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Fortnite Battle Royale, the professional player believes the game is in its worst ever state.
The popular Twitch streamer had already made it clear that he doesn't really want to play the battle royale game anymore, but during his May 14 broadcast he took his criticisms to a whole other level.
FaZe Tfue, one of the most winningest esports players in terms of prize money, made it clear that he believes the game's Season 9 meta is worse than any other he has seen before, in a frustrated rant about the game.
"I enjoy playing it but I definitely think it's the worst meta that's ever existed," the streamer said, seemingly deflated. "It's worse than anything I could have imagined. It's worse than when the Tommy Gun came out the first time."
As Tfue mentioned, the Drum Gun - or Tommy Gun as it's widely referred to - made its return after winning a fan vote during Season 8's final Unvaulting event.
The move has been widely criticized by pro players and streamers, with Ninja also asking Epic Games to vault the weapon in a tweet on May 15.
"Played the new patch for 90 minutes today and I'm going to say it... Vault the Drum Gun," he posted.
Played the new patch for 90 minutes.... and I am gunna say it....
— Ninja (@Ninja) May 15, 2019
Will Tfue change his mind?
The chances of Tfue quitting Fortnite Battle Royale altogether in the near future is highly unlikely, though, despite the negative comments he's made about its current state. In fact, on May 15 he seemed to have showed some support to the changes made by Epic Games in the v9.01 patch, where the Drum Gun and The Baller faced further nerfs.
New Fortnite Patch is :yes::skin-tone-2:
— Tfue (@TTfue) May 15, 2019
He, and many other pro players, will be hoping that the developer makes further tweaks to gameplay in due course. Yet, there is no suggestion that more significant changes to the current meta are in the works, as of the time of writing.


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All of these services came to together to form a great looking website, for Southampton's fantastic Traditional German Bar.
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I wanted to link you to an excellent piece written by David Mizejewski, a National Wildlife Federation naturalist who explains how nature (including insects) would deal with the hordes of shambling undead that will inevitably descend upon the world…
In posting this, I should probably confess that I am somewhat of a fan of zombies, and the whole zombie genre. I mean, I know that everyone is lately, thanks to AMC's "The Walking Dead" series, but I actually liked them before that. Right, right, I know…the elitist tone, and the "I liked them before they were cool" routine is a bit played out these days. All I am saying is, I got street cred here. How many fans of the show do you think actually read the graphic novel, much less own it? Participated in Richmond, Virginia's inaugural Zombie Walk? Faithful follower of 'We're Alive', the zombie podcast? Have seen more of Fulci's films than just Zombi 2? Is aware of the fact that one of Peter Jackson's earliest works was the gorefest known as Braindead (later renamed Dead Alive for American viewers)?? (yeah, yeah…Bad Taste was his first full-length film, but that was about aliens)
OK, sorry. Perhaps I got a little defensive there. I mean, maybe I should be excited that a wider audience has embraced the zombie genre, right? It should mean that more people contribute stories, ideas, movies, books, comics, etc. More fans = more money for bigger-budget films. Difficult to get excited about that, however, when Hollywood takes an incredible book like World War Z and turns it into the prettiest and yet most uninspiring action-movie-disguised-as-a-zombie-movie ever. (FYI, Max Brooks is going to be at VA Tech) Seriously, the only things that the movie shared in common with the book were:
- The title
- Zombies
- The Israelis figure it out before everyone else
Might be ranting a bit there. Not a horrible movie or anything, but it should have just been called "Brad Pitt vs The Zombies". Anyways, back to the main point, which was…umm…I think…well…huh. It seems that I did not really have a good point, beyond some chest-thumping about my poor taste in low-budget horror films. I guess I like zombies, so the original article appealed to me. I mean, sure he was pandering to the interests of popular culture to ultimately make a point about how wildlife is losing the battle vs the living when it comes to issues like climate change, invasive species, loss of habitat, and the like…but can you blame him? Much of the natural world might be better off if humans were struck by a plague, or irradiated by a crazy meteor and turned into mindless zombies.
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1. Robert Plant
February 26
With his impressively high-pitched pipes, Robert Plant's voice is instantly recognizable and contributed to Led Zeppelin's status as one of the biggest bands of all time. Accompanied by The Sensational Space Shifters and still evolving stylistically four decades into his career, Plant performs in celebration of his new album, Carry Fire.
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February 7-25
With the help of his wise grandpa, a young saguaro who is not sure he wants to be a cactus learns how important he is to the desert.
W-F, 10 a.m.; Sa, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.; Su, 2 p.m.
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The garden's desert flora provides a rich backdrop for approximately 20 monumental sculptures by the Japanese-American artist, who specializes in large-scale, hand-built ceramic sculptures.
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How has your week been? For me it's been school holidays, five days at the beach - in Queensland, and then back to the very cold. Where it's people in need, meetings with people, sharing tasks, hospital bedsides, coffee and chat.
And the media has been full of pre-electioneering muck, do we really have to face the full blown thing again this year? Promises and more promises, accusations and counter accusations, debate about what is best for us, what is best for the community.
What is best for people? What gets between us and causes the problems in our community and world? What makes good community, good neighbors? This is a question Jesus addressed with quick creativity and sharp insight.
When you think of Jesus teaching, about the key stories and the central themes, out of all that Jesus said and did, the ones that seem - at least for me - to capture the essence of what Jesus stood for are the stories we know as the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan. These stories have infused our culture and language - which in one way is wonderful, but I suspect that it also stops us really hearing what they have to say to us today.
