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  1. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/street-protests-break-out-cuba-2021-07-11/ HAVANA, July 11 (Reuters) - Thousands of Cubans took to the streets from Havana to Santiago on Sunday in rarely seen protests, expressing frustration over economic conditions, the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations and what they said was government neglect. President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who also heads the Communist Party, blamed the United States for the unrest in a nationally televised speech on Sunday afternoon. Special forces jeeps, with machine guns mounted on the back, were seen in the capital, Havana, and Diaz-Canel called on supporters to confront “provocations." Thousands of people gathered in downtown Havana and along parts of the seaside drive amid a heavy police presence. There were a few arrests and scuffles.
  2. As promised, here are pics of the epic Purdue trip. We met lots of equally nice and strange people–They think Austin is a den of liberal indulgence. The game itself had a truly amazing atmosphere - that was the loudest event that I've ever attended. Saw a few Horns down, which we considered an honor. Best part was waving goodbye to their fans as they left with four seconds left. Of course, they reserve their hatred for IU. Would love to see one of those games. Enjoy! PS. This morning, I spotted a forlorn, middle-aged Purdue fan leaving the hotel. He was carrying a stupid, gold-painted construction helmet and was wearing a very sad expression. Priceless.
  3. https://www.facebook.com/reel/848034413193360?mibextid=H1ZToH
  4. How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all By DAVID LAZARUS MAR 05, 2019 | 5:00 AM Charles Dahan was one of the leading suppliers of frames to LensCrafters, before the company was purchased by optical behemoth Luxottica. Glasses that cost him $20 to make would be sold for five times that amount. (Luxottica) Charles Dahan knows from firsthand experience how badly people get ripped off when buying eyeglasses. He was once one of the leading suppliers of frames to LensCrafters, before the company was purchased by optical behemoth Luxottica. He also built machines that improved the lens-manufacturing process. inRead invented by Teads ADVERTISEMENT In other words, Dahan, 70, knows the eyewear business from start to finish. And he doesn’t like what’s happened. “There is no competition in the industry, not anymore,” he told me. “Luxottica bought everyone. They set whatever prices they please.” Dahan, who lives in Potomac, Md., was responding to a column I recently wrote about why consumer prices for frames and lenses are so astronomically high, with markups often approaching 1,000%. I noted that if you wear designer glasses, there’s a very good chance you’re wearing Luxottica frames. The company’s owned and licensed brands include Armani, Brooks Brothers, Burberry, Chanel, Coach, DKNY, Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors, Oakley, Oliver Peoples, Persol, Polo Ralph Lauren, Ray-Ban, Tiffany, Valentino, Vogue and Versace. Along with LensCrafters, Luxottica also runs Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Sunglass Hut and Target Optical, as well as the insurer EyeMed Vision Care. And Italy’s Luxottica now casts an even longer shadow over the eyewear industry after merging last fall with France’s Essilor, the world’s leading maker of prescription eyeglass lenses and contact lenses. The combined entity is called EssilorLuxottica. Just so you know up front, I reached out to both Luxottica and its parent company with what Dahan told me. I asked if they’d like to respond to his specific points or to speak generally about optical pricing. Neither company responded, which was the same response I received the last time I contacted them. Apparently EssilorLuxottica feels no need to defend its business practices. Or it understands that no reasonable defense is possible. Dahan, a chemical engineer by training, established a company called Custom Optical in 1977 after designing a machine capable of making prescription lenses appear thinner. In short order he also was designing plastic and metal frames, and proposed to LensCrafters in 1985 that he supply the then-independent company. “They bought my lens machines, and soon I was selling them a few models of frames,” Dahan said. “Those were successful, so they kept buying more.” Buying glasses online can save you a lot of money. Here’s how to do it » Eventually, he said, his company was supplying LensCrafters with about 20% of its frames. “They called me their crown jewel,” Dahan said. E. Dean Butler, the founder of LensCrafters, remembers Dahan as “a real go-getter.” “He was a key supplier — good product at reasonable prices,” Butler, 74, said in a phone interview from Berlin, where he was meeting with optical-industry contacts. He’s no longer affiliated with LensCrafters. These days he’s based in England, but serves as a consultant to optical businesses worldwide. Both Butler and Dahan acknowledged what most consumers have long suspected: that the prices we pay for eyewear in no way reflect the actual cost of making frames and lenses. When he was in the business, in the 1980s and ’90s, Dahan said it cost him between $10 and $16 to manufacture a pair of quality plastic or metal frames. Lenses, he said, might cost about $5 a pair to produce. With fancy coatings, that could boost the price all the way to $15. He said LensCrafters would turn around and charge $99 for completed glasses that cost $20 or $30 to make — and this was well below what many independent opticians charged. Nowadays, he said, those same glasses at LensCrafters might cost hundreds of dollars. Butler said he recently visited factories in China where many glasses for the U.S. market are manufactured. Improved technology has made prices even lower than what Dahan recalled. “You can get