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[ null, "Documentary about Fred Leuchter, an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to “prove” that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel’s position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, puttering around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "In this post I am now telling the story of the annual brigade journey from Fort George to Fort Alexandria, on the Fraser River north of modern-day Williams Lake, B.C. This is the second post of a series. if you want to catch up on the first post and follow through, then click on this link: https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-one/\n\nIn the first of the two journals, Chief Factor William Connolly has reached the area where Fort George later stood, at the junction of the Nechako River and the Fraser. From that point, we will continue down the Fraser River, accompanying him on his journey south to Fort Vancouver. It is Sunday, May 7th, 1826, and this is the first brigade journey ever down this river.\n\n“7th Sunday [May]. Below this place the Country exhibits some Signs of Spring, which are more evident the farther we advance. At two o’clock PM passed the Westroad [Blackwater] River, and five hours after we reached Quesnel’s River, below which we Encamped. The weather continues fine.\n\n“8th Monday. Pursued our route at the usual hour. At seven we passed Sto-ni-ya and at nine reached the Fort of Alexandria, whither the Brigade had preceded our arrival a couple of Hours, & had delivered their Cargoes in excellent Condition.”\n\nThat’s it. He was travelling down the Fraser River, and this river moves when it wants to! At Fort Alexandria, these men will take their boats out of the water and unload them. All the packs will be checked for damp, and loaded onto horses — two ninety-pound packs per horse. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Let’s see what Peter Warren Dease has to say. (Peter Warren Dease was the older brother of John Warren Dease, who lived and died in the lower Columbia).\n\nPeter Warren Dease was a very interesting man, with a large career in the fur trade. Interestingly he was mixed-descent, son of Dr. John Dease and Jane French, who must have been a metis descendant of a fur trader. Here is what Bruce McIntyre Watson has to say about Peter Warren Dease’s career.\n\n“Peter Warren Dease, who was as much an explorer and mapper as he was a fur trader, spent five years on the Pacific slopes. Named after a relative, Sir Peter Warren, the captor of Louisbourg in 1745, in 1801 and at the age of thirteen, Dease joined the XY Company, and then the NWC. Upon joining the HBC in 1821, he was given the designation of Chief Trader. On George Simpson’s recommendation, he was attached to [Sir John] Franklin’s second Land Arctic Expedition of 1825-1827. In 1828, he was appointed Chief Factor and spent the next three years in the Mackenzie River district. After his years on the Pacific slopes, Dease and Thomas Simpson made three surveying expeditions between 1837-1839 along the Arctic coast, thus making a significant contribution to the geographic knowledge of the area. He retired in 1842 and moved to a farm at Cote Ste. Catherine outside Montreal in 1843, and died in 1863.” This information from Bruce McIntyre Watson’s Lives Lived West of the Divide: A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858, volume 1, page 318 [Kelowna: Centre for Social, spatial and Economic Justice, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 2010]\n\n“Tuesday, 10 [May]. Embarked at 2pm, leaving Mr. [William] McGillivray with his Interpreter & 2 men for the summer Establishment of the Post [Fort George], the Brigade consisting of 1 Batteau, 5 men & 5 canoes at 4 men including Roi, put up after sunset. Had a Snow storm but not of long duration.\n\n“Wednesday 11. This morning at 9 am got to the Big Rapid which Ls. [Louis] Paul who was leader of the Brigade was sent to Examine previous to going down the Water being in a fine State. He led the way with the Batteau, the Canoes following each other at a moderate distance. Ls. Paul after having got down Safe with his batteau observed in looking back one of the Canoes taking the Eddy Current too soon, fearing it would be driven against the Rocks turned round to warm them to take Care, when the Sweep oar fixing in the water threw him over the Boat. After a short Struggle the poor man sunk to rise no more. By this melancholy Event I have to regret the Loss of the Best Boute in the District, which cannot easily be replaced. After stopping for some time to Endeavour to find or see the Body but in vain, we proceeded and arrived at Alexandria at 5 PM where Mr. [Alexander] Fisher & his people are all Safe. Received a letter from Kamloops by the return of the men who accompanied the Express, which had got safe to Okanagan, with Assurances that a Canoe will be found at the North River for us & provisions at Kamloops to take us to Okanagan. The horses are all in Excellent order and none lost during the season [he means winter]. Their Agres [Equipment such as saddles, pack-saddles] although not sufficient for the augmentation of returns we have, will I hope with proper arrangement Serve. Gave the leather & Siffleur [Marmot] Robes intended for the Post, & tomorrow will have the furrs [sic] that are on hand made up.\n\n“Thursday 12. This afternoon Sent off Roi with Jean Baptiste Lapierre & 2 Indians to take up 1 Roll Tobacco, 1 Bag Flour, 1 Bag Balls, 2/3 Bag Shott, to be divided between Ft. George, Frasers Lake & Stuarts Lake, for which directions are given to Mr. McGillivray, to make the separation there. Gregoire & others working at Horse Agres. Wrote Messrs [Thomas] Dears & [Charles] Roussain regarding the Transport.\n\n“Friday 13. Preparations making for Departure tomorrow, the Horses Collected and fettered that they may not Stray. The returns of the Post amount to 38 Packs and a remainder with 3 Kegs Castoreum. These are far better than was Expected and procured at much less Expense than less returns have been obtained at. The Natives seem well disposed and are at Same time Kept in order. Not many are on the Ground at present, this being the season at which they go to the Inland lakes to fish & at the same time make Spring Hunts. Lapierre was sent some time back to the Chilcotins, to Explain to them our Motives for withdrawing the men from there in March to do away with any bad ipression it might have made upon their minds. Very few of them were seen, but the visit will have, I hope, a Good Effect upon them as they were told at the Same time, they would be visited in Summer. We are rather short of Horses to enable us to Supply the men with one as they cannot otherwise attend to their Brigades. With all we have there are 6 wanting to Complete the number to mount each man.\n\n“Saturday 14. The Returns of the District being now all Collected and the arrangements for the Summer Establishments taken I shall enter them, as also the trade since Closing the accounts in March belonging to outfit 1831, but taken out with those of outfit 1830 at Present on hand…\n\n“Our complement of Men for the transport is twenty four, 3 of these are indeed so wretchedly poor that they cannot be called Efficient for the Duty they have to perform. The Whole Amount of Returns and the provisions required from hence to Kamloops amounting to upwards of 180 Pieces, the Party was divided into 20 Brigades of 9 horses each 2 men with Exception of Bellicque who had two for one and one Brigade of 6 horses for my Baggage & Extra Pieces with 2 men as Gregoire the Horse Keeper cannot be said to belong to it having to attend to all, when required. Each horse having two Pieces all being ready, the loads were given out and the Whole made a move to break Ground about 2 PM. As much difficulty Existed in putting loads upon Some of the Young Horses not yet broken in, they Expected to get to a little River where the Horses may have Water and good grazing. As their Encampment is not such a distance but I may overtake them Early in the morning I passed the remainder of the day at the House and will Join them in the Morning. Our deficiency of Men renders it out of our power to Keep up the Chilcotin Establishment but Mr. Fisher intends sending occasionally during the Summer, by which means he will secure their hunts, give them some Encouragement to work in the Expectations of having again the Post established of which they appear to be very desirous. From the General Peaceable behaviour of the Natives I do not think that any danger Exists for any of the Establishments from any of the Natives and I have hopes that they they will Exert themselves to give Satisfaction which they promise to do at the different Posts where an opportunity of hearing their Sentiments offered.”\n\nYou can see that these HBC Traders had plenty to worry about: the few men left behind alone among the throngs of Natives that surrounded them; not enough horses for the loads and for the men; necessary replenishment of the provisions; the homemade horse-equipment; the furs that would be damaged by damp; and the dangers of river travel. But they had to make the journey out. The furs must make it to the London markets via Fort Vancouver and its London ships. This is, after all, the business of the fur trade, and the furs they had traded for must make it to market or all their work was for nought!\n\nThe next blogpost in this series is now published, find it at this link: https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-three/" ]

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[ "WHEN one goes, another arrives as Love Island welcomes another romantic contender in Andrea-Jane Bunker.\n\nNew girl AJ enters the Majorcan villa in the show's third week – and already has her eyes on some of the boys.", null, "AJ is a 28-year-old hair extension technician from Dunstable.\n\nBefore going into the villa, she described herself as \"a big adventure and travel lover\" with her Instagram filled with snaps of the beauty in exotic locations like Morocco, Philippines and Panama.\n\nAnd the Islanders are set to welcome someone who is \"confident\" but also \"indecisive and impatient\".\n\nSpeaking of her friends and family, Andrea-Jane added: \"They would describe me as the life of the party.\n\n\"I can be a little bit savage because I say it as it is. My girls call me savage all the time.\n\n\"But I've got the biggest heart and I'll do anything for my friends and family.\"\n\nHowever, she will be looking to turn her fortunes in the love department around.\n\nShe revealed: \"I've had the worst luck with men. I feel like this [Love Island] is the one thing I haven't tried.\n\nWho is Andrea-Jane's ideal guy?\n\nAJ will be joining the villa with all of the guys taken up – but she is keen to speak to Aaron Francis and Hugo Hammond with both being in 'friendship' couplings.\n\nBut the 28-year-old also has eyes for Teddy Soares, despite being in a couple with Faye Winter.\n\nAndrea-Jane said: \"There is something about Teddy. He's a bit of me. In terms of being adventurous and spontaneous, I think we'd get on really well.\n\n\"I'll definitely approach her [Faye] and have a conversation beforehand.\n\n\"But I wouldn't hold back. I feel like we all have a right to get to know the guys in there.\"\n\nThe Dunstable stunner has already set ground rules, with Toby a big no-no due to his struggles with committing to girls.\n\nMeanwhile, she will be teaching the fellas some lessons to avoid being \"messed about\".\n\nYes, she is. She can be found @andreajanebunker.\n\nThe Hertfordshire lass had 1.7k followers prior to going into the villa – but that will sure to rise rapidly.\n\nAndrea-Jane loves to post of her trips abroad, having visited Spain, Tanzania and Mexico among other destinations around the world." ]

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[ "striking and unusual book with great writing style ,first book of of author i read and would read again :D\n\nA well-known film journalist, Karishma Upadhyay is considered to be a specialist on Bollywood. Working across media, she has led editorial teams at several prominent media houses. She has been the entertainment editor at Times Now, the celebrity editor at People magazine, and has contributed articles for a number of publications, including India Today, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Telegraph, The Hindu and Forbes magazine. On Twitter she goes by @karishmau.", null ]

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[ null, "The book is cocked, and there is stress creasing on the spine. The binding is tight and the text is clean. Three short novels: \"Winking Lights, \" \"The Best Bandit, \" and \"Two Sixes.\"Author: Max Brand.\n\nContents: Winking lights. The Sixes has an interesting premise but is rather dull, bland and run of the mill. I found the book the opposite of a thriller. Certain plot elements make no sense/5. In The Book of the Angel Raziel (Sepher Ha-Razim) the names of the first two of Seven Firmaments are given as follows: 1.\n\nShamayim (the common Hebrew word for heaven or sky), and 2. ShMI ShMIM (\"heaven of heavens\"). Morgan, Sepher Ha-Razimpp. 21 and ). Logically, there will be an even distribution of digits through a rollover point (i.e. to ), since counting works like the rolling of an odometer.\n\nWith this we can apply some basic math: Single digit page numbers = 9 ( + 1) The +1 come. Item specifics Condition: Very good.\n\nBinding: Paperback Seller Rating: % positive. \"Two, six, heave\" is a phrase used to coordinate seamen's pulling. The phrase \"two, six, heave\" is relatively modern, variations not appearing in print until (as \"wan [one] - two - six - pull\"), and again in as \"one, two six - heave!\".\n\nThe phrase was not considered a specifically nautical or naval term until (appearing as \"one, two, six, heave!\"). The Sixes is a terrifying, psychological thriller that takes ‘mean girls’ to a whole new level of creepy. It’s Kate White’s best. Harlan Coben.\n\nThe Sixes has all the ingredients for a fantastic summer read: an elite private school, a secret society, and a band of terrifying mean girls. In Kate White’s skillful hands, it’s a story 4/4(66). Two Sixes: A Western Trio by Max Brand (, Paperback) Be the first to write a review.\n\nAbout this product. Stock photo. Pre-owned: lowest price. The lowest-priced item that has been used or worn previously. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is. Double Sixes Peter Gordon’s puzzle may put you down for the count.\n\nEric Heiden, an American speed skater, winning the men’s 1,meter race at the Winter Olympics, in Lake : Two sixes book Lovinger. Two dice, showing two sixes, or boxcars Boxcars, also known as midnight, is the outcome of rolling the dice in a game of craps and getting a six on each die.\n\nThe pair of six pips resembles a. The tension between the two gangs eventually led to fights and it was this that forced the Two Sixers to become a gang themselves and to start to recruit to boost their numbers.\n\nThe area around Sawyer, 24thrd street and territory on 26th street all became the Two Six’s first hood. Type Six in Brief.\n\nThe committed, security-oriented type. Sixes are reliable, hard-working, responsible, and trustworthy. Excellent \"troubleshooters,\" they foresee problems and foster cooperation, but can also become defensive, evasive, and anxious—running on stress while complaining about it. The Sixes Kate White T+ Hush Kate White T+ Every month Kate offers news about her latest suspense novels, what she's up to, and mystery and thriller book recommendations.\n\nPlus a recipe or two. She'd love to share with you as well. A Tale of Two Sixes. by Semerket. Part 1 \"Good afternoon, Chakotay.\" Captain Janeway greeted her first officer warmly as she entered the bridge.\n\nShe had a mug of steaming coffee in her hand. \"Captain.\" \"Anything exciting happen while I was away?\" He smiled jovially, \"I hear all the excitement is in engineering these days.\" \"You have no idea.\".\n\nExamples from Seeing in SIXES As examples, possibly as inspiration — hopefully as motivation — here are three samples of six-image micro-projects published in the Seeing in SIXES book. You can use these examples to see the layout we use in the finished book as well as examples of different types of projects that might apply to your work.\n\nI think it is fair to speculate that season 6 will include Dark Sacred Night because it dove-tails from Two Kinds of Truth, which is fine with me. Someone also mentioned The Wrong Side of Goodbye. I sure hope so. That was one of the best books ever.\n\n(They are all good, of course, but I have my favorites.). At Sixes and Sevens picks up about a week after the end of It Takes Two to Tango where Aidric and Carter had both immediately recognized they are At Sixes and Sevens is told from the dual POV of Aidric - who is a beta in his clowder of cat shifters, and Carter - who is the Alpha to his pack of werewolves/5.\n\nDisclaimer: I don't own em. The inspiration for the title is from Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. This is femslash.\n\nThis is a fairly common mistype because these two types share a number of key traits. Both are warm and engaging and want to be liked–although, more precisely, Sixes want to have the approval and support of others, whereas Twos want to be loved and to be important to others.\n\na 26 ounce or mL bottle of alcohol. A Canadian term for a ounce bottle of alcohol. The modern bottle is actually mL ( oz), but it is still commonly called a two-six nonetheless. (See also: two. Two Sixes in a Reading could show that someone is being very kind to you and supportive.\n\nSomeone may have done you a good deed or acted charitably on your behalf. Three or more Sixes in a spread would suggest that the Querant is entering a period of stability, harmony, peace and security. There is little to worry about as life becomes less.\n\nThe Paperback of the Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $35 or more. His ranch was a little two-room box house in a grove of hackberry trees in the lonesomest part of the sheep country. His household consisted of a Kiowa Indian man cook, four hounds, a pet sheep, and a half-tamed coyote chained to a fence-post 3/5(1).\n\nThe answer is 1/ As you said, the total number of outcomes is The number of desired outcomes to achieve two sixes is, as your book says, 1. Usually, there are two ways of arranging the numbers, but that is only the case if they are differen. TWO BY SIX. likes. Brisbane-based heavy music coverage and promotion.\n\nPromoting live, local music talent and mental health awareness through building a judgement free and inclusive heavy music Followers: Is it worth paying $3, to use two-by-sixes in outer wall construction instead of two-by-fours. A: Yes, it is desirable to build the exterior wall using 2x6 studs.\n\n\"Short Sixes\": Stories to be Read While the Candle Burns Contents The tenor -- Col. Brereton's aunty -- A round-up -- The two churches of 'Quawket -- The love-letters of Smith -- Zenobia's infidelity -- The nine cent-girls -- The nice people -- Mr.\n\nPlease ensure that you are of. The Sixes From the New York Times bestselling author of HUSH comes a new thriller set in a college town where a student’s death sends one woman on a search for the truth and into the clutches of a frightening secret society.\n\nClick here to read the first chapter online. Phoebe Hall’s Manhattan life is unexpectedly derailed off the fast track when her long-term boyfriend leaves her just as.\n\nOn the whole, The Sixes were reasonably well balanced, though a tad dark-sounding to my ear — not a bad thing, in my book — and a bit boomy with some music.\n\nRediscovering Vinyl I was brimming with enthusiasm as I prepared for my vinyl rendezvous, digging through boxes of carefully stored albums that hadn’t been opened in more than two. The Baltimore & Ohio's original Big Sixes were early victims of retirement; two were dismantled in to construct new Mountains and fifteen others were scrapped in Most were gone by the mids.\n\nThe Class S-1's could still be found working heavy freights until virtually the end of. Sixes Tarot Card Meanings. Sixes are the restoration of balance and harmony after the upsets of the fives. These cards predict an exchange, a give and take that results in a new equilibrium. It may not last, but for that moment, everything is stable.\n\nWith this card, there is an almost \"Ah-HA!\". This is a great book. Not surprising because Ms. White always entertains terrifically.\n\nGotta tell you though, I am missing our Bailey. Loved how you referenced her in The Sixes. Maybe another Bailey in the future. I would recommend Kate White's books to anyone who loves a terrific mystery. I also must commend Ms.\n\nJennifer Cohn for her terrific. The Tennents' Sixes was an annual indoor football tournament contested each January by senior football clubs from Scotland (along with some English guests) between and The tournament was sponsored by Tennent Caledonian Breweries and organised by the Scottish Football Tennent Caledonian Breweries withdrew their sponsorship after the event, the Sixes was Current champions: Partick Thistle.\n\nYou turning six means we only have two more sixes. Each childhood only gets three. One set of six years down. Two more to go.\n\nAnd you’ll be 18 and grown. These six have sped. And those two sixes will fly. One third of your childhood is already over. One third! When you entered the world on JI barely knew how to mother. Things you can't do while listening to XBXRX's new record, Sixth in Sixes: Read a book, do your homework, sit in your cubicle, clean house, doze off on the couch, plan your vacation, entertain /5.\n\nFor nearly two decades Pete Stout has been the 'voice on Porsche' to enthusiasts around the globe. First as the Editor-in-Chief of Excellence magazine and then, for the last three and half years, as the man responsible for the rebirth of the Porsche Club of America's Porsche Panorama magazine." ]

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[ null, "In this taut and powerful novel, a young teenager is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident at his home. Coerced by his mother to lie about his role in the incident, he finds he has nonetheless earned the admiration of a sinister group of boys at his school - calling themselves 'American Youth', they subscribe to a twisted notion of traditional, puritanical values. As he gets sucked into their orbit, and entangled with the girlfriend of the group's leader, he struggles to hold on to a sense of right and wrong.\n\nSet in a New England town riven by social and ideological tensions - as newcomers encroach on an old rural culture - this is a classic portrait of a boy's rites of passage in an America ill at ease with itself.\n\n'Phil LaMarche's superbly edgy portrait of individual infighting and a community's uneasy, prideful attitude towards gun culture and nationhood produces a brief, yet spacious novel. His future as a writer aches with possibility.' (Guardian)\n\n'Startling...superbly written...An understated portrait of a darkly divided America, it's as piercing and deadly as a bullet.' (Metro)\n\n'Impressive...LaMarche promises much for the future' (Literary Review)" ]

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[ null, "“Agar Sushant hota toh I am sure woh appreciate karta (If Sushant was here, I am sure he would appreciate it),” the Pavitra Rishta 2 actress concluded.\n\nThe trailer of Pavitra Rishta 2.0 was shared by Ankita Lokhande on her Instagram. It features a similar story but with a different approach. The show will premiere on ZEE5 on September 15." ]

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[ "Jovetic lined up for £20m as Chelsea's Hulk negotiations stall\n\nChelsea could turn to Fiorentina forward Stevan Jovetic as talks drag on to sign Hulk from Porto.\n\nItaly’s top sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport claims an official bid of £20million is expected to be lodged for the Montenegro striker on Thursday.\n\nThat is about half the amount which Porto are demanding for their Brazil striker, who is keen to move to Stamford Bridge.", null, "Jovetic has other admirers in England and Italy, but Chelsea have most closely monitored his progress and availability over the last 12 months.\n\nA move had been considered for the January window, but the 22-year-old appeared to answer the question about his future by signing a new contract through till 2016.\n\nHowever, Fiorentina fans have been concerned that he has not been willing to repeat his commitment to the club in recent weeks, following the club’s slump to 15th in Serie A.\n\nThree years ago, Jovetic impressed as Fiorentina beat Liverpool twice in the Champions League, but the club have since gone two years without European football.", null, "Prade said this week: ‘We want to build a new team around Jovetic, but we want people who are highly motivated to wear the shirt. The boy must tell us his intentions.\n\nNew boss Vincenzo Montella added: ‘I want to talk to him - and then look him in the eyes, to see if the facts match the words.’" ]

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[ null, "Ionut Radu’s agent Oscar Damiani has dismissed recent media speculation that his client could return early to Inter from his loan spell with fellow Serie A club Genoa.\n\nReports in the past few days have suggested that the Rossoblu, who are currently bottom of Serie A, are looking to bring in Mattia Perin in a bid to stop them shipping so many goals with Radu having conceded no less than 35 in 17 league appearances.\n\nThe reports have stated that if Perin is brought back to the club from Juventus then the Grifone will send Radu back to Inter, six months ahead of schedule.\n\n“I think nothing of the speculation. He is playing as a starter and doing well for Genoa. It would not make sense for him to move away in January. He will stay in Liguria and then in June he will return to Inter as scheduled,” Damiani explained in an interview with FCInterNews.it.\n\nInter remain convinced Lautaro Martinez will sign a new deal at the club despite ditching his agents, according to a report in the Italian media…", null, "Andreaw Gravillon admits it will be difficult to break into Inter’s first team but remains grateful to the Nerazzurri for ‘teaching him life’. Gravillon joined…\n\nAntonio Conte deserves all the credit possible for the job he has done at Inter, at least if you believe former president Ernesto Pellegrini. Inter…\n\nNicola Berti has urged Inter to keep riding their wave of enthusiasm by beating Napoli on Sunday night. Antonio Conte’s side are 11 points clear…", null ]

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[ null, "As we previously reported, the U.S. EPA recently issued its ban on the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos.\n\nChlorpyrifos has been widely used in food crop agriculture since the late 1960s. Unlike for the glyphosate-based pesticide commonly sold under the brand name Roundup®, most residential uses of chlorpyrifos were banned in 2001. However, it was not until on August 18, 2021 that the EPA took more aggressive action and banned the use of chlorpyrifos for all agricultural purposes.\n\nUnlike for the weed killer glyphosate where litigation has steadily increased in recent years without the EPA taking action to ban it, there have been very few chlorpyrifos lawsuits to date. Most of these cases have been venued in agricultural areas in California and have been brought by parents on behalf of their children claiming injuries from the pesticide during gestation and infancy. Some plaintiffs additionally claim that their children were exposed through their parents’ work as pesticide applicators and field hands. Plaintiffs commonly assert negligence claims and often nuisance and trespass causes of action for the damage chlorpyrifos allegedly caused to their properties.\n\nIt is anticipated that the EPA’s recent action against the use of chlorpyrifos in combination with recent large verdicts and settlement activity in the Roundup® litigation will generate increased interest in the pursuit of new chlorpyrifos lawsuits. Many agricultural regions across the United States, including areas formerly used as agricultural land, have potentially been exposed to chlorpyrifos. This potential exposure includes locations of historically heavy use throughout the country beyond California, including, for example, Midwestern states like Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Missouri as well as North and South Dakota. Other impacted areas of interest include: Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and the East Coast states from Florida up north through New York.\n\nIn view of the likely increasing risk of chlorpyrifos litigation, potential applicator and municipal defendants should begin their preparation for the challenges ahead." ]

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[ null, "This is something I've talked about a lot before (pieces found here and here) but I'm coming at it from a different angle this time. I don't know whether I've mentioned before on the blog that I have a benign tumour in my left ring finger, and have done for a long while. It took a lot of time before I switched GP surgeries and they finally were willing to fight for me to get the tumour identified and taken out. That was over a year ago now, been scanned and all the rest, and we know it's a giant cell tumour and it's been causing a lot of nerve pain in both my left hand, and from what the surgeons tell me, also my right.\n\nAnyway, with the back story done, I thought I would explain how managing your health as a spoonie writer can put up a lot of roadblocks that you're not used to. The pain from my tumour is quite debilitating and the tumour itself is growing and making it hard for me to use my left hand. I'd been told it wouldn't be too long a wait in January and then in March, surprise plague hit and no one knew when they'd get to it. Thanks to aforementioned awesome GP, I am now finally going through the pre-op process and will hopefully be getting the surgery this month, though you never know with the NHS, and the plague.\n\nI can cope with a lot of things with my health, and have done so, but one thing I couldn't cope with was suddenly having to learn to type using less of my left hand than before. I had to cope with needing pain meds and maxing out on them and still being in a lot of pain. I had to cope with the lack of sleep, and mixed up schedule because the pain drains me and my sleep was never usual before. And all of that has come together with this whole new way of managing my health, of managing how I stay ahead of deadlines while also not pushing myself to breaking point.\n\nAnd to be honest, I've been pretty close to breaking point this last year or so. I've had to find ways to do my work and then be ready to crash out the rest of the day because of strong pain meds. I've had to be told that there's nothing more they can do, other than remove the tumour, because of my already fragile health. And it's soul destroying and difficult, and it's just a finger, y'know? At this point, the fact that I may lose sensation in that finger doesn't both me, I just don't wanna be in this much pain all the time.\n\nSo how have I stayed on top of things, like editing, revising, drafting, and release deadlines? A lot of it has been down to how I've managed my time. I do the majority of my work first thing in the morning. I don't know if the need to not be sat up is down to the tumour or just because my other conditions wanna have some part to play in this mess, but since I know that I won't be able to sit up for long, and I know that once in bed, I will need meds at some point, my focus has been getting the chunk of work done in the early, early morning.\n\nThis might not work for you, you might not find yourself able to do that, and that's okay. My point is that there will be curve balls thrown at you and all you can do is adapt, adjust and keep going forward. It sounds so easy and yet I know it's not. I know that I didn't expect the lump in my finger to turn into this nightmare, because for a long time I was told it wasn't an issue, until I changed GP and then well, it was something that needed serious attention.\n\nSo while the surgeons have said that they'd like to fit me in during September, I don't know for sure that's going to happen. My hope is that when I sit down to post this blog (since I'm writing it at the end of August) I have a surgery date or at least some idea of when it'll happen. I'm going through the pre-op process now which means that I just need bloods, and a review from the anaesthetist and then I should be cleared for surgery. We can only hope.\n\nWhat do you do when life throws you a curve ball? Lemme know in the comments below.\n\nFollow Joey here on her blog, or on Facebook or Tumblr to be kept up to date with the latest news regarding Joey and her books\nPosted by Joey Paul at 06:21" ]

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[ "Just two days after the Phillies signed Bobby Abreu, another old timer with a history of hits will play at Citizens B...", null, "In this photo provided by NBC, Billy Joel performs during \"Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together\" Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, in New York. Hosted by Matt Lauer, the event is heavy on stars identified with New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area, which took the brunt of this week's deadly storm. (AP Photo/NBC, Heidi Gutman)(Photo: Heidi Gutman, AP)\n\nJust two days after the Phillies signed Bobby Abreu, another old timer with a history of hits will play at Citizens Bank Park.\n\nThe Piano Man himself, Billy Joel, will headline a show at the Phillies home on Saturday, Aug. 2, his first Philadelphia performance since 2009.\n\n“We are honored to host Billy Joel in one of his few scheduled performances,” said Richard Deats, Vice President, Phillies Enterprises. “Partners like Live Nation continue to bring our community world-class entertainment, and we look forward to a memorable evening with the music icon Billy Joel.”" ]

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[ null, "Malaria has been around a lot longer than that, but 115 years ago, on August 20, 1897, Dr. Ronald Ross definitely proved his hypothesis that Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria to humans.\n\nRoss himself called the day “Mosquito Day,” an anniversary international health professionals (particularly the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) continue to celebrate. Certainly, if Dr. Ross had not found parasites during his dissection of mosquitoes, someone else would have. Dr. Ross, though, can be credited with speeding up the process of malaria elimination efforts, perhaps saving the lives of billions of children.\n\nThough the discovery of Plasmodium parasites in the gut of Anopheline mosquitoes was vastly important, Dr. Ross most important contribution was his word on mathematical models of infectious disease transmission, which continue to push research to this day.\n\nThough malaria was eventually eliminated from the US, Europe, Japan and a host of other countries following World War II, it continues to kill children throughout most of the developing world. Nearly half the world’s population, 3.3 billion people, lives at some risk for malaria and nearly one million people die from the disease every year.\n\nWe still have much work to do, even 115 years later.\n\nAn amazing excerpt from his 1923 notebook where he recalls that very important day:\n\n“…The 20 August 1897—the anniversary of which I always call Mosquito Day – was, I think, a cloudy, dull, hot day. I went to hospital at 7am, examined my patients and attended to official correspondence… After a hurried breakfast at the Mess I returned to dissect the cadaver (Mosquito 36) but found nothing new in it… At about 1pm I determined to sacrifice the seventh Anopheles (A. stephensi) of the batch fed on the 16th, Mosquito 38, although my eyesight was already fatigued. Only one more of the batch remained.\n\nThe dissection was excellent and I went carefully through the tissues, now so familiar to me, searching every micron with the same passion and care as one would search some vast palace for a little hidden treasure. Nothing. No, these new mosquitoes also were going to be a failure: there was something wrong with the theory. But the stomach tissue still remained to be examined – lying there, empty and flaccid, before me on the glass slide, a great white expanse of cells like a large courtyard of flagstones, each one of which must be scrutinised—half an hour’s labour at least. I was tired and what was the use? But the Angel of Fate fortunately laid his hand on my head; and I had scarcely commenced the search again when I saw a clear and almost perfectly circular outline before me of about 12 microns in diameter. The outline was much too sharp, the cell too small to be an ordinary stomach- cell of a mosquito. I looked a little further. Here was another, and another exactly similar cell.\n\nThe afternoon was very hot and overcast; and I remember opening the diaphragm of the sub-stage condenser of the microscope to admit more light and then changing the focus. In each of these cells there was a cluster of small granules, black as jet and exactly like the black pigment granules of the Plasmodium crescents… I laughed, and shouted for the Hospital Assistant – he was away having his siesta… Then I made rough drawings of nine of the cells on page 107 of my notebook, scribbled my notes, sealed my specimens, went home to tea (about 3 p.m.) and slept solidly for an hour…”" ]

