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LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 15, 2020) — WUKY is partnering with StoryCorps, the national nonprofit organization dedicated to recording, preserving and sharing the stories of people of all backgrounds and beliefs, to launch StoryCorps Connect.
The platform is free and allows people to conduct and record StoryCorps interviews with loved ones across generations remotely. WUKY encourages residents of Central Kentucky to utilize this technology to connect with loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic and, in the process, contribute to the creation of a unique first-person historical record of this unprecedented crisis.
“WUKY is excited to be partnering once again with StoryCorps during these unprecedented times,” WUKY General Manager Tom Godell said. “WUKY is dedicated to ensuring that the voices of Central Kentucky are heard, as well as values the exceptional ongoing work of StoryCorps.”
StoryCorps Connect uses advanced online videoconferencing technology built using the Vonage Video API and wraparound instructional tools to give participants a free, high-quality platform to record StoryCorps conversations remotely.
“Social distancing is the exact opposite of the StoryCorps ethos, which strives to bring people together and acknowledge and celebrate our common humanity,” Dave Isay, founder and president of StoryCorps, said. “At this time of physical separation, the StoryCorps interview methodology is a more essential tool than ever before for bringing us together.”
The organization began developing StoryCorps Connect in March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, motivated by the belief that at this time of physical separation, StoryCorps can provide a critical public service to increase connection to others and reduce the impact of isolation, particularly on vulnerable populations in this country.
StoryCorps is made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private corporation funded by the American people.
“Our nation’s young people care about the plight of seniors in isolation, sometimes without family with which to connect,” said Pat Harrison, CPB president and CEO. “CPB is proud to support StoryCorps Connect — America’s virtual storytelling peace corps, to ensure that at this tragic time in America’s history, we are able to meaningfully connect with one another.”
The conversations are preserved for future generations at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and become instantly accessible and shareable through the StoryCorps Archive. WUKY plans to broadcast edited versions of select submissions from its local communities.
Founded in 2003, StoryCorps has brought more than 600,000 Americans together — two at a time — to record intimate, face-to-face conversations about their lives, create human connection, pass wisdom from one generation to the next, and leave a legacy for the future. It is the largest single collection of voices ever gathered.
WUKY is a community-supported service of the University of Kentucky, which provides high-quality news, cultural and entertainment content through the use of existing and emerging media to create a more informed and engaged community.
For more information, please visit the website.
The University of Kentucky is increasingly the first choice for students, faculty and staff to pursue their passions and their professional goals. In the last two years, Forbes has named UK among the best employers for diversity, and INSIGHT into Diversity recognized us as a Diversity Champion four years running. UK is ranked among the top 30 campuses in the nation for LGBTQ* inclusion and safety. UK has been judged a “Great College to Work for" three years in a row, and UK is among only 22 universities in the country on Forbes' list of "America's Best Employers." We are ranked among the top 10 percent of public institutions for research expenditures — a tangible symbol of our breadth and depth as a university focused on discovery that changes lives and communities. And our patients know and appreciate the fact that UK HealthCare has been named the state’s top hospital for five straight years. Accolades and honors are great. But they are more important for what they represent: the idea that creating a community of belonging and commitment to excellence is how we honor our mission to be not simply the University of Kentucky, but the University for Kentucky.


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Related-party LRBA variations and PCG 2016/5
Advisers would be well aware of the ATO’s “safe harbour” regarding the application of non-arm’s length income (NALI) to related-party limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs).
Broadly, the ATO’s Practical Compliance Guideline PCG 2016/5 (Guideline) sets out “safe harbour” terms on which SMSF trustees may structure their LRBAs which the ATO will consider are consistent with an arm’s length dealing. That is, the commissioner accepts that an LRBA structured in accordance with the Guideline is consistent with an arm’s length dealing and that the NALI provisions do not apply purely because of the terms of the borrowing arrangement.
While a related-party borrowing falling outside of the terms in the Guideline will not necessarily mean the arrangement will result in the application of the NALI provisions, such an arrangement will not enjoy the benefit of the certainty provided by the Guideline. If an LRBA falls outside the terms of the Guideline, an SMSF trustee will need to be able to demonstrate that the arrangement was entered into and maintained on terms consistent with an arm’s length dealing, such as by obtaining benchmarking evidence from unrelated lenders.
Following the release of the Guideline in April 2016, the ATO initially required each SMSF trustee with a non-bank LRBA to ensure it was on arm’s length terms by 30 June 2016. Following the May 2016 federal budget’s announcement of a substantial reduction to the non-concessional contributions cap, this deadline was extended to 31 January 2017.
The Guideline provided that LRBAs would not be subject to any further compliance action for the 2015 income year (or before) if, by 31 January 2017, the LRBA was:
- on terms that are consistent with an arm’s length dealing from 1 July 2015; or
- brought to an end, and payments of principal and interest are made under LRBA terms from 1 July 2015 consistent with an arm’s length dealing.
Many SMSF trustees were required to amend the terms of an LRBA in place to fall within the Guideline’s terms. As part of this, SMSF trustees would often need to make an additional “catch up” payment to make up for principal and/or interest repayments that would have been paid had the amended terms been in place from 1 July 2015.
Variation with effect from 1 July 2015
However, even today, there are many SMSF trustees that have not varied the terms of an LRBA in place prior to the introduction of the Guideline and, as such, there are many SMSFs with NALI exposure.
The Guideline’s requirements and transition period remain the same, such that any variation to terms would need to take effect from 1 July 2015 (and even then, there still remains NALI exposure). For these SMSFs, the amount of additional interest and/or principal “catch up” payments required may be quite large and it may be difficult for such SMSFs to make such a payment. If not paid immediately, such amounts owing could result in a default under the loan or amounting to another loan itself.
While an SMSF in this position cannot technically enjoy the benefit of the safe habour, as the variation was not made by 31 January 2017, making such a variation is likely to now provide the best chance of minimising the NALI exposure.
An SMSF with an LRBA in place that was not amended to fall within the Guideline (and which is not likely to be considered an arm’s length arrangement) should also consider making a voluntary disclosure to the ATO. By proactively approaching the ATO with rectification already carried out (or with a plan to do so), an SMSF can greatly improve its chances of continuing the LRBA without any NALI implications or related penalties/interest arising.
There are still a number of SMSFs with related-party LRBAs that may not have been established or maintained on an arm’s length basis and do not fall within the terms of the Guideline. Advisers should carefully review any LRBA that was established prior to the Guideline’s introduction to ensure the arrangement either falls within the Guideline’s terms or can otherwise be proven to be consistent with an arm’s length arrangement. If appropriate, an SMSF trustee can make a voluntary disclosure or otherwise engage with the ATO to minimise any potential negative impacts.
Tony Zhang is a journalist at Accountants Daily, which is the leading source of news, strategy and educational content for professionals working in the accounting sector.
Since joining the Momentum Media team in 2020, Tony has written for a range of its publications including Lawyers Weekly, Adviser Innovation, ifa and SMSF Adviser. He has been full-time on Accountants Daily since September 2021.

