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Many fans do not subscribe to superstitious actions, but many border on psychosis in their rituals. Lets take a look inside the behaviors of a wildly superstitious Chiefs fans game-daypreparation.

A couple of weeks ago I took you all on a Sherpad journey through the experience that is a Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium. One of the more hallowed venues in North American sports and what many consider to be objectively the best place on Earth. Now I want to introduce you to another ritualistic practice that plagues my existence throughout the entirety of football season.

Human beings are without a doubt creatures of habit. Some of you do the same thing every single day without even realizing youre conditioned to doing it. In fact, the foundation of how most of us feed and groom ourselves on a daily basis is formed from habits learned from a very early age. Outside of eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the same time essentially every day and showering, brushing your teeth, doing your hair, plucking your eyebrows whatever your morning routine consists of we all have our habitual quirks in life.

Some take the same walk around the neighborhood every evening with their dogs or their family. Some workout every morning at the same time at the same gym. Others sit in the same chair in their house or apartment to take in some quality Netflix programming or if youre really old school reading a book. Some meditate, some play video games, and some even blog at the same time every day.

Others take rituals way too far. Im not talking about anything perverted or occult here, keep your eyes on the road. Im of course talking about sports football specifically, and the craziness that it can induce from even the most mentally capable and emotionally calm individuals. Am I mentally capable and emotionally calm? Maybe and no. Anyone who tries to tell you theyre calm probably isnt calm in the first place, but Im definitely not, especially when it comes to Chiefs football. But before you write this off as crazy talk, take a walk in my meticulously selected shoes for a second.

Youll find football guys everywhere who will tell you that luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, Chris Jones, even Andy Reid and the coaching staff work tirelessly around the clock all year long to prepare for 17 Sundays from September to January. They grind, they sweat, they bleed, they eat Q39 in their office while watching film until the wee hours of the morning. They prepare relentlessly for not just their opponents, but for situations that each season can throw at them. And when the work pays off, and the opportunity presents itself, they tend to excel.

NFL coaches, executives, and players are some of the more driven people on Earth. But what truly sends a championship caliber team over the top from contender to champion? Does everything I mentioned above help? Well, yeah. For sure. But you know what really does it?

The anonymous actions of fans across the country on the days specifically during the hours that they play football games.

Were talking every aspect of someones day revolving around something they cant control in the least bit. Is it crazy? Absolutely. But isnt that part of the beauty of sports? ESPN famously ran an ad campaign in the early 2000s touting the tagline Its not crazy, its sports. If youve rooted for a team long enough, youve more than likely been driven crazy by said organization, or atvery least know someone who has. But you know what they say: its not crazy if it works.

Im glad you asked.

To truly understand, you have to wrap your head around what it means to be truly superstitious. Not just a little stitious. Im talking super superstitious. I was around my great grandma a lot when I was a kid. She was raised in the south in the 1920s and 30s the dust bowl south. The birthplace of wives tales. So to say that Ive learned some things that I should never do, under any circumstance, would be an understatement.

I am 34 years old. Ive never knowingly crossed the path of a black cat. Ive never once stepped under a ladder. Never broken a mirror. Ive never even clipped my fingernails or toenails on a Friday or a Sunday. I abstain from both because no one really ever knew which day was correct, so Ive just been oddly terrified of both my entire life.

Once you begin to understand how my brain works, youll begin to understand how I operate on game-days. When at Arrowhead you park in the same spot (or at least close by, depending on availability). You drink the same beverage combo. You walk in at the same time, etc, etc, etc.

But it all really starts before hand and permeates more deeply when youre watching from the safety and security of your own home.

Everyone knows that the proper game-day prep begins with the proper game-day threads. A game-day shirt is a must. Of course it gets cooler towards the end of season, so make sure you designate a game-day hoodie for the colder months. If youre like me, you need consistency all the way through the process. Game-day shorts (and pants, again it gets cold) come highly recommended, but are not as crucial as the shirt. If youre living or have lived life as a balding man like I did for years, might I interest you in a game-day hat as well? For our female readers, a hat would also work or you could even go oppo from that and rock a Chiefs headband, bow, or hair tie. Guys, help yourselves on that too not my style, but it takes all kinds to make the world go round.

Were not just covering our mid-drifts here, folks. This is head to toe exercise. That means you need to find and commit to a pair of game-day shoes that you feel will make 53 grown men play football to the best of their abilities. My choice? My Nike Killshots I got inyou guessed it, 2019. They work! Why would I change it up? I do in the winter months if Im at Football Mecca on Sundays, but otherwise its the tennies. Find what works for you, and rock it.

The final part of the clothing portion is without question the most crucial. Youre now set on what other peoplecan see about your wardrobe, but what about what theycantsee? This is no exaggeration I wore the same underwear to and during every game for 3 years until they became simply tattered. Your undies matter. Your socks matter. If youre an undershirt person, that matters. It all matters, but when you consider the proximity of undergarments to majorly important parts of your anatomy, I would argue underwear are the most crucial of game-day fan traditions.

