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Eric Cuthbertson Named General Manager at EagleBank Arena
Cuthbertson boasts more than 20 years of experience in private management handling multiple disciplines such as municipally-owned facilities, live tours, concerts, and sporting events
Monumental Sports & Entertainment has announced the hiring of Eric Cuthbertson as general manager at EagleBank Arena on the campus of George Mason University, effective January 6, 2020.
Cuthbertson spent the last 10 years in Shanghai, China, as a Vice President of Operations at AEG before joining Sodexo China as a senior consultant in January of 2019. While with AEG, Cuthbertson was responsible for overall operations and event planning, training, personnel recruitment and documentation of international arena industry best practices manuals/SOP for the venues in the AEG China network, including Mercedes-Benz Arena, Dalian Arena and Cadillac Arena
Cuthbertson will replace Barry Geisler, longtime EagleBank Arena general manager, who will officially retire at the end of December.
"I am humbled and honored to be joining the incredible team at EagleBank Arena. I have known and worked with Barry Geisler for over 20 years. Barry and the EagleBank Arena management staff have developed a tremendous reputation for being promoter-friendly and an ideal concert and family show venue in the region," Cuthbertson said. "We will strive to maintain that reputation for venue management excellence while exceeding the expectations of the University and event promoters."
A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Cuthbertson worked domestically with AEG, Feld Entertainment, Global Spectrum and started his professional career with Ogden Entertainment. While at Feld, he was based in Vienna, Va., as the Director of North American Tours including Ringling Bros and Disney on Ice. Cuthbertson also previously served as general manager for Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, NJ while at Global Spectrum.
"Eric has had great success in a variety of roles both in the U.S. and China and that wealth of experience will pay dividends as general manager of EagleBank Arena," David Touhey, President of Venues at Monumental Sports & Entertainment, said. "EagleBank Arena is consistently ranked among the top University venues in the nation with a terrific rapport with promoters and we are confident Eric will help us continue to build on that distinction."
EagleBank Arena is a 10,000-seat arena on the campus of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Opened in 1985 and previously known as the Patriot Center, EagleBank Arena is operated by Monumental Sports & Entertainment.


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Home Scoops & Analysis LP Skepticism Over Buyout Firm IPOs
LP Skepticism Over Buyout Firm IPOs
Dan Primack
Private equity firms going public will eventually be viewed like investment banks going public (maybe even with similar P/E ratios), but some of their investors aren't quite ready to make the leap. The newest skeptic is the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), which had nearly $11 billion in private equity assets through the end of May.
Christopher Ailman, chief investment officer for CalSTRS, told The Financial Times that alignment of interest between GPs and LPs could weaken as the former begins paying more attention to short-term stock performance than to long-term portfolio value. Not only could this mean hasty exits, but perhaps additional diversification into non-core business segments like M&A advisory, consulting and fund placement work.
"It is a radical departure," Ailman said. .A different business model and, given the choice, I think [buy-out funds] operate better as private partnerships. This creates a distraction and a potential risk."
He added that firms like Blackstone and KKR are probably large enough to manage the conflict, but said that he had warned some of its GPs not to list. He didn't give specifics, but CalSTRS is invested in funds from both Blackstone and KKR. It also is in other public possibilities like Apollo Management, Carlyle Group, Oaktree Capital and TPG (see full portfolio: CalSTRS1.pdf).
It's worth noting that Blackstone tried to partially manage this conflict in its public offering, by declining to provide quarterly earnings guidance. But that's really just kicking the can down the road a bit, and it's possible that more selective LPs – CalSTRS is not really one, given its large amount of allocation dollars – will shun listed firms for private ones (which most of them will remain).
Still, no need to worry for Blackstone. Any cash it loses from traditional LPs it can make up from new overseas capital, or those suckers in the public market.

