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Caetano Veloso: Caetano Veloso
In the history books, it was on March 31st, 1964 that a military coup ousted Brazilian President João Goulart. The U.S.-backed junta overtook all branches of government, ending nearly a century of newfound democracy for the one-time adjunct of the Portuguese empire and subjecting the country to two decades of increasingly repressive military rule. In Caetano Veloso's 2003 memoir Tropical Truth: A Story of Music & Revolution in Brazil, he is adamant that the date is a lie: The coup actually took place on April Fool's Day. Four years into the new regime, then-twentysomething Brazilian pop singer Veloso recorded his first solo album.
But the first voice you hear on his 1968 self-titled release isn't that of Veloso, but of Portuguese knight Pêro Vaz de Caminha, credited with discovering Brazil in the year 1500. He wrote a letter to Manuel I, King of Portugal raving about the fertile Brazilian land and how "all that is planted grows and flourishes," convincing the king that the presumed island was worthy of colonization. Carta de Pero Vaz Caminha is considered the first literary text to emanate from Brazil but it gets parodied in a high nasally voice by Veloso's drummer Dirceu. Little did the percussionist know that the tapes were running. And when the arranger of the session mimics the "exotic" sounds of the Brazilian rainforest, it points back to that time when Brazil was virgin land, before the empire arrived at her shores.
Caetano Veloso's debut album remains one of the most revolutionary albums released into the worldwide tumult of the 1960s. The opening salvo of Tropicália, it announced the arrival of the greatest Brazilian talent since João Gilberto and launched a fifty-year career that's not only changed Brazilian music but American music as well, from Talking Heads to Beck to No Wave legend Arto Lindsay and Animal Collective.
To non-Portuguese speakers, Caetano Veloso might not sound anywhere near as transformative as the other albums of that year: Electric Ladyland, The White Album, White Light/White Heat, Anthem of the Sun, A Saucerful of Secrets, to name just a few. Couched in lush orchestral strings suggestive of the generation prior instead of the psychedelic production effects of the moment, it's a sound thoughtfully strummed on an acoustic guitar. It has few of the tricks and technology of the aforementioned, but at its heart, it's a revolt, a message delivered at a purr rather than a howl, elegantly gliding past military censors.
At the time, the album struck a balance between the polemics of communism on the Left and the crushing military might on the Right, sloughing off the nationalism and patriotism on either side while embracing a love of country in the shadow of the American Empire. And at the center of it all was Veloso and his supple, silken voice, a Bing Crosby croon delivered with a glint in his eye and Che Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries surreptitiously tucked into his back pocket.
The seeds of Tropicália's revolution were planted the year prior when Veloso submitted "Alegria, Alegria" ("Joy, Joy") to the TV Record Festival. Featuring a burst of fuzz guitar and electric organ it became Veloso's first anthem, his self-described "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." It's also his Breathless, his "Chicken Noodle Soup," at once a critique and embrace of 20th-century pop culture. Veloso drinks Coca-Cola, quotes Sartre, name-drops Brigitte Bardot and Claudia Cardinale, all while slyly quoting fellow Brazilian pop star Chico Buarque's "A Banda" and shrugging his shoulders at the end with the line: "Why not?" It set the themes for the movement to come in Tropicália: courting mass media, distancing themselves from the Left and silently protesting the powers that be. As Veloso later told the New York Times: "It was against the dictatorship without saying anything about it."
The success of "Alegria, Alegria" emboldened Veloso as he worked on a new album. During lunch at a friend's house one day, he sang some of the new songs, including one that still didn't have a title. Brazilian film producer and screenwriter Luiz Carlos Barreto suggested the name of a recent piece from visual artist Hélio Oiticica, an installation that required the viewer to follow a path through sand, lined with tropical plants, until they ended at a television set. "Until I could find a better title the song would be called 'Tropicália,'" Veloso wrote. "I never did find a better one."
"Tropicália" opens with Dirceu's recitation about Brazil as a "tropical paradise," shouted amid a clatter of jungle drums, tympani, shakers, agogô bells, and the piercingly high frequency of flutes imitating bird song, before the orchestra strikes up and Veloso ambles in like a giant surveying all of Brazil:
Over my head the airplanes
Under my feet the trucks and trains
And pointing out the highland plains is my nose
I organize the movement, too
I lead the carnival.
As expansive, outsized, and hallucinatory as Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," as insouciant and word-drunk as Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," "Tropicália" is allegory and absorption of all the contradictions of Brazil: its baião rhythms against suave orchestral surges, its colonial opening against the overstuffed modernist lines of Veloso. In the chorus, Veloso praises the sophisticated and urbane song form of bossa nova yet rhymes it with "mud huts." Throughout the dense lines, Veloso swings from jungle to city, from swimming pools to sea, referring to fellow Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) singers like Elis Regina, Roberto Carlos, and—at the last refrain—to Buarque's "A Banda" again. Though this time, Veloso adds a twist, rhyming it with the lady in the Tutti Frutti hat, Carmen Miranda.
By that point in the '60s, Miranda was perceived as kitsch, the Brazil of old, even though early in her singing career, the "Brazilian Bombshell" was her country's first full-fledged pop star and one of the highest paid entertainers in Hollywood. But Veloso was sincere in his embrace of Miranda, and in teasing out the last syllable of her name, he also nods to Dadaism, melding colorful camp and the avant-garde in just a handful of syllables.
"One characteristic of Tropicália… was precisely the broadening and diversification of the market, achieved through a dismantling of the order of things, with a disregard for distinctions of class or level of education." So Veloso wrote in Tropical Truth, adding that one goal of their movement was "to sort out the tension between Brazil the Parallel Universe and Brazil the country peripheral to the American Empire." It was a fine line to straddle, embracing both their own heritage and American pop culture. It meant admiring the colorful cartoonishness of the Kool-Aid Man but neither buying nor drinking the Kool-Aid, all while not falling for the consumerism being offered up religiously since the junta took power.
The American poet Elizabeth Bishop traveled to Brazil in the early '50s. A two-week voyage turned into an 18-year stay in the country, where her aristocratic spouse, Lota de Macedo Soares, fed her access to the upper echelons of Rio society. Bishop found herself with a bird's-eye view of the coup d'etat that would soon grip the country. She marveled at its efficiency and the support it appeared to engender, writing that these displays of anti-communism were becoming "victory marches [with] more than one million people marching in the rain." From her perspective, it was simple: "…all in about 48 hours, it was all over…The suspension of rights, dismissing lots of Congress, etc… had to be done—sinister as it may sound." But for the Brazilians who weren't in positions of power and prominence, those in the favelas or those in the working classes who would not stand to profit handsomely, something far more sinister loomed.
In the United States, a group of economists began to impose a debilitating economic plan around the world through means of torture and suppression. Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine traces this nefarious economic shock therapy from Iraq in the 2000s back to Indonesia in 1965. But its earliest iterations took place in South America. In 1962, Brazil had elected João Goulart, who Klein writes was "committed to land redistribution, higher salaries and a daring plan to force foreign multinationals to reinvest a percentage of their profits back into the Brazilian economy rather than spiriting them out of the country and distributing them to shareholders in New York and London." It was a dynamic attempt to close the gap between the rich and poor in the country.
But less than two years later, the U.S.-backed junta ousted the president and—with an economic policy scripted in the White House—instilled a plan "not merely to reverse João Goulart's pro-poor programs but to crack Brazil wide open to foreign investment." In just a few short years, most of Brazil's wealth was in the hands of a few multinational corporations and the income gap widened, never to be narrowed again. That inequality remains today, exemplified by the Olympic Games in Rio. The political corruption and abject poverty lie just beyond the colorful walls erected to keep the favelas out of sight on our television screens.
And as the people took to the streets to protest the economic hardships befalling them, it was these same corporations behind the violent repression that soon followed. In Brasil: Nunca Mais, a book that detailed the dictatorship's torture record from 1964 until democracy was restored in the 1980s, the extralegal forces that brutalized unions, student groups, and other dissidents were funded "by contributions from various multinational corporations, including Ford and General Motors."
These nefarious forces at work were neither observed by the '60s counterculture in the United States (then protesting for civil rights and against the Vietnam War) nor for most of the Brazilians themselves. As Veloso noted of the time, "Almost all of us were unaware of those nuances back then, and even if we had been, it would have changed nothing; we saw the coup simply as a decision to halt the redress of the horrible social inequalities in Brazil."
But even if the young Veloso wasn't consciously aware of the corporations sucking his country dry, his lyrics suggest an awareness of something terribly amiss. It's a line that runs through the work of all who gathered under the banner of Tropicália: fellow Bahian Gilberto Gil; the psychedelic wunderkind trio Os Mutantes; bossa nova singers Gal Costa and Nara Leão; the wry, live wire Tom Zé; Rogério Duprat, the producer who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen. While Tropicália earned the ire of the Left by not writing overtly political songs, in tapping into the collective disquiet of the time, their songs became all the more resonant.
