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Wall Street Journal Online – April 2, 2007
This article is relevant to all people, if you believe in global warming or not. Regardless of your beliefs, there are very strong geopolitical reasons to break the liquid fuel monopoly that oil has on the modern day human population. Efforts to create a viable source of liquid (or gaseous) fuel that can be used to fuel our insatiable transportation needs are very important in the world economy. It would be great if that alternative liquid fuel would be more eco-friendly causing less pollution and it wouldn't hurt to have it spit out more CO2 regardless of whether carbon dioxide is affecting climate change or not.
For any alternative liquid fuel to survive, there must be enough of a supply to create a demand. This is obviously not Econ 101 but it is in the interests of the US government to create incentives for stations to stock these fuels and to push auto manufacturers to create vehicles to burn the fuel. This is not simply about climate change or global warming – it is about the geopolitics of oil and its source countries. I understand that oil companies need to protect their brand names and enforce standards among franchisees but the logical conclusion is that they should be create alternative fuel sources to sell to their customers or they might be out of the fuel business one day (just like most railroad companies are out of the people transportation business now – none of the old railroads operate airlines).
This was on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. I know that many of my readers do not have access to this article as it requires a subscription so I will be a little more liberal in my grabbing of their original content below however there is still a lot of great content that I haven't reproduced. I hope that this doesn't get me in trouble with the good folks at Wall Street Journal. As always, I encourage you to click through the link below or buy their newspaper.
President Bush, domestic auto makers, farmers and others tout ethanol as a home-grown alternative to imported oil. Across the Midwest, plants that make the fuel out of corn are multiplying at a torrid pace. Yet so far, only a tiny fraction of U.S. service stations let a driver fill up with ethanol. There are a number of reasons, but one big one is resistance from oil companies. Although some oil executives voice enthusiasm for alternative fuels, oil-company policies make it harder for many service stations to stock a fuel called E85, a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline.
These policies are hardly the only barrier to wider use of the ethanol fuel. Demand is limited by the small number of vehicles that can burn it — only about 5% of those on the road in America. It can be slightly costlier to burn E85, even though it costs less per gallon, because a car doesn't go as far on a gallon of the ethanol fuel as on gasoline. These demand restraints would limit service-station owners' enthusiasm for spending on the equipment needed to offer E85 even if the policies of the oil companies were not a factor.
But those policies add a significant extra obstacle. Oil companies lose sales every time a driver chooses E85, and they employ a variety of tactics that help keep the fuel out of stations that bear the company name. For instance, franchises sometimes are required to purchase all the fuel they sell from the oil company. Since oil companies generally don't sell E85, the stations can't either, unless the company grants an exception and lets them buy from another supplier.
Contracts sometimes limit advertising of E85 and restrict the use of credit cards to pay for it. Some require that any E85 pump be on a separate island, not under the main canopy.
Less than 1% stock E85. Some experts say that to really take hold and be seen as a viable alternative to gasoline, the fuel would have to be available at, roughly, 10% of stations.
Among those pressing for wider use of E85 are domestic auto makers, especially Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. Ethanol is one energy initiative where they're out in front of Japanese car makers.
Owner Phil Becker says the governor wanted the state's vehicles to use E85 and targeted his station as a popular stop for state workers. He says BP PLC let him get the fuel from a non-BP supplier, and the Illinois Corn Growers Association gave him $100,000 for new tanks and pumps that BP required. "Because I've got E85 and we've advertised it, we've had four or five farmers that traded their trucks to get E85 vehicles," Mr. Becker says.
A ConocoPhillips memo to franchisees says the company doesn't allow E85 sales on the primary island, under the covered canopy where gasoline is sold. Stations must find another spot. As a result, it isn't quite as simple for a driver to decide on the spur of the moment to fill up with E85. ConocoPhillips declines to comment.
A Chevron Corp. agreement with franchisees also appears to discourage selling E85 under the main canopy. It says dealers offering alternative fuels cannot "deceive the public as to the source of the product," a phrase that some gas-station interests interpret to mean that E85 can't be sold under the main canopy. Chevron says it recommends, but doesn't require, that E85 pumps be outside the canopy.
Chevron says it requires Chevron- and Texaco-branded stations to keep "E85" off their primary signs listing fuel prices. To show the fuel's price, and alert approaching drivers that E85 is for sale, the stations have to erect a separate sign.
At BP, guidelines for stations that carry the company name bar any mention of E85 on signs on gasoline dispensers, perimeter signs or light poles. The stations also can't let buyers use pay-at-the-pump credit-card machines.
Mr. Lamberty mocks BP's "Beyond Petroleum" slogan: "It's 'beyond petroleum' but not so far beyond petroleum that it would contain anything but petroleum," he says.
E85 also faces barriers having nothing to do with Big Oil, like the limited number of cars that can burn it. Domestic auto makers have vowed to double production of flex-fuel vehicles to about two million a year by 2010 and to make half of their new vehicles sold in America E85-capable by 2012.
ADM, whose yearly output of 1.1 billion gallons is more than 20% of the domestic ethanol market, says it is happy to sell E85 if someone wants it, but that is a "very small" part of its business. "Near term, we have focused more attention on the" additive side, says an ADM executive, Edward Harjehausen.
Even the main ethanol lobbying group in Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association, has focused mostly on developing the market for the fuel as an additive. "If you have a pump that sells E85 but you don't have customers pulling up to that pump, why do you want to bother?" says Bob Deneen, its chief lobbyist.
Because ethanol is more corrosive than gasoline, there's some concern it could leak out of a standard dispensing system and spark a fire. No E85 dispensing system — nozzles, hoses, pumps — has been certified by Underwriters Laboratories, the organization that tests the safety of products. In October, UL suspended certification of parts that had been certified for use in E85 systems. Though there hadn't been any reports of problems, UL said it decided it needed to do its own safety research. Results aren't expected until late this year.
Among those trying to overcome obstacles to E85 are the domestic auto makers. They have built flex-fuel vehicles for years because doing so gives them "credits" in their efforts to meet federal fuel-economy standards. Without the credits, Ford and GM wouldn't have met mileage goals for light trucks in 2003, 2004 and 2005 and would have owed fines. The mileage goals pose a bigger challenge to Detroit because of its heavy reliance on large, thirsty vehicles. Foreign makers generally haven't resorted to building flex-fuel cars to meet the mileage goals. For Detroit, the credits applied even if the flex-fuel cars they built never actually burned ethanol. For a long time, the auto makers said little about ethanol, and many owners of flex-fuel cars didn't know they had them. But when gasoline prices surged in 2005 and 2006, GM and Ford saw their flex-fuel cars as a way to counter their image as gas-guzzler makers.
Among ethanol backers' recruits are two grocery chains. Kroger installed E85 at about 40 stations in Ohio and Texas. Privately held Meijer Inc. did the same in Michigan and Indiana.
