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There are dozens of amazing cars in CSR 2. They are all about tiers here, tier 1 is the lowest and tier 5 is the highest. Usually the new cars will take time to be delivered, the first tier 1 hour, the highest tier up to an entire day.
For the first tier we have the Sneak's Focus Trackster, Fiesta ST, Civic 1.5 VTEC, Veloster Turbo R Spec, Mini Cooper S as well as Konduit's Volkswagen Golf GTI MK1, Toyota 86 and many others. Second tier cars include F-150 SVT Raptor, Finn's Lotus Exige 360 Cup, Mercedes 300 SL Coupé, Range Rover Evoque Coupé, KJ's Toyota 86 Rocket Bunny, VW Scirocco R and others. Many more can be found by using some CSR Racing Hack, as mentioned in Wikipedia.
Tier 3 cars here include RS5 Coupe byLB Performance, BMW M4 Coupe, Challenger SRT Hellcat from Dodge, Rally Fighter from Local Motors, Shelby Cobra 427 S/C, Corvette Stingray and so on. Tier 4 cars have Aston Martin Vanquish, Camaro Z/28, Ford Mustang HPE750 by Hennessey, Maserati Ghibli S Q4, Nissan GT-R Nismo (R35) and others. Lastly, you have tier 5 cars which are obviously some of the best in the game.
These are the Aston Martin Vulcan, Bentley Continental GT, Bugatti Divo and Chiron as well as the Chiron Sport, the Dodge Viper GTS-R, Ferrari F12 Berlinetta, Hennessey Venom GT and Koenigsegg Agera RS among many others. The game has a huge selection of cars and it's very exciting to have all of this in a single package. It's an amazing experience and something that you really want to enjoy as you play.


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Narciso Rodriguez New Limited-Edition Musk Collection for Her & Him: Narciso Rodriguez for Her Eau de Parfum Intense & Narciso Rodriguez for Him Eau de Parfum (2009) {New Perfumes}
Narciso Rodriguez under the umbrella of Beauté Prestige International (BPI) will further expand his collection of musk fragrances this fall with two limited-edition flankers which despite the similarities in names are advertised as being significant variations on the originals.
The new scents are presented as being part of a new line and titled Narciso Rodriguez for Her Eau de Parfum Intense and Narciso Rodriguez for Him Eau de Parfum....
Interestingly, one can note that the pricing has been slightly reduced to sell the products despite the higher concentrations as the Narciso Rodriguez perfumes tend to situate themselves at the higher end of the pricing spectrum for designer fragrances.
"In addition to musk, the feminine scent features delicate floral notes of ylang-ylang, jasmine and orange tree flowers. The masculine fragrance is composed around a heart of musk, offset by notes of iris and pink berries.
The flacons were inspired by ancient Chinese snuff bottles, and are painted from within to achieve a light-infused glow and lustrous patina. The colour scheme of the for her eau de parfum is silver and pink; the for him eau de parfum is painted silver with a smoky finish.
Both fragrances are available as 50ml edps. The feminine scent will retail at around €62, the masculine scent at €44."
Currently and according to Sephora.fr, the Narciso Rodriguez for Her EDT starts at 63,10€, the EDP version at 72,10€ and the Narciso Rodriguez for Him EDT starts at 50€.
It is perhaps an adaptation to the context of the recession but perhaps also a test to see what is the right balance to be reached between popularity and exclusivity.
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As parents we are trying to do it all. Clothe, feed, clean, make money, drive, shop, budget, stay active, repeat. It's a never ending juggling act. Every 400km or so you stop your car and refuel it with more energy to last the next 400km. So let me ask you this: do you do this with your body and mind? Do you stop every 400km and refuel and recharge? Likely not. For whatever reason we are programmed as parents (especially moms) to put ourselves last, or even worse, to never put ourselves anywhere on the list. It's literally impossible to keep going on fumes; ask your car.
When was the last time you took a day to fill your tank? Even just a few hours away from your phone, your work, and the household chores can make a world of difference. I try to consciously put breaks into my schedule in order to consistently recharge from my regular daily routine. Here's are just some ways I pre-plan my refuel stops:
- Daily refuels. EVERY SINGLE DAY. I plan either workouts, walks, breaths of fresh air, or anything I know will revive me. Even if I have a dog pulling on the leash, a husband in the background asking questions, or a kid jumping on my back, this time is what I want it to be.
- Weekly refuels. AKA ALONE time. Think quality and not quantity. Even if it is just 10 minutes, it helps restore my body, mind and spirit. Ive tried mini meditation sessions, yoga videos, alone time reading, or just simple quiet ponders doing nothing.
- Monthly refuels. AWAY from the everyday. Here I plan for larger chunks of time every month where I go to the local coffee shop and read, take in a solo meal or movie, go to a new class by myself, or head out for a girlfriend night out. This is time doing something I want to do away from the daily and weekly task lists and noise of home.
- Annual holidays. No MATTER how big or small. Out of the house. Out of my routine. Out of some responsibilities. Think family overnight camp trip, a night in a hotel, a visit to helpful family members for the weekend, a beach holiday, or just dropping the kidlet off at grandma's house for an overnight. This doesn't have to be costly and it can include all family members……the key here is to retreat away somewhere.
Breaking it down into smaller parts really helps me. It's not always about taking off for days on end. That can seem overwhelming to tackle if you have four kids, a few pets and a partner that is always away (or even one kid and a partner that's home daily). What I am encouraging you to do is to watch for the gas light in your 'car'. This is the warning sign that you are running low on fuel and you need to stop ignoring it. If you don't, at one point, if you haven't already, you will run out of gas. Running on empty effects not just our bodies and our spirits but also effects our relationships with our kids, partners, friends, house work, careers, sleep, routine etc. etc. etc. So ask yourself here and now, where is your fuel gauge pointing to?


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Children's Ministry (CP Kids)
Sunday Mornings: All children participating in activities on Sunday morning are asked to use the check-in system located in the nursery area (FLC hallway) upon arrival. We offer
- Nurseries: Birth – 2 years old. The Nurseries are open from 8:15 am – 12:15 pm
- Sunday School – 9:45-10:45am for all ages: Newborn through 5th grade
- Children's Worship – 8:30 & 11:00 am. Age 3 through 3rd grade. Children are dismissed from the sanctuary before the sermon.
Sunday Evening 4th and 5th Grade Program – G.R.O.W. (God Receives Our Worship): All 4th and 5th graders are invited to be part of our weekly Sunday evening, pre-youth group program. We meet in Room N5 from 6-7:30pm.
College Park's Children's Ministry desires to help children develop a "forever faith" in Jesus. By Connecting with, supporting, and encouraging parents in their God-given role as the spiritual leaders of their children. (Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Ephesians 6:4)
We accomplish our mission through these means:
The Gospel Project. The curriculum provides a Bible learning experience where participants learn how Christ fits into the entire Gospel Story; Pre-creation to eternity.
Watch this video for more information about Gospel Project
- Faith Path – Resources: Guiding your child's spiritual journey one step at a time
(more information below)
- Prayer Cards: Each child is partnered with an adult in the congregation who daily lifts the child in prayer
- Monthly Family Events: The children's ministry hosts monthly family events for any families at CP church to join. (Events we have done in the past have included bowling, roller skating, luncheons, and Fall festivals.)
- Sunday School: 1- year-olds through 5th grade at 9:45 a.m.
- Wee Worship:Preschool aged children (3-5yrs) are dismissed from both services.
- Kids Church: Children grades K-3rd grade are dismissed from both services
- Nursery: Loving volunteers are available to care for your children from birth to 2 years-old each Sunday during both worship services and the Sunday School hour. Nursery is open from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
- Camp Cotubic Church Camp
Faith Path suggests a focus of specific practices and milestones at certain ages. However, you know your child best and can determine the most appropriate time to emphasize each step. College Park is dedicated to providing the resources to assist families in providing intentional conversations in the home.
- Parent Dedication (Birth – 2 years) Make a commitment to raise your child in a Christ-centered home.
- Blessing (Ages 3+) Establish the practice of praying for and giving a blessing to your child on a routine basis.
- Family Time (Ages 4+) Establish the practice of connecting as a family while passing spiritual truths to your child.
- Prepare to Lead Your Child to Christ (age will vary – 5+) Learn how to lead your child to Christ. Although it may be several years before your child expresses an interest in becoming a Christian, now is the time for you to prepare for those discussions.
- Prayer (ages 6+) Teach your child about prayer and establish the practice of praying as a family.
- Bible (ages 7+) Teach your child about God's Word and establish the practice of reading and memorizing scripture as a family.
- Worship (ages 8+) Establish the practice of adoring God personally, at home, at church and as a lifestyle.
- Giving and Serving (ages 9+) Establish the practice of giving and serving others for God's glory.
- Salvation & Baptism (age will vary) When your child trusts Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, create a time of celebration and guide your child into believer's baptism.
- Prayer Cards Members of the congregation commit to praying for individual children daily.
Please contact the church office to enroll your child in the prayer card ministry and Faith Path Resources. We are thrilled to have you worship with us. May God Bless your family!