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Bryce Harper so upset he flied out, he doesn't realize he's homered
WASHINGTON -- Wrigley Field is historic for many reasons. Just one of those is its famous winds, which have the tendency to make baseballs do unexpected things when hit high enough into the air. Notably, Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper was asked about those winds heading into the club's current series with the Cubs on Chicago's north side. His response was so very Bryce Harper.
A Cubs reporter asked Bryce Harper if he's checked the flags to see what the wind's doing. "I don't need wind," he replied.
— Dan Kolko (@masnKolko) May 25, 2015
In general, Harper is probably correct in his assessment. He entered Tuesday evening leading the National League in home runs, with nine of those traveling 400 feet or more. And then this happened.
Yes, that ball landed in the third row above the baskets. Yes, Harper flung his bat aside in disgust after hitting it, thinking it was a can of corn to left field. Yes, he and the rest of those unfamiliar with Wrigley's ways uttered "wow" after he crossed home plate. Now he knows. Hopefully, he won't rub it in to Ryan Zimmerman.
FBI investigating St. Louis Cardinals for hacking Houston Astros
WASHINGTON -- The St. Louis Cardinals are under investigation by the FBI for hacking the Houston Astros, according to a report from The New York Times Tuesday.
Investigators uncovered evidence that Cardinals officials digitally accessed an Astros database including internal discussions on potential trades, proprietary statistics and scouting reports. Subpoenas have been served on the Cardinals and Major League Baseball, per the Times.
Jeff Luhnow, the Astros general manager, had formerly worked for the Cardinals before assuming his current post in 2011.
Luhnow's computer network called Ground Control was hacked last year with certain documents revealed on Deadspin. After that cyber attack, MLB notified the FBI to investigate. The bureau found that the Astros' network had been accessed by a home computer at a residence where Cardinals officials lived.
Paul Pierce goes dunking with Jimmy Kimmel
WASHINGTON -- Paul Pierce seems to be enjoying the offseason.
The Wizards swingman and 10-time NBA All-Star appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to play Sink it or Swim, a mano y mano competition where making a basket while seating on a dunk tank platform sinks one's opponent, who is in the same precarious position.
"You might win, I haven't taken a shot in three weeks," said Pierce right before they began.
They layoff didn't seem to affect him, as he nearly drained the first shot before getting the second one to go, sending a shirt-and-tie clad Kimmel into the tank.
And Pierce almost got away with it splash free. Kimmel fires up a couple more after getting dunked, eventually seeming content conceding. But as he's kicking to the break, Kimmel heaves up one last shot, knocking it down and sending Pierce into the frigid water.
Happy offseason, everyone.
Doug Fister loses game, but saves wedding ring
WASHINGTON -- The Nationals lost the battle Thursday night, dropping a 5-3 decision to the Tampa Bay Rays, but Doug Fister won the war.
After a nasty changeup for a strikeout to end the first inning, Fister started off the mound toward the dugout, then stopped, realizing that he had left something behind. Somehow, during his delivery, Fister's wedding ring fell off his glove hand and dropped onto the mound behind him.
Fister picked the ring up like a pro, slipped it back on and resumed his walk to the dugout. While he eventually took the loss, he no doubt saved himself a lot more grief with his quick find on the mound.
Josh Donaldson just made the catch of the year
WASHINGTON -- Shut it down. No more entries are needed. Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson just made the catch of the year.
In the bottom of the eighth inning of Marco Estrada's perfect game bid, in a scoreless tie, on a 3-2 pitch, David DeJesus skied a foul ball down the third base line, a few rows out of play. Or, at least, it should have been out of play.
That's when Donaldson went into a headlong dive, with no regard for his (or anyone else's) safety, risking life and limb to make one of the best catches your eyes will ever see. And while the perfect game was lost on the next batter, this catch will be the enduring image that will live in highlight reels for years to come.
Mets, Phillies fans worst writers in MLB
WASHINGTON -- It's been a good week for the Nationals and a bad one for the Mets. In addition to grabbing the NL East division lead away, Washington fans can now also claim to be far more proficient writers than their New York counterparts, a fact that they will no doubt find unsurprising.
In a recent Grammarly study, Mets supporters came in dead last among MLB fans in terms of grammar mistakes made on team comment boards. Only adding to Nats fans' joy, Phillies fans were close on their heels. Those two fan bases were the only ones to average more than 13 mistakes per 100 words.
Conversely, Nationals fans rated the 10th-best in the league, clocking in under six errors per 100 words. That's good enough to lead the NL East off the field as well, with Miami (16th, 7.0) and Atlanta (22nd, 10.2) well back in the field. This is especially impressive, considering that Redskins fans rated the worst in the NFL according to a similar study conducted in April.
Cleveland Indians fans displayed the cleanest use of the English language, making only 3.6 errors per 100 words. For the full study, see Grammarly.com.
Conor Doyle's rocket leads D.C. United past Chicago
WASHINGTON -- Road wins are road wins in MLS, and any time you can get out of another city with three points it's a good night. So while Eastern Conference leaders D.C. United may have been hoping for a win against the last place Chicago Fire, they were only in position for a scoreless draw as the game began to wear thin Wednesday night.
That's when, in the 73rd minute, Conor Doyle collected a rebound of a blocked shot several yards outside the box and unleashed an absolute rocket past disbelieving Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson for the lone strike of the game.
The win gave United 34 points through 19 matches, putting them a full 10 points clear of second place New England as they begin a five-game road swing that will culminate July 18 in Dallas.
Mets rookie's grandfather is the best baseball fan
Rookie Mets pitcher Steven Matz made his Major League debut on Sunday, where he got off to an inauspicious start by surrendering a home run to the very first batter he faced. But he settled in after that, and delivered an historic day at the plate, collecting three hits and four RBI to lead New York to a 7-2 victory and doubleheader sweep over the Cincinnati Reds.
Matz doubled home a pair to give the Mets a 2-1 lead in his first-at bat, then singled through the open hole at shortstop on a hit-and-run his second time up. But it was his third hit, a two-run, bases-loaded single over a drawn-in Brandon Phillips at second base, that sent his grandfather into a state of pure joy and disbelief.
(GIF from Amazin' Avenue/SB Nation)
Sitting with other family members in a box watching his grandson make his debut, Grandpa Matz couldn't believe his eyes. For a family from Suffolk County on Long Island chalk full of Mets fans, it was simply too much for the patriarch to handle. And it gave us one of the best sporting moments of 2015 so far.
Two huge crashes force suspension of Tour de France
WASHINGTON -- The world's premiere cycling event, Le Tour de France, kicked off this weekend. But on Monday, Stage 3 grinded to a halt after a pair of horrific crashes involving dozens of riders prompted race officials to suspend the race for 18 minutes to allow the crashed riders to recover.
Included in the second crash was the wearer of the yellow jersey, race leader Fabian Cancellara. At least four riders were forced to abandon the race as a result of their injuries, according got Sky Sports.
The crash was particularly gruesome due to the speed of the tightly packed crew of riders. According to data from the Tour, the average speed during the fall was over 42 kilometers per hour, or better than 26 miles per hour.
It's a tarp!
WASHINGTON -- Tarp-pulling can be dangerous business.
Sure, we like to boo the grounds crew, in their matching uniforms, as they job out to cover the field, signaling an impending weather delay. But when strong winds rip through, it takes a team effort to keep the tarp flat on the field, doing its job. In Pittsburgh Tuesday night, it took actual members of the Pirates to make it so.
Players are used to pulling tarp, as it's standard in both high school and college for them to do it themselves. That doesn't make the impulse of Andrew McCutchen, Sean Rodriguez and teammates any less impressive, coming to the rescue of the poor grounds crew member swallowed whole by the rolling tarp.
Sports Illustrated honors USWNT with cover for each player
WASHINGTON -- It was tough to choose just one player to represent the U.S. Women's National Team's World Cup victory. So Sports Illustrated didn't choose. Instead, they gave each member of the team her own cover.
@SInow
A historic cover for a historic team. SI's 25 covers honoring @ussoccer_wnt's World Cup champs http://t.co/VbLjDneU1h http://t.co/gaN6Fy2TX2
To see a slideshow of each cover and see a behind-the-scenes video of the photo shoot, visit si.com.
Maryland men's basketball announces 2015-16 non-conference schedule
WASHINGTON -- The Maryland men's basketball team announced its 2015-16 non-conference schedule today. Maryland begins competition with an exhibition on Nov. 6 versus Southern New Hampshire.
The Terps will officially open the 2015-16 campaign on Nov. 13 at XFINITY Center against Mount Saint Mary��s.
The Terps then welcome Georgetown to College Park for the first time in 42 years as part of the inaugural Gavitt Games on Nov. 17.
An old rivalry will be renewed Dec. 1 as Maryland makes the trek to Chapel Hill to take on North Carolina in the ACC/B1G Challenge. Maryland is tied for the second-most wins all-time in the Challenge, collecting 10 victories since its inception in 1999. Maryland and North Carolina will meet for the 180th time in school history in a series that dates back to 1924.
Maryland wraps up its non-conference schedule with a home contest versus Marshall Dec. 27.
2015-16 Non-Conference Schedule
Fri., Nov. 6 Southern New Hampshire (Exhibition)
Fri., Nov. 13 Mount Saint Mary's
Tue., Nov. 17 Georgetown
Fri., Nov. 20 Rider
Tue., Nov. 24 vs. Illinois State (Cancun Classic)
Wed., Nov. 25 vs. Rhode Island/TCU (Cancun Classic)
Sat., Nov. 28 Cleveland State
Tue., Dec. 1 at North Carolina (Big Ten/ACC Challenge)
Fri., Dec. 4 St. Francis (PA)
Tue., Dec. 8 vs. UConn (Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden - NYC)
Sat., Dec. 12 Maryland-Eastern Shore
Sat., Dec. 19 Princeton (at Royal Farms Arena - Baltimore)
Sun., Dec. 27 Marshall
Indiana Pacers to wear 'Hoosiers' themed jerseys
WASHINGTON -- Basketball is life in Indiana. That's true to such an extent that it's hard to imagine a professional team in any other state wearing a special theme jersey with a high school basketball team's colors, much less a fictional one.
But that's exactly what the Indiana Pacers will do for select games in the 2015-16 NBA season, as they rock red and gold Hickory jerseys, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the release of the movie Hoosiers.
@Pacers
#HickoryPacers jerseys will be worn for select games starting in the 15-16 season: http://t.co/8M7DjI3iy8 http://t.co/NEK0ymoIcC
Now, if only the Pacers can actually make a spirited, miracle run through the Eastern Conference Playoffs…
Nationals unveil team-specific emojis
WASHINGTON -- While their National League rival Los Angeles Dodgers were busy adding strength to their starting rotation and bench -- and possibly setting themselves up for even bigger deals -- the Washington Nationals unveiled a set of roughly 10 team-specific emojis on Wednesday.
An early look at the emojis, via the Nationals and The Washington Post.
As Dan Steinberg of The Washington Post first reported, the club will reveal the emojis over their social media accounts. Generic images include versions of the Curly W logo, while others include Racing President Teddy Roosevelt, Bryce Harper, Max Scherzer, and the chocolate syrup bottle that has become a part of the team's postgame celebrations this season.
The Nationals are not the first MLB team to create their own emoji set, as the New York Yankees have had theirs available for download since the beginning of the season.
As of press time, the four horsemen of the apocalypse had not yet appeared in the skies above Washington.
Motor vehicles destroy bike race
WASHINGTON -- When watching major bike races like Le Tour de France, it's always impressive how the motorbikes and team cars are able to weave through the packs of cyclists without disturbing the race, much less making contact with the riders. With all the narrow roads along with the steep ascents and declines, it's a wonder they aren't constantly colliding.
Well, welcome to the Tour of Utah this weekend. On a sharp descent into a hairpin left-hand turn, everything goes horribly wrong.
