The Mueller Report:
Manafort also twice met Kilimnik in the United States during the campaign period and conveyed campaign information. The second meeting took place on August 2, 2016, in New York City. Kilimnik requested the meeting to deliver in person a message from former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was then living in Russia. The message was about a peace plan for Ukraine that Manafort has since acknowledged was a “backdoor” means for Russia to control eastern Ukraine. Several months later, after the presidential election, Kilimnik wrote an email to Manafort expressing that view—which Manafort later said he shared—that the plan’s success would require U.S. support to succeed: “all that is required to start the process is a very minor ‘wink’ (or slight push) from [Donald Trump].” The email also stated that if Manafort were designated as the U.S. representative and started the process, Yanukovych would ensure his reception in Russia “at the very top level.”
Manafort communicated with Kilimnik about peace plans for Ukraine on at least four occasions after their first discussion of the topic on August 2: December 2016 (the Kilimnik email described above); January 2017; February 2017; and again in the spring of 2018. The Office reviewed numerous Manafort email and text communications, and asked President Trump about the plan in written questions. The investigation did not uncover evidence of Manafort’s passing along information about Ukrainian peace plans to the candidate or anyone else in the Campaign or the Administration. The Office was not, however, able to gain access to all of Manafort’s electronic communications (in some instances, messages were sent using encryption applications). And while Manafort denied that he spoke to members of the Trump Campaign or the new Administration about the peace plan, he lied to the Office and the grand jury about the peace plan and his meetings with Kilimnik, and his unreliability on this subject was among the reasons that the district judge found that he breached his cooperation agreement.


Three Days To Go!
We are excited to announce that Captain Hank Cheng will pilot Inspiration (B-KOO), Hong Kong’s FIRST homebuilt and registered aircraft, to commence the Round the World (RTW) journey on 28-Aug (Sun). It is scheduled to take off from Hong Kong International Airport in the early morning, with Clark, Philippines as the first destination.
As a final preparation for this historical moment, the Inspiration team met HKCAD today (25-Aug) to finalize the aircraft departure arrangements. The team was also greeted by Mr. Simon Li, Director-General of Civil Aviation.
A flight tracker will be available on our official website. Stayed tuned to the website and our Facebook page for news and stories of Inspiration's RTW journey.


What’s the story about?
United Nations diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello (played by Wagner Moura) is sent to Baghdad soon after Saddam Hussein’s regime falls in Iraq. While the US Administration, headed by Bush, expects Sergio to toe their line, the veteran UN diplomat has a plan of his own. And in his attempt to stay independent and assert his authority over the local affairs, as he had done in East Timor and Cambodia, Sergio takes an audacious path which is often at odds with other power centres. The entire story of the film, directed by Greg Barker, focuses on Sergio’s attempt to connect the dots of his own life just moments before he’s about to die following a terrorist attack.
The film is essentially a love story between Sergio and his partner, Carolina, and how different circumstances in conflict zones shaped Sergio’s approach to work and life itself. Wagner Moura is brilliant throughout the film and his dazzling chemistry with Ana de Armas, who plays Carolina, is endearing to watch. One of the best scenes in the film has Sergio listening to an elderly woman in East Timor and her confession about what she craves brings tears to Sergio’s eyes. His reaction is essential to understand the emotional turmoil that Sergio goes through as the story unfolds, and how it changes him as a person. Wagner Moura brings a lot of empathy to his character and makes us believe in his actions, be it that of a father who has struggled to strike a bond with his sons or a seasoned diplomat, who wants to do good for society. Ana de Armas stands out with her performance, although her character, Carolina is always in Sergio’s shadow.
The entire story unfolds from Sergio’s perspective through a series of flashbacks, and this narrative style turns out to be counter-productive in the larger scheme of things. Before diving into the story, filmmaker Greg sets up the background quite well that Sergio is UN’s best bet to ease tensions in Iraq, and the former’s commitment to make the UN a truly independent organisation leads to plenty of friction with the officials from the US. Then, a terrorist attack derails the whole mission. As he awaits help in the last stage of his life, Sergio tries to recollect how his life and relationships have shaped up in the past few years. This narrative technique is perfect for a book; however, since it’s a film, we never get the full picture. We hardly understand what made Sergio so good at his job. Every negotiation, no matter how fragile the political environment might be, is just shown in flashes, as if it was yet another entry in his Wikipedia page. At best, Greg Barker’s Sergio, despite getting a rich treatment, will inspire you to read more about the former UN diplomat’s life and work, but as a film, it’s all over the place.
Music & other departments
A significant part of the story is set in Iraq and East Timor, and cinematographer Adrian Teijido does a fine job to give us a sense of the inner turmoil and conflict that the film’s lead character goes through. Editing doesn’t quite salvage the film since it barely scratches the surface of the subject it tries to tackle. Fernando Velázquez’s music brims with energy when Sergio recalls his happier moments spent with Carolina.
Wagner Moura and Ana de Armas’s dazzling chemistry is a major highlight in the film, apart from the emotional depth that Wagner Moura brings to his own performance.
The film’s narrative style, where everything is told in a series of flashbacks, never lets you settle down and really get a good understanding of what Sergio had done. Even the dialogues don’t quite make an impact, despite Sergio being a biopic of a diplomat who was really good at negotiations.
Do I recommend it?
As a film, Sergio doesn’t quite fall in place and it leaves you wondering if the story holds back more information than it gives outright from the beginning. Perhaps, the life of Sérgio Vieira de Mello, and his many victories and low points in life, can only be brought alive through a book.


