Strawberries are one of my desert island foods. I just love them - they're up there with white chocolate, home-made pesto and elderflower cordial. If I ever get married, my one bridezilla-demand will be bubbles and pots of strawberries on a dusky summer's evening. Dreaming big, I know.
I digress and of course, I don't mean the watery, coral specimen that inhabit supermarket aisles all year round. But when the sun shines and scarlett, juicy, fragrant British strawberries come to bloom, it's hard to fathom much better.
Because stawberries are so delicious, I've tried - unsuccessfully - to bake with them several times in the past. In spite of all their promise, strawberries have a rather tragic tendency to wither, brown and skulk into the background of baked goods. Like any creative type, they don't take kindly to being remoulded.
But fear not - these blondies are the perfect backdrop for British strawberries to shine. Simple, delicious and quick to whip up, these blondies are succulent, naughty and devilishly delicious. Load them up with chocolate and berries, they can take it.
A word of warning for the purists. My blondies are - technically speaking - not blondies at all, as the batter itself doesn't contain any chocolate. Call me a maverick, but I think they work better this way, and the dark brown sugar brings a nutty, caramelised flavour which will make you swoon.
You can use any chocolate that you like, but I always cook with Green&Blacks white chocolate. It's slightly less sweet than other varieties, but rich in Madagascan vanilla which brings a warmth and depth of flavour which is perfect for blondies. It's also Fair Trade, and delicious to nibble on as you go - cook's perks, and all that jazz.
Begin by preheating your oven to 170C, and lining a 8x16 inch baking tin with parchment.
Measure the butter and sugar into a small pan, and gently melt together over a gentle heat. Remove from the heat as soon as the butter has melted, and leave to cool for ten minutes or so.
Beat in the egg and salt, the sieve in the flour and mix to combine. Chop up your chocolate - into chunks, not shavings - slice your strawberries in quarters, and mix both through the batter. Pour into your prepared tin, level, then bake in the oven for 25 minutes or until cooked. The blondies are done when the top has formed a cooked surface, but the mixture still wobbles slightly when shaken.
Cool in the tin on a wire rack, then carefully lift out using the paper. Once completely cooled, slice up and dive in.


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A look into the polarizing attributes of Water as a conduit in the Black experience. Water can be all things catastrophic—a burial, an ending, humanity's evolving transporter through time and space—while cradling life as we know it. Water's vitality remains a touchstone for Black filmmakers, often channeling a spiritual connection centered between scenes. Waterproof visualizes Water's historical importance to Black life, reframed by these filmmakers and concluding with an essay film compiled by Melissa Lyde.
Guest programmed by Melissa Lyde, co-presented by Alfreda's Cinema.
TOWARDS THE COLONIES by Myriam Charles. 2016. 5 min.
WATER RITUAL #1: AN URBAN RITE OF PURIFICATION by Barbara McCullough. 1979. 6 min.
MAMAN BRIGITTE by Ayanna Dozier. 2021. 3 min.
SHE GATHER ME by Miatta Kawinzi. 2021. 11 min.
WATERFALLS by F. Gary Gray. 1995. 4 min.
NEGRO BAPTISM filmed by Reverend S. S. Jones. mid-1920s. 1 min.
FOR OUR GIRLS by Imani Dennison & Michele Stephenson. 2021. 10 min.
Thanks to Third World Newsreel.
Post-screening DJ set by Jon Jon Hernandez next door at Rockaway Brewing Co. until midnight.
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Home Heating Rebate Helping Meet the Costs of Staying Warm
The following statement was given today in the House of Assembly by the Honourable Ross Wiseman, Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board:
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in this House today to advise Honourable Members on the progress of this year's Home Heating Rebate program. The Home Heating Rebate helps thousands of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians each winter.
This year, the Home Heating Rebate, along with the Residential Energy Rebate, will see a combined total investment of $62 million. The Home Heating Rebate is available to residents of the province who directly incur costs to heat their home. Eligible households with an adjusted family income of $35,000 or less qualify for a maximum rebate of $250 – with a maximum rebate of $500 for coastal Labrador. The Residential Energy Rebate is available to all households inNewfoundland and Labrador and provides a point-of-sale rebate equivalent to the eight per cent provincial portion of the 13 per cent Harmonized Sales Tax charged on consumption of energy for residential purposes.
Mr. Speaker, as a government, we are extremely proud of both the Home Heating Rebate and the Residential Energy Rebate. These important programs put cash back into the hands of individuals and families, helping them meet the costs of staying warm.
I am pleased to inform Honourable Members that since launching this year's Home Heating Rebate program in October, applications received are on par with last year and staff at the Department of Finance are now approving applications and issuing rebates.
Mr. Speaker, we continue to ensure that several avenues are available for people to access applications for the Home Heating Rebate. Details and application forms can be found on the Department of Finance website, by calling toll-free at 1-855-223-7432, or emailing homeheatprogram@gov.nl.ca. Application forms have also appeared in newspapers, at regional offices of the Department of Advanced Education and Skills, Service NL Centres across the province and the Seniors Resource Centre in St. John's.
Mr. Speaker, last year, approximately 58,000 households received rebates from the Home Heating Rebate program. Once again, this program is helping people throughout Newfoundland and Labrador meet the cost of heating their homes and staying warm.
RNC Seeking Public Assistance in Multi-Vehicle Collision
CITY OF CORNER BROOK MEDIA RELEASE – PRECAUTIONARY BOIL WATER ADVISORY


These fully-functional mini-knives are perfect for the pocket, key chain, or handbag. Each knife features a 2.2 inch 8Cr13MoV stainless blade that is precisely heat treated and hand finished shaving-sharp for superior edge retention and performance. The double sided thumb-stud allows easy, one hand blade deployment. Rubberized TPR handle scales are mounted to sturdy stainless steel liners for unparalleled strength and a secure, nonslip grip even when wet. Each knife includes a nylon lanyard. Available with black, blaze-orange or pink handles, these knives make the perfect gift and are a great first knife for young outdoor enthusiasts.


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Latent period of viruses infecting algae
infecting Chlorella 3 - 4 hours: infecting Phaeocysti pouchetii 12 - 18 hours hours
Jacobsen, A., Bratbak, G., and Heldal, M. (1996). Isolation and characterization of a virus infecting Phaeocystis pouchetii (prymnesiophyceae). Journal of Phycology , 32:923–927 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3646.1996.00923.x link
P.28 bottom paragraph: "Latent period (τ, η): The latent period is the time between injection of a viral genome into the cell and the lysis of the host cell. The processes that occur during the latent period include (i) translocation of viral genetic material from the periplasm into the cytoplasm (ii) replication of genetic material and production of virus particle components (iii) packaging of viral genomes into viral heads (iv) disruption of the cell surface and release of viral progeny. It is worthwhile to consider a few key features of the latent period, τ. The appearance of intact virus particles, that is, packaged with viral genomes, represents the moment at which cellular lysis would lead to the potential continuation of a viral infection. This period, τe, is termed the eclipse period-it is less than the latent period. The total latent period varies significantly among virus-host systems. For example, when phages T4 and λ, infect E. coli, they can exhibit latent periods as fast as 20 minutes and 50 minutes, respectively (BNID 113063). In contrast, algal viruses that infect Chlorella and Phaeocysti pouchetii take 3–4 hours and 12–18 hours, respectively (primary source). Such long latent periods are not restricted only to algal viruses. The latent period of cyanoviruses infecting ubiquitous marine cyanobacteria can be on the same scale, for example, 9–17 hours for cyanophage S-BBS1 infecting Synechococcus BBCl (BNID 113065), and 8 hours for podovirus P-SSP7 infecting Prochlorococcus MED4 (BNID 113065). The nearly two orders of magnitude variation in latent period raises the question, what determines the time between adsorption and lysis for viruses of microbes?"
Latent phase of influenza A and B
Influenza ID: 101608
Lifespan of infected MDCK and HeLa cells in vitro
Virus production rate
Typical duration of latent period of tailed phages
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The concept of Dual-Track Scrum was first evangelized by Marty Cagan back in 2012, and more recently elements of it have been incorporated into Google's Design Sprint. Earlier this year, we wrote about how Dual-Track works from a design perspective, and want to demonstrate how it can be applied in practice. By leveraging Dual-Track Scrum, teams are more focused, reduce their rework and significantly improve their ability to plan while still retaining their agility. In this article, we'll review the benefits of Dual-Track Scrum and show how we implement it in practice using agile tools such as Atlassian's JIRA platform.
Dual-Track Scrum is an agile organizational model that separates the effort to discover the best solution from the effort to deliver working software. It consists of two tracks of activity: discovery and delivery. The objective of the discovery track is to validate ideas quickly and efficiently, while the objective of the delivery track is to build, test and deploy production-ready code. Ideas are prototyped in the discovery track and the findings are fed into the delivery track. The discovery to delivery process continuously repeats throughout the product's life.
Each track has its own team: the discovery team and the delivery team. The discovery team typically contains a small team of lead designers and developers, while the delivery team consists of developers and testers. A Product Owner often oversees the effort of both teams in order to facilitate the flow of work between the teams.
A traditional scrum team works by organizing one backlog by business priority. When a new sprint starts, the team takes the highest priority items from the top of the backlog and starts working on them within the sprint. During the sprint, the team needs to agree on the designs, define the technical solution, build the code and test the feature - all before the end of a sprint.
This time crunch makes it difficult for teams to design features effectively. Dual-Track alleviates this time crunch by providing a dedicated team tasked with proving designs and prototyping solutions. Unlike a Scrum backlog, Dual-Track backlog items are identified as mature or immature. Immature backlog items are ideas that have not been vetted as valuable by users nor viable by the development team. The discovery team works to research, prototype, and validate immature ideas with users and developers (refer to Google's Design Sprint). They typically operate in a Kanban fashion due to the nature of uncertainty in their work. Once their ideas have been vetted and matured, they are then planned in the delivery team's Scrum backlog.
At Devbridge, we use Atlassian's JIRA platform to manage our agile development projects, and we use Dual-Track with JIRA so often that we created a workflow you can download for free from the JIRA marketplace. We hope you find this information helpful on your journey to implement Dual-Track in your organization. If you'd like to learn more about our Dual-Track process or how to accelerate your agile transformation, reach out to us!


