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Estimating the cost of equity for a private company
In assessing the cost of equity for publicly traded firms, we looked at the risk of investments through the eyes of the marginal investors in these firms. With the added assumption that these investors were well diversified, we were able to define risk in terms of risk added on to a diversified portfolio or market risk. The beta (in the CAPM) and betas (in the multi-factor models) that measure this risk are usually estimated using historical stock prices. The absence of historical price information for private firm equity and the failure on the part of many private firm owners to diversify can create serious problems with estimating and using betas for these firms.
The standard process of estimating the beta in the capital asset pricing model involves running a regression of stock returns against market returns. Multi-factor models use other statistical techniques, but they also require historical price information. In the absence of such information, as is the case with private firms, there are three ways in which we can estimate betas.
While price information is not available for private firms, accounting earnings information is. We could regress changes in a private firmÕs accounting earnings against changes in earnings for an equity index (such as the S&P 500) to estimate an accounting beta.
D EarningsPrivate firm = a + b D EarningsS&P 500
The slope of the regression (b) is the accounting beta for the firm. Using operating earnings would yield an unlevered beta, whereas using net income would yield a levered or equity beta.
There are two significant limitations with this approach. The first is that private firms usually measure earnings only once a year, leading to regressions with few observations and limited statistical power. The second is that earnings are often smoothed out and subject to accounting judgments, leading to mismeasurement of accounting betas.
There have been attempts made by researchers to relate the betas of publicly traded firms to observable variables such as earnings growth, debt ratios and variance in earnings. Beaver, Kettler, and Scholes (1970) examined the relationship between betas and seven variables - dividend payout, asset growth, leverage, liquidity, asset size, earnings variability and the accounting beta. Rosenberg and Guy (1976) also attempted a similar analysis. The following is a regression that we ran relating the betas of NYSE and AMEX stocks in 1996 to four variables: coefficient of variation in operating income (CVOI), book debt/equity (D/E), historical growth in earnings (g) and the book value of total assets (TA).
Beta = 0.6507 + 0.25 CVOI + 0.09 D/E + 0.54 g - 0.000009 TA R2=18%
When valuing publicly traded firms, we used the unlevered betas of the businesses that the firms operated in to estimate bottom-up betas Š the costs of equity were based upon these betas. We did so because of the low standard errors on these estimates (due to the averaging across large numbers of firms) and the forward looking nature of the estimates (because the business mix used to weight betas can be changed). We can estimate bottom-up betas for private firms and these betas have the same advantages that they do for publicly traded firms. Thus, the beta for a private steel firm can be estimated by looking at the average betas for publicly traded steel companies. Any differences in financial or even operating leverage can be adjusted for in the final estimate.
In making the adjustment of unlevered betas for financial leverage, we do run into a problem with private firms, since the debt to equity ratio that should be used is a market value ratio. While many analysts use the book value debt to equity ratio to substitute for the market ratio for private firms, we would suggest one of the following alternatives.
a. Assume that the private firmÕs market leverage will resemble the average for the industry. If this is the case, the levered beta for the private firm can be written as:
b private firm = bunlevered (1 + (1 - tax rate) (Optimal Debt/Equity))
The adjustment for operating leverage is simpler and is based upon the proportion of the private firmÕs costs that are fixed. If this proportion is greater than is typical in the industry, the beta used for the private firm should be higher than the average for the industry.
Betas measure the risk added by an investment to a diversified portfolio. Consequently, they are best suited for firms where the marginal investor is diversified. With private firms, the owner is often the only investor and thus can be viewed as the marginal investor. Furthermore, in most private firms, the owner tends to have much of his or her wealth invested in the private business and does not have an opportunity to diversify. Consequently, it can be argued that betas will understate the exposure to market risk in these firms.
At the limit, if the owner has all of his or her wealth invested in the private business and is completely undiversified, that owner is exposed to all risk in the firm and it is not just the market risk (which is what the beta measures). There is a fairly simple adjustment that can allow us to bring in this non-diversifiable risk into the beta computation. To arrive at this adjustment, assume that the standard deviation in the private firmÕs equity value (which measures total risk) is sj and that the standard deviation in the market index is sm. If the correlation between the stock and the index is defined to be rjm, the market beta can be written as:
To measure exposure to total risk (sj), we could divide the market beta by rjm. This would yield the following.
This is a relative standard deviation measure, where the standard deviation of the private firmÕs equity value is scaled against the market indexÕs standard deviation to yield what we will call a total beta.
The total beta will be higher than the market beta and will depend upon the correlation between the firm and the market Š the lower the correlation, the higher the total beta.
You might wonder how a total beta can be estimated for a private firm, where the absence of market prices seems to rule out the calculation of either a market beta or a correlation coefficient. Note though, that we were able to estimate the market beta of the sector by looking at publicly traded firms in the business. We can obtain the correlation coefficient by looking at the same sample and use it to estimate a total beta for a private firm.
The question of whether the total beta adjustment should be made cannot be answered without examining why the valuation of the private firm is being done in the first place. If the private firm is being valued for sale, whether and how much the market beta should be adjusted will depend upon the potential buyer or buyers. If the valuation is for an initial public offering, there should be no adjustment for non-diversification, since the potential buyers are stock market investors. If the valuation is for sale to another individual or private business, the extent of the adjustment will depend upon the degree to which the buyerÕs portfolio is diversified; the more diversified the buyer, the higher the correlation with the market and the smaller the total beta adjustment.


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County to adjust methods of collecting delinquent taxes
Published 7:30 pm Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Jessamine County Attorney Brian Goettl told the Fiscal Court at the regular session on May 2 that his office is looking to change its means of collecting some of the county’s delinquent property taxes.
“What I’m doing is looking at additional ways for those delinquent taxes that aren’t sold at the County Clerk’s sale to be collected,” Goettl said. “Traditionally, you look at foreclosures where you can sell the property itself to pay the taxes. But that is a more lengthy process than some of those that have been suggested by the revenue cabinet.”
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“They’re basically my primary client in terms of collecting the delinquent property taxes,” Goettl said. “By entering into the contract and doing that work, our office is entitled to receive a 20 percent penalty on all delinquent property taxes, which we turn over to the fiscal court to help run our office.”
Goettl said that ten years ago, the process of collecting delinquent property taxes was a part-time duty for his office. A program was then implemented to justify making it a full-time duty for staff, and in the first quarter thereafter, an additional $250,000 in delinquent taxes were collected in the county.
Seven years ago, Kentucky changed the delinquent property tax law, and additional responsibilities were placed onto the offices of county attorneys. Goettl said that when property taxes are turned over from the sheriff to the clerk as delinquencies in April, his office must now send each property owner a letter within 30 days explaining that the tax bill could be sold. Payment plan options must also be explained and provided to the property owners. In addition, he said that any letter that gets returned must now be turned over to the PDA to get a new address. Then, sixty-day letters are mailed by his office on an as-needed basis before July, when a list of properties that cannot be sold is compiled.
“A lot of additional work was put on the office, which put us in the position where we couldn’t do as much regarding enforcement as we had previously been doing,” Goettl explained.
In 2011, the first year that the tax bills were sold under the new regime and system, Goettl said that $289,000 in excess fees were paid to the county attorney’s office that were turned over to the fiscal court. However, those fees have been decreasing each year since, and is now right at or under $100,000. He said that the change resulted in increased responsibility to fulfill the county’s end of the contract with the state’s Department of Revenue with less money coming in.
“We want to try to get back to doing something that will collect more of these unpaid taxes, and we are working with the Revenue Cabinet,” Goettl said.
He said that the county can sue individuals in district court for their delinquent property tax bills up to $4,000, excluding penalties and interest, and get a personal judgment against them that would withstand bankruptcy to garnish wages, levy bank accounts and find other assets to sell in order to pay the taxes. The county can also coordinate with the Revenue Cabinet to take state income tax refunds.
Goettl told the fiscal court that after the tax bill sale responsibility ends in August, his office will begin looking into seeking judgments in district court against property owners with unpaid taxes. Foreclosures will still be used as needed, and on property’s with tax bills over $4,000.
“We don’t want to do that, but it’s a far easier process than the foreclosure process,” Goettl said. “There’s a lot less legal work involved. We don’t want to sue anybody and don’t want to foreclose on anybody’s property, but at the same time, you owe your taxes just like everybody else and have to pay just like anybody else.”
Goettl said that pursuing necessary tax judgments in district court will have minimal cost for the county, but will benefit all of the county’s tax-collecting entities.

