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Transportation Feats of the World: Journey along the Great Wall
posted on July 25, 2017
We’re ending GO! Magazine’s tour of the Seven Great Transportation Feats of the World with an ancient world wonder: the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall has existed since the 7th century BCE and is considered topically as one of the “New” Seven Wonders of the World.
When talking about transportation, it’s important to remember that before modern forms of transportation existed, people often had to travel using only their own two feet. And that’s exactly how we’d travel along the Great Wall. The best known section attracts thousands of national and foreign tourists every day. Now that’s a lot of feet!
Brief history of the Great Wall
The Great Wall of China today remains “a powerful symbol of the country’s enduring strength.” Did you know that it was originally constructed as a fortification or defensive wall to protect against foreign attacks?
Despite a long and elaborate history, most of the Great Wall we know today was constructed during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Chinese culture prospered under the Ming dynasty and with it came a tremendous amount of construction, including expansion of the Great Wall and construction of other architecture like bridges, temples, and pagodas across the country.
But it was the Great Wall that surfaced as “the most common emblem of China,” becoming both a physical and psychological representation of Chinese strength.
Time does have a toll though. Some sections of the Great Wall were eventually cut to build roadways and others simply deteriorated due to “centuries of neglect.” That said, in 1987, the Great Wall was designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization). It’s also said that the Great Wall is one of the only man-made structures you can see in low earth orbit.
The long and winding road
As it stands today, the Great Wall of China—translated as literally “the long wall”—measures some 13,000 miles in length. Well, the 13,171 mile length accounts for all parts of the Great Wall built over thousands of years of history. The best preserved portion of the wall—the Ming Great Wall—measures some 5,500 miles long.
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The most impressive feat of the Great Wall of China has been its ability to endure the test of time. Although various sections of the Great Wall have since deteriorated, as a whole, it has existed in one form or another for centuries before the Common Era.
The Great Wall’s official construction dates all the way back to the 3rd century BCE, where the then-emperor Qin Shi Huang (c. 259-210 BCE) looked to join multiple walls built hundreds of years earlier. These sections forming the foundation of the Great Wall were used defensively during wartime.
The Great Wall is also considered to be one of the most extensive construction projects in history. After the death of Qin Shi Huang and the fall of the Qin dynasty, much of it fell into disrepair. However, a number of succeeding dynasties throughout China’s history (Han, Tang, Song, Ming, Qing) made successful repairs to further extended the Great Wall.
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The Great Wall of China is considered to be one of the most impressive architectural feats in history, and now we can begin to understand why!
So, the real question is: Would you take a journey to China and travel along its’ Great Wall? With nearly 10 million visitors annually, you won’t be alone if you do.
By Hannah Postlethwait, Go! Staff Writer


