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No. 1481:
The newspaper VG is still dividing on Ivar Underberge - but it is not his "fault" that the legislation has not been updated after days of internet use!
Picture of the "bully victim" to the newspaper VG, Ivar Underberge.
The newspaper VG delivers and hammers loose on Ivar Underberge as if they own no shame or wit!
It is then not his "fault" that the law is not updated after days of internet use!
We know what it is like in school. Where the bravest boy bully the weakest students, who can never take back. At that level, the newspaper VG, if not a little further down, is. Here there is a person who can never fight back against VG, but who is in article by article hanged out. Even in large reports and the newspaper, no restrictions have what Ivar Underberge can call.
What Ivar Underberge writes I will call partly harmless and utopian, that someone feels overwhelmed by his writings is actually what eg. Me and my family have experienced writings against us by the evil Trinity. It is the man with the fictitious name Ansgar Braut, Jan Aage Torp and Torodd Fuglesteg as little things to count. But these will never be punished by the police when they have immunity as it is an unwritten law that it is allowed to write all the shit one would against me and my family without being punished.
After reading what has been written online over the past half year and in various newspapers and otherwise. Then it was very sad that the case between me and the criminal Jan Aage Torp who went with his fictitious review of me when he hated me and my preaching about and against remarriage. That that case never came to the Norwegian Supreme Court, so that they could realize that the paragraphs and the contents of Norway's laws have not kept up with time, they are on many offsets.
Then hit the Ivar Underberge when it is actually the politicians, the lawyers and everyone who has responsibility that has not done their job, not Ivar Undergege.
They had a certain opportunity to take our case between me and Jan Aage Torp to the Norwegian Supreme Court, where one could ascertain that the regulations do not hold goals. Something that my lawyer Brynjar Meling pointed out already during the court proceedings in Oslo District Court, but was not taken into account either in the judgment or during the court proceedings. This became the major theme in Borgarting Lagmannsrett, but this was not mentioned in the judgment. When Brynjar Meling wrote his petition to the Norwegian Supreme Court, which was actually a "master's".
This was rejected in cash, in many ways the Norwegian judicial system appears to be a pamphlet where nothing really works. This is real discouraging, marvelous and makes Norway a democracy that is in a downward spiral staircase. Here should still have learned lessons, and begun with legal investigation, improvement and possibly let these issues as me either stand on hold. Or so that pr. Today we do not have a law that can judge anyone, therefore you are acquitted, so far.
Picture of my lawyer Brynjar Meling.
Attorney Brynjar Meling's claim to the Norwegian Supreme Court!
Advokatfirma Meling AS
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Stavanger May 11, 2017
Our ref: 22375
Their ref: 16-086576AST-BORG / 02
Responsible lawyer: Brynjar N. Meling
Borgarting court of law
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Borgarting Court of Appeal on 27.04.2017 delivered judgment in case no. 16-086576AST-BORG / 02 with such unanimous ruling: «The appeal is rejected».
The judgment upheld Oslo District Court's judgment of 25.01.2016 in case no. 15-073540MED-OTIR / 02, where the verdict reads:
1. Jan Kåre Christensen, b. 03.08.1964 is sentenced for violation of the Penal Code of 1902 §390a to a fine of 12,000 - twelve thousand - NOK, or alternatively, imprisonment for 20 - twenty - days.
2. Jan Kåre Christensen is acquitted of the claim for redress.
3. Jan Kåre Christensen is further judged to pay public costs of 3,000 - three thousand - NOK.
The Court of Appeal's verdict has been preached to convicted persons 28.04.2017. The present appeal and supporting letter have been filed in due time. The appeal concerns the Court of Appeal's case processing and law enforcement. The appellant assumes that there are two issues that both matter outside the case in question.
The fact of the matter
The Court of Appeal has made the District Court's description of the fact its own by citing the three most central sections of the District Court's reproduction of fact on pages 3 and 4 of the Court of Appeal's judgment. As far as it goes, this description must therefore be used as a basis. § 306, second paragraph.
Case handling errors, provocation and retorting
As can be seen at the bottom of page 4 and at the top of page 5 of the Court of Appeal's judgment, the convicted person stated to his defense that his statements had to be punished or judged mildly based on the principle of provocation and retort.
The Court of Appeal - despite this statement - has not at all gone into the extent to which the abusive and meaningful offenders' objection to the verbal assault of the accusing party has been, or what kind of characteristics convicted had to endure as retaliation for their verbal attacks against Pastor Torp.
As meaningful assessment of any impunity or reduced punishment due to. provocation and rhetoric in relation to reciprocal verbal attacks presupposes both a quantitative and qualitative comparison of the expressed statements from both sides, it is stated that the Court of Appeal's decision grounds are insufficient.
The Court of Appeal - see the first complete paragraph on page 8 of the judgment - in the present context confined itself to stating that Torp's counter-attack against Christensen has helped to escalate and prolong the conflict between the convicted and the offender. This is not sufficient to dispel the possible significance of the "balance of speech", either for the question of guilt or punishment.
The aforementioned inadequacy of the Court of Appeal's premises is further related to the fact that the size (1902) § 250 is not mentioned at all in the court's premises, which in itself is also a further inadequacy, given the questions relating to the law court's legal understanding, see further below.
Case processing error, justified resentment
The majority of the characteristics by which the convicted person has spoken about the life-style of the offender reveal that Christensen has been moral - or moralizing if one wants - upset by certain aspects of Pastor Torp's way of life and behavior, conditions which appear to be purely objective. contrary to the word of the Bible.
Although literal belief and unified application of moral bids in religious, allegedly sacred texts is no longer a common phenomenon in Norwegian social reality, especially when it is not a matter of punishable acts in secular sense, and even of attacking others in such a way the full public basis is even more unusual than merely holding judgmental attitudes on religious grounds, one has to ask the question of it not - within the narrow circles where fundamentalist attitudes to such issues are still widespread and considered fully legitimate - may be the basis for considering Pastor Torp's way of life as the basis for "justified resentment", cf. strl. (1902) § 56 no. 1 (b)?
Can Christensen et al. Is it considered to have acted in justified resentment, given that the particular theological context both convicted and offended belongs?
The fact that the Court of Appeal in its terms at all does not discuss the issue is stated to imply that the decision grounds in the judgment are inadequate. This even though strl. (1901) Section 56 (1) (b) was not explicitly invoked by the defense forces: The Court of Appeal waits ex officio over the application of law.
Wrong use of law, size. (1902) § 390a
As the court in the second to last paragraph on page 6 of the judgment correctly states, the Norwegian Supreme Court has not dealt with matters relating to size. § 1902 § 390a (repeated in str l. (2005) § 266) in relation to blog posts or other publicly available material on the internet.
It is stated that the law of the Court of Appeal is incorrect, because via the Internet making utterances close is found to be abusive available to a wide and indefinite personal circle or may be regarded as a defamation of honor, not as "by troublesome behavior or other ruthless behavior having violated someone else's peace". Defamation of honor is at the entry into force of the Strl. (2005) - contrary to the continuation of previous section 390a - made a criminal offense. Proper use of law would have led to impunity for appellant parties, size no. (2005) § 3, cf. last paragraph on page 5 of the Court of Appeal's judgment.
Strl. (1902) § 390a and strl. (2005) § 266, according to its wording, protects the "peace" of the offended, not his sense of honor. Strl. (1902) § 246 struck the offender of "someone else's sense of honor" § 247 the one who injured "another's good name and reputation" or who uttered something that was appropriate "to postpone him for hatred, disrespect or loss of it for his position or nutrition required confidence ". Both their own sense of honor and reputation in the eyes of others are - as the word clearly shows - something other than and essentially different from the "peace" of the offended.