Mocking his corporate overlords and their thirst for profit, Veloso made a tangy MPB album perfect for public consumption his first time out, his artful pop becoming Pop Art becoming agitprop. "Paisagem Útil" ("Useful Landscape") scans as a string-laced bossa nova that toys with the title of Tom Jobim's "Inútil Paisagem" ("Useless Landscape"). It's an ode to Brazil where Veloso offers up a love of Rio's city lights and speeding cars, his lovers kissing under the glow of an Esso sign, a romantic scene set in a simulacrum of nature under the auspices of that multinational oil company. The speedy "Superbacana" is a frevo as penned by Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The titular hero "Supercool" battles Uncle Scrooge and his battalion of cowboy minions and uses advertising lingo for shiny new products like "super-peanut" and "biotonic spinach" and—amid the dizzying blur of slogans—"economic advances."
Translate the title of the jaunty "Soy Loco Por Ti, America" and it reads as "I Am Crazy for You, America." And at the time, the Tropicálistas were eagerly absorbing as much music as possible from their neighbors to the north. "We were 'eating' the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix," Veloso said of their influences at the time. "We wanted to participate in the worldwide language both to strengthen ourselves as a people and to affirm our originality." They fervently spun albums from the likes of Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Frank Zappa, and more, but rather than simply mimic the trends to the north, they made these influences bear out the music of their half of the hemisphere. So on "Soy Loco," Caetano isn't being cheeky about loving America, it's just that he means South America. The song playfully dances between a Colombian cumbia and a Cuban mambo, sung in Portuguese and Spanish, with Veloso hoping for a united South America rather than the North American Empire. The lyrics toy with the notion of naming, be it the name of America or the girl he plans to bring to the beach (Marti), but then Veloso pivots and he sings of a nameless country.
Fun enough beach fare, until Veloso signifies a dead man whose name can't be said. He continues to land on this figure: "The name of the dead man/Before the permanent night spreads through Latin America/The name of the man/Is the people." Less than a year prior, on the other side of the Brazilian border in Bolivia, Che Guevara was captured and killed by CIA-assisted forces. It would be decades before Veloso would admit that Che Guevara was the dead man at the center of the song, but with his death, the prospects of a united Latin and South America were imperiled. And in the years ahead, Brazil remained under the heel of the American Empire.
As Tropicália grew in popularity around the country, Veloso began to see more attention from the authorities. A performance with Os Mutantes for Festival Internacional de Canção in September of 1968 became a riotous confrontation with the audience. Soon after, another show featuring Veloso, Gil, and Os Mutantes was staged under another piece of art from Hélio Oiticica. Only this one featured a man recently shot dead by the police with the slogan "seja marginal, seja heroi" (be a criminal, be a hero) written on it.
By the end of the year, both Veloso and Gilberto Gil were arrested by the military police and detained two months in solitary confinement without being charged with a crime. After being allowed to play a farewell concert, they were then exiled from Brazil for the next four years. Living in London and then in Bahia upon his return in 1972, Veloso continued to record albums that were by turns exquisite, experimental, and introspective.
Veloso recalled an interrogation from an army sergeant during his imprisonment: "The sergeant was revealing that we tropicalistas were the most serious enemies of the regime. But in that little room of the army police, I did not have the strength to feel proud: I was merely afraid." None of that fear can be heard here. Instead, bravado and bold assurance run through every number. At the center of it all is Veloso, with his swagger and full belief in the power of his songs to dance around the tanks and petroleum companies, to triumph over both the CIA and Uncle Scrooge. Amid the album's blinding color and tropical fronds that would make Carmen Miranda proud, Veloso made a stand against the dictatorship without saying anything about it.
Watch OutKast Perform at the Dungeon Family Reunion
The Atlanta rap collective Dungeon Family—which produced OutKast, Goodie Mob, Organized Noize, Killer Mike, and many more—reunited as headliners at ONE MusicFest 2016 in Atlanta tonight. Watch some footage from the OutKast performance below (via Atlanta rapper T.I.) and other clips alongside Goodie Mob. Andre 3000 performs his verse on Goodie Mob's "Black Ice" and Goodie Mob perform "Dirty South" with Big Boi.
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Legendary OUTKAST!!!! Dungeon Family pic.twitter.com/577n2iKGuN
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A-Town Vets!!!! Always salute those who paved the way!!!!!
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Masika Kalysha, Nikki Mudarris, & the Cast On Televising Childbirth | Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood
Yandy Smith did it, Amina Buddafly did it, and now Masika. The cast of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood chime in on whether on not they would put their baby's delivery moment on TV.
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Angelo Badalamenti: Twin Peaks OST
As fans of the early-'90s television series and film well know, "Twin Peaks" is a staging ground for conflict between two supernatural locations (or "lodges," or something). In a famously wigged-out dream sequence, at the the close of the show's third episode, FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper hears an early clue suggesting the nature of this mysterious peril: "One chants out between two worlds: 'Fire walk with me.'" But by then, the show's soundtrack has already revealed that this town in rural Washington is being manipulated by competing forces. The contest between them is demonstrated every few minutes, thanks to a sweetly naive motif ("Twin Peaks Theme") that can quickly give way to an unsettlingly morbid riff ("Laura Palmer's Theme"). One goes heavy on the piano's white keys; the other meditates over some black ones.
As the show's mix of humor and tragedy unfolds, these two compositions guide a viewer's ability to perceive which mood is holding greater sway. A pleasant moment may end with a startling musical suggestion of horror. Or two characters locked in mutual grief may suddenly find something to laugh about. Situated like the narrative itself between the two worlds pulling on the town of Twin Peaks, the music of the show is eternally with the characters—and the viewers.
Series co-creator David Lynch has always displayed a musician's facility for nimble, suggestive sound arrangements, going back to his first feature film, Eraserhead. But the potency of his soundtracks hit a new level after the director crossed paths with composer Angelo Badalamenti in the 1980s. Badalamenti contributed original compositions to Lynch's Blue Velvet and played piano during the performance of the titular pop song. For the first season of "Twin Peaks," he wrote all the music, with Lynch providing lyrics to tunes sung by Julee Cruise.
In addition to the two mood-setting triumphs that anchor the first season soundtrack to "Twin Peaks," Badalamenti also came up with brilliant evocations of the show's various dramatic modes. The bluesy "Freshly Squeezed" defines the show's approach to seduction. "Dance of the Dream Man" captures the finger-snapping swing of its surreality. Some of the tracks serve multiple purposes, like "Audrey's Dance," which starts out as an accessory to chic sleuthing, then stretches out into a dreamy organ drone punctuated by blasts of saxophone and a lascivious clarinet. In these performances, the composer's keyboard is frequently the star, though jazz drummer Grady Tate's rhythms are another consistent highlight. Without his subtle, driving percussion, Badalamenti's mixture of vintage pop and jazz sonics—at once familiar and plenty strange—might not have come off nearly so well.
A great score doesn't have to play well as an album on its own terms. But this one does. Its tunes are so appealing, Lynch sometimes rips them from their status as commentary on the show's action and places this music directly into the narrative world. Badalamenti's pieces show up in jukeboxes that the characters use and in performances by local musicians at the town's watering holes. When Agent Cooper tries to remember a portion of that crucial dream, he snaps his fingers to the rhythm of the music that originally accompanied the images in his head.
If the characters get to listen to the music all the time, why not fans of the show? During the first wave of "Twin Peaks" mania, its opening theme won a Grammy, while the soundtrack album charted on Billboard. The new edition—licensed by Warner Bros. to the boutique Death Waltz label—features a new vinyl remaster by Tal Miller. Compared to the first CD edition of the album, this version gives greater definition to all the parts of a collage-style piece like "The Bookhouse Boys" (which blends in a bit of "Dance of the Dream Man").
Elsewhere, the vinyl remaster is more subtly useful than it is revelatory. Which is as it should be, since this music has never sounded thin or in need of help. The vinyl packaging promises a forthcoming reissue of the soundtrack to the movie—Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me—that followed the show's cancellation by ABC. Equally needed are new editions of the show's second-season soundtrack, as well as Julee Cruise's album Floating Into the Night (which overlaps with the first-season album a bit, and also contains material from the show that didn't make this set). But since the "Twin Peaks" revival is still in its early stages, ahead of Showtime's planned third season in 2017, there's still plenty of time to obsess over those recordings, down the road. For now, the first soundtrack's deft combination of romance and menace provides a stunning reminder of everything Lynch and his co-creator Mark Frost dreamed up the first time around.
Lisa/Liza: Deserts of Youth
To listen to Deserts of Youth, Liza Victoria's proper debut album, is to eavesdrop on moments of quiet intensity. Devoid of reverb or overt production effects—a radical choice, in the age of atmospheric GarageBand records—Deserts' seven songs are comforting yet arresting, effortless while intricate. At times, the Maine-based songwriter's feathery falsetto is barely audible, a wisp of wind blowing through a deserted street; other times, it's powerful and clear. Her lyrics, when you can decipher them, feel mostly like conduits for her unusual vocal patterns, less a means of communicating thoughts than establishing setting and mood. Throughout, Victoria seems most keen on satisfying herself; after all, as she sang in an early recording, "I am the friend that I need the most."
In line with her 2014 release, The First Museum, Deserts of Youth begins as a light, psychedelic affair. The jazzy "Century Woods" opens the record with a lilting breeziness. On the ghostly "Another Window," she counts to four without falling into a steady rhythm, speeding up and slowing down as she recounts observations literal ("Your keys are lying on the floor/At the bottom of the bed") and abstract ("It's the shadow of the morning… Watch the light breathe where the shadows began"). Although Deserts retains the simple guitar-and-vocal structure of Victoria's early work, it is a sizeable step forward in songwriting and vision, a haunting, emotional experience that's most effective as a whole.
