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During the Trump presidency, one of the strongest currents in our culture was the struggle for social justice, from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter to the recognition of proliferating gender identities. Now, one of the strongest currents is the backlash to all of that.
Resentment of strident progressive politics unites the hapless CNN chief Chris Licht, who complained, in an Atlantic profile, that the network had been producing too much anti-Trump “outrage porn,” and the louche British rock star (and reputed Taylor Swift ex-boyfriend) Matty Healy, who complained, in a New Yorker profile, that artists are now expected “to be liberal academics.” Anger at the perceived constraints of sanctimonious liberalism seems to have red-pilled Elon Musk. It made Ron DeSantis a presidential contender.
And now, with the debut of HBO’s “The Idol,” we have what appears to be the first big-budget TV show of our backlash era.
I say appears because I’ve seen only the first episode; HBO declined my request for advance screeners. Perhaps the six-part series about a masochistic pop star, which debuted its first two episodes at Cannes last month, takes an unexpected turn later. But for now, “The Idol” is interesting mostly for what it reveals about a moment when reaction is disguising itself as edgy transgression.
To write about “The Idol” at all is to fall into a bit of a trap, because the show desperately wants to be a scandal. In March, Rolling Stone reported that “The Idol,” originally intended as a satire of the music business, had devolved into what one source called “sexual torture porn” after the sudden exit of its female director, Amy Seimetz. According to Deadline, Seimetz had been forced out because the show’s co-creator and co-star, Abel Tesfaye, better known as the pop star the Weeknd, wanted to see less of a “female perspective.” (Tesfaye has denied this.)
Sam Levinson, who created the show with Tesfaye and ended up directing it, pronounced himself delighted by the Rolling Stone report. “When my wife read me the article, I looked at her and said, ‘I think we’re about to have the biggest show of the summer,’” he said at Cannes. HBO also leaned into the controversy, marketing “The Idol” as the “sleaziest love story” in Hollywood.
There is, indeed, a lot of sleaze, but the show seems meant to stimulate discourse as much as libido. Lily-Rose Depp plays Jocelyn, a fragile sexpot singer who, it is hinted, had some sort of breakdown following the death of her mother. As the first episode begins, she’s posing for a photo shoot, nearly naked and on her knees, with a hospital bracelet on her wrist. When a youngish creative director expresses qualms about “romanticizing mental illness,” an abrasive Gen X record executive, played by Jane Adams, chides out-of-touch “college-educated internet people” who won’t let the public “enjoy sex, drugs and hot girls.”
The show is on the record exec’s side. Soon a dweeby, performatively progressive intimacy coordinator who tries to stop Jocelyn from revealing her breasts during the photo shoot has been locked in a bathroom. Later, when Jocelyn’s assistant describes Tedros, the unctuous club owner played by Tesfaye, as “so rapey,” Jocelyn replies, “Yeah, I kind of like that about him.” The episode ends with Tedros awakening her creativity by erotically asphyxiating her with her own robe.
I suppose this is meant to be shocking, but what was really striking about the debut episode is its dull nostalgia. Jocelyn, after all, doesn’t really resemble any current female pop stars. The most successful singer in America right now is Swift, whose career has taken her from wistful ingénue to world-weary feminist, and who is both a pop genius and an extremely savvy businesswoman. Megan Thee Stallion may lead with her sexuality, but she’s no submissive broken bird. The stars who’ve been open about their mental health challenges, including Selena Gomez and SZA, certainly don’t sexualize those struggles.
So Jocelyn is a throwback. More than anyone else she resembles Britney Spears, a comparison hammered home in the choreography for the character’s cheesy single “World Class Sinner,” which looks a lot like Spears’s 2001 “I’m a Slave for U.” Spears rose to fame during an earlier moment of backlash, when feminism was considered tired and irrelevant — the buzzword of the time was “postfeminism” — and the culture celebrated a woman’s right to look like a porn star.
“The Idol” seems less like a commentary on today’s music scene than like a wish to return to a prelapsarian period when no one complained about rape culture or toxic masculinity. The debut episode makes a reference to “Basic Instinct,” that 1992 classic of soft-core camp provocation, and Depp has claimed she was inspired by Sharon Stone’s performance. Whether or not that reference is meant as foreshadowing, there’s something apt about it.
“Basic Instinct” now often evokes sentimentality for a more daring, less censorious time; Camille Paglia wrote that Stone gave “the last great sex symbol performance.” But in 2021, Stone claimed that she’d been tricked into the film’s most famous scene — the one where she shows her vagina during an interrogation. (The director, Paul Verhoeven, denies this.) Stone wrote that she even considered trying for an injunction to stop the film’s release. Perhaps she could have used an intimacy coordinator.
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Dirk G. Richard
Dirk G. Richard (1918-2010). Journalist, author and playwright.
Born Dirk Gysbert Richard in 1918.
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Attorneys, Cape Coral, FL: Auto Accident Injury Claims
Negligent driving is a curse that Florida faces everyday. Four of the US’s deadliest intersections are in this state and 23% of all drivers are driving uninsured. Determining your injury claim is easily done by looking at the insurance company’s evaluation of the costs incurred in repair, but there are other losses, such as medical bills, loss of income during recuperation, etc. These costs that you have incurred because of another’s fault should also be compensated for. To ensure that your rights are protected as you seek these compensation claims, hire competent attorneys from Cape Coral, FL, who are experienced in filing auto accident claims.
Types of Injury Claims Handled by Attorneys in Cape Coral, FL
Hopefully the damage is small enough to be settled between the two parties involved in the accident. Most often, the party at fault pays for damages. But if the damages are more and the fault is unclear, then attorneys in Cape Coral, FL, need to be involved, as do the insurance companies. Here are some of the types of claims one can make for an auto accident injury:
Medical Expenses: ER expenses, doctor’s visits, tests, hospital expenses, other treatments and devices such as neck braces and crutches are medical expenses you may have incurred after an auto accident. Also, future medical expenses can be claimed if you need continued hospital care. Medical expenses are typically used as a benchmark for determining the reasonableness of damage awards, so you should discuss with your attorneys in Cape Coral, FL, a ballpark figure of your medical claim foremost.
Pain and Suffering: Pain and suffering are immeasurable, intangible quantities, although damages may be granted for prolonged physical pain and mental anguish that you might suffer due to the accident. The severity of physical pain and mental apprehension, fright, anxiety, loss of dignity, etc, are some of the factors that are used to determine compensation for such claims.
Lost Wages: Had you not been injured you would have earned a certain amount of money, which is now lost to you. Thus, you should file a claim to recover those wages. If your ability to earn has been impaired for the future too, you can claim for that as well.
Loss of Consortium:The uninjured spouse can claim compensation for loss of the benefits of a married life. This may include loss of companionship, sexual relations, comfort, solace and affection.
Property Damage: A claim for the value of property that was damaged can be made.
Be alert at the scene of the auto accident and, if possible, take photographs and gather other evidence because even insurance carriers evaluate the claim according to the types and amounts of damages suffered and the percentage of fault, which is difficult to prove. Your attorneys in Cape Coral, FL, should be able to advise you as to which claims to file and which have enough evidence to back them up.
Attorneys Cape Coral FL – Experienced attorneys in Cape Coral, FL, can help you claim the correct amount of compensation for an auto accident injury. Visit www.gbclaw.com to seek the counsel of a qualified, experienced personal injury team. Contact them today for a free initial consultation.

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Caramoan has been on Filipino tourists radar after groups of Isareli, Turkish, Siberian, and other foreign groups visited the area characterized by dense vegetation and bored by powder white sand beaches splashed by crystal clear waters. These visitors weren’t typical beachcombers that we are use to seeing on the likes of Boracay or Palawan but rather groups from the reality TV show Survivor. For many years Caramoan has hosted the show for different participating countries, thus closing down it’s beauty for those wanting to visit (*This is something you will need to check for when planning). Fortunately for Camille and I, we were both able to first visit in Dec 2013/Jan 2014, ringing the New Year on the Gota Island Resort. During our 4D/3N stay we had a great balance between adventure and relaxation.
On a recent trip (Jan 2016) we rolled into Bicol with over a dozen family members intending on staying on a mainland beach resort but being disappointed with the beach and the resort we decided to drive an extra 4 hours. Thinking it would be an easy few couple hours after having already driven for 9 hours from Manila we chose to go to Caramoan with everybody, none of us were prepared to drive up and down the surrounding jungles that take us to the Caramoan Peninsula.
