The relationship between medikal and sister Derby was called off almost a year ago and the two have not been in Good terms ever since.
A video we have spotted has medikal disclosing that sister Derby still loves him because of how he treated her.
Medikal in the interviewed revealed his is mr. lover boy and that he is so romantic even his ex can never hate him.
“I have respect for women that’s why they love me. That’s why my ex still loves me and my girlfriend Fell (Fella) Makafui loves me,” Medikal revealed “You can never hate on me for anything because I will never do anything against you. I will show you love and I am a very romantic guy”, he added.
Watch the full Interview below.; The portion where he spoke about sister Derby is around the 9th minute.


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hi! everyone and their mother just announced shows at the music hall of williamsburg! check it out. also, is anyone keeping up with the wiley and stormzy beef? I’m missing a lot of context, but this is getting very exciting. especially now that NME thinks that black midi have joined in.
this week kind of felt like forever, so much going on, like the aforementioned beef, justin bieber’s desperate ploy to be #1, roddy ricch effortlessly stealing the top spot with the infectious “the box”, meghan and harry “stepping back” from their roles as royals, john boyega trolling his trolls, janelle monáe coming out as non-binary and my god so much more.
also in the news is the Australian bush fires, which artists have continued to step up and raise money for. a few weeks ago I published a few of the efforts that have cropped up, and this week I’m going to consolidate it into one section for those who are interested in donating.
upcoming shows 🎟
1/16 | Flexi / ATM (members of BODEGA) / Pure Adult @ The Broadway ~ 21+
1/17 | Drug Bug, Lobby Boy, Scorpio, Zack. @ Jones Beach Bar
1/18 | The Wants, Grim Streaker, ESSi @ Alphaville ~ 21+
1/18 | Witch Slap, Bad Kiss, MEAL, Venus Twins @ Our Wicked Lady ~ 21+
1/18 | Palberta @ Sugarlife Lounge
I honestly don’t know where this is. maybe msg the band? one of the last shows for a while for Palberta
1/19 | Haybaby, Sharkmuffin, Darkwing, Smock, Shadow Monster, Gawn, Lackadazies @ Our Wicked Lady ~ 21+
1/23 | Gustaf, Yaasss, Corbu, GESSERIT, Avishag Cohen Rodrigues @ Rubulad
1/24 | Frank and The Hurricanes, Palberta, Greem Jellyfish, Grout, Sweet Baby Jesus, Poncili Creacion, Knife Wife @ Rubulad ~ cancel your plans and attend, seriously
2/5 | Ghost King (Single Release Party) + Ghost Funk Orchestra + Lushwork @ The Sultan Room ~ 21+
3/14 | Post Animal @ Music Hall of Williamsburg ~ 18+
4/9 | Tropical Fuck Storm @ Music Hall of Williamsburg ~ 18+
4/10 | Disq w/ Pom Pom Squad @ Rough Trade ~ 18+
4/23 | Amyl and the Sniffers @ Music Hall of Williamsburg ~ 18+
in my queue🎶
These two songs are insanely catchy, and I didn’t realize it until now but their cover art is very similar? I don’t mean to group songs by color, it just happens.
what i’ve read 📖
Been reading back on all the 2019/decade in review lists and I am very interested in the ones that talk about how dumb they are (because no one consumes anything like that) but I’m also really glad that I waited to read all of it. when they were all coming out I was getting pretty overwhelmed: there was so much to read! so little time before the new year!
Oh side note, I also read this absolutely hilarious piece on Mura Masa’s new album, which is the literal definition of a pan (how many variations on the word poop can you count?). do I agree? dunno. is it still fun to read? yes.
So anyways I took practically a whole day to do some catch up as well as revisit articles I had bookmarked for later reading, here are some of my fav reads:
Drake’s Troubling Reunion With Chris Brown ~ by Hannah Giorgis
wow, gorgeous. also, in the #MeToo era how has it taken so long for us to denounce Drake? this man regularly does weird things with underage girls, and his relationship with chris brown leaves a sour taste in my mouth. leave both of them behind, i’m begging
“But the media’s broader inability—or lack of desire—to convey the fact that men with Drake’s sensibility are capable of harm is dangerous. It obscures the multiple ways that gendered transgressions can occur, as well as the ease with which fans continue to support the powerful men accused of them.”
keywords: “nice guy”, cringe, “But the project’s musical vacuity is matched only by the curious obscenity of its existence” (cheating cuz its a quote, but wow)
The Art of the Pan: What’s the Point of a Bad Review in 2019? ~ by Rob Harvilla
what a fun read! we’re all little critics, whether or not we get paid for it, and this article addresses why we critique (cuz in part its fun), what is worthy of critique, who is worthy of critique, and how critique is received in the digital age.
“Reviews aren’t necessarily meaner now, nor are there necessarily more of them, but the social-media outrage that necessarily follows a righteous takedown might convince you otherwise. Is the critical conversation meaner now? Possibly. Is it louder now? Undoubtedly.”
keywords: “universal praise” (whose praise?), invective, gonzo hostility
A Requiem For Hot Topic ~ by John Paul Brammer
Very much thinking about how this relates to Kim Pelly’s idea of “frictionless” music experiences, and how we lose some special when we lose the desire to be challenged, to move outside our comfort zones. why has technology conditioned us to be incurious? is this something we naturally seek out, or something that we are told that we want?
“I feel this stream, this optimized river of information—Twitter, Facebook, Venmo, Apple Credit, the algorithm—is slowly sanding away my edges and smoothing me out.
“So we grew up, and we grew in: into the way things are, into a late capitalist nightmare world where we feel lonely and sad and clean, everything shiny, everything smooth, everything hurtling frictionlessly into oblivion.”
last week I talked about the “death” of subculture and genre. this article addresses the back end of songwriting and hints at why genre as we know it has collapsed. also just in general an interesting read if you’ve ever been into the craft of songwriting
“In many respects, what people are looking for now is the weirdest stuff,” Kohn says. There’s no longer as much of a formula to scoring a mainstream pop hit as there might have been 10 years ago – and comparing the artists who went to No 1 this year shows a massive disparity in styles, from Lewis Capaldi to Lil Nas X to Billie Eilish. “Eilish is a brilliant example,” says Kohn. “If something just sounds like completely straight pop, its sound doesn’t go anywhere. In a way, there’s more pressure to be experimental.”
keywords: skip rates, TikTok, songwriting
At the End of the End of the Decade Lists ~ by Marty Sartini Garner
Is it just me, or does the Outline consistently attract amazing writers? I really loved this piece, because it interrogates what our role as critics should be. Also, I’ve been reading Dan Ozzi’s newsletter (Reply Alt), and his last few issues have spoken about the retrospective reviews that Pitchfork does on albums they critically panned when they were released, but liked/appreciated more later. I often feel the impulse to consume consume consume, but never reflect in order to actually keep up with the pace of information. I’m hoping to do less of this in the New Year/Decade, if only because music/writing deserves my time and consideration in order for me to develop a full understanding/relationship with it. Sometimes I want to sit with an album for a few weeks, rather than give my take on it right away (and other times, I’d rather say nothing because the personal value it has to me may differ from a more critical one). This is an aside, but maybe that’s why we (read: zoomers) are drawn to more analog formats of music, because a record requires that you pay attention and listen in order to flip it, while I can click play on my Spotify and just have an endless stream of music that doesn’t really mean much to me (please read Cherie Hu’s piece on the celestial jukebox).
“Almost no publication, regardless of its previously established editorial voice, seems capable of resisting the temptation to participate in the continued hyping of event releases — at least, not if they want to be able to pay the editors, writers, and photographers that keep them going anything like a decent wage.”
Nobody actually listens to music this way, preoccupied with how the current album rates relative to the other albums you happen to have listened to recently; why suddenly adopt this posture just because the decade is ending? The critical stance we’ve inherited demands that writers function as an all-seeing eye that stands outside of the world, taking it all in. Shouldn’t a criticism informed by poptimism and set loose on the internet be more curious and receptive, prone to wandering and comfortable with changing the subject?”
keywords: poptimism, authenticity, canon-building, Overton window
special mention(s): 8tracks shut down right before the new year, and Cherie Hu wrote a great post that broke down why. if you liked my newsletter on apolitical bands, then consider reading this The Quietus piece by Ben Cardew on Rosalia, her music, and her position in the fraught political divisions between Spain and Catalan. Also part of a continuing conversation is the lack of support for artists, with another insightful piece on rapper Juice WRLD by Craig Jenkins (check out this Popcast episode for more too)
If you want more readings, take a look at this overview of what happened in music journalism in 2019 for some choice picks (I actually got put onto this by the Music Journalism Insider newsletter by Todd L. Burns, which I read religiously).