amazingly good frames, with a Warby Parker level of quality, for $4 to $8,” Butler said. “For $15, you can get designer-quality frames, like what you’d get from Prada.” And lenses? “You can buy absolutely first-quality lenses for $1.25 apiece,” Butler said. Yet those same frames and lenses might sell in the United States for $800. Butler laughed. “I know,” he said. “It’s ridiculous. It’s a complete rip-off.” In 1995, Luxottica purchased LensCrafters’ parent company, U.S. Shoe Corp., for $1.4 billion. The goal wasn’t to get into the shoe business. It was to take control of LensCrafters’ hundreds of stores nationwide. Dahan said things went downhill for him after that. Luxottica increasingly emphasized its own frames over those of outside suppliers, he said, and Custom Optical’s sales plunged. Dahan was forced to close his business in 2001. “It wasn’t just me,” he said. “It happened to a lot of companies. Look at Oakley.” Indeed, the California maker of premium sunglasses was embraced by skiers and other outdoorsy types after it released its first sunglasses in 1984. It raised $230 million with an initial public offering of stock in 1995. Its biggest customer by far was Sunglass Hut, which, like LensCrafters, had stores in malls across the country. Luxottica purchased Sunglass Hut in early 2001. It promptly told Oakley it wanted to pay significantly lower wholesale prices or it would reduce its orders and push its own brands instead. Within months, Oakley acknowledged to shareholders that the talks hadn’t gone well and that Luxottica was slashing its orders. “We have made every reasonable effort to establish a mutually beneficial business partnership with Luxottica, but it is clear from this week's surprising actions that our efforts have been ignored,” Oakley’s management said in a statement at the time. The company’s stock immediately lost more than a third of its value. Luxottica acquired Oakley a few years later, adding it to Ray-Ban, which Luxottica obtained in 1999. “That’s how they gained control of so many brands,” Dahan said. “If you don’t do what they want, they cut you off.” Again, no one at Luxottica responded to my request for comment. As I’ve previously observed, online glasses sales hold potential for pushing retail eyewear prices lower, but the e-glasses industry still has a ways to go before posing a threat to the likes of EssilorLuxottica. It can be a challenge buying something so central to one’s appearance without first trying it on or receiving hands-on help with fitting. In the meantime, Dahan and Butler told me, federal authorities should step up and prevent price gouging for eyewear — just as they’ve done with other healthcare products, such as EpiPens. “Federal officials fell asleep at the wheel,” Dahan said. “They should never have allowed all these companies to roll into one. It destroyed competition.” Butler said it should be clear from EssilorLuxottica’s practices that the company has too much market power. “If that’s not a monopoly,” he said, “I don’t know what is.” I couldn’t agree more. Regulators are currently wringing their hands over further consolidation in the wireless industry, with a proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile raising the prospect of just three major carriers. The eyewear market is in considerably worse shape. That should be clear to anyone.
  5. As some of y'all may have seen elsewhere, Major (our Doberman of 8+ years) passed away around 1-1/2 months ago due to Cancer. Gut wrenching, of course. The 1st dog my kids ever had as "theirs" (my Mom had a German Shedder that was located @ her house; Otis passed on close to 6 years ago). Anyway. Yesterday, we got another Doberman. Say "hi" to Bruno. $ 300.00 got us the dog, a collar, + 1 "King Size" bag of Pedigree. Mature size, juvenile in age (somewhere between 10 months & 1 year, I think). This was my wife's idea & she was really missing Major, so that explains her emotional situation on going for another Dobie so soon. This one isn't the "black & tan" variety, Bruno is the "Red & Rust" version. We visited with Bruno @ his South Austin home last Sunday & after some apprehension on his part, he warmed up what seemed to be enough & he played with me, my teenaged kids, etc Monster is almost 16 & Roxette is closing in on 18). All seemed to be OK. Yesterday, we picked him up & brought Bruno out to Drip. Hilarity did NOT ensue. We have 3 Corgis; Tater Tot (Rascal) is the cutest evarrr fuzzball pup of around 2 months old, Rory is approx. 1 year & Scout is 2 years. Both "adult" Corgis took an instant dislike & Bruno was violently aggressive towards Rascal (pup). Bruno has apparently NOT been trained to not jump up / put his feet on you, etc. & 3x when someone had his back to him, he went near 45 deg. angle to the human & was either trying to assert dominance or going for the "play" posture (not either of these moves to a human in an overly aggressive way). After Bruno was here around 1 hour, Roxette returned after having been to the high school to do maintenance for her sheep (4H type show sheep) & Bruno apparently smelled something of interest & was very VERY aggressive to her. Everything was a mess... none of the canines settled down (other than Rascal... he's still oblivious @ that age) & we had to separate them overnight by a distance of around 6 feet from the living room to the kennel we have Bruno in. This is not working out We contacted the people in South Austin that we got him from & they are refusing to take him back. Less than 18 hours after we brought him to Drip. THEM: We already spent the money & gave away all of his stuff that we still had. US: We can work on the $$ later - for now, you have to take him back. We will even give you the bed & some rawhides we picked up @ PetCo. THEM: Nope, that's your issues. Hard refuse. US: Let's be reasonable here - this isn't working out. (re-describe issues that have come up) THEM: Nope. - - - - - - - Discuss, Shag.