Caveat: In any of these scenarios, if the Chiefs go on a losing streak, consider switching it up. You can always come back to it if the alternative doesnt work. And always change your underwear in a responsible and sanitary way.

This can have numerous answers. It all depends on where you watch the game. If youre always on the go, you may be watching from a phone, laptop, or tablet. Thats fine! For the more nomadic of us, I would advise you find a spot that you deem A) most effective to your teams success and B) most comfortable, in that order. Bonus points if youre in an airport, bus stop, or train station and you find a fellow traveller wearing your teams gear to enjoy the game with.

Watching from home? Heres where the tedious superstitions come back in to play. I dont care if you have a favorite recliner, if you watch from a specific couch, or you sit on the floor. I dont care if you stand up. Justcommit to something.I sit in the exact same spot on my couch downstairs the comfy couch every time I watch the Chiefs at home. Do I always watch the Chiefs at home? No. But if Im at my in-laws house, you better believe Im in the same spot on their couch. If Im at my parents house? Same. Follow the golden rule: commit, then sit.

Caveat: If the Chiefs have turnovers on multiple drives in a row, switch up the seating. Theres bad energy everywhere, do what you can to change it. Be the sage.

Dont be crazy. Of course you dont have to eat the same thing every week. Each weeks menu should be carefully and individually crafted to maximize your dietary needs for the given week and opponent.

Playing the Bills this week? Emasculate the population of Buffalo by making wings better than they could ever dream of. Eagles? Cheesesteaks on the menu that would make Genos mouth water. What about a team like the Ravens, a food that would be repulsive to consume? Just grill a whole chicken and tell people its a Raven, I promise you it works and our quarterback will maintain legal custody of theirs.

My point is that the menu can change. In all honesty, it doesnt have to be themed every week. I would eat pizza for every meal, including game-days even when the Chiefs arent playing a team from a city with pizza-rich tradition. And while the food can rotate, Id encourage you to have at least one game-day beverage that you keep coming back to. I have a general rule of thumb for my beverage consumption on Sundays in the fall, but I will not try to sway you one way or the other you choose your own path on this one.

Caveat: If electing to consume adult beverages, do so responsibly. No one likes the drunk guy who thinks the officials can hear him through the TV.

Thats the beauty of it all you dont.

Embrace the process. Specifically in Chiefs Kingdom, we have the privilege of watching a historically significant span of consistent high level football. Since 2013 when Andy Reid took the helm, and specifically since 2018 when Patrick Mahomes was named the starting quarterback, the Chiefs have been on a historic tear from an offensive standpoint as well as a team achievement perspective. Being the first team to host four consecutive AFC Championships is nothing to sneeze at, especially with two Super Bowl appearances and a Lombardi to show for it.

So why not try to keep pushing them to greater heights? Lets face it, nothing we do is going to impact the way that the 53 guys on the field play. Its just not. Sure, we can get loud at Arrowhead and get the defense hyped up, that definitely helps. For those guys, the drive comes from within. But our quirky, albeit in some instances deeply personal, rituals that we commit to on Sundays dont really move the needle.

But when you wear that same shirt, those same shoes, sit in that same seat, around the same people, wearing the same underwear and the team does something unexpectedly spectacular, for a second it gives you some pause to wonder if the two things arent somehow weirdly tied together. When you really commit to it and your team finds real, consistent success, you can trick yourself into thinking that maybe, just maybe, you had something to do with it.

I know this all sounds crazy. But I promise you its not crazy if it works.

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When the church service ended, a father scolded his preschool son for being noisy.

Dont you understand why its important to be quiet during the sermon? the father asked.

Yeah, because other people are sleeping, the preschooler said.

Sometimes things backfire when were trying to make a point to our children, and that was perhaps one of those times.

Another was when a father was trying to teach his son to steer clear of alcohol. That father put a worm in a glass of water and another worm in a glass of moonshine.

The worm in the water lived, and the worm in the moonshine died.

The father then looked at his son, and asked, What does that show you?

Well, the son answered, it shows that if you drink moonshine you wont have worms.

Fathers really do teach their children lots of things sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally.

Perhaps you remember the Like father, like son anti-smoking TV commercial from the late 1960s. It showed a little boy wanting to do everything his father does. When the father lights up a cigarette, the little boy watches closely. A narrator says, Like father like son. Think about it.

So I was reading Hosea the other day and ran into an interesting parallel to the like father, like son idea.

Like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways and reward them their doings (Hosea 4:9).

That verse reminds us that we can learn good habits and bad from those we worship with. Its very important that congregations have biblically solid preachers to lead them and to show them the way.

I wrote an article not long ago about a pastor who gave a kidney to one of his church members. You know why he did it? Because his church member needed one, and he, the pastor, happened to have two. So, it seemed altogether natural to that dear pastor to give one away.

Thats the kind of pastor who sets a great example for a congregation.

Great pastors are always doing incredible things like that. Great pastors live by the Golden Rule of Matthew 7:12 by treating others the way theyd want to be treated.

Great pastors lead their congregations into closer walks with the Lord by being living, breathing examples of love.

Jesus said, A new commandment I give you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you. By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if you have love one to another (John 13:34-35).

