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Bob Dylan's creative output in the mid-1960s has reached mythological proportions and with due reason. Between January 1965 and March 1966, he wrote, recorded and released three of the greatest albums ever recorded. The latest iteration, The Cutting Edge, dives headfirst into this period, which saw the creation of Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde. The set comes in three separate versions--a two-disc "Best Of" selection, a six-disc deluxe edition and a rare 18-disc set. As was previously illustrated with the past two bootleg installments, Another Self Portrait and The Basement Tapes, Dylan seems to have always had at least one alternate version of each album during this time and each version of The Cutting Edge seems to only reaffirm this theory.

On the 18-disc set, which was billed as containing "every note recorded during the 1965-1966 sessions, every alternate take and alternate lyric," an unsurprisingly dense collection of music is presented in chronological order. Beginning with the January 1965 sessions for Bringing It All Back Home and closing with the famous 1966 hotel recordings, the full set truly lives up to its selling points.

For casual fans, some of the full set's inclusions may seem excessive (the entirety of the disc four and 20 songs in total are dedicated to 'Like A Rolling Stone') but to those truly interested in the creation of these songs, a treasure trove of reference material is present. In the case of 'Like A Rolling Stone,' one can trace the song's roots from piano waltz (as previously highlighted on the very first bootleg installment from 1991) to its final rollicking single-ready form and back again. The inclusion of misfires and breakdowns helps to showcase how Dylan and his talented crew of musicians were truly capturing magic through their improvisational studio techniques.

Take 5 of 'Like Rolling Stone', which was recorded just moments after what would become the master take, perhaps best illustrates this. As Dylan and his band launch into a quickened version of the tune, something sounds off and Dylan stops the performance. "That's not it," he says. "How did we do it?"

As has become customary with these bootleg sets, one also gets to see the songs that Dylan discarded during these recordings. The scrapping of some of these songs are true head scratchers, perhaps only a notch or two down on the curiosity scale from the famous exclusion of 'Blind Willie McTell' from Dylan's 1983 record, Infidels. 'She's Your Lover Now', a complex and winding track, could never be finished to the liking of Dylan, much to his frustration. But to perhaps everyone except for Dylan, this is an exceptional piece of song craft.

Moments like these, in large part, help to dispel the myth that Dylan was a carefree studio musician who just wanted to rip through one song and move on to the next. This does occur on occasion (see: the one rehearsal and one take required for 'Rainy Day Women #12 and 35'), but more often than not, Dylan required multiple takes for each song. Each take seemed to incorporate a great deal of improvisation and experimentation, but Dylan wouldn't call it quits until he felt that it sounded right. He strived tirelessly toward that "wild mercury sound," even if it meant trying out different takes and sounds in the middle of the night.

Above all else, The Cutting Edge gives listeners a glimpse (with the 19 hour runtime of the 18-disc set being a significantly longer gander) into one of the single most brilliant creative periods in musical history. The quest to create this music showcased throughout the set is so sublime that one gets the impression that the youthful Dylan (24 and 25 years old during these recordings) is not even fully aware of how to fully control his gifts.

He has even said as much, saying that a song such as 'Like A Rolling Stone' more or less appeared to him: "It's like a ghost is writing a song like that, it gives you the song and it goes away. You don't know what it means. Except that the ghost picked me to write the song."

After his mysterious motorcycle accident in 1966, Dylan began to take a significantly more cerebral approach to his presentation. It became clear and has remained obvious that a great deal of thought is put into how Dylan creates and presents his work. But The Cutting Edge proves that 1965 and 1966 was not shaped by deliberate calculation and arduous planning, but rather a commitment to feeling and a loving embrace of one's creative impulses. This is Bob Dylan at his very best.

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A rare song from C V L T S has been released on a Meili Xueshan compilation that you can grab a free download of here; it features a ton of their co-artists from Beer on the Rug.

'Megafauna' is the exact sort of song you'd expect from C V L T S, a warped and kind of unsettling ethereal piano piece that somehow ends up being quite pretty. Stream it below.

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The Crew Released: January 12th 2009 Directed By: Adrian Vitoria Starring: Scot Williams, Kenny Doughty, Cordelia Bugeja, Rory McCann

Featuring a script so full of tired, worn out gangster clichÃ©s itâs in danger of knocking itself out, The Crew marks a disappointing return to the sort of generic âgeezerâ thrillers that clogged up the video shops of the post Lock-Stock Brit flick waste land. You know the routine â gratuitous violence and drug runners with ridiculous nick-names mixed in with often wildly inappropriate bouts of woeful comedy. Most of those late 90âs offerings never approached Guy Ritchieâs debut for style and characterisation; and The Crew is no exception.

Essentially the story follows Liverpool crime boss Ged Brennan (Williams, a dead ringer for ex-Reds footballer Jamie Redknapp) in his attempt to carry out âone last jobâ in order to set himself and his young family up for life. Things donât go to plan however, (of course they donât â it would be a total waste of time if they did, rather than just a partial one) especially when his brother (Doughty) â a local hard nut who hangs around with Tinhead from Brookside - decides he wants a piece of the cityâs lucrative drug trade. Sickening, often pointless, violence ensues shot in graphic detail.

Caught up within the manic speed rush of baseball bats and Scouse inflected beatings is a frankly bizarre and implausible sub-plot involving Brennnan and his wife Debs (Bugeja) getting conned by a charming husband and wife team posing as property dealers. The wife seduces Brennanâs spouse in a hilarious lesbian scene that is as contrived as it is unnecessary. It is however, the filmâs funniest scene.

All the characters are wholly unpleasant, even the supposed loveable clown Moby (McCann) is a sex-obsessed heavy with a sort of apathetic love for strip joints, masturbation and booze. Ok, so maybe heâs not all bad. The rest of the psychopathic bunch seem to walk about in a semi-coma, only occasionally drawn out of their morose dead-eyed slumber by the ridiculous âplanâ involving trucks and the promise of Playstation 3âs.

Oddly, this grimness in the personalities of the central players adds nothing to the authenticity of the piece â it merely leaves it cold, depressing and intellectually frail. Hardly a recommendation.

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EPIC! Megyn Kelly Grills Joni Ernst on Castrating Hogs (Video)

Joni Ernst – Mother, Grandmother, Soldier, Farmer, Conservative, Veteran
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In her first ad Republican Joni Ernst talked about castrating hogs on an Iowa farm. The Iowa Republican spent just $9,000 to air her first television ad.
But, it was a huge hit.

Tonight Megyn Kelly grilled the Iowa Republican on her farm chores – including castrating hogs.

Megyn Kelly: Alright, I gotta ask you about that ad. I’m a city girl. I grew up in upstate New York. How did it come about that you were castrating pigs on a farm when you were growing up?

Joni Ernst: Well, I tell you, it is a normal chore. A normal chore that is done all across Iowa.

Megyn Kelly: (laughing) It is?

Joni Ernst: (laughing) Yes, regardless of the type of livestock. So, when we ran that ad, you would be surprised but here in Iowa it just pulls us right back in our farm roots. And, I’ve had so many people say, “You know, Joni, I used to do the same thing when I was a kid, too.”

Megyn Kelly: How old were you? Was there an anesthetic involved for the pig?

Joni Ernst: Yes, my sister and I we worked together. (laughing) I tell you, yes, we were young girls. But it is a normal chore here, nothing too out of the ordinary.

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Joanna Lumley: 'I don't make a very good goddess'

The national treasure on her looks, her temper and her fight for the Gurkhas
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Joanna Lumley glides into the screening room. "Hallo, lovely people!" she purrs at the group of journalists assembled to view her new TV documentary, Cats, and to pose a few questions to the woman famed for being Purdey, Patsy and, more recently, Goddess of the Gurkhas.

In dark trousers, blue top and elegantly swathed scarf, Lumley sits at the front of the room smiling down beatifically at the arc of Dictaphones set out before her, answering questions about every kind of cat. She jokes about the cat rock band she met in Chicago who play the drums in return for salmon, and about the cat-owners who dress their pets as frogs, cows and mice. She seems fantastically good fun.

