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There is always a kind of thrill when one athlete pits his skills, willpower and belief against the other in the battlefield. The two athletes push each other to the hilt and in the end, there can only be one winner. In the cricketing landscape, when a batsman pits his skills and temperament against a genuinely fast bowler, it usually makes for the most enthralling chapter in the sport.
A fast bowler with unadulterated pace, pelts down a barrage of bumpers, while the batsman collects bruises yet doesn't quit. Instead, he pushes the limits to play the next ball. In such a situation, there is no room for self-doubt or twitch as the next ball can again likely go whistling past the nose.
Here's a list of 11 such instances where fast bowlers with a lethal cocktail of unbridled pace and bumpers, drove fear into the minds of the batsmen. Also at the same time, there are instances of a few brave batsmen who stood up to the challenge and emerged victorious.
Minutes have turned into hours, hours into months, months into years and several decades, but even now the 1932-33 "Bodyline" series is regarded as an epoch-making Test series. It was an era, where it was considered "unsportsmanlike" to bowl a leg-stump/outside the line of leg-stump line and cricketers mostly adhered to that rule strictly. However, it wasn't the case with the Bombay-born England captain Douglas Jardine, who used the famous 'leg theory' to curtail the batting prowess of Don Bradman as England regained the Ashes Down Under.
The genesis of the idea took place on a dark and dreary day at the Oval Test in 1930. The great Bradman despite reigning supreme with his 232, had showed some discomfort while facing a few deliveries that reared up quite disconcertingly on a 'sticky wicket'. Percy Fender, the Surrey captain observed it and communicated his thoughts to Jardine. Jardine, who by then had taken over as the captain from Bob Wyatt, went through the footage and reportedly screamed, "I've got it, he's yellow".
Eventually, when the Test series started, one of the main protagonists, Bradman, missed the first Test at the SCG reportedly due to a few issues with the Board of Control. Jardine, though, believed that the great batsman had a 'nervous breakdown'. On the other side, the official reason given by the board was Bradman was laid low by influenza. In the England camp, there were a few problems too as Gubby Allen, one of the pacers, assigned to use the much talked about tactic, refused to follow his captain's instructions.
In the first Test in Sydney, Larwood made the ball streak through the air at alarming rates to leave the batsmen trembling. Larwood also bowled the first bumper of the famous Bodyline series - sixth ball of his first over - but to an orthodox field. The fast bowler went on to bag 10 wickets in the match, with England employing the Bodyline tactics intermittently. By then, the word "Bodyline" had also been coined for England's tactics in the Melbourne Age. The story goes that Hugh Buggy had sent his copy and had coined the term "Bodyline bowling" but the subeditor, Ray Robinson, kept it as just Bodyline.
The first Test also witnessed an intense duel between Stan McCabe and Larwood/Voce. Once Jack Fingleton was dislodged - caught at short leg via a vicious Larwood bumper - McCabe played a string of debonair hook shots, bisecting the infield on the on-side to crack a spellbinding 187* and lift Australia to 360 in the first essay. The famous line McCabe said to Bill O'Reilly, the lower-order batsman, "Don't worry about him [Larwood]. He's not as fast as he looks; I'll handle him," is still reminisced by connoisseurs.
The "Bodyline" tactics reached its peak in the Adelaide Test. After England were cleaned up for 341 in the first innings, Larwood bowled a nasty bouncer that just missed smashing Woodfull's head. He followed it up with another bolt of a lightning delivery that hit Woodfull flush on his chest. Such was the situation that it appeared with 50962 fans watching the game, there could have been a riot as the crowd began to jeer the English players. While the English players offered sympathy, at the same time Jardine turned to his spearhead and said, "Well bowled Larwood." It is believed that the comment was aimed at Bradman, batting at the other end.
Woodfull batted gamely for his 22 before being cleaned up by Allen. After the day's play, Pelham Warner, the England manager, visited the Australian dressing to enquire about Woodfull's health.
But, the usually calm Woodfull replied, "I don't want to see you, Mr Warner. There are two teams out there. One is trying to play cricket and the other is not."
The Test was further marred by controversy when Bert Oldfield, the 'keeper-batsman, was hit on the head by Larwood's bumper with Oldfield missing out on the hook. However, it has to be noted that a Bodyline field was not employed for that particular delivery bowled by Larwood. There was another riot-like situation with the English players even thinking of 'arming' themselves in case the fans attacked them. Later, Jardine dispatched a 'secret' telegram offering his sympathy to Oldfield's wife and gave a few presents to his young daughters.
England won the series 4-1 and it was the last time they held the urn till Bradman hung his boots in 1948. Bradman's average dropped down to 56 - the only time in his career he averaged less than 65 in a series. Larwood, who had sustained a foot injury during the final Test, never played for England again. The no-nonsense captain, Jardine, played his final Test versus India in Chennai in 1934. The "Bodyline" series had far-reaching repercussions as the Australian board sent a strong-worded cable at the end of the fourth day's play of the third Test and the MCC retorted with a strong reply too. The situation even escalated into a diplomatic affair between the two countries.
Fast bowlers continued to use the "Bodyline" tactics even after the Ashes 1932-33. Nottinghamshire tried it during the 1933 County season, while Ken Farnes, playing for Cambridge University, employed a similar strategy to hit a few Oxford University batsmen during the same season. Douglas Jardine, himself had to face such a strategy when the West Indies pace duo of Manny Martindale and Learie Constantine (under the leadership of Jackie Grant) tried to shake up the England line-up in the Old Trafford Test.
Wally Hammond, the England lynchpin, suffered a blow on the chin. However, he recovered and resumed his innings. Jardine was next in the firing line but the tenacious batsman offered mostly a straight blade to dead-bat the pacers. He also looked to take his bottom hand off the bat handle to negate the threat. Les Ames, his batting partner at the other end, struggled to cope up with a barrage of bumpers. Jardine had said to his partner, "You get yourself down this end, Les. I'll take care of this bloody nonsense." Jardine finished with 127 in the first innings while the Test ended in a stalemate. It remained as the only hundred for Jardine in his 22-Test career. Martindale was the most successful bowler for the visitors, ending with 5 for 73. Incidentally, Nobby Clark, the left-arm pacer also resorted to such tactics bowling in the second innings.