Irish rider Matt Brammeier is the unfortunate soul who T-bones the team car at the 0:21 mark. And as brutal as the collision is, it may have kept him from careening straight off the mountain. But the absurdity is just getting started.
With Brammeier down in the road on the back half of the turn, the team cars slow to avoid him as onlookers rush to help. Then there are the motorbikes, particularly the one with the rider rocking the orange vest. Stopping in the middle of the turn to gawk at the scene, he takes out not one, but TWO other riders simultaneously, glances at the wreckage he's wreaked, then just moseys his way on down the mountain.
His fellow rider ambles through the scene afterward, clipping a fallen rider's water bottle and firing it back into his broken body, adding literal insult to injury. Good try, guys, good effort.
While he was hospitalized with multiple fractures, Brammeier is listed in stable condition and may avoid surgery altogether.
All good in the hood guys. Thanks for the messages. pic.twitter.com/SGB8NEssCF
— Matt Brammeier (@Mattbrammeier85) August 9, 2015
h/t Deadspin.
Golfer, caddie murdered by kraken in new GEICO ad
WASHINGTON -- Is it just us, or are GEICO ads getting awful dark these days?
Just in time for the PGA Championship comes a new spot, in which a giant squid inexplicably emerges from a lake on the course and grabs hold of a golfer and his caddy, sending terrified spectators fleeing for their lives. Meanwhile, the monster uses other tentacles to wreak havoc on a television tower as it decides, presumably, the order in which to eat its prey.
It's all a bit morbid, especially for a supposedly comedic ad, in which the punchline (as it were) is that the golf announcers remain in a heartless whisper despite the murderous destruction going on around them.
But hey, anything to lighten it up on HUMP DAY, amirite GEICO?
Minor leaguer places trash can lid on head, ends up saving his own neck
WASHINGTON -- File this under things-you-could-try-again-a-thousand-times-and-never-repeat.
During Wednesday night's minor league game between the El Paso Chihuahuas and the Las Vegas 51s, Chihuahuas second baseman Ramiro Pena lined a foul ball into the Las Vegas dugout, sending a plastic trashcan spilling down the steps and dislodging the lid.
51s catcher Johnny Monell, after scrambling out of the way, grabbed both the can and the lid, using the latter as a makeshift helmet as he had himself a laugh. But as it turned out, that helmet would get some immediate use.
Pena pulled the very next pitch foul again into the dugout, striking Monell in his makeshift helmet. The catcher celebrated his stroke of ingenuitive genius with his teammates before restoring it to its rightful place.
Catchers, man.
New Madden NFL 16 ad is five minutes of hot, flaming nonsense
WASHINGTON -- What?
Madden NFL 16 | Madden: The Movie
by EASPORTS via YouTube
The one thing we can say about this is that it sure is something. Don't expect any actual football from it, unless you consider whatever Rob Gronkowski is doing to be football.
If there was any way to distill this to the entertainment value of Julio Jones (excuse me -- Trick Montalban) continuously karate chopping a goon for 20 seconds while breaking the fourth wall into the entire thing, maybe we'd have something here.
Impossible to un-watch, indeed.
Dan Snyder, Joe Theismann surprise Washington couple vacationing
in Greece with gifts
Joe Theismann (center) with newly-engaged couple Zach Gordon and Stacy Kaufman in Greece over Labor Day weekend. (Courtesy of Stacy Kaufman)
WASHINGTON --Everyone sing along with me: "It's a small world after all…"
A local couple, Stacy Kaufman (who works in the WTOP Sales Department) and her fiancée Zach Gordon, were vacationing in Greece over Labor Day weekend. After getting engaged on the second to last night of their trip they decided to dine at Selene, a restaurant in Santorini. As they were enjoying their meal, they noticed Redskins owner Dan Snyder and his wife Tanya, along with former Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, his wife and others sitting at a table next to them.
Waiting for the right moment, Zach approached Theismann once he got up from the table, explained that they were from Washington, and asked if he would take a picture with them.
Theismann agreed, and once the couple told the Redskins contingent that they were from the area and had just gotten engaged the night before, the group started talking and spent a good amount of time together. Upon leaving Tanya Snyder asked for a business card and for shirt sizes of the couple.
After returning to Washington, Zach received a big package delivered to his office. He took it home and opened it with Stacy. Inside was a large amount of Redskins gear and a note from the Snyders congratulating them on their engagement.
All that is fine and good, but we have another question: What were the Snyders and Joe Theismann doing vacationing in Greece together?
The contents of the package. (Courtesy of Stacy Kaufman)
Taylor Swift has cursed Major League Baseball
Surely baseball fans would never believe in curses, right? (AP Photo/John G. Mabanglo)
WASHINGTON -- Taylor Swift is popular enough that the most logical venues for her shows are the largest ones available. Those tend to be sports stadiums, so the fact that her summer tour in support of her 1989 album included a number of Major League Baseball parks was no surprise.
But some believe the tour has cast a dark pall over the sport. As ESPNW reported, when Tay Tay visits your ballpark, something wicked this way comes.
Two nights after Swift's second of two concerts at Nationals Park this summer, a bank of lights went out. The Nats had a 2-game NL East lead at the time, coming out of the All-Star break. They have gone just 32-39 since, tumbling out of playoff contention as they were eliminated over the weekend.
When the Houston Astros unexpectedly charged out to first place in the AL West, they moved Swift's tour date at Minute Maid Park from October 13 to September 9 to avoid any potential conflict with a home playoff game. When Swift played her show, the Astros held a two-game lead in the division. But they have gone just 8-11 since, clinging by a half-game to the final Wild Card spot as of Thursday.
The last time Houston collapsed with a great chance of making the postseason? Oh. Oh no.
Zachary Levine
@zacharylevine
The last time the Astros were 10+ games over .500 at the halfway point and still missed the playoffs was...
Please don't...
As baseball fans are (begin sarcasm font) entirely reasonable people who would never believe in silly things like superstitions (end sarcasm font), surely there is no connection to be drawn between the two. Right?
Swift performs at Rogers Centre in Toronto this weekend, home of the Blue Jays. GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN, TORONTO!
Breaking Madden has RG3 destroy Washington
WASHINGTON -- For those unfamiliar with it, Breaking Madden is a web series produced for SB Nation by Jon Bois. Over the past few years, Bois has taken a number of different scenarios into the game to expose its programming flaws and attempt to deliver entertaining results. This week, he exacted Robert Griffin III's revenge on Washington.
If you are a Washington football fan, you will either find it hilarious or infuriating, depending on your perspective. Either way, you will probably laugh at the Kirk Cousisn GIF.
Whether you are familiar with Breaking Madden or not, you should read the entire setup to fully understand what is happening.
Texas Governor drops massive jinx on both state baseball teams
WASHINGTON -- Don't try telling Astros and Rangers fans that sports jinxes aren't real.
At 3:02 p.m. local time in Texas, Governor Greg Abbott dropped the kind of massive tweet jinx usually reserved for Washington Nationals beat writers. Not only did he prematurely call out a result that was still six outs from being final, with Houston leading Kansas City 6-2 in the top of the eighth, he called out the Rangers, only leading 2-1 in their best-of-five series, about to start Game 4.
Mike Gianella
@MikeGianella
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4:55 PM - 12 Oct 2015
The Astros immediately surrendered four runs before recording an out, allowing five in all in a disastrous eighth inning. The Royals tacked on two more in the ninth to swipe a 9-6 win and push the series back to Kansas City for Game 5.
Meanwhile, Rangers starting pitcher Derek Holland was tattooed for three home runs his first time through the Toronto Blue Jays' lineup, eventually leaving after two innings of work with six earned runs on his ledger. The Blue Jays had a 7-1 lead through three innings.
Abbott tried to enact some damage control, but the baseball gods cared little for the effort.
ESPN ranks Redskins third-worst professional sports franchise
Dan Snyder's team was the lowest-ranked in the NFL. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
WASHINGTON -- ESPN released its annual Ultimate Standings Tuesday, ranking all big four professional North American sports franchises based on a combination of competitiveness, management and fan experience. The Washington Redskins ranked 120th of the 122 teams, and dead last in the NFL.
The FedEx Field stadium experience was the worst individual ranking, coming in at 119. The highest rank was for the team's title track, tied for 68th. Overall, the team dropped 11 spots from last year's rankings.
Of the other D.C. sports teams, the Washington Nationals ranked highest (41), followed by the Capitals (55) and Wizards (63).
by WTOP Sports 12/7/2015 1:43:35 AM
The NFC East: Where you're always still in it
WASHINGTON -- A Monday Night Football matchup between a 3-8 team and a 5-6 one doesn't sound like one worth watching, much less one with major playoff implications. But here we are. As Dallas and Washington prepare to battle at FedEx Field, the NFC East is still entirely up in the air, thanks to division-wide mediocrity.
That was the subject of this Rob Riggle faux ad over the weekend.
Dr. Rob Riggle diagnoses the NFC East with his Week 13 Picks!
This isn't the first time Riggle has spoofed the awfulness of the division. In case you missed it, he joined with Ken Jeong earlier in the season for this Adele-themed duet.
Ken Jeong and Rob Riggle parody 'Hello' by Adele | FOX NFL Sunday
by FoxSports via YouTube
Woo-hoo! Race for the playoffs!
Bryce Harper's new Gatorade ad is…an ad
WASHINGTON -- Remember Bryce Harper's Gatorade ad last year? The EXTREME, "Welcome to the Jungle" scored, in-your-face, home run-launched baseball morphing into Harper's screaming face as it flies out of the ballpark nightmare fuel?
His new Gatorade spot is perhaps the exact opposite.
Alright, then. Go team.
Caps celebrate holidays 'A Christmas Story' style
WASHINGTON -- The Washington Capitals are wishing you a Happy Holidays by appearing in roles of the classic film "A Christmas Story." Behold.
We think Ovi looks more like a technicolor Donnie Darko, but "deranged Easter Bunny" works too. But hey -- 44 points in 29 games earns you plenty of holiday video leeway.
Steelers fans thank Bills for helping team into playoffs
WASHINGTON -- The Pittsburgh Steelers entered Sunday in a tough spot, needing both a win over Cleveland and a New York Jets loss to the Buffalo Bills to sneak into the playoffs. Pittsburgh took care of the Browns, and the Bills upset the Jets, thwarting New York's comeback attempt with a trio of fourth-quarter interceptions.
As thanks for the aid into the postseason, a special thank you package showed up in Buffalo Tuesday morning.
@buffalobills
Special delivery from the heart of @steelers country. Thanks @primantibros! We can't wait to dig in. ???? https://t.co/b584Ox10fW
The enemy of my enemy is the guy I buy sandwiches for. That's how that saying goes, right?
Bernie Sanders moves to right wing, relies on banks for success
WASHINGTON -- As he waited for results to come in from the New Hampshire Primary Tuesday night, America's grandfather and Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders moved to the right wing and repeatedly used banks to lift himself to success on camera. Just look at this.
Megyn Kelly Impressed with Bernie Sanders' Basketball Skills
Now that's a political machine if I've ever seen one. Squaring up to the basket from the low block, Sanders hits shot after shot, reducing his sons to shagging for him. That's truly change we can believe in. No, really -- give your dad his change.
Vanderbilt player defies physics, fires 70-foot chest pass into basket
WASHINGTON -- We've seen some low percentage, long-distance shots go in at various levels of basketball this year. While each one is a prayer, most at least have some arc, following a trajectory that, in theory, could possibly lead to a made basket.
Then you have this.
Vandy's Henderson surprised by his own 80-foot shot
Did you stay and watch all five replays? You should have.
Vanderbilt center Josh Henderson watches a teammate block a potential game-tying layup seconds before the first-half buzzer, corrals the rebound at the opposite free throw line and just fires a 70-foot rocket to the other end of the court. In no rational universe does this "shot" go in. Its very existence seems merely for show, a living testament that one should always play out any opportunity for points until the final buzzer.
And then it goes in. Vanderbilt, clinging to fading NCAA Tournament hopes, went up by five heading into the locker room en route to a much-needed 13-point road victory. Take that, rational universe.


