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John Kander and Lin-Manuel Miranda talk music at Time Out's trip to The Visit

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The audience at the Broadway musical The Visit got a rare treat last night when the show's composer, John Kander, took the stage after curtain call for a public chat with Lin-Manuel Miranda, presented by Time Out New York. With lyricist Fred Ebb, who died in 2004, Kander has written more than a dozen Broadway musicals, including Cabaret and Chicago; Miranda composed and starred in In the Heights and the Broadway-bound phenomenon Hamilton. More than 50 years apart in age, the two men have an easy, lovely rapport. They have been friends for years, and Kander presented Miranda with this year's New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Musical earlier this week.

Adapted by Kander, Ebb and Terrence McNally from a 1956 play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, The Visit stars Chita Rivera as a wealthy woman who returns to her impoverished hometown with a twisted request for her former neighbors. The event last night began with a speech by producer Tom Kirdahy, who announced that balcony seats for the musical, from now through the Tony Awards on June 7, would be sold for just $19.75. Rivera and director John Doyle made a cameo appearances, but most of the half hour was just two brilliant artists talking about their work. Here are some excerpts from that conversation.

On their friendship:
Lin-Manuel Miranda:
“John and I have been having lunches together ever since he came to see In the Heights Off Broadway, and what struck me most the first time we had lunch is that all he wanted to do was talk about music. So I’m going to pretend we’re having lunch, and we’re having French onion soup, and we’re going to talk music.”

On The Visit:
John Kander:
“When we started work on this piece, it suddenly struck us: A story about an impoverished town and the richest woman in the world coming to visit them and their desire to keep the money in their town is The Merry Widow! And Dürrenmatt must have known that. It’s our feeling that he took The Merry Widow and stood it on its ear, and turned it into the most vicious piece of satire that any country has probably ever had to endure by one of its citizens. So it seemed to me then that if it’s The Merry Widow, it’s got to be full of waltzes—it’s got to be an operetta. And the very first thing we wrote was a waltz called 'You, You, You,' which goes through the score. The form of the whole piece is Viennese in its soul.”
Miranda: “I don't think the Viennese ever wrote lyrics like ‘I’ll take your coffin to Capri.’ And that’s what I love so much about your music, from Cabaret down the line: You will give us the most beautiful Viennese waltz while the lyric is stepping on our throats.”
Kander: “That was something that Fred took a great delight in. People all the way through the piece are saying one thing to music that says something else.”

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On the writing process:
“My wife and I went up to stay at your house one weekend; you were working on The Scottsboro Boys at the time. You went away for the morning to your little writing hut where you write upstate, and you come out and he goes, ‘My conscience is clear.’ And that meant you had gotten your writing done for the day! You had finished the verse or the couplet you were working on. I still say that all the time. Anytime my wife asks how things are going, if I’ve finished the couplet I’m working on, I go, ‘My conscience is clear!’”
Kander: “I’m really, really lazy. But if you start out and sort of have a goal that you have to finish this much today, if you do that and leave a little bit left over so that you know where you’re going the next day then you can stop, and say, ‘Okay, let’s live.’”
Miranda: “I have to write in the morning. I kind of degenerate over the course of the day. And having a dog has intensified that; now the morning walk is when all the good stuff happens.”

On a breakthrough in Hamilton:
 "It was New Year’s Day, we were starting previews in a couple of weeks, and I still hadn’t written what Hamilton says before he gets shot. My son was asleep on my chest and my wife was asleep and my dog was asleep, which never happens. It was the quietest moment I think I’ve ever had in my life, and I went, ‘Oh, that’s the one thing I haven’t done in the show: I haven’t had a moment of quiet.’ So I decided there would be no music, and Hamilton would just sort of spin out. I walked my dog from my house to my parents’ house, which is a good 30 blocks, and by the end of it I had enough couplets that I could walk into my parents' house and say, ‘My conscience is clear.’"