Wal-Mart could provide a significant boost. It said last year it was considering selling E85 at its 388 company-owned stations but hasn't made a decision.
The U.S. tax code acts as a stimulus. Service-station owners can get a credit of up to $30,000 for their outlays to convert equipment to sell E85.
Some states have done their bit to spur the market. New York enacted a bill last year that barred oil companies from requiring stations to buy all of their fuel from the companies.
In the Albany area, station owner Christian King has begun selling E85 at one of his three Mobil outlets and plans to do so at a second. He says Mobil's restrictions still mean he can't put the price of E85 on the main sign or let drivers charge it on their Mobil credit cards.
Adding E85 "is a personal thing," Mr. King says. "I'm trying to do anything I can to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. And if this thing kicks off, I'm in a position to benefit."
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Did you know that it's Banned Books Week? It is.
I've had this copy of Fahrenheit 451 since I can't even remember when. I might have bought it from my college bookstore during my undergrad years, or I could have found it on my brother's bookshelves (and, you know, he wasn't using it…). But I have never read it, somehow. A little surprising, in all my years of studying literature. A lot of people read it in primary/secondary school, before going on to college, but it was never required reading for me.
A few months ago I came across an excerpt from this book on some website, and it was bumped much higher on my reading list, but I wanted to finish some other ones first. But I know this book has been/is banned in many places over the years, and it's pretty short, so it seemed the perfect option.
For those of you who want to participate with an easier option, you could always read Harry Potter, or a number of children's picture books that were/are banned (like And Tango Makes Three, a book with gay penguins that is really just about love and acceptance).
There are many lists of banned books online you could browse to find one to read. And you can read them any time, not just this week! Have fun being a rebel.

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Kozi (Illuminati // Dress version) - Malice Mizer
|This costume took a LOT of squinting at pictures and watching of video clips to fathom out (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!)
In fact, I have a feeling that the skirt of the dress has a couple of splits concealed amongst the folds but I decided to forego that detail in favour of not flashing my thighs at people!
I chose to make it because it looked like a relatively simple cosplay to make, and at the time I hadn't had too much experience with sewing. Of course, I didn't think of what a pain it is to sew vinyl or that I'd end up painstakingly handsewing the ruff and pompoms!
The hardest part would definitely be the three pompoms. They're not even visible in a lot of promo shots of Kozi, but I'm a stickler for detail. Since they're fluffy pompoms (as opposed to wool ones) I decided to make them out of marabou. I ended up covering some small polystyrene balls with fabric and then stitching marabou trim onto it - which was really time-consuming!
Making the ruff was also time consuming...^^; But on the plus side, through making this cosplay I learnt how to put together a basic ruff ^_^
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Proposition 23 is a ballot initiative that would suspend the state's landmark mandate that requires California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Politico is reporting that Schwarzenegger is putting on a full-court press to defeat the effort.
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A Good Day to Die Hard – 2 out of 5
Damn…I really wanted to like this movie. I was excited for it when I saw the trailer and sat down with anticipation that I would get some awesome McClane/Yippi-Kay-Ya, Motherfucker action…but I didn't get that. Instead, I got a Die Hard film that just was utterly disappointing…but at least it gave me some decent action. That's got to count for something…right?
So, John McClane is back and he is getting all Comrade all over your vodka-chugging asses (whoa…did I just get racist against Russians?). After finding out his son was put in prison for murder, McClane (Bruce Willis—but like I really had to say who played him, COME ON!) travels to the country that, according to movies, is made entirely out of vodka, overcast skies, abandoned factories that are used for housing insane raves full of people in a lot of fur and leather and loads of snow—he went to Russian, is what I'm trying to say. Soon he finds his son Jack (Jai Courtney) after he breaks free from being detained and John finds out that his son is actually a spy sent to stop a nuclear heist from going down. Now, the McClane crew must work together to kick some ass…and…I don't know…make their enemies die hard? (There, that is my obligatory stupid use of the title in the review that most critics are so fond of and think it makes them awesome.)
|Jack's shirt isn't red...it's just stained with the blood of his enemies.
I really, REALLY wanted to like this movie because I'm a fan of the Die Hard films (yes, even Live Free or Die Hard—I await your negative comments about how I'm wrong and stupid and should die for liking a movie you hate) but I was so incredibly disappointed with this one. However, I was filled with such optimism that McClane wouldn't let me down that it wasn't until the movie was practically over that I was honest with myself and admitted that I found the film to be boring, unimaginative and just something that looks like it was thrown together last minute.
|Do you really wanna die hard with that face on your mug, McClane?
|Nice Hans Gruber impression...very detailed.
|"My dad is just a regular guy...which is how I learned to become a
super spy."
This time, there is no semblance. Whether it be John leaping out of a 30th floor window and landing safely or standing in the open and fire at a never-ending horde of enemies and not getting his ass shot enough times to give him rapper street cred a million times over or walking away from car crash after car crash with just a couple of cuts on the top of his bald head (remember, he had hair when this franchise started…but, I guess, if you can't go a year or two without having to fight some form of terrorists or their revenge-happy brother, you would probably lose your hair too), McClane is no longer the man he was when the series started (in more ways than just his hair)—but that's understandable because a character has to develop over time—but he, somewhere along the way, was injected with whatever Captain America has in his veins, ingested some of The Hulk's piss, had a blood transfusion from Spidey or is, secretly, another lost son of Krypton because he is no longer the cop running barefoot through broken glass to stop Alan Rickman and is now, basically, a superhero and it's kinda annoying.
|"I shared needles with Superman today, son. We can fly now."
|When you're a villain that built and that covered in
tattoos, you're legally required to not wear a shirt.
|Not a single person survived...but these crashes were by people hoping to block
out McClane's constant shouting.
While it was cool to see John get to reunite with his son (who is really only established and nothing more throughout the franchise) and have an adventure with him (having his daughter added to the mix was another thing I enjoyed about LFODH…IMDb users are warming up their "you're a faggot" comments) but the writers completely skipped over the rich, fertile land of dramatic tension this could bring to fruition (because Jack has some Daddy issues) and, instead, made Jack a super spy with the same superhuman abilities as his father. This just ends up further pushing the line that this film is just another generic action film.
|"Why didn't you buy me that Nintendo, Dad! I hate you and your constant
saving the day from terrorism."
|I'm assuming this leads to a Stargate or a star-like
|"Unlimited ammo, noobs. LOL!"
Aside from these very harmful factors, the rest of the film is…decent. Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney are adequate in their roles while the rest of the cast is…well, there. The action sequences are passable and are over-the-top in such a way that they are memorable but, at the same time, are TOO over-the-top so they end up becoming too ridiculous to really appreciate. I also enjoyed that they decided against trying to appeal to a mass audience and just went with the much appreciated R-rating (that was the one thing I didn't like about Live Free or Die Hard—but then they made it up to me with the Unrated DVD release!).
|At least another 20 innocent villains died to kill the 6 bad guys pictured.
|Insert your own J.J. Abrams joke.


