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One night in Berlin
With Eddie Van Halen
You are a young, unemployed American singer who used to play with an extremely successful but rather banal rock band. Now you need a new gig. Surely the last outfit you'd audition for would be the legendary Van Halen, whose 20-year punk-metal career has been marked by an unfortunate tendency to eat up singers and spit the chunks out with acrimonious relish. You'd feel like a drummer auditioning for Spinal Tap after your predecessors had all mysteriously exploded on their stools.
But Gary Cherone, ex-vocalist with Extreme, did exactly that. Now he's part of the gang: the band has released a new record, Van Halen 3, and they're a couple of months into a mammoth world tour. On Tuesday the band were in Berlin, holed up in the ridiculously opulent Schlosshotel Vier Jahreszeiten, a toy-coloured castle where oil paintings of worried-looking Prussian generals circa 1934 eye you beadily as you prowl around the Kaiser Suite. I am summoned by the tour manager, a gregarious fellow who collects BMX bicycles and whose odd beard is probably a sculpted homage to the Gibson Flying V guitar. Eddie needs to "sit down" for a moment, so we will begin on the balcony with Gary.
Van Halen 3 is easily the group's best record for a decade: certainly Eddie feels he has found the perfect vocalist. Van Halen's first singer, Dave Lee Roth (hit: Jump) was sassy but eventually ridiculous, while their second singer, Sammy Hagar (hit: Why Can't This Be Love?) was more melodically capable but fatally constipated. When I suggest to Cherone that he marries the best qualities of both singers, he blinks and says "Thanks" in a small, surprised voice. That evening, Cherone will morph into a roaring, frenetically lithe fusion of Robbie Williams and Mick Jagger, but for now he's disarmingly modest. Talking of the perils of singing Van Halen tunes that are associated with the other vocalists, he murmurs: "Well, the fans still recognise them so I guess I haven't butchered them too much."
At that moment an imp in faded pink corduroy trousers bounces onto the balcony and declaims: "I'd go further – it's the way those old songs are supposed to sound." He slumps in a chair and unfurls an enormous, wicked grin. This is him, Eddie Van Halen, globally famous 45-year-old guitar maestro – but he's not acting the way you'd expect. The lightning-fast string-tapper has sold more than 70 million albums and spawned countless imitators. But having given up drugs and nihilistic drinking a few years ago, Van Halen is seemingly ego-free, ministering to me with a little blowtorch lighter and a bottle-opener, and chucklingly deflating his own reputation. "Everyone's going 'You're a guitar hero' – I'm going, 'I don't own a cape or a mask, what do you mean?'"
He admits, too, that he's had to do some serious work to get his chops in order for the tour. Cherone wanted to play an old number called I'm The One, so Eddie dug out the CD: "It's like dun-duddle deh dun-duddle duddleyduddleyduddley – and I'm like 'What the fuck?' Last time I played it was 20 years ago!" And what does this one-time debauched rock'n'roller like to eat? Er, steamed vegetables. "Yeah, maybe broccoli." He shows me his watch: the face is a photograph of his seven-year-old son, Wolfie, potential star in the making. "He's better-looking than Bon Jovi already. But I don't care if he becomes an attorney – whatever he wants to do. We could use a good attorney…"
Eddie will sometimes huddle over to Gary and excitedly discuss new songs, crooning the guitar parts and waggling his celebrated fingers in the air. He's boyishly happy with his new collaborator. "Here comes Gary, probably the biggest milestone of my life, somebody to hand me lyrics and inspire me to write music. I just used to write all the time, but now I can't write without his lyrics – he's got me by the balls now…" Not satisfied with keyboards, guitars, sitars and the like, Eddie is also teaching himself the cello: "I sit in a squash court, light candles . . . the sound's just amazing."
Sometimes Eddie can be a little impressionistic, as when he muses "I think we're all sponges, and then you become a filter", or compares the band to a big oak tree. He has, too, a quirkily unhip attitude to where his music comes from. Eddie Van Halen, you see, is an unapologetic Platonist. The music comes from God ("or whatever you want to call it"), and the musician's just a conduit. Of his band's extraordinary success and longevity, he remarks: "I don't think it has anything to do with us; we're just blessed with music that people enjoy."
Which musician would he most want to be if he wasn't Eddie Van Halen? "My father," he says simply. Eddie's father was a clarinettist. "He lived a good life. He worked his ass off. He worked so many jobs when we came over from Holland to America – he played lederhosen, he played oompah music, he played jazz. I gotta tell you this story about him. We played on the boat from Holland to New York. Me and Alex [Eddie's brother, and drummer in Van Halen] were kinda the freak sideshow and my dad played in the band on the boat. So, we were playing and my dad passes the hat round. Alex counts the money and there's like 30-something dollars in there. My dad takes the money and divides it up. We get five bucks apiece – and Al goes 'What happened to the other 20?' And my dad goes: 'Welcome to the music business'!"
That night, an eerily quiet, black Mercedes deposits us at the gig. Down the road, the disconsolate sound of a small jazz ensemble wafts up through a pavement grating. The venue is the New World club, a dank, decaying old barn with walls straight out of a Weimar ballroom. It is Berlin's premier venue, one earnestly drunk German fan tells me, for "the new alternative movement". Accordingly, it is peopled by teenagers with asymmetrical goatee wisps and tragic mullet haircuts, plus the odd middle-aged rocker in leather waistcoat and shorts. The support act is a screaming woman called Doro Pash, who apparently was big in the early 1980s with the same sort of scummy, malodorous heavy-metal balladry that her small coterie of fans is adoring tonight.
Eddie Van Halen is backstage, sitting on the sofa with a guitar in the cramped, tatty dressing room (the fridge is emblazoned with stickers advertising a pantheon of 1970s metal losers). "You sure picked a hell of a place to come see us," he jokes, proffering beer. The rest of the tour is stadium and arena gigs, but tonight it's Club Van Halen. Doro Pash eventually gives up on mutilating the corpse of music, and after a swarming, ant-like army of roadies with headset mics and torches has virtually rebuilt the stage, Van Halen run up into the lights, salute the crowd, and begin to blast out 90 minutes of wild dirt-boogie.
It's a wonderfully thrilling noise, but hold on. You might think that Alex's extended drum solo, Eddie's 'How's that?' faces as he squeals and rumbles away on the fretboard, and the band's towel-waving curtain calls, are pure cheese, pure Spinal Tap. Of course they are, but that's really not the point: Van Halen are playing their socks off, which is on the order of a force of nature. You might as well stand in front of a tidal wave and tell it sternly that you don't really feel like getting moist, thanks very much.
A couple of years ago, Eddie nearly had to have a hip replacement: cardiovascular necrosis, he says, from too much jumping up and down on stage. Dinosaur prosthesis looms. But the guy can't help himself: all the way through the show, right up until the blissful double encore of Jump and Panama, he's pogoing away in little circles, with his eyes squeezed shut and a beatific smile on his face. It's obviously thanks to this sheer joie de vivre that Van Halen are still going without having turned into a pus-filled parody of themselves. Eddie's dad would be proud.
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The U.S. Treasury Department's financial crimes unit has created a division that will be responsible for identifying foreign money-laundering threats.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has confirmed the Global Investigations Division will oversee investigations into terrorist financing and other crimes involving illicit finance, working closely with foreign governments.
The division will be led by Matthew Stiglitz, who was previously a senior official in the Justice Department's criminal division. "We are excited to have him on our team as we stand up GID to further focus FinCEN's investigative efforts to protect our nation and its people from harm," FinCEN Director Kenneth Blanco said in a statement.
The Global Investigations Division will oversee the Treasury's strategy for taking action in response to a range of possible threats to national security.
The Treasury has the power under Section 311 of the Patriot Act to designate foreign jurisdictions or institutions as a primary money-laundering concern. Under the law, the Treasury can also require U.S. financial institutions to adopt relevant controls.
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"Bad Magick" is a song by American rock band Godsmack, released in February 2001. It is featured on their second studio album, Awake, and is the only single by the band that's not included in their compilation album Good Times, Bad Times... Ten Years of Godsmack (2007).