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[ null, "The rain and flood have disrupted the electricity supply in the Dang and Ghorahi regions following the collapse of a transmission line tower due to a landslide.\n\nNepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has incurred a heavy loss due to damage in the transmission line towers and other infrastructures.\n\nLandslides caused by heavy rain washed out a tower of 132 kV Lamahi-Ghorahi Transmission line. According to NEA, 18 no towers situated in Beldamof Lamahi Municipality ward 6 collapsed after the landslide.", null, "According to Kula Man Ghising, Managing Director of NEA, the process of installation of the temporary tower will begin shortly to resume the supply of electricity to the cement indusries." ]

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[ "What to expect: VCU looks for first win at Richmond since 2009\n\nVCU travels across town Thursday night to visit UR in the newly remodeled Robins Center. On paper this matchup is very lopsided but rivalries rarely follow the script.", null, "VCU should win this game easi…Stop.\n\nRivalry games are different. Forget momentum. Forget who’s the better team. Rivalry games have a way of transcending what’s believable and tipping the scale in bizarre and unexpected ways.\n\nThere’s no way around it, VCU is a much better team than Richmond on paper. The fact that this is a rivalry game played in the Robins Center takes a flamethrower to that piece of paper. Richmond has the players (Kendall Anthony and Alonzo Nelson-Adoda are as talented as anyone in the league), the home-court advantage, and the drive to beat an unfocused team wearing Black & Gold.\n\nLook no further than one year ago. #19 VCU blew a 7 point lead with 37 seconds remaining before losing 86-74 in overtime in the Robins Center. In fact, Coach Smart has never won in the Robins Center where the Spiders have developed quite a reputation for upsetting teams and downing ranked opponents.\n\nThursday, the Spiders will have extra motivation: it’s senior night for sidelined Cedrick Lindsay. Lindsay is the sole remaining player from Richmond’s 2011 Sweet 16 team and his career ended due to torn MCLs in both knees after the VCU game. It is bound to be an emotional evening and seeing him on the bench could be kindling for the kind of fire Richmond needs to “uphold their end of the rivalry.”\n\nThis is March and it’s time to expect the unexpected. VCU needs to play with emotion while staying focused on one thing: taking care of business.\n\nThe same week Cedrick Lindsay was sidelined, senior forward Derrick Williams left Richmond for “family reasons.” Despite a very successful career in Richmond, Williams had seen his role diminish before leaving the team and Richmond still has plenty of young talented forwards.\n\nCoach Mooney still uses the Princeton offense and the Spiders will do some interesting things on defense including using a matchup-zone, but Richmond is a much different team than last year. The 2012-13 Spiders relied on balanced and efficient 3-point shooting to outscore their opponents while this year’s squad has used defense to make up for their lack of outside scoring.\n\nThe Spiders rank 60th in adjusted defensive efficiency thanks to strong perimeter defense and the shot blocking ability of sophomore Alonzo Nelson-Ododa. They aren’t great defensive rebounders and they foul plenty, but they rank 7th nationally in defensive 3-point percentage and 96th in blocked shots.\n\nThe Spiders were finding more success with their defense-first approach. They boast wins over #13 Massachusetts, Dayton, and Saint Joseph’s and their losses are understandable. They even responded to the loss of their senior class by winning 4-of-5 games but emotionally fueled runs have a tendency of burning out. Richmond is coming off of back-to-back losses: a 69-60 loss to George Mason and a 66-43 beat down at Rhode Island where they shot 23%.\n\nRichmond has a great track-record against VCU’s press. Coach Smart considered calling off the press in the second matchup last season as Richmond’s triumvirate of guards capitalized on the Rams’ extended defense. On several possessions he called off the press against Kendall Anthony with little success on 2/1. VCU will probably be forced to win in different ways come Saturday.\n\nKendall Anthony’s 36 minute, 31 point, and 3 turnover game against VCU on February 1st was one of the most impressive performances ever against HAVOC! 31 points is a rare feat against the Rams, but the most impressive part doesn’t even show up in the box score. Anthony single handedly beat the press possession after possession. Using his speed and ball-handling, he switched between attacking the middle of the court and running the baseline which he turned into very easy scoring opportunities.\n\nAnthony will be without his partner in crime Lindsay, but he has the tools to be effective against VCU regardless of his supporting cast.\n\n#4 Wayne Sparrow* (G, Junior) • After losing his starting role in December, Sparrow is back in the starting lineup for post-Lindsay UR. His offensive efficiency has plummeted during his junior campaign and he won’t have an easy time against HAVOC!.\n\n#5 Trey Davis* (SF, Sophomore) • Davis had 8 points, 9 rebounds, and an assist on 2/1. The Spiders need him as a scorer more than ever and their success depends upon him stepping up again and more.\n\n#11 Deion Taylor* (F, Sophomore) • Taylor had a great freshman campaign but he struggled on offense starting this season. He’s 6-foot-7 and can score from anywhere on the court. He shot .400 from 3-point range last season but is at .274 right now.\n\n#33 Alonzo Nelson-Ododa (C, Sophomore) • Starting the 2/1 game, Nelson-Ododa was a defensive force. He blocked three early shots and grabbed two steals but foul trouble sent him to the bench and limited him to 17 minutes. VCU’s offense immediately picked up with the sophomore shot-blocking sensation off of the court. If he can play 30+ minutes against VCU, Richmond will have a much better shot at winning.\n\n#3 ShawnDre’ Jones (G, Freshman) • With Lindsay sidelined, Jones reeled off five straight double-digit performances including a 25 point outburst against George Washington on 2/18. The adrenaline has worn off or the defenses have tightened up. Jones is just 5-of-23 over his last two games with 16 total points.\n\n#15 Terry Allen (G, Freshman) • Terry Allen is piece number two of Richmond’s three talented sophomore forwards. His efficiency has decreased since last season, but he’s been effective at grabbing rebounds and waiting for his moments. He’s capable of scoring 18 points on any given night.\n\nOnce the dust had settled after VCU’s win on February 1st, the Rams’ visit to the Robins Center looked like it would be a tough battle. Things have changed but VCU still needs to take the Spiders seriously. Expect VCU to win by 8. KenPom picks VCU to win 68-64 with a 64% chance of victory." ]

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[ "She emotionally and mentally blackmails Ija everyday. She succeeds in completing all the seven vows. Each title is ranked according to its share of pageviews among the items displayed. She even tries to get rid of Ginni, by sending her to a mental asylum, branding the child as psychologically ill. All the predictions come true. Full Cast and Crew.\n\nAditi dies continuously scolding Ija, not knowing she has died while Ija walks out of the room not listening to a single word of her. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Puru fails in doing the job because of his alcohol addiction. Two lovebirds Rishi and Neha go to their honeymoon. With help of Ginni, she will reveal her killer. Trending Hindi Movies and Shows.\n\nEdit Storyline An intriguing tale of a girl from Delhi, called Neha, who gets married to ful prince charming, Rishi. Bhairavi Raichura Nandita Mehra. When Aditi removes her clown mask, a shellshocked Ija drags Aditi to her room, where she rejoices that she has triumphed one of her hurdles in her goal of killing Kabir. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.", null, "By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Rishi is kidnapped and Kabir claims that he is her husband. Aditi dies continuously scolding Ija, not knowing she has died while Ija walks out of the room not listening to a single word of her. This makes Ranveer hide Puru in a desolated place, where neither the police nor Kabir would find him.", null, "This made Kabir’s widowed father marry Vasundhara. Maai formulates a magic charm which Ija is supposed to make him wear, as the charm is specialised in making Ginni not to predict the person’s future who wears it. This article needs additional citations for verification.\n\nRetrieved from ” https: The “Most Anticipated Indian Movies and Shows” widget tracks the real-time popularity of relevant pages on IMDb, and displays those that are currently generating the highest number of pageviews on IMDb.\n\nNeha and Kabir are married successfully.\n\nAbhinav Jaiswal Karan Goddwani She even tries to get rid of Ginni, by sending her to a mental asylum, branding the child as psychologically ill. Chhal – Sheh Aur Maat Title card. She plans to force him into admitting that he is the one who killed Aditi. Aditi’s sole aim is now fulfilled. This is when she comes to know that the Sarkar is none other than Ija. Aditi decides to tell everything what Ija had planned.\n\nHe promises her that Ija also would be caught soon. She succeeds in completing all the seven vows. Her focus goes on rescuing Rishi rather than moving forward with her plan. An intriguing tale of uar girl from Delhi, called Neha, who gets married to her prince charming, Rishi.\n\nKabir finds out the real truth of Ija through Aditi’s soul. Kabir’s uncle is transformed, as he finds out that Aditi had signed half of her property in his daughters’ names, in case Aditi dies.\n\nRishi does not carry the job on the wedding day. She pleads tearfully to Mata Rani Goddess Durga that she had vowed to reveal Ija’s true identity for the well-being of Kabir and Ginni. Everything was perfect in their marriage until one morning, when she wakes up, not with All Shows of Colors tv. The charm also would gradually destroy Aditi’s soul and make Ginni weak.\n\nBefore she manages to find out the truth from Dushyant on Sarkar’s real identity, he is killed by an unknown shooter upon the hasty orders of Sarkar. Aditi tells Kabir to take care of Ginni and always be happy. She emotionally and mentally blackmails Ija everyday.\n\nEverything was perfect in their marriage until one morning, when she wakes up, not with Rishi, but Kabir, who claims to be her husband, but is a complete stranger. Ija then plans with Ranveer to kill Kabir in a house birthday party of the couple’s “adopted daughter”, to avenge death of her son Abhinav." ]

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[ null, "An Indigenous protester died Tuesday in clashes with law enforcement during a ninth day of demonstrations against the Ecuadorian government, which the military described as a \"grave threat.\"\n\nThe man, a member of the Quichua Indigenous group, was participating in a road block in the Amazon town of Puyo, when there was \"a confrontation and this person was hit in the face, apparently with a tear gas bomb,\" lawyer Lina Maria Espinosa of the Alliance for Human Rights organization told AFP.\n\nSince June 13, multiple roads have been barricaded nationwide at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars to the economy, in demonstrations over fuel prices called by the powerful Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie).\n\nDozens of people -- police and civilians -- have been injured in clashes.\n\nThe death of the protester, identified as Byron Guatatoca, 40, came after a young man died overnight when he fell into a ravine \"trying to flee from the military\" in a protest on the outskirts of Quito, said Guillermo Churuchumbi, the Indigenous mayor of Cayambe municipality.\n\nThe episode prompted the prosecutor's office to open an investigation into possible homicide. The office was also stoned by protesters, and its glass doors were smashed.\n\nIn Quito proper some 500 protesters -- among around 10,000 who arrived in the capital from around the country in recent days -- were teargassed Tuesday as they blockaded a street with burning tree branches.\n\nThey quickly regrouped to march on the CCE culture center -- traditionally used by Indigenous people to launch protests but requisitioned by police over the weekend to use as a base.\n\n\"The objective of today is to retake the Casa de la Cultura,\" protester Wilson Mazabanda told AFP before police used spray to break up the group.\n\nEarlier in the day, Defense Minister Luis Lara said Ecuador's democracy \"faces a grave threat from... people who are preventing the free movement of the majority of Ecuadorans\" with widespread blockades.\n\nFlanked by the heads of the army, navy and air force, Lara warned the military \"will not allow attempts to break the constitutional order or any action against democracy and the laws of the republic.\"\n\nQuito Mayor Santiago Guarderas said on Twitter the demonstrations \"continue to escalate\" and that the capital's markets were running out of supplies.\n\n- 'Tired of this government' -\n\nConaie -- credited with helping topple three presidents between 1997 and 2005 -- called the demonstrations as Ecuadorans increasingly struggle to make ends meet.\n\nIndigenous people comprise more than a million of Ecuador's 17.7 million inhabitants and wield much political clout, but are disproportionately affected by rising inflation, unemployment and poverty exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThousands of protesters, many of whom had traveled to Quito on foot or on the backs of trucks, took to the streets wielding sticks, fireworks and makeshift shields made of road signs.\n\n\"We are already tired of this government,\" said Mazabanda, a university student, of ex-banker President Guillermo Lasso's one-year-old term.\n\nTito Zamora, a small-scale farmer, added that costs have risen sharply, \"but not the price we get for our products.\"\n\nLasso said on Twitter he was ready to participate in \"a frank and respectful dialogue process with Conaie and other civil organizations.\"\n\n\"It is our duty to reach consensus for the good of the country,\" the president said.\n\nThe movement has since been joined by students, workers and other Ecuadorans feeling the economic pinch.\n\nDozens have been arrested, according to human rights observers.\n\nLasso on Monday extended a state of emergency to cover six of the country's 24 provinces, with a nighttime curfew in Quito.\n\nEcuador is losing about $50 million a day as a result of the protests, without counting oil production -- the country's main export product.\n\nThe CEO of state-owned Petroecuador, Italo Cedeno, said Tuesday output had dropped by about 100,000 barrels a day during the protests, in part because demonstrators have targeted both oil wells and power plants.\n\nEcuador's parliament voted Monday in favor of a resolution urging the government to conduct a \"serious, clear and honest\" dialogue with protesters, mediated by the United Nations, the Red Cross, universities and the powerful Catholic Church.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Niagara Regional Police are looking for two male suspects after a woman was assaulted Friday in Welland.\n\nOfficers responded to the area of East Main Street and Golden Boulevard at 8 p.m.\n\nPolice said a 66-year-old woman was getting into her vehicle when two unknown males wearing black hoodies approached her and demanded her car keys.\n\nThe victim refused and the two men attempted to take the keys out of her hand before pushing her to the ground, injuring her.\n\nPolice said a member of the public witnessed the event unfolding and went to the woman’s aid.\n\nThe other suspect is described as white, 5-foot-11, 180 pounds, and clean-shaven.\n\nOne of the suspects had a whitish-grey faded circular emblem that fanned out on the front of his hoodie." ]

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[ "Download Is The Tesla Car Related To Nikola Tesla Pictures\n\nDownload Is The Tesla Car Related To Nikola Tesla Pictures. Tesla died a poor man in 1943 at age 86, but thanks to elon musk and his electric car company, now he's while tesla's star began to fade long ago, elon musk has contributed to something of a nikola tesla revival. Well yes, tesla motors are named after nikola tesla.founders martin eberhard and marc tarpenning (ceo elon musk joined the company soon after it was incorporated) choose the name tesla.\n\nHe named it that because the primary focus is electrical vehicles, and since nikola tesla is well known for his electricity experiments, it's a good fit. Did you know these fun facts and interesting bits of information? But why did the company's founders choose his name?\n\nTesla additionally advertises lower costs for its automobiles on its web site that keep in mind for what it sees as “potential savings” of EV ownership. Those embody each state and federal incentives or tax savings that low cost the purchase worth, in addition to the hypothetical decrease price of operating an electrical vehicle versus a combustion engine automobile. 2018Prior to a planned shutdown in mid-April 2018 to further enhance production, Tesla produced more than 2,000 Model three vehicles for three straight weeks.\n\nYou should be able to purchase a reduced “Standard Range” 2020 model of the Model 3, so long as your Tesla supplier still has it in their inventory. And once these older variations of the Model 3 are gone, so too will be our desires of an affordable electrical automotive for the lots. Now, Tesla is informing its gross sales workers to not provide the low cost for the new Model three popping out subsequent year, Electrek says, citing unnamed sources.\n\nThe Model X Plaid’s vary drops to an estimated 340 miles, but just like the Model S Plaid, it delivers quicker acceleration and a better high speed. Everyone is aware of they’re not cheap, but precisely how a lot does a Tesla cost? There’s an enormous difference in price between the most affordable Tesla and the most costly Tesla. Tesla’s overall guarantee coverage is among the longest in the EV section, however it’s disappointing that the coverage does not include corrosion safety.\n\nRather, Tesla has slashed the value of the bottom Model three Standard Range Plus sedan $1,000 to $36,990 (with out the $1,200 destination cost) offering an EPA-estimated vary of 263 miles and a 5.3-second 0 to 60 launch time. You’re reading Electrek— experts who break information about Tesla, electrical autos, and green vitality, day after day. Be positive to check out our homepage for all the newest news, and follow Electrek on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to remain in the loop. However, the old middle console continues to be shown within the on-line configurator when inserting a new replace even after the configurator being updated with these new costs. According to the US Energy Information Administration, the national common for the price of electrical energy in 2020 was 12.8 cents per kilowatt-hour.\n\nMeanwhile the Model 3 Performance now costs $fifty seven,one hundred ninety, up $1,000 from where it was. The value of its Model 3 Standard Range Plus has been lowered to $36,990 from $37,990, while the Model Y Standard Range’s price got here right down to $39,990 from $41,990, in accordance with the website. This article has been updated with correct percentage adjustments in value. However, that is little consolation for hundreds of Australian drivers who’re waiting to obtain a automobile from the first cargo of Shanghai-made Model 3s this month. When it was revealed that the Shanghai-made Model 3 SR+ would make its way to different markets it was expected this worth drop would be utilized. Tesla dropped the price of its Model 3 SR+ in China in October 2020 by 8%, confirming it might start using the cheaper lithium-iron phosphate batteries made by Chinese battery maker CATL.\n\nIt is aimed at rivals like the Audi A4 and BMW three Series–but in contrast to those automobiles, the Tesla does not eat a drop of fuel. However, you don’t utterly miss out if you don’t need to opt for the extra price. You get Tesla’s autopilot technology included as commonplace, which “allows your automotive to steer, speed up and brake mechanically for different automobiles and pedestrians inside its lane”. The standard range mannequin ought to get you around 250 miles on a single cost , whereas the prolonged vary Model three considerably ups the space to between 320 and 350 miles. The entry-level Tesla Model three is claimed to provide you 250 miles from a single cost, which comfortably places it in the mix with the vary on other reasonably priced electrical vehicles. This is not to say that Musk has fully deserted his plan for an affordable electric automobile.\n\nThe 2021 Model 3 is a totally electric compact sedan, with a touchscreen interface that highlights a simplified, austere interior, while over-the-air updates frequently roll out new options and refinements. The Model 3 has few rivals for range, but the Kia Niro EV, Hyundai Kona Electric, or Chevrolet Bolt EV, all hatchback/crossovers—as is the Ford Mustang Mach-E. With upgrades to range and materials for 2021, the bottom-priced Standard Range Plus model of the Model 3 now provides one of the best mixture of value and value. The company claims stations can do a swap in just 10 minutes, and it is already testing it with a fleet of Nissan Leaf vehicles in San Francisco. These autos solely characterize about 4% of complete U.S. autos, but they’re the biggest mills of nitrogen-oxide air pollution and particulate matter. There are loads of pleasant particulars in Volkswagen’s mass-market electrical car, but in addition some frustrating interfaces.\n\nNavigation, Bluetooth, and USB connectivity are standard, however the Model 3 is oddly not obtainable with AM radio or SiriusXM satellite tv for pc radio. To make charging-station layovers more bearable, the Model 3 provides loads of leisure choices on its central show, together with Netflix, YouTube, and a host of arcade video games. The Model 3 is a fascinating and relatively affordable all-electric car that has helped the Tesla model push EVs into the mainstream. Difficult to realize range estimates on the freeway, inside controls take getting used to, construct high quality is questionable.\n\nThe Smog Rating represents the quantity of well being-damaging and smog-forming airborne pollution the vehicle emits compared to different vehicles of the same mannequin 12 months. If you go for the performance mannequin, the Tesla Model three’s range sits just below the prolonged vary mannequin, with an estimated range on a single cost of miles. Plug the car into your three-pin wall socket at house and the juice crawls alongside, including about five miles of vary for each hour.\n\nHowever, the once-revolutionary EV hasn’t changed much since its launch in 2012, leading many automobile aficionados to call for a design refresh. The subsequent step up is the $91,990 Model S Performance, a brilliant-quick automotive that’ll take you from 0 to 60 mph in just 2.3 seconds. Tesla surprised observers by starting delivery of the Model Y in March 2020, a full year earlier than it was expected to deliver the automotive to the market. For now, the Model Y is simply available with two rows of seats, with the 7-seat model slated to turn out to be out there for an additional $three,000, some time in 2021.\n\nOne month later the company claimed to have received more than 7,000 orders, worth about $2.3.", null, "Pay attention to the fact that the nikola design does not provide functional or aesthetic aerodynamic.", null, "Setting this story in motion is that on may 1, 2018, nikola corporation filed a lawsuit against tesla this is the nikola semi truck design (image below).", null, "Nikola introduced its idea for a semi truck in may 2016.\n\nElon musk was a notable source of funding.", null, null, "It took us 10 years, but we finally got to ride in a tesla together.", null, "Did you know these fun facts and interesting bits of information?" ]

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[ null, "Ukraine struggled on Thursday to repair its battered power and water services after Russia targeted the electricity grid with dozens of cruise missiles and temperatures plunged.\n\nThe Ukrainian energy system is on the brink of collapse and millions have been subjected to emer-gency blackouts for weeks due to systematic Russian bombardments of the grid.\n\nThe World Health Organisation has warned of “life-threatening” consequences and estimated that millions could leave their homes as a result.\n\nMayor Vitali Klitschko said more than two-thirds of the capital was still cut off despite municipal work-ers in Kyiv restoring some water service overnight.\n\n“Seventy percent of the capital remains without electricity,” Klitschko said. “Energy companies are making every effort to return it as soon as possible,” he added.\n\nKyiv shivered on Thursday as temperatures hovered just above zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) with some rain. Ukraine’s military ac-cused Russian forces of firing around 70 cruise missiles at targets across the country on Wednesday and of deploying attack drones.\n\nTen people were killed and around 50 wounded, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin told local media. But Russia’s defence ministry denied striking any targets inside Kyiv and said damage in the capital was the result of Ukrainian and foreign air defence systems.\n\n“Not a single strike was made on targets within the city of Kyiv,” it said. Moscow’s targeting of power facilities is their bid to force capitulation after nine months of war that has seen Russian forces fail in most of their stated territorial objectives.\n\n“So many victims, so many houses ruined,” 52-year-old Iryna Shyrokova said in Vyshgorod on the outskirts of Kyiv after Wednesday’s Russian strikes.—AFP" ]

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[ null, "If Disney was hoping to diffuse talk about Harrison Ford’s age going into Indiana Jones 5, this is not going to help. The 78-year-old screen legend suffered a shoulder injury while training for a big fight scene in the anticipated sequel, the first since 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.\n\nHere’s the statement by Disney: “In the course of rehearsing for a fight scene, Harrison Ford sustained an injury involving his shoulder. Production will continue while the appropriate course of treatment is evaluated, and the filming schedule will be reconfigured as needed in the coming weeks.”\n\nSo that’s not great, but at least it doesn’t appear to be too serious. No talk of pushing back production or shifting the July 2022 release date. Still, it’s something to keep an eye on while shooting continues. Ford notably broke his leg while filming his return as Han Solo for The Force Awakens, so maybe this is a sign to stop reprising old roles? Nah, he survived Blade Runner 2049 pretty well, I think." ]

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[ null, "This little Bible presented me with a couple of challenges I had never faced before. First, it had a flap on it. None the Bibles I had done before (years ago) had a flap on them. I had to figure out how to construct the case with a proper flap. I was able to use the old case as a pattern for starters. The second challenge was the bar snap. I had never worked with snaps of any kind before. I first had to find where I could purchase new bar snaps. I bought the only ones I could find anywhere and they turned out to be rather cheap looking. I sent them to my uncle who is a jeweler and he was able to plate it in real gold. They came back looking really nice.", null, "Here is the finished product. I used a crimson colored goatskin leather. Where do you stamp a persons name on a Bible with a flap? I chose to put it on the flap itself just below the new bar snap. Also, the lining on the inside of the flap itself (not shown) is made of the same leather pared down real thin. She was pleased with the results. This was done in June, 2010.\nPosted by Alex Ogden at 5:41 PM\n\nEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest\nLabels: Bibles\n\nAlex Ogden\nPinson, AL\nI am a preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ, currently working with the Clay church of Christ in Clay, AL. I am married with 3 kids and 1 granddaughter (so far). On the side I do traditional hand bookbinding, mainly working on rebinding Bibles for people." ]

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[ null, "The latest support is the second time the Bank is offering this great backing to this initiative.\n\nThe event took a different turn this year and will see the team making stops at different cities across Nigeria including Kaduna, Enugu and Lagos. The Kaduna regional competition which held recently featured over 80 competitors across Nigeria’s northern states and was dubbed, the ‘Grand Tournament of the finest of skills in the north.’\n\nThe competition focused on 15 skill categories such as bricklaying, tiling, tailoring, shoe making, plumbing and web development, among others.\n\nWhile representing Sterling Bank at the event, Adeola Adejokun, Head of Public Relations disclosed that “this is our second year of supporting iCreate Skills Festival because the future of the country is in jobs and there is need to do all that is necessary to create jobs in various sectors of the economy.\n\nThis explains the bank’s intervention in areas and sectors that have the potential to create jobs thereby ensuring a future of shared prosperity for all Nigerians.”\n\nAdejokun added that “The unemployment figure in the country is alarming, yet corporations are importing trades and craftsmen from other countries. In the construction sector, there is high demand for tilers and masons from Republic of Benin in most parts of the country while a large number of young Nigerians idle away. This development can be attributed to the lack of interest from our youth to develop and hone their skills in technical fields.\n\nThey are preoccupied with chasing white collar jobs losing out on the wealth creation potential of blue-collar jobs simply because they are perceived as not glamorous.”\n\nBright Jaja, CEO of Icreate Africa, said the skills competition/festival was the company’s way of tackling the increasing wave of unemployment and getting the right skills professional in areas normally looked down upon by many Nigerians, especially the youths who are daily in search of white collar jobs.\n\nJaja said, “I was really eager to solve a problem. I was tired of the situation and the solution being proffered to tackle unemployment by the government and everyone else. So, I thought of ways through which the foundation could solve the problem.\n\nHe thanked Sterling Bank for supporting him to bring the dream to life when other corporates could not see the value in his vision. “It is important to mention that Sterling Bank was the first Nigerian organisation to support iCreate Africa, we had tried to pitch our idea to many large corporates but they did not see the opportunities we saw then. However, after a successful outing last year, it has been much easier to sell our vision to both medium and large organisations.\n\nThe iCreate Africa regional competitions will make its next debut in Enugu in July while the grand finale is scheduled to hold in Lagos in December which will see all finalists from the regional levels compete for the title of National skill champions." ]

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[ null, "“Drones eligible for certification must meet conditions including a function that enables the operator to forcibly implement an emergency landing if the drone malfunctions, and the manufacturer confirming that drones will be checked at least once a year by a mechanic,” according to the news service. “The safety of the drones will be determined not only by inspections based on material submitted by manufacturers but also by aviation-related experts that have checked performances in-flight.”\n\n“According to the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry, 62 accidents involving unmanned flying vehicles — including drones — were reported in fiscal 2017, an about fivefold increase from fiscal 2015. To improve drone safety, the ministry urges operators to regularly inspect and maintain their drones, and also take out insurance that covers medical and other costs that could arise in the event of an accident resulting in injury or damage to property.”\n\n“Over 40 Japanese companies, including industrial-use drone makers Subaru Corp., Hitachi, Ltd. and Yamaha Motor Co., are members of JUAV. Each drone model that meets certain safety standards established by the association will be certified and publicly announced.”" ]

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[ "Michelle Wolf is an American famed star who won critical acclaim for her performance on the 2018’s Netflix series, “The Break with Michelle Wolf”. She is also best known as a contributor and writer for “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” and as well as “Late Night with Seth Meyers”. In April of 2018, she also hosted the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. In 2015 and 2016, he was cast in popular TV series including, The Awesomes and “Horace and Pete”, respectively.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "In last Thursday’s local elections, voters in Bristol overturned the city’s 2012 decision to install a directly elected mayor. The decision will see the city return from mayor and a cabinet to a committee system of governance.\n\nThe new system of governance will be implemented in May 2024.\n\nLawrence Turner, Associate Director of planning consultancy Boyer (part of Leaders Romans Group), who is based in Bristol commented, ‘Opinion about abolishing the role of the mayor was tainted by the fact that many of the objections were more around the personality of the past and present elected mayors, rather than the benefits of a committee system.\n\n‘In my view, the decision taken was detrimental to Bristol, as an elected mayor gave better accountability to the decisions that were made, whereas committees are less transparent. An elected mayor is also better able promote Bristol and attract inward investment by giving a face to the city. In contrast many people would not know who the leader of Bristol City Council is. Or who sits on the various council committees.\n\n‘Previously focussing power on a mayor helped avoid stalemate in decision-making. This was achieved through the mayor possessing, and having the responsibility or delivering on, a vision for the City. Without this, there is a risk that less will happen and that party politics will creep into the planning decision-making process.’", null, null ]

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[ null, "While Washington is filled with talk about cutting taxes and possibly health care benefits, Tampa Representative Kathy Castor sat down with current and former students from the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of Tampa (UT) at the Attic in downtown Tampa on Wednesday to ask them about two of her potential proposals regarding student loan debt, which continues drag the economy.\n\nHaving attended college in the 1980s, Castor said there are students with a lot more debt in 2017, with Pell Grants not keeping pace with inflation, rising tuition costs, and the attendant costs of paying for textbooks, transportation and a higher cost of living.\n\nCastor is co-sponsoring two bills to address the issue. The first and most pressing legislation looks to reestablish funding for the Federal Perkins Loan, after Congress failed to reauthorize the program at the end of September. About 2.7 million students in the U.S. received the Perkins Loan, which was subsidized by the students, who paid for it at a 5 percent interest rate.\n\nShe’s also sponsoring The Student Loan Relief Act, which would lower the cap on federal student loan interest to 4 percent for undergraduate students, 5 percent for graduate students and 6 percent for parents. It would change the way student loan interest rates are calculated, allow borrowers with loans disbursed before the effective date to refinance their loans at the new rates and eliminate loan origination fees. U.S. Sen. Nelson unveiled the Senate version earlier this month.\n\n“Just having certainty that you know that (the debt rate) is going to stay there…that would be amazing to me and I’m sure a lot of students will have the confidence in what they’ll be paying,” said UT student Aislinn E. Sroczynsk.\n\n“I think people could breath a sigh of relief knowing it’s going to be capped at something, ” added Troy Schneider, also a UT student. “That would really help a lot of people.”\n\nMoneer Kheireddine, USF student body president, said a problem is that the payment schedule is organized so that students must pay for the entire semester just as it begins. “Instead of having to pay off loans at the beginning of the semester, they can space it out and as they accumulate their finances through the semester, they can pay that off as opposed to having to pay off loans.”\n\n“I’ve lived most of my business career with the wolf at the door,” said Kostas Stoilas, entrepreneur-in-residence with Tampa Bay Wave, referring to the loans he continues to pay back, years after earning his MBA at UT.\n\n“You try to keep that wolf at bay by keeping your expenses down,” he says, referring to the $40,000 in debt he incurred in school, and how that affects his monthly bottom line as heads a commercial real estate company.\n\nSroczynsk says she aspires to go to a top-tier law school like Georgetown. But she worries that if she can’t afford to payback the loans after graduation, it could diminish her zeal for even pursuing such a career.\n\n“I don’t want to have to compromise my career or my passion…just because I can’t afford my loans, or because the minimal payment is too high.”\n\nCastor jokingly asked the students who gave their thumbs up to her proposals if they were ready to lobby the state Legislature, but Kheireddine said he’s already scheduled to travel to Tallahassee three times next month and would gladly advocate on her behalf.\n\nCastor said debt relief for students is rarely discussed in Congress these days, which is why she’s hoping to build a coalition in the House of Representatives to push for her bills.\n\n“The bulk of the year it’s been a fight over healthcare,” she said. “I hope they’re going to talk to state legislators, business leaders and anyone else.”" ]

