Wellness professionals that have actually examined the supplement market fret that the linkups with preferred Olympic groups and also professional athletes will certainly stimulate a lot more consumers consisting of young adults to offer such items a shot.
At the Olympic degree, the problem regarding impure supplements has actually been rolling before this years Games, which start on Friday.
The paper additionally made clear that proof of effectiveness is restricted and also hindered by tiny example dimensions as well as design issues. And also several of these supplements create negative effects like weight gain as well as belly discomfort that can hamper efficiency.
There is no clear proof that customers acquire significant health and wellness advantages from taking supplements, various other compared to for a couple of extremely particular dreams, like decreasing looseness of the bowels from anti-biotics and also soothing signs and symptoms of short-tempered digestive tract disorder.
The Olympic boards of Costa Rica, Italy, Vietnam, Israel, and also India have actually all authorized brand-new things with Herbalife, which offers a range of fitness supplements, consisting of a powder marketed with this motto: Compelling efficiency calls for prep work.
When it comes to Herbalife, its handle Italy s Olympic board offers professional athletes accessibility to a line of citrus-flavored sporting activities supplements that assure to assist you to educate, recoup, and also execute like never ever previously.
The board, as an example, invested numerous years vetting Thorne Research, consisting of checking the company s Idaho-based production center, prior to offering the thumbs up this previous springtime.
Not all American nationwide regulating bodies are welcoming supplements.
UNITED STATE Swimming, as an example, doesn't have any type of supplement enrollees as well as does not sustain either back making use of supplements, especially for professional athletes under 18 years of ages, stated Scott Leightman, a spokesperson for the federation.
Amongst one of the most prominent market companions: Herbalife, which simply last month consented to pay $200 million to work out government accusations of deceitful sales methods.
And also USA Track & Field is so anxious regarding supplements that its defining its brand-new five-year handle a company that markets mainly supplement as absolutely nothing of the kind. The handle Florida-based Garden of Life fixates certain healthy protein bars, healthy protein powders, healthy protein trembles, as well as probiotics.
Specialists state the outbreak of sponsorship offers is a startling indicator of the expanding authority and also viewed authenticity of the supplement market.
At the very least 14 Olympic sporting activities federations overseas and also in the United States, consisting of USA Gymnastics as well as USA Track & Field, have actually just recently authorized sponsorship take care of the manufacturers of nutritional supplements, placing their groups status as well as beauty behind powders as well as tablets that assure to maintain professional athletes in peak kind however that oftentimes have actually not been confirmed by scientific tests.
A Little proof that supplements function.
Thorne has actually evaluated several of its items in medical tests, like a current research of 40 people, which discovered that individuals that took a supplement for numerous months had reduced cholesterol as well as high blood pressure, to name a few end results, compared to those that took a sugar pill. (The research did not check out sports efficiency.) Thorne additionally has a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to run randomized researchers of its supplements, yet none of those outcomes are in.
Also supplements not likely to include prohibited or unsafe materials belong to an enormous market of items that merely were to job, yet could be spruced up as well as promoted to act that they do, to ensure that consumers will certainly purchase them, stated Dr. Pieter Cohen, a Harvard Medical School teacher and also internist at Cambridge Health Alliance that researchers supplement safety.
Elite professional athletes, obviously, live the various way of lives as well as have various dietary requirements compared to most individuals. For some professional athletes, supplements could be an efficient means to obtain particular nutrients, based upon a manifesto released this year by the American College of Sports Medicine as well as 2 dietitian teams. And also particular amino acids have actually been revealed to decently enhance endurance.
Sports execs associated with these recommendation bargains claimed they partnered just with supplement manufacturers that they or an additional sporting activities federation have actually carefully vetted which they depend on create safe as well as efficient items.
A huge marketing factor for both collections of sponsorships, execs at Herbalife as well as Thorne claimed, was that their supplements were accredited by an independent screening firm called NSF International, which examines for prohibited materials. Specialists concur its among a couple of gold-standard safety look for supplements, however, they worry that the screening in no chance confirms manufacturers asserts that the supplements enhance sports efficiency.
If it really boosts efficiency makes you more powerful, enhances your power, raises your speed, enhances your endurance when does that end up being a performance-enhancing supplement? claimed Tim Caulfield, a lawyer and also health and wellness plan teacher at the University of Alberta.
Supplements is not a classification that we would certainly have an enrolled in. Its simply not the appropriate fit, Geer stated.
Possibly the greatest account case in recent times included American swimmer Jessica Hardy, that had actually been positioned for success in Beijing in 2008 till she examined favorable for an outlawed substance abuse to deal with bronchial asthma and also construct muscular tissue.
We wished to concentrate on just what we believed in as well as just what we might well regulate and also assist our professional athletes with, claimed Jill Geer, a speaker for USA Track & Field, keeping in mind that professional athletes in some cases have difficulty discovering a trustworthy resource of healthy protein when driving.
A number of hundred Rio-bound professional athletes from around the globe have actually additionally recommended drinks, drinks, and also vitamins that claim, with little clinical support, to supply a dietary or energy increase, or to prevent usual issues like muscular tissue aches.
We were simply persuaded that this is an extremely safe and also reliable alternative for professional athletes to improve their wellness as well as their nourishment and also their efficiency, eventually, claimed Chuck Menke, primary advertising and marketing police officer for USA Triathlon, among the United States nationwide regulating bodies that created a collaboration with Thorne.
Several of the federations that manage Olympic sporting activities disapprove such items. Others have actually traded sponsorship civil liberties for totally free tablets, powders, or drinks for their professional athletes and also in some situations, they 've additionally obtained repayments from supplement manufacturers. (The regards to such bargains are exclusive, as well as none of the individuals would certainly give monetary information to STAT.).
If supplements might without a doubt provide on their indirect advertising and marketing assures in a purposeful means, specialists claimed, it would certainly increase tough concerns concerning whether they should be outlawed.
Thorne has actually since established 8 different take care of United States nationwide sporting activities controlling bodies, which arrange sporting activities from young people sports completely as much as the Olympic group. Under the things, United States Olympians, as well as various other elite professional athletes, will certainly be provided with a line of Thorne s amino acid powders as well as vitamins marketed with the motto NO limitations on your capacity.
The supplement market in the United States is just gently controlled; manufacturers put on t need to run medical tests, seek advice from government regulatory authorities, or create information revealing their items are safe or efficient prior to delivering them to store racks. The items have actually been connected to at the very least 23,000 emergency clinic checkouts every year in the United States, for responses consisting of heart palpitations and also upper body discomfort, a research study discovered last loss.
Products developed to be taken after exercises guarantee to reconstruct muscle mass as well as decrease swelling although Herbalife s very own site recognizes that simply 2 of its numerous items have actually been verified reliable in professional tests. (One, a healthy protein shake, was revealed to create weight-loss. The various other, a citrus-flavored powder marketed as a method to maintain capillary toned, improved efficiency of devoted bicyclists over age 50.).
And also there could be unique dangers for Olympians: The United States Anti-Doping Agency last loss advised concerning the threats of professional athletes making use of supplements. The current study has actually discovered that 11 supplement brand names consist of an amphetamine outlawed by the World Anti-Doping Agency, while 14 brand names include a prohibited heart energizer.
Invalidated from the Olympics and also briefly outlawed from the sporting activity, Hardy criticized a drink mix she had actually taken; it was made by a supplement company with which she had a recommendation thing. (The company, AdvoCare, contested those insurance claims, and also both sides filed a claim against each various other prior to getting to an out-of-court negotiation in 2012.).
Garden of Life doesn't makes such a great difference. The company takes into consideration all its items to supplement, with the exemption of dish substitutes, based upon spokesperson Rhonda Price.
I think that this kind of Olympiad sponsorship of supplements will certainly lead several youths to attempt brand-new sporting activities supplements, he stated. If they put on t intend to acquire these pricey ones that are being marketed by the professional athletes, they may wind up buying one resting beside it in the store that s surged with drugs.
After a Rio-bound wrestler from Australia fell short a doping test, his trainer lately recommended that supplements might have been responsible. One more perspective Olympic wrestler, from India, recently declared his supplements had actually been surged after he checked favorable for an outlawed steroid.
Large market of items that put on t job.
The United States Olympic Committee has actually aimed to make certain that the supplements American groups supported are tidy.


