QualityRights was launched in 2012 as the World Health Organization global initiative to promote the rights of people with psychosocial, intellectual and cognitive disabilities and to transform the way mental health services are provided in line with a recovery based approach.
The five main objectives of the QualityRights initiative are to:
- Build capacity to understand and promote human rights and recovery.
- Improve the quality of care and human rights conditions in mental health and related services.
- Create community-based and recovery-oriented services that respect and promote human rights.
- Develop a civil society movement to conduct advocacy and influence policy-making.
- Reform national policies and legislations in line with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and other international human rights standards.
These international human rights standards, and in particular the CRPD, have guided the vision of this initiative. Freedom from coercion and violence, respect for legal capacity, autonomy and liberty, community inclusion and other fundamental rights so often denied to people with psychosocial, intellectual and cognitive disabilities are central to all aspects of the QualityRights initiative.
The current focus is on capacity building for all stakeholders on these issues and the empowerment of people with psychosocial, intellectual and cognitive disabilities. In this respect we have recently published a set of training modules covering the following topics: Understanding human rights, Promoting human rights in mental health, Improving the mental health and related service environments and promoting community inclusion, Realising recovery and the right to health in mental health and related services, Protecting the right to legal capacity in mental health and related services and Creating mental health and related services free from violence, coercion and abuse. These core modules provide stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to enable them to apply the CRPD and other human rights principles in the community and in the context of mental health services.
In addition, a number of specialised training modules have been created to provide people with more in depth knowledge and skills around specific topics. The specialised training modules cover Supported decision making and advance planning, Promoting recovery in mental health and related services and Strategies to end the use of seclusion and restraint.
Both the core and the specialised training modules have been developed with a wide audience in mind, including practitioners, people with lived experience, families, care partners, Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (DPOs) and others.
Initial experiences and results of the QualityRights training with diverse stakeholders from various regions of the world are promising, with important impacts on attitudes and practices following training.
Separately we have also developed material providing guidance on Setting-up and operating a civil society organisation in mental health and related areas and putting in place effective Advocacy actions to promote human rights in mental health and related areas to support the important role that civil society has in promoting rights in services and in the community more broadly. These materials have drawn substantially upon the vast knowledge and expertise of NGOs, DPOs and people with lived experience.
To further address the knowledge and practice gap, we are at the early stages of developing guidance that will identify and describe innovative services and best practices compliant with a human rights based approach. This guidance will ultimately assist decision-makers and service providers to put in place services that are community-based and recovery-oriented, and to operate without coercion and with respect for the right to legal capacity. To date we have developed guidance for establishing individual and group peer support. There are many more innovative services and supports such as the Hearing Voices Network, Personal Ombudsperson (Sweden), Soteria houses (US and UK), Circles of support (UK), and home support services, but they remain at the margins and most policy-makers, health professionals, people using services and others are not aware of them. If implemented, these services and supports have the potential to transform the mental health system in a positive human rights and evidenced based way.
Ongoing assessment and monitoring is also key to ensuring that all services are fully compliant with human rights standards. As part of the QualityRights initiative, we have developed the QualityRights assessment toolkit which measures the degree to which services are compliant with a number of key standards linked to the CRPD. The toolkit outlines the standards which should be achieved in mental health and related services to respect human rights and promote recovery. A dedicated module which we have developed on Implementing improvement plans for service change can be used in conjunction with the other training and guidance tools to address the gaps identified as part of the assessment process.
Finally, the WHO QualityRights initiative also encompasses the WHO MindBank, an online platform which provides quick and easy access to national and international resources, strategies, policies, legislation and service standards relating to human rights, mental health, disability, development and other topics. Since its creation in 2014, MindBank has become an essential tool for supporting the work of policymakers, advocacy groups, academics and researchers. As a tool for advocacy, it allows people to identify the current situation, potential gaps in laws and policies as well as examples of innovative policies and strategies to develop effective advocacy actions and messages at the national and international level. It currently contains more than 6000 documents from 192 countries across the world.
The challenge to promote the rights of persons with psychosocial, intellectual and cognitive disabilities and to transform mental health services across the world is colossal. The QualityRights initiative seeks to provide actors everywhere with the tools that they need to become active agents for change.
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Carson's Maria Garcia successfully switches tracks
But that didn't end Garcia's Olympic hopes. She switched to long-track skating even though she had no experience with that discipline and, remarkably, qualified to compete in the 500-meter event at an Olympic qualifying event in late October in Milwaukee. She might also try to get a qualifying time in the 1,000.
"Why not!? My love of sport is through the journey," she said of making the switch. "Life will always continue on. Qualifying for the long-track Olympic trials is just as possible as it is impossible. I may come nowhere close, but it will be pure joy every step of the way. That's what sports and life should be about, always looking and rising to your next challenge."
We'll follow Maria's rerouted journey in the coming weeks.
-- Helene Elliott
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Tuesday May 29, 2012 @ The Portland Arms - £5
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Tuesday May 29, 2012 @ The Corner House - £5.00 @ 20:00
A very last minut show for these two great touring bands.Astpai’s new album called “Efforts And Means”. Without a doubt these young and talented men created another masterpiece in contemporary and honest punkrock!
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Billy Eichner celebrates audience’s reaction to new movie Bros
Bros came in fourth at the U.S. box office in its opening weekend.
Billy Eichner took to Twitter on Sunday to celebrate the positive response to his new movie Bros.
Bros, the first gay romantic comedy from a major studio featuring an entirely LGBTQ principal cast, earned $4.8 million (£4.33 million) at the North American box office on its opening weekend, placing it fourth behind Smile, Don’t Worry Darling and The Woman King.
Eichner, the film’s star and co-writer, took to Twitter on Sunday to express his pride in the movie and celebrate the public’s reaction so far.
“Last night I snuck in and sat in the back of a sold out theatre playing BROS in LA. The audience howled with laughter (from) start to finish, burst into applause at the end, and some were wiping away tears as they walked out,” he recounted. “It was truly magical. Really. I am VERY proud of this movie.”
Reflecting on Bros’ critical success and the obstacles it’s had to overcome, he continued, “Rolling Stone already has BROS on the list of the best comedies of the 21st century. What’s also true is that at one point a theatre chain called Universal and said they were pulling the trailer because of the gay content. (Uni convinced them not to).
“That’s just the world we live in, unfortunately. Even with glowing reviews, great Rotten Tomatoes scores, an A CinemaScore etc, straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros. And that’s disappointing but it is what it is.”
Eichner concluded his thread by calling on “everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo” to go see the movie, directed by Nicholas Stoller.
“You will have a blast! And it *is* special and uniquely powerful to see this particular story on a big screen, esp for queer folks who don’t get this opportunity often. I love this movie so much. GO BROS!!!” he wrote.
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A patent filed by Google details a unique take on the relationship between camera, user and… the weather? As the search giant continues on its journey to create an “insanely great” mobile camera, the company has devised a way to connect GPS data with weather information, which then automatically changes camera settings to best fit that particular scene.
Smartphone cameras today are already capable of adjusting white balance and other settings automatically, but adding one more element could improve images even more. Having your phone know the forecast and where you’re located (indoors or outdoors) could better balance exposure and saturation, meaning your Facebook photos will look that much better. And who doesn’t want better looking photos?
Some companies today have moved away from the megapixel race, and it’s unclear how Google will approach this in its next Nexus device. More megapixels stuffed into a small sensor don’t always equal better results, so we’ll have to wait and see what route Google decides to go when I/O kicks off in May.


