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The Your Sports calendar is published Mondays in the Erie Times-News. Community members are invited to submit information to email@example.com or Your Sports, Sports Department, Erie Times-News, 205 W. 12th St., Erie, PA 16534, or fax to (814) 870-1808. Free notices will be published as many as two times; successive requests can be directed to the Times-News classified advertising department, (814) 456-7021. Please submit notices no later than the Friday before publication is desired.
- Cambridge Springs, Cussewago and Venango baseball and softball signups will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 27 at Cambridge Springs High School. Cost is $35 for one player and $50 for two or more players. For information, call Tom Fiely at (814) 282-6308 or Kelly Miller at (814) 282-4188.
- Boys & Girls Baseball in Erie will conduct registration Friday and Saturday and continuing Feb. 26 and 27, March 5 and 6, March 12 and 13, and March 26 and 27 for interested players ages 5-15 years old. All registrations will take place at the administration building, 1740 W. 21st St. Cost is $25 and there is a discount for additional family members. Registrations scheduled for Fridays will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m., and those scheduled for Saturday will run from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Late registration will be April 9-11 and includes a $5 late fee. Times for Sunday, April 11, are from noon to 3 p.m. For information, call Steve Franklin at 434-5188.
- There will be a meeting for all coaches to select players for the annual City-County All-Star Game on Sunday at 4 p.m. at Hunter Jack's Restaurant and Lounge, Route 20, one mile west of Girard.
- The St. John's Bob Buettner sixth- and seventh-grade basketball tournament will take place Feb. 23-28 in the school gym at 27th and Wallace. Games begin at 4 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. Adult admission is $2, students $1 and under 5 free.
- The Erie Saints are accepting registrations for girls ages 10-16 for the upcoming travel season. Register at the Web site, eriesaints.com. For information, call Jeff Orlando at 602-3035.
- The March Madness Boys Basketball Youth Tournament will take place at McDowell High School from March 4-7. The tournament will feature grades 5-6 and 7-8 and is open to grade school, middle school and AAU teams. Cost is $200. For information, call coach Hetz at 835-5142 or Heather Kimball at 868-0038.
- The Eastside Family YMCA, 2101 Nagle Road, is accepting sign-ups for its women's basketball league through March 8. Cost is $275 per team. Season begins March 15. For information, call Corey Wolff at (814) 899-9622, or register online at www.ymcaerie.org.
- All Sports Tournaments will host five spring basketball tournaments for girls and boys grades four through 11. All AAU and school teams are welcome with three-game guarantees. Tournaments are set for March 19-21, May 7-9 and May 29-31 at the Hempfield Recreation complex in Greensburg, and April 23-25 and May 21-23 at McKeesport High School. For information, call (412) 952-8021 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.allsportstournaments.com for information.
- Greengarden Lanes will conduct its third annual Pepsi 300 scratch tournament Sunday. Shifts are at 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The event features $1,000 guaranteed for first place and $1,500 for the first 300 game bowled during qualifying round. To register, call (814) 864-2642.
- The Erie Pennsylvania Sports Fishing Association will host a Tackle Swap and Meet on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Lincoln School, 831 E. 31st. Cost is $3 for adults, $1 for ages 13-18, and children 12 and younger are free. There will be contests for kids, and various seminars for all anglers. All proceeds benefit EPSFA programs for youngsters. For information go to www.epsfa.com.
Upcoming events
Sunday: Winter 5K run and walk, 10 a.m. at the Reed Union Building at Penn State Behrend. Daniel Smith, (814) 504-9618
27: Spring Thaw 10, 15, 20 miles, North Park Boathouse, Allison Park. Kevin Smith, (412) 490-0881.
13: Erie Runners Club St. Pat's 10K, 10 a.m., Presque Isle State Park. Jim Lang, (814) 882-9587.
- A entry-level/recertification referee course, licensed by PA West, will take place Feb. 25-27 at Penn State Erie Room REDC 202. Times are 6-9 p.m. Feb. 25 and 26, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 27. Participants must attend all three days, and the clinic requires a passing score of 75 percent on the exam. Cost is $60. There are no refunds for failure to pass. For information, call Bob Edwards at (814) 825-8675.
- The Eastside Family YMCA, 2101 Nagle Road, is accepting sign-ups for its adult coed indoor soccer leagues -- women's and coed -- through March 8. Format is 6v6. Cost is $275 per team. Season begins March 14. For information, call Corey Wolff at (814) 899-9622, or register online at www.ymcaerie.org.
- The Great Lakes Summer Soccer League for the players ages 6-15 will take place June 14 to July 31. Coaching again will be done by college players from Erie's NPSL soccer team. For information, contact coaching director Sam Tojaga at firstname.lastname@example.com or 440-8739.
- The Eastside Family YMCA, 2101 Nagle Road, is accepting sign-ups for its adult women's indoor soccer league through March 8. Format is 6v6. Cost is $275 per team. Season begins March 14. For information, call Corey Wolff at (814) 899-9622, or register online at www.ymcaerie.org.
- A grade 8 recertification/bridge referee course, licensed by PA West, will take place March 14 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Family First Sports Center, 8155 Oliver Road, Erie. The clinic is for Grade 9 referees wishing to upgrade to grade 8, or grade 8 referees wishing to maintain their certification for 2010. To be eligible to upgrade from grade 9 to grade 8, participants must have turned age 14 before Jan. 1, 2010. Cost is $30. For information, call Allen Sheasley at (814) 866-0425.


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Those of us who want to engage in constructive dialogue need the facts. Here are some links and resources – and a petition you might want to sign. Continue reading
Even so, I'm not giving up on you…
I saw your post on Facebook. The one where you were trying to get people to sign the petition to "stop the immigration".
Wow. How do I respond to this?
Well, I guess I can say that I'm kind of glad it was you who sent it. If it had been some stranger, I would have just dismissed it as the ravings of some redneck asshole. Yup. That's how unkind I would have been.
Which doesn't say good things about me.
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Sad to be here…
I can't believe it's been a year. I started this blog years ago and it has evolved over that time. I've kept it up over the years as a place where I'd "live out loud". I never restricted it. I would mix the intensely professional with the intensely personal. I would be fearlessly me.
Writing has given me that in my life. It has given me the ability to be intensely, honestly me. From the crass and often just "in poor taste" comedy of my early life to the wistful songs of my later years, I've channeled my experience into my writing.
But writing is not just a creative outlet. Writing is how I understand things. It's how I make sense of everything. It's how I learn and absorb.
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The Lucky Ones
A bit of a warning here. This is probably more personal than my average post. I'm not sure how relevant it is to those who come here looking for business or strategy. But at this time of year, my thoughts turn to the more personal side of life. So in the spirit of "changing the game" – I'm talking about and sharing some intensely personal moments.
I'm not trying to be anyone's inspiration. I leave that to others. Here's one.
The hardest part baby is smilin' when your plans don't work out, and count yourself – a lucky one…
Willie P. Bennett wrote those words in the 1980's for his album of the same name. He called it "The Lucky Ones". From the moment the words came through the speaker of my car stereo, on an early mix lent by a friend, they spoke to my heart. They inspired me then as they do now. At that time in my life, I was myself experiencing a slow awakening. Continue reading
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Hot Potato – Why We Need To Rethink Management
Remember that childhood game, "Hot Potato"? You would take a ball, beanbag or other item and pretend it's a hot potato. As soon as you got it you'd pass it on to the next person. Then at the end of the music, a timer or just a random announcement from the game master – whoever is holding the hot potato loses.
Child's game? Or is it how we manage our companies? If it is, we need to find a way out of this trap. It kills productivity, destroys job satisfaction and dooms us to a world of enforced mediocrity. That's what I was thinking about the other day. Here's how it started. Continue reading
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Botswana Ultimate Wildlife
We have designed this itinerary to showcase the very best of the wildlife locations in Botswana. You will visit two camps in the Okavango Delta; one offering a good balance of both water and land-based activities, the second more of a dry camp with an excellent reputation for carnivore sightings including lion, leopard, wild dog and cheetah.
You will finish with the Selinda Spillway, offering excellent sightings throughout the year including good chances of both leopard and sable antelope. The area comes alive towards the end of the dry season (July to November) when large numbers of elephants and other plains animals arrive to make the most of the dry season grazing here. Throughout, we use private concessions which offer low visitor numbers, off-road driving and a wide range of activities and landscapes, thereby maximising the amount of wildlife seen in this superlative itinerary.