Ellis Park (Johannesburg) was initially built as a multipurpose stadium, with both cricket and rugby to be played. And as a result of that, there were many occasions when cricket was played on under-prepared surfaces. The track prepared for the 1952-53 Test against New Zealand had a good covering of grass and seemed to be a treacherous surface. To make matters worse for the visitors, South Africa had Neil Adcock in their ranks. The mean fast bowler could extract disconcerting bounce from most surfaces, but at Ellis Park, the ball was also exploding from a good length making him a very dangerous proposition.
After South Africa were bowled out for 271 in the first dig, the tourists lost both Geoff Rabone and Murray Chapple with the score reading 9 for 2. The openers also sustained blows after they were hit in the first over by Adcock. Bert Sutcliffe, New Zealand's best batsman, walked in at No.4. The fourth ball he faced, the gutsy left-hander attempted to hook Adcock, but the ball lifted awkwardly to plonk his left ear. The crack, the sound of the southpaw being hit, was such that even now eyewitnesses of that incident recollect it. Sutcliffe remained unconscious for a few minutes. After regaining consciousness, he didn't take the stretcher, instead bravely walked back to the pavilion with the assistance of Rabone and also shook hands with the South African skipper Jack Cheetham.
Sutcliffe was taken to the X-ray room and by then he had a lump behind his left ear. He collapsed in the hospital again and was unconscious for a while. Eventually, they dressed up his ear-lobe. Sutcliffe also asked his captain, Rabone, "How are we going?" and when he came to know the visitors were in dire straits, he decided to bat again. At 81 for 6, the heavily bandaged Sutcliffe walked out to the middle. He hooked the third ball he faced from David Ironside for a six. He also square cut Adcock for a boundary. The poignant moment of the Test came when Bob Blair, who had lost his fiancee, Narissa Love, in the Wellington-Auckland express tragedy, trudged his way to the crease, teary-eyed. The duo added a further 33 in just 10 minutes to reduce the deficit to 84. It included a 25-run over off the parsimonious Hugh Tayfield which remained the record for most runs scored off an over in Tests till 2001. South Africa, finally, won the Test by 132 runs. New Zealand, meanwhile, won everyone's hearts for their courage and valour.
According to New Zealand's most prolific cricket writer, Dick Brittenden, "It was a great and glorious victory, a story every New Zealand boy should learn at his mother's knee."
Barbados vs Indians, Tour match, 1961-62
When India embarked on a tour to West Indies in 1961-62, the visitors were expected to give a good account of themselves under the leadership of Nari Contractor. The Indian captain had just led the side to a memorable Test series win versus England. However, the Indian side couldn't make an impact against West Indies as they were crushed by 10 wickets, and an innings and 18 runs in the first two Tests. Before the third Test, the tourists were scheduled to play a tour game against Barbados.
Incidentally, Contractor, who was in poor form, with just 22 runs in four innings, wasn't expected to partake in the tour game. But there's little escaping fate. On occasions, an athlete will walk away from the sporting arena with a fairytale to tell, but at other times, there would be pain and agony to swallow. Just before the tour game, a few of the Indian players reported injuries and Contractor made himself available to play. In the subsequent warm-up game, Barbados compiled 394. It was after the lunch break on the second day when fate ended Contractor's Test career. Dilip Sardesai, Contractor's batting partner, was dismissed by Wes Hall. Barbados also had George Rock and a young tearaway quick by the name of Charlie Griffith in their ranks. In fact, Frank Worrell had warned the Indian team at a party about Griffith and his fearsome fast bowling.
Griffith then sent one thunderbolt that whistled past Contractor. Surti, who had joined Contractor in the middle, believed Griffith was chucking and said the same to his captain. Contractor, though, continued to bat and was almost caught by the short leg fielder (Conrad Hunte) off the fourth ball of the over. And then came the fatal blow as Griffith hurtled a shortish delivery, Contractor perhaps wanted to get behind the line, but in the end, tried to lean back. Unfortunately, he couldn't evade it and was struck on his left ear.
Immediately, he started to bleed from his nose and ears and was holding his head in tremendous pain. Later in the hospital, he started throwing up and an emergency operation had to be done as he had a skull fracture. Unfortunately, the local doctor wasn't a specialist neurosurgeon but was able to relieve the pressure on Contractor's brain. A second operation was conducted and afterwards, an iron plate was inserted. Worrell, the Windies captain, Chandu Borde, Bapu Nadkarni and Polly Umrigar all donated their blood and after battling with life and death for six days, Contractor regained full consciousness. The brave India captain tried to make a comeback into the Test side but was never picked again. As far as the antagonist Griffith is considered, he was no-balled twice in his career, including once by umpire Cortez Jordan in the same fateful match.
In the Ashes 1974-75, the spine-chilling pace duo of Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee hadn't just combined to help Australia thump England by 166 in the Gabba Test. But, they had also inflicted enough injuries to leave England in tatters. Dennis Amiss and John Edrich were more or less ruled out of the second Test at the WACA. Keith Fletcher, who was hit on his forearm during the first Test, was again struck in the same area in a pre-match practice game. England also had a few injury concerns with pace bowlers.
It forced the then England captain, Mike Denness, to make a desperate SOS call to Colin Cowdrey. Cowdrey had made his Test debut versus Australia way back in 1954 and was 42 by the time the SOS call was made. He had averaged a creditable 38 during that County season for Kent, but at the same time, he hadn't played for England in Tests since 1971. But the England great, who was watching the pace duo terrorize the English batsmen on television, readily agreed by saying, "I would love to" join the embattled set-up. He even said to the press that he was 'playing squash' and was quite fit. After having a net at Sevenoaks (Kent), he embarked on a 47-hour journey to Perth.
Thomson, on the other hand, had said, "he [Cowdrey] will cop it as quick as anyone". In the subsequent WACA Test, Cowdrey surprised everyone when he walked out to bat by saying to Thomson, "Good morning, my name's Cowdrey". A slightly startled Thomson bowled at scorching pace as Cowdrey played and missed a few.
However, he soon began to get behind the line. He even started to leave a few deliveries in the channel outside the off-stump. Despite being hit on the chest, he showed the required temperament and technique to compose a determined 22 before he was castled by Thomson. Australia went on to win the Test by nine wickets with Thomson picking up a rich haul of seven scalps in the match. Such was Thomson's scorching pace that Keith Miller, the great Australian all-rounder, later wrote, "Thomson even frightened me sitting 200 yards away". The Test, though, is still reminisced for a 42-year-old man taking up the challenge of facing the terrifying duo of Lillee and Thomson on arguably the quickest surface in the cricketing world. He retired at the end of the series with 43 Ashes appearances - the most by any England player.