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Located at the fifth mile of the Via Appia Antica, the Villa dei Quintili, the largest residential complex in the suburb of Rome, is part of the Archaeological Park of Appia Antica.
Thanks to the discovery of a lead pipe bearing the name of the owners, it is certain that the complex belonged to the brothers Sesto Quintilio Condiano and Sesto Quintilio Valerio Massimo, members of a senatorial family and consuls in 151 AD.
In 182-183 AD, the Quintilii were killed by Emperor Commodus for plotting a conspiracy against him, so the residence on the Appian Way was confiscated and became imperial property.
Since then, the same Commodus and other emperors after him lived in the villa. Evidence of their presence can be seen in the grandeur of the architecture, in the richness of the sculptural decorations, and in the refinement of the wall coverings and floors in colored marble slabs, still beautifully preserved.
Originally, you could access the Villa from the Appia Antica, through a large porch garden endowed with a monumental nymphaeum, then transformed into a fortress in the Middle Ages.
Beyond the garden, there is the main nucleus that develops on the hill with a series of courtyards and rooms of representation, a large thermal bath, buildings for spectacles, and rooms of the private residence overlooking the surrounding valley.
In the modern farmhouse, there is an Antiquarium that preserves sculptural and architectural pieces of great value found during the excavations.
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The science fiction films of the last century imagined 2020 as a very distant future in which all kinds of unthinkable technologies would prevail. Spaceships or flying cars? Everything was possible from the distance of those times.
Today we have seen how technology has taken over many processes in our lives, but there is still some room for the human. In 2020, we will witness an even greater boom and development of technological advances; to view more visit www.Facebook.com/BossLasers. We review some of the ones that are going to be most prominent.
1.- 5G for all
Although in Europe, Vodafone is currently the only operator that offers the service, and it does not do so throughout the territory nor are many brands that have terminals prepared for the use of this technology, everything points to the fact that this will change throughout the year.
The popularization of 5G is growing slowly, especially since the flagship devices of manufacturers such as Samsung, Google and Apple are still only 4G. But according to the latest leaks that will change in 2020 with the Samsung Galaxy S20, Pixel 5 and iPhone 12.
The main advantages of 5G, as we have already mentioned on other occasions, are higher data transfer speed, higher bandwidth, improved latency, more devices connected to the network simultaneously and much lower power consumption.
2.- The disruption of flexible screens
If until recently the trend seemed to be that the bigger the device, the better, perhaps 2020 will mark the end of that – uncomfortable – fashion: mobile phones and folding tablets are here, now we will have to see if they are here to stay or are just a passing fancy – and at the moment very expensive. How do they make a mobile phone bend? By taking advantage of the capabilities of OLED type screens.
Motorola is launching a smartphone version of its classic razr
Motorola reinvents its classic razr shell phone
Samsung kicked off flexible smartphones with the Galaxy Fold. Soon after, Huawei launched the Mate X, and we also saw the introduction of the Motorola razr, the company’s classic ‘shell phone’ reinvented. LG also has a dual screen model, although the concept is somewhat different and it is an accessory for the device -LG V50 ThinQ 5G has an external screen that connects like a case.
These have been the main devices presented in 2019, in addition to other somewhat Martian launches such as the Escobar Fold 1, a folding Android smartphone developed by Roberto Escobar himself, the older brother of the famous Colombian drug dealer Pablo Escobar. Foldable tablets have also appeared such as Microsoft’s Surface Neo, followed by others from manufacturers such as Dell, ASUS and Lenovo.
3.- Will virtual reality finally prevail?
It seemed to be the invention of the millennium and yet it has not finished fitting in. In addition, a twin has appeared on the road to virtual reality (VR): augmented reality or AR, which instead of transporting the user to a ‘parallel world’ like VR adds virtual objects to the real world.
New Apple bets: augmented reality, 3D sensor and iPhone with 5G
New Apple bets: Augmented reality, 3D sensor and iPhone with 5G
Perhaps because of the ‘ease’ of implementing RA, it is being exploited more and used in the service sector -for example to guide you in an airport-, as a business tool -for example to develop an architectural project- or in the academic world -for example in an anatomy class-. Companies like Apple (ARCore), Google (ARkit) or Amazon (ARView) have optimized their augmented reality platforms and integrated them into their services, however VR seems to have been relegated to the world of gaming.


