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Four-piece post-hardcore band, My Fictions released their first full length studio album this month. Since forming in 2010, the band have gone from strength to strength and now bring you 'Stranger Songs'; an album of heavy and, by their own admission, dark music.
The opening track, 'Mt. Misery' begins with about a minute of delicate guitar riffs and gentle drum beats, which is quite a contrast to what follows for the majority of the album. The track, 'Stranger' feels a lot more downbeat and relaxed and I would have to say that it it my favourite track from the album. With the amount of energy conveyed through the music and vocals in every song, you definitely couldn't accuse this record of being lacklustre.
My Fictions have drawn upon their influences, which include American Nightmare (Give Up The Ghost) and Converge, to gain inspiration while remaining unique and bringing their own sound to the hardcore table. Highly respected hardcore bands are prolific in Boston and being formed in Massachusetts, these guys are sure to be no exception. If you're into this genre, give it a go. I'm not usually a fan of heavy music, but I can't say I didn't enjoy listening to it.
'Stranger Songs' is now available to purchase from iTunes, Amazon & Spotify.
For further information on My Fictions, check out…
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More than 20 years after introducing himself to audiences via the doofus mechanic Lowell on the sitcom "Wings," Thomas Haden Church has become one of Hollywood's most reliable character actors. Transitioning from TV to film in the late 1990s, he enjoyed a career resurgence in 2003 in Alexander Payne's "Sideways" playing a caddish best friend to Paul Giamatti's sad-sack writer, and has since found his way into movies both big (Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man 3") and small (Sam Levinson's directorial debut "Another Happy Day").
Next up for Church is Cameron Crowe's "We Bought A Zoo," in which he plays Duncan, older brother to Matt Damon's character Benjamin, a bereaved father who purchases an ailing zoo. Church talked to us in New York about finding common ground between himself and his on-screen sibling, creating stories that are both believable and wish-fulfilling, and, well, buying a zoo.
Talk about how well-defined this guy was in the script. What did you particularly feel like you wanted to bring to him?
It actually wasn't all that well-defined when I first read the script, and ... quite frankly, I'm not even sure that there was a brother in the book. I did not read the book, and when I met Benjamin I don't even remember if it was discussed, but after I signed on, Cameron ... I think he wanted to find an anchoring for the character that resonated a little bit more. So my story for the most part is parallel to the main story, and then at the end I dovetail into what they're trying to get accomplished. But as far as the broader strokes he's sort of hand wringing, a little overwrought, overly protective, you have to protect your base and protect the nest and protect the nest egg ... but I think he finally is compelled and brought around by his brother's convictions to turn the zoo around.
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Your character sort of serves as the audience, constantly questioning how smart a decision it is for this guy to take this on.
This was the construct of the story, and I think that it was a really smart thing on Cameron's part that the very first scene is just the two brothers together and you really get a sense of hey, you got to get back out there, you've got to start dating, you've got to figure out what you want to do -- I mean, you just really get a sense of how much these guys love each other. They're grown men, but they're brothers and they genuinely want what is best for each other, and then things sort of become more complicated because he makes a very bold decision to buy this used crumbling zoo. And initially I'm just the finger-wagging, "don't make the biggest mistake of your life on my watch" kind of a guy, and that quickly turns into an almost shrieking kind of panicked campaign of, you're definitely ruining your life and all the lives around you. But there is this unrelenting passion and commitment from Benjamin that brings Duncan around ... Because it's my brother, it's my niece and nephew, I like the people, I like the animals and if it goes down then we all go down in a heroic cause.
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Other than sort of the writing of the two characters being similar, what is the key if you're playing the sibling of somebody who's obviously not your sibling in real life?
I got to get some rehearsal with Matt. [We had] a lot of conversations before we ever started shooting with Cameron, who is pretty close to my age, and it's just about finding common interests or things that you can talk about -- and I don't mean the obvious things like sports and girls and stuff like that, but as grown men, what are the shared interests ... I live on a ranch in Texas. Matt lives in New York City, but I was trying to sell a house last year, and Matt was trying to sell a house in Florida -- talking about stuff like that like, "Oh sh**, the home market." It's like just things, just life, human experience.
How responsible or irresponsible is it to make a movie about a guy who quits a job and sort of jumps into a very uncertain venture? Do you look at this as a realistic pursuit for a person to have, whether a zoo is a metaphor for something else that they might want to do, or is it a fantasy?
I definitely think the zoo is metaphorical, but if you remember in the scene with Peter Riegert [who plays Benjamin's editor], he is on the ropes and Peter Riegert knows it. He knows that this guy has not recovered from his wife's death, and whenever Matt's character pitches the story and he's like, "Don't you think that would be great?" And he's like, "Yeah." And he goes, "But you're not going to print it." And he goes, "No." He knows that Matt is seriously on the ropes, and so I don't know that Benjamin really quits his job. I think he's not too far from getting his notice that the magazine doesn't need him any longer, because his work has become unfocused and unproductive and it's not compelling reading ... And again, he is sort of confused in his grief and what he thinks is a great idea, and it actually is sort of an early sort of foreshadowing of what is coming ...
Aand so he then quits and what does he do? He goes house hunting, buys this rundown zoo ... And that's the next sort of bad judgment call in the bigger scheme of life, and then [he] takes his son out of school and has to move to a new school. But that scene earlier with Peter Riegert kind of points to the larger bad judgment sort of umbrella that is shading Ben's life, and it's a struggle. But it's a man struggling with his own identity and that affects everybody around him, including his brother.
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When you're dealing with what is a fantasy to a certain extent, do you think that people really need this as a distraction or as a reminder of what things are possible? How do you look at it?
I think there are two sides to that. Yes, I think if this movie was pure fantasy, or we'll just say pure fiction, I would say "Oh, here we go" ... but this really happened. That's the difference. I mean that really is the linchpin. Cameron did not go out into the world of literature and try to find a Hollywood story. What Cameron and the studio and Aline Brosh McKenna, the other writer, what she discovered was a very compelling story of this man, who was an adventure journalist. He had a tragedy. He thought, "I really need a change," and his children needed a change because they couldn't shake out of this sad, mournful sort of wake of the mother's death. And he stumbled upon the zoo, and he had enough money to take his shot and he just rolled the dice and threw everything he had at it and hoped for the best, and it worked. It worked, and that, to me, because it's factual that makes it compelling.
And so to answer your question as far as wish fulfillment, do we need these kinds of movies?
Yes, I think we do because it's the true story of people really, really persevering; and it's a story of two families, a human family and a zoo family that are thrown together by fate -- and by the way, not such a kind, gracious fate. I mean, the zoo has been shut down. They're going to sell the animals and they're all going to be on unemployment, and these two children and this man have lost their mother and his wife. So the circumstances sort of superficially are not great, and not in any way a Hollywood holiday family movie. But the storytelling and I think Cameron's execution, Matt's performance, Scarlett's performance, the kids are great, and then there is a pastiche of interaction with the animals that sometimes is dangerous, sometimes is cute, but I think that it's just in the course of the human experience of these stories being brought together in this movie.
It's interesting to consider where we look at things to purely fulfill the fantasies that we are not able to achieve, and which ones inspire us to try to achieve those things that we are afraid that we can't.
Well, I'll tell you this. I read a review, and somebody, I don't even remember who it was, they were like, "If this movie is starring Tim Allen it's a completely different, light sort of saccharine holiday movie [because] we know Tim Allen is going to persevere ... there is going to be a lot of comedy along the way and a couple of touching, human moments, but it is a balls-out Christmas holiday comedy."
With Cameron and Matt and the fact that it's a true story, it completely changes the complexion of how the story is told. Especially the relationship between Matt and Colin the boy -- it's raw. I mean, it's a very complex relationship that is defined by raw emotion. And then Scarlett, I love the scenes between Matt and Scarlett because she is trying so hard, and she is so young -- she has a lot more on top of her than she is really prepared to deal with. I mean she is a young woman who is an assistant zookeeper, and now she is pretty much having to run the whole show, and teach this grown man with these two kids what to do every step of the way.

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With a stay at The Golden Lamb, you'll be centrally located in Lebanon, steps from Warren County Historical Society & Museum and LM&M Railroad. This historic inn is within the vicinity of Glendower Historic Mansion and Shaker Run Golf Club. Make yourself at home in one of the 18 air-conditioned rooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Your Tempur-Pedic bed comes with down comforters and Egyptian cotton sheets. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers.


