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I hope you'll consider joining me to fund a water project. With your gifts and your help rallying support, we can provide clean, safe and reliable water to a community in Africa. Globally, clean water is a leading issue. As a person who gets clean water everyday, I want to give back to those who unfortunately do not get it .
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Miss Sixty is closing 10 of its remaining 20 stores in the U.S.
NEW YORK — Miss Sixty is closing 10 of its remaining 20 stores in the U.S.
The Chieti, Italy-based company suffered a series of financial setbacks during the height of the recession, entering administration, a British bankruptcy process, in the U.K. Miss Sixty in 2008 lost 19.5 million euros, or $28.6 million, compared with a profit of 9.6 million euros, or $13.1 million, in 2007.
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Last year, Miss Sixty closed two full-priced stores in Honolulu and Dallas. At the time, Miss Sixty SpA founder, chairman and creative director Wichy Hassan said the company's U.S. stores were simply not working, in part due to mismanagement. Miss Sixty, which was a regular at New York Fashion Week for seven seasons, staged its last runway show in spring 2008.
A Miss Sixty unit on Union Square in San Francisco closed last week, as did a 7,000-square-foot flagship at 901 Broadway in the Flatiron Building here. That store housed dual brands Miss Sixty and its men's counterpart, Energie. On Sunday, Miss Sixty will shutter a store at 386 West Broadway in SoHo, according to a New York employee. Other closings include units at The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and Georgetown in Washington, and an outlet store in Philadelphia.
A 13,000-square-foot, $50,000-a-month space at 8070 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, shared by Miss Sixty and Energie, will close on May 3, a store employee said. "The company is definitely not going out of business," she added. "We'll probably be back in six months and will open in the Beverly Center or on Robertson Boulevard." Merchandise from the Melrose Avenue unit is being transferred to Miss Sixty stores at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif., and South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif., she said.
An outlet unit at Woodbury Commons in Central Valley, N.Y., will remain open, as will stores at the Houston Galleria, Aventura Mall in Aventura, Fla., and Lincoln Road in Miami Beach. The New York store employee said Miss Sixty is revamping its real estate portfolio and eventually hopes to relocate all the stores it closed.
Faltering performance led the company to reassess its business in several global markets. In September, Miss Sixty announced it was outsourcing management of Miss Sixty and Energie stores in the U.S. to Canadian retailer Aldo Group.
Deanna Chow, director of marketing and public relations for Sixty Canada, did not return phone calls seeking comment.


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A couple of posts ago in this series, I explained how a NAND flash die is comprised of planes, which contain blocks, which contain pages… which contain individual cells of data. Read operations take place at the page level, as do write operations (although we call them program operations in the flash world). But crucially, erase operations take place at the block level and so affect multiple pages.
Erases are also slow (at least relative to reads and writes) and cause wear of the flash media, gradually moving it closer to its end of life. It's therefore the case that when you want to update an existing page of data it is faster, simpler and less damaging to simply write the updated information to an empty page. If you're going to do that, you will probably also want to choose a new page somewhere completely different from the old one to ensure that your flash wears out evenly. And hey, don't forget that the block containing the old page will need to be erased at some point before it can be reused.
This mechanism is called the flash translation layer (FTL) and you will find it on all flash media if you look hard enough. The FTL has a number of responsibilities, so let's look at them now.
Abstraction is everywhere in computing. The URL of this website is a logical address which maps to a physical address, i.e. the IP address. An IP address is in fact a logical address which maps to a physical address, i.e. the MAC address of a network interface. There are so many examples of abstraction in technology that sometimes I think the whole world of computing is just one massive layer of abstraction.
In storage, the idea of a logical block address (LBA) has been around since long before NAND flash and is primarily used to make addressing simpler and more flexible. Like all abstraction concepts it exists to make the (potentially complex) management of a low level system invisible to the higher levels that consume its services. For example, if a hard drive within a RAID group fails and the data it contained has to be rebuilt on a hot spare, the physical block address of certain blocks of data will change. To avoid the need to notify all possible interested parties (e.g applications, databases, etc) of the new address, the extra layer of logical block addressing is used; the map from LBA to PBA is amended and nobody else needs to know.
In a flash system this same mechanism can be used for updates, so that when a page is considered invalid the logical block address can be remapped to the newly-programmed page. This provides the solution to number 1 in our list above in a way that is both simple and transparent to anyone issuing I/O requests.
On the face of it, wear levelling seems like a fairly simple method of handling number 2 in our list. You have a predefined number of flash blocks, each of which can be programmed and erased (known as the P/E cycle) a similar number of times before they are no longer usable. Clearly the object of any wear levelling algorithm is to smoothly distribute all P/E cycles so that the blocks all reach their limit at the same time. Without wear levelling it's entirely possible that a subset of blocks could receive the majority of P/E cycles and thus wear out very quickly, reducing the available capacity of the system.
If all blocks in a system were regularly updated this would be no problem, because wear levelling would happen almost naturally as pages are marked invalid and then recycled. But here's the problem: if we have some cold blocks, i.e. locations where the data never changes, then we have to take steps to manually relocate that data otherwise those blocks won't ever wear… and that means we are actually adding write workload to the system, which ultimately means increasing the wear.
The third requirement in our list is a way of recycling pages that are no longer required (i.e. invalid) but have not yet been erased. Of course you cannot simply erase them at your leisure, because flash requires the entire containing block to be erased too. So instead it's necessary to consider the remaining contents of the block and – if necessary – transparently move some active data elsewhere. Once the block has no remaining active data in it, it can be erased and then becomes ready to use again.
The thing is, the block in question might have 128 or 256 pages in it, many of which contain active data. You might have to go to a lot of effort in order to recycle just a small number of invalid pages – and just like with wear levelling, the act of moving data around in the background will have consequences to things like performance and endurance. Again it's a question of finding the right balance.
Now you might have noticed that a lot of the processes described here result in additional operations taking place on the flash media. Wear Levelling can relocate inactive (cold) pages in order to ensure they wear evenly in comparison to active (hot) pages. Garbage Collection can result in pages being moved from a block which will subsequently be erased. In short, stuff is happening in the background as a consequence of the actions taking place on the host – which we will call the foreground in order to distinguish it. What's more, if you are looking at things from the point of view of the foreground – like, for example, a database server accessing flash storage – you have no visibility of what's going on in the background.
It doesn't matter what OS monitoring tools you run on the host (iostat, for example, or dstat), you will only see the foreground I/O operations that the host knows about. This is important because the performance and endurance of your flash storage is dependent on the sum of foreground and background operations.
As a final thought, earlier on I said about the FTL that "you will find it on all flash media if you look hard enough". What did I mean? Well, the FTL has a lot of duties to perform, as we've seen. That requires effort, which for a computer equates to processing power and memory. In most situations (e.g. All Flash Arrays) this happens in firmware under the covers. But with some products, for example certain PCIe flash cards, it's possible that some or all of the FTL functionality runs on the host, using host CPU cycles and DRAM.
In principle there may be benefits and drawbacks of either method (host-based FTL or array-based FTL), but if you are running a database on your server they become insignificant in relation to the cost. After all, those processors in your database servers? The ones that affect your core-based licenses for Oracle or other database software? They are the most expensive CPUs you own. If you are donating CPU cycles from these cores to manage your flash, you are effectively throwing away license money. And you probably feel you pay enough to your database vendor already, right?
* Seriously, if you didn't think that was a great pun then you're reading the wrong blog.
What is array based flash and host based flash?
Sorry, What is array based ftl and host based ftl?
I have not seen these terms used but it sounds like they simply refer to where the FTL runs, i.e. on the host CPU or on the array's storage controllers. The latter is considerably more preferable in my view.


