I've always thought that Cugel the Clever (aka The Eyes of the Overworld) is the perfect Jack Vance novel. All of his strengths as a writer are on display here, and they all mesh together beautifully.
It's a picaresque novel made up of shorter pieces that were originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, so by nature, the story is episodic. Nevertheless, it tells a complete and very satisfying tale. The eponymous Cugel falls foul of Iucounu, the Laughing Magician, who transports him far away to search out and retrieve the Eyes of the Overworld – violet lenses that let the wearer see a superior version of reality. Squalor and ugliness are perceived as exquisite beauty. The Eyes are the archetypal rose-coloured glasses!
On the third day of the fair Cugel had disposed of only four periapts, at prices barely above the cost of the lead itself, while Fianosther was hard put to serve all his customers. Hoarse from bawling futile inducements, Cugel closed down his booth and approached Fianosther's place of trade, in order to inspect the mode of construction and the fastenings at the door.
… a most peculiar creature: essentially a gelatinous globe swimming with luminous particles from which a number of transparent tubes or tentacles dwindled away to nothing. Cugel bent to examine the creature, which pulsed with a slow internal rhythm. He prodded it with his finger, and bright little flickers rippled away from the point of contact. Interesting: a creature of unique capabilities!
Removing a pin from his garments, he prodded a tentacle, which emitted a peevish pulse of light, while the golden flecks in its substance surged back and forth. More intrigued than ever, Cugel hitched himself close, and gave himself to experimentation, probing here and there, watching the angry flickers and sparkles with great amusement.
A new thought occurred to Cugel. The creature displayed qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?
It isn't tasty, and its texture is somewhat rubbery, but it fills a gap. Cugel has, of course, eaten TOTALITY thus, at a stroke, nullifying Pharesm's five centuries of effort. The sorcerer is not pleased. Furthermore, Cugel begins to worry that, having eaten the universe, he might now be responsible for all manner of catastrophes. Will the components of space and time retain their integrity after passing through his digestive tract?
A complex divination reveals that TOTALITY, miffed at being eaten, has removed itself from Cugel's stomach and has fled a million years into the past, presumably to sulk. Pharesm requires Cugel to travel after it and return it to the present. Just what Cugel needs, yet another quest.
This episode never fails to make me laugh out loud in delight. I have more than once embarrassed myself on the bus while reading this passage. I know of no other writer who would even think of using such an outrageous conceit in a story, let alone one who could manage to make it work as magnificently as Jack Vance makes it work. Yet he does this kind of thing again and again in book after book and he makes it all seem so effortless.
Cugel falls in with a company of pilgrims each of whom professes a seemingly arbitrary and elaborate theology, the ideas of which (of course) are all mutually contradictory. Eventually Cugel is asked to state his own position.
I consider this statement to be both witty and profound, a conclusion I find myself coming to again and again as I read Jack Vance's work.
No Jack Vance novel would be complete without the characters consuming much food and drink. Vance puts a lot of effort into the preparation of the dishes his characters imbibe on their adventures. Cugel, apart from snacking on the occasional universe, also partakes of more substantial fare.
"My kitchen is overtaxed and you must eat lentils with the pilgrims," said the landlord.
Cugel's supper arrived: a dish of boiled leeks and a bowl of porridge.
Jack Vance seems to have a thing about leeks. They have a small but important role to play in one of the sub-plots of this book and in many other of his novels characters dine on leeks prepared in a variety of not always appetising ways. Personally I find them to be an insipid vegetable. Clearly neither Jack Vance nor Cugel agree with me. Well that's all right, each to their own.
The landlord presently brought forth supper: a stew of lentils and land-crabs garnished with wild ramp and bilberries.
If I was marooned on a deserted planet and could save only one book from the spaceship wreck, this novel would keep me reading quite happily until rescue arrived.


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-What's your name, and which company do you represent?
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-How did you all meet the world of vaping and started vaping?
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Since then, it all progressed and now we sold hundreds of thousands of tips, in any kind of style, but it all started by accident.
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-Another question that is important for me, how is it going the fight against Tobacco in the USA?
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-Now the most important question, what do you think is missing from the vaping world to overcome cigarettes?
-I think it is missing the support from the USA Government. I know of doctors in the UK that are supporting vaping in their country and they were able even to admit it in hospital. I think that the Governments and Medical industries have to support vaping. That's the biggest thing that's missing.
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Ratnapura (en tamil: இரத்தினபுரி) es una ciudad de Sri Lanka, capital de la provincia de Sabaragamuwa y del  distrito homónimo.

Algunos dicen que el nombre moderno de la ciudad deriva del portugués Rapadura por «panela», el dulce de caña de azúcar producido tradicionalmente en esta región, pero la explicación más frecuente en Sri Lanka es que proviene del cingalés ratna (gema) y pura (ciudad).

Ratnapura también se escribe Rathnapura. La ciudad es el centro de una floreciente industria de piedras preciosas, incluyendo rubíes, zafiros y otras gemas. Además de la minería, la ciudad es conocida por sus cultivos de arroz y fruta, y está rodeada de grandes plantaciones de té y caucho.

Geografía
Se encuentra a una altitud de 95 msnm a 82 km de la capital nacional, Colombo, en la zona horaria UTC +5:30.

Demografía
Según estimación en 2011 contaba con una población de 51.230 habitantes.

