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by Renka · Published 02.08.2019
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Chandler Smith Comes Up Short of Keeping it Perfect for Both Himself and Venturini Motorsports
Christian Koelle June 26, 2020 ARCA News, Christian Koelle Comments Off on Chandler Smith Comes Up Short of Keeping it Perfect for Both Himself and Venturini Motorsports
It has been a perfect season for Venturini Motorsports and Chandler Smith, that was until Friday afternoon (June 26). Ty Gibbs held off Smith late and ended the perfect streak by Venturini Motorsports. In the last ARCA Menards Series race featuring Smith, he earned the victory at Phoenix Raceway. Michael Self earned the victory at Daytona International Speedway, and Drew Dollar earned the victory at Talladega Superspeedway. The V had been flown in every race this season. Smith came the closest to continuing the perfect season for the team but didn't have the short-run speed nor the time to topple the driver of the No. 18.
Smith made a bold move early on both Gibbs and Self to take the lead from Gibbs but noted during the post-race Zoom conference that "his car got tight, almost like he lost a tire or something." Today was a day when if a driver wanted the lead, he needed to take it during a restart, and no one was able to do so, with the Venturini streak ending at five victories in a row.
He mentioned in the postrace Zoom meeting that if the race had been 10-15 laps longer, he would've more than likely finished the deal and earned the victory, but that wasn't the case as time ran out and Smith had to settle for second. On the FS1 broadcast, you could tell that Smith was fast approaching Gibbs, and they stated that Mark McFarland, crew chief for the No. 18 car, told him to save his stuff for a late-race caution especially since the margin was well over 2-seconds. Keep in mind; a late-race caution had already helped influence a race involving these two earlier in the year at Phoenix when it came down to it though the clock ran out and with no caution, Smith really had no opportunity to pick up the victory.
Turning 18 today, Smith is now eligible to run all of the big tracks and denoted that he took a lot of information from today's race that he'll use further down the road, especially in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series with Kyle Busch Motorsports. Pending the schedule had not changed since the pandemic, his 2020 debut with Kyle Busch Motorsports, should come on August 8 at Michigan International Speedway.
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MONEY FROM HOME
Poffy The Cucumber August 5, 2018
When "horse's ass" could be referring to absolutely anything or anyone.
Martin and Lewis on the money!
Honey-Talk Nelson (Dean Martin) is in deep to the mob. To make good on his debt, he is ordered to "fix" a horserace so that the favorite loses. He enlists the aid of his innocent veterinarian cousin Virgil (Jerry Lewis) to dope the favorite, but then falls for the horse's owner, whilst Virgil falls for the local vet, both ladies having large stakes in the favorite winning. Now Honey-Talk and Virgil want the favorite to win – which means double-crossing the mob…
MONEY FROM HOME is one of the best-written Martin and Lewis musical comedies. From a story by acclaimed American writer Damon Runyon, James Allardice (his 4th film with Martin and Lewis) and Hal Kanter (ROAD TO BALI) screenplay for director George Marshall (who directed Martin and Lewis in MY FRIEND IRMA and SCARED STIFF), in a movie with many aspects that just come off as refreshing.
The solid action-comedy plot is refreshing in its tightness, with all the Martin-Lewis gags performed organically within the story, rather than being shoehorned in with no relation to the throughline (e.g. Jerry's drag scene in AT WAR WITH THE ARMY, the boxing scene in SAILOR BEWARE).
It is very refreshing to see in the opening credits, "Special Material in Song Numbers staged by: Jerry Lewis." At last – acknowledging Jerry's considerable input to his films; if it weren't for his unique take on how to frame the Martin and Lewis interaction, the team would have ended up just another forgotten duo.
It's refreshing that the girl whom Jerry falls for (Pat Crowley as Dr. Autumn Claypool) is a mature, educated woman (as opposed to all the infantilized "Freckleheads" that writers would pair Jerry with, to match his infantile personas). Though Jerry was being allowed to "grow up" in the eyes of his public, yet the demeaning societal attitude toward women persisted, manifested in Autumn's line, "Women can do anything men can do" in relation to her being a vet. I know modern women are still fighting for certain rights, but back in 1953, that line had a petulant edge, with an undercurrent of not really believing its veracity; there was an attitude that "Women CAN, but don't WANT to, because men WOULD," rather than "Women CAN and WILL." So though they made Autumn a strong woman, they diluted her character with that line.
And here's something refreshing for the fans of the day: MONEY FROM HOME is the first Martin-Lewis film in COLOR! (It was originally released in 3D as well.)
Opening scenes show a clutch of gangsters dressed in flamboyant gangster couture (dark suits with bright ties) bringing Honey-Talk (so named because he can talk strangers out of anything) to confront the boss, Jumbo Schneider (Sheldon Leonard). With everyone talking like schoolboys talking like gangsters. More than once Honey-Talk tells them of his lucky premonition, "I got that feelin' right in the seat o' my pants…" Oh, the double entendre fun we could have with that nowadays…
Dog-faced Robert Strauss is Seldom Seen Kid, Jumbo's button man. The more seldom that face is seen, the better.
Marjie Millar is Phyllis, the owner of the favorite horse, called My Sheba. (Another young lass with a waist the size of a wrist and two triangular bra-pieces for her A-tey-teys. It was the protocol in Hollywood at the time – you wanted to be a working actress, you starved yourself until your frame could fit through a keyhole.) Richard Haydn (who would go on to be the inscrutable Max in THE SOUND OF MUSIC) is Bertie Searles, the forever inebriated jockey for My Sheba, who fulfills a farcical passive role much like Bernie in WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S.
High points include: Jerry getting the first song – to a menagerie of animals; Jerry posing as a harem girl with Dean as a sultan's aide; Jerry pretending to be British to impersonate Bertie; and a raucous final steeplechase where Jerry rides My Sheba against the villain jockey, Gerald Mohr (the over-smug lead of INVASION USA, 1952; here, not able to out-smug Dean by a long shot).
The only gag that seems out of place is the feature piece – the Cyrano de Bergerac gag, where Phyllis gets mad at Honey-Talk, and he wants to make it up to her, so sends Virgil to lip-sync under her balcony while Honey-Talk sings I Only Have Eyes For You. Now, you ask, why didn't Honey-Talk himself just serenade her? "Because she's mad at me," explains Honey-Talk to Virgil. So what does this achieve? If Phyllis sees Virgil singing to her, is she going to think Virgil is coming onto her? And if she recognizes Honey-Talk's voice, by Honey-Talk's summation, she'd be "mad" still. Or what if she comes to the window expecting to see Honey-Talk, and sees Virgil, and falls for Virgil? Did anyone think this through? Nope.
That's definitely Jerry shoehorning in one of his gags. You know how I can be so sure? Jerry Lewis got started in showbiz as a "record act" – where he would lip-sync to records while doing different characters onstage. (It was while he was doing that lip-sync act that he met Dean Martin. And the rest, as they say…) Over the course of their career, Martin and Lewis brought many of their onstage gags to their films (especially the "Jerry-conducting-Dean-singing" bit quite often), so in this, their 10th film, Jerry at last found a place for his "record act"—I mean, shoehorned a place…
MONEY FROM HOME followed THE CADDY, where Dean went a little poopyhead on Jerry, so it is refreshing to see them here once again tightly allied through all their adversities. And any movie featuring Rossini's William Tell Overture in its finale will always be as refreshing as a bucket of water to the face…
Ironically, just before shooting started on MONEY, Martin and Lewis were so over-booked (with club dates, TV appearances, live appearances, etc.) that they accidentally neglected to play a club that was owned by – The Mob! And – like Honey-Talk in this movie – had to make good on their marker somewhere somehow! Also, coincidentally, after this movie where Jerry puts on the Briton, Martin and Lewis were successful enough overseas to be able to do their first United Kingdom tour.
Wait, I can understand Steve, Bob, Bill, and even Chick – but Honey-Talk? Now that's money.
MONEY FROM HOME (Dec 1953)
Director: George Marshall.
Writers: Hal Kanter, James Allardice, Damon Runyon.
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marjie Millar, Pat Crowley, Richard Haydn, Robert Strauss, Gerald Mohr, Sheldon Leonard, Romo Vincent, Jack Kruschen.
Word Count: 1,110 No. 1,407
SONGS (by Joseph Lilley, Jack Brooks)
• Be Careful Song (Jerry)
• Love Is the Same (All Over the World) (Dean)
• Moments Like This (Dean) (by Burton Lane, Frank Loesser)
• I Only Have Eyes For You (Dean) (by Harry Warren, Al Dubin)
Tags:Alpha-M, Comedy, Damon Runyon, Dean Martin, George Marshall, Gerald Mohr, Hal Kanter, James Allardice, Jerry Lewis, Marjie Millar, Musical, Pat Crowley, Rating-7, Richard Haydn, Robert Strauss, Sheldon Leonard


