Anusak Yiengpruksawan, M.D., F.A.C.S. Director, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Center and Director, Surgical Oncology Service, Valley Hospital at Ridgewood, New Jersey Dr. Yiengpruksawan graduated Tohoku University, School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan in 1978 and completed a residency in Thoracic Surgery at the same institution. He further pursued specialization in Gastrointestinal Surgery, Endoscopy and Abdominal Ultrasound and Surgical Oncology. Dr. Yiengpruksawan is internationally recognized for his expertise in other minimally invasive surgical procedures to treat cancers of the gastrointestinal system, in the use of endoscopic ultrasound to diagnose and stage tumors, and in radiofrequency ablation using heat energy to destroy liver tumors. He is participating in clinical research funded by the National Cancer Institute to evaluate new treatment combinations for pancreatic, esophageal, and stomach cancers. He was one ofthe first surgeons in New Jersey to use the daVinci Robotic Surgical System to remove a spleen, adrenal glands, and tumors ofthe stomach pancreas, and esophagus. And he developed Valley's radiofrequency ablation program to treat liver tumors. Language: English, Thai, Japanese, and Chinese.


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Despite the seeming correlation in the title this documentary has nothing to do with 9/11. All about the 2008 financial collapse and everyone and everything that caused it to happen. Very, very interesting, at least for the subject matter, very maddening in places, and a bit too thick in information to process all in one sitting (at least for me ).
A documentary that interviews and describes some of the major players of the utterly massive coke importation business in the 1970's and 80's, extremely fast paced, full of likable characters and honestly far more intriguing and enjoyable than movies like Scarface. This film is pure entertainment.
Deeply disturbing documentary following one of the most notorious child molesting priests of all time. Gripping, disgusting and oddly interesting.
Edited by Al5x, 06 April 2011 - 12:44 PM.
The Great Happiness of Space - A very interesting documentary about Japanese hosts. I thought I was gonna watch some wacky Japanese documentary but it turned out to be quite sad but also very interesting.
Anyone interested in Japanese culture should check this one out.
+ everything by BBC Nature.
This. Also Get Lamp, Witch Hunt, Second Skin, and I like to pretend Fubar is a real documentary.
Man on Wire is mindblowing.
and for the kinski fan: my best fiend is an incredible elegy.
theres a ton more, this is just what came to mind first, grizzly man is also really good.
Edited by karmakramer, 06 April 2011 - 03:51 PM.
I was just about to say that it was great to have not seen King of Kong of this thread, dammit Fred.
This one made me respect the Amish a great deal, and AFX is on the soundtrack!
I put this in the youtube thread a while ago but this is a good little insight into the joys of high rise living.
Edited by tec, 06 April 2011 - 04:13 PM.
lesser known but fully mindblowing. not exactly a documentary, not exactly anything really.
Man on Wire and Microcosmos are both really good. I will never, ever, ever understand people who can stomach heights in that way. It's just foreign to me.
Horse Dynasty was pretty good. It's basically about a top secret project in the mid to late 50's where some pretty shady characters in the US government tried to create the ultimate horse. Many people got rich and many more were killed. It's horrible but brilliant.
oh man. american movie is great.
and.. i'm not sure if this is the right one, i can't find any clips but Place de la République(?) it came on TCM right before God's Country, so i think it was a louis malle block or something. but the one i'm thinking of i think was black and white and he just walked around an area of france talking to people on the street, people doing errands and the vendors. doesn't sound interesting when i try to describe it but i enjoyed it.
Edited by Fatcaesar, 06 April 2011 - 05:57 PM.
carl sagan's cosmos. all of it.
Edited by kaini, 06 April 2011 - 07:08 PM.
a must for ANY sports fan. ive seen around 10 of them and they're all totally amazing.. even if im not really into that sport.


The doppelgängers joined Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and more for a cover of Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus at a charity gig.
The pair joined Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, guitarist Mike McCready and singer-songwriter Brandie Carlile at the Moore Theatre in Seattle on Monday (12 February), where they performed a cover of Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus.
The first few seconds of the video sees the Anchorman star provide a lengthy mic-check, before he returns to add accompaniment with his cow bell later on.
Unsuprisingly Chad Smith took his rightful place behind the drum kit for the performance, while Brandie Carlile sung and Eddie Vedder got creative with the tambourine.
The assorted rockers also performed Babe I'm Gonna Leave You- made famous by Joan Baez and Led Zeppelin.
One Classy Night was held in the Washington State city to raise money for the Cancer for College charity, which - according to Billboard -raised over $300,000 (approx £215,000) on the night.
Cancer For College has provided over 1,000 college scholarships to cancer survivors and raised more than $2.5m in grants since 1993.
Meanwhile, a Red Hot Chili Peppers fan hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons this week, after he accidentally booked tickets to see a bagpipe band.
As 6abc reports, Duncan Robb from Chesterfield bought what he thought were tickets to see Anthony Kiedis and co. in Belfast on 10 February, thinking it would help form an early romantic Valentine's Day weekend.
Unfortunately, it wasn't until a few days before Duncan and his partner were headed down to The SSE Arena that they realised the tickets were in fact to see the Red Hot Chilli Pipers- who dub themselves "the most famous bagpipe band on the planet".


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From Robben Island: Palestinian Political Prisoners
Where better to launch an international campaign for the release of all Palestinian political prisoners than on Robben Island?
This windswept island south of Cape Town persistently reminds me of immense cruelty, injustice and oppression… but also of perseverance, of an undying dream of freedom, of the ability of human beings to stand tall in the most horrendous circumstances.
Before sentencing him, the judge in South Africa's Rivonia Trail (1963 – 1964) asked the man who would become the new South Africa's first president, Nelson Mandela, whether he wanted to plead guilty. Mandela answered: "It is not I who should plead guilty, but the government of this country." Mandela and seven others (and in the subsequent years, hundreds more) were found guilty and banned for life to Robben Island.
In reading Mandela's epic autobiography I was deeply touched by his and his fellow prisoners' continued struggle against apartheid within prison. Their life on the island was to them yet another terrain to advocate against discrimination. It was not only the story, but especially the tone that inspired me and made me realise how much I have to learn about courage, tolerance, persistence and forgiveness.
I had this same feeling on Sunday 27 October 2013 when the wife of Marwan Barghouti read a letter he wrote to us from prison….
Our boat left the Cape Town harbour early that morning for Robben Island.
We were on our way to the launch of the international Campaign for the Freedom of Marwan Barghouti and all Palestinian Political Prisoners.
The guests included representatives from NGOs, human rights organisations, trade unions, political parties, former South African anti-apartheid activists and 13 Palestinian dignitaries.
Ahmed (Kathy) Kathrada, one of Mandela's closest friends and comrades, was one of eight ANC members convicted and banned to Robben Island for life during the Rivonia Trail.
Now, half a century later, the 84-year-old Kathrada launched the campaign for the iconic freedom fighter, Marwan Barghouti (54), commonly dubbed "Palestine's Mandela".
Mrs Fadwa Barghouthi, the wife of Marwan Barghouthi read a moving letter from her husband addressed to us, the audience at the launch, in which he appealed for non-violent resistance.
Marwan Barghouti is one of the first (and most popular) Palestinian Members of Parliament arrested and imprisoned by Israel. He was abducted in 2002 by the Israeli army and thereafter tried, convicted and sentenced to five life sentences.
At his trial in 2002, Barghouti refused to participate in its proceedings maintaining that his abduction and the Israeli trial were illegal and illegitimate. In 2011 the international Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) found that his abduction, arrest and transfer to Israeli territory was in violation of international law.
The IPU, together with other international human rights organisations, have subsequently called for his immediate release.
One day, Barghouti and all Palestinians will be free.
May that day arrive soon.
It is possible…
It is possible at least sometimes…
It is possible especially now
To ride a horse
Inside a prison cell
And run away…
It is possible for prison walls
To disappear,
For the cell to become a distant land
Without frontiers:
What did you do with the walls?
I gave them back to the rocks.
And what did you do with the
ceiling?
I turned it into a saddle.
And your chain?
I turned it into a pencil.
The prison guard got angry.
He put an end to the dialogue.
He said he didn't care for poetry,
And bolted the door of my cell.
He came back to see me
In the morning.
He shouted at me:
Where did all this water come from?