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- Synthetic turf with inlaid lines for football, soccer, and lacrosse.
- Resurfacing of the existing track.
- Additional Bleachers were added to both ends of existing bleachers.
- Press box.
- Previous phases included site work for the grass fields including an irrigation system, as well as a new softball field and bus garage improvements.
Carthage Central School District
Carthage, NY
Completed: 2008


text: Arkansas State finds redemption, wins 2019 Prairie View A&M Invitational Aaron Smith February 3, 2019 BRACKET | OVERALL STANDINGS | INDIVIDUAL RESULTSARLINGTON, Texas - After finishing in second place two of the last three years at the Prairie View A&M Invitational at the International Training and Research Center, Arkansas State was able to breakthrough for the victory Sunday at the 2019 edition of the event.The Red Wolves bested top qualifier Vanderbilt, 4-2, in the best-of-seven championship round to claim the win at the ITRC and find redemption after dropping the title match to McKendree in 2018.The bracket portion of the event was contested using the Baker format, and both teams struggled to find the right look on the left lane in the finals. Arkansas State and Vanderbilt exchanged wins on the right lane through the first five games, giving the Red Wolves a 3-2 advantage.After games of 176 and 161 to start on the left lane, Arkansas State was able to make the correct moves and shut out the Commodores after a strike and nine count in the 10th frame from sophomore Leah Glazer, 223-216.To advance to the title match, Arkansas State defeated McKendree, 4-1, while Vanderbilt swept Stephen F. Austin, 4-0.McKendree was able to edge Stephen F. Austin in the third-place match, 4-3, after a slow start during its final round. The Bearcats were down 3-1 but rallied to force a deciding game. McKendree held onto the win after Stephen F. Austin opened in the 10th frame, 179-177.All 12 teams in the field bowled five five-game Baker matches Friday, five traditional games Saturday and one additional game Sunday, before being seeded into three best-of-seven match-play brackets based on total pinfall.The top four teams were placed in one bracket, all with a chance to win the tournament. Seeds No. 5 through No. 8 were in a second bracket, and seeds No. 9 through No. 12 were in a third bracket.In addition to the trophy, teams were competing to improve their overall record for the season, which helps determine the teams that qualify for the 2019 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Bowling Championship being held in Cleveland from April 11-13.Vanderbilt posted the top overall record for the weekend at the ITRC, finishing with a 10-3 mark. McKendree was 9-4, while Arkansas State, Sam Houston State and Tulane each finished 8-5.Individually, Vanderbilt's Maria Bulanova paced the field for the six-game block, averaging more than 227 on the way to a 1,366 total. It marks the second consecutive year Bulanova, a junior, has made the all-tournament team at the Prairie View A&M Invitational.Maryland Eastern Shore's Cayla Hicks finished second with 1,303, and McKendree's Breanna Clemmer (1,294), North Carolina A&T's Ericka Quesada (1,228) and Vanderbilt's Adel Wahner (1,226) also earned spots on the all-tournament team.All rounds and pairs of the 2019 Prairie View A&M Invitational were broadcast live at BowlTV.com.


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Personal Reflections on the Financial Crisis at the Crystal Cathedral
I had the honor to be the first person to play angel Gabriel in the Crystal Cathedral's holiday spectacle, The Glory of Christmas. Although I am no longer airborne for over twenty years, I had a bird's eye view of this unique pageant, as well as the Crystal Cathedral's Glory of Easter. In addition to being angel Gabriel I also served as the production's choreographer and assistant director. In light of the Crystal Cathedral's financial crisis, I would like to offer some personal reflections and biblical insights that weigh heavily on my heart.
It's with sadness that I have read articles detailing the financial crisis at the Crystal Cathedral. Many of their vendors who are owed wages are former colleagues, and they made significant contributions to the Glories ministries.1Timothy 5:18 makes clear the importance of compensation as it states, "The worker deserves his wages."
One vendor who is owed wages is the animal trainer. She was an important person since the live animals played an integral role in the Glory of Christmas and Glory of Easter's re-creation of the biblical stories. The musicians, who were also owed back wages, brought joyful praise to these semi-annual productions through their moving music. And while there is a special place in my heart for the productions angels and dancers, I find myself most often thinking of the hundreds of faithful volunteers who selflessly served in front and behind the scenes year-after-year in this marvelous ministry.
In addition to working with the dedicated volunteers artistically it was my joy to teach Bible studies to the Glories cast. These Bible studies helped to foster faith as we discussed the various people, places, and culture of the biblical stories we interpreted through these holiday spectacles. Some of scenes that were re-enacted in the Crystal Cathedral's Glory of Easter production relayed God's concerns regarding the attitudes and practices of financial matters. Among these scenes were the biblical accounts of Christ angrily overturning the tables of the money changers in the temple (Mark 11:15), and the touching narrative of the widow's mite (Mark 12: 41-44).
The preparation that went into the annual Glory of Christmas and Glory of Easter productions was exhaustive. Numerous artistic and technical skills were woven together by a broad base of gifted individuals who contributed to the success of these inspiring ministries. My own preparation for ministry at the Crystal Cathedral included attending seminary to earn a graduate degree in Theology which helped me to more fully understand God's purpose for the arts in his church.
My education has served me well since leaving the Crystal Cathedral as it has provided context to my work in the Glory of Christmas and Glory of Easter, which I have revisited by sharing some of my unique experiences with my college students. While I am concerned with the Crystal Cathedral's financial crisis, I carry in my heart fond memories of treasured times that I have shared with the thousands of individuals whose lives the Glories ministries touched with God's love. The glory of God lives on in the hearts of those who love him and Christ's Church will forever hold the certain place that it is meant to hold in our uncertain world.
Bharath, Deepa, "Musicians Latest To Seek Payment From Crystal Cathedral," Published May 7, 2010, The Orange County Register.
Phan, Katherine T., "Crystal Cathedral Gets $46 Million Offer From Chapman University," Published July 6, 2011, The Christian Post.
Ryrie, Charles Caldwell, Th.D, Ph.D., The Ryrie Study Bible, New International Version, Moody Press, Chicago, 1986.


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The last time I mentioned about my building the Tamarack kit was on October 8th. Fast forward to close to two later…and the exterior is finally complete.
Despite the lack of pictures in the directions, the build was straight forward. So long as items were carefully measured, and installed using a T-Square as a guide, the walls and roof were quickly assembled. The only part I really did not enjoy was applying the shingles on the roof. JC asked me how that went, and I told her it took 1500 pieces to complete the roof. Of that amount, about 150 pieces I had to custom cut with a blade to make it fit at the weird angles. Sure it looks great in the end, but….shoot, my fingers and wrists are still aching!
BK was impressed when he saw the dollhouse. Though I might ask his dad (who's a professional carpenter/contractor) for feedback. There's gotta be a better way to make a roof look seamless (and a better method of installing them). I want to build another kit, but not sure if I'm up for another round of shingles you know?
Finally posted the pics up: what do you think?
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I haven't touched the interior yet — one of the room partitions on the second floor needs another sanding and a coat of paint before I permanently do an installation of sorts.so will see how that goes. Besides, I haven't decided on the wall colors yet….


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"I hear the QC appointments are due out at the beginning of March," said TheCreep at chambers tea yesterday.
"Do you think they'll finally take sympathy on UpTights?" said OldSmoothie.
"It's about time," said BusyBody. "She's been applying for years."
"I've always thought there's something deeply unattractive and anti-competitive about a self-employed professional's earning power being determined by some committee or other rather than by the market," said TheBusker. "Don't you think it's about time we abolish such a dated and artificial distinction?"
"Or maybe we could just abolish all QCs,' smiled BusyBody looking over at OldSmoothie.
"But it's a necessary and highly respected quality mark," said OldSmoothie.
"Yes, and my what quality you are," said BusyBody sarcastically.
"And then once you're made a QC, you have it for life," said TheBusker.
"I've heard that there's a lot of QCs who actually lose income when they take silk," said TheCreep.
"That's right,' said TheBusker. 'And then they're not even allowed to un-QC themselves and go back their junior practises, either."
"There's one QC who we always used the initials to spell Quite Cute", said TheVamp.
"Or Questionable Counsel," said BusyBody.
"Quite Clever," said TheBusker.
"Or in OldSmoothie's case,' said BusyBody, 'Quite a…"
"…Chap, naturally," interrupted TheVamp.
BabyBarista is a fictional account of a junior barrister practising at the English Bar, written by barrister and writer Tim Kevan. For more information and to read posts from the last few years visit babybarista.com. Cartoons by Alex Williams, author of 101 Ways to Leave the Law.