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Audrey Landers
Serving in Africa South on Sponsored Deployment | Africa
Joyful living free in salvation. Learning and jounreying with the global Church.
A girl raised in K.C., MO with a little mix of urban and rural influences. Coming from a family with a passion for the Lord and missions I was exposed to the multi-cultural Church at a young age. Through the impact of various generations, communities, and people I was encouraged to find what the Lord's purpose for me was. I am forever thankful for love, prayers, encouragement, and influence of the Church, family, and friends. People were not afraid to help me dream and grow as a leader. I share this to testify to the fact that community journeying together through the Church changes lives and empowers people of all generations.
I accepted Jesus at the age of 8 and found a calling on my life at the age of 12. At 12 I had gone on a mission trip and experienced warming of my heart while having a conversation with a young boy from the island in a van. As we discussed life and he found Hope, my heart found a home and passion. At such time one of my various passions came to life. Proclaiming the Gospel in a relational and genuine way for others to experience the Lord was the passion that began that day. As I followed the Lord's calling, I struggled for a year to discern and know that it was the Lord leading. Through the next few years, I found that it was not my responsibility to fulfill God's calling on my life. It was in surrender and letting go that I learned to trust God and live more free from worry and having to have all of life figured out. Today, I am being stretched and encouraged through journeying alongside the global and local Church of the Nazarene and precious people from varied world areas and faiths.
I want to say a heartfelt thank you to the Church of the Nazarene across the United States. Many of you have supported and encouraged me to help me get to this point in life and service. Thank you also to the many precious brothers and sisters around the world who are praying for and encouraging me. Because of you, we all go as a Church body wherever the Lord leads. An African phrase I appreciate is Ubuntu - I am because you are. In Christ, I am also because We are! Thank you for coming with me on this journey and reminding me that I am never in this alone no matter the distance. Currently, I volunteer alongside the Africa South Field. Here in Johannesburg, there are skilled and passionate people reaching the Church and local communities in a variety of ways. The continent of Africa circulates with beautiful diversity alongside needs that have developed the ministry of the Church in distinct ways. The Africa South Field consists of five countries: Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, eSwatini, and South Africa. Within these countries, I have been honored to meet many talented and God-fearing brothers and sisters. I ask for your prayers as we launch young adult ministry at a camp this coming December. The Lord is doing exciting things as we develop an empowerment discipleship community across the AS Field. Many district assemblies will be occurring as well across the five country locations in the next few months. Please pray as leaders and pastors face joys and challenges of many kinds. These are exciting days in the continent of Africa as I believe the brothers and sisters of Africa are arising today and the immediate future in wondrous ways. I trust that the Lord wants us to live free in Him, free from bondage and distractions of this world. In such trust, finding true peace and hope that propels us into the world living and proclaiming the Kingdom of God in creative and effective ways to reveal God's love.
My current dream and visions are that the Lord will use and shape me through Holy Spirit's leading as He touches lives in miraculous ways. While having various passions, I pray that this year the Lord provides more specific direction on ministry and further preparation for the future. As for my dream while in South Africa, I pray and believe that the Church will arise and be stretched deeper in simple and amazing ways. I have seen God do the 'impossible' may we not limit what God can do! Trusting God, listening for the Lord, journeying in community, and being active within and beyond the Church communities are all aspects of this year for me.
Important verses in my current season: Micah 6:8, Joshua 1:9, Psalms 91, John 14:12-14, and John 13:35
Blessings to all, please know that I enjoy the privilege to pray and journey alongside any that are interested. Feel free to check out my blog and see how God is at work here on the AS Field. I have recently worked out details for a weekly that is sent out 1-2 times per month. If you are interested in receiving these please email me at (alanders@ africanazarene.org).
Going Where the Church is Not Yet
Today there are over 4.3 billion people who live in areas where there is little to no gospel witness. 4.3 billion people who have not heard the message of the gospel, who have never heard the name of Jesus. We believe that everyone deserves to hear. God continues to call the Church of the Nazarene to spread the message of the gospel, to preach holiness, and to bring good news to the poor all over the world. The task is enormous; far too big for anyone to do alone, but together we can go where the church is not yet and see people, communities, and nations transformed. Reaching these people begins with one step, a step of obedience and faithfulness that says yes to God's call. Take your first step and start your journey toward serving in missions today.


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Off-piste skiing at its best!
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It's here! The overview video of Nurturing Deaf Arts Weekend April 8-10, 2017!
Today one of our MCSD board is having interview with Terry MacLeod at CBC news this morning.
Deaf Performance
April 9, 2016
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
At the Irish Club, 654 Erin St
If you don't have any plans on April 9th, come and watch a Deaf performance. It will be fun night! Any donations for the silent auction will be much appreciated!
Announcing the host families. Please watch video below. Thanks
Hi Everyone,
We are looking for volunteers to help out with this exciting event!
Volunteers get a free T-shirt to wear during their duties. An example of the free shirt is attached along with a PDF of the Call for Volunteer poster.
If you have any questions about the duties or the T-shirts, please contact email@example.com
Alice Crawford
Project Director
Manitoba Cultural Society of the Deaf (MCSD)
285 Pembina Hwy,
Winnipeg, MB
Hello everyone!
The Nurturing Deaf Arts - Deaf Arts Manitoba weekend registration deadline has been extended to March 15, 2016.
Please register at http://www.mcsd-dam.com/mcsd-dam/nurturingdeafarts/ - Details and the forms are part way down the page
Registration: 3 Events
There are a few spots left in the
1. DE'VIA Mosaic Tile Workshop at MAWA
Friday evening, April 8th at MAWA, 611 Main Street Friday from 6:30 - 9:30 pm - all welcome, both Deaf and Hearing!
and also a few spots left at the
2. Guided Grant Writing exercises with Anita Small
Saturday afternoon, April 9th from 12:45 to 3:30 pm at ACI, 4th floor classroom, 245 McDermot Ave (corner of McDermot and Arthur St.)
Bring your CV/Resume for this one!
3. Also, if you are interested in taking the Sunday April 10th ASL tour of the Canadian Human Rights Museum, please register for it too! There is a minimum of 20 people to get this special tour! Time(s) TBA
If you have registered already, we are looking forward to seeing you in April!
FREE EVENTS: ASL/English interpretation available - donations are appreciated - all welcome, both Deaf and Hearing!
1. Anita Small Grant Writing Presentation - Saturday morning from 9:30 am to noon at ACI, 4th floor classroom, 245 McDermot Ave (corner of McDermot and Arthur St.)
2. Ellen Mansfield on DE'VIA art - Saturday afternoon from 4:00 - 6:00 pm at MAWA, 611 Main St.
3. Deaf Performance - Saturday evening from 8:00 - 10:00 pm at the Irish Club, 654 Erin St.
Alice Crawford
Project Director
Manitoba Cultural Society of the Deaf (MCSD)
285 Pembina Hwy,
Winnipeg, MB
Announcing the Nurturing Deaf Art workshop. Please watch video below. Thanks
We are very pleased and excited that Nurturing Deaf Arts - Deaf Arts Manitoba Weekend is happening! Mark your calendar for the weekend of April 8-10, 2016! Open to all Canadian Deaf Artists. Deadline is March 1, 2016. There are limited space in the workshops, so apply early to reserve your spot! You can use the forms below this announcement to register on-line or print out and mail to the address on the forms.
1.DE'VIA Mosaic Workshop in ASL with Ellen Mansfield
Friday January 15, 2016 at MAWA at 6:30 pm., 611 Main Street
Learn about this art form of the Deaf and make your own art piece using your experience in regards to Deaf and Deaf Culture.
Registration fee of $5.00 payable at door. Limited space - 25 people max
2. Deaf Artists Workshop in ASL: Guided Grant Writing Exercises
Saturday, January 16, 2006 at ACI, 245 McDermot (Corner of McDermot and Arthur) at 12:45 pm. Lunch at noon will be catered for those who attend the workshop. Registration is payable before lunch or if you do not have lunch, payable when you arrive.
Registration fee of $5.00 payable at door. Limited Space - 30 people max
Learn what CCA's definition of a professional artist is, learn the different terms, and what is required when you write a grant. Anita Small will take you through the steps of the grant writing in practical, hands on exercises with actual CCA grant forms as you learn how to fill one out. It will be useful if you bring your CV/resume to this workshop.
3. Canadian Human Rights Museum Tour - ASL Interpreted
Sunday, January 17, 2016 Please sign up if you wish to visit the CHRM museum - ASL interpreted tours are available when we have 25 or more sign up. A discount on the tickets are available when we reach those numbers. Time(s) will be announced.
Registration is NOT required for the following:
1. Sat morning, Jan 16, 2016 9:30 am - Noon, ACI, 245 McDermot Ave (corner McDermot & Arthur), 4th floor classroom (Donations appreciated) Anita Small Grant Writing Presentation in ASL
2.Sat Afternoon, Jan 16: 4:00-6:00 pm, MAWA, 611 Main Street
Free Artist Talk in ASL/English and Discussion of DE'VIA, Making Connections with Deaf and MAWA Artists
3.Sat evening, Jan 16, 7:30- 9:30 pm, ACI, 245 McDermot Ave (corner McDermot & Arthur), 4th floor classroom (Donations Appreciated) Deaf Arts Manitoba Performers
Please note: dates may change. This event is depended on approval of funding from Canada Council for the Arts (CCA). We will notify you when we hear from them sometime in mid-late December. You can view our vlog about this at www.mcsd-dam.com
Deadline for registering for the workshops and/or tour is December 21, 2015.
To be eligible to attend the Nurturing Deaf Arts-Deaf Arts Manitoba Weekend workshops, you must self-identify as an artist or arts professional who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing (HH). This includes hard-of-hearing, oral-deaf, deaf-blind and late-deafened. Individuals may not have the same degree of participation in Deaf culture, and they may identify as having a disability rather than as being culturally Deaf.
This weekend event is for Deaf/HH artists who are looking to build and enhance their creative or professional skills in any artistic discipline (e.g. dance, inter-arts, media arts, music, signed music, mime, theatre, visual arts and writing and publishing).
Professional artists may include: actors, choreographers, composers, dancers, media artists (film, video, audio, new media), musicians, playwrights, spoken word artists, ASL storytellers, mime, theatre directors, visual artists (incl. photographers, fine craft artists) and writers, as well as artists who work across multiple disciplines and art forms.
We have three events that are available for you to sign up for as space is limited. There is a $5.00 registration fee payable at the door.
Please: If you can not attend any or all of the events, let us know so we can fill your space with another person on the wait list as space is limited for the workshops and the CHRM tour requires numbers for discounts.
When you register, we will send you an information package about the locations of the events, and the CHRM, and places to stay via email or mail if you don't have email.


