Question: Describe the potential deal between Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain for Adrien Rabiot.

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Manchester City are reportedly one of four teams still chasing Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Adrien Rabiot, whose relationship with sporting director Antero Henrique is said to have "broken down."
Paris United (h/t Liam Corless of the Manchester Evening News) reported a free departure at the end of this season is plausible for Rabiot after his relationship with director Henrique (not named in the report) has hit a snag.
Barcelona, Juventus and Tottenham Hotspur have been frequently mentioned among the parties interested in Rabiot, who spent some time at City as a youth and is far from certain to sign a contract extension in Paris.
Rabiot's discussions regarding a new contract in recent months are not thought to have gone smoothly—hence the player now being in the last nine months of his contract—and a renewal is not in sight as things stand.
@jeremysmith98 I am keen to see what the hierarchy is like after Buffon's UCL ban & Areola has signed his new contract. Once again, I fear PSG are scrambling to limit the mess made by Henrique's cack-handed approach to contract renewals (see Rabiot).
Despite his disagreements with the club and failure to pen new terms thus far, he is regarded as one of Europe's most promising midfielders and has played every minute of PSG's season so far.
Calciomercato.com cited the same Paris United report and reported Rabiot's mother and agent, Veronique, has requested the club deal with her directly in further negotiations, as they no longer wish to deal with Henrique.
City already have a wealth of central midfield talent, but there is some need to source successors for the ageing likes of David Silva, 33 in January, and Fernandinho, who will be 34 by the end of the season.
Kevin De Bruyne is currently sidelined with injury, but City boss Pep Guardiola is fortunate to be able to move a player like Bernardo Silva to accommodate the same role in the interim.
Teams outside France are free to negotiate a pre-contract agreement with the France international as of January, but the work required to sign such a major talent is being undertaken now.
City clearly aren't settled with their crop of superstars and could complete a coup if they managed to beat their competition to a potentially top-value signing in Rabiot next summer.


Question: Can you tell me more about Anthony Flaccavento's town hall meeting?

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Flaccavento talks about his life to the attendees at a Blacksburg Town Hall meeting, Oct. 3, 2018.
Democratic candidate for Virginia’s 9th Congressional District Anthony Flaccavento held his 93rd town hall in New Classroom Building at Virginia Tech. The town hall was hosted by the Virginia Tech Young Democrats and was well attended by students and Blacksburg community members.
After defeating Justin Santopietro in the Democratic primary in June, Flaccavento will challenge U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith in November.
Payne Tarkenton, a senior at Virginia Tech and the president of Virginia Tech Young Democrats, introduced Flaccavento.
Flaccavento was then invited up to give a brief introduction about himself and his policy positions before opening the floor to questions from the community. The main issues discussed were the issues most relevant to southwest Virginia: coal jobs, the Mountain Valley Pipeline and gun policy.
In his opening statement, Flaccavento emphasized the changing job landscape of the coal counties of southwest Virginia. In particular, he told the story of St. Paul, Virginia, a small town with a population of less than 1,000 people, and how it has replaced coal jobs with tourism: outdoor activities, a farmers market, a brewery and a boutique hotel with a farm-to-table restaurant. Flaccavento believes that this kind of rebranding will save many towns.
Despite his desires to increase job opportunities in the coal counties, Flaccavento does not believe building the Mountain Valley Pipeline will provide a sustainable alternative to employment. Instead he suggests investing in alternative infrastructure such as broadband, RAM, high-speed rail or a new grid to accommodate renewables.
During the town hall, Flaccavento touched on gun policy as well and expressed a desire to eliminate the prohibition on using public money to study the causes of gun violence that has been in place since 1996. He believes that this will help the United States figure out why it has more gun violence than other countries and how this violence can be avoided. He also stated that despite his opponent and the incumbent, Morgan Griffith, being rated A+ by the NRA, he has no desire to follow in Griffith’s footsteps.
Flaccavento also shared his comments about Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who was recently voted into the United States Supreme Court.
“Before any of those allegations surfaced, for what it’s worth, I was totally against Brett Kavanaugh for the simple reason that his whole history of his judicial opinions are all about favoring the powerful,” Flaccavento said.
Flaccavento emphasized that this event marked his 93rd town hall while the incumbent Morgan Griffith has yet to host one.
The election is on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Go to https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ to find where you can vote.
Editor's Note: A previous version of this article mistakenly stated that the election was on Nov. 7, when in fact the election is on Nov. 6.


Question: Write a satirical poem about Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Clinton.

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During a segment on ABC’s This Week, CNN Contributor and former Ted Cruz staffer Amanda Carpenter mounted a particularly tone-deaf defense of the Special Counsel. “One of the problems here is that Donald Trump has a strong PR machine giving his side of the story out, and the Department of Justice and the investigators do not,” she claimed – as if the media are not themselves a massive anti-Trump PR machine.
Journalists sang a very different tune when it was a Democratic President under scrutiny. Accusations of Ken Starr’s supposed partisan zeal and incompetence were commonplace throughout the investigation, and as the probe dragged on, the cacophony of dissenting voices only grew fiercer. MRC analysts combed the archives for the most egregious clips of pundits tearing into the Special Counsel, which can be viewed in the compilation video below.
- Dan Rather on the August 8 CBS Evening News, 1994.
- ABC's Jackie Judd ending a story on charges dismissed in the Hubbell tax evasion case, July 1 World News Tonight, 1998.
- Al Hunt's Outrage of the Week, October 5 Capital Gang, 1996.
- Newsweek's Eleanor Clift on the February 10 McLaughlin Group, 1996.
- Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan Alter on Kenneth Starr, April 1 The News with Brian Williams on MSNBC, 1998.
- Geraldo Rivera on what he'd advise if he were Clinton's lawyer, November 11 Rivera Live on CNBC, 1998.
- Some of Bryant Gumbel's questions to former Clinton business partner and convicted felon Susan McDougal and her attorney, September 17 Today, 1996.
- Al Hunt, Executive Washington Editor of the Wall Street Journal, September 12 Capital Gang on CNN, 1998.
- Good Morning America co-host Lisa McRee to humorist P.J. O’Rourke, September 10, 1998.
- Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s The Big Show, to Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Jams Warren, August 18, 1998.
- Geraldo Rivera on CNBC's Rivera Live, November 16, 1998.
- Good Morning America co-host Diane Sawyer to Judge Robert Bork, 1998.
– Bernard Shaw on CNN's Inside Politics, Feb. 26, 1998.
– Diane Sawyer to Starr, 20/20 interview, November 25, 1998.
Keith Olbermann on MSNBC’s The Big Show, August 19, 1998.
- John Hockenberry to Gwen Ifill on MSNBC's InterNight, November 19, 1998.
- CNN's Bruce Morton on Late Edition, October 11, 1998.
Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s The Big Show, to Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau Chief Jams Warren, August 18, 1998.
- Newsweek's Evan Thomas on Inside Washington, April 25, 1998.
- Wall Street Journal Executive Washington Editor Al Hunt on CNNs Capital Gang, July 3, 1999.
“Twinkle, twinkle Kenneth Starr, now we see how crude you are.
Up above your jury high, like the judge up in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle little Starr, now we see how wrong you are.
When you drag the agents in, when you bully moms and kin.
Then you kiss the treacherous trip, twinkle, twinkle D.C. drip.