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HomeOzeki Train Wreck Part 7 – This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things….
Ozeki Train Wreck Part 7 – This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things….
November 15, 2019 Bruce H Hakuho (白鵬), Kakuryu (鶴竜), Kyushu Basho 2019, Takakeishō (貴景勝), Takayasu (高安), Tochinoshin (栃ノ心), Ōzeki (大関)Ozeki Train Wreck
For some readers, you may not be happy with this post. Feel free to skip it – it's Bruce's opinion only.
Tachiai has been writing for at least 2 years about the trouble sumo has with kanban rikishi and injuries. When we first started, it looked bad, but we had no idea how ugly it would get at the end of 2019. We have 6 top division rikishi who are out of the the tournament, including 2 members of the OZeki corps, a Yokozuna and a handful of fan favorites. Some of these men are going to be out for medical treatment for months.
Worse still, the two remaining Ozeki are both hurt to the point where they are not doing sumo worthy of the rank right now, and are clearly degrading day after day of competition. I also suspect that Hakuho is banged up, but his ego will keep him in the tournament no matter what now. He knows the fans deserve to see the top men of sumo compete, and with Kakuryu out, it's up to his leadership to show the lower ranks: no matter how much they hurt, that the top guy is willing to suck it up and compete.
The result? The sumo in Kyushu is thus far average at best. Even Hakuho hit the clay on day 2 against a delighted Daieisho. Where does this go now?
Kakuryu – I am sure the calls for him to consider resignation will start up again now. Last time he faced lower back problems, it lead to an extended series of kyujo absences that went on for 4 tournaments. That was when Kakuryu was 31, he is now 34. In broader context, I am expecting Kakuryu to try to stay engaged until such time as he can try to take up the Izutsu kabu, and succeed his Oyakata, which I suspect was Izutsu Oyakata's wish when he passed away this year. This is a long shot for Kakuryu, but I would be delighted to see it.
Goeido – Once he went kyujo, he entered the traditional wall of silence that surrounds rikishi not competing during honbasho. But its known that he re-injured the ankle that underwent reconstruction in 2017. Now 33 years old, he is in a tough spot in orthopedic terms if the pins and screws that held that ankle together have come undone. Going into Kyushu, he was seen by everyone as the "stable one", the foundation of the Ozeki corps for this tournament.
Takayasu – Its clear he's still in bad shape with regards to his left arm / elbow. Everyone knows it, his opponents are exploiting it, and I would guess its getting a bit more injured every day he fights. Readers may note, that he was considered the next "hope" for a Japanese born Yokozuna, but the time for him to make that move was really this year. Now that his sumo is constrained by that elbow, those possibilities are now most likely lost. I find it a pity that Kisenosato's promising understudy is now facing a similar outcome: an attenuated career due to an injury to his left upper body.
Takakeisho – Takakeisho was not ready to compete, we can now declare. While he has tried to bring his body back into fighting form, he's not even fighting at Komusubi level now for most of his matches. Points for giving it a try, but now the question must be: what will it take for him to return to form? I worry that he's not going to get that range of motion or power back from that damaged pectoral muscle, and this is more or less it for one of the most promising young rikishi in a while.
Tochinoshin – As we sadly noted on his ascendancy to Ozeki, Tochinoshin has been a glass cannon for years. When he is healthy he is unstoppable, but when he is not he's a paper tiger, and it was really only a matter of time before that injured knee failed again, which sadly it has. He's out now with a rib injury, which is quite debilitating, but the reason he was pushed down to Ozekiwake was that knee. With his withdrawal from Kyushu, he is now assured to plummet down the banzuke in 2020.
Yep, it's a grim picture at the top. But what's really going on here? We see injuries hitting the top division quite hard right now, and frankly for most of this year. Is it the jungyo schedule? Is it the training? Something is wrong in sumo, and some great competitors are paying the price. As a fan it's heartbreaking, but we know that as our favorites succumb to injury, a new generation of heroes will rise. But will they face the same fate?
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21 thoughts on "Ozeki Train Wreck Part 7 – This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things…."
seanpaune says:
This has been a hot topic of discussion in my house for a basho or two now. It is just injury after injury, and it's making the bashos almost painful to watch. We just keep watching our favorites pull out, and wins coming from odd places as no one is facing a full lineup.
I agree with you completely, something is broken and they need to figure it out.
rich durbano says:
How can you not agree with everything Bruce says? It really isn't an opinion piece. It is absolute and utter fact. Very very sad, indeed. You watch a young rikishi work and struggle and finally develop into a top division wrestler only to see, in seemingly a heartbeat, crippling injuries ruin him before our very eyes. Sumo wrestlers, by nature, I assume, must be a very fatalistic group of people,
Shonan Koizumi says:
Great analysis Bruce. I told my wife last night now surprising the amount and extent of injuries in this hanbasho are. Superficially, I wonder if it's partly due to timing being the last of the year, and after a year of relentless touring in between? That may play a very minor part, but as you say, it's got to be more than that as it seams quite systemic. I just hope these lads, those left standing, and those injured can get some adequate rest and recovery by January.
Giku Squad says:
If we compared Sumo to an ENTIRE season of Football, we'd probably see more injuries in sumo during a 15 day Basho period vs an entire season of American Football.
Sadly, lots of injuries and withdrawals are not a new phenomenon in sumo. But as some quantitative support of your point, of the 371 basho in the 6-basho era, 26 have featured 5 or more fusen victories, and three of those have taken place this year. The record, with 8, is shared by Nagoya 2002 and Nogaya 2005. This January is next with 7, there were 5 in September, and of course we're already at 5 after only 6 days of Kyushu. This doesn't capture sitting out the entire basho.
Wulftrax says:
Your comments don't even include "lower level rikishi" like Ura, Ikioi, and Tomokaze. It's one thing to just have the upper ranks dealing with a lot of damage. In reality, it's a lot of damage all the way down.
The jungyo period needs to be cut back and there needs to be a system put in place, similar to an injured list in baseball or American football, where sumotori are examined by doctors not connected to the JSA and banned from training or competition if their doctors determine they're not medically fit to compete. 7-10 days for each jungyo period instead of one full month would be much better and easier on the sumotori. And if sumotori become injured then they should be banned from competition until cleared by a doctor, and they should not drop lower in the rankings if they're unable to compete due to injury. Guaranteeing the sumotori his rank if he can't compete due to injury would encourage the sumotori and his heya not to push his recovery too fast and cut down on repeat injuries.
Emil says:
I suggested this a couple months back as a way to give injured rikishi some recovery time while still "encouraging" them to battle through minor injuries. Is there any chance the notoriously hidebound JSA could move in this sort of direction? I don't think this is optimal, but I can't see the JSA ever allowing for unlimited injury recovery kyujo without loss of rank.
"I've been wondering whether a modified form of the old injury outage rule could work. How about this: At the start of their career, each wrestler is given one "major" injury exemption where he can miss up to 3 consecutive bashos without rank reduction and one "minor" injury exemption where he can miss up to 1 basho without reduction. Upon becoming sekitori, they receive one more major exemption. This allows a wrestler to get needed surgery and recover, but being able to go kosho a maximum of three times in their career prevents abuse.
If a wrestler can begin by taking a minor exemption and the issue is more serious than they thought, they can switch it to a major if they have one remaining. They can even take them consecutively if it's really bad.