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KONNIE Huq struggled to step into Richard Arnold's shoes as she was branded "annoying" during her debut presenting role on today's Good Morning Britain.
The telly host - who was introduced as Britain's favourite Blue Peter anchor - stood in for the Showbiz guru yet didn't impress some loyal fans of the ITV show.
Konnie, 42, seemed to struggle with some of the words on the autocue and stumbled over some sentences during the first bulletin.
GMB anchor Susanna Reid also had to step in as the Londoner struggled to explain the new X Factor elimination rules to fellow stand-in presenter Richard Madeley.
He too came under fire from furious viewers who were angry the 61-year-old was replacing Piers Morgan for the third week running.
Meanwhile Konnie - also a familiar face to X Factor addicts - confirmed she will return to GMB next week.
After her first segment, she went on to chat to X Factor reject Spencer Sutherland during the latter half of the programme.
One fan took to Twitter to rage: "She's sooo annoying."
Another posted: "Konnie Huq on
#GMB reminding me why she was the worst Xtra Factor presenter ever."
Meanwhile other concerned viewers were more preoccupied with the fact Konnie had been hailed most popular Blue Peter icon.
Another quizzed: "Favourite Blue Peter presenter???" as one posted: "Konnie voted best Blue Peter presenter ever?
"Bet that was a lot of prisoners distorting the vote."
Meanwhile fans of the ITV show started off the day with a bee in their bonnet about regular presenter Piers' no show.
They blasted the absent broadcaster as "part-time Piers" as ex This Morning frontman Richard, 61, filled his seat for the second week running.
Some have previously likened Richard to fictional hapless journalist Alan Partridge while others were shocked after he confessed he was hosting the show while going commando.
Their previous calls for Piers, 52, to return were ramped up a notch today as they flooded Twitter with their views as soon as the show kicked off at 6am.
One criticised Piers and put: "@piersmorgan is officially a part timer on #GMB what can be more important than Monday morning on #GMB."
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Engaging Banality: Stories of the Salaried Life
Kuroi Senji, Peter(translator) Tillack
Engaging Banality presents three stories that earned Japanese writer Kuroi Senji critical acclaim. Trenchant critiques of corporate Japan, "Hole and Sky", Time, and Running Family are preceded by a critical introduction that explicates their relevance to Japan?s high-speed growth period.
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Our next free SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES is on March 23 at 7 p.m. in The Chapel - Join us to watch HEAVEN CAN WAIT—A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire. Starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, and Joseph Maher.
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Strike Back (1981) Carl Schenkel
Labels : 80's , Carl Schenkel , Thriller , West Germany , 0 com
Strike Back (1981)
aka Kalt wie Eis
Genre: Crime | Thriller
Country: West Germany | Director: Carl Schenkel
Language: German | Subtitles: English (.srt file)
Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 83mn
Dvdrip H264 Mkv - 1023x614 - 25fps - 762mb
Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, his beautiful girlfriend. Refused parole and nearly insane with frustration he makes a violent escape to be with her and strike back.
Strike Back (1981)
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I. A Brief Introduction
Sometimes, especially since I am currently living in Hyderabad, it is easy to glance across the ocean and laugh at the ironic, disastrous mess that is my country, the United States of America. It's easy to watch late night comedy clips of my president being ridiculed and to scan his Twitter feed from time to time and shake my head. But then I get to close the tabs on my computer and forget, at least for a while, that any of it is actually real.
My government recently emerged from the longest shutdown of its complicated little history. And lately, it's become hard for me to ignore the cries from across the ocean. I'll explain the basics of the government shutdown (because it really is a strange concept), but first I want to address something about my own politics.
Yes, I am a Democrat. Yes, I am extremely biased. This is an opinion piece, after all. However, I do not want my political leaning to invalidate anything I say, so I want to be clear when I say that I think Democrats and Republicans alike have put us in the place we are in right now. No one is faultless, nor is anyone completely guilty. This is ultimately a problem that we Americans have created for ourselves. To quote The Office : "When a child gets behind the wheel of a car and runs into a tree, you don't blame the child. He didn't know any better. You blame the 30-year-old woman who got in the passenger seat and said, 'Drive, kid. I trust you.'" I'll let you figure out who's who in that scenario.
So, why did the U.S. government shut down? And what exactly does that mean? And why do no other countries' governments shut down? The first government shutdown in my life was in 2013. I woke up, heard from my parents that the government had shut down, and was so shocked that I didn't know how to respond. I thought that was it, the apocalypse had arrived, the revolution had started, and we were all going to take to the streets Purge-style. In reality, it's not nearly that exciting, and frankly, I didn't understand the details myself before deciding to write this article. So, here it is, in the simplest way I can explain it.
II. What is a Government Shutdown and Why Does it Happen?
In the U.S., a government shutdown happens when Congress does not agree on how to appropriate funds for the next fiscal year or when the president does not approve the appropriation. The most recent shutdown was triggered by Trump demanding $5.7 billion in the budget to build his border wall. The House of Representatives, majority-Democrat after our most recent elections, refused.
So the budget didn't pass, and the government shut down. During a shutdown, federal programs that are deemed "non-essential" close because they are not receiving any funding. Federal workers are either furloughed (sent home from work until the shutdown ends), or they continue to work without pay. Those that continue to work have essential roles, such as TSA workers, law enforcement, and border protection — roles that mostly relate to public safety. Everything else basically stops working: National Parks shut down, the Smithsonian museums close, the FDA stops doing food inspections, court cases are postponed, rent assistance is delayed… the list goes on and on.
So… How does this make sense? It seems to me that government shutdowns are an unavoidable consequence of maintaining strong checks-and-balances among government branches. When the House and the Senate cannot agree or when the President rejects their proposition, we do not have any sort of tie-breaker or third party who is supposed to step in an make the decision because that would be unfair… right?
While it was entertaining to watch the high school drama of U.S. politics play out, these personal attacks did nothing to end the shutdown faster and simply made both parties more stubborn.
The only way to end a shutdown is negotiation between the contending parties (with one exception that I'll get to later), resulting in a budget that everyone agrees upon. But in this particular shutdown, the divide between parties deepened the fracture both in Congress and in the nation. Instead of resolving the budget issue quickly through private and mature negotiations, members of Congress and the president held steady in their positions and resorted to public humiliation, "hostage-taking," and tit-for-tat antics. Most notable was the tension between democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and Trump. After Pelosi publicly announced that Trump would not be welcome in the House chamber to deliver the State of the Union address (a speech given annually by the president) until the shutdown was over, Trump canceled Pelosi's trip to Brussels and Afghanistan less than an hour before her plane was set to leave.
While on the one hand it was entertaining to watch the high school drama of U.S. politics play out, these personal attacks between two of the most powerful people in our nation did nothing to end the shutdown faster and simply made both parties more stubborn. After 35 days, Trump announced that he would reopen the government with a bill that provided funding until February 15. This measure was meant to allow negotiations about the budget to continue without hundreds of thousands of federal workers having to continue working without pay or not working at all. I'll get to an explanation of what happened after the 15th, but first I want to talk about the impact the shutdown had on Americans.
III. Who Did the Shutdown Affect?
When Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer called Trump's tactics "hostage-taking," he hit at a key consequence of government shutdowns: the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who went without pay for over a month. After the shutdown started on December 22, 2018, more than 800,000 federal workers stopped receiving pay. Of those, roughly 350,000 had to keep working without pay. They missed two paychecks during the 35 days. Many of these workers struggled to get by during this period and protested on Capitol Hill with signs like "Congress gets paid while we get played" and "Hungry Hostage." TSA workers began calling in sick or even quitting, putting extra pressure on those who decided to keep working (if you experienced long flight delays in December or January, now you know why). Many families working for the United States Coast Guard had to collect groceries from food pantries, and some also stopped receiving help paying for their housing.
But federal workers weren't the only ones impacted by the shutdown. Tens of thousands of immigration hearings were canceled because immigration judges were furloughed, national parks staff were unable to respond to emergencies, NASA was unable to fix the broken Hubble Space Telescope, tourism suffered, and Native American tribes that rely on federal funding struggled to get food and healthcare. The list goes on.
IV. Was it Worth it?
It is unclear whether or not the shutdown was worth it. After 35 days of suffering, our country had accomplished absolutely nothing. Some might argue that Pelosi and Democrats "won" the shutdown by standing their ground. But can this really be called a win when it happened at the expense of the American people? Can it be called a win when it pushed our parties further apart?
Can this really be called a win when it happened at the expense of the American people?
When Trump demanded the $5.7 billion, saying he would keep the government shut down for months or years until he got his wall, the Democratic opposition had a tough choice to make: they could succumb to his threats and let federal employees go back to work, or they could wait it out and stand behind their belief that $5.7 billion should not be spent on Trump's vanity project. Blame started piling up on both sides, fingers were pointed, and in the end, everyone came out looking worse than they had before.
Finally, the shutdown was clearly not worth it for the president, who put himself in a tricky position that he could only get out of by conceding. He had a moment of realization that he is not always going to get what he wants with the newly democratic House of Representatives. Also, as the shutdown progressed, Trump's approval rating among his main supporters dropped several percentage points, which is an obvious loss for him.
V. What Happens Next?
Remember when I said earlier that the only way to end the shutdown was through negotiations, with one exception? So that was kind of true.
Negotiations have been going on for a few weeks now since the shutdown ended because Congress had until the 15th to decide on a new budget. The House and the Senate just passed the new spending package that includes $1.375 billion for 55 miles of fencing along the southern border — a measure that Trump previously rejected.
Trump has agreed to sign this new package. However, he has declared a national emergency to build the wall anyway. This would have been another way out of the shutdown, but he has put off taking this action until now.
The national emergency declaration deserves its own article, and it would be too complicated for me to get into the details in this article. Basically, the president has the right to declare a national emergency, which circumvents Congress and allows the president to siphon funds from other programs to build his wall. However, this measure has draw bipartisan opposition, and Trump is already facing multiple lawsuits.
After we have more information about Trump's intentions with the national emergency, I will get started on writing a new article.
VI. What Does All of This Mean for the United States and Why Should You Care?
If there is one thing that has been made clear to me through this whole shutdown process, it is this: Donald Trump does not care about border security. Now I know that might be confusing because it seems like he is shaping his entire platform around border security, but I would suggest you look a bit further into his motivations. What Donald Trump really cares about is building a big wall that he can tell everyone in the world about, a wall that would surely come along with altered statistics about lower crime rates in the U.S., regardless of what the actual numbers reflect. His supporters on the right buy into this message because they too do not really care about border security — they care about the imagined symbol of the wall that would protect a white America from the outside world. I could write an entire article on Trump supporters (actually, maybe I will…), but the bottom line is that the president and conservative news outlets have repeatedly lied to the majority of Trump's base, and they have this grand, constructed image of the illegal immigrant as the source of all of their problems. Well, the illegal immigrant and the liberals.
Anyway, Trump supporters and Trump himself are by no means representative of the Republican party. This shutdown really exposed the spectrum of political ideologies in Congress and in the United States, from the ultra liberal to the ultra conservative. In the end, I think ending the shutdown was one of the most respectable steps Trump has taken while in office (though of course, he also started it). It takes courage to concede in front of the nation, even if he tried to cover up his concession. Trump is a businessman, first and foremost, but it seems like the newly Democratic Congress might — might, I said — be teaching him how to be a politician.
So why should you, whoever you might be, care about all this nonsense? I think, whether you are from the U.S. or not, it can be very easy to criticize Donald Trump and blame him as the source of America's current political state. He really is an easy target. But if you want to actually understand the state of the United States of America, you have to look beyond our ugly face. If the child driving our national car crashes into a tree, it is not just his fault. It is ours as well. And I think that if more people come to that realization, especially people from the U.S., then we can start making change.
End note 1: All photo credits are to Olive Honan (that's me).
End note 2: Several times in this article I used the terms "America" or "American" to refer to the United States or to U.S. Citizens. I recognize that Minerva is an international community and that America is a continent (or 2, depending on what they teach in your country), and it does not only refer to the United States. I used this terminology because it is standard when writing about the U.S., and frankly it sounds awkward to use the term "U.S. citizen". I welcome further discussion about this in the comments section or directly to me, as long as the discussion is fruitful and open-minded.
End note 3: If anyone reading this article has a different opinion than mine about this topic or would like more information, I would love to talk about it! Please reach out to me, and I plan on writing more about U.S. politics in the future. I would also love it if students from other countries would write about the inner-workings of their countries' politics so we can learn from each other. Thank you for reading.
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Alzheimer's Breakthrough Revealed
'Eye-opening' dementia breakthrough announced |
Good News Network – A study suggesting dementia may be caused by leaky blood vessels in the brain was welcomed by the Alzheimer's Society who said it could lead to earlier diagnosis and potential treatments.
A research team at the University of Southern California found that leaky capillaries turned out to be early onset indicators of Alzheimer's disease, signaling cognitive impairment before the hallmark toxic protein buildup begins.
They now believe that repairing the leaks could slow down the devastating neurological illness—or even prevent the debilitating condition. Though cautioning that future studies are needed, one co-author called the results "eye-opening." Will You Get Alzheimer's? Check This One Body Part
Dr. James Pickett, head of research at Alzheimer's Society, said: "Our researchers have been working for years to investigate how blood vessel health links to dementia, and to understand how leaks in the blood-brain barrier could increase the risk of dementia.
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5 players who earned big contracts at the World Cup
Sunday July 15 2018
There were so many wonderful performances this World Cup, and plenty from players who are already established as the world's best. But there were also several breakout performances at this tournament, from young players, or those who were just looking for a chance ... and seized it. Here are five players who earned massive contracts at this World Cup and broke out in a big way.
1. Denis Cheryshev
Cheryshev was one of the big breakout stars of this World Cup after an unfortunate injury to Alan Dzagoev only minutes into the first match of the tournament forced Russia manager Stanislav Cherchesov to bring in Cheryshev off the bench. That decision led to an absolutely shining performance from Cheryshev throughout the tournament, scoring four goals and helping drive Russia all the way to the quarter-finals before the hosts were knocked out.
2. Kylian Mbappe
An odd choice, sure. Mbappe, pre-tournament, was already valued as one of the most expensive players in the world. But it says something about his World Cup performance that he's only increased his value over the last few weeks. That's how brilliant Mbappe has been, leading France's attack at just 19 years old to a place in a World Cup final.
3. Christian Cueva
Christian Cueva may best be remembered at the 2018 World Cup for his stunning penalty miss against Denmark, but that one low moment should not undercut what was an incredible performance for the 26-year-old Peruvian. Cueva currently plays for Sao Paolo in Brazil, but with that creativity and passing ability, it's all but certain that bigger European clubs will come calling soon.
4. Harry Maguire
The Leicester City defender was not thought of as a strong feature of the England squad when it was announced for the World Cup, but the end result showed how much quality the young player has. He was a consistently strong defensive presence for the Three Lions all the way through the tournament to their eventual semi-final exit, and his headed goal against Sweden showed how effective he can be on set pieces as well.
5. Hirving Lozano
Hirving "Chucky" Lozano not only had the best nickname at the 2018 World Cup, he also had one of the true breakout performances, as the 22-year-old Mexico star led his country to thrilling wins over Germany and South Korea before eventually falling to Brazil in the Round of 16.