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Soft things are cute. Soft things are also fun to touch. And that's part of the reason why you should care about this soft octopus robot.
According to a study in the journal Nature, soft robots could even make human interactions with robots safer than with more conventional "rigid" robots.
The autonomous robot is "the first self-contained robot made exclusively of soft, flexible parts."
It's powered by gas. Harvard University explains it this way: "A reaction inside the bot transforms a small amount of liquid fuel (hydrogen peroxide) into a large amount of gas, which flows into the octobot’s arms and inflates them like a balloon."

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I was in a Walmart in Delray Beach Florida and opened a six dollar package of magnetic buttons used one in the store to see if it worked on a set of induction pots and pans lost the button and put the opened and damaged package back on the shelf ...
You were not arrested, however you may receive a letter from a civil lawyer demanding $200 per statute. Florida statutes allow for civil restitution in retail theft matters if the store can show a loss. My belief is that it only applies when an arrest is made but it never stops the attorneys from sending out their scare letter requesting your money. When I have a client that has actually taken something and is caught I find out if the merchandise was damaged or lost and if it was then I recommend my client pay the fee. If the merchandise was returned and was not damaged in anyway then I tell them not to pay it. Obviously, each situation has to be objectively decided on as there is no clear answer- it depends on the individual facts. If you receive a letter then call an attorneySee question
I am currently awaiting sentencing for a charge that will most likely end in probation and some restitution. I want to move from California to Washington because I no longer have a place to live here in CA. Can I request for my probation to be ser...
yes you certainly want to inform the court and have an address where you will be staying In Washington. Probation needs a physical address.See question
In 2007 while vacationing in NY I was pulled over for a DWI, but I was officially charged with a DWAI. Nevertheless I was told by the Florida Court I had to take a DUI class. I completed the class and when I was pulled over for a DUI recently th...
In Florida the state is required to prove prior conviction via a certified copy of the disposition. They will need to confirm with NY and acquire a copy. Hire an attorneySee question
I am scheduled to fly out of the country in a few weeks and I have a bench warrant for a DUI- failure to complete community service and pay the rest of my fine. I have tried to pay the fine, but have to appear before they will let me- and i have s...
No you do not want to fly as you will likely be detained for some period. Hire an attorney to lift the warrant.See question
What is the typical wait period for the blood alcohol results in palm beach county? What is typical time for DA to possibly prosecute? Next steps.....already contacted attorney
I have seen it take 2-4 months. Sometimes they come and pick you up and sometimes you are stopped for a traffic violation and are taken into custody based on a warrant that you knew nothing about. Hire an attorney to confirm with authorities and state attorney as to what is going on. Any additional delay on their part could work to your advantage, if you have not changed your address or moved out of state. Contacting a lawyer and retaining a lawyer are different- when you contact a lawyer they give you very general information and when you retain one We have a responsibility to advise you on your specific case.See question
My friend was sentenced to (2) 10 year consecutive sentences on robb.gun/dead wpn because he violated his probation at age 17. He went in 08/05/2003 and his release date is 07/21/2019. He has been teaching and graduating studenst from GED classes ...
It sounds like your friend may have been sentenced on the 10 20 life statute and therefore it is not likely that a Motion to Mitigate would be successful. Acquire a copy of the final disposition on his case and I will take a look at it and give you my best opinion.See question
I was pulled over for speeding and was charged with a DUI. I refused to blow at the scene but blew a .078 and then a .081 at the station. When i left the police station i received two tickets, one for a DUI and one for a DUI Bal. No speeding ticke...
The charge will not be dismissed and there are no diversion programs in Broward but it sounds like you have a great case. Ultimately, what should concern you is the time of your breath. You were arrested and brought to the BAT facility. All of the times are available. It will be at least 30 minutes before you gave a breath but likely longer. Your breath was under the limit according to you on first breath. That significantly helps your chances of winning. Remember it is at the time of driving that counts not an hour later at the jail. That is all that can be deciphered from what you wrote but there are always ways to fight a DUI.See question
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This is more complicated and an answer will follow with more facts. The charges 4 felonies and 1 misdemeanor that you list- understood that the last has 50 counts. The felonies you provide are 3rd degree felonies meaning that each charge he faces 5 years maximum. The fact that the firearm has 50 + counts may or may not remain- not likely but possible. What is needed is facts. Facts that you should not be put on AVVO or any site but facts that should be discussed behind closed doors with an attorney. Fact is you should talk to a few. We are all different. Prices vary but I can tell you that you should expect quotes of 10k and up. This is serious and he faces significant time so grab your purse and interview several attorneys until you find the best one for him. Consider our firm but take the time to compare it is important as unfortunately you may find so not so good attorneys. Check bar status, ask about prior cases, read reviews, etcSee question
Criminal charges have been filed since July of 2013, trial date is set for Feb. 2014, just saw on court records this and want to know what it means.
They are supplying your attorney with additional information or a change of information previously forwarded. It is routine so do not panic.See question
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Republicans who resist the president’s other policies are apt to give him a blank check against ISIS.
Courting realists and libertarians could give him an edge against other establishment types—if he’s willing to try.
The former Arkansas governor subtracts evangelicals from the coalition for an anti-establishment GOP nominee.
It’s time to banish the term from our foreign policy debate.
The Kentucky senator takes on Marco Rubio and the GOP’s dated orthodoxy—will he lose ground with primary voters?
The Democratic Party’s favorite populist now basks in media and netroots favor, but would face real 2016 obstacles.
Conservatives must be as committed to exposing the CIA’s abuses as Obamacare’s.
To deter Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, Senate Republicans face a choice between international law and the law of unintended consequences.
His economic populism and foreign-policy restraint may be a more formidable challenge than the Clinton camp realizes.
Our national drug policy is a failure—Republicans should support gradual experimentation a local level.
Here’s why the outgoing Colorado senator should leak the Senate report on CIA torture.
Here are four ways this election could reshape Republican politics over the next two years.
A real alternative to the hyper-hawkishness that has dominated foreign policy thinking for decades.
What’s behind the right’s embarrassing reaction to a Times report on chemical weapons in Iraq?
Republican hawks are getting reinforcements and gaining ground—and not just because of ISIS.
Can the Kentucky senator go beyond his libertarian father’s achievement—or is he doomed to sell out?
The Constitution is clear on war powers, and yet Congress may not weigh in until next year.
How open-ended authorizations of force undermine congressional war powers.
The Texas senator’s crude view of the Mideast unites extremists against America’s interests.
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The Paris Motor Show will house the latest sports cars under the roof of the Paris Expo - Porte de Versailles. One of the sexiest cars that'll wow visitors has to be Jaguar's much anticipated F-Type.
The new Jaguar F-Type represents a return to the company's heart: a two-seat, convertible sports car focused on performance, agility and driver involvement. The F-Type is a continuation of a sporting bloodline that stretches back more than 75 years and encompasses some of the most beautiful, thrilling and desirable sports cars ever built.
The 2014 Jaguar F-Type combines low vehicle weight - starting at 1,600 kg - and high power (from 340 bhp, 380 bhp and 495 bhp versions) and superb aerodynamics to achieve a pure sports car experience, yet with Jaguar elegance and luxury.
A true two-seat sports car, the all-new Jaguar F-Type is equipped with a modern, lightweight soft top that, when lowered, serves as its own tonneau cover. This not only provides a weight savings, but also improves packaging and contributes to the car's low center of gravity for greater agility. The top can be fully raised or lowered in just 12 seconds at speeds of up to 30 mph. Its multi-layer construction includes a Thinsulate® lining for optimal thermal and sound-insulating properties.
Jaguar, which has innovated the use of aluminum body structures, built the new Jaguar F-Type around its most advanced rigid and lightweight aluminum architecture to date. Jaguar engineers applied more than a decade's worth of aluminum construction experience to achieve the twin goals for the F-Type of low mass and an extremely rigid body.
Differing exhaust and tailpipe designs distinguish the V6 and V8 variants of the F-Type. The V6 models feature twin center outlets in a nod to the classic Jaguar E-Type introduced in 1961.
The boldest exhaust finishers ever fitted to a Jaguar, these are stamped from a single piece of stainless steel, creating an unbroken gleaming surface. The V8 S model exclusively features four outboard-mounted exhaust outlets, with twin outlets on each side.
Further detail differentiation between the three variants is found in the exterior trim. The Jaguar F-Type V6 model is marked by satin black trim elements in the grilles, vents, front splitter and rear valance, while the two 'S' models receive gloss-black finishes in these areas.
The V6 model features standard 18-inch alloy wheels, with 19-inch and 20-inch wheels standard for the S and V8 S, respectively, and available as options for the V6. The V8 S also receives additional aerodynamic features, including front vanes beneath the shark gills and flat side sill extensions to manage airflow.
The 340hp V6 model can accelerate from 0-100km/h in 5.3 seconds. The 380hp S model lowers that to 4.9 seconds, and the V8 S can hit 100 km/h from rest in just 4.4 seconds. Electronically limited maximum track speeds are 260 km/h, 275 km/h and 300 km/h, respectively, for the V6, V6 S and V8 S models.