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After donning leggings for five years, women may be thinking that it’s time for a change.
This past week, specialty apparel retailers Chico’s FAS Inc., Express Inc. and Abercrombie & Fitch Co. all showed improvements in quarterly results – including better margins. Guess Inc. and PVH Inc. also showed strength in apparel if one carved out the negative impact of foreign currency exchange.
The results follow rumblings at Target Corp., Nordstrom Inc. and Stein Mart Inc. that women’s wear, denim and even dresses were performing well.
Whether this indicates a full-blown resurgence in women’s wear is unclear at this point — and the improvement is coming after years of sharp declines in apparel sales. But what’s noteworthy is that shoppers are responding to fashion and feel the need to refresh their closets with looks to include boho, prints and flowing silhouettes. The result is a ray of sunshine for retailers that have been under a cloud of gloomy sales for the past decade.
“I think overall, one of the things helping apparel is product innovation and a response to newness in the product assortment,” Dana Telsey of Telsey Advisory Group told WWD. She noted that the slowness in watches and handbags demonstrates women have shifted from accessory spending to buying denim and boho peasant looks.
It appears to be happening at all levels, after years of slow women’s ready-to-wear sales. Even in March, Karen Katz, president and chief executive officer of Neiman Marcus Group, trumpeted the fashion offerings that were then hitting her store floors. “We believe there is going to be a reason to buy ready-to-wear. We feel pretty positive about the kinds of trends we are seeing,” she said at the time.
Katz acknowledged that it’s been a long time since fashion truly fueled sales. “There is a big movement of this bohemian look,” she said back in the spring. “The Seventies, as a reference period, are all over the runways. We do believe the kinds of ready-to-wear we are seeing on the runway, the kind of shoes, are things customers don’t necessarily have in her closets. There’s a completely different pant silhouette.”
Overall, the second-quarter earnings season was varied, with some retailers finding success, while others struggled. Of the 38 retail companies that have reported their earnings in the last two weeks, 23 companies beat expectations, while 15 missed estimates. But even the retailers that may have posted weaker results seemed optimistic that things were getting better. Currency issues hurt most companies, but stripping out those effects, sales actually looked pretty promising because spring apparel appeared to resonate with shoppers — and early indications are that fall selections are, as well.
The market has shifted, and jeans, dresses and woven tops are selling. Although women are seemingly tired of wearing leggings, they’re unwilling to give up comfort. This has led to renewed interest in stretch jeans, which have the look of denim, but the comfort of leggings. Destroyed denim looks are attracting younger demographics. Not to be confused with distressed, this trend involves huge chunks of jeans missing from the leg.
And why are dresses selling? Because they offer very forgiving shapes. Fit-and-flare makes just about any body look good. Shirtdresses hide many body flaws, as do loose-fitting, boho-style shift dresses. “The emphasis for the flowing shapes comes from the Seventies, as that era’s ease and comfort continues to influence a majority of looks,” said Mike Watson, fashion marketing instructor at The Art Institute of Charlotte.
Analysts have been noting that these designs are comfortable like leggings are, and adaptable to daytime or evening attire. Budget-conscious shoppers like the idea that they can get more than one look out of a dress. “We all desire to stay on-trend and have the latest fashion from the runway, but not all of us can afford it,” said Emilia Valle, fashion director at The Art Institute of Houston.
Guess experienced improved trends in denim, dresses and woven tops and the company has leveraged the destroyed trend in denim. The brand also has seen success with its body-slimming jeans for those with “bombshell” figures.
PVH chief executive officer Emanuel Chirico said during the company’s recent earnings call, “Our women’s business is significantly gaining traction.” Chirico went on to say that AURs for jeans was up 20 percent and stretch denim was very popular.
At Express, ceo David Kornberg said, “The momentum in the women’s business is continuing and men’s is improving.” Denim, woven tops and dresses also delivered for Express. The company said it expects these key trends to continue into fall. While skinny jeans are still represented, flare bottoms seem to be coming on strong as they play off the season’s Seventies-inspired look.
A&F was the leader of the logo-driven, hyper-sexed trend and when consumers moved on, A&F was slow to move with them. The logo shop remains and sales are still down, but the company looks like it’s righting the ship and that has given investors hope. Dresses and jeans were also strong categories for A&F. The lower-priced Hollister brand saw improvements in women’s and said it had positive comps for women’s for the first quarter in some time. A&F is also making progress in women’s, specifically in tops.
Many market watchers seemed surprised at the earnings beat by Chico’s, but the consumer demographic might have few other options. Coldwater Creek is basically gone and The Talbots Inc. has closed many stores. Chico’s comp sales were up as women bought new pant silhouettes, including wide legs and gauchos. Stretch denim and side-zip pants are also popular.
The shift and strong response to fashion doesn’t mean ath-leisure and other trends are dead in the water. In fact, ath-leisure has been a great transition out of leggings. Women wanted to change their look, but not at the expense of comfort. Under Armour, Nike and Lululemon have all enjoyed this trend and it looks as if there is still some life in it. Dick’s Sporting Goods is rolling out an ath-leisure line from country star Carrie Underwood, complete with a New York Fashion Week show. There is a laundry list of companies jumping into the category, including Tory Burch, Kate Hudson’s Fabletics, Urban Outfitters Inc.’s Without Walls and even Chanel with sneakers and sweatshirts.
However, so many brands are entering the now-crowded space that it feels like it’s too many, too late. Some analysts believe the trend is already waning. So, then it’s best to look forward as to what will keep the shopping momentum going into fall.
Fringe is hot and new for fall. It started showing up in the spring, but it’s coming on strong in the fall. The fringe pairs well with all these new jeans. There are fringe bags from Michael Kors, jackets from A&F and even fringe skirts at Chico’s. Nordstrom, which had a great second quarter, has numerous fringe offerings, from bags to shoes and even a fringe bracelet.
Improving apparel sales haven’t been felt across the board, though – and it clearly continues to depend on having the right product at the right price. J. Crew’s shift to high-end eclectic fashion was not well received by its loyal customers and the company is pivoting back to its heritage style. Aéropostale’s men’s wear was too contemporary and while its girls’ business is slowing improving, the teen retailer’s sales plunged 17 percent in the second quarter and the company expects it will continue to lose money in the third quarter.
It’s important to note that investors are hearing this enthusiasm from retailers, and they are responding. The WWD Global Stock Tracker demonstrates it’s been a tough year for these fashion stocks, with 56 stocks in the tracker declining for the past year and only 43 moving higher. However, in the last five days, the SPDR S&P Retail ETF has risen almost 2 percent after being down 2.5 percent year-to-date.
Telsey thinks the later Labor Day holiday will be a big plus for retailers, resulting in better September sales figures. “We’re shaking off the problems of summer and we’re getting set up for a strong back half of the year,” she said.
With more Americans working and women ready for a new look, retailers that are delivering the right looks will dance right into fall and holiday, and investors will likely move right along with them.

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Finally, the S20 Ultra is releasing in Cosmic Grey and Cosmic Black with 128GB of storage and 12GB of RAM for $1,849, and 512GB of storage with 12GB of RAM for $2,109 in Cosmic Grey only. The Cosmic Black S20 Ultra is a Samsung Store exclusive.
The S20, which in some ways replaces last year’s S10e, sports a 6.2-inch screen. The S20+, on the other hand, features a 6.7-inch screen, while the S20 Ultra sports a massive 6.9-inch display. Beyond size, all three devices feature several notable differences.
Both the Galaxy S20 and S20+ feature a 12-megapixel wide shooter, a 64-megapixel telephoto camera and a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera. Only the S20+ and S20 Ultra include a time-of-flight sensor. The Ultra also features a 108-megapixel wide-angle, a 12-megapixel ultra-wide shooter and a 48-megapixel telephoto lens that powers its 100x space zoom.


BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – The Baltimore Police Department is investigating the shooting death of an unidentified male victim that took place yesterday morning in Southeast Baltimore.
According to police, “At approximately 6:18 a.m., Southeast District patrol officers were advised of a shooting in the 2400 block of East Fayette Street. Once there, officers located an unidentified male victim suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. The victim was transported to an area hospital where he later died. Homicide detectives are investigating this incident.”
If you have any information about this incident, please call detectives at 410-396-2100 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup.


Just in time for Valentines Day, Hulu has released the teaser trailer and poster for their upcoming psychological thriller, Deep Water! The film stars cinematic treasures Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas. And it is directed by legendary master of suspense, Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction).
It is a baller move dropping a trailer for a twisted thriller down on the most sacred of greeting card, rom-com holidays. But that’s the kind of dark irony that captivates my attention! The film is based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, who created The Talented Mr. Ripley, so you know there’s going to be a lot of messed up moments in this one! Add to that the fact that Affleck and especially de Armas are phenomenal, stunningly gorgeous actors, and I think Hulu’s got a heck of a thrill ride in their hands.
Check out the trailer here:
Here’s the official synopsis per Hulu:
Deep Water takes us inside the marriage of picture-perfect Vic (Affleck) and Melinda (de Armas) Van Allen to discover the dangerous mind games they play and what happens to the people that get caught up in them.
Hulu also dropped a poster for this one, which you can view here:
Happy Valentines Day!
Deep Water debuts exclusively on Hulu March 18!


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Four Movies to Get Kids in a Good Back-to-School Mood
For many children in North Carolina, next week marks that occasionally-dreaded time of year: back to school.
Whether your child is eagerly organizing pencils, pens, and erases, or in mourning for the end of summer, consider taking a break this weekend to pop in a movie that just might put them in the back-to-school mood. Highlighting the significance, fun, beauty, and gift that is a good education, these four films might just offer some relief—or excitement—the year to come.
Akeelah and the Bee (PG)
An 11-year-old girl living in South Los Angeles, Akeelah discovers she has a talent for spelling—and sets her sights on the National Spelling Bee. With the help of her coach (Laurence Fishburne) and her community, and despite her mother’s objections, Akeelah never gives up on her goal. The movie, which is suitable for children 8 and older, according to Ok.com, is a lesson in hope, perserverence, and the influence a good education can have on any student.
School of Rock (PG13)
What child doesn’t love an interesting, engaging teacher—or sub? And what child wouldn’t do cartwheels upon finding Jack Black at the head of their classroom for a day?
Dewey Finn (Black), thrown out of his band, is desperate for work—and desperate to become a rock star. Posing as a substitute music teacher at a local private school, he shakes up his students’ privileged lives and exposes them to the rock music he loves, despite the warnings of the school’s stern principal (Joan Cusack). The talented crew transforms into a rock and roll band, intent upon entering the Battle of the Bands. Suitable for ages 9 and older, School of Rock is brilliantly fun and underscores the importance of having fun while you learn—and never giving up on a dream.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (PG)
Oh, the very first Harry Potter. After a difficult but enlightening summer in which Harry turns 11 and discovers he is the son of two wizards and can himself perform magic, he is summoned to an entirely new world: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There he finds friends, allies, beautifully kooky and powerful professors, and plenty of magic and mischief. From the moment Harry entered Hogwarts, he never wanted to leave. For any child who has felt himself to be an outsider, Harry’s magical, redemptive tale is inspiring. Suitable, according to Ok.com, for ages 7 and older.
Dead Poets Society (PG)
In part a tribute to Robin Williams, watching Dead Poets Society is to remember, or to realize for the first time, that a good teacher can touch lives forever. Set at a conservative and aristocratic boys prep school—Welton Academy in Vermont—it tells the story of John Keating (Williams), an English teacher with unorthodox methods, who inspires a group of young men to step off the path of conformity. Many are expected to become doctors and lawyers, but one in particular wishes to be a writer. Through his teaching of poetry and literature, Keating shows his students, and all of us, that true power lies in knowing and being exactly yourself. Best for ages 14 and older.
Andrea Fisher is a Triad-based writer, movie lover, and content specialist for Dish2u. She has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Chicago Tribune and Business Insider. Read more of her work @andreafisher007.


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What a great week for my comic pulls! I have noticed that the amount is beginning to grow. I told my self initially that once AvX ends there will be a significant amount less comics each month...I am learning that I will be lucky if that is the case. I am very excited for so many of the aftermath issues and even the Avengers titles I discussed dropping are starting to get interesting.
I do want to note that Marvel Now will be starting soon after AvX so MAYBE enough of my titles will be dropped that I will have less monthly comics. If you are not away of Marvel Now it is a sort of "refresher" for the Marvel Universe that is to start the new beginnings for most characters that we have grown to care about. I do want to note that this is NOT a restart....this is a continuation! So no freaking out about wasting your time learning stories or thinking that we have to re-learn everything, we won't. This event could be very good for Marvel to bring in new readers and HOPEFULLY keep all of us old readers attached. If you want to read a pretty good article on all of this stuff check this out.
Regardless, I digress from my original writing...I pick up too many comics but I am not mad about it! My pulls for release date of 07/25/2012 are great:
The Amazing Spider-Man #690
Secret Avengers #29
Venom #21 (this series ROCKS)
Wolverine and the X-Men #14
X-Men Legacy #270
Reviews will follow in the next day or two...I would definitely write tonight but we are filming episode three of our podcast! So...keep open eyes and I will post reviews AND an updated AvX reading order by Saturday!