Lumley's last cat was a handsome tabby named The Bee, who died some time ago. "The Bee was heaven," she says, in a warm, sad kind of way. We have moved to a quiet room set out with a coffee table, sandwiches and cakes and fancy yoghurts in long-stemmed glasses. "He thought he was a dog, I think, because when I used to go and post letters in the village where we lived down in Kent, he would walk down the village street with me. Right up to the post box, then walk back again." She smiles. "And he was a great companion cat, so he would always come if I was gardening or if Stephen [Lumley's husband, the conductor Stephen Barlow] was clearing stuff or washing the car. He would always sit, and watch, and be with you." She had no hesitation, therefore, when ITV approached her to present a documentary series about cats. "Leaped at it!" she declares. "I was very jealous of Martin Clunes, having done the dog one." Lumley makes this kind of statement with such effervescent charm, like the perfect hostess complimenting your dress, that it is only afterwards you wonder if it was true. This is of course part of her enduring appeal, a kind of jovial bewitchery, and a voice that is soft and fragrant and as perfectly English as gin.

How, I ask, attempting an awkward segue into non-feline matters, did it feel to have recently been declared a goddess by the people of Nepal, following her successful fronting of the Gurkha Justice Campaign? "Well, it's beyond comprehension actually, you know?" she says modestly. "Somebody explained to my son Jamie who was out there, that in Nepal they believe that if the gods can't handle something, a problem, they pick somebody out and send them to earth to solve the problem, and the person who solves the problem is called a god or a goddess. And because my head was above the parapet, because my face was the identifiable one of our team – we were a team – they maybe saw me as that person who had been sent to sort the problem."

Not a frightening god, mind. "I don't have it in me," she says. "I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain haemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also there's no need for it; it uses up energy. I don't mind not eating, or sitting in the bad part of a restaurant or being snubbed, it doesn't really matter to me very much. So I don't think I'm much of a god, because I don't have the good snappy nature that would throw a thunderbolt."

Instead, Lumley has learned the subtle art of persuasion – to which anyone who witnessed her confrontation of immigration officer Phil Woolas would attest: at the BBC Westminster offices in May, Lumley, incensed by the rejection of appeals for residency by five Gurkhas, pursued Woolas around the studio and forced him into an impromptu press conference, in which he agreed to further talks on the matter. The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson declared that he had rarely seen such a scene in his whole career. "Well," explains Lumley, gently, "with Mr Woolas we had just come from a room where we had been talking with the lawyers and [Liberal Democrat] Peter Carroll for about half an hour about what the next step would be, and in that press conference all I was doing was saying aloud and corroborating with him what was said. But it looked a little bit as though I was giving him a tough time. So to make up for that I did invite him round for supper." Did he come? Lumley smiles slowly, broadly. "Yeah," she says. "And he brought two friends and we had fish and chips and champagne by candlelight."

There is, she argues, a logic to taking a more nuanced approach to browbeating. "The thing about water is it's strong," she says. "And a river running down, if you dam it, it'll break the dam. So find a way round, but don't stop something. And if you can find a way round it's usually much better. And people don't get hurt – there's no reason for that. And people don't lose face, which is terribly important. But if a change of mind can take place in their own minds, rather than being forced to it, I think it's the best way to do anything." She pauses. "I'm a vegetarian and I long for people to eat less meat," she adds, "but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!" It's to say I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?"

It's an approach she claims to have learned from her mother's father, a diplomat. "I love diplomacy," she says. "I love courtesy and kindness." She describes her huge disappointment at Britain's failure to pursue a diplomatic solution to the escalating problems in Iraq. "My father, having been a soldier, said: 'You should do everything on the planet before you go to war.' It is such a dreadful thing to do. War is so indefensibly dreadful. All frontline soldiers know that, know how utterly ghastly it is and that you must never go there again light-heartedly. So anything that stops conflict, I'm all for that."

It was Lumley's father, of course, a Major in the 6th Gurkha Rifles, who inspired her campaign. "Soldiers are necessary," she says. "And the thing about the Gurkhas is that if things have to be done, they just do it without any kind of malice. They're just utterly efficient machines for doing what they do. Machines is the wrong word, but . . . It seems to me a good thing to do, a brave thing to do, to protect people. I have the highest regard for people who guard us, which is policemen and the armed forces."

Earlier this year, as the country was afflicted by Lumley-fever, as there were cries of, "Lumley for PM!" and the people of Nepal named a mountain in her honour, there were still one or two detractors, those who claimed that allowing the Gurkhas UK residency would deprive the already poor nation of Nepal of the financial support provided by the soldiers' pensions. Lumley rolls her eyes a little at the mention of it. "Yes, we've checked that out," she says firmly. "It's going to be far better, farrrr better . . ." she stretches the word like a piece of elastic. "If any of them work over here they'll make far more than they get on a pension. All the Asian communities here send money back home.

Lumley has spoken before about the fact that she has throughout her career played good people, from the crime-fighting Purdey to the Bolly-swigging Patsy, via a brief turn as Ken Barlow's love interest in Coronation Street. Add this to her Gurkha campaign and the 60 charities she supports, from Wateraid to Tibetan refugees, orphanages and schools, supporting the Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa and the Born Free Foundation, and you begin to sense that she is acutely aware of the importance of being good.

"God yes!" she says at the suggestion. "Terribly easy to be bad! It's easy-peasy to kill something or break it! I've never been remotely impressed by people with guns killing people in films, it's nothing to me. Of course you can kill people! I could get a gun out and shoot you dead now, you're dead, it doesn't make me powerful, it's just completely stupid." Indeed two years ago, she legendarily confronted a gunman in a Sheffield bar, engaging him in polite conversation until the police arrived. "Being good, however, is fabulously hard," Lumley continues. "And we all fall off at every fence, you know? And there's nothing wet about being good! I think sometimes there's something quite wet about being bad!"

Badness, she explains, comes in various degrees. She rumples her brow. "I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street," she snaps. "I hate that! For some reason it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern." Would she tell someone off? "Yes, but not horribly," she says. "I would package it up and say, 'I believe you dropped this.'" Her voice is buttery. "And if they were horrid I would think of a different way of dealing with it." She pauses, smiles, leans a little closer. "I've got to tell you in service stations on big motorways I always clean up the ladies loo. I pick up all the bits of hankies, I tidy up the bins, I get using the towels, I clean the tops, I shut the doors, I pull the plugs . . . Because people live like animals. And surely if it looks nice people won't go on making it look so bad? If you walk into a midden of filth maybe you just don't care about it? But it does baffle me how people can behave so badly."

It is perhaps this deep-rooted belief in goodness, along with a pervading sense of sleeve-rolling practicality and her glamorous fearlessness, that make her such a fine documentary host. There is something to be said, too, for that famously mellifluous voice. "I don't know," she says lightly. "If you're in something you don't ever hear it. And I'm lucky, believe me, I'm lucky. I get as many offers for drama as I do documentaries." Earlier, in the screening room, she had dismissed talk of ageism on screen, arguing that women of her age shouldn't expect to get the roles of a 23 year old. "I was never offered them," she says now. "I mean I was 30 when I got Purdey. So I was never playing Juliet at 14."

Not that she would have wanted them anyway. "I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory," she continues. "I've never had any ambition, or thought of what I should be doing or had any idea of what I'd like to do. Never. And still don't. And if something comes along I say fine. It's like food, I like it," she waves at the spread on the coffee table, untouched, "those sandwiches there, they look fine, I wouldn't have ordered them, but now that they're here they look fine. So that's how my acting is." She stops for a moment and looks at the sandwich platter. "But if I had been a raging beauty I would have gone to America I imagine, and made a career out there. Because you can't do that over here; this country slightly despises beauty, and so all our lovely, lovely ones go and make a hit of it over there. The Catherine Zeta Joneses and the Kate Beckinsales."

It comes as something of a surprise to discover that the much lusted-after Lumley shouldn't consider herself a raging beauty. "No ,never! And never was!" she insists. "I must tell you this. But I had a useful face. I could work with it – like my hair, it's not nice but it's useful, it can be dyed different colours, go up and go down. And so I always saw myself as a character actress, which anyone in their right minds would rather be than a beauty actress. Beautiful is very boring."