By Grl. §§ 96, paragraph 1 cf. 113 and ECHR art. 7 follows a clarity requirement as regards the legal basis for punishment. The Court of Appeal's law-application bears - on the basis of a sense of punishment - the character of being a strongly expanding interpretation of size. (1902) § 390a. Ie An interpretation that is contrary to the provisions of the Constitution and ECHR for penal provisions, nevertheless applied to be able to hit actions and utterances that were previously affected by size. (1902) Sections 246 and 247, after these have not been continued in the new Penal Code, and according to the provision in size. (2005) Section 3 shall also be punishable by judicial review of older conditions following a legislative amendment.
Furthermore, both Grl. § 100 and ECHR Art. 10 the principle of freedom of expression.
The abolition of the older penalties for defamation of honor must be seen in light of this: Also, utterances that are unpleasant, controversial, even offensive and hurtful should, as the great and general point of departure, be punishable. When the utterances are not addressed directly to the offender - it had been left to Pastor Torp to completely refrain from reading the blog of the accusing party - and not imposed on him in any way whatsoever, it is stated to be dual convention and unconstitutional. the statements in Christensen's blog for punishment without being protected by freedom of speech.
Firstly, it is stated to be contrary to the clarity requirement to interpret size. (1902) § 390a expanding the way the Court of Appeal does, and secondly, that the content of the statements Christensen has come with lies within what freedom of speech includes. In any case, § 390a cannot mean that utterances that might, but can no longer be punished as defamation, are instead punished as violating another's peace. Such a practice becomes, after the appellant's view, an erosion and a circumvention of a clear legislative decision.
HR-2016-1015-A is not relevant to the case against Christensen. In HR-2016-1015-A, this was a completely different type of criminal offense, in which the wording of the relevant provision also clearly aims to include a majority of conceivable modes, cf. blue. that the wording includes the effect of the offender via third person ("his closest"). Rt. 2010 p. 845 applies to actions clearly within size. § 390a, since it was (an exceptionally large amount) emails directly to the victim.
The other judicial references in the Court of Appeal's judgment do not eliminate the need for a clarifying assessment of the correct application of the law through a precedent ruling by the Norwegian Supreme Court.
Controversial statements about named persons, as well as life-style attacks and life-style, abound on the Internet. The fact that utterances addressed to the general public also come to the mentioned knowledge and can fall this heavily for the chest, must not become a detour to nevertheless be able to prosecute statements made by the legislature - wise or unwise - when adopting and implementing a new criminal code with a broad pen chose to decriminalize.
If some such statements can be punished again, according to our legal order, it is a legislature's task to adopt new legal provisions for this, while observing the requirements of the Constitution, the ECHR and possibly other relevant conventions. The fact that the prosecution and the courts lay the ground for others to strike something that - rightly or wrongly - finds punishable is precisely what Rt. 1952 page 989 - the telephony case - means that should not take place.
Termination is also pointed out that both size (1902) § 390a and size one. (2005) § 266 lacks connection to a provocation and retorting authority, such as in size one. (1902) in relation to sections 246 and 247, in the form of size. (1902) § 250. That violent opinions - both only two parties in between and in the public space, eg. internet - frequently occurs precisely in the form of utterance and contradiction, is a real consideration that shows how important it is that Such conditions as the controversy between Jan Kåre Christensen and Jan-Aage Torp are assessed according to balanced legislation that is intended to regulate precisely such conditions, and not to a legal authority that has a completely different history. And not least (at least originally) a completely different purpose.
Claim and processual
If the case is referred for consideration by the Norwegian Supreme Court and the court then the appellant party is right in their view of the law use as far as the scope of the rule is concerned. (1902) § 390a, incomplete grounds of judgment in relation to possible grounds for impunity have no longer relevance. It is therefore dismissed so reverently
Principal: Jan Kåre Christensen is acquitted.
In the alternative: Borgarting Court of Appeal's judgment of 27.04.2017 in case no. 16-086576AST-BORG / 02 is repealed.
The case is considered by referral suitable as trial case, and the appellant party also wishes the undersigned defendant appointed as his defense (for trial) also for the Norwegian Supreme Court.
It is assumed sufficient to set aside a court day for the consideration of the case.
With regards
ADVOCATED COOPERATION, MEALING & amp; CO
Brynjar N. Meling
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New York Post girls volleyball beat writer Marc Raimondi breaks down the PSAL Class A and Class B semifinals, starting at 5 p.m. on Friday at Hunter College.
Here's the schedule:
5 p.m. – No. 1 Francis Lewis vs. No. 5 Midwood
6 p.m. – No. 2 Susan Wagner vs. No. 3 Cardozo
5 p.m. – No. 1 Goldstein vs. No. 13 FDR
6 p.m. – No. 3 John Adams vs. No. 15 Scholars Academy
No. 1 Francis Lewis Patriots
Head coach: Arnie Rosenbaum
Record: 12-0
How they got here: Beat No. 19 Edison, 2-0, in the second round and No. 8 MSIT, 2-0, in the quarterfinals
Player to watch: Alexandra Persaud
No. 5 Midwood Hornets
Head coach: Thomasina Lenzi
Record: 12-0
How they got here: Beat No. 12 Bronx Science, 2-0, in the second round and No. 4 Stuyvesant, 2-1, in the quarterfinals
Player to watch: Shannon Appel
Outlook: Francis Lewis struggled with Edison's size in the second round and that's one of Midwood's strengths. Hornets middles Shannon Appel, Sam Edelstein and Jackie Handy will need to have big days against Lewis' Alicja Pawelec, Chereese Sheen and Persaud. It might be the only tangible advantage Midwood has over its powerhouse opponent, the two-time defending PSAL city champion.
With that being said, the Patriots still beat Edison, 25-19, 25-12, though the Hornets are much better than the Inventors. Lewis just needs to play its game – there's nothing more to it than that. The Patriots, on an average day, are head and shoulders better than everyone else in the PSAL. And a serving performance like they had Wednesday in the quarters – especially from Pawelec and Jillian Escobar – wouldn't hurt either.
No. 2 Susan Wagner Falcons
Head coach: Marco Altieri
Record: 14-0
How they got here: Beat No. 15 Long Island City, 2-1, in the second round and No. 7 John F. Kennedy, 2-0, in the quarterfinals
Player to watch: Karolina Wisniewski
No. 3 Cardozo Judges
Head coach: Danny Scarola
Record: 10-2
How they got here: Beat No. 14 Townsend Harris, 2-1, in the second round and No. 6 Brooklyn Tech, 2-1, in the quarterfinals
Player to watch: Susan Kang
Outlook: This will be an all-out slugfest. If it doesn't go a tight three sets, most people in the gym will be very surprised. These teams haven't seen each other all year, which adds to the intrigue. It'll be Wagner's power going up against Cardozo's guile.
If the Falcons' passing is on, they'll be a very hard team to beat. If Amanda Fiore gets the ball in the right spot, she'll make a precise set just about every time. And with Karolina Wisniewski and 6-foot-3 Emily Burke on the outsides, that's extremely dangerous. Libero Esther Jang was critical with her defense, passing and, especially, her serving Wednesday night. Wagner will need that kind of performance again.
When Wisniewski and Burke are pounding away, they might be doing so against the best libero they've seen all year: Kang. Not only is the pint-sized senior all over the court, diving from one end to the other, she has a world of experience. Aside from the players on Francis Lewis, she's the only one left in the playoffs who has played regularly in a championship match. She did so as a sophomore.
It isn't just her, either. Sophomore outside hitter Ashley Grubler took over the first set against Brooklyn Tech late and that proved to be huge. Senior outside Tina Tian had the match-winning kill and Helen Kim got the Judges there with a pretty ace. If Tian keeps swinging like she did Wednesday, Cardozo will be in good shape.