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Excerpted in THE PRESS on 27 November 2009: Recently nominated for Most Original Production at the Chapman Tripp Awards for Faust Chroma, Free Theatre's follow-up production is Distraction Camp.
BDSM and the SS. If letters published in the Press are anything to go by, these are two of the most controversial subjects of the year. Could it be considered foolhardy, then, to have both feature prominently in one theatre production?
Distraction Camp, Free Theatre Christchurch's major new work for 2009, features both. Were the production to be performed on the proposed site of the National Conservatorium of Music, Free Theatre might be said to have scored the trifecta. Why take on such potentially aggravating and controversial subject material?
Free Theatre has, over its 30-year history in Christchurch, been equally slated and celebrated for getting under the skin of Christchurch audiences with its unusual, provocative theatre. However, those who have seen the company's work - a recent example being the award-winning Faust Chroma - will testify to the fact that if there are shocks, they come from the way Free Theatre holds, as Hamlet instructs, "the mirror up to nature". Indeed this latest production takes further the company's exploration of acting in the theatre and everyday life, inspired by meta-theatrical texts such as Hamlet and Genet's The Balcony.
And if we hold the mirror up to Christchurch, we can see people acting up and acting out in dungeons and fancy dress parties. In Christchurch, considered by many to be the most conservative town in New Zealand, there exists both a thriving sadomasochism community and a fascination with Nazi symbolism evident at student parties. Free Theatre has spent a year workshopping and devising an original work that explores why this fascination seems so prevalent now: not merely with the aim to shock, but to engage with and confront preoccupations and concerns of our community that sometimes remain hidden.
Perhaps BDSM and the fascination with Nazi symbolism are a response to the restrictive, conformist and repressive nature of this consumer society. Induced constantly to consume entertainments that revolve endlessly around distractions and commodities, we have become like the Muselman - as the walking dead were known in the Nazi concentration camp - resigned to a way of living without meaning, obese yet starved of real nourishment.
Maybe the role-play theatre of BDSM or playing Nazi's and prisoners at a costume party may be seen as an attempt to escape the 'distraction camp' of consumer society and search for something more authentic, more alive, less nice and safe. Less known.
In her essay 'Fascinating Fascism', Susan Sontag suggests the rigid role-play of Nazi sadomasochistic fetishism appeals to a society where there is too much 'freedom'. She says, "The fad for Nazi regalia indicates something quite different: a response to an oppressive freedom of choice in sex (and in other matters), to an unbearable degree of individuality; the rehearsal of enslavement rather than its reenactment".
Sontag's article was written in 1974, yet given the Max Mosley controversy this year, and ongoing Nazi fetishism in this and other western countries, her argument is just as relevant to today's consumer culture with its endless choices.
But is it possible to escape the distraction camp? Is there an alternative? Is a revolution possible, or have we lost even the ability to imagine what it might look like? Are we now simply resigned to playing (out) the same destructive roles? Free Theatre's Distraction Camp grapples with these questions in a very playful, indirect manner: not by preaching to the audience, but by engaging them in the games that are played in a House of Illusions. Is it a brothel? A camp? A theatre? Or just a tango dance floor and another distraction from what really matters?
-George Parker