If there’s a word that always comes up in digital media, it’s “complexity.” That’s not just in the many ad tech companies on a certain slide. Simply executing daily tasks at agencies, publishers and tech providers is pretty difficult. Getting to “inbox zero” is seemingly impossible, and keeping on top of everything at times appears hopeless. We polled some top execs for their “hacks” that make their lives easier — and more productive. Please add your own hacks in the comments.
IOs from Anywhere: Richard Frankel, president, Rocket Fuel
My favorite digital media hack during the fast-and-furious last week of the quarter is Docusign. Anyone in the biz knows that, for a digital industry, we spend a lot of time scanning, printing and faxing around scraps of paper (insertion orders) to get deals done. Yuck! At Rocket Fuel, we’ve adopted Docusign to sign all documents — and with a Web app, an iPad app and an iPhone app, I can pretty much sign contracts wherever I am. My second favorite is Gogo — in fact, I’m writing and emailing this while flying cross country today! Now, if we could only figure out how AI could sign IOs for me ….
Ideas Everywhere: Eric Franchi, co-founder, Undertone
I got in the habit of using the “tasks” tab in Outlook a long time ago to jot down notes specific to recurring meetings or projects that I was working on. The problem with that is that ideas and thoughts generally happen when I am not at my laptop. I would be constantly emailing myself with ideas or writing things down on a sticky pad. With the latest iOs and iCloud update, the “reminders” app syncs with Outlook’s tasks perfectly. Small hack, big help.
Surviving the CC: Avi Savar, chief creative officer, Big Fuel
One of the best things I ever did to help manage my extraordinary volume of emails is to create a rule that automatically moves all emails where my name appears in the CC (not the to field) into a separate “CC folder.” This eliminates tons of email clutter and allows me to focus on emails that are directed at me first rather than all the noise — then once a day I scan my CC folder to make sure that I am looped into everything else and have not missed anything. This is one of several “rules” that helps me focus on what matters most – for example, I have rules that color internal emails gray and emails from clients red. I also use “smart folders” that show me emails in my inbox that are more than a week old, two weeks old, a month old, internal, external and so on. Lastly, I use a terrific service called OtherInbox that automatically organizes newsletters, web receipts, confirmations and pretty much anything else you need – and then sends you a daily digest for review. Happy emailing.
Go to the Cloud: Jeff Hasen, CMO, Hipcricket:
Living in Seattle, I’m always looking for sunshine on a cloudy day (someone should write a song about that). My sunshine actually comes from the cloud. With two Macs, a PC, an iPad, and a smartphone, I’m invariably starting something on one piece of technology and picking it up on another – sometimes even more than one. Dropbox and Evernote are more important to me than an umbrella.
Taming the Email Monster: David Berkowitz, vp of emerging media, 360i
One favorite service is Boomerang for Outlook. It allows me to get an email out of my main inbox and then return it at a later date. Often, I do this when I want to remind myself to follow up scheduling a meeting with someone, or I want to review something in greater detail once a deadline is completed. When used selectively, it then allows me to keep more time-sensitive messages in my inbox.
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With 18 additions debuting at Dine Out Boston, this year's prix fixe menu promo promises to be a showcase of what to try next. Running Sunday to Friday, March 6-11 and 13-18, Dine Out challenges chefs to create multi-course menus at three pricing tiers for lunch ($15, $20, $25) and/or dinner ($28, $33, $38). That’s quite a budgeting task for the discerning cook. We spoke to three chefs bringing their new restaurants into this year’s Dine Out, who aren’t dumbing down dishes to fit the price. Instead, they’re cooking to impress.
Opened last fall in The Envoy Hotel on Northern Boulevard, Outlook Kitchen and Bar’s Dine Out debut includes a two-course lunch and three-course dinner ($20, $38).
“I don’t change the menu to fit a price structure. I don’t want to take from the integrity of the dishes by using cheaper ingredients,” says Chef David Verdo, who took part in Dine Out at his previous restaurant, the suburban hidden gem Chopps in Burlington. With a dinner menu that embellishes cod loin with a ginger-shiitake broth, and Aspen Ridge flat iron steak with New England hedgehog mushrooms and first of the season pea shoots, bright flavors are brought to life: “With spring just around the corner, I wanted to create light, aromatic dishes,” he adds.
At Sfizi in the North End, Chef Gianni Caruso is discounting most of the regular classic Italian and Pan Mediterranean inspired menu for a three-course dinner ($33):“Popular homemade dishes is what we’re about. We’ll embrace our Italian roots and include a selection of dishes that shows who we are.”
Those include zucchini blossoms stuffed with truffled mozzarella, angel hair pasta with seafood, New England swordfish with sweet potato puree and smoked shrimp, and a luscious tiramisu. “We don’t look at cost for this, so this is very good value,” Caruso explains. “This is an opportunity for sharing our menu with people who don’t know Sfizi. We want people to fall in love with our restaurant and come back again, and share with friends.”
Chef Tom Borgia’s Dine Out menu for FiDi's new State Street Provisions keeps it simple: a two-course appetizer and entrée dinner menu ($28) with the option of beer or wine pairing ($12). The sweet toothed can choose from the regular menu’s ample selection.
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Borgia also worked season forward with a spring vegetable minestrone, and beet tagliatelle with shaved asparagus, roasted oyster mushrooms, and mascarpone. “Spring is the most difficult season because it’s the shortest and everyone tries to hit that window when fava beans, young asparagus, morels, and ramps are at their best,” says Borgia, a Dine Out veteran from his tenure at sister restaurant Russell House Tavern in Harvard Square.