No. 1 Goldstein Dolphins
Head coach: Tzion Halali
Record: 14-0
How they got here: Beat No. 17 Springfield Gardens, 2-0, in the second round and No. 24 Bushwick, 2-0, in the quarterfinals
Player to watch: Kristen Herchenroder
No. 13 FDR Cougars
Head coach: Angela Robb
Record: 12-3
How they got here: Beat No. 20 Evander Childs, 2-0, in the first round; No 4 Leadership, 2-0, in the second round and No. 5 East Harlem, 2-0, in the quarterfinals
Player to watch: Devin DiPietro
Outlook: It's a wonder FDR was only seeded No. 13. The Cougars won the 'B' title two years ago and were in the finals last year. This is a solid team that would compete in most 'A' divisions, led by DiPietro and Ka Kio Lei. There's just one problem in the semifinals: Goldstein is the only team FDR has lost to all season and it happened three times in Brooklyn B6.
The Dolphins are the best 'B' team the PSAL has seen in the last few years. They would have earned a top-10 seed in the 'A' playoffs based on performances in tournaments – they finished first in their pool twice. Herchenroder is a club player, something not prevalent in the 'B.' Goldstein is expected to cruise, but can't take FDR for granted. Beating a team four times in one season is a difficult task.
No. 3 John Adams Spartans
Head coach: Joe McMahon
Record: 14-0
How they got here: Beat No. 14 Manhattan Center, 2-0, in the second round and No. 6 George Washington, 2-0, in the quarterfinals
Player to watch: Emelie Paulino
No. 15 Scholars Academy Seawolves
Head coach: Kelli Hubbard
Record: 13-2
How they got here: Beat No. 18 Transit Tech, 2-0, in the first round; No. 2 Banneker, 2-0, in the second round and No. 10 John Bowne, 2-1, in the quarterfinals
Player to watch: Miranda Harding
Outlook: What more could a team in its first varsity season do? Well, Scholars Academy is thinking championship.
The Seawolves have already beaten the defending champion (Banneker) and their division nemesis which they lost twice to (Bowne). Now the girls from Rockaway need to take out their neighbors from down Cross Bay Boulevard. It's been an incredible run already for a school that has only been open for four years and doesn't even have seniors yet.
Adams will be tough to knock off. Paulino, a club player with Creole, and Ambar Abreu, a precocious sophomore, will be tough to contend with. The Spartans are the bridesmaids of the 'B' league. They always do well in league play, yet seem to falter in the playoffs. This is their chance at redemption.

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Ben Affleck Cozies Up to a Corpse in Gone Girl-Inspired Shoot
Affleck poses wtih Rosamund Pike on the cover of the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly
Call it a Dunne deal.
In a scene dreamt up (and photographed) by director David Fincher, Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike grace the cover of Entertainment Weekly's 2014 preview issue (on newsstands Friday) – as their Gone Girl characters, Nick and Amy Dunne.
While it's not a film still from the adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestselling thriller, the ominous image teases this dark telling of love gone awry.
Nick and Amy are two unemployed magazine writers whose marriage falls apart once they depart New York City for Nick's native Missouri – but on the couple's fifth wedding anniversary, Amy vanishes and Nick becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance.
Soon, Nick is being eyed for murder, but it's unclear what's happened to Amy, keeping readers (and come fall, viewers) in suspense until the last moments of this twisted, two-sided tale.
As for Flynn – a former EW writer herself – turning her story into a screenplay was as exciting as writing the novel itself.
"There was something thrilling about taking this piece of work that I d spent about two years painstakingly putting together with all its eight million LEGO pieces and take a hammer to it and bash it apart and reassemble it into a movie, she tells EW.
Gone Girl also stars Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Missi Pyle and Casey Wilson and comes to theaters Oct. 3.


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Top 11 New IPs You Should Not Miss In 2015 For PS4, Xbox One And Wii U
New IPs are considered what really fuels games industry. People don't like sequels, even though the second game in a series is usually the best, but they've recently learnt there's something worse than them – remasters. Anyway, 2015 is going to be pretty rich, talking about new intellectual properties, mainly because of indie developers getting bigger thanks to their previous successes and some AAA publisher that has made a good amount of careful investments on new titles included in well known genres like shooters. It's great to see that those IP involve all the platforms now available on the market – from PC to Wii U, going through Xbox One and PlayStation 4 -, since this means the industry has finally understood the right way to grow and meet gamers' expectations.
So, here you have the intellectual properties we think you should not miss in 2015. Let us know your opinion about them in the comments section below.
Ubisoft Massive is hard at work on Tom Clancy's The Division, a game that promises to bring to PS4, Xbox One and PC the best of three genres: RPG, TPS and MMO. Gamers will be catapulted in a dangerous New York isolated because of a virus transmitted via the contact with money – a sophisticated metaphor of how much capitalism has harmed our world in the last thirty years or so. The Division will be about cooperation in almost every corner of its huge map, but there will be Dark Zones where gamers can fight each other in PvP: there you can gain some loot – rarity is based on colors as in Destiny -, if you are able to complete the session without dying and exit safe and sound those zones. Tom Clancy's The Division is officially slated for 2015 but, at this point of the season and with Rainbow Six Siege incoming, we doubt it will make it before next year.
This exclusive game by Nintendo is finally about to unleash all the power of the TPS genre on Wii U. And it will do respecting the unique Nintendo style, making it almost a family game where you don't have to kill any other gamer but just use your ink to fill the maps or reach any other given objective. I have played Splatoon at the last Gamescom and, apart from some issues handling the camera, it's very nice… potentially a fresh take over a genre that has become increasingly more violent and repetitive in doing so. At the latest Nintendo Direct, it was announced that the game will have a local multiplayer mode for two gamers and a sort of Annex mode in which you have to conquer with ink all the zones of the map before your opponent does. Splatoon is slated for May 29 and we look forward to put our hands on it.
Slightly Mad Studios is going all-in with this new racing game that promises to revolutionize the console genre. Project CARS has been in development for years and has been delayed several times before finally reaching a solid May release date for PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. Among the peculiarities of this game, that will be based on multiple cars and tracks categories with different driving models, we see the development process completely backed by gamers via WMD (World of Mass Development) portal, where everyone who put some money on it could access early version and provide his feedback. So, basically, Project CARS could be the perfect racing game once it ships: shall this innovative process work? We'll see next month
After several delays occurred to its beta, Deep Down is about to unleash on PlayStation 4, at least in Japan. Capcom has always shown a certain degree of optimism about the release of this ambitious free-to-play project for Sony's current-gen console here in the West, so it is probable that by the end of the year we'll see and play something concrete if not the complete game. In a first moment, Deep Down looked like the next-gen version of Dragon's Dogma, the appreciated RPG for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but at deeper look it appeared clear that Capcom took a lot of inspiration from Souls series in doing it. If you add the procedurally generated dungeons, it even has something more in common with Bloodborne, that's on the store shelves since March. And we don't think there's something to complain about this…
505 Games' Adr1ft could be video games' Gravity. The game seems to be inspired to Alfonso Cuaron's movie, mainly because of its sci-fi space setting, and in fact you will be handling a man in orbit, floating around after the wreckage of his ship. There will be lots of physics to work on and that's the reason why Adr1ft will be out exclusively on Windows PC, PS4 and Xbox One, and couldn't be made on older hardware. TBD 2015, and we look forward to seeing more about it.
Capybara Games first introduced Below at E3 2013 during Microsoft's press conference, and it suddenly had gamers' attention: the team is the same that worked on Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP, and it seems like they have all the intention to replicate that huge mobile success on Xbox One with a couple of interesting ideas. Part of the pack, in fact, will be the permanent deaths of your character and the very tiny protagonists with the camera pretty far away from the action. Looks like Capy wants us to feel the danger of being so distant from the surface. We're ready to play it and hopefully we will this year.
