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David Yaffe was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1973. He has written on numerous subjects (music, film, theater, dance, higher education) for The Nation, New York, Slate, The New York Times, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, and other publications. He is currently a professor of English at Syracuse University, and is the author of Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing and Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown
A vivid and dramatic book --Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic "The best chronicle to date of Mitchell's creative process and the specific way her songs were composed." --Rachel Syme, The Nation Yet whatever her listeners might dream or desire, Joni Mitchell was never in it for them, and she certainly wasn't like them: She was a genius. As David Yaffe shows in his new biography, Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, to approach her as an open book waiting to be read is to miss the essence of that genius . . . [T]he best full-length treatment of Mitchell yet published . . . [Yaffe] pulls off the feat that has eluded so many of his predecessors: He forges an intimacy with Mitchell on her own, uncompromising terms by truly listening to her, as closely and as generously as she's always deserved . . . --Jack Hamilton, The Atlantic Joni Mitchell's gift was so enormous that it remade the social space around her. As David Yaffe's new biography, "Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell" (Sarah Crichton Books), suggests, it is no small burden to possess something as valuable as Mitchell's talent, and it meant that this girl from the Canadian prairie would be in the world, whether she liked it or not . . . Yaffe, who teaches at Syracuse, charts these encounters with a sure hand, and is a brilliant analyst of how Mitchell's songs are made. --Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker In prose that shifts between chatty, impressionistic and reportorial, Yaffe sympathetically traces the outline of the musician's life, from her childhood battle with polio through her life-threatening aneurysm in 2015. Working his way through her albums, he offers up detailed takes on recording sessions, song tidbits, even chord changes. . . Reckless Daughter looks at Mitchell's life through all sides now. --David Browne, Rolling Stone Yaffe solidly traces the glory and gloom of a musical career that expanded our ears and hearts . . . The lonely girl ill with polio had survived to become a great artist. Yaffe's books tells us how she got there. --Sibbie O'Sullivan, The Washington Post David Yaffe has crafted a beautiful, heartbreaking, fierce and uncompromising look at one of the greatest artists of the past 50 years . . . a lush, complex, carefully researched examination of one of music's most interesting living legends . . . This is a full portrait of an artist who carved a place for herself in the music industry and managed to walk away from it with more than her dignity fully intact . . . Reckless Daughter will most likely prove to be the best, most comprehensive look at all sides of this powerful and still meaningful, still influential musical and artistic presence. --Christopher John Stephens, PopMatters Dazzling . . . A shimmering portrait of one artist's life, illusions and all. --Booklist (starred review) [Yaffe] brilliantly guides readers through Mitchell's evolution as a musician with vivid descriptions of the making of each of her albums from Song to a Seagull ("If drums and an electric guitar had been added to the mix, Joni would have produced some acid rock herself") through Shine in 2007. Yaffe introduces readers to the musicians with whom Mitchell worked, including Leonard Cohen, Graham Nash, Judy Collins, and Charles Mingus. The combination of fine writing and extensive access make this the definitive biography of a gifted songwriter and musician. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) The essential biography of Joni Mitchell. --Now Toronto "David Yaffe has composed an abnormally well-written musician biography--descriptive, culturally aware and highly supportive of his subject." --David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express "Reckless Daughter is a bewitched, bothered, and bewildered portrayal of one of the most beautiful and enigmatic artists of a beautiful and enigmatic period of American life. It is touching, mystifying, and revealing in equal parts." --Mary Gaitskill "Joni Mitchell, an artist of innervating and daunting complexity, originality, and importance, could have no better biographer than David Yaffe. He knows the music like the serious musician he is, knows the poetry like the literary scholar he is, and is equally attuned to Mitchell's tortured soul. On top of all that, he seems to have interviewed everyone important in Mitchell's life, from her first husband to Leonard Cohen. Reckless Daughter is nothing less than the definitive statement on the life and work of an artist who defies definition." --David Hajdu, author of Love for Sale: Pop Music in America "It's so easy to get Joni Mitchell wrong, or to leave out the most important things, or to miss the point altogether. Reckless Daughter is the definitive correction to all the errors, a sharp yet sprawling look at one of the most brilliant musical artists of modern times. David Yaffe grasps the nuances--of the music, the poetry, the intellect, the madness. He gets it. He gets her. I couldn't get enough of this fine biography." --Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion "David Yaffe is an artful and incisive critic who writes with such grace and clarity. With Reckless Daughter, he makes a figure as iconic as Joni Mitchell feel wholly new. This portrait is loaded with revelations, both spiritual and actual. I thought I understood something about Mitchell--the way her tough and tender songs move, her sweetness and rebellion--but Yaffe understands everything. What a book." --Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records


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Tourism Trade Facilitation Act
Giving a boost to the tourism industry in Karnataka, the Karnataka Tourism Trade and Promotion Facilitation Act is being prepared by the Department of Tourism. The Act will prove beneficial for the tourism industry, the government and travellers. The Act is aimed at being more participatory in nature with the objective of safe and comfortable travel, access to quantified and qualified information for the government and other agencies involved in the research and development, and also to ensure clarity in the roles expected to be played by service providers.
The draft of the Act, which is under preparation, has passed through several rounds of discussions with tourism trade bodies and government departments. Once finalised, the draft would be sent to the State Cabinet for sanction, following which it will be an enacted law as passed by the State Legislature.


