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Canadiens junior prospects 2008-09 review

By Jason Menard

Of the quartet of players in the CHL this season, all four continue to make music in the playoffs, although one has had a season filled with sour notes — even after moving to the lead chair for the first time in his career.  The Canadiens have one prospect in the USHL as well.

Olivier Fortier, C, Rimouski Oceanic — QMJHL
6′, 183 pounds
3rd round, 65th overall, 2007

It’s been a good week for Fortier, captain of the Memorial Cup-bound Rimouski Oceanic and last season’s top defensive forward in the QMJHL. The 2007 third-round draft pick signed a contract with the Canadiens on Mar. 19 — a three-year deal inked on the final day of winter, and one that’s sure to put a little spring into his step.

That was one of the lone bright spots in a challenging season for the Ancienne-Lorette, QC native, who missed 40 games due to a third-degree ligament strain following an early November collision with Baie-Comeau Drakkar goaltender Marco Cousineau (ANA). In 29 games this season, Fortier scored eight goals and added 27 assists — a better than point-per-game pace that hearkens back to his efforts from his draft-eligible season. His production has been steadily improving since his return from injury. In the 14 games before sitting out, he accounted for four goals and 11 assists.

Fortier saw a brief glimpse of the playoffs last year, getting in three games and scoring his first post-season goal. This year a guaranteed berth in the CHL final as host city has done little to dull the Oceanic’s edge. They’ve opened with two convincing wins over Chicoutimi. Fortier, the team’s captain, has paced the club. In an 8-1 opening-game victory, Fortier scored a goal and added an assist. In the second game, he performed twice as well on the scoresheet, netting two goals and adding a pair of assists in Rimouski’s 5-1 game two victory. And with six minutes of penalties in the first two games, Fortier appears to be regaining that physical edge that’s been an attractive part of his overall game.

P.K. Subban, D, Belleville Bulls — OHL
6′, 202 pounds
2nd round, 43rd overall, 2007

Subban has made a significant leap in both performance and stature this season as a key member of the OHL‘s Belleville Bulls and as a stand-out blueliner with Team Canada. He finished the regular season with 14 goals (one shy of his OHL high) and 62 assists in 56 games. He also added 94 minutes in penalties for good measure. In Ottawa, he started the New Year off the right way, earning both team gold with the Canadian squad, and personal honors with a spot on the media all-star team.

The Rexdale, ON native has played a key role both offensively and defensively with the Bulls and impressed with his offensive prowess and defensive responsibility — something he has consistently worked on over the past couple of years.

The playoffs were the stage upon which Subban first shone during his draft-eligible year, and now the club is back with an expected long run in their future. If the Bulls are to succeed, Subban must be a leader both on and off the ice. His mettle will be tested early as the Bulls have already been surprised by the upstart Sudbury Wolves, with the heavy underdogs splitting a pair of games in Belleville. Subban has performed well so far, registering an assist in each of the first two low-scoring contests.

Robert Mayer, G, Saint John — QMJHL
6’1, 184
Signed as a free agent, 2008

Saint John has found itself in an early hole in the first round of the QMJHL playoffs. They are down two games to none to the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles and Mayer has absorbed both losses for his club. He’s posted a 5.80 GAA behind a .866 save percentage, including being pulled in one of the games.

These numbers represent a drop from Mayer’s regular-season performance, where he posted a 3.21 GAA behind a .901 save percentage, en route to a 26-28 record in 57 games. Born in the Czech Republic, Mayer has Swiss/Czech citizenship and has been a staple of the Swiss club. Consistency has been a challenge for Mayer, but he’s expected to be a part of the Hamilton Bulldogs next season and may earn a call-up this spring should the Sea Dogs find themselves facing an early exit from the QMJHL playoffs.

Jason Missiaen, G, Peterborough Petes — OHL
6’8, 200 pounds
4th round, 116th overall, 2008

Things were looking up earlier for the 6’8 netminder who made the jump to the lead position between the pipes following the early-season trade of incumbent Trevor Cann (COL) to the London Knights. However, Missiaen’s been stuck behind a woeful Petes squad, which just snuck into the OHL playoffs in a seventh-place tie with the Sudbury Wolves.

However, Missiaen’s first playoff series as a starter hasn’t started in the best possible way, with the Petes falling behind 2-0 to the powerful Brampton Battalion. Missiaen has posted a 4.96 GAA in the two games, with a solid .906 save percentage.

In 38 games this season, Missiaen’s won 12, lost 21, and tied two. He’s posted a 3.81 GAA and .904 save percentage. Missiaen split time with overage veteran pick-up Ryan Daniels throughout the regular season, but was named the team’s starter for the playoffs. His cause was buoyed by winning three of his final five games to help carry the Petes into the playoffs.

The Chatham, ON native will likely remain in the OHL next season and should be better for the experience. And his playoff debut, albeit short, should serve him better in the future.

Danny Kristo, C, Omaha Lancers — USHL
5’11, 172 pounds
2nd round, 56th overall, 2008

Kristo’s season has been on a solid upward curve all year long. A key member of his Lancers squad, Kristo also played a supporting role in Team USA’s fifth-place finish at the World Junior Hockey Championships. Although the U.S. finish was lower than what they would have liked, Kristo — in an energy role — scored his first junior goal and set himself up as a key member of the squad’s future.

The Edina, MN native has committed to the University of North Dakota next season and will have ample opportunity to grow into a role with the club. His speed is what sets him apart and should serve him well at the NCAA level. It has already paid dividends in the USHL. Kristo has scored 17 goals and added 32 assists in 46 games a rookie with the playoff-bound Lancers, a club that’s tied for second place in the league’s West division. Those totals are good for third place on the team.

Kristo’s play — and his future projections — have the Canadiens feeling that they may have stolen a first-round talent with their first selection in the 2008 draft, even though it came late in the second round.

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Fake marriages linked to transnational crime Foreign criminals are exploiting a loophole to avoid prosecution in their own countries.

Bogus marriages are about to come under the microscope of the Thai immigration department in a bid to combat the numbers of foreign criminals residing in the country.

It’s thought that international criminals could be using Thailand as a place to hide from crimes they have committed elsewhere. By marrying Thai nationals, they are entitled to stay here long term with minimal oversight from immigration authorities – just a visa renewal once a year, according to the Bangkok Post.

It is thought that some may be engaging in ‘marriage for hire’ in order to best take advantage of this.

The crackdown has come about as it was found that 150 Thai women in just one district of a northeastern province had recorded marriages to foreign men in the last few months alone. The high number alerted the Public Anti-Corruption Commission, who duly alerted the Immigration Bureau.

Pol Lt Gen Nathathorn Prousoontorn, chief of the bureau, commented that, “The number is unusually high, and it triggers suspicion about marriage ‘for hire'”.

Of course, proving whether a marriage is bogus or not is tricky business and there’s no word on whether a crackdown would affect the large number of genuine Thai-foreigner marriages.

The bureau’s first steps will include liaison with Interpol and other foreign criminal databases to check criminal records and bogus identities.

If a foreigner is found to have hired a Thai national for marriage, they face a re-entry ban of up to ten years.

This isn’t the first time that sham marriages have come under the spotlight in Thailand. In 2014 it was revealed that hundreds of false marriages between Thai women and foreign men had been registered in Khon Kaen between 2011 and 2013, reports The Nation.

That was attributed to a corrupt official who had sold the names of local women to foreign men in order for them to register a marriage and presumably benefit from the advantages incurred by a marriage visa.

