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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." – Andre Gide, French critic, essayist, & novelist
Today so much is said about being authentic and how important it is to succeed in business. In the age of the internet and multiple platforms from which we can present ourselves, we can be and say whatever we want and is up to others to determine for themselves if we are being authentic and honest. So how can we improve our authenticity, be genuine and show others that we are genuine?
I believe that authenticity starts with truly knowing yourself and aligning your actions to that knowledge rather than trying to be what we believe others expect us to be. How many times have you built a persona of what you believe you needed to be only to find yourself stressed at trying to keep up that persona every day? It is so much easier to just be yourself. You are unique and amazing, so stop being afraid to be your true self and I guarantee it will be easier in every aspect of your life. I can't stress enough how important it is to be true to yourself and be completely unafraid to just be you!
If you are struggling with being authentic and stepping into who you truly are, drop me a line. I would love to chat with you on this.

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I have spent the last three days working on two cases for the U.S. Embassy. Maybe if I document some of the problems involved, it will cause at least one more person to be willing to register with the U.S. Embassy in Panama City, and to set up a personal buddy contact and maybe write a will.
I received a call on Wednesday from the Embassy asking if I could check on a U.S. Citizen that was in the Regional Hospital. The hospital social worker had called the Embassy requesting help because the doctors were saying he was fine and they needed him to leave because the hospital needed the space.
When I saw him he didn't look well enough to care for himself if he returned to his apartment. I went back yesterday and the doctors again said he was perfectly fine and ready to leave.
I went to meet with the hospital social worker for this case. When I was sitting in the office of the hospital social worker, I called the Embassy so they could talk to her while I was there. She told the Embassy that they needed to release the patient to free up space.
Each time the hospital had wanted him to go, the patient had not wanted to go because he didn't feel well. The Embassy asked what the hospital's practice was in cases when the doctors said the patient was fine and the patient felt he needed more care.
The social worker said, if they didn't leave voluntarily, that the hospital would put them on the street. The Embassy asked if this was the same treatment that would be given to a Panamanian. The answer was yes.
So, it was arranged for an ambulance to take the patient back to his apartment. Yesterday evening I received a call from the apartment landlord asking if I would come and see the patient that had been released.
Lilliam and I got to the apartment about 7:00 PM. When I saw the individual, it was obvious he was having trouble breathing and we called 911 for an ambulance to take him to a hospital other then the Regional Hospital. When the ambulance arrived, he was having more difficulty breathing and his heart stopped while the 911 attendants were there. They administered emergency treatment.
Thirty minutes later, he was pronounced dead. Now here is the part I have problems with. About 9 days ago he was fine. He went to the Olympic pool close to the airport and swam for two hours a day, three days a week, and had the habit of doing this for the last three years. While he was elderly, he could only be described as having exceptional health.
About 7 days ago he was hit by a pickup and taken to the Regional Hospital. In a mere 7 days in he was no longer fine. Of course the accident was the beginning, but broken bones should not be a reason to die. Had he been in one of the private hospitals, I believe he would still be alive. If a person enters the Regional Hospital and has no family there to monitor his/her care, he/she is in high potential risk. It is my opinion that a non-Panamanian has an even higher risk. While this is opinion, I have been to visit 4 prior gringo cases and two left alive. 50% doesn't built much confidence with me.
I am convinced that had he not been released, he would have died in the hospital do to lack of care. For a medical doctor to have said he was fit to be released is almost criminal. For the hospital to say he leaves of his own volition or he will be put out on the street, should be a warning to anyone that enters and stays for any period of time in that hospital.
Now for you to understand how I spent last night. We called the Police and they came quickly and said we should ask for a doctor from the hospital to issue a reason for death. Obviously the hospital wanted nothing to do with that.
We then asked the police to notify the Fiscalía to come and take the case. I formally asked for an autopsy because I think that will indicate that he should not have been released.
We now started the wait for the Fiscalía. At 2:30 AM, this morning, the police said that nothing would happen until after 8:00 AM. Lilliam and I came home for a couple hours of sleep.
We returned to the apartment at 8 AM this morning and I had Lilliam call the Fiscalía Superior Primero and tell them we were waiting. This time when the officials came, they claimed that they were never notified last night and someone should have come sooner.
At 11:30 AM this morning they had completed all of their paperwork and the body was taken to the morgue for an autopsy. With the David cremation capability being closed, it will have to potentially go to Panama. But again, wishes could be easier exercised, if there was a will.
By the way, I spoke with the deceased's lawyer this morning and he had also been told by doctors that the individual was fine and the hospital needed the space. The lawyer had told the doctors that he did not appear fine to him.
Now the second case. In the same 6 person room, as the previous patient, was another U.S. citizen. He asked to talk to me. He had had surgery and while he was using the same doctor that had treated him in Hospital Chiriquí, the nursing attention in the Regional hospital was missing. He requested some assistance from the Embassy.
I just spoke to the Embassy and a consul will be here next week to visit the patient and verify that proper care is being given and if the patient wants to move will assist in making that happen. I will tell you that the attention he is now being given seems to have improved. It helps to have someone in your corner. I plan on checking on him Sunday.
Neither of the men have family here and neither were registered with the Embassy. If you are going to live here, you have to understand that this is a third world country. If something happens to your health, you are up a creek without a paddle if you don't have a buddy and a plan to be executed.
The first died without a will and no family in the states. He personally told me that he had one friend here and thought of him like a son. I know he would want his personal things to go to his friend, but that may not happen.
I plan on going to bed early tonight.


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The bar has been listed for sale on the down low, without any identifying name, exterior pictures or address, but if you've ever been inside you might recognize it as Ted's Sports Bar & Grill. And if you want to buy Ted's, he's asking $425,000. The price includes the... Read More »
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This is the kind of hardcore noise punk you listen to when you want to set a trash can on fire and throw it through a window while your best friend spray paints his mohawk green and your girlfriend slams some dude's head into a wall like "Mike" does in SLC Punk. This is HELLS from Philly and they've just released their EP Paradise. And this is what their guitarist Brad Wallace, who also recorded the band's debut, had to say about it.
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This guide provides essential information aimed at anyone who lives, works or travels in Victoria so that they are prepared for the summer fire season.
In this guide you will learn:
- how to stay informed on fire risk days
- why you should leave early
- what you can or can't do on fire risk days
- what information to gather ahead of fire season for you and your family
- what to expect during a bushfire
- guidance on how to stay informed of fires across your area.
View an interactive copy of Your Guide to Survival below:
Download a PDF copy of Your Guide to Survival (PDF 1.3MB).
Also available in Audio.
For a more detailed summer fire information resource download the Fire Ready Kit (PF 3000k)
See also
- Understand Radiant Heat
- Leaving early
- Make your back up plan
- Find your local Fire Preparation meetings
- Make your own Bushfire Plan (PDF template 1000k)