  6. https://www.facebook.com/reel/848034413193360?mibextid=H1ZToH
  7. TCU - 13 Texas - 11 Baylor - 6 Houston - 5 Rice - 2 SMU - 2 UTSA - 2 Texas Tech - 1 Texas A&M - 1
  8. Who will win the wildcard game between NYY and BOS?
  9. The most historic win in surfing history without question. Beat Seth Moniz who is less than half his age. Un-freaking-real
  10. Glad to see that she came back from the shittastic Olympics. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mikaela-shiffrin-wins-overall-world-202544333.html Reflecting on the challenges of the season, Mikaela noted the victory comes after some "very low moments." "There were many moments this season that have been very great," Shiffrin said, per NBC Sports. "But there's also been some very low moments. It's the lowest I've ever felt in my career, in my life as well. Not just skiing, but as a human, there's been moments where I feel the weight of everything so much that it's just a terrible feeling." Continued Shiffrin, "After the Olympics, [the overall] was the final goal that was still possible to achieve. It felt like all the biggest goals I had this season, I didn't do anything. Now this is very special."
  11. Cop kills dog and owner https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2021/04/deputy-kills-attacking-dog-then-kills-angry-owner-police-say.html
  12. Because one game is enough to make some predictions, right? The number to beat is 21 wins. I actually do think we'll beat that number, by a little, due to addition by subtraction and a light OOC schedule. What say you?
  13. Only the sixth ever to do the former, and the fifth ever to do the latter. Pretty unreal. Oh, and don't worry that it's going to his head: if he ever learns to shoot he will be a champion- multiple times. still a one-of-a-kind player.
  14. https://www.today.com/video/the-texas-school-for-the-deaf-s-football-team-wins-state-championship-for-1st-time-97611333734 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQbJ408-2uk Neither link will embed. Sorry bout that.
  15. I realized today that I didn't truly appreciate Obama. I know that's a weird thing to hear an African American say. During the Obama years while I knew there was still racism, I didn't realize the vastness of it. Then along came Donald Trump. The division and hate sowed by Trump and the people who ate it up showed me that we were completely wrong about the amount of racial tension in this country. Trump followers stand for everything that is wrong in this country, and bring out the ugliest parts of humanity here in the USA. So seeing so many Americans rise up and declare enough is enough made me so proud, and judging by all the people in the streets I am not alone. Knowing that there are so many good human beings out there gives me a peace of mind that even surpasses the pride I felt when we elected a Black President. So for those of you that voted to oust the wanna be dictator I say thank you. Thank you for giving me and my people hope in the people of this country. Thank you for helping ensure that my daughter's diabetic condition will be tended to without emptying our life savings. Thank you for helping get this country pointed in the right direction, back to love and unity. And lastly, thank you for restoring my hope! What did this moment mean to you?
  16. With pre-season camp now underway and the orange kool-aid flowin', its time to predict how many wins this 2nd year Sarkisian team finishes with. Yes, all post season wins would count to the total as well. I'm setting the poll to close on September 3rd. Nothing more than bragging rights for those who predict correctly.
  17. For me, nothing will top 2008. Both were top 5. The crowd atmosphere was unbelievable. Especially when this play happened, one of my favorite moments in this rivalry.
  18. ESPN2. I want the joke of a playoff committee to have to explain why they left out an undefeated UCF for 3 SEC teams & a token other. T&P's for the UCF quarterback's hometown, MIlton's Paradise lost 90% of their buildings to a wildfire this week.
  19. First ASG. Gets blown up (it's rumored they're hiding an injury) although did get let down by his defense. Third of an inning. 4 hits, 3 Runs, 1 earned. But even worse, while he's getting blown up on national TV, old tweets of his come out which are..... yea, not going to be fun for him the rest of the season. Apparently this guy complied them and re-posted some on twitter. https://twitter.com/kjen1327 Couple of highlights: His explanation: Young, dumb, full of cum.... rabble, rabble. Twitter having fun.... Social media.... smh.
  20. The Vols are #1 in the country and look like a very legit contender to win the whole thing. Are you rooting for Barnes? Does it piss you off that we let him go, or maybe that he let our program go downhill then did his best coaching elsewhere? Etc...
  21. Alright @52-80, @fattyflattie, @huge, @ChiTownDoc and any other Beau Brummell/Duke of Windsor that I may have missed. Here is our place for suits, ties, shirts and shoes. La Dolce Vita bitches.
  22. https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/07/1590b983e681-japan-to-introduce-jail-time-tougher-penalties-for-online-insults.html
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