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Beauty Doesn't Have to Be Painful, but It Can Be Practical
With so much to do, and so little time, women who wear makeup often have to go through a "routine" each day to getting "made up." With the changes and advances in cosmetics, corners can be cut and time can be saved. No longer are hours spent in front of the mirror to get the hottest most glamorous look. It no longer takes a tremendous amount of time to artfully apply foundation to the face. Today's makeup allows fast application with picture-perfect results.
Tools and Color
The best way to start developing a beauty routine is to figure out which cosmetics are routinely used (foundation, blush, lipstick, eyeshadow) and then purchase the right tools to apply the cosmetics to the face. Start thinking about colors and which ones are traditionally used for daily work or play routine. According to International Makeup Artist for Estee Lauder, Alan Pan believes a foundation brush and an inspiration for color are two essential things in a beauty routine.
Categories for Colors
Figuring out base coloring is very important. Colors can fall into two categories: warm or cool. Warm colors include deep peaches, reds, burgundies, and browns and cater to people with warm skin tones and darker hair. Cool colors include light pinks, fuschia, lavender, and blue or green and provide to people with lighter skin tones and blondes. Deciding which category best fits is key to buying the right cosmetic colors and shades.
Keeping Up with Trends
Makeup is an area where trends are always coming and going. There is a micro-makeup that is more blendable and has better coverage quality. It often provides a seamless look with ultra-fine texture. Then there is makeup containing a variety of vitamins and minerals that are supposedly considered less abrasive and kinder to the skin, according to many dermatologists. This may include mineral or "healthy" makeup, which is very popular and growing in demand.
A matter of personal preference is something to take into consideration, too. When considering foundation, the makeup that coats the base or palette of the face, one may want to choose a liquid makeup over a mineral makeup as more moisture and coverage may be required. Also, depending on what season it is, lighter makeup, such as mineral makeup, may be better suited for warmer temperatures as it does not quickly melt off and is very light.


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I have been in the Mortgage industry for over 10 years and I have been around it my entire life. Both my Grandfather and father were in the industry making me a 3rd generation mortgage loan originator. I started out at the lowest position and successfully built my way to become a sales manager. I specialize in but am not limited to, Purchases, Refinances, Reverse Mortgages, and Investment properties. The mortgage process can be daunting but I work to ensure that every client receives the upmost attention and that I am always available to take your calls.
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Now that it's the 4th of July, dentists everywhere are bracing for the inevitable: tooth injuries caused by people opening beer and wine bottles with their teeth. In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, Viewmont Family Dentistry would like to remind you why this is never a good idea—and, while we're on the subject, some other things you shouldn't do with your teeth, either.
A 12 pack of beer is about $10. A cheap bottle of wine is the same. A crown, tooth implant, root canal, or other type of dental reconstruction starts at $4000. You can see why opening a bottle with your teeth is not impressive—it's just foolish! While opening a bottle with your teeth might be an entertaining party trick, you will certainly not find it entertaining to lie in a dental chair for multiple office visits.
If you find yourself with a bottle, and no bottle opener, there are countless cool ways to open it that don't involve your teeth. You can use another bottle, a dollar bill, a coin, or (not as cool, but just as effective), a dish towel. You can also just opt for cans or twist-tops. Keep a bottle opener on your keychain, and you'll never find yourself having to use your sensitive tooth material (although you never "have" to, anyway.)
Your 4th of July party might have chips as well as beer. And if said beer is making opening said chips difficult, you might be tempted to use your teeth to get the pesky thing open. However, remember that every time you use your enamel as a pair of scissors, you wear it down a little bit further. One day, you'll experience "the straw that broke the camel's back" in terms of dental damage, and you'll need to get an expensive restoration. In fact, if you're older or have had a lot of dental work done already, opening a bag with your teeth could itself be the straw that broke the camel's back.
Therefore, even though we know most of you have stopped listening, we still plead with you to never open chips, wrappers, or even a stubborn sales tag with your teeth. Instead, one great tip is to purchase a pair of keychain scissors so you'll always have them on hand. This set from Amazon is only $5 and is extremely practical!
If you find yourself in need of a restorative dentist or emergency dentist this summer, call Viewpoint Family Dentistry. If you've chipped a tooth opening a bottle or bag, we'll fix you up immediately, and we promise not to say "I told you so".


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Harlesden secondary school holds first parliamentary debate and elects student prime minister
PUBLISHED: 17:54 22 January 2019 | UPDATED: 18:28 22 January 2019
Pupils at a Harlesden secondary school held their first parliament debate - and got a pledge from their MP that they could hold the next one at the House of Commons.
Dawn Butler was a special guest at the Convent of Jesus and Mary Language College in Crownhill Road on January 18 as it launched its new student parliament.
Created to mirror the British Political system the school now has 72 democratically elected student MPs divided into six house political parties.
Following fiercely active campaigning by the six political "house" parties, the whole school voted in its first student prime minister Joana Reis, head of Katherine House.
She said: "I strongly believe this will be a great year for Convent history because students now have a real voice and our school wants to hear what we have to say."
Louise McGowan, head, said: "It is important to teach children about democracy in a fun and engaging way.
"Too many people do not understand the workings of our country's political system so using the framework of a mock Parliament has allowed our students to experience a parliamentary debate, and to participate in holding the Student Government to account in our very own Prime Minister's Questions.
"Dawn Butler has been so supportive of our idea and has offered the Student Parliament the opportunity to hold their next debate inside the Houses of Parliament."
The main topic of the student debate was the impact of the EU Settlement Scheme which Prime Minister Theresa May announced will be scrapped at commons meeting on Monday, two days after the school debate was aired on BBC television.
Ms McGowan added: "We would like to think the voice of the youth heard in a fair, principled and measured way, might have influenced this decision!"
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The organ is in really good cosmetic shape, and it works 100%, exept that the keys need some cleaning... they crackle and pop quite a lot, but there's instructions on how to clean on the internet, so it should pose no problem.
Also I'm really amazed about the bass pedals on this thing... damn it can make the floor tremble! ... It struck me, that the deep bass drone in the beginning of Jarre's Equinoxe album was in fact the bass pedal of the Eminent.


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White House Photographs
President John F. Kennedy (seated at center) listens to remarks at Paulskirche (St. Paul's Church) in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany (Federal Republic). Also pictured: Federal Minister of Defense of West Germany, Kai-Uwe von Hassel; Minister-President of Hesse, Georg August Zinn; Vice Chancellor of West Germany, Dr. Ludwig Erhard; U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, George C. McGhee; President of the Bundesrat of West Germany, Kurt Georg Kiesinger; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; West German Ambassador to the United States, Karl Heinrich Knappstein; U.S. Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Gerhard Schröder; Mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Frankfurt, Werner Bockelmann. [Scratches throughout image are original to the negative.]