After a promising start to the 2013 season that saw the Houston Dynamo win their first five home games in all competitions, the Dynamo's season has hit a road block that few expected. Houston is winless in its last three home games, including back-to-back losses to Sporting Kansas City and the New England Revolution.
Jumping the gun on dropping these guys a bit, maybe? It's the Dynamo, after all – they're never really as vulnerable as they seem, and on paper this team competes for the Shield. But the offense is sputtering, and the defense still looks a cut below the best this league has to offer.
The Dynamo delivered a surprising performance against New England, and not in a good way in a 2-0 loss. Houston will need to regroup without both starting center backs, as well; Jermaine Taylor was injured and Bobby Boswell was red-carded.
What happened to Houston's BBVA Compass Stadium mojo? The Dynamo dropped a second straight home game, this one a lackluster 2-0 defeat to New England, after a run of 36 home games unbeaten. More concerning is how Dom Kinnear will address his immediate woe at center back, after Bobby Boswell's red card and Jermaine Tayor's injury suddenly has the club shorthanded in the back ahead of a revenge bout with rival SKC, which ended Houston's home streak and was not shy in celebrating the fact.
While Creditor has the Dynamo higher than his counterparts, all agree that the center back situation is one to keep an eye on this week. Bobby Boswell will be suspended after picking up a red card in last week's match against New England. Jermaine Taylor was forced out of Saturday's game early with a shoulder injury.
The Dynamo will hit the road this weekend for their penultimate match before the league breaks for international matches. Houston will take on Sporting KC Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. The match can be seen nationally on NBC Sports Network.


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Biografia
Figlio di Lucio Emilio Barbula, (console nel 281 a.C.), fu a sua volta eletto console della Repubblica romana nel 230 a.C. con Marco Giunio Pera. Con il collega condusse la guerra contro i Liguri. Come riportato da Giovanni Zonara, i cartaginesi erano propensi a scatenare una nuova guerra contro Roma, non appena saputo dell'impegno romano contro i Liguri; ne furono però dissuasi subito, perché i Romani entrarono in forze nel loro territorio e perciò li accolsero come amici ed alleati . Si tratta evidentemente di un errore grossolano e con tutta probabilità bisogna riferirsi ai Galli e non ai Cartaginesi, dato che, come riportato da Plutarco, in quelli anni i Galli erano sul piede di guerra, dopo l'approvazione della legge Flaminia per la ridistribuzione delle terre del Piceno.

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Q: setTitle() with Thread.sleep() I just learnt some news in javafx , then i want to apply them , so I choose to make a counter; But when i setText on my label that doesn't change it; I tested it with System.out.print and that worked well.
That's my code :
public class Controller {
@FXML
private Label time;
@FXML
private Button start;
public void Counter(ActionEvent event)
{
    start.setText("hello");
    time.setText("00 : 00 : 00");
    int h=0,m=0,s=0,i=0;
    while(true)
    {
        try {
            s++;
            if(s==60) {s=0;m++;}
            if(m==60) {m=0;h++;}
            System.out.println(Integer.toString(h)+" : "+String.valueOf(m)+" : "+String.valueOf(s));
            time.setText(Integer.toString(h)+" : "+String.valueOf(m)+" : "+String.valueOf(s));

                Thread.sleep(1000);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

    }

}
}

thanks for helping ! ;)

A: The important thing here, is you need to understand that any update made to the UI needs be done from within the UI's main thread.  You should also avoid blocking the UI's main thread, this will prevent the UI from been updated.
To start with, have a read through Concurrency in JavaFX
When ever you're dealing with time or duration, you should always use a dedicated library, like java.time.  Why? Because there isn't actually 24 hours in a day or 60 seconds in a minute - I know, weird isn't it.
You could...
Use Timeline
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import javafx.animation.KeyFrame;
import javafx.animation.Timeline;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.util.Duration;

public class Test extends Application {

    private LocalDateTime startTime;
    private Timeline timer;

    private Label time;

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        time = new Label("...");
        Button btn = new Button();
        btn.setText("Start");
        btn.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {

            @Override
            public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
                if (timer != null) {
                    timer.stop();
                }
                startTime = LocalDateTime.now();
                timer = new Timeline(new KeyFrame(Duration.millis(500), new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {

                    @Override
                    public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
                        LocalDateTime now = LocalDateTime.now();
                        java.time.Duration duration = java.time.Duration.between(startTime, now);
                        time.setText(format(duration));
                    }
                }));
                timer.setCycleCount(Timeline.INDEFINITE);
                timer.play();
            }
        });

        VBox root = new VBox();
        root.setAlignment(Pos.CENTER);
        root.getChildren().add(time);
        root.getChildren().add(btn);

        Scene scene = new Scene(root, 300, 250);

        primaryStage.setTitle("Hello World!");
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
    }

    protected String format(java.time.Duration duration) {
        long hours = duration.toHours();
        long mins = duration.minusHours(hours).toMinutes();
        long seconds = duration.minusMinutes(mins).toMillis() / 1000;
        return String.format("%02dh %02dm %02ds", hours, mins, seconds);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

}

Use AnimationTimer
This is possibly the preferred solution, as the timer is called in sync with the frame refresh of the animation engine
import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import javafx.animation.AnimationTimer;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.geometry.Pos;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.scene.control.Label;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class Test extends Application {

    private LocalDateTime startTime;
    private AnimationTimer timer;

    private Label time;

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        time = new Label("...");
        Button btn = new Button();
        btn.setText("Start");
        btn.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {

            @Override
            public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
                if (timer != null) {
                    timer.stop();
                }
                startTime = LocalDateTime.now();
                timer = new AnimationTimer() {
                    @Override
                    public void handle(long click) {
                        LocalDateTime now = LocalDateTime.now();
                        java.time.Duration duration = java.time.Duration.between(startTime, now);
                        time.setText(format(duration));
                    }
                };
                timer.start();
            }
        });

        VBox root = new VBox();
        root.setAlignment(Pos.CENTER);
        root.getChildren().add(time);
        root.getChildren().add(btn);

        Scene scene = new Scene(root, 300, 250);

        primaryStage.setTitle("Hello World!");
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
    }

    protected String format(java.time.Duration duration) {
        long hours = duration.toHours();
        long mins = duration.minusHours(hours).toMinutes();
        long seconds = duration.minusMinutes(mins).toMillis() / 1000;
        return String.format("%02dh %02dm %02ds", hours, mins, seconds);
    }

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

}

A: a while(true) loop should never be used to update JavaFX GUI, you can use an AnimationTimer instead
you can try this
public void Counter(ActionEvent event)
{
        start.setText("hello");
        time.setText("00 : 00 : 00");

        AnimationTimer timer = new AnimationTimer() {
            long then=0;
            double sum=0;
            int h=0,m=0,s=0;

            @Override
            public void handle(long now) {
                long dt = now - then;
                sum+=dt;
                if(sum/1000000000>=1) {
                     s++;
                        if(s==60) {s=0;m++;}
                        if(m==60) {m=0;h++;}
                        System.out.println(Integer.toString(h)+" : "+String.valueOf(m)+" : "+String.valueOf(s));
                        time.setText(Integer.toString(h)+" : "+String.valueOf(m)+" : "+String.valueOf(s));
                    sum=0;
                }