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On yesterday’s blog post, I shared several photos from my visit to a tobacco farm in Tennessee. Today I invited David Hayden (@DavidHayden7) to share more about the growing and harvesting process of tobacco. He grew up working with tobacco in Kentucky and studied the crop in college. “No its ok, that barn isn’t on […]
Attention forage producers and consumers, make room in your **Thursday** schedules for an hour of hay, forage, and grazing discussions on Twitter. Starting Wednesday, August 10th, at 8:00 p.m. EST, AgBoards brings you #HayTalk Chat using the Twitter hashtag, #haytalk. The AgBoards Network (@agboards) creators of HayTalk.com and RanchingForums.com, amongst other farming sites, have teamed […]
Not much of a Photo Friday this week. There’s been some long hours in the hay field and a bit of time on the brushhog as well. Unfortunately this has included plenty of time with breakdowns, being covered in grease. We’ve just 1 more field to cut to finish up the first round of hay […]
Hay season is well under way, and with any luck we should finish up with another week of cutting, raking, and baling. However, some rain is in the forecast this week so we’ll gladly take a break for the pastures to get some moisture. In the video above I walk ya through one of the […]
If there’s one thing synonymous with hay season, it has to be equipment breakdowns. There’s always something. If it’s just twine on the baler snapping or the frame on a mower cracking, it’ll happen. Not many farmers and ranchers are lucky enough to have all brand new equipment, so that’s why learning preventative maintenance is […]
Wishin’ I was Waist deep in the grass somewhere, got the blue sky, breeze and it don’t seem fair. The only worry in the world is a calf gonna hide in there. Sunrise, there’s a fire in the sky, never been so happy, never felt so high. I think I might’ve found me my own kind of paradise. […]
Just a short vlog from the hay-field the other day while I was waiting for a second opinion that the hay mower was broken and that it wasn’t operator error. Turns out it was something done wrong while piecing it back together.
Thank goodness its Friday! On Fridays I will post a photo from the ranch and discuss the subject. Take a gander and see if you can guess what we are looking at… It’s hay season in Arkansas again. We just baled our first fields yesterday and things are off to their usual start. The transmission in […]
One several large trees blown over by this Spring’s storms With highs reaching the mid-90s, cattle are hitting the shade shortly after 8 AM And finally, the first of this year’s hay crop is on the ground!
I really cannot believe how fast this summer is flying by. I only have three weeks left here in Wyoming until I move back to Stillwater. But who wants to dwell on the low points when there are so many awesome things around us? I really didn’t do just a whole lot of exciting things […]

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Halliburton Earnings Preview: Flat Revenue, Lower EPS Expected
Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), the world's second largest oil field services firm and the world's largest provider of pressure pumping services used for fracking shale gas and oil wells, is scheduled to report its first-quarter 2013 results Monday, April 22, before the markets open.
Investors will be keeping an eye on the impact of natural gas drilling activity dropping to a 14-year low. Halliburton also is expected to take a one-time foreign exchange related charge of $30 million for its operations in Venezuela. The question is, are all headwinds priced into the stock?
Analysts on average predict that Halliburton will report that revenue for the quarter totaled $6.88 billion, which is about the same as in the year-ago period. Earnings of $0.57 per share are also in the consensus forecast. That would be down from a reported profit of $0.89 per share in the comparable period of last year.
Note that the consensus earnings per share (EPS) estimate has ticked down in the past 60 days from $0.58. But Halliburton has not fallen short of consensus EPS estimates in the past four quarters. Back in the fourth quarter, EPS beat expectations by more than three percent.
Fourth-quarter results were attributed in part to "higher completion activity in the Gulf of Mexico and increased direct sales internationally." The CEO said, "In 2013, we anticipate the North America rig count will improve from fourth quarter levels but will be down slightly compared to 2012." The share price rose about three percent in the days following the fourth-quarter report.
Looking ahead to the current quarter, the forecast currently calls for earnings more than 12 percent lower to $0.70 per share. That EPS estimate has not changed in the past 60 days. And revenue for the quarter is again expected to be essentially flat, relative to a year ago. But full-year revenue is so far expected to be up by less than four percent.
Halliburton provides a range of services and products to companies worldwide for the exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas. Its Completion and Production segment offers various production enhancement services. The Drilling and Evaluation segment offers drill bits and various services.
The company was founded in 1919, and its headquarters are in Houston. Halliburton is a component of the S&P 500, and it now has a market capitalization of about $34.6 billion. David J. Lesar has been chief executive officer and executive chairman of the company since August 2000.
Competitors include Baker Hughes (NYSE: BHI) and Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB). Both reported last week that their quarterly results were hurt by weak drilling in North America, but both companies topped consensus EPS estimates. Schlumberger was the more cautious of the two about the region going forward.
During the three months that ended in March, Halliburton named a new member of its board, opened a new facility in Singapore and announced a 39 percent dividend hike.
Halliburton has a long-term earnings per share growth forecast of more than 16 percent and a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio that is less than the industry average. Its operating margin is better than the industry average, and it has a return on equity of almost 18 percent. The dividend yield is near 1.2 percent.
The number of Halliburton shares sold short, as of the March 28 settlement date, represents about two percent of the float. That is the lowest level of short interest in almost a year. Days to cover is less than two.
The consensus recommendation of analysts surveyed by Thomson/First Call who follow the stock has been to buy shares for the past three months. Twelve of the 34 analysts rate the stock at Strong Buy. The analysts' mean price target, or where they expect the stock to go, is more than 24 percent higher than the current share price. That would be a level the shares have not seen since August 2011.
The share price has retreated more than six percent in the past month, though it is still more than 11 percent higher than a year ago. It is below the 50-day moving average. Over the past six months, Halliburton has underperformed the broader markets, but outperformed the competitors mentioned above.
© 2017 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.


