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Monday, October 22, 2012
Birthday date and Bruce Springsteen
I'm a child of the 80s and even in Switzerland, Bruce Springsteen was the Boss. I must have been driving my parents crazy at the time listening to his music and knowing all the lyrics - all of this on tape of course with a couple of CD's later on.
Last week was my birthday and my dear hubby booked a date night on Friday, which included a sushi dinner and Bruce Springsteen concert! 19,000 people came out to see the show and it was amazing! This was an old fashioned Rock n Roll show done by a true performer - no need for fancy costumes and fancy dance crews. He rocked the house for 3+ hours straight (who does that these days?), played lots of his classics, some of his great new stuff and interacted with the audience. When I'm saying interacting with the audience, I don't just mean touching hands - he was right in the pit, singing with people and had himself crowd- surfed up to the stage.
This was truly a great night out and pretty impressive finale to a wonderful birthday week. I don't always look forward to getting older, but seeing 63 year old Bruce up there on stage and delivering with passion just shows you that age is irrelevant if you are passionate and genuine.
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Master Class with Jordi Savall (VI/VI)
Bach's Mass in B Minor
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Jordi Savall–renowned gambist, conductor, composer, musical researcher and leader in the field of early music–collaborates with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas in a series of six master classes featuring alumni of the New World Symphony (NWS). He works with the young string players on solo pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, exploring with them the significance of style, technique, musicianship and historical context in the performance of baroque music.
NWS alumni perform the aria “Laudamus te” from Bach's Mass in B Minor. An orchestration of a verse from the “Gloria”, the full version of the work includes soprano II solo, obbligato violin and orchestra. It features dramatic coloratura that embody the joyousness of the text’s meaning. In these extracts from the master class, Jordi Savall delves into the power articulation and bow technique in defining musical style and expression.


Forces veterans struggle for social housing, says committee
War veterans could struggle to get on social housing waiting lists in Wales, a committee of MPs has warned.
Military personnel who move between bases could lose out to people who can show a strong local connection.
The Welsh Affairs Committee's report says improvements are needed in areas like housing, health and jobs.
Parliamentary correspondent David Cornock spoke to Monmouth MP David Davies.
12 Feb 2013
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BROWNSVILLE, Minn. - On the Mississippi River below the verdant bluffs that mark the far southern Minnesota-Wisconsin line, the federal government is waging a multi-million dollar campaign against the elements.
PADANG, Indonesia - Some villagers in western Indonesia returned home Saturday, three days after a deadly earthquake jolted the region and generated a powerful string of aftershocks and a tsunami.
SAN FRANCISCO - A renowned Australian scientist was named to run California's $3 billion stem cell agency, the nation's biggest financial backer of human embryonic research.
MERAUX, La. - Africanized honeybees, a fierce hybrid strain sometimes referred to as ''killer bees,'' appear to have established themselves in the New Orleans area, the state agriculture commissioner said.
The old football coaches' cliché is that special teams are one-third of a good team's game. That axiom proved itself for Bulloch Academy in Friday night's 42-6 thumping of Robert Toombs Christian Academy.
The Portal Panthers continued their sluggish start to the 2007 season on Friday night, falling to Screven County by a 32-0 margin. The loss was their second shutout defeat in as many weeks and dropped the Panthers to a record of 0-3 with the Region 3-A schedule looming ahead.
LYONS – Jordan Walker and Ethan Lovett scored a pair of touchdowns each to lead Bulloch Academy to a 42-6 drubbing of Robert Toombs Christian Academy here Friday.
PORTAL - The skies rained down on the Portal Panthers on Friday night, and as soon as Mother Nature was finished, Screven County took its turn. After intense thunderstorms delayed the start of the game for more than an hour, the Gamecocks raced up and down the field, racking up yards and points in a 32-0 romp over Portal.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah - A former follower of a polygamous sect leader claims she was acting to preserve her eternal salvation when she obeyed his command and married her cousin at age 14.
BOISE, Idaho - Cow manure and fish guts and maggots. It could all soon be dinner - if you're an Idaho rainbow trout.
DEAR ABBY: Our 13-year-old son, "Kirk," is monitored when he is online, he is given a curfew when visiting neighborhood friends, and he is overall watched like a hawk. However, we have let him play the video game Xbox Live (where kids all over the country play the same games). We recently found out that an adult (posing as a child) had promised Kirk a free pass and asked him to call to tell him where to send it.
There might be a few circumstances that could occur that would have a strong effect on changing some established parts of your being. But you'll be smart enough to guide them to a desirable position in your life.
PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius will probably testify at his trial later this week, a defense attorney said Tuesday after prosecutors rested their case against the double-amputee runner who is accused of murder in his girlfriend's death.
WASHINGTON - Seemingly divided, the Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with the question of whether companies have religious rights, a case challenging President Barack Obama's health overhaul and its guarantee of birth control in employees' preventive care plans.
The Belle House was filled to capacity with local coaches, players, parents and supporters at last Thursday's Fellowship of Christian Athletes Fundraising Banquet.
BRUNSWICK - U.S. Coast Guard crews and others were searching Tuesday for two people who were aboard a small plane that went missing in the St. Simons Island area.
HONG KONG - Investigators are closer to solving an international aviation mystery thanks to a British communications satellite and classroom physics.
NORFOLK, Va. - A sailor was fatally shot aboard a guided-missile destroyer docked at the world's largest naval base late Monday, and security forces killed the lone suspect, according to the Navy.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia said Tuesday that it has narrowed the search for a downed jetliner to an area the size of Alaska in the southern Indian Ocean, while Australia said improved weather would allow the hunt for possible debris from the plane to resume.
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AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Family and friends of an 8-year-old Akron girl killed in a shooting last month are calling for an end to gun violence responsible for the deaths of the girl and other children in the Ohio city.
Relatives of 8-year-old Mikayla Pickett organized a “Save Our Children” walk Friday that started in the neighborhood where the girl was killed and ended in front of Akron City Hall.
Marchers repeatedly chanted “Stop the violence! Put the guns down!” The girl died after shots were fired Aug. 14 at a backyard birthday party. The homicide remains unsolved.