                then=now;
            }

        };
        timer.start();
}

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The organisers of the Business Book Awards are thrilled to announce the overall winner of the 2018 inaugural event is Campbell Macpherson, author of The Change Catalyst, a book about the secrets to successful and sustainable business change.
Campbell Macpherson from Oxford, UK said, "I am stunned! Thank you to the organisers and all the judges for putting on this wonderful evening. It's all about leadership, and it's all about leaders embracing change and leading change through their organisations. There are so many good books at these awards that I am now going to go out and buy.
Campbell Macpherson has been helping business leaders clarify their strategy and instigate sustainable change for more than 30 years throughout the UK, Europe, Australia, USA, Asia and the Middle East. He has a remarkable wealth of experience across a variety of industries and business disciplines. He has been a board member, Strategy Director, HR Director, Marketing Director, eBusiness Head and internal change leader.
He is a strategic change adviser for many dozens of organisations via his consultancy Change & Strategy International Ltd.
His work has included advising the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Zurich Global Life, IFDS/State Street, International Personal Finance, Friends Life, Aviva, GoCompare, iPipeline, James Hay, Cofunds, Sesame, Misys, Openwork, Centaur Media, BP, Capital Radio, BBC, Telewest, AMP, American Express, Lazard and Andersen Consulting.
Campbell Macpherson has a physics degree from Melbourne University. He lives in Oxford, UK and is married with two adult children. He divides his time between the UK, Australia and wherever his clients need him to be.
The awards celebrating the best in UK business books published in 2017 took place at The Grange City Hotel, London and the overall winner was decided by a majority vote of the judging panel.
The nominated books were divided into seven categories: Startup Inspiration, Selling the Dream, Leading the Team, Embracing Change, Thought Leader, Self-Development and the Judge's Choice.
Lead Judge John Williams is the founder of The Ideas Lab, author of Screw Work, Break Free and Screw Work, Let's Play.
Will Dean is co-founder and CEO of Tough Mudder and was included in Fortune's '40 Under 40' list and received the US National EY Entrepreneur of The Year Emerging Award. He was born in the UK and is a graduate of the University of Bristol and Harvard Business School.
Lead Judge Andy Lopata is a mentor, trainer, author of three books on networking skills, networking strategy and referral strategy.
Strategic Tendering for Professional Services by Matthew Fuller and Tim Nightingale (Kogan Page) Matthew Fuller has 25 years' experience of working in the professional services sector. He has led global business development and marketing teams at Allen & Overy Herbert Smith and currently White & Case. He has run training programmes throughout the world advising partners on proposals best practice.
Lead Judge Martin Norbury is a Business growth advisor, award winning entrepreneur and author of Don't Work Fridays.
The Change Catalyst by Campbell Macpherson (Wiley) (Also overall winner).
Lead Judge Ginny Carter is the author of The Author Maker, a business book ghostwriter and writing coach.
Lead Judge Carl Reader is an expert and advisor to small businesses; columnist and author of The Startup Coach and The Franchising Handbook.
Lead Judge Suzanne Collier is the founder of bookcareers.com, the Careers Guidance and Development Consultancy to the book and publishing industry.
Tom Bird's business career stretches over 20 years and spans sales and sales management as well as personal development and performance improvement. He is a director of RTP and has been involved professionally in developing people to realise more of their potential since 2000.
Jeremy Cassell has worked as a freelance trainer for 12 years. Before that he was National Training Manager for L'Oreal and National Sales Training Manager for Walker's, part of Pepsi. Before entering the business world, he gained experience in teaching English and History.
Lead Judge Lucy McCarraher is the founder of the awards, author of 11 books and co-founder and Managing Editor of Rethink Press.
James Thornton is an environmental lawyer and writer. He is the founding CEO of ClientEarth, a not-for-profit environmental-law organisation with offices in London, Brussels, and Warsaw. The New Statesman named James as one of ten people who could change the world.
The awards attracted 150 entries from a wide variety of publishers. The founder of the awards is Lucy McCarraher, author of 11 books, and co-founder and Managing Editor of Rethink Press. Lucy McCarraher said, "We felt it was time that the wide range of business authors were celebrated for the knowledge and expertise they make available through their books.
"Our brilliant judging panel, made up of eminent authors, business people, publishers and experts, have brought their experience and integrity to the review process and ensured that all 150 entries have been given a rigorous and thoughtful assessment. I thank them all, along with Alison Jones, our superb and hardworking Head Judge.
Lucy became a national expert in work-life balance, writing academic and business reports for clients and authoring The Work-Life Manual and The Book of Balanced Living. Her clients included multinational and blue-chip companies, large public sector and voluntary organisations, and SMEs. She has also worked as a coach with many individuals on their work-life balance and personal development.
Lucy is the author of 11 published books, including her latest, best-selling How To Write Your Book Without The Fuss, with her business partner Joe Gregory; and the acclaimed How To Write Fiction Without The Fuss. Her first novel, Blood and Water, was shortlisted in a major competition and published by Macmillan New Writing, followed by Kindred Spirits and Mr Mikey's Ladies. Lucy's self-help books include A Simpler Life and The Real Secret, both co-authored with social psychologist, Annabel Shaw. The Real Secret was published by Bookshaker and Lucy subsequently became Commissioning Editor of the publishing company, contributing to its 14-year experience of niche business and self-development books.
This press release was distributed by ResponseSource Press Release Wire on behalf of Business Book Awards in the following categories: Men's Interest, Entertainment & Arts, Leisure & Hobbies, Women's Interest & Beauty, Education & Human Resources, for more information visit https://pressreleasewire.responsesource.com/about.


Gold Medal Park is a great place to observe the sunset behind Minneapolis.
It's fitting that our final "gateway drug" of Bike Month is sunsets, as they provide a certain closure. One of our favorite things to do in new cities is find the best sunset viewing spot, which is why we have a blog post, "14 Sunsets Where Bikes are VIP Passes" (same goes for firework shows!).
I hope this photo essay helps you convince your mom, friend, colleague or maybe a future sweetheart to take a fun bike ride with you.
Mmmm, caffeine. Sipping coffee while you bike isn't that hard with an upright bike and we guaranty it will slow you down on your commute (a good thing).
You know riding to the beach is popular when a type of bike is designed for it: the cruiser. Beat the traffic and carry your belongings easily to the sand with your bike.
Hair of the Dog Brewery in Portland is always packed with bikes!
Using your bike to drink beer is like using chopsticks to eat sushi. Sure, there's a faster way to consume, but the experience is magnified by the chosen delivery. And the beer industry has taken notice with ample bike parking and the proliferation of cans, which are much easier and lighter to carry by bike than glass.
Did you know your bike doubles as a shopping cart at farmer's markets. Being mindful of crowds, simply roll your bike through the vendor stalls and stuff your basket and panniers with produce and local food.
Tweed Ride bike picnic. Photo by Massif Central blog.
Bike picnics are like an outdoor culinary VIP pass. There's something so special about throwing provisions on a bike, riding to your favorite outdoor spot and setting up a meal. We get some thumbs up from strangers when we load our Weber Go-anywhere grill on our front bike rack, "well, aren't you prepared." If you haven't done a bike picnic, it's a must do, and here's 10 Must-Haves for a Perfect Bike Picnic.
Stow a bottle (or box) of wine and a couple glasses in your basket or pannier and uncork that baby when you get to a beautiful spot. You'll never feel so civilized and people will be mad jealous.
If you're ever needing a pick me up, take a bike ride with your dog or borrow one from a friend. Nothing generates smiles from strangers more than seeing a dog on a bike!
Whenever I ask people what they look forward to most in a bike ride, it's overwhelmingly ice cream.
May 22nd is Harvey Milk Day! Painting by Hugo Kobayashi. Photo by Luke Thomas.
2017 will be the year that our activism spirit woke from a slumber. Pick a cause, and there will a march or protest, and biking there remains the most convenient way to join the masses (and to show your independence and resiliency).
Riding a bike is also the easiest way to vote for better biking infrastructure. When political leaders see large numbers of diverse people biking, they take notice.
As recent transplants to the Pacific Northwest who, when faced with the hills, had to promptly sell our Workcycles bakfiets and FR8 and buy an Urban Arrow and Pedego Ridge Rider, we understand that electric bikes are a viable substitute for car trips.
We challenge any ebike virgins to ride one, and don't you dare smile.
Hole in the Wall Falls off the Historic Columbia River Highway trail.
Not everyone can find a waterfall in your back yard, but maybe choose your next travel destination (hint, Columbia River Gorge) based on bikeable waterfalls!
Happy National Bike to Work Day! At the beginning of the day, arrive to work feeling refreshed, and at the end of the day, ride off any stress. Here is a beginner's guide to biking to work including tips on choosing a comfortable route and dressing.
Happy International Museum Day! Bike to your local museum or one of these 9 bike friendly museums!
Riding your bike is not only the most enjoyable way to get to a music festival or concert, it's the most convenient with nary a worry of parking or traffic.
Sipping on cider is a refreshing way to take a break or finish off a bike ride.
5 on a bike with 1 trailing. The Netherlands are family biking professionals.
Happy International Day of Families! We know that organizing a family bike ride is daunting so that's why we put together this resource guide with a handy dandy chart of best bikes by age.
Spouses, no need to get mothers a bouquet a flowers when you can take them on a bike ride to pick some fresh wildflowers.
"I don't own a bike" is no longer a barrier when you live in 1 of 30+ North American cities with bike share.
May 12th is National Public Gardens day.
It's almost like whoever claimed May 11 as "Eat What You Want Day" was thinking of people who bike. You have our permission (as long as you're biking everyday), to eat whatever you want.
Happy Bike to School Day! Here's a photo essay of tips to get your kids to school by bike.
Washington, DC's National Mall makes the best case for night biking.
With good bike lights and a comfortable route away from cars, biking at night is serene. Our favorite cities include Montreal, New York, Washington and Madison.
Double kickstands like this one on the Workcycle FR8 make grocery shopping by bike easier.
Grocery shopping is a detested errand by most, but with a bike, it becomes a fun challenge and you'll feel so accomplished when you get home. Also, have you noticed how awful it is to park at grocery stores? Never again with primo bike parking right in front. Now if we can just get baggers to understand how to load panniers and bike baskets, we'll be good.
Pro tip - get your bike a double kickstand for better stability in loading and unloading.
North America is catching onto Europe's theory of playground design, or as we like to call, "playgrounds on steroids".
These new playgrounds have taken route in neighborhoods and major city parks, making them the perfect place to bike to with your kids. A simple trip like this will get them very excited about biking.
Can't contain the celebration on our first bikepacking experience.
Bikepacking, derived from backpacking, is narrowly described as multi-day mountain biking. But, we love to steal romantic bike travel theories and make them approachable to to normal people.
With some tips and routes from Bikepacking.com, use whatever panniers, baskets and rack space to pack your minimally for 1 or 2 night trip. For our first trip (photo above), we used our electric bikes to "car camp" at a local park only 5 miles from our house. Our route included an unpaved trail and 2 wine tasting stops.
Besides rolling up to beautiful campsite, our favorite part was using our bikes to retrieve left behind camp wire wood at all the empty spots.
Taco Boy in Charleston, SC gives people who arrive by bike 2 for 1 Margaritas!
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, our theme today is cocktails! Obviously this one requires some responsibility and civility, so just make sure you drink lots of water before partaking and eat! Sipping a cocktail with friends after a short or long ride is bliss.
"Seen. Known" by William Massey. Atlanta Beltline under the Freedom Parkway.
Some of the best art in cities is only discovered by bike (or walking with gusto). We encourage everyone to wander in an off-the-beaten path neighborhood or take an adventure down a dirt path. You never know what you'll find in the nooks and crannies.
For the timid, if you google "public art map <city>", usually every city has one.
The couple that rides together, stays together. This is our music crush, Solange Knowles, and her husband, Alan Ferguson, leaving their wedding in New Orleans by bike. Tip - Find a route where you can ride side by side. For all you men out there, it's not a race.
It's less about making a statement and more about being yourself. Your bike should let you wear whatever you want, whether it be a long skirt, heals, suit, or <gasp> silk. An upright bike with skirt and chain guards will help you get dressed every morning with nary a worry of your ensemble.
When did you start riding? The answer we receive from the majority of folks is, "my friend took me on a ride and I felt like a kid again and wanted to keep feeling that way."
So if you're curious, ask a friend to take you for a short, chill ride (under 3 miles) on the weekend. Pretty much all people who bike are really excited about getting their friends on bikes.


