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Pop quiz, hot shot: what's 6 sides of steel minus 2? That would be TNA Lockdown, the 2010, four-sided ring version of course. This year the show is emanating from St. Louis and presents its annual card of matches fought exclusively in the confines of a steel cage.
Taz and Mike Tenay make an announcement to open the broadcast that X-Division champion Doug Williams is grounded in the U.K. due to the Icelandic volcanic ash that has suspended air service over most of Europe, and as a result he is stripped of the title and a new champ will be crowned tonight. That seems unfair, and Taz agrees. Minor mentions are made of Syxx-Pac also not being present for the show tonight, as well as Eric Bischoff's whereabouts being unaccounted for.
The main event is the Lethal Lockdown contest, featuring Team Hogan (Abyss, Rob Van Dam, Jeff Hardy, and Jeff Jarrett) versus Team Flair (Sting, Robert Roode, James Storm, and Desmond Wolfe). The rules of the match feature two competitors from each team starting off for five minutes alone, to be joined by alternating team members every two minutes thereafter. Once all wrestlers are in the ring, the match can be won by pinfall or submission. Earlier in the evening, Rob Van Dam won his opening match against James Storm, which gave Team Hogan the advantage of having the first team member enter after the initial five minutes.
Abyss, captain of Team Hogan (not of Team Flair as the graphics team mistakenly labels him) enters the ring first to face off against Robert Roode. Taz questions the strategy of having Abyss start off, especially after he reminds viewers that Abyss suffered a hairline fracture in his leg from being nicked by a car on Impact! Roode subsequently and smartly starts working the leg. Roode lands some shots, but Abyss manages to toss him around and lands a heavy chop across his chest. Abyss hits a big back drop on Roode and then runs him into the cage. Roode stops an Abyss charge into the corner and then lands a diving neckbreaker off the top rope. Abyss is then driven into the cage and we're one minute away from another team Hogan member. Roode has Abyss down in the corner and RVD comes out for his second appearance of the evening.
Roode charges RVD, who ducks and hits a few spinning kicks before tossing Roode into the opposite corner and hitting a big monkey flip. He follows with Rolling Thunder, then lines Roode up and tosses him into the steel - and somehow RVD is bleeding (from the wound suffered earlier in the evening) without being hit! Chelsea then accompanies Wolfe to the ring and Abyss is up again, waiting for the new entry. Before Wolfe arrives, Roode lands a low blow on Abyss and all of a sudden Team Flair is on top. They continue to double team both RVD and Abyss for the duration of the two minutes before Jarrett emerges to give the man advantage back to Team Hogan. Jarrett works both Roode and Wolfe, running them both into the cage at the same time. Roode, though, grabs Jarrett in midair and lands a powerbomb. Storm emerges next to even the odds, sporting another beer. Abyss again moves to welcome the newcomer, but gets a face full of beer. Storm takes Jarrett down with several hard punches and then turns to the now very bloody RVD, sending his face into the steel. Jarrett drops Roode with a kick to the head, but that's not as interesting to the camera crew as watching Storm biting RVD's head to get the blood flowing even more. While Wolfe works to get Hogan's hall of fame ring off Abyss (is he stealing it for money, or is it like Hercules' ring from the old cartoon, containing all of Abyss' power?), Jarrett lands a nice sustained suplex on Roode. Jeff Hardy's music hits, but there's no Jeff Hardy. Backstage we see Hardy face down on the concrete as Sting stands over him with the baseball bat. Team Flair is standing tall right now, but RVD, Abyss and Jarrett start fighting back as we're nearing Sting's arrival. Sting enters with the bat and quickly uses it to take out all members of Team Hogan. With Team Flair again standing tall, the roof of the cage, strewn with weapons, drops slowly downwards.
The Team Flair members climb up for weapons. First Abyss, then Jarrett get head shots with garbage cans and trays. Wolfe DDTs RVD on a tray. Abyss gets another can to the head and gut. Wolfe is choking Jarrett out with an axe handle and Storm follows with a steel pipe to his stomach. Jarrett finally gets his hands on a weapon and takes out all members of Team Flair with a garbage can, until Sting joins the fray with his bat and knocks down Jarrett and RVD again. As Jarrett hangs on the cage by the door, Beer Money runs into him and knocks Jarrett right out to the floor. Abyss empties a bag of tacks on the mat and finally convinces Sting to stay a while by taking his leather jacket off. Abyss tries to chokeslam Sting onto the tacks, but Wolfe low blows The Monster and Storm smashes his beer bottle on Abyss' head. Team Flair raise their hands in victory – and you know that's just asking for it. Hardy's music hits and he arrives with a kendo stick, taking out Beer Money outside the ring. Jarrett gets his guitar off the top of the cage and smashes Wolfe. Sting is landing clotheslines on Abyss, but is caught and chokeslammed onto the tacks. Hardy climbs the cage from the outside to the roof. He asks Beer Money to come up, and Storm and Roode comply. Hardy smacks them both with a garbage can lid as they arrive, but they double team him and set up a table. Hardy fights back and drops a Twist of Fate on Roode, then lays Storm on the table and sets up a ladder on top of the cage. He perches on the top step and lands a splash on Storm through the table.
All this time, everyone in the ring has been taking a breather. Flair's music hits and he enters the cage. He stomps Abyss in the corner and keeps trying for the ring (it must have Abyss' power – Flair doesn't need to steal a ring). Hogan's music announces the last unofficial competitor and Hulk enters the rings to attack Flair, but Bischoff enters to try and keep the peace between them. Eric gets a bat away from Hogan and hands a set of brass knuckles to him instead. Hogan nails Flair whose forehead opens up. Flair takes another head shot and staggers around the ring, dropping on his back onto the tacks. Abyss rises and hits the Black Hole Slam on Wolfe for the sudden win.
Match One: Rob Van Dam (representing Team Hogan) versus Cowboy James Storm (representing Team Flair).
The winner of the opening match gains the man advantage for the Lethal Lockdown match later on. If there was a way I could have avoided spoiling this match's outcome, I would have done it.
Storm is slow getting in and Van Dam kicks open the door into Storm's face. They brawl outside of the cage, and it's RVD with the advantage. With Storm draped over the railing, RVD climbs the cage and drops a leg over the back of Storm's head. Storm finally reverses the momentum and slams RVD into steel steps (opening RVD's forehead) and spits beer on him. RVD tosses Storm into the ring, where RVD continues his dominance. He crotches Storm over the top rope, then climbs the ropes himself and leaps off with a kick to Storm's head. He goes for the cover and gets two. RVD misses landing on Storm in the corner, then gets dropped hard on the back of his head. Storm moves into a chinlock as RVD gushes out more blood. RVD fights out quickly, but is clotheslined over the top rope and into the steel. Storm gets a two-count, then delivers a big boot off the ropes before applying another chinlock. RVD gets out just as quickly and lands a spinning kick leaving both down to recoup. After an exchange of punches, RVD sets up and lands a moonsault but only gets two for it. Storm lands a jawbreaker then douses himself in beer, spits it in RVD's face and lands a DDT - but RVD kicks out. Storm is setting up the Last Call Superkick, but RVD lands a spinning kick of his own before launching into the 5-Star Frog Splash for the victory.
Winner via pinfall: Rob Van Dam
Match Rating: 7/10
Backstage, Christy Hemme interviews Hogan, who seems to be a little whiny about how rough things have been getting on Team Hogan. He says he'll pack his bags and leave TNA if Flair wins tonight.