Question: Tell me something about Friedrich Nietzsche.

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Like most philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche is better known for his ideas than for the life he led. In I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche (Tim Duggan Books, 2018), Sue Prideaux details the events of his life and shows how they can inform many of the concepts for which he is best known. The son of a clergyman, Nietzsche excelled at university and became a professor of classical philology at the University of Basel without even taking a degree. It was at that time he began a long-term friendship with Richard Wagner and often traveled to Bayreuth. Yet Nietzsche soon drifted away from philology towards philosophy, which led to his dismissal from his teaching post. As Prideaux shows, Nietzsche overcame ill health, physical handicaps, and the poor reception of his work to develop his ideas, and was on the cusp of gaining a wider audience when a mental breakdown led him to spend the last years of his life institutionalized, little knowing of the growing impact his books and ideas were having on European thought.


Question: Hey, what can you tell me about Google's gaming strategy?

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Google is now looking to dominate another portion of the world and is venturing into the realm of gaming. A job posting for a Product Manager position in their California based headquarters.
Rare opportunity to grow a brand-new business – Games at Google! We are looking for a strategic, technical and game-loving Product Manager to drive Google’s gaming strategy. You will design strategies for game distribution and discovery, player identity, game mechanics, and more. In addition to designing a great user experience and building out key partnerships, you will be significantly influencing Google’s social platform as you work directly with a critical set of early adopters, game developers. Interesting and impactful decisions involving social gaming, privacy, virality, business, and technical APIs await you and the strong, passionate team of gamers you will work with.
The main key phrase in the description is the mentioning of “social platform” which indicates that these may be games strongly based in social networking such as Facebook. There’s already Angry Birds available to play in your Chrome browser so the expansion could also mean popular computer and cellphone based games could become readily available in your browser window.


Question: Describe the research of an Asian American studies professor at a university on the topic of colorblind racism and its effects on both Asian American students and Asian international students.

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An Asian American Studies professor at the University of Illinois recently warned that the interaction of Asian American students and Asian international students can reinforce "colorblind racism."
Finding that Asian international students tend to self-segregate by nationality, Soo Ah Kwon said efforts to reach out to them by Asian American students reflect the pervasiveness of "normative whiteness" on campus.
A professor claims that Asian American students reinforce “colorblind racism” by taking responsibility for integrating Asian international students on campus.
“We problematize this schema not only because it places undue responsibility upon Asian American students but [because] it also renders the experiences of racial marginalization and discrimination invisible for international and domestic racial minority students,” writes Soo Ah Kwon, a professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in the recent issue of Race, Ethnicity, and Education (REE).
"Efforts to mitigate racial difference is understood and marked as belonging to non-white students in a colorblind society."
“In other words, efforts to mitigate racial difference is understood and marked as belonging to non-white students in a colorblind society,” Kwon and her two co-authors elaborate, basing their conclusion on interviews with students at Midwestern University (MU) and data from a four-year research project.
Kwon’s team paid special attention to members of Asian American cultural clubs, which have ramped up their efforts to reach out to international students over the last few years, given a recent major influx of such students to MU.
To her dismay, Kwon discovered that despite such efforts at integration, many international Asian students preferred to spend time with classmates of their own nationality, and that most didn’t express concern over the matter.
Fixing this “must be an institutional responsibility that takes serious stock of racism and marginalization of domestic minority and international students on campus,” Kwon concludes, though she does not make any specific recommendations.
The article was published in a special issue of REE on “rectifying” academic research through the incorporation of more critical race theory.
Kwon’s team also included Xavier Hernandez, an administrator at Purdue University, and Jillian Moga, a graduate student at the University of Illinois.
Campus Reform reached out to Kwon, Hernandez, and Moga for comment, but did not receive any responses in time for publication.


Question: Hey, do you know anything about Auguste Maquet? Respond in 145 words.

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Auguste Maquet (; 13 September 1813, in Paris – 8 January 1888) was a French author, best known as the chief collaborator of French novelist Alexandre Dumas, père, co-writing such works as "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Three Musketeers".
Maquet was born in Paris in 1813. He studied at the Lycée Charlemagne where he became a professor at the age of 18. Trained as a historian, he turned to literature, and became close with such literary figures as Théophile Gautier and Gérard de Nerval. Through Nerval, he became acquainted with the already famous Dumas in 1838. Gérard de Nerval introduced Maquet to Dumas and asked the famous author to rewrite a play of Maquet's and publish it under his own name. Dumas was then given a manuscript by Maquet which Dumas went on to publish under his own name as "Le Chevalier d'Harmental".


Question: Describe the current status of the BDS referendum proposed by UBC students.

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The BC Supreme Court has ruled against a petition filed by UBC student Logan Presch, and is allowing the BDS referendum question to be put forward on Monday.
“The final ruling was that the AMS was in the correct jurisdiction in ruling that the question was answerable in a yes-or-no fashion and acted in line with our bylaws and code of procedures,” said AMS President Ava Nasiri.
“[The court acknowledged] that it [is] the responsibility of the AMS and UBC to ensure student safety and respectful debate by all means necessary,” he wrote.
The referendum is a part of the global BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement, which calls for an end to Israeli occupation in West Bank and Gaza, and support for the rights of Palestinian refugees and Palestinians currently living in Israel.
Voting will be happening between April 3 and 7 of next week. The question was originally supposed to be posed to UBC students earlier — either during AMS Elections or the weeks following — but was postponed due to this petition as it awaited a ruling.
This article has been updated to include comment from Howard Mickelson.


Question: What do you know about John Gray and Adnan Khashoggi's connections to the intelligence community, the New Age movement, and the 9/11 conspiracy?