The 1976 Jamaica Test between India and West Indies is (in)famously called as the 'Jamaica bloodbath'. The Windies pace attack, spearhead by Michael Holding and Wayne Daniel, bowled a string of bumpers and beamers, with India being bowled out for 97 (for 5) in the second essay - the remaining batsmen couldn't bat as they had suffered injuries.
If we turn the pages and look back at the series, India had chased down a massive target of 406 in the third Test at Port of Spain to leave the rubber deadlocked at 1-1. The result meant that Clive Lloyd decided to end the experiment of playing three spinners in the third Test and employ the deadly short ball strategy.
India, who were inserted into the bat in the fourth Test, made a fine start and were well placed at 136 for no loss when Holding dismissed Gavaskar with a yorker. Gavaskar, in his autobiography titled Sunny Days, later described the crowd as a 'mob'. He had also noted, "proved beyond a shadow of doubt that these people still belonged to the jungle and forests instead of civilised country".
By then the Jamaican crowd was making loud noises, shouting, 'Kill him, maan!', 'Hit him, maan!', 'Knock his head off, Mike!'
It was on Day 2, when the Windies upped their game. Mohinder Amarnath was caught at short leg off Holding. The tearaway then hurled a thunderbolt that took the glove off Gundappa Vishwanath to speed away to the boundary. Holding finally dislodged Vishwanath with another wicked bumper and the elegant batsman hurt his finger. Anshuman Gaekwad, who had taken several blows on his body, had to retire hurt for 81 after he was struck on his left ear. Bishan Singh Bedi, who complained about West Indies' intimidatory tactics to the umpires, declared the innings at 306 for 6.
Worse was to come for India in the second essay, as due to injured players, Madan Lal was forced to bat at 4 and Srinivas Venkataraghavan coming out to bat at No. 5. Windies chased down the paltry target of 13 without losing a wicket. Clive Lloyd, the home side's captain, had later said, "This is cricket - if you get hit you have to take it!" Meanwhile, the Indian set-up returned home after losing a well-fought series 2-1, battered and bruised.
At the start of the England versus West Indies Test series in 1976, Tony Greig had made an inflammatory comment on BBC's Sportsnight, saying, "I'm not really sure they're as good as everyone thinks. These guys, if they get on top they are magnificent cricketers. But if they're down, they grovel, and I intend, with the help of Closey [Brian Close] and a few others, to make them grovel." It was the time of apartheid in South Africa and as it was said by a 'white' South African, it angered Clive Lloyd and his teammates as well as West Indian fans.
In the first two Tests of the series, England competed with their formidable opponents with both the games ending in a stalemate. It was in the third Test when the tourists bowled with high intensity to thrash England by 425 runs. Despite Mike Selvey bowling well on his Test debut, the Windies compiled 211 with Gordon Greenidge crunching 134 of those runs. It was followed by a hypnotic spell of fast bowling by Michael Holding. England had trudged along to 46 for 2 before the Jamaican great picked up five wickets for just nine runs as the hosts were routed for 71. Holding eventually ended up with 5 for 17.
Greenidge and Viv Richards sent England on a leather hunt in the second essay as the Windies declared at an imposing 411 for 5, setting the host a massive target of 552. It was at that stage of the match when the 45-year-old Close and the 39-year-old Edrich were mercilessly peppered with short stuff by the trio of Holding, Andy Roberts and Wayne Daniel. After receiving numerous blows on his body, Close was struck on his ribs and then near his abdomen by Holding. Terry Bindle, in the Glasgow Herald, succinctly noted, "On each occasion Close's knees momentarily gave way. His face contorted with pure agony before he regained his composure and went on chewing away with feigned indifference."
The barrage didn't stop there as the next one whistled past Close's head. When stumps were drawn for the day, Close and Edrich had taken the home team to 21 for no loss after facing 14 overs and 75 minutes of hostile and brutal fast bowling. Close had made just one and Edrich 10, but the way the duo withstood the fearsome pace attack, made the crowd sit up and applaud them. It was the last of Brian Close's 22 Test matches in a career spanning 26 years & 356 days - the second longest in the history of Test cricket. West Indies won the Test and the series but the duo's gallantry against the pacers is still reminisced fondly by cricket lovers.
The all-conquering West Indies side arrived on the shores of Australia in 1979-80, aiming to exact revenge for their humiliating 1-5 series loss Down Under in 1975-76, which had made Lloyd say "never again". With the "Four Horsemen of Apocalypse" in their ranks - Michael Holding, Colin Croft, Andy Roberts and Joel Garner, the visitors certainly had the firepower to decimate Australia. Australia were no less in pace ammunition with the likes of Rodney Hogg and Len Pascoe joining forces with Lillee and Thomson.
The first Test was drawn, while West Indies crushed the home side by 10 wickets in the second. In the final Test, the foursome fearsome shared all the 20 spoils between them as the home side suffered an ignominious 408-run loss. The hallmark of West Indies' performance was how they curtailed Greg Chappell's run-scoring. In the unofficial Packer Super Tests, he had amassed over 600 runs against the Windies bowlers but couldn't cross the fifty-run mark in the final two Tests of the three-match series. Holding, in an interview, later noted that they had studied Chappell closely during the Super Tests which helped them to work out the great batsman. The way Andy Roberts bowled a nasty bumper to force Chappell to fend it to the gully fielder in the final Test encapsulates the point. It was West Indies' first ever series win (2-0) in Australia in six attempts.
When West Indies pummelled England in Antigua to make a clean-sweep of the 1986 series, 5-0, David Gower, the England captain, had noted, "The ship is well and truly sunk, but congratulations to Viv and his boys." And Gower was perhaps right as a battered and bruised England team was thrashed in every match of the rubber. The scariest of the Tests turned out to be the first game played in Jamaica. The first Test also witnessed the debut of Patrick Patterson - arguably one of the quickest bowlers of all time.
In his debut Test, he bowled with volcanic pace, which made Graham Gooch (scored more runs than anyone else against West Indies in the period between 1980 to 1995) say, "It was the first time, I'd ever really got the whiff of danger in the nostrils."
