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'I am not sure how long I will last': The Sheffield student locked up over Christmas for overstaying his visa
He is being held in a facility where four people died last year
A dirty cell with no toilet, no regular food and no medication for his flu. These are the conditions being faced by Ahmed Sedeeq, after he was locked up over Christmas for accidentally overstaying his UK visa which the Home Office initially told him was still valid. His friend Alvin, who visited him yesterday, tells The Tab his room is "tiny and dirty".
Ahmed is facing deportation back to Mosul in Iraq, despite being a hardworking PhD student at Sheffield. He fled in 2013 to escape ISIS.
"The situation is quite bad," said Alvin Pastore, a close friend who has started a petition for Ahmed which now has over 8,300 supporters. Ahmed is being held at the Morton Hall facility in Lincoln, where four detainees have died since December 2016.
Ahmed told Alvin that he is yet to sleep properly after being detained. The room in which he is being held is "tiny and dirty", with a very thin mattress that gives him body ache in the morning.
Alvin claims that Ahmed is now quite ill, with a sore throat and showing flu-like symptoms, although he has not got any medication.
Alvin said "the entire place looks really bad" and as a visitor he had to leave everything behind and was only allowed to take his ID card into the centre.
Ahmed was late for lunch one day in the detention centre, only to be told it was shut and instead eating a piece of bread that he had found. Ahmed only has a calculator phone and is being kept in a room without a toilet.
An open letter has also been signed by over 160 academics demanding the University of Sheffield reinstates Ahmed's university email account, which has been closed down, and provides him with documents needed for his asylum case.
"Ahmed is a student, not some dangerous criminal. He has signed in with the Home Office every Monday morning at 8am since 2014. Only once could he not attend as he was in hospital, but went the day after."
Ahmed wrote an emotional letter to supporters yesterday, which reads:
"I would like to thank every single one of you for all the support. Without it, I wouldn't have lasted so far and I send you my love back.
"I'm grateful for all the effort done so far. I know your intentions are genuine regardless of the method. However, the stress started getting to me and started affecting my physical and mental health.
"The conditions in the detention centre made me better understand why so many people took their lives in here. I'm trying to stay strong but not sure how long I will last.
"If you are the University, Home Office, an MP, a person or an organisation and you think you can help, I am reaching out to you not to hesitate in doing so. Knowing that you might not only save a dream but a human life.
"I would like to thank you for your time & effort and most importantly the kind human that you are. Thank you for being my only hope in this hopeless place."
In his time at the University of Sheffield, Ahmed has spent over £57,000 on fees, plus four years' worth of rent and living costs. He is described as always being there for those around him and having integrated well.
A petition pleading for Ahmed to stay in Britain and finish his PhD now has over 8,300 supporters. Over 160 academics have also signed an open letter demanding the University of Sheffield reinstates Ahmed's university email account, which has been closed down, and provides him with documents needed for his asylum case.
Ahmed's social media profiles reveal he is a passionate football fan, supporting Real Madrid, with a soft spot for Disney films. He also runs a YouTube channel on which he reviews Apple products, a natural extension of his PhD in Software Engineering.
As an atheist, Ahmed's life would be at risk if sent back to his hometown of Mosul, which was declared the capital of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group a couple of years back. Recent years have been difficult for him, and he has lost his father and other family members in the violence.
A Home Office spokesman said: "When someone has no leave to remain in the UK, we expect them to leave the country voluntarily. Where they do not, we will seek to enforce their departure.
"Detention and removal are essential parts of effective immigration controls. It is vital that these are carried out with dignity and respect and we take the welfare of our detainees very seriously.
"Healthcare in all immigration removal centres in England is commissioned by NHS England. Anyone who becomes ill while in detention has access to health care facilities, and can see a GP if required."
An updated statement from The University of Sheffield reads: "The University of Sheffield is aware of the detention of Ahmed Sadeeq in relation to visa compliance.
"Our Student Support staff have been in regular contact with both Ahmed and his solicitor since we were made aware of the case some weeks ago, including liaising with his legal advisors over the Christmas period.
"The University is committed to ensuring our community is open to scholars and students from across the world. However, we are unable to comment further on the specific details of the case at this time."


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The relationship between the Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice over abuse of clauses in consumer contracts is a chronicle of a misunderstanding, among other reasons, because the protection of our highest court in opinion of the latter, and in application of the European legislation, to the consumers in the matter of contract has been quite insufficient, and the correction of this deficient protection has been carried out in our country in a dosed and partial way and at the same time by contradictory judgments caused by the incorrect definition established by the Supreme Court in its judgments.
The discrepancies between one and another court have led to an inevitable confusion for legal operators: judges, magistrates, lawyers, etc. and all of this at the expense of the legal security of the citizen. Thus, for example, on the early expiration clause (the clause that allows entities to give up the contract after the default of a single mortgage quota), the ECJ had already ruled in the judgment of the Aziz case, indicating to the national judge the criteria which it should take into account for assessing the abuse of that clause (in the case of an essential breach, sufficiently serious, if it is in accordance with the relevant legislation in the absence of a covenant, and if there are effective means that allow the consumer to remedy the effect of said clause). Likewise, once a clause has been declared null and void, the European Court has the most absolute prohibition on the integration of the contract, that is to say, once the clause is declared abusive, the only thing that can be done by the national court is to expel the clause from the contract, without being able to adapt it or modify it, except if such expulsion would cause irreparable harm to the consumer that advise to seek for a way less harmful to it.
However, even existing such European ruling, the Spanish Supreme Court in its judgment of December 23rd, 2017, with the aim of avoiding the filing and disappearance of mortgage procedures, made legal juggling to establish that, in order to analyze the abusiveness of the clause, "what is really relevant are not the terms in which the clause in question was drafted, but the use made of it by the creditor lender, so that if it awaited at least three defaults (which is the minimum legal currently established in article 693.2 LEC), the decision was considered correct", and, not only that, but once declared the nullity of the early expiration clause in the course of a Foreclosure Proceeding, the Supreme Court has established that the consequence of such a declaration should not be the close of the file (effect that should automatically result in the nullity of the validity), since, according to our highest court, foreclosure appears to have more guarantees and offers a higher protection for consumers than an ordinary declarative procedure.
So, is the protection offered by the Supreme Court to the consumer actually real? If the mortgage procedure was indeed more beneficial than the ordinary procedure, the consumer would only have to express its will by renouncing the abusiveness of the early expiration clause and, nevertheless, it seems logical to think that, when the accused opposes the execution alleging the abusiveness of such clause, its desire and will is that the clause is expelled from the contract and the procedure is dismissed. And, in any case, who should have the legitimacy to decide what is right for the consumer, but the consumer? At the very least, we understand that the consequences of the declaration of nullity requested by the person before the court should be taken into account before the courts fail to do what is best for them without even establishing a minimum of contradictory procedure in which their opinion is heard.
Thereby, our courts and audiences are contradicting each other, failing ones in favor of being literal to the clause, as stated by the ECJ; others stating that what is relevant is the use made of the clause by the lender, as established by the Supreme Court; and others take the middle route and even being literal to the clause and declaring the abusiveness of it, they decide not to file the proceedings arguing that dismissal of the mortgage proceeding cannot be considered more favorable to the consumer given the alleged advantages of that procedure.
Given the multiple doubts that the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court was respectful of the EU doctrine, the judge of Santander's Court of Instance number 2 asked the European Court again, if, firstly, in order to agree on the abusiveness of the early expiration clause he should analyze the use that the entity has made of it or it should be literal to its wording; and secondly, whether the consequence of the eventual declaration of nullity of the clause should entail its complete elimination of the contract, without the possibility of modifying or adapting it to the current legislation.
As it could not be otherwise, the answer of the European Court of Justice has overturned the doctrine of the Spanish Supreme Court. The ECJ judgment of 26 January 2017, prohibits the national court from taking into account the circumstances in which the entity has applied the early expiration clause, and states that must be in line with it and, once declared the invalidity, repeats (and takes advantage to expressly remind the Supreme Court) that no case-law can establish the modification of a clause declared null, to keep it in the contract and prevent its expulsion.
Given the above, what happens to all those procedures in which the annulment of the anticipated expiration has been declared, and the execution has been maintained based on the doctrine of the Supreme Court? Regardless whether it is possible or not to initiate proceedings, it is undeniable that the consumer, who has been subject to foreclosure proceedings, has suffered an obvious injury, as a result of the misapplication of the European protection against consumption, a particularly important damage since it involves the loss of their home. For this reason, the possibility of claiming the State's liability for judicial error and non-application of Community law could be raised.