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Barkell adds UV coil disinfection
UK: Air handling unit manufacturer Barkell has announced the launch of LightGuard, a UV coil cleaning solution.
LightGuard uses UV-C radiation at a wavelength of 264nm, invisible to the human eye but said to be extremely effective at disinfection. UV-C can inactivate microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses and fungi by preventing them from infecting and replicating.
The UV-C lamps used by LightGuard are installed downstream of the cooling coil and use a photon concentrator which focuses up to 95% of the UV energy produced onto the coil.
UV-C is claimed to be effective against many types of bacteria (eg listeria, tuberculosis, MRSA, e-coli, legionella), fungi (eg yeast, mould) and viruses (adenoviruses, influenza, norovirus and coronavirus).
Installation is said to be simple and the lamps are low energy, requiring replacement only once a year. Markell says it can be fitted in just about any new or existing air handling unit.
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A combustive mix of glam rock riffs, power pop melodies, and lots of punk energy, Cheap Time are the brainchild of Jeffrey Novak, a Tennessee native who began playing in punk bands in his teens. His groups include Jeffrey Novak's One Man Band and the ultra-raw Rat Traps; when the Rat Traps retired in 2006, Novak formed Cheap Time with Be Your Own Pet's Jemina Pearl on bass and Nathan Vasquez on drums.
This version of the band was heavily influenced by the Runaways and early Redd Kross, and released its debut 7" on Sweet Rot in 2007. Pearl and Vasquez left the band to concentrate on Be Your Own Pet, and were replaced by bassist Stephen and drummer Jon.
The band's sound also shifted: Novak took some songs inspired by glam and power pop acts like the Quick, Sparks, and Milk 'N' Cookies – which were intended for another project, the Peoploids – and turned them into Cheap Time songs.
Early in 2008, the revamped Cheap Time issued another 7" on Douche Master in advance of their self-titled full-length on In the Red, which arrived that spring.
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For the past few weeks I've been hunting for a soft phone with specific wideband voice capabilities. I've found a couple but there arises complications.
Wideband-capable hard phones usually support G.722, G.722.1 or G.722.2 (aka AMR-WB) codecs. There are other codecs out there that support wideband voice coding. Speex is the one most often cited. However, Speex support in hardware is extremely limited. So Speex implemented in a soft phone is not going to help me evaluate interoperability with hard phones.
Early in August Polycom released their G.722.1 (Siren7) codec under a royalty free license. This is part of their effort to promote the use of wideband voice. The press release detailing this move is here.
I am a big fan of pushing wideband codecs. We hope to get FWD communicator a wideband codec upgrade this Fall.
As a side note, our experience has been somewhat disappointing regarding audio quality of at least our Grandstream phones supporting G.722. It appears the quality is limited by the entire audio design (in particular, microphone and speaker in handset). The audio quality is only as good as the weakest link.
That FWD will be extending its soft phone to facilitate wideband voice is great news.
His comment about the hard phones also make perfect sense. I've only once tried a Grandstream phone, and it was the ubber-cheap BudgeTone BT-101. At the time decent hard phones were in the $200+ range, even so the availability of a phone under $80 was unusual. However, as usual, you get what you pay for. My impression was that the BT series was fine to toying around with VoIP but just too shoddy to actually rely upon.
A draft of my recent review of the Polycom SoundPoint IP550 and IP650 included images comparing the IP650 and the older IP600 in side profile. These images were dropped in the final edit.
Here you can clearly see that substantial changes have been made to the portion of the chassis that houses the speakerphone. The cavity in which it resides has been enhanced to ensure it can handle the improved frequency response of the wideband codecs. The transducers themselves (speakers & microphones) have been improved as well although this not visibly apparent.
To be sure, there's more to wideband voice than just the codec. Dan's comment implies that people have been using FWD with wideband capable hardware. I had presumed that such as possible. He at least confirms that fact. That's encouraging.
So perhaps FWD Communicator will end up being the soft phone that lets me pursue my line of experimentation. That would be great. It would be another good reason to support FWD in its present evolution.


