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Reggie Ossé: 'We isolate ourselves. That's what we do'

Author: Movember
In this exclusive interview, recorded for this season of the Movember Podcast, Reggie Ossé discusses major turning points in his life with host and Movember Co-Founder, Adam Garone.

Reggie, also known as Combat Jack, first rose to prominence as founding partner of the small NYC law firm Ossé and Woods, where his clients included such legends as Jay-Z, Damon Dash, DMX, and Sean “Diddy” Combs. He worked briefly as an executive at MTV, then began blogging under the name Combat Jack, building a following with his tales from the golden age of hip-hop. He was then managing editor of The Source Magazine, and now dedicates himself full-time to The Combat Jack Show and the Loud Speakers Podcast Network.

In his career as a podcaster, he has interviewed activists, writers, exonerated criminals and hip hop stars. Like the Movember Podcast, he aims to have open, frank conversations that give insight into new perspectives.

From growing up in a one-parent house and having to find his own role models, to becoming successful in three separate careers, and experiencing truly dark moments along the way: Reggie tells Adam about the key moments that changed him as a man.

Adam and Reggie met in New York in June 2017.

Adam: What was it like growing up here in Brooklyn?

Reggie: Um, you know there was this point. You know, when I was really young, where you know I grew up in Crown Heights, the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, and it was pretty much working class or class. You felt family and friends and it was just it was really like any other growing up, in any other place. I didn't feel at the time that I wanted for anything.

And then as I got older, you know, things start changing. And most of the kids on my block, we were all the same age but as we as we as we ventured into the 90s, and, you know, you started seeing subtle changes. You know a couple of my friends here and there. We grew up playing football in the street and tag and all of those things and then as we got older kids started looking to get into other things. I was very fortunate that I was always a nerd. So I was into comic books and education, you know? But a lot of my my peers they they they went to a darker path.

And I grew up in a single-parent household, just my mom. So you know, I had to figure out just how to identify myself as a man, as a black man particularly.

Adam: Did you have any father figures in your life? Any old, male role models?

Reggie: At the time, no, I mean I was always pretty cool with my uncles, but in terms of like just really getting, you know, just solid advice, you know, solid guidelines, how to move, you know, how to feel confident. I didn't have that. I just had to figure it out on my own.

And so I just remember this one pivotal time where, I think it was like about a month or so, when I was just really considering, "Do I get a gun or not?" You know? Just because.

Adam: To protect yourself?

Reggie: Just to protect myself, because it was the thing that most of my friends had at the time and it was just like "well, why shouldn't I have one"?

Adam: That's a very different mentality, you know, from where I'm from in Australia... I hear it in LA, where I live: it's that you don't want to be the only person on the block without a gun.

Reggie: Yes, you think: "what's wrong with me?" You know. Everyone else ... am I out of touch? You know? You know, fortunately I realized that at a young age I had the wherewithal, the foresight to realize that that wasn't me. And you know stuck to my guns on being a nerd and really focusing on my education and eventually that took me outside of the hood, that took me to Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, and it took me to Georgetown. But, that's what my environment was like every time I would come home. But I was very insulated.
Adam: I want to understand the origin of the name 'Combat Jack'.

Reggie: Ok: in the process of writing my book, my co-author Gabe Tolliver, who was like this big military buff - at the time he's reading a brand new novel entitled Generation Kill which was about the first tour of duty of Afghanistan, post 9/11. He was telling me about it. He was like, 'There's this one Chapter, Combat Jack.' And the minute he said Combat Jack, I kind of saw this vision of like Captain America, like, you know just—

Adam: This hero figure?

Reggie: You know, coming from the from the comic book world and you know just being a geek and the whole nine. So he starts to explain the whole concept of Combat Jack. Or Combat Jack-ing (laughs) in the heat of battle, like in the most dire moments of life or death situations, these guys would jerk off, and get like this heightened sense of relief. Or, or, or whatever the hell, you know, and they call it combat jacking.

So a lot, of alot of my—listeners like "What?!" But so, UM, this is where hip hop plays a role in my life. Hip hop is very combative. Hip hop, you know, is a bloodsport, it's a, you know, full body contact sport. And at the time I was like if I'm going to blog, I've got to have the attitude of a rapper. You know because you had— there was so many people at the time was like this golden age of like hip hop blogs, 2005, 2006, so many amazing bloggers.

And I was like: if I'm going to throw my hat in the ring, I've got to be the illest rapper. I've got to be the illest - my pen has to be ill. And so I kind of envisioned like in rap battle, you know, you're going to write your blog post, and this is all in fun because at the time the community, even though we were very competitive, we all hope very supportive.

I viewed myself and my peers as like this new generation of rappers. So if I'm going to rap and if I'm going to be in the heat of battle and you guys are shooting your bullets at me, and I'm shooting my bullets at you, this means nothing to me. I will jerk off on all of you as I write the greatest prose on a daily basis.

Adam: And you said, about the blog, that you felt when you were in the industry that you couldn't talk about—

Reggie: You couldn't talk about it. Well, you know, you couldn't talk about your weaknesses, you couldn't talk about the weaknesses, you couldn't talk, because everything is, you know, relationships. And everything is based on, you know, how loud are you speaking? How well do you play the game? You know how accurate do you toe the line? And so you couldn't. Like I remember just at that at one time when I was like my, sometimes when we had a two way Motorola pages, and I remember I would start gushing about an album like LOP's "Warriors" which I thought was an amazing album and I'm like gushing about how amazing this album is as a rap fan. And some jackass is like, "Well, you're an attorney, you really shouldn't be critiquing music." I'm like, "Who the fuck are you to tell me?" But that was kind of like the, you know, like you just be quiet.

Towards my last days in the music industry I felt very uninspired. I felt very unhappy, very lost, and just very heavy. And I never personally considered suicide, but there were times where you know just responsibilities at home, responsibilities in the office, there no way out, there was just no way out. And there were many times where I would put on my suit and I would start walking to the subway station and I would say, "Listen I pray that today's the day at the that the truck hops the curb and takes me out of my misery."

I remember speaking to my peers and I'm like you know, "I need a vacation, I need a break." And they'd be like, "Psh, we making money like what you talking about? What's wrong with you? We need to make more money." You don't rest in hip hop. You don't rest in this game. And you hustle and there's no stopping this.

Adam: Yeah, because there are these.. traditional aspects of masculinity.

Reggie: Yes.

Adam: Our generation are conditioned to to be the provider, to be 'fathers', to always be in control and never vulnerable, not to show emotion, not to talk about your emotion. And that can have a really negative impact when you're struggling because you've got to create this facade and project that out. I can only imagine.

Reggie: And how do you project that facade to yourself?

I remember, and I don't mean to jump off track, but I remember significant significantly, this one, it was January 1st, and we were all having like their annual gumbo like this palatial like estate and like, just wealth and you know new wealth in the music industry. Some very uber Black executives in the music industry, very very very successful.