Match Two: X-Division Xscape Qualification match featuring Homicide, Brian Kendrick, Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley (the winner to join Shannon Moore and Kazarian in a 3-way match to determine the new X-Division Champion)
Homicide tries to leave right away, but the Motor City Machine Guns pull him down. Kendrick wants the door open, but the Guns bring him down, too. Kendrick knocks down Sabin as Homicide works on Shelley. Kendrick is opened up and he arranges a partnership with Homicide, who holds Sabin in a Camel Clutch while Kendrick runs the ropes 3-4 times and delivers ... a momentum-charged slap to the face. Mike Tenay interrupts this match to announce that Hogan has informed Scott Hall to get a partner against Team 3D or face them alone, as Syxx-Pac is not here. The Guns get control and double-team Homicide; Sabin drops a leaping, tornado DDT on Kendrick, but then Homicide drops him with a neckbreaker. Shelley goes for the escape again but Kendrick stops him while Sabin takes a big kick and is caught in the Gringo Killer by Homicide. Homicide tells Kendrick that they'll work together against Shelley, but then Homicide splits over the top for the win.
Winner via Xscape: Homicide
Match Rating: 7/10
Match Three: Kevin Nash versus Eric Young.
Young enters first, and Nash comes in throwing a punch but Young is too quick. He knocks Nash down but doesn't follow up. Nash feigns a lock-up but drives a knee into Young and lands some big blows. Young quickly climbs the ropes and lands a missile dropkick, then another kick to Nash who is caught between the ropes and the cage. Young roughly moves the ref out of the way to follow up, but Nash lands a low-blow with the ref reeling. Nash drives his knee into Young in the corner – Young tries to escape but Nash brings him back in. Still, Young gets out with a couple of punches and keeps calling Nash on, even while staggering to his knees. Young starts landing some punches, but is brought down again. Young gets a little momentum but is hit with a chokeslam. Young keeps calling Nash on, but is again cut down with a big boot. Young is launched into the cage head first, twice. Nash drops the shoulder-straps and panders, calling for the powerbomb. Young is down and is pinned handily. As the refs help Young out of the ring, Nash grabs a mic and announces that he's Hall's partner. He tells team 3-D that "your ass is ours," and it's unclear if he forgot the pluralizing of "ass" or if he was referring to their collective ass.
Winner via Pinfall: Kevin Nash
Match Rating: 4/10
Match Four: TNA Knockout Singles and Tag Team Championships – Tara and Angelina Love (Singles Champion) versus Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky w/ Lacey Von Erich (Tag Champions)
The rules of the match state that if Tara or Love score a pin or submission, they both become tag champions, while if Sky or Rayne pin or submit either Tara or Love the winner will become the singles champion. Love takes down Sky, so Sky quickly tags in Rayne. Rayne drops a jawbreaker on Love, so Tara is tagged in. Sky re-enters and Tara locks in a reverse chin-lock bridge. Tara lands a suplex, then chops, before Sky reverses Tara into the ropes with Rayne knocking her down from the outside. Sky gets a two-count, then another. Rayne is tagged in and the Beautiful People double-team Tara. After a couple of near-falls, Tara fights back. Tara slams Sky and climbs the ropes, but misses a moonsault. Tara inches closer to Love for a tag, Rayne tags in first, but then Love enters and knocks both Beautiful People down. Love has Rayne set up, but Tara tags herself in and drops a Widow's Peak on Rayne, but Sky stops the pin. Von Erich sneaks in and knocks Tara out with the belt, and Rayne pins Tara while Angelina is outside the ring to become the new singles champion. After the champs vacate the ring, Tara looks for a truce, and Love helps her up and motions to leave. Tara attacks her from behind, throwing her solidly into the cage.
Winner via pinfall and NEW Knockouts Singles Champion: Madison Rayne
Match Rating: 5/10
Match Five: X-Division Championship – Homicide versus Kazarian versus Shannon Moore
Kazarian and Moore begin by double teaming Homicide. Moore lands a leg drop, and Kazarian nails a nice leaping leg drop off the ropes. Kazarian and Moore trade punches on Homicide, knocking him into the cage, then Kazarian finishes the assault with a drop kick. Kazarian tries a pin, but Moore pulls him off, then Moore lands a cross body block and Kazarian pulls Moore off Homicide during his pin attempt. They trade two-counts on each other then Homicide lands a dropkick that actually takes both of them down. Homicide hits Moore with an elbow and drops a quick suplex on Kazarian, then gouges Kazarian's eyes. Homicide drops a nice T-bone suplex on Moore, but it's Kazarian who gets a near-fall on Moore as a result. Moore gets Homicide up on the top rope, then Kazarian and Moore set up a double super-plex, but instead Homicide hits a double-bulldog on them from the top and get a very near-fall first on Moore, then on Kazarian. Kazarian lands a Northern Lights suplex on Moore, but only gets a two-count. Homicide gets Kazarian with a jawbreaker and rams Moore into the turnbuckle with a handful of Moore's Mohawk. Homicide gets Moore up on the top rope, but is knocked down and out of the picture momentarily. Kazarian and Moore walk along the ropes and meet in the middle with punches and kicks, then Moore moonsaults onto Homicide but Kazarian breaks up the count. Kazarian runs Moore face-first and then back-first into the cage. Kazarian and Homicide then find themselves standing on the top buckle, from which Homicide hip-tosses Kazarian off the top. Moore misses a dive off the top and Homicide goes at Kazarian for the Gringo Killer, but Kazarian instead lands a sort of reverse piledriver and he wins with a move without a name!
Winner via pinfall and NEW X-Division Champion: Kazarian
Match rating: 7/10
Hemme is backstage with The Pope, D'Angelo Dinero. The Pope claims that AJ Styles has no style. Dinero, though, clearly has style as he has a flunkie hand him water from off-screen to take a sip mid-promo.
Match Six: Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) versus Kevin Nash and Scott Hall
Brother Ray announces that the match is a St. Louis Street fight with falls counting anywhere in the building (can he do that?). Team 3D runs up the ramp to jump The Band as they make their entrance. Ray backdrops Hall onto the ramp while Devon knocks down Nash, and then 3D chase Hall and Nash into the crowd. Ray lands a beer cup shot to Hall's head, before jumping off the barricade with a double-axe handle to Hall, who awkwardly stumbles a few steps before falling down. 3D work The Band back to the ring before Hall and Nash start fighting back. Hall tosses Devon in the ring with Ray stuck outside. Nash closes the door and he and Hall take turns holding the door shut and working Devon. But Ray gets inside through sheer persistence and Nash is tossed into the corner and Hall right behind him. 3D hits the "Whassup", after which Ray has a request for Devon, though he lets the crowd actually ask Devon for him. Hall is put down by the 3D through a table and Ray and Devon come out of this looking solid. For a falls-count anywhere match, though, it sure had a lot of in-ring action.