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[ null, "Last year, Netflix signed an exclusive deal with Red Chillies Entertainment, the production company of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan. Now, Netflix has announced a new TV series called Bard of Blood in partnership with Khan's company. Khan will be active behind the scenes as a producer, but Netflix has confirmed to Engadget that he will not act in this series.\n\nThe eight-episode series will be based on the political thriller by Indian author Bilal Siddiqi and is set (and will be filmed) on the Indian subcontinent. It will be a multilingual production, featuring characters speaking in Hindi, Urdu, English and more. The plot follows a young Shakespeare professor living in the Indian hill station Panchgani who must return home to save both his country and the woman he left behind.\n\nShah Rukh Khan is one of the biggest stars in the world, and while he won't star in this production, this is still a great get for Netflix. It's an opportunity for the beloved actor to promote South Asian actors on an international platform, and you can bet that Indian viewers (and other Bollywood fans) across the world will tune in because his name is attached to the project.\n\nIn this article: av, bardofblood, entertainment, netflix, redchillisentertanment, shahrukhkhan\nAll products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission." ]

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[ "I noticed during a previous (Oct. 15) press briefing this bit of weirdness from Gov. Roy Cooper and Mandy Cohen: “Cooper and Cohen donning and doffing masks going back and forth completely undermine their rationale behind the [mask] edict.”\n\nWhat they are modeling is the silliness of the mask order that requires, for example, wearing a face mask from the restaurant door to the table. We are supposed to believe that any encounter, no matter how brief, even just passing on the sidewalk, from an unmasked person is potentially dangerous, especially if they are perfectly healthy. We are also supposed to believe that the virus knows to leave the seated diner alone, just as it knows to distinguish between political gatherings (a good rule of thumb: if it involves destruction of other people’s property, it’s safe).\n\nAlso, the mask is to prevent droplets, which we’re to believe is the mode of infection transmission such that any old household cloth, including dish towels, would effectively stop it.\n\nLook at this behavior during yesterday’s press briefing:", null, "No mask needed to speak, but …", null, null, null, "… passing your coworker is unsafe.", null, null, null, null, "Whoops. Forgot. Good thing we haven’t made citizen-snitches normal yet!", null, null, "You know, that microphone has been sitting there the whole time absorbing droplets. I’m sure Cooper and Cohen don’t feel unwell — er, I mean they feel entirely asymptomatic. But that’s when they say a person is most dangerous! The whole rationale for strapping masks on healthy people depends on that nonsense belief.", null, null, "Still, that’s a lot of time standing and talking — you know, forcefully exhaling droplets — unmasked at the same spot. It’s a relief they’re so safe in the three steps between the podium and the wall, unless one of them forgets to show the other “love” and “care” in that journey.\n\nIn short, this isn’t the behavior of people worried about a virus ready to attack them in a brief moment of unmasked sin. It’s performative — security theater. The greatest threat of the virus in the room, however teeny, is at the podium where they stand and speak for minutes on end unmasked. But they pretend and we’re supposed to believe the virus respects the person speaking at a podium.\n\nI’m not kidding; it’s one of the exceptions in Cooper’s mask order:\n\nC. Exceptions. This Executive Order does not require Face Coverings for—and a Face Covering does not need to be worn by—a worker, customer, or patron who: …\n\n6. Is giving a speech for a broadcast or to an audience;\n\nIncidentally, the selection within the video was random, except that it is about the time where Cooper declared that “A mask is not political; it’s patriotic.” If he believes that, then he knows the mask order is redundant. He should have trusted people and let them retain the right to choose if they want to wear masks, when, and where.\n\nBesides, Gov. Cooper well knows that North Carolinians will gladly and voluntarily engage in something they believe is truly patriotic, given that he vetoed legislation passed by the General Assembly that would have allowed people to enjoy Fourth of July celebrations, parades, and fireworks displays." ]

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[ "Land of Heat and Clockwork\n\nDavesprite, also known as Alternate Future Dave, is Dave's sprite in Homestuck. He is prototyped from an alternate future version of Dave from a doomed timeline and the Rambunctious Crow.\n\nDavesprite was originally Dave from the doomed timeline where he tier 2 prototyped Crowsprite with Lil Cal. He believed the split was the result of John being tricked by Terezi into confronting Typheus prematurely, leading to John's death. Upon splitting from the Alpha Timeline, he and Rose lost contact with the trolls, assuming that they, having achieved their goal of sabotage, had no further reason to contact them. Jade was believed to be killed by her meteor, since John couldn't connect to her to get her into the game. With only two players remaining, and neither being a hero of Space, the game was unwinnable.\n\nAlternate Future Dave on the Land of Heat and Clockwork four months into the future, where he discussed the deaths of his friends with Rose.\n\nDave had alchemized some advanced gear including the Timetables and Caledscratch. He was also high on his echeladder, managing to defeat challenging enemies with ease and style.\n\nDave's Kernelsprite was prototyped with the remains of the Rambunctious Crow by Jade, much to Dave's distaste. In Alternate Future Dave's timeline, it was second-tier prototyped with Lil Cal, a decision he deeply regretted due to its incessant inane laughter.\n\nAfter learning as much as possible about the game, Dave used his Timetables to travel back to a period right before he prototyped his Sprite for the second time and prevented alpha Dave from prototyping Lil Cal, instead jumping into the Sprite himself after handing over his inventory. He also stopped John from skipping ahead to his seventh gate and getting killed by his Denizen.\n\nAs Davesprite, he gained access to the knowledge the game provides to sprites. Although he is supposed to be cagey about his newfound knowledge, he “[didn't] really feel like it”\n\nand told alpha Dave whatever he needed to know. However, alpha Dave declined to take advantage of the situation, never pushing Davesprite for answers to the game's larger mysteries. Davesprite also retained use of his iShades, as they were the only thing he didn't expel into a huge pile of captchalogue cards before he jumped into the sprite. He was upset when John called alpha Dave “real Dave”, although alpha Dave says that “i wouldnt give a shit” and that “hes me”.\n\nHe would update Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff while alpha Dave continued his quest. The second-tier prototyping seems to have erased the rambunctious crow's personality entirely, as was the case with Jadesprite, so he displayed no avian traits apart from an ironic “caw caw motherfuckers”. and a “PEEP” on his writings on the Armageddon poster\n\nAfter Dave stole Caledfwlch from a Crocodile Temple, Davesprite revealed he did the same in the alternate timeline. He defended Dave from a horde of Giclops after Vriska put him to sleep, then used Dave's pendant to release himself in the same way Rose released Jaspersprite.\n\nHe then went to track down Bro, and found him in a duel with Jack Noir on the Land of Wind and Shade, and joined the fight. During the fight, Jade entered and prototyped her sprite with Becquerel, resulting in Jack's transformation into Bec Noir. Jack quickly killed Bro and seriously wounded Davesprite. What remained of him was a pile of orange feathers and his pendant. When Jade looked for the Daves in the Incipisphere with her Junior Compu-Sooth Spectagoggles, the goggles didn't count a certain dead Dave\n\n, but still counted Davesprite, despite the assumption he was deceased. All this pointed to his ongoing survival, later confirmed when he revealed himself\n\nto Jadesprite on the Battlefield, short one wing and wielding a complete Royal Deringer. He obtained this through \"shenanigans\" involving the denizen of LOHAC, Hephaestus, who, in words of Davesprite, is “always about to just fucking flip but still keeps it together”. He tells Jadesprite he entered his denizen's lair much like the same way his first time, but as injured as he was, he made no attempt to fight him. Hephaestus, like the first time, gave him The Choice, albeit a different one: he assured he could repair anything, which required lava from the forge in Jade's planet. Jade, having lit the forge through a truce with Echidna, allowed Davesprite to choose having the Royal Deringer fixed, as opposed to something else, and he finally brought the sword with him to the Battlefield, and had Jadesprite teleport it to dream Dave with her first guardian powers.\n\nAs the meteors from the Reckoning reached the Battlefield, Jadesprite merged with alpha Jade and ascended to God tier. The new god tier Jade that resulted shrunk down the giant meteor threatening them, then proceeded to shrink down the entire Battlefield along with Davesprite and everyone else inhabiting it, including Nannasprite and Jaspersprite. She took them with her on her voyage through the Fourth wall. He used his sprite abilities to draw on the poster that was sent to Karkat.\n\nOne year into his journey across the Yellow Yard he was seen playing the Ghostbusters II MMORPG with John, Jade and all the others on the Prospitian battleship. He has fully recovered from his injuries, even having regrown his missing wing. During the trip he began\n\ndating Jade, but by the end of the second year had broken up with her\n\nfor unknown reasons, Jade saying “basically hes just going through a lot of stuff right now”. Afterwards, he began antagonizing John, leaving disparaging notes in the style of his deceased father, and watermarking the sky with his face using sprite magic.\n\nWhen the Prospitian battleship finally reached the post-scratch session, landing on LOMAX, Davesprite confessed to a sleeping John\n\nthat he had probably done Jade a favor by breaking up with her, believing himself not to be the “real dave”. After furthering this monologue to John, he launched into the sky, leaving the ship and the kids behind with only orange feathers, some notes he had written, and some watermarks as mementos of his presence.\n\nHe met up with Arquiusprite on the Land of Tombs and Krypton and began discussing things, including Calsprite from his timeline. Davesprite got on well with him because they were both considered lesser to their \"real\" counterpart: Dirk's AR was a piece of technology that, despite being sentient, was often dismissed in favor of the biological Dirk.\n\nIn the new timeline created by John's retcons, Davesprite was killed along with John\n\nand the entirety of LOWAS early on in the three-year trip through the Yellow Yard, leaving Jade lonely on the ship. However, the pre-retcon Davesprite was transported to the post-retcon timeline along with LOWAS, John, Roxy, Nannasprite and Jaspersprite, and was then prototyped into Nepetasprite to become Davepetasprite^2.\n\nDavesprite's personality is mostly that of alpha Dave's, with a few differences. He appears a bit more bitter and worn out than Dave, partially because of having been through months of gameplay in a doomed timeline already, and partially because the others don't consider him to be a \"real\" Dave. He is later referred to as a \"depressed bird version of dave\" by Davepetasprite^2.\n\nJade has stated that Davesprite is “kinda different from dave” with some slight differences in personality. His rapping style hasn't changed though. He was once described by John to be “an orange, feathery douche”. 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[ null, null, "Years playing with TCRFC:Over my playing career of 27 years I played 21 seasons in total with TCRFC between 1987 -2014 (6 years elsewhere on sabbatical in Dublin University Football Club, Paris University Club and Blackrock College RFC!)\n\nPosition:Out Half, Centre and yes Wing! Also played one match against Shannon in the backrow – Joe Kelly had to remind me each time that I was actually supposed to be in the scrum!\n\nMost Memorable Game:There have been a few. Making my 1st XV debut aged 18 in Lansdowne Road, Peter Walsh and Paul Hennebry “playing” in the centre outside me ….., representing the club in the very first U21 International v Italy, the 1994 Leinster Cup Final win, the day c2000 we came back from way down to beat Dungannon in the dying seconds but the overall winner is probably beating St Marys 18-17 in Lakelands in a D6W derby AIL match and getting all the points.\n\nGreatest TCRFC Memory:I have three so it would be between the 1994 Cup campaign (which included a semi-final v UCD and Greg “It’s that move” McConkey), the 1999-2000 J1 triple winning season captained by Peter Walsh or coaching the U20’s to the JP Fanagan League captained by Anthony Kelly. All great adventures.\n\nFavourite Teammate: It’s hard to single anyone out in this category as there have been so many. From an entertainment perspective the bus on the way back from matches and roasting most people got from Peter Walsh was always memorable.\n\nMost Annoying Teammate:All these are great blokes however Peter Walsh and Paul Hennebry “playing” in the centre outside me, Alan “I should have stayed in the night before the McCorry Cup Final” Hyland or chatting to George James about what he got up to the previous weekend are up there in this category!\n\nBest player played with:Numerous players spring to mind and all with different skills and talents. Frank Walsh for his reading of the game, Ciaran Clarke for his pace into the line and a rather large punt off the left peg, Niall Hogan for stretching my hamstrings with those passes and the other internationals Girvan Dempsey, David Corkery, Eric Miller & Paul Haycock and then Joe Kelly, Brendan Clarke, Brendan Kavanagh and basically all the open side wing forwards (except Alan Hyland!).", null, null, null, "Want to Join The Club?\n\nAt Terenure College RFC, we are always delighted to see new members joining and becoming part of our club. Rest assured there is always a friendly smile, a warm welcome and great conversation waiting for you. And there is always rugby." ]

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[ "Indiana Gov. Mike Pence urged state lawmakers Tuesday to amend a controversial new religious freedom law to clarify that it does not allow businesses to discriminate, bowing to days of criticism that the measure was an invitation to refuse services to gay customers.\n\n“After much reflections and consultation with the leadership of the General Assembly, I’ve come to the conclusion it would be helpful to move legislation this week that makes it clear this law does not give businesses the right to deny services to anyone,” Pence said in a news conference.\n\nThe clarification to the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act would explicitly state that the law does not give businesses the right to discriminate. Pence is pushing to enact the change this week.\n\nThe law, which Pence signed last week, has ignited a national firestorm from opponents who decry it as anti-gay. Activists pointed to statements made by advocates of the law, who said that florists, for example, could deny service to weddings of gay couples. Business leaders, from Indiana health corporations to Apple CEO Tim Cook, also spoke out against the law, and a movement to boycott Indiana gained traction Monday.\n\nPence staunchly defended the law on Tuesday, even as he called for an amendment that would address what he called “mischaracterizations” about the bill.\n\n“This law does not give anyone a license to deny services to gay and lesbian couples,” Pence said. “The language I’m talking about adding would be consistent with what the General Assembly intended, and certainly what I intended.”\n\nPence said he was stunned by the backlash the law prompted. He attributed the controversy to “reckless” media coverage of the law.\n\n“Was I expecting this kind of backlash? Heavens, no,” Pence said. “Candidly, when this erupted last week, I was taken aback.”\n\nA federal version of the law was enacted by then-President Bill Clinton in 1993, and an Illinois version was supported by then-Sen. Barack Obama. Almost 20 states have similar laws on the books. The law, proponents say, would protect religious liberties from government overreach. Proponents have pointed to the example of a Muslim prisoner who would want to have a beard despite prison regulations against facial hair as the kind of individual the law would seek to protect. But at a moment when same-sex marriage is increasingly sweeping the country, advocates have seized on a moment to paint it as a relic from another era.\n\nPence, who has not ruled out a campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, has drawn national criticism for the law, as well as support from conservatives and some GOP presidential candidates. Pence will announce whether or not he will run for president at the end of April at the earliest.", null, "The Debate Over What Indiana's Religious Freedom Act Is Really About\nNext Up: Editor's Pick" ]

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[ null, "Activision has showed off the new weapon customisation system for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and not everyone’s happy about it.\n\nOnly a month away from Modern Warfare 2’s release, developer Infinity Ward has explained how they’ve tinkered with the Gunsmith system to offer more customisation options to players.\n\nThe Gunsmith feature completely replaced the old attachment system from before Modern Warfare, when it was introduced in 2019.\n\nNow, Gunsmith 2.0 is built around weapon platforms which include families of attachments, meaning you’ve still got stocks, magazines and scopes, but also receivers which completely change the type of weapon.\n\nFor example, if you choose to equip an assault rifle and then change to a sub-machine gun (SMG) within the same group of receivers, you get to keep all your previous attachments for that SMG.\n\n‘Each of those shared attachments that you unlock is now cross-progressable and attachable onto another weapon in the same class,’ the devs explained.\n\nThat all seems positive enough but the new features haven’t been received well by all fans, with some already convinced they won’t enjoy the game.\n\nOne Twitter user even said they’ll ‘break their controller’ before they play the game, and another said that the ‘new model’ of the game is not for them.\n\nIf you choose to pre-order the digital version game, Activision has also promised access to early Modern Warfare 2 campaign, that’ll launch around a week ahead of the official release of the game." ]

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[ "The selenium scourge in Punjab\n\nTwo districts of Punjab -- Hoshiarpur and Nawanshahar -- have been hit by a rash of ailments. The inhabitants are experiencing hair loss, joint swelling, certain types of deformities and other health problems. Their crop and cattle, too, are affected. At the root of the trouble is selenium, a non-metallic element of the sulphur group...", null, "Two districts of Punjab -- Hoshiarpur and Nawanshahar -- have been hit by a rash of ailments. The inhabitants are experiencing hair loss, joint swelling, certain types of deformities and other health problems. Their crop and cattle, too, are affected. At the root of the trouble is selenium, a non-metallic element of the sulphur group. The trace mineral is proving toxic to health as well as the environment owing to its excessive occurrence in the area. What is worse, the magnitude of the problem may be much greater.\n\n\"Eight villages are known to be affected in the two districts. But we have identified eight new sites in the Shivalik mountain range where high levels of selenium are found,\" reveals K S Dhillon, professor, department of soils, Punjab Agriculture University (pau), Ludhiana. He also mentions parts of Haryana such as Karnal. Local people indicate that the problem is spreading rapidly within the danger zone itself. \"Initially only 8 hectares (ha) of land was affected. This has gone up to 50 ha,\" says 64-year-old Narinder Singh Sanga of Simbli village in Hoshiarpur.\n\nWhereas the pau had diagnosed the problem in the early 1980s, the state administration has begun taking remedial measures only recently. Even now it seems to be a case of 'too little, too late'.\nAccording to state records, three villages in Hoshiarpur and five in Nawanshahar are reeling under selenium poisoning. K S Bhullar, deputy commissioner, Hoshiarpur, says that high amounts of the element have been detected in 80 ha of agricultural land in Hoshiarpur. \"In Simbli village, out of the 541 ha of agricultural land, 40 ha is affected. The figures for Nazarpur and Panam villages are 25 ha out of 103 ha, and 15 ha out of 628 ha, respectively,\" adds Bhullar.\n\nNawanshahar's additional deputy commissioner, Vikas Garg, says that about 40 ha of agricultural land in the district is impacted. These tracts are spread across five villages -- Barwa, Mehandpur, Jainpur, Rakhardhal and Panj Manjra. In the same breath, he tries to play down the matter. \"We got water samples from 29 locations tested at the pau in November 2003. Only two places -- Jainpur and Mehandpur -- have recorded selenium levels above the permissible limit,\" claims Garg. Dhillon, however, points out that more new areas are being discovered.\nTo date, experts have been unable to pinpoint the exact reason for the strange phenomenon. Neither have they come up with conclusive evidence to show why the problem is peculiar to certain pockets of Punjab. At the same time, scientists have put forward some explanations that seem plausible.\n\n\"All the affected villages lie in the foothills of the Shivalik range. Our hypothesis is that for the past several years, selenium has been transported through floodwaters from the Shivalik mountain to these areas. We have traced the paths of seasonal rivulets in the region, which originate in the hills and end in the vicinity of the villages. This lends credence to our theory,\" stresses Dhillon. Meanwhile, the search for more answers continues.\n\nOne of the factors that seem to have aggravated the problem is the cropping pattern of the region. Significantly, though crops such as maize, sorghum and oat are safe, certain others are known to attract high amounts of selenium. Dhillon observes that over the past 8-10 years, areas which have switched from the maize-wheat pattern to that of rice and wheat are the worst-hit.\n\n\nResults of recent tests show that the problem has assumed alarming proportions. Selenium levels in the affected area's groundwater have been found to be as high as 0.07 parts per million (ppm). It may be noted that the Bureau of Indian Standards prescribes a limit of 0.01 ppm of selenium in drinking water.\n\nFor soil, the safe limit arrived at by pau is 0.5 ppm. Any amount above this would lead to plants containing more than 5 ppm of the element. \"When selenium levels in a plant go beyond 5 ppm, it becomes toxic for consumption,\" says Dhillon. \"If the amounts are in excess of 100 ppm, white patches start to appear on the plants (the condition is described as snow-white chlorosis). Such spots are common in crops grown in these villages. Therefore, one can well imagine the amount of selenium the local people are consuming,\" he adds.\n\nExpectedly, the two districts are pockmarked by telltale signs of the damage that selenium has caused. Sewa Singh, a 50-year-old farmer of Simbli, returned to his village about five years ago. \"Within a few months, I turned bald and my nails got deformed. It is only after I stopped eating selenium-rich food that my hair started to grow again.\" The result is that though Sewa Singh sells the crop grown in his fields at the local mart, he does not keep it for personal consumption.\n\nSheetal Singh, another farmer of the area, lost all his hair. He started to experience pain in his joints as well. In desperation, he has begun cultivating crops meant for his own use on a separate piece of land. He, however, continues to sell the regular selenium-rich crop at the local mart from where it is despatched to other parts of the country.\n\nApart from impairing human health, selenium has wrought havoc on the villages' produce and cattle. \"Plants do not mature properly and the yield has fallen by 25-30 per cent,\" complains Bagga Singh of Simbli. \"My cattle have lost their horns. One buffalo has gone blind and another sterile. Milk production, too, has fallen,\" says Sewa Singh.\n\n\nThe Punjab government's response has been highly inadequate. Yogesh Chander Markan, civil surgeon, Hoshiarpur, discloses: \"After conducting a survey in three villages, we found that 362 out of 3,958 people showed symptoms of selenium poisoning. We organised an awareness campaign.\"\n\nThe measures taken by the authorities are also reflective of their non-serious attitude. One of these pertains to the distribution of vitamin b tablets among villagers. In another such step, farmers have been asked to apply one tonne of gypsum per hectare every alternate year. \"This will slow the selenium absorption by crops by up to 70 per cent,\" says H S Bhatti, chief agriculture officer, Hoshiarpur. But the farmers' demand for subsidised gypsum has yet to be met.\n\nConfusion prevails in both the districts over whether to use tubewells or the lift irrigation system. \"The best way out is to opt for lift irrigation and bring canal water,\" says Bhatti. But Bhullar claims that lift irrigation is not practical and that money has already been sanctioned for deep tubewells in Hoshiarpur. The plan envisages the state government making a one-time investment of up to Rs 4 lakh per tubewell. For his part, Nawanshahar's deputy commissioner, H I S Garewal, reveals that Rs 1.16 crore has been sanctioned to install 29 deep tubewells in the district. Garg, however, contends that not more than three to four tubewells are required.\n\nIronically, the villagers have not been consulted in the planning process. All the same, they have made it clear that they will settle for nothing less than alternate tracts of land and monetary compensation.\n\nDhillon, who is working on a project to mitigate the impact of selenium poisoning, concurs with the farmers: \"The affected people should be given fresh land. The tracts with high selenium deposits should be fenced and used for social forestry purposes. These can prove to be effective long-term measures.\" He has intimated the state government about the steps. But has the message seeped in?" ]

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[ "On World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the UN wants everyone to support those who rescue victims", null, "Suspects linked to the death of an Indonesian sailor aboard a Chinese fishing vessel face a wall during a police press conference in Batam, Indonesia, on July 25. Trafficking of people for forced labor or sexual exploitation remains a huge problem. (Photo: AFP)\n\nWhen the group of eight teenagers were first referred to the Preda Home for Girls in the Philippines, they were still in shock after being taken into police custody during a rescue. What they did not realize was that they had been victimized and exploited by unscrupulous human traffickers and used like sex slaves by male child abusers.\n\nThey had been brainwashed like kindergarten children. They were easily persuaded and convinced they were good for nothing other than earning a pittance as sex workers. They believed it without question. Their parents told them it was a job. They had been colluding with the traffickers and brothel owners.Some victims of human trafficking are given false promises and money in advance of being abused. They owe debts to the traffickers and are scared to run away. They are captured and enslaved into debt bondage. It is a cruel form of control and exploitation, a kind of slavery like the days when millions of Africans were chained in ships and transported to the Americas and sold like animals in a human auction.The human traffickers of the slave trade were exalted, admired and had statues erected to them as if justifying their evil trade. It is high time to undo that cultural criminal mindset which held that people were objects to be owned, things to be used and property of their owners to be bought and sold. It still exists today in the brothel and sex bar industry and online child sexual abuse.Most of the money paid by child sex abusers goes to the human traffickers and brothel owners. The corrupt business people, politicians and police that protect the evil trade in innocent, vulnerable humans get a cut. They stink like a den of dead rats.\n\nThe United Nations has declared July 30 of every year as World Day against Trafficking in Persons, and this year they are asking all citizens that support human rights to be aware and supportive of the first responders. These are the dedicated people who rescue, protect and heal victims and give them a life of dignity and respect.The UN says that women make up 49 percent and girls 23 percent of all victims of trafficking. Sexual exploitation is the most common form of exploitation (59 percent) followed by forced labor (34 percent). Most victims are trafficked within their countries’ borders; those trafficked abroad are moved to the richest countries.The trafficked people are tricked, cheated, bound in debt, threatened and abused. Hundreds drown in the Mediterranean or are sexually abused or killed. Migrant seasonal workers from Morocco are sold like slaves to Spanish strawberry farms. Hundreds are cheated, abused and exploited and made to live like animals, Euro News revealed recently.On French farms, it is similar. The workers have few or no rights. The farm boss is the cruel king of the workers, and fear rules their lives. Consumers can change that injustice by boycotting Spanish and French farm produce by telling the supermarket managers that they want local Fair Trade products, not the food of exploitation.The eight children at the Preda Home for Girls are slowly recovering from trauma and discovering that they are good, have rights and dignity and a better future. With therapy and education, they are emerging from a dark fog of ignorance to the light of understanding.\nRelated News", null, null, null, "With the support of agencies and individuals who care for the children and victims of trafficking, the Preda homes provide shelter, protection, therapy, counseling and empowerment. This enables the victims to become survivors and resilient in overcoming the trauma of being exploited so that they are empowered to fight back against their abusers and traffickers and win as many as 20 convictions a year.The responders and healers are the people seeking justice with the victims and survivors and challenging the dead rat-infested system of corruption and impunity that allows and promotes the human trafficking of vulnerable and needy people.The social workers, house parents and therapists in the Preda homes for abused children are good examples of successful healers and protectors. The advocacy team promotes the campaign against human trafficking and exploitation. Prevention is what we need as much as healing and recovery. The Preda team is challenging some corrupt politicians that allow and enable brothels and sex bars to thrive by issuing licenses and permits. Even in the middle of the pandemic, these dens of iniquity, causing pain and hurt, are allowed to continue operating and using women and minors to earn huge sums of money.The internet can be the curse or the cure of human trafficking. But when the internet service providers (ISPs) allow it to be used freely for child abuse and human trafficking, without obeying the law that requires them to install blocking and filtering software, they are allowing children to be destroyed, spiritually killed and devoured by their cronies and investors like the Komodo dragons of Indonesia feasting on their victims.When the telecommunication corporations fail to install the sophisticated software powered by effective artificial intelligence, then they are the curse of the internet. The evidence against them is seen in the child pornography and online sexual abuse of children passing through their servers to and from pedophiles, human traffickers and pornographers.Human trafficking and worker abuse are everywhere. Let us work together with good law enforcement and the caring public and use social media to campaign and expose the evil and help to bring it to an end by standing up for truth and goodness." ]

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[ null, "Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has thanked the public for supporting him through his recovery from serious injuries sustained in a fall last month.\n\nIn a surprise move he also revealed that one of the nation’s major newspapers has been seeking to help directly with his recovery.\n\nMaking one of his few statements about his medical condition since the incident, the Premier said it would be several more weeks before he returned to work.\n\n“I want to take this opportunity to thank Victorians and other Australians for the good wishes and support they have given me since I’ve been off work,” Mr Andrew said.\n\n“When I say other Australians I include The Australian newspaper which has been just so supportive of me since I announced I’d be taking time away from work for recovery and rehabilitation.\n\n“In particular The Oz’s editor-in-chief Chris Dore has been constantly on the phone to my office checking on my recovery.\n\n“When I say constantly I mean it. Chris has been ringing several times a day, sometimes several times an hour, to seek progress reports and to urge my staff to get me back on my feet and back on deck as soon as possible.\n\n“Chris has also been offering to have News Corp Australia pay for extra rehab sessions for me so I can get back to the premier’s desk sooner not later. He’s even offered to personally pay for anything that’ll speed my recovery even if News Corp won’t.”\n\nWhen contacted Mr Dore said he would not comment in detail on the offers made to the premier and his office to aid his rehabilitation.\n\n“All I will say is that I really miss having Dan around. His injuries have meant he’s left a big hole in our coverage,” Mr Dore said. (main picture)\n\n“We really want and need him get over his fall so we at The Oz can continue working on his fall.”" ]

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[ null, "When Robin bought Leon the Lion from the car-boot sale, he expected him to be fierce and scary but that could not have been further from the truth. Find out how the King of the Jungle became the King of the Jingle, and learn that if at first you don't succeed, try and try again!The Diaries of Robin’s Toys is a 10 book series which teaches children moral lessons through the magic of toys that come to life! Readers aged 5+ and fans of the Tom Gates series will love getting to know Robin’s world." ]

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[ null, "zoom\nDearham ; Return from the Primitive Methodist chapel in the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious Worship\ntranscribed by David Tonks\n\nIn the 1856 Primitive Methodist magazine W Fulton gives an account of the opening of Dearham Primitive Methodist chapel in the Whitehaven circuit. The society had previously met in a preaching place – a room “in connection with a barn” which was used exclusively as a place of worship, except for a Sunday school.\n\nEighteen years after the village was first missioned, a plot was obtained from S. Walker, (the owner of much property at Dearham), on a nine hundred and ninety-nine year lease at an annual rent of 9s. 6d. The Earl of Lonsdale allowed them to obtain stones out of his quarry for nothing.\n\n“The chapel is 12 yards by 9. From the floor to the ceiling it is 15 feet. The roof is covered with blue slate. The building is partly surrounded with a newly-erected wall for the protection of the property. The rising gallery will seat above 100 people. There are free sittings to accommodate 150 more, but the chapel will on extra occasions contain 300.”\n\nThe opening took place from October 19th, 1856. Preachers included Rev. J. P. Collins, Mr. Fowler, one of the trustees from Whitehaven, Revs. D. Kirkbride, Baptist Minister, from Maryport, A. Douglas, Presbyterian Minister, from Workington; J. Locke, Wesleyan Minister, from Cockermouth, J. Waite and W. Fulton. The overall cost was £200 of which they had collected over half.\n\nIn 1859 we are told by J Fowler that the chapel had held re-opening celebrations, including a tea meeting for 200 – although he makes no mention of what was done to the building. The Preacher was Rev J Eckersley and speakers at the tea meeting were J Fowler (Whitehaven), Revs Eckersley, Dodds and Taylor, and Mr John Brown of Prospect. “It was good to be there”\n\nOn the 1960 Ordnance Survey map both Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels are marked as Methodist churches in the village. In 1967 only the former Wesleyan chapel remains. It is still active in 2017. It is not clear whether the former Primitive building still exists." ]