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Star Scrappers: Cave-in is a game for 2 up to 4 players who take roles of Galactic entrepreneurs - some of rival mining bosses who compete in this difficult, sometimes even merciless, industry. Your job is to excavate the Hexis crystals.
The goal of the game is to get as many victory points as possible before the mine collapses!
To overcome your competition you will have to recruit mercenary labourers, use their skills, and collect precious artefacts. However, you'll have to keep looking over your shoulder! Your competition is only waiting for a chance to buy your trusted men off and steal the bounty from under your nose!
Every turn you can perform two out of four possible actions:
recruiting mercenaries
sending mercenaries to collect crystals
sending mercenaries to find artefacts
using special action of a chosen mercenary
Mechanics of Cave-in can be described as "discard building game". With every action players put mercenaries into their discard. Now, the order of the discard also matters, because your top discarded card gives you a special action at the beginning of your next turn. But beware! If your discard grows too interesting, another player may forfeit their entire turn just to steal the discard from you!
The player that collects most Victory Points wins.
Star Wars: Empire vs Rebellion€12.95
Claim victory in the Galactic Civil War in Star Wars: Empire vs. Rebellion, a fast-paced card game for two players. In every game, you and your opponent match wits and resources over key events. If you can thwart your opponent, you claim the event, bringing you closer to victory. Whether you seek to triumph through military might, or use diplomacy to achieve your ends, the fate of the galaxy rests in your hands.
On one side of this galactic battleground are the heroes of the Rebel Alliance. Only rarely can these heroes go toe to toe with the unlimited reserves of the Imperial Navy and Army. Instead, the iconic characters of Star Wars and the unsung heroes of the Rebellion must work in secret, utilizing diplomacy, reconnaissance, and the Force to achieve their aims. Even when the Rebellion deploys its full military strength to win a battle or destroy a key Imperial emplacement, they need the groundwork put in place by Alliance Special Forces.
Opposing the heroic endeavors of the Rebel Alliance is the massive power of the Empire, led by the twisted Emperor. The dark side of the Force is strong with the Emperor and Darth Vader, and the military might of the Empire is unparalleled across the galaxy. Whether you undertake aggressive negotiations or hire bounty hunters and scum to ferret out Rebel spies, making the Empire the ultimate power in the galaxy rests in your hands.
To successfully win these struggles and reclaim the galaxy in Star Wars: Empire vs. Rebellion, you will need to utilize all of your resources. Every turn, you can increase your faction's presence at the current event by drawing the top card from your deck and putting it into play. Each resource card you play give you more power and brings you closer to the objective value of the current event. As an example, the resource card shown to the right has a resource value of five, which it contributes to your total resource value while in play. Playing more resource cards may bring you closer to your target, but it also makes your efforts more obvious. If your total resource value ever passes the event's objective value, your forces are discovered and your opponent claims the event.
Instead of playing a new resource card, you can also trigger the power of a resource card currently in play, exercising the might of the Empire or the cunning of the Rebel Alliance. To activate a resource card's power, you must exhaust it by rotating it 90 degrees clockwise. Once a card is exhausted, you can't use its power unless it becomes ready again. In addition, an exhausted card contributes its exhausted resource value, shown in the lower left-hand corner of the card while the resource is ready.
Space! For millennia, humans have marveled at the cosmos. Modern astronomy gives us valuable insight about what's happening in the universe, but there is still a sense of wonder to be had in looking up at the expanse above us.
In Stellar, you are stargazers, calibrating your telescopes to bring into view celestial objects of various types — planets, moons, asteroids, interstellar clouds, black holes, even satellites — as you create a beautiful display of the night sky!
You have eleven rounds to play cards to your telescope and notebook, building a night sky tableau. After that, you'll calculate your points, and the stargazer with the most point wins!
The Fox in the Forest€14.95
The Fox in the Forest is a trick-taking game for two players. Aside from the normal ranked- and suited-cards used to win tricks, fairy characters such as the Fox and the Witch have special abilities that let you change the trump suit, lead even after you lose a trick, and more.
You score points by winning more tricks than your opponent, but don't get greedy! Win too many tricks, and you will fall like the villain in so many fairy tales...
Treachery in a Pocket€9.95
In Treachery in a Pocket, players try to manipulate the position of various characters, according to their secret agendas. Using one of their four available actions each turn, they move the character cards up or down on their status grid, wounding or killing them if necessary. At the end of the game, the player who most effectively moved their allies to a high position and lowered their enemies wins.
Vikings Gone Wild€35.95
Each turn in Vikings Gone Wild — a deck-building, resource management game based on the online real-time strategy game — players can either buy permanent buildings sitting in front of them (resource factories, resources containers, etc) or buy units, towers and special cards that improve their deck and offense/defense capacity.
The only way to win is by successfully attacking each other, and each attack involves interesting bluffing mechanisms in which the attacker doesn't know the defense capacity of their opponent...
Vikings Gone Wild: Guild Wars€17.95
Guild Wars contains 110 cards and adds a new team play game mode to Vikings Gone Wild.
4 new types of Buildings (Forge, Boost Tower, Guild Tower, and Wall Builder)
3 new types of Units (Fairies, Wall Breakers, and Bear Riders)
1 new Defense Tower (Pig Anti Air)
8 new Odin's Path cards (Cow Trap, Transporter, War Axe, Valkyrie Wings, Mini Cannon, Hero Trap, Dwarf, and Goblin Copter)
1 new Divine Favor (Ragnar)
4 Guild War markers
2 new end-game bonuses
5 new Missions
Vikings Gone Wild: It's a...€17.95
It's a Kind of Magic contains 110 cards, including a new card type: Spells. When included in the game, Spells replace Defense, Units, or both.
1 new Building (Sorceress Tower)
4 new Units (Shaman, Sorceress, Dreki, and Dreki Eggs)
6 new Spells (Shield, Thunder, Magic Manipulation, Ice Trap, Magic Potion, and Gold Touch)
1 new Divine Favor (Hel)
8 new Odin's Path cards (Necronomicon, Destruction, Sheep Storm, and Zap Trap)
2 new end-game bonuses
5 new Missions
Vikings Gone Wild: Masters...€26.95
In the land of Vikings, a new kind of warrior has surfaced. The Druids. These mysterious individuals are capable of powerful manipulations. Basing their strength on sacred artefacts, they can invoke terrifying creatures and get them to work on their behalf. Welcome to Vikings Gone Wild – Master of Elements expansion.
This expansion introduces a new type of resource: Elements.
All cards from Units, Odin's Path and the newly introduced Artefacts, provide alternative effects triggered with these Elements.
This expansion offers a completely asymetric start thanks to 3 permanent Artefact picked through a draft mechanic at the beginning of the game, offering a chance to pick some top card and build a strategy early on.
Vikings Gone Wild: Ragnarok!€12.95
A solo/cooperative mode for Vikings Gone Wild.
It includes:
18 undead units card
15 undead buildings
5 bosses
6 tasks
8 objectives
1 Ragnarok!
1 helper card
In the two-player game Watergate, one player represents the Nixon administration and tries not to resign before the end of the game while the other player represents The Washington Post and tries to show the connections between Nixon and some of his informers.
Awards & Honors
2019 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Winner
2019 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee
2019 Cardboard Republic Striker Laurel Winner
2019 Cardboard Republic Striker Laurel Nominee
Wingspan Revised Edition...€49.95
The Swift-Start Promo Pack includes first-round walkthrough guides and specific new bird cards to use with them. For those who already own Wingspan, the swift-start guides are still helpful for teaching new players, and the 10 new cards can be shuffled into the bird deck.
Wingspan is a competitive, medium-weight, card-driven, engine-building board game from Stonemaier Games.
You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats (actions). These habitats focus on several key aspects of growth:
Gain food tokens via custom dice in a birdfeeder dice tower
Lay eggs using egg miniatures in a variety of colors
Draw from hundreds of unique bird cards and play them
The winner is the player with the most points after 4 rounds.
Featured Components:
170 unique bird cards (57x87mm)
26 bonus cards (57x87mm)
16 Automa cards (57x87mm)
103 food tokens
75 egg miniatures
5 custom wooden dice
5 player mats
1 birdfeeder dice tower
2-piece Game Trayz custom tray
1 goal mat
8 goal tiles
1 first-player token
40 action cubes (8 per player)
4 clear plastic resource containers
1 scorepad (50 sheets; 1 sheet used for all players each game)
3 rulebooks (core, Automa, and Appendix)