Still, that useful face of hers, that voice, that charm, have brought an enduring appeal for Lumley, who has remained for more than 30 years one of the most popular faces on British television. She bats away any suggestion of a particular beauty or talent. "[Programme-makers] know that I'll be a good old team person," is how she explains it. "The fact that I'd been a model in my early days, the fact that I can put my own face on and straighten my own hair back, drag out some crumpled bit of clothing and pretend it looks all right. So I'm all right as a team player," she says. "And I'm interested in things," she adds, "always interested in things." So, I ask, if anything should ever happen to David Attenborough, would she be prepared to fill his shoes? "Oh," she says softly, "nobody could fill his shoes. But he can have my shoes. Even the shoes I made out of a bra"

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Why crowdfunding is the world's incubation platform

The process enables businesses and social projects to succeed based upon merit and relevancy
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Crowdfunding is changing finance by empowering people to fund what actually matters to them Photograph: Steve Jay Crise/Corbis

Most of us have heard of the Pebble watch, Tesla museum, Amanda Palmer or even the Karen Klein bus monitor campaigns. These crowdfunding hits captured media attention across the world in 2012, and arguably catapulted crowdfunding into the mainstream vernacular.

Yet, the true revolution of crowdfunding isn't happening in our newspapers or on our morning news shows. This revolution is being waged online by the thousands of crowdfunding campaigns taking place across the globe. Businesses, artistic endeavours and causes are steadily raising $1,000, £5,000, and €10,000 at a time to launch life-changing ventures from their customers, fans and supporters. With crowdfunding, ideas find their own niche audiences. Crowdfunding raises the funds needed for ideas to launch, grow and thrive without the obstacle of traditional investors deciding whether these ideas are worthy of existing or not.

As a result, crowdfunding is quickly becoming the world's incubation platform, changing the role of gatekeeper and finally giving the world true choice in determining which ideas come to life. Such meritocracy has never existed in the world of finance before. Thus, crowdfunding is changing finance for the better.

In what will soon be seen as the old world, traditional financiers – from investors to banks to foundations – view themselves as "calculating decision-makers" and "amplifiers". Their job is essentially to bet on some ideas and reject the rest. However, as a result of this gatekeeping process, thousands of potentially great ideas go undeveloped.

In what will soon be known as the new world, crowdfunding is empowering people to fund what actually matters to them. Crowdfunding thus turns the sourcing process into a discovery process, making selection efficient and fair.

The world's incubation platform

At Indiegogo, we use an objective algorithm called the gogofactor to ensure crowdfunding campaigns earn exposure based on the community's response to them.

By offering a mechanism where ideas in need of funding rise to the top algorithmically and automatically, rather than subjectively and manually, crowdfunding is not only a robust alternative form of funding, but also an efficient market validation and de-risking mechanism. Traditional financiers will soon not be able to live without it. We're creating a true incubation platform for the world.

Sometimes success through crowdfunding convinces institutional investors that ideas they once overlooked are popular with consumers after all. For example, the Star Accessory was deemed unworthy by dozens of venture investors worried about high market risk, until a successful $25,000 crowdfunding changed their minds.

Another example is how comic blogger Matthew Inman's $1.4m people-powered crowdfunding campaign to build a Tesla museum convinced the New York state government of public interest in the project to the tune of $850,000 in matching government funds.

In many ways, crowdfunding reduces the risk of potential investments by proving market demand in a demonstrable way.

When people fund anything anywhere in the world, they do so for one of four reasons: passion, participation, perks and profit. Funders are either passionate about the idea, team or project. They want to participate in its success; or they want to get something in return, such as a perk or even a profit. Under the Jobs Act signed by president Obama in April 2012, US citizens will for the first time be able to profit by making crowdfunding investments, after the rules are finalised later this year.

Whether a venture is for-profit or nonprofit, the crowdfunding process provides a way for ideas to succeed on merit and relevancy instead of luck and subjective curation. As a result, the ideas brought to life are those the world chooses, not the ideas that a limited number of gatekeepers secretly select.

Artistic and socially driven projects also thrive with crowdfunding as they often tap into all of the motivations (that are currently legal) at once. For example, the 6,219 funders that contributed nearly £400,000 to London-based GravityLight did so to support the passionate creators, participate in a larger movement to bring safe light to the developing world and receive a cool gravity-powered light.

The future is now

As crowdfunding changes finance, it will improve the health of the financial ecosystem and bring about a world where every person's participation will matter. Whatever your vision, if funding was stopping you from doing what matters, you now have no excuse. Whether it's starting a campaign to raise money for a business, creative project or cause you care about, crowdfunding is your answer. It's time to fund what matters to you.

Danae Ringelmann is the co-founder of Indiegogo

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Roasted Beet Salad

Roasted Beet Salad with Arugula, Pistachios and Shaved Pecorino

Prep Time: 20min
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  • 4 large beets, red, golden, or Chioggia or any combination
  • 8 to 10 baby beets- any color or combo
  • 2 cups baby arugula
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons high quality extra-virgin olive oil
  • Salt
  • 1/4 cup pistachios, toasted and chopped
  • 1/4 cup shaved pecorino, aged pecorino Toscano or pecorino Romano

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
  2. Place all the large beets on a sheet tray and bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until a fork slides in and out of the beets easily. Add the baby beets to the tray for the last 20 minutes of cooking time. When the beets have cooled, peel them. Slice the large beets into 1/2-inch thick slices. Cut the baby beets in half.
  3. Place the arugula in a bowl and drizzle in about half of the vinegar and olive oil and season generously with salt. Toss the salad gently to incorporate all of the ingredients. TASTE IT! It should taste very flavorful but not soggy. Arrange the arugula on 4 individual salad plates. Toss all of the beets together in the salad bowl and add the remaining oil, vinegar and salt, and toss. Arrange the dressed beets on the arugula and top with the pistachios and shaved pecorino.


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Joachim Löw To Replace Arsene Wenger As Arsenal Manager?

Recent reports have suggest that Arsene Wenger could finally end his reign at Arsenal this summer, and Joachim Löw must surely be in the running to replace him.

In recent months Arsenal has made huge investments off the pitch, seemingly in preparation for Wenger’s departure, and it doesn’t seem to have gone down with Mr Wenger. Sven Mislintat and Raul Sanllehi have arrived from Dortmund and Barcelona respectively, and it appears they were appointed by Gazidis, without Wenger’s blessing – well this is guesswork.

Sven Mislintat’s arrival has already rustled feathers, with Wenger outrageously claiming: “We know the players. We knew every single player in Europe before Sven arrived. Sometimes in a little club in Germany he might know somebody that we might ignore.”

This admission and further show of arrogance only highlights that all is not well at Arsenal. Gazidis was mocked for his ‘catalyst for change’ statement in the summer, but it appears he’s gone about it quietly behind the scenes. It was rumoured that he was pushing for Wenger to be replaced in the summer, but was overruled by Kroenke, but it seems like he’s putting a bulletproof succession plan in place that the American cannot ignore.

With this in mind, Arsenal needs to look at Joachim Löw as a potential replacement. Taking over from Wenger isn’t going to be easy. It’s not a job for an unproven coach, and Arsenal will be aware of this. They need a proven winner; a man that has handled pressure, and a manager with a proven record of developing youth. Joachim Löw is that man.

When he took over Germany, they were in transition. Players like Michael Ballack and Oliver Kahn were finished, but an exciting new crop of players were emerging. These young players won the Under 21 European Championships in 2009, with flair and maturity, prompting Joachim Löw to put his faith in them at the 2010 World Cup.

Despite being written off before the tournament, the Germans turned up in style. Mesut Ozil, Toni Kroos, Thomas Müller and Sami Khedira played some of the best football seen by a German side for well over a decade, promising a bright future. Four years later, Löw had successfully taken that potential and moulded it into a formidable attacking team that would go on and lift the World Cup.

Joachim Loew did this by putting his faith in youth and challenging them to act like men. He created a disciplined environment both on and off the pitch, and most importantly, he built a squad of players that respected and trusted his instincts. This is something that is desperately missing at Arsenal.

Arsenal Football Club is in need of a complete overhaul. Gazidis is ensuring that is happening behind the scenes, and Loew would be more than capable of doing it on the pitch. He’s taken one of the biggest international jobs in the world, and thrived, and he is likely to be unfazed by the day to day demands of club management.

With Arsenal’s failings in recent years, an instant impact is needed. Löw can deliver that. And, perhaps equally as import, he is young enough to build a team, develop them and stay around to reap the rewards. Over to you Ivan!


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100 things we didn’t know this time last year

Found these on the BBC. Here are a few samples.

6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine – it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub’s toilets.

7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo.