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Program Highlights Include: The background of Brigadier General William Lyon (a patriarch of the phony academic institutions discussed here); the background of Dr. Richard Crews (also a major player in the nexus of phony universities); Crews’ possible connection to mind-control related activities; Kouthchesfahani’s connections to the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult; the links between New Age guru John Gray and Adnan Khashoggi (Iran-Contra weapons dealer and alleged Al Qaeda financier); Gray’s role in financing the 9/11 “Truth” movement; Gray’s links to the Heaven’s Gate milieu; Gray’s links to the phony universities; Shaikh’s phony academic credentials and his links to many of the elements cited above; Koutchesfahani’s role as a weapons dealer for the Shah; a comparison of the network of phony universities to the network of bogus airlines discussed in FTR#’s 482, 483, 484; the links between former California Pete Wilson’s administration and the bogus universities/intelligence fronts; Abdusattar Shaikh’s real identity—he was Indian, not Middle Eastern. Be sure to visit Daniel Hopsicker’s website.
16. Koutchesfahani’s network may have been used to smuggle terrorists into the United States. Koutchesfahani rented a house to the Heaven’s Gate Cult, whose members engaged in a mass suicide. The Heaven’s Gate cult’s guru, Marshall Applewhite, taught at the same Texas college at which the aforementioned John Gray was enrolled. Gray’s mother also knew Applewhite.
(For more about this, see: “Cointelpro 9.11: John Gray and Saudi Genesis” by Daniel Hopsicker; 10/6/2004. See also: “Cointelpro 9.11 pt. III: Khashoggi, Cults, Cover-ups & Mars & Venus Doing Lunch” by Daniel Hopsicker; 10/13/2004.
25. NOTE: The relationship between Gray, Adnan Khahsoggi, elements of the intelligence community, elements of the New Age movement, the so-called “9/11 Truth Movement,” and elements of the 9/11 conspiracy will be explored in future broadcasts. Be sure to visit Daniel Hopsicker’s website.


Question: What is the Khanate of Khalkhal?

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Khalkhal Khanate was an 18th-19th century khanate based in Khalkhal. The khanate is known as one of the Khanates of the Caucasus. Khanate of Khalkhal was one of the khanates, located in historic Azerbaijan which became for more than hundred years semi-independent from the Iranian mothercountry.


Question: Have you heard about the congestion at Hwy. 52 between Plato Boulevard and the I-94/I-35E/7th Street interchange?

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 Have you heard about the congestion at Hwy. 52 between Plato Boulevard and the I-94/I-35E/7th Street interchange?

Crashes — mostly fender benders — are common on the half-mile stretch of Hwy. 52 between Plato Boulevard and the I-94/I-35E/7th Street interchange: about two a month, according to a MnDOT spokesman.
Drive reader Judy had the misfortune of totaling her car in a crash on the north end of the Lafayette Bridge in downtown St. Paul. Two other motorists involved in the Dec. 1 chain-reaction wreck did, too.
She was driving north on the oft-congested bridge when the crash happened on a clear Friday afternoon as she approached the interchange where the freeway ends and motorists are forced to take right turns onto one of the three ramps to access E. 7th Street, Interstate 94 or I-35E.
Crashes — mostly fender benders — are common on the half-mile stretch of Hwy. 52 between Plato Boulevard and the I-94/I-35E/7th Street interchange: about two a month, according to a MnDOT spokesman. Bottlenecks develop at almost all hours of the day as motorists speeding along at 55 miles per hour suddenly have to slam on the brakes and cross one or two lanes to make their exit.
So do countless other drivers. In fact, MnDOT says complaints have been rolling in since the bridge over the Mississippi River connecting downtown St. Paul with the city’s West Side and southeastern suburbs opened after it was rebuilt between 2011 and 2015.
The northbound lanes have been problematic ever since. With the rebuild, the traffic configuration was changed, and it’s definitely counterintuitive. Motorists heading to 7th Street used to proceed straight and simply cross over I-94. Now those drivers get in the far right lane and follow a ramp with tight twisting turns to get to 7th Street. Motorists accessing eastbound I-94 used to get in the far right lane. Now they use the far left lane. Motorists going to westbound I-94 and northbound I-35E end up making a right turn by getting in the center lane.
All that vehicular sashaying has resulted in perpetual backups and sometimes crashes.
MnDOT says the layout is safe, but drivers ignore two sets of signs that clearly steer motorists into the proper lanes well in advance. One set is marked as “30 M.P.H.” A lot of the issue, Barnard said, is that drivers hang in the far left lane too long and wait until the last second to cut in. “Drivers are not paying attention,” Barnard said.
Sorry, Judy, but MnDOT is not planning to install a flashing light or other warning device to grab drivers’ attention. It is, however, considering several other ideas.
One is to extend one northbound lane on the Lafayette Bridge over I-94 to split off traffic heading for westbound I-94 from that heading to northbound I-35E. MnDOT would build a loop on the north side of I-94 that would take drivers to northbound I-35E, giving those going to westbound I-94 their own exit. Nearly 7 in 10 drivers — about 26,000 a day — currently use the single-lane ramp leading from northbound Hwy. 52 to westbound I-94/northbound I-35E.
“We are going to address this this year,” said Barnard, noting MnDOT hopes to have firm plans by midsummer. Any improvements probably won’t be implemented until 2021 or 2022.
What other interchanges do you think need changes? The Drive would like to know.


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 What are your thoughts on Amazon's potential impact on Pittsburgh's public transportation?