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[ "The District and City of North Vancouver, BC", null, "The city of North Vancouver, BC, where MPG Roofing North Vancouver is proud to service, was originally incorporated as a district municipality in 1891 and is one of three districts with many residents unaware that North and West Vancouver are two separate districts. The 2011 census records show that the population is nearing 85,000 residence and was figured at 84,412 and the record for 2006 show a population of 82,562. These numbers how the city has an average growth rate of around 400 residents per year.\n\nThere was also a separate district municipality incorporated in Vancouver in 1907 which had a population of 48,196 in 2011 and 45,165 population in 2006. The City and District of North Vancouver are located in southwestern British Columbia, adjacent to the city of Vancouver which is situated on the north shore of Burrard Inlet. North Vancouver then extends from the Capilano River on the west to beyond Deep Cove on the east. The north shore mountains- such as Crown, Grouse, Seymour, Hollyburn, and the Lions which is the highest and most famous of the five.\n\nThe city is surrounded by the district municipality not including the waterfront. Further, it is at a sea level of 1400 meters. The district is governed by a mayor and six councillors and at its center is Lonsdale Avenue.\n\nHistory of North Vancouver, BC\n\nThe city is made up of numerous waterways which is the reason for its settlement. The north shore of Burrard Inlet is rich in forests and is what initially attracted settlers to the area. The city was first acquired by T.W. Graham and Company in 1862 for the sole purpose of shipping timber by way of the inlet. A small waterfront mill town, named Pioneer mills, was then developed and became the largest settlement on the inlet.\n\nLater, American Sewell P. Moody, bought Pioneer mills ten years after its establishment in 1872 and then renamed the area Moodyville after himself. In 1886 the north shore became North Vancouver after the founding and incorporation of Vancouver.", null, "The city experienced rapid growth within its first 100 years of incorporation and in 1925 the second Narrows Railway Bridge was completed and provided a link to the Lions Gate Bridge later in 1938. These bridges allowed for transportation of goods and people by use of the railway and also by car. Later, in 1960, the Second Narrows bridge was officially renamed the Ironworkers Memorial bridge to pay respects to a group of 19 construction workers who had been killed during the construction of the third bridge link in 1958.\nEconomy\n\nNorth Vancouver has built its entire economy around the shipment of lumber, ore, and grain. The city also has numerous manufacturing facilities producing various goods for later shipment. The shipyards which are located on the shores of the city were a central part of the economy for most of the 20th century. One of the largest shipyards in Canada, Versatile Pacific Company Ltd., is also located in North Vancouver. In 1928, the RCMP Schooner St. Roch was built, which is on display at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.\n\nWorking closely with the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce the City of North Vancouver has sustained economic development through recent years. By working together a new community is emerging that offers business diversity, entertainment, cultural events and all within a relatively close proximity.\n\nThese achievements were made possible by the 1991 closing of the shipyard, known as Burrard Dry Dock which has led to the possibility of these redevelopments within the district. The company’s role in shipbuilding along the western coast has been recognized as being nationally significant and was designated so in 2004. The extension of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway from Squamish has increased the city’s importance as a transshipment point. These changes over time has transformed the city of North Vancouver into a bustling metropolis.\n\nNorth Vancouver is a haven for the nature enthusiast. Those who enjoy the outdoors come to North Vancouver to go fishing, sailing, and mountain climbing in the area’s numerous parks. A wonderful view of the city can be seen from Grouse Mountain which facilitates ski trails. There is also the more remote areas of Mount Fromme, utilized by tourists for cycling and hiking. Moreover, for those looking to catch some fish, go canoeing, or to see a concert tourists flock to Deep Cove.\n\nNext to Capilano Regional Park is the famous Capilano suspension bridge which hoovers 70 meters above the river and stretches 137 meters across the canyon. For a truly spectacular sight tourists stop by the Cleveland Dam, north of the Capilano Regional Park where drinking water and use is released for the greater Vancouver from Capilano Lake. To the north of that lies the Lynn Headwaters Regional Park as well as the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. The beauty of the area has made it popular with both tourists and residents alike.\n\nOUR AREA OF SERVICE" ]

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[ null, "The Richmond Police Department is investigating a deadly hit and run that occurred yesterday afternoon on the city’s south side.\n\nThe vehicle that struck him, an Audi TT convertible travelling eastbound, continued on without stopping. It was later located in the 2800 block of East Leigh Street. The owner/driver of the vehicle was arrested.\n\nJohn B. Spence, 65, of the 2800 block of East Leigh Street has been charged with Felony Hit and Run. RPD investigators are consulting with the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office and other charges are expected to be filed.\n\nAnyone with information about this investigation is asked to call RPD Crash Team Officer Roderick Rose at (804) 646-1343 or contact Crime Stoppers at 780-1000 or at www.7801000.com. Citizens can also text Crime Stoppers at 274637, using the key word “ITip” followed by your tip. All the Crime Stoppers methods are anonymous.\n\nI’m awaiting the same level of commentary on this post as the one last week with those two men shooting at 29th and Broad. Hope that John runs this comment, because I’m honestly sick and tired of people pointing the finger at folks that are not like them. You are perpetuating hatred of others rather than being sad or disappointed in the person AND in the society that aided in them becoming what you call “thugs”, “criminals”, etc. Instead, take a look at the man who allegedly committed a murder and look at someone who looks like you, lives near… Read more »\n\nNeighbor, do you really want to go there?\n\nWow, must suck to go through the day so bitter.\n\nThis guy is such a thug\n\nI don’t know this guy or the details of the incident. Every once in a while a White Male driving a vehicle has a deadly accident. Usually the guy is drinking alcohol. It is tragic. Last year a White male doctor hit a jogger in Hanover. A couple years ago a White male, lawyer’s son, hit a cyclist on Riverside Drive. These incidents were preventable and the drivers made terrible choices to drive while intoxicated. They are currently in prison. There is a difference between the murders and shootings that occur 2-3 times a week versus a terrible accident while… Read more »\n\nSo glad RCPD made an arrest!\n\nI rate the level of neighbor’s discourse about on par with a Facebook “share” I saw earlier today about how Mike Vick is a victim because he spent two years in jail and Jared from Subway “who molested way more children then Mike Vick killed” “never spent any time in prison.” Race baiting much?\n\nI saw the car. The windshield was shattered and completely smashed in. How he made it from semmes to Leigh, I have no clue.\n\nStop calling these “accidents”, especially those involving DUI and hit and run. They are nothing of the sort. They are intentional acts.\n\nThat said, Robbie’s point is on the mark in that these individuals didn’t act with intent with regard to the deaths they caused, but rather the actions resulting in death and the cowardly fleeing the scene. That is hugely different than the thug gang bangers intentionally shooting people.\n\nI’ll ignore the foolish comments about race baiting and that I’m bitter(?) I thought about saying it before but I’ll be 100% clear…I’m a white male, my intention is to call to light the way we interpret events in which we have no context. Robbie’s comment, while having a very good chance of being a correct interpretation of the incident here, is exactly my point. We look at a couple guys who look like they’re in a gang, and probably are, so we judge them and say “yeah, he got what was coming to him”. But what about the society… Read more »\n\n@Neighbor: Really? I point the fingers at people who are just like me, so let me start here. This “thug” you say society created – tell me about him, please; because I know of no society that created him. Only a culture. Please, please, please, let’s go there.\n\nI saw the body laying in the middle of the street yesterday. It’s a good thing they caught him.\n\nGotten way out of hand here. First off, if you want to be taken seriously and committed to your beliefs, then you would use your real names rather than hiding like children behind fake monikers. Next, people make mistakes and often run scared. I am not condoning this person’s actions because he obviously knew that he had hit something if his windshield was shattered. But people do make bad decisions under pressure. This may be one of those incidents. Is he a bad person by nature? I don’t know because I don’t know him – do you? Can you make… Read more »\n\nSometimes I get so tired of seeing the comments on CHPN. I appreciate John and CHPN. I appreciate it as a place where community members can come and comment: where everyone doesn’t always agree, though it’s a great medium through which we can all engage in discussions. I just fail to see the positive outcome of this discussion here. It would appear to me that- while nobody knows the details of either incident being discussed- it has become a springboard for opinions, accusations and a general vitriol that frankly doesn’t seem very neighborly. I’ll indict myself as someone who doesn’t… Read more »\n\nEveryone shut up. Stop trying to sort out blame. God, y’all are pathetic.\n\nLet’s just take a moment to think of this victim’s family and friends. It’s a shame that someone reached the end of their life so early and in such a painful way. I pray for the family that they find peace and reach a point of acceptance that allows them to proceed forward in life.\n\nShutting this one down for a while, folks." ]

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[ null, null, null, "\"It was practice for me and an opportunity to train the program under pressure for nationals and worlds, which are my main focuses this year,\" Wagner said. \"To go out and deliver that performance and receive that score, with the mistakes that I had, I think that's a really good sign for things to come this season, and I think that for me it's just really going to be about keeping my head on straight, doing that over and over and over again.\"\n\nWorld champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva of Russia moved up from seventh after the short program to finish second at 188.89. Japan's Yuka Nagai was third at 172.92.\n\nCanada's Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje won the ice dance title. They finished with 173.79 points, wowing the Enmax Centre audience with their free dance to Max Richter's \"On the Nature of Daylight.\"\n\nAmerican siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani were second at 168.36, and Russia's Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev followed at 161.11." ]

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[ "Potential Tropical Cyclone Two moved across the Caribbean Sea Thursday night and is expected to strengthen as it approaches Central America.\n\nIt had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph as it moved west at 21 mph about 410 miles east of Bluefields, Nicaragua, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.\n\nForecasts have the system continuing its fast movement before moving across Central America on Friday and emerging over the eastern Pacific Ocean this coming weekend.\n\nImpacts for those areas remain heavy rainfall with isolated amounts up to 12 inches as well as strong winds. There will also be a potential for flash flooding and mudslides in the impacted areas. Along the coast of Nicaragua, the forecast is calling for 1-3 feet of storm surge near the center of the storm around landfall.\n\nFormation could make it Tropical Storm Bonnie while possibly becoming a hurricane both before and after crossing land.", null, "One thing that seems to be likely is the moisture from this wave not reaching South Florida until at least Tuesday or Wednesday, after the 4th of July. Computer models show this tropical wave could spread rain across the area, but it's early and the NBC 6 First Alert Weather team will continue to watch." ]

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[ null, "The real face of socialism\n\nWhich socialist nation ran out of money? Brazil.\n\nBack to the wall, Brazil’s biggest socialist manque, Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, has issued a loud call for tax cuts to revive his nation’s moribund economy. Why is it it takes a depression and impending political doom for socialists to recognize the truth about tax relief?\n\nNewly named as cabinet chief by embattled President Dilma Rousseff, the once-popular and much-hailed former socialist president told a press conference Monday that he wanted tax cuts (and more consumer credit) to revive Brazil’s economy. He’s got no support from Dilma’s finance chief, and he won’t improve anything with more consumer credit. But on taxes, you heard right, a heavy-duty socialist had just embraced supply-side economics as a proven means of reviving economic growth.\n\nAnd no question he believed it: “I am convinced that…" ]

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[ null, "Disney channel movies list 2019. Snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937) pinocchio (1940). Tru confessions (2002) and let it shine (2012) are the top movies on this list, with both earning an 84% score from viewers. Choose your movie based on genre, release year or video quality or search your favorite title for your next movie night!\n\nA list of upcoming movies from walt disney pictures, walt disney animation, pixar, marvel studios, and lucasfilm. Marvel's black widow will now premiere may 7, 2021 and eternals moves to november 5, 2021, while west side story pushes to december 10, 2021. October 25, 1997 under wraps 3.\n\nWith so many viewers, many of its movies have led to spin offs and major film franchises. How many have you seen? Check out the top 63 disney channel movies, including high school musical, cheetah girls, and many more!.\n\nWhile descendants 2, which aired in july 2017, only drew 5.3 million viewers on the disney channel, it was simultaneously aired on the abc broadcast network (where it drew an average of 2.4 million viewers) and four other cable channels (disney xd, freeform, lifetime, and lifetime movies) as well, and drew a combined viewership of 8.9 million across all six television networks. The musical adventure continues with. (2019) one day at disney (2019) encore!\n\nTwitches too (2007) and halloweentown (1998) are two audience favorites. So celebrate with lizzie mcguire, that's so raven, even stevens, the suite life of zack & cody, and kim possible as they unwrap all their favorite holiday episodes that. Get the latest news for upcoming disney, marvel, and pixar movies, and more.\n\nDisney plus is still a relatively young service (debuting in november 2019), but it’s quickly become one of the most popular streaming services in existence and continues to heat up as disney. This is a complete list of all the disney channel original movies ever made. Watch your favorite disney junior, disney channel and disney xd shows on disneynow!\n\nEvery night in october, movies such as halloweentown and the extremely successful premiere of twitches.also, 3 disney channel original series aired new halloween episodes. Your favorite disney channel stars have the holiday season all wrapped up and ready to glow. June 27, 1998 you lucky dog 4.\n\nAnd if you thought their everyday lives were funny, the holidays are hysterical. Pixar's soul will premiere december 25 on disney+. See a list of tv shows, watch full episodes, video clips and live tv!\n\nComplete list of disney channel original movies show list info. Browse our growing catalog to discover if you missed anything! (2019) the world according to jeff goldblum (2019)", null, null, null, "Pin by Lauren Jane on Edwina (With images) Lizzie", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Barney Frank: Marriage Equality Will Be in Democratic Party Platform", null, "“Yes, it will be in the platform,” the out gay congressman from Massachusetts told The Advocate.\n\nCongressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts said in a telephone interview Monday that the Democratic Party will affirm its commitment to marriage equality in the platform currently being drafted and that the move has his “full support.”\n\nThe out gay congressman, who is retiring this year, sits on the 15-member platform drafting committee that heard testimony from advocates in Minneapolis this past weekend. According to the Washington Blade, Frank said the committee had made a “unanimous decision” to include the marriage equality plank.\n\nA DNC spokesman told The Advocate that specific platform language was not available at this time. The full platform committee will consider the proposal next month in Detroit, and the process will culminate at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this September. If ratified, the plank would represent the first time the party's platform has articulated support for marriage equality. President Barack Obama announced his personal endorsement of marriage equality in May.\n\nDuring testimony on Friday and Saturday, committee members heard from a range of individuals and organizations, both LGBT-specific groups and allies, about marriage equality and repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, as well as other priorities including the Student Non-Discrimination Act and ending discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS. According to advocates and a list provided by the DNC, speakers included Marc Solomon of Freedom To Marry; Michael Macleod-Ball of the American Civil Liberties Union; Allison Herwitt of the Human Rights Campaign; David Munar of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago; Charlie Morgan, chief warrant officer of the New Hampshire National Guard, and her wife, Karen; and Aaron Zellhoefer for the National Stonewall Democrats. The National Council of La Raza, the League of United Latin American Citizens, and AFSCME, all of which have expressed support for marriage equality, also testified, as did other groups.\n\nSolomon hailed the committee’s decision in a statement. Freedom To Marry this year launched its Democrats: Say I Do campaign, a call to include marriage equality in the party platform that has been endorsed by top Democrats and more than 42,000 signatures from the public.\n\n“We are grateful for the Platform Drafting Committee’s unanimous vote to include the freedom to marry in its draft of the Democratic Party platform,” he said. “As I testified to the Committee on Friday, the Democratic Party has a noble history of fighting for the human and civil rights of all Americans. We are proud that the Committee is including language that will ensure the Party is leading the way forward in supporting marriage for loving and committed same-sex couples and their families.”\n\nServicemembers Legal Defense Network, which is representing Chief Warrant Officer Morgan, who has incurable stage-four breast cancer, her wife and other couples in a federal lawsuit seeking equal benefits for servicemembers and their spouses, also celebrated the move by the Platform Drafting Committee. Buzzfeed reported over the weekend that Frank told the Morgans that he “supported [their] cause\" after their testimony on Saturday.\n\n\"At SLDN, we are pleased that the Morgans were able to tell their compelling story to the committee, and we share their joy in learning that the freedom to marry will indeed be included in the Party's platform this election year,” said spokesman Zeke Stokes. “We hope that all political parties will embrace this American value and support every loving and committed couple who wishes to marry.\"\n\nIn his interview with The Advocate, Frank said that the Democratic Party had already cemented its support for marriage equality at three key points in the past year and a half. He cited President Obama’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court, the House Democratic leadership’s dissent in the 3-2 decision by the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group to continue defending the 1996 law, and the overwhelming majority of House Democrats who have voted against measures to reaffirm support for DOMA, including an amendment that passed the Republican-controlled House this month.\n\n“The fact is, by every action that should be taken, the Democrats in Washington have repudiated DOMA,” he said.\n\nWhile the campaign to include marriage equality in the platform has received substantial attention, Frank said that he believed the intense focus on the largely symbolic document was “misguided.” He said it was “more important” to acknowledge House Democrats’ near-universal opposition to DOMA, while almost every House Republican had voted to reaffirm it.\n\n“We’re talking about a vote in Congress that determines what in fact the law will be,” he said. “That does seem to me to be more important than a party platform.”\n\nFrank, who married his partner last month, brushed back a report from The New York Post last week that suggested he had been hedging in his support for including marriage equality in the platform. He said that whether or not to include the plank had always been a matter of how “specific” the conversation became." ]

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[ null, "The call indicates that development of the Chang’e-7 mission is progressing. CNSA issued an international call for science payloads for the near-Earth asteroid sampling return and a main belt comet orbiting mission in 2019, indicating formal approval of the project.\n\nChang’e-7 is a part of an expanded Chinese lunar exploration program targeting the south pole of the Moon . The expansion builds on a plan initiated in the early 2000s to orbit, land and rover on, and return samples from the moon.\n\nThe Chang’e-7 mission will consist of an orbiter and a lander which will deploy both a rover and a ‘mini-flying probe’. A relay satellite will support the mission. This could be an uprated version of the Queqiao relay satellite for the ongoing Chang’e-4 lunar far side mission.\n\nLaunch is currently planned for around 2024 on a Long March 5 heavy-lift launcher. Chang’e-8, designed for in-situ resource utilization and 3D printing technology tests, will follow as a stepping stone to a potential permanent robotic base.\n\nZhengHe, named for an 14-15th Century naval explorer and admiral, will target near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 (469219 Kamoʻoalewa) and return 200-1,000 grams of samples within 2-3 years of launch. The mission would then, via an Earth gravity assist, reach the main belt comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro seven years later. Earlier presentations include an additional gravity assist from Mars, whereas more recent profiles outline a flyby of an unnamed asteroid en route to 133P.\n\nThe mission will launch on a Long March 3B rocket from Xichang. The spacecraft will utilize electric propulsion, autonomous navigation and intelligent control functions. Asteroid 2016HO3 has a diameter in the range of 40-100 meters and orbits between 38–100 Earth-Moon distances from the Earth. Explosives will be used to expose the subsurface for detection with water and volatiles as key targets.\n\nBoth missions will draw on technology from Chang’e-5, a lunar sample return mission scheduled to launch in Q4 this year. That mission aims to retrieve up to 4 kilograms of samples from the Mons Rümker region of Oceanus Procellarum. If successful mission the would also pave the way for a possible repeat at the lunar south pole with the backup Chang’e-6 spacecraft.\n\nThe various Chang’e-7 spacecraft will carry a total of 23 science payloads. The configuration is still to be confirmed, according to a presentation at the 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.\n\nChang’e-7 will aim to conduct a detailed survey of the environment and resources in the lunar south polar region. Technology goals include a fixed-point landing, building on the Chang’e-4 far side landing. The ‘mini-flying probe’ will carry out in-situ observations of a permanently-shadowed crater. The novel spacecraft will carry a water molecule and hydrogen isotope analyzer payload.\n\nThe orbiter will carry a high-resolution stereo mapping camera, SAR and infrared imagers, a neutron and gamma ray spectrometer and a magnetometer. The relay satellite will assist in Earth-Moon Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) measurement and radio astronomy observations.\n\nMeanwhile on the surface, the lander and rover will have a combination of earlier Chang’e mission payloads. These include topography and panoramic cameras, ground-penetrating radar and ultraviolet camera. New experiments will include a seismometer, magnetometer and raman spectrometer.\n\nZhengHe aims to reveal the characteristics and evolution mechanisms of typical small celestial bodies. It will also study the interaction of these bodies with solar wind, and perform lab analysis on samples.\n\nThe spacecraft will use robotic legs to land on 2016HO3. Attached to the robotic appendages will be drills to anchor the spacecraft to the relatively quickly rotating asteroid. ZhengHe will also carry a nano-orbiter and a nano-lander to carry out remote sensing and provide complementary information for sampling. Additional science payloads may be attached to the rocket’s upper stage, according to an announcement of opportunities (pdf).\n\nChang’e-2 made a flyby of near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis in December 2012. The activity was an extension to its primary mission as a lunar orbiter.\n\nPreparations are meanwhile being made for a crewed flight. A China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) facility social media release shows assembly of components of the Long March 2F to launch Shenzhou-12. Shenzhou-12 is to make the first visit to the ‘Tianhe’ core module of the Chinese space station, following the launch of the 22-metric-ton facility in H1 2021.\n\nChina’s sixth and most recent crewed flight was the month-long Shenzhou-11 mission in 2016." ]

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[ "GAME NEWS – Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Is Out Now… and It’s In Desperate Need of a Patch", null, "The best part about downloading Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition so far has been seeing it on the home screen of my PlayStation 5. It’s the classic PC point-and-click adventure game from 1997… on a console! Unfortunately, within minutes of clicking ‘Play Game’, I knew something wasn’t quite right.\n\nWatch the video embedded above closely. It shows the opening minutes of the game and immediately highlights several worrying issues (ignoring the fact that the new ‘HD graphics’ have stripped the original backgrounds of all their fine detail, like bad DNR on a Blu-ray disc). On the very first screen, the player is unable to click anywhere on the ground to move protagonist Ray McCoy. You can click hotspots, but the ground is apparently off-limits (I loaded up the original game to check, and this definitely shouldn’t be happening).\n\nKeep watching – it gets worse. Hopping into Ray’s police spinner results in a green glitch that flashes across the screen for a moment once the animation has finished playing. Again, I checked the original PC version of the game (which was re-released in 2019 on GOG.com): again, this shouldn’t be happening. Adding insult to injury, the pathfinding is now broken on the police station roof too – Ray simply runs through the barrier, rather than running around it like he should. How the hell did this pass quality control?!", null, "To be fair, the brand new main menu doesn’t inspire much confidence. The background artwork is nice enough, but the UI is absolutely awful:", null, "Diving into the menu, I selected ‘Input Options’ hoping I would be able to see what the controls are for the PlayStation version. Instead, I was greeted with this screen:", null, "Huh. I decided to just figure it out once I was in the game, so I selected ‘New Game’ and was greeted with the following screen:", null, "How will someone who has never played the original game know what ‘Player Personality’ means?! Hint: always choose ‘User Choice’.\n\nOn a slightly more positive note, one of the best things about the Enhanced Edition is the introduction of subtitles. This is a great addition! However, should they be playing over the opening cutscene when it is literally a text crawl?", null, null, "I mean, just look at it. This is ‘enhanced’? It’s as confusing and horrible to use as the following would suggest:", null, "Finally, the one area of the original game that actually needed some TLC – the voxel character sprites – hasn’t been improved one iota. In fact, the characters now blend in with the new vaseline-esque backgrounds even worse than they did in 1997:", null, "So there you have it: the first five minutes of Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition. It’s an absolute mess. I guess the writing was on the wall when it was suddenly released in the early hours of this morning with little fanfare, without any reviews appearing online first.\n\nThere is absolutely no reason to buy this version of the game over the original PC version, unless you need subtitles or don’t have access to a PC. Still not convinced? Rock Paper Shotgun has posted an excellent article that includes some comparison screenshots that are painful to see here.", null, "I love Blade Runner despite its faults – the lead voice actor wrote an excellent guest post for this very website in 2010 – but this is not the best way to play it in 2022. I can only hope that Nightdive Studio will patch the worst of these issues if enough fans kick up a fuss. What an utter disappointment.\n\n4 responses to “GAME NEWS – Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition Is Out Now… and It’s In Desperate Need of a Patch”" ]

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[ null, "State Minister of Finance, Capital Markets and State Enterprise Reforms Ajith Nivard Cabraal is set to submit the letter of resignation from his position as a Member of Parliament on Monday (Sep. 13), Ada Derana learns.\n\nReportedly, the resignation letter is expected to be handed over to the Secretary General of Parliament.\n\nFurther, Cabraal is also tipped to be reappointed as the governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka by mid next week.\n\nOn Friday (Sep. 10), the current governor of the Central Bank, Professor W. D. Lakshman announced his intention to retire from his position on September 14.\n\n“I have not taken any decisions against my conscience,” Prof. Lakshman said via a virtual press briefing, adding that he had originally planned to retire when he turned 80 next month.\n\nHis announcement came at a time when speculations have been rife as of lately that Cabraal, who previously served as the Central Bank governor, is tipped to be reappointed to the position following the retirement of Prof. Lakshman.\n\nHowever, speaking to media this morning (Sep. 11), Cabraal confirmed that he accepted the invitation extended by the President to take up the post of Central Bank governor.\n\n“In order to do so, I will have to resign from the parliament,” he added.\n\nCabraal was appointed as the Central Bank governor in July, 2006. Four years later, he was given an extension until 2016. However, following the presidential election in 2015, Cabraal stepped down from the position. – ada derana" ]

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[ null, "For the past decade, Cafe Hollander on Downer Avenue has served as a reliable standby of the East Side’s dining scene. Now, the longtime restaurant is planning to celebrate its 10th anniversary with some fresh renovations, including new floors, a redesigned bar area, and more. A press release is below.\n\nMilwaukee, WI – October 31, 2016 – The Lowlands Group announces today that it will be closing Café Hollander on Downer Avenue for renovations beginning on November 6th, with a scheduled reopening planned for November 18th. The location was the first of the Lowlands Group’s grand cafés to open, and after 10 years, will be undergoing equipment upgrades in addition to facility improvements to match the efficiency and functionality of the group’s other locations.\n\n“When we opened our Downer location 10 years ago, we couldn’t have imagined the success of the concept and the idea that we’d go on to create greatly expanded versions of Café Hollander,” said Dan Herwig, director of brand and marketing at Lowlands Group. “This renovation is needed to ensure that the next ten years are as successful as the past ten have been.”\n\nWhile some aesthetic changes are planned, like new floors and a redesigned bar area, Lowlands Group plans on retaining as much of the original concept intact as possible. Updates will include increasing the number of tap lines from 24 to 37, all-new wood flooring, an updated bar and new kitchen equipment.\n\nThe renovation marks the 10-year anniversary for Lowlands Group, which opened the Downer location in November of 2006. When it reopens on November 18th, the Downer Avenue Café Hollander will launch with numerous events and offerings to celebrate the occasion, including a winter clothing drive.\n\nThe “Chili Weather Coat Drive” will be held on November 20th from 10am to 3pm. Anyone who donates a new or slightly used coat, or a set of cold weather gear, will receive a free bowl of chili and a Lowlands Brewing Collaborative Bourbon Barrel Aged Centraal Quadder beer as a thank you. Colectivo Coffee is also donating hot chocolate and coffee to warm up the participants of the coat drive, which will be held outdoors on Hollander’s patio\n\n“We hope people will stop by for a bowl of chili before the Packer game to make a donation for a good cause,” said Herwig. “This coat drive directly benefits the Silver Spring Neighborhood Center, which runs amazing programs for Milwaukee’s Northwest Side.”\n\nWhen the location reopens on the 18th, it will do so with an updated menu, including a reimagination of “The BTB,” a brie-tomato-basil sandwich that was on the original menu when the Hollander location first opened its doors. The reopening also marks the launch of the Lowlands Group’s annual “Holiday Bier” menu at all of their locations. The menu contains many rare and exclusive beers from around the world that the group imports especially for the holiday season.\n\n“It’s a tradition in Europe for brewers to craft these amazing, small-batch beers that are only available for the holidays,” says Ileana Rivera, the beverage director for the Lowlands Group. “In some cases, we’re the only place in Wisconsin or the United States to taste these rare beers.”\n\nThe holiday beers will be available at all Lowlands Group locations on the 21st of November, including their own exclusive beer, Santa Rampage, a Belgian Dubbel brewed for them by Brouwerij Van Steenberge, in Ertvelde, Belgium. While beer selection varies by location, other exclusives include Kapitel Winter, Silly Noel, Piraat Barrel Aged Rum, St. Bernadus Xmas and Delirium Noel.\n\nEVENT INFO\nWHAT: “Chili-Weather Coat Drive” – Celebrating the Lowlands Group 10-Year Anniversary\nWHEN: Nov. 20, 2016 – 10am-3pm\nWHERE: Café Hollander – Downer, 2608 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee, WI\nWHY: A Benefit for the Silver Spring Neighborhood Center\nHOW: Free chili, beer and warm-up drinks with a donation of a coat or cold weather gear" ]

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[ "Packers collecting Coats for Kids at September 24 game against Bengals", null, "GREEN BAY, Wis. (CBS 58) -- The Packers’ annual Coats for Kids collection will take place Sunday, September 24, at Lambeau Field prior to the Green Bay Packers-Cincinnati Bengals game. Fans attending the game will have the opportunity to donate new and gently used winter coats for distribution to needy children through area Salvation Army units.\n\nCash donations will be accepted as well.\n\nThe Salvation Army will be collecting coats and cash donations at locations around the Lambeau Field parking lots beginning at 11:25 a.m.\n\nThe Salvation Army and several area cleaners – Lindeman’s Cleaning, Royal Cleaners and Martinizing Dry Cleaning Service – are again leading the seasonal effort to collect coats. Coats can be dropped off at the participating cleaners, at local Salvation Army locations, as well as at the locations listed at http://www.sagreenbay.org/green_bay/coatsforkids, in addition to being brought to Sunday’s game.\n\nCollections at the game will take place until kickoff and the number of coats collected will be announced during the second half of the game.\n\nLast year, the Coats for Kids collection garnered more than 450 coats and $10,000 in cash donations prior to the Packers-Cowboys game." ]

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[ "[dropcap1]O[/dropcap1]h Square Enix what have you done?", null, "For years and years Final Fantasy fans have been hoping and praying for a full fleshed, updated, super high end Final Fantasy 7 game for the next gen systems. It didn’t happen on the PS3 so like with Kingdom Hearts 3 expectations arose for it to finally happen on the PS4.\n[divider type=”space_thin”]\n\nSephiroth and his hair flowing in the wind in high definition? I’ll take that too.\n\nWhether you like Final Fantasy 7 or think it’s the most overrated of all the Final Fantasies, there’s one thing you can’t deny, it’s popularity. Final Fantasy 7 has transcended it’s original single game format and has had movies and a prequel game expanding on it’s lore.", null, "So here we are in 2014 with Square Enix hyped up about a Final Fantasy 7 announcement for the PS4! Could it be what fans all been clamoring for all these years? No, the answer is no. Instead of an HD remake with new everything, what fans get is a port of the game for the PS4. If you don’t know what that means I’ll explain. Instead of HD graphics and high definition they’re instead re-releasing the original game on the PS4 which they’ve already done for PC and for the PS3 on the Playstation Network.\nThere’s already been a lot of backlash for this so instead of adding to it I’m going to go a different route with this.\n\nCheer up Cloud you’ll be in HD soon enough bud.\n\nThe fact of the matter is that Square Enix fans want to feel like they are appreciated and loved. A remake of Final Fantasy 7 would have solidified that fact. Giving the fans something they’ve asked for would put Square Enix back on that pedestal they used to be on. The recent Final Fantasy games haven’t been able to capture the magic that the old ones used to bring. That sense of “Wow this game is the best game of all time!” hasn’t been said for the recent Final Fantasies and I think fans are trying to relive the Square Enix of old.\n\nMaybe I’m wrong in my assumptions but I’m speaking from my personal point of view on the whole situation. Final Fantasy 7 isn’t my favorite Final Fantasy but would I throw my money at Square Enix for a full on HD remake? I’ll answer my question with another question. Is Rock Lee the realest ninja out there?\n\nSomeday we might get that remake that me and other fans have asked for but,sadly, today is not that day.", null ]