And so we all joking and you know one of the guys is like, "Well, what did you guys do earlier today?" And I was like, "Well I spent two or three hours really just writing the things that I need to change my life for this year, like you know like, quote unquote resolution." And everyone in the room was like, "Two hours? What's wrong with you?" You know?

You know, there's always room for—I don't care how successful you are, it's always room for you know, improvement, so if you guys don't see any room for improvement, what's wrong with y'all?

Adam: It's happiness versus wealth, as well.

Reggie: Yes. Yes.

Adam: And it must've been a really pivotal moment, I recognize that, and then be, to go, "I'm going to totally shift careers from being an attorney and a lawyer in the hip hop industry to being a blogger."

Reggie: Who does that?

Adam: You've done degrees, you've, you're working for a practice, you've got a clientele...

Reggie: I've got kids!

Adam: Yeah! (laughs) And then you're going to be a blogger which anyone can do and start, now, overnight.

Reggie: Right.

Adam: Without any, any income. And somehow break out of that.

Reggie: I'm very fortunate in that in my early 20s, I became a practicing Buddhist. And it was just the paradigm is like, you know, really at the end of the day, what is relative happiness and what is true happiness? Like money can't buy you happiness.

And if you trust your faith and if you trust, you know, the importance of your individual life in this universe, then you will do anything possible to achieve, achieve complete happiness. And at a certain point I was like I don't give a fuck about this anymore. I will walk away from everything. You know, I'll jeopardize me and my family going homeless. I have to be happy.

Adam: You know, I can totally relate to that: having founded Movember and continuing now to work in charity, it's not a path to become rich.

Reggie: And I love my fancy watches. I loved, God you know, you know when I wound down my practice, I sold my fancy watches, so one of my goals is I've got to get at least one of my fancy watches back.

But it's ironic. I read a tweet earlier today, this morning, and it said, "Real wealth is being to acquire something that money can't buy." So simple.
Adam: Recently you hosted a podcast, Mogul, which is all about the life and death of Chris Lighty.

Reggie: You know I had heard of Chris Lighty even before I got the music industry. When I was in law school and hearing like the Jungle Brothers or you know early Tribe Called Quest and they were you'd hear all these references to Baby Chris.

And then coming into the industry and you know focusing on my career and hearing about Chris Lighty, you know, being this amazing manager at Def Jam. Chris Lighty you know starting this Violator Management company and record company.

And then meeting Chris Lighty on several occasions and like this tall handsome, you know, unapproachable like unreadable character, but you knew he was solid in the game. You knew that he was successful in the game. You knew that, um, if your clients there were several times and some of my clients like, "Yo, I think Chris Lighty wants to sign me." You knew that that was, you know, your client was headed in the right direction.

This is a guy that was uber successful. Leaving the industry, I'm still reading about how you know he continued to have to break expectation and norm, with like, the 50 Cent/Vitamin Water deal. This guy like, you look at Russell Simmons, you look at Leore Cohen, you look at Dr Dre or Jimmy Iovine, you look at Diddy, arguably one of the best was ever done it, you know, in my generation. You look at like he's from that same cut. He's cut from that same cloth. And then five years ago, you hear about his suicide and you're like, "What the fuck?"

Adam: How does that? How do you rationalize that?

Reggie: Yeah, how do you rationalize that? You know from the outside looking in, this guy had everything. But then me, from, coming from the industry knowing like yeah, I kinda, particularly ...

Adam: You, you sort of got to that point in your career where you know probably the people around you looked at you on the surface, and thought, "You're very, very successful in your chosen profession in the hip hop industry. What more could you want for, career-wise?"

Reggie: When I would talk to my peers and even you know suggest that I wanted out, they were like, "You're crazy. What are going to do? Get a job? You've never had a job. What are you going to do?"

Adam: You're gonna blog.

Reggie: Yeah. That wasn't even a possibility then. You know just, you know, it was a five year process of me really deciding at a certain point that I was going to jump ship.

But it was a process of like, "Let me see what this friend feels." Like, "Are you kidding me? What do you think? Just just, stay the course." "Man up." That's what I keep hearing, "Man up." And at a certain point, I couldn't do it. Knowing that, huh, there was a certain point in Chris's life where he wasn't happy.

Adam: Do you personally feel more comfortable now you know, talking about you know how you're feeling, you know more comfortable seeking help and recognizing some of those things because of, you know, probably experience, but also really diving in to, to Lighty's life and you know that tragedy?

Reggie: You know there's a saying that this kind of comedic comedic kind of saying that kind of champions like you know those negative aspects of patriarchy in the black community. We say, "I'm a grown ass man, dog." You know what I'm saying, if someone questions you, I go, "Yo, I am a grown ass man dog."

You know but the flip side is, you know, the older I become, the more experienced I become, the more transparent and vulnerable and aware of my frailties and my shortcomings. It's very empowering.

Adam: Hmmm. And it's probably mirrors how, as men, we're evolving.

Reggie: Yes. You would want to hope so. Because, I think, um, what's rampant amongst most of us men is we don't allow ourselves to evolve. You know, we we want to make America great—we want to—again, you know what I mean?

We want to go back into, we want to bring it back to the old days when women and people of color knew their, their place. You know saying? We want you we want to go back to where it seemed like there was a job on every corner and like the employment, you know, the employment was at this robust, you know, like we want to bring it back to where we can invade any country with impunity.

Atrophy. That, that's part of our D.N.A. as a man. Right? Like we have to fight against that, we have to be rigorous about, and vigilant about, fighting against that.

Adam: How has your view of music sort of ... how has it evolved as you've got older?

Reggie: I think when we're younger, if we're into popular music, if we're into the music that fits our pocket, we're, in our minds, we imagine ourselves, particularly if it's a new form of music being you know rock and roll or you know pop rock or hip hop or whatever that new craze is. You know, you know I'm saying, like, like house or techno, whatever it is, you know, grunge, you know. You are, you feel, as if you're a revolutionary you know you feel like this is the ONLY—this is that you're on a mission to keep things as pure as possible, and as raw, and as, as anti-establishment as possible. Right?

And then you fight this fight. You know, living with this culture that inspires you life. The few of us that are fortunate enough to maintain that marriage of our lives and our music and our culture, you know, and at a certain point the music changes, right? And then you that it's not pure anymore. It's not revolutionary. It doesn't have that edge and then you start saying well, "This music. This new music is not what we had before. This music is worthless. This music is dangerous to our way of life."

 And you don't realize that you're becoming an old man.

Adam: How, you know, growing up in a single parent house, how does that influence you as a, as a father of a four kids?

Reggie: You know, I can't believe being an only child and now having four kids. And then you know that in itself is a shock. You know because for the most part, I'm pretty selfish. You know, what they say about only children, pretty selfish, you pretty much have to be kind of selfless with kids.