Example: Ura has his first horrible injury in Aki 2017, where he went 1-2-12 at M4. He went kyujo for the next five tourneys. Instead, he would use a major and minor exemption to miss 4 and then drop from M4 to M16 in his return. He maintains M16 until Hatsu 2019, where he tears the knee ligaments again. He uses his remaining major exemption to hold at M16 until September, when his 0-0-15 drops him to the bottom of Juryo. If he misses another basho, he'll start 2020 in upper-mid Makushita, but that's a heck of a lot better than Jonokuchi or Maezumo."
As Janelle said, jungyo also needs to be cut back some. How viable is it for them to both shave a few days off each jungyo, as well as put in some system so that each sekitori only has to attend 3 out of 4 tours? 2 out of 4 would be even better, but I imagine that it'd never fly with the JSA.
Load management is being practiced by more and more sports; it seems like sumo must adopt something similar in order to provide quality competition.
Hokutoaussie says:
Bruce, yes agree with your description, and? Wrestlers practice the same as always, eat the same food, fight 6 tournaments per year, fighting styles haven't changed and size, material and shape of dohyo is traditional. After years of stable sumo, we have a number of older and injury prone wrestlers at the top. That's the period we are in. Give it couple of years and most of the 30 somethings will be gone and the problems will be different. It is what it is and it's not the first time.
Part of the issue is likely due to the ever increasing weight of the rikishi, Every year, the weight average is rising, and that in and of itself creates health complications without even taking into account the brutal nature of the sport. Add to that the age of the top division, and it's a recipe for problems.
It's been stated over and over again that the sport is currently in flux, as older rikishi are winding down their careers and beginning to retire. From what I see, sumo is a long-game type of sport- one basho is exciting, but with the constant vicissitudes of the current ranking system, it's the overall arc of a wrestler's career that is fascinating. Which makes me wonder if, after the elder sekitori finally step down, the new crop will face the same challenges in regards to health. I suppose a lot depends on whether we're seeing new, younger faces or if opening slots in the upper divisions simply allows other, aged wrestlers the opportunity to fill the void. It constantly amazes me to see the upper limits of ages in divisions like sandanme and makushita. At 35, is it reasonable to expect to make it to the paid ranks if you've been stalled in lower makushita for the past decade? I can't imagine so.
It's a complicated puzzle to chew over, for certain.
Asashosakari says:
Try 25 rather than 35. A rikishi in his mid-20s who's not already competing near the top of makushita is very, very unlikely to become sekitori later on. We do occasionally get late bloomers who first make it to juryo in their late 20s or rarely even after turning 30, but almost without exception they're guys who were close to making it for a long time and just weren't able to take that one last step.
That being said, there are more reasons than just "still dreaming of the big time" for a rikishi to stay in sumo. Some like the camaraderie. Some have become an important part of the support network for a steady sekitori as his tsukebito, or help run the heya (as head cooks, managers, player-coaches). Some don't have any idea what else they'd want to do with their lives. Some just love doing sumo. Any probably dozens of other reasons.
In any case, I agree with Hokutoaussie's take. Rehashing the situation every couple of basho may feel satisfying, but I'm not sure what it achieves. A generation of top-rankers is aging and their physical states are somewhere between deteriorating and completely broken; it's not going to change now, no matter how often or by how many it is being lamented. The additional injuries among younger rikishi are, sadly, just business as usual. Sometimes they come back (Endo, Tochinoshin back in 2014), often they just fade into obscurity. Who here remembers or has even been around long enough to know the kind of expectations fans used to have for the likes of Kyokushuho, Chiyoarashi or Chiyonokuni? Or somebody completely gone such as Masuraumi?
Piffany says:
I think it's more the who than the number. Murray addressed this on Friday's broadcast. Having not totalled the numbers up myself, I was pretty surprised that actually, 2019 has seen 5 less kjuyo than 2018 (so far!), and actually 25% less than 2017 (the record year)! So in that sense, probably they can argue it's getting better. But it didn't address the duration of the kyujo, or how that might have been skewed by the number of Yokozuna absences.
The even more damning thing for me right now is that – Takakeisho aside – look at someone like Mitakeumi who will now in all likelihood have to restart his ozeki run, and is doing more damage to himself every day by likely fighting with a head injury while jumping back up on the dohyo. Injuries will always catch up with older veterans, but it's starting to have an impact on the folks who were meant to be the future stars, which is why the 30-somethings are still in those advanced positions on the banzuke to begin with.
I think that the jungyo issue needs addressing as the number of dates has gone through the roof in the last decade. I counted 78 days of jungyo exhibitions in 2019, not including traveling days. Four times a year the guys finish a basho, then, with zero recovery time they hit the road for four weeks: that's not sensible. How about 3 tours of 2 weeks each?
ScreechingOwl says:
I know you were focusing on the top ranked rikishi, but the most distressing injury of all this basho, in my opinion, is the one Tomokaze sustained. Here is a rikishi who shot up to the jo'i with 13 straight kk, and only suffered a slight setback at 7-8 his first time at M3. And now he's going to miss about a year of action, which means at least another year to get back into the paid ranks. And if he does make it back, he's going to have a significantly weaker knee. It's all very sad.
I don't know of another professional sport that does so little to protect it's top athletes. Surely something has to change. Oh wait, sorry, this is hidebound sumo. Nevermind.
Eikokurai says:
I was of a mind to agree that jungyo should be reduced but I think that's less of a problem than it seems. What really matters is that injured rikishi be free to sit out jungyo and recover. We always see them making returns mid-tour, presumably because they are under pressure to make appearances for PR. Simply cutting down jungyo days won't make a difference if all that results in is a day less here, two days there. That won't help rikishi who need to rest up for a period of time. They'd have to cancel entire tours to give rikishi a chance to recuperate. But then the question is … when? Cancelling the spring tour won't help someone who gets injured in the autumn. Thus the only reasonable solution is to genuinely give rikishi time off between basho to get healthy. It's not as if jungyo are THAT important. Honbasho bring in the money.
Arun Uppal says:
Maybe the wrestlers could unionize and thereby collectively bargin for their needs? Seems the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL have all done so to positive effect…and fans still pay…
Maybe there should be a labour action…force the hand of the Sumo administration and its apparatus?
I'm recent to sumo, and I love watching with my son, but the more I see it's hard not to feel like there is uncompensated exploitation going on…
Are you under the impression that there's somebody in Ozumo who is pocketing huge profits at the expense of the wrestlers? That is not the case.
Timawashi says:
Of course it's profit driven. Are you saying that moving to 6 bashos a year or continually adding extra jungyo dates is driven by anything else? It's not NFL money or anything, but that extra money is going somewhere.
Of course it's about money. Chris Gould nailed it. The longer the star rikishi hang on, the more money comes in the door. Many rikishi probably keep wrestling long after they should retire because they need the income themselves, and they feel guilt about leaving the stable short an income earner.
Sumo needs to adopt best practices from other high impact sports in order to survive in the modern world. They need to get on board with the most up to date rest and rehabilitation practices or this will continue to happen, and how then do they acquire new recruits? If I were a young fellow, would I choose baseball, soccer or sumo? By the end of a sumo career, one is a physical wreck!