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Massey has 7 student associations, run for students by Massey students, and are led by student executive groups who are elected every year. They aim to make sure that students enjoy the best university experience possible, provide leadership to the student body, and are student advocates to the university and wider community. Student associations are also responsible for running events such as Orientation Week and the Unity in Diversity festival.
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1. Write sentences with the Present Perfect of the verbs in brackets and for or since.
Pete moved to Italy in 1997. (live)
Pete has lived in Italy for 11 years
2. Sophie met Amy when she was twelve (know)
3. I saw Oliver last week. (not see)
4. He played football last winter. (not play)
5. I bought my mobile phone last month. (have)
6. I became a vegetarian in 2001. (be)
2. Completa le frasi con for o since
ESEMPIO: We've been here since Tuesday
2. I've lived in Madrid ........ fourteen years
3. Alan has had his car ......... 1998
4. I've known my best friend ....... we were at primary school
5. We've worked in the company ...... a year
6. Nigel hasn't come out with us ....... he met his new girlfriend
7. They haven't said anything ....... an hour
8. The dog hasn't eaten ...... three days
9. Ian has played in the school team ...... March
10. They have been married ....... thirty years
11. Sandra hasn't played the violin ........ six months
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By Doriane Mouret / Aug 17, 2011
You know there are a lot of different ways to browse the Internet. Users have Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and other browsers to choose from. If you already developed your own website, you likely had to develop a solution for browser compatibility. Business owners need to be sure their websites will show up the same way no matter what operating system and browser a visitor uses.
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Most people don't realize it at the outset, but a trip to Australia can be a gargantuan undertaking. It is the only country in the world that has a continental land mass all to itself, and the distances between cities and tourist attractions can be mind-boggling. As such, it's important to have a good idea of what you what to see before you leave for the Land Down Under.
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1) Sydney
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2) Melbourne
Despite the presence of the Opera House in Sydney, it is Melbourne that is generally considered to be the cultural centre of Australia, so art lovers would do well to have this city next on their travel hit list. Stroll the city centre, making plenty of time to browse the many boutiques and galleries, and to grab a meal at one of the cities' well-regarded Italian restaurants, as Melbourne has a sizable community of descendants that hail from Italia. After, check out the largest museum in the Southern Hemisphere, the Melbourne Museum, which covers the natural and human history of Southeastern Australia, as well as hosting international exhibitions in its spacious facilities.
3) Four Mile Beach
After spending time in two of Australia's greatest cities, it's time to hit the beach! To this end, head up to Port Douglas, situated on Australia's northeastern tropical coast in Queensland. After nearly ending up as a ghost town after its gold mining industry collapsed, this town near the stunning jewel that is Four Mile Beach has been reborn as a tourism hotspot. And how, as this beach boasts waters that shimmer with an emerald hue, sugar white sand, and a close proximity to the Great Barrier Reef that allows easy access for snorkeling and diving day tours. On days where you seek time off from the beach, you can explore the Daintree Rainforest, where an abundance of unique Australian wildlife awaits your personal discovery!
4) Uluru National Park
Located in the red centre of the country and continent of Australia, Uluru National Park protects sacred land and representative outback wilderness that is under threat increasingly across the country. It also contains the world famous Ayer's Rock, which can be walked around, or climbed by via ferrata supports. Just be aware of the distances between the park and the town of Alice Springs, which can be a drive of 4-5 hours each way!
5) Cable Beach
If the sometimes extreme heat of the interior of Australia had you dreaming of a calm blue ocean once again, cap off your journey by visiting one of the best beaches in the considerably less trafficked state of West Australia. Cable Beach, located near the sleepy town of Broome on Australia's northwestern coast offers solitude, stunning visages up and down its seemingly endless white sands, and endless photo opps, especially at low tide, when the outgoing ocean makes impressive grooves in the previous covered portion of the beach. No visit here is complete without riding a camel at sunset, which is the quintessential Broome experience.
Australia is a vast nation, but its major highlights make up for all the long hours put into reaching them. As they say, "nothing ventured, nothing gained."


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SINGAPORE - Those interested in a career in the maritime industry will get more help identifying the specific skills they need to get the job they want.
A structured guide that lists the skills required for the 48 different jobs in the sea transport sector and charts the career progression of workers was launched on Tuesday (April 25).
Senior Minister of State for Transport Josephine Teo said that as the maritime industry transforms, jobs will become more knowledge-intensive.
"We will need a workforce that is comfortable with automation and digitalisation. To succeed, the industry also needs our people to have a global-orientation," she added.
The industry accounts for 7 per cent of Singapore's gross domestic product and employs more than 170,000 people.
The framework also lays out trends in the sector, so prospective and existing workers can upgrade their skills and prepare for their desired jobs. Information on relevant training programmes - which the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) will provide funding for - will also be covered.
Speaking at the Singapore International Maritime Awards at Shangri-La Hotel, Mrs Teo said growing a more skilful workforce was one of the Government's three priorities for developing the sector, which is facing challenges such as increased competition and rapid technological advancements.
The other two focus areas are port development and building a vibrant business network.
Plans for the Tuas Port are progressing as scheduled, noted Mrs Teo, who is also Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and in the Prime Minister's Office. It wil have the capacity to handle up to 65 million twenty-foot equivalent units of cargo a year, more than double what Singapore's port handled last year.
"For the port to remain competitive, we know that scale alone will not be enough," she said. The new port will have an "unprecedented" degree of automation, and processess will be optimised so that customers can save time and money, she added.
To encourage collaboration between firms, the MPA will set up a Living Lab for them to co-develop and pilot innovations.
At the event, Mrs Teo presented awards to 10 firms and individuals who have contributed to Singapore's development as a leading maritime hub.
K Line, Swire Pacific Offshore Operations, Sembcorp Marine and Pacific International Lines were among the winners.