We did two island tours outlined below:
Tour 1- nearer islands
If you opt for the shorter, closer tour the swimming is better at Matukad Island as the water is very clam and there are spots in the water without coral
and seaweed. *Note- many boatmen will take you back to this island after visiting some of the other islands. Matukad also has a secret lagoon that requires what can almost be called rock-climbing. Caramoan is scattered with limestone islands and walking on limestone can be a bit dangerous with it’s jagged edges. When climbing up the “trail” to visit the secret lagoon shoes are highly recommended. Once up there you will be rewarded with a beautiful view of the beach and a small lagoon containing a 10 kilogram milkfish.
Lahas Island is directly across from Matukad and a short 5 minute ride. There’s a twin beach in the middle of the island that has two shoreline on opposite sides.
7 islands (Matukad, Lahas, Kagbalinad, Sabitang Laya, Bugtong, Cotivas, and Manlawi Sandbar) and Grotto – 3,000-4,000 pesos
Fly- To Naga then take a van from the Naga Van Terminal to Sabang Port (100 php, 1 hour). From Sabang Port take a boat to Guijalo Port (120 php; 2 hours) then a tricycle from the port to Caramoan town (300 php per tricycle; 30 minutes)
Fly to Virac, Catanduanes. Hire a tricycle to Codon Port (300 php; 1 hr). Hire a boat to Caramoan Island (2500 php; 30-45 minutes)
Bus (via Sabang Port) Take a bus from Cubao/Alabang/Pasay to Sabang Port. 800 php; approximately 10 hours
From Sabang Port take a boat to Guijalo Port (120 php; 2 hours) then a tricycle from the port to Caramoan town (300 php per tricycle; 30 minutes)
Bus (via Naga)
Take a bus from Cubao/Alabang/Pasay to Naga. Ordinary bus 600 php, A/C and First class bus 800-1000 php; approximately 9 hours. Then take a van from the Naga Van Terminal to Sabang Port (100 php, 1 hour). From Sabang Port take a boat to Guijalo Port (120 php; 2 hours) then a tricycle from the port to Caramoan town (300 php per tricycle; 30 minutes)
Drive from Manila to Caramoan- We did this with our family and don’t really recommend it as the road for the last couple hours is pretty rough even without any rain. If you do drive you can go straight to Barangay Paniman. From Manila the drive will be 13-15 hours or once in Naga about 4 hours.
The best cheap alternative is Residencia Salvacion which is beachfront, provides free kayaks, and has slow wifi (rather than no wifi)- 400 per person including breakfast. There are also tons of homestays and if you end up going to the port you can arrange there rather than pre-booking.
Alternatively we stayed at Gota Village a few years ago on a package for 4d/3n and it was around 10,000 php for the both of us and was inclusive of meals, tours, a hike, rock-climbing, and karaoke!
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Medieval Latin (n.)
1.Latin used for liturgical purposes during the Middle Ages
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Carmina Cantabrigiensia, Medieval Latin manuscript
|Spoken in||Numerous small states|
|Region||Most of western Europe|
|Era||replaced by Renaissance Latin|
|Writing system||Latin alphabet|
|Official language in||Most states|
Europe, 1000 AD
Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages, primarily as a medium of scholarly exchange and as the liturgical language of the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but also as a language of science, literature, law, and administration. Despite the clerical origin of many of its authors, medieval Latin should not be confused with Ecclesiastical Latin. There is no real consensus on the exact boundary where Late Latin ends and medieval Latin begins. Some scholarly surveys begin with the rise of early Ecclesiastical Latin in the middle of the 4th century, others around AD 500, and still others with the replacement of written Late Latin by written Romance languages starting around the year 900 (see under Late Latin).
Medieval Latin had an enlarged vocabulary, which freely borrowed from other sources. It was heavily influenced by the language of the Vulgate, which contained many peculiarities alien to Classical Latin that resulted from a more or less direct translation from Greek and Hebrew; these peculiarities mirrored the original not only in its vocabulary, but also in its grammar and syntax. Greek provided much of the technical vocabulary of Christianity. The various Germanic languages spoken by the Germanic tribes, who invaded western Europe, were also major sources of new words. Germanic leaders became the rulers of western Europe, and words from their languages were freely imported into the vocabulary of law. Other more ordinary words were replaced by coinages from Vulgar Latin or Germanic sources because the classical words had fallen into disuse.
Latin was also spread to areas such as Ireland and Germany, where Romance languages were not spoken and which had never known Roman rule. Works written in these lands where Latin was a learned language with no relation to the local vernacular also influenced the vocabulary and syntax of medieval Latin.
Since abstract subjects like science and philosophy were communicated in Latin, the Latin vocabulary developed for them is the source of a great many technical words in modern languages. English words like abstract, subject, communicate, matter, probable and their cognates in other European languages generally have the meanings given to them in medieval Latin.
The influence of Vulgar Latin was also apparent in the syntax of some medieval Latin writers, although Classical Latin continued to be held in high esteem and studied as models for literary compositions. The high point of the development of medieval Latin as a literary language came with the Carolingian renaissance, a rebirth of learning kindled under the patronage of Charlemagne, king of the Franks. Alcuin was Charlemagne's Latin secretary and an important writer in his own right; his influence led to a rebirth of Latin literature and learning after the depressed period following the final disintegration of Roman authority in Western Europe.
Although it was simultaneously developing into the Romance languages, Latin itself remained very conservative, as it was no longer a native language and there were many ancient and medieval grammar books to give one standard form. On the other hand, strictly speaking there was no single form of "medieval Latin". Every Latin author in the medieval period spoke Latin as a second language, with varying degrees of fluency, and syntax, grammar, and vocabulary were often influenced by an author's native language. This was especially true beginning around the 12th century, after which the language became increasingly adulterated: late medieval Latin documents written by French speakers tend to show similarities to medieval French grammar and vocabulary; those written by Germans tend to show similarities to German, etc. For instance, rather than following the classical Latin practice of generally placing the verb at the end, medieval writers would often follow the conventions of their own native language instead. Whereas Latin had no definite or indefinite articles, medieval writers sometimes used forms of unus as an indefinite article, and forms of ille (reflecting usage in the Romance languages) as a definite article or even quidam (meaning "a certain one/thing" in Classical Latin) as something like an article. Unlike classical Latin, where esse ("to be") was the only auxiliary verb, medieval Latin writers might use habere ("to have") as an auxiliary, similar to constructions in Germanic and Romance languages. The accusative and infinitive construction in classical Latin was often replaced by a subordinate clause introduced by quod or quia. This is almost identical, for example, to the use of que in similar constructions in French.
In every age from the late 8th century onwards, there were learned writers (especially within the Church) who were familiar enough with classical syntax to be aware that these forms and usages were "wrong" and resisted their use. Thus the Latin of a theologian like St Thomas Aquinas or of an erudite clerical historian such as William of Tyre tends to avoid most of the characteristics described above, showing its period in vocabulary and spelling alone; the features listed are much more prominent in the language of lawyers (e.g. the 11th century English Domesday Book), physicians, technical writers and secular chroniclers. However the use of quod to introduce subordinate clauses was especially pervasive and is found at all levels.
Medieval Latin had ceased to be a living language, and was instead a scholarly language of the minority of educated men in medieval Europe, used in official documents more than for everyday communication. This resulted in two major features of Medieval Latin compared with Classical Latin. First, many authors attempted to "show off" their knowledge of Classical Latin by using rare or archaic constructions, sometimes anachronistically (i.e. haphazardly mixing constructions from Republican and Imperial Latin, which in reality existed centuries apart). Second, education was so poorly developed in the Middle Ages that many lesser scholars had a limited grasp of "proper" Latin, or were increasingly influenced by Vulgar Latin which was mutating into the Romance languages.
Many striking differences between classical and medieval Latin are found in orthography. Perhaps the most striking difference is that medieval manuscripts used a wide range of abbreviations by means of superscripts, special characters etc.: for instance the letters "n" and "s" were often omitted and replaced by a diacritical mark above the preceding or following letter. Apart from this, some of the most frequently occurring differences are as follows. Clearly many of these would have been influenced by the spelling, and indeed pronunciation, of the vernacular language, and thus varied between different European countries.
These orthographical differences were often due to changes in pronunciation or, as in the previous example, morphology, which authors reflected in their writing. By the 16th century, Erasmus complained that speakers from different countries were unable to understand each other's form of Latin.