A great pastor lives out that kind of love. and a great pastors ultimate reward is to see Gods people do the same.

The TV commercial that declared like father, like son is perfectly true.

And thats why we need noisy little boys in church, to make sure others stay awake and listen to the preacher.

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The U.S. and the Holocaust, a three-episode film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein, will debut on Sept. 18 on PBS. Burns and his partners and staff at Florentine Films work out of a production studio in Walpole, N.H. After watching the film, I interviewed Burns.

Our discussion has been shortened and lightly edited for length and clarity.

Did your thinking about this project change between when you started it, before the Trump presidency, and when you finished it?

We did it because we were interested in the subject. Were not interested in scoring any contemporary points. We know that whatever we work on will resonate with today, that the echoes of yesterday will fully engage with the present moment, but its our responsibility not to pay any attention to that.

After the World War II film [The War] came out in 2007, we were approached by people saying, How come you didnt talk about what an anti-Semite FDR was? or Why didnt you explore why the St. Louis [a ship carrying Jewish refugees] was turned away from American shores? or Why didnt the United States bomb Auschwitz? Finally, we said, You know what? We really have to do this.

Coincidentally, the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., had just started an exhibition called Americans and the Holocaust and asked if we would be interested in making a film about it. We said yes, wed love to be associated with you and get your help in identifying sources, archives, and scholars.

Then it was just pushing to get to a complex relationship between what transpired in the Holocaust through the filter of what Americans saw, what we knew, what we didnt know, what we did, what we didnt do, what we should have done. You could just march the Holocaust story along while going back and forth between the United States and Germany and seeing uncomfortable echoes between the two places.

What do you hope people will take from the film in the current political environment?

Were storytellers, and every person will relate, or not relate, in their own individual ways. And thats a good thing.

A sensitivity to our fragility is an important reason we accelerated the project it was going to come out next year. I think everyone in the film articulates this, but no one more precisely than Daniel Mendelsohn, when he says, dont kid yourself, theres no bottom to what human beings can do and how fragile our institutions are.

I insisted on putting a paragraph early in episode one saying that if you wanted to be in the hippest, most democratic, artistically exciting, vibrant place in 1931 and 32, youd do no better than Berlin in arts, architecture, music, intellectual circles. And the change was almost instantaneous.

The willingness of people to believe the lies of an evil regime and manipulative leaders demagogues isnt something thats a one-off. It isnt, Oh, its too bad that happened. We see the rise of authoritarianism, we see the stresses on democratic institutions, we see that the superficial appeal of order has a huge human consequence.

I was glad to see Mendelsohn in the film. Years ago, I read his book, The Lost: A Search for Six of the Six Million. He goes looking for six family members killed by the Nazis. The book changed the way I saw the Holocaust.

The number 6 million is impenetrable. It means nothing anymore. We begin the film by saying lets reconfigure that equation. There are 9 million Jews in Europe in 1933, and by 1945, two out of three are missing. Were looking at a woman looking out the window joined by, one assumes, her father and her mother, and you realize that in any given threesome, two are missing.

Or it is Mendelsohn devoting so much of his life to finding out what happened to his great uncle, Shmiel Jager, and his wife and four daughters, whatever it takes. And he particularizes it that was the word he used.

More than half the Jews in Germany and Austria escaped. They often had connections in Western Europe and the United States. But when Germany expanded for the breathing room the lebensraum that Hitler wanted in places where he considered people stateless and nameless, much the way we treated Native Americans, he ended up acquiring Jews. That led to a decision to kill them all.

In your film the United States before World War II is full of anti-Semitism, racism, eugenics, the Chinese Exclusion Act, forced deportation of Mexicans who had become American citizens, attempts to restrict immigration to Nordic races. This is so different from the history I learned in high school. Should this be part of the curriculum?

Nell Irvin Painter [historian quoted in the film] is smart about this: We are an exceptional country, but sometimes were not. If you say, as Lincoln put it, you are the last best hope of earth, youve got to be tougher on yourself than anybody else.

We cannot get by anymore with a sanitized view of our history. It exposes women to all the things that the Me Too movement is trying to say. It relegates Native peoples and African Americans to backseat, passive victims or non-existent people whose stories dont need to be told because its upsetting to some. That is not right.

Were obliged to tell a fuller story, and that makes it richer. We need to honor what actually takes place.

Your film describes Franklin D. Roosevelts Holocaust strategy. It was to win the war as quickly as possible and punish the perpetrators afterward, not to rescue the Jews. He could see no way to rescue them, and with all the losses his armies were suffering, he thought it impolitic to lose more lives in a rescue attempt. Was he wrong?

Politically, nothings wrong with it. Its accurate. Hes not a king or absolute dictator he cant by fiat rescue Jews and admit them to the United States.

Hes not unmindful of the problem. He just knows what he has to do. It seems, in retrospect, perhaps cruel, but lets back up were all culpable. We repeatedly tell you about the polls taken at the time. Theyre devastating. Even after we learn about Kristallnacht, even after we see the footage from liberated concentration camps, nobody wants to let any more Jews in.

