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Who are the investors that sagely said, It takes courage to be a pig and Risk comes from not knowing what youre doing?

These and hundreds of other witticisms, most related to risk management, pack Applied Wisdom: 700 Witticisms to Save Your Assets (Radius Book Group, Nov. 16), a new book byAlexander M. Ineichen, a chartered financial analyst and 33-year veteran of the financial services industry.

In an interview with ThinkAdvisor, the founder of Ineichen Research and Management discusses a dozen witticisms found in his amusing, illuminating book.

These observations, made by VIPs as different as Confucius and Jerry Seinfeld, are typically profound, sometimes politically incorrect and often simply saucy.

Here are two examples about success: Buy when the cannons are thundering and sell when the violins are playing (banker N.R. Rothschild).

Rise early, work hard, strike oil. John Paul Getty called that his formula for success.

Ineichen, who founded his Swiss-based independent research firm in 2009, focuses on risk management and nowcasting.

The latter, he says, replaces the guesswork of forecasting and is the basis of a robust decision-making process.

He started out in derivatives brokerage and risk management products at Swiss Bank Corp. in 1988. He was with UBS in Zurich and London from 1990 to 2009. In 2000, he wrote the widely read white paper In Search of Alpha, and in 2001, The Search for Alpha Continues.

Much of the wit and wisdom in his book Ineichen has been collecting quips for 35 years concerns the benefits of contrarianism in investing and the advice not to blindly follow the crowd.

ThinkAdvisor recently interviewed Ineichen, a chartered alternative investment analyst as well, who was phoning from Zug, Switzerland.

Read on to pick up pearls of risk-management wisdom from the likes of Cicero and Peter Lynch, and to find out who originated the pithy quotes at the top of this article.

Here are highlights of our conversation:

THINKADVISOR: How can the witticisms in your book help financial advisors?

ALEXANDER INEINCHEN: They contain a lot of summarized knowledge from the past. Often financial theory takes that wisdom and mathematizes it.

When you apply the wisdom to finance and risk management, in particular, its helpful.

Lets talk about 12 of the witticisms youve written about. First, this one from Warren Buffett: Successful investing requires a quality of temperament, not a high IQ. You need an IQ of 125 tops, and you must be able to think for yourself.

I dont know whether the 125 measurement is correct, but theres a concept from psychology suggesting that extremely smart people, especially book-smart people, can actually make pretty bad mistakes by, sort of, missing whats going on in the real world.

The first part of the quote is a reference to that: You need a certain attitude and to be analytical.

The second part refers to the contrarian idea that you have to be able to think on your own, which means you cant always just follow what everyone else does.

If you do that, youll have the performance of average investors. But you want to be better than the average investor. That means you need to think for yourself and do something different when a storm comes up.

Buffett also said, Risk comes from not knowing what youre doing.

Ignorance of ignorance and hubris are also just as dangerous.

Heres one from British economist John Maynard Keynes: When circumstances change, I change my mind. What do you do?

He said that if you spot a change, you have to change your investment hypothesis. But until the day when and if the circumstances change, leave the positions in your portfolio as is.

Keynes said too: If you really want to buy something cheap, you cant wait until the market loves it.

A good example is energy stocks a year ago. They were so hated because everyone was focused on green and clean energy. The market neglected those stocks, but then you had such a strong rebound over the past 12 months.

From famed Magellan Fund manager Peter Lynch:

Never invest in an idea you cant illustrate with a crayon.

The idea here is to keep it simple. Its the concept that you need to understand what youre investing in.

Albert Einstein said, If you cant explain it to a [6-year-old], you dont understand it fully.

Heres a quote from N.M. Rothschild, the German banker (1777-1836): I buy when the cannons are thundering and sell when the violins are playing.

Thats one of my favorites. In fact, I used that quote earlier today in a presentation.

When things are good, its time to sell not when things are really bad.

The last great buying opportunity was at the end of March [to] the beginning of April 2020. That was when the cannons were thundering because of the coronavirus lockdown. Volatility spiked.

But now volatility is very low, and were in the opposite situation. Now the violins are playing.

This is a dangerous situation. If everyone is bullish, theyve already positioned themselves on the buy side, whereas when fear is greater, everyone sells like mad.

And thats when opportunity arrives.