“We want them to find Mikayla’s killer. We want justice for Mikayla. We want him behind bars,” said the girl’s mother, Shoskamika Risper.
Lt. Michael Miller used a megaphone at city hall to tell the family, “We are working every day around the clock to solve her murder,” the Akron Beacon Journal reported.
The group also called for justice for the murders of other children. On Tuesday, 6-year-old Mar’Viyah Jones died of injuries from a Sept. 10 shooting on an Akron street, according to the Summit County medical examiner’s office. Authorities say two men in vehicles argued and exchanged gunfire, killing Jones, a passenger in one of the vehicles.
In June, a man and a 14-year-old girl were killed in an Akron shooting. In July, a man was arrested on charges of using a sport utility vehicle to kill a man and his young daughter as the father pushed the girl in a stroller on an Akron sidewalk.
Pastor Roderick Pounds of Second Baptist Church called such deaths “heartbreaking.” He and other officials said there should be more community recreation centers and activities available to young people.
“When you’re running the street with no purpose, no destination and no purpose, it’s a breeding ground for trouble,” Finney said.
After the death of Jones, Mayor Dan Horrigan said he was working to deploy new strategies to interrupt the cycle of shootings and build on the work of the Youth Violence Prevention Plan. On Friday, he said gun violence was “the number one issue that keeps me up at night.”
“We need to stand together as a community and say that we will not lose another child to gun violence this year,” he said.

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More fun from my last class to show you. Continued vintage style since we were using the fabulous Deck the Halls DSP in the Holiday Mini. This is a pretty way to turn an ordinary envelope into a little gift, maybe add some 3x3 cards w/ envies, some holiday cash ;) or check or maybe even a few gift tags. Let me share how...
* Took a Small Open Ended Envelope (107286) and sealed it. Fold it in half and then unfold. Using my paper trimmer, I cut away about 1/8" along the long side. Now you will have 2 'pockets' along the top to place your goods in. HINT: a few 3x3's without a lot of embellishments will fit perfectly on one side, envies on the other.
* Now it is time to decorate your envie. To stay vintagey, I had to alter the very stark white envelope: dauber and distressing. Inked up the dauber with Soft Suede and distressed around all edges. See, not so stark.
* Layered a piece of Deck the Halls DSP to the front and back. Distressed the edges again
* This NEW Decorative Label punch is awesome! Popped that out in Cherry Cobbler and distressed the edges with Soft Suede ink.
* Using the Tags Til Christmas set, in the Holiday Mini, I inked up the 'square' shaped sentiment in Old Olive.
* Dare to be different - I chose to pop out that 'square' sentiment with my Large Oval punch instead of matching it up with a square punch. That stark white needed some daubbing again and a little something extra. Enter, Color Spritzer. Perfect spritz of Soft Suede adds more to the vintage feel.
* Popped the Large Oval sentiment up onto a dimensional and onto my Decorative Cherry Chobbler Label. An Itty Bitty Shapes Old Olive flower was punched out and bedazzled with a little Basic Pearl jewel.
* The little punched ensemble was placed on dimensionals and placed in the center.
* Victoria Crochet Trim is 'threaded' beneath the label and wrapped around the back to be tied for a pretty little closure.
* With my Color Spritzer still hooked up to Soft Suede Marker, I decided to spritz away on the interior.
* Direct to stamp technique, so cool! - with my Old Olive and Cherry Chobbler Markers, I isolated the words and directly 'colored' on the rubber, huffed the stamp to remoisten and stamped to the inside. Words come from the Tags Til Christmas set too.
* The holly leaf from Good Cheer was stamped in Old Olive and then colored in my berries with Cherry Cobbler.
Tags from the Tags Til Christmas set were kreated and later tucked into the little pockets of the envie. A little gift idea perhaps?! Here are a few of my sample tags.
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Wall anchor question
I am trying to hang a hat rack on a plaster wall. The way the rack is built, the heads of the 4 mounting screws will sit about two inches away from the wall when fully driven. In other words, the mounting screws won't be flush with the wall, nor will they be able to expand the anchor (which will be flush with the wall). Of course, this means the anchors won't work. Short of installing a wooden backing affixed to studs, how can I solve this problem?
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Domestic violence on the rise during COVID-19
Editor’s note: This story discusses the sensitive topics of domestic violence and abuse.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Julia Luciano remembers worrying when Advocates of Routt County saw a decrease in local domestic violence calls when county public health officials ordered a stay-at-home order due to COVID-19 in the spring.
National experts believed domestic violence cases were increasing due to added stress and families spending more time than normal together, but for Advocates staff, seeing a drop in calls was a reason for concern.
“If victims are living in a home with an abuser, they are probably getting a lot of that stress (from COVID-19) turned on them,” said Luciano, who is a victim advocate.
But as the county and state lifted COVID-19 restrictions, the calls began increasing. Victims were able to leave their houses again, connect with friends and return to safer situations to call for help.
In 2019, Advocates received 178 calls at this point in the year. In 2020, calls have increased by 71%, with 308 calls so far this year.
Barriers to getting help
In several Routt County towns outside of Steamboat Springs, residents have little to no cellphone service or access to reliable internet and often live far away from their neighbors.
COVID-19 lockdowns, Luciano said, have amplified this struggle for rural victims, who are usually women.
“Pre-COVID, someone could leave the home more frequently, they had more social contacts and more opportunities to find safety,” Luciano said. “But now that they’re home more often, their opportunities to find safety have diminished.”
Abusers often use psychological manipulation with their victims. This can come in forms of isolation, gaslighting, name calling and attempting to turn family members against them, Luciano said. Advocates advises victims to seek social connection, even if it’s as simple as emails sent back and forth with a child’s teacher.
Gaslighting, acording to the National Dometic Violence Hotline, is defined as “a form of emotional abuse that causes a victim to question their own feelings, thoughts, instincts and sanity, which give the abusive partner power and control.”
“Sheltering in place isn’t the same hardship for everyone,” said Marnie Christensen, a former victim advocate with Advocates of Routt County. “The people that are locked at home with their abusers in such a highly stressful situation are much more likely to continue to be abused.”
The high cost of living and the difficulty many face in finding housing is another issue for many victims in the Steamboat area, Christensen said.