Roosevelt, a masterful politician, knows this what he can pass, what he cant do. Lets not just put it on FDR. There are lots of forces operating.

If we had been more public about the crimes being committed, earlier and louder, that might have helped. We didnt do that. That is on FDR, but its also on members of his administration who were virulently anti-Semitic and slow-walked or obstructed anything good. It is true of Congress, reflecting the mood of the country a vast majority of American citizens.

Holocaust survivors, long the tellers of this story, are dying off. Has that reduced the attention rising generations pay to this tragedy and what they know about it?

Youre sadly right were losing a lot of witnesses. A generation from now, there wont be any around, so it seems important to hear their stories.

Fortunately, Steven Spielberg and the Shoah Foundation have saved 54,000 testimonies. Hes got an elaborate hologram project that has asked questions of dozens of survivors. Its almost impossible when a school group comes through for someone to ask a question these survivors havent already been asked and have a hologram answer it. That is a way to keep it alive.

But there were themes that needed to be told. There were back eddies of American experience germane to this story, whether its the Germans modeling their exclusionary laws against the Jews in the early 1930s by studying our Jim Crow laws in the South, whether its Hitlers approval of our treatment of Native peoples or our immigration act.

And then hearing that some of the titans of our mythological past Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, just to mention two were virulent anti-Semites. And the eugenics movement that bone-chilling comment by Helen Keller essentially approving of death committees. Here is a kind of eugenics that would not have let her live.

How do you think what your film conveys about our behavior 75-80 years ago can help us face the problems were having today with similar issues: a rise in anti-Semitism, a racial divide, white supremacist violence, prejudice against immigrants?

Yes, there are similar issues, which is why, in the past, we rarely brought our films up to the present, but in this film we do. Its just information, but its important. As the novelist Richard Powers said, the best arguments in the world wont change a single point of view. The only thing that can do that is a good story, and we hope weve told a good story.

Why do you think anti-Semitism persists in American today?

When I was working on the country music film, I realized that I had been making films about the U.S. for nearly 50 years. But I had also been making films about us, the lower-case, two-letter plural pronoun all the intimacy of us and all the majesty, intricacy, complexity, and controversy of the U.S. Thats been my beat.

The epiphany was that theres only us, theres no them. When you see somebody creating a them, were on our way. It was the malevolent strategy and tactics of an evil demagogue to blame a group of others. In this case that was Jews, people without a country, people who brought us the ideas of the Golden Rule, fair play, the ideals of socialism, an internationalist view.

If you are appealing to the lowest common denominator in people, its easy to make Jews or someone whose skin pigmentation is slightly different the enemy.

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HOME BASE: France.GENRE: Pop/THE TRANSLATED & EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: My goal is to evolve in the management of sounds and my voice. Tien Anmen is one of the many covers that I have interpreted thanks to an application that allows me to sing karaoke in worldwide streaming. My father taught me to sing at the age of four. He was a perfectionist. I am even more so.

HOME BASE: United States.GENRE: Electro-Pop.THE EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: Dan Zimmerman is an independent queer singer-songwriter in Brooklyn. His music details his own coming-of-age experience as a young LGBTQ+ adult in New York City exploring lust, loss, and loneliness in an urban dreamscape. Dans music captures the energy of adolescence and radical self-discovery, marrying his soaring vocals with catchy, electronic arrangements. Spend The Night is a playful queer electropop love tune; the song blossoms with synth and sparkle, diving headfirst into a catchy chorus that evokes the delight of dancing with a partner.

HOME BASE: Brazil.GENRE: Folk-Hop.THE TRANSLATED & EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: In the neighborhood of Capo Redondo in So Paulo, the Ciel Blue project was born, formed by the brothers Thiago and Tharcisio, who share a taste for art. Ciel Blues music is a kind of Brazilian neo-folk inspired by everyone from Mano Brown to Bob Dylan. Vagando Pelo Cais, is about the right to exist and be happy. While lamenting the ills of Brazil, it evokes the courage capable of changing it. The song features the production of musician Hugo Noguchi, who also contributed the bass and beats.

HOME BASE: Netherlands.GENRE: R&B / Soul.THE EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: Valre Grons debut single You Dont Want My Heartdraws from many different artists like Amy Winehouse, The Beach Boys, Gorillaz and The Specials. Flitting between retro-soul, pop, ska and surf rock, the song makes for an interesting mix of classic and contemporary elements.

HOME BASE: Canada.GENRE: Folk-Rock.THE EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: Dillon Currie is the singer, co-lyricist and formative member of Saskatoon rock band League of Wolves. He has recorded several albums, toured Canada multiple times, and shared the stage with The Glorious Sons, The Beaches, The Trews, The Tea Partyand Yukon Blonde. In 2020, while isolating at home in Swift Current, he began writing his debut solo record, a collection of songs inspired by pandemic life, addressing topics including mental health, isolation, morality, accountability, and reconciliation. A sonic and stylistic departure from League of Wolves, it channels storytellers like Elliott Smith, Jeff Tweedyand Andy Shauf, resulting in a diverse collection of thought-provoking tales and introspective queries which expose the duality of the human condition. The album is due in early 2023. The first single In My Town is a dreamy utopian reverie which finds the narrator questioning their own perspective on their hometown and the values they have grown to accept as true.