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Michael Jordan Net Worth in 2018 – How Rich is MJ?
By Tyler Carlson
Michael Jordan is a lot of things. He is, to a fair number of people, the greatest basketball player in the history of the NBA. He's also the richest athlete in the history of the world, with a net worth of over a billion dollars. His silhouette can be found on one of the most successful athletic shoe companies in the world. He's notoriously mean, and was especially mean to his former teammates during his playing days. He was a notorious trash talker and would frequently belittle his opponents He is a problematic gambler, an avid golfer, and he was in Space Jam. Michael Jordan's immense talent and competitive spirit have made him one of the most interesting and successful athletes to ever play any sport. Beyond that, his business smarts and long, long list of endorsements have helped him join the ranks of the super rich. Here's how much money Michael Jordan has and how he amassed his wealth.
Michael Jordan Net Worth 2018 – $1.14 Billion
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Michael Jeffrey Jordan, now commonly referred to as MJ, was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1963. His mom was a banker and his dad had a job as an equipment supervisor. What Jordan was just a little kid, his family relocated to North Carolina, where he'd spend all of his years as a youth and young man. He has two brothers and two sisters, and when he was in high school in North Carolina, he played basketball, baseball and football. He was famously cut from the varsity basketball team in his sophomore year because he was too small. That year, he grew four inches, trained a lot, and the next season he made the varsity team and was very good. He had two successful seasons of high school basketball after that, and was highly sought after by various colleges. He accepted a scholarship from North Carolina's basketball program, where he would further hone his skills.
During Michael Jordan's time playing for North Carolina, he was consistently one of the best college basketball players in the country. He hit a famous game-winning jump shot in the 1982 NCAA finals against Georgetown, which he would call one of the defining moments of his young career. He declared himself eligible to be drafted into the NBA after his third season in North Carolina, one year before his graduation from the school. He would go back and get his degree from North Carolina in 1986. Jordan was considered to be probably the best player heading into the 1984 draft, but he was picked third by the Chicago Bulls because the two other teams needed centres and not a shorter player like Jordan.
In the NBA, Michael Jordan quickly became a sport-defining star. He earned the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness" for his huge dunks and high-flying style. He brought increased attention and publicity to the NBA, and changed the way the game was played. He won an incredible number of awards, set countless offensive records, and was also regarded as one of the best defenders in the league. His skills on the basketball court were matched only by his sense for marketing. Every step along the way, Michael Jordan had numerous massive endorsement deals that paid him handsomely, most notably the success of Nike's Air Jordan shoes. He is considered to be one of the most heavily marketed athletes ever, and his endorsements make him around $40 million every year. Jordan won three straight championships in the early '90s, and then quit basketball to play baseball. He came out of retirement and won another three straight championships in the NBA, and then retired again. He came back into the league a third time in the early 2000s, as a member of the Washington Wizards, and played two more seasons before retiring for good. He bought partial ownership of the Charlotte Bobcats NBA team in 2006, also serving as their Head of Basketball Operations. Since then, he has been consistently increasing his ownership in the Bobcats team, as it has been very lucrative for him.
Michael Jordan has been married two times. The first time came in 1989 and was to Juanita Vanoy. They filed for divorce in 2002, but would then get back together shortly after. They filed for divorce again, and their marriage was dissolved in late 2006. In the divorce, Juanita received a settlement of $168 million. At the time of this settlement it was the largest celebrity divorce settlement on public record, but it has since been eclipsed.
Jordan's love life was in the news for a while in 2006, when he was taken to court by a former lover because of a contract the two of them had made. Jordan had been in a secret relationship with Karla Knafel, and had given her a quarter of a million dollars to keep their relationship as a secret. In the suit, Knafel claimed that Jordan had actually promised her $5 million, and had refused to pay. The payment was said to be both to keep the relationship a secret, and to ensure that she would not file a paternity test after she had learned that she was pregnant back in the early '90s. It turned out that Michael Jordan was not the father of that child anyway. In the court case, the judge also ruled that Jordan did not owe Knafel the $5 million she was asking for.
In 2011, it reached media attention that Jordan had proposed to his girlfriend, Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto. The two of them would get married in 2013, and in 2014, Prieto gave birth to identical twins.
Michael Jordan has two sons from his first marriage with Juanita Vanoy: Jeffrey Michael Jordan, 27, and Marcus James Jordan, 25. Both of his sons attended a private Catholic high school, and both went on to play college basketball although neither of them would have much success with basketball compared with their dad. Jordan also has two daughters, Victoria and Ysabel. They are identical twins who were born in 2014.
After his success in high school, Michael Jordan was highly coveted by various prestigious college basketball programs, including Duke and Syracuse. He elected to go to North Carolina because of their strong basketball system, not to mention the fact that it meant that he didn't have to leave the state where he grew up. He played three seasons in North Carolina and was an impact player right from start to finish, popularizing the North Carolina basketball jersey, and helping them to grow into one of the best basketball schools in the country to this day. Jordan left North Carolina after three years, during which he studied cultural geography. Though he left the school before he got his degree, he would go back and finish his degree during his downtime a few years later.
Michael Jordan's house gets a lot of media attention, because he has been unsuccessfully trying to sell it since 2011. It was initially listed for around thirty million dollars, but the price has been steadily reduced as it has failed to sell. As of last year, it is still on the market for around fifteen million dollars, half of the original selling price. Jordan bought the lot that the house was built upon back in 1991, and it was completed four years later. It features a big gate outside with his basketball number, twenty three, on it. The house is also full of personalized touches and memorabilia. Anyone who is willing to pony up the $15 million that it costs to buy Jordan's old house will be given their own pair of every Air Jordan shoe ever made. In fact, the mansion's current listing price, $14 855 000, adds up to 23, Jordan's number, if you add the digits up. Maybe it all feels a little too gimmicky for any serious investors.
Beyond his massive, expensive house, Jordan also famously has a custom private jet. The jet has a stripe of what is referred to as "Carolina Blue" as a reference to his college basketball days, as well as the Air Jordan logo at the rear of the plane. The jet is said to be worth $50 million. Jordan uses his jet to get to and from various residences all over the world, aside from that famous mansion in Illinois.
Last year, Jordan made $100 million in endorsements alone, which is pretty good for someone who is fifty-two years old. One of the craziest things about Michael Jordan's finances is how he makes more money in endorsements now than he ever did as an active player. In fact, recently he has been making more from one year of endorsements than he made in salary in his entire playing career. When Jordan was playing in the NBA at the peak of his career, he was receiving a salary of $30 million per year, which was unheard of at the time. He was able to command this kind of money because of the direct relation between his play and the financial success of his team, the Chicago Bulls. When Jordan was playing, the game would always be a sell-out and everyone made money.
His most famous endorsement deal is with Nike, but he also has big deals with Gatorade, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds. Beyond his endorsement income, his net worth increases with the value of the Charlotte Bobcats basketball franchise, of which he owns 89%. With the Bobcats currently valued around $600 million, that puts the worth of Jordan's ownership of the team at around $416 million. It is the value of this asset combined with Jordan's other wealth of around $600 million that put his overall net worth at over a billion dollars.
Michael Jordan has put his wealth to good use in many ways, getting involved in a range of charity endeavours. He works with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the Make a Wish Foundation, and various other charities and hospitals.
He is frequently hosting and playing in celebrity golf tournaments for charity. In 2006, he gave $5 million to a Chicago high school for improvements, and he has made significant donations to Habitat for Humanity.
One of the events that Michael Jordan frequently refers to as having been career-defining for him came back in 1982. While playing for North Carolina, he hit what would come to be known as "the shot," to win the NCAA championship right at the buzzer and give his career momentum.
In 1993, Michael Jordan shocked the world of sports when he announced that he didn't want to play basketball anymore. This decision was spurred by the lost of his father, who had been murdered months before. Jordan's dad had always wanted for his son to be a professional baseball player, so Jordan decided to try to play baseball. He signed a minor league contact with a Chicago team and played baseball for one year. He was a sufficient but by no means spectacular player. After one year of baseball, he quit and rejoined the NBA, where he would immediately get back on track and win another championship the next year.
Back in 1993, there was controversy surrounding Jordan when he was seen gambling in Atlantic City the night before a game. Over the years, it has been disclosed that Jordan has frequently lost tens of thousands of dollars while gambling, and has lost over a million dollars in golf-related bets.
In 2009, Michael Jordan was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame, and the Hall of Fame opened an exhibit on the player. Many of Jordan's former teammates and friends attended the ceremony, and he had an openly emotional reaction to the proceedings. A picture of Jordan crying while being presented with the honours was turned into a popular internet meme called "Sad Michael Jordan."
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Leicester City FC Hands Admiral Muskwe New Deal
Warriors striker Admiral Muskwe has been handed a new contract by his English Premier League club Leicester City.
Muskwe, who is 20 years old, is reported to be one of the few Leicester's Under-23 team regulars who have gotten new contracts.
His current deal which he signed in 2016 expires on June 30 this year.
Muskwe has recovered from a long-term injury and is primed to make his first-team debut this coming season.
He will have to battle it out with legendary English striker Jamie Vardy and Nigeria's Kelechi Iheanacho for a spot in the starting 11.
Muskwe was selected in the preliminary 34-man Warriors squad. He was, however, overlooked for the final 23 men who are now in Egypt ahead of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Finals.
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Tar Spot having effect on corn across Ontario
Corn Stalks (Blackburnnews.com file photo)
By Adam Bell July 21, 2021 4:24pm
OMAFRA says farmers across the province should be aware of tar spot, which occurs during frequent rains and prolonged wetness.
Tar spot was first detected in Illinois and Indiana in 2015 and has slowly spread out, with field crop pathologist Albert Tenuta noting "Last year it would have been the spores coming in from the United States".
2019 saw yield losses in some Ontario fields reach 40-to-50 bushels, while cases have also been reported over the last week in Michigan, Indiana and Iowa.
Tar Spot appears as tiny, raised, spore-filled black spots scattered across the upper and lower leaf surface but can appear on the husk and leaf sheaths under severe incidents.
Tar Spot was on Ontario's radar during the annual corn disease survey with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, funded by the Grain Farmers of Ontario (GFO) and Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP), due to wind patterns and proximity of infected areas in Michigan.
Tenuta says new fungicides are set to become available in Canada that have proven effective against Tar Spot, and Northern Corn leaf blight.