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Two officers, responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he died, have been charged with falsifying prison records.
The disgraced billionaire killed himself in August, while awaiting trial on sex abuse charges.
They're accused of neglecting their duties by not checking on him every half hour as required - and fabricating log entries to show that they had.
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I usually perform a comprehensive Initial Evaluation getting to know each patients condition and customizing a physical therapy plan of care to each individual patient depending on their goals in their daily lives.
I am a manual therapist and I focus on musculoskeletal injuries from sports rehab, neuromuscular disorders, most post op Orthopedic conditions that require patients to return to normal function in their daily lives.
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It is not out of the ordinary to see somebody with pierced ears and, as a matter of fact, most of us don't really give it much thought. It has become such an ordinary custom that it seems everybody has their ears pierced at least once and at times, they may even have them pierced multiple times. Most people even get their ears pierced when they are still babies, so it is a part of them for their entire life.
The reason why people get their ears pierced may differ from one person to another. In some cases, it is just a matter of wanting to wear some ear rings and it is quite a simple thing to have your ears pierced in the first place. At other times, however, somebody may be trying to make a statement and there are some unusual ear rings out there which allow people to do so. From time to time, however, you may run into somebody who has their ears pierced and it's for a reason you had never thought of before.
There is an ancient healing method known as reflexology, and those reflex points run through various areas of the body. When you press on that point or if you use it for acupuncture, it helps to free up energy that may be stored in the body and being blocked for one reason or another. One of the reasons why people use reflexology is for the relief of headaches.
The type of ear piercing that is shown in this video is known as Daith piercings. When individuals suffer from a problem with chronic headaches, it may be able to help restore their overall health and relieve them from some of the pain that they are experiencing.


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I'm Not Alone Coming to PC in June (w/Screens + Art)
Zombie shooters, we all know them and we all love them. There's something about another human that is wandering around in a quest for brains that makes us just decimate flesh via bullets with so much joy. Exploring a mansion and unlocking secrets in a highly realistic horror environment might not be something you haven't done in a Zombie game before, but it is certainly something you may enjoy a second time around. From the inclusion of genre fan-favorite, puzzles, to the graphics of the title, this game shows promise. Enjoy the screens and game concept art after the break.
I'm Not Alone is expected to release June 18th of this year for the PC.