However, in order to avoid chaos and the judicial collapse that would reopen thousands of proceedings and bring judicial proceedings back, the Supreme Court, convinced of maintaining its special interpretation of EU law, has now decided to raise a new Prejudicial question to the ECJ by formulating, through order of 8 February 2017, a double question:
The Supreme Court's questions, tired of being amended from Brussels, and especially the way they are raised, are not gratuitous but, in our view, obey a clever strategy: what the Supreme Court seems to want with its approach is that the ECJ responds that these two issues fall within the scope of national law, an area on which the European Court cannot pronounce and thus, the Supreme Court will be legitimized by the ECJ itself to maintain its position and may force the courts not to file the mortgage proceedings for being more convenient than the ordinary ones.
At the moment, it may be a coincidence, perhaps not, but the President of the European Court of Justice, Mr. Koen Lenaerts, met last Friday, February 17th, in Madrid with the President of the Spanish Supreme Court, Mr. Carlos Lesmes, and the vice-president and presidents of each Chamber, where it also attended the President of the Constitutional Court, without having transcended the slightest information about the meeting.
Although we would prefer to have more information, this meeting gives the impression that this chronicle of misunderstanding will have to happen, necessarily, by the solutions that in those private meetings, both courts will be able to agree in order to end the absolute legal insecurity to which consumers and legal operators have been subjected to.
However, we are afraid that, once again, we will have to wait for the resolution of the ECJ to see if Spanish foreclosures continue or are definitely a vestige of the past.


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Crude Oil Clarity: Focus on This!
by Nico Isaac
Updated: November 07, 2018
The chart below of crude oil looks at the final week of October. You can see that after a few days of sideways action, prices turned up on October 26. The question before traders that day was simple: Would crude's price keep rising?
At the time, news reports focused on two main events. The only problem was, those events were set to move crude oil in every possible direction.
Event One: The large stock market sell-off, which was supposedly bearish for crude oil.
"Oil Prices Pulled Down by Global Stock Market Plunge"
(Oct. 26 Economic Times)
But, another article said it was a temporary blip for crude oil.
"Oil Prices Steady After Stock Market Plunge"
(Oct. 26 Fox Business)
And, still a third headline claim it could reportedly hold oil hostage for weeks to come:
"Oil is likely to continue to follow the stock market
until conditions normalize, which could take weeks."
(Oct. 26 MarketWatch)
Event Two: Looming sanctions on Iran. They were supposedly bullish for oil:
"Oil Rises Ahead of Iran Sanctions"
(Oct. 26 Reuters)
Until, that is, oil prices decided to ignore the bullish boost:
"Oil falls on Oversupply Worries Despite Iran Sanctions"
(Oct. 26 LiveMint)
All of which was to say: Conventional wisdom could not get its story straight about oil's next move.
But on October 26, our Energy Pro Service wrote one scenario for oil's near-term future, titled "Big Picture Bearish Outlook." There, chief energy analyst Steve Craig drew a bold line pointed down and said:
"The rally should prove corrective and set the stage for further decline.
Trade below the 66.20 overnight low should be a good clue and I'll be looking for acceleration into new low ground to strengthen the immediately bearish case."
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Galveston County Daily News – December 20, 2001
By Scott Williams
It's said that nature abhors a vacuum, but the wrestling industry has been making what Ross Perot might call "giant sucking sounds" for months. A couple of would-be players are scrambling to fill the void, but scrambles often turn to stumbles.
Don't be fooled by the apparent prosperity of the World Wrestling Federation. The Rock might sit with the Bushes at the Republican National Convention, but business is down. Flagship program "Raw," is drawing ratings similar to those the C-level show, "Sunday Night Heat," was getting in 1998 and 1999. Every source of revenue has declined at an alarming pace over the course of the year.
Even worse, for all intents and purposes, the WWF has been >he only game in town since March. A year ago, the WWF was one of three national companies, competing with the creatively bankrupt World Championship Wrestling and the financially bankrupt Extreme Championship Wrestling.
WCW effectively died in March, after Time-Warner/AOL executive Jamie Kellner decided to kick wrestling off the cable networks TNT and TBS. Without TV, WCW was a worthless commodity to pretty much everyone except WWF owner Vince McMahon. He snatched up the company for about $2.5 million, about what the WWF has lost by not letting DirecTV satellite providers carry its pay per views since October.
At the time of the WCW purchase, ECW was cold in the grave. The company was behind on payments to wrestlers and practically everyone else, and gave up the ghost.
Whatever embers were left of the once-roaring flames of both companies died due to incompetent storytelling. WCW might not have had Goldberg, Sting, or many of its other top stars, but it deserved better than the treatment WWF writers and stars gave it. The WCW crew came in, setting up potential dream matches, only to be squashed like bugs.
The WWF-WCW war became the most lopsided affair since those college kids decided to take on Chinese tanks back in 1989. Even the (fictional) injection of ECW into the story couldn't save it.
This creative failure caused much of the decrease in fan support and revenue. The only national wrestling company left is struggling a bit. While it does, fans have had no viewing alternative and wrestlers have had more limited employment options than ever.
Recently, two new groups have emerged, each struggling to find a niche and make a mark.
World Wrestling All-Stars was the brainchild of former WWF and WCW writer Vince Russo. The group, which Russo left soon after its birth, used castoffs from the U.S. scene to stock a roster and tour Australia and Europe, markets starved for big-budget action.
The tours have enjoyed a degree of success, but the company is planning a February pay per view. ECW and WCW pay-per-view ventures have shown that success is far from guaranteed even for groups with weekly nationwide TV exposure. No one should be optimistic about the chances of a pay per view from a group with no exposure.
The other new kid on the block is the XWF, headed by former WWF manager Jimmy Hart. The group has taped a number of shows at Universal Studios theme park in Florida, and hopes to sell them as pilots for a series. The XWF content appears to be a little more appropriate for all ages than the frequently raunchy WWF, but the group lacks superstar presence. When your top guys are Vampiro, Curt Hennig and Buff Bagwell, you have no top guys.
Until the XWF gets on the air, the All-Star group gets its head out of the cloud, or a new player with a new vision comes along, it looks like your wrestling choices have slimmed to exactly one.


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In the mid-1990s, Jellyvision's irreverent and crazy-entertaining You Don't Know Jack trivia game took the Mac/PC world by storm. Originally delivered in several topical flavors on old school CD-ROMs, the animated, pop culture trivia questions delivered with twisted, semi-adult humor laced throughout always added up to a fun 15-20 minute game, either alone or with […]
In the mid-1990s, Jellyvision's irreverent and crazy-entertaining You Don't Know Jack trivia game took the Mac/PC world by storm. Originally delivered in several topical flavors on old school CD-ROMs, the animated, pop culture trivia questions delivered with twisted, semi-adult humor laced throughout always added up to a fun 15-20 minute game, either alone or with friends. Now the game makes its triumphant return to our modern Apple tablets, and not a moment too soon. The remainder of our iPad Games of the Week are focused on young gamers and physics puzzle lovers. Smart Pet HD lets you adopt and play with your own virtual dog, while Bug Village will challenge your youngest to build, maintain, and decorate their own virtual bug habitat. Finally, Drop The Chicken brings a Cut The Rope experience to an all-new physics puzzler.
You Don't Know Jack HD ($4.99)
My first round of the resurrected YDKJ trivia game kicked off with this question: "How many human bones would two and a half men actually have?" The correct answer: 515. The wise-cracking game show host's response when I got it right? "The real question is Charlie Sheen's mistresses. How many bones are in them?" And that, ladies and gentlemen is pretty much all you need to know about this must-have offering. After playing through the CD-ROM originals in the '90s, I was totally jazzed to see this animated, pop culture treat coming back for more in the '10s. It's silly-fun trivia questions delivered with just the right amount of twisted, semi-adult humor. There are 20 full episodes to digest, Game Center achievements and leaderboards, plus the usual litany of question types: DisorDats, Jack Attacks, multiple choice queries, Who's the Dummy?, Funky Trash, and the always-amazing Cookie's Fortune Cookie Fortunes with Cookie "Fortune Cookie" Masterson. Yes, it's a must-buy.