8. Devout Orthodox Jews are three times as likely to jaywalk as other people, according to an Israeli survey reported in the New Scientist. The researchers say it’s possibly because religious people have less fear of death.

9. The energy used to build an average Victorian terrace house would be enough to send a car round the Earth five times, says English Heritage.
19. The = sign
was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing “is equal to” in his equations. He chose the two lines because “noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle”.

20. The Queen has
never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.

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67. Giant squid eat each other – especially during sex.

68. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold one copy every minute since its 1969 publication.
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69. First-born children are less creative but more stable, while last-born are more promiscuous, says US research.

What Do You Mean I was Shot

PORT ORANGE, Fla. (AP) â€” A man who woke up and found his head bleeding, drove to work and left a note for his boss before going to the hospital to find he had a bullet lodged in his brain, authorities said.

When Glen Thomas Betterley, 53, noticed the blood Thursday morning he asked his girlfriend if she had struck him. Emma Lorene Larsen, 65, said no.

Betterley went to Halifax Medical Center emergency room where he learned he had been shot in the forehead.

While Betterley was being treated, police called Larsen and heard a single gunshot. When investigators arrived at the home, they found Larsen dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot to the head.

Surprise You are Pregnant

A WOMAN rushed to hospital with tummy trouble, fearing she had eaten a dodgy kebab, was shocked to give birth instead, a British newspaper reported today.

Helen Smitham, 25, of Distington in northwest England, had no idea she was pregnant when she complained of feeling a bit rough â€“ with an iffy kebab thought to blame.

Her mother rushed her to the nearby West Cumberland Hospital where she gave birth so quickly that doctors did not even have time to tell her she was expecting.

Her baby son Deaton was born on December 24 weighing four pounds and 11 ounces (2.1kg) said The Sun, Britain’s biggest-selling daily.

“I had absolutely no idea,” a stunned Ms Smitham said.”

How do you not know that you are pregnant.

It is Coming

It is coming, at least I think that it is. If I can grab a chunk of time today I will put together my 2005 end of the year recap. It might be a monster post or it might be a couple of paragraphs, only time will tell.


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#Consumer rights

# consumer-rights - Tuesday 5 June, 2018

The government plans to slap a minimum five-year expiration date on all gift cards

The Minister for Business says a lack of vouchers regulation ’causes confusion and worry’ for shoppers.

# consumer-rights - Sunday 2 July, 2017

Inspector says 'an awful lot' of bouncy castles haven't been safety-checked

Bouncy castles are one of many holiday-related items people are being warned to ensure they are safety-certified.

# consumer-rights - Saturday 26 December, 2015

Aunt Mary has bought you another horrible Christmas jumper. So, can you return it?

It’s the time of year when people need to know their consumer rights – here’s the lowdown.

# consumer-rights - Wednesday 29 July, 2015

The European Union has a bone to pick with Disneyland

Are customers some certain countries being charged more?

# consumer-rights - Monday 25 May, 2015

Shoppers should soon get a lot more rights - here's how

Consumer laws are about to get a shake up.

# consumer-rights - Monday 29 December, 2014

Getting a refund for that iPhone app you don't want has become a lot easier

iPhone and iPad users now have 14 days to request a refund for any app, song, album or book they purchase without having to give a reason.

# consumer-rights - Friday 26 December, 2014

I've been given a horrendous gift? Can I return it? Here are your consumer rights...

Changed your mind? Got a horrible jumper? Or is something simply broken?

# consumer-rights - Friday 29 August, 2014

# consumer-rights - Tuesday 29 July, 2014

Ryanair, Aer Lingus and Greyhound among companies pursued by consumer agency

The National Consumer Agency received 56,000 contacts last year.

# consumer-rights - Tuesday 1 July, 2014

Column: Today you will see one way the EU does actually make life better

Promise, says minister for state Paschal Donohoe, who wants you to know that consumer is a winner under new EU legislation.

# consumer-rights - Saturday 14 June, 2014

Hate hidden fees and extra charges? They will be a thing of the past from today

New legislation that boosts consumer rights comes into effect.

# consumer-rights - Thursday 5 June, 2014

Consumer agency wants to make contracts fairer

Have you a contract that automatically renews or has unequal obligations? Then you should read this.

# consumer-rights - Monday 31 March, 2014

'A powerful watchdog with real teeth': Ireland to get a new consumer body

The Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014 will also ‘modernise’ laws relating to media mergers.

# consumer-rights - Friday 7 March, 2014

The State still puts banking needs ahead of people's rights - FLAC

The Free Legal Advice Centres says boom time soft-touch regulation “persists to this day”

# consumer-rights - Tuesday 26 November, 2013

Xtra-vision reverses policy on pre-ordered Xbox One consoles

From today, any person who collects their pre-ordered XBox One will not have to purchase an additional game in order to receive their console.

# consumer-rights - Monday 25 November, 2013

Anger as Xtra-Vision doesn’t honour Xbox pre-orders unless extra game is bought

This requirement was asked of pre-order customers even if they had already paid in full for the new Xbox One console.

# consumer-rights - Wednesday 11 September, 2013

Roaming charges in the EU could be banned soon

The new legislative package launched today could bring the end to roaming charges and compulsory 24 month contracts.

# consumer-rights - Thursday 11 July, 2013

Consumer watchdog took over 100 actions in 2012

The National Consumer Agency issued 71 on the spot fines to traders who incorrectly displayed their prices last year, issuing notices to a further 40.

# consumer-rights - Thursday 3 January, 2013

Ofcom sets out proposals to tackle mid-contract price rises

The regulator is considering introducing rules allowing customers to exit their contract without penalty if prices are raised in the middle of a contract term.

# consumer-rights - Monday 26 November, 2012

Cyber Monday shoppers urged to know their rights

The NCA says there are certain risks with online shopping, particularly the non-delivery of goods or if consumers wish to return an item.

# consumer-rights - Friday 4 May, 2012

Facebook privacy concerns are on the rise, says consumer report

Oversharing and excessive data collection are growing concerns of Facebook users, a US consumer reports has claimed.

# consumer-rights - Friday 23 March, 2012

Blow for Ryanair as ECJ set to uphold ash cloud challenge

The ECJ’s advocate-general is likely to uphold a complaint from a Dubliner whose flight was cancelled during the 2010 disruption.


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Lita Ford : “Living Like a Runaway” Book 2016 Harpers Collins / William Morrow Publishers.

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Lita Ford : “Living Like a Runaway” Book 2016 Harpers Collins / William Morrow Publishers.

Lita Ford : “Living Like a Runaway” (a memoir)  Book 2016 Harpers Collins / William Morrow Publishers.  The Queen of Metal has made a book, and wow that is the precious one to own for any fan on the planet. You probably all read it by now and wonder why I review it now. Well let me explain, it’s not late review as it happens with albums. It’s a matter of fact when it came out I was on the “Pre-order” list as I wanted so bad to own it on the first like any fan does. I’ve been a fan of Lita since 1983 and was in love with her having tons of big posters on my bedroom wall. I discovered The Runaways later because of her as my father had every late sixties albums from Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper , Jimi Hendrix etc… all of the main bands but not a single one from that first teenage all ladies rock band.

So when lita told she would make a book I jumped on the wagon to own it as my precious book. After a year and half on Amazon’s list receiving ever six month that the book was delayed, I cancelled my (pre) order. I guess that US had the privilege to get the first copies and Europe had to wait…. Since Lita has a website I tried to ordered it from there but now the shipping cost to Europe has become as expensive as the book itself so I started to wait. Time flies and I still wanted to own that book so I managed to order it on Amazon this year! Yep 2017 how crazy but I have it!!! (I don’t know how they manage to get the price low)

So after countless reviews  I read,  I made my own mind about it. First it’s a hard cover book totally black with awesome photos from the cover to the inside. The paper is fin and if you have dirty hands you will put your finger prints all over it. I tend to not touch the pages so It kept it’s hard soft beautiful made design. Towards the end you have photos from all Lita’s life with color ones from her parents to her pregancy… I supposed it has been hard to find and choose them to be in the book but it’s an amazing choice that help us seeing her complete life in few shots! Lita’s has still her baby face which make me still be in love each time I see her.