The album's scope is captured neatly in its stunning centerpiece, "Lady Day of the Radio." Although all the songs on Deserts hover around the five-minute mark, "Lady Day" feels especially epic. It boasts Victoria's most evocative guitar playing yet as she shifts between sad, broken fingerpicking and a stirring climax, the closest she has tread yet to a genuine guitar solo. Situated right in the middle of the album, "Lady Day" is a song so commanding that it seems to dictate the record's structure; the opening tracks builds up to it, and the closing numbers slowly resolves its cathartic rush.
The self-contained world of Deserts of Youth makes the album feel more like a long song cycle than a collection of various pieces—a quality aided by Victoria's penchant for ending songs abruptly in the middle of lines and writing familiar variations on her melodies. In "Wander," a stirring ballad that plays like a heartbreaking coda to "Lady Day," Victoria's aimless narrator mirrors the music's meandering quality. "We walk around the old part of town," she sighs, before reaching one of the album's most memorable refrains: "I never know where to go with new love." A moment later, she amends the lyric to address "old love" as well, tying them together into a single entity, removed from time. It's the record's purest attempt at a singalong chorus and a lyric that's emblematic of the album as a whole: a daring new work of strange, intimate beauty that already feels like an old favorite.
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By Idris Mustapha On Jul 4, 2019
Abba Kyari, President Buhari's Chief of Staff
A day after some so-called APC Concerned Stakeholders staged a protest in Abuja calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to do away with his former Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, I met a middle level staff in the Presidency at family function and someone broached the subject.
So infuriated was this guy that he hurled several unprintable invectives on those asking the president not to re-appoint Abba Kyari as chief of staff. He called them unpatriotic and "food is ready" politicians who would pull anyone down to achieve their personal objectives.
"Having watched the drama playing out from the sidelines, I believe it is time for the truth to now be heard. Whispers and innuendoes have been unanswered for far too long and are gradually turning into a crowd baying for blood with falsehoods driving tempers high. This is wrong and must be stopped immediately, he fumed in obvious frustration.
Perhaps his close knowledge about Abba Kyari was responsible for his anger at those trying to rubbish him. But I find some of the things he said about Kyari quite revealing and worth sharing.
He described Abba Kyari is an extremely intelligent, unassuming and well-read man with a wide grasp of issues. That may not be surprising because of his impressive academic qualifications. After a degree in Sociology from the University of Warwick in England, he grabbed a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Law from the University of Cambridge. He was called to the Nigerian Bar after attending the Nigerian Law School in 1983.
In 1984, he obtained a master's degree in law from the University of Cambridge. He later attended the International Institute for Management at Lausanne, Switzerland and participated in the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School, in 1992 and 1994. Anyone who could pass through those universities with distinction must be cerebral.
But what is noteworthy about Kyari is how he applies these attributes to his job and how he such a hands-on aide for President Buhari. He painted an image of a diligent, meticulous and rigorous personality who reads every document several times over and seeks input from wide groups of informed colleagues before finally sharing it with the President.
These are the attributes required for the kind of job he does for the President and to find such a man is a blessing for any President. The icing on the cake, for me, is how seriously Kyari took his job. My friend said Kyari went to the office everyday including Saturdays and Sundays, sometimes earlier than most staff.
"He arrives at the State House on most days well before most of the other members of staff and he is always one of the last ones to leave the office before heading to meet the President with various memoranda to be considered," he revealed..
And for a man highly cerebral, and who occupied such an important position in the country, you would think he carried himself with arrogance and pomposity. But Kyari is the opposite, and he's a man very much like his principal.
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He is a sucker for simplicity and for substance over form. He wears the same outfit native to shua tribe — white cotton babariga and a red cap. The Hausa fondly refer to him as "red cap" whilst the Yoruba call him "alaso funfun (white agbada)." In fact, on one occasion he failed to wear the ceremonial shua outfit to the Presidential inauguration, many thought he was absent as they didn't recognize him.
Also, since his appointment as Chief of Staff, he has resided at a government-owned 2-bedroom guest house. He maintains a spartan lifestyle, which is a reflection of his humble nature.
If there is any northern political leader that can claim to be cosmopolitan, Kyari could certainly make that claim. Many who know him are impressed that the closest people to him are not his fellow northerners but Nigerians from other parts of the country. Moreover, by virtue of his education and exposure, he is not one with bias for ethnic background. Having studied for many years in the UK and worked for many years in Lagos, his closest friends hail from all over the country.
His detractors are perturbed by his fierce independence of thought. He aggressively protects the President from what he believes to be the elitist lobby that has for many decades used Government access and influence to enrich themselves.
He is focused, meticulous and pays attention to detail. When tasked by the President to address an issue, it gets done — and quickly too. He loyalty is to the President and to the constituency he considers the poorest in Nigeria. Mallam Kyari is staunchly loyal. He will go to war to protect his family and friends and most of all his dear country, Nigeria.
Many would agree that it would be normal to expect any presidential aide with those qualities to have problem with people seeking to exploit their relationship with the President. As the gatekeeper for the president, his job is similar to that of a newspaper editor. Both have to take decisions on what should go and not go. When the editor throws out some stories either because they're poorly written or not newsworthy enough, they "offend" thee reporter who's eager for a byline.
So, it is for the chief of staff to the president or governor. Those who have served in that position know what Kyari is going through. Some of them had probably gone through worse experience. Those now casting aspersions on the pristine reputation of Kyari and accusing him of all shades of impropriety grossly underestimate his principal-President Buhari.
Would President Buhari had appointed a man he didn't know as his chief of staff? Do they think the president doesn't know what he's doing? Do these people know the history between Kyari and President Buhari? If they knew, they probably wouldn't waste their time fathoming a plot to disparage Kyari. Perhaps, no one knows the stuff Kyari is made of more than the man who appointed him.
They started their journey long before Buhari became President in 2015, so Kyari is a man well known to the President. And needs no one to tell him who Kyari is. He knows.
NB. Idris Mustapha wrote in from Abuja
Disclaimer: This article is entirely the opinion of the writer and does not represent the views of The Whistler.
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Satin appliqués form bold stripes on this Halston Heritage dress, creating a striking graphic look. The fit-and-flare silhouette has cap sleeves for a dainty finish. Hidden back zip. Lined.
Much, much fuller in the middle than I was expecting. Gorgeous dress but size down at least one size if you're considering.


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Destiny: Rise of Iron DLC information from cached page
Published: June 8, 2016 11:30 PM
By: Andrew Stretch
Bungie is currently preparing for a live stream tomorrow to talk about the next large Destiny expansion. A variety of leaks have appeared though revealing plenty of news about the upcoming Rise of Iron DLC including the release date of the expansion and what will be included within it.
Destructoid was the first to find out that the release date of the new expansion after the Destiny website put a link on their own website to "Watch Rise of Iron Trailer". This link came with the following description:
Watch the Official Destiny: Rise of Iron reveal trailer. Rise of Iron launches September 20th 2016 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
This seems to show that Bungie is moving on from last generation consoles and will be putting Rise of Iron on the current gen only, cutting the update from PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
A cached page of the Xbox Store with more details then showed up explaining that Rise of Iron will take place in Old Russia where the southern wall has collapsed allowing mutant variants of the Fallen to scavenge through ancient tombs. Your guide for this DLC will be Lord Saladin who will help you in the Plaguelands as you learn more about the Iron Lords. For those who don't know Lord Saladin is the vendor that appears during the PVP Iron Banner events, and the Iron Lords are a group of nine guardians who would patrol the Cosmodrone while the wall was being built.
This DLC will include new story quests, armor and gear, weapons, a new raid, an increase to the maximum light, a new strike, the Plaguelands Zone and new social space, more crucible modes and maps, and a new enemy faction complete with bosses to fight against you. This is only the content that will be coming to the Xbox version and it is likely that there will be some PlayStation exclusive content on top of that.
This DLC will drop on the 20th of September, a couple of weeks after Destiny's 2nd anniversary. The Xbox version will come in as an impressive 14 GB update so be sure to have space on your hard drive.
What do you think of the news so far about Destiny: Rise of Iron? Is this what you were expecting out of the next big update? What are you most looking forward to doing?
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Where do Habs go from here?
By Joey AlfieriJan 10, 2020, 10:30 AM EST
This season hasn't gone the way many expected for the Montreal Canadiens. Last year, with expectations in the toilet, the Habs managed to push for a playoff spot until the final weekend of the regular season. Naturally, expectations were that they'd take a step forward and actually get into the postseason this time around. Unfortunately for them, it doesn't look like that will be the case.
Last night's home loss to the Edmonton Oilers extended their winless streak to eight games. It's now the second time this season that they've gone through that long of a streak.
The first losing skid, which coincided with forward Jonathan Drouin going out of the lineup with a wrist injury, occurred between Nov. 16 to Dec. 1. During that stretch, they picked up three of a possible 16 points. The biggest issue then was that they seemed to lose all of their defensive structure.