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So after telling the woman on the bus I was a writer, I had a nice conversation with her and her husband about writing and some of my publications. It turns out they were science fiction and fantasy fans, so we talked about favorite books. Her husband dabbled in writing, and expressed an interest in publishing, so we also talked the business side of writing. Overall, it was a pleasant conversation. Only after I had gotten off at my stop did I realize what had transpired.
I'm not sure if this actually means anything or not. Have I crossed some sort of mental bridge without even realizing it? I don't know. I don't feel any different—the temperature of my forehead says I'm not sick. I don't think my writing is any different. Yet, perhaps my perception of what my writing means to me has changed. Hmmm…I wonder if this is a good thing…hmmm…I think maybe it is.
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Congratulations! Self-identifying as a writer is the first step to a cure!!
Seriously, isn't it a somewhat otherworldly experience? I kinda had that same feeling the first time I admitted to a stranger that "I'm a writer." Now I'm more motivated than ever to live up to that claim.


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Coolgardie [gold rushes, 21 March 1894]
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[Editor: This article is an extract from the "Coolgardie" column, published in The Macleay Argus (Kempsey, NSW), 21 March 1894; it was reprinted from the Hillgrove Guardian (Hillgrove, NSW).]
Coolgardie.
The Hillgrove Guardian says:— "Letters received here show that none of the Hillgrove men who are at Coolgardie regret having gone there. They have met with some queer experiences, no doubt, and many times and oft have sighed for one or more of the long beers for which this place is famous, one writer setting a Wade's 'Baker Creek' down at 2s 6d and dirt cheap at that.
The railway is completed as far as Northam, 67 miles from Perth; thence, 120 miles is negotiated by contractor's train to Merridan, a mere end of the line, as Joe Mills says, "nothing to distinguish it from thousands of square miles of similar desert — not even a bush shanty." The engine used, manages to struggle over the ground at the rate of 10 miles an hour, and is so energetic at spark-throwing that the monotony of the journey is relieved by a succession of fire alarms: she is stated to he the first locomotive that was imported to Australia and in any other country would be on a monument, but Western Australia is too young and poor to afford any luxuries of that sort. From Merridan to Southern Cross is 54miles, negotiable by coach, thence to Coolgardie 120 miles, total from Perth 360 miles— eight days' journey.
Water this dry month was fearfully scarce all along the road. One party of Hillgrove men have secured a couple of leases at the 25mile; they have two reefs on the ground, one 2ft 6in wide and the other 11ft, both running into Lord Percy Douglas' claim which was floated in London for £160,000. They have suspension of labour — no water.
Coolgardie climate is fairly sulubrious; the nights are cool, a blanket (and sometimes two) being always welcome; but the air is fouled with the abominable smell of camels and their Afghan drivers, and the ants are very troublesome. Living is expensive, everything being about 400 per cent. dearer than in Hillgrove, it costs from 25s to 30s per week to live, water 9d to 1s per gallon extra.
At the time of writing, three new rushes were reported, one party of three men being credited with getting 1500ozs. in six weeks, distances 80, 104, and 150 miles, teamsters asking £1 for 10 miles for passage; gold is worth £4 per ounce; water is the great trouble.
People are arriving in droves and if the place and surrounding rushes turn out all right, there will be work for thousands. So far, all the big finds are in the vicinity of big quartz blows, and outside there are scores of reefs that will go 8ozs. to the ton, the stone resembling the dark quartz in Baker's Creek. In alluvial, one writer says, there is no such thing as sinking for the gold; it is all on the surface and is roughly sifted and the coarse gold picked out of the sieve."
The Macleay Argus (Kempsey, NSW), 21 March 1894, p. 3
oft = often
[Editor: Changed "sulubrious" to "salubrious"; "seive" to "sieve".]
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Q: Rename part of all table names in MySQL I'm currently looking for a way, to rename all tables in my db. But I don't want to rename to whole table name (you can find a lot of question about renaming whole table names on SO). So in my case I've a prefix calles wp_ before each table name what I'll replace with tnd_.
So is there a smart way how I can do this? Because I've about 200+ tables and I don't want to change every table name by hand.
Thanks for your help!

A: I think it would work:
SELECT Concat('ALTER TABLE `', TABLE_NAME, '` RENAME TO `dr_', TABLE_NAME, '`;')
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = '<name of your db>';

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Music | June 13, 2016 5:00 am
Art Museum Commissions Indie Band to Remake 'Twin Peaks' Soundtrack
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By Will Levith
Australia's Gallery of Modern Art commissioned American indie rock band Xiu Xiu to remake the soundtrack from classic TV series, Twin Peaks. The music was performed live at the museum for two days in April 2015 as part of its "David Lynch: Between Two Worlds" exhibit. Per the band:
"The music of Twin Peaks is everything that we aspire to as musicians and is everything that we want to listen to as music fans. It is romantic, it is terrifying, it is beautiful, it is unnervingly sexual. The idea of holding the 'purity' of the 1950's up to the cold light of a violent moon and exposing the skull beneath the frozen, worried smile has been a stunning influence on us. There is no way that we can recreate Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch's music as it was originally played. It is too perfect and we could never do its replication justice. Our attempt will be to play the parts of the songs as written, meaning, following the harmony melody but to arrange in the way that it has shaped us as players."
Compare Xiu Xiu's interpretation of the show's opening theme with the original below. Stream the band's full Twin Peaks album at the bottom of this piece.


