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[ null, "Ebay Has Great Deals On A Nintendo Switch, Cyberpunk 2077 & A 34″ Ultrawide Gaming Monitor\n\nEbay is rolling out some great deals to celebrate its 21st birthday. There’s four great deals which will be taking place on different days over the next few weeks. You’ll need to be an eBay Plus member in order to be able to access these deals. You can grab a free 30 day trial HERE.\n\nYou can access all of the deals HERE, but we will also update the below product links below as get them. Obviously, you need to be prepared to get these deals, as they won’t last for long.\n\nThese are some great deals. The Nintendo Switch hasn’t been on sale in ages, Cyberpunk 2077 probably won’t be cheaper before launch, and you’re not going to find a cheaper 34″ Ultrawide monitor than the Xiaomi Mi Curved monitor. In addition to these there will also be 21% off a range of items between September 1st and 12th." ]

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[ null, "On Earth, daytime is roughly the period on any given point of the planet's surface during which it experiences natural illumination from indirect or (especially) direct sunlight.\n\nOther planets that rotate in relation to a luminous primary, such as a local star, also experience daytime of a sort, but this article primarily discusses daytime on Earth.\n\nThe hemisphere of the Earth experiencing daytime at any given instant changes continuously as the planet rotates on its own axis. The axis of the Earth's rotation is not perpendicular to the plane of its orbit around the Sun (which is parallel with the direction of sunlight), and so the length of the daytime period varies from one point on the planet to another. Additionally, since the axis of rotation is relatively fixed in comparison to the stars, it moves with respect to the Sun as the planet orbits the star. This creates seasonal variations in the length of the daytime period at most points on the planet's surface.", null, null, "\"Astronomy\" is a rock song by Blue Öyster Cult that has appeared on several of the band's albums. It was first published on their 1974 album Secret Treaties. Their second live album, Some Enchanted Evening, included a version with an extended guitar solo and a third version was included on the Imaginos album. It was also re-recorded for the band's Cult Classic collection in connection with the TV miniseries of Stephen King's The Stand. Most recently the song was included on the A Long Day's Night album.\n\nThe song's lyrics are selected verses from a poem by Sandy Pearlman, the band's producer and mastermind behind their image, called \"The Soft Doctrines of Immaginos\". In the poem, which was later partially released under the BÖC moniker in the album Imaginos, aliens known as Les Invisibles guide an altered human named Imaginos, also called Desdinova, through history, playing key roles that eventually lead to the outbreak of World War I.\n\nIn \"Astronomy\", the character of Imaginos comes to realize his heritage and his role as the altered human. References are made to celestial objects throughout the song: \"The light that never warms\" being the moon, \"The Queenly flux\" the constellation Cassiopeia, \"My dog, fixed and consequent\" being Sirius, the dog star. The \"Four Winds Bar\" may be a reference to the Tropic of Cancer. All in all, it has Imaginos explaining his position as part of Les Invisibles.\n\nABC and the Hearst Corporation in January 1981 formed a joint venture, Hearst/ABC Video Services (HAVS), to provide programming to Alpha Repertory Television Service and launch BETA, a women's cable service, later that year. Beta was supposed to operate four hours a day and be supported by adversising. HAVS instead launched the service under the name Daytime in March 1982.\n\ndaytime is a Canadian television talk show that has become one of the defining shows across the Rogers TV network of local community television stations.\n\ndaytime covers a wide spectrum of topics in a 60-minute format, generally described as a local lifestyle show that highlights members of the community. Some of the topics and themes based from community access of the show range from food, cooking, home, decorating, shopping, fashion, health, fitness, entertainment and more.\n\nEach edition of daytime is divided and produced by region, as a means to allow members of each community local access. On-air broadcast is limited to the regions they are produced.\n\nOn September 8, 2009, the show reverted to Daytime and was hosted by Kasia Bodurka and Christian Pritchard. On Monday, February 7, 2011, Kasia ended her tenure as co-host of Daytime. In Fall 2012, Christian was joined by Julia Piedimonte.\n\nDaytime is the time between sunrise and sunset, on Earth or elsewhere.\n\nDaytime may also refer to:" ]

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[ null, "I received a call to go look at a home in the Burton Hills area of Nashville on Saturday morning at 9:30 (high dollar area). The prospect told me that it was a divorce situation and he was aware that I would come out with the intention of listing the home. He asked if I could come at 11:00 and I put off my hike with my husband for a million $ prospective listing.\n\nWhen I arrived the man was sitting in a vehicle in the driveway. The side car garage doors were open and there were two cars inside. A tall, thin man in his 60s waved me up the driveway and got out of the car to greet me. After a few minutes of him stammering I wondered why we were standing outside and asked him if he'd show me the property. We walked up steep back stairs (I'm carrying my heavy briefcase, wearing heels). When we walked into the kitchen entrance I asked if I could take photos for my own memory and he said yes. We started touring at the home and he. casually, mentioned that his wife was sleeping in one of the rooms so we were unable to view the second master. At that point I felt uncomfortable but was in the home and continued the tour. The home was messy and cluttered but it was mostly updated with 8000 sf. Once we got upstairs he said that, also, his two pre-teens were sleeping in their rooms. One awoke and came out, sleepy and slouched past us. He said, \"Sport, we're going to take a photo of your room\". The kid couldn't care any less.\nWe went down to the finished basement. On the way up to the main story he says that it sounds like his wife is awake so I asked him if she knew I was coming. He says no so I said, \"please make sure she knows I'm here before I meet her\". We get to the top of the stairs and he yells, \"Jen, are you up?\" I heard no answer. He says, \"I have a guest\". My stomach leaps into my throat. I feel like the other woman! Ewww!\nI balanced myself on the second step and I hear her snap, \"You may as well come out; I can see you\". So I walk up, picking up my heavy briefcase I had left at the blocked-by-a-tuba front doorway and face a small, loud woman in PJs who had, obviously, not had her morning coffee yet. She is reprimanding \"Jeff\" for bringing me over without asking. It's then my turn to be rebuked. A finger points at me. \"He had no right to invite you here without asking me. I'm supporting him, he doesn't work and he won't move out! He had another agent here last weekend! How do you know him\"? \"Um, referral from the internet\", I muttered. \"I don't know him\". She retaliates, \"Give me your card!\". I dig a little and tell her that it's in my car and she demands that I go get one for her. That's when the table turned for me and I knew who the culprit really was. I also knew I wasn't getting this listing.\nI start out the back door and he follows, saying that he'll walk me to my car and bring the card back. Once I get down to the car he stammers what I interpret as he would like for me to provide a CMA with a low value so that he could screw his wife out of her portion of the proceeds. I tell him that I will provide a true evaluation. He mentions that he might stay in the house and then he says that she's a lawyer. I just want to go home. It was then that she comes running down the back stone stairway yelling, \"Did he tell you that he's staying in the house?!\" I say, \"he just told me he might stay to which she replied, \"He's a liar!!\" She turns and leaves while he is asking me if I'll still do the work for him. I'm trying to go but he's standing where I can't shut my car door, texting me his email address. Finally he steps away and I escape down the long, steep driveway.\nI'm relaying this story because it's one for the books. Could there have been a better way to qualify this lead before going? Maybe. I'm always preaching to qualify buyers for safety and time value reasons but sellers? I know where they live, how much they paid for the property, who they are. As Forrest Gump's mom always said, Life is Like a Box of Chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.\nLike favorite_border\nfavorite_border 0\nRe-Blog\nrepeat 0\nbookmark_borderbookmark\n\nActiveRain Community 3 months ago\nbookmark_borderbookmark\nWhere does the Customer Service line end?" ]

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[ null, "This article was inspired by Dr. Shanker’s keynote lecture at the 2017 Self-Reg Summer Symposium.\n\nIf you’ve ever seen Stuart Shanker give a talk you’ll notice a couple of things before long. First, he never sticks to his script. Second of all, there’s always a PowerPoint, but you don’t see much of it—three or four key slides at most. That’s because Stuart has a unique approach that might best be described as going off topic to stay ontopic. He tolerates interruptions from the audience, encourages them, in fact. If an interesting, relevant point comes up, he pursues it. But in the end, Stuart always gets his message across and does so in a way that totally engages his audience.\n\nSo it will come as no surprise that in Stuart’s keynote about explosive behaviour at this year’s Self-Reg Summer Symposium, it wasn’t until about the halfway point that he mentioned that he doesn’t actually buy the idea of explosive behaviour. Mind you, the extreme outbursts of highly disruptive, even violent and destructive behaviours that concern teachers and parents are very real. But Dr. Shanker rejects the label “explosive” because of the connotation is that the behaviour is unpredictable and comes out of nowhere. “The child is exploding because of too much stress,” he says. “People often think these behaviours come out of nowhere, but almost always there are signs of excess stress earlier.” And when we learn how to see and read the signs that a child is overstressed and over aroused, then the “explosions” become predictable and preventable.\n\nWhile you may need to take some initial actions to ensure everyone’s safety during an outburst, the short-term goal in dealing with “explosive” behaviour is not discipline. With punishment, “there is no teaching and no learning going on,” says Dr. Shanker. Sure, children need to learn to make “better choices” about their behaviour, but not via a power dynamic when the child is really upset. “What the kid needs in those moments is a strong Interbrain performing what they can’t perform for themselves,” Dr. Shanker says. That means calming the child, turning off the stress alarm that is jangling deep in the subconscious parts of the child’s brain.\n\nThere are two big challenges for teachers and parents. One is our age-old, deeply ingrained self-control mindset, which tells us that, when kids are out of control, we must exert adult control via discipline. The trouble is, the default strategies like raised voices, commands, warnings and punishment usually make the situation worse by tipping the child even further into fight or flight.\n\nThe other challenge is that such behaviour often elicits a visceral reaction in ourselves. ”Why is it so hard to stay calm in the face of explosive behaviours?” Dr. Shanker asked rhetorically. “It’s because the kid feels a huge threat and so do we.” He explained that the brain’s limbic system is highly attuned to pick up and respond to threats, even before we are consciously aware of them. “The limbic system preceded language,” he says. So, at an earlier period in human evolution, if one person in a group became alarmed by a threat, all group members would instantly go into the same state, via this deep but primitive form of brain-to-brain communication. “That’s good for survival, when you face an imminent life-or-death threat,” Dr, Shanker says. “But not so good for teachers or parents trying to deal with behaviour outbursts.” Because in order to deal with “explosive” behaviour effectively, we need our prefrontal cortex to stay in command. That helps us stay calm so we can think more clearly about the situation while juggling other competing priorities, such as the needs of other children and what we’re supposed to be doing ten minutes from now.\n\nHow do we prevail over this ancient evolutionary mechanism that operates beneath the level of conscious thought? First, Dr. Shanker says, “You don’t want to beat yourself up because you’ve had this limbic reaction. It’s a normal human response.” What you want to do is find the way to stop yourself from having that instant visceral reaction. And the answer lies in the first step of Self-Reg: reframing. Learning to reframe the child’s behaviour and to see the situation differently stops your alarm from being tipped.\n\nReframing is also the first step in learning how to see and sense when a child is going “up the curve” towards a state of arousal and tension that makes outbursts inevitable. “Some children get to the edge of the ‘cliff’ much more quickly than others, he says, “When I talk to teachers about explosive behaviour episodes and what led up to them, the teachers can almost always identify signs that, in retrospect, were indications that an explosion might have been coming.”\n\nThe ability to see these signs via foresight rather than hindsight is something we can learn to do by doing the five steps of The Shanker Method®, starting with reframing the behaviour in terms of the stress that caused it. Then we need to find ways to reduce the child’s stress. Eventually, we also want to teach these kids to recognize the signs that they are getting agitated and work with them to figure out what stops them from going “past their peak.”\n\nUltimately, says Dr. Shanker, it’s about moving from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. In a fixed mindset, the child thinks, ‘There’s something wrong with me,” (and the adult agrees). The problem is beyond the child’s, or anyone’s control to change. In contrast, a growth mindset can always see the possibilities for learning and change. A growth mindset, Dr. Shanker says, gives the child a sense of control that comes from understanding, and it opens up the possibility of increasing children’s stress tolerance so they are better equipped to navigate the challenges of learning and life." ]

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[ null, "NYPD Arrest Woman Who Taunted A Lion At The Bronx Zoo\n\nIt was a shocking video on social media that went viral. A woman who had climbed into a lion enclosure at the Bronx Zoo in September has been arrested by the NYPD.\n\nThe woman has finally been identified as Myah Autry. Wednesday night she turned herself into police. She is now facing two counts of criminal trespassing.\n\nPolice have obtained video that shows Autry climbing over safety barrier to enter the lions enclosure and seeming taunting and dancing in front of the big cat. The only thing that separated the two was a moat.\n\nBronx Zoo officials released a statement that reads in part, “Barriers and rules are in place to keep both visitors, staff and animals safe. We have a zero-tolerance policy on trespass and violation of barriers.”" ]

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[ "Charting a bold concept for a lower-carbon future\n\nThe world has been galvanized to take global collaborative efforts to tackle climate change, with many utilising a combination of cleaner energy and technology to produce lower carbon power while reducing emissions.\n\nFor the past three years, ExxonMobil has been assessing the potential of carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment in major industrial “hubs” located near safe geological formations that can store CO2.\n\nCCS could enable the world to safely capture and store hundreds and millions of tonnes of CO2 that would otherwise escape into the atmosphere.\n\nIt is one of the few tried and tested technologies that has the potential to significantly lower emissions from hard-to-decarbonise sectors, such as manufacturing, power, and heavy industries.\n\nOne region that has emerged as a frontrunner is Houston in Texas.\n\nRecently, ExxonMobil’s Low Carbon Solutions business has introduced the concept of a Houston Ship Channel CCS Innovation Zone, an initiative that could bring together governments, private sector and others to advance the policies and investments required for large-scale CCS deployment.\n\nFully developed, this concept has the potential to capture about 100 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually by 2040, effectively offsetting one of the country’s largest sources of industrial CO2 emissions. It could also protect and create thousands of jobs, while drastically accelerating U.S. emission-reduction efforts and providing substantial progress toward the country’s lower-carbon aspirations.", null, "Specifically, the collaborative effort would transport CO2 captured at industrial sites for safe and permanent storage in dedicated sub-surface geologic formations deep under the Gulf of Mexico. According to U.S. Department of Energy estimates, the U.S. Gulf Coast has a projected capacity large enough to safely and permanently store about 500 billion metric tons of CO2 offshore.\n\nIn Asia Pacific, the majority of CO2 emissions come from the power generation, manufacturing, and construction sectors, and as such, work done in Houston could provide a roadmap to launch similar CCS initiatives in the region.\n\nWhy CCS?: While technologies like wind and solar will continue to play important roles in reducing emissions, CCS also offers a significant impact, particularly in the power generation and manufacturing sectors, the main sources of carbon emissions for Asia Pacific. In 2020, the International Energy Agency said “reaching net-zero [emissions] will be virtually impossible” without this technology.\n\nIn Asia Pacific, ExxonMobil’s work with the Singapore Energy Centre (SgEC), is helping to discover and build solutions that address challenges in energy, climate change and sustainable development through its research. One of the key research areas includes technologies that enable regional CO2 capture and sequestration options. The SgEC was one of the first ExxonMobil-supported energy centers outside of the US and was jointly founded by Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore.\n\nOverall, ExxonMobil has more than 30 years of experience capturing carbon and has an equity share in one-fifth of global CO2 capture capacity.\n\nWhy this matters: The goals of the Paris Agreement cannot be achieved without reducing emissions across the power generation, industrial and commercial transportation sectors. Power generation and heavy industry account for nearly 70 percent of all global energy-related emissions, and CCS is one of the few proven technologies that could lower emissions in these sectors. The prospect of bringing together public and private entities to collectively utilise CCS technology to significantly reduce the industrial offers tremendous promise and opportunity.\n\nThe role of policy: New policies are also needed to spur the investment required to deploy CCS on a pace and scale to meet Paris Agreement goals. Governments should establish durable regulatory and legal environments and implement policies to enable CCS to receive direct investment and incentives similar to those available to other efforts to reduce emissions. Establishing market prices on carbon will play an important part by providing the needed clarity and stability required to drive investment.", null, "The Houston Ship Channel CCS Innovation Zone concept would be an ambitious undertaking. Its success could provide a potential blueprint to help decarbonise other high-emission areas in the United States and could become a significant component of the country’s overall contribution toward the goal of a lower-carbon energy future." ]