“It’s hard to be cost effective at these prices, so I say to hell with it. It’s more important for me to work within the restaurant’s framework of being seasonal and local, and celebrate New England.”
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Active aero winglets could have multiple applications
Electric motors control each wing independently
Active Aero is currently banned in MotoGP
The Piaggio group has patented a new active aero winglets technology that is expected to make its way to future two/three-wheelers. The patent was filed at the World Intellectual Property Office. This is the second time that Piaggo has filed a patent for active aero winglets, the first being when it presented the Aprilia RS660 concept at EICMA 2018.
Piaggio’s new active aero winglets are designed to work independent of each other and help steer the vehicle, in addition to generating downforce or reducing drag. The patent drawings show the C-shaped active aero winglets attached to the fairing of the Piaggio MP3, a popular scooter in Europe. However, Piaggio probably has much bigger plans for this technology…


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[Kansas City.com] Left tackle Willie Roaf again missed practice on Friday with hamstring problems and won’t play against the Raiders. Roaf was involved in an auto accident Friday morning on Interstate 435 in Kansas, but said he wasn’t injured.
Halfback Priest Holmes didn’t practice and was downgraded to doubtful on the official injury report filed by the Chiefs. Coach Dick Vermeil held out the slim possibility Holmes could play as a backup to Larry Johnson.
Cornerback Patrick Surtain was limited to individual drills and will be a game-time decision.
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A sailor at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center was killed Monday when he was struck by a coal train at 22nd Street in North Chicago.
He was returning to the base with a fellow sailor after an evening in Wisconsin, police said. The victim was walking when he was hit about 3:25 a.m., they said. The other sailor was not hurt.
Lake County Coroner Barbara Richardson said the identity of the 23-year-old Wisconsin man was being withheld.


The power of Project Canvas in terms of watching TV
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It is supposed that users will find it difficult to claim their choice as video on demand and classic linear TV consumption both shall be open for viewers. The recent nod from BBC Trust brings out detailed specifications about the platform that soon shall be made public by the end of the month.
A concept similar to Freeview, Canvas would be an open platform and is considered to be an extension of iPlayer that adds to the list of many more channels and significantly more features.
Canvas chief technology officer (CTO), Anthony Rose, sited an example claiming that this platform helps pull data in practicality about a player on the field in a World Cup match, as reported by DigitalSpy.
It has also further been stated that the idea of embedding URIs (Uniform Resource Identifier) comes with an availability of incredibly vast data warehouses like Wikipedia or Google with abundance of cheap broadband.
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"I collapsed on the landing floor, just crying. After that I locked myself away for two weeks."
Six years ago on Sunday (August 22), Sussex was rocked by tragedy.
Daniele Polito was in the passenger seat of his friend Matt Jones' car in the early afternoon of August 22, 2015.
His girlfriend, Georgina Brown, was waiting for him to come home so they could go out on a date.
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Daniele, along with 10 other men that day, never came home. He was one of the victims of the Shoreham Airshow crash which claimed the lives of 11 people in Shoreham and left 16 more injured.
On the afternoon of Saturday, August 22, a vintage jet piloted by Andy Hill plunged into the A27 next to Shoreham Airport, causing a massive fireball to engulf the road.
Georgina, 23, told The Mirror of her panic when Daniele was late to get home.
“Eventually I rang one of his friends to ask what was going on," she said in 2016, "he came round and we were looking through Facebook – news about the disaster had started to spread. There were loads of posts saying ‘RIP Daniele’.
“We thought people were jumping the gun, and maybe he was being held somewhere and couldn’t contact us. It didn’t feel real. I just thought he had to be OK. We decided to wait until the morning and hope for the best.
“I couldn’t sleep, and the next morning I saw his death had been confirmed on the TV news.
“I collapsed on the landing floor, just crying. After that I locked myself away for two weeks,” Georgina said.
Every one of the victims had a story like Daniele's.
Maurice Abrahams, 76, was a chauffeur on his way to pick up a bride on her wedding day.
Richard Smith, 26, and Dylan Archer, 42, were two friends who were going for a bike ride on the South Downs.
Mark Reeves, 53, had taken his motorcycle to the edge of Shoreham Airport to take photos of the planes.
At around 1.20pm that day, a Hawker Hunter jet crashed onto the road below during a loop manoeuvre.
The impact of the crash destroyed several vehicles, while fuel from the vehicles caused a massive fireball to ignite.
The news came through in a burst of confusion. People across Sussex were glued to their phones and TV screens as the shocking scenes started to filter in, with estimates of the death toll rising as high as 20 or 30 at times.
It was later confirmed that 11 men had died in the crash.
The pilot, Andy Hill, miraculously survived the crash and was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
He had been thrown clear of the burning wreckage of the plane and landed in the bushes, but was seriously injured in the process.
The Air Accidents Investigation blamed the tragedy on pilot error, and Mr Hill was to face a trial after he recovered.
Mr Hill, 57, was charged with 11 counts of manslaughter by gross negligence, and one count of endangering an aircraft.
Mr Hill had attempted a loop manoeuvre, which ultimately failed and his aircraft crashed into the road below.
More than three years later, on March 8, 2019, he was found not guilty of all charges.
The tragedy left Sussex in a state of grief and shock. Tributes from all angles began pouring in as the county came to terms with the shocking loss of life it had just witnessed.