The gradual changes in Latin did not escape the notice of contemporaries. Petrarch, writing in the 14th century, complained about this linguistic "decline", which helped fuel his general dissatisfaction with his own era.
The first half of the 5th century saw the literary activities of the great Christian authors Jerome (c. 347–420) and Augustine of Hippo (354–430), whose texts had an enormous influence on theological thought of the Middle Ages, and of the latter's disciple Prosper of Aquitaine (c. 390-455). Of the later 5th century and early 6th century, Sidonius Apollinaris (c. 430 – after 489) and Ennodius (474–521), both from Gaul, are well known for their poems, as is Venantius Fortunatus (c. 530–600). This was also a period of transmission: the Roman patrician Boethius (c. 480–524) translated part of Aristotle's logical corpus, thus preserving it for the Latin West, and wrote the influential literary and philosophical treatise De consolatione Philosophiae; Cassiodorus (c. 485–585) founded an important library at the monastery of Vivarium near Squillace where many texts from Antiquity were to be preserved. Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636) collected all scientific knowledge still available in his time into what might be called the first encyclopedia, the Etymologiae.
Gregory of Tours (c. 538–594) wrote a lengthy history of the Frankish kings. Gregory came from a Gallo-Roman aristocratic family, and his Latin, which shows many aberrations from the classical forms, testifies to the declining significance of classical education in Gaul. At the same time, good knowledge of Latin and even of Greek was being preserved in monastic culture in Ireland and was brought to England and the European mainland by missionaries in the course of the 6th and 7th centuries, such as Columbanus (543–615), who founded the monastery of Bobbio in Northern Italy. Ireland was also the birthplace of a strange poetic style known as Hisperic Latin. Other important Insular authors include the historian Gildas (c. 500–570) and the poet Aldhelm (c. 640–709). Benedict Biscop (c. 628–690) founded the monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow and furnished it with books which he had taken home from a journey to Rome and which were later used by Bede (c. 672–735) to write his Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
For 14th century authors that are no longer medieval in outlook (practically all of them Italian) see Renaissance Latin
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Tullaroan’s Shane Walsh controls the ball ahead of Erins Own’s Sean Buggy. Picture: Willie Dempsey
Playing their best hurling for some time, Tullaroan deservedly earned a place in the senior hurling championship quarter-finals when beating Erin’s Own (Castlecomer).
A strong second quarter performance when favoured by the breeze at UPMC Nowlan Park was key to Tullaroan’s victory on Sunday.
So too were a couple of superb individual performances, with Padraig and Shane Walsh outstanding all through the game for the winners.
The determination and work ethic which Tullaroan brought to their game in the second quarter left the ’Comer men with a real challenge in the second half.
Two points from Shane Walsh for Tullaroan after Shane Feehan had opening the scoring for Erin’s Own set down a marker for what was to be a highly entertaining game. Tommy Walsh (Mountgale) added a Tullaroan point from an acute angle before we were treated to three goals in a two-minute spell.
Jack Buggy grabbed the first when he reacted well to a breaking ball to give Paul Buggy in the Tullaroan goal no chance.
Straight from the puck-out, Martin Keoghan gained possession and shot past Tom Brophy in the Erin’s Own goal.
The ’Comer side’s response was impressive as, one minute later, John Dowd grabbed his side’s second goal when set up by Stephen Daly.
It was expected that Erin’s Own would push on after scoring that second goal. Not so, as Tullaroan responded impressively scoring nine points without reply to lead 1-14 to 2-2 heading towards the interval.
Erin’s Own were struggling to contain a rampant Tullaroan at that stage with Padraig Walsh majestic at centre half-back, plucking balls out of the air time after time and even popping over a delightful point on 27 minutes.
Shane Walsh continued to torment the Erin’s Own rear-guard and got plenty of assistance from Dylan Simpson, Mossy Keoghan and Tommy Walsh (Mountgale).
Stephen Daly eventually slowed the Tullaroan momentum with a fine point for Erin’s Own on the call of half-time. That left his side trailing their opponents by eight points at the interval (1-14 to 2-3).
The exchanges were far more even in the third quarter as Erin’s Own improved their work rate. They got the first score of the second half - a point from midfielder Martin Boran, who had a fine second half. However, any momentum they were building was undone on 42 minutes when Dylan Simpson blasted to the Erin’s Own net when set up by Shane Walsh.
With 13 points now separating the teams the pressure was on Erin’s Own to respond quickly. Their efforts were rewarded with a third goal in the44th minute from the alert Jack Buggy. The margin was back to seven points at the second water-break when Conor Fogarty, now operating further up the field and Shane Walsh (free) exchanged points.
The excitement kicked up a couple of notches at the start of the fourth quarter when a long ball into the Tullaroan full-back line was gathered by Stephen Daly who shot to the net. The low sun at that stage of the game was proving tricky for the Tullaroan defence.
Erin’s Own had Conor Delaney situated at centre half back at this stage and his defending was key to his side’s fourth quarter rally. A Jack Buggy free brought the margin back to three points with five minutes of normal time remaining, setting up a grandstand finish.
John Walton pointed for Tullaroan to briefly stem the Erin’s Own fight-back, but not for long as Jack Buggy (free). When Conor Fogarty chipped in with a point for the ’Comer men that left just two points between the teams.
With the pressure now on Tullaroan up stepped Shane Walsh to point a brace of frees after some careless Erin’s Own fouling. In a frantic finale Jack Buggy left a goal between the teams with another pointed free, but Tullaroan were now sensing victory.
It was secured with points from Tomas Dunne, who had a great second half, and substitute Jim Moore.
Tullaroan deserved their win, but they will need to reflect on the concession of the four goals. The team’s work ethic was superb for most of the game and that was key to giving them a decisive edge over their opponents.
Outstanding for the winners were Padraig Walsh, Martin Walsh, Tomas Dunne, Tommy Walsh, Mossy Keoghan, Dylan Simpson and Shane Walsh.
Tullaroan - Shane Walsh (0-9, 0-7 frees); Dylan Simpson (1-2); John Walton (0-4); Mossie Keoghan (1-0); Tomas Dunne (0-2); Padraig Walsh, Tommy Walsh, Bill Walton, Bill Gaffney, Jim Moore (0-1 each).
Erin’s Own - Jack Buggy (2-5, 0-5 frees); Stephen Daly (1-1); John Down (1-0); Martin Boran, Conor Fogarty (0-2 each); Shane Feehan (0-1).
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Cracked tail light leads to marijuana arrest
Sparta. On Nov. 3 at approximately 9 a.m., Sparta police officer Steven Guido stopped a black Honda Accord travelling north on Route 15 for a cracked tail light. Upon approaching the vehicle, Guido observed six occupants in the vehicle. While speaking with the driver, Juan Reyes-Chavez of Newark, N.J., Guido smelled marijuana coming from within the vehicle. When asked about the odor, Reyes-Chavez admitted to smoking marijuana in his vehicle. Guido observed a clear Ziplock containing marijuana in the driver’s door and asked Reyes-Chavez to turn it over. A search of the driver, passengers, and the vehicle resulted in the arrests of two of the vehicle’s passengers, Michael Ramos, 19, of Newark and Donald Stevenson, 27, of Moriches, N.Y. The arrestees were transported to Sparta Police headquarters for processing. Juan Reyes-Chavez was charged with Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Maintenance of Lamps, Driving While Suspended, Unregistered Motor Vehicle, and Controlled Dangerous Substance in a Motor Vehicle. Stevenson was charged with Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Failure to Wear Seatbelt. Ramos was charged with Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Failure to Wear Seatbelt. All men were advised of mandatory court appearances and released.
Dark headlight leads to heroin arrest
On Nov. 8 at approximately 1:35 a.m., Sparta Police officer Thomas Herd observed a grey Ford Taurus travelling northbound on Woodport Road, with the driver side headlight out. Officer Herd began following the vehicle and stopped it on Tomahawk Trail. As Officer Herd approached the vehicle to speak with the driver, Shawn Hopper, 48, of Hackensack, N.J., and his front-seat passenger, Danielle Gardner, 39, of Garfield, N.J., he observed signs that both occupants were under the influence of a narcotic substance. Officer Herd observed a clear plastic baggie on the passenger floor and a glass crack stem on the driver’s seat. Officer Herd radioed for backup assistance, and both occupants were removed from the vehicle. Hopper had additional drug paraphernalia on his person and Gardner possessed 39 wax folds of heroin stamped “Only Fans,” 12 hypodermic needles, and various drug paraphernalia. Both were placed under arrest and transported to Sparta Police headquarters for processing. Hopper was charged with Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Controlled Dangerous Substance in a Motor Vehicle, Maintenance of Lamps, and Driving While Suspended. He was advised of a mandatory court appearance and released. Gardner was charged with Possession of Heroin and Narcotic Pills, Possession of Hypodermic Needles, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Because she has five active warrants totaling $6,000 from five Bergen County towns, Gardner’s charges were put on a warrant, and she was transported and lodged in the Morris County Jail, where she will await her first appearance.