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For those who don’t know Antarctica is the sophmore effort of Israeli director Yair Hochner. Hochner, like Eytan Fox, is re/defining queer film in Israel. Both his movies, Good Boys (which I found disturbing and heartbreaking) and Antarctica have been the talk of the festival circuit since their releases. Hochner has also been instrumental in founding the first annual LGBTQI Film Festival in Telaviv, now on its third year.
Hochner’s movies are hauntingly beautiful and impossible to view only once. In fact, I have watched Antarctica no less than seven times in the last month and am currently going through unhappy withdrawal now that Here network is no longer screening it. I meant to write a review of the film while it was still available through Here online, but every time I sat down to watch it for the review, I simply got re-enthralled and found it hard to flatten the film out on paper.
Regular readers know that my film reviews try to be as in depth as possible and to avoid gushing because I want them to be useful to independent filmmakers who often link here to promote their films and documentaries. So I think you also know how good I think this movie is given that I’m telling you what a whack-a-mole I’ve been since not having instant access to it.
This trailer really doesn’t do the film justice; it is so much more than your average “who ends up with who” romantic comedy.
The story centers around Omer and Danny and their intersecting lives. When we first meet Danny, he is a newly out dancer with a crush on established dance icon Boaz. Unfortunately for Danny, Boaz “never” sleeps with the same man twice and prefers it if they are gone before he wakes up in the morning. Through a fluke involving a kitty, Omer leaves Boaz’s apartment before they hook up and just in time to set the stage for Danny to move in. Despite this mini-miracle, Danny’s thirty off-screen days with Boaz leave him broken and wounded.
The film begins in earnest three years later, when Danny, now an up and coming star in the dance world, is living with his ex-boyfriend Ronen. Ronen is looking for the real thing while working on a story about alien abductees for an article for the newspaper for which he writes. For some reason, he thinks he’ll find it online even tho he has already found it in the form of the young man he watches, and who watches him, at the library where he does his research. That young man, is Omer.
In the two days before Omer’s thirtieth birthday, Danny and Omer’s lives will intertwine around both Boaz and Ronen as well as Omer’s bestfriend, and Ronen’s internet hook up, Miki. (Miki, played by Yuval Raz, should be recognizable to fans of Good Boys. For people like me, traumatized by what happens to him in that movie and what it costs, it is nice to see him playing someone happy and trauma free.)
In a parallel story, Omer’s sister Shirley tries to pick up and reimagine her own life after canceling her wedding. Shirley works as a waitress in a gay and lesbian bar owned by Michal. In another off-screen romance that predates the timeframe of the film, Shirley and Michal fell in love. Michal wants desperately to create a life with Shirley that centers around her bar, the women who sing amazing folk songs in it, and the men and women who hookup there. While Shirley cares deeply for Michal, her newfound desire is like a door to infinite possibilities that she wants to step through and find herself inside. She explains this to Michal with simple question from which this film derives its title, “Will you go with me to Antarctica?”
This question has so many meanings in the film. On the one hand, it represents the different stages that the characters are in, in their lives. Danny, Shirley, and Miki are all young queer people exploring what it means to be out. Danny’s path is tragic, partially because of his own naivete and partially because he lacks the initiative Shirley and Miki have in the film. Shirley gives up what might be true love to find herself, but she is blessed enough to have Michal, who promises to love her no matter how far she goes or who she becomes. In a way, Shirley and Danny are mirrors of each other, illustrating what could happen if Shirley got stuck in one place instead of trusting herself to grow.
Miki, on other hand, is like neither of them. He is the young, flamboyant, guy who claims to attract everyone he wants and be bored with anyone who wants to much from him. He is shallow and plastic on the outside, but soon discovers that he wants more than retail and clubbing. He isn’t exactly ready for it when it comes, but I think the events in Miki’s life during this film, actually turn on a light that will ultimately compete with the strobe lights still flicking happily to the thump-a-thump in his head.
The older characters in the film are no less sorted when the movie begins. Despite his established writing career, well-traveled soul, and sense of direction in his life, Ronen is still looking for love in all the wrong places. At the very beginning of the film he hooks up with Boaz in a montage of Boaz’s one night stands. While Ronen leaves Biaz’s bed disgusted by his indifference, it does not stop him from hooking up with obviously incompatible Miki over the internet three years later. Though Ronen’s relationship with Miki seems more like a series of odd circumstances, in which they continue to hook up because of bumping into each other or needing companionship to a critical event in the film, Ronen still remains loyal to him even when his heart tells him that Omer is the one.
Omer, on the other hand, prefers his books to real relationships. While he does meet and go home with Boaz, presumable after encountering him at Michal’s bar, he doesn’t actually hookup with him. Their hookup ends abruptly when Omer figures out just how shallow Boaz actually appears to be. And even though he spends his days reciprocating interested glances from Ronen in the library, he continues to go on a series of unsuccessful and dangerous blind dates instead of making a move.
Omer and Danny go out for a while, but both seem to know it is just a relationship of convenience. Danny thinks Omer is too old and stuffy, and his heart is still broken and slightly attached to both Ronen and Boaz; Omer thinks Danny is an experienced kid. Omer’s other blind date is equally fruitless. He meets with abudding serial killer who both belongs in a completely different film and yet is woven seamlessly into Antarctica by Hochner’s pure craft as a director. Like Good Boys, Hochner’s Antarctica refuses to paint a picture of queer community minus the threats that surround it.
Even when Ronen finally does get up the nerve to ask Omer to accompany him on an interview, Omer’s wariness of real life almost stops it from happening. Their exchange in the car about whether or not to go off with strangers both highlights the risk one has to take to find love on the margins and the longing that both of them have for a simple, real, connection. While they go about their lives differently, the symbolism of books, aliens and alienation, and furtive connections surround them both throughout the film.
Boaz, Michal, and Eiten round out the older cast as well-developed but less complex characters. Boaz is the non-commital one who appears to be trying to fill the void that losing his place as the hot, praised, dancing star has left inside him. Michal is the loyal, pillar of the queer community, whose bar provides a relaxed place for the community to find itself and each other. And Eiten is the somewhat snarky man who ultimately ends up playing a pivotal role in Danny and Boaz’s lives.
The question about Antarctica is also at its most basic about the role of travel and displacement in these characters lives. Boaz, Ronen, and Omer have all left Israel at some point in their lives. Having been somewhere else has helped shape the way they see themselves and Israel. Their travel is both a comment on the nation, as a place made up of immigrants and refugees bound by the marginalization of global antisemitism (which in no way is a comment on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict within Israel), and on the queer community which is often made up of immigrants (people who move from rural to urban centers as well as across real and imagined borders) and refugees (people who have been exiled from their families, towns, churches, etc) bound by the marginalization of homophobia. In the latter, the promise of traveling to global queerscapes like London reflect a mythic sense of queer community in which Ronen and Omer will find true love and Boaz perpetual adoration. However, the promise of a queer mecca and the reality of a diverse metropolis ultimately proves that the isolation of immigration and any large queer center are their own complex systems to navigate with no more promise of community than anywhere else. As returnees each of these characters sees the fallacies of the culture in which they live as well as that of the dream of utopia abroad. Danny and Shirley still have this lesson left to learn.
Finally, the question about Antarctica also has do with what we are willing to reach for in our lives. Shirley knows she has something good, but also recognizes that if she does not explore everything that she is capable of being, she will never really know herself. Omer and Danny are so stuck in the smallness that they both almost miss out on love. And Boaz and Miki are so afraid of the transient nature of physical beauty that they push love away to hold on to its plasticity for one more moment. In the midst of their growing fixidity, it takes a woman willing to go public about her alien abduction to show them they too can dare to be honest about their truths and trust that others like them will find and love them.
It is hard to explain the beauty in which these stories unfold. Besides much of the symbolism and well-crafted “simple life” shots, there is a slowness in the pacing of this film that lends itself at once to the sadness of Danny and Michal and the “necessary” process of Ronen and Omer. Hochner’s direction not only keeps some of the characters from degenerating into stereotype, it also allows Antarctica to tackle complex storylines in a way that is deeply in touch with the human condition; yet the film is both light and funny at every turn. Things that should seem out of place, like a man asking if you can fit a body in the refrigerators for sale where Eiten works, or the send up to Divine in the figure of Omer and Shirley’s mother, or the potential alien landing at the end of the film, are all expertly woven into the story by Hochner so that you cannot imagine the film without them. In fact, the “alien landing” is itself the otherside of the metaphor for love in this film.
Hochener’s notes on making the movie highlight the dedication he had to seeing the story not only come to life but to reflect all of the complexities of the characters and events in a way that highlight the magic of the love story at its center. The return of some of his actors from previous work and the commitment of more famous actors also shows how easily others recognize his talent and the power of this script. Everyone involved brought passion and hope to the project that shows in each frame.
Ultimately, Antarctica asks its audience to love themselves and to trust that true love is out there waiting by showing a cast of brilliantly acted characters struggling with doing the same thing. While not everyone ends up sorted by the film’s end, this makes the love story at the center of Antarctica all the more powerful.
When Ronen grabs Omer in the street after Omer runs out of his own dysfunctional birthday party, it is a kind of magic I cannot put into words. In that moment, they save each other with the faith only true love brings us. Not surprisingly, neither of them can articulate what it means to have finally found the home for which they have been yearning. Instead they take turns thanking one another and asking sheepishly “for what?” But we all know why they are grateful. And anyone with a heart is equally so by film’s end.
So thank you Hochner, for giving us such a beautiful love story with characters who are strong enough to recognize and embrace love no matter how long the journey takes. This movie is truly special.
If Antarctica is playing a festival in your area, it is not to be missed.