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Published at Monday, March 04th, 2019 - 20:41:17 PM. Cycling. By Hedvige Paris.
Think about how you intend to use the bike, and how you might want to grow with the bike (for example: maybe you can only ride 20 miles now, but you have a 75-mile charity ride in your sights). Then work with your local bike shop to find the right pick.
Riders younger than the average might have to look a little further to find a club with a decent mix of ages. Of course there is zero problem riding with a group from the older generation, but it's also nice to ride and train with folks closer to your own age, which can often be a tricky find when considering cycling clubs.
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I've been negligent of our Comic Curve lately, and I think it just points to how much energy I'm spending on the actual construction of my comics.
Public Education 3 has gotten off the printer and I'm reading through the proof copy tonight. The printer had a few problems on his end, but I have not had a hard release date for this (my third) book of the year. The dimensions of the book have gone a little smaller, but I'm saving a couple hundred dollars on the printing of volume 3 and that feels fantastic. I was also lucky enough to snag a pull quote from David Price from 11 O'Clock comics. This past year has felt like the first I've been able to start leveraging connections in the comic world into tangible benefits to the work, and that also feels really good.
I'm almost a third of the way through the pencils of Maps 3. The pencilling itself hasn't been too difficult, but I've been doing a fairly large amount of rewrites and edits from the layouts, and that slows down production on each page. With the amount of massaging to the pages Timothy will do during inks I don't have to worry about fully rendering much of anything. Instead my time is being spent on composition and the reading flow from panel to panel.
My skeletons work is erratic at best. I normally pound out several weeks worth of material, build up my back log of strips, and then leave it alone for a couple weeks. I don't think this will be too problematic so long as I always do more in my on times than I take weeks off. It's nice to be able to focus on Maps predominately as my webcomics roll along at a leisurely workload.
I also think I may purchase a table for the Tidewater Comic Con. This convention is super super close and the table prices seem reasonable. If we can do as well in Virginia as we did Indiana we could even turn a profit on the trip. I don't think we'll sell as many books without a panel to help introduce people to the work, but it would be nice to have an additional con to try and work out the table before next year at Appleseed.


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Press Release
February 25, 2011
Bay Foundation Commends Senator Whipple, Delegate Pollard for Years of Service to Virginia and the Bay
(RICHMOND, VA)���Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) Virginia Executive Director Ann F. Jennings issued the following statement regarding announcements today that Senator Mary Margaret Whipple (D-31st) and Delegate Albert Pollard (D-99th) are retiring from the Virginia General Assembly:
"The Chesapeake Bay and natural resources across Virginia will lose two champions with the retirements of Senator Whipple and Delegate Pollard. Both have been strong and consistent voices for conservation in the General Assembly and taken active leadership roles to further environmental protection.
"The Chesapeake Bay has no more committed advocate in the legislature than Senator Whipple. She is the current vice-chair of the Chesapeake Bay Commission and for years has played a pivotal role on the Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee. She has received the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Legislator of the Year Award three times���in 1998 for sponsoring legislation that strengthened Virginia's wetland mitigation banking program; in 2000 for sponsoring Virginia's successful non-tidal wetland protection legislation that continues to protect thousands of acres of non-tidal wetlands in the Commonwealth; and in 2009 for her role promoting additional funding for farm conservation practices and for helping defeat a resolution supporting the introduction of a non-native Chesapeake Bay oyster.
"Delegate Pollard has for years represented water-dependent Northern Neck and been a faithful friend to Chesapeake Bay interests. Among other issues, he actively opposed multiple bills that would have advanced the construction of the environmentally destructive King William Reservoir, for which he received CBF's Legislator of the Year Award in 2004.
"On behalf of CBF and all who care about the Bay and Virginia's natural resources, I congratulate these two distinguished legislators for their many successes and their years of leadership and service to Virginia. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors."


