#Dunner was ROBBED

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I’m so fucking pissed. 1 goal gets first star??????

Why do they snub Dunner every time. I fucking hate it.

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fortnite buddies

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F2 & F3 FEATURE RACE REPORTS - 2020 BELGIAN GRAND PRIX

Lirim Zendeli dominated his way to victory in the Formula 3 Feature Race, whilst Yuki Tsunoda got incredibly lucky, as Nikita Mazepin got a farcical penalty to cost him victory in Formula 2.

TSUNODA WINS AS MAZEPIN GETS ROBBED

Yuki Tsunoda took his second Formula 2 victory of the season at Spa-Francorchamps after Nikita Mazepin was handed a very harsh five-second time penalty having taken the chequered flag in P1.

Mazepin allegedly “forced” Tsunoda off the road at Le Combes, despite the Japanese driver going for a gap that was always going to close, behind the pair, Mick Schumacher finished on the podium again to continue his decent season.

Tsunoda started on pole and got away well and led into La Source, as Mazepin lost P2 to a fast starting Nobuharu Matsushita. Robert Shwartzman went backwards off the line, whilst Juri Vips was up to P16 having started from P21 at the end of the first lap.

In stark contrast, Guilherme Samaia stalled on the grid for Campos, he later got going but didn’t finish, whilst Jehan Daruvala struggled again, and had to pit at the end of the first lap thanks to a broken front wing.

Matsushita’s good start didn’t last long, and he lost P2 and P3 to Mazepin and Schumacher respectively on lap three, and then P4 and P5 to Louis Deletraz and Shwartzman on lap four, his race then ended when defending from his team mate Felipe Drugovich going into Blanchimont, moving over on the Brazilian and making contact, breaking Drugovich’s front wing and sending the Japanese driver spinning off into the barrier, deploying the Virtual Safety Car.

Thanks to the long lap, racing resumed again just at the end of lap six, and a lap later Guanyu Zhou started his charge up through the pack, taking P5 from Shwartzman on lap seven and P4 from Deletraz  on lap eight, however his team mate, Callum Ilott, couldn’t find the same pace, dropping behind fellow Brit Dan Ticktum, down in to P9 at Le Combes.

The same lap saw Mazepin and Schumacher pit first, looking for the undercut, but a slow stop for Schumacher cost him time. The strategy paid off for Mazepin, as he jumped Tsunoda for the net lead when he came in just a lap later.

He took the actual lead back on lap 16, when Zhou finally came in having run the alternate strategy, and he struggled when he came back out, running wide at Le Combes, then being passed by Luca Ghiotto, Pedro Piquet, Ticktum and Ilott to fall all the way down to P9.

Piquet then attacked Ghiotto and initially got through for P6, but then got repassed by the Italian, and Ticktum to fall down to P8, and continued to drop backwards and out of the points, a real shame for the Brazilian after a decent opening stint.

Lap 19 saw all of the mechanics and members of the paddock, participate in a lap of applause in memory of Anthoine Hubert, who lost his life at this track after a crash at Radillon last year, this included Juan Manuel Correa, who is still recovering from his injuries.

Zhou then repassed Ilott for P8 and Ghiotto for P7 as his fresh rubber finally started to come to life, whilst Ilott lost P9 to Roy Nissany, who was putting in a surpisingly decent drive, he also passed Ghiotto for P8 and reverse grid pole with just a couple of laps to go.

However the final laps were dominated by the leaders, and it looked like Mazepin had done enough to see off Tsunoda’s charge, with the Red Bull junior only able to attack with the help of DRS on the Kemmel Straight every lap, however the stewards felt differently, and opted to Mazepin another harsh penalty for the second weekend in a row (having also lost a P3 finish in Barcelona) and the Russian was understandably fuming on the podium after the race.

RACE RESULT:

TSUNODA, MAZEPIN, SCHUMACHER DELETRAZ, SHWARTZMAN (FL), TICKTUM, ZHOU, NISSANY, GHIOTTO, ILOTT VIPS, PIQUET, ARMSTRONG, AITKEN, SATO, MARKELOV, LUNDGAARD, ALESI, DARUVALA, DRUGOVICH

SAMAIA & MATSUSHITA – DNF

ZENDELI DOMINATES TO TAKE MAIDEN VICTORY

Trident’s Lirim Zendeli took his first ever F3 victory, dominating from pole position in the Feature Race, as he held off the challenge from Theo Pourchaire, and his team mate and compatriot David Beckmann.