Why the Port Authority’s new CEO says she’s optimistic and looking west.
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Mar. 09, 2018, 5:40 a.m.
Newly named Port Authority of Allegheny County CEO Katharine Eagan Kelleman has yet to see a copy of Pittsburgh’s Amazon HQ2 proposal. But she’s keenly aware of the implications it could hold for the sprawling transit system she now heads — one with a $420 million budget, about 2,600 employees and nearly 200,000 daily riders.
The HQ2 project — one entailing the landing of the e-commerce giant’s second North American headquarters — promises 50,000 jobs to the winning city and billions in investment. Pittsburgh is one of 20 HQ2 finalists, though it’s unclear when the overall winner will be announced.
In Pittsburgh, Kelleman, who started with Port Authority in January, says ridership is holding steady — no small feat given low gas prices and the advent of ride-sharing apps that continue to cut into ridership rates in cities nationwide.
New Port Authority of Allegheny County CEO Katharine Eagan Kelleman is pictured in her corner office Downtown before a Port Authority bus map.
But if Amazon were to choose Pittsburgh, well, those ridership rates would almost certainly jump, begging the question: Can Port Authority keep up?
“As far as whether or not we could keep up, I think Seattle is an excellent model for transit in the U.S., because they continue to invest,” Kelleman told The Incline this week during a sit down in her office overlooking Sixth Avenue.
Funding: It’s a recurring theme in speaking with Kelleman, who spent her first full week as CEO in Harrisburg, not Pittsburgh. This as more than 50 percent of the Authority’s annual operating budget is derived from the state legislature.
But as Seattle proves, that takes money — lots of it. Seattle also confirms that Amazon’s influence will be felt on the roads and on public transportation — flocks of summer interns alone have had an impact on bus service there — in whatever city is chosen as the company’s newest homebase.
It may not be all bad news, though.
Scott Kubly, the former director of the Seattle Department of Transportation, told The Incline’s sister site Denverite that Amazon has played a key role in helping that city address congestion concerns. In Seattle, about 15 percent of Amazon employees live in the same zip code as their campus and about 20 percent walk to work, the company reports.
It’s unclear, however, if that same dynamic would be possible in Pittsburgh.
The continued refusal of Pittsburgh and county officials to reveal the details of their Amazon HQ2 bid — a move that has rankled transparency advocates, but which the city says is both strategic, legally required and the status quo among HQ2 competitors — means we can’t predict.
And Kelleman hasn’t seen the bid — not that she’d discuss it if she had.
Regardless, there’s no doubt that Amazon HQ2 will force the winning city to take a hard look at its infrastructure, particularly as it relates to public transit.
And that’s where Kelleman sees an opportunity.
And there’s more data being collected all the time.
But Kelleman isn’t just wonkish.
She very genuinely enjoys talking transit and refers to it alternately as a community asset and a lifeline for those who rely on it. She dismisses the idea of turnstiles on the Light Rail, for example, saying they would amount to a fencing off of something that is publicly owned.
She, herself, rides the train four times a week from South Hills Village, her local station, making sure to introduce herself to all the Port Authority employees she meets along the way.
Kelleman, who is married with two children, ages 4 and 5, currently has a $230,000, five-year contract with Port Authority. Kelleman replaced former Port Authority CEO Ellen McLean who was forced out by the Board of Directors in February 2017. The board then launched a national search for a leader with “more public transit experience.” By November, they had settled on Kelleman.
Of course, Kelleman knows the downside of public transit, too. She came to Pittsburgh — and with it her 33rd home since college — after various stints with transit systems in the southeast, southwest and mid-Atlantic.
Her most recent, The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority in and around Tampa, was called “one of the worst public transit systems in America” by the Tampa Bay Times, which says the system has been mired in long-delayed fixes despite the best intentions of some. She earned $183,248 in Tampa, according to the Post-Gazette.
But if Pittsburgh is named Amazon’s newest outpost, which is anyone’s guess at this point, this assignment will be unlike any she’s had before.
Still, if the funding and willingness are there, Kelleman says anything is possible.
And if all else fails, there’s at least some semblance of an Amazon road map — for better and worse — just 27 hours to the west.
“We can learn from Seattle,” Kelleman said.


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Vault by Vans x BLENDS Style 36 LX — strictly waffles.
It's hard to downplay the impact that the Vans and BLENDS partnership has had on the Vans community. Their releases bring everybody out of the woodwork and they are some of the most sought after and expensive models in recent memory. For 2017, Vault has partnered with the design team at BLENDS to bring us another iteration of the "Bones" series, this time on my personal favorite model, the Style 36 LX.
For the 7th release in the bone stripe series, the silo is draped in the familiar deep, oily black leather from the Old Skool LX release of a few years ago. The style 36 is a bit longer than the Old Skool, which lends to a bit of an elongated bone than previous designs. Additionally, the removal of the foxing stripe makes for a sharp contrast from the white mid and black upper. Keen eyes might also notice the bone stripe has actually been reversed for this release. Another departure from previous design is the removal of the zipper, something all previous models in the Bone Stripe line have featured. Like previous releases, dual branding can be found on the insole as well as the custom drawer box. All in all, this is another premium offering from a partnership that knows what works.
The Vault by Vans x BLENDS Style 36 LX will release this Saturday, March 11th, exclusively at BLENDS as well as the online shop at 11 am PST. Good luck.


Question: Describe the four last-place finishers in the AFC from the 2011 season and their chances of going from worst to first in 2012.

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In just about every NFL season, there is a team that makes the leap from worst to first inside its division. On Monday, we took a look at the 2011 cellar dwellers in the NFC. Today, we're focusing on the AFC. I've ranked the AFC's four last-place finishers from 2011, based on their chances of going from worst to first inside each of their respective divisions.
Why it will happen: The Chiefs finished just a game out of first place in 2011, despite a ton of adversity. As a result of the injuries to RB Jamaal Charles and TE Tony Moeaki, the Kansas City offense dropped from 12th in the league in 2010 to 27th in 2011. Both players should be healthy heading into the 2012 season and the offensive output should greatly improve. On the other side of the ball, a healthy Eric Berry will combine with Tamba Hali and Derrick Johnson to give the Chiefs a superstar-caliber defender at all three levels. Finally, Romeo Crennel should provide some much-needed stability after a rocky run under former coach Todd Haley.
Why it won't happen: Matt Cassel has yet to prove that he can consistently perform at a high level. His passer rating fell from eighth in the league in 2010 to 24th in 2011. Also, the AFC West should be much better in 2012. The Broncos won the division last season despite a nonexistent passing game, and now they've added four-time MVP Peyton Manning. It's highly unlikely that the San Diego Chargers will suffer another 25-turnover season from the usually consistent Philip Rivers, while the Oakland Raiders always possess a talented and physical squad.
Why it will happen: The Bills started off last season by winning five of their first seven before falling apart in the second half of the season. During their hot start, they proved capable of competing with New England by handing them one of their three losses on the year. The Bills have been ultra-aggressive in the offseason. They added the NFL's marquee free agent in DE Mario Williams and also reeled in the Patriots' co-sack leader from last season, DE Mark Anderson. They should have one of the most talented defensive lines in the league in 2012. On the other side of the ball, they have a solid 1-2 punch in the backfield with RBs Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller. They also have one of the best interior offensive lines in the league, led by center Eric Wood and OG Andy Levitre.
Why it won't happen: The Patriots own this division. New England has won eight of the last nine division titles, and the lone blemish can largely be attributed to a season-ending injury to QB Tom Brady. Bills QB Ryan Fitzpatrick started off the 2011 season red hot and was rewarded with a hefty contract extension. Unfortunately for the Bills, his play took a turn for the worse in the second half of the season and he ended up tossing a league-leading 23 interceptions. The Bills also must replace LT Demetress Bell after losing him in free agency to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Why it will happen: The Browns lost 12 games last season, though all but two contests were very competitive. They have several talented young defensive players, led by DT Ahtyba Rubin and CB Joe Haden. The performance of veteran LB D'Qwell Jackson (158 tackles) and rookie DE Jabaal Sheard (8.5 sacks) is also reason for excitement. However, the Browns' two first-round draft picks should provide the greatest hope for a franchise desperate to return to prominence. Trent Richardson will definitely upgrade the rushing attack with his combination of speed and power, while Brandon Weeden has the big arm to add a vertical presence to the passing attack.
Why it won't happen: Last season, the AFC North was the only division to send three of its teams to the playoffs. That is a tough hill to climb for a Browns team that went 0-6 inside the division in 2011. The 2012 schedule isn't very friendly for a rookie quarterback looking to get off to a fast start. The Browns face dominating defensive fronts in four of their first five games. Richardson is a dynamic ball carrier, but all three opponents inside the AFC North boast top-10 run defenses from last season. The defense was dealt a tough blow when DT Phil Taylor suffered a pectoral injury while lifting weights this offseason. His availability for the 2012 season is questionable.
Why it will happen: The injury to Peyton Manning proved disastrous for the Colts' 2011 season, but it just might have set them up for the next 15 years at the quarterback position. Quarterback Andrew Luck, 2012's No. 1 overall pick, is NFL-ready right now, and I expect him to have a productive rookie campaign. The offensive line should be improved as a result of several young players gaining valuable experience in 2011. On defense, the Colts still possess a dangerous pass-rush duo in Robert Mathis and Dwight Freeney. Both players will need some time to adjust to the 3-4 defense being installed by new head coach Chuck Pagano, but they are each still capable of producing double-digit sacks.
Why it won't happen: The overall roster of the Colts is still very thin and especially light on offensive playmakers. Reggie Wayne is a solid player, but they don't have anyone to stretch the field unless third-round wide receiver T.Y. Hilton emerges during the preseason. That is a lot to ask of the rookie from Florida International. The defense doesn't have all the parts necessary to immediately excel in the 3-4 scheme Pagano brought from Baltimore. While Mathis and Freeney will be assets in passing situations, I have concerns over their ability to set the edge against the run.


