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[ "Two schools have shared their experiences of trips for SEND pupils, one to Magdalen Farm, the other to UK Parliament.\n\nSchool trips are an integral part of the curriculum at Brookfields School in Reading. Pupils’ opportunities to learn outside the classroom begin in Early Years and continue right through their time at the school.", null, "For the past two years, children from the school have visited Magdalen Farm in Somerset for a residential stay.\n\n“Learning in the real world is highly valuable for our pupils,” explains Kirsty Simmonds, head of Key Stage 3. “We work throughout lessons on building knowledge and it is when they get into the community where this knowledge and skill is consolidated.\n\n“We found Magdalen Farm when looking for a residential trip for Key Stage 3 pupils. When we visited the farm, we had an instant positive vibe. The farm offers lots of fun outdoor activities which are tailored to our pupils’ needs.”\n\n20 Brookfields pupils were involved in the most recent trip. They took part in a long list of activities during their stay from collecting eggs from Magdalen’s chickens and sizing them using an ‘egganator’ to making their own pizzas and cooking them in the outside oven.\n\n“Food activities are always a success with our pupils and Magdalen did not disappoint,” says Kirsty.\n\n“The pupils also enjoyed making omelettes on an open fire and learning about the safety involved as well as using fresh herbs grown on the farm.\n\n“Alongside this we were able to take part in a smoothie making competition where the pupils had to take it in turns to pedal exercise bikes in order to power blenders to make the smoothies.”", null, "A trip to the beach, singing around the campfire and a disco in the farmhouse were also planned into the trip.\n\n“One thing which is very important to us with school trip providers is that they take the activities at the pupils’ pace. Some of our pupils need breaks and sometimes space before re-engaging and this was respected at Magdalen.\n\n“The farmhouse also has fully disabled access, which meant our pupils in wheelchairs were able to partake in the trip. They also had motorised wheelchairs so that the same pupils could access all aspects of the farm.”\n\nThere’s more than 150 miles between Ysgol Bryn Castell and London, but that didn’t deter four staff members from taking six of the school’s pupils on a visit to the UK Parliament recently.\n\nThe trip started with a train journey to London where pupils went on the underground for the first time in order to get to parliament. Once there, the students – aged 11 to 18 – took part in a tour of the Houses of Parliament that included watching part of a session in the House of Commons and part of a session in the House of Lords. Pupils then attended a ‘Making Laws’ workshop in the Parliament Education Centre in which they learnt about how laws are made and took part in a role play activity to make their own law.", null, "The Bridgend school used a key worker system for their trip to UK Parliament.\n\nThe pupils rounded off their experience with a Q&A session with their local MP Chris Elmore and a picnic by the River Thames before travelling home.\n\nTeacher Sarah Davies said: “As a Special School all of our trips are tailored to the bespoke needs of our pupils. We used a key worker system so that pupils had a specific adult during the day that they were linked to.\n\n“When travelling on public transport we alerted staff to the sensory needs of our pupils and we were escorted on and off the trains so as to transition between transport/entrances/exits as efficiently as possible.\n\nAt Paddington we were also able to board the train home first before any crowds so that it would not be overwhelming for pupils. The Parliament Education team also differentiated the session to the needs of our learners and adapted to their needs throughout.", null, "Even before the school group arrived at UK Parliament it had been a trip of experiences - with the pupils travelling on the underground for the first time.\n\n“I would recommend this trip to other SEND teachers as the Parliament Education team could not have been more supportive of our learners. Also, with good forward planning and communication, the transport staff were also extremely helpful and understanding of pupils’ needs – I would just encourage you to ask in advance.”\n\nThe venue also provides elements such as the use of a hoist toilet and hearing loop technology. A range of pre-visit resources is also available including a list of vocabulary designed to help SEN pupils familiarise themselves with words that will be used on the day.\n\nThere are a few simple steps teachers can make to embolden SEND pupils both before and during a trip.\n\nThe National Autistic Society offers the following advice for taking autistic pupils on school trips that can also be adapted or transferred to pupils with many other special educational needs." ]

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[ null, "We know you’ve all been eagerly awaiting the announcement of HitFilm 15. We’re pleased to announce that our biggest update yet is finally here!\n\nWe know you’ve all been eagerly awaiting the announcement of the HitFilm 15 release. We’re pleased to announce that our biggest update yet is finally here! This update is jam-packed with some amazing new features. Keep reading to learn about the exciting changes in HitFilm 15.\n\nWhat’s in the HitFilm 15 release?\n\nThe new Auto Stabilization effect will let you smooth out shaky footage at the click of a button using HitFilm’s intelligent tracking and stabilization algorithms. You’ll have the ability to create smooth, professional-looking footage without the hard work of manually stabilizing your footage.\n\nThe new Motion Track behavior effect in HitFilm 15 makes it possible to motion-track elements directly from the editor timeline – a feature that was previously only possible from a composite shot. The process is also now quicker and easier than before, making motion tracking pretty effortless in HitFilm.\n\nNew shapes for the masking tools\n\nYou can now create and customize star-shaped, polygon, and rounded rectangle masks. Create hundreds of different interesting shapes for your transitions or motion graphics.\n\nHitFilm’s colorist tools have also made a significant step up with the introduction of the Color Adjustment effect – so you can select a range of color values and adjust them by hue, lightness, and saturation. You can tailor the ‘strength’ and ‘softness’ of the effect and even choose to preserve skin tones or black-and-white in the output. This tool also offers a ‘hue replacement’ option for direct color replacement, removing the need for tedious rotoscoping.\n\nYou can now crop the contents of a clip and animate the crop to control which area is shown. This is an effect that will come in useful if you’re looking to pan and zoom 4K or 8K footage in post-production.\n\nFor fully customizing the framing of your 360° footage. You can now control motion blur, manually adjust the horizon level, adjust lens curvature, and more.\n\nYou can now export audio using the WAV format, meaning the export is lossless and the quality is as good as can be! Now you can get the audio out of the timeline without having to strip it from the video.\n\nWhat else is new in the HitFilm 15 release?\n\nWe’ve also improved the workflow, added new plugin presets and templates, and enhanced image sequence import. Dozens of bug fixes are also included for greater stability and performance. So what are you waiting for?", null ]

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[ "How to control Python version – 3 methods", null, "Using the latest version of Python is always recommended if you want to take advantage of the latest security updates, bug fixes and features. But how do you know which version you are on? Read on, and we’ll look at how to check the Python version and install a newer update if needed.\n\nHow to check the Python version\n\nWhen you download Python, you download an interpreter. This means that you effectively “learn” your computer how to understand Python code. All this is to say that Python itself is not a software with a user interface, and therefore there is no automatic update involved.\n\nHow to check the Python version in the terminal\n\nYou can also check your Python version in the terminal or Windows Command Prompt. Just write:\n\nEither way, you can now see which version you have installed!\n\nHow to control the Python version programmatically\n\nYou can also check which version of Python is running in code. To do this, import the sys module and then use version.\n\nThe useful thing about this is that it also lets you control which version of Python is running on another user’s machine, which is useful if you want to make sure your app is running on any device without crashing.", null, "To try this in the shell, just open it and go to File> New file. Add the code via the editor that opens and go to Run> Run module. You will be asked to save your file first. This can of course be run in any editor or IDE.\n\nWhere should I go from here?\n\nAnd there you have it! How to check the Python version on any machine in one of three ways. If you think your version of Python is outdated, check out our guide to updating Python here.\n\nIf you do not have Python installed on your machine yet, learn how to install Python here. And when you are ready to start learning, check out our guide to the best online Python courses.\n\nHere you will find a number of fantastic courses that can take you from absolute beginner to qualified professional. The Python Programming Certification Pack 2020 offers particularly good value for money: it offers a really comprehensive guide to the language for just $ 49.99. Hurry up, as it’s usually estimated at $ 2,335!" ]

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[ "The Adventures of Errol Flynn: The Television Documentary\n\nTHE ADVENTURES OF ERROL FLYNN\n\nThis review is part of the Summer Under the Stars Blogathon sponsored by Journeys in Classic Film and Musings of a Classic Film Addict. Today's star is Errol Flynn.\n\nErrol Flynn: scandalous, swashbuckling and genuine actor. The original Tasmanian devil, Flynn was both a daredevil with a devil-may-care attitude and an intellectually curious man. He loved women but was also a devoted father to his children. The Adventures of Errol Flynn covers his life story, one that reveals a man who thought life was an awfully big adventure, but who also was deeply trapped by that which brought him what he wanted.\n\nNarrated by Ian Holm, The Adventures of Errol Flynn covers his life from his birth and upbringing in Tasmania, Australia through his various exploits on his way to becoming an actor first in Great Britain and later in Hollywood. Once there, with a little help from his first wife, actress Lili Damita, he was cast in the title role in Captain Blood, a newcomer who was given the role after Robert Donat, Leslie Howard and Fredric March turned it down.\n\nAstonishing how no one could imagine anyone other than Flynn in the role, he nearly didn't get it but Mr. Chips did.\n\nHis turn as this daring swashbuckler made him an overnight success, the public response to his athleticism and incredible beauty surprising everyone. He quickly was put in a series of action costume pictures, usually with Olivia de Havilland with The Adventures of Robin Hood as their definitive piece. His studio Warner Brothers had found a formula that worked, and while he was allowed to occasionally venture into other genres like comedies, the public on the whole preferred Flynn in essentially two types of films: costume swashbucklers and Westerns.", null, "As Flynn observed in the audio track, \"Give him a horse, give him a sword, do something, Errol\".\n\nHowever, Flynn did want to get away from the trappings of his screen persona but instead found said persona spilled into his private life. A sensational statutory rape trial and failures in his marriages plagued him, as did a morphine addiction he began in his quest to try anything.\n\nFinancial problems too started in on him, culminating in an unfinished film, The Story of William Tell, which all but bankrupted him and even brought a lawsuit from his then-friend, actor Bruce Cabot, whom Flynn had hired for William Tell to help Cabot out to begin with.\n\nFlynn's last cinematic hurrah was in Too Much, Too Soon, a biopic of John Barrymore that played more like a biopic of Flynn than of The Great Profile. The Shakespeare soliloquy he recited as part of the film caused the crew to give him a standing ovation, and he was even presented a recording of it as a gift from them. That kind of belated adulation for his acting versus his 'wicked, wicked ways' quietly moved him, but he died in 1959 aged 50, a life of excess finally catching up to him.\n\nThe Adventures of Errol Flynn is a good primer to this most fascinating yet slowly fading figure. While the expression 'in like Flynn' still is used, Flynn's on-screen persona as a swashbuckler seems more ripe for parody than for genuine respect. Despite that Robin Hood: Men in Tights is supposed to be a spoof of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, it's clear that Flynn's lusty, laughing characterization is also held up for mockery. Flynn's performance was also essentially ridiculed in the Doctor Who episode Robot of Sherwood, and The Rocketeer went one step further.", null, "In that film, \"Neville Sinclair\" was meant to be an Errol Flynn-type, and also uses Flynn's alleged Nazi connections as a plot point. The Adventures of Errol Flynn touches on the allegations, making clear that there is no solid evidence Flynn was a Nazi collaborator or even sympathizer. The interviewees ranging from his longtime costar de Havilland to his surviving children and film historians like Rudy Behlmer make clear that Flynn was in reality quite free of prejudice, disinterested if a man was Jewish or black or anything.\n\nWe do learn some fascinating information about Flynn the man as opposed to Flynn the persona. While lacking in much formal education he not only read but wrote two novels and became an art collector of taste. He had a passion for adventure and sailing but he also deeply yearned to stretch as an actor beyond 'cowboy hats and tights'. He turned down a chance to play the sympathetic role in That Forsyte Woman so as to play the more villainous role and earned high praise for his sympathetic alcoholic in The Sun Also Rises.\n\nOne can see Flynn, despite his protests to the contrary, did want to be seen as a genuine actor. It is tragic that he was belatedly recognized for his skills, including by his The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex costar Bette Davis. As told by their mutual friend de Havilland, Davis despised Flynn as a talentless charmer to her genuine actress, but after having a private screening of Elizabeth and Essex Davis had a change of heart, admitting he was an actor.\n\nDe Havilland was also amusing in her own elegant and discreet manner when talking about how she declined an off-screen romance due to the uncertain situation with Damita. She got back at Flynn by deliberately blowing a kissing scene in Robin Hood, then says that Errol had 'a little trouble with his tights', a most demure way of saying his erection was fully visible.\n\nFlynn not only had a way with women but was able to laugh at his own screen image: the documentary begins with his appearance on the television game show What's My Line?, where three people claim to be one person and the audience has to figure out who the 'real' person is. It's easy to see which of the three (including Don Knotts) is 'the real Errol Flynn', but his side-look when the mention of being married three times is amusing.\n\nNot so amusing was the damage to his reputation over the statutory rape charge, which the documentary suggests were politically motivated as revenge against Flynn's studio. Though he tried to cover his pain and anger by joining in the jokes, the idea that he violated women bothered him to no end.\n\nErrol Flynn was a rake, a rogue, and a much better and more skilled actor than his detractors then and now admit. He lived large, sometimes to his own detriment, but if anything The Adventures of Errol Flynn gives one insight into a person who never shrunk from life." ]

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[ "Mahershala Ali is a two times Academy Award-winning actor who has successfully established himself in the movie industry.\n\nThe Moonlight star is married to Amatus Sami Karim. The two first met when attending New York University. They grew closer, and Mahershala eventually converted his faith to Muslim after attending a mosque with his wife and his mother in law.\n\nAccording to Amatus’ website, she is a performative, conceptual artist working in the mediums of Music, Film, and Theatre, primarily dealing with themes related to identity, history, and popular culture.", null, "She grew up on the south side of Chicago and moved to Philadephia with her social worker mother following her parent’s divorce.\n\nShe graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts. In addition, she also studied acting for a year at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London.\n\nMahershalalhashbaz Gilmore was born on 16th February 1974 in Oakland, California.\n\nHe grew up in Hayward and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication from St. Mary’s College. He later enrolled in New York University and earned his Master’s degree in Acting from Tisch School of the Arts.\n\nHe made his professional debut performing at the California Shakespeare Festival in Orinda, California.\n\nMahershala made his on-screen debut as Dr. Trey Sanders in Crossing Jordan in 2001. He went on to play in various TV series and shorts over the next few years. The actor was soon cast in the 2008 movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, alongside Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.\n\nBrad Pitt's Kids:- How Many Kids Does Brad Pitt Have With Angelina Jolie?\n\nThe actor has been a recipient of many awards. He bagged the Academy Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in 2017 and 2019 for his performance in Moonlight and Green Book, respectively. The latter also won him a Golden Globe and BAFTA for the same category in 2019.\n\nThroughout his career, he has been nominated over 125 times and won over 70 of them.\n\nThe celebrated actor is of African-American ethnicity. He was born in a Christian family but later converted to Ahmadi Muslim.\n\nAccording to celebritynetworth.com, Mahershala has a net worth of $8 million." ]

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[ "Is Greece's property market about to turn a corner?", null, "Dissent in Athens has reflected a difficult time in general for Greece's property market since the recession.\n\nHowever, a new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers indicates it's not all bad news for the country's troubled property market.\n\nThe auditor's Emerging Trends: Europe 2014 report notes that Athens remains 'bottom of the pile for existing investment prospects and developments.'\n\nHowever, the city has jumped from 27th to 13th in the rankings for new developments in European cities.\n\nThis encouraging news has led some to speculate that investment in Greek real estate should improve as a whole during 2014.\n\nGreece has tried a number of schemes to boost foreign investment, as well as lower a massive deficit.\n\nIt is hoped the incentive of visas for Chinese nationals (in return for property investments) will prove as beneficial as similar schemes in Spain, Cyprus and Portugal.\n\nThe international super rich may prefer the more exclusive Greek resorts (like Spetses in the Saronic Gulf). However, a number of reasonably priced alternatives are available elsewhere.\n\nFor just over £100,000, for example, A Property In Greece can offer a two-bed, two-bath villa in central Crete.\n\nMeanwhile, fans of Peratia can find a three-bed, three-bath house by a secluded beach for under £240,000." ]

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[ "Back to all posts\n\nWHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES?", null, "'So come the storms of winter and then the birds in spring again. I do not fear time.'\nSandy Denny | Fairport Convention\n\nI don't exactly fear time but I hate losing track of it when life happens so fast there's hardly a chance to breathe. Maybe I should heed Sandy Denny's words and stop counting time. Grab time instead, throttle it, make it stop for a while so I can reflect on extraordinary moments before they fly away. Unlike the birds of spring, some moments never come round again, not the same way.\n\nSpring 2019 was unique. I spent most of it in the company of many vegetables and few humans, creating 16 one-foot-square paintings to form a graphic representation of the amount of space it takes to cultivate a sustainable square foot garden that can produce enough veg to feed a person for one growing season.\n\nDid you ever actually feel your consciousness expanding? I began to see edible plant life as the miracle it is. Despite being a lifelong omnivore, I wrote a vegetarian|vegan cookbook as part of the project, an exhibition for Spring Fling 2019 at Shoots and Leaves veggie|vegan cafe in Wigtown. My relationships with cabbages, ginger root, fennel and all their relatives and friends have since been elevated to a higher plane.\n\nAt roughly the same time, three projects with different groups of young people culminated in two publications and an original musical composition. They were extraordinarily moving for me as a teacher and facilitator, not only because the results were impressive but because of the honesty of those who participated and their willingness to take risks and share their lives, insecurities and dreams with others.\n\nMy own music took a back seat but not for long. Performances at the Eden Festival (Garden Stage and the now legendary Bob's Back Passage) included an audience participation art performance making paintings of vegetables with vegetables to a soundtrack featuring the Beach Boys 'My Favorite Vegetable', Frank Zappa's 'Call Any Vegetable' and Ivor Cutler's 'Cheese & Tomato', and in one day I somehow completed a life-sized stick-your-head-in-the-hole-and-have-your-photo-taken mural parody of David Bowie's Diamond Dogs album cover with fruit and veg in all the right places so as not to frighten the kiddies.\n\nAt Eden in June, and in Glasgow at Nice 'n Sleazy | Queer Theory in May and Spangled Cabaret | The Blue Arrow at the start of July, it was a thrill to share the stage with brilliant musicians, stunning drag kings and queens and burlesque artistes, beginning to understand the cabaret art-form, about putting your whole self out there and connecting with people, with confidence and style.\n\nAmidst all this hullaballoo was another miracle surpassing even the vegetable revelation, the birth of a new grandchild I have not yet met in person. When that time comes I will savour every moment. Time is moving right along, going wherever it goes. For all I know it could be hanging out in a trans-dimensional day-glo garden of unearthly delights, munching iridescent carrots and laughing at us." ]

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[ null, "As part of the Reykjavik Feminist Film Festival we feature Lene Berg in our Nordic Film Focus 2021.\n\nWorking without preconceived concepts or established norms, her projects are incised, humorous and often outside the cultural consensus. Berg uses moving image, installation, text, and photography – her projects often contains all of these mediums. One could say Lene Berg’s production invests in reforming and reshaping storytelling. In her moving image works, Berg investigates questions about truth and falsehood, reflecting political issues in personal stories from our recent cultural history. By merging facts and fiction, her moving image work interrogates in contradictions and how history and storytelling is made and narrated.\n\nSTALIN BY PICASSO (or Portrait of a Woman with a Moustache)\n\nTHE MAN IN THE BACKGROUND", null, null ]

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[ null, "The Hungarian government’s chief spokesman, Zoltan Kovacs, earlier rejected suggestions that Viktor Orban’s Fidesz would be forced to leave the EPP, citing a procedure that can only be kick-started by the EPP’s most senior leaders or a joint letter from at least seven parties in five countries.\n\nThe European Union executive accused Hungary’s right-wing government Monday of distorting the truth about immigration into the European countries, thereby marking a further deterioration in their tense erlations in the run-up to European Parliament elections due to take place in May.\n\n“The Commission has been unambiguous about our opinion of the Hungarian government campaign that distorts the truth and seeks to paint a dark picture of a secret plot to drive more migration to Europe, allegedly,” European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas told a news briefing." ]

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[ "The Hanover nestling has now entered the phase of growth when they require the most food, called the phase of “peak energetic demand.” This occurs 30-35 days after hatching, and today marks the 31st day since hatch. The skeletal, muscular, and neurological growth of young raptors requires a constant influx of nutrition-rich food, and therefore breeding adults have to make sure there will be enough food for their nestlings during their most intense phase of growth. For bald eagles, that means timing their breeding calendars with the availability of open water, and catching a lot of fish.", null, "The Hanover nest has become a hotspot for decaying fish, with carcasses often pepperering the outside edges. Nestling bald eagles consume roughly three fish per day in the early stages of their development, and this week we may see that number ratcheted up to four.\n\nBald eagle nestlings move through a structural growth phase and a feather growth phase before their behavioral growth phase. Right now the Hanover nestling’s feet look disproportionately large (giving them an adorably uncoordinated look), but this is actually normal for bald eagles. The feet and beak reach near-adult size before the rest of their body catches up, likely because they need to use these appendages in the nest. They especially need strong beaks to receive food from their parents and to preen, a behavior they begin soon after preening. During sibling conflict, a nestling eagle may also use the beak to attack or defend.", null, "The dark gray layer of down covering the Hanover nestling’s body is called thermal down, and accounts for their ability to thermoregulate without parental help. Feather growth will accelerate in the next two weeks, and before long the nestling will show brown feathers along the humeral tracts which are located on the wings, followed soon after by brown feathers along the head and back.\n\nThe behavior of the Hanover parents matches their nestling’s growth phase. The following progression is the norm for many raptor parents, with subtle differences depending on species: In the first phase, females (and sometimes males) brood and shade their young almost continuously. In the next phase, the nestling is still fed by the parents but is sometimes left alone, although someone keeps a lookout nearby. In the third phase, once the nestling is fully feathered, both parents focus more on hunting than standing guard and the nestling is often left alone. At that point the nestling will be capable of tearing their own food apart and defending themself against attackers if necessary.", null, "Right now at the Hanover nest, the family is in between phases one and two. Before we know it, the nestling will transition from gray to brown, will grow into its feet, and start exploring the circular confines of the nest with more and more curiosity!", null, "The Center for Conservation Biology. (2020). Facts About Bald Eagles. https://ccbbirds.org/what-we-do/research/species-of-concern/virginia-eagles/facts-about-eagles/#:~:text=Q%3A%20Why%20do%20eagles%20eat,get%20caught%20in%20their%20crops.", null, null ]

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[ "London’s Remembrance Day and the politics of the poppy", null, "You could have been forgiven that London is covered today by a sea of red poppies.\n\nFrom lapel pins to the sides of train carriages to the fronts of lorries whizzing down the street.\n\nWe know the brightly coloured flower to be a symbol of Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day as fallen soldiers from all wars, but particularly World Wars I and II are commemorated.\n\nBut where did this symbol originate?\n\nWhat implications does it hold for society as the living memory of the World Wars begins to pass?\n\nAnd where do those who consider themselves nonviolent draw the fine line between respectful commemoration, and the pacifism that is such an important part of their ethical code?\n\nThe widow and young son of murdered soldier Lee Rigby laid wreaths in Woolwich as large numbers of people in the capital observed two minutes of silence for armistice day.\n\nJack Rigby and his mother Rebecca attended a service at St George’s Chapel, where Fusilier Rigby’s name has been engraved on a brass plaque.\n\n#Lestweforget: Today the UK united in remembrance of those who lost their lives for #ArmisticeDay https://t.co/Trq0V29t2R\n\nVeterans and their families joined serving military personnel at the Cenotaph in Whitehall.\n\nSinger Cerys Matthews read an extract from the Times newspaper from October 1915 about the deaths of 41 only-sons in battle.\n\nThe Queen marked the two-minute silence privately at Buckingham Palace with her family.\n\nFusilier Rigby’s name was one of 11 unveiled on a memorial to honour service personnel and civilians.\n\nThe 25-year-old soldier was killed outside his barracks in Woolwich, south-east London, in May 2013 by two Islamic extremists.\n\nA handwritten note on a wreath laid by his son Jack read:\n\nTo daddy, me and mummy miss and always love you.\n\n91 year old Second World War veteran Danny McCrudden sang The Impossible Dream to crowds gathered at the site ahead of the silence.\n\nThe Last Post was sounded by a bugler from the band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines at the Imperial War Museum in London.\n\nA recital was also played on a violin made from sycamore and pine trees which grew in the former battlefields on the Western Front.", null, "Poster produced in France to remember those killed during the Great War of 1914-18 from the collections of the Imperial War Museum.\n\nChelsea Pensioners observed the two-minute silence at Lloyd’s of London, where a remembrance ceremony was held on its trading floor." ]

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[ null, null, "A single mother, played by Aubrey Plaza, gives her son, Andy, a Buddi Doll to help him through a hard time. Unfortunately for this small family, the Buddi Doll, voiced by Mark Hamill, has a sinister plot of it’s own, and their family is put through hell.\n\nI’m not exactly sure about what is going on with this property. This is a reboot of the story, but they are having a continuation tv show running at the same time. That being said Plaza and Hamill are amazing, and I am down to watch this, even though I know it’s going to anger me as a Chucky die hard fan.", null, "Kursk submarine explodes, and an unsinkable submarine is dropping to the bottom of the Barents Sea. Now the crew is on the clock to survive. Will Russia accept aid from France, Norway, and Britain, or are the officers within the submarine doomed?\n\nThis film is actually based on the information from 2000, so if you want to ruin this film for yourself, you can also do some research. I will say however though that I understand since I’ve been angered by The Perfect Storm and Open Water. Colin Firth is also in the movie, as a British navy chief. It looks very interesting, but the reviews have not been kind.", null, "A movie about a suprise party planner, who takes on a challenge of surprising a bride to be, with a wedding, from her husband. As she travels through the hard task, she also must work with her therapist to deal with her binge-eating, and her own relationship issues.\n\nI’m not specifically interested in this movie that much, but if you like romantic comedies, at least this one seems unique and interesting.", null, "In 1970’s Australia a sexual revolution is sweeping that parents. While thier children are obsessed with a 200 ton whale that washed up on the beaches, their parents are making all kinds of horrible sexual mistakes.\n\nOh my god. I’d recommend being careful watching this movie, you might realize that your parents have sex, and do sexual things. Seriously though, it might shine a realization that when you were younger and your parents sent you to bed early with no explanation, they might have been shaking up with the neighbors.", null, "Life as a toy is thrown upside down, when a home crafted toy, “Forky”, is called into existence by Bonnie. Woody decides to help him see that he is more then just trash, but along the journey he is separated from his friends. He isn’t all lost though, as he is found by his lost love Bo Peep. Years have shifted their opinions though, as Bo Peep thinks they should exist without the need of a child. However their positions though, they must work together to find a way home.\n\nWill this series ever end? Whether it will or wont, Pixar is pretty much printing their own money at this point. I am sure it will be well loved by children, and it has enough emotional heart string pulls to be solidified as a heart felt movie. That being said, I can do without a fourth in the franchise. Anyone else notice how messed up it is that this is releasing on the same day as Childs Play?" ]

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[ null, "Jamaica’s central bank partners with an Irish tech company for its central bank digital currency project that is scheduled to start in May as we read more in our latest crypto news today.\n\nJamaica’s central bank invited many tech solution providers to submit applications for a CBDC project back in 2020 and at that time, the BoJ clarified that its planned sovereign digital currency won’t be based on crypto. Based in Ireland, eCurrency Mint is working with central banks and other international finance organizations to develop protocols for CBDC design and implementation. As a part of the announcement, Jamaica’s central bank stated that the CBDC pilot will commence in May under the reign of BoJ’s Fintech Regulatory Sandbox. The Irish company will support the central bank in testing during its pilot stage that is scheduled to be completed by December.\n\nThe company will also serve as Jamaica’s CBDC provider when the national roll-out commences in 2022. According to the previous statements by the BoJ, the central bank digital currency will be available for both businesses and individuals as payments means that are similar to cash. Like other countries in the Caribbean, Jamaica has a lot more liberal crypto laws with regulated entities such as the Stock Exchange that participate in crypto trading.\n\nIn Japan the central bank is a leading public-private partnership that will examine proof of concept protocols for the digital yen while back in March, Kuroda Haruhiko who is the governor of the Bank of Japan stated that the country has to work out different modalities for issuing a CBDC." ]

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[ null, "The first Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will return to the Booth Theatre ​this spring, the same theatre it ran 742 performances in back in 1976. This reimagined production will be directed and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Camille A. Brown, making her the first Black woman to serve as both positions on a Broadway show in more than 65 years.\n\nThe celebration of power of Black womanhood will begin previews on Friday, March 4, 2022 with an opening night set for Thursday, March 24, 2022.\n\n“Of all the shows to be given as an opportunity to debut as a first-time Broadway director and choreographer, for colored girls… feels like a gift,” said Brown. “I’m thrilled that I’ve been entrusted to combine all the parts of myself — dance, music and theater arts — to shape and share this timeless story again with the world.”" ]