On bad work:
“It’s funny: There are moments in shows, even after they've been produced or even revived, where you think, That moment is really a mistake. Every time you see it, you think, How did that happen? I think that’s something that a lot of people who don’t write don’t understand. They will see a reconception or revival of a piece and they’ll start comparing it to what was there in the past, and certain things won’t be there, and they mostly assume that the writer was bludgeoned into cutting it out, whereas in fact is it’s the writer who does the cutting.”
Miranda: "Theater is one of the last worlds in which the writer gets to say what stays and what goes. It’s in our contracts, unlike in Hollywood. But there is that misconception. I have the added misfortune of having to be onstage while [a bad moment I’ve written] is being delivered. I have a line in Hamilton, which I will not mention, because it will be different by the time you see it on Broadway, but it got an unintentional laugh about half the time. It was my fault; I had set it up like a punch line. But every time the laugh came, a unicorn died, my soul died, and I had to stand there and be in the scene. In In the Heights, any time the band messed up or an actor messed up, Robin would turn to me and go, 'Papa, they think you wrote that.'” [Laughs]

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On writing without Fred Ebb:
 "It ought to be harder, but I still feel like it’s the two of us writing this piece. Anytime I have to do something where Fred is not physically present, I just assume that he’s in the room telling me, 'No, you can’t do that' or 'Okay, that’s all right.' So he helps me all the time with this."

On working with Chita Rivera:
Kander: "
She’s grown and grown and grown. That performance for me is like the distilled essence of Chita; it’s like everything she knows about theater is up there on the stage. She’s a famous dancer, she’s famous for her moves, but watching Chita stand still onstage—and you can’t take your eyes off her—is something that gives me enormous pleasure and also tells me something maybe reassuring: That the longer you work, it’s possible that the better understanding of your art you have."
Miranda: "I’d extend what you said about Chita to your score, which to me feels like the summation of everything that you and Fred know. It has all of the joy and all of the ferocity and all of the highs and the lows that we’ve come to expect of your work and it’s distilled into this one-act beautiful thing."
Kander: "Thank you. The one act is because of our terrific director, John Doyle, who took this material—which we had been quite happy with before—and turned it into a one-act piece in which we keep the young Claire and the young Anton onstage the entire time. That’s all John. We didn’t do a lot of rewriting, but we did a lot of cutting, a lot of tweaking. It’s like Chita’s art: It’s the distilled essence of this piece, and Terrence and I are thrilled with what he did."

On death:
 "Our first production was in Chicago, and 9/11 happened. While we were in Chicago, buildings were blowing up in New York, and it was a very strange feeling. Not being here and yet being aware of it, and knowing that we were going back to the city, affected this piece. I cannot tell you how. But there was an awareness of the fact that life ends. And maybe what that means. I think all of us felt our mortality very strongly during that period. Fred was sick then, but he wouldn’t miss that experience for anything in the world."

On each other:
 "Without sounding too awfully condescending, you make me so proud, you really do. It seems to me you've found a way to combine everything that’s going on in the moment today musically with everything that’s gone on in the past and put them together and turn it into your own language. You really give me confidence that there will be musical theater in the future."
Miranda: "You give me hope that we get better with every show. Because this is my favorite of your shows."

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Since 1996, when the Beachwood course was acquired, Durban Country Club members have been in the fortunate position of being able to play on two great championship courses. The Gary Player Design Group and Top Turf remodeled Beachwood, substantially altering the 4th and 14th fairways, as well as installing 78 new bunkers throughout the course.

Originally designed around a mangrove swamp by Percy Gilbert Stiebel in the late 1920s, Beachwood lies to the north of Durban, some five kilometres from the Country Club, near Virginia airport. Apart from the par three 2nd hole, all fairways run parallel to each other along the Indian Ocean coastline. The first ten holes up to the half way house are tight, with trees and bush defining many of the fairways. The course then opens up and the remainder of the back nine is more forgiving.

The signature hole is the 444-yard, par four 6th which is also stroke index 1 on the scorecard. The tee is some fifty feet above the level of the fairway and from here the golfer must negotiate a tight, doglegged fairway, a stream, bushes, water hazard and greenside bunkers on the way to holing out for an intended par score- good luck!

