Myf Warhurst is a TV presenter, broadcaster, journalist, writer and is currently hosting weekday lunch on ABC radio's Double J. She is also a weekly columnist for The Guardian.
Myf is best known for her role as Team Captain on one of Australia's most-loved television shows, Spicks & Specks, a music quiz show where Myf and comedians Adam Hills and Alan Brough wrangled with superstars of the music and comedy world to win no prizes whatsoever. Surprisingly, this no-stakes game was one of ABC TV's consistently highest rating shows for many years. In 2012, after 277 episodes, Myf, Alan and Adam decided to go out on a high and called it a day, saying goodbye to the nation by performing a concert version of the TV show in theatres all around Australia. Called the Spicks & Speck-tacular, it played to audiences of over 80,000 people.
Myf's first foray into solo television was her own 6 part documentary series that screened on ABC TV in 2012 and 2013, Myf Warhurst's Nice. It was an exploration into the great, and not so great, music, art, food, fashion, photography and design of her youth.
Myf also currently contributes reports to Network Ten's, The Project.
Prior to being on TV, Myf was a broadcaster at the ABC's national youth radio station, Triple J, hosting Breakfast, lunch and weekends. Myf also worked on ABC Local Radio providing local and national programs and had a stint on commercial radio with comedian Peter Helliar. She now finds her broadcasting home at Double J, Triple J's older sister station.
Writing is another of Myf's loves. In the early days, her love of music lead her from reviewing gigs to managing the weekly street press rag, InPress. For many years she also freelanced for Melbourne newspaper, The Age, writing broadly about music/theatre/arts and also contributed a weekly column.
Myf went to Melbourne University where she studied Music (Piano major), Fine Art (theory), and topped it off by completing a Post Grad in Art Curatorial Studies. In her spare time Myf is also an Ambassador for Melbourne animal shelter Animal Aid and Wildlife Victoria.


M & D INDUSTRIES OF ORLANDO, INC.
M & D INDUSTRIES OF ORLANDO, INC. has been set up 2/26/1988 in state FL. The current status of the business is Inactive. The M & D INDUSTRIES OF ORLANDO, INC. principal adress is 945 FOREST HILL DR, MINNEOLA, FL, 34715. Meanwhile you can send your letters to 945 FOREST HILL DR, MINNEOLA, FL, 34715. The company`s registered agent is WILSON, DONALD G., SR. 945 FOREST HILL, MINNEOLA, FL, 34715. The company`s management are President - Wilson Donald G Sr, Vice President, President - Wilson Mary J. The last significant event in the company history is ADMIN DISSOLUTION FOR ANNUAL REPORT which is dated by 9/25/2009. This decision is take in action on unknown. The company annual reports filed on Annual reports – 10/24/2008.