Do you remember Dear Esther, and all the controversy about paying for a game that short? Well, in my opinion it was among the best games I've ever experienced – beware, I said experienced, not player… that's the difference – and, from the moment I bought it, The Chinese Room officially entered the list of my favorite developers. Now, the software house from Brighton is working on Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, a PS4 exclusive being made with the cooperation of SCE Santa Monica Studio. The game will take place in a village in Shropshire during the Apocalypse and will follow the stories of six different characters as they approach the end of the world. The Chinese Room promised more gameplay in comparison with Dear Esther, as gamers will be able to have lots of interactions with the locations to understand what's going on.
Planned to release in the first half of 2015, Inside is the new game from Playdead Studios. The creators of Limbo are working on this brand new IP, a 2.5D platform game that promises to maintain the gameplay the Danish studio has become famous for and try to innovate where needed – for example, the graphics. There will be some more color in the game, where it will have a deep meaning: as shown in the E3 2014 trailer, apart from light effects, there will only be red on the protagonists' jacket, where everyone else will be grey, black or white. Inside is about to release on Xbox first.
Supermassive Games is about to offer his vision of horror games with Until Dawn. The title has been through the so called "development hell", with its gameplay and story being revised a couple of times before reaching its current form. After Gamescom 2014, we have a teenager horror game with no more the use of PS Move and upgraded for PlayStation 4 in terms of graphics. Until Dawn is now defined by many the Heavy Rain of horror games, where your decision to support a friend of yours instead of another has an impact over the story. One more defining development choice regards the visuals: you will be able to pass from the lockdown shot à la classic Resident Evil to the more modern shot from behind the protagonists.
No Man's Sky promises to be a dream come true for sci-fi fans. Hello Games is hard at work to deliver a truly "open universe" experience, where planets are procedurally generated to provide an eternal sense of freshness and discovery. No Man's Sky is based on exploration and includes upgrades like weapons for the player's ship, but there will also be some sort of storyline to follow. The game will be out on PlayStation 4 first, but it is expected to arrive on Windows PC and Mac, too, and recently there's been some talk about a Xbox One version. The official soundtrack is being made by 65Daysofstatic, an experimental/post-rock band that delivered an amazing live performance at Video Game Awards in 2013.
Controversial Jonathan Blow is preparing his explosive return to the games industry with The Witness, a new puzzle game that will ship for PlayStation 4 first. From the creator of the acclaimed Braid, one among the first indie games to reach critics and public success, The Witness will feature islands as main setting, each of them divided into subsections that gamers can explore to solve the way they can their puzzles. Each puzzle will teach players something useful for later puzzles, so the game experience will feel really fluid, and probably a bit less challenging and spooky than Braid.


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Since we launched the Registration Page, our blog, and our Social Media groups the interest and support for what we're doing has been nothing short of fantastic. We've met some great people, learnt so much more about the industry than just through our earlier research, and begun to develop our community. Thank you to you all for getting involved, we believe that this is the start of a vibrant online writing and reading community.
The great thing is that it's only the beginning. With our Beta site launching in a few weeks, the idea of iwritereadrate.com is becoming a reality; sent out into the world to live and develop as an independent entity.
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When is it the perfect time to pack your hospital bag and little one? What do you really need for the both of you? What does baba need to pack?
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This year will be the 25th year I have stood on the Hoe to commemorate the sacrifice of our armed forces from the two world wars of the last century. Does it become routine, after all of those years, just another duty? Not at all, if anything more poignant the older I get.
We live in an age of incredibly realistic video games that most of our young people seem to play. Many of them are war games and are massively entertaining, with astonishing graphics. There is however a risk that the computer-generated violence can sanitise the player to the true consequences of war. You press a button and your opponent is splattered all over the screen. You move on to destroy the next one. You lose your life and you simply press reset and start again.
Real war is not like that. Just talk to people who have experienced it. I attended a very poignant play at the Waterfront in Ivybridge recently which examined powerfullythe human consequences of loved ones being lost in the Great War. The cost is terrible. The impact on those involved long term and damaging.
How important then, to impress on the coming generation that real war has real and lasting consequences and should always be the absolute last resort.
The second lesson from our remembrance reflections is how tragically young most of the men were who served on the front line and paid the ultimate sacrifice. They had barely begun their adult lives and their futures were snatched away. This resonates deeply with today's teenagers, I know, in a very real way.
Thirdly, if we don't learn from the mistakes of history we will be destined to repeat them. After the First World War several mistakes were made. The reparations on Germany were too tough and caused an economic and political vacuum into which Hitler strode. The League of Nations was powerless in the face of rising Fascism. Because of war fatigue and our understandable repugnance at the losses in the Great War, we were slow to arm ourselves in the face of obvious military re-armament and threat from continental Europe.
So this weekend, as I stand in silence at Burrow Hill Plymstock, the Pavilions Service of Remembrance on Friday night and then ultimately the Hoe on Sunday morning, I shall be reflecting on these issues, giving thanks and resolving once more to work for peace in a troubled world.


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By Margaretta wa Gacheru (Posted 30 May 2018 for Business Daily)
Theatre is all about storytelling, which is why we love to go see comedies like Heartstring's 'Tit for tat' which opened at Alliance Francaise last night, and love stories like Legacy Arts' 'Love Contract' opening tonight at Kenya National theatre as well as 'Constellations' premiering in Kenya next week at Braeburn theatre.
But then, there's a special genre of solo artists who are exclusively 'storytellers'. These are individuals who usually are incredibly charismatic as well as being dramatic, eloquent. And if they are really good at their craft, they can be so spell-binding that they carry you, by their spinning intricate webs of words mixed with loquacious body language, into other worlds.
If you don't believe me, just head to Dream Kona inside Uhuru Gardens tomorrow, 2nd June, from 10am when Zamaleo Arts presents the Sigana International Storytelling Festival. It's the largest such festival ever presented in Kenya. Featuring storytellers from Tanzania and Uganda as well as from Kenya, South Africa and India, performances already began earlier this week. What's more, theirs is a traveling festival that will be staged in venues around Nairobi and Kiambu as well as in Tala, Kisii and Siaya County.
The grand opening of the festival was last Tuesday at the Buru Buru branch of the Kenya National Library. It was a perfect location since this relatively new library (opened in 2010) has a large performance space upstairs. There was even plenty of room for the multitude of Nairobi school children who came by the bus-load and quickly were charmed by Alumbe Helen into doing a slew of 'warm-up' exercises and having heaps of fun in the process.
But don't imagine this storytelling fest is only for children. All the performing artists (for that is what storytellers are) have a vast repertoire of stories to share, one for every occasion. Last Tuesday in the Library, the occasion called for tales that could charm children by sharing stories that also taught moral lessons. But all the artists are trained to be adaptable according to their audience, which on Tuesday was children. But then yesterday, when the festival went to the 'artists' colony' at Karen Village, performances were oriented more toward appealing to adults and fellow artists.
By Tuesday, not all the storytellers had arrived. But that didn't stop the show going on. After Alumbe's 'warm up' and getting all the children (none of whom were above eight years old, I believe) actively engaged in the process of communicating with their whole bodies and minds, the show officially started.
With drummers Joseph Manzi, Saul Muthoka and John Namai setting the rhythm and providing all the essential sound-effects to each professional storyteller's African tale, the first up was Baeletsi Tsatsi, from Johannesburg. Her fellow South Africans Bongiswa and Sizwe were still on their way, but no matter. Baeletsi shared a marvelous story about The Sky Maiden and the Frog and got children chiming in when this Market Theatre-trained actress signaled that they do so.