They allowed between three and eight goals in all but one game and they surrendered four goals or more in six of those eight contests. That's pretty surprising for a Claude Julien coached team. Sure, they've been without Drouin, Paul Byron, Joel Armia for a while now (Jesperi Kotkaniemi also missed a good chunk of time), but falling apart like that is not acceptable.
This time around, they're not bleeding as many goals, but they're blowing leads, making mistakes at crucial times and their confidence seems to be in the gutter. For example, during last night's loss, they had a 2-0 lead in the second period. As soon as Oilers forward Riley Sheahan scored to make it 2-1, you could just feel that the Habs were going to blow it and they did. It's too bad because they were the better team for 40 minutes.
Even though they're playing better this time around, they've accumulated just one of a possible 16 points.
"I thought we learned a lot of stuff from the last one," forward Philip Danault said of the two eight-game winless streaks, per the Montreal Gazette. "This time it's different because we're playing well, but we're not getting results. We play with the lead and we can't keep it. Early in the year, the third period was our best, but not now."
Montreal now finds themselves nine points out of a Wild Card spot. The other issue is that there's five teams between them and that last playoff spot. That's a lot of teams to leap over for a playoff spot.
So, where do they go from here?
The Habs have four potential unrestricted free agents that they could move before the trade deadline. Dale Weise, Nate Thompson, Ilya Kovalchuk and Marco Scandella could all fetch a mid-round draft pick. Tomas Tatar, Brendan Gallagher, Danault, and Jeff Petry all have just one more year on their contracts. All four of those players will be unrestricted free agents in July of 2021.
Now, keeping Gallagher and Danault is a no-brainer. The Canadiens should work on re-signing those two players as soon this coming July. Tatar and Petry are different cases. Tatar is having a career year, as he's up to 16 goals and 38 points in 45 games this season. He comes with a reasonable $4.8 million cap hit (Vegas is retaining some of his salary). Any team looking for a top-six winger could do worse than Tatar. He could also fetch a nice return for general manager Marc Bergevin.
As for Petry, he's been an important piece of the defense over the last few years. While She Weber was sidelined with various injuries, it was Petry who picked up the slack. The 32-year-old has struggled over the last little while, but he's a solid right-handed defender has a $5.5 million cap hit. Petry doesn't have to be shipped out of town. The Habs have a lot of young defensemen coming through the pipeline and having Petry and Weber there to help those youngsters wouldn't be a bad idea.
The other situation that needs addressing is Carey Price's contract. The veteran netminder hasn't had much help in front of him this season, but he also hasn't played at the same level we're used to seeing him play at throughout his career. He has a 16-16-4 record with a 3.01 goals-against-average and a .901 save percentage this season.
Price also has six years remaining on a contract that comes with a cap hit of $10.5 million and he also has a full no-movement clause throughout the life of the deal. He won't be going anywhere unless he wants to move somewhere else.
But if he is willing to somewhere else, can the Habs find a taker that's willing him to give them something decent in return for their franchise netminder? Do they even want to trade one of their more important leaders in the locker room? So there are a lot of questions surrounding Price. The Habs need to decide which direction they want to go in.
Will Bergevin be the one to pull the trigger on these moves? Will they move on from their long-time general manager after this season? There's no doubt that the pressure is on. The worst thing that could've happened was the team exceeding expectations last year. This group wasn't ready to take the next step this year and they might still be a few years away from being a serious contender. This is a crucial part of the "reset". Whoever the GM is needs to make sure he keeps/trades the right veterans.
It should be an interesting few months in Montreal.
Tags: Brendan Gallagher, Carey Price, Jeff Petry, Joel Armia, Jonathan Drouin, Marc Bergevin, Montreal Canadiens, Paul Byron, Shea Weber, Brendan Gallagher, Carey Price, Jeff Petry, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Joel Armia, Jonathan Drouin, Marco Scandella, Nate Thompson, Paul Byron, Philip Danault, Riley Sheahan, Tomas Tatar
The Buzzer: Bruins cruise past Canadiens; Stars' streak comes to an end
By Scott CharlesNov 26, 2019, 11:57 PM EST
1. David Pastrnak, Boston Bruins
The Canadiens were no match for the Bruins Tuesday night. David Pastrnak recorded his second hat trick of the season as Boston rolled to an 8-1 victory in Montreal. Pastrnak displayed his wide-ranging skillset while finding the net in a variety of ways. In the first period, Pastrnak launched a one-timer on the power play to give Boston a 2-1 lead. Then, eight seconds into the middle frame, the Czech winger wired a wrister after the Bruins executed a set play on the opening faceoff. He completed his sixth career hat trick with a nifty deflection. Pastrnak leads the NHL in goals and should be considered one of the best pure goal scorers in the League.
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2. Patrick Kane, Chicago Blackhawks
A third-period power-play goal helped Kane extend his individual point streak to 13 games. Kane is one of the most skilled players in the NHL and showed great patience as he converted on the man-advantage. Stars goalie Anton Khudobin made a sliding stop on Alex DeBrincat moments prior to the goal. When Kane received the puck, Khudobin was scrambling to get into position but No. 88 didn't rush the shot and waited until to the right opening presented itself.
3. Kaapo Kahkonen, Minnesota Wild
In his NHL debut, Kahkonen made 32 saves and earned his first victory as the Wild extended their point streak to seven games with a 3-2 win against the New Jersey Devils. Minnesota recalled the 23-year-old goalie from its AHL affiliate on an emergency basis after Devan Dubnyk went home for personal reasons.
Brad Marchand picked up his 600th NHL point, but the play to watch was Jeff Petry's costly turnover.
Pastrnak scored eight seconds into the second period, two seconds shy of the fastest goal to begin any period in Bruins history according to NHL Public Relations. Boston executed the play to perfection while Montreal just watched it happen.
Brad Marchand is just the fourth player in the last 45 years to record his 40th point in 24 team games or fewer [NHL PR]
Canadiens allowed 14 goals in a span of 2 home games for the first time since January 22 – 27, 1972 [Sportsnet Stats]
Carey Price is pulled from a start for the first time since Dec 9, 2017 vs. Edmonton [Sportsnet Stats]
David Pastrnak has 23 goals through the Bruins' first 24 games of 2019-20. The last player with more through that span was Mario Lemieux in 1992-93. [NHL PR].
Wild 3, Devils 2
Bruins 8, Canadiens 1
Blackhawks 3, Stars 2
Tags: Boston Bruins, Brad Marchand, Chicago Blackawks, Dallas Stars, David Pastrnak, Jeff Petry, Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, New Jersey Devils, Patrick Kane, The Buzzer, Alex DeBrincat, Anton Khudobin, Brad Marchand, Carey Price, David Pastrnak, Devan Dubnyk, Jeff Petry, Patrick Kane
The Buzzer: Wrapping up wild Saturday around the NHL
By Adam GretzOct 6, 2019, 1:43 AM EDT
1. Mika Zibanejad, New York Rangers. What a start to the year for the Rangers' top center. Playing alongside big free agent acquisition Artemi Panarin, Zibanejad already has eight points in two games and had a hat trick on Saturday in a 4-1 win over the Ottawa Senators, scoring an even-strength goal, a power play goal, and a shorthanded goal. Read more about it here.
2. Mike Hoffman, Florida Panthers. The other hat trick in the NHL on Saturday belonged to Hoffman as he was the difference in the Panthers' 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. After scoring a career-high 36 goals in his debut season with the Panthers a year ago, he already has four goals in his first two games this season.
3. John Gibson, Anaheim Ducks. When he is on top of his game Gibson can be the best goalie in hockey. He showed that on Saturday by turning aside 35 of the 36 shots he faced in a 3-1 win over the San Jose Sharks. Gibson and the Ducks handed San Jose its third consecutive defeat to begin the season. The Ducks are now 2-0 with Gibson stopping 67 of the first 69 shots he has faced over the first two games.
Other notable performances on Saturday
Patric Hornqvist and Jared McCann both scored a pair of goals for the Pittsburgh Penguins as they rebounded from an ugly season opening loss to rout the Columbus Blue Jackets, 7-2.
The Sabres dominated the New Jersey Devils, 7-2, thanks to a pair of two goal efforts from Sam Reinhart and rookie Victor Olofsson. Rasmus Dahlin also had three assists for the now 2-0 Sabres.
James Neal scored two goals for the Edmonton Oilers as they were able to hold on for a wildly entertaining back-and-forth win over the Los Angeles Kings. Connor McDavid also had four points (one goal, three assists) in the win.
Tyler Bertuzzi scored two goals and added two more assists to help lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-3 win over the Nashville Predators to open their season.
Brayden Schenn celebrated his new eight-year contract extension with the St. Louis Blues by scoring his first goal of the season in their 3-2 win over the Dallas Stars.
Jaroslav Halak stopped all 35 shots he faced for the Boston Bruins, and they needed every one of those saves in a 1-0 win over the Arizona Coyotes.
Colorado's big three of Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, and Gabriel Landeskog were once again dominate in a 4-2 over the Minnesota Wild.
Johnny Gaudreau had three points (one goal, two assists) and David Rittich stopped all 34 shots he faced for the Calgary Flames in their 3-0 win over the Vancouver Canucks.