Question: Describe the potential impact of a state-backed cryptocurrency on existing digital currencies and financial institutions.

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You’ve read in these pages of the possible Cryptoruble, Russia’s attempt to stave off bitcoin. The European Central Bank and Swift are also trying to speed up legacy payments processing in order to slow the popular digital asset’s ascent. But is the world ready for a Bank of Canada, state-backed cryptocurrency? Maple Leaf Coin? Le Coin Poutine? Coin Eh? Hoser Coin? The northern most American government appears headed in that direction.
And while Canada is not particularly thought a hotbed of crypto activity, it does boast floppy-haired executive leadership seemingly ready to instruct a college course on quantum computing at a moment’s notice. If that wasn’t enough, the current Prime Minister’s half brother is a well-known bitcoin advocate.
If any country could pull off a state-backed cryptocurrency, it’s probably Canada.
By nature, cryptocurrency enthusiasts are skeptical of government intervention, and especially when it comes to the question of technology undergirding the monetary innovation being used as government tender. Rarely does anyone expect a state currency in this regard to complete openly with the likes of bitcoin, but it probably is, in the end, a way to supplant the decentralize currency altogether.
Indeed, a state-backed cryptocurrency is the worst of all worlds. As any bitcoiner worth their salt will explain, bitcoin is not anonymous. In fact, with a few easily obtained parameters, distributed ledgers could be used as the most efficient way ever to track human trade and commercial habits.
A major concern beyond power-loss is seigniorage, the profit central banks make off of their currency monopoly. Bitcoin represents a serious challenge to it.
Perhaps as a way to preempt such a loss, its own cryptocurrency just might get a few more birds with that one stone: a viable alternative to bitcoin and the possibility of having “no transaction fees charged by the central bank, the benchmark [cryptocurrency] would probably be less expensive for merchants than cash and credit cards,” the CBDC guessed.
The report was quick to pivot, however, underscoring itself as only a suggestion and not officially policy. It also was keen to warn cryptocurrencies and distributed ledgers are so new that every precaution should be taken prior to rollout.
What do you think of state-backed cryptocurrencies? Tell us in the comments below!


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At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens 1896 the Marathon was planned as a special race from the city of Marathon to Athens inspired by the legend of the ancient greek courier Pheidippides. As the first largely organized Marathon race, this event was the start of the nowadays so popular Marathon competitions all over the world. The local runner Spyridon Louis won largely because two runners in front of him, Albin Lermusiaux and Edwin Flack, needed to quite the race probably because they only drank alcohol during the competition.
2. Are we too fast?
After winning the 5k and 10k races in 1952 with new olympic records, the Czech running legend Emil Zátopek decided last-minute to also compete in the Marathon, his first ever. At the beginning of the race one of the favorites Jim Peters took an early lead. He started fast and was way under his own record time after 16 kilometers. After Zátopek reached to Peters he asked him: “Sorry, this is my first Marathon. Are we too fast?”. Peters answered more as a joke to a beginner: “To fast? No we are too slow!”. Zátopek took it as an advice, speeded up and won his first ever Marathon race, again with a new olympic record time.
The Olympic Marathon 1960 in Rome, Italy was special for many reasons. Until today it was the only Marathon at Olympic Games that didn’t start or end in a stadium. Also it started in the evening so at the time the first finishers arrived it was already dark. The winner of the race, the Ethiopian Abebe Bikila, not only was the first African Marathon gold medalist but was also the first and only runner who won an Olympic Marathon without wearing shoes. He set a new olympic record and also won four years later but this time with shoes on his feet.
Have you ever wondered why the Marathon has such a strange distance of exactly 42,195km? The reason can be found in the Olympic Games in London in the year 1908. After the previous Olympics distances between 40km and 41.86km were covered, the race in London featured again a new distance. It was planned to run from Windsor Castle to the new olympic stadium in London for which a distance of 26 miles (41.85km) was measured. Inside the stadium another 385 yards needed to be covered so the race’s finish was in front of the royal box. After the dramatic finish of the 1908 race, some revenge competitions were organized using exactly the same conditions, a distance of 42,195km. After running yet other distances in the 1912 and 1920 Olympics the IAAF set the official Marathon distance in 1921 to the now common 42,195km that were first run in London.
At the summer games in 1904 in St. Louis the organizers started the Marathon in the afternoon, forcing the runners to race at a temperature of 32° Celcius (90° Fahrenheit). That’s one of the reasons only 14 of the 32 starters finished the race. The American Fred Lorz was the first to cross the finish line, but he cheated. After dropping out and riding by car, the car broke down at mile 19, he re-entered the race and celebrated his win in the stadium. Soon after his subterfuge was revealed and a life long ban from racing followed (but was lifted one year later). The British-born winner Thomas Hicks not only got several doses of a rat poison (strychnine sulfate) mixed with Brandy during the race but was also aided across the finish line by his coaches.
Also the Cuban postman Andarín Carvajal arrived at the start of the race in the last-minute after loosing all his money in New Orleans and hitchhiking to St. Louis. He needed to run in his street clothes and hasn’t eaten in 40 hours. In an orchard on the Marathon course he ate some rotten apples that gave him strong stomach cramps. Despite these struggles Carvajal ended the race in fourth place.
One of the favorites in the 2004 Women’s Marathon, the world record holder Paula Radcliffe struggled to get back to the top runners after 35km. She tried to restart her race with 6k to go but eventually dropped out of the competition. One of the reasons for this failure was pre-race nutrition according to Radcliffe, a statement that upset her sponsors. She was sponsored by a nutrition company that had the slogan “It helps you finish”. Radcliffe also dropped out of the 10k race that year.
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These are great stories! #5 is insane!
Yeah 1904 was just unbelievable!