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Our core value of "do the right thing" not only encompasses health and safety, it requires us to perform our work in an environmentally responsible manner. We have developed processes and training to assist in the safe execution of work, but it takes more than that. It involves our people taking an active and constant interest in the prevention of incidents and the protection of our environment.
Our experience modification rate for 2019 is .698, which is a direct result of the efforts of our employees. Not only have we been able to keep our EMR rates below the national average, we have significantly reduced our recordable rate over the past several years.
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Recently, I went to an event at the Sunset Tavern in which an author I hadn't yet read talked to The Stranger's Paul Constant about his work, his likes and the comic he was writing, about an obscure rarely seen superhero called Omega The Unknown from the mid-seventies. This author's name was Jonathan Lethem, one of a trove of talented New York writers such as two other Jonathans, Safran Foer and Ames, as well as Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Norman Mailer. I enjoyed the talk quite a lot and proceeded afterwards to gather up his books into my collection, my ever burgeoning collection.
Lethem is one of a number a great new writers who are making it OK to give a nod at comics or genre without referring to them as one's "guilty pleasures." These guilty-pleasure-people are insecure about their image and have not given credit where it was due for too many years. Lethem recently completed a ten-issue series of the comic Omega The Unknown, published in 2006, after being offered the chance to write any comic he wanted. Apparently this very obscure superhero made an impact on him as a young man. Omega is an alien prototypical creation with superhuman strength, some psychokinetic powers and a psychic rapport with other organic Protar beings (the race from the planet Protaris in the Regreb System in the Milky Way Galaxy). Pretty cool.
In the realm of full-length genuine literature, he lays claim to many published works, most notably Fortress of Solitude (heavy reference to Superman), Chronic City (most recently) and Motherless Brooklyn (the book I implore you to read).
I would implore you to read Motherless Brooklyn. It is good. The main character/narrator, Lionel Essrog, is a Tourettic New Yorker in the employ of a seedy small-time gangster named Frank Minna at a quote unquote detective agency. Lionel Essrog, whose name itself is a Tourettic linguistic feast, details his past with his fellow Minna Men from their beginnings at home for orphans to the point of Frank Minna's death, from which unfolds a detective story of a wholly different kind. The story at times references Philip Marlowe, the private detective at the center of Raymond Chandler's crime novel The Big Sleep, a highly praised novel which Time thought to put in their 100 Best Novels published after 1923. Lethem obviously recognizes his influences.
This book had me reading it at any two minutes I had available. Lethem's ability to create a world of language around this character for which language is the ultimate compulsion was astounding. This book and this author have joined the ranks of my highest shelf (which is where I keep the books I love the most, and where it will shoulder Milan Kundera, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon and Philip K. Dick). I suggest this book highly and I will be reading further Lethem books myself.


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Your hiking holiday in the Austrian province of Salzburg
Hiking in Rauris - where else? With more than 295km of well-marked walks and alpine paths the Rauris Valley is part of the biggest and most beautiful hiking area in Europe.
The 4-star hiking hotel Rauriserhof is predestined to be your hiking holiday hotel in the Austrian province of Salzburg. On the one hand, this hotel in Rauris is in the middle of the walking paradise that is the Hohe Tauern National Park. On the other hand, the Rauriserhof is a member of the "European hiking hotels" association and specialises in holidays for hiking in Rauris. The 4-star hotel Rauriserhof guarantees you will have the perfect hiking holiday in Austria! The hiking hotel service of the Rauriserhof will provide you with all the important information, tours, tips and the right equipment for hiking in Rauris so your holiday amid the majestic mountain scenery of Salzburg province will be nothing but perfect.
Hiking in Rauris - experience nature in every season
The Hohe Tauern National Park in Salzburg has a unique natural spectacle ready for you in summer, just as in winter. The varied flora and fauna of Rauris comes to life in summer. However, people suffering from allergies and hay fever can still breathe deeply when hiking in Rauris because at around 2,000m the air is practically pollen-free. In the Salzburg region the fragrance of the alpine pastures accompanies you, marmots watch curiously from their holes and chamoix climb the mountain slopes during your summer holidays hiking in Rauris. Around 10,000 species of animals and a third of all the plant species in Austria live and prosper in the Hohe Tauern National Park.
In winter a white covering of snow lies over mountain and valley and numerous animals hibernate. During the cold season, Rauris in Salzburg is transformed into a romantic winter fairytale world in which you can take the most beautiful winter walks. Ask about the terrific hiking offers which the 4-star hotel Rauriserhof can arrange for your holiday hiking in Rauris.
You have come to the right place: the Rauriserhof is a specialist hotel for hiking in Rauris. Look forward to hiking in Rauris and discover many mountain climbs when hiking in Salzburg. Send your online enquiry: the team at the Rauriserhof will gladly arrange an individual hiking holiday package for you.


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This cheat sheet will give you access to our Heart Rate Monitor articles and resources. If you have questions that aren't answered here, please feel free to send us an email at email@example.com.
How Hard Should You Be Working?
How hard you should be working depends on a number of factors, and our best suggestion is to meet with a personal trainer to set up your heart rate device and to determine what zones you should be working in based on your own unique goals. Read more about how hard you should be working in our recent blog post:
When Your Heart Rate Monitor Doesn't Have a Visible ID Number - How Can You Pair It?
In some cases, compatible BYO heart rate monitors won't have their device ID visible anywhere on or in the device, and you'll need to take some extra steps to find that number so that you can set up your device to work in Elevate Classes (see instructions above). Here are the step by step instructions for those people who find themselves in this unique situation.
Step 1. Verify that your device is on the list of compatible devices here.
Step 2. Download an app to your phone called WASP Util (this can only be done on an iOS device currently):
Step 3. Go to your phone settings and connect to the network called Gold's Gym using the password goldsgymdigital
Step 4. n the WASP UTIL app, you should see the WiFi network listed at the top of this home screen. Additionally, you will see any receivers that are connected to that network:
Step 5. Click Sensors at the bottom of the screen. All types of devices will be displayed, organized by their type:
Step 6. Find the Heart Rate category. All Heart Rate monitors currently powered on will be listed in this section.
Step 7. The RSSI number to the right of a monitor indicates how close it is to the receiver (the screens in the club used to display heart rate information). The closer the number is to 0, the closer it is to the receiver. Using the Heart Rate monitor you would like to pair, bring it as close to the receiver as possible (make sure the device is on and actively reading a heart rate).
Step 8. The monitor's Device ID is the leftmost number shown. In the example above, the heart rate monitor's Device ID is 34815.
Step 9. Add the Device ID using the directions in the "Pairing For Classes" link at the top of this page.