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Kaiba: Eh. I'll allow it.
Tendency of a Tournament Arc that goes on a long time to feature an increasing amount of bizarre characters with abilities which could technically violate predetermined rules of the event. This will be ignored or actively encouraged. The hero, in contrast, will not resort to these tactics; if he does he is inexplicably reprimanded.
Makes slightly more sense if the tournament is organized by villains who will change the rules on a lark for entertainment value.
See also Unnecessary Roughness. Spontaneous Weapon Creation, when it's an extension of a person's ability, is one of the more common forms of abusing this trope.
- In Yu Yu Hakusho, the Dark Tournament is run by a bunch of rich men who have a mutual interest in killing Yusuke (the main character) and his teammates. Thus the rules change in order to inconvenience and/or cripple Team Urameshi... until the one member of the rules committee not interested in Yusuke's death has the other members killed.
- Even in the normal tournament battles, the team captains are allowed to agree upon a set-up that they'd think would be most interesting. The default is one-on-one with the combatants being whoever felt like going (although team captains go later in a round to conserve their strength), first team to get three victories advances (although they can go to five victories). There are also battle royales (including a five-on-one, at the solo fighter's request). Other variations shown in the Dark Tournament involves rolling dice to determine the match-ups and, when two fighters were exhausted, they were allowed to do a sudden-death match where whomever was pushed past a line lost. The referees are also allowed to delay the ten-count to give a fighter more time to get up or get back in the ring. The final round, however, is implied to be a mandatory one-on-one with each fighter only being allowed to fight once.
- Just about every duelist ever in Yu-Gi-Oh!. Several of them claimed to have psychic powers, which should probably count as an unfair advantage even for the ones who weren't cheating and feigning magic to cover it. One duelist tried to kill the main character with flamethrowers over a children's card game. And the main character has a ghost in his head that plays for him who can apparently rearrange his deck to draw whatever he wants, and who can destroy people's minds with his magical powers, although he usually has the decency to win the duel first.
- This is, of course, mercilessly mocked in the Abridged Series. "Stop this duel immediately! It violates Battle City rules! ...just like 99% of the other duels that I refused to stop."
- Played with in one of the later rounds of Duelist Kingdom (at least in the dub), where Bandit Keith uses literal cards up his sleeve against Joey. When Keith is exposed at the end of the match, Pegasus reveals that he knew all along that Keith was cheating and that he let it happen to see if Joey was capable enough to win in spite of it; while also implying that if Joey didn't win he would have called Keith out and disqualified him for the violation anyway.
- The GX Tournament in the second season of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX attracted numerous shady characters, from the megalomanical to brainwashed minions; this was allowed, because the whole thing was just a trap to fish out the person who stole yet another super-powerful card strong enough to destroy the world.
- Averted in Mahou Sensei Negima! (the original manga) where the Tournament in fact allowed almost every form of combat (non-bladed weapons, no-incantation magic, Ki Attacks, and other oddball techniques) - on the one occasion where a rule was broken, the guilty (Asuna, when she summoned her greatsword by accident) immediately lost the match. Of course, the tournament was part of a conspiracy to reveal The Masquerade, so they needed them to pull off all those super cool abilities.
- Both Evangeline and Setsuna later broke the no-incantation rule. Sort of, as the referees weren't able to note and call them on it. Eva immediately canceled her spell and apologized (of course, she soon started using the same spell sans incantation), while Setsuna's spell/prayer is forgivable as she thought she was about to die.
- The Kujibiki in Kujibiki Unbalance is ostensibly a contest in which teams of four high school students compete to become the next student council. As we see more competitions, however (particularly in the Recap Episode), it becomes increasingly difficult to believe that all the competitors are actually students at the same school. And one time, the heroes have to face seven opponents at once, which is handwaved as a "numerical coincidence".
- Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer. Electric whips are banned. So are projectiles. Apparently nothing else is. This includes hacking the program, exploiting a programming error in earlier models, and modding the dolls to give them extra abilities (we've seen wings and a forcefield).
- Said electric whip is illegal because it harms other players instead of their dolls, not just by some arbitrary rules. Also modding the doll is a part of the game.
- In Mobile Fighter G Gundam, the rules of the Gundam Fight let the participants get away with murder - literally, in some cases. In fact, Rule 7 specifically says "Destruction of property on Earth due to the Gundam Fight is not considered a crime." Thus you get situations such as one fighter assassinating his opponents before their matches, rampant and obvious cheating, and the use of The Virus to enhance one's abilities to the point where they're effectively immortal. The only rule specifically established to prevent death says that fighters are banned from targeting their opponents' cockpits - and Laughably Evil President Evil Wong Yun Fat eliminates that rule in the Finals, using his privilege as the host nation's leader.
- Gundam Build Fighters has a similar situation where the world tournament's organizer has it in for one of the protagonists and deliberately rigs their matches in order to get them eliminated. This comes to a head in the final round, where he subjects the show's Char Clone, normally an honorable and friendly guy, to mind control that makes him fight like a crazed berserker.
- In Saint Seiya, by divine decree, of all of Athena's Saints only the Gold Saint of Libra is allowed to wield weapons (and indeed, nearly every part of the Libra Cloth is a weapon. Even its shields.) Doesn't justify the iconic Nebula Chain wielded by the Andromeda Saint, the Chameleon Saint's whip, the Auriga Saint's discs or the Cerberus Saint's morningstar.
- The Davy Back Fight in One Piece is blatantly rigged in the Foxy Pirate's favor—all of the referees are from their crew. They allow such things as using weapons in a game where weapons were exclusively forbidden, leaving the ring and returning later when doing so was also a clear foul, and trying to eliminate the Strawhat team members for 'mouthing off' to the ref.
This trope was played with in the anime-only dodgeball event, where what looked like cheating was actually using rules for uncannily specific circumstances that are rarely brought up—which the Foxy Pirate refs had to enforce faithfully, under penalty of death. This is not Loophole Abuse either—there is a rule for practically every possible situation, with their legality seemingly random. The rulebook is a doorstopper that took Robin the entire round to read, and she is a speed-reader.
- Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple had the Desperate Fight of the Disciples tournament, where the referee A. was evil. and B. admitted to just letting anything go as long as it was entertaining.
- One chapter of Heaven's Lost Property had a wrestling tournament where this trope is averted twice. First is when Ikaros gets immediately disqualified for Beam Spam-ing, and second is when Sohara is barred from winning when it's pointed out that she didn't join from the start and only went in during the Tomoki and Mikako's match.
- The only times someone was disqualified from the tournaments in Dragon Ball were the Man Wolf when he pulled a knife and Cyber Tao Pai Pai revealing his hidden sword. Otherwise is played straight, as Ranfan breaks the "no crying" rule with her Wounded Gazelle Gambit and nothing happens to her and Krillin throwing a pair of panties to distract Dirty Old Man Jackie Chun is fine as well. But Goku using the Kinto'un to come back is only given an one-off pass and would get him disqualified if he did it again. However, they don't seem to mind him taking off Muten Roushi's sunglasses to protect himself from Tenshinhan's Sun Fist (you'd think they'd at least question how he did that without getting a Ring Out). Groin Attacks are also banned, but we see an instance where Yamcha gets nailed and his opponent isn't disqualified because it was an accident (Yamcha did a jump kick, the other guy ducked, and his head happened to impact Yamcha's crotch), like the way Shen (said opponent) defeated Yajirobe earlier on—even though it turns out it probably wasn't an accident. Speaking of Shen, there's also the little bottle he pulls out to use the Mafuuba, but it's justified cause the announcer says "It doesn't look like a weapon, more like some kind of spell, let's see what happens."
- Goku's fight against "Jackie Chun" in particular has numerous rules broken without affecting the match:
- When Goku sees the full moon and turns into a giant ape, he's not disqualified even though he's clearly touching parts outside of the ring.
- When Jackie seemingly killed ape Goku to stop his rampage, he's declared the winner, even though killing is supposed to get you disqualified. The ruling was only reversed when we they see he actually destroyed the moon, turning Goku back to normal.
- Finally, after Goku turns back, he's unconscious for what seems to be several minute before the count to ten even starts, giving him just enough time to get back up. Jackie complains about this, but nothing comes of it.
- Cell sets up a tournament to challenge Earth's strongest fighters, borrowing the standard tournament rules for it. Halfway through his fight with Goku, he gets bored, blows up the ring, and declares the ring-out part to be void.
- The Universe 6 vs Universe 7 tournament in Dragon Ball Super has rules that get changed chaotically due to Beerus and Champa constantly arguing over minor details. In one case, an "airborne ring-out" rule was implemented for a single fight so that if a fighter touched a clear case over the ring, they would be considered out of bounds. It turns out that Champa insisted on this to try to mitigate the weakness of his current fighter, namely that he could not fly. Another instance had Vegeta get knocked out of the ring... but since he was standing on a tiny piece of rubble that had been chipped off the ring earlier, and no part of his body touched the ground itself, this was not counted as out-of-bounds. A disqualification is even overturned just because Vegeta really wanted to fight the disqualified fighter, even after he was revealed to be cheating. The Running Gag of the referee forgetting to start the 10 count is also continued.
- This is mostly avoided in the Tournament of Power between eight different universes, as the Grand Priest sets up a number of clear-cut rules that are adhered to quite stringently (no flying allowed, except for individuals who have wings as a natural part of their body; no weapons; everyone is subjected to the gravity of their homeworld; no killing your opponents; no interfering if you are already knocked out; etc). In a couple of cases where it seemed as though a rule might have been broken (Android 17 standing on the stage's "sun", Master Roshi using a jar as part of the Mafuuba, using a Potara for fusion, etc.), the Zen'Os made the judgement on whether it was permitted... most of the time, their judgement was "It was cool, so it's allowed."
- In The Tainted Grimoire, during the Camoa Cup, Acidwire requested a single duel to decide the match between them and Clan Gully rather than the best of three that was supposed to happen. They got away with this because when they requested this, they made it seem like they were doing it out of consideration of the fact that Clan Gully has yet to recover properly from their last few matches when actually it was so they could make it easier for them to defeat Clan Gully. This backfired on them when Luso defeated their leader Suzuka.
- In the live action Speed Racer movie, one of the drivers pulls a gun on Speed and spectators react with shock and alarm, making it quite clear that he'll be disqualified. While the race was full of illegal crap up to this point, the drivers were careful to use them in situations where the cameras couldn't catch them doing it.
- Mortal Kombat: The Movie: Let's just say Shang Tsung's tournament structure is a bit....suspect. Seems the writers thought as much as well, since they made the sequel skip straight to Mortal Kombat 3, which was less "tournament" and more "war".
- In the finale of Ip Man 2, wherein our eponymous Chinese Warrior and folk hero starts to win against Twister, the bloodthirsty Chinese-bullying British boxer, the referees "suddenly" remember that you're not suppose to kick in western boxing matches and call Ip Man on it; something they didn't bother to call on in the last match when Twister was having an orgasm beating a sick-and-elderly Chinese Warrior to death.
- The Karate Kid Part III has the challenger for the final match explicitly break every rule in the book (groin kicks, punches to the face, surprise punches after a separation is called, etc.) in his match with Daniel. True, every such infraction costs him a point, but he gains it right back while Daniel is busy looking for his family jewels. Indeed, this is his strategy: to kick the living crap out of him for the full time period and then win in sudden death. But despite his blatant disregard for anything resembling competitive decorum, he is never disqualified. A cynic might believe that it is because Terry Silver had just spent thousands putting together a permanent arena for the All-Valley championships and nobody wants to disqualify his star pupil.
- Likewise, The Karate Kid (1984) has Daniel win the All-Valley final with a Crane Kick to Johnny's face, well after the announcer explicitly stated that strikes to the face were prohibited. In the Sequel Series Cobra Kai, Johnny is still pretty sore over this, and makes sure to mention to Daniel that he won with an illegal kick.
- In Tekken Kazuya takes control and suddenly declares the tournament fights to be death matches partway through the tournament. One wonders what the other corporations that provided fighters for it thought of this.
- In Ender's Game, the Battle School setting revolves around students playing a zero-gravity war simulation against teams of their peers. When the teachers realize that Ender might be the natural General they've been waiting for, they start stacking the odds against him to see how he responds to pressure (making him fight two battles in one day, pitting his team against two teams at a time, etc.). Eventually, when he gets into the simulations against the buggers, he realizes that he had it easy at that point.
Ender: "It doesn't matter if you try to beat me unfairly. I'll beat you unfairly first."
- Eventually Ender gets fed up with the constant screwing of the rules and sarcastically suggests a match with his team in a cage without guns.
- A secondary lesson taught was to ignore the perceived "rules" of combat. Most of the Battle School commanders, smart though they were, could not break out of certain lines of thinking (such as the practice of moving in formations during battle). Ender starts thinking outside the box and royally owns everyone he goes up against, culminating in winning an impossible fight by performing the victory ceremony before the battle was over.
- They specifically mention that it would take at least a year for the Battle School to recover from Graff's changes meant to train a single student. Of course, the Battle School is disbanded even before the end of the Bugger War.
- In Fighter of the Destiny, the TV adaptation of Way of Choices, the Star Seizer Academy's entrance exam involves defeating a troll without magic or weapons. Chen soothes one to sleep with music, then when the examiners release three more, he protects himself with a force field bauble while repeating the trick, none of which disqualifies him. In the source material, Star Seizer uses a straight up test of strength and persistence.
- Despite being a game about boxing, Hoy Quarlo in Super Punch-Out!! uses a cane, Dragon Chan mixes flying kicks in with his punches, King Hippo straps a manhole cover to protect his stomach and so on, and so on.
- Aran Ryan, appearing in multiple Punch-Out!! games seems to make a living taking advantage of this, although in his case its more just straight cheating, like the horseshoes he so obviously has hidden in his gloves. Soda Popinski's use of mid-round Soda Pop probably qualifies as well
- Common in The King of Fighters - Whip brings a gun to a martial arts tournament, in addition to her namesake weapon. Then again, there has yet to be a single King of Fighters tournament that wasn't used as a front by that year's villain, to the point the Heidern Mercenaries go on red alert every time they get an invitation.
- Considering almost every character in the series can use some form of Ki Attacks, this is probably allowed because neither Whip nor Yamazaki, who has a handgun and a switchblade, have attacks like that and thus they are at a disadvantage without them.
- Yoshimitsu and Kunimitsu from the Tekken games seem to not object to bringing knives and swords to the fistfights.
- With all the Cyborgs and Robots around, this hardly seems a big deal. Not to mention pandas and bears (oh my).
- Street Fighter's Vega (or Balrog in the original) uses a claw in his fights. The White Wolf RPG tried to explain this as saying he fought in a weapons-using division, but it didn't explain why he was allowed to use it against fighters who weren't pro-weapon.
- There's a simple reason. The tournament is being run by Shadoloo. Vega works for Shadoloo. Justified Trope.
- Give the guy a break. He's one of the only fighters in the game without a fireball.
- Any tournament that allows martial artists to attack each other with fire — even if they're generating it out of their own bodies — probably has little in the way of actual "rules."
- C.Viper's use of a weaponized suit is often Lampshaded in Street Fighter 4.
- Not a tournament, but the double standard in the Ace Attorney trials is staggering. The judge is shown to disapprove of intimidation from the defense in the courtroom, but has no qualms about the prosecutor frequently and indiscriminately using a whip. A prosecutor presented forged evidence, he got a penalty. When the defense was accused of such, he got disbarred. Heck, Phoenix was once penalized for finishing the judge's sentence.
- Even worse? Japanese lawyers confirm that this is Truth in Television. What.
- The Colosso tournament in Golden Sun, where the player is allowed to get help from the other party members to cheat on the obstacle courses, and the enemies in the battle portions use only physical attacks while you have Djinn and Psynergy.
- Justified by the fact that the Ruler of Tolbi and host of the tournament told him to do that in order to see his powers. The beaten gladiators, though, can't stomach the loss and come after your party in The Lost Age.
- The Imperial Arena in Jade Empire is theoretically supposed to be a display of various martial artists' skills in one-on-one contests, with magic in place to prevent the contenders' deaths. Under the management of Kai Lan the Serpent and Qui the Promoter, however, gimmick matches are thrown together with absolutely no regard for standards, ranging from pitting contenders against demons, to one-versus-many matches, to the use of styles that had been expressly banned by the rules. Oh, and illegal poisoned weapons are used to get around the Arena's death-prevention systems. In short, the Arena has gone from a Mixed Martial Arts competition to a Mafia-run Professional Wrestling promotion, and your role in the storyline is to clean the place up by becoming the Champion. Unusually, you can take advantage of this yourself: In the final match, when Kai Lan comes in to retake the title, you can have the Black Whirlwind fight in your place, and when the Serpent objects, you point out that it's not the first time someone's substituted a fighter for the scheduled match.
- In the web comic Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, one of the recent story arcs had players competing in a tournament with increasing convoluted cheats by the hobgoblins, which in the end have to be accepted due to a loophole in the rules that says the contestants use the rules from their own country.
- Done in Sluggy Freelance when they parody the Tri-Wizard tournament from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Any message that comes out of the "Goblet of Flameyness" forms a Magically Binding Contract, so anyone who tampers with the goblet can create whatever rules or exceptions to rules they want. This includes having an olympic athlete compete in a student competition, expanding the number of competitors from three to five, and having one of the Duh-Mentors compete.
- This trope sometimes turns up even without goblet tampering, however. Such as when Torg takes "use the tools around you" to mean he can grab someone out of the audience and have her fight a giant monster for him.
- In this Biter Comics strip, a competitor in a Scrabble tournament finds a loophole in the rules.
- The Rankers from Tower of God have the explicit right to alter test rules while the test is running.
- In The Legend of Korra, Avatar Korra Invokes this as a justification for being able to secretly compete in Pro-Bending in spite of being the sole person on Earth to command multiple Elemental Powers where other players' only have one. To compensate, she promises her teammates that she'll confine herself to waterbending. When she reflexively bends earth to defend herself against two simultaneous attacks she causes the referee to proclaim "Foul! ... I think." The only reason this display is not counted against her is that the referee hasn't foreseen the circumstance. After some deliberation, the referee Averts this by codifying the Obvious Rule Patch, allowing her to play on the condition that she only Waterbends.
- Later on, Korras team is eliminated by a team who is flagrantly cheating and have paid the officials to ignore these fouls. But they get hit with a bit of karma when the Arc Villain, Amon, shows up and removes their bending.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Played with in "Brotherhooves Social." On the one hand, it's mentioned that despite the Social being intended as a competition between teams of sisters, the committee has a rather loose definition of "sister," and basically allows any pair to compete. This is why Orchard Blossom is allowed to compete despite the fact that it's blatantly obvious she's just Big Mac in a dress. On the other hand, brute-forcing the challenges and nearly injuring the other competitors is very much not allowed, and gets Big Mac and Apple Bloom disqualified.
- In a tournament held in the 13th century, a famous noble arrived with his warriors and announced that he would only be watching, not fighting today. Much later in the day, after having time to study the other fighters and let the other fighters grow tired, the noble announced that he had changed his mind.