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As a signatory to the Diversity Charter, Club Méditerranée supports the promotion of diversity and prevention of discrimination.
Characterised by its culture of open-mindedness and tolerance and in view of the countries it is located, the Club favours pluralism of origins and seeks diversity in its teams. This "cultural mix" is a key element that has always, and now more than ever, built our culture and corporate identity. More than 100 different nationalities are represented within the 75 villages of Club Méditerranée worldwide.
Created in 2007, it enabled the adaptation of recruitment processes and the maintenance of work for disabled persons, with: a person in charge of the Mission Handicap's recruitment, an increased presence on dedicated job fairs and on websites, a follow-up of the employees and a support to the adjustment of job positions.
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By signing the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism, Club Med reasserts its commitment for a sustainable tourism.
Discover the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism on OMT website or download it here.
Our main HR agreements
Signature of the Diversity Charter.
Club Méditerrranée was one of the first signatories.
Signature of a collective agreement in favour of the employment of disabled people.
Creation of Mission Handicap at Club Méditerranée.
Participation in the AVERROES project. Club Med was one of the first companies in France to launch a large-scale statistical survey on risks of discrimination within the framework of recruitment and career management procedures.
The results of this survey were made public in late 2009.
Signature of a collective agreement in favour of the employment of seniors.
Agreement on Jobs and Career Planning and Management.
Signature of a second collective agreement in favour of the employment of disabled people.
Integration of the Diversity project in the Magellan corporate strategic project.
Signature of the collective agreement on professional gender equality.
This agreement, which aims to move the principle of equality in professional relationships forward and to enable everyone to carry out their family responsibilities, focuses on three areas of action: recruitment, promotion and the balance between professional and personal life.
Signature of a third collective agreement for the employment of disabled workers.
This agreement regulates the measures of recruitment and retention in the employment of disabled workers.
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Dom's Declassified COVID-19 Entertainment Survival Guide
Despite the emotional rollercoaster of being in isolation, there's one positive we've all unanimously agreed on, it's giving us a lot of time to watch/listen/play/read all the content we're usually too busy for. So if you've cleared out your backlog (or you don't trust your own content judgment) trust me and my organised guide to all the different types of entertainment you can enjoy during the lockdown. It's even categorised by Mood, so each of you can be entertained no matter how you feel.
I feel like some Spooks: Alien
Available on VOD, Your Housemates DVD Collection (maybe)
As much as the real world may spook you, sometimes you just need to watch something that makes the hair on your neck stand out. So why not treat yourself to the most allegorical horror film ever made, smothered with a healthy coating of Sci-Fi style. Watching the G.O.A.T. Sigourney Weaver systematically survive an un-killable menace is a thoroughly engaging romp that still holds up after 41 years of frights.
Spooks suck, I need to kick-ass: Aliens
Available wherever you found Alien
Remember how I just said sometimes you need to watch something that makes the hair on your neck stick out? Sometimes you need to watch something that takes that fear and gives it a proper kick in the teeth. Sigourney returns to overcome the terror of Alien and to become the most badass protagonist of any action film, period. Helmed by the guy who made Terminator & Titanic, this film is so big, it's impossible not to be awestruck. It's a film that has you feeling like a boss in whatever space you're quarantined in.
I need a grounded/reflective chuckle: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Available on Netflix
I love comedians because for every brilliant idea they turn into a joke, they have five other ideas that are not as funny, but just as interesting. And watching comedy veteran Jerry 'Bee-Movie' Seinfeld take your favourite comedian around their own neighbourhood, in a car with as much personality as they have, is not only a fascinating insight into the people who make us laugh but also how they look at the world around them, albeit in a very casual/social-distancing-friendly manner.
I need a comfy/heart-warming laugh: Community
Available on Netflix & Stan
What may seem like generic, broad American sitcom at first, evolves into a hilarious and heart-warming examination of TV tropes and friendship, with one of the most insanely charismatic ensemble casts in all of TV. Community plays well and hits hard, whether you're watching for the first time or the fifteenth time.
Some news to brighten the darkest timeline: every season of Community is streaming now on Netflix. Cool cool cool. pic.twitter.com/3m2HXo2qnE
— Netflix ANZ (@NetflixANZ) April 1, 2020
I need a nonsensical/I-hate-logic/hysterical breakdown: I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
This recommendation is not for the faint-hearted. You'll either think this is the dumbest show Netflix has ever funded, or you'll think it's one of the greatest sketch comedy shows ever made. Created by SNL staff using scripts that were deemed "too weird for SNL", The Lonely Island gang have produced a rollercoaster ride of a sketch show that is almost indescribable. If you're feeling brave, and you feel like there's too much logic in your life, give this show a watch.
I miss sport: YouTube
Available… on the internet
Just like a lot of you, the impact of COVID-19 on the sporting community has bummed me out. The AFL and NRL seasons suspended, the Olympics delayed by a whole year, and the most anticipated fight in MMA history has been cancelled… FOR THE FIFTH TIME (in the UFC's defence, COVID-19 is more understandable, and doesn't sting as much as Tony Ferguson tripping on a cable a week before the fight).
So in such a sport deprived landscape, there's been a pretty unanimous effort from all codes and sports to increase the accessibility of old events and broadcasts. Making a wealth of old matches available. You can go from watching Allan Iverson scoring 60 points against the Orlando Magic in the NBA, to watching Peter Siddle get his first-ever hat trick on his 26th birthday during the 2010 Ashes test. It's a warm reminder of why you love your select sports, during a time when you never really realised how much you missed your sport until it was gone.
I need to Hope: The Dark Knight Trilogy
Available on VOD, Your Housemates DVD Collection (hopefully)
When I watched Batman Begins on a whim a week or so ago, I was expecting to have a fine time re-watching a pretty good movie about a guy who fights crime dressed as a bat. What I forgot was that The Dark Knight trilogy was the single greatest story of heroism ever told. Not because the main character is a philanthropic billionaire playboy who feels a moral obligation to do good for the disenfranchised (though it does look like that). Not because the main character has a wondrous, god-like strength. And not because it has epic battle scenes, bursting with cutting edge CGI. It's because The Dark Knight trilogy is about a group of human beings, working together because they believe in an idea bigger than themselves; they believe in justice.
A justice that doesn't come from simply beating the bad guys, but a justice that comes from the people, that no matter how bleak things may seem, People can come together, stand strong, and prove that the people can be incorruptible if they keep believing. So after some very therapeutic tears (facilitated by Joseph Gordon-Levitt), I cannot recommend watching or re-watching these films enough.
I need to laugh so hard, I let some tears go in the process: My Dad Wrote a Porno
Available on All Podcasting Platforms (and technically HBO)
Some of you readers are probably feeling… how should I put this, ~sexually rambunctious~ at the moment? So while you may go into listening to My Dad Wrote a Porno feeling a certain way, what you'll find is a gut-bustlingly hilarious podcast, delving into the poorly written world of erotic literature specifically penned by the father of one of the show's hosts (hence the title). The worldwide podcast phenomenon is five seasons deep, with the sixth expected to release around September, so now is as good a time as any to join the massive hordes of listeners, and laugh along with the misadventures of the Belinda Blinked "novels".
I need to belt out a song in the Shower: Higher Love by Steve Winwood
Available on all music streaming platforms
Sometimes the echoed atmos of water hitting shower tiles is a little maddening. But it's also a great chamber for karaoke practice, and absolutely the first thing I'm doing when I can stop social distancing is going out for karaoke. So when I do eventually get to go, I'm bumping Higher Love. A song that's had many a moody acoustic cover in the near 40 years it's been out. But its original recording, pulsing with a pop melody, and satisfying drum fills (I knocked several shower products off in the process of an air drum solo) has such positive energy that has helped contribute to my wellbeing.
I feel like getting Funky: Donald Glover Presents
Available on Most streaming services (but not TIDAL, you hate to see it)
The ever-popular and always mildly mysterious Donald Glover has dropped the latest project under his 'Childish Gambino' moniker, and it's a hyper funky record, full of synth influence and pumping drums. If you haven't already heard this album, put it on, maybe dance a little to it, vibe out to it, make a Tik-Tok to it, do whatever you do when you listen to music.
I think I want to read a comic book, but superheroes are kind of lame and I need something with pizzazz: Dragon Ball Super
Available as Hardcopy on Amazon/Booktopia, e-book version on Kindle/ComiXology
I'm sure most readers may have a passing knowledge of Dragon Ball, and that passing knowledge is probably that it's all about buff dudes screaming and power levels (which to be fair, it does feature a bit of). But Dragon Ball, and whatever letters of the alphabet follow it, is a fun and colourful fantasy that always feels like a joy to see. So recently I've been reading the continuing adventures of Goku, Vegeta, and their colourful friends and family, and can highly recommend them if you're looking for something with gorgeous art, fast-paced adventure, and a fantasy story that isn't just people in capes. Most chapters are easily found online, and a Volume of multiple chapters can be found on Amazon for as little as $8.
I want some Fictional Tea spilled: China Rich Girlfriend
Available at all good book retailers, Audible.
The sequel to Kevin Kwan's 2013 novel Crazy Rich Asians is packed full with more of the sharp humour and international family drama that made the original such a smash. Whether you're reading a hard copy lounging around, or listening to the audiobook while washing dishes or jogging laps around your living room, the continuing adventures of Rachel and Nick are just as messy and (somehow) relatable as the first entry. AND with the film adaption looming over the horizon, get in on drama now and become THAT person who claims the book is better (because 9/10 times it is).
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I need to Relax: Animal Crossing (any of them)
Available on Nintendo Switch, 3DS, Wii, DS, GameCube
Let's start with what you've most likely seen plastered all over your timeline for the last two weeks. Nintendo's popular life simulator is providing comfort to millions of people around the world. The newest entry in the series New Horizons couldn't have launched at a better time – letting players relocate to an excessively pleasant deserted island, where you (a human) work together with your new neighbours (who happen to be talking animals) to build a village community from scratch.
It's a soothing slice of comfort every time you boot it up and I can't recommend it enough. HOWEVER, money doesn't grow on trees, and a brand new Nintendo Switch won't grow from one either. What I can suggest though, is any of the previous games in the series can provide the same warmth and comfort, for a much cheaper price tag. Whether you dig out your old Nintendo DS and a copy of Wild World. Or more likely; you pull out your old Nintendo Wii (because let's face it if you didn't own one, someone close to you did) and buy a copy of Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City for $25 online. Wherever you chose to get your Animal Crossing fix, you'll have a much brighter day as a result.
I have to go on an Adventure: Uncharted 4/The Lost Legacy
Available at Retail stores & the PlayStation Digital Store
If you or your housemates have one of those PlayStation thingamajigs sitting around, then for $24.95 you can go on a globe-trotting, treasure hunting adventure all from the comfort of home. With award-winning writing and fast fun action gameplay, join a cast of charming characters in the modern equivalent of an Indiana Jones or National Treasure type film. If you prefer a fast-talking male protagonist, play Uncharted 4. If you prefer a fast-talking female protagonist, play Uncharted The Lost Legacy.
(P.S. If you or your housemate have an Xbox, the modern Tomb Raider series will work just as well)
Almost everything I've recommended has been positive stories because that's what's helping me get through. So I hope by watching/listening/playing/reading some of these recommendations, you'll feel that extra positivity.
Mr. Fitzgerald April 3, 2020 COVID-19, Social Life, Wellbeing
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France, 1908-2004
Henri Cartier-Bresson France, 1908-2004
Barrio Chino, 1933/Printed later
Paper - 12"x16", Matted - 16"x20"
Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris, 1932/Printed later
Paper 16 x 12 inches; Image 14 x 9 1/2 inches
Hyères, France, 1932
Queen Charlotte's Ball, 1959
Paper - 16"x20", Matted - 20"x24"; Framed 21 x 25"
Stock Exchange, London, 1955/Printed later
Siphnos, Greece, 1961
Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948
image size 9 1/2 x 14 inches; paper size 12 x 16 inches
View from Notre Dame, Paris, France, 1952
On the Banks of the Marne, Paris, 1938
Henri Matisse, 1944
Easter Sunday, Harlem, New York, 1947
20 x 16 inches/Frame size 24 x 20 inches
Lisbon, Portugal, 1955
Swan Lake, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, USSR, 1954 / Printed c. 1990
Ballerina Bowing, Moscow, 1954 (Printed 1990's)
Paper - 16"x20", Image - 12"x17.5", Matted - 20"x24"
Trastevere, Rome, 1959/Printed Later
Simiane-la-Rotonde, France, 1969/Printed later
Aquila degli Abruzzi, 1952, printed later
Silver gelatin print
Mat 24 x 20 inches; Paper 19 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches; Image 17 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
Allées du Prado, Marseilles, France, 1932
12 x 16 inches.
Gyor, Hungary, 1964
Paper 16 x 20 inches; Image 12 x 17 1/2 inches
New York, U.S.A. (Man on the Ferry), 1954
Palais Royale, 1960 (Printed 1970's)
Image - 9.5"x14", Paper - 12"x16", Matted - 16"x20"
Près de Juvisy, France, 1955/Printed later
Chicago, U.S.A., 1947, printed later
20 x 16 inches. signed in ink with the photographer's embossed stamp on recto
The Last Days of the Kuomintang [market crash], China, 1949 / Printed Later
Cantine at Hotel Metropole, Russia, 1954
Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.A., 1947
San Antonio, Texas, 1947
Alpes de Haute, Provence, 1985
9 3/8 x 14 inches image, 12 x 16 inches paper, 16 x 20 mat
Dessau. Germany, (Russian Child released from a concentration camp), 1954
9.75 x 14.25 inches image, 12 x 16 inches image, 16 x 20 inches mat
Fatehpure Sikri, India, 1966
9.5 x 14" image, 12 x 15.75 inches paper, 16 x 20 inches mat
Epirus, Greece, 1961/Printed Later
9.5 x 14 inches image, 12 x 16 inches paper, 16 x 20 inches mat
Hamburg, 1952
11.75 x 17.5 inches image, 16 x 20 inches paper, 20x24 mat
Hamburg, Fischmarkt, Zitronenverkauferin, 1952
Dieppe, France, 1926
9.75 x 14.25 inches image, 11.75 x 16 inches paper, 16 x 20 mat
Roman Amphitheater, Valencia, Spain, 1933 (Printed later)
The East seen from the West, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, 1962
11.75 x 17.5 inches image, 16 x 20 inches paper, 20 x 24 inches mat
The Berlin Wall, Federal Republic of Germany, 1962
Madrid, Spain (Wall), 1933
Children await rice distribution, Shanghai, 1949
Moscow, Gymnasts, 1954
Mass, Warsaw, Poland, 1956
Cardinal Pacelli (Later Pope Pius XII), Montmartre, Paris, 1938
Munster, County Kerry, Ireland, 1952
Salerno, Italy, 1953
Los Angeles, Pershing Square, 1946
Sumatra, Indonesia, 1949
Peking, China, (Man holding walking stick), 1948
Shanghai, China, (Man Smoking by Ricer), 1948
Dior Fashion Show, Paris, France, 1953
Funeral of a Kabuki Actor, Japan, 1965
Calle Cuauhtemocztin, Mexico, 1934
Alicante Whores, Spain, 1933
Paper Size: 16 x 12 inches; 13 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches
Orgosolo, Sardinia, 1963
Paris, Neighborhood, (two vans), c. 1940's
16 x 12 inches; Signed in ink on recto
Chicago, U.S.A., 1947
Delhi, India (The Crowd Watching Gandhi's Ashes Being Scattered), 1948
India, Tamil Nadu, Tiruvannamalai, Funeral of the Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi, 1950
Paper 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches; Image 11 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches
Ahmedabad, India, 1966/Printed Later
Bali, Indonesia, 1949 (Printed Later)
New York, 1947, 1947/Printed Later
Athens, 1953/Printed Later
Houston, Texas, USA, 1957/Printed Later
Knoxville, Tennessee, 1947/Printed Later
Man at Cafe, c. 1940's
Paper 12 x 16 inches; Image 9 1/2 x 14 1/4 inches
Natcho Aguirre, Santa Clara, Mexico, 1934
Paris (Cat), 1953
Quai de Javel, 1932
Rouen, 1929
Taos, New Mexico, USA, 1947
Villandry, Touraine, 1955
Washington D.C., 1958
Colette and her Companion Pauline, 1952
New Castle upon Tyne, England, 1978
Alicante Whores, Spain, 1933 / Printed 1989
Paper Size: 12 x 16 inches; Image Size: 9 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches
Albert Camus, 1947/Printed later
Paper - 12"x16", Image - 9.75"x14.25", Matted - 16"x20"
David "Chim" Seymour and Robert Capa, 1952/Printed Later
Georges Braque, 1944
Ezra Pound, 1970
Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946
Pierre Bonnard, 1943
Samuel Beckett, 1964
Alfred Stieglitz, New York, 1946