Music video
Godsmack started working on the video with director Troy Smith in Portland, Maine, on September 10, 2001 and planned to finish the outdoor shots the next day and the arena shots at a concert, but the events of September 11 put a halt to the band's plans. The video was set to feature the band playing at a cookout in front of a handful of apathetic crowd members and one Godsmack fanatic, who tries to rally the rest of the audience. As the enthused fan watches the performance, he imagines the band performing in huge arenas. The live performance segments were delayed when the band's shows were cancelled after September 11.

Trivia
The song is featured in the 2002 compilation Wired-up.

Chart positions

Singles  U.S. Billboard

Personnel
 Sully Erna – vocals, rhythm guitar, drums, producer
 Tony Rombola – lead guitars, additional vocals
 Robbie Merrill – bass
 Mudrock – producer

References

2001 singles
Godsmack songs
Songs about drugs
2000 songs
Songs written by Sully Erna
Republic Records singles

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Q: Logging to MongoDB from python i want to log some information into mongodb using python . i found 2 libraries mongodblog and log4mongo for python. any idea which one is better ? or any other library which is better than these ?

A: No need to use a logging library. Use pymongo and do the following:

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*create a different database from your application database (it can be on the same machine) to avoid problems with high write throughput hogging the lock that the rest of your application may need.

*if there is a ton of logging to be done, consider using a capped collection

*if you need to be analyzing the log as it occurs, write another script that uses a tailable cursor: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/create-tailable-cursor/
The upshot is that all of your logging needs can be taken care of with a few lines of code. Again, no need to complicate your code base by introducing extra dependencies when a bit of code will suffice.

A: When you use MongoDB for logging, the concern is the lock contention by high write throughputs. Although MongoDB's insert is fire-and-forget style by default, calling a lot of insert() causes a heavy write lock contention. This could affect the application performance, and prevent the readers to aggregate / filter the stored logs.
One solution might be using the log collector framework such as Fluentd, Logstash, or Flume. These daemons are supposed to be launched at every application nodes, and takes the logs from app processes.

They buffer the logs and asynchronously writes out the data to other systems like MongoDB / PostgreSQL / etc. The write is done by batches, so it's a lot more efficient than writing directly from apps. This link describes how to put the logs into Fluentd from Python program.

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*Fluentd: Data Import from Python Applications
Here's some tutorials about MongoDB + Fluentd.