Matt Grimstone and Jacob Schilt were two young footballers who were travelling to a game before they lost their lives in the crash.
The pair were close friends and former pupils of Varndean School in Brighton, where Jacob’s dad Bob was a teacher.
Both of them played for Worthing United, and got stuck in traffic on the A27 on their way to play in a Worthing match.
They also had a connection with Brighton - Matt had been a member of the ground staff there for seven years and was good friends with goalkeeper David Stockdale.
Both clubs soon released touching tributes, and Brighton dedicated their fixture against Hull three weeks later to the pair.
Fans were given banners to hold up which formed the word "together", while giant shirts bearing Matt and Jacob's names were held aloft on the pitch.
A stand at Worthing United's ground has been renamed in their honour, while the pair have a permanent memorial and plaque in the north stand concourse at the Amex stadium; a place where thousands of people see their names every Saturday afternoon.
A few years later in 2019, a permanent memorial to all 11 victims was erected on the banks of the River Adur.
However, the families of the victims are still waiting for closure in the court room.
Mr Hill was found not guilty of manslaughter in his trial at the Old Bailey in 2019. Many of the victims' families have publicly spoken of their anger at the trial's verdict.
Caroline and Bob Schilt, Jacob's parents, spoke to the Mirror in 2020 about their "anger" at the decision to allow Mr Hill to walk free.
“Yes I can’t deny it – I was angry,” said Caroline, a retired drama teacher.
Bob, 66, added: “But we can understand it and we can see all of the reasons why it happened – the main reason being the very high threshold for gross negligence.”
The court heard Mr Hill had attempted the risky “bent loop” move too low and too slow to complete it.
Caroline said: “I think he had a cavalier attitude. He was very keen to demonstrate his knowledge of flying and to show what an expert he was at flying. And two-and-half days of that became quite wearing.
“He seems to have been able to somehow shut off from what he did.”
Mr Hill claimed during the trial that he blacked out in the air, possibly due to the effects of G-force.
Speaking outside the court after the case from a prepared statement, Hill read the names of each of the victims, said he was “truly sorry” and added that he would “remember them for the rest of my life”.
An inquest into the victims' deaths was due for September 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic has seen that date postponed twice already.
It is now due to take place in February or March of 2022 - close to seven years after the tragedy happened.
The Shoreham Airshow has not been staged again since the crash. More stringent safety regulations governing airshows have been put into place, but, as Caroline says, “that doesn’t help us”.
It was a harrowing tragedy, the scale of which had not been seen in Sussex for decades, that left the county raw and grieving.
Six years later, the families are still waiting for their closure.
The 11 men who died were wedding chauffeur Maurice Abrahams, 76, from Brighton; retired engineer James Mallinson, 72, from Newick, near Lewes; window cleaner and builder Mark Trussler, 54, from Worthing; cycling friends Dylan Archer, 42, from Brighton, and Richard Smith, 26, from Hove; NHS manager Tony Brightwell, 53, from Hove; grandfather Mark Reeves, 53, from Seaford; Worthing United footballers Matthew Grimstone and Jacob Schilt, both 23; personal trainer Matt Jones, 24; and Daniele Polito, 23, from Worthing.


External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said that some progress has been made during the talks between military commanders of India and China but the there is no visible expression of that on the ground.
He said nine rounds of talks have been held between the military commanders on the process of disengagement of troops in eastern Ladakh and the negotiations will continue in future also.
"Military Commanders (of India and China) have held nine rounds of meetings so far, we believe some progress has been made but it's not yet in a kind of situation where there is a visible expression of that on the ground," Jaishankar told reporters in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
"After last years' events, we've deployed troops in very large numbers to meet the challenge which has come from the massing of Chinese troops there," he said.
The minister was referring to the border tension at the LAC between Indian and Chinese soldiers and death of 20 Indian army personnel in a clash in eastern Ladakh.
"The disengagement talks, because it is a very complicated issue, because it depends on troops, you have to know the geography (like) which position and what is happening, this is being done by the military commanders," he said.
He was replying to a query on whether there would be any ministerial level talks between both the countries on skirmishes between troops of the Asian giants.
China and India are locked in a military standoff in eastern Ladakh since May 5 last.
The two countries have held several rounds of military and diplomatic talks to resolve the face-off, but no significant headway has been made so far.
Jaishankar said he and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held parleys with their counterparts of China last year and agreed that they should disengage in some parts.
(With inputs from agencies)


Four persons died yesterday while four others sustained injuries in an auto crash around Pipeline Junction, Ogere, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway,Ogun State.
Mr. Babatunde Akinbiyi, the spokesperson for Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), said that the accident occurred around 4:30 a.m. and that it involved a Man Diesel truck with registration number: TKP 653 XA, conveying people and yams.
He explained that the accident involved 14 people: 13 males and one female; that four males died and another four sustained injuries. “I learnt the vehicle was coming from the North to Lagos and loaded with yams,” he said. “The casualty was much because some of the passengers who are the likely owners of the yams were sitting on the yams in the open space at the back. The truck lost control due to excessive speed and poor visibility; fell by its side with the yams and the vehicle fell on them.”
Akinbiyi ,said that the dead bodies had been deposited at FOS Mortuary, Ipara Remo, Ogun State, while the injured were taken to Idera Hospital, Sagamu. He advised motorists to maintain their vehicles, avoid speed and night travel if possible, especially now that the harmattan season is here, with poor visibility everywhere.