A frequent tactic for abusers, several experts said, is controlling their victim’s bank accounts, preventing them from getting a job or even stealing money from them, which makes leaving an abuser nearly impossible in normal times, let alone in the midst of a pandemic.
“How do you work enough and make enough where you can buy food for you and your kids in the middle of a lockdown when maybe you’ve never been allowed to work?” Christensen said.
COVID amplifies the issue
Experts agree COVID-19 has not turned non-abusers into abusers, but external stresses over the pandemic and recession, coupled with victims being stuck inside and isolated from the world, has only enhanced the domestic violence epidemic the nation already faced.
“The stress of COVID is not causing people to become abusive,” Luciano said. “Rather, we’re seeing an increase in frequency and severity of violence due to COVID.”
Most shelters in northwestern Colorado have been consistently full during COVID-19, Christensen said, and victims are often afraid of leaving the house as to not anger their abuser. Often, she added, abusers will use physical violence or manipulation to keep victims from being able to leave.
Most domestic violence cases do not begin with physical violence or serious threats, Luciano said. Rather, many cases start with what appears to be a healthy relationship, and over time, dangerous behavior develops, with offhand comments and arguments turning into physical violence, manipulation and gaslighting over a period of time.
“Systematically and eventually, the abuser has then cut off the victim from everyone else who they would normally turn to for support,” Luciano said. “Just leaving is not an option for a lot of survivors.”
In addition to economic control, abusers have used gaslighting and restricting control of medical access to keep victims showing symptoms of COVID-19 from getting a test or seeking medical help, said Tamika Matthews, community impact manager with Violence Free Colorado.
“Abusive partners may use tactics around the pandemic to control survivors, such as misinformation to frighten survivors into staying, limiting access to insurance to stop survivors from seeking medical assistance or telling survivors they can’t leave due to stay-at-home orders,” Matthews said. “Any of these can contribute to increased domestic violence.”
One tactic experts believed was amplified dramatically by COVID-19 is isolation.
Domestic violence does not always include physical violence, experts said, but social isolation is a commonality, and mandatory lockdowns made for a “perfect storm.”
“One of the biggest things abusers do is they use isolation to control their victim from other people,” Christensen said. “COVID has made this super easy because they’re already not allowed to.”
Law enforcement response
While domestic violence nonprofits across the state have seen an increase in calls during the pandemic, law enforcement agencies in Routt County have seen the opposite, said Steamboat Springs Police Chief Cory Christensen.
Christensen was unsure why the department’s numbers were slightly lower than those of 2019.
“There are thousands of reasons why someone would stay with an abuser, and I think one of the reasons we overlook a lot is, often, they still love the person,” Luciano said.
If a domestic violence cases reaches a courtroom, the victim is usually expected to testify, according to Matt Karzen, 14th Judicial district attorney. He said fear of retribution from an abuser can be a deterrent to taking a case to court, though judges can use protective orders for victims as soon as an abuser is arrested, and laws prevent witnesses from being harassed.
“Realistically speaking, we need the victim to testify,” Karzen said. “They’re often the only person who can describe what happened.”
Another issue COVID-19 has created, Marnie Christensen said, is abusers being booked and immediately released from jail, a process that began early in the pandemic meant to decrease the spread of COVID-19 in jails.
“Unless it’s a big felony, no one is staying in jail,” she said. “Within hours, the abuser can be back with their victim,” often angrier and more violent after an arrest.
Experts worry domestic violence cases will continue to increase as COVID-19 spreads even faster, stressors are increased and stricter lockdowns are imposed.
“We’re all very worried about victims, and we’re worried that the severity of domestic violence is going to spike with a shutdown,” Marnie said. “They’re feeling the effects of the pandemic in a very violent way.”
Experts recognize COVID-19 restrictions are necessary to slow the spread of a dangerous disease, but they said tactics used to support domestic violence survivors should be amped up now more than ever.
“Believing survivors and supporting them in the ways that make sense for them and their safety is a priority,” Matthews said. “Survivors know what they need and how to best navigate their situations, so providing them the tools they need to stay safe is key.”
Advocates of Routt County offers a variety of services, including a shelter, to anyone in Routt County impacted by domestic violence. Advocates can be reached at 970-879-2034.
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Cryptocurrency is digital money that uses cryptography to secure its transactions. This session explores how cryptocurrency works, identify different types of existing currencies from fiat to digital money, and covers the fundamentals of centralised finance (CeFi) and decentralised finance (DeFi).
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4. Demonstrate what DeFi looks like from a user’s perspective.


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With the rapid development of Biotechnology, more and more genetically modified cash crops was approved and could widely be seen on the market. Rising along side are the discussions regarding whether there have been enough regulations on genetically modified cash crops or should we even embrace them at all. As an individual with limited understanding towards this technology, I genuinely feel insecure about the potential risks. Thereby, I argue that we should not keep on promoting the usage of genetically modified cash crops.
In my passage below, I will first attack my thesis by discussing the benefits of genetically modified cash crops.
First of all, Genetically Modified cash corps will make cultivation much more environmentally friendly. To start with, genetically modified cash corps can greatly reduce the usage of pesticides and herbicides, which could greatly lower the risks of both farmers and consumers who are suffering from pesticide related poisonings. The heavy use of herbicides has led to groundwater contaminations, the death of several wildlife species and has also been attributed to various human and animal illnesses.
With the availability of GMOs, these problems could be improved.
The World Health Organization estimates that there are 3 million cases of pesticide poisoning each year that cause up to 20,000 deaths primarily in developing countries. Herbicide-tolerant and insect-resistant plants account for over 95% of the GM crops currently; both contribute to a reduction in farmer’s application of plant protection products. To take BT-corn as an example: Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a naturally occurring bacterium in the soil that produces proteins specifically active against certain insects.
Some crops such as corn, cotton, and soybeans have been genetically engineered to express the Bt genes that act as insecticides.
The use of Bt crops has led to a reduction in conventional synthetic insecticide use (up to 25-33%). With the application of gene-engineering, we could not only reduce the case of herbicide and pesticide related poisonings, but also make the consumption of natural resources more efficient. A study conducted by the American Soybean Association on tillage frequency on soybean farms also showed that significant numbers of farmers adopted the “no-tillage” or “reduced tillage” practice after planting genetically engineered herbicide-tolerant soybean varieties. This simple weed management approach saved over 234 million gallons of fuel and left 247 million tons of irreplaceable topsoil undisturbed.