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After the classic line-up of Sydney-based hitmakers Dragon reformed in 1982, the band found a new lease of life when anthemic single 'Rain' got to number two on the Australian charts (at a time of severe drought). 'Rain' was a departure — written by Todd Hunter and his wife Joanna Piggott, instead of Dragon's songwriter supreme Paul Hewson. The video offers more evidence of a new look, thanks to drummer Terry Chambers (fresh from XTC) and US keyboardist and producer Alan Mansfield. The video is one of three made for 'Rain' — the band rejected a post-apocalyptic version.
This documentary, made by TVNZ’s Natural History Unit (now NHNZ), charts the progress of the nor'west wind from its formation in the Tasman Sea across the Southern Alps to the Canterbury Plains and the east coast of the South Island. Along the way it dumps metres of precipitation on West Coast rain forest and snow on the Alps, then transforms to a dry, hot wind racing across the Plains. The film shows the wind's impact on the ecosystem and farming and muses on the mysterious effect it can have on humans. It screened as part of the beloved Wild South series.
Head Like A Hole (aka HLAH) were a clap of heavy metal thunder over the jangly chords of the early 90s New Zealand music scene. Known for unhinged, "apeshit" live shows and outrageous clothing-optional antics, their flame died out amidst drugs and acrimony before a 21st Century reformation. This all-access passion project from director Julian Boshier was a decade in the making, tagging along with Nigel 'Booga' Beazley (and partner Tamzin), Nigel Regan et al, as the still rocking members of this distinctive Kiwi rock’n’roll family enter middle age: spats, moshing n’all.
This award-winning film looks at the strange and ethereal world of New Zealand's limestone areas. The rocks and caves reveal ancient whale fossils, moa hunter art — and evolutionary one-offs (like giant carnivorous snails) that live in a limestone world. The film goes into the darkness to find glow-worms, cave wētā, albino crayfish and skeletons of moa who met their death falling down tomos (shafts). In underground cathedrals, exquisite formations formed by the alchemy of water and limestone are captured. There is also footage of Waitomo Caves and Te Waikoropupu Springs.
Reg Dunbar’s war was mostly fought in the skies above Europe and North Africa. His first bombing raids over Germany were as an RAF tail gunner in a Vickers Wellington plane - a cold and lonely job he says. For the rest of that tour he was in the wireless operator’s seat, the job he’d trained for. In North Africa the squadron supported the Eighth Army, the famous Desert Rats. Reg also took part in the first thousand bomber raid over Cologne. Later he worked on the secret 'Moonshine' radar, which fooled the Germans into thinking a bomber formation was on the way.
Sam Neill narrates this documentary plotting the career of one of Aotearoa's most successful bands: from formation by Mike Chunn, Phil Judd and Tim Finn at Auckland University in 1971 to their demise in 1984, when Neil Finn walked away. The major players talk freely about good times and bad — art rock, the wayward genius of Judd (including a rare interview), Noel Crombie’s spoon playing and costume design, hard times in England and the punk backlash, the big pop hits after Neil joined, Tim’s solo album, an obsession with paper darts, and the pre-gig ritual of One For One.
One of NZ's preeminent blues musicians, New Plymouth-born Keith (Midge) Marsden got his first big break with 60s Wellington r'n'b band Barri and the Breakaways. After hosting a blues show on the NZBC, he went on to tour in various formations in the mid 70s. During a visit to the United States he befriended guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan; the Texan featured on one of the classic 'Travellin' On' adverts that Marsden appeared in, alongside Murray Grindlay. In 1996 Marsden studied Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. A decade later he was made a member of the NZ Order of Merit, for services to music.
Arts magazine series For Arts Sake screened on TV ONE for two hours on Sunday mornings for 22 weeks in 1996. This segment on dancer/choreographer Mary Jane O'Reilly marks the launch of her new company Auckland Ballet. The founder of the celebrated Limbs Dance Company talks about still being involved in dance in her mid-40s, the formation of her new company, the similarities and differences between ballet and contemporary dance, and her move into making dance films. The item also features excerpts from some of O'Reilly's dance works.
The Waitomo Caves are a longtime tourist magnet, thanks to their bioluminescent glow-worms and spectacular stalagmite and stalactite formations. Aside from the glories of the caves, this National Film Unit tourism film mentions the surrounding countryside as “a good reason to stay another day”. Set to a laid-back jazz score, a tour from Waitomo Caves Hotel takes in lambing, limestone outcrops, scenic driving and a picnic by the Marokopa waterfalls. But "to float down the underground river as galaxies pass silently overhead is the crowning pleasure in the valley of Waitomo.”
This 1985 TVNZ documentary follows the recruitment of three new pilots into the Red Checkers acrobatic flying squadron of the Royal NZ Air Force. The pilots train to fly formations, loops and low level passes. There are close calls, and interviews with pilots and their spouses. What does it take to be a Kiwi Top Gun? Squadron leader (and future NZ Defence Force chief) Bruce Ferguson: "he's got to have confidence in himself, his abilities and to be a wee bit of a showman." The documentary marked one of the earliest directing credits for Emmy Award-winner Mike Single.

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Port Lincoln Junior Primary School is doing its bit to help farmers who are struggling to feed their livestock due to drought conditions.
This Friday the school will hold a ‘Dress Like a Farmer Day’, inviting students to dress up like farmers and donate $1.
Money raised will go towards the ‘Buy a Bale’ fundraiser to buy bales of hay to feed the livestock of farmers going through drought conditions.
The school’s student wellbeing leader Shannon Haapanen said it began when a member of the school community had asked if it would be interested in doing something to help the farmers.
“I thought it would be a good opportunity for us to talk about our community and the role of farmers with our students,” she said.
“It’s not just a dress up day, it also has a purpose and is a chance to have deeper conversations.”
Ms Haapanen said this event was in line with the school’s values of “respect, relationships and responsibility”.
The school will also be teaching the students about what farmers all over the Eyre Peninsula do.
The Bureau of Meteorology reports Australia experienced its driest July since 2002 with below average rainfall for most of southern Australia.
Year 2 student Sahara Treagus said she was happy to be able to help the farmers and help provide food for their animals.
Ms Haapanen said she hoped other schools and community groups would also help fundraise for farmers as collectively people could help make a difference.

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Terence Blanchard Quintet
Christ Church Cranbrook
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
December 23, 2017
The idea of inviting a jazz combo to help ring in the Christmas season isn't new to the folks at Christ Church Cranbrook. The Episcopal congregation in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan has sponsored a Christmas Eve jazz mass for three years running, with bassist Rodney Whitaker
's hand-picked band becoming an essential holiday staple for many church members and guests. But this is just one aspect of the church's mission to engage the jazz world, as Rector Bill Danaher has been eager to forge musical partnerships with Detroit-based cultural organizations like the Carr Center, which will be collaborating with the church when it hosts an upcoming performance of Duke Ellington
's Sacred Concert in 2018. Its historic neo-Gothic architecture alone renders Christ Church a magnificent space for such high-profile musical endeavors.
It thus made perfect sense to find Terence Blanchard
on the schedule for a free Christmas concert on Saturday, December 23. The Grammy award-winning trumpeter, composer, and Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Jazz Chair of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra brought a quintet for an evening of seasonal favorites that delivered plenty of holiday delight to over 500 enthusiastic listeners. And with all the proceeds of a goodwill offering going to Haven, a local nonprofit dedicated to supporting victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault, there was even more reason to rejoice at such a wonderful opportunity to commemorate the season.
Blanchard was joined by some old friends for the performance. Rodney Whitaker held the bass duties for Blanchard back in the 1990s during his tenure with Columbia Records, and pianist Aaron Parks
joined him in the early 2000s on some of his Blue Note dates. The relative newcomers were vocalist Quiana Lynell
and drummer Nate Winn
, who rounded out the quintet.
Blanchard introduced Lynell, this year's winner of the Sarah Vaughan Vocal Competition, as a recent discovery. But she took the stage with poise and panache and brought a warmth and lighthearted humor to the night's proceedings that won the crowd convincingly from the opening tune, "Sleigh Ride," forward. Although the band's repertoire hewed closely to some of the most well-known Christmas standards, Lynell's creativity and impressive range fueled every piece, making each one come alive with an irresistible freshness.
Fans who came expecting the kind of boundary-stretching approach of Blanchard's E-Collective group (as featured on 2015's Breathless
, for instance) may have been somewhat disappointed, as the band stayed locked into straight-ahead jazz mode. No excursions into electronics or R&B-flavored material were on offer. But it was an imaginative program nevertheless. Expansive, modal arrangements of "Sleigh Ride" and "Silent Night" left plenty of room for Lynell's vocal artistry as well as opportunities for Parks and Blanchard to stretch out, while "Let it Snow" pivoted back and forth between a laid-back, funky rhythm and straight-up swing. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" may have swung the hardest, with Lynell's perfect syncopation and gospel flourishes combining with Blanchard's feisty upper-register flurries to provide one of the evening's highlights. And the gritty blues-based treatment of "Merry Christmas, Baby" was the band's ultimate chance to let loose, with solo opportunities for all.
The music was just as stimulating during the quieter moments. Parks's gorgeous harmonic touches on "Christmas Song" gave new life to that most shopworn of holiday classics. And Lynell's astonishing rendition of "O Holy Night," accompanied only by Parks, revealed her prodigious classical training as she hit every note with ease, taking the audience with her into more devotional territory. While the entire band was superb, in many respects this was Lynell's night: she left no doubt of her talents as a skilled chanteuse and a major vocal presence.
By the end of the evening, Blanchard's quintet provided more than just memorable music performed with grace and dedication. Even more importantly, audience members were given another reminder of what the irrepressible spirit of jazz can do to enhance the yuletide season.