Winners via pinfall: Team 3D
Match Rating: 4/10
Match Seven: Kurt Angle versus Mr. Anderson
The winner shall be the first man to walk out of the cage door. Anderson, of course, has the key to the door which he won on Impact! Anderson is apparently going to wrestle with the key around his neck. With all the choking business with the medal, is that really a good idea? Anderson teases a test of strength but instead lands a couple of blows to knock Angle down. Anderson tries to escape right away but is stopped by Angle. Then Anderson wraps the key around his fist and lands punch after punch on Angle's forehead. He tries again to leave, but Angle gets him from behind and lands a suplex. The key is left in the padlock, nullifying Anderson's hard-earned advantage. Angle sees the key is in the padlock, but goes back to Anderson for a snap suplex. Angle runs at Anderson who lifts him shoulder-first into the cage – which opens Angle up. Anderson wraps Angle through the ropes and stretches him before driving him head first repeatedly into the cage. He wipes Angle's blood across his chest, then rises up the ropes and leaps. Angle lifts his leg to counter, but Anderson dodges it and lands a leg drop on Angle. He then returns to the door, but Angle runs him from behind, knocking Anderson's head into the cage (opening Anderson). Anderson sets Angle up for a piledrver, but Angle counters into a backdrop. Angle tries to follow up, but Anderson launches into him and drags Angle to the middle of the ring and stands on the top rope. Angle races up after him and tosses him off the top with a big belly-to-belly. As both men recover, Anderson unwraps the tape from his wrist and starts choking Angle out. Angle spits out his mouthguard and the ref is trying to break the hold. Angle gets to his knees and delivers elbows and a suplex to Anderson but can't follow up, falling and clutching at his throat.
Both wrestlers are on their knees trading blows. They get to their feet and continue landing hard punches. Angle gets the momentum and lands a clothesline, then a back body drop. Angle stalks Anderson and throws him into the corner, but he's too slow following him in and gets a kick to the head. Still, Angle lands a quick belly-to-belly, but Anderson counters the Angle Slam – but then Angle blocks the Mic Check and hits six German suplexes. Angle walks to the door and probably could have left, but he turns back to Anderson and drops the straps. He cinches in the ankle lock, but Anderson escapes and hits the Mic Check after all. Anderson opens the door, but Angle lands an Angle Slam and shuts the door – locking it again. He shows Anderson the key and throws it out of the cage. Anderson tries to escape, Angle lands a German suplex off the ropes. Anderson lands really hard on his side. Angle isn't done and sets Anderson up for a moonsault. He sets to do it off the third rope but decides to do it off the top of the cage. He leaps off at an awkward angle and lands the moonsault on Anderson's head – almost more like an elbow off the top. Angle pulls out another key (did he cheat?) and goes to exit the cage. But Anderson hold up two middle fingers and lures Angle back into the ring. He hits the Mic Check again and crawls towards the exit. As Angle slowly comes to life, Anderson is almost out but Angle grabs his leg to stop him, pulling Anderson back into the ring for an ankle lock. Anderson taps but Angle does not release the hold. Anderson, though, rolls out of the ankle lock and tosses Angle into the cage. Anderson is almost out again but Angle pulls that troublesome medal out of his trunks (is carrying it in your shorts really honouring the military?) and chokes out Anderson. He spits on Anderson's prone body, lands a low blow for good measure, and walks out for the win.
Winner via exiting the cage: Kurt Angle
Match Rating:8/10
On the way out, Angle grabs a mic and gets a cheap pop thanking the St. Louis fans. He says he's going to take some time off, and when he comes back he'll be after the Heavyweight Championship.
Match Eight: TNA World Heavyweight Championship Match – "The Phenomenal" AJ Styles w Ric Flair (C) versus "The Pope" D'Angelo Dinero
As the champ makes his entrance, Earl Hebner won't let Flair come to the ring and they start shoving each other. Some of the crowd chants "We want Flair". Styles starts fast with a throwdown of The Pope. Dinero brings Styles down but the champ reverses Dinero's grip into an arm wringer. Styles spins out and tosses Dinero to the ground again, then lays the bad mouth on him. Dinero hits an arm-drag, drop-toe hold combo and again moves into an arm wringer. Styles again spins out but is met by an arm toss, body slam, and a series of arm drags. Styles lands some (whoo!) chops, but Dinero reverses and tosses Syles into the ropes and follows with elbows to the champ's noggin. Dinero charges Styles, but the champ dodges and throws The Pope into the cage. Styles stomps Dinero's head, then dodges as Dinero runs off the ropes and instead lands a humongous dropkick. Styles lifts The Pope up awkwardly onto his shoulder and drops him hard on his side. Styles continues to work Dinero's legs with kicks from behind, but the challenger eventually dodges a kick and lands some pinches, only to be stopped by a thumb to the eye. Styles goes for a moonsault of sorts off the ropes, but Dinero sidesteps it and runs the champ into the cage, following with a DDT. Both are slow to get up, but Dinero makes the first move by hitting a number of double axe-handles to Styles' chest. The champ is soon up and goes for a cross-body-block, but Dinero grabs him in midair and turns it into a powerslam. He gets a two-count. Styles hits another thumb to the eye and hits a flying forearm off the top rope, netting a two-count for himself. Styles sets up Dinero on the top rope, but The Pope knocks Styles down and lands a falling headbutt for another two-count. Taz notes that Dinero keeps grabbing at his shoulder, likely after that awkward drop from Styles earlier on. Dinero goes for a suplex slam of sorts, but Styles comes back with a bicycle kick. He slams Dinero in the middle of the ring and climbs the ropes. He hits a 450° splash and gets a two-count. He sets Dinero up again and tries to hit a cross-body-block of the top of the cage but Dinero dodges. The challenger follows with a lunging neckbreaker but still only gets a near-fall. Styles grabs a pen from the cameraman outside the ring and spears The Pope in the eye. He follows it up with a hard clothesline, then The Styles Clash for the ultimately easy pin.
Winner via pinfall and STILL TNA World Heavyweight Champion: AJ Styles.
Match Rating: 6/10


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Rebecca Black's Latest Music Video Has Arrived
After her unintentionally horrible music video for "Friday" gripped the nation, Rebecca Black attempted to go legit with "This Is My Moment." Now we have "Person of Interest," Black's inane new teen pop pseudo-love anthem, which is set in an arcade and features the line, "Can't deny you're implicated in a mayhem in my mind." Pure poetry!

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text: Weather Concerns Kick Off the Crop Year April 3, 2013 01:00 AM Tweet Missouri farmer Ben Mefford digs for moisture in his field. TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Tyne Morgan US Farm Report Host Email While moisture levels in parts of the Midwest are improving, it doesn't mean planters will be rolling any time soon. As Northwest Missouri Ben Mefford digs for moisture, he's pleasantly surprised. "We come up with moisture down to about four feet," says Mefford, who farms outside Weston, Mo. "Below that, it's pretty dry." A couple late season snowstorms dropped wet, heavy snow on this parched Missouri soil. Meffords credits that for the improvement in the moisture situation. "It's actually better than what I thought," he says. "The last few snows we've gotten had quite a bit of moisture in it. And it's put quite a bit in the top soil." While it's good news for the moisture situation, it isn't helping farmers get in the field anytime soon. "We're normally waiting on the crop insurance date to come so we can get in the field," he says. "It's usually around the 3rd or 4th of April." Last year at this time, planters were rolling in the field, ahead of average. This year, it already looks as if planting could be behind. This year, Mefford says the likelihood of planting in the next couple of weeks doesn't look promising. "We need some sunshine and warm days to get the ground warmed up," he says. "It's just too cold, he says. Temperatures were forecast to drop below freezing both Monday and Tuesday night this week. As soils struggle to warm up, area farmers like Mefford are worried about the issues they could face this summer. "We are concerned about planting later and getting into the heat of July and August," says Mefford. It's more than just the late planting season weighing on his mind. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) latest spring flood risk shows a strong chance his land along the Missouri River Bottoms could go from extreme drought last year, to being under what this year. "We have major concerns about it, because all of our levees have just been repaired," he says. "With all the snow pack I'm hearing up north, it sounds like chances are pretty likely." Read more Planting News & Updates. Back to news


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At the height of what she terms her "spoiled brat" period in the eighties, when no whim went ungratified, Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, aka Princess TNT of Germany, went on the road with another kind of royalty: rock royalty.