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We know that behind her freaky looking super happy genki Momo she is still the most coward member in Berryz. She is very weak against pranks, ghosts, and other scary things including roller coaster. But that is normal for a girl to be coward right? Because that mean she will instantly jump into your hands (if you're her boyfriend :D) when she scared
In this alo hello video, i saw something different from previous momo's cowardliness. In the "suspicious guy prank" section, she is the only one who looked totally scared. It looks like she encountered with similar situation before that bring her trauma back. And not just scared, she totally rejected the prank till the end.
At the first contact with this suspicious guy we can see that every girl except Miya looked deeply serious against this alien. To add more stimulation to their mind the crew added some stupid-looking wanted notification and surprisingly every girl believed that stupid paper. Well i don't know if the director know how to multiply people's fear but indeed that he planned well to make every member scared to the death in the main prank.
Before the main prank started, all girls were taken to a trip in the middle of a farm. But, i think that's not just a simple farm trip. We can saw that the bus was driven in high speed with very little brake in each turn. Captain, Yurina, Maasa , Miya and Chii think it was very fun and they enjoyed the trip when Momo and Rii pair were totally scared and half-enjoyed this trip.
Before Momo's impression from that trip gone, the prank begun. When those guy appeared, we can saw that Suu-chan was the first girl who did the evasive maneuvers. But then, we clearly saw that Momo hit the nitro and accelerated at incredible rate. Before she run, she totally freeze and can't move until Rii-chan dragged her away from that guy. When the prank revealed, every girl, except Momo, begin to smile even some of them include Miya, still cried. Momo still cried out loud and feel that this prank was unforgivable.
I don't think she acted when she told us about she affraid that her life was in danger. She was very scared that she can't meet her family again because those day was the last day in Hawaii. The crew hardly to make her calmed down to continue to the next schedule. From this situation i can tell that she have some kind of trauma. No matter how hard/scary the prank, she always smile when it was revealed but this time is totally different. Even she showed up some hatred when everybody laughed after her. Yeah no matter how deep you burried your trauma, you can't hide it when the similar situation appear.


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With the world growing more connected by the day and with billions of people primed to buy smartphones over the next five years, building one's brand through the internet has never been more vital. Over the last few years however, popular platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have become inundated with things like bland advertising campaigns and uninteresting corporate social media presences.
As a result, we've reached the point where a more creative strategy may be necessary to get in touch with the audience any given health club values most.
Part of that strategy might be to include reddit in your club's social media rotation.
What is reddit?
Though it's perceived as a lawless part of the internet, reddit is actually a collection of unique online communities that serve the varying interests of a diverse group of around 20 million (and growing) users per month.
On reddit, each community is called a subreddit, to which users are able to post, comment and subscribe. Currently, the fitness focused subreddit has over five million subscribers who post things from questions about their exercise form, to tips on how to best adjust their diet to a new workout regimen. Unlike other social media platforms, there are an explicit set of norms followed by users called "reddiquette", and new members are expected to conform.
For example:
- Remember the human.
- Adhere to the same standards of behavior.
- Read the rules of a community before making a submission.
However, these norms actually make it infinitely easier to forge meaningful relationships with your target audience.
The homepage of the fitness subreddit is seen below:
How can you leverage the fitness subreddit?
1. Join the conversation.
The most direct method of forging these relationships is to simply join the conversation. On the fitness subreddit, most posts are questions, meaning that as experts in the health and fitness industry your club would likely be able to provide thoughtful answers. The more often your club does so, the more valued it's voice would become in the fitness subreddit community, which then creates a platform for the club to begin sharing original content from their blog, and brings traffic from reddit to your club's website.
2. Become an authroity.
As your club gains traffic from reddit and potentially more members, it could become a noted authority within the fitness subreddit community, perhaps even dedicating entire blog posts to questions posed on the thread, or providing links to outside websites that offer more information when your club is unable to.
3. Keep it personable.
The most important part of this strategy however, is to make sure your reddit presence is as personable as possible. This comes from crafting your profile. Instead of identifying yourself as a club, your username should simply be related to your club's knowledge of health and fitness (think: TheFitnessGuru), which makes it more likely for other redditors to respect your voice.
Getting involved on reddit is certainly a long term, highly intensive process. It involves a committed person or two to engage users on a daily basis, and it undoubtedly takes time to adjust to the culture and norms of the platform. But if utilized correctly, reddit can become an extension of your club's brand, and put it in a unique position in comparison to competitors moving forward.
Still stuck on how to get started on reddit? Check out this guide to get you going!
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- 4 Beds
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Property TypeResidential – Single Family
SubdivisionEDMONDS TERRACE
Listing Date07/28/20
Year Built1965
Lot Size0.18 Acres (7,841 SqFt)
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Immaculate! Check out this great 4 bedroom, 1.75 bath home with plenty of room to spread out. Newly updated kitchen with gorgeous cabinets and upgraded appliances. Very well cared for and maintained. So many possibilities in the basement and it even walks out to the backyard! Backing up to the Mineral Belt Trail, easy access to downtown and Turquoise Lake, the location is perfect! Check out the virtual tour or schedule a showing!
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While a new roof structure may last anywhere from twenty to thirty years before needing to be replaced, it is not maintenance-free and requires occasional repair work. There are five basic repairs which will be needed at some point no matter how well-constructed your original roof was.
The shingles that make up the outer surface of the roof bear the direct attack of weather and the damage it causes. Despite hail, rain, high winds, snow, and ice, the shingles on your roof must be rugged enough to withstand it all while maintaining their integrity over the years. Regardless of the quality of a shingle, repairs must be occasionally made to replace broken sections. Usually it works out to be less costly to replace the entire roof covering if more than one third of the shingles have been damaged.
Leak Repair
The hardest part of fixing a leaky roof is finding the place where the water is entering. It can be difficult for even a professional contractor to hunt them down. It can also be very expensive to fix a leak. It may involve tearing out a section of the roof structure or even part of a wall. Time is critical since the situation can only get worse and the longer the leak exists the greater the possibility of further damage by rot or mold.
Even without leaks, moisture can attack your roof from within. With heat and humidity, moisture can be trapped under your roof and create conditions ripe for mold. Excess humidity can also make the wood swell and buckle at the joints. Adding ventilation points can help improve air flow and structural health to your home.
The most common area of leakage tends to center around the flashing at the chimney, vent ports, and joints between roof sections. While re-flashing your roof can be time consuming and expensive, this critical part of water protection, when done right, can then last for decades with no further problems.
The greatest damage to your gutters is caused by leaves, dirt, and other debris building up in the gutters and not being cleaned out. This material can get very heavy on it's own. Rain will weigh it down more as it is soaked up into the detritus. The guttering can bend, warp, or even pull loose completely. A full gutter cannot direct water away from your walls as well and can expose them to more direct water flow.