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*Fluentd + MongoDB: The Easiest Way to Log Your Data Effectively on 10gen blog

*Fluentd: Store Apache Logs into MongoDB

A: As mentioned by other users here, it is quite simple to log directly using pymongo:
from pymongo import MongoClient
from pymongo import ASCENDING
import datetime

client = MongoClient()
db = client.my_logs
log_collection = db.log
log_collection.ensure_index([("timestamp", ASCENDING)])

def log(msg):
    """Log `msg` to MongoDB log"""
    entry = {}
    entry['timestamp'] = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
    entry['msg'] = msg
    log_collection.insert(entry)

log('Log messages like this')

You might want to experiment by replacing the _id with the timestamp, just remember that _id has to be unique.

A: You can use Mongolog or Log4Mongo. Both of them have log appender for python logging package. You can easily instantiate your log handler (mongo log handler) and add it (the handler)  to your logger. Rest of the thing will be handled out of the box. Both of them also support capped collection (could be useful in case of huge records of logs(specially junk longs) )
Log4Mongo : https://pypi.org/project/log4mongo/
Github page : https://github.com/log4mongo/log4mongo-python
MongoLog : https://pypi.org/project/mongolog/#description
Github page : https://github.com/puentesarrin/mongodb-log

A: Here is the author of one of the libraries. I can't say much about the other library.
I agree that for really a lot of logs you should not necessarily use mongodb directly (the accepted answer does a fair job of explaining what should be used.
However, for medium size (medium in the sense of traffic and amount of logs) applications where a complex setup might be undesirable you can use BufferedMongoHandler, this logging class is designed to solve exactly that locking problem.
It does that by collecting the messages and writing them periodically instead of immidieatly. Take a look at the code, it is pretty straight forward.
IMO, if you already use mongodb, and you feel comfortable with it, it's an OK solution.

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from django.db import migrations, models
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class Migration(migrations.Migration):