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A woman who stripped down to enter a tanning booth was apparently stripped of her privacy as well.
Police arrested the suspected peeping Tom after the incident inside Zoom Tan at 13630 Southwest 120th Street in Kendall.
According to the exclusively-obtained police report, a woman got naked before tanning last Friday, and was about to stand in the tanning bed, when she noticed a cell-phone camera.
That camera was allegedly positioned on the floor, pointing up.
After seeing the camera, police say the woman put her clothes back on and confronted 36-year-old Javier Sotomayor.
She tried to ask him why he was recording her, but police say Sotomayor walked right out of the salon.
The woman started doing recording of her own, filming Sotomayor walking along the strip mall.
Detectives say he eventually made it to his car in front of the salon. He was later arrested.
Sotomayor is being charged with video voyeurism.
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This chicken-topped milkshake should be the final word in this extreme-food nonsense
Australia is in the throes of a regrettable new fad: making perfectly adequate milkshakes into "extreme milkshakes" by drowning them in crazy garnishes. Apparently, people in Sydney are resorting to brunches at 8 a.m. in order to Instagram these mason jars of diabetes, which definitely rival America's gonzo Bloody Mary's.
Food photographer Alana Dimou, annoyed by all this excess, thought that maybe she could hasten the end of this whole charade if she took it to its logical conclusion:
Her three varieties (they aren't so much "flavors," she says, because it's all about the garnish) include a gluten lover's special of stacked doughnuts, waffles, and pancakes; another with its eight-patty bacon cheeseburger; and then a third with what appears to be an entire roasted fowl with s'mores.
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My Top 5 Tips To Welcome In The Fall Beautifully With Astrology… Celebrate the Autumn Equinox and Libra season with these helpful hints and beauty rituals!
Wave goodbye to your golden glow – we're out of the long stretch of summer and now comes fall…
A new beginning's promised, with Libra Season (September 23rd – October 22nd) commencing. Winter is still to come, yet we can embrace cooler vibes with the Autumn Equinox to mark the moment. So, when is autumn equinox?
The word Equinox is Latin for 'equal night', and Libra is the zodiac sign most tied to relationships, balance and equality.
We're mid way through the astrological calendar – day and night are equal on the Autumn Equinox but about to grow longer…
So, what can you do to align with the cosmos, celebrate and make the most of this fresh energy and new start?
Now OFFICIALLY Autumn you can steer your look in a more grown-up direction.
While the first six signs of the zodiac are primarily focused on oneself, the remainder begin to turn towards others and operating in relation to the world. Seventh sign of the zodiac: Libra represents marriage unions and harmonious matrimony, while Scorpio shows us how partnerships are consummated.
Maturity can be expressed in a number of ways, but why not use color?
Shades of Fall include plum, garnet, berry hues, chic neutrals and rich navy.
With the nights growing long you'll have lots of time to practice a signature style, and more hours to go out wearing it!
Welcome the darkness of Winter that's on its way… Shorter days and longer nights mean more time to brush up your beauty look!
Feminine fragrances are a mainstay during the season governed by Venus – Libra Season – as we become attuned to fashion, beauty, aesthetics and appearances. Libra is an expert when it comes to social graces, and as such she smells divine – but not too overpowering.
Add depth and sensuality to your aura with a fresh, captivating scent.
Diptyque Vetyverio Eau de Parfum is a new release loved by Vogue: "Woody, heady and warm, it calls upon patchouli, vetiver and grapefruit, and the resulting scent is utterly addictive."
You can also introduce the vibes into your home with potted plants or cut flowers – a beautiful bouquet will remind you of new growth that's possible in the last months of the year.
Read about astrology, flowers and fragrance, here.
Welcome Libra season – the most balanced zodiac sign – with a moment meditating on peace, love and harmony.
Relationships are everything to this socially oriented air sign, and during the equinox we can all take a leaf out of Libra's book with a considered approach to all our exchanges.
Peace of mind brings serenity, which in turn helps us look less anxious, create less stress hormones, wrinkles and toxins that inevitable age us. It also makes it easier to get good shut eye.
I love these masks, filled with 100% mulberry silk floss that help you wake up feeling more refreshed. Gorgeous color combinations: Champagne & Chocolate, Plum & Soft Pink, or Silver Blue & Charcoal – perfect for Libra season…
Make the most of the onset of winter with seasonal fruits, flowers and spices in your beauty rituals: apples, pears, pomegranates, pumpkins, blood oranges, grapes, nuts, cinnamon, ginger and honey.
Warm tea is especially soothing on those cool, autumn mornings – I just bought the caffeine free tea from Caudalie, it is SO tasty.
It goes without saying that the Autumn Equinox is an awesome excuse for a feast. Smile and create laughter lines with friends, which will make you even more beautiful…
If you're lucky enough to live near a forest, gather beautiful leaves and pinecones from the woodland floor, to decorate creatively, and eat seasonally with the harvest – corn, grains, squash, onions and all types of root vegetables.
Nature speaks to our soul, which is just as good a nourishment as expensive creams and lotions.
Long ago, Libra season was an ideal time for matchmaking, and you can still plan on playing Cupid!
Throw a dinner party with Harvest vibes and seat young lovers side by side…
Already coupled up and no time to host a gathering? Take a walk in nature amid the autumn leaves…
Forest of my childhood, Westonbirt Arboretum.
Comment below on how you're celebrating the fall equinox Stargazer!
Kimberly started Star Sign Style to gather together all things celestial in a honey pot of wonder. She's studied astrology in London and India, specialising in the fashion and beauty of the stars. She lives in Hong Kong with her New Yorker beau, and is a double Aries (sun-Venus), with a soft shell Cancer rising! Her Sagittarius moon lights up with talk of travel, while her Mercury in Taurus waxes lyrical over cosmic cosmetics.