Smart Pet HD Light (Free)
Between my son and his friends, I'll bet five litters of virtual puppies have been chosen, loved, fed, played with, and then abandoned through the power of the Nintendo DS. Now it's the iPad's turn. Smart Pet HD lets you adopt a puppy into the huge virtual kennel that is your iPad, then touch him, train him, put on outfits, play with interactive dog toys, feed and clean him, and play a mini-game to earn money to buy items. The light version gives you just the right amount of dogs to pick from (two) and toys to play with to decide if the $0.99 full version is worth it. While the graphics aren't as sharp as some of the latest DS versions, there's more than enough detail and gameplay here to satisfy the most dog-crazed child under 8.
Related: World of Goo leads iPhone Games of the Week
Bug Village (Free)
Why, hello there little red ant. Of course I can help you build a new bug village for you and your friends! Let's get started. And with that, an entire hour was spent doing just that. Glu is no slouch when it comes to making addictive mobile games, and Bug Village has all the elements needed to spring it into the top free games listing in a hurry. The graphics are top-notch, placing new buildings is a breeze, and the sheer variety of missions to take on and items to purchase and place make for a solid experience all around. Separating the "food" and gathering area from the village itself is a nice touch. In-game ads are there but not intrusive, and you will likely run up against the old "buy more coins to keep going faster" wall after a while. With a little patience, there's no reason to hand over any real-world money. But no doubt the die-hard fans of this kind of game will fork over their $5-$10 to supercharge their villages.
Drop The Chicken: Training (Free)
If you love Cut the Rope, you'll enjoy Drop The Chicken. The free training app will get you in the spirit, and fast. Basically, there's a cute chicken at the top of your screen who needs to make it down into his nest below. You'll need to eat the bugs on the screen as you fall and bounce, and arrange the scene to ensure his drop into the soft hay after his tumble. It's a tried and true physics puzzler, adding some new elements to the mix. Sure there are trampolines at various angles that you can drag around the screen to control his fall, but there are also blocks of wood to drag into place to stop him cold in his tracks. So there's no rope cutting or bird-launching, but there are critical moments to drop your feathered friend, and some crazy levels that require you to move the elements more than once. Concentrate on getting all the bugs during a single drop, and be sure to concentrate, as you may need to move items into position several times in a row to get the perfect path. It's one part frustration, and one part fun, just like always!
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The large den at the back of the house, once a converted classroom for young gifted girls who no longer had a place in a world which feared them, now stood abandoned, decrepit and hollow, much like the dead minds subjected to Mother's lies who were once taught here. Nightfall descended upon the orphanage like a huge sea beast, swallowing the house whole. They could no longer see the dead from the large den windows, but Meredith had assured them that they were all still there, surrounding the house, doing whatever monsters did when concealed within the darkness. Lamplight from two oil lanterns retrieved from the attic filled the large space with dull light, scattering elongated shadows across the partially caved-in ceiling, as eerie shadows danced and shifted indifferently with the flickering of two small flames.
Once full bookshelves that dominated the room with the appearance of knowledge, now stood bare, broken and infested with ancient cobwebs and dust—even the arachnids had died off long ago. More broken glass littered the rotting floorboards. A few scraps of crumbled paper debris occasionally blew across the darkness as a light, steady breeze blew in from one of the shattered windows facing the rear of the house.
Meredith, Logan and Stephen sat at one of the four round tables centered before a large cracked and dusty chalkboard, sharing a silent meal of cold canned goods recovered from the kitchen pantry. Megan, still in dormant mode, was lying across a second table, resting on an attic couch pillow and covered in an old quilt. She had not moved since collapsing in the clinic. Meredith had assured them that the half-dead was alright, but that she would be out for hours after her partially dead systems had been tricked into a hibernation-like state while her body reset itself from devouring the living. This was something else that her former fiancé had been researching before his death—something else that died with Cooper that Meredith could not explain, or even cared enough to guess about.
"Just add it to the list of many things Meredith doesn't have answers to!" she'd told them crossly, ending that brief discussion.
The exhausted older woman forced the stale, cold raviolis and peas down her throat more out of necessity than hunger. Just being in this ancient room brought back memories of the inquisitive young faces she'd sat with once, all eager to understand their place in a now-deceased world, while finding comfort in the company of misfits like themselves.
I'm the last one, she thought sadly. Even our brainwashing former headmaster is long gone. She stared bitterly at the lifeless chalkboard and for a moment that obsolete question appeared mockingly within the dust:
She snorted at the question, as dead as everything else from a world which could once afford such questioning, a world that existed in the illusion that time was something anyone had to waste on such pointless ponderings.
"Something funny?" Stephen said. "Or is that crunched-up face just the result of this wonderful meal?"
She turned to the former school teacher and forced a smile. "It's this place that leaves the only bad taste in my mouth," she said. "I sat here, at this very table, while that dead woman, Miss Evans, filled our impressionable and naïve minds full of lies. I was only thirteen. No relatives, no friends, no place where I belonged, and the world had rejected our kind long before… well… long before that world died. I remember sitting in here feeling vulnerable, and yet, accepted for the first time in my life."
"That's how it works," Logan chimed in, using his spoon to scrape the last ravioli from his can. He popped it into his mouth and then wiped his beard with the back of his hand. He belched proudly. "Excuse me," he added with a laugh.
Stephen shook his head. "Well, it's good to see that bad manners have survived the apocalypse."
Logan gave him a wink.
"What did you mean?" Meredith pressed. "How does what work?"
Logan put the can down. "Sorry, I thought it was obvious." He absently waved his hand about the room. "This place, everything about it, Mother or not, it's just another cult when you get right down to it."
Meredith laughed and rolled her eyes. "I'm sure you understand by now that Mother is a bit more than just a cult."
"Same principle," he continued. "Always starts the same way: Recruiters go out, find the lost, the broken—anyone at the bottom of the barrel—the disgruntled, the lonely, the depressed and suicidal. Then they're given things they never had before: Sense of purpose, of belonging, something to believe in—and that right there is powerful. Once they catch someone and reel him in, they take him to some place just like this. Somewhere remote and off-the-grid, keep him busy with chores and various tasks so they don't have time to second guess anything while pumping them full of bullshit in rooms just like this one. The younger the better, but the broken will suffice."
Meredith smiled. "Sounds like you're speaking from experience. You do realize that you could just as easily apply your theory to modern day Christianity, right? What makes this orphanage any different than a church, by your reasoning?"
Stephen slapped his forehead. "Don't get him started, Meredith, you'll regret it."
Logan laughed and pointed his spoon at her. "Ah… I love sceptics! As much as I'd enjoy getting into that very discussion with you, I strongly suspect that for you and me, it would be a lengthy one… and we've already got quite a few things to discuss as it is."
Meredith shifted uncomfortably.
"I will address the first part, though," he said, leaning over the table with his tattooed arms and folding his hands together. "The Brotherhood of One."
Meredith looked confused. "What's that?"
"It's the name of the biker group Logan led before he found God," Stephen said.
"Ah… yes," Meredith said. "Okay."
Logan gave Stephen an amused look, then returned to Meredith. "Stephen's just trying to put it politely. It's the name of the criminal hate group I was primarily responsible for back in my ignorance… and it was a cult. We recruited, we distracted, and we certainly pumped up the brethren with something very bad to believe in."
"Yes, the name threw me, but I remember hearing about your sermons denouncing your former life," Meredith said. "And I see your point."
Logan studied Meredith's face, and finished, "I bring it up now to point out the underlying difference between a cult from anything else worth a damn. While Love aims to bring Mankind together, a cult's only purpose is to keep us all apart… separated. That's the only point I want to make. Mother is nothing more than another dirty cult, and I'm sorry you were exposed to this… madness… especially at such a young age." He leaned back in his chair. "I'm too damn tired to debate the finer points of God's love with you, but I suspect you've seen your share of that, too."
Meredith smiled, thinking fondly of Gregory and her own personal pleas to God. "You may be right, Logan." She left it at that.
"What's that make us, then?" Stephen said, intending to lighten the mood with a joke.
"Verdict's still out on that one," Logan said with a wink. "I guess that will depend on where we end up after all this running is finished."
"You believe that day will ever come?" Meredith said.