Um, patience, you know, I've been very impatient throughout my life. And I find now you know going through you know my family's going through like this really pivotal moment, just really, um, really, really, really relying on um, a deeper sense of compassion. You know, so you know, for the most part, if my son does something stupid like, it's easy for me to, you know it's easy for me to react or respond to criticize or you know better than that.

But I find at this time, like there's a great a sense of patience, you know, because they're at that age that I was at. You know 15, 19, and 20. They're at that age where the world is scary. You know I think the world, as scary as the world was in the, in the, in the 80s, we live in the, in the, like for them, my my ten year old daughter she's stressed out.

She's like, "Um, dad, are we going to experience segregation again?" "At what point will we all die because of climate change?" This is a nine year old girl.

At ten years old in Australia where you even considered with global politics?

Adam: No, and I struggled to know the Australian Prime Minister.

Reggie: Of course. Of Course.

Adam: Let alone the U.S. president, and even contemplating that, that person has some sort of impact on my life.

Reggie: Right.

Adam: So. Yeah.

Reggie: My kids went to the best private schools I, you know, they're very spoiled. You know, at 20, 19, and 15, my sons have never had a fight. Which to me is like: you've never heard had a fistfight? What? I guess we're doing something right you know.

But, you know, recently, like over the past four years like, "Dad, like what happened to Trayvon? What happened to Michael? What happened to Eric?" And then just a realisation like, "Dad, are they killing us? And having to be that far get a father figure to each and every one of them, you know?

Adam: So have you sat down with your boys and had that chat with them... around?

Reggie: You know, I had that chat with my kids when they were two or three because I you know I was already aware. Before this thing became cliche, before this thing became visible, I like you know if you're if you well versed, if you're aware in America particularly if you're African-American, you know what the fuck—can I curse?

Adam: Yeah of course.

Reggie: You know what the fuck is going on even though the rest of society may ignore you and saying, "No, you know..." You already know the story.

Adam: Have you tried with your sons to to really encourage them to understand that life's a lot of up and down, and to come to you if there are issues, and to show their vulnerabilities?

Reggie: You know early on in life like my two eldest sons are so close in age, fourteen months apart and they would fight and one of them would say, "Daddy it's not fair!" And the other would say, "It's not fair!" And I'd be like, "Sons, sit down. Life is not fair." And they're like, "What?" And I'm like, "Life is not fair." So at an early age I was drilling this in.

So and now you know your girlfriend issues, you know you know, two are in college, you know, they're experiencing life. One of them, my eldest son particularly, you know when this whole emergence of Black Lives Matter, you know, when that emerged it really affected his life. And you know and so I tell my sons all the time like, "I'm your dad. You know like, you guys are going to hide things for me and I respect that because that's what we do. But at the same time, if there's something that's really crucial, there's something that is really important, that something that you feel you know you're missing that that's not allowing you to be complete, please feel free to tell me."

And what I've done at the same time is there's issues in my personal life that I, you know, I may have not felt comfortable, you know, being totally transparent with my children. But like if this is going to be a trusting relationship where they feel they can come to me, then I should be able to lead by example and come to them.

"Your father is not perfect. Your father has fucked up a lot." You know?

And it's OK.

You know not it's OK that I fucked up, and it's OK that I can take accountability and I can vow to do better so that you guys will be far better than me. You know what I mean? So I share that with my kids a lot.

Adam: So your family, you are going through a tough time.

Reggie: Yes I am. I'm going through a divorce.

Adam: And that itself is a huge transition.

Reggie: Yes I mean I've read, I read years ago in some magazine article that the most difficult thing a man in Western society can go through, above illness, above the loss of life of their closest, dearest ones, is a divorce. I was like, what the fuck is that? Yes. It is.

Adam: And so the Lighty experience, what you've learned along this this journey, how has that equipped you better to stay, you know, mentally well and sort of level?

Reggie: Well, initially through the process I went to see a therapist. And he was just so so supportive, like you know, just so supportive in terms of like resources that I should read and just you know you know what I was going through was not abnormal. You know? And we tend to look at, you know, divorce as a death in itself, like the death of a family, the death of you know someone that we knew and lived with for, you know, some-odd years. And so even though I knew that what I was going through was not OK. You know just the aid of therapy helped me to realize that I was OK.

And then, you know, as I started getting comfortable sharing this with, with other people, I shared with my eldest brother, my eldest half brother who himself you know has been divorced and as you know is in a, in a very happy, thriving, healthy marriage right now.

And it was something very simple that he said, because I was you know really like insecure in terms of sharing that, you know, unsure. And I was like, "You know I'm going through a divorce." And he was like, in the most calmest voice, most reassuring voice, and I don't know why it's so simple. He's like, "Well, Reggie, you won't be the first. And you won't be the last."

And I don't know what it was about that that was like (sighs) this weight was lifted. I mean like, okay, so yeah, like I won't I'm not the first and I won't be the last. Okay. I can. I can make it to the other side.

Adam: So last question. There will be some men listening to the podcast or reading this interview that will be struggling with some sort of transition. Whether it's a career transition, like you went through, or a divorce or potentially with their kids, what advice would you have to a man that is that has challenged one of those transitional moments?

Reggie: I mean, you know, I would say this, what's has helped me lot, and when someone comes to me you know, man, woman, and they're at this juncture, and like I need to find a change. The first thing I ask them is like: "As much as we're anchored to this physical world, like what's your spiritual practice? And I'm not talking about your religion. What's your spiritual practice?" Are you active on a daily basis on, you know, just just finding comfort and strength and wisdom and reassurance and this other thing that we can't touch, but if we, if we are in tune you really see that it plays such a huge role in our daily physical, active lives?"

"You know, do you meditate? Do you chant? Do you find some time to pray?" You know, I think we have this, this, this view, that we go to our synagogues or our mosques or our churches or our temples once a week—we're good. Where it's like, no, everyday, what's your active spiritual practice? You know, like Jay Z says on the new album, you know, Jay Z says something really subtle to Beyonce, he's like, "Yo B! this spiritual shit really works!" You know what I mean? And that's been my that's been my experience, that's been my life, like what are you going beyond? You know, how are you on a daily basis taking a leap of faith and going into the unknown? So that when you come back the known is that much more secure and happier for you?

You know definitely definitely, you know we live in an age right now I think one of the greatest phenomenons that we've experienced in pop culture over the past fifteen twenty years was the Sopranos! Tony Soprano, you know, like alpha male, unquestionably alpha male, but what made him this great character was every week his sessions with Dr. Melfi. You know his his his his his psychiatrist. And that broke the mold because that chipped away at like what masculinity is, you know? And and who we open up to and when do we realize that we need help.