I brought it from the Nile.
And the trees?
From the orchards of Damascus.
And the music?
From my heartbeat.
The prison guard got mad.
He put an end to my dialogue.
He said he didn't like my poetry,
But he returned in the evening:
Where did this moon come from?
From the nights of Baghdad.
And the wine?
From the vineyards of Algiers.
And this freedom?
From the chain you tied me with
The prison guard grew so sad…
He begged me to give him back
His freedom.
"Prison cell", by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008)
As with the "Free Mandela" campaign, this international campaign is not about the release of one man.
Barghouti is one of over 5 000 Palestinian political prisoners who remain incarcerated in Israeli jails, many of them children. Almost every Palestinian family has been affected by the political imprisonment of a relative.
Roughly 40% of Palestinian men (over 750 000 Palestinians) have been imprisoned by Israel at one point in time.
About 100 000 Palestinians have been held by Israel in "administrative detention" (the equivalent of Apartheid South Africa's "Detention without trial").
In the last 11 years alone, more than 7500 Palestinian children have been detained in Israeli prisons and detention facilities (including being held in solitary confinement). Such practices are considered illegal under international law.
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Khader Adnan's letter from prison
A Must Read – Khader Adnan's letter from his prison.
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Palestinian children detained under the occupation: Let's end it
The Palestinian children's plight under prolonged occupation: "Let's put an end to it"
NEW YORK – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, urged the Government of Israel to adopt guidelines for the protection of Palestinian children living under occupation who are arrested or detained, in line with international humanitarian and human rights standards.
"Prolonged occupation deforms the development of children through pervasive deprivations affecting health, education, and overall security," warned the independent expert in a report* to the UN General Assembly.
Mr. Falk noted that insecurity of Palestinian children is aggravated in the West Bank by settler violence and night time raids and detentions by Israeli occupation forces, house demolitions, threatened expulsions, and other practices. In Gaza, it is made worst by the blockade and violent incursions, and the still unrepaired destruction of refugee camps, residential communities, and public buildings by Israeli forces during 'Operation Cast Lead.'
"Since 2007, the number of Palestinian children arrested and prosecuted has risen each year, and there is abundant evidence of child abuse associated with interrogations and arrests of children," the rights expert said. "Arrest procedures documented include arrests in the middle of the night, removal of child from parents for questioning, abusive treatment in detention, and conviction procedures that appear to preclude findings of not guilty."
The report notes an instance in which a three-year old girl was taken outside her home at 3 am and threatened at gun point: "She was told she would be shot and her family home destroyed unless she revealed the whereabouts of her brother," Mr. Falk said, "and now, her mother explained, she can't sleep through the night and bedwets."
The expert also noted the frequent settler harassment of Palestinian children on their way to school, which is not stopped by Israeli forces, and has reportedly discouraged many children and their families from attending school. "The failure to prevent and punish settler violence remains a serious and on-going violation of Israel's fundamental legal obligation to protect the civilian population."
Palmer Report
Mr. Falk criticized the Report of the Panel of Inquiry appointed by the Secretary General to investigate the flotilla incident on 31 May 2010, in particular the treatment of the blockade of Gaza as an issue of security, which ignores the adverse humanitarian impacts on food, water, health, and wellbeing in Gaza.
The Palestinian Statehood Bid
"Statehood would expand the options available to Palestinians to fulfill their rights under international law," the Special Rapporteur said. "The Palestinian Authority's request that Palestine be admitted as a member state of the UN is directly relevant to their struggle to realize the right of self-determination."
Bedouin Forced Displacement
"The Bedouin community has been victimized by more than 62 years of occupation, in which has endured severe marginalization," Mr. Falk said noting that serious concerns have been raised recently about an Israeli plan to forcibly displace Bedouin Communities in Area C of the West Bank.
Settler Violence
There has been an increase of more than a 50 per cent in settler violence in 2011, with almost daily accounts of settler vandalism against Palestinian agricultural land and villages. "Part of this disturbing set of developments is a pattern of passive support for settler activities exhibited by Israeli security forces and border police, warned the Special Rapporteur.
(*) Check the full report: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N11/495/52/PDF/N1149552.pdf?OpenElement or http://www.un.org/en/ga/third/66/documentslist.shtml
In 2008, the UN Human Rights Council designated Richard Falk (United States of America) as the fifth Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. The mandate was originally established in 1993 by the UN Commission on Human Rights.
Learn more about the mandate and work of the Special Rapporteur: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/countries/ps/mandate/index.htm
OHCHR Country Page – Occupied Palestinian Territories: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/countries/MENARegion/Pages/PSIndex.aspx
OHCHR Country Page – Israel: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Countries/MENARegion/Pages/ILIndex.aspx
For more information and media requests, please contact Fred Kirungi, OHCHR – New York (+1 917 367 3431 / kirungi@un.org) or write to sropt@ohchr.org.
For media inquiries related to other UN independent experts:
Xabier Celaya, OHCHR Media Unit (+ 41 22 917 9383 / xcelaya@ohchr.org)
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Ayurveda, I only heard this word in combination with wellness but not with food and characteristics. It's more than only wellness because in general, it's a traditional Indian way of healing which belongs to traditional alternative medicine.
Ayurveda means life (ayus) and knowledge (veda) and is a combination of philosophy and experience which contains the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspect. There are 3 doshas – principles of life called Vata, Pitta and Kapha. According to a test, I'm a Pitta-type. Pitta means "bile" and consists of fire and water. It influences the metabolism, produce warmth and is responsible for the digestion.
In the last year, my metabolism got a lot of work when we moved von Europe to Singapore. Different temperature, humidity and food. Our body needs also time to change his usual habits. One of the obvious problems for my body was the heat. The result was that I had to sweat a lot. Also my digestion got a shock due to the move as it works sometimes better and sometimes worse.
– Dislike heat: I like the summer but not the extremely hot season.
– Can't cancel a meal: That isn't possible for me because food is so delicious and I like to try all different food of different countries.
– Tens to be impatient: If I can't manage something like an exercise or things in the household, I will get impatient. I have to try it as long, till I can manage it.
– Tends to be a perfectionist: If I've to do a task, I will do it as long, till it's perfect for me.
– Need sport to can feel good: If I have not enough sports, my mood tends to go down. Most of the time, only sports can change my mood and afterwards I feel always better.
Belongs to physical aspects Pitta tends to excessive sweating, hyperacidity and a huge appetite. Too much Pitta makes problems with your digestion. You are hungry all the time and impatient. I started to sweat a lot in Singapore because of the high humidity, maybe it was part of Pitta. A hyperacidity shows problems with hair and skin, you are more impatient, nervous, tired and changes your mood. Some of them are part of my current life. Natural sweets, green vegetables and uncooked vegetarian food should bring you back to the balance.
Next to skin problems could be diarrhea, inflammation and heartburn typical symptoms when your Pitta is imbalanced. With too much sugar, meat, "white-flour" products, alcohol, coffee you are getting "sour" (acidification) and problems like these can come. Also spicy, sour and saltine meals aren't good for the body and should be avoided. However, healthy are cool drinks, melon, potatoes, coriander, mint, fennel and cardamom which are sweet and bitter.
I tried a lot of different non-pharmalogical but also pharmalogical products. Nothing helped really and the pharmalogical medicine helps against the symptoms but after stopping using them, the problems are coming back. Therefore, I have to start thinking about the root-causes. And my first way will be to change my eating habits. I will avoid meat, sugar and alcohol and will reduce products with "white-flour". I've started 1 week ago and I will see what my body will tell me the next few weeks.


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Chevy Corvette history from 1953 to today's new mid-engined C8
A look back at the past of Chevy's legendary sports car, as well as a look at where it's headed.
Jon Wong
July 19, 2019 12:38 a.m. PT
Jon Wong Former editor for CNET Cars
Jon Wong was a reviews editor for CNET Cars. He test drove and wrote about new cars and oversaw coverage of automotive accessories and garage gear. In his spare time, he enjoys track days, caring for his fleet of old Japanese cars and searching for the next one to add to his garage.
The mid-engined 2020 Corvette C8 is a bold new chapter in a proud sports car legacy.