Rolling Stone just released an article with music business predictions, most of which I glanced over. One prediction I’m most interested in is that “artist-fan relationship will see drastic changes” — I already know bands that are using Patreon to fund/support themselves, and I’m interested in seeing how this will evolve as it becomes harder and harder to make money in music.
One last recc! Here is a list of music moments from 2019 by Jeremy D. Larson, a read that is both fun and a good recap for a hectic year.
australian bush fires 🐨
in no particular order:
Good Morning are playing a benefit show where 100% of all the proceeds are going to Rural Fire Service, CFA, WIRES, and The Fire Relief Fund for First Nations Communities. they will also be donating all the money from their bandcamp store to the same places.
Dr Sure's Unusual Practice have a mini concept album, written from the perspective of PM Scott Morrison (whose response to the fire crisis has been widely critiqued). All proceeds go to the Rural Fire Service.
Mall Grab has released a four-track EP called “Don't Keep The Fire Burning”, and all proceeds with go to RSPCA's Bushfire appeal and The NSW Rural Fire Service.
Twin Peaks have announced that they will be launching fundraisers to combat the bushfires.
The Nude Party have announced that they will be playing a benefit show in the Catskills on 2/1. The ten dollar cover will go towards WIRES Wildlife Rescue.
Alright, let’s talk about Coachella, if only to talk about the bigger issue of monopolies in the music industry. I’m inspired to write about this in part by mannequin pussy’s tweet regarding the decision to play at Coachella. they aren’t the first to bring up their distaste for AEG’s founder Philip Anschutz, who has donated to anti-LGBT groups in the past (Downtown Boys notably penned an open letter after performing at Coachella).
Hopefully, by the end of this section, we can come to the conclusion on whether or not there even was a choice, to begin with. for those who don’t know, small independent venues are having a tough go of it. not just in the US but worldwide (the UK has some truly fascinating data to track the success of live music venues). big companies like AEG and Live Nation tho, the two companies with the largest control over venues, are doing pretty well and even expanding.
while they dabble in almost all parts of the music industry (with Live Nation being the reason we have to deal with Ticketmaster), AEG and Live Nation are well known for (1) owning an astonishing number of venues in the US and (2) putting on some of the world’s biggest festivals. AEG actually puts on Coachella, which is very important for this discussion.
“AEG controls all of the larger and high-quality venues in major markets in the U.S., as well as many important venues worldwide, making it difficult for an artist to refuse one event at an AEG venue and then hope to perform at another event in the future. AEG Presents is also the second-biggest promoter in the world. Speaking out against Coachella could mean losing opportunities to perform at one of the company’s other festivals, such as Camp Flog Gnaw or Firefly.” - Ella Boyd, The downbeat: The price and politics of the free-spirited Coachella
Besides swallowing the fact that the owner of Coachella is a bigot, artists also have to agree to a radius clause, which means that if they agree to a festival they also have to agree to not play a show in the same area (defined by x miles) for x amount of time. It’s industry-standard but makes it hard for artists who travel far to capitalize on their journey by playing multiple shows. It can also hurt independent promoters and venues:
“Such consolidation makes it possible for talent buyers to offer artists multiple festival dates over the course of the touring season, effectively buying out talent and, in some cases, making it nearly impossible for other promoters to book them. Last year, for example, LCD Soundsystem announced a reunion tour that included headlining sets at Coachella, FYF and Panorama, all festivals operated by AEG Live/Goldenvoice. The band later added shows at Pomona's Fox Theater and Colorado's AEG-operated Red Rocks Amphitheatre, effectively announcing their initial tour dates via a single promoter.”
“Radius clauses hurt all independent promoters and in the end the artist, because instead of marketing their name, they are co-branding on a festival,” says Mitchell Frank, president of Spaceland Presents, which has been doing shows in L.A. since 1995. Frank says his company, which runs the Echo, Echoplex and Regent Theater, has lost hundreds of bookings because of festival radius clauses.” - Katie Bain, How The Music Industry Uses a Pervasive Secret Weapon to Keep Bands from Freely Touring
So, if Coachella is so horrible, why attend? Mannequin Pussy effectively answer this in their twitter post, but for more:
“Coachella is just one of the company’s hit properties, which also include the southern mammoth Firefly, Tyler The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, and the legendary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. As an artist, speaking out against just one festival could ensure that you couldn’t get booked at any of the others, or worse, at any of the company’s venues across the world.” - Myles Tanzer, Boycotting Coachella's Problematic Owner Is More Complicated Than It Seems
Okay so we’ve been talking about AEG for most of this section, which is fine but I also want to give Live Nation the attention it deserves. Like I mentioned before, Live Nation is sort of the reason why we have to put up with TicketMaster (AEG runs the AXS ticketing service). Below is an excerpt from a deep dive of Live Nation’s business model, from around the time that Eventbrite was going public.
“Live Nation, under the consent decree, is allowed to bundle its services together in any combination; but, it's not allowed to punish any potential ticket services customer who may not choose Ticketmaster as their ticketing services company, which is, again, a huge part of Live Nation's profit driver. If an arena or a venue doesn't choose Live Nation for their ticketing services, they can't punish them by not driving artists to those venues and those sorts of things. There have been some accusations earlier this year, I believe it was March, The New York Times had a report out saying that some of live nation's biggest competitors had alleged that Live Nation was, in fact, doing that. If a venue did not choose to use Ticketmaster for their ticketing services, then Live Nation would divert artists away from those venues, and deprive them of the big events that Live Nation drives.” - Nick Sciple, How Live Nation Dominates Big Concerts
This article is a little outdated: The Justice Department did allege that Live Nation was violating an antitrust consent-decree from its merger with Ticketmaster (which happened ten years ago). Essentially, to merge, Live Nation had to agree to not forcing venues to use Ticketmaster. As of Dec. 19, The Justice Department has moved to amend and extend this consent-decree in order to promote competition (this admittedly is pushing my area of expertise, so read below)
“Nightclubs, theaters, arenas and stadiums typically enter long-term contracts that give a ticketing provider the exclusive right to sell tickets to any event they host. Those ticketing contracts usually last three to five years. The government said a 5½-year extension of the consent decree would ensure that at least one full cycle of most venue ticketing contracts would be free from Live Nation’s “coercive tactics and give true competition a chance to take hold.” - Anne Steele and Brent Kendall, Justice Department Details Alleged Live Nation Consent-Decree Violations
so TLDR: independent artists, promoters, and venues that decide to go against AEG or Live Nation risk being essentially blocked out of the live music industry. so can you really blame them when they (begrudgingly or otherwise) “decide” to go along with these two behemoths? Is there really even a choice, and even if there is a slim one, as both companies continue to expand, will there be any choice left in the future?
tweets i loved 🐦
if you read anything in this newsletter, read this. i came across so many tweets that I wanted to share, so I pulled them all into one section:
robert doing things @pattinsonthingsrobert pattinson with a really big mustache https://t.co/czgBuy9Bsz
What’s your favorite post-show snack?
I already said it in a previous newsletter, but mine alternates between tacos, ice-cream, or chocolate. It also depends on which venue I’m at. Don’t you wish there was an easy list of tried-and-true places to eat nearby a venue that are actually open after the show? Shout out The Broadway for having a taco spot in the venue, I apologize for being absent-minded and almost taking off with my tacos before paying (i did pay tho).
concluding remarks ⌛
This one was kinda a beast! thanks to all who managed to read through all of it. I shouted out a lot of newsletters/writers that I follow, and I’m thinking of compiling a straight forward list for that. I’m also trying to figure out the best way to display all of the shows that are happening in a given week (a calendar, a separate email?). for now, you can expect this newsletter to return to a regular schedule, with new releases on Wednesday. If you like it, please share it! If you don’t have any friends, then click reply on this email and join the conversation.
I also wanted to take a moment to say that if newsletter/readings ever feel overwhelming, please just archive it. I can relate to the particular mounting frustration that comes with constant bombardment, and I never want this newsletter to feel like that. Enjoy it when you can, or don’t at all! I also reached the email length limit for this edition, so I wouldn’t blame you if you clicked skip lol