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Jan Gerardus Carolus Pieter (Gerard) Peerbolte (Zaltbommel, 8 september 1859 – aldaar, 9 mei 1939) was een Nederlands organist en beiaardier.

Hij was zoon van zaakwaarnemer Lammert Peerbolte en modiste Martijntje Jacoba Agneta Lietaert. Hijzelf trouwde in 1912 met Cornelia Jansie (1877-1947), de Arnhemse was hoofd van de bewaarschool in Zaltbommel.

Hij was niet voorbestemd om musicus te worden. Zijn vader, kassier, wilde dat zijn zoon een kantoorfunctie nastreefde maar het liep anders. Diezelfde vader zorgde er per ongeluk voor dat zijn zoon toch organist werd. Op de eerste dag van zoons werkzaamheden wees vader hem op een fout; de zoon liep weg en ging achter de piano zitten. Er volgden privélessen bij Carolus Antonius Leenhoff, organist van de Sint-Maartenskerk en beiaardier van het Gasthuis. Ondertussen probeerde hij onderwijzer te worden, deed een scholing daartoe, maar in plaats van naar het examen toe te gaan in Arnhem vertrok hij naar Den Haag, naar de Haagse Muziekschool waarop Willem Nicolaï les gaf en waarover Peerbolte goede verhalen over had gehoord van Leenhoff. Andere docenten waren Carel Wirtz en Antonie Jacobus Ackerman. In 1878, wanneer Leenhoff overlijdt, er een vacature ontstaat, solliciteert Peerbolte begeleid door goede referenties van Nicolaï. Hij werd aangenomen, eerst als tijdelijk beiaardier, maar vervolgens ook als tijdelijk organist. Hij werd tevens muziekonderwijzer in Zaltbommel. Hij moest alleen zijn onderwijzersdiploma nog halen, hetgeen in 1884 het geval was; de twee muziekfuncties werden definitief.

Hij zou van dan af aan tot 1932 van grote invloed zijn op het muziekleven in Zaltbommel. Hij was er niet allee organist, beiaardier en muziekonderwijzer, hij was oprichter-dirigent van het harmonieorkest Generaal Karel van der Heijden en oprichter-directeur van de plaatselijke muziekschool en koordirigent. Tevens adviseerde hij in en buiten de streek bij de plaatsing en restauratie van nieuwe orgels en klokkenspelen. Hij stond bekend als een in zichzelf gekeerd man, die het "gewone volk" enige muziekcultuur wilde bijbrengen. Zijn afscheid als musicus kwam in september 1932, waarbij niet alleen de burgemeester Nicolaas Frederik Cambier van Nooten aanwezig was, maar ook Gerards broer Lambertus Lietaert Peerbolte (1870-1937), directeur-generaal van afdeling "Volksgezondheid en Armwezen" van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken. Op zijn 75e verjaardag werd hij benoemd tot ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau.

Bijzonder aan hem is dat hij niet werd begraven, maar gecremeerd en wel op Westerveld in Noord-Holland. Op 25 november vernoemde de gemeente Zaltbommel de Peerboltestraat naar hem. Ook Maastricht kent een Peerboltestraat, maar die is vernoemd naar broer Lambertus.

Nederlands organist
Nederlands beiaardier

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What do you do when 145,000 people suddenly appear?
You build a city.
Refugee crisis, Syria conflict
Humanitarians, Water and hygiene
© UNICEF/UNI150162/Noorani
by Simone Ziaziaris
Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp has evolved into a thriving city - currently home to around 80,000 people. There are neighbourhoods, schools, hospitals, a thriving economy, a clean water and wastewater treatment plant, and buzzing commercial strips where locals can grab a shawarma.
Red bell peppers are being unloaded at the vegetable shops in Za'atari refugee camp, Jordan. © UNICEF/UN033602/Nour Al Abdallah
But today's almost normalised scene could not be further from the mayhem that took place in 2012 when, over a period of six months, more than half a million people crossed the Syrian border into Jordan to seek refuge from conflict and violence.
Za'atari refugee camp, near the border with Syria, bore the brunt of the humanitarian response. At its peak, it accommodated more than 145,000 of the most desperate and vulnerable people.
"When I first arrived there were big issues to manage security and equitable services for children and women amidst the chaos of the emergency," says Aussie Ben Smith, UNICEF Water, Sanitation and Health Specialist (WASH).
"Opportunists had taken control of water and food distribution creating inequalities and great instability throughout the camp. Women and children were the most at risk from disease and outbreak."
Water trucks move along the streets of Za'atari Refugee Camp in 2016. © UNICEF/UN0280503/Herwig
Ben, a water engineer originally from Canberra, moved to Jordan to help build and manage the desperately needed water and wastewater systems.
Initially, clean water was being trucked in and the wastewater was trucked out.
But the system was expensive, challenging to manage, unsustainable for the environment and difficult to ensure equity of services.
On top of this, women, teenage girls and children were not using wash blocks because the communal services were too far away from their tents and they didn't feel safe at night.
As a result, people were taking materials and building their own private latrines, closer to their homes.
"They would build their own outhouse or latrine and then drain it to an open pit, right next to their house which would collect sewage," Ben says.
"That meant there were 12,000 households in the camp all with an open pit - potential for a public health disaster."
Before UNICEF's water and wastewater systems, a child would collect water from a communal water tank in Za'atari Refugee Camp. © UNICEF/UN0280288/Noorani
It is estimated that the average lifespan of a refugee camp is over 20 years, with refugees spending an average of 10 years living in a camp. As Jordan is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world, Ben says it was extremely important to push for long term, sustainable solutions.
UNICEF and partners built more than 3,000 septic tanks which collect wastewater from latrines and convey wastewater to an onsite treatment plant via a 125km network. Three, 500-meter-deep boreholes were also drilled to provide water directly to houses through a 300km water supply network.
"It has been a real success because we can control the quality of water and we can reach every household in the camp with their fair share of water," Ben says, adding this is particularly important for female-headed households and families with children who have disabilities.
"At UNICEF, we don't typically do construction projects of this size and complexity, but because of our leadership role in the humanitarian WASH sector area and the trust we have from donors, we were able to implement these works in Za'atari."
"...we can control the quality of water
and we can reach every household in
the camp with their fair share of water."
Sidra, 14, pours a glass of water from the tap of her family's caravan in Za'atari Refugee Camp in 2019. © UNICEF/UN0280290/Herwig
The wastewater systems have helped prevent major health issues like diarrhoea and Hepatitis A outbreaks. While there is potential for minor outbreaks to occur when new arrivals join the camp, Ben says they have not seen any of these issues in Za'atari.
"It absolutely comes down to public health management - particularly wastewater," he says.
"Having control over wastewater has a direct link to improved public health outcomes.
"With the networks, we can ensure a clean and safe environment for children and guarantee the cleanliness of water supplied to households."
The systems have also helped improve equity with greater access to water and wastewater systems for women, children and those most vulnerable.
"...we can ensure a clean and safe
environment for children and guarantee the
cleanliness of water supplied to households."
Diaa, 10, and his family were one of the last to be connected to a new water network in Za'atari refugee camp, Jordan. Diaa says he now spends his time playing football instead of collecting water. © UNICEF/UN0280213/Herwig
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Despite its success, Ben says the project in Za'atari was incredibly difficult due to the logistical nightmare of building a water and wastewater network for a population nearly the size of Queensland's Mackay after everyone has already moved in.
On top of this, there were challenges in importing construction materials into the camp and managing local contractors and construction in and around an active community, as well as the occasional unexpected hiccup - like finding over 120 unexploded ordnances (UNICEF worked with the local authorities and security experts to identify and clear these suspected unexploded ordnances).
"Sometimes when you are in the midst of construction it is only bad news," he says.
"But when you are out in the field, you realise why you are doing this work. It is really uplifting to be invited into community households, to be offered sweets, to meet extended family and hear what an impact this has made on their lives."
"When I visit families in the camp, they tell me how much life has improved since the water is delivered to their caravan. Now children have more time to spend outside playing football and studying for school - not standing in long queues in the sweltering heat waiting to collect water."
A girl plays football with her friends in Za'atari Refugee Camp on the truck-free streets in 2019. © UNICEF/UN0280333/Herwig
"I am looking forward to
seeing what becomes of him."
One of those homes is that of 12-year-old Ahmad whose father was working with UNICEF on the water and wastewater project.
UNICEF first came across Ahmad when he introduced himself to the Ambassador of Japan to Jordan who was visiting a water tank near the 12-year-old's home.
Fascinated by the construction of the new network, Ahmad built a replica of the system illustrating each part of the water system in the camp with LEGO bricks.
"I was amazed," Ben says.
"He is such a humble kid as well. He wanted to give it to me specifically. I couldn't believe he had done this off his own back.
"I am looking forward to seeing what becomes of him."
Ahmad plans to be a water engineer, just like Ben.
Ben Smith, UNICEF WASH Specialist, with Ahmad, 12, who has grown up in the Za'atari Refugee camp. © UNICEF/UN0280053/UN0280055/Herwig
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"State Rep. Larry Belcher, a Shepherdsville Democrat, was killed in a traffic accident Monday night.
The crash occurred a little after 6 p.m. CDT on Interstate 65 half a mile north of mile marker 43 in Edmonson County, a Kentucky State Police Trooper Todd Holder said. It appeared Belcher's northbound white Ford F-150 pickup truck ran into the back of a tractor-trailer that had stopped for construction ahead, Holder said. Belcher was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The tractor-trailer driver, Mary Wasson of Texas, was not hurt, Holder said.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Charlie Hoffman of Georgetown said he received word of the fatal crash shortly after 9 p.m. from a State Police officer on the scene of the accident.
Larry Belcher was a co-sponsor of KFTC's Streamsaver bill and the Kentucky Forward bill in this past Legislative Session.