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[ "A Toast Of England\n\nThe ‘Sally Lunn’ is not really a cake at all. It is best described as a large, plain white bap said to have originated in the City of Bath, a stately old town in the South-West of England. The dough is enriched with eggs and butter and the form is that of a disc approximately 5-6 inches across and 3-4 inches tall. They should have a soft, light texture.\n\nThere are a couple of differing versions of the origin of the name. One says that she was a real person, an emigre French bakery worker in Bath whose real name was ‘Soulange Lyon’\n\nAnother, that they were first made by French refugees in the 18th century and known as ‘soleil et lune’\n\nBoth examples could easily have been anglicised to ‘Sally Lunn’ in the common parlance.\n\nTraditionally they are best served warm. They should be split and smothered with melted butter, as with muffins and crumpets.\n\nThey may also be made with all sandwich fillings, savoury and sweet.", null ]

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[ "SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, Va. – No injuries have been reported after a severe storm moved across Route 58 in Southampton County Thursday afternoon. A possible tornado touched down about 1:15 p.m. in that area, Virginia State Police said.\n\nThe storm flooded the road and knocked over trees.", null, "“VDOT crews have cleared all major debris on Route 58, there is still down power lines on Route 58 at Rt 308,” Virginia State Police spokeswoman Sergeant M. Anaya said. “State Police called out more Troopers to help with the storm and assist VDOT in cleaning up roadways.”\n\nEarlier storm debris closed westbound Route 58 at the 308. Additionally, Route 652 was shutdown due to flood waters.\n\nWOW! Look at this picture of hail we just received from #Capron. (Photo from SHSO) #hrweather #hrva @WTKR3 pic.twitter.com/h26clFmoir\n\nClick here to use interactive radar. This is a developing story." ]

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[ null, "Stafford spoke before an audience of Airmen, coalition partners and industry leaders about his contributions to both the Air Force and NASA.\n\nIn the 1950s, Stafford commissioned in the Air Force, flying the F-86 Sabre prior to becoming a test pilot.\n\n“I’ll never regret my decision to go into the Air Force,” Stafford said. “I’ve always wanted to fly higher and faster…honestly, I wanted to fly anything that I could get my hands on.”\n\nWhen President John F. Kennedy announced his goal of sending an American to the moon in 1961, Stafford found his calling.\n\n“Now that, I thought, would be higher and faster,” he said.\n\nIn 1962, NASA selected him among the second group of astronauts to participate in projects Gemini and Apollo. He was selected to become an astronaut in 1962, and flew aboard Gemini 6A and Gemini 9. In 1969, Stafford was the commander of Apollo 10, the second manned mission to orbit the moon and the first to fly a Lunar Module in lunar orbit, descending to an altitude of nine miles.\n\nIn total, NASA flew 10 Gemini missions in 20 months and five Apollo missions in nine months. To date, the retired general holds the world record for the highest reentry of speed of any manned space flight. During Apollo X, he assisted in formulating the sequence of missions leading to the first lunar-landing mission, and demonstrated and implemented the theory of a pilot manually flying the Saturn booster into orbit and the translunar-injection maneuver.\n\nFor generations, the contributions of Airmen in space have enabled the nation’s success in the domain. Stafford is still an Air Force and space advocate, and his hopes for the successful future of both are boundless.\n\n“I want this to be the best Air Force in the world, to stay ahead and not have the budget go up and down,” Stafford said. “We need to be able to do things where they don’t take so long in development…there’s too much to be lost.”" ]

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[ "For over ten years now, Toyota has given car owners the chance to drive an ultra-efficient, high gas-mileage hybrid car. But while the 2012 Toyota Prius might give great gas milage, it just isn’t rugged enough for a large proportion of pickup-loving Americans.\n\nFor them, driving a Toyota Prius would just be too much of an insult to their constitutional rights. In some areas, driving a hybrid could lead others to question your sexuality.\n\nCurrently, if you want a hybrid pickup truck, the only two vehicles on the market are the 2012 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid, and is General Motors' Sibling, the GMC Sierra 15 Hybrid.\n\nSoon, that choice will expand thanks to an ongoing hybrid drivetrain collaboration between Toyota and Ford.\n\nAs Takeshi Uchiyamada,Toyota’s global research and development chief told the Automotive News, the two firms hope to finish a brand new hybrid pickup system by the end of 2012 that will power future large pickups for both firms.\n\nAs a former chief engineer on the original Prius hybrid project, Takeshi believes the technology he helped pioneer over ten years ago is just about to go mainstream.\n\n\"Hybrid technology is a trump card for fuel-economy improvement,” he enthused.", null, "Making use of that trump card means developing hybrid drivetrains that work across Toyota’s range, from its very smallest sub-compacts through to its luxury Lexus sedans, SUVs and pickups.\n\nFor Toyota, a hybrid pickup truck makes sense at every level. Developing it for Toyota’s largest pickup truck, the Tundra, makes even more sense.\n\nCurrently, the 2012 Tundra struggles to get a fuel economy greater than 20 mpg on the highway. Move into the city, and it barely touches 15.\n\nAs we’ve said before, the lower the gas mileage of a vehicle before you make improvements like adding a hybrid system, the larger the benefits are afterwards.\n\nEven a difference of a few miles per gallon could dramatically affect the fuel bills of tens of thousands of local government organizations, private fleets and small businesses that rely on pickup trucks every day to carry out their jobs.", null, "And for those beer-drinking pickup owners who couldn’t drive a “gay little Prius”? It means more money saved for whatever it is they want to do more of.\n\nAll in a manly way, of course." ]

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[ null, "\"Lemme tell you something, Teresa! That girl's crazy, and she's got a f--king problem!\" Dolores shouts after the debacle.\n\nAnother day, another explosive dinner for \"The Real Housewives of New Jersey.\"\n\nWednesday's new hour picked up where last week's left off -- with Jennifer Aydin breaking a wine glass and threatening to fight Melissa Gorga.\n\nSo the ladies are still in Cabo, and if you missed last week's episode, you missed everything. (Here's a recap.) Margaret Josephs and Jennifer spent the entire vacation insulting each other's marriages until they finally reached some sort of peace agreement. But thanks to pot-stirrer extraordinaire Danielle Staub, both Jennifer and Margaret got all worked up again at the ladies' final dinner.", null, "Danielle said some incendiary things about Margaret's children, which prompted Margaret to grab Dolores Catania's wine and throw it at Danielle. All hell broke loose, and Melissa ended up getting an actual wine glass thrown at her. She mistakenly thought Jennifer was the culprit, which offended Jennifer. Jen stood up, smashed a wine glass on the table and said, \"IF I THROW F--KING GLASS AT YOU, YOU'RE GONNA KNOW IT, SWEETHEART.\"\n\nMelissa lost it. \"You picked the wrong f--king girl! I'm telling you that right now!\" she shouted as she made her way over to Jennifer.\n\n\"You wanna come in my face?! Come on, baby!\" a pretty boozed-up Jen taunted. Luckily, Melissa walked away, but Dolores was too angry to let Jennifer get off that easy.", null, "\"Jen, you break a glass like that, you should get your f--king ass kicked. Who the f--k are you?!\" she said as Danielle stepped in to make sure hands didn't fly.\n\n\"She wasn't giving you shit!\" Dolores fired back.\n\n\"Don't go there, Dolores!\" Danielle scolded. Luckily, Dolores walked away, too, but she was livid. She later vented to the camera, \"Jennifer breaking that glass triggered something in me. If I didn't walk away, I would've done something that I may have regretted.\"\n\nElsewhere, Jackie Goldschneider was comforting Margaret, who was more upset by Teresa Giudice defending Danielle than she was by Danielle insulting her family.", null, "On the other side of the resort, Teresa was chasing Melissa down the hall. \"Would you stop!?\" she yelled. \"I'm trying to catch up to you! I didn't like that you f--king left. We were here to have a nice dinner.\"\n\nMelissa's eyes nearly bulged out of her head. \"Honey! You are so one-sided with your thoughts! These girls are acting like animals!\"\n\nIn charges Danielle: \"Lemme tell you something, Teresa! That girl's crazy, and she's got a f--king problem.\" Melissa agreed, saying Jen had \"devil eyes all night.\"\n\nDolores was honestly angrier than we've ever seen her, and rightfully so! She tried to explain to Teresa how what had just transpired was not okay, but Teresa wasn't really budging. She was unapologetically on Team Danielle.\n\n\"Jennifer shouldn't have broke the glass, but hello! Margaret has said vile things about Jennifer and Danielle,\" Teresa told the camera. She then went over to console Jennifer, even saying she \"felt bad\" for her.\n\n\"You don't say that about somebody else's husband,\" Teresa said, admitting that the conversation struck a nerve because of all the times she's had to defend her own husband. \"You kind of remind me of me. Like, when you get pissed off, you react.\" (Cue her 2009 \"prostitution whore\" table flip on Danielle.)", null, "Once everyone got back to New Jersey, the Househusbands were filled in. (We always love watching how the sequence of events changes depending on who's telling the story.) Despite all the arguing and fighting, the ladies put on their big-girl pants and attended Margaret's charity event for kids with cancer. She handled everything like a pro, and everyone got along. Jennifer apologized to Margaret and Melissa, who both accepted and agreed to move forward.\n\nThe only castmember not in attendance was Danielle. Coincidence? We don't know, but what we do know is that she'll be at Jennifer's big anniversary party next week, where Margaret's husband ends up pushing Danielle's husband in the pool.", null ]

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[ null, "Pop Goes The News — Atom Egoyan pauses for several seconds when asked about the current crop of Canadian filmmakers making movies that are being seen and talked about around the world.\n\nThe 55-year-old writer-director is in a club that includes Jean-Marc Vallée, Denis Villeneuve and newcomer Xavier Dolan.\n\nAt least six of his films, including last year’s The Captive, have been nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and his 1997 film The Sweet Hereafter earned him a pair of Oscar nominations.\n\n“It’s funny, we have a very interesting tradition,” Egoyan finally offers. “Up until this point the filmmakers who wanted to work in a more commercial medium are the ones who made the decision early on and left the country — the Norman Jewisons, the Arthur Hillers, the James Camerons.\n\n“We are in this interesting phase — and I think it started with David Cronenberg — that you can stay in Canada and you can still explore other possibilities.”\n\nEgoyan points out that Vallée and Villeneuve are doing post-production of their films in their native Montreal. “They’re going elsewhere to shoot but then they bring it back home. They don’t need to leave.\n\n“That’s different. As these films and these reputations make it clear that we don’t have to leave the country in order to explore this other way of making films, then it becomes a lot more natural.”\n\nSpeaking to Pop Goes The News on Thursday in Cabo San Lucas, where his latest film Remember is screening at the Los Cabos International Film Festival, Egoyan says Canada has hosted filmmakers from all over the world so it’s only logical the country’s own should be able to go beyond its borders.\n\n“It should be a two-way street. We should be able to go back and forth and be able to migrate,” he says. “This should just be something we take for granted.”\n\n“You go, why does it take so long? But these barriers are broken now,” Egoyan says. “There shouldn’t be anything special about the fact that we’re staying in Canada or that we’re using Canada as Canada.\n\n“It’s just fascinating that these early directors felt the need to move.”\n\nWhile Egoyan agrees that foreign productions — including big-budget Hollywood films — pump a lot of money into the Canadian film industry, he notes that they have made it more challenging for directors like him to work at home.\n\n“It’s very busy and it’s more difficult to bring together a crew,” he says. “The equipment is so overbooked and overextended. Finding studio space in Toronto is challenging.”\n\nEgoyan says that Chloe was one of the first films to shoot inside Pinewood Toronto Studios. “I remember walking around and thinking, wow, is this going to work? And now it’s impossible to get that space.\n\n“This is healthy. This is good. But it is frustrating.”", null, "Remember stars Toronto-born Christopher Plummer as a man living with dementia who, using instructions written down by a fellow nursing home resident (Martin Landau), sets out to kill the man who killed his family at Auschwitz.\n\nSet in the U.S., Egoyan made the film in Southern Ontario using a script from first-time screenwriter Benjamin August. (The director believes Remember will be one of the last contemporary movies about Holocaust survivors.)\n\nThe film belongs to Plummer, who is in every scene, but there are memorable performances by Landau, Bruno Ganz, Jürgen Prochnow and Dean Norris. The latter, playing a neo-Nazi, has a scene with Plummer that is difficult to watch.\n\n“We rehearsed that. We were able to kind of choreograph it because we knew you couldn’t keep summoning those emotions,” recalls Egoyan, a Breaking Bad fan who met Norris at a film festival in Italy and pictured him in the role.\n\n“There is something so empathetic about [his character]. I knew that Dean could bring that nuance to it.”", null, "Remember is infused with Holocaust symbolism — a barking German Shepherd, a journey by train, wailing sirens.\n\n“Those are things that I kind of visualized,” explains Egoyan. “They’re inspired by the script, obviously.\n\n“The siren is a weird one because we were looking for locations and we found this place near a quarry [between Burlington and Hamilton] and that is the actual sound of the siren that they use to signal there’s an explosion. I heard it and I was like ‘this is just too weird’ so we had the sound person record it and it ended up being a huge part of the soundtrack.”\n\nThe movie ends with a twist (which answers several questions keen-eyed viewers may have had) that Egoyan hopes people who see the movie won’t give away.\n\nRemember had a theatrical release in Canada last month and will hit cinemas in the U.S. in January — but Egoyan knows many more people will experience it via streaming services. He’s okay with this, given that the film is small in scale and linear.\n\n“It’s funny because The Captive ended up doing extraordinary well on iTunes and Amazon Prime. In the U.S. that’s how a lot of people saw the film and yet it’s shot in scope and shot for the big screen,” he says.\n\n“It’s interesting because I look at the responses on Amazon Prime and imdb.com and people don’t feel frustrated.”\n\nAs a filmmaker, Egoyan struggles with the ways movies are consumed these days.\n\n“I don’t know how to negotiate that because some people have large-screen TVs at home and they’re watching it that way but then you are aware that some people are watching it on iPhones,” he explains. “I’m trying to figure that out.”\n\nHe’s certain of one thing, though. “I’m not going to change my technique to accommodate the form. That becomes really dangerous.”\n\nEgoyan is also not keen to go back to directing TV, although he admits there’s a project he’s considering that “would be more of a limited series than a feature.”\n\n“I’m embarrassed to admit this but I did the pilot of the Friday the 13th TV series so I had this early contact with television,” says Egoyan, who also helmed episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone in the late ‘80s. “but it was always just as a way of paying for my feature films, so I could produce my own work.”\n\nHe says his career could have gone in an entirely different direction when HBO optioned his 1991 film The Adjuster for a series.\n\n“I did the whole contract, I gave the rights. At the time I said creatively I don’t want anything to do with it,” recalls Egoyan. “So they made a pilot, which didn’t work, but I look back at it now and I go, ‘That would have been very interesting.’\n\n“To do this film about a bisexual insurance adjuster working with these different clients, putting them up in a motel, and of course there could have been an episodic aspect to it and it could have been this very unusual series at that time, in the early ‘90s right after Twin Peaks.”\n\nEgoyan says he was consumed with his feature films like Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter at the time so he doesn’t have any regrets about not adapting The Adjuster for TV.\n\n“And I have to admit I did not take it seriously because I felt I had already made the film — why would I go back into this world? But now, it’s interesting,” he admits. “I would have pursued it as a series because it’s a good idea. It has its own episodic quality — you can see it in the film. You can see how the branches would grow, as they have to do in a good TV series.”\n\nEgoyan also believes he’s not built for the pace of episodic television, which requires “a long distance runner.”\n\nHe explains: “You are dedicating your life to it. A feature film, yes, it’s very stressful but you’re shooting for maybe five or six weeks. Television production, that process is going on all the time.\n\n“Also, working in a room with other writers. The politics of that would be completely… It’s exciting, I mean, I love this idea that you are able to generate ideas with other people… but it’s completely outside of my experience.”\n\nWhile Egoyan’s films typically earn acclaim and awards, they rarely earn a lot of money. Still, he insists he has little interest in signing on to make a big studio blockbuster.\n\n“You have to think that you’d do a good job with it and you’d be the right person to do it,” he explains, “and I just think there are other filmmakers who are more disposed towards that type of film.\n\n“I enjoy that sort of film but whether or not I could actually think that I would do a great job… when it comes to big-tent films, I’m just not designed for that, probably.”\n\nBELOW: Watch the trailer for Remember.\n\nPop Goes The News is a guest of the Los Cabos International Film Festival." ]