Rumors that Nokia the Finnish smartphone maker may be returning to the mobile phone market with Android smartphone refuses to die. Nokia recently saw the D1C after passing through Antutu , the portal's most important benchmarks of this world. What allowed us to meet some of the basic specifications of the device.
Thanks to Antutu we could know that the Nokia D1C come with a Full HD 1080p display. The heart of this terminal will be an Octa-core processor, namely a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 MSM8937 processor that will come accompanied by Adreno 505 GPU and 3GB of RAM. The terminal has 32 GB of internal storage and runs Android 7.0 as operating system Nougat. A level photographs have a main rear camera of 13 MP and 8 MP front camera for selfies.
As we mentioned the leaks about the future Android smartphone and Nokia not stop today, we have known a set of new images that show us how would this Nokia D1C. Filtered images correspond to the Nokia D1C renderings. But they help us to know what will be the design and construction of the device.
The renderings show the terminal in three colors. White, Black and Gold The images do not have too much resolution ... despite all can see the button physical navigation at the bottom of the front screen and camera with LED flash on the rear panel. The side images reveal the location of the power and volume buttons along with the SIM tray.
Filtration suggests that the issue would have gold colored fingerprint sensor, while the black and white issues not arrive with this sensor. According to the rumor, the Nokia D1C could be released sometime next year, but so far no specific date.
In general, the design of Nokia D1C seems similar to previous devices Lumia range. As always we usually say precabidos with rumors thirst. As we know more details of this smartphone will let you know. Meanwhile stay tuned to Red Planet and will keep you informed.


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I finished weaving my latest band on my mini rigid heddle loom. I like this loom from Hard Maple Looms, because it fits nicely on my lap and it's perfect for my little Stoorstalka heddle.
My bands are a more consistent width. I guess lots of practice really helps!
Tollway Tatters met today, and we had a wonderful time! Denise had us in stitches, and Mary joined us for the first time.
Sue Anna worked on a pair of earrings designed by our friend Marilee Rockley. Unfortunately, I did not remember to take pictures of any projects. I barely remembered to take pictures of everyone!
Sue was able to join us this time. I think she has the longest drive, coming all the way from Michigan.
Barbara and Ana drove in from Wisconsin.
My project of the day was a Tudor Rose Ice Drop with red, white, and gold.
I think it turned out pretty good!

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Two shot dead ahead of major rallies in Karachi
Two persons were shot dead in Karachi on Saturday raising fears of violence in the city during major rallies by Pakistan's suspended Chief Justice Iftikar M Chaudhry and the Muttahida Quami Movement, a coalition partner in President Pervez Musharraf's government.
City police chief Azhar Farooqi confirmed that one person belonging to the Muslim League Nawaz group was killed in Malir and another in Shah Faisal colony late Friday night.
"The police has been told to remain on high alert and we are trying to locate the killers of these two people," Farooqi said.
While one person was killed when he was putting up banners in favour of the Chief Justice, another was a shopkeeper who refused to pull down his shutters on the instructions of some unidentified people, police sources said.
This largest Pakistani city remains tense and deserted as most of the major road arteries were blocked by trucks and wagons whose tyres had been deflated.
Since late Friday night police had closed down the main Shahrah-e-Faisal road badly disrupting the traffic flow and affecting passengers intending to travel to the airport and those arriving on domestic and international flights.
DIG Traffic Falak Khursheed said Shahrah-e-Faisal had to be blocked as the MQM had started taking out rallies since late night.
Another scorching heat wave is set to hit northwest and central Europe this week, putting further pressure on the continent's strained power infrastructure. Sizzling temperatures are expected to hit the UK, Germany and France -- reaching almost 36 degrees Celsius (96.8 Fahrenheit) on Friday -- according to Maxar Technologies LLC. The heat will boost demand for cooling, aggravating already dry conditions that hurt crops and force limits on water use.
Sri Lanka has allowed permission to the Chinese built-Pakistani guided missile frigate PNS Taimur to make a port call at Colombo while on its way to join the Pakistan Navy in Karachi.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the shelling of Europe's largest atomic plant at the weekend. "Any attack (on) a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing," Guterres told a news conference in Japan, where he attended the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony on Saturday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.
After the White House gave initial approval and then settled the final details with senators, that became the version that was shepherded into law. The president next tried to strike a deal on a social spending and climate package with Sen. Joe Manchin, going as far as inviting the West Virginia lawmaker to his home in Wilmington, Delaware, until the conservative Democrat abruptly pulled the plug on the talks in a Fox News interview.
Air traffic around Taiwan is gradually returning to normal after airspace surrounding the island reopened, Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications said on Monday, although China later announced fresh military drills in the area. China last week deployed scores of planes and fired live missiles near during military exercises sparked by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.


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“As Warren Buffett says, the market climbs a wall of worry. And that worry that is out there continues to create opportunity,” Hobson says.
“I don't equivocate on this: Firms that are not paying attention to this are committing corporate suicide,” says Hobson, referring to diversity. “It may not be fast, but at some point, it will come if you don't pay attention to this.”
“I respect the office of President no matter what,” Mellody Hobson says. “But I'm disappointed in how our current president articulates his points of view.
In a newly released interview, former Cisco CEO John Chambers said his “good friends” in Silicon Valley have praised Donald Trump for confronting the issue of trade with China, but Chambers lightly criticized the execution of the strategy.
In a newly released interview, Chambers said the “government will regulate and antitrust will come,” unless the tech giants in and around Silicon Valley change how they do business.
“Every city has the commercials for the ‘Get rich quick’ and ‘Come learn how to make your millions in real estate,’” Drew Scott told Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer.
The Property Brothers offer simple real estate investment advice for the moment a market downturn approaches: Find the sweet spot between panic and patience.
Property Brothers explain where to invest in real estate, and why Las Vegas and Nashville are at the top of their list.
On Wednesday, U.S. Senators are questioning officials from those three companies at a hearing on extremism online — the latest in a string of inquiries on Capitol Hill that focuses on Big Tech.
President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that the U.S. was “locked and loaded” in response to an attack on major Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
“It's never going to be perfect but at scale it is a remarkable achievement,” says John DeVine, Vice President of Global Operations.
In an exclusive interview at Facebook’s Menlo Park headquarters with the three executives who oversee content at Facebook, the company responded to its detractors.
In an exclusive interview, top Facebook executives said the company has made progress addressing false posts but still struggles to identify them.
"That little thing is broken, and it could really use some fixing, it is inevitably measured in hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Facebook co-founder Chris Huges have led the call to break up tech giants Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. But one tech venture capitalist says their approach doesn’t go far enough.
In a newly released interview, one top tech venture capitalist said Trump’s leadership has begun to hurt American companies.
In a newly released interview, Ross called Equinox “a great brand” and described why the company has pursued a growth strategy in the hotel and workout-from-home sectors.
In a newly released interview, real estate magnate Stephen Ross defends President Donald Trump as a “strong leader” who is “not a crazy conservative.”
In a new interview, restaurateur and Shake Shack (SHAK) founder Danny Meyer said automation has transformed the company’s stores.
Former Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala, whose team did not visit Trump after either of two championships won during his presidency, explained why the decision to do so is “quite simple.”
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who has received criticism for the rate of entry-level pay at his bank, said in a new interview he backs a minimum wage hike.
In a new interview, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon fired back at progressive firebrands Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, acknowledging the popularity of their economic populism but dismissing it as misguided.
Jamie Dimon, who has criticized Donald Trump in the past, has been won over by the president when it comes to economic policies like corporate tax cuts and deregulation.
Billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been mulling a 2020 presidential bid for months. If he does jump into the race, he can count on support from an NBA star in the crucial swing state of Ohio.