Red light violation leads to DWI arrest
On Nov. 12 at approximately midnight, Sparta Police officer Brian Porter was travelling north on Woodport Road. As he approached the intersection of Woodport and Sparta Avenue, he observed a black Lincoln MKZ coming from the jughandle go through the red light. Upon stopping the vehicle and approaching it, he detected the odor of alcoholic beverages emanating from the vehicle. He asked the driver, John Borduin, 41, of Augusta, N.J., if he had consumed any alcoholic beverages during the evening, and Borduin stated he had two drinks at dinner. Officer Porter asked Borduin to step out of his vehicle to perform field sobriety tests. Upon completion of testing, he was placed under arrest for DWI and transported to Sparta Police headquarters for processing. After breath testing was completed, Borduin was charged with Driving While Intoxicated, Careless Driving, and Fail to Stop on Red. He was advised of a mandatory court appearance and released to a sober adult. The vehicle was impounded for a mandatory 12-hour period.

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The Whippet is considered one of the top three Hounds, which, in addition to her, include the Italian Greyhound and Greyhound. Both externally and in character, all these dogs are very similar. Their main difference is size. The Whippet is a small English Hound. This does not prevent the dog from showing excellent hunting performance and being an excellent companion.
The graceful gait and sophisticated appearance of the Whippet were created by nature and man to be able to develop great speed on the hunt. The dog has the following main characteristics:
- The elongated muzzle is narrowed towards the nose, the skull is flat.
- The nose is black, shades in the color of the dog itself are allowed, with the exception of pink. With a piebald color of a pet, the nose can be with a butterfly color.
- The jaws should be scissor bite with strong teeth.
- The eyes are oval.
- The ears are small, soft, rose-shaped.
- The neck is strong, muscular, and slightly arched.
- The back is slightly elongated, well-muscled, broad enough.
- The deep chest merges into a well-tucked belly.
- The body is very graceful.
- The tail is without dewlap, long, tapering towards the end.
- The limbs are flexible with well-developed joints and fingers and strong pads.
Whippet has an interesting gait, his movements are quite light. This is ensured by the extension of the forelimbs forward and a strong push from the hind ones. The body is covered with short, close-fitting hair of various shades.
History of the Breed
The history of the origin of the breed is associated with a certain secret. There is no scientific evidence for special Hound breeding. Dogs with such external and physical data were used to hunt rabbits. The selection itself took place naturally for several centuries. Whippet-like traits are found in various Hounds. Especially people started breeding the breed only in the 19th century when dog racing became especially popular in England. Whippet has become an indispensable participant in such competitions. So, the breed became widespread and became available to different classes of the population.
Another use of the Whippet was when dog-baiting of hares became very popular. It was this dog that was used in such competitions. At the time, her appearance was very different from the modern Whippet. Dogs freely interbred with stray mongrels and did not have an aristocratic appearance. Only at the end of the 19th century, famous dog breeders directed their efforts to breeding dogs with a standard conformation and working data.
The first registration of the breed is dated 1891, and the standard for the appearance of the animal was recorded in 1903 in England by the local canine federation.
Whippet is distinguished by an amazing tenderness and ability to love all family members. Dogs rarely give voice, so they are ideal for people who prefer peace and quiet. The barking of this dog is associated with a serious nuisance when the dog is disturbed or needs attention.
Whippet is smart enough and well trained. But when choosing this breed, you should be aware that during training you should not use the whip method. The pet does not tolerate physical and emotional punishment. Even a tense atmosphere in the house negatively affects the dog. He feels a negative environment, begins to worry, which can lead to disorders in his health.
Whippet has natural independence that can be a barrier to quick learning. The owner must stock up on time and patience in order to achieve a positive result in upbringing. The English Greyhound loves all family members and treats strangers with indifference. Do not show aggression. Due to its calm temperament, the Whippet can be an excellent companion for an elderly person. At the same time, if a dog is given the opportunity to run, he will definitely use it. If you give the dog enough time and love, then it will reciprocate and become the most devoted friend.
Due to the fact that the body of the Whippet is covered with short and smooth hair, the animal needs a minimum of care. The molting period is in spring and autumn. At this time, it is necessary to comb out the dead hair at least twice a week. At other times, the dog can be wiped with a damp piece of soft cloth to maintain a smooth and shiny coat. The characteristic dog smell is not inherent in the Whippet, so you only need to wash the entire pet as it gets dirty. For bathing, you can use special dog shampoos, as well as massage brushes. It is necessary to ensure that water does not enter the pet’s ears. This can lead to inflammation. Other hygiene procedures should be carried out with the Whippet in the same way as with other dogs. It is necessary to monitor the condition of the claws and teeth, the cleanliness of the ears.
The peculiarity of the neck structure of dogs of this breed led to the difficulty of choosing a collar. It is advisable to choose wider specimens that will not injure the neck. The short and smooth coat often cannot protect the dog’s body from abrasions and injuries while walking. It is necessary to examine the dog after the street, and the detected injuries should be treated immediately. Severe cuts and wounds are best treated by a veterinarian.
Caring for the dog also means providing it with sufficient physical activity and extended walking in the open area. These dogs must run to release their natural energy. Hunting instincts and curiosity can make an animal jump off at lightning speed and run away after the intended prey. The owner should be prepared for this situation and choose a safe area for walking.
Whippet is known for its naturally robust health. But there are a number of diseases that can occur in these dogs:
- congenital or acquired deafness;
- eye diseases;
- von Willebrand disease.
It is also important to get basic Whippet vaccinations on time. Once every 2 months, carry out prophylaxis against worms and fleas.

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Huntsville City School superintendent gives 'State of the Schools' address | News
HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF)- Huntsville schools have seen lots of changes over the past year. Superintendent Dr. Casey Wardynski gave his state of the schools address to let parents know how far they've come and where they are going.
The Lockheed Martin auditorium was packed for the first ever 'State of the School Address,' in HuntsvilleTuesday night.
"The idea is to update people who are interested in the school system in what's been accomplished next year and into the future," said Dr. Wardynski.
Messages that Huntsville community members like Art Leslie were excited to hear.
"I like the idea of him being in front of the community and letting us know what the issues are and how he plan to answer them," said Leslie.
The four talking points for the meeting were academics, staffing, construction and finance. The school system was millions of dollars in debt when Wardynski came along last year in July 2011.
He said he has a secret for how he took the school from red to black.
"Strong business practices are key and so things that aren't where the children are should operate like a business and where the kids are should operate like a school," said Dr. Warydynski. "We're working across all activities of our district and trying to align them and that's the tough work."
The power point presentation showed rising numbers in areas like reading and academics Wardynski said he aims to keep those numbers climbing while planning for what lies ahead.
"This year was the year of foundation laying and now we're in execution mode," he said.
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And now book 3, Highland Rake! They are stand alone titles, so it's not essential that they are read in order, though a couple of instances are mentioned in Highland Rake about the trouble Dougald got into in The Accidental Highland Hero.
Dougald is staying with James, and he's the third eldest brother of the four. But if you've read The Accidental Highland Hero, Dougald is known to have his own difficulties, and so...that continues. And of course his good Norseman friend, Gunnolf, is along for the ride. Cousin Niall wants to join in the adventure, but doesn't really understand what that entails. And youngest brother, Angus, joins the party!
So here 'tis! Those loving Highlanders!
Dougald's story, 3rd book in the popular medieval Highland series.
Dougald MacNeill is the next to youngest MacNeill brother and he's not about to settle down, until Lady Alana Cameron is placed squarely in his lap...and then, the trouble begins.
When Dougald finds Alana roaming the heather on the MacNeill lands, he takes her in hand to see his laird brother James at Craigly Castle to determine her fate. But who has sent her there and why? Her uncle, laird of the Cameron clan, that has warred with the MacNeills for years, has made a marriage arrangement with another clan and now that is even at stake.