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Ayrton Senna's 10 most definitive moments in F1

Gone too soon
by Jason Barlow | May 2, 2017

That's 162 Grand Prix entries, 41 wins, 65 pole positions, 80 podiums and three world championships. Staggering statistics for any F1 driver, but these extraordinary numbers aren’t even half the Ayrton Senna story.

The Brazilian legend tragically passed away following an accident at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994, his legacy cut cruelly short. Perhaps the most charismatic, complicated, absurdly talented driver ever to grace Formula 1, Senna died far too young.

But what memories. Dazzling pole-to-checkered-flag victories; storming drives in catastrophic weather conditions; that duel with Alain Prost and the rivalry that shaped both men’s lives. Senna’s racing career was the ultimate Hollywood story (and indeed, has been turned into one of the best documentaries of all time).

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10) Monaco Grand Prix, 1984

Very few of F1's greats tug around at the back of the field for season after season before finally getting a break. Perhaps they score big in a mediocre car, or defy the weather Gods in eye-popping style. Both, in Senna’s case. He’d tested for Williams, McLaren, and Brabham during 1983, but chose minnow Toleman because he figured he’d get the acclaim if he aced a race, and could blame the car if he didn’t.

In only his sixth Grand Prix, in Monaco, the rookie Senna qualified 13th, then set about making the rest look silly as the heavens opened on Monte Carlo. Senna’s reputation for finding grip where there seemingly was none was forged on this day in May '84. He was reeling in future nemesis and race leader Alain Prost by three seconds per lap when it was red-flagged. Job done.

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9) Portuguese Grand Prix, 1985

His 17th GP, and only his second for Lotus. In conditions he later described as worse than Monaco, Senna again conjured grip and poise from the thin, cold and damp air around Estoril. He was more than 17 seconds clear at the end of lap 10, and 55 seconds ahead by lap 31, but it was Senna’s silky, sublime car control and economy of motion at the wheel of the Lotus 97T that really grabbed the eye.

"I was lucky to stay on the road," he said afterwards. You’d never have known.

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8) Monaco Grand Prix, 1988

"He approached qualifying like it was a religious experience," McLaren’s team manager Jo Ramirez said. Only three races into his McLaren career, his skill and determination to outpace Prost raised Senna’s driving and commitment to an almost transcendental level.

Lapping two seconds quicker than Prost, even he was spooked. "I realized I was well beyond my conscious understanding…I was way over the limit but still able to find more." Senna’s form in the race was equally majestic, until lap 67 when he slithered wide into the barriers at Portier and crashed out, handing Prost the victory. Senna hid in his apartment, while his cleaning lady fended off McLaren personnel.

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7) Japanese Grand Prix, 1989

Scene of the infamous lap 46 collision, in which McLaren teammates Senna and Prost tangled on the entry to the final chicane, providing the denouement to a competitive relationship that had plundered new depths of acrimony. Senna restarted his engine, and continued the race once a new nosecone had been fitted.

He won, but was subsequently disqualified, then handed a huge fine and suspended six-month ban. Now Prost was world champion. Senna came close to quitting F1, but when he returned to the circus he would add a streak of vengefulness to his other attributes…

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6) Spanish Grand Prix, 1990

Manish Pandey, writer and producer, Senna: "If you want the essence of Senna—the psychological, emotional and mental makeup of the man—then his response to Martin Donnelly’s accident at Jerez in 1990 tells you everything. Martin’s crash was huge, a 274kph impact that split his Lotus in two and left him lying unconscious and still strapped to his seat in the middle of the track (Donnelly’s car had suffered a front suspension failure).

"Senna watched it all unfold on his monitor, and it affected him profoundly. What he did next demonstrates the purity of his position. He already had pole, but he went out again and beat his own time. He had nothing to gain, and he certainly wasn’t taking advantage of the situation. He was setting his own targets in his own mind. He went out there and basically told the track, 'you can’t do that to one of us. F**k you!' It was just something he had to do."

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5) Japanese Grand Prix, 1990

Senna and Prost, now a Ferrari driver, collided again. Though on pole, Senna complained that it was on the dirtier side of the track, and lobbied for it to be moved to the cleaner one. The stewards initially agreed, but the cantankerous president of F1’s governing body, Jean-Marie Balestre, overturned it.