Secondly, Genetically Modified cash corps can increase yields, which could correspondingly solve the hunger problems around the world. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 795 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in nine, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2014-2016. Almost all the hungry people, 780 million, live in developing countries, representing 12.9 percent, or one in eight, of the population of developing counties. While traditional agriculture methods remain low in efficiency and environmental unfriendly, genetically modified crops have been proven to be effective in increasing yields.
Such case is particularly true in developing countries. GM traits, such as insect and herbicide tolerance, help to increase yields by protecting the yield that would otherwise be lost due to insects or weeds. In developing countries, where resources to effectively control weeds and insects are often limited, these traits have increased yield substantially. The same is also true for developed countries where there are particular pests that are hard to control–such as the corn rootworm complex or some perennial weeds.
With a 10 percent change to a genetically modified herbicide tolerant crop a roughly 1.7 percent increase in productivity is observed. Achieving such increase in yields without further harming the soils and lands, the live hoods of the farmers will be greatly improved. More importantly, we can better adapt ourselves towards the rapid increase of world population as well.
However, despite all the benefits that genetically modified food have, we should by no means ignore the risks and challenges it brings to us alongside. First of all, the safety of GM corps remains highly questionable. To take BT-corn as an example. Although companies like Monsanto and PG that developed this technology of building BT-toxins into the corps claim that the toxins will be fully processed by human’s digestive system, many studies have find contradicting conclusions.
Researchers at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found the corn’s Bt-toxin in the blood of pregnant women who have previously consumed BT-corps and their babies, as well as in non-pregnant women. Specifically, the toxin was identified in 93% of 30 pregnant women, 80% of umbilical blood in their babies, and 67% of 39 non-pregnant women. Although the residues of traditional chemical pesticides also serve as threats to our health, they are after all sprayed on and could be eliminate with careful washing and cleaning.
However, the poisonous toxins in bt-crops are built in and could even be passed on towards our next generations. The fact that there haven’t been official reports of death directly related to GM corps could just simply be due to the short amount of time that genetic engineering technologies was introduced to the world.
Secondly, genetically modified cash corps is actually not environmental friendly. To start with, pesticides and herbicides usage has in fact greatly increased with the wide adoption of GM corps by farmers. Over the first six years of commercial use (1996-2001), HT and Bt crops reduced pesticide use by about 2%, compared to what it likely would have been in the absence of GE crops.
However, the over-reliance on HT and BT crops has led to the emergence of extraordinarily resilient weeds and insects, which in term increase the usage of herbicides in recent years. The incremental increase of herbicides on HT corps per year has grown steadily from 1.5 million pounds in 1999, to 18 million five years later in 2003, and 79 million pounds in In 2011, about 90 million more pounds of herbicides were applied than likely in the absence of HT.6.
What’s more, GM crop could also damage the balance of our ecosystem. By promoting greater use of certain pesticides associated with GM crops that are particularly toxic to many species, and by introducing exotic genes and organisms into the environment that may disrupt natural plant communities, the original local ecosystems are greatly influenced by issues including the extinction of plants and beneficial insects, uniformity of corps in the fields, the uncontrolled crossbreeding of GM corps and wild corps.
Other than biological and environmental problems, many political and economical problems related to GM corps should also be given serious considerations. The monopoly of Genetic Engineering Giants has become a serious threat to the live hood of the farmers as well as the safety of consumers. The “big four” bigtech companies: Monsanto, DuPont/Pioneer Hi-Bred, Syngenta, and Dow AgroSciences company owns more than half of the GE seed market in US (the proportion is even higher in some developing countries like India and Brazil).
Besides, in addition to selling overpriced seeds, big companies like Monsanto are also licensing genetically modified traits to other seed companies. As a result, more than 80% of GM corns planted in US contain Monsanto’s GM traits. The monopolization of these few companies has led to two major problems. First, conventional and older NON-genetically modified seed varieties are pushed out of the market. Secondly, according to the decisions of the Supreme Court, farmers are prohibited from keeping the seed of GM corps. On the other hand, the farmers are left with no choice but to buy the overpriced GM seeds from the big companies every single year.
To take the seed of GM soybeans as an example, its average price has increased 230% between 2001 and 2011.7 According to a study by Consumers International, an estimated 270,000 small-hold farmers in the Philippines are being forced to grow GM corn and ending up in debt. The cost of corn seeds has risen 282% from its introductory price and accounts for 18-21% of a farmer’s total cost of production.
Despite all the potential benefits that GM cash crop has, the risks, danger and other drawbacks of it should definitely not to be neglected. At this point, we should also bear in mind that many pro-GMO papers and researches are initiated and sponsored by biotech companies themselves. It is possible that the companies have extricated the “advantages” and downplayed the “risks” of GM crops to maximize their profits. Considering the fact that there are still so much uncertainty regarding the safety and necessity of this technology, i argue that we should not further promote genetic engineered cash crops.

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So it would actually be worth listening to? Chris' voice has become even worse.. I'm surprised that you think any of them are decent, actually. :P I guess I could give it a listen, but it might be depressing.
Aw, I'm sorry to hear that about school. :( I've thought of stuff like that before myself, but wouldn't it be sort of late to do it now?
Anyway... Hm, I'm hearing that the new Coldplay album leaked? I can't say I was planning on listening to it at all.
Hey Sara! How's it going? It's been a while, so I just thought I'd say hello. I would have messaged you on msn, but I haven't seen you online in forever. :( (Admittedly, I myself have not been on much for some time, but still.)

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Like many British holidaymakers, Keir Starmer and his family will be taking a break in the west country this year. But as he samples the delights of Devon, his day job won’t be far away.
The Labour leader will be studying and refining the first draft of his party conference speech, due to be handed to him just before he departs for the summer sun. “Some poor kid will be building a sandcastle and then hear Keir say ‘Conference! This is who I am…’,” jokes one aide about “the speech on the beach”.