"As surely as I believe in my God above," Logan said. "It has to… or what's the point in all this running? We're not on Mother's hamster wheel, no matter how it feels right now. Eventually, God's gonna set things straight, and there's going to be a reckoning."
"Amen," Stephen said.
Meredith raised her eyebrows to him bemused.
"What? I may not be on board with all this man's 'God' stuff, but he's certainly preaching on the side of hope… and that's something I can wrap my mind around. I have to."
"Well said, brother," Logan added with a nod.
Meredith looked over at Megan, then stared dejectedly down at her old hands. "I don't know what I believe anymore," she admitted. "My life's been layered in mysteries I can't comprehend no matter how hard I try. Every time another layer is peeled back, there's just many more layers shrouded in darkness. Between all this death out here and all the death plaguing my mind, I find it difficult to believe in a loving God, hope, or anything else promising an end to all this… darkness." She sighed heavily. "Forgive my grim mood. I've just very tired. I'm worried about Megan. I'm worried about the two of you. I'm worried about the dead outside storming into this place at any moment. But mostly, I'm worried about what it will mean if there's ever any real light shed upon my black, full-of-holes memories."
Logan nodded. "You carry an extensive load, Meredith. Perhaps it's time to stop bearing it alone."
Meredith laughed. "Everyone knows no one likes the girl with all the baggage, right?"
This made Logan chuckle. He placed his muscular arms behind his head and stretched.
"Seriously, Meredith," Stephen started. "Why don't you begin unloading what you do know and let us help you carry the rest. Like Logan said earlier, it's time to lay our cards out on the table."
"I don't even know where to begin?" she said.
"Start with this creepy-ass cult compound," Logan suggested. "Since we're currently trapped here by dark forces we clearly don't understand, it seems fitting, don't you think?"
"And after?" she said.
"After what?" Logan countered.
"After I bear my soul and share what I know… and what I don't… will I still remain the Wasteland Witch in your eyes? Will you be able to see me as a friend trying my best to save you… despite what I am and how much it goes against what you believe?"
Logan was caught off-guard by the question.
Meredith looked around and sneered. "You may be right about this place being a cult, at the heart of it. And maybe they did some incredibly horrible things to me while I was here, things I'm still trying to sort through, things I may still be influenced by. But I am trying to find the light in all this darkness that surrounds my life. Just as you strive to find your way out of your darkness each and every day. Am I correct?"
Logan considered her words. "Yes," he said. "You are correct. I've sworn to turn away from a hate-filled life, but it still tries to claim me as one of its own. That is my burden… my shame… to bear."
Meredith nodded. "Then don't hate me for what I am. Don't hate Megan for what she is. And don't hate either of us for discovering how much more that will mean when the truth comes out. You don't have to understand us, but your fear…"
Logan raised a hand and nodded. "Yes, Meredith. I hear you loud and clear. I can't promise you that fear will not tempt me to fail, but I can promise you that I will seek my Lord Jesus Christ to help me face it, and the many things that I will certainly fail to understand." He looked at Megan. "I have wanted to hate her for what she is." He turned back. "As I have wanted to hate you, as well. But I know, deep down, that I'm wrong about both of you. My Lord speaks to my heart clearly on this matter. You two are not part of the problem, but as much victims as the rest of us."
"So… 'we' are a part of 'us' then?" she said. "Because fear would try to convince you otherwise."
Logan smiled. "Yes. 'We' most certainly is 'us'."
Stephen laughed. "Sounds like we needed to break down our little cults-of-one before we could finally arrive here. It's ironic, don't you think, considering where we are right now, in this place, and how far we've come? There's so few of us left in the world and we still have so much farther to go. From the amount of separation we've all strived to achieve from one another back in that old brainwashed society to now… and we still struggle with coming together."
Meredith and Logan stared at Stephen and nodded.
"You should write that on the chalkboard," Meredith teased. "It's definitely worth pondering in any of Miss Evans' classes."
"How's that?" Stephen said.
Meredith shook her exhausted head, then stared around the room. "Yes. Maybe I should start in this very room and then explain the rest of what happened to me here."
"We're all ears, Meredith," Logan encouraged. "No one's going to judge you tonight… but I can't speak for tomorrow," he teased with a wink.
She laughed. "You sounded a little like someone else I knew, in a boathouse, a thousand years ago, right before the last time I had to open my mouth."
Stephen smiled. "Douglas?"
"The one and only," she said. She stared thoughtfully at them both and then took a deep breath. "When I was thirteen-years-old, back in the summer of 1973, a very nice man named Michael Finch (all of us girls just called him Finch) drove me to this house for the first time…"
She told them about her experiences at the orphanage. From her strange dreams of the young man named Toby and the emerald lions up in that claustrophobic bedroom to her strained friendship with a disturbed young girl named, Clementine. She detailed daily life with the other gifted girls. Meredith spoke of her hushed conversations with Finch, the interrogations of Dr. Candice Forrester, and Miss Evans' teachings. She told them about the dolls in the basement, especially about the one who called itself, Toby. She finished with how she found the secret room behind the doll cabinet, discovering the four comatose patients, and finding Forrester there…
"… After Forrester injected me, my world went dark… and I've been trying to piece the rest together ever since," she finished.
Logan and Stephen were shocked.
Meredith looked down at her open hands. "Those files we discovered in the Observation Room were the first hints of what happened here after I was whisked away from this house. Apparently, Clem finally lost control of her dark abilities, and her temper, and did some very horrible things to the girls who still lived here. Shortly after, it looked like they shut this place down. I'd never returned, as far as I know, and I just assumed Mother took me to where all those other missing girls went."
"You're talking about the girls in the cavern," Stephen whispered. "The ones with no eyes. That's why you asked what they were wearing."
Meredith wiped a tear from her eye. "Yes. I suspected they were all brought down to that horrible place after I read about it in those files. Whatever experiments were conducted down in that cavern failed, and those girls… those poor gifted girls… they never made it out of there alive."
"And you had no memory of being brought there?" Logan said.
She looked at the preacher. "I thought so, at first, but I don't believe I was brought there. I think they had other plans for me. There was something mentioned in those files about another location. I think I might have been transported there."
"And you don't remember anything else that happened to you after finding that secret basement room?" Stephen asked. "I mean, how did you manage to escape Mother all those years ago?"
Meredith frowned. She knew this would be the hardest part to talk about. She raised the palm of her right hand. "Remember when we found the tunnel behind the waterfall cave?"
"Yes," Stephen said. Then his eyes went wide. "Yes! That's right! We were trapped at that door! You stuck your hand in that box and then punched in some code."
She nodded sadly, lowering her hand. "That was the day I knew that I had never escaped Mother. That was also the day I decided to keep quiet… about everything."
Logan looked confused.
Stephen filled him in. "It was right before we discovered the compound. We were trapped by the dead. There was this security door with a code box. It required hand identification and a numerical code. Meredith slipped her hand into it and typed in the code. The door opened right up."
Logan stared at Meredith, one eyebrow raised. But he remained silent.
She nodded. "Yes. That was the beginning of all those Mother-collaboration rumors that started to spread about me like wildfire. But for me, that was when I knew that Mother had played me all along. I was never free. I had never escaped the watchful eye of that diabolical organization. They just let me go about my life as if I really had control of it. But the truth was… they wanted us there, or rather… me. Just like when the time came for the Shadow Dead attack. That was when Mother had decided it was time for me to leave the compound… and find that awful cavern."
Stephen sat back in his chair, mind blown. He ran his fingers through his hair. "So… the compound was just another controlled experiment, like the marina?"
"I believe so," she said. "Except that I was the experiment under control. I don't believe that was the initial plan for the compound we've been living in all winter, but when everything went bad topside with Charlie's horde, the explosion, and everything else that happened on that horrible day, Mother improvised. I believe they granted me access to the compound… to keep me safe. Everything else that place became for us was incidental… allowable… as long as they had me where they wanted me. Mother couldn't have planned for a better prison to keep my abilities in check while using the rest of you to watch my every action."
"But how could they possibly know where you'd be in all that chaos? That you would make it to that compound door behind the waterfall cave?" Logan said. "Even Mother's not that good."
Meredith shook her head. "I don't know. Maybe they realized I was in the Shadow Dead cave and orchestrated events to make sure I found that compound door from there. I always found it a little puzzling that we only had to face two Shadow Dead warriors when the crack at the back of the cave opened up. They could've swarmed the place, killed us all… but they didn't."