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Liverpool Disco Festival are proud to reveal their next artists starring on Saturday May 6th, joining forces with the 30th anniversary of the legendary Southport Weekender. With local disco exponents Hustle and Croatian icons SUNcéBeat, they have all come together to present a beautiful weekend of music in the city’s resplendent Baltic Triangle.
The Southport Weekender remains a seminal and celebrated event which has helped shaped the UK’s festival scene, one of the most influential festivals whose influence and music-blueprint extends around the world. They have booked pretty much every essential live act and DJ across the house, disco, jazz, funk and soul spectrums, and are weaving their magic – embracing all three decades of it this year – into the Liverpool Disco Festival’s second event in the city. Set in the Baltic Triangle – Liverpool’s thriving cultural quarter – the festival takes place at Constellations, the Camp and Furness, Great Baltic Warehouse, New Bird Street Warehouse, Hangar 34 and 24 Kitchen Street.
Taking over the Camp and Furnace, Glitterbox is one of the world’s most flamboyant and hedonistic parties. The club experience is enhanced by dancers and performers, but the crowd are always the true stars of the show – open-minded, passionate, and encompassing all ages, colours, genders and sexual orientations. In 2016, Glitterbox reached a new high in Ibiza, with Fridays at Space seen as the very best nights on the island. Over in London, Glitterbox continues to sell out Ministry of Sound and the party is returning to We Are FSTVL and Defected Croatia this summer. Glitterbox is making a rare adventure outside of London and coming to Liverpool for a very special show.
Widely regarded as one of the world’s first superstar DJs, David Morales grew up during dance music’s most influential era and frequented its legendary clubs such as The Loft and the Paradise Garage in NYC. He has remixed and produced everyone from Mariah Carey to Michael Jackson and the Pet Shop Boys to Jamiroquai, with a unique mercurial touch which has influenced his long running Def Mix label and agency. David is playing a disco set and after party house set at the festival, illustrating his vast depth of knowledge between and across the genres.
Next up is DJ Jazzy Jeff who has been wowing the world with his flawless turntable skills, innovative production and musical versatility for many years. The revered multiple Grammy and American Music Awards nominee is a pioneering turntable tactician, famed for his technical ability as much as his tune selection; he is most certainly a magnificent addition to the weekend.
And the beating heart of Glitterbox himself, Simon Dunmore, also joins the festival. The founder of Defected Records, one of the world’s longest running house music labels, continues to develop both brands in new and exciting ways. Simon himself continues to spin across the world, bringing his decades of acumen and experience to Liverpool.
They join the already announced D-Train and Ultra Naté live, plus DJing are Tony Humphries (4hr Zanzibar set), Joey Negro, Jellybean Benitez, Danny Krivit, John Morales, Nicky Siano, Mr Scruff, DJ Spen, Karizma, Rahaan, Al Kent, Lenny Fontana, Graeme Park, Jamie 3:26, Red Greg, Mark Seven, Get Down Edits, Neil Pierce, Craig Smith, Ronnie Herel, Terry Jones, Bigger, Andy Davies, Paul ‘Bozak’ Morrissey, Davide Fiorese, Mark Stone, Paul Stuart, Natasha Kitty Katt, James Morgan, Jimmy Allen, Gavin Kendrick, Kamma, Masalo, The Queen and Disco, No Fakin’ DJs, Groovement Soul and Ghetto Child DJs.
The Baltic Triangle is a historic city central area, which is enjoying a burgeoning renaissance, and is now the city’s thriving cultural quarter. Just a stone’s throw from the Albert Dock – Liverpool’s World Heritage Site – and an abundance of fine bars, restaurants and shops, the Triangle has been reclaimed and resurrected by a growing colony of creative people and independent venues. Many boutique hotels and apartments are nearby for anyone wanting to stay over during the festival. Get your tickets here


The three members of Wyoming congressional delegation is among 28 Republican lawmakers who oppose changing the Clean Water Act to clarify that it applies to all surface water in the United States, not strictly navigable water.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said in a release Tuesday that the federal government shouldn't regulate "mud puddles and prairie potholes."
The 11 senators and 17 representatives say the measure would give the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers "virtually unlimited regulatory control over all wet areas" within states.
The federal act is subject to discussion because it does not define the proximity of a polluted stream to navigable water in order for the smaller body of water to be regulated under the law. Federal courts including the U.S. Supreme Court have offered conflicting opinions about that, said Steve Jones, watershed protection program attorney with the Lander-based Wyoming Outdoor Council.
He said streams deserve to be included in the Clean Water Act.
"I don't understand why the Wyoming delegation doesn't believe that coverage is worthwhile," Jones said.
The GOP lawmakers expressed long-held concerns in the West about the federal government meddling in western land and water issues.
"Somehow, Washington thinks they can do a better job than local water managers. This bill simply represents another massive power grab in the West by a Congress that wouldn't know a puddle from a spring," Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., said in a release.
The Clean Water Act dates back to 1972. The proposed bill wouldn't make major changes to the Clean Water Act but merely preserve the act as it was enforced for decades, said the bill sponsor, Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold, in an e-mail statement to The Associated Press.
"This bill would stop the rollback of the landmark law, which has protected Americans' drinking water, as well as the natural habitats of all sorts of fish and wildlife for over three decades," Feingold said.
He said the proposal is supported by a broad range of hunting and fishing groups, conservation organizations, agriculture groups and others. The lawmakers who oppose the bill are from Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Alaska, Kansas, Colorado, California, Montana, Nebraska, Texas, Oregon and South Dakota. They include Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
The Clean Water Restoration Act cleared the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on June 18 and has 24 co-sponsors, all Democrats and most from the East and Midwest. The bill hasn't been introduced in the full Senate.