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"Senna wanted to change sides, and because he could not he was blaming me and Balestre," Prost said. "It was always his rules." Senna determined to be in front by the first corner, by any means necessary, leading to the inevitable. With Prost out, Senna’s unassailable points lead saw him win his second world title.

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4) Brazilian Grand Prix, 1991

With seven laps to go, and with his gearbox falling apart beneath him, Senna had no option but to finish the race using only sixth gear, in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.

He won, but had to be helped out of his car, and almost collapsed on the podium. A win for Brazil, as much as for Senna, with more emotion than any man could bear.

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3) European Grand Prix, 1993

His McLaren was firmly eclipsed by the Williams, and rain was hardly unusual in the Donington area. But once again Senna had to combine his talent with a feel for the machinery and the conditions to produce an opening lap that’s become the stuff of legend.

Having dropped to sixth at the start, he still ended lap one in first place, having overhauled Prost, Hill, and Schumacher. Sega sponsored the race, and Senna won a Sonic the Hedgehog-topped trophy for his trouble.

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2) San Marino Grand Prix, 1994

Arguably the most haunted—and haunting—weekend in F1 history.

1) November 1994

Senna’s sister, Viviane, launches the Instituto Ayrton Senna, initially to help under-privileged children in Brazil, as per her brother’s wishes. Now one of the most respected NGOs in the world.

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Perry got them a cab straight from the airport to the ride. Sweating in the suffocating afternoon heat, his re-casted arm on fire, Hilda had shown him the article about Death Waits while they were being screened for their connection at O’Hare. The TSA guy was swabbing his cast with a black-powder residue detector, and as Perry read it, he let out an involuntary yelp and a jump that sent him back for a full round of tertiary screening. No date with Dr. Jellyfinger, though it was a close thing.

Hilda was deep in her own phone, probing ferociously at it, occasionally picking it up and talking into it, then poking at it some more. Neither of them looked out the windows much, though in his mind, Perry had rehearsed this homecoming as a kind of tour of his territory, picking out which absurd landmarks he’d point out, which funny stories he’d tell, pausing to nuzzle Hilda’s throat.

But by the time he’d absorbed the mailing-list traffic and done a couple phoners with the people back in Madison— particularly Ernie, who was freaking about Death Waits and calling for tight physical security for all their people— they were pulling in at the ride. The cabbie, a Turk, wasn’t very cool about the neighborhood, and he kept slowing down on the side of the road and offering to let them out there, and Perry kept insisting that he take them all the way.

“No, you can’t just drop me here, man. For the tenth time, I’ve got a fucking cast on my broken arm. I’m not carrying my suitcase a mile from here. I live there. It’s safe. God, it’s not like I’m asking you to take me to a war-zone.”

He didn’t want to tip the guy, but he did. The cabbie was just trying to play it safe. Lots of people tried to play it safe. It didn’t make them assholes, even if it did make them ineffectual and useless.

While Perry tipped him, Hilda pulled the suitcase out of the cab’s trunk and she’d barely had time to shut the lid when the driver roared off like he was trying to outrun a sniper.

Perry grimaced. This was supposed to be a triumphant homecoming. He was supposed to be showing off his toys, all he’d wrought, to this girl. The town was all around them and they were about to charge in without even pausing to consider its Dr Seuss wonderment.

“Wait a sec,” Perry said. He took her hand. “See that? That was the first shanty they built. Five stories now.” The building was made of prefab concrete for the first couple stories, then successively lighter materials, with the roof-shack made of bamboo. “The designs are experimental, from the Army Corps of Engineers mostly, but they say they’ll stand a force-five hurricane.” He grimaced again. “Probably not the bamboo one, of course.”

“Of course,” Hilda said. “What’s that one?” She’d picked up on his mood, she knew he wanted to show her around before they ended up embroiled in ride-politics and work again.”

“You’ve got a good eye, my dear. That’s the finest BBQ on the continent. See how the walls are a little sooty looking? That’s carbonized ambrosia, a mix of fat and spice and hickory that you could scrape off and bottle as perfume.”