And a lot of us, I think if we live in modern day society. I mean particularly here in the States, if you live in the United States, I think all of us need some form of therapy. (laughs) Because it's a lot it's a lot of trauma that we definitely go through on a daily basis from, from the moment where you know indoctrinated into like the schooling system. You know? It's a lot of trauma and we take it for granted.

A lot of pressure. You know find a group of friends that you can talk to and you feel safe that you won't be judged. You know as a matter of fact, push and find friends that you can tell me the most outlandish, most private things about yourself.

You know so find a safe place—read, there is so many resources out there. I'm not pushing a product but there's this new product that I was pushing on on Mogul, it's called Talkspace and it's a site where, even if you're afraid, some people are anxious about meeting people face to face and talking about their issues, so there's a service on Talkspace where you can actually call you know therapist and you find one that really fits your needs. And I think it's as low as thirty dollars a session.

So like even just the newest in technology you're seeing how the resources that help in mental health are advancing with technology so definitely like you know people say, every—read you know, you know The Secret or you know The Four Promises of Deepak. Just delve into like, delve into it. It's real. It is real.

Adam: Yeah, and it's so important for the men out there that are going through this to heed your advice. But for all the other men and women that know someone's going through a key transitional moment, divorce, retirement, becoming a new dad whatever it is, to be listened to often—what you don't hear which is men start to isolate themselves when they're struggling.

Reggie: We isolate ourselves. That's what we do. That's the, that's like, that's like our life path. We go out there, we conquer the world, maybe we don't conquer the world as much as successful as we thought we was, and after that we uh, we start to detach. And we feel comfortable in our Laz-boy, in front of our, T.V. with a remote in one hand and beer in the other and it becomes the rest of our lives.

Adam: So if you do you know someone is going through one of these transitional moments, it's so important just to reach out and contact them and get them out in a space where they'll feel comfortable having a chat about the real stuff going on in their life. And Reggie,thank you so much for joining us here at the Movember Podcast.

Reggie: Thanks for having me man. This was awesome.

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Activist investor Ader claims support for Bwin.Party shake-up

LONDON (Reuters) - American activist investor Jason Ader on Monday claimed his proposals to shake-up online gambling company Bwin.Party by bolstering its board had won support from other shareholders in the firm.

Jason Ader, CEO of Ader Investment Management, speaks during the Reuters Global Investment Outlook Summit in New York, November 28, 2012. REUTERS/Keith Bedford

Ader, whose asset management firm SpringOwl is Bwin.Party’s fourth largest shareholder, said in April he wanted four new directors elected to the company’s board to tackle what he describes as a continuing decline in the business.

Bwin.Party has urged shareholders to vote against the proposal, saying it would make the board too large and hamper decision making.

Ahead of its annual meeting on May 22, Ader said in a statement Bwin’s board had “overseen significant shareholder value destruction” due to a failing strategy that has seen it underperform its rivals. Ader also criticized a “runaway cost structure” and its impact on the company’s profitability.

“We have received incredible support from the Bwin.Party shareholders we have already spoken with and look forward to more conversations as shareholders have the opportunity to add sorely needed skills to the board of our company,” Ader said.

He did not give details on the level of support SpringOwl had won.

Bwin was not immediately available for comment on Monday, which is a public holiday in the United Kingdom.

Ader has proposed that internet entrepreneur Michael Fertik, lawyer Francis Grady, venture capitalist Kalendu Patel and gaming industry expert Steven Rittvo be added to Bwin.Party’s existing nine-strong board.

Activist investors push for change at firms they believe are undervalued and can provide better shareholder returns via a change in strategy or management. Ader, an ex-Wall Street gaming analyst, battled with U.S slot-machine maker International Game Technology last year, winning a board seat for his firm.

Ader has said the four new directors he proposes to be elected to Bwin.Party’s board would provide significant expertise in online gaming, technology and U.S. banking systems.

Bwin.Party has said it does not have sufficient information or time to review the suitability of each candidate, and believed it would not be in the interest of the company and investors for a shareholder with a stake of 5.25 percent to nominate so many directors onto the board.

In March, the firm posted a 35 percent drop in full-year earnings to 108 million euros ($149.75 million) due to falling revenue, increased gaming taxes in Germany and start-up costs in New Jersey.

Reporting by Neil Maidment

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The new extended movie trailer for this year’s A Star Is Born remake, starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, came out to major buzz this week, but there’s an unsung music veteran behind the scenes: Michael Des Barres, the resident “vibe adviser” making sure that all of the film’s rock ’n’ roll details are legit.

The 70-year-old rocker/actor, who’s served as the frontman of the Led Zeppelin-associated bands Silverhead and Detective and the supergroups Chequered Past and Power Station, was recruited by A Star Is Born producer Bill Gerber, who used to manage Detective back in the day.

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“Billy Gerber especially wanted it to look real,” Des Barres tells Yahoo Entertainment. “So, let’s cut to the chase. If it’s a rock ’n’ roll movie and you’ve got the wrong bracelet, I’m not going to enjoy the movie. The wrong earring, the wrong hat, a terrible wig — that has ruined every rock ’n’ roll movie.” But Des Barres insists that the reboot (or “re-high-heel-boot”) of A Star Is Born “will be the real thing, even if we have to dig up some costumes. So, I went there really more in an advisory capacity. It’s about the tiniest f***ing thing.”

Michael Des Barres (Photo: Bobby Bank/Getty Images)
Michael Des Barres (Photo: Bobby Bank/Getty Images)

It was Des Barres’s job to pay attention to the movie’s rock ’n’ roll minutiae, whether it was telling one unnamed actor, “Perhaps you shouldn’t be wearing what you’re wearing — this is 19-whatever-it-is” (Des Barres won’t reveal any more details about this fashion faux pas, but he says it “had something to do with [time-period-inappropriate] flared trousers”), or telling the faux roadies to move with more urgency.

“You can feel it, how roadies move,” he explains. “What is a roadie? They run. It’s almost like a love affair between a roadie and a guitar player. If that string breaks, man, that guy is there with another guitar, whatever it is. That is so beautiful to watch. So, I sort of saw lackadaisical vibes going on, and I thought, ‘No, no, no. You’ve got to step that up, 100 miles an hour! That guy’s in the middle of a solo. Are you kidding?’ It was in that capacity.”

Des Barres, who made his film debut at age 17 in the 1967 Sidney Poitier film To Sir, With Love and recently reprised his iconic role of villain Murdoc in CBS’s MacGyver reboot, is used to giving these sorts of on-set style pointers. The real-life rocker has also played a musician onscreen, whether it was the bad-boy womanizer in Allison Anders’s 1999 rock ’n’ roll dramedy Sugar Town or the obnoxious punk singer Dog on 1978’s famous “Scum of the Earth” episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. “Scum of the Earth were written as punks, with ripped this and ripped that and dog collars,” he recalls of that fictional sitcom band’s original TV wardrobe. “I said, ‘Put them in suits. Put them in suits and ties. And let’s see them throw a TV out the window.’ It was so much more interesting.”