By Nick Barnowski –
DEARBORN HEIGHTS – A duo of passionate hockey fans is transforming one of southeast Michigan’s most historic rinks into a roller hockey facility.
Canfield Arena in Dearborn Heights will re-open in January as Canfield Alkali Skating and Sports Arena, with a roller hockey rink replacing the sheet of ice.
Leading the rink’s conversion is Dave Zarem, a Novi native who has been involved in youth ice and roller hockey in the southeast Michigan area for more than 25 years. He believes this will now be the only place in the country doing roller hockey full-time in an ice facility.
“This is a beautiful building,” Zarem said. “I’m just super excited to grow the sport and help get the sport reborn (in this area).”
Working alongside Zarem is rink General Manager Ken Helms, a Macomb native who used to run the Rochester Hills Skating & Sports Arena. Zarem and Helms are part of a team that’s leasing the building from the city of Dearborn Heights.
The arena stopped its hockey operations this past April. Zarem and Helms began work on the rink in early November. The two emphasized that cleaning up the building was a must before opening.
“We have the luxury of starting fresh,” Zarem said. “I’m not interested in opening this building until it’s the best facility, which I expect to be on Jan. 1.”
Canfield had many gaps in the walls and ceilings that allowed cold air in. Zarem, Helms and rink employees have sealed those gaps, which allowed them the climate control necessary to both put the new roller hockey rink in and keep players and fans comfortable.
The rink is NHL regulation size at 85-feet by 200-feet, which is huge for roller hockey standards, according to Helms. He also said the building will be AAU-sanctioned.
“This floor is different than any other floor,” Helms said. “It expands and contracts as one big piece.”
The temperature of the building affects expansion of the floor, so Zarem and Helms are working on getting the rink to their target of 66 degrees. In addition, puck marks from the boards and glass have been removed while renovations to the locker room are underway.
Alkali Hockey, a roller hockey equipment company, is sponsoring the rink.
“We are extremely excited to see another Roller Hockey rink being operated in what is the mecca of Hockey in the United States,” said Joe Cook, a Michigan native and co-owner of Alkali Hockey, in a press release. “We are honored that the Motor City Chiefs Management Group offered Alkali Hockey the exclusive naming rights to such a storied arena. Being from the Metro Detroit area, it makes perfect sense for us as a company as well as me personally, and lines up with our strategic goals to not only grow our brand, but the sport of roller hockey in such an important area. We love the group of people that are operating the arena, and are extremely excited about their passion to grow the game of roller hockey in Michigan.”
They also have the support of the city, which owns the building. Helms said the city’s Parks and Recreation department has supported them every step of the way.
The pair plans to keep the history of Canfield and its former Junior B hockey club, the Motor City Chiefs, alive. The club will begin play in the American Inline Hockey League as the Canfield Alkali Chiefs, while trophies and banners will stay up as a reminder of the rink’s past.
“We’re hockey people,” Zarem said. “We’re trying to keep Canfield’s history and we want the building to thrive.”
The rink is currently scheduled to host open skates, drop-in, and adult and youth leagues once it opens. Zarem and Helms want the rink to be known as a community supporter that helps area kids learn and respect roller hockey. Canfield will also host National Roller Hockey League games at the new facility.
“From our perspective, this is a pretty big deal because this is an untapped area,” Helms said. “This is the perfect storm. You have the right building, the right location and the right people to make it work.”
Leagues will be forming at the new facility in January – for more information, contact Dave Zarem at email@example.com or (313) 740-1059.


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Is Chamisa Hinting On New Party Name, Colors?
23 December 2021
By A Correspondent| Thursday morning, MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has posted a picture of himself holding three umbrellas colored orange, yellow and blue.
The picture had the following caption;
“Colour is a language! Colour lights up the environment and illuminates the atmosphere. The future is exciting. We must be different. But which colour is the future? Green, Red, Blue,Orange, White or Yellow??.”
Chamisa’s tweet ignited a debate that had died down on whether the MDC Alliance is going to adopt a new name or stick with the same old one currently under dispute with a rival faction headed by former party Secretary General, Douglas Mwonzora.


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Rashmika Mandanna seems to be growing in confidence as an actress and bold as well. She stayed away from any kind of over skin show in all her films.
But when you see this poster, she looks like she has let some glamour dam gates open with such a raunchy pose.
She looks even more beautiful in this photo than her previous films and Venky Kudumula, the director, introduced her in Telugu with his previous film, Chalo.
Now, he seems to have given her a very bold and glamorous role in this film, Bheeshma. Nithiin is coming with the movie, after an year break.
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A New Description of Carolina
Francis Lamb sculp
- Map; Online
- 1 map ; 36 x 50 cm. on sheet 43 x 55 cm.
- Cartographic Info
- Scale [ca. 1:1,700,000].
- [London] : Sold by Tho. Basset in Fleetstreet and Ric. Chiswell in St. Pauls Churchyard,
- Covers Atlantic coast from the James River south to Bay Matancas, near St. Augustine.
- Shows rivers and settlements.
- Relief shown pictorially.
- Appeared in: Theatre of the empire of Great Britain / John Speed -- London : Basset and Chiswell, 1676.
- Oriented with north to the right.
- Consists of Gathering Bb, with text on verso: The Description of Florida (p. 49) -- The Description of Carolina (p. 50).
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A statement from the American Automobile Association that 71% of Americans did not accept the idea of self-driving cars and the reason for lack of confidence, while the remaining 19% believe that self-driving cars are safe for their children, according to "Bloomberg."
The results of the survey reflect the natural fear of self-driving cars, according to experts at the American Society, and the cause of the accident that resulted in the death of a person in the state of Arizona, after being hit by a self-driving vehicle from the company Ober.
"The Americans were not afraid because of the accident, but fear of the unknown, that is the psychological barrier," said Greg Branan, director of automotive engineering at the American Automobile Association.
The PAVE alliance embodies the goal of more than 20 companies and institutions - reducing all concerns that dominate people and self-driving cars - by making the consumers of this car, which will soon be a sensation, experience them on the ground with a sense of confidence in the car.
Since December, Waymo, a subsidiary of Google, has started offering self-service taxi services to customers in Phoenix.
Knowing that many self-driving cars have come to work on US roads from California, Florida and Pennsylvania over the past year.
More importantly, General Motors has taken a decision to launch a self-service biking service in some US cities sometime this year.