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We have a real opportunity to look at secondary education differently in Australia. Secondary education is working for many Australian students, but a sizeable percentage is not being equipped for the workplace. We see the evidence in the high rate of youth unemployment among 15 to 19 year olds, which is 24% nationwide and 45%Continue Reading »
Western Business School Launched
We are excited to have had Craig Ondarchie MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier of Victoria, officially launch the Western Business School at the Committee for Wyndham 2013 Annual Gala Dinner last night in front of over 240 guests. The Western Business School is working in partnership with the Committee for Wyndham to deliver anContinue Reading »
Coca-Cola Journey: Reaching Your Full Potential
Skilling Australia Foundation CEO, Nicholas Wyman talks about closing the skills gap and how parents, educators and business can play a key role in helping young people reach their full potential while contributing to their workplace and their communities. The Skilling Australia Foundation is delighted to be a recipient of a community grant from theContinue Reading »
How Sweet It Is. Getting Foot In Door.
The rise of first year apprentice pastry chef Daniela Clarke would never have happened without the injection of some essential ingredients. Blending work experience at Cake Mania in Parramatta together with a lifelong love of cooking and food, this 17 year old is on her way to fulfilling her dream. She is now learning theContinue Reading »
Getting A Job? That's Hard Work.
Young jobless need special attention, say training group. Australia's young people are missing important life and work-place skills and the obstacles are even greater in disadvantaged communities, where the youth unemployment rate can be as high as 40 percent.
Mentoring Key to the Citi New Recruits Program
Statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that young Australians are bearing the brunt of falling employment opportunities in Australia. In parts of Melbourne youth unemployment in the 15-19 year old cohort is almost twice the national rate. This is similar in Sydney with parts of inner Sydney experiencing 39.8% youth unemployment in theContinue Reading »
Vote1 Jobs Campaign Launched
Vote1Jobs is a bold new community jobs drive that will help get scores of unemployed Victorians into work. This exciting joint initiative between WPC Group, Leader Community Newspapers and the Herald Sun will also put Victorian jobs high on the political agenda ahead of the federal election. Vote1Jobs will match people with jobs and generateContinue Reading »
Skilling Australia Foundation CEO Roughs it for Charity
Thursday 20th June 2013, Nicholas Wyman, CEO Skilling Australia Foundation, joined fellow CEOs and Business Leaders at Etihad Stadium for the CEO Sleepout, hosted by St Vincent de Paul Society. The Vinnies CEO Sleepout began as a local community venture in Sydney's Parramatta in 2006. In 2010 the event was launched nationally and exceeded expectations,Continue Reading »
Bid To Get New Blood Into Work
Young people struggling to get a job now have a helping hand thanks to a new foundation set up to boost skilled employment. The Skilling Australia Foundation, set up by WPC Group, a Melbourne recruitment agency specialising in apprenticeships and traineeships, aims to get young people off the dole and into work.
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Waste offences tackled by SEPA – report on enforcement action
Last week (14th January), SEPA shone a spotlight on their work to combat waste offences as they published their Enforcement Report for the period 1 April 2014 -31 March 2015. The 27 pages make interesting reading about the fight against environmental crime in Scotland. During the period, the Agency issued 141 final warning letters and served 116 Statutory Notices to organisations or individuals operating outside the law with 36 cases sent to the Procurator Fiscal (PF) for possible prosecution. All … Continued


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More than 200 jobs at risk as Britvic announces plans to close Norwich factory
PUBLISHED: 08:39 03 October 2017 | UPDATED: 10:17 04 October 2017
Britvic has announced plans to close its factory in Norwich, putting more than 200 jobs at risk.
The production of Robinsons and Fruit Shoot which currently takes place at the plant in Bracondale will be transferred to other manufacturing sites in London, Leeds and Rugby.
In a statement the soft drinks giant said the 242 employees on site will be offered opportunities for work at other sites and services to help find alternative employment.
The plant is expected to close towards the end of 2019, following a consultation with affected staff. Employees at the Carrow Works site are still being informed of the proposals.
MORE: Colman's Mustard factory in Norwich could shut after Britvic announces closure plans
MORE: Business leaders pledge their support following Britvic and Unilever's Norwich factory announcements
Britvic chief executive Simon Litherland said the proposed changes would "present significant productivity and efficiency savings" in its manufacturing operations and deliver "environmental benefits".
"Britvic is proud to be a British manufacturer and Norwich has been an important site for our business for many years.
"This is not a proposal that we make lightly and we know this is upsetting news for our colleagues," he said.
READ MORE: Britvic, Unilever, Robinsons and Colman's: A history of Carrow Works factories
"We are very grateful for the hard work and dedication of our employees at our Norwich factory and today's announcement is in no way a reflection on their performance or commitment.
"No decisions will be made prior to full and proper consultation with employees and our focus is on ensuring we offer our colleagues on-going support and assistance throughout this difficult time."
Maker of Colman's mustard Unilever, which co-owns the site with Britvic, has been informed of the proposals and has said it will now review the future of its factory there – which could spell the end of more than a century of production on the site.
Two months ago Britvic reported turnover of £384.6m for the three months to July 9, an increase of 6.5%.
However it said revenue from its still drink division had declined, with its GB Stills arm – which includes the Robinsons squash and Fruit Shoot brands made in Norwich – reporting a 0.4% fall in revenue.
Chloe Smith, MP for Norwich North, said: "This is very sad news and many constituents will be very anxious about this possible closure.
"At this stage, I am urging the company to make every support available to those workers."
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Geert Wilders is the leader of the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, a political group described as "Islamophobic". The party performed well in the recent European elections. Wilders' anti-Islamic and anti-EU rhetoric seems to win over more and more Dutch people, mostly those who are scared about immigration and enlargement. euronews interviewed Wilders in a bunker-like meeting room of the Dutch parliament in the Hague. That was said to be for security reasons, because Wilders has been granted special protection due to his controversial anti-Koran movie and provocative anti-Islamic speeches.
euronews: Geert Wilder, welcome to euronews. Are you concerned for the future of Europe? Wilders: I'm very concerned for the future of Europe. I believe Europe is a beautiful continent with strong countries, but unfortunately, because of the influx of the mass immigration and the Islamisation of our societies, I'm afraid that at the end of the day it will cost us our freedom. So, indeed yes, I'm very concerned. euronews: Why do you think that Islam is a threat for Europe. What is scaring you? Wilders: Let me first say, I make a distinction between the ideology, the religion Islam, and the people. I've nothing against Muslims, I've nothing against people. I have a problem with the Islamic ideology. I believe it's a totalitarian ideology, that it should not be compared so much with other religions, but with other totalitarian ideologies like communism or fascism. And there is no room in the Islamic ideology for anything else but Islam. And this is what I think that we should really fear. euronews: Don't you think that to say that Islam is a totalitarian ideology is dangerous, just from an intellectual point of view? Because we see that Iran for instance is fighting for more democracy and they are Muslim. Wilders: No, once again, people, I've nothing against people, and I acknowledge that there are moderate people who call themselves Muslims, so there are moderate Muslims, and we should invest in moderate Muslims. But I don't believe in a moderate Islam, I don't think that like Christianity -the Old Testament and New Testament, and separation of church and state, and enlightment in the last centuries – that this will ever happen in the [sic] Islam, so I think we should not invest or believe in a European or moderate Islam. But of course we should invest in people and we should invest in democracy. euronews: How should you separate the concept of Islam as a whole, which you say is a totalitarian ideology, a religion, and the single Muslim, that you say he could also be a moderate? Wilders: I admit that the majority of the Muslims in our western society today are not extremists, they are not terrorists, they are normal people like you and me, and I believe that there's nothing wrong with that. But I also believe that even though the majority of those Muslims in the western societies today are not extremists or terrorists, that if we will get more of massive immigration we will get also more of the Islamic culture and the Islamic identity and the Islamic ideology in our societies, and then our societies will change: we will have what we are witnessing in the UK today, 85 sharia courts functioning where a woman is less worth than a man, where homosexuals should be killed. I mean this kind of anti-democratic law, sharia, is part of the Islamic ideology, is exactly what is happening in Europe today. euronews: You have said once that all the Muslim people who want, in Europe, to implement the sharia law must leave Europe. Do you still agree with this statement? Wilders: I think sharia, the implementation of sharia is the end of democracy. If you believe in sharia, you believe that apostates, that everybody who is not a Christian [sic] should either be a dhimmitude, and he should be living under the rule of Muslims, or either should be killed. The same goes for women or homosexuals. They would have a terrible way of life in a society where sharia is implemented, so I really do believe that if you are in a country and you are in favour of the implementation of sharia that there is very little for you to do. It means that you believe that women are worth less, half, or even more less then man. euronews: Sorry but no, the sharia law is very clear. The UK Islamic court are not hanging homosexuals. Wilders: No, but they have a law based on the Koran. And if we start acting like you are suggesting now, if we start saying that, "Hey, it's only about private law and it's not really about the penal code, so please let us allow only this part of the sharia in our society" I will tell you that there will be a next step and there will be another step, so I think that we should say: no sharia in our western, free, European and other societies, because if we allow "step A" , however innocent it might look, and I belive it's not innocent at all, that there will be a next step and another step. And the political elite in the European societies will allow it for politically correct reasons, because they are cultural relativists, they believe that all cultures are equal. Gordon Brown, the Prime minister of the United Kingdom, is the biggest coward of Europe. When he sent me away, when I wanted to enter the UK just to show a movie and to have a discussion in the House of Lords. This is the kind of leaders that we have in Europe today and they should be removed and replaced by more brave leaders. euronews: That's a problem of public order at home, also for the British… Wilders: Only in the UK. He decided, not because there was any threat, because it was not, like I said, I visited many countries for the same reasons, I was welcomed in a very positive way, but the prime minister of the UK was afraid that somebody came and spoke against his views and say something nasty, according to him, against Islam and he feared that. And there was pressure from Islamic people from the House of Lords, so he gave in, he gave in, he gave up. He played again the Chamberlain of Europe of 2009. euronews: You are against Turkey joining the European Union… Wilders: For sure… euronews: Many federalists are against Turkey joining the EU, because they say that it will dilute the EU and the idea of a federal Europe will disappear. So you should be in favour of Turkey joining the EU… Wilders: I'm against a federal Europe. I want us to stay independent, and Holland to only cooperate in the economical framework, and I'm against the joining of Turkey. I've nothing against Turkey, it's a very respected ally within NATO and a good friend of the Dutch people. But I believe it's not a member of the family. A good neighbour is not the same as being a member of the family, and it's an Islamic country. We will not only pay a very high price when it comes to all the costs, all the money that we will have to pay to Turkey, but it's an Islamic country and will get even more immigration to our societies, which is the last thing that we should need. euronews: Should you open the doors to Ukraine for instance? Wilders: No, I think that no other country should join Europe. I'm even in favour of Romania and Bulgaria to leave [sic] the EU. My party voted against the ratification treaty in the Dutch parliament for the accession of Romania and Bulgaria. euronews: Why? What's the problem with them? Wilders: Because first, the Dutch people believe that Europe is large enough. They are against any more countries joining and I share their view. We should have a small Europe with more little tasks, than an enlarged Europe with even more influence. We are against that, and, secondly, I believe that those countries were not ready at all, were very unready and very corrupt as well.