With a low sightscreen in front of the George Headley Stand (authorities had refused to raise it claiming it would impair the view of spectators who had already bought tickets) and with deliveries shooting off a good length via a dangerous pitch, the tall and muscular Patterson charged in to cause mayhem and bag seven wickets in the match. There was no limit on the number of bouncers that could be bowled and it was left to the umpires to judge whether, in accordance with Law 42, the bowling was deliberately intimidating. Johnny Gayle, who was at Patterson's end, saw nothing wrong and the bumper barrage carried on. England were crushed by 10 wickets. Peter Willey, who played 15 of his 26 Tests between 1976 and 1986 against the West Indies, scored a defiant 71 (off 104 balls) in the second innings and said of Patterson, "If people are bowling 90 miles an hour now, Patterson must have been bowling 100mph in that game." After the Test, John Woodcock of the Times summed up the Test aptly, "ever felt it more likely that I would see someone killed on the pitch".
For a period of time, the game of cricket seemed to be missing a hostile fast bowler testing every bit of the batsman's defense with pace and awkward bounce. But in the Ashes 2013-14, connoisseurs of the game were transported to a bygone era as Mitchell Johnson hurled hand grenades to snare a rich haul of 37 wickets. One of his best performances in terms of sheer hostility came in the opening Test at the Gabba. On a surface that offered good carry, he terrorised the English batsmen to pick up nine wickets in the match as the tourists crashed to a 381-run defeat. The visitors, who had perhaps started the series as marginal favourites, never really recovered and were whitewashed 5-0.
Johnson, with a slightly remodelled action, which was based on an exaggerated pistoning of the arm and a lengthened run-up, charged in on Day 2 at the Gabba to cause havoc. Just before lunch, Jonathan Trott was hit on the glove by Johnson and soon was dismissed. Trott, who was in the prime of his career then, suffered a nervous breakdown and took a forced sabbatical from the game. Kevin Pietersen, the aggressive batsman, attempted the hook, but was beaten by Johnson's lightning pace and awkward bounce. He then perhaps produced the best delivery of the match to dismiss Michael Carberry. With two fielders close in, he bowled a scorching bouncer from round the wicket that was angled away from Carberry, with the opener edging it to the first slip.
In the second innings he again dislodged Trott and finally spearheaded the hosts to a comfortable win by dismissing the last man James Anderson. The England spearhead also was in the midst of a verbal duel, with Michael Clarke telling to him, "get ready for a broken f...... arm". One of the ways to capsulise Johnson's effect on the match would be the slip fielders alongside three close in fielders waiting with bated breath for Chris Tremlett to edge one late on Day 4. Johnson ended the series with 37 scalps as seven from the England squad never played another Test after that Ashes. Trott made an unsuccessful comeback from the self-imposed sabbatical 18 months later in the Caribbean which lasted just three Tests.
In the recently-concluded Test series between England and Australia, the Australian pace trio of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood used sustained short stuff, especially against the opposition's lower-order batsmen. It was in the WACA Test, when the pace trio raised the bar a notch higher as England's lower order was put under immense pressure. In the first innings, England lost their last six wickets for just 35. In the second innings too, Australia employed a similar strategy to clean up England and regain the Ashes. Craig Overton survived a couple of well directed short ones, while Stuart Broad could only fend it to the 'keeper. James Anderson, who seems to come under the scanner of Australia's fast bowlers every time he bats, sustained a sickening blow when he was smacked on his helmet. However, he decided to resume his innings. Cummins provided the finishing touches to the well drawn plan when he dismissed Chris Woakes with a shortish delivery as England crashed to their eighth successive defeat at the WACA.

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Newcastle University is pioneering system that will use renewable energy from granite rock 'hotspot'
A geo-thermal energy system is to be pioneered as part of an eco-village project in the north-east of England.
In 2004 a granite rock “hotspot” was located under the site in county Durham, and the plan is to tap into it to generate renewable energy for homes and businesses in the planned Eastgate eco-village in Weardale.
Newcastle University is developing plans to create a huge central heating system deep below the village, with scientists and engineers wanting to drill a twin borehole system to continually cycle groundwater through rocks as deep as a kilometre underground.
Energy will be generated by passing the hot water through a heat exchange device. It is hoped that the prototype will be used as a model to tap other UK hot spots.
Project leader Professor Paul Younger said using a twin set of boreholes solved problems which had hindered other attempts to use deep-seated hot water, which is heated by naturally-occurring low-level radiation found in all rocks.
He said: “By re-injecting water using a second borehole we are able to maintain the natural water pressures in the rocks and allow pumping to continue for many decades to come.”
Some of the water will also be used for a natural hot water spa, thought to be the first in the UK since the Romans tapped the hot springs at Bath.


What You Need to Know About Motorcycle Touring
The self-moving or self-propelled vehicles that can be used on the road or off-road are typically called as motor vehicles. Another design of the motor vehicles is that it cannot be used or operated on trails like trains, and its typical uses is to transport goods, properties and passengers to another destination. Some of the most common examples of motor vehicles include regular trucks, light trucks, cars or automobiles, buses, and motorcycles.
Motorcycle is a term that refers to the motor vehicle designed with either two or three wheels, and some other terms that refers to the said motor vehicle include cycle, bike and motorbike. Some of the most common purposes of using or riding motorcycles include off-road riding, commuting, touring or long distance travel, racing, and cruising, and the act of riding a motorcycle is called as motorcycling. The three primary kinds of motorcycles include the off-road motorcycles, like motorcross and the ones that are not street legal for this are designed as dirt-oriented racing motorbikes; the street bikes, such as mopeds, sport bikes, scooters, and cruisers; and the dual purpose bikes or machines, such as the ones designed as dual-sport style that are made to go off-road and include features to make them comfortable to be used and legal on the street.
A motorcycle that is designed for the purpose of traveling to long distances or touring is typically called as touring motorcycle. The touring motorcycle are designed by the manufacturers with large windshields and large displacement fairings to protect the driver from high degree of wind and weather; engines with a huge deal of low-end horsepower; an upright seating position which can promote relaxation to the rider than riding sport bikes; a luggage carrying capacity; and fuel tanks with a larger capacity for long distances between the filling-ups of fuel. The touring motorcycles are commonly used by the riders who are planning to practice a format of tourism that involves the use of motorcycle, called as motorcycle touring.