Today's debut of the all-new, eighth-gen 2020 Chevrolet Corvette would appear to deliver the most radical DNA rewrite in the model's history. The front-engine layout that the American sports car has relied on since its birth in 1953 has been dropped in favor of a mid-engine foundation. The new model will somehow retail under $60,000 for starters and feature a 6.2-liter V8 delivering 495 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque with its optional performance exhaust. In other words, the new Corvette promises an insane amount of sports-car performance for the dollar.
Yes, that puts the new amidships Vette's power output ahead of today's 2019 base C7 Corvette (455 hp and 460 pound-feet), but the new model is far more dramatic a rewrite than this relatively modest power boost would suggest.
To truly appreciate just how profound a change this really is for General Motors' venerable sports car, it's really best to start where it all began, way back in the Fifties.
We're looking forward to seeing the new car muscle into this family of generations C1 through C7.
1953-1962 C1 Corvette: Project Opel
Development of the Corvette began in late 1951 as "Project Opel" and was the brainchild of famed General Motors designer Harley Earl. In January of 1953, the world would get its first glimpse of the Corvette in concept form at the General Motors Motorama auto show in New York City. Six-months later, production versions of the Corvette began rolling off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan. However, by the end of the year, production was transplanted to St. Louis.
The 300 Corvettes producing during 1953 were all powered by a 3.9-liter inline six-cylinder engine churning out 150 horsepower mated to a two-speed automatic transmission. All of the fiberglass bodied cars were painted Polo White with red interiors and carried a sticker price of $3,490. Performance wasn't anything to write home about needing 11.5 seconds to hit 60 mph. Things got better in 1955 when a 4.3-liter V8 making 195 horsepower connected to a three-speed manual gearbox became available thanks in large part to an engineer named Zora Arkus-Duntov. His work on the sports car would eventually earn him the nickname "Father of the Corvette."
Throughout the remainder of its run, the first-gen Corvette became a more credible sports car with the six-cylinder disappearing and a manual transmission becoming standard in 1956. Engine displacement would grow to 4.6-liters to deliver 283 horses and four-speed manual was offered in 1957. By its last year of production in 1962, the C1 Corvette could be optioned to pack as much as 340 horsepower.
Chevy Corvette begins life as Project Opel
1963-1967 C2 Corvette: Birth of the Sting Ray
1965 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray Convertible.
There were some big changes in store for the second-gen Corvette that landed for 1963 including a new Sting Ray name, coupe body and an independent rear suspension. Traits like a fiberglass body and a standard 5.4-liter V8 engine with 250 horsepower carried over. Customers could spec more potent versions of the engine to make 300-, 340-, or 360-horsepower.
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The 1963 model year was the only year the split-rear-window was available on the coupe and the first to offer a race-focused Z06 option package. Chevrolet ultimately took some Z06s that were gutted, featured massaged suspensions and fitted with monster 7.0-liter engines over to Le Mans and ran them in a variety of other sports car series.
Modifications to the C2 Corvette's design, suspension, four-wheel disc brakes and bigger engine options would come online in the years to follow. The range-topping engine option for the C2 Corvette's final year of production in 1967 was the L88. While the factory power rating claimed it produced 435 horsepower, actual output of the 7.0-liter was said to be somewhere from 540 to 580 horsepower. Chevy only produced 20 Corvettes with the L88 powerplant that year.
Chevy Corvette Stingray surfaces in 1962
1968-1982 C3 Corvette: From Sting Ray to Stingray
1973 Chevrolet Corvette.
The third-gen Chevy Corvette rolled out with all-new exterior sheetmetal styled after Mako Shark II concept car and became the first production vehicle to offer T-tops. Carrying over from the previous C2 generation was the chassis and engines. The Stingray (now a single word) name remained affixed to the car through the 1967 model year. It offered both coupe and convertible body styles. The drop-top, however, would disappear after 1975 due to slow sales.
At launch a 5.4-liter small block V8 was standard making 300 horsepower and came standard with a three-speed manual gearbox. It worked with either a four-speed manual or new three-speed automatic. A number of 7.0-liter V8s could also be equipped with power levels ranging from 390 horses up to 430 in the race-only L88 version.
An optionally factory-installed ZR-1 racing package also appeared on the Corvette for the first time in 1969 adding a beefier four-speed transmission, upgraded brakes, specific shocks, springs, antiroll bars and an aluminum radiator. To keep things hardcore, the ZR-1 couldn't be optioned with creature comforts such as power windows, power steering, air conditioning, sound system, or rear window defroster.
Visual updates to the Corvette for 1980 included new bumpers, hood and integrated rear spoiler, while air conditioning, power windows and tilting and telescoping steering wheel became standard features. During 1981, production of Chevy's sports car shifted from St. Louis to Bowling Green, Kentucky where it continues today.
Chevy Corvette saddles up for a 14-year, third-generation run
1984-1996 C4 Corvette: A delayed, but fresh start
1989 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1.
All-new from the ground up, the fourth-gen Chevrolet Corvette was originally slated to roll out for 1983 but suffered delays due to parts and quality hiccups. When it eventually arrived as a 1984 model, the C4 Corvette boasted an entirely new chassis for improved handling, a sleeker body design and digital gauge cluster inside. A convertible also returned to the mix in 1986.
Thanks to changing emissions standards, engine output during the early years of the C4's lifetime weren't stellar. Base output from its 5.7-liter V8 began at less-than-spectacular 205 horsepower. By 1990, power did increase to 245, though. In 1992, entry-level cars got a shot in the arm with the introduction of the second-gen small block V8 producing a respectable 300 ponies.
Noteworthy C4 Corvette models include the ZR-1 and Grand Sport. Available from 1990 to 1995, the ZR-1 was developed with the help of Lotus and powered by a 375-horsepower V8 connected to a six-speed manual transmission. Dubbed the "King of the Hill" internally during development, it also packed a Bilstein suspension and stickier Goodyear tires to sharpen reflexes. To mark the final year of C4 production, Chevy built 1,000 Grand Sport cars in 1996 with a 330-horsepower engine, a special Admiral Blue with white stripe paint job and dual red hash marks on the front left fender.
Chevy Corvette gets sleeker and digital gauges for the C4 generation
1997-2004 C5 Corvette: More handling strides
Compared to its predecessor, the C5 Corvette that hit dealers for 1997 featured a more rigid hydroformed box frame and transmission now mounted at the rear helping achieve 50/50 front-and-rear weight distribution. By 1999, Chevy offered the Vette as a convertible, targa top and fixed-roof coupe.
Motivating base versions of the 1997 Corvette was a 5.7-liter V8 producing 345 horsepower that worked with either a six-speed manual or four-speed automatic transmissions. Power inched up slightly to 350 in 2001. On the tech front, an optional head-up display was made available as an option in 2000.
For customers looking for even more performance, Chevy brought a Z06 model to showrooms in 2001. The 5.7-liter engine was tuned to deliver 385 horsepower and paired exclusively with a six-speed manual. To dial-up handling, the Z06 received suspension refinements, bigger tires and brake cooling ducts. Weight was kept in check thanks to lighter wheels, thinner glass, the deletion of some sound-deadening material and titanium exhaust. In 2002, the Z06's engine output increased to 405 ponies.
Chevy Corvette gets big handling improvements for the C5 years
2005-2013 C6 Corvette: Fixed headlights and the ZR1 returns
2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
Visually, the C6 that arrived for 2005 is most easily distinguished from its predecessor with fixed headlights in place of the pop-ups that were a Corvette staple for more than 40 years. The cabin was larger for improved passenger comfort and offered navigation for the first time, while convertible models received its first a power top option since 1962.
A 6.0-liter V8 making 400 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque served as the C6's base powerplant in the beginning connected to either a six-speed manual or six-speed automatic gearbox. A 6.2-liter tagged in for 2008 offering 430 horses and 424 pound-feet.
Following a one-year hiatus, the Z06 model made a comeback in 2006 equipped with a 7.0-liter V8 delivering 505 horses and 470 pound-feet along with massaged chassis components. To reduce weight, the Z06 was based on an aluminum frame instead of steel and an engine cradle constructed from magnesium. To visually set itself apart from standard Vettes, it got a front bumper air inlet, larger carbon fiber front fenders and brake cooling ducts integrated into the wider rear fenders.