Be born and raised in Italy, preferably a small town such as Bolzano, near the Italian/Austrian border. Make sure you live in the tough part of town and do a little acting in school plays when you're a little kid. Next comes entertaining your friends with all kinds of accents, dialects and impersonating people they all know. After that you should move to London and become a bartender where ultimately you will be voted Best Bartender in England after participating in competitions all over the country. You should then become a renowned manager and bar director and open venues in Hong Kong and Ibeza. This sounds pretty good so far, doesn't it?
Okay, now you should decide that you are not so happy with your life because, as you remember, you have always loved the idea of being an actor. You then decide to chuck it all in and take a year off to see the world, which you do. While away, however, get ready to be discovered by a New Zealand film director who is in town to shoot a short film called Spanish Diamonds. He will give you an audition and then cast you in the title role and you will stay for a month and a half to complete the film. It is beginning to sound easy now, right?
You will look on that acting experience as if it was more than a dream or a coincidence and it will make you think seriously about once again giving everything up and moving to Los Angeles where you will earn an acting degree at the prestigious Stella Adler Academy of Acting and then go on to make even more films, commercials, voice overs, webisodes and TV shows.
Some of the films you will work in are: Spanish Diamonds, Repeat, Trick, Funny Man, Veiled Avenger and Meeting Mr. Abaddon, to name just a few. He will be featured in the very popular Adult Swim production of Black Jesus, the MTV production of Moscow Official and two highly praised web series, Guber and Here Comes Forty. Hey, let's not forget the Modelo Beer commercial that you will star in or the many theatrical plays that you will be featured in. Take this formula and run with it. Get to Italy as soon as possible and sign up to be in a school play and your future as a great actor will be set. Good luck!!