It is typically advised for the travelers and riders to use and practice a variety of special equipment and techniques to do and accomplish motorcycle touring. It is recommended for the people who wants to go motorcycle touring to wear earplugs during their travel, to give their friends and families the idea or information where they planned to go especially if they want to go in unfamiliar places, to inspect their motorbikes regularly, to bring paper maps and GPS, to use technology to regulate their body temperature, and to stay hydrated and eat moderately during their travel. The ones who plans to try motorcycle touring may check out some important details and information about it through the help of the experts, or through the use of the internet.


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My friend Paul Mayer, the world’s greatest unknown guitar player, died on December 7.
Never heard of him? Well, let me tell you. For a decade we were neighbors on a street called Vision Drive in Topanga Canyon. If you love music, you’ve probably heard about Topanga, one of those seminal bohemian places where a truckload of the best music of the ‘60s and the ‘70s originated. Tucked into the steep valleys of the Santa Monica mountains right in between its high-roller neighbors Malibu and Pacific Palisades, poor cousin Topanga served as a cheap, funky artist’s colony back in the day. Even now you can see the lean-tos, cabins with no foundation and rickety 1930s mother-in-law “guest houses” spread across those valleys, on narrow winding streets haunted by the younger, wide-eyed ghosts of great musicians.
“Man, can you feel it here?” an overeager realtor asked a Topanga house-hunting friend once. “Neil Young. Linda Ronstadt. Woody Guthrie. Fleetwood Mac. Can you feel it?”
We laughed about that, but Fleetwood really did write and put down the first tracks on Rumours at the house at the end of our street, and Woody really did spend a few years on the grounds of the Theatricum Botanicum, Will Geer’s performance space for McCarthy-accused Hollywood blacklist victims, and Shakey Neil really did live right down the road, too, where he wrote and recorded After the Gold Rush in his basement in 1970. Two of L.A.’s canyons—Laurel and Topanga—together helped give birth to the folk; folk-rock; rock; and singer/songwriter ages in American music. From those two places—dilapidated, sylvan rural homelands for poor creative kids who wanted to start a revolution—American music conquered the world.
One little club called The Topanga Corral hosted just about everyone. Locals Little Feat, Spirit, Canned Heat, Emmylou and a whole passel of other great musicians got their start at the Corral. Etta James sung her heart out there. Jim Morrison wrote the song “Roadhouse Blues” about driving up to the Corral one night. The place launched many a career, then burned down, probably set aflame by all those creative sparks. Rebuilt, it became a punk venue in the ‘80s, then burnt down again. My friend Paul played there many times, usually in the house band, because as one of the top session guys in the country, he could play anything with anyone. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me start at the beginning.
Paul grew up in the San Fernando Valley, an L.A. kid from a blue-collar family, his dad and uncles were construction guys who eventually did pretty well for themselves in Southern California’s boom years. Paul helped out as a kid, so he could throw drywall mud, frame up a house and build just about anything. But tired of manual labor, Paul went off to college, determined to make something out of his life. He majored in finance, found out he was good with numbers, got his degree and became a stockbroker. He made a pile, but he hated it. Meanwhile, here came that big train of the ‘60s down the tracks, and Paul picked up an electric guitar. He quit breaking stocks and started breaking rocks, hammering out those gut-churning chords on his Les Paul, making the world a louder, more elemental and much more dangerous place.
He got good fast. He put together a few bands, sure, and you probably even heard of them, but it was the session work that made him a music industry legend. Often playing un-credited so the famous band members didn’t get too embarrassed, Paul’s guitar graced some of the seminal singles, albums and soundtracks of the era. If you’ve listened to classic rock radio or heard the major West Coast bands, you’ve heard Paul’s licks.
He could make any axe scream for mercy, wail like a banshee or coo like a contented, milk-fed baby. Acoustic or electric, classical, rock, folk, slack-key, flamenco, weird tunings, Paul had ears famous for their acuity, perceptiveness and delicate, nuanced shadings of sound. Blessed with an eidetic music memory, he remembered every song he ever heard, and could play them immediately on request. This made him invaluable in session work, and he got tons of it. He played first guitar in all four of the big film orchestras that scored and soundtracked every major Hollywood movie during the time. Name a major music director or a conductor—Paul had played with them. Mention Paul’s name to the producers who did the big projects, and they knew, right away, that your music industry insider credentials were solidly in order.
Paul loved rock ‘n’ roll, but transcended it. Short, stout, pale, friendly, intelligent, self-deprecating, reliable, always ready with a smile or a bright quip, he didn’t fit the dark brooding rebel guitar-hero image—but he played the solos and lead breaks you thought those guys were playing. Paul was a pro’s pro. Like most great instrumentalists, he eventually wanted bigger challenges than standard three-chord progressions, and the complex siren song of jazz and classical spoke to him. So he got his PhD in guitar from UCLA and began to teach. You’d see the rock gods carrying their git-fiddle cases into Paul’s place in Topanga, hoping nobody saw them, going to get lessons from the master. Also, Paul taught a whole new generation of pickers and players at Santa Monica College, literally hundreds of aspiring guitar virtuosos, where he became one of the most beloved guitar professors in the country.
But as the big-orchestra film score-era faded, as the studio world gave way to sampling and digitized sound, the paying gigs for accomplished session musicians gradually went away, too. So Paul did something he had wanted to do since his brother returned from combat in Vietnam permanently disabled from PTSD—he went to work in a mental hospital, running an innovative and very successful music therapy program. Every day Paul would make the long drive down the dreaded 405 to the hospital in Orange County, and use his remarkable command of rock licks and flamenco trills and classical phrases to soothe the minds and souls of his patients.
And when a bunch of us would get together in the neighborhood to play and sing music, about once a month or so, just to spend a night belting out a few songs among friends for the pure pleasure of it, Paul would tell us about how his music actually made people whole. That’s when he’d smile the biggest. Then he’d tell a self-effacing joke, grin again and play another song, a musician at the absolute top of his form, the maestro and his instrument one. We’d marvel at his abilities. Stunned, new guests at our music nights would whisper “Whoa—who is that guy?” Even the pros who stopped by to jam dropped their jaws when they saw his left hand flash across the frets, or when he travis-picked through a bluegrass tune at triple tempo, or when they heard him play a song from memory that he obviously hadn’t thought about for decades. I saw his speed and his agility and his pure and humble musicianship make more than a few expert players open their guitar cases, put their axes away, and just sit and watch and listen and learn.