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Saturday's all-sources handle for GP West/Calder was $5,223,848-- the best yet for the Gulfstream Park West meet
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It's Wildcat Red vs. East Hall on "Florida-Bred Day"
Saturday, Nov. 8 - Here's a bullet-point overview of today's Florida Sunshine Millions Preview - or what you could call "Florida-Bred Day."
* It will be at Calder, the Miami Gardens, FL track that this fall was renamed "Gulfstream Park West."
* There will be seven stakes races, all restricted to Florida-breds and all with $100,000 purses. Basically, the event is the successor to Calder's former Florida Million.
* Wildcat Red and East Hall, two standout 3-year-olds stabled at Gulfstream Park, head the field for the feature Sunshine Millions Classic Preview.
The day is the biggest yet in the new Gulfstream Park West meet that Gulfstream is holding under a lease agreement with Calder.
The Classic Preview is 1 1/16 miles on dirt for Florida-breds that are 3-year-olds and up. The field has eight entrants, including Tryer who is entered and more likely to run in the day's Turf Preview.
It is the eighth race with scheduled post time of 3:58 p.m. EST.
The Classic Preview will be the first race against older horses for Wildcat Red, a winner of three stakes races this year, and for East Hall, a winner of two stakes races this year.
But it appears that any of the other entrants would have to return to top form or run the race of a lifetime to beat both the speedy colt Wildcat Red and the late-running gelding East Hall.
Honors Stable Corp.'s Wildcat Red has been this year's top 3-year old at Gulfstream with three victories and two second place finishes in five starts.
The son of D'Wildcat won the seven furlong Hutcheson (Grade 3), the 1 1/16 mile Fountain of Youth (Grade 2) and the 1 1/16 mile Quality Road. He also finished second by a neck to Constitution in the 1 1/8 mile Florida Derby (Grade I) and second by a head to General- a- Rod in the Gulfstream Park Derby.
In his first race after the Florida Derby, Wildcat Red finished 18th in the Kentucky Derby (Grade 1) after being bumped heavily after the start.
Wildcat Red raced outside Florida this summer and fall. He finished third in the Haskell Invitational (Grade 1) at Monmouth Park and in the Oklahoma Derby (Grade 3) at Remington Park and fifth in the King's Bishop (Grade 1) at Saratoga.
Wildcat Red finished ahead of East Hall all four times they raced at Gulfstream between January and June. On June 28 East Hall finished second by 10 ½ lengths to Wildcat Red in the Quality Road.
But the son of Graeme Hall later made a big breakthrough racing outside Florida. He won the ungraded $300,000 Ohio Derby at Thistledown, and on Oct.4 won the Indiana Derby (Grade 2) at Indiana Downs. Those two tracks have generally been less favoring than Gulfstream is to horses with early speed.
East Hall has begun showing an ability to rate off the pace and not be forced to make up as much distance in the stretch, said his trainer Bill Kaplan.
In the Indiana Derby, he raced second most of the way to Vicar's in Trouble. He caught that rival in deep stretch and won by one length.
"Our horse has gotten better since the last time we ran against Wildcat Red," Kaplan said. "This will be his (Wildcat Red's) first race at Calder. We'll see if things have changed."
East Hall has raced four times at Calder, with one second place finish and two third place finishes.
Trainer Jose Garoffalo said he does not expect that Wildcat Red will have any problems with the Calder track.
"I was going to give him a break until next year," Garoffalo said. "But he is acting like he wants to run, so we decided to go for this race."
A key question in the Classic Preview will be whether Wildcat Red and jockey Edgar Prado can control the pace or whether it will be a speed duel that would set the race up for East Hall and rider Luis Saez.
Megamove, Sr. Quisqueyano and Schivarelli all have early speed and are in posts one through three respectively.
East Hall is in post four and Wildcat Red is in post five, outside the other speed.
Prado will ride Wildcat Red for the first time
Saez rode East Hall for the first time in the Indiana Derby,
Juan Leyva, East Hall's jockey in previous races, stayed in South Florida that day to ride for Kaplan in stakes races at Gulfstream.
"He (Saez) asked to ride East Hall again," Kaplan said. "When a jockey wins a Grade 2 for you and says he wants the mount again, you don't say 'no.'"
Leyva, who is Kaplan's go-to jockey, has mounts for Kaplan in three other Gulfstream Park West stakes today.
Saez has ridden Wildcat Red five times, including two wins.
Schivarelli, a 3-year-old racing in South Florida for the first time, could be the biggest treat to Wildcat Red and East Hall.
After winning his first two starts at Aqueduct last winter, Schivarelli finished fourth in the Wood Memorial (Grade 1) at that track in April. He returned from a six-month layoff to win a seven-furlong allowance at Keeneland on Oct. 12. Paco Lopez will ride Schivarelli for trainer Eddie Kenneally.
Megamove is coming off an impressive one--mile win at Fylfstream Park West on Oct, 13. Sr. Quisqueyano has two stakes wins at Calder and two stakes wins at Gulfstream. But he finished seventh in each of his last three starts.
1 - East Hall
2 - Wildcat Red
3 - Megamove
4 - Schivarelli
Each Preview day race's $100.000 purse includes $25,000 from the sponsoring Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association.
The Classic and the Preview day's Distaff (fillies and mares 3-years-old and up) and the Turf (3-year-olds and up) are preps for richer races next Jan.17 when Gulfstream will hold its annual Florida Sunshine Millions.
The four other Preview Day stakes are for 2-year-olds.
The Juvenile Sprint and Juvenile Filly Sprint are 6½ furlongs on dirt. The Juvenile Turf and Juvenile Filly Turf are one mile.
Saturday's all-sources handle for GP West/Calder w...
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KOEI TECMO Europe Official Forum > KOEI Games > KOEI General > Interested in buying a KOEI game? Look here for views and help!
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Basically here you can write your views on games from KOEI that might catch the eyes of a viewer who'll be interested. You can do it via a in-depth or just a bullet-point comment pointing out strengths, and even downfalls if you will.
- Massive cast of combined DW & SW characters plus newcomers exclusive to the series.
- Advanced combat system and levelling.
- Made-up scenarios for fans wanting something different than what happened in China and Japan. Pure fanservice, really.
- Kung-fu actions make the game move very fluid and faster paced than normal. It's very flashy.
- More of a fictional outcome compared to DW5.
- More in-depth background on each Musou Mode character, thanks to the movies.
There, I hope this'll give you guys a start of what I mean.
Story is not the three kingdoms. Yes you have then same Characters in that they have roughly the same name and some don't eg Sun Quan's sister is called Sun Li.
Its a strategic based game in that have you have think ahead of the enemy and its not a 2 player game.
So if you want to know about the three kingdom period. This game is about a accurate as a man with a shotgun aiming a bird that 5000 miles away, and the bird is really small and cute, and the man is really nice and doesn't like killing things.
The story is very well done you can either Liu Bei or Cao Cao. You get points which allow you to use different attacks and stuff. The more you use that character. Some have magic which are awesome. I mean throwing rocks or big blocks of ice, on your enemy is pretty sweet. Magic moves include Lightening, Fireball, Gale, Meter Shower Ice Storm and Hail and they never get old. Plus they get stronger each time you use them.
The game sometimes splits into three giving you a choice. Each one is about a different character and/or event. So you can play as many times as you like and it never gets old. Oh and once you finish the game the first time there is a special level and ending that you didn't see the first. Play this game twice as each side.
Through years of playing many Koei's games, Kessen III is the best game Koei ever made IMO!
Can someone give me a reason to get Fist of the Northern Star and Troy?
The best part which Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage has in particular is the incredible moves. And what I found more interesting about the moves was that you were still unlocking them right until the character is maximized (through a levelling grid where you spend points on upgrades like Final Fantasy X's sphere grid). So there's the feeling of accomplishing and being rewarded which is vital to a video game.
Although if you're not a fan of the story because you have no clue (I'm guessing you don't) and that the pace is slower than your average DW, the techniques and styles were definitely worth witnessing.
As for Warriors: Legends of Troy, both this and Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll are upcoming and like Fist of the North Star has done, they share the same trait as being fresh franchises. So if you like your Dynasty Warriors, but want a bit of gore and mythical feel, these two newcomers will give you that. Be sure to check around looking at videos on YouTube and reading reviews soon if you're unsure.
Warriors: Legends of Troy has itself improved a lot over the stages of development as reported and is by KOEI Canada.
It depends on your tastes really. If you like Koei games and old school side scrolling beat them ups I think Ken is one of the only ones available on a PS3. The moves in the game are awesome and must be tried to be believed. However if you watched the game's trailer and wasn't interested I doubt you'll enjoy the game. For me Ken is not as good as DW/SW games but still good fun, fresh and different. All I can say is that I would love a sequel.
I haven't played Troy yet but from what I've heard it's similar to DW/SW series but set in a European setting and looks more violent. My only gripe so far is that there doesn't seem to be many playable characters. But this is coming from a WO fan who likes a large roster.
My all time favorite game has to be Warriors Orochi 2.
It's got all the characters from DW and SW seriers plus some additional ones made for WO.
The select any three characters for any level is also massive fun.
2 player local co-op is wicked.
Levelling all characters to the max and getting their 4th weapons will take ages to do.
The only bad thing is that there is no WO3 for the "next gen" consoles. Shame.
I think there's only 45 missions in XL, compared to a lot more and conquest mode in DW7. However if you merge the two you get local coop in story mode to which isn't available with DW7 alone.
I haven't played XL yet however I intend to do that shortly. However you must understand that essentially XL is an update to DW7 so I suggest you get that first and then go for XL which appears to be a massive expansion pack with limited stand alone content.
DW7 has been given some good reviews, but personally I did not like the fact that story mode was 1 player only and that each stage had to be played by one character. Issues that have apparently been addressed in XL.