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First came smartphones—cellular devices that initially gave users the opportunity do more than just text and call, but now let people do pretty much everything on the go. And then, when smartphones were deemed no longer adequate, tech companies inaugurated smart television sets, which allow for the streaming of applications like Netflix, MLB.TV, and more on top of regular cable. Technology hasn’t stopped there, though—we live in a society that has laid claim to smart watches, smart cars, smart surfboards, and ... smart seats?
Smart seats indeed.
In collaboration with Telstra and Samsung, Etihad is bringing “smart seats” to its Docklands Stadium in Melbourne, Australia (not to be confused with the Etihad Stadium that houses Manchester City FC). The smart seats are given their name because they are equipped with “tablets [that] offer fans access to all Fox Sports and free-to-air channels along with Sky Racing, a scoreboard feed and the broadcast of the game they are watching live ... Even kids channels such as Nickelodeon are available.” As Danny Mandrides, Samsung mobility head, put it: “The Smart Seat solution ... involves the creation of an ecosystem of hardware, applications, and software security to support a rich visual experience directly from the stadium seat.”
As sports themselves embrace technology, it only makes sense for the facilities that showcase the world’s favorite source of entertainment to perpetually follow suit and modernize. The Detroit Pistons, for example, have teamed up with WaitTime to prevent long restroom lines at the Palace of Auburn Hills. Meanwhile, the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL are utilizing VenueNext to make US Bank Stadium—their new home—as high-tech as possible. And to say the NFL went all-in with its accommodations for Levi’s Stadium and Super Bowl 50 would be a gross understatement. But Etihad’s new, shiny smart seats—which will start in just the Docklands Stadium’s Medallion Club “could provide a window to the potential norm at all sports stadiums in the decades to come”—just may take the cake as the most enticing stadium feature in a long while.
To be sure, smart seats are not a necessity. Fans are inherently able to watch a game’s proceedings by simply being in attendance at said contest, and affording fans the opportunity to watch other shows and sporting events while at a stadium is arguably nothing more than a distraction. But Etihad understands that people like technology, and like having as much of it as possible, which all but ensures that smart seats will be a hit and should expand outside of Docklands Stadium sooner than later.


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Tackling our focus on individual happiness, Femke Platteau and Freek De Craecker set out to start thinking about collective alternatives with Bla Bla Blues (8+)
Fit for children above 8 and their family, Bla Bla Blues (2019) patches a collage of people searching for a worthy existence in an individualised world, in an 80’s apartment block as setting. As characters make an appearance, their struggles with loneliness, all expressed differently, are gradually revealed. They come home, pick up life where they left off, turn on the television and watch the rose-coloured, seemingly beautiful version of living, which strikingly contrasts with their own existence.
Aiming towards such a glossy lifestyle, they try to grasp that fulfilment via soaps, TV commercials, Eurovision Song Contest, aerobics and cooking shows. But deep down, they somehow know there’s no real content in it and ultimately realize the media’s emptiness and its hunger for all things glitzy – a parallel narrative we encounter nowadays through internet’s role models and successful stories of self-made people on social media.
The children’s play originates from their mutual investigation of a generation fixed on personal happiness. While questioning the possibility of interconnecting values and mutual trust, the play is a first step in shifting from an I to a we-generation.
During their one-week residency, they thematically framed the play even more by developing scenes, textual materials, decorating elements, clothing, wigs and so on. Bla Bla Blues officially premieres in the end of September at De Vieze Gasten, and then embarks on a small tour in Flanders.
Platteau describes her work as mythical, humoristic and grotesque, while cherishing a fascination for extreme characters, alienating universes and magical feasts. From an absurd, often funny and childishly honest perspective De Craecker focuses on growing up and finding your own place as a young person in a world which is under pression of social media and constant competition. Despite these heavy themes, his creations appear open and playful and uses the mediums we draw upon in daily life.
All images © Leontien Allemeersch
Femke Platteau graduated in 2015 as an actress and theatre maker at KASK’s drama department with the graduation project Bestiaria, performed in collaboration with Lobke Leirens and Diede Roossens. Since then, she has worked for e.g. 4Hoog (with Frans Van der Aa & Raf Walschaerts), Abattoir Fermé’s Stef Lernous, CAMPO’s Pieter Ampe, Naomi Kerkhove… She also performs in Compagnie De Kolifokkers under the watchful eye of writer Anna Carlier.
Bla Bla Blues crowns Freek De Craecker’s training in drama at KASK, Ghent. His resume witnesses work experience at 4Hoog (also with Frans Van der Aa & Raf Walschaerts) and A Two Dogs Company, and he also worked with Jan Martens & Lukas Dhont and with TAAT and CAMPO for a do-it-together theatre installation in Ghent’s iconic Sint-Niklaaskerk.
Bla Bla Blues seals their second collaboration, allowing both artists to once again claim a spot within the field of children’s theatre.


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Well I made a nice well thought out post but I took too long and lost it! Arrgghhhh!!!
I've reached the limit on how to make the airsoft units more powerful. About 200fps and can break a paintball reliably against a hard verticle surface from 13 feet.
I think it's time we get ideas together to design an all new gun. Or has that already been done? Didn't someone recently mention that here?
If not, then how about a unit optimized for paintball (who wants their $300-$3000 tank shot full of holes?) say for a range of 25-30 feet. We'd utilize 6.04mm brass airsoft barrels, possibly larger motors, like the 180, 300 or even the 380 drive motors, try to use existing piston assemblies, etc. I would not use a hopup feature because of the paintballs and the desire for flat shooting trajectories. Everything's open for discussion and trials of course! This gun could be made from common materials or we could pay someone to produce them once the prototype is settled on.
What do you all think?


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Chicken Piccata has a light, delicate, lemon sauce with capers, and is my favorite of all my husband’s recipes. The word piccata means to pound, as in to beat with a meat cleaver. Instead of pounding, Bo butterflies large chicken breasts — as shown here. Doing so doubles the number of pieces, and either serves a crowd, or produces plenty of leftovers for later. His reasons for not pounding poultry are shared below. This chicken, coated in a light, flavorful sauce, is melt-in-your-mouth tender.
We serve this dish over various types of pasta — lately we use gluten-free pasta, but because the sauce is thin and light, it is best served over angel hair, which is not meant for heavy sauces. We tend to reserve fettuccini, rotini, etc., for heavier sauces, such as my red sauce.
Bo has three recipes that are similar in the way they are prepared and served, but that’s where the similarities end. His Chicken Marsala has a heavier sauce and a mild or strong Marsala wine taste, depending on the amount of Marsala used. His Balsamic Chicken has a moderately heavy sauce, and a very strong balsamic vinegar taste. It, too, is a family favorite. Actually, everything he cooks is, or becomes, a family favorite! His Chicken Piccata differs with its light, delicate, lemon sauce.
How Much of What?
For this recipe, Bo says to use about 1/2 cup of flour, but keep in mind the amounts of flour, salt, & garlic used are dictated by the number of pieces of chicken you are using. For this type of recipe we don’t usually measure the flour. We simply scoop out some from our canister and put it onto a plate or into a plastic bowl. If using a plastic bowl, you can put the raw chicken into the bowl, snap on the lid, and shake it until the chicken is completely coated.
- 4 large boneless chicken breasts
- extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup flour (we use gluten-free flour) – the amount is dictated by the number of chicken breasts
- salt to taste
- garlic powder to taste
- 1 large, or 2 medium-size lemons
- white wine – again dictated by the amount of sauce desired, the wine, of course, is optional, but the alcohol will burn off during cooking
- 1 small jar of capers
- Mix together flour, salt, & garlic powder.
- Butterfly the chicken breasts, or pound them to the desired thinness.
- Dredge the chicken in the flour-salt-garlic powder mixture.
- Brown the chicken in very shallow olive oil.
- Zest the lemon peel while the chicken is browning.
- Slice and squeeze the lemons, and set juice aside.
- After browning the chicken and setting it aside to rest and drain paper towels.
- Make a roux by adding some of the flour-salt-garlic powder mixture to the olive oil.
- Stir the roux until it reaches a smooth texture, you may need to add some water.
- Add the wine, lemon juice, and zest. This creates a beautifully smooth, and flavorful sauce.
- Finally, add the capers and fold them into the sauce.
- Place the browned chicken breasts back into the sauce.
- Cover, and bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes.
- Serve over your favorite pasta.
Why Butterfly the Chicken, and Not Pound It?
True piccata is pounded for a thinner piece of chicken, but pounding usually involves splattering poultry juices onto the kitchen counters. Even if the raw chicken is covered with waxed paper or paper towels, some splatters manage to escape. To avoid the bacteria involved, he butterflies the breasts as shown above. The thinner pieces will cook faster; also doing this provides 2 pieces per person for a nice meal plus leftovers. In fact, he usually starts with 4 or even 6 chicken breasts. That way we can freeze some for one of those nights when neither of us wants to cook, or we can invite friends or family to help us consume this delicious meal.
Browning the Chicken
The primary cooking of the chicken will be in the oven, so in this photo, it is only lightly browned, not nearly finished cooking. Brown it in very shallow extra-virgin olive oil only until it reaches a light golden color.
Adding lemon zest to the sauce greatly enhances the flavor. We both like to use a small hand-held grater. Yes, you can buy dried lemon zest anywhere herbs and spices are sold, but there’s nothing like fresh lemon zest for flavor.
Making the Roux – Step 1
Using the olive oil that’s left from browning the chicken, add some of the flour and garlic mixture, and stir until any lumps are dissolved. There was not much oil left in this pan so, as you can see, this quickly became a very dry mixture. If that happens, or if you want to end with more sauce than it appears your roux will produce, just dissolve a bit more of the flour/garlic mixture in a couple of tablespoons of water, then add it to your mixture.
Here, a bit of the wine has been added to begin making the sauce. Stir until any lumps are dissolved. Add the lemon juice and lemon zest, stirring until you have a smooth consistency. Add the wine, stirring until you have a smooth consistency. Be sure all lumps are dissolved.If your sauce is too thin, dissolve a bit more of the flour mixture into a few tablespoons of warm water in a measuring cup or small bowl. Then add it to the sauce.If this doesn’t produce the amount of sauce you need, you can add more lemon juice and/or more wine. You can also add water, but that may create the need to add more seasonings, as well.
Capers: The Finishing Touch
The final touch in creating this delicious sauce is to add the capers. I like to include bits of lemon pulp, too. You are then ready to add the browned chicken breasts to this mixture, and pop it into the oven.
Hint: Some capers can be quite salty. If you, or one of your dinner companions has high blood pressure, or if you simply prefer a less-salty taste, you may need to rinse the capers in cold running water.
Into the Oven:
Pop the entire concoction into the oven to bake at 400 degrees F. for 20 minutes. If you have a lot of chicken breasts, you may need to cook the dish a bit longer. You be the judge.