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    dependencies = [
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8 Foods That Lower Testosterone & Kill Your Manhood
Christopher Walker | December 21, 2018
What's up, guys? Christopher Walker from UMZU back again with another video. This video's going to be a good one, so definitely watch through it. I'm going to talk about some so-called health foods that are terrible for your hormones, specifically for testosterone.
The Top 8 Foods That Lower Testosterone
If you're a dude and you care about your androgens and testosterone levels, you might want to implement some of this advice: Avoid these testosterone killing foods! Let's go through the list: flax seeds, protein, mint, licorice, vegetable oils, soy, wine and nuts.
1. Flax Seeds
First up, flax seeds lower your testosterone levels. They're actually pretty terrible for you; so you should definitely stop eating them. Why, you might ask? It's actually because they're very high in lignans, and lignans are extremely estrogenic. There's also evidence that they reduce testosterone and DHT activity, which is not surprising considering how estrogenic they are. In this study, the researchers actually used to lignans to drive estrogen higher. That's how well-known it is that the lignans in flax seeds are estrogenic, that these researchers actually used it to make estrogen higher, to purposely lower testosterone levels in a woman with polycystic ovarian syndrome. Basically, what happened in this study was that they lowered her testosterone levels by 70% and her free testosterone by 89%, so it's pretty effective. You probably should avoid them.
2. Eating Too Much Protein
Second up on the list, protein intake is inversely correlated with testosterone. I thought this was really interesting, but it is very logical. It actually makes sense. Some researchers have done studies on the correlations between different manipulations of macronutrients — i.e. protein, carbs, and fats — with relation to androgen levels. What they found was, again, some logical correlations. The biggest one was basically that the higher percentage of protein that a subject consumed as part of the daily caloric intake. We're not talking about an unlimited calorie intake. Say you're going to eat 2,500 calories a day. The higher percentage of protein intake, the lower the testosterone levels were across the board. This was very reliable and replicable. Basically, the higher the protein was relative to carbohydrates, and the same was true with fats, the lower the testosterone levels were. That's really interesting because you also see in a lot of research with bodybuilders. As bodybuilders are dieting before a show, they have these massive drops in testosterone. Most of their intake typically comes from protein at this period of time, and then they're also in a caloric deficit, kind of a double whammy.
3. Mint
Third on the list of foods that kill testosterone is mint. I was actually super surprised when I found this out. I like mint. I think mint tastes good. It seems like one of those benign things that you would never guess, but let's look at the research behind it because this stuff decreases testosterone drastically. It's insane. In this study, they basically looked at Leydig cells and testicular tissue in rats' hormone levels with mint teas. They looked at SFH, as well, and LH. What they found was that the rats that drank the 20 grams per liter of peppermint tea decreased their testosterone by 23%, and then the rats that drank the spearmint tea decreased their testosterone, at the same volume, decreased their testosterone by 51%. Insane. Spearmint seems to be worse than peppermint when it comes to this, but both of them significantly decreased. You might be saying, "Oh, I don't care about rats," because that's what everyone says when they see a rat study. Rats, a lot of times, are helpful. It's helpful to see another mammal. However, there's also human research. In this one, they found that women drinking spearmint tea saw an average drop in free testosterone of about 30% in five days. They had 21 females that all had this condition doing this, and the average was 30% in five days, which is very significant and important to know because a lot of people drink mint tea before bed.
4. Licorice
The main ingredient in licorice that gives the treat its flavor is called glycyrrhizic acid, and the glycyrrhizic acid is quite potent on blocking testosterone production in the Leydig cells. There's a rat study of Leydig cells that basically show how it almost completely blocked testosterone production. Then in this New England Journal of Medicine, they looked at it in human men, obviously, that consumed licorice and also saw 50%, or almost a 50% drop in testosterone levels. The average subject in this study went from about 740 nanograms per deciliter down to 484 nanograms per deciliter testosterone. Again, this was four days of eating, and they were eating commercially-available licorice, stuff that you could go to the store and buy, so take note of that.
5. Vegetable Oils
Vegetable oils lower both testosterone and thyroid function. Anybody who's a fan of Ray Peat also knows this. He talks a lot about it with regards to metabolic function and thyroid, but it also has a significant effect on testosterone. A lot of people have been taught if you just sort of pay attention to the mainstream nutrition, mainstream health advice, that vegetable oils are healthy. They are farthest from healthy that you can get in terms of fat. Saturated fat and monounsaturated fat is plenty healthy, and those are the ones that are demonized, which is insane. The vegetable oils, the polyunsaturated fats, they have weak bonds, and they're very easily broken, denatured, with light, heat, oxygen. All that will denature these bonds, and they become toxic in the body. Again, this was the study from earlier looking at macronutrients. In general, it found the following findings, but the big one was that the increased intake of polyunsaturated fats across the board decreased testosterone levels. They saw that total fat intake would boost testosterone if it came from saturated and monounsaturated fats, but when it came from polyunsaturated fats, it lowered testosterone levels.
6. Soy and Soy Products
There's all sorts of competing research. A lot of the research out there is also sponsored by the soy industry or vegetarian-vegan-type stuff. However, there are a couple problems with soy. It's estrogenic, goitrogenic and anti-androgenic. There's research to prove all of that. First up on the list is estrogenic. It contains a high amount of compounds called isoflavones, which are phytoestrogens. They basically exert estrogenic effects on the body. The main isoflavones in soy are genestein, daidzein, and glycitein. They've been shown in research to actually activate estrogen receptors. Next, the goitrogens. Basically, that's the impact that soy has on the thyroid in terms of being anti-thyroid and anti-metabolic. The main goitrogenic impact is by interfering with iodine uptake in the thyroid gland. Even if you're not iodine-deficient, if you're consuming a lot of soy and the goitrogens in soy are going to interfere with the iodine, in general, and you're going to have a poorer-functioning thyroid. Also, I mean, a poorly functioning thyroid has been found to be one of the leading causes of low testosterone in men anyway. Then the anti-androgens, it's basically going to directly suppress testosterone and DHT production. The main ingredient that's known to do that in soy is called equol. Equol basically forms in the gut when the bacteria try and metabolize one of those isoflavones, daidzein. What happens is equol is formed and it basically down-regulates androgen receptors. You don't want to mess with soy at all anyway. Again, it doesn't taste good. I don't know why people like it.
Drinking wine reduces testosterone. It's like a conditional thing. Alcohol, in general, has a dose-dependent effect on your testosterone levels. In lower amounts like one, two, maybe three servings, depending on your body weight, you're actually going to see either a slight acute rise in testosterone levels or no effect really. However, when it goes beyond that, what happens is it starts to put your body into a state of stress and you see a drastic drop in testosterone production. Then they also found in studying alcoholics, that alcoholics, in general, have much higher estrogen and much lower testosterone than regular and social drinkers or non-drinkers.
Last but not least on the list, another controversial one. I did a video on this here on this channel if you want to go look for more details on it, but nuts. Not all nuts. There are some nuts which are fine, and I talk more about in that video. That video, I mean, has almost got a million views now. A lot of people get kind of pissed off about it, but I'm literally just talking about the research that's out there. Some of the main highlights in that video are how almonds and walnuts increase SHBG levels, which SHBG is a sex hormone binding globulin. It binds to testosterone, makes it inactive, and that basically is going to reduce the bioavailability of the androgens, testosterone, and DHT. A lot of nuts are super high in polyunsaturated fats, in general, which we talked about lower testosterone levels and increase oxidative damage. Most nuts are actually very high in phytosterols. Some people think this is a benefit, but it's really not. They also interfere with steroid hormone production.
Avoid These 8 Foods To Keep Testosterone High
Let me know if you like this style of video. I like to cover all of the research and to show you, impartially, just the truth about all of this stuff. Thanks for watching, and I will see you on the next video.
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Macbeth was a true Shakespearean tragic hero. He had many noble qualities as well as several tragic flaws. He was a courageous, brave and good nobleman who was haunted by superstition, moral cowardice and an overwhelming ambition. Progressively through the play, his flaws started consuming his qualities until they are that can be seen of him. Macbeth was a courageous and strong nobleman. He and Banquo were leaders of King Duncan's army.
His personal powers and strength as a general won him the battle as described by the captain (I,2, "But all's too weak:/ For brave Macbeth – well he deserved that name — / Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,/ Which smoked with bloody execution,/ Like valor's minion carved out his passage/ Till he faced the slave;"). Macbeth was even undiscouraged when he was attacked by the King of Norway, "assisted by that most disloyal traitor, the thane of Cawdor.Lady Macbeth convinced her husband to murder Duncan by putting his manhood and courage at stake (I,7, "When you durst do it, then you were a man;/ And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man"). As Macbeth started degrading he lost some bravery (IV, 1, "That I may tell pale- hearted fear it lies"). In his fight with Macduff, some of his old courage and strength returned. Macbeth could be brave when it came to action but when he started thinking he would hesitate and would have to be urged into action by his wife or by the sense of security that he obtained from the prophecies of the supernatural.He changed his mind five times before murdering Duncan.
The witches' prophecy that he would be king made him decide to leave it to "chance," but Duncan's announcement that Malcolm was to be his heir made Macbeth realize hat he would have to take a course of action for the prophecies to come true. He changed his mind again before he reached home until his wife persuaded him that it could be done safely. Then he changed his mind again before finally being forced by Lady Macbeth to make up his mind to commit the murder. Macbeth also did not fear the moral consequences of his crimes (I,7, "We'd jump the life to come").After the murder of Duncan, Macbeth sinks into continuous moral degradation. He was in a savage frenzy when he planned the murder of Banquo and Macduff's family. His morals sink so low that even his enemies said "Who hen shall blame/ His pester'd senses to recoil and start,/ When all that is within him does condemn/ Itself for being there? " Macbeth had great ambition and wished to stand well with the world.
He had absolutely no feelings for others and he only cared about what others would think of him. The witches' prophecies only encouraged this ambition to be king.The witches who symbolized Macbeth's evil ambitions put his thoughts into actual words. The idea of murder had already occurred to him (I,3, "great prediction/ Of noble having and of noble having and of royal hope,/ That he eems rapt withal," "My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical," and I,7, "What beast wast then/ That made you break this enterprise to me? "). Macbeth himself acknowledged his "vaulting ambition" that would drive him to murder after Duncan evaded fate (I,3, "If chance will have me King, why,/ Chance may crown me") by announcing Malcolm as his Successor.Macbeth's powerful imagination made him already victim to superstition. His superstition was seen by his susceptibility to the witches' influence unlike Banquo who still was not sure about their credibility.
It was his superstition hat made him so unquestioningly the promises of the apparitions and rest so easily assured. It was all his superstitions that made him cling to his belief in these promises when circumstances became difficult. His imagination was so strong that when it was left to roam uncontrolled his "function/ Is smother'd in surmise. This was seen in the "dagger" scene and in the panic which Macbeth suffers after the murder of Duncan. This was also seen with Banquo's ghost at the banquet. His ensuing excitement put him in great danger of exposing his crimes completely. Macbeth loved his wife very much.
At the beginning of the play she participated avidly in his life and he informed her of everything that was going on (for example he sent her a letter telling her of the witches' prophecies). He widely accepted her advice and ideas and they were both avid partners in the murder of Duncan.Macbeth was very affectionate with his wife and when he was speaking to her he often used words of endearment (Dearest love," "Dearest chuck" and "Sweet remembrancer"). At the end, he was so weary from everything that was going on that when he received the news of his wife's death he accepted it with only a yearning resignation. Macbeth's whole story after Duncan's murder was one of continuous character deterioration. Once he had begun his life of crime he became further and further detached from his wife to the point where she had lost all control over him.He had become so accustomed to violence that he did not hesitate at all in the planning of Banquo and Fleance's murder ("The very firstling of my heart shall be/ The very firstling of my hand").
He even went as far as to murder Macduff's wife and family when he knew that their death would not aid him in any way. He became so isolated, to the point where he could not trust any of he other lords ("There's not a one of them but in this house I keep a servant fee'd").His cruelty and treachery ended up making all of Scotland suffer ("Sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air, are made, not mark'd"). Macbeth started as a courageous and brave general who loved his wife very much. But because of the faults that must accompany every tragic hero, he was led to his ruin by his overwhelming ambition, superstition and moral cowardice. Macbeth changed from a noble hailed as the savior of his country, a "valiant cousin," a "worthy gentleman," to a man of boundless cruelty.