The latest crackdown comes in the wake of increased punishment and oversight of foreigners who overstay the terms of their visas under the new immigration mantra of “Good guys in, bad guys out.”

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At 1:00 AM on Wednesday 20th April a 1 minute clip of a foreign tourist beaten by drunken Thai men surfaced on Social Media.

The clip filmed in front of a convenience store on Soi Kao Talo showed a Western man being viciously beaten up by two drunken Thai men.

The first man wearing red football shorts and another wearing matching blue shorts marched up and started scolding the Western man before brutally kicking him in the stomach. They continued physically abusing the man until he fell to the ground, continuing their assault until the shopkeeper came outside and stopped them. After that the two Thai men casually walked off.

A bystander mentioned that the foreigner had been the instigator of the brawl however We love Pattaya Facebook Page have posted another clip. The new clip displays the scene before the man was beaten showing that he was playing and patting a dog in front of the convenience store. The new video clip has provoked more condemning comments of the actions of the two Thai men from animal’s rights protection crowds.

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Kim Kardashian's Jackie Kennedy Magazine Cover Stirs Controversy

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Kim Kardashian and North West on the cover of Interview magazine.

Daughter North West joins "America's New First Lady" on the Interview magazine cover.

Kim Kardashian is "America's New First Lady," according to Interview magazine.

The reality star, who is photographed by Steven Klein, appears on the glossy's September issue cover channeling Jacqueline Kennedy with her coiffed 'do, round collar dress and long white gloves. First daughter North West, clad in a Peter Pan collar dress, makes an appearance alongside her famous mom.

The Kardashians were previously called "America's First Family" on the cover of Cosmopolitan's November 2015 issue, which caused outrage on the internet then, and this time it's no different. (The family also most recently appeared on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter in celebration of the Kardashian decade.)

Many on social media expressed frustration and disappointment over the comparison to style icon Kennedy. One follower left a comment on Interview mag's Instagram, writing, "Don't you dare disrespect Jackie Kennedy like this." Another added, "Jackie is turning in her grave at this garbage." Some Instagram users also pointed out Kardashian's darker complexion, with one asking, "I'm not sure what's worse... THIS or black face?"

Meanwhile, some were thrilled with the photo shoot.

This isn't the first time Kardashian has been accused of altering her complexion. In June, the beauty entrepreneur faced backlash for appearing with a deeper skin tone while promoting her new KKW Beauty line. However, she told The New York Times that it was a result of a harsh photo contrast and her being "really tan."

For her accompanying interview, Kardashian chats with author and trans rights activist Janet Mock about raising mixed black children, starting group chats with her sisters and being underestimated.

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Reclaim Your Garage Floor – Get Organized

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Closets By Design Offers Garage Storage Solutions

Fall is right around the corner, and all of that outdoor equipment needs to find a safe space inside for protection against the harsh winter months. But over the summer, you garage seems to have collected a whole new persona—baseballs, rollerblades, gardening equipment and toys are scattered across the garage floor– your garage has quickly become an unsightly mess or even pose a safety hazard for the family.

However, there is a way to alleviate this mess while barely spending a penny. Closets by Design organization experts have developed tips to help homeowners transform their garages into organized work areas where every power tool and toy has its very own space:

  • Reclaim the garage floor – The trick is to use the space on the garage walls to your advantage. Toys such as golf clubs, tennis rackets and skates can be stored along the walls, while bikes can be hung on hooks from the ceiling. Rakes, shovels and other yard supplies can also be easily organized on an interior wall. Using this space wisely will not only help you to increase your storage space but make items easily accessible.
  • Cut the clutter – It’s amazing how many “things” you acquire over the years, and finding a place for each one is not always possible, or necessary. It’s important to discard items you no longer want or need. Sort through all of your tools and home maintenance supplies, and separate items into those you can sell, donate, throw away or recycle. If you haven’t used it in a year, you can probably get rid of it.
  • Sort and label – It’s not enough to simply get organized. The real test is to stay organized. Labeling boxes and containers eliminates the frustration of rummaging through all of your belongings to find one specific item. Put similar items into categories (i.e. tools, holiday decorations, etc.) so you will be able to maintain an efficient organizational system.
  • Safety first – Since you’re already sorting items, be sure to keep potentially hazardous chemicals together and locked. It’s best to use a lockable tool chest or cabinet for extra caution. Also, make sure that any power tools with an on/off switch are stored securely out of children’s reach.
  • Increase storage with sturdy cabinets and shelving – Because paint cans, tools and other bulky items will be stored in the garage, it’s important that cabinets and shelving are sturdy enough to support the extra weight. Not all cabinets are built the same and it’s important that you understand the construction behind your cabinet and the weight limitations. A proper storage solution can organize your items and keep them out of site. An important note when purchasing garage cabinets – make sure the doors will open when your car is parked in the garage.

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Ecorse downs Eagles in non-leaguer

Sophomore guard Kyle Flowers and junior Cass Phillips each scored 17 points Thursday night leading White Lake Lakeland to a 53-45 KLAA consolation round boys basketball victory over host South Lyon.

Lakeland, which improved to 6-11 overall, won the first meeting between the two teams on Dec. 8 (61-55).

Noah Grimes scored 12 points for the Lions (6-11), who led 25-18 before being outscored 35-20 in the second half.

Flowers, who came up midway through the season from the JV team, has provided a spark.

"Kyle can create is own offense and can get to the basket," Lakeland coach Bob Brugger said. "He's getting more confident and it's a nice bonus for your team to have on offense."

Lakeland made 11-of-17 free throws, while South Lyon hit 6-of-7.

KETTERING 42, SOUTH LYON EAST 25: On Friday, Waterford Kettering (1-16) notched its first victory over the season avenging a loss earlier in the season to South Lyon East (3-14).

ECORSE 50, LAKELAND 41: On Feb. 14, Kaleb Maddox scored a game-high 19 points to lead the Red Raiders (7-11) to a non-conference victory at White Lake Lakeland (5-11).

Kyle Flowers scored a team-high 13 points for the Eagles, who were unable to overcome a 28-20 halftime deficit.

Ecorse, coached by former Fab Five member Jimmy King, made only 8-of-15 free throws.

Lakeland connected on just 4-of-8 from the line.


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Horncastle Police have urged shoppers to be ‘on their guard’ after a pensioner had a purse stolen in a town supermarket last week.

Police say the elderly lady was ‘upset’ by the theft which happened when she was distracted after leaving her purse on view on top of a shopping trolley in Tesco.

Town-based PCSO Nigel Wass said the woman was apparently followed into the store .

The suspect was a white male, 6ft tall, aged 30/40 years of age with unshaven stubble and dark baseball cap with beige peak, jeans and black shoes.

PCSO Wass said: “Fortunately, incidents like this are very few and far between (in Horncastle). Even so, it is still very upsetting when it happens.

“The lady in question only took her eyes off her purse for a few seconds and it was gone.

“We’d urge people to be on their guard, particularly in the run up to Christmas.

“Our message is shield it - don’t show it.

“If you leave a valuable item on view, there are people who will try and take it.”

Meanwhile, the town’s Neighbourhood Police Team have organised two more meet-the-pubic events as part of the on-going ‘Community Policing Matters’ campaign.

The first will take place in Horncastle Library on Saturday (December 3) from 10am-noon and the second in the town’s Market Place on Thursday December 8.