To be a "good Samaritan" is to be a kind helper, a nice guy - Christians are meant to be nice guys, and girls too of course. The traditional way of unpacking the meaning of Jesus story is to say. there are things that stop us being good neighbors, there are prejudices, racism, sexism, greed and selfishness and the like that get in the way of us being who we should be "we ought to be good Samaritans" is the moralistic teaching most often drawn out. We need to do better - and that's right! We do, but heaping guilt and "do good-ing" burdens on us has never worked and will never work.
Remember that this is a lawyers' question. I know no one could question the integrity or probity of a man in such a profession, but it is interesting that Jesus peoples his parable in reply, with other respected professionals.
A priest is the first on the scene - he sees, but passes by on the other side. Now the role of a priest is to represent God to the people and the people to God. If the nature of God is to care for the widow and the orphan, the stranger and the oppressed, surely God's priest ought to somehow reflect this in his actions. There is room for any excuse imaginable, but in Jesus story the priest fails to fulfil his most basic role; to represent God to a man in need. It is a scathing critique of uninvolved religion. The priest does not fulfil the law that Jesus is illustrating, the priest does not provide the example which is fundamental to his position. All the more damning because he knows what is right and fails to do it.
Next comes the Levite and he does exactly the same as the priest He registers the man, the need, the predicament. The role of a Levite sits somewhere between the role of priest and lawyer. Levites were the priestly officers and judges connected with the Temple. If anyone knew the law and what it required, it would be a Levite. But no, this is another scathing indictment of the leadership of Jesus day.
It's little wonder then that this parable is paired the prophet Amos, with his scathing words against Israel's leadership. To this herdsman and tree pruner God shows a plumb line showing Israel's crookedness. Amaziah, the king tells Amos to keep quiet, to get lost effectively! But God will not be silenced! This God of the Israelites is a God for whom our actions are of deep concern. God is not disinterested in the affairs of the world. God cares about how we care and what we do, hence the villains of Jesus parable.
These are people who know what God requires, they are two who should clearly know better, in many ways they are people just like us. People who see needs - the poor and homeless, the refugee and asylum seeker, the depressed, the addicted, the sick, the lonely and the oppressed - and who fail to do what we can. The doing is what Jesus seems to be most concerned with so often.
It's how the father treats the returning prodigal son, how the judged had treated the hungry, thirsty and imprisoned, whether the son says yes to the father asking for help and then does nothing, or says no and then helps, it is always the action Jesus is concerned with.
And the Good Samaritan is of course a complete contrast to the first two characters in the story. He is an outsider, a man of a different faith, a fellow who would not be welcome to many. Somehow though, in Jesus story, the bounds of nationality, custom, prejudice and creed are transcended.
This story has been part of our collective psyche for so long we are well aware who our neighbor is and we know we should treat them with kindness. We well know that loving and caring for those in need is the most fundamental fulfilment of God's law, so I wonder why don't I, why don't we all do better at it?
It would be all too easy to recast this story as an indictment on our current leaders. If we look at religious leadership today, we are easy targets. As a category, there is much worse than mere inaction to criticise. The church is dealing with the abuse of the most vulnerable and the covering up and mishandling of damaged victims. If we look at leaders in society at large, they are easy targets. We get the impression of political leaders more interested in personal mud slinging than in working for the common good, corruption amongst officers of the law - not mere inaction in the face of violence, but using violent means for personal gain and protection.
If the story were a real one, and happened lately, can you imagine a Senate inquiry or a Royal Commission being set up to examine the behavior of the professionals involved?
We could spend a few moments reviewing the findings of the committee report on the events concerning the professional conduct of those involved in the incident on the Jericho road.
"the inquiry is satisfied that the priest acted in a proper manner, he is an upstanding man of high profile, with important duties. If the man had been dead, the priest would have rendered himself unclean and unable to work, the half dead man may also have been bait for the robbers to plunder further victims, his robes would be spoilt, we find that he acted in carefully prioritised manner to look after the needs of the many, surely a fine example.
- of the Levite we find that he acted commendably in following the example of his superior and maintained a suitable distance from the uglier realities of this evil time. As he faced the same danger to his own person and probably had little practical help to offer we commend his adherence to the nonintervention clause of his work place safety regulations.
- to the matter of the actions of the third party, the inquiry became suspicious as to the motives of his actions. Local sources speculated that the man was himself the robber, and paraded the unfortunate victim into town as intimidation to all who might travel the road. We find his use of oil and wine to be an alarming prank, designed perhaps in mockery of the actions of the priest in the temple, or as a direct spoof of God's action in Hosea chapter 6. We find that he was a Samaritan and not to be trusted. A later and more charitable spin was put on these events by one rather excitable lawyer. He proposed that the action of the Samaritan was a "Christlike" act of compassion, who simply put himself at risk and gave with no thought of return. We think this unlikely."
And it's not hard is it to let ourselves off when we pass by a person in need, or to excuse public leaders who don't respond to the needs in our community.
I don't believe Jesus offered his story as a means of social commentary or a way of undermining social fabric. His parable is addressed to it's hearer - to a lawyer then, to each of us just as much now. So how can we do better? How can we be more open to the needs of the neighbor?
Perhaps it might help us to see ourselves, and the rest of the broken world as the beaten and helpless traveller instead of the lawyer or one of the important but negligent characters in the story.
The plain truth is that we and our world are in need. We all know that there is much that is wrong in our community and in the world. We and our world have real needs and real trouble seeing the way forward. We have been damaged from the ideal of God's good purpose for humanity. To greater of lesser degrees we are broken and in need of help ourselves.