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Outside School Hours & Vacation Care
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2019 OSHC Handbook
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"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work" C.S. Lewis. At OSHC, the children are the reason we come to work every day. Although OSHC lives within the school grounds, it is in a world of its own. When the bell rings, the fun begins! We pride ourselves on making OSHC a relaxing place for the children to be, a second home. In the classroom they focus primarily on their academic pursuits but at OSHC they have a chance to play. They have opportunity to develop their gross and fine motor skills through climbing trees and creating with LEGO. They develop their social skills through the interactions with friends in their class, their grade and across the rest of the college. They develop their emotional skills in playing and negotiating with children younger and older than themselves, learning empathy, compromise, equity and fairness. They develop their cognitive skills in being challenged by the activities prepared by the Educators coming from our weekly program.
Our program is derived from the ideas and suggestions of the children.In the staff room, the teachers have a Benjamin Franklin quote on the walls - "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn". Across the College, the children are involved in their learning and OSHC no different. From science experiments to cooking, creating to challenging, the children are in involved in their play and their play is learning.
"Children are great imitators so give them something great to imitate." At OSHC, we keep this as our focus, in the knowledge that children observe and absorb all that we do. We pride ourselves on the relationships we have built with the children and families and enjoy working with them.
Vacation Care remains a highlight at Faith. We love putting together exciting programs for the children (and the staff!) to enjoy! We've had some great incursions – Crazy Candles, Rotation Creations, Ocean Life Education, Stufflers, Street Science, Holt Bolt and Red Scorpion Laser Skirmish (always a favourite!). We've also ventured off campus – Settlement Cove Lagoon, Event Cinemas with a sneaky Sizzler lunch, Bounce, Aussie World, King Tutt's Putt Putt, Crank, Sky Zone and the Tree Top Challenge.
I count it a privilege to be a part of the team at OSHC and the College at large. I have worked in the OSHC sector for many years and I can honestly say that you have the most innovative OSHC I have come across. This is a direct result of the Educators you have caring for your children. Next time you're in please thank them for the work that they do and congratulate them for the service they have created for your children. They most certainly deserve it.


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Ruby K Adams VanHoose, 76, of Somerset passed away Friday, April 28, 2017. She was born on October 12, 1940 in Oil Springs, KY to Ortie and Dora Adams. She is survived by her husband Harold D. VanHoose, married August 12, 1962; her daughter Kara Paige (Stephen) Butcher; two grandchildren, Kessa Hallie-Faye and Kase Douglas: and many precious family and friends.
Ruby's parents, her in-laws Hollie and Roberta VanHoose, her brother Danny and two sisters Faye and Mildred preceded her in death.
Ruby was a long- time resident of Johnson Co., KY. She also lived 6 years in Elizabethtown, KY and 16 years Tampa, FL. She was a member of the Paintsville United Methodist Church.
Ruby graduated with a Master's Degree from Morehead State University.
Ruby was a 5th grade and remedial reading teacher with the Johnson Co. Board of Education until her retirement. She enjoyed teaching and her students. Her favorite saying was "If you can read this, thank a teacher."
Ruby had a great love for geography and made certain that all her students learned how to read maps. She was a world traveler with Switzerland and Hawaii topping her list of most beautiful places she visited. She had beautiful handwriting and enjoyed sending greeting cards to those she loved. She took great pride in teaching her students neat, cursive handwriting. She was an avid reader. You most often found her with a book or newspaper in her hand.
Ruby had a wonderful smile that could light up a room. A matter of fact way of telling her stories or opinions. If you were her friend, you could bet it was for life. She was loyal to her circle.
In keeping with another of Ruby's sayings, "Enjoy each day to the fullest and don't bring me flowers when I'm gone"; memorial contributions can be made to the organization of choice. Ruby supported several organizations for many years. The Moffitt Cancer Research Center in Tampa, FL; The American Heart Association; The Starkey Hearing Foundation; and Morehead State University.
A visitation will be held Saturday, May 6, 2017 at the Paintsville Funeral Home from 1:00pm – 3:00pm. A celebration of life service will be held in the funeral home chapel 3:00pm.
Southern Oaks Funeral Home of Somerset and Paintsville Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements


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IF you have never ventured to the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell you should. Tucked away on Bethwin Road in the middle of a housing estate, it may not be on the main drag but it packs a punch in the shows it puts on.
And it's got another winner with Myths, a glorious take on the myths and legends of ancient Greece.
Staged by theatre company Hammer & Tongs it features just three actors on the stage in black T shirts and white dungarees with a lone musician at the back.
The three actors play the Fates, a rather posh trio who are getting on a bit now and living in the Underworld. They enjoy endless cups of tea and biscuits and love nothing better than retelling their favourite stories about the characters who inhabit the legends.
And so as they spin the threads of life, they also bring back to life a variety of characters from Zeus and Io, to Orpheus and Eurydice, the Harpies, Medusa and her stylists, Sisyphus and Paris as well as providing a different view on what really started the Trojan war.
Along the way we not only see some re-imagined takes on the stories, we also find out where words such as "harpy" and "fate" come from.
The show itself is a funny and a relatively quick romp through some these classic and fabulous stories.
It is also a clever and inventive way of retelling them although some of the humour may be a bit old for some of the younger members of the audience.
The performers, Suzie Grimsdick, Oliver Yellop and Philippa Hambly, are fabulous and switch between all the different characters convincingly, quickly and with an astonishing ease.
And the musical accompaniment by George Mackenzie-Lowe is lovely.
It is a delightful show suitable for those aged 10 and over.
Myths is on at the Blue Elephant Theatre, Bethwin Road until December 6. Tickets are £12.50, £10 concessions and £8.50 for Southwark residents. Visit www.blueelephanttheatre.co.uk or call the box office on 020 7701 0100.


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Licensing, The Statseeker Way (Statseeker blog)
Statseeker is not your average one-size-fits-all solution. We sell customised licensing based upon your interface monitoring requirements. That is, the number of interfaces (or ports) that you wish to monitor with Statseeker. Did you know a Statseeker licensing package also includes a number of additional entity licenses for use with custom data types? [Read more…]


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Wireless charging for e-cars and buses is arriving
At TreeHugger we've reported with great interest on the schemes to have electric vehicles charge wirelessly via underground electricity induction, chronicling efforts to make e-car re-charging easy, and on-the-go (and also make range anxiety disappear!).
The two e-buses in Mannheim's upcoming trial are made in Switzerland and will run on existing city bus routes. They will recharge via 'invisible' inductive technology called Primove, installed below road surfaces.
Induction works by having conductors (in Primove's case, rods of varying lengths under the asphalt) that create a magnetic field. The fields generate electricity when another conductor (the vehicle) is placed in the field. The generated electricity is picked up by an undercarriage unit and routed to the battery.
Direct contact between the vehicle and the charging system isn't required, and because it's below the asphalt surface, wireless induction charging is water and weatherproof. Charging can happen while a vehicle is stopped or simply moving over the top of the induction surface. At other times, the system is inactive, and Primove says its induction rods don't interfere with cell phones or pacemakers.
Inductive charging's down side is its low efficiency rates, but both Primove and Whytheville, Va.-based Plugless Power are talking of the 'high-power' and 'efficiency' of their wireless systems - Plugless says its system will delivery 3.3 KW of power. Instead of induction rods running underneath the asphalt, Plugless makes charging buttons to be installed in parking spots, allowing e-cars and buses to simply roll up to charge. In March 2013 Plugless received a grant from the Department of Energy that will help it put conductors into Chevy Volts and Nissan Leaf e-cars.