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NFL Winners and Losers: John Elway might have finally gotten it right at QB with Drew Lock
Yahoo Sports December 8, 2019
If Denver Broncos general manager John Elway really, truly thought Drew Lock was a franchise quarterback, he wouldn't have been the team's third draft pick in April.
Then again, if the New England Patriots knew Tom Brady would be great, they wouldn't have waited until the 199th pick to take him either.
Sometimes you catch a break, and maybe Elway finally has fallen into a solution at quarterback. Lock had a very good debut last week in a win over the Los Angeles Chargers, then was great in his second start against the Houston Texans. The Broncos blasted the Texans, who are in first place of the AFC South and coming off a win over the Patriots, and Lock looked like a future star. The Texans rallied late, but the 38-24 final wasn't indicative of how dominant Denver was.
Lock, in his first road game, was 16-of-19 for 235 yards and three touchdowns in the first half. The Broncos led 31-3. Lock looked calm, saw the field well and made play after play. Until a bad interception late in the third quarter, with the game well in hand, Lock played a nearly flawless game. The Broncos haven't had a quarterback look this good since Peyton Manning retired.
One huge game doesn't mean Lock is a can't-miss star. Plenty of players have flashed, the rest of the league has adjusted, and they fade away. But every Broncos fan should be very excited.
Lock wasn't the Broncos' first or even second choice in the draft. They took tight end Noah Fant in the first round, who has made some mistakes but has also shown a ton of potential. Guard Dalton Risner was the second pick, and he has been very good. Lock was the selection after Risner, 42nd overall. If you know a quarterback is going to be a good starter, you don't take a tight end and offensive guard before him.
Nevertheless, the Broncos' quarterback carousel will stop, at least for the moment. After Manning retired, Elway's missteps at quarterback are numerous and often cited. He couldn't re-sign Brock Osweiler, which turned out to be a blessing, then drafted Paxton Lynch in the first round. That wasn't a blessing. Lynch failed miserably. He couldn't beat out seventh-round pick Trevor Siemian, who wasn't the answer either. Case Keenum was signed after a big season in Minnesota, and traded off after a bad year in Denver. The Broncos traded for Joe Flacco, who was as bland and unexciting as anyone could have predicted. Even Brandon Allen got some starts after Flacco's injury, because Lock was working back from a preseason injury himself.
When Lock was given his shot, it was with strange trepidation from the Broncos. It's another lost season for Denver, and the only thing that could give the Broncos an enormous boost into the offseason was Lock showing he is the potential answer at quarterback.
Consider it done. Lock could be terrible over the finally three games and the outlook changes, but his first two starts will carry into the offseason. The Broncos can use their available resources at spots other than quarterback. They can supplement what have been a couple of good drafts in a row with help at receiver, offensive line and defensive depth too. They should and will believe Lock can be the guy.
A team's entire plan and expectations change when the quarterback is set. That's what happened in 2012 when the Broncos landed Manning. Unless something goes really wrong over the rest of the season, the Broncos will enter the offseason at least hopeful that Lock is the long-awaited answer at quarterback.
It seems Elway might have gotten it right. Finally.
Denver Broncos quarterback Drew Lock had a huge game against the Texans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Here are the rest of the winners and losers from Week 14 of the NFL season:
Andy Reid: Reid can coach. All the jokes about his time management skills and the lack of a Super Bowl have obscured that at times.
But Reid has his Kansas City Chiefs playing well again. They're 9-4 after a huge 23-16 win over the New England Patriots, and the Chiefs are still in the mix for the No. 2 seed in the AFC and a first-round bye. They're one game behind the Patriots for the No. 2 seed and own the tiebreaker.
The Chiefs took Julian Edelman out of the game by often doubling him, and the Patriots took a while to adjust. The Chiefs allowed just 16 points, and that'll be more than enough for their offense most days.
The Chiefs are still quite dangerous this season. Reid is a big reason for that.
Diontae Johnson, the player the Steelers got for Antonio Brown: Back in April, it would have seemed insane to suggest that the Steelers would win the Antonio Brown trade by the end of 2019.
The Steelers won that trade long ago of course, after Brown basically sabotaged his NFL career. But also consider that the player the Steelers got with the third-round draft pick acquired from Oakland in the Brown trade, receiver Diontae Johnson, looks really good.
Johnson had some splash plays Sunday in a huge win over the Arizona Cardinals. He had an 85-yard punt return for a touchdown. He had a remarkable play in the third quarter in which he came all the way across the field and gained 14 yards when he should have been dropped for a loss. He capped that drive with a 2-yard touchdown. Johnson had 423 yards and three touchdowns on the season before Sunday and has shown he belongs in the NFL.
Johnson was a Brown clone. He played in the MAC, like Brown, has almost the exact same size and a lot of the same characteristics as a player. And, unlike Brown, he's still welcomed on an NFL team at the moment.
All of the new pass interference rule critics: Dolphins coach Brian Flores was seeing red, and it's hard to blame him.
A few weeks ago, the pass interference rule seemed pretty clear. Unless it was egregious, calls on the field weren't getting changed after review. It seemed like a waste for anyone to challenge a call or non-call on pass interference. And that was fine.
And then it just changed. More calls are getting reversed. And a questionable one cost the Dolphins a win. A booth review of what looked like a good play determined there was interference on Nik Needham. Instead of fourth-and-18 at the Miami 46, the Jets had the ball first-and-10 at Miami's 38. A 12-yard run set up a Jets game-winning field goal as time expired.
Flores was hot. He screamed at officials during the review and after the game. It probably didn't help that the Jets got a questionable touchdown earlier in the game when it seemed Demaryius Thomas might have lost the ball in the end zone before completing the catch. The way the game ended is a fiasco for the NFL's officiating office, which has been under fire as usual. Mostly coaches and players just want consistency, and there has been none with the new rule.
The quintessential Jameis Winston game: If you want one game to sum up Winston's bipolar career, Sunday was it.
Winston started it by throwing an interception to linebacker Darius Leonard. Then he threw a nice 61-yard touchdown to Mike Evans, and also had a score on a quarterback sneak. Then there was pick-six to Leonard. Winston returned from a hand injury to throw another touchdown, then he threw high for another interception. Oh but he wasn't done: Winston's touchdown pass to Breshad Perriman gave Tampa Bay a 38-35 lead with 3:51 left. That ended up being the final score. Winston had 456 yards, four passing touchdowns, a rushing touchdown and three interceptions. That's a Winston line if there has ever been one.
This has to be taking years off Buccaneers' fans lives. Winston can look like a superstar and a bust all in the same quarter. It's not going to change. After five NFL seasons, this is who Winston is. It's tough to start over at quarterback and teams make their worst decisions based on that fear, so it wouldn't be a surprise if Winston signs an extension with the Buccaneers.
Just remember Sunday's game when they do it. The ride on the roller coaster will never end.
Green Bay Packers: Not that beating the Washington Redskins is something worth bragging about, but the Packers can't afford any missteps.
The Packers went out to a 14-0 lead and then did enough to hold off Washington for a nondescript 20-15 win. The Packers still have a game at Minnesota coming up in Week 16, but can make that game a non-factor in the NFC North race. The Packers play the Bears at home next week and at the Lions in Week 17. If Green Bay wins both of those games, they win the division no matter what else happens. They're up by a game on the Vikings in the standings and would win the tiebreaker if they beat the Bears and Lions, due to a better divisional record.
But to make sure that winning at Minnesota in Week 16 isn't necessary, the Packers can't lose any games they should win. They made sure that didn't happen on Sunday.
John Harbaugh: It's not like we didn't already know Harbaugh is one of the best coaches in football. But this season has been a loud reminder.
The Ravens have reimagined their offense and the defense has improved tremendously over the start of the season. They had a tough challenge at the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, needing a win to remain a step ahead of the Patriots for the No. 1 seed in the AFC, and they won again. A late stop with Marcus Peters breaking up a fourth-down pass to John Brown sealed a hard-fought 24-17 win. Lamar Jackson and the offense weren't moving it up and down the field on a tough Bills defense, but the Ravens defense had one of its best games of the year. Josh Allen, who had been on a hot streak, didn't break 100 yards passing until the fourth quarter. The pass rush and coverage were stifling. And eventually Jackson threw his third touchdown pass of the game with a little less than 10 minutes left to give the Ravens a 24-9 lead. The Bills had a late rally but the Ravens turned it back.
Harbaugh deserves a lot of credit for this Ravens season, and should get strong consideration for coach of the year. The Ravens are running an offense that hasn't really been seen before in the NFL and are getting better every week. Harbaugh took some chances and it has paid off with the best team in the NFL right now.
Oakland Raiders: The Raiders' playoff dream seems to be dead. And they're giving back most of the positive steps they took earlier this season.
Jon Gruden's second season looked good for a while, then it turned south. For the third straight game the Raiders were blown out. The 42-21 home loss to the Tennessee Titans, coupled with the Pittsburgh Steelers' win, all but knocks the Raiders out of contention for the final wild-card spot in the AFC.
The Raiders were torched by Ryan Tannehill who had three touchdowns and is one of the NFL's craziest success stories this season. Oakland's defense has disappeared and the offense, which didn't have star rookie running back Josh Jacobs on Sunday, hasn't done much either.
The Raiders are very unlikely to go to the playoffs. Now they just need to play better the final three weeks to maintain a little momentum for the offseason.
Doug Marrone: Marrone would seem to be out of cards to play.
The Jacksonville Jaguars coach turned to quarterback Nick Foles when Foles was healthy, turned back to Gardner Minshew II this week, and nothing worked. The Jaguars were humiliated in a 45-10 home loss to a bad Los Angeles Chargers team.
The Jaguars were close to a Super Bowl two seasons ago. It seems like 20 seasons ago. The Jaguars blew the AFC championship game and are now on a bad spiral down. There doesn't seem to be much reason for Marrone to get another season. The Jaguars need to start over.
Any game other than 49ers-Saints that wants 'Game of the Year' consideration: It's hard for a game between two 10-2 teams to live up to the hype, but the 49ers-Saints game was as good as NFL football gets.
Two excellent offenses managed to make dozens of big plays against two fantastic defenses. Two great playcallers, Sean Payton of the Saints and Kyle Shanahan of the 49ers, put on a clinic. Jimmy Garoppolo and Drew Brees traded haymakers. Brees' touchdown to Tre'Quan Smith with 53 seconds left capped an epic drive and put the Saints ahead. But on fourth-and-2 on the following drive, Garoppolo hit tight end George Kittle who went on a remarkable run for 39 yards and got a facemask call at the end too. That set up a game-winning field goal as time expired and the 49ers had a huge 48-46 win. Brees looked like the legend he has been for most of his career. Garoppolo looked like he's ready to lead the 49ers a long way in the playoffs. It was a phenomenal game.
With any luck, we'll get a rematch in the playoffs. The game of the year debate is certainly over.
Bill O'Brien and the Houston Texans: How is it possible that a team can beat the Patriots, then seven days later find themselves trailing 38-3 at home to the Broncos?
The Texans are good, sometimes. And there are times they look nothing like a playoff team. The win over the Patriots seemed like it would create some positive momentum going into the final few weeks of the season, but that wasn't the case. Sunday was embarrassing. The Texans haven't been the same defense without J.J. Watt, but allowing rookie Drew Lock to look like 1994 Steve Young was fairly ridiculous.
The Texans still have two games left against the Tennessee Titans, and those games got even more interesting after Houston got blown out Sunday. Perhaps the Texans will still make the playoffs, but watching them get run off the field by the Broncos doesn't inspire much confidence.
The reeling Carolina Panthers: How cool is this? On Atlanta Falcons receiver Olamide Zaccheaus' first NFL catch, the undrafted former Virginia Cavalier went 93 yards for a touchdown.
Of course, the Panthers allowed a player who has never caught an NFL pass before to score the longest play from scrimmage of this NFL season.
The Panthers' woes weren't all Ron Rivera's fault, but he was fired this week. And Carolina's swoon continued with a 40-20 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. Rivera was a good coach but the Panthers might have needed a big reset. Their once promising season has gone downhill fast, with Kyle Allen showing he's not the answer and the defense disintegrating. It's bad.
There are three more games to go and this nightmare Panthers season can be done. Just make sure Christian McCaffrey doesn't get hurt before the end of it.
Anyone who wanted to pass the Bengals for the No. 1 pick: The Bengals got their win, will avoid 0-16 and now can concentrate on getting the No. 1 pick of the draft.
Watching LSU's Joe Burrow in the SEC championship game should have reinforced that the Bengals really don't want to win anymore this season. They dropped a 27-19 game to the Cleveland Browns that was competitive, but still a loss. That's not really a bad thing for the Bengals.
Andy Dalton was benched this season, Ryan Finley isn't the answer, and the Bengals can be in prime position to take Burrow or any other quarterback they think is worth the top pick. Or they could surprise everyone and take Ohio State pass rusher Chase Young. Either way, the options are plentiful with the No. 1 pick. Now they just have to lose out.
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The owner of an international company whose business as a coffee merchant takes him to exotic destinations as far apart as Dubai, Morocco and Korea has selected south east Spain as the ideal location for a family holiday home in the sun.
Martin Symington (55) – managing director of Coffee Merchants Ltd which he set up in Northern Ireland three years ago, and whose home is in County Down – has just agreed to buy the first in a new generation of exclusive detached homes planned for Desert Springs, Europe's only international award-winning luxury family resort and championship desert golf course in the Almeria region of south-east Spain.
The property – named The Caprichosa – will have an exterior design inspired by some of the old manorial farmhouses which can still be seen in Almeria. The developer, the Almanzora Bay Group, says it reflects the way in which, over many centuries, extensions and additions to properties like these – regarded as historically important – create visual variety and architectural interest.
someone who has a caprice, a whim or a fancy of their own, and this is very much in keeping with the concept of the plans for the property," says Bridget Rosser, sales and marketing manager of The Almanzora Group based in Cheltenham and agent for the properties at Desert Springs.
Martin and his wife Sandra will be encouraged to work with the architect to overlay their own ideas on the developer's plans for their property which will occupy a plot of 0.14 hectare (just over a third of an acre) on the banks of the established Tiburon Lake.
The site is just across the water from the fourteenth signature hole of the resort's Indiana Desert Golf Course.
The couple's decision to buy the Caprichosa for around €2.5 million – the actual price will depend on their final specification – underlines their enthusiasm for Desert Springs where they bought their first overseas property six years ago.
"I had just taken up golf and spotted a newspaper advertisement for Desert Springs," recalls Martin. "It inspired me to take a look and, having done so, we bought a four- to five-bedroom Herencia country house there.
"Desert Springs had immediate appeal. I love the dramatic and undeveloped nature of the environment, and I was impressed by the quality of the buildings taking shape in the resort.
Martin and Sandra have four children and seven grandchildren, so their property is fully used by family and friends throughout the summer months.
"We now need more than four plus the occasional five bedrooms and when we saw the plans for the Caprichosa we knew that trading up to buy the first one would be our next step," said Martin.
He describes each time he arrives at Desert Springs as "like coming home because the welcome is always so warm" and he praises the high calibre of service demonstrated by The Almanzora Group at the time when he negotiated his first purchase.
Construction work on the Symingtons' new Caprichosa will get underway next year reports Bridget who describes it as "the most prestigious residential property yet planned at Desert Springs." Currently she is selling a variety of other properties in the resort, ranging from apartments, townhouses and cottages to villas and country houses at prices starting at €233,000 for an apartment, rising to around €2.5 million for a spacious country house like the Caprichosa.
The Symingtons' first home at Desert Springs was a spacious four-bedroom plus occasional fifth bedroom/study, four-bathroom, fully air-conditioned and secure Herencia Country House. Planned with careful attention to detail, it combines authenticity with modern day requirements; for example although windows have high performance double glazing, they are designed and custom-made to replicate the oval and square windows seen in old country homes of this type.
The Symingtons paid €900,000 for their property when they bought it off-plan in 2002 but Martin reckons that the increase in capital values at Desert Springs in particular would still make it worth about €1.2 million now, despite the recent market problems generally.
The property, which the owner can modify to accommodate up to six or even seven bedrooms, is designed for indoor/outdoor living. The ground floor has a spacious family living room, a semi-separate dining room and fully-fitted kitchen and breakfast room, each opening on to a covered terrace of over 1,000 sq ft.
It includes areas designed and laid out for al fresco dining as well as an outdoor lounge complete with a fireplace, and for sunbathing.
Also on the ground floor are a study and two of the double bedrooms. With their own semi-private entrances off the entrance hall and courtyard, they are designed as guest suites. All bedrooms have their own private bathrooms.
On the first floor are two principal bedrooms, one of which is linked to the staircase by a 'reading gallery' overlooking the family living areas and main terrace below. Both bedrooms open on to their own private sun terraces. All floors of the property will have air management.
The basement comprises 165 sq m (more than 1,750 sq ft) of naturally cool space, including a games room, occasional accommodation and spaces for other facilities such as a gymnasium, a spa with Jacuzzi and sauna, a wine cellar, utility and laundry rooms.
The property includes a generously proportioned double garage with ample storage and workshop space. A large proportion of the energy supply for the property will be supplied by solar panels, taking advantage of the unique climatic conditions at Desert Springs.
Internal finishes will be specified in accordance with the purchaser's wishes.
The Caprichosa will have a total internal floor area of around 480 sq m (5,170 sq ft), with terraces of 150 sq m (1,600 sq ft). Outside the property will be fully landscaped to create the type of desert garden which resulted in the developer – the Almanzora Bay Group – being awarded the UK's New Homes Garden Award 2007 in the category Best Garden / Landscape – Overseas Development. A 10 m x 5 m level deck swimming pool is included in the garden of The Caprichosa.
The site earmarked for construction of the Symingtons' property is on the banks of Tiburon Lake, the first of three linked lakes planned in the resort. The largest, Steamboat Lake, will be used for a variety of 'peaceful' water sports ranging from sailing and canoeing to windsurfing. The middle lake, Sweetwater, already is being stocked with bait fish for the introduction of black bass game fish in the near future.
To avoid confusion, please note that this document refers to two organisations with names which are similar but different. They are The Almanzora Bay Group [THE DEVELOPER] and The Almanzora Group Ltd [THE AGENT].
The Almanzora Bay Group, named after the Almanzora region of Eastern Andalucia where it has been active since 1985, is an Anglo-Spanish sister group to the award-winning Cheltenham-based developer, the Robert Hitchins Group. Established in 1958, the Robert Hitchins Group specialises in large-scale strategic land planning and commercial development in the West of England and South Wales.
The Almanzora Group, which is a subsidiary of the Robert Hitchins Group, is the main European sales agent and acts exclusively for the development companies which comprise the Almanzora Bay Group, marketing new properties developed by The Almanzora Bay Group in resort, village and beach locations.
Please note that none of the above have any connection with the Spanish development known as The Almanzora Country Club.