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"Ties To The Confederacy": Racist Oklahoma Frat Founded By Racists
Every now and then I read a news story online that evokes such a strong visceral reaction that I actually feel like breaking my computer. Monday morning was one of those days.
I'm talking about the video that I'm sure many of you have seen by now of the racist white University of Oklahoma students—most of whom were members of the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE)—gleefully singing in unison these despicably racist words:
"There will never be a nigger SAE. There will never be a nigger SAE . You can hang him from a tree, but he will never sign with me. There will never be a nigger SAE."
Watching these white students—clad in tuxedos and cocktail dresses—sing these lyrics with such joy and gusto made it feel like it was a scene from a movie about cartoonish racism from an era gone by. But this video didn't depict an incident that occurred decades ago. It happened on Sunday.
Yes, I know the students will say—as will their defenders—that they were just joking around. Bullshit. In today's America, you know that singing about "niggers" being lynched is absolutely, unequivocally wrong. There's no gray area.
How could this happen in 2015? I'd say the early history of SAE is very instructive on this point. This fraternity brags on its website that it was started in 1856 in the "Deep South." (I can't help but think racial dog whistle when I see that term, given the SAE's founders' ties to the Confederacy.) And SAE was at one time was a whites only fraternity as noted in its 1903 "book of rituals" that limited membership to "members of the Caucasian race". Keep in mind that the students on the bus were heading, per media reports, to a Founders Day event to celebrate very white men who gave us these policies.
And this is not the only racist event featuring SAE. It's merely the first incident to attract national headlines. Just three months ago, the Clemson University chapter was suspended after white students held a "Cripmas" party ("Cripmas" being a weird and really not remotely funny combination of Crips and Christmas) where they dressed in bandannas, Tupac T-shirts and sported fake "thug" tattoos." And an SAE chapter at Washington University in St. Louis was suspended in 2013 after members sang racial slurs to African-American students pledging the fraternity.
But SAE is far from the only fraternity engaged in such racially insensitive activities. The critically acclaimed 2014 film, Dear White People, concluded by giving us a litany of similar racially insensitive events held by white college students in recent years. We are talking "thug parties" and "Crips and Bloods"-themed parties organized by white students where they dressed as the worst examples of the black community.
In this climate, we can't be surprised to see that a few months ago at Oklahoma State University, a black sorority became the target of a slew of racist remarks on an anonymous app.
These incidents generally result in the students being punished on some level. As most are aware, the president of Oklahoma University David Boren, a former Oklahoma governor and U.S. senator, announced Monday morning that "effective immediately, all ties and affiliations between this University and the local SAE are hereby severed." He closed the fraternity house effective Monday and condemned the students involved in the harshest terms.
That's truly commendable. But it's very likely that incidents like this and racial tensions will increase until we have an honest conversation about the underlying factors fostering racism. And it seems the time for this discussion can't wait much longer. A recent poll released in connection with the 5oth anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma found that four in 10 American believe that racial relations have become worse during Barack Obama's presidency.
So why aren't we having this conversation? To be candid, the obstacle is coming from many in the white community. While black people are eager to have this much-needed discussion, most (not all) white people are not.
And that's not just my opinion; It's exactly what white and black people have been telling pollsters. For example, a 2013 Pew poll taken after the trial of George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin found that 78 percent of blacks said the incident raised important issues about race that need to be addressed. However, only 28 percent of whites agreed.
And in 2014, after the grand jury refused to indict Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown, we saw similar numbers, with 80 percent of blacks saying the case raised important issue about race while only 37 percent of whites agreed. In fact, 47 percent of whites responded that they thought race was getting too much attention.
Why do so many whites feel this way? Well, as I have witnessed firsthand, many white people think that any discussion about race is really an accusation. Consequently, they reflexively recoil when the issue is raised and become defensive.
Of course, there are some—mostly on far right—who truly believe that racism doesn't exist. It's unlikely anyone can reach those people.
But the hope is that for the others, an environment can be created on both a local and national level to have a brutally candid conversation on underlying factors and perceptions that are causing this tension. I'm not sure what will make white people comfortable enough to have this discussion. But I do know that we need to find a way.
By: Dean Obeidallah, The Daily Beast, March 10, 2015
March 11, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | African Americans, Racism, University of Oklahoma	| Bloody Sunday, Clemson University, Confederacy, David Boren, Fraternities and Sororities, Oklahoma State University, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Washington University | Leave a comment
"Bigotry Is A Core Republican Value": Missing Selma; The Final Death Of GOP Minority Outreach
It's the 50th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday in Selma, and it appears that after withering criticism and embarrassment, the GOP has decided at the last minute that maybe one of their leaders should actually bother to show up.
But the near miss won't do much to obscure the message: the GOP has essentially abandoned its minority outreach, at least to African-American voters.
Facing demographic reality after their devastating defeat in 2012, Republicans issued a report saying they needed to consider policy changes to court minority voters. That olive branch lasted a few weeks before their base and its mouthpieces on AM radio urgently reminded them that bigotry is a core Republican value and would only be dismissed at the peril of any politician that didn't toe the Tea Party line.
Now the party finds itself shutting down Homeland Security to protest the President's mild executive order on immigration and almost ignoring the Selma anniversary entirely. The minority outreach program is not just dead: it's a public embarrassment and heaping ruin.
That fact underscores certain disturbing realities for the future. Republicans will double down on the white vote, attempting to gain over 75% of it to put their anti-Hillary into the White House. They will continue to try to disempower cities in favor of surrounding suburbs and rural areas.
And they will continue to try to disenfranchise as many minority voters as possible–one of the reasons why the Selma memorial is so problematic for them. Republicans are actively trying to remove as many minority voters as possible from the eligible pool, and have no interest in being reminded of Dr. King's struggle to achieve the end of Jim Crow and true voting rights for African-Americans.
The GOP has made it abundantly clear that things are going to get much uglier before they get better. Their base won't have it any other way.
By: David Atkins, Political Animal Blog, The Washington Monthly, March 7, 2015
March 8, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Bigotry, Republicans, Selma	| African Americans, Bloody Sunday, Civil rights movement, GOP Minority Outreach, Jim Crow, Martin Luther King Jr, Tea-party, Voting Rights Act | Leave a comment
"A Voteless People Is A Hopeless People": Memories Of Selma And 'Bloody Sunday'; 'They Came With Nightsticks'
They became iconic images of the civil rights movement: A middle-aged black woman tear-gassed and beaten and slumped unconscious on the side of the road. A white Alabama state trooper, billy club in hand, stands above her. In another photo, a young man cradles her body in his arms.
Amelia Boynton Robinson, the woman in those photos, had helped galvanize hundreds of activists to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 — part of a march from Selma to Montgomery to demand their civil rights. Helmeted law enforcement officers pummeled the peaceful demonstrators on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
"They came with horses," Boynton Robinson recalled. "They came with nightsticks."
She is now a centenarian — conflicting sources put her age at 104 to 109 — and devotees lovingly refer to her as "Queen Mother."
"I was taught to love people, to excuse their hate and realize that if they get the hate out of them, that they will be able to love," Boynton Robinson said during a recent trip to Los Angeles. "After Bloody Sunday people began to wake up.… and those who have arisen because of our Bloody Sunday have excelled."
The matriarch of the civil rights movement is physically frail and uses a wheelchair, but she remains perceptive and alert, and her failing health has not dampened her determination to keep pushing for change.
"I was born to lead," said Boynton Robinson, whose role in the voting rights movement is featured in the film "Selma." "My parents didn't look at people as being colored or white." They treated everyone as equal, she added.
Boynton's activism began when she was a girl growing up in Savannah, Ga. As young as 9 years old she accompanied her mother in a horse and buggy, distributing leaflets for the Women's Suffrage Movement. (Women finally got the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.)
At age 14 she attended Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth, now Savannah State University. Two years later she started studying under the tutelage of famed African American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver.
Her career would lead to her to becoming a home demonstration agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The job included helping rural women with food preservation and teaching home economics.
"My parents made an example of what they wanted their children to be," Boynton Robinson said. "My parents never looked down at anybody," and they believed every individual should be treated and respected as royalty, she said.
Boynton Robinson became a registered voter in 1932, but many blacks, particularly in the South, remained disenfranchised due to obstacles, such as poll taxes and literacy tests, enforced by state and local authorities. The Selma establishment was known to be among the most egregious in barring blacks from the polls.
Along with her husband, Sam, she pushed for black rights, and their house on Lapsley Street in Selma became a meeting place for organizers in the movement. Planning sessions for the march on the Edmund Pettus Bridge were held in that house.
The Selma march was organized to protest the fatal shooting a few days earlier of a young African American church deacon named Jimmie Lee Jackson by an Alabama state trooper, and the general issue of black disenfranchisement across much of the South.