She was followed by Christa Komba from Tanzania who'd devised an original Swahili tale that the army of school children clearly enjoyed. Both she and Baeletsi have a penchant for 'applied theatre' which is how they got into storytelling. Meanwhile, Christa also teaches at the Bagamoyo Institute of Dramatic Arts.
On Saturday, the Festival will move over to Dream Kona where all the storytellers will perform according to the theme recommended by the creators of the new performing and visual arts space, TICAH (Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health).
"We will be celebrating World Environment Day two days early," says Alumbe who adds that at least 75 percent of the storytelling will be related to protecting and preserving Mother Earth. They may also explore the issue of waste management, particularly related to plastics which have become so detrimental to life on both land and sea.
Sigana Storytellers Alumbe and John Mukeni have also shared the stage with their late-arriving artists, including Patricia Xoey from Uganda, Sherin Matthews and Seema both from India, and Bongiswa and Sizwe from South Africa.
The Festival will run through 9th June. For bookings, schools and individuals can still email at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 0722739894.
Meanwhile, at Kenya National Theatre for two days only, the original script by Jean Akinyi, 'Contract Love' will be staged, directed by Dr Zippy Okoth. It stars Suki Wanza, Papi Odeq, Sue Makena and Vitalis Wesh. Described as an 'African love fantasy' the show combines music, dance and drama and should provide a sumptuous theatrical experience.


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Clap Happy - The Rise & Decline of Audience Applause
David Conway considers the rise and decline of audience applause.
My mention of inapposite applause a few days ago has brought an interesting response from Alexander van Ingen. He writes of the spontaneous appreciation given by audiences to jazz musicians today and of the informal audience manners of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and wonders whether the 'rigid silence' of the 'well-behaved' audience, clapping only at the end of a piece, may not be responsible for keeping younger audiences away?
I doubt the last point; from my observation at recent Prom concerts, the intercalary attempts at applause emanate from middle-aged folk in the stalls, earning glares from the youthful Promenaders. I will return to this phenomenon below. But first let us consider why people applaud at all. Unfortunately I find no books on the general topic of applause, or even an entry in the Grove Dictionary - so this article could be the source of a whole new area of academic research. In the great academic tradition, by the way, I am writing this off the top of my head with minimal research, allowing plenty of opportunity for the disagreement, complaint or contempt of readers.
Applause of course has its origins in the theatre, and migrated to the world of concert music via opera. By the eighteenth century, the aria form had developed so that it offered wonderful opportunities for the singers to show off, and finished with a definitive cadence that allowed the fans to express their appreciation before the next number began. Instrumental concert music grew out of the forms evolved in opera and, like the aria, the concerto offered virtuosity that could likewise solicit applause.
This applause performed various functions apart from genuinely encouraging and (spiritually) rewarding the soloists involved. It was partly self-praise of the audience itself, who until the early nineteenth century consisted largely of the wealthy or aristocratic. They wished to demonstrate that they were people of taste who appreciated the dainties they were being served like Brownings effete Venetian
'Brave Galuppi! That was music! Good alike at grave and gay!
I can always leave off talking when I hear a master play!'
Eventually it also came to perform an important commercial function. Opera was already big business in the eighteenth century and with the advent of Grand Opera in the 1820s, and with the increased borgeoisification of audiences, it became even bigger. Fees for singers and the costs of staging were enormous. Success was worth paying for and supply came forward to meet demand in the form of the claque, who could be hired to boo or applaud. In France and Italy the claque became an institution and there were set fees for guffaws, expressions of horror, levels of ecstasy, and so on.
The excesses of audience-empowerment to which these attitudes led would be condemned even by the most inclusively-minded of arts administrators. One such incident occurred in Paris in 1841 when Liszt was playing Beethoven's 'Emperor' concerto, with Berlioz conducting. After the first movement, the audience loudly clamoured for Liszt to play his spectacular solo piano fantasy on Meyerbeer's opera 'Robert the Devil', and he was forced to comply (much to the disgust of Wagner, who was present).
Such demonstrations were demeaning to the new romantic status of the artist. In Mozart and Haydn's time of course, musicians basically just did what they were paid for, but now every musician aspired to the veneration for their art that had been engendered by the worship for Beethoven. After Beethoven, a symphony was no longer perceived as an assemblage of four movements put together for the delectation of its audience, but an integral Work of Art. (It had been so in the hands of Mozart and Haydn as well, of course, but no one had thought of it as such). Composers of the new generation, particularly those who felt music should be taken seriously, began to demand some control over their works.
Prominent amongst these was Felix Mendelssohn. He had the temerity to insist, for example, that players in his orchestra ought to attend rehearsals themselves, rather than send deputies, and that freeloaders and other nuisances should be excluded from rehearsals to enable proper concentration. Whilst that gave him command over his troops, it didn't tame audiences until he hit on the cunning ruse, in his Violin Concerto of 1844, of the solo violin sustaining a note at the end of the first movement, leading straight into the slow movement, thus stifling the urge any idiot might have of applauding after the solo cadenza. The cadenza by the way, which in a concerto was originally an opportunity for the soloist to show his skill in improvisation, Mendelssohn had completely written out, further exerting his control over what was heard and how his music was responded to.
But Mendelssohn and his school had another, more subtle, way of intimidating audiences. Under his influence, and that of his followers, concerts began to contain far more music by dead composers than by the living. (At the start of the nineteenth century, about 80% of the music performed by Mendelssohn's own orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, had been by living composers; by the end of the century they formed less than 20% of the repertoire). Beethoven was seen as a peak to which music had risen, and the best that future generations could hope for was to approach it. The canonic repertoire was even given the name 'classical', (a term unknown in music before the 1830s), investing it with the status in music of the Latin and Greek classics in sculpture, architecture and literature. Audiences were expected to listen in awe and applaud only at the approved moments, at the end of the piece when the composer's sublime inspiration could be acknowledged. The new musical clerisy was only too delighted to be told the proper idols to respect. As the conductor von Bulow is said to have thundered later in the century 'Il n'y a que trois 'B' dans la musique, Bach, Beethoven et Brahms les autres sont crétins' (to which the witty Jewish pianist Moszkowski responded 'Il n'y a que trois 'M' dans la musique Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer et Moszkowski les autres sont chrétiens').
In opera meanwhile the battle against the audience was carried to its furthest extreme by Wagner, whose 11 hours-long Ring Cycle contains only one aria, the Spring Song in 'Walküre' which he seems to have left in by mistake from an earlier draft. Sure enough audiences still try to applaud it it is the only opportunity they have except for the ends of acts, for otherwise the music is continuous.
And it is in the thrall of mid-nineteenth century concert-hall standards that audiences have remained ever since, until the trend has appeared over recent years for some to attempt applause every time the orchestra goes silent.
The easiest question to address is, whether this is a 'bad thing'. The answer must be, unequivocally, yes it is. As it happens I agree with Van Ingen that some 'show off' music could be interrupted by applause without much loss of overall effect. The problem here is that different folks would disagree as to which pieces would fall into this category. I myself couldn't care less if people applauded in between movements of the music of Delius or the Rachmaninoff concerti (or for that matter if they chattered or munched crisps all the way though them) but I concede that others may feel differently. De gustibus non est disputandem. Certainly virtually all concert music written after, say, 1850, was intended to be listened to as integral, whether divided into movements or not; admirers of such music will generally want to hear it as the composer intended they should, and not be subjected to breaks of mood or concentration imposed on them by the waywardness of others. Over recent days I have heard on the radio or at the Albert Hall a symphony of Dvořák, a song cycle of Ravel and a concerto of Martinů (the one which started my whole thread of thought on this topic), the atmospheres of all of which were diminished or ruined by the desultory dribbles of hand-clapping from a small number in the audience in between sections. The true feeling of the audience as a whole could easily be noted by the contrastingly thunderous applause after the end of each piece.