Jake Hughes had another miserable day, through no fault of his own again, unable to get away from the grid on the Formation Lap, meaning he had to start from the pits.

Once the race finally got away, Zendeli led well into La Source ahead of Pourchaire and Alex Smolyar as they held their positions off the line. However, it wasn’t long until the first yellow flags, with Clement Novalak sustaining a puncture and rookie Andreas Estner limping back without a front wing and a rear right puncture. Enzo Fittipaldi also sustained a puncture on lap two to ruin his race for HWA.

Alessio Deledda then brought out the yellow flags again on lap three, managing to spin off on the exit of the Fagnes chicane and beach his car in the gravel trap to end his anonymous race to compound Campos’ woeful morning.

Lap six saw Oscar Piastri put a brilliant move in on Richard Verschoor round the outside of the Bus Stop Chicane to take P7, and lap seven saw David Beckmann move into the podium positions, passing Smolyar down the Kemmel Straight.

Liam Lawson and Piastri made contact at Le Combes on lap 10 whilst battling for P6, with the Prema coming out on top on the run down through Malmedy, but he was forced to give the position back at the Bus Stop, and got through again at the same place on lap 11.

Piastri then passed his championship rival on lap 15, with Logan Sargeant struggling home with an engine issue, which cost him the chance to challenge Smolyar for P4 and saw him drop behind his main rival and then fellow team mate Vesti too.

Sargeant held on behind Olli Caldwell to take home some points and start from P3 in the Sprint Race, but his misfortune means Piastri becomes the new Championship leader.

Dennis Hauger starred from those who finished outside of the points, recovering from a poor qualifying session to climb 13 places to finish P15, whilst rookie Michael Belov also climbed 9 positions to finish P20 on his debut.

Whilst Jake Hughes was able to take solace from posting the Fastest Lap, but he was unable to take the points having finished outside the top 10, in another race in which he was left to wonder what could have been.

RACE RESULT:

ZENDELI, POURCHAIRE, BECKMANN SMOLYAR, PIASTRI, VESTI, CALDWELL, SARGEANT, LAWSON, VERSCHOOR FERNANDEZ, DOOHAN, NANNINI, PERONI, HAUGER, WILLIAMS, SCHUMACHER, MALVESTITI, FRAGA, BELOV DUNNER, CHOVET, VISCAAL, STANEK, DAS, FITTIPALDI ESTNER + 1 LAP NOVALAK + 3 LAPS HUGHES & DELEDDA - DNF

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watching dunner, blais, rob thom, and macmac play fortnite on twitch... this is what life without hockey is like. every time blais does something fuckin stupid my heart grows three sizes.

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Robert Thomas: You don’t think we’ll get in trouble for this, do you?

Vince Dunn: No, not a chance!

(Cut to Petro and the As scolding Rob and Dunner)

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MAY 11th ~ Wanaka, West Coast, Fox Glacier, Franz Josef Glacier

Ok this post is gonna have to be broken up into two separate posts because there’s just waaaay too much to show and explain.

After having spent a couple weekends in Dunedin and having increasing anxiety about making sure I’d have time to visit all the places I wanted to before I left, I convinced Megan to embark on an adventure with me for the weekend. I was itching to get to the west coast/central part of the south island, especially the glaciers considering I’d been outvoted to see Rob Roy Glacier when a group of us were in Wanaka earlier in the semester. Heading out the tentative plan was to drive out to Wanaka on Friday, spend the night there, and then continue to the west coast and drive up to Fox and Franz Glaciers and then spend the night in Franz Josef, reserving Sunday for the 7 hour drive back to Dunedin. The alternative was to just keep driving north on Sunday and get to drive through Arthur’s Pass, a national park in the center of the island, stay in Christchurch for the night to break up the drive, and then make the way back to Dunners on Monday morning. This was our trip outline, but other than booking hostels in Wanaka and Franz Josef the rest was pretty much open for us to wing it. The weather for the weekend was slightly unpredictable per usual an leaving for Wanaka on Friday the weather for the day didnt look great.