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Maddie's Weekly Roundup: We Foster Challenge, grant opportunity and more!
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Happy Monday! Below is a brief roundup of resources added over the past week.
17 national organizations come together for the We Foster Challenge (Apply now!)
When 17 (yes, SEVENTEEN) national animal welfare organizations from around the country come together for one single challenge, you know it's an important one! That's the case with the We Foster Challenge, a challenge that is all about being inclusive and utilizing foster care to help keep more people and pets together. Because by fostering… Learn More
Remembering a beloved colleague and friend
Lynn Spivak, a longtime animal welfare advocate and beloved former Maddie's Fund® Communications Director, passed away on January 8. She was 74. A prolific writer, Spivak was best known for her dedication to publishing daily stories about the pets she tried to help, first at San Francisco's SPCA and then at Maddie's Fund. For decades, her… Learn More
Introducing a new grant opportunity for BIPOC-led organizations
Maddie's Fund® invests its resources in a commitment to keeping pets and people together, creating a safety net of care for animals in need and operating within a culture of inclusiveness and humility. We are working towards the day when the animal welfare field more accurately represents the diversity of our country. The BIPOC-Led Operating… Learn More
Apply now: We Foster Challenge
By fostering pets, we also foster community, foster inclusivity and foster love. Apply now through Monday, March 7, 2022 to be a part of the fun and exciting Challenge. Learn more
Want to help keep more people and pets together?
Join Maddie's® Mailing List, connect with us at Maddie's® Pet Forum and take advantage of free online training with Maddie's® University!


Incredible views!! Den or Bonus room on the water, enjoy relaxing on your deck looking on the wide open bay. Bring your boat, this home has a 10,000 lb lift. Invite your friends and family over to sit under your private tiki hut while enjoying the water. This is paradise, not to mention, home. Completely tiled, newer kitchen, very large master bedroom and large inside utility room. This is the perfect waterfront home for any budget. Pet friendly too!


The words of this praise song capture the essential truth of why Heaven is a wonderful place. Heaven is a wonderful place because we will see our Savior face to face and be with Him forever! This is the sure hope of every true believer. The Bible doesn't tell us everything about Heaven, but it certainly gives us enough information to show us how to get to Heaven, and to excite us about being there!
You can't find more clear and concise directions on how to get to Heaven than the words of our Lord Jesus found in John 14:6. Thomas, one of our Lord's disciples, had specifically asked Jesus the way to Heaven. The Lord responded, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by Me." This one statement of truth eliminates all other world "religions" and philosophies, and all man-made constructs of the way to heaven. If any person anywhere in the world is truly seeking the truth and the way to heaven and eternal life, God will in some way lead that person step by step to Himself. And Romans 1:20 leaves no doubt that God has given everyone enough evidence of Himself in creation so that no one has an excuse not to respond to the one true God.
In addition to clearly showing us the way to Heaven, the first few verses of John 14 should excite us about being in Heaven. After considering the background for this passage of Scripture, we'll look at three truths the Lord revealed about Heaven and why it is such a wonderful place.
John 13 begins the section of the Gospel of John that is known as the Upper Room Discourses. These discourses, or talks, were given on the occasion of the Last Supper. Besides the event of the Lord Jesus washing the feet of His disciples and the institution of the Lord's Supper, the Lord took time to give final instructions and comfort to His disciples before He went to the cross.
In John 14:2-3 the Lord explained to the disciples that He was not going to leave them permanently. He was going away to prepare a place for them, and He promised that He would come again for them. He reassured them that they would be with Him again. This, by the way, is not a reference to the death of the believer--it is a reference to the return of the Lord. So here in these three verses of John 14 we not only have a description of heaven, but we also have the promise of the Lord's return.
Now let's ask a theological question – this return to which the Lord referred here: is this the Rapture of the Church, or is it the Return of the Lord to the earth to set up His kingdom? What is the difference between the "Rapture" of the Church and the Return of the Lord to set up his kingdom?
First let's discuss the return of the Lord to this earth to set up His kingdom. In the Olivet Discourse, in which our Lord taught about the future, the Lord spoke of His return in power, glory, and judgment to this earth. He was speaking about His return to the earth to set up His kingdom. The Olivet Discourse is found in Matthew 24-25, Mark 13, and Luke 21. Let's read Matthew 24:29-30: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory." This passage describes the return of the Lord to this earth to set up His kingdom. All the Old Testament passages dealing with the coming of the Messiah to set up His kingdom here on earth appear to refer to this same return – the one of which our Lord spoke in the Olivet Discourse.
However, in the Epistles (letters that are specifically written to the Church), we find a "return of the Lord" which appears to be different. In the return of the Lord mentioned in the Epistles, He does not return to this earth in power, glory, and judgment. No cosmic signs are associated with this return. He is not seen by everyone on earth. It seems that this return does not occur after the special time of great trouble on the earth that is mentioned by the Lord in the Olivet Discourse--it appears to occur before the end-time period of tribulation.
So there is a difference, then, between the return of the Lord to this earth to set up His kingdom, and the return of the Lord when He will "rapture" or "catch up" His people to be with Him.
These two great passages in the epistles, 1 Corinthians 15 and 1 Thessalonians 4, deal with the Rapture of the Church. All the other passages in the Old Testament and in the Gospels that refer to the return of the Lord look ahead to the Return of the Lord to this earth to set up His kingdom--with one exception! There is one passage in the Gospels that appears to refer to the Rapture of the Church, and it is this passage right here – John 14:2-3. Notice verse 3 once again, "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." We believe this verse refers to the coming of the Lord for His people, the Rapture of the Church.
Heaven is a place where "it doesn't get any better than this!"
1. First of all, Heaven is a place called home.
"In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you"(v2). "My Father's house," or Heaven, is a place called home. That's really the idea that the Lord is conveying with the phrase, "in My Father's house are many mansions…" This verse may have given some of us the idea that we'll each have our own big, beautiful, private mansion when we get to Heaven. No! That's not the idea! The Lord's thought here is that there are many rooms in the Father's house. There's room for everyone, and we will all be at home together as one big happy family--God's family!
Heaven is our home! Maybe the best way we could capture the idea is to think of the expression, "going home for the holidays." Now if that phrase gives you a warm happy feeling because you're thinking of the whole family together for Thanksgiving or Christmas, sitting together around the fireplace, sharing family secrets, fun times and memories--then you're getting close to the concept expressed here by our Lord. Heaven is home! And the great thing is, it doesn't end after the holidays--it's eternal!
2. Second, Heaven is a place that is being prepared for us!
"I go to prepare a place for you"(v2). Heaven is a place especially prepared for us by the Lord Jesus! The Lord knows all about us – after all, He created us. Certainly He knows what's going to be the best for us. Now I know that some of you might be hoping that there's golf in Heaven, or skiing in Heaven, or great entertainment in Heaven, or maybe even great-tasting guilt-free food in Heaven! Well, all joking aside, Heaven will be the greatest, because the Lord has prepared it just for us! And if you're a believer, you will be there--it's our eternal home and it's specifically prepared for us.
3. Third, the Lord Jesus is there!
Think about Heaven when you're discouraged!
Look again at verse 1: "Let not your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me." In other words, the Lord was saying to the disciples, "Right now you're discouraged, but you believe in God, even though you can't see Him. Now trust in Me the same way, even though I am going away and you won't see Me physically here on this earth. Cheer up! Don't let your hearts be sad or troubled! You can be sure that even though you can't see Me, I'll be thinking of you! In fact, I'm going away to prepare a wonderful, special place for you, and I'll be coming back for you to take you to be with Me forever!" The Lord told them about heaven to cheer them up and to encourage them. In the same way, when we as disciples are discouraged, let's think about Heaven! When you're discouraged with your job, or your circumstances, or your ministry, remember: it's not a permanent situation---it's temporary! Let's think about Heaven when we're discouraged.
Think about Heaven! This is very practical. No matter what area or what circumstance makes you vulnerable to discouragement, think about Heaven. Think about Heaven when you're discouraged!


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TEAM NEWS: HOME V DROGHEDA UNITED 23-06-17
Thoughts of Head Coach Stephen Bradley ahead of tonight's home game v Drogheda United:
On the 1-0 win at Finn Harps:
"It wasn't a great game, we sort of expected that going up there, it never is a great game. But if you had offered me the 1-0 before I went up I would have taken your hand off so it was great to get the win. It's good when you score a few minutes before half time, you know it changes their team talk at half time, it sends them in a bit deflated and we went in full of confidence. I think we came out in the second half and without playing really well, controlled the game. Brandon Miele was brilliant, he was positive, he got at the defence all night but his last touch when he was in on goal was a bit heavy and it got away from him. We never really looked in trouble, maybe until the last two or three minutes when they had one or two in the box."
Michael O'Connor:
"Great header, difficult to put in the far corner from where he was so a great finish. The lads who came in, for me it was never an issue, it's a strong squad. That's the reason we have the squad, for nights like that, when there's injuries or suspensions. Mikey's worked really hard the last few weeks to get his fitness levels up, which is part of the reason why he hasn't been in the team. We had a good chat about that and he worked really hard on and off the pitch and I think you saw that on Friday, he looked really sharp and obviously scored the goal."
Injuries and suspensions:
"Two good players to have back, Trevor Clarke and Dave Webster, important players. Paul Corry is the only injury, who's long term, and Graham Burke and Dave McAllister are still suspended. Graham's not on social media so he felt it was something he had to do, talk to the fans and apologise. It was a stupid thing to do and he knew he let everyone down and I think it was important that Graham got that message out."
On Drogheda:
"What we have to do first of all is go in with the right attitude, we didn't do that up in Drogheda and we got beaten and we deserved to get beaten. So they've shown already this year if you don't respect the game and don't respect what they are they'll turn you over. No matter what game plan they come with we've got to make sure that we're mentally focused and ready to win the game. We've been excellent since then, I think Drogheda and Bray have been our two worst performances of the year. We put the Bray one right here at home and we have a chance to go and put the Drogheda one right now. I loved playing for Pete Mahon, he was really good to me and I learned a lot from Pete. He's a proper manager and I've nothing but good things to say about Pete."
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Peoria Heights is a fun area that is surrounded by the city of Peoria on three sides, and the river on the east side. Some of the area's most spectacular homes and views can be found along Prospect Ave as well as Grandview Drive. Aside from some of the amazing homes, there are also some mouth watering local dining establishments along Prospect Ave that are definitely worth a stop.