This raises the question why do they do it? It is possible that people new to concert-going might applaud at, say the end of the first movement of a symphony but you would imagine that, realising that hardly anyone joined in, and that it was clearly not the done thing, they would then refrain until they could see that everyone else was clapping. But this is not the case: at the (very fine) performance of Dvořák's Eighth Symphony by the Bavarian State Radio Orchestra, with Maurits Jansons at the helm, the sickly trickle of claps issued forth after the second and third movements as well even though the conductor had been moved to adopt a protective stance warning against interruption by holding his baton high (as if conductors didn't have enough to do just controlling the orchestra). And it was, as noted, always from middle-aged seat-holders.
What on earth did they have in mind? 'Probably Americans' said my companion, perhaps only because it is fashionable to apportion blame across the Atlantic. But I would suggest that the villain here is Classic FM radio. It consistently broadcasts bleeding chunks of music odd movements of symphonies and concerti, snatches of opera interspersed with inane and/or ill-informed chit-chat. Those who have become 'hooked on the classics' by its means probably do not even realise that these items have contexts. Listeners to Classic FM will follow its implicit lead the way the bourgeois of the nineteenth century followed the leads of Mendelssohn, Hiller, von Bulow and other gurus of their day. Coming to music late in life as many of them have done, they will not even understand that they are causing aggravation to their fellows in the audience (as well as to the musicians on stage).
But there is a simple remedy to this growing plague and I cannot understand why it has not been adopted. It is to put uncertain members of audience out of their misery by letting them know when it would be appropriate to clap. This can be done in two ways. You can print it in the programme (as one sees even in 'highbrow venues' like the Wigmore Hall) - 'Please withhold applause until the end of the last movement', or 'There will be break for applause after section 3', or whatever. And you could announce it at the start of the concert, at the same time as the universally accepted reminder about mobile phones and bleepers: 'To render the composer's intentions with fidelity, the orchestra kindly asks the audience to refrain from applause until the completion of the symphony'.
It is really in the interests of concert halls to adopt a policy of this sort. Otherwise they will find their audiences shrinking as those who prefer to listen to music rather than the percussion of others' hands withdraw to the less spontaneous, but less interrupted, pleasure of their CD collections. Now that we are beginning to admit that even the British Empire wasn't all that bad, perhaps we can also adopt a positive attitude towards Victorian concert etiquette.
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Brianne Smithonic and Jody Andrews were united in marriage in an outdoor ceremony on Saturday, April 27, 2019.
The Barn at Valhalla in Chapel Hill, N.C., provided the rustic setting for the ceremony, which was officiated by the Rev. Kathie McCutcheon.
The bride is the daughter of Ronald and Sandra Smithonic, Leesburg, Fla., formerly of Dupont.
She is the granddaughter of the late John and Margaret Tilley, Dupont, and the late Frank and Louise Smithonic, Dupont.
The groom is the son of Raymond and Patricia Andrews, Williamston, N.C.
He is the grandson of the late Robert and Patricia Bodle and the late Victor and Ruby Andrews, all of North Carolina.
The bride was given in marriage by her father. She chose her friends, Jesse Donahue as her maid of honor and Mallory Lacomis as her matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Danielle Burke, Colleen Cook, Kate Gordon, Lisa Houlihan and Lu Olson, all friends of the bride. Flower girls were Lela and Lana Andrews, nieces of the groom.
The groom chose his father, Raymond Andrews and brother, Dan Andrews, as best men. Groomsmen were Josh Andrews, son of the groom; Brooks Bundy, Mike Gaillard, John Ross and Cliff McGuffin, friends of the groom.
An evening cocktail hour and wedding reception were held immediately following the ceremony.
The bride was feted at a shower hosted by her mother at Amadeo's restaurant, Moosic.
A rehearsal dinner and gathering for out of town guests was held Friday evening at The Lodge.
The bride is a 2005 graduate of Pittston Area High School and received her undergraduate degree in biology from Penn State University. She also received her doctorate degree in veterinary medicine from Ross University and is employed by Tenth Street Animal Hospital as a veterinarian.
The groom is a 1998 graduate of Williamston High School and received his degree in forestry from North Carolina State University. He is a registered forester in North Carolina and is self-employed as owner of Andrews Forestry Services.
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The diversity of learning needs among the members of any professional group of second language users is often under-estimated. By blending conventional classroom teaching with online learning, the linguistic needs of learners can seem scattered and beyond the teacher's ability to address. However, for healthcare professionals, communication training in a second language is crucial, as sound communication between patient and healthcare provider is associated with improved patient health outcomes.
Consequently, my thesis wants to demonstrate how to optimise communication training for healthcare purposes via a blended learning platform by facilitating and supporting learner metacognition. The literature shows that attention spent on metacognition is known to improve learning outcomes independent of learner intelligence. Though often neglected in existing research, this thesis emphasises that metacognition only manifests when learners have the opportunity to exercise both declarative and procedural knowledge, which in a language learning environment translate as awareness of and reflection on learning a language (declarative knowledge) and the skill to implement this knowledge as engagement with learning via interaction (procedural knowledge). Apart from exploring learner metacognition, this thesis also explores the principles underlying the curriculum and syllabus design process as meta-metacognition, where needs analysis and evaluation can be defined as declarative insights that feed into implementation during the pedagogical phases of teaching and learning (procedural knowledge).
The research context of this thesis spans two continents, with the main studies conducted amongst (1) medical students at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and (2) pre-professional nurses studying at Artesis-Plantijn Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium. To validate and compare results, data were also obtained from (3) a group of medical professionals in Gothenburg, Sweden, studying Swedish as a second language via an online platform, and (4) first and second year majors of English at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. The core syllabi for the medical as well as nursing training were based on the online modules Medics on the Move and Nursing on the Move, which were developed along the same foundations.
A multi-methods research approach was opted for in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the metacognitive processes in the different blended learning contexts and the research approach taken was mainly qualitative as the research purpose was to investigate the nature and impact of metacognition in a healthcare community, rather than to test a theory or measure variables. The research designs of enquiry varied slightly between the different phases of the research. Quantitative data were collected via questionnaires containing Likert (type) scale items, for example, in the usability study adopted in a logframe model, as well as by tracking students' online learning behaviour. Qualitative data were collected by means of transcribed focus group discussions, Facebook posts and open-ended questions and analysed according to the principles of grounded theory.
The results from the data analysis were organised in four parts to address the research question.
The first focal point of the research question is on the foundations of curriculum and syllabus design, where the first foundation entails a process of on-going needs analyses among stakeholders. This in turn should feed into the syllabus, as the next foundation. The syllabus should be functional, while relying on relevant scenarios to support communication. The third foundation refers to the task-based pedagogy underlying the course and realistically reflecting the activities to be undertaken in a healthcare context. Both teacher and learner should each take responsibility for learning during task performance. The fourth foundation then refers to stakeholder evaluations feeding continuously and systematically into the on-going development of the materials and teaching approach. Both the needs analyses and reflections function as declarative insights, which, when implemented, represent procedural knowledge. As the overall regulatory process, curriculum and syllabus design can be coined 'meta-metacognition', which will remain pro-active in delivering a relevant and meaningful learning experience.
The second part of the research focuses on the dynamic nature of learning support that results from the meta-metacognitive processes (needs analyses and evaluation) and the reciprocal relationship between curriculum components and the stakeholders' input (procedural knowledge).