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We live in an ever-fast paced world. I don't know about you but I can hardly keep up with my emails, personal and work emails included. And I know it's really bad when I am not even able to keep up with text messages! How did we get here? What are the repercussions of such a fast passed world that requests and even demands that we respond timely when there is no time? It feels nearly impossible to feel adequate. And how do we aim for something much more worthwhile, something way beyond adequate, something like competent, capable, and fulfilled? How can be our full selves when bogged down this these calls for response?
No one is acknowledging all we do, not even ourselves. Is this because there is always more we can do or because we are lacking the fundamental need to reflect on our actions and being? (Don't even get me started on how this brings up doing vs. being, another discussion entirely.) Sometimes, I come home and find it hard to even muster up the energy to talk to a friend or take my dog for a walk. And who among us have not sat in a public place and looked around to see everyone on some device, or sitting with a friend who just "needs" to respond to a text immediately rather than be with you to truly reflect on the day. I continue to be in wonder about how we came to feel we have less time when we all have these gadgets that are meant to offer us more time? How can we possible see each other when the world is this way?
I sat in circle with others in the height of this feeling this past week. And in the sharing, it occurs to me that the need is not for more time, but for reflection time. This is an essential part of initiation: Time to reflect. How long can we last sitting alone with ourselves, and even more significant a question, how comfortable can we do this if actually given the opportunity? This is an important practice; to get comfortable with the discomfort this era faces in disconnecting from everything to connect to ourselves more deeply. How often do we intend to create time for ourselves only to be hijacked by a call, a text, an email, a thought of a "must do" task?
Reflection as a practice has left many of us. Without reflect we are just moving forward in our lives, rather than growing more conscious through each movement. Rite of Passage offers this, reflection time, getting real with ourselves, meeting ourselves in the truth of what has occurred, what is current, and what is calling us forward. To step into this world as an initiated person, we must be willing to reflect; reflection can carry us forward to show up, not as merely adequate but as capable, conscious, fully ourselves people.


