign by the UNEP and its partners across social media networks in China. The campaign aims to reduce food waste and food loss worldwide.
Gucci Timepieces & Jewellery partnered with Bingbing and L.O.V.E in the creation of a special edition Bamboo watch and jewellery collection, which donates a percentage of sales to Bingbing's charity. Specifically, these donations are aimed at saving endangered bamboo forests and the pandas which rely on them for survival.
There's no doubt that Li Bingbing isn't just beautiful and talented–she is also very generous and kind. Audrey Hepburn would be impressed.
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