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Champions League final: The decisions and battles that will separate Liverpool and Real Madrid

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When Real Madrid and Liverpool parade out onto the Olympic Stadium pitch in Kiev on Saturday, they will do so for a Champions League final drenched in history – more than ever before. The two have 17 European titles between them. The rest of their combined trophy ledger extends into triple digits. One is the reincarnated king of Europe. The other spent a decade on the throne.

And yet on that field, for 90 minutes – and maybe more – after 9:45 p.m. local time (2:45 p.m. ET, Fox), the two will be polar opposites. They’ll clash philosophically and stylistically. One will lift the most coveted club trophy in the sport. Both, though, should give us a treat. Because that clash is as intriguing and enticing as can be. Let’s dive in.

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We know exactly what Liverpool is going to do

OK, not exactly. Not down to every last minute detail. There are variations on the theme, and varying degrees of the “heavy-metal football” Jurgen Klopp has implemented. But the starting 11 picks itself (see below). And the style is ingrained.

We know Liverpool will press. We know the Reds will stir up as much chaos as possible. We know they will try to strike on the counter. They will chop up 90 minutes into has many unpredictable swings as possible, and bet on themselves to win those transitional moments more often than they lose them.

We have no idea what Real Madrid is going to do

Madrid, on the other hand, is a mystery. The back five are set. The front six is anything but. Both the personnel and shape fluctuate. There are nine players for six spots, and at least three different formations in manager Zinedine Zidane’s arsenal. We have no idea which one he’ll load up. We have no idea what Madrid will do.

Then again, sometimes Madrid doesn’t quite know what Madrid is doing. As Real Betis manager Quique Setien wrote in the Guardian, Los Blancos are “not guided by tactical rigor or a specific structure.” They just play. Two simple characteristics make them what they are. Tactics aren’t one of them. Talent and familiarity are.

The mastermind vs. the muppet

Because Real is relatively unstructured, narrative has a tendency to push Klopp and Zidane to opposite sides of the managerial continuum. The former is the mad scientist, his laboratory now based at Anfield, and his ingenious innovation “gegenpressing.” (His bespectacled appearance surely feeds that perception.) The latter is the novice, the in-over-his-head former player who steps aside and lets his players succeed in spite of his limitations.

And to some extent, those characterizations are fair. To some extent. Zidane might even admit that. “I’m not the best coach tactically,” he said during a news conference earlier this week. “I can say that. I don’t have to say it, though, because all of you say it!” And then he went on to make his actual point: “Motivation and passion are values that I have, and that is worth a lot more.”

Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp will square off in the 2018 Champions League final. (Getty)
Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane and Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp will square off in the 2018 Champions League final. (Getty)

But what happens when an opposing manager – such as the one who’ll stand 20 yards away from Zidane Saturday in Kiev – possesses those same qualities, plus a refined tactical approach? We’ll find out soon enough. But chances are that the intricacies will matter.

The antithetical midfields

The contrast between the midfields of Real Madrid and Liverpool could not be starker. On one side, there are two of the best ball-players in the sport. On the other, there are zero playmakers – or at least not in the traditional sense.

Giorginio Wijnaldum and James Milner can create chances. Heck, Milner has set a single-season Champions League assist record. But not because he dictates games on the ball. Instead, he, Wijnaldum and Jordan Henderson press high up the field, win duels, and spring counters from the attacking half. That’s their form of playmaking.

Real Madrid, on the other hand, is the rare modern giant that doesn’t really press. Its adventurousness all occurs in possession. But like Liverpool’s out of possession, it engenders open games, and forces defenders to shoulder heavy loads.

The game could be won or lost by center backs

Klopp’s main failing during his first two seasons at Liverpool wasn’t his system; it was an incompatible marriage between system and personnel. The ravenous press leaves center backs isolated, and therefore requires center backs who can win individual battles in space. Klopp, though, refused to buy a center back who fit that description – until this past January. Virgil van Dijk has fortified Liverpool’s foundation. He’s a big reason we aren’t talking about the Reds as a woeful defensive unit who’ll be exposed by the two-time defending champs.

But he and Dejan Lovren are still the inferior center back pairing in the game. Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane are put under similar pressure week in and week out, because the midfield in front of them is often invisible. Modric and Kroos are as close to defensive nothings as elite central midfielders can be. That’s why Real has leaked more chances than Liverpool this season. But among the four, you’d still bet on Ramos to make the game-saving intervention, and on Lovren to make the costly error.

There’s a thought that, fearing Madrid’s high-powered attack, Klopp could rein in his press on Saturday. He has done so more often this year than in his first two seasons combined. He did so in two league matches against Manchester City, opting for controlled chaos, selectively triggered, rather than all-out mayhem. But he’d be misguided to slow the game down against Real Madrid.

Because Liverpool’s advantage on Saturday is pace. It’s legs. It’s an average age under 26, as opposed to Real Madrid’s, which will likely be over 29. A willingness to go anything less than full-bore is a gift to Madrid, whose talent thrives when given time, regardless of space. Cristiano Ronaldo conjures space out of thin air. Liverpool’s best hope is to play the game as far away from its own penalty area as possible. Madrid no longer has the horses to hit back over the top on the counter.

Unless, that is …

Real Madrid’s decision

The one Madrid player who can still singlehandedly stretch the field is Gareth Bale. He’s therefore the one player who could force Liverpool to ease off the gas pedal. Having scored four goals the past three weekends, he’s clearly fit. So he should start.

Whether he will depends on how Zidane wants to attack – or cope with – Liverpool’s press. Does he want to try to bypass it, and risk short-lived, fruitless spells of possession? Or does he want his team to play through it? The first option requires Bale. The second probably calls for Isco and Karim Benzema.

Klopp has the advantage in the chess match here, because his adjustment – tweaking the level of aggressiveness – doesn’t require a personnel change. Zidane’s does. So Zidane is on the clock. His opening move will set the stage.

The decisive battles

If Madrid decides to play through – and it probably will – the abilities of Kroos and Modric to evade pressure, hold the ball and carry it forward will be pivotal. Modric, if he can spin away from Milner with the Englishman breathing down his neck, can be a one-man press-break. He can turn controlled possession into an attack by carrying the ball forward. Kroos can do so with one or two clever touches and a seeing-eye pass. It will be up to Milner, Wijnaldum and Henderson to cut off that back-to-front connection in midfield.

The other key battle is self-explanatory: Marcelo, the world’s best attacking fullback, will be matched up with Mohamed Salah. He must be smart.

Liverpool lineup projection

The Reds will line up as follows (4-3-3): Loris Karius; Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Dejan Lovren, Andy Robertson; Giorginio Wijnaldum, Jordan Henderson, James Milner; Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane.