The last time I talked to Paul, a few months ago, my wife Teresa and I sat and ate lunch with him at Vern Putnam’s funeral, another wonderful Topanga neighbor whose big heart had suddenly decided to quit at 66. In the shade of the giant oak trees at the Theatricum, right next to Woody’s cabin, the three of us mourned our close friend, reflected on the nearness of the next stage of existence for all of us and contemplated the mysterious ways of the fates. Paul happily told us that his two adult daughters were doing really well in life. Also, he said, beaming, that he had just fallen in love, met the woman he planned to spend the rest of his life with, and was making plans for early retirement. Paul seemed happy and fulfilled.
Then a month ago Paul, only a little past 60, got a diagnosis of leukemia. He died last Saturday, sitting at home. No one knows what killed him—maybe the new medication, a heart attack, or something unknown. Like so many of my generation’s great musicians, he has taken the plunge into the sea of light.
I suspect Paul’s sitting in with the angel band now.


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Seasonal Bugs On Site
We are very grateful to a conscientious plotholder who has helpfully reported the early arrival of two of our least favourite bugs, namely codling moths and blackfly. The codling moths head for apple and pear trees (and walnuts) whilst blackfly are taking up residence on broad bean plants, particularly those planted during the autumn months. Perhaps these early arrivals are due to the spell of warmer weather and the absence of severe frost.
There is a huge amount of advice available in gardening books and magazines and on the web of course. Some plotholders will have tried and tested ways of dealing with these pests but for many of us here’s what we suggest, act now and protect your fruit and vegetables.
We recommend the Agralan codling moth trap to protect your apple and pear trees. Available from our trading shed the traps and refills are easy to install, just follow the on pack instructions. The traps are RHS endorsed and 1 trap will protect up to 5 trees.
Use a brush to remove small clusters of blackfly before they increase and spread. A gardeners’ trick is to pinch off the tips of broad bean plants before blackfly appear in order to remove a favourite feeding point. Not only does this address the problem, but it also encourages better growth and development of strong pods.

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Onion is part of our daily food across the globe. It adds flavor specially in the non- veg foods. Red and white onions are common ones which are consumed. But do you know the evolution of onions ? How it traveled to rest of the world and became part of every kitchen.
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Missing Stanley Mission Man Tracked Down By Family
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A missing man from Stanley Mission has been found alive and well.
Family members reported Neheiman Ernest McLeod missing on Wednesday.
He hadn’t been seen since leaving the La Ronge health centre on Sunday.
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Spirit Airlines starts flights from Oakland to Chicago
Miramar, Fla.-based Spirit (NASDAQ: SAVE) will fly to 16 cities from Chicago once the new route is open.
Mark Kopczak of Spirit Airlines called Oakland "the Bay Area's most convenient airport."
Rosemarie Andolino, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Aviation, said Oakland is the largest U.S. market without direct flights from O'Hare.
Ben Baldanza is president and CEO of Spirit Airlines. The company earned a profit of $61.1 million on revenue of $456.6 million in the September quarter.
Steven E.F. Brown is web editor at the San Francisco Business Times.
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No strings connected?
Head into any university celebration (or club) for a Saturday evening and I also guarantee the advanced scenery of вЂњhook-upsвЂќ will encircle you. While you push through the group to attain your pals, you may possibly try to avoid connection with two drunken вЂњloversвЂќ. Be confident you will never be in a position to escape it, as it will likely be every-where. You may witness these find out sessions within the straight straight back spaces, in a wardrobe, against a windowsill, from the party flooring, and also perched for an elevated area for all to see. Hookup tradition is a term that is sweeping the world. In accordance with learn carried out by the institute for US values, ninety-one % of college ladies are prepared to testify that вЂњhook-up cultureвЂќ defines their campus. This research ended up being done over a period of 1 . 5 years, learning the values and attitudes of todayвЂ™s university females sexuality that is regarding. With monogamy learning to be a term that is foreign millennials, culture is just starting to ask why? Hookup tradition seemingly have trumped dating. This cultural revolution has our society feeling excited and awakened on one hand. Having said that it really is making our generation experiencing regretful, lonely, sick, and finally unhappy. Could this be as a result of simple factual statements about the way in which, and environment, millennials had been raised?
Hookups, or вЂњbrief uncommitted intimate encounters between folks who are perhaps maybe not intimate lovers or dating one anotherвЂќ (american psychological association), happens to be a means of life for all 18-30 year olds. Although sexual flings started initially to emerge within the 1920s, the terminology of setting up is fairly new. As an example, yesterday my pal and I also had been dinner that is eating my moms and dads whenever my mother asked вЂњare you girls planning to hookup with Jenny over this break?вЂќ. My buddy and I also looked to one another and laughed, starting up in their time implied one thing many different. Today, APA information shows that between 60 and 80 per cent of North United states university students have experienced a hook-up experience, or encounter that is sexual. Of these hookups, many are skilled intoxicated by liquor. In line with the media training foundation study, an average of females eat four products ahead of intercourse and males eat six. We have been well conscious that liquor often departs us acting with techniques that individuals will quickly started to be sorry for or feel adversely about. In a study that is qualitative on 187 individuals asking them to report their emotions after a normal hookup, 35 per cent reported feeling regretful or disappointed, 11 per cent confused, and 5 per cent uncomfortable. These data reveal that only a little over 50 % of the reactions had been feelings that are negative.
Irrespective of emotions, intimate encounters carry numerous real hazards which can be all too genuine to be ignored. Intercourse holds the chance of sexually transmitted diseases, intimate physical physical physical violence, and maternity. Three MAJOR potential life changers which are shockingly being brushed down. Whether this be because of the temperature of this brief minute, or perhaps the alcohol, in a report done on university students almost 50 % of them reported these were perhaps maybe perhaps not concerned with contracting an ailment. As well as infection, rape as well as pressured intercourse are far more typical than you might think.
Hookup isn’t the term that is only has changed from one generation to another. Dating is currently a phrase accustomed describe two different people who will be currently in a relationship. Dating is significantly less frequent than starting up. The definition of dating had previously been self explanatory, it absolutely was an individual who ended up being taking place times with varying variety of other folks. Nowadays dates are usually thought to come after having a hookup and are also an indication of relationship interest, although relationships hardly ever bloom from a hookup. Interestingly sufficient, whilst the individuals within an IAV research claim that both people involved with a physical encounter вЂњdonвЂ™t necessarily expect anything furtherвЂќ 63 per cent of females declare that they wish to find their spouse in university. This statistic shows a contradiction that is major this is of a hookup, along with a person’s objectives. I will totally contest to the declaration, being truly a university pupil myself. I’m constantly hearing of just how much those around me really miss attention but cannot appear to look for a boyfriend. IntoвЂњhooking-upвЂќ with the hopes of developing something more, they are pushing away from their goal more and more as they continue to throw themselves. With not really a text through the day from their вЂњloverвЂќ, they end up feeling refused and unfortunate. Studies also show that males, having said that, are completely quite happy with having numerous partners for boys chat free the purpose that is sole of. This research study fails to recognize the possibility of response bias while this may be true, in my opinion. Men might be lying during studies about their opinions on hookup culture as a result of label related to menвЂ™s sexuality. When they try not to end up in the norm, they could be considered homosexual which unfortunately many people hold negative connotations with.