For Starmer, this summer is a chance to make up for lost time, both in the pandemic and in his leadership. Emerging from his fourth period of self-isolation, imposed after his son contracted Covid, the leader of the Opposition was in Scotland this week on one of his tours of the places Labour needs to win back to have a chance of forming the next government.
Staffers are hoping that he doesn’t have to isolate a fifth time and are seriously having to think of contingency plans for this year’s conference. Under one plan floated, if the cases of the virus were to spike again, Starmer could be put in a Covid-secure “bubble” and placed in a hotel room for 10 days before his big speech in Brighton. “We can’t risk him getting pinged,” one said.
The stakes are certainly high as Labour tries to build on a recent narrowing of the opinion polls and move beyond the politics of the pandemic. With a general election expected possibly as early as May 2023, the sense of urgency within Starmer’s team is palpable.
That team has seen some significant changes since the setbacks of May 6, when the party lost swaths of council seats and the by-election in Hartlepool, another brick knocked out of its broken “Red Wall”.
Winning the Batley and Spen by-election just a few weeks later, albeit by just over 300 votes, provided a badly needed boost to morale as new staff replaced much of the team that had been by Starmer’s side since his 2020 leadership victory.
Crucially, the newly-shaped team all have experience from Labour’s years in power, having served in various roles under either Tony Blair or Gordon Brown. Political director Luke Sullivan worked for Nick Brown when he was government chief whip, director of strategy Deborah Mattinson was Gordon Brown’s pollster and interim director of communications was a special adviser to Blair in No.10.
The latest recruit, new chief of staff Sam White, was special adviser to former chancellor Alistair Darling. “He lived through the financial crisis at the Treasury, he’s a calm head on sensible shoulders,” one colleague said.
White, who is currently working at insurance giant Aviva, impressed Starmer last year when he was seconded to the party to run the leader’s “Covid committee”, coordinating his response to the pandemic until last August. When White starts work in September, he’ll replace Morgan McSweeney, who will become the leader’s elections director.
Together with new campaigns coordinator Shabana Mahmood, and her deputy Conor McGinn, the reshaped leader’s team has worked with Starmer on a more aggressive stance against the Tory government as the nation moved out of lockdown. Building on the theme of a “summer of chaos”, they’ve seized on Boris Johnson’s missteps over travel, isolation and the disruption caused by the July “pingdemic”.
But the wider strategic plan was to move on from Covid, using the summer to attack the Tories on crime and anti-social behaviour, while promoting Labour’s own plans for flexible working and workers’ rights. Johnson’s own “crime week” last week was seen as a sign that Labour was at least aiming at the right target.
Being seen as the party of the police is a more important change than tackling anti-Semitism. Proving we are not a racist party is a basic hygiene issue.Labour insider.
Despite Johnson’s claims to be half way to his 2019 election pledge to recruit 20,000 police officers, Labour strategists believe the PM will lose his numbers game because the figure will barely cover those lost under cuts since 2010. When PCSOs and police backroom staff are taken into account, the government would need to hire 40,000 staff just to get back to 2010 levels. “It’s Back to the Future stuff,” one aide says.
With the Police Federation announcing they’d lost confidence in home secretary Priti Patel over their pay freeze, Labour certainly spots an opening. Police rank and file officers, many of them not from wealthy backgrounds, are precisely the kind of voters the party needs too. “We’ve got to be the party of the police,” one insider says.
And in a pointed reference to Tory “culture war” attacks, they added: “We’ve got to be able to say at some point: if you want to ‘defund the police’, join the Tories.” Starmer’s own record as a former director of public prosecutions, cracking down on criminals and terrorists, will be highlighted too.
After Starmer and new shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, it will be shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds who will be the key figure at the party conference as aides try to create the political space for him to ram home messages such as being “pro-police and pro-police reform”.
“Being seen as the party of the police is a more important change than tackling anti-Semitism. Proving we are not a racist party is a basic hygiene issue. It’s like you need to brush your teeth to get the job, but you need to do a lot more than that to get hired,” one insider said.
Starmer’s own conference speech draft will be based on a series of notes, some on policy, some on the politics, some on his personal story. Further iterations will take place after his holiday and virtually every week until the big day in September in Brighton. “A lot of the way Keir works is he likes to internalise, to memorise an argument,” one aide says. “And this will be his biggest argument to date.”
Staff say that 18 months into the job, the main phrase the public associate with Starmer is “don’t know”. “That’s a problem but also an opportunity,” one says. “When you tell Keir’s story people warm to it. This idea he’s a posh lawyer, when in fact he comes from a humble background but he was knighted for fighting crime. If you were to put his biog next to Johnson’s, I do not doubt who you could most relate to.”
The summer campaign has been a way not just to meet voters but also to befriend and reassure regional media, spending time with them beyond the few minutes in front of a camera.
On a trip to Blackpool, he had fish and chips in downtime with local media at Harry Ramsden’s restaurant. On this week’s trip to Scotland, he had tea and cake with journalists for an hour in the rooftop Mackintosh cafe in Glasgow. “It’s about relationship building, letting people judge the real person,” one ally said. The South West is next week, then Wales later in the month.
Colleagues say that the Labour leader has his confidence back too since the Batley result. But while the summer is important, it’s the autumn that will be key. “The big tram lines for the general election are coming up: conference season, the ending of furlough, the autumn statement and spending review,” one insider says. At each point, Johnson will face the difficult choices that come with office.
Conference comes first, and Starmer allies have been buoyed by successes for centrists in delegate elections for local parties in recent weeks. In London, which makes up a huge 40% of the national membership, “moderates” have taken back control of key positions from the Left.
Unite’s new general secretary will be elected at the end of this month, and if Gerard Coyne wins, the Left will have lost its most potent power base, and biggest funding source, in the labour movement.
“If he’s got the majority of unions and a majority of delegates, it should be a pretty smooth conference,” one old hand says. With Starmer in control of the National Executive Committee and its Officers Group inner circle, it’s unlikely there will be no last-minute surprises. “That’s why it feels like it’s all going to come down to Keir’s performance,” the party figure adds.
That in itself will test his speaking skills as never before. The longest speech he made to a live conference was about five minutes as shadow Brexit secretary. This speech will be 45 minutes to an hour long.