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If you're looking to add a different flavor note to your fried chicken, add celery seeds, sugar, and salt to the buttermilk marinade!
cloves garlic, thinly sliced
low-fat buttermilk, divided
celery seeds, divided
Kosher salt and pepper
whole chicken (5 to 6 lbs), cut into 10 pieces
all-purpose flour
peanut or canola oil, for frying
PER SERVING: 485 calories, 27.5 g fat (6.5 g saturated fat), 37 g protein, 1,005 mg sodium, 21 g carbs, 1 g fiber
WD TEST KITCHEN TIP: Dip chicken in marinade and flour twice before frying for a shatteringly crisp crust. Switch it up by adding sugar, salt, and other seasonings to the buttermilk marinade. The oil's temp drops every time you add chicken—adjust the heat to keep it at 325°F.


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Were you able to find the right Providers within hospital ? If you're also a provider of hospital and you're not featured in the business directory yet, you can always Add an entry for free.
The results list for hospital in Stinesville. You can find the best hospital vendors and providers in Stinesville in the Stinesville Business Directory. Currently there is no company is registered in the Stinesville business directory under hospital.


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[The school's teams are "The Muskies"].
A quick online search found a suitable muskie illustration to base the work upon; just to keep the piece anatomically "in the ballpark".
[Click the illustration, if you wish to visit the sourcepage at TNTOutdoors.]
After removing the bulk of the tines (pointy bits), I sketched in the Muskie shape and relative position of eyes, gills, mouth, fins, etc. The antler was chosen for its tine positions that allowed for the projection of the pectoral and pelvic fin pairs and the spread of the tailfin.
The piece was clamped in a vise to remove the excess antler with a right angle grinder and hard disk, then a right angle grinder with a "flap-sander" disc.
Note the parallel "score lines" on the fish's back.
Hard disks are used to cut grooves into the mass of the antler, down to the depth of required removal. "Cross-hatching" the grooves makes the removal of material easier.
After cutting away the bulk of the antler mass immediate to the sculpture, the main beam of the antler is cut away (because the work will be done in the hand from this point instead of the vise) and a rudimentary mouth is cut.
A rotary tool with grinder-disc, burr and sander attachments will be used to finish the piece from this point (the last of the initial sketch still visible on the "outside" of the beam).
Gills and mouth roughed-in; all fins nearly finalised.
Eyes hinted at and given projection by reducing the head around them.
Body's "sinuous" shape exaggerated by reducing opposite sides at different points along length in both vertical and horizontal dimensions.
Tail given "concavity" in vertical dimension. Hard external "plates" on upper jaw roughed in.
Eye shaped and hole drilled for iris representation. Possible installation position mirrors source illustration.
Most of the antler carving that I have seen is Inuit Art [Wikipedia article].
See also, Clint's Inuit and Native Art Bulletin.
But there were some conspicuous examples of carved and polished deer antler in the local, prehistoric, cultural toolkit; harpoon points.
Specifically, fishing harpoons.
[Illustration from the book Grand Mound By Michael K. Budak; published by Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1995.]
Michael Budak ran the Grand Mound Centre, before the MHS closed it in 2003.
This is the type of fishing activity and tool that was represented in my previous posting about the one-day painting challenge at Fort Frances High.


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How Does a Wireless Landline Work?by Shala Munroe
If you don't want to be tied down to the landline phone jack locations in your walls, use a wireless phone jack system. These systems allow you to add new landline phone jacks to electrical outlets in your home without the need to run additional wires. They work by using radio signals to transmit the data to and from your landline connection.
Wireless Phone Jack Systems
Wireless phone jack systems use two components: a base unit and a receiver unit. The base unit connects to your landline jack and transmits the data wirelessly to the receiver unit, where your phone is plugged in. This allows you to move your home phone into any room in your house without the hassle of rewiring and adding new phone jacks.
Installation of most wireless phone jack systems is simple. Plug the base unit into a wall electrical outlet and into your landline phone jack. Plug the receiver unit into an electrical outlet in any room in your house, then plug your phone into the receiver unit. Most base units can support more than one receiver unit, in case you want to add several phones in rooms that don't have wired phone jacks.
Radio Signals
Most wireless phone jack systems use radio frequencies to transmit the data between the base and receiver units. The units convert the radio signals into electrical signals that can be processed by your landline system and your phone. Both units are designed to send and receive the radio signals and make the conversion. When you receive a call, the base unit converts the electrical signals into radio frequencies and transmits the information to the receiver unit, causing your phone to ring. When you talk during a conversation, the base and receiver units send your information to the other unit and receive information back. This split-second transfer happens so fast that there's no noticeable delay when talking on your phone.
Wireless landline phone jack systems don't just work with phones. Most systems also work with fax machines and TV satellite receivers, and some support your computer needs, allowing you to connect to the Internet via dial-up or DSL.
Static and Security
Because the system uses radio frequencies to transmit data, there is a chance of interference from other radio signals, including those from a neighbor using a similar system. Change your system's security code, following the instructions in your user manual, if you hear snippets of other conversations or severe static on your line. Another source of light static may be nearby electronics -- move your receiver units farther from your TVs and radios if you're experiencing light static on your landline.
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This week the XXX Olympiad Games has featured some outstanding performances in Track & Field. None more impressive than that of Kirani James, a 19-year-old former standout at the University of Alabama. Coached by Harvey Glance, former Auburn University athlete and 1976 Olympic Gold Medal winner, James crushed the finish line all alone in 43.94 seconds. Upsetting the favored USA 400 meter athletes, he won the first Olympic Gold Medal for his native Grenada.
Watching James win I could not help but think of Chariots of Fire, the winner of Best Picture at the 1981 Academy Awards. This is the fact-based story of two British athletes preparing and participating in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games. Eric Lidden, a devout Christian running for the glory of his God and Harold Abrahams, a Jew, running to overcome prejudice. Unlikely to win against the heavily favored USA athletes, against all odds they return home triumphant.
Don't get me wrong, I am ways rooting for Team USA, but each time I watch this movie I was find myself cheering for these two Brits. This is arguable the best 'Olympic' movie ever made. Check it out. Watch it.
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Screwable metal pipe, red , ca. 12,5cm, aluminium anodized
Due to the shimmering red color this screwable metal pipe made of anodized aluminium gets its special appeal. The pipes slim neck cools the emerging smoke on its way to your lungs. The verves in the tube, which remind of single links, ensure that the pipe can be held securely and lies well in the hand. The plain surface of the pipe bowls bottom makes it possible to put the pipe aside without the danger of falling over, even when you are actually smoking it.
For cleaning the pipe the screwable metal pipe can be dismounted into two pieces.
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June 19, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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The 2019 Lourdes Summer Baseball Camp will take place from June 17-19 for kids in grades 4-12 at Total Sports Complex in Rossford.
The camp will cost $100 per player and run from 9 a.m. until noon each day.
Campers will spend a day focusing on infield and outfield defense, another day on working on offensive techniques at the plate and running bases, and a final day focusing on pitching mechanics and catching defense. The camp will be under the direction of head coach Jeremy Snow, and his staff, with Lourdes players helping teach techniques.
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Call Me Kuchu tells the story of the life and death of Uganda's first openly gay man. At a time when an Anti-Homosexuality Bill is pending in Uganda's parliament, the film follows David Kato and three fellow activists, documenting their daily lives.
2012 | 2 wins including: Cinema Fairbindet Prize
2012 | 2nd place: Panorama Audience Award
2012 | Special Mention
2012 | Nominee: Humanitas Award


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I'm perhaps the least qualified person ever to review a sushi restaurant. I avoid raw fish and hate the taste of seaweed. Yet I'm a big fan of Tokyo Rose, so consider this a heartfelt yet unqualified restaurant review.
Apparently back in the day this Ivy Road spot was a hot destination spot with great live music. Now, not so much. Since Tokyo Rose's reopening in 2005, every time we visit there's always a sprinkling of patrons but it doesn't exactly scream nightlife. The setting is nice enough with a sushi bar that I've never seen anyone sit at and a private room with traditional Japanese floor seating. Supposedly there's a downstairs karaoke bar but we have… Read More