Then perhaps we should see Jesus as the good stranger who comes unexpectedly with compassion to comfort us, to mend our brokenness and to restore our faith in humanity and in life.
It is only Jesus, the Christ who comes, as if from out of the blue, to pick us up and give us new hope and shows us a way forward. And then only as we are renewed by Christ, are we told to go and do likewise, to be Jesus helping hands out there.
Hear the story again now in a modem key.
"As I was driving home that night through
seedier parts of town,
three car - jackers knocked out my lights,
took my wheels for their own.
They left me battered, bleeding sore,
An awful mess in the gutter.
I had no phone, no friend, no hope
help me!, who, - didn't matter.
A preacher came by, down that way, and saw me in great need.
Pity, he said sadly, a result of modem ills,
A graphic illustration, no doubt.
But I'm trained to save in other ways,
No first aid badge, sorry mate, too big a risk for me
I'm late for a meeting and really shouldn't stay.
A state MP came rushing by
and saw the sorry sight.
Times are tough, he said , it's sure,
We've got many more police too right,
But our budget can't give more.
Must remember, next time on the news
to encourage more philanthropy
But since it's just your own sad fault,
I'll go on, no point to halt.
The news crew found me bloody,
the cameras zoomed in close.
That's great TV, and local too,
the producer said, how lucky!
Pity, though, no crying crowd,
Pay some if we have to!
Next, to my dizzy scene then came
a turban wearing Afghani
the prejudice inside my brain
said, "illegal nasty man here."
But he it was who stopped and helped
and bandaged up my wounds,
he it was who saved my life
was Christ to me, put me in good hands
I went back, to say my thanks
for generous kindness done,
I went back to meet the man,
after weeks I had recovered.
Sent back home my neighbor was,
not good enough to stay here.
I went home, left wondering,
"Who now is my neighbor?"
Jesus says to us, "who was the neighbor to the one in need? Lighten up and lend a hand, for God's sake. Go and follow my example."


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So our little story is pretty much complete!! We have concentrated on the trench scenes and anything taking place at the front for this year although we have a rough work of the Act 1 story too.
Last night we had the index cards spread over the kitchen table in sequence checking that the beats of the story were in the right order, that every story was complete and had a beginning, middle and end. A long process made harder by Jake's colourblindness. Hard to work with the green story when he can't see it!
By the end of today the script will be at a workable stage and we will begin circulating it to the team. Lots of new members involved now and more to come. Jake and producer Julian had a Skype audition yesterday and hope to arrange another today. We will introduce you to the new members of the team over the coming days.
We have a couple of people who have taken up extras roles in the film. We haven't forgotten you!!!! While the filming this year is trench based and therefore we can't offer anything here there will be a couple of scenes next year which we have already mapped out to involve you.
The studio have begun construction, we just need to pay for it now!! A concert on Saturday evening raised quite a decent amount for the film and so adding in a few sums promised, while we haven't yet reached our target we are getting close!


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We've spoken of the power in a name and the changes in identity of our African Saint: her tribe and family knew her given name; the slave traders who kidnapped her called her Bakhita; the Sisters who taught her and gave her new life knew her as Josephine. But only God knew all of her names, only He who appointed the heavens could know her through and through: "He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name. Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding has no limit." (Psalm 147:4-5)
She saw His creation and recognized her Savior: "Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself: Who could be the Master of these beautiful things? And I felt a great desire to see Him, to know Him and to pay Him homage..." God, in turn, saw Bakhita's humility, her dignity throughout all her ordeals and claimed her for His own. There is a beautiful passage from the prophet Zephaniah which surely describes Bakhita:
"But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly, who shall take refuge in the name of the Lord...Be glad and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem! The Lord has removed the judgment against you, He has turned away your enemies; the King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst, you have no further misfortune to fear." (Zephaniah 3:12, 14-15)
St. Josephine Bakhita took refuge in the name of the Lord, and He became her dwelling place. She could look up at the starry night and know she belonged to Him. Blessed be the name of the Lord!
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How to Fight Back – and Win – Against the Boardroom Bullyby Alexandrea Roman on and last update on May 22, 2020
Although most bullying stories in the news involve kids, bullies are just as present in boardrooms as they are in schools. The presence of bullies in either scenario is a serious cause for concern, although there are far higher stakes in the boardroom. The future of an organization shouldn't rely on just one small subgroup, or worse, one member of its board. But that's exactly what happens when bullies take over.
Their tactics are not physical, but psychological. They manipulate other board members into agreeing with their decisions, use intimidation to get what they want, refuse to listen to opposing views, and dominate over the boardroom. Some bullies are fully aware of what they're doing, while others fail to grasp the effect of their actions. Either way, instead of bringing harmony, bullies usher in discord. They do what they do to exert power over others, and this is especially true in the workplace, particularly the boardroom. There's a loss of balance in the dynamics of the board, and the organization suffers in the process. It doesn't get an effective board of directors; rather, it gets a dysfunctional one.
You know you have a bully on your board if other board members refuse to challenge them out of fear. But what can be done in this case? Different people can do different things about it:
If you are the board's chair, there's plenty you can do. Being in a position of leadership, you have the authority to guide the flow of the board meeting and the task to ensure that it remains organized all from start to finish. You can do this by adhering to formal meeting rules previously agreed upon by the board, including rules on decision-making. If you suspect the other board members are intimidated into keeping quiet, you can ask questions and give everyone time on the floor to say something.