Does watching Top Chef make your head spin with the fanciful cooking terms you've never heard of? Although this guide won't help you make these dishes, at least you'll know what's going on the next time someone compares your poached salmon to their sous vide pork chops.
Let's start out with terms that are specific to the act of cooking food—heating it to a specific temperature or letting it cook for a specific amount of time. First, we have poaching. This refers to the act of cooking in simmering liquid. Poaching is used to infuse the flavors of the liquid into the food and is also useful for cooking fragile foods like eggs, fish and poultry. Check out this article on How to Poach Fish.
Broiling uses direct heat at high temperatures to cook meat. Broiling is good for thin cuts of meat that can quickly cook the inside of the meat without burning the exterior. A special broiling pan is used to allow juices to settle away from the meat while letting the meat cook. This leaves the meat with a crisp exterior.
A favorite of the chefs on Top Chef, sous vide is a French word for the process of cooking foods at a very low temperature, in water, under vacuum for a long period of time. It is a very unique method and isn't easily accomplished without specialized tools. The main reason to sous-vide ingredients is that by cooking without the presence of air and for such long periods of time—sometimes upwards of two days—the ingredients remain intact and full of flavor as the food juices have nowhere to escape. There's a lot of science going on here in the molecular structure of the food but that's a story for another day.
Ever notice when you are watching a televised cooking show that the chefs always have their food already cut up and ready to go? This isn't just used by television chefs to make things go faster. The act of preparing your ingredients before starting to cook is called mise en place. This is another French phrase that means "putting in place" and refers to the preparation that takes place before cooking begins. Vegetables are chopped and washed, ingredients are measured, utensils are prepared and cooking surfaces are pre-heated to ensure the chef doesn't have to stop and start once cooking begins.
Although not cooking terms, tartare and ceviche come up enough on cooking programs to warrant a spot in this guide. Tartare is really just a recipe for beef tartare—thinly sliced high quality beef, lightly seasoned and served raw. Ceviche refers to a seafood dish served raw that has marinated in a citrus-based juice. Usually various types of fresh vegetables are mixed in as well to complement the seafood.
Although there are hundreds or thousands of various cooking terms, these are just a few that come up often in cooking shows. Now you can share a little wisdom the next time you and your gang sit down to watch.


ZDoggMD is a physician, off-white rapper, and the founder of Turntable Health. He's not a businessman. He's a business, man. OK we stole that line from Jay-Z but you get the idea. A hospitalist at Stanford for almost 10 years, Dr. Z currently resides in Las Vegas—a city he finds simply adorable.
Dr. Dogg, actually, Dr. Zubin Damania, in his copious spare time, creates poignant, biting rap videos that cut right to the heart of what's wrong with medicine today. His latest offering, "EHR State Of Mind," targets, you guessed it, EHR's, and by proxy, electronic medicine in general.
Watch the whole thing. Then watch it again.
Yes, it's funny, but it's sad, and it is spot on. Here's the bottom line: Most medical software programs, EHR's, PACS, etc., are VERY poorly written. They are hard to use, they get in the way of patient care, they don't communicate well if at all to other systems, they were designed to appeal to CIO's and IT types, and ignore most anything to do with how physicians and such actually use them. Or try to use them.
I'm just waiting for the first class action suit against one or more of the companies who have shoveled these steaming piles of poor coding and even worse interfaces upon us. All it will take is the deaths of a few patients that can be directly attributable to these embarrassing excuses for software. Mark my word, it will happen. Of course, these multi-billion dollar companies will pay off the plaintiffs and keep doing what they are doing. That worked for Ford and the Pinto cases; Ford committed corporate murder rather than pay $100/Pinto to fix a fatal flaw. So it will be here. And most tragic of all, CIO's and IT folk will continue to buy from the vendors who promise the best prices, the least work for the support people, the biggest installed base, and just generally anything and everything EXCEPT being usable for the end-users. That would be us.
There are very few rogues out there such as myself and ZDogg who are alerting the public to the fact that the electronic emperor has no clothes. Clearly, we are not getting anywhere, and that is because we physicians have completely lost control of this situation. And I doubt we'll ever get it back.


Susanne Ward, owner of Rock City Coffee Roasters and Rock City Cafe, transitioned her company's business model to that of an employee-owned cooperative. Kevin Malmstrom, the head coffee roaster, is one of 17 owner-employees.
ROCKLAND, Maine — For the last two months, patrons of Rock City Coffee might not have noticed any changes when they stopped at the busy downtown cafe for their regular order.
That's exactly what the the new owners — the people behind the counter — want.
Two months ago, Rock City Coffee, a cafe and coffee roastery, became a worker-owned cooperative, with employees buying the business from its previous owner and founder, Susanne Ward.
For Ward, selling the business to her employees was a reward to people who worked for her and a way to ensure that what she and her husband began 26 years ago would live on true to character.
For the employees, the opportunity allowed them a path to business ownership and to keep Rock City as the place where they love to work.
"I hated the idea of somebody else coming in and trying to change everything. I feel like because it's [an employee] cooperative, it will always be Rock City," said Kevin Malmstrom, who has worked at Rock City for 14 years and is now one of the 17 employee-owners.
The transition from single-person ownership to an employee-owned cooperative has been in the works for about three years. On March 9, the company was sold to 17 of the 30 employees, forming the new Rock City Employee Cooperative.
Until closing day on the loan the cooperative took out to purchase Rock City, each of the 30 employees had the opportunity to join the cooperative and become part owners of the business.
Employee-owned cooperatives are on the rise across business sectors, according to Rob Brown, director of business ownership solutions at the Cooperative Development Institute. This is especially true in Maine, Brown said, largely due to the state's aging population, with business owners finding themselves at retirement age but not wanting to endure the traditional sale process.
Ward started Rock City in 1992 as Second Read Books and Coffee, with her husband, Patrick Reilley. It was her dream to sell books and his to sell coffee.
The business morphed over the years. The coffee shop became more of a cafe and the late 1990s saw the addition of the roastery. In 2005, the name changed to Rock City Books and Coffee.
But the going was not always easy. For years Ward said they were "pouring money into" the business.
Then in 2010, Reilley died. Faced with a mountain of grief and the prospect of running the business on her own, Ward managed to pull the business above water. To focus more on the roastery and cafe, she sold the bookstore — her initial love — to an employee, who now operates Hello Hello Books in the back of Rock City's cafe.
But through it all, Rock City stood tall as a pillar in the Rockland community — something Ward said wouldn't be the case if it weren't for the people working there.
"I can't tell you the number of times people have stopped me on the street to tell me how much they love my employees," Ward said.
As Ward approached retirement, she wanted to have a succession plan for the business and she entertained a few offers from outside parties interested in buying Rock City.
But Ward knew that what she, her husband and her employees managed to build with Rock City was special. Selling the business to someone who might change it just didn't feel right, she said.
An employee-owned cooperative would ensure that Rock City stayed largely the same, while also rewarding the people "who worked so hard," Ward said.
"With my staff, their first thing that they said they want to do with the business is maintain what they have and build on what they have," Ward said.
Three or four months after Ryan Flanders started working at Rock City Cafe as a cook, he was presented with the option to become a part of the employee cooperative that would assume ownership of the business.
Having worked in other kitchen settings, Flanders said this was a unique shot at being a part owner of a business, especially since he has a young daughter.
While taking on a business might be a daunting task for an individual entrepreneur, owners in a cooperative model have fellow employees who share management responsibilities. Natalia Ayala, who has worked at Rock City for three years, said taking ownership of an established business also helped ease concerns.
Now, if employees want to join the Rock City Employee Cooperative, they must have been employed at Rock City for at least 15 months and apply to the cooperative board for membership.
Leading up to the finalizing of the loan and cooperative formation, Malmstrom said a big focus was put on education, to make the prospective employee-owners aware of what to expect and what was expected of them in ownership.
Another boon to the cooperative ownership model for Rock City employees was the ability to take on as much, or as little, responsibility as they can. Ayala, who has two small children, said she's working fewer hours as a barista in the cafe and instead is taking on additional cooperative tasks that she can do while caring for her children.
Flanders is currently on the promotions committee, one of three committees — along with personnel and finance — that report to the cooperative board.
"I feel like there is enough to go around for everybody, where no one person is feeling really overwhelmed," Malmstrom said.
While the employee-cooperative model is new to Rock City, the feeling of employees being at the forefront of the business is not — which is why Ward and the new owners think the coop fits perfectly.