Having witnessed her father's death, and even believing he had returned her home when all along he had been dead, Alana discovers she has the gift, or curse, of seeing the newly departed and sometimes those who should have long ago passed over. Her own deceased brother continues to plague her, the rake, and now another, who is very much of the flesh, Dougald MacNeill, has her thinking marrying a rake might just have its benefits. Dougald's sister, who is one feisty ghost, has offered to help Alana keep Dougald in line if he thinks of even straying.
But who sent Alana on a fool's errand in the first place to remove her from the Cameron's lands and set her squarely in Dougald's care, and who really killed her father and her brother, and what has it all to do with Alana? Will she and Dougald learn the truth before it is too late?
Highland Rake made the Amazon Best Sellers List!!!
Some lists are easier than others to make. This one is hard! So I made two of them and I'm excited beyond measure!
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,835 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
Who wouldn't want a hunky Highlander??? :)
I haven't done any special advertising, so what helps sales? Word of mouth. You want a cover that appeals. A story hook. A genre that interests a dedicated fan base. And a story that works!
For me, if it has plaid on the cover, I immediately look at it to see if it's something I want to read. If the blurb snags me, the author has a sale. Will the ranking get better? Maybe, maybe not. Will sells begin to slide? Absolutely. Guaranteed.
What do you do about it? Write another book! :)
One of my author friends said she was thinking of writing BDSM because of the Grey Shades success. But just because a book is a success doesn't mean it's a great book, and we really need to write a book of the heart to make it work. One highly popular author wrote a Steampunk book and her fans said it was awful, that she borrowed Steampunk "stuff" to add here and there to make it Steampunk. But it wasn't. And readers of that genre know the difference and will call the author out on it.
I LOVE Scotland, have several roots in Scotland, read all things Scottish (in romance), have visited Scotland and can't wait to go back. But even so, when we write about a field that is so populated by other books in that same field (despite that it's so popular and devoted fans can't wait to get their hands on another one of those books), we have to make sure that we write a book that appeals, AND that is not a copy of someone else's book! I noticed that with time travel, another genre I love to read, and reviewers of one big time author's work said she'd copied another big time author's love scenes, and another author's action scenes. So what does this tell you? Readers read everything in the genre they love because especially in time travel, there aren't that many out there!
So write what you love, make yours unique enough even if it's a popular genre so that it stands out, and after that's done...write the next book!
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Black Friday is still more than two weeks away, but GameStop has already revealed the deals they’ll be offering. As we’ve already reported, limited supplies of the PS5 and Xbox Series X will be available exclusively in store on Black Friday, but if you miss out on those, there are plenty more bargains on offer. These include sales on new games like Watch Dogs: Legions and Star Wars: Squadrons and deep discounts on older titles like God of War, Borderlands 3, and Death Stranding. Heck, even some Nintendo games, such as Super Mario Maker 2 and Zelda: Link’s Awakening are on sale! Scroll on down for some selected deals (or check out the full flyer here).
Note: Many of the games listed below include free next-gen upgrades, so even if the PS5 and Xbox Series X aren’t listed, you can fully enjoy them on the new consoles.
- PS5 and Xbox Series X limited in-store stock
- Nintendo Switch w/ Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and 3-months Nintendo Switch Online – $299
- Xbox One Controllers – $50
- Xbox Series X/S Controllers – $60
- Razer Viper Wired Gaming Mouse – $40
- Razer Kraken X Wired Gaming Headset – $35
- Geeknet P-Series Wired Headset – $25
The GameStop Black Friday Sale kicks off on November 25 online and November 27 in stores. Some early deals will become available on November 22. What will you be picking up?

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The yard is thick with nature's debris as leaves continue to fall slower than today - JCD
It has been a while since I drove straight through the State of Oklahoma without stopping to visit somewhere other than the State Capitol Building. As I continued on to Texas I felt disappointed that I didn't stop to take in any of the sites. I promised myself to slow down just a bit, to do and see as much as I could; so here I am driving north into Vermont, feeling the urge to drive straight to Montpelier and on to Augusta, Maine to speed up my progress. I kindly remind myself of this and decide to stop in Killington, VT at the local Chamber of Commerce, to drop off brochures of the Tampa Bay area beaches and ask what there was to do for someone just passing through. I was directed to Texas Falls located on the east side of the Green Mountain State Forest north on Highway 100. On the map I noticed that Robert Frost's summer cabin wasn't too far out of the way. I couldn't name one poem the Great American Poet wrote; but found myself intrigued. Being a first time published poet, I was, and am even more now enamoured to find out as much as I can about this man who has won not only four Pulitzer Prize Awards, but the hearts of so many.
Here I am walking up a path to his cabin with stones stacked on both sides, about two feet high, that were probably carried up from the stream below in the valley by Mr. Frost himself, to illustrate the metes and bounds of where his heart dwelled every time summer neared. He might have even built this cabin himself; only research will tell. As I walk around to the other side to see what view he might have had, I notice a slab of stone rested upon other stones that seemed to be used as a sitting spot. With the leaves dancing in the wind and sky singing the chorus, I sat down upon this perch; which felt as if someone has sat there many times before.
Not being in a rush, I sat for a spell contemplating life and purpose, listening to nature reach out to me in a way I haven't noticed for some time now. Relaxed and taking in the day, I find myself describing how I honestly feel, writing in a way bewildered to yesterday. If one could only be sitting here where I am now and see how simple and easy life could be.
Frost Upon a New Day
Where and when will I find my isolated spot for inspiration
Maybe it is where ever I may be at that moment
Maybe I already found it
My soul still reaching out
My heart still leading the way
I am at peace within, through exhausted breaths for which I am
Winter nears as tomorrow has already come
Mountains of my favorite hue rest solemnly; as my life is humbled for just a while
By: John DeRosa
How can I understand life if I can't feel it through other peoples eyes? - JCD


Matt and Al pay tribute to the late Nintendo President, Satoru Iwata, and take a look at his life and accomplishments.
The gang talks about round 2 of Non-Productive’s #SidekicksThatMatter March Madness tournament! Also discussion on Chappie, Final Fantasy XV, and Evolve!
Battlefield: Hardline and Spidey in the MCU
Matt, Al, and James talk about The Force Awakens teaser, the cast of the Suicide Squad movie, Smash Bros. for Wii U, and the 20th Anniversary of PlayStation!
Al and Matt talk about Marvel’s Phase 3 announcement, Majora’s Mask on the 3DS, X-Wing and Tie Fighter on GOG, and the perils of buying retro games!


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#StopSicknessScams campaign launches online videos warning holidaymakers of risks of making fraudulent claims
Following an announcement on Sunday 9 July that the Government will be taking action to tackle false sickness claims, ABTA is urging the industry to maintain momentum on the #StopSicknessScams campaign to ensure that change is made as quickly as possible to close the loophole in legislation that allows claims companies to unduly profit from sickness claims.
ABTA is calling on the travel industry, and its partners, to respond to the Government’s Call for Evidence, which is expected to be published soon.
Over the last year, ABTA and its Members have worked hard to present a body of evidence to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) showing that whilst claims have increased by over 500%, there has been no corresponding rise in reported levels of sickness in resorts. The Call for Evidence will build on this work and seek to gather further data and views. ABTA will also continue to work with Government to support long-term solutions to the problem, including further reforms to increase transparency in the relationship between claims firms and solicitors.
As part of its #StopSicknessScams campaign, during the summer ABTA will continue to warn holidaymakers that making a false or exaggerated claim is fraud, and that they could face up to three years in prison if found guilty. Earlier this week Thomas Cook won a case against a family who were ruled to have made a false sickness claim. The judge in that case found that there had been fundamental dishonesty and ordered the Claimants to pay a contribution to the tour operator’s costs.
ABTA is today releasing two new videos to highlight the risks of making a fraudulent sickness claim. ABTA will share the videos on social media and promote them using online advertising. Members and industry partners are encouraged to share the videos through their own social media channels.
ABTA’s #StopSicknessScams campaign, which launched in mid-June following many months of work by the Association and its Members, called on the Government to close a loophole in legislation that was introduced to help stop the surge in fraudulent “whiplash” claims, but which excludes overseas claims. Fake claims are threatening to increase the price, and reduce the range, of holidays on offer to honest holidaymakers and have tarnished the reputation of Britons abroad.
The Government’s response is the first step towards clamping down on bogus holiday sickness claims, and will place travel claims on an equal footing with personal injury claims in other sectors. Rightly, consumers will retain the same legal rights to pursue their travel organiser where they have had a genuine illness or injury.