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[ null, "For these of you who’re concerned about your privateness and don’t desire another customers who’ve entry to your computer to know what websites you’ve got been visiting on-line, must know learn how to totally erase web historical past. Each week, new authentic films debut on Netflix, Hulu, and completely different streaming firms, usually to loads a lot much less fanfare than their large-screen counterparts. BeBe Winans revealed in April that he seemingly contracted COVID-19 whereas touring from New York to Detroit for a funeral. For example, the individuals at Netflix would possibly ask themselves What number of customers who started Arrested Improvement (from season 1) finished it to the tip of season 3?” Then they get a solution. They’re among the many a complete lot of thousands who’ve examined constructive for the coronavirus as it has spread all over the world.\n\nFor those of you who’re involved about your privateness and don’t need one other prospects who’ve access to your laptop to know what web sites you’ve been visiting on-line, should understand how to totally erase internet historical past. Gregory M. Aymond: Archbishop Aymond of New Orleans, 70, acknowledged in a statement that he tested optimistic after having some delicate symptoms, together with a fever. The group moreover operates FILMUADrama, a channel for broadcasting content materials produced on the Studio. A variety of the forms of films Netflix has been pushing out over the last few years have been decrease price range type movies. Namun situs-situs serupa masih banyak bermunculan di Web dengan nama domain yang beragam. Director Noah Baumbach’s decision to film in black-and-white affords the film a stark look paying homage to French New Wave films like The 400 Blows, which feels acceptable given the film’s existential themes.\n\nThough this present’s core idea peaked in season one, when much less was acknowledged about the particulars of the afterlife setting, this has nonetheless a lot of the best joke writing on TELEVISION. A wonderful solid and an distinctive concept make this a must-watch. It’s uncommon for comedy to hold up this properly, however the timelessness of strains like, “I fart in your frequent route!” “It’s only a flesh wound,” and “Run away!” makes this a movie value watching many times. It obtained the Large Five (Best Image, Greatest Director, Best Actor, Finest Actress and Best Screenplay) on the Oscars – solely the third film ever to take motion (After It Occurred One Night time, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest).\n\nFor those of you who’re concerned about your privacy and do not want another customers who’ve entry to your laptop to know what sites you’ve been visiting on-line, have to know find out how to completely erase internet history. You’ll be able to watch movies by streaming directly or downloading them for everytime you’re not on Wi-Fi. Untuk paket Dasar harganya Rp 109 ribu, paket Standar Rp 139 ribu, dan paket Premium Rp 169 ribu. Filmmakers can conceivably shoot a film with a digital video digicam and edit the film, create and edit the sound and music, and mix the final decrease on a excessive-end dwelling pc. There are a variety of internet sites that provide premium TELEVISION collection as content material materials on their site nonetheless they breach the copyrights of the media content proprietor.\n\nWe even named it among the many most interesting anime sequence you presumably can watch in 2020, and Castlevania season 3 has lately launched – it is the darkest but by the use of material. Chef Floyd Cardoz, who competed on Prime Chef,” received Prime Chef Masters” and operated profitable eating places in both India and New York, died Wednesday of complications from the coronavirus, his agency mentioned in a press release. Bisa menonton film lama yang sudah tak tayang di bioskop." ]

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[ null, null, "Where arriving late means not only being right at the front, but also by the draughty side door.\n\nThe instructor was launching himself into new positions every few seconds whereas I was just bone tired. Like ok I’m unfit but surely not this bloody unfit to the point where each new pose is torture, my joints ache, and my back has started a weird burning and will be sending threatening cease and desist letters very soon. If the tingling in my foot is anything to go by it’s going to get my legs involved and start a spines and lower extremities against yoga faction.\n\nAnd that’s not even getting started on the underwear situation. Little tip, if you’re going to be lunging about all over a yoga mat try not to end up doing it in your only clean underwear – lacy thong with entirely no staying power. From recent research I can confirm you end up very conscious of its travels away from its assigned position. Unfortunately bringing to mind thoughts of cheese wire and incredibly abnormal camel toes, perhaps where one toe of said camel has had an alarming allergic reaction to something and the other is being strangled by synthetic fibres. Yes, I readjusted myself in the middle of yoga. Everyone else was chanting praise to the sun and I was beseeching the universe for better underwear choices. It happens.\n\nOh, and so many questions. It would have been great to connect to the instructor’s mind through the vibrations of the universe so I could ask, ‘hey if I’m not currently that fussed about my fertility can I skip this one where we’re prone with just our arses in the air? Only my boobs and lower back are killing me.’ Or, ‘imma just stay here in child’s pose mmkay, wake me up when it’s time for the coconut punch.’\n\nSpent the latter part of the class wondering where I could get a bagel from and making a mental note to check if I can get a subscription to watch GoT on my tablet.\n\nAlso, also! Surely the relaxation part of any yoga class is where is perfectly acceptable, nay expected, to fall asleep. It’s like a law of the universe. But he had us turning over and moving our arms about. He was saying it in a very calm and soothing voice, but still. I seriously considered feigning actual sleep and just staying in my NCIS victim pose on my back (a personal favourite) but I didn’t quite dare.\n\nI think the moral is, don’t try a new class when you haven’t exercised in two months, are mentally exhausted and haven’t had enough sleep.\n\nOn a positive note, I took the little Rav for a test drive and hopefully will be welcoming it to the fam soon!" ]

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[ null, "There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part, and how it changes the way we catch serial killers.\n\nNo two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the last ten to 15 years. Laser ablation, video spectral analysis, cyber-sleuthing, and even DNA-based genetic genealogy are now crucial tools in solving murders, including the recent capture of the so-called Golden State Killer. This first book in the new Profiles in Crime series tells the history of forensics through the \"capture stories\" of some of the most notorious serial killers, going back almost a century." ]

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[ null, "Landon Nelms (27), junior defensive back for Greenwood, reacts on Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, during the second quarter of the Bulldogs' 56-53 win over Fort Smith Northside at Smith-Robinson Stadium in Greenwood. Nelms and the Bulldogs will host Benton on Friday in a Class 6A state semifinal game. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Hank Layton)\n\nGREENWOOD -- Greenwood and Benton are familiar foes, but the Bulldogs are not expecting the same old Panthers on Friday.\n\n\"They're different,\" Greenwood coach Chris Young said. \"It all starts with the running back. It's a nice move-in for those guys. They were excited the day he showed up on their campus. They do a great job on offense. We struggled the last couple of times we've faced them, they've scored some points on us.\"\n\nBenton is not as pass-happy as in recent years mostly due to junior running back Braylon Russell, who moved from Hot Springs Lakeside during the summer.\n\n\"Obviously, we have yet to face him and haven't seen him in person, but if the stories are half as true as what we're told, he's really, really good,\" Young said. \"He's kind of like James Jointer, who played at Parkview last year ... big, strong, physical back. He's 230 and runs a 4.5 40. That's really, really scary to think about.\"\n\nRussell joins an impressive list of running backs that the Bulldogs have faced in the past in the playoffs, including Pulaski Academy's Broderick Green, Little Rock Christian's Michael Dyer, Marion's Darcel 'the Diesel' Johnson, Camden Fairview's DeAnthony Curtis, and Nettleton's Derek Lawson.\n\nLast Friday night in a 42-7 win over Russellville in the second round of the playoffs, Greenwood intercepted four passes from four different passers.\n\nIt's an area cornerback coach Travis Sandifer and safeties coach Steven Thessing have work on all season.\n\n\"I think our coverage early in the year is something that we really struggled with,\" Young said. \"Coach Sandifer and Coach Thessing have done an outstanding job with our guys. We've got several different guys playing back there.\"\n\n\"That's our starting two corners, and they were 0-for-7 with three picks on those guys,\" Young said. \"We're very happy with our pass coverage.\"\n\nGreenwood also brought out a trick play on a two-conversion after the Bulldogs scored their final touchdown of the night.\n\nGrant Karnes was lined up in the left slot and went into motion to the right. Left tackle Cooper Young came off his block, retreated and took the lateral from Hunter Houston and scored for a 42-0 lead with 10:01 left in the third quarter.\n\n\"We like to do that just for fun,\" Young said. \"Those linemen love it when you throw it to your left tackle. Only in that situation were we able to run that. We did it as a fun thing, and it turned out perfectly.\"\n\nThe Bearcats went about as far south as a team can go last week, almost to Louisiana, and still be in Arkansas when they traveled to Smackover for their second-round playoff game.\n\nNow, they go to the northeast corner of the state almost to the Missouri boot heel to Osceola.\n\nMore than the trip, though, is the opponent for the Bearcats.\n\n\"They're athletic for sure and very scary,\" Crowley said. \"They're a very good football team. We definitely haven't seen an athletic team like this. They're as athletic as anybody in 3A.\"\n\nBooneville has seen its season come to an end the last two seasons after long road trips, both to Harding Academy, which went on to win the state championship both times.\n\nThe Bearcats will lean on the leadership and experience of the seniors on Friday.\n\nOsceola opened the season with three nonconference losses but hasn't lost since and won the 3A-3 conference. The Seminoles ousted touted Camden Harmony Grove from the playoffs last week, 48-7.\n\nQuarterback Torian Bell has thrown for 1,777 yards and 26 touchdowns.\n\n\"They're throwing all over the place,\" Crowley said. \"I'm hoping for a really windy night on the river.\"\n\nBell is averaging 16.8 yards per completion.\n\n\"We've just got to make sure we don't give up the big play. They have big play capability.\"\n\nThe Warriors played the perfect half on Friday before Malvern made two necessary stops to rally to a 41-31 win.\n\nFriday, Lamar threw an interception right before the half when they were trying to get close enough for a field goal that could have extended a 23-20 lead.\n\n\"We left three points on the board there,\" Lamar coach Josh Jones said. \"It just slipped out of his hand. He was trying to throw it out of bounds. We've got a good kicker.\"\n\nThen a fumble and two penalties were costly in the third quarter.\n\n\"They called an illegal shift,\" Jones said. \"It's fourth and one, and they made it on their sideline. If we score every time in the second half, we win. We just didn't get it done.\"\n\nMalvern was the second seed from the tough 4A-7 conference.\n\n\"We were heavy underdogs,\" Jones said. \"They've got five Division 1 players, and one of their tackles has been offered by the Razorbacks.\"\n\nThat puts him third on the all-time list behind Noah Dotson and Evan Burris.\n\nDefensive end Dillon Flanagan finished with 11 sacks, which puts him second in a season behind Ryan Wilkerson, who had 12 in 1994.\n\nHenry finished the season with 53 catches for 798 yards and 12 touchdowns.\n\nHe set career records in receiving in all three categories with 166 receptions for 2,811 yards and 35 touchdowns.\n\nHenry has received a Preferred Walkon Offer from the Arkansas Razorbacks.\n\nThe 1-2 punch of quarterback Landon Wright and running back Eli Masingale set high standards for the future.\n\nMasingale ran for 1,401 yards and 23 touchdowns this season and finished his career with 3,416 yards and 48 touchdowns.\n\nSouthside junior running back Isaac Gregory led Class 7A in rushing during the regular season.\n\nGregory had 204 carries for 1,523 yards and 21 touchdowns and missed the regular-season final against Springdale and the playoff game against North Little Rock.\n\nGregory's rushing total is the most since Daniel McGee ran for 1,709 yards and 21 touchdowns in 2008.\n\nAlso against Har-Ber, quarterback Carter Zimmerman ran for 240 yards and three touchdowns, as the two became the first duo in school history to eclipse the 200-yard mark in a game since Julius Jones for 23 times for 237 yards and four scores and David Price ran 16 times for 202 yards and four touchdowns in a 56-29 win over Northside in the regular-season finale in 2010.\n\nJunior defensive end John Parkinson finished with 13 sacks for the season. By comparison, linebacker Shannon Wright had 15 sacks during the 1988 season as the state's defensive player of the year before signing with the Arkansas Razorbacks." ]

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[ "Staff of Imo Civil Guards, numbering about nine hundred and sixty who have not been paid salary for the past two and half years are lamenting that the Hope Uzodinma administration has turned them to street beggars who now depend on charity for the up keep of themselves, their families and dependents.\n\nInvestigation by this reporter indicate that staff of the agency were already working at Imo Orientation Agency (Corps) before the Rochas Okorocha administration came on board.\n\nOn assumption of office, he changed the name to Imo Civil Guards and also changed their green and white uniform to what it is presently.\n\nAccording to our source, they were de-emerged in July 2013 while in February 2014, the recruits were trained at ICAPS, along Egbu road.”\n\nA staff of the outfit who does not want his name in print said, “When Rochas Okorocha assumed office as governor of the state, he was paying us. But when Chief Emeka Ihedioha came on board, he promised to pay our salaries but did not before he was sacked.\n\n“We were only paid May and June 2019 salaries in August same year. We have not been paid a kobo again since then despite series of verification exercises conducted at different times by the former commissioner for Transport, Barr Rex Anunobi (Sokom), the Governor’s SSA, (Transport), Hon Savior Okiro, among others.”\n\nThe source who said he has worked with the outfit for 18 years revealed that the wage bill of the outfit is N25, 100,000 monthly, regretted that about 11 of their staff had died in the past few months as a result of hunger and lack of funds to access medication when they are sick. Some of the deceased members according to him are;Oliver Akuwuji, Uche Longinus, Chinyere Nwogu, Nwosu Amarachi and Eke Charles.\n\nContinuing, he said, “Governor Uzodinma in a bid to tell us that we are no longer relevant sent away all our personnel who were deployed to Government House without explanation. He has also not bothered to ask how we have been surviving with our families and dependents for the past 21/2 years without salary.\n\nThe embattled and pauperized staff of Imo Civil Guards who former Governor Okorocha changed their name from Imo Orientation Officers and adopted as the State’s Internal Security outfit pleaded with Governor Uzodinma to pay them their salaries to enable them take care of their families knowing that government is a continuum.\n\nMost Imolites who expressed concern about the menace constituted by the civil guards who desperately and embarrassingly beg commuters for money along the roads called on the state government to as a matter of urgency pay the distraught personnel their salaries to put a stop to the show of shame which portrays the state and her citizens in very bad light “as they tell anybody who cares to listen why they have resorted to begging as a means of survival.”", null, "Killings In Imo Must Stop, Every Blood Spilled Be Accounted For – Okorocha" ]

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[ "This House Won “Building Of The Year Award” By Archdaily\n\nMeet Casa Cabo de Vila, a house built on a hilltop in Paredes, a municipality in Portugal’s Porto district, that won Building of the Year Award by Archdaily. Its organic shape was inspired by the idea of movement rather than emphasising a sense of stability.\n\nAs a result, it won “Building of the Year Award“, and it’s fully decorated with Laskasas pieces, so we believe it’s worth taking a peek.\n\nThe architects at Spaceworkers conceived the house as a delightful adornment for the lush natural surroundings.\n\nIt features a gorgeous fluid shape. The layout of the house could be described as a square whose corners have been pulled outwards.\n\nThe concrete structure is made up of two extensive, thick horizontal parts. They are squashed together to create the base and the roof.\n\nThe space between the two features one floor containing all the rooms. A spacious living room and kitchen, three bedrooms and bathrooms and a garage.\n\nYou may also like: New Collection Designing Purposeful Connections\n\nThe imaginary movement between the parts is reflected in the continuous glass and wood facades. Sliding walls that open the interior space up wide to the exterior. It reflects why this house won the Building of the Year Award.\n\nCasa Cabo de Vila’s layout seems to want to stretch over the ground as if it had no real borders but yearned to take in the nature, the ground and the forests stretching into the distance.\n\nThe great weight of the roof is supported by concrete walls and pillars which run through to the interior. As a result, it creates an unrestricted layout and a semi-structured space.\n\nA minimal number of walls sketch out the floor plan of the house. Framed by light, moveable glass and wood surfaces. Instead of being shut off or permanently excluded from the exterior, the interior space seems poised to reach outwards.\n\nThe first level of this Building of the Year Award-winning house is created by the huge solid base which matches the floor plan in size and lifts the house up from the ground. A second level is formed by the concrete casts. It extends out from the house towards the two entrances, one pedestrian and one vehicular, both of them leading downwards.\n\nThe way in which the perimeter expands outwards pierces the concrete at its core, forming an opening in the block which is given over to nature once again.\n\nThe entire layout of this Building of the Year Award winner rotates around the central feature. An open glass patio that recreates a fragment of the nature surrounding the whole house.\n\nThe interior of the building is no less stunning than its architecture. Filled with Laskasas‘ pieces, meet all the divisions of this remarkable family home:\n\nThis dining room is a truly multi-functional space. Designed to be more than a place to sit and have dinner. As a result, is also an entertainment room for guests.", null, "The home office speaks to those who need comfort and style to greater creativity. The simple wooden desk and the ergonomic leather chair create the perfect place to escape the urban world and to get things done.\n\nThe bed with integrated bedside tables and the lighting fixtures create a glamour that makes a statement.\n\nBulding of the Year Award — Bedroom\n\nROUND UP: 6 Strange Interior Design Requests" ]