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Eagles of Death Metal is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, formed in 1998 by Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme. Despite their band name, Eagles of Death Metal is not a death metal band. Hughes stated that a friend was introducing Josh Homme to the death metal genre. When he played a song by the Polish band Vader and made a claim that the song was within the death metal genre, Homme then referred to Vader as "The Eagles of Death Metal". After hearing this phrase, he wondered what a cross between the Eagles and a death metal band would sound like. In a 2003 interview Homme described the sound of the band as a combination of "bluegrass slide guitar mixed with stripper drum beats and Canned Heat vocals." Jesse Hughes is known by fans for his enthusiastic interaction with audiences at live performances.
Eagles of Death Metal formed in Palm Desert, California in 1998 and first appeared on Josh Homme's The Desert Sessions Volumes 3 & 4, released that year. Over the next few years, Homme became distracted from the band due to the success of Queens of the Stone Age. However, in an October 2008 interview, he reaffirmed his commitment to the band saying, "This isn't a side project for me. I'm in two bands. I have musical schizophrenia, and this is one of those personalities. In brief they are amazing"Wide ThumbClearartFanartBanner User Comments


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The world itself is witness to how ideas have changed people for the better or for the worse. What are ideas meant to do? Most ideas are designed to be infallible so a bunch of people can believe without doubt. In most cases those who fall in any idea are your gullible type characters that never really read between the lines. People are swayed by ideas because they want to cling on something that gives them some sense of hope. Hope is nice.
What is the sense behind believing in an idea that you only hear about? Just because someone said it’s a good idea that will redeem us, we all rush to it. Two hours later a new one comes into the picture and we still rush into it. Two days later a new one then some trips into it and worships it as the best idea ever. Five days later another new one and it all goes on like that till the whole world is so full of ideas that they keep crushing into each other.
Most ideas sprung out of one idea either to oppose that original idea, accentuate that idea or just add one little component to change the original idea all together. Others believe the ideas they embrace are better than others. Now everybody wants to recruit everybody to become fellowship of ideas. Those who follow no idea are termed too anti-something, too negative, lost or just plain ignorant.
I start wondering which a good idea is and which a bad one is. One of the biggest ideas to ever rule the world is an idea of religion. Which religion is a best idea? I know everyone would reason differently. Christians would reason differently to Rastafarians. Someone must believe theirs are better than others, it seems. All “isms” must oppose each other in one way or the other. People must die everyday because some politicians believe in the idea of war more than in the idea of peace. A lot of people had to die in South Africa because of an idea of apartheid opposing an idea of democracy, and so forth.
The way ideas are so contagious, if I was a public figure loved by people. Then one day I decide that people should embrace their birth right and I say; let’s all become extreme nudists and walk about the public naked, maybe the rate of rape will decrease. I’m sure one or two people would say “Oh! So and so did it, why can’t I do it.”
In most cases people who defend ideas are those who follow them but not those who created them. The innovators can only go to a certain level to make people believe in an idea. People don’t have to ask so many questions, people only want to feel good and happy about it and that’s all it takes, you got them. Then swifter than a disease an idea spread all over the place.
I suppose this clearly distinguishes how different we are as a human race. This clearly states that we could never be the same irrespective of how hard we try. I’m just asking simple questions; does this mean this is how the world should be? Does it mean the world needs love
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Philadelphia Couples Photographer | Penn’s Landing | Sheila + Chris
I got to be let in on one of the most romantic dates ever. Chris contacted me a few weeks ago and wanted me to get some candids of Himself and his girlfriend, Sheila, going on a date as a complete surprise to her. Chris’ idea was ice skating and I loved it.
It was the morning of New Year’s Eve and I got to the River Rink at Penn’s Landing to scope out a great spot to be able to photograph them without being noticed. I sweet talked some of the people setting up fireworks to let me slip into their area for a better view.
I had been texting with Chris to get an idea for what they were wearing so that I could spot them coming. I saw them and Sheila was looking absolutely jubilant the entire time. She was practically skipping across the parking lot on the way to the rink.
I had been assured ahead of time that they were “mushy” and didn’t mind a little PDA. Score!
Chris revealed what was going on and we spent some time on that chilly morning getting some closer pictures of the two of them along the water.
What a great time. It was so much fun being a photo ninja and capturing completely personal moments of these two. Chris, thanks so much for including me in your plan. Sheila, you’ve got a great one!
“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”~ C. S. Lewis


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Vietnam: New Constitution Offers Little Hope for Change
Vietnam’s National Assembly last week ratified a new constitution, but there is little cause for celebration because the political system that permitted the constitutional abuses remains unchanged.
That is a disappointment. The government solicited comments from the public, reportedly receiving millions of responses demanding change. The lawmakers ignored a petition from 72 scholars and intellectuals to the Constitutional Amendment Drafting Committee, leaving flagging, bloated and unprofitable state-owned enterprises in place and ignoring calls for liberalization that would allow for foreign investment, which would bring rationality to the economy. Instead, the socialist-oriented market economy remains in place.
It is thus widely believed that the new constitution, which takes effect Jan. 1, represents equivocation and delay rather than euphoria for a new age. There appear to be few changes in either economics or politics, but it will serve the Communist Party of Vietnam well. Unfortunately there is little hope that it would ensure stable and sustainable growth for the country’s long-term future. Observers have followed the development of the document with trepidation rather than hope.
The basic question involving the new constitution is how to deal with the infamous Article 4, which continues to insist that paramount power remains with the Communist Party. That has incurred criticism that the party is incapable of launching comprehensive reforms. The document, which will take effect on Jan. 1, was approved by 97.59 percent of the 488 lawmakers in the National Assembly.
Although the party’s loss of credibility appears irreparable, there is no sign of an emerging revolutionary movement among the wider population. The reasons for this are understandable. There is concern that the party has learned the brutal lesson of Tiananmen in 1989, when the Chinese government crushed a student movement with hundreds of deaths, and that widespread protest would be similarly crushed. Others argue that the only way out should be peaceful means because nobody wishes to experience state failure and civil chaos.
Recently, human rights issues suffered a major setback when anti-Chinese demonstrations in June were shut down decisively by police, who hauled away the protesters in buses. These violations are impermissible but government, without any fear of being called to account for its actions, is loath to surrender control.
While Vietnam’s selection to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Nov. 19 could be of greater and more immediate symbolic effect, Vietnam is not ready to lay the basis for any human rights commitments. Rather, recent evidence suggests the opposite. Many police and the courts are part of the problem, rather than the solution. An international campaign to free any particular political prisoner from detention means he or she will probably be quickly replaced by a new one.
Obviously, income inequality is widening. Economic reform doesn’t benefit the poor, and the rich often benefit disproportionately from growth. While peasants and workers are angry about the lack of reward for their contributions to the national economy, they have no alternative but acceptance and debt. The peasants want radical reform to the land law to keep developers from simply stealing land outright from farmers. Workers are asking for poverty reduction through increased social welfare. Their protest unnerves the government.
Strikes occur daily but if government acts at all, they usually deliver temporary palliatives. Although some recent protests with guns and explosives have triggered concerns about widespread insecurity, the prognosis for the revolution is bleak.
The post-revolutionary elites understand well how bad the government is, but they are avoiding addressing the political questions in public discourse, hoping a better material life. Most senior officials of pensionable age think only of their claims of payment and dream of an enjoyable retirement. The few get richer and seek patronage in determining the chance for promotion. The number of extremely wealthy Vietnamese has grown by 14.7 percent in 2013, with ultra-high net worth individuals with assets of US$30 million or more has risen to 195 according to a report by UBS and a Singapore research company, Wealth X. Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong told a party meeting in October that the wealth gap poses the most worrying threat to the organization’s survival.
While many of the elites are buying housing and sending their children to study abroad, a growing number of college graduates are jobless and afraid to discuss political issues, arguing that they have no way of affecting government policy. A debilitating sense of fear, indifference and apathy is permeating the whole society. To overcome, some argue that civil society should empower people to break out of the nonviolent opposition mindset.
Thus encouragingly, there is growing demand for more forms of political information. Fortunately, despite the cyber security, bloggers enjoy online freedom of speech as a safety valve for pent up social discontent.
Critics claim that bloggers have no agenda in expressing public concerns. But these complaints miss the point. They are an alarm, an expression of civic duty in raising awareness and mobilizing action. The police should cease their cyber-attacks instead of arresting them for posting criticism of government or contacting foreign supporters.
However, the virtual link of activists cannot replace personal engagement. Direct participation provides a better platform for deliberative democracy. The current atmosphere does not allow for participation in the political landscape. The reasons are various.
First, fed for years with empty promises and now growing impatient, the public want to make their voices heard. Arguing that claims by outsiders do not really help the process, some hope civil society can do better than either the political community or the market. Unfortunately, online activists are not referred as to a powerful opposition. Also, opposition voices do not have a leading figure such as Aung San Suu Kyi or a famous public meeting place such as Tahrir Square. The time is not ripe.
Second, crony capitalism plus the one party system model are not providing any way forward. Some inside the Communist Party suggest that the party should transform itself into a real political party and compete with others for power, as the Kuomintang did in Taiwan. The endemic culture of impunity must be replaced with a sense of accountability.
To realize that potential, politics depends heavily on having the debate now - and not just rhetorically, morally or top down. In so doing, hopefully, faith would be restored and public support would be strengthened. If government, business, and civil society could work together, the public would perceive that a new order might thrive in the new age despite the poor prospects.
In any case, there is a growing sense of the need for change within the country that could put Vietnam back on the right track and that the system could gradually work. The new Constitution does not deliver that promise.
(Kim Them Do works with UNCTAD in Geneva on International Competition Law and Policy, Rule of Law. He researches on Buddhism and country reports on Vietnam.)