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Spirits of NJ opinion: Why the new microbrewery ruling needs to be revisited
Due to a "special ruling” signed last month by the director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) David Rible, New Jersey microbreweries have been up in arms.
The ruling states that microbreweries will be limited to holding 25 on-site activities annually, such as trivia nights and live performances. They also cannot provide take-out menus from area restaurants, host more than 52 private parties a year or show sports on TV unless it counts as one of their 25 special events.
This comes in stark contrast to a 2012 law which was enacted to help stimulate the craft beer industry. It allowed microbreweries to serve their products in their tap rooms and sell a higher volume of beer for customers to take home, among other changes.
However, according to Rible, microbreweries were never supposed to have the same privileges as bars or restaurants.
To operate legally in New Jersey, microbreweries must purchase a limited brewery license from the state for a few thousand dollars, whereas bars and restaurants must purchase a plenary retail consumption license ranging from $350,000 to close to $1 million. Of course, this is a huge difference between what restaurants pay and what microbreweries pay.
On Tuesday, microbreweries received some good news when the ABC announced that it will suspend enforcement of the "special ruling." According to a news release, the suspension will provide the ABC with the opportunity to engage in further conversations with stakeholders, including craft breweries and other alcoholic beverage license holders, about the impact of the ruling. In addition, the ABC will work with state legislators to determine whether new legislation is needed to update the 2012 law that gave rise to the special ruling.
This makes perfect sense to me. Here's why:
New Jersey microbreweries have mostly been birthed by entrepreneurs who were home brewers or just people looking to make it big in a booming market. Now that market is booming. I understand that microbreweries shouldn't have all of the same rights as a bar or restaurant, but some of the requirements in the suspended ruling seem to go far beyond what the situation calls for.
Microbreweries not only contribute to New Jersey tourism, but also to community and state pride. New Jerseyans and out-of-staters alike often comment on how great New Jersey beer has become, which has been happening since 2012. Today, the state can boast to being home to 82 microbreweries.
When these microbreweries get involved in the community, it not only gets their names out, but also draws people and visitors out. It's a win-win for them and the state. In my opinion, in limiting them to only 25 events per year, the ABC would end up curtailing tourism and community partnerships and hurting the industry.
Plus, everyone knows that you shouldn't drink on an empty stomach, and as a bartender at Water and Wine Ristorante in Warren, this is advice that I always pass on to my patrons. To not provide take-out menus to local restaurants at breweries will discourage people from eating and drinking safely and will also hurt promotion of these eateries.
It's not a debate that restaurants and bars pay a high price for the licenses that they need to operate, and microbreweries pay very little in comparison. However, some kind of middle ground is called for in this situation. Microbreweries are an integral part of the New Jersey liquor and tourism industries, and the suspended ruling has the potential to hurt local communities and the state.
In the news release announcing the suspension of the ruling, Rible said that his agency wants to get it right. “We are committed to supporting the state’s growing craft beer industry, while also balancing the concerns of other stakeholders and ensuring compliance with state law,” he said.
In my opinion, this is right thing do. It will provide the time needed to find a way forward that is fair to everyone.
Michael Politz, a lifelong New Jersey resident, has worked in the restaurant and bar industry for 20 years. He currently bartends at Water and Wine Ristorante, an upscale Italian eatery and bar in Watchung. His beer, wine and liquor column, Spirits of N.J., appears Wednesdays.

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This is beyond surreal… Much L-O-V-E to everyone at X Factor and Sony for my prime-time debut photographing celebrity portraits of The X Factor Finalists with SONY NEX-5N then passing the cameras out to all the contestants so they could see how easy it was to get great professional results with a camera small enough they can take it with them everywhere.
Check out Season One’s Episode: ‘One of Ten Voted Off’ of The X Factor (USA) for these portraits of Melanie Amaro, Josh Krajcik, Chris Rene, Marcus Canty, Rachel Crow, Drew, Astro, LeRoy Bell, Stacy Francis and Lakoda Rayne
To all the finalists for welcoming me to their show this week – you guys rock!
To Steve Sommers and Kayla Lindquist of Sony…thanks for believing!
To my personal fashion stylist, my lovely wife Fazia, I love you baby!

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Jewel-Osco announced it will seek LEED certification for its first “green” store opening this week in Chicago.
The multi-leveled building is 65,000 square feet in size and will have sustainable design elements such as a reflective and heat emissive LiveRoof system. The system will incorporate vegetation, which will reduce energy consumption for heating and cooling.
Energy-efficient heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, including temperature monitors were also installed.
The new store was built with recycled building materials sourced within a 500-mile radius to reduce transportation needs. Over 90 percent of the store’s construction debris was also recycled.


This tutorial is aimed at getting some instant gratification from your WS2812B LEDs (trade name: neopixels). I'll briefly cover a bare-bones setup for Raspberry Pi.
G'day if you've got some addressable LED strip and you don't know what to do with it and a Raspberry Pi this tutorial is for you. We're just going to quickly show you how to get some example code running to power your strip of WS2812B LEDs these are also known as NeoPixels let's get started just before I get too ahead of myself this tutorial assumes that you're comfortable using the Raspberry Pi in its desktop environment or as a desktop computer so if you're not you can check out chapter 1 of our Raspberry Pi for beginners workshop which is a free online course. Ok now let's get started.
So the first thing you'll need to do is wire up your Raspberry Pi as shown in the diagram here, what we have is our Raspberry Pi up to the top with ground and power connections coming onto this bus and that's just feeding the low-voltage side of a logic level shifter. We have our signal coming from the PI and that's going into the logic level shifter we need this because the PI is a 3.3 volt device but our LED strip down the bottom is a 5 volt device so we need to translate between those voltage levels, and then on the other side we just have the signal coming out which is now at 5 volts going into the data for the LED strip and then we're just powering the strip from what's pictured here is a DC barrel Jack. I'm actually running it from a lab power supply today but there's no difference. So the first thing we need to do is install some packages, so what we're going to do is just scroll down and I have this this convenient little one-liner here that we can paste into our terminal so you can go up to the top and open the terminal from this button and then just right click to paste, so what's going on here is our Raspberry Pi's package indexes are being updated and then some Python wrappers are being downloaded so that we can drive LED strips that are also going to come with a few example scripts that we're going to be able to run so we'll just wait for that to complete.
So those packages have finished downloading and if we execute the LS command we'll be able to see the contents of the current directory and what we're interested in is this package that was just downloaded here, so what we can do is CD into that with our partners going to use tab completion and I'll just double tap tab again to remind me what's in that directory so I want to go into Python double tab again and I wanna navigate into examples double tab. So I've changed into a nested subdirectory and in this subdirectory, we have our example Python scripts. So the one that I want to run is this strandtest.py so what I can do is I have to run this with sudo by the way I see you do Streatham strand test up py and hit enter so this is worked for me straight away, if you are getting some erratic behavior here like the LEDs are kind of flickering in an unpredictable way and it's just kind of nonsense looking I'll show you how to rectify that now.
So we can just admire this demo for a little while, it's quite neat if you didn't get this result that I'll show you one way that seems to work for fixing it. So I'm going to press Ctrl C to quit the script and what we need to do is modify a certain file so I need to run sudo nano I need to edit the file /boot/config.txt this is a config file that affects how the raspberry pi starts and operates. So if I hit enter we're now editing the file from within the Nano text editor and the changes that I need to make are documented just down the page a little bit so I need to add these two lines HDMI force hot-plug equals 1 and HDMI force something to do with the audio so I'm going to copy that and over in Nano I'm just going to scroll down to about where it should go it doesn't matter where it goes I'll just find the right group so you can see we have here we go so this line says uncomment if HDMI display not detected yadda yadda, but this is this is one of the lines that we have pasted in but it's just commented out here so what I'll do is press the Delete key to just uncomment that, so it's now an active piece of code and I'll right-click and paste the rest. So now I've got two entries for that hotplug I can't use the mouse to navigate I have to use the key so I'll just go up and delete that line so now that we have those two lines that exist in our boot config text file you can press Ctrl X to save and then you're prompted do you want to save and you just say Y for yes and we absolutely don't want to change the name so I'm just going to press ENTER for this so now that we've edited our config text file to what it needs to be we can just execute sudo thumbnail even have to be sudo it's just us execute reboot.
Now if you execute reboot your Raspberry Pi will boot up again and then you can just have another crack at running that pseudo pythons strand test command and you should get something that looks pretty similar to this. So now that what everyone hopefully everyone has their LED strip working what I might try is to modify that file to see if we can make it do something a little more interesting so what I can execute is Nano and it was called strand test, and here's our Python script so straight away the very first parameter that's quite important is the LED count, this is how you set the length of strip that you have so if you were working with only one LED this would be a pretty uninteresting demo but I'm working with a whole roll of LEDs, so what I can do is backspace that and I'll just put in a hundred for now. We've already wired up to Pin 18 that's why it's working in the first place and the rest of these parameters I can forget about is there anything that's worth changing in here, oh I've got some functions where's the main piece of code, I might just speed things up a bit I think, here we go, this is the main piece of code so this is just executing and it seems to be executing about as fast as it can, so I might just save that now with the control X and a Y for yes to save strand test. And now if I run strand test again I should see that going all the way down the role and indeed you can see that spiraling all the way into the center of the strip until it's only filled 100 LEDs, so I could have made you push that to like 150 160 I'm not quite sure how many LEDs are on this roll that'd be pretty easy to calculate. So there you have it a quick start guide to getting your addressable LEDs working with your Raspberry Pi. I'll catch you next time. [Music]