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In the wake of Somalia's various civil wars since the early 1990s, piracy has proliferated in the Gulf of Aden and the wider Indian Ocean. Pirates are now attacking large vessels such as oil tankers as well as small yachts, as in the recent case of the Chandlers. It was only a matter of time before novelists got in on the act. This new novel by Elmore Leonard is followed in fairly short order by Wilbur Smith's Those in Peril, published in April.
Both these old stagers bring something to the party. In Leonard's case it is quite literally a party, as maverick documentary film-maker Dara Barr and her 6ft 6in black assistant, Xavier LeBo, join a motley crew of pirates, al-Qaida operatives, a posh Anglo-Arab and a thrill-seeking, elephant gun-toting Texan billionaire for champagne and cigars on the high seas.
Everything is set fair for a hilarious and fearlessly un-PC account of the war on terror. Dubbed "a Middle East western on water", Djibouti is well researched and not as improbable as it might seem. Those who know Africa well will actually feel fewer discomfiting moments than when reading ostensibly realist novels such as Norman Rush's Mating.
Fresh from the killing fields of Bosnia and post-Katrina New Orleans, Dara wants to make a documentary called Djibouti, switching between the magnificently seedy Horn of Africa port, where pirates come to spend their loot, and the coves and inlets at points south from which their powerboats sally forth. Xavier, at 72 twice Dara's age, is an ex-merchant navy sailor, tough as they come. When they hire a trawler with a pretty orange trim ("Lookin gay don't mean she ain't seaworthy," says Xavier), the two must live together at close quarters, watching each other's backs as they deal with a plot to blow up a tanker full of liquefied natural gas on its way to the US.
There are some superb characters here, especially Idris, the happy-go-lucky pirate king. "The boys in the skiffs. Oh, it was a time. Being half drunk to hijack a ship and earn a hundred thousand dollars, often dropped from a plane." He has no truck with fundamentalist Islam. "Some like it jihad," he quips, shrugging. Except that, uh-oh, he's hijacked a ship on which jihadists have planted explosives. Now it's standing off the Somali coast.
Dara and Xavier, snooping around, are buzzed by Idris's motorised skiffs. "She said, 'They sound angry, don't they?' 'Pissed off,' Xavier said, 'haulin ass for these African muggers.'"
They get themselves invited to a goat-on-a-spit feast at the pirate village of Eyl, while Idris wonders what to do. Together with his sometime friend and intermediary, the "Brit Sheikh" Ari Ahmed Bakar, aka Harry Baker, he cooks up a plan to deliver the al-Qaida men to the US embassy in Djibouti by car, to collect prize money from the Rewards for Justice programme.
Unwittingly, Idris and Ari have snared a serious pair of operators. Qasi al-Salah is a veteran bomber, scourge of the US embassies in east Africa in 1998, while Jama Raisuli is a former American gang member. Once James Russell, he came to fundamentalism via the Nation of Islam and a spell in prison.
In a convoy of Toyotas, with Idris and Harry wearing matching white suits and their prisoners in black hoods, various deals are mooted. It's all fairly immaterial as Jama soon escapes. A nasty piece of work, he goes on a killing spree before vying with Billy Wynn, lunatic billionaire and collector of supermodels, in a race to blow up the tanker.
Sometimes the perspective is with Dara, sometimes with others, including Billy and Jama. Xavier is our anchor, as here watching Dara get off a plane with Ari: "Now Dara was coming along talking to an Arab-looking guy, nodding, getting along, maybe sat next to each other on the flight. The man wore a tan suit and striped tie, had a trim Arab beard but looked citified, not the kind rode camels. Now Dara was putting on her shades. She'd be saying how hot it was this early."
Leonard's participle-rich prose style builds action round dialogue in an intriguing way, coming off like the bastard child of Hemingway and Virginia Woolf. But it's not so much consciousness he's after or even action per se, more a sense of transcendent pace, a fleeing away of time to which everything else is subordinated.
Perhaps the cleverest stroke of the book is a sudden moment of prolepsis about a quarter of the way through, when we are catapulted forward to Dara and Xavier – bedfellows now, with the aid of a herb called Horny Goat Weed – editing the roughs of Djibouti, debating whether it can be morphed from a documentary into a feature film.
From then on the narrative flickers between the presentational (the action on digital video, being commented on) and the representational (the "raw" action as it happens). Of course it all gets nicely mixed up, with exactly the kind of "poetic fucking around" that Dara makes herself eschew while editing.
With his 10 Rules of Writing and stripped-back style, Leonard himself is not known for that kind of thing either, and to some extent I guess he's playing with us. At any rate, on top of the novel's innate drama, suspense comes from guessing how this author, still a master of his art at 85, will disentangle all the layers for a "big finish":
"Dara said, 'Is this how it ends?'
'What, your movie?'
'We must be close to it.'"
Giles Foden's Zanzibar is published by Faber.


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In 2006, 17 years after starting the Akanksha Foundation, Shaheen felt compelled to address the issue of educational inequity at scale. As she thought through the solution, she believed that the answer lay in a people's movement that needed to come together to provide every child in India an excellent education.
We believe that one day all children will attain an excellent education.
To build a movement of leaders to eliminate educational inequity.
In 2007, Shaheen met with Wendy Kopp, the Founder of Teach For America and was struck by the idea of leadership being at the core of the solution. In 2009, Teach For India welcomed our first cohort, the Class of 2009, to the Fellowship. The 87 "niners" formed the beginning of what Shaheen hoped would become a nationwide movement of diverse leaders. In 2011, our Niners graduated from the Fellowship and became the first cohort in our Alumni movement. Through their work as Alumni, the hope was that they would become lifelong leaders for equity. Our first cohort of Alumni went into teaching, teacher training, school leadership, and government policy. Today, we have 1250 Fellows working relentlessly in the short-term to change the lives of students in their classrooms and become leaders for change themselves. And we have 1500 Alumni who are collectively fuelling the larger movement towards our vision. The problem of educational inequity cannot be solved alone. Our story is in the relentless efforts of our Fellows, Alumni, staff, partners and supporters, and our children. Together, we can redraw India to be the country we want it to be. To read more about Teach For India's story, read 'Redrawing India' written by Shaheen Mistri and Kovid Gupta.
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Hoi An – #slowdown it's Thursday
Last night after dinner in the company of a Canadian woman, we watched, from our "fresh beer" drinking vantage point, young couples participating in the Pot Breaking Game. Blindfolded and armed with a stick to smash a small clay pot, they competed for prizes of lanterns and purses amidst much hilarity when the target was missed. The position of the pot was adjusted to match the height of the contestant.
This place has a way of slowing down your pace when you stay for more than a few days. The rainy season also dictates whether a stroll is in or out of the question. This morning we ate breakfast at Rosie's Cafe, a business venture started by two young Vietnamese women. They specialise in coffee, cold-pressed juices and all-day (until 3 pm) breakfasts.
Here are some of the highlights from this morning's walk in the weather break, which included a wander through the food markets.


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Dan Clark is a Florida native and a graduate of Jesuit High School in Tampa, Florida. He earned his bachelors of arts degree from Duke University where he was an honorable mention All-Atlantic Coast Conference athlete. He received his Juris Doctorate with honors from Stetson University College of Law where he was a member of the Stetson Law Review and Stetson Trial Team, and a Federal Judicial Intern for the Honorable Elizabeth A. Kovachevich, Chief Judge, Middle District of Florida.
Appointments and Distinctions
- BOARD CERTIFIED CIVIL TRIAL LAWYER by The Florida Bar
- Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
- Martindale-Hubbell™ AV Preeminent Rated Lawyer, the highest rating given.
- Hillsborough County Bar Association, Trial and Litigation Section, Chair (2011-12) & Executive Board Member (2003-2013); Young Lawyers Division (1999-2005 – Treasurer 2003-04 & Co-Chair, Professionalism and Ethics Committee 1999)
- Named a FLORIDA SUPER LAWYER; The final published list represents no more than 5% of the lawyers in the state. Learn more about this distinction.
- Named by Florida Trend as a LEGAL ELITE; approximately 2% of the lawyers in the state are chosen. Learn more about this distinction.
- Named by BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA – as BEST LAWYER Plaintiff Personal Injury Litigation
- Member of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyers
- Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Mr. Clark is recognized as having demonstrated exceptional skill, experience in advocacy by achieving a trial verdict or settlement of one million dollars or more.
- The Florida Justice Association (Eagle Benefactor)
- Tampa Bay Inn of Court (Barrister)
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- Nationwide Mut. Fire Ins. Co. V AFO Imaging, Inc., 71 So. 3d 134 (Fla. 2d DCA 2011)
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aDue to the large valleys all leading out to a vast sunken landscape at the North of the planet, Nasa's Men-in-white-coats have suggested the possibility of an ocean. My own thoughts on this is just "wow".
If the Elite wanted to unite the world, Space Exploration is the way to do it. And it is also a sure-fire way of ensuring the survival of the human species, for one day, our Sun go super-nova, swallowing the Sol system and us Earth with it.
The famous "face" photo (just up from the centre). Nasa say it was formed by wind and judging by the surrounding mounds, I'd make them right.
How she looks now. Strange to think about all these planets floating about in the universe, seemingly unaware of the forces involved in their creation and certain destruction. All those mysteries of the universe to be solved, yet here on Earth, it seems we as species are just rolling around in our own filth while screaming at eachother.
All we, and I use that 'we' generously, have achieved is one poxy space station! Where's the space-life, the moon base, the asteroid mining, the terra-forming and the damn exploration fleet? Arthur C. Clarke has a lot to answer for, getting my hopes up so high.