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As debates about national issues are playing out across the region, students are watching.

Gabrielle Johnson, a sophomore at Springfield Township High School, said its disheartening to hear adults fight against critical race theory. Few, she thinks, actually understand the concept; too many use it as a catch-all for any acknowledgment of race in classrooms.

Im honestly disappointed in how adults are handling it, because, out of everybody, theyre the ones that really do control a students learning. So they should understand what theyre talking about, said Gabrielle Johnson, a sophomore at Springfield Township High School. People say its going to teach white children to hate themselves when its really just teaching about the history of how race has affected America since its founding.

Johnson, who is Black, said she would like to see inclusive history classes that teach about multiple cultures. She pointed to a class project she worked on in her 7th grade history class, where she focused on ancient Mali.

That was the first time in school that I have ever been taught about African or really any minority history, and that was really important to me, she said, adding that it was especially meaningful to learn about 14th century ruler Mansa Musa.

Im usually used to seeing Black people being told, Youre not going to be successful or Youre not going to be anything in life. It was nice to see that one of the richest people to ever exist was a Black man.

Jeffrey Henig with Columbia University said the increased focus on school board races is part of the nationalization of education politics in the U.S.

Increasingly, national groups of various kinds have seen local school board elections as tactically important and have put money and people into local communities to try to have some influence on the local political outcomes, but also because they perceive the chance to use education as a way to build support for broader political goals, he said.

In suburban districts, injecting culture war politics into school board races is one potential way to mobilize voters and recapture Republican support in areas where it has waned recently in presidential and congressional and county-wide races.

Henig says the fact that these larger, coordinated campaigns are catching fire on the local level reflects actual grassroots backlash.

I dont think that outside actors can make a movement jump up on demand. They can move in strategically where there are real grievances, Henig said. If the discontent isnt there, then their throwing matches would be like throwing matches on wet ground.

In districts across the state and country, demand for change in school board leadership comes after an extremely challenging 18 months, when nearly every option for schools and families was less than ideal.

No matter what decision we made last year, a third of the people would be angry, a third would be furious, and a third would be just plain upset, said Wood. It was a terrible situation for everyone. We did the best we could.

Studies have shown that virtual school resulted in significant learning loss for students, both academically and from a social-emotional standpoint. The remote school year was incredibly challenging for parents, juggling work and other responsibilities while helping their children learn. It was also incredibly challenging for students, many of whom struggled with feelings of isolation and felt disconnected academically.

Even for those happy with districts that approached the pandemic in the most risk-averse ways, there has been a near universal understanding that virtual education presented steep challenges, especially for children from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.

Now, even with most, if not all, Pennsylvania schools fully reopened, many parents remain wary, fearing another COVID surge could send students right back into virtual classrooms. That has been the constituency pushing hard for candidates vowing to keep kids in the building.

Many of those candidates, though, are also finding support from voters who are increasingly skeptical of a laundry list of other decisions school leaders make.

At a Radnor School Board meeting last week, a small but passionate group of parents turned up to rail against what they called pornographic material in the school libraries.

Parent Clark Engel said frustration about the schools books pushed him to move his two youngest children to private school.

Lots of little things go on throughout the year that are all subliminally designed to tell students that they dont have to listen to their parents that they can decide for themselves what gender they want to be, what sexual orientation they want to be, what religion they want to be, he told Keystone Crossroads. Its all designed to subvert parents. Theyre laying the groundwork in these very early, formative years.

He supports the slate of candidates backed by the Reopen Radnor Committee.

Even if Im pulling my own children out, I feel like I need to do this as a public service for those that cant afford to go to a private school, he said.

Some observers watching the more radical Pennsylvania school board races have noted, potential board members who are too focused on national, hot-button issues will be in for a surprise if they get elected.

When you actually get seated on the board, youre going to sit through a lot of boring discussions and presentations, said Larry Feinberg, president of the Haverford School Board, where hes served for more than two decades. Thats what democracy actually is. A great deal of it is not very exciting.

For Josh Tessler, the Radnor High School student, the past year has made him pay more attention to the school board race. For him, the biggest issue isnt around the districts handling of the mascot controversy or coronavirus pandemic. Hes passionate about two issues no candidates seem to be talking about: hands-on learning and feeling overwhelmed by homework.