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[ null, "The 3rd Parliament album was a tribute to the city of Washington D.C., where black people had become the majority and George Clinton's psych-funksters had become particularly popular.\n\nThis album marks the start of the George Clinton/Bootsy Collins/Bernie Worrell songwriting partnership, which would endure through to 1978. It's also the first P-Funk album with singer Glen Goins and The Brecker Brothers on horns." ]

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[ "A Reading from the gospel of John\n\n‘As the Father sent me,\nso am I sending you.’\n\nAfter saying this he breathed on them and said:\n\nThomas, called the Twin, who was one of the Twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. When the disciples said, ‘We have seen the Lord’, he answered, ‘Unless I see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’ Eight days later the disciples were in the house again and Thomas was with them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with you’ he said. Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; look, here are my hands. Give me your hand; put it into my side. Doubt no longer but believe.’ Thomas replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to him:\n\n‘You believe because you can see me.\nHappy are those who have not seen and yet believe.’\n\nThere were many other signs that Jesus worked and the disciples saw, but they are not recorded in this book. These are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing this you may have life through his name.\n\nAS a former beat reporter for a non-profit news agency in the Philippines, it is fascinating for me watching the news and the analysis of the news, especially these recent weeks about China, the US, COVID-19, and about the High Court’s decisions on Cardinal George Pell and the raid on", null, "a journalist’s home, and many others.\n\nThe common thread that links all these topics is factual truth, or how people—like me and you—perceive and accept what are the facts and therefore, ultimately, what is true. In our world of social media, of “safe space”, and of identity politics, facts and truth are oftentimes the first things to be thrown out the window. Today, many of us reject facts because they sometimes do not align with our thinking, our ideologies, our agenda, or how we want to perceive the world. We reject the truth because sometimes to admit the truth is painful; it hurts our feelings. It is all about us. And so we would rather live in a delusion rather than to face pain brought about by the truth.", null, "Enter, Thomas from our gospel reading. At first glance, we might think that Thomas was engaging in his own ego-drama; of rejecting the truth about the resurrection of Jesus—even from the witness his fellow disciples. ‘No,’ he said. ‘Unless I see the holes that the nails made in his hands and can put my finger into the holes they made, and unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse to believe.’ But this very act by Thomas separates or differentiates him from many people of today. He was neither rejecting the facts nor the truth. You see brothers and sisters; from this passage we can suggest that Thomas had two great virtues. One is that he refused to say that he understood what he did not understand. May I suggest that Thomas was an example of faith that St Anselm calls fides quaerens intellectum—faith seeking understanding. Thomas had to be sure. And because of this fides quaerens intellectum, when he said, ‘My Lord and my God’, he went the whole way, no half-way house. He stuck with the facts of faith ‘till the end—his other great virtue.", null, "And here are the facts of our faith: that after three days, the disciples found an empty tomb! That after three days, the man who was crucified and witnessed by many to have died on the cross yet appeared alive to a room full of people! That the risen Jesus even convinced and converted the fiercest persecutor of the early community of disciples—St Paul himself! And the fact is that, by normal historical methods, the accounts of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus is far more reliable than, let say, the account of the life of Alexander the Great. This means the account of the resurrection can be traced and attested up to right after the crucifixion while the earliest account about Alexander the Great was 300 years after his death![i]\n\nIf we accept the account about Alexander, the Great as fact, why not the resurrection, the basis of our faith? Our faith is not a faith on the fairy in the sky, not a superstition as new atheists accuse us! Ours is always a faith seeking understanding. We do not reject reason. We do not reject facts. We do not reject the truth! And we have this certainty because we are guaranteed by Apostolic tradition and Apostolic succession!\n\nYes, brothers and sisters, our faith is based on facts. Our faith is based on reason. We may have the faith of Thomas, the faith that seeks understanding. That is good. But we must also remember the words of Jesus. Words that may be specifically addressed to each one of us: ‘Happy are those who have not seen and yet believe. ###" ]

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[ null, "The operator of the Nord Stream pipelines built to carry Russian gas to Europe on Tuesday reported “unprecedented” damage to the system, raising suspicions of sabotage after mysterious leaks caused sudden drops in pressure to three underwater lines in the Baltic Sea. The leaks had no immediate impact on energy supplies to the European Union … Read more\n\nNEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Vice President Kamala Harris attended the state funeral of assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, as Tokyo was put under maximum security due to the high-profile procession. Harris represented the United States at the ceremony, which was attended by roughly 4,300 people. Other foreign dignitaries … Read more\n\nLarry Summers Cameron Costa | CNBC LONDON — Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers on Tuesday warned that the U.K. has lost sovereign credibility after the new government’s fiscal policy sent markets into a tailspin. The British pound hit an all-time low against the dollar in the early hours of Monday morning, before recovering slightly on Tuesday, while the U.K. … Read more\n\n“The golden age of globalization that we experienced in the last 30 years since the end of the Cold War has ended clearly and we are entering a new era, a new era that will be marked by greater geopolitical contestation,” said Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong. Bloomberg | Bloomberg … Read more\n\nPound plunge Sterling’s response to the government’s announcement was near-immediate and extreme. The pound lost nearly 3.6% against the dollar Friday and continued to fall Monday when the market reopened. It hit an all-time low below $1.04 early Monday morning in London. It has since recovered slightly, trading around $1.08 at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, but … Read more\n\nThe logo of Nord Stream is seen at the headquarters of Nord Stream AG in Zug, Switzerland March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register STOCKHOLM, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Sweden’s Maritime Authority said on Tuesday it had issued a warning of two leaks on the Russian-owned Nord Stream … Read more\n\nRussia’s “referendums” in Ukraine, which could lead to Moscow annexing 15% of the country’s territory, were due to end on Tuesday. Voting in the eastern provinces of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia began on Friday and have been dismissed as a sham by western nations, which have pledged not to recognise the results. The Kremlin … Read more\n\nDemand for seats on private jets has boomed in Moscow after Vladimir Putin ordered the first mobilisation since the second world war and wealthy Russians look for a way out of the country amid reports that authorities plan to close the borders to men of mobilisation age. Passengers are said to be predominantly heading to … Read more" ]

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[ "Playing at around 3900 screens, Housefull 4 managed to have 'houseful' signs at many centers on Monday as family audiences came in huge numbers. While that was always on the cards for the film which has been designed for everyone from 6-60 year old, the negativity from certain quarters post release did manage to ignite some sort of scare at least.", null, "In the past there have been both kind of scenarios where films have either been impacted big time by poor reviews [Zero] or have stayed unscathed [Race 3], at least on the major holidays. Fortunately for Housefull 4, it was the latter scenario where collections were not really impacted despite severe bout of polarized views, especially on the social media. As a result, a very good number of Rs. 34.56 crores came in, which is also the best for the film since release.\n\nCurrently, the Sajid Nadiadwala and Fox Star Studios production stands at Rs. 87.78 crores and that's a positive indication for the film which has been in theaters for four days now. It still needs to keep registering good numbers though as there is a lot at stake. Today is the partial holiday of 'bhai dooj' and that should keep the footfalls coming, especially when it comes to the family audiences. Closer the film reaches Rs. 100 crores mark today, better it would be for the Akshay Kumar led affair to go past the Rs. 150 crores mark in a quick time from now." ]

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[ null, "SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Depression has spread by a factor of five due to the pandemic, a study showed Monday.\n\nA research team from Chonnam National University Hospital conducted a survey of 1,492 general participants who had not been infected with COVID-19 and 646 nurses from university hospitals.\n\nAmong the general participants, 20.9 percent demonstrated a clear sign of depression due to COVID-19, which was five times higher than the average rate prior to the pandemic era (4 percent), indicating the severity of the psychological impact that the pandemic has imposed on the general population.\n\nThe so-called ‘corona blues’, referring to various kinds of depressive symptoms caused during the pandemic era, was more observable among those who were facing financial difficulties, struggling with loneliness, receiving psychiatric treatment, and among young adults.\n\nOn the contrary, participants who regularly exercised more than three times a week and were more willing to express gratitude in everyday life tended to be less prone to suffering from the corona blues.\n\nA survey conducted on nurses from three university hospitals in the region showed that rising stress levels were attributed to burnout, depression, anxiety and other mental health issues.\n\nThe sense of gratitude and achievement in their work, on the other hand, helped reduce stress levels." ]

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[ "Engaged leader in working with First Nations and at-risk youth, Justin Borsato is an elementary school teacher in east Vancouver whose work is recognized widely, including by his alma mater. Borsato graduated from University of British Columbia’s Bachelor of Education program in 2000 after completing a Bachelor of Human Kinetics in 1999. Currently an educator with Vancouver’s Britannia Elementary School, he teaches Grade 7. In 2012, Borsato was selected from among 40 nominees to earn the first-ever UBC Alumni Teacher Award for his work in the Vancouver community and his “commitment to giving students every possible learning opportunity.”\n\nInside the classroom, Borsato engages students using a variety of unorthodox academic techniques and innovative projects. He has engaged students in projects where they design their own civilizations, complete with maps, climates, economic systems, governments and religious beliefs. Another innovative teaching technique included creating a “Greek newspaper,” which featured Letters to the Editor, crosswords, horoscopes, obituaries and classifieds.\n\nOutside the classroom, Borsato has dedicated his own time to chaperone weeklong trips for students who had never left their home town. He raised over $10,000 annually for various charitable efforts and coached the HEROES hockey program, which offers free hockey to underprivileged kids in east Vancouver. Borsato worked with UBC students during their reading weeks to pair them with his own students as part of a successful mentorship program. Finally, he developed and maintained a partnership with the DAREarts charity program in Toronto to encourage student interest in the arts, and championed efforts at Britannia for LGBTQ rights.", null ]

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[ "It’s no surprise that MySpace has the most unbelievably retarded banner ads. At first they started off normally, tricking dumb fools into clicking on them by having a big red button that makes the ad look like a video game. Press the button to kick! Press the button to shoot the clown! Yeah, that makes sense, but then they became ungrounded, and banner ads were inviting rubes to click the button to roll, or drink, or sleep, or do a pull-up. How do I click a button to continue sleeping? The ‘games’ theme had become so abstract that the button no longer made sense.\n\nMeanwhile another genus of ads began to appear, the ‘spooky’ ads, which warned you to NOT CLICK HERE if you were easily scared, accompanied by faces of creepy stock photo children. Then they began to focus on speculating on what date you’ll die — because what could be scarier, right? Then somehow, the two merged, and now there are ads inviting you into some kind of death game, all I have to do is sign up:", null, "No chance to win an Xbox. No free ringtones. No products, no service. No company is being advertised. I’m not signing my soul away in exchange for some prize, I’m simply acknowledging that I’m dead. Unless this banner ad was placed by satan himself (which I can’t completely rule out), what could possibly be the appeal of this gigantic, full page ad?\n\nAs if an ad inviting me to kill myself wasn’t bad enough, there’s a catch:\n\nYou know, if it meant never having to see another incomprehensible flash ad, I would sign my own death certificate." ]

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[ null, "The Almanac’s Weather Forecast for March\n\nLet’s talk weather predictions for March 2022. According to weather folklore, if March “comes in like a lion, [it] goes out like a lamb.” Let’s see what sort of weather March has in store for us this year.\n\n“Spring forward,” indeed! Looking at the month of March as a whole, we see that spring will get off to an early start, with above-average temperatures across much of the central and eastern United States and nearly all of Canada outside of the Northwest Territories. The western United States will experience below-average temperatures and near- to below-average precipitation.\n\nIt will also be on the drier side from the southern Plains eastward to the Southeast and from southern British Columbia to the Canadian Prairies. Most other areas will experience above-average precipitation.\n\n→ See weather predictions for the next 60 days in your region!\n\nThe month of March will start off with Mardi Gras on March 1, which looks to be a celebratory sunny and mild day in New Orleans. Just off to the west, Texas Independence Day on March 2 will be warm with a few showers.\n\nMarch 8, International Women’s Day, will be sunny and warm from the Gulf Coast to the Southeast. Rain and mild weather are expected from the Northeast through the Midwest, with rain and snow showers from the High Plains to the Rockies. The West Coast will see some rain at times, while rain and snow showers will be found across much of Canada.\n\nWe’ll “spring forward” and mark the start of Daylight Saving Time by setting the clocks ahead 1 hour on March 13, but many areas will not get to enjoy that extra hour of daylight in the evening. Rain and snow showers will move across the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes, Northeast, and mid-Atlantic states, and temps will be on the colder side of average. Sunshine will be common across the western United States, but temps will be on the cool side here, too. Even across southern Canada, there will be snow showers around, with a little rain mixed in along the western shore.\n\nFolks heading to St. Patrick’s Day celebrations on March 17 will want to bundle up across the East and in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley regions. Most areas will be sunny and dry, but there will be a few rain and snow showers from the Northeast back through the Great Lakes. The weather will have the luck of the Irish across much of the Plains, with sunshine and a warm day foreseen. There could be a few thunderstorms across Oklahoma and Texas. Unsettled weather with rain and mountain snow will impact much of the western United States. Snow showers will continue to be moving across much of southern Canada, with some rain mixed in near the B.C. coast.\n\nThe spotty precipitation events may also dampen any viewing parties dedicated to celebrating the full Worm Moon on March 18.\n\nSpringlike weather will appropriately occur in most areas at the spring equinox on March 20, with rain showers in the forecast in the northern third of the U.S. and southern third of Canada, and even a possibility of snow showers along the Rocky Mountains.\n\nOn Seward’s Day in Alaska on March 28, flurries will be flying across northern areas, with rain and snow across southern parts of the state", null, "Now back to this proverb. If you think about it, the proverb makes sense for March. It’s a transitional month starting with winter, ending with spring.\n\nWhere did this proverb come from?\n\nIt’s appeared over the centuries. John Ray (1627–1705) was a naturalist who wrote, “March hack ham [hackande = annoying] comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb.” This is published in the “Catalogue of English Proverbs” in 1670. The phrase “March came in like a lion” shows up in Ames Almanac in 1740.\n\nA favorited theory (which fits the Almanac) is that the proverb is based on astronomy and the positions of the constellations. At the beginning of the year, we have Leo the Lion (eastern horizon); by the end of March, it’s Aries the Ram (western horizon).\n\nThere have also been religious associations: Jesus arrives as the sacrificial lamb at Easter, but will return as the Lion of Judah. Weather-wise, this means a false spring.\n\nOf course, the Almanac has many other March proverbs in its archives. Here are a couple that have lasted the ages:\n\nThey aren’t quite as memorable as the lion and the lamb!\n\nLook ahead! Check out the 2022 Spring Weather Forecast from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.", null, null, null, "Long range outlook temperatures for March is much above normal\n\nGood or bad weather....it’s just GOT to be better than last March when all was locked down, panic prevailed and fear gripped the nations. Let’s pray for a healed world in 2021 and spring’s abundance of regrowth!\n\nCnut was a wild Viking that came onto the shores of Great Britain leading\nfrightening and destructive raids, i.e. \"He came in like a Lion\".\nIn his later years he adopted Christianity and became a kind and just leader,\ni.e. \"He went out like a Lamb\".\nThat's my story and I'm stickin' to it --->Smile.\n\nAs always, we enjoy reading the predictions. Absolutely loved the tribute to Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and your possible explanation for the March Lion to Lamb proverb in respect to the constellations." ]

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[ null, "Terris Goodwin started this petition to Temple Police Department and\n\nOn December 2, 2019, Michael Dean was shot in the head and killed by Temple Police Officer Carmen DeCruz following a routine traffic stop for speeding. Michael’s family and our community were given little to no information or narrative surrounding this tragedy for over two months. Instead, we received deafening silence from TPD. That is, until Officer DeCruz was arrested and charged with manslaughter on February 10, 2020 and the interim Police Chief held a press conference. In that press conference, when asked if TPD would release dash/body cam video of this incident, Police Chief Tobin said that they wouldn’t be releasing these at this time, partly to protect the identity of witnesses on scene. We live in the year 2020. There is ample technology available to censor the identity of any witnesses.\n\nIt should also be noted that in the report TPD filed with the AG, it was alleged that Michael was “evading arrest” and that “an altercation of some sort” took place prior to the shooting. However, they have not publicly released the distance he traveled before pulling over; there is a valid possibility that he could have simply been trying to find a safe place to pull over (like we’re taught in driver’s Ed). They also haven’t elaborated on the alleged altercation that took place while an unarmed Michael Dean sat in the driver’s seat of his car with his door closed before being shot in the head. Releasing footage would provide some insight into these alleged circumstances.\n\nPolice Departments across the country have released video evidence in officer-involved shootings in the spirit of providing transparency and accountability to the communities they serve. Temple PD and our city officials should do the same. Please join the Dean Family and the Central Texas Fighters For Change as we petition to release any video footage of this incident immediately to his family, and eventually, to the public. Mind you, this video footage was taken on dashboard and body cameras that the tax-paying citizens of Temple paid for. As such, we as citizens have the right to demand that they release this footage to the public, and especially, Michael’s family.\n\nTransparency, followed by accountability and Reform, is the first step in rebuilding our community’s confidence in law enforcement. Thank you for your support.\n\nTo the Police Department and DA Garza:\n\nMany citizens in the community you serve feel that up to this point, the Police Department, as well as other elected officials, to now include DA Garza, have NOT been transparent throughout this process. Now’s the time to start to repair the damage and make it right. The Citizens of Temple Texas are watching and waiting for you to do the right thing." ]

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[ "Will There Be a Sword Gai Season 3? Is the Third Season in the Works?\n\nAnime isn’t created equal; some are awe-inspiring, while others are a let-down. As with everything else in life, there are flaws. This includes anime series. If an anime fails to fulfill the expectations of the majority of viewers, then the show is not excellent and the creators should stop making more of it.\n\n“Sword Gai,” which has already aired for two seasons, is in a similar boat. All the information you need to know about Sword Gai season 3, including if there will be a third season or if the network decided it was time to call it quits, is here. Find out for yourself by reading on.\n\nDirector Takahiro Ikezoe and producer Tomohito Naka are responsible for the anime series Sword Gai. One of several animated programs based on Toshiki Inoue’s manga series, which was also illustrated by Keita Amemiy and Wosamu Kine.\n\nSix tank volumes have been published since it initially appeared in the Hero’s Inc. seinen manga magazine Hero in 2012. It was released in 2016 and will be finished in 2019 for the continuation series Sword Gai Evolve.", null, "What Does the Sword Gai Show Focus on?\n\nIn the first season, the famous Demon Sword Zsoltgewinn, which was once in the possession of the Devil himself, is discovered by an organization called Shoshidai that is dedicated to the collection of cursed items. The administrator, Takuma Miura, is tricked by the power of the weapon into stealing it and running away with it.\n\nIn the meantime, a swordsmith by the name of Amon discovers a baby boy by the name of Gai, whose family was entirely shattered as a result of the ownership of a different demon sword called Shiryu. Gai loses his arm during the performance of a ritual, but he soon gets a new one in the shape of a reformed Shiryu.\n\nBy The Grace Of The Gods Season 2 Release Date: Is There Going to Be a Series This Year!\n\nToilet Bound Hanako Kun Season 2: Release Date: Everything You Need to Know About This Series in 2022!\n\nWho Are the Voice Actors in the Sword Gai?\n\nWill There Be a Sword Gai Season 3?\n\nOn March 23, 2018, Netflix released the first season of ‘Sword Gai’ in an ONA format. A 12-episode second season was released on June 30, 2018, the same day as the first. Most fans didn’t like the characters in the anime, despite it having a great concept and fantastic world-building.\n\nSince its inception, there has been a great deal of buzz surrounding it. Because of Netflix’s commitment to original programming, a new season of this anime may yet be produced, but the odds of that happening are dwindling in light of the negative reception it has garnered so far.\n\nIn any case, we’ll keep you informed right here in this section if we receive any new information about the show’s renewal or the upcoming release of “Sword Gai” Season 3. If renewed then we can expect it to release in mid-2023.", null, "Is the Third Season in the Works?\n\nSword Gai’s third season has been canceled and will not be shown. Poor performance and unfavorable reviews are to blame for the show’s discontinuation, as predicted.\n\nBoth seasons 1 and 2 of Sword Gai are available to stream on Netflix.\n\nIn Which Episode Does Gai Come Back?\n\nAfter a long journey, Gai has arrived safely at the Shoshidai HQ in the eleventh episode of Season 2.\n\nRuthless Season 3 Release Date: Who Will Play the Lead Roles in This Season?\n\nStargirl Season 3 Release Date: Who Is the Skull at the End of Season 3?\n\nIs True Story Based on the Real Life Events of Kevin Hart?\n\nWhen Will The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Be Released on Netflix?\n\nCole Hauser Confirms the Release of Season 6 of Yellowstone!" ]

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[ null, null, null, null, null, "Here is a link to SSC website for more information on this play: http://www.swshakespeare.org/\nPosted by Lady Bardfan at 7:43 AM 5 comments:\n\nTwo Reason's to Re-Visit the Question of Richard III\n\nRichard III\nLast year, at about this same time, I posted this \"opinion\" and I wanted to re-post it for 2 reasons. One, Southwest Shakespeare Company of Mesa AZ, is going to start their production of Shakespeare's Richard III this week at the Mesa Arts Center and second, because we celebrate the Bard's birthday this Friday,the 23rd, (more on that later this week!).\n\nSee details about the show on the side bar of my blog\nSince most people's precetion of Richard III comes from Shakespeare's depiction of him in this play, I wanted to show the other side of the story (or the TRUE side). Here is the post from last year with a few edits:", null, "In March of 2009 some family members, visited England to do a tour mainly focused on Richard III. We vivsted York, his headquarters as the Duke of Gloucester and leader of Northern England during his brother, Edward IVs’, reign as king.", null, "Micklegate Bar\nIn York we went to Micklegate Bar, the eastern gate to the city of York where Richard’s father and brothers’ heads were up on pikes when he first came into the city, triumphant after winning a battle with Henry VI. We went through the tacky (he deserves better)Richard III museum in Monk Bar (the Western gate to York),Barnard Castle, where he lived, Middleham Castle, his favorite castle and where he grew up, Carlisle Castle, where he was Governor for a short time.", null, "Michael at the Richard III museum", null, null, "My sister took some of our group to Warwick Castle,( I had been there a few times already so didn’t go this time), where he visited often and his brother, Edward, was groomed to become the King (Edward IV). Lastly, we went through the Bloody Tower at the Tower of London where his Nephews were last seen alive and where their bones were found buried under a staircase a few hundred years later.", null, "Barnard Castle in the towne of Barnard Castle\nI feel I have had a long history learning about him and my thoughts about him have gone from one extreme to the other. Let me explain what I mean.\n\nI grew up on Shakespeare. I remember the first time I heard about Richard III was from Shakespeare’s play. So the hunchback, conniving, murdering Richard was the version of the story I thought was the true, because WS wouldn’t lie.", null, "The amazing Warwick Castle\nYou know, how he killed his brother, George, the Duke of Clarence, then, when the King died, he did away with the nephew’s so he could be King. Then as an adult I began to hear of the other side of the story. First I read “The Daughter of Time” by Josephine Tey. That was the first time I had ever considered that he wasn’t guilty of those killings. I was intrigued. Next I read “The Sunne In Splendor” by Sharron Kay Penman. That book convinced me of his innocence in the murders. Another book that I read was “Royal Blood”, by Bertram Fields.", null, "Me at a window that Richard had added to the castle at Barnard Castle\nIn this book the author takes all the facts as we know them and presents a kind of trial and the result is that Richard III was found not-guilty of the murder of his nephews. (*Another book that I am reading now entitled, Eleanor, The Secret Queen by John Ashdown-Hill studies Edward's marriage to Eleanor Talbot before he married Elizabeth Woodville, therefore, making his children with Elizabeth illegitimate, and Richard claim to the the crown legitimate).", null, "Three years ago I took a class at Oxford University and in meeting my classmates at a reception, one woman, a distinguished lawyer from Washington DC, found out that I had taken a class previously on the War of the Roses (the 13 year war between the York’s and the Lancaster’s for the crown). She immediately asked me which side of the Richard III question I stood. When I told her I believed him innocent of the murders, she invited me to join the “Ricardian Society of America”, which is a group of history buffs that try to turn the publics’ opinion of Richards’ innocence, through the facts that are available. I had never even heard that there was such a group, but apparently there are branches all over the world! One group even meets monthly in a Medieval Hall in York close by Micklegate Bar.\n\nIt is an interesting subject to study if you are a history buff like me. But as much as I hate to cast any dispersions on William Shakespeare, I have to admit that he was first a business man, and wrote the play to please Elizabeth I, whose grandfather was the one that killed Richard at the battle of Bosworth Field. WS knew which side his bread was buttered and so I don’t fault him too much. I leave the question to each of you to see the other side of the story and make your decision after learning the facts.\n\n**ps-Jane Austen was a Yorkist also. See her entry about Richard III in her book, The History of England by a partial, prejudiced and ingnorant Historian. Need I have any other proof of his innocence?\nPosted by Lady Bardfan at 10:06 AM 1 comment:\n\nThe Greatest Product for Organization!\n\nI have found the greatest product if you want to organize and effectively rotate your canned goods in your cupboard or storage room. Let me tell you about it!", null, "Most Emergency Preparedness sites encourage you to have a supply of food on hand for emergencies. It can range from a 72 hour emergency food kit to up to 1-2 years of food. In our church, they encourage us to get a 3 month supply of food you eat every day, and then begin to accumulate a longer term food supply that includes wheat, rice, dried beans etc. The problem with this, is finding the space to store it and how to rotate it efficiently. I have been very creative in “hiding” the food almost everywhere in our home since we don’t have a basement or a large storage space for food.", null, "I recently received a handout for a product that helps with the rotation, storage and organization of canned goods. They are called, Can Organizers. They are cardboard boxes that fold into units that you load the can into the top and it rolls around to the bottom, so you are constantly rotating the cans you buy! It is amazing, and INEXPENSIVE!!! I have purchased plastic shelving that does this but they are costly so I was so excited to try these!", null, "They come in 2 sizes, a cupboard size and a pantry size. They eliminate the need to but special shelving units that do the same job! The cupboard size holds; 6 pie fillings, 8 vegetable cans, 9 soup cans, or 18 tuna fish cans. The Pantry size holds; 13 pie filling, 16 vegetable cans, 18 soup cans, or 39 tuna cans. I love them! The web-site to see the product is: http://www.thecanorganizer.com/\n\nThe printed instructions for folding them is not very good, but there is a video on the web-site that shows how to do it and it only takes a couple of minutes once you see how it is done." ]

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[ null, "Congratulations to Wolves first year players Quinton Byfield (forward) and Jack Thompson (defence) who were both named to the Hockey Canada rosters for the World U-17 Hockey Challenge set to take place in Saint John and Quispamsis, N.B. from November 3rd to 10th. Byfield and Thompson were two of 27 OHL players named to the Hockey Canada’s roster which will be divided into three teams.\n\nA total of 57 CHL players are included in the announcement and will be divided into three teams – Team Canada Black, Team Canada Red, and Team Canada White – and will compete against the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States in their quest for a gold medal.\n\n“Any time you bring together the best young players in the country there are bound to be difficult decisions when selecting players, and we feel the 66 young men we chose exemplify the core values of the Program of Excellence,” said McEwen. “We believe that these players possess a willingness to learn and grow as they progress through our program and represent Canada, and give us the best chance to compete for a gold medal this November.”\n\nThe tournament opens Saturday, Nov. 3 at the qplex in Quispamsis when Finland takes on Sweden at 3:30 p.m. AT, followed by Team Canada Red, silver-medallist last year, facing off against Russia at 7:30 p.m. AT. The United States will kick off the action at Harbour Station in Saint John on Sunday, Nov. 4 when it plays the Czech Republic at 12 p.m. AT, followed by an all-Canadian match-up between Team Canada Black and Team Canada White at 4 p.m. AT.\n\nTSN and RDS, the official broadcasters for Hockey Canada, will air both semifinals on Friday, Nov. 9, as well as the bronze- and gold-medal games on Saturday, Nov. 10; please check local listings for details. Media accreditation for the 2018 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge for Harbour Station in Saint John and qplex in Quispamsis can be requested online.\n\nAfter a successful ticket launch, full-event ticket packages for the 2018 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge are sold out. A $99 Harbour Station ticket package is now available for purchase at the Harbour Station box office and includes all preliminary-round games in Saint John, as well as both semifinals and the bronze- and gold-medal games. Single-game tickets are also available for purchase starting at $13 at HockeyCanada.ca/Tickets.\n\nThe communities of Saint John and Quispamsis will receive the net proceeds from all ticket and ticket-package sales as a legacy of the event to support grassroots hockey within their communities as part of their hosting agreement with Hockey Canada. Additionally, recent editions of the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge have resulted in as much as $6 million in economic impact within the host communities." ]