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Many of us serve as caregivers at some point in our lives—especially as we grow older. If you unexpectedly find yourself in a caregiver role, please know that there are plenty of services out there to help you. There are many forms of support that can help keep your loved one living independently for as long as possible, while taking into consideration your needs as a caregiver.
Respite care (volunteer or paid), Home Health Agencies or in-home non-medical care may be the answer. Or you may decide to hire a geriatric care manager to arrange and oversee your loved one's care. Perhaps adult day care may be appropriate for your situation. We are fortunate to have an abundance of resources in Allegheny County; consider taking advantage of them. After all, you can't adequately care for someone else if you don't care for yourself, as well. Here are some tips to help.
Ten Tips for Caregivers
1. Caregiving is a job and respite is your earned right. Reward yourself with respite breaks often.
2. Watch out for signs of depression, and don't delay in getting professional help when you need it.
3. When people offer to help, accept the offer and suggest specific things that they can do.
4. Educate yourself about your loved one's condition and how to communicate effectively with doctors.
5. There's a difference between caring and doing. Be open to technologies and ideas that promote your loved one's independence.
6. Trust your instincts. Most of the time they'll lead you in the right direction.
7. Caregivers often do a lot of lifting, pushing and pulling. Be good to your back.
8. Grieve for your losses and then allow yourself to dream new dreams.
9. Seek support from other caregivers. There is great strength in knowing that you are not alone.
10. Stand up for your rights as a caregiver and a citizen.
Provided by the National Family Caregivers Association. Visit caregiveraction.org for more information.