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Oculus Touch Makes The Climb the Best Game in VR
By Julian Benson on at
I was an instant fan of The Climb when I played it last December. Crytek's VR game puts you at the base of a sheer rock face speckled with handholds and leaves you free to scale it as you wish. I've never played a game quite like it, and playing with the Oculus Touch has made me fall (in love) all over again. The motion controls unlock a much richer experience that a gamepad contrives to obscure.
There are games that feature climbing but none have such a narrow focus on the physical grips and mechanics of rock climbing as The Climb. Handholds vary from ledges you can hold with two hands and shimmy along, all the way down to tiny divots in the rock you can only hold with a finger of one hand. The moment you release one hand to reach for a new handhold the stamina of your gripping hand begins to deplete. If you've not managed to find something to grip with your free-hand before your grip-hand is exhausted, then you fall to your death. This forces you to look around and plan traversal before making a move; you don't want to be caught on the side of a mountain blindly groping around for the next handhold.
These simple core systems are a natural fit for VR. Within moments of getting to grips with the controls, you'll be leaning back looking up, down, and around the rock face, searching for where to reach for next. I'd forget I was wearing a headset - not to say I thought I was actually there, but that the hardware is so well tied to your needs as a player that it's not a gimmick, it's the beating heart of the game.
You can play The Climb with a gamepad - I have done and it works extremely well. But as soon as you have an Oculus Touch in each hand the game opens up. You're now physically reaching for each hand hold. I'd find myself raising my virtual body by pushing down with my grip-hand, giving me more reach with my free-hand to close the distance on a far handhold.
It allows for movement the gamepad can't emulate as easily - swinging on monkey bars, for instance, or flinging yourself from one wall to a handhold on the opposite side of a crevasse. The Touch controllers break down a wall of physical emulation that few games have been able to cross before. We've had steering wheels for cars, flight sticks for flight simulators, and light guns for weapons, but they're all representations of tools and not the hand that holds them. The Touch is a less abstract layer of representation. I feel closer to the game world.
The Touch's strengths became obvious when my two flatmates had a go. Both of them are avid climbers, often going down to the climbing wall twice a week. At first they each complained that you didn't get to choose the type of grip you used on the handhold, that you couldn't use your legs, and that you couldn't rope yourself up. But, soon those complaints slipped away. They began climbing in earnest.
It was fascinating to watch them slip into their individual styles. One is shorter than the other, at about 5'6". When he's on the bouldering wall he tends to power up a climb, throwing himself to handholds, skipping out handholds by going for the one at the furthest point he can reach. The Climb let him do this. In the game, he flung himself across the cliff face. When he had to climb down an overhang he'd just let go of the wall and grab the lowest handhold on the wall as he fell. When he could climb round a cul-de-sac in the wall he would instead leap from one face to the other.
The other is taller, with much longer arms. He takes his time, planning his route across the wall before making any moves. He never jumps, never drops, he scales with calculation. Again, the game allows this. He used the full spread of space the setup in my room allowed.
I'm sure Crytek has worked to allow different styles, but the way my housemates so quickly and naturally behaved how they would at the climbing wall was both a surprise and a joy to watch. These controllers don't represent some fundamental shift in gaming but a clear evolution of control, giving players finer motor function in virtual worlds.
If you plan on getting the Oculus Touch controllers I can't recommend The Climb enough, it's a sensational new way to play, and makes this sheer cliff-face the best virtual reality yet.
Julian Benson


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Q: Bubble formation I know that surface tension  plays a key role in the formation   of a bubble. I guess a bubble contains air inside it. Now how is it so that a soap bubble contains air both inside it and outside it?
I will be grateful to an answer donor if he explains me the various stages of bubble formation. In brief "How to make a bubble from a glass of water, what are the various processes that take place during the bubble formation"??

A: The air inside is at a slightly higher pressure than the air outside, so the surface tension times the change in surface area is equal to the difference in pressure times the change in volume under an infinitesimal defomation, by the principle of virtual work.
The processes that make a bubble are

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*monolayer formation when you extract the wand, with a thin sheet of liquid separating two soap monolayers.

*Expansion of the monolayers when you blow on the wand, until they come close.

*Bilayer separation and rejoining, which makes a topological change in the surface of the bubble, when the two bilayers touch.

None of these three processes have been studied in quantitative detail as far as I know.