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Hoodoo (folk magic)
Hoodoo, also known as conjure, is a form of predominantly African-American traditional folk magic that developed from the syncretism of a number of separate cultures and magical traditions. It incorporates practices from African and Native American traditions, as well as some European magical practices and grimoires. While folk practices like hoodoo are trans-cultural phenomena, what is particularly innovative in this tradition is the "remarkably efficacious use of biblical figures" in its practices and in the lives of its practitioners.
The word hoodoo first was documented in American English in 1875 and was listed as a noun or a transitive verb. In African American Vernacular English (AAVE), it is often used to describe a magic spell or potion, but it may also be used as an adjective for a practitioner. Regional synonyms for hoodoo include conjuration, conjure, witchcraft, or rootwork.
1 Hoodoo and popular culture
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Hoodoo and popular culture
Many blues musicians have referred to hoodoo in their songs. Popular examples include "Louisiana Hoodoo Blues" by Ma Rainey, "Hoodoo Lady Blues" by Arthur Crudup, and "Hoodoo Man Blues" by Junior Wells. In addition to the expected terms "hoodoo" and "mojo", other conjure words in blues songs include "jinx", "goofer dust", "nation sack", "black cat bone", "John de conkeroo" (John the Conqueror root), "graveyard dirt", and "black spider dumplings."
The Bo Diddley song "Who Do You Love" contains an extensive series of puns about a man hoodooing his lover. He also recorded an album titled Got My Own Bag of Tricks (1972), a reference to a mojo hand or trick bag. In Chuck Berry's song "Thirty Days" he threatens an ex-lover, telling her that he "...talked to the gypsy woman on the telephone [...] she gonna send out a world wide hoodoo...". Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics for "Hoodoo Voodoo", a song later performed by Wilco and Billy Bragg. The song "Born on the Bayou" by Creedence Clearwater Revival has the line "Chasing down a hoodoo there...". Ike & Tina Turner's 1963 album It's Gonna Work out Fine featured a song titled "Mojo Queen", with definite references to mojo, the magic charms used by hoodoo practitioners.
Zora Neale Hurston recorded many hoodoo practices and tales.
John Berendt describes the alleged business relationship between James Arthur Williams and a conjure-woman called "Miz Minerva" in his non-fiction novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, in which hoodoo practices play a significant part.
Other authors on the subject include James Haskins.
Author Ishmael Reed, in his novels Mumbo Jumbo, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, and others, makes great use of Hoodoo, including characters who are practitioners. Reed also published a number of Hoodoo poems.
Emma Bull refers to Hoodoo in her novel Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophiles.
Gloria Naylor's novel Mama Day uses hoodoo as both explanation for natural occurrences, and gateway into the magical past of African American slaves on the island of Willow Springs.
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Home > Middle East (Bariga Dhexe), POLITICS	> Nuke carrier leads US strike force into Syrian waters + Related Articles
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French fig-leaf: Sarkozy wants Syria
EU rejects French call for intervention in Syria
USS George H.W. Bush. (AFP Photo/US Navy)
Nuclear aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush has reportedly anchored off Syria. As an Arab League deadline to allow observers into the country passes with no response from Damascus, the possibility of intervention in Syria seems to be growing.
The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group along with additional naval vessels are to remain in the Mediterranean to conducting maritime security operations and support missions as part of Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn.The US 6th Fleet is also patrolling the area, Interfax news agency reports.
Meanwhile, America and Turkey are urging their citizens to leave Syria. The US released a statement on Wednesday urging American citizens to "depart immediately while commercial transportation is available."
Against this backdrop, the prospect of humanitarian intervention in Syria no longer looks like such an impossible scenario. And pressure is growing on the issue.
Paris is urging the creation of a secure zone to protect civilians "that would allow aid groups and observers into Syria" and is seeking support from the US, UN and the Arab League. French foreign minister Alain Juppé said he was speaking with partners in the United Nations, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Arab League on the issue. However the EU stopped short of endorsing a French proposal for EU-backed humanitarian corridors on Thursday, acknowledging, however, that protection of civilians in Syria remains a top priority.
The imposition of a no-fly zone over Syria by the Arab League with US logistical support, is also being discussed, according to the Jordan-based Al Bawaba news website. A strong sense of déjà vu prevails, with the specter of a Libyan scenario repeating itself.
Rumors about the no-fly zone over Syria came in the wake of Tuesday's United Nations General Assembly resolution which condemned human rights abuses by the Syrian regime, including the killing, arbitrary imprisonment and torture of civilians.
Meanwhile, an Arab League deadline for Syria to allow an observer mission into the country or suffer crippling sanctions passed on Friday without a response from Damascus, a League source told AFP.
"Until now, there has been no response from the Syrian government," the source said after the 1 pm (1100 GMT) deadline. Damascus has been given until the end of the day to respond, if it is to avoid sanctions.
Earlier this month Russia, the most powerful opponent of the West's push for "international intervention," also anchored its warships in the Syrian port of Tartus. According to unconfirmed reports, the warships were carrying technical advisors who will help Syria set up and run advanced S-300 missiles supplied by Russia. However, there is no official confirmation that the S-300 missiles have actually been delivered to Syria by any side.
Meanwhile, Moscow has announced it opposes a military scenario for resolving the Syrian problem and the use of a human rights argument as an excuse for foreign intervention in the affairs of a sovereign state. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich said that "under no circumstances must human rights issues be used as a pretext for interfering in the internal affairs of a state."
Moscow has also abstained from voting on the resolution by the UN General Assembly Human Rights Committee thanks to "the humanitarian focus of the draft's text," said Lukashevich.
Patrick Henningsen, a political analyst from the US-based Infowars.Com online magazine, believes that the escalation of tensions over Syria between the world's major powers may lead to a new chilling in world politics.
"I think we are going to see a new Cold War emerge in the next two years, and we are seeing the initial steps of that new Cold War right now," he told RT.
"If the Western powers think they are going to get away with a no-fly zone in Syria, this is a very different prospect than Libya. This will be the first time, in Syria, and also, if you look forward – with Iran, that the West, actually, is engaging a country that has the ability to fight back," Henningsen said referring to Russia's close military co-operation with the two countries, as well as rumors of S-300 installations having been supplied from Moscow.
Experts say that even the armed opponents of Bashar al-Assad's regime would strongly oppose any interference from outside.
"Even among the opponents of the ugly Assad regime, many in Syria will actually not welcome an intervention by Western forces," even if it comes in the shape of fellow-Muslims in the Turkish army, predicts Dr. Pierre Guerlain, a professor of political science at Paris West University.
And Dr Marcus Papadopoulos, an analyst from Britain's 'Politics First' online magazine, told RT that any hopes of bringing peace to the region by toppling the current Syrian government are delusional.
"I can't see how they can possibly believe that peace will come to the Middle East with president Assad falling, I mean if we have a look at some of the people that the Syrian government is fighting against at the moment, they're actually armed militants, they're criminal gangs, and many of these armed militants have links to religious extremism, so once again, I think it's a reckless, negligence, short-sighted approach that the West is taking."
Earlier this month, Arab League foreign ministers suspended Syria in response to its violent suppression of anti-government rallies.
An uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad started eight months ago. Since then, an estimated 3,500 people have died in clashes with government forces.
France is pushing for humanitarian corridors to be opened in Syria to bring medicine and other vital supplies into the country. But there is criticism it could be a pretext for intervention, in an echo of the NATO bombing campaign in Libya.
Thanks to his country's role in the military intervention in Libya, French President Nicolas Sarkozy bagged a string of "firsts" for his country:
France was first to call for a NATO-imposed no-fly zone over Libya, first to strike, and first to officially recognize the opposition as "Libya's only legitimate government."
With Libya now in the rearview mirror, Syria appears to be the next stop. France has once again become the first Western nation to suggest an international intervention on the ground in Syria with its calls for a "secured zone to protect civilians", and first to endorse the exiled opposition Syrian National Council.
Jean Bricmont, author of "Humanitarian Imperialism", says that "France is a country where humanitarian intervention is very, very popular. And there is an agreement between most of the left and most of the right about that. Sarkozy has this ideology of intervention. It seems to me he's even more aggressive than Obama would be, even though he doesn't have the military strength to do it alone."
And a dramatic rise in popularity at home is what Sarkozy needs if he intends to let the French decide his fate as president in the 2012 elections.
Alex Korbel, a political analyst with contrepoint.org, says Sarkozy's popularity goes up every time he talks about the Syrian crisis.
"Now he's really in a bad situation when it comes to the polls. He really needs to be seen as more pro-active than his opponents and he's using the Syrian crisis as a way to be seen as that," he said.
However, what the French government deemed a "success" is looking rather less promising for those living in post-Gaddafi Libya.
Violent clashes between rival militia groups have continued, adding to the already high death toll from the NATO-backed conflict.A new UN report says some 7,000 people are being held in Libyan detention centers controlled by militias, with no access to courts or a functioning judiciary.
And it is a scenario some warn could be repeated in Syria.
John Laughland from the Paris-based Institute for Democracy and Co-operation says that "Once those regimes are overthrown, a Pandora's box is opened.
"While one is always happy to see the end of brutal dictatorships, my own view is that the ends to these regimes should come from the people themselves," he said.
Critics of France's latest move have raised the question of whether any foreign intervention in Syria would actually end the bloodshed. While other countries have been more cautious, it seems the French leadership is keen on putting its foot down and planting its flag ahead of everyone else.
And that French assertiveness is not being wholeheartedly welcomed by the Syrians themselves.
Dr. Pierre Guerlain, a lecturer in political science at Paris West University, told RT he believes it is possible to oppose the regime, while at the same time taking a stand against foreign intervention.
"A lot of opponents in Syria actually would not welcome an intervention by foreign forces – not even Turkish forces," he said.
For all the gains France in general and Sarkozy in particular might reap from an intervention in Syria, even its most vocal advocates might now wonder if it is really worth it.
Ultimately, Dr Marcus Papadopoulos, an analyst from Britain's 'Politics First' online magazine, told RT that Frances increasingly aggressive posturing could be a means of compensating for past defeats.
"If you look at the second half of the 20th century, it was a humiliating time for France, they were kicked out of Indochina, they were occupied by Nazi Germany during the Second World War, and they had to be liberated by foreign armies…I think this is an attempt by France to regain some prestige on the international arena."
25 November, 2011.
A child taking part in a rally in support of the Syrian regime, holds a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. (AFP Photo / Filippo Monteforte)
The EU has stopped short of endorsing a French proposal for EU-backed humanitarian corridors that would allow aid groups and observers into Syria.
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France has called for a "secured zone to protect civilians" in Syria. It is the first time a major Western country has suggested international intervention in the country.
Speaking on French radio on Thursday, foreign minister Alain Juppé said he was speaking with partners in the United Nations, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Arab League about the humanitarian corridors.
Alain Juppé says the situation in Syria is "no longer tenable" and accused the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad of "repression of a savagery we have not seen in a long time."
On Wednesday, after a meeting with the Syrian National Council leader Burhan Ghalioun, Alain Juppé described the Council as a "legitimate interlocutor" and said France would seek formal recognition for the group from the Arab League and other allies.
"It's about the political actions that we continue to help the Syrian National Council with. It's upon request from the Syrian National Council that, with our European partners, we will examine the possibility of launching humanitarian initiatives in order to relieve the population from the considerable pain it's enduring," he said.
Ghalioun said the Syrian National Council was seeking co-operation with countries in Europe and the Arab League, "to provide serious protection for civilians and to stop the killing that has been taking place for the past eight months."
He added that he hoped to secure a UN resolution "to protect civilians and let observers enter Syria for the sake of stopping the killing."
Meanwhile, three American students arrested in Cairo have been released, Paula reports.
The Paris Institute's John Laughland suggests that despite Western powers saying they are only trying to get humanitarian aid into the country, their actions are aimed at bringing down the regime in Syria.
He called for "Russia and the world in general" to regard "this initiative with the greatest possible skepticism."
"I would warn against any international presence,"
he told RT.
"If a humanitarian corridor is opened, it will allow, among other things, secret service agents to penetrate Syria. They will presumably be there with the goal of overthrowing the regime."
Meanwhile, members of the Arab League have gathered in Cairo to hold talks on the ongoing violence in Syria after President Bashar Assad failed to end his crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Earlier this month, Arab League foreign ministers suspended Syria from the group in response to its violent suppression of anti-government rallies.
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What Other Businesses Can Los Angeles Destroy? What About Trash Haulers?
Scott Shackford | 4.1.2014 4:40 PM
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Los Angeles City Council has voted to seize the local private business/large apartment trash hauling industry, take control of it, and sell off exclusive contracts to those it deems appropriate. The word "seize" is not used, of course, but instead it's all being sold as a recycling and landfill-use reduction plan. It takes the Los Angeles Times nine paragraphs to get past the environmental back-patting to explain what's actually going on:
Currently, landlords for businesses and apartments choose between competing businesses to haul their trash. Under the new "exclusive franchise" system, Los Angeles will be divided up into 11 zones. Haulers will bid for city contracts giving them the exclusive right to collect garbage in each zone.
The new system is hitched to environmental standards: To be eligible to win each zone, haulers would have to provide separate bins for recycling and use "clean fuel" vehicles, among other ecologically friendly requirements.
The plan is backed by environmentalists and labor groups, who say the system is the best way to help Los Angeles meet its goal of diverting 90% of its trash from landfills. Activists say the system will also mean fewer trucks crisscrossing city streets and safer conditions for workers in a dangerous industry.
The city is turning a private competitive service into a monopoly. The Times does note that the proposal puts unions and environmentalists against business and private property:
Business groups say the new system will put small haulers out of business and ultimately drive up rates.
"The environmental benefits are subterfuge for an effort to organize an industry that the unions couldn't organize themselves," Central City Assn. of Los Angeles president and CEO Carol Schatz told The Times last week.
Indeed, labor unions were chanting "Si se puede" ("Yes, it can be done") outside the council meeting after the vote passed. Those union folks really, truly care a lot about the environment, eh?
Only one council member voted against the new regulation, Bernard C. Parks. He was also the only council member to vote against the city's pointless plastic bag ban. Reason TV and Kennedy interviewed him in 2012. He was concerned this new trash plan would harm small businesses. A head of a local commerce association predicts the new monopolies could drive more than 100 small haulers out of business and suggested the city could require environmental and recycling policies among private haulers without resorting to exclusive contracts.
Speaking of small businesses being harmed in Los Angeles, the city is still shutting down medical marijuana dispensaries that don't fall under the city's protection racket put in place by a local ballot initiative. The Los Angeles Daily News notes the city is also extracting fines from and charging landlords who rent to unauthorized pot dispensaries, even though the city is still causing confusion by sending out tax certificates to applicants that don't qualify to do business in the city. These certificates are then being shown to landlords as evidence that the dispensary is legal, even if it's not.
(Hat tip to Cato's Walter Olson)
NEXT: Is There Any Hope for France?
Scott Shackford is an associate editor at Reason.
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Oh, I wouldn't do that. The mob doesn't take kindly to such things.
Yeah, isn't waste disposal mobbed up on the west coast like it is out east?
Invisible Finger
If it wasn't before, it is now.
What makes you think the mob isn't behind this? Who do you think is going to get those contracts, anyway?
The big national firms will be denigrated as "multi-national corporations", much chinstroking and backslapping will be done in the name of "supporting local business", and the contracts will all go to mobbed up/unionized (but I repeat myself) haulers.
Man, an entire state built on labor unions and public sector unions. Upton Sinclair would be proud.
Jerry on the boat
Haulers will bid for city contracts…
Sure, let's call it a bid.
the system will also mean fewer trucks crisscrossing city streets
Yeah. They're like roaches. They're EVERYONE.
Man, what ridiculous claptrap.
(EVERYWHERE…sigh…maybe someday preview will return)
But will they make the trash trucks run on time?
How the hell can anybody look at something like this and not realize that this government is a racket?
The Late P Brooks
There is no such thing as Peak Derp.
The plan is backed by environmentalists and labor groups
[insert expostulation of surprise]
They wanted their racket but they had to give a "good" reason to have it, so there it is. They convinced some lefty groups to support it for the right reasons, and viola, instant racket.
LarryA
And when "fewer trucks" means that the trash starts stacking up and the stink gets worse the environmentalists will be utterly surprised, and blame capitalism.
And the unions will mandate that the "fewer trucks" require the same number of (unionized) drivers and loaders plus more (unionized) dispatchers and cleaners.
Why would you want to divert trash from landfills? There's already enough of it in the Pacific Ocean. If they think that all of that diverted trash is going to get recycled they're fooling themselves.
Sigivald
It's great how a City will just invent a "goal" (rapturously pushed by a tiny minority of environmentalists who already receycle and compost everything) and then force the whole populace to comply [or at least to pay for a vain attempt at it].
Portland did the same sort of stupid thing last year (not the monopoly – sadly we already had that); the City decided that we didn't 'need' weekly trash pickup, but we could graciously pay the same price for half the service.
But they gave us little composting buckets.
I, of course, immediately voted in the next Mayoral election for anyone opposed to that.
Being Portland, he lost.
Wow. Trash sits for up to two weeks in Portland?
The stench must be, err, impressive.
Death Rock and Skull
Portland.
The Los Angeles Daily News notes the city is also extracting fines from and charging landlords who rent to unauthorized pot dispensaries, even though the city is still causing confusion by sending out tax certificates to applicants that don't qualify to do business in the city. These certificates are then being shown to landlords as evidence that the dispensary is legal, even if it's not.
Just because a business is illegal doesn't mean government shouldn't tax it.
So they are "nationalizing" private industry just to "privatize" it again in the public-private sense. Taking a business from one and giving exclusive rights to another. What is the word…