Running just over two minutes, “Thinking Of” features the vocals from Marta Złakowska, who also appeared on “Fall Please,” which dropped last month.
“I can tell when someone is humble and down to earth,” Tricky said of Zlakowska, who he discovered on the opening night of a Polish tour. “Marta doesn’t care about being famous, she just wants to sing.
Unlike the dance vibe of “Fall Please,” “Thinking Of” has a slower groove and harder beat — leading us to think that the new album will have a variety of different feels.
Fall To Pieces releases on Sept. 4 via False Idols. Preorder your copy here.
Hear Tricky’s new track, “Thinking Of,” below.
Tricky has also dropped the dates for his 2021 European tour. See the dates below and find out how to buy tickets here.


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Rick Santorum’s Youngest Daughter “Bella” Hospitalized
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Our sympathies go out to the Santorum family on this Good Friday.
Reports are out saying that the family had to put their youngest daughter, Isabella, in the hospital. They are asking the media and supporters to respect their privacy and pray for them.
Santorum often affectionately refers to his daughter as “Bella” on the campaign trail.
The condition Bella suffers from is known as Trisomy 18. About 90 percent of children die before or during birth. Miraculously, Santorum’s daughter is now three years old.
It has not been stated exactly what prompted the Santorums to take Bella to the hospital today. Whatever it is, I know it must be hard…
When you look at problems like these, any issues Santorum faces on the campaign trail pale in comparison to an ill child.