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Review: Tiamat – Amanethes
Monday, 27 July, 2009
"It's been a long time but we are here again". This is how "Amanethes" starts and I'm not talking about a white rapper introducing him for the third time. I'm talking about the latest Tiamat album from 2008, which hasn't come to my attention before a week ago.
It starts out more black/ death since early recordings in the 90ies. But it also have lots of symphonic elements that sound more like other Century Media bands than the unique sound that I will remember Tiamat always gave the goth rock scene. (Note: Tiamat released this record at Nuclear Blast.)
Amanethes is a disappointing record. It sounds like a patriarch that lost its power, now old but still howling. This could be charming, but it's convulsive. The record has its moments, but all in all its fragmented and missing the killer riffs and / or atmospheric passages from earlier albums.
Although I'm far from impressed, I think "Katarraktis Apo Aima" has a savage rage and Johan Edlund succeeds on the two minute short track to show how vehement and lost he is. And on the other side the a more sad and slow track "Misantropolis " also provides me with lots of real authenticity . As if Tiamat is in no use of forcing the feelings and melodies forward. Here they are, unpretentious and straight forward. And the greek guitars and drums in the end gives some of the originality which I'm missing on the record in general.
For some reason Johan Edlund continues to sing with a dark voice. To me this makes me think of the Sundown record, where former Tiamat bassist Johnny Hagel contributed. Johan Edlund explains why he sings with the low voice in an interview from 2008:
"It comes very natural for me. I do not have to struggle to sing that kind of songs. That is my natural voice. I struggle a bit more when I have to sing high or to scream, then I need a lot of energy. But the more low vocals I can do anytime." – quote in Lords of Metal
Well. Sounds kind of boring to me not pushing yourself to the limits. You'll find a more positive review at Metal Storm.
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Part 4: Die for metal. (1995 – 1999)
Saturday, 27 December, 2008
I had listened to Rage Against the Machine years before and was a little familiar with heavy metal like Manowar, Megadeth and Blind Guardian through high school friends. But it was when Moonspell as a support band to Morbid Angel played at Pumpehuset in 1995 I got hooked. This sound was majestic, symphonic and gothic. As Moonspell was signed at the German record company Century Media I became familiar with The Gathering, Tiamat and Samael. And through mail order from Nuclear Blast I bought lots of albums including the Black metal acts Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth and The Kovenant.
I was also found of Type O Negative. Sadly their concert was cancelled in 1996 cause of a down tool by Danish truck drivers. I could have got a free concert with Marilyn Manson, but in anger and sorrow I refused and went home. Doh!
I was to regret this a couple of month later, as I heard – and immediately loved – "Antichrist Superstar". This was their breakthrough and I believe the record and the gossip have had a huge impact on later artists. Maybe more than people actually realize.


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After graduating from The Cooper Union School of Art, Dakyung worked at AR New York and Ogilvy & Mather. She helped lead advertising campaigns and brand development for a variety of clients including American Express and Banana Republic. Using her agency experience as a springboard, Dakyung led many design projects while on the in-house creative team at Chipotle. In 2014, she co-founded Jd&co. Design. Dakyung is a multidisciplinary designer with a passion in illustration and typography.
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Our body and brain are directly linked; therefore, changes to our body will have an impact on our brain.
Movement is in fact fuel for the brain. The exciting field of neuroplasticity shows that the brain is capable of change from birth to death. The old adage, 'You can't teach an old dog new tricks.' isn't accurate when it comes to the capabilities of the brain. Modern science has taught us that brains can continue to learn and create change at any age. What a relief! And exercise is one of the great ways we can bring about positive brain changes.
Here's how it works: Receptors (mechanoreceptors that respond to mechanical stimuli to be exact,) in our muscles, tendons, ligaments, discs and joints provide sensory input from the body to the brain. This is called proprioception – our ability to know where we are in space at any time. Interestingly these receptors are very highly concentrated in the cervical spine (the neck), one of several reasons why Chiropractors are particularly concerned with the alignment of the head on the body.
A sedentary lifestyle provides less input to the brain from these receptors – not good news. A joint that has impaired movement can result in more nociceptor firing (the opposite of mechanoreceptors). Nociceptors are part of our sensory system which triggers an alarm response. Basically not moving our body enough can send alarm signals to our body and brain that we are in danger, increasing stress and tension throughout the body and even pain. Exercise can decrease this. Furthermore, when we injure a body part and use it less the brain can eventually decrease the real estate dedicated for that body part. This is the 'use it or lose it' concept of neuroplasticity, which will over time make the injured body part work less or become more painful than the original injury.
Aerobic exercise also has been shown to stimulate neurogenesis, the birth of new brain cells. This is the great news! While for decades scientists believed we could not produce new brain cells or neurons beyond childhood we now know that this school of thought is not true.
Exercise also increases several important neurotransmitters in our body and brain. For example, Dopamine and Serotonin levels increase with exercise; these are the feel good, motivational, memory and impulse control hormones. Neuronal growth factor levels also increase with exercise; these hormones are associated with growth of new brain cells and brain cell connections.
Motor development (the ability to move our body) and cognitive development are intimately connected; we must move our body to improve and impact our brain. Higher fitness levels are even linked to healthier grey matter (brain tissue). By changing/moving our body we do in fact change/grow our brain, it's up to us which direction we choose the change to take… for the better or for the worse.