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[ null, "TowerFall Ascension is the conclusive adaptation of the hit bows and arrows battle game. Roused by works of art from the brilliant time of lounge chair multiplayer, it's a 4-player neighborhood party game revolving around amusing, serious versus matches. The center mechanics are straightforward and available, yet difficult to ace and battle is furious. Plunder money boxes for game-evolving catalysts, ace the craft of getting bolts out of the air, or slide on your enemies and step them into accommodation. TowerFall is best played seriously with companions, leg over leg on the floor inside punching separation of one another. New in Ascension is the 1-or 2-player community Quest mode. Players cooperate, fending off an assortment of beasts and foe toxophilite over the place where there is TowerFall. It's another experience to investigate when you don't have more companions helpful to square off against.New includes in TowerFall Ascension include: Brand new 1-or 2-player community Quest mode50 extra Versus fields, for an aggregate of 120 interesting mapsMore game-evolving catalysts, for example, Drill Arrows that tunnel through walls4 new unlockable, playable bowmen, for a sum of 8A immense rundown of variations to redo your matches - a sum of 75 different ways to blend things upPlenty of concealed insider facts and amazements to find with your companions\n\nIn addition to Towerfall Ascension, the representatives of Indie games also belong:\n\nTowerfall Ascension is versatile and does not stand still, but it is never too late to start playing. The game, like many Indie games has a full immersion in gaming. AllGame staff continues to play it.\n\nTowerfall Ascension is perfect for playing alone or with friends.\n\nAt AllGame you can find reviews on Towerfall Ascension, gameplay videos, screenshots of the game and other Indie representatives.\n\nAuthor: Patrick Mittler\nDate: 2014-03-21 14:10:00\nTowerFall was a hit on the OUYA Android console. In the test of TowerFall Ascension, the extended PC version of the archery arena fights can also convince - whether in co-op or against each other.\n\n\"TowerFall Ascension is an archery platform and should at best be played with friends - cross- legged on the floor and also within a slap from the face .\" That is what TowerFall Ascension developer Matt Thorson advises on his website.\n\nSo the author of these lines grabbed two willing buddies, planted them on the couch and connected the PC to the television. So much to be said: The trio (hereinafter referred to as M., P. and A.) had a darn fun afternoon.\n\nEvery beginning is easy\n\n1:30 p.m .: We start Versus mode first. It is the heart of TowerFall Ascension and offers the three variants Team Deathmatch, Last Man Standing (games won count) and Headhunters (every kill counts). Schlaumeier P. wants to know in advance how the game works, but a detailed explanation is not necessary. TowerFall, as we say in Austria, is easy to learn.\n\nAs an archery pixel male you are thrown into equally pixelated platforming arenas and have to take the competition around the corner. Basically, you can run, hop, shoot arrows and put down a brisk dodge. You can die either with an arrow, or if the other player jumps on the head. That's it in terms of the basic principle - TowerFall Ascension gets out of this simple premise with lots of little tricks and subtleties, however, a lot of depth of play.\n\n1:31 p.m .: P. learns the hard way that his pixel shooter has only a few arrows in his quiver and that you should aim well firstly and secondly keep smart. After peppering three storeys in the continuous fire over A., he nailed him to the wall with a single shot. This is followed by a description of what has just been experienced and the realization that a frontal attack may not be the smartest approach.\n\nTowerFall Ascension looks chaotic, but should be played carefully and cleverly. If you want to win, you have to trick and deceive to land the perfect shot or plunge.\n\nThe comedy of tragedy\n\n1:40 p.m .: P. notes that you can even pick arrows out of the air with an alternative dodge and send them back to the sender immediately - nasty, elegant and very effective. M. gets a lesson in gravity for beginners. When he shoots an arrow straight up, it clearly comes back and catches the stupid gawking M. With loud laughter, he can watch this shameful death again - after each round there is a short replay of the last few seconds in the match.\n\nA., on the other hand, feels that everything that flies out of the arenas on the left, right, up or down comes in again on the other side. So also the arrow that flutters in his back. The words with which he thanks the clever M. for that are not nice.\n\n1:45 p.m .: Hard fights always unfold around treasure chests, because they contain valuable power-ups, such as a practical shield or useful wings) and various special arrows. There is, for example, the drill arrow, which P. the valuable A. then drills from below through a platform into the most valuable. Or bomb arrows that flatten an entire area - unfortunately also the shooter himself, as M. immediately discovers when he lands after a jump exactly where he sank the explosive arrow a second ago into the puzzled P.\n\nInsults, swear words and roaring laughter signal even our neighbors that we are having a good time.\n\nSense and nonsense at will\n\n3:15 p.m .: Unanimous enthusiasm for the numerous mutators! This can be used to make serious changes to the games. More treasure chests, special arrows as starting equipment for everyone, but also funny nonsense like big heads or exploding corpses spice up the matches. For example, a game in which the trio tries out so-called toy arrows, which do not cause any damage, but a cute squeaking sound.\n\n4:30 pm: Even after three hours and dozens of matches, the Versus mode is a blast. Above all, it is the countless details and details that make every game pleasantly varied. Every tiny little game element can be the trigger for crazy situations. Be it when A. collects a power-up that slows down the time, when P. cleverly blows up crumbling walls to have a free field of fire or when M. ducks in a corner and becomes almost invisible - even after tens of games to discover clever tricks.\n\nAt the same time, TowerFall Ascension remains fair and comprehensible thanks to precise controls (from practical experience at best via gamepad) and child's play mechanics. Which is great, because thanks to the said replays you can practically rub your own superiority under the nose of unbelieving fellow players.\n\nCouple on a big quest\n\n6:00 p.m .: The trio has now shrunk to a duo and is now venturing into quest mode. It hasn't existed at OUYA yet and it is basically a horde variant in which you can do ever more crispy monster waves alone or in pairs. The assortment of enemies is quite clear, but the boys have it as big as a fist. Even standard enemies avoid our arrows surprisingly elegantly and jump into our faces with astonishing precision. A winged journeyman, nicknamed Death Angel by M. and A., kills the two brave Wilhelm Tells in a chord, for example.\n\nThe damned imp flutters around the level and can block arrows with a mean hurricane attack. And because Friendly Fire is also activated in Quest mode, such an arrow can cheat on the other player, which in turn leads to fierce discussions about the mental state of the co-op partner in our test round.\n\n6:55 pm: But it gets even harder: enemy archers pick arrows from the air with pinpoint accuracy and persistently chase players across the entire arena. The final obligatory boss fight is a tough one too, and if you haven't had a death rate as high as that of Dark Souls 2 in the statistics, you can tackle the handful of levels again in the hardcore version.\n\nAlthough professionals are sure to be through in one afternoon, there is hardly any slack or intrusive repetition work and you can also unlock new arenas, mutators and game characters in the classic way. However, the latter only differ optically.\n\nAlone in the Jammer Valley\n\n9:00 p.m .: M. is finally alone with TowerFall Ascension. He tries a little more on the quest mode, which is solo but a bit too difficult and frustrating for him. Even the nice trials (small dexterity tests against dummy dolls on time) are only entertaining. There is still time for reflections on graphics, sound and atmosphere. The pixel look is of course a matter of taste but stylish and functional. Even if the overview is sometimes flute, it is so deliberately intended and entertaining in an insidious way.\n\nThe music supports the retro flair, but does not stick to the ear canal for hours. The sound effects alone, such as the sad \"beep\" in the event of a player's death, are recognizable and trigger something like emotions (be it anger or euphoria). And then there is the keyboard control, which with its fixed and (purely subjective) completely impracticable standard assignment almost requires access to the gamepad. A malus that should be remedied as quickly as possible.\n\n10:00 p.m .: M. throws in the towel, because alone the whole thing is simply pointless. There is no online multiplayer and so in the well-intentioned solo versions there is always the depressing certainty that TowerFall Ascension would be a thousand times more fun with a few players in the face.\n\nMatt Thorson is absolutely right with his advice. TowerFall Ascension should be played in pairs, thirds or fourths (the slap range is not mandatory, but should be recommended as a free program). Then the thing is a stunner. However, the attempt to bring solo players with quest and trial mode on board has not been successful.\n\nScreenshots will help you evaluate the graphics and gameplay of Towerfall Ascension.", null, null, null, null, null, "If screenshots are not enough, you can enjoy creative videos from Matt Makes Games\n\nIf you like Towerfall Ascension, but you're tired of it and want something new, you can try other games." ]

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[ null, "Thangaratham is an upcoming Tamil movie which is set to release on 16 June 2017. It is directed by Balamurugan and produced under the banner of NTC Media & VCare Production by CM Varghese. Thangaratham starring Vettrii and Neeraja in the lead roles. And the music of the movie is composed by Tony Britto. Thangaratham is a Tamil movie starring Aadithi Krishna and Aadukalam Naren in prominent roles. The cast also includes Mottai Rajendran in prominent roles.\n\nThis movie marks as the first debut of director Balamurugan who was an earlier associate of Jagan and worked with the likes of Cheran and Vijay. Balamurugan turns independent with Thangaratham. The Vetri and Neeraja will be playing the role with a backdrop of a vegetable mandi. This movie has been shot extensively at the Oddanchatram Gandhi Vegetable Sandhai which is considered as a Tamil Nadu’s largest market.\n\nThe plot of the movie revolves around the rivalry between a boy who carries vegetable to the market and the group of men of the Mandi. The shoot has been done for 15 days in the original location of Gandhi Market. So, far no other movie has been shot at the Oddanchatram Gandhi Vegetable Shandhai market and especially on the working hours Thangaratham movie is based on the life of a vegetable boy and his journey of hope with some crispy scenes of romance and action. This is a full package of romance with problems of life and loads of entertainment. This movie also stars Soundararajan, Naan Kadavul Rajendran, and Naren in supporting roles. This action comedy is ready to hit cinemas from June 16." ]

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[ "How To Increase Your User Retention – TapNation\n\nHow To Increase Your User Retention\n\nKeeping players interested in a game is an integral part of development. It’s easy to see why. If people aren’t having fun, why would they keep playing?\n\nEverywhere, game teams constantly work on creating a positive feedback loop that reflects that idea. Having a system that benefits players, devs, and the business as a whole is something everyone thinks about from day one.\n\nWhen every session is designed around making the whole experience of interacting with your game better, it really does create a virtuous cycle.\n\nThe intimate connections with players, how they see your game, and why they keep playing is the key to success in the hyper-casual mobile games market.\n\nIt’s tempting to throw up your hands and say “we did it!” right after launch, but from the first download to the last update all game devs need to think about retention.", null, "The All Important Session\n\nGetting players to check out your game and play it is one thing, but the real challenge starts with getting those same players to come back time and time again.\n\nEvery session needs to be built around adjusting mechanics and rewards to make sure the game loop is simultaneously interesting for returning players while still being simple enough for newcomers. Breaking things down into on-ramping, playtime, and the end of a session help make it easier to see how to combine the best of both worlds for a balanced gameplay experience.\n\nPlayers should want to spend their free time playing your game.\n\nWith the hypercasual mobile games market becoming ever more crowded, mistakes anywhere in a session can quickly cause players to close the app forever. Fighting for the limited attention people have to spare means you must make sure every millisecond is perfect. New players need to know they made the right choice by downloading your game.\n\nGameplay, art, special deals, dailies, and cheerful messages all help contribute to the complete package of a perfect session. But more importantly, there needs to be a clear path from having your icon catching their eye in the app stores to ensuring retention after just a few actions in your game.\n\nIt may seem overwhelming, but whether it’s dealing with basic monetization or developing completely new content, everything can be tweaked to better fit all players expectations and interests.\n\nKeeping these ideas in mind results in a game that will live longer and bring players more fun.\n\nFocusing on how sessions break down and what players expect from each step also leads to the creation of an inherent virtuous cycle. Efforts to increase retention in one area can positively affect the overall quality of the game while also having the game perform better on the market.\n\nAny new game will have an initial barrier to entry that users have to overcome before they ever load up a level.\n\nGames have to be able to grab and keep attention within seconds.\n\nThink about it as finding a way to get players to say to themselves, “I could play that game for a bit, couldn’t I?”\n\nAfter that it’s a race against the clock. If anything takes too long, the download time, installation time, loading time, or a lack of any more free time, you may have lost a player before they even tapped the screen.\n\nThe easiest way to contextualize how difficult on-ramping can be is to use the Starbucks test.\n\nCan you launch and play through a bit of the game in the time it takes to order a coffee?\n\nOnce a new player is convinced and has opened up the game, the next step is letting them know their spent time playing will actually be fun.\n\nPlayers need to be reassured their free time is not being wasted.\n\nA common way to help make the overall user experience more reassuring is offering rewards throughout their playtime sessions and providing sneak peaks at what else they could win if they keep playing. The satisfaction of being properly compensated for your efforts gives the relaxing sense of achievement that is its own motivation to keep playing.\n\nTying that feeling of really earning a victory into the overall aesthetics and design of the game helps as well. Something as simple as on-screen rewards in the form of a few words of encouragement or in-game characters cheering the player on are always appreciated.\n\nThose small gestures let the player know their work is being recognized by the game itself and also make the experience more immersive.\n\nRight at the end of the level the word “congratulations!” jumps onto the screen.\n\nAs a bit of a combination of the previous examples, a rating system for every level with built-in challenges makes for more fulfilling playtime. Having the game egg the player on by saying, “sure, you beat the level, but did you 3 star it?” is not a sarcastic jab, it’s an extra incentive to show they’re really improving by playing the game.\n\nAt its core the playtime itself has to be seen as being worth it for the player. The concept makes sense, but the concrete steps needed are not always obvious. Working with an experienced publisher like TapNation helps providing the insights into how to build out these features and ensure players are getting the most out of a game.\n\nThe End of a Session\n\nHyper-casual mobile games need to be designed around the short time constraints that defines them. More than the gameplay mechanics and overall look and feel, that means constantly thinking about how to motivate players to come back to the game at the end of their short session.\n\nYou need to find a return hook that can take many forms, including daily gems, daily chests, or other dailies being one of the most prevalent examples. Any ongoing quest that requires the player to open the app regularly to receive a nice gift achieves the same goal and works in the same way.\n\nThe repeated actions incentivize making playing the game a reoccurring habit. Even if it’s just for the dailies, that still means players are interested and are opening the game to pick it up for at least a quick session when the time is right.\n\nPerforming all the actions needed for a free chest translates into regularly playing the game.\n\nNotifications are often used in combination with daily rewards to remind players they have something waiting for them. It’s important to provide ample opportunity to come back and claim any prizes while not asking the player to waste their time.\n\nReturn hooks make sure players know something new is always waiting for them when they load up the game again, giving them a reason to constantly keep coming back.", null, "Always Looking at the Data\n\nThe answer to these questions must be “yes” in order to ensure success. For a new user, any misstep along the way can lead to never opening up the game again.\n\nWhile it may seem obvious, the role of the FTUE (First Time User Experience) and how it impacts the development and design of every game needs to be a priority for anyone looking to launch a game in the hyper-casual mobile game market.\n\nIf less than 80% of players come back to the game after the first time they play, that’s a bad sign.\n\nAiming for above 80% FTUE leads to a lot of work in designing specific steps for new players. It can be thought of as a tutorial, but in the best cases the whole process never feels forced.\n\nFollowing natural instincts, the game should guide players through learning how to play. If they have a good first experience players are then much more likely to come back to the game again.\n\nGoing back to questions game devs need to ask themselves, there are 5 big ones that go behind the basic building blocks of a game session:\n\nBeing able to unequivocally answer “yes” to all 5 means knowing exactly who your players are and how they play the game.\n\nKeeping a close eye on CPC, CPR, ROI, LTV, and more will help guide you in the right direction and provide the data you need to answer all 5 questions with confidence.", null, "It’s sad to say and even harder to admit, but some players will eventually leave or lose interest in your game. This is another reason to pay attention to the data. If you know approximately when they will leave, you can accompany users reaching the end of their life cycle with cross promo. That way, even if they don’t want to play one of your games anymore, they can become the player of one of your other titles.\n\nIn other words, taking advantage of the churn.\n\nAfter all, making sure as many players as possible are having fun leads to that virtuous cycle where business decisions help studios and devs create a better game for more players." ]

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[ "Relevant NPCs​\nI've created a number of NPCs, many of whom are adoptable (you can cross reference those in Looking For).", null, "Image by Bioware, Tweaked by Yours Truly\n\nHaldor Augusten Saeridin III\nNickname: Hal or Sonny\nRace: Surface Dwarf\nLocation: Kirkwall\nAffiliations: Hanamene, Varric, Saeridin & Son Building Company, Dwarven Merchants' Guild\nMini Bio: A surface dwarf and Master Builder who inherited the family company. He was the son of surface dwarves Siena and another Master Builder, now deceased, named Haldor Saeridin Jr.. Hal's grandfather, the original Haldor, was from Orzammar - in his later years people called him Grampy Saeridin, or Grumpy behind his back.\nAppearance: Sienna red hair and a twitchy moustache. In his forties.\nPersonality: Cantankerous. Secretly a softie. Survivalist i.e. will totally bail in dangerous situations. Head for business. Used to enjoy pranks in his youth. Doesn't like to curse outright (e.g. feck is a favourite alternative of his).\nText: ECCEAE\nUse: Feel free to \"assume\" him in threads if dialogue calls for it/to move things along. Just keep the above notes in mind.\n\nSer Luther Wildes\nRace: Human\nAge: Flexible on this, presumably older than Hana though.\nLocation: Kirkwall\nAffiliations: Hanamene, Magnus, Templar Order\nMini Bio: Demoted from Knight-Tracker to Instructor at the Templar Order in Kirkwall, after failing to kill a maleficar. The Thornecroft siblings intervened and saved his life, Hana killing the mage in question. The trio made it to Kirkwall together. Ser Luther spends a lot of time training the recruits in the Gallows and was once a favourite sparring partner of Hana's.\nAppearance: Fair-haired.\nPersonality: Dutiful. Humble. Obliging. Took his demotion honourably. Actually enjoys being an instructor now.\nText: DAD333\nUse: Feel free to \"assume\" him in threads if dialogue calls for it/to move things along. Just keep the above notes in mind. You can also use Ser Luther without Hana even present, if you need a misc. templar around for some reason! Beat him up even, just don't kill him lol.\n\nSister Maye\nNickname: She and Hana call one another pixie or nixie, depending on if if they're being sweet or mischievous.\nLocation: Kirkwall\nRace: Human\nBorn: Free Marches, wherever you like therein.\nAffiliations: Hanamene, Kirkwall Chantry\nOccupation: (current) Chantry Sister; (formally) Bard.\nMini Bio: One of the first people to befriend Hana in Kirkwall. She often knows the most valuable and/or most entertaining gossip related to Kirkwall's Chantry and Circle. Few know anything about her life prior to her joining the Chantry, because she's sparing with the details. Only with those closest to her will she talk about her past romantic dalliances, and it's implied she's not nearly as innocent as she looks. She's been known to leverage her unassuming appearance, when needed.\nAppearance: Long red hair. Some freckles on the bridge of her nose. Petite and looks much younger than she is.\nPersonality: Devout Andrastian. Despite her vivacious personality, which she artfully plays down at the drop of a hat when she needs to, she has moments of incredible profundity. She has a big heart, but she can be saucy. Teasing and impish, but subtle about it. An incorrigible flirt when senior Chantry officials aren't around to scold her for it. Romantic and looks for opportunities to play matchmaker. Thinks Chantry and Circle officials should be allowed to marry, or at least not hide or seek a sanction for their affairs.\nText: B2849A (or change it, if you want)\nUse: Feel free to \"assume\" her in threads if dialogue calls for it/to move things along. Just keep the above notes in mind. You can also use Sister Maye without Hana even present, if you need a misc. Chantry Sister around for some reason but be careful not to make her mad, she's tougher than she looks.\nBuilder Garvey\nLocation: Hinterlands region.\nMini Bio: An associate of Hal Saeridin's in Ferelden.\nText: None chosen yet.\nUse: He's static (i.e. immovable) from the Hinterlands area. He will be the foreman at the reconstruction cite of Thornecroft Cottage, specifically - but it's feasible he'd be seen in Redcliffe proper from time to time. Just check with me if you want to use him, since I need to make sure he's actually available and not involved in a thread with Hana during her trips back home.\n\nSer Merritt Warring (or a direct descendent of his)\nLocation: Hinterlands; holds land between Redcliffe and Lothering\nAge: Would need to be at least 10 years older than Hana (i.e. born sometime around or before 9:1)\nRace: Human\nBorn: Hinterlands; Ferelden\nAffiliations: Redcliffe Arling; House Guerrin; Thornecroft family.\nOccupation: Knight of Redcliffe\nMini-Bio: Veteran of the Fifth Blight. His lands neighboured those of Thornecroft Cottage. He took an interest in Hanamene's upbringing, likely feeling sorry for her that her father was rarely around and having not known her mother. He trained her to ride horses, quite well in fact and furthered her ability with the sword and shield. It's likely that Hanamene's grandmother tried to ingratiate their family with his, in an effort to regain some form of status.\nAppearance: Tall and hale. The rest is up to you.\nPersonality: A mentor and a proud Fereldan. The rest is up to you.\nText: 406069 (or change it, if you want)\nUse: Feel free to \"assume\" him to move narratives along. Totally fine if your character has an affiliation, past or present, with him and/or his family as well.\n\nMason Thornecroft\nLocation: Hinterlands; Ferelden\nAge: Past his prime.\nRace: Human\nAffiliations: Redcliffe Arling; House Guerrin\nMini-Bio: Master Builder of some renown in Ferelden. Built and/or repaired a number of structures, often Chantries. He was killed during the Fifth Blight. Vassal of House Guerrin.\nAppearance: Bearded. Shrewd eyes. Kind smile.\nPersonality: Hard-working. Pious (Andrastian). Patient. Forgiving.\nText: A20B30\nUse: Deceased. He only shows up in Stories of the Past.\n\nEstella Thornecroft (née Augur)\nLocation: Hinterlands; Ferelden (previously Tevinter)\nAge: Past her prime, though hardly looked it.\nRace: Human\nMini-Bio: Hanamene and Magnus' grandmother, Ser Graeven Thornecroft's mother, Mason Thornecroft's wife, and the daughter of disgraced magister Magnus Augur. She was once of the Altus class in Tevinter, but became an apostate-in-hiding after coming to Ferelden. Estella had a secret business selling enchantments out of Thornecroft Cottage. She was killed during the Fifth Blight.\nAppearance: Dark-haired and exotic by Ferelden standards.\nPersonality: Aloof. Haughty. Over-protective. Judgemental. Resilient. Methodical. Fastidious.\nText: 540099\nUse: Deceased. She only shows up in Stories of the Past. Although I might un-kill her, so to speak, and have her show up amongst the Venatori using the assumed name Eluvia (effectively making her a killable NPC villain).\nInfluential Nobles:\n\nLord Northesker\nMini Bio: Old money nobility in the Free Marcher region, has their hands in a number of cookie jars from politics to trade. Has an entitled son named Wigstan. In 9:35, commissioned Saeridin & Son Building Company to build an underground vault for him beneath his estate (just outside of Kirkwall) - but progress has halted.\nText Colour: None chosen yet.\nUse: Feel free to rp him or make reference to/use of his family if it serves to further your own plots. Note that you would not be able to kill him without massive consequences, given that he's a nobleman of influence throughout the Free Marches - not just Kirkwall.\n\nAnson Guile\nMini Bio: Older brother of Earic. The Guile Family holds political clout in Kirkwall, specifically. Anson is particularly revolted by Fereldans in general, referring to them all as mongrels. Though he runs in Wigstan's little crew, he serves as Wigs' rival for authority over the others at times.\nText Colour: ED1919\n\nHeath Dunview\nMini Bio: The lothario of the bunch. He pesters women regardless of their nationality. In truth, he's not as bad as the rest. His family are rich, Free Marcher horse breeders - they own Dunview Estates, an impressive stable and race track found just outside of Kirkwall as well.\nText Colour: 724B93\n\nDeclan Hyll\nMini Bio: The indifferent member of the crew. His family has strong connections to the Chantry, thus he's only ever interested in the crew's shenanigans if they could be of potential Chantry concern. His family is highly matriarchal, and he's related to a number of Free Marcher Chantryfolk.\nText Colour: A8E619\n\nUse of Troublesome Lordlings: You can use all or any of the troublesome lordlings listed above or even make reference to, or expand on, their noble families if you like. Note that if you kill any of them, there would be heavy consequences given how much influence their respective families have. The city guard would be on you like white on rice. Also, let me know if you make any big changes with them so I can update this.\nIf you want to adopt and redeem any of these jerks, feel free to do so too. Just, again, let me know.\nSomewhat specific to the DA:I timelines, but we can plan ahead if you want to take part.\n\nHanamene will eventually come to lead a small cavalry unit, never more than 10 horsemen, under this name. Originating out of the Redcliffe and Hinterlands region, they'd be based at a cantonment between Redcliffe and Lothering (Hana's family land repurposed for this reason). Though aggressive riders they'd remain a small force, avoiding large-scale combat when possible, and specialize instead on reconnaissance, tactical or attack-and-flee engagements. These would be veteran, auxiliary/irregular soldiers and horsemen, affiliated with the Arling of Redcliffe in particular.\n\nWhen the Mage-Templar war spills into the Hinterlands, they would've been doing their part to fight mage or templar alike in favour of defending the commonfolk of the region.\n\nIf you've a character with loyalties to either Arl Teagan, the Arling of Redcliffe, or the Hinterlands and want to join in on this mini-plot (which we're letting flourish/develop IC), and want to be part of this - PM me.\n\nOtherwise, the horsemen outside of Hanamene will be a revolving door of NPCs.\n\nRead more about this in its Story Planning thread, if it interests you. Feel free to join the discussion there, too.\n\nSome starter NPC cavalrymen, or riders, for this will be as follows (all of which you can adopt and make your own, if you want - below are just their nicknames*):\n* Hanamene's nickname amongst them is \"Serjeant\" or \"Serj\".\nLast edited: May 3, 2020\nHana: A6ACAF | Hal: ECCEAE\nProfile | Thread Tracker | Thornecroft Timelines | NPCs | Looking For | Wiki\nSaeridin & Son Building Company | The Drakestone Reserve | Thornecroft Cottage\nAvatar by eilidh (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)\nYou must log in or register to reply here.\nShare: Facebook Twitter Google+ Reddit Pinterest Tumblr WhatsApp Email Link\nTop" ]

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[ null, "Nature published a comprehensive study this week on cardiovascular risk including a total of over 11 million patients that has made a few headlines. The aim was to identify the cause of increased cardiac pathology. It should have been a very simple study comparing four groups:\n\nIt is hard to believe the authors did not look at these groups, but whatever was found when comparing them remains a mystery.\n\nInstead, the following groups were compared:\n\nWhen studies with huge datasets use modelling and fail to share data prior to their adjustments alarm bells should start ringing. Therefore, I took a deeper dive to see what else was questionable.\n\nThere were serious biases in the paper which need addressing but first let’s look at the critical question of myocarditis (heart inflammation).\n\nBecause of the known risk of myocarditis from vaccination it is worth looking particularly closely at the data presented on this. Oddly, for the issue of the day, the data on myocarditis was all hidden in the supplementary appendix to the paper.\n\nThe risk of myocarditis appears to be an autoimmune (the immune system attacking the heart after interaction with the spike protein) rather than direct damage by the virus/vaccine spike protein. Therefore, myocarditis could result from the virus or the vaccine. The key question that needs answering is whether vaccination protects or enhances the risk from the virus.\n\nThey made it clear they removed those who had been vaccinated from the calculation in the Covid arm but they did not state they did this for the control arm. Did vaccination lead to a 30 per million increase in myocarditis in the control arm? Given the cohort appears to be old and we know myocarditis incidence is worse in the young a one in 30,000 incidence is significant.\n\nWhat about those who were vaccinated and had Covid? Once vaccination (and modelling) were included, the rate rose to 500 per million. It is not entirely clear whether supplementary Table 22 excludes those who were not vaccinated, but given that it does not state the unvaccinated were excluded from this data it is fair to assume the 500 per million relates to the whole population.\n\nGiven the higher risk of myocarditis after vaccination one might wonder whether this study showed protection from infection due to vaccination, as this would lower risk from the virus. Hidden in the legends of the supplementary tables the authors reveal that 62% of the Covid patients had been vaccinated compared to 56% of the non-infected controls (not a great advert for vaccine effectiveness against infection).\n\nThe data comprised medical records for U.S. veterans who were 90% male, three quarters white and had a mean age of 63 years.\n\nThese groups were compared to patients who tested positive for Covid after March 2020, with each patient being matched to one patient from each control and measuring beginning from the same day as the positive test but two years earlier for the 2018 control.\n\nThere was a significant bias between these two control groups and those who tested positive.\n\nThe Covid patients (not just those who were sick with it – all those who tested positive) were more obese, saw doctors more often, had more cancer, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia etc.\n\nThere are two ways to deal with such biases. One is to match the 150,000 Covid patients with similarly sick patients from the over five millions controls. This reduces the size of the control group but when it is already so large this should not be a concern. Instead, the authors modelled the data until the groups seemed similar. Using an algorithm they claimed the same total number of people were present in the Covid cohort, but whereas 49,407 actually had diabetes in the raw data, 11,903 (24%) no longer had diabetes according to the weighted data. Similarly, 14% were ‘cured’ of lung disease, 14% of cancer and a full 35% of the dementia patients no longer had dementia.\n\nThere was no discussion in the paper about the reasons for this unhealthy bias among the Covid patients. All positive test results were included and anyone can catch SARS-CoV-2, so the factors that increase the risk of serious disease and hospitalisation should not have biased a dataset based only on infection. Instead the authors discuss the hypothetical issue of people in the non-infected control group having Covid but not getting tested such that the damage caused by Covid could be worse than the paper reports.\n\nIt has been well established that hospital transmission dominates as a source of spread and SAGE has reported that up to 40.5% of cases could be traced back to hospital spread and a majority of hospitalised patients in June 2020 were linked to hospital spread. In Scotland, in December 2020, 60% of the acutely ill with Covid acquired the infection in hospital. Patients accessing hospital are highly likely to be less healthy than the general population. Indeed, we know that the Covid patients in the study accessed hospital more frequently than the controls. If the bias was related to hospital acquired infection then the whole study is called into question, as people who attend hospitals are more likely to be sick.\n\nThe authors picked some control conditions to attempt to show they had not introduced a bias. Given the study was about cardiovascular diseases, including those that are an immediate threat to life and those that are very common, I would have picked conditions that might kill you within a year, like lung, pancreatic or oesophageal cancer and common conditions e.g. urinary tract infections, diabetes or prostate cancer.\n\nThe authors chose three rare malignancies, all with a one-year survival rate of over 80%, and pre-invasive melanoma – why not include invasive melanoma? They then included rare conditions and odd selection of: hypertrichosis (‘werewolf syndrome’ with excessive facial hair), sickle cell trait and perforated ear drums. When the choices are so niche it begs the question of what the results would have been if more obvious choices had been selected.\n\nThe group that tested positive for Covid did badly: 13% ended up in (or began in) hospital and 4% in ICU. The mean age was 63 years which may explain part of the high percentage of sick Covid patients, but it does, again, suggest this group may have been more vulnerable than the control.\n\nThey then compared the risk of various cardiac outcomes against the controls. However, they used the same control to compare non-hospitalised patients as patients who had received ICU care. Of course, people who have needed ICU care will be more likely to have cardiovascular complications. Indeed, many of the patients may still have been in the ICU when the measuring period began 30 days after the positive test. A fair study would have only compared the ICU outcomes with the sickest people within the control group, not the average of the whole control group.\n\nThe risk to the non-hospitalised Covid patients was low for almost all the cardiovascular risk factors.\n\nThe risk to the hospitalised was higher (but remember the controls had significant biases).\n\nThose on ICU had a much higher risk. What is not clear is how much of this is because of the virus.\n\nIt is not a surprise for people who have had an ICU stay to be unwell for some time afterwards. The risk of ICU admission for Covid was higher than for influenza, but it is important to understand how much of the cardiovascular risk resulted from the virus and how much from the stay in intensive care per se. How do these Covid ICU patients compare to other ICU patients? The paper did not say.\n\nSimilarly the paper makes no attempt to unpick how many of the Covid patients tested positive only after being admitted to hospital. If, as in other studies, a significant proportion acquired Covid in hospital, then a higher risk of being diagnosed with other conditions would be highly likely.\n\nHaving failed to examine the above two questions – how much cardiovascular disease was a confounder of hospital transmission and how much is secondary to ICU harm – the overall risk of consequent cardiovascular problems included all the above cardiovascular conditions and thereby inflated the average for the Covid population as a whole.\n\nNature has published this paper which presents data in an obtuse way that should never have passed peer review. The results were presented as showing how dangerous the Covid virus was for cardiovascular complications without suitable controls to enable that conclusion to be drawn. The evidence on vaccination risks was hidden and not presented in a meaningful way for different age groups. Even then, they demonstrated a significant risk of myocarditis after vaccination, particularly after then encountering the virus but this key finding was hidden in the supplementary appendix. Why?\n\nDr. Clare Craig is a Diagnostic Pathologist and Co-Chair of HART." ]

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[ null, "Opinion | Blue Lives Matter Is Over\n\nBlue Lives Matter is officially dead. People may continue to chant and post the slogan, but it is dead. Senate Republicans killed it last week when they voted to acquit Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection that left one officer dead and 138 injured. (Two officers who responded to the insurrection later died by suicide.)\n\nAs The New York Times reported:\n\n“One officer lost the tip of his right index finger. Others were smashed in the head with baseball bats, flagpoles and pipes. Another lost consciousness after rioters used a metal barrier to push her into stairs as they tried to reach the Capitol steps during the assault on Jan. 6.”\n\nThe Times continued that the injuries to officers “ranged from bruises and lacerations to more serious damage such as concussions, rib fractures, burns and even a mild heart attack.”\n\nAfter conservatives condemned football player Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the American national anthem at N.F.L. games, a violent mob assembled and encouraged by Trump assaulted the American Capitol.\n\nTrump himself said the following about Kaepernick and Black Lives Matter protests:\n\n“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these N.F.L. owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’ You know, some owner is going to do that. He’s going to say, ‘That guy that disrespects our flag, he’s fired.’ And that owner, they don’t know it [but] they’ll be the most popular person in this country.”\n\nAnd then, a member of the mob in January acting at Trump’s behest used a flagpole flying that very same American flag to attack an acting D.C. police officer. As NBC Washington reported:\n\n“A man with a backpack and long, brown hair is shown repeatedly slamming a flagpole with an American flag toward the ground. The victim is off-camera but a police shield can be seen. The crowd chants ‘USA,’ with some wearing red Make America Great Again hats.”\n\nIn September, Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina introduced the Protect and Serve Act, which would make it “a federal crime to knowingly cause, or attempt to cause, serious bodily injury to a law enforcement officer. Offenders are subject to imprisonment for up to 10 years.”\n\n“It is important to note that a not-guilty verdict is not the same as being declared innocent. President Trump is most certainly not the victim here; his words and actions were reckless and he shares responsibility for the disgrace that occurred on January 6.”\n\nTillis’s bill was co-sponsored by 15 other Republican senators. All of the ones who remained in the Senate after the election voted to acquit Trump except one: Richard Burr, the other senator from North Carolina.\n\nAnd, among all the police officers who behaved honorably during the riot, there were those who didn’t. In addition to the two officers who posed for pictures with the rioters (those officers have since been arrested), an investigation by The Associated Press found that “at least 31 officers in 12 states are being scrutinized by their supervisors for their behavior in the District of Columbia or face criminal charges for participating in the riot.”\n\nIn the Senate’s acquittal — or more accurately, abetting — of Donald Trump, they stripped away the facade of the opposition to Black Lives Matter and the elevation of Blue Lives Matter.\n\nIt was never about preventing the desecration of American symbols. Members of the insurrection mob smeared feces throughout the Capitol after they broke into it.\n\nThis was never really about the protection of officers, generally speaking, but about allowing officers to treat with more impunity the people who protested the maltreatment of Black people.\n\nBlue Lives Matter was in large part an attempt to silence the people asserting that Black lives mattered, as if Black people and police officers were equal and opposite sides of a scale, which is such a vicious and aberrant comparison.\n\nBlack Lives Matter was saying that Black people deserve as much as any others to live lives free of fear and free of state violence, not only from the police but from the entire criminal justice system.\n\nBlue Lives Matter seemed to counter that violence against Black bodies was simply collateral damage in an effort to keep society safe and that the officers should not be constrained in their attempts to do so.\n\nDeath of a promotion: The ticking time bomb of working from home\nEurope" ]