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Beit Ohr Torah of Kiev, Ukraine, was officially dedicated in mid-September 2014. A group of OTS representatives, led by Rabbi Riskin, arrived for a short unveiling ceremony on the premises, in conjunction with the Midrasha Tzionit, OTS's local partner in the endeavor. Rabbi Riskin expressed his fervent prayer, shared by all, that the new bayit …
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Congratulations to Rabbi David Peter, a graduate of the Straus-Amiel Program, upon his appointment as the Chief Rabbi of Prague. The change in the position of chief rabbi of Prague should not trigger any major change in its Jewish community, Peter, 38, told the Czech News Agency. "I will be learning continually, but continuity is vital," Peter …
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Kathryn Knott Takes the Stand in Philly Gay Bashing Trial: VIDEO
by Sean Mandell
Accused Philly gay-basher Kathryn Knott testified in court on Tuesday that she did not physically assault or hurl gay slurs at a gay couple savagely beaten in City Center last year.
ABC 6 News reports:
Kathryn Knott, 25, took the stand Tuesday in her own defense in the September 2014 attack that left one man with a broken jaw and severe facial injuries.
Knott, leaving a birthday celebration with a large group of friends, said that she ran toward the fight initially to try to defuse it.
Two male co-defendants have pleaded guilty and received probation – and were barred from downtown – but Knott chose to fight the charges. She faces several years in prison if convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes.
Previously, the jury in the case saw the full damage wreaked on the gay couple at the center of this case.
RELATED: Jury Hears from Victim, Sees Injuries in Day 2 of Philly Gay Basher Kathryn Knott's Trial – WATCH
On the stand, Knott was forced to confront and answer for her history of anti-gay tweets. Knott insisted that she did not see any of her tweets as using gay slurs or derogatory language.
Here, a brief examination of how Knott's tweets do display anti-gay animus (the below redaction of Knott's response to each tweet is provided by Philadelphia Magazine):
@krisssstenxoxo the ppl we were just dancing with just turned and mafe out with eatch other #gay #ew — Knott said she was actually disgusted by the public display of affection, and not the fact that the people were gay. She said she had many gay friends and relatives and would never use that word as a slur to a gay person.
Using the hashtag #gay immediately following #ew and signaling your disgust towards same-sex kissing makes Knott's use of "gay" derogatory.
this camo song is gay like all the other brad paisley songs — Knott said she is a huge country music and Brad Paisley fan, but did not like this particular song.
Again, when you say "that's gay", do you realize what you say? Saying something that you don't like is "gay" is a gay slur.
@g0_nads he's gonna rip me today for my hair..just wait. #dyke — Knott said she looked like a mess that day, and this tweet was a way to tell her coworker this.
The above rule regarding the use of the word "gay" also applies to the word "dyke", which is in-and-of-itself a gay slur.
Jazz flute is for little fairy boys — This tweet is a quote from the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
Quoting something that is homophobic, regardless of how mainstream it is, does not make it less homophobic.
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Thankfully, prosecutors pressed Knott on her defense of her tweets. Though Knott never owned up to using hate speech:
When asked by Assistant District Attorney Mike Barry if "dyke" was a hateful word, she said it wasn't. She said the word "wasn't on her everyday vocabulary list" but that she didn't see it as a slur. "I think our interpretation of words is different," Knott said. "What's said there is not demeaning to anyone." Knott also said, since she's used it in the past, that "it's OK" to use the word gay to mean something uncool. "I just used it in a very loose way," she said. "I didn't mean it in a derogatory way."
ADA Barry then quoted several lines from Anchorman, including "Stay classy, San Diego." She said she doesn't consider her tweet, which is a line said by Christina Applegate's Veronica Corningstone character, offensive. "It's a line from a movie," she testified. She did say she wouldn't use any of the words in her tweet when speaking with a gay person.
Knott's story of what happened on the night of September 11, 2014 was also called into question by prosecutors:
The prosecution challenged several of Knott's statements, including her statement she had just one glass of wine during a three-hour dinner party. The jury was also shown a video, which has not been released to the press but has been shown multiple times in court, that does not show any employees banging on the FedEx Office windows. No banging from the FedEx store is heard in the video.
When asked why she didn't call 911 or go to the police, Knott said her friend who went to Philadelphia Police, Fran McGlinn, was "fired on the spot" for doing so. (The friend went to police the next week, and not the night of the incident.) Knott was eventually fired from her job at Abington Hospital for tweeting potentially sensitive patient information when her feed became public knowledge.
She said she didn't know Haught was seriously hurt — he broke his jaw in the incident — and ran away because she was bothered by the incident. She said she was fearful someone would attack her. A photo shows her leaving the scene with Williams. "You were so bothered," Barry said. "You went out with him afterward?" The group of 15 went to Tir Na Nog for about 30-45 minutes after the incident. Knott said she heard ambulances going by, but did not connect them to the incident because "it's Center City. There are ambulances all over the place."
Watch video of Knott leaving the courthouse, below:
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Lucia di Lammermoor, English National Opera, ENO, London Coliseum, October 2018
This 2008 production by David Alden expresses the idea that the Ashton family's dour Calvinist attitudes have arrested the emotional development of their leader Enrico. He plays with his toys at one point, and even embraces his sister Lucia in a lecherous manner. There is much to be said for this psychological approach, but the …
Iris, Opera Holland Park, OHP, June 2016
Opera Holland Park staged Mascagni's little-known Iris during their second season in 1997, but this production by Olivia Fuchs is entirely new. The opera itself premiered in 1898, eight years after Cavalleria Rusicana, and Mascagni's librettist for this new work suggested a tragedy set in Japan, in keeping with a vogue for exotic subjects. The …
Giovanna d'Arco, Buxton Festival, July 2015
This Verdi opera, like Rossini's William Tell, is originally based on a play by Schiller that deals with a central heroic figure who rallies people and fighting men against an occupying force. Comparing mature Rossini to early Verdi one might expect the Rossini to win easily, yet by contrast with the Royal Opera's current clunky …
Il Trittico, Opera Holland Park, OHP, June 2015
A terrific evening and superb start to Opera Holland Park's 2015 season. Neil Irish's designs were excellent, particularly for Il Tabarro in Martin Lloyd-Evans production where weary stevedores and noises of the quayside set the evening in motion. As captain of the barge, Stephen Gadd's calm tension and eventual exasperation, as he pleads with his …
Orfeo ed Euridice, Buxton Opera Festival, July 2014
For Gluck's tercentenary Buxton has produced his Orfeo ed Euridice (the 1762 Italian version) to counterbalance Dvořak's delightful Jacobin. It is a good match: Dvořak was a Czech composer, but so in a sense was Gluck, who was brought up in Bohemia and studied mathematics and logic at the University of Prague. This opera was a …
La Fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park, OHP, June 2014
The 2014 opera season at Holland Park started off with a bang — a terrific production of Puccini's Fanciulla. During the overture the stage fills with soldiers viewing an atomic explosion in the Mojave desert, reflecting the setting in California, albeit a century later than the time of the gold rush in the original, and …
Satyagraha, English National Opera, London Coliseum, December 2013
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The performance on 6th December 2013 was a special occasion, quite unplanned. Philip Glass's paean to the peaceful revolution embodied by Mahatma Gandhi, with its allusions to Martin Luther King, whose back-view we see in Act III, speaking on a podium, was preceded by a commemoration for Nelson Mandela, who had died just 24 hours …
Cavalleria Rusticana, and I Pagliacci, Opera Holland Park, OHP, June 2013
After an unusually long winter, walking across Holland Park for the opening of the OHP season it seemed that summer had really arrived. As the orchestra played the Prelude to Cavalleria Rusticana the set opened to reveal Turiddu in bed with Lola, and after the chorus entered to sing of orange blossom, over a dozen …
Lucia di Lammermoor, Opera Holland Park, OHP, June 2012
The new Holland Park season opened on a blustery cool evening, just right for the Scottish setting of Donizetti's Lucia. Its plot, based on a novel by Walter Scott, is absolutely up to the minute in view of the government's recent proclamation making forced marriage illegal, and costumes were appropriately modern. These omens turned out well, and …
Rigoletto, Opera Holland Park, OHP, July 2011
Rigoletto himself was brilliantly sung and performed by Robert Poulton. He didn't overdo the nastiness of this character, as sometimes happens, yet his determination to take revenge came over very well when he makes the fatal mistake of telling his daughter to go home alone, after showing her the Duke's real character.
L'amico Fritz, Opera Holland Park, OHP, June 2011
This is Mascagni's second opera after his great success with Cavalleria Rusticana, and Stuart Stratford's conducting of the City of London Sinfonia brought out its high moments most beautifully.
La Forza del Destino, Holland Park Opera, OHP, August 2010
I've always found [this] terrific stuff, and was delighted with the excellent musical direction by Stuart Stratford, whom I remember doing an equally fine job at Holland Park last summer with Katya Kabanova.
Satyagraha, English National Opera, ENO at the London Coliseum, February 2010
The production … has a rather ethereal quality, and as a friend of mine said, "I was left humming peaceful thoughts all the way home".
Katya Kabanova, Holland Park Opera, August 2009
This performance was a team effort, led with great emotional sensitivity by Stuart Stratford in the orchestra pit.