Corporate Secretary
When you're the corporate secretary, you closely work with board members without becoming a board member yourself; therefore, have the unique chance to objectively observe the dynamics in the board room. Board members may fail to spot bullies because they're right there in the action, but from the sidelines, you can easily identify who these domineering personalities are. From there, you can work on getting these board members in a director training program, if they haven't yet.
Board member
You have the same right to be there on the board as the bully, so don't back down even if other board members have. Remember that you have a fiduciary duty to the organization that chose you to be part of its board. Being forced by someone else is not an excuse for making bad decisions for the organization. If you believe you can't take down the bully on your own, let your chair and corporate secretary know so that they can do something about the situation.
As a CIO or CTO, you are in the position to introduce tools that can help your organization become more efficient, and this influence extends to your board of directors. If you know — or at the very least, suspect — that there's bullying going on in your board, you may want to consider switching to a board portal solution such as Convene, Boardworks, Boardbooks, or BoardVantage. Some board portal software and apps support document sharing and real-time collaboration, giving all board members plenty of opportunities to share their input and work with one another. Convene, for example, provides a private messaging functionality to allow others to communicate their concerns in case they are still unable to do so out of fear. Although a board portal solution can't directly change a bullying board member, it still gives a better chance for other board members to become more involved in board meetings. Also, a board portal solution typically has audit trails and logs, preventing bullies from tampering with documents without the rest of the board's knowledge.
Just a word of caution: Don't mistake professional differences in opinion as bullying. A board of directors is usually composed of leaders in their respective fields, so you can expect that many of them will have dominant personalities that will clash in some situations. Disagreement can even be helpful at times. But when power play enters the picture, that's another story. It's a sign of bullying, and you stop it before it spreads. After all, an ethical workplace begins from the top-down, not bottoms-up.


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Sunday, November 14, 2010
Song Bird Photography - Sucess!
Nikon D90, Nikkor 500mm f/4 AFS + TC 14 @ 700mm, ISO 500, f/11, 1/640
One of the biggest challenges for me when I started wildlife photography was actually finding wildlife to photograph. Nothing is more frustrating than wanting to go shoot something but not sure where to go. Derek and I started by going to the zoo where there are many subject at the ready. But after a while we wanted wild subjects.
Another great place to looks is bird feeders. Unfortunately Derek and I didn't have access to our own backyard feeders. So this forced us to use bird feeders at public places such as parks, wildlife areas and the zoo. The problem was none of those feeders offered the flexibility of modifying the area for optimal shooting conditions.
Nikon D90, Nikkor 500mm f/4 AFS + TC 14 @ 700mm, ISO 500, f/11, 1/640
In order to solve the problem of having a location with reliable subjects, I recently spoke to a property manager of a local park and wildlife management area. I got permission to place feeding stations at locations of my choice. I found spot at the edge of a wooded area, near a pond with both morning and evening light.
Nikon D90, Nikkor 500mm f/4 AFS + TC 14 @ 700mm, ISO 500, f/11, 1/640
It has been a couple of weeks now and the feeders are being frequented by many birds. I stop regularly to check the feeders and refill them. Earlier this week was the first time I spent time photographing there. All of the photographs shown above were from that shoot. It sounds like such a simple thing but this is a point of pride for me, because now I have my own reliable area for song birds!
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Billie Eilish Sweeps 62nd Annual Grammy Awards; Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant Mourned
January 27, 2020 at 1:20 AM (PT)
It started out with an homage to KOBE BRYANT and ended in triumph for 18-year-old BILLIE EILISH, who swept all four categories at SUNDAY night's 62nd GRAMMY AWARDS, winning SONG and RECORD OF THE YEAR for "Bad Guy," as well as ALBUM OF THE YEAR and BEST NEW ARTIST. It marked the first time a female has ever won all four major categories and the first time since CHRISTOPHER CROSS did it in 1981.
In all, EILISH took home five awards, including Pop Vocal Album for "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go," while brother FINNEAS was awarded PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL.shouldon
In a tumultuous week that started with the ouster of RECORDING ACADEMY President/CEO DEBORAH DUGAN and ended with the tragic helicopter crash death of KOBE BRYANT, the 62nd ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS got underway in a cloud of grief and depression that overshadowed the scandal which threatened to turn the actual event into a side show. KOBE's sudden death was reminiscent of WHITNEY HOUSTON dying the night before the ceremony in 2012 just before CLIVE DAVIS' famed pre-GRAMMY party. By the time the evening was over, the RECORDING ACADEMY dust-up, which had TAYLOR SWIFT sitting out her reported surprise appearance, was practically a footnote.
LIZZO, who led the field of nominees with eight, started off the proceedings by shouting, "This is for KOBE!" before launching into an intro to "Cuz I Love You," before several full-bodied ballerinas led into a boisterous "Truth Hurts," capped off by her patented flute solo. She later took home a GRAMMY for BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE, one of three she won overall.
ALICIA KEYS then took the stage and addressed "the crazy sadness right now literally sitting heartbroken in the house that KOBE BRYANT built," bringing out BOYZ II MEN and singing along for the stirring homage, "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday," before asking us to "celebrate the most powerful energy in the world to bring us together and heal... music." It set the tone for BLAKE SHELTON and GWEN STEFANI to stare longingly into one another's eyes, as NEIL DIAMOND and BARBARA STREISAND and countless others did on GRAMMY night for their duet, "Nobody But You."