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The Pavilion End, St Paul's
Fine food, great cask ales and a warm welcome make this excellent city pub well worth a visit. Just down the road from St Paul's Cathedral, it's a great place to stop for lunch while exploring London
23 Watling Street, London, EC4M 9BR
The Pilot, Greenwich
One of the oldest buildings on the Greenwich peninsula, just a stone's throw from the O2 Arena. With a stunning garden, beautiful bedrooms and food & drink to match.
68 River Way, Greenwich, London, SE10 0BE
The Red Lion, Hillingdon
Timber beams and Tudor fireplaces meet modern conveniences, in a charming Uxbridge hotel that brings past and present together. Enjoy a luxurious and relaxing stay in stunning, historic surroundings.
Royal Lane, Hillingdon, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3QP
The Ship, Southwark
A warm welcome and a cold beer awaits at The Ship. Step inside and you'll feel instantly at home here, with a buzzing, friendly atmosphere and the promise of fresh real ale in the air!
68 Borough Road, Southwark, London, SE1 1DX
The Star Tavern, Belgravia
Recognised as one of the best pubs in Belgravia, The Star Tavern is an award-winning, traditional London pub. Our emphasis is on great service, good beers and home-cooked food
6 Belgrave Mews West, Belgravia, London, SW1X 8HT
The Sun & 13 Cantons, Soho
Good Vibes / Cocktails / Craft Beer / Food Pop Ups in the West End!!
21 Great Pulteney Street, London, W1F 9NG
The Swan, Hyde Park
This beautiful coaching inn is right opposite Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens - offering traditional hospitality, a great menu and a long list of cask ales and wines in a historic part of London.
66 Bayswater Road, London, W2 3PH
The Swan, Staines
Whether you're here for a quick drink on the banks of the river, or staying a few days to explore the area, a warm welcome awaits at the Swan Hotel.
The Hythe, Staines, Middlesex, TW18 3JB
The Telephone Exchange, London Bridge
Situated at the foot of the iconic Shard, The Telephone Exchange is the perfect spot to visit whatever the time or the occasion.
10-18 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9SG
The Tokenhouse, Moorgate
The Tokenhouse offers a flexible, unpretentious space, perfect for lunch or drinks. This exciting Moorgate venue is a glittering example of Square Mile style, ideal for intimate gatherings & parties.
4 Moorgate, London, EC2R 6DA
The Trinity Bell, Aldgate
Located in the shadow of the Gherkin, The Trinity Bell is a beautiful Victorian-era City pub, with a basement Gin Palace and a modern British menu, making this the Square Mile's latest dining hotspot.
18-22 Creechurch Lane, London, EC3A 5AY
The Trinity, Borough
A newly refurbished pub and restaurant in Borough, right next to Borough tube station with modern and vibrant decor and an extensive beer selection with 15 taps
202-206 Borough High St, London, London, SE1 1JX


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Buying a new home is a tough enough process without worrying about whether a property's sellers have been filing homeowners insurance claims. Unfortunately, that's something you should think about, because their claims can increase what you'll pay for homeowners insurance—and their claims activity is also an important piece of the home's history.
"It's really smart to be aware of what damage the property may have gone through," says Laura Adams, senior analyst for InsuranceQuotes.com.
To see claims history for the past seven years, you need a copy of the property's C.L.U.E. report—from the Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange. Every claim, even if it was denied or only inquired about, is listed there. It's only available to the homeowners themselves, insurance carriers and mortgage lenders, so you'll have to request the paperwork. Only 10% of homeowners have done this, according to a recent survey by InsuranceQuotes.com. In fact, only 8% of Americans consider themselves somewhat or very familiar with C.L.U.E. reports, the survey found.
Add notes as necessary. If the seller did something to remedy a situation—such as installing a new roof or upgrading part of the home—you can enter information about those changes in the C.L.U.E. report as a personal statement. "Or have the seller enter it, and it will let the insurance company know that yes, the damage occurred, but look at the great job the owner did fixing the issue," Adams says.


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The Long Foreclosure Fight
Posted on May 23, 2012 by huffsantacruz
Good Times, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 – Patrick Dwire
County supervisors urge banks to suspend foreclosures
The state legislature is broken. Not only is it broken, but it has also prevented local governments from doing what can't seem to get done in Sacramento—such as providing homeowners with legal protection from banks conducting fraudulent foreclosures. That was the consensus of the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors at their May 15 meeting, when they adopted a resolution "urging" (but not requiring) local banks to suspend foreclosures until beefed-up, borrower protection laws are passed by the state legislature. The laws are known collectively as the "California Homeowner's Bill of Rights."
The county's resolution, which is almost identical to a resolution adopted by the City and County of San Francisco last month, falls far short of what many housing activists believe is necessary. They would prefer to see the county mandating an outright moratorium on foreclosures until a program of independent legal review and certification of legality is established.
County Counsel Dana McCrea advised the Board of Supervisors that authority to mandate such a moratorium or require more stringent legal review in the foreclosure process is "almost entirely" preempted by current state law, and the county would almost certainly be sued, probably successfully, if it were to adopt such measures.
"This speaks directly to why people have so little faith in government," Supervisor John Leopold said at the May 15 board meeting, explaining his frustration with the "lack of legal space" at the county level to seriously challenge banks on potentially fraudulent foreclosure practices.
"Not only is the banking lobby making the likelihood of passing the California Homeowner's Bill of Rights very, very low in Sacramento—it comes as no surprise to me that these same moneyed interests have had their way preempting local government from initiating their own, more stringent local protections," Leopold said.
Apart from the fact there are between 100 and 150 foreclosure filings per month in Santa Cruz County, there are two other developments that have enraged local activists and inspired the pressure they have brought to bear on local politicians for more protection against fraudulent foreclosures. The first is a forensic audit of 382 foreclosures conducted by the City and County of San Francisco Assessor-Recorder that found 82 percent of the foreclosure cases studied were legally defective, with at least one clear violation of law, and a majority had substantial evidence of fraud, including back-dated, "robo-signed" or fabricated documents, as well as false claims of beneficiary status.
Since the March to Stop Foreclosures (above), which was led by Occupy Santa Cruz's Foreclosure Working Group in March, the number of local groups and organizations joining in the effort to end the foreclosure crisis continues to grow.
The second development is the drastic reduction in foreclosures in Nevada that are a direct result of a new state law requiring a notarized affidavit of authority, signed by a bank official, as a requirement of filing a foreclosure, along with clear documentation of the bank's legal right to foreclose. The law includes severe criminal penalties for any fraud. This state law reduced foreclosure filings in Nevada, formally the nation's leader in foreclosures, by 76 percent since the law took effect last October, according to Foreclosure Radar, a foreclosure data research firm.
"In light of the City of San Francisco's Assessor's report," Supervisor Ellen Pirie said, "I'm incredibly frustrated and angry… I'm shocked that our legal system, which allows banks to foreclose without judicial review but seems to allow these fraudulent activities without any real supervision, and there's nothing we can do about it. I don't understand why our state legislators are not as angry as we are, and [aren't] more willing to do something about it."
The supervisors aren't the only ones angry about the recent, stepped-up lobbying against the California Homeowners Bill of Rights by the banking industry in Sacramento. So is Gina Green, a spokesperson for the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), a nonprofit advocacy organization that has been a leader in the fight against predatory lending to low-income communities. After more than three years of hard work advocating for borrower protections in the mortgage industry—protections now included in the California Homeowners Bill of Rights—Green said the frustration is high at CRL because this legislation is getting blocked by a few, key members in the state assembly and senate, both Democrat and Republican, who she says have apparently come under the influence of the banking lobby.
Green says CRL is "ready to take the gloves off, and start naming names of those members in the state legislature who are blocking the California Homeowners Bill of Rights legislation." She goes on to say that this legislation is desperately needed, as shown by the extent of fraudulent practices brought to light in the nationwide law suit brought by 49 State Attorney Generals against five major banks last year, in which banks finally settled for $24 million in damages in February. But the banking industry continues to have a "near lock of influence in the California State legislature," Green says.
Growing Grass Roots
Jeri Bodemar, a self-described "old activist" and member of the Santa Cruz Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), says the foreclosure crises just "grabbed her." As a result, she started doing outreach and organizing and began talking to Joy Hinz, a lead activist and organizer of the local Occupy Foreclosure Working Group.
Hinz, along with several members of the working group that originally spun off from Occupy Santa Cruz, have been attending County Board of Supervisor meetings regularly for the last several months, and encouraging the supervisors during Oral Communications to take action to protect families from foreclosure.
Meanwhile, Bodemar was impressed by a KPFA radio show featuring C.J. Holmes, the founder of Home Owners For Justice, a nonprofit organization waging a statewide information and organizing campaign to stop foreclosures. Bodemar and Hinz invited Holmes, who is also a long time Sonoma County real estate broker, to Santa Cruz, and co-sponsored a recent training workshop and public information event about fraudulent foreclosures practices.
In addition to a training workshop for "citizen fraud investigators," in which about 10 people were given an overview of what expert foreclosure fraud investigators look for, Holmes gave a three hour presentation to about 50 people at the Quaker Meeting House the evening of May 15, the same day the county supervisors adopted the foreclosure ordinance.
Holmes provided an in-depth analysis of how much the mortgage lending industry has changed over the course of her 25-year career in real estate brokerage, and showed that most of this change, made obvious by the combined Wall Street financial crises and collapse of the real estate market, has been for the worst. Holmes provided a fast but deeply researched summary of how the relatively safe, stodgy, local mortgage lending industry of 30 years ago was transformed into a Wall Street investor-driven casino of mortgage-backed securities, with players from all over the world.
One of the bottom lines, according to Holmes, is that the lack of accountability of banks in the foreclosure process is directly liked to the lack of accountability in the securitization of mortgage-baked securities sold on Wall Street, which was made technically possible by the industry created "MERS" recording system. Because the market crashed so hard and so fast, according to Holmes, banks had to resort to "extra-legal" techniques like robo-signing and forging documents to keep up with foreclosures once the "house of cards" began to collapse.
A key problem that Holmes said should be a "take away" from her talk was that the system continues to collapse, with a huge inventory of unsold, bank-owned homes, and that the idea that housing market will eventually stabilize under these conditions is misguided.
"It's time for us to get out of the box that banks have put us in," Hinz said after the presentation. "The banks have been setting us up for years, and gaming the system every step of the way. People are beginning to wake up and realize what's been done to them, and realizing they can't win playing by the banks rules."
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Julianna Grace LeBlanc (; Augusta, Georgia, 5 de diciembre de 2004), conocida artísticamente como Jules LeBlanc (antes Annie LeBlanc), es una actriz de nacionalidad Estadounidense