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Oscars 2010 | Nine Questions For "Precious" Director Lee Daniels
Oscars 2010 | Nine Questions For "Precious" Director Lee Daniels
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This interview was originally published a part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and is now being included in a series of profiles on this year's Oscar nominees.
Since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this past January, Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire" has become one of the year's biggest indie film stories and it hasn't even been released yet. The tale of "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), an obese, illiterate teenager with nothing working in her favor, Daniels has won over critics, festival audiences, Oprah and Tyler Perry alike, and is opening in theaters via Lionsgate this Friday, November 6th. Daniels – who had previously produced films like "Monster's Ball" and "The Woodsman" and directed "Shadowboxer," starring Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jr – talked to indieWIRE about the film before its premiere at Sundance set the film off on its whirlwind journey to release.
I grew up in the inner city in Philadelphia. I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full. My father, a police officer, was brutally shot and killed trying to break up a robbery when I was 13. I can not even imagine where my life was headed, when through luck and maybe a little manipulation from my incredible mother, I began to attend a prestigious prep school in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
Education changed my life and I am forever grateful for that experience and to my many wonderful teachers. Obviously, education is an important theme in my film and one I personally relate to on every level. In high school, I lobbied hard for the part of Max Detweiler in the "Sound of Music" and convinced my drama teacher that a black student could do this role. That took a lot of fast talking! (And that was also something that left an lasting impression on me; namely that roles should be cast based on talent and not color.) I definitely caught the acting bug, but that lasted for about two seconds when I found my way to LA and found that my talents were better suited behind the cameras.
What were the circumstances that lead you to become a filmmaker?
In LA, I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans. I decided I was going to do something about it by producing my own films that included meaningful and compelling roles for black actors. So, I jumped into producing with my first film "Monster's Ball."
While I am not a musician, I love music. I have over 15,000 songs on my ipod. Everything from hard core rap to the soundtrack from the original Cinderella. I believe my love for music has made me partial to working with musicians in my films. I find musicians to be wonderfully talented and soulful. I think you will also find that my broad range of musical interests finds its way into many of my films.
How did you learn the "craft" of filmmaking?
I did not go to film school. I learned by spending hundreds of hours on sets with the actors I was managing and watching and listening. One of my greatest joys in filmmaking is working with the actors and I use to run lines endlessly with them to perfect their performance prior to their auditions.
How or what prompted the idea for "Precious" and how did it evolve?
After reading "Push" many years ago, I always wanted to make this book into a movie. This is an incredible work by Sapphire and I love every syllable of the book.
Please elaborate a bit on your approach to making the film…
I do not believe in over rehearsing. I encourage my actors to take liberties with the script.
What were some of the biggest challenges you faced in developing the project?
Why would anyone care about a poor, 300-pound, uneducated black girl as dark as night? The answer to this question is what this film is ultimately about. Two of the first people who did care are my incredible producers, Sarah-Siegel Magness and Gary Magness who have contributed immeasurably to bringing this film to light.
What are some of your favorite films?
"The Goddess" with Kim Stanley (a favorite actress), "Pickup on South Street" (way ahead of its time), "The Professional", "In the Mood for Love", "Bonnie and Clyde", and "Ladies Sings the Blue" are a few that come to mind. This year has been an incredible year for movies. I particularly liked "Defiance" and even made my kids watch it.
How do you define success as a filmmaker, and what are your personal goals as a filmmaker?
To make movies that are honest and real and show the full range of human emotions and the human condition. To breakdown color barriers both in front of the screen and behind cameras so that hopefully one day people will not say someone was "unbelievable" in a film simply because of the color of the actor's skin.
What are your future projects?
I am still searching for this answer. My family and friends want me to direct a big studio action movie; my boyfriend wants me to make a musical; my investors have expressed interest in a childrens's movie; but I do not know…I still feel drawn to dark movies with endless human carnage…so maybe a drug movie!
This is part of a series of profiles and interviews that indieWIRE will be publishing in the days leading up to the 82nd Academy Awards that profiles various nominees. Previous editions include:
Oscars 2010 | "The Hurt Locker"'s Jeremy Renner: "What am I doing here?"
Oscars 2010 | "Precious"'s Gabby Sidibe: "People look at me and don't expect much. I expect a lot"
Oscars 2010 | Maggie Gyllenhaal: "I feel very vulnerable watching myself in this movie."
Oscars 2010 | "Basterds"'s Christoph Waltz: "Make a plan and then make another plan"
Oscars 2010 | "Air"'s Anna Kendrick: "I had to prove myself to everybody else."
Oscars 2010 | Carey Mulligan On Her "Education"
Oscars 2010 | "Food, Inc."'s Robert Kenner: "We aren't seeing the real costs of cheap food yet"
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Antony & Cleopatra return with hypnotic single, 'Why Don't You Just Call Me'
British/Australian electronic duo Alexander Burnett and Anita Blay (aka ANTONY & CLEOPATRA) are back to bless our ears with their new single 'Why Don't You Just Call Me'. Their silky smooth soulful sound brings a classic, yet modern taste to the electronic music scene and in typical Antony & Cleopatra fashion, their latest track is equally perfect, professional and eloquently simple house music that reels listeners in further and further with each listen.
Coming off the back of their debut EP Hurts Like Hell that was released last year, these prolific songwriters are no newcomers to the scene. Having collaborated with artists such as Motez, Jaded and Black Caviar, the pair have developed their groove-laden sound into something unique that can be enjoyed by fans both new and old.
The single sees the duo hone into their signature sound that is inspired by late 80's house and 70's disco, drawing you in through repetition, rhythm and subtle melodies that leaves you dancefloor ready. Typically finding inspiration in the heavy bass sounds of today, 'Why Don't You Just Call Me' somehow detaches itself from the usual house driven inspiration and instead turns to the 90's disco fever era, creating a new sound and motive that will leave you craving more.
Antony & Cleopatra have once again used their winning combo of hypnotic vocals and transfixed beats that take bits and pieces from different genres to create a forward-thinking approach to electronic music.
If you need any more convincing, the duo have also been gearing up to head on an Australian tour this May/June to perform a string of headline shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, alongside their support slot on the Running Touch tour.
Check out their tour dates below:
The Workers Club, Melbourne VIC
Rocket Bar & Rooftop, Adelaide SA
Oxford Art Factory, Sydney NSW
Get your tickets here.
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Words by EVIE WEILY
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Paromomycyna (Aminosidina, ang. Paromomycin) – organiczny związek chemiczny, antybiotyk aminoglikozydowy o działaniu bakteriobójczym oraz przeciwpasożytniczym.