I think they should be focused on the experience of students, he said.

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On the Caribbean island of Antigua, builders will soon put hurricane reinforcements on hospital roofs and strengthen the windows on police stations. As climate change makes tropical storms more intense and more devastating, Antiguans are getting prepared.

This $46m storm-proofing project is just one part of a much bigger flow of money: a promised $100bn a year that rich countries pledged to spend helping poorer countries to cut their emissions and adapt to climate change.

The funding is shaping up to be a make or break issue at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.

The $100bn target is an acid test for whether rich countries are sincere about tackling climate change, says Molwyn Joseph, minister of the environment for Antigua and Barbuda.

We are not asking for handouts, we are asking for compensation for damages, as a result of the profligacy of these developed countries, he says. Those that emit this carbon, that is causing climate events, should pay.

Many countries say they need the money to reach their climate targets and invest in projects that lower emissions. When Indian prime minister Narendra Modi pledged on Monday to reach net zero emissions by 2070, there was a demand attached: $1tn in climate finance to developing countries.

India expects developed countries to make $1tn available as climate finance as soon as possible, he said. As we are all increasing our ambitions with respect to climate action, the worlds ambitions with respect to climate finance cannot be [stay] at the same level.

In 2009, rich nations promised they would send at least $100bn a year in climate finance to poorer countries by 2020. That understanding formed the basis of the 2015 Paris climate accord, which aims to limit global warming to well below 2C, ideally 1.5C.

Suddenly you had this really emblematic $100bn where, unless you work this out, it is difficult to have the global agreement [at COP], recalls Josu Tanaka, who helped launch the climate finance unit at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It became the signal, the base of trust, between developed and developing countries.

But last week, on the eve of COP26, donor countries admitted they missed that target in 2020. Now they expect to reach it in 2022 or 2023, years later than planned.

Everyone agrees there should be more money for climate finance. But that is where the consensus ends.

There is little agreement on how to spend the money, who should receive it, or how to make sure it is used effectively. There is even a dispute about how it should be measured, and what should be counted as climate finance.

While building storm shelters on hurricane-prone islands such as Antigua and Barbuda might seem straightforward, the issue of who will pay the $100bn, when it will arrive, and how it will be distributed, has at times threatened to derail COP negotiations. Climate finance has had a very mixed record in terms of impact. Yet the $100bn-a-year target has also become a lightning rod for disagreement between rich and poor countries.

Much of the money that has been raised so far has gone to large international institutions that are already well-funded.

Climate finance has been pivoting, says Nick Mabey, head of E3G, a climate charity. Everyone kind of points fingers, like there arent enough projects or there isnt enough money. But the system is broken, and how do you fix the system, that is the real question.

Traditional development banks have not really risen to the challenge. Just putting climate money through current development architecture will not get the impact that you need, says Mabey. This money needs to be used to help systemic reform, rather than just plugging a few gaps.

These arguments over climate finance will provide the backdrop to COP26. Donor countries are making a major push at COP26 to boost the sums involved Japan, Italy, the UK and Denmark have all raised their climate pledges in Glasgow. More private funding is coming to tie in with climate-related projects. And a new pool of tens of billions of dollars is being announced by multilateral development banks, with a special focus on helping countries quit coal.

A plan to redistribute special drawing rights to developing countries, to help fight climate change, is also under discussion. The IMF said last month that it would create a new trust for up to $50bn in reallocated SDRs.

The climate finance will happen [eventually], says Yannick Glemarec, head of the Green Climate Fund, which was set up by the UN to help distribute a portion of the $100bn. The problem is, will it happen fast enough to avert catastrophic climate change?

One of the challenges with the $100bn target is simply how to define it, and who gets to decide what counts and what doesnt.

Thats the real $100bn question what is climate finance? And no one has a real claim on that, says Tracy Carty, climate change policy lead at Oxfam. She says that donor countries use this to their advantage.

The OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, issues an annual report on climate finance that tallies what donor countries have mobilised including grants, loans and export finance credits from both public and private sources.

Many developing countries think that definition is too generous, but it is still short of the $100bn goal: OECD figures showed that climate finance reached just $79.6bn in 2019.

Calculations from Oxfam suggest the true level of climate-specific grants is about one-fifth of the OECD climate finance numbers, once loans are taken out.