En diciembre de 2018, Business Insider la llamó una de las «adolescentes más famosas del mundo». Ha aparecido en videos en línea desde que tenía cuatro años y tiene muchos seguidores en línea. Ella interpreta a Rhyme en el drama familiar Chicken Girls de Brat en YouTube, protagonizó el programa de YouTube de Brat A Girl Named Jo interpretando el papel de Jo Chambers, y también interpretó a Rhyme en Chicken Girls: The Movie. Del 2010 al 2019 ha protagonizado el vlog de la familia Bratayley y desde el 2016 al 2018 la serie We Are Savvy de YouTube Red Originals.

Primeros años y personal
Jules LeBlanc nació de los padres Billy y Katie mientras su padre estuvo radicado en Fort Gordon, Georgia. Tiene dos hermanos, una hermana menor Hayley Noelle y un hermano mayor Caleb Logan (13 de julio de 2002 - 1 de octubre de 2015). En 2015, Caleb murió de una enfermedad cardíaca, una miocardiopatía hipertrófica, a la edad de 13 años. LeBlanc comenzó a tomar clases de gimnasia cuando tenía 2 años, y su familia comenzó a publicar videos de ella en línea cuando tenía tres años. Se hizo famosa como uno de los tres hermanos que aparecen en el canal de YouTube familiar de vlogs Bratayley. Hasta agosto de 2017, se entrenó como gimnasta. Se hizo popular en la aplicación musical.ly bajo el nombre @presshandstands7 pero luego lo cambió a @annieleblanc, obteniendo más de 13 millones de fanáticos. Jules protagoniza la serie web «Brat Chicken Girls», «A Girl Named Jo», «We Are Savvy» y «Sunnyside Up».

Los LeBlanc vivían anteriormente en Severna Park, Maryland, pero luego se mudaron a Los Ángeles, California para que Jules pudiera comenzar a actuar y hacer música.

Carrera
Originalmente, LeBlanc era conocida por sus videos de gimnasia. Sus encuentros y tutoriales de gimnasia comenzaron a publicarse en 2008 en su canal de YouTube, anteriormente conocido como Acroanna, cuando tenía 3 años. En 2017, el nombre del canal se cambió a Annie Leblanc y ahora se llama Jules LeBlanc.

LeBlanc es una de las estrellas de un vlog diario en el canal de YouTube «Bratayley» (más de 7,3 millones de suscriptores). El vlog, que inicialmente era solo para familiares y comenzó a filmarse cuando LeBlanc tenía seis años, sigue la vida de la familia LeBlanc. Las estrellas incluyen a los padres Billy y Katie con sus dos hijas Jules y Hayley. El nombre «Bratayley» fue inicialmente un apodo para Hayley, combinando la palabra «brat» (mocoso) y el nombre «Hayley».

LeBlanc había comenzado a recibir atención por su música en su identificador de TikTok @julesleblanc. En abril de 2018, ganó el premio Shorty a la «Muser del año».

Después, en 2017, que se especuló que LeBlanc estaba saliendo con la estrella de las redes sociales Hayden Summerall, y los fanáticos apodaron a la supuesta pareja como «Hannie», y además crearon una elaborada ficción de fanáticos con historias complejas sobre su relación en la escuela secundaria, y editaron miles de imágenes que aparecen. para mostrar los dos juntos. LeBlanc y Summerall colaboraron en una versión de YouTube de «Little Do You Know» (Poco sabes) de Alex & Sierra, que se volvió viral consiguiendo más de 63 millones de visualizaciones en YouTube, y más de 29 millones en Spotify. Después de que el fundador de los medios de Brat, Rob Fishman, se enteró del fenómeno «Hannie», eligió a LeBlanc y Summerall en un programa próximo, y su falsa relación quedó escrita en la historia.

La portada de LeBlanc y Summerall apareció en la posición 48 en la lista de artistas emergentes de Billboard. El 9 de septiembre de 2017, la versión de LeBlanc de la canción «Fly» (Volar) de Maddie & Tae alcanzó el puesto 34 en las listas de Billboard en canciones «Country». En noviembre de 2017, LeBlanc lanzó su primer sencillo original, «Ordinary Girl» (Chica ordinaria) En diciembre de 2017, la revista de fanáticos adolescentes Tiger Beat anunció que LeBlanc realizaría su primera gira por Estados Unidos a principios de 2018. En febrero de 2018, LeBlanc lanzó un sencillo, «Little Things» (Pequeñas cosas). A principios de mayo de 2018, LeBlanc lanzó un nuevo álbum recopilatorio de pop country en iTunes llamado «Lollipop» (Chupete), con el sello musical Heard Well. La colección seleccionada también incluye dos canciones de LeBlanc, «Somebody's Heart» (El corazón de alguien) y «Photograph» (Fotografía). Luego lanzó su nuevo sencillo «Picture This» (Imagínate esto) a principios de junio con la estrella de las redes sociales Austin Brown. Un poco antes de diciembre de 2018 lanzó su sencillo «It's Gonna Snow» (Va a nevar) como un nuevo Cuento de Navidad.

En agosto de 2017, YouTube dio aprobación a la serie de YouTube Red Originals, «We Are Savvy» (Nosotras somos inteligentes), como continuación de una serie de revistas para adolescentes del mismo nombre en el Family Channel de Canadá. LeBlanc fue presentada como coanfitriona de la serie, que debutó con más de 4,2 millones de visitas en su episodio piloto y se enfoca en elementos de música, moda y estilo de vida.

También en agosto de 2017, Brat lanzó la nueva serie de YouTube llamada «Chicken Girls». La serie presenta la relación de LeBlanc (Rhyme) y Summerall (TK), y se centra en la vida diaria de un grupo de amigos y bailarines en la escuela secundaria falsa, «Attaway High».

El episodio debut del programa recibió más de 10 millones de visitas en YouTube y, en mayo de 2018, la segunda temporada tuvo entre 2 millones y 4,5 millones de visitas por episodio. En febrero de 2018, Variety anunció que Lionsgate distribuiría un largometraje de «Chicken Girls: The Movie». También hay un acuerdo con Skyhorse Publishing para convertir el programa en una serie de libros. En septiembre de 2018, la tercera temporada de Chicken Girls se estrenó en el canal de YouTube de Brat. La cuarta temporada se estrenó el 19 de marzo de 2019.

En mayo de 2018, Jules y su hermana Hayley participaron en una nueva serie en el canal de YouTube Brat. Ese mismo mes, se anunció que LeBlanc y Addison Riecke protagonizarían una serie de misterio para adolescentes de Brat llamada «A Girl Named Jo» que tiene lugar en 1963 en una pequeña ciudad. También en mayo de 2018, Leblanc apareció en el video musical de Asher Angel para «Chemistry», ya que los fans los apodaron como «Ashannie».

En diciembre del 2018, protagonizó el largometraje de Brat, Holiday Spectacular. Meses después, también protagonizó otro largometraje de Brat, Spring Breakaway.

En noviembre de 2019, Bratayley dejó de hacer vlogs familiares después de 9 años, para que la familia se concentrara en otros proyectos.

En febrero de 2020, LeBlanc fue elegida para un papel principal para una próxima serie de comedia de amigos de Nickelodeon, «Side Hustle» junto a Jayden Bartels. En respuesta a la pandemia de coronavirus 2019-20, Nickelodeon ofreció a LeBlanc y Bartels un programa de entrevistas producido virtualmente titulado «Group Chat», que se estrenó el 23 de mayo de 2020.