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‘Courageous Basketball Player’
By Ajaz Rashid
Ishrat Akhter, 24, a courageous girl whose lower half of the body is paralysed because of an accident, has become an inspiration for thousands of disabled youngsters. Her life took a new turn when she recently represented India on the International level in Wheelchair Basketball.
She is the first girl to represent India at the international wheelchair basketball level in Asia-Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Thailand.
Ishrat hails from the small village of Bangdara in Baramulla. She wasn’t always a wheelchair-bound or a basketball player. Her legs got paralysed in 2016 after a spinal injury in an accident.
“I lost all hope when I was told that I would never walk again. I was feeling like a burden on my family,” she said. “My relatives and neighbours even made me think that I am now a liability, that I should have died at the time of the accident.”
The months-long bedridden life pushed her into depression, but she saw a ray of hope when her doctor encouraged her to go for wheelchair basketball.
“I am highly thankful to Dr Mir Mohammad Maqbool, who showed me the way of basketball. I would be dead because of depression, but he did my counselling like his own daughter and encouraged me to go for wheelchair basketball,” she said.
Before joining the basketball training, Ishrat had a simple goal in life. She is one among the four sisters in her family with no brother, and she had aimed to support her father.
“I am the second sibling in my family. I had decided to go for a nursing course so that I could support my family,” she said, “After the marriage of my older sister, I was the son to my parents, but the accident had vanished all my dreams.”
Wheelchair Basketball was an alien thing for Ishrat as she was totally unaware of the game. She initially started her training in Srinagar.
“In 2018, I got a call from Mohd Rafiq, a wheelchair basketball team player who told me to participate in the girl’s team. It was encouraging for me,” she said.
To be a good player was not a cakewalk for Ishrat. In fact, she has worked hard for this fame. “Despite my spinal cord injury, I used to come to Srinagar on the bike with my brother-in-law for regular practice,” she said. “I have worked hard day and night to reach this place.”
“I lost all hope when I was told that I would never walk again. I was feeling like a burden on my family”: Ishrat Akhter
Ishrat’s family’s support has added to the successes in her life. Despite the trolls from relatives and neighbours, she didn’t stop chasing her new goal.
“People who used to consider me a burden and liability are nowadays respecting me. I have proved that a disabled person could be as good as a normal person,” she said.
During this communication blockade, Ishrat was selected for a national camp in Chennai. But she had no idea about it because the Wheelchair Basketball Federation of India (WBFI) could not get in touch with her.
The police and the Army helped Akhter during the blockade in 2019 to reach Chennai for the selection of the Asia-Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Thailand that was going to be played later that year.
Ishrat Akhter also received a felicitation ‘Kashmir Young Leadership Award’ from Lt Governor Manoj Sinha for her performances. “After getting this award, I feel that my voice is heard. The administration has contacted me for better facilities in sports,” she said.
After participating in International Wheelchair Basketball, she was felicitated by the Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Law and Justice of India, Ravi Shankar Prasad and started getting invitations to deliver motivational speeches.
“My life is changed now. I don’t consider myself handicapped anymore. I was donated a sports wheelchair by Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, which added a pace in my sports,” she said.


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Planet Found in Nearest Star System to Earth
ESO’s HARPS instrument finds Earth-mass exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri B
European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 17 October 2012.
Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the nearest stellar system to our Solar System — only 4.3 light-years away. It is actually a triple star — a system consisting of two stars similar to the Sun orbiting close to each other, designated Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant and faint red component known as Proxima Centauri . Since the nineteenth century astronomers have speculated about planets orbiting these bodies, the closest possible abodes for life beyond the Solar System, but searches of increasing precision had revealed nothing. Until now.
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The opening acts from 5SOS’s UK Leg of the Sounds Live Feels Live tour have been revealed.
The first being the Don Broco live who are currently opening for Bring Me The Horizon tour. Don Broco are a British alternative band who’s most resent album has been Automatic (2015).
The second released has been Jessarae the Canadian solo artist who opened for Hi or Hey Records band Hey Violet! on their tour in 2015.
It seems both bands are excited to be sharing the stage with the 5SOS boys and so are we.


The Muslim Community Center of Portland hopes to open a new center on North Vancouver Avenue, members announced this week. The group’s Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard center sustained severe damage after an October fire. Now, they’re hoping to raise $250,000 to build a larger Muslim worship and community center. In the meantime, members meet at Matt Dishman Community Center every Friday.
Lynne Terry reports the co-workers of William “Bill” Keene, a food safety pioneer admired by his peers in Oregon, across the country and around the world, are organizing a celebration of his life Saturday, Dec. 14 at 1:00 p.m. at Mississippi Studios in North Portland. Keene died suddenly on Sunday of complications stemming from gallstone pancreatitis. He was only 56.
The Land Use Board of Appeals ruled in favor of North Williams Avenue developer Ben Kaiser after a group of neighbors appealed the city of Portland’s rezoning of one of his properties. You can read the whole decision online.
Drake’s Moda Center concert went off without a hitch Tuesday night, but not before a truck carrying the rapper’s gear crashed Tuesday morning, bringing the morning commute to a halt. David Greenwald has the story.
Woodlawn Elementary School teachers are holding a forum Thursday night to talk about Portland Public Schools teachers' bargaining proposal.
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US star Britney Spears has told fans she is just having fun and that her dance videos are nothing to worry about.
Fans of the ‘Toxic’ hitmaker fear the troubled singer’s mental health has deteriorated further after she posted several odd videos of herself dancing on Instagram.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), bereavement, isolation, loss of income and fear due to the COVID-19 pandemic are triggering mental health conditions or exacerbating existing ones.
The most common mental health issues reported after people contract coronavirus are anxiety disorders, depression and insomnia.
KFC and Pringles recently decided to raise awareness for the Movember movement by shaving their signature moustaches.
Movember is a global charity raising funds and awareness for men’s health. Will you be growing a ‘mo’ this November?
The month of October has been declared Mental Health Awareness Month with the objective of educating the public on mental health.
Andre Pienaar, who suffers from bipolar disorder, is being ‘punished unfairly’ by the judge in Senekal – that’s according to his legal team.
#MoveforMentalHealth: A new TikTok challenge aims to bring global awareness to the need to invest in mental health.
Cape Mental Health will host their first Virtual Cape Town International Kite Festival as an annual instalment of their October Mental Health Awareness Month campaign.
Various organisations are calling for a massive scale-up in investment in mental health for this year’s World Mental Health Day.
If you, like American rapper Azealia Banks, are feeling depressed over lockdown, then here are a few suggestions that may help you.
University of Limpopo masters student Khethani Mathiki sees how students struggle to cope emotionally with the effects of online learning.
Prince William spoke to former England captain David Beckham about the challenges faced during his football career and mental health.
The University of the Free State (UFS) is pleased to announce that it will be providing students with additional, holistic support to ensure no student is left behind during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Feel like the rug’s been pulled out from under your feet? You’re not alone. Here are some tips to get you through this (or any other) challenging time.
A look at how mental health problems might be increasing across South African campuses.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say that our nation is currently under siege. Staying indoors has become the new norm for many and students are no exception.
Helpful numbers and e-mail contacts to access counselling from South African universities during lockdown.
Being in a confined space is not good for the human psyche. There’s a good reason why solitary confinement is a form of punishment in prisons and part of brutal interrogation processes.

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In our house, we are a bit of a medley of nations and we eat many items that are influenced by heritage. Enter the cevapi – a skinless sausage that is blend of pork, beef, and spices. In this case, we only used pork and spices.
The first time I had these sausage bites, I was at my in-laws’ home. My father-in-law doesn’t let anyone do any grilling (except him). While they purchased their chevaps (Cevapcici), I have been playing with the recipe to make a version of my own. There are many types all over Eastern Europe.
We have tried many versions, and even my husband makes his own much spicier version using cayenne & hot peppers. Since they are a caseless sausage, they are super-easy to make. The baking soda really gives these sausages a tender texture so take care when flipping them on the grill. These are a perfect party food and you can grill them in advance and freeze.
The chevap - a blend of pork, beef, and spices. In this case, we only used pork and spices.
- 10 lbs ground pork
- 2 cups Italian seasoned bread crumbs
- 1 1/2 cups ajvar (red pepper spread)
- 1 medium onion finely minced
- 2 eggs
- 3 tablespoons finely minced garlic
- 3 tablespoons baking soda
- 2 tablespoons dried parsley
- 2 tablespoons kosher salt
- 1 1/2 tablespoons finely ground black pepper
- 1 1/2 tablespoons paprika
- 1 1/2 dried ground porcini mushrooms
- 1 teaspoon finely ground allspice
- In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients. Mix very well.
- Using an ice cream scoop - scoop out portions of the meat mixture onto a cookie sheet.
- Form into finger length sausage shapes and arrange on a cookie sheet.
- Cover with plastic wrap and thoroughly chill overnight until firm.
- Preheat your grill to medium high heat.
- Lightly oil the grill.
- Grill each side for 10-15 minutes or until the internal temperature is 160F.
- Serve with aiolis, bbq sauces or other dipping sauces.
- These freeze extremely well once grilled.