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Watch (Manfred Mann's Earth Band album)
Omaha (disambiguation)
Omaha (horse)
A watch is a small timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep working despite the motions caused by the person's activities. A wristwatch is designed to be worn on a wrist, attached by a watch strap or other type of bracelet. A pocket watch is designed for a person to carry in a pocket.
Watches evolved in the 17th century from spring-powered clocks, which appeared as early as the 14th century. The first watches were strictly mechanical, driven by clockwork. As technology progressed, mechanical devices, used to control the speed of the watch, were largely superseded by vibrating quartz crystals that produce accurately timed electronic pulses. Some watches use radio clock technology to regularly correct the time. The first digital electronic watch was developed in 1970.
Most inexpensive and medium-priced watches, used mainly for timekeeping, are electronic watches with quartz movements. Expensive collectible watches, valued more for their elaborate craftsmanship, aesthetic appeal and glamorous design than for simple timekeeping, often have purely mechanical movements and are powered by springs, even though these movements are generally less accurate and more expensive than electronic ones. Various extra features, called "complications", such as moon-phase displays and the different types of tourbillon, are sometimes included. Modern watches often display the day, date, month and year, and electronic watches may have many other functions. Time-related features such as timers, chronographs and alarm functions are common. Some modern designs incorporate calculators, GPS and Bluetooth technology or have heart-rate monitoring capabilities. Watches incorporating GPS receivers use them not only to determine their position. They also receive and use time signals from the satellites, which make them essentially perfectly accurate timekeepers, even over long periods of time.
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Watch is a studio album with several live tracks released in 1978 by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
"Circles" (Alan Mark) – 4:50
"Drowning on Dry Land/Fish Soup" (Chris Slade, Dave Flett, Manfred Mann) – 6:01
"Chicago Institute" (Peter Thomas, Mann, Flett) – 5:47
"California" (Sue Vickers) – 5:32
"Davy's on the Road Again" (Live) (John Simon, Robbie Robertson) – 5:55
"Martha's Madman" (Lane Tietgen) – 4:52
"Mighty Quinn" (Live) (Bob Dylan) – 6:29
"California" (single edit) (Sue Vickers) – 3:46
"Davy's on the Road Again" (single edit) (Simon, Robertson) – 3:38
"Bouillabaisse" (single edit) (Flett, Mann) – 4:02
"Mighty Quinn" (single edit) (Dylan) – 3:39
Manfred Mann – keyboards, backing vocals
Chris Slade – drums, percussion
Pat King – bass guitar, backing vocals
Dave Flett – lead guitar, acoustic guitar
Chris Hamlet Thompson – vocals, guitar
Doreen Chanter – backing vocals
Irene Chanter – backing vocals
Stevie Lange – backing vocals
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In software development, a breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes. It is also sometimes simply referred to as a pause.
More generally, a breakpoint is a means of acquiring knowledge about a program during its execution. During the interruption, the programmer inspects the test environment (general purpose registers, memory, logs, files, etc.) to find out whether the program is functioning as expected. In practice, a breakpoint consists of one or more conditions that determine when a program's execution should be interrupted.
Breakpoint conditions
Breakpoints are most commonly used to interrupt a running program immediately before the execution of a programmer-specified instruction. This is often referred to as an instruction breakpoint.
Other kinds of conditions can also be used, such as the reading, writing, or modification of a specific location in an area of memory. This is often referred to as a conditional breakpoint, a data breakpoint, or a watchpoint.
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Omaha (/ˈoʊməhɑː/ OH-mə-hah) is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 10 miles (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River. Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha. According to the 2010 census, Omaha's population was 408,958, making it the nation's 41st-largest city. According to the 2014 Population Estimates, Omaha's population was 446,599. Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2013 with an estimated population of 895,151 residing in eight counties. The Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, Nebraska-IA Combined Statistical Area is 931,667, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2013 estimate. There are nearly 1.3 million residents within a 50-mile (80 km) radius of the city's center, forming the Greater Omaha area.
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Omaha is a city in Nebraska, U.S.
Omaha may also refer to:
Omaha (tribe), a Native American tribe that currently resides in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Nebraska
Omaha (software), Google's open-source project providing automated deployment of software updates
Omaha Beach, the Allied code name for one of the June 6, 1944, Battle of Normandy landing sites
Omaha, New Zealand, north of Auckland
Omaha, Georgia
Omaha, Illinois
Omaha, Texas
Omaha, Virginia
Omaha (Amtrak station), a train station in Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha, 2008 album by Ulf Lundell
"Omaha", a 1973 song by Waylon Jennings from Honky Tonk Heroes
"Omaha", a 1994 song by Counting Crows from August and Everything After
"Omaha", a 1967 song by Moby Grape from Moby Grape
"Omaha", a song by Tapes 'n Tapes
Omaha (horse), winner of the U.S. Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1935
Omaha hold 'em, a poker variant
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Omaha (March 24, 1932 – April 24, 1959) was a United States Thoroughbred horse racing champion. In a racing career which lasted from 1934 through 1936, he ran twenty-two times and won nine races. He had his greatest success as a three-year-old in 1935, when he won the Triple Crown. As a four-year-old, he had success running in England, where he narrowly lost the Ascot Gold Cup.
Foaled at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, Omaha was a chestnut horse with a white blaze who stood 16.3 hands high. He was the son of 1930 U.S. Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox and the mare Flambino. Omaha was the third horse to ever win the Triple Crown, which he did in 1935. Flambino also produced the Ascot Gold Cup winner Flares and was the sister of La France, the direct female ancestor of many notable thoroughbreds including Danzig Connection, Decidedly, and Johnstown.
The horse was owned by and bred William Woodward, Sr.'s famous Belair Stud in Bowie, Maryland. He was trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, who also trained Omaha's sire to the Triple Crown. As a yearling, Omaha was leggy and awkward-looking but a favorite of Woodward, who reportedly considered sending the horse to England to be trained for the Epsom Derby. In the event, Omaha's move to England was postponed until 1936. He was ridden to his biggest wins by Canadian jockey Smokey Saunders.
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What you hold in your hand is the best British rock record of the last 20 years. The album was released in 1997 in the middle of the Britpop years, but stood out by making most other bands seem lightweight, one-dimensional and "of their time". It beat albums by Radiohead (Ok Computer) and The Verve (Urban Hymns) to the top of the NME's "Albums of the Year" and was Top 10 in many other publications end of year polls.
Spiritualized, aka Jason Pierce (aka J Spaceman), took the basic principles of rock 'n' roll, blues and soul and reinvigorated them. He took the music he loved, with all its associated past times, problems and emotions, and made a timeless, modern classic that sounds as fresh today as it did in 1997.
Make no mistake, despite the NME accolade, this is no indie record, rather a supremely heavy rock and soul album that charts the highest highs and the lowest lows of the human condition in as visceral a way you're likely to hear in your lifetime.
It was made at Mole Studios in Bath and then at sessions during a road trip across America, which called in at L.A, Memphis and New Orleans. Collaborators include legendary producer Jim Dickinson, pianist Dr John, BJ Cole, Pierce's close friend and free jazz musician John Coxon, saxophonist Ray Dickety, the London Community Gospel choir and the Balanescu Quartet.
The album begins with Jason's long-time musical collaborator, and then girlfriend, Kate Radley announcing "Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space" on a telephone call that sounds and feels like it's being made from a space station. Most of the tracks originated from Jason singing basic ideas into a Panasonic Dictaphone and on the title track you hear how that original recording would have sounded. The track then builds and builds with layers and layers of ascending chords, a lovelorn guitar slide and the London Community Gospel Choir appearing towards the song's finale. On the original version of the track, Spaceman and the choir sang the refrain from "I Can't Help Falling In Love With You", but permission for the use of the lyrics was restricted by the Presley estate. However, rights were permitted this time around and the track is once again back to how it was originally intended.
Contrasting the title tracks lovelorn, haunting beauty, "Come Together", is one of the best high energy rock songs that Spaceman has ever written. The London Community Gospel Choir's voices combine with a wall of guitars and a riff that's been stolen countless times by younger bands since the album's release.
"I Think I'm In Love" was originally demoed during a trip into the Joshua Tree desert. A shaky Dictaphone demo was built into a weird voodoo rock show tune. It's got some of Spaceman's most memorable lines, constantly questioning the validity of his life, love and emotions.
"All Of My Thoughts" is the first of the album's tracks to bring the noise / free jazz / experimental side of Spiritualized to the fore. It's a beautiful hymn to love that descends into barely controlled chaos, with nods to Sun Ra Arkestra and the MC5's more noisy, psychedelic moments. It's followed by the lovely "Stay With Me", a song that recalls the love songs of Spacemen 3, this time with deeper, more lush instrumentation.
"Electricity" was the first single released from L&G. It's a pacey, narcotic garage rock song seemingly about the joys of doing things that make you go faster. It sounds like driving through the desert at night at a hundred miles an hour, listening to The Stooges with someone too high to steer at the wheel while somebody in the back seat sets off eight strobe lights at the same time.
"The Home Of The Brave" is the album's mid-point, signaling a descent into darker, heavier, more emotional songs. It opens with lyrics like "I sometimes take my breakfast right off the mirror / And sometimes I'll have it right out of a bottle, c'mon" before sliding into a free jazz noise squall which continues into an electrified drone of saxophones, guitars and brass called "The Individual", named after saxophonist Terry Edwards' neck tattoo.
All this caterwaul and chaos subsides into a song called "Broken Heart" which is of such beauty and depth that recalling how it sounds gives me goosebumps. The Balanescu Quartet provide a lovely, minor key, backdrop to Spaceman singing "And I'm crying all the time / I have to drink you right off of my mind / I've been told that this will heal given time / Lord I have a broken heart" . They may read like traditional blues lyrics on paper but they're delivered in such a way on this record that anybody unmoved by this song needs to check if they still have a pulse.
Then suddenly the band lurches into the awesome free jazz / noise jam "No God, Only Religion" before going back once again to a gorgeous love song in "Cool Waves". It's an epic lullaby about everlasting love that, perhaps, conjures up the feeling of "Floating In Space" more than any track on the record. And then, as the song waltzes off into the universe, with string section, flautists and horns cascading down on Spaceman and the LGC intoning "Cool waves wash over me" over and over again, you'd be forgiven for thinking that was the end of a great record. How wrong you'd be.
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Anyone who knows me knows that my wardrobe (if you can call it that) mainly consists of band t-shirts.
I'm not sure what it is about the humble tee, but it is a mainstay for me. They serve as reminders of places I've been, people I've met and music I've enjoyed. Some I picked up from bands that I shared the bill with over the years, others were from random nights attending random shows.
Each of my band tees is sacred. I love them all, but word counts and attention spans limit the number of memories I can share in one article.
Here's part one of my fashion-forward look backward.
Back in the '00s, Angry Agency was THE ska-punk band to see in London. Complete with a brass section and a high-energy stage presence, Angry Agency used the stage as both a platform and a pulpit.
I'm not so much angry as I am disappointed that my Angry Agency shirt is literally falling apart.
I remember admiring their anti-everything rage. Angry Agency's songs were all very politically-charged, with lyrics that raged against consumerism and the erosion of democracy – all the stuff that a 20-something Gerard related to at the time.
I got this shirt as part of a swap I did with them at Lee's Palace in Toronto back in the mid 2000s.
My band at the time was opening for them and Down With Webster.
As I did at most shows, I offered to trade one of our shirts for one of theirs. To my delight, both bands were happy to oblige.
To my disappointment, my DWW shirt immediately lost its shape in the dryer. I still wore it, but it looked like a white baby dress with yellow armpits.
Angry Agency's shirt was far more durable, but its demise is not far off.
I can no longer wear it as just a tee. The shirt is now reserved for sweater and jacket weather.
Note the severe holes in the armpits and general rubbery deodorant stains. That's what love looks like.
Because I loved (and still love) the design of their logo, (and the colour combination of the red arrows and white font against a navy blue shirt), it remains one of my favourite pieces of clothing to date.
If they decide to go through with it, I know exactly what I'll wear… bare pits and all.
I always loved watching The Nicest, because they were just a couple scrubby dudes who made no claims about being the best, even though they definitely had enough talent to stand out from the pack.
Paired up with the amazing DJ Hullewud and Mad Hattr, they were unstoppable.
Not the nicest shirt in my drawer. It used to be pink. Now, it's grey with yellow armpits. Sick logo though!
Their songs were sarcastic, witty, and their delivery was tight.
More than that, they captured low budget living.
Still Going Nowhere is a great anthem for the young and broke, but it was the hook for No Swag that really spoke to me.
"Throw your hands up if you ain't got no swag.
I smoked bag smokes! They were speaking directly to me and my Putters!
Back in my Sun Media days, I did an interview with Tim Tansy, Kyle Kanevil and Mad Hattr for the Clinton News Record. I remember the living room of their Adelaide house was incredibly cramped and poorly lit, so my photos of them rapping suffered from low shutter speed and bad angles.
However, I left with this Mad Hattr disc for my efforts.
Full confession – I did not pay for this shirt. I happened to be living a few blocks from the guy who silk-screened their merch. I popped over for a visit just as he finished doing the Nicest job.
I forget what colours they were printing on, but I selected a pink cast-off shirt to make a one-of-a-kind model.
Alas, the pink has faded to a murky grey, and the armpits are yellowing. I still wear it, I just can't raise my arms when I do.
Most of you will probably know this guy as Celebrated Folk Icon Ivan Rivers.
He's a great artist with a tremendous amount of depth, both in songwriting and in soul.
Fuse's Andy Scott also recently did a feature article on Ivan in advance of our Page To Stage show.
Mikey Chuck Rivers was well on his way to celebrated folk status when I bought this shirt in 2013.
I bought this shirt at The Docks in Bayfield. Coincidentally, I also saw The Nicest that night.
If memory serves correctly (and it may not due to copious amounts of Labatt 50), I got this shirt at a Christmas rap show in and around 2013-14. While it may seem strange Ivan was on the bill, he definitely owned the stage.
At the time, he was pumping out music on his own label – Eternal Bummer Records. He was a huge musical mobilizer in Huron County, and gave so many groups the chance to record and perform.
Fun fact: I was even on one of his Christmas compilations!
I got to know the guy pretty well, and every time I met him, I was more and more impressed with his combination of confidence, intelligence and humility – though it's hard to be humble when you call yourself a Celebrated Folk Icon.
Ivan – sorry, Mikey – was a big deal. Still is. But back then, having him on the bill meant you were going to have a packed show. Have a listen to his music and you'll understand why.
This shirt has an amazing graphic – a bearded MCR surrounded by nature and songbirds. I bought the classic black and white, but unfortunately for me at the time, the only size left was large.
I say 'at the time' because 2018 Gerard has added a couple dozen pounds to his frame so the large is now perfect. Foresight? Maybe.
I consider this Mikey Chuck Rivers tee the shirt equivalent to traveling back in time and investing in Microsoft.
For every shirt I still have, there are at least two that died on me. Some became so threadbare that the seams fell apart, others were so deeply pit-stained they were fit for the pit.
Still, whenever I have cash on-hand (minus beer money), I continue to add to my collection. For every gallon of sweat, for every pint of spilled beer, for every hole and tear, a new memory is made and the legend of the humble t-shirt continues.