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New Material for Ice Creamusume?
It's been almost eight months since Ice Creamusume released their debut mini-album in Taiwan and Japan, and the girls released it in Mainland China at the beginning of this month. I'm certainly eager for some more material from them either in Mandarin or Japanese!
One of the girls have mentioned on their blogs that they are in recording for something right now and the blog will undergo a revamp later this month – possibly to promote their next release. If they follow the patterns of most other artists in Taiwan it's like to be another mini-album or EP, perhaps even a full length album. Singles are somewhat more rare in a Taiwanese context.
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By Claude Rawson
Jonathan Swift, whom T. S. Eliot called "colossal," "the greatest writer of English prose, and the greatest man who has ever written great English prose," died on 19 October 1745. Every year on a Saturday near that day, a gathering of admirers meet for a symposium in his honour, in the Deanery of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, where Swift lived and worked for the last thirty years of his life. The event is hosted by Swift's present-day successor as Dean of the Cathedral, and is followed on Sunday by a lay sermon by a well-known Irish person, a distinguished writer, for example, like the novelist Anne Enright, or, more recently in 2012, the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins.
This great English writer, dean of an Anglican church in a Roman Catholic country, who regarded Ireland as a place of exile, is nowadays honoured as one of the political as well as literary giants of Irish history. When the three hundredth anniversary of his birth was commemorated in Dublin in 1967, an earlier President, Eamon de Valera, gave the opening address, accompanied by several members of the government. In no other English-speaking country is it usual for a writer to be officially honoured at the highest political level, by national leaders who in addition give every indication of having read his works. Swift is also a hero of the streets, even to people who haven't read him. Dublin taxi-drivers who ask you what brings you to the city give you brownie points if you say you are working on Swift. "Oh Swift, that's great, Swift is great. He's the one who drove the English out." Well, he wasn't. He wanted the English in Dublin to be rid of the English from London, and he didn't much like the Irish natives, but as de Valera (an old revolutionary fighter) understood, Swift knew that the essential thing was first to get London out of Irish affairs.But there is more. Ireland honours its writers, including the Protestant writers, more naturally and profoundly than England or the United States. Both Yeats and Shaw were invited to serve in the Irish Senate at its inception. Shaw said he would only come if the Senate moved to London, but Yeats became a distinguished Senator, of admired wisdom and eloquence. "We are the people of Swift," he said of the heroes of the Protestant Ascendancy, "one of the great stocks of Europe." He was responding to Catholic senators who objected to a Protestant speaking in favour of divorce. They did not vote for divorce, but beyond the most passionate partisanship, there is a natural feeling throughout Irish society, percolating down to the unlettered street, that literature matters, and that their writers, whether English or not, are national treasures. My taxi-driver, who took it for granted that "Swift was great," asked me, "if there was one book by Swift he should read, what would it be?" When I suggested Gulliver's Travels, he exclaimed, "Did he write Gulliver's Travels?" The name alone of the great Swift had hitherto been enough.
Gulliver's Travels is an Irish book, and not flattering, either to the Irish or to anyone else. The humanoid Yahoos of Part IV are based on a common view of the Irish natives, and the name has subsequently been used as a synonym for them. The Yahoos are given features "common to all savage Nations," including, improbably, thick lips, flat noses, and hairy bodies, which were stereotypes of the imperial imagination. This is not, despite appearances, an expression of vulgar "racism," even allowing for the fact that conceptions of racial difference, and superiority, though not edifying, were less charged with the kind of exacerbated malignity that would be assumed in our own political climate. Swift's position about despised or pariah groups differs from most others, however, is that he is not saying "we" are better than "them," but that they are indeed as bad as they are described to be, while "we" are exactly like them. The features of the despised race are baldly confronted, and then reappraised as common to humanity, with an additional sting to the effect that we, their civilized or Christian betters, are if anything worse, not better. The conquest of American Indians is described in the final chapter as more barbaric than the Indians themselves, but the book as a whole gives us little reason to think well of the latter. The Yahoos, "all savage Nations," are in fact not Irish but, like the Irish and "us," merely human.
The message is bleak, but it is not "racist." Unsurprisingly, some readers have shrunk from it, especially in the benignly conformist climate of university literature departments, which prefer their authors to be sanitized to the prevailing idea of political virtue. Swift did not write to be liked, however, and non-academic readers, exemplified by Thackeray in a famous essay, who found Gulliver's Travels disturbing or even unbearable were closer to Swift than readers who welcome it as a tolerant and broadminded fable written by a Guardian or New York Times columnist. Neither shocked indignation, nor complacent approval, does justice to a great masterpiece, which subjects humanity to a raw exposure of its degraded animal bleakness. T. S. Eliot got it right, as so often, when he said he considered Gulliver's Travels, "with King Lear as one of the most tragic things ever written."
Claude Rawson is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of several books on Swift, Fielding and other eighteenth-century authors, and of numerous articles and reviews both in specialist journals and in the Times Literary Supplement, New York Times Book Review and London Review of Books. He has edited Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift for Oxford World's Classics.
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Even so, what can God give us? Do we really need him in our world? What have these people gained from talking to him?
Conversations With God
Posted 23 January 2005 - 02:00 PM
Even so, what can God give us? Do we really need him in our world? What have these people gained from talking to him?
Posted 23 January 2005 - 02:24 PM
Visit a psychiatric institution and you'll see a couple of people talking with god, if the shrink or the nurses are kind enough to tell the name of the condition for what they are treated for, most of the time it is schizophrenia.
Hearing god talking is not something that rare among schizophrenics, in fact, after "paranoiac" inducing auditive hallucinations, it is one of the most common auditive hallucinations. And it even happens among "schizoaffective" mild forms of schizophrenia, where the "negative" symptoms are not that apparent, in fact most sect figures claiming such, have more chances to have mild schizophrenia than the full blown one, with the obvious negative symptoms following.
First thing first, even for a believer in a god, such a story should be suspicious at best, since it is not a Marry apparition, or some Saint guy, or a statue talking etc. it is "god" in person, the said creator of the entire universe, having chosen one guy to talk with.
In fact, this alone, with his delusions would be considered by a schrink as the 2 major positive symptoms of the condition, with a possible diagnosis.
I am not telling that he is a psychotic, I would tend to believe that he is a liar having found a way to steal peoples hard earned money with his stories. Have I read the book? No I did not, only hearing him having communicated with god in question is enough to decide to NOT read the book.
Even a priest will tend to take such stories as fables than genuine, because, it is not about a saint, or Marry etc. it is "God" in person, it would take such a big ego to actualy believe that the said creator of everything will actualy bother communicating with a mortal that is not more or less "pure" than any other people. Even mother Theresa didn't come up with such a story.
Edited by Fadix, 23 January 2005 - 03:03 PM.