A: remember that a "soap bubble" is basically a very thin film of soap water that forms a hollow sphere, and exhibits iridescent surface. Soap bubbles usually last only a few seconds and then explode by themselves or by contact with another object.
The bubble is a thin layer of water trapped between two layers of surfactant molecules, often soap. These "surfactants" have hydrophilic heads and hydrophobic tails. The hydrophilic heads are attracted to the thin layer of water and maintain intact pump
The bubbles in the background and physical termios are a type of "container" gas and gas law says that "all gas pressure is constant and equal anywhere inside the body that contains it," ie, pressure is equal at any point within the container, what happens is that this contenerdor is not "solid" is flexible and dynamic is normally comes even balance between the force that the gas (air) that is exerted on the inner walls bubble by trying to expand and outside the bubble kept closed.
So why is spherical?
that the force of contraction of the bubble is the same everywhere on the inner wall of the bubble, and the expansion of the air force is also the same in any part of the inner wall, both are dynamic,
So if you have a body which exerts a thrust force equal in all directions and one that contains fuerxza of contraction exerting the same in all web addresses ... the only way that can meet those conditions is the sphere, (Vector) talking.

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In computer science, a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type that provides a simple but useful abstraction for controlling access by multiple processes to a common resource in a parallel programming environment. Semaphores are often used to restrict the number of threads than can access some (physical or logical) resource.
Semaphores are data structures that are used for synchronization between two or more processes.
Basically they can be viewed as a single integer that represents the amount of resources available. When a process wants a resource, it checks the value of the semaphore, and if it's non-zero, it decrements it in accordance with the amount of resources it wishes to use. The kernel of the operating system will block the process if the semaphore is zero or doesn't have a value high enough for the decrement.


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Q: how to transcribe from s3 server side encryption customer provided key I am using boto3 with my flask application to upload file in a s3 bucket with server side encryption customer provided key.
I tried start_transcription_job from encrypted s3 file but i have an exception
s3_client.upload_file(filename, BUCKET, s3filename, ExtraArgs={'SSECustomerKey': KEY, 'SSECustomerAlgorithm': 'AES256' })

transcribe_obj.start_transcription_job(
     TranscriptionJobName=job_name,
     Media={'MediaFileUri': s3uri},
     MediaFormat=file_extension,
     LanguageCode='en-US'
)

Exception:
botocore.errorfactory.BadRequestException: An error occurred (BadRequestException) when calling the StartTranscriptionJob operation: The S3 URI that you provided can't be accessed. Make sure your URI is valid and try your request again.

A: From Protecting data using server-side encryption with customer-provided encryption keys (SSE-C) - Amazon Simple Storage Service:

You manage a mapping of which encryption key was used to encrypt which object. Amazon S3 does not store encryption keys. You are responsible for tracking which encryption key you provided for which object.

I think the problem is that the object is encrypted with a Key that AWS does not store. Therefore, when AWS Transcribe attempts to read the object, it is unable to decrypt the contents.
There does not appear to be a way to pass the key to start_transcription_job().
You will need to use an alternate encryption method where AWS is able to decrypt the object.


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Thursday night was our first time working with the Williamsburg, Brooklyn music venue Cameo Gallery. It's an interesting spot, hidden in the back room of a restuarant in a pretty highly trafficked part of the neighborhood. That said, it feels like you're walking in on a secret party, and that's exactly what we liked about the night. All four bands (Weird Children, Diehard, Quiet Loudly, and – of course – Bangor's When Particles Collide) were so much fun to work with and put on a great show. Nights like this are why we do these things. Read on for photos.


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Lars Petter Nordhaug (Sky Procycling) nabbed the biggest victory of his career in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal on Sunday, coming back on Moreno Moser (Liquigas-Cannondale) and Alexander Kolobnev (Katusha) in the closing meters.
The victory is Nordhaug's second in a month, after the Norwegian took stage three of the Tour of Denmark, and the lesser-known Norwegian rider continues on some sparkling form at the end of the season.
Nordhaug went away for the first time with still 5km to race, in a battle that looked as if it would end with a bunch sprint, with Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) strategically placed in the lead bunch for his team. Nordhaug's gap was never very large with several riders looking to keep him close, and an elite selection of about 25 was present just behind.
With Moser, as well as riders from Vacansoleil-DCM and Katusha chasing, Nordhaug continued to dangle out front alone for more than three kilometres, before being joined by three men with two kilometres to go. Kolobnev made a serious attack with Nordhaug behind him and took the one-kilometre banner alone.
Moser dug deep and dragged the Russian back before making a move for the line on his own, but Nordhaug had clung to the wheel of the young Italian. When Moser started to flag within sight of the line, the Norwegian came out of his wheel and blasted over the line, celebrating his biggest victory.
"It's incredible. I was riding for [Edvald] Boasson Hagen today, and we thought it was going to be a sprint," Nordhaug said afterward. "I tried to sit at the front and cover the attack. I saw three guys were coming, I waited a bit, and I thought I wasn't going to take the sprint, because the other guys were fast. But I had unbelievable legs.
Moser was probably the favourite among the final three men, but was out of gas in the finale and could not hold on to the speed he had used to close down Kolobnev.
"In the last 100 meters there was nothing in my legs," Moser admitted. "It's a good race. It's a hard race, but a great race, as there were many people on the climb. At the beginning of the season I didn't think I would do what I've done," said the five-time winner in 2012.
The first two-thirds of the 205-kilometre day was highlighted by a three-man breakaway, with a chase group of two trying to bridge but being unable. Cyril Gautier (Europcar), Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Manuele Boaro (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) got the early television time, as did Kristjan Koren (Liquigas-Cannondale) and Simone Ponzi (Astana), who fought together throughout the first half of the day to get to the front.
The first group of three maxed out its lead at four minutes, with the chasing duo hovering halfway between for the duration of its time out. The race got underway in earnest with 45km to race, when Boaro was dropped on a climb and Koren and Ponzi were pulled back by the peloton.
The Montréal circuit featured two decisive climbs – the Côte de Camilien-Houde and the Côte de la Polytechnique - plus a short uphill leading to the finish line. Mirko Selvaggi (Vacansoleil-DCM) got the attacking underway from the peloton, and after being away for a few kilometres and inspiring a few chasers, all was soon back together. The peloton had cut the gap to the leaders down to 1'50" and shut off the gas momentarily, before Liquigas-Cannondale came to the front with Koren back in.
Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) was paced back after a mechanical as the first of several moves was made by Markus Burghardt (BMC Racing), the first of which was covered by Alex Howes (Garmin-Sharp). With 40km to go, Burghardt accelerated again, this time taking a Europcar rider with him. With 35km to go, the peloton shut off once more and Omega Pharma-Quick Step moved forward.
With the leading duo just a minute up the road, Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil-DCM) made a move, along with Tim Wellens (Lotto-Belisol), who would be very active, plus Thomas Voeckler (Europcar). With so many pseudo-attacks being made, the gap to Gautier and Martinez tumbled, down to 30 seconds with 30km to the finish. Andriy Grivko (Astana) and Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) each played cards next, though too early to make anything stick, and everything was soon together again.
Dennis Vanendert (Lotto-Belisol) went off the front for the better part of five kilometres with much of the peloton feeding, as defending race champion Rui Costa (Movistar) was near the fore. With 25km to go and Vanendert still away, Hoogerland flatted and faced a solo chase back as the peloton hit the Côte de Camilien-Houde on the penultimate lap. Simon Spilak (Katusha) and Anthony Charteau (Europcar) attacked into the bottom of the climb, while Vanendert was spit out the back, and Hoogerland successfully connected, showcasing some good conditioning to do so as quickly. Another acceleration by Lotto's Wellens added to the pressure, and riders from Orica-GreenEdge and Movistar showed themselves at the front for the first time.
Wellens was the first to claw back Gautier and Martinez with 20km to go, just as the bunch entered the Côte de la Polytechnique for the penultimate time. Everything would calm down again, before Grivko and Wellens pressured once more, followed by Burghardt. With Katusha and FDJ-BigMat's Arthur Vichot pushing, a seven-man split formed. This did not include Burghardt, who hit the front of the peloton for BMC, sensing the danger of the seven, which did contain Grivko, Giovanni Visconti (Movistar), Luca Paolini (Katusha), and Michal Golas (Omega Pharma-Quick Step).
With the group coming back, Voeckler jumped across, but all were together beginning the bell lap. David Tanner (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) attacked on the Camilien-Houde and the in-form David Veilleux (Europcar) tried to get across, inspiring the big names in the bunch to show themselves. Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp) and Jelle Vanendert (Lotto-Belisol) emerged along with Oliver Zaugg (Radioshack-Nissan). Behind, a crash ruined the chances of Janez Brajkovic (Astana), and also took out Gerald Ciolek (Omega Pharma-Quick Step).
Near the top of the climb, Alex Dowsett (Sky Procycling) attacked, setting up Edvald Boasson Hagen, while drawing out Quebec champion Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEdge). Over the top of the climb, it became clear that a selection of around 25 had been made, including Sagan, Chavanel, Hesjedal, Hoogerland, Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) and Luis Leon Sanchez (Rabobank). With 8km to the finish, Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing) laid his cards on the table, getting away briefly before Hesjedal set off after him. Rabobank and Sagan worked to close everything down, with Gerrans along as well.
With 5km to go, Nordhaug made his move, eventually igniting Moser and Kolobnev. Three kilometres later, Nordhaug was caught and Kolobnev was away. The podium appeared decided with the three only to determine the positions. Moser appeared as if he would get another statement victory after pulling back the Russian, but Nordhaug snuck around after the Italian locked up.