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[ null, "Granted, there was always potential for Rod Smith to have this game because of the Cowboys’ offensive line, but lets not pretend that any of us thought Rod Smith would put up 33 points this week. The most Smith had scored prior to this game was 12.8, and last week he scavenged a measly 8.7 points on only 10 touches total.\n\nIn this game, Smith only received one more touch than last week, but he was productive with the opportunities he received. Smith netted 47 rushing yards and a touchdown on just 6 carries while also netting 113 receiving yards and a TD on just 5 catches. Smith’s 81 yard touchdown catch came on a play where he ran an angle route that sliced through the middle of the defense.\n\nThe 81 yard TD hints at the promising versatility that the Cowboys believe Rod Smith possesses, as the Cowboys lined Smith up as a slot receiver on the play and the Cowboys chose to go to him with the Giants playing man coverage across the board. It was a good thing the Cowboys went to him too because Smith absolutely smoked Giants linebacker Kelvin Sheppard on the route and was open by nearly five yards when Dak hit him perfectly in stride.\n\nDepending on your situation at running back, Rod Smith could be worth another start this week even with his limited share of the touches in this backfield (Alfred Morris out-touched him 22 to 11). Smith has shown that he has the ability to make plays Alfred Morris cannot, and this week Smith is facing an Oakland defense that is 23rd against fantasy RBs and just surrendered 141 rushing yards and 2 TDs to Kansas City. Consider Smith a definite flex play and a decent RB2 with RB1 upside for this week.", null, "Yes, you read that name correctly. Our boy Tommylee was projected to get not even one full fantasy point even in PPR scoring coming into this game. Don’t feel foolish if you have never heard of Lewis, or never even heard the name Tommylee in general before. Lewis had only caught 8 passes all season before facing the Falcons this week. Last week he had one catch for two yards. Against the Falcons, Lewis ended up catching 2 passes for 30 yards and a TD en route to a 22 point week.\n\nLewis’s first touchdown came on a fade against the Falcon’s cover 2 defense that Brees lofted perfectly over the defender in the flat and outside of the safety playing the deep half of the field. Lewis caught the ball at the five yard line, instantly juked backwards to avoid the Falcons safety flying towards him, and then dove forwards to get the ball over the pylon just before another Falcons defender attacked him from behind.\n\nTommyLee Lewis lets the defender go by…\nAnd DIVES in for the @Saints TD!\n\nLewis’s second touchdown came on a pass that did not exist. ESPN has for some reason doubled his production for this week in their scoring and given Lewis 60 yards, 4 catches, and two touchdowns.\n\nDespite the Saints’ inviting matchup against the porous Jets defense, do not consider starting Lewis this week. His game against the Falcons should be considered nothing more than a fluke game by a fast receiver in a good offense with a future hall of fame QB throwing to him. Lewis is behind Mike Thomas, Mark Ingram, Alvin Kamara, Ted Ginn, Brandon Coleman, and Willie Snead in terms of targets in the Saints offense.", null, "As many of you already know, Burton went off this week because starting tight end Zach Ertz was a last minute inactive for this game, opening the door for Burton to have a productive fantasy day. Burton ended up with 71 yards and 2 TDs on 5 catches and led all tight ends in points in week 14. Trey Burton has proven to be skilled receiver at the tight end position in his last few years in Philly. He runs relatively crisp routes, has the athleticism to go against most linebackers and safeties effectively, and has phenomenal after the catch ability as he frequently looks like a running back once he gets the ball.\n\nBurton scored his first TD on a post route where he burned linebacker Alec Ogletree (probably one of the top 5 middle linebackers in the NFL), and ripped the ball away from safety John Johnson on a play few NFL tight ends are capable of making.\n\n31st pass TD for Carson Wentz, 1 away from tying Eagles' single-season mark. Burton with the 20-yard score, the 2nd TD by a TE not named Zach Ertz. Celek had the 1st TD. pic.twitter.com/ApI4gGOmgd\n\nBurton’s second score of the day came against Johnson as well. It was third and 7 with about 10 yards left to go for the end zone and Burton ran a 10 yard out route towards the pylon that Wentz put up high for the big tight end to go get. Burton was able to high-point the ball while simultaneously boxing out John Johnson and hold onto the ball for the score. Burton frequently made contested catches over the middle that ended up being key plays in the Eagles victory over the Rams.\n\nIf and only if Ertz is out again you should start Burton. Ertz was inactive against the Rams with a concussion. Per Philadelphia Daily News reporter Les Bowen, Ertz was still dealing with headaches as recently as December 10th. Should Ertz be out again, Burton should be considered a decent TE1 for week 15. He has a solid receiving skillset for a tight end, the Eagles have shown a willingness to use him, and the Giants are dead last against fantasy TEs so his matchup literally could not be better.\n\nThis one was not as much of a surprise as the others. As I said last week, the potential for this kind of game to happen for Demaryius Thomas was there because he had received at least 8 targets in each of his past 3 games leading up to the contest. By the way, I got absolutely roasted on reddit for saying that:\n\n\"Despite his recent dearth of production, the combination of Demaryius Thomas’ talent and his role in the offense might still put him in your lineup this week. Thomas has received at least 8 targets in each of his past 3 games\" from fantasyfootball\n\nGranted, Thomas owners had a reason to be skeptical of starting him considering he looked destined for the fantasy garbage can the past two weeks due to Trevor Siemian’s sporadic throws. Two weeks ago Thomas had 18 yards and the week after that he had 27 yards.\n\nThis week, Thomas had 8 catches for 93 yards and a TD on a whopping 12 targets. His point total was good enough for 6th best amongst all receivers in week 14. On his touchdown reception, DT reminded the Broncos why they target him so much by using his superior size and strength to easily box out Jets cornerback Morris Claiborne on a back-shoulder fade pass.\n\nInterestingly enough, the 93 yards were Thomas’ most since Week 6 against the Giants when he went had a season-high 133 yards on 10 catches. Next week Demaryius has another favorable matchup as he faces a Colts secondary that ranks 23rd against fantasy wide receivers. While Siemian still doesn’t look great, he was at least better this week which is a good sign for Thomas owners. Against the Jets, Siemian threw for 200 yards and a TD while throwing no interceptions on 19 completions out of 31 attempts.\n\nThe bottom line is this: Thomas is a top 15 talent (if not a top 10 talent) in the current NFL at the wide receiver position, he is getting at least 8 targets every week and is coming off a week where he got 12, and he is facing another shitty team this week. His QB at worst last week looked slightly below average, but at best looked slightly above average. Consider Demaryius a solid WR2 with WR1 upside.", null, "The only reason Gordon is on this list is because I am surprised he did not score MORE points. The Browns should be throwing to him every goddamn offensive snap as far as I am concerned because he is the only bright spot left in their season.\n\nIt is a crime that Gordon was only given 6 targets in this game, and if I were the owner that would be all the evidence I would need to gut this entire fucking organization. This week Josh Gordon had 69 yards and a touchdown on just 3 catches. Last week, he became the only other player besides Odell to get at least 85 yards receiving against the Chargers this year, and he did that during his first game of football in nearly 3 years.\n\nI have said it before and I will say it again: Josh Gordon has the wide-receiving intangibles of Calvin Johnson except he also has Tyreek Hill’s speed. If you have him on your team and you do not start him, that is an insult to fantasy football, football in general, and your parent’s child-raising ability. Consider Gordon a high floor WR2 at the very least, even against the Ravens defense because of the combination of his athletic ability and his role in the Browns offense." ]

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[ "Meet the new Xiaomi Mi 9! His release took place just a few hours ago, and we have something to discuss.\n\nNew exceeded all expectations, the phone does not look likeon its competitors, which means it has great chances to win the mobile market, considering that its price is mere pennies compared to the same iPhone. Let's start the review ...", null, "Products from the company Xiaomi without exaggerationcause more and more interest from the user community. Mi 9 was no exception, and its release was very much awaited. Looking at him, you immediately realize that he is special - different from his predecessors.", null, "The back panel of the case immediately attracts attentiondue to the new glass panel, which has thin bends on the sides. Thanks to a new laser engraving of holographic technology, the body has a unique reflective surface. In short, spectacular and stylish. In addition, the triple camera in vertical orientation, which is protected by sapphire glass, immediately catches the eye.", null, "Since we started talking about the camera, I immediately want tosay that the main camera in the center boasts an impressive resolution of 48 megapixels and a f / 1.75 aperture. In combination with the laser autofocus system and AI artificial intelligence technologies, this should lead to serious improvements in the quality of photos.\n\nAlso here stands the improved 12 megapixeltelephoto lens that supports 2x optical zoom. And the plus is a new 16-megapixel sensor, which is connected to a wide-angle lens. This provides users with the ability to capture much more on their photos.", null, "Let's turn our attention to the front side.flagship - here, too, there are improvements that are worth mentioning. The new 6.39-inch display AMOLED, which is supplied by Samsung. Thin side panels and a thin chin. The notch (upper cutout) has become noticeably smaller and in its shape it resembles a drop of water. There is hidden 20 MP front camera. The ratio of the screen to the body is impressive - 90.7%.\n\nTeardrop notch on top of the screen, of courseIt looks much more aesthetic than before, but the manufacturer had to make sacrifices for this change. Due to the lack of space for sensor integration, 3D facial recognition technology had to be abandoned. But there is an alternative solution in the form of an optical fingerprint scanner, which is also present inside the Huawei Mate 20 Pro and OnePlus 6T, but it is not as accurate as the ultrasound scanner that will be presented in the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 +.", null, null, null, "Climb under the hood\n\nLook deeper ... Here we are waiting for the best ontoday Snapdragon processor 855 from Qualcomm. Plus 6 GB of RAM. And this is all in combination with 64 GB or 128 GB of internal memory, depending on the preferences of the client. To expand the memory provides support for microSD.\n\nGo ahead ... 4G LTE, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC and IR Blaster. It also costs a 3300 mAh battery that supports fast charging technology. Comes with a 18 watt charger. In addition, there is support for wireless charging up to 20 W - this is the fastest version that we have seen so far. The operating system is Android 9 Pie with MIUI 10 right out of the box.\n\nThere is a version of Mi 8 Transparent Edition, whichequipped with a transparent glass panel at the back. This provides an opportunity to look at some of the elements under the hood. But in fact, the components that you see are not real. It's just an aluminum plate covering real, less photogenic details.\n\nExternal changes of this version are listed, now the turn for internal differences. Namely, the amount of RAM is doubled to 12 GB, the built-in memory is also increased to 256 GB.", null, "The cost of Mi 9 for the various versions is listed below:" ]

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[ null, "The BBC has announced a new edition of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Game to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of its original release.\n\nThe game was originally devised in 1984 by the book’s author Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky from Infocom. The famously tricky game was one of the best-selling games of its era, full of quirky oddities that successfully transplanted the book’s humour to a game.\n\nThe 20th anniversary edition of the game launched on Radio 4’s website in 2004. Over 3 million moves were made in the game in its first 3 days of launch, and over 50 million moves had been played within six months. It went on to win a BAFTA for ‘Best Online Entertainment’.\n\nThe 30th Anniversary edition is a specially updated version of the game that will allow users to share their achievements with friends over social media via the official twitter feed @h2g2game.\n\nThe web-based game, that will be accessible via Radio 4 Extra’s website, will also feature high-definition illustrations and graphics and will be compatible with tablets and other internet enabled devices.\n\nYou will be able to play the game from the 8th March on the BBC Radio 4 Extra website." ]

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[ "Time and Thai, or Please Come Home for Mithras", null, "I'm still collating the information we're hearing coming out of Thailand concerning the rescue of a boys' soccer team and their coach from a cave that was flooded by monsoon rains. I'm not going on record with any of this quite yet but we're seeing quite a lot of ritual and symbol tied up in all of this, both overt and perhaps somewhat less so.\n\nWhich makes perfect sense given the way things have been going this year.", null, "The good news is that several of the boys have been rescued already. But the fact that the team descended into these caves for an initiation ritual can't help but send all sorts of bells and whistles off in my head, especially given the Mithras Rising theme we've been exploring here.\n\nThe Mithraic sanctuaries were subterranean caverns, which presented obvious limitations of size. None of the many excavated shrines could receive more than a hundred persons, most even fewer. All ceremonies were of necessity enacted in artificial light.\n\nThe cavern always contained a well.\n\nAccess to the cavern often consisted of a system of subterranean passages, which were used in the initiation ceremonies. Men only were admitted to this religion of soldiers, and no organizational hierarchy seems to have existed.\n\nI should add that the combination of a 12-man team and a 25 year old coach not only calls to mind the zodiac in which Mithras was so often identified with, it reminds me of 12/25 AKA the Saturnalia AKA The Feast of Sol Invictus AKA The Feast of Mithras.\n\nThat's just how my brain works.", null, "Back to the caves:\n\nThe myth was interpreted by the Roman Mithraists in terms of Platonic philosophy. The sacrifice took place in a cave, an image of the world, as in the simile of the cave in Plato’s Republic. Mithra himself was equated with the demiurge, or creator, of the Timaeus: he was called “demiurge and father of all things,” like the Platonic demiurge. The four elements, the mixing bowl, the creation of time, and the attack of the wicked animals upon the newborn creature are well-known features of the Timaeus.\n\nThe Thai soccer team are known as the \"Wild Boars.\"", null, "Remembering the Tauroctony, or the Slaying of the Cosmic Bull, in Mithraism I'd be negligent if I didn't remind you all that a male seal is called a \"bull.\" In the interest of full disclosure.", null, "More overt animal sacrifice was involved in the Thai drama:\n\nAs the search for the missing boys and coach continued, monks and holy people arrived to hold vigils at the site. Some took turns giving sermons and offering comfort to relatives of the missing, who sat in plastic chairs in an area cordoned off from the public.\n\nEven Thai authorities appealed to the spirits by setting up shrines, burning incense and offering food and drink to the deities — including a boiled pig's head and beer.", null, "Another Thai SEAL posted this highly symbolic cartoon on his Facebook. Here is the key to the correspondences:\n\nAnd forgive my fractal brain, but it immediately called this up:\n\nThe rising of the Mithraist in grade prefigured the ascent of the soul after death.", null, "And then there's that whole \"wild boar\" business again, tying us back to the Siren lineage:\n\n\nAdonis’s mainly female devotees would join with Astarte each year weeping for her lost son slain by a boar. They then rejoiced when he was restored to life. Attis was a comely young shepherd whom Cybele loved. The worship of Attis was always linked with that of the Great Mother of All Things, Cybele, the supreme deity.\n\nAttis died either slain by a boar sent by Zeus, like the Syrian god Adonis, or by bleeding to death under a pine tree, after castrating himself in a madness sent by Cybele out of jealousy. Every spring, the death of the god was mourned until he was resurrected by the Great Mother, when grief turned to joy.", null, "Then there's that fascinating name there-- George Veni-- that keeps popping in these news stories. \"Veni\" strikes me as very possibly coming from the same root that gives the name Venus, whom we know as Adonis' consort.\n\nAnd just to gild the lily, George brings to mind \"gorge,\" which is essentially an open-air cave.", null, "And the mountain range in which this cave is located is named for the Sleeping Lady, whose backstory of doomed love with a stable boy seems to strike awfully close to home considering the whole Inanna-Dumuzi lineage we've been discussing.\n\nA FB member pointed me to the prayers to the rain god, invoked by a high-ranking military officer, the kind that presided over Mithraic rites:\n\n\n(T)he regional army commander offered his thanks Monday to the rain god Phra Pirun, imploring him to \"keep showing us mercy.\"\n\n\"Give us three more days and the Boars will come out to see the world, every one of them,\" Maj-Gen. Bancha Duriyapan told a news conference punctuated by applause from the dozens of Thai and foreign journalists and others in attendance.\n\n\"I beg Phra Pirun because the Meteorological Department said that from Monday on there will be continuous rain,\" Bancha said. \"If I ask too much, he might not provide it. So I've been asking for three days.\"", null, "The same district has an actual omphalos, which along with the player nicknamed \"Titan\" brings us back to the same mytharc:\n\nOuranos and Gaia prophesied that a son of Kronos would eventually depose the Titanes, and so the Titan-king, in fear for his throne, took to devouring each one of his offspring as soon as they were born.\n\nOnly Zeus escaped this fate through the intervention of his mother Rhea, who deposited him in a cave on the island of Krete (Crete) and fed Kronos a substitute rock (Omphalos). Upon reaching adulthood, Zeus forced Kronos to disgorge his siblings, and with an army of divine-allies, made war on the Titanes and cast them into the pit of Tartaros (Tartarus).\n\n• The priests of the goddesses we've been looking at-- including the Inanna types and the Earth Mother types (Cybele, Demeter) were transgendered, having castrated themselves as part of their initiation ritual. Thailand is well-known for their transgendered--or \"third-sex\"--population.\n\n• The Cave and the Omphalos are central to the rites of the Pythia, or the Oracle of Delphi. Or if you prefer, the Sibyl.\n\n• The Titans are the Watchers are the Fallen Angels, whose human wives are the Sirens.", null, "The drama of the cave comes just days after 33 vacationers were drowned when the tour boat Phoenix sunk of the coast of Phuket.", null, "Stephen King weighed in with his thoughts on the drama, which makes me wonder if the old scrivener might not have been having himself a senior moment.\n\nIf you know what I mean.", null, "Elon Musk offered his services, and even built a custom submarine for the rescue.", null, "Which of course brings you-know-who into the equation, via her apostle and label-mate Grimes. Would you expect anything less?", null, "And of course, I'm thinking quite a bit about the week-long invocation of the Siren in Perth, not all that far from Thailand, relatively-speaking.", null, "I've been puzzling over this tragedy as well. A connection? Sure feels like it, somehow.", null, "And on this side of the world--Massachusetts, to be precise-- more trophies for the Siren." ]

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[ "How to import dates from Iran?\n\nIran is the second largest producer of dates in the world after Egypt. Also, Iran also plays an important role in exporting Iranian dates to the countries with the largest volume of imports of this product. Iran annually produces over 1 million tons of various Iranian dates, of which about 400 thousand tons are exported. This volume of exports in the year will bring about nearly $ 300 million to Iran.\n\nAmong the European countries, the three countries have Dates consuming in comparison with other European countries. Germany, England, and France are three countries that import Iranian dates. The first and foremost reason is the presence of Muslim populations in these countries. Because dates are a fruit that is highly adapted to the taste of Muslims. France is also one of the countries in Europe with a large number of migratory Arabs, who are often the consumer of dates, with the possibility of importing dates from Iran. In addition, the climate of most European countries is not suitable for the growth of dates.\nAnother factor that causes the use of dates in Europe is the natural sugar and sweets found in this fruit. Also, other than proteins and minerals, dates are a good alternative to sugar throughout the year. So, we conclude that it is abundant to eat dates throughout the year.", null, "Other good markets for exporting dates are Iran, Canada, and Australia. The two countries are home to Iranians because of their high migration. In their various cities, there are supermarkets in Iran that can supply the Iranian people with this fruit.\nIranian export dates to more than 70 countries around the world. Several countries are constantly importing Iran-quality dates. European countries such as Germany, England, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, Russia and Canada in the Americas, China in East Asia, Pakistan and Iraq and Turkey in the neighborhood of Iran, the Persian Gulf countries are the customers of Iran’s traditional dates.\n\nIndia is the largest importer of Iranian dates. About 200 million Muslims live in India, accounting for roughly 15 percent of the country’s total population. Due to the fact that Iran is close to India in terms of distance, India is at the forefront of importing dates from Iran. The highest amount of date exports to India is Mazafati dates date and the lowest amount of date exports to India is the Piarom dates.\nSouthern Iran produces the largest amount of dates. The Bam area in Kerman holds about 28% of the total Iranian date production. The most famous type of dates in Kerman province is the Mazafati dates.", null, "After the province of Kerman, Hormozgan is the largest producer of dates in Iran. Obviously, the products of this region can also be exported to different European and Canadian countries. Hormozgan province has about 16% of the total production in the country. Piarom dates are the most famous export dates for this area. Due to it’s long lasting and rich in nutrients, Persian dates are the most expensive Iranian export date.\nThe third date producer in Iran is the Bushehr province. One of the most famous varieties of Iranian export dates in Bushehr is Kukabab. This province accounts for about 15% of the total date production in Iran.\nThe fourth place is the production of Iranian export dates for Sistan and Baluchestan province. The famous type of export dates produced in Sistan and Baluchistan province is Rabi dates.\nThe fifth date producer in Iran is Khuzestan province. The most popular type of Khuzestan dates is in the export market, Sayer Dates.\n\nAlthough Iran is the world’s second-largest producer of dates, the share of Iranian dates in the European market is 10%. The key factor is the market share, poor marketing, and the lack of compliance with existing standards, both in terms of size and packaging. With a little studying and raising the quality level as well as the variety of packaging, Iran’s share of exports to Europe is increasing.\n\nSunexport Marketing team is always studying on the markets of European countries. We believe that Iran’s agricultural products have high-quality. Dear Iranian people living in Europe, confirm the fact that the taste of Iranian fruits and juices can never be found in that region. Therefore, please contact the sales department for inquiry on the price of Iran dates." ]

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[ null, "Debapriya Basu is Assistant Professor in English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India. Her doctoral research (jointly funded by a Government of India University Grants Commission Research Fellowship and an Inlaks Research Travel Grant to King’s College London) was on Renaissance English women poets. She was Research Fellow at the School of Cultural Texts and Records (SCTR), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and has taught in the SCTR’s Postgraduate Diploma Course in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics. She was Project Supervisor in the Bichitra Tagore Online Variorum project (www.bichitra.jdvu.ac.in) and is a contributor in Sukanta Chaudhuri ed. ‘Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum’ (Springer, 2015). Her online edition of Anne Askew (work-in-progress) was initially funded by an Erasmus Mundus Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-15) and is hosted by the University of Amsterdam.\n\nThe sixteenth-century gospeller and female preacher Anne Askew lived a dangerous life in dangerous times and was made to pay the ultimate price for her headstrong will. She was a contemporary of Anne Boleyn, who died a short decade before her. But unlike the most unfortunate of Henry VIII’s queens, Askew’s death has largely been forgotten by the modern world. She was a remarkable woman, passionate about her faith and rashly courageous in proclaiming it in a world fraught with religious dissent and state-sanctioned violence. Her quiet radical Protestantism so disturbed patriarchal authority that she had to be turned into an example and a spectacle: she was repeatedly imprisoned, illegally tortured in the Tower of London because she would not betray her reformist sisters, and burnt at the stake for heresy in 1546.\n\nHer life, although sparsely documented, is fascinating. But her life beyond death is even more compelling. While in prison, she was persuaded by her co-religionists to write an account of her interrogations. After her death, her life and her words were appropriated by two firebrand reformers: the martyrologist John Foxe (he of the Book of Martyrs of 1563 fame) and John Bale (known to modern readers primarily as the writer of the earliest extant verse play in English, Kynge Johan, c. 1538). Barely were her ashes cold when the first-person account of Askew’s trials was published with copious glosses and fire-and-brimstone editorial rhetoric by Bale in two books titled The First Examination of Anne Askew (1546) and The Latter Examination of Anne Askew (1547). These unique first-person accounts of a female martyr sold so well that several editions were printed throughout the century. Almost two decades later, Foxe printed Askew’s words without Bale’s commentary. But he too added interpolations and concluding remarks describing the site of her burning at Smithfield and intensified the emotion with a powerful woodcut illustration. In one of the frequent ironies of history, these masculine textual manipulations of the dangerously willful twenty-five year old Anne turned her into the last word in persecuted Protestant victimhood.\n\nAnne Askew was born in Lincolnshire in 1521 to Sir William Askew and Elizabeth Wrottesley. Sir William was knighted in 1513 and became high sheriff of Lincolnshire around the time of Anne’s birth. Her brother Edward was Henry VII’s cup-bearer, her half-brother Christopher gentleman of the privy chamber, and her sister Anne married a lawyer in the employ of the Duke of Suffolk. If not demonstrably reformist, her family background was therefore solid privileged gentry with close connections to the court. It is generally accepted that she received a good education, possibly from tutors. She married Thomas Kyme, only to seek divorce, startlingly, on grounds of scriptural incompatibility. Responding to the mention of ‘mastre kyme’ in Askew’s account of her examination before the king’s council at Greenwich in The Latter Examination, Bale is inspired to provide an account (derived from unnamed sources) of her marriage. According to him, Askew’s father had negotiated for a match between his eldest daughter Martha and a rich neighbour’s son, Thomas Kyme. Unfortunately, Martha died before the marriage could take place and Sir William forced Anne to marry Thomas against her will. Bale describes her union with Kyme as ‘ungodly,’ ‘unlawful’ and ‘coacted’ or coerced. Bale notes that she despatched her wifely duties in a Christian manner and had two children. However, ‘In processe of tyme by oft readynge of the sacred Bible’ she converted to Protestantism.\n\nAskew’s love for nonconformist and risky behaviour is witnessed by the corroborative record, independent of Bale, of Askew’s examination it the Privy Council. The proceedings of the Privy Council show that on 19 June 1546 one Thomas Kyme appeared in court with his wife, but she is said to have refused to acknowledge him as her husband. This subversive behaviour is looked at askance by the Council, which lets Kyme go but detains Anne because ‘she was obstinate and heady in reasoning of matters of religion, wherein she showed herself to be of naughty opinion’ (Harley MS. 256. Fol. 224). As though issuing a gentle rebuke and not a rigorous punishment, the recorder sighs, ‘seeing no persuasion of good reason could take place, she was sent to Newgate, to remain there to answer to the law.’ Askew’s headstrong and confrontational personality, which Bale does his best to suppress by shifting the focus onto the alleged wrongs committed by father and husband, is evident from her own words too. By her own account, she often flatly refuses to answer questions put to her by her inquisitors. When she is told that the priests of Lincoln would ‘assault me and put me to great trouble,’ she ‘not being afraid’ made it a point to go there ‘to see what would be said unto me’. For six days she sat reading the Bible in Lincoln minster in what amounted to an act of civil disobedience, openly flouting the legislation of the Act for the Advancement of True Religion (1543).\n\nAfter having forced all churches to keep a copy of the ‘chained’ Great Bible on the premises, Henry VIII sought to regain lost control through this Act by restricting ‘women, artificers, apprentices, journeymen, serving-men of the rank of yeoman and under, husbandmen and laborers’ from reading it. In an added clause, women of the gentry were allowed to read the Bible only in private, but Askew’s public performance in Lincoln minster was surely sufficient for her to be noted among the lay preachers who disseminated ‘pestiferous and noisome teachings and instructions’ in underground churches and heretical conventicles and against whom this Act was ultimately directed. Indeed, the Queen herself was not immune to charges of heresy, as John Foxe recounts in his Acts and Monuments. In the summer of the same year that Askew was to die, a warrant for Queen Catherine Parr’s arrest for Protestant sympathies was issued by two of Askew’s interrogators Stephen Gardiner, the Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor Wriothesley. Although the crisis was avoided and Catherine became famous in history as the one who survived, this fraught atmosphere at court rendered Anne Askew’s connections to the Duchess of Suffolk and other Protestant women a strong vulnerability in the face of her unconventionally-expressed Protestant beliefs, which possibly led to the previously unheard-of and grossly illegal racking of a woman of gentle birth.\n\nThe process of Askew’s condemnation and burning was instigated with an interrogation (leading to twelve days’ imprisonment in the Counter) at Saddler’s Hall by the lord mayor of London and the bishop of London’s chancellor, Edmund Bonner, under the Act of Six Articles (1539). The first article of this Act concerned the Eucharist, which was a deeply controversial issue at the time. The Six Articles Act adopted the Catholic position in the debate, asserting that ‘the natural body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ’ is present ‘really’ in the bread and wine consecrated by the words uttered by a priest and that ‘after the consecration there remaineth no substance of bread or wine, nor any other substance, but the substance of Christ, God and man.’ Dissent was heresy and those who did not agree with this view would ‘suffer judgment, execution, pain, and pains of death by way of burning, without any abjuration, clergy, or sanctuary to be therefore permitted.’\n\nAskew strongly defies this injunction in her writing. ‘I believe it to be a most necessary remembrance of his glorious sufferings and death,’ she confidently asserts as she repeatedly invokes the words of the Bible, that other kind of powerful word accessible to the laity thanks to the reformation. Her arguments and rejoinders (which together slant into the dangerous area of women’s preaching) are solidly based upon the Protestant tenet of sola scriptura: if it is not in scripture, it is not under discussion. Her memory is remarkably retentive and, in a cryptic style that is highly dramatic thanks to its brevity, she throws biblical chapter numbers in her interrogators’ teeth without deigning to quote or explicate. Her sense of drama and literary effect is highly evolved. She describes her racking in the fewest words possible: ‘Then they did put me on the rack, because I confessed no ladies nor gentlewomen to be of my opinion, and thereon they kept me a long time. And because I lay still and did not cry, my lord Chancellor and master Rich took pains to rack me their own hands, till I was nigh dead.’\n\nAskew’s pointed silences, however, are defused by Bale’s clamour. Not for nothing was he nicknamed ‘bilious Bale’ by his contemporaries. Where she remains silent in irony or for dramatic effect, he senses a dangerously powerful statement that he feels compelled to override with quotation and, sometimes, bitter and personal abuse. Foxe’s strategy in re-forming Askew is slightly different. After presenting Askew’s account with minimum intervention, he pens a moving eyewitness account of the scene of her execution, milking the tragedy and pathos of the moment for his own partisan purposes. This, along with the woodcut, historicizes Askew completely, and nullifies her dangerous and threatening tendencies through distancing from Foxe’s present.\n\nHer harassment, arraignment, imprisonment, torture and ultimate death notwithstanding, Anne Askew’s words and recorded actions give the lie to her portrayal by both Foxe and Bale as the last word in victimhood. Reading Bale’s commentary now, it is glaringly obvious that his constant and unrelenting interventions subtly mould the impact of Anne’s own voice, and the way in which both he, and later Foxe, portray the dead girl tries to diffuse a lot of the tensions that her very subversive and unconventional life had the potential to generate. Bale upholds her as a mascot of subversion in his own fight against religious hegemony but paradoxically tries to erase those aspects of her personality that pose challenges to the patriarchal order. While the authorities turned Askew into one kind of spectacle, her male co-religionists turned her into another. This is something that men have always done to contain the unruly energies unleashed by dangerous women who could not, for historical, strategic or personal reasons, simply be ignored.\n\nBale’s rhetoric reveals once more the fact that subversion is not necessarily coterminous with radicalism. Askew was undoubtedly as deeply religious, as thoroughly virtuous and as godly as Bale and Foxe would have her be. But she was also reckless, brilliant, a poet and a writer, and a woman on a mission. As her texts make clear, her death was the result of a series of informed choices. Anne Askew consciously challenged the established order with the only weapon a woman in her time and circumstances could effectively wield. She used her religion to acquire power, which both endangered her and made her dangerous. By re-forming Askew in the image of the helpless victim of state cruelty both Bale and Foxe silently acknowledge her power and disruptive potential as a dangerous woman.\n\nJohn Lingard, A History of England, from the First Invasion by the Romans (Philadelphia: Eugene Cummisky), Volumes 5-6, vol. 6, p. 267.\n\nJohn Gough Nichols ed., Narratives of the Days of the Reformation, Chiefly from the Manuscripts of John Foxe the Martyrologist (London: Camden Society, 1859), pp. 39–45, 299–313." ]

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[ "Lord and Lady Kerns renewed their vows on Black Raven", null, "On Saturday afternoon, January 9, 2010, the Lord George of Kerns and fair Lady Marcia of Kerns and set sail on the Black Raven to restate their vow of eternal adventure to each other. Several of their friends and family joined them onboard to celebrate this day. Among their witnesses were Jennifer Allen – Daughter of Lady Marcia of Kerns, Pastor Lord Fred of Roy, Lady Margie of Roy, Lady in Waiting Pat Linton, Lady in Waiting Anna Blair, Pirate Paul, Maiden Lestari, Re-Maiden Doris Mongold, Steve and Paula Barle – both Monks from the Inquisition, and several other close friends and family. The couple and their guests, as well as some guests of the Black Raven, boarded the ship at 4:00 pm. The Black Raven set sail after everyone was safely boarded.", null, "The adventure began in the fresh January air with everyone singing shanties along with the Pirates of the Black Raven – Olie Mackerel, Jonas Crew, William Mayhem, ArrrrMonique, and Daisy Drake. Captain Larry Kety sailed the Black Raven through the Bridge of Lions and past the Castillo de San Marco fort. After a few pirate songs, Captain Larry brought the Black Raven to a “drifting” stop. The awaited moment had arrived for the happy couple.", null, "Pastor Lord Fred of Roy had the couple and their witnesses climb the stairs to the ship’s forecastle, decorated with an arch covered in white roses and greenery. The passengers and crew of the Black Raven stood below on the Main Deck to share in this moment. For a brief second in time, the ship stood still. The wind was calm, no one was speaking or moving, and the air became warm as the couple stared into each other’s eyes. Then Pastor Lord Frederick of Roy began the ceremony.", null, "He announced, “These two are here to walk the plank. Not into Davy Jones Locker, but into wedded bliss.” Lord and Lady Kerns renewed their commitment to their lifelong voyage with each other. Everyone on board the Black Raven responded with loud Pirate cheers as the couple kissed and had a Champagne toast. They all descended from the forecastle to celebrate, and Captain Larry set the Black Raven to sail.\n\nLord and Lady Kerns had created magic in the air. So much so that William Mayhem", null, "amazed everyone with his own wonderful magic. The passengers assisted Mayhem in illusions and tricks that baffled all. Magic was everywhere! Even the dolphins wanted to join in with the celebration. Four of them jumped and swam with the ship for several minutes.", null, "Captain Larry headed the Black Raven back to port while everyone continued to enjoy the Pirates comedy, magic, and shanties. As the ship got closer to the dock, people started pointing toward the dock in amazement. There, waiting to welcome Lord and Lady Kerns and the Black Raven passengers and crew, was a Scottish Bagpiper dressed in a traditional kilt. His serenade was absolutely beautiful as the Captain and crew secured the Black Raven to the dock. The sun was setting, and the horizon’s reflection danced in the water. The couple stepped off the ship and onto land to begin the next voyage in their lifelong journey.", null, "The crew of the Black Raven would like to thank Lord and Lady Kerns for sharing this moment with us and wish them true happiness and joy." ]