Mark Tanzer, ABTA Chief Executive, commented: “"We strongly welcome the Government’s commitment to address the loophole in the law, and urge that this happens as quickly as possible. The loophole is allowing claims companies to unduly profit from false claims. Though this is real progress, ABTA will continue to raise consumer awareness of the issue and work with Members on the campaign. Fake claims are tarnishing British holidaymakers’ reputation abroad and could lead to higher prices or less choice for honest holidaymakers. We will continue to work with Government to ensure that a long-term solution to this problem is found.”


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Newcastle United Football Club is put up for sale...on e-bay
A hoaxer has put Newcastle United up for sale on e-bay following billionaire owner Mike Ashley's decision to sell the St James' Park club.
The bidding has so far reached £100 and the hoaxer's description reads: 'Here's your chance to purchase a failing football club due to the fact that I sacked the manager and the fans turned against me I have been forced to sell.
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'Also, sadly, there will be no pantomine this year at the club. There are plenty of donkeys here but no messiah.'
Ashley, who owns Sports Direct, is hoping for around £400m after buying out previous owner Freddy Shepherd for £134m last year.
Shepherd has advised Ashley a figure of £230m is more realistic.
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Delighted to announce our first production in our new film production company Ellipsis
(that's Bling Unplugged + Tanuj Garg btw)
Tumhari Sulu goes on the floors April and releases December 2017.
Hilarious story of a happy housewife who snags a radio jockey job and gets the love chat night slot.
Directed by Suresh Triveni who made the iconic 'mauka mauka' commercials during the ICC World Cup...
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A tale of adventure and discovery in the great outdoors.
This beautifully illustrated book brings to life the importance and joy that comes of experiencing and preserving the beauty of the natural world. When Chloe and Zachary find themselves without their digital devices for a week at their grandparents' cottage, they quickly overcome their panic when they discover that adventures in the great outdoors are much more fun than anything the wired world has to offer.
With nature's playground at their feet, the two embark on a fun-filled weekend of activities. A scavenger hunt finds a family of mallard ducks, fluffy babies and all, a family of deer (and their droppings!), and a beaver dam that inspires the children to build their own, collecting and assembling sticks, mud and moss, but mostly mud.
The next night, Gramps takes the children outside with a flashlight. Sounds echo in the night, a barred owl and a beaver slapping his tail. The night closes with a bonfire at the lake's edge, complete with marshmallows and s'mores.
Along the way, Chloe and Zachary learn important lessons about the forest and its creatures. They ultimately discover that the beauty of nature is something to cherish and protect.
This lighthearted tale is accompanied by the artwork of renowned naturalist painter Robert Bateman and The Tobin Island Artists (D. A. Dunford, Karen Genovese, Susan Gosevitz, Loretta Rogers, Darcey Sills, Megan Torisawa, and Simon Dunford). Guest artists Dwight Aranha, Brad Bateman and Andy Donato also contribute to the illustrations.
Judith McMurray is the author of the national bestseller, Larry the Loon. She has written several children's books, including Chucky the Lonely Inukshuk, Nanasaurus and the Nanamobile, The Adventures of Rupert the Flying Squirrel and Next the Unhappy Lobster, all inspired by her grandchildren. Judith lives with her husband in Toronto.
Shandley McMurray is a writer for magazines and websites in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. She is the author of Hey Baby! What's Your Name? A Canadian Guide To Naming Your Baby. This is her first children's book. Shandley lives and adventures in London, England with her husband and two children.

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Bill Bishop: The Invisible China Hand
When a popular Beijing-based media blog recently referred to Bill Bishop – a lone American armed with just a Twitter account and an email newsletter – as more influential than Hong Kong’s once-venerated South China Morning Post newspaper, it at first seemed like hyperbole. Writing on Danwei in June, editor Jeremy Goldkorn said Bishop “has more influence on global ‘diplomats, businessmen and others’ than the poor old Post, with its doomed business model, absence from the open Internet, and reliance on the patronage of the Kuok family [which owns the newspaper].”
It read as flippant. How could one expat in Beijing have as much sway as a broadsheet with hundreds of staffers, experienced reporters long ensconced on the Mainland, and a history of intrepid reporting on China? But with extra thought, it started to make sense. The Post has taken steps backwards from its heydays of the 1980s and 1990s, when it was unnervingly critical of China and could reach a global audience through its paper pages. Today, its paywalled Web site has limited its international reach, and recently it has come under fire for a series of management and editorial decisions that appear to have weakened its resilience to influence from Beijing – a political and business advantage it had otherwise enjoyed for decades.
But equally as significant as the Post’s “slide into irrelevance” was that Goldkorn was highlighting a shift in media dynamics for international reporting on China that has in recent years swung strongly to the Web. And Bishop, a two-time Internet entrepreneur who has survived both the dotcom crash and the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square, is right at the centre of it. Where the Foreign Correspondent was once the most important conduit through which most of the outside world learned of news from the Middle Kingdom, today Bishop is proving that social media can be just as influential, have more immediate impact, and can help shape stories before they hit the newsstands, virtual or otherwise.
With his relentless tweeting, constant scouring of Sina Weibo, and a daily newsletter, Sinocism, in which he compiles and comments on the most important China-related news of the day in both English and Chinese, Bishop has fashioned himself as a kind of uber-aggregator, but one who moves beyond just link harvesting and helps outsiders make sense of China, which with all its complexities and contradictions is one of the world’s most confounding stories.
In previous interviews, Bishop has expressed a belief that social media should “supplement and improve” journalism, which is exactly what he does. “The old days of a handful of editors determining the news agenda, especially about China, are gone,” he told expat business magazine Agenda Beijing. “[T]he challenge for consumers is to figure out who to trust.” People I’ve talked to during my two months in China suggest Bishop himself, recently included on a list of Foreign Policy’s Twitterati 100, is a good man to trust.
Bishop’s media peers in China are quick to praise him. Goldkorn, whose blog Danwei this year hailed Bishop as a “Model Worker” for his Twitter exploits, says Bishop’s feeds are “indispensable” for China news junkies. “Many foreign correspondents in China get story leads from him and call him up for his take on Chinese current affairs, the Internet business, investing, politics and the intersections of all of those things,” says Goldkorn, a South African who has been living in China since 1995.
Bishop was first with the news in English about the scandal that brought the potential downfall of Chongqing boss Bo Xilai
Goldkorn believes that Bishop, via Twitter, was the first person to break the scandalous Wang Lijun story in English. Wang is the former Chongqing vice-mayor who reported now disgraced Chongqing Communist Party secretary Bo Xilai and his wife for their alleged involvement in the murder of a British citizen that precipitated China’s biggest political story of the year.
Evan Osnos, the China correspondent for the New Yorker, describes Bishop as “the China Hand’s China Hand”. “He’s the guy that you don’t even really know about when you get to China and start reporting on it,” says Osnos, who arrived in China in 2005 as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. “In most cases it takes you a couple of layers before you figure out that he’s somebody you have to be reading.”
Because Bishop can read Chinese voluminously and fast – “a rarer quality than you’d think” – he is able to draw connections between news events and trends, and identify things other people haven’t seen, says Osnos.
Gady Epstein, one of the China correspondents for The Economist, says Bishop is a valuable resource and provocative in a way that challenges journalists reporting on the country. “He’s not a journalist so he gets away with things a journalist couldn’t,” says Epstein, who was formerly Asia bureau chief for Forbes. “He says whatever's on his mind.”
Bishop recently demonstrated that forthrightness when he tweeted his thoughts about Chinese Internet doyen Kaifu Lee posting the contact information of US swim coach John Leonard on Sina Weibo for all his 15 million followers to see. Leonard had suggested to media that the world record-breaking 16-year-old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen had taken performance-enhancing drugs, angering Lee. “Very depressed by Kaifu Lee's jingoistic Weibo rabble-rousing,” Bishop tweeted. “He is better than this, and we all need to be better than this.”
A Dotcom IPO and Tiananmen SquareEven though I have been reporting this story from Beijing and Shanghai, I have been doing it without ever having met Bishop in person. While I, too, have found him an enormously helpful resource – both in personal communications and through Twitter and his newsletter – we have never managed to be in the same place at the same time. I first encountered Bishop (over the phone) five years ago while covering Asia’s digital marketing industry for a magazine in Hong Kong. I hoped to meet him in the flesh on this trip, but we managed to get our timing exactly wrong.