“You haven’t tried Lemarr’s ribs yet,” he said, and goosed her. She squeaked and punched him in the shoulder. He showed her the tuck-shops, the kids playing, the tutor’s place, the day-care center, the workshops, taking her on a grand-circle tour of this place he’d help conjure into existence.

“Now there’s someone I haven’t seen in far too long,” Francis said. He’d aged something fierce in the last year, booze making his face subside into a mess of wrinkles and pouches and broken blood-vessels. He gave Perry a hard hug that smelled of booze, and it wasn’t even lunchtime.

“Francis, meet Hilda Hammersen; Hilda, meet Francis Clammer: aerospace engineer and gentleman of leisure.”

He took her hand and feinted a kiss at it, and Hilda good-naturedly rolled her eyes at this.

“What do you think of our lovely little settlement, then, Ms Hammersen?”

“It’s like something out of a fairy-tale,” she said. “You hear stories about Christiania and how good and peaceful it all was, but whenever you see squatters on TV, it’s always crack houses and drive-bys. You’ve really got something here.”

Francis nodded. “We get a bad rap, but we’re no different really from any other place where people take pride in what they own. I built my place, with my two hands. If Jimmy Carter had been there with Habitat for Humanity, we would have gotten no end of good press. Because we did it without a dead ex-president on the scene, we’re crooks. Perry tell you about what the law does around here?’

Perry nodded. “Yeah. She knows.”

Francis patted his cast. “Nice hardware, buddy. So when some Bible-thumping do-gooder gives you a leg up, you’re a folk-hero. Help yourself, you’re a CHUD. It’s the same with you people and your ride. If you had the backing of a giant corporation with claws sunk deep into kids’ brains, you’d be every package-tour operator’s wet dream. Build it yourself in the guts of a dead shopping center, and you’re some kind of slimy underclass.”

“Maybe that’s true,” said Hilda. “But it’s not necessarily true. Back in Madison, the locals love us, they think we do great stuff. After the law came after us, they came by with food and money and helped us rebuild. Scrappy activists get a lot of love in this country, too. Not everyone wants a big corporation to spoon-feed them.”

“Off in hippie college-towns you’ll always find people with enough brains to realize that their neighbors aren’t the boogieman. But there ain’t so many hippie college towns these days. I wish you two luck, but I think you’d be nuts to walk out the door in the morning expecting anything better than a kick in the teeth.”

That made Perry think of Death Waits, and the sense of urgency came back to him. “OK, we have to go now,” he said. “Thanks, Francis.”

“Nice to meet you, young woman,” he said, and when he smiled, it was a painful thing, all pouches and wrinkles and sags, and he gimped away with his limp more pronounced than ever.

They tracked down the crew at the tea-house’s big table. Everyone roared greetings at them when they came through the door, a proper homecoming, but when Perry counted heads, he realized that there was no one watching the ride.

“Guys, who’s running the ride?”

They told him about Brazil then, and Hilda listened with her head cocked, her face animated with surprise, dismay, then delight. “You say there are fifty rides open?”

“All at once,” Lester said. “All in one go.”

“Holy mother of poo,” Hilda breathed. Perry couldn’t even bring himself to say anything. He couldn’t even imagine Brazil in his head—jungles? beaches? He knew nothing about the country. They’d built fifty rides, without even making contact with him. He and Lester had designed the protocol to be open because they thought it would make it easier for others to copy what they’d done, but he’d never thought—

It was like vertigo, that feeling.

“So you’re Yoko, huh?” Lester said finally. It made everyone smile, but the tension was still there. Something big had just happened, bigger than any of them, bigger than the beating that had been laid on Death Waits, bigger than anything Perry had ever done. From his mind to a nation on another continent—

“You’re the sidekick, huh?” Hilda said.

Lester laughed. “Touche. It’s very nice to meet you and thank you for bringing him back home. We were starting to miss him, though God alone knows why.”

“I plan on keeping him,” she said, giving his bicep a squeeze. It brought Perry back to them. The little girls were staring at Hilda with saucer eyes. It made him realize that except for Suzanne and Eva, their whole little band was boys, all boys.