The Carolina Hurricanes were overtime winners once again, this time erasing a two-goal third period deficit against the Washington Capitals. New addition Jake Gardiner scored the game-winner, his first as a member of the Hurricanes.
The prettiest play of the night was still probably the passing play by the Rangers to set up Zibanejad's second goal.
The Oilers were winners, but it was still a frustrating night for goalie Mike Smith at times as he had a couple of early mishaps playing the puck. This one was especially tough for him.
He had another turnover behind the net later in the period that resulted in another easy Kings goal. Fortunately the Oilers offense showed up in a big way.
Honorable mention blooper: Kasperi Kapanen's ridiculous stick-throwing penalty that helped complete the Montreal Canadiens' third period rally. Watch it again here. It set the stage for the Canadiens' shootout win. Brendan Gallagher also had a huge night for Montreal, recording three points.
The Boston Bruins have won 15 consecutive games against the Arizona Coyotes, tied for the longest active win streak for one team against a single opponent. [NHL PR]
Phil Kessel played in his 776th consecutive regular season game on Saturday night, tying him for the seventh-longest consecutive games played streak in NHL history. [NHL PR]
Jeff Petry's penalty shot goal was just the second penalty shot goal by a defender in Canadiens history. [NHL PR]
Sidney Crosby had a fight and moved into a tie with Jean Beliveau for 41st on the NHL's all-time points list. [NHL PR]
The Avalanche are nearly unbeatable when all three of MacKinnon, Rantanen, and Landeskog record at least one point in a single game. [NHL PR]
McDavid's four-point game was already his eighth in the NHL. Only Nikita Kucherov, Patrick Kane, and Johnny Gaudreau have more four-point games since McDavid entered the league. [NHL PR]
Buffalo Sabres 7, New Jersey Devils 2
Montreal Canadiens 6, Toronto Maple Leafs 5 (SO)
New York Rangers 4, Ottawa Senators 1
Florida Panthers 4, Tampa Bay Lightning 3
Pittsburgh Penguins 7, Columbus Blue Jackets 2
Carolina Hurricanes 3, Washington Capitals 2 (OT)
St. Louis Blues 3, Dallas Stars 2
Detroit Red Wings 5, Nashville Predators 3
Boston Bruins 1, Arizona Coyotes 0
Colorado Avalanche 4, Minnesota Wild 2
Anaheim Ducks 3, San Jose Sharks 1
Calgary Flames 3, Vancouver Canucks 0
Edmonton Oilers 6, Los Angeles Kings 5
Tags: Anaheim Ducks, Arizona Coyotes, Boston Bruins, Brayden Schenn, Brendan Gallagher, Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, Carolina Hurricanes, Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Connor McDavid, Dallas Stars, David Rittich, Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, Florida Panthers, Gabriel Landeskog, Jake Gardiner, James Neal, Jared McCann, Jaroslav Halak, Jeff Petry, John Gibson, Johnny Gaudreau, Kasperi Kapanen, Los Angeles Kings, Mika Zibanejad, Mike Hoffman, Mike Smith, Mikko Rantanen, Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, Nashville Predators, Nathan MacKinnon, New Jersey Devils, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, Patric Hornqvist, Pittsburgh Penguins, Rasmus Dahlin, Sam Reinhart, San Jose Sharks, Sidney Crosby, St. Louis Blues, Tampa Bay Lightning, The Buzzer, Toronto Maple Leafs, Tyler Bertuzzi, Vancouver Canucks, Victor Olofsson, Washington Capitals, Artemi Panarin, Brayden Schenn, Brendan Gallagher, Connor McDavid, David Rittich, Gabriel Landeskog, Jake Gardiner, James Neal, Jared McCann, Jaroslav Halak, Jeff Petry, John Gibson, Johnny Gaudreau, Kasperi Kapanen, Mika Zibanejad, Mike Hoffman, Mike Smith, Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon, Nikita Kucherov, Patric Hornqvist, Patrick Kane, Phil Kessel, Rasmus Dahlin, Sam Reinhart, Sidney Crosby, Tyler Bertuzzi, Victor Olofsson
Kapanen's stick throwing penalty helps Canadiens rally past Maple Leafs (Video)
By Adam GretzOct 5, 2019, 10:27 PM EDT
Kasperi Kapanen is an excellent young player for the Toronto Maple Leafs with a very bright future ahead of him. But this was not one of his finest moments in the NHL.
Late in the third period with his team clinging to a one-goal lead, Kapanen committed a completely ridiculous penalty that helped the Montreal Canadiens complete a wild third period comeback that eventually produced a 6-5 Montreal win.
Here's what happened: While attempting to block a shot by Montreal's Jeff Petry, Kapanen's stick snapped in half after it was struck by the shot. Instead of just dropping the broken end to the ice and continuing on with the play, he instead decided to throw it at Petry while he attempted to make a play with the puck.
This, of course, is an illegal play and Petry was immediately rewarded with a penalty shot. He ended up scoring on his attempt, tying the game at four apiece and completing a third period rally that saw the Canadiens erase what had been a 4-1 deficit.
Here is the entire sequence.
The Canadiens took the lead a few minutes later on a Phillip Danault goal, only to have Auston Matthews answer with his second goal of the game for Toronto to send the game to overtime.
But Montreal was still able to pick up the extra point in the shootout, and it is entirely possible it never would have made it there had it not been for Kapanen's decision to throw his broken stick at Petry.
Tags: Jeff Petry, Kasperi Kapanen, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Auston Matthews, Jeff Petry, Kasperi Kapanen, Phillip Danault
It's Montreal Canadiens day at PHT
By Mike HalfordAug 21, 2015, 9:00 AM EDT
If you wanted the story of Montreal's '14-15 campaign, all you had to do was watch the NHL Awards.
Or more specifically, the Carey Price awards.
Price was at the microphone four times to celebrate his banner campaign: Once for the Hart Trophy as league MVP, once for the Vezina as the NHL's top netminder, once for the Ted Lindsay award as the most outstanding player as voted by the players, and once for the William Jennings Trophy as a goalie on the team that allowed the fewest goals in the regular season.
OK, he did have to share that last one with Corey Crawford. But you get the idea.
Simplistic as it sounds, Montreal's season was mostly about Price, in that the Habs went as far as their star goalie would take them. Sure, other Canadiens played integral roles — Max Pacioretty scored 37 goals, P.K. Subban was a Norris Finalist — but for the most part, the 50 wins and 110 points and second-round playoff appearance was due to No. 31.
Which begs the question:
Can he do it again?
Off-season recap
GM Marc Bergevin's spent most of the summer attending to in-house business. All three of his trade deadline pickups — Brian Flynn, Torrey Mitchell and Jeff Petry — were extended, with Petry scoring the biggest with a six-year, $33 million deal.
Youngsters Alex Galchenyuk, Michael Bournival, Jarred Tinordi, Christian Thomas, Greg Pateryn and Nathan Beaulieu were also given new deals, while veterans Mike Weaver, Sergei Gonchar, Manny Malhotra and P.A. Parenteau (via buyout) were sent packing.
As for new faces? Zack Kassian was acquired from Vancouver in exchange for Brandon Prust, while Carolina castoff Alex Semin was signed to a one-year, $1.1M deal after the 'Canes bought him out.
At the draft, Montreal used its first-round pick to select WHL Everett blueliner Noah Juulsen 26th overall.
All in all, it was a perfunctory offseason for the Habs. Firmly in the mix as an Eastern Conference contender, the club didn't feel the need to make a big summer splash — in fact, based on the Flynn and Mitchell and Petry contracts, it could be argued that Bergevin's upgrading happened on Mar. 2, not July 1.