Paromomycyna wykazuje działanie bakteriobójcze wobec bakterii Gram dodatnich i Gram-ujemnych. Działanie przeciwpasożytnicze wykazuje przeciwko Entamoeba histolytica, Taenia saginata, Taenia solium, Diphyllobothrium latum, Leishmania. Stosowana jest w leczeniu czerwonki pełzakowej i tasiemczycach. Ponadto znajduje zastosowanie w wyjaławianiu jelit przed zabiegami operacyjnymi oraz u chorych z encefalopatią wątrobową.

Antybiotyk ten tylko w nieznacznym stopniu wchłania się z przewodu pokarmowego, prawie całkowicie wydalany jest z kałem.

Działania niepożądane paromomycyny to niekiedy wysypka skórna, zaburzenia ze strony przewodu pokarmowego, ból oraz zawroty głowy, hematuria. Przeciwwskazany jest u chorych z nadwrażliwością na ten lek.

Bibliografia

Antybiotyki aminoglikozydowe
ATC-A07
Leki z listy leków podstawowych Światowej Organizacji Zdrowia

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When you think of editing, the sentence-level edit, or copyedit, is probably what comes to mind. And for good reason. At this stage, the editor, red pen in hand, is finally diving into the mechanics of the grammar and punctuation, and scrutinizing every aspect of the document to note inconsistencies, misspellings, formatting issues, and more. While the previous two stages of edit can help you form and refine your document from a higher level, the copyedit is where the real editing magic happens.
Copyediting requires the review of every aspect of the document, which can be daunting when you review and incorporate changes. The red pen scratches (or track changes) may seemingly over power the typewritten page, but it is important to remember that the editor's goal is to make you look good. Depending on the editor's style, they may provide revisions to sentences to improve the flow and grammar, they may provide explanations of changes in the margins to help you understand their approach, and they may ask questions or comments on specific changes or suggestions. Because the editor's goal is to make you look good, it is also our goal to make sure we do not change your voice, style, or intended meaning. Our edits should clarify what you have provided on the page, not make drastic alterations to the meaning and intention.
As the author, it can be tough to step back and really see your document – find those inconsistencies or grammar mistakes – so bringing in an editor at this stage can help lessen the burden of revising, editing, and finalizing. The copyeditor sees the document's nuts and bolts, understands the mechanics, and helps you make your document hum like a well-oiled machine.


Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.
And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey – it's the story.