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Art Basel announced that MCH Swiss Exhibition (Basel) Ltd. – a MCH Group company, and the organizer of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach – has signed a purchase agreement with Asian Art Fairs Ltd, the owners of ART HK – Hong Kong International Art Fair. As of July 1, 2011, MCH Group will take a majority ownership stake in Asian Art Fairs Ltd.
The entry of MCH Group in the Asian art market marks a significant step forward for Art Basel. Since its inception in 2008, ART HK has established itself as the leading art show in Asia. The strong momentum this provides, combined with the great experience and know-how of both organizations, and the expanding art markets throughout Asia, offer great potential for MCH Group to establish a premier art show in this key region, and expand the reach of its art shows globally.
The mid-term goal is to convert ART HK to the Art Basel brand as the third platform for this leading international art show. The 2012 edition will remain under the show's current ART HK name, with Magnus Renfrew remaining as its director, but will take place from February 2 to 5, 2012, moving from the current late-May timing. Further details about the 2012 show and the future editions under the Art Basel brand will be communicated as they are decided.
Art Basel looks forward to engaging even more intensely and continuously with galleries, collectors and institutions on four continents - in Europe at Art Basel, in North America and Latin America at Art Basel Miami Beach, and in Asia with the future Art Basel show sited in Hong Kong.
Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach
The world's premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. More than 2,500 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars, are represented in the show's multiple sectors. From June 15 to 19, 2011, the 42nd edition of Art Basel takes place featuring the highest-quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, video and editioned works.
Art Basel Miami Beach will celebrate its 10th anniversary in December 2011. The show made its debut in December 2002 and was quickly named as the most important art show in the Americas. As the sister event of Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of more than 250 leading galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions and events.
ART HK – Hong Kong International Art Fair
Since starting in 2008, ART HK has emerged as the leading art fair in Asia, attracting a rich mix of international galleries, collectors, curators and museum directors. Recognized as the gateway between Asia and the West, Hong Kong is unparalleled as a location for a major destination art fair in the region. This year’s ART HK will take place from May 26 to 29, 2011 and will present 260 galleries from 38 countries, including many influential galleries from all over the world.


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Thunderstorm is likely at Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Lahore, Sargodha, Faisalabad divisions, while at isolated places in Zhob, Multan, Sahiwal, D.G.Khan and Bahawalpur divisions, however, hot and dry weather to grip elsewhere in the country.
A westerly wave is affecting upper parts of the country tonight and may persist during next 24 hours, an official of Met office Muhammad Farooq told APP. In last 24 hours weather remained hot and dry in most parts of the country. However, dust-thunderstorm/rain with gusty winds occurred at isolated places in Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, D.G.Khan, Quetta, Kalat divisions, FATA and Kashmir.—APP


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MEMBERS STATEMENT | CULTURAL DIVERSITY WEEK
Mr MELHEM (Western Metropolitan) — This week is Victoria’s Cultural Diversity Week. Today in particular is also Harmony Day and the United Nations Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Cultural Diversity Week is Victoria’s largest multicultural celebration, which features a week‑long program of festivals and events in metropolitan and regional areas. Presented by the Victorian Multicultural Commission and supported by the Andrews Labor government, all Victorians are invited to join in the celebrations and embrace our state’s cultural heritage.
Harmony Day is a day of cultural respect for everyone who calls Australia home. It is an extension of the values of Cultural Diversity Week. Promoting the message that everyone belongs, the day encourages community engagement and respect for cultural and religious diversity and aims to foster a greater sense of belonging for everyone. Just as everyone belongs, every person is also entitled to human rights without discrimination. This indispensable truth is particularly important for refugees and migrants who are, unfortunately, popular targets of racial profiling and incitement to hatred. This is the focus of the United Nations Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which aims to encourage and support actions in our daily lives to defend the human rights of others.
Let us then, as I am sure all Victorians already do in their daily lives, carry and promote the message of Cultural Diversity Week, Harmony Day and the United Nations Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination that diversity is not a weakness but in fact a strength.
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With the postponement of the CEIU National Triennial Convention from September 2020 to August 2021, the National Executive has voted to extend the deadline for national, regional or any local meetings of members to prepare and submit their resolutions to the National Office by no later than 9:00 p.m. (EST), on March 31st, 2021.
To read and/or print the revised Call for Resolutions, dated August 14th, 2020, click here.
To read and/or print the Call for Resolutions, dated January 28th, 2020, click here.
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This blog is a bit all over the place, just like me! You'll get family stories, movie reviews, politics, personal views, book reviews, funny bits & pieces of my heart
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Update as promised! WOW that never happens.
Ok.... We went to the game last night and it was actually a really good game. THE Sixers WON... actually they KICKED BUTT! Totally cool-- It's fun having a little date with the hubby................. Peace OUT!

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A Gala Night! Sat 25th Feb
It’s not often I get to go “Front Of House”, but tonight was a special night- Vincent’s Gala Night to celebrate Twenty-Five Years of Brick Lane Music Hall!
This was my first experience of a Two Show Day here. In Panto over Christmas every day is a two show day, but at BLMH we do Tuesday to Saturday with a Tea, or A Lunch or a Dinner. Today Salem the chef had his work cut out creating two sittings- the lunchtime and the evening. No mean feat for him and the hard working staff!
We started the day arriving at around 1pm and I left the building (after a swift G&T) at 12.45am having been dressed as a Man, A Lady, A posh man, A Lady and a posh man to finish front of house. Exhausted thinking about it!
Our Guests this afternoon for the matinee, The fabulous Ria Jones and her friend Angela Laurence. Ria has just returned from Paris, where she has been starring in “42nd Street” at The Theatre du Chatelet, and following her trememdous reception as Norma Desmond at the Coliseum’s “Sunset Boulevard” last year, when she took over from Glenn Close for severa performances, she is recreating that role at Leicester Curve then on tour around the UK.
Here we all are with Ria backstage. She has starred in “Les Miserable”, “Joseph”, “Chess”, “High Society”, “Anything Goes”, “Acorn Antiques” and evenings at The Royal Albert Hall, to mention just a few- I reminded her it is 35 years since we appeared in “Cinderella” together in what I think was her first professional Pantomime when she was a hugely talented young performer! Here’s that programme.
We all had a very jolly matinee, and then a lengthy break between shows while Front of House and the kitchens prepared for our Gala Evening. Vincent is donating proceeds to the Grand Order Of Water Rats Charity, and we have about twenty members of the GOWR attending tonight.
In between shows some of us went out, some of us read books, chatted or played games!
Like the song we sing in the show “Oh what an atmosphere!” . A great night. I went FOH at BLMH as we say, and met up with my mates Jason Belne, John Pittom,Laura Hayes, Pip & Neil Barnes, and a party that included panto dames extraordinaire Bobby Crush and Andrew Ryan.
So sorry that we didn’t have the opportunity to greet David Hartshorne (His excellent site on Dorothy Ward is kept on IBY) and David and Petey. I know how much they were looking forward, and their seats were put to good use. Thank you boys!
Gareth & Sarah won the giant Teddy! Congratulations!
Meanwhile the guests from the GOWR joined our merry throng in the auditorium- among them Music Hall (and Coronation street!) legend Roy Hudd with his wife Debbie Flitcroft. Both Roy and Debbie have recently presented “Mother Goose” at Wilton’s Music Hall- Roy’s Second Dame at Eighty- astonishing and humbling! We had Graham Cole (The Bill) Derek Martin (Eastenders) and veteran Pop Idol Jess Conrad joining Duncan (Chase Me!) Norvell, King Rat Ian Richards and a host of celeb Rats!
all Rats Together!
A lovely surprise for Vincent- Daughter Lucy arrived as a surprise guest! Here she is with Rhys, her former school chum!
A great Gala Night with a lot of fun and some money raised for a great charity- celebrating 25 years of Brick Lane! Hoorah for us!


