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bbc.com/Diane Selkirk – The piñata is a ubiquitous aspect of Mexican culture. Yet how it got to be that way is somewhat of a mystery.

However, piñatas are a ubiquitous ingredient of life in Mexico. Part of the cartonería or carton piedra (rock cardboard) tradition ‒ which also includes mojigangas (giant puppets), masks and dolls ‒ the piñata is as vital to Mexican celebrations as mariachi music. Traditional fiestas, such as the Our Lady of Guadalupe celebration in mid-December, call for donkeys, fish and birds. For birthdays, kids gravitate toward cartoon and action figures.

The piñata is as vital to Mexican celebrations as mariachi music.

Typically created in small cottage workshops, piñatas can be made to order or bought from shops or market stalls. When my 15-year-old daughter, Maia, and I set off to buy a piñata to celebrate our successful circumnavigation, I started at a Bucerías neighbourhood dulceria, a shop devoted to piñatas and a dizzying (and stomach-churning) variety of sweets with which to fill them. Read Full Article

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ARC Review!🌟 Daughter of Sparta by Claire Andrews 💖

Thank you Netgalley and Little Brown Books for this incredible arc!

Daphne is a young woman living with her brothers and adoptive parents in Sparta. However, she is not seen as a true Spartan but as a kind of Outcast. Daphne has the opportunity to take her brothers place in a popular race to catch a stag and return with the garland it’s wearing. Little does she know her life is about to change when she meets Artemis and agrees to help her.

This book is about an incredible quest full of danger and bringing to life the thrilling myths and legends of ancient Greek Mythology.

I definitely recommend this for fans of Mythology and young adult fantasy. There is something for everyone here; romance, conflict, prophesy, a powerful female warrior and the amazing depictions of Greek gods and goddesses. Definitely check this one out!

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Article 4 - Descent and Distribution of an Intestate Estate
Part 1 - Rules Governing Intestate Succession
4-1.6 - Disqualification of Joint Tenant in Certain Instances

§ 4-1.6 Disqualification of joint tenant in certain instances

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a joint tenant convicted of murder in the second degree as defined in section 125.25 of the penal law or murder in the first degree as defined in section 125.27 of the penal law of another joint tenant shall not be entitled to the distribution of any monies in a joint bank account created or contributed to by the deceased joint tenant, except for those monies contributed by the convicted joint tenant.

Upon the conviction of such joint tenant of first or second degree murder and upon application by the prosecuting attorney, the court, as part of its sentence, shall issue an order directing the amount of any joint bank account to be distributed pursuant to the provisions of this section from the convicted joint tenant and to the deceased joint tenant's estate. The court and the prosecuting attorney shall each have the power to subpoena records of a banking institution to determine the amount of money in such bank account and by whom deposits were made. The court shall also have the power to freeze such account upon application by the prosecuting attorney during the pendency of a trial for first or second degree murder. If, upon receipt of such court orders described in this section, the banking institution holding monies in such joint account complies with the terms of the order, such banking institution shall be held free from all liability for the distribution of such funds as were in such joint account. In the absence of actual or constructive notice of such order, the banking institution holding monies in such account shall be held harmless for distributing the money according to its ordinary course of business.

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30 October 2012

Mechwarrior Online

Free Beer always tastes the best.
One of my driving passions in life is currently, and has always been, free shit. I can't help it- growing up, most of my accessible income wasn't directed towards video games, which meant that I either needed to get the game for free, or make it myself. And even now, when I have a bit more disposable income than I did when I was but a wee sprat, I can't help it. If the game's got "FREE" written in gigantic letters, I at least know about it. I make rounds on gaming websites, and keep my ear to the ground to hear about the next big thing in gaming.

This time, I've actually been waiting for this game for a while. I'm talking about Mechwarrior Online.

Now I'm not a big Mechwarrior fan, although I've heard snippets about Clans and Inner Spheres and people arguing about the old designs versus the new designs and whatever else Mechwarrior fans like to argue about, and I even had a friend who bought a Mechwarrior book and the two or three of us had sat and puzzled over what, exactly, was the nature of the game we had in front of us- but I'm hardly an expert.

For example, I can assume this is a "catapult" because that's what the image was called when I downloaded it.

I'm just excited that here is a game that's a) free, b) about giant robots, and c) team-based. I've been looking for a new game to play with my friends for a while now, and Mechwarrior Online could be it, assuming that its system requirements aren't such that I'd practically need a brand new computer to run it.

Well, here's to hoping, anyways.

17 October 2012

I would pay money for a game that actually felt like this.

I downloaded Everquest the other night and have, so far, given it five or six hours of my time. I'm not sure if I like what I seem to have gotten myself into. Scratch that- I am certain that this game is not for me.

Let me talk about myself a little, first.

My first actual MMO, back in 2005, was World of Warcraft. I'd never been in one of those families who was happy with having their phone line tied up forever, so my gaming had before then been limited to what is now called hotseat play, or just single player gaming. But by 2005, wireless internet and affordable laptops finally entered my family's world. It was addicting and exciting. We didn't have to take turns at the computer anymore, or be frustrated by another family member's email duties, or epic stretches of Civilization (the family's game of choice for a long, long time), or anything else. We could all do our own thing, and so we all kind of did.

I can't remember how I first heard about private servers, or how I decided that World of Warcraft would be the game for me, but I do remember how for three days and three nights I left my laptop on (and slightly cracked) and hidden where it wouldn't be accidentally knocked closed. Finally, the game finished- finally, I installed and connected to the game.