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#34 The Linden MacIntyre Interview
"I don't have to be nice to them anymore."
Linden MacIntyre's early exit from the CBC is a giant Fuck You. To who?
Episode Rundown
0:30 Here's Linden MacIntyre's Wikipedia entry. (link) Here's the Supreme Court decision granting journalists more access to information, based on a case launched by MacIntyre (link).
2:50 MacIntyre is leaving the CBC to send a message. But who's the message for?
6:20 "I want to do one small thing really. I can do it, I won't starve to death, I'm going to do it. Because (young journalists) got something I don't have. I got all these years of experience, I've learned how to do stuff, but you got something I don't: potential. My potential is fully used"
6:56 MacIntyre's career: 38 years of CBC, 24 years of The Fifth Estate. 50 years in journalism.
8:20 Mulroney was kind of right to cut the CBC, says MacIntyre
8:45 "Avant Garde, vulgar, obscene programming and waste": What CBC bashing in Parliament sounded like in the 60s.
10:00 The press' relationship to power is adversarial by nature.
10:20 "You guys gotta do something like this": MacIntyre to the CBC Brass. How can Hubert Lacroix keep his job? "That's a good question".
13:30 Does the CBC's mandate really prevent them from getting out of TV? Or Sports? Or scripted shows?
15:17 "When I sit down and watch the news at 10, I'm not sitting down to find out what's happening because I already know what happened": what Lacroix once told MacIntyre. These words should have guided him.
16:05 Why don't we bring back The Journal, or something like it? Analysis and long-form journalism are what's needed and what the CBC can uniquely provide.
18:14 If people only knew how meager the resources are at CBC Radio. Tapestry is down to a host and a part-timer.
18:48 Jesse plugs this National Post piece on the two CBCs. (link)
19:36 MacIntrye talks about this interview on CJAD (link).
20:22 Why Linden MacIntyre wants to punch someone at SUN News TV
23:20 Max Ferguson (link).
25:17 Do ratings = success? "The legitimacy is the production and the delivery of it, and the quality of the product. Instead of the bizarre and unreliable approval of a number that comes out of a place I don't understand".
26:49 Was it Being Erica? Lasted 4 seasons. (link)
27:16 The Fifth Estate is "limping along" ratings-wise, but attracts a lot of second screen viewers.
28:30 The Globe and Mail on CBC English boss Heather Conway. Did Simon Houpt misquote/misinterpret her? (link)
CORRECTION: Linden MacIntyre and I both miss Heather Conway's distinction between "shiny-floor" (read:expensive) reality shows and "low-cost" reality shows. The mistake was ours, not Simon Houpt's.
29:13 MacIntrye talks about meeting Richard Stursberg's father in Ottawa, a recipient of the Order of Canada and a war reporter.
31:26 Jesse mentions Frank Magid and Associates, hustlers of "If it bleeds it leads" news. Heres a obituary of founder Frank Magid (link).
34:40 Why is it news that a 70-year old retired? Aren't 70-year old dudes supposed to? "Depends on the dude"
36:30 If "poor Peter Mansbridge" only makes 80K a year, you can have three Mansbridges for one MacIntyre.


Every day, even when I am really busy, I try to do a few rounds on a bag. I talk about them to everyone I know, whipping the current bag in progress out of my ever present knitting bag, stogged full of cotton (you know, in case I finish the bag I'm working on, and can cast on a new one ... the sign of one fully obsessed).
I've even been dreaming about them ... I wake up wondering if the strap should be modified to be ribbed, instead of garter, and if the people I dreamed I gave bags to would really like one in real life. I've been buying cotton like there is no tomorrow (and like I am able to whip up a bag in an hour or two ... which isn't likely - but I have enough yarn stockpiled now that if the yarn store closed for a few days, and my car was broken down too, I could get through without the possibility of having to stop knitting the Grrlfriend market bags until all was right in the knitting world).
I am trying to get a bunch of them done up for Christmas and Fall birthdays coming up in my circle of friends and family (and maybe try a few at a craft sale in the Fall)... but I like each of the ones I have made so much, that I am having trouble saving them until Christmas or Fall - they keep making their way into my purse to use at the store.
Details about these 2 are on my Ravelry project page.
(Edited to add - If you've been in my kitchen before, you'll probably be wondering about the chair ... and the floor. We just did a "kitchen transformation - new paint, new hardwood floor - birch - and new kitchen table set - pub style stools and high table. I am lovin' it!).
I need to do another cotton order cuz of you! LOL! Not that I'm complaining, but it's really picked over now.
Don't forget we have tax free on Friday and Saturday in case you need some more cotton, lol!
The sheer volume of your output is staggering.


text:
import sys
import unittest

from datetime import datetime
from libcloud.utils.iso8601 import UTC

from libcloud.utils.py3 import httplib
from libcloud.compute.drivers.gridscale import GridscaleNodeDriver
from libcloud.compute.base import NodeSize

from libcloud.test import LibcloudTestCase, MockHttp
from libcloud.test.file_fixtures import ComputeFileFixtures
from libcloud.test.secrets import GRIDSCALE_PARAMS

class Gridscale_Tests(LibcloudTestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        GridscaleNodeDriver.connectionCls.conn_class = GridscaleMockHttp
        GridscaleMockHttp.type = None
        self.driver = GridscaleNodeDriver(*GRIDSCALE_PARAMS)

    def test_create_node_success(self):
        image = self.driver.list_images()[0]
        size = NodeSize(id=0, name='test', bandwidth=0, price=0, ram=10240,
                        driver=self.driver, disk=50, extra={'cores': 2})
        location = self.driver.list_locations()[0]
        sshkey = ["b1682d3a-1869-4bdc-8ffe-e74a261d300c"]
        GridscaleMockHttp.type = 'POST'
        node = self.driver.create_node(name='test', size=size, image=image,
                                       location=location, ex_ssh_key_ids=sshkey)

        self.assertEqual(node.name, 'test.test')
        self.assertEqual(node.public_ips, ['185.102.95.236', '2a06:2380:0:1::211'])

    def test_create_image_success(self):
        node = self.driver.list_nodes()[0]
        GridscaleMockHttp.type = 'POST'
        image = self.driver.create_image(node, 'test.test')
        self.assertTrue(image)

    def test_list_nodes_success(self):
        nodes = self.driver.list_nodes()
        self.assertEqual(len(nodes), 1)
        self.assertEqual(nodes[0].name, 'test.test')
        self.assertEqual(nodes[0].public_ips, ['185.102.95.236', '2a06:2380:0:1::211'])
        self.assertEqual(nodes[0].extra['cores'], 2)
        self.assertEqual(nodes[0].extra['memory'], 10240)

    def test_list_locations_success(self):
        locations = self.driver.list_locations()
        self.assertTrue(len(locations) >= 1)

    def test_list_volumes(self):
        volumes = self.driver.list_volumes()
        self.assertEqual(len(volumes), 1)
        volume = volumes[0]
        self.assertEqual(volume.id, "e66bb753-4a03-4ee2-a069-a601f393c9ee")
        self.assertEqual(volume.name, "linux")
        self.assertEqual(volume.size, 50)
        self.assertEqual(volume.driver, self.driver)

    def test_list_images_success(self):
        images = self.driver.list_images()
        self.assertTrue(len(images) >= 1)

        image = images[0]
        self.assertTrue(image.id is not None)
        self.assertTrue(image.name is not None)

    def test_list_key_pairs(self):
        keys = self.driver.list_key_pairs()
        self.assertEqual(len(keys), 2)
        self.assertEqual(keys[0].name, 'karl')
        self.assertEqual(keys[0].public_key, "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC")

    def test_list_volume_snapshots(self):
        volume = self.driver.list_volumes()[0]
        snapshots = self.driver.list_volume_snapshots(volume)

        self.assertEqual(len(snapshots), 1)
        self.assertEqual(snapshots[0].id, "d755de62-4d75-4d61-addd-a5c9743a5deb")

    def test_list_volumes_empty(self):
        GridscaleMockHttp.type = 'EMPTY'
        volumes = self.driver.list_volumes()
        self.assertEqual(len(volumes), 0)

    def test_ex_list_networks(self):
        networks = self.driver.ex_list_networks()[0]
        self.assertEqual(networks.id, "1196529b-a8de-417f")

    def test_ex_list_ips(self):
        ip = self.driver.ex_list_ips()[0]
        self.assertEqual(ip.id, "56b8d161-325b-4fd4")

    def test_ex_destroy_ip(self):
        ip = self.driver.ex_list_ips()[0]

        GridscaleMockHttp.type = 'DELETE'
        self.assertTrue(self.driver.ex_destroy_ip(ip))

    def test_ex_destroy_network(self):
        network = self.driver.ex_list_networks()[0]

        GridscaleMockHttp.type = 'DELETE'
        self.assertTrue(self.driver.ex_destroy_network(network))

    def test_destroy_node_success(self):
        # Regular destroy
        node = self.driver.list_nodes()[0]
        GridscaleMockHttp.type = 'DELETE'

        res = self.driver.destroy_node(node)
        self.assertTrue(res)