The book has different parts, Dee Snider (her friend) is starting the book to introduce the lady to the world and give her credits for being the first rocking guitarist to rule the world. On the inside cover as the back you can read magazines and artists giving their praise to the mighty book such it’s good and she owns respect. Fo me Lita is the first lady who played the electric guitar and made it so different with her own style that really made her apart from all the men guitarists we all know. I tired to play like her and she has definitively inspired and gave the wish to all women to play guitar.

So the book starts with her teenage life , describing where she lived and where she came from. You can directly from the start be in her head and see everything like you are living it. It’s amazing how you feel like being in a movie. This book is so detailed that it got me sucked. Of course not everything could be mentioned cos it would end up like a three book story … the biggest part is with the runaways and what happened during those times, few other parts are mentioned later since the band was so demanded by the fans they has been rumours or getting back.. but you probably know about it at least I remember those years.

For the fans as for the others it’s more than a book , probably why they ad ” a memoir” in small letters. Lita has lived the rock and roll life with the good and the bad events that every musicians live except it has been tougher has she was the first lady to kick serious ass! While she struggled to get her way to the music business and the male dominating rock stars. She came out with a strong and powerful energy that can inspire lots of generations to come. She’s not just the queen she is the Goddess of Rock and Heavy Metal. She deserves a statue, to be recognized by every musicians on the planet. This is the reason I always supported her and then supported all girl bands and musicians girls who deserve the same fame as men.

She bravely went through all even the “Spinal Tape ” moments and this book is her recognition you should have and read. Hail the queen! Thank you for your music and inspiration. Lita and her band will release a new album in 2018 , she’s always on tour and her fans are as strong as her. Thanks she gave me an interview on the recent mag if you haven’t read it already, a brilliant book to own 100/100.

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FIXTURES | 2017/18 EFL fixtures to be streamed live across the world on iFollow

21 June 2017

The opening matches of the Sky Bet EFL season will be available worldwide for the first time in English football through the EFL’s new digital streaming platform iFollow.

Launched for the 2017/18 season, more than a million people have already visited the iFollow club platforms ahead of the new campaign, with the innovative service set to revolutionise the way overseas EFL fans follow their team.

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More than 1,500 matches will be available in HD quality this season across the iFollow network or comparative club service*. Subscribers will pay the equivalent of £110 per season for the service which will provide coverage of up to 46 live games per club.

League matches selected for live TV coverage, including those on Sky Sports and one other Saturday 3pm kick-off that will be broadcast internationally, will NOT be available to stream on iFollow.

On the opening weekend, Sheffield Wednesday fans across the world will be able to watch the Owls visit Deepdale as they start the season with a trip to Simon Grayson’s Preston North End. In League One, newly promoted Portsmouth host Rochdale whilst overseas Sky Blues fans will be able to see how Coventry City fair in their opening match against Notts County.

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FIXTURES | 2017/18 - Key Dates

21 June 2017

iFollow and the EFL’s new club websites have been optimised for all devices ahead of the 2017/18 campaign. Fans based in the UK and Ireland will still also have access to live audio commentary, highlights packages and exclusive content as part of the new offering, rebranded to replace the EFL’s former PlayerHD platform.

EFL Chief Executive Shaun Harvey commented:

“For football fans - wherever they may be in the world - fixture release day is one of the most eagerly anticipated dates in the calendar and this year it has added significance as we are in a position to announce the opening weekend’s games that will be streamed live on our new iFollow service in what is a first for English football.

“We are confident that iFollow will revolutionise the way thousands of EFL supporters overseas gain access to their Club, which will not only provide a potentially significant new revenue stream for our Clubs but also help raise the profile of our competitions on the international stage.”

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RGV FC’s Charlie Ward signs first-team contract with Houston Dynamo

Charlie Ward, a midfielder who has played more minutes for the RGV FC Toros than any other player in franchise history, has signed a first-team contract with the Houston Dynamo of the MLS, the team announced Friday.

Ward is the sixth Toros player to sign a Dynamo contract in the USL club’s year and a half of existence, joining defenders Kevin Garcia, Taylor Hunter and George Malki, midfielder Memo Rodriguez and forward Jose Escalante.

Ward played all of RGV FC’s 2,790 minutes from his midfield position last season and played all 90 minutes in RGV FC’s first nine games of 2017. In the past month, Ward signed a pair of short-term deals with the Dynamo, starting and playing all 90 minutes in the team’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup matches against North Carolina FC on June 14 and Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday.

“Charlie has earned this opportunity to join the First Team through his consistent performances, commitment and professionalism with our USL affiliate RGV FC over the last two seasons along with his recent play in the U.S. Open Cup with the Dynamo,” Dynamo General Manager and Vice President Matt Jordan said in a release. “This signing is another example of the importance of our USL initiative within our club structure to provide our players the platform, when performing well, to take that next step in their career.”

Ward, 22, came to the Toros last season after playing with the Aston Villa and Stoke City youth teams in his native England.

His first season with the Toros was played under coach Wilmer Cabrera, who now coaches the first team with the Dynamo.

“Charlie is an excellent, talented young player who I know very well because I had him for a year with the Toros. Then, we brought him for the preseason, but sadly he got injured and he had to go back with the Toros to start over. Throughout the six months he has played there and every time he comes and join us, he proves that he has enough quality to be part of the Houston Dynamo. After the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup games that he played here, he earned the right to be here because (of) what he has shown in the field and what he has brought to the team,” Cabrera said in a release. “We are happy to bring him, (and) we (are) happy that he has earned the right to be with the first team.”

Ward said in March that his preseason training in Houston had been derailed in the first week by injuries to both calves. He said the injuries cost him three or four weeks and prompted the Dynamo to send him back to the Toros as he worked toward full health.

Through the setback, he said he was frustrated but never lost faith in his ability to reach the first-team level.

“I had an injury which knocked me, and I didn’t get to show my potential there,” Ward said in March. “But I’m ready for MLS football, whether it’s Houston or any other team. I’m ready to play that, I’m sure.”

Throughout his run with the Toros, Ward has been the team’s primary distributor from the back end of the formation. He leads RGV FC this season with 755 passes — 172 more than his closest teammate.

He also posted a Toros-best 90.6 percent passing accuracy and ranks fourth on the club with 15 tackles.

“Charlie is one of those guys who is not replaceable on any team,” Toros forward Ruben Luna said in March. “You need a guy like Charlie on every team. He’s that midfield player who just keeps the group together, from the center backs, to the midfield to the forwards. We’re very lucky to have him.”


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EDITORIAL: A regional approach will serve RGV well

It was 50 years ago, on Aug. 2, 1967, when the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council was formed by merging the Lower Rio Grande Valley Council of Governments and the Texas Southmost Economic Development District to officially become the nation’s fourth active council of government (although local officials claim it was really the first economic development district in the country, albeit a pilot program.) It was designed to be a regional planning commission to chart the RGV’s future and today it’s one of 24 councils of government in Texas.

Its birth came six months after a meeting between the mayor of McAllen, a Cameron County commissioner and a representative from the governor’s office at the Fairway Motel in McAllen, across from a citrus grove that is now La Plaza Mall.

Its purpose was to unify and regionalize efforts by local leaders in Hidalgo, Cameron and Willacy counties to help the Rio Grande Valley prosper and grow.

At the time, the three counties totaled only 313,000 in population; only the cities of McAllen, Brownsville and Harlingen had over 25,000 residents.

Its four original goals were to improve: tourism, law enforcement, communication and economic development (although then they called it “project review.”)

A lot has certainly changed in the past 50 years. And for much of it we as a region, have the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council to thank for introducing innovative social, public works and other projects that have helped the RGV to grow and prosper and morph from what was once a sleepy agriculture-based region into a diverse, more vibrant economy with over 1.3 million people.

Over the past half century, the LRGVDC has been instrumental in forming a regional 9-1-1 system; police academies; a Valley-wide public bus service; the Area Agency on Aging, which helps seniors with everything from housing to meal deliveries; and improving transportation infrastructure by overseeing the Hidalgo County Metropolitan Planning Organization

So we’re not surprised so many current and former elected officials attended the organization’s 50th anniversary celebration Wednesday in Weslaco. And so many federal and state officials sent letters of goodwill and encouragement.

A letter from the U.S. Economic Development Administration called it an “auspicious occasion,” that marks an organization that has provided “unwavering service to the Rio Grande Valley … that raised the standard of living and increased the wealth of this region.” Gov. Greg Abbott wrote the LRGVDC has played “a vital role in the economy.” And U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, wrote “you should be proud of the great work you do and will continue to do.”