Real Madrid lineup projection

Here’s what Zidane should do (4-3-3): Keylor Navas; Dani Carvajal, Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane, Marcelo; Luka Modric, Casemiro, Toni Kroos; Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo, Marco Asensio.

Here’s what Zidane might do (4-1-2-1-2): Keylor Navas; Dani Carvajal, Sergio Ramos, Raphael Varane, Marcelo; Casemiro; Luka Modric, Toni Kroos; Isco; Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema.

And then there are about a dozen variations of those two 11s. There’s a version of the former with Lucas Vazquez replacing Bale in what looks more like a 4-1-4-1. There’s a version of the latter with Bale preferred to Benzema, or with Isco dropped for Asensio. Then there’s the scenario where Casemiro gets left out, and the midfield turns into a flat 4-4-2 with Asensio and Vazquez as defensive wingers. There’s no telling which Zidane will choose.

Liverpool has all the tools. But so have others in the past against Real. Liverpool will hold at least one lead, but the game will go to extra time at 2-2. Madrid will claim a 13th European crown, either on penalties or via an Asensio winner. Either way, at the final whistle, Ronaldo’s shirt will be nowhere to be found.

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Henry Bushnell covers global soccer for Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Question? Comment? Email him at, or follow him on Twitter @HenryBushnell, and on Facebook.

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Poll: Majority of voters believe NFL kneeling isn't unpatriotic

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A majority of Americans do not believe taking a knee during the national anthem is an inherently unpatriotic act, according to a new poll released by Quinnipiac University.

NFL players, as you may have heard, have spent the last 20 months or so embroiled in a controversy over kneeling during the national anthem. While the players have consistently tried to push the message that the protests are meant to bring attention to systemic racism, outside commentators — including the President of the United States — have reframed the protests as a mandate on patriotism — i.e., stand or you’re unpatriotic.

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Not so, say 58 percent of American voters. That’s the percentage who indicated that NFL players who kneel in protest aren’t being unpatriotic by doing so. The poll split along ideological lines; 70 percent of self-identified Republicans say that the players are indeed unpatriotic, and white voters split 46-46 percent on the issue, but all other party, gender, education, age, and racial groups fell into the “not unpatriotic” category.

Do athletes have the right to protest on the field?

Voters indicated by a 53-43 margin that professional athletes do indeed have the right to protest on the playing field; the question of whether a protest is “at the appropriate time” is one objection that opponents often raise. This question fractures sharply along party lines; 82 percent of Democrats say the players have the right to protest, while 81 percent of Republicans say they do not.

Along racial lines, 85 percent of black voters and 67 percent of Hispanic voters said players have the right to protest, while 53 percent of white voters said they do not.

A recent Yahoo Sports/YouGov poll found that a majority of fans support the NFL’s new anthem policy. This, of course, does not contradict the Quinnipiac survey; it’s possible to both support a policy that mandates individual expression in the workplace and also not believe that individual expression is unpatriotic. The Quinnipiac poll found similar support for the anthem, and 51 percent oppose the NFL fining teams for protests during the anthem.

“Voters are clearly torn on the national anthem issue. They seem to be saying, ‘You can still love your country and kneel during its anthem,’ but the NFL’s new ‘must stand’ mandate is fine with them, too,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, in a statement. “As for teams that defy the new rule, Americans say, ‘Don’t throw a flag on them.’”

The big picture

It’s important, as always, to keep in mind a few key facts: the so-called “anthem protests” aren’t really protests of the anthem itself, they’re protests designed to bring attention to questions of social injustice and police brutality. The protests don’t interrupt game play, they don’t stop traffic, they don’t physically inconvenience anyone, and they don’t last any longer than the two minutes or so it takes to sing the national anthem.

While many Americans do see any form of protest during the anthem as dishonoring the flag — which, like protesting, is a perfectly valid and worthy belief — anyone who’s ever been to a game knows that during the anthem, there’s plenty of talking, beer-buying and bathroom visiting happening in the crowd … none of which qualifies as “respectful anthem behavior.”

The anthem issue won’t be going away any time soon, especially because President Trump has a tendency to use it as a rallying point for a percentage of his base. But in any situation, more information is always better, and this poll is one bit of information that breaks the protesters’ way.

The Quinnipiac poll surveyed 1,223 voters from May 31 to June 5, with a margin of error of +/- 3.4 percentage points.

Jay Busbee is a writer for Yahoo Sports. Contact him at jay.busbee@yahoo.com or find him on Twitter or on Facebook.

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Sup, Y’all

Story of my life.

Story of my life.

Welcome, newly baked muffins! (Before you think that was a drug reference, it wasn’t! It was a food reference, which is much more my style!) I’m so glad to have you all here, mostly because you’re my only friends and I’ve gained 200 more of you.

I’m kidding. I think…

Anyway, hi, and thank you for liking my nonsense! I would like to initiate you into my cult welcome you by telling you a few things about myself.

1. I accidentally put shampoo on my face in the shower about once a week. I know it sounds ridiculous, but showers are distracting, y’all! There is water shooting toward my head at all times, and that just feels dangerous.

2. When I was 12, I wanted to be Harriet the Spy, so I would get dressed up in my brown corduroys and green jacket (for maximum camouflage effect) and hide in the bushes and spy on my neighbors. Keep in mind that I lived on 8.5 acres of field, so my neighbors weren’t too easy to spy on. Once, I’m pretty sure someone drove by and saw me hiding in the bushes, so that’s awkward. I wasn’t a very good spy.

3. Speaking of, I wrote a love note to my neighbor friend (he was a year older than me) when I was six and stuck it in his mailbox. I think it said, “Thank you for being nice to me. I love you. Don’t tell anyone.” It’s very possible that I didn’t even sign it. It was on a little yellow post-it.
On the plus side, I don’t think he ever told anyone.

4. In Fall 2011 I lived in a co-ed apartment-style dorm, so I had two guys as neighbors. We entered our rooms from the outside, and by October it got pretty cold and rainy, so I would run from class to my room and didn’t particularly like to hang out in the cold. Anyway, my neighbor Thomas would talk on the phone for at least 2 hours daily and stand right outside my window, occasionally looking in and staring like I couldn’t see him. We called him Telephone Thomas because alliteration is awesome, and I thank baby Jesus every day that I don’t live there anymore. Also, who was he even talking to?

5. My suitemate in that same dorm used to wear vampire fangs and cat eye contacts. To class.
Her boyfriend’s name was Christof, and he used to stay with her all the time and use our bathroom and not flush the toilet and hang out in our changing area and talk to me when I’d get out of the shower with my towel on and stuff. So that wasn’t creepy at all.
While we’re talking about that dorm, there was a thong hanging off a tree branch right outside my window for that entire quarter. I hope whoever lost their underwear that way at least had a good time doing it.