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Making Food Move
Okay, so you're wondering how I made this still photograph move. This is a new twist on the old .gif animation format that was responsible for all those little goofy animations in the early days of e-mail. Basically it involves creating a layered Photoshop file that contains a still image on the top layer and a video layer underneath it. By masking out the top layer you allow the video layer to show through in certain areas, and so you get this fun combination of still image and moving areas. The resulting file is saved as a .gif format file which can be posted on the web. Here's a screenshot that shows my layered Photoshop file and the animation timeline window that allows you to play back the video. (The animation timeline window is only available in Photoshop CS5 Extended, so you need to have this version to do these).
These combination still and motion images are called Cinemagraphs, and they've become quite popular among fashion photographers. For this shot I used the Canon 5D Mark II to capture both the still image and the video clip so I could be sure that the images would match exactly when I layered them together. This is a really fun technique to play with. If you'd like to experiment on your own, here's a great video tutorial from Russell Brown that walks you through the complete process.
Our set up for the shot was quite simple, with a small soft box overhead and slightly behind the bowl to bring out all the shapes and textures of the seafood.
The background is a canvas painted to look like wood planks, which we also used in the still life of the ingredients.
One interesting styling issue arose as we prepared the Bouillabaisse. When we filled the bowl with seafood it became too dark and opaque… lifeless. So we solved the problem by using clear plastic "ice cubes" to fill in the bowl and allow us to artfully arrange the seafood.
The ingredients shot was fairly straightforward, with a large octobox as the light source to create a very soft, even lighting. Since the camera had to be quite high, I decided to use the Canon EOS Utility to control the camera. This allowed us to use live view on the computer to see exactly what was in the frame as we were arranging the elements… much easier than trying to peer down through the viewfinder.
All in all, a very fun shoot! I'll be experimenting more with Cinemagraphs, so keep an eye out!
Whipping up a workshop!
Linsey and I had a great time demonstrating this recipe and photo for a summer workshop in my studio.
The lighting and set-up is similar to the one for the Brunch Phylo. But in this shot I used a lace fabric hanging in the background and gently blown by a fan.
You can see that my "floating" plexiglass table allows me to light and play with the background totally separately from the main subject. I've lit the seamless paper with two umbrellas, and the lace fabric is hung in front of the seamless, but behind the plexiglass, so it's a soft silhouette. The fan creates gentle ripples in the fabric and lends a sense of movement to the shot.
The dessert in a lace patterned wine glass is very simply lit with a strip softbox to camera left, and a small sliver reflector on the right to throw some light into the shadows.
The rest of the shot is really up to Linsey! She has to perfectly whip up the Sabayon, artfully arrange the berries, and finally torch the top for that Brulee Look….. all under the watchful eyes of the students!
The final results certainly justify the effort!
Thanks to Iden Ford and Nadia Cheema for the Behind-The-Scenes shots!
A brunch photo workshop
Since I was doing this photo as part of a workshop demonstration I wanted to show the new setup that I've been experimenting with. It involves using a clear plexiglass cove suspended in front of the background. I've been using it to photograph products on a clean white and I wanted to see what kind of flexibility it affords me with other backgrounds. Here are a couple of shots to show you what I'm talking about.
As you can see, the Plexiglas is suspended in front of the background which I can light completely separately so I can control exactly how dark or bright it is. In this case my final shot was cropped in quite tight to the plate so I really wasn't taking advantage of this setup, however it was interesting to play with and for my students to see. The main light for the food is a beauty dish with a diffuser. I've grown to quite like this light for food shots as I find it gives me a nice balance between contrast to bring out detail and soft shadows that don't require too much fill light. All I needed to add was too small gold reflectors to bounce a little bit of warm light into the shadows and lighten them up.
This was Linsey's first time teaching a workshop, so she was a bit nervous at first performing in front of an audience. She soon warmed to the task and quite enjoyed the experience. There were lots of questions about tricks of the trade and how food stylists work to make the food look so delicious on camera.
Here she shows a nice technique of cracking the eggs into a small cup and then pouring them into the phyllo moulds without breaking the yolks.
Here are the other elements of the brunch plate:
A careful placement of the Phyllo Egg, and some finishing touches, and the final shot comes together!
Everyone enjoyed the workshop, so Linsey and I are planning a more in depth food photography workshop… I'll post details here as we firm them up.
Photo Credits:
Photography by Rob Davidson
Food Styling by Linsey Bell
Assistant Nadia Cheema
Deceptive taste, but simple light.
My goal in lighting this shot is to retain all the texture and detail of the mascarpone and fig mixture, and also hilight the delicate colours and shapes of the Belgian Endive. I decided that a very large softbox positioned low and from the side would give the soft shadows and retain delicate hilights.
As a background to the woven platter I selected decorative dark red twigs (you can buy these in bundles from interior design shops), as they gave create a linear pattern that contrasts nicely with the random arrangement of the endives.
Here are the ingredients being prepared, and arranged on set.
And the final set-up showing the camera position, the large softbox, and a soft gold reflector (behind the stepladder) to bounce a bit of warm light into the shadows.
Here's the unedited capture of the final shot, and the finished photo, after cropping and darkening the background to to enhance the contrast and make the subject pop.
Photography: Rob Davidson
Food Styling: Linsey Bell
Assistant & BTS photos: Nadia Cheema
Miso Soup… it's all in the details
My goal for this shot was to highlight the delicate beauty of all the ingredients in this bowl of soup. I opted to do this by using a clear glass bowl and lighting it from underneath. Here's a shot of my set up showing a sheet of translucent plexiglass lit from underneath with a single Alien Bee head and a shoot through umbrella. This setup creates a nice even light under the bowl so I can have a uniform white background.
Note that I have my compendium lens hood on to block off all the extra light from outside the frame (See this post for a full explanation). When you're shooting for a clean white background, it's important to precisely control your exposure. I use the highlight warning flashers on my preview image (or, since I'm shooting tethered, I can also turn on the highlight warnings in Lightroom). I dial up power of the flash slowly until the background just starts to flash as a solid highlight, but no more. This insures that my background is a clear white, but that I don't have so much light pouring in that it will cause flare.
This gives a beautiful backlight to the bowl of soup which shows the translucent quality of the miso and the broth. However I do need some light on the front of the ingredients so that they are not left in silhouette. I used a gold reflector to bounce some of the light back onto the top of the bowl which illuminates the ingredients and gives them a warm glow. You can see the gold reflector on the left side of this shot.
With the lighting in place it's now just a question of arranging everything in the bowl. We used a big pile of noodles as a support for all the other ingredients. The noodles provide a nice flexible base on which to support slices of pork tenderloin and the mushrooms.
Here's a nice animation that shows the tweaking and arranging we did along the way to the final shot:
Photography: Rob Davidson
Food Styling: Linsey Bell
Assistant & BTS shots: Nadia Cheema
Sometime things don't turn out like you planned!
When Lindsey and I originally discussed this shot in our preproduction meeting, we envisioned creating a sort of dinner party set up showing multiple plates ready for our guests. We plan on presenting the food as an artfully created stack of small potato rösti, oven roasted vegetables and the slices of pork tenderloin. (We were obviously being influenced by some of the beautiful plate presentations on Top Chef Masters!)
While Lindsay was preparing pork tenderloin, I created this beautiful set up of white on white plates fading off into the distance. I used wadded up newspaper to represent the elegant stacks of food that we were planning on presenting. Here are some shots of the initial set up:
The difficulties arose when it came time to actually start stacking up the food. Somehow the elements were just not coming together into the beautiful artful stack that we had envisioned. The slices of tenderloin looked terrible from the side and the potato rösti were not faring much better. I was so enamored with the overall look of the shot that I was loath to simply abandon it, so we struggled with various arrangements trying to make something that would work.
However we eventually realized that it just wasn't coming together and that we had to take a completely different approach to this recipe. We decided to raise the camera can focus in on just one beautiful plate, highlighting the textural and color contrasts of the various ingredients. Once we relented and started to explore this new approach things fell into place immediately. Even our first test shot looks much better than what we'd been struggling with.
In a moment of inspiration, we decided to add in slices of glazed apple, since this would not only look great but also taste wonderful! All we had to do from this point was fill in the plate, arrange the elements beautifully and tweak the lighting a bit to bring out the textures. And voilá, we had the final shot!
This experience serves to highlight how important it is to remain flexible when you're shooting and not get locked into one particular approach, even though it looks beautiful. At some point you have to step back from your personal attachment and go with what works for the particular recipe. Fortunately I was able to go back to the original setup for our second shot, which will appear in a posting soon.
Photography: Rob Davidson
Food Styling: Linsey Bell
Assistant & BTS shots: Nadia Cheema
Simple food gets simple light!
Aaaah, pancetta! No, it's not Italian bacon, though it's made from the same cut of the pig. The difference is it's cured rather than smoked, which gives it a delicate flavor that can be enjoyed either raw or cooked. I like it in this recipe especially because it doesn't overwhelm the delicate porcini mushrooms. This particular pancetta is made locally in the Niagara region, and is rubbed with herbs to enhance the flavor.
Now I'd like to talk a little bit about the process of creating a food shot. For the initial setup I always use what I call stunt food, a quick representation of what the final food will look like (sort of). Here's a typical example of stunt food.
I use this while I'm arranging the props, background and lightning. This allows me to play around with all the details without having the pressure of worrying about how the final food is holding up. Here Linsey and I look at the shot on the monitor and make decisions about how we want to arrange the props.
You can also see here how a studio stand (the big black thing holding up the camera) functions to get the camera to whatever position I need to execute the shot, even if it's directly overhead. This particular model weighs about 100 pounds, has retractable wheels, and provides rock steady support. These studio stands are not cheap (they start around $1000 and go up!), so a more viable alternative is to get a tripod that allows you to angle the center column to get over your subject. The Benro Flexpods handle this nicely. Another useful accessory for this type of shooting is a right angle viewer, which allows me to see through the camera without having to be above it. I picked this one up from Gadget Infinity for around $60, and it really comes in handy.
When both Linsey and I are happy with the arrangement of everything, she then prepares the final food. She does most of the prep in the kitchen, but usually leaves the final touches to be completed on set. I use old film canisters filled with lead fishing weights to exactly mark the location of the plate so we can remove the stunt food and replace it with the final dish. Then it's just a few final touches and the dish gets shot quickly before things have a chance to wilt or look soggy.
For this particular shot I opted to use daylight since it was a beautiful day outside, just slightly overcast, and the light streaming in through the garage door was just too beautiful to pass up. Often when I shoot using daylight I almost feel like I'm cheating… it's so simple and so beautiful. All I needed here was one reflector to lighten shadows a bit and I was good to go.
The background is an off white burlap which I wrinkled up by bunching it up in my hands and squeezing. I really love the subtle texture and the monochromatic feel of this shot!
Photo Credits: Photography by Rob Davidson
Food Styling by Linsey Bell
Assistant and BTS photos: Adriana Garcia Cruz
Light the mood… dark and elegant.
The mood that I wanted to convey with this shot is one of simple elegance. I selected a large granite tile for the background, and the plate I actually made by chipping off the edges of a slate tile to create a shape that I wanted. I like the tone on tone textures that this created.
When I think about the lighting for a particular shot, I try to imagine what the ideal setting would be for serving and eating this dish. In this case having would definitely be dark and elegant with strong mood lighting. With this image in my head I opted to go for a single light source, small and directional. A single Alien Bee flash with a 20° grid spot seemed to do the trick best. I placed the light behind them to the right of my subject to cast strong shadows and maximize the texture of both the paper and the food.
Even with a grid spot in place I felt there was too much light in the shot so I used pieces of black foam core to block off light where I didn't want it. It's sort of a process of selective subtraction. I then added in one small gold reflector to bounce just a bit of warm light into the shadows.
This series of shots shows the progression from the first test shot to the final image.
Photo Credits: Photography by Rob Davidson
Food Styling by Linsey Bell
Assistants: Chris Hazard and Amber Scott
Easy Light for an Easy Recipe
The lighting and set up for this shot is the essence of simplicity. My food stylist, Linsey Bell, suggested that we break open a coconut to form the bowls for both the chocolate and the fruit, and to convey the idea of the coconut milk. She had also picked up the big tropical leaf at her local florist while she was shopping. All I really had to do was arrange these beautiful items and light them. I knew from experience that I wanted my light to be very soft in order to bring out the texture of the chocolate and not to create harsh shadows. So I set up a very large (4ft. x 5ft.) soft box and placed it behind my table. This combination of a very large light source and placement behind the subject creates a great sense of texture and richness without being too contrasty. I used a large gold reflector to bounce some warm light into the shadows and give the coconut that warm glow. I also added a small, shiny gold reflector to bounce more light into the coconut and prevent the chocolate from going too dark.
When I looked at the test shot I like the sense of texture but I felt that it was too even over all, I needed a bit of shadowing in areas. I stacked a couple of bricks just out of frame behind the leaf to cast some shadows around the corners of the shot, and that seemed to give a nice sense of depth to the background. You can see in these two shots the difference that just that little shadow makes.
I know that it's easy to add in those kinds of shadows later in Photoshop, but the purist (and long-time film shooter) in me still prefers to get the light and atmosphere right in the moment of capture rather than adding it later.
I did however decide to do a bit of Photoshop enhancement, using what I call a richness layer. The technique is fairly simple. I duplicate the background layer, then apply a threshold adjustment, which creates a high contrast black-and-white version of the image. I tweak the level of the threshold to give a good balance of white and black. Then I change the blend mode for that layer to overlay or soft light, depending on how strong I want the final effect to be. Then I apply a Gaussian blur to the layer, adjusting the amount to taste. I play with the opacity of the layer to get just the level of richness that the shot needs. Finally, I add a layer mask and block out the effect wherever I feel it's too strong, in this case on the strawberries and some of the chocolate.
What this technique does is add some contrast and a bit of edge softening to create a bit of a "romantic richness" without altering the color of the shot. You can see the effect here in these before and after shots. It's very subtle but I do like it.
Photo Credits: Photography by Rob Davidson
Food Styling by Linsey Bell
Assistants: Chris Hazard and Amber Scott
A fun Salad… and how it gets shot!
Of course the first step in making this recipe is to brown the butter! Here's a shot of the butter in the pan merrily bubbling and hissing as the excess water evaporates.
You want to cook this until all the bubbling and hissing stops and the butter just starts to turn a light brown color. Cook over medium heat and stir frequently to prevent the butter solids from burning. (If you go too far in the butter starts to burn you've actually created another classic French sauce, appropriately named Black Butter Sauce!).
The bowl and plate for this shot are made of bamboo, one of my favorite materials for its color and texture, not to mention environmental friendliness. The little dishes are made from some sort of leaf simply folded up into a bowl shape. These were all sourced from Tap Phong (on Spadina Avenue, just S. Of College St.). The fabric is a naturally textured silk.
I wanted the lighting to be warm and textural to bring out all the details in the salad. I decided to go with an unusual choice of a beauty dish for this shot, and it worked well, striking a nice balance between softness and contrast. For those not familiar with a beauty dish, it's basically a large diameter reflector, in this case an Alien Bees 22 inch beauty dish. These are most often used for fashion and beauty shots, but I like the quality of light it gives this particular food shot.
When I had a look at the first test shot I felt that the light was a bit cold and uniform, so I decided to break it up with a mixed warming gel. I created this by mounting a piece of clear acetate in a foamcore frame then sticking small pieces of red, yellow and orange gels to the acetate. This gives the light a slightly dappled warmth without creating an overall color cast. You can see exactly what I'm talking about in this shot.
Because the beauty dish is still a relatively hard light source the shadows of the plates and bowls were way too dark so I added a gold reflector to bounce in some warm light and give a nice glow to the shadow areas.
This shot gives a nice overall view of the setup, and demonstrates why a studio stand is so useful for shooting food. (A studio stand is a massive, heavy beast with a vertical column and a sort of boom. It allows you to easily position your camera in places no tripod would dare to tread… like directly overhead and 8 ft up in the air!) Note the beauty dish with gels in front and the reflector bouncing light into the shadows. Also take careful note of the piece of foam core suspended between the camera and the light to block any light from hitting the camera lens and causing flare. This is a very important step to take on almost any studio shot where there is a risk of light hitting the lens, causing flare (loss of detail and contrast).
Now a little bit about the salad itself. When you create a salad for photography you don't toss it….. you build it, piece by piece and leaf by leaf. You can see in this close-up of the bowl that we've created a sort of dam for the salad out of lead filled film canisters. (Remember when film came in this little plastic containers?) This allows Linsey to build up the salad so it won't cave in on itself and create dark holes.
She also individually placed each piece of popcorn, corn pop and roasted corn. This is all done with no dressing on the salad. Once we're happy with the look of the salad, she then applies small drops of dressing with an eye dropper. This prevents the salad from looking like a shiny oily mess.
Once the salad is dressed I have scant few minutes to get the final shot done before the lettuce starts to wilt and the dressing runs. This is the way with food photography, you can spend hours fussing and fidgeting with light, the food, the props….. and then it's bang bang bang grab the shot in a couple of seconds before the food dies!
Photo Credits: Photography by Rob Davidson
Food Styling by Linsey Bell
Assistants: Chris Hazard and Amber Scott