We agree. We commend past leaders on their vision and we urge current leaders, like the mayors of McAllen, Pharr, Brownsville and Harlingen, to continue to strive for a regional purpose — and to work together to help dissolve whatever small fiefdoms or division might still exist in our region that prevent unlimited growth and options here.

As Kenneth Jones Jr., who served as the organization’s executive director for 25 years, told the 200 people at Wednesday’s celebration: “We served as a model for other states, one which we’re proud of. Happy anniversary and Godspeed for the next 50 years.”

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Morning Mom Makeup

OK, so for those of you who don't know me personally, I will tell you, I have spent most of my life wearing little to know makeup.  This is unusual for a dancer who when performing needs a full face.  Let me just say, I am lucky to have wonderful friends who would do my makeup for me.  Growing up I lived with my mom and brother, neither of them wore makeup.  So, I didn't really have anyone at home to show me what to do.  I vividly recall watching a girl in my freshman home room who would do her makeup each morning completely in awe.

Before my 30th birthday, I made a goal for myself to learn how to do a full face of makeup for myself.  In order to ensure I had motivation for this I signed up for a few beauty pageants for which I would do my own makeup.  I think I did a pretty good job if I do say so myself.  I also got 2nd runner up at my 1st national pageant and 1st runner up at my second national pageant, so that kind of backs that up.

The problem is that's all I really learned how to do, a full face of makeup.  While that is great for date night and special occasions, its not something I have the time and energy for in the mornings.  Now that I am a little older and have two little people, I think its high time I put slightly more effort into my face in the morning.  To do this, I went to the same source that I used the first time, YouTube.

There are a ton of amazing makeup tutorial and product review videos on YouTube.  The first time around I watched a ton of videos from some talented YouTubers including Casey Holmes, Kathleen Lights, Ellie Dalton, and a little Pixiewoo.  Definitely check these out if you are in need for some makeup inspiration.

For this however, I needed a quick and easy look that would make me look alive and awake on a daily basis.  I viewed a bunch of videos and I have collected a few here that I liked the best.

Beauty and the Boutique

This first video is makeup artist, Katie, doing a simple makeup look on a soon to be mom, Rebecca.  I liked this video because she breaks down each product and what it does.  She explains why a mom would want it due to lack of sleep or less than lustrous skin, etc.. She includes steps which you can do or leave out if you really are in a rush.  Plus, Katie has a British accent which makes me love hearing her talk.   If you head to her website you can get her top 10 makeup artist secrets.

Coffee with Dani

I love this video because Dani is super real.  She shes the mom of a toddler, so she knows that we only have like 5 minutes to ourselves to get our makeup done.  In the description below the video she lists all the products she used and links on where to find them.  She also lists drugstore alternatives where appropriate.  So, if you like this video, definitely go check it out in YouTube to see her product list.  Lastly, I really love her advice at the end.  Every face is different so what works for one person may not work for another.  Dani advises that you pick out your best and worst feature. Highlight your best and conceal your worst and you will have a quick look that you can walk out the door with.

Whats Up Moms

I love this quick and easy tutorial.  Elle is the mom of two, a 2.5 year old and a 4 month old, so she is definitely feeling the lack of sleep, like me.  This tutorial by Tati, of ( is nice quick, simple and easy.  If you only have a few minutes to actually watch the tutorial on doing your makeup in a few minutes, this is the one to pick.  I love the added bonus of showing you how to take the look into evening with just minor tweaks. Definitely check it out! And go to Tati's own YouTube channel for more makeup looks.

Here's an added bonus: When I was checking out the videos, I let the Whats Up Moms video automatically play the next video.  I found some hilarious adds that poke fun at mom life on the Whats Up Moms channel.  They have commercials for Oscar Mayer, Resolve Carpet Cleaner, Motts and more.  Definitely check them out if you need a good laugh!

I hope these videos are helpful for you, I know they have helped me. You can check out my pic later this week on Facebook to see how I put these tips into practice.  Do you have any quick and easy makeup tips? Please leave them in the comments, since I am always looking for makeup advice!!


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The dying game

November 15,2018

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People die in different ways in Pakistan. Malnutrition, notably among children under five, is one of the biggest killers in the country. According to Unicef, a shocking 78.8 children for every 1,000 live births are dead by the time they reach the age of five. As we have often noted, nearly 50 percent are stunted or wasted. But we have done nothing about this.

However, there is also another paradoxical factor that is causing deaths. Fast food and processed food, according to several studies, is now more common than ever before. A survey conducted by the European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science (2012) revealed that nearly 80 percent of about a hundred people chosen from different economic backgrounds in Lahore and Faisalabad preferred junk food over regular home-cooked, local items. This indicated a sharp change since the 1970s when burgers with a patty inserted between two pieces of bread were something of a mystery to many local diners.

Significantly, the trend has resulted in growing obesity, notably among children. It isn’t just the wealthy who suffer. The less wealthy may choose less well-established brands of burgers or fries. But they still consume them and offer them to their children. Many of these parents don’t realise that they are effectively poisoning their offspring.

This is especially true in a country where every sixth person suffers from diabetes and heart disease has become rampant. This is combined with a high intake of sugar – a substance that food experts such as Jamie Oliver have challenged the use of in many popular items, including ketchup. Oliver, who is best known for his attempts to improve the quality and health content of school dinners in the UK and US, believes sugar kills and has badly affected the health of millions of children around the world.

An example of how food imported from other countries or ideas about food borrowed from the West can affect health can be witnessed in Samoa, a small, idyllic island in the Pacific Ocean that once boasted a lifestyle close to something we would equate with a unique closeness to nature. Today, food imports, notably cuts of lamb made up almost entirely of animal fat from New Zealand are one of the most commonly consumed products on the island. The result is a booming rate of diabetes and other diseases. Traditional items based on vegetables are no longer considered suitable for family dinners in a culture where food is central to family life.

We should question if we are approaching a similar situation. While the impressively active Punjab Food Authority has banned scores of items containing monosodium glutamate, preservatives, colouring and artificial flavour-enhancers that are harmful to the health of children, these products continue to be sold almost everywhere. Parents simply don’t realise the damage these items can cause and there has been no attempt to raise awareness among children.

Many people, even those privileged enough to be served varied healthy meals, carefully pick vegetables out of their food before taking a single bite. There is an argument that children will simply not eat healthy items such as spinach, peas or broccoli. But this can easily be challenged.

In France, even the smallest state schools with low budgets hire trained chefs who prepare multiple course meals, even for infants. The teaching staff helps children sit around a table and eat food served on proper tableware, with cutlery suited to their size. The children are expected to complete each course, eating slowly and also engaging in social talk while they do so. Food, the French believe, is central to the wellbeing of these children in the future. If a child refuses to eat a particular food item, it is simply taken away and the next course is served.

The effort that France has puts into its school dinners reflects eating practices around the country and has resulted in one of the lowest rates of heart disease or obesity in Europe – though this may change as fast food makes its way into the nation.

In our country, the problem of obesity is combined with another concern: lack of fitness or good physical health. A telling advertisement, originally from India, shows sad young hockey players, swimmers, tennis players and others ‘retiring’ at the early age of 16. The lyrics in the ad suggest that their lives must now revolve around academics. This, of course, is very true for our country too. Indeed, academic pressures begin well before the age of 17. Parents argue that sports have little purpose. In addition, limited access to safe, open spaces adds to the problem in this age of screens.

More developed countries have discovered that this approach is a disaster. Japan, which has one of the highest academic success rates among teenagers in the world, now plans to introduce a much wider approach to education and greater physical fitness at its schools. The prestigious American Academy of Pediatricians notes that all children between the ages of eight and 18 require at least one hour of physical activity a day to help them reach their full potential. In fact, this helps them focus better on academics and perform at improved levels in classroom activities and examinations. We have yet to learn these lessons. Yet, there are so many programmes that we could adopt.

The remarkably simple Daily Mile programme initiated nearly a decade ago by a headmistress at a school in Scotland simply requires children from every classroom to step out into the outdoors and run, jog or even walk at whatever pace they can manage for 15 minutes. In the case of most healthy children, this would cover a mile. But there is no competitive element to the programme and no pressure on children. Teachers are free to take the children outdoors whenever free time is available.

