Double up for Liberty's Gem

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Classy three-year-old Libertys Gem claimed the second leg of a feature double when leading all the way in todays $150,000 Sir Ernest Lee-Steere Classic (1400m) at Ascot.

Two weeks after taking out the Placid Ark Stakes (1200m), Libertys Gem produced a replica performance to give trainer Simon Miller his third Lee-Steere Classic victory in four years.

Victorian jockey Ben Melham fired Libertys Gem ($4) straight to the lead from barrier three and shot him clear early in the straight.

Outlaw Pete ($3.60 favourite) and Hobart Jones ($5), who gained a dream inside run, loomed as big dangers inside the final 150m.

But Libertys Gem kicked strongly to hold the talented duo off by half a length.

Outlaw Pete nosed out Hobart Jones for second place in a photo.

Miller, who won the Group 3 feature with Hard Ball Get (2012) and Night War (2011), has a big opinion of Libertys Gem.

Significant Hong Kong offers for the three-year-old, a winner at three of four starts, were rejected last week.

Hes still a work in progress. Its only his first prep, Miller said.

Ill put him out now, hes done his job.

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Conversation with John Tomasi – Free Market Fairness and Libertarianism (Skyperadio Ep. 9) – Video

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Prof. John Tomasi (Brown University), the author of "Free Market Fairness", in conversation with Otto Lehto. Is social justice compatible with free market id...

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Exclusive First Look At Sir Richard Branson's Exotic Moskito Island

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Flying low over the crystal blue waters of the Caribbean and the British Virgin Islands, I came across my destination, the stunning 120 acre Moskito Island. Billionaire Sir Richard Branson is near completion on this exotic new island paradise. Located one mile from his famed Necker Island, Moskito Island is located in the North Sound just off shore from Anguilla Point, Virgin Gorda and is named after the Moskito Indian tribe, not the bug. In years past, this little BVI beauty (also referred to as Mosquito Island) was once a popular playground for visiting sailors and scuba divers.

Branson is almost finished with his spectacular eco-resort, consisting of five three-bedroom villas, a massive Cliffside residence for himself, staff accommodations, a refurbished dock, a restaurant, beach bar, nature trails open to the public, an organic garden and orchard, a swimming pool and tennis courts. Branson has hand selected his neighbors who will occupy the other villas including several of the worlds leading billionaires.

Moskito Island (Photo courtesy of Jim Dobson)

Twenty additional villas are planned for the island using solar panels and wind turbines. No diesel power is being used on this all green island utilizing wind and solar as part of his plan to green the islands. The island will become a working model for how other islands can cut expensive diesel imports . We know that islands will suffer the most from climate change and sea level rise Branson says, Reefs will be devastated and wildlife decimated. Its realistic to think that whole islands could be 75-80% clean energy in four to five years.

Architect Gus Wustemann has even published some spectacular renderings of one of the Main Villas interiors utilizing a solid base sculptured out of rock with new advanced hurricane safe design an amazing fantasy world of underwater windows will introducing high technology to preserve the environment with minimal impact.

Moskito Island Main Villa (photo courtesy of Gus Wustemann)

And keeping with Bransons exotic tastes, he currently has a ring tailed Lemur refuge located there. Acquired from zoos around the world, hehopes to give the near-endangered animals a habitat within the islands tropical rainforests. Native only to Madagascar, the gorgeous ring-tailed lemurs have massive deforestation across the world. Branson imported these cat-like creatures from zoos in Canada, South Africa and Sweden.

Sir Richard Branson with his Lemurs (Photo courtesy of Virgin.com)

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Visayas Biennale shows 13 is a lucky number

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Mortals, a collaborative painting by Tristram Miravalles, MikiBoy Pama, Gwen Decena, Frelan Gonzaga and Joe Geraldo

VIVA Excon cofounder Charlie Co and festival director Manny Montelibano

The 13th instalment of the Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibit and Conference (Viva Excon) returned to Negros Occidental last Nov. 13-19, and successfully gathered different artists and artworks from the islands. Theme was Inspire.

This is the fourth time that Negros Occidental hosted Viva Excon, and it is a pleasure that it goes back to where it originally started, said top Bacolod-based artist Charlie Co, one of the founders of Viva Excon.

The art group Black Artist in Asia founded Viva Excon 26 years ago. It is the largest artist-run art exhibition and conference in the Visayas. It tours the region every two years with the help of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

The idea of this is to showcase the creative works of Visayas and to have a voice in the Philippine art scene, Co said. We would like everyone to know that we also have a good number of talents here.

Manny Montelibano, Viva Excon 2014 festival director, said organizing the event was made difficult because of logistical issues only worsened by the recent calamities that hit many areas of the Visayas.

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CURATOR Patrick Flores

But Montelibano said public response to the festival was overwhelming. He added that despite scarce resources, the festival invited artists from Luzon, Mindanao and even outside the Philippines.

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The United States health care system is a $3 trillion enterprise, the largest in the developed world. Yet Americans often experience more severe access and quality problems, and spend much...

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