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[ null, "The University of Alabama had the best offensive line in college football last year.\n\nSince it originated in 2015, Nick Saban has witnessed the Crimson Tide win two Joe Moore Awards.\n\nThe most recent one came in 2020 as the group of Alex Leatherwood, Deonte Brown, Landon Dickerson, Emil Ekiyor Jr., and Evan Neal guided Alabama to a national championship. This unit allowed Mac Jones, Najee Harris, and DeVonta Smith to each have a special season. Dickerson and Leatherwood were Unanimous First-Team All-Americans, and both helped Jones, Harris, and Smith become first-round picks in the NFL Draft. Neal and Ekiyor returned for this year’s unit, but Dickerson and Leatherwood are in the National Football League. Chris Owens, a senior, filled in admirably for Dickerson during the Southeastern Conference Championship Game versus Florida. He started both matchups in the College Football Playoff, performing well against Notre Dame and Ohio State. The native Texan entered the offseason as a lock to start at center.\n\nAfter redshirting his freshman season in 2016, Owens has played in 38 games — including seven starts. He has at every position on the offensive line, seeing time at center, guard, tackle, and tight end. The 6-foot-3, 305-pounder has embraced the role of ‘old man’ on the team. Despite entering his sixth year, the former four-star is an important piece to a reloaded offensive front.\n\nOwens is competing with Darrian Dalcourt to remain the starting center. Alabama had the junior running first-team during last week’s scrimmage, and Coach Saban liked what he saw in Dalcourt. As a Maryland native, the alumnus of St. Frances Academy has logged action in 14 games as a backup center. He played against Texas A&M, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, and Notre Dame in 2020. Dalcourt was regarded as one of the top center/guard prospects out of high school in the 2019 class.\n\nRELATED: Will Anderson is ‘a complete player’ for Alabama according to Nick Saban\n\nRegardless of his talents, DJ Dale sees Owens as the best option at center.\n\n“Chris Owens is probably one of the smartest guys I’ve ever played against,” Dale said last week. “He knows what every person on the offensive line has to do, and he knows what we are doing when we line up on defense. He calls out what we are running sometimes, so it’s very challenging to go against him. He’s athletic, he can move, he’s quick, and he’s strong.”\n\nBrian Robinson is in his redshirt senior year at running back. During his presser on Monday, he said all the younger players depend on Owens for leadership. The Tuscaloosa native said Owens is a ‘positive role model’ who has had a lot of success with Alabama. He has been on two national championship teams and three SEC Championship teams in his tenure.\n\nDickerson brought a different personality to the center position. He was physical in the run game, an elite pass blocker, and his antics made him a favorite among Tide fans. He was beloved by his teammates and coaches and was voted a permanent team captain by his peers. Owens has big shoes to fill, but he is capable of doing it.\n\nHe started 2019 as Alabama’s center; however, Dickerson ended up replacing him.\n\nOwens now has to fend off a surging Dalcourt to remain the guy to head the offense.\n\nThe Tide is now in its final week of fall camp.\n\nIt opens the regular season versus Miami on Saturday, Sept. 4 at 2:30 p.m." ]

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[ null, "Cara-Louise Scott\nI am a third year English and creative writing student who loves reading, writing and travelling! I am the Digital Editor and Food&Drink editor <3\nPublished at 21:00 on 29 October 2021\nImages by @NetflixUK on Twitter\n\nA council in the south of England have emailed local parents advising them to not let their children watch the currently popular new Netflix show, Squid Game. They say that the violence may have a negative impact on children and that the graphically gory games may end up being played out of the context. There have been countless reports across the UK that children in schools have been trying to replicate the games that are in Squid Game, with some children even going as far as physically punishing those that lose. The email from the council urges parents to be careful of their child seeing references to the series on social media, especially TikTok, and gaming platforms because of their influence on children.\n\nWhat may look like innocent games to some are far from it in the world of Squid Game. The Netflix drama is based around a series of children’s games that see 456 individuals compete to win a cash sum of 45.6 wan. It is revealed fairly early on in the series that players will die if they lose a game. For example, in the first game, the participants play ‘Red Light, Green Light’, which many may know as ‘Granny’s Footsteps’. The aim of the original game is for players to make it across a field when a curator’s back is turned, and freeze when the curator is facing them so that they don’t get caught moving. However, in Squid Game, the curator is a mechanical (and very creepy looking) doll and if someone is caught moving, they are shot dead on the spot. Not exactly something you would want children to watch. Yet, Squid Game content is easy to access on YouTube, and in today’s world, most children have access to this platform in order to watch any videos they like.\n\nIt is upsetting that kids’ innocence is being taken away by easy exposure to the violence of these games. But sadly, kids find these games appealing because they are made to be children’s games, which is the reason they are so attracted to the games they’ve heard about from Squid Game. By watching these games, children are exposed to blood, gore, violence and most shockingly, death. Children may be exposed to some of these things through their own experiences, but it is no excuse to allow a child to be more exposed to them through television. Young children may not understand the context if they are seeing this online and will not be able to comprehend the death of the characters. They may even find the guards creepy and disturbing, as even I did. Extensive viewing of television violence can cause aggressiveness and are more likely to imitate what they see, just like if you swear in front of a child, they are most likely going to copy it.\n\nThe fact that Squid Game is a 15+ on Netflix, should be telling enough that no child under this age should be able to watch this. The psychological impact that this would have on a child could be devastating, and I strongly believe that this TV show should be an 18+ to make it even more inaccessible to anyone below the age of a legal adult.\n\nSo, how can parents monitor what their child is watching? On Netflix, you can add parental control on your child’s account to add a maturity rating for the programmes and films allowed in that profile. This will mean that if a child hears about Squid Game from someone in school, there is no way of them accessing it in the home. I think a lot of parents aren’t aware that you can add parental controls on YouTube too, so that children cannot watch clips of the show on there either. Likewise, schools should have the same level of responsibility to protect children from gaining access to this show, as a form of safeguarding. Schools should be teaching children that violence is never okay and they should be monitoring what children have access to whilst in the school setting.\n\nSome people may argue that children are exposed to violence through watching other children act out, or seeing a fight break out in the street for example. But this seems very different to me – the gore and violence that underpins Squid Game would cause distress to a young child. They may think that this is acceptable behaviour, or it may do the opposite and make them fearful of the people around them or scared of playing any games in the future. Their childhood should not be destroyed because of an adult TV show. Children should be protected from viewing any content from Squid Game.\n\nStay up to date with the latest big TV stories here:\n\nThe Next Doctor: Who’s Who?" ]

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[ null, null, null, "Last year when ASUS announced the Zenfone 2 Max with that monster 5000mAh battery, everyone was super excited. That was a treat for those who look for a phone that will last more than a day on a single charge & this craze made it one of the top selling phones of the 2nd Gen Zenfone series. From this, ASUS probably understood that there is a huge market for battery seekers & they need to concentrate in the battery segment. The result is the new Zenfone 3 Max.\n\nIn the box, you have the Device itself with the 10W (5V-2A) Travel adapter, the Micro USB Charging(Data Cable), a USB OTG Cable & the Sim Ejector Tool.\n\nNote: The Zenfone 3 Max 5.5-inch variant does not come with a Zen-ear headphone.\n\nThe device has an Aluminum Alloy build body that has a body weight of 175 grams & a thickness of 8.3mm. In the front, we have the 5.5-inch FHD display with the Capacitive Keys at the bottom along with the 8MP Selfie Shooter, Speaker Grill & Proximity Sensor on the top. However the capacitive keys are still not backlit, so it takes a bit time to get used to the key positions when typing at night.\n\nThe Power & Volume keys could be found at the right side of the device & the Hybrid Sim Slot is located at the left. At the top, we got the Noise Cancellation Microphone along with the 3.5 mm Headphone Jack and at the bottom, the Primary Microphone, the Charging Port & the Speaker grill can be located. At the back, we have the 16 MP main shooter along with the Dual-tone LED & the Laser auto-focus. The Fingerprint scanner can be located below the main shooter.\n\nIn terms of design, ASUS really has done a good job with the Zenfone 3 Max. It feels solid in the hand & has less slippery properties. The implementation of the 5.2D Curved glass gives the phone a premium look & feel. Though, the glass is a bit prone to fingerprints. Anyway, we ended up liking the design of the Zenfone 3 Max.\n\nThe 5.5 inches FULL HD display is covered with a 2.5D curved glass. There is no confirmation on the brand of the glass but it is resistant from scratches that can be caused by your keys & coins.\n\nAnyway, the display looks decent. The colors are good & the outdoor visibility is decent but it’s not perfect. If ASUS have used 500 nits brightness instead of 450 nits, it would have been ideal. The 2.5D glass is a bit glossy so, some clear reflections can be seen on it. But, it didn’t seem to disturb the visibility that much & we ended up with zero problems with the glossy screen while using it outdoors. Media & Gaming content look awesome on this display. The 1080P footages are crisp but, 4K playback is quite a bit laggy even after using SW Decoder (on MX Player) due to some hardware limitations. Anyway, it’s actually a good & vibrant display but, it’s definitely not one of the bests.\n\nThe Zenfone 3 Max packs a Snapdragon 430 CPU that has 8 Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1.4GHz. The Adreno 505 GPU is clocked at 450MHz. Both the CPU & the GPU are players of the Lower Medium segment & they result in Benchmarking Scores like this,\n\nIn real life, the Performance is smooth. It has 3 Gigabytes of 800MHz LPDDR3 RAM & the RAM management on this device is good. Normally there is 45-50% RAM free while in standby. Due to good RAM management, the Multitasking experience is decent. It keeps most of the apps in the memory when they are minimized & doesn’t seem to lag while 10-15 apps were minimized & we were scrolling through Instagram.\n\nThe device comes with 32 Gigabytes of Internal Storage. The read & write speeds are fast & the SQLite scores are quite average. In the gaming segment, it handles the Low & Mid end games smoothly. But, in High-end games like N.O.V.A. 3 & Asphalt Xtreme, we noticed minor frame drops while playing with the Highest Graphics. After playing Asphalt Xtreme for 30 mins, the frame drops became more noticeable & that created minor lags in the game. Surprisingly, this problem was not there for N.O.V.A. 3. But, while playing the same games with Medium Graphics, not a single issue was faced. So, High-end games must be played in Medium Graphics on this device for the best results.\n\nThe heating management of the device is good. While playing Asphalt Xtreme on Room temperature of 23-24 degrees for 30 mins ( device was around 25-26 degrees ) , we ended at a temperature of 42 degrees on the device.\n\nThe Fingerprint scanner is fast & ASUS claims an unlocking speed of 0.3 seconds. However it works 90% times & it is always on the scanner so, we didn’t need to press the Lock/Unlock button first. Just placing the finger on the scanner, unlocks the device immediately. It’s accurate but, sometimes you need to try twice. The Speakers are crisp. The Highs, Mids & Lows are well balanced. Though the loudness is still average & calls are hard to notice in crowded places. Hopefully, ASUS now includes an outdoor mode that boosts the loudness & makes it easier to hear in public places. This will sacrifice the quality quite a bit but, at least in this way we were able to hear it.\n\nThe Zenfone 3 Max Runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. But, instead of using the stock UI, ASUS is using their own User Interface. They call it the ZenUI 3.0.\n\nThe UI is fast & snappy. ASUS has customized the ZenUI a lot & the ZenUI 3.0 actually quite user-friendly to use. The features we liked the most are, One-Handed Mode, Double tap to sleep/wakeup & actions with the Fingerprint scanner (Launch camera, take photos etc.). The ZenUI comes with a lot of pre-installed ASUS apps. Not all of them are useful but, some apps like the Mobile Manager & Audio Wizard come really handy & boost the usability of the device.\n\nThe Zenfone 3 Max has a 16MP main shooter with f-2.0 aperture. The camera comes with PixelMaster 3.0 integration that has a series of camera modes. Here,the Manual Mode is our favorite as it gives access to Manual controls like Shutter Speed, ISO, Manual Focus, White Balance & Exposure Control. It captures a good amount of details. Though, the colors are a bit undersaturated. The DOF properties are decent & often output nice bokeh effect. However, indoor photos are kinda ok but, not great. You can notice some noise in the photos while shooting in Indoor conditions. Have a look at these samples taken from the rear facing Camera.\n\nThe 8MP front-facing camera takes decent selfies & has an aperture of f-2.2 . It has a 84 degree wide angle lens that can keep the surroundings in the frame. Have a look at these front camera selfies.\n\nSometimes, we noticed oversharpning in the Selfies but, it was not regular.\n\nIn terms of Video, it can capture 1080P videos @3oFPS. There is no OIS but, ASUS have included EIS support for videos. The Output quality is good , the Stabilization is kinda ok & there is not much noticeable yellowishness in videos. Videos do have autofocusing issues. Most of the time the device locks the focus point & we ended up tapping the screen every time to get our object in focus. Both the Rear & Front facing cameras have performed decently in our tests.\n\nDaylight performance is good. However, in low light, there is some noticeable noise in the images. The Dynamic Range also seemed to be a bit weak. That is still a good smartphone camera but, it’s not great.\n\nThe Zenfone 3 Max comes with a monster 4100mah battery that is Non-removable. This was the main highlight for the device & it is definitely worth it. ASUS has done some nice optimization tweaks in the battery section & managed to gain a great battery life. We were moderately using the device with some hours of browsing, gaming & media viewing per day & the battery lasted for almost two days. So, the SOT is actually great.The total charging time from 0%-100% is almost three hours with the stock charger. Anyway, the battery life is awesome on this device. We were surprised to see that, even after decreasing the battery from 5000 mah – 4100 mah ASUS hasn’t sacrificed much SOT . Overall in this segment, ASUS has won the game.\n\nASUS Zenfone 3 Max is all about Multimedia & Bettery. The screen is a multimedia charm & the great battery life gives a great screen on time with media & gaming. However, in the performance segment, the device is a player of the lower medium segment. The Multitasking experience is good but, gaming on the device is quite average.\n\nSo, this device is for those who want a great battery life even with high usage as this device can easily last a day or more. You can also do moderate gaming on it but, High end gaming with high graphics setting will definitely cause noticeable frame drops. The camera is decent but not great. So, for serious photography enthusiasts, it’s not a great choice. So, keeping high end gamer & super high grade photography seekers out of the list, we will recommend this device." ]

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[ "tl;dr - I created a Twitter bot that scrapes reported oil and gas spills in Colorado and tweets in near-real time. Check it out on Twitter and read more about it in the Rocky Mountain Collegian\n\nIt’s no secret that I’m a proponent of robot journalism. There are a whole class of issues in the world–those that stick around for longer than a few days and are largely driven by data–that machines are simply better at covering than humans in many regards.\n\nLiving in Colorado, the environmental consequences of energey exploration are a perennially relevant issue; we are one of the top oil producing states in the country with nearly 85,000 active wells. A consequence is that oil, gas, frack fluid and other drilling chemicals are spilled every single day.\n\nEvery few months I see an article pointing out that there thousands of spills a year. These articles are better written, more informative and more thought provoking than what a robot can do. Where they fail is in keeping the issue in the spotlight for the long run, in constantly reminding us that this is still happening.\n\nBut why should they? Thought and reflection are for humans; quantity and duration for machines.\n\nThere is a wealth of wonderful free (as in beer and speech!) open source tools available today that make this kind of thing easier than ever, and there is cheaper hardware than ever to run it on. The Raspberry Pi is absolutely ideal for projects like this–cheap, tiny and efficient. It draws lest than 2 watts and cost less than $50 all after some cabling and an enclosure (pictured below). That works out to just over $4/month for a year, comparable to a low-end web hosting plan. The newest model, the A+, is even cheaper.\n\nTo write it I used Python and Beautiful Soup to do the scraping. I store the data in a single table in an SQLite3 database and use the python-twitter library to Tweet. Check out the app scaffold on GitHub, clone it and build something cool.\n\nI estimate that I spent about ten hours in total on this, and approximately four of that was spent building the actual plastic enclosure for the Raspberry Pi.", null, "Raspberry Pi as a Tool for Journalism\n\nThe Raspberry Pi is an amazing tool for journalism. Either as a quick way to prototype ideas or as, in my case, a permanent solution for running things like this, the price and power efficiency is second to none. An average server might use in the hundreds of watts of power or more–a Raspberry Pi B+ only uses about 2w, often less. This puts it on par with a dim nightlight, energy wise.\n\nWhat’s more, the accessibility of the hardware makes it ideal for a huge variety uses–sensors monitoring weather or other environmental factors, traffic, etc. They’re cheap enough to practically be treated as disposable and have a vibrant community to help you get up and running.\n\nBut the best part is that because they’re so cheap and tiny, a journalist can quickly create a prototype at their desk, make it live, and leave it running as long as it needs to. No need for costly servers or AWS time and no need for a lot of support from management or IT departments." ]