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LeBron James Does LITERALLY EVERYTHING
Gary Gramling
Imagine that you are Juwan Staten, the star point guard for Thurgood Marshall High School. You've just played an amazing game in the Ohio Division II state championship, scoring 28 points. But it wasn't enough. Your team has lost, and all you want to do is hang your head and cry.
As your eyes fill with tears, someone puts his or her arm around you. Maybe it's a coach, maybe a teammate, or maybe a parent. But it's not. IT'S LEBRON JAMES!
Yes, Bron himself was at the game to see his alma mater -- St. Vincent-St. Mary -- beat Staten's Thurgood Marshall team.
Now, Staten isn't your ordinary high school basketball player. He's a great one. The junior has verbally committed to play for the University of Dayton in two seasons. But still, this must have been the most bizarre moment of his life. Here's what Staten told the Dayton Daily News:
"I didn't know who had me 'til I heard everybody saying, 'That's LeBron... It's LeBron. When I picked my head up, I saw it was LeBron James... He told me to pick my head up that I had done all I could. He told me he knew how I felt because he'd lost the state championship game his junior year, too. He told me he thought I could get back here again because I'm a great player who can help lift his team."
So it's further proof that LeBron can do anything. Literally anything. But it also raises questions, because there is no way any one man can do so many things on and off the court, and do them so well. Here are my two theories on how Bron does it:
1. Remember that Nike ad a few years ago with "The LeBrons"? It was four of 'em hanging by the pool, or having dunk contests. Well, that wasn't just an ad. It was a documentary. LeBron isn't just one guy. He's actually four guys. One LeBron concentrates on basketball, while the others do commercials and interviews, make TV appearances, and console high school basketball players.
2. The more likely explanation: LeBron James is actually Superman, Spider-Man, Wolverine, and The Incredible Hulk, rolled into one.
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'He would have been off his face and cheating!' Ayda Field says her marriage to Robbie Williams would never have worked if they had met in their twenties
By Joanna Crawley For Mailonline
She's been in a happy relationship with Robbie Williams for ten years.
But Ayda Field has admitted she's glad she didn't meet her husband when he was in his twenties, during a frank discussion on her show Loose Women on Thursday.
The presenters were talking about the news that Hollywood star Johnny Depp is divorcing his younger wife Amber Heard, when Ayda, 37, explained that she thinks timing is everything when it comes to a happy marriage.
All about timing: Ayda Field has admitted she's glad she didn't meet her husband Robbie Williams when he was in his twenties, during a frank discussion on her show Loose Women on Thursday
Ayda, who met Robbie, now 42, when she was 27 and he was 32 in 2006, explained that she thinks meeting the right person at the right time in life is the key to a successful relationship.
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'I do think that timing is really important in relationships,' she told her co-hosts. 'Rob and I talked about this. Why didn't we meet when were in our twenties, I had to date all those losers before him!'
She added that she thinks her former boybander husband, who has had a history of alcoholism and substance abuse problems, would have done something to ruin their relationship if they had met earlier in life.
Express yourself: Ayda wore an unusual double breasted suit in vibrant red and cool white
A certain flare: In wide legged silk flared trousers and striking black and white stiletto's Ayda hit the right fashion note
Meant to be: Ayda, who met Robbie, now 42, when she was 27 and he was 32 in 2006, explained that she thinks meeting the right person at the right time in life is the key to a successful relationship
Loose Women: Pictured with the panel, from left Ayda, Kaye Adams, Linda Robson and Andrea McLean
'He would have completely screwed it up, he would have been off his face, he would have cheated, that's the tip of the iceberg really! He would have ruined it.'
'We wouldn't be married with kids, it was meant to be this way,' she determined. 'For a relationship to work you have to want the same thing at the same time.'
Having her say on the split between Johnny, 52, and Amber Heard, 30, Ayda continued: 'Amber wants to go out and party, and Johnny wants to stay at home with his friends and be weird - it's not going to work!'
Morning chat: The Californian actress wasn't backwards in coming forwards when it came to sharing her opinions
Seal of approval: Linda Robson and Ayda share a laugh on the set of Loose Women
Looking back: 'I do think that timing is really important in relationships,' she told her co-hosts. 'Rob and I talked about this. Why didn't we meet when were in our twenties, I had to date all those losers before him!'
Lovely cabbages! Kaye Adams re-created the Amanda Holden naked vegetable shoot later in the show
Women with a voice: Plenty to talk about when it came to relationship timing and how we change as we age and develop as a person
'But more than age difference, I think more of danger in relationships is when you get together with someone really young when you're 16, 18, you're a completely different person than when you're 30.'
Ayda and Robbie married in at his home in Beverly Hills in 2010, before welcoming their first child - daughter Theodora Rose 'Teddy' Williams - in September 2012.
Their son Charlton Valentine was born on October 27, 2014.
In the stars: 'We wouldn't be married with kids, it was meant to be this way,' she determined. 'For a relationship to work you have to want the same thing at the same time'
Former Eastender: Actress Michelle Colins added her voice to the debate on relationships
Busy lady: Mother-of-two Ayda shares two children, a son and a daughter, with husband Robbie Williams
At his best: She said she thinks Robbie (pictured with their daughter Teddy), who has a history of alcoholism and substance abuse problems, would have done something to ruin their relationship if they had met earlier
Elsewhere on Thursday's Loose Women, the panellists revealed that they had all taken part in a self-confidence exercise the night before, where they stripped naked in front of the mirror and talked through their body.
Ayda was heard in her recording, played back for the show, lamenting her post-baby body, explaining: 'I think if I had known what happens you when you have kids I would have had a goodbye party for my tummy!'
She also revealed that her husband 'lovingly refers to her breasts as Picasso boobs since I breastfed,' explaining: 'When you have kids you have the same pieces of the puzzle, but the pieces go together slightly different!'
Happy family: Ayda and Robbie married in 2010, before welcoming their first child - daughter Theodora Rose 'Teddy' Williams - in September 2012 followed by their son Charlton Valentine in 2014
You live you learn: The live tweeting of the birth of her second child, son Charlton, gained much media attention
Ayda Field says her marriage to Robbie Williams 'wouldn't have worked in their 20s'