Advice on security will be on offer at both events, along with a free property marking service.

PCSO Wass added: “It’s the first time we’ve used the library and it’s another way of engaging with the public.”

The Market Place event will be held in conjunction with staff from Lincolnshire County Council.

○The ‘Copper and the Curate’ have combined in their first ’operation.’

The News revealed last week that PCSO Wass had teamed up with the Rev Sam Parsons, a curate at St Mary’s Church, to hold joint patrols.

The duo worked together to offer support to a homeless man who was spotted in the town.

The man slept overnight on a bench. PCSO Wass and Rev Parsons spoke to him while a local business provided a hot meal and a drink.

Police stress the man was not breaking any laws and he moved on, telling PCSO Wass he was ‘heading for Hull’.


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During the 1970’s while American cult film lovers were frequenting the Grindhouse and drive-in scenes, in Japan, Nikkatsu was making a name for itself with its “Roman Porno” erotic line. Between 1971 and 1989 the studio released over a thousand “Pink Cinema” films, and now thanks to Impulse pictures, those of us in America are finally going to get to see (at least 25 of) them for the first time.  Subtitled, chock full of half-naked Asian cuties and filled with all manner of bizarre Japanese fetishism, let us examine this collection in order of release and see if American audiences have a “yen” for this sort of thing?

Around the world, there are few occupations as fetishized in film as that of a teacher of high school students, and once again a Roman Porno has given the audience what it wants. Not to be confused with the Impulse film FEMALE TEACHER: DIRTY AFTERNOON reviewed here, FEMALE TEACHER : IN FRONT OF THE STUDENTS is the tragic and yet somehow exploitative story of a teacher who turns a sexual assault into a crusade, even if her ultimate search for justice will only amount to new levels of degradation and lurid scenes of voyeurism for the benefit of the viewer who are almost insisting on them by now, in Volume 12 of this series where sexual violence has always been anything if not “academic”

Reiko is the new high school teacher and struggles to be a stern disciplinarian, a fact evident when she repeatedly reprimands several kids for misbehaving and for horseplay, whether in the classroom or on the tennis court. Then, late one night when she is showering alone in the teacher’s faculty shower, she is brutally raped by a masked man who leaves a single enigmatic clue behind after the assault, a single puzzle piece.  Still reeling from her initial feelings of violation and shock from the brutality of the crime itself, Reiko makes it a private obsession to find out who committed the rape and to personally investigate the crime herself.  Along this way she meets a veritable rogue’s gallery of potential offender’s and possible co-conspirators who might have some involvement of the crime. Could it be the student tennis star Sakai and his precocious girlfriend Kumi? Perhaps it was the gentle, mild mannered instructor named Akiyama who had a thing for jigsaw puzzles? Maybe it was Shimano, the simple meek, misunderstood class geek who was inherently awkward and shy in most basic forms of social interaction? I suppose it doesn’t matter much as all of these people will also viciously rape Reiko at some point in this film for no apparent reason. This is ironic character development at its finest as it appears Reiko was intuitive enough to suspect everyone she knew was a possible rapist but yet somehow foolish enough in continuing to interview each and every one of them in enclosed environments where they could easily overpower her.  It would seem all knowledge is bittersweet in this film.

It should be stated that Reiko does find closure….of a sort. She does eventually meet her original attacker and they try to rape her again, but, ultimately, “can’t get into it” when she responds to their advances in a loving fashion that encourages her partner to go for it…so what do they do? The final moments of the movie depict a consensual role playing game where Reiko lies on the floor naked and pretends to resist all so her rapist turned lover can complete his violent sex with her to completion and express his true feeling of fondness for her…If this seems strange and psychologically demeaning, just wait until you see the final scene of the movie where Reiko is shown back in class as if none of this had ever happened, teaching with the same confident cool demeanor as she had in the opening scene.  Meanwhile her students; those exact same kids who had each violently raped her or had watched it occur at some point in the film are all present as well.  Yet instead of cutting up or causing trouble as they had before, all of the students now conduct themselves quietly, respectfully; somehow inexplicably transfixed at Reiko’s every word as she teaches them and opens each of their minds like a beautiful lotus flower.  I struggle to say anything meaningful about this conclusion except now you know why people say there should be only “three R’s” in formal education because when the fourth “R” is rape, the lessons learned are probably best not studied too closely except as yet another fantastical rape themed fetish film from Nikkatsu that kids shouldn’t be watching anyway.

While the Japanese obviously see rape differently than we do, in this film it is treated as something of an offense that student might get a detention for, though no one is ultimately prosecuted.  If that doesn’t piss you off because your feminist sensibilities are harder or all but nonexistent, the following film just might: the editing is so choppy in some places with the removal of actual film frames that many of the scenes of nakedness almost have a stop motion quality to them. While I do of course still accept the fact that there is no, nor will there ever be, depictions of full frontal nakedness in any Japanese erotic films, I do feel that there could have been better ways to conceal this harsh reality by using artful obstruction by objects placed strategically in the foreground of a shot, or by a maddening mastery of  camera angles to keep things soft-core at all times as they had done in previous volumes. However it is admittedly a worthy entry for any wackos who like the concept of Asian women in a schoolgirl motif teaching you some exotic film culture “the hard way”.

Extras include the usual film trailer and a booklet by Jasper Sharp.

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The Flag of Pakistan is Flying High in Brazil!!

Street Child World-Cup

Well it was not the FIFA World cup but…it was something equally spectacular! A team of young street children have proved their mettle by clinching the ‘bronze’ and bringing accolade to the name of Pakistan.

How it Started

streetworldcup-football-pakistanThe Street Child World Cup is an international platform that advocates the rights of children living in the streets. It was initiated by a charity based in the UK called Amos Trust. The first football tournament was held at Durban, South Africa in 2010. Each team had 9 members, 6 boys and 3 girls, aged between 14 and 16 years. The second was held this April in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where 230 children from 19 countries participated. This time there were separate teams for boys and girls. A festival of arts and conference has also taken place alongside on both occasions.

The Pakistani Team

The team comprises of Faizan Fayyaz, Mehr Ali, Sameer Ahmed, Aurangzeb Baba, Abdul Raziq, Owais Ali, Salman Hussain, Rajab Ali and Muhammad Shoaib. Fayyaz is from Quetta while the others are from Karachi. They were top of the group in the preliminary round. Then they won the quarter-final against Philippines on penalties but lost the semi-final against Burundi. However they beat USA on penalties to win third place. Their achievement has also won them a place in the hearts of the nation…

Special Ceremony

In May a ceremony was held at the Embassy of Brazil in Islamabad, to honor the young players. Ambassador Alfredo Leoni commended the team’s performance and distributed shields and gifts among them. He also praised the commitment of organizations such as Mashal Model School, Rah-e-Amal, Luttuce Bee Kids, Muslim Hands and Azad Foundation in supporting street children. Representatives of each were present on the occasion as well as John Wroe, who is the CEO of Street Child United.pakistans-street-child-football

Current Activities

These days the team is busy touring the country to create awareness among other children and to motivate them. Also a few of the players would be sent to UK for further coaching, and there is a possibility that foreign coaches would be invited to Pakistan as well. So the success story of football in our country has just begun.