As the total level of climate finance has expanded in recent years that increase has been on much harder terms for developing countries, says Carty. The amount of grant funding has increased much more slowly than the amount of loan funding, she explains.

The origins of the $100bn target lie in the COP negotiations that took place in 2009 in Copenhagen.

The $100bn figure is also part of a much longer legacy, one that goes all the way back to the inception of the UN climate change framework, at the Rio Conference in 1992. The concept that rich polluting countries should pay to help developing countries fight climate change has been a core part of the grand bargain that lies behind every climate treaty.

That hasnt always gone well though. In the Kyoto protocol, an elaborate system called the Clean Development Mechanism was introduced, which helped to channel hundreds of millions of dollars into climate-related projects in the developing world.

Abuses of the system, which was similar to a carbon offset market, were rampant. A 2017 study by the EU found that 85 per cent of Clean Development Mechanism projects examined failed to have the expected emissions impact.

When climate projects go wrong, its doubly bad, because it is a waste of money and also bad for the planet, says Brice Bhmer, head of programmes at Transparency International, which recently launched a corruption tracker for climate and energy projects.

We need to have much higher standards because if these investments are less, the consequences are terrible, says Bhmer. If it is a project that is supposed to reduce emissions, or a project that is supposed to help a population adapt, this is like penalising them twice.

The $100bn goal took a slightly different approach: channelling funding through existing aid programmes and development banks, allowing donor countries to self-report to the UN each year on the funding they had mobilised.

The UN also launched a dedicated institution the Green Climate Fund to help distribute the $100bn. The GCF became the largest climate-specific fund in the world, having raised about $18bn since its inception in 2010.

But the GCF has had a chequered record. Beset by infighting on the board, and accusations of mismanagement and abuse from staff, it has been less effective than many of its early backers hoped.

And once funding from donor countries started coming in 2014 the GCF raised $10bn in its first fundraising the board decided not to hedge its exposure to the currency fluctuations between the currency that pledges were made in, and the US dollar (the currency for GCF operations). By 2018, $1bn had been wiped off the dollar value of the fund as a result.

One former board member, Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, says the rich countries backing the GCF were willing to turn a blind eye to the mismanagement.

If it was an African country, losing that much money would be a big deal, he says. The slow pace at which funds are handed out is also to blame, he adds, echoing a complaint made by many developing countries. If the money had been dispersed right away, maybe the loss would have been less.

Glemarec says that the $1bn was not a loss and that currency fluctuations are normal. By the time [the pledges] were translated into signed contributions, the dollar had significantly appreciated, he explains. The GCF is considering whether to adopt a hedging policy next year.

The GCF has not achieved its goal of working with local institutions: its biggest grantees are the UN Development Programme, and the EBRD, both giant development organisations that are already well-funded. Two of the UNDP projects awarded by the GCF are under internal investigation after corruption allegations were raised.

The way climate finance is being dispersed now is through huge institutions and big red tape, says Mpanu-Mpanu, who is a climate negotiator for the Democratic Republic of Congo. He points out the administrative overhead is also significant for these big multilateral institutions. In the meantime, runaway climate change is happening.

Climate finance has been beset by the same challenges of waste, corruption and inefficiency that have plagued traditional development aid.

In some ways, getting climate finance right is harder: people who work in the industry always say that the goal of climate finance is to be transformative and to trigger systemic changes, rather than just to build buildings and bridges.

But those goals are much harder to measure. Projects that aim to cut emissions known as mitigation projects typically compare their results against a hypothetical baseline of what emissions would have otherwise been. The results can often be subject to tricks of accounting: if $10m is invested in a better bus system in Hanoi, how do scientists measure how much emissions have been avoided?

When it comes to adapting to a warmer world, those projects can be even trickier to gauge, because they are based on projecting the likelihood of future events which are highly uncertain.

Mushtaq Khan, professor of economics at Soas, says that because climate projects are often trying to prepare for risks that are in the distant future, or threats that are perceived to be very far away, it can be harder to monitor them.

His research found that one-third of the funding for climate adaptation projects in Bangladesh was lost to embezzlement. Countries with high levels of perceived corruption also tend to be among the most vulnerable to climate impacts, according to Transparency International.

It is hugely politically incorrect to combine statements about climate change and corruption, because it looks like you are giving an excuse not to fund, says Khan.