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3rd November, 2013
Saturday was a tragic day for the Omotoshos as a member of the family, Azeez Omotosho, 35, a panel beater, was killed by a policeman in Oshodi area of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria. The killer cop has been arrested and he is in detention.
The incident happened when Azeez, a father of three, went to pick up his family at the family house, at 28 Aina Street, Ladipo, Oshodi, where his wife also has a shop.
As he got to the junction of his house, he saw his friend’s car parked by the side of the road, with some policemen attached to Shogunle Divisional Headquarters standing beside it.
He stopped to plead with the officers for his friend to be released, but an officer, identified as Corporal Gabriel, became angry and shot him at close range.
Gbenga Aderanti, a friend of the deceased said: “The picture is not yet clear to me, because he left me at about 9.45p.m. and promised to come back to see me because I was holding his phone. He wanted to go and drop his wife and children at home.
“The next thing I saw was people running helter-skelter, after which it was confirmed that it was the gunshot we heard that killed him. I really do not know what transpired between him and the policemen as I was still at the spot he left me.”
Aishat Olaosebikan, a sister to the deceased said: “They shot him at about 8.55p.m. The deceased was coming to pick his wife and children at her shop and when he got to the junction very close to the house, he saw his friend’s car which the police had arrested. He came down from his car to beg for the release of his friend.
“The next thing Corporal Gabriel did was to raise his gun and shoot him two times at close range. Immediately he shot my brother, he escaped from the scene of the incident,” Olaosebikan stated.
The killer cop who was later arrested and is now in detention spoke on Sunday to our reporter and other members of the late Azeez family, behind bars.
Corporal Gabriel said: “I actually killed Azeez Omotosho, a.k.a. Panel. It is the devil’s work, please forgive me. Yesterday (Saturday) I was not myself, I was heavily drunk when I perpetrated the act.”
The killer cop was said to have been serving in Shogunle Divisional Headquarters, Oshodi Lagos.
Kareem Ajibade, a friend to the deceased said: “The killer cop usually operates illegally at night, even when he is off duty, you will see him carrying gun about at night.”
Before he was gunned down, Azeez resided at 6, Jimi Thomas Street, Oshodi, Lagos. He was shot at the junction of Oyegunwa in Oshodi, where the police set up their illegal road block.


EA Slashes Current Gen Prices
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In an effort to make space for the upcoming slew of new current generation and next generation games, Electronic Arts has cut the price of about 20 game SKUs for PlayStation 2 and Xbox by $10. Games like "Madden NFL 07" for PS2 and Xbox were marked down from $50 to $40. Other games, including "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07," "NCAA Football 07," and "FIFA 07," are also now selling for $40. Other titles were launched at lower price points because of competition from 2K Sports, including "NHL 07" at $30 and "NBA Live 07" at $40.
The prices of the Xbox 360, GameCube, PSP, DS, and Game Boy Advance versions of "Madden NFL 07" remain untouched. And the next generation prices (PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360) versions of all of the reduced-priced games remains at $60. One exception is the "Hall of Fame Edition" of "Madden," which has been reduced from $70 to $60.
Price cuts are routine at this time of year as most of the industry floods the market with new titles. Last year, EA reduced the price of PS2 and Xbox "Madden NFL 06" several times before it hit a $30 price point in February.
While many of last year's early price cuts seemed to be coming from consumers angry at high-priced sequels, games like "Madden" have been outselling last year's versions at retail. Analyst PJ McNealy of American Technology Research predicted that several game publishers would cut the price of current generation titles before the busy November month.


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Melbourne-based performance artist and pole dancer extraordinaire Anthony Cleave, aka Agent Cleave, might have started out doing the rounds of the city’s pop-up gay parties, but these days he’s on the velvet cusp of big and bold things indeed, just like his high heels, with Canadian electronic star, DJ and fellow out-there performance artist Peaches a firm backer.
Embracing an enticing air of gender and sexual ambiguity along with old-fashioned cabaret glamour mashed with trashy rock ‘n’ pop roar, Cleave has his sights set on conquering Australia’s alternative arts scene. Debut solo gig Show Stopper, showcasing the anthems of musical heroines including Peaches, PJ Harvey, The Divinyls and Garbage, was a breakout hit at last year’s Melbourne Fringe, with a follow-up New Year’s performance at the Falls Festival.
Cleave will strap on those unfeasibly high heels for an encore of Show Stopper at Melbourne’s Midsumma Festival this month before taking the show on the road to Sydney’s Mardi Gras, on the back of his critically acclaimed turn in queer independent theatre group Sisters Grimm’s razor sharp and outrageously wrong Gone with the Wind satire Summertime in the Garden of Eden.
Hardcore stardom surely awaits, and if you’re not on board yet, you should be. Show Stopper is a cracking performance that ably demonstrates what Agent Cleave has to offer. “They’re kinda guttural expressions of love and misunderstanding,” he says. “I’m trying to express that animal pain of love and desire.”
The stage name sprung from Cleave’s love of British TV series Get Smart and its memorable ‘Agent 99’. “I wanted to reference both glamour and trash, with ’60s eye make up, the silhouette of beautiful Italian women, film noir and metal bands from the ’80s, trashy roadhouse rock ‘n’ roll,” he says.
Fresh out of high school, the now 30-year-old Cleave got an acting agent and scored some commercial work, a couple of episodes on Blue Heelers and a small part in Hating Alison Ashley starring Delta Goodrem. “It’s all been downhill from there,” he laughs.
Hardly. Cleave’s love of performance was always closely tied to costume and fine art, with the acting career put on hold so he could take up painting at the VCA, where the late-night partying went hand-in-hand with his studies. “I was trying to figure out a lifestyle for myself where I could be creatively fulfilled,” he says. “I grew up poor we never had any money to worry about, so I thought I may as well enrich the culture of my life.”
Forming a firm friendship with performance artist Erin Tazmania, host of Fitzroy’s Gay Shame party, Cleave credits her as guiding the beginnings of his glittering career. “We lived together for a time and loved dressing up. My style was always very maudlin and gothic and she though that was hilarious.”
Cleave also modelled fetishwear on Sexpo catwalks and pole danced at Pandora’s Box, another club night run by drag queens Godzilla and Olympia Bukkakis.
His friendship with costume designer Jess Daly introduced him to the provocative musician and performance artist Peaches, giving his career a rocket-boosted kick in the pants.
Initially attracted to Daly’s moves at Big Day Out, Peaches called on the pair for back up when she returned to Australia on a nationwide DJ tour. “I showed up for the first gig at the Corner Hotel and did my solo show,” Cleave says. “I was only booked for one or two spots, but she really loved what I did and ended up booking me flights all over Australia.”
The collaboration led to team-ups in New York, where they played at Webster Hall, and in Berlin, where Cleave and Daly crashed on Peaches living room floor for two months. “We’d kind of run out of money but every night she had a different gig for us, forcing our gothic go-go-dancing on the city. That was a crazy exciting time and from there Agent Cleave just made sense to me. What else am I gonna do with this life?”
Sisters Grimm founders Ash Flanders and Declan Greene’s Summertime in the Garden of Eden saw Cleave tread the boards as bearded Southern belle Daisy May, alongside old friends Bukkakis and Tazmania. Starting life as a short piece performed as part of monthly art collective The Last Tuesday Society, it was so well-received they fleshed it out and re-staged it in a shed in Thornbury, before going onto wildly successful runs at St Kilda’s Theatre Works in Melbourne and the Griffin Theatre in Sydney.
Cleaves would love to work with Peaches again, as well as team up once more with Maude Davies of Burlesque Hour and My Life in the Nude infamy. “Maude’s a fantastic performer, woman and mind,” Cleave says. “There are a lot of fabulous personalities in Melbourne, queer-wise, and while the club scene doesn’t have much going on at the moment, professionally and creatively there’s a whole pool of really amazing, talented people.”
We count Agent Cleave amongst them and are waiting with baited breath to see what he does next. “It’s a great place to be, to feel that my ideas are worth it, and people are interested in what I have to say.”