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For a long time Malady gets by on atmosphere and world building alone. It sets it’s own slow pace and dreamlike feel which thankfully doesn’t come across as being in any way contrived as so many other indie films do. Director Jack James earns this approach with what’s clearly an eye for the cinematic and a bravery for challenging storytelling. Although the film struggles at times later on, this story of two lost spirits finding solace within each others arms at night is both an involving visceral experience and a gentle roller coaster where you find yourself trying to second guess and analyse these characters. What it is lacking though is an identifiable emotional core in which to root the performances.
One of the film’s most notable features is its score; it’s always either underpinning or uprooting that which we see on screen. It’s at times chilling, at others warm, and it consistently functions beyond just helping to build a sense of mood and character, instead often going against the grain of the film, and embedding an uncomfortable sense of disconnectedness and distress. This is an uneasy film; the nature of human relationships proving to be a complex web of emotions where precious, loving moments are defined by the external terrors which threaten to break into those safe moments in a lover’s embrace. There is an air of uncertainty generated by the distance from which the film examines its subjects; an approach which, whilst often effective, unfortunately jars with the film’s request that you still empathise with these people.
Despite the film being a little emotionally removed the two actors do a commendable job in their respective roles. A film of this nature builds most of its scenes on looks, silence and suggestion and so its a real test of an actor’s ability when they haven’t got the crutch of dialogue to lean on. Both impress but Roxy Bugler gradually over the course of the film steals the show in my eyes. At first she is meek, almost to the point of frustration, however as the film develops she generates an affecting depth of character out of silence and speaking more coherently with her eyes than through her dialogue.
I don’t like to say this often because it runs the risk of being overused but I am definitely interested in seeing where writer/director Jack James’ career takes him. Malady isn’t flawless but as directorial débuts go it’s a very commendable one. Not only because it acts as a promise of more quality work to come but also because it is interesting in its own right. Now if James can direct us a little better towards the emotional core of his films in the future without sacrificing his abilities to create mood and to challenge his viewer then we will may well have a very strong film on our hands indeed.
What is the film’s greatest strength? The strong sense of atmosphere which is built.
Its greatest weakness? It’s an interesting experiment in form but it leaves you a little cold as a result.
Would I see it again? Tough call… I wouldn’t mind revisiting it again but it’s not one you will want to rush back to.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
The following is my check-in for Fit Mommy Friday. It is hosted by Denise. This is a way for many of us to encourage one another, to share our progress and to meet our own fitness goals. When you visit our blogs and read about our week, would you take a minute to share an encouraging comment?
My last check in was for week 39. I did exercise during the last couple of weeks, but not as much as I should have. I started working with Nana (who, along with Grandpa, lives with us). Her health is frail and I wanted to encourage her to eat healthier and find some way of exercising each day. We are working on a plan to help her get well for 2011.
Here is my current check -in:
Monday - Rested.
Tuesday - 20 Minute workout - no weights.
Wednesday - 10 Minute workout in the morning. Then another 10 minutes at night. This was target toning - no weights.
Thursday - 15 Minute workout in the morning. Then another 10 minutes at night. This was target toning - no weights.
Friday - (today). I plan to workout for at least 10 minutes.
Fitness Goal: To have strength and endurance. I do not have any weight to lose, but need to keep my energy levels high.
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Denise, our hostess, and I have come up with a plan to help motivate our Fit Mommy group. Whether you have joined us once or twice in 2010 or want to join us now, I created a 10 week document to help you get fit between now and December 31st. We will be offering a reward (prize) to be announced later. Please join us!
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On Wednesday July 25th, Imo born artiste F2 dropped another single a year after dropping hit track “Shima”, and he titled this one “overdose”. Weeks before the release, F2 built anticipation on social media, teasing every chance he got and promising to give fans an overdose of the song.
He delivered as promised!
“Overdose” is a nicely arranged tune layered on mid-tempo beats with little percussions here and there. It is that song you’d listen to and wish it never ends. It is soft, mild and soothing. It tells the story of love and progress and of the overdose of everything good.
F2 capitalised on the reach and success of the mid-tempo beat in Nigeria. This type of beat hit mainstream Nigeria like a wave in the 2015/2016 music year and has stayed ever since. It has a natural appeal to listeners due to it’s soft and soothing nature. That feeling of calmness you get while listening to a great song, that aura of peace that envelopes you with promises of everything good, that good feeling of accomplishemt, that is what gives this beat a little edge over some of the other sounds in Africa. It is naturally embedded in it and F2 took advantage of this and is about to score another hit with the song “Overdose”.
Once a producer is able to put a good mid-tempo beat together, what’s left is a nicely arranged tune or melody to score a hit.
F2 is doing this and is going to score more hits if he continues in that trajectory. He’s carving a niche for himself and making himself stand out among many who are aspiring to be celebrated in this space.