"It was fabulous, because after Prince played a big venue, there was an after-hours show in some club," she recalled recently and somewhat longingly. "So we would all go back to the hotel around midnight to change clothes and have dinner." For Gloria, who was 27 when Sign "o" the Times was released, in 1987, that might have meant stepping into a Paco Rabanne chain mail minidress, her hair sculpted into a blue mohawk. "Around 3 in the morning, we'd then go out to a club where Prince would give another concert."
Princess TNT's appetites may be tamed today, or at least redirected, but during what some have called the Greed Decade, she reigned over the mosh pit of society figures who set the bar for excess: the Trumps, the Steinbergs, the Perelmans, the Gettys, the Thyssen-Bornemiszas, Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, the Kravises, Adnan Khashoggi. The list is long, catholic, intercontinental, and littered with pretenders.
If excess devolved into dissipation and even degeneracy, that was fine with von Thurn und Taxis, whose fearlessness and imagination were happily underwritten by her late, openly bisexual husband, Prince Johannes, whom she wed in 1980. (The Prince was 33 years his wife's senior and was believed to be worth $3 billion at the time.) A world-class prankster, Johannes once, at a ball to which everyone was instructed to wear white, famously dribbled red wine on Princess Margaret's seat while she was off dancing.
The Prince's shenanigans seemed to license Princess TNT's own. She does not think impersonating a dog on Late Night With David Letterman is anything to live down. Ditto her announcement on German television in 2001 that Africa has an AIDS problem because "blacks like to copulate." Having thought it over for a number of years, Princess TNT reasoned that this epidemic could in fact be traced to the warm weather.
When she wasn't putting her foot in her mouth, she was giving parties. Spending a million dollars at a birthday celebration may seem like peanuts, but in 1986 it earned her countless column inches. That year, Princess TNT hosted a three-day birthday party at her 500-room Bavarian castle for Johannes, featuring a cake decorated with marzipan penises, one for each of his 60 years. Garlands of bratwurst greeted the Maharaja of Baroda, the Erteguns, Mick Jagger, and throngs of other A-listers in the palace's Hall of Muskets. At another event for that occasion, in New York's East Village, poppers were handed out as favors.
Princess TNT was unstoppable at her zenith, but others found ways to stay in the game. In 1987, de Rothschild invited 450 guests to a fairy-tale ball for her debutante niece in Paris where ushers dressed as white rabbits, ballet dancers twirled in the background, and oeufs brouillés and spaghetti were served at 4 a.m. It was charming but, in light of what had gone down at TNT's blowout, merely picturesque. Two years later, Gayfryd Steinberg held an Olympian bash on New York's Long Island for her husband Saul's 50th that included tableaux vivants enacting his favorite Old Masters—quaint, when you remembered the 5,000 loyal subjects in full Bavarian regalia who blew their tubas in a parade for Johannes's 60th birthday.
The prince died in 1990, following two heart transplants just seven weeks apart, nailing the coffin shut, as it were, on the eighties and leaving the princess $576 million in debt, a result of her husband's poor investments and a recessionary climate. When death duties were added to the arrears, the princess learned the meaning of austerity, giving up 24 of her 27 cars. She also refashioned herself as a businesswoman in pearls and wrist-length gloves, studying corporate law and managing the vast family holdings with a perspicacity even detractors admired.
Von Thurn und Taxis insists she would not do anything differently: "As Charles Aznavour sang, 'Non! Rien de rien/Non! Je ne regrette rien.' I think it's the privilege of youth to be curious, fun-loving, even wild. I also think that every age has its own behavior. You don't want to behave like you're 70 when you're in your 20s. And vice versa."
In recent years, she has found God, leading her to become a major contributor to the Catholic church and an intimate of Pope Benedict XVI's; she dines privately with His Holiness when she is in Rome, where she owns a "small" palazzo. (Von Thurn und Taxis also has homes in Manhattan, Paris, and Kenya.) Now that her children, Albert, Maria, and Elisabeth Theresia, are all adults, she has more time for collecting art and for personal projects, like penning an etiquette guide. Von Thurn und Taxis neither confirms nor denies that she and her co-author, Princess Alessandra Borghese, have become a couple, as many have speculated.
But oh, for the eighties. "The Gloria on horseback was just as happy as the Gloria all pimped up as a cowgirl in a ballroom," von Thurn und Taxis says. "Still, I think I was always a multiple personality. Not in the pathological sense, of course."
Hair and makeup by Arianna Campa for Chanel Beaute.


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President Correa:
I am writing as a fellow global citizen to first applaud your administration for what are truly revolutionary ideas – the Rights of Nature, Sumak Kawsay, and the Yasuni-ITT initiative. These have inspired the world's imagination, are major contributions to a more just and sustainable world, and will be hallmarks of your legacy.
I am also writing to express my concern about plans for new oil drilling in the rainforests of the south-central Ecuadorian Amazon. As you well know this new oil auction, the 11th Round, contains some of the last pristine old growth forests in Ecuador. It also includes the traditional and titled homelands of seven indigenous nationalities that have repeatedly voted to reject oil extraction on their lands.
As concerned global citizens, we stand in solidarity with these indigenous nations and urge you to immediately stop the 11th Round and pursue alternative strategies for Ecuador's long-term economic development that are consistent with your historic commitment to protect the rights of nature and the rights of indigenous people and to addressing the issue of poverty for your people.
As you also know, much of Ecuador's Amazon and its people have been gravely affected by oil extraction over the years, and drilling in an area of such high biological diversity and cultural sensitivity will have devastating effects. If the oil that is slated to be extracted lay beneath Quito or Guayaquil, voices of concern would surely be heard. The remoteness of these potential deposits cannot justify minimizing the environmental and cultural dangers of drilling. These potential oil deposits lie beneath ancestral lands that have been inhabited and protected by indigenous people for generations. The indigenous peoples' rights and commitment must be respected.
This is a historic opportunity for you and for Ecuador to lead the world towards a sustainable and just future. By halting the 11th Round, leaving the oil in the ground, and pursuing a truly sustainable future, your example would inspire people around the globe.
We urge you to do the right thing and respect the rights and wishes of indigenous people. The health and well being of future generations is in your hands.
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After playing around with the site for a few days I already see many topics I may write about on my blog in the future. Some are directly related to questions here while others may only use the questions and related discussions for reference or as anecdotes. How do you feel about people posting "pingback" answers to the questions when using them in a blog context?
The pingback would only be a short comment with a link to the relevant blog post, and I think it should only be done—manually;—when the linked post actually adds some value to the discussion in the answers/comments.
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I'm not totally familiar with how pingbacks work in blog software, but from what I've seen, it looks almost auto-generated. Is it possible to prevent these kinds of auto-generated pingbacks if a user has less than a certain reputation?
I am not suggesting adding support for some kind of automatic pingback, I just called it "pingback" because that's a familiar term for many bloggers. What I actually meant was to answer the question by manually writing an answer that references a blog post. Not only posting the link, but also giving a short description and possibly some background information. As others have pointed out, these answers would be moderated up/down in exactly the same way as any other answer.
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I do, however, worry about DEAD LINKS as answers. They might be chosen and everyone thinks it's the greatest, but what about 6 months from now? 1 year? I mean, yeah, perhaps your blog entry is the dead-to-rights, spot-on, mother of all answers…..but, what does that matter if you do not upkeep the domain, host, or server?