John Isner found himself involved in another record-breaking Wimbledon epic Friday as his semifinal with Kevin Anderson became the second-longest singles match in Wimbledon history.
This time, however, Isner came out on the losing end, falling 7-6(6), 6-7(5), 6-7(9), 6-4, 26-24 in six hours, 35 minutes on Centre Court.
Isner is best known to many fans, particularly in Great Britain, for his astonishing contest with Nicolas Mahut on Court 18 at Wimbledon in 2010. That match spanned 11 hours and five minutes, with Isner eventually triumphing 70-68 in an astounding final set.
On Friday, the American became embroiled in another marathon contest, he and fellow big-server Anderson — who sensationally beat defending champion Roger Federer 13-11 in a fifth set on Wednesday — trading ace after ace in search of a place in the final at the All England Club.
As Isner served for a 16-15 lead, the match became the second-longest Wimbledon singles clash at just over five and a half hours. However, it was still only half as long as the absurd contest between Isner and Mahut.
Spare a thought for Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, whose wait to play their own semifinal finally ended around 8 p.m. local time.


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Ingmar Brantsch (Pseudonym: Hermann Eris, * 30. Oktober 1940 in Brașov/Siebenbürgen; † 31. Oktober 2013 in Köln) war ein rumäniendeutscher Schriftsteller.