More Reasons to be Proud – Making Our Presence Felt at FIFA

The Brazuca – Official Football of FIFA

This year it is a Pakistani company – ‘Forward Sports’ that has produced the soccer ball for the Football World Cup 2014. Known as the ‘Brazuca’  (which is an informal term for ‘Brazilian’) it comes with an eye-catching new design and panel system. Around 3000 balls have been supplied for the event. In the past this company has also provided balls for tournaments such the German Bundesliga, French league and Champions League. Sialkot is manufacturing 50-70% of the world’s demand for hand stitched footballs (depending on market fluctuation). All international labels like Nike, Adidas, Umbro, Puma and many others get their supply from this city. It was actually in 1982 that Sialkot got worldwide recognition, when the ‘Tango Ball’ was used in the FIFA World cup held that year. brazuca-football-pakistan

Becoming Member of FIFA Disciplinary Committee

An official of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Syed Nayyar Hasnain has been elected to the Disciplinary Committee (the most important committee of world football as it regulates all imperative issues) of FIFA after getting a majority of votes, at the FIFA congress that was held at Mauritius in May. He has been on the Disciplinary Committee of Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the past four years as well. So FIFA has officially started and there are thousands of football enthusiasts in our country who have been eagerly waiting for it to begin. However this time there is a greater reason for excitement and also a glimmer of hope – that one day Pakistan would be playing the World Cup too.

Hajra Saeed

Hajra Saeed has been writing for the past 20 years. During her career she has contributed to various leading newspapers and magazines, but currently writes for the special supplements of ‘The Nation’. She has written on a wide array of topics; however areas of interest are social issues, religion, philosophy and presenting a positive image of Pakistan. Has experience in copy writing, content writing, technical writing, screenwriting and teaching. Likes to read, do online courses as well as social work.


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Houston's Five Biggest Music Stories of 2015

One of the most striking images of 2015: Eleanor Tinsley Park underwater just days before FPSF
One of the most striking images of 2015: Eleanor Tinsley Park underwater just days before FPSF
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The past year in Houston music can almost be defined by what didn’t happen instead of what did: Free Press Summer Fest didn’t get washed out, although Something Wicked did; Transmission Events didn’t last as Fitzgerald’s primary booking agents; and, thank God, Houston audiences remained safe all year long, whether from crowd-caused catastrophes or a Bataclan-style attack. This year also felt like as much was happening behind the scenes as onstage, with new venues on the horizon and the Eastside emerging as a real force for the creative energies for Houston musicians, an entire not-quite-new sector of town that is now in play like never before.

To borrow a line from Lord of the Rings, the board is set, and the pieces are moving…

Beth Howl and Lou Miller of Black Barbie
Beth Howl and Lou Miller of Black Barbie

Long known as home to late-night warehouse parties and stubbornly independent venues like White Swan and Super Happy Fun Land, this year the industrialized patch of central Houston due east of highway 59 saw enough after-dark activity to justify its designation as a legitimate — if still highly unofficial — entertainment district. Seeded in recent years by bars like the Moon Tower Inn and Voodoo Queen, and abetted by the opening of METRO’s Green light-rail line in May, the Eastside has now definitively wrested Houston’s bohemian center of gravity away from Montrose.

The shift was practically visible as many of the acts displaced when lower-Westheimer alt-music stronghold Mango’s finally shut its doors at the end of March found a warm welcome at Black Barbie, a converted taqueria on Canal Street founded by two members of the band Auto-Fellatio Dreams. About a quarter-mile away lies Wonky Power Live, headquarters of the label run by Bang Bangz/Tax the Wolf leader Mario Rodriguez, which often stages events featuring acts from within Wonky Power’s widening circle of friends. And just within the past month or so, two more venues have joined them: Arlo’s Ballroom, a mom-and-pop dance club aimed at Gen-Xers and older millennials; and Satellite Bar, a self-professed dive and indie venue sandwiched between a car wash and a Whataburger.

However, not to be ignored in all this is the belt of slightly more established clubs on the northeastern fringe of downtown, a line that includes Walters Downtown, Houston House of Creeps, EastDown Warehouse and Last Concert Cafe, perhaps the grandaddy of all Houston DIY venues. It’s never been especially easy to be a struggling musician in Houston, but thanks to this network of sympathetic small businesses, it’s at least still possible.

Rodeo sweetheart Miranda Lambert (left) was one of this year's highlights.
Rodeo sweetheart Miranda Lambert (left) was one of this year's highlights.
Photo courtesy of Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo

Upcoming Events

The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo has grown so popular that this year it opted to switch ticketing systems; demand has been so high in recent years that the servers of its former provider, Ticketmaster, crashed several times. New carrier AXS promised to circumvent those difficulties with a “virtual waiting room,” a feature designed to alert fans the moment seats became available rather than forcing them refresh their browsers over and over again. It also promised to ward off those pesky “bots,” mechanical lurkers that can snap up entire blocs of tickets in a nanosecond and often funnel them to brokers like StubHub or TicketCity, which usually resell the tickets back to the public at a steep markup.

Sounds nice in theory, but anyone who was expecting the transition to go off without a hitch probably doesn’t buy tickets online very often. When the on-sale date arrived, things went awry and social media went predictably nuclear, resulting in a few hours of online invective about long wait times; error messages, mostly in the AXS mobile app; and difficulty finding seats together in the lower levels. (Some tickets also showed up on StubHub anyway.) While admitting they could have explained the process better, rodeo officials countered that the waiting room had always been designed to open for an hour before tickets ever went on sale, the app-related glitches were fixed relatively quickly, and the lower levels are largely reserved for season-ticket holders.

Of course nobody wanted to hear the rodeo’s explanations/excuses at first, but things blew over fairly quickly. Although overall attendance was down by a hair this year — 2.483 million, about 2,500 people down from 2014 — the rodeo set a new record for paid rodeo/concert attendance at 1.377 million fans, many of whom must be a little more tech-savvy than they originally let on.

Houston's Five Biggest Music Stories of 2015
Photo by Marco Torres

Not long after this year’s Free Press Summer Fest lineup was announced in late February, heads began being scratched all over Houston as people realized that notorious R&B lothario R. Kelly, of“Ignition (Remix)” and “Feelin’ On Your Booty” fame, was one of the headliners, second only on the bill to Skrillex. Not long after that, FPSF began getting an earful on social media from people who were appalled that Houston’s biggest music festival would trot out an alleged child predator as one of its biggest attractions. For a few weeks, the situation drew scattered national attention as leaders of local music-education nonprofit Girls Rock Camp Houston circulated a petition calling for Kelly’s removal from the bill, and city officials refused to intervene.

The reality is he was never going to get booted from the festival, not when he shares a management company with several other FPSF artists; the festival, however, at least agreed to air anti-sexual-assault PSAs on its video screens before each performance. In the end, it was all a little anticlimactic. Kelly wound up drawing a decent FPSF crowd, mostly avid fans interspersed with a few hecklers. The grand protest of his appearance envisioned by some never materialized. Some observers thought he was fantastic; others less so. But by the time Kelly went onstage, FSPF had much bigger issues to contend with. More on that in a bit.

If these walls could talk...
If these walls could talk...
Photo by Francisco Montes

One of the most turbulent chapters in Fitzgerald’s nearly 40-year history began in August 2014 when Houston promoters Pegstar, the historic Heights club’s tenant for more than four years at that point, announced it was planning to build a state-of-the-art venue near I-45 and North Main, later revealing its name to be White Oak Music Hall. It would be an exaggeration to say all hell broke loose when Pegstar’s lease expired earlier this fall, but not by much.