I think the issue with dead links is just as relevant—or not relevant—when posting links to any other online resource. When linking to something for "educational purposes", I think it's important to chose sources that are likely to stay available for a long time. In that context I would be more worried about links to specific products on online stores or information on company web sites, as they (historically) often don't seem to bothered with keeping old links alive.
Modern blogging software goes a long way to ensure unique URIs that are suitable for permanent links, and I would think at least technical bloggers would also be aware of the importance of keeping their article addresses alive, also in the future. I can only speak for myself, but when I publish something online (for others to use as a reference), I make an effort to keep it alive, permanently.
I do agree that short answers can be copied onto the site, but I was actually thinking about longer articles. Simply linking to something on your blog that could just as well have been written directly on the site would of course be meaningless, but I'm guessing those kind of "advertising campaigns" will just be down-voted.


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One of the most distinctive features of a high producing club vs. a low producing club is the level of enthusiasm that the staff emits. I can go into a club where the gym is in first place in the company and see an active staff.
At these gyms I see sales people smiling and talking to members, making promotional announcements over the intercom, handing out guest passes to members leaving the gym and standing up when they're on the phone making appointments.
When I go into a low producing gym, I rarely see the staff anywhere but in their offices or at the front desk where they're socializing with one another. If they're not hanging out they're half-heartedly making telephone calls or offering excuses as to why their numbers are so low.
When you develop and maintain a team of sales people for your gym, remember that even one unenthusiastic person can be a detriment to your entire team. Usually, this person has become disgruntled over his or her lack of success and wishes to consciously or unconsciously communicate this attitude to other sales staff.
While I'm sure sales managers understand this theme across many industries, the impact of an unenthusiastic team member can be devastating in the fitness industry. When you sell health and wellness, you must have a high level of enthusiasm and energy in overcoming many of the commitment problems that people have in becoming members of gyms.
The 65 percent of Americans who are overweight or obese are examples of individuals who need to see and hear the enthusiasm and energy in order for them to sign up at your facility. If your sales people can't get the person excited about exercise, you're going to be giving out guest passes more than memberships.
One of the strategies that I have developed in assisting sales people to convey more enthusiasm, is promoting a theme that in itself is enthusiastic. The theme should have a motivating health and wellness message like, "Commit to be Fit Month" or "We have a solution for your resolution month." Sales people can use the motivational base of the theme to bolster their presentation.
The theme that I have been employing aggressively at our gyms is "Healthier US," the national directive set up by President Bush. This is a perfect platform for your sales people to sell health and wellness. When a person comes into your location, you are a national sponsor of Healthier US. Because of this, you are capable of offering a number of different promotional incentives to get them excited about exercise. Getting people excited about exercise is the key to getting your gym to sell memberships on the first visit.
Another important part of getting people excited about exercise is that you do more than talk the talk. Don't do a fly-by-night tour and shuttle them into the office for a used car sales pitch. After you have evaluated their health and wellness profile, put them through a real workout. Beginners and intermediate individuals are going to be the bulk of your business. You must put these people on the equipment (six to 10 pieces for beginners) for them to feel more comfortable about the experience and to get them excited about it. Selling the value of exercise is an important element to effectively getting them excited about exercise.
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How NOT to Think of Screens in Worship
Screens- many of us use them every week in worship. In the last decade, churches large and small have embraced visual technology to the point where they've almost become standard fixture along side pews, organs and altar tables. But do we really understand how to use them properly?
When I began my work as a media minister 16 years ago at a large well-known church in Ohio, leaders were just beginning to think about using screens in worship. For more than half of those years, my focus was mostly on convincing pastors, musicians and laypeople that screens had a place in the church. Things shifted several years ago. The the majority of people I speak to at seminars and in my consultation work have installed screens and are now trying to figure out why they haven't magically transformed everything about worship. The fundamental problem is that we don't fully understand the medium.
If we're honest about it, many of us installed screens so that we could get rid of our hymnals. The funny thing about that is that most of the time, we hang on to the printed hymnals and the screen is just a repeat of a technology we've had at our disposal in worship for ages.
Of course, there is a segment within the population of the church thinks that the page is mightier than the fabric. In other words, the hymnal is seen as more holy or sacred than the screen. We end up providing both options to keep everyone happy.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if hymnals are present or not. Truth is, the screen is underutilized and is often misused when we think of it as an enormous page-less book of songs.
The basic problem is that we treat the screen as if it's a giant piece of paper. We put everything that used to be in the hymnal on it; we project bible verses, sermon points, and bulletins (announcements) on it; and the screen ultimately becomes a medium of support rather than one of transformative interpretive communication. Beyond random nature footage, out of focus lights, free floating particles, and other holy blobs of color, we are rarely intentional about the use of images on our screens.
The screen is NOT a giant piece of paper! A better metaphor for the screen is that of a canvas where we can paint powerful pictures that draw people in at a heart level. Image is an interpretive medium, with the power to help people see "more" than they otherwise could. The screen is like stained glass that we can change out every week.
We live in an image hungry, screen obsessed culture. From smart phones, to tablet devices; giant flat screen TVs, to movie screens; image is all around us – and we love it.
A 2005 study revealed that 65% of people are visual learners. The same study found that the brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than text, and that 90% of information that comes to the brain is visual. Visual learning improves learning and retention by 400%.
Since image is the native language of the brain, it actually takes more mental energy to process and convert text into images than it does to simply take images and interpret their meaning. We also tend to have a more difficult time retaining what we read versus what we see.
When used properly, the screen is an incredible catalyst for growth. It can improve learning, create deep moments of connection and it greatly increases retention. The right images, when given the proper context, have the ability to lock a truth into our minds for a lifetime. When those truths take hold, they lead to personal faith development and a desire to change the world through missional action.
Here are 5 ways you can use the screen to be more visual in worship:
- Visual scripture – Rather than putting text on the screen when scripture is read, try using a single image that captures the story.
- Visual Points – Instead of typing characters on the screen, what are visuals that can say the same thing in the native language of our brains?
- Show, don't just tell – If you're telling a great story, grab an image (or images) and show it as you're telling the story.
- Use b-roll – B-roll is the technical term for the footage you see running in the background during a news report that shows the scene where the news took place. I've seen pastors effectively use everything from an Olympic snowboard race to people on a mission trip run in the background in the background during sermons.
- Use the screen as a backdrop – Like in the theater, use the screen to create a scene.This works well for biblical and other types of storytelling.
What can you do this week in worship to engage and inspire the mind by painting pictures that will last a lifetime?
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Diana Davis said,
Thanks for this reminder. We have a screen at John Wesley that is really too big for the space. And a misunderstanding of how to use it. While I am not yet 'official' in the capacity of media coordinator, I am on my way. I always appreciate this reminder!


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Retired Massachusetts State Police Trooper Mike Lapointe taps a foil pan and watches it spin on the string that attaches it to the pole in his hand. The low-tech device, he explains, was intended to keep crows away from tomatoes. It didn't work. So Lapointe moved a crow carcass into the field from the nearby road where it was killed, and that did the job.
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"They came to my house [instead] and woke me up!'' says Linda Martin, who lives less than half a mile up Plain Road in Greenfield from the plot where they're taking out tomato stakes. Martin and Lapointe are the youngsters on the all-volunteer crew that helps retired strawberry farmer Everett Hatch get thousands of pounds of fresh produce to Franklin County food pantries. The others, like Hatch, are in their 70s and 80s. What makes Hatch unusual is that he is growing produce just to give it away.