In July, state Sen. Nate Blouin, D-Salt Lake City, authored an email paid for and distributed by Erin Mendenhall's mayoral reelection campaign. "The constructive tone Erin has set has finally created a real partnership in confronting the statewide homelessness crisis," he said.
The idea of "partnership" between the incumbent Salt Lake City mayor and state legislators obscures the statistics of Utah's 2023 Annual Data Report on Homelessness. The Deseret News reported that it "showed a 96% increase in people experiencing chronic homelessness since 2019 and a 10% jump, year over year, to 8,637 people experiencing homelessness for the first time."
Square these numbers with a recent re-election ad by Mendenhall, boasting that Salt Lake City's two homeless centers can increase capacity by 50 beds apiece, plus another 200 beds during "Code Blue" events when temperatures are 15 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. The majority of overflow beds aren't even in Salt Lake City, but other places throughout the county.
Paucities. Out-of-city solutions. Arbitrariness.
Anything below 32 degrees is freezing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that extreme cold varies, meaning we can experience it at temperatures above freezing. Fifteen degrees—well below freezing—is an odd number that appears to mean something.
I invite Mayor Mendenhall or state homeless coordinator Wayne Niederhauser to spend a couple nights outside this winter and report back to the public. What is the difference between 15 and 17 degrees? Or between 17 and 20?
Last winter, unhoused SLC residents died at unprecedented rates. Richard Markosian of Utah Stories reported that the city's count is likely low, and The Salt Lake Tribune revealed that at least a dozen people had died due to exposure. Winter descends, and Mendenhall touts a long-term strategy. But, as reported by the Deseret News, she now lacks funding.
A strategy without funding? At best, this is wishful thinking. And at worst? Another winter with our incumbent as mayor.
Instead of ideating and enacting solutions, Mendenhall is on record saying that sanctioned encampments aren't the city's responsibility. Mendenhall ultimately flip-flopped on the topic, changing her campaign message. "[M]y administration and staff ... are working daily ... on a safe, structured sanctioned campground," she now claims, while continuing to condone raids on the houseless.
Of the abatements, Mendenhall said in June: "We participate in those because it's inhumane for a city to allow [unhoused residents to live in] public spaces that were never fit for human habitation." This is a classic example of punishing the victim.
Sen. Blouin claims that Mendenhall's work has "resulted in direct investment in reducing the impacts of homelessness." Huh? I've deliberated over what his words, when cobbled together, mean. A deconstruction of the sentence reveals it describes nothing. Moreover, our streets showcase the opposite of Blouin's sloganeering.
People are forced from one unlawful camp to the next because there's nowhere to go. These folks require shelter, hospitalization and/or rehabilitation. Instead of meaningful reform, Mendenhall humanizes the cyclical abuse of government-sanctioned abatements—a mean-spirited act that includes stealing from the poorest among us.
In a KSL NewsRadio report, Rocky Anderson—former two-term mayor and candidate for reelection this November—talked about the previous winter: "We had people on our streets dying of the freezing cold, getting frostbite and having their fingers and their toes amputated," he said. "That is an absolute crisis, and it was ignored."
What do meaningful political partnerships really look like? They look like Anderson's relationship with Latter-day Saints and non-LDS communities, his positive associations with Republicans and his forthright engagement with the media, Capitol Hill and the public.
Anderson is transparent. He's empathetic. This past winter, he personally drove a frostbitten victim to the emergency room. Between The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News, there exist many articles that report on his commitment to bipartisanship.
Following the 2002 Winter Olympics, Anderson endorsed now-Utah Sen. Mitt Romney for Massachusetts governor, and Romney in turn endorsed Anderson's reelection campaign. As reported by the Deseret News, the Alliance for Unity was a "brainchild of two political opposites, industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr. and Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson." The program brought together civic, business and religious leaders of all faiths and political backgrounds to bridge divides in the community.
A 2003 Deseret News article about the Joseph Smith Memorial Building's 10th anniversary quotes Gordon B. Hinkley—the late president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—praising then-Mayor Anderson's leadership. Anderson also received the 2019 Leonard Weinglass in Defense of Civil Liberties Award from the American Association for Justice.
Humane results through dialogue, constructive collaboration, partnerships unrestricted by political or religious affiliation as well as humor, sensitivity, transparency and seriousness. These rank among the man's documented strengths as a public servant.
Our collective humanity deserves solutions for our city's houseless—not senatorial marketing puffery in "Paid for by Mendenhall" advertisements. We need representation that understands the difference between brinkmanship and positive change.
I'm disenchanted with Sen. Nate Blouin and the other supporters of Mayor Erin Mendenhall, not because they don't see what I see—but because what they describe isn't what I see.
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As we wind down our series on the history of Cardinals draft picks, this week we will take a look at the safeties. The Cardinals have drafted quite a few solid safeties over the past few decades and Cardinals fans hope they can continue that trend, especially since I have safety as the team’s biggest need in May’s draft.
It’s timely that this week is the week we focus on Cardinals safeties, since much of the media is taking time to remember the most famous Cardinals safety in their history this week. This week marks the tenth anniversary of the death of former Cardinals seventh-round pick Pat Tillman. While Tillman may not make the list of top Cardinals safeties drafted for his on the field performance, he certainly tops the list for what he stood for off the field.
The word hero is thrown around a little too loosely in my opinion these days, but in Tillman’s case I think it’s justified. Not too many people walk away from a life in professional sports to do what they think is right. If anything it seems half of today’s athletes couldn’t find the right thing to with a pre-programmed GPS. Tillman is a symbol for the sacrifice of all of our men and women in the Armed Forces.