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Deep convnets for image recognition
Translation Invariance
- Image
- Different positions
- Same objects
- Text
- Kitten in a long text
- You can use weight sharing and train them jointly for those inputs
- Neural networks that share their parameters across space
- We take a portion of the image and run a neural network.
- We then slide the neural network across the image
- Here you can see we've a layer that has a deeper depth but smaller space.
- We will slide the neural network on this layer that will again increase the depth and reduce the space.
- We continue to do this until we've reached a stage of maximum depth k where k are the outputs we want.
- Instead of having stacks of matrix multipliers, we would have stacks of convolutions.
- Here you can see we're trying to reduce the space and increase the depth.
Convnets Terms
- Strides
- Where stride is the number of pixels that we are shifting.
- Stride: 1
- Output same size as input
- Stride: 2
- Output roughly half the size
- Paddings
- Left: valid padding
- Right: same padding
Strides, depth and padding
- Imagine you have 28x28 image.
- You run a 3x3 convolution on it.
- Input depth: 3
- Output depth: 8
- For stride: 1 and padding: same (1)
- You would have the exact same dimensions.
- You would be taking a F x F x D_input dot-product to come up with a number.
- For stride: 1 and padding: valid (0)
- You would have one less row and column
- For stride: 2 and padding: valid (0)
- You would have half the output.
- For stride: 1 and padding: same (1)
Calculating Output Size
- $O = \frac {W - K - 2P} {S} + 1 $
- O is the output height/length
- W is the input height/length
- K is the filter size (kernel size)
- P is the padding
- S is the stride
Padding Size
- In general it's common to see same (zero) padding, stride 1 and filters of size FxF.
- Zero-padding = $\frac {F - 1}{2}$
- If you do not pad (same padding), you would decrease the width and height of your layers gradually.
- This might not be something you want.
- If you do not pad (same padding), you would decrease the width and height of your layers gradually.
- Number of filters = depth.
- We try to keep this in powers of two.
- 32, 64, 128, 512 etc.
- This is for computational reasons.
Number of Parameters
- Number of parameters in layer = (F x F x D_input + 1) x D_filter
- Where F is the filter size
- D_input is the depth of the input layer
- 1 is the bias
- D_filter is the depth of the filter
- Parameters per filter: (F x F x D_input + 1)
Convolution Networks
- Fully Connected (FC) Layer
- Basically it connects to the entire input volume like a neural network.
- Final layer after we have done all our convolutions.
- ReLU Layers
- Remember there are ReLU Layers after every Conv and FC.
- Fully Connected (FC) Layer
Advanced convnet-ology
- Pooling
- 1 x 1 convolutions
- Inception
- Striding
- We shift the filter by a few pixel each time.
- This is very aggressive method that removes a lot of information.
- Pooling
- We can take a smaller stride.
- Take all the convolutions in the neighbors.
- Combine them somehow, and this is called pooling.
- We will be preserving the depth.
- But we will be reducing the width and height.
- Max Pooling
- At every point in a feature map, look at a small neighborhood around that point and compute the maximum of all the responses around it.
- Typical architecture
- Max Pooling
- Average pooling
- Instead oftaking the max, we take the average.
- It's similar to taking a blurred, low-resolution, view of the feature map.
- Average pooling
1x1 Convolutions
- Here we are using only 1 pixel by 1 pixel.
- Traditional.
- Now we add a 1x1 convolution.
Inception Module
- This is like an ensemble of methods.
Evaluation of results
- We can use accuracy to evaluate the predicted values and our labels.
- But a better method would be to use the top-1 and top-5 errors.
Progress in Convs (in order of lower top-1 and top-5 errors)
- LeNet-5
- AlexNet
- ZFNet
- VGGNet
- GoogLeNet
- ResNet
- As of September 2016, this is the latest state-of-the-art implementation for convs.
Further Readings
- Convolution Arithmetic for Deep Learning
- A Beginner's Guide To Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks Part 1
- A Beginner's Guide To Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks Part 2
- CS231n Winter 2016 Lecture 7 Convolutional Neural Networks Video
- CS231n Winter 2016 Lecture 7 Convolutional Neural Networks Lecture Notes


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Ok so for about a week 2 weeks my LO (little one) has been rolling over on the bed or cough but could not on the hard floor. Well we were at his check up yesterday and the doc put him on his tummy to check his strength and he healed his up at 90* for a few mins, and then rolled over. the doc was like there is no way... so she put him back on his tummy, this time he rolled over the other way right away. so she did this until he rolled over 2 times in each direction before she believed he could do it.
she told us we would have an early mover and so to expect crawling and walking early. b/c he is about 2 months ahead of schedule physical and also ahead in the fact that he is sleeping through the night.
Anyone else have a baby that is rolling over? any one else sleeping through the night?


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Burn Out (with Chemlab) at the Miramar
Coldwave (a sound combining guitar with electronic-heavy industrial rock) favorites Chemlab will be taking over the Miramar Theatre on Friday, May 7th. Their "Midi Ghetto Tour" also includes cyberpunkers (a blend of industrial, punk, electronic, and metal sounds) Left Spine Down, featuring Jeremy Inkel of Front Line Assembly, and fellow cold-wavers 16-Volt, whose lineup for this tour includes the band's own Eric Powell along with Steve White of KMFDM/Pig.
This tour returns vocalist Jared Louche to performing with members of Boston-based electronic/industrial outfit mindFIELD as his backing band (musicians he's worked with on and off for the last five years). Louche (formerly known as Hendricks — 'louche' is defined as "not reputable or decent" by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and is a term used to describe a part of the process of drinking absinthe), the only constant member, started the band with Dylan Thomas More and (short-term) Joe Frank in Washington D.C. circa 1989. After releasing their first EP, 10 Ton Pressure, Louche and More relocated to New York. The album Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar, Chemlab's most successful release thusfar, came out in 1992, followed by East Side Militia on Fifth Colvmn Records. The band broke up in 1997, but later reformed for short periods several times, releasing three additional albums.
Musicians who have played in Chemlab include drummer extraordinaire Martin Atkins (Public Image Limited, Killing Joke, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Pigface), bassist Charles Levi (My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult), the late William Tucker (Ministry, Thrill Kill Kult, Pigface), and guitarist Greg Lucas (The Final Cut). Having toured with the likes of Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, White Zombie, GWAR, Sister Machine Gun, and USSA (featuring Paul Barker of Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Pailhead, 1000 Homo DJs, etc.), among others, Chemlab has created its own 'machine rock' sound, dubbed 'angel-dustrial'. Later albums were released on labels including Invisible and Underground, Inc., and also a few remixes on Wax Trax. Louche also performed with industrial monster-group Pigface and appeared on the 2003 album "Easy Listening…", notably lending his vocal stylings to the image-laden spoken word piece "Binary Stream".
The band has been invited (as are you) to a party at Club?, located at 5th and National (807 S. 5th Street) after the show.
Chemlab performs at the Miramar Theatre (2844 N. Oakland). 8 p.m. 21+
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A team of 200 priests comment on daily Gospel
Liturgical day: Thursday 28th in Ordinary Time
Gospel text (Lk 11,47-54): En aquell temps, el Senyor digué: «Ai de vosaltres, que construïu monuments sepulcrals als profetes que els vostres pares van matar! Així demostreu que esteu d'acord amb el que ells van fer: els vostres pares van matar els profetes, i vosaltres construïu monuments que els recordin! (...)».
God is Reason (Logos) and Love (Relation)
(based on texts by Benedict XVI)
(Città del Vaticano, Vatican)
Today —facing the many inconsistencies of our history— our task as Christians is to make sure that our idea of God (reason and love) is not excluded from the debate about man. First, God Himself is the "Logos", the rational origin of all reality, the creative reason and the love from which the world came forth and which is reflected in the world: that is why man adheres to Him and complies with Him by keeping and open mind and defending a type of reason that is not blind to the moral dimensions of being.
Second, "Logos" means a reason that is not simply mathematical, but is at the same time the foundation and guarantee of the good. The Christian faith in God tells us that God —eternal Reason— is Love (He is not turning in on himself without relations to others). Precisely because He is sovereign and creator, because He embraces everything, He is Relation and He is Love.
—My faith in the incarnation, passion and death of Jesus Christ, for mankind, is the supreme expression that the heart of all morality is Love.


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Monthly Archives: August 2012
San Francisco-Academy of Sciences
My brother, friends, and I have had an amazing summer. We called it Summer Camp 2012. As our final hurrah to a summer well loved several of the peeps and I headed into the city for a day at the Academy of Sciences. It was an afternoon of wonder and excitement. We commented on the fact that because we did not have adult supervision….we might have misbehaved a bit more then the smaller people under feet.
All Smiles
Fantastic Camouflage
Delicately Gritty
After a full day of walking, giggling and (gently) poking sea stars we headed to dinner. It was decided by consensus that after a day spent near our aquatic friends, sushi was a good idea. On our way to our old faithful Naked Fish, I spotted a pair of headphones that could not be ignored. This young woman was commuting in style,listening to beats that definitely matched her SF beat.
Neon Headphones
San Francisco-Smiles and Underground Transportation
I was working early in the city a few Saturdays past. The part of town I was heading towards did not have a great deal of parking. So I decided to try taking Bart (Our local underground "Tube") from Berkeley into SF. To be honest, it was my first official time ever using Bart as a form of transportation. After living in the Bay Area almost four years…I decided it needed to be done
In many ways using public transportation frees one up to actually see. To observe and photograph at will, without the worries that go with maneuvering a car from point a to point b. One of the great joys I miss from my summer abroad was the freedom that came with constantly walking, and taking trains to my desired destinations.
One of the first people I saw after stepping off Bart was a very sweet man by the name of Salvatore. He was on his way to perform at a club, as he indicated, around the corner. We spoke for a few minutes, and upon hearing my name, he sang to me. It was a sweet ballad from Mexico about "Raquelita" or little Rachael. I was so tickled by his song, and left waving my goodbyes to him in souring spirits.
Saturday Morning
After a rather enjoyable morning working, it was time to head back to East Bay. I hopped on Bart and after almost taking the wrong route, I managed to find my way to the appropriate line.Part way into my trip I spent a few minutes watching a rather cool dude. I finally asked if I could photograph him. The headphones and the sunglasses were such an amazing blend of awesomeness.
Ready For Action
Fairfax-Motorbike Moments
I was out in Fairfax having a poke through one of my favorite stores Revolution 9. After finding several humor worthy presents for a friends birthday, I stumbled back out into the light. Looking up I saw a gentleman working in his absolutely magnificent Motorbike. Rider and ride felt so perfectly matched, the photograph below almost took itself. Chrome, leather, and a sense of adventure were the feelings I took with me as I headed home.
A pause in tinkering
Orange Strips
San Anselmo-The Local Coffee Spot
Dolores Park SF-Summer Lovin
Last Sunday afternoon I found myself in Dolores Park. I think that it falls in to the category of one of my favorite parks in the Bay Area. Always lots of happy picnicking people and general shenanigans to be had.
Such a lovely Hat
A Summer Moment
All Smiles
The Dance Off
Find Waldo Moment
Hermes in the Park
The Robot DJ!
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Moment
Lip Service
Perfect Reading Spot