KEYS returned solo at the piano for a riff based on "Someone You Loved" her new lyrics cutely name-checking the major nominees and subtly dealing with the scandal that rocked the RECORDING ACADEMY. "We refuse the old system... It's when good people do nothing that bad people win" with a plea for inclusion done with just the light-handed touch not to overshadow the honorees themselves.
THE JONAS BROTHERS then performed "What A Man Gotta Do" with a full-scale production number featuring dancers and a backing ensemble of horns.
TYLER, THE CREATOR made his GRAMMY stage debut with BOYZ II MEN and THE GAP BAND's CHARLIE WILSON in tow for a surreal, fire-breathing turn on "Earfquake" and "New Magic Wand," the latter accompanied by a futuristic world in which blonde-wigged TYLERs multiplied like rabbits. A definite water-cooler moment. He later took home the award for BEST RAP ALBUM for "Igor," bringing his mother on-stage to help him accept the honor.
DAN + SHAY took home the second GRAMMY of the evening for "Speechless," earning BEST COUNTRY DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE.
USHER proved capable on his feet and with his falsetto on a gala PRINCE tribute joined by SHEILA E. for a medley that opened with "Little Red Corvette," segued into "When Doves Cry" (featuring a pole-dance by none other than FKA TWIGS) and a climactic "Kiss" which earned a standing ovation.
CAMILA CABELLO had the evening's most KLEENEX-worthy moment singing "First Man" to her father, in the first row no less, over home movies of her as a baby, a conceit that worked in spite of ourselves. Two-time GRAMMY winner earlier in the day TANYA TUCKER was joined by BRANDI CARLILE for "Bring My Flowers Now" before announcing the winner of the BEST COMEDY ALBUM was no-show DAVE CHAPPELLE, while fellow nominees TREVOR NOAH, JIM GAFFIGAN and ELLEN DEGENERES sat in the audience, offering inadvertent proof the ceremony was not rigged.
ARIANA GRANDE got to finally sing "thank u, next," after last year's alleged dust-up with KEN EHRLICH, as part of a medley which started with "Imagine" followed with a full-on version of "My Favorite Things" into a full-on bedroom romp for "7 Rings" in one of the evening's highlight performances.
BILLIE EILISH, green fingernails and all, was more than ready for her close-up, going the simple route, accompanied by just her brother FINNEAS on piano for one of the evening's most moving performances, a totally telling "When The Party's Over," featuring the KEN EHRLICH touch of a very subtle gospel choir in the background.
FRIDAY night's MUSICARES honorees AEROSMITH were up next, starting with their 1993 "Livin' On The Edge," which seemed perfect for the occasion, followed by their much-ballyhooed reunion with RUN DMC for a rambunctious, on-the-edge of anarchy "Walk This Way" that had FLAVA FLAV dancing in the aisles.
The epic LIL NAS X performance of the mega-smash, "Old Town Road," featured a revolving stage that rotated into KOREAN phenoms BTS, prepubescent yodeler MASON RAMSEY, EDM star DIPLO and surprise guest, the original NAS, for a cross-cultural production suited to the song's multiglot origins.
DEMI LOVATO then returned to the GRAMMY stage for a moving rendition of her new single, "Anyone," written after her well-publicized bout with drug addiction, a wrenching, cathartic performance that featured her singing, "No one is listening to me," while everyone was at rapt attention. She received a well-deserved standing ovation.
ISSA RAE introduced the tribute to the late L.A. rapper/activist NIPSEY HUSSLE, which featured an all-out version of "Higher," his collaboration with DJ KHALED, who was in the spotlight along with JOHN LEGEND, YG, RODDY RICCH, MEEK MILL and KIRK FRANKLIN. DJ KHALED and JOHN LEGEND later took home the televised BEST RAP/SONG PERFORMANCE for the song.
Flamenco star-turned crossover artist and BEST NEW ARTIST nominee ROSALIA, an earlier GRAMMY winner, brought some exotica -- and a challenger to BILLIE EILISH for longest fingernails -- to the stage.
ALICIA KEYS took the stage with BRITTANY HOWARD on guitar to perform her new single, "Underdog," followed by H.E.R., the latest GRAMMY favorite, who performed "Sometimes" and punctuated it with a searing, metallic guitar solo.
BONNIE RAITT was next with an acoustic performance of LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD winner JOHN PRINE's "Angel From MONTGOMERY," before introducing three-time GRAMMY winner GARY CLARK JR.'s searingly political "This Land" about anti-immigration policies.
The IN MEMORIAM segment featured TROMBONE SHORTY and the PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND acting as a NEW ORLEANS second line, which ended with the late DR. JOHN. They did misspell RIC OCASEK's name, though, even if they did include the late GARY STEWART.
Producer KEN EHRLICH's final show after 40 years at the helm was marked by a tribute to music education and his own track record with an all-star line-up of CAMILA CABELLO, CYNDI LAUPER, BEN PLATT, THE WAR AND TREATY, GARY CLARK, JR, dancer MISTY COPELAND and classical pianist LANG LANG performing "I Sing The Body Electric" from the "Fame" soundtrack.
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Some tour-goers search for inspiration for their next project; others hope to find an architect or home builder to work with; whatever the reasons may be, all tour-goers come to see a curated selection of homes in the Silicon Valley that embody the region's unique modern architecture and design aesthetic.