The residents of Buffalo, New York did not want to deal with the stench and sewage that washed down the stream so in the 1920's a tunnel was built over the polluted Scajaquada Creek. The creek continues to be polluted.
The video documents a leech swimming the polluted waters of Scajaquada Creek in North Creek South Creek Park in Cheektowaga, a suburb of Buffalo, NY.
"Biological Regionalism" is a series of paintings and videos that identify the landscape and the fish that are distinctive to a region. I envision the project creating indigenous symbols of a culture.
This video and two 8 foot paintings was created as part of as a site-specific installation for the Fourth Rochester Biennial at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY. The artist explores the migratory pattern of a Lake Erie fish species (steelhead trout) and the historical depictions of the Genesee River.
These underwater videos and two 8 foot paintings was created as part of as a site-specific installation for the Lightwell Gallery at the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. The artist explores the migratory pattern of a Lake Erie fish species (largemouth bass) and the history and fragility of Ellicott Creek that borders the campus.
"Biological Regionalism: Atlantic Cod", B/W, 10 minutesThe video was created for a residency at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. The artist provides a brief overview of his Biological Regionalism Series while providing a brief history of the Atlantic cod and its influence on the economy of New England.
The connection between nature and culture seems to have been lost, as most of our social and economic reliance has moved to an urban setting. Our culture has developed outdoor recreational activities, zoos and pets as a way to reconnect with our innate need to be closer to nature. This film investigates one attempt to reconnect.
"Biological Regionalism" is a series of paintings and videos that identifies the landscape and the fish that are distinctive to a region. I envision the project creating indigenous symbols of a culture.
Alberto Rey's family fled Cuba in 1963. Alberto was three years old when they found political asylum in Mexico. Thirty-five years later he returned to cuba for the first time. "An Unkept Promise" chronicles the emotional complexities of his trip, why he promised himself never to return and the invitation that makes him reconsider.
The hour long footage documents the waters off of Caibarien, Cuba. This small island, off the eastern coast of Cuba, was a popular site where the balseros used to set off on their rafts to catch the Gulf Stream to Florida. The video tries to capture what the balseros would see on the beginning of their often tragic voyages.
The short film captures Alberto Rey's first return back to Cuba after 30 years. The film is relates how he decides to stop creating paintings about his nostalgic interpretations of his homeland.


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Composers Festival spotlight: DRAX
DRAX, the duo of percussionist Megan Arns and saxophonist Leo Saguiguit, will return to the Mizzou International Composers Festival this year as guest artists for the "Mizzou New Music" concert on Friday, July 28 at the Missouri Theatre.
They'll perform "Where Are Our Mothers/We Don't Have Enough Time" by 2011 MICF resident composer Steve Snowden, and "Tantrums," a world premiere that they commissioned from 2012 MICF resident composer Asha Srinivasan.
Formed in fall 2014 to explore the existing repertoire for saxophone and percussion duo and to commission new works, DRAX (pictured) made their MICF debut at the 2015 festival, performing new music including a piece commissioned from Mizzou alumnus and 2014 MICF resident composer Jose Martinez.
Recent performances include a concert for the Odyssey Chamber Music Series in December 2016, and an appearance at the 2017 North American Saxophone Alliance Region IV Conference in Oklahoma City, where they played new works by Mizzou student composer Aaron Mencher and Steve Snowden.
DRAX made their international debut at the 2015 World Saxophone Congress in Strasbourg, France, and also have performed at the North American Saxophone Alliance Region 4 Conference in Norman, Oklahoma, and the Missouri Percussive Arts Society's Day of Percussion.
Both members of DRAX have multi-faceted careers as performers, teachers, and advocates for new music. Megan Arns is an assistant teaching professor of percussion at Mizzou who also has performed with the contemporary chamber groups [Switch~Ensemble] and What is Noise and with a number of symphony orchestras.
Arns has been involved in co-commissioning and premiering works by notable composers such as John Luther Adams, Alejandro Viñao, Halim El-Dahb, Steven Snowden, Adam Silverman, David Skidmore, Ivan Trevino, and Brian Nozny.
She earned performance degrees from Florida State University and Truman State University; an M.A. in ethnomusicology from the Eastman School of Music, and currently is a candidate for a D.M.A. in percussion performance and literature at Eastman.
Leo Saguiguit serves as associate professor of saxophone at the University of Missouri, and in 2016 was one of eight recipients of the university's Faculty-Alumni Award. He also enjoys a busy schedule performing as a soloist and chamber musician and presenting master classes and lectures throughout the United States and abroad.
In addition to DRAX, he performs with the Athens (Greece) Saxophone Quartet, Chicago Saxophone Quartet, Missouri Saxophone Quartet, Trio Chymera, and the Odyssey Chamber Music Series of Columbia.
Saguiguit has appeared as concerto soloist with numerous orchestras and wind ensembles, and has performed regularly as an orchestral saxophonist with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Milwaukee Symphony, Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Missouri Symphony.
He has earned degrees from Emory University and Northwestern University, and has recorded CDs with the Athens Quartet, Impuls Quartet, Chromos Quartet, and the wind ensemble Philharmonia à Vent.
DRAX performs "Burn" (2016) by Nathan Daughtrey and "Greensleeves" (traditional, arr. Mark Hanson), recorded December 2, 2016 at First Baptist Church in Columbia, MO
DRAX | Leo Saguiguit | Megan Arns


I've had multiple phone/Outlook calendar syncing issues and spent way too much time trying to solve them and I am happy to say I'm giving up. I ordered an Erin Condren Life Planner and am loving going Old School. If you order right now, they are only including April-December of 2012 for $30 (that's 40% off the regular price of $50). Note: Erin has no clue who I am- I ordered and paid myself after seeing another blogger talk about hers. I did use a discount code from www.retailmenot.com though (of course!).
And my newest drink concoction is mixing Pomegranate CranEnergy half and half with Diet 7up. It's quite tasty and refreshing.
I miss my planner!!! And that drink sounds yummy tasty!!!
I LOVE my planner too and for some reason I work so much better in writing things down then putting them on my phone. :) Glad to know I'm not the only one!
thanks for the sweet post - we heart old school!