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[ "Song Premiere: \"My Own Hollywood\" by The Bevis Frond", null, "Their music is an iconoclastic collision of distinctly British psychedelia, space-rock, and grunge, with songs ranging from slow-burning soulful laments to slices of sublime pop genius.\n\nBig Takeover is mighty pleased to host the premiere of “My Own Hollywood,” a premier track from the upcoming album.\n\nThe standout is a melodic pop gem that perfectly captures the vibe new record and Saloman’s accomplished songwriting.\n\nSaloman’s wistful vocals match the bittersweet, yet tuneful nature of the engaging song.\n\nSaloman gives some details about “My Own Hollywood,” stating, “Sometimes you might feel like you’re starring in a blockbuster, everything’s going perfectly, you’re attractive, heroic and smart. Then you open your eyes, and guess what? You’re an extra in your own little movie. You haven’t even cast yourself in a starring role. You’re not heroic, you’re not tragic, you’re just the fifth drunk on the left in a bar scene. That’s what the song’s about.”\n\nFIRE RECORDS · The Bevis Frond – My Own Hollywood\n\nReleased on the band’s 35th anniversary, Little Eden is a psychedelically hewn panoramic take on brutalism Britain punctuated with pure pop melodies and beautifully observed English melancholy; like Ray Davies coming down as he muses on the collapse of British tradition and traditionalism.\n\nIt rekindles your love of pop-oriented indie rock music – from the harmonies that are oh-so-Teenage Fanclub and Lemonheads, to the grunge and awe of Dinosaur Jr.\n\nVideo Premiere: \"Level Up\" by Ohr" ]

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[ null, "Zenith Nadir is an eclectic mix of electronic rock with Latin rhythms such as salsa, cumbia, danzon,\nmariachi and banda, a combination of electric violin, keyboards, bass guitar, lead singer and programming\nfrom Mexico City. Widely considered as one of the most creative, futuristic and innovative bands in the independent scene, a fusion of different styles and genres to create a genuinely unique sound and experience!!\nThe band have toured four times in the UK and twice in Mexico and they have sold music in different countries in South America, Europe and beyond and released 3 very successful albums independently with sales well into the thousands! They have released their 4th original album now with 9 songs, available in all online stores and streaming sites.\n\nThe UK connection: Electronic violinist Selina Marshall is from the UK, and while on a year abroad in Mexico City she met Alex while he was promoting music.\nAfter working together for a few years promoting bands with their own independent record label and making programmes for their internet TV channel, Alex asked Selina if she wanted to start the band Zenith Nadir after various experiences he’d had which inspired him to write the first lyrics of the band. They invited Emmanuel to join them, making this dynamic MexUK-futuristic musical trio which is Zenith Nadir.\nThe band launched their own merch in 2016 independently and a pre-launch CD special edition with 3 of their new songs, available in the online shop.\nThe band have appeared on major radio, TV stations, newspapers and magazines in Mexico as well as local press in the UK where they have appeared on their UK Tours. “really colourful” (David Burns – BBC Radio Humberside), “it makes us feel like every day is summer!!!” (Pete Bassett, 2013), “rock with multiple fusions” (Rollingstone – Mexico Edition). Now in 2017, the band is working on new music, tours to the UK and Europe and is now based for the moment in Spain." ]

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[ "It was on, off and now back on again. Universal and Legendary Pictures are moving ahead with Pacific Rim 2, probably for a 2018 release date.", null, "The original movie did reasonably well at the box office (especially internationally) but wasn't a smash hit, so there was a bit of a wait before the sequel was confirmed, originally for 2017. However, having greenlit the movie Universal decided to put it on ice whilst it sorted out its development and production schedules. This has unfortunately meant that Guillermo Del Toro will be unable to return to direct, having already moved on to other projects. However, Del Toro will still co-write (with Jon Spaihts) and produce the movie.\n\nThe new director is Steven S. DeKnight, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer veteran who went on to create Spartacus and is currently working on Netflix's Daredevil. The film will be DeKnight's directorial debut.\nPosted by Adam Whitehead at 17:48" ]

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[ null, "Besides the U.S. Thanksgiving, people around the globe are celebrating the Jewish eight-day festival of light and purity, Chanukah (Hanukkah), which started sundown November 27, 2013 through December 5, 2013. This is a celebration of triumph of light over darkness, of purity over adulteration, and of spirituality over materialism. The history of Hanukkah begins more than twenty-one centuries ago. The Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who sought to forcefully Hellenize the people of Israel. Against all odds, a small band of faithful Jews defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land, reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the service of God.\n\nWhen they sought to light the Temple’s menorah (the seven-branched candelabrum), they found only a single cruse of olive oil that had escaped contamination by the Greeks; miraculously, the one-day supply burned for eight days, until new oil could be prepared under conditions of ritual purity.\n\nTo commemorate and publicize these miracles, the sages instituted the festival of Chanukah. At the heart of the festival is the nightly menorah (candelabrum) lighting: a single flame on the first night, two on the second evening, and so on till the eighth night of Chanukah, when all eight lights are kindled.\n\nChanukah customs include eating foods fried in oil — latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiot (doughnuts); playing with the dreidel (a spinning top on which are inscribed the Hebrew letters nun, gimmel, hei and shin, an acronym for Nes Gadol Hayah Sham, “a great miracle happened there”); and the giving of Chanukah gelt, gifts of money, to children. Click here for the complete story of Chanukah.\n\n(My gratitude to Chabad.org for the information posted.)\n\nA Thanksgiving Poem: Counting My Blessings!", null, "I am blessed to have\nthe gift of sight and\nto smell wonderful fragrances\nwith my beautiful nose.\n\nI am blessed to have\ntwo sturdy, supporting limbs\nthat are attached\nto my nearly perfect feet.\n\nI am blessed to have\nthe gift of a caring heart\nthat is healthy and warm\nand never skips a beat!\n\nI am blessed to have\ntwo strong arms\nto hug and embrace\nand carry a load.\n\nI am blessed with\ntwo wonderful hands\nthat allow me to wave,\nto paint and to write this ode.\n\nI am blessed with a great family:\nsupportive parents, a loving sister,\nand an amazing husband.\n\nI am blessed with all the people\nin my life, from all over the world, the internet\nand in my community whom I consider friends.\n\nI can go on and on with an inexhaustible list.\nBut I know you get the idea that I FEEL so very, very blessed!" ]

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[ null, "My fellow blogger Crystal over at In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood is always running star-oriented blogathons. I bugged her a couple of times to run one of John Wayne, then I decided, well, why the hell don't I just do it myself? Then I found out Rachel over at Hamlette's Soliloquy is just as big a Duke fan as I am, so we got to talking and agreed to a co-hosting gig. And here it is:\n\n\"The Duke\", as he was affectionately known, was an icon of the silver screen for many years. Beginning in the early 20's as a stuntman and prop man, Wayne found his way into acting roles. And gradually over the next 50 years he managed to make himself a household name, including the phenomenal feat of being named the most popular Hollywood star multiple years over that period.\n\nThe IMdB entry for John Wayne lists 178 acting credits, including a few guest star roles on TV, about 20 or 30 uncredited walk-on roles early in his career, but also an astounding 100+ stints as the star or co-star of feature films. Which leaves us a pretty good pot to draw from for the blogathon. So we are proposing the following set of rules for the blogathon.\n\n1. Absolutely no duplicates allowed. At 100+ choices (plus you could talk about his politics or his private life, if you want) there is more than enough opportunity for diversity.\n\n2. You can state your choice in the comments below. First come, first served. And please note, your humble bloggers have already picked Sands of Iwo Jima (for Hamlette) and a double feature of Stagecoach and The Shootist (for Quiggy)", null, null, null, "3. Snag one of the banners below to put on your own blog with a link back to us so we can have lots of participation.", null, null, null, null, null, null, "4, Write your blog entry. The dates of the blogathon are December 9-11 and you can choose any one of those three days.\n\n5. As an added bonus, I (Quiggy), have a copy of a good biography of John Wayne titled: American Titan: Searching for John Wayne by Marc Eliot. The name of every blogger who submits a blog entry will be thrown into a hat, and one lucky winner will get the book (and location is not a consideration, even if you are in Canada, Europe or Australia). But you HAVE to follow through and write a blog entry. No award for signing up but not writing the entry...", null ]

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[ null, "The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts was created by Julia in 1995 and became operational in 2004. Its mission is to honour and further Julia’s legacy, which centers on the importance of understanding where food comes from, what makes for good food, and the value of cooking. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, the Foundation is a non-profit which makes grants to support research in culinary history, scholarships for professional culinary training, internships in food writing as well as professional development and food literacy programs.", null, "Mary Berry trained at The Cordon Bleu in Paris and Bath School of Home Economics. In the swinging '60s she became the cookery editor of Housewife magazine, followed by Ideal Home magazine. Her first television series Afternoon Plus with Judith Chalmers came out in the early '70s to great success. Three children later she continued through the '80s writing books and filming television series for BBC, before launching her Aga Workshops in the early 90s, with over twelve thousand visitors over sixteen years.\n\nSince the millenium Mary has continued to do demonstrations, write books and do media work. Most noteably she has been a judge on The Great British Bake Off, The Junior Bake Off, Comic Relief Bake off and Sports Relief Bake Off from 2009 to 2016, and in 2014 Mary's own BBC programme, Mary Berry Cooks, was aired.\n\nFind out more about Mary Berry on her website.", null, "Student Accommodation are sponsoring one room for the winner of the Scholarship Award for 12 months. Londonist DMC is the UK’s leading destination management centre company, offering the widest choice of tailor-made services in every area of London as well as other cities in the UK. They can provide both short term and long-term accommodations, from 2 weeks up until 24, 36, 43 and 51 weeks.\n\nFor more information about Londonist visit the Londonist website.", null, "A world-famous name, celebrated for sublime service, and graced by stars, dignitaries and the global jet-set… where Art Deco rubs shoulders with English Edwardian, and exceptional dining blends with contemporary cocktails. The Savoy stands proudly on the Northbank of the River Thames. The ballet, opera and theatre of vibrant Covent Garden are just steps away; with the City, world-renowned museums and galleries, and the designer shopping of Knightsbridge and Mayfair within easy reach.\n\nFind out more about The Savoy London on its website.", null, "As experts in business, The Federation of Small Businesses offer members a wide range of vital business services including advice, financial expertise, support and a powerful voice in government. Its mission is to help smaller businesses achieve their ambitions.\n\nFind out more about FSB by visiting its website.", null, "Enterprise has never been more fashionable and it is reflected at The Business Show. If you have a product or service that is suited to business owners you just have to have a presence. The Business Show has evolved from the combination of two of PRYSM Group's very successful business events 'The Great British Business Show' and 'Business Startup'.\n\nThe two day event attracts more than 25,000 businesses who attend with the primary agenda of improving and expanding their business, and to anybody who has attended the show it will come as no surprise that it's now the fastest growing business show in Europe.\n\nFind out more about The Business Show by visiting its website.", null, "Over 220 years of manufacturing expertise and a pure passion for innovation goes into Churchill's tableware products. From its ceramic manufacturing base - in Stoke-on-Trent, England - food presentation and service is at the heart of the design process. Whilst continual investment in technology ensures a global reputation for supplying the highest quality products.\n\nFrom beverage to dining; buffet and serving - all areas of food service are considered and catered for within the collection. New ranges and collections are added three times a year ensuring the ever-changing needs and requirements of the hospitality market are met. Enabling each establishment from hotel, restaurant, cafe to patisserie to create a unique experience of its own.\n\nFind out more about Churchill by visiting its website.", null, "In 1731, Peter Henckels registered the now world famous ZWILLING as a trademark with the Cutler’s Guild of Solingen, thereby laying the foundation for an international company.\n\nThe white ZWILLING symbol on a red background is today an expression of a sophisticated lifestyle. Whether high-quality kitchen products, cutlery or beauty instruments: the outstanding success of one of the oldest brands in the world is based on customer satisfaction, which crossed national borders at a very early stage. The products are innovative and, to this day, have been setting international standards, as they are always geared towards customers' wishes.\n\nFind out more about ZWILLING by visiting its website." ]

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[ "This week, a gobsmackingly pricey home, students of today aren’t what they used to be, chamber music at City Hall, British Land goes walkies, and Holiday Inn guests get to sleep in shipping containers", null, "The prime central London resi market might have taken a dip post the Brexit vote, but the ultra prime central London resi market is doing very nicely, thank you. Word reaches me that the former Canadian High Commission building at 1 Grosvenor Square in Mayfair, which was bought three years ago by Indian developer Lodha for just over £300m, is preparing to be marketed to would-be buyers. What’s there now will be knocked down and a new building of 41 flats designed by Eric Parry Architects put in its place. For a mere £5m you’ll be able to get your hands on a one-bed flat. Plus ça change, I hear you say - £5m homes are two a penny these days. Well, a four-bed flat will set you back £21m. Still reasonable, you might think. But surely you can’t help but be impressed that for the top floor flat, complete with outside space, you’ll have to shell out a whopping £85m - or one Gareth Bale - to get the keys. Strange to think that there exist people in the world who class this as an affordable home.\n\nThis weekend something will happen in the world of art that I must admit I’ve never previously heard of: a live music sculpture. What on earth is that, I hear you ask. Allow me to explain. At City Hall, home of London’s mayor since 2002, a musician will be placed at each level of the building’s internal ramp. Here they “will form a spatial dialogue with a group of six musicians on the floor of the chamber”. The audience will enter the venue at the top and descend at their own pace until they get to the chamber. Composer Samuel Bordoli has been working with Philip Robinson, an acoustician at Foster & Partners, the architect of the building, just to make sure everything is in tip top order ahead of tomorrow’s performance.\n\nSome might be tempted to wonder whether they were drunk when they filled in the survey, but students have claimed that things like IT facilities and library space are more important to them than pubs and social life when choosing which university to apply to. According to the Association of University Directors of Estates, 61% said facilities were an important factor to them when deciding. Type of course, accommodation and location were also important. By contrast, only 24% said entertainment was important. Entertainment, of course, being code for going out and getting hammered.\n\nA press release from British Land got me musing. The developer is launching the offices bit of its Clarges Mayfair development designed by architect Squire & Partners. So far, so what? Well, the scheme also happens to include the headquarters of the Kennel Club and overlooks Green Park. Well-appointed for those walks, I would say.\n\nA team combining David Clements and Oliver Clements of Future Designs, Paul Flatt of Hurley Palmer Flatt, Tony Venn of Gardiner & Theobald, Chris Pritchard of AVK and John Belton of Infinity joined forces to participate in the Pedal to Paris charity bike ride cycle to raise money for the Royal British Legion. The team completed the 300-mile challenge from London to Paris in four days ending their ride at the Arc de Triomphe. The Pedal to Paris charity bike ride began in 1996 and has raised over £5m to date for the legion.", null, "Given its location - next door to the Manchester Ship Canal - some might think it appropriate that a new hotel going up in the area is made of shipping containers. The 220-bed Holiday Inn Express at the city’s Trafford City retail and leisure complex will see each container stacked on top of a podium structure making it possible for all guest rooms to be installed within four weeks. Each module is fully finished before leaving the factory and includes two ensuite rooms. The architect behind the scheme, Chapman Taylor, is one of the practices responsible for the Carbuncle Cup-winning Media City in Salford from a few years back which, unkind wags might be tempted to say, resembles a collection of shipping containers …" ]

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[ null, "Movies Now has announced an increase in its ad rates by 100 percent. The channel has attributed this increase to its consistent performance.\n\nMandar Natekar, national revenue head, Movies Now, Times Television Network, added, \"We have received an overwhelming response from the advertisers. With over 500 brands on board, we are extremely grateful to our clients and partners for their tremendous support. While we wish there was more inventory to service more clients, we aim to create new benchmarks that will help us enhance client delight.\"" ]