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Matt Kuchar Ties for Second at The Memorial
Filed Under:Matt Kuchar, Memorial Tournament, PGA Tour, Pro Golf
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Winning the 1997 U.S. Amateur Championship will forever be one of Matt Kuchar's crowning achievements. He also raised eyebrows when he opted to stay an amateur until finishing his collegiate career at Georgia Tech and forgoing potential riches.
"I never have felt or think that you make decisions solely based on money," said Kuchar after winning the Honda Classic two years after turning pro in 2000. "You make decisions based on happiness."
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Coincidentally, Stricker, who has seven of his 10 PGA Tour wins past the age of 40, is the type player Kuchar would not mind being compared to—and has been.
"I had Jim Furyk tell me a couple weeks ago after I snuck into another top 10, he says, 'You know, another 10 more years like this and you'll be the Steve Stricker of the PGA Tour,'" Kuchar said. "A couple years ago that would have been the guy that I said I'd like to play a game like he does. I'm not going to overpower courses, but Stricker seems every week to be up there, whether he's leading the tournament or seems to just always be in contention."
For years, Kuchar's career was mediocre, at best.
In the nine years after turning pro in 2000, his results were ho-hum and did little to dispel naysayers. Kuchar made only 50 percent of his 182 PGA Tour starts, recorded six top-three finishes and 33 top-25 finishes.
Kuchar remained vigilant in his perseverance, and the rewards started being reaped in 2009.
Between the start of 2009 and entering the Memorial Tournament, Kuchar had made 85 percent of his 64 starts, added seven top-three finishes and has 40 top-25 finishes.
He also made the 2010 U.S. Ryder Cup squad, a year in which he led the PGA Tour in earnings and scoring average.
Last year was a huge step in Kuchar's career, but he entered 2011 eying more.
"I'd like to have a year with multiple wins and definitely like to win a major championship or win major championships," he said. "It's definitely a next goal and a next kind of step, I think, for me. Certainly what I'd like to achieve in golf, we try to put our stamp in history, and with major championships it is putting your name down in history. It would be a great thing to be a part of."
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In A Divided Britain Everybody Loses
Britain is divided in a number of ways and if it continues then everybody will suffer. Between Remainers and Leavers, environmentalists and climate change-deniers, misogynists and feminists, the curious and the ignorant and the haves and have-nots, we're at risk of tearing ourselves into ever smaller pieces.
Blackburn, the town where I spent my formative years, was subject to a BBC Panorama programme on this very subject and in just 30 minutes it couldn't have realistically focused on the complexity of how we come to be so divided. Instead, it focused on the perceived division of South Asian, predominantly Muslim families and the 'white British' community in Blackburn, leading to social media opportunists seizing the simplistic debate for their own ends.
The BBC programme wasn't entirely wrong. Blackburn isn't perfect and nor is it typical. It has a large and long-standing South Asian community (having been initially invited to fill a skills shortage), similar to other small and medium size, often former mill towns in northern England, where not only housing, school places and jobs, but vacant business premises, gaps in the local economy and vital public service roles have been filled by generations of families settling down there. Abandoned by successive governments and with little there to keep the young from going elsewhere to live and work, recent decades have often looked bleak and could well have looked even bleaker without immigration.
The BBC Panorama programme laid bare people's fears, often blamed on the rate of change in towns like Blackburn, with people feeling 'overrun' in some way. That 90% of children in a divided place can be of one colour, religion or socio-economic background is surely not helping to get our young people off to a balanced and integrated start in life. A lack of diversity does our children no favours. We shouldn't have local ghettos in a world that's never been more connected. That such a situation can develop is an issue of gross mismanagement and ignorance, spanning decades. However, by highlighting the delusion that we are so different to each other, rather than facing the reality of our similarities and crossing cultural paths, means that these mistakes can only be prevail or be repeated. The idea that hope is lost, and that our void of hope is being filled by extremism on all sides, is a fallacy.
When I think of Blackburn, I think of the army of people being productive such as Zainab Bilal, a pie maker and a Muslim woman who runs her business from her Blackburn home's kitchen. She was featured as part of The National Festival of Making in 2017, appearing live on national television and newspapers with her fusion of delicious, home-made South Asian cuisine and the good old British pie. Also featured at The National Festival of Making in Blackburn was Rizwana Matadar, with her brilliant Cover Me business, which combines contemporary fashion with the modest requirements of some Muslim women, was also featured and offers a similarly potent symbol of what the integration of cultures, attitudes and inspirations can actually mean to individual and collective benefit.
In London, where I have now lived for almost four decades, we have one of the world's richest cities. Yet we have similar and well publicised divisions, with the opulently rich living in a stone's throw from people living on the bread line. People from all around the world live on both sides of that divide, some are rich and some are poor, some are religious and others not, some are educated and others haven't been afforded that dignity. What unites us all across those divides is realising that nobody can gain anything from making the gap wider.
That Blackburn, Bradford, Kensington, Birmingham or anywhere else suffers from division is a truth, yet it is a truth that we desperately need to overcome rather than drive further stakes between communities. Reactionary voices will seize on Blackburn's situation but will offer no solutions. Solutions need to stem from a complete rethink of how communities are engaged in their locality, the opportunities afforded to them, showing young people a path towards success and prosperity through engaging with each other and their skills, their talents and finding a focus for their collective pride.
- Wayne Hemingway - 4.02.18
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A PLATOON of security personnel has raided the notorious Chibolya Township to crush an illicit drugs cache during a well-planned and executed operation that netted hundreds of suspects.
The team of police and Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) officers combed the crime-prone township and arrested hundreds of residents found with cannabis and other drugs in an operation that lasted from midnight on Wednesday to late yesterday.
The operation, led by Lusaka Province Commissioner of Police Lemmy Kajoba, was aimed at ridding Chibolya of illicit activities.
"We want to rid this township of illegal activities and bring sanity," Mr Kajoba said in a post-raid interview.
Those arrested were taken to Lusaka's Edwin Imboela Stadium for screening.
Police in riot gear sealed off the township, searched homes and hauled bags full of dagga.
The officers, armed with teargas canisters, batons and rifles, swept through the dreaded "Gazza" street of Chibolya, where they faced minimum resistance under the cover of the night.
With the aid of search lights, the police officers went into targeted homes and seized the drugs.
DEC public relations officer Theresa Katongo told the Daily Mail team which went to the township at 06:00 hours that the operation would be extended to other towns.
In one house, a man in an intoxicated state was found with a 90kg bag full of dagga.
At dawn, a few residents mobilised themselves and started throwing stones at the officers but the resistance was quickly quelled.
And police razed makeshift structures which were being used for selling illicit drugs.
Mr Kajoba said police sourced two bulldozers from Lusaka City Council (LCC) to raze the structures.
"All the illegal structures which were being used for smoking and trafficking in drugs have been razed. We want sanity in this city," he said.
A man in his early 20s caused laughter amongst police officers as he was being led to the holding vehicle when he claimed that he is a schoolboy.
"I am innocent, I am a Grade Seven pupil and I was going to school," said the man, who was not in a school uniform as police shoved him into the vehicle.
He told the police that he was 24 years old and this triggered laughter among the police, who wondered what a man that age would be doing in Grade Seven.
Some residents told the Daily Mail that they were happy that the police had made such a thorough operation.
"The police have really done well to arrest these thugs because when they run out of money, they come here to harass us at this market," said Jainta Mweemba, a charcoal trader.
Ms Mweemba was proud of the police for the operation.
Motorists in the vicinity cheered each time police led suspects to holding vehicles.
"Boma ni boma," said Douglas Mulenga, a taxi driver, touting Government's extensive authority.
"These thugs here thought they were untouchable but today they have felt the weight of boma [authority]," said Mr Mulenga, who briefly abandoned his business to witness the police action, albeit at a safe distance.
Mr Mulenga said the thugs in Chibolya forced motorists to pay "fines" each time they drove through the township.
"This is a lesson that you cannot outwit the government. I hear the cops came in when most of them were asleep and combed through houses," he said.
Thirteen suspected dangerous criminals escaped from Chibolya Police Post about two weeks ago, days after police had retreated in a battle with residents suspected to be drug dealers.
But in yesterday's operation, the suspects meekly submitted as police officers bundled them into pick-ups and ferried them to Imboela Stadium for screening.
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Markem-Imaje introduces high-speed, high-resolution solution for case coding: The new 1200 Thermal Inkjet
New product - 07/11/2014
Markem-Imaje has announced the introduction of the 1200 integrated thermal inkjet printer, adding a new case coding solution to Markem-Imaje's array of high-performance coders.
Markem-Imaje launches the 9028, a new inkjet printer offering simplicity and autonomy
The new Markem-Imaje 9028 inkjet printer has been conceived and engineered for industrialists with an eye for simplicity, evolution and autonomy. Ideal for small industrial application customers, the new 9028 offers excellent marking quality. As successor to the popular 9020 version, with over 40,000 sales, the new 9028 printer features several innovations for enhanced performance.
Promotion codes: Markem-Imaje launches a simple, easy-to-use solution
Markem-Imaje, a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of product identification and traceability solutions, launches a simple, easy-to-use solution for printing promotion codes on products. This solution is the first in a complete range designed to address every promotional coding need, from the simplest to the most advanced.
Markem-Imaje Announces Appointment of Vincent Vanderpoel as President and CEO
Geneva, Switzerland, February 17, 2014 - Markem-Imaje, a worldwide manufacturer and distributor of product identification and traceability solutions, has announced the appointment of Vincent Vanderpoel as President and CEO of Markem-Imaje.
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Integration of CSAT's high-resolution digital printing systems strengthens Markem-Imaje array of technologies, solutions and services.