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[ null, "Cartoons – then and now\n\nGrowing up as a boy in the 1980s, my favorite cartoons regularly featured extravagant gun battles, truly evil villains and actual depictions of death. In stark contrast to my own experiences, my son’s favorite cartoons rarely show any forms of violence and nobody ever dies.\n\nBefore I contemplate introducing him to the traumatic murder of Optimus Prime, I’m compelled to revisit the lessons learned from my exposure to 80s cartoon violence.\n\nBefore I go into this, it’s important to note that contemporary research links depictions of cartoon violence to early signs of aggression and anti-social behavior in children.\n\nThe prevalent consensus on cartoon violence is that children who are exposed to it at an early age exhibit more aggressive tendencies while children who watch more affable content turn out to be more sociable.\n\nIn 2012, a research group from the University of Washington led an in-depth, 6-month trial that studied 500 families, their children and the types of cartoons that they watched.\n\nAdmittedly, those results are hard for me to digest. In this rare instance, I say – “science be damned”. I watched violent cartoons growing up and the idea of grabbing a gun and shooting my fellow classmates was incomprehensible.\n\nYet, that’s the reality that my son is faced to live in today. For me, the depicted violence of the cartoons I watched as a child was never something to be emulated. Yet, I did learn a great deal about the meaning of life.\n\nTwo of my favorite cartoons growing up in the 80s were G.I. Joe and Transformers. I watched them both religiously every Saturday morning and the animated movie versions of these cartoons were engrained onto my psyche. Here’s why – they were absolutely terrifying and traumatic.\n\nWhen I was 7 years old, my Mom took my cousins and I to see the animated Transformers movie on the big screen. I was beyond ecstatic. The movie had this pulse-pounding heavy metal soundtrack, jaw-dropping animation, and voice contributions from Orson Welles, Leonard Nimoy, and Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime – the leader of the Autobots.\n\nEvery Transformer you could think of made at least one onscreen appearance. I was geeked!\n\nAlmost immediately, the movie took a dramatic turn for the worst. In the opening sequence, Megatron and his Decepticons hijacked an Autobot shuttle returning to base. Megatron transformed into a handgun, shouted “Die, Autobots!” and proceeded to kill four of the most popular characters.\n\nSee it for yourself – Transformers Shuttle Attack Scene\n\nBefore I could even recuperate, Megatron landed on Earth and killed Optimus Prime in a vicious one-on-one battle. Just like that, my whole world was shattered.\n\nOptimus Prime was the hero of all heroes and he was dead. A new hero, Roddimus Prime, had to rise to take his place and he eventually led the Autobots to a decisive victory.\n\nThe Transformers movie was a violent action romp through space that critics wouldn’t find suitable for children today. I’ve watched it dozens of times as a child and as an adult. I find its violence to be appropriate for the lessons and themes that it attempted to convey.\n\nMy lasting impression of the film was that its creators were ambitious enough to tackle such difficult subjects as the death of a parental figure and the threat of unrelenting evil. These themes are glaringly absent in nearly all contemporary cartoons.\n\nA year after the Transformers animated movie was released, Hasbro launched the much-anticipated G.I. Joe cartoon movie straight to video. Needless to say, my Mom was less than enthusiastic about me watching another big budget animated movie. Yet, my cousins and I piled onto the living room couch and watched it all the same.\n\nAs expected, the G.I. Joe movie poured on the violence in double portions. No-name Joes in fighter jets were shot down by enemy laser turrets. Unseen Cobra soldiers were blown to bits in tanks and armored cars.\n\nBlue and red laser beam fire was traded back and forth in an orgiastic display of military might. That wasn’t so surprising, but in an unexpected twist, G.I. Joe – The Movie was awash in powerful displays of symbolism.\n\nThe Joes represented American individualism with their distinctive clothing, tattoos and colorful personalities while the Cobra terrorist fighters took on an almost satanic quality with their snake-like appearance, biological weapons, and brutal fascist politics. That was some pretty heavy subject matter for a 7-year-old to digest.\n\nThe familiar bad guy, Cobra Commander, was transformed into a half-human, half-snake monster by an even more wicked villain, Serpentor.\n\nAnd then, there was the final battle which witnessed the bad guy transform a serpent into a spear and strike down Duke, the leader of the G.I. Joes. Mercifully, Duke is only sent into a coma, but he’s never seen again. In the original script, Duke dies.\n\nLooking back on G.I. Joe – The Movie, I’m amazed by its capacity to unnerve. It dealt with some extremely mature and complex themes such as fascism, terrorism, and satanism.\n\nBy today’s standard, this cartoon film would have never been greenlit or marketed to children. The images of this movie stayed with me all my life and rest side-by-side in my mind next to definitive symbols of evil and wickedness.\n\nToday’s cartoons have much less violence, far fewer brushes with life-threatening danger, and less potent villains. One of my son’s favorite cartoons is Blaze and the Monster Machines.\n\nThe villain of this story is a monster truck named Crusher who always cheats. He’s more of a prankster who the protagonist tolerates and chides with an overwhelming amount of positive values such as teamwork and fair play.\n\nAnother one of my son’s favorite cartoons is Yu-Gi-Oh! In this cartoon, a young boy named Yugi uses stylized playing cards to summon monsters and magical spells. He faces off against dark and mysterious villains in arena-style bouts where sometimes-gruesome, sometimes-cute monsters engage in mock battles.\n\nI sincerely hope that the scientific research is sound on this one and that my son is learning how to be more cooperative and more sociable. Yet, in the back of my mind, I fear that he might be missing out on some of those hard lessons that I learned from the violent cartoons of the 1980s.\n\nWhen I look back at what I learned from the Transformers and G.I. Joe animated movies, I’m hard-pressed to find similar cartoons for my son. His favorite cartoons are unrealistic, preachy and watered-down.\n\nMaybe today’s children don’t need violent cartoons to teach them the hard lessons of life. After all, the world is a dangerous place, even for young children.\n\nPerhaps the lessons that kids of the 80s needed to learn no longer apply to this generation. The narrative has changed. I learned about sacrifice, the dangers of violence, and the ever-present threat of evil from cartoons. My son’s generation will learn those same lessons from real life experiences.\n\nHow To Win At Being a Dad In Three Steps\n\nDad skills made simple What makes a father a good dad? It’s important to outline the distinction between just being a father and truly winning at being a dad. 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[ "Differences Between Labrador and Golden Retrievers\n\nThis article will discuss two extremely intelligent dog breeds: Labrador Retrievers and Golden Retrievers. Both breeds have some characteristics in common, and their morphology, while different, can look similar from a distance. Both kinds of retriever dogs have a fairly similar build and used to fulfill a similar function, which is why they're classified in the same type.\n\nThe closeness between the two retriever breeds means that many people don't know exactly what differentiates one from the other. For this reason, we at AnimalWised will explain the biggest differences between Labrador and Golden Retrievers.\n\nYou may also be interested in: Differences Between German Shepherd and Belgian Shepherd Dogs\nContents\n\nWhat is the origin of the Labrador Retriever?\n\nThe Labrador Retriever is a dog breed whose origins can be traced back to the Sixteenth Century. These dogs are native to the Canadian territory of Newfoundland and Labrador, which explains their name.\n\nThe Labrador Retriever results from the evolution of a long line that descended from the St. John's water dog, which sadly has been extinct for decades. The history of this forefather to Labrador Retrievers remains unknown, but experts believe that they derive from an amalgam of English, Portuguese and Irish working breeds.\n\nWhat is the origin of the Golden Retriever?\n\nThe Golden Retriever is a breed that comes from Scotland. Around 1850, this breed was created as a dog with a flair for hunting. It was fairly common during this era for the upper classes to go on hunting trips, where they hunted all sorts of birds but especially waterfowl. It was necessary to recover the pieces which had been shot down, often falling into lakes or rivers or between rocks and crags in the rugged Scottish landscape.\n\nThe crossing between the best water dogs and retriever types gave rise to the Golden Retriever. Over the years this breed has split into three phenotypes: English, American and Canadian.\n\nThe morphology of Labrador Retrievers\n\nA Labrador's fur is short, straight, rough, compact and shiny, which differs radically from the fur of the Golden Retriever, whose softness and length are completely different. This is one of the biggest difference in features between the two types of retriever at a glance.\n\nA Labrador's coat can be of three uniform colors: Black, chocolate and yellow. The last of these colors poses the greatest amount of variation in shade, ranging from very pale creamy tones which are almost white to reddish tones.\n\nLabrador Retrievers are strong and resilient animals, but they are also prone to obesity. Discover how much exercise do Labradors need in order to stay healthy in our article.\n\nThe morphology of Golden Retrievers\n\nThe Golden Retriever is slightly taller and slimmer than the Labrador, although the length of its fur creates an optical illusion which makes it look otherwise. Golden Retrievers measure between 55 and 61 cm (21.5 to 24 in) to the withers and weigh between 27 and 37 kg (60 to 82 lb), with females being smaller and lighter than males.\n\nThis dog breed has a beautiful double coat. A Golden Retriever's coat is silky, wavy, fairly long and water resistant. The undercoat is soft and short, keeping the dog isolated from the heat during the summer and keeping it warm during the winter months. According to breed standards, its correct color is one of many different shades of gold, excluding excessively light and red shades. Golden Retrievers molt twice a year, and their coat requires specific care.\n\nAs mentioned in the previous section, the main difference between Labrador and Golden Retrievers is the length and volume of their coats.\n\nTemperament of the Labrador Retriever\n\nThe Labrador Retriever has a very brave, manageable and sociable temperament. This dog has a very balanced character that matures after 3 years. It is precisely this good character that makes this breed as a guard or police dog, since it tends to be friendly with everyone. At most, it can bark to alert you of the presence of a stranger.\n\nThe Labrador's intelligence is excellent. It is classified in seventh place in Stanley Coren's ranking, which compares 131 different breeds. Overall, Labrador Retrievers are an excellent breed to have as a pet. Here you can learn which dogs are the smartest, and here you can find the list of our favorite names for Labrador dogs.\n\nTemperament of the Golden Retriever\n\nThe Golden Retriever is also a highly intelligent dog. It has a friendly, familiar and friendly temperament. This good character means that, like the Labrador, it cannot be considered as an effective guard dog.\n\nHowever, its docility, superlative intelligence and quiet character make it an extraordinary family pet. It is ranked fourth on Stanley Coren's intelligence scale. This dog is trained to learn many jobs: Golden Retrievers make excellent assistance, service and therapy dogs, for instance for autistic children. Here you can discover our favorite names for Golden Retrievers.\n\nIf you're interested in adopting one, here you can learn how to care for a Golden Retriever, from puppy to adulthood.\n\nBoth retriever breeds are intelligent enough to be used as guide dogs, explosive or drug detectors and search and rescue dogs. Labrador and Golden Retrievers are extraordinary work and service breeds.\n\nIf you want to read similar articles to Differences Between Labrador and Golden Retrievers, we recommend you visit our Comparisons category.\n\n1 comment\nRating:\nRandy Tailor\n05/04/2017\nVery detail and informative article.\nThanks admin. . keep it up.\nCheck out The Personality and Health of Labrador Retrievers", null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, null, "My rating: \"http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/644131584\">4 of 5 stars\nFirst of all I would like to thank the publisher and Library Thing early review program for the beautiful paperback of this re-released Mary Balogh regency period romance. This version has a new cover and inside cover page. This is the first book in the Survivor's Club series. Gwen is a widow and living in relative peace and contentment. She enjoys her extended family and friends and doesn't wish to marry again. When an old friend writes and begs her to visit, Gwen feels empathy for the woman and agrees to stay for a month long visit. But, when she arrives at Vera's she finds her friend bitter and impossible to be around. After a nasty row, Gwen takes a walk along the beach, but the rocks are difficult to move around. She sprains her ankle badly and is unable to walk back to Vera's. Then suddenly a very large, menacing looking man appears and offers her assistance. Hugo has returned to Penderris Hall for his annual retreat with the other members of \"The Survivor's Club\". He has a great deal on his mind. His father's death a year ago deeply wounded him. He promised to provide an heir and so he feels the time has come to marry. He is also concerned for his sister who should be introduced to young men now and found a favorable match. Hugo is also still dealing with the aftermath of the war and the psychological issues he suffered. He came home a hero and was given a title although he was of the middle classes. When he sees Gwen take a fall on the rocks, he hopes she will be able to recover without his assistance. But, she is obviously unable to walk so he must come to her aid. This meeting sparks an instant attraction. Gwen is unable to return to Vera's under doctors orders and must stay in Penderris Hall until she is able to walk again. Hugo is resentful at first of her presence. He and his friends need this time to discuss their issues and draw strength from each other, but Hugo is distracted by Gwen. He is also uncomfortable around aristocrats and upper classes. So, although the two confess an attraction to each other, Hugo insist their class differences would make a marriage impossible. For the first time is a long while Gwen feels lonely. She feels her life is passing her by. Hugo has only made that feeling worse. She knows they can't marry, but Gwen's brief encounter with Hugo has made her reconsider marriage. Even though Gwen has returned home, she has not seen the last of Hugo. Mary Balogh's regency romances are always a pleasure. Hugo was morose and stern, but his blunt comments were also hilarious. He didn't mince words, which was refreshing. This man had been through hell during the war and would always carry guilt. But, Gwen also carried a great deal of guilt. He husband was ill and she had blamed herself for his death. Gwen and Hugo worked together to help each other overcome the guilt. So, this was a mature and emotional story . We were dealing with very adult issues and while there was humor there was also a sweet story of friendship as well as a bit of saucy lust. A great combination. Mary Balogh has written numerous regency romances and I love the way that she sticks to the authenticity of the period. The classes, the ton, the war, the language and dress of the time and manners are all befitting of this era of time. Her stories always have substance as well. This proves that a great story can be told with sensuality and romance without throwing in language and modern terminology that does not belong in a historical romance. Overall this one gets an A." ]

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[ null, "The attorney for Michael Rosfeld, the East Pittsburgh police officer who is accused of killing Antwon Rose asked the judge who is assigned to the case to recuse himself because of statements the judge made two days after the shooting,\n\nJudge Mariana admitted he said Officer Rosfeld may have “shot this man out of frustration,” called into question the officer’s training and commented that the shooting may not have been justified, during a regular segment on PCNC’s NightTalk called “Sidebar with Judge Mariani.”\n\nIn response, Judge Mariana denied the request and said he didn’t feel he was incapable of being fair in presiding over the case. “This case isn’t about who presides over it, but what happened or didn’t happen. This is a fact case,” he said.\n\nHe gave Mr. Thomassey until Sept. 21 to file another motion if he chooses to do so, this one with supporting evidence.\n\nAfter the hearing Mr. Thomassey said, “We might revisit it, we may not. I mean, he denied it and that’s where we are, and I’ll make a decision whether or not we’re going to go forward with that any further. ”\n\nMr. Thomassey also raised the issue of selecting a jury outside of Allegheny County, citing the protests that continued for weeks after the shooting. He said potential jurors would be hesitant to serve because they fear their safety may be at risk.\n\n“They picketed a judge’s home, and people in this county, I think, would be afraid to sit on a jury in this case,” he said.\n\nLarge groups of protesters regularly blocked major intersections and portions of highways in and around Pittsburgh and picketed outside Officer Rosfeld’s home in the weeks after the shooting. During some of those incidents, protesters attempted to pull people from their cars and also damaged several cars.\n\nWhile Judge Mariani gave Mr. Thomassey until Sept. 25 to file a motion, Mr. Thomassey says he expects one to be filed in a few days.\n\nAfter the hearing Mr. Thomassey said he may request that Zaijuan Hester, the 17-year-old backseat passenger who is charged in a drive-by shooting that occurred a short time before Rose was shot, be given immunity and called as a defense witness.\n\nA tentative date of Feb. 26 has been scheduled for jury selection to begin." ]

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[ "Hot \"Sausage Superstore and Encased Meat Emporium\" Doug's, Age 14, loving son of Doug Sr., of the Chicago Avondale neighborhood, formerly of Roscoe Village, passed away not so peacefully on October 3, 2014, in the presence of friends, family, a random couple getting legally married, some dudes smoking a brisket, and a guy I paid $20 for one bottle of water before promptly forgetting to collect my change. An array of others wandered by wondering who the h*ll waits in a fifteen hour line for hot dogs. Doug's had been battling a deadly disease since May of this year.\n\nAs a young lad, Hot Doug's frolicked in the streets of Roscoe Village, offering his tasty sausages to local high school students and anyone who happened to pass by. Despite a childhood filled with hope and promise, Hot Doug's was served a crushing blow in 2004 after a fire broke out in the upstairs apartment.\n\nSuccumbing to his injuries, Doug’s slipped into a coma, where he would remain for some time. Through immense prayer and contemplation, however, Hot Doug's arose from the ashes, like a phoenix in the night, and firmly supplanted himself as a man amongst boys for the remainder of his reign as the king of encased meat.\n\nYet despite his popularity, Hot Doug's remained a man of the people, evident by his giving zero f*cks in The Great Foie Gras Debate of 2006.\n\nFor many, both near and far, Hot Doug's was a trusted friend and confidant. Through rain or shine, sleet or snow, he was there. Through hung-over Saturdays and Fridays when you casually took a two hour lunch break, he was there. And through the Elvis (smoked and savory - just like the King), to the bacon cheeseburger sausage with coca-cola BBQ sauce, d*mnit he was there.\n\nGood night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. We shall see you again someday. Save us some duck fat fries.", null, null, null, "Come hang out with us, General Assembly, and Dough Sohn of Hot Doug's for a discussion about building a brand, customer loyalty, and of course food." ]

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[ "With the rise and rise of the e-reader – Kindles and the like – we have seen the return of the novella as online fiction-buyers demand stories shorter than a fully-fledged novel, but longer than a short story. Enter… the novella.", null, "But what is it?\n\nTo encourage entries for its novella competition, the Paris Literary Review gave its readers some links to explore the art of novella. [Please note: the competition is closed for 2012 but you have 352 days to get your entry polished for the 2013 Prize. More details here.]\n\nAccording to the Encylopaedia Britannica: ““Novella, short and well-structured narrative, often realistic and satiric in tone, that influenced the development of the short story and the novel throughout Europe. Originating in Italy during the Middle Ages, the novella was based on local events that were humorous, political, or amorous in nature; the individual tales often were gathered into collections along with anecdotes, legends, and romantic tales. Writers such as Giovanni Boccaccio, Franco Sacchetti, and Matteo Bandello later developed the novella into a psychologically subtle and highly structured short tale, often using a frame story to unify the tales around a common theme.”", null, "In a Guardian article (here) about Julian Barnes’s “short novel” The sense of an ending, Stephen King was quoted as condemning the novella thus: “an ill-defined and disreputable literary banana republic”.\n\nThe novella as literary form is discussed in The Daily Beast by Taylor Antrim (here), as does Bliss Kern in Three Quarks Daily (here), but quoting the arch storyteller Edgar Allen Poe’s scorning of the literary novella’s reluctance to end itself.\n\nSo is the novella the sole preserve of the literary author? If it is now, it soon won’t be. Some years ago as part of a campaign to get more people reading, the QuickReads series was launched, with bestselling authors writing novellas, aka short novels, for the romance, crime and other genre markets.\n\nOn e-book download sites there are many thousands of short novels, not proclaimed as such, but boasting 40,000-60,000 words for those who want a quick, easy read. As long as they are priced right, they sell.", null, "So if you’re contemplating a first book, don’t quail at the thought of a 100,000-word doorstop tome; kick off with a novella. Or a short novel. Or a long short story. Make up your own rules – who cares, if the story’s good?", null ]

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[ null, "“Ant colonies bring together hundreds of thousands of individuals in a small space. As in human cities, this proximity entails risks of insalubrity and favors epidemics. […] However, according to a study published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, ants have another tactic to avoid bacterial or fungal infections: by mixing different substances, they would make some form of antibiotic. \"\n\n“Many insects are armed with venom, which they can inject into their enemies through a stinger. The African ant, Crematogaster striatula is no exception, but its arsenal has a disturbing variation, its venom is airborne. The ant can lift its sting and release its toxins like an aerosol. Its targets are termites, whose nests they invade. Even without making contact, ants can cause termites to convulse, which eventually becomes paralyzed. \"\n\nThrough the next activities, students will learn more about these intriguing insects that are ants.\n\n- Discover the characteristics of ants;\n- Know some of the unusual facts about ants;\n- Know the scientific capacities of certain ants.\n\nFirst, ask students what they know about the separation of responsibilities within an anthill. Have they ever heard of the queen, the workers, the soldiers?\n\nNext, ask students if they know of any animals that are able to kill their opponents without touching them. Why do animals need to do this?\nThen invite the students to read This article and discuss the following:\n\nAnts are part of the insect species, do we really know the characteristics of this species?\n\nWith the article \" Ant From Wikipedia, ask students to complete next activity, allowing them to discover different characteristics of ants.\n\nACTIVITY 3: Do we know the ants?\n\nAnts are one of those insects we see everywhere, but do we really know them?\n\nThe article \" 20 things you probably didn't know about ants »Allows you to discover unusual facts about this species. As a group, discuss these facts with the students to see what they think.\n\n- Some ants could live more than 20 years.\n- Ants are part of the diet of many millions of people.\n- An ant weighs 15 mg.\n- A species of ant is used to make stitches.\n\nStudents can explore the game Antizzz to learn how to manage an anthill.\nNB This game requires Flash.\n\nAnts: the secrets of the anthill\nFutura-Sciences - File\n\nDOC'JUNIOR - On the trail of ants ... formidable insects\nScience and Industry museum\n\nCooperation, according to the ant\nRadio-Canada.ca, June 21, 2011\n\nThe ant \"speaks\" from the nymph stage\nRadio-Canada.ca, February 8, 2013\n\nThe ants of Quebec\nEntomofauna of Quebec" ]

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[ "EU chaos: Brussels warns of ‘economic shock’ not seen since the Great Depression", null, "Such is the dire scenario for the commerce bloc, Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for the Economy, likened the scenario to the Great Depression after the 1929 financial crisis. No EU economy is anticipated to see optimistic development in 2020, with Greece predicted to be the worst of all member states with a contraction of 9.7 %. The virtually 10 % drop would we a bigger drop in a single 12 months than throughout the monetary disaster in 2009.\n\nThe European Economic Area, which incorporates non-EU states (Iceland, Norway and Lichtenstein) which have entry to the single market, will contract by 7.75 % this 12 months.\n\nMr Gentiloni added: “Europe is experiencing an financial shock with out precedent since the Great Depression.\n\n“Both the depth of the recession and the energy of restoration might be uneven, conditioned by the pace at which lockdowns will be lifted, the significance of providers like tourism in every economic system and by every nation’s monetary assets.\n\n“Such divergence poses a menace to the single market and the euro space – but it may be mitigated via decisive, joint European motion.\n\n“We must rise to this challenge.”\n\nBoth Italy and Spain, the two international locations which have suffered the worst from the pandemic, are each anticipated to contract by 9.5 and 9.four % respectively.\n\nEven Germany, the strongest economic system in the EU, will see a 6.5 % drop in GDP.\n\nJUST IN: EU tells Boris to ‘get on with it’ if UK wants to seal trade deal\n\nThe statistics may worsen relying on how the virus progresses.\n\nAlthough most international locations in Europe are starting to go away lockdown measures, if the virus hits once more later this 12 months, economies may contract even additional.\n\nAs Executive Vice-President for an Economy that work for People, Valdis Dombrovskis these statistics can solely be seen as a tentative prediction presently.\n\nHe added: “At this stage, we are able to solely tentatively map out the scale and gravity of the coronavirus shock to our economies.\n\n“While the instant fallout might be way more extreme for the international economic system than the monetary disaster, the depth of the influence will depend upon the evolution of the pandemic, our potential to soundly restart financial exercise and to rebound thereafter.\n\n“This is a symmetric shock: all EU international locations are affected and all are anticipated to have a recession this 12 months.\n\n“The EU and Member States have already agreed on extraordinary measures to mitigate the influence.\n\nMinisters believe that Britain and the EU will not be able to sign a post-Brexit trade deal before the end of the transition period....\nRead more\n<div class=\"td-module-t" ]

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[ "Haryana Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) Minister, Anil Vij, while addressing the Haryana Vidhan Sabha session and said that the State Government has plans to install CCTV cameras in all cities of the state and appropriate guidelines for the same are also being issued.", null, "Earlier, the CCTV cameras installed in the Smart Cities by the ULBs Department are now being maintained by the Home Department, said the Minister. These cameras play an important role in crime prevention and the State Government is seriously looking forward to such interventions, added Vij.\n\nAlso Read: 100 villages in Haryana to become smart through ‘Smartgram’\n\nPutting forward the CCTV installation plan, the Minister said that around 1500 cameras will be installed for surveillance and traffic management in Faridabad and 94 junctions will be fitted with cameras for traffic monitoring. Moreover, the city has already got 700 CCTV cameras installed under the Smart City Mission. Besides this, around 760 CCTV cameras are being installed in Karnal under the Smart City Mission for about Rs 159 crore.\n\nVij also said that as many as 120 CCTV cameras will be installed on National Highway-1 (NH-1) in various districts by Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Limited (HSEDCL) for active surveillance and safety. Additionally, the Minister said, 22 CCTV cameras are to be installed in Ambala. Kurukshetra will get 24 cameras, 28 for Karnal, 22 for Panipat, and 24 for Sonipat, the project is worth Rs 7.54 crore.\n\nAWS to invest Rs 20,761 cr for setting up multiple data centres in Hyderabad", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "GROG ON YOUR FURNER", null, "(No Keelhauling on Sept. 19th)\n\nAye, ‘tis the perfect time for expandin’ your language, it is. Here are some choices for the coming weeks: Talk Like a Politician, Talk Like a Foul-Mouthed Middle-Schooler…or Talk Like A Pirate and do some good.\n\nSeptember 19 is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, a holiday created in 1995. It remained a low-key event until 2002 when humor columnist Dave Barry covered it in a syndicated article. As he wrote, “There comes a time in a man’s life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.” (I’ll add that the same is probably true for a wench, the pirate word for lady, although a man should not risk using this term loosely around a lady who is stronger than he is…)\n\nNext Monday is a good excuse to ignore politicians and foul-mouthed kids. Instead, have some fun swaggering around, talking like Jack Sparrow and enjoying a free donut at Krispy Kreme. (Google Talk Like a Pirate for vocabulary words, and check to see if your Krispy Kreme is participating.)\n\nEven more important than costumes and fun, Talk Like A Pirate Day has also become a day to raise funds for charity organizations such as Childhood Cancer Support and Marie Curie Cancer Care.\n\nOn September 19, “Put On Your Pirate”—in costume or attitude, sprinkle in a few choice pirate words—and drink a toast to Grog on Your Furner. (FYI—translated, that’s to lift a glass of your favorite pirate drink on your own ship…not a ship you stole or plundered.)\n\nAnd while the Grog has you in a generous mood, be a good pirate and make a donation to a worthy charity of your choice. Alzheimer’s Research is a worthy cause, just in case you need one.", null, "Pirate and Skull and crossbone donuts at participating Krispy Kreme", null, null, "26 responses to “GROG ON YOUR FURNER”" ]

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[ null, "With a total of 44 electoral votes hanging in the balance in the key battleground states of Iowa, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, Democrats Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine are closely matched with Republicans Donald Trump and Mike Pence in Iowa. The Democrats edge the Republicans in Ohio. Clinton and Kaine have a wider lead over Trump and Pence in Pennsylvania.\n\nIn Iowa, Clinton, 41%, edges Trump, 37%, by 4 points among registered voters in a two-way matchup. When NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist last reported this question before the Republican and Democratic conventions, Clinton received 42% to 39% for Trump. In a four-way contest including Libertarian Gary Johnson and Jill Stein of the Green Party, Clinton and Trump are tied at 35%. Of note, Johnson receives double-digit support, 12%, among registered voters in Iowa. Of the three states, Stein does best in the Hawkeye State with 6%.\n\nIn Ohio, Clinton is up over Trump, 43% to 38%, among the statewide electorate. Last month, Clinton and Trump were tied with 39% each. Clinton maintains a similar advantage over Trump when Johnson and Stein are included in the tossup. Johnson receives double-digit support, 12%, statewide. Stein has the backing of 4%.\n\nIn Pennsylvania, Clinton, 48%, has an 11 point lead over Trump, 37%, among registered voters statewide. Previously, Clinton had a 9 point advantage over Trump, 45% to 36%. Little changes in the contest when Johnson and Stein are added into the equation.\n\nClinton has made some gains among moderates. In Iowa, Clinton’s edge over Trump has only inched up from 17 points to 20 points. But, in Ohio, Clinton now leads Trump among moderates by 24 points, up from just 8 points last month. And, in Pennsylvania, Clinton currently outdistances Trump by 19 points among this group compared with 14 points in July.\n\n“The convention dust has settled in these three critical battleground states,” says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “Despite the national spotlight of the conventions focused on each candidate, Clinton and Trump have not made any headway in voters’ positive impressions of them.”\n\nIn the contest for U.S. Senate in Iowa, Chuck Grassley, the Republican, receives the support of 52% of registered voters to 42% for Democrat Patty Judge. Grassley maintains his advantage over Judge. In the July NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll, identical proportions of registered voters were for Grassley, 52%, and Judge, 42%.\n\nIn Ohio, Republican incumbent Rob Portman, 48%, is up over his Democratic challenger Ted Strickland, 43%, by 5 points among registered voters statewide. Last month, Portman and Strickland were tied with each receiving 44%." ]

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[ null, "I reminisce back on my old dear friends version of this word with great fondness. He had his own dialect that we all referred to as “Bineese” and he called it perscreptive. “Toby” (Kobe) Bryant was another “Binism” and dude pretty much answered every question and ended every sentence with a deep voiced and slowly delivered Yo. Bino was a legend in my early years, and he helped me out in countless situations and was an awesome dude overall. Still is I’m sure, although I haven’t seen him in years, but his “Binisms” will continue and most importantly will be featured here.\n\n1. a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.", null, "Normally, on the day to day I would use that term as far as an angle or placement for a camera, getting killer new vantage points is a constant, keels, rudders, hulls, headsails etc. it’s all fair game and produces great results when the camera is where its supposed to be at the end of the shoot but I can’t tell you how many have been surrendered to the ocean floor over the past 3 years. Drift Innovation must love me. Onboard footage is still considered the premiere footage in my productions, that’s where you can really get the feel of the boat, the power, the adrenaline, and with using my preferred pov cameras the Drift Ghost; the occasional audio sound bite. Its amazing the audio you can get on those cameras when they aren’t in a waterproof box…Live Outside The Box.", null, "Many people don’t know that I have been involved with drone development for many years, dating back to about 2005, but then we just called them “remote control helicopters” and the ones I was hired to test and develop were the bomb. I was introduced to them at a cop convention of all places in Ontario, CA. Those days were before the POV camera development and these units were designed to carry real cameras, and I was flying around getting footage on my Panasonic DVX100. But those were definitely on the spendy side and dangerous as hell. I loved them but I wasn’t able to justify the purchase. Skip to today, I have found the drone that I will be purchasing. It is more advanced and has way more options than the phantom drones that most people are using and its way cheaper. It has slightly less fly time but truthfully 20 minutes of fly time seems like an eternity, and I will gladly sacrifice flight time for better features that will allow me to capture better images. I will be utilizing the drone for better production value, and doing things nobody else will be doing , not just shooting 3 minute aerial videos. Drone on.\n\nLast But Certainly Not Least\n\n3. a true understanding of the relative importance of things; a sense of proportion.", null, "When someone close to you gets ill and actually almost dies, it really makes you look at the big picture. In this case it is my mother who has been in the hospital for the past 9 days with 4 of those days posted up in ICU. Breast Cancer and all forms of cancer suck. I have friends that have battled and won and those that have lost, and close friends that are engaged in a far tougher battle than my mother is currently. My heart goes out to all of you and your loved ones that are literally fighting for your lives, and I am thinking about you all. My mom has almost been taken out 2 times so far with this one being the closest. I am not going to go into the shitty details (no pun intended) but mom was extremely close to checking out. She is still in the hospital and I will be heading that way soon to hang out bedside and try to cheer her up. I hope she will be discharged soon so we can all go back to our normal routines. But with this latest bout it has made me think about things a lot, things from the past and more importantly things going forward. Relationships (past and present), friends and family are all more important than you think, and living everyday like it’s your last shouldn’t just be a saying, it should be mandatory. It’s how I have tried to live and will make an effort to keep pushing for going forward. Fuck Cancer…thats my perspective." ]