Tags: Alex Galchenyuk, Alex Semin, Brandon Prust, Brian Flynn, Carey Price, Chicago Blackhawks, Corey Crawford, Jeff Petry, Max Pacioretty, Michael Bournival, Montreal Canadiens, Nathan Beaulieu, P.K. Subban, Torrey Mitchell, Vancouver Canucks, Zack Kassian
Where do Habs go from here? January 10, 2020 10:30 am EST The Buzzer: Bruins cruise past Canadiens; Stars' streak comes to an end November 26, 2019 11:57 pm EST The Buzzer: Wrapping up wild Saturday around the NHL October 6, 2019 1:43 am EDT Kapanen's stick throwing penalty helps Canadiens rally past Maple Leafs (Video) October 5, 2019 10:27 pm EDT It's Montreal Canadiens day at PHT August 21, 2015 9:00 am EDT Oilers' biggest question: What about the blue line? August 10, 2015 1:44 pm EDT There are some interesting players left on the UFA market July 12, 2015 10:46 pm EDT Habs re-sign deadline pickup Flynn: two years, $1.9 million June 30, 2015 1:14 pm EDT Agent: Franson has spoken with 'half a dozen' teams (Updated) June 29, 2015 6:40 pm EDT Report: Habs have offered Bournival a one-year, two-way deal June 22, 2015 11:45 pm EDT Habs hand Torrey Mitchell a three-year deal reportedly worth $3.6M June 15, 2015 7:25 pm EDT Habs sign Beaulieu to a two-year, $2 million extension June 13, 2015 3:08 pm EDT Hearing from Price and Subban 'weighed in a lot' on Petry's decision June 2, 2015 8:30 pm EDT Habs sign Petry to a six-year, $33 million extension June 2, 2015 6:19 pm EDT After prepping for three years, Franson excited to test free agency May 30, 2015 1:00 pm EDT Habs cutting ties with Gonchar, Malhotra, Weaver May 15, 2015 2:55 pm EDT Petry says signing with Montreal is his first choice May 14, 2015 1:12 pm EDT Not today: Montreal crushes Lightning to force Game 5 May 7, 2015 9:52 pm EDT Stamkos, power play comes alive as Lightning take 2-0 series lead vs. Habs May 3, 2015 8:52 pm EDT Video: Habs' penalty trouble costs them early lead May 3, 2015 7:14 pm EDT Habs' Petry hurt after blocking Garrison slap shot, returns for second period May 1, 2015 8:16 pm EDT Report: Oilers to offer Schultz a one-year deal April 12, 2015 9:45 am EDT Habs' Petry (flu) returns vs. Sharks March 21, 2015 11:30 am EDT Bolts admit 'there's a lot at stake' tonight in Montreal March 10, 2015 1:20 pm EDT That was fast: Petry will play for Habs tonight March 2, 2015 8:14 pm EST Winners and losers of the 2015 trade deadline March 2, 2015 5:25 pm EST PHT's 2015 NHL Trade Deadline Tracker March 2, 2015 4:00 pm EST Habs add another Sabres forward in Mitchell deal March 2, 2015 3:07 pm EST Habs add forward depth, acquire Flynn from Sabres March 2, 2015 10:51 am EST Trade: Montreal acquires Petry from Edmonton for two draft picks March 2, 2015 9:24 am EST PHT Morning Skate: Ovechkin blames tumble on sniper, is Larry King's favorite player March 2, 2015 7:55 am EST Trotz doesn't see a 'big, sexy, difference-maker guy' on the market February 26, 2015 3:04 pm EST Lombardi happy to get 'one of the better defenseman on the market' in Sekera February 26, 2015 11:42 am EST Oilers have had 'constructive conversations' with Petry's agent, but no contract yet February 20, 2015 3:43 pm EST Back from the brink, Kings still 'have a lot of work left to do' February 19, 2015 11:50 am EST Marincin scores the winner as the Oilers edge the Bruins in a 12-round shootout February 19, 2015 2:15 am EST Oilers lose Petry and Lander vs. Bruins February 19, 2015 12:25 am EST PHT Morning Skate: Miracle on Ice memorabilia will be auctioned February 18, 2015 8:00 am EST Report: Polak 'coveted' by Kings February 17, 2015 11:49 am EST Petry's agent thinks his client will be traded February 14, 2015 9:07 pm EST


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Cardinals' 2015 Ticket Packs and All-Inclusive Seats On Sale Friday
by Conclave Staff on December 3, 2014
Variety of five and ten-game packs available for as low as $79
ST. LOUIS, December 3, 2014 – Cardinals ticket sales for the 2015 season begin this Friday, December 5th at noon CT. Fans can purchase single game All-Inclusive tickets or choose from a variety of five and ten-game ticket packs centered around popular promotional items and key matchups.
"We're excited to kick off our ticket sales for the upcoming 2015 season," said Joe Strohm, Vice President of Ticket Sales for the Cardinals. "Ticket packs and All-Inclusive tickets are a great gift-giving idea for Cardinals fans every holiday season."
Three ten-game packs are available for the 2015 season including the perennially popular Opening Day Pack which includes a ticket to Opening Day and five weekend games; the Jersey Pack featuring seven replica jersey/pullover giveaway dates; and the Value Pack which includes ten games for the price of a five-game pack.
A total of seven five-game packs are available this season which feature many of the season's best promotional giveaways. The Bobblehead Pack gives fans first access to highly-anticipated promotional game dates featuring four bobbleheads (Yadier Molina Gold Glove, Matt Carpenter, Lance Berkman, and the voice-chipped Harry Caray bobble). Also available for 2015 is the 1985 NL Champions Pack which is highlighted by four promotional items celebrating the 30th anniversary of the '85 squad and the Ring Pack which features all three replica ring promotions ('82 and '67 World Champs and '85 NL Champs). Additional five-game packs include the Cubs Pack, Friday Pack, Weekend Pack, and Sunday Pack. Five-game pack prices start as low as $79.
Value is the key element of All-Inclusive tickets, where complimentary food and beverages are included in the price of each ticket.Friday is the first opportunity for fans to purchase 2015 single-game tickets in the UMB Champions Club, Commissioner's Box, Bank of America Club, Legends Club, Coca-Cola Areas, Homer's Landing & Leftfield Landing, and MVP Deck, as well as the AT&T Rooftop, Cardinals Nation Balcony, and Branch Rickey Room inside Cardinals Nation at Ballpark Village. All-Inclusive ticket prices start at just $55.
Tickets will be available online at cardinals.com, via phone at 314.345.9000, or at the Busch Stadium Ticket Windows on 8th Street. For more information on the upcoming ticket on-sales, fans can visit cardinals.com/holiday. A detailed listing of all 2015 ticket packs follows. (Click to embiggen.)
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Datan 3rd Rd. ~ Datan 3rd Rd.
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Jingjian 4th Rd. ~ Jingjian 4th Rd.
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郵遞區號表 3+2碼 328 桃園市觀音區 桃園市 觀音區 長安路 TAIWAN R.O.C ZipCode Postal Code Taoyuan City Guanyin Dist. Chang'an Rd.
Baiyu 1st Rd. ~ Baiyu 1st Rd.
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Baosheng 3rd St. ~ Baosheng 3rd St.
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Fuchun Rd. ~ Fuchun Rd.
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Xing 1st St. ~ Xing 1st St.
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Jiuru 3rd St. ~ Jiuru 3rd St.
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Yongji St. ~ Yongji St.
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Zhengda Rd. ~ Zhengda Rd.
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Jingjian 6th Rd. ~ Jingjian 6th Rd.
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Baosheng 9th St. ~ Baosheng 9th St.
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Qixian 1st St. ~ Qixian 1st St.
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Ganquan St. ~ Ganquan St.
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Liuhe 3rd St. ~ Liuhe 3rd St.
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Jiuru 1st St. ~ Jiuru 1st St.
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Anhe St. ~ Anhe St.
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Ladies first:
Elisabeth Stoudmann, web co-ordinator, Lausanne (writes in French)
Freelance journalist, blogger and music consultant, Elisabeth Stoudmann has been a musical activist for over 20 years. Co-founder of Vibrations magazine and author of the Couleur 3 biography, she's particularly involved with the cultural exchange and interaction between music from all over the world. www.elisabethstoudmann.com.
Julie Henoch, contributor, Lausanne (writes in French)
Julie Henoch worked for 9 years at Couleur 3 as a producer and for many years in the editorial section of the music magazine Vibrations. Since 2009 she's been an actively organising cultural events in Switzerland as head of projects or programming. In 2013 she set up her own multidisciplinary artists' agency 'POWA'.
Debra Richards, contributor, London (writes in English)
Since getting her first record player, aged 6 years, London-born Debra fell head-over-heels in love with vinyl. Deciding that everyone should listen to her records she became a DJ, whilst writing for Blues & Soul magazine and producing/presenting on radio stations including Couleur 3. She has also been an Interactive Editor for BBC Radio and, despite her doctor's advice, still likes to throw some shapes on the dance floor.
Fabienne Schmuki, contributor, Zurich (writing in German)
Head of Irascible Deutschschweiz office, Promotion & Distribution; working as a freelance journalist. Education: Bachelor in journalism & communication; Master in Art Education. Commitments: Member of the Popkredit commitee of Zurich, Member of the RegioSoundCredit Jury with RFV Basel.
Beatrice Venturini (Miss B), contributor/translator, Lausanne (writes in English)
A protagonist of the London jazz scene since the late 80s and a constant feature behind the decks at the legendary Blue Note club and the Jazz Café. Spent the 90s DJing, presenting music radio shows in Italy and compiling CDs for Irma Records. Now resident in Lausanne, Beatrice has branched out into teaching and translating, but continues to jazz up the dancefloors in her spare time.
And the gentlemen….
Timothée Barrière, contributor, Paris (writes in French)
Freelance and open-minded journalist of the French press, Timothée Barrière has been collaborating with the Nouvel Observateur for 7 years, wandering off regularly to work on Les Inrockuptibles, l'Express or Standard Magazine. We're still waiting for the publication of his first novel.
Jean-Cosme Delaloye, contributor, New York (writes in English and French)
Je an-Cosme has covered many crises around the world. In the past few years, he has done in-depth stories in Central America for the Tribune de Genève and for Swiss Public Radio. Due for release this year : By my Side, his first documentary as a director. He loves soccer, rock'n roll and used to play bass in the band Room. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Danielle and his children, Léon and Joséphine.
www.tpinews.com
Olivier Horner, contributor, Geneva (writes in French)
Specialising in new music, Olivier Horner has worked as a journalist since 1998. He worked from 2001 to 2012 for the daily Swiss newspaper Le Temps and wrote for various French musical magazines, (Chorus, Vibrations, Serge). A frequent voice on French-speaking Swiss radio, author of two books (Paléo, la magie de l'éphémère and Romands rock), contributor to the documentary Jumping the Shadow and the portrait of the English singer, Wayne Paul. He also manages a blog dedicated to song called L'âme-son (the soul-sound). He currently works for the radio station RTSinfo.