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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and Crystal Eastman
Rebellious Daughters of History #11 by Judy Cox Factory Girl, Socialist and Writer: Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886 – 1962), Ethel Carnie was born into a weaving family in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. She started working part-time work in the mill at age eleven and worked full-time from thirteen. In her later articles for the Woman Worker, she […]
Judy Cox
Rebellious Daughters of History #11
by Judy Cox
Factory Girl, Socialist and Writer: Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886 – 1962),
Ethel Carnie was born into a weaving family in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. She started working part-time work in the mill at age eleven and worked full-time from thirteen. In her later articles for the Woman Worker, she described her experience as "slavery".
Ethel attended Great Harwood British School from 1892 until 1899. She was a passionate reader. Her first book of poems, Rhymes from the Factory, was published in 1907, when Ethel was just 21 years old. When this was republished in 1908 she achieved national recognition.
Socialist Robert Blatchford, proprietor of The Clarion newspaper, offered Ethel a job writing for The Woman Worker, in London. She edited the paper between July and December 1909. Carnie was dismissed after six months possibly because Blatchford did not like her increasingly political and feminist editorials.
A second book of poems, Songs of a Factory Girl, was published in 1911, and her third and final collection of poems, Voices of Womanhood, followed three years later.
Her themes relate to the things she had seen in life: the slavery of the factory system and of domestic service, women exhausted by work as well as family and domestic lives. But what speaks most strongly is Carnie's faith in human goodness and a determination to declare this on behalf of her class – to show that the fight was a just one.
Ethel Carnie was a member of the Co-operative Society, and the Independent Labour Party and was strongly anti- capitalist. She protested against the introduction of conscription in WWI, addressed 20,000 women during the Women's Peace Crusade. During the 1920s she lived in Hebden Bridge and edited The Clear Light, an anti-fascist journal, with her husband Alfred Holdsworth who she had married in 1915.
Ethel was the first working class woman to publish best-selling novels. Helen of Four Gates was made into a film in 1924. The novel This Slavery (1925) is about a strike and it's characters are working-class socialists who read Capital.
The book is dedicated 'To Mother and Father, slaves and rebels […] with a Daughter's affection and a Comrade's greetings'. This is from Rachels speech:
"I wonder when women'll be free, mother An' chaps, too, of course. But we, we somehow have a tradition behind us besides an economic slavery. We've got the race on our shoulders, an' all th' other besides"
Article: 'Our Right to Play' (The Woman Worker, April 14, 1909, p.342)
'For God's sake, women, go out and play.
Instead of staring round to see what wants polishing or rubbing, go out into the open and draw the breath of the moors or the hills into your lungs.
Get some of the starshine and sunlight into your souls, and do not forget that you are something more than a dish washer – that you are more necessary to the human race than politicians – or anything.
Remember you belong to the aristocracy of labour – the long pedigree of toil, and the birthright which Nature gives to everyone had entitled you to an estate higher than that of princes.'
Poem: 'Power'
"They built the house of Power on Force and Fear,
And gave authority the key to hold,
Stamping it with the hall-mark of dead gold,
And rusting it in human Blood and Tear.
"Behold!" cried Power, "The glory of my state!
Here I conserve forever all that Is,
Here, manacled and gagged, my priests shall kiss
My sceptre. Prisons, dungeons, be my Gate!
Whilst outside millions claw and scratch for Bread,
And burdened lives go swiftly to the grave.
Hold fast my key, my mistress, and all's well!"
But Liberty came by with rose-crowned head,
And piped upon her pipe to every slave
These words of Laughter, "Fear is all their spell."
Revolutionary, campaigner for worker's safety and journalist Crystal Eastman (1881-1928)
'When the dead bodies of girls are found piled up against locked doors leading to exits after a factory fire, who wants to hear about a great relief fund? What we want is to start a revolution'.
Three Essentials for Accident Prevention, July 1912
Crystal Eastman was a lawyer, anti-war campaigner, suffragist and revolutionary socialist. Crystal moved to New York with her brother, Max Eastman, in 1907. In 1912 Max and Crystal worked on The Masses, a revolutionary magazine owned cooperatively by its editors alongside John Reed, Louise Bryant and novelist Upton Sinclair.
Crystal campaigned energetically for safer working conditions. In 1911 she explained her interest in industrial statistics, 'it seems a tame thing to drop suddenly from talk of revolution to talk of statistics, but I believe in statistics as much as I believe in revolution. And what is more, I believe statistics are good stuff to start a revolution with'.
In 1913 she helped to launch the Congressional Union of Women Suffrage to campaign for the vote. During the First World War, she organised against American militarism and imperialism and her Women's Peace Party greeted the outbreak of the Russian Revolution with, 'mad, glad joy'.
In 1919 Eastman reported for another radical paper, The Masses, until the paper was closed down. Max and Crystal then co-founded another socialist magazine, The Liberator. Crystal made the dangerous journey to Hungary to give a first-hand account of the revolution in a series, 'Inside Communist Hungary'.
Crystal also helped to form the American Civil Liberties Union and became co-author of the Equal Rights Amendment. In the same year, Crystal organised the first Feminist Congress. When she was black-listed in the red scare of 1919-20 she found work on radical journals, Equal Rights and Time and Tide.
In the first issue of The Liberator, at the high point of the wave of revolutions which ended World War One,Eastman wrote,
'Never in all history before could one so joyfully and confidently enter upon the enterprise of publishing and propagating ideas.
Dedicating our admiration to the fearless faith in scientific intelligence of Karl Marx, and our energy to hopes that are even beyond his, we issue THE LIBERATOR into a world whose possibilities of freedom and life for all, are now certainly immeasurable'.
Crystal Eastman died in 1928 aged just 46.
Gallery – Remember George Floyd. Protests in Berlin: 30-31 May
Photos by Bridget Kronqvist and Julie Niederhauser
Dora Montefiore and Mary Mahoney
Rebellious Daughters of History #10 by Judy Cox Dora Montefiore (1851-1933): suffragist, pacifist, communist Dora Fuller was born on 20th December, 1851. She was educated at home, and then at a private school in Brighton. In 1874 she went to Australia, where she met George Barrow Montefiore, a wealthy businessman. They lived in Sydney, where […]
Dora Montefiore (1851-1933): suffragist, pacifist, communist
Dora Fuller was born on 20th December, 1851. She was educated at home, and then at a private school in Brighton. In 1874 she went to Australia, where she met George Barrow Montefiore, a wealthy businessman. They lived in Sydney, where their daughter was born in 1883 and their son in 1887. Her husband died on 17th July 1889. She became an advocate of women's rights and in March 1891 she established the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales.
On returning to England in 1892 she worked with Millicent Fawcett at the National Union of Suffrage Societies. She also joined the Social Democratic Federation and eventually served on its executive. She also contributed to its journal, Justice.
During the Boer War Montefiore "refused willingly to pay income tax, because payment of such tax went towards financing a war in the making of which I had had no voice." Bailiffs sold her goods at public auctions.
Montefiore joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1905 and worked closely with Sylvia Pankhurst in London. In 1906 Dora Montefiore refused to pay her taxes until women were granted the vote.
Outside her home she placed a banner that read: "Women should vote for the laws they obey and the taxes they pay." This resulted in her Hammersmith home being besieged by bailiffs for six weeks.
In October 1906 Dora was arrested during a WSPU demonstration and was sent to Holloway prison. Dora left the WSPU in 1906 but she remained close to Sylvia Pankhurst, who shared a belief in socialism.
In the autumn of 1907, Dora and seventy other members of the WSPU left to form the Women's Freedom League (WFL). In 1907 Montefiore joined the Adult Suffrage Society and was elected its honorary secretary in 1909. She also remained in the Social Democratic Federation. Montefiore was pre-eminently a journalist and pamphleteer. Most of her pamphlets were on women and socialism.
On 31st July, 1920, Dora was among a group of revolutionary socialists who attended a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel in London and agreed to form the Communist Party of Great Britain. She became a close friend of Alexandra Kollontai.
After the death of her son from the delayed effects of mustard gas in 1921 he had suffered on the western front.
Dora died on 21st December 1933, at her home in Hastings, and was cremated at Golders Green, Middlesex.
Here is a letter from kollontai to Dora Montefiore.
Rebellious Nurses of History: Mary Mahoney (1845-1926)
Mary Mahoney was first black American woman to complete nurse's training in 1879.
Mary Mahoney was born on May 7, 1845, in Boston, Massachusetts. She challenged racist discrimination to be admitted to the nursing school of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, and became the first black woman to complete nurse's training in 1879.
Mahoney campaigned against racism in the nursing profession. In 1896, she joined the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada (NAAUSC). The NAAUSC consisted mainly of white members, many holding openly racist views. Mahoney felt that a group was needed which advocated for the equality of African American nurses.
In 1908, she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). In the following year, at the NACGN's first national convention, she gave the opening speech. At the convention, the organization's members elected Mahoney to be the national chaplain and gave her a life membership.
Mary was one of the first women to register to vote in Boston following the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Mahoney was inducted into both the Nursing Hall of Fame and the National Women's Hall of Fame. She died in Boston in 1926.
Sarah Parker Redmond and Anne Knight
Rebellious Daughter of History #9 By Judy Cox Sarah Parker Redmond (1826-1894) Abolitionist,suffragist and activist Sarah Parker Remond was an African American slavery abolitionist, lecturer and physician. Her anti-slavery campaign, which she began at just 16 years old, took her across America and on to Britain and Europe – where she tirelessly condemned the atrocities […]
Rebellious Daughter of History #9
Sarah Parker Redmond (1826-1894) Abolitionist,suffragist and activist
Sarah Parker Remond was an African American slavery abolitionist, lecturer and physician. Her anti-slavery campaign, which she began at just 16 years old, took her across America and on to Britain and Europe – where she tirelessly condemned the atrocities happening in her country.
Sarah was born in 1826 in Salem, Massachusetts, one of eight siblings. Her older brother, Charles Lenox Remond, became an anti-slavery lecturer; and Nancy, Caroline, and Sarah, were all active in the Salem Female Anti-Slavery Society. That Society was founded by black women including Sarah's mother in 1832.
The Remond children suffered from racism. Sarah was refused admission to Salem's high school. The family had to move to Rhode Island, so the daughters could attend a private school for African American children.
In 1842, when Sarah was sixteen, she gave her first public lecture on the horrors of slavery. In 1853 Sarah attended an opera and refused to leave a section reserved for whites. When a policeman forcibly ejected her, she fell down some stairs. She sued in a civil suit, winning five hundred dollars, and an end to segregated seating at the hall.
In 1856, Sarah toured New York lecturing on behalf of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
She shocked audiences by describing the sexual violence endured by female slaves. In 1859 she sailed to Liverpool, writing to a friend, 'I fear not the wind and the waves, I know however I go, the spirit of prejudice will greet me'.
At her overflowing UK lectures, Remond told audiences of thousands of the horrors of slavery and of the discrimination and indignities suffered by 'free black' people in the US. She was thought to be the first woman to denounce slavery in front of mass audiences.
Thousands of workers, including many women, in the textile districts of Lancashire heard Sarahs' powerful denunciations of slavery:
"I appeal on behalf of four million men, women and children who are chattels in the Southern States of America, not because they are identical with my race and colour, though I am proud of that identity, but because they are men and women."
During the American Civil War, the campaign led by Sarah and other black activists played a role in cementing support for the North among textile workers, despite the hardships caused by the blockade of US cotton. Karl Marx wrote that this support for the North was one of the highest points reached by the British working class.
Sarah became the first black woman to enrol at Bedford College in London, a college offering education to women. She also became a founder member of the influential Ladies' London Emancipation Society. After the war, she raised funds to support free black people and campaigned against British brutality against slave rebellions.
Sarah moved to Florence, Italy. She enrolled at a medical college and fulfilled a lifelong ambition by training as a nurse. She married an Italian man in 1877. Sarah died in Rome in 1894 and was buried there in the Protestant cemetery.
The indefatigable Anne Knight (1786–1862)
Anne Knight devoted her considerable energies to defeating slavery and establishing women's rights. Anne was born in Chelmsford in November 1781 to a family of Quakers who were pacifists and social reformers. In the 1830s Anne set up a women's anti-slavery society in Chelmsford.
In early 1833 Anne Initiated a national women's petition against slavery. It was signed by 298,785 women, the largest single anti-slavery petition in the movement's history.
In 1834 Anne Knight toured France where she gave lectures on need for the immediate abolition of slavery without compensation.
Anne attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention held at Exeter Hall in London, in June 1840. But as a woman she was refused permission to speak, a move she bitterly criticised.
In 1847 Anne published a leaflet which argued: "Never will the nations of the earth be well governed, until both sexes, as well as all parties, are fully represented and have an influence, a voice, and a hand in the enactment and administration of the laws".
Knight became active in the Chartist movement despite criticising them for not supporting women's right to vote. In a letter published in the Brighton Herald in 1850 she demanded that the Chartists should campaign for what she described as "true universal suffrage".
In 1848 Anne was in Paris. She was active in the revolution, joining with with French female socialists to press for women's rights. She attended a conference on world peace held in 1849. In 1851 Anne Knight and Anne Kent established the Sheffield Female Political Association.
Later that year the Associated published an "Address to the Women of England" which was presented to parliament. This was the first mass petition that demanded women's suffrage.
Anne Knight died on 4th November, 1862.
Berlin vs Amazon
Challenging Amazon in Berlin
Amazon is regularly making global headlines as one of the few companies making record profits during the Corona crisis (at the expense of their workers' safety and health). It becomes an even more urgent task, for the local Berlin Vs Amazon campaign to make the case against the construction of the Amazon tower, which would become the largest building in Berlin.
Speaking about it later today, Yonatan Miller, a regular at Die Linke International will be speaking at the online Disruption Network Lab. The conference is happening online, no registration necessary!
On June 8th, Berlin vs Amazon will be hosting an online debate, about what concrete actions we can take against Amazon, in a time where global capitalism and Amazon seem unstoppable. It is not an easy task, but we believe we can and must try to prevail.