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Easton Main Street Initiative will once again host tours of Downtown Easton for visitors to get acquainted with the area.
The tours, known as FAM Tours or Familiarity Tours, guide participants on a walking tour of the downtown area, pointing out unique historical points, new businesses and upcoming downtown and residential developments. The tours promote recent economic development downtown and also showcase how easily walkable the area is, according to Easton Main Street Initiative.
The first tour of the summer season will be 10 a.m. Saturday, May 18, and will be led by Mayor Sal Panto Jr.
FAM Tours depart from the Easton Farmers’ Market at 10 a.m. on the west side of the circle. Tours take about 45 minutes and explore the business, residential and hidden spots within the downtown. All tours are free and open to all ages of the public. Tours will be held on a monthly basis.
Visit the Easton Main Street organization online at www.EastonMainStreet.org.


The longest bus made in Germany is a new vehicle for the transport of passengers, built at the Fraungofer Institute in Germany. A distinctive feature of the "tram" is its record size. The height of this vehicle is 3.5 meters, the width is 2.5 meters, and the length is a record 30 meters. Capacity - 256 people. These technical data make it possible to boldly name the vehicle for transporting passengers as the longest bus in the world.
A hybrid installation is installed in the engine compartment of this bus, capable of operating like a conventional internal combustion engine, as well as an electric motor. Driving this vehicle is practically no different from driving standard buses, so any bus driver will be able to cross the wheel of the "car" without any problems. At the present moment in the suburbs of Dresden road trials are coming to an end, and already in two or three months the longest bus in the world can appear on the city streets.


rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself. Jason X sucks on the levels of storytelling, character development, suspense, special effects, originality, punctuation, neatness and aptness of thought.” All of which is to say that anyone who has ever come across Ebert’s written reviews or TV appearances over the last four decades knows that this man was born with that thing so many writers struggle to find: A voice.
When, after a battle with thyroid cancer, he had to have his jaw removed in 2006, one of the many tragedies was that Ebert lost his ability to speak. And yet, as fate often strangely goes, it was this very circumstance that ultimately motivated Ebert to give his voice its greatest, most vulnerable chance to shine yet — in his recently released memoir Life Itself. This Tuesday, joined by his wife Chaz and spoken for by his computer voice “Alex,” Ebert sat with New York Times Chief Film Critic A.O. Scott for a TimesTalks about his life, career, and how his darkest days inspired what is the most personal review he has ever written: The review of his own life. READ FULL STORY


The Boston Bruins are going to do everything they can to avoid losing their first-line right wing for the second consecutive season. Nathan Horton occupied that slot alongside David Krejci and Milan Lucic before he bolted for the Columbus Blue Jackets as a free agent last summer.
General manager Peter Chiarelli signed Jarome Iginla to take Horton's spot, and the aging veteran filled in admirably. Maybe a bit too admirably.
The former Calgary Flame played so well that he convinced Chiarelli and his cohorts that he's the No. 1 priority for the team as the calendar rolls toward July 1.
The team only has about $9 million in cap space. With the need for two right wings and someone to back up Tuukka Rask plus a pair of defenders to sign, focusing on a 37-year-old forward just doesn't seem like the way to go.
Especially when the two defenders looking for new deals are Torey Krug and Matt Bartkowski. That's not the way Chiarelli is approaching things, however. At least not according to Joe Haggerty of CSNNE.com:
A source with knowledge of negotiations told CSNNE.com that the other prospective B’s free agents are essentially on hold while the B’s front office focuses on getting something done with unrestricted free agent Jarome Iginla prior to July 1... Once Iginla is taken care of, the B’s next item on the free agent priority list would be restricted free agents Matt Bartkowski, Torey Krug and Reilly Smith. Both Smith and Krug are looking at significant raises from their entry level contracts...
While it's fine to make signing Iginla a priority, it's a bit startling to see Boston's leading playoff scorer (Krug) on the back burner for a guy who might not be with the team for more than another season. Regardless of how long it takes to iron out an extension, Chiarelli should be tossing that dollar and term at Krug instead of Iginla.
The key to staying competitive in today's NHL is maintaining a steady flow of youth. You've got to keep and groom your own All-Stars, and that's precisely what Krug is. He might not have the name recognition of Patrice Bergeron, but he'll be an asset for the Bruins for the next decade-plus.
Since he was drafted in 2011, Dougie Hamilton has been considered the future of Boston's blue line. That narrative has a nice symmetry to it—the 6'9" Zdeno Chara passing the torch to the 6'5" Hamilton in the defensive zone—but it was Krug who surpassed the former first-round pick on the depth chart during the playoffs last season.
An undrafted defender out of Michigan State University, Krug has a hefty raise coming his way, and Iginla shouldn't be made a priority over him. While it may seem inconsequential right now, the Bruins are leaving themselves wide open to an offer sheet should they make it to July 1 without a deal in place.
Chiarelli can keep Iginla in the loop and let him know what's going on during negotiations. As a veteran, he controls his future. Krug isn't in the same boat, and if the B's want to remain in control of the term and financials for their franchise power-play quarterback, they need to begin the conversation now instead of putting things on hold.
The same goes for Bartkowski. While he doesn't have the same reputation as Krug, he's a serviceable, cheap and homegrown depth defender. He quietly averaged nearly 20 minutes a night last season, and, despite the occasional mental lapse, he still provides quality top-six coverage.
Krug and Bartkowski aren't the only guys in limbo as the B's negotiate with Iginla. Reilly Smith also needs a new contract. No matter where the Bruins lined up Smith in 2013-14, he was successful. Viewed as a bit of a throw-in in the Tyler Seguin deal, Smith surpassed all expectations by posting 20 goals and adding 31 assists.
These aren't bit players the Bruins are passing over to keep Iginla. These are three high-end young players who need to be kept aboard and prioritized over a fading star. It's true that Iginla led the team in scoring last season, but the salary cap forces teams to make tough choices with their money. Barring a cap-clearing trade, Chiarelli has his back up against a wall, and he's leaning in the wrong direction right now.
In a perfect world, all four players would squeeze in under the cap with plenty of room left for a backup who could play 20 starts. That kind of cash just isn't available, even if the ceiling goes as high as the $71.1 CapGeek.com is currently utilizing. That's the high end of the spectrum, and odds seem good that the actual cap will be a bit lower.
If it comes down to a choice—and the pressure will be on within a week or so—Chiarelli needs to cut ties with Iginla and keep his young stars. Depth wins championships in the NHL, and it's players such as Smith and Krug—not Iginla—who have made the B's so hard to contend with over the last few years.
Pay the youngsters their money and let the rest trickle down to veteran plug-and-plays. Otherwise, an aggressive general manager with something to prove might decide to take a shot across the bow of the big, bad B's by sending Krug or Smith an offer sheet.
All statistics appear courtesy of NHL.com.