Discografía

Álbumes de compilación
 Lollipop - Etiqueta: Heard Well; Lanzamiento: mayo de 2018

Individual

Filmografía

Giras
 Left Me Hangin' Tour (2017)

Premios y nominaciones

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Recibidores del Silver Play Button de YouTube
Actrices infantiles de Estados Unidos
Cantantes infantiles de Estados Unidos
Actrices de cine de Estados Unidos
Youtubers de Estados Unidos
Cantantes femeninas de pop de Estados Unidos
Cantantes de pop de Estados Unidos
Cantantes de Georgia (Estados Unidos)
Gimnastas de Estados Unidos
Gimnastas femeninas
Blogueras de Estados Unidos
Tiktokers de Estados Unidos


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Chimu Gold Rattle
by Daderot
A Chimu gold rattle, 1100-1470 CE. The figure, with earspools and headdress, represents a member of the Chimu ruling class and was a common motif in Chimu art. (Art Institute of Chicago)
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Since the advent of photography, the love affair with capturing images of Venice has never waned. Today it is still one of the most photographed places on earth in great part because it has retained its unique timeless character that once seen, begs to be shared. And that is the purpose of this book, a distillation of more than 20,000 photographs taken over the course of a decade by award winning photographer Scott Marx.
The images were selected to convey more than just a visual representation, they are also meant to elicit emotion and trigger other sensations present when they were captured. Hearing the waters lapping in the canals and boat hulls, feeling the grit between the paving stones and bricks, smelling the salt air on the wind as it blows across the lagoon. They are meant to evoke a sense of wonder at the scale of the ornate palaces, the peacefulness of a placid canal, and allow the viewer to be instantly transported through the centuries simply by turning the page.
The imagery been processed for high contrast with deep blacks and rich textures reminiscent of the character seen in those first photographs of Venice taken almost two hundred years ago. While many of the subjects in these photographs have been captured thousands of times before, it is hoped that these images will offer an interpretation that is new and distinct in character and that they will add, even in a small way, to the rich visual history of La Serenissima.
Versión ebook de composición fija, 114 págs.


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Comedian Lee Evans to return to Lowestoft
Published: 6:01 AM May 13, 2011 Updated: 1:35 PM October 9, 2020
COMEDY superstar Lee Evans will be playing two special 'warm up' performances at Lowestoft's Marina Theatre next month.
Last time the popular comedian played at Lowestoft in 2008 all 1,400 tickets for his two shows sold out in a matter of hours.
Lee Evans will warm up for his forthcoming tour by appearing at the Marina Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday, June 22 and 23.
Tickets can only be bought in person from the theatre box office from 10am this Sunday.
Theatre manager Martin Halliday said: 'We are extremely honoured that Lee Evans has once again chosen the Marina to prepare for his forthcoming tour.
'We are expecting demand for tickets to be extremely high, therefore, to be as fair as possible we will be opening the box office especially this Sunday from 10am to personal callers only.'
He added: 'All 1,400 seats will be available so everyone needs to get up early if they want a seat.'
The two performances by Lee at Lowestoft will be just before he heads off on his Roadrunner arena tour this summer.
Roadrunner is Lee's new show with 63 nights at the biggest arenas in the country.
When the show initially went on sale last year it smashed UK box office records by selling 227,424 tickets in just one day, firmly establishing it as the fastest and biggest day one selling UK comedy tour of all time.
Lee's manic energy, uncanny observations, hilarious delivery and side-splitting material have made his live performances a must-see for comedy fans worldwide.
His tours and DVD releases year-on-year continue to smash sales and box office records.


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Un esquinç és l'estripada, distensió o estirament excessiu d'un lligament (banda resistent de teixit elàstic que uneix els extrems ossis d'una articulació). Es produeix a causa d'un moviment brusc, caiguda, cop o una forta torsió de l'articulació, que fa superar la seva amplitud normal. També es denomina "torçament" o "torçadura" en llenguatge comú. Els esquinços causen dolor, inflamació i impotència funcional. El temps de recuperació és variable segons quina sigui la gravetat i la cronicitat de la lesió. Es distingeix entre esquinços benignes, quan els lligaments estan només distesos, i esquinços greus, quan hi ha hagut una ruptura de lligaments. Les lesions dels esportistes sovint són esquinços al turmell; en bàsquet, futbol i altres esports són freqüents.

Classificació, diagnòstic i tractament

Esquinç de primer grau
És un esquinç de només unes poques fibres del lligament. També s'anomenen entorsi, corresponen a una distensió dels lligaments articulars, sense veritable trencament ni arrencament. En l'examen clínic, l'articulació acostuma a comportar una inflamació i és dolorosa. Ocasionalment pot caldre fer una radiografia, que no mostrarà cap lesió. El tractament consisteix a aplicar una immobilització lleugera, mitjançant una fèrula o benes adhesives que permet una cicatrització del lligament.

Esquinç de segon grau
És un esquinç d'una part d'un lligament, d'un terç a gairebé totes les seves fibres. En l'examen clínic, l'articulació acostuma a comportar una inflamació important amb equimosi i és molt dolorosa, però poden fer-se moviment, que són normals. La radiografia no mostra cap lesió. Per a guarir-les n'hi ha prou amb una immobilització durant un parell (aproximadament) de setmanes i sovint caldrà una fisioteràpia posterior.

Esquinç de tercer grau
És un esquinçament complet del lligament, per la qual cosa hi ha moviment massa ampli de l'articulació afectada. Per detectar-los cal una radiografia forçant l'obertura de l'articulació. Sovint cal la cirurgia que repara el lligament o la substitució per un d'artificial; a vegades s'opta per mantenir sols una immobilització durant diverses setmanes. Sempre caldrà una fisioteràpia posterior.

Rehabilitació
La rehabilitació té tres objectius:
 reeducar el segment lesionat;
 disminuir la inflamació;
 enfortir els músculs que l'envolten;

Enllaços externs

 Zonamédica.com.ar
 Explored.com.ec
 Presentación
 Medlineplus
 Traumazamora.org

Luxacions, esquinçaments i distensions


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In a week, the number of players in Forza Horizon 4 reached 2 million
Aroosa
Forza Horizon 4 rushed to the PC and Xbox One just in a week. The Playground Games and Microsoft have already boasted impressive game indicators. It turned out to be one of the most successful races of the generation.
In the first seven days, 2 million users have been added to Horizon 4. The Xbox One version of the game received 92 points on Metacritic. Thus, it became the most highly rated exclusive for the Xbox One. In addition, the Forza series remains the best-selling racing franchise in this console generation. Also, Playground shared interesting statistics:
By October 9, users watched over 4.6 million hours of Forza Horizon 4 broadcasts on Mixer, Twitch, YouTube, and Facebook.
Players traveled in virtual England over 822.7 million miles about 1.3 billion kilometers.
Gamers have already bought over 4.1 million homes and acquired more than 74.4 million cars.
Over 377.7 million roads were discovered.
In the foreseeable future, Horizon 4 will be replenished with fresh content. In particular, on October 25, the game will feature tools for creating your own races.
Recall that Forza Horizon 4 included in the Xbox Game pass paid subscription. f you have the last one, you won't have to spend money on a race. And whether or not to pay her time, you can find out from our video review.
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Forza Horizon 4: A game in which the James Bond Cars is Used
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Edward Somerset (ur. ok. 1550, zm. 3 marca 1628) – angielski arystokrata, najstarszy syn Williama Somerseta, 3. hrabiego Worcester i Christian North, córki 1. barona North.

Po śmierci ojca w 1589 r. odziedziczył tytuł 4. hrabiego Worcester i zasiadł w Izbie Lordów. W 1590 r. był ambasadorem w Szkocji. W 1593 r. został odznaczony Orderem Podwiązki. W 1601 r. został Custos Rotulorum hrabstwa Monmouthshire. W latach 1601–1616 był koniuszym królewskim. Od 1602 r. był Lordem Namiestnikiem hrabstw Glamorgan i Monmouthshire. Należał do najbliższych doradców króla Jakuba I. W 1603 r. sprawował funkcję Lorda Marszałka, a w latach 1616–1625 Lorda Tajnej Pieczęci.

W 1606 r. został strażnikiem Great Park. W 1607 r. wybudował w nim rezydencję – Worcester Park House.

W grudniu 1571 r. poślubił lady Elizabeth Hastings (1546 – 24 sierpnia 1621), córkę Francisa Hastingsa, 2. hrabiego Huntingdon i Catherine Pole, córki 1. barona Montagu. Edward i Elizabeth mieli razem piętnaścioro dzieci, m.in.:
 William Somerset (ok. 1575 – ok. 1597), lord Herbert
 Henry Somerset (ok. 1576 – 18 grudnia 1646), 1. markiz Worcester
 Thomas Somerset (1579–1650), 1. wicehrabia Somerset
 Charles Somerset, ożenił się z Elizabeth Powell, miał dzieci
 Catherine Somerset (zm. 6 listopada 1654), żona Thomasa Windsora, 6. barona Windsor, nie miała dzieci
 Blanche Somerset (1583 – 28 października 1649), żona Thomasa Arundella, 2. barona Arundell of Wardour, miała dzieci
 Frances Somerset, żona sir Williama Morgana, 1. baroneta

Linki zewnętrzne
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Beaufortowie
Odznaczeni Orderem Podwiązki
Urodzeni w XVI wieku
Zmarli w 1628