On his Free Spirit live studio album, Rodgers said, “The union of the band began when we played a couple of charity shows in the U.K. The show set-list was Free heavy, where we played a lot of their music. The band just really impressed me with the way they interpreted those songs, and I promised them one day we would tour it. We finished recording off the DVD and the album.”
Rodgers listed the closing tune “Catch a Train” as his personal favorite song on the album, at the moment. “We recorded that with Free, but we never played it live,” he said. “The same holds true for ‘Love You So’. They are like new songs when we play them live. It’s wonderful.”
“There were many tour highlights but when Brian Johnson and Robert Plant joined me for a jam on stage in Oxford all hell broke loose,” he said. “The fans could not believe their eyes or their ears. We played the ’50s hit ‘Money, That’s What I Want’.”
On the key to longevity in the music industry, Rodgers said, “It is interesting that all the music has validity. Isn’t it? The music that I listened to when I was starting out was from a lot of blues musicians. Those guys lived their life, and that came out in their music. It is so amazing and so distinctive, and they have definitely stood the test of time. We may have drunk from the same well a little bit.”
He shared that he liked the music of guitar legend Link Wray. “I liked Link Wray. I gravitated towards him when I was 21, when I thought I was all grown up at the time,” he said, and sang the chorus of Link Wray’s “Fire and Brimstone” over the phone conversation. “I love that album,” he said, praising Wray.
For aspiring singer-songwriters, Rodgers said, “You will come across lots of temptations. Stick to your guns and be yourself, no matter what. Stick to your music and try to get better every day.”
North American Summer Tour
On August 14, 2018, Rodgers, along with Jeff Beck and Wilson will be performing at the Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York, as part of the “Stars Align” Tour. “I am changing it up for the American tour. I am going to include some material, about six songs, from my Bad Company days. The songs go together quite well,” he said.
Rodgers continued, “I am looking forward to it. We are going into rehearsals next week. After Ann Wilson goes on, Jeff [Beck] and I will alternate and headline the night. I will have the best seat in the house, watching Ann and Jeff on the side of the stage. Jeff is going to be amazing. Jones Beach is a fantastic venue.”
Digital transformation of the music industry
Regarding the impact of technology on the music business, Rodgers said, “Technology has really exploded, and it is exploding every day. It is hard to keep up with it. I am really old school. I still listen to vinyl, and I still get a lot of pleasure from vinyl. I understand that vinyl hits the human ear like a nice wave. Digital hits the ear in steps, and I think you can detect that on some level. Some digital is very good. The iPhones are amazing these days. We used an analog desk on the tour, and that’s partially why we got an authentic sound.”
The iconic British rocker defined the word success as “peace of mind.” “When I left home at 17 years old, I realized that I was looking for three things: to survive, to find peace of mind and to make music while I was doing that, and that is what I am still seeking and that is what I am still doing,” he said.
Free Spirit is available on iTunes. “To all the people that came to the shows in the U.K., thank you. It was an amazing reception. It was a love-fest and people loved the music and they loved how we were putting it across. They demonstrated our love for us, and it was absolutely fantastic. It was the greatest tour of my life. I look forward to doing more,” he said.
To learn more about Paul Rodgers, his music and 2018 touring schedule, check out his official website.
Read More: Digital Journal reviewed Paul Rodgers’ live album Free Spirit.