Franklin County ranks third in the state for poverty, according to 2009 census data, but it is rich in fertile soil and has plenty of farmland. As a longtime volunteer at the Franklin Area Survival Center in neighboring Turners Falls, Hatch says he saw the vegetables distributed by the center's food pantry.
"The only produce that would come in would be like leftover stuff,'' he says, which got him thinking. "I could work on getting something going - good tomatoes and fresh stuff.''
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"He wanted to just plow up a half acre of land, plant produce on it and give it all away,'' Schnelle says. And that's exactly what Hatch has done. He grows tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, summer squash, and winter squash - foods that pack a lot of nutrition and are relatively easy to grow and harvest. Once the winter squash crop is in - with help from a group of Kiwanis Club volunteers - Hatch estimates he will have donated about 10,000 pounds of produce for the year.
Amy Clarke, director of the Franklin County Community Meals Program, which operates a food pantry in Orange, says she receives fresh produce from other farmers and grocery stores. But Hatch is the only farmer she knows of who grows vegetables just so he can donate them.
"I don't know people who plant specifically for us,'' she says. "I mean, he came out of retirement to do this.''
To Hatch, the project is a tangible, practical thing. He has the land and the skills and he'd rather be in the field than in a meeting. On this particular day, after the crew pulls up the tomato stakes and failed scarecrow devices and picks the last of the cucumbers and peppers, Hatch takes them on a little side trip to a field of sweet corn half a mile up the road.
"The guy that owns the land just planted it,'' Hatch says, "I don't know what his original plan was.'' The night before, the landowner had called Hatch and asked him to harvest it and donate it. It doesn't take long for the crew to fill Hatch's pickup truck with fresh Silver Queen cobs.
Clarke says the area has a persistent need for food assistance. Flooding from Tropical Storm Irene brought new families to the pantries, but the ongoing recession has led many once well-paid workers to confront food scarcity and seek support. Schnelle says with growing needs and shrinking budgets, it can be hard to stay optimistic. Hatch's efforts offer hope.
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When: Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Study and know your market before you sell trees!
This All day short course is part of Extension's Missouri Woodland Steward Program. This workshop helps landowners learn how to improve the quality of their woodland and how to market it.
Topics covered will be Getting to Know Your Woodland, Managing Your Woodland and Marketing Your Timber. During a provided lunch, you will have the opportunity to view Strong Men, Big Timber, highlighting whiskey and wine barrel manufacturing, Missouri's highest value-added forest product. There will be an outdoor demonstration were the class will travel to a privately owned woodland where you will get to walk the land and see first-hand many of the principles presented during the morning session; how to select crop trees, when and how to prune high-value crop trees, how to chemically remove unwanted trees, how to plan a successful harvest. This will be a great hands-on/demonstration activity.
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Lindenwood University-Belleville has been accepted into the American Midwest Conference, as announced by league administrators on Wednesday. This comes one year after being accepted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics as an independent institution.
"Lindenwood University–Belleville's acceptance into the AMC is not only a major benchmark in the development of a first-rate NAIA collegiate sports program, but also a sign that long-standing Midwest liberal arts colleges comprising the AMC's membership recognize our Belleville campus as one of them," said Lindenwood University President Dr. James Evans. "I am very proud of the great strides the Lindenwood University–Belleville faculty, staff, coaches, and students have made in just four years since the launch of the day school program."
Lindenwood–Belleville spent the first four years as a member of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association, while the 2013-14 season was spent as a dual-affiliate between the NAIA and USCAA. In the past four years LU–Belleville has had proven success, with men's golf, men's soccer and softball winning the USCAA National Championship.
"The AMC will provide a tremendous environment of competition and sportsmanship for our student-athletes," said Director of Athletics Scott Spinner. "We are committed to providing the best possible athletic experience to our student athletes, and membership to the AMC is exemplary of that."
As a member of the AMC, Lindenwood – Belleville will be joining Benedictine – Springfield, Columbia, Hannibal – LaGrange, Harris – Stowe, Lyon, Missouri Baptist, Park University, Stephens College, William Woods and Williams Baptist. St. Louis College of Pharmacy was also recently accepted, rounding out a 12-member conference.
"The AMC represents a blend of the very best in academics and intercollegiate athletics among some of the finest liberal arts colleges and universities in the nation," said President of Lindenwood – Belleville Dr. Jerry Bladdick. "I am looking forward to the sportsmanship, competition and collegiality that our membership will bring to the conference."
Lindenwood – Belleville will begin a full competition schedule during the 2014-15 season.
"After meeting with members and representatives of the AMC, it quickly became clear that their goals and values align with those of Lindenwood-Belleville," said Spinner. "We knew at that point, that this was the conference for us."


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ROSEBURG — North Medford climbed back into first place in Southern Oregon Hybrid baseball with a doubleheader sweep against Roseburg Saturday, 1-0 and 5-1.
David Crofton was stellar for the Black Tornado (16-4, 7-2 SOH) in Game 1, blanking the Indians on five hits.
In Game 2, four of the Black Tornado's runs were unearned, aided by four errors by the Indians (11-6, 1-5).
"They were pretty well-played games in a lot of ways," said Roseburg coach Troy Thompson. "Both games were well-pitched and offense was at a premium."
In the first game, North Medford scored in the second inning when Jared Evans led off with a single and stole second. A strikeout, a walk and a fielder's choice followed before Taylor Raff's two-out single scored Evans.
Roseburg loaded the bases with two outs in the sixth, but Kody Matthews' line drive to center field was right at Troy Fowler for the third out.
Crofton struck out 10 and walked two, and Evans was 2-for-3.
"David Crofton did a heck of a job for us," said North Medford coach Brett Wolfe. "He set the tone on the mound. We didn't get too frustrated at the plate and kept competing. Fortunately, they hit a few balls right at us and we made plays."
Roseburg's Brady Haskett allowed five hits, fanned three and walked two.
The second game was tied 1-1 before North Medford scored three runs in the fourth inning.
Micah Brown singled, stole second and scored on Hayden Evans' single. Evans scored on an error on a ball hit to third base by Brett Pearson. Josh Berman, who reached on a fielder's choice, scored the final run on a wild pitch.
In the seventh, Crofton's push bunt scored Raff, who had singled.
Colton Westfall overcame illness from the day before to start on the mound and got the win for the Black Tornado. He was relieved in the sixth by Brown.
"Colton felt good, so we warmed him up in the (bullpen) and he had good pop," said Wolfe. "We put him on the mound, watched his pitch count and he did a heck of a job, too."
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Westfall, Brown (6) and Zavala; Fuller and Irvine. W — Westfall (8-1). L — Fuller (1-3). 2B — R: Westwang.
ASHLAND 1-5, GRANTS PASS 0-3 — At Grants Pass, Ashland scored the winning run on an error in the opener and eked out a 10-inning Game 2 victory in the nonleague doubleheader.
Ashland's Jamie Flynn pitched a three-hitter with 11 strikeouts and two walks in Game 1. The Grizzlies (12-8) posted their lone run after Ryan Bottimore's hit with runners on first and second base was thrown over the Grants Pass catcher's head in the fourth inning, allowing Jack Carroll to come home.
Carroll finished 2-for-3. Ben Glaeser allowed four hits and three walks with seven strikeouts in six innings for the Cavemen (13-7), who hit into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning.