HOME BASE: Canada.GENRE: Synth-Pop.THE EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: Split Kick formed during a chance meeting on the neon-soaked streets of Busan, South Korea in 2008. Creators Pete Neonakis (Miami) and Andrew Corbin (Toronto) quickly developed a sultry electronic sound based on their shared love of everything 80s, soft rock and nightlife. They swiftly captured the ears of listeners in South Korea. Fast-paced and creative songwriting was their signature. Partnering with graphic artist Diego Rueda (Mexico City), Split Kick have elevated their persona to a whole new level by creating artwork that embodies the spirit of their music and catches the eyes of the public. Cupid features soulful guitars from Adrian Quesada of Black Pumas. It is an electronic soundscape for the masses, and an excellent blend of on-trend genres and originality.

HOME BASE: United States.GENRE: Jazz.THE EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: Morris Northcutt is known for his lyricism, artistry and ability to cross the boundary between classical and jazz, a result of decades of craft with both the trumpet and the cornet. From Mannheim Steamrollerand The Blues Brothers Reunion Band to the Seattle Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Northcutts list of collaborations is endless. He is principal cornetist for the Tacoma Concert Band, a position he has held for over 25 years. His latest single release is a tribute to the great Chet Baker. Heres That Rainy Day, once a Baker hit, epitomizes his tragic life in its lyrics: Maybe I should have saved those leftover dreams / funny but heres that rainy day.

HOME BASE: Netherlands.GENRE: Electronica.THE EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: My name is Joran and I use the stage name Vinyl-State. In 2020, I started writing music concepts. I am now developing them into songs. My goal is to release 100 songs, all made in my home studio. They range from soft ballads to hard rock and every style between. When enough songs are released, Ill try to group them into appropriate albums.

HOME BASE: United Kingdom.GENRE: R&B / Soul.THE EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: This is a track from my new EP. It recently won an independent award and I am looking to give it some more exposure and engagement in different parts of the world, building up to making a music video for it this year! This song is in the neo-soul vein. Its an indication of my vocal range and the style Id like to develop in future releases.

HOME BASE: France.GENRE: Electronica.THE EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: DeusExMaschine is a producer from Paris who gives a French touch to tech house. Thriller is the greatest funked-up song of all time. Deusexmaschine couldnt leave it without modernizing it in a tech house style. The impact of the drop on the dancefloor is devastating!

HOME BASE: United States.GENRE: Pop.THE EDITED BIO & PRESS RELEASE: A New Zealand-born, U.S.-based pop artist, singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Estella Dawn has the skills to not only have a creative vision but to guide that process through to a cohesive, fully formed song. Her songs are often about empowerment and confidence and span various genres, reflecting the artists skill and diverse creative output. Her music has been compared to Pink, Billie Eilish, Halsey, Sia, Pvris and other strong, independent artists. Steal Your Girl balances minimalism of melody with evolution of design, for a structure thats smooth yet snappy, and rightfully drops in with a bang each time the hook returns.

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PHOENIXArizona has a rich history, including its cafs and restaurants. Heres a taste of State 48!

ROAD TRIP MUST-STOP Our first stop takes us to Rock Springs Caf, which has been open for over 100 years.

Our main building over there, where the caf is, and the retail, was the original post office for the whole territory, said Roger Vore, the manager at Rock Springs Caf.

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Fast forward to today, the caf has a great reputation for its pies.

The secret is that everything is homemade, theres no preservatives or additives... the pies are just delicious. I say theyre made with love by our bakers, said Denise Arnold, another manager at Rock Springs Caf.

The caf has become a staple for locals and tourists, with some who leave a pin from where theyre from.

Arizonas a great place, so everyone wants to visit Arizona, said Vore.

NEXT IS THE SUGAR BOWL IN SCOTTSDALE

Its a great place in old town to take your family, thats why it was originally opened back in the 50s, said Ben Huntress, owner of the Sugar Bowl.

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The historic landmark was a Firestone business back in the day, but now it rolls out delicious desserts.

Thats what were really known for: [the desserts]. Thats what everyone wants to get to, they get through the food to get to our ice cream, said Huntress.

NEXT STOP: MRS. WHITE'S GOLDEN RULE CAF

The menu is fried chicken, smothered chicken, pork chops, said Elizabeth White, founder of Mrs. White's Golden Rule Caf. Its just American food, its what people eat.

The Phoenix caf opened in 1964.

I had five kids to take care of and I was divorced. And I had to take care of them. And so, for that cause thats why we opened the caf, said Mrs. White.

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The business opened during the Civil Rights movement.

And they would say, 'where you going to lunch?' We going to Mrs. White's caf. 'Can we go? 'Sure, you can come. All we take is money, we dont care about your color, said Mrs. White, reminiscing of what it was like opening a business a year before the Affirmative Action law was passed.

According to Mrs. White, the golden rule to having a successful businessis just loving what you do.