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Mike Carter is a psychic detective in a city that's not supposed to exist, but even he needs a vacation. That's put on hold when he's attacked by a powerful sorcerer, who also happens to be a psychotic killer. When he thinks his number is up, a beautiful woman comes to his aid. She's a werewolf, and she has every intention of kidnapping Mike and taking him back to her pack for protection.


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Slow, meandering hurricanes are often more dangerous—and they're getting more common
Storms don't have to be fast to be destructive.
By Greta Moran | Published Sep 9, 2020 3:00 PM
Hurricane Harvey, which stalled dangerously over Texas, on August 24, 2017. NOAA/NASA GOES Project
Hurricanes are often described as "barreling" through a region, yet some of the most dangerous storms in recent years have exhibited just the opposite behavior: meandering, roaming, and hovering for days on end. This hovering is more commonly known as "stalling," and occurs when a hurricane more or less grinds to a halt. Hurricanes are stalling more around the world, and some researchers are trying to understand how and if climate change impacts this behavior.
A slow hurricane can be uniquely menacing. If a storm is stationary, it means that the imperiling rains and winds will last longer, prolonging the threat. "I think about it as 'do you want to do one round in the ring with Mike Tyson or 10?" says Timothy Hall, an expert in tropical cyclones and senior research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. "Everything about a hurricane is dangerous, and everything about it is worse if you're standing under it longer." The most obvious risk of stalling is rainfall accumulating over a longer period of time, but Hall says there is also the threat of winds continuing to drive storm surge and damage human infrastructure.
Hurricane Harvey, the wettest hurricane to ever hit the United States, is an excellent example. The 2017 storm "intensified rapidly as it approached the Texas coast, and then it hit the coast and just wandered a bit over the land and over the ocean, just back and forth for several days. In the meantime, basically acting as a conveyor belt, just dumping huge amounts of warm Gulf water onto Houston," says Hall. "It was the classic stalling pattern."
When a hurricane slows, it is largely due to the steering winds that direct and propel the vortex. "Hurricanes are like corks being pushed around in a stream," says Hall. "If those wind patterns themselves stall, slow down dramatically, or change directions rather abruptly, the hurricane will be sort of directionless and it can sit there stalling."
These weaker winds are also more meandering. Hurricane Sandy in 2012 was propelled by erratic steering winds. "As it was heading up the east coast, instead of swerving back out toward the middle of the Atlantic heading east, which most storms do at that latitude, it took a sudden left-hand turn and hit New Jersey dead-on," says Hall.
Given how much influence steering winds have over hurricane speed and trajectory, climate change may influence stalling by reshaping large-scale wind patterns. Climate models generally show shifts in these broad patterns, though it's not exactly clear how much the changes might translate to hurricanes themselves. In a 2019 study, Hall and his co-author Jim Kossin found that North Atlantic hurricanes are more likely to stall near the coast, but did not link this to climate change. The first study linking climate change and slowing hurricanes was published in April by researchers at Princeton University.
This limited research is not yet enough to prove any definite conclusions. "Yes, we're seeing an observed-slow down. It may not be due to global warming," says Jeff Masters, a weather meteorologist and co-founder of the Weather Underground. He says in all likelihood research will confirm the link to climate change in the future, even though there's not enough evidence right now.
To more conclusively attribute this slowing pattern to climate change will require more data. "The historical hurricane record globally only goes back to about 1982 where we've got good satellite data," says Masters. "That's not very long to generate a climate change attribution study because climate operates on a scale of 30 years or more."
In the meantime, though, there is a mechanism that could explain why climate change might cause hurricane slowing. "The main reason we're seeing the weakening of the winds is because we're seeing a decrease in the North to South temperature difference," says Francis, an expert on climate change in the Arctic and a senior scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. This is thought to be largely due to belts all along the northern parts of the continents where the snow has been melting much earlier due to climate change. As a result of this shift, she says, "we are seeing the soil heat up much earlier in the spring, which reduces that North-South temperature difference, which is what is decreasing the wind."
This temperature gradient causes the steering winds and the jet stream to weaken, resulting in many weather patterns becoming effectively stuck for a longer period of time. "So we're seeing weather regimes of all sorts, whether they're cold spells or stormy conditions or snowy conditions, all tending to become more persistent," says Francis. Hurricanes are part of this broader trend of dangerously slowed-down weather.
Even if hurricane slowing isn't eventually conclusively attributed to climate change, it's still increasing—and that risk that will need to be communicated. The 1-5 Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, the predominant scale for communicating hurricane risk in the US, only looks at wind speed. By failing to take into account the serious risk of slowing and stalling, along with more rainfall, this metric can misrepresent the true danger of a storm. For instance, when Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina, it was downgraded to a Category 1 storm, only to tragically stall and dump enough rain to break at least 28 flood records.
"We need another scale or some totally different way of warning of a danger," says Masters. He points to the European warning system as a better alternative. "They just have a yellow, orange and red alert where they describe all the impacts of a storm. A red alert is basically unprecedented; this is going to be worse than anything you've ever seen," says Masters.
This warning system will also need to communicate hurricanes' increasing intensity, related to the temperature underneath the storm. There is a broad consensus that warming oceans, which reached the hottest temperature on record in 2019, have been increasing the intensity of storms. "When we warm the oceans, we are basically providing more fuel for tropical storms to form and to get stronger," says Francis. Warmer oceans and air increase the evaporation of water vapor into the air, fueling a more potent storm.
Francis says that focusing on communicating the impacts of storms is the most effective way to convey the danger. "I think that was a big success story for Hurricane Laura because [the National Hurricane Center] described the storm surge as unsurvivable," she says. "I think a lot of people who were reluctant to evacuate, heard that and were like, 'Oh, I've never heard them say that before. I guess I better go.' "
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More than 48 million tourists visited Los Angeles in 2017. So if you're planning on visiting LA in the near future, you're in good company.
And one of the key parts of any visit to Los Angeles is the food. But if you're planning on just strolling around downtown to find a place to eat, you'll miss out on some of the best options out there.
That's why we've created this guide outlining 4 of the best places to eat in LA. Check out these hidden gems.
LA is known for its tacos. Being so close to the Mexican border, there are tons of great Mexican restaurants around the city.
But one of the best taco places you have to check out is Tacos Leo. It's an incredible taco truck located in a parking lot. In other words, it's super authentic.
Be sure to check out the al pastor tacos. They're a crowd favorite!
You'll see them cooked on a rotating spit right outside the truck. It's a sight to behold and even better to eat.
Next on your food list should be Sugarfish for some perfect sushi. This is some of the best sushi out there and it's also one of the more affordable options. In other words, it's amazing sushi for the best deal.
Plus, there are locations throughout the city, so you can find one wherever you are. If you're a sushi fan, you've got to try Sugarfish. You'll be glad you did!
Looking for a great cheesesteak while you're in the city? Well, you're in luck.
This is where Boos Philly comes in. The owner started it when his parents came to the city and asked where they could find a good cheesesteak.
His answer? There weren't any!
This is when the wheels started turning and Boo's Philly was born. For an authentic, delicious cheesesteak sandwich, this is where you need to go.
High-quality buns, meat, and cheese come together for the sandwich of a lifetime. You can't miss it.
Last but not least, don't forget to try out some seafood on the coast. Just up the road from LA is Malibu, where you'll find this classic landmark: Neptune's Net.
This is a road trip classic complete with a full seafood menu and amazing views of the coast. Plus, you'll love its classic 1950s Americana architecture. It's a beautiful building complete with a delicious menu that you have to try out while you're on the Pacific Coast.
There you have it: the best places to eat in LA that you wouldn't otherwise know about. You've got to check these restaurants out while you're in the city.
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Our mission is to champion public policies that improve the lives of Virginia's children.
Founded in 1994, Voices for Virginia's Children is the commonwealth's only independent, multi-issue child policy and advocacy organization. We are home to the KIDS COUNT data center for Virginia, which includes more than 200 state- and locality-level indicators on child well-being over time. Using this data and our independent policy research, we determine unmet needs and threats to child well-being, recommend sound policy solutions, provide objective input to policymakers, and educate and mobilize leaders and concerned citizens to support policy initiatives.
We are particularly focused on children whose needs are often overlooked, concentrating our efforts on policies in the areas of early childhood, foster care and adoption, health and mental health, and family economic security.
The impact of our work is felt by children, youth, and families throughout Virginia.
Thousands of disadvantaged four-year-olds have access to pre-K, and legislative support for the Virginia Preschool Initiative has grown.
More children from low-income families have access to appropriate child care, allowing their parents to remain in the workforce and on the path to self-sufficiency.
Children and youth with serious mental health disorders have better access to treatment.
Thousands of children in foster care have a better chance to establish permanent family ties and transition to productive adulthood.
Voices proudly serves as the KIDS COUNT data center for the state of Virginia. We are also a member of the Partnership for America's Children.
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First, clear your shrine checkpoint. Then enter the forest and lose all your energy.
First, clear your shrine checkpoint. Then enter the forest, talk to the mayor, and resign the mission. If that was only your first resignation (you get one "second chance" before you die), enter the forest again and resign the mission again.
If playing on Steam, in v741 and higher, open the Options menu and choose the Restart Game option. This option should also be available in v1.02 on PS4, but v1.02 was not released at the time this article was written.
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From the main PlayStation menu, go to Settings > Application Saved Data Management.
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If all of the above worked correctly, delete the files you temporarily renamed in Step 3; they are no longer needed now that the new "RoadNotTakenData.dat" file is being used.
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The Notifynder notification builder is callable directly or via the `Notifynder` facade. We really recommend to use the facade cause this is the supported public API.