During a meeting in Malibu with middle school journalism students, the veteran activist vividly recalled how law enforcement officials, armed with tear gas, were determined not to let the activists march to Montgomery. She recounted how when demonstrators refused to disperse, the attack began.
"People were running because they were beating you," Boynton Robinson said. "I mean they were beating everything. I just stood still."
An officer ordered her to run. She asked, "Why, what for?" That's when he struck her on the shoulder, then at the base of her neck, knocking her unconscious.
Troopers dragged her to the side of the road, leaving her for dead.
As Boynton Robinson later learned, when Selma's Sheriff Jim Clark was told of her presumed demise he was less than sympathetic.
"He said, 'If she's dead, let her alone and let the buzzards eat her,'" Boynton Robinson said.
Fellow activists came to her aid and an ambulance eventually took her to a hospital.
The images of the atrocities that day triggered shock and outrage across the globe.
When Boynton Robinson became aware of the magnitude of the malfeasance that occurred on Bloody Sunday, it intensified her will "to do better and go farther and … to help the people to become registered and voters," said the activist, who in 1964 was the first black woman in Alabama to seek a seat in Congress.
According to published material, in the weeks after the march a group of U.S. congressmen met with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders at Boynton Robinson's home to produce the first draft of the Voting Rights Act. Boynton Robinson was at the White House when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the act into law in August 1965.
Although census data shows that turnout among voting-age African Americans in presidential elections has vastly improved in recent years — in part due to President Obama and his campaign's community mobilization drive — Boynton Robinson believes there is still a sense of apathy among the black electorate.
"They have gone back to sleep," she said. She appealed to today's generation to embrace the lessons of the struggle and not take suffrage for granted.
"I am still determined that these young people will realize that a voteless people is a hopeless people," she told the students, and later added: "If they keep doing what Dr. King and the others were doing, we will not regret…. because we have paved the way for them to follow."
By: Ann M. Simmons, The Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2015
March 7, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Civil Rights Movement, Selma, Voting Rights Act	| African Americans, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Bloody Sunday, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Martin Luther King, Voting Rights | Leave a comment
"John Lewis Tells His Truth About Selma": Reflections Of A Legacy Of Resistance That Led Many To Struggle And Die For Justice
The role of art in our society is not to reenact history but to offer an interpretation of human experience as seen through the eyes of the artist. The philosopher Aristotle says it best: "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inner significance."
The movie "Selma" is a work of art. It conveys the inner significance of the ongoing struggle for human dignity in America, a cornerstone of our identity as a nation. It breaks through our too-often bored and uninformed perception of our history, and it confronts us with the real human drama our nation struggled to face 50 years ago.
And "Selma" does more than bring history to life, it enlightens our understanding of our lives today. It proves the efficacy of nonviolent action and civic engagement, especially when government seems unresponsive. With poignant grace, it demonstrates that Occupy, inconvenient protests and die-ins that disturb our daily routine reflect a legacy of resistance that led many to struggle and die for justice, not centuries ago, but in our lifetimes. It reminds us that the day could be approaching when that price will be required again.
But now this movie is being weighed down with a responsibility it cannot possibly bear. It's portrayal of President Lyndon B. Johnson's role in the Selma marches has been called into question. And yet one two-hour movie cannot tell all the stories encompassed in three years of history — the true scope of the Selma campaign. It does not portray every element of my story, Bloody Sunday, or even the life of Martin Luther King Jr. We do not demand completeness of other historical dramas, so why is it required of this film?
"Lincoln," for example, was a masterpiece, a fine representation of what it takes to pass a bill. It did not, however, even mention Frederick Douglass or the central role of the abolitionists, who were all pivotal to the passage of the 13th Amendment. For some historians that may be a glaring error, but we accept these omissions as a matter of perspective and the historical editing needed to tell a coherent story. "Selma" must be afforded the same artistic license.
Were any of the Selma marches the brainchild of President Johnson? Absolutely not. If a man is chained to a chair, does anyone need to tell him he should struggle to be free? The truth is the marches occurred mainly due to the extraordinary vision of the ordinary people of Selma, who were determined to win the right to vote, and it is their will that made a way.
As for Johnson's taped phone conversation about Selma with King, the president knew he was recording himself, so maybe he was tempted to verbally stack the deck about his role in Selma in his favor. The facts, however, do not bear out the assertion that Selma was his idea. I know. I was there. Don't get me wrong, in my view, Johnson is one of this country's great presidents, but he did not direct the civil rights movement.
This film is a spark that has ignited interest in an era we must not forget if we are to move forward as a nation. It is already serving as a bridge to a long-overdue conversation on race, inequality and injustice in this country today. It may well become a touchstone, a turning point for another generation of activists who will undertake the next evolutionary push for justice in America.
It would be a tragic error if Hollywood muted its praise for a film because it is too much a story and not enough an academic exercise.
Whenever I have a tough vote in Congress, I ask myself what would leaders of courage do? What would King and Robert Kennedy do? What is the right thing to do? What is the fair and honest thing to do?
The people have already spoken. They are marching to the theaters, arrested by the drama of this film, moved by ideas too long left to languish, driven to their feet and erupting in enthusiastic applause.
By: Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), one of the leaders of two of the Selma marches, is portrayed in "Selma." He has been a member of Congress since 1987; Op-Ed Opinion, The Los Angeles Times, january 16, 2015
January 19, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr, Selma	| Bloody Sunday, Frederick Douglas, Inequality, John Lewis, Lincoln, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Protesters, Racism | Leave a comment
"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round": Beyond Selma – Writing The Next Chapter In American Civil Rights History
In November 2012, I worked with the Obama campaign's anti-voter suppression efforts in Florida. I was shocked when I saw that voters in largely Hispanic and African-American areas were forced to wait hours and hours to vote by design. The state had cut early voting from 14 to 6 days and added 11 constitutional amendments to the ballot (some written out in full) to make it more time consuming to vote such that one legislator compared the ballot to the Book of Leviticus. I also was told authorities did not deploy all available ballot boxes.
Tasked with encouraging voters to wait for over 3 hours until 10:30 p.m. on a Saturday, I was struck with how little needed to be done. They knew why they were waiting and that only made them more determined to vote. I was reminded of the song "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round" and the voting rights marches in Selma during the Civil Rights era and thought how sad it is that here we stand nearly 50 years after Selma and African-Americans still had to fight for their right to vote.
The next year, the Supreme Court gutted the enforcement provisions of the Voting Rights Act that enabled the Justice Department to block discriminatory voting restrictions in Shelby County v Holder. The Act had been reauthorized in 2006 without a single vote of opposition in the Senate, but in the Obama-era a bill to revive the provisions got nowhere last year despite bipartisan support.
The struggle in Selma is now on movie screens across America for viewers to relive the brutality of Bloody Sunday and the ultimate triumphant march that drew Americans from all races and faiths from across the nation to take a stand for freedom and against bigotry and hate.
In March, however, the world's attention will once again return to the Edmond Pettus Bridge for the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. It will be a tempered celebration because it has been a difficult two years for race relations in America. Obama's reelection victory unleashed a torrent of racist hate across social media, then came the killings of Treyvon Martin in Florida, Michael Brown in Missouri and Eric Garner in New York and the divisions their cases brought.
More importantly, throughout the period we have steadily moved backwards on voting rights as states across the south and elsewhere took advantage of the Shelby County decision to enact a number of restrictive voting measures that are designed to suppress the African-American vote.
I have one resolution for 2015 — I'm going to Selma.
As a child of Generation Jones, we always looked up to our Baby Boomer brethren who marched for civil rights when we had no need to for the victory had been won. That victory is in jeopardy. I'm going to Selma.
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner among others were killed for this most fundamental right — the right to vote. They cannot cry for justice, instead it is the duty of the living to do so for them. I'm going to Selma.
I do not expect a House of Representatives that has no shame over having a white supremacist in its leadership to listen to our pleas for action on voting rights legislation. I'm going to Selma.
Martin Luther King once said, "[h]istory will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." Similarly, Benjamin Franklin said that "[j]ustice will not be served until those who are as unaffected are as outraged as those who are." I'm outraged and I'm going to Selma.
We are a generous nation that has come together to help those in need as we did after Katrina or to take a stand that we are one as we did after 9/11. The story of civil rights in America is not relegated to our history books or a movie but is still being written today. It is time to write the next chapter for civil rights in America. Once again we are called to take a stand for freedom and against bigotry and hate. I'm going to Selma.
By: Bennet Kelley, The Blog, The Huffington Post, December 31, 2014
January 2, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Civil Rights, Selma Alabama, Voter Suppression	| African Americans, Bigotry, Bloody Sunday, Congress, Hispanics, Martin Luther King Jr, Racism, Shelby v Holder, Voting Rights Act | Leave a comment