Naturally, I invited my brother to play. We copied the files over (a laborious process for our laptops), and the two of us proceeded to spend our summer vacations duoing World of Warcraft, nearly alone, on a private server. We reached max level, started over on another server, and enjoyed (and, it must be said, sometimes hated) playing with other people. We experienced dungeons for the first time, and ganking. World PvP, city raids, chat-spamming, kill-stealing, auction houses, everything was brand new again and glorious. It was a fantastic time from the moment we began to the moment we finished. The different zones were always interesting and novel, the way it tied into a beloved IP was exhilarating, the class system was glorious. I remember saving for tens of levels to finally afford my own mount, a beautiful turquoise Raptor that, to this day, remains my mount of choice on those rare occasions when I see how World of Warcraft is doing. Playing through vanilla World of Warcraft remains one of my favorite gaming memories.

I mention this to highlight the difference between my early experiences with World of Warcraft and with Everquest, and to demonstrate that I really do enjoy MMOs. I'm not the kind of idiot to complain about a game I don't like in a genre I knew I didn't like. I went to Everquest expecting a sort of manic genius, a sort of unfocused brilliance that manifests itself in so many older games. You know, how the teams were smaller and had nothing to lose, so they'd put all their best ideas in a game and hope to god it worked. I went to Everquest expecting an old-school fun. So far, I am vastly disappointed.

I don't know why the game doesn't play like that.

Now look. I did do the research- I am armed with various wikis, guides to levelling, and well-documented forays into pretty much everything. Everything pointed towards a game of grinding your way to 60 through a hostile world that will not hesitate to kill you, steal your XP, and lose all your items. Now, I am not the type of person to object to grinding- I did play vanilla World of Warcraft as a two-man group. We essentially just ground out the levels for a period of a week or so, and it was enjoyable enough. I'm not the kind of guy who objects to death penalties, either; I love roguelikes and will continue until the day I die. But Everquest is the worst of both worlds- it has the uninteresting combat of a roguelike without that game's expansiveness, and a grind treadmill without any satisfaction whatsoever.

God damn it, look- I've gotten lost in the maze-like and hideous city of Freeport for an hour while I use an out-of-game map to try and find my bearings. I've slain at least a dozen bats, skeletons, and rats and found that my hour's worth of effort isn't even enough to buy me a new dagger. I clutch my stack of bronze coins (or are they brass?) and stare at the shopkeeper, wondering if there's something I'm missing, if there's some way to be able to afford something other than the default tunic and short sword. And while I'm doing that, I'm wondering if there's more to the game than standing there and waiting for my Warrior to autoattack skeletons, if there's more to the game than casting one or two spells as a Magician and waiting for the thing to die so I can take its loot. I'm wondering if, as it seriously is sounding, if the game is centered entirely around an unsatisfying, grinding combat system with no PvP and a hardcore raiding endgame. But there isn't. That's it. That's the game. You watch your fighter slap the enemy, without any input from you. And then on to the next one.

And this wouldn't be a problem, either, except that I am familiar with what the game is doing. I've been there before; this is not a mystery to me. This is a Skinner box dressed up in blocky dwarves and elves, hiding behind the digital merchants and skeletons. I'm expected to hit the "autoattack" button, wait a couple seconds, and receive my prize. If I play with other people, I can hit the button faster, get more prizes, get more accomplished. It's the exact same mechanic as those awful Facebook games. Sure, it says, by yourself the game isn't that great, but if you get your friends to play you'll love it! You can talk to them while you game, and even roleplay if you want! This is simply not acceptable. I can see why people get sucked into it, the same way that people get sucked into Farmville, or Mafia Wars- you slowly will win. The only way to lose is not to play. Put in enough time, and you are guaranteed some great loot, piles of money, experience, everything. The game is open to you, if only you would try more. And for some people that's seductive.

But I am a snob about one thing, and that's gameplay. And I'm sorry, Everquest, but the passage of time has not been kind to you. There are games that do grind better, that do community better, that do grouping better, games that mock you, games that openly reveal the dirty secret that's kept some players glued to you for ten years. It's not the game, it's the community, the long-term players say. They just stay for their friends, their guild, for the socialization. I'm sorry, Everquest, but I came to you for a game, and your open secret is that you are only just barely passable as one.

I'm sorry, Everquest. I tried. I really did. But you, my friend, are kind of terrible.

The Raspian Console

Me and the wife- although neither of us are long-haired or quite that pale

Nothing especially interesting to say today- been spending most of my mental energy either trying to teach myself how microcontrollers work (something I have literally no experience with) or trying to figure out how to hack together a Raspberry Pi into a portable emulation station.

The second one is going better, obviously. Once I get my hands on the Pi itself, all I have to do after that is pick up a USB hub and then get moving. The final version, I think, will have a couple more features that aren't really necessary, like a discreet on/off switch and an LED, some converters that'll let you plug some fairly ancient controllers into it, and maybe a couple boot loaders that run the emulator from the moment you turn the "console" on; but that's in the future. As it stands, I'll just be happy if I can get the Pi to run in the setup I'm thinking of. I'm not at all certain of the compatibility of Debian (the default Raspbian OS) with the PS3 drivers, but c'est la vie, and I'm sure I can make something work.

But this is all extremely uninteresting, I'm certain, unless you're one of the people that'll be playing my emu-box. ;)

10 October 2012

Mount and Blade

I keep meaning to actually post something that I'm working on, but the only thing I've been doing the past couple of days (besides scouring the internet for people looking for a freelance writer, but hey, that doesn't count) is playing Mount and Blade.