A few weeks before Pegstar’s final show at Fitz in late August, the venue’s new tenants outlined their plans for extensive renovations to the aging building, as well as a new booking partnership with Austin’s Transmission Events, the promoters behind the Mohawk and Fun Fun Fun Fest who hoped to make Fitz part of a statewide network also including Transmission-booked venues in Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio. Fitz shut down until early October, when it reopened with a sold-out performance by Bun B and special appearance by Mayor Annise Parker.

Not two weeks later, the club’s brand-new GM was gone and the alliance with Transmission was defunct, both supposedly casualties of the slower-than-expected pace of those renovations. It’s been mostly quiet over there ever since, as the club’s new talent buyers seem to be steering the venue away from alternative/indie acts in favor of metal, rap, punk and Texas country, but this latest episode has only underlined an key theme in the venue’s decades-long saga: Whatever it may be, many Houstonians take what goes on at Fitzgerald’s very seriously.

The "Welcome to Houston" 2.0 crew
The "Welcome to Houston" 2.0 crew
Photo by Marco Torres

The Memorial Day Weekend flooding caused millions of dollars in damages across Southeast Texas, and nearly sank Free Press Summer Fest. A few days later, even as its usual site of Eleanor Tinsley Park lay submerged under Buffalo Bayou, FPSF organizer Omar Afra vowed the show would go on. When even more rain fell the next weekend, the festival announced it would move to NRG Park’s Yellow Lot near the Houston Texans’ training facility. Even though it was less than ten days away, production crews managed to transform the acres of grass and concrete into a passable facsimile of FPSF, and fans braved the face-melting heat to enjoy headliners Future Islands, St. Vincent, Weezer, Mastodon, R. Kelly (see above) and a reprise of the “Welcome to Houston” all-star rap revue, this time backed by Bayou City power-soul outfit the Suffers in their first local performance since appearing on The Late Show With David Letterman In March. They stole the show.

** Stepping away from ZZ Top, Billy F. Gibbons recruited some friends he dubbed the BFGs and recorded the Afro-Cuban-laced LP Perfectamundo. The group made the Houston concert debut earlier this month in a muy caliente set at UH’s Cullen Performance Hall.

** Houston launched a national rap star into orbit for the first time in a decade when Elkins High alum Travi$ Scott’s latest album, Rodeo, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200. Honorable mention goes to Chedda da Connect, whose “Flicka da Wrist” went so viral it even wound up on Fox’s Empire.

** Beloved Rice University student-radio station KTRU returned to the FM airwaves in early October, broadcasting over the low-power 96.1 FM from an antenna atop Rice Stadium. Some critics have said the University of Houston, which bought KTRU’s signal license and transmitter back in 2010 and flipped its format to classical music, should give 91.7 FM back to Rice now that UH has announced its intentions to sell the station.

** The Continental Club celebrated its 15th anniversary this past June even as it withstood the construction of a massive mixed-use parking garage/apartment block next door. By year’s end, the bottom floor of the garage was open, helping to relieve congestion in the area as the eclectic community now known as “Mid-Main” continues to thrive.

** Houston’s newest record store, the vinyl-only Deep End Records, opened in a very convenient location — the entryway of Walters Downtown. Behind the till is John Baldwin, longtime Cactus Music clerk and drummer for popular indie-pop band the Wild Moccasins.

** Free Press Houston’s winter counterpart to FPSF, Day For Night, debuted this past weekend with performances by Kendrick Lamar, New Order, Janelle Monae and more. Conceived as a hybrid between a music festival and digital-art installation, Day For Night drew healthy crowds for a first-year event and minted a new Internet star when Lamar pulled onstage an aspiring MC from Houston calling himself “Corporate Dough,” who then delivered a wicked freestyle during Lamar’s “m.A.A.d. City.”

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High Costs Mean UAB Probably Won't Be the Last School to Shut Down a Football Program

UAB students and supporters, upset by the announcement the university was shutting down its football program, tried to get the decision reversed.
UAB students and supporters, upset by the announcement the university was shutting down its football program, tried to get the decision reversed.
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The news was just minutes old, the emotional wounds still fresh, as a room full of young men sat there, stunned. The football team at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB, for short) had just been delivered the message by school president Ray Watts that the school would be closing down its football program. For reasons nebulously conveyed to the team as "numbers," UAB was getting out of the college football business.

Just like that, dozens of youngsters, many in their late teens, had their entire worlds turned upside down. Rendered athletically and academically homeless, they were left to find scholarship shelter at a program somewhere else, somewhere they had no plans on being when they happily committed to come to UAB.

This news did not sit well with Tristan Henderson. A senior tight end who is an Army veteran and did a tour of duty in Iraq, Henderson, 26, was one of several Blazer players to stand up and voice their displeasure in the meeting in which Watts delivered the soul-crushing news.

In a passionate appeal now made famous by YouTube, an emotional Henderson, his voice at a fever pitch, exclaimed, "My son asked me last night, 'Hey, Daddy, what are they going to do to the program? He looked me dead in my eye and asked me, 'What are they going to do?' My three-year-old...what am I supposed to explain to him?"

When Henderson looked around the amphitheater that evening, he didn't see just teammates. He saw family. Pointing at his football brothers, Henderson screamed, "There's 17-year-olds in here! What are they supposed to do? Some of these cats came from 3,000 miles away and came right here to be a part of this. To be a part of all of this! But you say 'numbers'?"

The numbers that Watts attempted to explain to the team that night are the cold fiscal fallout of the growing chasm between the haves and the have-nots (or, at the very least, the have-much-lesses) among FBS (the modern term for "Division 1-A") football programs. Henderson's visceral reaction and the uncertain futures facing dozens of now former UAB football players who need scholarships to attend school are the human carnage.

Those numbers, according to a release from the school, say that maintaining an FBS football program would cost UAB an additional $49 million over the next five years, including more than $20 million in capital expenditures to improve facilities to keep up with other FBS programs. With the athletics department already operating at an annual deficit of nearly $18 million, according to USA TODAY, and despite its most successful year on the field since 2004, UAB chose to punt on football.

Locally, Rice University has been in the same conference with UAB the past several years. Owls athletics director Joe Karlgaard says he didn't expect to hear the news about the Blazers' football program.

"I was surprised; I think most of the ADs in the conference were surprised. I didn't see it coming. I'd spent some time with Brian Mackin (UAB's AD) at a conference recently, and he didn't indicate at all that this was coming down the pike," says Karlgaard. "You hate to see an opportunity taken away from so many student-athletes."

With 85 scholarship players and a mountain of inherent medical, facilities and travel costs, operating an FBS football program is big business. At a Power Five conference school like Texas, Texas A&M or Baylor, those expenses are easily subsidized by massive eight-figure television contracts and packed stadiums.

At schools like Rice and the University of Houston, who, like UAB, reside in a conference in the Group of Five (a dismissive euphemism for "one of the other five conferences that is not a Power Five conference"), subsidizing big-time football requires creativity, an increased financial burden on students and, at most places, a willingness to be tolerant of red ink.

Karlgaard says that, for Rice, competing in today's landscape means marketing its brand harder than ever.

"How do we generate more interest in our program, how do we put more people in the seats, how do we brand ourselves so that when we are on television, people tune in to watch?" Karlgaard asks rhetorically.

"We have to focus on improving across the board, raising our profile and generating more interest," he says. "We have to live our values of academics and integrity. If we do that, we will be well positioned regardless of how the environment changes."