The C6 generation of the Corvette also included the reintroduction of the ZR1 model in 2009. Internally known at GM as "Blue Devil," the super Vette used a supercharged engine with 638 horsepower giving it a top speed of 205 mph. The following year, a Grand Sport model was also revitalized with the base 6.2-liter engine pairing up with Z06 chassis components.
Chevy Corvette offers tons of variety during its C6 run
2014-2019 C7 Corvette: Rebirth of the Stingray
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The seventh-gen Corvette debuted for 2014 with a number of tasty changes such as aluminum frames becoming standard on all models and the Stingray name returning to signify base versions. A 6.2-liter V8 provided motivation for the Stingray with 455 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque. A performance exhaust system bumped matters to 460 horses and 465 pound-feet. The engine worked with either a standard seven-speed manual or six-speed automatic transmission. In 2015, the optional auto gearbox got upgraded to an eight-speed unit.
The higher-performance Z06 was also brought back into the mix in 2015 employing a 6.2-liter supercharged V8 with 650 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque. This time around the Z06 was offered with manual and automatic gearboxes, as well as coupe and convertible body styles. Standard Magnetic Ride Control dampers, an electronic limited-slip differential, multi-mode Performance Traction Management system and stickier Michelin tires improved handling.
Grand Sport models with the base Stingray engine and Z06 suspension bits joined the lineup in 2017 and were followed by a range-topping ZR1 for 2019. Output from the ZR1's supercharged 6.2-liter V8 checked in at 755 horses and 715 pound-feet of twist. It hit 60 mph in 2.8 seconds and a top speed of 212 mph. Like the Z06, it offered manual and automatic gearboxes and could be had as a coupe or convertible.
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The Race to the Bottom Accelerates, by Charles Hugh Smith
Everywhere you look, products and services are getting worse. From Charles Hugh Smith at oftwominds.com:
When competence, transparency and accountability are all punished, the Race to the Bottom accelerates.
Race to the Bottom describes the process of competitive devaluation, where value is gutted to remain competitive with those who are grabbing market share by stripping out quality, value, durability, transparency, accountability and competence.
We see the global Race to the Bottom in everyday products: the quality of goods has plummeted as manufacturers compete to reduce costs to maintain high profit margins by stripping out the quality and durability of components. We see it in shrinkflation, where the cereal box contains less cereal while the price ratchets higher.
We see it when cereals that once contained no sugar are now sickly-sweet because the manufacturer is losing market share to less healthy sugar-bomb cereals.
We see it in healthcare where costs have been so ruthlessly stripped out to boost profits that it takes months to get an appointment and overworked caregivers no longer have the "luxury" of providing the care they were trained to provide. Routine procedures and hospital stays now carry pricetags equal to four years college tuition or a modest house.
The Race to the Bottom isn't limited to goods and services. Consider the bedrock of the social order, civility. Civility in discourse is now rarer than sightings of UFOs / UAPs.
In politics, scoring cheap points while ignoring the nation's social decay and unsustainable bubble economy is another example of the Race to the Bottom. Is getting to the bottom of the Taylor Swift ticketing "fiasco" really the most pressing issue that politicians need to address? It would seem so.
Posted in Business, Collapse, Crime, Cronyism, Culture, Government, Media, Medicine, Politics
Tagged Race to the bottom
The Covid Narrative Tide is Turning, by Sheryl Collmer
Finally, the truth is surfacing, as the truth has a way of doing. From Sheryl Collmer at crisismagazine.com:
As more information about the Covid vaccines and other media narratives are released, those of us who've been consigned to the Conspiracy Theory bin for the last few years are being sadly vindicated.
High tide at Galveston Island occurred at 12:16 a.m. today. Aside from consulting a tide table, you would only know that if you were walking on the beach and saw the waves receding farther down the shore. The turning of the tide is something you only observe in hindsight, just as the moon can only be known to have reached its fullest once it begins to wane.
Are we watching the turning of the tide in our failing country?
Medical studies that call into question the Covid narrative are making it through the censors. Twitter has opened the tap on evidence of collusion between government and media to deceive the public about Covid. More and more people know someone who has been disabled or killed by the so-called "vaccine." Are we beginning to approach a critical mass of people who understand that we have been played on a gigantic scale?
We used to call that "conspiracy theory." Now it's called "discernment."
Little will change until we reach a critical mass of awareness. Congress, on both sides of the aisle, will continue to act against the will of the majority (see: Omnibus Spending Bill). Corrupt leaders will continue to be treated as heroes (see: Zelensky). Children will continue to be victimized on the altar of adult derangement (see: Gender Ideology). The world will spin on as usual until there is an armada of people who care enough about truth, children and the Kingdom of God to stand up, speak up, and fight back.
There used to be an attraction at Six Flags Over Texas called Casa Magnetica. The house was built at odd angles so that visual cues told your brain you were walking slantways. It was positively vertigo-inducing. When you emerged, the world righted itself and the brain settled down from its crisis state.
Posted in Government, Media, Medicine, Politics, Propaganda, Science
Tagged Covid vaccines
the AI wars have already begun, by el gato malo
As the establishment piles lie upon lie, aided with their AI gizmos, the demand for verifiable truth will skyrocket. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
AI wars are a staple of science fiction, but they are rapidly becoming science fact. these new self learning intelligences have become remarkably good at mimicing human speech, parsing human concepts, and producing images that look awfully real or (at least) human made.
DALL-e is not even a particularly powerful one.
yet prompt it to draw "a giant cat seeks to take over the world" and…
and that's what makes several sets of new emerging programs so worrying. we're about to start dealing with an entirely new kind of manipulation, obfuscation, and weaponization of information as the real, no fooling around intelligence agency grade tools of propaganda and suppression are increasingly turned upon we the people by by our own governments. for our own protection. of course.
"surely you exaggerate señor cat," one might be tempted to exclaim.
your tinfoil is too tight.
is that so..? (LINK)
The government's campaign to fight "misinformation" has expanded to adapt military-grade artificial intelligence once used to silence the Islamic State (ISIS) to quickly identify and censor American dissent on issues like vaccine safety and election integrity, according to grant documents and cyber experts.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded several million dollars in grants recently to universities and private firms to develop tools eerily similar to those developed in 2011 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in its Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program.
DARPA said those tools were used "to help identify misinformation or deception campaigns and counter them with truthful information," beginning with the Arab Spring uprisings in the the Middle East that spawned ISIS over a decade ago.
is that boldfaced bit sounding worryingly familiar to anyone?
Posted in Civil Liberties, Collapse, Governments, Media, Propaganda, Tyranny
Tagged Artificial intelligece, Quashing dissent
New peer-reviewed study: >217,000 Americans killed by the COVID vaccines in just the first year alone! by Steve Kirsch
The last thing the medical establishment wants are actual surveys of people who have been vaccinated and suffered adverse reactions. If they don't ask, nobody can tell. From Steve Kirsch at stevekirsch.substack.com:
And it also turns out that serious adverse events were ~5X higher than what Pfizer reported in their Phase 3 trial. But it's OK because they are immune from prosecution.
A new peer-reviewed paper was just published that finally gets the truth out:
Over 217,000 Americans were killed by the vaccine in the first year after rollout
The rate of severe adverse events reported in the survey by the survey participants (13.4%) after adjusting by a factor of 2 for categorization error, is still 5X more than was reported by Pfizer in their Phase 3 trial.
Since deaths from the vaccine were higher in 2022, most experts would estimate the all-cause mortality death toll from the COVID vaccines to be in the range of 500K to 600K. So the global cost of life from these vaccines is on the order of 10 to 12 million people.
But nobody wants to talk about it because that's the way science works. When you can't argue with the data, you censor the speaker like the FDA and CDC did to me.
They are actively trying to get the paper retracted because it destroys the narrative. I'm certain they will succeed because journals are under intense pressure to censor any anti-narrative paper.
The problem is that Mark's survey was entirely consistent with my surveys.
If they want to have the paper retracted they need to show us THEIR surveys. But of course, they don't have any surveys because they are too afraid of the results.
Posted in Business, Governments, Media, Medicine, Science
Tagged Vaccine injury and deaths
EU Technocrat Threatens Musk With "Sanctions" Unless He Stamps Out Free Speech On Twitter, by Tyler Durden
From the article, here's the money question: What is so threatening about free speech? Unravel that, and you get the answers to a lot of other questions. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
The battle over Twitter is often made to appear complex and chaotic, but it can all be boiled down to a simple dichotomy – It's about the people who demand censorship in favor of the establishment narrative vs. the people who want free speech and fair rules applied to everyone equally.