With Game 2 tied at 3, Ashland's Carter Glick hit a line drive to center field in the top of the 10th inning that eluded the grasp of a diving Grants Pass outfielder. Carroll and Eric Carlson scored the go-ahead runs.
Carlson went 2-for-4 with two runs and Bottimore smashed a solo home run. Grants Pass' Easton Bents was 3-for-5 with an RBI.
Ashland's Steen Fredrickson fanned 12 and allowed nine hits and three walks in nine innings.
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Fredrickson, Glick (10) and Glick, Cammarota (10); Fulton, D'Amico (6) and Leenknecht. W — Fredrickson. L — D'Amico (0-2). 2B — A: Cammarota, Carroll, Carlson, Glick; GP: VanEss, Bents. HR — A: Bottimore.
GRANTS PASS 8-13, SOUTH MEDFORD 0-2 — At Grants Pass, sophomore pitcher Amy Robinson picked up wins in both ends of the doubleheader, including a three-hit shutout in the opener.
South Medford (4-18, 1-9 SOH) trailed 1-0 going into the bottom of the sixth inning of Game 1, then Grants Pass (9-11, 6-4) used four hits, two walks and two hit batters to score seven runs. Halee Rose provided a two-run single and Nicole Godwin drove in two with a double to highlight the rally.
Taylor Thomas had three hits and two RBIs in the opener for the Cavers.
In Game 2, Hannah Newman hit a two-run single in the first to stake the Panthers to a 2-0 lead. But Grants Pass answered with nine runs in the bottom of the inning.
The Caver outburst was sparked by Robinson's three-run homer and a bases-loaded triple from Aleah Stevens.
Rachel Moore collected two hits and scored once for South Medford. Robinson and Stevens each had a pair of hits to spark Grants Pass.
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CRATER 15, EAGLE POINT 5, 6 inn. — At Eagle Point, Malorie Mitchell and Allie Winningham were each 3-for-5 for Crater in the nonconference game.
The Comets (7-12) trailed 4-2 after three innings but scored 11 runs over the next two frames, aided by six of the nine errors by the Eagles (12-8).
Alex Sheperd, Brittany Snyder and Brie Sheperd had two hits each in the win.
Eagle Point's Paige Leeper had a two-run triple and Neeshaa Garcia-Patterson hit her fifth home run, a solo shot in the second.
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MARSHFIELD 18-18, ASHLAND 5-6 — At Ashland, Marshfield rapped 28 hits in the nonconference sweep.
In Game 1, the Grizzlies (4-16) got a double and two RBIs from Christina Kuykendall.
In Game 2, Ashland's Kim Corey drove in four runs with two hits and Grace Lenthe was 2-for-2 and scored twice.
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Does South Asia Run the Risk of Rising Inflation?
I am old enough to remember the days when Latin America was the land of inflation. Hyperinflation in Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina made the news in the 1980s and early 1990s. At that time, Asia was seen as immune to the Latin disease. Since then, much water has gone under the bridge. Inflation came under control in the majority of Latin American countries. Today the median inflation rate in South Asia is more than twice the size of the median inflation rate in Latin America and the Caribbean. (See chart below)
Should South Asia's policymakers look at this information and wonder whether they are doing something wrong?
In general, the recipe for hyperinflation is the monetization of budget deficits in countries afflicted by political instability or conflict. Even if the threat of mega inflation is far removed from the South Asia scenarios, the combination of big budget deficits and loose monetary policy seems to be present in some countries of the region.


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Following up on last year's wildly successful Super Bowl ad starring the adorable pup Mr. Quiggly for Skechers GOrun, SKECHERS USA, Inc. today announced that the Company will return to the Big Game with two unique campaigns. The first will use humor and animals to illustrate the speed of Skechers GOrun 2 performance running footwear and is slated to air during the two-minute warning of the first half. SKECHERS will also enlist football legend Joe Montana for a second advertisement to air during the second quarter.
For the Company's performance brand, a cheetah takes center stage this year when the world's fastest land animal goes head-to-head with a human wearing Skechers GOrun 2. Like the cheetah, Skechers GOrun 2 footwear is lightweight, sleek and fast. The Company debuted the original Skechers GOrun collection on the feet of a spunky French Bulldog during the 2012 Super Bowl, and the much adored "Mr. Quiggly" commercial achieved a third place ranking at the top of the USA Today Ad Meter, making the pooch a media darling and bringing global recognition to Skechers Performance footwear.
For the SKECHERS Relaxed Fit collection, Hall of Fame quarterback and four-time Super Bowl champion Joe Montana is the face of the successful footwear line that's designed for comfort with a roomy toe area and memory foam insole. Montana previously appeared in a SKECHERS Relaxed Fit campaign during Fall 2012 that also included ads featuring basketball and baseball icons Mark Cuban and Tommy Lasorda.
The 2013 Super Bowl campaign marks SKECHERS' fourth consecutive year of commercials on the world's biggest advertising platform. In its first year, the Company utilized the star power of Joe Montana to launch its fitness division, and then followed up in 2011 with Kim Kardashian in the Company's fitness footwear. Basketball and business icon Mark Cuban joined Mr. Quiggly in 2012 for SKECHERS' most successful Super Bowl campaign thus far.


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The automobile is ready for a revolution, and so are its drivers. In this week's edition of DT Debate, our own Amir Illiaifar and Nick Mokey go head-to-head over the fuel that's going to power this revolution. Will the EV pull through, or do we need to start looking elsewhere? This week we ask:
Unless "the future of cars" only involves puttering around for 80 miles at a time then desperately searching for a cord so you can wait 20 hours to drive home, then no. Electric cars seem to be growing in popularity, but they remain insanely impractical. The truth is, there are already much better alternative fuels you can use right now.
First, the case against electrics: They have limited range of no more than a couple hundred miles, and only a few can even make it that far. They're so slow to recharge that you have no hope of ever going far from home in one – even if you could string together enough charging stations for a trip. They're extraordinarily expensive, and they use expensive battery packs that wear out before the rest of the car does – which also present an environmental hazard to dispose of. Their "green" factor is mostly an illusion, since half the electricity in the United States is generated by fossil fuels anyway.
So what genius alternative do I suggest? Biodiesel. Yes, the same crazy potion that some hippie is stirring up in his backyard with a 55-gallon drum of deep dryer oil. You don't need new infrastructure, because you can pump it through the same network of 117,100 gas stations in the US that already exist. There is no "recharge time." You can run it in existing (diesel) cars with no modifications. In many places, it's cheaper than regular diesel – currently $3.99 a gallon here in Portland. And for those of you who are really in this for the karma: Because plants suck up carbon when they grow then throw it back out when they burn, it's (theoretically) carbon neutral, unlike electricity from coal power plants.
Are there barriers? Yes, and I hope you'll point them out, but I would buy a $23,000 Volkswagen Golf TDI over a $35,000 Nissan Leaf in a heartbeat right now.
I'd like to start off by saying there really isn't a single solution that will satisfy our alternative energy needs. Rather, it's going to take a nuanced approach to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels. That being said, whether you like it or not, "the future of cars" (at the least the immediate future of cars) is electric. Don't believe me? Ask Nissan, Toyota, General Motors, etc. That's not to say there aren't viable alternatives to battery-powered cars (you specifically pointed out biodiesel) but truth be told, there are inherent problems with virtually all alternative energy sources at the moment, biodiesel included.