### single Notification

```php
\Notifynder::category('user.following') // define the category to send
    ->from($sender) // define the sender of the notification
    ->to($receiver) // define the receiver of the notification
    ->url('http://notifynder.info') // define the url for the notification
    ->extra(['message' => 'Hey John, I\'m Doe.']) // define additional data
    ->expire(Carbon::tomorrow()) // define an expire date for the notification
    ->send(); // send the notification
```

### anonymous Notification

```php
\Notifynder::category('user.following') // define the category to send
    ->anonymous() // force an anonymous notification sender
    ->to($receiver) // define the receiver of the notification
    ->url('http://notifynder.info') // define the url for the notification
    ->extra(['message' => 'Hey John, I\'m Doe.']) // define additional data
    ->expire(Carbon::tomorrow()) // define an expire date for the notification
    ->send(); // send the notification
```

### extend Notification extra

```php
\Notifynder::category('user.following') // define the category to send
    ->anonymous() // force an anonymous notification sender
    ->to($receiver) // define the receiver of the notification
    ->url('http://notifynder.info') // define the url for the notification
    ->extra(['message' => 'Hey John, I\'m Doe.']) // define additional data
    ->extra(['action' => 'invitation'], false) // extend additional data
    ->expire(Carbon::tomorrow()) // define an expire date for the notification
    ->send(); // send the notification
```

### multiple Notifications

```php
\Notifynder::loop($receivers, function(\Fenos\Notifynder\Builder\Builder $builder, $receiver) use ($sender) {
    $builder->category('user.following') // define the category to send
        ->from($sender) // define the sender of the notification
        ->to($receiver) // define the receiver of the notification
        ->url('http://notifynder.info') // define the url for the notification
        ->extra(['message' => 'Hey John, I\'m Doe.']) // define additional data
        ->expire(Carbon::tomorrow()) // define an expire date for the notification
})->send(); // send the notification
```

### setting custom fields

If you have added some custom fields to the database and want to set them with the builder you can do it with the `setField()` method. To do this the column name must be configured in the `additional_fields` array.

```php
\Notifynder::category('user.following') // define the category to send
    ->from($sender) // define the sender of the notification
    ->to($receiver) // define the receiver of the notification
    ->setField('customer_id', $customer->getKey()) // set the customer_id field
    ->send(); // send the notification
```

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There's a funny story from my time at 1871 -- not like Dave Chappelle funny, but like human resources / small business funny, if you feel me.
When we would offer jobs to potential employees, I often was the one to call and offer them the jobs. It was great - people love getting jobs. I would call, welcome the person to the team, talk to them about the offer we were giving them, the benefits, etc.
The point is, benefits are important, true, but beyond the abstract, it is extremely important to understand the role and value that your benefits have.
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I always feel like the calamitous meets the surreal this time of year. Maybe it's seasonal, what with the changing over from summer to autumn. Transformation and transfiguration are afoot. There's a strange energy of walking through the threshold of something vaguely important, especially for me this time of year. Early September comes and goes and I always feel like something has totally shifted.
The terrorist attacks of 2001 irrevocably underlined, on a personal level, this profound sense of shifting from one mode into another. And yet, along with sadness and fear, there's also a mountain of excitement that comes with this change. The annual Toronto International Film Festival is on and the city goes mad for movies. Sure there are the "stars" but people are also interested, I believe, in seeing something new, unique, and unusual. It was this promise -this encapsulation of strange, surreal, and transformative -that propelled me to start attending the film festival so many moons ago. Now, as a journalist covering the fest (my second year), I'm finding myself wistful for the old days, if also equally inspired by the way the event brings the city together and makes people excited about Toronto. Sure, there are foreigners everywhere, and it's usually the celebs getting the flashbulbs, but people are still out and about, curious to be a part of a larger event, and taking a chance they might see something special at the multiplex.
I'm only covering a handful of things, but they're goodies. I've already done a story on two of the Bravo!FACT shorts, a piece on the National Film Board of Canada's animated works, and a feature interview with director Guy Maddin. While they're smaller works, I kind of feel it's the spirit of these quiet, poetic works that still nicely encapsulates the original feeling of the TIFF -back when it was called the Festival of Festivals. I still have programs from that time on bookshelves in my basement, and every time I see their aging spines, flecked with creases and scratches, I harken back to all those times I lined up in the rain, or the wind, or the heat, just to catch that exact "something special." The Toronto International Film Festival was a big reason why I went on to film school long ago. I loved the movies. Lately I've been re-examining that time in detail, examining my motivations, my choices, and the eventual outcomes that lead me here, now. It makes for heavy thought (if equally boring reading, ha) but it also gives me a unique perspective on the fest, and my own personal memories.
Without going into a laundry-list of moments and meetings, I'll just share a few special TIFF-going experiences. The first was meeting Nigel Hawthorne, who is perhaps best-known to North American audiences as poor mad King George in The Madness of King George. (He was here at the time for Twelfth Night.) He was warm, funny, and very sincere. Once he gleaned that he had a true theatre afficionado stood before him, he really opened up, whence a stream of lovely conversation between us poured forth. In a similar vein, I remember seeing the premiere screening of Al Pacino's Looking For Richard. I know a lot of critics -theatre and film -balked, but I loved the energy of his work, and I still really adore his huge, vocal passion for Shakespeare and theatre in general. During the screening, Pacino was seated a mere two rows behind me and I recall turning around to observe him watching, to see if there was any kind of rise -or if he was even still sitting there. Indeed he was, furiously gnawing on his nails, eyes like saucers, a knee against his chest. I've never seen anyone look so nervous. I actually felt sorry for him. Then there was a Dutch film called De vliegende Hollander; it took the mythic roots of the flying Dutchman and combined it with elements of history, fantasy, and other European folklore (mainly central and Eastern), fashioning a surreal, deeply poetic, and utterly moving piece of cinema. To my knowledge, it never got a North American release, and yet it was easily one of the greatest things I've ever seen at the TIFF (yes, ever). I remember returning to film school the week after, re-energized and re-inspired for the year ahead.
And though I'm not working in film now but covering its artists instead, it's moments such as these that make me glad to have been part of this event, and at such an important, seminal time of year. Today is grave for so many people (and let's not forget Chile, please) but in Toronto at least, there is a symbol that embraces these contradictions of life experience, balancing them with the magic of light and dark, to show us something beautiful, important, and perhaps most importantly, connecting. We may sit in cinemas, not talking, staring at a dance of shadows and projected light -but we're all together, in the magic of the dark, creating our own shared world. That has to count.
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At last, someone else who loved Pacino in Looking for Richard! Was initially skeptical about Spacey as Buckingham, but it actually worked. Dunno about Baldwin as Clarence, though.