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[ "Femi Adebayo is a Nigerian lawyer, actor, director, producer, filmmaker, and also politician (former Special Adviser to the Former Governor of Kwara State in southwest Nigeria on Arts, Culture, and Tourism). Born to a family of entertainers, Femi understood the entertainment industry quite early. He is particularly influential in the Yoruba sector of Nollywood.\n\nPopularly referred to as Jelili Oniso for his lead role in the Yoruba comedy movie Jelili, the award-winning actor is a fan favorite, and also possesses a versatile and relatable talent.\n\nOlufemi Lawal Adebayo was born into the Yoruba family of Alhaji Adebayo Salami (Father) and Alhaja Ejide Salami (Mother) on December 31, 1972 in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a native of Ilorin, Kwara but grew up in Ebute Metta, Lagos.\n\nFor his primary and secondary school education, He attended Jender Age and Oke-Ode Grammar School respectively. Thereafter, Femi bagged an LL.B at the University of Ilorin and a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Ibadan.\n\nCurrently, the award-winning actor is pursuing his doctorate in law at the University of Ilorin in Kwara State as he also continues his acting career.\n\nRead Also: Amazing Things You Didn’t Know About Odunlade Adekola And His Family\n\nBefore becoming a full-time actor, Femi practiced as a lawyer after he graduates from law school for two years, He was in the legal profession but eventually succumbed to his passion and background influence in the entertainment industry. This move has seen him witness immersive growth, bagging numerous awards and becoming an A-list actor.\n\nHis pioneer experience in the world of acting was shaped by his father, Adebayo Salami, popularly known as Oga Bello. Femi had his debut film role in his father’s first movie production titled: Ogun Ajaye.\n\nApart from being an actor, a politician, an entrepreneur, and a lawyer, Femi Adebayo is also a father and husband.\n\nAs an actor, he has featured in several Nollywood movies. In 2018 Etiko Onigedu, a Yoruba movie he produced won the best Indigenous Movie Award at the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA). He also owns a school for actors named J-15 Media Network School of Performing Arts located in Ibadan, Nigeria, which he established in 2008.\n\nFemi Adebayo comes from a large family, he is reported to have 17 siblings in total. Femi is the most famous of all his siblings, however, Tope Adebayo is also well known in the Yoruba Nollywood Sector.", null, "How He lost his First Marriage\n\nFemi Adebayo met Khadijat (his first wife) when she was an undergraduate student of Computer Science in 1998 and he was studying Law at the time he met her. Six years after, in 2004, they got married and the union was blessed with three children together. Fadlulrahman Adebayo, Olaoutun Adebayo, and Firdaus Adebayo.\n\nHowever, the marriage didn’t last because four years along, in 2008, they both parted ways. it is alleged that the couple got divorced because Khadijat could no longer handle his romantic roles in movies. They divorced on the ground of “Irreconcilable Differences”.", null, "On the 9th of October, 2016, Femi Adebayo re-married. He tied the Knot with Omatayo Maimunat Sanusi who was reportedly based in the United States. Before becoming Femi Adebayo’s wife, Omotayo was an air hostess but she currently runs a restaurant and cafe shop ‘Iyan Aladuke’ in Yaba, Lagos State.\n\nThe couple is very happy with their union and there is no trouble in their marriage because they both understand each other.\n\nOn the 21st December 2018, Femi Adebayo and his new wife Omotayo Sanusi welcomed a baby boy ( Fadhil Aridunnu Olatunde Adebayo) in Houston, Texas. The couple share just one child between them for now, however, the birth of Fadhil made Femi a father of four.\n\n5 Footballers who were ruined by their wives and girlfriends\n\nActress Adunni Ade celebrates her first son as he clocks 10" ]

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[ "MAGAZINE\nEditor's letter: A question of trust\n19 Jun 2020\nBY INDEX ON CENSORSHIP\n\nWhy don’t we learn that censorship and lack of trust in society puts us all at risk, particularly in times of crisis, asks Rachael Jolley in the summer 2020 issue of Index on Censorship magazine", null, "The coronavirus outbreak began with censorship. Censorship of doctors in Wuhan to stop them telling citizens what was going on and what the risks were.\n\nCensorship by the Chinese state that stopped the rest of the world finding out what was happening as early as it could have.\n\nSurely this is one of the most compelling arguments against censorship that we have seen in our lifetimes. Showing that if we know about a risk, we are able to discuss, to explore, to research, to prepare, and to take measures to avoid it.\n\nAs Covid-19 spread through the world, the parallels with World War I and the Spanish Flu were obvious. Here was a dangerous disease that many countries refused to acknowledge, that doctors were prevented from speaking about and that, for a time, the public had no knowledge of.\n\nIn 2014, I asked leading public health professor Alan Maryon-Davis to write about World War I and the flu epidemic for this magazine, a lesson from history for today. He wrote: “We also know that it was the deadliest affliction ever visited upon humanity, killing at least 50 million people world- wide, probably nearer 100 million, several times more than [the] 15-20 million killed by the war itself – and more in a single year than the Black Death killed in a century.”\n\nMaryon-Davis identified three weak links that could have incredibly dangerous consequences in the reaction to a pandemic.\n\nOne was that health workers on early cases might worry about reporting it (self- censorship); the second was that governments would worry about political/cultural consequences (political censorship); and the third was that a cloak of secrecy might be thrown over it (pure censorship). Check, check, check. It’s happened again.\n\nAs we move through the tracking phase of this pandemic, we need to recognise that public trust is an essential part of any response, and that public will comes from a belief in society – and a belief that it will act for the public good. Trust also comes from a belief that your government will not collect private information about you and use it without permission, or to your detriment.\n\nHistorically, those who fought for freedom of expression and speech also fought for the right to privacy: your right to keep information private – such as your religion or sexual orientation – and the right for you not to have an illegal search of your private papers or your home. Those rights came together in the US constitution because those who wrote it knew what it was like to be in a minority or a protester in a country which oppressed those who did not conform.\n\nThey fled those countries to find more freedom, and they sought to create legislation that would mean others could choose to be different, or to express offensive or difficult ideas. That might sound ridiculously ideal- istic, and of course it was – there are plenty of holes people can pick in the reality of US society – but those ideas are strong, and valid for today.\n\nThe right to privacy (and with it the right to express a minority opinion) is often endangered by legislation that is introduced without due process during times of war or crisis.\n\nAnd it is against this backdrop that activists, journalists, academics and others began to worry that during this pandemic we are, with- out really considering the consequences, giving away our privacy.\n\nGovernments around the world have often responded to the Covid-19 situation with diktats that remove an element of democratic governance, or threaten hard-fought-for freedoms, with very little opportunity for public debate.\n\nIndia’s Justice H.R. Khanna, among others, famously warned that governments use a crisis to ignore the rule of law. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”\n\nThis feels like wisdom that’s fitting for the current fractured moment.\n\nIn Turkey, there are independent thinkers who believed that home was the last refuge where they could criticise the government or talk about a difference of opinion from the mainstream. The introduction of the Life Fits Home app could mean a severe erosion of that private space, as once they have input their ID numbers, the government will know exactly who is where, and with whom.\n\nAs Kaya Genç outlines in his article on p50, the question is: can they trust an autocratic state which could save their lives via contact-tracing not to come after them later for political reasons?\n\nThis is similar to the question being asked in Hong Kong by those who protest against the ongoing erosion of the freedom which ensured it was a very different place to live from China in the last two decades.\n\nDuring the pandemic, there have been discussions about the dangers of sharing personal information with the government, and one Hong Kong citizen we interviewed for this issue outlined why.\n\n“Of course, we’re willing to do what we can as a collective to stop the spread of Covid-19,” she said. “But the point is, we have no trust in the government now. That’s why I don’t want to trade my information with the government in return for a few face masks.”\n\nAnother said people were worried about an app that they were required to download if they left the city and wanted to return, asking: “Who knows what they’ll do with our data?”\n\nSome governments have put in place legal checks and balances to give people more confidence, and to offer assurances that data will not be used for other means.\n\nIn South Korea, a law was amended after the 2015 Mers outbreak to give authorities extensive powers to demand phone location data, police CCTV footage and the records of corporations and individuals to trace contacts and track infections.\n\nAs Timandra Harkness outlines on p11, that same law specifies that “no information shall be used for any purpose other than conducting tasks related to infectious diseases under this act, and all the information shall be destroyed without delay when the relevant tasks are completed”.\n\nIn Australia, legislation restricts who may access data gathered by a Covid-19 app, how it may be used and how long it may be kept.\n\nOther countries have done much less to offer legitimacy and transparency to the data- gathering processes in which they are asking the public to participate.\n\nIn the UK, for instance, there has been no sign of legislation outlining any restrictions on how data captured by its track and trace system, or expected Covid-19 app, will be restricted from other use, or even stopped from being sold on to third parties.\n\nRequests to ask the public to add apps such as these come at the same time as we see rising numbers of drones being used to invade our private spaces, and potentially to track our movements or actions.\n\nWe also see a dramatic, mostly unregulated, increase in the use of facial recognition around the world, again taking a hammer to our rights to privacy, and ramping up surveillance.\n\nUS Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in the 1920s of those who wrote the early laws of his land: “They knew that order cannot be secured merely through fear of punishment for its infraction; that it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies, and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.”\n\nThose who fear their privacy is under threat, and who worry about other consequences of being tracked and traced, are unlikely to feel confident in a society that takes away basic freedoms during times of crisis and does not put dramatic changes into place via a parliamentary process. Governments should take note that this threatens pathways to safety.\n\nIndex on Censorship’s summer 2020 issue is entitled Private Lives: What happens when our every thought goes public" ]

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[ "After three days of largely sitting around playing cards, both teams arrived at the ground to the excitement of a sunny day and the prospect of manufacturing a result after all. All, that is, except for Ish Sodhi, who became just the second player in cricket to be subbed out of a team under the new COVID-19 precautionary regulations, after feeling unwell overnight. Sodhi was replaced by fellow spinner Joe Walker who was looking fitter than ever after making the most of a long off season.\n\nResuming the first innings at 145/2, ND needed only to carry on business as usual. Patience and application had seen them hold the upper hand until now, albeit in a long, drawn-out process thanks to the frequent weather interruptions.\n\nBut after just eight balls on the new day, the first wicket fell as an exacting Doug Bracewell trapped youngster Katene Clarke. Young Stag Ray Toole had opened with a maiden, helping build some early pressure as the Stags attempted to compensate for the loss of hamstrung Blair Tickner.\n\nND captain Joe Carter recombined with Colin de Grandhomme in a positive 40-run stand for the fourth, but their good work was undone by a piece of fielding brilliance from his 36-year-old counterpart. Running, diving, sprawling Greg Hay held the catch that turned the match - a wicket for Toole, sending Carter back to the pavilion.", null, "It triggered a collapse, leg-spinner Brad Schmulian (shouldering the responsibility in the absence of injured Ajaz Patel) bringing spin into the attack for the first time and rustling up a startling 3-16 off his six overs. A mercurial player with a habit of pulling rabbits out of hats, it included a double wicket maiden to account for both Tim Southee and Neil Wagner.\n\nSuddenly bonus points were being totted up with both bat and ball in the lively morning session, until Carter called his batsmen in when the ND score reached 253/8 at 65 overs, to deny the Stags a fourth bowling point for taking nine wickets.\n\nIt was a gamble that would not pay off for the ND captain.", null, "After both captains forfeited their next innings in the desire for 12 outright points, a fascinating afternoon's run chase was set up. By lunch, the Stags were 22 without loss, needing a further 231: a boundary per over. Carter was backing his quality pace attack of Wagner, Southee, Jimmy Baker, Colin de Grandhomme and Scott Kuggeleijn, but they met obstinance in Hay and George Worker.", null, "By tea, the experienced duo had both reached careful half centuries and navigated their side to 118/0. They would carry on to put on 177.\n\nWorker, freeing his arms, had just cut and pulled Wagner to the rope three times when he stood on 96* ready to slash Wagner again.", null, "Wagner was hardly about to give in, and delighted in breaking the stand as Worker went to hook him - a go-to shot for Worker - only to painfully pop a catch to Kuggeleijn in the deep.\n\nIt seemed unjust that both Stags openers would ultimately depart just shy of a hundred, with Hay's 93 also ended by the tirelessly competitive Wagner. After all day padded up, Ross Taylor then suffered a first-ball duck to give Wagner (3-65) an even broader grin.\n\nBut the Stags had only needed a boundary per over, and had remained on track throughout. Will Young's breezy unbeaten 43* developed at run-a-ball pace and removed any hint of tension, hitting the winning runs with 26 balls to spare.", null, "The opening round of the 2020/21 Plunket Shield had produced outright results in all three games, no matter what the weather as the Stags snuck up into third spot on the table, just one point behind Canterbury and three behind leaders the Auckland Aces (18).\n\nFor the first time in the match, play started on time with pockets of blue sky interrupting the cloud cover parked over Seddon.\n\nAlso for the first time in the match, the Stags made a breakthrough - ND's patient opening stand broken when Ross Taylor flew backwards to pick up a one-handed grab in the slips, with his left hand, to dismiss Jeet Raval on 68.\n\nRaval and Cooper (58) had taken the hosts through to 127 before Seth Rance ended the partnership. All of a sudden, one became two with a persistent Doug Bracewell getting his first reward the next over, Henry Cooper caught by Tom Bruce shortly after having registered his own half century straight off the bat this season.\n\nUnfortunately the weather couldn't stay out of the action for long, and another stoppage sent both sides off the park again at 145 for two.\n\nAfter lunch, a heavy shower ruined the chances of getting back on later in the afternoon, with the bowlers' run-ups slow to dry.\n\nNo sooner had the players left the ground than the skies cleared, the sun blazing down. Will it play ball on the final day, both captains yet to pick up a point?\n\nAnother early finish today due to rain.\n\nThere was some early morning action, Henry Cooper brought up 50 before being dismissed for 58. Jeet Raval got out for 68.\n\nCarter and Clarke will resume play tomorrow. Let's hope for some ☀️ pic.twitter.com/d4555G3mCe\n\nDespite lingering drizzle, play resumed just long enough for Jeet Raval to reach a half century in his first innings for his new team.\n\nPlay didn't begin until after lunch, and was called at tea, with Raval unbeaten on 48* and opening partner Henry Cooper (48*) just two runs shy of joining him.\n\nDespite the green sheen of their home pitch, the deck has slowed in the damp weather and they had built a 121-run unbroken stand, the Stags frustrated not just by four lost sessions at the midpoint of the match, but their inability to force a breakthrough despite some sharp efforts by Doug Bracewell.\n\nWhile other matches are racing along, will there be time for a result in Hamilton?", null, "Met by a lime-green wicket and drizzly weather, there was no question whoever won the toss on the first morning of the 2020/21 season at Seddon was going to bowl first.\n\nAfter overnight showers and a toss delayed by half an hour, captains Joe Carter and Greg Hay eventually gingerly filed out to the middle of the overcast oval, both hoping the coin would fall their way.", null, "Each commanded a stellar bowling attack. No fewer than 13 current or erstwhile BLACKCAPS were named in these two facing XIs: Neil Wagner, Scott Kuggeleijn, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi and Colin de Grandhomme all in the ND attack and Blair Tickner, Seth Rance, Doug Bracewell and George Worker for the Stags, which was without the services of leading spinner Ajaz Patel sitting out the match with a calf niggle.\n\nNo wonder BLACKCAPS coach Gary Stead made a beeline for this game.", null, "The coin fell Hay's way and soon enough Bracewell and Rance were steaming in, but alas, so was the miscreant weather.\n\nOnly 20.4 overs of play in the morning session was permitted before drizzle forced an early lunch and, eventually, early stumps. It was long enough for ND openers Jeet Raval - in his first match for ND, after travelling down the state highway from Auckland - and Henry Cooper to needle the Stags' skin with their encouraging start.", null, "Raval made a solid start | PHOTOSPORT\n\nThe pair had reached 81 without loss before the curtailment, Raval (44*) closing in on a half century in his first ND foray and Cooper (32*) likewise seeing off a feisty first spell from Bracewell and putting the bad ball away when he got the chance.\n\nWith showers forecast to hang about, both sides will be keen to get back on the park to take control of the first innings." ]

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[ null, "If you saw our article on power meter accuracy, you know how we feel about the subject. Is accuracy important? Yes, very much so. However, when shopping for a new direct force power meter, we don’t feel it is something you should spend hours worrying about. Why…because power meters are so good these days that assuming you have it installed correctly and zero’d, chances are it will read within a few watts of the next power meter. That should be good enough for most of us. We feel it’s more important to find a power meter that works with your bike and budget and has the features you want. Having said this, there is nothing wrong with wanting the most accurate power meter possible, assuming it fits your other needs as well. And since we’re often asked about it, let’s talk about it. Enter the Verve InfoCrank!\n\nInitially introduced around 2015, the Verve InfoCrank is manufactured by Verve Cycling out of the UK. The InfoCrank is a complete crankset. This means you’re buying a new spider, arms and chainrings (and in the case of the M30, a new bottom bracket). There are two versions of the InfoCrank: The M30 which comes with a 30 mm spindle, as well as the 24 MM which comes with a 24 mm spindle. This means there is an InfoCrank for any frame. Prices range from $1,399 to $1,641 depending on your choice of chainrings and bottom bracket. So while not the most expensive power meter you can buy…it’s not cheap either.\n\nHow Do They Do It?\n\nUnlike almost all other power meters, which start out as a bike component and are subsequently turned into a power meter, the InfoCrank was designed as a power measurement device from the get go. This allows for several advantages.\n\nFirst, Verve could decide how best to measure force or torque. They decided that the ideal (most accurate and stable) place to measure is at the crank arm. However not on the inside of the crank arm like Stages, 4iiii, and Pioneer, rather inside the crank arm itself.\n\nYes, you read that right. Verve places its load cells (strain gauges and electronics) inside both the left and right crank arms. They are the only manufacturer to do this. This unique location places the strain gauges directly in the path of torque so that the tangential force which pushes the bike forwards, registers the torque. In addition, every load cell is individually calibrated, independently tested, and externally certified.\n\nVerve is also able to control the entire manufacturing process from start to finish. This can’t be done when you’re adding a power sensor to an existing crankset for example. Verve went with top-quality, conventional 2D cold forging.\n\nSo How Accurate Is It?\n\nWhile Verve often claims +/-1.0% accuracy, they are actually being a bit modest. Independent testing has showed that the greatest margin of error recorded across 100 different tests was a mere 0.57% – all the way up to 3,000 watts. Indeed, this makes it the most accurate power meter available.\n\nBut it’s not just accurate. It’s a pretty awesome power meter in other regards too. Since the InfoCrank locates a power meter on each crank arm, this means it can measure total as well as left and right independent power, a feature that is being sought out by more and more cyclists. In addition, because the load cells are placed within the crank arms, they are insensitive to temperature changes. This is further proof that the InfoCrank is a unique device. And due to this insensitivity to environmental elements, the strain gauges don’t build up any residual torque during or between rides. This means the power meter never needs to be zero’d. Just hop on and go.\n\nAlso, because the electronics are protected inside a high-grade alloy crankset, the InfoCrank is super durable. In the event of a crash or mishap, you don’t need to worry about the accuracy of your data. The unit is a bomb-proof as they come. It also features a 500-hour battery life, which is a good 200-250 hours longer any most other power meters.\n\nWe know accuracy is a hotly debated topic, and we reiterate our belief that when you get down to +/- 1.0% or in the case of the InfoCrank, +/- 0.57%, you’re splitting hair a bit. However, if you truly want the most accurate power meter out there, we’d put this one up against any other. With that, thanks for reading!", null, null, "If you follow us or read any of our articles, you'll know that we are...", null, "Looking for the best cycling power meter? Who can blame you? Power meters aren't always cheap...", null, "Power meters allow you to see your power and cadence data in real time on your..." ]