“Well, I’m home now,” he said. He knelt down and showed the girls his cast. “I got a new one,” he said. “They had to throw the old one out. So I need your help decorating this. Do you think you could do the job?”

Lyenitchka looked critically at the surface. “I think we could do the gig,” she said. “What do you think, partner?”

Tjan snorted out his nose, but she was so solemn that the rest kept quiet. Ada matched Lyenitchka’s critical posture and then nodded authoritatively. “Sure thing, partner.”

“It’s a date,” Perry said. “We’re gonna head home and put down our suitcases and come back and open the ride if it’s ready. It’s time Lester got some time off. I’m sure Suzanne will appreciate having him back again.”

Another silence fell over the group, tense as a piano wire. Perry looked from Lester to Suzanne and saw in a second what was up. He had time to notice that his first emotional response was to be intrigued, not sorry or scared. Only after a moment did he have the reaction he thought he should have—a mixture of sadness for his friend and irritation that they had yet another thing to deal with in the middle of a hundred other crises.

Hilda broke the tension—“It was great to meet you all. Dinner tonight, right?”

“Absolutely,” Kettlewell said, seizing on this. “Leave it to us—we’ll book someplace just great and have a great dinner to welcome you guys back.”

Eva took his arm. “That’s right,” she said. “I’ll get the girls to pick it out.” The little girls jumped up and down with excitement at this, and the baby brothers caught their excitement and made happy kid-screeches that got everyone smiling again.

Perry gave Lester a solemn, supportive hug, kissed Suzanne and Eva on the cheeks (Suzanne smelled good, something like sandalwood), shook hands with Tjan and Kettlewell and tousled all four kids before lighting out for the ride, gasping out a breath as they stepped into the open air.

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The only airport the city has is the La Aurora International Airport (GUA). Not only is it the only airport in the city, but it is also the primary airport in the country. It receives various flights from Panamá, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, USA, México, El Salvador, and Honduras. There are always bus shuttles and taxis at the airports to take you into the city. Mundo Maya International Airport is the second airport in the country located in the Flores. There are direct flights from there to Guatemala City too. Although the official currency of Guatemala is Quetzal, the bus shuttles and taxis around the airport will accept dollars. There are buses and taxis in every city in the country that could take you to Guatemala City. The cheaper ones sometimes get crowded and uncomfortable for passengers. These cheaper ones are known as “chicken buses”. However, there are more comfortable buses, but of course, at higher prices.

Find several refined hotels with polished rooms that feature rooftop outdoor pools, gyms, world-class spas, and posh restaurants in the city. The hotel rooms vary in pricing depending on the quality of service offered and there’s something really decent for any budget. Some of the finest hotels around include: 1. InterContinental Real 2. Hilton Garden Inn 3. Westin Camino Real 4. Radisson Hotel and Suites 5. Courtyard, Marriott

Exclusive offers like happy hour food, special cocktails, all in cosy and well-decorated eateries are easy to come in Guatemala City. You will never fully realise how steeped in their culture the locals are until you experience their superb cuisine. Whether for casual, dates, formal outing, the locals got you covered. Here are some of their best spots: 1. AltunaCasa Chapina 2. Ambia 3. Clio's 4. Cristina de Barcelona Viva 5. Flor De Lis

Guatemala City is a safe tourist location. The locals are amiable and lovely; hardly ever getting into a fight or anything violent. But as you probably imagined, not all are saints. So be careful with your valuable and stuffs when you’re in. Report any suspicious move to the local police and adhere to your personal security tips and the whole of your stay in the city will be just fine.