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MK have been so incredibly poor lately that I really would not feel good betting on them right now. Their hours have been lower on steam than they usually are, which might indicate they are on some what of a break right now and are taking it easy. That would explain their sudden dip in performance. Anox looked good in most parts of the their game against HR but I find it hard to believe they will take down MK today. I will perhaps go LOW on Anox to take a map, as that seems like it might be possible, but if MK play their level, they should have this.
My odds for this match: MK 65:35 Anox
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Today i decided to try something new.
I am making a card for Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge.http://lordhavemercy-mercykerin.blogspot.com/
This is the first time I have participated in a challenge like this.
It was kind of fun, stretching my imagination.
I like the way my little card turned out.
I used Paper Trey Ink paper, and ribbon and button.
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Time spent with cats is never wasted.
—Colette (1873–1954) French Novelist, Performer
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
—Garrison Keillor (b.1942) American Author, Humorist, Radio Personality
We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior! They're confounded pretty, and that's all we know and all we need to know!
—H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American Science-fiction Writer
Cats only pretend to be domesticated if they think there's a bowl of milk in it for them.
—Robin Williams (b.1951) American Actor, Comedian
If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, "I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?"
—Bette Midler (b.1945) American Actress, Singer
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
—Jules Renard (1864–1910) French Writer, Diarist
Take a cat, nourish it well with milk
And tender meat, make it a couch of silk,
But let it see a mouse along the wall
And it abandones milk and meat and all.
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400) English Poet, Philosopher, Diplomat, Bureaucrat
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
—Robertson Davies (1913–95) Canada Journalist, Playwright, Academic, Critic, Novelist
It's too dangerous a journey to risk the cat's life.
—Charles Lindbergh (1902–74) American Aviator, Inventor, Conservationist


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The Chargers have agreed to terms with safety Adrian Phillips, Eric Williams of ESPN reports.
"We're very happy to have him back," Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco said.
Phillips, 26, has spent his entire career with the Chargers since signing as an undrafted free agent in 2014.
He made the Pro Bowl and All-Pro last season for his special teams play. He made 88 tackles, an interception, a forced fumble and nine pass breakups on defense.
In five seasons, Phillips has made 205 tackles, five interceptions, 18 pass breakups and two forced fumbles.