Question: Can you share any tips or advice for someone studying for the VCIX-NV certification exam?

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Whenever I study for a certification exam, I often find this type of post helpful, so I hope this one will help you too.
The VCIX-NV exam is the advanced level of certification for VMware NSX in the Network Virtualization track. If you plan on passing this exam, you'll need a good breadth of knowledge regarding not only the NSX-v product itself, but also some advanced networking concepts. Personally, I found this to be the most difficult VMware exam I've taken so far. The topics covered were fair, nothing was asked that was not clearly defined in the blueprint. I found the tasks to be fairly difficult, compared to what I had experienced in other VCAP exams. So this is one exam that you'll really need some hands on experience to pass (real life or a lot of labs), I believe it will make passing the exam very difficult otherwise.
The version of NSX used for the exam was 6.0.4, so you can expect some minor differences if you're used to the latest versions, 6.2.x. The exam environment was not as slow as I expected, there was lag, but it wasn't so slow that it crippled the entire experience. My Firefox browser did crash a few times though and I did have to restart it, but other than that, no major hiccups with the lab's performance. I guess living in Canada helps, since the nested labs that are used for the exam are supposedly in the US.
I got my result only a few hours after finishing the exam, luckily enough I passed! By no means am I a networking expert, but working towards and passing this exam made me much more comfortable with my networking skills in general.
It goes without saying that you will need to know NSX in-and-out, you can use the resources below to help you get there. However, the VCIX-NV exam blueprint mentions that the intended audience needs not only experience with NSX, but also with "Windows desktop administration, including Active Directory, group policy, DNS, and DHCP". I would take that a step further and suggest you should at least be comfortable with most of the subjects covered in Cisco's CCNA exams, ICND1 and ICND2. Knowledge of VMware virtual switches and virtual distributed switches alone is not sufficient for this exam and you will need to make sure you are comfortable with most of these advanced networking concepts. So if you don't have a strong networking background, be prepared to step out of your comfort zone, because you're going to need to!
– The VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage course is always a great resource, if you can afford it.
– Pluralsight's 2 courses by Jason Nash, this is a great place to start.
– Most importantly of all, a ton of hands on experience with the product. This can't be emphasized enough, especially since this type of VCAP/VCIX exam is entirely done in a real lab environment. So if you don't have an existing lab environment to test everything in the blueprint, give the VMware Hands On Labs a spin, that will take care of most of your needs. Labs HOL-SDC-1625 and HOL-SDC-1603 are a good fit for this. Keep in mind the version of the HOL environment might not match what you'll see in the exam.
– As you know, time management is a major challenge in this exam, like all VCAP exams. So try to save time by working on multiple questions at once, as much as you can. For example, if you're deploying an Edge Gateway, don't wait and stare at the progress bar, start working on the next question!
– Open as many tabs to your browser as possible to keep certain parts of the UI open and one click away. Others seem to indicate that the lab environment's latency limited their ability to do this, but I was lucky enough to be able to open everything I needed at once and made going from window to window a breeze.
– The exam is 3 and a half hours long (+30 minutes for people in a country where English is not a first language), and jam packed with content. So many things can potentially go wrong and ruin your exam experience, so no matter what happens, you just need to make sure to stay cool and focused on the objective at all times. Make sure you have the energy to do so, have a good breakfast!
Good luck on your preparation and exam!
Thanks, I have started for the exam preparation, the info you provided helps to me start with more approaching way.
I have my CCNA and work at a company that recently deployed NSX. Thanks for the info.
Good info… could you please suggest the real lab environment ?
Hi Shazad, the best way to get started quickly is to use VMware’s free Hands on Labs, give it a try : hol.vmware.com.
Congrats on passing the VCIX-NV.
For others out there, I also have a VCAP6-NV/VCIX study guide.


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Steven Anthony Geller (born November 4, 1958) is an attorney and politician in Florida. He was a Democratic member of the Florida Senate, representing the 31st District from 1999 to 2008 and served as the Minority Leader during 2006-08. Previously he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1988 through 1999.


Question: What are the conventions used in bridge to compete against a 1NT opening bid?

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This is a list of defensive conventions used in the game of contract bridge to compete in the bidding after the opponents have opened with a one notrump (1NT) bid.


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Jody Holden (born August 20, 1968) is a male beach volleyball player from Canada, who won the gold medal in the men's beach team competition at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, partnering Conrad Leinemann. He represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.


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This is very tender and good.
Hi Joey, I know this months later and entirely random, but you were totally right! (I didn't know the difference between a Unity development build and a normal one before now). I've re-uploaded new non-development builds.
Beautifully dark. It perfectly captures a quiet intimate moment.


Question: Explain the film "Dark Wind" and its significance in Indian cinema. Respond in 26 sentences.