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Water injection dredgers are often used in small, shallow ports and marinas because they have good manoeuvrability and can dredge very close to embankments and quay walls. An injection beam located underneath the vessel injects large volumes of water under low pressure into silt or fine sand in order to re-suspend it. The sediment mixture turns into a density current, which is then removed with the help of gravity.
The Hydac group has delivered the active heave hydraulic system, the active heave winches, the diesel driven hydraulic power unit, the bulk tank, the gas station and the control system for a water injection dredger. The system got a design approval by Bureau Veritas. Water injection dredgers are often used in small, shallow ports and marinas because they have good manoeuvrability and can dredge very close to embankments and quay walls. An injection beam located underneath the vessel injects large volumes of water under low pressure into silt or fine sand in order to re-suspend it. The sediment mixture turns into a density current, which is then removed with the help of gravity.


Bihar Scholarship Schemes 2018 - Education is the first and foremost thing in today's fast pacing world for all the students. The education is the key to success; we all have heard it right! But there are many students who are forced to leave the study in between only because of lack of money and financial crisis. Hence, the scholarships are the best thing to turn the scenario. Well, now the students do not have to face more obstacles to complete their education. The government of Bihar is offering a great opportunity by calling students from all over the state to enrol in Bihar Scholarship Schemes by the Government.
Bihar Scholarship is offered to the meritorious students belonging to the minority category. Now the candidates do not need to put a full stop to their further studies and have nothing to concern about monetary conditions. They can put wings to their dreams now.
Bihar Government has taken the initiative to support the students throughout their educational expenses to give them a sparkling bright future. On this page, the list of Bihar Scholarship provided to the candidates is given.
Bihar Government is working vividly for the education of the students belonging to the minority category. They are helping them by providing the scholarships to the students who are financially unstable to support their studies further. There are numerous scholarships offered by the Bihar Government from which some are centrally funded whereas some of them are managed by the State Government. The detailed explanation of the schemes for encouraging students and girls of Backward and Minority Classes education and their all-round development are listed below.
Pre Matric Scholarship offered by the state government to the candidates. It will encourage the candidates to sustain their efforts in education. Pre Matric Scholarship for OBC category students of Bihar is offered only to the students studying in Class 1 to 10. The scholarship scheme is sanctioned to the students in 50:50 ratio of girls and boys.
In the financial year 2016-17, a total of Rs 131452.66 lakh Rupees in the state plan for school scholarship for students of backward classes and upper castes and students and Rs 50,000 under centrally sponsored scheme (50:50) 2058.00 Lakh Rupees however only Rs. A budget provision of 133510.66 lakhs has been made.
The scholarship will be awarded to the students who have secured minimum 50% marks in the previous final examination.
Post Matric Scholarships are offered to the students who are enrolled in colleges/universities / technical and vocational institutes. Post Matric Scholarship for OBC is a centrally funded scholarship. In the financial year 2016-17, for other backward classes post-graduate scholarship, Rs. 40000 Lakh Rupees and centrally sponsored scheme Rs. 7272 lakhs has been made, with the above-mentioned goal, the aim of benefiting approximately 5,50,000 students/girls of other backward classes have been given under post-intensive scholarship scheme.
The candidates of Class 11 & 12, UG, PG, PhD and Diploma Students are eligible to apply for the scholarship.
The income of the parents of the applicants applying for the scholarships should not be more than Rs 2,00,000 per annum.
The candidates who have domicile of Bihar and cleared their Class 12 examination with an impressive scorecard, can apply for Chief Minister Medhavi Yojna.
This scholarship is offered to the Bihar Domicile candidates by the State Government. Chief Minister Scholarship for Backward Class will encourage the educational desire of the candidates and will help those candidates who are financially weak to take on their studies further.
The CM Medhavi Yojana for Backward Class is only available for the candidates of Class 10.
The income of the parents of the applicants applying for the scholarships should not be more than Rs 1,50,000 per annum.
This scholarship is conducted for the girl candidates belonging to the Backward and OBC Class. This scholarship helps in encouraging the girl child education.
The scholarship is valid for the students of Class 6 to 12.
The OBC Girl Residential Scholarship is governed only to the following cities: Patna, Mokama, Muzaffarnagar, Gaya, Poornima, Bhagalpur, Darbhanga, Samastipur, Saharsa, Munger, Rohtas, Chhapra.
Bihar Samaj Vibhag Kalyan introduced the scholarship called Bihar E Kalyan Scholarship for the welfare of education in OBC and minority category students.
The candidates belonging to the OBC and minority category are eligible to apply for the scholarship.
The family income of the candidates applying for the Bihar E Kalyan Scholarship should not be more than 1 Lakh.
Around 33,00,00,000 scholarship amount has been sanctioned in 29 districts of Bihar.
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900 and 1000 yard Championship Matches
The Branch shooting programme earlier in the year had been cancelled, so as Bisley range access restrictions eased opportunity was taken to arrange for 5 days of shooting in June. Recognising that some members had little or no shooting opportunity in 2020, Wednesday 9 June and Thursday 10 June were booked as practice days
The Branch 900 yard Championship for the Barry Custance-Baker Cup was held on Friday 11 June, and the following day shooters returned to Stickledown Range for the 1000 yard Championship.
Due to COVID associated range restrictions and limitation on the number of shooters per firing point, event timings and course of fire were adjusted to maximise the number of entries available. The 900 yard Championship was reduced from 15 to 10 shots and the 1000 yard Championship reduced from 30 shots to 20 shots.
The shooting conditions were characterised by dry weather, increasing temperatures and changeable winds. David Minshall took advantage of the more stable conditions on Friday to win the 900 yard Championship. John Whittaker showed his mastery of difficult wind conditions on Saturday to win the 1000 yard Championship. Alan Beck and Paul Wolpe shot consistently well to finish second and third respectively on both days.
Entries for this first event of the year were understandably lower then normal, but it was good to see some semblance of normality returning and members able to make use of Bisley Camp accommodation and Club House hospitality. Given the prevailing travel limitations our members from France and Holland were unable to attend, and their presence was missed.
The weekend's shooting was concluded with the MLAGB National 600 yard Rifle Championship on Sunday 13 June.
900 and 1000 yard Championship Match Results