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WGC Cadillac Championships at Doral, the "Blue Monster." Day Three
Saturday, the third round of the Cadillac Championship continued to see Tiger Woods leading, and the rest chasing.
The final pairing consisted of Tiger Woods, and Graeme McDowell. McDowell began by making an eagle on the first hole. Tiger, who is playing some of his best golf in years, was unfazed. As McDowell faltered, Tiger made birdies or pars on every hole but one on the front nine.
His only other misstep was an unlucky occurrence on the 17th hole. His tee shot went to the right, missing the fairway. It lodged in the top of a palm tree, forcing him to take an "unplayable lie", and he bogeyed the hole.
Ahead of Tiger and Graeme were Phil Mickelson and Steve Stricker. They matched each other all day, and finished with a three day 13 under par.
Woods and McDowell stood at the 18th tee with Tiger's lead having been reduced to 3 at minus 17. He had been ahead by as many as 6 strokes during the round.
McDowell hit a tee shot that made his second difficult. He lofted it to the back of the green, leaving himself about 50 feet left, and a very difficult putt. Woods hit a perfect tee shot, and put him within 10 feet of the hole.
Miraculously, McDowell's stoke put him within a foot of the cup. He tapped it in and remained 14 under par. Woods proceeded to place his birdie putt in the center of the cup, moving him to 18 under par.
The last two pairings will be the same as today's. Tiger has never been caught with this much of a lead when he is wearing his Sunday Red Shirt.
James Turnage
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Conference Waves 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009 - 8:00pm to Friday, June 19, 2009 - 7:59pm
The 9th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Waves Propagation (Waves 2009) will be held at Pau, organised by INRIA. This conference is one of the main venues where significant advances in the analysis and computational modeling of wave phenomena and exciting new applications are presented.
Conference themes include but are not limited to forward and inverse scattering, nonlinear wave phenomena, fast computational techniques, high performance computing, numerical analysis, absorbing layers and approximate boundary conditions, analytic and semi-analytic techniques for wave problems, domain decomposition, guided waves, random media etc.
Pau, France
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Greystone Affordable Development is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greystone & Co., Inc. that focuses primarily on the development, recapitalization, and rehabilitation of affordable housing properties throughout the U.S. Greystone is dedicated to sustaining and expanding affordable housing by assisting both for-profit and non-profit owners, operators, and developers navigate the complexities and challenges associated with the development and preservation of their portfolios through strategic acquisition, disposition, rehabilitation, and construction of certain affordable housing assets.
Since its inception, the business has pioneered very complex Housing Tax Credit and Tax-Exempt Bond portfolio transactions – successfully completing the rehabilitation of over 12,500 units across the U.S. Our fast-growing organization is currently seeking a Pre-Construction Project Manager to join the Pre-Construction Team within the Construction Department, overseeing the administration and coordination of pre-construction activities. This person will support the execution of the Company's multi-family affordable development platform (new construction, rehabilitation, and mixed-use) by performing drawing analysis, providing oversight of third-party partners, analyzing construction costs and scopes of work, providing value engineering, and corresponding with funding agencies and clients, while effectively communicating with other team members and department leaders.
The ideal candidate will be a high-energy, results-oriented, self-starter who has demonstrable technical knowledge of the multi-family construction industry with the ability to work in a collegiate environment with architects, engineers, general contractors, and other professionals to produce superior client service. Candidates need to demonstrate an ability to handle multiple projects and work under the pressure of strict deadlines. This position requires a great deal of autonomy and accountability. Exceptional strength in Microsoft Office Suite with very strong attention to detail is a must.
This opportunity will be in our Raleigh, NC office and will require some travel throughout the U.S.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Execute, oversee, and optimize the pre-construction specifics of multiple portfolios/projects
- Interact daily with contractors and consultants to provide assistance and guidance in the preparation and coordination of deliverables such as scopes of work, capital need assessments, contract documents, schedule of values, submittals, contracts, applications, and permitting
- Work closely with partners to develop estimates and evaluate budgets
- Oversee the project timeline and progress of the pre-construction process through to closing and hand off to our field teams
- Facilitate defining a scope of work, construction goals, and stakeholder deliverables for each project
- Achieve the project objectives and controlling construction phase risk by applying current performance pro's and con's to upcoming projects to ensure the highest probability of accuracy in the scopes, quality in materials, schedules, and costs
- Multi-document review and quality control related to guiding agency requirements
- Attend and lead pre-construction meetings via conference calls and in-person meetings
- Identify potential problems and corrective actions that need to be implemented on current and future work in a timely manner
- Maintain accurate records by monitoring all document changes and costs associated
Experience, Skills, and Abilities Required
- A bachelor's degree from an accredited university in one of the following disciplines: Building Science, Engineering or Construction Management, Architectural/Engineering
- Minimum six (6) to eight (8) years of professional experience as an estimator and/or project manager for a general contractor, construction manager, design firm with CA experience, or a real estate development firm
- Professional experience and successful track record in building single-family, multifamily residential, hotels, student housing, or large commercial office properties in the Southeastern US
- Strong quantitative abilities in order to maintain and track cost estimates and project schedules
- Previous experience developing estimates and doing take-offs required
- Strong communication and listening skills with demonstrated leadership experience
- Able to work independently as well as in a collaborative team environment
- Display a high level of accuracy across multiple priorities while managing time effectively
- Intermediate to advanced competency in all Microsoft office products, including MS Project
- Working knowledge of affordable housing programs (LIHTC, HOME, HUD, etc.) or tax credit-based programs preferred
- Experience working with federal programs
- Must be resourceful, flexible and maintain the ability to react and respond quickly
- A valid driver's license
- Travel approximately 25% of time
- No travel restrictions (i.e. flights or long-distance driving)
Background Check: A satisfactory credit check and criminal check will be required as part of the selection process.
Job Functions
- Construction
- Project Management
Job Sector
- Alternative Investments
5+ to 7 years
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We've firmly entered into the age of data. Today, we're all walking, talking, data-generating engines. As standalone analog devices give way to connected digital devices, the latter will generate vast amounts of data that will, in turn, allow us the chance to refine and improve our systems and processes in previously unimagined ways. Big Data and metadata (data about data) will eventually touch nearly every aspect of our lives — with profound consequences. IDC found that by 2025, an average connected person anywhere in the world will interact with connected devices nearly 4,800 times per day — basically one interaction every 18 seconds.
It doesn't stop there. All of this data needs to be leveraged to both make our lives better and allow for business to be a lot more competitive. This is where smart technologies like AI and even machine learning come into play. Cumulatively known as 'cognitive systems,' these solutions can greatly step up the frequency, flexibility, and immediacy of data analysis across a range of industries, circumstances, and applications. In that same report, IDC estimates that the amount of the global datasphere subject to data analysis will grow by a factor of 50 to 5.2ZB in 2025; the amount of analyzed data that is "touched" by cognitive systems will grow by a factor of 100 to 1.4ZB in 2025.
That being said, terms like AI is really an umbrella term which encompasses a range of other technologies. One of those components is natural language processing (NLP). Basically, NLP allows you to create intelligent interactions between machines and humans. To fill the gap between people and machines, NLP leverages code, computational linguistics, and even computer science to help understand and even manipulate human language. So, natural language processing allows us to understand meaning behind various speech and human interaction processes. The resulting capabilities can include sentiment analysis, or the 'voice' of the customer, speech inference, relations and patterns between people and entire social groups, and even variations in market trends.
Let's expand on that point a little bit. That is, how can NLP impact big data? Regardless of the sector, every business today relies on large volumes of text information. For example, a law firm works with large amounts of research, past and ongoing legal transaction documents, notes, email correspondence as well as large volumes of governmental and specialized reference information. A pharmaceutical company will have large volumes of clinical trial information and data, doctor notes, patient information and data, patent and regulatory information as well as the latest research on competitors.
Because these types of data points are largely made up of language, natural language processing for big data presents an opportunity to take advantage of what is contained in especially large and growing stores of content to reveal patterns, connections and trends across disparate sources of data.
So, using data and cognitive systems, you can begin to understand and even visualize market, customer, and even specific service sentiment. This type of solution leverages data, natural language processing (NLP), and a host of other techniques to better understand what makes us, the consumer, happy (or sad). In using NLP, text analysis, computational linguistics, and biometrics we're able to understand 'the voice' of the customer. That's not all – you can also understand the sentiment around your competition.
So – Why don't people like a competitor's products? Or, what can you do to improve your own? Most of all, this data is both in real-time as well as historical. This rich market understanding absolutely helps create competitive advantages. Combine this with data visualization and you create an engine that continuously processes the market to give you a visual around what you can improve and what's being said about your products and services.
That said, here are some use-cases where you can use big data, NLP, and cognitive systems to better understand the 'voice' of your customers:
- Social media data ingestion to learn about trends, market concepts and purchasing patterns.
- Integrate with BI tools to visualize business trends and drill down into very specific market segments.
- Isolate market segments via social and Internet-based research to understand macro and micro trends.
- Create search capabilities around history, segment, user type, and other multi-dimensional data points to give you the deepest visibility into your market.
- Leverage cognitive systems to spot trends for you! This part is really cool. You can automate research processes to find data patterns and trends that you might miss entirely.
- Staying ahead of the market by constantly understanding customer and user market shifts. This allows you to stay ahead of trends and develop strategies around new and upcoming products.
Think of these tools are you own market 'oracle.' One that can see deeply into market trends and specifically analyze the data points that your business really needs to thrive. If anything, this is one of the most powerful tools to help you gain a competitive advantage. With an increasingly online customer base, social media, forums, and other online communication platform are fully of great market information. With solutions like NLP and sentiment analysis, organizations can understand what is being said about their brand and products, as well as "how" it's being talked about—how users feel about a service, product or concept/idea. You'll learn so much more about the market and about current and potential customers. These solutions will give you visibility into opinions, but also information about customer habits, preferences and needs/wants, as well as demographic information. From there, you can apply these trends, patterns, and analysis to product development, improving business intelligence, creating competitive opportunities, and enhancing market research.
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HOUSTON — Houston police have released the mugshot of the allegedly angry driver who plowed through a crowd of people early Thursday outside an LGBT nightclub in Montrose, according to the department. In total, investigators confirmed five bystanders were injured at one person was killed.
Cordale Robinson, 25, is charged with murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Police responded to Judy's Hamburger in the 2400 block of Grant Road at Hyde Park around 2:20 a.m.
Investigators said Robinson was jumped by a group of men before climbing into a 2011 silver Dodge Avenger and ramming through the parking lot, where the incident initially started. There were several dozen people in the parking lot at the time. Police said Robinson drove through the parking lot twice.
The suspect hit several innocent bystanders and multiple cars, according to officers.
The vehicle finally came to a stop after pinning a person against a fence. Investigators said the victim was taken to the hospital where he later died.
A second victim, 23, was hospitalized with injuries to his right leg and torso.
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These are devices that are bought to detect radio waves. As a matter of fact, radar detectors detect radio waves in a range of wavelengths X, K, Ka, and Ku. …Read More
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November 23, 6:45 p.m.
Dramedy | 99 min
French (English subtitles)
D: Cécilia Rouaud | 2018 |France
Vanessa Paradis, Camille Cottin, Pierre Deladonchamps,
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Chantal Lauby, Laurent Capelluto,
Marc Ruchman, Claudette Walker, Émilie Cazenave, Jean Aviat
18 years and older
Festival du Film français en Israël (2019)
Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (2019)
Berlin French Film Week (Germany, 2018)
Gabrielle is a "statue" for tourists, much to the chagrin of her teenage son. Elsa is angry at the world and desperate to become pregnant. Mao is a chronically depressed video game designer who drowns his melancholy in alcohol and psychoanalysis. They are brother and sisters but do not hang out. Ever. Their parents Pierre and Claudine, separated for a long time, have really done nothing to strengthen the bonds of the family - yet, at their grandfather's funeral, they are going to have to meet, and together answer the question: "What to do with grandma?"
Photo de famille unfolds with a mixture of tragedy and comedy. We laugh, we are moved, and the actors are a real treat.
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Cleverly mixing hilarious sibling battles with moments of burgeoning romance and touching, if fragile, reconciliation, Family Photo delivers laughs and tears in way that many films try, but few achieve so expertly.
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Histories of Post-Mortem Contagion
Infectious Corpses and Contested Burials
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Part of the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History book series (MBSMH)
Part of the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History book series (MBSMH)
This edited volume draws historians and anthropologists together to explore the contested worlds of epidemic corpses and their disposal. Why are burials so frequently at the center of disagreement, recrimination and protest during epidemics? Why are the human corpses produced in the course of infectious disease outbreaks seen as dangerous, not just to the living, but also to the continued existence of society and civilization? Examining cases from the Black Death to Ebola, contributors challenge the predominant idea that a single, universal framework of contagion can explain the political, social and cultural importance and impact of the epidemic corpse.