"Those two Shadow Dead came to retrieve you," Stephen said. "They easily could've killed the rest of us, but didn't want to risk losing you in a massive attack."
Meredith nodded. "It's very possible. I was vulnerable after going… supernova… that day. They could've easily handled me. But then Frank showed up when he did and messed up their plans."
"So, they cleared out of the compound—the Shadow Dead, Taven and his group of children-stealing madmen, and whoever else was already there—then granted you access, and let you all have the compound instead," Logan said, shaking his head. "And all right before the massive explosion that scorched the woods, but miraculously left the compound intact." He stood up and started pacing, shaking his head. "Hell, we've all been played."
Stephen closed his eyes. "They could've seized the compound any time they wanted. They knew exactly how to hit us, where to sneak in undetected, and then made sure you had a way to get out."
Meredith looked at him and shook her head. "I didn't know how to open that mystery door until moments before you arrived, Stephen. I hope you believe that. I never would've let all those people die by keeping that from you."
"What was that?" Logan turned.
Stephen stared at her.
She nodded. "Go ahead, tell him. No more secrets."
"Right before the Shadow Dead pinned us down in that clinic hallway, Meredith gave me the password phrase that opened the mystery door. It activated on a verbal command."
"'The Lions are sleeping, but we always stand guard'," she said. "It was part of a mantra that was spoken by the girls in this very room. I told you both in the basement that I was hearing from Toby in my thoughts, and I also just got done telling you that he spoke to me through that doll when I was thirteen. He spoke to me in the compound clinic and provided me that code… right when we needed it."
"You mean, when Mother needed you to tell us it," Logan snapped.
Meredith looked away. "Yes."
Logan laughed and started pacing again. He looked like he wanted to throw something… hard. "I thought those Shadow Dead were holding back near the end. They clearly had us beat. It all makes sense now. They let us have that hallway just long enough for you to get out of the clinic, then they moved in on us like a closing fist!"
Meredith refused to look at the angry preacher. He had every right to be upset. "At this point, I'm still not convinced that there really is a Toby at all. For all I know, this Toby persona is just part of what Mother did to me to make me feel less responsible… while they speak directly to me, under the guise of some powerful entity, while they manipulate my every move, leaving me nothing but more doubt in whether I'm really helping us… or hindering us." She looked at them both. "Can you start to understand why I kept my secrets? Ever since the compound, I've known that Mother has been aware of me all these years. Anything I did, anything I said, could inadvertently be Mother using me to get you all killed. I thought it best to seclude myself and try to figure it all out."
Logan calmed down and nodded. "Of course. Sorry… I'm just tired of feeling like some damn puppet on strings."
She nodded.
"Let's go back to the compound door after Charlie's attack. The one behind the waterfall cave." Stephen said. "I can see how they might have your hand geometry on file for the reader. But how did you know what to punch in? Did Toby speak to you then, too? Did he tell you the numerical code?"
Meredith looked into his face, her sad eyes haunted by the mistrust of her own broken memories. "No. It was Hannah who told me that code."
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"Chapter 49-4: Lions in the Dark" Copyright © 2019 Scott Scherr, from the novel, Don't Feed The Dark, Book Six: Mother. All Rights Reserved.
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Mindful Boxing at the Hippest New Wellness Space to Open in Toronto
by Kiki Athanas
July 16, 2018
Although Caleigh may appear to be your average Instagram fitness influencer and self-love advocating #BossBabe on social media, she admits to still being a journalist at her core. This passion for discovering and sharing is what continues to drive everything she does - and how she does it.
And she's doing some pretty epic things.
But if you asked her just a few years ago if she would be opening her very own gym - Caleigh honestly admits her answer would have been "#$%^ no!".
Yet, after a wildly-successful popup on Peter St. in downtown Toronto, BOLO / BodyLove is officially opening its doors permanently in a 7,000 square foot location.
BodyLove is the new dream destination for active, busy, young professionals in the city. Come for a crazy good workout, stay for a coffee, to hang with your peeps post-sweat or to answer emails – it's all about offering a multi-tasking space for like-minded hustlers.
As a hustling entrepreneur herself, Caleigh recognized an unmet need in the market: there's no single place to "hustle" your work life and your workout-life.
She thought you should be able to get a killer workout, stick around and do some work (and if you like - some supportive and inclusive networking), whilst also getting some good clean grub, and even a blow-out - so you still look and feel beautiful as you run to your next gig!
Well, the day has come.
BOLO is officially set to launch THIS WEEK on July 17th, 2018, and it's going to be just as stellar as you can imagine.
I personally had the pleasure of sweating it out in BOLO luxury this past month and was pleasantly surprised - it certainly wasn't the pretentious environment that I expected coming from a well-connected "influencer". Instead, I was warmly welcomed into a community of people who simply want the best for themselves - body, mind & spirit - and are only too encouraging for you to come join their self-lovin' tribe.
Oh, also, the classes kick your ass...and you feel it the next day...in a good way.
While the schedule certainly has a boxing focus - don't let that intimidate you. Most classes are open to all fitness levels and no need to stress it if you don't have gloves - rental is always on them!
I personally fell in love with Lany's BOLO BOXING class, as she made following along to the sequences doable for someone as coordinately-challenged as myself.
In fact, there's some pretty huge myths around boxing, and Caleigh is the perfect person to help us sort these out!
BOXING: Nope, It's (Probably) Not What You Think…
What it is:
A Form of Meditation → Requiring your attention to focus on when to rotate, throw a punch, change your stance, etc. Plus, wearing gloves makes it pretty hard to check your phone.
What it isn't - or, at least, doesn't have to be:
High Impact. Caleigh explains that it can be an accessible and safe workout for those recovering from an injury - or even pregnant women.
Aggressive. While it can definitely be stress-relieving, it doesn't need to be fuelled by stress or anger. Happy boxing is totally a thing.
Intimidating. Check out a BOLO class and agree with me later.
So with that, are you ready to push whatever apprehensions you may have had aside and give it a go?
Regardless of if you decide to make the most of the FREE hot classes available at the studio throughout the remainder of the month (yes, I mean like literally classes for $0), Caleigh encourages you to commit to whatever health and fitness goals you've set for yourself - but remember to always do so mindfully.
Caleigh's Mindful Health & Fitness Commitment Strategies
Skip the "diet" and say no to deprivation before it backfires. Fuel your body with what makes you feel full, energized and happy - always.
Commit. Sometimes that means forking out some cash in advance so that you'll actually follow-through, or pairing up with a friend to hold each other accountable.
If you can find the time - use it! It's no little miracle to make 30 minutes at the start of your day to get up and move...but it's well worth it if you can. Maybe it's not everyday, but that doesn't mean it's not impactful!
Set your goals small to start. Be realistic and gentle on yourself. Doing a workout even just once or twice a week might be where you need to aim to get to at first - that's AMAZING! Add more workout days slowly into your weekly regime until you find a supportive balance that suits you. Take it slow and don't beat yourself up when you bail - just note it, and aim to kill it the next time around.
Caleigh's positivity is contagious, and after following her adventures on social media these past few months - I can honestly say she's even more inspiring in person.
So, who inspires her? Here are some other Toronto boss babes she suggests you check out:
Regardless of if you're in the market for a new gym, a new co-working space, or maybe even a just a new cafe to hit up for some delicious healthy food...if you're Toronto-based - it's definitely worth hitting up BOLO. (Did I mention all hot classes are free until the end of the month?!)


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Technology Transfer Office
Argentina and Germany move towards scientific cooperation
Argentine representatives travelled to Germany in an official mission on Bioeconomy to reinforce joint projects.
For Spanish version, click here.
The Fact Finding Mission on Bioeconomy took place from the 26th of May to the 1st of June and it summoned Argentine businessmen, members of CONICET and the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA). The mission was organized by the Argentine-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce, jointly with Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina.
The comprehensive programme of the meeting aimed to strengthen scientific and technological bonds between both countries, evaluate technology transfer opportunities, optimize the Argentine-German cooperation to promote new contacts and enable bilateral projects in the field of Bioeconomy.
According to Alejandro Mentaberry, Executive Coordinator of the Scientific and Technological Cabinet (GAGTEC) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina and principal investigator at CONICET, "We have a long tradition of cooperation with Germany, and in the field of Bioeconomy we are interested in establishing direct contact with the institutions that work in that area in order to develop joint projects" .