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We have all read the articles, seen commercials and tried a brain game or two.
Some readers will acknowledge the information going in one ear and out the other.
Others will recall trying brain games diligently for only a week or two. The startling fact Alzheimer's disease is ranked the sixth leading cause of death in the United States emphasizes the importance of improving Brain Health. Unfortunately Alzheimer’s is the only member of the top 10 causes of death without a pathway to being prevented, cured or decelerated. The Alzheimer’s Association and US Department of Health and Human Services speak the truth. Studies show strengthening brains is a constant priority rather than a casual approach. As we search for a physical fountain of youth we need to also seek for a mental fountain of youth.
Muscle activity occurs when walking and with everyday movement. Muscle exercise is performed to target specific areas of the body, such as weight lifting. As brains are awake activity is a constant. When a variety of challenges are presented brains exercise. A few memory and recall exercises are listed below to incorporate into daily routines.
Remember the Number 7. Remembering 12 tasks in one day is simply sensory overload. Start with 3, work up to 5 and settle on 7. Seven items at the grocery store; seven names of politicians; seven places to go; seven ways to win in Vegas.
Attach Meaning. Try remembering names by linking them with where people were met, a unique interest or feature. Baseball Bob, Frizzy Fred, Church Cora etc.
Mnemonic Sentencing. A mnemonic is a tool to help remember facts or a large amount of information. An example would be Never Eat Soggy Waffles to recall directions (North, East, South and West).
Repetition. An obvious instrument but a successful one. When visiting with new people, use their name often while visiting and when the conversation is over have a mental picture associated with the person and name. This also applies to landmarks when visualizing a location.
Do Math in Your Head. Try to have purchases totaled before reaching the register. Pick a different time zone and imagine what you would be doing in this different time and place.
Tune up Fine Motor Skills. Juggle a few oranges. Do puzzles, start coloring in the new adult coloring books and frame your masterpieces.
Exercise is the polish for the Golden Age. We need to remember we are important to ourselves and to the generations who follow. If Seniors forget, the next generation will be challenged to understand.
Eat The Red Apple...0r mnemonically speaking… Exercise To Reduce Alzheimer’s.

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blows cool-ish no change from city to highway. my neighbor, a residential/commercial heating and cooling tech was going to refill it but when he hooked up his gauges he said the suction and pressure were excellent and it did not need gas. does this system have a line filter that could be the issue? any troubleshooting I can do without the fancy AC tools to find
If the pressures are excellent, I would be inclined to look elsewhere in all honesty. The only filter like device I am aware of is the orifice tube, but if that was clogged up, that would throw the pressure numbers off, and your friend would have seen that. What pressures did your friend find on the high and low side. What is good for residential may not be good for automotive applications.
Puddle under the car simply indicates that the evaporator is colder than dew point, and the water is draining as it should. Are both sides the same temp? If you go full hot to full cold, does it change as it should?


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Polo G is an American rapper born in Chicago, Illinois on January 6, 1999. He became well known after releasing the single “Finer Things.” The music video for the song received over 12 million views within 3 months of being released. He started rapping in his teen years and at 17 recorded his first song “Back That Ass Up Remix” with Lil Blast and Lil Felton. In 2018 he released a number of singles, including “Never Cared”, “The Come Up”, “Welcome Back”, “Hollywood”, and “Finer Things.” That same year he was signed by the record company Columbia Records. He has collaborated with artists like Lil Durk, Lud Foe, Lil Baby, and G Herbo. He also has a large following on social media with over 500k followers on Instagram and over 300k subscribers on YouTube.
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Cityscape Displays produces, installs, removes and recycles banners mainly in the city of Toronto and the surrounding area.
The visual identity suggests a row of banners in perspective and the strong diagonal line and negative space suggest a street. Banners displayed in the city are a good advertising tool using repetitive messages to communicate. We contained the repetitive banner forms within a simple and bold triangle. We added color to suggest the diversity of banner message and to convey a bright cityscape.
A bold, original, simple, appropriate and memorable visual identity is the result. The symbol is at once a row of banners and a cityscape, as the banners also allude to the tall buildings in a cityscape.


Company World View Enterprises located in the U.S. state of Arizona, announced the successful completion of the first small-scale test flight of a balloon, equipped with a special capsule that is being developed for space tourists could “float” on a 32-km altitude above the Earth’s surface.
Last Tuesday, 24 June 2014, the company World View Enterprises in Tucson, said reduced-scale copy of the balloon was launched last week from Roswell (new Mexico). According to the President of the company Jane Poynter, developed the balloon broke the world record, as in the stratosphere was raised payload, the mass of which is 1/10 by weight of the intended load full-scale model of the balloon.
Jane Poynter could not hide his joy at the results of the test flight, preparation and conduct of which until yesterday was kept a closely guarded secret.
For the test flight balloon was used, similar to that which the Austrian Felix Baumgartner was used to set a world record, which consisted of lifting to a height of 32 km above the Earth’s surface. Continue reading
While it “calculated” on the computer
In 2006, the Solar system lost one of the nine planets — Pluto stripped of planet status due to negligible size. But the discovery of American scientists threatens to return the ninth planet in the system — found a new celestial body, claiming the title.
The staff of the California Institute of technology Michael brown and Konstantin Batygin has published a paper in the reputable scientific journal “Astronomical journal” about his study, in which they “discovered” a new planet in the Solar system.
Celestial body has a mass of 5-10 times larger than our planet, and is about 20 times farther from Earth than Neptune. Despite the fact that Neptune is the most distant planet, until it 4300 million kilometers. Accordingly, before “the ninth planet” – about 8600 million. The problem is that open planet. while no one was looking through a telescope, it was discovered through computer simulation. However, the accuracy of such simulations is very high today. Continue reading
The international team of young scientists, selected by competition to participate in this project, included three men and three women.
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Have you ever wondered just why there is so much art in Florence? You might think that it was the vast amounts of money made from banking and the wool trade that allowed wealthy patrons to commission these artworks, but there is far more to it than that. For the wealthy, art also had a very political dimension, and the absolute masters in the use of art as power were the Medici, rulers of Florence. There was also the small matter of art as a way of escaping eternal damnation. On this tour you will see how the Medici used their patronage to commission artworks of great beauty, often full of subtle political messages, but sometimes used as a direct threat to anyone foolish enough to challenge their rule.
This tour will change the way you look at Florentine art.
Profit, Politics and the Art of Power
Tour code: Florence 4
For groups of max 4 people: £395 per group.
For groups of 5-10 people: £85 per person.
Duration approx 3hrs. Maximum number of participants 10
Included: Visits to the Mercato Nuovo, Orsanmichele (exterior), the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi (interior and the Capella dei Magi), the Duomo (exxterior) and Piazza della Signoria and the Uffizzi (exterior). The tour will be led by Art Historian Chris Dobson.
Artists/architects covered include: Lorenzo Ghiberti, Bennozzo Gozzoli, Giorgio Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini.
Meeting point: inside the elegant Caffè Rivoire, Piazza della Signoria, corner of Via Vacchereccia 4/r
Please note: this tour is not available on Wednesdays.
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"Who cares about the rights of 130,000 people?'' asks Chris Fitzsimon on his blog which can be found at weekend Follies column at www.ncpolicywatch.com.
Apparently it is ok to make it more difficult for 100,000 registered voters in North Carolina to cast their ballots. That was one of the interesting outcomes of the debate this week about the unnecessary voter ID bill making its way through the House.
Lawmakers heard from DMV officials that 318,000 of the state’s more than 6.4 million registered voters could not be matched with DMV records and that 171,000 of those people did not vote in the last two elections.
That information followed reports last year that more 600,000 people did not have a government-issued photo ID, though most people understood at the time that number was high because of confusion about name changes due to marriage and other factors.

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Holy Bible: King James Version (KJV)
A handsome leather edition of the bestselling King James Version translation. This is a timeless classic and a wonderful gift, prize or keepsake. The King James Version has been a popular bestseller for centuries, with Collins selling over 1 million gift Bibles alone. This edition comes with a quality leather binding, sturdy slipcase, gilt pages, ribbon marker and presentation page, making it ideal as a gift or prize. With its durable binding and classic presentation, it is also suitable for personal use. This full text edition of the ever-popular Authorized King James Version Bible includes both the Old and New Testaments, with all its literary beauty and poetic grandeur. Written in 1611, the KJV is regarded as one of the most accurate translations of the Bible into the English language. The translation is often requested for ceremonial events and given to mark special occasions.
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text: Some see dead people, others have visions, but Marty sees monsters all over the place. Small, big, hideous or stylish, they all seem to come straight out of a comic book to populate the universe of this teenager with an overactive imagination. At least they’re harmless. Not like those bullies who put geeky Marty through the wringer every day at school. Until the moment when beautiful Sally comes to his rescue. They become inseparable, exchanging everything… except bodily fluids. Of course Marty falls in love with Sally, but he doesn’t dare to tell her for fear of breaking up these unique moments they spent together. Of course, our poor guy ends up being “friendzoned” by Sally. Marty’s alone again with his monsters, while his beautiful Sally, even under the constant supervision of her tyrannical parents, gets seduced by the kind of alpha male against whom Marty doesn’t stand a chance. Unless… It took director Avid Liongoren more than ten years to complete his project and the result is amazing. Mixing real shots with CGI animation, Saving Sally is an inventive re-reading of the concept “will they get together or not?” Visually bluffing and incredibly poetic, this modern tale owes much to the magnetic presence of Rhian Ramos, which we could already see at the BIFFF in Yam Laranas’ The Road.