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This pedicab seated two, so my daughter and I were prospective customers. The proprietor of the thing was a young black guy. Three or four times he called out to us, in a very friendly way, to take advantage of the service he was offering. He seemed like a cheerful and enterprising young man.…yet when at last I lost sight of him, he still hadn't got a customer.…Well, I think there are a few reasons why white people don't take black people up on these sorts of offers. Four male friends of mine worked as rickshaw drivers (same as pedicabs, I'm guessing) one summer back in Chicago. They were paid only by tips from their passengers, so their pay was based entirely on how many people accepted the offer for rides and how much those people wanted to pay them. In order from lightest to darkest they were white, Iranian, Mexican, and Black, and that's how their pay ranked. Some nights the white one made more than three times what the Black one had made.
There seemed to be quite a lot of [pedicabs], mostly occupied, mostly with young white guys pedaling. It occurred to me to wonder whether it's harder for a black pedicabbie (?) to pick up passengers than for a white one. Not because people are scared to be pedaled by a black man — this was midtown Manhattan, for heaven's sake, on a busy spring evening — but because white Americans just aren't comfortable in such an obvious service relationship with a black American doing muscle work on their behalf.
It became a little social experiment. Usually they all worked the same nights at the same time, and split up in pairs on different corners within a block or so of each other. They knew that the most business came from people with money to blow who were too lazy (or too drunk) to walk to the nearest subway stop. On a Thursday night ("the weekend" when you've got money) this meant slightly belligerent drunken white people whose lowered inhibitions allowed them to throw racist remarks at the darker drivers as they passed them up. In the late afternoon this meant women from the suburbs clutching their purses and their children, scowling at the man who just asked if they needed a ride. Yeah, Derbyshire, that must be really hard--to be the woman holding her purse, that is.
He goes on,
Similarly, there are probably a lot of black American women who wouldn't mind working as maids in prosperous white households, as used to be commonplace. I'm willing to bet, though, that there are large numbers of white people who would much rather not have a black maid. Not, again, because they fear a black maid would harm them, or be lazy or dishonest, but just because they would not feel comfortable in a master-servant relationship with a black person, after all the guilt-trip propaganda of the past 40 years.I always had a sneaking suspicion that all Huey Newton really wanted was to cause a good guilt-trip. As was pointed out on Pandagon, Derbyshire's language proves to be more insightful than anything he tries to say: aren't most domestic workers given titles like "housekeeper" or "nanny," rather than "servant"? And likewise, I don't think "master" is an appropriate job description, except in some circles. Maybe his problem comes from the fact that he does still see Black people doing favors for him as them "serving" him, and nothing more. Would he ever try to be friends with his Black housekeeper, or only pity her for her status as "servant"?
He tells the story of taking pity on a black shoeshiner who couldn't get any business otherwise; it was up to Derbyshire, the White Guilted Wonder, to swoop in and save this poor man from Black impoverished misery. But ((shocking!)) passersby mistake Derbyshire for playing the white master instead of white savior, and give him dirty looks. He's the fool that's fallen for our ploy about racism still existing. Poor baby.
So. This sort of white guilt isn't useful. It doesn't solve race-related problems. It doesn't even address them! And it pushes people with some amount of sympathy to actually become less active than they might feel inclined to be.
Like this hypothetical: A black woman needs a job, but doesn't have what she feels are marketable skills, and she has no degrees. She advertises herself as a housekeeper (women's work, right?) but has trouble getting work. She can't find any white regular customers, and those she works for temporarily imply that they feel guilty hiring her and playing into a historical "master-servant" role.
This is the situation Derbyshire is laying out so I'm going to work within it too, but his white guilt prevents him from moving beyond how hard it is in this situation for a white dude like him to find hired help. But the Black woman is probably in more dire staights than him.
1) Prospective white clients are going in with the assumption that they will be the "masters" of their housekeepers, rather than what they are--clients. Just like they are the clients of the guy who files their taxes or the baker. They feel guilty being in a role of dominance, because they are setting it up that way. They make chit-chat with the baker; they feel dominance over the housekeeper.
2) Because they feel guilty hiring a Black woman, they take the easy way out and don't hire her. Now she still doesn't have business.
3) Since the clients have taken the easy way out, they also haven't addressed why they feel so guilty. Nothing has been addressed!
Therefore: Progress in this situation (and many others) is impeded by white guilt. Derbyshire thinks of white guilt as propaganda, that Black people just want to make white people feel bad. So he feels bad, and doesn't have to do anything more. Obviously, that's not helpful: social progress comes from years of work by communities of people. White guilt's not getting anyone anywhere. Likewise, when issues of economic justice come up in my community I have two options: let middle-class guilt get the best of me and sit that one out (easy), or understand what sorts of middle-class privilege I've got and get to work (useful). Derbyshire can complain all he wants about how hard it is to feel guilty being white, but he wouldn't feel so guilty if he did something to actually make some changes.


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Who is Pierre?
Who is Pierre?
Pierre Wittmann is a painter who explores the implications of art, healing and spirituality. He creates therapeutic paintings and extra-sensory light structures.
For thirty years Pierre has cultivated truth, wisdom and happiness, and his journeys have guided him to numerous spiritual masters throughout the Orient and in the West.
He teaches Reiki and meditation, gives Human Design and I Ching readings, and offers Pyramidal Memories Transmutation (PMT), Angelic Healing and Chromotherapy Sessions. He strives to spread energies of peace, love and harmony on the planet.
Pierre has been writing a diary since 1984 and feels a deep need to share his personal experiences, his reflections on art and creation and the fruits of his spiritual quest. Since 2002, he has self-published a collection of shorts essays, A Guide to Happiness for the Third Millennium, two autobiographical books, Le parfum de l'éveil (in French) and Le jardin de la libération (in French), an illustrated book on his paintings, Peinture Peintures, a book of poems, Le silence des couleurs (in French), a novel, Marlène ou le jeu de la vie (in French), and a collection of glances on his life, Regarder la vie (in French).


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Now that we have more than two drivers in the house we have started this weird shuffling of cars that required a central place to leave the keys. I thought that was the perfect excuse to get out in the garage last week and make a thing! It's very quick and dirty, made of spare parts I had lying around. Maybe I will paint or stain it someday. An exceedingly short person would also notice that the method I choose to affix it to the refrigerator is not very pretty (an old harddrive magnet).
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Quick and Dirty Key Hanger
Wooden Car Keepsake
This summer, I helped a family friend build a new base for his grandma's dining room table. The old one had become wobbly and unstable. During the teardown, I kept a few hunks of wood, thinking I could use them for something in the future. I eventually decided to make a little wooden car from one of the pieces both because it was his grandma's table, and because they have a little boy. The wheels and axles are store bought, though I should have probably made my own.
This was the original shape of the wood. The car has a few places where I left the the rough hewn saw marks and drilled holes that hint back to the piece's original purpose.
How Great – Wooden Sign
This is quick sign I put together for one of my wife's friends. Simple pine board, routed and distressed with a vinyl sticker and clear coat to seal it. I used my keyhole bit on the back for mounting.
I used the cable strung across my garage, that's normally for suspending my silk screen exposure lamp, to let this dry overnight without any bugs attaching themselves.
Scratcher Tunnel
Our little cat absolutely loves playing under a piece of cardboard we fold up as a tent for him. But it always falls down, so I thought I'd make him a permanent one he could jump on.
I cut two or three wardrobe boxes into 1 1/2 inch strips on my bandsaw and then into 15 1/4 inch lengths with a 30 degree bevel on each side. I forgot to buy more glue so the above picture was as far as I got with what I had. It will be about 2 feet long when it's complete.
Staining Die Numbers
I got a custom request through etsy to make an icosahedron and stain the numbers on it for a young couple. That whole process was quite a bit of work, but I think it came out nicely. Haven't heard back from them yet, but I really hope they like it.
Cutting a Plaque
The last few weekends I have been working on a prototype plaque for an organization. I made a vinyl stencil, scroll-sawed around it, then masked off the edges and painted. I need to get a laser cutter, I could crank these out in minutes. This is just a process shot I took while cutting.
Building a Table Top
My wife bought a table a few weeks back that was really cute, but the top had been replaced with some veneered fiber board. This seemed like a good time for me to start my pipe-clamp army and I made her a new one (above).
I also threw together this base for my pipe clamps. I bought three 10′ iron pipes and cut them into pairs that are 2′, 3′, 4′, and 6′. I bought four sets of the IRWIN 1/2″ fittings.
Tealight Candle Holders
We made several of these this year in cedar and pine from something my wife found on Pinterest.
Driftwood Heart
This was a gift that honestly got finished on Christmas day for my wife. We visited some friends for Thanksgiving on the gulf coast, and brought home a bunch of little driftwood pieces. This will be a cute reminder around the house of that wonderful trip.