Posted 23 January 2005 - 03:38 PM
I guess it's the caring, nurturing, educator in me that hates to see a good mind go to waste down the wrong line of reasoning. I will give you examples:
1. If God exists, and God is limitless and all powerful, then why is God portrayed as limited in the Bible ... why does God need time to do things, to observe people, and to hand punishment/reward?
2. If humans were created right from the beginning, how do we explain dinosaurs or cave men? Maybe evolution doesn't explain them, but creation doesn't either so why believe in one or the other?
3. Why did such a powerful God need such a rediculous way of getting his message to his creations ... aka a book and some guy who died for everyone else's sins? Don't tell me it's a God thing I wouldn't understand either!
Why do I keep questioning all these? Because I refuse to be a Lemming and just accept things because some guy in a pointy hat in a building with a pointy top waving a round metal object with smoke coming out of it tells me it is so while I constantly have to get up and and sit down when some other dude in the background is doing his best impression of the worst on American idiol.
Edited by Sip, 23 January 2005 - 03:39 PM.
Posted 23 January 2005 - 04:10 PM
That's the difference, those who would like to speak with God make an effort and succeed. Most people do not care, as you say do not need God. It is normal that they don't speak with God. And those who have spoken to God have gained knowledge and wisdom, and other things which you can get the sense if you read them... I can't tell in a few words
Posted 23 January 2005 - 04:28 PM
When the creation starts he creates time and space first. Than he descendes into time and space to continue the creation. The creation of global limits refers to the creation of human brain.
Posted 23 January 2005 - 04:29 PM
Anoushik, what may be true for yourself wouldn't mean a thing to someone else. Truth is something relative for each person. There is no right or wrong in these matters.
Posted 23 January 2005 - 04:31 PM
1. If God exists, and God is limitless and all powerful, then why is God portrayed as limited in the Bible ... why does God need time to do things, to observe people, and to hand punishment/reward?
Have you read the Bible? I haven't read it in full, but I get the impression that God is portrayed exactly as unlimited, not limited. BTW, there are many other scriptures, Bible is just one set of them.
Who said that humans were created right from the beginning?
What is ridiculous? It is your subjective feeling that it is ridiculous. Most people do not find it ridiculous. But that's not the point, the point is everyone can get God's message, if he/she really desires - without messangers and books. But many people prefer an easy way of getting messages from human messangers. If you knew a little more you would know that there have been other messengers who have brought the same messages in different words and different circumstances.
BTW, what makes you angry? The thought that God may know something that you would not understand? Well, who said that you would understand everything. You are not omniscient
It seems to me that you have some gross misconceptions. Perhaps a churchman tells you you must believe in this and that. So what? God is not limited in a churchman's mind or in books.
There is such a big variety in spiritual practices and in religions. You and I are talking about very different things. You heard some things about the church, Bible and that is what you are talking about. I am more of a universalist. When I talk about spirituality I have a wide range of different spiritual practices, different books, different figures in mind. I sense that the messages are the same in all of this, the difference lies on the surface and in the wording. The message I have gotten is this - we are all equally capable of knowing God, there is not a single human being that if he/she wishes cannot be like Jesus or Buddha. So, your argument does not make much sense to me, because I am not claiming the things that you are assuming I am claiming.
Posted 23 January 2005 - 06:32 PM
I understand that.
Posted 24 January 2005 - 12:10 PM
Truth is NOT relative it is an ABOSOLUTE.
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Whatever happened to Sasun? Didn't he become a priest or something?
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On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reacted to President Elect Donald Trump's proposal to impose term limits on Congress through a Constitutional amendment. McConnell said, "It will not be on the agenda in the Senate." McConnell, one of the old guard political elite, has rejected term limits in the past (imagine that). "I would say we have term limits now — they're called elections."
McConnell doesn't get it. He believes when Mr. Trump takes office, it will be business as usual. He believes he will decide what the citizens of this Country need. He believes he can ignore the will of the people and treat us as nothing more than an annoyance - shaking us off like a horse shuddering away nettlesome flies on a hot summer day.
I can only say this... McConnell and any like minded establishment politicians inside the Beltway had better get up to speed with the reality and force of the anger and frustration in this Country and realize we voted Mr. Trump into office to "Drain the Swamp!"
It would seem to me that McConnell is standing waste deep in the stinking mire that is the D.C. swamp - unaware the drain plug is about to be pulled from the slimy bottom of the quagmire - right where he is standing.
So let me put him straight.
Dear Mr. McConnell,
We the people - the angry, frustrated, wounded and degraded Americans of this once great Country - have had enough! We did not vote Mr. Trump into office so some despicable, arrogant, two-bit hustler like yourself, who is looking out only for himself and other like minded career Politicians, will now stand there and tell us you are going to do what you want - and not what the people of this Country voted for.
Do you think you are immune? Do you believe that all the outrage that spilled forth like a giant tsunami during this election cycle is going to dissipate just because the election is over? Do you think the rage and anger of the Trump voters was aimed only at Hillary Clinton and the Progressive faction of the Democrats? Please tell me you aren't that stupid.
Then again, maybe you are.
Rest assured, Mr. Majority Leader, by flat-out refusing to bring Term Limits to the floor of the Senate, you are deaf to the death knell ringing for you and your smug, condescending, corrupt brethren. Stonewalling the people's choice in a pompous and disdainful attempt to maintain your stranglehold over a no longer unsuspecting populace, will most certainly end up in a loud, messy, humiliating and very public, political suicide.
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How dare you put your political interests ahead of the will of the American people!
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If you intend to go down this road, to stymie the voice of the people who fought to put Mr. Trump into office, to be so completely and utterly clueless as to ignore the train bearing down on you, then you have made a fatal mistake, a horrific error in judgement of epic proportions.
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In the last decade, over a quarter of the working-age population was uninsured. As health care costs rise, health insurance is the only way to create some predictability with out-of-pocket medical expenses. But medical insurance and medical services are becoming more and more costly, leaving many Americans without affordable coverage and vulnerable to financial disaster should a medical emergency or long term health problem arise.
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for Shakespeare Oxford 2016 series. When the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth was celebrated in 1864, Robert Browning observed that he and his contemporaries had Shakespeare 'in our very bones and blood, our very selves'. In this talk, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst explores some of the ways in which the Victorians tried to keep Shakespeare alive in the nineteenth century: through theatrical revivals and literary allusions; through paintings and photographs; and especially through their fascination with the idea that, as Tennyson put it in his poem Vastness, 'the dead are not dead but alive'.
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September, and the last month of Summer of Satan. October will see the return of 13 for Halloween, while the Second Annual Winter of Discontent will kick off sometime in November. In other words, that's my viewing choices for the remainder of 2011 roundly influenced. (Although there will be the odd classic of world cinema slipping under the net: stay tuned for a review of a certain 1966 Pontecorvo film in the next few days.)