There have been many articles written and revisited about Tillman this week. Many media members talking about his memory. I especially enjoyed listening to Fox Sports 910’s Mike Jurecki tell his personal stories about his relationship with Tillman and the kind of guy he was. Cardinals fans will certainly never forget him.
Back to the topic at hand. The best safety the Cardinals have ever drafted. Going back to the first round of the 1983 draft, the Cardinals used their first-round pick on Leonard Smith. Smith played about half of his career with the Cardinals accruing 14 interceptions and 14 sacks. In 1984 they drafted Martin Bayless in the fourth round. Bayless ended his career with 776 tackles, 12 interceptions and 11.5 sacks.
In more recent history, the Cardinals selected Corey Chavous with the 33rd overall pick in 1998. Chavous made one Pro Bowl and retired with 592 tackles, 20 interceptions and 5.5 sacks. In 2005 the Cardinals used their first-round pick on a Antrel Rolle. Rolle was a fan favorite before signing with the Giants as a free agent. Rolle has been elected to three Pro Bowls and currently has 607 tackles, 23 interceptions and seven forced fumbles.
All of those players had very good NFL careers, but when it comes to the top safeties drafted by the Cardinals, two names stand above the rest. In 2001 the Cardinals drafted Adrian Wilson in the third round. The player that was affectionately referred to as A-dub has had a pretty fantastic career. That career includes one 1st team All-Pro selection and 5 Pro Bowl teams as well as 721 tackles, 27 interceptions, 25.5 sacks and 16 forced fumbles. Wilson was the kind of big-hitting safety that has gradually been phased out of the NFL game. He’s laying the lumber on Mikel Leshoure of the Detroit Lions in the picture above from 2012.
Adrian Wilson was a great player, but the number one spot on this list goes to another Cardinals draft pick by the slimmest of margins. In 1987 the Cardinals used their second-round pick on a player from USC named Tim McDonald. McDonald played on six Pro Bowl squads and finished his career with an impressive 1063 tackles, 40 interceptions, 16 forced fumbles and 9.5 sacks. McDonald has two sons that have followed in his safety footsteps too. His son TJ played safety for USC and was drafted in the third round by the Rams and Tevin played safety for UCLA for two seasons before transferring.
The Cardinals head into the 2014 NFL draft hoping they can add yet another name to this distinguished list.


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Both shows will be delayed from early 2021 due to the coronavirus.
ReedPop, the parent company that produces the Emerald City Comic Con and Chicago’s C2E2 convention, has announced that both conventions have been delayed until December 2021.
ECCC will now take place at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle Dec. 2-5, 2021, with C2E2 following it at McCormick Place in Chicago on Dec. 10-12, 2021.
The 2020 C2E2 was one of the last comic conventions to actually hold a show; it took place at the end of February, right before the coronavirus hit the United States and everyone started going into lockdown. The 2020 ECCC show was not so lucky; it was originally scheduled for March 12-15, and was one of the first events that had to decide whether to postpone or continue on. They did postpone, pushing the show back to August, when they hoped COVID-19 might no longer be a concern. Eventually they cancelled the show completely for 2020.
Continue reading “ECCC, C2E2 postponed until December 2021”
As you probably expected, ReedPop has announced that they are canceling the in-person New York Comic Con and will hold a virtual event instead.
“We are thoroughly disappointed that we can’t gather together, in-person for the New York Comic Con we love to build and our fans love to revel in. We look forward to this weekend all year long, just like you, and with this being our 15th edition, we were particularly excited. I will miss walking up and down artist alley and seeing friends that I’ve made since we were in the basement at the Javits Center,” said Lance Fensterman, President of ReedPop, in a press release. “While this year will definitely be a different experience, we are going to look to bring the best and most engaging event to our fans, exhibitors and studios through our partnership with YouTube.”
Continue reading “New York Comic Con goes virtual for 2020”
A live convention, which was postponed to August, is now off the books for this year due to COVID-19.
It seems like such a different time now — compared to all way back in March, when Emerald City Comic Con had to decide whether to move forward with their annual convention or postpone to a later date. They opted to postpone, looking toward the end of August as their new dates, and became the first major comic book convention to be affected by COVID-19.
Three months later, everything else has been canceled, too, to the point that the surprise is gone when you hear about another event that won’t move forward. But ECCC has officially announced that the convention won’t go on as planned in August. Instead, they’re planning to hold a digital event, with the hopes that a live convention can occur next March.
Continue reading “Emerald City Comic Con canceled for 2020”
For the first time in its 50-year history, the San Diego Comic Con will not happen due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Comic-Con International has announced that the annual San Diego Comic Con has been officially canceled for 2020. The convention will not return until July 22-25, 2021.
“Recognizing that countless attendees save and plan for its conventions each year, and how many exhibitors and stakeholders rely upon its events for a major portion of their livelihood, they had hoped to delay this decision in anticipation that COVID-19 concerns might lessen by summer,” their page reads. “Continuous monitoring of health advisories and recent statements by the Governor of California have made it clear that it would not be safe to move forward with plans for this year.”
Continue reading “Comic Con International in San Diego canceled for 2020”
Ticket holders for the March event can transfer their badges to the August show.
After postponing this weekend’s show due to the coronavirus pandemic last week, ReedPop, which hosts the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, has announced their new dates for later this year — Aug. 21-23, which is one day less than the original show.