I love to cook. Thats what kept us going, Cooking. My cooking. And now its my granddaughters cooking now. I taught her to cook like I cook. And they say, 'this tastes like Mrs. White's cooking,' said Mrs. White in a playful tone during an interview with ABC15.

MORE TASTY HISTORIC PLACES TO VISIT

Durant'sIn the heart of Phoenix, you can find Durant's, an old-school chophouse thats been serving steak for over 70 years.

Los Olivos Mexican PatioThe Family owned and operated restaurant has served our community for over 70 years!

The Stockyards RestaurantThis place became a restaurant in 1947 after their cattle business exploded back in the early 1900s.

Harold's Cave Creek CorralThe Valley has a wild west saloon thats been open for over 80 years!

Elmer's TacosIf youre in the East Valley, youll want to check out this spot thats been serving its original dishes since 1974.

La Purisima BakeryThis staple is known for its pan dulce [Mexican bread] and has been serving the Valley for over 30 years. Their first location is in Glendale and now they have a second location near 24th Street and Indian School Road.

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The golden rule of small talk, as anyone who has worked behind a bar can testify, is dont say whats on your mind. Rule two, avoid any reference to politics, religion, money, death, health and sex. The price of a pint and the weather are safe bets, and can be discussed in idle chat night after night, often with the same regular, as if never mentioned before. No confrontation, little harm done, nothing given away. Or so it was once thought.

Now, economists Professor Daniel Sgroi and Neha Bose from the University of Warwick have conducted what they think is the first study of its kind, putting 338 individuals through an IQ and personality test before placing them in pairs to play two money games in which the extent of cooperation affected the outcome.

The study found that just four minutes of passing the time with a stranger can give away key aspects of personality which, in turn, influences later behaviour. Small talk matters, they conclude.

In their paper, the academics quote an example of two diplomats engaged in week-long negotiations that are progressing slowly until, on the Wednesday, one chats to the other that he needs to be home by Friday to attend an opera with his wife. Immediately a connection was formed on two fronts: a shared dislike of opera and a shared interest in keeping spouses happy The pace picked up, and the diplomat went home as scheduled with a signed agreement in hand.

The study divided the 338 participants into two groups. One group could text with a partner for four minutes. The other group had no communication. The participants were then asked to guess aspects of their partners personality and predict whether they would act cooperatively or selfishly in two games.

Personality types were divided into extraversion, which the academics describe as having sociability, enthusiasm, tempo and vigour ... projects positivity and neuroticism, described as negativity, high emotion, fearfulness, hostility impulsivity insecurity and self consciousness (and, one would think, not much given to chit-chat).

The pairs who had earlier made small talk scored more highly on predicting their partners IQ and answers to the personality test and the extent of their contributions in the games (with little difference between the genders). In even a few minutes, we will start to form a mental model of the person we are talking with, explained Sgroi. Are they extroverted or introverted do they seem upbeat or downbeat? These sorts of impressions wont be perfect but they will be useful.

Yet small talk, whether directly useful or not, is under threat. The pandemic placed it in temporary incubation as we all stayed home. But now, where is it most likely to take place? In queues, bus stops and on public transport among other venues. Whats often stopping it?

Smartphones dont help. Not only do they offer hours of isolated entertainment, gossip, several hundred holiday snaps, Instagram, spats on Twitter and much else. Unless a person is actually conducting a conversation, a phone, unlike small talk, has no requirement to listen or engage.

As Studs Terkel, the great chronicler of American life, once wrote: We are more and more into communications and less and less into communication. Does it matter? In the 1980s, Anna Deavere Smith, spent years asking a range of people their responses to three questions (not to be recommended as a catalyst for small talk). Have you ever come close to death? Do you know the circumstances of your birth? Have you ever been accused of something you did not do? In her book, Talk to Me, she said her aim was to listen between the lines, to dig deeper than the surface. Listening has a value.

Chatting to a stranger you may never meet again may not have an outcome of the kind described in the Warwick study but it can leave a lasting impression. A little human engagement may help to change a mindset stuck in a darker place or inject humour at a time when its otherwise in short supply.

As columnist Maeve Higgins wrote in the New York Times, idle chat gives you connection, some idea of that odd-shaped part of a human being thats invisible to the eye and impossible to articulate.

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Call it trivial, but we still need to master the art of small talk - The Guardian

Britain is about to become a member of a club it has avoided joining for six decades that of nations with a 100% debt-to-GDP ratio.

Such is the size and scale of the rescue packages needed to prevent the energy crisis overwhelming millions of families and avoid thousands of businesses going bust, a debt ratio that shot up from 83% to 94% in the first months of the pandemic and touched almost 104% in 2021, is now on course to stay in three figures for the rest of the decade.

Successive Tory chancellors have tried to prevent the national debt from growing to the size of the UKs 2.2tn annual national income (gross domestic product).

This is not how households think about their debts. Most people with a mortgage would have a debt-to-income level in excess of Japans 263% if they measured the size of the outstanding loan against their yearly income. However, debt-to-GDP has become the measure by which international investors judge a governments ability to pay its way. And so international lenders are ever watchful of government spending deficits, because if they exceed economic growth, the debt mountain will increase.