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Crispy Halloumi Bake
Packed full of delicious roast veggies, protein-packed beans, crispy croutons, crispy and gooey halloumi and garlic, this one pan tray bake is the ideal low fuss, midweek recipe.
This one-pan tray bake can be on your table in 30 minutes, less time than it takes for the delivery man to arrive at your door.
It’s made up of 9 simple ingredients, easily sourced from any supermarket or online retailer. Do a little prep, then sit back and let the oven do all the hard work.
If you try this recipe, let us know how it goes! Leave a comment, rate it, and don’t forget to tag your photo #theculinarycartel on Instagram so we can see what you come up with. To view our recipe video on Instagram click here. Happy cooking!
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Sourdough croutons can be omitted or replaced a gluten free alternative.
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"People Get Ready" is a 1965 single by the Impressions, and the title track from the People Get Ready album. The single is the group's best-known hit, reaching number-three on the Billboard R&B Chart and number 14 on the Billboard Pop Chart. People Get Ready - Wikipedia
From your bed to the beach. Sun coming through your window in the morning and it's a beautiful day and you've got nothing better to do than hang out in bed and have breakfast in a green grassed garden with trees and drive a 1965 Shelby Mustang to meet your friends at the ocean. CLAAP!
When you go to the facebookpage of Banx and Ranx you can download all remixes for free. Its worth checking out. I love the remixes they did on Bob Marley, Sean Paul and Konshens. Brand New Reggae and Dancehall Tunes this Month - 2015
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"Crying in the Chapel" is a song written by Artie Glenn for his son Darrell to sing. Darrell recorded it while still in high school in 1953, along with Artie's band the Rhythm Riders. Crying in the Chapel - Wikipedia
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Torii gates at Fushimi Inari shrine, Kyoto, Japan. Great hike! Beautiful!
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Mike Trout and Albert Pujols hit back-to-back home runs, Jason Heyward smoked a ball about 460 feet and the Cubs and Angels settled for an 8-8 tie on Monday at Tempe Diablo Stadium.Cubs second baseman Tommy La Stella, who went 3-for-4 to raise his spring average to
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Mike Trout and Albert Pujols hit back-to-back home runs, Jason Heyward smoked a ball about 460 feet and the Cubs and Angels settled for an 8-8 tie on Monday at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
Cubs second baseman Tommy La Stella, who went 3-for-4 to raise his spring average to .385, tied the score at 6 with an RBI single in the eighth. Albert Almora followed with the go-ahead single off Javy Guerra. Matt Murton hit a solo homer in the ninth for the Cubs' third homer of the game.
The Angels struck for two runs in the ninth to tie it. Jefry Marte's RBI single cut the deficit to 8-7 before he scored the tying run on Craig Gentry's two-out single.
The Cubs, seven days removed from opening their season at Angel Stadium, plated five runs in a third inning that was highlighted by a three-run homer from Heyward and a solo shot by Anthony Rizzo. They have gone deep three times each this spring.
Heyward's ball off Nick Tropeano bounced off the side of the batting cage that sits in the Angels' right-field parking lot.
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The Angels answered with five runs in the fourth against Kyle Hendricks. Trout hit a solo homer to left field, Pujols followed with his fifth and Carlos Perez helped tack on three more, as the catcher hit an RBI single, drew a throw while stealing second that allowed Andrelton Simmons to score from third, then scored on a throwing error by Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant.
Tropeano, making his first start in 12 days after being out with the flu, was charged with five runs on six hits and two walks in four innings, putting his Cactus League ERA at 7.82. The 25-year-old right-hander was optioned to Triple-A after his start, which probably means Matt Shoemaker has claimed the fifth spot.
Simmons went 3-for-3 to raise his Cactus League batting average to .346. Pujols, playing his first spring game at first base, added a double deep into the left-center-field gap. For the Cubs, left fielder Ben Zobrist hit an RBI double.
Hendricks gave up only four runs in his first 19 frames, but he was charged with six runs (four earned) on nine hits and two walks in 5 2/3 innings.
Hendricks is well aware Trout and Pujols are going to hit home runs.
"That's going to happen," Hendricks said. "The biggest mistake I had today was the [Kole] Calhoun walk [in the fourth]. Solo home runs won't beat you. The one to Trout was a good pitch, the one to Pujols got more of the plate."
Hendricks said he did get a lot of positives from the outing, and was able to get back into his rhythm after a rough fourth inning. He quietly won the fifth spot in the Cubs' rotation.
"I just came out here and tried to make good pitches," Hendricks said. "I know the confidence they have in me, but I know how many good guys we have in our bullpen. It's healthy competition, but I tried to mentally stay away from that and focus on what I can control."
Up next for Cubs:Jake Arrieta will start on Tuesday at 3:05 p.m. CT against the Athletics at Sloan Park in Mesa. Watch the live action on MLB.TV or listen free to an exclusive webcast at cubs.com. It will be the right-hander's first start since he was limited to one-third of an inning because of a blister on his right thumb. The blister never opened, and his side session on Sunday went well. The reigning National League Cy Young Award winner is on track to start Opening Night on Monday in Anaheim against the Angels.
Up next for Angels:Garrett Richards makes his presumed final Spring Training start on Tuesday at 12:10 p.m. PT, when the Angels wrap up their Cactus League schedule against the Indians at Tempe Diablo Stadium. Tyler Skaggs is scheduled to follow Richards, expected to be the Opening Day starter, by pitching three innings in his second game since Tommy John surgery in August 2014. Watch the live action on MLB.TV.
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez and Facebook , and listen to his podcast.