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[ null, "From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley set out to create a free and democratic internet - and how the cynical propagandists of the alt-right exploited that freedom to propel the extreme into the mainstream.\n\nFor several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls 'the gate crashers' - the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to advance their corrosive agenda. Antisocial ranges broadly - from the first mass-printed books to the trending hashtags of the present; from secret gatherings of neo-Fascists to the White House press briefing room - and traces how the unthinkable becomes thinkable, and then how it becomes reality.\n\nCombining the keen narrative detail of Bill Buford's Among the Thugs and the sweep of George Packer's The Unwinding, Antisocial reveals how the boundaries between technology, media, and politics have been erased, resulting in a deeply broken informational landscape - the landscape in which we all now live. Marantz shows how alienated young people are led down the rabbit hole of online radicalization, and how fringe ideas spread--from anonymous corners of social media to cable TV to the President's Twitter feed. Marantz also sits with the creators of social media as they start to reckon with the forces they've unleashed. Will they be able to solve the communication crisis they helped bring about, or are their interventions too little too late?" ]

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[ null, "Has the Paranormal taken a strong lead to become part of American Culture? That’s what we find out today as Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Joseph Baker shares his insight on Paranormal America, and the Parallels between Religion and the Paranormal.\n\nJoseph and his co-authors/co-researchers participated in psychic readings, palm readings, they had their auras photographed, joined a Bigfoot hunt, followed a group of ghost hunters in an investigation of a haunted classroom, and even visited a support group for alien abductees. [adinserter block=”1″]\n\nTopics touched on include:\n\n►How Paul Ingram was personally affected by this Moral Panic\n\n►The moral panic of today\n\n►Why don’t more Christians believe in Paranormal Activity, when the Christian bible is abundant with Paranormal experiences\n\nTo receive ongoing updates and notifications on new episodes, please sign up to our Newsletter and we’ll make sure to keep you in the loop!\n\nTusant is a powerful WordPress theme for podcast & music streaming.\nAlone, and feel the charm of existence in of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend." ]

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[ "Delta Blues? The Legal Status of Δ8-THC Today and in the Future\n\nRecently, this single post from Reddit caused our phones to ring off the hook with people wanting to find out if Δ8-THC (Delta 8) had suddenly been banned in Georgia and, we’re confident, caused a great deal of panic among our colleagues and their cannabis clients throughout the country. We thought, then, that it would be a good idea to review the legal status of Delta 8 to try and at least identify the issues for all who might be curious about the newest celebrity cannabinoid which has been covered by the New York Times and Rolling Stone Magazine already this year. We will circle back to key in on Georgia, the source of the recent kerfuffle, but this issue may well ultimately be settled by the federal government, not the states, and that will be our focus.\n\nDelta 8 is one of hundreds of cannabinoids derived from the Cannabis sativa L plant. It is a positional isomer of Δ9-THC (Delta 9), meaning it has the same chemical formula and carbon skeleton, but a different arrangement of atoms in the molecule and different properties. Its slight difference with Delta 9 is that its chemical bond is on the eighth, instead of the ninth, carbon.\n\nDelta 8 has more mild, smoother psychoactive potency than Delta 9. Users have reported that Delta 8 lacks certain side effects, like anxiety and paranoia, often attributed to Delta 9. One study recommended using Delta 8 as an antiemetic for patients undergoing chemotherapy for pediatric cancer.\n\nWhy Is This So Confusing?\n\nDelta 8’s legal status is a morass. It is probably best described currently as not illegal in most states. The general consensus is that eleven states ban Delta 8, even if such ban is not explicit. Those states are: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, Rhode Island and Utah. They have typically done so by regulating all THC, sweeping Delta 8 in along with Delta 9.\n\nPrior to 2018, Delta 8 was clearly illegal along with the rest of the Cannabis sativa L plant under federal law. The Farm Bill of 2018 changed that, amending 21 U.S.C. §802(16) to include the following exclusion: “[t]he term ‘marihuana’ does not include ‘hemp, as defined in section 1639o of Title 7.’” Consistent with this, federal law now makes tetrahydrocannabinols a Schedule I controlled substance, “except tetrahydrocannabinols in hemp (as defined under section 1639o of Title 7).” Likewise, prior to 2018, THC was a Schedule I “hallucinogenic substance” under the DEA’s regulations with no exception. In August, 2020, the regulations were amended to harmonize THC’s definition with the revised CSA, by excluding, “any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that falls within the definition of hemp set forth in 7 U.S.C. 1639o.” Georgia, like a number of other states, enacted similar exemptions for hemp in its drug laws after passage of the Farm Bill. A plain reading of the law concludes that, because Delta 8 is a cannabinoid of Cannabis sativa L containing less than 0.3 percent Delta 9-THC, it falls within the definition of hemp in 7 U.S.C. §1639o(1), and is exempted from Schedule I. So whereas Delta 8 was previously an illegal cannabinoid of Cannabis sativa L, the new exclusion rendered it legal for the same reason.\n\nWould That It Were That Simple.\n\nThe executive summary of the changes to THC’s definition in the Code of Federal Regulations noted, “[a]ll synthetically derived tetrahydrocannabinols remain schedule I controlled substances.” There is no textual distinction between tetrahydrocannabinols “naturally contained in a plant,” or, “synthetic equivalents” in the Rules, other than that mention in the executive summary. Rather, THC, under the regulations, means tetrahydrocannabinols, “naturally contained in a plant … as well as synthetic equivalents of the substances contained in the cannabis plant.” An executive summary is not part of the actual rule, but this summary may harbinger how the DEA will ultimately implement the Controlled Substances Act, post-Farm Bill, with respect to Delta 8, which is most efficiently produced by chemically, i.e. synthetically, adding three hydrogen atoms to CBD.\n\nDoes The DEA Saying Synthetic THC Is Illegal Make It So?\n\nIn its rulemaking efforts, the DEA will have to reckon with the fact that Delta 8 can also be naturally derived, though the process is inefficient, expensive and difficult. No federal law or rule defines “synthetically derived tetrahydrocannabinols,” though the DEA has consistently asserted that both natural and synthetic THC are regulated as Schedule I controlled substances. This could ultimately support a position that Delta 8 is presently not illegal. A 2001 DEA interpretative memo distinguished, “natural THC,” which is, “THC found in nature in the cannabis plant,” from “synthetic” THC, “THC synthesized by humans.” The same opinion asserted that, “the commonly understood meaning of ‘Tetrahydrocannabinols’ includes both natural THC and synthetic THC since ‘Tetrahydrocannabinols’ is simply a name that refers collectively to a category of chemicals – regardless of whether such chemicals occur in nature or are synthesized in a laboratory.” In amending its final rule concerning THC, the DEA explained that, “Congress intended all THC—natural or synthetic—to be a schedule I controlled substance.” For twenty years, the DEA has forcefully taken the position that the “commonly understood meaning of ‘Tetrahydrocannabinols’” refers to both natural and synthetic substances, so one would naturally conclude that it would also know that any law intending to treat them differently would need to state so in explicit terms, which neither the law, nor the regs do.\n\nThe DEA is not talking about Delta 8 … yet. In the Rolling Stone article, a DEA spokesperson gave a cursory response about the future of Delta 8’s legality without explicitly calling it illegal. The Agency’s comments suggest that, while it works through the rulemaking process, there is nothing currently in federal law which makes Delta 8 illegal. That is why we believe that the best way to describe Delta 8 is that it is currently not illegal: there is nothing that says it is illegal, but there is also nothing that clearly states that is legal and there is strong reason to be skeptical that it will remain in that gray area for very long. However, given the ambiguities discussed above, the government’s lack of a firm, declared position on Delta 8 and consequent lack of clear warning to the public as to its legality, any kind of enforcement or seizure action would be difficult to win.\n\nWhat About That Georgia Case?\n\nThat brings us back to the Reddit post. We have no connection to this case, affiliation with any of the parties or inside knowledge, but we can glean a couple things from what was stated in the post. First, the DA who spoke with the poster did not discuss Atlanta Vapor specifically which stands to reason since a DA is typically not going to discuss an ongoing investigation with anyone who just calls in, (they will barely discuss cases with attorneys they don’t know well). It is entirely possible, if not likely, that the DA’s office did not even know about this search until after it occurred, as that would not be abnormal in Georgia. A day or two later, when this post was made, it is possible, but not certain, that an ADA would be assigned to the case to present it to the grand jury for indictment, but quite possibly months or even years from now, especially since Georgia only recently reopened the courts for grand jury proceedings due to the pandemic. Why is that important? Well, for one thing, it is probably not fair to assume that your average Griffin Judicial Circuit ADA has a working knowledge of Delta 8 to be able to immediately cut through all the nuances above and definitively state that it is illegal in Georgia. Even if they could, to our knowledge, that question has not been presented to any courts here (yet), certainly has not been resolved in its appellate courts and has not come up too often in courts around the country, either. So perhaps the ADA who fielded this call heard the caller ask about “THC” and immediately jumped to the conclusion that they were asking about Delta 9, which clearly is a restricted Schedule I substance under federal and Georgia law.\n\nWhat we can also surmise from the post is that the GBI came into Atlanta Vapor with a warrant, which means they had done some level of investigation of that store prior to coming in and presented its findings to a judge who found probable cause, at least to seize the inventory. The poster confirms that, “the GBI and DEA did testing on carts” and found some of them to contain more than .3% Delta 9, which thus makes them marijuana (i.e. “hot”) under both Georgia and federal law. This, then, would provide probable cause for a warrant, which (again, we’re speculating) probably authorized them to seize just about anything in the store which could have contained more than .3% THC, including basically any cartridge they saw. That does not mean that everything they seized was illegal, it means that they seized everything that could be illegal and presumably will now test it to make a more definitive determination. Notable here is that, depending on the process used, Delta 8 products can also contain Delta 9, so any transacting in Delta 8 would require the purveyor to assure, scrupulously, that the level of Delta 9 conformed to state and federal law. Otherwise all bets are off, even at present. The bottom line is that we probably need to know more about the Atlanta Vapor situation before hitting the panic button, but it is a good reminder of how close to the line those who trade in Delta 8 are legally and how careful they must be when doing so.\n\nIt seems as if the question of Delta 8’s legality – for now – comes down to one of fair warning: because the law does not clearly inform the ordinary citizen that Delta 8 is a Schedule I substance, it would likely be difficult for any government to successfully prosecute a citizen or company for trading in or consuming Delta 8. There are plenty of indicia that the federal government will soon clarify position on Delta 8, which will cause a significant number of states to do the same, and it will not be surprising if its position is to view it as a Schedule I substance. So the outlook for Delta 8 as anyone’s legitimate revenue source is murky at best, even if it is generating big revenue at present.\n\nI was joined in writing this post by Danielle Johnson, who is a partner and founding member of ECCE Global, cannabis-focused consultants and project managers based in Atlanta, Georgia. Danielle provided all of the factual data and research for this post and I thank her very much for her assistance.", null, null, "I’m kind of late to the party in offering my initial thoughts on the USDA’s interim final rules on hemp, but I finally got a few minutes to sit" ]

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[ "Why did you adopt? asked an elderly Chinese lady at the playground.", null, "Why not? I asked her back.\n\nShe shrugged and said it was not Chinese culture to do such things. I nodded in understanding, but saddened that it wasn’t. This mini-conversation took place a little over five years ago in mainland China. The lady wasn’t mean or snide. She truly wanted to know why I would choose to adopt a child whose ancestors we know nothing about.\n\nWhy did you adopt? asked a young mother holding her crippled boy.\n\nYou know that I’m a Christian, and well it was God. I really honestly can’t explain it any other way. I answered back not sure how she would react to my response. We had just discussed therapy exercises that Jie Jie was doing. (In case you are new, Jie Jie is my daughter with Cri-du-Chat; Mei Mei is my adopted Chinese daughter). I knew that she was thinking we were crazy for adopting after knowing we had a special needs daughter.\n\nThe above, I’m sure, is what most people think when they first meet our family. It may even have been your thought when you read our “About Me” page. I know that would be my first thought reading such a thing about another family. Are they crazy?\n\nHonestly, I can only say it was a God-thing. Before Jie Jie was born, we fostered a newborn orphan for ten months. I was not able to adopt at that time due to my age, and we moved to a new city and couldn’t take her with us. She was almost a year old when we left her with a kind Chinese lady who we trusted. It was so difficult, but peaceful.\n\nIt was God’s plan.\n\nAfter Jie Jie was born, we looked into the adoption process, but a few weeks later Jie Jie was very ill, which led to the mountain of tests and onto the summit of the result: Cri-du-Chat with silent aspiration. Our dreams of adopting were zapped. We really believed that with her physical needs – and not to leave out the medical bills – there would be no way that we could even think about adopting at that point.\n\nTwo months later, back in our city in mainland China, we received the news that the little Chinese girl that we had fostered was taken back to the orphanage. We were mortified and sick. We prayed about it. Uwe asked me what was holding me back with adopting – was it Jie Jie’s needs or money. Jie Jie’s needs were not that “difficult”, we were able to feed her very easily and I was doing therapy with her at home. It was money. He felt the same. We decided right there that IF God was wanting us to adopt, then He’d provide the finances to pay off the medical bills and for the adoptions.\n\nLong story short, God provided for all of those things to happen within two months. The surprise was that this little girl that we had fostered was not the girl God had in mind for us to adopt. In a matter of a few weeks, after we had our home study completed (which was a miracle to get an appointment so quickly), we found out that the fostered girl had been adopted.\n\nGrief, sadness, mixed with anger swept my husband and I. Though, as we searched our hearts and God, we realized that His plan was this: To just use this foster girl as a catalyst to get Mei Mei into our family. (I believe He used it to cause the family who was fostering her to adopt her as well. She was back in their home in about two months time.) **By the way,we had asked this family if they were adopting or not and they had told us “No” in words, but in Chinese culture were telling us “Yes”. A lesson learned in culture clashing – in a later post, maybe.\n\nWe never would have seriously considered adopting had the foster child not been taken back. God used that tough situation to move us forward.\n\nSo see, I really can’t answer that question any other way. It really was God who brought Mei Mei into our family and I will be forever grateful that He did. I love that bundle of energy and passionate little girl.\n\nThe month of November is apparently Adoption Awareness Month. I really hadn’t heard of it until just last week, but what a great idea. There are so many children around the world in need of a home. Don’t worry, I’m not going to pressure you to make a commitment to adopt, but I would like you to at least give it a thought.\n\nIf you know you can’t adopt or even foster, what can you do to help these kids out? Ask the local social worker, schools, or orphanages how you can help them. At the very least, you could pray for these children to find forever families of their own.\n\nYour Turn: If you have adopted share your story. It doesn’t have to be an overseas adoption. If you are thinking about it and have any questions, please ask. I will try to answer if I can. Please comment below." ]