Therefore, if a lot of us ladiesвЂ™ true motives lie in a romantic future, just why is it that the prices of intimate encounters on university campuses are constantly increasing? Inspite of the negative emotions, STDs, and rape possibilities we continue steadily to immerse ourselves in a hookup culture. I really believe so it all springs from our generational upbringing. In doing hours upon hours of millennial research, I realized numerous facts that are interesting our upbringing that could have big effects on our actions today. We was raised in a culture where technology had been increasing. We were/are enclosed by computer systems, immediate texting, game titles, mobile phones, internet, apple products, and increasingly shocking inventions. As a result of technology, we now have become used to immediate satisfaction and we are going to not need it just about any method. Based on a study because of the profession center at Ca State University, Fullerton, and Spectrum Knowledge, a study and training company in Cerritos, Ca almost three quarters for the participants consent to needing gratification that is instant. Being that this website will probably be read by millennials, just just take an extra to imagine. Think of how impatient you will get when a webpage wont load, or as soon as your buddy is taking too much time to resolve a text. We would like one thing, and then we look for an answer nearly straight away. Our company is also referred to as the trophy culture. By trophy culture after all that everyone else should be rewarded and praised by the outside source in purchase to feel accomplished. We had been that soccer group that received a ribbon no matter if we destroyed. These two tendencies of millennials could play a large role in our concerning sexual habits.
Possibly the main reason which our generation is recognized as a hookup tradition is mainly because intercourse we can feel pleased, relieved, and appreciated into the term that is short.
we should feel a feeling of admiration, and simply flat down feel good. Although starting up has proven never to be described as a term that is long, it offers the eye and satisfaction we truly need momentarily. There’s absolutely no doubting that after somebody desires one thing they search for to have it, it’s section of how exactly we are wired. Tech has made that really simple for us. It appears that now this view that is materialistic spilling into sex. For a lot of intercourse could be a simple and fix that is quick lifeвЂ™s frustrations. Relating to a research carried out by the news training foundation, many ladies even admitted that, вЂњThe pleasure that girls get from hooking up isnвЂ™t, like, physical.вЂќ By having a societal shift in views on intercourse, we cannot assist but wonder what size of a task technology and вЂњtrophiesвЂќ play.

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It could mean the end of working parents missing out on the school play and even let sick children take part in lessons from home.
The system will allow pupils to use webcams to join lessons, and includes a pupil-friendly "SchoolTube" video library.
Run by Virgin Media Business, it has the backing of all 33 London local authorities, and is set to be available in every school within months.
"We want to change the way that teachers teach," said Brian Durrant, chief executive of the London Grid for Learning Trust which is running the project.
One of the first uses for the network is to be video conferencing, so that children can take part in lessons through their laptops.
"If the child is at home, they can use a camera to take part in video conferencing, and we expect to do quite a bit of that in London," said Mr Durrant.
They will also be able to work at home more easily, and the system will even let parents watch school events remotely.
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Learning about the Flute and Piccolo in music class? here are a few ideas
Hi-Lo Game: Play or sing a variety of melodic intervals, both ascending and descending. Ask students to discern which note comes first, the high note or the low note, by describing the interval as flute-piccolo (low-high) or piccolo-flute (high-low). This will help develop the students’ pitch discrimination and will reinforce the relative ranges of the flute and piccolo at the same time.
Demonstrate how the flute makes its sound by choosing a bottle with a small neck and blowing over it with a stream of air. Fill the bottle with a few inches of water and ask the students to predict what will happen to the pitch when you blow again. You can then explain that this is exactly what happens when a flute player lifts their fingers from the finger holes – its just like shortening the tube.
You could then make a home-made instrument by filling several bottles with varying amounts of liquid, and tuning them to notes of a scale. (you can even borrow some pipes or test tubes from the science teacher!) Students will love playing their own tunes on the bottle instruments
This is part of a lesson plan from the fun music company all about orchestral instruments.
Listen to Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, a work for orchestra with narration. In this work both the flute and piccolo are featured as well as all the woodwind instruments, the timpani and strings. You could use this piece in several sections in many classes when learning about the orchestral instruments
In Peter and the Wolf, each character is identified timbrally by a specific instrument or section. The strings are peter, the flute represents the bird, the duck by the oboe, the cat by the clarinet, the bassoon represents grandfather, the horns are the scary wolf and the hunters by the timpani.
Prokofiev also identifies characters thematically with characteristic melodies, and conveys the plot through the music.
Here are some questions for discussion:
Why do you think the composer chose those instruments for each of the characters? (for example the low, reedy sound of the bassoon sounds like grandfather, the piercing sound of the oboe sounds like a ducks quack)
What else in the music conveys the personality of the characters? (E.g., the bouncy, major-key theme for Peter exudes boyish confidence; the minor-key theme for the wolf is powerful and ominous, like the wolf himself.)
Take one section of music and discuss how it conveys the plot (for example when the cat scampers up the tree it is showed by arpeggios rising rapidly
During the Victory Parade, why do you think the composer switched Peter’s music from the strings to the horns?


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Netflix said this week it lost more subscribers than it signed up in the first three months of the year, reversing a decade of steady growth. The company’s stock fell 35 percent on Wednesday as it lost about $50 billion in market capitalization. The pain was shared by the entire industry as shares of companies like Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount also fell.
Netflix blamed a number of problems, ranging from increased competition to the decision to drop all of its subscribers in Russia due to the war in Ukraine. For entertainment executives and analysts, the moment felt decisive in the so-called streaming wars. After years of trying, they may see an opportunity to gain ground against their giant rival.