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Currently, Ameriqaeda, is the only novel I've published. However, I have recently completed a new manuscript and it may soon be published by a small publishing house. I'll bring more news as the publishing process moves along.
I may also be bringing out more manuscripts as e-books available on Amazon. There are one or two that I think are entertaining enough to publish, so stay tuned for more.
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Monday, August 21, 2006
UK Music Charts
Christina Aguilera tops the album charts with her "Back To Basics" CD. (Though the BBC website hasn't updated that info yet, you can see her triumph mentioned on the home page. The singles chart looks like an endless series of smackdowns: David Guetta Vs. Tne Egg is one group, Micky Modelle V Jessy and Mousse T V Dandy Warhols are two more. Can't we all just get along?
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Decades ago, a memorable hotel ad campaign depicted a bedraggled man who emerges from a jungle, only to ask the baffled natives if they could take him to the Hilton. These days, that same rumpled man in khakis would request a locavore seafood feast by campfire, followed by a champagne cruise back to his three-storey villa with Sub-Zero appliances. Yes, today's idea of perfection is a little more needy.
As even chain hotels master what were once luxury amenities – the arithmetical glory of thread counts and screen definitions – some affluent travellers are no longer coveting rooms in high-end properties. They still have grandiose expectations, but they also want a taste of earthly experience. (Witness the growth of the luxury outdoors trend called "glamping.") Wherever they may hang their golf hats or yoga mats, these tourists believe that invaluable family memories – built upon experiences – ultimately yield more ROI than a blingy hotel suite that could be in any city.
One of the companies catering to this burgeoning subculture – serious net worth, overwhelmingly family-oriented – is Exclusive Resorts. It's at the pointy tip where exasperated second-home owners intersect with the need for an authentic (and Instagrammable) experience. One of the leaders in its field, this Denver-based company owns, maintains and staffs 300 multimillion-dollar villas across North and Central America, Europe and the Caribbean. The cost to join is $215,000 and most members buy a minimum of 10 overnight credits for an average of $1,130 a shot. Well, it wouldn't be exclusive if it were cheap.
While that amount may seem punishing to some, Exclusive Resorts' 4,500 members don't suffer in ascetic squalor. The average square footage of the properties is 4,000 square feet. And whether they're beachside in the Bahamas, slopeside in Snowmass, or MOMA-friendly in Manhattan, the villas boast on-site concierges, stocked refrigerators, gourmet kitchens, hot tubs, media rooms and daily housekeeping.
A member also has access to an "ambassador" who sets up travel plans, events and excursions. A family can use credits toward a villa, rare wine tastings or heli-skiing – or arrange for access to special events such as the Kentucky Derby or the Masters (sometimes, even the players behind the scenes).
ER can also swing tee-times on golf courses typically off-bounds to tourists. On its brochure, member Jack Nicklaus raves about such hallowed courses as Turtle Point on South Carolina's Kiawah Island.
"For people who have wealth, luxury is not so formulaic," said Philippe Bourguignon, the former CEO of Club Med and Euro Disney – and onetime co-chair of the haute international thinkfest Davos. "It's no longer a guy in white gloves who serves you dinner. That's gone. Luxury is what you decide is luxury, and people define luxury differently. So the customized experience is a huge trend among wealthy people."
The large hospitality groups, he says, have been so obsessed with reaching critical mass that they have lost their experiential touch. They have become impersonal commodities, selling the same rooms across the world. "How come when you travel with one of those luxury hotel companies, nobody called ahead of your trip to help you organize? How come they don't plan your stay at the hotel before you arrive? How come they have to watch on the computer to welcome you back?"
In some respects, ER borrows its high-flier business model from the plane-sharing club NetJets, but it also takes a cue from frustrated second-home owners. "You have this huge movement toward sharing: Why should I own something I could share? Today it's homes and tomorrow it will be tools," said Bourguignon, who is also a board member of Zipcar. "And then you have conventional renting, and then there are solutions like ours. We are more an alternative to secondary homes."
ER, owned by former AOL CEO Steve Case, has just launched a new Canadian program, Gateway, which is a scaled-down version of membership. Acknowledging that many upper-income Canadians already own a second property, the company hopes it can entice vacationers who are looking for a wide range of customized experiences. As opposed to the regular country-club model, Gateway is more a luxury version of a cash card. A joiner pays $40,000 for 21 nights and has to use up the amount in three years.
Bourguignon says the average net worth of each member is around $5-million (U.S.), apart from their primary residence. The average household income is higher than $400,000. And while some are big executives at Google or Facebook, or Wall Street traders, most are lawyers, accountants and small-business entrepreneurs.
DJ Duckworth, a former journalist married to a telecom CEO, has been a member for seven years. "It's been a home run out of the gate," she said. She recently stayed in Deer Valley in a ski-in/ski-out house equipped with four bedrooms on three levels, a hot tub, heated floors and a steam shower. When she couldn't find her favourite bottle of pinot grigio because she was visiting a dry state, her concierge gave her a vintage from his own collection.
A onetime resident of Jonesboro, Ark., Duckworth and her husband moved to New York in 2010, a life-changing event she credits her on-site concierge with. They were staying at an ER property and realized that they wanted to live in the Big Apple. Her concierge was on the case immediately. "Mark was scouting real estate for us. He took off days for us and helped us find the right broker and what we now call home."
Members generally praise the concierge service. Wayne Albo, a decade-long member who works in Toronto's financial sector, said he enjoys the private-chef service, but likes to switch things up, so during one trip his concierge enlisted some notable chefs from the area. Toronto member Tamara Lindsey, an accountant, lauded the attention her concierge paid to her kids, driving them around and dressing them. "They go way beyond the call of duty."
The one common complaint is the paucity of properties during school vacations, a major issue for a family-driven business. For parents, getting a property means planning years in advance, which may not always jibe with the philosophy of a company that promotes turn-key convenience. "I don't think I want my life being so structured," said Albo, who said if he can't land a property during the holidays, he'll book a trip with another company.
To make up for the attrition, ER is adjusting. It inked a deal with cousin company Inspirato that allows members to access its properties, which comes in handy during high season. Led by ER's co-founder, Brent Handler, Inspirato has many of the same services but its payment model is more back-loaded: an inititation fee of $17,500, an annual fee $3,100, and every night is a la carte. Rates will spike during holidays. "We see ourselves as more complementary," said Handler, whose company is also based in Denver. "It's more pay-as-you-go, market-based pricing."
In another effort to keep families within the fold, ER has journeys such its "Kids Take" series, which offers VIP trips to destinations such as Walt Disney World, or a March Break surfing trip in Costa Rica. If worse comes to worse, the company holds back a few properties around holiday seasons and allots them randomly – at which time members can always hope that most old-fashioned dream will come true: winning the lottery.