The work meetings were carried out in different places of Germany. The delegation visited the Technical University Munich, Fraunhofer Institute for Biotechnology Innovation, BRAIN Biotech Company, Jülich Institute, Clusters BioTop and Norgenta and the Max Planck Institute of Plants, among others.
The exchanges show the remarkable bond already established between both countries. Consequently, two compromises were fixed to implement an action plan to implement the results in a long and short term.
Thus, Mentaberry also explained that "For us, the importance of this meeting lies in the fact that in our country the agroindustrial field is one of the major economic areas".
The main subjects discussed were animals and plants genome sequencing, Biotechnology applied for human health, the use of Biomass for energy generation and other chemical byproducts. Thus, a list was drawn up with developments and investigations of mutual interest to assess areas of possible technology transfer.
"Particularly, we are interested in all related to biomass processing for production of bioenergy, chemical intermediates and new materials. As regards this, we were in contact with two or three institutions that have a leading role on this matter", Mentaberry, who also mentioned the importance of this context in soil care, added.
"It is not plausible to think a bioeconomic development model without considering soil conservation. That is why we want to work from Ministry to Ministry with high-impact areas", he concluded.
Members of the Mission:
– Alejandro Mentaberry. Executive Coordinator of the Scientific and Technological Cabinet (GAGTEC) of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina and principal investigator at CONICET.
– Raquel Chan. Director of the Science and Technology Centre of Santa Fe and principal investigator at CONICET.
– Claudio Salomon. independent investigator at CONICET.
– Andrea Gomez Zavaglia. independent investigador at CONICET.
– Julio Menendez. Consultant. INTA.
– Eduardo Orti. R&D Manager at Amega Biotech.
– Dorothea Garff. Investments and Sustainability manager of the Argentine-Germany Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
– Teresa Behm. Technology and Innovation Coordinator of the Argentine-Germany Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
– María Florencia Giacchi. Officer at the Technology Transfer Office of CONICET.


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As one of our long-lasting traditions, visiting the Oncological Hospital represents a valuable project, due to its remarkable social impact. Spending some valuable time with those children, whose fate was decided by illness, and bringing them Christmas presents is a small, but relevant way of contributing to their happiness.
A group of our dedicated members organized for these kids a series of interactive activities, including cognitive games. At the end of our event, we gave them gifts and, to our surprise, despite the implacable sufferance they had to put up with daily, these children offered us smiles as a sign of gratefulness, teaching us an invaluable life lesson: being thankful for everything.


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Git/GitHub tip No. 18: Write informative README pages
In tip No. 11, I sent you to the README page of jquery/jquery to find out about the project. Write good README pages for your projects, and you won't regret it.
README has been an established convention in software development since at least the 1960s, when I saw my first one printed out IN ALL CAPS on the green-and-white paper that was wrapping a stack of Hollerith cards intended to be run on an IBM 1640. I saw many more in the 1970s, on every conceivable media and operating system, when I worked on DEC minicomputers and large IBM mainframes. See alsoREAMDE.
Git/GitHub tip No. 19: Use Markdown
Early README files IN ALL CAPS were more than a little basic. The current standard for formatting README files isMarkdown, specifically GitHub Flavored Markdown. I used to see README files in HTML, but the practice seems to be fading.
Git/GitHub tip No. 20: Convert your older repos to Git
Of all the tips I've listed, this one might be the hardest to implement, both technically and politically. Politically it's hard because programmers are by nature conservative about their tools. That needs to be addressed with training (see tip No. 5).
It's technically hard to convert big, old repositories with millions of lines of code, tens of thousands of commits, and thousands of tags because the processes for this use a metric ton of memory. I have had decade-old CVS repositories that would only convert on large or extralarge Amazon EC2 instances, and they still took days for the conversion to complete. If you're converting from Subversion, try using svn2git. If you're converting from CVS, consider
git -cvsimport and cvs2git.


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X1 Racing League is all set to kick off its unique, India-centric Esports initiative to nurture budding racers in the country.
Xtreme1 Racing League, more commonly referred to as the X1 Racing League, has announced a unique India-centric racing initiative called the X1 Esports League (X1EL). Founded by Indian racing veterans Armaan Ebrahim and Aditya Patel, the X1 will make its debut in October 2019 and will soon become the world's first franchise-based motorsport league. It has already been sanctioned by the country's apex racing regulatory body, the FMSCI (Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India).
While there isn't a confirmed start date for its operations, X1EL will soon organise a nation-wide virtual racing competition. Open to women and men alike, registrations for the event will open a week prior to the start. Anyone above the age limit of 15 years will be eligible to register for the X1EL, irrespective of their profession. To make the event accessible to all, registrations will be done free of cost, on a first come first serve basis. Specifics pertaining to the registration process will soon emerge on the X1 Racing League's website and corresponding social media pages.
The competitions will be held in 8 different Indian cities (across a span of 7 days in each city) where individuals will compete on a racing simulator. 50 individuals will then be selected from each city based on best lap times to participate in the finals. At the end of the final round, top five winners with the best lap times will stand a chance to be a part of a professional racing team and test drive the X1 Racing League car. Winners will also be trained under the personal supervision of Armaan Ebrahim and Aditya Patel.
Sharing his thoughts on the announcement of the new Esports venture, Aditya Patel said, 'We are delighted to announce our Esports competition as a part of X1. I believe it is the dream of every youngster to be a professional race driver, all geared up in a high-speed racing car. With the onset of X1 Esports in India, we are not just aiming to give recognition to the Esports culture and e-racers/gamers but also trying to bring out the best of the talents and train them to represent India in real racing on a world level.'


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walk by... not actually knowing its them for sure
If its @Eljay (would be confused on how i know its him without his miru. Maby his hold a bunch of lewas) shake his hand and buy him some australia fruit/food? And talk over some nice kangeroo or a good steak
Anyone else probably the same really
You know ask em why there down in australia
(Thats a open invitation if any of you guys show up down here i will buy you a nice lunch)
If Meso: 'You, you cheated in VNOG. Shame on you scrub.'
If Var: '... I always thought you were a clown with a chainsaw, laughing maniacally'
If Eljay: 'GIVE ME THE DARN MIRU ALREADY'
If Kahi: 'Yo, mind if we discuss politics and legal sciences?'
If Ven: 'Keep up with the sarcasm, the cast surely needs it..'
If Viper: 'Brits are coolio'
If Takuma: 'Why aren't you bouncing?'
If Exx: 'Sup bro'
If Prpl: 'Can i have a draw plz?'
Now i'm snickering at the mental image of Takuma casually bouncing on his exercise ball outside to traverse sidewalk.
I would try to convince them to convince lego to make Brickonicle sets
Uh..no they look at you weirdly.
Probably nothing honestly.
I would say hi and not busy them with my existence. All the cast members are still people so I don't think I'd have a heart attack or anything like that, but even if it's just to say hi I'd still like the opportunity.
I'd probably freak out and go all fan-boi on them
I chased one and yelled at him to see Gotti.
For real?
Start just having a normal conversation.
I have no concept or sense of idolization.
It was caught on camera in the first TTV Brickfair vlog.
that's special.
If Invi walked up to me, I'd be like, "Holy crap, it's me"
To be honest if I saw a TTV mook out in the wild, I'd probably just stand off at a distance and do that thing where you think it might be someone you recognize, but you're not sure and don't wanna risk it, so you just stand there, doing double takes like a madman.
TBH i think that's what anybody's gonna do.
Yeah, I'd probably walk away and try to convince myself that it was someone with a similar face.
If I met with Eljay…
I'd say hi and invite him at a restaurant, where we could have a nice conversation about anything related to LEGO. (And I would pay, of course).
And after we are done, I would ask him to give me an autograph, and I would also ask If I could be at the Eljay Johnson show.


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Some of the season's paramount concerts – for non-Beyoncé worshippers – were promoted by B&A illustrators. Phish asked Jeff Soto to develop a poster for the group's Lake Tahoe show, held at the end of last month. He came up with the design after reading about Lake Tahoe's version of the Loch Ness monster.
"Tahoe Tessie is a snake-like creature that has been seen for decades," Soto explained. "I chose to portray Tessie as a mystical water goddess, rising from the lake with her pet cat. It's unclear if the campers below are performing a type of summoning spell over the fire, or just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Or maybe it's the wrong place to be!"