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To Fall from a Low Place Is Not "Tragic," but Sad
The Case of Andrew Cuomo
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With the abrupt resignation of New York governor Andrew Cuomo, second-generation holder of his state's highest office once held by his late father Mario, the media has reached for high metaphor. Andrew Cuomo's fall is "tragic," it is being claimed, a "Shakespearean fall from grace" from a high height (here, here, here, here, and here).
Save Trillions with Universal Health Care (excerpt from Chapter 1)
From Russia, with Trump
I hate to say I told you so, but as a Russian, I find this fascinating. This is how the country submerges into a full blown dictatorship…
Having Conversations That Make Us Think
I recently read an article about our individual ignorance (Why We Believe Obvious Untruths) that made me stop and think about the current…
The White House Budget Has Deep Cuts to Education
No, Voter Mobilization Won't Defeat Trump
Why Democrats need a holistic campaign strategy in 2020.
Welcoming Our Interim Vice President, James Osyf
Darren Walker, Ford Foundation President, to deliver Commencement address
Truths Without Consequences
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Our times examined via politics, culture, morality. Author, "Can America Save Itself from Decline?" Playwright. Contributor, HuffPost. www.carlaseaquist.com.
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The rise of cottagecore led to the reckless fall of a larger opportunity to create a lasting impact.
Adam Driver Orders a Seltzer
"I said fucking Pellegrino, Jason! Jesus Christ!"
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Why Gabby Petito's case got so much media attention when there are currently thousands of other missing women, children, and two-spirit…


So every blogger under the sun, design or otherwise, appears to be frothing at the mouth over the new Ikea catalogue. I haven't had a chance to peruse it at length, but thanks to the continual sharing of this one green velvet sofa, I've joined the Ikea lovefest.
Colourful but muted Jellyfish rug from Anthropologie.
Anthropologie brass rod w/ Urban Outfitter's mercury glass finial and pale pink striped drapes from Kravet.
The ubiquitous green velvet sofa from Ikea.
Crate & Barrel geometric side table with glass-base Attica lamp.
Mid-century coffee table from Ikea.
Speckled floor lamp from Attica.
Distressed leather 'Barcelona'-esque chair, also from Attica.
Crate & Barrel bar cart.
Ivory Etched Dresser from Anthropologie to house the television.
For links to individual sources, click on the mood board.
Do you think a bold coloured couch could work in my living room? Not green, but something that works with the rug.


Writing my post on why I want to lose weight reminded me of what my husband encouraged me to do in the run up to our wedding when I was trying to shift a few pounds to fit into my dress: He suggested that I make a list of all the excuses I could think of for not sticking to my diet and exercise plan. That way, when one of these excuses came up, I'd recognise it for what it is: Just an excuse.
I did find that it helped me to ignore these excuses.
Since starting my weight loss efforts afresh in January this year, I've been thinking about these excuses again and I've found it useful to spend some time considering how to respond to them. I've found this strategy to be even more helpful because I haven't noticed the excuses surfacing so far, despite the fact that I'm now well into my second month, a time by when my initial flush of motivation would definitely have expired in my previous weight loss attempts.
Too tired (to exercise) – Will I be going to bed instead of the gym? No? Then I can't be too tired. Also, once I get there and get going I'll feel more energised. I'll feel great after my workout and I'll have an even better night's sleep because of it.
Too tired (to cook healthy food) – I've made sure that I plan very quick and easy meals for week nights and I've also got some stock cupboard staples, such as beans and bread, for when I really can't be bothered. I also make sure I freeze extra portions of the meals I cook so that I've always got a healthy ready meal on standby in the freezer.
Too much work to do – Yes, work is important but so is my own health and well being. Just because I have a job which will expand to fit every waking moment doesn't mean that I should allow it too. Exercise is an excellent way for me to de-stress at the end of the day. I can always go into work a little bit earlier the following day if I have something really urgent that I didn't get done. I also make sure I have quick and easy meals planned for in the week (see point above).
I don't have time – I need to prioritise my healthy eating and exercise to help me achieve my weight loss goals as I really want to reach my goal weight. Simple. So I make the time to plan my meals in advance and then make a list of all the foods I need. I then shop either in person or online. This makes it really easy in the week as I just have to refer to my meal planner. I also keep things realistic in the week sticking to recipes that are really quick and easy and using frozen portions of recipes I've already made. I also plan my exercise classes into my week – they're just part of my routine.
We're going out – We might be going out but I can still make wise choices. It won't be the last time I ever go out and I'll get to my goal quicker if I stay on track.
I've never been to this restaurant/eaten this dish before – I try to look at the menu in advance of going out for a meal so that I can choose the most plan-friendly option. This also allows me to work in any higher Pro Points options I want to try. However, I do often ask myself is it worth spending the points on one meal or even dish?
I can't be bothered – Let's face it. We all have days when we simply can't be bothered. I'm not 100% sure how to best tackle this one as I haven't really experienced one yet this time around. I have had a couple of 'can't be bothered' moments, but I've just given myself a bit of a mental talking to and reminded myself that I REALLY want to reach my weight loss goals and throwing myself off track won't get me there.
PS How do you deal with 'Can't be bothered' days?
I never thought of doing something like that but it makes sense. I like that you took those excuses and debunked them.
On can't be bothered days, if they are only occasional, I take a break. Like I always have 1-2 days a week when I rest and sometimes those days when I can't be bothered I will just make that be the day to rest.


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5 video games to look out for in 2016
January 30, 2016 / NGU Vision
Patrick Brown, Associate Writer
1) "Pokemon Tournament"
"Pokemon Tournament" is a game that has an avid gamer like me very excited. While it may not be the most highly anticipated game of 2016, it is a brilliant concept. Imagine having some of your favorite Pokemon characters battling it out. Sign me up now. (The release date and rating of this game are currently unknown.)
2) "Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess"
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Ever since the WiiU came out for Nintendo in 2012, gamers everywhere have been asking two questions: 'When will there be a new Smash Brothers game?' and 'When will there be a new Zelda game?'
Well the answer to the last question is here. This year, a new Zelda game will be hitting stores for all gamers to enjoy. With a new playing style that includes a more multiplayer feel, "Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" is going to be one that many gamers have long anticipated. The release date will be sometime in November. (The rating of this game is currently unknown.)
3) "Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2"
"Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2" has the potential to be a surprisingly must-have game coming out this year. This will be the second installment of the popular mobile game. Only available for PC, XBOX One and PS4, this version of Garden Warfare is something completely different than its predecessor. The second installment has the look and feel of a kid-friendly, third person shooter, but with none of the violence. The release date should be sometime in March of this year. (The rating for this game is currently unknown.)
4) Star Fox Zero
2016 is going to be a great year for Nintendo. Not only are the previous games I mentioned going to be a great addition, but this game in particular has every fan of "Star Fox" feeling joy and excitement. "Star Fox" hasn't had a legitiment game since the days of Nintendo 64, but this new game is one that could become a favorite among gamers. Although a remake from the original, gamers can expect updated graphics and more depth because of the space games have for maps. The release date for this game is April. (The rating of this game is currently unknown.)
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"Pokemon Go" will be available on the iPhone and other devices.
A highly anticipated release, "Pokemon Go" will be available for Android and iOS only. This game will take Pokemon masters to the next level. "Pokemon Go" transforms gamers' phones into live Pokemon worlds, with alerts when approaching a nearby Pokemon. The challenge for gamers is to try and catch the Pokemon by using Poke Balls.
With great marketing and design choices, "Pokemon Go" has potential to be considered as the game of the year. (The release date and rating of this video game is currently unknown.)
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Apache agrees to sell Australian operations to private equity funds for $2.1 billion in cash
Apache Corp. says it is selling its Australian oil exploration and production subsidiary for $2.1 billion in cash.
The Houston-based company said Wednesday that a consortium of private equity funds managed by Macquarie Capital Group Ltd. and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. agreed to buy Apache Energy Ltd.
The assets of Apache Energy Ltd. and its subsidiaries averaged production of roughly 49,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in March.
The transaction is expected to close by mid-2015.
The sale marks Apache's exit from oil exploration and production in Australia, although the company will retain its 49 percent ownership interest in fertilizer producer Yara Pilbara Holdings.
Apache has been selling assets in recent months as part of a strategy to focus on oil production in North America.