On Saturday, June 9th, the Modern Architecture+ Design Society (MA+DS) returns to Silicon Valley for the 2018 Modern Home Tour. The annual event gives regional architects, designers, and home builders the opportunity to showcase their work to the community in which they work. In turn, the self-guided tour gives the community an opportunity to engage the minds behind the designs and ask questions, as they explore some of central California's modern homes up close, inside and out.
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- A Guy Ayers Architect restoration of one of the first Eichlers ever built (1948), in Sunnyvale, that features one of the few original butterfly-roofs on an Eichler home
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Participating homes in the 6th annual Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour will open their doors for viewing from 11AM – 5PM on Saturday, June 9th. All are invited to attend. Tickets to see all homes are $40 in advance online; $50 on the day of the tour. Details on ticket purchases and descriptions of all participants with photos can be found on the 2018 Silicon Valley Modern Home Tour event page: http://www.siliconvalleymodernhometour.com.
About the Modern Architecture + Design Society: Based in Austin, Texas, the Modern Architecture + Design Society was founded was founded by James Leasure in 2010 as Modern Home Tours, to introduce modern architecture and living to people across the nation. Through fun and informative self-guided home tours in dozens of cities across the USA and Canada, the group invites people into some of the most exciting examples of modern architecture and design in the nation. With carefully selected architects, neighborhoods and architecture, the MA+DS Home Tours are unlike anything you've ever seen. Not only will you learn about the cutting edge of home design while on our tours, but you might even get an idea or two for your next home project!


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The next meeting of the King Edward Memorial Park Community Liaison Working Group will be on Thursday 2 November at 19:00 so why not pop along and see what is happening to your park?
Community Liaison Working Group? Wassat? Wositt working wiv? All good questions! Read on.
The King Edward Memorial Park Foreshore Community Liaison Working Group (or KEMPF-CLWG as it is far more snappily known) is how you the lovely residents of Tower Hamlets get to liaise with the
Thames Water Thames Tideway Tunnel people who have done such a lovely job of enhancing our park as is shown in the photo below.
If you want to find out more about the King Edward Memorial Park Foreshore Community Liaison Working Group you can ring the Thames Tideway Tunnel Helpdesk on 08000 30 80 80 or email email@example.com.
£3,106,000 anyone?
From the minutes of the last KEMPF-CLWG meeting (PDF) it seems the Council has now received the Section 106 documentation for 'improvements works' for the sum of £3,106,000 from Thames Water. Or Thames Tideway Tunnel. Whatever.
Wonder what's going to happen to that money? What does 'improvement works' mean? Improving what?
Or should we – and you – be asking where is that £3,106,000 of Section 106 money going to be spent?
And on what? Oh and how as well of course.
Thames Water / Thames Tideway Tunnel / Whatever say they will be making a number of submissions to the Council as part of the consents they need to secure before starting different phases of work at the park.
These submissions are available to view on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets planning portal by searching for 'Thames Tideway Tunnel'. Please click here to be redirected to the portal.
If residents want to comment on the submissions you have to respond directly to the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
Revolving chairs
As all residents are no doubt aware the Chairperson of the KEMPF-CLWG now seems to rotate between Jon Aldenton of the Turks Head Company and Mike Wardle of Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre – joint applicants for the Wapping Lido scheme. Which is adjacent to KEMP.
Shadwell Basin or The Highway?
The 2nd November meeting we think will be at the Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre instead of in The Shadwell Centre on The Highway as it has been in the past – confirmation please?
At the last meeting there were no less than seven Thames Tideway Tunnel peeps there as well as representatives of the Council, Turks Head Company, Free Trade Wharf and presumably five or six others who are, presumably, residents.
Seems a little lop-sided in terms of the whole 'community representation thing though don't it? So maybe you should help balance that out a little? Or a lot. Up to you. Your park after all.
Don't forget folks – King Edward Memorial Park Community Liaison Working Group meeting Thursday 2 November at 19:00!
Related Internet Links
- Tideway London Main Tideway London site
- King Edward Memorial Park Foreshore – Construction site
- Tower Hamlets Council Planning Portal – Search for 'Thames Tideway Tunnel'
King Edward Memorial Park Community Liaison Working Group documents
- 6 September 2017 – Community Liaison Working Group minutes (PDF)
- 6 September 2017 – Presentation (PDF)
- 18 July 2017 – Community Liaison Working Group minutes (PDF)
- 18 July 2017 – Presentation (PDF)
- 5 June 2017 – Community Liaison Working Group minutes (PDF)
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SANTA RITA OIL WELL. Santa Rita No. 1, located in Section 2, Block 2, University of Texas lands in Reagan County, came in on May 28, 1923. Several shady promotions of "salted" wells were perpetrated in West Texas in the 1920s. But the Santa Rita well, which flowed intermittently until the end of June, proved that oil existed in the region. The Santa Rita resulted from the efforts of several men over a period of four years. The land promotion was initiated in January 1919 by Rupert P. Ricker, a University of Texas graduate, Reagan County lawyer, and World War I veteran who took advantage of a 1917 law that allowed the leasing of state land for oil exploration. He and four associates made preliminary applications on 431,360 acres owned by the University of Texas in Reagan, Upton, Irion, and Crockett counties. A filing fee of $43,136 was due the General Land Office in thirty days. Ricker intended to promote the land deal in Fort Worth and sell enough leases to pay the filing fee. When he found no interest in his land deal as the thirty-day deadline neared, he sold his ideas, maps, and preliminary leases for $2,500 to an old army friend from El Paso, Frank T. Pickrell.