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A compelling and darkly comical drama about climate change.
Climate change is real and India has been facing problems caused by this for years. Tsunami, earthquakes, floods and draughts can be found in the news from a certain part of the country or the other on a daily basis. However, the number of films dealing with these problems, particularly in the Hindi language is scarce. Nila Madhab Panda’s “Dark Wind” delves into such situations without being preachy about it, using a simple but hard-hitting story.
Hedu (Sanjay Mishra) is a blind elderly man living in the village of Mahua, Rajasthan. Like the majority of the people in the village, Hedu’s son, Mukund (Bhupesh Singh) is also long due on a farming loan taken from the bank. The arrival of the new loan recovery officer Gunu Babu (Ranvir Shorey) with a reputation of being Yamduth, The God of Death, scares Hedu along with the farmer suicides in the area and the disheartened state of Mukund. To save his son from any harm, Hedu makes a deal with the initially aggressive Gunu Babu to give him information about when and where he should go to successfully recover money from the village farmers.
As a film about climate change, “Dark Wind” doesn’t give long expositions on the subject matter, but the atmosphere and the unraveling of the story show the problems. The only time it is actually mentioned is when a boy in school tells the teacher how he has only seen two seasons, the hot and cold ones rather than the four seasons that are being taught. Later Hedu agrees with the boy, noting that there was a time when there was four seasons. The desert-like landscape and the dry wind that talks to Hedu itself show us why the farmers needed the loan and can’t repay it anymore. Although Gunu Babu is first introduced as a despicable character that only cares about money, by the end of the film his circumstances are also revealed and although the audience never completely sympathizes with him, it is enough to empathize.
The importance of the film is better pronounced by the events happened during and following the release of the film in India. During the releasing month itself, Delhi smog rose to alarming levels closing down schools for weeks and players from Sri Lanka almost choked during the Cricket match. At the beginning of March 2018, more than 30,000 farmers from the state of Maharashtra participated in the Kisan Long March demanding loan waiver. As portrayed in “Dark Wind” a number of these farmers live in villages without much use of electricity using the naturally available resources for the most part.
Sanjay Mishra is known for his comedy roles; nevertheless, here he gives one of his career-best performances as the blind old Hedu. The way he walks through the desert with his wooden cane using wind to understand the surroundings, and especially the scenes of him travelling in a bus and the final scene showcase the extraordinary range of Mishra, and particularly the contrast with his comedy roles and even some of his character roles. Ranvir Shorey also gives a fantastic performance as Gunu Babu who we approach as an antagonist, but eventually allows the audience to learn that he’s facing problems that are the same and the exact opposite of the villagers. His Odia dialect, along with his aggressive nature make him extremely convincing as the Yamduth of Mahua. Tillotama Shome’s part as the wife of Mukund is also commendable for her subtle portrayal of the ordinary village woman doing the chores around the house.
“Dark Wind” is a compelling and darkly comical drama which is hard-hitting and above all, raw and real. Panda’s treatment of the story by Nitin Dixit does more than justice to the spirit of the story in creating a world which is real and tough to look at, but the authenticity of it is compelling the audience not to look away either. The desert wind from the first scene never seems to leave the screen and creates a world where the dry dark wind is an omnipresent entity.


Question: Provide a description of Terrence Dixie. Respond in 3 sentences.

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Terrence Dixie (born October 15, 1983) is a Seychellois weightlifter. Dixie represented Seychelles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's light heavyweight class (85 kg). Dixie placed sixteenth in this event, as he successfully lifted 115 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 140 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead clean and jerk, for a total of 255 kg.


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A baptism font was the site of a strange incident in France, where a priest slapped a crying baby.
The French Catholic priest who slapped a 2-year-old boy during a baptism ceremony said he regretted his decision and announced his retirement, The Daily Mail reported.
A video of Father Jacques Lacroix, 89, went viral after Sunday’s baptism ceremony in the southeastern suburbs of Paris.
A Reddit user posted video that showed a clearly irritated Lacroix using his left hand to slap the child. The video also was posted on YouTube.
The furor caused the priest to resign.
During the video, Lacroix tells the child to “Calm down, calm down, you must calm down.” He tells the boy to be quiet before squeezing the boy’s face in his hands, the Daily Mail reported.
The priest then stared at the boy before using his left hand to slap him.
The boy’s parents and family reacted immediately, with the child’s father wrestling him away from the priest, the Daily Mail reported.
“The child was screaming a lot and I had to turn his head to pour water over it.


Question: Provide a description of Hildegunn Gjertrud Hovdenak. Respond in 2 sentences.

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Hildegunn Gjertrud Hovdenak (born 11 August 1985) is a Norwegian professional racing cyclist. She won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 2012.


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Bullish price action is still dominant in the cryptocurrency segment today, despite the recent lofty gains, and the overbought short-term picture in the ace of most of the majors. Correlations continue to break down, as more and more coins are in confirmed uptrends, with the total value of the market hitting $400 billion for the first time since early March.
The top digital currencies are mixed today in the generally positive environment, with Bitcoin Cash, IOTA, Ethereum Classic, Dash, and Monero showing relative strength, in the face of the slightly overbought short-term momentum readings. While this is not the best moment to enter new short-term trades with regards to the majority of the coins, the long-term setup favors further gains in the coming weeks.
Altcoins have been leading the market higher in the last couple of weeks, and Bitcoin is still stuck below the $9000 level, as it continues to slightly lag behind from a short-term perspective. The coin ran into the strong resistance zone between $9000 and $9200 after breaking out of the broad declining trend.
Now a pullback is likely, given the slight weakness, with a possible test of the prior swing high at $8400. In case of a bullish move, the next target is at $10,000, and long-term investors should still add to their holdings on the short-term dips.
Ethereum kept on creeping higher to marginal no rally highs in the last couple of days, nearing the $650 level despite the overbought short-term picture. Short-term traders should still not enter new positions here until the overbought readings are cleared, while long-term investors could still add to their holdings during the pullbacks. Resistance zones are ahead near $735 and $780, while primary support is between $555 and $575.
As we noted, the correlation between the coins is lower than during the downswing, and that confirms the bullish price action in the segment. Ripple is trading in a consolidation pattern near the $0.84 level, and although the overbought momentum readings are not yet fully cleared, the trend is clearly bullish and a new short-term buy signal is likely in the coming days.
Among the other recent leaders, IOTA triggered short-term sell signal, reaching the strong resistance zone near $2.2. EOS, Stellar, Cardano, and NEO are consolidating their gains, while Dash, Monero, and ETC are trading slightly above last week’s highs, but traders shouldn’t chase them higher here, as a short-term correction is likely soon.


Question: Respond in 23 words. What is Drežnica?

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Drežnica is a village in the municipality of Bujanovac, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 86 inhabitants.


Question: Describe the recent additions to the cast of Jurassic World 2 and your thoughts on them. Respond in 533 words.