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Barrera Miami Media Workout Quotes & Photos
Miami, FL: Yesterday Sullivan Barrera (21-1, 14 KOs) met with members of the media in Miami to discuss his upcoming mandatory challenge fight against WBA Light Heavyweight World Champion Dmitry Bivol (12-0, 10 KOs) at The Theater at Madison Square Garden Saturday, March 3. The bout will be the co-main event on the Sergey "Krusher" Kovalev vs. Igor Mikhalkin HBO World Championship Boxing telecast which airs at 10:05 p.m. ET/PT.
Sullivan Barrera:
On fighting in a title bout:
"This would be a very important victory obviously because I want to look to the future after this. It would be a dream come true to win the title. And we would see what happens after that. There are a lot of big names out there."
His plan fighting Bivol:
"Bivol is a good fighter and it is known that he has speed but we have a plan to adjust to the speed and take it away. We are going to impose ourselves and use our abilities."
His thoughts on Bivol:
"Bivol is the champ and he has to be respected as such but I have fought big names before and that's going to give me an edge. I have been there before, fighting in big fights."
Regarding adversity and coming back from knockdowns:
"Things happen in a fight but you can see every time that it has happened the switch has gone on and activated me and I become a lot more dangerous. Obviously, that's not the plan that it happens in any fight and we hope it doesn't happen in this fight either. I know the crowd likes the drama and the excitement of it and it's worked in our favor every time."
"After March 3rd, when I get the belt, I'm ready, I'm ready right now for everyone, open for everyone. I'm a fighter and open to fight everybody. I'm a throwback fighter. I'm not thinking about sitting down. Of course, things need to be done right financial-wise but I am willing to fight anybody."
His strategy for Bivol:
"Obviously, we can't reveal our strategy and our plan, but I can tell you we are going to go out there 100% and leave it all out there in the ring to get the victory."
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I've photographed 2 of these to show the detail on the front and back. But the price of $3.00 is for only 1 (one) of them.
These knobby white starfish are all natural. Their color varies from a creamy shade to an off white on the knobs. They could be painted or dyed to get exactly what you want for your color scheme.
They average between 4" and 6" across.