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When Joni Mitchell was asked to take part in a ballet about her life, she was unimpressed. But then she saw the chance to make a statement about something more important: the war in Iraq.
By Andrew Gumbel Published: 09 February 2007
Joni Mitchell: The Ballet does not sound too promising an artistic concept. In fact, when Joni Mitchell herself first heard about it she didn't like it at all.
The legendary singer-songwriter was approached by the artistic director of the Alberta Ballet in her native western Canada about putting scenes from her life on stage to a soundtrack of some of her most familiar songs, like "Both Sides Now" and "Chelsea Morning". It would, in effect, have been a kind of song-and-dance This Is Your Life to pay tribute to one of Canada's famously rare artistic luminaries.
"Please forgive my somewhat imperfect English," the Québécois ballet director, Jean Grande-Maitre, wrote in a charming first letter introducing the idea. "I would really love to fly to Los Angeles and meet you personally for a very short moment." Mitchell was charmed enough to let him come and talk to her, and the two talked late into the night - a frequent habit of hers - about what he had in mind. "Everything centred around this blonde, blue-eyed ballerina from Australia, and it was sort of dancing my life," Mitchell later told the New York Times. "But I thought, that's not important right now." So Mitchell came up with another idea, centred on the twin preoccupations that have been gnawing at her, on and off, for the whole of her artistic career: the devastations being visited on the environment, and the horrors of war that the US has unleashed around the world, most recently in Iraq.
"Humbly I hope we can make a difference with this ballet," she told Grand-Maitre. "It's a red alert about the situation the world is in now. We're wasting our time on this fairy-tale war, when the real war is with God's creation. Nobody's fighting for God's creation." It's not entirely clear how humble Mitchell was - her one-time boyfriend David Crosby once said she was "about as humble as Mussolini" - but the upshot was that Grand-Maitre ditched five months of careful preparations for the 40th anniversary season of the Alberta Ballet and spent another four months reworking the concept from scratch.
And now the show, Dancing Joni: The Fiddle and the Drum, has just had its premiere in Calgary in a blizzard of publicity and anticipation. There are several reasons for the excitement, not the least of which is that Mitchell, at 64, still works at full tilt - perhaps harder than she ever has - and is clearly in no mood to be shelved as a Sixties relic whose best work is long behind her.
The show is a multimedia event, featuring not only Mitchell's music but also her rarely exhibited artwork. The artistic pieces, themselves multi-media works brooding on themes of war and destruction, determined the choice of songs in the show - many of them from her lesser known albums of the 1980s - and the songs, in turn, fed into the imagination of Grand-Maitre and his troupe of two dozen dancers.
Of the nine numbers in the show, two are entirely new recordings - her first in almost a decade. One, called "If I Had A Heart I'd Cry", is a lament for the ravages visited on the earth, set to a slow rumba beat. And the other is a reworking of Rudyard Kipling's famous poem "If...", which gets a jazz treatment including a piano performance by Herbie Hancock. (She did something similar to Yeats with her 1991 song "Slouching Toward Bethlehem".) As Mitchell told the Calgary Herald about her treatment of Kipling: "I changed the ending verse and I took out the archaic language." When she was asked if she thought Kipling would mind, she replied: "Oh no! I've made it better." The title song of the show, meanwhile, dates back to her second album, Clouds, from the late-1960s. She wrote "The Fiddle and the Drum" as a commentary on the war in Vietnam, seeing the fiddle as a symbol of peace and the drum as a metaphor for war. In the context of the ballet, it is also a starting point for a meditation on the nature of rhythm and the function it performs in different cultures. As Mitchell told The New York Times: "In Africa rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary. It's basically militant."
The ballet is only the jumping off point of what promises to be a big year for Mitchell. She plans to make the two new songs the centrepiece of an album, her first collection of original new work since 1998's Taming The Tiger. The title of the album will be either If or Strange Birds of Appetite, after one of the lines on "If I Had a Heart": "Holy Earth/ How can we heal you/We cover you like blight/Strange Birds of Appetite/If I had a heart/I'd cry." Her art, meanwhile, is being showcased more publicly than ever. Mitchell fans know her painting almost exclusively through her album covers, many of them self-portraits in different guises. (For the 1994 album Turbulent Indigo, she cast herself as Vincent Van Gogh, complete with outsized overcoat and ear bandage.) Mostly, she has kept her prodigious output of painting to herself, housing it and exhibiting it only in her home in Beverly Hills or her cabin in the wilds of British Columbia.
But her work recently found a different audience in a show at a Los Angeles art gallery that proved so popular - despite an almost total absence of publicity - it was extended by a month. Entitled "Green Flag Song", the show featured a series of 60 prints inspired by an incident with Mitchell's television, which went on the blink and started emitted strange green colours that warped and obliterated the people on the small screen. Mitchell found it a compelling metaphor for war, revolution and torture.
Between the ballet, the art and the new album, Mitchell has been busy. (She describes the attention she has paid to each of her projects as "crop rotation".) It's a remarkable turn of events for a woman who, four years ago, publicly blasted the music industry as a "cesspool" and vowed never to have anything to do with it again. There's no simple explanation for her change of heart, except that she had something she felt compelled to express musically. "It's like this big funnel cloud is forming over her head that suddenly goes straight down like a little tornado," Grand-Maitre said recently. "It goes through her and these words, this music comes out." Mitchell herself offers a lighter explanation: "I tried to keep my legs crossed, but it didn't work." Whatever the reason, the outpouring of new work may be an opportunity for another reassessment of Mitchell. She's always commanded more respect than record sales - only one of her songs, "Help Me" (from the 1974 album Court and Spark), ever made it into the US top 10. But her work has also met its share of critical incomprehension, especially her more experimental, jazz-inspired albums like Mingus (1979) and Dog Eat Dog (1985). On the whole, the reputation of those albums has only grown over time, not least thanks to the legions of professional musicians among her most ardent fans.
Mitchell helped cement the very concept of the solo singer-songwriter in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and brought to the genre a lyrical and musical complexity that have rarely been matched or surpassed. It all happened more or less by accident. She was a penniless student at art school in Calgary in the early-1960s, imagining that the visual arts were her vocation, when she fancied she could make a bit of money by singing songs in clubs. When her fellow performers claimed proprietary rights over most of the numbers she knew, she decided she would write some of her own instead.
By the time she was 21, she had dropped out of college, become pregnant, and knew only that she wanted to sing "long tragic songs in a minor key".
She had in fact been writing music ever since she took up the piano at the age of seven. When she added the guitar to her repertoire, she became more daring in her chord arrangements, and adjusted the tuning on her strings to achieve ever more unusual effects. "Joni's weird chords", as many people have referred to them, are the backbone of her complex, multi-layered sound.
Her political consciousness was an important part of her artistic persona from the start. Her song "Big Yellow Taxi" became an anthem of the environmental movement ("They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot") and has been covered many times, including Bob Dylan. "Big Yellow Taxi" is perhaps the most familiar of her songs in the Alberta ballet show, too - it is given a jazzy Latin-flavoured reworking. The preoccupations of that song have proved almost prophetic, not least for Mitchell herself. As Grand-Maitre described before the show opening: "Half the trees in her BC property were just blown down. Polar bears are cannibalising each other up north. (Whole) species of animals and plants have been dying every day for the last two decades... She doesn't pretend to have the answers, she doesn't moralise... but she's asking questions that are very penetrating."
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I have a 2001dodge caravan that I can’t seem to get the engine temp up on. I’ve replaced the thermostat and the coolant temp sensor and topped off the coolant. It raised the heat to the first line but once the vehicle is being driven the temp drops to 0 and heater blows cold. During the summer the vehicle runs at normal temp. Have disconnected the ambient temp sensor which did nothing to better or worsen the problem. Help plz
Have you verified that the new thermostat is actually working? Sometimes brand new stuff is dead right out of the box.
+1 to shadowfax’s comment.
Additionally…when the OP topped-off the coolant, I hope that he did it via the radiator cap, and not via the overflow reservoir.
Was Air Purged From The Cooling System While It Was Being Refilled At The Radiator? There Is Probably A Bleeder Valve At The Apex Of The Cooling System. Did You Locate One And Did You Use It?
Did you put the thermostat in backwards? Its easy to do, I’ve done it myself. IF its in backwards the engine won’t hear up when its cold outside.
I hear this complaint often when the weather starts getting cold. The last 4 vehicles that I fixed for this involved bleeding all the air out of the cooling system. There will be little to no heat if the coolant is low and air is in the system. Topping off the coolant is a little more involved then just adding coolant to the radiator.
How are you determining the engine temperature? By the engine coolant temperature gauge on the dashboard? B/c there’s little to no heat coming from the passenger compartment heater? All the above ideas should be considered, but if the heater seems to be working normally, perhaps its just a gauge problem.
The engine coolant temperature – once the engine is warm – is determined entirely by the thermostat. If it is actually running too cold, either there’s something wrong with the thermostat, or the coolant level is incorrect or there’s air in the cooling system, either of which could adversely affect the thermostat function. I don’t think the various temperature sensors the engine uses affect the coolant temperature at all, they just measure it.
There is one exception though. If it is extremely cold, sometimes even a working thermostat won’t allow the engine to properly warm up. This never affected either my 60’s Ford Galaxy or my 70’s Ford truck. But when I lived in Colorado on really cold days some of my neighbors would put a piece of cardboard in front of their radiator to allow the engine to warm up.
" . . . a piece of cardboard in front of their radiator to allow the engine to warm up."
Sounds like a poor man’s radiator shutter
When I was in North Dakota we used to put a piece of cardboard or blanket in front of the radiator in winter. An engine that’s been sitting overnight at -40F and is started at -20F is not going to warm up normally… even if one plugs it in at night (I always did).
Not only that, the foam in the seats will be frozen solid… like marble. And the tires we had in those days would develop flat spots.
Lived in ND also, had the block heater and used it on a regular basis, no complaints about heat in the car, probably because I was bundled appropriately. Later in a warmer climate had a work vehicle with heated seats, what a difference! Don’t have heated seats in my car, but usually have the window open to expell cig smoke anyway.
I had a lower radiator hose heater. Worked great, but at sub zero temps the radiator dissipated more heat on the highway than the engine would create. Of course it WAS a little 2.3L aluminum engine…


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Hello again, fellow comic readers!
There is no doubt who you’re gonna call for this week’s pick, IDW's new "Ghostbusters" comic!
I am a huge fan of the movie and the first couple seasons of the cartoon, "The Real Ghostbusters.” Until now, I never read the comics for fear of ruining my memories of the franchise.
Our brilliant Geek Out friend Daniel Dean from Titan Games and Comics in Smyrna, Georgia, was of the same mindset when we saw the preview for this series.
“I was super stoked when this new series was announced because I've been following penciler Dan Schoening for years online,” he said.
“Ghostbusters" No. 8, out today, is a standalone issue, or one-shot as they call it in the comic book industry. The next issue will kick off a new four-issue story arc, so this is a perfect jumping-on point for new readers.
Fans of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” who wanted a deeper, more mature story, your cries to the comic goddess have been answered. Today sees the release of Oni Press’ “Courtney Crumrin" No. 1, the start of a monthly series. This issue is a wonderful introduction to the character and her family.
For folks who are new to the Courtney Crumrin world, there are two trade paperbacks out.
Daniel Dean of Titan Games and Comics in Smyrna, Georgia, shared his perspective: “Ted Naifeh, writer and illustrator of 'Courtney Crumrin,' was first brought to my attention when I did an interview with Jennie Breeden, Georgia-based creator behind the successful webcomic Devil's Panties. I was already reading a lot of the other things she recommended so I figured, I've got to check this guy out, right?”
“Boy, I'm glad I did. While I'm more of a ‘Polly and the Pirates,’ also by Naifeh, man myself there's absolutely a spot in my heart for Courtney Crumrin, teen witch protagonist of a self-titled series of arcane adventures that puts Sabrina to shame.” FULL POST
When people look back at 2012, what will they think of? The Year of the Dragon? Election Year?
Not comic book fans.
They will remember this as the year Marvel pits the Avengers against the X-Men – "A vs X." It kicks off with this week’s pick, Marvel Comics “Avengers VS. X-Men #1.”
Recent events in both books are converging, and grievances between the two teams going back decades are about to be aired in the form of a rumble that will put the Mike Tyson vs. Buster Douglas fight to shame.
Marvel's premier franchises are going toe-to-toe in the name of an ultimate prize: the galaxy not exploding and the rebirth of an entire race.
SPOILER ALERT: The rest of this review has spoilers. Not many, but it has some, so if you don’t want to know what happens before you read the book, stop now and skip to the end. FULL POST
A butt-kicking robot ventures all over the world, fighting evil scientists, dinosaurs and other robots in this week’s pick, Red 5 Comics' “Atomic Robo Presents Real Science Adventures #1.”
This new anthology presents several smaller self-contained stories and strips about the mechanical hero Atomic Robo. It's written by Brian Clevinger and featuring art from John Broglia, Ryan Colby, Yuko Ota, Chris Houghton, Joshua Ross and Scott Wegener.
The last story in "Real Science Adventures #1" is actually part of a larger story that is also in "Atomic Robo Volume 1 #3" but has themes from most of the other Atomic Robos books, like "Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War," "Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time," and "Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science."
I first heard of the book when Evil Hat Produtions announced plans for a table top RPG based on the comic. As a fan of their Dresden Files RPG, I went looking for “Atomic Robo” comic books to see what it was all about. I fell in love!
Also a huge fan of the books, Daniel Dean from Titan Games and Comics in Smyrna, Georgia, said, “I am not the kind of comic fan who sits around hoping and waiting for some TV or film adaptation of their favorite books, but I would tune into an ‘Atomic Robo’ series tomorrow.”
If you’re late to the “Atomic Robo” party, you don't really have to steep yourself in that much background, which is a great aspect about the comic books and hopefully, by extension, the franchise's other platforms. FULL POST
You probably know who Stan Lee is , even if you don't read comic books.
Lee is the co-creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor and the Avengers, just to name a few of the feathers in his cap.
This week’s pick is a new book, a joint venture between Archie Comics, A Squared Elxsi Entertainment and POW!Entertainment, that Lee co-created - with fellow writers Tony Blake and Paul Jackson, and art by Alex Saviuk, Bob Smith, John Workman and Tom Smith - “Stan Lee's MIGHTY 7."
The first issue, titled, "How it all Began!" is a sensational new superhero book that, as is the signature of all Archie Comics, is fun for the whole family.
The comic tells the story of what happens when a crew of alien prisoners and their jailers blast across the galaxy and their ship lands at the feet of Stan “The Man" Lee himself. And that's where the real ride starts. FULL POST
It takes one to know one. When it comes to topics of interest to nerds, geeks, and superfans, we know how true that is. Geek Out! features stories from a nerd's perspective that you can still share with your "normal" friends and family.