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As you will see we are situated just off Lower Kirklington Road, just outside of Southwell, if you are using a satnav please enter Maythorne Lane when asked for the street, this is due to our location and proximity over the fields. Some satnav's can send you to another local village called Normanton.
Please have a look at our maps and google directions below to help plan your visit.
Once you are on Maythorne Lane you simply need to keep driving for approximately a quarter a mile, there are some horses in the paddock to the right, there is a S bend and as you cross the bridleway of Southwell trail, keep driving and you will start to see the hamlet of Maythorne ahead of you. Prior to entering the hamlet, All Mine Cakes by the Lakes is located by the fishing lake on the right hand side, just after the equestrian paddocks. Don't worry its well sign posted!
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Less than nubile, happily partnered damsel of the sapphic persuasion waits too long to attempt pregnancy. Enlists the use of donor sperm and donor eggs. One fresh cycle and one frozen embryo transfer later and the dreamed of BFP happens. She walks down the aisle and marries her sweetheart while 7 months pregnant. Out comes baby girl , and a whole new life (for all of them). Fast forward 3 yrs. Baby boy is born, her marriage is made legal and the adventure continues....
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The former President Olusegun Obasanjo on yesterday August 19th was in Jalingo and in his speech expressed his confidence on the President.
He also went on to convince Nigerians that the President Mohammadu Buhari will handle the challenges affecting the country. According to him, President Buhari has not disappointed Nigerians and won't in the long run.
"So far Buhari has not disappointed us. I trust him. He will not fail Nigerians. I know he will overcome the challenges the country is currently facing" said the ex president.
Well, if "Baba Before" believes so much about "Baba Now" then I may start falling in love and be expectant too :)


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In our artist showcase series, we feature a few makers from each category, who you'll get to meet at the festival in just one week. We guarantee this little sneak peek will have you counting down the last few days until Indie Craft Parade! Our "To Wear" category is chock-full of amazing makers. The handcrafted wearables include apparel for men, women, and children, jewelry, purses, and accessories. Here's just a little sample of some of the fabulous goods.
"Acorn + Archer is a Nashville-based accessories line inspired by natural specimens, ancient artifacts and the balance found in modern physics." We love the simple lines of their pieces, the smooth tones of reclaimed wood paired with a pop of color is just what every outfit needs.
Flytrap Clothing features hand-printed apparel for men and women. Those fabulous scarves are calling our name, how about you?
Billiam(pronounced "bill-yum") is a local fan favorite, churning out custom jeans, belts, and wallets right here in Greenville. Their line focuses mostly on fashion for males, though the recent addition of women's skinny jeans has made all the ladies giddy.
Need to see more? You can check out the full list of our 75+ artists here, and we'll be back with another artist showcase next week.


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Massamba Dione
You as a player:
Profile: Height: 1m78, Weight: 69kg, very fast, technical, very good vision, good passing skills, good protection of the ball, timeliness, good ball striking, versatile in the offensive zone.
Advantage : has to play in Spain and Germany with older players. Detention Canadian passport that facilitates travel. Speaks French, English and a little Spanish.
Attitude : sociable, passionate about sport, particularly football, I want to make it a profession. Very disciplined, I greatly respect my coaches and my fellow game. My classroom behavior has earned me the merits. I train a lot with medical and nutritional monitoring. I play basketball and I do a bit of swimming and I have a weight training program adapted. The summer I worked as a soccer coach..
Favorite player: ZINEDINE Zidane for its quality of team play, his vision of the game and its fine controls, I find myself in the game
Previous Clubs:
Royal Select de Beauport
Current Clubs:
Rouge & Or Université Laval
Drivers License: Yes
Checkbox: BTEC, Currently studying for a Degree
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Mon, 17 March 2008
Something..odd has been happening. I dont feel myself these days..well actually I do...but its normal and healthy, as long as I dont get caught. A strange undefining mood has come over me lately...as if..some unseen outside force has been..influencing me...moving me into uncharted mental waters.
as if..voices...are...
controlling my actions..
ack...zzzttt... Everything is fine. We..er..this one is in complete compliance with normal human behavior. That is all.
Topics covered..disposable reading material. Please do not be alarmed.
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Week 09:
A week of Giorgia and Stefanie
This was a very special week: Stefanie was in New York!!
Of course we decided to make it the core of our week of data: we would map our interactions!
Data gathering:
I collected data about every interaction we had in real life., via texts, emails, and tweets; I also recorded every time I saw/heard someone mentioning Stefanie (a bit crazy I know!).
Then I tried to come up with ideas on how to categorize our time together: what have we been talking and texting about?
Real-life interactions: for the record, we got together on Monday evening for a New York data-viz crew drinking reunion (yay!) featuring our special guest Stef; we knew how hard (and very meta!) it would be to log data that night, and we've been texting about it the whole day;
after all we decided to rely on our memories and write everything just after the evening, only after we would get home - no note takings; no reporter-app tracking..
We also met up on Tuesday morning: I was so happy to have Stef walking the bridge with me (as I do every morning) and staying for a bit in our workspace!
We've been working together on our "Dear Data media strategy" (ha!), we tried to kill the hangover with coffees and bagels, and we arranged all of our postcards on the table, so beautiful! And Dear Data felt so real!
(turned out Stef accidentally stole one of hers from my collection :D)
Data drawing:
As for the data drawing then, I wanted to explore how to build parallel timelines with overlapping moments, and multiple entries, and different categorisations.
My postcard came out as a sort of weird technical drawing, as I see it, but I still think it has some insights, even if I realise it can be a little hard to read :(
Dear Data addiction:
This week was of course very particular, it was the first time we've seen each other after we started the project, and of course I felt I know her so much more than the last time,
...it was really like we spent time together; we passed from being acquaintances to "friends", in a way!
Sometimes now I find myself anticipating the first week without Dear Data with sorrow, I don't want it to end! Not only I don't wanna stop receiving Stefanie's postcards (it's so beautiful to take some time to read her cards!), I also don't wanna stop keeping this 'data-diary' of myself: when I look back at my postcards I can't help but smile and remember details about these weeks!
I don't write and I am not really good at writing, I am not the kind of person that could keep a journal, but this Dear Data personal documentation is definitely a source of nice memories!
I like to picture those postcards as little self portraits, fragments that compose a self portrait actually!
(Stefanie we have to come up with a new project!)
The Process:
Since I visited New York, we decided to create a card based on our physical and digital interactions with each other for the week while I was there. I didn't do much intensive tracking of interactions here, relying mainly on phone and email communications and my memory for this data.
Data memories:
Firstly, I though New York was great. I find it sort of annoying that even though I'm an American, I've only ever been there twice, whereas so many of my friends from the UK have been there multiple times. So unfair.
I've always had a chip on my shoulder about New York, and have always seen it as a (lesser) rival to London. So for the past 12 years, I've always needed to confirm to myself that London was better than New York, a better choice of a city to move to and start a life in.
And of course London is amazing! But...well, being able to walk over a gigantic bridge (Williamsburg Bridge), over a massive body of water, with massive buildings surrounding me... I might have to concede that New York is pretty amazing too, and ever since have been trying to find ways to get back there. Will someone fly me back... please?
Giorgia was an excellent host! We had a meeting at her office to discuss Dear Data, as I'm sure you can see from the photos below: Giorgia's boyfriend was secretly taking photos when we weren't looking.
However, my main memories of New York were of drinking too much, trying to give a talk on a hangover, not hanging out enough with Giorgia, and the time going too quickly! Thank goodness for digital traces of our interactions or I wouldn't have remembered a thing.
Data drawing:
With this drawing I decided to move back to using mainly pencil. My goal was to show the different types of 'closeness': both physical closeness globally (New York and London), locally (just in New York) and digital closeness in New York, all though the use of space on the card.
Also, I really just enjoyed drawing the long swooping pencil lines connecting all of one person's interactions for no other reason except for the fact that they were fun to draw (Not quite data-representing-elements, which I'm sure would irritate some data people, but whatever: it's my card and I'll do what I like, ha)
Giorgia's card:
I like how Giorgia and I were using what was effectively the same data (more so than some of the other weeks) and outcomes still look and feel so different.
In our conversations about this project, Giorgia once mentioned how even the choices in how we capture and select the data functions as a representation of our personality or ourselves, and I like that idea. I never would have thought to capture data on whenever I heard Giorgia's name, and for me that type of data tracking seems distinctly 'her'!
(I'm definitely up for a new project, no doubt)