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Shell publishes reports on industry associations, sustainability and payments to governments
Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) today publishes its new Industry Associations Climate Review, its 2018 Sustainability Report and its annual Payments to Governments Report. The three reports together further demonstrate Shell's efforts to increase transparency around activities that are important to investors, governments and civil society.
"Shell must remain at the forefront of the drive for greater corporate transparency. We will continue to be more open about what we do and why we do it," said Shell Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden. "We want to help people better understand Shell's performance, values and principles. These reports outline our approach and activities in the crucial areas of sustainability and our relationships with industry associations and governments."
The Industry Associations Climate Review assesses for the first time Shell's alignment with 19 key industry associations on climate-related policy. The report also details new governance principles to improve how Shell manages its memberships of industry associations on climate-related topics.
"We must be prepared to openly voice our concerns where we find misalignment with an industry association on climate-related policy," said van Beurden. "In cases of material misalignment, we should also be prepared to walk away."
The 22nd edition of the Shell Sustainability Report outlines Shell's approach to sustainability and covers its social, safety and environmental performance in 2018. It sets out how Shell is playing a role in the transition to a lower-carbon world and its contribution to society, which includes helping to achieve universal access to cleaner, affordable energy.
The Sustainability Report also includes the Net Carbon Footprint* of energy products Shell sold in 2016, 2017 and 2018, figures we are publishing for the first time.
Shell aims to cut the Net Carbon Footprint of the energy products it sells, in step with society's progress towards the goal of the Paris Agreement, by around 20% by 2035 and by around half by 2050.
In line with this ambition, and beginning in 2019, Shell has set an initial three-year target to reduce its Net Carbon Footprint by between 2% and 3% compared to 2016. Executive pay is now linked to this target.
In addition, Shell published its 2018 Payments to Governments Report covering countries where it has extractive activities. This report details payments in 34 countries and is prepared in accordance with the UK's The Reports on Payments to Governments Regulation 2014 (as amended in December 2015).
To read the Industry Associations Climate Review, go to www.shell.com/public-advocacy-and-political-activity
To read the 2018 Sustainability Report, go to www.shell.com/sustainabilityreport
To read Shell's Payments to Governments Report, go to www.shell.com/payments
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Canon AF35M - 1979
• Canon's first autofocus camera
By 1980 there were three autofocus systems in use: Honeywell's Visitronic, CAFS (Canon Auto Focus System), and Polaroid's Sonar.
The Visitronic system was first used in the Konica C35 AF in 1977, making it the first autofocus camera. Next came the Polaroid SX-70 Sonar One Step in 1978. (Both the Konica and the Polaroid are shown by this app.) The Canon AF35M, using CAFS, came next, in 1979.
CAFS sends out infrared and Sonar sends out sound; both focus by analyzing the reflection from the target. Visitronic is completely different: It analyzes the image itself, although crudely by today's standards.
In the late 1970s CAFS and Sonar may have worked better than the Visitronic system, since they weren't dependent on the amount of light. But the Visitronic system led the way to modern systems, as it was the only one of the three that could exploit the through-the-lens capabilities of SLRs.
For more about the first practical SLR autofocus camera, the Minolta Maxxum 7000, see that camera in this app.
Canon AF35M
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Review from Modern Photography, Nov. 1980