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[ "The end of illegal occupancy of Wakf Board, Independence Day will be celebrated on Aug 15 at Bengaluru Idgah Maidan.", null, "After the end of illegal encroachment of Wakf Board, 75th Independence Day will be celebrated on August 15 at Bengaluru Idgah Maidan, as the land entitled to Karnataka Revenue Department.\n\nStaff Reporter | The Hindu | Bengaluru | Aug 7, 2022:: A day after the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) stated that the ownership of the Idgah Maidan in Chamarajpet is with Karnataka Revenue Department, various Hindu organisations on Sunday gathered near the maidan to celebrate the order.\n\nThe groups gathered near the ground and burst crackers, distributed sweets and announced that they will celebrate Independence Day on August 15 on the ground. S. Bhaskaran, president, Vishwa Sanathana Parishath, said, “This is a big victory for the residents of Chamarajpet. We will host the national flag on August 15 at the ground.”\n\nChamarajpet Nagareekara Okkuta Vedike member Lahari Velu, said, “After the BBMP order, it is like a festival today for all the residents of Chamarajpet. We were all fighting for the ground for the last decade.”\n\nOn Saturday, the city’s civic body dismissed the petition filed by the Karnataka State Board of Auqaf for a khata in its favour for Idgah Maidan at Chamarajpet (Survey number 40, Guttahalli village, 2 acres 5 guntas), and declared Karnataka Revenue Department to be the default owner of the land.\n\nCity survey records had recorded the land as a playground of the civic body, a claim that has also been given up now, with the civic body deciding to record ‘Karnataka Revenue Department’ as owner in its records. S.M. Srinivas, Joint Commissioner (West), BBMP, who presided over the proceedings, issued the order.\n\nThe decades-old dispute over Idgah Maidan was reignited in May-June, 2022, when a few Hindutva organisations sought permission of the civic body to hold events at the maidan. This brought out two contrary sets of documents – Karnataka State Board of Auqaf presenting a 1965 gazette notifying the land as Wakf property, and 1974 City Survey records and all civic records thereafter showing the land to be a civic playground.\n\n2 comments on “The end of illegal occupancy of Wakf Board, Independence Day will be celebrated on Aug 15 at Bengaluru Idgah Maidan.”" ]

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[ "US and Arab Foreign Policy in the Israeli-Palestine Conflict\n\nThe Israeli-Palestinian conflict is hugely influenced by the respective foreign policies of their main allies, the United States as a supporter of Israel and the surrounding Arab states on the Palestinian side. While some outside intervention may be necessary, it can also lead to an entrenchment of the parties. Therefore, this essay will investigate whether US and Arab policies were beneficial or detrimental to the efforts to arrive at a peace agreement in terms of the major contested issues; land and borders, Jerusalem, recognition and refugees.\n\n‘From the very beginning, the creation of Israel and the subsequent conflict between Arab[s] and Israelis were determined by external factors’ (Dessouki, Korany, 2008: 51)\n\nThe Middle East conflict and subsequent peace process between Israel and the Palestinians has been one of the most scrutinized and debated disputes of the last half century. It is a conflict that encompasses the dimensions of ideology, nationality and power. In the midst of this process, US and Arab foreign policy has played a central role in the molding of resolutions, summits and accords. This essay will investigate the influence wielded by the US and Arab states in the context of the four most important and contested issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; land and borders including Israeli settlements, the status of Jerusalem, mutual recognition, and the fate of Palestinian refugees. It will be concluded that while Arab and American mediation is a necessity of the peace process, both US and Arab foreign policy has often been a detriment to the peace process.\n\nOne of the central points of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that of the eventual establishment of borders and the allocation of territory a prospective Palestinian state would receive. In this context, both US and Arab foreign policy have not been helpful, but rather quite detrimental. As noted by Neff, Israel’s persistent refusal to return Palestinian land, much of it gained as a consequence of the 1967 war, would not be possible without implicit and explicit US support (1995: 104). Israel has been substantially backed by the US in terms of military and financial support (Findlay, 1993: 111), protection in the UN Security Council (Ibid: 115), and within the framework of the direct peace talks, such as the talks held in Camp David under the Clinton administration (Quandt, 2005: 379). By contrast, aid to Arab states and the Palestinians has been rather small, contributing to the power asymmetry (Findlay: 111).\n\nWhile there have been occasional critical remarks about the Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank and the occupation in general, especially under the Carter administration (Ibid: 181), US attitude and policy has been overwhelmingly permissive. Neff argues that support has gradually increased, as the illegality of the occupation was no longer recognized by the Reagan administration and settlement construction was allowed even during peace talks under George H. W. Bush (1995: 164). Thus, as only very little pressure is exerted by the US on Israel’s territorial claims, Israel is not forced to make the necessary compromises required for a peace agreement. Rather, it is able to continue settlement construction.\n\nArab foreign policy on the issue of land and borders has greatly contributed to Israel’s continuous concern for security. Barnett and Solingen point out that the efforts of the Arab League to attack Israel militarily mostly resulted in defeat and humiliation for the Palestinians, and contributed to further territorial concessions (2007: 195-6). In a similar vein, inter-Arab competition, especially between Egypt and Syria represented a major catalyst for the 1967 war, which resulted in disaster for Arab states and the Palestinians (Smith, 2005: 220). Thus, the longstanding Arab preference to seek military solutions has made it possible for Israel to detract attention from the moral nature of the conflict.\n\nIn general, the differing conceptions over claims of the extent to and sovereignty over Palestinian territory, a process in which the Palestinians themselves were largely excluded, contributed to the incoherence and thus ineffectiveness of Arab policies (Boutros-Ghali, 1982: 770). On the other hand, the Yom Kippur war in 1973 and the subsequent oil embargo set a precedent for the assertion of bargaining power. For the first time, Arab states made use of their resource endowment to force the United States to rethink its unquestioning alignment with Israel and reconsider its economic interests in the region (Shannon, 2003: 70-1). Hence, it is possible for Arab states to play a constructive role in the peace negotiations by putting pressure on the US as well as by holding it accountable for its policies, if necessary.\n\nThe status of Jerusalem represents a special challenge because of the religious connotations for both Jews and Muslims. Therefore, an agreement on how to deal with Jerusalem will have to be included in any peace accord. The United States has long pursued a policy of an undivided Jerusalem, which would mean that the city would be shared between Israelis and Palestinians in an eventual two-state solution. According to Sturkey, this has been a problem within the peace process, given the challenge of coexistence with no clear demarcations (2007: 177). Furthermore, Neff suggests that the United States has been heavily involved in the ongoing construction of settlements in Jerusalem, helping to finance these activities as well as giving diplomatic approval (1995: 148). Hussein adds that that the Palestinians were strongly pressured by Bill Clinton to compromise on Jerusalem during the Camp David talks, while the Israeli side was able to secure quite favorable terms yet again (2001: 546).\n\nIn terms of the foreign policy of Arab states on Jerusalem, Hussein notes that the issue has not been taken seriously by Arab governments (Ibid: 547). Therefore, during the first Camp David negotiations in 1979, the question of how to deal with Jerusalem was deferred several times and gave the Israelis the opportunity to demonstrate that Arabs had no clear position on the issue (Ibid). In contrast, during the peace talks headed by Clinton, the Palestinians were heavily pressured by Egypt and Saudi Arabia not to compromise on Jerusalem because of its religious status in Islam (Shlaim, 2005: 257).", null ]

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[ null, null, "“Yo Pierre, you wanna come out here?”\n\nIf you’re a diehard fan of ‘90s sitcoms, you might recognize that line from the time Jamie Foxx hollered at an imaginary French chef on The Jamie Foxx Show. But most everyone else knows it as rap producer Pi’erre Bourne’s signature sound bite that opens up Playboi Carti’s summer 2016 smash “Magnolia.”\n\nThe clip appears twice on “Magnolia”—once at the very beginning, then again a few bars into the song. It’s actually the sole reason for the song’s existence: Playboi Carti had recorded the Lil Uzi Vert collab “wokeuplikethis*” on a Bourne beat without his knowledge. When he finally heard the track on his timeline, the Kanye-approved producer loved it—except for the fact that it was missing his signature.\n\n“I was upset. Like, ‘Fuck, man, they didn't put my tag on that shit. Nobody knows I made this beat,’” he told Noisey.\n\nSo he sent Carti the “Magnolia” instrumental (with not one, but two tags) and history was made. The track became Carti’s biggest to date and catapulted Pi’erre Bourne into the ranks of instantly recognizable rap producers—Metro Boomin’, Mike WiLL Made-It and DJ Mustard.\n\nWhich is the whole damn point of a producer tag: To let people know who made the banger they’re listening to.\n\nIt’s self-marketing at its simplest and—when done well—its most viral. Without a tag that explicitly acknowledges who made the beat, there’s no way for the casual listener to know who actually created the music they’re listening to. Sure, it’s Google-able—and Spotify’s addition of producer/songwriter info is supremely helpful—but for most people, it’s a question they wouldn’t even think to ask.\n\nBut thanks to tags, that’s starting to change—and for proof, look no further than the rise of Atlanta-based beatsmith Metro Boomin’. By 2016, he’d already produced some of trap music’s most memorable bangers: Remember Future’s “Karate Chop” and ILoveMakonnen and Drake’s “Tuesday?”\n\nBut it wasn’t until his iconic “If Young Metro don't trust you, I'ma shoot you” tag—voiced by codeine crooner Future—that Metro went from dominating behind the scenes to becoming a bonafide superstar. The tag became an inescapable meme, gracing clips from The Office or pictures of Kim Kardashian holding a rifle. Metro now has an impressive 2.7 million followers on Twitter and 3.2 million on Instagram, not to mention half a billion streams on Drake and Future’s trapped-out Jordan Brand ad “Jumpman” and another 800 million on Post Malone’s “Congratulations.”\n\nSometimes the key to successful branding isn’t even plugging into a viral meme—it’s just about having the most obnoxiously earworm-y tag out there. Ask any rap fan and they’ll be able to rattle off their favorites faster than a Busta Rhymes verse: “Run that back Turbo! That be Maaly Raww! Honorable C-Note! We got London on the track! Sonny Digital!”\n\n“I told him make me a bunch of tags and one of them was ‘Ooh BigHead On The Beat,’” Bighead, the producer behind Lil Pump’s “Gucci Gang,” told IllRoots. “And it kinda sounded annoying, so I’d be like, ‘I think the annoying one would be the catchiest one,’ so I just kept it.”\n\nYou can trace the idea of the tag to hip-hop’s earliest days, decades before southern rap would take over the airwaves. Early MCs would frequently shout out DJs playing the music at New York City block parties in the ‘70s and ‘80s. As rap moved to studios and the role of producers grew more pronounced, the idea of shoutouts transformed into the tags we know today.\n\nRodney “Darkchild” Jerkins produced huge pop, R&B and rap tracks in the late '90s and early aughts. His songs frequently included a muffled, whispered tag that sounds like either “Dog Chow” or “Dark Child”—hard to say, frankly. And one of the earliest adopters of a dedicated tag in rap was undoubtedly New York rap legend Just Blaze, whose iconic “JUUST BLAZE!” first appeared at the beginning of Cam’ron’s Grammy-nominated 2002 hit “Oh Boy.”\n\n\"My name had been on records before but it was the first time you had heard it just loud and clear, like right at the top of the record,\" Just Blaze told Grind Time Radio in 2010. \"It kind of set a little bit of a precedent for putting my name on the record.\"\n\nFor producers, the benefit of a recognizable soundbite is obvious—the more people know their name, the more valuable their beats are. It’s a combination of good branding, social media marketing and a valuable IP.\n\nTo quote another of Metro Boomin's tags, rap producers \"want some more\"—and their soundbites are bringing them closer to the recognition they deserve." ]

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[ null, "My Spirit Bear, \"Legendary Spirit of the Parkland\" is installed in White Rock,BC. Each bear statue stands seven feet tall.It is located at the White Rock Library (15342 Buena Vista beside the City Hall) and owned by the City of White Rock. .\n\nThe Kermode or Spirit Bear is a black bear that has white fur due to a rare genetic trait. The bear is not albino, as it typically has a brown nose and eyes.It is named after Frank Kermode, former director of the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria." ]

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[ null, "Runways are undesirable locations for military aircraft. Being tied to miles of concrete gives jet aircraft a built-in vulnerability as well as restricting their flexibility. So it is hardly surprising that designers have taken great efforts in trying to produce vertical take-off and landing aircraft. These almost inevitably doomed projects have put some fascinating shapes into the sky, here are ten of them.\n\nHelp Hush-Kit carry on by donating using the button above or below. Many thanks.", null, "As with several aircraft on this list, the £192 million VAK-191 project was built in support of NATO’s huge competition for a supersonic VTOL strike aircraft. The propulsion system, developed with the help of Rolls-Royce, used a Rolls-Royce/MAN Turbo RB193 (similar to the Pegasus engine in concept) and two lift-jets. The aircraft had an internal weapons bay. When the NATO requirement was scrapped (after being technically won by the Hawker P.1154), the VAK-191 flew on in support of an ambitious US/West German fighter project. When this project was also canned it was hard to justify the project and the VAK-191 was axed by the West German government in 1972.", null, "One way approach to vertical take-off and landing was the ‘tail-sitter’. The X-13 was more successful than its turboprop tail sitting brethren but was championing the wrong approach. In an attempt to promote the aircraft, the X-13 once crossed the Potomac River and landed at the Pentagon.\n\nThis is probably the worst aircraft on this list in terms of its effectiveness. Vertical lift came from the thrust being vectored downward through multiple nozzles. But the thrust generated was far less than expected, a factor which contributed to both XV-4s crashing. The intentions were to produce a target spotting aircraft for the US Army.", null, "The much maligned Yak-38 was only intended as an interim aircraft and shouldn’t be judged too harshly. This equivalent to the Sea Harrier served the soviet navy from 1976 and 1991, and laid the foundation for the fast, agile and considerably more impressive Yak-41.\n\nThe perky little Ryan XV-5A was built in to answer the US Army’s need for a close support aircraft. Attempts to develop it into a combat rescue capability were not encouraging; in trials a dummy was ingested one of the wings fans (out of the pot and into the frying pan). The use of a lift-fan for vertical flight is idea that is still alive today, and can be seen on the F-35B.", null, null, "The superbly bonkers Do 31 transport was conceived to support the dispersal of a planned NATO supersonic fighter that never entered service (see Mirage IIIV). It was powered by eight lift jets and two Pegasus Harrier engines. The drag and weight imposed by the wingtip mounted engine pods was a big issue, and the performance was disappointing. The aircraft had a fantastic appearance however, suitable for Hitler to escape to the moon in.", null, "Heinkel and Messerschmitt teamed up with the rather less famous Bölkow to produce this six-engined tribute to the aesthetics of Roger Ramjet. Unlike other aircraft featuring small jets, this do not feature a larger main engine. The design, which was in many ways similar to the never completed Bell XF-109, achieved a speed of Mach 1.04. Christ knows what would have happened in the event of an engine failure.", null, "Without a doubt, the best-looking and fastest jump-jet to fly was the French Mirage IIV. This prototype fighter, based on the basic layout of the Mirage III, first flew in 1965 in an attempt to win the NATO Basic Military Requirement 3 for a common supersonic VTOL fighter. The prototype aircraft achieved Mach 2.04, but could not fly supersonically after a vertical take-off it could not carry enough fuel. The aircraft was lifted by bank of eight lift jets, the weight of complexity of which would have limited the aircraft’s practicality had it entered service.", null, "Though symbolic of all that is awful about the military–industrial–congressional complex, the F-35 is a very impressive piece of engineering. The F-35B should be the first supersonic jump-jet to enter service – a greatly impressive feat following more than fifty years of failed attempts by some of the world’s greatest designers. The vertical take-off of the aircraft is a fascinating event to watch, described somewhat distastefully by one observer, as looking like, “A prolapsing firefly”.", null, "The abortive Yak-41 (the prototype was the Yak-141) was an ambitious attempt to produce a supersonic VTOL carrier fighter for defence of the Soviet naval fleet. The project began in the mid-1970s and a prototype flew in 1987. In an unusual, and at the time secretive, move Lockheed funded the project to gain propulsion experience for the X-35 (forerunner to the F-35) they were then developing. The Yak-141 used a similar propulsion system to the F-35, with a swivelling main nozzle – but differed in having two lift engines (the F-35 opted for a lift fan powered by the main engine). This impressive, manoeuvrable aircraft achieved 12 FAI records in April 1991. It’s timing was unfortunate, arriving as the Soviet Union was disintegrating and it was cancelled in 1992. Vertical take-off required the use of reheat (afterburner), necessitating the use of special steel decks.", null, "No surprises for the number one spot. Key to the Harrier’s success is the simplicity of the propulsion concept: the engine’s thrust is steered through four movable nozzles. Unlike rival concepts, the wing and engine did not need to be swivelled for vertical flight, nor did it depend on extra lift engines (which were a weight burden in forward flight) or a specialised landing pad. The Harrier was a lower-risk brother to the aborted P.1154, initially funded in part by the US Army (which was keen to develop an in-house fixed-wing close support force) and part privately, as British companies were then prohibited from developing manned military aircraft (as they were deemed obsolete).The first generation Harrier entered service with the RAF on April Fool’s Day 1969 and remained in service until early 2016, in Sea Harrier guise, with the Indian Navy. The Harrier was replaced by the bigger and more sophisticated Anglo-American Harrier II from the 1980s. The Harrier, especially in its initial form, had a very high attrition rate for an aircraft of its generation (40% of all Harriers were lost in accidents) and was difficult for pilots to master. Landing was particularly difficult with the pilot having to control both the throttle and the nozzle lever with his left hand. Despite these limitations it is a charismatic and exciting aircraft, sadly missed in Britain (where it retired in 2010).\n\nHelp Hush-Kit carry on by donating using the button above or below. Many thanks.\n\nThank you for reading Hush-Kit. Our site is absolutely free and we have no advertisements. If you’ve enjoyed an article you can donate here. When we hit out funding target we will be able to give you even better and more frequent reading matter.", null ]

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[ null, "Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. (Jesuit) writes that 1 Cor 8–10 should be compared with Rom 14:1–15:6 because it is the same theme. The difference is Romans being the later of the two epistles, is a thematic recap of Corinthians i.e. Romans boils down the essence of Corinthians and crystallizes it in a pithy and memorable way.\n\nWhile Romans chapter 14:1 on\n\n1, Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.\n2, One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.\n3, Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God’s approval.\n4, Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man’s servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.\n5, This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.\n6, He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.\n7, For every man’s life and every man’s death has a relation to others as well as to himself.\n8, As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord’s.\n9, And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.\n10, But you, why do you make yourself your brother’s judge? or again, why have you no respect for your brother? because we will all have to take our place before God as our judge.\n11, For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.\n12, So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.\n\nAnd that is not all of it. Seems to me that the good brother has this reversed…that Corinthians is the pithier of the two ideas. He does say that “Richards” 1 in his book “Romans and Corinthians 1” agrees with my take but he emphatically does not." ]

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[ "Ken Follett: The Evening and the Morning\n\nKen Follett\nThe Evening and the Morning\nBuch", null, "Weitere Ausgaben von The Evening and the Morning\n\nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a thrilling and addictive new novel--a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth--set in England at the dawn of a new era: the Middle Ages\n\n\"Just as transporting as [The Pillars of the Earth] . . . A most welcome addition to the Kingsbridge series.\" --The Washington Post\n\nIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns.\n\nIn these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined. A young boatbuilder's life is turned upside down when the only home he's ever known is raided by Vikings, forcing him and his family to move and start their lives anew in a small hamlet where he does not fit in. . . . A Norman noblewoman marries for love, following her husband across the sea to a new land, but the customs of her husband's homeland are shockingly different, and as she begins to realize that everyone around her is engaged in a constant, brutal battle for power, it becomes clear that a single misstep could be catastrophic. . . . A monk dreams of transforming his humble abbey into a center of learning that will be admired throughout Europe. And each in turn comes into dangerous conflict with a clever and ruthless bishop who will do anything to increase his wealth and power." ]

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[ null, "Title:\nThe Uncle Who Works for Nintendo\n\n1984 was my official entrance into videogames; the actual year, not the Orwell novel. Picture a summer night, a trio of sixth graders having just finished D&D’ing, surrounded by empty bags of Doritos, empty tubs of french onion dip, and empty liters of grape Crush. Our host and Dungeon Master, a chubby kid named Tom whose father worked for the ATF, had the sort of life I fantasized about—kitchen pantry filled with junk food, a perpetually-exhausted-hence-absurdly-permissive-mother, and a closet containing firearms seized in federal raids, mechanically gutted but otherwise in perfect condition. I held my first UZI at Tom’s house, along with a Beretta pistol and a SPAS-12 combat shotgun. We were aware those guns may have killed people, making the already-totemic even more totemic, which is a fancy way of saying that our guns were, in sixth grade terms, cool.", null, "But back to videogames. So Tom owned an Apple IIe and I owned a Commodore 64. His Apple IIe was a Kubrickian monolith, heavy and serious, rumored to be capable of hacking into the Pentagon. My C64 was cute, chunky, and very much for kids.\n\nThat summer night, after everyone fell asleep, I stole into the den and switched on Tom’s computer. I’m not sure why I felt the need for secrecy; it may have had something to do with my suspicions that because Tom’s parents were so laissez-faire, they must be hiding a dark truth. I imagined uncovering evidence of devil worship; instead, I spent the night at Tom’s computer, playing whatever disk happened to be in the drive, which happened to be Infocom’s text-based mystery The Witness.\n\nInfocom was founded in 1979 by a cadre of MIT students specializing in text adventure games. Written in the 2nd person, Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style, these games required the player to take notes, draw their own maps, and—in what must now seem ridiculous—read. A lot. The player navigates their world via simple commands (INSPECT, WALK, GET, LISTEN). The learning curve is surprisingly steep. Frustration is expected. A typical sequence goes something like this:\n\nThe hallway branches east and west, with a door at the north end.\n\nThe door is locked.\n\nI cannot help you in that regard.\n\nAnd so it goes, trial and error, until all rooms are searched, all witnesses are interviewed, and the mystery is solved. Boring by today’s standards, revolutionary for its time.\n\nThe Uncle Who Works for Nintendo reminded me of those Infocom days, skewed more to the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure format. The game begins with a nod to urban legendry: you’re spending the night at a friend’s house, and this friend has an uncle who supposedly works for Nintendo. What follows is a short, unsettling tale of friendship, intimacy, and trauma. The game requires reading but no typing; instead, you choose a particular story path by clicking on highlighted text. Sometimes—not often enough—the choices are difficult. Sometimes—not often enough—the game succeeds in evoking those late nights spent at friend’s houses, and how alien their parents seemed, and how impersonal their houses felt.\n\nBut TUWWFN fails where many non-traditional games fail: once the novelty wanes, and the conceit becomes obvious, we’re left with contrivance and monotony. The game’s “message” is self-evident—videogames interfere with human intimacy, women in the gaming community shouldn’t be bullied—and by the end I felt as though I’d been lured into a theater with the promise of an action movie, but was given, instead, a sermon.\n\nIf it seems I’m talking around the plot, I am. Surprise is a big part of this game’s charm. A single playthrough is worth it. But beyond that, despite the five alternate endings, TUWWFN becomes tedious; I found myself rushing through replays, ignoring the author’s efforts while trying to unlock every ending. I compare this to that long night at Tom’s computer, when a simple, linear narrative told via text held me in thrall until dawn, and when Tom’s mom, looking exhausted as usual, brought me in a plate of eggs and toast, as though she understood my temporary addiction. TUWWFN insists videogames ruin intimacy; that night at Tom’s showed me otherwise." ]

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[ null, "\nWhile the six flood deaths were recorded from Dhubri, Nagaon, Barpeta and Nalbari, a 50-year-old from Cachar district died as a result of a landslide. (File Photo)\n\nFlood waters are showing signs of receding in Assam, but still claimed six lives on Wednesday, taking this year’s cumulative toll to 33. The Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) stated that over 14.95 lakh people were affected in 2,197 villages in 21 districts of the state.\n\nWhile the six flood deaths were recorded from Dhubri, Nagaon, Barpeta and Nalbari, a 50-year-old from Cachar district died as a result of a landslide. As per ASDMA, the cause of death was “electrocution due to uprooted tree falling on power line as a result of landslide”. Last month, 21 people, including minors, died in a series of landslides in Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts.\n\n“The overall trend is improving, the waters are receding because the rains have lessened,” said an official from ASDMA. As per a release by the Central Water Commission (CWC) Wednesday, the reduction in rainfall has led to a decline in the level of most rivers. Some of them, however, continue to be in the “Severe Flood” state.\n\n“River Brahmaputra has started falling in all the districts in Assam. Since rainfall is likely to continue with lesser intensity during the next 4-5 days, the ‘Above Normal’ to ‘Severe Flood’ situation is likely to continue with slow falling trend in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Sub- Himalayan West Bengal during the next 3-4 days,” the CWC release said. The ASDMA release said the Brahmaputra was flowing above danger level at Nimatighat in Jorhat, Tezpur, Guwahati, Goalpara and Dhubri." ]

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[ "TEHRAN, November 13 - The headquarters of Al-Aqsa TV station run by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas was razed to the ground on Monday in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza amid a fresh round of violence in the besieged enclave, which the world blames on the Israeli forces.", null, "TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The building of Al-Aqsa TV station located in an-Nasr district, west of Gaza, was totally destroyed by the Israeli raids, footage of the attack shows.\n\nMany local residents had reportedly fled after calls to evacuate, witnesses said. The TV station said it would resume broadcasts soon.\n\nThe raid was part of the fresh airstrikes and rocket attacks by Israeli warplanes and artillery which are targeting areas “throughout” the Gaza Strip and have so far killed several people, including a Hamas commander.\n\nThe Palestinian Ministry of Health puts the number at 10, within around 24 hours, according to media reports.", null, "In retaliation, the Palestinian resistance has so far fired over 400 rockets, mortar bombs, and at least one anti-tank missile from Gaza into the occupied territories, including military positions, Israeli and Palestinian media reported.\n\nA spokesman of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said the Joint Operations room for Palestinian Resistance has vowed to expand the range of military strikes deeper into the occupied territories.\n\nIn one of the rocket attacks, an Israeli bus in the northeast of Gaza was directly hit and exploded by a Kornet ATGM.\n\nThe Israeli military claimed in a statement that the aerial aggression was in response to the rockets and mortar shells fired against the southern parts of the occupied territories, wounding over 40 Israeli settlers, one in critical condition.\n\nHowever, the international community blames the Israeli regime for the renewed violence in the impoverished enclave.\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an emergency security meeting with his minister of military forces and other senior Israeli military officials in Tel Aviv on Monday, a day after the Israeli raid on Gaza ignited new tensions in the region.\n\nThe flare-up came just a day after Israeli special forces infiltrated the Gaza Strip, assassinating a top Hamas commander, while subsequent Israeli airstrikes killed six others, including another commander with the Palestinian resistance movement. Reports also said that an Israeli officer was also killed during the ensuing clashes.\n\nTensions have been running high near the Gaza fence since March 30, which marked the start of a series of protests dubbed “The Great March of Return.” The Palestinian protesters have been demanding the right to return for those driven out of their homeland by Israeli wars and other acts of aggression since 1948." ]

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[ null, "The notorious Pirate Kings ALESTORM released their long-awaited long-player Curse Of The Crystal Coconut yesterday via Napalm Records! In addition, they present their latest single, “Pirate Metal Drinking Crew” – an homage to pirate life and… probably themselves! Rhythmic guitars, slapping drums and Captain Bowes’ rum-laden vocals weave throughout the song and will have it stuck in your head with the first listen – that’s a promise.\n\nThe song is accompanied by an audiovisual, taking you on a trip to Thailand – more specifically, to the studio where the “Pirate Metal Drinking Crew” recorded Curse Of The Crystal Coconut. It also features the legendary rubber duck (in a very different way than you might expect), the smashing of a perfectly innocent ukulele and purely crazy pirate madness. See for yourself!\n\nThe “Pirate Metal Drinking Crew” is back to show all the filthy landlubbers what they’re made of. ALESTORM’s sixth long-player, Curse of the Crystal Coconut, features eleven tracks presented in ALESTORM’s signature unadulterated, chaotic fashion. Adding to that are guest performances from musical greats like Ally Storch of SUBWAY TO SALLY (violin on the entire album) and Captain Yarrface of RUMAHOY!\n\nA must-have, riff-laden anthem at any party, “Treasure Chest Party Quest” takes the listener onto a journey into the depths of the darkest taverns of “Tortuga” and Christopher Bowes’ unique sense of humor. The smashing, lively track “Chomp Chomp”, featuring vocals of Vreth of FINNTROLL, may make you never want to enter the open waters again, but will definitely entice you to dance along with its addictive melodies. “Pirate Metal Drinking Crew” is yet another foot-stomping anthem on the album that excels with a catchy rhythm and indelible hook. Be careful to not anger the great pirate Scurvy, or he might just unleash the Curse Of The Crystal Coconut with the brutal riffs of the “Pirate’s Scorn” upon you.\n\nWhether the album makes you want to grab a fresh coconut and sip it or open up a nice bottle of beer – it will definitely lead to a wild piratical escapade. For the extra-adventurous pirates amongst you, ALESTORM will release a 2-CD Mediabook with ground-breaking 16th century interpretations of the songs. Be sure to get yours.", null ]

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[ null, "A landmark collection of plays for stage, screen and radio.\n\nWhile other anthologies of plays by writers of African descent have been published, Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers (1st edition 1993; new revised edition 2005) was the first drama anthology to represent women alone. Comedy, poetry, history and magic combined with themes of a social and spiritual nature are the themes and styles evident in Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers, a seminal collection of plays for stage, radio and television by Rukhsana Ahmad, Maya Chowdhry, Trish Cooke, Winsome Pinnock, Meera Syal and Zindika. Edited and introduced by Kadija George, Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers includes: Essays on theatre and writing workshop; The Importance of Oral Tradition to Black Theatre by Valerie Small; A survey, A Recent Look at Black Women Playwrights by Deirdre Osborne. This anthology's key characteristics are effortless depictions of characters devoid of stereotypical images and typecast roles and the playwrights' approach to unconventional issues. Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers represents just some of the writers who have achieved national recognition with work produced on stage, television and radio by some of the most distinguished actors, directors and producers of African and Asian descent that the arts field in Britain has seen. The anthology heralds the significance that young women of African and Asian descent now have more role models to look towards, reinforced by actors and writers-in-residence going into educational institutions and more diverse organisations and situations, from the BBC-supported writer-in-residence projects, with the likes of performer/artists Rommi Smith and Erika Tan, to performance poet/multi-media artist Dorothea Smartt as the Brixton Market Poet-in-Residence. Since the first publication of Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers: Meera Syal has become an international name, with novel, TV and stage credits including the popular musical, Bombay Dreams, debuting in the West End; After receiving a writer-in-residence fellowship at Cambridge University, Winsome Pinnock has gone on to produce further plays staged at much-respected fringe theatres such as the Tricycle Theatre; Maya Chowdhry continues to be experimental with her work in multimedia formats, has co-edited a book with Nina Rapi, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender and Performance and is currently working on a coedited anthology of women's writing in the north of England, `Bitch Lit'; Zindika has written for dance theatre, for Adzido, and co-edited a book, When Will I See You Again with Natalie Smith; Rukshana Ahmad has published a novel, The Hope Chest, and received a Royal Literary Fellowship; Trish Cooke has a successful career writing books for children. Yet moving from the margins and into the mainstream continues to happen too slowly.\n\nMore than ten years since the first publication of this anthology, the fight and funding for a `Black'-owned and -managed theatre in Britain is still being argued for, and unfortunately, has barely moved.\n\nAlso by Rukhsana Ahmad | View all", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Brisbane based Semantics have announced that they have signed to SideOneDummy Records. The band have also released their first single on the label, “Sleep at Night”. They will be releasing an LP in 2022. Semantics released If You’re Not Alright in 2019. Check out the song below." ]