If you had tickets for this weekend’s show, you can transfer your registration to August using this form. You’ll need to do this by March 27, or else you will automatically receive a refund. If you do transfer a four-day badge, you’ll receive a refund for that extra day.
Continue reading “Emerald City Comic Con rescheduled for Aug. 21-23”
Convention, originally set for April 10-12, will be ‘postponed until a later date.’
Comic-Con International has announced they are postponing this year’s WonderCon, their annual spring convention in Anaheim, California. This year’s convention was scheduled for April 10-12.
“To protect public health and slow the rate of transmission of COVID-19, the California Department of Public Health announced a recommendation that gatherings and events of more than 250 people should either be postponed or cancelled. Comic-Con (organizer of WonderCon) will abide by this recommendation,” the organization said on their website. “Therefore WonderCon Anaheim, scheduled for April 10-12, 2020 in Anaheim, California, will be postponed until a later date. We will begin processing refunds in the coming days.”
Continue reading “CCI postpones WonderCon”
Portland area retailers will host creators this Saturday and Sunday as an alternative to ECCC.
Update, March 12: PDX Popup Con has been cancelled.
With ECCC postponed, we’ve seen several alternatives pop up, from Pajama Con to Oni’s online convention shop. For those in Portland, here’s another way to spend your weekend — PDX Popup Con, which is being put on by PDXComicArts.com and several Portland-area comics retailers.
“With the last-minute cancellation of Emerald City Comic-Con due to fears of a COVID-19 outbreak, many artists, publishers and exhibitors have been left without an opportunity to share their work and chat with their audience next weekend,” their site reads. “Many self-published artists rely on conventions like ECCC as a financial foundation for their year, and income lost from these shows can be devastating. Not to mention the upfront costs of booking travel and hotels, which at this point probably cannot be canceled or refunded.”
Continue reading “PDX Popup Con 2020 to take place this weekend [Update: It is cancelled]”
Publisher will host livestreams and other activities following the cancellation of the Emerald City Comic Con.
Iron Circus Comics, one of the scheduled exhibitors at this year’s now-postponed Emerald City Comic Con, has announced plans to host a virtual, livestreamed convention this coming weekend called Pajama Con 2020.
Pajama Con will take place from noon to 6p.m. Central March 13-15 on the Pajama Con Twitch channel. Guests so far include Steve Leiber, Chris Roberson, Lin Visel, Genue Revuelta, C. Spike Trotman and Kate Leth, with more to be announced.
Seattle’s biggest comic book convention won’t happen in March as planned.
Following the many exhibitors and creators who opted not to attend this year due to coronavirus concerns, the Emerald City Comic Con has announced they will postpone the convention until this summer. An exact date has not been announced yet.
“Our hearts go out to the entire Seattle community, everyone impacted by the COVID-19 virus, and all of you, the nearly 100,000 amazing human beings who look forward to this event each year,” ECCC said in a statement on their website. “Our team was incredibly excited to see you at Emerald City Comic Con next week, however, fans, artists, exhibitors and the rest of the community are what make Reedpop events so special and it is our duty to make sure that your safety comes first.”
Continue reading “ECCC postponed until summer 2020”


Justine Love gives her dish on the latest sci-fi drama to hit the big screen this year “The Hunger Games.” Based on a novel written by , has now hit the big screen under the direction of Gary Ross. The Hunger Games takes place in Panem which was once North America. Now divided into 12 districts [photogallerylink id=112526]run by an evil government, one teenage boy and girl are chosen to fight one another until one remains. The bloody game is televised by the government as punishment for a previous uprising and a way to control the 12 districts. Get the full scoop with Justine Love plus watch the official trailer!


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On this week’s episode of Film Fallout, Dylan Schwan and Christopher Cross take to the skies then dive into the ocean with Sully, the newest film from Clint Eastwood. What makes this true story worth adapting into a film? Well, give the podcast a listen to find out if we even have an answer for that. Worse comes to worst, you can always listen to us discuss how much we’re baffled by the film.
We’ve also got blu-ray releases this week, and a bunch of news, including some festival coverage. On top of that, Dylan talks about a new Cinemax show called Quarry, starring Logan Marshall-Green. Then we both discuss Before I Wake, the second film from Mike Flanagan this year, which somehow keeps dodging a proper release. Find out if it’s worth all the shuffling around.
It’s TIFF week, so I’m scurrying around everywhere, but next week we will have a review of Blair Witch. We will also have several reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival when we do a one-off episode regarding what I’ve seen there.
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SMOKIN’ IN THE BOYS ROOM: Darren Watson Interview
Formed in Wellington in mid-1986, Smokeshop have earned their reputation as New Zealand’s number one blues band. They have toured the country regularly and extensively with a show that has all the class and panache of a BB King revue.
There’s a high powered horn section, some of the hottest rhythm players in the country and, fronting the whole thing, Darren Watson who, at 23, sings and plays the blues with a skill and conviction that is more than impressive. It’s scary.
In late ’88 they took three days out to record their first album, a strong set of new and old blues songs, mainly favourites from the band’s live repertoire. It was a fine debut, although it received criticism for its lack of original songs and the predominance of 12 bar shuffles. Their new album should appease those critics. Recorded in Marmalade over ten days in January So Glad shows that an enormous amount of growth and maturing has taken place.
As it to emphasise the changes, they have dropped the Chicago from the front of their name.
Chicago is, of course, known as the Home of the Blues, giving birth to the Chess sound in the 50s and housing the Alligator label today. Darren Watson believes it no longer gives an accurate indication of the band’s style.