Getting Around

The most common way of going around the city is by their local buses. These buses can take you to just about any place in the city. Guatemala City is divided into 21 zones. There are basically 3 major types of buses that run across the city –Transmetro, Trans urbano, and Regular Red city buses. You get less flexibility and freedom when you hop into the transmetro. They only travel through defined routes and make only a few designated stops on the way. The Trans urbano are more flexible. They make more stops and don’t necessarily follow defined routes. They are easily identified with their white and blue colour. The last of them –regular red city buses avoid passengers all the flexibility they want. They stop anywhere, follow any route, and are much cheaper –but of course, most uncomfortable. Taxis are the next common means of getting around Guatemala City. There are basically two types of taxis that run in this city –the ones with metres and the ones without. Be sure to negotiate and agree on a price before entering any of the taxis without metres. Like the taxis, another alternative of getting around here is using Uber. They are more comfortable, fast, and reliable than the taxis and buses.

Top Attractions

This city is fortified with so many wonders, sights to see, and places to explore. They’ve got amazing man-made and naturals attractions everywhere. There’s hardly an area without one of these to keep tourists engaged throughout their stay here. Just a short list of some of these fantastic places is set below: 1. Cathedral of Guatemala City 2. Ecological and Sports Park Cayalá 3. La Aurora Zoo 4. Mercado Central 5. Museo Miraflores 6. Museo Popol Vuh 7. National Palace 8. Plaza de la Constitución 9. Relief map of Guatemala 10. Torre del Reformador

Being Local

With over 90% of the population speaking Guatemalan Spanish, learning the language may be a perfect place to begin in blending with the locals. Though odd, these locals hardly trek. You will find most of the locals around here always boarding a bus or entering a taxi whenever they have to get to a place –join them, except you want to talk a pleasant walk around the streets to soak in the marvels and the natural scenes of the city. And you should really get used to the local buses. They are more common and easier to find than the luxury ones –but don’t expect any amount of comfort in them. When you are squeezed in by sweating bodies, or prod by life animals like pigs and chickens, don’t grumble, just smile and pray the bus gets to your stop as soon as possible.

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Remember: Pay Little to No Attention to Current National General Election Presidential Polls

According to Real Clear Politics, in spite of the economy and everything else going well in the United States of America, almost every current national poll has President Trump trailing a hypothetical Democrat opponent. Whether Biden, Sanders, Warren, or even Buttigieg, Bloomberg, or Klobuchar, President Trump trails them all in nearly every poll. As of this writing, the latest general election national poll by CNN, IBD/TIPP, Emerson, Fox News, Quinnipiac, and SurveyUSA has President Trump behind almost every possible Democrat candidate.

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The latest SurveyUSA national poll (at the end of November, 2019) had Kamala Harris beating the current President of the United States 47% to 42%. At the point Harris dropped out of the race, the Real Clear Politics average had her at plus six over President Trump. Out of 42 polls reported by Real Clear Politics—from June of 2018 until November of 2019—Trump topped Harris only six times. Again, remember that this is a candidate who couldn’t even outlast Julián Castro and Marianne Williamson.

Of course, the lesson here is the 2016 Presidential election. At this point in the 2016 Presidential election, up until Election Day on November 8, 2016, Hillary Clinton led Donald Trump in the vast majority of polls taken. By my count (using a spreadsheet), as reported by Real Clear Politics (RCP), there were 221 polls taken in 2016 that polled Clinton vs. Trump for U.S. President. Donald Trump led in only 26 polls. Twenty-six out of 221. That’s over 88% of the polls that showed Clinton beating Trump.

Often, the race between Clinton and Trump was shown as a complete blowout in favor of Hillary. From January of 2016 through April of 2016, there were a dozen polls that showed Hillary up by double digits. A March 2016 Bloomberg poll had Hillary up by 18 points!

Similarly, at this point in 2016, until Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race, virtually every poll had him leading Donald Trump. From January of 2016 until June of 2016 when Bernie dropped out, RCP reported 28 polls on Sanders vs. Trump. Of those 28 polls, Trump polled ahead of Bernie only once. At the time the polling ended (when Bernie dropped out of the race), the RCP average had Sanders topping Trump by over 10 points!

Again, the race between Trump and Bernie was often shown to be a YUUUGE blowout in favor of Bernie. Of those 28 RCP polls, 22 of them had Bernie on top by double digits. Twelve polls had Bernie up by 15 points or more. The same Bloomberg poll that had Hillary topping Trump by 18 points showed Bernie beating Trump by 24 points!