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Traditional Values, Western Culture Collide in India
Monday, May 21, 2007; 11:00 AM
Few issues symbolize India's contrasts and divisions more than the debate over public displays of affection, which touches on issues related to family values, politics and just how much and how fast India should mirror the West. The issue of public amorousness was brought into sharp focus last month when Richard Gere, the enduring Hollywood heartthrob, swept Bollywood starlet Shilpa Shetty into a scandalous embrace at a public event and kissed her a few times, garnering headlines across the globe and leading to fiery protests.
Shanti Kumar, an associate professor at the University of Texas, was online Monday, May 21 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss the changing culture of India, the backlash from traditionalists, and how the conflict reflects and affects the West.
Indians Divided on Kissing A Cultural Taboo Goodbye (Post, May 20)
The transcript follows.
Kumar is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas. He is the author of " Gandhi Meets Primetime: Globalization and Nationalism in Indian Television."
Shanti Kumar: Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining this discussion.
Albuquerque, N.M.: Do you think the fact that Gere is a Westerner fueled the reaction about his embrace of the Indian actress?
Shanti Kumar: Yes, but not just because he is a Westerner. The fact that Gere is a big-time Hollywood actor had a lot to do with the controversy as well.
Stanford, Calif.: To what extent can this brouhaha be seen as a clash between The Lexus and The Olive Tree, with Olive Trees being tended by right-wing haberdashers. This is the question that Wax had in mind when she set out to explore the same in her article. I disagree with her assessment. Let me follow this up with a question as to what extent is this case merely about India's bankrupt judicial system and its poorly defined archaic laws and poorly trained justices.
Shanti Kumar: I am not sure if India's judicial system is the problem here. The courts may work very slowly, but they often do work. The supreme court recently stayed the case against Shetty and Gere.
Bowie, Md.: I think the problem with Gere is that he was so over-the-top blatant with his actions to seem like he didn't care about another culture or country's rules. That was the biggest issue.
Shanti Kumar: Yes, Gere's actions may have seemed over the top to many in India. But as Emily Wax says in her article, there are many different opinions on this issue in India. Those who protested and filed the cases in the courts are only one small segment of the society.
Gaithersburg, Md.: Namaskar. Who are these people who are the religious police of India? We are not like the Saudis or Taliban. India still is very rural and backward, and it is these people who are backward that are having a problem. You and I living in the West but originally from India do not have any hang-ups. What is your view?
Shanti Kumar: Yes, there are many poor people in India, and a large part of India's population is in rural areas. They may not like or endorse public kissing, but remember they were not the ones to protest the kiss or take Shetty and Gere to the courts. The people you call the "religious police" are affiliated with the Hindu nationalist parties in India. They use incidents like this to stir up controversy and gain visibility in the media for their own political agendas.
Columbus, Ohio: The cultural divide as alluded by the lead-in is artificial, in my humble opinion. The recent "staged" furore was managed by a right-wing group. India is certainly in throes of a "change" on all fronts, but I think any serious and scholarly study should focus less on these "staged" events.
Shanti Kumar: India is a very diverse country, so there are many cultural divides on all sorts of issues. But yes, those who staged the furore were politically motivated, and they often use the media to gain publicity for their cause.
In the media-saturated world we live in, staged events are the way in which political groups try to gain publicity. So I would argue that scholarly studies must focus on how the media are being used by different groups in politics and culture.
Washington, D.C.: Emily Wax did briefly mention the aborting of millions of females, dowry system, numerous cases of rapes etc. Why is not there more outcry over these issues rather than two actors kissing each other (on the cheek)?
Shanti Kumar: You raise a good question. The groups which focus on the Gere-Shetty incident may not be interested in such issues, but there are many, many groups in India who are working very hard on such issues. Unfortunately they do not get the kind of media attention that they deserve (in fact the Gere-Shetty event was organized for an AIDS awareness campaig, but more attention has been given to the kiss than the AIDS awareness campaign in this case, for example).
Martinez, Ga.: The Richard Gere episode is the height of Indian hypocrisy. Have these holier-than-thou politicians and judges watched any Hindi movies? The women with their skirts 4 inches below the belly buttons, minimum cloths on top -- as if they have forgotten to wear something -- gyrate, swirl and jump in the name of dance. One is afraid their dresses might drop off. They should tighten their censor board before they scream about kissing in public (I am not condoning that).
Shanti Kumar: Yes, anyone who has watched a Bollywood film made in the recent past has probably seen a lot more that could be deemed controversial than the Gere-Shetty kiss.
But hypocrisy is not unique to India. Such "hypocrisy" exists everywhere these days -- including of course the U.S. (think about all the sex and exposure in Hollywood films and the controversy that is generated by events like the Janet Jackson episode during the Super Bowl). More than hypocrisy, I think it is a matter of how certain groups are seeking to use the media to gain publicity.
Washington, D.C.: As an Indian-American raised here but who has spent a lot of time in India, I have mixed feelings about the reaction in India to the Gere-Shetty incident. On the one hand, I think charging them with a crime was somewhat ridiculous. On the other, I think Gere's behavior was out of line. Perhaps it is acceptable in Hollywood to behave like that toward a colleague during what is essentially a presentation/speech, but in any other industry in the U.S. it would not be appropriate for one professional to behave like that to another. So I don't think the outrage was that extreme.
Shanti Kumar: Okay, but we must distinguish between outrage and organized protests by politically-motivated groups. We can all debate whether or not Gere's behavior was out of line, but as you rightly point out trying to criminalize that behavior is also very troubling.
Dublin, Ohio: Modern India's approach to eroticism is so, so tasteless and puerile. Ancient India was so much more emancipated. The people who are raising hell in India on this issue are no different than the Taliban. And even here in the U.S. we have similar elements. This is not something unique to India as is being made out. We have here in Ohio groups with similar attitudes.
Shanti Kumar: Yes, this is certainly not unique to India. But I am not sure if it is a question of morality in ancient India versus modern India. It is more a question of the morality of different kinds of groups in modern India today. While there are many groups in modern India whose approach to eroticism is tasteless and puerile, there are also many other groups in modern India whose approach you may find "more emancipated." Wouldn't you agree?
Houston: India has one of the highest incidences of AIDS and of female and male prostitution. Isn't this contradictory to this "Victorian Age" position? And to what extent are these mores colonial in origin? Isn't India where Kama Sutra originally was written?
Shanti Kumar: The issue of the colonial origins of many of these mores and cultural values is a very important one. There are many academic books that focus on the issue of how the rise of Hindu nationalism is closely tied to the colonial discourses of religion in India. In that sense, Hindu fundamentalism is, in fact, a very modern phenomenon.
San Diego: Do you think that the reaction of the Hindu right to the Gere-Shetty kissing incident is part of a larger reaction against global secular society and its values -- for instance, there is also a growing sense of backlash against public sexuality in many Muslim countries, where the U.S. and other Western nations are perceived as promoting immorality. In other words, has the increasingly sexualized global media created conditions ripe for conservative elements to exploit?
Shanti Kumar: You raise a very important issue about the connection between globalization and the ways in which global media culture is being exploited by religious conservative movements around the world (including, I might add the U.S.) While the increasingly sexualized global media culture may create conditions for conservative elements to exploit, the same global media culture also provides the avenues for the more "liberal" elements to question and counter the conservative elements in society.
Fairfax, Va.: Is this really a matter of "traditional" vs. "Western" values, as implied by the chat title? I am always suspicious of the term "tradition," especially because it often enough is deployed as a way to argue for one's contemporary agenda. And if we use everybody's favorite example, the (no longer applicable) story of the Indian screen kiss, weren't the censorship laws first drawn up by prudish Brits? It seems a more complex story than tradition vs. Western, or (ugh, ugh, sorry previous chatter) "Lexus" vs. "Olive tree."
I would say there seems to be a lot of right-wing politicking that makes religious claims/claims to tradition in both the U.S. and India, and it's interesting to try to focus in why they both are so obsessed/fearful about the personal lives and choices of individuals -- especially as cities ostensibly become more "cosmopolitan," the U.S. more "diverse," the world more "globalized."
Shanti Kumar: Yes, we should always be very suspicious of dichotomous terms like "Western" versus "traditional" because they force us to choose between two false alternatives. The reality of modern life in India -- and elsewhere in the world" is much more complex than convenient titles (yes, like "Lexus versus Olive Tree). It is often the case that what we in the "West" see as "Western" influences in India are seen by many modern Indians as aspects of their own "modernization." (Modernization does not necessarily equate with Westernization.)
If you are interested in my views on this issue, please see my article on the Gere-Shetty controversy.
Washington, D.C.: How can we provide our children here in the U.S. with the knowledge and traditions of the core Indian culture? Do you have any thoughts about how we best can attain these?
Shanti Kumar: One of the best ways to teach our children is by making them feel part of a larger global community where they recognize that the world is much more complex than simple debates like "us versus them" or "traditional versus modern" or "Western versus non-Western." It is very important for students in the U.S. to take courses in schools and colleges that introduce them to the diversity of cultures that exist in India and in other countries around the world.
Washington, D.C.: I am amazed at the inaccurate, stereotypical views many Americans continue to have about India, and I think Ms. Wax's article suffered from this type of bias to some degree. Do Americans just not realize that in a country of one billion, everyone is not the same? And can the U.S. please get over its primarily bi-focused stereotypes -- India is either "Kama Sutra/yoga/spiritualism" or "poverty/starvation." People here seem to think there isn't anything else!
Shanti Kumar: You are right that India is a country of more than one billion where there a great diversity of viewpoints. But I must say that unlike many American journalists who have written about this topic, Emily Wax did a much better job of trying to situate the Gere-Shetty controversy in the larger context of the debate over cultural mores and values in India. Yes, it is very hard to get away from the convenient dichotomies of "Western" versus "Indian" or the common stereotypes about "poverty" and "spiritualism." In an increasingly global media culture, we must all try very hard to move away from such stereotypes and convenient dichotomies -- and that is the challenge not just for journalists, but also for academics and readers.
Shanti Kumar: Thank you all for a great conversation on this very important topic. Goodbye.
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Mike Adams from NaturalNews tested the flu vaccine last year at his Forensic Food Lab. And you might just want to know that the influenza vaccines made by GlaxoSmithKline was found to contain shockingly high levels: Over 50,000 ppb mercury.
That's 25,000 times the EPA limit of mercury in drinking water.
Here are the actual results of what Forensic Food Labs found in the influenza vaccine from GSK (lot #9H2GX):
Aluminum: 0.4 ppm
Mercury: 51 ppm
All tests were conducted via calibrated, high-end ICP-MS instrumentation.
Furthermore, it is questionable whether it in fact even works. Many doctors don't even use it on their own family members due to the issues surrounding these types of vaccines.
Flu shots are heavily promoted for children.
However it turns out flu shots are never scientifically tested for safety or efficacy in children.
In fact this is what the insert for this vaccine directly admits:
Safety and effectiveness of Flulaval in pediatric patients have not been established.
Taking into consideration, that especially kids' brains are still developing and super sensitive to heavy metals - often resulting in later mental issues and developmental problems. Not good.
And how do you think an elderly man or pregnant woman's immune system reacts to getting pumped up with heavy metals?
Yeah, no, not that great.
Many autoimmune disorders as well as heart problems can be traced right back to heavy metal accumulation.
This doesn’t mean that ALL vaccines are bad - some vaccines we absolutely need because the dangers of contracting the disease far outweighs the cons of the vaccines. As with anything in life, it is a weighing of pros against cons case by case.
References: The Cochrane Library. Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults. Vittorio Demicheli et al. Forensic Food Labs

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A hat-trick of staff from Media Technology went up to G.R.A.S. Sound in Vibration in Bedford yesterday (15/05/17) for a series of seminars on headphone and headset measurements. Matt, Lee and Paul attended sessions on headset test systems and tools, learning about the latest improvements to ear couplers and anthropometric pinna.
They saw a range of their tests fixtures from the fully-fledged KEMAR Head and Torso Simulator (HATS) – aimed at research and design applications – to simple flat-plate systems for checking consistency in production lines. It was a great opportunity to see some technical data on the systems and understand how they relate to current standards.
There were interesting discussions around testing Bluetooth and noise cancelling headphones as well as the importance of phase response and filtering in high resolution audio.