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[ "Way back before there were a ton of Sasuke cosplayers, and before the series started airing in the States, I had made this costume for AnimeUSA 2004. I had fallen in love with the Naruto series and making Sasuke was quicker than making Naruto. One of my friends was going as Sakura so I had a counterpart.\n\nI drafted a basic shirt and a collar to match Sasuke's infamous obnoxious standing one. I used a bottom weight blue fabric and the inside of the collar is a white twill. The shorts I created from a base shorts pattern: Simplicity #5581, and modified the pockets and length and removed other pocket elements on the legs. The arm warmers are mae from the same white twill and each end was finished with the blue fabric of the shirt and finished with buckles.\n\nThe headband was made from foam and styrene sheeting plastic spray painted silver and attached to the fabric headband with silver paper brads. The ninja sandals were made from a fabric sock fitted over the sandals. The butt-pouch was made from a tan canvas and custom drafted same as the leg holster made from black canvas.\n\nKunai and shuriken were sculpted and then molds were made from which I made resin casts and had ninja weaponry.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "She's wrong for him in every way, so why can't he stop thinking about her?\n\nCyrus MacKenzie, a powerful Highland chief and newly titled Earl of Stornmor, is in search of the perfect bride. The young, naïve daughter of a marquess should do nicely, but she's not the one who has captured his attention.\n\nLady Elspeth Seton, Baroness Grey, is a widow with a secret past. She's also a cunning businesswoman who has fought for everything she has. When a mysterious enemy turns her own guards against her and attempts to steal every piece of property she owns, she's uncertain who to rely on. With his fearsome warlord reputation and battle-hardened scowl, Cyrus is the last man she wishes to seek help from, but he's the only one offering it. She wants no domineering Highland earl taking control of her life, but in order to protect her home and her businesses, she must learn to trust him.\n\nMore accustomed to laying siege to castles than charming the ladies, Cyrus has no patience for stubbornly secretive women like Elspeth. He's infamous for deadly glares that terrify lesser men, but he's impressed by Elspeth's strength, fortitude, and canniness, for she not only stands toe-to-toe with him but also stands beside him to confront the enemy.\n\nHow can one ginger-haired lady with intoxicating eyes the color of whisky besiege his stone-cold heart? Even though his mind tells him she's the absolute worst woman for him, in his heart, he knows he will risk life and limb to protect her from the brutal Lowland laird bent on destroying her.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Of the two remaining undefeated women’s basketball teams in Division I, the more likely to lose over the weekend, at least on paper, was unranked Colorado. But the Buffaloes never trailed in the fourth quarter of a 71-63 home victory over UCLA.\n\nMeanwhile, fourth-ranked and defending NCAA runner-up Arizona was outplayed down the stretch of a 76-67 loss at USC.\n\nSo, Colorado (13-0/2-0 Pac-12) has the distinction of being the final major college unbeaten and tied atop the Pac-12 with second-ranked Stanford (11-3/2-0) after two weeks of conference play.\n\nCOVID continues to impact the schedule, but six league games (one a makeup) were played Friday and Sunday — up from just two the week before.\n\nThere were seven additional postponements, one impacting Stanford, which instead played Gonzaga for the second time in a season where “your first name has to be flexible,” Cardinal coach Tara VanDerveer said.\n\nUtah, Oregon State, Arizona State and Washington have yet to play a conference game due to COVID issues.\n\nDespite Arizona’s firs loss, the biggest development of the week was Colorado, just outside of the top-25 rankings in both major national polls, winning its first two conference games.\n\nThe Buffs beat USC 71-58 on Friday, then backed it up Sunday with their first win over UCLA since 2014, ending a 10-game losing streak in the series.\n\nThe Bruins, playing for the first time since Dec. 11, lost Charisma Osborne to an apparent ankle injury with 4:38 remaining. They still were within four points (56-52) before 3-pointers from Frida Formann and Mya Hollingshed secured the win with under two minutes remaining.\n\nOlympic athletes urged by activists not to criticize China\n\nCU junior guard Jaylyn Sherrod had a career high 25 points and eight assists after posting 15 and eight against USC.\n\n“I think every team is going through some adversity or another,” Colorado coach JR Payne said. “We’re no different. We had a very short amount of time to prepare for a great team like UCLA. That just shows a lot of resilience, a lot of togetherness, a lot of cohesion.”\n\nUCLA (5-4/0-1) had six games postponed or cancelled before finally getting back on the court. The two teams managed only two points in the opening six minutes, shooting a combined 1-of-16.\n\nArizona gets split down two starters\n\nArizona (11-1/1-1) played without starters Shaina Pellington and Lauren Ware in its first games since Dec. 17.\n\nThe Wildcats got by without them Friday, winning 60-52 at home over Washington State, but they didn’t have enough scoring beyond Cate Reese down the stretch against USC (8-4/1-1).\n\n“We completely embraced the opportunity in front of us,” USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb said.\n\n“It’s not easy sometimes to look in the mirror and see what you can do better and figure out how you want to improve things, but with the way that we …read more" ]

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[ null, "Question: A couple of Board members resigned last year because they were angry about a Board decision. Now, they are running for the Board again. They are investors, and are only concerned about protecting their investments. Is that a conflict of interest? Do we have to put them on the ballot?\n\nANSWER: It is not a conflict of interest. There are certain grounds for disqualifying a candidate for the Board. Generally, for a homeowners association, a person is not eligible to run for or serve on a Board if he/she owes money to the homeowners association for more than 90 days. Also, person cannot run if he/she is a convicted felon whose civil rights have not been restored for more than 5 years.\n\nIn a condominium association and a cooperative, anyone owing money to the Association at the time of closing the nominations (40 days prior to the date of the election), cannot run or be seated; and the convicted felon failure of restoration of civil rights also applies.\n\nIn a condominium association, co-owners cannot serve on the Board at the same time unless they own more than one unit or unless there are not enough eligible candidates to fill the vacancies on the Board.\n\nFor a condominium, if a person becomes delinquent for any amount of time during the term on the Board, he/she is automatically off the Board, and the remaining Directors would appoint to fill the vacancy.\n\nThe By-laws for the association may also contain qualifications of directors. For example, it is usually necessary for a director to be a member of the association.\n\nIf none of those grounds for disqualification exist, you will have to put them on the ballot." ]

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[ null, "This book is an in-depth and 'official' look at one of the most unusual albums ever released by a major rock band.\n\nAfter \"Rumours\" became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significant cash in the long run) and then handed the reins to their guitarist and resident perfectionist Lindsey Buckingham, a fusion of factors that led \"Tusk\" to become the first record in history to cross the million dollar threshold in production costs.\n\nBlame (or credit) Buckingham's public perception as a punctilious performer and producer on this, the Mac's critically acclaimed, commercially disappointing 1979 double album (it's said that Warner Brothers executives could see their Christmas bonuses flying out the window upon finally hearing \"Tusk's\" first rough cuts). But the 1975 addition of Buckingham and Stevie Nicks undeniably transformed Fleetwood Mac from a barely viable blues-based group into a radio powerhouse. \"Rumours\", the second LP by the Mac reconfiguration of Buckingham, one-time paramour Nicks, drummer Mick Fleetwood, bassist John McVie and his wife and keyboardist Christine, sold more than 20 million copies.\n\nBut during its creation, relationships within the band broke down - Buckingham split from Nicks, McVie from McVie - leaving the follow-up \"Tusk\" as a bizarre and fractious assemblage held together only by Buckingham's much-documented, Brian Wilson - like obsession.\n\nWhat remains is Fleetwood Mac's \"Apocalypse Now\", their \"White Album\", the epic beginning of their ongoing end, a shotgun blast of musical spray. And, without question, the ballsiest venture in rock history. 'A growing Alexandria of rock criticism' - \"Los Angeles Times, 2008\". 'Ideal for the rock geek who thinks liner notes just aren't enough' - \"Rolling Stone\".\n\nFor more information on the series and on individual titles in the series, check out our blog.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "I’m sort of jumping the gun here, because we’re not gone yet.\n\nStill, I worry that our international access to the internet might be spotty at best, and since I’m doing my own research for background in prep for departure, I figured I’d check into one of our stops along the way.\n\nI share this now because, as we tell friends about our trip, we note that we’re going to a World Heritage Site called Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic. Everyone asks what and where that is, but I haven’t been able to answer, because I have failed to do my normal background work to date.\n\nSo here it is, from the Ckrumlov.info city info site, and Wikipedia.\n\nThe city name begins with Český (Czech) to differentiate it from Moravský Krumlov in South Moravia.\n\nConstruction of the town and castle began around 1240 by the Vítkovci at a ford in the Vltava River, an important trade route in Bohemia. According to local legend, the name derives from the German “Krumme Aue” which can be translated as “crooked meadow.”\nIn 1302 the town and castle were acquired by the House of Rosenberg. The majority of inhabitants were German at that time. By 1336, Czechs formed a small minority. In late 15th century, when gold was found next to the town, German miners came to settle, which shifted the ethnic balance even more.\nEmperors Rudolf II (1602) and Ferdinand II (later) bought Krumlov, and he gave it to the House of Eggenberg which established the town as the set of the Duchy of Krumlov. From 1719 until 1945 the castle belonged to the House of Schwarzenberg.\nMost of the architecture of the old town and castle dates from the 14th through 17th centuries; the town’s structures are mostly in Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque styles. The core of the old town is within a horseshoe bend of the river, with the old Latrán neighborhood and castle on the other side of the Vltava.\nThere were 8,662 inhabitants in Krummau an der Moldau (as called by the Germans) in 1910, including 7,367 Germans and 1,295 Czechs.\nAfter the First World War, the city was part of the Bohemian Forest Region, which was initially declared to be part of German-Austria. By the end of 1918 the Czechoslovak army had occupied the region, which became part of Czechoslovakia. In 1938 it was annexed by Nazi Germany, as part of the Reichsgau Oberdonau unit of Sudetenland under the Munich agreement. After World War II the town’s longstanding German-speaking population was expelled and it was returned to Czechoslovakia.\nDuring the Communist era of Czechoslovakia, historic Krumlov fell into disrepair, but since the Velvet Revolution of 1989 much of the town’s former beauty has been restored, and it is now a major holiday destination, with high numbers of tourists from Europe and Asian. In August 2002, the town suffered from damage in a great flood of the Vltava River.\nČeský Krumlov Castle is unusually large for a town of its size; within the Czech Republic it is second in extent only to the Hradčany castle complex of Prague. Inside its grounds are a large rococo garden, an extensive bridge over a deep gap in the rock upon which the castle is built, and the castle itself, which in turn consists of many defined parts dating from different periods. After the garden had been inadequately maintained in the second half of the 20th century, the site was included in the 1996 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund. With financial support from American Express the garden’s central fountain was documented and reconstructed, and remains functional today.\n\nThe Church of St. Vitus (Kostel Sv. Víta) is a Gothic church inside the Castle, dating architecturally to the 15th century, with frescoes from the same period.\nČeský Krumlov Castle preserves its Baroque theatre, built in 1680–82 under Prince Johann Christian I von Eggenberg and renovated with up-to-date stage equipment under Josef Adam zu Schwarzenberg (1765–66). It is one of few such court theaters to retain its original stage machinery, scenery and props.\nDue to its age, the theater is only used three times a year (only twice open to the public), when a Baroque opera is performed in simulated candlelight. Visitors can take a guided tour beneath the stage to catch a glimpse of the wood-and-rope apparatus that allowed stage settings to be moved in and out at the same time as the audience was diverted with fireworks and smoke.\nThe castle’s last private owner was Adolph Schwarzenberg. It was here that he received President Edvard Beneš and gave him a large contribution for the defense of Czechoslovakia against the growing threat of Nazi Germany. His property was seized by the Gestapo in 1940 and then confiscated by the Czechoslovak government in 1945.\nKrumlov has a museum dedicated to the painter Egon Schiele, who lived in the town.\n\nAbout 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Krumlov is one of Bohemia’s oldest monasteries, Zlatá Koruna (“The Golden Crown”). About 30 km (19 mi) from Krumlov is the Hluboka Castle, established in the twelfth century and later remodelled in imitation of Windsor Castle.\nKrumlov is close to the Šumava National Park, the Czech Republic’s largest national park. The Šumava mountains lie along the border with Austria and Germany and offer a range of natural habitats – peat bogs, Alpine meadows, old-growth forest, lakes, and rivers. The area is popular with walkers, cyclists, and Vltava canoeists. Cesky Krumlov is a short distance from the man-made Lake Lipno, on which many people take boat trips to various small towns and to the dam, with its Hydro power plant.\n\nČeský Krumlov is home to the Pivovar Eggenberg brewery. It has been used for locations in movies such as The Illusionist (2006) and Hostel (2005), as well as the 1973 German movie Traumstadt (Dream City).\n\nSo. That’s what we have to look forward to on Days 3 and 4 of our cycling tour. I hope Eggenberg brewery beer will figure in our sampling of the area’s treasures. Oddly and fun in addition, we’re staying at a hotel called the Peregrin on a quiet street off the main square. AND we’re signed up for a guided tour of the central town, on our first evening there. 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[ "Top Posts\nShocking reveal: Days off aren’t actually meant for...\nThe propane man speaks\nThe identity of our food\nThe theme for this Federal Budget 2022 should...\nVictoria trip photo story\nAn anthropological survey: Cabo\nManaging anxiety after two years of the pandemic\nRemembering the 1982 FIFA World Cup in España\nThree hikes to explore this spring\nCollege eats\nHome ARTS Thick as thieves\nARTS", null, "Covers of ‘The Gentleman Bastard’ series via vokpodcast.wordpress.com\n\nA review of the ‘Gentleman Bastard’ series\n\nI have recently finished reading the first three books of Scott Lynch’s Gentleman Bastard series, and I thoroughly enjoyed them. Unfortunately, the fourth book doesn’t come out until October 2018, so I have to satisfy myself with getting all of you hooked on them, too.\n\nThe first book in the series, The Lies of Locke Lamora, takes place in the fictional city of Camorr, a fantastical version of Renaissance Venice where gangs of thieves rule the streets and noblemen and women live in high glass towers built by the ancient and mysterious Eldren. The novel follows two storylines, one telling the early development of the titular thief Locke Lamora as he’s introduced to the life of a Gentleman Bastard, while the second follows Locke and his friends, now young adults, as the city’s underground faces peril from the ruthless Grey King. The story picks up speed as Locke races to outwit the Grey King and the Camorri nobility in an effort to save his friends and the city he calls home, and still come out on top as he tries to pull off a con at the same time.\n\nRed Seas Under Red Skies is the second book in the series. Taking place two years after the end of the first book, Locke and his best friend Jean are looking to make the biggest heist of their careers. Their target: The Sinspire of Tal Verrar, an Elderglass tower full of gambling and luxury with a reportedly unbreakable vault. The thieves’ past catches up with them, though, and complications send them out to sea. Part heist movie, part pirate adventure, this one is a tonne of fun. Like the first book, it skips back and forth from the past to the present, showing how they prepare for the heist but never quite revealing the plan. The ending is another mad dash, as all the plot elements come crashing together, and it keeps you guessing right to the finish.\n\nThe third book of the Gentleman Bastard is The Republic of Thieves. It picks up almost immediately after Red Seas Under Red Skies, and it follows Locke and Jean as they enter the world of politics in Karthain, the city of the infamous Bondsmagi. Feared for once having destroyed an empire, the Bondsmagi have hired Locke and Jean to fix an election. Much to their surprise, their rival in this contest is another Gentleman Bastard, or I should say Lady: Sabetha, Locke’s childhood love, is introduced in this novel. In similar style to the first two books, the storylines of the present election and the characters’ pasts together run parallel, each coming to a crescendo at about the same time.\n\nThe Republic of Thieves, which I originally thought was the end of the trilogy, left me craving more. Locke and Jean, and perhaps Sabetha, will appear in the next novel, The Thorn of Emberlain. War has broken out in the northern kingdoms, and the Gentlemen Bastards hope to run a con but are soon pulled into the fighting—and poor Locke was never very good with a sword!\n\nFrom the first chapter of The Lies of Locke Lamora I was hooked on these books, and I hope you will find them as page-turningly wonderful as I have." ]

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[ "Ridley Scott's production company takes on the story of Ethereum", null, "Ridley Scott’s production company – Scott Free Productions – is slated to work on an adaption of The Infinite Machine – the best-selling book telling the story of Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, written by the cryptocurrency journalist Camila Russo.\n\nThe film itself will be written and directed by Shyam Midiraju, with Scott Free’s Tom Moran and Vera Meyer, producing alongside Alejandro Miranda of Versus Entertainment.\n\nRusso herself has been clearly excited about Scott Free’s involvement, and that’s not surprising. With a pedigree of films like Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven, the company lends itself to the telling of stories from broad scope, to deeper individual and philosophical stories. Making them the ideal producer.\n\nWhile details are limited for the moment, the story of Ethereum begins with Vitalik Buterin, a gifted 19-year-old autodidact who saw the promise of blockchain when the technology was in its earliest stages. He convinced a crack group of coders to join him in his quest to make a super-charged, global computer.\n\nKeep your eyes on Scott Free Productions for more information." ]

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[ "Climate tech start-ups: The need of the hour\n\nClimate tech start-ups play a crucial role in combating climate change. Here’s how we can strengthen the ecosystem in India.\n\nIndia currently ranks seventh on the Global Climate Risk Index 2021—a huge impediment to its goal of building a USD 5 trillion economy over the next few years. There are a number of geographical and socio-economic factors that make India acutely vulnerable to climate change:\n\nIn 2019 alone, floods and cyclones in India caused an economic loss of nearly USD 10 billion. The effects of climate change are real, and climate change–induced natural disasters are likely to lead to a significant contraction in the country’s per capita GDP in the absence of large-scale adaptation and mitigation efforts.\n\nThere is a need for urgent climate action in India\n\nIn response to the situation, the Government of India has made a series of ambitious climate action commitments over the last decade. These include the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC) and signing the Paris Agreement. While India has made some headway in the renewable energy space, it is considerably behind in meeting other targets, specifically around carbon capture. Moreover, in the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has justifiably redirected significant portions of funding to healthcare, away from equally essential issues such as climate action.\n\nTill now much of the work on climate finance in India has centred around large, utility-scale renewable project financing. Moving ahead, we need a deep and sustained decarbonisation of the economy at all levels—food production and consumption, transportation, construction, manufacturing, and retail. To do this, we require new and innovative solutions that transform the way stakeholders engage with the natural world. Climate tech start-ups deploying low-carbon, affordable technologies present a clear pathway to achieve the transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions at scale.\n\nSimply understood, climate tech start-ups refer to for-profit, early-stage enterprises that work on innovative technology-based solutions to reduce carbon footprint or improve people’s adaptation and resilience to climate change. Investing in these and building a coherent narrative around the role such enterprises can play in climate action is the need of the hour.\n\nA new wave of climate tech is emerging in India\n\nA recent study by Impact Investors Council (IIC), Climate Collective, and Areté Advisors examined the investment landscape of the Indian climate tech ecosystem. They found that over the past five years, 120 climate tech start-ups raised more than 200 funding rounds from 272 unique investors.\n\nThe sector is at a nascent stage and needs mainstreaming. Despite the positive outlook, our research shows that climate tech accounted for only 9 percent of the investments flowing to impact-oriented sectors such as education, healthcare, and financial education between 2016 and 2020. This could be attributed to the fact that a majority of the equity deals in the sector were still in early stages of funding (seed) and of relatively smaller ticket sizes (less than USD 5 million). Further, the conversion from seed stage to the Series A stage of funding is very low (approximately 17 percent) when compared to 29 percent internationally. This indicates that climate tech start-ups take relatively longer to attract larger pools of capital, and therefore to scale up.\n\nThe climate tech ecosystem in India has shown distinct characteristics, a few of which have been listed below:\n\n1. Sustainable mobility receives a large share of the investment pie\n\nBoth sustainable mobility and energy are relatively mature sub-sectors, and benefit from a favourable regulatory environment and easy-to-capture impact metrics. Climate-smart agriculture, waste management and circular economy, and environment and natural resources are the other sub-segments gradually beginning to gain traction.\n\n2. Start-ups focusing on mitigation and product innovation dominate the space\n\nThe energy and sustainable mobility sectors have predominantly focused on mitigation solutions because the carbon footprint in these sectors is high. As a result, mitigation accounts for 86 percent of the equity infusion in the last five years. Other verticals such as smart agriculture, waste management, and environment and natural resources have seen fewer adaptation and resilience solutions as they require more localised modifications.\n\nAdditionally, almost two-thirds of the start-ups that have raised Series A funding and beyond have showcased product innovation. This is in large part due to electric vehicle innovations within the sustainable mobility segment.\n\nOnly 9 percent of the climate tech start-ups that have raised Series A funding and beyond in the last five years have been founded or co-founded by women. This number is low in comparison to women founding or co-founding 14 percent of the top 150 start-ups and less than half of the 20 percent women-owned enterprises in India. However, within the climate tech space, the participation of women increases as we move to executive leadership positions (15 percent).\n\nClimate tech has the potential for disruptive growth\n\nIn recent years, multiple factors have contributed to creating a stimulating environment for climate tech start-ups in India. These include a more conducive policy environment and steady development of low-carbon technologies. Moreover, the development of a large asset base in clean energy over the last decade has propelled new start-up innovations to service these assets. For example, energy optimisation solutions such as energy analytics, energy accounting, drone-based and GIS-based survey companies, among others.\n\nFrom an investor’s perspective, three key enabling factors have been identified to aid the growth of the climate tech ecosystem in India:\n\nOne-third of the investors surveyed were also of the opinion that the climate tech ecosystem in India needs standardised language to bring cohesiveness to the sector. The entrepreneurial ecosystem also agrees that if we are to transform the climate tech ecosystem from a niche asset class to a mainstay of venture capital and impact investment, we need to build a coherent narrative and distinct identity for the ecosystem.\n\nFrom a larger ecosystem perspective, start-ups working on science and technology innovations need customised support in the early stages for prototyping, testing, technical validation, and product commercialisation. This can be done by setting up dedicated centres of excellence (COEs), specialised entrepreneur support organisations (including incubators and accelerators), and greater academia– industry interface.\n\nAdditionally, the government can play a vital role in creating demand for climate tech start-ups by introducing policies that nudge consumers to adopt green products, subsidising the green premium on such products, and acting as the first large buyer itself. It can also help in improving the supply side by funding infrastructure such as COEs and scientific labs, and providing directed fiscal incentives.\n\nCapital providers such as government-backed funds, corporate venture capitalists, foundations, and philanthropies can take on a larger role in encouraging early-stage climate tech investing. A way for them to do this is by providing capital for longer periods. Furthermore, well-designed blended finance and/or affordable debt structures can help in de-risking private investments and bringing in other relevant actors into the climate tech sector.\n\nFinally, given the multidisciplinary and complex nature of climate tech businesses, the investing community can benefit from capacity-building interventions. These can help cultivate relevant technical expertise for due diligence or portfolio management of climate tech start-ups.\n\nTags: climate change, startups, sustainability\nWe want IDR to be as much yours as it is ours. Tell us what you want to read.\n[email protected]\nABOUT THE AUTHORS", null, "Deepanshi Balooni manages the research portfolio at Impact Investors Council (IIC), with a focus on climate tech investing and gender lens investing. She has more than six years of experience in the social impact space and has worked across areas of policy research, programme management, and partnerships. She has previously worked with Villgro and the United Nations Development Programme. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Delhi University.", null, "Ramraj Pai is the CEO of the India Impact Investors Council (IIC). He has been a credit market specialist, with specialisations in financial services and inclusion-related issues. Before joining IIC, Ramraj served as the president at CRISIL and led them to set up an integrated business development function across businesses, focusing on relationship management, deepening product penetration in banks, financial institutions covering India, and emerging markets.", null, "Shriya Nene is a research associate at the India Impact Investors Council (IIC). She is a development professional with a keen interest in the learning more about the impact investing space. She has been a part of three research reports at IIC. Prior to working with IIC, she was with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India. She holds a master’s in development studies from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, UK.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Chargemaster, the largest operator of electric vehicle charging points in the UK, has confirmed a new subscription scheme called POLAR Plus, which will also offer members the chance to borrow the latest luxury electric cars.\n\nThe expanding POLAR London and POLAR national network of over 4,000 charging points will be available to any electric motorist for a monthly subscription of just £7.85 – similar to popular streaming services Netflix or Amazon Instant – and the first six months’ subscription is free.\n\nOver 80% of the POLAR Plus charging points are free to use, with remaining points charged at the equivalent of 9p per unit of electricity* – typically less than the cost of charging at home. A pay-as-you-go instant access rate will also be available for non-members. These new tariffs make a significant difference for EV drivers especially on rapid chargers where members can charge an electric car to 80% capacity in around 20 minutes in all POLAR rapid locations at a cost of about £2 when previously it would cost around £6. A key feature of the membership scheme is the opportunity to borrow, for one week, a selection of the latest electric cars, with members accruing usage points.\n\nThe POLAR Experience fleet includes the BMW i8 and Tesla Model S, as well as Nissan Leaf, Renault Zoe and the fun Renault Twizy. Users receive 10 POLAR points each time they charge in a particular town or city across the country each month. 10 points enable you to use a Renault Twizy and 100 points results in driving a BMW i8. As new models are launched, including the Tesla Model X SUV and vehicles from Audi and Mercedes, they will be available for members to sample shortly after their introduction in the UK.\n\nMembership scheme follows recent expansion announcement The announcement follows a multi-million pound investment commitment from the firm to install an additional 2000 plus new charging points across the country alongside its existing 4000 POLAR points, including 1000 new charging points in London. Charging points will be located at convenient destinations for EV drivers such as hotels, supermarkets, restaurants and sports facilities. In addition, Chargemaster has offered to replace any faulty public charging points from other manufacturers at no cost to local authority hosts. This aims to resolve significant issues across the UK where old third-party charging points installed under the government-funded Plugged in Places scheme have been unserviceable for some time.\n\nChargemaster has also recently completed an agreement to take over the Plugged in Midlands (PiM) network of 870 charging points. All publicly available PiM points will be added to the POLAR Plus network over the next few weeks. The firm has also committed to adding over 100 new charging points in the Midlands. POLAR Plus membership will be available from August 17th and EV drivers can join on line at www.polarnetwork.com\n\nAug 12, 2015Blagojce Krivevski\nToyota Mirai Arrives in the UKWireless Charging for Electric Cars to be Tested in UK Roads" ]

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[ null, "Some folks were out filming a project for school in New Zealand when they noticed these two people, according to Viralnova:\n\nThey appeared to be two young people, one male, one female, both wearing bizarre masks to hide their identity. As they emerged closer, the camera noticed that both were armed. Watch as the nefarious looking twosome slowly notices the camera.\n\nNo big deal. Hockey masks and armed while standing in a field don’t make you creepy. It makes you f#@king insane! At that point did these kids put the camera down and start cleaning their shorts?\n\nPolice in Auckland responded via social media asking the masked pair to turn themselves in, which they supposedly did according to Daily Mail:\n\nIn an update on Thursday, they revealed the masked park pair are ‘currently speaking with our officers at Auckland Central after having made contact with Police mid-afternoon.\n\nThere is no word if it was a hoax or if these people are crazy-ass murders. I am glad we aren’t near New Zeland.\n\nIn response, with my insomnia in full-effect, I made a strange video in response using some footage from a BBQ I was at last Summer. The footage was harmless enough. Just tossing an axe at a tree. You know, that old chestnut. It features a pop song played backwards and Keanu Reeves muttering lines from the film “John Wick” in the background. It’s odd, maybe even avant-garde, but not nearly as terrifying as these two wackos in the video above. Hell, my odd video might actually make you less creeped out and prevent a night terror even though there is a guy throwing an axe in it. At least there are no masks involved.\n\nAnyway, I hope you have a more bizarre day than you would have otherwise by clicking the link that lead you to this page." ]

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[ "Introduction of a plucky young Padawan by Patty Hammond\n\n\nWhen Ahsoka was introduced in the 2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars feature film, feelings about this new character from reviewers and fans were mixed. Not only because this character was not seen in any of the live action movies, but many were concerned about Ahsoka’s interaction with her new Master, Anakin Skywalker.\n\nSome did not like this new character because of this interaction…", null, "“Ahsoka Tano, by the way, is annoying. She bats her grapefruit-sized eyes at Anakin and offers suggestions that invariably prove her right and her teacher wrong.” Roger Ebert\n\n“Anakin and Ahsoka have lots of banter about what it means to be a Jedi and the importance of following orders. The teenage apprentice is plucky, but she's also very irritating in the way she often disobeys Anakin and complains about everything.” Christianity Today\n\nThe concerns were reinforced when Anakin continued to call her ‘Snips’ to Ahsoka calling him ‘Skyguy’. However, some saw this interaction as a step in the right direction…\n\n“Probably the most worrisome aspect of the film for fans, this sassy, smart-mouthed Jedi-in-training is actually surprisingly affable, striking up a snappy rapport with Anakin, who casts aside his usual pouty petulance.” Empire Online review\n\nThe concerns expressed in all these comments are centered around characteristics that are found in a typical teen her age. This means that although Ahsoka was raised in the Jedi Temple, instead of here on Earth, did not mean that her character would not show the characteristics of a typical 14 years old girl. Therefore, the reviewers and fans with the mixed feelings need to remember that Ahsoka’s character has a lot of growth ahead of her.", null, "“Ahsoka’s a little rough around the edges, but with a great deal of training and patience, she may amount to something.”\n\nNext time: Ahsoka’s Growth during the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series\n\nPatty Hammond (@pattyBones2) is the Everyday Fangirl from Michigan who has a disguise as a mild mannered data analyst for an Advertising firm. She has a degree in Library and Information Science and has worked in the Marketing and Adverting industry for over 20 years. Patty is the founder and administrator of the blog EverydayFangirl.com and monthly contributor toTheCantinaCast.net. She is also an editor for one of the stories in the SFR Brigade Anthology.\nPatty is a fan of many different genres and franchises, especially Star Wars. She first saw Star Wars at the Detroit premiere in 1977 thanks to her Mom who won tickets from a local TV station. Patty spent many hours acting out her favorite scenes with her brother and sisters, listening to the soundtracks and re-watching the films on TV and on home video." ]

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[ "Only 1 contestant made it to Final Jeopardy because it's 2020, of course\n\nIt's reportedly only happened twice in the past decade.", null, "Editor's note: The video above is from March 2020\n\nWho had \"only one contestant makes it to Final Jeopardy\" on their 2020 bingo card?\n\nIt happened on Tuesday's episode of \"Jeopardy!\" -- an occurrence so rare that even host Alex Trebek was at a loss.\n\n\"I cannot recall the last time we had only one player in Final Jeopardy,\" Trebek said.\n\nYahoo Entertainment reports contestant Natt Supab finished with negative $400 while Alex Switzky risked his entire bank of $5,900 on the final clue and lost.\n\nThat left just the champion, Kevin Walsh, to head to the final round with $14,400.\n\n\"You can risk a bundle, you know,\" Trebek said.\n\nCNN reports the Final Jeopardy clue under the topic Literary Pronouns was \"Thanks to a horror film, this novel returned to the bestseller lists in 2017, some 30 years after reaching No. 1.\"\n\nYahoo reports it's just the second time in a decade that only one contestant has made it to Final Jeopardy.\n\nIn all my years of watching @Jeopardy , a very exciting thing happened on tonight’s episode that I can’t ever recall seeing before... @ the time of Final Jeopardy, only 1 contestant was left standing, as the other 2 were in the negative! Mind blowing! Well done, Kevin! (10.13.20) pic.twitter.com/8Eda8nw3l0\n\nPeak 2020. There’s only one contestant for final @Jeopardy pic.twitter.com/PWuNr29Ihe\n\nI don't remember the last time I saw only one person go to Final Jeopardy! But it happened today.\n\nNow what I want to know....what if NO ONE made it?" ]

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[ null, null, null, "Bakatari in Ido Local Government Area of Ibadan is a border town between Oyo and Ogun, located on the Ibadan-Abeokuta road.\n\nA resident of the community, who pleaded anonymity, told newsmen on Wednesday in Ibadan, that the duo was kidnapped while it was raining on Tuesday night.\n\nThe source said that their whereabouts were still unknown as at the time of filing this report on Wednesday.\n\nWhen contacted, DSP Adewale Osifeso, the State Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the incident, saying efforts had been put in place to secure the release of the victims.\n\n“The incident happened very late on Tuesday 22nd of June, at Araromi Village. Efforts are in top gear to rescue both victims and apprehend the abductors, please,” he said.", null, null, null, "“R.Kelly Will Remain In Jail Without Bail Because He’s A Danger To Young Girls” – Judge Rules", null, null ]