With its unique brand (unique for an FBS school, at least) of "elite academic, private institution" and a wealthy base of alumni, Rice has the resources to play in today's FBS world without putting the school or state taxpayers in harm's way. In other words, Karlgaard is probably not worried about having to deliver the same gloomy message to the football team that UAB's leadership did.

Across town, though, the University of Houston deals with a reality similar to UAB's, one in which, according to that same data from USA TODAY, the Cougars operated their athletics department at an annual deficit of $26.8 million as recently as 2013, the second-highest deficit of any Group of Five school.

However, UH is taking an approach completely opposite to UAB's -- the Coogs are pushing all their football chips into the middle of the metaphorical table, opting to fight speed with speed.

The crown jewel of UH's efforts to keep pace in FBS is the new TDECU Stadium, its $120 million home that's being subsidized by, among other sources, notable increases in student fees. The team just finished up its first season in the new stadium and, disappointingly, was playing to a barely half-full venue by season's end.

In an effort to jump-start interest in the program, UH fired head coach Tony Levine after three seasons, paying him a buyout believed to be in the million-dollar range, and hired Ohio State offensive coordinator Tom Herman as the new head coach at an annual salary of $1.35 million, the highest for any coach in the history of the school.

The message sent by UH through its hiring and firing decisions is clear -- once you're "pot committed" with a $120 million stadium, there's no going back. You either keep chasing and spending, or you play mediocre football in an echo chamber.

It remains to be seen if either approach curtails the financial bleeding involved in running an athletics department in 2015, but the fact that local billionaire Tilman Fertitta, CEO of Landry's, Inc., was the one leading the Herman hiring press conference proceedings gives an indication as to which approach UH will continue to take.

"We're never ever going to limit ourselves. Our goals, our vision and our dreams are big," says UH Athletics Director Mack Rhoades. "I've talked about this athletics program being nationally relevant, and we're not going to stop until our football program, our basketball program, our baseball program, softball program and all of our programs are nationally relevant."

The bigger question, whether locally or nationally, is "Will there be more UABs?" Conference realignment has left Division 1 collegiate sports a jumbled geographical mess, with many schools now absorbing massive travel costs for Olympic sports that generate no revenue. Meanwhile, the NCAA is likely to further empower the Power Five conferences to enact measures to pay their athletes stipends above and beyond their scholarships, putting more pressure on lower FBS schools (like Rice and Houston) to compete.

The storm clouds gather over Conference USA, the American Athletic Conference and the other lower FBS conferences. The stakes rise along with the costs, yet at many places, the resources stagnate or even dwindle. In the middle of it all are 18-year-old kids making life decisions on where to receive their education in a landscape where even the most astute players aren't totally certain where all of this is headed.

"State funding is drying up, and institutions, particularly public institutions, are struggling to make ends meet. I don't mean Texas or Texas A&M, but it's others I worry about," Karlgaard cautions.

"I don't know if UAB is an anomaly or the beginning of a trend."

Listen to Sean Pendergast on SportsRadio 610 from 2 to 6 p.m. weekdays. Also follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/SeanCablinasian or email him at sean.pendergast@cbsradio.com.

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Mersenne Twister            MT32

Pseudo Random Number Generator for FPGA’s

Mersenne Twister MT32 is a pseudo Random Number Generator (RNG) with a uniform distribution and a large prime period of 219937-1. The large period results in long pseudo-random sequences with no repetition. The Mersenne Twister described on this page is based on the MT19937 algorithm by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. The MT19937 implementation requires no multiplications or division and hence simplifies FPGA implementation. This page describes a 32bits version of the MT19937 algorithm  implemented on a Xilinx FPGA. The generator is low on resources and can generate a new 32-bits sequence every clockcycle. The seed is pre-calculated as a memory image. The design is released under the GNU General Public License, for feedback, bug reports comments etc use the feedback form.

Download VHDL source files

MT32 (version 0.1 07-01-07, zipped 123Kbyte)

How to use it

1) Generate the required seed as a memory image using the supplied mt2coe.exe DOSbox/Cygwin utility.   For the first implementation I would use the same seed as used in mt19937ar.c: D:\hdl_designs\rng>mt2coe mt2coe Ver 0.1 HT-LAB 2006 (-h for usage) Init values :00000123 00000234 00000345 00000456 Generating Xilinx coe files......done You now have 3 Xilinx memory image (coe) files containing the original statevector values (see mt[] array in the mt19937ar.c program). 2) Generate 3 Dual Port Memories using the Xilinx CORE Generator. Invoke Xilinx CORE Generator and create a new project. Select the Block Memory Generator and enter dpram624x1 as the component name. Select the Simple Dual Port RAM memory type. The port size is 1 bit wide by 624 deep. Tick the Load Init File (page 4) and select mt1.coe file, make sure the filename stays black (red means something is wrong) Select finish, the core will generate dpram624x1.vhd (simulation), dpram624x1.mif (simulation), dpram624x1.ngc (place and route). Repeat the above procedure to create dpram624x31 (31 bits wide by 624, mt31.coe file for init) and dpram624x32 (32 bits wide by 624, mt32.coe for init). Alternative, load the CORE generator project file dprams.cgp and re-customise for the required FPGA. 3) Confirm the correct operation using simulation. The procedure below is for Modelsim but should be similar for other simulators. Copy the mif files to your project directory (were you invoke Modelsim from) or change the path in the dpram624x?.vhd files. Make sure the Xilinx primitive libraries (e.g. XilinxCoreLib) are mapped in your modelsim.ini file. Compile the design (compile.bat) and run the testbench for 100 us (run.bat). The testbench should write 1000 random numbers to the file modelsim_results.txt. Compare the results against the output of the modified mt19937ar.c mt19937ar_results.txt file. D:\hdl_designs\rng>fc modelsim_result.txt mt19937ar_result.txt Comparing files modelsim_result.txt and mt19937ar_result.txt FC: no differences encountered 4) Synthesize and Place&Route Synthesis file order: dprams/dpram624x1.vhd dprams/dpram624x31.vhd dprams/dpram624x32.vhd src/counters.vhd src/mt.vhd Place and Route: Make sure ISE can find the ngc files. For my prototype board (Hardi HAPS-10) which uses the XC2V6000ff1517 the resources and fmax are:  # Using target part "2v6000ff1517-6"  # Device Utilization Summary:  #  #    Number of BUFGMUXs               1 out of 16      6%  #    Number of External IOBs          35 out of 1104   3%  #    Number of LOCed IOBs             0 out of 35      0%  #    Number of RAMB16s                5 out of 144     3%  #    Number of SLICEs                 83 out of 33792  1%  # Timing summary:  # ---------------  # Design statistics:  #    Minimum period:   4.537ns (Maximum frequency: 220.410MHz)

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Pin Description resetn Active Low Reset clk Clock ena Active High Enable Signal random 32bits Randum Number Output

Block Diagram

Top level diagram from Mentor Graphics HDL Designer

General Info

The original paper was published in the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer simulation: Mersenne Twister: A 623-Dimensionally Equidistributed Uniform Pseudo-Random Number Generator, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1998, pp. 3-30 You can target other FPGA vendors by replacing the Dual Port Memory modules dpram624x?.vhd with generic versions. You also need to pre-load the memory with the contents of the dpram624*?.coe files. The original source file mt19937ar.c was slightly modified to produce hex output values, see the mt19937ar.c file in the utils directory.