For some insiders, the real problem with the party conference is the sheer time and energy taken up by debates which were significantly expanded under Jeremy Corbyn’s drive to make Labour a “member-led party”.
The leadership sees the week in Brighton as its first chance since the pandemic to lead the six o’clock news every night with positive coverage. But under party rules it has to deal with 24 motions (up from four when the party was in office) and multiple requests for constitutional changes. Debates on Palestine and trans rights could attract significant media attention.
There is chatter within the party of a rule change to cut the sheer number of motions currently required, creating more space for the 2022 “pre-general election” conference. That’s why some see this year’s conference as a companion to next year’s: 2021 is about the party showing it has changed, 2022 is about “these guys should be in government”, one party source says.
When Starmer spoke on the phone to Barack Obama last summer, the former US president told him his main lesson in politics was to “know your coalition” of voters. Mattinson has done a lot of work testing possible conference messages, and her main role is to identify what Labour’s coalition is going to look like at the next election, and the strategy for reaching them.
Senior party figures stress however just how formidable Boris Johnson is as an opponent. Some still have flashbacks about how Johnson was totally underestimated back in early 2008 ahead of his first London Mayoral contest with Ken Livingstone. The party started to depict him as a buffoon, then a racist, but neither worked.
Getting their party to understand why Johnson is liked by so many voters is a key task for some. “Our party thinks that every time he opens his mouth, he’s an idiot, he’s a liar. But actually that doesn’t work, it backfires because he presents himself as a flawed character. The public quite like that he sometimes falls. He can get stuck on a zip wire but he’s seen as a great sport,” one says.
Instead, they argue, Labour has to show that Johnson’s flaws have a direct impact on the public’s daily life: from parents having to home-school their children, to employees being forced into repeated isolation by the NHS app to pupils facing exam chaos. Johnson’s lack of competence and his empty promises on things like “levelling up” are seen as his real Achilles’ heel.
Johnson’s upbeat nature is also a real challenge, especially when some voters believed that Corybn’s Labour was relentlessly negative. By contrast, Starmer’s conference speech will be all about a better Britain. Insiders say that what struck them most campaigning in Hartlepool and elsewhere this year was that there was a thirst among voters for optimism. “We haven’t owned optimism for a very long time and if we don’t we’re in trouble.”
Party staffers say that Johnson has a talent for making Brexit sound exciting and bold, and for mining a sense among voters that the entire establishment told them the UK was going to fail and it hadn’t. By contrast, the leadership thinks many Labour MPs believe the country would be better off back in the EU. Gordon Brown recently said publicly what many think privately, that he would personally like to see the UK rejoin the union.
Brexit is undoubtedly one of the “culture war” issues Johnson loves to deploy against Starmer. Yet Starmer’s team were delighted that another such skirmish, over the whole topic of the England football team taking the knee, badly backfired on the PM and the Tories. “Johnson really, really wanted to pose for photos outside No.10 with that England team after the Euros, and there’s no way that’s going to happen now,” one Labour figure said.
Still, Labour are already preparing for next year’s May local elections to be used as a test bed for some more Tory culture warrior deployments. They expect that the first week of the campaign will see something like a report on “cancel culture” in universities, and in the last week there will be a confected row with Brussels to turn out Labour Leave voters.
“They want to take us from our grid to their grid. That happened to us over and over again in the local elections this year. The reason why we went on the attack on the sleaze stuff was because we had to just drag them onto our grid. It became less like a chess game and more like a knife fight. And we have to remember that.”
And Starmer’s own record on controversial topics is chequered to say the least. Senior staff still blanch when recalling how the leader waded into the row over Meghan Markle accusing some in the Royal Family of being racist.
On a conference call, some Labour staffers suggested Starmer had to “take a stand” because otherwise he would not be an ally of minority ethnic communities. In an interview, Starmer said “we’ll have to see how the institution reacts”, putting the Queen effectively in the dock.
Within days, following anger among Labour MPs, the line had changed and he said it was a matter for Buckingham Palace to resolve. “The whole incident just proved how inexperienced he is,” one MP said. “If you want to be PM, you never, ever comment on the Royal family.”
The Queen has just started her traditional August stay at Balmoral, and Boris Johnson is due to join her at some point. And for some senior Starmer allies, the importance of winning back seats in Scotland cannot be overstated.
“There is no route to winning a general election that doesn’t start with a strong recovery in Scotland,” one says. That’s why Starmer staged a two-day stay this week, challenging both the SNP and the Tories on green jobs, but also stressing he would never enter coalition with Nicola Sturgeon’s party.
“As long as the Tories are able to convincingly make an argument about Labour needing the SNP to govern, they will easily make the argument that ‘these are the people who hate your country, and Labour want to put them in charge’. It is the most effective culture war they could possibly have on us, over and above anything else.”
Aides say that although the Tories stumbled on the attack line late in the 2015 election campaign, it worked ruthlessly. In white working class areas like Croydon, the idea of Ed Miliband being in the pocket of Alex Salmond was “the biggest thing on the doorstep”, one says. Now, there is a lot more SNP material the Tories could use too.
That threat is why the election of Anas Sarwar as Labour leader in Scotland is seen by close Starmer aides as one of his biggest successes of the past year. Quietly engineering the departure of former leader Richard Leonard was designed to start the long-term process of winning back more Westminster seats to avoid relying on the SNP in a hung parliament.
It’s also why the party was delighted to have some media parity with Johnson as both leaders staged photo-calls this week (with the bonus of the PM blundering into a row over Margaret Thatcher closing coal mines).
The TV cameras were, however, barred and only a still photographer allowed, as Starmer’s team played five-a-side against Sarwar’s one night. Losing at the interval, “he gave us quite a robust team talk at half time”, one staffer confided. In the second half, Starmer scored personally and his team won 17-15.
The Labour leader’s parliamentary team are hoping that game of two halves is a metaphor for his own battle against Johnson. There is certainly more bite to Starmer’s tackling of the government these days. As both men head for their English holidays this summer, they’ll be trying to stay match fit for the packed autumn season that follows.


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I’m stressed. I’ve been going non-stop from dawn till…well…REALLY LATE. But I’m getting very close to having everything buttoned up for the Moto Photo Mexico Adventure to begin tomorrow morning.