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HomeNintendo and KOEI Temco Games Reveal Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, a Prequel to Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
Nintendo and KOEI Temco Games Reveal Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, a Prequel to Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
September 8, 2020 GamaTama Uncategorized
Today in a stealth drop Nintendo posted a video announcing a new Hyrule Warriors title. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is a prequel to the smash-hit Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The game takes place 100 years before the events of Breath of the Wild, and will show the great calamity that took place at that time.
Game Producer Yosuke Hayashi stated that Nintendo's Zelda Team worked very closely with KOEI Temco, overseeing the graphics, game play, and all the dialogue and story elements. This further solidifies the game as a prequel within the established canon of the Legend of Zelda series.
The gameplay clips in the trailer confirm that Link, Princess Zelda, and the Four Champions: Mipha of the Zora, Daruk of the Gorons, Urbosa of the Gerudo, and Revali of the Rito, will all be playable in the game. Being a Warriors game, it is likely that there will be more playable characters to come.
During the presentation Eiji Aonuma revealed that the Sequel to Breath of the Wild is still in development and that fans will have to wait a little longer for more news on the game.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity will release on November 20th, 2020 for Nintendo Switch.
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I am so excited to share with you a feature I did for the April issue of Lucky Magazine! My feature was focused on neons + neutrals. Such a fun trend to try out this spring to refresh your khakis. Stay tuned for a full outfit post tomorrow to get details on my whole look. Always a pleasure to collaborate with the wonderful people over at Lucky!
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Lucky is by far my favourite fashion magazine, I'll be sure to pick up this issue!
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The Pheromone by Christopher Marley 11x14 Walking Weevils is designed by Christopher Marley and is mounted and framed using museum quality archival materials. The insects are hermetically sealed in order to guard against decay. Enjoy this one of a kind piece of artwork today.
The Pachyrrhynchus family of weevils is so ornately adorned and intricately arrayed that the casual observer may not realize they are not manufactured. Nowhere else in the natural world are seemingly superfluous decorations so profuse and so man-made in appearance.
This was my impetus in creating a piece that is uncharacteristically organic. I usually prefer the energy of order and symmetry imposed on wildly organic creatures. But these weevils are so synthetic in appearance that it seemed like a stereotype to have them motionless and symmetrical.
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Any time a band starts to get big, it's fascinating to see how their stage show translates from small venues to much larger ones. The last two non-Lollapalooza shows Catfish and the Bottlemen played in Chicago, for example, were at Schubas and Subterranean--the latter of which I attended, and which had that delightfully claustrophobic feel Subterranean always gives you because of the overhanging side balconies. Catfish came at that show like it was a raucous house party, impressing me enough that I went to see them at the far more spacious House of Blues last night. But instead of the venue changing the band, the band changed the venue. The concert felt like a basement gig--a steamy, sweaty, throbbing mass of high school basement gig--and that's an indication of the transformative power of Catfish and the Bottlemen's music.
I had never really thought about what type of audience the band would attract, but it turned out to be very young (average age was probably 18, notwithstanding parents there with their adolescents) and very female. When a girl behind me lamented that she probably couldn't come to the Smallpools show in two weeks because it was the day of her ACT, I felt old at a concert for the first time in my life. Fortunately, though, I wasn't the only old soul in the house. Opener Jamie N Commons took the stage with a Man With No Name-type rug over his shoulders and a raspy blues voice that carried the weight of decades he himself hadn't experienced (he'll be 27 this month). Though he hails from Britain, he told the crowd that he'd spent six years of his childhood in Chicago's north suburbs, and that playing here was a return to his roots. To celebrate, he threw a taste of "Sweet Home Chicago" into his set.
His performance was one of the best opening acts I've ever seen. The music fell solidly within the realm of the southern-inspired blues rock that emanates from every honky-tonk bar in Nashville, with guitar leads that smacked of Kenny Wayne Shepherd in his prime and a driving, bass-heavy rhythm section. Above it all Jamie, whose contagious smile never left his face, sang with a soulfulness that came through equally well on love songs like "Caroline" and "Is Your Love Still Strong" and on darker tunes like "Lead Me Home," a song featured in The Walking Dead that he played solo on acoustic guitar to begin the set. The crowd seemed a little subdued at first (almost as if they weren't expecting an opener), but Jamie had won them over after about ten minutes. When he and his band finished with the standout "Jungle," recorded originally with X Ambassadors but last night played as a badass blues rocker, the wooden floor bounced like a trampoline as the entire audience grooved to the beat.
After the requisite break that felt like forever and the audience shuffling that always happens between acts, the lights dimmed and the screaming hordes rushed forth like a tsunami--who needs personal space at a concert anyways? The Beatles' "Helter Skelter" blasted over the PA and I sang along, but everyone joined my excitement when Catfish and the Bottlemen took the stage with a rollicking intro jam that led into "Rango." I think the band's four members were wearing exactly the same black outfits as they had been at Subterranean, with singer Van McCann rocking a zipped-up sweater that had to contribute heavily to the sweat pouring down his face and coating his hair.
From the first chorus of "Rango," for which he held the microphone out over the audience as everyone sang for him, he demonstrated an expert ability to read the crowd and get it invested in the show. McCann alternately embodied the thrilled Welsh lad ecstatic at the band's reception and the brooding writer of Catfish's gritty, often angsty songs, playing his guitar with a head-down ferocity and attacking the microphone like a fanatic but then cheerily thanking the crowd at every possible moment. At one point during "Fallout," he kicked a beach ball that had landed on the stage to wild cheers. And towards the end of "26," he knocked over his mic stand in a move that earned him oodles of punk cred, particularly when he picked up the standless mic, howled the song's chorus into it, and then held it to his guitar as he thrashed the strings. McCann's magnetism was such that when he was illuminated by a single white light, as he was during part of "Business" and for the entirety of the acoustic "Hourglass," he held the audience's rapt attention and wordlessly commanded their vocal participation like some sort of garage pop messiah.
McCann's raw vocals were backed by a pristinely polished rhythm section--bassist Benji Blakeway and drummer Bob Hall were in lockstep all night and even got to flash their soloing chops during a breakdown on "Business--and the brilliant guitar work of Johnny "Bondy" Bond, who channeled all his energy into his playing and barely moved or showed emotion all night. "Kathleen" was the highlight of the set, just over two minutes of pure power pop bliss that had the crowd singing along so loudly that McCann was barely audible. "Homesick," on the other hand, sounded a little muddy with reverb, and the slowed-down final repetition of the chorus led by McCann seemed manufactured. But I may only have felt that way because when I saw the band at Subterranean, their equipment malfunctioned during the song and the crowd sang the chorus unprompted, creating one of those magical moments that can never be recaptured.
Honestly, given Blakeway's comments when I interviewed him last week, I expected the crowd's applause after "Cocoon" to last longer than it actually did. But it seems they were saving up to go bananas for "Tyrants," the band's final song of the evening as well as of their debut album The Balcony, which they played in its entirety (albeit out of track order). McCann beautifully raised the energy in the room over the course of the miniature epic, shrieking into the microphone during a Blakeway and Hall-led breakdown, then letting his guitar ring out in the darkness to a hurricane of cheers before he and the band launched into the song's soaring finish.
In my conversation with Blakeway, we discussed whether or not playing to larger crowds would change Catfish and the Bottlemen's aesthetic, whether the band would lose that bursting underground energy that fit small venues so well. Now that I've seen them rock House of Blues the same way they rocked Subterranean, I have no doubt that they could make a stadium feel like a garage.


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NEW articles available on GlobaLex: Chad, Congo (DRC), Namibia.
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Nadjita F. Ngarhodjim holds an LLB (University of N'Djamena), and LLM (University of Pretoria).  Nadjita is a Legal Expert at the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.
Dunia Zongwe  is a fellow of the Institute for African Development at Cornell University. He holds a law degree from the University of Namibia (2006). He currently studies towards his LLM at Cornell Law School (2008) where he is writing a thesis on human rights and the exploitation of mineral resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Francois Butedi is a Congolese legal advisor and human rights activist with considerable experience in the courts of the DRC. The non-governmental organization (NGO) for which he works advised the government on several pieces of legislation and was actively involved in training and monitoring during the historic 2006 presidential and legislative elections in the DRC. He holds a law degree from the University of Kinshasa (2002) and is now reading for his LLM in Human Rights and Constitutional Practice at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Clement Phebe was assistant lecturer at the University of Kinshasa where he obtained a law degree. He also has an LLM in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria and is currently a PhD candidate at the Oliver Schreiner School of Law at the University of The Witwatersrand.
Geraldine Mwanza Geraldo is an LL.M candidate at the University of Pretoria in Human Rights and Democratisation. She was previously a conference organiser with the Human Rights and Documentation Centre at the University of Namibia. Geraldine holds a B. Juris and an LL.B from the University of Namibia.
Isabella Skeffers is a researcher at the Human Rights and Documentation Centre at the University of Namibia. She is an LL.M candidate at the University of Namibia. Isabella holds the B. Juris and the LL.B degrees from the University of Namibia.
Francisco A. Avalos joined the James E. Rogers College of Law in 1982 as the Foreign and International Law Librarian. His area of expertise is Latin American legal research with an emphasis on Mexico. He has written extensively and made many presentations in this area of the law. Mr. Avalos has served as Secretary-Treasurer and Chairperson of the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law SIS of the American Association of Law Libraries, and served on the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Advisory Committee. His current research interests include legal translating and the pre-Columbian legal systems of the Americas. He currently teaches First Year Legal Research and U.S. Legal Research for Foreign Students. Mr. Avalos also serves as a special consultant to the National Law Center for Free Inter-American Trade.
Maureen Garmon is Faculty Services Librarian at the Law Library, Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona.  She has participated in first year and intermediate legal research instruction at the College and is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries. Before joining the Law Library in 1997, Ms.Garmon worked as a law firm librarian. She holds an MLS from the University of Arizona.
Formerly of the Cornell Law Library, Charlotte Bynum is an assistant director and reference librarian focusing on foreign and international law at the Tulane Law Library. She is also an active member of the Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries.  Charlotte has a J.D. from Tulane Law School, and a Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Michigan.
Stéphane Cottin is the chief registrar of the Constitutional Council of France. Formerly, he was the creator of the documentation office, then of the website of the institution. He teaches legal research to both students in the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) and professionals with the Association of French Documentation Specialists (ADBS). He received an LL.M from Lille II University,  a master's degree in Public Law, and a master in Library Science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Paris (Sciences Po Paris).  He has published several articles in French and in English in law reviews, and several books, including a guide, in French, 'Petit guide d'accès à l'information juridique française.
Jérôme Rabenou has been the the internet master of the French Constitutional Council for ten years. He now works for the Prime Minister Information Systems Security department. He created the first French legal newsgroup (news:fr.misc.droit), website, and mailing-list. He received an LL.M in business law from the University Paris-XIII.
Milagros Santos-Ong  is Director of Library Services for the Supreme Court of the Philippines.


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