Other links

Mersenne Twister home page Makoto Matsumoto's home page Wikipedia Page


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UbD Educators: Suggestions?

I have mentioned before that the UbD Educators wiki has grown quiet.  I think there may be two reasons for this:

  • We’re all busy educators who have difficulty finding the time to create, post, and/or comment on others’ posted UbD units.
  • We’re not getting what we need out of the wiki.

It’s not in my power to alleviate the first problem, and believe me, I hear you there.  However, the second problem is much easier to address.  The wiki is only as good as we make it.  If you need a feature that the wiki doesn’t have, add it.  If you have trouble keeping up with new pages and discussions, try subscribing to the site’s various RSS feeds (you can keep up with all changes or just changes to one page).  If you want to make a change, but you aren’t sure, ask the wiki members about it on the Suggestions page.  the majority of the wiki’s members have not yet contributed either unit plans or discussions.  I want to hear your voice!  I don’t mind lurkers, but we have the potential to make this wiki a huge repository of ideas and discussion about UbD, and we can only do that through teacher contributions.

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  1. I've been refining and re-tooling some of the materials that I posted on there, but yeah – most of my focus right now is on teaching, because the yearbook is eating up just about all of my free time. I don't have the time or mental energy to even look through new material, let alone post & explain.

    I haven't forgotten it, though! Our final deadlines are coming up, and hopefully after that, I can re-enter the world of the living. 😉

  2. I've really enjoyed the wiki but have been swallowed up by work – all that grading, student council, National Honor Society…. I intend to dive back in this summer when I begin planning for next year.

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21/07/2011 14:42 | Updated 20 September 2011

Teachers can expect a lot more than an apple when school breaks up for the summer on Friday.

Instead of the traditional 50p gift, the average teacher will get £225 worth of goodies from parents, new research from shows.

And they’re not the only ones who will benefit from generous parents – many mums and dads also admit to giving presents to classroom assistants and dinner ladies.

Over half of Britain’s families will spend an average of £7.50 on flowers, chocolates or even alcohol according to online retailers, who interviewed 2,000 people.

Woolworths say they are selling 30 per cent more gifts than last month, and it’s a trend that keeps on rising.
Nearly two thirds of younger mums and dads will buy a present for teachers, compared to 52 per cent of the older generation.

So when term ends and the six week summer holidays begin, school staff are set to get much more than just a long break.

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Cat Helps With Baby's Spanish Lesson (VIDEO)

07/12/2012 10:19

It takes a lot of hard work and perseverance to raise a child as bilingual. And it definitely helps if everyone in the household gets on board and helps out with the language lessons.

Need an example of the kind of thing we mean? Well, just take a look at the video above - in which a proud dad and admirably helpful cat team up to teach a baby a very simple everyday phrase in both English and Spanish.

Of course, what you really need to ensure maximum progress in this kind of endeavour is a parrot. Or a talking dog…

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BEAT THE WEEK: News Quiz 8 February

08/02/2013 11:14

This has been an historic week, with both the 10 year anniversary of the protest against the Iraq war as well as a victory for gay rights, after MPs voted in favour of a bill to allow same-sex couples to marry.

There's been debate too, with some suggesting that Cameron's bid to detoxify the Conservative party in his push for equal marriage merely exposed some old Tory bigotry.

HuffPostUK's own Mehdi Hasan debated whether the war was worth it, alongside Clare Short, the former Labour MP who quit Tony Blair’s cabinet over the invasion, and supporting the war, Tory Bernard Jenkin, who was Shadow Defence Secretary at the time. There were plenty of other high profile names at the Goldsmiths and HuffPost event, so head on over and check out the explosive debate here.

The horsemeat scandal continued to canter on, with shock revelations that Findus ready made lasagne contained up to 100% horsemeat. Ray Furlong from the BBC reported on the report (neigh joke).

The last Plantagenet king was found in a social services car park and the UK was told it must make immediate plans to cope with a massive solar 'superstorm'. This really has been an exciting week. So were you paying attention? Try your hand at our news quiz, and see if you can BEAT THE WEEK.

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Nigella Lawson Tweets 'Slut's Spaghetti' Recipe After Ex-Husband Charles Saatchi's New Lover, Trinny Woodall Appears To Mock Her In Online Birthday Blog

11/02/2014 07:52 | Updated 11 February 2014

Nigella Lawson appeared to get into an online spat with the lover of her ex husband Charles Saatchi yesterday.

Nigella tweeted a recipe for 'Slut's Spaghetti' after Trinny Woodall seemed to take aim at the TV chef in a blog marking her 50th birthday.

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Nigella Lawson and Trinny Woodall

Former 'What Not To Wear' presenter Trinny - who celebrated her 50th with the 70-year-old in the Lake District - posted a blog that appeared to reference the photos that emerged of the art dealer with his hands around Nigella's throat that led to them divorcing.

“It’s great that, at 50, life can still grab you by the throat and shake you up," she wrote.

“And it’s even better when you’ve learned to cope with whatever’s thrown at you — so long as it isn’t a bedside lamp.”

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Trinny Woodall has been dating Charles Saatchi since his divorce from Nigella

In what looked like a further attack on Nigella, 54, Trinny wrote: “If you used to like showing your cleavage, just be aware your skin probably looks like old chammy leather now.

“So wear something round-necked. You can still show off your shape.”

Soon after, Nigella tweeted her 560,000 Twitter followers: “Slut’s Spaghetti — aka pasta alla puttanesca — is #recipeoftheday. Do I need to say anything more?”

An hour later she added: “No agenda behind #recipeoftheday! Slut’s Spaghetti an old fave of mine.”

Charles Saatchi initially dismissed the now infamous neck-grabbing of Nigella at Scotts restaurant in London's Mayfair as 'a playful tiff' but later went to a police station where he confessed to the assault.

His divorce from the TV chef was finalised seven weeks later.

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Pharrell Williams Talks Madonna Argument During 'Hard Candy' Studio Sessions

02/05/2014 12:39 | Updated 02 May 2014

Pharrell Williams has revealed that he once came to blows with Madonna while they were working together.

The pair collaborated on her 2008 album ‘Hard Candy’, which also featured Timbaland and Justin Timberlake, and Pharrell even joined the diva onstage for some performances on her ‘Sticky and Sweet’ world tour.

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Pharrell Williams

However, he’s now revealed that working with the Queen of Pop wasn’t always smooth-sailing, and while he may be known for his song ‘Happy’, it seems Madonna may have brought an altogether very different emotion out of him.

Pharrell revealed during a radio interview in America this week: “The gist of it was that we kept doing this one take over and over and I just saw where it was going.

“I saw her beginning to get frustrated, so I was trying to get her to deviate from that and just try something different and she was like, ‘I got it!’”

He then revealed that when he told Madonna not to speak to him so bluntly, she suggested taking some time out from recording so they could finish their argument, adding: “We went upstairs and had our little battle. It was cool and we hugged it out.”

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And while you’d be forgiven for thinking Madonna was one star not to be argued with, she revealed in an interview with ‘Nightline’ back in 2008, that Pharrell reduced her to tears during their spat.

She explained: “I was in a sensitive mood, I was singing and I didn’t understand the rhythm that he wanted me to sing in, and he was kind of giving me a hard time and I was sort of taken aback by the way he was talking to me, so I said 'You know what? We need to talk'.

“So we went upstairs and I’m like ‘You can’t talk to me that way!’ and then I just burst into tears and he was like ‘Oh my God, Madonna has a heart!’, and I was like ‘What?!’ and I started crying even more.”