Everything else is noise and distraction.
The complications arise when we try to define free speech when it comes to social media. Private companies are not subject to many legal boundaries related to free speech rights. This is an argument that the political left and government representatives made constantly during the massive purge of conservative and liberty oriented accounts by Big Tech companies since 2016. And, as we saw with Twitter previous to Elon Musk's takeover, governments took full advantage of this legal loophole in order to silence people using social media websites as middlemen.
The ongoing release of the Twitter Files proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that collusion between Big Tech and governments for the sake of censorship is a reality. In America, at least, this is a constitutional no-no. The fact that politicians and agencies like the FBI were actively seeking out and targeting ideological opponents and having them silenced on Twitter is a direct violation of the 1st Amendment and these people should be subject to prosecution (the FBI even shelled out at least $3 million to Twitter for services rendered).
Prosecution might never happen, but at least the evidence is undeniable today after years of the public being lied to.
The reality that Twitter was acting as an enforcement agent for government censorship around the world tells us exactly why so many establishment officials have been up in arms over Musk's purchase of the platform. Until now, every single major Big Tech company has been operating in lock-step with the establishment narrative. People couldn't even talk about Hunter Biden's laptop, let alone talk about the inconvenient facts surrounding "climate change" or the covid mandates and vaccines.
Posted in Civil Liberties, Governments, Media, Politics, Propaganda, Tyranny
Tagged Elon Musk, EU, Free Speech, Twitter
The End of Reality Consensus Disorder, by James Howard Kunstler
The truth about the vaccines keeps seeping out, undermining the carefully constructed narrative. In a world with even a semblance of justice, indictments should follow. From James Howard Kunstler at kunstler.com:
"We've quite literally outsourced the definition of reality to a small group of technocrats in nondescript offices whose names we'll never know and who self-selected for issue advocacy and whose interests likely diverge severely from those of we the people." –El Gato Malo on Substack
The big annual World Economic Forum meet-up concluded last week with a mighty "So, What?" as the world struggled with some success to get its mind right after years of relentless WEF-inspired psy-ops. Own nothing… eat bugs… great re-set… yeah, right. These days, fewer sovereign individuals believe der Schwabenklaus bullshit about the necessity of becoming menials for the "fittest 0.1 percent" of mankind who comprise the WEF's cabal of elite "strategic partners." News reports pegged the attendance in Davos this year at a shocking mere half of invitees. Did the absentees quail at the risk of all being together in the same auditorium (what with all those drones and missiles available on the black market)? Or could they not find enough unvaccinated pilots to fly their private jets?
By no strange coincidence, one of the WEF's most sadistic leadership implants, PM Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, dropped out of office the same week, declaring she had "no gas left in the tank." Old George Orwell had a pretty keen eye for the arc of history, but it never occurred to him that Big Brother would turn out to be Big Sister. Ms. Ardern was the one who said of her regime, "We will continue to be your single source of truth… Unless you hear it from us it is not the truth." Polls indicated her party would get thrashed in this year's parliamentary election. Next door in equally vaxxed-to-the-max Australia, the government had to confess last week that the country had more Covid-19 deaths in the first half of January this new year than in all of 2021.
Posted in Collapse, Government, Media, Medicine, Politics, Propaganda
Tagged Vaccine propanda exposure, WEF
WSJ Shreds Vaccine Makers, Biden Admin Over "Deceptive" Booster Campaign, by Tyler Durden
It's like turning an aircraft carrier, but it's clear that sentiment is turning against vaccines, the companies that make them, and the regulators who supposedly regulate them. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
Wall Street Journal editorial board member Allysia Finley has taken a flamethrower to vaccine makers over their "deceptive" campaign for bivalent Covid boosters, and slams several federal agencies for taking "the unprecedented step of ordering vaccine makers to produce them and recommending them without data supporting their safety or efficacy."
You might have heard a radio advertisement warning that if you've had Covid, you could get it again and experience even worse symptoms. The message, sponsored by the Health and Human Services Department, claims that updated bivalent vaccines will improve your protection.
This is deceptive advertising. But the public-health establishment's praise for the bivalent shots shouldn't come as a surprise. -WSJ
The narrative behind the campaign was simple; mRNA Covid shots could simply be 'tweaked' to to target new variants – in this case, the jabs were claimed to confer protection against BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron variants, along with the original Wuhan strain.
To call this wishful thinking would be extremely generous.
As Finley writes, three scientific problems have arisen.
The virus is mutating much faster than vaccines can be updated.
Vaccines have 'hard wired' our immune systems to respond to the original Wuhan strain, "so we churn out fewer antibodies that neutralize variants targeted by updated vaccines."
Antibody protection wanes after just a few months.
Posted in Business, Cronyism, Government, Media, Medicine, Politics, Propaganda
Tagged Allysia Finley, Bivalent Covid Boosters, Wall Street Journal
Big Data, Transhumanism and Why the Singularity May Be Faked, by Dr. Joseph Mercola
There's always some psychopath out there who wants to eliminate at least half the human race. From Dr. Joseph Mercola at theburningplatform.com:
Story at-a-glance
Silicon Valley is essentially fused with the national security state. Silicon Valley is now also entering into joint ventures with medical companies, and many of these ventures are financed by groups like In-Q-Tel, which is the CIA's venture capital arm
There's a concerted effort to frame transhumanism — which is really the new eugenics — as health care. Joint ventures involving Big Tech, Big Pharma and the security state typically focus on products and services that normalize and further the transhumanist agenda
Food and agriculture are also being tossed into the mix. The U.S. government has launched a "Food is Medicine" program, which is yet another way for the government to seize control of the population. Food as medicine will be used to get you into their control system, and keep you there
In 2023 and 2024, watch for the rollout of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). It's crucial that as many people as possible refuse the system during the initial voluntary phase. Once it becomes mandatory, it cannot be stopped and all freedoms will be lost
If the singularity cannot be achieved, technocrats may end up faking it, because if they can blame eugenics, depopulation and other unethical decisions on artificial intelligence running the government, they can do whatever they want, with no repercussions
I recently interviewed investigative journalist Whitney Webb about her two-volume book series, "One Nation Under Blackmail." She's been on tour, promoting the books in dozens of interviews.
Here, we discuss some of her experiences since the release of her books, and delve deeper into the disturbing merger of the intelligence state, Silicon Valley and medicine, and how transhumanism — eugenics rebranded — is being rolled out under the guise of health care.
Posted in Civil Liberties, Collapse, Government, Media, Medicine, Privacy, Surveillance, Tyranny
Tagged Technocracy, Transhumanism
GMC Blinks First: Regulator Declines to Investigate Dr Aseem Malhotra Over Vaccine Warnings in BBC Interview, by Niall McCrae
The dam of Covid and vaccine repression is springing leaks. From Niall McCrae at dailyskeptic.org:
To paraphrase the Sound of Music song, "How do we solve a problem like Malhotra?" After receiving several complaints, the General Medical Council has decided not to investigate cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra, who has become a thorn in the side of the medical profession.
Professional regulators have been at the forefront of pandemic discipline, contributing to a culture of fear among practitioners. Severe action has been taken against registrants who criticise or do not comply with the official narrative. I know this from my experience as an officer of the Workers of England Union, representing members brought before the Nursing and Midwifery Council on charges of bringing the profession into disrepute. Apparently the public must be protected against nurses who don't believe that masks stop airborne respiratory viruses, or who believe in informed consent for novel mRNA vaccines.
A significant strike against this censorial tyranny was by general practitioner Sam White last year. Dr. White was ordered, as a condition of maintaining his clinical licence, to delete his social media posts about COVID-19 and to refrain from making similar comments. Dr. White took the GMC to the High Court and won. The condition was overturned as a breach of his rights to freedom of expression under the Human Rights Act 1998.
Whereas White was an early critic of COVID-19 policy, Malhotra is a relatively recent convert. Initially he promoted the vaccine, but when his fit and healthy father died shortly after receiving the injections, Malhotra changed his mind and began speaking out against the mass vaccination programme. His personal loss came alongside his observation in clinical practice of a marked increase in myocarditis cases (as well as blood clots and other cardiac complications). Malhotra had a review paper published on this phenomenon, and his findings of iatrogenic harm are corroborated by other medical scientists.