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[ "Media getting it wrong again (and again, and again…)\n\nLike every other city in Mainland China, Shanghai is going to have a Special Magic Economic Zone (in addition to its existing ones). The creation of districts where the usual laws and regulations don’t apply is by definition an admission that you can’t compete with Hong Kong, but no – an unquestioning press can’t stop itself from reporting that this latest contrived hub might ‘take over from the Big Lychee’, like all the rest were supposed to.\n\nOur media show a similar gullibility over the news that the government is turning down Henderson Land boss Lee Shau-kee’s offer to donate land for affordable housing. No doubt the ranting octogenarian tycoon, with his genetically engineered triplet grandsons, is at best engaged in a cynical PR gimmick and at worst plotting developer-official-collusion-scam #2,931. But it seems likely that part of the problem was the old man’s condition that no land premium be payable. The obvious question here is: why, when homes are unaffordable, does the government insist on slapping a huge upfront tax on them? Sift through today’s news stories and commentary on Fourth Uncle’s offer, and it seems no-one thinks to ask.\n\nOne of the biggest instances of the news media’s inability to ask obvious questions must be CEPA, the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, the 10th anniversary of which the South China Morning Post is celebrating with a two-part extravaganza. CEPA was an elaborate PR stunt designed to make Hongkongers think Beijing was coming to the rescue in the wake of the SARS epidemic in 2003. Civil servants on both sides of the border drew up a vast list (still going) of supposed favours and concessions for each other’s industries. For example, Hong Kong exports of (say) scrap metal to the Mainland would be subject to a 0% instead of a 10% tariff. Some mugs called it a free-trade agreement, but for the highly protected Mainland to open its doors to free-port Hong Kong would mean opening its market to the whole world. Officials subsequently reported billions of dollars of trade ‘under the auspices of CEPA’, but it would have taken place regardless.\n\nCEPA was a joke because Hong Kong has virtually no local manufacturing industry. So bureaucrats then attempted to incorporate services into the ‘arrangement’. Mainland interests naturally opposed competition from the Big Lychee’s world-class (honest) professionals, so the net result was continued barriers in those sectors. As the SCMP’s headlines show, Hong Kong lawyers, architects and other billable-hours freaks have never stopped whining about it.\n\nIn a last-ditch attempt to introduce substance into the hollow shell, officials took the totally separate scheme to allow solo Mainland visitors into Hong Kong and slapped the CEPA label on it. The liberalization of Mainland outbound tourism was nothing to do with SARS or even specifically Hong Kong; Thailand, Malaysia – and today even Europe and elsewhere – were all part of the gradual process. Nonetheless, commentators in the media swallowed it and saw the ‘individual visitor’ scheme as proof that CEPA was real.\n\nAnd beneficial. Except, now in 2013, the influx of Mainland tourists has so distorted our retail sector and rentals, and so swamped our transport systems and physical space, that it has become a disaster to ordinary Hongkongers’ quality of life and to China’s attempts to win local hearts and minds.\n\nSo, as the SCMP won’t put it: happy 10th anniversary, total-absurdity-and-waste-of-space CEPA.", null, "The great debate continues: is the kid on the popodom packet male or female? It depends whether we are seeing bare hair or a turban. I think the latter (compare with the special July 4 example above right), and that the chomping juvenile is a Sikh boy. Either way, it proves the point about poor popodom-packaging production values.\n\n31 Responses to Media getting it wrong again (and again, and again…)" ]

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[ null, "A kettle is a type of pot that is used in a kitchen. It is used to make water hot or to boil water. It comes from the Latin word catillus (\"deep pan or dish for cooking\").\n\nIn the past, kettles were made of metal bins like copper. Kettles were put on a rack or a hook above the fire to become hot. Now, metal kettles are put on the stove or rangetop. Sometimes they are made of ceramic or clay.\n\nNow, some people have electric kettles. These kettles plug into the wall and use electricity to generate heat. They are usually plastic or metal. They heat water faster than kettles on a stove. Kettles are often used to make tea.\n\nThey are more common in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth than other places like the United States.\n\nAll content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise. Cite this article:\nKettle Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia." ]

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[ null, "Objects on display encompassed a wide range of styles, including intricate historicist and Neo-Gothic designs from the mid-19th century, represented by jewellery by some of the of the finest jewellers of the time: Castellani, Giuliano, Robert Phillips and John Brogden, as well as a spectacular decanter by William Burges. The naturalistic Arts & Crafts movement was represented by C.R. Ashbee and the Guild of Handicraft, Henry Wilson and Phoebe Traquair, amongst others, while the structural modernity of silver from the 1920s and 1930s was represented by leaders of the field, Omar Ramsden and H. G. Murphy.\n\nHighlights included unique jewellery designed by the artist Charles Ricketts for the couple Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, known collectively as the author, Michael Field, which holds a special place in the history of queer art in Britain.\n\nThe book of the same name, written by exhibition curator Helen Ritchie and sponsored by Wartski is available from the Fitzwilliam Museum." ]

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[ "Can You Live Off Social Security? Yes, But It Won’t Be Comfortable", null, "Here's What You Need to Remember: “If you’re an average earner, Social Security will replace about 40 percent of your income once you retire. Most seniors, however, are told to plan on needing 70 percent to 80 percent of their former earnings to maintain a decent standard of living,” the Motley Fool recently wrote.\n\nFor millions of Americans, after decades of paying hard-earned money into the Social Security program, there will come a day when they’ll finally get to reap the financial benefits.\n\nBut when that time arrives, many still wonder how much they can expect to receive—and more importantly, they ask whether they will be able to live off those payments.\n\nDo take note that to even qualify for Social Security benefits, one must have worked for at least ten years or have garnered forty work credits. For those individuals who decide to collect Social Security at sixty-two, the earliest age to do so, the maximum amount will be $2,324.\n\nHowever, if one is able to wait until the full retirement age—which is currently sixty-six and two months (full retirement age will gradually rise to sixty-seven over the next several years)—the maximum benefit amount is $3,113. As for the absolute maximum benefits, it currently stands at $3,895—but know that one must wait until age seventy to file.\n\nWhat Americans can take away from these figures is that it indeed pays to wait. According to AARP, an interest group focusing on issues affecting those over the age of fifty, “your monthly payment will be 76 percent higher if you wait to start benefits at seventy rather than sixty-two.”\n\nTo gain even more insight on how much Social Security benefits they’ll be on the receiving end of, make sure to check out the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Retirement Estimator.\n\nThis handy tool “gives you a benefit amount based on your actual Social Security earnings record,” the SSA says. But be warned that “these are just estimates.”\n\nThe agency continues: “We can’t give you your actual benefit amount until you apply for benefits. The estimated and actual amounts may differ due to: Future increases or decreases in your earnings; Social Security annual cost-of-living adjustments; Changes to U.S. laws and policies; Your military service, railroad employment, or pensions earned through work for which you did not pay Social Security tax.”\n\nEnough to Live On?\n\nUnfortunately, many Americans are mired in financial troubles throughout their golden years.\n\n“If you’re an average earner, Social Security will replace about 40 percent of your income once you retire. Most seniors, however, are told to plan on needing 70 percent to 80 percent of their former earnings to maintain a decent standard of living,” the Motley Fool recently wrote.\n\n“If we follow that line of thinking, then clearly Social Security falls short. And given that, you may want to take these steps to boost your senior income as a whole,” it added." ]

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[ "I’ve previously reviewed MeLE PCG01 TV stick powered by Intel Atom Z3735F, and found it to be well designed, without overheating issues, so that this Intel TV stick performed just as well as as bigger mini PCs. NotebookItalia found out that the company is now about to launch a new version at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair 2015. MeLE PCG02 is still based on the same Bay Trail processor, but it interestingly comes with an Ethernet port rarely found on TV sticks.", null, "Apart from the extra Ethernet port taking the place of one USB port, the specifications are pretty similar:\n\nThe stick looks much slimmer in the video compared to the picture, and sticks seem to be getting larger and larger…\n\nThe device is pre-loaded with Windows 10 Home (Activated), and will start selling in November for $119 shipped. A Cherry Trail version is also planned.\n\nWow, what a brick! How do they expect this to be connected whithout breaking the HDMI port? Of course you’ll use an extender cable, but it looks ridiculous to me.\n\nNext step, put a HDMI male connector on the back of a laptop and call it a squared stick…" ]

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[ null, "It took roughly an hour before I fell for Alchemilla. It’s not to say I didn’t like it before; I was already romanced by the vaulted bare brick décor, that initial view into the open kitchen from the front door, the sunlight pouring through the occasional squares of glass in the ceiling, and the most charming of sommeliers, but it was a teeny wedge of celeriac which sent me over the edge. The root vegetable had been poached in goat’s butter and covered in a chiffon of herbs that added a fresh layer of mostly anise notes. A smaller blob of black garlic and a larger one of goat’s curd joined them on a plate finished off with a beurre noisette sauce cut with aged balsamic. We were waiting for the fireworks moment and this was it, a dish full of confidence that could stand up against any containing meat. The star was the celeriac, the rest was designed to get the most out of it, bringing fat, umami, and acidity into the mix. Claire tells me that when I compile an end of year list of the best dishes I’ve eaten this will be on it. I will do as I am told.", null, null, null, "An hour previous we had entered through the heavy door with the pretty green foliage on Derby Rd, walked down those aforementioned steps past the kitchen, and through to our table under the arched brick walls of the old coachhouse. We start with a nest of potato string dotted with smoked cods roe and dill, move on to delicate tartlets of yeasted cauliflower puree with duckfat, and finish the nibbles with seaweed tapioca crackers, mushroom caramel and a healthy dusting of aged parmasen. Of those it was the tartlet that got the pulse racing, a rich number with distinct flavours. Before the ten courses start bread arrives with butter and an onion jam. That jam. Reason enough to book train tickets to Nottingham by itself, all bread should be served with this.", null, null, null, null, "A savoury egg custard might not seem the obvious base for crab and artichoke, but it works, slowly revealing itself to be a complex plate of food far more harmonious than it originally seemed. I just wish I’d have left some bread to mop up the last of the roast artichoke sauce. Shiitake mushrooms poached in teriyaki sauce had a slightly squidgy texture that I personally struggled with, though Claire loved it, using the lardo it was draped in to wipe the plate free of the umami-bomb that was the ‘tasty paste’. The celeriac course follows. How I loved that celeriac.", null, null, null, "We move on to a loose risotto of grains with 3 year old parmasen, served alongside some fried jerasulam artichoke skin dusted with the rarest of things; truffle that tastes of truffle. “This is the first risotto I’ve tried which is richer than yours”, Claire tells me. She’s right; it’s glorious. Top marks for them for taking me to top-level cholesterol. The next course felt a little like work in progress. The gratin wedge of potato, smoked eel, and horseradish is superb but it is beaten by too much of the salted lemon puree on offer. By the time we work out the correct ratio (the tiniest amount) it is too late. Shortrib of beef has no such issue, dressed in a deep mole sauce, nutty and gently spicy like my mate’s ex wife, it arrives at the table shrouded in burnt baby gem lettuce dressed in something sharp, slightly sweet, and a little hot. Just like my mate’s new wife. It’s a great bit of cooking.", null, null, "The only choices required today are the wine (which I do exceptionally well) and main courses, which we take one each of. On paper it is the hogget that looks most enticing, with bagna cauda, charred leeks, and blackened onion. The loin of hogget is packed with flavour, as is the breaded shoulder, though I don’t see the point in the thumbnail-sized piece of fillet. I like the garlic and anchovy emulsion, love the leeks and onion. Adore the sauce. It’s a very good plate of food. It’s just not as good as the venison. Some dishes make perfect sense on the plate and this was one of them: melt-in-the-mouth meat, mushrooms in various formats and strengths, balanced out by the resinous flavour of spruce, pear, and another killer sauce. The man can cook. He can really cook.", null, null, "I lost track of a yoghurt thing on a stick with orange because I was too engrossed with a triangle of orange it was served with that was slightly candied and had an unreal depth of flavour. I request more to come at the end of the meal. Three desserts to go. First a drift of something crunchy covering a mound of something soft, with toasty notes and apple notes, and sweet caramelised notes. It echoed eating a toffee apple on bonfire night: I was a massive fan. Then a white and dark chocolate layered dessert that was rich and decadent and not really my kind of thing. And then a dessert that really was my kind of thing; a mille-fuille which was really 982 layers short of accurate representation, loaded with rhubarb, tarragon, and a liquorice flavoured creme patisserie. I won’t eat a braver dessert all year, that much I am certain of. I am also confident I won’t eat any much better; lovely aniseed notes and bright acidity throughout.", null, null, null, null, "Before I wrap this up special praise must go to the front of house, which was some of the best I can recall. Smart, friendly service from a team who knew every dish inside-out, and a sommelier who guided us through an impeccably put together list. Now all of this doesn’t come cheap; ten courses each that ended up being fourteen, a bottle of wine, another glass of red, and two dessert wines clocked in at £273. Was everything to my taste? No, but this is innovative cooking with some risky combinations, and I’d personally rather be challenged over three hours than sleepwalk through the same-old-same-old. It doesn’t to me seem the kind of place to sit still and for that it’s a restaurant I’ll be keeping a firm eye on.", null, null, "After lunch we enjoyed beers and gin in the rather wonderful Hop Merchant, before moving on to Cottonmouth for some outstanding cocktails. We got back far later than planned, enjoying the best of a city that has much more going for it than Hooters. It’s buzzy and progressive, with an underlying friendliness you don’t find too often elsewhere. And nowhere embodies those principles quite like Alchemilla." ]

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[ "Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Ukraine this week and meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as tensions between the US and Russia escalate over a possible Russian invasion of its neighbor, the State Department said Tuesday.\n\nBlinken will be in Kyiv on the hastily arranged trip to show US support following inconclusive diplomatic talks between Moscow and the West in Europe last week that failed to resolve stark disagreements over Ukraine and other security matters.\n\nInstead, those meetings appear to have increased fears of a Russian invasion, and the Biden administration has accused Russia of preparing a “false flag operation” to use as a pretext for intervention. Russia has angrily denied the charge.\n\nBlinken’s “travel and consultations are part of the diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the tension caused by Russia’s military build-up and continued aggression against Ukraine,” the State Department said in a statement.\n\nFrom Kyiv, Blinken will travel to Berlin, where he will meet with his German, British and French counterparts to discuss a possible response to any Russian military action. Russia has massed some 100,000 troops with tanks and other heavy weapons on its own soil near the Ukrainian border in what many observers believe may be preparation for an invasion.\n\nBlinken will meet with Zelenskyy and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday “to reinforce the United States’ commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the State Department said.\n\n“The trip follows extensive diplomacy with our European Allies and partners about a united approach to address the threat Russia poses to Ukraine and our joint efforts to encourage it to choose diplomacy and de-escalation in the interests of security and stability,” the department said.\n\nOn Monday, Russia’s top diplomat rejected the US allegations that it was preparing a pretext to invade Ukraine. Speaking to reporters, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the US claim as “total disinformation.”\n\nLavrov reaffirmed that Russia expects a written response this week from the US and its allies to Moscow’s request for binding guarantees that NATO will not embrace Ukraine or any other ex-Soviet nations or station its forces and weapons there.\n\nWashington and its allies firmly rejected Moscow’s demands during last week’s Russia-U.S. negotiations in Geneva and a related NATO-Russia meeting in Brussels.\n\nThe White House said Friday that US intelligence officials had concluded that Russia had already deployed operatives to rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine to carry out acts of sabotage there and blame them on Ukraine to create a pretext for possible invasion.\n\nAhead of Blinken’s visit to Kyiv, a delegation of US senators was visiting Ukraine to emphasize congressional support for the country.\n\n“Our bipartisan congressional delegation sends a clear message to the global community: the United States stands in unwavering support of our Ukrainian partners to defend their sovereignty and in the face of persistent Russian aggression,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, said in a statement.\n\nSpeaking Monday on a visit to Kyiv, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned that “any further escalation would carry a high price for the Russian regime – economic, political and strategic,” and she emphasized the need to continue negotiations.\n\n“We are prepared to have a serious dialogue with Russia, because diplomacy is the only way to defuse this highly dangerous situation at the moment,” she said.\n\nRussia seized the Crimean Peninsula after the ouster of Ukraine’s Moscow-friendly leader and in 2014 also threw its weight behind a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine. More than 14,000 people have been killed in nearly eight years of fighting between the Russia-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces in the country’s industrial heartland called Donbas.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow will take unspecified “military-technical measures” if the West stonewalls its demands.", null, "Indigenous in Canada turn to the land to survive coronavirus", null ]

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[ null, "The origins of the AMC caretaker program lie in the ‘backpacking boom’ of the 1960s, when people en masse flocked to backcountry areas. Our AMC shelters, most of which had existed since the early 1900s without incident, were at the epicenter of this use. Shelters (the concept of a ‘campsite’ was relatively new following the advent of lightweight backpacking equipment post-war) became areas known for overflowing trash pits, improper human waste disposal, and trees decimated up to a quarter mile in radius as hikers scrounged for firewood.\n\nIn 1970 AMC started the pilot caretaker program at Liberty Springs, and the results were incredible. The impact of the caretaker program was discovered to be twofold: hands-on stewardship and rehabilitation of the resource, but also education of backcountry visitors on what they could do to be their own stewards. Or, in the words of that first Liberty Springs Caretaker:\n“The role of the caretaker is a central one. Although he works on trails, transplants trees, and assigns tentsites, his primary job is education. Very few people who hike in the backcountry consciously seek to destroy the environment, but often, carelessly and thoughtlessly, they do…With a caretaker at the area, however, hikers can be reminded of their role in preserving the environment.”\nWhile the nuances of the way we explain the caretaker program have advanced in the forty plus years since that first caretaker at Liberty, the core of what we do has stayed the same: caretakers operate in that nexus between people and wilderness, between hikers and the natural resource.\nThat vital role became apparent in the wake of the government shutdown, when AMC was ordered to close our backcountry campsites in the White Mountain National Forest. This closure order meant that our sites were unstaffed during Columbus Day weekend, one of the busiest weekends of the entire summer. One of the highest-volume nights in recent record for Guyot campsite was on a Columbus Day Saturday, with 92 people (2009). With good weather on Columbus Day weekend 2013, the crowds came again.\nWithout a caretaker presence, many of the same habits expressed themselves. Fire rings sprung up at half of Liberty’s tent platforms. Campers placed themselves improperly throughout sites, blocking access to water (at Guyot) and trampling vegetation (at Garfield). One visitor was stopped (by a Good Samaritan) from burying their leftover food and trash. Tents sprawled along the Bondcliff Trail and into drainage ditches, as there was no caretaker to assist with the complicated arrangement of packing 80 plus people into tiny Guyot. In the long term, these habits would amount again to the over-use of the 1960s, with incredible lasting resource damage.\nA lot of what transpired could have been avoided, as most of it was lack of information or direction about the correct thing to do. Or, in the words of a former caretaker who witnessed firsthand much of the Columbus Day crowds, ‘People don’t know the protocol. People see the sign, sometimes know what it means, but they don’t know how to apply it.’ The need for education and gentle guidance, the original justification for the caretaker program in 1970, continues to be relevant and necessary in 2013.\nTrails" ]

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[ null, "The UK government has formally laid the blame for the Microsoft Exchange Server cyberattack at the feet of China.\n\nOn Monday, the government joined others — including the victim company itself, Microsoft — in claiming the cyberattack was the work of Chinese state-sponsored hackers, namely Hafnium, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab deemed the attack “by Chinese state-backed groups” as a “reckless but familiar pattern of behavior.”\n\n“The Chinese Government must end this systematic cyber sabotage and can expect to be held [to] account if it does not,” Raab added.\n\nSuspicious activity linked to the discovery of four zero-day vulnerabilities in on-prem Microsoft Exchange Servers was discovered early this year.\n\nThe European Banking Authority was one of the most high-profile victims of the attack.\n\nFollowing the incident, malware was discovered on over 2,000 machines belonging to businesses in the United Kingdom.\n\nThe UK government believes the attack was likely conducted for “large-scale espionage” including the theft of information and intellectual property.\n\nAccording to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), APT40 is responsible for targeting the maritime industry and naval contractors in the United States and Europe, and the agency assesses with high confidence that the Chinese Ministry of State Security is backing the group, which “operates to key Chinese State Intelligence requirements.”\n\nIn addition, the NCSC says that APT31 is responsible for targeting government and political figures, including the Finnish Parliament in 2020.\n\n“The Chinese government has ignored repeated calls to end its reckless campaign, instead [of] allowing its state-backed actors to increase the scale of their attacks and act recklessly when caught,” UK officials commented. “This coordinated action today sees the international community once again urge the Chinese government to take responsibility for its actions and respect the democratic institutions, personal data, and commercial interests of those with whom it seeks to partner.”\n\nThe government has also called on China to desist in its alleged attempts to conduct or support the theft of IP and trade secrets through cyberattacks. In addition, the White House has also issued a statement criticizing China’s alleged behavior." ]

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[ null, "The members of the 2013 graduating class of the St Vincent Grammar School have been challenged to always be willing to help others.{{more}}\n\nFeatured speaker Terral Mapp, a past student of the school, highlighted that his alma mater has always been a place that fostered academic success, as well as developing outstanding citizens.\n\n“I challenge you graduands to always be willing to help others. In order to succeed immensely, one must adopt the willingness to share knowledge,” he declared.\n\nMapp, who was the first in his family to graduate from the St Vincent Grammar School, shared with the audience that he was strongly influenced by street activities at a young age and related instances where he threatened his teachers at the institution.\n\nHowever, Mapp stressed that while his earlier experiences have helped to shape him into who he is, one must not be defined by their past.\n\nIn 2012, Mapp was valedictorian and graduated with first class honours in Accounting and Economics from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus.\n\n“The streets played a pivotal role in my success today. It was there that I learned to be brave, to be radical and where I learned to stand tall and walk proudly. One of the things that the streets taught me, which I didn’t know how to manage then, was that of aggression,” he said.\n\nIn the Headmaster’s report, Frank Jones noted the highs and lows of the institution in the past school year.\n\nWhile stating that one of the many high points was the 87 per cent pass rate that the school received in the 2012 CSEC examinations, Jones said that more emphasis is placed on opportunity rather than a high pass rate.\n\n“Rather than…denying some students the opportunity to write subjects, we enter our students and do our best to prepare them,” he declared.\n\n“We still enter all our students…regardless of their attitude or aptitude”.\n\nAdditionally, Jones, who will go on pre-retirement leave in July, pointed out various initiatives in the school, one being the integration of Food and Nutrition and Clothing and Textiles into the curriculum.\n\n“Through the Kingstown Technical Institute, we continue to expand our curriculum offerings. Our students continue to excel in food and nutrition and have had clothing and textiles added to the menu,” Jones said.\n\nGraduates Javed Francis and Damien McDowald are examples of this, as they received Best Subject awards for Food and Nutrition and Clothing and Textiles, respectively. The valedictorian was Kyle James, who received 14 awards, including nine subject awards." ]

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[ null, "Seeded sixth to win the title, Li Na overcame some shaky moments in the second set to force a tie-break against the 2010 champion. But the Chinese right-hander didn't drop a single point as she went on to claim the crown to defeat an opponent who had beaten her last at Roland Garros year.\n\nWimbledon starts in just a few week and Li Na can be backed at [10.0] to win the only grass court major." ]

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[ null, "This American Life’s podcast sister/brother, Serial was a huge hit last year. And just when will Serial hit my podcast waves again? If anyone knows, tell me.\n\nBut the success of Serial has given podcasts a revival of sorts. Even yours truly has a podcast. To be honest, I’ve been podcasting and videocasting since 2010.\n\nOne of these podcasts is called The Message. As soon as I heard it I was hooked. Reporter Nicky Tomalin reveals in the opening episode that she has gained access to a US government agency that has been tasked with deciphering a potential alien transmission. After episode 2 I thought to myself that this is too good to be true. and why haven’t I heard about this before.\n\nWell, my hunches turned out to be true. The Message is too good to be true. According to TechTimes.com:\n\nThe Message will once again blur this line between sci-fi and real life as an eight-episode podcast debuting October 4. Each installment ofThe Message follows main protagonist Nicky Tomalin as she attempts to decode a 70-year-old message from outer space in her new job at an encryption think tank called Cypher.\n\nThough The Message is a fictional podcast, the story is told through Nicky’s reports and interviews, giving it a more realistic feel. As a co-production between Slate’s podcast network Panoply and GE Podcast Theater, The Message also incorporates real GE technology into the narrative that will help Nicky crack the case, such as ultrasound therapy." ]

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[ "When the Bottum's at the Top: Clues to Veblen House's Making\n\nThere are many times, in the restoration of Herrontown Woods, when the right person showed up at the right time. The story of the gazebo in particular has instances of uncanny arrivals. As the summer of 2021 wore on, we were starting to wonder, in this pandemic era when so many people are remodeling their homes, how we'd ever find a professional carpenter with time and inclination to work on the Veblen House. It came to mind, though, that builders of theater sets might still be in a lull, and so I reached out to our past board member Perry Jones, who has contacts at McCarter Theater. Word was passed along, ultimately leading to a fortuitous email arriving in my inbox.", null, "Enter Robb Geores, a carpenter who had worked at McCarter Theater off and on for decades, as well as the Metropolitan Opera in NY, and has restored Victorian buildings in Cape May.\n\nRobb has been working on Veblen House for a month now, and he is proving to have a remarkable eye for detail. In the process of rebuilding the east wall, he has been finding lots of clues to how, and how well, the house was constructed.", null, "For instance, how the sills that run along the bottom of the inside walls are locked together. The house is a prefab, apparently not made by Sears or any of the other more common makers of kit houses early in the 20th century.", null, "Many parts of it, however, appear to have been made in a factory, and stamped to identify where each part goes. There's sill #1, sill #2, etc.", null, "The house has an inner and an outer wall, and on the east side, the outer wall suffered considerable water damage during the house's two decades of neglect. Taking the outer wall off, like a scab, has revealed the inner wall that actually bears the weight of the house. It is made up of five panels, manufactured in a factory, shipped by rail from Morristown to Princeton around 1930, and assembled on site. The large, squarish panels are labeled \"m\", \"n\", \"o\", \"p\", and \"Q\", each 116\" high, with varying widths, depending on whether they contained a window.", null, "Each panel has diagonal boards on the outside that provide rigidity.", null, "The panels butt up against each other in a special way, with a notched border. You can see how tightly the house was constructed.", null, "On the better preserved sections, you can see the thick layer of tarpaper that coated the inside wall.", null, "Against the tarpaper was then bolted the frame for the outer wall,", null, "its 2x4s expertly notched. The panels of the outside wall were bolted together and then covered with an early form of housewrap called Sisalkraft.\nOn the last outer panel, \"Q\", Robb found some writing that looked like \"Bottom.\"\n\nHe took a closer look and saw that it was spelled \"Bottum.\" Since the word was on a board at the top of the panel, he first figured that the word was mispelled and that the panel had been installed upside down. But the house is beautifully constructed--surely not by the sort of person who would hastily misspell a word and put a panel in upside down. More likely, that person, reaching the last panel, with a taste for fun and irony, would have scrawled his name, Bottum, on the top.\n\nGoogling \"Bottum\" led to a history of the name's origins in the York area of England, where coincidentally Veblen's future wife, Elizabeth Richardson, had lived before moving to Princeton.\n\n\"Bottom\", of course, is a memorable character in Midsummer Night's Dream, which we'd love to stage on the Veblen House grounds.\n\nThe eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report what my dream was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be called 'Bottom's Dream', because it hath no bottom.\n\nAnd when Peter Quince is done writing that ballad, maybe he'll help us replant quince trees in front of the Veblen House, where they were still growing when I first encountered the house back in 2008.\n\nAnother interesting potential clue to the house's history came while Robb was waiting for the traffic light to change, up at the intersection of Snowden and Nassau Street.", null, "The Veblen House has these distinctive hoods, or \"eyebrows\", over some of the windows, basically a board held up on each side.", null, "The slow traffic light gave Robb time to check out a house at the far corner of the intersection, and he noticed that", null, "the house at 465 Nassau has the same eyebrows over some of its windows.\nMy first thought was that the intersection of Snowden and Nassau has special significance connected to Oswald Veblen. It was Henry Fine who, as Dean of the College under Woodrow Wilson, brought to Princeton University Oswald Veblen and other young scholars to be preceptors. Veblen and Fine worked closely over the next two decades, with Veblen ultimately becoming the Henry B. Fine Professor in the mathematics department.\nHenry Fine's brother had founded a Preparatory School on the corner of Snowden and Nassau, and in 1928, riding his bicycle to visit his brother, Henry Fine was struck by an automobile and killed at that intersection. Soon afterwards, Oswald Veblen led the effort to design and build the glorious original Fine Hall (now called Jones Hall) to house the mathematics department. The building, funded by a close friend of Fine's, became the world's premier center for mathematics, housing not only mathematics but also the Institute for Advanced Study in its first years, as Einstein, von Neumann and other great European scholars moved to Princeton to escape persecution by the Nazis.\nThe powerful connection of this intersection to Veblen's world now has an architectural dimension as well. The story is told that the Veblen House's custom features were added by a Russian woodworker. Maybe that woodworker left his mark on other houses in town as well.\nPosted by Steve Hiltner No comments:" ]

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[ null, "Created and Written by: Lisa McGee\n\nSo I went into Derry Girls on Netflix knowing nothing about it save Netflix thought I’d like it based on previous choices and Twitter thought subtitles might be necessary. I wound up flying through all six episodes in no time! Its one of the funniest most entertaining shows I’ve seen in a while.\n\nAnd you can totally count me in the obnoxious, “Don’t make me wait all year for season two Netflix!” club.\n\nWhich I suppose I should be lucky we’re getting a season two (still mourning Daredevil over here.)", null, "Derry Girls is about four friends (Clare, Erin, Michelle & Orla) and the wee English fella (James) who goes to their all-girls school cause their afraid of what the blokes may do to him at the boys school. This is 1992 during the time of the troubles so its reasonable to be afraid for him. We also get a nice bit of family- mainly Erin and Orla’s- which is fine because they’re also hilarious.\n\nSeriously, her moms horror at a bomb scare on a bridge isn’t so much the bomb as it might stop the kids from going back to school… that would have been my mom as well. Plus Erin’s granda is played by Barristan Selmy himself (Ian McElhinney) gone to soon from Game of Thrones!", null, "My favorite adult though has to be Siobhan Sweeney as Sister Michael. The girls seen and heard it all nun.\n\nWell, except for maybe what happens in detention during the first episode. Seriously this has to be one of the best first episodes of any show I’ve ever watched. I was laughing so hard it felt like an ab work-out. 🙂\n\nI found the characters very likable and relatable. Especially Erin. I am so Erin. The friends all had great chemistry it felt like I was watching a group who had grown up together and that’s not easy to pull off. Love the clothes. The soundtrack (the Cranberries love!) The writing manages to keep it smart but also convincingly teen like.\n\nAnd the last episode also managed to nail the tone between sweet and harsh between childhood, adulthood and painful realities and considering what happened I’m super impressed that they did!", null, "Needless to say I love Derry Girls. Honestly my only nitpick of this show was after the sixth and last episode I wanted more! It was a great way to start the year 🙂 And I can totally see myself rewatching during the likely long wait for season two. (At least on Netflix.)" ]