Pickrell and his partner, Haymon Krupp, a prosperous El Paso merchant, had no better luck promoting the acreage than had Ricker. Not wanting to lose their investment but still hoping to promote the leases, Pickrell and Krupp decided to develop the acreage themselves. Krupp borrowed the money to cover the filing fee. He and his New York friends incorporated as Texon Oil and Land Company (see TEXON, TEXAS) to raise capital, but the company stock sold too slowly to fund drilling on the acreage. Pickrell then persuaded the board of directors to approve a sales promotion for certificates of interest in a sixteen-section block of leases called Group No. 1. Investors paid $200 each for a .0004882 interest in the group. Texon Oil raised over $100,000 from the promotion and used some of the capital to make rental payments and to buy used drilling equipment. The first oil test on Group No. 1 acreage was called Santa Rita No. 1, named for the saint of the impossible. The well was spudded on January 8, 1921, just before the thirty-day deadline.
Pickrell, who had no experience in oil, considered himself lucky to have hired an experienced driller, Carl Cromwell, for fifteen dollars a day and stock in the company. Cromwell moved his family to the lonely drilling site beside the tracks of the Orient Railroad. For 646 days the cable-tool rig pounded, and the two-man crew bailed the hole. They averaged only 4.7 feet a day. Late on May 27, 1923, the bit drilled into the dolomitic sands, called "Big Lime," just above the 3,050-foot level. Cromwell shut down the well when he saw gas bubbles escaping from the casinghead. The driller and his tool dresser, Dee Locklin, were convinced they had an oil well and left the site to lease surrounding mineral acreage while the discovery was yet unknown.
Early on May 28, with no further drilling, the Santa Rita roared to life, sprayed oil over the top of the derrick, and covered a 250-yard area around the site. The well attracted the attention of area residents and scouts from major oil companies, and Pickrell eventually enlisted the aid of independent oilman Mike Benedum to test the extent of his field. Benedum's efforts proved that the area was indeed rich in oil and that Santa Rita No. 1 was just a small beginning for the men who promoted it, for the University of Texas, and for other oil-rich areas of the Permian Basin.
In 1940, under the leadership of the Texas State Historical Association, the Santa Rita rig was moved from its original site to the University of Texas campus in Austin. Its presence commemorates a time of transformation for both the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, which shared in the university's land royalties. In 1990, after almost sixty-seven years of production, the Santa Rita No. 1 was finally plugged.
David F. Prindle, "Oil and the Permanent University Fund: The Early Years," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 86 (October 1982). Martin W. Schwettmann, Santa Rita: The University of Texas Oil Discovery (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1943; rpt. 1958). Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
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EDEN PRAIRIE, MN PRNewswire/ -- MTS Systems Corp. reported that it was notified by the U.S. Department of the Air Force that it has been suspended from U.S. federal government contracting and from directly or indirectly receiving the benefits of federal assistance programs. The suspension is temporary, pending any ensuing legal proceedings, and MTS has 30 calendar days to submit a response. MTS is cooperating fully and may continue to perform its existing government contracts. An extended suspension or debarment from contracting with the U.S. federal government could have a material adverse effect on MTS' business.
The suspension relates to MTS' failure, since 2008, to disclose in its online representations and certifications application that it had pled guilty to two misdemeanors in regard to making false statements related to export matters. As reported in the company's Form 10-Q, filed on February 3, 2011, in January 2011, the company was informed that the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota were investigating whether MTS had accurately certified to a certain Federal Acquisition Regulation since March 2008.
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ya, I agree.... I know for sure the towers will need some tweaking. It was very hard for me to try and come up with good numbers (for their damage, costs, etc) when playing and testing a multiplayer game by myself. I tried to come up with numbers that might be close.... and after it's live and enough people have tried it we can work on changing it to make it feel right.
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Posted: 11/14/2013 11:13:55 AM
I would make it more expensive after each level.
if you upgrade the first level you should already have in income of around 1400.
the next upgrades could be more expensive, so you got the choice to deal with the actual ones or spare the money for an upgrade, which means you are more vulnerable while you spare the money, (meanwhile your enemy will increase his income, maybe he decides to do the same, maybe not, ...) but you'll be more "deadly" after you reached it.
would become an interesting part of the strategie you play.
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#Romanovs100, RT's historical photo-puzzle project, has published some astonishing panoramic images from the Romanov private archive, taken when they visited Moscow in the early 1900s. See if you can recognize the city of golden domes in these weathered shots from the days of the Russian Empire.
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After the revolution of 1917, the new regime moved the capital to Moscow and made the Kremlin their seat of power. Many buildings and structures on its grounds were taken down, including the memorial complex of Alexander II – on the left of the photograph – and the Church of St. Constantine and Elena, in the center.
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People in Dublin have been warned that from next week they must not turn on their taps for any reason or they risk receiving a fine or even a prison sentence. Dublin City Council will soon begin calling house to house to seal all taps and render them unusable for at least the rest of this month. John Breslin from the council's water authority said people will need to start being a little more resourceful.
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"Remember, the full water ban doesn't come into effect until next week so I would encourage people to start having a few sips now just to get used to it. As disgusting as it may sound to some people it didn't do that Bear Grylls fella any harm and there are proven health benefits to drinking your own piss so my advice is to just close your eyes and get it into ya."
Meanwhile Irish Water – who lose a staggering 50% of our water supply in leaks – insist they're doing a great job and say there's nothing mental about having a water ban in one of the world's wettest countries that just had one of its wettest ever winters.