Already, my mind turns to next year and a theme for the summer months on The Agitation of the Mind. In time-honoured tradition, I'm throwing it open to you guys. The sidebar poll has gone up, voting will remain open till the end of the year. Your choices are:
1. Summer of sci-fi. The runner up in last year's poll, giving Summer of Satan enough competition that I thought it was worth giving it a second chance.
2. Video nasties. At one time or another, there were 72 films on the DPP's hit list, with 39 prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act. The majority of them are now commercially available uncut. The others you have to look a bit harder for. I've already reviewed a couple of titles, and I'm not setting myself the stupid task of wading through the whole lot, but if this one wins, say a representative sample of a dozen?
3. Director retrospective. Sam Peckinpah, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Fabrice du Welz have all received the retrospective treatment on Agitation. If you vote for this one, feel free to hit up the comments box and suggest a director.
4. Ten films that changed the world. In-depth articles about ten films that had a far-reaching effect beyond cinema and can genuinely be said to have made a definitive social, artistic or political change. For anyone who despairs of my predilection for exploitation films, vote for this and encourage me to raise my game.
5. Cinema as a second language. A retrospective of films directed by artists for whom cinema was not their primary medium. The author as auteur; the photographer as purveyor of the moving image; the art terrorist as documentarist. An evaluation of how one discipline informs the other.
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about us
Established in November 2016, Lodgis is a hotel investment platform formed through a joint venture between Warburg Pincus and Vinacapital.
Based on their successful track records in creating scalable businesses, the shareholders' plan is to build a lodging enterprise of multiple brands. With its headquarters in Singapore, Lodgis investment focus will be on Southeast Asia, taking advantage of its seed property assets and existing operating business in Vietnam.
Over time or as opportunistic situations arise, the vehicle will broaden its geographic focus. Lodgis will create value by deploying capital in both development projects and operating assets, ideally through the acquisition of existing platforms, brands, and portfolios.
strategy & assets
Lodgis has acquired several initial seed assets, comprising both 3rd-party managed properties as well as interests under Fusion Hotels and Resorts (Fusion), a Lodgis-owned operating company.
In addition to expanding Fusion through Lodgis' investment, we are actively exploring the acquisition of operating platforms and emerging hotel brands in Southeast Asia and opportunistically across the region. Working with our investment partners, Lodgis' objective is to create a portfolio of complimentary brands, collectively offering scale and scope economies with the opportunity to deploy value-add capital into the underlying real estate.
Fusion is a Vietnam-based hotel development and operating company with growing presence in the country. This brand is now expanding its footprint through an active build program in Vietnam's major cities and resort destinations. With an established foothold in Vietnam, Fusion's plan will be to ultimately expand regionally.
Since its launch in 2008 as a true home-grown brand, Fusion has been an innovator of wellness-inspired resorts and hotels, and is among the few fully vertically integrated hospitality groups in Southeast Asia.
Fusion conceptualizes, designs, builds and manages resorts and city hotels through its branded hospitality concepts. We have six operating properties and three under development in Vietnam, with a team of more than 1,500 employees.
In late 2016, Fusion was acquired by Lodgis, a joint venture hotel investment company formed by Warburg Pincus and Vina Capital. Lodgis is making a substantial investment in Fusion to drive growth and expansion of the overall platform and management company.
In order to accelerate growth and optimise asset value, Lodgis has assembled an experienced group of executives. With successful track records, this team has core competences in investment, operations, asset management, and finance.
Don Lam
Chairman of the Board of Lodgis
Don was an early investor in Fusion, and was instrumental in expanding its business. As the founder of VinaCapital, he has overseen its growth into a leading investment management and real estate development firm with a diversified portfolio of $2bn of assets under management. Over the past 14 years, VinaCapital has invested nearly $5bn in Vietnam. Prior to founding VinaCapital, Don was a partner in PWC Vietnam, where he led the Indochina corporate finance and management consulting practices.
Peter Meyer
Chief Executive Officer
As CEO of Fusion and Lodgis, Peter is responsible for the overall management, business activities and strategic direction of the Group. Previously, he was Asia Pacific Managing Director of Host Hotels & Resorts, and he has nearly 30 years of experience in the region. Prior to Host, Peter held a range of banking, investment, and advisory positions, including CFO of Ripplewood Lodging in Japan and head of the Asian real estate investment banking group for JP Morgan in Hong Kong.
Christopher Y. Hur
Chief Investment Officer
Christopher leads the Group's investment activities. Previously, he was a Regional Vice President, Investments at Host Hotels & Resorts. During his 9-year tenure in Asia and the USA, Chris successfully completed over $1.2bn of hotel real estate investment transactions of various structures and across geographies. Chris has also held a number of positions in investment banking and real estate private equity at Lehman Brothers' New York and Hong Kong offices.
Craig Douglas
Head of Asset Management
Based in South East Asia since 2002 with the past 8 years in Vietnam, Craig has over 20 years of hotel experience. Previously, he held a number of GM positions for Accor, SALA resorts, and Six Senses properties. Over the past 7 years, Craig has been in asset management roles, managing portfolios for VinaCapital, Crescent Point, and BRG Group.
Winnie Tan
Chief Financial Officer
Previously Regional Director and Portfolio Controller at LaSalle Investment Management, an investment arm of JLL, she served as co-Controller to $3bn Asia Op Fund III and Controller to Asia Opp Fund IV. She has led the project-level financing for Singapore, Thailand, and Australian investments, raising and refinancing over $2bn to-date.
Atilla Erda
Chief Operating Officer
Atilla joined Fusion in 2015 after relocating to Vietnam from Thailand, He leads Fusion's operations, and brings over 14 years of experience in the global hospitality industry. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Sales & Business Development at Absolute Hotel Services in Thailand, and has also held senior positions at Franklyn Hotels and Resorts (Spain), Minor International (Thailand), The Unique Collection of Hotels & Resorts (Thailand), and Dusit Group (Thailand).
Huynh Buu Tran
Senior Vice President
Tran has over 25 years of experience in the real estate industry in Australia and Vietnam. She is a registered valuer in Australia, and has over 17 years of experience in investment, sales and marketing and business development in Vietnam.
Remco De Hoog
Chief Design Officer
Since joining Fusion in 2011, Remco has directed the Group's architectural and design team. Prior to Fusion, Remco spent over 10 years working in a senior capacity on several projects with a number of recognized international design companies and before that managed his own interior and architectural studio.
Neil Martin
Head of Projects
Neil is responsible for the management, co-ordination and control of all development projects. In addition to his extensive work in Vietnam. Neil has over 25 years of experience in the construction industry, and has successfully led projects in UK, New Zealand, Thailand and UAE
David Lockwood
Contracts & Commercial Director
David is responsible for contract procurement and commercial management of all development projects across the platform, developing initial budgets, monitoring and controlling costs though the design phase, leading the tendering and procurement process, and administrating construction contracts. He is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with 25 years of experience in the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and Vietnam, and has held senior management positions, leading cost and contract teams on some key-note projects across a variety of sectors.