You start out as a lowly, no-good adventurer in one of several kingdoms based on real-life cultures. It's up to you to figure out what you're going to do to go from random guy on the street to mighty warlord. Or a vassal to a king. Or a mercenary. Or a merchant.

It's a lot of fun, not the least of which because when it's time to put your enemies to the blade, it's you riding on horseback, commanding from the front, swinging swords and axes with wild abandon. The fighting system itself is precise and violent- you can parry attacks, batter shields down, slay the horses of your enemies. And most importantly, it's a lot of fun.

The only thing the game is missing is an ancient mod- they have mods set in world war 2, for some reason, and ones for slightly forwards in the time span, and naturally a half dozen roman mods. But nothing that lets me run around as Odysseus or Achilles, sadly.

But other than that, it's a lot of fun, and it's what's been consuming my time.

02 October 2012

I know that this isn't really a "thief" per se, since it's really just the Princess dressed up and, unless I'm mistaken, she was just giving an apple to some kid because she's not used to having to actually pay for stuff but that's not really how it looks.

I don't have anywhere to go with this picture. I just love Aladdin.

What's interesting to me is that not too long ago, Middle Easterners were viewed a lot more positively. It used to be just a brown skinned dude with a fez or a turban, and they were considered polite, if not perhaps a little odd by European and American standards, but in the media going forwards from what, the 80s or so? Suddenly Middle Eastern culture is portrayed a lot more negatively, with the Crusades being played up, ancient Persia being bad guys somehow, and now the entire region is filled with religious fanatics, assholes, and generally unpleasant people.

I don't mean to get into psuedo-political posts (not my style, really), just a thought inspired by a good movie.

Aircraft Carriers in Space?

Found this via Rock Paper Shotgun, and I think it's a nifty read. Touches on elements of internal consistency and making the world presented in sci-fi media match our expectations from real life.

Also, it talks about Battlestar Galactica. I really need to finish watching that series, damn it.

D&D is a game about resources

Sometimes it pretends to be a game about stories, or adventures, but it isn’t. It’s a game about what you have- hit points, weapons, armor,...


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Adultery a civil wrong

The institution of marriage has importance in every society. No can deny that an institution like marriage can exist on commitment, loyalty and faithfulness of partners. So marriage has been given a pious and a sacred position. Only the blind and bigot persons can say that such institution is the product of social contract in which there are certain particular duties of husband and in return the wife has some particular duties. If either of the spouses commits adultery, they are not only breaking the promises that were made to each other but also ruining the sanctity of the marriage. The offence of adultery was built on the assumption of bigot people that the man who committed the act of adultery guilty and that the married woman was a helpless victim of adultery. The husband has only power to prosecute the offence and she was free from “criminal responsibility” and that the man committing the offence of adultery was unfaithful to the married man and he is solely responsible for sexual liaison. A husband if commits the act of adultery can not be prosecuted at the instance of wife.

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Joseph Shine filed Public Interest Litigation under Article 32 of the Constitution of India challenging the constitutionality of the offence of adultery. The apex court rightly struck down the offence of adultery as it violates the basic dignity of women and treats women as the personal property of the husband.

Under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 the act of committing adultery is criminalized, it states that any person who has sexual intercourse with a married woman without the consent or connivance of her spouse, such act amounts to the offence of adultery.

The punishment for committing adultery may extend up to imprisonment for five years, or with fine, or both. On 27th July 2018, a five-judge bench of Supreme Court unanimously struck down Section 497 of IPC and Section 198 (2) of Criminal Procedure Code as being violative of Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Constitution of India. The bench held in the judgement that the Section is violative of Article 14, which deals with the right to equality and it only penalizes men and not women. Article 15(1) of the Constitution prohibits the State from discriminating on the grounds of sex. The offence only considers the husband as the aggrieved party if his wife commits the offence of adultery but the law does not consider the wife as an aggrieved party if her husband commits sexual intercourse with another woman. It is violative of Article 21 of the Constitution which deals with the protection of life and personal liberty, and section 497 of IPC treats women as the personal property of the husband and goes against the basic dignity of women. Any act of adultery by any spouse is a civil wrong. it is still a ground for divorce in both Hindu and Muslim personal law.

Adultery - The word adultery is derived from the Latin word ‘Adulterium’. It is termed as the extramarital sex. an is considered objectional on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds. Merriam-Webster dictionary defined adultery as “voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than that person’s current spouse or partner.” Even if the offence of adultery is decriminalized under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, it constitutes to be a reasonable ground for divorce, i.e. if either the husband or wife commits adultery, the other person can file for divorce solely based on this reason. Marriage is a pious bond and involves that both pastries should be loyal to each other, therefore if either party is violating the sanctity of the bond, then the law allows the other person to file for divorce on the ground that his or her wife committed the act of adultery.

Under Section 13(1)(i) of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, the Act lays down that if either the husband or wife after solemnisation of marriage had sexual intercourse with any person other than his or her spouse, then that person has committed the offence of adultery and it is a reasonable ground to file a divorce. A Hindu man, as well as the woman, can seek divorce on the grounds that his or her spouse committed the act of adultery. Therefore, under the Hindu Marriage Act, having voluntary sexual intercourse with someone other than his or her spouse is a reasonable ground for divorce.