We got in around mid day and cloudy mixed with some rain, so not ideal for any big hikes. Instead we visited the Lavender Farm we saw on the way into Wanaka. Suuuuper cute and artsy and got to feed alpacas, sheep and pigs (we always love some alpacas). They also had a whole store of lavender products and honeys (including lavender honey of course) which were incredible but slightly above the budget unfortunately. Afterwards we ended up doing the Mt. Iron track, a shorter iconic track right outside of town (kind of like a mini Roy’s Peak that we’d done last time we came to Wanaka). Not the best views because of #NZweather but at this point bad weather doesnt even bother me, I’ll freakin hike in anything. Next move was to the hostel (Megan had booked for the both of us together) where we’d apparently been UPGRADED from the 10 bed mixed dorm room to a two bed private room WITH ITS OWN BATHROOM. A luxury really. We love the off season.

We started Saturday off with a little sunrise at the #ThatWanakaTree (it literally has its own hashtag) where we were greeted by a bus load of asian tourists (a reoccurring theme here) all set up in position to catch the best angle. Meg copped a coffee and then we hit to road towards the coast. Saturday’s weather started clearing up in the morning and led to a beaaautiful sunny day. Though haha, funny story, driving from Wanaka we left with a little over a quarter tank of gas, dont know why this fact didn't startle me more at the time considering my friend Maddie had done the same drive to the glaciers the weekend before and had apparently run out of gas and warned me because there were minimal gas stations along the way. Driving through Mt Aspiring National Park was beaut (west coast really is my favorite part of NZ). The mountains are comparable to Fiordland but still tropical and just some crazy contrasts. We stopped at Thunder Creek Falls (wanted to recreate a picture I’d seen on a tourist guide - as seen me eating the waterfall) along Haast Highway and at this point Paddy’s gaslight turned on. There has only ever been one other time that I’ve been in the car with the gas light on so it’s kinda scary when you don’t know how far you can push it without actually being in trouble. We also didn’t exactly know how far we needed to drive to get to a gas station, hoping that the next town we’d drive through would be big enough to actually even have a gas station. I took over driving at this point to try to coast as much as possible since I started getting anxious, and lemme tell ya we got reeaal close to empty. We drove for at least an hour with the gas light on before finally getting to Haast on the coastline. Really tested the heart. After filling her up with petrol and finding a little place with freshly made muffins still warm from the oven we took a slight detour to Haast beach to see that beautiful ocean with our eyeballs. The beach was covered in crazy small smoothed pebbles  of orange, white and blue with some green and purple ones thrown in there. While Megan swam I just sat playing with rocks like a child, pretty much in awe.

The rest of the drive up the coast reminded me a lot of what I imagine the coast of California to look like, very Pacific Coast Highway -esk. Again, my favorite part of NZ to date.

First we hit Fox Glacier and did the lil one hour round trip hike to the viewing point and back. (Again unpleasant experience with asian tourists as one yelled something as us as we were walking right by her and took our picture?? Maybe because we were two blonde girls? idk. really wasn't my favorite encounter). Then we scurried to Franz Josef Glacier (allegedly the bigger better glacier) and did that 1.5 hour round trip hike. Both hikes were walking along the valley created by the receding glacier and had some pretty extreme beautiful cliffs, reminded me a little of Milford Sound. They also both had signs marking where the the glaciers use to extend to at certain years, some of them being reeeeally far out compared to where it ends now. Just another fun reminder of the extent of global warming!!!

Getting into the town ship of Franz Josef where we’d booked a hostel for the night (basically just a circuit of hostels/motels/food/tour places and a gas station) we located a sweet place to watch a sunset and took a lil walk there. Afterwards we headed to the hot pools that we’d heard about and had a nice lil soak before cooking up some dinna back at the hostel and planning the next day. Megan had an assignment due Tuesday so I was leaving the big decision as to continue the trip Sunday or just go back home that day up to her since I really had no obligations. And this is where I’ll leave you in suspense for the rest of the trip recap!!!

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167: Are Brands Allowed an Opinion?

Are brands allowed an opinion in the modern media landscape? In the news recently, Under Armour CEO has been in the crosshairs over his comments that alluded to President Trump being "good for business."

However, did the media tell the entire story? And more to the point, are brands allowed to have an opinion, or must they be responsible to their shareholders in a way that creates no waves?

Joining hosts Robert Hix and Vincenzo Landino are Savannah Peterson with Savvy Millennial and Antigone Peyton at Cloudigy Law.

About Savannah Peterson

Savannah Peterson is the Founder and Chief Unicorn of Savvy Millennial where she helps the people, products and brands she loves grow. Savannah was named to the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Consumer Technology, and is a respected voice in innovation and community engagement.