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World trends are slowing the pace of progress in Final Fantasy XIV. With the ongoing popularity of this vast online journey, the FFXIV team has been focused on expanding server capacity. In January, creative director and lead producer Naoki Yoshida outlined a plan for server expansion across all regions.
First, there was the addition of the Oceania data center in January, giving players in places like Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea their own servers. This not only vastly lowered their ping but also alleviated congestion in other regions.
With Patch 6.18, that expansion of existing regions began in earnest. The Japanese region received a new data center, Meteor. The first phase of the European data center expansion started with the same patch, adding four new worlds to the existing servers. The expansion of the North American data center was scheduled to begin in August 2022, with the second phase of expansion for both North America and Europe coming by the summer of 2023.
Sadly, the FFXIV team has had to delay those plans. In a message from Yoshida posted on the Lodestone blog this evening, the first phase of expansion for the North American region is now coming in November 2022. According to Yoshida, the semiconductor shortage continues to make it difficult for the team to source new server hardware.
“Though the first phase was scheduled to take place in August 2022, the server vendor has informed us that the delivery of the equipment will be delayed due to the semiconductor shortage,” he explained. “We have tried to coordinate with related parties in hopes of finding a solution, but ultimately a delay proved unavoidable. As a result, it will be difficult to keep to our original schedule, and we regrettably have to postpone the first phase of the expansion to November 2022.”
Yoshida apologized for the delay and said that further details will be forthcoming. “We will share further schedule details as soon as they are decided, and ask for your patience in the meantime,” he said.
Despite the delay in the first phase, Yoshida said that the second phase will remain on schedule. This means the first phase in November 2022 will add four new worlds in a new data center, with another four worlds being added to that data center in spring or summer 2023. While we wait for the server expansions, there’s still a ton to do in FFXIV. We have the upcoming Moonfire Faire event for 2022 and Patch 6.2, which will introduce the Island Sanctuary, the new Criterion dungeons, the next wing of Asphodelos, and all-new Tomestones.