Don Lam
Chairman of the Board of Lodgis
Don was an early investor in Fusion, and was instrumental in expanding its business. As the founder of VinaCapital, he has overseen its growth into a leading investment management and real estate development firm with a diversified portfolio of $2bn of assets under management. Over the past 14 years, VinaCapital has invested nearly $5bn in Vietnam. Prior to founding VinaCapital, Don was a partner in PWC Vietnam, where he led the Indochina corporate finance and management consulting practices.
Peter Meyer
Chief Executive Officer
- Formed in late 2016, Lodgis is an Asian Hotel investment platform sponsored by Warburg Pincus in partnership with VinaCapital. The initial business interests are in Vietnam with plans to build a portfolio of high quality assets in Southeast Asia.
- Previously, Peter was Managing Director, Asia Pacific for Host Hotel & Resorts. Over an 8 year period, he lead the acquisition and development of over USD700 million of hotels across Australia, New Zealand and India.
- Between 2003 and 2008, he was the Group Executive Vice President for New City Corporation (NCC), a Tokyo-based property investment management and development company. Previously, Mr. Meyer also served as the Chief Operating Officer to NCC's associate company CB Richard Ellis Investors Japan. In these capacities, he was actively involved in the group's capital raisings, including the public listing of New City Residence Investment Corporation, a residential J-REIT.
- Over his career, Peter has held a range of banking, investment, and advisory positions, including CFO of Ripplewood Lodging in Japan, and head of the Asian real estate investment banking group for J.P. Morgan & Co. in Hong Kong.
- He holds a MBA from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Denver.
Christopher Y. Hur
Chief Investment Officer
Before joining Lodgis, Christopher worked for Host Hotels & Resorts (Host), the largest lodging real estate investment trust in the world, and held leadership positions in the Asia-Pacific and U.S. Over a nine-year period, he executed approximately USD1.2 billion of lodging real estate transactions involving various geographies and investment structures.
Prior to joining Host, he was employed by Lehman Brothers Holdings in their investment banking and real estate private equity divisions in New York and Hong Kong.
He oversaw a portfolio of small businesses including commercial and residential real estate for a non-profit institution.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration.
Craig Douglas
Head of Asset Management
- Having been associated with numerous leading investment firms Craig was previously the Head of Hospitality Division for VinaCapital for 6 years (Vietnam's largest private equity firm) and also held the same role with BRG Group based in Hanoi. Crescent Point Group out of Singapore also engaged Craig to manage their Vietnam assets prior to divestment.
- Some of the properties Craig has been associated with include Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, The Nam Hai Hoi An (now Four Seasons), Six Senses Con Dao, Hilton Opera and Hilton Garden Inn Hanoi, Moevenpick Hanoi and Saigon (now Eastin Saigon), Danang Golf Club, Ocean Villas Danang and Mercure Hanoi.
- Coming from an operational background Craig also has held the position of General Manager for management firms such as Six Senses, Accor and SALA Resorts and Spas (Thailand).
- Craig will be responsible for ensuring all asset acquisitions and investments are achieving the desired financial targets and that the portfolio performance is appreciating. He is also responsible for liaising with property General Manager's, Joint Venture Partners and Relevant owning Companies.
Winnie Tan
Chief Financial Officer
- Ms. Tan was formerly with global real estate fund manager LaSalle Investment Management for ten years, where she rose to Regional Director in the LaSalle Group and served as Fund Controller to its Asia Opportunity Fund series III to V. Winnie was also involved in project-level financings for its Singapore, Thailand and Australian investments, raising and refinancing over US$3.9 billion.
- Prior to joining LaSalle, Ms. Tan worked as an Associate Director for six years in a Temasek-linked venture capitalist firm specializing in seed funding of start-up enterprises engaged in the e-payments and technology space. She was heavily involved in the financial due diligence of all investment prospects, and was one of the key members that recommended the investment of Neopets Inc., an online community game, that was subsequently sold to Viacom Inc. five years later at an attractive return. Ms. Tan also oversaw the finance function of its group companies.
- Ms. Tan graduated with Second Upper Honours from Nanyang Technological University's Accountancy faculty and is currently a Chartered Accountant based in Singapore.
Atilla Erda
Chief Operating Officer
- Atilla was born in Istanbul and raised deep within the Swiss Alps. "My father owned hotels," he says, "so hospitality is in my blood… along with an entire childhood of chocolate and cheese."
Following family tradition, Atilla went on to spend over a decade working in senior positions at high-end hotels and resorts in Thailand. And yes, his accent is now all over the place, but he certainly knows his stuff, just like his dad.
- With a wife and young daughter, Atilla is now looking forward to one day telling his grandchildren all about his adventures. "I think Fusion is going to be an exciting chapter in that story," he says.
- At least that's what we think he said.
Huynh Buu Tran
Senior Vice President
Remco De Hoog
Chief Design Officer
- "I studied building engineering after high-school, but I really didn't like it," says Remco, admitting that he preferred gate-crashing lessons in the college's design department instead. "It was there that I found my true passion," he adds.
- "Creating something, from nothing… that's just so cool. After graduating, and after working for a few years in Holland, with a lot of hard work and persistence, I was able to call myself a freelance designer."
- It was then that Remco caught the travel bug. "I'd complete a project, then I'd go get lost in India for a few months. It was great."
- He got so lost in India, in fact, that in 2011 he ended up in Vietnam, where he continues to design awesome projects to this day. And while his sense of direction hasn't improved, now settled down with a wife and daughter, he has no plans to leave.
Neil Martin
Head of Projects
Neil is responsible for the management, coordination, and control of multi-disciplinary and culturally diverse project teams working on large and complex projects.
Neil has over 25 years experience in the construction industry and has successfully led projects in the U.K., New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand, and the U.A.E. His career has so far seen him involved in strategic planning, project management, management of property portfolios, maintenance and refurbishment projects, new-build projects, construction supervision, and construction management. His employers have included construction and consultancy companies, developers, and central and local government bodies and educational providers.
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Funky fresh, this music was made for the dance floor. Sven Figees's hammond moans, sweats, sobs and wails over Joost Kroon's (New Cool Collective) mean drumming, while Glenn Gaddum's unwavering bass confidently pins it all to a steady Jazz groove. Contributions by vocalists Sherry Dyanne and Corrina Grayson add that special Soul flavor, while Benjamin Herman on sax adds his own distinctive tone to Benny's Blues. This is an album that makes you want to get up, clear your living room floor in one fell swoop and get down and boogie!
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4. Fatcakes
5. Looking Up Turning Round
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Berhampur: Dreaded criminal Lambu Tarini has been arrested after being injured in a police encounter near a forest at Bhaliapalli under Soroda block here on Sunday morning.