“It was relevant when we started and we needed something to say we played blues,” he explains, “but people basically made the name change by themselves. We got called Smokeshop by most people.
Also, people in Australia and the States liked the band but couldn’t handle the name, they couldn’t picture it.”
Nine of the new album’s ten tracks are originals and while they are filled with the feeling of the blues, they stretch well beyond the 12-bar format to show the influence of Stax soul, New Orleans funk, gospel and singer-songwriters like John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett.
Asked if he’s pleased with it, Darren Watson gives an affirmative “yep”, followed by a self-effacing laugh. He needn’t be bashful; the album’s of an international standard with excellent playing and arrangements centred around Darren’s fine songs, singing and firey guitar style.
“I think it sounds more like I want Smokeshop to sound like than what we have sounded like,” he says, “the last album was already out of date before it came out. This one’s a lot more contemporary. A lot of the songs we’re only learning to play live now. It’s a much more serious record and I hope it gets taken that way.”
‘So Glad’ clearly has a more personal significance to Darren as well. “The album’s definitely got a theme to it. It’s all about one particular relationship. You could actually list the songs out in the way things happened, but we didn’t. We didn’t want an opera!”
The songs were written on and off the road over the past eighteen months. Some have ended up close to Darren’s original conception, while others have been drastically rearranged by the rest of the band.
”I remember when I wrote ‘Truth In My Life’ at the bottom of the page (I actually wrote it at 3 o’clock in the morning!). I wrote “piano, guitar, bass, gospel choir”. That’s what I originally intended and that’s what it came out like, only we couldn’t afford a gospel choir.”
But “I Can’t Live”, the album’s bright, punchy, Stax-like single, began life as a country song.
“Richard Te One basically came up with a feel that works. Things gradually evolve as you play with him. He’s a great drummer. ‘Patient Little Boy’ was going to be a straight blues. First Richard decided to shuffle it, because Richard wants to turn everything into a shuffle. Then Alan Norman (guest piano man on the album) said “I’ll play you my famous lick, see if it will sit.”
Darren is prepared for the criticism that, even in their original songwriting, Smokeshop are strongly derivative of American music. He believes that his use of an R&B format makes his work no less valid than that of other Kiwi songwriters.
“Sure, it’s American music in lots of ways, but it’s also Kiwi music because we wrote it and it’s about things that happened to me. I listen to the so-called Dunedin sound and I think these guys are doing something that’s unique in some ways but a lot of it’s taken from the Velvet Underground, a lot of 60s English music, early Pink Floyd. Everyone’s got their influences. It just seems that if you’re playing R&B in this country you’re more likely to have someone breathing down your neck saying “You’ve got to be an American, a Kiwi can’t do it” or something.”
Why the prejudice?
“I think a lot of that is due to the fact that people perceive R&B as something that’s easy to play. You know 12 bars, three chords, how hard can it be? People say it to me all the time. We know it’s not that easy.”
In August Smokeshop are touring a new live show in which they showcase most of the material on So Glad. While they still guarantee a big dose of the blues, there is much more to the current set than straight 12-bars. How are the ‘Madison Blues’ hoons coping with the newer, subtler material?
“We might be losing a few of the diehards, but by the same token we’re gaining a new audience. Now people who would go out and see a normal contemporary rock band will think about coming to see us. People are listening to us a lot more now that we’re doing something of our own.”
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The Gophers women’s basketball team has only one game left before the Big Ten tournament. But the question is, how much does the team have left for the stretch run?
Until senior Sari Noga gave the team a jolt of energy in Thursday’s come-from-behind victory over Indiana, the Gophers looked like a tired group.
Even coach Pam Borton admitted as much.
“I saw a little fatigue from our players,” she said. “But we willed our way and found a way to win.”
By doing so the Gophers (18-11, 7-8 Big Ten) kept their hopes for an NCAA tournament berth alive. Entering Thursday’s game the Gophers were 37th in the RPI rankings and were included in the tournament field by ESPN analyst Charlie Creme. After the victory, Borton indicated the team’s RPI was strong and that, should the team win at home in Sunday’s regular-season finale against Ohio State, the team’s résumé should be strong enough no matter what happens in the conference tournament.
Now it’s just a matter of replenishing the team’s energy supply.
Borton started the season with only 10 players on the roster, a number that dwindled to seven late in the season because of injuries.
That has meant a lot of minutes for the starters, particularly guard Rachel Banham and center Amanda Zahui B.
While the Gophers have won five of their past seven games, Banham has averaged more than 39 minutes per game. And it has taken a toll on Banham, who has shot 53-for-46 (36.3 percent) in that time.
“I’m used to playing a lot of minutes,” she said Thursday. “But I’m definitely getting tired at certain points. … I’m doing everything I can. I’m staying hydrated. I’m drinking Pedialyte every day. There are times when my energy is low, but I have to fight through it.”
So does the team. Which is why Borton joked Thursday about having the coaches follow the players home and make sure they got their sleep.
The Gophers will face an Ohio State team Sunday that is fading, losing six of its past seven games. It’s a game Minnesota is favored to win. A victory would give them a .500 conference mark and 19 wins overall. And the team would have three days to rest and practice before the conference tournament begins in Indianapolis.
Energy should not be an issue Sunday. There is still a lot at stake. Seniors Noga and Micaëlla Riché will be honored.
“They’ll be ready to go,” Borton said of her players. “It’s Senior Night. How can they not put it all on the floor for Micaëlla and Sari?’’