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Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute (RVSRI) unveiled its first injectable-inhaled vaccine of Covid-19 recombinant protein, “Rzai Covo-Pars”, in the presence of the minister of agriculture on Sun.
“This vaccine has been produced under the direct supervision of the Iranian Ministry of Health and in full cooperation with the Medical Equipment Department,” he said, “We hope to successfully pass the 1st and 2nd-in-human trials.”
his Institute began its activities in the year 1925 by producing a vaccine against Rinderpest under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture. Rinderpest at the time had caused large casualties in the cattle population of the country, but the Razi institute team very rapidly took up the research and production of the Rinderpest vaccine.
Iran will begin COVID-19 vaccination rollout this week, President Hassan Rouhani announced on Saturday, two days after the first shipment of Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine arrived in Tehran.
The announcement comes amid fears of a fourth wave of the coronavirus that was first reported in Iran in February last year, marking one year of the pandemic.
The first shipment of Sputnik V vaccine, the only foreign vaccine to be registered and approved in Iran, arrived by Iran’s Mahaan Airlines on Thursday.
In the first phase of vaccination, Rouhani said high-risk groups including healthcare workers on the frontline, followed by the elderly and those with critical ailments, will be administered the vaccine.
He said the vaccination program for the entire population of 80 million will take around eight months, as the second shipment of the Russian vaccine is expected to arrive by late February.
- source : IRAN NEWS
Original News : https://irannewsdaily.com/2021/02/iran-unveils-new-covid-vaccine-razi-covo-pars/


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Revenues continue to drop in New England as the weather temps refuse to rise to Spring-like averages. Not only just in Connecticut, but now Maine is reporting a decline in revenue.
Slot machine gambling was down $15 million at the Oxford Casino in 2014 while the Hollywood Casino in Bangor saw a $10 million drop, but the state’s top gambling regulator says he’s not surprised and both casinos are making money.
Could it be that the novelty of Oxford is wearing off, or can we blame it on such a terrible winter?
Connecticut’s casinos say slot machine revenue fell sharply in March, with Foxwoods Resort Casino citing an “ultra-competitive” market. Foxwoods reported Tuesday that the share of wagers, known as revenue, was $44.6 million, down 10 percent from March 2013. Total slot machine wagering was down 5 percent.
The Mohegan Sun reported revenue down 12 percent. Total wagering was an 11 percent drop from more than $700 million. Robert J. Soper, chief executive of Mohegan Sun, said the unusually cold March hurt business, but finances are stabilizing.
Let’s hope it’s just the weather. A little warmth, extra retail (Tanger Outlets) additional projects (Oxford & Mohegan hotel construction) and expansion options (CT satellites & Foxwoods in MA) will stimulate more visits.
That’s all for now.

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looks blankly about room so... soooooo... Ello' duckies this is my first fan fic! I can just see the excitement on your faces. I got my first CM comic last Christmas and have fallen in love with the series! so here it is, wanted to make my first story a good one so theres gonna be a lemon/lime/grapefriut in a later chapter, but this fic isn't all... you know... 'few opening lines/ lemon/END.' its an actual stooory! whoa, can you sense the individuality? oh and Ill try my best to keep em' in character, but if they go OOC every once in a while blame my short attention span. whoot feel free to show compassion for my noobness and sheer disdain of all things gramatical, but please flaminig is welcome also (welcome but usually ignored) pokes text wow, the intro was like a novel in itself...
The setting before you (the viewer and overall reader of this story in case you've forgotten) is that of the Moon Shine bar. At a passing glance one might mistake its humble outward appearance to be nothing but a second rate bar, but if you happened to wander inside you would find yourself bathed in a silver and blue atmoshpere. The tables are filled with people laughing and talking happily, while ordering their food and sipping champeign. near the back of the room is a good sized bar, behind it a rather short green haired boy quietly stands, skewring bite sized pieces of food with small toothpicks. the passing glare from the lights overhead flashes on his large eyeglasses giving him a calm yet aware appearence. On the opposite end of the long counter is another boy, seeming a bit younger, only about 17. His aqua colored hair seems to ,surprisingly, fit in with the silvers and blues of the room. He stands just as quietly as the other, drying a tray full of sopping dishes, stopping occasionally to look nonchalantly at his handy-work before grabbing the next glass.
Your attention shifts suddenly to the front of the room where a grand piano is situated, to its right a confident looking boy of about 19. his blond hair and blue eyes suggest a foriegner, that is until you hear him begin to sing. He has a kansia dialect, and a voice that could make angels croon (not to mention every women in the club) you hear a shout from behind the swinging kitchen doors that once again drags your atention back over to the back of the room. You turn just in time to see a brown head stick out as he says something to the first boy you saw. shaking his head he gets back to his toothpicks, making the taller brown haired boy groan and sulk back into the kitchen very much like a scolded puppy. Just as you think to yourself 'they have quite the staff' our last character appears. Well there's definatly no mistaking her age seeing as she stuffs a school uniform into her bag before walking over to the bar counter to grab her note pad and tray. She must be 17 by the looks of it, still in high school. Her short blond hair framing her bright blue eyes. She smiles sweetly at the shorter boy and walks over to her first table...
(intsros bore me!) gnaws on mouse next chappie com'in soon!