Under the Muslim personal law, it is an allegation of adultery to the wife by the husband that entitles her to file a suit for dissolution of marriage and to get a divorce if the charges are proven to be false. According to Muslim law, a marriage is valid until a verdict is passed by the judge. To dissolve a marriage under the doctrine of lian, (which states where the wife is charged with adultery and the charge is false) the court should determine whether the charges of adultery were unjustly made.

In Islam, sexual relation out of wedlock is a major sin. According to the provisions laid down in the Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939, a married woman under the Muslim law is entitled to obtain a decree for the dissolution of marriage if her husband associates with women of ill-repute. Although adultery as a ground for divorce is not mentioned in the Act, the interpretation of the above Section helps us to understand that if a Muslim man indulges himself in adultery it is a valid ground for divorce.

In the case of adultery, direct evidence is difficult to get. One has to rely on circumstantial evidence. The act of adultery will be inferred from Circumstantial evidence, Evidence which states non-access and the birth of children, Evidence of visits to the houses of ill-repute, Contracting venereal disease and Admissions that have been made in previous proceedings.

The steps to follow to take legal action against the spouse if he or she commits the act of adultery:

1. Firstly, it is extremely important to ensure that the act is adulterous. These acts are considered adulterous; the birth of a child beyond the period of twelve months after the cessation of the marital consortium between the spouses, admission of adultery, etc.

2. The spouse may want to appoint a private investigator to collect evidence which could be presented before the court.

3. After the spouse is done with the collection of evidence he or she might contact a lawyer as it is important for him to weigh out his options and also to understand the legality of admission of pieces of evidence before the court.

4. Fourthly, if the spouse wants to file for divorce then he or she should move to court and file a petition for divorce.

5. If both the husband and wife after reviewing the above factors decide to opt for divorce through mutual consent, then:

i. both the parties need to file for divorce before the district court.

ii. Before filing the petition, couples should live separately for a period of one year or more. Then after the petition is allowed parties are required to file a statement and if any party is unavailable then the statement will be filed by his or her family member.

iii. Now, before the court couple needs to give reasons as to why they are unable to live together and mention in the petition that they have mutually agreed to dissolve the marriage.

iv. Finally, the court will inspect the documents and after a period of 6 months and not more than 18 months will give a date for listening to the parties. And after hearing the parties, if the court is satisfied then it may pass a decree of divorce declaring the marriage to be dissolved.

6. If the parties try to seek divorce through contest, then:

i. the spouse needs to file the divorce petition before the family court.

ii. the court will send a copy of the petition to the spouse.

iii. Then both the parties should be prepared to face the court proceedings as the divorce is contested by either the husband or the wife.

iv. if the divorce is granted then the court will further give a six-month span for reconsidering the issue and the maintenance which ought to be provided will also be decided.

7. Maintenance which is to be provided after the divorce:

i. If the wife commits the act of adultery, then she will not be entitled to receive maintenance from her husband or

ii. if she refuses to live with the husband without any sufficient reason or cause.

iii. if the husband commits the act of adultery then he will be liable to provide maintenance to the wife if she is unable to fend for herself.

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Build Quality, Trusting Relationships with Your Team

The current economic slowdown has created an added a layer of stress to workplaces struggling to keep pace with change even before the recession hit. The effect of this stress on our personal and professional relationships is quite evident – the uncertainty of knowing when things will turn around, coupled with additional responsibilities and obligations have often caused us to lose patience with those connected to us. Successful coach-managers recognize the importance of achieving competency in the following skill sets to effectively lead their teams through change:

  •  Build quality relationships and develop trust
  • Communicate effectively through highly developed listening, probing and feedback skills
  • Facilitate sustainable behaviour change in self and others

In this first article, I will present the top 5 tips for laying a foundation of trust and building productive relationships with the people you manage. I will discuss the other 2 skills sets in future articles over the next few weeks. Please feel free to respond and share other ideas that have worked for you and your staff.

TOP COACHING TIPS FOR MANAGERS: Build Trusting Relationships.
Benefits to you:Enhanced credibility, confidence and performance.
Benefits to your team: Increased motivation, commitment and loyalty.

  1. Make a concerted effort to get to know each team member and value them for their unique talents and passions. Embrace diversity in your team and develop strategies to leverage their unique strengths. This requires an initial investment of time but pays big dividends over the long-term.
  2. Be a good role model – actively engage in personal development to change/improve your own behaviour and attitudes; try to maintain a positive outlook even in the face of adversity.
  3. Raise your Emotional Intelligence. Have frequent, unstructured conversations with staff to inquire how they are feeling and how you can support them. Demonstrate empathy for team members who are feeling the pressures and stresses associated with the downturn.
  4. Deliver critical feedback in private. Pick the right time and place and don’t make it about the person. In other words, ‘address’ the problem… don’t ‘dress down’ the person.
  5. Follow through on your promises and commitments. Do what you say you’ll do and pony up if you drop the ball. They’ll respect you for you honesty.

In summary, managers who act in a caring, considerate and consistent manner are more likely to gain the respect of their team. This lays the foundation for a relationship built on trust and creates confidence in a team member’s ability to deal with adversity.

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Vegas 70.3 World Championships Preview

Heeeeelllllllllooooooo all my crazy ass got a case of Jesse Bieber Fever fans! I’m sitting on a plane heading to Vegas. Contrary to rumors on TMZ and ET, I have not been offered a role in Hangover 3. I’m racing the 70.3 World Championships! Then we’ll see about the movie role.

Let’s get the race details out of the way before I give you what you really want which are the details of my inner thoughts, emotions, and bowel movements heading into this historic event.