Paul Dales of Oxford Economics says a brief drop in the UKs debt-to-GDP ratio below 100% this year will prove to be temporary: In four or five years time it will seem normal for the UK to have a ratio above 100%.

In his first budgets as chancellor, from 2010, George Osborne worked every trick to prevent the ratio exceeding 100% and then to bring it down. Rishi Sunak was of the same mind until the pandemic forced him to spend an extra 400bn.

Philip Shaw of Investec says investors were concerned more about the governments strategy than the level of debt: I dont take a Micawberish attitude and say 99% good, 101% bad. But the higher the debt, the more you pay in interest and the harder it is to ever bring it down again.

Developed countries in the 100% club are a motley lot: Cyprus, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy, plus Canada, Japan and the US.

But according to Shaw, it is not the level of debt, but what governments do with borrowed money that counts.

Alistair Darling, Labours chancellor during the 2008 financial crash, says investors want to see a coherent plan: When the banks collapsed, I wanted to convey to the markets that while we needed to spend a large amount of money to rescue the economy, equally we had a sensible and coherent plan to bring down the deficit, and one that encouraged growth.

French president Emmanuel Macron has defended his countrys 114% ratio, saying the extra debt since he took office in 2016 has been used to invest in skills, increase tax breaks for investment and help families through the pandemic. This is similar to Gordon Browns golden rule when chancellor: that extra borrowing was allowed only to support investment.

Dales says Liz Trusss plan to boost growth by cutting income and corporation tax is flawed: Ive seen no evidence that tax cuts are self-financing.

Shaw is concerned that months of inaction by the government making investors even more nervous means Britain will suffer a deeper and longer recession than many other industrialised nations.

He says the UKs lack of credibility can be seen in the rising level of interest the government pays on its debts, and the fall in sterling.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the pound has fallen from $1.36 to $1.16 and is heading towards parity. With the UK so dependent on imported raw materials and components, a weak pound increases inflation. High inflation, higher debt, a recession and an energy crisis put the UK in a uniquely difficult position.

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Now Britain is in the 100% debt-to-GDP club, whats the spending plan? - The Guardian

A cycling workout that you should regularly rotate in is a plain and simple zone 2 aerobic ride.

Endurance rides are very much the bread-and-butter of what training should be. With cycling being an aerobic sport, improving our aerobic capacity is probably the most important element of training. Theres a good reason why the professionals spend the majority of their training time working in Zone 2 out of all of the cycling training zones, and its because it is one of the most effective ways of improving aerobic performance.

This is a simple ride but it forms an essential part of a balanced cycling training plan as it creates a strong aerobic base to build upon through improved fat metabolism, increased muscle capillary density and mitochondrial biogenesis. The focus here is improving oxygen delivery to the working muscles.

Riding harder will not result in improved training benefit, but will increase fatigue, so try and start in the zones as best you can.

To download the session click on the embedded graph above. If youre not already set up on TrainerDay itll ask you to register for an account - its free to do so and its free to download the session

There are many ways that Zone 2 training helps with improving aerobic performance. What they all boil down to simply is improving the amount of oxygen that can be delivered to the muscles and then improving the systems which use that oxygen within the muscles to produce power in the most efficient way.

If you think of your body as a car, then what this training is doing is making it more fuel- efficient (with oxygen being the fuel) and also more powerful (as more oxygen can be delivered to be used as fuel).

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In terms of oxygen being delivered to the muscles, this improves via a process called angiogenesis, which is the creation of new muscle capillaries which enable more oxygen to be transported to the muscles via the blood. It has been found that Zone 2 training is very effective when it comes to improving angiogenesis and that an increase in intensity to maybe Zone 3 can actually reduce the level of angiogenesis.

Then we need to consider the muscles ability to utilise that oxygen once its been delivered and this occurs thanks to mitochondria - youve probably heard of them as the powerhouse of the cell, but theyre more than just that. The more mitochondria we have, the more organelles (specialised structure within a cell) we have which can process oxygen alongside fatty acids, carbohydrates and lactate to produce ATP - which is what we use to produce power on the bike (along with powering every other bodily function).

The way in which Zone 2 training helps with this is called the Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator (PGC-1alpha) activation via calcium signalling. Essentially, because the muscles are regularly contracting for a long period of time, they release calcium with every muscle contraction. This, in turn, activates the gene expression PGC-1alpha, which stimulates the production of more mitochondria referred to as mitochondrial biogenesis.

More oxygen means more fuel to assist in greater fat burning or rate of carbohydrate oxidation for high intensity, and more mitochondria means greater ability to break down fuel sources to create ATP and produce power.

The golden rule for Zone 2 training is to ensure that you do not go too hard. These sessions are the epitome of long-duration-low intensity training. However, they are often conducted at too high an intensity, which wont elicit any additional benefits and could actually reduce some of the benefits whilst also increasing fatigue

This cycling workout is ideally a session that you will be doing outdoors because its easy and straightforward to do as part of a club group ride or just an easy solo ride outdoors.

However, lets consider how youd approach having to do the cycling workout indoors. Lets say your coach has set you three hours of Zone 2 but the weather is absolutely horrendous (and to be honest I would much rather do it indoors if thats the case!).