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Romantic Perth Holidays
Visit Perth, Western Australia for a Laid-Back Vacation Experience
Perth holidays in Western Australia should definitely be high on the list for couples who are looking for a romantic vacation in an easy-going and laid-back location. With its fine restaurants, top-of-the-line accommodation and breathtaking beaches, you can enjoy your romantic getaway and ultimate relaxation at the same time.
Romantic Perth Hotels and Holiday Accommodation
Whether you want a more laid-back Perth holidays -- like a bed-and-breakfast or a luxury five-star hotel experience, you can get it all while in Perth.
Rydges Perth – this is one of the best honeymoon hotels in Perth, which makes it great for any couple on a romantic vacation. The hotel features King spa suites and wonderful packages for romantic getaways.
Intercontinental Burswood Resort Hotel – this is another five-star resort that has wonderful amenities like a casino, nightclub, heated swimming pool and secluded gardens.
Beach Manor Bed and Breakfast – this provides a wonderful laid-back and serene accommodation experience in Perth because it is located on the beachfront.
Perth holidays have just what you are looking for on a romantic getaway. Just make sure you allocate enough time so you can enjoy all of what this wonderful city has to offer.
Romantic Things to do in Perth for Outdoor-Loving Couples
Perth is also one of the most secluded cities in the world, which makes it perfect for people who just really want to enjoy their time together. On that note, there are many romantic things that you can do as a couple in Perth.
Beach going – Perth is known to have some of Australia's best beaches in terms of the surf as well as how white the sand is. Scarborough, City Beach and Cottesloe are three of Perth’s best beaches for swimming and sun tanning. Spend a day of your Perth holidays relaxing on the beach with your sweetie just doing nothing.
Visiting Rottnest Island -- this island on the western coast of Australia used to be home to the aboriginal people thousands of years ago. However, now it is more of an attraction as it is home to Quokkas, the furry marsupials that are native to Australia. You and your loved one can enjoy a tour of the island and also swim at the beautiful beaches.
Dolphin Petting at Monkey Mia – from Perth, you can easily visit Monkey Mia, where you can pet some dolphins (if that’s your thing).
Shark Bay, which is where a Monkey Mia is located, is home to a lot of friendly and pet-able bottlenose dolphins.
Perth Holidays: Romantic and Relaxing and Laid-Back
For those times of day when you do not feel like touring, here are some things that you can also do while in Australia:
Take a Romantic Dinner Cruise – the Swan River is popular with couples for nighttime dinner cruises. It is more of a sightseeing cruise that offers champagne, dinner and dancing. It is definitely a romantic experience if ever there was one!
Visit Margaret River Wineries – this is a daytime activity where you can expect to be entertained by tours of the wineries, samples of wine and enjoy lunch.
Visit King's Park – Kings Park and Botanic Garden is a wonderful place to visit for hanging out in the daytime. It is also one of the romantic places where you can sit and enjoy the city skyline of Perth at night.
Best time for Perth Holidays
The climate in Perth is generally warm throughout the entire year. This makes swimming in the ocean and sun bathing a wonderful experience for two. Remember however that because Australia is in another hemisphere, you can expect to get lots of sun between November and March. So keep that in mind if you want to go and experience the summer season as opposed to the winter season.
Planing a romantic Australia vacation? Check out more destinations for getaways and honeymoons.
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Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar master who built a global following and pioneered the charity concert, has died.
His official website carried this statement: “With profound grief and sorrow, we mourn the passing of Pandit Ravi Shankar on December 11, 2012. He died in San Diego at 4:30 pm Pacific time. He was 92.”
Shankar influenced the music of the Beatles and was also the father of jazz-pop star Norah Jones (he played virtually no role in her life when she was growing up). Another of his daughters (by another mother), Anoushka Shankar, has also built a following as a sitar player.
Born in 1920 in Varanasi to a well-off Brahmin family, Shankar left a possible career as a dancer behind to study sitar.
From an early age he was driven by a powerful blend of curiosity and spirituality. “In my childhood I was always eager to learn about the miraculous feats of such spiritual masters as Lahiri Mahasai or his famous friend Trailanga Swami, who was reputed to be over 300 years old and certainly weighed over 300 pounds.,” he wrote in “Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar.”
He traveled to Paris in the 1930s and broke through as a performer in the West in the 1960s, winning the ear and the respect of Beatles star George Harrison (who became his student).
In “Raga Mala,” Shankar wrote that he met Harrison for the first time in June of 1966 in a friend’s house in London. And while he would see the other Beatles from time to time, “Something clicked from the very beginning with George.”
In the book “George Harrison: Living in the Material World” by Olivia Harrison and Mark Holborn, George Harrison says this about Shankar: “I could meet anybody. I could go in all the film stars’ houses and meet Elvis and everybody, and we met a lot of really good people, but I never met one person who really impressed me. The first person who ever impressed me in my life was Ravi Shankar, and he was the only person who didn’t try to impress me.”
Shankar’s mastery of his instrument helped lay some of the groundwork for the world music boom. He personally influenced and touched the lives of a wide range of Western stars, including Marlon Brando and Peter Sellers, and he took part in a number of seminal music concerts including Woodstock (1969) and the Concert for Bangladesh (1971).
In “Raga Mala,” he wrote that he found Woodstock to be “a terrifying experience” where “the music was incidental.”
But the Concert for Bangladesh, he believed, helped create the blueprint for all the charity rock concerts that would follow.
“In one day, the whole world knew the name of Bangladesh,” Shankar said in “George Harrison: Living in the Material World.” “It was a fantastic occasion, and I think it was the first of its kind. Now, of course, wonderful things are done, so many musicians are raising money for different causes. But the Bangladesh concert, I think, was the very first one.”
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Wayne Rooney will face a late fitness test ahead of Manchester United’s clash with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
The England international has not played since the home defeat to Tottenham Hotspur on New Year’s Day, and was sent to Egypt for rehabilitation this week by manager David Moyes while Robin van Persie is also not guaranteed to feature, despite recovering from a thigh problem that has kept him out for the past month.
Defensive trio Jonny Evans, Rio Ferdinand and Phil Jones will all be assessed ahead of the game, though Patrice Evra, Marouane Fellaini and Nani all remain side-lined.
The sides played out a goalless draw at Old Trafford back in August, while there last meeting at Stamford Bridge ended in a 1-0 win for the Blues in the quarter finals of the FA Cup.
Last season’s corresponding league match was won by United in October 2012, while Chelsea won in extra time when the sides met in the League Cup four days later.
Meanwhile, midfielder Anderson is closing in on his loan move to Fiorentina, according to Sky Sports.
The Brazil international is set to undergo a medical with the Serie A side after falling out of favour with the Premier League champions.


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