Savannah works with authors, startups and companies, developing go-to-market strategies and building communities. She thrives on product development and launch journey and is a super-connector of people, resources and audiences. Prior to Savvy Millennial, Savannah was the Director of Innovation Strategy at Massive Labs & Speck Design where she helped create new consumer electronics. In her New York City life, Savannah was the Director of Global Community at Shapeways, the world's largest 3D Printing community, where she empowered and enabled over 25,000 3D Printing businesses.

A true hardware nerd, Savannah has helped friends, clients, and fellow creatives raise over $4.5M through crowdfunding. Before diving head first into design, Savannah worked at Fox Sports Northwest, the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington, and founded her own Social Media Marketing Agency, Savvy Marketing Seattle. She travels the world as a public speaker, most recently featured at the Air New Zealand Inspiring Voices series, Kiwi Landing Pad Sales and Marketing Jam, South by Southwest, the Silicon Beached Festival, the Ford Research and Innovation Lab, Gasparilla Interactive, Social Fresh and more. An avid mentor for women and men in tech, she mentors and teaches at Stanford, NYU, and PACE University.

She has been featured in/on Forbes, the BBC, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, CNET, The Verge, and others. When not geeking out, she’s tasting wine and romping through the wild blue yonder with her rescue mutt, Martini. Savannah thrives on empowering innovative minds. This takes shape in many forms; keynote speaking, panel moderating, teaching, mentoring, livestreaming, vlogging, podcasting, hosting and any other excuse to have fun in front of a creative audience.

About Antigone Peyton

Antigone focuses on intellectual property litigation and IP portfolio management and growth strategies involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights. Her litigation and counseling experiences also include unfair competition, DMCA violations, computer fraud, and social media issues. Antigone has acted as lead trial counsel and appellate counsel in federal civil lawsuits across the United States and has a significant litigation practice in the Eastern District of Virginia (the “Rocket Docket”). Additionally, Antigone has represented clients before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB).

Antigone has been recognized among Virginia Super Lawyers and Virginia Legal Elite for her work involving intellectual property law. She has also been honored with an Influential Women of Virginia award for outstanding efforts in law and her community contributions, which includes a STEM mentorship program for students interested in careers involving scientific research and innovation.

Antigone’s clients range from technology start-ups to international corporations. She has represented companies involved in high stakes intellectual property litigation over technologies that range from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to Internet, software, cyber security, telecommunication, and aerospace technologies. Antigone has significant experience involving e-discovery related technologies and practices. She has also helped consumer products companies manage and grow brand-related assets, including companies focused on fitness, food, cosmetics, and apparel products.

Having worked for both a trial judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and an appellate judge at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit), Antigone brings a practical perspective to her litigation and client counseling practice.

Before she founded Cloudigy Law, Antigone was a litigator at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, in Washington, DC and managed the firm’s electronic litigation working group on e-discovery. Before law school, Antigone conducted scientific research involving clinical and pre-clinical biophysics and magnetic resonance studies at a large university medical center. This experience sharpened her focus on business needs and the practical aspects of innovation efforts when crafting legal solutions—a perspective often missing in the legal field.

She does much more than legal work, though. Antigone is an avid fruit and vegetable gardener and enjoys growing heirloom tomatoes in the summer.

About Rob Hix

Lifetime small business owner with a passion for live video production, commercial audiovisual systems, and broadcasting. I’m an employer, employee, executive and janitor all wrapped into one amazing career. Innovation and outside-of-the-box solutions are my “sweet spot”. I live my life in my own self-interest, to the benefit of my employees and clients. I work best with those who place a premium on their lives and exchange value-for-value to achieve their goals.

Enlightened Audiovisual is a comprehensive A/V design, installation and live video production firm serving the commercial and federal markets. We are a partner-based company that provides embedded expertise in the field of video conferencing, collaboration and livestreaming systems. We specialize in enterprise-level deployments throughout North America that are centrally-managed and maintained, with expertise in Cisco TelePresence, Polycom, Crestron, Skype for Business and many online livestreaming platforms.

About Vincenzo Landino

Vincenzo Landino is an entrepreneur, speaker and host of the Brand Boost Podcast. He is the the co-founder and Creative Director of Aftermarq, video content consultants, specializing in brand amplification and digital storytelling. With experience as a brand correspondent, Vincenzo’s portfolio includes a 1 billion impression campaign launch for Applebee’s as well as work for Mazda, Kia Motors, Paul Mitchell Schools, Barilla Pasta, DC United, Tinder, and Zoomph.

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