The Switzerland County High School varsity baseball team has struggled early in its season, but there is still plenty of time for the Pacers to get moving on the right track.
The Pacers traveling to Aurora to play South Dearborn on April 3rd, and fell by a final score of 11-1.
Drew Chatham started on the mound, going two innings and allowing three hits and 10 runs — but only four of those runs were earned. He struck out three and allowed four walks. Zach Weaver pitched one inning, allowing two hits and a run; and Damion Courter also pitched an inning, picking up a strikeout, as the game ended early due to the 10-run rule.
Offensively, Switzerland County got its only run in the top of the first with Patrick Stow driving in Cade Rider. Stow was 1-for-3 with the RBI in the game; while Rider was 1-for-3 with the run scored and a stolen base.
On Monday, April 8th, Switzerland County fell to conference foe South Ripley by a final score of 11-3.
Chatham again drew the start, this time going four innings and allowing five hits and seven walks while striking out two. He gave up eight runs in the game, but again the Pacer defense let him down, as only two of those runs were earned. Courter pitched 1/3rd of an inning, allowing one hit and three runs (2 earned) and walking three; and Rider pitched one and 2/3rds innings, striking out two and allowing a walk, but no runs.
Damian Breeck was 2-for-4 with a run scored; Rider was 2-for-4 with a run scored; Stow had an RBI and also scored a run; Dakota Wallace was 1-for-4; Weaver was 1-for-4; Courter was 1-for-2; and Evan Halstenburg was 1-for-3. Zach Stout also had a hit in the game.
Breeck, Rider, and Stow also had stolen bases in the contest.
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"Cynthia Felton demonstrates expertise in spirituals, ballads, and jazz standards on this, her third CD – Freedom Jazz Dance. " - Eddie S. Meadows, PhD Author of: Bebop to Cool:Context, Ideology, and Musical Identity.
"From the first ringing notes – "Oh Freedom" of Cynthia Felton's Freedom Jazz Dance session, I was lifted by the life force of her celebration of the common language of jazz, blues and gospel.
The cd features great musicians such as Cyrus Chestnut, Robert Hurst, Ernie Watts, Wallace Roney, Terri Lyne Carrington, and more.