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Joel Covey
Ever since I heard Andrew Lloyd Webber was bringing a new adaptation of the 1939 MGM production to stage I was ecstatic. While over the past couple years there has been quite a revival of the tale and additions to story surrounding Oz, there is nothing that beats the screenplay of the classic. THE WIZARD OF OZ will be sure to capture the whimsy and magic that so many generations have fallen in love with in the past while also providing even more music, stage effects and memorable moments to its fans and a new generation!
Today in the mainstream we have recently seen the addition of WICKED, DISNEY'S OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL , and even a re-release of THE WIZARD OF OZ in IMAX and 3D! With all this new interest in this world I was concerned that I would find the stage production possibly old and tired. Thankfully, there is nothing to worry about. This award-winning creative team from London and Toronto had done a magnificent job bringing new life and uniqueness to the production without taking anything away from all that you loved from the MGM film.
I am not just speaking about retaining the most recognizable songs in the world, or keeping the same story line, or even making sure the characters kept some of their famous lines aka "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" This production encompasses the feeling we all got while watching this mesmerizing story as kids or even as an adult. The colors are brilliant, the costumes retain the same look and feel although adjusted slightly from stage, the transition from Kansas to Oz is absolutely magical, the music remains heartfelt and warm with new songs containing the same style, and the dog is even there to accompany Dorothy along the yellow brick road.
"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore!"
The show begins in Kansas with Auntie Em and Uncle Henry on their farm with everything in a warm sepia-tone. I was so excited to see how they were to pull this off, and I was pleasantly surprised how well every transition and effect was executed. I was quickly captured and ready for the ride. Immersed in the colorless world, I remembered I needed to take in everything.
Scenic and costume designer ROBERT JONES has created a masterpiece! Clever orientation of sets and every character carefully placed is dull tones of tans and brown along with a projected background of the farm side and clouds had me quickly realizing the transition to the vibrant world of Oz will surely be special. I looked around and realized there were just black curtains surrounding the stage. It had me slightly worried it would be like this throughout, but I was only to later realize this helped keep the Kansas scene minimal and almost feel like I was watching the film once again in perhaps an old tube TV.
The storm soon arrives in all its glory with many great lighting effects along with a lot of scrim use, but there is so much, and I don't want to ruin it. I'll say that you will not be dissatisfied. This production relies heavily on some computer generated effects projected on screen, and while at first I was concerned that they weren't doing anything on stage during these moments, I realized this is needed for the huge costume changes and giant transformation from Kansas to over the rainbow.
We are treated with a new song "Nobody Understands Me" as the musical begins to quickly show Dorothy's displaces at home and then quickly welcomed with "Over The Rainbow". I was concerned some musical variations were going to be taken, but fortunately the originals all retain mostly the same arrangements. The music begins, the words are sung, and the chills ran down my arms. I quickly sink into my chair and enjoy.
Dorothy sounds like, well, Dorothy! DANIELLE WADE captured the hearts of Canada as she won the lead on CBC's Over the Raindbow and plays a perfect Judy Garland. She gets to really belt out an extraordinary long note at the finish of the first "Over The Rainbow" having the audience roar with applause. It was this moment that had me thrilled that I was going to see THE WIZARD OF OZ how we all remember it.
Sure there are going to be some minor differences being it is a stage production. With the addition of several new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, you may also see a few creative choices that may catch you a little off-guard, but are clearly there for good reason.
The ensemble cast is a perfect size and must play the part of the Munchkins, people of the Emerald City and the Winkies (castle guards). As we are greeted by the Munchkins, their beloved "Arrival In Munchkinland" has several comical changes that are needed being they aren't actually using little people or kids. Their performance of "The Merry Old Land of Oz" is superb and showy with glamour of glittery green costumes, but sadly, no horse of a different color, though mentioned.
THE WIZARD OF OZ still follows the Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, Dorothy and her little dog Toto, as they journey through the magical Land of Oz to meet the Wizard and obtain a brain, a heart, the nerve, and a way home all while trying to avoid the Wicked Witch of the West and her winged monkeys. The ruby slippers are now even more desirable to the witch and a song even explains.
How about these well-known characters? Well, they all nail it on the head. The Scarecrow is played by JAMIE McKNIGHT (THE PRODUCERS, HAIR, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN) and has impeccable timing playing the character with a little more humor and brainlessness. The Tin Man is played by MIKE JACKSON (CHICAGO, CONTACT, and many other productions) and while may have the least amount of laughs, plays it more true to as originally written. The Lion is wittily played by LEE MacDOUGALL (MAMMA MIA!, DAMN YANKEES) who really plays it up and is outrageously funny. All three fit the part and no one is over-the-top, which would be incredibly easy with these types of roles. There was a very happy balance here.
This leads me to The Wicked Witch of the West played by JACQUELYN PIRO DONOVAN (LES MISERABLES, MISS SAIGON) who is given a little more comedic leeway, and pulls it off. She keeps her evilness and we aren't suppressed to hearing an evil cackle 50 times. While at times the humor seemed a bit much, but it never gets carried away, thankfully. Here she gets her own song, something that Andrew Lloyd Webber felt missing in the film. This gives us a chance to get to know her slightly more without having to delve deep into her backstory in which WICKED is left for that.
There is some great interaction between the Wicked Witch and The Good Witch, Glinda. She's played by the lovely ROBIN EVAN WILLIS and is true a delight. The two play at each other more than the film allowed and is definitely a welcomed addition.
By all means, I cannot leave out the dog! Yes, Toto is played by a living, breathing dog (NIGEL) that runs across stage many times even without a leash leaving the audience often gushing in "awe's". This was a great decision and I'm glad they stuck to it.
Throughout the show there are some incredible costumes, even for the main characters that somehow are quickly changed when needed. These costumes also need much makeup to be applied and I must commend them on not cutting corners here. This was very cool to see live along with the beautiful transitions.
As mentioned earlier, there are several scene transitions that rely heavily on some projections, but these are done very well and enhance the show while allowing for some needs backstage and onstage. There are many scrims, backdrops, and total scene changes that are seriously quite impressive. The audience truly gets to travel with the characters through the land.
The first act really shines in this show, but part of this is partly due to me never being a big fan of the latter half of the film. I was delighted throughout however and cannot recommend this show enough. It is a perfect show for all ages and I won't just be leaving children mesmerized. THE WIZARD OF OZ is only playing until February 23rd, so get your witches hat and broom ready and fly on down to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts before the show lands on another stage.
The show has brought new life to something I already loved and I hope others will get to see that spark once again as if it was the first time they saw the Land of Oz come to life.
THE WIZARD OF OZ is now playing at Segerstrom Center for the Arts – Segerstrom Hall
February 11th – 23rd, 2014
Tuesday – Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday at 1 and 6:30 p.m.
The 2 p.m. performance on Saturday, February 22nd will include audio description, open captioning and sign-language interpretation.
Tickets start at $29
For more information visit scfta.org
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Joel has been writing for SoCalThrills for the past decade covering entertainment, events, and theater since joining the site. He is a CSUF alum, studying within the Communication and Radio / TV / Film colleges.
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THE BUG December 27, 2020 Australia, Australian politics, Breaking News, Coronavirus, Exclusive, Media, New Zealand, Politics
Okay, all of you out there in Bugland, have you got your chuck buckets ready?
Maybe grab two because we're about to share with you the wisdom of someone by the name of Parnell Palme McGuinness (pictured).
It turns out that this PP McGuiness is the daughter of another PP McGuiness – the late journalist, editor, columnist, and commentator Padraic Pearse or "Paddy" McGuinness who left this world in 2008 but not before making a philosophical journey over his 69 years from the far left days of his youth to end up on the far right.
It seems his daughter has saved time by heading directly to a position even further right than her noted parent.
Parnell Palme McG is managing director strategy and policy at strategic communications firm Agenda C. That's right. She's a PR hack.
And with what we're about to share with you it will come as no surprise that she has done work in the past with the Australian Liberal Party. NO! Really! You've got be fucking kidding me!
Still, bucket ready? And please remember: there's a Guinness that is silky smooth and delicious – and then there's this one full of tosh and bile and bullshit.
Here's PPMcG's opening salvo in an opinion piece in today's The Sun Herald.
"If 2020 was a popularity contest, then New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern probably won it. Frankly, Australians shouldn't let the Kiwis get away with another trophy: we have a far better candidate right here, who has achieved much more than her counterpart over the ditch."
We know, we know! Draw that bucket in closer.
"NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been a paragon of competence and courage throughout the pandemic year."
To be fair to Parnellsie, she does mention a few hiccups that our Glad has suffered during the year; that silly little Ruby Princess mishap, that she was a bit on the side, top or bottom for that cad from Wagga Wagga – what is it about decent, 50ish professional women with smarts to burn falling for a lowlife like that, right girls? – and a bit of pork "we all do it" barreling.
But all of these silly little slip-ups – we could throw in the taxpayer-funded trips out to Wagga for some grassroots politicking; the funds thrown the way of some scheme or scam in Daryl Maguire patch – "Gladys, we thought you were Maguire's patch!" – were all just but a small blemish on Glady's sow's ear as PPMcG turned her into a silk purse, one that all the good folk of NSW should be honoured to have and to hold preciously to their proud-as-punch chests.
Through it all, Parnell Palme McGuiness gushes on, "Berejiklian kept steady, acknowledging failures and addressing them. She has ended the year strong, a model of 'proportionality', to use her word."
GO YOU GOOD THING!
No, it turns out that Shredder stands proudly at the head of the greatest managers of economies in any government anywhere in the world – EVER! – and further, just to show that PPMcG hasn't been following the media lately, has handled COVID-19 brilliantly. She might have used "gold standard" if that hadn't already been done to death.
But it's this comparison with New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern that makes us suggest you quickly empty those buckets for what's to come, for this shameless PR hack finishes with a flourish:
"So there are plenty of plaudits to go around. But more importantly, there is an important lesson about politics that all this good government can teach us.
"It would at this point be possible to compare and contrast to other state governments, but in the spirit of Christmas charity it is perhaps better not. Suffice to say, that NSW has produced a leader who runs a state more populous than the nation of New Zealand, who has a much greater claim to Jacinda's popularity crown."
Rooootthhh! Spit. Spit. Spit. Rooootttthhhhh!
Parnellsie would undoubtedly think that the image of Tony Abbott chomping on an onion is the greatest image of culinary class and gourmondly genius ever; one that would make Nigella Lawson sipping on a wholesome winter soup she's just made look like a fat old sow slurping on a trough of slops.
Don Gordon-Brown
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Safe for another year!