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The Major League Baseball All-Star Game presented by MasterCard is nearly three weeks away and the race for the third outfield spot is tightening, as revealed in the fourth installment of the Esurance MLB All-Star Game Ballot fan voting update for National League starters released Monday.
The Marlins' Marcell Ozuna surpassed the Braves' Matt Kemp, who sits just behind the Cubs' Benjamin Zobrist for fourth on the outfielder leaderboard. All three players find themselves neck-and-neck with the Cubs' Jason Heyward for the final starting position while Miami slugger Giancarlo Stanton is also not far behind.
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The 88th MLB All-Star Game is scheduled for July 11 at Marlins Park in Miami, where baseball's greatest talents take center stage.
Here are the latest results:
- Buster Posey, Giants: 1,890,039
- Willson Contreras, Cubs: 957,933
- Yadier Molina, Cardinals: 857,109
- Matt Wieters, Nationals: 573,072
- Yasmani Grandal, Dodgers: 525,432
Posey has extended his lead ahead of the field with an excellent performance at the plate over the past seven days, going 8-for-20 (.400) with a homer, three doubles and two RBIs. Contreras had a nice week as well, collecting six hits and six RBIs in 18 at-bats (.333), but is struggling to keep pace with the Giants backstop, who is bidding for his fifth All-Star appearance.
- Ryan Zimmerman, Nationals: 1,404,251
- Anthony Rizzo, Cubs: 1,247,219
- Paul Goldschmidt, D-backs: 828,361
- Freddie Freeman, Braves: 637,030
- Joey Votto, Reds: 517,833
Rizzo has been scorching hot since being inserted into the leadoff spot, batting .417 with three home runs and eight RBIs over the past week, but hasn't been able to eat into Zimmerman's hold on the top spot. The Nationals first baseman hit .208 over the past seven days, but clubbed two home runs and drove in five runs.
- Daniel Murphy, Nationals: 2,365,180
- Javier Baez, Cubs: 1,328,917
- DJ LeMahieu, Rockies: 401,768
- Brandon Phillips, Braves: 350,150
- Kolten Wong, Cardinals: 285,496
Murphy racked up 12 hits in 28 at-bats to hit a blistering .429 since the last voting update to keep a stronghold on the top spot among second basemen. Not much has changed throughout the rest of the top five, but LeMahieu is doing his best to earn more votes, hitting .452 with six RBIs this past week while helping the red-hot Rockies improve to 20 games over .500.
- Kristopher Bryant, Cubs: 1,603,326
- Nolan Arenado, Rockies: 1,300,612
- Justin Turner, Dodgers: 747,659
- Anthony Rendon, Nationals: 635,838
- Jake Lamb, D-backs: 564,447
No third baseman had a better week than Arenado, who capped off a magnificent seven days with a walk-off three-run home run on Sunday to finish off a Father's Day cycle. Colorado's artist at the hot corner batted .394 with nine RBIs while Turner hit .400 with a homer and three RBIs throughout the week. Bryant had a down week, bating .200 with a homer and an RBI, but still paces the field by a decent margin.
- Zack Cozart, Reds: 1,465,327
- Corey Seager, Dodgers: 1,143,767
- Addison Russell, Cubs: 967,495
- Trea Turner, Nationals: 652,507
- Chris Owings, D-backs: 541,960
Cozart, who is vying for his first All-Star honor, played in just three games over the week because of a quad injury, but picked up two hits in five at-bats on Sunday to raise his batting average back up to .320. The 31-year-old still paces the position in the NL with a .966 OPS.
- Bryce Harper, Nationals: 2,827,330
- Charlie Blackmon, Rockies: 2,259,867
- Jason Heyward, Cubs: 973,333
- Ben Zobrist, Cubs: 887,804
- Marcell Ozuna, Marlins: 871,393
- Matt Kemp, Braves: 835,324
- Giancarlo Stanton, Marlins: 823,558
- Kyle Schwarber, Cubs: 775,212
- Yoenis Cespedes, Mets: 576,463
- Adam Duvall, Reds: 532,243
- William Fowler, Cardinals: 490,136
- Jayson Werth, Nationals: 457,714
- Jay Bruce, Mets: 432,805
- Yasiel Puig, Dodgers: 430,423
- Billy Hamilton, Reds: 367,684
Harper, who leads all NL outfielders with a 1.028 OPS, is closing in on 3 million votes as he continues his quest for a fifth career All-Star selection. Harper has had a resurgent 2017, batting .318 with 17 home runs and 51 RBIs in 62 games for the first-place Nationals.
Blackmon has shown no signs of slowing down, and while he may have a tough time catching Harper in the ballot race, he's arguably been just as good. The 30-year-old leads all Major Leaguers with 95 hits and all NL outfielders with a .610 slugging percentage.
Despite a relatively stagnant leaderboard from a week ago, it's Ozuna who has continued his ascent while pushing for a starting role and his second All-Star selection. The 26-year-old went 6-for-18 (.333) with three home runs during the past seven days to leapfrog Kemp and inch toward Zobrist.
The competition for the final starting spot will be one to monitor as the Midsummer Classic nears, with more than five players in position to grab it.
Fans may cast votes for starters at MLB.com and all 30 club sites -- on computers, tablets and smartphones -- exclusively online using the 2017 Esurance MLB All-Star Game Ballot until Thursday, June 29, at 11:59 p.m. ET. On smartphones and tablets, fans can also access the ballot via the MLB.com At Bat and MLB.com Ballpark mobile apps. Vote up to five times in any 24-hour period for a maximum of 35 ballots cast.
Following the announcement of the 2017 All-Star starters, reserves and pitchers, fans should return to MLB.com and cast their 2017 Esurance MLB All-Star Game Final Vote for the final player on each league's All-Star roster. Then on Tuesday, July 11, while watching the 2017 All-Star Game presented by MasterCard live on FOX, fans may visit MLB.com to submit their choices for the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet with the 2017 MLB All-Star Game MVP Vote.
The 88th Midsummer Classic, at Marlins Park in Miami, will be televised nationally by FOX Sports; in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS; and worldwide by partners in more than 160 countries. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide exclusive national radio coverage, while MLB Network, MLB.com and SiriusXM will have comprehensive All-Star Week coverage. For more information about MLB All-Star Week and to purchase tickets, please visit AllStarGame.com and follow @AllStarGame on social media.

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When you think of Milan, fashion and finance probably pop into your head. However, whether or not you’re a fashionista or investment banker, there are plenty of things to do and see in this northern Italian city. Better yet, many of them are free.
Not only is this basilica the heart of Milan’s spiritual life, it’s also a homage to the much-admired fourth-century bishop of Milan. Saint Ambrose was a Roman governor who was made a bishop by popular vote back in AD 374, and although he refused the prestigious appointment at first, he was pressed into acceptance of the role, upon which he gave up all of his lands to support the poor. Now the patron saint of Milan, his remains are interred within a crypt in the basilica. Take a guided tour of the premises to learn more about this bishop and saint, or wander around at your own pace (for free) to marvel at the dazzling mosaics, which mount the otherwise minimalist halls of this red-brick cathedral.
For another tranquil retreat away from the bustling crowds of Milan, visit the local botanical garden. Tucked away up a private street and just a short walk from the Duomo or Parco Sempione, the Orto Botanico of Brera is a leafy oasis that was once a scientific institution. The 18th-century garden was designed to help educate medical and pharmacy students, as well as being used to grow medicinal plants. Today, it’s a beautifully maintained attraction for plant lovers and those looking to take a break from life. Find one of the many benches dotted around the grounds and relax until you’re ready to face the outside world again.
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch; however, they clearly haven’t been to Milan. Among the most famous areas of Milan is Navigli, known for its picturesque canals, hip bars, restaurants and the cultural phenomenon, aperitivo. Strictly speaking, aperitivo means a pre-meal drink, but here in Navigli it’s also code for ‘free dinner’. Purchase any beverage at one of the many canal-side bars around sunset (look for a buffet table inside, and you’ll know you’ve arrived), and you’ll be treated to an all-you-can-eat treat. Each of the bars has unique specialities, but you’ll usually find cold cuts, bruschetta, bread, cheeses and salads. Sip your drink as slowly as you can manage, and you can spend a happy evening munching away for free while you watch the world go by.
In case the name didn’t give it away, Cimitero Monumentale is a giant cemetery. Covering over 25 hectares (62 acres), it’s the second-largest cemetery in Milan, but definitely its most captivating. Boasting over 15,000 statues, the graveyard is also home to some of Milan’s most famous buildings, including the Famedio (or Pantheon), which is the final resting place of some of the city’s most legendary writers and politicians. Wandering through the laneways of graves is a unique, albeit slightly spooky, experience – you’ll be spellbound by some of the most artistic and decorative tombs in Italy.
Unlike The Last Supper (for which tickets must be bought up to four months in advance), you can check out this Da Vinci masterpiece for free at any time of the year. Leonardo’s Horse, also known as Gran Cavallo, was commissioned in 1482 by Ludovico il Moro, who later became the duke of Milan. Some seven metres (24 feet) long, the sculpture is enormous and imposing. While Da Vinci never finished the statue, only designing it in clay, his plans were later used to forge the monument in a much more durable bronze.
Milan is thought to be the birthplace of fascism, and so it’s not surprising that an anarchic underground movement is also deeply rooted in the city. Graffiti is one of the oldest forms of street art and an inherently rebellious anti-establishment form of expression, which has a rich history in Milan. All over the city, you’ll find both large and discreet artistic installations, from huge building-side murals to tiny, decorated manhole coverings. For a concentrated burst of creative statements, visit the Leoncavallo area. In this public space, which plays host to everything from music events to protests and community gatherings, you’ll find wall paintings from some famous artists, including MR BLOB. Afterwards, catch a tram or bus to the Isola neighbourhood for more subtle yet equally striking pieces.