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The banged-up Yankees will soon be down another man.
Travis Lee is in the process of scheduling an appointment with orthopedic specialist Lewis Yocum for his ailing left shoulder, and the backup first baseman fears the prognosis could be bad.
Season-ending surgery is a distinct possibility. The DL is likely, if not imminent.
"It doesn't look good right now, put it that way," Joe Torre said.
Lee admitted he's setting up the appointment in California in order to be closer to his home if he needs to rehabilitate. The Yankees originally wanted Lee to see Dr. James Andrews in Birmingham, Ala.
"I can't be stupid about it," Lee said yesterday afternoon. "I'm not just keeping it completely out of my head. I have to be honest about the whole situation."
Although Lee didn't take batting practice Wednesday or yesterday, he insisted he would have been able to pinch-hit last night. He wasn't used, however, in the Yankees' 7-5 victory over Oakland.
"I don't think it's going to get any worse," he said. "It's already there."
Lee missed the beginning of the year while rehabilitating the balky hinge. He played seven games, going 2-for-19 (.105) with a double, one run and two RBIs.
With Bernie Williams at DH last night, Torre shuffled the outfield so that Hideki Matsui played center and Ruben Sierra received a start in left.
Matsui was a center fielder in Japan who earned three Gold Gloves.
"I called him in and said, 'Can you handle it?' " Torre said. "He said, 'I'll try.' He's got a great sense of humor."
In a rehab start for Single-A Tampa against Clearwater yesterday, Orlando Hernandez retired the side in order in the first inning on nine pitches. However, El Duque left the game for precautionary reasons due to tightness in his right shoulder.
He was evaluated after the start and will make his next start in five days.
Kenny Lofton (right quadriceps) was 1-for-4 with a single and three groundouts. Lofton played six innings in center, and Torre believes he may be ready by the end of the weekend.
"I don't think it's going to take him long," Torre said.


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It has been a very hectic couple of weeks for us here at the Patriotic Vanguard as we work on several projects at the same time, always focusing on the implementation of our five-year (2015-2020) business plan.
However here are my random thoughts on some issues affecting the country that we all love, Sierra Leone.
Water, water, everywhere
There is a lot of water everywhere in Sierra Leone: Streams, rivers, lakes, the deep blue sea and underground. In some parts of the country you only need to dig a few feet and up comes the water.
So people anywhere in Sierra Leone should not be complaining about lack of water to drink. It's like living near a river and washing your hands with spittle. Yes, government has the obligation to provide clean drinking water for the people and other amenities but sometimes the people too can dig wells and find ways to capture rain water when the rains arrive each year. Simple.
I always find it annoying to see teenagers from Western countries barely out of high school going to Africa to help Africans dig wells or even try to teach them how to farm. This is outrageous. Africans know how to dig wells and how to farm! All they need are tools, equipment and better seeds and seedlings.There are so many things going wrong in Africa.
Sierra Leone-Liberia Highway
Bravo to President Koroma and the EU for finally getting this project off the ground. I remember hearing about this construction of this road as a young adult in Sierra Leone over three decades ago. Work on it was negatively affected in the past by the incompetence of previous governments and the civil war. It looks like the EU has full confidence in President Koroma and his government to be ready and willing to invest so much in this road which will make trade between Sierra Leone and Liberia much easier and more profitable.
SLPP Violence
Sierra Leone's main opposition party, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) is in a mess. They are always heaping insults on each other and fighting each other. What's wrong with them? They have to stop this nonsense.
Sierra Leone needs a vibrant opposition (but not a violent one) to point out the loopholes in governance as is done in most democracies.
Can the SLPP deliver on that? I doubt it. I have not seen that happen since 2007 when the ruling APC returned to power.