The Dow, TSX, and NASDAQ plummeted 3.15%, 2.12%, 4.08%, respectively, on a worrisome Wednesday that saw losses accelerate heading into the close. Right now, the blood appears to be on Fed chair Jay Powell's hands as investors rush for the exits over his overly hawkish stance, which some believe is a mistake that could send the bull market on life support.
You're probably worried with all the talking heads on TV telling you to sell your stocks, as they give their personal bearish projections for where the markets are heading over the short term. These talking heads are yelling over one another, contradicting each other over much of the carnage that's already been done. And while the sell-off could certainly cut deeper, listening to such fear-inducing shows will only serve to amplify your fears, potentially leading you to sell from emotion alone.
I know it's hard to stay calm if your portfolio shed 4% of its value in a single day, but by tuning out the fear-inducing noise, you'll have the opportunity to focus on what matters: the fundamentals. It seems like the sky is falling today, but the S&P/TSX 500 Composite Index isn't even in correction territory yet, so take a deep breathe and formulate a game plan so you can make it out of this ahead of the herd who's rigorously hitting the panic button.
Has the Fed actually "gone crazy"?
I've been a harsh critic of Fed chair Jay Powell for many months now, and I've warned investors countless times to reduce their cyclical exposure in favour of defensive dividend stocks in order to reduce the potential damage that may be caused by a Fed that I believe is dangerously speeding over the limit when it comes to rate hikes.
Powell has decided he's going to raise rates, rather than delay his decision until after the release of further timely economic data. In other words, the decision has already been made, and there's no more work to be done on the Fed's part. His view is the economy is "strong" based on past metrics. Rate hikes are therefore in order regardless of trade wars, or further evidence that may suggest that the economy isn't as strong as Powell believes.
I think Powell's thesis on rate hikes and the economy is akin to a momentum investor who buys a stock based solely on its past performance without any consideration of the underlying fundamentals or contingencies which may lie ahead. If Powell doesn't change his tone, it's not too far-fetched to think that we could realistically be on the brink of a recession.
So, the Fed's crazy then?
That's up for debate, but I do think they've made an honest mistake. Now, it's not a mistake that's pushed the economy off the cliff yet, as it's still correctable, but unless Powell acknowledges mistakes were made and changes his tone accordingly, I wouldn't be surprised to see more pain and fear as we head closer to Halloween.
But you're not going to be scared, even if there is more pain on the horizon because you're going to have a gameplan. You're going to have a shopping list ready of stocks that you're going to buy on a pullback, and when it comes time to pull hit the "buy" button, you're not going to convince yourself the circumstances have changed.
If the Fed has, in fact, made a mistake, it's not the end of the world. It's an opportunity for investors to do some shopping with overly beaten-up defensive names like Shaw Communications (TSX:SJR.B)(NYSE:SJR), which will fair better than average if we're knocked into a recession.
Shaw stock took a 3.7% hit to the chin on Wednesday at a time when the price of admission for such defensive names should be going up. I think it's a temporary market inefficiency that'll reward many investors who dare to buy while others sell.
If you want to scare your investor friends, you may want to dress up as Fed chair Jay Powell this Halloween. While his tone is likely to continue to be a drag on stocks, I do think there are plenty of bargains to be had for long-term thinkers as you put your contrarian hat on.