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[ "Travel to Peninsula for Voices In The Valley", null, "Is this heaven? There is something very cool happening in at the historic G.A.R. Hall in Peninsula located in the heart of the Cuyahoga Valley. Thanks to the vision and labor of love from Karen James Walters and the Peninsula Foundation, a new concert series called “Voices In The Valley” are taking place on Friday evenings and select Saturdays showcasing acoustic Americana roots music from local singer/songwriters and touring musicians.\n\nYou may have driven past the building which sits at the corner of Routes 303 and Riverview Road hundreds of times on your way to Boston Mills, the Towpath Trail, or one of the downtown watering holes. The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) Hall was originally built circa 1850 as a one-room schoolhouse for Boston Township. It was used as a school until a new building was constructed across the street in 1887. In 1888, the building was remodeled into a meeting place for Civil War veterans. The veterans named Grand Army of the Republic Post #272 in honor of George L. Waterman, a Peninsula native who was killed in Dayton while attempting to quell pro-slavery rioting. The structure fell into critical disrepair by 1962 and was sold for back taxes by the Legion to Robert L. Hunker, a local preservationist who restored the building’s grandeur. The post is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.\n\nWalters,a sixth generation dweller in the tiny hamlet, started as a volunteer before being hired as the Events Coordinator/Community Outreach director of the foundation. What started out as an open mic night on the outdoor patio in 2012 has transformed and grown into a lovely evening that offers local sustainable food options along with beer and wine. The room holds an intimate 120 seated with some tables for those wishing to dine on appetizers or entrées. Some of the meals have been done by Sow Foods, McCoy’s Custom Catering, and The Pierogi Lady.\n\nI had heard many great things about what was happening at the G.A.R. Hall, but it was a chance to step back in time seeing Alex Bevan, Charlie Wiener, and Jim Ballard along with Jon Mosey do a guitar pull one evening that had me breathless. I grew up watching and listening to the three troubadours as a high school student on weekends at Boulder Junction in Uniontown. The boys relished playing together for the first time in ages just as much as playing to the crowd. I recently returned for a dinner show with Brent Kirby and Rachel Brown for an all-inclusive evening that had me taking in the ambiance of the space as well as the music.", null, "Rachel Brown and The Beatnik Playboys Photo by Buddy Meskar\n\nUpcoming shows include Lindsay Lou and The Flatbellys with openers Brent Kirby and Laurie Michelle Caner from Hey Mavis on March 1st. A very special concert Songs for Anika: An Acoustic Concert of Hope will feature John Weniger, Charlie Weiner, Jon Mosey, Jim Ballard and Alex Bevan on March 9th as an evening of community and hope for Anika, a young local woman and mother battling cancer. National touring artists like Mandolin Orange and Travis Caudle are scheduled for upcoming performances along with noted local talent like Kristine Jackson, Austin Walkin’ Cane, Boy=Girl, and Rachel Brown with The Beatnik Playboys. Some of the events have sold out, so you may wish to plan ahead and purchase advance tickets to ensure you don’t get turned away at the door. Connect to Voices In The Valley on Facebook or visit their web page for the latest concert announcements.", null, "People will come. They’ll come to Peninsula for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn into the driveway, not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at the door, as innocent as children, longing for the past. And they’ll watch the music, and it’ll be as they’d dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again." ]

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[ null, "Tees Components’ Managing Director Sharon Lane has been named among the Top 50 Women in Engineering by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES).\n\nAnnounced on International Women in Engineering Day 2019 (24 June), the fourth-annual award for female talent across the sector, this year, recognises current and former apprentices.\n\nThe 2019 awards attracted a large number of high-quality nominations from a broad range of industries. The 50 winners and ‘highly commended’ nominees came from many different sectors including professional services, pharmaceutical, aerospace, facilities management and automotive.\n\nSharon, who spent four years working towards an apprenticeship in machining and technical drawing with Middlesbrough-based TTE, which included placements at Tees Components and its sister business Dormor Machine & Engineering Ltd.\n\nUpon completion of her training she joined Darchem in Stillington, County Durham, progressing to become a senior engineer before returning to Tees Components in 2005 where, as general manager, she ran the business alongside her father, Clive Wood.\n\nSharon become managing director in 2018 and has continued to build upon the company’s success, diversifying into new markets to insulate the company against downturns in its traditional cyclical energy markets.\n\nTees Components has grown into one of the UK’s comprehensive and versatile heavy machining sub-contractors, operating in sectors including offshore renewables, defence and marine industries. From its premises in Skelton, near Saltburn, the business operates a portfolio of more than 20 CNC machines producing precision parts 24-hours a day. It has a workforce of more than 100, of which around 40 percent have gone through apprenticeship training.\n\nSharon Lane said: “I am exceptionally proud to be named in WES’ Top 50 alongside some remarkable engineers who are demonstrating that there are high quality career opportunities for women in engineering.\n\n“It is also a great way to recognise the importance of apprenticeships in engineering and how the training provides the practical experience and skills that can be applied throughout people’s careers and I hope it encourages other young women follow in our footsteps and choose to follow a path into engineering.”\n\nDawn Childs, WES President said of the awards, “Since the inception of the Top 50 Women in Engineering list in 2016, WES has been privileged to be able to identify, and thus help showcase, some amazing women in engineering. Every year a different focus is chosen to ensure that we can shine a light on female engineers at different stages of their career and who have come to engineering through many different paths.\n\n“Apprenticeships remain one of the key routes for technical education and subsequently, to qualifying as an engineer. Consequently, we have looked at current and former apprentices in the WE50 list this year. The breadth and depth of roles and industries covered by the entries was simply breath taking and the achievements of the individual entrants were stunning – we have definitely found another truly inspirational list of female engineers!”", null ]

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[ null, "The only thing I knew before I went into the pub last night was the name of the band, Rubber Soul. Yet just before they started playing I told my companion that they would open with ‘I Saw Her Standing There.’ OK, with a name like that there was a fair chance they would play Beatles stuff, but to be absolutely sure of which song they would open with is pretty impressive. How did I know it? I have no idea, just another mystery in this universe.\n\nOf course it got me thinking about the fabs, and particularly John’s death. The anniversary was just a few weeks ago.\n\nI could have sworn it was a Friday, but I’ve just checked online and it can’t have been. It was an evening, and I was working my part time job at a local supermarket. I think school had finished for the year, but I was working and still had several hours to spend in the deep freeze and dairy case. Another schoolboy came in, someone we worked with, someone who was always a bit of a smart-alec, and told us that John Lennon was dead.\n\nHe said it with a grin, in that schoolboy kind of way, and I didn’t believe him. I figured he knew about my Beatles infatuation and that he was having a laugh. A bit later, when someone else mentioned it, I presumed it was a publicity stunt. After all, John had just released his first album in over five years and he probably needed all the advertising and publicity he could get. I thought I’d get home and find out it was all OK, a mistake or a hoax, and that John would be on TV making some quip about how he was very much alive.\n\nOf course, as we all know, he wasn’t.\n\nOthers went of to early morning vigils in the city centre, my friend and I talked about wearing black armbands to school – but didn’t get around to finding any black material. So the two of us sat around and played Beatle and Lennon albums till late. And we talked.\n\nSomething similar happened a few years later when George passed away. In some ways that one was more upsetting. George always seemed like the nicest, the most down to earth, the most honest of the four lads.\n\nAnd then there were two.\n\nI’ve previously written about how Paul’s music no longer interests me, and Ringo hasn’t had a decent album since the early 70s. Drag out the remastered Beatles, throw on some early 70s solo stuff (be choosy) and crank them up. If you’re looking for new music, go and pick up a Wilco album instead.\n\nAnd have a wonderful Christmas.\nPosted by Steve Cameron at 10:21 AM" ]

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[ null, "American actor and former model Shemar Moore. Moore, one of the best guys to have appeared on American television, is blessed with stunning features. The tenacity, tenacity, and honesty of his parents were qualities that Moore’s parents, who are of mixed race, instilled in him as a child. He considers it a blessing that he inherited the best traits from both his black father and white mother, including his attractive appearance. He feels himself fortunate to have inherited the greatest qualities from both his black father and white mother, including his beautiful looks. He became a catalogue model and participated actively in his college’s stage shows since he was confident in his appearance and abilities. He then made the decision to try his hand at acting and modelling professionally. Shemar Moore originally struggled to get assignments despite his talent and attractiveness. In fact, he was on the verge of bankruptcy when he showed up for his “The Young and the Restless” audition. Fortunately, he got a part in the program, which boosted his career. The actor entered the film industry after a prosperous television career, where he became a well-known voice actor.\n\nWho is Shemar Moore?\n\nSherrod Moore and Marilyn Wilson gave birth to Shemar Franklin Moore in Oakland, California, on April 20, 1970. His mother is Irish and French Canadian, but his father is African American. His parents wed during a period when inter-racial unions were uncommon. His mother is a highly educated, independent woman who instilled fundamental moral principles like integrity, perseverance, and respect for others in her son. After his parents divorced, he spent his early years travelling the world with his mother. He continued his schooling at Santa Clara University after completing his high school diploma at Palo Alto’s Gunn High School. There, he majored in communications and minored in dramatic arts. He was an active young man who participated in collegiate baseball. He was an outfielder and pitcher who aspired to play in the major leagues. However, this ambition was crushed by an injury.", null, "Who is Shemar Moore dating?\n\nShemar Moore started dating American actress Anabelle Acosta, who is best known for playing Natalie Vasquez in “Quantico,” in January 2018. Acosta is of Cuban descent. During his appearance on Steve Harvey’s show the following month, Shemar talked about his relationship with Anabelle. He revealed that he was the one who first noticed her: “There was a young lady that I had eyes on,” and that he “looked her up, watched some interviews and auditions of her” in order to “get a sense of her vibe.”\n\nShemar then acknowledged that he had issued a challenge to all of his coworkers to get him Anabelle’s email so he could ask her out. He revealed to Steve that their first encounter—which was really a red-carpet appearance at the 2018 Grammy Awards—began with an email.\n\nThey soon began dating, but they made the decision to take things slowly. “Whatever the attraction is, the curiosity is there, but let’s focus on becoming friends,” she told me, he said, “‘… We should get to know one another. Let’s relax into it. We shouldn’t rush things because both you and I are adorable. We’re going slowly. Well, they had already broken up if they did start dating in January 2019.\n\nRead Also – Who is Mike Vrabel Wife? Jen Vrabel and Mike Vrabel To Be The prettiest Couple Ever After" ]

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[ null, "“Gian is an open book, a man from whom I can learn something different every day. And then there’s his spirit and energy [like a 15-year-old’s],” Sharon said.\n\nHere we are to share some interesting insights about Gianluca Vacchi and his girlfriend’s relationship.\n\nWho is Sharon Fonesca?\n\nSharon Fonesca is a famous Venezuelan model, entrepreneur, journalist, actress, and social media personality with millions of followers. She is the co-founder at Omkara Style, a jewelry line that is quite a big hit.\n\nShe is best known for her role in TV series such as “Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio” and “Bajo el mismo cielo”. Her popularity skyrocketed when she started dating “Grandpa playboy” Gianluca Vacchi in April 2018.\n\nSharon Fonesca was born on January 31st, 1995, in Venezuela, South America. She attended the University of Miami and finished her graduation in fashion designing. She is currently settled in Miami, Florida, the US, with her boyfriend and beautiful daughter Blu Jerusalema Vacchi.\n\nApart from being a top-notch model and a successful entrepreneur, she also owns a personal website. She writes most about styling, fashion, healthy living, travel, and motivation.\n\nThere’s not much information available in the media regarding her pre-modeling personal life or previous relationship. Somehow she has managed to keep it out of sight.\n\nSharon Fonesca is a multi-talented human. She does what she likes with enthusiasm that makes her significant in everything.\n\nShe started her career as a model at a young age, 17 years to be exact. She mostly modeled for famous bikini and skincare brands such as Neutrogena. Undoubtedly she deserves to be called a model who knows how to flaunt. Parallel to her super popular looks, she also owns a clothing brand. We can’t really say if it is her fashion design degree or brilliant mind that makes her clothing stand out.\n\nBeing a model, she has the leverage to promote and advertise the brand herself. Her Instagram is full of pictures flaunting her fashion designer skills. It makes you crave to grab everything from Sharon Fonesca’s clothing brand.\n\nGetting success in modeling and business seems not enough for Sharon Fonesca. To explore more of her talents, she even acted in various television shows. She debuted in 2015 with a television series known as “Duenos del Paraiso,” where she played the role of Vecina.\n\nIn the same year, she made other series like ‘Tierra de Reyes “, “Bajo el Mismo Cielo” where she played Mariela. It is an American telenovela by Perla Farias. The show revolves around the life of Adela morales, a girl who tries to escape through her past life as one of the gang members after she meets Carlos. In 2017 she did other series like “Las Reinas”. Though she worked hard to make it big in acting, it seems like the field is not her perfect fit.\n\nBut we’re not done yet. As the famous model and actress are in love with trying new ventures, Sharon Fonesca is a co-founder of “Omkara Style” a jewelry brand. Most of the designs and art pieces are inspired by the model’s spirituality and yoga, which is the brand’s uniqueness. Like her clothing brand, her Instagram holds plenty of pictures of flaunting jewelry designs from her brand.\n\nSomehow she gets the time to pursue her love for fashion and trends through tattoos. She is a part-time tattoo artist working in her personal studio.\n\nSo far, Fonesca does not own any nominations or awards, but looking at her fan following, one can assume the time is near.\n\nShe earns most of her income from her jewelry and clothing brand, including her acting and modeling career. She generates income around $21,000 to $204,000 estimated through her modeling solely.\n\nOkay, that’s not anywhere around $200 million like her boyfriend Gianluca, but it’s enough to lead a luxurious lifestyle.\n\nThe love of her life, Italian millionaire Gianluca Vacchi, entered her life in April 2018. The couple met at work, where Fonesca was hired to model for a music video produced by Gianluca. According to news updates, it was kind of love at first sight. Both started dating pretty soon after their first meeting.\n\nWe all can imagine why…\n\nLike Sharon Fonesca, Gianluca Vacchi is also a popular internet sensation and famous for his thrilling personality. He became popular through his first viral video with Giorgia Gabriele, his then-girlfriend.\n\nHe belongs to a wealthy family and owns multiple businesses. Besides living a settled life and doing great as an entrepreneur, he decided to retire early to pursue his passion for music.\n\nThat is why both seem to be the perfect match for each other. After all, who wouldn’t want to live with a like-minded partner? Both are not married yet but plan to tie the knot soon. Their out-of-the-box relationship is what people like the most.\n\nIn May 2020, the famous couple announced the happy news of the arrival of their first baby. Gianluca Vacchi announced the information through the following post:\n\n‘Today is Mother’s Day, and of course, my first thought goes to my mom. But I have to say that whenever I have thought of a potential mother for my son, that woman had Sharon’s characteristics.’ He went on, ‘I’m pleased to announce and share with you that Sharon and I are waiting for a baby. She will be the mother I always dreamed about for my baby.’\n\nThroughout the pregnancy, the couple kept their fans engaged and updated by sharing pictures on their social media accounts. Sharon can be seen flaunting her baby bump in many of her Instagram posts.\n\nThe wealthy couple does everything their way…\n\nOn July 14, 2020, Fonesca shared the gender of her baby through a video. The couple can be seen thrilling in a helicopter evacuating a big pink cloud, indicating it’s a girl. The couple welcomed their sugarplum on October 26, 2020. The couple named their beautiful daughter, Blu Jerusalema Vacchi, on October 27.\n\nThere is more to that…\n\nThe young couple was struck with a piece of shocking news right after the birth of their beautiful daughter. The couple revealed that baby Blu was born with a cleft palate. A medical condition that occurs when the parts of a baby’s face don’t join properly in the womb.\n\nThank god for the baby after successful surgery is doing pretty well now. Gianluca Vacchi informed about the well-being of her daughter with fans in the following words:\n\n“Although the doctors have explained to us that once the problem is corrected, she will be able to lead a completely normal life. Thank God, she looks a lot more like her mother.”\n\nFonesca beautifully thanked the love of her life for supporting her throughout the difficult time by saying this:\n\n“Raw and simple. This past week, I experienced some uncertainties, and at the same time the most beautiful moment of my life. You held my hand through it all my king! You gave us the strength and serenity we needed. Life blessed us with you. From day one you have been the most amazing father I could’ve ever asked for my little one.”\n\nThe fans are looking forward to the big party as the couple is enthusiastic about getting married soon. Gianluca Vacchi, in an interview, expressed his desire to provide a “traditional family environment” to her love of life as soon as she is big enough to enjoy her parent’s big day.\n\nDid you like our Gianluca Vacchi Girlfriend article? Which part do you like the most? Mine was Sharon’s determined spirit and love for Gianluca, defying all odds!\n\nYou might want to check out Gianluca Vacchi’s Net Worth and how he spent his millions of dollars.\n\nTo read more about him, visit Bouncemojo.com.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "What age do you get your State Pension?\n\nThe changes that have been ongoing since 2010 will see the State Pension age rise for women.\n\nUp until 2018, the age rose to 65 for women, but since December of that year, it’s been further increasing for both genders.", null, null, "By October 2020, the State Pension age isexpected to have risen to 66.\n\nMaike Currie, director for workplace investing, Fidelity International said: “The age at which you’re able to claim your state pension will depend upon when you’re born, and is currently under review in line with increased life expectancy.\n\n“You may however wish to work beyond this age, either to boost your retirement pot or simply because you want to – our own research shows that almost half (45 percent) of people expect to work into their 70s.\n\n“This doesn’t change the age at which you’re able to draw upon your State Pension, but is something that if claimed while working, may impact your tax position and something you should communicate to your employer to understand how it affects your workplace pension.”", null, "Next week, on Monday, July 6, some will see their State Pension age change.\n\nThe Pensions Act 2014 brought the increase in the State Pension age from 66 to 67 forward by eight years.\n\nTo calculate an individual’s State Pension age the following applies:", null, "Everyone will reach State Pension age on their 66th birthday from October.\n\nHowever, the timetable for the increase in the State Pension age from 67 to 68 could change as a result of a review." ]

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[ "Austinmer stone wall to be replaced\n\nA METRE high dry-stacked stone wall in The Grove, Austinmer will be replaced due to concerns of slope slippage and trees falling onto the road.\n\nThe existing wall, adjacent to residences 25-29 The Grove and approximately 35 metres long with a maximum height of a metre, has failed due to softer clay stones used in the original construction as well as the impact of tree roots.", null, "The stone wall to be replace at The Grove, Austinmer. Picture: Google Streetview\n\nWollongong City Council will replace the wall with durable sandstone rock, and along with a slope stability mat and replanting, which it says will provide long-term stability to the embankment behind the wall.\n\nOne vehicle traffic lane will be closed each day during the works with traffic lights controlling vehicle movements adjacent to the work zone.\n\nA Council spokesperson said following feedback from community consultation the number of trees to be removed was reduced from 11 to three, with any further removals subject to soil stability and pending an arborist report.\n\nThe works are due to start on July 1 and last for about eight weeks, weather permitting.\n\nA journalist, writer and historian, Mick Roberts specialises in Australian cultural history, particularly associated with the Australian hotel and liquor industry. Mick has had an interest in revealing the colourful story of pubs, inns and associated industries in Australia for over 30 years. He is currently working on a comprehensive history of the hotel and liquor industry in the Illawarra region of NSW. Besides writing a number of history books, Mick has owned and managed several community newspapers. He was one time editor of the Wollongong Northern News, The Bulli Times, The Northern Times, The Northern Leader and The Local - all located in the Wollongong region. As a journalist he has worked for Rural Press, Cumberland (News Limited), Sydney based, City News, and Torch Publications based in Canterbury Bankstown, NSW. He currently calls the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills home.\nView all posts by Mick Roberts »\n« Film festival visits Thirroul and Corrimal\nNorthern Woolies stores install defibrillators »" ]

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[ "Posted by Michael Keating on September 10, 2019", null, "Later this month, Nottingham-based grime curators Antennaterra are releasing Lovegrime, an instrumental compilation featuring a swathe of underground producers, including some rising stars. True, it is at times a bit rough-cut – but a lot of that comes with the experimental edge of the collection.\n\nOne standout is Boss Mischief's remix of Ginuwine’s eternally infamous \"Pony\" into pounding grime, built from a rapid mashup of samples from the original. Each song offers something different, pushing grime in varied directions and exploring a range of styles. On many tracks, wave and dubstep sounds branch in, from purple synth leads and chopped voices to dancing pipes and chimes and dark, murmuring basslines. Dubzta must also be mentioned for the soulful saxophone that carries the stripped-back, lo-fi sound of \"Saxy\". Even then, though, that heavy rolling undercurrent drives the track, a constant throughout the selection from Antennaterra.\n\nBefore the full release of all twenty tracks on 19 September, you can hear the premiere of Riddla’s \"Take It Back\" below. The track holds a muted but infectious energy, using washed out choral-style vocals, fluttering piano and brooding sub bass. While many other features on the record are soaring and gently euphoric, \"Take It Back\" is mellow, reflective and sombre – but Riddla’s contribution is all the better for it." ]

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[ null, "ISKCON Hungary is actively collaborating in serving to these displaced by the Ukrainian-Russian battle. In addition to maintaining the on a regular basis distribution of meals, the Hare Krishna Food For Life program is all the time prepared to assist feed the plenty who arrive from catastrophe areas.\n\nTo arrange the catering operation, devotees have contacted the related authorities companies and different charities and have already began the meals distribution. On request from the Embassy of the Republic of India, devotees supplied meals for 250 Indian college students who had been evacuated from Ukraine to India by Hungary.\n\nAlthough most creating nations’ residents are being repatriated by Debrecen airport within the East of Hungary which is the closest worldwide airport to the Ukrainian border, the Air India plane, due to its massive dimension, needed to land within the capital, Budapest. After arriving on a ten-hour bus journey, the scholars bought a heat meal of conventional vegetarian meals (prasadam) ready by the Hungarian Krishna devotees. They additionally acquired further snacks and fruit to tide them over by their journey residence.\n\nThe Director-General of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Sri Kumar Tuhin, who accomplished his service as ambassador to Hungary just a few weeks in the past, was despatched again to Budapest on a particular mission by the Indian Foreign Ministry to welcome the Indian college students in Budapest, to tell them concerning the repatriation course of and to encourage them to hold on with their research as soon as the battle subsides.\n\nHis Excellency advised us that, whereas different governments are nonetheless within the section of planning the evacuation of their residents from Ukraine, his authorities acted swiftly and the Air India constitution aircraft that may take the scholars again to India was already approaching Budapest airport.\n\nAfter offering meals for the primary batch of Indian college students, Hungarian Food for Life will focus its efforts within the east of the nation. In Debrecen, there are already over 600 Indian residents in a refugee camp with their quantity rising each day, and ISKCON devotees have already began to take care of them by distributing prasadam to them.\n\nThere are plenty of refugees, principally Ukrainian and Hungarian residents, arriving on the 5 crossing factors which can be open 24 hours a day. Tens of hundreds of Hungarians began to ship completely different sorts of help to the borders by non-government organizations or charities, and the lots of of plates of sizzling meals that Krishna devotees can provide each day, are warmly welcomed by the mayors of the townships near the border.\n\nHungarian devotees are additionally organizing peace meditations and steady prayer teams for his or her fellow human beings and for the peaceable decision of the current scenario.\n\nToday, February twenty seventh, 2022, the Hungarian devotees are touring to one of many crossing level borders. A mayor from a close-by township defined to the devotees that they tried to cook dinner for everybody out of a neighborhood faculty, however it’s by no means sufficient so they’re extremely grateful that the devotees can lend meals aid and assist at this level.\n\nTo date, greater than 60,000 individuals have come by the 5 crossing factors between Hungary and Ukraine, and nonetheless, there are very lengthy traces. It is alleged that the queue on the border is greater than 40 kilometers lengthy presently.\n\nLong time period, the ISKCON Hungary devotees try to arrange not only one automobile like now, however multiples to help in aid. They additionally wish to assist all 5 of the crossing factors, at present they’re simply doing one. They are hoping to begin touring to the opposite crossing factors by tomorrow (February twenty eighth, 2022).\n\nHow You Can Help:\n\nISKCON Hungary presently has a capability of distributing 600 plates of prasadam on weekdays and 1200 plates on the weekend.\n\nAny donations to assist the refugees are most welcome. Donations could also be given by financial institution switch to the next account:" ]

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[ "What Should the Conservative Strategy be in 2015?\nwith Tim Powers", null, "In the fall Stephen Harper will be heading into his fifth general election as the leader of the Conservative Party and his third as Prime Minister. The Conservatives have been in power for nine years. Harper will face an ascending Liberal Party and a determined New Democratic Party. Arguably, this will be the toughest battle he and his party have fought.\n\nCan the Conservative Party win the 2015 election? If so, what is their strategy for retaining power?" ]

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[ null, "An article by Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal this weekend brought home to me the dgree to which politics in 2016 has fractured beyond hope of immediate repair. Ms. Noolan, a right of center author of books such as The Case Against Hilary Clinton, is certainly not sympathetic to the Democratic party but argued cogently that Donald Trump’s candidacy may in fact split the Republican party in the united States into two very distinct groupings. Her main point is not Trump has tapped into a vein of republican voters but that the Republican leadership has lost its way.\n\nAnother article, by Jim Newell in Slate, outlines Jeb Bush’s plans to destroy or weaken the other moderate Republicans in the race to be the only reasonable oice left standing and thus to have a shot to win the nomination.\n\nWhat both of these articles show is an american electorate more divided than ever.\n\nNot Just the USA\n\nIn Spain the elections of December 20th have left the country without a clear path to governance. Like in the United States, the former two party system that has governed spanish politics since just after its transition to democracy is on the verge of collapse and the socialist Party, the heir to the Spanish Republic is also close to disintegration with supporters fo Pedro Sanchez on one side and Andalucias’s Susana Diaz on the other.\n\nIn France, Marie Le Pen has managed to divide the electorate and while the powers that be managed to keep her party from power despite winning almost 6.5 million votes according to the Guardian!,\n\nBig problems to deal with\n\nThe political landscape would actually be rather entertaining if it wasn’t for the truly critical problems facing the world in 2016. These problems include:", null, "With these and other issues in mind what we need are real leaders not cynical politicians ready to do what it takes to get ahead in the polls or even be elected. What we certainly do not need are hot headed, know nothings who appeal to our most basic instincts and try to win elections by making people increasingly fearful.\n\nThe problem is that the Trumps and Le Pen’s of the world offer simplistic solutions to complex problems that people latch onto in order to make sense of a world in which they have lost their bearings.\n\nThe responsibility of leadership, as well laid out by Harvard’s Dean Williams in his new book is to help people make sense of the world around them and then to do the right thing for themselves and their communities. The right thing is clearly not to judge people by their religious affiliation or to deny the reality of climate change.\n\nLeadership and People Management\nExpatriate experiences, and adjustment in particular, have been one of the most prominent research topics in the field of global mobility. Rightfully so, given the multitude of challenges that expatriates face, such as increased job responsibilities, excessive travel, major life changes, and dealing with cultural others. Industry surveys (e.g. Santa Fe Relocation) indicate that many…\nLeadership and People Management\nSince the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Europe has been facing the fastest growing exodus of people since World War II. It is estimated that by now there are millions of refugees who have crossed Ukrainian borders, and many more people who had to relocate within the country. Refugees, by definition, are people who…\nLeadership and People Management\nSome time ago, when the Covid crisis unfolded, I wrote about global leadership lessons, as such instances of global disruptions have the capacity to reveal how leaders operate and who they really are. Currently, we are into the fourth month of Putin’s war in Ukraine. Zooming out from the real suffering and emotional burden of…\nLeadership and People Management\nIn a recent post I wrote about the research my colleagues and I conducted on inpatriation and knowledge transfer. Based on the research data we concluded that inpatriates contribute considerably to knowledge transfer and subsidiary development, leading us to recommend multinational corporations (MNCs) to view inpatriation from a more strategic perspective. As a follow-up on…\nLeadership and People Management\nAlthough travel restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic are taking a toll on physically mobile people such as expatriates or migrants, the number of people working across national boundaries is nowhere near stagnating. In fact, studies such as the Santa Fe Relocation Global Mobility Survey 2020/21 suggest that the nature of global mobility is evolving…\nLeadership and People Management\nMany of us have grown up with respect and admiration for logic, reason, and rational thinking. Broadly speaking, Western educational systems aim at developing these exact skills and qualities, teaching us to think methodically, to organize, structure and categorize knowledge, to think in abstract terms and derive mental representations of different experiences. According to Ian…\nLeadership and People Management\nYou have probably heard an old aphorism - Time is Money. Today, in the knowledge economy, it is more suitable to equate money with knowledge though. I believe that any contemporary economist would argue that knowledge (and technology) are the required components for enhanced productivity and economic growth. This premise holds particularly true for multinational…\nLeadership and People Management\nAs 2021 is drawing to a close, we probably agree that we have been better adjusted and equipped for this second year of the pandemic. For one thing, there has been a global Covid vaccine rollout, which likely helped many countries across the world to manage the situation better and keep their economies relatively open.…\nStrategy\nAlthough the media reports that tens of millions of people are quitting their jobs, the real numbers appear to be that 5 million more people quit their jobs in the last 12 months than normally do so.\nEntrepreneurship\nThe startup Swipcar, led by Julio Ribes (EMBA 16), presented at the 136th IESE Business Angels Network Investment Forum, and was invested in by a group of IESE alumni. Swipcar is a leading Spanish digital car subscription marketplace Based in Barcelona with growing presence in Italy and Portugal Offers a wide selection of cars for…" ]

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[ "Women’s and Children’s Health and the SDGs", null, "Women’s and Children’s Health and the SDGs\n\n\nBy Next year, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) will be replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) -- a set of even more ambitious targets for global development. In a bold attempt to create the healthiest generation of young women and children in the world, the new SDGs will require the near elimination of preventable maternal and child deaths by 2030.\n\nWhat we have learned from the MDGs is that making the world healthier for women and children has a transformative effect on economic and social development. One recent study in the Lancet, Global Health 2035, found that reductions in premature death accounted for 11% of recent economic growth in low and middle income countries. Another, the New Global Investment Framework for Investing in Women's and Childr..., found that an increase of just $5 per person to improve maternal and child health could yield up to nine times that in economic and social benefits.\n\nBut despite this compelling evidence, public and private sector financing for women's and children’s health has not been adequate to achieve the MDGs and without additional investment the ambitious new SDG goals will not be reached.\n\nPresident’s AIDS and malaria initiatives (PEPFAR and PMI), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). The private pharmaceutical, energy, mining, and consumer goods sectors all rallied around these massive global efforts and as a result there has been strong progress in reversing the spread of AIDS and malaria and impressive reductions in vaccine-preventable child deaths, particularly from measles and tetanus.\n\nWe have not seen the same levels of investment in some of the most critical areas affecting women’s and children’s health. (Table 1) This is one of the reasons an estimated 300,000 pregnant women are still dying each year, almost 3 million babies are dying in the first month of life, malnutrition contributes to almost half of all child deaths, more than 200 million women want to use contraception but cannot get access to it, and 2.5 billion people do not have access to a toilet. And pneumonia, the disease that causes more child deaths than AIDS, TB, and malaria combined -- still lacks public and private sector financial support with the majority of children who die from pneumonia each year failing to receive the recommended antibiotic treatment or oxygen therapy.\n\nTable 1: Leading Causes of Deaths Among Children and Pregnant Women\n\nSo what would bold, transformative corporate action in women’s and children’s health look like in the SDG- era?\n\nFirst and foremost, it would target the leading causes of maternal and child death with a special focus on the populations where deaths are concentrated.\n\nLet’s imagine a world where healthcare industry leaders join forces to upgrade the quality of maternity and newborn care at the hospitals with the highest infant and maternal mortality. Add to that a massive effort by leading contraceptive manufacturers, telecommunications, and advertising agencies to increase modern contraceptive use among the populations of girls and women who are paying the highest price for lack of access.\n\nAnd what if leading antibiotic manufacturers collaborated with medical device makers and technology giants to design and deploy simple devices to identify the children most at risk of death from pneumonia and treat them quickly with antibiotics and oxygen?\n\nImagine if food industry giants distributed their specially fortified foods to the communities struggling with the highest numbers of stunted children and low-birth weight babies.\n\nWhat if energy and mining leaders were able to transform the sanitation infrastructure in the countries where lack of access to toilets is a major contributor to child malnutrition and delayed growth?\n\nAnd in a massive push to educate new mothers what if the consumer goods industry decided to use its powerful product marketing machines to educate pregnant women about the importance of professional care during pregnancy and childbirth and the basics of good newborn care?\n\nFinally, imagine if all of this work was concentrated in the fifteen countries where 70% of maternal and child deaths are concentrated -- India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, China, Ethiopia, Angola, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Uganda, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Sudan and Niger.\n\nWith less than 500 days remaining to the MDG deadline these are the kind of transformative initiatives that should already be in the works. Increasingly, it will be ‘shared value’’ approaches that are best placed to deliver big impact and keep corporates engaged for the long haul. Corporations should not wait for governments and their nonprofit partners to reach out to initiate these partnerships. They should go right ahead and start the ball rolling and step up to lead the multi-stakeholder public-private partnerships that will make or break success in women’s and children’s health in the SDG era.\n\nEditor's Note: This blog was previously published on U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and is reproduced with permission.\nPrevious postNext post" ]

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[ null, null, "Hours after his own campaign manager thrust the subject of race front and center into the presidential contest, John McCain said it was “legitimate” to accuse Barack Obama of playing the race card. In a stunning example of what linguists call apophasis — the raising of an issue by denying an intention to mention it — McCain told CNN: “There’s no place for it and we shouldn’t be doing it.”\n\nIt never ceases to amaze me how the most skillful photojournalists, in the most intuitive way, have the ability to locate, translate and elevate the dynamic essence of the political narrative just beyond language.", null ]