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Xbox One and PS4: Are Consoles Dying?
Much is being done out of Phil Spencer's recent statements per a destiny of a Xbox One. In this vision, Spencer talked about a destiny where consoles will see fast hardware innovation, not distinct how PCs and a mobile universe operate. Dave Thier, a Forbes contributor, has created adult a piece on a matter about how a age of consoles competence be past, quite a age of console generations as we have traditionally famous them.
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When we're together, I'm trailing in the surf,
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and out, following the hollows left by your feet –
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Liverpool chairman Tom Werner believes that the Reds gave Brendan Rodgers enough time to prove his credentials and his sacking last week was more down to his inability to bring the best out of his players. The Merseyside club appointed Klopp to take over the helm at Anfield and Werner insists that the former Borussia Dortmund man is the world-class coach they were looking for.
Rodgers spent three seasons at Anfield, in which he failed to qualify for the Champions League in two, but almost won the league in his second season, with Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge firing on all cylinders. Suarez's departure and an injury to Sturridge brought an end to that run and after a dire start to the current season the board lost faith in the former Swansea manager's ability to take the team forward.
Klopp is a seasoned performer on the greatest stage. His two Bundesliga titles with Dortmund and a Champions League final puts him above Rodgers in terms of achievements.
"When we appointed Brendan we thought he was going to be the right manager for Liverpool. Obviously we now feel that we have got the world-class manager and beyond that there is not much more I would like to say," Werner said, as quoted by Goal.
"We gave Brendan, as you know, an opportunity to see if we could improve this season. There was some very good football last season and some not so good football."
Rodgers spent a lot of money for the past two seasons, the majority of which was attributed to a special transfer committee which operated behind the scenes. However, Werner refused to claim responsibility for the failed transfers and insisted that Rodgers still had a massive role to play in choosing the targets.
"There were some challenges that dealt with injuries, we brought in some new players that Brendan recommended that we thought would take us forward," he added.
"We are where we are. I don't want to say too much. Brendan is an outstanding manager and we decided to move in a different direction and I am very optimistic."


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Everything was soon out of control. The dregs and miscreants of Southern California were infiltrating our house. Mitch stood atop a chair on the porch, scouting out potential customers on the boardwalk, directing them to the Drug Den. Mandy, meanwhile, was selling their inventory upstairs. I was impressed by their business model, all-the-while praying for my possessions, which were tucked in the closet of our unlocked bedroom. I then spotted Arnold at the other end of the room and waved at him, standing on my tip-toes to see over the swarm of strangers.
"Johnny! Come here!" his lips seemed to cry.
I was desperate to reunite with my pal, but the living room was too crowded to move through. The countertops were strewn with crushed cans, cracked red cups and broken bottles. The floor was slippery beneath a mélange of spilled drinks and accumulated dirt. I could scarcely breathe through the miasma of stale alcohol, fresh sweat and smoke. I couldn't hear myself think through the numbing cacophony of humans shouting at the top of their lungs, sanctioned, it seemed, by the stereo's relentless thump-thump. I squeezed my way into the stairwell to look for other friends in the Drug Den. Strangers with vacant faces stumbled down as I trudged my way up. I reminded myself of a foolhardy warrior, plunging into the thick of the battle for the sake of valor, and sure enough, the Drug Den was deathly in its apocalyptic energy. Mandy resembled an overworked street peddler, caught off-guard by rush hour. Sordid figures – the leachiest of leeches – lurked amidst the throng, frothing and seething like voracious wildebeests. Nostrils quivered impatiently, tongues licked lips eagerly, fingers jittered maniacally. The room's personal speaker blasted dissonant, hypnotic electronic music. Zane Zinser sat cross-legged in his corner, wide-eyed and motionless, exuding serenity.
I clambered onto the roof-deck and found Boris smoking a cigarette, pontificating to a few leeches. When he saw me, he stood up rapidly and donned a wine grin.
"Broooooo! Get the fuck over here!" he screamed.
"I'm going to Sandbar, come with!" I yelled back.
"Fuck that man, the ocean's gonna be FREEZING right now – ohh I see now, you're joking aren't ya? Ha! Isn't that funny, boys?" He punched the leeches on their shoulders with ostensible playfulness, goading them to laugh along. "Now c'mon, Johnny," he pressed on, "Why don't you get the fuck over here and snort some Adderall with your boys?"
I didn't recognize his leeches, but was well-acquainted with Adderall. He held out an orange medicine bottle and rattled it like a maraca, shooting me a daring grin with raised eyebrows: the universal face of peer pressure, and sure enough I felt myself gravitating towards him to crush up the little blue pills and roll up a dollar bill and huff it all up while waiting for the stereo's thump-thump to become the thump-thump of my heart, at which point the world transforms into a place where humans are very special, with intricate personalities and rich histories that deserve attention and respect – and so, I almost obeyed, but then I sensed the somnambulant trance into which I would fall, not to mention the pressing imperative to get the hell out of that madhouse, if only to find myself another.
"Nah man, I'm good. Everyone's at Sandbar – it's a bar-bar," I tried to clarify. "Now get your ass up, let's go!"
Still standing, Boris compressed his mouth into a mordant, trembling smirk; cocked his head sideways and pointed at me vigorously; activity on the roof stood still; all attention pivoted to the authoritarian gestures of the gangly man with green-gray slits for eyes.
"I'll meet you there, homie," he finally said, effortlessly casual and devastatingly anticlimactic after his elongated, fear-inducing pause, that of a true showman. The leeches snickered nervously. I waved goodbye and nudged my way back through the Drug Den.
"Holy fucking shit man," Sammy was bellowing on my way out. "I mean holy fucking shit! This molly is the sweetest drug. The sweetest drug of all fucking time," I heard while gliding downstairs and resolving to walk to Sandbar alone, but I bumped into Arnold on the porch.
"Johnny! My man! Vodka, bro! Vodka!" he exclaimed gleefully. His red hair was drenched in sweat, and he offered me a bottle of Svedka, which I guzzled from until my throat burned. I tried to convince Arnold to hit Sandbar with me, but he refused to leave the porch. He was intent on sharing his Svedka with anyone and everyone, citing his desire to be "a good host," so I went onto the boardwalk and found Sandbar myself. The bouncer glanced at my ID and I stepped into a tall-ceilinged, dimly lit room, whose thump-thumping music and neon green lights were hypnotizing in effect. My classmates were scattered about, intermingling with their fellow hedonists. Grace appeared out of nowhere. She gave me a hug and looked at me expectantly.
"What's up?" I said.
"Let's get drinks," she helpfully suggested. I was up for anything. She took my hand and led me through the crowd. It was a familiar routine. Whenever we reunited at a party, she took my hand and led me through the crowd, as if taking me to a special destination, but there was never anywhere to go. She simply liked to hold hands and lead people through crowds. She did it with men and women alike. It was a gesture grounded in practicality, not romanticism, but I also sensed that utility and tenderness were interwoven in her mind – a condition that I was not subject to, for as we approached the throngs of hopeful customers at the bar, I pushed and shoved and negotiated some space for us against the countertop. Carl was on our right, whispering sweet nothings into the ear of a sweet little thing who I'd never seen before. He gave me a wink and started kissing the girl's neck. I waved at the bartenders frantically, hoping to get their attention. It was impossible; everyone wanted drinks. The poor bartenders were running back and forth at a million miles an hour, pouring shots and printing receipts and attempting to keep their customers pacified. People like me watched their every move; when they finished with one customer, the rest of us would scream and wave to get their attention. We were all desperate for overpriced poison.
Nellie and Shelly soon appeared, drunk as everyone else.
"Johnny! Could you order us drinks too?" They screamed over the music.
"Definitely!" I furrowed my brows and put on a manly expression. I felt very cool with these three beautiful women. When I got a bartender's attention, I screamed at him: "Four Vodka-Sprites," while foisting four fingers in his face. The young Hispanic man scurried away and I looked at the girls happily, seeing myself as a Mormon patriarch providing for his wives. Nellie was gesticulating wildly, recounting some tale when a classmate of ours, Brianna, materialized. Brianna had never been so fucked up. One by one, she gave Nellie, Shelly, and Grace big hugs and kisses on their cheeks, grabbing their shoulders and looking at them with teary affection. She then grabbed me around the waist and whispered scandalous words in my ear. I felt even cooler than a few moments beforehand. The Vodka-Sprites arrived and I handed them out. Brianna grabbed my straw and slurped up my entire drink in one big sip. She then grabbed my face and planted a slobbery kiss on my lips before walking away, leaving bright red lipstick all over my mouth.
Meanwhile, the folks behind us – eager for their overpriced poison – were breathing down our necks, yelling at us to move on. The problem was that my credit card was still with my server. The receipt-printing machine wasn't working. I watched my bartender swipe my card, again and again. My addled, racist, right-wing paranoia was informing me that this Hispanic man was draining my bank account with each swipe.
"What the fuck is going on," I roared, slamming down my fists on the countertop, barbaric and wrathful. The man looked at me – skittish, fearful, apologetic – and explained the situation. Everyone at the bar was staring at me, disturbed by my belligerence. The girls scrambled away. I watched them go, sad to be alone, but soon escaped onto the outdoor patio for a cigarette and some fresh air. The little space was brimming with smokers and sleek wooden tables. Like inside, it burst with movement, pounded with electronic music; sweaty claustrophobia was replaced by an invasive cloud of secondhand smoke. I sat down at a table occupied by a group of Indians, including Ojas. They had all attended fancy British secondary schools and ended up in California on a whim.
"John-nee-mother-fucking-boy!" slurred Ojas, jumping from his seat for a hug, nearly toppling the table over with his knees. "Sit your ass down you crazy-monkey-alcohol-fiend-mother-fucker, come come come! I was just telling the lads about Amir – remember that story, the lying mother fucker Coachella guy who said he'd gone to jail? Un-fucking-real, so I'm plotting my vengeance as we speak with the gadgets and cogs and circuitry spinning at top gear plotting and scheming as to how to get that mother fucker back so good he won't be able to walk the next day if you know what I mean, ey? Ey?? Ha! Hahaha!" He prattled so quickly, with spit flying from his mouth. The conversation then turned to European soccer. I was too drunk to take anything seriously, so I guffawed and pounded on the table, screeching inanities like an angry Russian.
"What the fuck is Mission Beach, man! What the fuck is this shit! Can you believe we're fucking graduates!"
"Yes Johnny-boy! Feel that mother fucking rage you crazy monkey fiend! Take this beer and pound your anger down you wild mother fucker!"
When everyone got up to leave, Ojas lagged behind and scooted his chair close to mine.
"What's up, bro?"
Ojas glanced around warily; nobody was paying us any attention. He took out a familiar-looking plastic baggie and held it beneath the table on his lap, then whispered in my ear.
"You want a little bump, brother?"
I fixated on the white powder in the plastic baggie on Ojas' lap beneath the patio table of Sandbar in Mission Beach, San Diego – gateway to the everlasting Pacific, home of Giant Dipper and gnarled men with snakes for pets, the chosen destination for graduating seniors at my liberal arts college, and here was Ojas – fucked up as hell with an expression of frantic nervousness; a guy from Mumbai putting himself at risk for felony charges, extradition, the revocation of his newly minted college degree, just so he could offer his buddy a bump of coke.
Coke coke coke! Gimme all that fucking coke, Ojas, and not just a bump but the whole fucking bag, and when that's gone I'll storm the Drug Den, murder Mitch and Mandy and steal all their coke, all the damn coke in the world – ohhh yes! Yes yes yes! – I'll snort it on the beach and swim out to sea until the world finally feels alive.
I nodded. He dipped a silver key – his room key, incidentally – into the plastic baggie, scooping out a small mound of white powder, which came to rest on the key's flat edge; I lowered my head, pressed down my right nostril, inhaled through my left, and I was off to the races. Ojas bid me adieu with a beaming face, displaying the satisfaction of a man who's done his friend a favor. I then smoked a cigarette in two minutes flat before running back inside and ordering a round of tequila shots for everyone at the bar before throwing myself into the tumult of the dance floor where I stomped my feet, oozed sweat, and kissed Brianna for what felt like two hours but must've only been ten minutes. When she left I returned outside to my patio table to smoke another cigarette where Eddy and Carl sat down with me. I asked Carl if he'd just finished boning the shit out of that sweet little thing.
"No sir, just gave her some smooches g'night. Don't need me any unexpected problems 'fore graduation," he said in his hillbilly Bill Clinton cadence which struck me in the moment as disingenuous, like he was putting on a simpleton ruse to ingratiate himself with men and women alike in his own perverted power quest, so I told him that THIS wasn't fucking Louisiana – not no more, boy – THIS was Southern mother-fucking California, and out here you don't give smooches g'night, you bone bone bone – and then you bone some more – and I pounded my fists on the table guffawing because I was half kidding – right? – and Carl chuckled at my behest but Eddy, that French piece of shit, he was staring at me with a stone-cold countenance that reeked of judgment and I wanted to smack the Goddamn shit out of him for being so composed and sober and steady instead of up in the world's face, instead of being as pissed off as me, so I asked what was up his French ass.
"Well, John-nee," he said slowly, "In truth, thees is all a bit much for me. Thee drugs, thee blackout drinking, thee… thee mindlessness… it has been fun, but I am tired now, simply tired," he said softly while looking at the table to avert my accusatory gaze because he was consciously speaking with a self-assured tone that sure as hell sounded like arrogance to me so I grew infuriated and told him that if he's having such a shitty time then he can get the fuck out of our country and go eat baguettes and fuck dudes back in France, which I suppose explains why he and Carl stood up and left, which made me sad because I was about to offer them cigarettes so we could have some good conversation while puffing on tobacco like we had done the day before, but instead I was alone and inhaled another solo cigarette in two minutes flat, and in this manner I persisted as friends, acquaintances and randos sat down at my patio table to shoot the shit and get more fucked up while I stayed put, motionless, hunched over in my chair, rambling to anyone who pretended to listen. I didn't care who sat down with me, as long as I didn't have to move. They kept bringing me drinks. I drank them all. I was a great thinker sought out by soul-seekers on their pilgrimages. I was a miserly old man addicted to alcohol and tobacco. I was a twenty-two-year-old at a bar in Mission Beach, San Diego. Everything was crazy and I didn't care, as long as I could sit, as long as I could stay in that chair, as long as things were steady. I was happy to finish the woe-begotten remnants of stale beers and watered-down mixed-drinks, left by my effervescent companions. At 2 o'clock in the morning, my eye-lids were collapsing in on themselves. I was about to fall asleep, slumped over on the table with a group of Chinese kids from UC Santa Barbra when the bouncers kicked everyone out. I found my way to the duplex where the party continued unabated, but I was too exhausted and sad to continue, so I found my way to our room and crashed into bed without touching the covers. My world was spinning; everything was topsy-turvy. The last thing I recall was a pair of leeches stumbling into the room.
"What the hell do you want," I yelled.
"Can we do coke in your room?"
I was finished with the party but the party was not finished with me. What would I do tomorrow? What would I do in a year? Where the hell was Grace?