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The European Commission has occasionally become distracted – or sought a distraction – from the never-ending euro zone's sovereign debt crisis by picking a fight which might curry favour with civil rights activists. Witness the events a year ago when it demanded that search engine Google uphold the values of the Freedom to be Forgotten. In other words, embarrassing things from people's pasts could be erased at their request online.
This week, we had a deja vu moment as the EU took on one individual member state's media reforms arguing that they posed a "systemic threat" to enshrined bloc values. Poland, the fifth-largest member state, is on a collision course with Brussels over far-reaching, and some say draconian, measures that affect the state broadcasting network.
But is it all a burza w kubku? (storm in a teacup)
There are two strands to the changes in Polish media laws which have upset the EU, as well as additional changes to how constitutional judges are appointed by Warsaw.
The European Broadcasting Union, which is a broadcasting club whose members include (rather bizarrely) non-European Israel and are the founding fathers of the Eurovision Song Contest, have protested Poland's new landslide victorious Law & Justice Party (PiS) proposals to hire and fire executives and supervisory boards of the state TV broadcaster Telewizja Polska and state radio Polskie Radio. The EBU sees the reforms as an affront to democratic principles and had pleaded with the new Polish President Andrzej Duda not to give assent to the reforms. Today Duda, who was a PiS party member until he assumed office as head of state, approved the changes, and triggered an unprecedented review of domestic media in the country by the EC.
The spat isn't only about top brass at the state broadcaster. The second element of the media reforms, to be enforced within weeks, will place every single member of staff at Telewizja Polska and Polskie Radio on three months' notice, with the new management (as appointed or approved by the PiS government) to decide their fates.
Since 1989 when Poland began to democratise after 45 years of Communist rule, the country of nearly 40 million citizens built up formidable media freedoms. Sometimes too strong as critics have said, where media has not respected privacy and trespassed in order to nail a story.
But while many excesses have come from the growing non-state broadcasting sector, it is the state broadcaster which now finds itself at risk of being curbed by politically-appointed broadcasting executives. It is nothing new. Well, ok, it happened in Poland under the Communists! Some cynics say that current TV personnel support the previous government or even the left-leaning former government of Leszek Miller and President Aleksander Kwasniewski. And political appointments to broadcasting are still practised by some Asian governments too.
How much will it cost?
The price of the new media reforms could be the expulsion of Poland from the EBU, and with it the forfeiture of its entry into the Eurovision Song Contest. As reprimands go, that is a rather light one. For one thing, Poland's love affair with the contest that Briton's love to knock for itself being politicised has long ago waned. In the show's heyday, Poland came a close second in the 1994 contest with Edyta Gorniak, the country's debutante, and Blue Cafe just over a decade later made the top 10 songs.
Even with Poles in Britain eligible to vote and some taking ferries to Denmark from Polish Baltic ports to cast their patriotic votes, they have not mustered a winner so far. In recent years there was debate about whether Poland wanted to shun the event altogether! So it would be ironic if Poland was banned for political reasons from the May contest for what it was doing politically at home, especially since the EBU has always been a pains to show that music unites and the contest is above politics. But then, didn't we believe that was supposed to be the case with sport until the USA and other western nations shunned the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games on account of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan the previous year?
Damage in Poland's ties with EU partners could, however, be a heavier price to pay and cannot be discounted. What is more, there is no saying how deep that damage could run for a country which has been a direct budgetary aid beneficiary of the EU.
And let us not forget the image of the government at home. Less than one-quarter of its first year into office and PiS has already upset many of its electorate. One thing about having a dominant political mandate as PiS now has is that it can no longer complain that other politicians blocked reforms. The days when lawmakers and President were of different political allegiances and waged a blame game are over. What PiS does in the next few years could change Poland – or lead to the annihilation of PiS at the next general election. So getting things monumentally wrong can be a sobering thought.
But will it become that bad?
Much has been said about the "one party state" that Poland has become since the October 25 elections. The President, upper legislative Senate and lower legislative Sejm are all now in the hands of PiS. One party has, for the first time since the 1989 free elections, dominated all three organs of law-making. One thing commentators have overlooked, however, is the checks and balances which actually exist in the country.
It may be an irony that in one of the last act's to become more popular with a disillusioned nation, the former Communist regime appointed an Ombudsman and office apparatus on 1 January 1988 to uphold the civil rights of the populace.
Its purposes may well have been to defend workers' rights rather than embed democratic principles, but the Ombudsman has grown into the real constitutional heavweight title holder in Poland, not the head of state.
After May's presidential elections, the centre-right coalition led by Civic Platform saw the writing on the wall and appointed a new Ombudsman with the support of its coalition partners as well as the left-leaning SLD. PiS was largely absent in approving of the appointment of Adam Bodnar last September, five weeks before the landslide PiS parliamentary election victory.
Although PiS fared well in the polls, it was not well enough to upset the security of the new Ombudsman. Bodnar has been appointed for a five-year term, comfortably eclipsing the new government's term and if he plays his cards right could be appointed for a second and final term in office.
PiS commands around 52% of the Sejm lower house. Yet Bodnar can only be recalled by the Sejm if 60% of congressmen back the move. PiS – just 10 weeks into leadership – has already felt the honeymoon period cut cruelly short by the media controversy and alienated any political allies it may have hoped to rely upon in parliament.
Bodnar could be the kingpin in unravelling the President's assent to the new media laws if citizens complain to him and he can be convinced that the PiS government did not act in the interests of the populace. I daresay it will not be very hard for him to argue that and therefore doomsday portrayals may be premature.


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