The ranked sessions continue around the year and parents report quite dramatic improvements in the behaviour of children who attend schools where the programme has been introduced. From Scotland, it has now expanded into the rest of the UK and many parts of Europe, and is making its way to New Zealand, Australia and the US.

The beauty of the project, especially in a time when space is limited and free hours short, is that it requires no specialised training, no clean-up, no equipment and very little effort on the part of teaching staff. And yet, it brings enormous benefit for children.

Researchers have noted that advertising junk food to children is not unexpectedly a primary factor in their growing demand for it. We need to take steps to deal with the problem at various levels. Awareness is key, as is the need to bring back local items onto our children’s plates, including the unbeatably healthy corn-on-the-cob, baked sweet potatoes, and other items that are sold as street food. They have been replaced by other items come in packets and are highly processed.

The damage is enormous and will inevitably have a huge impact on the future of our country and the health of its people in the years to come. This is not a matter that should be overlooked. Government policies need to be developed and implemented now so that bodies like the PFA can be supported and new initiatives in this sphere encouraged.

The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor.

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Spennymoor’s second string didn’t have it all their own way when they beat Billingham Town 3-2 in the first round of the Durham Challenge Cup last night.

Moors took the lead with their first attack of the game, when Ryan Hall put the ball through for Andrew Johnson to fire home.

Moors dominated the game, and could have added further goals with Brad Fewster missing a good chance when he was clean through, while Craig Ellison was also unlucky with an effort.

But Billingham slowly got back into the game, and Ashley Lavan fired just over the bar.

In the second half, Moors got on top again, and after Town keeper Alex Leeds saved from Johnson, they went 2-0 up on the hour when Hall sent Johnson through again, and the striker easily beat the keeper.

Again, Town kept going and pulled a goal back when Joe Kerridge made a good run in from the right hand side on 66 minutes and beat Dan Lowson with a good shot, and a few minutes later Lavan missed a great chance to equalise.

However, Hall dribbled through and fired Moors 3-1 up, but there was still time for Elliott Beddow to pull one back with a shot on the turn.

One minus for Moors though was that Rob Ramshaw and Brad Fewster both went off injured during the game.

Spennymoor: Lowson, Dunn, Blackbourne, King, Turnbull, Hall, Burns, Ramshaw (sub Grant 46), Johnson, Ellison, Fewster (sub Jackson 37) Shildon had a real scare before they beat Durham City 5-4 on penalties at Hall Lane.

Durham stunned Shildon by taking the lead early on, when Callum Smith pounced on an error by Sam Hodgson and beat Shildon keeper Nick Liversedge.

Durham held on to the lead until ten minutes from time, when Billy Greulich-Smith headed home, and the Railwaymen managed to scrape through in the shootout.

West Auckland beat Crook 2-1 thanks to a late goal.

West took the lead when an effort by Arran Wearmouth was deflected past the Crook keeper Dan Scott, but Crook made a fight of it and levelled nine minutes from time when Dan Johnston chipped the keeper. However, Denver Morris fired into the top corner and restored West’s lead.

Newton Aycliffe lost 1-0 at home to Consett, for whom Michael Mackay scored after 38 minutes from a Clark Kay pass.

Chester-le-Street pulled off a surprise by beating Ryhope CW 3-1, Alex White scoring twice in the last three minutes to put his side through, and also complete his hat trick.


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Roy Baumeister talks about the importance of self-control and willpower. Many of the findings are included in the book he wrote with John Tierney.

Roy explains that the benefits of self-control include the following:

Success in school or work.

Good relationships – such as the ability to control your emotions in a positive way.

Happiness and less stress.

Ability to adjust to situations and maintain your mental health.

Physical health.

Good behaviour – rather than being abusive or committing crimes.

He underlines that:

“It is difficult to identify any major personal problems that do not have some element of self-control failure.”

Roy moves on to say that willpower is the energy supply for self-control and other aspects of life. People can apply their willpower in the areas of:

Decision making.

Taking initiatives.

Roy explains that a person’s willpower can fluctuate. For example:

Self-control depends on a limited energy supply, and each person’s willpower fluctuates during the day as various events deplete and then replenish it.

Decision-making and creative initiative also deplete the same willpower supply, while eating and sleeping can restore it.

Some circumstances propel people to perform well despite depleted willpower, including power and leadership roles, local incentives, and personal beliefs.

You can learn more about these ideas at this question and answer session with Roy.

Here is a shorter version of Roy’s talk. This comes from the Young Minds conference in Australia in 2012.

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VIDEO: ‘No pressure’ to find improvements in Rotherham police, says PCC

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There is ‘no pressure’ on the independent inspector who will investigate South Yorkshire Police’s handling of child sex abuse this autumn.

That’s according to Police and Crime Commissioner Dr Alan Billings, who has commissioned the investigation beginning next month led by John Drew.

South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Dr Alan Billings at the launch of Restorative Justice Awareness campaign. Picture: Andrew Roe

South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Dr Alan Billings at the launch of Restorative Justice Awareness campaign. Picture: Andrew Roe

Dr Billings says he only wants to find ‘the truth’ and no pressure has been put on Mr Drew to find evidence of the force improving.

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He said: “He’s independent. There’s no pressure on him at all, one way or the other. I just want him to find the truth and to tell us.

“What if he comes back and tells me things I didn’t anticipate? I have no reason to say he is going to find anything that will shock us.

“If he does, we’ll have to act accordingly.”

Dr Billings said he has made his views ‘perfectly clear’ to senior police over instances where officers have failed on CSE. He said: “The HMIC – Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary – report earlier this year quotes an officer talking about ‘naughty children.’

“That clearly indicates he doesn’t understand grooming. I have to be sure that whoever that was is either retrained or moved.

“I make clear to the senior command team that anybody who shows attitudes of that kind has to be moved, because they are clearly incapable of understanding what they are being asked to do.”

He said ‘cultural change’ needs to happen across the force to tackle abuse.

He said: “There have been generational issues and the older generation have now moved on. The younger generation want to get it right, and understand that they have to.

“This is not the most popular area of the police force in which to serve, so increasingly I think we can be confident that the people who come there are the ones who want to make it right.

“That’s not to say you’re not going to find the odd person who is unreconstructed. In all walks of life, that’s true.

“Cultural change in any organisation is the most difficult thing you can effect.”

Dr Billings says that in future, police will have to be ‘savvy’ to grooming, which is increasingly moving online.

He added: “If you think about grooming, it would be fatally easy now to focus so much on on-street grooming that we lose sight of the fact that grooming is moving onto the internet, and the new scandals may well be things that are happening online.

“We will need a generation of police who understand social media.”


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Focus on Jordan Rhodes: How the striker showed against Hull City glimpses of what Sheffield Wednesday initially paid all that money for

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It was just one performance, in among a great big load of abject ones, but Jordan Rhodes deserves a huge amount of credit for his showing for Sheffield Wednesday against Hull City.

Too often this season when the now maligned Rhodes has managed to find a place in the team, some fans would continue to fire out the 'give him the service and he'll score' line of argument, when really he had been getting the service and missing too many easy chances.

Jordan Rhodes celebrates what would be the winning goal against Hull City

Jordan Rhodes celebrates what would be the winning goal against Hull City

It's hard to imagine those supporters even believed it themselves, they just wanted it to be the case and made excuses for a man whose signing has been a massive disappointment almost from the start.

The biggest problem facing Wednesday when it comes to their very costly striker, is that when he's not scoring, he's not doing much else. Compared to, for example Atdhe Nuhiu or Lucas Joao, Rhodes won't give defenders anywhere near as many problems, for differing reasons. He's not as quick as Joao and he's not NORMALLY as physical as Nuhiu.

That final criticism couldn't be aimed at him after his matchwinning display at the KCOM.

The 1-0 victory over the Tigers was very much a team effort, borne from doggedness in defence and midfield but the goal came from Rhodes who certainly didn't shirk the responsibility of hard work himself.

Sheffield Wednesday players with Jordan Rhodes after his goal against Hull City

Sheffield Wednesday players with Jordan Rhodes after his goal against Hull City

And that was really what was most impressive about his day in East Yorkshire.

Right from kick-off Rhodes was up for this game; he was bustling, annoying (from a defender's perspective), he won cheap free kicks, won as many headers in his own box as he did in the opposition's and generally made a nuisance of himself.