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By BOBBY KAMANI
Aviation sector must adopt an inclusive plan to spur growth
Thursday, September 6, 2018 20:21
By BOBBY KAMANI |
Tourists arrive at Moi International Airport in Mombasa. FILE PHOTO | NMG
In 2016, the Kenyan government unveiled a Sh1.2 billion Charter Incentive Programme (CIP) that aimed at subsidising the cost of tourists arriving by charters into the country.
The main purpose of the CIP was to stimulate demand for destinations in Kenya by introducing new charters, while encouraging existing charters flying into Kenya to increase their route frequencies. It further served as a reward for charter airlines that make long term capacity growth commitments to bring tourists to experience Kenya's beach product.
Under the CIP, all tourist charter aircraft with passengers terminating at Moi International Airport Mombasa and Malindi Airport were expected to enjoy no landing fees for a period of two and a half years, as well as a passenger subsidy of $30 per seat filled by international passengers who terminate or disembark in Kenya over the same time period. In order to benefit from the CIP, charter airlines were required to ensure that a minimum of 80 per cent of the passengers brought in by any charter airline must be terminating in Kenya and they must commit to operate the Kenya route for a minimum of at least two consecutive years.
The focus was placed on holiday destinations and seats were usually booked through tour operators as part of a package. In 2014, the coastal region suffered a major blow with the withdrawal of charter flights from the United Kingdom following a travel advisory imposed by the British government. Several other continental European charters followed suit.
A charter airline that operated once a week would approximately bring in an average of 300 passengers thereby contributing approximately Sh1.65 billion in tourist spend. From the launch of the CIP in January 2016 and until its untimely demise at the end of 2017, a dismal amount of only five charter airlines qualified for the advertised incentives.
Tourism travel trends thus reveal that the tourist charter flight model is rapidly on the decline. In 2007, the segment's share of all flights was six per cent. Ten years later, this share had dropped to about three per cent.
The scheduled airlines and low-cost airlines segments have absorbed a substantial part of the charter market in recent years as more people are planning their holidays through online booking channels rather than relying on conventional travel agencies. In response, many former charter operators have started selling individual seats as part of their transition to operating as low-cost and scheduled flights.
The National Treasury, the State Department for Planning, and the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure should reinvent the CIP as a 'Carrier Incentive Programme' making it carrier centric rather than charter centric. This would include prevalent national and local carriers as well as any prospective scheduled and low-cost flights.
Every Kenyan carrier (irrespective of national or local) should be eligible to benefit from such a programme, if they meet the requirements of the programme which can be set by the relevant ministries. This new and improved programme would further strengthen our destination's brand visibility as a whole if it were to be broadened to also incorporate a destination marketing support in conjunction with the Kenya Tourism Board.
This would benefit the country and tourism far more than only the waiver and the pay-back model.
This expansion of the Kenyan skies would result in the national carrier bringing in international travellers (both for business and pleasure), who then have the flexibility to choose from various other local airline operators to explore the country.
The various counties can only stand to gain from the implementation of such a programme, be it in the form of an increase in the revenue for airports and airstrips, or creating much needed healthy competition between local airline operators and the national carrier, or assisting in creating employment.
Whichever way you look at it, such an inclusive programme would only result in economic growth which would go a long way in helping us attain Kenya's Vision 2030 "towards a globally competitive and prosperous nation".
Bobby Kamani, managing director, Diani Reef Beach Resort and Spa.