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Adam Woolcott, Jane Dennison, Richard Lee and Jonathan Smith
In a Chelsea first, Plankbridge exhibited the first ever shepherd's hut to be seen at the world famous flower show. It was adapted as a special writer's hut and exhibited in the Artisan Garden category.
The Plankbridge Hutmakers Ltd Garden was inspired by the Dorset countryside made famous by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and will evoke feelings of peace and nostalgia. The centrepiece of the garden was the beautifully handcrafted shepherd's hut which is based on the hut that features in the opening scene of the book.
Plankbridge Hutmakers, who have revived the craft of making and restoring antique shepherds' huts, were exhibiting at RHS Chelsea for the first time.
Southern marsh orchid
Garden designers (and previous Chelsea gold medal winners) Adam Woolcott and Jonathan Smith used heirloom varieties of heritage vegetables in the garden, displayed in rustic containers to showcase their unusual and striking characteristics. The majority of the plants were British native wildflowers and the planting was loosely based on an area of water meadow at Waterston Springs, in the middle of "Thomas Hardy Country".
The garden included different habitats ranging from heathland to meadows (water and traditional) as well as a selection of British native trees and shrubs such as beech, sweet chestnut, oak, field maple and dog roses. Other highlights included the southern marsh orchid, which is native to Hardy's Dorset, as well as their triple Gold winning stinging nettle.
Tracy Chevalier, author of best selling book Girl With a Pearl Earring, stopped by to try out the writers hut. She was writing sections of her new book which tells the story of a Victorian Quaker who emigrates from Dorset to America in 1850. It will be published next year.
The Plankbridge Hutmakers Ltd Garden was awarded a Silver medal.
Chelsea regular and ornamental grass specialist Neil Lucas from Knoll Gardens was taking a break from exhibiting this year but he was an RHS judge in the Great Pavilion.
"There's always an energy about Chelsea that's great to be part of"
"It was challenging as always," says Neil. "I had a slightly odd feeling as it was the first time in a decade I have been there without an exhibit, but there's always an energy about Chelsea that's great to be part of," he said.
Neil Lucas
Although not a judge of the Artisan Gardens, he said he was impressed with the effect of the Plankbridge Hutmakers Ltd Garden.
Tradestands
Among the trade stands were Cranborne Stone who returned to RHS Chelsea after a five year break. Their stand showcased garden ornaments and landscape features such as Victorian urns, leaf vases and planters. New for RHS Chelsea 2012 was their reverse balustrade screening, designed as a contemporary take on the traditional balustrade.
Sitting Spiritually Ltd exhibiting handcrafted, bespoke wooden swing seats and rope swings made using only locally sourced materials. New for 2012 was the Love Swing Seat.
Bob Ellis and Jim Copplestone
Wonderland Bronze presented a series of bronze figures, based on classic characters from English literature, hand crafted in Dorset. Modelled in terracotta and cast into bronze using the cira perdu (lost wax) process, this collection was lovingly handcrafted by Robert Ellis and James Coplestone of the Robert James Workshop.
This year they had a larger than life Mad Hatter and a Caterpillar smoking upon a mushroom – two new editions for to the collection. Robert Ellis and James Coplestone were also sculpting 'live' their new creation from Charles Kingsley's 'The Water Babies.
View photos of the 2012 RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Tracy Chevalier advises Plankbridge with their writer's hut
Plankbridge Hutmakers count down to Chelsea 2012
Previous shows:
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Friends Fear 'California Sober' Demi Lovato 'Is Playing With Fire,' Could Be 'Heading Toward Another Downward Spiral': Source
Source: Demi Lovato/Instagram
May. 11 2021, Published 12:05 a.m. ET
Just when it seemed that Demi Lovato had finally beaten her demons, friends are concerned the songstress could be falling back into her old habits, a source tells OK!.
Lovato, 28, raised eyebrows when she posted a photo of herself smoking a bong on April 20 — along with her admission that she still enjoys alcohol and weed "in moderation" following her near-fatal drug overdose in 2018. The singer previously admitted that her new relationship with drugs "isn't for everyone."
Still, "It's scary to think of her drinking and smoking pot, even if it's in tiny amounts, after everything she's been through," dishes the source. "She's playing with fire."
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The fallout from Lovato's public spat with L.A. frozen yogurt shop The Bigg Chill over carrying sugar-free items can't be sitting well with the singer either (in April, Lovato called out the restaurant for promoting a toxic diet culture, dubbing the company "#dietculturevultures").
"The whole incident was a real mess and didn't reflect well on Demi," notes the source. "Nobody doubts how strong and brave she's been, but it looks like she's back in a vulnerable place. People are worried she could be heading toward another downward spiral."
The singer got extremely candid about her near-fatal overdose in her YouTube docuseries Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil. As OK! previously reported, the pop star revealed she had three strokes and a heart attack, with doctors believing at the time that she had only "5-10 more minutes [to live]."
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"I had crossed a line that I had never crossed before," the "Sober" singer revealed. "I snapped."
However, Lovato also revealed in the explosive tell-all documentary that these days, she considers herself "California Sober." A source previously told OK!, "Demi's been a work in progress. She's done a lot of self-reflection, a lot of therapy and really hit the reset. She's finally in a place where she is learning to accept herself the way she is, faults and all."
Added the source, "It was a relief to get everything off her chest, in her own words — and also so liberating."