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Bike frames have come a long way from steel and aluminum to exotic alloys and carbon fibers. Now, in the Philippines, they’re going all the way back to bamboo.
The “bamboo bike” is turning into the latest hot item for environmentalists here, with its low carbon footprint. Bamboo is also tough and light: Bamboo bike frames weigh about seven to ten pounds. Read More »
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The cheap fuel Indonesians have come to expect is unlikely to go away before a new government takes charge on Oct. 20. When it does, incoming president Joko Widodo, said he is ready to be unpopular.
China’s leading smartphone vendor, Xiaomi, has arrived in gadget-crazy Indonesia.
Potential investigations into a controversial Indonesian bank bailout six years ago could complicate efforts by Indonesia's president-elect to form a cabinet.
Indonesia’s state-owned oil and gas company agreed not to limit supplies of subsidized fuel after a measure to reduce consumption caused long lines at gas stations across the nation.
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Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov, the protagonist in Leo Tolstoy’s 1872 short story God Sees the Truth, But Waits, spends 26 years exiled in Siberia as punishment for a crime he never committed. In his time there he turns to God, with Tolstoy’s story centring itself around a process of forgiveness. For his latest film, The Woman Who Left, Lav Diaz draws on elements of Tolstoy’s short story, with clear and acknowledged parallels. Horacia Somorostro (Charo Santos-Concio) finds herself suddenly released from a Women’s Correctional Facility after 30 years: her friend has committed suicide, leaving a note taking responsibility for for the crime Somorostro committed1 Diaz, like Tolstoy, maintains a focus on the role of religion, namely Catholicism, which Diaz explores in relation to the poor communities, the injustices they endure, against the wealthier institutional form, portrayed as serving the wealthier figures that feed the inequality depicted throughout.2 There are limits to what Diaz’ work can faithfully take from Tolstoy’s. It results in pointedly stark reflections on how faith manifests itself in a society where forgiveness is overridden by a desire of justice inextricably tied to revenge.
At 228 minutes long, The Woman Who Left doesn’t even scrape into the top ten when ranking Diaz’ films by length.3 As a result, there’s a pronounced and comparatively fast-paced narrative that feels particularly uncharacteristic of his work. There’s an ease to which he adapts to a different rhythm, though, shifting his contemplative directing style to a more precise focus – on studying the characters at the center of his work. Diaz maps out an emotional cartography, using the protagonists of The Woman Who Left as microcosms to reflect a larger portrait of the downtrodden, underclass and outcast figures within the Philippines.
Horacia is established as a hardened figure, defined by a pure sense of generosity that draws her to other ill-treated people. After her release, she moves to the town where the wealthy Rodrigo Trinidad—responsible for masterminding her framing 30 years earlier—resides. Her purpose is clear: to take revenge. Over the course of The Woman Who Left, this plan unravels. As Horacia gets closer in taking out Trinidad, she becomes equally invested in the lives of those within the poverty-stricken neighbourhood. Horacia first encounters Hollanda (John Lloyd Cruz) as a cross-dressing stranger, having an epileptic seizure on the street. Both characters are defined as outcasts rejected by a society far less morally righteous than themselves; their friendship emerges from this shared sense of exclusion.
While Tolstoy’s short story offers up the broad premise of The Woman Who Left, its influence is sidelined as the film’s runtime marches on, as Diaz’ breadth of influences and concerns make themselves much more pronounced. The literature of Russia has operated both as an overt and subtle influence on Diaz’ work. With 2014’s Norte, The End of History, the director delivered a thorough adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. In The Woman Who Left, Diaz’s influences collide with one another in a more organic manner than the more strictly adaptive Norte. In the run-down outskirts of town, where Diaz’ aforementioned leads meet, there are echoes of the discontent felt throughout Maxim Gorky’s 1902 much-adapted play, The Lower Depths, which focuses on a group of downtrodden Russians grouped together in a shelter, meditating on the sense of hopelessness that defines their lives.4 Still, Gorky allows a certain resilience amongst the depiction of destitution in his work, injecting a specific social dynamic to Tolstoy and Dostoesvky’s earlier conception of realist fiction from decades earlier. Hollanda’s epilepsy and sexuality renders him a pariah, akin to Prince Myshkin from Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. 5 While both Myshkin and Hollanda offer a moral compass within their contexts, neither Russian nobility nor Filipino plutocracy are concerned enough with morality to accept them.
When Horacia describes herself as “a creature of the dark”, she articulates a similar exclusion to Hollanda—and throughout The Woman Who Left, both characters are most commonly shot in amidst darkness, in Diaz’s trademark use of black-and-white. There’s an aesthetic questioning by Diaz, of Horacia’s statement. When we see Rodrigo Trinidad giving a half-hearted confession in church, he’s doused in bright, almost overexposed whites and he is, by any visual assessment, a creature of the light,sustained by the suffering of those we see left in the dark.
There are very few scenes in which Rodrigo Trinidad appears on screen, and while there’s an argument to be made for decentring such a character, an even longer film would’ve explored out the intricacies of his corruption and even commented on what drives his actions. Still, the approach Diaz brings to framing time and space in his films allows him to draw a wealth of meaning and insight from every conversation that we do see on screen, unexpected and natural layers of humanity bubble to the surface long after the point at which most filmmakers would call cut. In one winding take, towards the end of the film, this approach results in one of the director’s most remarkable scenes to date. It’s hard to recall the length of some scenes in a Diaz film, where what feels like a couple of minutes could have been half-an-hour, or vice-versa. The emotional crescendo of The Woman Who Left in Horacia and Hollanda’s final shared scene is marked by exactly this temporal blurring. As the two take turns singing a cappella renditions of classic songs—West Side Story‘s “Someday”, for instance—they drift between peaks of intimacy, honesty, anger, frustration, and resolve. As difficult to describe as any of Diaz’s most sensorily breathtaking scenes, it exists in impermanence; operating as both a self-contained act and also an integral component of his wide-reaching narrative.
The film’s denouement offers more of a bitter ache than a resolution. At one point, earlier on, we hear a character ask: “I heard they’ll demolish this place. What about those that are living there now? Where will they go? Where will they live?” When that demolition finally comes, Diaz lets the camera linger on the destruction, as a group of forklifts tear down each house, the images are matched by cries of anguish from the unseen villagers. Diaz ultimately offers no answers to these earlier questions.We see Horacia one last time, venturing out from a makeshift shelter to fulfil her titular role.t’s not a pleasant end but it offers an image that simmers long after the closing credits.
Diaz has long been the figurehead of the New Philippine cinema, but with The Woman Who Left, he’s continuing to expand his legacy outside of the country, and beyond the increasingly reductive ‘slow cinema’ label. Diaz has always been a sociopolitical filmmaker: from the fallout of Typhoon Yolanda in Storm Children, the rising spectre of Ferdinand Marcos in From What is Before, the cycle of poverty in Evolution of a Filipino Family, to the reflection on the disappearances that occurred throughout the Marcos regime in Melancholia. The Woman Who Left operates with the same concerns; attacking inequity and rigid societal structures, whilst reengaging and adapting older moralistic notions. Diaz does this with a trimmer runtime than usual, and while that may not entirely please longstanding fans of the director, the result is one of his most accessible films to date; a reliable entry point to a dense filmography and one of the strongest works of Diaz’s career.


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This is a cautionary tale of what can happen when municipal governments are allowed to enact radical, restrictive gun laws…
San Francisco, California has over 850,000 residents*. But thanks to SF’s gun-phobic elected officials, you soon won’t be able to find a single store that sells guns and ammo within city limits. High Bridge Arms, San Francisco’s last remaining gun shop, announced it will be closing its doors in October. The reason is the threat of a new SF law requiring gun retailers to video-tape sales transactions and turn over private customer data to the city. This proposed city ordinance goes way beyond existing state and Federal background check requirements.
“Big Brother” is alive and well in the “city by the Bay”. According to Guns.com, San Francisco Supervisor Ken Farrell introduced a municipal ordinance requiring gun vendors to video-tape gun/ammo sales transactions and deliver buyer/firearms data to police every week. Gun shop owners would be required to “hand over personal information to include names, addresses and birth dates to city officials in conjunction with gun and ammo sales.”
Given the threat of this draconian new city law, High Bridge Arms, San Francisco’s last remaining gun store, announced it would cease operations next month. Posting on Facebook, High Bridge’s owner declared: “We are closing our shop. For many reasons I cannot get into at this moment, it appears our final days will be through to the end of October of 2015.” It is not known whether High Bridge Arms will re-locate to a different location outside San Francisco city limits.