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Unlike any other city, Karbala has its named engraved in the memory of generations, and in the expanse of the Muslim world...
Believers remember that name with sorrow and distress, for they remember the history of the master of all martyrs, Imam Husain, peace be upon him, and his sacrifice for Islam.
The wave of visitors never stopped coming to Karbala, from the time the Umayyad and Abbaside caliphs prevented the construction of the shrines to the time the believers were able to build the precinct, despite the hardships and difficulties imposed on them.
And today, since Karbala is witnessing new calamities, and the mausoleums of Imam Husain [a] and his companions are subjected to destruction and neglect, and visitors are prevented from reaching that place, it is suitable to familiarise ourselves with Karbala...
Two main roads lead the visitor to Karbala. One is from the Iraqi capital Baghdad, through Al-Musails, and the other is from the holy city of Najaf. However, either one excites the visitor with its greenish scenery along the sides.
Upon reaching Karbala, the holy place would draw the visitor's attention to its glorious minarets and domes shining due to the light of its lord.
At the city's entrance, the visitor finds a row of houses decorated with wooden columns, and while proceeding further towards the holy mausoleum, he sees architechture similar, to some extent, to modern ones.
Upon reaching the holy shrine, one finds himself in front of a boundary wall that surrounds wooden gates covered with glass decorations, and when one enters one of those gates, he enters a precinct surrounded by small rooms called "Iwans".
The holy grave is located in the middle of the precinct, surrounded by square shaped structures called "Rawaq".
The grave itself is located in the middle of the grave site with golden windows around it, with beautiful illumination. It really is something great to see.
"Karbala" Origin & Meaning
There are many opinions among different investigators, as to the origin of the word "Karbala".
Some have pointed out that "Karbala" has a connection to the "Karbalato" language, while others attempt to derive the meaning of word "Karbala" by analysing its spelling and language. They conclude that it originates from the Arabic word "Kar Babel" which was a group of ancient Babylonian villages that included Nainawa, Al-Ghadiriyya, Karbella, Al-Nawaweess, and Al-Heer. This last name is today known as Al-Hair and is where Imam Husayn's [a] grave is located.
The investigator Yaqut al-Hamawy had pointed out that the meaning of "Karbala" could have several explanations, one of which is that the place where Imam Husayn [a] was killed is made of soft earth - "Al-Karbalat".
Other writers made the connection between the name and the disastrous event which painted the desert with blood, and so the word "Karbala" was said to compose of two Arabic words: "Karb" meaning grief and sorrow, and "Balaa" meaning affliction. Such a connection, in fact, has no scientific evidence, since Karbala was known as such even before the arrival of Imam Husain, peace be upon him.
Martyrdom and popularity
Karbala was at first an uninhabited place and did not witness any construction activity, although it was rich in water and its soil fertile.
Following the tenth of Muharram 61 AH (680 AD), after the martyrdom of Imam Husain [a], people from far as well as tribes living nearby started visiting the holy grave.
A lot of those who came, stayed behind and/or asked their relatives to bury them there after their demise.
Despite many attempts by successive rulers, such as Al-Rashid and Al-Mutawakkil, to put a restriction on the development of this area, it has nonetheless spread with time to become a city.
Bounty of visiting Imam Husayn [a]
There is a lot of benefit and great spiritual reward in visiting the grave of Imam Husain [a]. The Prophet [s] has said of his grandson Imam Husain [a]: "Husain is of me and I am of him". Several narrations mention that visiting the grave of Imam Husain [a] relieves one of worldly afflictions as well as those after death.
Believers, therefore, come from all parts of the world all year round to receive the honour of visiting Imam Husain [a], particularly during the first ten days of Muharram (Ashura) and the twentieth of Safar (the fourtieth).
One common Iraqi custom during that season is to go walking from Najaf to Karbala, reflecting their strong adhesion to and adoption of the morals and principles for which Imam Husain [a] struggled and attained martyrdom.
Mausoleum of Imam Husain, peace be upon him
The historian Ibn Kuluwayh mentioned that those who buried Imam Husain [a], made a special and rigid construction with signs above the grave.
Higher and bigger constructions above the grave started during the ruling of Al-Saffah, but Harun al-Rashid later on, put heavy restrictions to prevent people from visiting the grave.
At the time of Al-Mamun, construction around the grave resumed until the year 236 AH when Al-Mutawakkil ordered the destruction and digging of the grave, and then filling the pit with water. His son, who succeeded him, allowed people to visit the grave site, and since then building the precinct to the grave increased and developed step by step.
On the other hand, the historian Ibn Al-Athir, stated that in the year 371 AH, Aadod Al-Dawla Al-Boowayhi became the first to largely lay the foundations for large scale construction, and generously decorated the place. He also built houses and markets around the precinct, and surrounded Karbala with a high boundary wall turning it into a strong castle.
In the year 407 AH, the precinct caught fire due to the dropping of two large candles on the wooden decorations, but Hasan ibn Fadl (the state minister) rebuilt the damaged sections.
History has recorded the names of several rulers who shared the honour of widening, decorating or keeping the precinct in good condition. Amongst them is Fateh Ali al-Qajari, who in 1250 AH ordered the construction of two domes. One over Imam Husain's [a] grave and the other over his brother Abu al-Fadl Abbas [a].
The first dome is 27 meters high and completely covered with gold. At the bottom, it is surrounded with 12 windows, each of which is about 1.25 m away from the other, from the inside, and 1.30 m from the outside.
The mausoleum has an area of 59 m / 75 m with ten gates, and about 65 rooms (I wans), well decorated from the inside and outside, used as classrooms for studying.
As for the grave itself, in the middle of the precinct, it is called the "Rawda" or garden and it has several doors. The most famous one is called "Al-Qibla" or "Bab al-Dhahab". When it is entered, one can see the tomb of Habib ibn Madhahir al-Asadi, to the right hand side. Habib was a friend and companion of Imam Husain [a] since their childhood. He was one of those who was honoured with martrdom at the Battle of Karbala.
The resting place of Abbas b. Ali, peace be upon him
Abu al-Fadl Abbas, peace be upon him, was the brother of Imam Hasain [a] and Imam Husayn [a] and the standard-bearer of Imam Husain [a] in the Battle of Karbala. He is well known in history for his valour, loyalty and similarity to his father, the Lion of God, Ali b. Abi Talib, peace be upon him.
The grave of Abbas [a] received similar attention as that of Imam Husain [a]. In the year 1032 AH, the King Tahmaseb ordered the decoration of the grave's dome. He built a window on the 'darih' around the grave and organized the precinct. Other similar activities were done by other rulers.
As a matter of fact, Karbala contains, besides the grave of Imam Husain [a] and his brother, the grave of all the 72 martyrs of Karbala. They were buried in a mass grave which was then covered with soil to the ground level. This mass grave is at the foot of Imam Husain's [a] grave. In particular, besides Imam Husain's grave are the graves of his two sons Ali Akbar and 6-month old Ali Asgher.
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Hey guys, this is Sean and Terri. Alyssa’s surgery went really well, and hopefully she should start experiencing a difference in her gastroparesis in about 2 weeks, which we hope will allow her to really be able to eat more foods again and actually digest what she eats. Yay! But it’s been a very interesting time after Alyssa’s surgery. The night after was one awful night. Alyssa was in so much pain and was throwing up all night long. I cannot imagine what that feels like after surgery (on a pain scale 10 out of 10). The next day she finally started rebounding from the surgery and her IV medications began kicking in. We had some pretty decent days where we were excited about how good she felt (she was at a 7 out of 10 mostly, a normal day for her pain scale is a 5-6), until we started weaning her off of the IV medications. She was doing alright at first, a little up and down but we were usually able to get her back on track with the occasional IV medication (whether pain related or nausea related). Then today the surgical team, without warning, took her off the IV meds just as Alyssa crashed really hard and had the worst migraine of her life. Her pain spiked (10 out of 10) and so did her nausea which only seems to increase her pain. The doctors don’t seem to understand how bad her gastroparesis is, that the pills seem to be staying in her stomach for 3-4 hours before they begin kicking in and when they do kick in they don’t seem to last long or be powerful enough because her body isn’t absorbing all the medication, only some of it. We are still in the process of persisting in getting sublingual or transdermal pain medication that will more quickly absorb in her system and ensure pain relief when out of the hospital and on the trip home. Meanwhile, she is determined to fight through without the IV pain meds.
Through all this pain and ups and downs, Alyssa has been such a fighter. She has constantly been a joy and uplifting presence to us, the doctors, and the nurses, and we hope we have been the same for her. Even though at times it seems the doctors don’t listen or that the meds aren’t working, Alyssa has constantly put her trust in God and has depended on Him wholeheartedly. God is good; He is with us and even through pain and struggles, He provides. We are all so grateful for the faithful prayer warriors battling with us in so many prayers offered on Alyssa’s behalf! Keep praying!

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Former Tory chancellor says Keir Starmer is 'immediately' ready for No 10 in warning to former colleagues
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A former Tory chancellor has said Sir Keir Starmer is more than ready to become prime minister as he issued a stark warning to former colleagues on the threat Labour's new leader posed.
George Osborne said Boris Johnson and the Tory ministers faced a "plausible opponent" in Sir Keir.
Speaking with Fraser Nelson for piece in the Telegraph, Osborne said the Labour leader was in such good form he could literally walk into No 10 "immediately".
"Just a few months ago, there seemed to be no risk of Labour coming back to life. Starmer seemed doomed to endless battles with the Corbynites, with no time to focus on the government. He had nothing memorable to say as we went into lockdown, or when we came out," Nelson wrote.
"But some Tories are now starting to worry that he is cutting a more convincing figure.
"George Osborne recently told me that Starmer looks as though he could walk into No 10 immediately. It has been a very long time, he said, since the Tories have been up against such a plausible opponent."
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Nelson issued his own words of caution to the party, noting that Sir Keir could "make life a lot harder for the Tories if he were to start listing the side-effects of lockdown, and arguing that not enough is being done for the victims".
In fact, the Spectator editor went as far as to suggest the prime minister had disregarded Sir Keir's support for the government's coronavirus measures at his own peril.
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Nelson wrote: "Since the start of the pandemic, Boris Johnson has encountered almost no political opposition to his Covid plans.
"He’s had a few angry backbenchers, with some cabinet members moaning about being kept in the dark, but no parliamentary drama.
"The prime minister had been telling friends that he didn’t even have to think about Sir Keir Starmer’s arguments about his handling of the pandemic as they never amount to anything. But now, that’s starting to change.
"Take the recent skirmish over the 10pm curfew. For once, Starmer asked to see the evidence behind the policy he was being asked to vote for. As he knew, there wasn’t any."
Praising the Labour leader, Nelson continued: "[Sir Keir] will ask questions, ask for a strategy, ask for proof – and if there isn’t any, then he’ll let the world know. On certain smaller issues, he may vote with Tory rebels to defeat the government. Just to show that he can."
He added: "His strategy – to question, but not oppose – has left him embarrassingly unable to say what he’d do differently. But even posing questions will have force – especially when the leaders of Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle city councils (all Labour-run) are putting up more resistance to the government.
"Tory backbenchers are itching for a rebellion and had hoped Starmer would join them in voting to end the government’s emergency powers last week. The message came back: an interesting idea, but not yet."
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Lexus is the latest company to announce a new concept car at this weeks Tokyo Motor Show, the new Lexus LF-FC Concept.
This new concept car features a hydrogen fuel cell power system that drives the rear wheels, there are also two in wheel motors at the front of the car, this gives the car all wheel drive.
The LF-FC features a fresh new styling theme that embodies Lexus’ “L-finesse” design philosophy. From every angle, the sedan is aggressively elegant, exuding the spirit of a grand touring vehicle. An evolved version of Lexus’ signature grille with a new mesh design dominates the front, while floating “L-shaped” daytime running lights (DRL) extrude flawlessly from the front fenders. The rear is highlighted by striking new taillights that adopt the same floating theme as the DRL. When seen from its profile, the LF-FC’s true character is revealed. The roofline flows from front to rear in the manner of a “4-door coupe,” suggesting that this vehicle isn’t just meant for straight highways, but to also be enjoyed on twisty roads. The sporty 21-inch aluminum wheels with carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) rims, add an extra dose of flair to what is already a dynamically styled machine.
The Lexus LF-FC Concept also comes with automated driving technology, this includes traffic environment recognition and prediction. You can find out more details about this new concept car from Lexus at the link below.
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