Both David Welker and Tara McPherson produced bills for the Melvins' 30th anniversary tour. Welker's tricolor, hand-pulled screen print features Clarence the Clown, "who ran amuck with a chainsaw one fine Sunday afternoon at the carnival following one too many clown jokes," the artist said. "I chose this character for the Melvins because the band is an odd blend of punk, art, and metal."
McPherson's protagonist is a girl led astray by a false heart, with a paper replacement pinned to her chest, drawn using glow-in-the-dark inks and metallics. McPherson also lent her hand to the upcoming Alkaline Trio and New Found Glory tour: "The inspiration was taken from the twins in the 'Shining,' and the poster illustrated the unbreakable bond they have – a reference to the co-headlining acts – with a ghostly, Victorian feel."
Announcing AI-AP B&A Winners
American Illustration and American Photography recently announced their selections for 2013 featuring work from the world's top image makers. John Hendrix, Tara McPherson (winning piece pictured first), and Yuko Shimizu were among the B&A illustrators selected for American Illustration 32. Works by photographers Jamie Chung, Nick & Chloe, Michael Turek, and Stephen Wilkes were chosen to appear in American Photography 29.
American Illustration 32 B&A Artists:
John Hendrix
Teddy Roosevelt, Disney/Hyperion Books
George Washington, Disney/Hyperion Books
Kingdom Sport, Sports Illustrated
Yuko Shimizu
Man on Bike with Tulips
Samurai Hanging in Tree
Woman's Pubic Hair
American Photography 29 B&A Artists:
Jamie Chung
Oyster, Real Simple Magazine
Tough Mudder, Men's Health
Nick & Chloe
Female Nude with 3D Sculpture
Female Nude with 3D Sculpture
Kid with Clown Hats, Moon
Michael Turek
Horse Jumping Triptych, Departures
Stephen Wilkes
Aerial Sandy Storm Damage, TIME Magazine
Hello Kitty, Hello Art!Hello Kitty is celebrating the third anniversary of her 35th birthday with an art compilation book, Hello Kitty, Hello Art! Dozens of artists from around the world are featured including Gary Baseman, kaNO, Jeremyville, and Tara McPherson. The book is 200 full color pages of Hello Kitty and her Sanrio pals My Melody, Keroppi, Badtz-Maru, Little Twin Stars, and Chococat.
In a recent interview with Cool Hunting, Gary Baseman said this about the brand behind the favorite feline: "Sanrio seems to have a natural ability to remain young and playful as its own characters, embracing fully current trends in fashion, product design, and art." kaNO's piece, a 48" x 30" acrylic on wood titled "Hello Mello," is a snarky depiction of Hello Kitty's musical rabbit friend, My Melody. "Music is such a huge part of my creative process and I felt [My Melody] would give me a lot to play with."
For more information on the compilation, visit the Abrams Books or Sanrio websites.
B&A Artists Illustrate Bottles for 1800 Tequila Again
Nathan Fox, Tara McPherson, Ilovedust, Kai and Sunny, Stephen Bliss, and Sandro Tchikovani collaborate with 1800 Tequila on the fourth edition of the Essential Artists series. The five B&A artists and Tchikovani created diverse designs inspired by Mayan culture, Aztec mythology, and Mexican heritage for the collectible bottles. The series represents a modern blend of artistry and quality.
The latest series will launch tonight in New York City. 1800 Tequila has partnered with SPIN on the launch that will feature a special performance by Wavves, who recently appeared on the magazine's cover. Following tonight's launch, the limited edition run of 1800 bottles will be available to purchase in high-end liquor stores across the country.
The designs above from l-r are by Sandro Tchikovani, Stephen Bliss, Nathan Fox, Ilovedust, Tara McPherson, Kai and Sunny.
Tara McPherson Releases "Bunny in the Moon"
Tara McPherson debuts her latest book Bunny in the Moon. It is McPherson's third art book with Dark Horse Comics. Bunny in the Moon features new artwork, illustrations, and paintings that explore love, loss, strength, and female empowerment, all of which are common themes in McPherson's work. Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock provides the introduction. The cover is made up of hard puffy colors with glow-in-the-dark accents.
McPherson promoted the book this past weekend with a signing at Cotton Candy Machine in Brooklyn. McPherson is the co-owner and Art Director of the store that specializes in art prints, books, apparel, toys, and more by a variety of contemporary artists. The space holds sentimental value for McPherson, as it was her studio for the five years before it became a store. The paintings from her first two art books were all created there.
Bunny in the Moon is available for purchase now here.
See more of Tara McPherson's artwork here.
B&A Artists for Kid Robot x Swatch
Tara McPherson, Jeremyville, and Gary Baseman lend their artistic talents to a new collaboration between Kid Robot and Swatch. The collaboration brings together the classic Gent Original Swatch and Kid Robot's iconic vinyl Dunny as a collectible pair. McPherson, Jeremyville, and Baseman were three of eight contemporary artists asked to put their own unique design on the pairs.
McPherson's set is called "The Eyes are Watching" and features one of her characters, Carina a three-eyed space cat hanging out in a field of eyeball flowers. The eyes wrap around the watch's band so they can be seen from all angles. The band is also frosted with a see-through frame in McPherson's signature palette. Of the experience, McPherson says it was "fun for sure," and "it was a nice challenge to figure out how to make something work on such a limited amount of space."
Jeremyville has collaborated with Kid Robot on toys in the past but this is his first time designing a watch. His set is called "The So Far Away" and features a new character, Ibbity Pop, from his upcoming storybook of the same name. Jeremyville wanted the strap and face of the watch to represent the furry body and the face of Ibbity Pop. The arms also create eyebrows for the character and at 10:08 a frown appears over his face.
Baseman's set is called "Midnight Magi" and is inspired by one of his original characters. The strap is black matte with black gloss and there is just a hint of color in the ghostly character.
The Kid Robot x Swatch collaboration is on sale now. Visit Kid Robot's site for where to buy.
See more of Tara McPherson's work here.
See more of Jeremyville's work here.
See more of Gary Baseman's work here. >
Tara McPherson Exhibits in New York
Tara McPherson will exhibit at The Eric Firestone Gallery as part of the group show Nose Art, opening today in East Hampton. Curated by Carlo McCormick, the show is a tribute to the folk art created by pilots in both World Wars by painting images and slogans on the noses of their military planes.
Firestone and McCormick started the project by traveling to the Arizona desert, where disused Air Force planes are stored, and collecting a wide range of cones in various shapes and sizes. McPherson and several other contemporary artists such as Shepard Fairey, Ryan McGuinness, Richard Prince, Peter Dayton, and Aaron Young, were commissioned to turn the nose cones into objects of art. On her cone, McPherson created an alien-like woman with green skin and three eyes, against a backdrop that includes mountaintops, clouds, and a rainbow.
Bernstein & Andriulli welcomes Tara McPherson. McPherson is an artist based in New York City. She received her BFA with honors in Illustration from Art Center in Pasadena, CA. Named the crown princess of poster art by ELLE magazine, she has created numerous gig posters for rock bands such as Beck, Modest Mouse, and Melvins. Her art also includes creating toys with companies like Kid Robot, Dark Horse, and Toy2R, comics and covers for DC Vertigo, and advertising and editorial illustrations for companies such as Wieden+Kennedy, Spin Magazine, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Playboy, Sony Magazine, Bust, Magnet, Elle, and Marie Claire.
Nose Art will run at The Eric Firestone Gallery until August 21st. For more information visit the gallery's website.
See Tara McPherson's full portfolio here.


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Happy Thanksgiving from Floyd Hunter!
Thanksgiving is a time for us to reflect on the year and give thanks for all that we have. Families and friends gather to share a meal and drink, enjoying quality time together.
While the Thanksgiving holiday is a time to relax and reflect, it is also one of the busiest travel periods of the year. People will be traveling by train, plane and car to get to their destination with an estimated 51 million Americans traveling throughout the week leading up to Thanksgiving Day.
The influx of traffic will mean more congestion on the roads and people throughout Alabama will be anxious to arrive to their destinations on time. Regardless of what type of transportation you will be utilizing, keep in mind that it is a heavily traveled time of year. Remain calm, be patient and expect delays to occur.
Keep these safety tips in mind this Thanksgiving:
- Leave Early – to prevent rushing and to potentially prevent an accident from occurring, allow yourself enough time to get to your destination by leaving early.