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Don’t forget, there is an undeniable truth in politics, and it is this: Polling data is used to shape public opinion. Polling data… Whether it’s presidential races or anything else, if it’s a poll, it is being used to make news. Polling has become the mechanism by which the media can write their own stories, can set their own agenda, and make it look like they’ve got nothing to do with it. The polls have these reputations of independent, nonpartisan, bipartisan, uninterested in the outcome…
And I want…to remind you again that all of these polls are being used to suppress support for Trump. They are being used to encourage people to abandon Trump. They’re being used to encourage Trump to abandon his campaign. Their purpose is to dispirit and depress everyone and convince as many people as possible that it’s over, that Trump is a buffoon and has no chance whatsoever, all of it’s a waste of time, they might as well concede now and you might as well concede now. That’s the purpose of it.
I’ve long realized well—as no-doubt now do many other Americans—that national polling and the results of the Electoral College are two different things. However, it is interesting to note that, along with all of the other polling nonsense in 2016, about two weeks out from the election, a Reuters/Ipsos “states poll” showed that “the most likely outcome” electorally speaking was “326 votes for Clinton to 212 for Trump.” This “commanding lead” gave Hillary a “better than 95 percent chance of winning.” It was a 99% chance of Hillary winning if one wanted to believe Princeton scientists (who used state polls to arrive at their number).

As we all now know, the “commanding lead” for Hillary turned into a 306 to 232 (304 to 227 due to “faithless electors”) electoral victory for Donald Trump. And the dismay at the loss of their 95% hopes quickly set in for democrats, as did the move to undo the results of the 2016 election.

I would only trust the polls that are two weeks or less out from the election. As Rush put it, “Those are the ones you really look at, because they are the polls their reputations will be staked to, and every polling unit at the end of a campaign wants to be trusted and reliable, they want to be shown to be right.” Whether or not one can trust the polling agencies, one certainly cannot trust the media who reports on them.

After Trump’s 2016 victory, one would think that the polling organizations and the media would’ve learned their lesson. Yet, less than a year after the 2016 election, an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group revealed that pollsters were back “churning out biased and misleading poll numbers.”

The Daily Caller reported,
“I do know inherently there is a Democratic bias in the polls. And most of them will deny it” says Raghavan Mayur, an independent pollster who is president of TechnoMetrica, which leads the polling operations at Investor’s Business Daily…
Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell agreed with Mayur, saying “there was a couple of days of shock. And then they moved on because what they could not do is to get to the bottom of their own polling bias.” …
When polling the public, most mainstream firms “overloaded for Democrats, underloaded for Republicans and conservatives,” said Francis Coombs, managing editor of Rasmussen Reports.
John Zogby, another independent pollster, also told TheDCNF he sees significant Democratic polling bias.
“I am a liberal Democrat, but I always felt that other polls oversampled Democrats and undersampled Republicans,” he said.
“Democratic” bias in the polls coupled with an overwhelming liberal bias in the media means that one should certainly pay little to no attention to most every poll between now and mid-October, and absolutely no attention to mainstream media reports on polling, from now until the end of time.

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THE OUTSIDER Trailer (2020)

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Police cars surround a barn, where they make a horrible discovery. Soon after, detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) arrests Terry Maitland (Jason Bateman) for the murder of a young boy. Terry swears he didn't do it, and CCTV footage later shows that Terry was 70 miles away on the day of the murder. Unorthodox investigator Holly Gibney (Cynthia Erivo) is brought in to help, but Ralph has a hard time buying into what she says.

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This stunning modern Mediterranean 4 bedroom, 4 full baths and 2 half baths (cabana bathroom and powder bathroom), overlooks the golf course and Blue Cypress Reserve in the Polo Club.  This Randy Stofft design is complete with an open floor plan including an office, lounge upstairs, dining room, great room, Philadelphia marble floors, custom stone fireplace in the living room, and a smart home system.  The kitchen has custom 1-inch thick cabinetry, mahogany countertop on the kitchen island, all Subzero Wolf appliances with large pantry.  Convenient laundry rooms located on the first floor and the second floor of this 6500 sq. ft. home.

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