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James Cromwell joins the cast of Jurassic World 2!
Following the addition of Ted Levine only 6 days ago, the Jurassic World 2 cast continues to take shape, adding James Cromwell to its impressive roster. This news was broke first by The Hollywood Reporter, who provided no further details on the role he will be playing.
James Cromwell is perhaps best known for his role as Warden Hal Moores in ‘The Green Mile’ though many may also know him from his Oscar nominated role in ‘Babe’ as Farmer Arthur Hogget. His past lineup of films and television shows is nothing short of impressive, from ‘L.A. Confidential’, ‘I, Robot’, and ‘Deep Impact’ to ‘ER’, ‘The Young Pope, and ‘American Horror Story’, in which he earned an Emmy for the latter.
There are no details about who he’ll be playing, or if he’ll be ‘good’, ‘bad’, or somewhere in between – but make no mistake that whatever role he’s playing, he’ll do fantastic job! Not much is known about InGen or Masrani Global, but I could see him heading either company after the passing of John Hammond and Simon Masrani. Time will tell, and we’ll be sure to keep our ears open for more details.
James Cromwell joins Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ted Levine, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, Toby Jones, and Rafe Spall. BD Wong is also heavily rumored to return, though has yet to be formally confirmed. The newest Jurassic park sequel starts filming soon in London – in fact, much of the cast are already onsite and living in their trailers!
Would be nice if they tied him into Dodgson or Biosyn somehow and wrap up that massive loose end of a story!
Really? Another dude? Are screenwriters just incapable of creating more than one or two females of importance in their stories? Look, I am a diehard Jurassic Park fan, but even I can be honest in saying the brand has never been great when it comes to diversity. But we’re in 2017 now and that *should* be changing. Then again, it’s 2017 and look at the reality we’re experiencing regarding… other things.
Whatever. At this point I just hope Daniella isn’t this films Zara Young and reduced to a throwaway character with only three lines. And at least she and Justice Smith add a little color into an otherwise dominantly white cast. Also, B.D. Wong if he returns. Ugh.
I wonder if this has any relation to the rumor of a character named ‘Robert Hammond’ being in the film?
I haven’t seen this rumor… link?
Nothing to do with this news but wouldn’t it be nice of David Attenborough made a cameo?
So glad with this addition… hope we find out who plays Lucy soon.
He can be a Hammond-like character but he won’t be. Not given the complex and darker climate of the sequel.
The recent casting announcements seem like competing CEOs.
I’m excited about the announcements. Can’t believe in a few weeks news about shooting will start surfacing.
Just wish they’d disclose the [email protected]#king title sooner than later.
Yep this guy is the bad guy. I bet you all he owns a company that makes a dinosaur.


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If you’re facing down a gift list with a lot of vino-heads on it, it’s always fun to buy wine and there is no shortage of ways to do it. If you want something that will last a little longer, books about wine are always fun to receive. Here’s a run-down on some of the ones that have caught my eye this year. There’s really something for everyone.
I have to recommend the beautiful, substantial Winemakers of Paso Robles with photographs by Julia Perez and words by Paul Hodgins. This book will set you back a chunk (it retails for about $100) but it’s a luxe, rich, saturated look at the people who make wine in the increasingly vibrant AVA of Paso Robles, CA. It’s heavy on human portraits and relationships to the craft of winemaking; this one’s not a wine encyclopedia and it’s more about people than grapes. It’s a beauty, and if you know someone who likes to have the inside scoop on the folks that make wine, this is a great inside look and it’s very visually arresting.
The Dirty Guide to Wine by Alice Feiring with Pascaline Lepeltier (Countryman Press). Lots of books guide you through the wine world according to grape type, or region. This one looks at the actual ground the grapes grow in. Ever wondered what “terroir” really is? It has a lot to do with dirt, and the same wine made by the same method will taste different if it comes from an igneous rock area versus sedimentary, for example. This is a great book for the know-it-all in your life-it’s an accessible and affable look at how geology influences what you taste when you open a bottle of wine. It gives tons of specific examples and it isn’t impossibly dense.
Adventures with Old Vines: A Beginner’s Guide to Being a Wine Connoisseur , by Richard L. Chilton Jr. (Rowman and Littlefield). Do you have someone on your gift list who… well, how can I put this? Who has to sound in-the-know about everything? This is an excellent instruction manual for that person. Chilton owns Hourglass Vineyard in Napa Valley and let’s just say he has done his homework. This book has a certain tendency to present personal opinions as empirical facts, but the opinions are not radical or weird; it’s a very solid guide to “what’s really good, and why” and is a terrific choice if you or someone you know is planning an oeno-tourismo type trip to, say, France. It gives you tons of details on where to go and what to drink, and you’ll pick up the knack of acting Ultra Knowledgeable about the Good Stuff.
Around the World in Eighty Wines by Mike Veseth (Rowman and Littlefield). This follows the path of Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, picking up a glass in each of the 80 locations. A breezy, easy to follow sampler of wines from… well, everywhere, including Shangri-la, this book has a good sense of humor and a wide-ranging, bird’s-eye perspective. It will digress into history, marketing, economics, culture, politics and religion and take you right along with it. A really fun and engaging read that will make you want to start planning an 80-wine whistle-stop tour of your own.
From Napa With Love by Alexis Swanson Traina (Abramis). This book is stylish, pretty, detailed, and wantonly name-dropping. If your gift-target is headed for California (or wishes she were) this book is a treasure trove of info on what to do, where to go, what to eat and what to buy in the Napa Valley. It’s not the book for the grape geek on your list, let’s be super clear there. This book’s intended audience is bon vivants on a mission to consume the best of the best in Northern California. If you want to know where Thomas Keller likes to eat or where Ann Colgin gets her jewelry, this is your book. If you want to know the it-spots for mud baths, antiquing, winetasting; where to find the fetish-inducing bakeries or most scenic backroads-this is your book. It’s not an intellectual heavyweight but not everything has to be. And it’s lots of fun.
Tangled Vines by Frances Dinkelspiel (St. Martin’s Press). Like most niche worlds, the wine world has a weird, weird shadow side. This book is a vivid exploration of the crazy early years of the California wine industry and a bizarre arson case that destroyed $250M worth of fine wine in 2005. There’s a dark, egomaniacal, obsessive, and even bloody side to the world of wine collecting. Tangled Vines delves into the heart of it. It’s a fascinating read.
I’m still rooting for Karen MacNeil’s Wine Bible (Workman) as the best fusion of wine information and entertainment to come out in recent years. It’s a keeper and has won a ton of awards for a reason. MacNeil’s a wordsmith and just plain fascinating, and this book will remain a classic. It’s instructive, it’s beautiful, it’s comprehensive, it’s personable and it’s just plain great.