What problems you ask? Well for starters there aren't that many diesel cars in the U.S. to begin so either way people are going to have to either purchase a car that can run diesel or opt for an electron-powered alternative like a Nissan Leaf. Second, biodiesel fuel isn't as readily available as you make it out to be, and when it is available is often more expensive than gasoline –the most expensive station near Portland is is selling it for $5.55 a gallon. That's certainly a lot more than what it costs to charge a Nissan Leaf. For example, most public charging places are free — for now — but when they do in fact start charging people, the average price will hover around $1 per hour of charging. I'll give you that the time investment can be annoying, but most will only need to charge their cars once a day at home anyway.
Now electric cars aren't perfect by any means, but they are just as good of an alternative as biodiesel, if not better. Yes they are expensive, charging times need to improve, and range can be an issue (although this is grossly overstated by EV opponents) but the technology is here, electricity is all around us, and guess what? It's continuously improving. The technology is still relatively new and unrefined but it will get better, faster, and cheaper. Not to mention EVs are cheaper to operate than their gasoline counterparts, all-electrics produce zero-emissions from their tailpipes (oh wait, they don't have tailpipes!), and have improved performance ratios, but I'll get to that later.
Nuanced approach? Haven't you ever watched CNN? That makes for terrible debates, Amir. But I'll bite and concede: Electric cars make sense for urban dwellers who never need to leave the city, fleet use, and some other limited scenarios. But the majority of Americans who care about the environment and want to make a green vehicle purchase would be better off buying a diesel and filling it up with biodiesel right now.
You're right that both technologies will get better over time: electrics will get faster, cheaper, and charger quicker, biodiesel will become more widely available and cheaper. But the EV you buy today is stuck with the constraints of today's technology forever, while a diesel owner benefits every time the fuel situation improves.
And it will improve. I'm not crazy enough to suggest we can stop pumping oil tomorrow and start growing it all with soy (until I get my bribe check from Monsanto). But the prospect of growing algae for biodiesel in massive oceanic farms is getting closer to reality every day. And again, the energy you consume driving on plant-based fuels essentially comes from the sun, not from coal or natural gas, which is often the case with electricity.
As for compatibility with existing vehicles, yes, diesels only account for about 1 percent of new cars sold in the U.S. right now, but EVs are even more of a fraction (0.3 percent, as of April). And the rest of the world is far more endeared to diesel. In Europe, close to half of all passenger vehicles sold run on diesel. That's not to mention commercial equipment: semi trucks, delivery trucks, locomotives, construction equipment, boats, busses, you name it. If it's heavy, it runs on diesel.
EVs make sense for some applications, but when you look at their range limitations, high up-front cost, limited battery lives, and the pollution produced where the electricity comes from, I'm not convinced they're the best alternative to gas right now.
I know you're arguing that biodisesel makes sense now and in the future, but I think you're missing the point here Nick (please don't fire me for disagreeing with you). The fact is: biofuels — specifically the biodiesel magic juice you're championing — aren't a viable option now, and until those massive oceanic algae farms actually come about, it's not a great option for the environment either.
Biofuels have been around for some time now, and there is a reason they haven't taken off, and no it's not all because of big oil standing in the way – although I'll admit they may have their hand in the cookie jar, err… oil drum. Many environmentalists are opposed to biofuels like soy-based biodiesel because of its negative impact on the environment. According to recent research conducted by Princeton University and the Nature Conservancy, almost all biofuels today cause MORE greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fuels once you factor in the full environmental cost it takes to produce them and has been found to be the leading cause in rising global food prices.
And it makes sense, if we are going to start utilizing biodiesel more and more it needs to come from somewhere, right? As more land is used to plant soybeans for fuel not only is more carbon released into the atmosphere, but those lands and the crops it produces are being taken away from production. Last I checked, according to U.N. reports, there are over 900 million people worldwide suffering from malnutrition and hunger. If we can't even provide adequate amounts of food now (actually we can but that's another debate), then how are we supposed to when the world (or even the U.S. alone) needs those very crops we use to feed ourselves for fuel?
I know you disagree, but electrics are much more viable now. Electricity is all around us, it's relatively cheap, and it can be harnessed from truly renewable sources like the sun and the wind. It's not perfect, but as the technology is refined and continued advancements are made, it stands as one of the better options for alternatively powering our vehicles.
You'll hear no disagreement from me that biodiesel isn't the perfect solution right now, but neither is electricity – that's why we're talking about the future, and which alternative fuel makes the most sense to focus on moving forward. I'm no more for blanketing the Midwest in soy fields to make biodiesel any more than you're for strip mining the entire country of Bolivia to make lithium batteries. Either of these technologies carried to their extreme would cause major problems right now. So yes, my argument rests on more advanced technology – which exists but hasn't been deployed on a large scale — that would allow us to grow biodiesel in the ocean.
As for that Princeton study, note that it critiques not biodiesel but "biofuels," which includes ethanol. Lumping biodiesel in with ethanol is like lumping Alec in with the rest of the Baldwins – it's the outlying exception in a miserable pool of failure. Without getting derailed here, ethanol (as a fuel, not delicious booze) is a complete sham that was foisted on the American people through subsidy-grubbing politicians, and the Princeton study is correct. It's not good for anyone.
My beef with electricity is chiefly this: We're making most of it by burning dredged up dinos anyway. If we had clean, abundant fusion power plants supplying electricity to outlets everywhere, it would be worth the inconvenience (long charging times, limited range) and expense ($10,000 batteries) required to make electric cars. But instead we're going through great lengths to mostly shift our CO2 production somewhere else.
Biodiesel is essentially liquid solar energy. Not just the fuel itself but the methods required to supply it are relatively clean and sustainable, and new tech will allow it to scale. Unless the breakthrough for boundless clean electricity is just around the corner, to me, biodiesel still makes more sense.
Again I have to disagree. This isn't just an environmental argument, although it can quickly derail into one. No, this is about what makes sense now and in the future. There is an underlying element here and — at the expense of sounding like some border-patrolling militiamen — it centers on national security. Electrically-powered vehicles provide a viable alternative now and in the future to shaking our dependence on oil from regions that are not only unstable, but overtly hostile. Again, EVs are far from perfect, and the limitations you brought up are spot on, but battery tech is constantly getting better. It's already decent now, in the future with advancements in inductive (wireless) charging technology we may even be able to charge our cars while on the go.
Now you've mentioned several times the possibility of growing biodiesel from large scale algae farms in the ocean, but building those farms to scale will require LOTS of energy and isn't cheap. Harvesting methods are already difficult, involving centrifuges and high electricity needs. When you factor in the harvesting methods the cost of biodiesel skyrockets. It would appear that collecting biodiesel might not be as clean and sustainable as we are lead to believe. Not only that, ocean environments are far more dynamic and unstable than those on land. What's going to happen to those ecosystems once we section off large parts of the ocean for algae farms?
The reality is, electricity is our best option now, and with continued advancements in technology, could very well be even better in the future.
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Fractals are a geometric concept and mathematical set that represent repeating patterns, also known as self-similarity. Scotland-based physicist and artist Tom Beddard, aka subBlue, who we have previously featured for his generative graphic work, has recently been creating 3D geometric fractal designs that he refers to as "Fabergé Fractals" because of the detailed and ornate patterns that are rendered by the artist's formulaic methods. At first glance, Beddard's designs appear to be fully realized, physical forms due to the intricacies of the patterns and the technical skill that is applied to each generation.
Beddard explains, "The 3D fractals are generated by iterative formulas whereby the output of one iteration forms the input for the next. The formulas effectively fold, scale, rotate or flip space. They are truly fractal in the fact that more and more detail can be revealed the closer to the surface you travel.
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