RUAG Australia has been selected to manufacture advanced ballistic armour for the AMV35 combat reconnaissance vehicle (CRV) in Bayswater, Victoria.
The deal will see the company develop the advanced high-level protection system as part of its partners BAE Systems Australia and Patria’s bid for the Australian Army’s LAND 400 programme.
The ballistic armour is a multi-material protection system that is both combat-tested and mission-proven.
BAE Systems Australia CEO Gabby Costigan said: “This is another example of how our bid for LAND 400 is increasing Australian capability and boosting local jobs and investment.
“It brings into Australia new know-how and develops local sophisticated military technology capability that saves lives.”
RUAG Switzerland will be responsible for transferring the technology to its Australian counterpart for the production of the ballistic armour.
The AMV35 CRV is currently being developed as part of Phase II of the LAND 400 programme and is intended to help replace the army’s existing Australian light armoured vehicle (ASLAV).
The AMV35 will be designed for easy deployment into operational areas, while being highly manoeuvrable on the ground.
RUAG Australia managing director John Teager said: “Establishing this unique, in-country capability within RUAG Australia will further strengthen the Australian Industry Content (AIC) proposed within BAE Systems’ offering for Land 400 Phase II and will ensure that, in RUAG Australia, Australian soldiers can depend on an Australian company to supply them the highest possible level of protection that appliqué armour can provide.”


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Former Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda has said that his successor, Mohammed Abubakar, has no right to change any of the decisions he took while in office.
Yuguda, who was governor between 2007 and 2015, also charged the people to call Abubakar to order because he has no right to harass anybody over land allocation. He denied claims that his regime left a debt of N125.551, 171,366:79 billion behind.
Since he assumed office, his successor has revoked some of Yuguda’s last minute allocation of lands and auctions of government vehicles.
According to the Secretary of the Transition Committee, Dr. Aliyu Tilde, Yuguda, who governed Bauchi State for eight years, left a huge debt for the new All Progressives Congress (APC ) administration. He said: “The government inherited debt of over N125b from the immediate past government of Governor Isa Yuguda.”
But, Yuguda in a telephone interview with reporters has questioned the propriety of the new government to reverse decisions taken by his administration. He said: “The governor should be called to order because he has no right to upturn my own decision and they don’t have right to change anything or harassed anybody within the state.”
Yuguda also stated that “ any public servant that has worked under me and I handed anything to him and I signed and approved it, that approval is legal and Abubakar has no right to reverse that approval. Also anything that I allocated to any individual, group or association which remains legal,Mohammed Abubakar does not have any right to reverse my decisión”.
“If Abubakar thinks he can reverse what I have done, he has made a mistake because I had the right as an Executive Governor elected by my people to take such decisions on their behalf so any person that is aggrieved should go to court because such is not done in a government administration”.
Commenting on the over N125b debt, Yuguda informed that” all the loans he handed over to Governor Abubakar were not up to N80 billion,including the loan he inherited from the then Gov. Ahmadu Muazu including foreign loans that would be service for a period of 40 years”.
“While I was in office, we paid salaries, provided water, security, education. We constructed International Airport, Specialist Hospital among others. When I came into government in 2007, I did not only meet an empty treasury but I met over draft of N8 billion in the account which I inherited from Muazu ,but I did make noise about it, I did not complain but I started work as a governor.” Yuguda added.
“We took a bond from capital market which is N52b and we completed the Airport, specialist hospital and we also have N7b arrears of gratuity and 1.3b of contractor obligation. We inherited about N20b Foreign debt which is payable in 30 to 40 years, these are the only debt that we know of so if there is any debt apart from this maybe his Abubakar who have taken the debt.
“These are the figures that I handed over to Abubakar, if you convert the debt that you are going to pay for a period of 30 to 40 years is not up to 80b. So, what the governor is saying is a white lie, it’s unfortunate that somebody in his position will be talking like that , I handed over to him and he signed and collected the handing over documents. If he gave any other information outside that one, may be he has his own Government somewhere.

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“The concept of ablating a portion of the prostate, rather than the entire gland, is gaining traction internationally and in the U.S.” - Dr. Mark Carol
Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) March 17, 2016
SonaCare Medical, global leader in high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation devices, announces that the first Sonablate procedure, performed with the newly integrated MIM Symphony fusion software, was completed by Dr. Richard Hindley of Nuada Group on March 9th, 2016. SonaCare Medical continues to be the only open architecture HIFU system to be compatible with leading fusion software platforms, allowing seamless integration with a physician’s targeted biopsy system of choice.
Dr. Hindley used SonaFuse-MIM, a version of the MIM Symphony fusion software integrated into the Sonablate system, to fuse a previously obtained magnetic resonance image with live Sonablate ultrasound images collected during the HIFU procedure. This allowed him to transfer regions-of-interest that had been previously identified on the MRI to the images generated during the procedure, making for a more precisely targeted ablation.
Delivered under the observation of Dr. Hashim Ahmed, Dr. Richard Hindley’s procedure represents a significant milestone for both Nuada Group as well as SonaCare Medical. “Nuada Group has been committed to the success of HIFU for the ablation of prostate tissue for several years,” comments CEO of Nuada Group, Brian Lynch. “We are excited to see more patients benefiting from it as awareness and acceptance of the technology, expertise and effectiveness grows. Nuada Group has invested in world-class resources to lead this growth in the UK, which include Dr. Clare Allen, Uro-radiologist who has become an expert in contouring MR images using MIM software; Dr. Richard Hindley, who has championed the application of fusion biopsy technology, and Dr. Hashim Ahmed, who has led the groundbreaking research on HIFU for prostate patients over the last 5 years and who has been largely responsible for demonstrating its effectiveness.”
SonaCare Medical felt honored to work with Nuada and, in particular, Drs. Hash Ahmed and Richard Hindley, two of the global leaders in focal ablation/HIFU, to support the successful launch of this highly anticipated integration of MIM software into Sonablate technology. Onsite technical representative for SonaCare Medical, John Strait, reports, “The case went very smoothly, the integration performed exactly as expected, and everyone was pleased with the addition of MIM fusion.”
“The concept of ablating a portion of the prostate, rather than the entire gland, is gaining traction internationally and in the U.S.,” states SonaCare Medical CEO, Dr. Mark Carol. “Focal ablation requires precise knowledge of the targeted region within the gland which can be guided most effectively by preoperative localization on MRI images. We are delighted that the excellent MIM fusion software, which supports fusion of MRI images and intraoperative ultrasound images, is now implemented for use with Sonablate, and that the first procedure with this combined technology was delivered by Nuada Group, an organization that has taken an international leadership role in the application of fusion technologies for diagnosis of prostate disease and Sonablate for the ablation of targeted prostate tissue.”
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August 15, 2013
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 ― Putrajaya spent over RM500 million in its advertising blitz ahead of Election 2013 ― as much as the next four advertiser categories combined ― to dominate the list of top spenders for the first half of the year.
According to a report on local advertising growth by Vizeum Media, an international media-buying agency, the next closest contender was women’s beauty products, which laid out RM163 million or less than a third of the RM530 million spent by the government.
“[The General Election] drove government spending to a historical high of RM531 million, accounting for 9 per cent share of the advertising market or one-third of ADEX within the top 10 spending categories in 1H 2013,” Vizeum said in its July report.
The amount was a 160 per cent increase over the same period last year.
Of the over half-billion spent, the Prime Minister’s Department took up the lion’s share with an outlay of RM264 million for the first six months of the year or five times more than it did in 2012.
“Jabatan Perdana Menteri accounted for 50 per cent share of all government spending during the same period,” the report continued.
The sum was enough the make the PM’s Department the country’s second-largest single advertiser, losing out to multinational consumer goods firm Unilever Malaysia which spent RM286 million.
Ahead of Election 2013 in May, Putrajaya and the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) set out to conquer advertising space both in the traditional outlets such as print, television and radio as well as in the so-called new media on the Internet.
It participated in paid-for promotions such as social network Twitter’s “Promoted Accounts” and “Promoted Tweets” programmes, and delved heavily into adverting with online news portals.
On the Internet, it adopted “Better Nation” as its rallying theme, a play on its BN initials. These included a standalone website as well as linked advertisement on others.
Beyond advertising, the coalition also invested extensively in premiums such as an “Action Kit” containing 1 Malaysia-themed memorabilia such as caps, pens, stickers and more that were freely distributed to supporters and any who showed interest.
Billboards promoting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 1 Malaysia theme as well as the “Janji Ditepati” (Promises Fulfilled) slogan that was the platform for the BN campaign also sprouted along the major highways in the country.
Despite the extensive advertising campaign, BN continued its slide from Election 2008 to hit its latest low in the May 5 general election.
It lost another seven seats from the 140 it had won five years ago, allowing the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) to gain further ground by taking 89 of the Parliament’s total of 222 seats.
BN also lost the popular vote for the first time since 1969, when it had last contested as the Alliance Party.
PR had shunned traditional media outlets ahead of the election and again concentrated its resources on social networks and websites that had been credited with its unexpected gains in 2008.