Khan thinks better monitoring by local communities can help, but acknowledges that this is not usually the way that big development banks design their programmes.

To say that there is a lot of wastage and corruption should not be an excuse for saying, oh well this is not going to work, lets not do it, Khan continues. As the flows [of climate finance] are ramped up, a lot of it is likely to be wasted, if we dont get our heads together and think of out-of-the-box ways to reduce leakage [from corruption].

No one has tried to measure the total impact of the portion of the annual $100bn that has been spent so far.

Amar Bhattacharya, a researcher who chaired a recent UN report on the $100bn climate finance pledge, says this is an area where more research needs to be done.

To date there has been very little impact measurement, says Bhattacharya, a senior fellow at Brookings. It is a very important issue.

People look at impact in terms of the composition of finance, things that relate to the financing side. But in terms of real impact of climate finance, and efficacy across different donors, there has been no development impact or climate impact study done to date, says Bhattacharya.

At COP26 a major topic of discussion is not only the $100bn but also how to redirect financial flows from all sources and channel them towards cutting emissions.

It is indisputable that there is capital out there, but is the capital going to where it needs to go? That is the problem, the capital is not going where it needs to go, says Mafalda Duarte, chief executive of the Climate Investment Funds (CIFs).

A new wave of money is starting to head towards more climate projects. Some of this is starting to come from private sources one example is a $600m BlackRock fund for climate projects, which is paired with government funds that take the risk out of the investment.

Public investors are starting to rethink their approaches: The CIFs is raising a $2bn fund from rich countries including Canada, Germany and the US, to help countries transition out of coal. Duarte says it will use this money to leverage funds from other public and private investors, so that every $1 from CIF brings in $10 from others.

Another potential big source of new funding could come from the Article Six negotiations at COP, which will iron out rules for global carbon markets.

That will put in place a system by which polluting countries transfer millions or billions of dollars for carbon-reducing projects in other countries. Done right, it could help lower emissions and send climate finance in the right direction.

But done wrong, it risks re-creating the same problems that plagued the earlier Clean Development Mechanism. If negotiators leave a lot of loopholes in the carbon market rules, such as allowing countries to double count their emissions, then the system could push emissions up rather than reducing them.

Still, developing countries warn that it may all be too little, too late. In Glasgow, negotiations will start over how to set a bigger climate finance target for 2025, even before the $100bn has been reached.

All this will come to a head in the next few days. As a political issue, the funding will be keenly debated. Even though there are questions about whether the money can be spent effectively, and how it should be distributed, politicians and activists admit that no one has found a better solution. However imperfect it is, climate finance is a central part of fighting climate change and also the hardest to fix.

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In the world of combat sports, the line separating reality and entertainment can often be blurred.

How often have you asked yourself: Do these two fighters really hate each other? Or are they putting on a performance to sell extra pay-per-view buys?

But on Sunday (Australian time), the potential for scepticism will be non-existent when arch enemies Kamaru Usman and Colby Covington lock horns again for the welterweight belt at UFC 268 at the hallowed Madison Square Garden in New York.

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Make no mistake, these two men have a lot of history and their hate for each other runs deep.

For starters, Covington is an unabashed supporter of former president Donald Trump, and even got invited to the White House when Trump was in office.

Given reigning champion Usman is of African descent, and what Trumps presidency represented for many black Americans, Usman was always going to be at loggerheads with Covington on politics, and went so far as accusing him of trying to divide the country with inflammatory remarks.

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Covington is undoubtedly a firebrand with the gift of the gab who has adopted the heel persona seamlessly, largely by being politically incorrect.

Among his many outrageous comments, Covington accused Usman of using Erythropoietin (EPO) a banned substance which stimulates red blood cell production and assists with endurance for a couple of years in the lead-up to their first fight in December 2019.

Act or no act, most reasonable people would think Covington crossed the line when, again in the lead-up to UFC 245, he said Usman gave his late trainer Glenn Robinson a heart attack and that Robinson would be watching their main event showdown from hell.

Covington didnt stop there, though. The former interim champion claimed that Usman was not actually born in Nigeria, but was in fact born in America, in Dallas a kind of reversal of the birther movement conspiracy theory his hero Trump subscribed to which claimed former president Barack Obama wasnt born in America, but was born in Kenya.