WHEN – This SUNDAY, 9/9, 6:30AM Pacific

WHERE – Henderson, NV

  • Twitter – Honestly this is the best, especially because I know you’re interested in all things Jesse. Lauren will be updating from my account, @jessemthomas. A couple other twitter options are:
    • @amandabalding – Friend of mine who I think will be on a moto on the bike course.
    • @ironmantri – Usually provide good updates.
    • @mattlieto – He’s my friend and he’s funny. I think he’s commentating.
  • Ironmanlive.com or the Race Website – You may have to dig to find the right pages, but they should have a live blog and potentially some video. Just look for anything that says live Vegas/70.3/World Championships updates.
  • Post other options below in comments – If anyone else knows another place to watch, or a direct link, I will make you famous if post it in the comments, famous on this blog I mean.

The Field – This is, without a doubt, the strongest field I’ve ever seen at any race ever. As I used to say in middle school and now, everyone and their mom is here. That includes my mom. The field has all the big names, something like 5 World Champions, a HyVee Winner, the winner of almost every major 70.3 in the world this year, and a magician. I made that last one up. Anyway, it’s going to be crazy, seriously. A super good field.

Luckily Chris Angel is not racing. He would be super fast at the swim.

The Venue – Three words best describe the venue, hot hot hot. Honestly, that’s the main thang on the brain for almost everyone. Even though we start at 6:30am, it will still be lower 90s for most of the run. The swim is in a lake (bad), the ride is hilly, even finishing above where it starts (good), and the run is three 4-mile loops of 2 miles gradual up, 2 miles gradual down (good I guess). It’s a tough, but honest course that in some ways suits me (hills), in some ways does not (no ice cream break).

I know I just screwed myself as this will definitely be the song in my head now.

My Thoughts Only (no Bowel Movements, your* safe):

Those of you who read my nonsense regularly know that this race is one of two key focuses of my season (the first one was Wildflower). It’s also the focus a three year plan that Matt and I created after I first joined him in late 2010. I had my first, and painful, crack at this race last year as a rookie pro off my game. In other words, I got my ass handed to me big time. It left a super sour taste in my mouth on an otherwise successful season. But I’m back with more experience, as a better athlete, and legitimately excited to see what I can achieve.

I didn’t have a wind tunnel to test my new Specialized TT helmet, so I rolled down the windows in the back of the car instead. It felt fast.

Swim – Last year, I got dropped about 23.5 seconds into the swim, and then swam-cried by myself for 25 minutes. Then the ladies who started 4 minutes behind me, came up on me. I tried to stay with them and got dropped again . Let’s just say it was a rough start to a rough day. My goal in the swim is simple – swim like I know I can. I’m faster than I’ve ever been, and I just want to capitalize on that. If I have a great swim, I could come out at the back of the front pack. If I have a good swim, I’ll come out with the second pack. If anything, I hope to be in a much better position than last year heading onto the bike.

Bike – Again, I’d like to improve significantly over my sufferfest last year where I rode 100 meters behind Julie Dibens for about 30 miles and finished with the 34th fastest bike split in the pro field. I know from this year’s races and workouts that on a good day, I can ride with just about anyone. I’m not afraid to be aggressive and ride hard. Hopefully, I’ll have some guys to ride with this year.

Yes, I got a new bike for this race. I am a very spoiled little boy. I don’t know if it’s in my head, but this bike honestly feels faster than my last one. Booyah!

Run – Simple, run my ass off. Honestly, my run has taken a back seat this year to developing my swim and bike. Last year, I used a 4th fastest run split (including a potty stop, yep, it’s called potty even in Vegas) to climb from 35th place to 17th place. I haven’t had quite the run this year, I’ve learned to ride harder and haven’t needed it to be competitive. But I’ve seen in workouts and a few races that in the right situation and under the right motivation, my run is as strong as it ever has been, and I’ll believe that every step of the way.

Overall – It’s tough to give a straight-up goal of where I want to finish in this race. The field is so strong that there are scenarios where I could have a great performance and still finish outside the top-10 (fair odds have me in a 4 way tie for 12th). I also believe that on the right day I have the tools to challenge for the podium (some others believe that as well, here & here). I don’t set hard place & time targets because it makes you focus on the wrong thing – outcome, which you have little control over – vs. the right thing – process, which you can control. So I guess I just want to perform well, do what I know my body is capable of doing, and enjoy the process. I’m looking forward to having fun and enjoy the fact that I’m in this race, healthy and confident, with an opportunity to do well. And…I’m really looking forward to some beers afterward.

Thanks so much to all of you for following along on the journey, and see you on the other side!

*update – thanks Jordan Rapp for finding this grammatical error immediately. You’re a machine, much like how you race. I’m surprised you beat my buddy Stanford b-school buddy Tom to the punch, who also likes to point out all my grammatical errors immediately. I’ll keep it up because I know how happy it makes both of you.

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What a weekend! My oldest sister Erika got engaged this Friday! Scott, her boyfriend, had my family come to NYC to surprise her after he popped the question in their apartment.  We were waiting for them in the lobby with champagne on hand to congratulate them! The original plan was that they were going to meet us at Lincoln Center, but it was down-pouring,  so we decided to go to the lobby of their building to celebrate there first, and then head over to Lincoln Center.

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A German Festival Takes Stock of Pandemic-Era Theater

MUNICH — The most instantly putting facet of this 12 months’s Theatertreffen, the annual showcase of the very best of German-language theater, is the numbers.

To make their choice, the 2020 pageant jury watched 285 productions in 60 cities throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The ensuing program, which runs till Monday, is dauntingly full, with 80 hours of streaming occasions on a digital pageant platform.