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Molecular Dating by Penalised Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood
chronos is the main function fitting a chronogram to a
phylogenetic tree whose branch lengths are in number of substitution
per sites.
makeChronosCalib is a tool to prepare data frames with the
calibration points of the phylogenetic tree.
chronos.control creates a list of parameters to be passed
- Keywords
- models
chronos(phy, lambda = 1, model = "correlated", quiet = FALSE,
calibration = makeChronosCalib(phy),
control = chronos.control())
## S3 method for class 'chronos':
print(x, ...)
makeChronosCalib(phy, node = "root", age.min = 1,
age.max = age.min, interactive = FALSE, soft.bounds = FALSE)
- phy
- an object of class
- lambda
- value of the smoothing parameter.
- model
- a character string specifying the model of substitution rate variation among branches. The possible choices are: ``correlated'', ``relaxed'', ``discrete'', or an unambiguous abbreviation of these.
- quiet
- a logical value; by default the calculation progress are displayed.
- calibration
- a data frame (see details).
- control
- a list of parameters controlling the optimisation procedure (see details).
- x
- an object of class
c("chronos", "phylo").
- node
- a vector of integers giving the node numbers for which a calibration point is given. The default is a short-cut for the root.
- age.min, age.max
- vectors of numerical values giving the minimum
and maximum ages of the nodes specified in
- interactive
- a logical value. If
TRUE, then
phyis plotted and the user is asked to click close to a node and enter the ages on the keyboard.
- soft.bounds
- (currently unused)
- ...
- in the case of
chronos.control: one of the five parameters controlling optimisation (unused in the case of
chronos replaces
chronopl but with a different interface
and some extensions (see References).
The known dates (argument
calibration) must be given in a data
frame with the following column names: node, age.min, age.max, and
soft.bounds (the last one is yet unused). For each row, these are,
respectively: the number of the node in the ``phylo'' coding standard,
the minimum age for this node, the maximum age, and a logical value
specifying whether the bounds are soft. If age.min = age.max, this
means that the age is exactly known. This data frame can be built with
makeChronosCalib which returns by default a data frame with a
single row giving age = 1 for the root. The data frame can be built
interactively by clicking on the plotted tree.
The argument
control allows one to change some parameters of
the optimisation procedure. This must be a list with names. The
available options with their default values are:
- tol = 1e-8:
= "discrete" (set this parameter to 1 to fit a strict clock
chronosreturns an object of class
c("chronos", "phylo"). There is a print method for it. There are additional attributes which can be visualised with
stror extracted with
makeChronosCalibreturns a data frame.
chronos.controlreturns a list.
Kim, J. and Sanderson, M. J. (2008) Penalized likelihood phylogenetic inference: bridging the parsimony-likelihood gap. Systematic Biology, 57, 665--674.
Paradis, E. (2013) Molecular dating of phylogenies by likelihood methods: a comparison of models and a new information criterion. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 67, 436--444.
Sanderson, M. J. (2002) Estimating absolute rates of molecular evolution and divergence times: a penalized likelihood approach. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19, 101--109.
See Also
- chronos
- makeChronosCalib
- chronos.control
- print.chronos
tr <- rtree(10)
### the default is the correlated rate model:
chr <- chronos(tr)
### strict clock model:
ctrl <- chronos.control(nb.rate.cat = 1)
chr.clock <- chronos(tr, model = "discrete", control = ctrl)
### How different are the rates?
attr(chr, "rates")
attr(chr.clock, "rates")
cal <- makeChronosCalib(tr, interactive = TRUE)
### if you made mistakes, you can edit the data frame with:
### fix(cal)
chr <- chronos(tr, calibration = cal)


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There was an increase in production shifting from China to alternative locations in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam, in 2018, according to CBRE Vietnam. While this trend is not new to many, as the cost of production in China continues to rise and makes relocation seem like a financially-viable choice to many manufacturers, there are some other major drivers that are worth highlighting.
A recent survey conducted in November by the UBS Evidence Lab, which collected responses from 200 manufacturing companies with significant export business or supply to exporters from China, identified key drivers for moving export production out of China.
Relative to the size of their economies, ASEAN economies, especially Vietnam, may be well-placed to benefit from this production shift, given Vietnam's key economic fundamentals, for example GDP growth, FDI, and inflation remaining positive while the country continues to invest heavily in infrastructure and helping manufacturers gain better access to key export markets by participating in several bilateral and multilateral trade agreements.
These drivers are on top of Vietnam's competitive land acquisition costs and labor costs (versus those in China and other neighboring countries), which have been underlying drivers for "China +1" strategies several surveys have identified.
The Vietnamese Government has spent billions of dollars improving the country's infrastructure to help attract FDI. According to figures from the Asian Development Bank and Bloomberg, Vietnam's public and private sector infrastructure investment has averaged 5.7 per cent of GDP in recent years; the highest in Southeast Asia.
This direction has proven successful, as improved major infrastructure projects such as new highways and expanded ports and airports have enticed developers to develop industrial parks or expand close to new infrastructure. In return, developers can offer new infrastructure when attracting occupiers from China.
Vietnam has signed many agreements, including bilateral and multilateral agreements, with many nations. These include five free trade agreements (FTAs) within ASEAN, six others with partners including China, South Korea, Japan, India, Australia and New Zealand, and four bilateral free trade agreements, including the Vietnam - Japan FTA, the Vietnam South Korea FTA, the EU - Vietnam FTA, which is expected to be signed this year, and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Key benefits from these trade agreements is that they allow the removal of duties among member countries, which helps attract more manufacturers to set up production in Vietnam to access tax benefits when they export to those markets.
US tariffs on China in the ongoing trade war between is equivalent to a scenario of Vietnam essentially possessing an FTA with the US and the country also poses a lower risk of trade war than China.
It also means that, in the short term, Vietnam's key exports like textiles and garments, footwear, mobile phones, consumer electronics, wooden furniture, seafood, bags, suitcases, and machinery could find better access into the US.
By reviewing the tariff list by product type, CBRE sees that TVs, mobile phones, and several wearable technology items are not yet included on the list and occupiers in these sectors, especially major occupiers, will look to relocate part of their supply chain to Vietnam to mitigate the trade war risk and tap into the country's competitive costs.


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Facebook Killed Our Reach By 90% or so yesterday so we need some extra help spreading the word. For instance, maybe you can help us spread this piece of Speculation, Analysis and OPINION from an Illicit Info Staff Writer| It has been reported that a leading American fast food restaurant chain is planning on changing the names of their menu items in order to stop offending Muslims.
Recall that the United States House of Representatives altered standard dress code to accommodate the Muslim community, so according to WND, "it's clear that the demands of members of that religion are influential."
WND reports, "What used to be known as the 'Double Spicy Hamburger' will now be a 'Double Spicy Burger.' The 'Triple Hamburger with Cheese' becomes the 'Triple Burger with Cheese,' and a 'Hamburger King Jr' on the kids menu will now be just a 'Kids Burger,' the report said.
A statement was released by the fast food chain, whose worldwide headquarters are located in Miami, Florida, which explained that the menu changes were intended to make their offerings "more respectful of Muslim customers."
The first Burger King restaurant in South Africa opened in 2013, making the corporation fairly new to South Africa.
It was noted by Business Insider that a hamburger, which is comprised of ground beef, doesn't actually contain pork. "Ham" is in the name, because it is a part of the name of the German city of Hamburg, which is where historians have stated that hamburgers were originally coined.
WND reports:
Juan Klopper, the COO of the chain in South Africa, said its outlets had been certified halal, or compliant with Islamic law, even though its product names included "ham."
But the company also said its sites are losing that certification, since some sandwiches are being redesigned to include bacon, based on popular demand.
Jihad Watch asked: "What other religious community gets this kind of consideration?"
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