It also plays nicely into Covingtons use of the nickname he has for Usman: Marty Fake News-man, a reference that also draws on Usmans nickname Marty which he acquired in high school because his coach was having trouble pronouncing his full first name, Kamarudeen.

Throughout it all, despite clearly harbouring deep disdain for Covington, Usman remained fairly calm and collected in the face of the verbal barrage. But while The Nigerian Nightmare put a lot of Covingtons theatrics down to attention-seeking, he did believe the 33-year-olds behaviour also showed what kind of person he was.

I dont think theres ever been a guy universally hated this bad, Usman told MMA Fighting back in 2019.

In response to Covingtons unfounded allegations about his nationality, Usman said he was proud of his immigrant story and went so far as to say he believed he was even more American than Covington, considering America is a country of immigrants and he, as an immigrant, has become a spectacular sporting success story.

Things really boiled over between the pair in August 2019 when they engaged in a live on-air bust-up after Covingtons win against Robbie Lawler.

And then came the fight itself, where Usman got the chance to shut Covington up in the best way possible, by breaking his jaw.

Widely regarded as one of the best welterweight fights in UFC history, Usman put his belt on the line in what was his first title defence, after usurping Woodley as king of the division earlier in 2019 at UFC 235.

In what was a back-and-forth contest full of huge hits from either fighter, only one judge had Usman in the lead going into the final round.

Usman needed to produce something huge in the fifth round, he needed a finish and thats exactly what he got. Twice he rocked Covington, sending the American to the canvas, before ending the contest with rapid-fire hammerfists to the head with just 50 seconds left the latest finish in UFC welterweight history.

But you didnt think that Usman successfully defending his title in such dramatic circumstances would keep Covington quiet did you? On the contrary. Inspired by his hero Trump, Covington labelled the result fake and referee Marc Goddard fake for finishing the fight when he did.

He also accused Usman of not only faking being hit in the cup, but also being poked in the eye in order to buy himself some time and get a rest during the fight.

It all blew over again live on air in September last year when they had another verbal stoush following Covingtons win over Woodley.

Whoevers side you might find yourself on in this gargantuan war of words, one thing is for certain these men are the two best fighters in the welterweight division.

In one corner you have Usman (19-1) who has won his last 18 fights, including each of his 14 bouts in the UFC, in an undefeated streak that dates back eight years. He has also defended his title four times since winning it.

In the other corner you have Covington (16-2) who won 15 of his first 16 fights before being stopped by Usman.

One way or another, with these two men so evenly matched, its not hard to envisage another fight for the ages at UFC 268.

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Hotel California: The Original Eagles Tribute

When the Eagles took a break in the mid-1980s, Hotel California filled the breach, and theyve been the worlds premiere Eagles tribute band ever since. See them at the Sorg Opera House, 57 S. Main St., Middletown, on Nov. 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30-$35. For more information, visit http://www.sorgoperahouse.org.

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This charismatic rock band has been entertaining Cincinnati audiences for over 30 years. See them at the Sorg Opera House, 57 S. Main St., Middletown, on Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25. For more information, visit http://www.sorgoperahouse.org.

Farewell Angelina

This female country trio blends vocal harmonies with double violins and a guitar. See them at the Fairfield Community Arts Center, 411 Wessel Drive, Fairfield, on Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $31-$34. For more information, call (513) 867-5348 or visit http://www.fairfield-city.org/tickets.

Winter Craft Show

This second annual show will feature over 50 vendors. Get all your holiday gifts and dcor at EnterTRAINment Junction, 7379 Squire Ct., West Chester, on Nov. 6 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. There is no admission cost. For more information, call (513) 898-8000 or visit http://www.entertrainmentjunction.com.

Jason Bonhams Led Zeppelin Evening

The son of the late, legendary Led Zeppelin drummer has been rocking on is own since the 1980s. On this tour, hes recreating the iconic songs of Led Zeppelins entire catalogue. See it at the Icon Music Center, 25 Race St., Cincinnati, on Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $39.50-$75. For more information, call (513) 232-5882 or visit http://www.iconmusiccenter.com.