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The 2nd accuser of Judge Kavanaugh, Deborah Ramirez, says she won't testify before Congress, because she's already told her story to the press. Here's why: if she testifies she'll be put under oath, opening the door to perjury charges and legal retaliation. Ms. Ramirez wants a trial by media. So do the Democrats. Unfortunately for her, but fortunately for us, that's not how our legal system works, nor should it.
Ms. Ramirez, like Judge Kavanaugh's 1st accuser, Christine Ford, has no corroborating evidence to support her story. In both cases, those said to be present, deny both woman's account of events, including 4 of the 5 people said to be present at Ms. Ford's alleged sexual assault. Likewise, in both cases, recovered memories appear to be the basis for the accusations.
Meanwhile, sexual assault charges are levied at Chuck Schumer. In response, NBC and CNN offer headlines framing the accusations as fake. The presumption of innocence in Schumer's case is their lead.
So much for believing women because they're women.
This double standard applies to Democrat Congressman Keith Ellison, a former head of The DNC, as well. Ellison was accused of battering two different women. These allegations predate the latest round of politically motivated rape hysteria. If you read the media's approach to the Ellison accusations, the press carefully sifts them for proof, well beyond just the accusation. This leads to the obvious question: where, in the Ellison charges, are the dozens of Harvard women demanding that the accuser should be believed, regardless of any corroborating evidence, as is the case with Judge Kavanaugh?
The fact that 65 Harvard women would take the position that a person's sexuality should be the determining factor in the guilt or innocence of the accused, is beyond ignorant, it is profoundly dangerous. And, in fact, is a complete denial of due process, the rule of law, and the nature of evidence as the basis for proving criminality. A person's sex, gender, race, etc., constitutes evidence of nothing. They're a set of physical traits. That's all.
The latest headline offered by the media in the Kavanaugh case is "Christine Ford Offers Four Witnesses To Support Her Claim."
Who are these witnesses? Her husband and three friends, none of whom were present at the alleged incident. Previously, another close friend of Ms. Ford said she knew Ms. Ford was telling the truth, only to recant once it became clear she'd have to testify under oath. Then, she admitted she didn't exactly "Know," she "Believed." She also said she felt empowered by claiming she knew. Apparently, because words no longer have any real meaning. Evidence should be replaced by group affiliation.
What is Brett Kavanaugh's real sin? "He's a Republican." That alone is enough to convict him. The evidence just gets in the way.
I can only hope that if I'm ever accused of a serious crime that the testimony of my closest friends will be enough to set aside evidence of my guilt. But I doubt it. Which is exactly how it should be.


Now I know it's only just the beginning of November, but I'm trying to get organised ahead of Christmas. I'm still working on de-cluttering the playroom so that we can have extra space, but I'm also thinking about what I'm going to give to people.
I want avoind giving people more 'stuff' to clutter up their living spaces, so I'm going to do the same as I did two years ago and make Christmas presents. The sloe gin is already on the go and will be ready by Christmas, although it will taste even better if everyone can hang on before drinking it.
I've made jam for presents before, so this year I decided to do something different. I've found a couple of recipes for farmhouse pickle and a spicy chutney. These look to be reasonably easy – I had almost all the ingredients for the pickle apart from a swede, and I made it last week for next to nothing. It has to sit in the dark for a few weeks, so it's keeping the sloe gin company in the cupboard. As for the chutney, I'll be using up some green beans and a romanescu cauliflower which came in the veg box last week, so again, I haven't had to buy anything special for it.
Are you making your Christmas presents this year? What are you making?
Hi! I am also working on removing clutter my home. It seems to be a constant work in progress. I do enjoy organizing, though.
I have mostly bought the Christmas presents for this year, but plan to do some baking, jar gifts & gift baskets as well. I love your idea to not give things that will become clutter in other homes. So inspiring!
I would love for you to visit my blog when you have time. Blessings!
I am making my usual hampers for family. I have made jams throughout the year (although I don't think I have enough varieties so I need to get a move on!) and will put them in a small hamper. This year I have even printed lovely labels to go on them.
I want to get some other bits and pieces too and noticed that Lidl have a really good range of biscuits, stollen, etc in so will start buying bits and pieces to top the hampers up.


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Heaven Is A Place On Earth – Belinda Carlisle
THIS DAY IN MUSIC……………………………………..on December 5th of 1987 "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" by ex-Go Go's member Belinda Carlisle reaches #1 on Billboard. This was written by San Francisco songwriter Rick Nowels and New York-based Ellen Shipley. It features Michelle Phillips from the Mamas & The Papas and prolific hit songwriter Diane Warren on backing vocals. Nowels and Shipley also sang backup. Nowels and Shipley wrote many other hits for Belinda Carlisle. Rick Nowels also wrote and produced Stevie Nicks' first solo single "I Can't Wait." Rick Nowels recalled in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "We started brainstorming concepts. Ellen mentioned the title Heaven On Earth and I thought it was a good concept for Belinda. I started singing 'Heaven is a place on earth,' which I thought was a fresher title and before long we had finished the song." After a month of recording, Rick Nowels was very happy with the hook but was uncomfortable with the verse, so he asked Ellen back to Los Angeles to re-write the song. The new version was played to Belinda who loved it. Belinda said, "'Heaven is a Place on Earth is a kind of hopeful song. I think it's saying you can create your own piece of heaven on your own patch. It's a song about peace of mind and it's also partly a love song." The video was directed by the American actress Diane Keaton. It created a new, more glamorous image for Carlisle, who was known for her work as lead singer of The Go-Go's. The new look with make-up and fancy clothes was quite a departure from Carlisle's early days with The Go-Go's. They started off as a punk band and sometimes wore garbage bags onstage. The video featured an appearance by Morgan Mason, son of the British actor James Mason, whom Carlisle married the previous year. Morgan also made an appearance in Carlisle's video for "Mad About You," which was her solo breakthrough hit in the US. This was her breakthrough hit in the UK. This topped the charts not only in the US and UK but also several other countries. It was Carlisle's only chart topper with or without The Go-Go's.
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The facile synthesis of anionic bipyridyl ligands with dinuclear clathrochelate cores is described. These metalloligands can be obtained in high yields by the reactions of M(ClO4)(2)(H2O)(6) (M: Zn, Mn, or Co) with 4-pyridylboronic acid and 2,6-diformyl-4-methylphenol oxime or 2,6-diformyl-4-tert-butylphenol oxime, followed by deprotonation. The ligands are interesting building blocks for metallasupramolecular chemistry, as evidenced by the formation of a Pt-based molecular square and four coordination polymers with 2D or 3D network structures. Competition experiments reveal that the utilization of anionic bipyridyl ligands can result in significantly more stable assemblies.