        # Destroy associated resources
        res = self.driver.destroy_node(node, ex_destroy_associated_resources=True)
        self.assertTrue(res)

    def test_destroy_volume(self):
        volume = self.driver.list_volumes()[0]
        GridscaleMockHttp.type = 'DELETE'
        res = self.driver.destroy_volume(volume)
        self.assertTrue(res)

    def test_destroy_volume_snapshot(self):
        volume = self.driver.list_volumes()[0]
        snapshot = self.driver.list_volume_snapshots(volume)[0]
        GridscaleMockHttp.type = 'DELETE'
        res = self.driver.destroy_volume_snapshot(snapshot)
        self.assertTrue(res)

    def test_get_image_success(self):
        image = self.driver.get_image("12345")
        self.assertEqual(image.id, "12345")

    def test_list_nodes_fills_created_datetime(self):
        nodes = self.driver.list_nodes()
        self.assertEqual(nodes[0].created_at, datetime(2019, 6, 7, 12, 56, 44, tzinfo=UTC))

    def test_ex_list_volumes_for_node(self):
        node = self.driver.list_nodes()[0]
        volumes = self.driver.ex_list_volumes_for_node(node=node)
        self.assertEqual(len(volumes), 1)
        self.assertEqual(volumes[0].size, 50)

    def test_ex_list_ips_for_node(self):
        node = self.driver.list_nodes()[0]
        ips = self.driver.ex_list_ips_for_node(node=node)
        self.assertEqual(len(ips), 1)
        self.assertEqual(ips[0].ip_address, '185.102.95.236')

    def test_ex_rename_node(self):
        node = self.driver.list_nodes()[0]
        self.assertTrue(self.driver.ex_rename_node(node, name='new-name'))

    def test_ex_rename_volume(self):
        volume = self.driver.list_volumes()[0]
        self.assertTrue(self.driver.ex_rename_volume(volume, name='new-name'))

    def test_ex_network(self):
        network = self.driver.ex_list_networks()[0]
        self.assertTrue(self.driver.ex_rename_network(network, name='new-name'))

class GridscaleMockHttp(MockHttp):
    fixtures = ComputeFileFixtures('gridscale')

    def _objects_servers(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('list_nodes.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_locations(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('list_locations.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_storages(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('list_volumes.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_storages_DELETE(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # test_destroy_node_success
        body = self.fixtures.load('list_volumes.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_ips_DELETE(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # test_destroy_node_success
        body = self.fixtures.load('ex_list_ips.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_ips_56b8d161_325b_4fd4_DELETE(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # test_destroy_node_success
        return (httplib.NO_CONTENT, None, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.NO_CONTENT])

    def _objects_storages_EMPTY(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('list_volumes_empty.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_templates(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('list_images.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_sshkeys(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('list_key_pairs.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_storages_e66bb753_4a03_4ee2_a069_a601f393c9ee_snapshots(
        self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('list_volume_snapshots.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_servers_1479405e_d46c_47a2_91e8_eb43951c899f(
        self, method, url, body, headers):
        # test_ex_rename_node
        if method == 'PATCH':
            return (httplib.NO_CONTENT, None, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.NO_CONTENT])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_storages_e66bb753_4a03_4ee2_a069_a601f393c9ee(
        self, method, url, body, headers):
        # test_ex_rename_node
        if method == 'PATCH':
            return (httplib.NO_CONTENT, None, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.NO_CONTENT])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_networks_1196529b_a8de_417f(
        self, method, url, body, headers):
        # test_ex_rename_network
        if method == 'PATCH':
            return (httplib.NO_CONTENT, None, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.NO_CONTENT])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_servers_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # create_node
        if method == 'POST':
            body = self.fixtures.load('create_node.json')
            return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _requests_x123xx1x_123x_1x12_123x_123xxx123x1x_POST(self, method, url,
                                                            body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('create_node_response_dict.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_servers_690de890_13c0_4e76_8a01_e10ba8786e53_POST(self, method, url,
                                                            body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('create_node_dict.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    # create_volume
    def _objects_storages_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('create_volume.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_storages_690de890_13c0_4e76_8a01_e10ba8786e53_POST(self, method,
                                                                    url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('create_volume_response_dict.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_ips_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # ex_create_ip
        if method == 'POST':
            body = self.fixtures.load('create_ip.json')
            return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_ips_690de890_13c0_4e76_8a01_e10ba8786e53_POST(self, method, url,
                                                                body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('create_ip_response_dict.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_servers_1479405e_d46c_47a2_91e8_eb43951c899f_storages_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('volume_to_node.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_servers_1479405e_d46c_47a2_91e8_eb43951c899f_ips_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('ips_to_node.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_networks_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('create_network.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_networks_1196529b_a8de_417f_DELETE(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # test_ex_destroy_network
        if method == 'DELETE':
            return (httplib.NO_CONTENT, None, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.NO_CONTENT])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_servers_1479405e_d46c_47a2_91e8_eb43951c899f_networks_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('network_to_node.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_servers_1479405e_d46c_47a2_91e8_eb43951c899f_power_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        if method == 'PATCH':
            body = self.fixtures.load('ex_start_node.json')
            return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_servers_1479405e_d46c_47a2_91e8_eb43951c899f_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        body = self.fixtures.load('create_node_dict.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_networks(self, method, url, body, headers):
        if method == 'GET':
            body = self.fixtures.load('ex_list_networks.json')
            return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_ips(self, method, url, body, headers):
        if method == 'GET':
            body = self.fixtures.load('ex_list_ips.json')
            return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_servers_1479405e_d46c_47a2_91e8_eb43951c899f_DELETE(self, method, url, body, headers):
        if method == 'DELETE':
            return (httplib.NO_CONTENT, None, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.NO_CONTENT])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_storages_e66bb753_4a03_4ee2_a069_a601f393c9ee_DELETE(self, method, url, body, headers):
        if method == 'DELETE':
            return (httplib.NO_CONTENT, None, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.NO_CONTENT])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_storages_e66bb753_4a03_4ee2_a069_a601f393c9ee_snapshots_d755de62_4d75_4d61_addd_a5c9743a5deb_DELETE(self, method, url, body, headers):
        if method == 'DELETE':
            return (httplib.NO_CONTENT, None, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.NO_CONTENT])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_templates_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # create_image
        if method == 'POST':
            body = self.fixtures.load('create_image.json')
            return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_storages_e66bb753_4a03_4ee2_a069_a601f393c9ee_snapshots_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # create_image
        if method == 'POST':
            body = self.fixtures.load('create_image.json')
            return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_storages_e66bb753_4a03_4ee2_a069_a601f393c9ee_snapshots_690de890_13c0_4e76_8a01_e10ba8786e53_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # create_image
        body = self.fixtures.load('create_image_dict.json')
        return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])

    def _objects_templates_690de890_13c0_4e76_8a01_e10ba8786e53_POST(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # create_image
        if method == 'GET':
            body = self.fixtures.load('create_image_dict.json')
            return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

    def _objects_templates_12345(self, method, url, body, headers):
        # get_image
        if method == 'GET':
            body = self.fixtures.load('get_image.json')
            return (httplib.OK, body, {}, httplib.responses[httplib.OK])
        else:  # pragma: no cover
            raise ValueError('Invalid method')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    sys.exit(unittest.main())

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Holiday parks in West Sussex in South East England
Best of British Holiday Parks in West Sussex
There are plenty of hidden gems to discover during a break to one of our West Sussex holiday parks. Whether you are staying in a caravan, motorhome or camping in West Sussex, the county has lots of pretty villages and historic towns to visit. Closer to the sea there are miles of stunning coastline and beaches to explore.
The old Roman town of Chichester has loads of attractions and things to do – Chichester Festival Theatre is one of the UK's flagship theatres with an international reputation for producing work of the highest quality.
Uppark House and Gardens is a tranquil and intimate 18th-century house. Perched on its vantage point high on the South Downs ridge, Uppark commands views as far south as the English Channel. Outside, the intimate gardens are being gradually restored to their original 18th-century design, with plenty of space in the adjacent meadow to play and relax with a picnic. The nearby woodland is great for exploring and den-building.
For those seeking a faster pace of life there is the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed - a hill climb featuring historic motor racing vehicles held in the grounds of Goodwood House every June. If you miss that one though in September the Goodwood Revival takes place.
Bognor Regis famous as a traditional seaside town - the beach front is packed with amusements and family entertainments to keep everyone occupied for a day out here.
Celebrities that you may spot when out and about in West Sussex include Nicholas Lyndhurst who was Rodney from only fools and horses, The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards has had a home in West Wittering since the 1960s, plus grumpy comedian Jack Dee lives in Chichester.
The South Down National Park occupies a large area of the county which enables vistors to get out and explore the many trails by foot, bike or horse back. Alternatively you can simply enjoy touring the largely unspoilt, rural landscape and picture-postcard pretty villages near our holiday parks in West Sussex.
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