Posted in Government, Media, Medicine, Politics
Tagged Dr. Aseem Malhotra
is the UK health regulator disavowing covid vaccine approvals? by el gato malo
The health regulator is saying the government minister did it. The government minister is saying the health regulator did it. This is what happens when propaganda and narrative fall apart. From el gato malo at boriquogato.substack.com:
the bagholder bonanza begins
in the same week where the ONS repudiated its own vaccines data, here's an interesting companion find from the daily skeptic: (article HERE)
here is the phrase that pays:
(provided as always seems to be the case under FOI demands)
All the Covid vaccines and therapeutics authorisation decisions were taken by the Licensing Minister and were not delegated.
The MHRA does not hold a document describing the flow of delegation from the Secretary of State to posts/people in MHRA who can authorise medicines for public use.
now, this seems to set up a bit of an interesting he said/she said.
on the one hand, one might well ask:
how do you sign off on the most rushed large scale vaxx program in world history using never before approved in humans drug modalities and fail to mention the fact that the minister and not the agency made this call and that you have no paper trail about how the sec state for health (in this case matt hancock) pushed this through?
on the other, many seem to be claiming that "it's always supposed to be like this and it's always the minister who signs off!"
but here is where it starts to get a bit sticky.
the right hon hancock was certainly a big vaccine booster.
Tagged Blame shifting, Covid backtracking, CYA


Our view is that the explanation has to be logical: The surplus in sugar is nothing like as large as it is assumed to be.
What we believe has happened is that the falls in price and increase in affordability have been enough to encourage a sharp rise in marginal demand.
Demand for sugar has been a lot stronger than we had been expecting. Over the past 12 months we have been consistently surprised by the strength of physical demand and the growth in global trade that we have observed.
The strength of global trade in physical sugar, which is up over 10% year-on-year is a good indicator of the way in which consumers have reacted to low prices.
Physical values have stayed firm as futures prices have softened.
Physical sugars are now trading at a premium, not a discount, to the futures market which is not consistent with projections of surplus supply.
Our second estimate for the 2013/14 season shows a much smaller production surplus 2.0m mtrv, which is down 1.9m mtrv from our initial estimate of 3.9m mtrv.
Both numbers include an allowance of 1m mtrv for unrecorded disappearance.
The revised figures indicate a greater fall in production than we had first projected at 182.8 m mtrv now down to 181.8m mtrv vs last year's 185.8m mtrv as producers adapt to lower returns.
The fall in production is led by beet sugar production, which we forecast at 34.3m mtrv, the lowest level since the 2010/11 season and the third successive year of falling production.
Cane sugar production is now expected at 147.5m mtrv, compared to 148.4m mtrv in 2012/13 and 139.8m mtrv in 2011/12. At this point in the cycle the decline is largely driven by lower expectations for CS Brazilian production.
It is on the consumption side of the balance sheet that we see the greatest changes coming through.
We are now working with an annual increase in consumption of 2.3% as we see the market returning to a high growth phase in usage.
This is, however, less than the 10% increase we have observed in global trade during the past 12 months.
We consequently believe that we are still being conservative as in aggregate we have consumption rising by just 2.3% in 2013 and 2% in 2014. This is also much less than the fast growth periods of the past decade.
Understanding sugar consumption is one of the greatest challenges facing analysts as data is very difficult to verify. As a consequence, there is a natural tendency to adopt a conservative approach, which results in consumption being underestimated.
Growth is most easily observed via the physical markets where it is possible to see how import volumes impact on price.
This year we have observed strong import flows into a range of Asian, African and Middle Eastern markets that have responded well to improving affordability.
This year's Centre-South Brazil crop has to date underperformed versus our initial expectations.
We had expected that the industry would crush 595m tonnes cane this year, giving 36m tonnes sugar.
However, we have recently downgraded that view to 585m tonnes of cane and 34.1m tonnes of sugar.
Australian crop prospects have improved, with much of the industry experiencing ideal crushing conditions, given the dry weather.
We anticipate a similar crop in 13/14 to last year, with the weaker AUD helping to support grower earnings.
The South African 13/14 crop continues to perform well, and the industry is now expected to produce 2.57m mtrv of sugar, which would be a 20% increase on what was achieved last season.
However, the sugar industry has made an application to increase the import duty as it claims that it is cannot compete at world market prices.
The EU has had a tough growing season and yields are forecast to be below last year's results.
Total beet area is down, with Italy and Germany reporting the most significant reduction in area planted. We have, however, revised up our forecast of UK beet sugar production following the replanting of malformed beet.


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Tottenham meet Liverpool in a match of the 18th round of the Premier League. Due to problems with quarantined players, the last match of the "Spurs" was on December 5, when Norwich was defeated 3:0. The missed three rounds pushed Tottenham away in the standings, placing it in seventh place with 24 points. However, with good results in the postponed matches, the "Spurs" may come out even fourth, as Arsenal is currently in this position with 29 points.
Liverpool are in exceptional form and are currently a worthy opponent of Manchester City in the battle for the title. On Thursday, the Reds triumphed over the outsider Newcastle with 3:1, recording the sixth consecutive win in the Premier League and eighth in all tournaments. The three goals scored put Liverpool as the second highest-scoring host in the league with 22 goals. The Reds are only 3 behind Manchester City as they have 25 thanks to their 7:0 victory over Leeds earlier this week.
In their away games Liverpool is even more dangerous with 26 goals scored. The 2.5-goal line has been crossed in seven of Merseyside's eight visits this season. The only exception is the last visit of Liverpool, which ended with 1:0 against Wolverhampton. However, this is due to the defensive game style of the "Wolves" and several omissions by the Merseyside attackers.
I expect that the strong performance of Liverpool will continue and will be an attractive match. After missing a few games, Tottenham will be an unpredictable opponent. On the one hand, there will be no fatigue in the Spurs, but the lack of playing minutes can be disastrous against a solid opponent in a form like Liverpool. The 2.5-goal line has been crossed in four of Tottenham's six games under Antonio Conte, and I guess the trend will continue on Sunday. Since the beginning of the season, Tottenham does not look like a team that is able to keep 90 minutes without a serious situation in front of their door and a strategy to play for 0: 0 seems unlikely to me.


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Tournaments > 2013 > United States > WSOP Circuit - WSOPC Caesars Palace
Tournament: WSOP Circuit - WSOPC Caesars Palace
Venue: Caesars Palace Las Vegas, NV, United States
Event: No Limit Hold'em (Feb 14, 2013)
Entries: 363
Feb 7, 2013 No Limit Hold'em $365
Feb 7, 2013 No Limit Hold'em - Double Stack Turbo $135
Feb 8, 2013 No Limit Hold'em - Re-Entry $365
Feb 10, 2013 No Limit Hold'em - Re-Entry $580
Feb 10, 2013 No Limit Hold'em - Double Stack Turbo $135
Feb 11, 2013 No Limit Hold'em $1,125
Feb 11, 2013 No Limit Hold'em II $365
Feb 12, 2013 No Limit Hold'em - Six Max $365
Feb 13, 2013 No Limit Hold'em $580
Feb 13, 2013 Pot Limit Omaha $365
Feb 15, 2013 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event $1,675
Feb 17, 2013 No Limit Hold'em - Seniors Event $250
Feb 18, 2013 No Limit Hold'em - Turbo $365
1st Matthew Closs $23,961 — —
2nd Robert Hancock $14,805 — —
3rd Stan Jablonski $10,818 — —
4th Andrew Plucker $8,032 — —
5th Jesus Acosta $6,057 — —
6th Michael Sinclair $4,636 — —
7th David "Fatal Relance" Giorsetti $3,600 — —
8th Marcos Dana $2,836 — —
9th Jonathan Hanson $2,265 — —
10th Jonathan Cross $1,834 — —
11th Nicholas Myles $1,834 — —
12th Rip Ray Fritzer $1,834 — —
13th Mitchell Johnson $1,505 — —
14th Erle Mankin $1,505 — —
15th Kyle Schertz $1,505 — —
16th Siriwan Sukmekerd $1,252 — —
17th Daniel Sindelar $1,252 — —
18th Kyle Swan $1,252 — —
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Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa – 'Mac + Devin Go To High School' (Album Cover)
With their stoner comedy on the way, the weed-friendly rappers reveal the soundtrack's cover art and dates for a six-city tour.