The third part studies the nature of declarative and procedural knowledge, which stretches over three knowledge fields, namely (1) the self as a learner, (2) the task of learning a new language for healthcare purposes, and (3) strategies to support this learning process. Results indicate that collaborative learning in a social network fosters true peer interaction, while learners at the same time gain confidence in using the second language. Furthermore, the safe environment of the closed group makes it possible for learners to validate aspects of their identities as learners in a second language. Declarative knowledge (reflection) and procedural knowledge (interaction, validation) enable learners to take part in the on-going process of identity formation, which is necessary for their personal wellbeing. Results regarding the nature of language learning indicate that tasks should be interactive, relevant and personalised in order to support learning. Finally, results regarding learning strategies indicate that learning is ultimately an individualised process and that the blended learning approach offers learners a variety of strategies to choose from. The results furthermore indicate that there may be a discrepancy between a learner's declarative and procedural knowledge, which can point towards unvoiced learner/learning needs.
Finally, based on a systematic review of all the analyses undertaken, this thesis produces a taxonomy of learner metacognition, a model of the meta-metacognitive processes and a set of guidelines to optimise healthcare communication training courses by facilitating meta-metacognition and learner-metacognition. In doing so, I hope to deliver a defensible curriculum and syllabus that can meet the diverse and fluctuating needs of the healthcare learner with a pro-active approach.
KEYWORDS: metacognition, blended learning, communication training, health-literacy, online learning, vocational training, collaborative learning, meta-metacognition


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Al replied to Stepped On A Syringe's topic in StoriesGood news. First the story. Sunday morning I woke up with bad abdominal pain that increased drastically throughout they day. I thought I had pulled/torn a muscle exercising or something. After being curled in a ball on the floor shaking and crying from the pain (and from getting sick to my stomach from it) I called my ex and she drove an hour + and dragged me to the hospital. Turns out, after x-rays and a CT scan, I needed my appendix out...immediately. The good news is, that if she didn't drag me to the hospital I would have died, so I am alive today, so that is good news. Now I just have to recover >.>
Great Photos peoples Busology, way to handle that lobster, cutey. lol
D= meeeeh I have a severe throat infection, and feel like dieing..ugh..i can't even swallow water without wanting to cry
Must be some friend. O.O
Hope everyone who is sick, gets better. Eat soups! Rest up!
quote: Originally posted by SugarDrive: oh i really really really love that!!! Thankies ^__^ If you were talking about mine that is o.O
Here is what I am using (didn't want to take a screen shot) Made it myself
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Al posted a topic in Rantsedit >.> just in case
AIM, Yahoo messenger anyone?
Al replied to shorty_longpants's topic in OtherI have aim, yahoo, and msn. but am only usually on msn..soooo firstname.lastname@example.com add if you want lol
What are you Eeting right now?
Al replied to RJLupin2's topic in Soup recipesPeanut butter m&ms >.>
SugarDrive - Thanks for clarifying that about the emo comment lol Squeaky, I have to agree with Sugar on this. Very nice
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quote: Originally posted by kaysntees: Thanks Al, I wasn't actually the one to take those pics...(or else I've got awesome levitating abilities since I'm the one in the first pic...) but anyhow, I agree with Casey, too bad they're blue so we can't trust them! Thanks aww no fair, silly eye colour generalisations
What are you watching right now?
Al replied to fidelity377's topic in StoriesGood News Week. ^__^ Yup and american watching an aussie show. lol
quote: Originally posted by Fickenrabe: quote: Originally posted by Alchy: her her lips so sweet, tempting me her touch so soft, caressing me her eyes like pools, drowning me her embrace like death, draining me. It is lovely. Quite simple, but still profound I leave here a few lines of a poem I wrote some dawns ago while listening to Regina and the Calamaro brothers: A RETURN TO LONELINESS Men only wish A non-approximative demography A summer of grass and water Like the music composed On the terraced stadiums of the repentant muses, Innocent, clean of names and prides, Fall in our already tired ears The verses of the wind Who is lord of the cathedrals and of that magic walk we never shared One day I will know the taste of the vines of the true delight In the Kingdom of Autumn I hope you like it Thank you. Yours is great, sets my imagination lose. @Wonder Bread: Very nice
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Great pics people. Love that shirt!!! Kaysntees. Great photography ^__^ decided to post a more revealing pic than the last one with my face hidden ^__^ okay maybe two? my hair isnt as emo anymore though..got a haircut lol
Thanks, i think time is what is needed. Apparently she thinks so too, as she seems to be avoiding me so far... Waiting is a killer, but hopefully worth it in the end. Thanks again.
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What are you listening to right now?
Al replied to chatreuse rhinocerous's topic in StoriesUs - Regina I love this song. Everytime I close my eyes, i can feel the music circle, encase, and take me away. I can visualize the notes lifting me. >.>
Here is one of mine. Recently Published in Anthology, my Uni's publication. her her lips so sweet, tempting me her touch so soft, caressing me her eyes like pools, drowning me her embrace like death, draining me.
A stage musical based on Reg's music
Al replied to Tamx's topic in Upon the new year comingWow. This seems like a wonderful idea. ^__^ Do not let this die.
Mine. ^__^
Al replied to fiona_squid's topic in OtherIt's not a drawing, but photoshoping I did to make myself a Regina background >.>


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CHARLOTTESVILLE - Virginia has achieved its preseason goal of qualifying for a bowl game for the first time since 2007. Now, with three games left, the Cavaliers say they don't want to stop there.
"Get to a bowl and be able to play in December," right gu
CHARLOTTESVILLE - Virginia has achieved its preseason goal of qualifying for a bowl game for the first time since 2007. Now, with three games left, the Cavaliers say they don't want to stop there.
"Get to a bowl and be able to play in December," right guard Luke Bowanko said Monday, restating the team's primary preseason goal. "The thing is, where we are right now, six wins, yeah, it's a great plateau, but our goals are bigger than just going to a bowl game."
The Cavaliers (6-3, 3-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) are on a roll of sorts, especially for a team that hasn't been to a bowl in four years. They are coming off consecutive road victories at Miami and Maryland. The 28-21 victory at Miami was their first road victory in the conference since 2009, and their 31-13 victory at Maryland snapped a 13-game losing streak in November.
Now Duke (3-6, 1-4) will visit on Saturday, and while the Blue Devils have struggled of late, losing four in a row, they have beaten Virginia for the past three years in a row.
Linebacker Steve Greer said there could be no better time to end that skid.
"The ACC championship is our biggest goal right now, and going into November, we still have a shot at it, so that's definitely your biggest goal," the team's leading tackler with 77 said.
"We're taking at one game at a time, but in the end, that's where we want to go."
After Duke, Virginia still must travel to Florida State and then play host to No. 10 Virginia Tech in the regular-season finale, a game that conceivably could be for the Coastal Division title, and the tight to play the Atlantic Division winner for the ACC's BCS berth.
The Hokies (8-1, 4-1) are the only Coastal Division team with just one loss, but would lose the tiebreaker to Virginia if the Cavaliers beat them head-to-head, as they did Georgia Tech.
Only fifth-year seniors at Virginia have experienced a bowl - the Cavaliers' loss to Texas Tech in the 2007 Gator Bowl - and second-year coach Mike London wants them to keep pushing.
"I think what they see in front of them is that six wins make you bowl eligible, but seven wins probably makes you guaranteed," he said. "Eight wins gives you an opportunity to do something else. ... With the remaining games left, you can improve your situation."
The ACC has at least eight bowl tie-ins, including the Orange Bowl for the BCS representative, with options ranging from the Chick-fil-A bowl on Atlanta and the Champs Sports Bowl in Orlando, Fla., down to the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La., on Dec. 26, and the Military Bowl in Washington, D.C., less than two hours from Virginia's campus, on Dec. 28.
London loves to hear talk of being in that ACC championship game, too.
"I think they know that in order to do that, that you have to win all the way up to the last one," he said. "And then play the game and take care of what we have to do, and then the other teams will play other games and other teams and it will decide their own fate."