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Nikki Reed & Paul McDonald: Sushi Sweeties
Nikki Reed and husband Paul McDonald head out to dinner at Robata Jinya in Los Angeles on Thursday night (March 7).
The couple enjoyed some sushi at the restaurant after performing at the Joe Fresh JCP Pop Up event earlier in the night.
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The European migrant crisis, or the European refugee crisis, began in 2015 when rising numbers of people arrived illegally in the European Union, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea or overland through Southeast Europe.
The trend was brought to the world's attention during the 2015/2016 New Year's Eve celebrations, there were mass sexual assaults, at least 24 rapes, and numerous thefts in Germany, mainly in Cologne city center. There were similar incidents at the public celebrations in Hamburg, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and Bielefeld. For all of Germany, police report that 1,200 women were sexually assaulted and estimate that at least 2,000 refugee men were involved, acting in groups.
All of the incidents involved women being surrounded and assaulted by groups of men on the street. Police reported that the perpetrators were men of "Arab or North African appearance" and said that Germany had never experienced such mass sexual assaults before.The German Federal Criminal Police Office said the incidents were a phenomenon very common in some Arab countries as taharrush jamai.
Europe's rate of sexual assault skyrocketed as the refugees arrived as have other crimes of violence.
The US State Department is warning Americans that traveling to Europe risks being caught in a terrorist attack. The 'Travel Alert' is set to remain in place for the next four months.
Between 60 and 80 Islamic State operatives in Europe are preparing to carry out attacks, a Dutch counterterrorism official warned last week, adding that the terrorist group is asking its militants to forgo traveling to Syria or Iraq and take the fight to Europe instead.
There are currently between 4,000 and 5,000 European terrorist fighters in Iraq and Syria, warned Dick Schoof, the Netherlands' National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, adding that "the chance of attack in the Netherlands is real."
An official statement referred to recent attacks by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and Al Qaeda, as well as their affiliates, against France, Russia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Further terrorist attacks may be carried out, even as "local governments continue counter-terrorism operations," the State Department said.
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The political divide is not just an American problem, pro-immigration Socialists/Communists are also becoming more violent around the world.
In Europe there are protests by immigrants, anti-immigration protests and Socialists/Communists are also on the rise.
Commemorations around the Bastille square turned violent after Molotov cocktails were thrown at police by black-masked activists, leaving at least one officer with serious burn wounds. Other protesters threw smoke bombs to disorientate police, who in turn fired tear gas to try and control the crowd.
Thousands of police were on-guard in Berlin's traditionally left-wing Kreuzberg neighborhood to avoid a repeat of the violence of previous years, such as in 2009, when 273 officers were injured during clashes with rioters. While most of the day's celebrations went off without incident, some black-clad protesters started throwing stones and firecrackers at police. Tear gas was discharged and several arrests were made. Meanwhile, in the eastern town of Apolda around 100 people were arrested after allegedly hurling rocks and firecrackers at police officers.
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