Hans-Peter Kuenzler, contributor, London (writes in German and English)
Hanspeter Kuenzler left Switzerland due to the usual musical differences and arrived in London just as Rip Rig & Panic were tearing up the rule books. He stumbled into journalism more by luck than design and has been earning his vinyl tokens by writing about music ever since. Today, his features appear regularly in Switzerland's NZZ, as well as Germany's Musik Express. For several years he produced and presented a weekly music show on the BBC World Service, and he appears frequently on Radio SRF in Switzerland. www.hanspeterkuenzler.com
Benedikt Sartorius, contributor, Bern (writes in German)
Benedikt Sartorius is a freelance journalist from Berne. He writes for Woz, Der Bund, Zuritipp, as well as for the music magazine Loop. He launched his own music blog in March 2014 called Tonspuren. He's also one of the instigators of the "Song & Dance men" film series in Berne (Cinématte).
Sourivanh Thalong, contributor, Zurich (writes in German)
Growing into being a music enthusiast since picking up the guitar as a child the professional insight into the music business has only broadened his horizon, still coming to know everyday about all the hidden corners in the world of music. Sourivanh has just completed his Bachelor's degree in media studies in Zurich and currently works for the Swiss music promotion and distribution agency Irascible.
Manfred Tari, contributor, Dortmund (writes in German)
Manfred Tari has worked in the music industry since 1987. From 1989 to 1998 he organised the concert programme of the German music convention Popkomm. From 1999 onwards he worked as a journalist mainly for trade publications such as Musikmarkt, IQ-Magazine, Music & Copyright and Vip News. From 2004 to 2008 he worked for the conference agenda of Popkomm and since 2009 has provided the same service to the Hamburg based Reeperbahn Festival & Campus.
Marty Tobin, contributor, Paris (writes in French)
Sound engineer, Marty Tobin is currently working as a soundman and sound designer (fiction, advertising). He is also composing pop-rock tracks for various French artists and preparing un album with his own band (electronic music). Last but not least, he is contributing to the music website quai-baco.


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Hilary Lewis
Jan. 19, 2009, 12:12 PM
George W. Bush has no idea how much the economic downturn has affected his net worth because all of his stocks and bonds are in a blind trust. But he'll find out what (and how much) he owns on Wednesday, he told Larry King (according to Cindy Adams's column in today's New York Post.) Might want to have a doctor on hand when he checks his portfolio.
Fortunately, he probably won't be as shocked by his brand new house in Dallas, even though he said he's never seen that either. There are plenty of pictures of that on the Internets, Mr. President.
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The 9-ball individuals have commenced at the Dynamic Billard European Championships for Men, Women and Wheelchair Athletes in the Salgados Palace Hotel in Albufeira, Portugal. In an exciting encounter in winner's round 1, Marco Teutscher (NED) bested teammate Ivar Saris (NED) 9:8.
Teutscher had the far better start in the match. He took a comfortable 6:2 lead over Saris and the match did not look to become exciting or anything like it at all. It was expected to be a clear affair for Teutscher. But Saris has shown some impressive shooting during this week and did not want to give up without providing a heavy fight to Teutscher. After 10 racks, Teutscher was leading 7:3. All of a sudden the tide turned in the match and Saris got going. He won rack after rack and pulled incredible five racks in a row from Teutscher, being on the hill now with 8:7 over Teutscher. Now the heat was on in the match. Teutscher needed to come up with his best performance to even the match one last time at 8:8.
Rack 17 had to be the decider. That rack turned out to be nerve wrecking for both players and the audience. Teutscher committed the first mistake and gave the table with all balls spread out nicely to Saris. Saris played until he got to the 5-ball. He got no position to pocket it so he played a decent safety shot, leaving the cue ball on the foot rail with the 5-ball on the head rail with the 8-ball interfering a direct shot. Teutscher countered that position with a jump shot, leaving an equal situation for Saris now. Several safety shots were executed on the 5-ball when finally Teutscher forced Saris to commit a foul. That gave bad in hand for Teutscher who took his chance and ran the table to win the match by a margin of 9:8 over Saris. In the same round, Ralf Souquet (GER) won 9:2 over local hero Joao Grilo (POR).
In the women's division, the defending Champion Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL) was not in attendance this year. One remarkable match however was the encounter between Kelly Fisher (GBR) and Veronika Ivanovskaia (GER). Fisher, the WPA World 10-ball Champion 2011 and World 9-ball Champion 2012, was the favoured player in that match. Holding a British passport but residing in the United States for quite some years now, Fisher came to the EC solely for the purpose to become first or second in the 9-ball in order to be nominated for the World Games in Poland this year. She is on a mission here in Albufeira. However, her European opponents also would like to have the honour to represent Europe at that high profile event, one of them being Ivanovskaia.
After 6 racks, Ivanovskaia was leading surprisingly clear with 5:1. In rack 7, she fell out of position for the 5-ball and gave the rack as a gift to Fisher instead of getting on the hill herself. That brought momentum back to Fisher's game. She pulled rack after rack from Ivanovskaia and after 10 rack, the scoreboard only displayed a 6:4 lead for Ivanovskaia. Being on the hill, the German just could not close the book on the match. She committed a foul in a crucial situation at 6:4 and gave ball in hand to Fisher who ran the rack to close the gap to 5:6. The next rack started with a safety battle on the 1-ball. Attempting a safety shot on the 1-ball, Ivanovskaia scratched again and allowed Fisher to the table with ball in hand. The expirenced former World Champion showed nerves of steel and ran the rack to tie the match hill-hill at 6:6. That gave a second life to Fisher and the odds were going down for Ivanovskaia.
The German then took her time-out and tried to get her things together and win the needed last frame. She broke the balls in rack 13 herself. To her horror, no ball went in, all balls were spread in a nice layout without any further problems and the cue ball was in a good position for pocketing the 1-ball. Now all chances were on Fisher's side. But she got a bad position for the 3-ball so she decided to play a safety shot and leave Ivanovskaia an almost impossible position… almost! Ivanovskaia played a combination shot 3-ball to the 7-ball and ran the rack and finished Kelly Fisher's hopes for an easy run to the title at the women's 9-ball individuals with a 7:6 victory. Other remarkable results in the women's division include Melanie Suessenguth (GER) defeating Tamara Peeters-Rademakers (NED) by a whisker 7:6. Peeters-Rademakers one round earlier defeated her niece Megan Rademakers (NED) with 7:2.
In the wheelchair division, all-time favourite Jouni Tahti (FIN) was taught a lesson in the first round by opponent Matt Duffy (GBR). 7:2 was the more than clear result in favour of Duffy in the first round of the 9-ball individuals in the wheelchair division. Defending Champion Henrik Larsson (SWE) won his opening match 7:3 over David Himpe (BEL).
Tonight, two more rounds of team competition will be played.
Tomorrow, the tournament will continue at 09:00 GMT with matches from the 9-ball individuals competition.


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News / Tech
Netflix and Disney Plus: How different are the two streaming giants
Netflix has been dominating the world of streaming for quite some time now. Indeed, it wouldn't be wrong to argue that Netflix was the chief player behind the success that led to the binge-watch streaming trend.
The small buffering times and smooth streaming enabled by automatic selection of video quality suited for all types of users made for an amazing streaming experience. With the passage of time, other streaming services improved their quality as well.
Now, the industry is reaching the age of maturity and Netflix is no longer the only player in this sector. With Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and now the recently launched Disney+ and Apple TV+, viewers have far more options than they did a few years ago.
Many commentators believe Disney+ will be the fiercest rival that Netflix will have to face and current statistics seem to be confirming that assertion. In less than a year, Disney Plus has crossed the 60.5 million mark in terms of subscribers, which is even higher than the projections.
Assuming that Netflix and Disney+ will be the main players of streaming rivalries, let's examine the key differences between the two streaming giants.
Geographical availability
One of the greatest competitive advantages that Netflix has over other streaming services is the almost global presence of the service. With the exception of China, Syria, North Korea, and a few other countries, Netflix is available everywhere.
In contrast, Disney Plus is available in some 30+ countries and is still in the process of worldwide expansion. Like Netflix, there are differences in the content catalogs of Disney+ in each region it is available in. So, some shows and movies can only be accessed from certain countries.
In both cases, viewers have no choice but to resort to VPNs for bypassing geo-restrictions and access any region's library. Recently, VPNRanks tested more than 10+ VPNs for Disney+ but recommends only five of them based on their test results. These VPNs are even handier for people located in countries where Disney+ doesn't have a presence at all because, for them, the only access-point to Disney+ is through a VPN.
Due to the fact that many regions are still in the dark about Disney+, Netflix is still quite ahead of the race. Until Disney Plus expands in as many regions as Netflix, it will be hard for the former to compete with the latter at the highest level.
Titles and content
Since Disney only launched last year, it obviously has a much smaller catalog of content and titles, even when taking into account regional differences in catalogs. Currently, Disney has about 500 movies and 7,500 episodes of TV shows. This pales in comparison to Netflix which boasts a library of over 4,000 movies and around 47,000 episodes.