Tarini, against whom around 20 criminal cases were pending, has been admitted to MKCG hospital in Berhampur.
According to sources, a team of police comprising of Soroda IIC Santosh Jena and Gangpur IIC Chittaranjan Jena intercepted Tarini who was travelling to Soroda in a bike.
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DOVER -- On Wednesday April 25, students from area schools participated in the 18th annual Teen Driving Roadeo at the Tuscarawas County Fairgrounds to win cash and fame for themselves and their schools.
Sponsored by Safe Kids Tuscarawas (Tuscarawas County Health Department) and OSU Extension, this annual event is geared to help young drivers learn better maneuverability skills, rules of the road, and to make them think about their actions when driving. According to Ohio State Patrol statistics, the number of young people dying on Tuscarawas County roads continues to decrease. They like to think that the Teen Driving Roadeo has been one of the reasons.
The Teen Roadeo began as collaboration between Sopher Insurance Agency, The Ohio State Highway Patrol, Safe Kids Tuscarawas/ Tuscarawas County Health Department and OSU Extension office. Gradually over the years new partners such as Parkway Nissan Lincoln Mercury (donated the use of cars for the driving events), Harry Humphries Auto City (sends a mechanic to teach students car maintenance), Ohio Department of Transportation (driving simulator), MADD, and the Tuscarawas County Coroner's office, contributed educational programs. Law enforcement officers from Dover, Ohio State Highway Patrol, Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Department judged the driving scenarios, and Dover and New Philadelphia Police Chiefs donated the overall school winner trophy.
Local 2012 Teen Roadeo results include:
Individual Driving Events: Top Scores: $25 award -- Serpentine, Coy Johns, Newcomerstown.
Driving Skills Overall Winners -- Fourth Place $75 - Kori Conner, Newcomerstown.
School rankings in order: Newcomerstown, 664; and Indian Valley, 600.
School student participants and school coordinator: Indian Valley -- John Love (coordinator), Jessica Beamer, Courtney Emler, Matthew Carroll, Cole Craddoc, Cassie Glazer, Mitchell Kennedy; and Newcomerstown -- Josh Branch (coordinator), Kori Conner, Caleb Fenton, McKaila Goodwin, Coy Johns, Kelsey McCune, Chandler Shryock.


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We had our first clothing tantrum this week. When D put on his snazzy new car shirt he was very excited, he figured nothing goes better with a car shirt than car pants, right? Lightning. McQueen. Pajama. Car Pants. I compromised by letting him hold the pants while we put on his jeans, he was still dissatisfied but dealt. Just a small dose of what I dished out to my mom for 5+ years arguing every morning to wear my leotards and tights to school . . . I might be the only second grader you know who repeatedly had the teacher telling them to put their clothes back on, as I would casually unbutton my denim shirt to reveal the swimsuit I snuck under my agreed upon clothes. I remember my mom leaving explicit instructions for my grandmother when she went out of town, stating she was not to allow me to wear spandex to school . . . . yup I snuck it, poor grandma. . . poor mama. Anyways, this morning after I got D dressed in his red Skinny pants he went running into the other room and returned saying "booz booz booz!!!!" no folks, he wasn't asking for a mimosa, he was carrying his red emus featured in our first vêtu, booz is toddler talk for boots. I thought about trying to convince him to wear his cons as I feared the red on red would be a bit much, but it turned out pretty cute. I always told myself I would let him wear whatever he wants, not sure he'll win the pajama pant argument too frequently but I'm sure I have many a negotiations in my future. After we were fully dressed we headed out to our favorite neighborhood park, and the rest is history . . .
Skinny jeans and corduroy Jacket// Old Navy Born Free Lion shirt// Austin Rocks Boots// Emu


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Green Business Certification
Environmental Policy Statement of The Cottage Inn & Spa
We, The Cottage Inn & Spa, as a CERTIFIED GREEN BUSINESS incorporate sustainability into our core business operations through internal and external efforts. Specifically, we shall adopt the following policies and practices:
- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
- Purchase environmentally preferable products
- Conserve energy, water and natural resources
- Practice green business policies on checklist
Employee Education
We, The Cottage Inn & Spa: educate employees on resource conservation and pollution prevention through –
- Training programs (posting signage and explaining what we are doing and why we are choosing to put environmental policies in place) to educate employees on proper recycling & composting practices, resource conservation ideas, importance of low-toxic purchasing, etc.
- Inform employees of environmental issues
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
We, The Cottage Inn & Spa:
- Reduce waste at the source by buying in bulk, and eliminating disposable products such as dishes and single serve water bottles
- Reuse equipment such as desks, lamps, furniture, or donate usable items to charities
- Strive to reach Zero Waste by recycling all resources such as paper, plastics, cardboard, glass, and aluminum AND composting all food and plant discards.
Toxics Reduction
We, The Cottage Inn & Spa, reduce the use of toxic materials to protect employee health and the environment. Specifically we:
- Only purchase low toxic janitorial cleaning products accepted on SFapproved, Green Seal or have an 8.1 rating or above on Good Guide (SunGold, Alcohol, Distilled White Vinegar).
- Lamps - Purchase T8's or T5's, low mercury fluorescent lamps, LEDs and/or low wattage halogen lights./li>
- Implement an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program when controlling pests.
- Have disposed all toxic products safely such as old paints or non-approved cleaning products and recycle CFL's, fluorescent tubes, and batteries.
- Avoid purchasing toxic substances and any aerosol cans.
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
- Office paper with 100% post consumer recycled content
- Paper towels with 35% post-consumer waste
- Toilet Paper with 10% post-consumer waste
- Tissue with 10% post-consumer waste
- Permanent dishware and use bulk items
- Energy efficient lighting fixtures
- The most water efficient toilets, showerheads and faucet aerators
- Choosing Energy Star rated appliances and office equipment, when replacing old appliances
- Choosing EPEAT certified computers (http://epeat.net/), when replacing old computers
We, The Cottage Inn & Spa, conserve fossil fuels by:
- Promoting the use of public transit and commuter alternatives
- Participating in spare the air campaigns
- Using energy-conserving hardware programs and unplugging equipment
- Reusing and refusing packaging materials
- Emphasizing repurposing of items in lieu of purchasing new items
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Nov 11, 2014
In Episode 5 of the World Wrestling Resource Podcast, the discussion centers around one of the most important traits a wrestler can possess -- mental toughness.
We hear from two of the best minds in wrestling, world champions Dennis Hall and Terry Brands, about their own theories about becoming mentally tough and training athletes to become mentally tough.
Coach Jon McGovern, who recently welcomed a new addition to his family, a baby boy, also explains some of the resources he used in his career as an athlete and now a coach as well as reveals some things his own wrestlers went through in their careers.
The World Wrestling Resource has a slew of resources for wrestlers and coaches from all levels and information about the products can be found at www.worldwrestlingresource.com.