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[ "A collaborative study that compared seawater from 25 reefs in Cuba and the U.S. Florida Keys, which varied in human impact and protection, found that those with higher microbial diversity and lower concentrations of nutrients and organic carbon (primarily caused by human activities) were markedly healthier.\n\nResearchers sampled seawater from each site and measured nutrients as well as a variety of other parameters that offer insight into the microbial community. They found a notable difference between the heavily protected offshore reefs in Cuba and the more impacted nearshore ones in the Florida Keys.\n\nThey found that exploring the connection between microorganisms and the health of coral reefs can be difficult due to the lack of unspoiled reef systems around the world.", null, "“Human impacts such as overfishing and pollution lead to changes in reef structure,” says WHOI graduate student Laura Weber, lead author of the paper. “Removal of algae grazers such as herbivorous fish and sea urchins leads to increases in macroalgae, which then leads to increased organic carbon, contributing to the degradation of coral reefs.”\n\nThe study outlines how offshore and highly-protected reefs are healthier than nearshore reefs with less protection from human impacts. Additionally, reefs with lower nutrient runoff and carbon from industrial activities are markedly healthier.\n\n“Cuba does not have large-scale industrialised agriculture or extensive development along most of its coastline,” says Patricia González-Díaz, Director of CIM-UH and co-author of the study. “So there is not a lot of nutrient run-off and sedimentation flowing on to the reefs.”\n\nAdditionally, the reefs of Jardines de la Reina, the largest protected area in the Caribbean, may be further buffered from impacts by the mangroves and seagrass meadows that lie between the island of Cuba and the reef system of Jardines de la Reina. Here, researchers found low concentrations of nutrients, and a high abundance of Prochlorococcus—a photosynthetic bacterium that thrives in low nutrient waters. More accessible and heavily-impacted areas in Florida Keys both contained higher organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations.\n\nThe work suggests that protection from a variety of human impacts does play a significant role in maintaining microbial diversity. The hope is that these findings could aid resource managers in deciding how best to protect and restore Caribbean coral reefs in the face of habitat and climate-based change.\n\nTo read the full paper, Microbial signatures of protected and impacted Northern Caribbean reefs: changes from Cuba to the Florida Keys, click here. Co-authors of the paper include colleagues from CIM-UH, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Mote Marine Laboratory, and the University of California, Santa Barbara." ]

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[ "Other photos in Bardia near our Hotel Al-Burdi at seaside at mouth of main wadi (lower Bardia).\n\nIt took 4 hours to cross from Egypt to Libya, very interesting. Our time at the border was as reasonable as one could expect where we changed coaches, drivers and guides. We also picked up our armed escort who will stay with us during our time here.\n\nPrior to crossing the border we passed through Sidi Barrani, the scene of the first victories by the Western Desert Force as they broke through the weak rear defences of the Italian Boxes. The Italians had lost 38,000 prisoners including 4 Generals in this action. The only time that the Italians advanced past Sidi Barrani was after the Battle of Gazala when they were part of Rommel's forces as he headed towards Suez.\n\nWe then proceeded into Bardia near point of 'break in' by 16 Bde.\n\nWe went down the new road to the harbour, following check in, John and Graham walked up the main wadi to where 2/2 Bn came down the wadi to take the town.\n\nWhile up the wadi, they found a supply tunnel cut into the base of the western side of the wadi. An Italian steel helmet was found and handed into the hotel.\n\nWe had a good evening meal in hotel. Tobruk tomorrow.", null, "Unless otherwise noted battle and battlefield descriptions are prepared jointly by the Military History Tours Historians, as are the photographs." ]

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[ null, "Nicole tells KSBY that Easton is the most happiest person she has ever met despite his health challenges.\n\nNicole says Easton will make the police and firetruck siren sounds and tries to act like the actual vehicles.\n\nEaston has the tendency to run off on his own at times, and while Nicole says she tries to keep him safe by using a backpack leash, she wanted to take extra caution by providing the local agencies with Easton's photo and information just in case they come across him in an emergency situation.\n\n\"We couldn't have been more happy,\" said Nicole when talking to KSBY about the meet-and-greet experience." ]

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[ null, "Eagle is using Smore newsletters to spread the word online.\n\nGet email updates from Eagle:\n\nShowing up is Half the Job\n\nIf you are in group A, then you'll be back in school this coming Tuesday and Wednesday. If you are in group B, it'll be Thursday and Friday. There is a saying when you first get employed that, \"showing up is half the job.\" I'm not sure what part it is for success in school, but its a big one! See most of you next week!\n\nBe Safe, Be Health\n\nStudent of the Week\n\nThis week's Social Studies student of the week is...\n\nAnthony Kami! He has received a perfect class participation score all this week. Great job!", null, "The King Center | The Center for Nonviolent Social Change\n\nthekingcenter.org\nWe value the health and safety of our visitors and staff. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Freedom Hall will be closed to the public.\n\nLooking for something to do on MLK day? Check out the link above for information from the King Center.\nHow to quickly get out of a rut\n\nEver find yourself sluggish and unmotivated to do anything? Did the holidays take the energy out of you?\n\nHere's a great video from Mr. C's class with 3 strategies to get you going again.", null, null, "New Year! No Need for a New You! by Mrs. Russo\n\nAfter the unpredictable, torrid year we’ve had, the idea of making New Year’s resolutions for 2021 might seem a tad overwhelming. Even if you’re the type of person who is put off by New Year’s resolutions, experts say that in 2021 — or any year, really — writing out one or two specific, small and attainable goals can help develop confidence and a sense of pride, improving your well-being. And right now we could all use a little more positivity in our lives. Here’s how to get started:\n\n-Think about your motivations: Just because it’s the first of January doesn’t mean you will automatically feel motivated to start a new habit. “You’re not going to sustain a behavior change unless you have internal motivation,” said Sara L. Dolan, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. So when making New Year’s resolutions, consider what changes you’d like to make, but also why you want to make them, Dolan advised. What makes you feel committed to reaching your goal? For example, if you know you’d like to lose weight, is it because you’re trying to conform to society’s standards about body size? Is it because your doctor told you to do it? Those are external motivators, which are less likely to help you reach your goal. On the other hand, if losing weight appeals to you because eating healthy foods and exercising make you feel physically and mentally better, those are internal motivations that will make you more likely to build new, long-term habits.\n\n-Pick bite-sized goals that are actually achievable: For New Year’s resolutions to work, avoid pie-in-the-sky wishes and focus instead on goals that are doable and easily measurable. Resolving to get healthier, for example, might be too vague. “If you set this giant, nonspecific, unattainable goal, what motivation are you going to have to ever try again if you fail?” Dolan said. If you want to get stronger but haven’t exercised in years, don’t aim to start working out at the gym three days a week for an hour at a time. Instead, whittle your expectations and start by going to the gym once a week for just half an hour or less, Dolan advised. If you can do this consistently for a couple of months, try going twice a week. Each small success can help propel you toward bigger ones. Michelle Gielan, author of the book “Broadcasting Happiness: The Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change,” said that she bought an elliptical exercise machine on Craigslist this year and made a goal to use it for just 15 minutes a day. The short time limit felt manageable to her, and once she actually started her workout, she would often keep going for an additional 10 minutes. “Start small; pick some small goal that you almost know you’re going to accomplish,” Gielan said. “Your brain gets a win, and that win releases all these positive neurochemicals. And then we want to do it again.”\n\n-Make a plan, not a resolution: Having a goal is great, but how will you achieve it? For example, if you want to make more money, what are the steps you need to take in order to do that, and how much extra income would you need to hit your goal? If you’re employed, is overtime a possibility or are you aiming for a promotion? Do you need to go back to school to learn a different set of skills? The more you dissect your goal, the easier it is to break it into actionable steps. And you’ll be more likely to follow through with your goal if those steps are detailed, said Charles Duhigg, author of “The Power of Habit,” a book that explores the science of habit formation. A 2011 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, for instance, found that employees of a large company who were prompted to write down the date and time they planned to get a company flu shot were statistically more likely to get it than those who received reminders for the shot but who weren’t prompted to write down their plan. “Oftentimes also, when you come up with a plan, you anticipate what the obstacles are going to be,” Duhigg said. “When people change sustainably, it’s because they anticipated where they’ll fail, and they’ve come up with some kind of recovery plan in advance.”\n\n-Shorten your list and write it down: If you have several types of goals, choose one that resonates with you the most, the experts said. (Maybe choose two if you’re feeling ambitious.) Having just one goal and a plan for achieving it is more important than having lots of vague goals, they said. Next, write everything down. This will not only help you think through your goals but also help make them more memorable, said Katy Milkman, a behavioral scientist and professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of “How to Change,” a forthcoming book on the science of achieving goals. Telling your goals to other people will also help keep you accountable, she added. “The more deeply you engage with them, the more likely you are to follow through,” Milkman said. When writing out your goal, the way you phrase it might also make a difference, according to a Swedish study published last month. Researchers found that it may be more effective to frame your plans in terms of what you are going to do versus what you shouldn’t do. For instance, say that you want to “go to bed a half an hour earlier” instead of saying you want to “stop going to bed so late.”\n\n-Cut yourself some slack: In the end, 2020 has been a rough year, so don’t put too much pressure on yourself when trying to meet your goal. Research shows that people are more likely to pursue their goals during times that feel like new beginnings in their lives, Milkman said. Examples might include Mondays, birthdays, the first of the month or other milestones like starting a new job or moving to a different state. So don’t give up if you don’t fulfill your New Year’s resolutions. Encourage yourself with gentle reminders — using your phone alarm can sometimes be helpful in nudging you to hit the gym or get ready for bed — and if money is tight, set yourself up for success by choosing goals that are inexpensive to achieve, said Dr. Joel L. Young, medical director of the Rochester Center for Behavioral Medicine in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Even if you don’t accomplish your goal as quickly as you want to or in the exact way you had planned, it’s still important to celebrate that you’re working toward making a positive change. “In a year like this we need to give ourselves more grace and forgiveness and have more self-compassion,” Dolan said.\" (Adapted from the NYTimes)\n\nThis music video was composed, rehearsed, and performed by EL Education students during the covid19 crisis while in physical isolation. It was made in two weeks in order to celebrate Better World Day, a day on which EL Education students contribute to their communities. The students accomplished this while also doing distance learning and in some cases helping siblings and working at essential jobs. This could not have been possible without the families who supported their children’s creative contributions while quarantined. This collaborative effort to bring joy, give gratitude, and offer comfort during a time of crisis is an example of the EL Education community doing more than we think possible. Even when apart, we’re going to make the world better.\n#BetterWorldDay #ELEducation", null, null, null, "In an effort to support the free full day Preschool program we are reaching out to our entire school community to spread the word. Feel free to share the following information with your own family, friends, neighbors and on your own social media to help spread the word.\n\n@EHTNJSchools is recruiting full day Preschool students! Full day Preschool will be free to all EHT residents. The anticipated start date will be February 1, 2021. https://www.eht.k12.nj.us/registration/register_your_child\n\npressofatlanticcity.com\nView the The Current of Egg Harbor Township & Pleasantville for Thursday, December24, 2020\n\nEagle Academy in the News!\n\nClick the link above to read an excellent article about you!\nPursuing Public Health: Diet & Nutrition with Tiffany Rios (Part I)\n\nClick the video link above for some great nutrition advice!", null, "email: smithg@eht.k12.nj.us Please include your name in email.", null, "Eagle is using Smore newsletters to spread the word online." ]

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[ null, "The most amazing person to walk this planet had a beard. Yes, the Holy Prophet (PBUH). So if he had it, there should be no doubt that it’s good for us. The beard is nothing more than a sign that the believer truly wants to follow a Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saws). There are many people who have long beards but do deeds against the commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws). Allah says:\n\n“O you who believe[d]! Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those having authority among you. Then if you disagree in anything, refer it to Allah and the Messenger, if you believe in Allah and the Day [the] Last. That (is) best and more suitable (for final) determination.” (Surah An-Nisa 4:59)\n\nAnd there are many people who are amongst the best believers, but do not have beards! Allah will not decide the recipient of His Mercy and His Forgiveness from the appearance of the individual; but rather He will decide whether the person believed and did righteous deeds, as he was commanded by Allah and His Messenger (saws).\n\nSignificance of Beard in Islam\n\nGrowing the beard and trimming the moustache are both obligatory according to the Islamic Sunnah. One hadith Sahih al-Bukhari, specifically book 72 and hadith 781 stated “Allah’s Apostle said “Cut the moustaches short and leave the beard (as it is),” as narrated by Abdullah bin Umar. Allah says:\n\n“So if you are in doubt of what We have revealed to you, then ask those who (have been) reading the Book before you. Verily, has come to you the truth from your Lord, so (do) not be among the doubters.” (Surah Yunus 10:94)\n\nThe criteria of beard in Islam has to start from the cheekbones in level with the rear channels and stretches all the way from the cheeks into the lower end of the chin. The hair on the neck is not considered a beard and may be removed altogether. So in short, beards are seen as mandatory according to a majority of Sunni Muslim scholars, however, modern Islamic thinking began to accept the trimming of beards or even clean-shaven faces altogether.\n\nLet us look at the benefits of males wearing a beard:\n\nA man should think, how can he possibly place the hair which Allah, The Exalted, has commanded him to keep and practice of the Messenger, May Allah blesses him and grant him peace, down the same drainpipe as one urinates, Is this the respect we have for the practice loved by the Prophet? We are so weak in faith that we want to follow the practices of the west rather than the Prophet. Allah says:\n\n“O ye who believe! Obey Allah and His Messenger, and turn not away from him when ye hear (he speak).” (Surah Al-Anfal 8:20)\n\nWe are living in such a time where the women are wearing a shirt and pants and trimming their hair, whilst the male is disfiguring themselves with rings on their faces. If a person does not keep a beard then how can he be recognized as a male, May Allah has mercy on us.\n\nThe desirability of the beard that conforms to both faith and rationality but being a work concerning jurisprudence and Sunnah it does not stress the universality, amongst the Muslim Brotherhood, of the beard as a sign of faith, as a symbol of brotherhood. Whatever clothes or customs have been retained by a nation it has become a social norm for the beard to be grown. Allah says:\n\nIt was to stress this aspect that I felt obliged to write this short preface and also as an opportunity to ask the reader to join me in asking Allah, the Most Generous, to reward the author, the translator and their teachers for sharing their knowledge for our benefit. May it, by the grace of The Merciful, be a great reward in this world and the next.\n\nImportance of the Beard in Islam in the words of Rasulullah (SAW):\n\nThe position that Islam has, and will have in the world has a great deal to do with how the Muslims look at it, and to what extent they practice its teachings. There was a time when Islam was running through every vein in a Muslim’s body, and his actions were a living portrait of the glory and beauty of Islam, so the flag of Islam was proudly lifted in the sky by the winds of success. The non-believers could not question Islam, because living examples of Islamic perfection were before them. Allah says:\n\n“The only saying of the faithful believers, when they are called to Allaah (His Words, the Qur’an) and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), to judge between them, is that they say: ‘We hear and we obey.’ And such are the successful (who will live forever in Paradise).” (Surah Al-Noor 24:51)\n\nWhen the spirit of Islam began to fade away from the hearts of Muslims, their bodies were no longer strong enough to take all the measures and hardships necessary to practice their flawless religion. The new place for Islam was not a strong firm heart, but a dark dusty corner in the human mind. People liked to treat Islam like a constitution made by man, to be amended and abridged at will. Where did people go wrong? Allah says:\n\nThe answer is easy and simple to find. We left the pattern of life of our beloved Prophet Muhammad s.w, who sacrificed his day and night, sweat and blood, conveying Allah’s message. Our respect and dignity lie in following the pattern of our beloved Prophet Muhammad s.w, this is why the noble practices of the Prophet s.w (sunnah) hold great weight. This article aims to help one remember a very significant sunnah of the Prophet s.w, the beard. To grow a beard is a practice of all the Prophets and necessary for all Muslim males.\n\nScientific benefits for having a Beard\n\nIs growing beards mandatory in Islam?\n\n“O ye who believe! Obey God, and obey the Apostle, and those charged with authority among you. If ye differ in anything among yourselves, refer it to God and His Apostle, if ye do believe in God and the Last Day: That is best, and most suitable for final determination.” (Surah an-Nisa, 4:59)\n\nToday, growing beards is not as common, and in many instances, it could cause trouble to the Muslims who live in the West. If growing beards was mandatory in the Noble Quran, then we would have nothing to argue about. But since it was mentioned in the Sayings of our beloved Prophet peace be upon him, then it is important to know whether this law should apply to all times and all places. Allah says:\n\n“But no, by your Lord, they can have no Faith, until they make you (O Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) judge in all disputes between them, and find in themselves no resistance against your decisions, and accept (them) with full submission.” (Surah Al-Nisa’ 4:65)\n\nSome of our Prophet’s Sayings and laws were made only to solve situations that occurred 1400 years ago. These few Sayings don’t necessarily have to be applied today. Only the Noble Quran’s laws are 100% applicable for all times and all places. Prophet Muhammad’s Sayings, yet most of them should be applied for all times and all places, but few of them shouldn’t. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength." ]

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[ "The Structural Types of Ball Valve", null, "According to its structural type, the ball valve can be divided into a floating ball valve, fixed ball valve, and elastic ball valve.\n\nThe ball of sanitary ball valve is floating. Under medium pressure, the ball can have certain displacement and push tightly against the sealing surface of the outlet, ensuring the sealing at the outlet.\n\nThe floating ball valve has a simple structure and good sealing performance. But the load of the working medium sustained by the ball is all transferred to the outlet sealing ring. Therefore, we need to take into consideration whether the sealing ring materials can withstand the working load of the ball medium. This structure is widely used in medium- and low-pressure ball valves.\n\nThe ball of the ball valve is fixed, and won’t move under pressure. Fixed ball valves all have floating valve seats. Under the pressure of the medium, the valve seat moves, pushing the sealing ring tightly against the ball to ensure sealing. Usually, bearings are installed on the upper and lower shafts of the ball. Their operating torque is small. They are suitable for high pressure and large diameter valves.\n\nIn order to reduce the operating torque of the ball valve and increase the reliability of the sealing, oil sealing ball valves have appeared in recent years.\n\nSpecial lubricant is injected in between the sealing surfaces to form a layer of oil film, which enhances the sealing and reduces the operating torque. They are more suitable for high-pressure large diameter ball valves.\n\nThe ball of the ball valve is elastic. The ball and the sealing ring of the valve seat are both made of metal materials. The sealing ratio is very large. Relying on the pressure of the medium itself is already unable to meet the requirements of the sealing, so external forces must be applied. This type of valve is suitable for high-temperature and high-pressure mediums.\n\nAn elastic ball obtains its elasticity by having the lower part of the inner wall of it grooved. When closing the channel, use the wedge-shaped head of the valve stem to make the ball expand and press tightly against the valve seat to achieve sealing.\n\nLoosen the wedge-shaped head before turning the ball, and the ball then restores its original shape. This results in a very small gap between the ball and valve seat, which can reduce the friction of the sealing surface and operating torque.\n\nAccording to the channel position, the ball valve can be divided into straight-through type, three-way type, and right angle type. The latter two types are used to distribute the medium and change the flow direction of the medium." ]

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[ "From The Scrub Tank To The Soothing Way", null, "On Thursday evening, February 19, 2009, Shawn Sarka a taxi driver came to our house and asked if we would dress his burns. On the prior Monday evening he was putting wood in his out door furnace and the boiler exploded.\n\nThe pressure threw Shawn four feet and he had second and third degree burns on twenty-eight to thirty percent of his body. Instantly, he started to take his clothing off and he had a hard time doing it.\n\nThis was a small hospital so they transferred him to Hurleys, a burn unit in Flint, MI. He was having excruciating pain and they gave him more morphine.\n\nHe had burns on the left side of his face and ear, neck, chest, both arms, left shoulder, and upper right leg. When he was at Hurleys, he was in the scrub tank and he was in pain all the time.\n\nShawn and his wife, Denice, are good friends with Emmanuel Mullets, so Emmanuel and Martha came over with Shawn and Denice the first night. When they came to our house on Thursday evening, Sam quickly made some phone calls to the other care takers in our group as he saw it was more than we could handle alone.\n\nWithin an hour, Thomas Bardwell and Kevin and Franklin Heartwole were here to help. It took three to three and a half hours to dress it the first evening. After they had him dressed and all wrapped up he had no pain. He did not take any pain medication after that. Shawn said he slept well that first night.\n\nWe could tell that Shawn was very sedated when he got there. He kept telling us that he doesn’t have a lot of pain, but he flinched while we were dressing him.\n\nAt first we used fifteen rolls of conforming gauze, two or three rolls of tape, twelve to fourteen ABD pads, two or three moisture barrier, and thirty-two ounces of B&W salve, at each dressing.\n\nThe care takers took turns to come and help Same and me every day for three weeks to dress Shawn. We learned very fast that it takes a lot of supplies to dress an adult. The first week it took two to three hours to dress it, the second week it took around two hours, and the third week it took on and a half hours.\n\nIt was amazing to see how much better the burns were every twelve hours. With in the first week the old skin came off. Shawn drank a lot of fresh juices and protein shakes, which helped his healing process.\n\nThings happened so fast the first night. I believe we were very blessed to have a group of care takers to help us. Shawn could not get his mitten off so he had a burn all around his wrist.\n\nThe second week he had swelling in that hand. Nuse Susan told us it has a tourniquet effect. Being the burn when all around the hand it shut the circulation off. So we wrapped it starting at the wrist up to the shoulder to push the fluid away from it. He also had to keep his hand elevated.\n\nIn a week, the swelling was gone. After wrapping the burned wrist with B&W, burdock, and conforming gauze, we wrapped it with an ace bandage, starting at the hand up to the shoulder spiraling it sharply. The nurse said this would help the circulation, and it did.\n\nAfter eight weeks the burned area looks much improved. he is starting to work some now.\n\nNote: This is published with the permission of Mark Stoll. You should feel free to reprint this article and pass it out or publish it on your website, but it must be printed or published in its entirety without altercation. I would ask that if you publish this article on a website, that you link back to this site with the below text that links to the home page and the Burn Treatments category.\n\nThe above HTML code will display the following:\nThis article on Burn Treatments was originally published on the More Christ Like Blog" ]

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[ "‘For Life’: The incredibly inspiring story of Isaac Wright Jr.", null, "Throughout life, we are inspired by stories. Some are true, some are fictional, but nonetheless, they can cause a variety of emotions in audiences. When it comes to the story of Isaac Wright Jr. however, the truth is scarier than any fictional horror story, but the results provide one plotline that proves anything is possible when you dig deep enough in yourself.\n\nIn 1991, Wright was tried in a Somerset County courtroom and convicted under New Jersey’s drug kingpin law. His innocence didn’t save him, instead, he was sent away for life. Wright chose to represent himself throughout the process, and after going to prison, he continued to study the law and even helped other inmates with their cases while vigirously rallying for his own appeal.\n\nAfter 7 years, his charges were dropped, and after going to law school, Wright now practices law to “help those who cannot help themselves.”\n\nHis incredible story is the focus on ABC-TV’s new series “For Life,” produced by 50 Cent. The series shines a light on a lot more than just a corrupt system — it showcases the tenacity and will power of the human spirit.\n\nIsaac Wright Jr. sat down with Metro to discuss more about his life and the unbelievably moving show.\n\nSince you are well versed in law, what would you say went wrong in your case to cause you to be arrested and convicted when you were innocent?\n\nThe simple answer to that question is everything, I can’t really pinpoint one thing that went wrong at the time. This prosecutor, Steven Bissell, was already engaged in specific types of conduct that were criminal in nature. Things came out later on. One of those things was that he targeted individuals, some were people that he didn’t like, some were people that for one reason or another disagreed with him. One was a superior judge that he had targeted to get pulled over and threatened to get arrested because the judge had ruled against him in a previous preceding. So I moved to that area of New Jersey with all of these things already going on. I had a life obviously before I moved to New Jersey and when I first moved to New York, I wasn’t doing well at all. I was very, very young, 19-20 years old and I moved from one bad neighborhood to another. I had friends that I accumulated through my ride to different neighborhoods — a lot of them were not on the up and up. That was one of the things that made me vulnerable because the company that I kept was not really good for me. [At the time] they were investigating other people, and I lived in a totally different county, but those people were friends of individuals that I was hanging out with. A group of police officers took down certain license plate numbers, and they started investigating those individuals, so that’s actually how I came to be on his radar and initially got targeted. Tie that in with this scheme, and then eventually, I was arrested.\n\nWhat role did studying the law play for you after getting arrested?\n\nIt actually became a weapon. It didn’t start off that way, at first it was my only alternative. When I was arrested, I didn’t really understand how much trouble I was in until I really began to see what was happening and what they were doing. I’m a young man, just a kid — I’ve never gone to prison before and I had a certain outlook on how things were supposed to happen. When I started really finding out what it was about, it was just a situation where my only alternative was myself. I had attorneys come and sit down with me, and every single one would say that the best they could get me was 20 years. I think maybe only one had said that if I begged enough, for lack of a better word, I could probably get you 15. Before they even sat down with me, they would call the prosecutor’s office and try to get information on the charges and after speaking with the prosecutors, it was basically a lost cause conversation. That was really one of the catalysts that caused me to understand that I was going to prison. The way it was set up, I was intelligent enough to understand that I was going to prison and there were no ifs about it. After more time passed and I began discovering and looking at things, like people’s names that I never knew and information that was totally fabricated, then I knew I was going away for life. So all I had was myself at that point. If I was going to go to prison for the rest of my life, I was not going to have someone else sit beside me. This was all before I even knew that I had a knack for the law. I began to understand though that something different was going on with me, and I began to read law books, and it was natural. I felt like I had been doing it for decades.\n\nHow did your story get turned into “For Life”?\n\nThere was a friend of mine running an illegal fight club in the Bronx. They were held in garages, junkyards — things like that. He was also a friend of 50 Cent, and he was getting rappers to come out and to perform at intermission at these fight clubs. But 50, even though they were friends, wouldn’t come out to perform unless it was legitimate and legal. These guys went through several lawyers and eventually came to me. The guy told me his problems, and within two weeks, I got them to be legal. 50 came to perform, and the gentlemen explained to him who I was and my story. I sat down with him and talked to him, and he told me that he would like to move through a process of trying to get my story made into a TV series. He actually rejected the movie idea and said that he believed that this would be something that people would want to see every week. So, that’s how that happened. I was there from the beginning, from it being picked up to being on set. I was deeply involved with the process. The first episode is really extraordinary, and it just gets better from there.\n\nWas it a cathartic experience for you seeing your story come to life onscreen?\n\nIt was surreal. I went through a lot of different emotions because I never really had a chance to grieve for myself. I had spent so much time fighting that I never really knew how much time I had spent suffering. It was such an intense and aggressive undertaking, not only was I fighting for myself, when I was inside I was also fighting for other people. There was hardly time to breathe. So I had time to grieve onset, and I was moving through this process and it gave me the ability to kind of watch my suffering as a third person. It was an incredible experience. It brought back a lot of memories that I don’t really like to think about, but overall, it was very therapeutic at times and it lifted weights that I didn’t even know that I was carrying until it was gone.\n\nThe main thing is hope. After that is inspiration. Life is not easy, anything that has any kind of positive aspect to it, if I could just round it out in one word, it would be happiness. The thing that I can say about happiness when it comes to being alive — we all struggle for that. It’s not just something that is given to us. We set goals and we have families, and everything that we do from the time we wake up to the time that we go to sleep is this vigorous cycle to just be happy. This show, I think, is an underdog show that anybody moving through life can relate too. This is an individual that has encountered tragedy in life and he is struggling to overcome those adversities and that tragedy. He’s not only struggling to overcome it, but to also change it and to be a representation of the better part of what it means to be alive. I think everybody is going to see something on this show in themselves. Not only with hope and inspiration, but with the understanding that the answers to all of your questions and your challenges are within you. All you have to do is dig deep." ]

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[ "The government of Japan and the ruling coalition are considering an emergency economic package worth over ¥30 trillion ($270 billion) to counteract the impact from the Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe emergency package could include cash and gift certificates or even travel expenses. It could also provide some financing for small and midsize businesses so they can maintain employment.", null, "Policy chief at Komeito, the LDP’s coalition partner, Noritoshi Ishida suggested granting fixed amount without setting an income limit. The opposition in the face of Seiji Osaka of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan and Kenta Izumi of the Democratic Party for the People proposed economic package worth ¥50 trillion.\n\nMeanwhile, Tomoko Tamura, Izumi and Japanese Communist Party policy chief called for reducing the consumption tax in half to 5%. Kashida criticized the tax proposal on the ground it may backfire as consumers might delay buying until after the tax is reduced. He also pointed out it may require extra from companies to revise their computer and other systems\nLDP tax panel leader Akira Amari suggested that tax should be suspended for small businesses.\n\nThe government and the ruling coalition are looking into deficit-covering bonds to fund the package. Sources say the finalizing of the package will happen as early as April.\n\nIt’s unlikely that the government and the ruling coalition will reduce the consumption tax as it the revenues from it are a major source of funding for social security spending.\n\nJapan is still considered to be better of than the rest of the world in the face of the corona virus outbreak. At the time of writing the current total cases reported by World Health Organization (WHO) are 906 with 41 dead in a period of two months. In comparison, in Italy for almost the same period, with two weeks less, the total cases exceed 59,00 with deaths of over 5,000.\n\nAll over the world, people are advised to stay home, with businesses being forced to close with no end date. Many countries are in lockdown, gatherings of over two people in Germany are banned, in the US, New York has closed bars and restaurants and California has reinforces similar measures to restrict the movement.\n\nJapan seems to be telling a different story. Major events have still been cancelled, schools are closed, there is talk of the Olympic games being postponed as well. However, there is no quarantine, bars and restaurants still work as usual.\n\nThere is much speculation about why Japan is taking this better than the rest of the world. One possible explanation of the drastic difference in the numbers is the older population in Europe. Italy, for example is oldest average age in Europe.\n\nSome suggest is that less tests are administered. Japan has decided to test as needed only people with severe symptoms or people with direct contact with an ill person and isolating clusters of people before allowing a chance to spread.\n\nWhether target testing approach is good enough to contain the outbreak in Japan will be shown soon enough. In the meantime, some schools are getting ready to reopen." ]

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[ "Less More\n2 months 3 weeks ago - 2 months 3 weeks ago #229283 by Firecat\nPassing of Chapter 17 Founder Ben McRay was created by Firecat\nIn June 2021 we lost another Founding Member, Benton McRay. He was instrumental in starting Chapter 17 and getting the Founding members together after visiting Rich Perusina in 2012 to ask some questions about his CAT 15. Rich and John were getting ready for the show in Tulare, and Rich gave Ben an ACMOC magazine to read. Ben then contacted ACMOC to find out about how to form a new chapter. Ben was our first president. John Perusina was vice-president and Ben's daughter, Lisa, took on the job of Secretary/Treasurer. They held office for two years. Without them there may not have ever been a Chapter 17. Our Chapter thanks Ben and his family for his time and dedication. He will surely be missed.\nChapter 17 will make a donation to the ACMOC Scholarship Fund in memory of both Ben McRay and Rich Perusina.", null, "Ben on his Caterpillar Fifteen", null, null ]