Netflix also stands tall in terms of the quality of original productions. With titles like Stranger Things, Space Force, The Irishman, Russian Doll, Dark, Sex Education and a lot more, the streaming giant has shown that it's not only good at providing excellent service, but it is also capable of producing top-notch original content.
For its part, Disney+ has produced some excellent titles including The Mandalorian, Mulan, Artemis Fowl, and the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe TV shows due to be released in 2020 and 2021. Indeed, some Marvel-associated Netflix productions such as Daredevil are quite likely to be produced by Disney+ as Marvel regains the rights to these titles again.
So, while Netflix has the clear advantage in terms of number of titles and diversity of content, Disney+ is continuously expanding its library with all the new titles scheduled to be released soon.
Netflix offers three different subscription plans. The costing looks like this: Basic ($8.99), Standard ($12.99), Premium ($15.99). The basic plan offers no support for HD quality streams and there's only a single screen available so users can't share the same account for simultaneous streaming.
Disney Plus follows a different approach with only a one-size-fits-all subscription plan costing only $6.99. A single Disney+ account supports 10 screens at the same time. That's pretty awesome as compared to Netflix which only offers four screens even with the most expensive plan. You can also get a bundle offer consisting of Disney Plus + Hulu + ESPN Plus subscriptions for $12.99/month, which is still cheaper than Netflix's Premium account.
Disney also offers a 7-day free trial though Netflix has discontinued the free trial period. Instead, Netflix now offers a 50% discount for the first 2 months for new users. So as far as prices are concerned, Disney is far more affordable as compared to Netflix.
Episode rollout
Another important difference between Netflix and Disney+ is how they rollout episodes for shows. Netflix typically releases all episodes of a season at once, compelling viewers to binge-watch a complete season within a few days. Disney+, in contrast, is following the traditional one-episode-per-week approach.
The slow episode rollout approach might not resonate well with viewers that are used to binge-watching, but many recent shows such as Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Game of Thrones used the weekly-episodes timeline with great success.
Disney+ and Netflix are different in their own ways, but they are still close enough to compete fiercely with one another. As the number of titles and regional availability of Disney+ grows, so will the level of competition between the two services.
For viewers, this competition will only spell benefit as these streaming services will have even more incentive to excel in their respective strengths to retain their viewers and continue attracting more. Although Netflix is leading the race for the time being, the fact that Disney has the rights to the Marvel Cinematic Universe means Netflix is going to see a strong competitor in the form of Disney+ in the years to come.
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Le Chanteur (Roberto Alagna)
Roberto Alagna (tenor), et al (Sony Classical)
Songs by Donadel, Glanzberg, Kosma, Macias, Pastel, Vega, Reinhardt, Himmel, Heyral, Brel, et al
Roberto Alagna (tenor), et al
Sony Classical 19439790592 44:18 min
A Sunday in a music studio in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. It's full of people: technicians, 13 instrumentalists and their supporters, the tenor Roberto Alagna, his wife, two daughters and grandson. And somehow, amid the friendly whirl, they manage in that one day to lay down 15 tracks of popular songs – Jacques Brel, Joseph Kosma, Django Reinhardt and others I've never heard of. But if the atmosphere is 'décontractée', there's nothing remotely casual or amateurish about the artistry.
Classical singers in general are wise to approach popular music with caution. It's a field with its own rules and habits, and it's easy for those unversed in these to sound unpersuasive or, worse still, dull. Alagna, though, makes light of such things – while his mother initiated him as a boy into opera, popular music was the delight of his father. In short, this is an utterly enchanting disc. Alagna understands the looser rhythms of the style, often with early entries, and of course slides. And (Oh joy!) we can hear every word, many of them not in the eccentric liner notes. Variety comes from different combinations of instrumentalists, including some staggering riffs from clarinet and trumpet in 'Bohémienne aux grands yeux noirs', as well as from effortlessly beautiful contributions elsewhere by Alagna's two daughters. He'd been wanting to record this repertoire for years, only his agent always had an opera in view. If you're looking for a silver lining to this covidiotic world, look no further. And may it be the first of many!
Roger Nichols
Roberto Alagna reviews
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Here at UK Card Crafts, you will find many different paper sizes. All of our paper products conform to the paper dimensions set by the International Standards Organisation (ISO). These standards, which are based on metric measurements, were adopted by the British Standards Institution in 1959 and are used in many countries across the globe.
There are three main series of size standards for paper: the A series, the B series and the C series. However, we shall concentrate on the A sizes for now.
The A series starts at A0, which is the biggest size, and goes up to A10, which is the smallest size. A0 comprises a one square metre rectangle of paper measuring 1189 millimetres in height by 841 millimetres in width. All of the A sizes of paper derive from this starting point, allowing all of the sizes to be measured on the basis of grams per square metre.
The proportion between the two sides of a sheet of paper in the A series is the square root of 2 or 1:1.4142. This 1:1.4142 ratio permits all of the sheets in the A series to be exact multiples of the sheet sizes above and below them. For example, if you cut an A0 sheet in half, you would create two A1 sheets. Within the A series, the most common paper sizes used in crafts are A5, A4 and A3.


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Laura Reece
Mali, West Africa
Laura Reece* serves in Mali, a primarily desert nation where water is precious. It can be a hard place to live and serve.
Laura works with the Samogho people. At first, there was just one Christian believer among them, a woman named Ta. When she died in 2005, there were no other Christians. But Ta's son, Jak, had seen his mother's faith — and he wanted that for his life. So he asked Laura to teach him.
For 10 years, Laura met with Jak once a week to pray and study the Bible. By 2015, Jak and 22 others3 of the Samogho people had become believers. They gathered together and started the first church among their people. By early 2018, seven churches were started with 160 total members. Jak became one of the leaders.
Imagine working 10 years to disciple one young man so God could use him to share the Gospel among his people!
Our church helps support Laura through our Cooperative Program giving. Let us thank God today for giving Laura the courage to live in a hard place and the patience to be faithful.
*Name changed


If you have decided to create your own corporate blog, one of the first things that you may be trying to figure out is what categories to create. Categories allow you to tag and file your blog entries, and they make it easier for your readers to find the specific entries that they are interested in reading based on the tags or categories that you choose.
In other words, deciding how to pick different categories for your corporate blog is an important part of setting your corporate blog up for easy reading.
Choosing the different categories for your corporate blog begins by making a list of the different things that you want to write about in your blog. Once you have a good working list of the subjects that you want to touch on when writing your blog, the next step is going to be to open up a category for each of the topics on your list.
When you are done adding categories for each of these topics, you should create one more additional category that will allow you to cover anything that goes above and beyond the scope of the categories that you already created.
In addition to these categories, you may decide that you also like to blog about meeting interesting people and dining out when you attend corporate events.
If this is the case, then adding a category to house both of these types of blog entries, or adding a category for each of these different types of blog entries will allow readers interested in learning what you are doing to find out about who you are meeting and what types of dining you are experiencing while attending corporate events and dining out with clients and other colleagues.
When you are building your first blog, reading other blogs for advice and inspiration is a good idea. Blogging on making money and blogging about blogging are not the only subjects that make money when it comes to putting together and writing in a blog.
The blogosphere, or the world of blogs, is actually a lot denser with different categories and different topics and subjects that you can write about, which is why blogs are so popular in the first place.
When it comes to choosing categories for your blog, however, it would be wise to look at other corporate blogs that fit into the same niche or industry as yours, to get a feel for what other bloggers are writing about, and what types of blog entries are getting attention in your industry.
Once you have a firm idea of what the current hot topics are, you can create categories that are accommodating, and this will ensure that you are working within defined categories that will attract the interest of your readers.


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25.—(1) Section 67 (regulations and orders) is amended as follows.N.I.
(2) After subsection (3) insert—
"(3A) Where regulations under section 21D(7)(b) provide for the omission of section 21D(5), the provision that may be made by the regulations in exercise of the power conferred by subsection (3)(a) includes provision amending section 21D for the purpose of omitting references to section 21D(5).
(3B) The provision that may be made by regulations under section 21G(5)(b) in exercise of the power conferred by subsection (3)(a) includes provision amending or repealing section 21G(4).".
(3) For subsection (4) (instruments containing orders under section 50(3), which has been repealed, to be subject to affirmative procedure) substitute—
"(4) Subsection (4A) applies to—
(a)the first regulations to be made under section 21H(1);
(b)regulations under section 47J(3);
(c)regulations under section 67A(3);
(d)regulations under paragraph 6A(2) of Schedule 1.
(4A) No regulations to which this subsection applies shall be made unless a draft of the regulations has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly.
(4B) An order under section 47(1), if made without a draft having been laid before and approved by a resolution of, the Assembly shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Assembly; but the exercise of the discretion conferred by this subsection is subject to section 67A.".
I1Sch. 1 para. 25 wholly in operation at 31.12.2007; Sch. 1 para. 25(2)(3) not in operation at date of making see art. 1(2); Sch. 1 para. 25(2)(3) in operation for certain purposes at 3.7.2006 by S.R. 2006/289, art. 2(2); Sch. 1 para. 25 in operation at 31.12.2007 insofar as not already in operation by S.R. 2007/466, art. 2(2)(m)
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