6. One time a homeless man slapped his butt at me in Seattle. Cool, huh?

7. In middle school, I was talking to the principal and ran into a wall. Not head on…no, I was just walking along and since I can’t walk like a normal person, I sort of just veered into the wall and hit my head.

I think that’s all you need to know for now. So what have we learned? I’m clumsy, creepy, and have lived with a lot of weirdos.

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  1. One time I put my dad’s foot fungus cream in my hair because I thought it was shampoo. I’m also an Agreeable Andy when it comes to alliteration being a good thing. It makes everything better.

  2. You’re kinda strange. And you say y’all too much. Also how is it cool that a homeless guy slapped his butt at you? However the fact that you included this detail in the essential bits to know about you makes you pretty awesome in book of how to tell if people are awesome.

  3. The love note you sent is great! It oozes a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ (I don’t know what that means). You should sell that phrase to a card company or something. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner…

  4. Harriet the Spy! Yes, Cappy! I didn’t go full corduroy but I did receive some pretty sweet binoculars one year. I’d go out for hours just perving in people’s windows and writing in my little notebook. And now I’ve said too much. Bye!

  5. My boyfriend is my ex-husband’s, and therefore my daughters’, cousin. I tried one side of the family tree, didn’t like it, tried the other. So far, much better choice. The Boyfriend gets a kick out of telling everyone he’s related to my daughters but not me. I don’t think it’s that amusing.

  6. I’m constantly using the wrong thing on the wrong body part in the shower – I would think after 30 years, or I guess about 24 or so of showering on my own that I would have this sorted out by now, but I don’t. (actually, when do kids start showering on their own? I really don’t understand childhood development)

    At least once a month I have to get back in the shower because I forgot to rinse off the conditioner. I need an assistant.

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  8. I a heavily catching up on your blog today and feel weird about it, buuuuttt it’s happening. I just had to tell you that I ALSO used to dress up as Harriet The Spy and stalk my neighbors. I had binoculars and ate tomato sandwiches. I was also not a very good spy.

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Food Production Operator - Berne, IN

Branch ID: 5149

Pay Rate/Salary: $11.00 - $13.50

Staffmark a Leader in the Staffing Industry in currently recruiting talented individuals to fill the role of Food Production Operator Weekend Warrior in Rockford OH. Staffmark has partnered with The Fremont Company to recruit talent for their Growing company for Food Production Operator Weekend Warrior. Let Staffmark help you get a foot in the door! Earnings start at $11 hour with pay raises while on Staffmark payroll up to $13.50 hour. Weekend Warrior will work every Friday, Saturday and Sunday 12 hour shift. You will work 36 hours but get paid for 40! 4 hours of FREE money! You will go full time in 90 days. Once hired by this established company you will receive a generous benefit package that includes: Paid Holidays and vacation time, Health, dental and vision insurance.

What success looks like with Staffmark and The Fremont Company – Food Production Operator Weekend Warrior

  • High-energy individual with a strong work ethic

  • Self-motivated with ability to work with limited supervision

  • Like to be part of a winning team

  • Learn how to produce products for the world market.

  • Wanted to be treated like family not a number.

Food Production Operator Weekend Warrior responsibilities:

  • Monitoring lines for quality issues/defects on bottles/caps/

  • Assisting the machine Operator with various tasks.

  • Moving cases of product (weighing up to 35 lbs)

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Questions call or text 419-238-2040 ask for Gwen.

Staffmark offers our employees a competitive salary and benefit package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term disability insurance, unlimited $100 referral bonuses, 15% off Verizon phone service and more. Contact Staffmark today to join our team of exceptional people!

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The Company supports affirmative action and equal employment opportunity. The Company will provide equal employment in employment practices to all applicants for employment. Employment decisions shall be made without regard to any protected characteristic such as, but not limited to, race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, national origin, ancestry, citizen status, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, status in regard to public assistance, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans and other protected veterans, genetic information and other legally protected classes. Furthermore, the Company is an E-Verify employer. Information provided on this application will not be used for any discriminatory purposes. The Company complies with all applicable federal, state and local non-discrimination laws and regulations. The Company will provide reasonable accommodations in the application or interviewing process. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application or interviewing process, please contact us.

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R2R Process Optimization Manager in Kalamazoo, MI at Stryker Corporation

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As a member of the Finance One team, the Record to Report Process Improvement Lead will act a subject matter expert for the record to record process and work with a global cross functional team to:

  • Complete end to end process review across Stryker’s Local business markets and Shared Service Centers, identifying areas for standardization.
  • Identify and work with key stakeholders in accounting and reporting to understand issues and find ‘best practice’ outcomes
  • Partner with Accelerate to ensure SAP, Blackline JE, other adjacent solutions align with global processes
  • Work as the subject matter expert to create training material on ideal processes within the R2R cycle
  • Partner with stakeholders to develop and issue new Finance Policy for R2R process
  • Identify collections targets and other KPIs, establish a robust monitoring process, and proactively identify areas of continuous improvement
  • Act as the Subject Matter Expert for Record to Report processes
  • Finalize pre-requisites for establishing new and global closing calendar for close process
  • Detail perimeter between local, shared services, and center of excellence organizations and push for more simplified and restrictive corporate policies to provide better conditions for SAP implementation
  • Develop improvement projects / ideas for processes linked to Record to Report

•         Bachelor’s degree with emphasis in accounting, business or finance required

•         CPA / MBA preferred

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  • 5-7 years of relevant working experience in international company (preferably American or Multinational company)
  • Previous experience in Accounting and Reporting is preferred
  • Fluency in English required
  • Strong negotiation skills
  • Excellent stakeholder management
  • Competent in Microsoft Office, advanced Excel skills (v-lookup, pivot table etc.)
  • Ability to work independently, capable of handling multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously
  • Strong ability to coordinate action across dispersed workforce
  • Strong written and verbal skills enabling effective communication with all levels of management
  • Demonstration of effective leadership, interpersonal, and strategic planning skills necessary to interact and influence senior management in both Finance and the business
  • Ability to create a highly energized environment of exceptional performance, shared accountability, and personnel excellence, with a commitment to coaching and developing others into leadership roles
  • Effective problem-solving skills
  • ERP technology experience an advantage, including ERP implementations

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Ability to travel domestically and internationally for business meetings, workshops and leadership meetings, as needed

Work From Home: Yes

Travel Percentage: Up to 25%

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.

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Rutkiewicz: ‘That was a stage to last out’

So far Marek Rutkiewicz has been doing very well in the stages of the 68th Tour de Pologne UCI World Tour. The cyclist from the CCC Polsat Polkowice group attacked in the fifth stretch, winning the precious three seconds at the sprint stage. In the interview for s24 he shared his impressions from the stage to Zakopane.

– You can probably be satisfied with that stage, the three bonus seconds make you happy. What do you think about today’s racing?