Do you have a question or a topic you'd like to hear the World Wrestling Resource staff discuss? Drop us a comment on Facebook at www.facebook.com/worldwrestlingresource or on twitter at @WWRESO.
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Brightstar Corporation has agreed to sell its 50% share of mobile communications distributor Brightstar Europe Limited to Tech Data Corporation. The two companies, which both operate international distribution businesses, formed the joint venture in 2007.
Tech Data will pay Brightstar around $165.6 million (£107.3 million) for the deal, which is subject to regulatory approval. Brightstar Europe's handset protection & insurance and buy-back & trade-in customers will be transferred to Brightstar as part of the agreement.
R Marcelo Claure, Brightstar's Chairman and CEO, said "Tech Data has been a great partner, and in just five years, we have jointly grown BEL from a startup to a leader in the European mobility distribution industry. We are now looking forward to operating in Europe under a Brightstar Corp fully-owned subsidiary and making our broad suite of services, including distribution, available to customers across Europe."
Robert M Dutkowsky, the CEO of Tech Data, said "Our European mobility business is a key element in our strategy of diversifying into higher-growth, higher-return specialty areas. What began as a greenfield operation with Brightstar in 2007, is now a well-established, European mobility market leader with sales of approximately $1.8 billion in our last fiscal year. We are grateful to Brightstar for its partnership and expertise throughout the last five years, but believe that full ownership of our European mobility business is in the long-term best interest of our shareholders. We anticipate working with Brightstar on specific European opportunities in the future and remain committed to our TDMobility joint venture with them in the U.S."
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The approval is for issue of an IPO to the public consisting of 3,39,84,000 equity shares of Rs. 10 each amounting to an equity capital of Rs. 33.984 crore of CSL consisting of fresh issue of 2,26,56,000 equity shares and sale of Government of India's stake in CSL worth 1,13,28,000 equity shares of Rs. 10, through a public offering in the domestic market according to Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) rules and regulations.
The fresh shares are being issued by CSL in order to part-finance the following areas for expansion in short and medium term: (i) Setting up of an International Ship-repair Facility (ISRF) at Cochin Port Trust area, and, (ii) Setting up of a large dry dock within the CSL premises to take up construction of larger ships such as large sized Aircraft Carriers, VLCCs etc. and to take up underwater repairs to rigs and semi submersibles. The disinvestment of the Government of India's stake in CSL is in line with the Government's decision on the issue. It will raise resources for the Government due to the sound financial condition of CSL. There would be no financial outgo from the Government on account of the issue of shares. Instead, the Government would earn revenue due to sale of its shares to the public.
CSL was incorporated in 1972 as a fully owned Government of India Undertaking and was conferred Miniratna-I status in 2008.


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Cape Town, March 15: Sri Lanka head coach Chandika Hathurusingha will not oversee his side's Twenty20 international series against South Africa amid reports he is set to be sacked.
After back-to-back Test wins over the Proteas, Sri Lanka have lost the first four one-day internationals in South Africa.
The final match of that series is to come on Saturday (March 16), after which Hathurusingha has been ordered to return to Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka Cricket says Hathurusingha will "discuss the Sri Lanka team's preparation for the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup", but it is reported that the board are unhappy with the team's form.
Fielding coach Steve Rixon will instead lead the team in their three T20 fixtures.
Sri Lanka have named a squad for the forthcoming series, with Jeffrey Vandersay, Suranga Lakmal, Asitha Fernando and Sadeera Samarawickrama all included.
Dasun Shanaka has been dropped, while there is no room in the group for Oshada Fernando or Dinesh Chandimal.
Sri Lanka T20 squad in full: Lasith Malinga, Niroshan Dickwella, Avishka Fernando, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Perera, Dhananjaya De Silva, Kamindu Mendis, Priyamal Perera, Thisara Perera, Suranga Lakmal, Isuru Udana, Asitha Fernando, Akila Dananjaya, Jeffrey Vandersay, Lakshan Sandakan.
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A program presented by Arthur and proposed by Satisfaction, The Television Agency, broadcast Friday, January 5 at 21 hours on TF1.
For one evening, forget everything you think you know about magic and let yourself be immersed in the incredible universe of "DIVERSION"!
" For this second issue, six magicians specializing in illusion or mentalism will take control of your TV!" Caroline Marx "The Sorcerer", Enzo Wayne "The Elusive", Luc Langevin "The Scientist", Gus " The manipulator ", Antonio" the expert "and Viktor Vincent" The mentalist "have given themselves the mission to make you spend an amazing evening that mixes magic and humor On the set, they will surprise anonymous and celebrities with blows many more bluffing turns than the others! "
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Read original article "Le divertissement Diversion opposé à La grande illusion vendredi 5 janvier !" in French.
From the MT1 Twitter feed:
@Diversion revient sur @TF1 vendredi 5 janvier 2018 à 21:00 présenté par @Arthur_Officiel accompagné de @LucLangevin, #ViktorVincent, @GusIllusionnist, @Caroline_Marx_, @EnzoIllusion, & #Antonio ! #Diversion pic.twitter.com/Ho51X6s8wb— MT1 🎄 (@MT1_Off) December 12, 2017


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ValeriyaOut of control (2008)
Текст песни с переводом слов Valeriya «Love sick» из альбома «Out of control» (2008).
Love sick
It's impossible now to breathe
You've become everything I need
Every second apart will kill my soul
There is nothing that can replace
Being with you in time or space
I'm beginning to lose myself in you
And I'd do anythin' for one touch of your skin
And I'd run anywhere just to feel you within
And you know I would go to the ends of the earth
Every thought, every word is of you, only you
You know you are my obsession
Nothing else can fill my passion
How can love feel cold and lonely?
Singing you my love sick story
If there ever have been a time
When your heart wasn't one with mine?
Solitude is a lonely place to be
Now I know this to play this game
Through the pain is the way I gain
Better one day with you than years without
Valeriya - все тексты песен исполнителя (группы).


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It is placed next to a footpath. Sitter sits with legs tucked, reading a book.* Unsuspecting pedestrian approaches. At last second, sitter extends lower leg. Success!
*Updated method: As reading a book in public may seem suspicious, sitter may choose to tweet on a handheld device.
I am sitting on a tripping chair. Someone is approaching...tee hee.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tripping chair.
4 comments:
- Karen said...
Someone is spending a leeetle too much time with the munchins lately??
Thanks, now you have ruined walks in the park for me - I will no longer be able to look up at trees and birds, and will have to watch out for sneaky trippers!
- October 14, 2009 at 10:15 PM
- spinyurchin said...
Wow. You are *so* fiendish.
- October 15, 2009 at 4:49 PM
- Hugh Griffith said...
Hey now, I don't trip. I merely report.
- October 15, 2009 at 6:56 PM
- Garden Lily said...
Thanks for the good chuckle.
- October 17, 2009 at 9:57 PM
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