In the Age of the Customer, organizations must create data-driven strategies to figure out what their customers want. In his Total Retail article, Nisum's Sajid Mohamedy explains, “Why Retailers Need to Invest in a Digital Transformation Strategy Today.” You can read the full text below or see the article on Total Retail here.
Why Retailers Need to Invest in a Digital Transformation Strategy Today
Two years ago, innovation expert Tom Goodwin penned an article for TechCrunch in which he observed the following phenomenon:
“Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Something interesting is happening.”
His words ring just as true today, if not more so, as they did in 2015. A retailer’s true competitive advantage is intangible; it lies in a business’ ability to meet customers where they are and seamlessly connect them with the products and services they are looking for, at the moment they are looking.
The Age of the Customer
Since the Industrial Revolution, American enterprise has operated within a number of evolving paradigms. At the beginning of the 20th century, we heralded the age of manufacturing. Then came the age of distribution in the 1960s, and then the age of information in the 1990s. By 2010, a very distinct yet seismic shift was occurring in the relationship between buyers (consumers) and sellers (organizations).
The relationship had always been very one-sided: Sellers were in charge of not only the product or service they were offering, but also the price, product or service information available to prospective buyers, and sales channel. Buyers were essentially only able to control their purchasing decision.
However, thanks to the rise in accessibility and sophistication of mobile, social and other digital technologies, this model has flipped. Today, buyers don’t solely rely on the product or service description provided by the company, they also source online reviews and their social networks for recommendations when considering a purchase. Savvy customers price compare across the web for a number of variables in order to purchase from the seller offering the lowest price, best shipping rates, no-fee in-store pickup, etc. Consumers also have the power to decide on their preferred sales channel, be it in-store or online. The only thing retailers retain complete control over is the product or service they are bringing to market.
Brands that are stuck in their ways and have yet to adapt their business strategy accordingly are putting themselves at a huge risk of learning their lesson the hard way. As a cautionary tale, we can look to United Airlines’ recent headline-making fail, in which a customer was forcibly and violently removed from an aircraft because airline employees had booked their own transport on the same flight at the last minute, effectually overselling the flight. Other passengers recorded and posted the incident to social media in real-time. Furthermore, even when faced with such horrific evidence of what had transpired, United’s CEO gave a completely tone deaf response, still (falsely) believing that he had the power to control the narrative, and as a result, people’s perceptions of United when deciding what airline to fly.
Clearly, United Airlines did not understand their customers’ needs nor did they understand the power of their customers’ in today’s digital age, and as such, did not have the proper business strategies in place to prevent such a situation. In theory, if United had embraced a digital, customer-centric mindset, the backend ticketing system would have not allowed for airline employees to overbook a flight, especially once all passengers had already been boarded. But the more important lesson here is that United Airlines hadn’t yet woken up to the truth that brands are no longer in charge of their own reputation management. Today, consumers have taken up that responsibility and one bad customer experience can ruin a company.
Digital Transformation Today
It is not just the Uber’s, the Facebook’s, the Alibaba’s, the Airbnb’s and other digital natives who can thrive in the age of the customer. At the crux of adopting a customer-centric business model is implementing a strategy for digital transformation. When executed correctly, through the right combination of people, tools, information and organizational focus to power a data-driven approach, digital transformation allows organizations to know their customers better. For example, Retailer X will know that Customer A only shops during online promotions, Customer B often places items in their online cart before coming into the store and buying those items, and Customer C prefers to order online and pick up at the brick-and-mortar location around the corner.
Once organizations know their customers better, they are able to serve them better. In today’s crowded marketplace, a sophisticated understanding of customers and prospects will be the cream that rises to the top. For enterprises that have yet to adopt a digital transformation strategy, this is perhaps the strongest impetus to do so, and fast. In fact, according to the MIT Center for Digital Business, companies that have embraced digital transformation are 26 percent more profitable than industry competitors, and on average receive 12 percent higher market valuations.
Consumers have more options than ever when making a buying decision, even after they’ve decided on the good or service they want to purchase. Which retailer offers free shipping on this item? Which the fastest shipping? What about promo codes? In-store pick-up? Are returns free? And so on. Deploying a digital transformation strategy with the goal of finding out which questions matter to which customers, and answering those questions before consumers have to ask, can be game-changing for any organization. For business leaders, every day spent without a digital transformation strategy is another day lost in customer and revenue potential.


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MILLVILLE – A public hearing will be held at the Dec. 9 Millville City Council meeting to consider a proposed ordinance banning the synthetic cannabinoid known as “spice.” “I would like to see a public hearing about the ordinance,” Mayor Mike Johnson said. In other business, a new co-advisor for the city Youth Council was appointed and approved to replace the current co-advisor. The current co-advisor became employed and therefore needed to be replaced. The council is considering bundling Internet and telephone services in order to save money. They discussed their options and decided to check different companies out before making their final decision.
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SPYSHOTS: MG HS SUV spotted in Juru, Malaysia – paultan.org
The MG HS appears set to join the C-segment SUV fray in Malaysia, with one example sighted in Juru Autocity in Perai, Penang by paultan.org reader, Faiz SMJ.
In markets where the MG HS is already on sale, such as Australia, the C-segment SUV is equipped with a 1.5 litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine that produces 160 hp and 250 Nm of torque, and is mated to a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. Comparable sub-2.0 litre turbocharged SUVs in the Malaysian market include the Volkswagen Tiguan and Proton X70.
Thus equipped, the MG HS makes comparable power to that from the fully electric ZS EV crossover, which outputs 150 PS but more torque at 350 Nm from its electric drive motor, which is fed by a 44.5 kWh lithium-ion battery offering up to 335 km of range.
Only the exterior of this local example of the MG HS has been photographed so far, though the MG Australia web site shows that the crossover is equipped with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, accessed through a 10.1-inch full colour infotainment screen. Hardware connectivity on Australian-market vehicles include four USB ports, while audio comes courtesy of a six-speaker system.
Safety equipment on Australian-market versions also gain the MG Pilot suite, which packs AEB, adaptive cruise control, lane change assist, blind spot detection, lane departure warning, smart speed assist and traffic jam assist, according to the brand’s Australian website. Other comfort features for the HS in that market include configurable interior lighting and a full-length panoramic sunroof.
For reference, Australian pricing for the MG HS starts from AUD29,900 (RM93,455) for the first of five variants, up to AUD40,690 (RM127,181) for the top variant that is on sale Down Under.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus Specs: This new tablet brings productivity for an affordable price. The tablet comes with some flagship specifications. It was launched alongside a cheaper model Galaxy Tab S9 FE which we have covered here in a separate post. Below are the full Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus specs.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus Specs
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus has a 12.4-inch IPS LCD touchscreen with FHD+ resolution and 90Hz refresh rate. The device comes with Samsung’s Vision Booster for improved viewing in outdoor environments and dual speakers with Dolby Atmos.
The Galaxy Tab S9 FE+ is IP68-rated and comes bundled with the S Pen stylus, which is water- and dust-resistant. The tablet is available in four color options Mint, Silver, Gray, and Lavender.
At the helm of performance, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus is powered by the Exynos 1380 5G chipset. The tablet comes in both Wi-Fi-only and 5G versions with 6/8GB RAM and 128 GB or 256 GB storage versions and you can expand it via the microSD card slot.
Camera-wise, around the back is an 8MP main camera + 8MP ultrawide and a 12MP ultrawide front camera. The battery capacity is 10,000 mAh capacity with 45W wired fast charging. And software-wise, it boots Android 13, One UI 5.1 out of the box.
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus Price and Availability
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE Plus price in the US starts at $649 for the Wi-Fi-only version while the 5G model is $700. The Galaxy Tab S9 FE+ is now available for sale and you can buy it using the details in the table below.


The MT-1 Tomahawk Sheath is a slim profile, fully serviceable Kydex® sheath specifically machined and molded for the MT-1. Designed to integrate with PALS/MOLLE webbing systems, the sheath securely retains the Tomahawk, and presents the user a safe method of transport. The fastener & slot pattern on the sheath matches Blade-Tech® Molle-Lok hardware and provides further options for retention on bags, gear, plate carriers, etc.
The Kydex® material of the sheath is CNC trimmed, drilled, countersunk, beveled, and engraved. Each sheath is cut, formed and assembled in house and carefully inspected to assure a snug but usable fit. Fasteners were custom developed for the sheath application. The nuts are made from the most advanced aluminum alloy available 7068-T6511, with a tensile strength comparable to that of some steels. The screws are also custom, and although stainless steel are coated black for a uniform finish.
The sheath is simple, but can can be configured in a multitude of ways. It can be disassembled for cleaning, inspection, repair, or use as a component of another system. It's a sheath that matches the MT-1 in durability, simplicity and functionality.