When the seven jurors introduced their choice in February, the pageant hoped to carry in-person performances. But a 3rd wave of the coronavirus, which has gripped Germany in current months, meant that for the second 12 months in a row, Theatertreffen was confined to this on-line presentation.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, German playhouses have been uniquely proactive in adapting to social distancing restrictions. Many have devised new theatrical codecs, together with immersive reside productions for solo spectators or digital-only productions which have enlisted social media, video messaging apps, chat rooms and video gaming expertise to create artwork that responds to our circumstances.

Keeping up with this artistic proliferation has been often exhausting; extra constantly, it has been inspiring to see how theater right here — a lot of which receives strong state funding — has refused to lie down and die.

A second throughout the 12-hour manufacturing “Show Me a Good Time,” by the German-British theater collective Gob Squad.Credit…Eike Walkenhorst/Berlin Festival

I had hoped that this 12 months’s Theatertreffen would take the complete measure of this difficult 12 months, so I used to be dismayed that the jury selected just one “corona present” among the many 10 productions chosen for the pageant.

But what a manufacturing it was!

“Show Me a Good Time” by the German-British theater collective Gob Squad, was a wild noon-to-midnight efficiency that whizzed between the empty stage of the Berliner Festspiele and numerous individuals within the outdoors world, discussing life throughout the pandemic, conducting man-on-the-street interviews about theater and soliciting inventive ideas from callers. The performers on the theater, driving by way of Berlin and traipsing round England had been related through headsets and cameras in what typically had the facet of a theatrical telethon.

Yet regardless of the marathon working time, it was accessible and right down to earth. By design, it was a present that one might dip into and out of at will; over the 12 hours, greater than three,000 individuals popped their digital heads in.

While meditating on life, theater and the intersection of the 2, the performers routinely injected their largely ad-libbed performances (in German and English) with beneficiant doses of humor and silliness. One instance: For two minutes every hour, they dropped every little thing and screeched with laughter.

Rainald Goetz’s “Empire of Death” directed by Karin Beier, who leads the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. Credit…Arno Declair

While not one of the different productions offered an analogous diploma of significant reflection on life throughout Covid-19, the truth of the pandemic clearly influenced the aesthetic decisions behind a number of of the opposite streamed productions.

Theaters had already reopened, at restricted capability, in Switzerland when a livestream of Schauspielhaus Zurich’s “It’s Only the End of the World” opened Theatertreffen final week. But the director, Christopher Rüping, a daily on the pageant who has been a outstanding proponent of recent digital potentialities for theater throughout the pandemic, determined to maintain the reside viewers out. Instead of performing for a handful of spectators, the actors addressed cameras. The consequence, watched on-line, was a hybrid theatrical expertise harking back to cinéma vérité.

Roving hand-held cameras captured Jean-Luc Lagarce’s 1990 play a few homosexual man who returns to his estranged household after a protracted absence. Most spectacular was how efficient the livestream’s filming fashion was at capturing the nuances of the manufacturing’s advantageous actors, together with Ulrike Krumbiegel because the nervous, damaged matriarch and Wiebke Mollenhauer and Nils Kahnwald as a pair of emotionally scarred siblings.

This was additionally the second 12 months that Theatertreffen’s jury voted to undertake a quota system to make sure that no less than half the productions can be directed by ladies or majority-female collectives. (A current examine by the European Theater Convention that surveyed 22 international locations discovered that there are six males for each 4 ladies working in theater).

Last 12 months’s Theatertreffen program appeared fairly just like earlier installments regardless of the marked improve in female-led productions. This time round, although, an unofficial feminist theme appeared to mirror the pageant’s give attention to feminine theatermakers.

“NAME HER. In Search of Women+,” a 7½-hour multimedia performance-lecture, directed by Marie Schleef, about neglected ladies all through historical past.Credit…Hendrik Lietmann

By far probably the most didactic was “NAME HER. In Search of Women+,” a 7½-hour multimedia performance-lecture, directed by Marie Schleef, about neglected ladies all through historical past. Standing in entrance of a triptych of enormous iPhone-like shows of biographical data, charts and movies, the actress Anne Tismer gave an attractive efficiency that, nonetheless heroic, did endure on video. Watching her rattle off this A to Z of good and unjustly ignored girl, it was onerous to not think about it might have had a wholly completely different immediacy and vitality if skilled reside.

One of probably the most outstanding feminine theatermakers in Germany, and a frequent presence at Theatertreffen, is Karin Beier, who leads the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. This 12 months, her manufacturing of Rainald Goetz’s “Empire of Death” served up a savage indictment of America’s post-9/11 army adventures overseas and democratic degeneracy at house, and it was simply the grimmest factor on the pageant. I couldn’t look forward to the four-hour theatrical scream to finish.

After so many prolonged reveals, I used to be additionally grateful for people who clocked in at little greater than an hour. They offered a way of intimacy that was lacking from the extra sprawling productions.

One was Leonie Böhm’s inside monologue model of “Medea*,” Schauspielhaus Zurich’s second manufacturing on the pageant, which labored greatest as a finely tuned psychological examination of one in all world literature’s most well-known villainesses. In it, the actress Maja Beckmann’s Medea struggles with how Euripides’ tragedy fates her to be a baby assassin, and the way historical past will without end choose her a monster.