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Property owners in Wrightsville Beach are eligible to purchase up to 2 residential parking permits (hang tags) for $50 each. Permits can be purchased at the Parking Office at 321 Causeway Drive. In the event an owner releases residential parking permits to a tenant, the tenant will need to submit a notarized letter application form provided by the Town (attached in a link below) specifying the number of permits requested. Non-metered streets on Harbor Island will be parking by residential parking permit and/or vehicle identification decal only. These areas are enforced from March 1 - October 31st from 9am to 7pm.
Vehicle tax decals may also be purchased from the Lanier Parking office. This annual license tax, required per Town ordinances 70.35 - 70.39, is to be paid annually on or before the first day of April of each year. Vehicle tax decals also serve as identification for re-entry onto Wrightsville Beach in the event of a mandatory evacuation. It's important to purchase your vehicle tax decal before April. Sale of the decals ceases when a hurricane warning is issued.
If you lease a property, a notarized residential parking permit application from the property owner giving permission to obtain that property's allocation of passes is required.
If you lease a property that is handled by a property management group a notarized letter from the management group will be required in order to release the residential parking permits to the tenant.
If a property is a multi-family unit registered as a single property, the property is eligible for only 2 passes.
For each residential parking permit purchased, a vehicle tax decal must also be purchased with the residential parking permit if the owner of the vehicle resides in the Town for a period of 30 days (permanent or temporary residence) or if the vehicle is stored in the Town for any purpose either when in use or not in use.
If you are not purchasing a residential parking permit, vehicle tax decals will still be required if the owner of the vehicle resides in the Town for a period of 30 days (permanent or temporary residence) or if the vehicle is stored in the Town for any purpose either when in use or not in use.
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You are invited by Toastmasters Finland to the screening of "SPEAK", a documentary about the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking by Paul Galichia and Brian Weidling on Tuesday 27.5 at 6pm at Arkadia (Nervanderinkatu 11)
http://speakthemovie.com/
Language: English without subtitles
At the end of the film there will be a Post-Screening discussion for about 20 minutes, hosted by Oscar Santolalla, President of Stadi Talkers Toastmasters club.
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– Entrance is free but a donation of €3 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome. If you have no loose change or coins we gladly accept payment via Visa Electron or Mastercard etc. !
SPEAK The Movie (2012, 94 min) is a documentary film about the fear of public speaking, and the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking. Filmmakers Paul Galichia and Brian Weidling embarked on an almost two year journey – conducting hundreds of interviews about public speaking anxiety, and capturing every stage of the tense, highly competitive World Championship of Public Speaking. It all culminates in a week of fascinating human drama in Calgary, Alberta, after which one person is crowned "World Champion of Public Speaking". Funny, inspiring, moving, and utterly absorbing, SPEAK follows the trail of those brave souls who take on the fear of public speaking – the world's #1 fear – and live to tell the tale.
Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of meeting locations. Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, the organization has more than 292,000 memberships in more than 14,350 clubs in 122 countries. Since 1924, Toastmasters International has helped people of all backgrounds become more confident in front of an audience.
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13/06/2014�� Earlier this week, Google quietly released a new feature on its popular chatting client Hangouts: the ability to draw directly in your chat window. Now you can message �... One of Android's biggest strengths relative to iOS was the ability to switch to a third-party keyboard. While Apple has finally included this feature in its latest OS and leveled the playing field a bit, the variety of options still pales in comparison to what's available on Android.
One of Android's biggest strengths relative to iOS was the ability to switch to a third-party keyboard. While Apple has finally included this feature in its latest OS and leveled the playing field a bit, the variety of options still pales in comparison to what's available on Android.