Meanwhile, Pharrell did some blubbing of his own recently, when he was seen visibly crying after watching a montage of fans dancing to his hit single ‘Happy’ during a chat with Oprah Winfrey.

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I used to be a disillusioned London commuter who hated my job and pretty much every aspect of the working day.

Then I had twins and my life got 10 times harder but 100 times better. Within 3 years I'd quit my job, left my husband, and moved to Cornwall.

I now spend my days single parenting, studying for a Masters in Criminology at Plymouth University, and writing for various outlets. My first book "Maternity Leavers: What to do about work now you're a mum" was published in December 2016.

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The Dating Game: Are We Addicted to TV Dating Shows?

08/02/2013 18:15 | Updated 10 April 2013

Finding love is something most of us think about, whether we have it currently or we are thinking about ways to achieve it either through a date academy, online forum or simply by hitting the bars. With this in mind, it seems obvious that we would take interest in TV programmes that show people in the midst of finding someone special (or not as is often the case). Dating programmes have been around for some time, but a recent boom has led to us wondering; are we a nation addicted to love?

Blind Date aired for the first time on 30 November 1985 and was hosted by the legendary Cilla Black. Helped by the infamous voiceover Graham, the show quickly became prime time viewing across the UK. The success of Blind Date, which ran for 18 series before finishing in 2003 has led to a wave of alternative and often extreme dating shows. As Cilla would say, here's our Graham with a quick recap.

Street Mate

Remember the excitable Davina McCall running around city streets desperately trying to match up singletons? Starting in 1998, she would pair up singles looking for love and force them into what would inevitably be an awkward looking impromptu date. A little research suggests that there is no couple together today that met on Street Mate. The series was later presented by Holly Willoughby, perhaps an odd move on behalf of the producers, given that the blokes unquestionably fancied Holly considerably more than plain old Becky from Sheffield.

Take Me Out

Paddy McGuinness hosts this Saturday night show where a gaggle of scantily clad single ladies judge blokes that come out of the 'love lift'. Lights are placed in front of the girls, which are turned off left right and centre as the boys divulge more and more about their lives. The tables are then turned as the girls with their lights on battle it out for the attention of said bloke, who will choose his favourite based on the answers the last two girls give to a hard-hitting question such as "If you had your own perfume, what would you call it?". Deep.

The show has been plagued with controversy, most notably when they allowed a male escort with a criminal conviction to appear as a contestant on the show (a little bit like dropping a shark into tank full of angel fish). Despite this, Take Me Out has proved extremely popular with no sign of being cancelled anytime soon.

The Undateables

There is no secret to the success of The Undateables; heart-warming tales of those who find establishing a love life difficult due to physical or mental disability is certainly the perfect starting point for a winning TV series. Each week, the show concentrates on a couple of "undateables", documenting their journey with a specialist dating agency to find a suitable date. The show has picked up a huge following and has transformed the subjects of the show into celebrities. It's brilliance lies in stripping back the overtly sexual overtones seen in so many of the modern dating programmes, choosing to concentrate on the innocence of finding a soul mate to share life with.

The Year of Making Love

The most recent dating programme to hit our screens is the BBC 3 series The Year of Making Love. The series started by personal-profiling tests conducted on hundreds of participants. Psychologists then analysed the results and paired the participants with people they thought would be a great match. The results were odd and pretty frustrating as we watched 29-year-old Natalie fall under the spell of meat-head Rogan. After a couple of, erm, overnight stays, Natalie was promptly ditched by Rogan and we witnessed her call it a day on the experiment in floods of tears. Unfortunately for Natalie, this is the kind of TV gold we suspect the producers were hoping for.

With TV dating shows seemingly a sure fire way to get great ratings the question remains; why are we so taken with looking at love (or lust) on the small screen? The cynical amongst us would probably argue that the fall outs and heart-breaks are more responsible for the ratings than those who genuinely find love on the set or in 'Fernandos' (spoiler alert: it's Tenerife guys). Whatever the reason, we can expect dating shows to be on our screens for the foreseeable future.


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The complex landscape of global employee mobility continues to evolve. This year, the industry has seen some new concepts emerge, even as some topics considered quite “cutting edge” just a few years ago are now popular trends.

It is an exciting time for mobility professionals, with added political, economic, security, and regulatory complexities. Meanwhile, many are  experiencing the benefits of new technology and stronger global collaboration.

While it is impossible to predict what will happen, Crown World Mobility advises practitioners to always be prepared for change, by enlisting five global mobility trends that could shape the industry in the coming months.

Trend 1: Closing the gender gap

The percentage of female assignees remains at around 20%. Here are ideas for global companies to break down barriers to gender equality in mobility:

  1. Become a sponsor and encourage more senior male leaders to do same for female assignees.
  2. Create a culture of inclusion that focuses on workforce flexibility for women and men – it shouldn’t single out women to request flexibility.
  3. Women need the right opportunities at all levels, not just at the top – gather data on your female assignees (their levels, age groups, business units and home locations).

Trend 2: Simplification of policy documents

2017 is the year to start simplifying (or doing away with) 30-40 page documents. Over the past few years, we’ve seen more information available via websites and apps. There is less patience, especially from Millennials, for long, text-heavy documents.

Infographics, animation and other visually appealing media are being applied to traditional HR documents – and mobility has lagged behind in this area. Take a look at your mobility policies and other documents that you provide relocating employees. Pick one to start with – 2017 is the year to update your information and transform it into a more useful and relevant style.

Trend 3: Cost savings

There are two ways to look this perennial mobility topic – one relates to your policy, and reducing, or eliminating, employee benefits within a provision; the other relates to the company’s overall approach to moving employees.

Here is what may be worth your thought in relation to cost savings this year:

  1. Reserving the traditional, home country balance sheet long-term assignment policy for VIP or high-payback assignments; thus using a host location-based compensation approach for standard moves
  2. Making furnished housing the default approach and household goods shipments for exceptions or VIP moves only.

Trend 4: Technology’s impact on mobility

Technology has touched every industry, and mobility is no exception. Companies can now track most assignment-related details, including: volume, current assignment locations, previous locations, types of assignments, assignee reporting lines, length of time left on an assignment, and repatriated assignees.

In 2015, Crown started talking about “uber mobility” for the first time, referring to an employee’s use of technology to self-manage many move elements. Nowadays, apps are available for destination information, managing your move, planning your trip, travel tracking, security tracking, expense reports, home finding and more elements of relocation every day.

In 2017, the industry will start to implement numerous virtual solutions to support or replace assignment planning, pre-decision trips, home finding solutions, pre-move home surveys, etc.

Trend 5: Examples of low-cost policy approaches

  1. Expat lite: A less robust version of the traditional policy
  2. Local plus: Using host location compensation and benefits as a base, and providing a few benefits where living as a local is unrealistic for a temporary assignee
  3. Local-to-local: The transfer of an employee from one location to another with relocation support, but not ongoing assignment benefits
  4. Localisation: The transition to local status at the end of an assignment in lieu of repatriation, or the transfer of an employee to a new location to live as a local
  5. Core-flex: The most popular approaches, this offers a “core” set of policy benefits for all assignees, such as immigration and tax), while allowing for flexible options based on employee needs or business needs
  6. Managed lump sum: While this is rarely offered for international moves (as it leaves too much room for employee, family or company error), it is popular for early career assignments

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