One big item to check off the list was FINALLY publishing Ep4 in the series! In this video, Jason and I showcase all my camping and travel gear, as well as how I store it on the bike for these fun trips.
Tomorrow the adventure begins!!! See you in the next video…
Episode dos of the Moto Photo Mexico Adventure series is out! This one is all about the farkles and fittings that have helped transform Trinity, my Honda CB500X, into the perfect bike for this amazing trip!!! 🙂
Last week I swapped out the stock 15-tooth front drive sprocket on my Honda CB500X for a new 16-tooth replacement. The upgrade came at the recommendation of my good friend, fellow CB500X owner, and awesome riding partner, Scott. I couldn’t be happier!
Check out the video I made on the project. Discover the improvements I found it made to my machine. Follow along and learn how to do the upgrade on YOUR bike too. Click below to start the video…
The Charleston Photographers Lunch Group is a fun, friendly, casual group of fellow photographers who share a common passion and enjoy getting together to exchange ideas, talk about the latest toys and techniques, build community, and develop friendships with others of like mind and spirit.
We meet for lunch once a month, on different days of the week, at different restaurants all over town. Throughout the year, different members take turns volunteering to organize and host each month’s lunch.
This is not a formal “organization”. There are no crazy fees or silly rules. It’s just a bunch of friends getting together who happen to LOVE photography. We check our egos at the door and come prepared to share openly, encourage graciously, and connect positively with one another. The range of folks that attend are everywhere from Pulitzer Prize nominated photojournalists to part-timers and hobbyists.
Like most things in life, what you get out of the group is directly proportional to what you put into it. I hope you enjoy this video and find many lasting friendships within the group!
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I bought a cheap Chinese-manufactured exhaust off of eBay. IT WAS THE BEST $100 I’ve spent on my bike!
The slip-on exhaust muffler looks like a knock-off of a popular high-end Akrapovič brand. Akrapovič is a market-leading manufacturer of premium exhaust systems for motorcycles and performance cars. Their products were WAY out of my price range.
I had resigned my fate to keeping my OEM exhaust muffler…until I found this cheap clone. I knew there was a chance it could be a useless piece of junk. But for less than $100, I figured it was worth testing out. I was pleasantly surprised!
The product I purchased was this “CBR500 CB500X CB500F Slip on Mid Pipe Link Exhaust Muffler Pipe with DB Killer” from an eBay seller named mgod_motor: https://www.ebay.com/itm/123452619440.
Part of my decision to order from this seller was because, unlike others selling similar “look-alike” products from China, he is located in and distributes his items out of Kentucky! Thus, shipping was fast and free. Plus, there was no chance of the items getting held up in customs, or me having to pay a duty tax on them.
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Removal of the old, and installation of the new, was relatively simple. The hanging hardware on the new one was a bit tight. Luckily, my good friend, Mike, who is much more mechanically inclined than I am, helped me with the install. We got it all put together in about an hour, and were out riding with goofy grins on our faces shortly there-after.
I’ve made quite a few upgrades and additions to my Honda CB500X, especially with regards to carrying my camera gear to photo shoots. Now that I’ve been riding with the Ebay Exhaust for about a month, I can honestly say it was one of the best $100 I’ve spent on my bike! The deep, throaty growl has completely transformed this compact motorcycle’s personality. Yet at the same time, it’s not so loud that it’s offensive to my friends and neighbors.
Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending and photographing the Horizons Unlimited traveler’s meeting at Iron Horse Lodge near Robbinsville, North Carolina. This is an event that I look forward to with great anticipation every year!
I packed my trusty Honda CB500X with my camping kit, camera kit, and a few day’s supplies. On the ride up, I made a detour to Givi USA in Charlotte to have replacement engine guards installed when my originals developed a defective hairline crack. I stayed with my friend Jenn and her awesome family for the night. Jenn is a fellow TASOK student from our days growing up in Zaire. On the second leg of the trip, I took the scenic route down the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Iron Horse Lodge.
Horizons Unlimited was founded in the 80s by Susan and Grant Johnson during their RTW, or “Round The World” adventure. It’s a wonderful resource for overland travelers, especially those tackling grand trips on their motorcycles. But more importantly, it’s a fantastic gathering of kind, creative, and like-minded individuals who are full of life and passionate about this great planet we live on and the amazing people we share it with! Horizons Unlimited has gatherings all over the world. This particular one in North Carolina, hosted by Mike Kilpatrick, was celebrating it’s 15th Anniversary this year!
In addition to photographing the event, I also led a couple photography presentations. I always enjoy sharing my love for photography with others! Check out more details about the event at: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/events/north-carolina-2018. And check out the events page to see if there’s a meetup near you. Hopefully I’ll see you at one soon!!!
As always, it was a wonderful weekend. And I look forward to coming back next year. 🙂


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Park City’s Fourth: Any fireworks on the roads?
Park City officials want to learn how people moved about the city on Independence Day, essentially an effort to learn whether the crowds experienced any fireworks on the route to their destination.
City Hall sometimes posts nonscientific surveys after large events to gather information about the successes or failures of the logistical plans, such as the transportation blueprints. The survey results are used as the plans are crafted for the following year.
The Park City Police Department estimated the Fourth of July parade crowd at between 25,000 and 30,000, making the day one of the busiest of the summer. Park City’s parking and transportation plan for the day relied on outlaying parking lots, bus transportation and event pricing for parking in the Main Street core meant to discourage people from driving to the parade.
The survey questions delve into details about someone’s transportation choice as they headed to the parade and other celebrations on Wednesday.
One of the key questions inquires about the method someone used to get to the event. Answer options include driving alone, carpooling, taking a bus, walking, bicycling or being dropped off by a taxi or ride-sharing firm. City Hall wants to learn how many minutes it took someone to reach the celebration and where they left from as they headed to the event.
The survey wants to discover which activities attracted someone on Independence Day, such as the parade, the fireworks display, shopping or dining. It also requests information about whether someone changed their travel from the year before, such as by changing the time they left based on a desire to avoid the traffic. Travel times are also of interest to City Hall.
Another question, meanwhile, asks for a comparison between the transportation in 2017 and 2018. Multiple-choice answers include “Much better (traffic was much more manageable),” the same and “Much worse (traffic was much less manageable.)”