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Q: Angular2 Exception: No provider for Service I'm unable to instantiate my application when I have the component which is nested under the root component providing a component which it uses in it's constructor.
import {Component, Injectable} from 'angular2/core';

@Component()
export class GrandChild(){
  constructor () {
    this.hello = "hey!"
  }
}

@Component({
  providers: [GrandChild]
})
@Injectable()
export class Child {
    constructor(public grandchild: GrandChild) {
        this.grandchild = grandchild;
    }
}

@Component({
    providers: [Child],
    template: `Everything rendered fine!`,
    selector: 'app'
})

export class App {
    kid: Child;

    constructor(public child: Child) {
        this.kid = child;
    }
}

EXCEPTION: No provider for GrandChild! (App -> Child -> GrandChild)

I'm wondering why this behavior is illegal. Let's say I wanted to use the GrandChild class in my Child class and simply reference the Child class in my App class. This seems to be impossible.
What is the correct way to create the provide hierarchy?
Thanks a bunch.
PLNKR: http://plnkr.co/edit/5Z0QMAEyZNUAotZ6r7Yi?p=preview

A: You can inject directly the parent component into a component without specifying it into component providers. To do that you need to use component into other ones and set it into the directives attribute:
@Component({
  selector: 'child',
  template: `

  `
})
export class Child {
  constructor(@Inject(forwardRef(() => App)) parent: App) {
  }
}

@Component({
  directives: [Child],
  template: `
    Everything rendered fine!
    <child></child>
  `,
  selector: 'app'
})
export class App {
  constructor() {
  }
}

What is a bit strange in your sample is that you didn't define selector and template properties for components Child and GrandChild. Are they really components?
In your sample, you made things in the wrong way. If you want to get instances of child component from a parent component, you need to leverage the @ViewChild decorator to reference the child component from the parent one by injection:
import { Component, ViewChild } from 'angular2/core';

(...)

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `

My First Angular 2 App

    <child></child>
    <button (click)="submit()">Submit</button>
  `,
  directives:[App]
})
export class AppComponent {
  @ViewChild(SearchBar) searchBar:SearchBar;

  (...)

  someOtherMethod() {
    this.searchBar.someMethod();
  }
}

Here is the updated plunkr: http://plnkr.co/edit/mrVK2j3hJQ04n8vlXLXt?p=preview.
You can notice that the @Query parameter decorator could also be used:
export class AppComponent {
  constructor(@Query(SearchBar) children:QueryList<SearchBar>) {
    this.childcmp = children.first();
  }

  (...)
}

You can notice that you don't need the @Injectable decorator when you have the @Component one...

A: You can fix it by adding GrandChild to App's providers.
However, I don't understand why you were annotating Child and GrandChild as @Component when you're using them as services. I guess this is what you actually wanted to do.
@Injectable()
export class GrandChild(){
  constructor () {
    this.hello = "hey!"
  }
}

@Injectable()
export class Child {
    tire: string;
    constructor(public grandchild: GrandChild) {
        this.grandchild = grandchild;
    }
}

@Component({
    providers: [Child, GrandChild],
    template: `Everything rendered fine!`,
    selector: 'app'
})
export class App {
    thread: Thread;
    selected: boolean = false;
    kid: Child;

    constructor(public child: Child) {
        this.kid = child;
    }
}

See updated plnkr demo.


Ahead of Pebble Gorge's You're Getting Warmer event in Farnham on the 16 July, we spoke to their Co-Director Jane McGibbon, to learn more about their decision to tackle the tricky matter of climate change and what the experience offers to children and families this summer.
Can you give us a brief description of the event?
You're Getting Warmer is an outdoor adventure for families and small groups that explores the effects of climate change in the UK. Armed with a smart-phone and specialist app technology, children and families are cast as Agents for Change by head honcho Agent Zero on a mission to hunt down clues to save the endangered Marsh Warbler and stall the Three and a Half Degrees Gang before we hit a temperature rising catastrophe!
Where does the inspiration behind the event come from?
Created in collaboration with John Hunter and Cat Harrison, the idea was developed for children after identifying that there was a need for more arts-based activities that used digital technology as a way of exploring big ideas. It is fundamentally about the effects of climate change on the UK, not melting ice caps and polar bears, but things that we can all relate to here and now.
Can you give us a little more detail as to how the event will run?
Small groups of children aged 7-11 years, and accompanying adults use a smart phone app to navigate around, and interact with, a series of installations. Using the YGW app participants follow written directions and an inbuilt compass device to find their way between caches. Each cache uses a mixture of visual or audio clips on the phone alongside real objects placed at specific places on the route. The caches have been designed to be self-sufficient and as unobtrusive to the local environment as possible, whilst still being unusual, intriguing and fun.
At the end of the mission, groups will record their own response to what they've achieved and upload it to a special installation on route where it will kept for others to see. Other YGW Agents and passers-by will be able to scan the installation using their smart phone to see YGW films as well as look through a range of other climate change related information.
Why will both children and adults enjoy this event?
It's all about team work. This is a rare opportunity in which both adults and children can participate in an activity and enjoy it at the same time. They have to work together to solve the clues and reach the end of the trail, so it will involve lots of interaction and communication between them. The company have worked hard to ensure that it's not a worthy or guilt inducing experience and are keen for people to go away having spent a really fun hour together in the park… and maybe they'll learn something too!
What would you say to people who are interested in coming along to this event?
If you're struggling to keep the whole family entertained this summer, then this event is ideal for keeping all ages occupied. You're Getting Warmer is essentially a private theatre performance just for you and your family. You'll get to meet exciting characters along the way, solve interesting clues and have fun interacting with our individually-designed app. If your children enjoy the theatre or making up their own adventures, then this experience is perfect for them to get their creative juices flowing and have fun in the sunshine with their friends or family.
You're Getting Warmer will be taking place on Saturday 16 July. For more information, please visit the webpage. More details including start times will be updated nearer to the event. To watch a short promotional trailer for the event, please click here.
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