Today it was all right, I had a bit more luck. Yesterday I was taken away those seven seconds, which was in my opinion unfair, so today I had the motivation to win the precious seconds. That bonus came handy to me, so I attacked to win those seconds, I expected nothing else from that action..

– What do you think, were the contestants saving themselves for Gliczarów?

Gliczarów is surely a great challenge, but I also think that toda’s stage was not that horrible. Today everybody got equally tired, so that was a stage to last out. I talked to other cyclists, who said that they already feel a bit those kilometres in their legs.

– Will you be following the weather forecast for tomorrow?

What will be, will be. I have great tyres, which stick well to the dry surface, and perfectly in the rain. Today’s cycling is a bit like Formula 1, it advanced a lot, so the equipment is better and better, and more and more universal. If it rains, I will be ready.

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With the temperature rising, it’s the perfect time to consider saying ‘I do’ by the sea, with the sun shining and the sand between your toes! We’re romancing the idea of an intimate beach wedding at cdl HQ this week, with these beautiful pictures sparking ideas of an intimate ceremony and reception shared only with the closest family and friends. Check out some of our favourite decorative ideas for a seaside ceremony below!

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Along with introducing Experia Z1 Compact, Experia Z1S (for T-Mobile in the US), Vaio Fit 11A, and cloud-based TVs, Sony has also launched cloud-based gaming for PlayStations, tablets, TVs and even for smartphones at CES 2014.

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The tech giant have introduced PlayStation Now; a cloud-based gaming service, which will operate from clouds and thus will be able to bring PS games to PS3, PS4, PlayStation Vita; and even to smartphones, tablets and TVs.

As being run from distant data centers the games will no longer have to be operated on your local handheld devices. Instead they will run on distant cloud-data centers and will stream compressed video of the game to your device screen. And the input from your touch screen or game controller will be sent to the cloud as well.

Thus PS games now can be operated from practically every device, even from your smartphones. The technology used behind this system is known as Gaikai, the cloud gaming technology the company bought in 2012. Gaikai does not require the fastest internet connection but it requires that the Latency be low so that the time between your touching the screen and the simultaneous operations at the cloud can be as short as possible.

Up till now Gaikai has only been used for streaming games on the web and TVs but Sony now has gone one step further through introducing it on their handheld gaming consoles.

The company is going to launch a closed beta version of PlayStation Now within this month in US and plans on spreading it rapidly.

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Record Imax Signings In India Continue as Inox Leisure Ltd. Adds Five New IMAX Theatres to Circuit

IMAX Adds 14 New Theatres to Network in India since February; Nearly Doubles Contracted Footprint in Country over 12-month Period

(April 19, 2018) – IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) and INOX Leisure Limited (INOX), a world-class multiplex chain in India, announced an agreement for five new IMAX theatres. The theatres will be added to new complexes, with two located in the city of Delhi and one theatre each located in the cities of Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Gurugram. The deal, which IMAX announced concurrently with another four-theatre India agreement this morning, brings IMAX’s total number of contracted theatres in India to 40, with 15 currently open and 25 contracted to open.

“We are very encouraged by the rapid pace of our expansion in India, where we’ve nearly doubled our contracted network in the last year,” said IMAX CEO Richard L. Gelfond. “We’re seeing an evolution in the world’s third-largest box office market towards more premium, event-driven cinema, and believe IMAX is ideally positioned to work together with world-class theatre chain, INOX, who shares our commitment to quality and innovation, to usher in differentiated cinema experiences across their flagship locations in India.”

INOX Leisure Ltd. CEO Alok Tandon said, “INOX stands for the best in luxury, comfort and technology. We have always believed in giving a 7-star movie viewing experience to our patrons and there is not a better experience than IMAX. We receive phenomenal responses from our patrons for the IMAX screens we already have. We are delighted to strengthen this and further expand our footprint of IMAX screens with this latest deal and strongly believe that this association will only grow.”

Inclusive of today’s agreement, INOX has contracted for a total of 10 IMAX theatres, with two open and eight scheduled to open. INOX currently has an IMAX theatre open in Mumbai and another in Bangalore, both of which opened in 2017. With this deal, INOX will add new IMAX theatres to some of India’s most prominent commercial developments, including a standalone IMAX theatre at the iconic Paras Theatre location in the heart of South Delhi and a theatre at the Reliance Convention Centre and Retail in Bandra Kurla Complex – Mumbai’s prestigious business district.

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IMAX, an innovator in entertainment technology, combines proprietary software, architecture and equipment to create experiences that take you beyond the edge of your seat to a world you’ve never imagined. Top filmmakers and studios are utilizing IMAX theatres to connect with audiences in extraordinary ways, and, as such, IMAX’s network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe.

IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto and Los Angeles, with additional offices in London, Dublin, Tokyo, and Shanghai. As of December 31, 2017, there were 1,370 IMAX theater systems (1,272 commercial multiplexes, 12 commercial destinations, 86 institutional) operating in 75 countries. On Oct. 8, 2015, shares of IMAX China, a subsidiary of IMAX Corp., began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code “HK.1970.”

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GujRERA: RERA Complaint Redressal in Gujarat

Since the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 came into force, Gujrat is among the top states in implementation and adoption of the new realty law. Gujrat being one of the State wherein the Real Estate Regulatory Authority has been functional since the inception of the RERA Act, has given substantial relief to the home buyers against the errant and unscrupulous actions of the builder. Gujarat RERA with the motto of complete justice has strived its best to facilitate the growth and promotion of a healthy, efficient and competitive real estate sector while protecting the interest of the home buyers, promoters and real estate agents.

As of now, overall 3880 real estate projects have been successfully registered under the Gujarat RERA. On the other hand the Authority has issued certificates to 702 agents, till now. That after the registration of the projects it has become much easier for the Authority to resolve the grievances of the home buyers in a time bound manner.

Further the filing of the complaint before the Gujarat RERA is not a tedious task now, as the aggrieved home buyer can now submit their complaint online by paying a minimal sum of fees and further can take the service of a professional for the adjudication of their complaint before the Authority. Once the complaint is taken up by the Authority it hardly takes a few months for the final disposal of the Complaint by the Authority and 60 days’ time period in case the matter is before the Adjudicating officer. The Authority understandings the situation the aggrieved homey buyer gives them ample chances of being heard before them, they try and understand all their problems and after formulating & considering the same pass an order to that effect.

Till date the Gujarat RERA has been able to solve the grievances of more than 65 Complainants by disposing off their cases in fast track manner within a tenure of one year only.

With such great progress, it certainly can be asserted that Gujarat will emerge as a State free from all real estate encumbrances and problems.

Disclaimer – Please note that the above articles is based on the interpretation of related laws and judicial pronouncement which may differ from person to person. The reader are expected to take the expert opinion on the matter.

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