The way they are playing now, Bowanko feels good about their position.
"The progression we made even last year and over the offseason, here we are now, we're 10 times a better team," he said. "I think we're pretty confident in where we are as a football team right now."


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CEO Roundtable: Human Rights
In celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the CEO Roundtable will bring together global business leaders, experts and a select audience of observers for a candid discussion addressing business progress on equality and human rights. The dialogue will build on the outcomes of local CEO Roundtables hosted by Global Compact Local Networks throughout 2018 and feature the launch of the UN Global Compact Progress Report.
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If you ask my boys which is their favorite place they've visited, they'd hands down say "Sapporo"! Throwing snowballs every second of the day was their absolute favorite. This was a quick weekend trip specifically just two days of touring with travels days on each end. First day we toured via the "Sapporo walk loop bus" which was an accidental find since all the bus tours were booked for Chinese new year, surprise!!


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Hail Mary follows the struggles and sacrifices of six young football prospects as they battle to keep their pro football dreams alive by competing for a spot with the Edmonton Eskimos. Its a heartwarmingand sometimes heartbreakingportrait of determined young men trying to beat the steepest odds of their lives.
The Eskimos have a proud history. They dominated the Canadian Football League in the 1980s and have the second most Grey Cup victories in the leagues history. In the past few years, though, their loyal and passionate fans havent had much reason to cheer.
This offseason, the Eskimos set out to restructure and rebuild their roster. General Manager Eric Tillman, Assistant GM Paul Jones, and Coach Kavis Reed have their work cut out for them. After last season, the Esks traded away their star quarterback and watched helplessly as their all-star Canadian running back bolted for the NFL.
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1. Registering for a course
Education Classes at the Women's Centre are very popular and it is important to register for your course of interest as soon as possible as numbers are limited.
At the beginning of each term an advertisment will appear in the Upper Hutt Leader with the classes that will be run for the current term.
You register for a course by contacting the Centre, either by telephone, email or popping into see us. Your name will be put on the register and an enrolment form will be sent to you to complete and return. If you have downloaded the registration form from the website, just complete and return back to us and let us know when payment has been made.
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I Dream Of Zombies – Short Film with Josef Altin
Jordan is an isolated man who dreams of a zombie apocalypse. When he opens his curtains one morning to find a undead hoard outside, he feels as though all of his Christmases have come at once. Unable to contain his glee, he suits up and goes outside with an assortment of weapons to meet the zombies only to realise that not everything is as he expected.
I Dream of Zombies is a Comedy Horror short film produced as part of the UK's First Acts program which was created to support and celebrate emerging English artists between the ages of 16 – 24. It stars Game of Thrones' Josef Altin as Jordan.
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When Dennis Barnett arrived in Hermiston, he had with him $10,000 and a college education.
Fast forward decades later and Barnett has nine children, a successful business and a legacy of giving back to his community. Now, he and a group of like-minded individuals, have come together to give everyone in Hermiston a chance to give back in a lasting way with the formation of the Greater Hermiston Community Foundation.
The goal is to increase exposure and opportunities for philanthropy throughout the greater Hermiston area.
The new foundation is a tax-exempt 501 (c)(3) public charity that enables people to make donations to the Foundation for community enhancement projects.
"The goal of our foundation to become an active grant maker in our community, and allow our board to make and manage strategic philanthropic investments which will have a positive impact for everyone living in the greater Hermiston area," said Foundation President Greg Harris. "We believe that in five or 10 years, our foundation will grow into a significant resource to support and improve quality of life in our community forever."
The Foundation's board consists of Harris, Barnett, Nate Rivera, Cindy Middleton, Roe Gardner, Greg Juul, and Jeff Snell.
The board has been quietly fundraising throughout the year and so far has a little more than $100,000. Grants will not be awarded until the Foundation has an endowment of $200,000. It expects to make its first grant award by the end of 2019.
Barnett, who owns Barnett & Moro, said many of his clients talk to him about wanting to give back to the community in a way that has a long-term impact.
"A lot of them are like me," he said. "Whatever wealth I have came from this city."
Rivera said the new Foundation will complement existing foundations such as the Hermiston Education Foundation and the Good Shepherd Community Health Foundation.
"It's very broad in its nature," he said. "We aren't going to be funding one type of thing."
Harris said the Foundation will fill a community need.
"There's been a request for something like this in our community for some time," he said.
For more information on the Greater Hermiston Community Foundation and how to contribute, go to the Foundation's website.


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A peer education program at SUNY Albany recently held a meeting to discuss how Thanksgiving is allegedly a commemoration of mass murder.
Hosted by the C.H.A.R.G.E. Peer Education Program, posters originally advertised the meeting as "NO THANKS GIVING: Do you know what you are celebrating this Thanksgiving?"
The name of the event was subsequently changed to "Thanks/Friends Giving," however, after someone complained about the original name.
"We simply wanted to shed light on the Native American experience, and where they were during this time in history," C.H.A.R.G.E. Director Liery Santos told Campus Reform. "We know the Native Americans were already occupying this part of the world, but now live in reservations. The conditions in these reservations are awful, considering Native Americans were already here."
The event took place Tuesday night and was sparsely attended. Bibi Chaterateach, a senior at SUNY Albany and C.H.A.R.G.E. member, ran the meeting, which she said was "based on looking at Thanksgiving through the Native American perspective."
Although Thanksgiving takes on different meanings for different groups, she noted that for Native Americans, "Thanksgiving is a day of mourning."
To help shed light on the Native American experience, the event highlighted an article in The Final Callexplaining why Native Americans view Thanksgiving as a "celebration of genocide."
Within the article, Mahtowin Munro, co-leader of the United American Indians of New England, claims that "the holiday in reality has bloody roots," in contrast to "this myth that the wonderful Pilgrims came here from Europe and were so kind and good to the Native people who were here and lived happily ever after."
Rather, Munro claimed that the real origins of Thanksgiving stem from a proclamation in colonial times giving thanks for the safe return of a militia unit that had massacred 700 Pequots, many of them elders, women, and children.
Yet while the story serves as a stark contrast to the conventional tale of Squanto and the Pilgrims holding a feast to celebrate their newfound friendship, neither Pilgrims nor Native Americans have historically factored into presidential Thanksgiving Proclamations.
According to The History Channel, generic proclamations of thanksgiving were issued annually until 1815, when Thomas Jefferson ended the practice for fear of infringing on the separation of church and state.
The practice was revived in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, who at the height of the Civil War established the fourth Thursday of November as an annual day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens," asking citizens to demonstrate "humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience" while asking God to "heal the wounds of the nation."
Munro, whose organization hosts an annual "Day of Mourning" to commemorate the struggles of Native Americans, acknowledged the 1863 proclamation establishing Thanksgiving as a national holiday, but argued that it is also important to remember that America's wealth is built on enslavement, genocide, and theft of indigenous land.
"I think a lot of people want to know the truth about history and what's going on in this country and Occupy Wall Street is indicative of that, people trying to break free of mental shackles and understand things and speak with each other," she told Final Call.
Mark Anquoe, a member of the International Indian Treaty Council and American Indian Movement, concurred with Munro, speculating that traditional Thanksgiving narratives actually have a negative psychological impact on Native Americans.
"What happened is not just some harmless lie that can be overlooked with a wink and a smile," he argued. "The modern practice of Thanksgiving makes mockery of our people and that affects children's self-esteem and emotional growth."
Chaterateach told Campus Reform that C.H.A.R.G.E. seeks "to bring awareness to conversations that need to be had" and "also to build positive experiences…but to make sure [students] are learning."
"We try to be inclusive…[and] have a safe space for students to come to," she explained.
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