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Just like leaders, organizations do best when they are aligned.
Unaligned organizations waste time, energy, and money. Unaligned organizations are characterized by low levels of trust, high levels of drama and gossip, revisiting the same issues over and over without resolving them completely, unnecessary politics, low morale and engagement, and sub optimal effectiveness.
Organizational alignment begins with the leaders' commitments to personal alignment and the alignment of the leadership team. Organizations are rarely more aligned than their leaders and their leadership team.
I love to assess organizational alignment and do this with a series of online assessment tools combined with interviews of the key opinion leaders of the firm. Once the data is in the choice for the leaders is usually clear and next steps become obvious.
Powerful leaders are aligned leaders. Powerful organizations are aligned organizations. Aligned leaders and organizations have a clear inspiring purpose, operational integrity, and high energy.


Charitable Foundation "good Arithmetic" announced about the launch of social media campaign "but it doesn't have to be lost children in the world ". It is dedicated to the world day of orphans, which in 2015 will be celebrated on 9 November.
Participants are encouraged to post on social networks a picturepublished on the Foundation's website, with the hashtags #technicaldebt #semimythical #noyabrya #arithmetically. Also they have the ability to replace the photo on the avatars to a picture of a stock symbol – mammoth known from the cartoon, or to place the campaign banner on personal or corporate website. The Foundation is asking people to spread awareness about the problem and potential solutions.
"Unfortunately, today millions of children worldwide are orphans. To make sure that they are not forgotten, once a year there is a special day dedicated just to them: world orphans day", said employees of the charity. They recalled that, according to statistics, at the beginning of 2014 the number of children who are registered in the state databank about children without parental support amounted to 106,6 thousand. In addition, in 2014, it was revealed 61,6 thousand children left without parental care (176 children). In this case 2/3 of the orphans in Russia – social orphans with living parents. The Fund also pointed to the low percentage of socially reinforced of graduates of orphanages.
"The charitable Foundation "good Arithmetic" I am confident that child can be happy only in the family both national and international with the help of international adoption agencies and the priority chosen support of adoption and family placement of inmates of children's homes, as well as their socialization and adaptation. In addition to adoption forum, everyone can help the orphans with your own donation or feasible participation in them, as well as support the campaign on social networks and attract the attention of many people to the problem and its possible solutions", — stated in the message Fund.
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Asia Pacific|15 Bodies Pulled From Home Hit by Landslide in Northern India
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15 Bodies Pulled From Home Hit by Landslide in Northern India
Villagers buried a victim of a landslide on Tuesday in Laden, about 30 miles from Srinagar, in the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir.Credit...Tauseef Mustafa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Hari Kumar
NEW DELHI — Rescue workers have recovered 15 bodies from a house that collapsed after being hit by a landslide caused by torrential rains in the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir in the north.
Officials said on Tuesday that they were still searching for a boy who had been in the home on Sunday when it was hit by the landslide, which destroyed a cluster of houses in the Budgam district. The boy is presumed to be dead.
Heavy rains in recent days have caused widespread flooding in northern India, with the Jhelum River rising to dangerous levels and pouring water into the streets of Srinagar, the summer capital of the state. On Tuesday, the waters receded slightly, and rescue workers helped some residents move to safer areas.
Officials said that the 15 bodies pulled from the home were from two families, one of which had sought shelter in the other's home, believing it to be the safer location.
Jammu and Kashmir, the focus of a decades-long territorial dispute between India and Pakistan, suffered severe floods in 2014 that killed more than 200 people. With more rain expected, the government has deployed disaster teams with rescue boats in several locations across the state this year, and Kashmir's chief minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, has called for the public to remain calm.