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Last Week in the News
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo housing market index fell two points in July to 14. Economists had anticipated a reading of 16. It was the lowest reading since April 2009. An index reading below 50 indicates negative sentiment about the housing market.
According to the ICSC-Goldman Sachs index, retail sales rose 1.4% for the week ending July 17. On a year-over-year basis, retailers saw sales increase 4.2%, the best showing in two months.
The combined construction of new single-family homes and apartments in June fell 5% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 549,000 units. Applications for new building permits, seen as an indicator of future activity, rose 2.1% to an annual rate of 586,000 units.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said its seasonally adjusted composite index of mortgage applications for the week ending July 16 increased 7.6%. Refinancing applications rose 8.6%. Purchase volume rose 3.4%.
Existing home sales fell 5.1% in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.37 million units from 5.66 million units in May. The inventory of unsold homes on the market increased 2.5% to 3.99 million, an 8.9-month supply at the current sales pace, up from an 8.3-month supply in May.
Initial claims for unemployment benefits rose by 37,000 to 464,000 for the week ending July 17. Continuing claims for the week ending July 10 fell by 223,000 to 4.567 million.
The index of leading economic indicators — designed to forecast economic activity in the next three to six months — fell 0.2% in June after a revised 0.5% gain in May.
Upcoming on the economic calendar are reports on new home sales on July 26, the housing price index on July 27 and gross domestic product on July 30.
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As this famous headline about the bombing of the ship Belgravia during the Falklands War shows, tabloids consistently flout standards of taste and decency. The question is: are we just getting what we want, need, or even demand?
In all markets, from the heroin trade to tabloid news stand, there needs to be a demand – otherwise the product will not sell.
This is indeed a sensible argument, as far as it goes – but the next stage of the hack's argument is quite odious.
It is this: the demand itself is enough to justify printing anything. It is a re-hash of the "fair game" argument which attempts to justify gross intrusions into people's privacy just because they have courted the press.
This attitude, you might have noticed, has helped to drive Britney Spears, quite literally, to insanity.
Artificial demand
The trouble is, this demand is very often created artificially – insofar as it is not fostered by enlightened or free consumer choices, but by incessant and belligerent subject-saturation and deception.
Indeed, recent studies by the Media department of Glasgow University proved that most people were misled by both the "factual" content and agenda-setting powers of television and newpapers.
Of course, many do, in a sense, "choose" to buy The Sun, but many of those do so guided by a false premise – that the information supplied is largely correct or honest.
Choosing a tabloid paper is like a choosing which type of heart disease you are going to die from if you live in one of Britain's food deserts. By comparison, our tabloid press is a vast swathe of intellectual desert and almost impossible to avoid.
Let me explain, at length:
One problem is that what sells – "Brave troop killed on birthday in Iraq" – is often at odds with the full, representative truth, which is more like this: "The Iraq conflict is a complex thing, involving complex motives and complex actors, corporations and governments".
Perhaps this sells better, not just because of the laziness of the consumer, but because they have never really been given a decent choice, or because media exposure has re-educated or numbed their sensibilities.
Choose, so long as it's what they have chosen
Of course, everybody has a choice of sorts: in totalitarian Russia, people were "free to choose" any state-controlled newspaper, and the people of the Weimar Republic "freely" voted for Hitler, even though they were corralled into this decision by lies and economic desparation.
These examples are a far cry from the choices we make at the news stand – but the analogy is correct: freedom consists not only in how we choose but what, why and when we choose.
These are in turn dictated by the narrow ideological spectrum of tabloid-land, whose inhabitants seek, at every turn, to mould our consumer preferences, so we can associate complex phenomena with anodyne tags like "War on Terror."
Value-consumerism and the printed word
The better we do this, the better we buy in to a readily identifiable, stripped-down set of values.
These values are best imparted by an anodyne, stripped-down lexicon – which is most easily borrowed and reproduced from press releases, or established newspaper language like "WAGS" or "Maddie".
The implications for freedom of thought and expression are obvious and far-reaching.
Chomsky once said that "propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
The stream of misinformation received through the tabloid press might fit his description: whether the information is lazily reproduced from press releases, or jacked-up to sell newspapers, or an ideology that does not stray too far from a media magnate's political and economic interests.
Hard-pressed hacks
And the increasingly impoverished printed word is pitted against two things: the oligopolisation of all media, and the increasing pressure on journalists to churn out copy in an industry buckling under the weight of the internet news factory and massive job cutbacks.
These factors indenture the overburdened and underpaid reporter to the official or editorial line, the soundbite, and the press release, which they are ever-less likely to challenge for fear of losing the immediate sources of news they need for their paltry journalistic sustenance.
Resultantly, content is often selected uncritically and therefore is absent of representative and honest facts.
Critics might claim I am patronising the masses by criticizing their ability to choose. They would be right: when, as with Maddie, the Middle East conflicts, to name but a few stories, the public are misled so blatently, the onus is on them to open their eyes and challenge the mainstream media.
Challenging the status quo
The 1960s social revolution proved that people were capable of mobilising and thinking independently, but this no longer seems to be the case.
I do not know why this ability became dormant, but since that capability once existed, we might assume that it can again.
Only if we challenge the barriers to free thought, true knowledge and critical discourse can this be achieved, and this is why our stupefying, lying and inhuman tabloid press needs to be compromised.
After all the problem is, as ever, that we do not have a free press. Said Orwell: "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." Too true.