Staged in a big white tent, “Medea*” created an environment of privateness that it shared with the pageant’s most uncommon entry, the delicate dance efficiency “Scores That Shaped Our Friendship,” a bodily tender exploration of the friendship between Lucy Wilke, a performer with spinal muscular atrophy, and Pawel Dudus, a queer Polish artist and dancer.

Maja Beckmann in Leonie Böhm’s inside monologue model of “Medea*” from Schauspielhaus Zurich.Credit…Gina Folly

Despite the quota system, this 12 months’s Theatertreffen featured just one standard play by a feminine playwright that was additionally directed by a girl: Anna Gmeyner’s “Automatenbüfett.”

We have the Burgtheater in Vienna and the director Barbara Frey to thank for the rediscovery of this 1932 play by the Austrian-Jewish Gmeyner. In it, she combines people realism with symbolic parts for a parable-like story of the widespread good undermined by avarice and sexual dependency, set largely in a vending-machine restaurant. The automat dominates the drab set of Frey’s dramatically incisive and impeccably acted manufacturing.

It is way and away probably the most conventional manufacturing on this Theatertreffen, in addition to probably the greatest. Starting late this month, it is going to once more be seen onstage in Vienna, the place theaters have simply reopened after half a 12 months of hibernation.


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The Fantasy of a Cotswolds Country Home Meets Reality in Westchester

Like so many renovation initiatives, the transformation of Keren and Thomas Richter’s 1850s farmhouse in Pound Ridge, N.Y., concerned no scarcity of surprises.

When the couple, companions in an inside design agency referred to as White Arrow, discovered a rundown home in late 2017, they assumed they may refresh it with a beauty renovation, and that it could function a bucolic weekend escape from their main house in Brooklyn. Both of these assumptions turned out to be improper.

“We would typically come as much as northern Westchester on the weekends and drive round, and we have been at all times so charmed by the way it felt such as you’re within the nation, though you’re actually solely an hour away from the town,” mentioned Ms. Richter, 40, who appreciated the fieldstone partitions, previous properties and beneficiant heaps.

Keren and Thomas Richter, the founders of the inside design agency White Arrow, restored an 1850s farmhouse in Pound Ridge, N.Y.Credit…Frances F. Denny

After the couple determined to behave on their dream of proudly owning a house within the space, they shortly discovered their home: a construction of peeling clapboard, with three sections constructed over the course of a century, on 5 inexperienced acres. The home had appeal, however wanted work. It appeared to have been final up to date within the 1950s, with worn linoleum and Formica. Unruly shrubs had taken over exterior.

“It was in property situation,” Ms. Richter mentioned. “Since we do interiors, we thought it could be an ideal alternative for us to revive one thing and provides it our personal contact.”

Such a time-consuming venture isn’t for everybody, so that they weren’t anticipating the bidding struggle that adopted. “There have been builders fascinated with it as a result of they may demo it and create two properties on the lot,” Ms. Richter mentioned. The asking worth was $650,000, however the Richters finally paid $818,000; they believe that a letter they wrote to the vendor, explaining how they deliberate to revive the home, helped safe the acquisition.

The couple expanded and redesigned the previous galley kitchen to incorporate Shaker-inspired cupboards, beadboard partitions and a worktable. They discovered somebody in Montana promoting the white AGA vary on Craigslist, and Mr. Richter drove it again to New York in a U-Haul.Credit…Thomas Richter

As they started analyzing the home extra carefully, nonetheless, their preliminary pleasure gave strategy to concern. They knew they wished to boost the ceilings in some upstairs sections that have been so low that Mr. Richter, who’s 6-foot-Three, may barely get up. But they hadn’t counted on changing the inspiration beneath the portion of the home constructed within the 1950s.

“It wasn’t actually constructed on a correct basis,” mentioned Mr. Richter, 39. “We employed a structural engineer to look into it, and he mentioned we needed to redo the inspiration beneath that half as a result of it was principally sinking.”

They additionally found that the entire electrical wiring and plumbing had to get replaced. Then the septic system failed. Before lengthy, it was clear that the venture would contain way over a beauty refresh: It can be a down-to-the-framing and dig-up-the-earth rebuild.

The main bed room has a customized spool mattress from Leonards New England and vintage lamps and cupboards.Credit…Thomas Richter

With the Brooklyn-based agency INCA as their architect of report and Robert Lord Construction, the Richters mapped out their renovation plans for a yr earlier than starting building in December 2018. When the climate was heat, they generally camped on the market.

“We received a Porta Potty, and our buddies got here up,” Mr. Richter mentioned. “We had a firepit and tents and camped on the land, as a result of the home was a shell.”

To restore the outside, they discovered photographs of the home from the early 1900s and aimed to recreate what was there greater than 100 years earlier, together with a entrance porch that had been eliminated.

Inside, they hoped to create rooms that recalled not solely early American properties but in addition English nation homes. “In the start, we have been form of joking that we wished it to really feel like a Cotswolds nation house, though we’re in northern Westchester,” Ms. Richter mentioned. “But I do suppose, in some respects, that’s the vibe.”

A media room, painted a deep emerald inexperienced, is linked to the first suite.Credit…Thomas Richter

It helped that a secondhand, British-made AGA vary grew to become the centerpiece of their kitchen after they discovered somebody in Montana promoting one on Craigslist. “Thomas flew on the market and drove it again in a U-Haul,” Ms. Richter mentioned.

“It was one of the best journey of my life,” added Mr. Richter, who grew up in Germany and had by no means skilled an American cross-country street journey. “This journey was so epic, and I took a whole lot of detours.”