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Worried about declining movie ticket sales and TV ratings, the media industry has reformed itself on the fly to go all-in on streaming and compete with Netflix. Disney has invested billions. Discovery Inc. and WarnerMedia completed a merger this month to better compete with streaming giants. CNN has even introduced a streaming version of itself, which has so far sparked disappointing subscriber interest.
But Netflix’s sudden troubles show that those investments come with a lot of risk. The streaming market may still be a mammoth in the long run, but the coming years could be tough, said Rich Greenfield, an analyst at LightShed Partners and a longtime streaming booster.
“Whatever happens, it looks a lot less profitable, and that’s a problem for everyone,” he said. Fewer subscribers coupled with higher costs due to fiercer competition to create original content means less profit for everyone.
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“The effect will be on us if the new reality forces them to cut back on their $17 billion a year programming budget,” said Michael Shamberg, whose four-part documentary on the Three Mile Island nuclear power crisis will debut on Netflix next week. month. “As a producer, I always see them as a first stop for pitching original ideas. If their subscriber growth flattens and it forces them to cut back on programming, will they stop taking risks with innovative TV shows and Oscar movies?”
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Netflix’s performance could also cause rivals to rethink their own international expansion plans, possibly making more focused efforts abroad. Netflix subscriptions declined not only in the United States and Canada, but also in Europe and Latin America.
“Netflix has thrown in the sink here,” said industry analyst Michael Nathanson. “They were a first mover, spending a lot on content and creating more localized content. They did the right things, and yet they ran into a wall.”
Netflix executives, who were normally self-assured, appeared remarkably unstable on Tuesday as the first-quarter results were released. Co-chief executive Reed Hastings, who once swore there would never be ads on Netflix, said the company would consider introducing a cheaper ad-supported tier within a year or two. Netflix also said it would crack down on password sharing, a practice it said it had no problem with in the past.
“We thought about that for a few years, but as we grew rapidly it wasn’t a high priority to work on,” said Mr Hastings. “And now we’re working super hard on it.”
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Mr. Hastings tried to reassure everyone that Netflix had been through some rough times before and that it would solve its problems. He said the company was now “super focused” on “returning the favor of our investors”.
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On the 18th of July 2018 at a press conference held at the OZO in Colombo, the Sri Lanka Gem & Jewelry Association announced the launch of the 28th edition of the FACETS International Gem & Jewelry Exhibition.
The exhibition will be held from the 30th of August to the 2nd of September at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Convention Hall (BMICH).
President Maithripala Sirisena as the chief guest and Mr. Vladyslav Yavorskyy, a renowned gemologist and the author of three popular books – ‘Terra Spinel: Terra Firma’, ‘Terra Garnet’ and ‘Terra Connoisseur’ - as the guest of honor, will be present for the inaugural ceremony. Mr. Yavorskyy’s latest book ‘Sri Lanka Gems’, will be launched in the form of a coffee table book in Sri Lanka for the first time at the inaugural ceremony.
Following its inception in 1991, FACETS has grown in scale and popularity over the years to become the premier event of Sri Lanka’s Gem & Jewelry industry. The exhibition’s purpose lies in the necessity to showcase the very best of Sri Lanka’s most precious resources, thereby boosting the sale of gemstones and jewelry among overseas markets and attracting more international dealers to the island.
Organized by the Sri Lanka Gem & Jewelry Association and sponsored by the National Gem & Jewelry Authority and the Export Development Board, the FACETS International Gem & Jewelry Exhibition will be held under the patronage of the President and the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment.
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TL;DR: China-based journalist Cindy Wang is reporting Tron founder Justin Sun and popular cryptocurrency exchange Binance co-founder He Yi have been booted off of Weibo. The platform, formally known as Sina Weibo, is billed as the Chinese version of the microblogging site, Twitter.
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In mid-November, Weibo announced of Binance, “The account has been blocked due to violations of laws and regulations and the relevant provisions of the Weibo Community Convention.” It wasn’t immediately clear then, as it isn’t now, why the account was targeted. The Tron Foundation suffered a similar fate not too much before Binance, though exchanges such as OKEx and Huobi appear active and in good standing as of publication.
Sina Weibo is publically traded (NASDAQ: WB), and has been around for slightly over a decade. It boasts nearly 450 million monthly active users, and is considered a massive financial juggernaut with still greater potential. It is among the key ways for businesses to communicate their messages to the giant and very coveted China market. With Weibo’s success have come calls for it to self-regulate, curbing use by minors under 14 and, more recently, to prohibit accounts promoting pornography. How the uneasy relationship between crypto and China plays into such calls is still very much unknown.
In the case of Binance, last month a report surfaced offices in China had been both raided and shut down by authorities. The exchange’s CEO raged against the crypto news outlet article and its assertions, threatening a lawsuit against what he called FUD and false reporting. This summer, both Justin Sun and Tron ran into alleged issues with Chinese authorities as well. Video appeared to show Tron offices being raided, and weeks later local media asserted Sun himself was not allowed to leave the country.
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The Knicks, led by Jalen Brunson, exploited all their physicality, dominating in rebounding (52-42) and in the area (44-36 points count in the paint) and breaking the Kings’ resistance. Domantas Sabonis scores a double double as usual with 21 points and 14 rebounds but remains empty in the decisive 4th quarter, De’Aaron Fox closes at 20 but shooting 5/19 from the field. New York allowed their opponents 35.3% from the field and 27% from three, the result of a team defensive performance bordering on perfection.
Fresh from 45 points scored at the Blazers’ home, Jalen Brunson repeats himself on the pitch, which is much more difficult than Sacramento. In a game with strong defensive features, the New York point guard scored 42 points while shooting 17/28 from the field. Brunson thus becomes only the 4th player in a Knicks jersey to score two consecutive performances of over 40 points after Bernard King, Patrick Ewing and Carmelo Anthony.


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In a typical reggae format, where art is used to send a message to the authorities and is also supposed to be the voice of reason, Chin’ono’s latest jingle reveals the ravages of corruption in the lives of the general public.
The song tells how those in power continue to plunder while the institutions that should benefit or serve the masses suffocate.
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The outspoken journalist, who was finally released on bail by the Supreme Court last year, exactly 19 days after his arrest for publishing a false story, has not been shaken by his continued persecution.
The whistleblower was arrested on January 8 for posting false information, his third arrest in six months.
Chin’ono was first arrested in July last year for inciting violent anti-government protests after he exposed massive corruption in the Zanu PF-led government.
He was arrested again in November for obstruction of justice.