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September’s Book Pick is WAITING, by the legendary Kevin Henkes. He’s previously won a Caldecott Medal, two Newbery Honors, and a Geisel Honor, and WAITING has brought new Caldecott and Geisel Honors. Also not to be overlooked is his supremely popular and beloved Lily (Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse), plus other mice characters which include Owen, Chrysanthemum, and Wemberly, each featured in their own charming picture books. But back to this story . . . .
Five animal toys wait on a window ledge. Mostly, they wait for different things, but one of them (a rabbit with stars) isn’t waiting for anything in particular. He just likes to look out the window and wait. Toys come and go, seasons come and go. Wind, rain, snow, fireworks, and the moon come and go. And still the animals wait on the ledge. One day a cat with patches joins them. What, if anything, is she waiting for?
There’s so much character development here, and so much emotion expressed on these pages. If you have ever wanted to write—and publish—a quiet picture book, WAITING is one you must look at. Read it aloud. Marvel at the uncomplicated yet expressive text and illustrations, the uncluttered page design, the muted color, the incredible production value of this book. Look under the dust jacket and you will find a little surprise on the board covers. The end papers pick up the color of the type. It’s perfect.
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Journalists allege harassment by minister
HYDERABAD: Two journalists of Golarchi have alleged that they were assaulted and their houses ransacked by police at the behest of a provincial minister.
Meharuddin, a reporter of daily Sindhi newspaper “Kawish” and Sarwar Jamali, a reporter of daily Sindhi newspaper “Koshish”, told a press conference at the Hyderabad Press Club that they were beaten up by the police on the directives of Mr Rahoo and
his brother Aslam Rahoo. The journalists said this was done because they had filed stories against the provincial minister and his brother. They said the provincial minister was forcing them not to file the stories.
The journalists alleged that police entered their houses and maltreated their family members including women. They reported the matter to SSP Badin who assured them justice. They demanded of the governor Sindh to take action against DSP and SHO Golarchi.
Source: The News

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New Movie Trailer: Captain Marvel
Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Cast: Brie Larson, Jude law, Samuel L. Jackson, Djimon Hounsou, Ben Mendelsohn, Gemma Chan
It looks like the next blockbuster is coming to the big screen in Captain Marvel. Captain Marvel is caught in the middle of an intergalactic war between two alien races. I love everything Marvel so I’m really looking forward seeing this one.
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- 53% worry "a great deal" about crime, compared with 39% in 2014
- 44% are concerned about drug use, also up significantly since 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' level of concern about crime and violence is at its highest point in 15 years. Fifty-three percent of U.S. adults say they personally worry "a great deal" about crime and violence, an increase of 14 percentage points since 2014. This figure is the highest Gallup has measured since March 2001.
Twenty-six percent of U.S. adults currently worry "a fair amount" about crime and violence, while 22% worry "only a little" or "not at all."
When Gallup first asked Americans about their level of concern regarding crime and violence in March 2001, 62% said they worried a great deal. That figure remains the highest level of worry in Gallup's 15-year trend on this question. In the months leading up to 9/11, Americans consistently mentioned crime and violence as one of the most important problems facing the country in response to a separate Gallup question. But after 9/11, crime and violence no longer appeared among the list of problems Americans identified as most important, with terrorism rising to the top.
In turn, the percentage saying they personally worry about crime and violence plunged to 49% by March 2002. Crime worry remained at a lower level over the next decade, as Americans named other issues such as the situation in Iraq, terrorism, the economy, dissatisfaction with government and healthcare as the most important problems facing the country. After falling to a record-low 39% in 2014, worry about crime and violence increased in 2015 and 2016.
The rise in Americans' level of concern about crime could reflect actual, albeit modest, increases in crime, as well as increasing media coverage of it. The number of violent crimes reported to police across the country in the first half of 2015 was up by 1.7% compared with the same period in 2014, according to the FBI's 2015 Uniform Crime Report. Many large U.S. cities reported spikes in their homicide rates in 2015, including Milwaukee, St. Louis, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. From a long-term perspective, though, violent crime is down significantly since the 1990s.
Gallup's annual Environment survey asks Americans how much they personally worry about a number of specific problems facing the country. In addition to crime and violence, only two other issues have Americans just as concerned: the economy and the availability and affordability of healthcare. Concern about crime and violence slightly exceeds concern about the possibility of terrorist attacks.
Worry About Crime Rises Across All Major Subgroups
Americans across all major subgroups show heightened worry about crime compared with 2014. Worry has increased the most among those without a college degree and those living in households earning $30,000 to less than $75,000 annually.
More broadly, those with no college education are roughly twice as likely as those with a college degree to worry about crime, and those living in households earning less than $30,000 per year are much more likely than those earning at least $75,000 to worry about crime and violence. Nonwhites' concern about crime is much higher than whites' worry about the issue.
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Women and older Americans are more worried than their male and younger counterparts about crime and violence. Worry about crime and violence is similar across party groups, though Republicans' and independents' levels of worry have increased more than Democrats' since 2014.
Americans' Worry About Drug Use Also Up Sharply
Americans' worry about drug use has followed the same basic pattern over the last 15 years as worry about crime and violence. Forty-four percent of U.S. adults say they worry a great deal about drug use, up 10 points from the low found in 2014. This level of concern is on the higher end of what Gallup has found since first asking the question in 2001, but is comfortably below the peak of 58% measured that year.
This rise in worry about drug use preceded President Barack Obama's announcement on March 29 about his plan to reduce drug abuse and overdose deaths.
The uptick in worry about drug use since 2014 spans most subgroups. In general, concern about drug use is higher among those with less education, those with lower incomes, older Americans, women, nonwhites and Republicans. Drug use worry is comparatively low among college graduates and those in households earning at least $75,000 annually.
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Gallup reported in October 2015 that Americans perceived more crime in the U.S. than the year before. However, perceptions of local crime held steady. Together, these findings suggest that even if many Americans are not aware of increased crime where they live, they may be exposed to media coverage of rising crime and violence throughout the U.S.
On the drug front, the rise in overdose deaths and media coverage of the nation's opioid abuse and heroin epidemic may be playing into Americans' rising level of worry. The number of drug overdose deaths reached a record high in 2014 and increased 6.5% from 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New Hampshire's heroin epidemic has been a hot topic in the 2016 presidential election, elevating the issue of drug use to the national stage.
Obama's initiatives to address the nation's opioid abuse epidemic, with the goal of treating this type of drug addiction as a public health problem rather than a criminal issue, could assuage Americans' worry about drug use. But those initiatives could also draw more attention to the issue, resulting in increased public concern.
Historical data are available in Gallup Analytics.
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted March 2-6, 2016, with a random sample of 1,019 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.
Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 60% cellphone respondents and 40% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.
Learn more about how the Gallup Poll Social Series works.