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Gov. Musclehead needs your help.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Twittered his shout-out Wednesday afternoon:
"Help us find savings: www.wastewatchers.ca.gov. Have gotten nearly a thousand reports, and we're going to look into them."
Click on the site, and Musclehead has a greeting for you:
"I will not stand for waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. I urge you to report wasteful practices in state government here."
There's no list of what's been reported. And no proof that anything's being looked into except what Arnold punched into his BlackBerry.
Perhaps we should report his Web site as an abuse of taxpayer dollars, since there are plenty examples of waste and fraud in Sacramento just down the hall from Musclehead's cozy office.
Take the legislative pay and benefits package for example. California's elected officials are the highest paid in the nation.
Our 120 lawmakers get a base salary of $116,208 annually and about $36,000 for "living expenses." Not only that they get cars. Many are luxury models. That's waste.
I don't think it takes 1,000 taxpayers sending anonymous e-mails to a state-run Web site to fix that problem. But then again, I'm not a musclehead.
Another June 17 Parade
During Wednesday's celebration of the Los Angeles Lakers' NBA championship, I got to thinking about the date: June 17.
It occurred to me that it was 15 years ago, June 17, 1994, to be exact that another parade of sorts captured the imagination of Angelenos – OJ's longest run.
It was a Friday morning about noon when police announced they couldn't find OJ.
Simpson was to turn himself in to the LAPD to face booking on suspicion of killing his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
The couple had been slashed to death earlier in the week, and blood still stained the walkway outside Nicole's Bundy Drive condo.
Instead of submitting to arrest, Simpson and his friend Al Cowling paid a visit to Nicole's still-fresh grave in Orange County. The pair were spotted driving on the 405 Freeway and led police on a low-speed pursuit back to OJ's home on Rockingham Drive in Brentwood.
The "parade" route was lined with fans holding signs, while television audiences sat captivated watching the chase.
Not too unlike Wednesday's celebration of the Lakers, actually.
Some other anniversaries
• On June 20, 1963, Jesse James Gilbert, an Alhambra man, escaped from San Quentin. Six months later he robbed a savings and loan in his hometown of $11,500 and killed Alhambra police Sgt. George Davis in the process.
• On June 22, 1958, Little League baseball players and their coach discovered the body of Geneva "Jean" Hilliker Ellroy just outside Arroyo High School in an ivy patch on King Row in El Monte.
A nylon stocking and a cotton cord were wrapped around her neck.
In his 1996 book, "My Dark Places," author James Ellroy described the scene and his search for the killer of his mother. The case remains unsolved.
Frank Girardot is metro editor of the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group.


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Ep 101: Gorillas & Gordons
Guests: Christopher Schulz & Ainsley Hillyard and Brian Dooley, Joe Perry, Patricia Cerra & Ben Stevens
With: #theatremari & Chris W. Cook
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Get your local award-winning arts interview podcast fix in our latest ep as we cover TWO new theatrical production premiering in Edmonton. Take a walk into two dark and challenging worlds with Northern Light Theatre's WISH – a love story about two different but alike beings; and Theatre Network's tale of desperate criminals in GORDON. We chat up the full cast from each production about their shows, the process and other random bits of good conversation. Ainsley swears a lot, Mari dishes the Arts News and Chris W. Cook says some things. It's another 2 interview ep of the What It Is podcast! Now get it in your award-winning ear holes!


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I still want to use so many of the Christmas/So Snowy collection of stamps from Magnolia-licious! Since it's New Year's Eve I settled on this one! There are so many customs to bring you luck in the coming year. Having a pig is one sign of prosperity in the New Year. Now in the brief research I did there was more discussion on EATING pork to bring this prosperity, but who could consider eating this cute fella! With the small gathering we had for Christmas dinner, Dave and I have been eating pork all week anyway! I'm sick of it! I even cooked the ham bone in some bean soup! I've never done that before! The soup was delicious! By the way beans are another food of choice to get that New Year's luck!
Before I list the colors, I have to say that I know our friend, Jacque, has done more research on the meaning of some of the Magnolia images. I'm sure you could jot her a note and she could link you to her post for further information! Rght, Jacque?


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Greg Pond
I am interested in American mythology and the related concepts of westward expansion, regeneration through violence, and cultural attitudes towards landscape. It is the landscape that largely influences our collective mythology and creates its narratives and heroes such as John Wayne and Daniel Boone. The effort to create the house upon the hill, an island utopia in the wilderness of the new world was the puritan project as well as that of its rival; Thomas Morton's Merry Mount. In this context the wilderness is seen as the place of the terrible unconscious and must necessarily be replaced by systems of order. The depths of this terrible unconscious is the pursuit of Conrad's Kurtz and Melville's Ahab. In the case on this current series of projects I am evaluating my own far tamer, and hardly dramatic, suburbanaized experience by this measure. Through compressing history and cultures, altering the pace of time, and distorting physical scale I seek to portray a psychological rather than a social or material realism.
I would also like to recall the last words of the poet John Keats: "I feel the flowers growing over me."
The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia Master of Fine Arts, June 1998
The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts and English, May 1995
I'd Leave the Whole World Round
I Feel the Flowers Growing Over Me
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By Dominique Banas — 12/28/11
Occupiers have made their way to Ron Paul.
Tonight Dr. Paul was holding a Salute to Veterans at the Iowa State Fair Grounds when protestors yelled "End the Fed."
The Republican Congressman remained unfazed while he responded "Freedom of speech, isn't it great?!" Members of the crowd pushed the protestors to the back while the media tried to record what was happening. The crowd continued to cheer the candidate.
Earlier that day seven occupiers were arrested at Romney's headquarters for trespassing. One of those Jalan Crossland attended tonight's Paul event. He described how civil the police were when he was arrested. "They hauled us all to jail and they were polite. I have to hand it to the Des Moines police. They were great. There have been a lot meaner police in other places around the country. I thought they were really friendly. They made conversation."
The Wyoming native plans to occupy other candidates' events this week. "The reason we do that is to get the attention of people. Getting thrown in jail gets the attention of media and it gets our message out to the people."


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This blog series is made possible with support from The Lemelson Foundation in celebration of their 20-year history of improving lives through invention.
The industry of "design for social impact" is on the rise. So why are so many great ideas -- that could improve the lives of people in the developing world -- sitting unused in a pile of abandoned prototypes? To date, human-centered design has primarily been used to create products that feed the ever-growing consumer culture in the western world. Design that Matters sees a monumental opportunity to use human-centered design to create life-saving technologies that meet the needs of the poor.
Design that Matters uses the power of human-centered design to apply the best technology to the needs of the poor in developing countries. With visionary support from The Lemelson Foundation 2011-2013, Design that Matters formed a partnership with East Meets West Foundation (an affiliate of Thrive Networks) and Vietnamese manufacturer Medical Technology Transfer and Services (MTTS) to invent, design, test, manufacture, and deliver innovations to serve the needs of poor communities around the world. Our first product is Firefly Newborn Phototherapy, a world-class technology that has already treated over five thousand newborns with jaundice in nine countries. In the process, our implementation and manufacturing partners became true believers in the power of human-centered design.
In designing Firefly newborn phototherapy, DtM transformed our Vietnamese manufacturing partner, expanding their impact on newborn health within Southeast Asia and positioning their designs to go global. Through multiple meetings with MTTS in the U.S. and Vietnam, collaborative field research, joint brainstorms, industrial design exercises, design reviews, and manufacturing tours, DtM planted the seed. MTTS took on a new suite of fabrication capabilities from in-house tube bending to partnerships with plastic manufacturers and rapid prototyping houses. They also hired an industrial designer to make all of their other products more user-friendly, aesthetically pleasing, and desirable. MTTS now depends on human-centered design and rapid prototyping as tools to shape their designs early in the development cycle.
How did we do it? We are pleased to announce a series of essays supported by The Lemelson Foundation sharing lessons learned from the design and launch of Firefly. This blog series will be published through the new DtM blog over the course of 2014 beginning today.
This case study of our partnership demonstrates the ways in which innovators can bridge the technology implementation gap in low resource settings, bringing great ideas into fully-formed products with massive impact. Initially released as a series of blog posts, this case study provides instruction in how to develop catalytic partnerships that have resounding impact within low-resource communities. We hope to amplify the impact of the Firefly project by inspiring and informing young inventors, academics, and social enterprises to undertake new design and manufacturing challenges using human-centered design with a special focus on positive impact for those living in poverty.
With visionary support from The Lemelson Foundation 2011-2013, Design that Matters formed a partnership with East Meets West Foundation (an affiliate of Thrive Networks) and Vietnamese manufacturer Medical Technology Transfer and Services to invent, design, test, manufacture, and deliver innovations to serve the needs of poor communities around the world. Our first product is Firefly Newborn Phototherapy, a world-class technology to treat newborns with jaundice. Firefly has won many awards including the Edison Award Gold, the top Spark! design award, IDSA IDEA Silver, and was featured in the October 2013 Fast Company Innovation by Design Award issue. Firefly is listed in the 2013 World Health Organization Compendium of Medical Devices highlighting the most innovative health technologies for low resource settings. As of October 1 2014, Firefly devices have treated over 5,000 newborns in ten developing countries across Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, East Timor, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia), Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana and Burundi), and the Caribbean (Haiti). Together, we expect to distribute at least 1,000 Firefly devices, reaching over 500,000 newborns.
Click here to read more about DtM Shares: Lessons Learned from the Design and Launch of Firefly Phototherapy.