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Product Lead Engineer, Fab Solutions (wafer yield, root cause analysis) - SISW - MG 192519
- Fremont, CA
During the current global health crisis, the priority for Siemens Digital Industries Software is the health and wellbeing of our entire community including current and future employees, which may add time to our hiring processes. We appreciate your patience and invite you to visit our website to learn more about how Siemens is responding to the pandemic.
Company: SISW - MG
Job Title: Product Lead Engineer, Fab Solutions (wafer yield, root cause, analysis) - 192519
Job Location: US - OR - Wilsonville
Job Category: Product Engineer
Job Description:
Role to fill:
-The Fab Solutions technical lead will report to the product marketing director - initially as an individual contributor with potential to lead a team of product/application engineers in the future.
- Drive a technical and business development effort for design anchored work flow automation in semiconductor fabs.
- Understand yield management and process control work flows, gaps and requirements and derive market requirement specifications for consideration in software tool development.
-Contribute to application development and functional validation of software solutions developed by the engineering team.
- Guide the quality assurance group in their testing on user scenarios.
- Build relationship network with foundry customers in the technology learning and yield managements space.
- Build and maintain relationship network with process, metrology equipment suppliers and material suppliers for semi- manufacturing.
About the group:
The Calibre Semiconductor Manufacturing Solutions group is integral part of the Calibre family focusing on the needs of the manufacturing customers. We provide full data preparation solutions that convert a finished design into a mask write-ready set. It relies on accurate capture of models describing the wafer lithography, etch, deposition and CMP processes and using these models to correct the design data compensating for systematic processing effects for maximum process yield.
Increasingly both design information and process knowledge are required to understand yield phenomena in the fab and to take corrective actions on the process/equipment side, the data preparation side or the design itself.
Enabling our tools to better serve customers in these tasks is the objective for this position.
Job Qualifications:
The Mentor Graphics Calibre Semi Manufacturing Solutions team is looking to hire a motivated individual to fill the role of a technical lead for the Fab Solutions product group. We are looking for the following qualifications:
- Engineer with background and recent experience in yield management, technology integration, defect management, or failure diagnosis/failure analysis in semiconductor manufacturing including advanced nodes.
- Understanding of the interaction of the IC design flow and the wafer manufacturing flow.
- Interest in software application development and machine learning methodologies to discern root causes of process observations and their connectedness to layout content.
- Master's degree in Material Science, Physics or Electrical Engineering with 5-10 years' experience.
- Network in the semiconductor manufacturing and supplier space.
This position may require access to export-controlled technology. If an export license is required and Mentor Graphics elects to apply for such a license, then candidates must be approved and licensed by the applicable government authorities as a condition of employment.
Organization: Digital Industries
Company: Mentor Graphics Corporation
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Job Type: Full-time
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Gurubashi Axe Thrower can be found in Zul'Gurub .
- Throw - Throws a weapon at an enemy, inflicting Physical damage.
- Axe Flurry - Attacks nearby enemies in a flurry of axes that lasts 10 sec. Each successful hit stuns the target for 2 sec.
- Frenzy - Increases the caster's attack speed by 60% and the Physical damage it deals by 50% for 2 min.
- Killing you be easy!
Patches and hotfixes
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Richard Massingham's face was instantly recognisable to cinema-goers in Britain during the 1940s. His performances as the well-meaning but bumbling everyman in a series of imaginative shorts, provided instructions to the public on everything from how to cross roads to the correct way to sneeze into a handkerchief and the need to bathe in just five inches of water during wartime rationing. On 24 August 2015 the BFI brings these enjoyable films to DVD for the first time in How to be Eccentric, The Essential Richard Massingham.
Marked by a wonderfully inventive combination of comedy, instruction, surrealism and whimsy, these films not only starred Massingham, but were also often produced and directed by him. This essential collection, selected from films preserved in the BFI National Archive, celebrates this extraordinary figure and reveals him to be one of British cinema's most fascinating and enduring eccentrics.
The films are accompanied by a 34-page illustrated booklet with essays, a biography of Richard Massingham and notes on each film.
Watch one of Massingham's best-known films, Coughs and Sneezes:
The films are:
Coughs and Sneezes (1945)
Jet-propelled Germs (1948)
Handkerchief Drill (1949)
Another Case of Poisoning (1949)
The Cure (1950)
The Five Inch Bather (1942)
Post Early for Christmas (1943)
In Which We Live: Being the Life Story of a Suit Told by Itself (1943)
Elopement in France (1944)
Down at the Local (1945)
An Englishman's Home……. (1946)
Moving House (1950)
What a Life (1948)
Watch Your Meters (1947)
Warning to Travellers (1949)
Help Yourself (1950)
Pool of Contentment (1946)
Pedal Cyclists (1947)
Pedestrian Crossing (1948)
30 Miles an Hour (1949)
Introducing the New Worker (1951)
Product details
RRP: £19.99 / Cat. no. BFIV2049 / Cert E
UK / 1934–1951 / black and white / English language / 170 mins / DVD9 / Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 / Dolby Digital mono audio (256kbps)


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In recent years, Paul Holgate has been embarking on various trips around the world to learn from masters of the beer world so he can bring the knowledge back to Woodend and take his beers to another level. A recent overseas jaunt took him to Germany, where he spent time studying how they made such wonderful, delicate lagers with the intention of adding one to the brewery's core range.
Since returning, the brewery's Tank 9 – reserved for small trial batches – has been used to see if what he'd learnt in Germany could be replicated back home. And, following those trials, the result is the Norton Lager, arriving 13 years after Paul's first lager, the Pilsner. It's named in tribute to Paul's dad, who used to cruise around the south of England on a Norton motorcycle before moving to Australia – dad and bike now feature on the beer's labels.
It's a pale golden drop with a gentle bitterness, soft, honey like malts and floral, lemon and stonefruit hop aromas and flavours derived from the duo of local hops, Ella and Vic Secret, that give this Munich Helles-inspired beer an Aussie twist.
- Style
- Helles Lager
- 4.3%
- Bitterness
- Stockists
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Do you care about drains? I was reading a book called The 77 Habits of highly ineffective Christians by Chris Fabry. It is a humorous book. But at the same time it tells us some very serious and fundamental truths about both Christianity and, more particularly, ourselves.
As I thought about what Fabry was saying, I was reminded of a pithy quotation from Henry Scott Holland (he's the chap who wrote the poem, 'Death is nothing at all').
Holland, who was particularly interested in the relationship of Christianity with the social problems of his day said, "The more you believe in the Incarnation, the more you care about drains".
You see, Holland knew that the Christian life cannot, and should not, be separated off in its own compartment, boxed away from ordinary activities. It can never be just an optional extra that we fit in if we have a space somewhere.
People sometimes think that divine and earthly things cannot possibly mix. Some say that Christianity is only concerned with saving souls; that social, economic and political life don't appear to have much to do with it. And most of the time the secular worlds of business, industry and leisure seem to be utterly remote from Christianity and 'churchy' activities.
But God is not thousands of miles away, only paying us a visit on Sundays. He is in his world, in its profoundest depths and minutest details, and in the heart of every pain. God in Jesus has become fully human. So, as well as being wholly other than we are, beyond our human comprehension, God is also here with us in the middle of it all, inviting us to respond and to work with him.
God calls us to be totally given to him in everything, from the way we spend our money to the way we talk to other people. It doesn't matter whether we're washing the car, collecting our pension or giving the children their tea - God is still there, and we can still be surrendered to him at those moments.
But how? Well - the secret lies in prayer, which is possible wherever we are. God doesn't only want the 'holy bits' of our weekly routine. All of life can be sacred if we will only look and, more particularly, listen.
As the great philosopher Irenaeus said: "The glory of God is man fully alive, and the life of man is the vision of God".
May God's blessing be with you all
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Jan 24, 2017
Talent Attraction in areas of extreme skill shortage is
something that is consistently difficult. I'm always interested in
any creative ways that employers are using to tackle the problem,
particularly when they don't have a massive budget or unlimited
resources to use to solve it.
My guest this week is
Jan 16, 2017
For this first episode of 2017 I wanted to offer you something a bit different. Last year I was fortunate enough to deliver the opening keynote at HR Tech Fest in Johannesburg. My topic was the dual role I feel HR needs to play in the digital transformation of business. It was quite a personal presentation for me as I...