In anticipation of their movie Mac & Devin Go To High School, Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg have revealed the cover art for the soundtrack, releasing December 13th.
The collaborative album is set to feature the Bruno Mars-assisted single "Young, Wild & Free," produced by The Smeezingtons. The video for the track was recently shot in Los Angeles, California and was helmed by the film's director Dylan Brown.
Additionally, the weed-friendly rappers have announced a six-city tour titled "The High School Tour."
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Moroccan activists renegotiate power: a new stage in a forgotten uprising
Miriyam Aouragh
Miriyam Aouragh reports from Morocco, where she is currently on fieldwork. She researches the role of new media in the (counter) revolutionary movements in Syria and Morocco.
Online campaigns demanding justice and freedom have mushroomed since 2011
Morocco is often forgotten in western reporting, squeezed between more crucial developments elsewhere in the Arab world, but in the last few months, international, mainstream or conservative newspapers have shed a surprisingly critical light on the Kingdom's political reality. This newly opened-up space and journalists taking an interest in Morocco is badly needed for a movement that is facing increasing repression, and helps release a bit of the pressure felt across the country.
The reason why there is such renewed interest in Morocco is two-fold: firstly, this country of which too little is known, is situated right between Africa, Europe and the Middle East, and is a key ally of the United States and a friend of Israel. Secondly, a growing number of human rights and press watchdogs (e.g. Amnesty, CPJ) have published damning reports about Morocco, in particular regarding its excessive restrictions on press freedom, harsh treatment of political dissidents, its de-facto occupation of Western Sahara and oppression of Sahrawis. All relay a deep concern about the increasing violations of freedom of expression, arbitrary arrests, political detainees, police repression and death threats.
2011: The people speak out
Abdelkrim Al Khatabi
Only a month ago the torture and subsequent death of union activist Karim Lachkar, from the Northern city Al Hoceima, sent shivers across the movement, but it was the most recent, publicized, case. Al Hoceima has a long history of anti-regime and anti-monarchist resistance; it is where the famous anti-colonial resistance leader Abdelkrim Al Khatabi had his roots. He was an epic symbol who managed to unite the main Amazigh ('berber') tribes in their struggle against the violent Spanish and French rulers. The sense of betrayal by the sultan who cooperated with colonial generals (and eventually his life long exile) still exists. Similarly, graffiti, necklaces, key rings, banners and online profile photos bearing his name or face are testimony of his legacy.
And yet, it was not anticipated that this place would produce a particularly defiant eruption as part of the outbreak of the Arab uprisings, including burning of police cars, attacks and storming of intelligence buildings. The outpouring of people form rural Bni Bouayech and collecting ever more people on its trail and marching into the city Al Hoceima is already considered a historical phenomenon. Consequently, it was faced by an enormous violent response from the Makhzan (the local term for the deep state): from police cars driving through crowds through to killing, then burning and relocating the bodies, (as happened in this macabre case) of people who happened to be in the march. The state counted on the fact the Northern region does not enjoy the same media-exposure and political relevance as the historic cities Fes or Marrakesh let alone the capital Rabat or metropolis Casablanca.
Other parts of Morocco were also sites of rebellion in 2011. The important and rapidly growing port city Tangier, a strategic place that looks over the Strait of Gibraltar, was set alight, something the city had not seen before and even stunned die-hard activists. In retrospect and without exaggeration we can say that part of the country was on the verge of collapse. The Makhzan had almost lost control. It was taken by surprise by the large numbers of people on the street chanting al sha'b yourid isqat al fassad, [the people demand the downfall of the corrupt]; and some going even as far as al sha'b yourid isqat al malik [the people demand the downfall of the king]. As someone told me in an interview "lmdina kant ka ze'ze', 'lain 'a tertaq – the city was shaking, about to explode".
It felt as if everyone was saying degage! (leave!) in one breath. In the two years of my research I have spoken to many people and collected piles of visual material in an attempt to archive this unique momentum; so as not to forget, so as to analyze and learn from. One video that best illustrates the symbolic transformation of millions of people from passivity to political agency, is this one below. If the rhythmic and repetitive chanting of "Listen to the voice of the people; listen to the voice of the sons; listen to the voice of the daughters: the makhzan has to leave…And the masses say, the one and only solution out of all solutions, is the downfall of the regime; the dismantling of the government…" had send shivers through our spines, imagine how it worried the rulers.
The regime was not going to let this pass easily. It proposed a set of reforms and promises on the constitutional level, and many could see the regime was learning from the mistakes made in other countries. Mohammed VI applied a more Machiavellian approach: between a mea culpa (Ben Ali, Mubarak) and insane violence (Gadhafi, Assad). The well-known political acrobatics of Morocco that relies on co-option, divide and rule and wonderful promises in times of crisis was polished and updated.
But after several years of these schemes not much has changed, the social-economic conditions have worsened and activists are getting ever more impatient. The state has now opted for a crackdown light – selectively choosing whom to kidnap and imprison rather than all-out violence, just enough to try and scare the movement but not enough to provoke society.
A notable example of an increasing crackdown is the arrest and process against the 'April 6' group – and the arrest of prominent figure of music artist Mouad Belghouat (aka Lhaqed/7a9ed) detained twice before because of his songs against corruption and oppression. Most of us know and follow these activists on social media, but the crackdown is much wider, and involves students and union activists who are rarely at the centre of Facebook campaigns or international networks. All belong to what is loosely referred to as the "20 February Movement". That the April 6 group was arrested for being at a labour protest – a merging of political and socio-economic struggle – shows the anxiety of the regime. The demands for the release of particular comrades became too many, and were soon simply summarised into one demand: Free Koulchi [free everyone/thing].
Outside Ain Sbe' court in Casablanca during the 3rd trial of Al 7a9ed (June 2014)
Family from Fes of imprisoned students, at a protest in Tangier in solidarity with political prisoners. June 2014
Moreover, the crackdown goes further than overt repression of outspoken activists: it also involves covert oppression through the denial of a civil society to operate according to the common rules of engagement. This includes prohibiting critical NGOs (such as Freedom Now) to legally exist and be able to defend freedom of expression in Morocco.
The internet is under tighter scrutiny, and a growing number of independent or outspoken journalists (e.g. Mustapha Hassnaoui, Ali Anouzla, Taoufik Bouachrine, Damoune Abdellah Mohamed Rassmi) have found out the hard way what the promises of the new reforms mean in practice. The removal of press cards, the loss of permits, the closing down of papers (e.g. Ali Al Nouzla's Lakome), the unfair financial fines or fabricated cases (e.g. via land tenure or drugs trials) brought against critics is part of the wider intimidation.
Its important to understand the Moroccan experience as part of the counter-revolutionary surge in the whole Arab world. It is difficult to ignore the impression that the regimes are recovering from the recent political earthquakes, and returning with a vengeance. Having hardly digested the news about the mass-sentencing of Brotherhood sympathizers or the incarceration of revolutionary socialist Mahienour el-Massry, the 15 years jail sentence for international figure Alaa Abdel-fattah, just after a landslide election victory for Sisi, exposed that Egypt's military-dominated ruling class feels its time to reboot the post-revolutionary scene.
Here in Morocco we can't even talk of a 'carrot and stick' tactics: the reform carrot turned out to be hollow and plastic whereas the stick made of even thicker steel. Activists are smeared and bullied by the propagandists of the Makhzan know as the "royalist youth". The fact that these people – elite kids parroting the state or paid mouth pieces of the intelligence forces – are more confident now, is a warning sign. The wave of public arrests here is testimony of a Makhzan flexing its muscles and confirms that we are witnessing a resurgence of dictatorial oppression in an attempt to turn back the clock to a pre-2011 status-quo. But this regime overlooks two important things.
Firstly, the activists are spread throughout Morocco and they have a collective memory. Secondly, most of the current arrestees are very young, between 19-25. They are less burdened by the paralysing fear that silenced a previous generation. The old-style repression that demobilized two generations under Hassan II and nearly another one under Mohammed VI began to fade. With the massive protests in 2011, the genie flew out of the bottle. This is a different generation, it is a generation that matured politically in the streets in 2011, hearing chants like 'Hurriya, karama, adala-ijtima'ia' [freedom, dignity and social justice], not as a request, but as a demand. We could say that the notion "20 February" itself is both a movement and cause, that it has become an identity in itself, something people try, for better or worse to protect, to keep alive and express in their daily lives. The echoes from the past are nevertheless a reminder of what the Makhzen could do, and have started to do again.