Just as I arrived in China at the start of June, Bishop went with his twin 6-year-old daughters to Maryland – his home state, and my current home – where his mother lives. He won’t return to China until after I leave at the end of this week. Instead, we’re doing our interview for this profile over Skype. I’ve always found it difficult to take adequate notes while interviewing Bishop, because he pours so much information into scattershot sentences that he spits out at warp speed – a sign, perhaps, of a mouth struggling to keep up with the brain’s hectic pace. At the end of our 90-minute conversation, I come away mentally exhausted, even though I feel like I’ve only just begun to scratch the surface of his story.
Bishop first found Internet success as co-founder of the financial news site Marketwatch. Having earned a postgraduate degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and spending some time in China in the early 1990s (more on that later), Bishop found himself working at a small Silicon Valley financial broadcasting company called Data Broadcasting Corporation.
Bishop's Marketwatch co-founder, Larry Kramer, now the publisher of USA Today
At that time, the world was beginning to wake up to the potential of the Internet. The company had an internal Web site that gave away free stock quotes and one of Bishop’s colleagues, Larry Kramer, had the idea to build it into a news service. (In May, Kramer was named president and publisher of USA Today.) Bishop was charged with writing a business plan. In 1997, the two – along with founding editor Thom Calandra (who later struck trouble with the SEC) – launched the site and cut a equity-for-promotion deal with CBS.
CBS Marketwatch took off. Despite paying upwards of $10 million to both Yahoo and AOL for content partnerships over the years, it became a very profitable business. In January 1999, Marketwatch went public, one of the first Internet companies of the year to do so. Bishop took on the responsibility of building it into an international business, with an eye on Asia and especially China. Then one day, the bottom fell out of the market. He was sitting in a London hotel room, having just launched a joint venture with the Financial Times, when he first got wind of the beginnings of the dotcom crash.
Very quickly, it became clear that Marketwatch’s international plans would have to be stripped back. The company decided to focus squarely on the US, and Bishop eventually went on to run the commercial side of the business. In 2004, the founders sold the company to Dow Jones for $18 a share, which was a pretty good result. By that point, though, Bishop had already decided it would be a good time to go back to China.
He had been there before, and at a memorable time in the country’s history. Bishop first went to China in 1989, during a junior semester-abroad program while studying Chinese at Vermont’s Middlebury College. His study path wasn’t part of any grand plan. “I didn’t want to do Russian because it looked too hard and Russia was too cold,” he explains, “and the Japanese class was too crowded. So I decided to do Chinese.”
The timing, however, proved significant and would change the course of Bishop’s life. President George HW Bush was to visit China in February, and CBS News hired Bishop and some of his classmates from Peking University as “fixers,” helping the television station’s journalists with their reporting. But in the third week of April, something more newsworthy happened: democracy protesters started gathering at Tiananmen Square.
Bishop worked with CBS covering the protests, and therefore bore witness to one of the most notorious chapters in capitalist China’s history. Towards the end of the protests, he was based in the Beijing Hotel. “Whenever there was gunfire, I had to pick up the huge mobile phone and call CBS Radio in New York, tell them to roll tape, and then crawl out on the balcony and hold the phone off the balcony so they could pick up the gun shots. And also [after the massacre], we would crawl out on the balcony and film, because they had a good view of Tiananmen Square and all the troops there.”
Once the crew had finished filming, he would walk the video tape to another hotel down the street and hand it to someone who would ferry it out to the airport. Because the satellite feeds had been cut, CBS had to rely on couriers to fly the tapes to Tokyo or Hong Kong, where they could be uploaded and edited.
“The night of the massacre [June 4], I was actually up in the Shangri-La Hotel on the west side of the third ring road,” he recalls. “I went up to Peking University the next day and you could see some burned out cars, and some burned out troop transports. I didn’t actually see any of the shooting that day.”
Tiananmen Square, site of the 1989 "incident," and Bishop's brief detainment
Bishop is grateful that he wasn’t around when the shootings happened. “I guess it would have made good stories for friends, but I’m glad I didn’t see it.” Government troops killed hundreds of people in the military crackdown that ended the protests.
A couple of weeks later, he and a Filipino camera crew got detained for violating martial law. It was 6am and there were no cars on the road, so the crew just stuck a camera out the window while driving near Tiananmen Square. Soon, a troop from the People’s Liberation Army was pointing an AK47 at them and telling them to pull over. The crew was driven into a garrison just inside the Forbidden City – right underneath a giant portrait of a disapproving Mao Zedong – and forced to write apology notes. “Somewhere there’s my two-paragraph self-criticism I wrote apologizing for violating martial law and promising to never do it again,” says Bishop. The interrogators said next time they would just shoot them.
The experience had a profound effect on Bishop. He returned to the US determined to learn Chinese properly and take his studies more seriously. “It was a pretty stark juxtaposition between hanging out and partying at a fun school in the US versus people my age who were willing to protest, and some get killed, because they didn’t have a whole bunch of things that we took for granted.”
Red Mushroom CloudAfter graduating from Middlebury in 1990, Bishop went to Taiwan and studied Chinese in an intensive language program, before returning to China in 1991 to work as a translator at a publishing house. He was paid RMB1,100 per month (now US$172, but that’s not a very useful comparison because of the economic changes in the intervening years) and provided with housing in a Soviet-built dormitory. “That was a lot of money back then,” says Bishop with a laugh. “Life was good!”
Thirteen years on – after Johns Hopkins and after Marketwatch – Bishop would again return to China. This time he decided to get into gaming. He invested some of his Marketwatch cash in a Beijing-based startup called Red Mushroom, started by an American-Chinese friend who in the late ’90s had sold his previous gaming startup to a Taiwanese operation. Bishop came on board as co-CEO and Red Mushroom set to work on massively multiplayer online games, first with a derivative of popular Korean game Lineage, which they had to shelve after not being able to secure the right licenses for distribution, and then with a virtual world for kids.
Bishop jokes today that he embodies the title of Sarah Lacy’s first book, “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good”. But, he says, he has so far been snagged on the first half. Red Mushroom failed. There were lots of reasons for that, he says, from issues with execution, to product issues, and misjudging the market. Because they were building 3D client-based games for PC, Red Mushroom also missed the turn in the market to Flash-based games.
“It was definitely a failure and it was a very expensive failure,” says Bishop. “I like to think you learn a lot of failure and it makes you stronger. I’m certainly not dead. It didn’t kill me, but I would certainly rather learn from success.” Later, he adds that it was even worse that he lost friends’ and family’s money in the ordeal. “It really does suck losing other people’s money.”
When the economic crisis did hit, Bishop “went under a desk and hid” for a while. In 2009, he looked into starting a TechCrunch-style news site for China but ultimately decided there wasn’t a strong enough business case to be made for it. But there was a silver lining: he now dedicates more time to his “family startup,” raising his twin daughters. Meanwhile, his partner, an entrepreneur who had sold an internet advertising company she started in New York, embarked on a new venture: a high-end cake business. On the side, Bishop set himself up as a consultant, working with a handful of American Internet companies and institutional investors. He's also an angel investor in StockTwits.
Sinocism is another side project. The daily newsletter is the ultimate compendium of China-focused news coverage, with Bishop typically listing links to the biggest stories of the day and adding pithy commentary to add context and draw connections that readers might otherwise have missed. Today, it has more than 2,000 subscribers. But he can’t figure out how to make money from it. A recent fundraising drive fell flat. “It’s too bad I don’t have a passion that has a business model,” he remarks wryly.
Bishop doesn’t know how long he’ll be in China. He has the usual expat concerns – lung-threatening air pollution, the quality of education for his kids, and an apparent negative shift in attitudes towards Westerners – but much of it comes down to career. “China has been pretty much a professional black hole for me,” he says, “and at some point I have to figure out whether or not it really makes sense for me to stay here.”
“Not that you want to quote me on this,” he says suddenly, “but have you looked at feng shui at all?” He’s referring to the quasi-mystical belief system of fortune telling and geomancy to which many Chinese subscribe. “There’s a school of thought that some people are not suited to pursuing careers outside of their home areas,” he says. “I certainly have got more than one person who has said, ‘Oh, China is not where you’re going to do really well professionally’.”
Superstition aside, Bishop remains a first-rate Internet analyst and is one of the few industry watchers who can bridge the Chinese and American cultures. So what does he think are the big Internet stories to come out China in the current era?