The survey covers parking as well, with one question asking where someone parked. The 13 answer options range from locations just off Main Street like the China Bridge garage to outlying lots like those at schools, Deer Valley Resort and Park City Mountain Resort.
The survey is posted on the municipal website, http://www.parkcity.org. Select “Take our 4th of July Transportation Survey” under the Latest News section on the front page.
The survey is scheduled to end on July 11.
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So, we totes have been lovin' Ariana Grande's brunette hair lately, but turns out she's going back to being a redhead tomorrow!
She tweeted: "Gonna be a redhead again on Tuesday. Can't wait to start shooting Sam & Cat at the end of the month" along with the pic above.
So, now we learned TWO new things about Ari: her soon to be new hair makeover and that she'll be filming in these last weeks of Jan.!
OMG -- we're so excited to see Ariana and Jennette McCurdy's new show -- and her red hair!
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NASHVILLE (Feb. 6, 2020) – Nashville Soccer Club announced today that due to high demand the club has opened up the 300 level sections at Nissan Stadium for the club’s inaugural match in Major League Soccer against Atlanta United FC on Feb. 29, presented by Renasant Bank. Single game and group ticket options for the 300 level are now available for purchase by visiting NashvilleSC.com/Tickets or calling 615-750-8800.
“Surpassing the 30,000 tickets sold already represents the largest crowd in Nashville SC’s short history in professional soccer,” said Nashville SC CEO Ian Ayre. “We want to keep the momentum going and show everyone here in Nashville and around the world that Nashville SC has arrived in the Major League, with a historic attendance. It’s the hottest ticket in town and we are promising to put on a world class show and a night to remember. Everyone should want to play their part in this historic night for Nashville. Everyone N”
In anticipation of Nashville SC’s historic moment in North American sports on Feb. 29, the club will host a series of fan engagement and community events during its MLS Kickoff Week and leading into the opening match against Atlanta. Fans will have an opportunity to participate in multiple activities, which will include a ticket to the opening match. Details about these activities and how to participate can be found by visiting NashvilleSC.com/kickoff .
Fans can make sure they are part of Nashville SC’s historic inaugural season in Major League Soccer at the best price by purchasing Season Ticket Memberships starting at just $25 per game. Everyone “N” begins on Feb. 29, visit NashvilleSC.com/Tickets or call 615-750-8800 to secure your seats.
It doesn’t come as a surprise (My understanding a few weeks ago over 13,000 season tickets sold – and it’s likely continued to grow since then – so anything greater than basically zero walk-up sales would easily hit 15k/game, and there’s still a month to move season tickets in a town that’s highly day-of-game sales oriented).


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Most of us know about Hannibal and his elephants. But what about Hamilcar, his father? He, too, was a great military leader and led battles for Carthage against Rome. Those two cities fought it out quite a lot over the years (and we know that Rome eventually prevailed). Soon, you’ll be able to bring those battles to your tabletops. That’s because Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage and Hamilcar, two games in one box, are up on Kickstarter now.
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Hannibal: Rome vs. Carthage is one of the best two-player games ever published. The game is renowned for its tense, well-balanced mechanics. And it tells a great story. HANNIBAL crossing the Alps on his herd of elephants is one of the most memorable events in history.
The development team at PHALANX has given this game a careful, meticulous update. It is now easier and faster to play. It plays considerably shorter. It has received new, stunning art. It is even better than it used to be.
There is even another game in the box: HAMILCAR, which portrays the events of the First Punic War.
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Somewhat Irreverent Guide to Offbeat and Typical Mental Disorders
As the title might suggest, this book is meant to be a lighthearted guide to some typical and rare mental disorders. I know; that seems like a strange concept. The author does address this in the introduction, where he states that he knows that mental disorders are a serious subject. He has written some other somewhat humorous books on difficult topics, like diseases and deviant behavior. When you actually start to read about the various syndromes within the book, over half of each disorder is actually quite serious. The causality and the treatment sections actually seem like solidly researched information about the actual disorder. It’s only in the first parts of the section—namely the quiz, inner monologue, and diagnosis sections—that humor seems to reign. I actually found this combination of slightly silly parts and on-point parts along with sometimes rather bizarre cartoons to make for a fascinating read. I am an RN and have some experience dealing with mental disorders, so that may be why I found this to be a book I couldn’t stop flipping through.

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TRAVEL company Thomas Cook has agreed to stop promoting SeaWorld online after months of protests.
Animal rights group PETA’s campaign for the company to stop advertising included 22,000 emails from supporters.
But PETA is calling for more action from Thomas Cook, urging them to stop sales to the SeaWorld marine park entirely.
The animal rights group disagrees with SeaWorld’s treatment of orcas and other animals.
The park faced accusations of cruelty last August after an ex-trainer made allegations against it over the way whales are treated after one called Kasatka had to be put down.
Her former trainer, John Hargrove, left the marine park in 2012 after 14 years caring for the whales and became a whistleblower.
He told the Mail On Sunday: "What continues to go on in parks like SeaWorld is an abomination.
"They claim captive orcas help educate people, and for years I bought into it. But Kasatka lived in misery, in barbaric and horrific conditions, and died in agony."
Hargrove wrote a best-selling book on his experience at SeaWorld and was a central figure in the award-winning documentary Blackfish.
The 2013 film detailed the suffering of the animals at the marine park and caused the company's shares and tickets sales to plummet.
In a statement at the time, the theme park said: "Although this will be the last opportunity for SeaWorld guests to see a baby killer whale up close as it grows and matures, SeaWorld will continue to care for the orcas at its parks for decades to come."
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A rep for Thomas Cook told Sun Online Travel: “We have taken steps to remove promotional content for all animal excursions, in line with our animal welfare policy.
"This includes adverts, social media promotional campaigns and blog content across our websites and social media channels.”
A SeaWorld spokesperson said: "SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment remains committed to operating at the highest animal welfare standards and tickets to our parks continue to be sold by Thomas Cook.
"All of our SeaWorld parks are accredited and certified by several of the world’s foremost zoological bodies including the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), the Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks & Aquariums (AMMPA) and the American Humane Association."