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Score: #15 Richmond 73, #2 Syracuse 69
The 1991 Richmond team is the reason you've seen more than half of the upsets listed here on TV. 1991 was the first year CBS paid for the rights to broadcast the first round of the tourney and—after the Spiders beat the Orange to become the first #15 seed to ever beat a #2 seed—it solidified the idea to continue showing the first round in its entirety. Basically, it's because of Richmond that you need to have a "Boss Button" handy on your computer during the first round of the tourney now. God bless those Spiders!
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Please see below for details of FIVE forthcoming Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space activities:-
A one-day workshop organised by Chantal Mouffe (node director), The Westminster Centre for the Study of Democracy, and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, The Westminster International Law & Theory Centre.
Keynote Addresses: David Harvey AND Doreen Massey
Mustafa Dikec, Engin Isin, Ruth Levitas, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, David Slater
19th November 2010, 10-6pm, The Pavilion, University of Westminster, 115 New Cavendish Street, London W1W 7UW
Admission free but places limited. Please contact Andrea Pavoni at email@example.com to reserve your seat.
2] During 2009-2011, the new Rutgers University node has organized an extensive university-wide series of nearly two hundred lectures, colloquia, panel discussions, and other events exploring the theme of "Ecologies in the Balance."
For the current academic year 2010-2011, they have designated eight specific events to inaugurate the Spaces of Democracy initiative at Rutgers.
These are as follows:
Sept 27 Steve Lerner, Research Director, Commonweal
"Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the US"
Oct 26 Etienne Balibar, Paris X-Nanterre, University of California-Irvine
"Europe: the Final Crisis?
Oct 27 Matthew Jelacic, Architecture, University of Colorado
"Traumatic Urbanization and its Consequences"
Oct 29 Carolyn Finney, Geography, University of California-Berkeley
"There Goes the Neighborhood: Race, Resilience and Environmental Change"
Nov 19 Mazen Labban, Geography, University of Miami
"State, Class, and Oil: Sovereignty Over Natural Resources, Nationalization, and Economic Development in Mexico, 1920-2000"
Feb 9 Ananya Roy, City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley
"The Urban Century: Ecologies and Epistemologies of Dwelling in the Global South"
Feb 23 Daniel Nepstad, Woods Hole Research Institute
"Can Carbon Carry the Global Conservation Agenda?"
March 23 Sharyle Patton, Health and Environment Program, Commonweal
"Our Body Burden of Toxic Chemicals: Implications for Chemical Policy Reform"
For details contact the new Rutgers node Directors: Joanna Regulska and Robert Lake
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3] ANANYA ROY ON POVERTY, DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP: A micro-seminar on the research and activism of ANANYA ROY
(organised by Katharyne Mitchell (node Director University of Washington) and Victoria Lawson at University of Washington).
This includes a public lecture by Ananya Roy: Monday, Oct 11, 6:00pm, Kane Hall; a preliminary seminar on Friday, Oct 8, 2:30 – 5:20pm,
CMU 202 and a concluding seminar on Tuesday, Oct 12, 3:30 – 5:20pm, CMU 202 where there will be a discussion of intersections between public lecture,
Roy's publications and her public activism and scholarship.
4] CALL FOR PAPERS!!! – Building states and civil societies in Africa: Liberal interventions and global governmentality
Many African states have been subject to donor programmes that place great emphasis on the participation of national and international civil society actors in the formation and implementation of development policy.
Donor policy suggests that the post-Cold War form of civil society is both autonomous from the post-colonial African state, as well as fundamental to the development of responsible liberal democratic states in Africa.
However, a number of studies have documented the emergence of non-state actors that may provide some form of institutional stability but challenge the clear-cut distinction between state and civil society.
Examples include religious organisations, so-called social movements and informal associational practices. This workshop takes as its starting point critical, postcolonial and governmentally derived insights on the limitations of the public/private, state/society, and domestic/international binaries for comprehending African politics and governance.
The aim is to bring together a wide, and sometimes disparate body of research on state-formation and civil society in a post-development context, and to ask whether civil society remains a meaningful term in attempting to understand social, political and economic practices in African societies.
This workshop has been kindly sponsored by the Journal for Intervention and State Building, and the African Studies Association UK.
Papers presented at the workshop will be considered for a special issue of the journal due to be published in 2011/12.
Participants are requested to produce a paper of 7-8,000 words, with Harvard referencing, a month prior to the workshop, and undertake to read and act as a discussant for one other paper, to a facilitate a close engagement with the research presented, and to allow time for 10 papers to be discussed.
Please submit an abstract of 200 words to: Clive Gabay firstname.lastname@example.com or Carl Death email@example.com by 15 November 2010, with your institutional affiliation.
5] The book WHAT IS RADICAL POLITICS TODAY? (2009) Palgrave-MacMillan, edited by Jonathan Pugh, Newcastle University, is now available for £10 on Amazon.
Including original contributions from Zygmunt Bauman, Will Hutton, Frank Furedi, Clare Short, Ken Worpole, Nick Cohen, Hilary Wainwright, Paul Kingsnorth, Chantal Mouffe, Terrell Carver, Edward W. Soja, David Chandler, Dora Apel, Doreen Massey, Jason Toynbee, James Martin, Michael J. Watts, Jeremy Gilbert and Jo Littler, Gregor McLennan, Tariq Modood, Amir Saeed & David Bates, Alastair Bonnett, Nigel Thrift, Sheila Jasanoff, Saul Newman, David Featherstone, James Heartfield, Alejandro Colás and Jason Edwards, David Boyle, Saskia Sassen.
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Tweet Deals to Faithful CustomersWoot, an online retailer based in Carrollton, Texas, used a simple approach. The company opened several "Woot" shops on Twitter - for example, wine would be sold on http://wine.woot.com-and offer a single deep discount product at midnight every night to Twitter followers, who could purchase the product immediately. Woot's 1.5 million users would then re-tweet the message to their friends, which would have a cascading viral effect, increasing sales volume drastically. Woot's success illustrates a key lesson for Twitter success - daily updates and the use of re-tweeting to general exponential followers.
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Gwyneth Paltrow both speak out about future family plans
Has Isla Fisher's reported pregnancy got Gwyneth Paltrow and Sarah Jessica Parker feeling broody? The two leading ladies have both recently spoken out about their desire to extend their families.
Appearing on this week's Ellen DeGeneres Show, Gwynnie claimed:
"I would love to have another child at some point. I feel very, very lucky that I have two healthy, nice ones. They're great. They're so sweet.
Aw. Meanwhile, Sarah Jessica Parker already has her baby twins and seven-year-old James Wilkie to keep her busy (not to mention a million other things), but that hasn't put her off increasing her family with husband Matthew Broderick - she told Closer magazine:
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How to access The Beaches of Norfolk Without crossing land owned by private estates ?
after 6pm nobody can access Holkham or parts of Wells-next-the-Sea or various other Beaches because The Land Owners have Locked or even padlocked gates where only paying car parker's are allowed access to the beaches between 6am & 6pm daily .
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- JonLv 71 year ago
The Norfolk Coast Path, which is a public footpath, runs along the shore from Wells-next-the-Sea to Burnham Overy Staithe, giving access to the whole of the Holkham Bay beach. If locked gates, etc, are obstructing the free passage of this public footpath, inform the local council's Rights of Way Officer, who should get the obstruction removed.
Did you mean to ask about ways of accessing Holkham Bay beach from inland at intermediate points, rather than from either end at Wells-next-the-Sea or Burnham Overy Staithe? The OS map indicates that the path which links the village of Holkham to the shore at Holkham Gap is part of the National Cycle Network and therefore this should be freely open to both walkers and cyclists. If it is being obstructed, again contact the local council.
- CaraLv 71 year ago
Go in a boat.
- MaxiLv 71 year ago
- David SLv 71 year ago
Perhaps they are trying to prevent vandalism and illegal rubbish dumping


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Parents concerned about kids' safety; star prep athlete involved in incident
A fight between two young men turned into a shootout on Monday evening at Derbyshire Park in Daytona Beach.
Gunshots were fired at 6:37 p.m. with an estimated 300 to 350 people in the park. Officers arrived on the scene a few minutes later, according to a Daytona Beach Police Department report.
Also at the time, two youth football programs were practicing at the park and others were participating in basketball, tennis and other activities.
The Daytona Beach Buccaneers Pop Warner program practices in the back of the park at the old softball fields and the Daytona Beach Hurricanes hold practice at the soccer field next to the old YMCA building.
Fight, then shots
Police say the incident started when Stephon Shropshire, 20, confronted Ocean Maddox, 18, in the park about an earlier incident.
Maddox punched Shropshire in the face and a fight broke out. Several football coaches came to the scene to break up the fight, but it rekindled several times.
The report also indicates that Maddox went to a vehicle and got a gun when he was followed by Shrophshire.
Maddox fired several shots in the air, and Shrophshire who responded by going to a vehicle to get a firearm and firing back.
Residents stay mum
Joi Hart-Gillis, who lives across the street from the park, went to her door to see what was going on and a bullet grazed her knee, according to police. At the time, it was unclear who had shot her.
Captain Craig Capri of the police department said, "This is very dangerous. It's ridiculous. We have a zero tolerance policy on such violence."
Star athlete arrested
Early Tuesday morning, Maddox was arrested and charged with discharging a firearm from a vehicle. He was later released on $2,000 bond.
Later that morning, Shropshire turned himself into authorities. He was charged with discharging a firearm from a vehicle and violating probation from a 2009 arrest. There was no bail set for Shropshire.
Maddox is a star basketball player and football player at Halifax Academy in Daytona Beach. School officials would only confirm that he is a student but wouldn't comment on the matter.
Police presence beefed up
Officers met with parents on Tuesday about the incident. As a result, additional police officers will be present at the practices from now on. They will be there from 2-10 p.m. weekdays and on Saturday's from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.
The Hurricanes, who play in the American Youth Football League, were near the scene of the shooting.
Parents are happy with the police presence but some feel that more needs to be done to ensure the safety of the children.
"I am concerned for not only my kids but all the kids' safety. The (mobile) command truck will sit for not for a week but after that, then what?" Norman asked.
Norman has two sons and a nephew playing football with the Hurricanes program.
Rosie Clark has two children involved with the program. Her 11 year-old son, J.C., plays football and her eight year-old daughter, Hannah, is a cheerleader.
"I definitely don't feel safe. This is the second incident that we had. At a recent game, we had one of the parents from Gainesville get into a fight with a neighborhood kid. There are so many kids out here practicing. We need the police officers. They promised us that they will protect us," Clark told the Daytona Times.
Unnerving for children
Some children were shaken by the incident.
"We heard the shots and we all ran towards the YMCA," commented J.C. Clark.
Hannah Clark added, "I was playing on the playground since we didn't have practice that day. I was walking and I started running after the gun shots were fired. I was afraid, especially for my brother who was practicing.''
Jackie Ireland is concerned about safety but said she can't live in fear.
Ireland has two sons who play for the Buccaneers and a daughter who cheers.
"They said that they will be here for the rest of the season. We all have to remember that this could have happened anywhere. Some people just have no concern for others and only think of themselves. We cannot live in fear. We must trust in God and keep moving forward," Ireland added.
"With our mobile command unit, its like having a mini police station there," added Capri. "We are beefing up our presence. We are 100 percent committed to detering crime and protecting the children."