Styx

These progressive soft rockers released a string of multi-platinum albums in the 1970s and 80s. They are touring in support of their 17th album, Crash of the Crown, released last June. See them at the Hard Rock Casino Cincinnati, 1000 Broadway St., Cincinnati, on Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $59-$114. For more information, call (513) 250-3150 or visit http://www.hardrockcasinocincinnati.com.

Ledisi

This Grammy-winning R&B and jazz vocalist has released a live album, a Nina Simone tribute album, and an original album in just the last two years. Shes touring in support of her 2020 original album, Wild Card. See her at the Taft Theatre, 317 E. 5th St., Cincinnati, on Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $31.50-$48.50. For more information, call (513) 232-6220 or visit http://www.tafttheatre.org.

Bill Maher

The old-school liberal host of Politically Incorrect and Real Time has never abandoned his stand-up comedy roots. Check out his rescheduled show at the Taft Theatre, 317 E. 5th St., Cincinnati, on Nov. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $47.50-$129.50. For more information, call (513) 232-6220 or visit http://www.tafttheatre.org.

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BROADWAY's smash-hit musical The Book Of Mormon opened to a standing ovation at Bord Gais Energy Theatre earlier this week.

Penned by the geniuses behind South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the irreverent satire about two Mormon chaps sent on a mission to a remote Ugandan village is a howl a minute.

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Between blissful profanity, sacrilege and politically incorrect mischief, it's probably most anarchic fun ever staged at the Bord Gais.

Although the show runs until December 4, sources predict word of mouth will see the Mormons selling out with the theatre selling a limited amount of day tickets.

Ireland AM star Alan Hughes, Keith Walsh and his son Finn, Graham O Toole and Nathan O Reilly - Spin Radio breakfast presenters were among those attending.

Alan said: I Loved it such fun lots of shock value too with some of the lines but that added to it, the cast looked like they were having a blast."

Last week, we told how Alan Hughes and fellow Ireland AM presenter Muireann O'Connell donned grass skirts for Daniel O'Donnell.

The pair were speaking to the Donegal star as he released the clip for hissingle Down at The Lah De Dah.

The video features the singer working a standard nine to five but daydreaming about sporting a hula skirt and a Hawaiian lei while surfing waves, sipping cocktails and playing the ukulele.

Muireann and Alan dressed up as Hawaiian dancers as a tribute to the Donegal crooner, wearing a grass skirt and a flower necklace.

Taking to Instagram, Muireann said: "Daniel O'Donnell was chatting to us this morning and we had to get dressed up in homage to his new vid.

Daniel told the presenters on Ireland AM: "I love your attire."

Laughing, Alan said: "Thank you very much.

"We went all out for you this morning darling."

At the end of the interview, Daniel said: "Thanks a million guys, and thanks for dressing up."

Alan replied: "We have to give you one last show."

The Virgin Media stars then got up and did a hula dance for Daniel and the Ireland AM viewers.

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It's safe to say that Buffalo Bills fever is at an all-time high. It's at least as big as it was back in the early 90s, the last time the team was this consistently good. I was too young to remember those days, but I do know that this current Bills team has made all of Western New York sleeping and breathing Bills Mafia.

You see Bills hats, jerseys, and shirts all over Buffalo, but I love when you see a fan wearing that "niche" piece of merchandise. You know, like a Wyoming hat or jersey (Josh Allen's college team), or maybe it's his high school team.

Back in early October, Allen wore a Firebaugh hoodie duringwalking into Highmark Stadium before the Houston Texans game, and then wore it during his postgame press conference.

Wegmans

Bills fans wanted to get their hands on that jersey, and it was made available through theShop One Buffalo store online. Now, you can get those signature Firebaugh hoodies at Wegmans!

This was at the Orchard Park Road Wegmans in West Seneca.

Josh Allen grew up in northern California, and went to Firebaugh High School. His team was called the Firebaugh Eagles and now Bills fans can wear the hoodie Josh Allen has been wearing.

I have a ton of Bills gear like most fans do, but there's something very cool about having Wyoming or Firebaugh gear. It just shows how much this community had adopted Allen as their own and wants to support anything associated with him.

Many of them aren't around any more, but our parents always took us to these Buffalo restaurants growing up.

The 20 best old-school restaurants and bars in Western New York.

Did you know these 35 celebrities are on the wall at Chefs Restaurant?

The best pizza spots in Buffalo!

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