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[ null, "Beyond Blue is a new adventure simulation game developed by ‘E-Line Media‘. It s coming out in the first quarter of 2019 on the Xbox One, PS4 and PC. This is another one of those games where you explore, get relaxed and enjoy what you see. Let’s take a look.\n\nBeyond Blue was inspired by Blue Planet 2 nature documentary. There is suppose to be some educational value too. So not only will you have an adventure but will hopefully learn something to. Beyond Blue is et in the near future and underwater creatures are in danger because of all large number of fishings, climate change and plastic waste. Players will lead a research team, as Mirai, who just needs to gather information on what these changes are doing to the ocean life.", null, "Players will have to manage resources, improve their technology, track down certain animals, get some information and learn what you can. Off course players are given limited time to do all this so think about what you want to do and how to do it. You can use drones to go collect stuff for you and other tasks, or go out yourself and swim around.\n\nSo yes, Beyond Blue isn’t just simply another relaxing exploration game but there is an objective and other objectives too. Off course thanks to the visuals, location and sounds, players can get relaxed because when you stop and see a large whale just going past and minding it’s own business, you will feel calm. Unless you are afraid of the water and whales. Come on, don’t be a wimp. It’s just a whale.", null, "In terms of the types of creatures (obviously sea creatures) you will encounter we have seen fish and schools of fish. There are dolphins, hanging out in groups and having fun. Expect some whales and different types of whales like blue whales even. You can encounter an octopus too. They will swim away from you though so keep that in mind. What ocean sea creature game doesn’t have sharks? Not this one. There are sharks as well. There are large sea turtles which just mind their own business. There are deep sea creatures too like the angler fish which does make the game more interesting.\n\nWe checked out some Beyond Blue gameplay and it’s what we thought. It doesn’t have a huge story, there isn’t any enemies… really. If that angler fish spots you in the water, would it eat you? So probably there is enemies but they are more like natural creatures just doing their thing. Again, if you enjoyed Abzu (which we wrote about) then you should enjoy Beyond Blue. Beyond blue is just more serious.\n\nOverall Beyond Blue seems like just another exploration relaxing game due to how calm it is and the environment. The lighting in this game is done very well. The graphics are very good The game has multiple educational factors too like video clips from the Blue Planet 2 documentary, facts and information to collect on sea creatures and more. The developers ‘E-Line Media’ did a good job with this game. We at X35 Earthwalker are not looking forward to this game. There isn’t anything for us in this game. There is an audience for this type of game, we just aren’t a part of that group. Now Beyond Blue may have a whole ocean but even that’s too small when compared to… the ‘Earth Walk!’" ]

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[ "DMX has been looking to stay out of trouble ever since he was released from jail earlier this year. However, an incident that occurred back in March where someone in DMX’s team reportedly took the wrong vehicle from a West Hollywood nightclub had many wondering. The incident was resolved and the rapper is now officially off the hook for the potential violation.\n\nThe feds did not find anything wrong on X’s part when he and his entourage mistakenly drove the car away. The big question was who was behind the wheel, and reports showed that there was not enough evidence to prove it was DMX. If X would have been found guilty, he could’ve violated probation in his tax evasion case.\n\nDMX’s lawyer, Murray Richman, told TMZ that DMX is no longer at risk of getting hit with a probation violation. According to X’s parole officer, the rapper was reassured that “everything is fine.”", null, null ]

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[ null, "Chief Government Whip and Highways Minister Johnston Fernando yesterday said a revenue of over Rs.100 million had been received from the Mirigama to Kurunegala stretch of the expressway since it’s opening on January 16 this year.\n\nThe Minister told media that over 500,000 vehicles had used the Mirigama to Kurunegala stretch of the central expressway since its opening on Jan 16, this year.\n\nToll collecting Interchanges of the second phase of the Central Expressway have been set up at Mirigama, Nakalagamuwa, Dambokka, Kurunegala and Yaggahapitiya. (" ]

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[ null, "Two teachers were shot dead inside a government school in Srinagar on Thursday, just two days after three civillians, including a well-known Kashmir Pandit Chemist were killed in the Valley.\nA police official said unknown gunmen barged into the Government Boys Higher Secondary School, Iddgah Sangam, in the old city and fired from a point-blank range at two teachers.\n“Both the teachers were declared brought dead at a nearby hospital,” officials said.\n\nMeanwhile, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbagh Singh Thursday said that killing of unarmed civilians in Srinagar is a move to damage and attack the age-old traditional communal harmony in Kashmir and police has already got some clues about previous killings and will also probe the fresh incident too. He, however, was quick to add that the killers will be nabbed very soon.\n\n“This is an attempt to defame local Muslims of Kashmir. Killing innocent civilians including teachers is a move to attack and damage the age-old tradition of communal harmony and brotherhood in Kashmir,” the J&K Police chief said as per news agency . He said killing innocents is a conspiracy to “target local ethos and values” which will be defeated by the police and people collectively.\n\nHe said that police have got some clues and leads about the killers in previous cases and that the fresh case will be probed too. “I talked to staff members of the school, and they are in total shock over losing two colleagues. Police will nab the killers very soon,” he said." ]

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[ "A story of hope and resilience\n\nI’m currently in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) commemorating the park’s 80th anniversary. Garamba is one of Africa’s oldest parks having been declared in 1938. As one of the most diverse and critically important ecological landscapes in Africa, it enjoys an extraordinary 80-year history, and remains extraordinary today.\n\nIn the 1970’s there were more than 22,000 elephants, but fewer than 1,200 remain. Once home to the largest population of the Northern white rhinoceros, for which the park was declared a World Heritage Site, the last animal was seen in 2006. Even the Kordofan giraffe are hanging on by a thread with only 48 individuals remaining. More tragic is the number of people, both rangers and civilians, who have been heavily impacted in what is globally recognized as ground zero in Africa’s poaching wars.\n\nWatch: The Story of Garamba\n\nIn 2005 we concluded a partnership with the Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN). It was too late for the northern white rhino which is now considered extinct, but we began the process of rebuilding the park. This has been one of the hardest challenges we have faced as African Parks and on two occasions we questioned whether we could be successful in our endeavors. With the support and encouragement of ICCN, the financial and political support from the EU and USAID, and the financial support of the Wildcat Foundation, the World Bank, Kibali Goldmine and numerous private donors, our successive teams on the ground have taken up the challenge and have been able to build Garamba into a truly remarkable park operation.\n\nToday, the ranger team will compete with Africa’s best. New technology is aiding our efforts, and we are finally gaining ground. Poaching of elephants was down 50% in 2017 for the first time in years, and so far in 2018, only two elephants have been killed. Illegal activity in the park has been significantly reduced, and key wildlife populations are on the rise. However, the greater impact of a stable Garamba is the one it is having on its people. Garamba employs almost 500 full-time staff with 2,000 more on contracts. Just in the last year, 1,500 children were able to go to school, and 10,000 people received healthcare. Our effective ranger force is providing security to tens of thousands of people living around the park, delivering life-saving support to refugees and residents.\n\nAs the flags of the nation and the park were raised today here at the headquarters of Nagero, they were saluted by hundreds of rangers and looked upon by over a thousand community members. An ivory burn signaled to the national and international community the Government’s commitment to eradicating the illegal wildlife trade that has decimated the country’s natural resources. While we paid tribute to a painful past, the belief in a brighter future was palpable. The best aspect for me was the incredible pride of the ranger team, our partner ICCN and the Congolese authorities. Together we are demonstrating that with a shared vision, political will, donor support and engagement with local communities, we can shift the trajectory of Garamba and the region, and are now offering a safe place for wildlife and people in the most extraordinary circumstances.\n\nFind out more about Garamba", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, null, "Sharkitect's explosion buff heavily favours Manticores and Jaguars, so pairing her with those units is highly recommended.\n\nLevelling up her Skill 3 to reduce the cooldown between knockback is also highly recommended, even if it's just a 2-second cooldown. Coupled with the Manticores' knockback, a team with Sharki and them can keep the enemy from shooting the Manticores for a good portion of the fight.\n\nArchitect-NVW, Summer Architect, Beach Architect, SharkiTect, or Sharki, depending on the writer, audience and location slightly makes up for her base form being late to the Protocol Assimilation Party by being the first 'Alt' we've gotten from the system. Armed with a new and improved SharkRocket and ditching the HOC abilities, this new and improved Architect is here to make a splash.\n\nPutting aside my miserable idea of humor, Architect has several major changes to her kit which prove to be great boons on the battlefield.\n\nWhile not a change from her original form, a nice flat boost to explosion damage for both her, and her Echelon is a welcome boon for Architect and her Echelon. This affects Architect herself, as well as any Jaguars or Manticores she’s fielded with. Note, that not all Manticore attacks are typed as explosive, only the Skill 1 volley.\n\nThe first and most obvious change is that this Architect no longer has a strange 4 hit-per-cycle with an extra grenade every so often mechanic or the ability to function as a HOC, instead switching to a straight forwards mode switch, wherein she either attacks enemies directly, while stacking a RoF and Crit Rate Buff, or employs an AoE attack, firing shark rockets in return for a RoF debuff (50-25%). This creates a fairly simple trade off; if enemies are spread out, Architect will perform best staying in her standard attack mode, leveraging her Rate of Fire buff and strong base Damage stat, as well as a passable 100 Armor Pen. However against groups of mobs, she will want to switch to the Rocket, as a repeatable AoE works wonders when clearing out enemies. Thus, adapting which firing mode is used to the situation is recommended to maximize her performance.\n\nArchitect's active Skill is, again, a change and a mostly straight forwards one. For those familiar with KSVK's mod Skill, this behaves in a similar way. Architect fires a shot at the nearest enemy, inflicting linksplash explosive damage to the target and enemies in a sizable cone behind them. This can be very good for blowing away groups of weaker enemies or clearing up remaining trash behind a single big target, but it can be finicky to use as there is a long windup animation and you are thus locked out of auto attacks for a long time. Against single big targets with no enemies behind them, holding off on this skill is therefore advised.\n\nFinally, the major selling point for Architect is that she is yet another source of Knockback and slow for Coalition Echelons. And she has the Cool Talent from the Beach Fairy baked in, if you care about that. While Manticores have kept the Coalition Echelons Knockback game strong this entire time, adding an additional source, for an Echelon that doesn't have a Manticore, or simply as another source of Knockback can hardly go wrong. This has all the same stipulations as normal, failing to move enemies who are attacking and so on, but is nonetheless a powerful tool.\n\nAll in all, Architect discards a lot of the flash and broad utility of her previous form, in favor of a more streamlined kit that focuses on exactly what it needs. Firing explosive sharks at her enemies and then drowning the remains." ]

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[ null, "The artist, who creates lifelike paintings with spray paint on huge canvases, decided to make Maradona his niche after the outpouring of grief over the footballer’s death.\n\n“I am not afraid of being pigeonholed, I believe that what everyone sees from me is the hand of God,” Bagnasco told Reuters with a smile, a reference to Maradona’s famous goal against England at the 1986 World Cup, which Argentina went on to win.\n\n“I think Maradona will accompany me in other projects that I do.”\n\nBagnasco, 39, has been using his phone to copy photographs of Maradona, who has cult-like status in Argentina, where he was nicknamed ‘D10S,’ a play on the Spanish word for ‘God’ that incorporates the number ’10’ shirt he wore as a player.\n\nIn a trendy food court in Buenos Aires, Bagnasco showed off some twenty paintings of Maradona, including a large rendering of a famous pose of the silky striker in his blue-and-white Argentina jersey, which he was finishing off with a brush.\n\nA black-and-white painting showed a young Maradona with long hair over his face. In another, the player holds aloft the World Cup. Another reflected Maradona’s wilder side, showing him puffing on a cigar in front of a huge Argentina flag.\n\nBagnasco, who said he knew he wanted to be an artist at age nine when he won a contest copying a Vincent van Gogh painting, is now looking to auction off the works. He said there had been strong demand and social media interest in his art, which had led to a number of commissions.\n\n“He was the best of all time. The Argentine best known in the world, with a unique life, a life no-one else will have,” said Bagnasco.\n\n“That’s why I say that what is happening to me today, that they are asking me to paint him all over the world, is not going to happen with anyone else, only with Diego.”" ]

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[ null, "TESLA guitarist Frank Hannon paid tribute to David Bowie by performing the song \"Space Oddity\" aboard DEF LEPPARD's inaugural \"Hysteria On The High Seas\" this past weekend. Check out fan-filmed video footage below." ]

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[ "Local governments should earn a profit. It’s not a profit measured in dollars and cents, the profit of local governing is goodwill that can be spent when it’s time for a difficult decision.", null, "In his 2016 State of the City address, the Mayor of Anaheim, California called for a social capital campaign. He said, “Our goal was to change the culture of our widely diverse city through simple, powerful and unsolicited acts of kindness. This will create what academics refer to as social capital, or another way to refer to it is building social muscle so that when inevitable challenges arise, we as a city have the strength and resiliency to respond effectively.”\n\nProfit in the business world is result of doing a good job at the manufacturing, marketing and distributing aspects of company operations. It’s the result of taking care of customers and taking care of business. In many ways profit is the most honest measure of the degree to which a business is run properly.\n\nSocial capital serves the same purpose in government. You earn social capital the same way a business earns economic capital; by doing the basic things right and by being trustworthy. And you lose it the same way; by messing up the basics and doing business in an un-transparent way.\n\nA business owner stockpiles economic capital so he or she can use it as needed or as desired when a new challenge or a new opportunity comes along. A company that has been run profitably has money in the bank to invest in new equipment, expansions or acquisitions. But if the company is operated on a shoestring basis, or is just “getting by,” the company is at serious risk of failure when a key piece of machinery breaks. There are parallels in the local government world.\n\nA well-run city stockpiles good will and social capital by plowing the snow quickly and efficiently; by picking up the garbage at a predictable time week after week, and by making land use, and fiscal decisions that are fair, logical, and best for the community at large. City hall is open, the lights are on and the citizens can see what’s going on, and what’s going on makes sense to them.\n\nLike a business tycoon who uses some of his stockpiled wealth to grow, a city may dip into its store of profit for new projects or initiatives. There’s a major employer considering relocating to your city, but it will require infrastructure. Your citizens’ longstanding wish for a recreation center, community center, band shell or central park may finally have reached maturity. Now it’s up to you to make it happen. And that takes social capital. Because, in a democracy, no decision comes without a cost. Even “obvious” decisions will have detractors; citizens who have a different perspective and a different vision. Just because a community center makes perfect sense at that intersection, the people who live on the other side of town may feel neglected.\n\nIn addition to diversity of viewpoints, there’s the skepticism factor. The public has been conditioned to question everything their government does. Only a community that has a good supply of social capital will have enough citizens’ trust to be able to form a consensus and move forward.\n\nProfit and social capital are even more indispensable during times of crisis. A business that loses its biggest customer had better have money in the bank to see it through the “lean” times until it can identify or grow new customers. If a product suddenly exhibits a defect, the company will have to invest in recalls, repairs, and rehabilitating its tarnished image. All of these things require investment.\n\nMunicipal crises come in just as many shapes and sizes. Chronic potholes, unexpected crime sprees, fiscal mismanagement and more are the unexpected calamities that challenge city and village governments every day. Those are the times when it’s not “nice to have” social capital; it’s essential. Like your business cousin, you will need to tap your social capital to recall the product, repair the damage and rehabilitate your city’s tarnished image. If you don’t have that capital, you can count on being available for other employment immediately following the next election. And even worse, your community will miss a new economic opportunity, lose faith with its citizens, and see its image in the region tarnished.\n\nYou can’t borrow or deficit-spend your way to social capital prosperity. There’s only one way to earn social capital. That’s by attending to the basics and doing things by the rules. It requires making tough decisions the way democracy intended them to be made: by listening to both sides, analyzing the data fairly and reaching a compromise that benefits the most people. And by doing it day after day after day.\n\nRunning a city is hard. Leading and operating a village always has been and always will be challenging. The problems can be older than anyone currently-working for the municipality, or they can be as sudden and new as a phone call on a Friday afternoon. It can’t be done for free. And it can’t be done without social capital.\n\nThat’s the Local Perspective. What do you think?" ]

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[ null, "Jessica Alba recently announced that she and husband Cash Warren are expecting their third child together. While we certainly can't wait for the baby's arrival, the news also has us reminiscing about how their beautiful romance came to be. The couple first met on the set of Fantastic Four in 2004 and the actress felt an instant attraction; Jessica was starring in the film as Sue Storm, while Cash was working as a production assistant. \"Right after I met [Cash], I called my best friend and was like, 'I met this guy and I feel like I've known him forever and I'm going to know him for the rest of my life,'\" she told Cosmopolitan in September 2010.\n\nRelated:\nA Look Back at Jessica Alba's Dating History\n\nJessica and Cash tied the knot in a courthouse ceremony in Beverly Hills in May 2008. At the time, Jessica was pregnant with their first daughter, Honor, whom she later gave birth to in June 2008. Three years later, the couple welcomed their second daughter, Haven, and the two have been going strong ever since.", null, "Beauty News\nDid Pete Davidson Remove 1 of His Tattoos For Kim Kardashian?\nby Yerin Kim 1 day ago" ]

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[ null, "This one was all about Judd and Grace! It picks up right after their accident at the end of the last episode. And right from the beginning, this one had my heart shredded! But the longer the episode went on, the more it felt like my feels were under attack! Judd and Grace deserve all the happiness in the world and why better get it! I refuse to accept anything less! And this episode went a long way toward proving once again why they are such an amazing couple and deserve all of the good things! So keep reading for my 9-1-1: Lone Star 2×09 review!\n\nBeginnings With No End\n\nAny episode that focuses on Judd and Grace and the relationship between them is one I’m always going to be down for. Especially one that shows the beginning of their story together. Even the way Grace and Judd met was freaking adorable and had me smiling. She was there to help guide Judd from the moment they met and I was so freaking here for it. But I will admit that there were times it was hard to focus on how amazing their story began when I was so worried about how they were doing in the present. I would like to say I was confident that neither of them would be killed off. But 9-1-1: Lone Star doesn’t always play by those rules. So I spent a lot of the time nervous as hell.", null, "It was nice to get a look into Judd’s relationship with Grace’s parents, though. And a look at his own relationship with his father. When Grace’s father first appeared in this show, it was talked about and shown multiple times that he and Judd had some tension between them. So these flashbacks revealed where those tensions began and why. The flashbacks also showed how stubborn both Judd and Grace are. This is obviously a good thing since I don’t ever have to worry about the two of them giving up on one another because of that stubbornness.\n\nSeeing the car accident from Judd’s youth had me in absolute tears. He lost a friend and not only did he blame himself, but his friend’s mother blamed him as well. While Judd was the one in the driver’s seat, I do think that both Cal and Judd were to blame for the car crashing. But they were two young kids who made a bad decision and it was devastating that a life was lost because of it. It was completely heartwrenching to see the impact it still had on Cal’s mother years later. Her feelings toward Judd were understandable but I was really hoping they could mend things between them.\n\nInstead of blaming Judd all those years for Cal’s death, the two of them could have spent their time remembering and talking about how much they loved him. So I was glad to see that in the end, Judd and Cal’s mother were able to make peace with one another. Or at least take the first steps toward making peace. And while I commend Judd on how hard he worked to earn those first steps, I think Grace had a big hand in it as well.\n\nI didn’t blame Judd for his anger at the driver who hit them one bit. And as bad as it sounds, I would have been completely okay with him kicking the guy’s ass. Not killing him. But definitely giving him an ass kicking. Not that it would have done much for the other guy. But at least Judd would have been able to work out some of his anger. Though Grace waking up sure went a long way toward soothing that anger as well. And I think the announcement that Grace was pregnant succeeded in putting it out of Judd’s mind completely. Now I’m left anxious that something is going to happen to Grace or the baby. It’s terrible, but I just don’t trust this show, or any show really, when such storylines come up.", null, "What did you think of 9-1-1: Lone Star 2×09? Do you think Grace and the baby are going to be okay? Did you agree with Judd going after the man who caused their accident? Or did you think he should have just left it alone? Were you worried that Grace wasn’t going to wake up? What did you think of the events we saw happen with Judd in the past? Do you agree that Grace and Judd bring out the best in one another? Find and follow us on Twitter @capeandcastle to share all of your 9-1-1: Lone Star 2×09 thoughts with us! Be sure to check out our site for more content on all things Disney and beyond!" ]

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[ null, "Photo: Destination Djursland\nAttractions\nChurches\nVistoft Kirke was erected on a so-called “fake” hilltop a few hundred meters south of the village of Vistoft. The church is located approximately 60 meters above sea level, making it one of the country's tallest churches. From the church, there is a wide view of Knebel and Kalø Vig.\nAddress\n\nThe church was likely built around the middle of the 12th century. It was built of raw and chipped boulders, with corners and door frames of squares. Originally, Vistoft Church, like other Romanesque churches, consisted of choir and ship. In the first half of the 16th century, the church was expanded to the south with a porch and to the west with a so-called \"stilt tower\" (tower with a high opening to the west). At the same time, a vault was inserted into the choir. The ship has a flat beamed ceiling.\n\nFrom 1740-86, provost Erik Gjørup Begtrup lived in the rectory, which was located N for the church. He was one of the first private individuals in the country to create a flower garden. He was also a pioneer in both the school and the poorhouse, as well as agriculture.\n\nThe church underwent extensive renovation and redevelopment in 1774. The church was restored again in 1942 when several frescoes were uncovered.\n\nThe 13th-century church bell has been preserved, and it is still ringing at church services and weddings. The bell is one of the oldest in the country, as only a few church bells left from the Middle Ages.\n\nIn the past, there was a drill ground at the church.\n\nThe priest is not available to meet on Mondays.\n\nThe church is open every weekday between 8 am-16 pm.\nHowever, the church may be closed due to ecclesiastical acts." ]

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[ null, "The audience at a Cinema Society premiere of comic Demetri Martin’s directorial debut, “Dean,” got a stand-up show with the screening.\n\nFormer “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” writer Martin quipped before the CBS Films feature, “Thanks for coming to my first, and potentially last, movie.”\n\nMartin also got on stage after the film and wondered, “Why am I doing this? I just made a movie, isn’t that enough?”\n\nHe added, “It’d be nice if they showed the film budget at the beginning of the movie . . . Then people would say, ‘That’s not so bad — considering what it was made for.’ ”\n\nWhy Ashley Graham couldn't drink at the Met Gala" ]

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[ null, null, "Tarik Saleh is certainly no unknown quantity in filmmaking: he may be better known for his work in television, but also made a festival impact with his political thriller The Nile Hilton Incident (Le Caire confidentiel), which impressed audiences at Sundance in 2017, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. From that film, he brings Swedish-Lebanese actor Fares Fares across to the new project, Boy from Heaven, which garnered the award for Best Screenplay in Cannes.\n\nBoy from Heaven is another well-made political thriller, but it also goes beyond a genre film with some carefully conceived imagery and, above all, a script that inverses the fairy-tale structure à la Propp in a subtle and clever manner. The film tells a story of growing-up, of the boy Adam (Tawkeek Barhom), who lives with his widowed father and younger brother in a rural area of Egypt (although the film was shot in Turkey) and earns a living as a fisherman. The family are devout Muslims, and it is the local imam who helps Adam get a place to study the Quran at the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo. However, his journey to the capital and acquaintance with the big world does not open the magical space of fairy tales for him, but brings disillusionment in the world and makes the protagonist return home, but not as a rich man, neither spiritually nor materially. Rather, his return marks his withdrawal. Nothing has changed in his life after his return home, showing him in the same shabby boat catching fish with his father. We may wish to infer a religious (Christian) meaning to the opening and closing shots of a fisherman (catching souls), but in focus here is a soul that is lost. The occupation of the fisherman seems only relevant for Adam’s nickname at the school: the “sardine”.", null, "The film manages its story of political corruption as the state seeks to gain influence over the religious world extremely well: once at Al-Azhar, Adam is quickly picked as successor to the informant Zizo, who – aware of his cover having been blown – introduces Adam to Colonel Ibrahim, a dishevelled deputy head at the Secret Service (played by Fares). Intrigues abound both within the Service (a power struggle between Fares and his boss) and outside it (the head of state wanting to influence the appointment of a new head of Al-Azhar). As different power structures within these two worlds, religious and political, try to position their candidate, the fisherman’s son and informant Adam cleverly plays the game to his advantage, ultimately securing his safe release after having witnessed the murder of the informer Zizo, uncovered a plot against a religious leader, and disclosed the work of the Muslim Brotherhood in the school. In all its complexity, the various intrigues unfold step by step, exposing the profound corruption of state and church at all levels.\n\nAdam returns to his village at the end, having completed his university education, gained experience and matured. This is appropriate for the fairy-tale hero. However, this young man finds little magic help during his journey, but his escape from certain death comes only at the end, and it is almost miraculous. His journey may be one into a kingdom, yet it is not a magic one, but of corruption and intrigues. The miraculous release is achieved by the protagonist’s own action, through the purity of his faith and the clarity of his argument. It is this inversion of the fairy-tale model that makes the screenplay a genuinely original experiment with structure, and may explain the award for best script, supported further by the fine dialogues between Colonel Ibrahim and Adam, with the latter being lured and teased, threatened and empowered by his recruiter.", null ]

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[ "Gareth Southgate welcomed three new faces into his England Under-21s squad on Monday, as they prepare for the Toulon Tournament.\n\nAnd they joined their new squad mates for a training session in the evening sunshine before they head out to France for the competition ahead of Thursday’s opening game with Portugal.\n\n\"It’s always a nice moment for them to be integrated into the group, as you can meet your new team-mates off the field and sit around and have a chat but actually the best bonding part is when you start to train with each other and get a feel for each other,\" said Southgate.\n\n\"It’s good for us to have an insight into Rob, Jack and Kasey, and I think they’ll understand now that the ball moves quickly in this group with the quality that we’ve got but they’ll all adapt to that no problem.\"\n\nWith a number of players unavailable due to end-of-season club commitments, Southgate has a chance to assess his options, with the U21 Euro Qualifying campaign set to resume in September.\n\nAnd that means there are opportunities for each of the new players to stake their claim for a more regular spot in the head coach’s squad.\n\n\"Rob has been Bolton’s player of the year and has had a really good season,\" added Southgate in relation to Holding, who was drafted in as a replacement for the injured Brendan Galloway.", null, "\"He’s a defender who can use the ball, which is the way that we want to play and it’s a first taste for him of international football.\n\n\"Rob was very much a player I wanted to look at, so whilst it’s a disappointment for Brendan that he’s not able to come, it’s a great opportunity from Rob and I think he can settle into it with no problem.\n\n\"From what I’ve seen, the way he plays, he has stood out in a difficult season for his club and has some good leadership qualities on the field.\n\n\"And Kasey has had a super season with his club where he has been instrumental in them winning the youth Champions League and has scored a lot of goals at that level and U21 level to force his way into the first team squad over the last couple of months.\"\n\nGrealish’s inclusion is a slightly longer story, with the player having previously represented Republic of Ireland at U17 and U21 level before declaring his allegiance to the Three Lions earlier in the season.\n\nAnd Southgate is looking forward to seeing the Solihull-born playmaker in action once he’s fully settled into the group over the next two weeks.", null, "\"Jack was with us at younger age groups and it’s been a difficult year for him with his club but it’s a great opportunity for him to focus on the next stage and what the next few years going to look like,\" explained Southgate, who also represented Villa during his playing days.\n\n\"He transferred across [from Ireland] in October and was injured in March, so this is the first time he’s had the chance to train with us.\n\n\"He knows there’s a lot of competition for places in the area of the pitch where he plays, so like all of the players that have come in, there is an opportunity there for him.\n\n\"There’s ability there and we’ve got to create an environment for him to go and play and enjoy his football.\n\n\"We’re looking forward to working with him and he’s really excited to be here.\"\n\nThe squad will head out to southern France on Tuesday afternoon, where they will face Portugal (19 May), Guinea (23 May), Paraguay (25 May) and Japan (27 May)." ]

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[ null, "Students should be rapidly taken out of private rented homes countrywide to help ease the accommodation crisis, a leading housing charity has said.\nBob Jordan, chief executive of Threshold, said tax breaks could be reintroduced immediately to encourage developers to build more on-campus accommodation at colleges and universities.\n\n\n[featured-img]\nThese could be pre-fabricated or modular buildings which could be put up “fairly quickly,” he said.\nSpeaking before a parliamentary watchdog investigating the chronic shortage of homes and rising homelessness, Mr Jordan said students should be taken out of the “mainstream” of private rented accommodation in towns and cities nationwide.\nThe move would “free-up immediate supply in the rented sector”.\n“Student accommodation should be on campus – purpose-built student accommodation that takes students out of the mainstream market,” he told the special Dail committee on housing and homelessness.\n“Students require a particular type of accommodation, they require it for a particular period of time and it should be affordable.\n“There is an opportunity there to do that.”\nMr Jordan suggested a reintroduction of the Section 50 tax break, which allowed developers to claim tax back for building, converting or refurbishing student accommodation.\nThe relief was one of a number of construction tax breaks phased out after the property crash.\nMr Jordan also criticised universities and colleges for increasing rents of on-campus accommodation in recent years so “it has become as expensive as it is in town, so there’s no benefit to it”.\n“Any measure that it being introduced around student accommodation needs to make sure it is priced at an affordable rent for students and, let’s face it, their parents,” he told TDs on the committee.\nMaureen O’Sullivan, Dublin Central TD, said fears were mounting about accommodation around Grangegorman, where a “massive influx of students” is expected with the opening of the new Dublin Institute of Technology campus.\n“I am hearing stories of landlords who have had tenants for a number of years now telling them they have to leave because they are sub-dividing what was an adequate bedroom into two bedrooms for students because students will take that,” she said.\nKevin ‘Boxer’ Moran, Independent TD for Longford-Westmeath, said he had lobbied for public-private partnerships to build student accommodation in Athlone – which has 5,500 students – but claimed the government was against it." ]

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[ null, "Following the Government’s announcement for the extension of the Sales and Service Tax exemptions period until the 31st of December 2021, UMW Toyota Motor has now disclosed the new SST-exempted pricing information for the range-topping 1.8V variant of the Toyota Corolla Cross, now starting at RM129,266 on the road, without insurance.\n\nThe Toyota Corolla Cross was launched here in Malaysia back in March 2021, with two variants on offer – 1.8G and 1.8V. However, only the entry-level G variant was made available at launch; UMW Toyota said that the 1.8V will only be available at a “later date”, thus did not provide an SST-exempted pricing as the exemption period was due to expire on the June 30, 2021.\n\nWith the new pricing information, the Toyota Corolla Cross is now priced at RM124,000 and RM129,266 for the 1.8G and 1.8V respectively, both inclusive of the 50% SST exemptions for fully-imported models. Do keep in mind that these prices are subject to change, as the company has committed to assembling the compact crossover locally here in Malaysia in the near future.\n\nBoth variants of the Toyota Corolla Cross are powered by the same 1.8-litre naturally-aspirated inline-four mill, which makes 139 hp and 172 Nm of torque. Power is sent to the front wheels via a CVT gearbox.\n\nThe only differences between the two variants are in their equipment lists – only the range-topping 1.8V variant is fitted with the fancier LED headlights and tail lights, 18-inch wheels, and the full Toyota Safety Sense advanced driver assistance suite.\n\nFor the full breakdown of the differences between the two variants, check out our Facts and Figures launch coverage, linked here. In case you are curious about how it drives, we’ve also previously published a quick driving impressions review, which you can find here.", null, null, null ]