Now the vary is the prized function in an expanded kitchen with Shaker-inspired cupboards, beadboard paneling and a customized worktable, all painted a deep teal.

Upstairs, they designed a brand new main suite, together with a rest room geared up with a free-standing cast-iron bathtub and a bathe beneath the newly raised ceiling. In the attic, they created a house workplace for his or her design studio.

The home features a sunny playroom for the couple’s daughters, Mira and Laila.Credit…Thomas Richter

The four-bedroom, Three,000-square-foot home additionally has a sunny playroom, which was of prime significance. The Richters have two daughters, Mira, four, and Laila, born this previous February.

That’s a part of the rationale the couple determined to go away Brooklyn and make Pound Ridge their main house. They by no means did get to make use of the home as a weekend escape: It was accomplished, at a price of about $340,000, simply after the pandemic struck final March, at which level they moved in.

Now, with a rising household, they’ve discovered that their 5 acres of discipline and forest are too irresistible to go away. “It’s rather more of a nature-oriented expertise than we had earlier than, and it’s simply actually nice for teenagers,” Ms. Richter mentioned.

And with social distancing guidelines being relaxed, she added, “we do anticipate our buddies from Brooklyn can be right here loads.”

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Time to scrap HDB flat property tax, arbitrary annual valuation

Singaporeans should not delude themselves and continue to believe we own our HDB flats. link

PAP knows that non-ownership means there’s no need to pay any property tax. But since it needs to give the illusion of ownership, HDB lessees living in 3-room flats or bigger are only required to pay a token amount.

Token property tax creates illusion of ownership.

HDB property tax is in fact additional revenue for the government because it is the real owner of all HDB flats, not buyers.

Strangely, even elected opposition party members have not highlighted this issue in Parliament.

Singaporeans had also been forced to pay annual TV license fee of $110 for decades but this was finally scrapped in 2011. For decades, Mediacorp was earning advertising revenue to churn out propaganda for PAP while TV and radio owners were forced to fund Mediacorp.

The token HDB property tax is gradually being reduced and is also likely to be scrapped.

PAP’s arbitrary Annual Valuation (AV) determines the amount of property tax to be paid. If the IRAS says the AV of our HDB flats is $X, then we simply have to pay the tax rate on $X. IRAS example

The problem with IRAS is that it has not been able to explain why AVs of HDB flats are unbelievably low. IRAS reply (AV is derived from market rental rates of similar properties less maintenance cost, furniture and furnishing.)

To cut the story short, I’ll use my executive flat as an example. Although the median transacted rental of similar executive flats was about $2,600 per month or $31,200 per year, IRAS stated the AV of my executive flat to be only $11,200 in 2015. What this implies is the annual maintenance and furnishing costs amounted to $19,980.

According to IRAS, the calculation of AV takes into account “a reasonable allowance for furniture , furnishings and maintenance fees”. Is 64% of total rental “a reasonable allowance” by any measure? How could maintenance and depreciation amount to $1665 per month? Are executive HDB flats as luxuriously furnished as former PAP MP Michael Lim’s chateau? (image below)

Perhaps IRAS thinks our humble HDB flats are furnished by Michael’s interior designer?

Any vacant executive flat could have been easily rented out at about $2000 per month and the explanation by IRAS is really absurd.

AV of HDB flats should not be an arbitrary figure pluck from thin air to suit PAP’s political agenda.

Guess it’s about time for PAP to scrap HDB property tax.

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8 Responses to Time to scrap HDB flat property tax, arbitrary annual valuation

  1. jiakliaobee says:

    the thing is why should owner occupied property be taxed when it is not rented out?

    • Phillip Ang says:

      Property tax helps to pay for maintenance of infrastructures.
      My argument is HDB is so unique that HDB Board/government is the true owner and buyers have been redefined as ‘owners’ through legislation. Since we effectively own nothing except a HDB lease which can be transacted, we should not be paying any taxes.

      • lil says:

        we already pay town council fee for maintenance.

      • Phillip Ang says:

        Town council maintenance fee includes about 30% going into sinking fund. This amount is used for long-term cyclical repairs of building and equipment which belongs to the government. It’s unlike private apartments and condos where residents collectively own common property. In the case of HDB, we own nothing but a 99-year lease.
        S & CC is also used to maintain (cleaning, upgrade, repair) open space and areas which are accessible to the public. Again, these belong to the government. So, in fact, we have been overpaying maintenance fees!
        We understand this more clearly after defining what is public. If “ownership” means something which one has hardly any control over, then have we not been scammed? 😦
        Many people still believe we own our HDB even though it defies common sense. How can anyone own public property?
        Singaporeans need to think just a little deeper to know that we have been scammed. Hope you can discuss this with friends and if there’s something which I am not aware of, please let me know.
        Happy 2017. 🙂

  2. Zaizai says:

    If even opposition mps are not raising the matter, then it either means you are talking rubbish, or they are in cahoots with PAP. Take your pick old man.

    • Phillip Ang says:

      WP may be just looking after their own interests. Or maybe not.
      But by not asking questions which hit at the heart of transparency, they may also be in cahoots with PAP to give the impression of a functioning democracy. Noting is impossible in politics.
      There are too many obvious questions which WP has refused to ask which would have effected meaningful changes benefitting ordinary citizens. You can read a series of emails I wrote to WP @ https://likedatosocanmeh.wordpress.com/category/wp/.

  3. Zaizai says:

    @jiakliaobee like that all the bungalows which are occupied also no need to pay tax? Lol, where is the government gonna get the money to fund other projects? From your bee tang?

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