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Ideological Jew-hatred: the great cover-up
Readers of the New York Times awoke last week to hard evidence that President Morsi of Egypt was an antisemite. (So did readers of the Times of London, Deutsche Welle, the Huffington Post, the BBC website and just about every major news medium.)
In a TV interview recorded in 2010, the President, who heads the Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice party, was heard to utter various slurs against the Jewish people, quoting Koranic suras calling Jews 'descendants of apes and pigs'.
Although Morsi's 2010 rant has only just been released, the media had to be embarrassed into exposing it. The Egyptian president's antisemitism may have come as a shock because the western press and media rarely report incitement by Arab press and politicians. Once the cat was out of the bag, Morsi's outburst was duly condemned both by the media and the US government.
But another remark this month, by another Arab leader, received next to no coverage at all: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a Fatah rally that the wartime Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was his hero.
The Palestinian Mufti, a leading Arab figure, was a staunch ally of Hitler, spending the years between 1941 and 1945 in Berlin. He actively collaborated with the Nazis in their goal of exterminating the Jews. Abbas declared that the Mufti was" a great man whose ways should be emulated by all PA Arabs, and was worthy of great praise."
The media silence has been deafening. Almost no western reporters picked up on Abbas's controversial rhetoric.
*Because westerners want so badly to believe that these leaders are moderates they can do business with. President Morsi, we were reminded, was pragmatic enough to broker a truce in Gaza between Hamas and Israel. Abbas is Israel's 'moderate' peace partner.
*Because 'the racism of low expectations' does not demand better behaviour of 'people of colour': only 'man bites dog' stories are newsworthy.
*Because the West habitually reverses cause and effect in its coverage of the conflict – Arab actions are understandable reactions to 'Israeli aggression'.
*Because the Palestinians have managed to deceive liberal opinion by cloaking their genocidal rhetoric in the claims of a 'just cause'.
The media are colluding in a cover-up of the three-way axis between Nazis, the Mufti and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Palestinian national movement was founded by the Mufti. After WW2 Haj Amin al-Husseini was appointed head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine. His legacy of Nazi-inspired eliminationist Jew-hatred is alive and well not just among the Palestinians, but across the Arab world.
But the fascism inherent in the pronouncements of Morsi and Abbas is the key to understanding why there is still an Arab-Muslim conflict against Israel. Such fascism the Western media is loath to reveal.
As Sky TV's Tim Marshall puts it: "in Europe, when Europeans say things such as expressed above, we recognise them as 'Fascistic'. When expressed by people in some other parts of the globe we appear frightened to call things what they are."
Why is the West frightened to condemn fascism in 'people of colour'? Is it because the West sees itself guilty of worse crimes against them – colonialism and imperialism?
It is essential to report what Mahmoud Abbas says because the Palestinian Authority leader considers himself as the heir to the Mufti's struggle to liberate Palestine from the Jews. And he has plenty of support: an apparent Hitler quote implying that the genocide of the Jews did not go far enough garnered nearly 2,000 'likes' on the Facebook 'Palestine News' page.
The West is in danger of over-rating these two leaders' pragmatism. Both the PA and the Muslim Brotherhood have embraced Jew-hatred as ideology.
As Lebanese liberal Joseph Bishara writes of the Muslim Brotherhood:
"The MB's hatred for the Jews is a matter of religious principle, which lies at the heart of its creed and cannot be changed, revoked, or disregarded.
"This hatred did not emerge in the 20th century or [after] Israel's establishment or the occupation of Arab and Palestinian lands by Israel. This hatred is historic, with roots going back to the inception of Islam."
Similarly, there are countless examples of Abbas's true intentions, but the West refuses to take them at face value.
For a true understanding of what drives the Arab-Israeli conflict, it does nobody any favours for the media to obscure, omit or suppress evidence of Jew-hatred ideology on account of 'political correctness', wishful thinking or guilt.


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Nobody expected Malta to reach this situation. Allegations of gross corruption in the Muscat government were widely known to the Maltese public. The country's major parties had clased heaving as a result of the Panama Papers, which had left them badly touched. But the brutal assassination of (...)
Wednesday 4 December 2019
A confession: I am a dedicated environmentalist, and I am not looking forward to the COP25 conference. As a matter of fact, I do not quite see the point of it. Let me explain. Three years ago, I watched the 31st installment in Toho Studios's Godzilla film franchise, Shin Godzilla (marketed (...)
Monday 2 December 2019
23 August is a historic date for the Baltic states and for Eastern Europe as a whole. 80 years ago today, the Soviet and German foreign ministers Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop made a secret pact to divide Europe between the two dictatorships. Exactly five decades later, two million people in the three Baltic states occupied by the Soviet Union would form a human chain to demand freedom.
Friday 23 August 2019
As Europe lay in ruins at the end of World War II, one of the countless victims of the war and its preceding years was European science. Prior to the war, Europe was home to many of the world's most brilliant scientific minds. Then, many scientists of Jewish origin (like Albert Einstein, among (...)
Thursday 22 August 2019
'Transnational lists' in European elections would mean creating a Europe-wide constituency to give citizens a chance to vote for common candidates, in addition to national ones. It is the most oft-discussed idea for making European elections 'more European'. However, Louis Drounau, President of (...)
Thursday 15 August 2019
Summertime doesn't mean holidays for everyone. Ursula Von der Leyen, President-elect of the European Commission, is travelling around EU capitals in an effort to uphold her first promise: gender balance among the Commissioners. After she has assembled the 27-piece puzzle, the European (...)
Friday 9 August 2019
On Tuesday, Ursula von der Leyen was elected as the next European Commission President without having first been nominated as a lead candidate of a party. Despite this, the Parliament made a good choice in electing her. Instead of paralysing the institutions with a months-long quarrel, it (...)
Friday 19 July 2019
The European Parliament's previous term was like a sweet, long night, and the Spitzenkandidaten, as every dream, ended with the rising sun. A sun that reveals with its bright light the opaque darkness of the backroom deals that triumphantly returned to the EU.
Wednesday 17 July 2019
Shots fired. The East-West divide is back, alive and kicking. On 5 July, newly elected Conservative MEP and former Romanian President – Traian Basescu – accused Western European states of completely isolating Eastern Europe, first around the Eurozone, and now by not nominating anyone for a top (...)
Monday 8 July 2019
The EU is famous for its funding for science and research, boosting Europe's competitiveness. To complete the puzzle, Andrew Howe argues that more needs to be done to combine scientific innovation and bring these ideas into the real world for sustainable growth. An essay arguing for EU funds (...)
Thursday 6 June 2019
Before the European elections in the UK, multiple well-known extremist and nationalist politicians had milkshakes thrown on them when campaigning in public. Extreme-right activists Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (known as Tommy Robinson) and Carl Benjamin (using the nickname Sargon of Akkad), standing for election with the UK Independence Party, and most recently Nigel Farage who stood for the Brexit Party, were victims of these attacks. "Lactose meets intolerance" was the pun frequently used by those amused by the incidents.
Is it justified to throw a milkshake on a politician? Madelaine Pitt and Radu Dumitrescu share their views in a debate piece.
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