The striker was involved in Wednesday's first clear opportunity, getting on the end of an excellent Adam Reach cross from the left. Such was the manner of the delivery, floated towards the back post, Rhodes had to generate most of the power in the header himself and while he couldn't quite do that, he did at least force Allan McGregor into a save.

The hard work continued and then later in the half, his time from the right Jack Hunt's cross was knocked in superbly for his first goal since Boxing day and his sixth of the season in total.

Rhodes would run himself into the ground, making defenders work, holding the ball up, winning free kicks to alleviate the pressure that Hull would continue to put Wednesday under, particularly in the second half.

And his movement was excellent. Early in the second half he pulled Hull's central defence in before making a final darting run to the front post where his diving header just failed to find the net.

Jos Luhukay said of Rhodes: "Of course for Jordan personally it was very important and for us as a team today it was the winning goal. I am happy of course for Jordan and also my whole team."

It was surprising that the 28 year old managed to make it to the 86th minute but it was then that he was taken off, limping and with the look of a man who had given his all and finally shown what he really is capable of. Wednesday's traveling army of fans saluted the day's hero over in the far corner.

It was just one game. Just one good performance that won't cancel out the very, very poor ones that preceded it but it was much more like the Jordan Rhodes that Owls fans thought they were getting.

It's a bit late to make a real impact, but a few more like that in the last few games and the optimism levels can rise a little at least.

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“Not tonight Mrs Hunt” - Jos Luhukay on Sheffield Wednesday defender Jack Hunt’s injury in ‘a dangerous area’

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Caffeine fuels premiere of CTV’s ‘Your Morning’ show

“The studio has that new show smell.”

So said Ben Mulroney as CTV premiered its replacement for Canada AM Monday. The new Your Morning, which originates from CTV’s downtown Toronto studios, was fast-paced and pretty much mistake-free, if not especially memorable.

Everyone seemed over-caffeinated Monday as host Ben Mulroney and the 'Your Morning' team hit screens for the first time.
Everyone seemed over-caffeinated Monday as host Ben Mulroney and the 'Your Morning' team hit screens for the first time.  (CTV supplied photo / THE CANADIAN PRESS)

Mulroney was joined by former Global and CBC news anchor Anne-Marie Mediwake, along with Lindsey Deluce of Toronto’s CP24 Breakfast and Kelsey McEwen of CTV Morning Live Calgary. Melissa Grelo of CTV’s daytime talk show The Social got to sleep in and join the gang for the last hour.

Everyone seemed over-caffeinated Monday. First shows always speed up on adrenalin.

Here’s a blow-by-blow of the premiere episode:

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6:03 a.m.: Much fuss was made over Canada’s showing at the Rio Summer Olympic Games. Since CTV wasn’t the official broadcaster, stills were shown of the closing ceremonies and other events. Mulroney lauded “Lucky” Penny Oleksiak, Canada’s gold medal swimmer, who will be on the show Wednesday along with trampoline champion Rosie MacLennan, who successfully defended the gold medal she won in London in 2012.

6:06: Meanwhile, via email, City puts out a release pointing out their long-running morning show Breakfast Television is No. 1 in Toronto and across Canada. Let the games begin!

6:07: First of several news and weather updates. Deluce reads a report on a whale bone discovery. McEwen’s floral prom dress fights with the busy weather map behind her. She cheerfully announces the first snowfall of the season, high in the Rockies.

6:16: The first guest is a volunteer Skyped in from Canada’s Olympic Village in Rio. The volunteer tells us “Rio is a beautiful place.”

“That really was a great first interview for the show!” gushes Mulroney.

That’s followed by a prepackaged clip of morning show hosts in the United States and Britain, including Piers Morgan, George Stephanopoulos and Robin Roberts, giving shout-outs to the Your Morning team. Everybody loves this so much it runs twice.

6:29: Mulroney informs viewers that “we’re having a lot of fun already on our first show.” He mentions his dad Brian used to be prime minister and that he was on Canadian Idol, so, yes, he’s travelled all over Canada.

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6:30: Talk moves to Saturday’s concert in Kingston, Ont., by the Tragically Hip. The hosts repeat CBC’s release that 11.7 million Canadians watched. The context here is that was the total reach, but the average audience was just over four million.

Mulroney plugs his upcoming interview with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

6:35: News veteran Mediwake can’t get a word in edgewise at the loosey-goosey desk segments. She tries to steer the show back to an agenda.

6:46: TSN’s Kate McKenna is brought in to recap the Olympics. Everyone agrees U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte is a heel after he admitted to over-exaggerating a story about being robbed at gunpoint.

6:56: Another weather update. The graphics are clean and easy to read.

7 a.m.: CTV’s Peter Akman also weighs in from Rio. We learn Oleksiak is very tall.

7:07: Finally we get to Mulroney’s interview with Trudeau. There’s no idle chatter, no talk of how they both once lived in the same house. Mulroney sticks to serious questions about the murder of First Nations’ women, police raids and pot laws.

7:16: After a break, more Trudeau. Mulroney lightens things up, asks the prime minister if his kids are ready to go back to school. Mulroney always seems most comfortable and natural with his peers.

7:30: Back to the news. Somewhere a snake is stuck down a sewer, being fed mice cakes. The desk banter is slowing down as the caffeine wears off. These three-hour morning shows are a marathon, not a sprint.

7:36: Viewers get a glimpse of the stage setup in what was once the MuchMusic parking lot.

7:39: CTV Olympic anchor Brian Williams rocks the sockless moc summer look with a suit. He comes prepared as always, tells us the Olympics are about the athletes, not “the fat cats who run it.”

7:49: Evan Solomon sits down with Mulroney to plug Question Period.

8 a.m.: Grelo joins the other four around the desk. The five brown Tim Hortons cups can’t be missed. Also, why move downtown if there is no street view in the background? The big blue electronic wall behind everybody could still be in the old Canada AM studio north of Highway 401.

8:14: McEwen does a weather hit outdoors from the lip of the stage and handles it with ease. Everybody loves her cowboy boots.

8:15: We go back to Mediwake’s hometown in Brooks, Alta. Her old high school VP is now an MP. The cast mock her big hair back in the day. Tuesday it’s Mulroney and Ottawa.

8:31: The shout-outs from other morning show hosts are replayed. We see that Roberts is about a half-metre taller than Mediwake.

8:34: Grelo takes us back to the iHeartRadio outdoor stage where country rockers Florida Georgia Line perform. The American band seems an odd choice after all the Hip-mania, but it shows Your Morning bookers plan to stick with what’s hot globally. A crowd of 700, many there since 6 a.m., cheer them on.

8:41: Grelo interviews the two lead singers. Someone left their lights on in the parking lot.

8:51: Another song from Florida Georgia Line. Instead of going out singing, the show seems a bit derailed by the band segment.

For the most part, Your Morning succeeds in looking different than Canada AM. The big question remains: Who is CTV marketing this show to? Will the moms and dads who watched the old show embrace this new one? Will younger viewers who best relate to the new crew’s casual desk chatter get up for this?

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The Sarabande from Bach’s Fifth Cello Suite has a deeply personal resonance for the French bassist and composer – even though he’s never performed it in public

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The following is published as part of a longer ’Sentimental Work’ article in The Strad’s September 2017 issue, out now – download the issue on desktop computer or via the The Strad App, or buy the print edition

Every day I begin my practice session with a movement from the Bach Cello Suites, and most often it will be the Sarabande from Suite no.5 in C minor. For me, it’s the perfect piece to start with; I play scales and exercises as well, but the Sarabande is the piece that helps me remember all the sensations and possibilities of playing the double bass. I feel as though I have a deeply personal and intimate relationship with the Bach Suites as a whole, though I’ve never played any of them on stage.

The Sarabande is by no means the hardest section of the Suites, but in terms of improving intonation, movement and control of the instrument, I think it’s the most productive one to practise – and also the best one for feeling as if you’re in harmony with the double bass. It also gives the most potential for expressivity: it can be played in a way that evokes melancholy, nostalgia, elegance, disappointment, sadness – all kinds of emotions at the same time. The way I play it each day depends on how I’m feeling – and, since it’s the first piece I practise, it generally sets the tone for the rest of the session. If I play it happily, that feeling will likely transfer into the other repertoire I’m working on.

To read the full article, download The Strad’s September 2017 issue on desktop computer or via the The Strad App, or buy the print edition