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Ingmar Brantsch war der Sohn eines rumäniendeutschen Lehrer-Ehepaars. Von 1957 bis 1962 studierte er Germanistik, Romanistik und Slawistik an der Universität Bukarest. Er schloss dieses Studium mit dem Staatsexamen ab und war von 1962 bis 1964 als Redakteur und Bibliothekar im Bukarester Haus der Presse und von 1964 bis 1970 als Gymnasiallehrer in Brașov tätig. 1970 übersiedelte er in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Hier absolvierte er von 1970 bis 1976 an den Universitäten in Köln und Bonn ein weiteres Studium in den Fächern Germanistik, Geschichte, Philosophie, Evangelische Theologie und Pädagogik. In Köln war er aktiv in der Studentenschaft und im Studierendenparlament tätig, ohne sich einer (politischen) Gruppe anzuschließen. Nach dem Staatsexamen leistete er von 1976 bis 1978 sein Referendariat an einer Schule in Gummersbach ab. Seit 1978 lebte er in Köln, wo er bis 1987 Studienassessor und von 1987 bis zu seiner Pensionierung 2007 als Studienrat am Abendgymnasium Köln tätig war. Im Rahmen dieser Tätigkeit unterrichtete er unter anderem Insassen der Justizvollzugsanstalt Köln. Den Unterricht in der JVA übte er auch noch nach seiner Pensionierung bis 2012 weiter aus. Einen Tag nach seinem 73. Geburtstag verstarb Ingmar in einem Kölner Krankenhaus.

Ingmar Brantsch ist Verfasser von Erzählungen, Satiren, Reportagen, Essays, Aphorismen, Gedichten, Dramen und Hörspielen.

Ingmar Brantsch war Mitglied des Rumänischen Schriftstellerverbandes; er gehörte u. a. dem PEN-Zentrum Deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland, dem Verband Deutscher Schriftsteller, der Künstlergilde Esslingen, der Regensburger Schriftstellergruppe International und der Literarischen Gesellschaft Köln an. Brantsch erhielt 1968 den Lyrikpreis der Jungen Akademie Stuttgart und 1987 den Siegburger Literaturpreis.

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 Deutung des Sommers, Bukarest 1967
 Ein 20. Jahrhundert, Bukarest 1970
 Neue Heimat BRD oder Spätheimkehr nach 1000 Jahren, Hannoversch Münden 1983
 Karnevalsdemokratie oder Eulenspiegel, der einsame Rebell, Frankfurt (Main) 1985
 Mozart und das Maschinengewehr, Frankfurt (Main) 1987
 Das Leben der Ungarndeutschen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg im Spiegel ihrer Dichtung, Eckartschriften Heft 134, Österreichische Landsmannschaft, Wien 1995
 Das Leben der Rußlanddeutschen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg im Spiegel ihres Schrifttums, Eckartschriften Heft 148, Österreichische Landsmannschaft, Wien 1999
 Ungarndeutsche Literatur, Bonn 1999
 Goethe und Heine hinter Gittern, Vechta-Langförden 2004
 Pisastudie getürkt, Vechta-Langförden 2006
 Das Weiterleben der rumäniendeutschen Literatur nach dem Umbruch, Vechta-Langförden 2007
 Ich war kein Dissident, Ludwigsburg 2009
 Inkorrektes über die Political Correctness, Vechta 2009

Herausgeberschaft
 Einführung in die Grundlagen des Antisophismus: e. kurzer Lehrgang seiner Geschichte, seiner Programme, seiner Prozesse (mit Orig.-Dokumenten) nebst e. Anh. antisophist. Analysen, Texte, Entlarvungssprüchen (Aphorismen), Studentenschaftsverlag der ASTA, Köln 1978

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Weblinks

 Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa: , Ingmar Brantsch
 Aphoristiker-Archiv: Ingmar Brantsch
 Kunst-Kultur 4 – Artă-cultură 4, in: Halbjahresschrift - hjs-online, 16. September 2020

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Pralesnička klamavá (Ranitomeya imitator) je druh pralesničky z rodu Ranitomeya. Jedná se o jeden z nejznámějších druhů pralesniček, který žije v severovýchodním Peru. Byl popsán v roce 1986 Rainerem Schultem, který ho později rozdělil na více poddruhů podle barvy a odlišného chování.

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Video Premiere: Drake – God's Plan
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Miami Personal Trainer Shot 2 Ex Co-Workers Before Killing Himself
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We know all of this because LeBron, like most boys, was excited by the bright, flashing lights. So he filmed a 15-second Instagram video of the action and posted it on Instagram for the world to see.
The caption under the video read "They treat us so well! Needed it cause traffic was nuts!!"
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Tim Jordan, President of Hickory Flats and leader of the Private Label Legion Facebook community, is a leader in the Amazon industry. He along with other influencers in the Amazon industry are endorsing FreeeUp to fill their Amazon hiring needs.
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Announcing the 2017 Chapel Hill Marathon Jam | Bringing musicians together for a day of service to honor our veterans.
The Chapel Hill Marathon Jam will be held at the American Legion Chapel Hill on Saturday, February 25, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. We hope to see you there!
Saturday, February 25, 2017, 1 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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The Chapel Hill American Legionnaires have been providing support and space to the Marathon Jam for well over six years.