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[ "While many companion animals in India have loving homes, many others are considered “community animals,” particularly dogs. They’re often found roaming the streets of villages and towns under the more or less watchful eye of residents who give the animals food and water but often can’t afford to provide them with even basic veterinary care. Animal Rahat frequently receives calls from concerned residents seeking assistance for ill, injured, or orphaned animals in their village. The organization answers calls about everything from painful skin infections to dogs who got their heads trapped in gates or empty food containers while scrounging for scraps of food.", null, "When Animal Rahat intervenes in the lives of community animals, it ensures that they receive a hearty meal and fresh water. Whenever possible, the team members also bring the animals back to their offices to be sterilized and vaccinated and provides them with treats, long overdue grooming, and lots of affection, before returning them to their village or arranging their adoption by a local family.", null, "Much of Animal Rahat’s work for companion animals is focused on its life-changing sterilization campaigns. Teams of veterinarians and their assistants visit towns and villages throughout Maharashtra, spaying and neutering animals to stop them from giving birth to more dogs forced to survive a dangerous life on the streets.\n\nSometimes, this means spaying or neutering more than 100 dogs during multiple visits over the course of several weeks. Thanks to Animal Rahat’s determined work, more than 20 villages have now achieved a 100% sterilization rate among the dogs in their community! This earns each village a banner announcing its accomplishment, which the residents proudly and prominently display.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Frankie Delgado was born in the year 1970 on 31st of May and this makes his age 44 at this time. He was born in a place called Los Angeles, which lies in California of United States of America. He comes from the ethnic culture white and nationality American. He is a tall man as he has a height of 5 feet 8.11 inches, which is around 173 cm. He has ideal weight of 78 kilograms, which matches his height and makes him look really dashing. He has actually been an exceptional actor and his incredible work has actually made him popular all over the world. It might be stunning to some individuals that details on his bio is missing from essential wiki websites like Wikipedia. Some details about him is readily available in IMDb.\n\nHe has provided many shirtless scenes according to the demand of the script in TELEVISION shows and films. He has actually currently tweeted in Twitter more than 3600 times and this shows his participation in the site. He has over 164 thousand fans in Twitter and this shows his popularity in the social networking website.\n\nHis personal life is as best as his profession. He wed Jennifer Acosta in the year 2013 and their relationship as husband and wife is going extremely strong till now. He is not having any additional marital affair and is not dating anyone else. This likewise implies he does not have any sweetheart at this time. As their relationship as couple is based on trust and good understanding it is unlikely to go and break through the process of divorce. His wedding nevertheless was a great one and some very popular celebs appeared in his celebration. He does not have many kids as he has only one daughter whose name is Isabella Amalia Delgado and this proves he is not gay.\n\nHe still has lots of more functions to represent in TELEVISION shows and films and he has to be consistent in all of them to become one of the extremely best, which he will undoubtedly aim to be. His fan following is increasing day by day and he is always excellent to them through social networking websites. He always resolves them and shows respect and gratitude.\n\nHe has already tweeted in Twitter more than 3600 times and this reveals his involvement in the site. His wedding event nevertheless was a great one and some really popular celebs revealed up in his celebration. He still has many more roles to represent in TELEVISION shows and motion pictures and he has to be consistent in all of them to become one of the extremely best, which he will surely intend to be. He has appeared in some grand events and some extremely popular TELEVISION programs and motion pictures. In the year 2008 he appeared in the really popular award program called MTV Video Music Awards 2008.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "The Democrats Will Lose Again\n\nI was all set to rant about the ineptitude of the Democratic party, but William Astore at Bracing Views beat me to the punch:\n\n\nMeanwhile, Democratic officialdom is looking backwards, not forwards. The Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) idea of progress is to bring a lawsuit against Russia, the Trump campaign, and WikiLeaks for the 2016 election. This act will “fire up the base,” or so leading Democrats appear to think. But it’s really sour grapes, a loser policy conducted by pols who remain out of touch with the pressing concerns of ordinary Americans (you know, things like health care, a living wage, and other issues associated with Bernie Sanders’s campaign). If only America had a true Labor Party instead of a DNC that mirrors the Republicans while lacking their focus and ruthlessness.\n\nAnd it just gets worse. It turns out the the DCCC or the DNC or some other sclerotic party organ got their big six-figure brains cookin’ and came up with an exciting new message for the upcoming midterms. Or maybe not:\n\n\nDemocrats are looking back to the last time they took control of the House for lessons on what may work this year, and they’re starting to narrow in on a major theme: the Republican “culture of corruption, cronyism and incompetence.”\n\n\nHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is bringing back her 2006 refrain for this cycle. It first appeared in an April 6 statement calling for the resignation of Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, saying he was “a part of the Trump Administration’s culture of corruption, cronyism and incompetence.” It then popped up later that day in one of her press releases, and then three days later in a letter to her colleagues about their priorities in the coming months. In her weekly press conference the following day, she used the phrase twice, reminding reporters of that earlier election: “Some may recall that in 2005, 2006, one of our mantras during the campaign was to drain the swamp, to end the Republican culture of cronyism, corruption and incompetence, and that is exactly what we did. The president has misappropriated that term of art, ‘drain the swamp,’ and what does he do but have an administration that is wallowing in it.”\n\nIs there anything more inspiring than a seventy-eight year old establishment politician repeating a slogan from 2006 over and over again? It’s just the spark we need to beat Trump and the Republicans. If Chuck Schumer takes it up, I just might have to slip into something a little more comfortable.\n\nGod God. Who will rid us of these moribund old fuddy duddies who haven’s had a new idea in thirty years? How much longer must the party be ruled by these stale, stagnant, calcified, ossified, visionless, unimaginative, doddering, corrupt cronyist incompetents? They’ve brought us nothing but defeat and humiliation. They’ve driven the Democratic party to the brink of extinction and delivered the country to Donald Trump. They are total fuckin’ losers and they need to go yesterday.\n\nAnd just know that if the Dems don’t embrace a positive New Deal style populist agenda — an agenda that actually attracts new voters and enlarges the party — they will lose to him again.\n\nBut they won’t. They’ll sprinkle socially liberal confetti around to distract from the fact that behind closed doors they fellate the exact same banks, corporations and arms manufacturers who finance the Republicans. They’ll run an exact replay of the 2016 campaign, convinced, as always, of their superiority and wonderfulness. They’ll shiv progressives in the back, screech all day and night about Russia Russia Russia, and run against Trump’s bad manners. Meanwhile, they’ll continue to pray for St. Comey and St. Mueller to save us.\n\nIt’s possible that sheer revulsion over Trump might lead to a “blue wave” election, but I’m skeptical. The Democrats are just as arrogant and lead-footed as their standard bearer was in the 2016 campaign, and they show every sign of being similarly blindsided. One can’t escape the suspicion that they are sleepwalking into another massive defeat. They will not, cannot change their agenda. Nancy Pelosi came right out and said, in the wake of historic Democratic defeats, “I don’t think people want a change in direction.” Unstoppable force, meet immovable object. They’ll cling to their neoliberal Washington Consensus agenda until the whole ship fuckin’ sinks, which quite literally might happen, in a manner of speaking. Even if they should win, they must DO SOMETHING with their victory or Trump, or possibly Pence, will beat them again. At any rate, the pundits who are confidently predicting a blue wave also confidently predicted a Hillary Clinton victory (and before that, they confidently predicted that Bernie Sanders would be out of the race by the South Carolina primary; for the last year, they’ve been confidently predicting, on an almost daily basis, the imminent demise of Trump. Forgive me for not popping out the champagne quite yet.)\n\nThis picture sums up how incestuous and corrupt our political establishment is more than anything else I can think of. It clues us in to what we have in store in the event of Democratic victories (hint: not much).", null, "Simply wish to say the frankness in your article is surprising.\n\nUntil Pelosi (whom I actually like as Speaker, because she can be persuaded to support popular proposals), Schumer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Hillary Clinton and the rest of the Democratic Leadership Council die off we're doomed. I'm afraid the DNC and DCCC are going to make 2020 another Red Wave, but I hope the younger Democrats will adopt Tulsi Gabbard's peace proposals and put the Party back on a realistic path.\n\nDisaster plan: As any farmer knows, the weather or a bad season can lead to low profits. You should have a disaster plan in place in the event Coach Outlet Sale of an emergency to ensure you can survive a bad year or a bad turn of events. Outline changes you can make to your farm to help you save money Coach Handbags Clearance and stay in business in the event of a disaster.\n\nTell the truth. 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[ null, "Lanny Poffo has a new podcast called The Genius Cast and it’s certainly something.\n\nLanny Poffo didn’t hold anything back in his first episode of his new podcast. He said his friendship with Ole Anderson ended after Poffo called him out for having illegitimate children and then he addressed his brother Macho Man Randy Savage’s induction into the WWE Hall Of Fame.\n\nPoffo had plenty more to say about his brother’s legendary career, but he also took time to address a legend in pro wrestling lore that Savage had relations with a very young Stephanie McMahon before his exit from WWE.\n\nMacho Man cut a promo for his website back in the day talking about how he was going to steal Triple H’s girl Stephanie McMahon because Triple H is a punk. You can view that clip below, but Lanny had a lot to say about Savage “taking Stephanie around the block and show her what a real man is.”\n\n“I don’t know and if I knew I wouldn’t tell you because Randy was very very private and I have absolutely no idea if that happened.”\n\n“I’ll tell you what did happen, Triple H did an interview on a magazine and they said ‘what do you think of Hulk Hogan and The Macho Man?’ And he said they were dinosaurs. Well evidently Hulk Hogan didn’t mind being called a dinosaur but Randy took big exception to it and he just as well might have said, ‘if you think I’m so old let’s see how you would do in a shoot against me.'”\n\n“He challenged him to a shoot. In other words, ‘taking your girl for a ride’ is his way of showing you no respect whatsoever. You know I have absolutely no idea if the urban legend is true and like I said if I knew I wouldn’t tell you it’s none of anybody’s business. There’s only one person who knows for sure and that’s Stephanie. Randy’s not here and she’s not talking. So let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and talk about something else.”\n\nPoffo said Savage was doing his members-only podcast so it was probably a work to some extent because he exaggerated everything. But that’s the way everyone seemed to take it which only made the already existing urban legend that much more interesting." ]

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[ "Creating art from the Sun", null, null, "SOLAR art is fast becoming a form of artistic expression taken to new aesthetic heights in recent decades by professionals around the world.\n\nThis incredible natural media is created using nothing but the power of the sun's rays, a magnifying glass and the skill of an artist.\n\nIn South Africa, Tumelo Joy Mokopakgosi is one of the few brave individuals who are popularising it. Unlike many artists who use painting or sculpture to speak their minds, this artist captures the beauty of the world using solar power.\n\nUnder normal circumstances you wouldn't sit in the sun for four hours unless you were paid millions. But Mokopakgosi bears the heat because he wants to show his creativity and make money.\n\nSolar artwork combines art, architecture, design and science through an artistic vision. Mokopakgosi is able to burn the most intricate patterns and portraits into wood. Apart from the aesthetics of solar art there is something compelling about taming this unpredictable source of energy.\n\nThe process includes sitting in direct heat with a piece of wood and a magnifying glass. He directs the glass to the wood, then it starts burning. Guided by the sun rays, he moves it around until it starts to create sort of an image.\n\nBorn and raised in Diepkloof, Soweto, he developed the idea a few years ago in a bid a take his art skill to another level.\n\nMokopakgosi says before he could master the art, he did a lot of research to see if the technique could work.\n\nHe pioneered his solar art technique to create a body of work that is striking and technically accomplished.\n\n\"I am always looking to grow as an artist,\" he said. \"When you want to develop in this industry you do a lot of experiments.\n\nYou are always searching for something that will push you to expand your knowledge.\"\n\nMokopakgosi will introduce the technique in public for the first time when he stages his Fade to One Face exhibition at Unity Gallery from April 7 until 27.\n\nThe concept is inspired by how hairdos can create a perception that you look like someone else.\n\n\"The exhibition focuses on the broad art of portraiture, inspired by the tradition of the epic natural portraits of Mount Rushmore, in the US. I have observed the trend where people are constantly changing their hairstyles. All these faces, they fade into one.\"\n\nThough Mokopakgosi explores solar art at the moment, he is able to paint and do sculptures. He completed his art studies at Soweto's Funda Community College in 2003. He then underwent teacher training in 2004." ]

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[ null, "BIG SCREEN DEBUT. 'Hayop Ka! The Nimfa Dimaano Story' is one of the entries in Annecy Film Festival\n\nFacebook Twitter Copy URL\nCopied\n'Hayop Ka! The Nimfa Dimaano Story' is one of the ten entries in the main feature category in 2021 Annecy Film Festival\n\nOn Facebook, Rocketsheet Studio said, “Annecy is the most prestigious animation festival in the world & for them to select our silly film is a massive honor. It makes us feel like we are doing something right.”\n\nAccording to its website, Annecy “inspires and thrills the whole world to the rhythm of animation by highlighting the dynamism and creative richness of this sector.” The film festival will run from June 14 to June 19.\n\nHayop Ka! The Nimfa Dimaano Story is one of the ten titles competing in the main feature category. Other entries come from Japan, China, France, Germany, and the United States.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Rocketsheep Studios also released a video showcasing the progress of the animated film throughout the years. “We would like to share a quick look at the work that went into making it,” they said.\n\nThe adult animated film features the life of pretty pussycat Nimfa Dimaano (Angelica Panganiban), as she stands in the middle of a love triangle between her mongrel boyfriend Roger (Robin Padilla), and bourgeoisie business dog Iñigo Villanueva (Sam Milby).\n\nHayop Ka! The Nimfa Dimaano Story is available for streaming on Netflix. – Rappler.com" ]

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[ "How to Be Gay / Music / Role Models", null, "“This homosexual dream of perfect metaphysical union is not so much a reflected heterosexual ideal as it is the compensation for having wept in the darkness.”\n\nLong, long ago, Leo Bersnai formulated a theory of the impossibility of queer desire: queer desire, he posits, is grounded upon contradictions, impossibilities, and antagonisms (Bersani, Homos), that when put into action, becomes the source of great art. To be sure, queer desire extends far beyond the physical, and beyond the singular. Queer desire has determined itself into something beyond what is real and more into world-making: apart from the confines of heteronormative worldmaking, queer desire allows for new bonds to form, for new possibilities for experience, and for families to emerge. Gepetto taps into this worldmaking possibility as he carves a new world of puppets and machinery.", null, "Gepetto is such a queer icon: through puppetry, he created a world on his own terms. Objects become the basis for desire, and desire itself becomes less sexual and more a loci for how we relate to the world. If it were on our own terms, how should we construct our world? What is real? What is desire? What if? What possibilities could emerge should such a queer world exist?\n\nAs evidenced by the Fox, the Cat, and their counterparts, queerness easily falls prey to the outer world that is less guided by a strict set of heteronormative rules and more by a quick buck. For a buck!! Gepetto’s queer world crumbles, thanks to its own innocence, i.e. naivete. God’s away on business, but the kiddos move on.", null, "Hang on, St. Christopher! The outer world is a whale with sharp, sharp teeth, but queerness yet remains: Gepetto, in his search for his Pinocchio, becomes swallowed by Monstro, the great whale…and yet, he fishes! Pinocchio, his object, emerges from the (gay bar dreamland) Pleasure Island, half-jackass, and saves him! This final scene within the belly of the whale is a testament to hope. You’re innocent when you dream!", null, "“Whether understood as throwbacks to an earlier stage of human development or as children who refuse to grow up, queers have been seen…as a backward race. Perverse, immature, sterile, and melancholic: even when they provoke fears about the future, they somehow recall the past” (Love 6). In other words, queerness is scary. It connects from the past to the present without any future. From Gepetto’s loneliness, he utilizes queerness as a means to build his desire for family, through puppetry. Dark space low. Queerness fails spectacularly as Gepetto’s own creation escapes him…though what a creation! All it takes is a Blue Fairy! I want to believe!!" ]

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[ null, "Like a lot of freelance artists, what I get paid ranges from a lot to nothing, according to the commissioner’s resources, what I’ve been asked to do, and my own wish to do it. So my choices about what work to take on hover between interest and need, but at least I get to choose. But what about the non-professional artists, the people who participate in art projects? What choices do they have?\n\nIt’s an issue I’ve thought about a lot over the years, but it crystallised recently in a question raised after a talk I’d given at Staffordshire University. Clare Reynolds, Co-artistic Director of Restoke, asked about the ethics of paying people to participate in projects. The company, one of Stoke-on-Trent’s many creative assets, brings ‘people from all walks of life alongside professional artists to co-create ambitious performances and programmes, driven by the stories, lived-experiences, skills and commitment of those who take part’. After their last show, Clare said that she’d realised that the (ticketed) performances were created by a company only some of whom were paid for their work. She felt that there was a case for paying everyone, at least for the performance week, and the company was discussing ways of doing that in future.\n\nThe issue came up again this week, during a gathering of playwrights from seven countries at Sala Beckett in Barcelona under the auspices of Fabulamundi. We spent a morning meeting people who had been involved in an exploratory project called Syria, incomplete cartography. Over a period of months, five theatre-makers and five Syrian refugees worked in pairs to co-create a multimedia piece about the war, escape and arrival in Catalonia. It did not lead to a fully developed performance, but the results of their work was shared with the public in January 2017. The budget was limited, but everyone who took part was paid.\n\nIn our subsequent discussion, one person explained that this was also true of theatre work with migrants in Italy, because it was not possible to secure their participation otherwise. I know of situations where non-professionals have been paid expenses, sometimes with a per diem allowance, to take part, and others where people have been unwilling or unable to take any payment because a fear of losing welfare entitlement or getting into trouble with the tax authorities.\n\nI was reminded too of the ‘action’ in which Santiago Sierra paid four prostitutes ‘the price of a shot of heroin to give their consent to be tattooed’ (Salamanca, 2000). Whatever else it does, Sierra’s work demonstrates the power of money.\n\nPeople should be remunerated for their work but there are other rewards than money. In participatory art, when people may be contributing some of the most precious things they have – their own stories – paying them can actually disempower them. Being paid can make someone lose control over their own participation or even prevent them from withdrawing consent. Money can be a way of exploiting people too. I have no answer to these questions. They run into the inequalities and injustices of society itself, and there is no reason why art should be immune from the corrupting forces that operate in every other field.\n\nArtists making participatory work often involve people with less power and freedom than they themselves have. We might not be able to escape the ethical and political tensions inherent in our work but by talking about them, we can at least help people to have the dignity of making their own choices in difficult situations. Each of us is entitled to decide for ourselves where the balance between interest and need lies.\n\nMy Tweets\nJoin 4,875 other followers" ]

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[ "Saw these 2008-09 Upper Deck Legends Masterpieces while waiting in the Wal-Mart checkout aisle. For a $1.50 each I figured I would pick up three. I purchased a pack of these before and thought that the cards had an interesting take. All portrait cards of a variety of players and historic moments.", null, "Found it a little odd how they were packaged in the plastic holders; I assume it's purpose is to make it impossible to \"feel\" for a memorabilia card within the packs.\nThe results of the pack breaks are below.\nPack no.1", null, "#34 - Bobby Orr. Orr scoring \"The Goal\", one of the most famous goals in hockey history and one that would give Boston their first Stanley Cup since 1941.\n\n#8 - Ron Hextall. Interesting quote from the reverse of the card, \"Hextall is probably the best goaltender I've ever played against in the NHL.\" - Wayne Gretzky. I assume the portrait is from when Hextall scored his scored career goal in 1989.", null, "#74 - Guy Lafleur. A portrait of Lafleurs coming out of retirement and back to the NHL in a Rangers uniform.", null, "#70 - Rogie Vachon. Very nicely done portrait. Vachon would prove that he belonged among the top goalies of his time while playing for the Los Angeles Kings. He is also the Kings all-time leading goaltender.", null, null, "Like these cards and may choose another pack or two of these over a candy bar during my next Wal-mart escapade.\nPosted by Brad at 19:05" ]

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[ null, "I don't know about you guys, but for me, the end of 2019 was memorable in all of the right ways. Two big publishing projects saw the light of day this year, and in the wee hours of New Years' Day, I closed the book (literally) on a third one on which I'd been way behind, and about which I'm not quite ready to talk (more on it later).\n\nSo far, and I know we're only one week in, but so good on the writing front for me, this new year. How can I make a determination this early? Simple.\n\nIt's all about goals.\n\nEveryone comes up with New Year's resolutions, even if they don't call them that. The end of the calendar year is a perfect spot at which to recalibrate, to take stock, to shed what's not working for you and embrace what is. To try new things and see how they work as well.\n\nIf you're like me, your wake is littered with the detritus of previous failed resolutions, and for many of us, this year will likely be no different. Want to achieve your goals, specifically your writing goals, this year?\n\nHow to do this?\n\nIncrementally. Seriously, it's all about scale.\n\nIf the goal is productivity (\"I'm gonna write every day,\" etc.) then try this: \"I am going to try to write every week. If I can get in a couple of days of writing, even for an hour, then the next week I'm going to try to work in three days/three hours, and so on, up to a realistic goal of getting five days/five hours per week.\"\n\nThis approach works. And as I said, it's completely scaleable.\n\nIf that turns out to be too much, scale it back. If you get discouraged and can't keep up with your goals, ratchet back that word count/day commitment until life is no longer in the way (I have a seven year-old at home and a demanding day gig which requires navigating, so I feel your pain, believe me.).\n\nAnd that's another thing you can do to help stick with your writing goals: plot out the coming year. If you have a day job (which, as I mentioned, I do), and the stresses and demands of said job are cyclical, then plan for that. For example, in my day gig, September and early October are my highest impact times, so I allow that not much word count gets done during those days.\n\nSo if you know you're not going to be terribly productive during a certain time of the year, build that in to your schedule, and cut yourself a break. In fact, cut yourself a whole bunch.\n\nBuild downtime in to your writing schedule. Creativity is stealthy. It tends to sneak up you. Grinding things out is what powers outlining and rewrites. But giving your brain a break can really boost your creativity. Google it. There's a ton of neuroscience research on the importance of play in the creative process.\n\nAnd on that note, with several recent writing goals more than hit and a few milestones under my belt, I'm off to do precisely that!\n\nGot New Year's Resolutions/Writing Goals? Feel free to weigh in and broadcast them in the Comments section.\n\nSee you in two weeks!\nPosted by DoolinDalton at 01:12" ]

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[ "1 edition of Genocide on trial found in the catalog.", null, null, "Out of 5 stars Good book about genocide, bad book about individual genocides Reviewed in the United States on Janu If you are interested in the study of genocide and theories of how a genocidal regime may rationalize its policies, then this book is a good choice for by: Genocide on Trial book.\n\nUnlike most books on the subject, Bloxham does not limit his study to Nuremberg's International Genocide on trial book by: COVID Resources. Reliable Genocide on trial book about the coronavirus (COVID) is available from the World Health Organization (current situation, international travel).Numerous and frequently-updated resource results are available from this ’s WebJunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle.\n\nTRIAL International submits criminal complaints against the Genocide on trial book of genocide, either in the countries where the crimes were committed or in a third country (for example when the victim or the perpetrator is from that country, or if it has universal jurisdiction on the crime), exploring all legal avenues to bring the perpetrators before.\n\nBosnian genocide or Bosniak genocide refers to either the genocide in Srebrenica (and villages of Žepa, claim overturned by court of appeal [citation needed]) committed by Bosnian Serb forces inor refers to the wider crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing campaign throughout areas controlled by the Army of Republika Srpska which was waged during the – Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina.\n\nWhat Lingers After Decades of Genocide on trial book on the Cambodian Genocide I had seen trauma before, but never an entire traumatized nation.\n\nAll the adults I. Genocide on Trial War Crimes Trials and the Formation of History and Memory Donald Bloxham. A ground-breaking account of the failure of the Allied war crimes trials; Reveals how the final solution came to be written out of history in the post war era.\n\nAt the time of the Nuremberg trials, there was no legal concept of \"genocide.\"On September 2,the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (a court established by the United Nations) issued the world's first conviction for the defined crime of genocide after trial before an international tribunal.\n\nA man named Jean-Paul Akayesu was judged guilty of genocide and. Indigenous women from Guatemala's Ixil region attend the trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who was found guilty on May 10 of genocide and crimes against humanity during the bloodiest phase of the country's year civil war.\n\nRadislav Krstic – Trial Chamber I – Judgment – IT () ICTY8 (2 August ) [15] that Genocide had been committed. In Prosecutor v. Radislav Krstic – Appeals. Genocide on trial book introduce Ben Kiernan’s book for us, and the genocides it covers.\n\nBlood and Soil is an important and courageous attempt to write a world history of genocide “from Sparta to Darfur”.\n\nMany historians have argued that genocide is a form of Genocide on trial book killing that began only in the 20th century with the advent of the modernist state, extreme nationalist ideologies, mass media and.\n\nGenocide in Cambodia assembles documents from this historic trial and contains extensive reports from the People's Revolutionary Tribunal. The book opens with essays that discuss the nature of the primary documents, and places the trial in its historical, legal, and political context.\n\nWhen the Allies tried German war criminals at the end of World War II they were attempting not only to punish the guilty but also to set down a history of Nazism and of what had happened in Europe.\n\nYet as Donald Bloxham shows in this incisive account, the reality was that these proceedings failed. Not only did the guilty often escape punishment but the final solution was.\n\nWashington D.C., —Five years ago today, one of the most celebrated human rights trials in Latin America came to a stunning conclusion when Guatemalan dictator, retired Army general, and self-proclaimed “president” Efraín Ríos Montt was convicted for genocide and crimes against humanity by a panel of three Guatemalan judges.\n\nThe Genocide Convention has become a vital legal tool in the international campaign against impunity. Its provisions, including its enigmatic definition of the crime and its pledge both to punish and prevent the 'crime of crimes', have now been interpreted in important judgments by the International Court of Justice, the ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda Author: William A.\n\nSchabas. The trial that began Friday, expected to last untilcovers a broader range of crimes against humanity, as well as genocide and war crimes.\n\nHome» Browse» Books» Book details, Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the. Jessica Stern, an expert on terrorism, has just published an unusual book about Radovan Karadzic, who was convicted in for committing genocide against Bosnian Muslims.\n\nHer book, “My War. The term “genocide” was created during the Holocaust and declared an international crime in the WHAT IS GENOCIDE. 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It includes discussions of the Armenians, the Holocaust, the Cambodians of.\n\nGenocide Jack, also known as Genocide Jill and as Genocider Sho (ジェノサイダー翔) in the original Japanese version, is a student by proxy in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th, and a participant by proxy of the Killing School Life featured in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy title is the Ultimate Murderous Fiend (超高校級の「殺人鬼」 es: Unadorable boys Unadorable girls.\n\nMyanmar defended on Decem at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) located at The Hague, Netherlands in the genocide trial initiated by The Gambia.| The following is the full transcription, as provided by the ICJ website's full verbatim record, of Lawyer Professor William Schabas.\n\nLACK OF A PLAUSIBLE CLAIM. 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[ "I had thought my career as a tour guide was over!\n\nBetty was very keen for Mamotchka to visit us in Stevenage but Mamotchka was scared of coming to a country where she couldn’t speak the language. It turned out that the Anthroposophists also had a desire to go to the Outer Hebrides. It has a lot to do with early Christianity and the culture of the Celts. Mamotchka agreed to come if we could take her there. Her grandson flew over with her and stayed a few days (she had never flown before). He came to collect her at the end. I planned our trip again and booked the B and B’s.\n\nAt our first stop on the way up, by chance, there was a large agricultural show going on. I always forget how traditional and English they are and she loved every minute. You didn’t have to understand the language to see what was going on. I have better photos that I took of her with the sheep which I will have to insert when I find them.", null, "When I am on holiday abroad there is nothing I like better than stumbling across some local event. I accidentally came upon the cake festival in Italy, the Palio in Siena, the open air opera in Rome and Verona, the pilgimage in El Rocio and a Cypriot wedding which drew everyone in. So here I was seeing our own traditions as though I were an outsider. I do like traditional events. I’ve seen the Marshfield Mummers, The Braemar Gathering, the Padstow hobby horse, hordes of Morris men and women, clog dancers and the Ock Street Mayor in Abingdon. I have made lots of images relating to celebrations of all kinds through my life.", null, null, null, "Mamotchka loved everything she saw. Our next leg was a long one to Skye. I had no idea what the BB and B would be like but it turned out to be a gentle, hospitable old couple. The amazing thing was that he was one of the last weavers on Skye. He showed me his weaving shed which was like something out of the past. The cloth he was weaving was fine tweed, very up market but it obviously wasn’t paying. Somewhere along the line someone skims off a fortune but it doesn’t get back to the weaver.", null, "The Scottish breakfast is something else, it was like a great feast. You wouldn’t need to eat for the rest of the day. The small port of Uig was just down the road and we caught the Macbraynes ferry over to North Uist. It was on the boat that she saw the first man in a kilt…she couldn’t believe it, a man in a skirt and she laughed… she had a deep throated cackling laugh. She loved men and must have been an outrageous flirt in her youth and old though she was she could still flutter her eye lashes and charm them.\n\nWe landed at Loch Maddy really a small village but nevertheless the main place on the island., we stayed in a nice little house with the local policeman and his wife. They made us very welcome and we had an evening meal with them too. We went up to our rooms then we could hear bagpipes coming from outside, he was also the village piper and it appears that pipers have to practice outside. I loved it, M was a bit bemused but loved his kilt and kept giving him her flirty smiles. He played every night we were there.\n\nNorth Uist has masses of lakes and inlets, there is as much water as land. It’s great treasure is the machair, the low sand dunes that go down to the sea covered in wild flowers. The beaches are mile long stretches of silver sand. Totally unspoilt and it was unusual to see another person.", null, null, "It proved to be a bit of a boon for me because I kept coming across perfectly white, water washed animal skulls. I got a cow and several sheep skulls which I took home with me and used for years, My last one is in my front room. Damien Hirst made the diamond skull. I covered my last skull with sequins and called it The Poor Man’s Damien Hirst! I think after they had slaughtered animals they must have thrown the remains of the animal into the sea. Shades of The Wicker Man! There is a great bird reserve on Uist and we saw eagles and harriers and all sorts of geese and ducks. North Uist is Protestant but South Uist which is virtually joined to it by Benbecula is Catholic and there is such a different feeling. They seemed very prosperous because they were exporting lobsters direct to Paris and other European cities.", null ]

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[ null, "There are many types of card games played in a casino, a bar or even at the comfort of your own home. Each country has its own unique and complex card game that other country will find it difficult to play and one of it is capsa stacking which is very popular in Indonesia.\n\nIts popularity has even reached the online casino gaming in Indonesia since thousands of online casino players are hooked into this card game which is very similar to the very popular poker game.\n\nIf you’re interested about this Indonesian card game and want to learn the basics of it, here are some ways on how to play capsa stacking cara bermain capsa susun.\n\nEach player is dealt a certain number of cards faced down. Then there is a round of betting where you can Check, Bet or Fold. This stage of the game is known as pre-flop and what you should do is dependent on those hole cards, or starting hand. However, in capsa stacking, each player is handed with 13 cards from the deck of 52 cards.\n\nEach player must arrange these cards into three piles, the front, middle and back. Each card must be arranged to form a combination in such way that its value will be high enough to beat your opponent during the game. You should focus more on your center or the middle pile of cards when you form the combination.\n\nAfter you’ve arranged all three piles, the dealer will then compare each player’s piles. If you have a weak or wrong combination then you will lose, the winning player which has the correct combination of cards that has high value is declared the winner. Every successful combination will earn a player a point. The stronger the combination the bigger the point the player earns.\n\nCapsa stacking is known by several names and also differ according to the countries there, in Cantonese is called Sap Sam Cheung, which means 13 cards, in China called the Luosong Pai Jiu, which means Russian Pai Gow and in Vietnam is called XAP Xam Chuong, whereas in Uncle Sam’s country or the United States called the Chinese or Russian Poker Poker.\n\nCapsa stacking game is played by using one set of playing cards whose numbers 52 cards without the joker card. For the sequence of cards in capsa stacking, the card 2 is the lowest card and A card is the highest card. To order flowers cards from highest to lowest are: Spade (Spades) > Heart (Heart) > Club (Curly) > Diamond (Diamonds).\n\nThe players then stack his 13 cards and must set the cards into three different piles, above, under and middle. Each level has a different count in piling this capsa card. Here are the combinations of cards that you can do when you play capsa stacking.", null ]

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[ "Giveaway: Nobody and Every Other Day by Jennifer L. Barnes", null, "Hello my lovely readers!!\nIt's been awhile since I've done any sort of giveaway for ya'll so with the upcoming release of Nobody by Jennifer lynn Barnes and the release of the paperback Every Other day the darling people over at Egmont have been generous enough to let me do a giveaway for both books.", null, "There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away.\n\nThat’s why they make the perfect assassins.\n\nThe Institute finds these people when they’re young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization. And threats must be eliminated.\n\nSixteen-year-old Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute’s monitoring. But now they’ve ID’ed her and send seventeen-year-old Nix to remove her. Yet the moment he lays eyes on her, he can’t make the hit. It’s as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are—because no one else ever notices them.", null, "Every other day, Kali D’Angelo is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. She goes to public high school. She argues with her father. She’s human.\n\nAnd then every day in between . . . she’s something else entirely.\n\nThough she still looks like herself, every twenty-four hours predatory instincts take over and Kali becomes a feared demon-hunter with the undeniable urge to hunt, trap, and kill zombies, hellhounds, and other supernatural creatures. Kali has no idea why she is the way she is, but she gives in to instinct anyway. Even though the government considers it environmental terrorism.\n\nWhen Kali notices a mark on the lower back of a popular girl at school, she knows instantly that the girl is marked for death by one of these creatures. Kali has twenty-four hours to save her, and unfortunately she’ll have to do it as a human. With the help of a few new friends, Kali takes a risk that her human body might not survive . . . and learns the secrets of her mysterious condition in the process.\n\nDon't both those books sound awesome. I'm actually reading Nobody right now, and enjoying it. So look out for my review to come soon. To get you in the spirit of the books here are some tidbits about the author.\n\n* Here are several additional videos of Jen sharing her thoughts on writing, what's next in YA literature, and the paranormal genre:\nVideo 1" ]