If youre doing this ride indoors, a good rule of thumb I use is to reduce the duration by one third. Therefore, three hours becomes two hours and you can watch a film or a couple of episodes of a Netflix series as you do the session. The advantage of doing this on the turbo trainer is that it is very easy to control the intensity and keep it low enough.

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- Cycling workout of the week #1: 20/40s [50 mins]

- Cycling workout of the week #5: Unders/Overs [59 mins]

- Cycling workout of the week #6: 1 min on, 1 min off [45 mins]

- Cycling workout of the week #8: Tempo [1hr 15mins]

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Cycling workout of the week #9: Zone 2 Endurance - focus on the foundations of your fitness [2 hours] - CyclingWeekly

We finally caught a break. For us Trumpers, conservatives, and other outliers, its our lucky day; we finally have a campaign issue that can break through and stop the Democrat momentum after the Roe v. Wade decision. Biden has made a serious misstep in forgiving $10,000 of student debt. There are so many really angry people that it has already had an effect. Those who have struggled with college debt and have paid it over the years with great effort are so angry that someone else is getting the help they didnt, it could swing the electorate to us.

The rationale for this is obvious and something we have always understood: you cant help some people without making everyone else angry. That is the way it works and it behooves us to remember it. Help as few people as possible. And if you do help your friends and political allies, make sure that it is as under the table as possible. This should be the unwritten rule of our party. If everyone feels that the government is treating everybody badly, then we are all in the same boat, and we can accept that as the way it is and the way it will always be. If you are going to help some people and leave others out, you are doomed to electoral defeat.

Now if your first impulse is that this isnt the golden rule or this isnt very Christian like, let that pass without further thought. This isnt about the golden rule or Christian values, its about getting elected and reaping the benefits thereof. After all we live in a capitalist society and there is nothing in the rule book that says it cant apply to politics. What we need to do is scrounge up some more of these issues and put them on the front page. It always works.

Our objective is clear; We do not want to stop our progress now. We have been really successful these past couple of years in getting our agenda through state legislatures. It would be terrible if we were stopped now. There is much left to do such as prohibiting same sex marriage, starving the public schools of funds, reducing tenure in our public universities to those of our own political persuasion, privatizing Title XIX, reducing unemployment benefits again to half, etc. As you can see, we have much left to do and this is the time to jump on it. So once again, be thankful we have this opportunity when such a large number of people are angry at the president for helping only some of us and not everyone.

Richard E H Phelps II

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The mogwai's out of the box. Kind of.

MultiVersus is taking the gaming world by storm. With its first season recently getting underway and the addition of new characters Rick and Morty going down a treat, the game is enjoying a lot of success. Now though, the teams at Warner Bros. and Player First Games are teasing the arrival of a new character.

The game dropped two new teaser tweets earlier today, both inferring that the newest addition to MultiVersus will be a character from the iconic Gremlins franchise. While some fans have been expecting the arrival of Gremlins antihero Stripe since he has been previously confirmed as coming soon, it appears that a different member of the Mogwai family could also be en route. The first tweet dropped by the official MultiVersus account was a little vague on the identity of the potential Gremlin character, sharing only that the little fluffy surprise would be making its way into the game next Tuesday.

While this created a flurry of initial speculation, the team then followed this up with a reminder of the three golden rules for looking after a very specific gremlin, taken from the original Gremlins movie from 1984.

Rule #1: Don't expose them to sunlight. They hate it.Rule #2: Don't get them wet.Rule #3: Whatever you do, NEVER feed him after midnight.

This has caused even more members of the MultiVersus community to believe that Gizmo, the titular and frankly adorable gremlin from the franchise will be heading into the roster on September 6. Whether or not this is the case, well just have to wait and see. It would be a nice twist for fans, who are already eagerly awaiting the arrival of Gizmos number one nemesis Spike, the aggressive and fairly hilarious antagonist from the Gremlins movie who sprouts from Gizmos back after he accidentally comes into contact with water.

It may be the case that Gizmo and Stripe arrive together as something of a two-for-one bundle, but at this point, well just have to wait and see. MultiVersus may yet add an official confirmation, so itd be a good idea to keep an eye on their Twitter feed for the latest updates on all things Gremlins-based.

MultiVersus players are also currently waiting for the arrival of DC character Black Adam, who is the only other additional character confirmed as heading to the game so far. He and Stripe will join the ranks alongside fellow newcomers Rick and Morty, plus the current playable roster of Arya Stark, LeBron James, Batman and Steven Universe, for those playing on the free character rotation. In other MultiVersus news, the games creative director has also been talking about future updates for the sleeper hit fighting title. Taking to Twitter recently, Tony Huynh has hinted that the next patch for MultiVersus will bring a whole host of cool things, claiming that the upcoming patch will, in fact, be the biggest one yet.

Its clearly an exciting time to be a MultiVersus player. Well be keeping an eye on exactly which of the Gremlins makes it into the game next Tuesday, although well secretly be keeping our fingers crossed that both Stripe and Gizmo make their debuts.

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