Necklace with 20Feb movement signature, participant at Tangier sit-in, June 2014
The notorious reign of King Hassan II (1961 – 1999) is known as the "years of lead" and is marked by the disappearance of hundreds of political dissidents; arbitrary detention; systemic use of torture; secret detention centres in the desert (e.g. Tazmamart and Qalaat Mgouna) and the work of the secret service DST [Direction générale de la surveillance du territoire]. Political opposition was impossible and rewarded with death. Such was the case of prominent socialist Mehdi Ben Barka who was first put on trial for an alleged conspiracy against the state in 1963 and then ultimately assassinated in 1965. There is a long and painful history of killing or silencing left-wing activists during numerous intifada's in the 70s and 80s.
When, then new, King Mohamed VI established the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (Instance équité et réconciliation, IER) to investigate human rights violations committed by these security services there was a sigh of relief. It was, after all, the shining example in the Arab world of a modern leader assuming a brave stance. The state was taking responsibility, promising justice, financial compensation and health and or job insurance for many survivors of torture. But those with blood on their hand have not been brought to justice and reconciliation mostly a resourceful term. Decades have passed and instead of leaving that time behind for good as the new king had promised, the ugly past resonates even more.
Terrorism (especially after the 2003 Casablanca bombings) and treason (however creatively defined) are the 'state of exception' resorted to in order to apply the same mechanisms of repression. As Amnesty documented:
[R]eports of torture and other ill-treatment continue to surface, particularly during pre-arraignment detention and interrogation following arrest by the police or gendarmerie. Victims come from a variety of backgrounds, including activists from the UNEM student union with left-wing or Islamist affiliations, supporters of self-determination for Western Sahara, protesters challenging poverty and inequality, individuals held on suspicion of terrorism or national security-related offences, as well as members of marginalized groups arrested for ordinary offenses.
This is why young people have crafted an extraordinary chant which is chilling in its reminiscence and accuracy: "el mekhzen el 'abqari, bgha y rja'na lel lawri, lil ayaam rasas 'awtani, 'ahd al Hassan tani" [our genius regime wants to take us back in time, to the years of lead, the era of Hassan II].
What about the so-called 'international community'? The truth is that as the anti-immigration parties are gaining prominence in European governments one must expect even less. As the main transit to Europe from Africa, Morocco guarantees the protection of 'Fortress Europe', in exchange for economic deals and a blind eye. As for the United States, Obama is faced with perhaps the most serious challenge to the US's imperial project in a disintegrating region, why would he challenge one of the few remaining a key allies? No one really wants to rock the boat, so the regime seems to enjoy comfortable impunity.
But revolutionaries are fighting back too. The movement in support of political prisoners (mo3ta9lin) has been steadily spreading and becoming a vocal impulse that has managed to revive the 20 February networks that had been dwindling.
Not taking No for an answer
This month alone we have seen sit-ins and demonstrations in Tangier, Tetouan, Rabat, Casablanca etc. The most important element of the success is that friends, comrades mothers, sisters and brothers of the prisoners travel around the country to build solidarity. The video of the mother of one of the political prisoners (Hamza Haddi) visiting Tangier with a delegation went viral. She was fierce and fearless: her outcries spit straight in the face of the Makhzan. I was there and hardly believed what I saw; she did not bother to polish her message despite the area crawling with undercover agents.
Friends of April6 youth protesting in Casablanca, June 2014
Their no-nonsense clarity and audacity is a lesson for us all. I followed and witnessed these impressive performances in awe and discovered a unique kind of steadfastness. During a speech in the middle of a square in front of several hundred people one of the detainees sisters raised a very sensitive issue – she mentioned that the police brought another arrestees' sister (who stood next to her looking to the ground), sexually intimidated her and threatened to rape her in front of him if he refused to confess. Amid this painful revelation – to ease the embarrassment and empower the woman – the people surrounding her chanted 'Ya nidam ya Sahyoun' 'Hey you, zionist regime'.
It is important to note that we are bearing witness to all of this thanks to an amazing revolution in global technology. By-passing state media and censorship and tuning in (sometimes instantly) we are able to discover the oppression but also allowed to enjoy the small victories. Such is the case with the release of some of the April 6 group and the earlier-mentioned Hamza Haddi. His mother, after weeks of non-stop campaigning, just this week was able to hug her son again. Hamza was lifted on the shoulders of his comrades in celebration of his release, and began to chant against the regime, less than two meters away from the doors of the prison he just walked out from. Whether as passive spectators or active participants, we recharge are own stamina while watching such powerful images because, in part, we have YouTube and social media. Indeed, these new generations of politically engaged citizens are internet natives, for them it's second nature. But, much more importantly than the availability of the internet: we can do this because we have activists who stopped mourning over the loss of a movement and started organising and agitating again. They mobilize, mediate and archive their campaigns through the internet, but above all they are actively seeking change on the ground. Their online engagement has political sense by virtue of their offline sacrifices; unlike that of peers whose online engagement revolves mostly around leisure or reactionary (pro-regime/monarchy) nationalist agitation.
'Ash al sha'b! Long live the people!
Of course the quest for political change in Morocco is hard. It often feels like moving three steps forward and then two, if not three, steps back. It is understandable why some aren't as optimistic any more or even declare the movement dead. But we must understand that revolutionary upheavals have ups and downs; that a first celebratory outbreak, fuelled by a united and positive dynamic usually makes way for a more difficult more divided (and more violent) stage. What I relay here goes beyond the semantic dispute over the meaning of '20 February' or whether it is justified to still utter the word 'revolution'. It is about making sense of a political transformation already in the making. But it is one without any guarantees. These new generations of activists seem to be saying we may lose, but if we don't try we can't live with ourselves.
In the meantime, these people are not waiting for some abstract international community of politicians to step in, nor are they asking for any foreign intervention, either. They are, however, very international. They align with an international community of activists: they are in close touch with activists in Tunisia, and with those in Egypt as well as Spain and Greece. Many have shared the news of the Podemos election victory with delight, and the news of the Egyptian election with shock.
Al Haqed (7a9ed) chose his name for an important reason, it means 'the indignant' and therefore strikes a cord with millions of Moroccans of his generation. They cannot bear the thought of living in a country with one of the richest kings on the planet and enough resources to feed the people while the poor are violently evacuated from their shantytowns. It has become customary that at each protest, in a rejection of the common "Long live the King" they shout 'ash al sha'b "Long Live the People!". They are not easily pacified because it is not just about bread: they want roses too.
Well, long live these brave activists who against all odds are continuing the struggle. They deserve to be supported, they have been ignored for too long and should be part of international solidarity campaigns that already exist, just as their counterparts elsewhere. We need to demand that activists, students and journalists who received prison sentences be released immediately; and the curbing of press freedom must be revoked unconditionally.
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Miriyam 24 June 2014 at 3:50 pm
Thank you for the compliments. By 'de-facto' is meant 'effectively speaking', for in reality Morocco is practicing colonial politics-as opposed to the legalistic mumbo-jumbo used by the Makhzan and its supporters in the international community- and it refuses the self-determination of a people as a result. This is important to stress even in a piece 'solely' about internal-Moroccan affairs in order to convey a political principle that is internationalist and non-nationalistic which are in any case the authors politics but a problem with a large part of the moroccan left unfortunately. Yes Morocco needs to stop mines, arrests, torture, discrimination, of all the people. 'Ash al sha'b.
van kaas (@vankaas) 21 June 2014 at 5:26 pm
Very well written. My compliments. One remark. The description of the Moroccan presence in Western Sahara with the phrase "de-facto occupation of Western Sahara" is not correct. Western Sahara is a divided land. It is divided between the Moroccan occupier and the Sahrawi republic by a Moroccan military wall and many, many landmines. It is de-facto a partly occuption. It is important to understand Morocco does not have complete access to the whole of Western Sahara. Also Morocco needs to stop using landmines and start with mineclearing activities to make the land habitable again.
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