For a start, he wishes that Twitter would just clone Sina Weibo. From a product design perspective, he says, it’s a much superior product. “Each post you make on Weibo, you can see if it’s been retweeted or forwarded, or if it has been commented on,” he says. “I’ve had Weibos where you’ll pull it up and there’ll be like 3,000 comments on the Weibo and you can actually go through and read the comments. Whereas on Twitter, good luck finding a place where it’s all centralized and you can read it. Each individual message you post on Weibo has potential to become its own full-on conversation between thousands of people.”
Bishop thinks Tencent can challenge Facebook in emerging markets
He also thinks that Tencent is under-covered by the world’s press, especially given that it is one of the top five Internet companies in the world by market capitalization. “Those guys have a very serious and credible expansion plan,” he says, picking out mobile messaging app Weixin (the English version of which is called WeChat) for special praise. “They are going to give Facebook a run for their money in the emerging markets.”
But he saves his biggest prediction for last, and what he calls the “One World, Two Internets” phenomenon. There are more than 500 million people on the Chinese Internet, but because of language and cultural barriers it is impenetrable to most outsiders, he says. That leads to a lot of misunderstanding. “A lot of people do think ‘Oh, the poor Chinese, the Internet is blocked, and it’s stifling innovation because they can’t go on Facebook. When in fact, you’ve got this incredibly vibrant, actually pretty fast internet inside China. But it really is its own world.”
That dichotomy can’t last forever. As more Chinese travel to other parts of the world, foreign companies will have to figure out ways to talk to them. More importantly, asks Bishop, will these travelers come back to China after experiencing uncensored Internet services such as Twitter and Facebook and be a force for crumbling the Great Firewall?
“I actually think that the current status quo with the two Internets situation in China is going to last not nearly as long as people think,” he says, echoing similar sentiments uttered by Eric Schmidt recently. “It’s increasingly untenable because so many Chinese people are now very clear about the regulatory and censorship issues, and I don’t think it will continue for that many years.”
He lets that hang in the air for a while, before finally adding: “Call me crazy. Maybe I’m just hopeful.”


Characterization of Carbonate Rocks through X-Ray Microtomography
Image characterization of rocks is generally carried out by optical and scanning electron microscopy techniques. In this paper, the non-destructive technique of X-Ray micro tomography (μCT) was used in order to obtain microstructural parameters. The experimental program consisted in obtaining these properties from three different carbonate rocks: the Roman, Turkish and Itaboraí Travertines. The rocks were selected since they possess similar properties to the Brazilian oil-bearing pre-salt rocks. The results have shown that µCT is very useful in a) determining the porosity and pore size distribution, as compared to traditional porosimetry methods, b) establishing the pore arrangement within the rock matrix and c) detecting pore connectivity. Additionally, the generation of 3-D models allowed a faithful representation of the samples and allowed the selection of regions for thin section preparation of their most representative features, which were then analyzed by Digital Optical Microscopy.
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Choosing where to go to college is not an easy decision, often because it feels so important. The children are told that the path after high school will determine how the rest of their lives will go. But writer Kelly Corrigan says this is the big lie society needs to stop telling.
“The lie is that this is a binary moment,” said Corrigan, who also hosts the podcast Kelly Corrigan Miracle. “[That] If you achieve the University of Stretch’s Dream Goal, everything will turn out accordingly. And if you don’t, you’re kind of screwed.”
But that’s actually not the case, she said.
For starters, Corrigan acknowledges that even the thought of college is a privilege not everyone has. And even for those considering it, the financial aspect can be just as stressful as the rest of the application process.
But for those who apply, it can be a moment of growth, argues Corrigan, and a moment worth celebrating.
The stress of applying starts long before high school
Corrigan has two children who are now in college, but before they got there they went through what she says “the dumpster fire that’s senior citizen’s fall” while working on their college applications.
The process puts kids through the wringer and makes them think about big questions about how the next chapter will be funded, and Corrigan says it forces them to grow. And while parents might want to help, Corrigan argues that they should let their kids lead the way.
Parents have a role to play in this process and can help, but to do that, they should start thinking about it long before the seniors fall, Corrigan says, and possibly start with a decision on how much to talk about college — and even use the word themselves when their children are small.
“I know that most parents say the word college far too often before their kids enter senior year, [and] You can’t just take it back with a statement,” she said.
When parents have talked about the college and schools they went to and where their friends studied, it’s almost impossible for kids not to internalize that to some degree, Corrigan said. And she speaks from experience.
“I really feel like we screwed it up on some level, to be completely honest with you. Because it came up a lot. It came up too much,” she said.
Stepping back and monitoring how much you’re talking about college as a parent can help, Corrigan said. It puts high schoolers in the driver’s seat as they work to navigate what they want.
Deciding what to do after high school requires more questions than “Where do you want to go to college?”
It’s an approach that high school counselor Jennifer Kirk agrees with. Kirk works at Upper St. Clair High School just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is the Board Chair of the Pennsylvania School Counselors Association.
Kirk says that the thought of post-secondary education — not just a four-year college degree — really starts in kindergarten as kids are exposed to industries. Teaching at school, medicine at doctor’s visits and the jobs of their parents and parents’ friends are just a few examples.
To break some of that, she focuses on questions beyond “Where do you want to go to college?”. and asks about location, campus flair, sports, music and accessibility to a range of other features.
“There has to be a strong self-reflection, because what’s wonderful to me is different from your wonderful, different from my mother or father’s wonderful, different from my friend’s wonderful,” Kirk said. “Coaching a 17 or 18-year-old to have the strength and courage to reflect authentically is a big deal.”
Parents are invited to these conversations, but the focus is still on the students because “the first big thing they do is decide where they’re going to end up after high school,” Kirk said.
A lot of the stress in this process also comes from students thinking they’re going to make the wrong choice, Kirk said. This mentality is the result of society catastrophizing the wrong choice in school, and television and Hollywood perpetuate unrealistic notions of what college life is actually like, she said, adding that it’s called “the best four years of your life.” ” on sale is.
“It’s the next four to six years of your life,” Kirk said. “We want them to be great, and then ideally you’ll graduate and enter the workforce and live another 50 to 75 years.”
And the decades that follow can be great, too—and maybe even include the “best years of your life.”
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Memorial at Dairy Ashford Center, Houston, TX 77079 - Retail Space
Memorial at Dairy Ashford Center is located at 14623 Memorial Drive in the Energy Corridor neighborhood, TX, Houston, 77079. The Retail building was completed in 1968 and features a total of 56,190 Sqft.
There are 4 retail spaces for lease in the Energy Corridor neighborhood, totaling 10,710 Sqft of available retail space. The retail space availability for the 77079 zip code is 10,710 Sqft, in 4 retail spaces.
In 1968, the same year Memorial at Dairy Ashford Center was built, 152 more commercial properties (office, industrial, retail) over 50,000 square feet were built in Houston, featuring 5,558,408 square feet of commercial space. At zip code level, there are 58 commercial properties, of which 8 are retail buildings over 50,000 square feet.


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Free Printables for teacher appreciation...Cute ideas for gifts or goodies!
Want!!!!!! Felt Baby Clogs
cute in a baby room
bead board + letters. How easy and inexpensive to decorate a wall. You could do PLAY, LAUGH, SMILE, GIGGLE, LIVE. All sorts of options and the letters are super inexpensive at the hobby stores. Less than $10 project!
Printable paper dolls
20 Classic Summer Crafts
Prints for kids Inspiration quote prints for by CreativeWildChild
A whole blog of crafts and activities for BOYS. (and girls can do them too, duh)


Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has displayed the country’s sophisticated Russian-made S-300 air defense system in central Tehran.
This is the first time that the S-300 system has been displayed in public.
The public show in Tehran’s Baharestan square near the Parliament building square exhibited different missile systems, including ballistic missiles, solid-fuel surface-to-surface Sejjil missiles and the liquid-fuel Ghadr.
On Friday, Iran unveiled the Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missile capable of reaching Israel and much of the Middle East.
Iranian armed forces hold massive parades across the nation marking the first day of the annual Sacred Defense Week, marking the beginning of 1980s war with Iraq.
S-300 (NATO reporting name SA-10 Grumble) is a series of initially Soviet and later Russian long-range surface-to-air missile systems produced by NPO Almaz, based on the initial S-300P version.
The S-300 system was developed to defend against aircraft and cruise missiles for the Soviet Air Defence Forces. Subsequent variations were developed to intercept ballistic missiles.
The S-300 is regarded as one of the most potent anti-aircraft missile systems currently fielded. An evolved version of the S-300 system is the S-400 (NATO reporting name SA-21 Growler), which entered limited service in 2004.


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