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Luke G. Williams
19/05/2016 10:54am
Luke G. Williams argues that Fury-Klitschko 2 is the only genuine World Heavyweight Championship fight on the horizon …
Regular readers of Boxing Monthly online, specifically my 'Ranking the Heavyweight Champions' series, may already be aware of the strictly lineal approach I take towards the World Heavyweight Championship.
Nevertheless, in the lead-up to the Joshua versus Breazeale and Fury versus Klitschko fights in June and July respectively – and at the risk of sounding like a broken record - I think it is an approach worth restating.
In short, I believe that the description of 'World Heavyweight Champion' only applies to 38 men from the Queensbury Rules era of boxing and that the many other spurious 'belt holders' who have popped up over the years are best ignored.
Such an approach is born of what seems to me to be inescapable logic – namely that in boxing you can only call yourself 'the champion' if you defeat the man who is already regarded as the champion.
In other words, championships should be decided in the ring, and not on the spurious and self-interested whims and kneejerk reactions of sanctioning bodies, TV companies, fight promoters or high court judges.
Few people talk about it or refer to it these days, but it is worth remembering that in the long history of gloved heavyweight boxing, stretching back to the late 19th century and the swaggering supremacy of John L. Sullivan, the precious lineage of the World Heavyweight title has only been definitively ruptured on three occasions – namely, after the retirements of Gene Tunney, Rocky Marciano and Lennox Lewis.
After Tunney and Marciano's departures from the sport, a new lineage was established by popular consent which enabled the heavyweight crown to retain its lustre, and as such the principle of being 'the man who beat the man' upon which the whole foundation of boxing was built retained its validity and status.
Post-Lewis, the heavyweight picture was more fragmented, of course. Nevertheless, only a fool or someone with no appreciation or care for boxing's wonderfully rich history or the concept of sporting integrity would deny that right now there is only one World Heavyweight Champion – and that man is Tyson Fury.
True, the man that Fury conquered so cunningly last November, Wladimir Klitschko, may not have been able to boast that he was the 'man who beat the man who beat the man…', but in the (thankful) absence of a Lewis comeback, the Ukrainian repelled every reasonable heavyweight contender you could name during a staggering eleven-year unbeaten run.
In doing so, Klitschko established a new heavyweight lineage of his own - hence why, when Fury deposed him, the Whythenshawe-born Irish traveller became simultaneously the man and also the man to beat.
The forthcoming rematch between Fury and Klitschko is therefore a sporting event seldom seen on British soil – namely a bout for the lineal, undisputed World Heavyweight title – a prize that once was, and should still be, the most prized and hallowed in all of sport.
Search back through the history books and you will find that there have only been five previous contests for the lineal heavyweight title in the UK – Tommy Burns versus Gunner Moir and then Jack Palmer in 1907 and 1908, Muhammad Ali versus Henry Cooper and then Brian London in 1966 and Lennox Lewis versus Frans Botha in 2000.
All those fights, incidentally, took place in London, meaning that Fury-Klitschko 2 is the first non-London based fight in the UK for the genuine World Heavyweight Championship.
My advice, then, is to forget about Joshua versus Breazeale - a near meaningless scrap for an utterly meaningless 'title' which is, in truth, merely a grubby pay-per-view money grab.
Yes, yes, yes - I know - the BBC website, which should, but doesn't, know better, may have led you to believe that Anthony Joshua is "his country's sixth bona fide* heavyweight world champion".
But they are wrong.
Joshua might, at some point in the unknowable future, become 'our' fourth Heavyweight Champion (the others being Fitzsimmons, Lewis and Fury), but right now he is a mere contender.
So, boxing fans, please, ignore Joshua, forget about Wilder versus S/O, and neglect to even countenance the possibility that any other possible configuration of heavyweights fighting each other represents anything other than an elimination contest for the chance to fight for the real heavyweight title …
Tyson Fury versus Wladimir Klitschko on 9 July is the only Heavyweight World Championship fight currently scheduled for this year and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
*(Incidentally, the literal meaning of 'bona fide' is 'genuine, authentic, true' as well as 'without deception or fraud'. Yet what else is Joshua's IBF 'title' but a specious and deceptive accessory? Let's not forget this belt was 'earned' by KO-ing a man on the (very) outer fringes of world class who had beaten another man on the outer fringes of world class whose knee had given way. These two men on the outer fringes of world class were only fighting for the IBF 'title' because the genuine champion had agreed to a rematch with the man he had just beaten – a perfectly acceptable first move to make as World Heavyweight Champion, for which there are multiple historical precedents. I may not agree with everything Tyson Fury says, but when I read that he had remarked that the IBF title was "worthless", and that he would gladly "throw it on the floor and piss on it", I punched the air in agreement.)


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Sloat, California
Sloat is a charming small town and great base to consider if you are looking for discount accommodation within easy reach of Plumas National Forrest. If you are interested in exploring the remote beauty of this region, the Backcountry Discovery Trail may be for you. Whether you are doing the whole thing (146-miles) at 30-50-miles per day or a small portion, this rugged trail is a challenging hike and not for the faint hearted. If you are looking for something easier, the Bucks Lake Wilderness Gold Lake Trailhead is a 1.5-mile hike and is something the whole family will enjoy.


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Examples Of True Love, As Translated For The Tinder Era
Online dating has all but taken the place of real-life meeting and flirting. And that may seem like a downside of the practice — what are rom-coms for if not to instill the expectation of our very own meet-cute? But you can have an adorable is-this-it encounter, aka, that moment you know it's love, or could be love, or at least that you would really like to meet this person IRL, on Tinder. Take the seven conversations ahead. They express the same sentiments that might just have given our elders the maybe-this-person-is-special feels but — semi-dream scenario alert — you can experience them without peeking out from behind your phone.
The Multiple-Choice Note Passed In High School
You know the one: It says "Do you like X?" Yes/No/Maybe. It worked then, and it works now.
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When You Bond By Commiserating At A Work Function
Neither of you is thrilled to be here, but here you are, so you might as well laugh at it together.
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The Cheesy Pick-Up Artist You Finally Give Into
Sure, you weren't into his pick-up line the first time, but at some point his persistence became charming.
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The Coworker You Fall For Over Email
A typo might be low stakes, but a comeback like this is a sign of good things to come.
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The Person You Lose Track Of Time Talking To
You think it's been a few minutes, but it's really been hours.
The Joke That Could Be Sarcastic Or Flirtatious
If you need to ask yourself if someone is flirting with you, they're flirting with you.
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The Stranger You Lock Eyes With At The Hotel Buffet
This is that moment you both reach for the same '90s breakfast that nobody eats anymore but is quite possibly absolutely the best.