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The TJX transformation of STP is (sadly) complete. The store where I live now looks exactly like any old TJMaxx - rows and rows of clothes crammed so tightly together it's difficult to browse, with a few end cap style eye catchers. The prices are up, the service is down and the selection is awful. I've stopped shopping there except for the occasional fishing item, where it's clear the buyers have no real idea what they're doing. Case in point: I live in the Rocky Mountains, but I visit northeast Florida several times a year where I like to surf fish. Last fall I checked the fishing supplies and to my surprise there were four high quality sand spikes used as rod holders for surf fishing. I scooped them up at the very reasonable price of $12 each. Aside from the odd surprise like that there's virtually nothing in the store that resembles the old STP.
“Death of an icon - sigh”
I'm not certain what TJX had in mind when they bought STP, but I'd sure like to know. I suppose it will eventually come out somewhere in a blog post, op ed or annual report. We'll see. In any case, whether it was to get access to a customer demographic that just doesn't see the point in TJMAXX (yeah, I've been in a couple of their stores. It's chaos.) or they thought they could turn loyal STP catalog (website) customers into store walkers - they got it wrong.
TJX doesn't do online. That's part of their business model - ignore the web. So they thought "hey, let's buy STP, kill the web business, and open a bunch of stores nationwide to lure those former loyal customers in". Genius. Pure genius.
I initially thought they bought STP to get access to the supply channels that STP had built up over the years for top name brand close outs. If that's true, then why do those brands no longer show up in the stores? It's a mystery to me.
I have a friend who works at the local STP store where I live and the most common question she gets is "What happened to the store?". All the stuff we used to shop for at STP, like (fill in the blank for your favorite outdoor activity) is gone. There used to be a whole wall of camping supplies - now it's an end cap. Same for fishing, hunting, you name it. Now it's seasonal clothes. And more clothes. With brands I've never heard of.
I don't mind change - if it's for the better. But, after two and half years of steady decline I'm losing heart. Case in point: I'm a fly fisherman. There used to be (literally) hundreds of boxes of flies at great prices in the store that took up a large section of the fishing isle. Three years ago I could have broken the bank buying decent quality files at great prices (nearly did!). Fast forward to this year and the flies have been replace with, what?, saltwater lures. Huh? I live in the Rocky Mountains. Perhaps they're saving all the files for the stores they plan to open in Florida?
I guess the good news is that the business model Keith Richardson envisioned and worked so hard to build a company around is now available for re-creation as a replacement for the old STP. Any takers?
Maybe Mr. Richardson will take the $200M he got for STP and start over? Hopefully, he didn't sign a non-compete...

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A minimal probabilistic model for soil moisture in seasonally dry climates
Published Web Locationhttps://doi.org/10.1002/2015wr017813
In seasonally dry climates, a distinct rainy season is followed by a pronounced dry season during which rainfall often makes a negligible contribution to soil moisture. Using stochastic analytical models of soil moisture to represent the effects of this seasonal change has been hindered by the need to mathematically represent the stochastic influence of wet season climate on dry season soil water dynamics. This study presents a simple process-based stochastic model for soil moisture dynamics, which explicitly models interseasonal transient dynamics while accounting for carry over soil moisture storage between the wet and dry seasons, and allows a derivation of an analytical expression for the dry season mean first passage time below a soil moisture threshold. Such crossing times pose controls on both vegetation productivity and water stress during dry summers. The new model, along with an existing model that incorporates nonzero dry season rainfall but not variability in the soil moisture condition at the start of the dry season, are tested against data from the Tonzi Ranch Ameriflux site. Both models predict first passage times well for high soil moisture thresholds, but the new model improves prediction at lower thresholds. The annual soil moisture probability distribution function (PDF) from the new model also compares well with observations.

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December 13, 1642 is the date in which New Zealand was discovered by the Dutch navigator, Abel Tasman of the Dutch East India Company. Like all discoveries, this one was made by mistake, but the joys and treasures that New Zealand has given us are great!
Not only is New Zealand the neighbor of Australia, the motherland of the incredible an unique Lorde, or the house where the Lord of the Rings movies were filmed, but this country is also the house of wild and unique stories! So, what are some of the best New Zealand novels?
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th-century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery. It is a thrilling achievement for someone still in her mid-20s, and will confirm for critics and listeners that Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament.
The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfiled
Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with color, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield’s tragically short life. Many are set in the author’s native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience.
This collection of stories is for fans of the sad and tragic Sylvia Plath and for fans of Harry Potter, Bonnie Wright, or Ginny Weasley, will narrated them to you!
The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox
One summer night in 1808, Sobran Jodeau sets out to drown his love sorrows in his family’s vineyard when he stumbles on an angel. Once he gets over his shock, Sobran decides that Xas, the male angel, is his guardian sent to counsel him on everything from marriage to wine production. But Xas turns out to be a far more mysterious character. Compelling and erotic, The Vintner’s Luck explores a decidedly unorthodox love story as Sobran eventually comes to love and be loved by both Xas and the young Countess de Valday, his friend and employer at the neighboring chateau.
I just added this book to my wish list! There was something amusing on the “compelling and erotic” story of an angel and man that seems to also love a countess… so, yes… we gotta expand our listening habits, don’t judge, and honestly I feel this could be one of the best New Zealand books of the list!
Cemetery Lake by Paul Cleave
A chilling case of unsolved murders and mistaken identities unravels when a lake in a Christchurch cemetery releases its grip on the murky past in this exciting crime thriller. Cemetery Lake begins in a cold and rainy graveyard, where Private Detective Theodore Tate is overseeing an exhumation. But doubts are raised about the identity of the body found in the coffin.
There is a great appeal in police and crime novels. The thrill, the mystery, the need to know or already knowing who the bad ones are is what moves these plots and the readers who devour them!
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
Twin sisters Iris and Summer are startlingly alike, but beyond what the eye can see lies a darkness that sets them apart. Cynical and insecure, Iris has long been envious of Summer’s seemingly never-ending good fortune, including her perfect husband Adam. Called to Thailand to help her sister sail the family yacht to the Seychelles, Iris nurtures her own secret hopes for what might happen on the journey. But when she unexpectedly finds herself alone in the middle of the Indian Ocean, everything changes. When she makes it to land, Iris allows herself to be swept up by Adam, who assumes that she is Summer. Not only does she finally have the golden life she’s always envied, with her sister gone, she’s one step closer to the hundred-million-dollar inheritance left by her manipulative father.
I mean the drama!!! It sounds so good! The sisters go together on a “trip” and only one comes back? And the one that comes back is the same that felt jealous of the first one? I mean I am gagging!
Wild Journeys by Bruce Ansley
Bruce Ansley retraces the path of the doomed surveyor John Whitcombe across the Southern Alps; follows the raiding party of the Northern chief Te Puoho along the West Coast; sails around New Zealand’s Northern and Southern capes; walks through the Valley under the Two Thumb Range to the mythical Mesopotamia; drives from Waiheke to Wanaka (in a hurry); sets off on a hunt for the South Island’s Grey Ghost; looks deep into the heart of volcanic New Zealand and tracks our most unlikely hero, the prison escaper George Wilder. A story that will put the listener through different places and landscapes! This is the perfect escapade from the stressing reality of the Covid19 world.
You don’t have to add all of them to your wish list or start listening to them at the same time, but these are simply really good stories to stay entertained and intrigued for a while! If you get to listen to them, let us know! I am downloading right now the The Girl in the Mirror! Haha
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When planning a business trip, one of the last things travelers think about is airport parking. A lot of travelers assume that parking on the airport is the safest, easiest and cheapest method to use. Nonetheless, this could be a big mistake particularly at the Newark Liberty Airport.
On the Newark Liberty grounds, there are three levels of parking. It has the short-term parking which is found across the access road from each of the terminals. If you do not have a lot of luggage, you can walk very easily from the short-term parking lot. However, these slots are a bit costly as they cost $33 per day. Travelers might save as much as $9 each day by choosing one of the daily parking garages. With this option they could pay between $24 and $27 each day depending on the choice of garage. The garages are connected to the terminals by the AirTrain light rail links; nonetheless, you will have to walk to one of the stations which might be hard for you in case you have a lot of luggage. The cheapest option is the economy lots; however, they are still costly since they cost $18 every day and the buses which link the terminals and the economy lots are small and overcrowded.
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Numerous airport operators have online reservation forms to ensure your convenience; they even supply valet services for more convenience. It is a good idea to make your reservations online for parking to guarantee your spot, particularly if you are traveling during the times of heavy travel like the holidays. You know what I am talking about in case you have attempted to drive around the Newark Airport trying to get a parking spot during the week of Thanksgiving.
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