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[ null, "Joan Joyce is a dancer who has wanted to be a ballerina her entire life. Unfortunately her desire outweighs her talent and so she is relegated to the corps. The center stage she longs for does not become hers until she is the woman who helps a young Russian dancer escape from the Soviet Union to the United States. She had seen Arslan Rusakov dance in Paris and had kept in touch with him via passionate letters about ballet until he lets her know he is leaving his country. For Joan, the chance to be with him and to bring him to the same company where she dances is the culmination of her dreams.\n\nMaggie Shipstead’s novel, Astonish Me, follows Joan, Arslan, and Joan’s friend Elaine throughout their lives as dancers, and, in the case of Joan, as a woman who decides to pursue another path. When her love affair with Arslan fades, she returns home to her high school best friend, Jacob Bintz, they marry and settle into a quieter life. In this way Astonish Me cycles back and forth through the mundanity of Joan’s current suburban life and the intensity and excitement of the life of a dancer. Much of the novel is taken up by the rigors and language of dance. This is interesting but as the story continues and Joan moves out of the dance world and into the world of being a mother and a ballet teacher, the novel feels less sure footed. Somehow the juxtaposition of the young Joan in New York City and the older Joan in Southern California with her life as wife and mother causes the novel’s tempo to drag.\n\nThe uneven pacing and abundance of ancillary stories in Astonish Me gave it the feel of a short story collection but, with the final chapters the novel begins to gel. The ending, when it comes in the final quarter of the book, is the soloist and draws together all the elements. To carry the ballet theme a bit further: much of the novel feels like the practice and disjointed rehearsals that lead to a performance. The good news is that Shipstead executes the truly difficult moves, resulting in a poignant conclusion.\n\nNovember Reading Wrap-Up\nMonday January 12th: What Are You Reading?\n\nThe Necklace by Claire McMillan\nHunters in the Dark" ]

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[ "A SOLDIER jailed for hate crimes after taunting a woman with racially abusive WhatsApp messages has been revealed to be an Irishman from Dublin.\n\nGraham Bolger, a 23-year-old British Army Guardsman, sent a number of racially abusive comments about Turkish people and Muslims to a woman between July 2017 and November 2017.\n\nThe shamed soldier was thrown out of the Army after his messages were exposed in court.\n\nThe Sun reports that Bolger, who talked about killing Muslim children and claimed to be a Nazi, is originally from Clondalkin in west Dublin.\n\nHe was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court in January after admitting two offences of intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress which was racially or religiously aggravated.\n\nHis sentence was later uplifted from 16 weeks to 24 weeks after the CPS convinced the court that Bolger’s actions amount to a hate crime.\n\nVideos played at Bolger’s trial showed the Dubliner performing a Nazi salute in his army uniform at the Infantry Training Centre in North Yorkshire.", null, "His messaging of the woman was described as a campaign of hate – in one instance telling her that he joined the Army to “wipe out” Muslims.\n\nHe also told her that Hitler was “brilliant” and praised the Holocaust, branding Jews “money-grabbing c***s”.\n\nAfter an internal review was ordered by General Sir Nick Carter, Bolger was promptly kicked out of the British Army.\n\n“The Army has concluded its considerations in relation to this case, but we are not prepared to release any personal information about this individual,” said an Army spokesperson.\n\nShe added: “Where a hate crime has been committed the CPS will always apply to the court to apply the law and give an ‘uplifted’ sentence which properly fully reflects the nature of the crime.\n\n“The evidence provided by the prosecution, following a thorough police investigation, included social media messages and witness testimony and was pivotal to him pleading guilty to his crimes.\n\n“I hope this prosecution empowers other victims of hate crimes to come forward and stop others from also being subjected to vile abuse.”" ]

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[ null, null, null, null, null, null, "Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, steel service centers indicate that they are optimistic about increased demand from the manufacturing base. They are also keeping an eye on how quickly steel mills fire up operations again, which could lead to an oversupply in the market. Getty Images\n\nSteel producers and distributors were frantic back in March when the government ordered the shutdown of nonessential businesses to stem the spread of the coronavirus, slowing orders to a trickle. Since then much of the panic has subsided. Just as the doctors now have a better understanding of COVID-19, steel executives now have better vision of the road ahead—and it’s not as bumpy as initially feared.\n\nSteel buyers’ sentiment, as tracked by Steel Market Update (SMU), has shown dramatic improvement in the last three months. SMU asks buyers twice each month to rate their chances for success in the current environment and three to six months in the future. Shortly after the virus hit and the economy stalled, current sentiment plummeted into negative territory for the first time since the Great Recession. By the first week of June, it had recovered by 40 points to +32 (see Figure 1).\n\nFuture sentiment was even more optimistic, rising to +48, a level comparable to the same time last year when the coronavirus was not a factor (see Figure 2). Both current and future sentiment remain below historically typical readings in the +50s and +60s, but the trend is undeniably favorable (barring a second wave of the virus).\n\nSentiment is tied to the health of steel demand and steel prices. The market’s recovery has been much quicker than many expected, but it is still fragile and could easily suffer a setback. All eyes are on the steel producers, which to their credit were quick to curtail production when the virus undermined demand. Should the mills restart idled capacity too soon and oversupply the market, however, it could force down steel prices, devalue inventories, and turn buyer sentiment pessimistic once again.\n\nEven in June steel buyers were beginning to express a degree of relief, telling SMU that business was returning to normal more quickly than expected. About 12% of those responding to SMU’s June 8 market trends questionnaire said their business had already returned to pre-COVID-19 levels. Another 33% anticipated a return to prior levels by the end of September. In general, about two-thirds expected the crisis to pass by the end of the year, while the other third were more pessimistic and said they believe it will be first-quarter 2021 or beyond before their sales recover.\n\nSteel demand is on the upswing three months after being decimated by the coronavirus restrictions. The majority of steel buyers (53%) responding to SMU’s market trends questionnaire in mid-June said they were seeing improvement in demand for their products. Another 38% reported that demand was the same/stable. Just 9% said they were still seeing declines in demand from their customers (see Figure 3).\n\nSteel prices also were improved as of June, but still struggling to maintain any real traction. When the government announced the coronavirus shutdowns, the benchmark price for hot-rolled steel plunged from its mid-March high of $580/ton to its late-April low of $460/ton—a decline of $120/ton, or more than 20%, in just six weeks. Spurred by two price increases from the mills in May, the hot-rolled price recovered to the $515/ton level in the first week of June, but then stalled.\n\nNot surprisingly, steel buyers could not agree last month on where steel prices were headed. The majority, 54%, predicted prices would stall at the current levels, while 8% expected prices to backslide. Yet a significant 38% said they expected prices to continue rising over the following 60 days (see Figure 4). As of this writing, SMU’s Price Momentum Indicator remained at neutral, waiting for the market to establish a clear direction.\n\nWhat the Market Is Saying\n\nAs of mid-June, mills were beginning to announce plans to restart idled furnaces in anticipation of increasing demand. Many steel service centers are fearful the mills will bring capacity back online too quickly and oversupply the market, putting more downward pressure on prices and profitability. Following are comments from some steel buyers last month:", null, "Out of an abundance of concern for the health and safety of attendees and employees, SMU has made its annual Steel Summit a virtual event. The conference will still take place Aug. 24-26, but in an online rather than an in-person format. Far more than a series of webinars, the event will use an online platform that will simulate the conference venue and allow attendees to network and communicate with each other in creative new ways.\n\nSMU also is seeking nominations for the SMU NexGen Leadership Award. SMU is dedicated to helping businesses recruit, train, and retain the next generation of talent. Any young, motivated individual under the age of 35 who is currently employed by an organization that uses carbon steel as part of its core business function is eligible for this award, which is co-sponsored by the Steel Manufacturers Association. Nominating is simple. Complete a Word document defining what distinguishes the nominee as a next-generation leader and upload it.\n\nSMU hosts a Community Chat every Wednesday at 11 a.m. ET. Each webinar features different guests—analysts, consultants, economists, or industry executives—who share their unique perspective on the coronavirus pandemic and their advice on how to persevere through the difficult times. The webinars are free and open to all. Register for the next event. All the SMU chats are archived under the SMU Community Chat tab.", null, "Tim Triplett, senior editor for “Steel Market Update” and the former editor-in-chief for Metal Center News, can be reached at tim@steelmarketupdate.com.", null, "Are steel prices trending up?\n\nUnpredictable steel prices to remain so" ]

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[ null, "Had it not have been for a friend’s 30th birthday, I am sad to say I probably never would have visited Las Vegas. The idea of a huge amount of drunk bogans in an over-commercialised city with cigarettes and alcohol at every turn did not entice me. However, I was actually shocked at how much I loved this crazy place! OMG, does that make me one of the bogans?! Oh well…", null, null, "It’s unlike any other city I’ve visited before. It felt like I was in a computer game. Bright lights everywhere and insane buildings mimicking land marks around the world, like the Egyptian Pyramids, Eiffel Tower and the London Eye. Having driven the 4hrs from Los Angeles with a stop at Peggy Sue’s 50s Diner for a vanilla malt milkshake, we were ready to check into our room at the fancy Cosmopolitan Hotel of Las Vegas. Hands down, the best view of the strip was from our amazing room. I haven’t stayed somewhere this fancy in a really long time. We could even see the infamous fountain show at The Bellagio next door!", null, null, "Another thing that shocked me was the fact that there’s an 8 lane highway running down some of the strip. I’m not sure what I expected, but certainly not this big! Having walked around and checked out plenty of other hotels, I think the Cosmopolitan was the best. It certainly suited my taste!", null, null, "The great thing about Las Vegas is that it doesn’t have to be expensive! Compared to just about every other city in the USA, it’s relatively cheap. My hot tip would be to stay central! As a rule of thumb, The Bellagio is the centre of the universe, and I would definitely recommend The Cosmopolitan. We only had a City Room which was the lead-in category, so just imagine what it would be like if you spoiled yourself! Taxis everywhere are cheap as well. Although I’d watched The Bellagio fountain show many times from my room, I wandered down at night to view it from street level, which was magical. Las Vegas looks best at night!", null, "On our first night in Las Vegas we were on the VIP list at Hakkasan, the club at MGM Grand, to see Calvin Harris. The atmosphere was full on in this club and drinks were incredibly overpriced at US$20 for a basic! Although it was a good experience, we visited much better clubs (in my opinion) the next night. On our party bus with Party Tours Las Vegas, we visited Foundation Room at Mandalay Bay, Foxtail at SLS Las Vegas, and Chateau at Paris Las Vegas and had an absolute blast! 25 travel agents surrounded by unlimited free-pour alcohol…what could go wrong?!", null, null, "After some big nights in Las Vegas, waking up to the buffet at The Cosmopolitan is possibly the greatest thing on the planet. We literally spent 2.5hrs eating all the glorious food on offer. It’s US$35 + tip and runs until 3pm, so you don’t have to worry about getting up early. BEST. Apart from a bit of shopping at Planet Hollywood and a ride on the rollercoaster on top of the Stratosphere hotel, we were ready to leave Sin City and head to Antelope Canyon and the Grand Canyon!\n\nCity Room at The Cosmopolitan: We paid AU$180 per room per night\nThe Cosmopolitan buffet breakfast: US$35 + tip\nParty Tours Las Vegas party bus (including transport, VIP entry to 3 clubs, unlimited free-pour alcohol onboard the bus): US$70 + tip\n(prices & room views are subject to change depending on when you book and what season)" ]

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[ null, "Saipan casino operator Imperial Pacific International said it is working on recruiting more U.S. workers for its hotel-casino in Garapan.\n\nAccording to a report from Marianas Variety, the company is aiming to have a workforce of at least 65 percent U.S. workers. Currently, 44 percent of its personnel are U.S. workers, and the rest are non-U.S.\n\nThe company however has had trouble meeting its mandate as specified in the casino-license agreement “to use its best efforts to employ 65 percent U.S. citizen workers.”\n\nIn an email to MV, Imperial Pacific International said it has had to recruit off-island, including in the U.S. in order to hire staff for the temporary casino and related facilities.\n\n“Despite spending millions on recruiting from the U.S. mainland, Puerto Rico, Guam all throughout Micronesia and the entire CNMI, we have not been able to reach this mandate,” said the company.\n\nIPI said distance from the workers’ homeland, and higher wages in other states have been a main factor.\n\nHowever, despite these challenges, IPI told MV that it is still optimistic that it will meet the 65 percent mandate because it is aggressively recruiting and retaining U.S. workers.\n\n“We have shown our proactive actions to meet this goal, but as with all employers, the CNMI lacks the necessary U.S. citizen workforce, necessitating the need to extend the CW program.”\n\nThe operator said it has about 1,800 employees currently but will need about 1,000 more once the construction of its hotel in Garapan is complete." ]

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[ "Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the Erosion of Good Governance!", null, "Midway through the tenure of Goodluck Jonathan’s Presidency, I wrote in an article that Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, was the biggest loser in the government of the colorless and uninspiring President. Hardly anyone took note of this serious observation. After all, it was a no-name writer and an unimportant Internet-based analyst making the statement. Those who took note dismissed the claim with a wave of the hand alluding to the height of respectability enjoyed by the Minister in international circles\n\nThe same respectability it was that she enjoyed with Nigerians across-the-board after her impressive first appearance in the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Her role in negotiating away Nigeria’s foreign debt with the Paris Club earned her a huge reputation even though there were also dissenting voices, who claimed she did not strike the best deal that Nigeria could have taken home and alluded to a possible connivance with foreign interests. Yet, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was highly respected by Nigerians, not the least, because of her commitment to fiscal discipline and a strict spirit of functional bureaucracy. Government functionaries around her found it difficult (even though not impossible) to divert funds for personal enrichment.\n\nAs I wrote in my book “Nigeria’s Journalistic Militantism”, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala was nicknamed, for this reason, by fellow government functionaries, as Ngozi Okonjo-Wahala. Like many other observers, I personally saw in her, the first female President of Nigeria in the making. Many like me were convinced that Nigeria needed more of her type to reinstate operational and routine sanity in the body of society even though there were voices, which expressed serious reservations at the oversized canonization.\n\nUntil she was brought to the limelight by President Olusegun Obasanjo, however, not much was known about her in the domestic scene. There were no hints of negatives to juxtapose with positives and build up expectations for the future. She came in. She saw and by the standards of the days, she conquered.\n\nFollowing the battle that wrested Nigeria from the grips of the Yar’Adua mafia and installed Goodluck Jonathan as President, hopes were high that justice will henceforth, be brought to bear on the distribution of political power in Nigeria with the requisite geographical equilibrium. Having for the first time, had a President from a minority tribe of the South-South namely Ijaw, it was a matter-of-course to expect the next major ethnic group of the Eastern region to produce the next President. There was a general but unspoken consensus that Northern Nigeria will have to wait a while before the Presidency gets back there again having had more than a fair share of contribution at this level. For this purpose, all eyes were set on Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Her recruitment by President Goodluck Jonathan for a second shot at practical experience in political leadership was, therefore, a highly welcome maneuver. She was not only appointed a Minister, she was also granted wide-ranging powers that made her a virtual Prime Minister in a Presidential system of democracy.\n\nThings however began to fall apart when the President stuck his neck out so recklessly in a bid to remove fuel subsidy in January 2012 claiming he was ready for a revolution without truly knowing the implications of a violent revolution. At the time, however, people widely suspected international financial institutions as the forces oiling the machine of the clueless President’s design. Quite coincidentally, the newly appointed boss of the International Monetary Fund, former French Minister of Finance Christine Lagarde, discovered a newfound love for Nigeria, which she visited repeatedly within a short period. She engaged in public functions and made pronouncements encouraging the removal of subsidy on consumer products stressing the economic wisdom in leaving consumer products to the forces of the free market.\n\nThis further strengthened the suspicion that foreign forces were remote-controlling the President of Nigeria, who had then worked hard enough to earn himself the reputation of ‘clueless’ due to repeated gaffes.\n\nComing from the World Bank herself, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was naturally predestined for suspicion of acting out the script of international monetary institutions, which are widely suspected of ever acting contrary to the interest of Black Africa. Yet, she had a bonus with Nigerians because she was the celebrated technocrat of the Obasanjo years. She joined town hall meetings, symposia and discussion forums to campaign on behalf of the President, to appeal for public understanding that fuel subsidy needed to be removed. Even though suspected, to be the brain behind the plot, she came out in fierce defense of her role claiming not to be the architect of fuel subsidy removal.\n\nThe matter was finally resolved. Solutions were sought. To stop marketers and profiteers from ripping-off consumers in the regime of fuel importation, there was a general consensus that the local production of refined products had to be boosted. That ultimately defined the need for the Subsidy Reinvestment Program (SURE-P).\n\nNow, as the ultimate power overseeing the flow of cash in and out of the public treasury, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy had absolute access to and knowledge of all activities impacting the economy of the country. She was aware of the vested interests that sabotaged the creation of self-sufficiency in fuel refinement. She was aware of bogus bills and ghost ships and shipments that she had to pay for with the budgetary allocation for fuel subsidy. What happened to SURE-P is anybody’s guess. The special Ministry that was created for the Niger Delta simply ended up becoming one of the several nipples for milking the sacred cow dry.\n\nThe question then arises as to what advice the respected technocrat Minister was giving the President at this crucial time. Having campaigned relentlessly to aid the President’s bid to remove fuel subsidy (a project that she claims she did not recommend but also did not discourage), the question also arises if her hands were so tied that she could not fight hard enough for the building of refineries or refurbishment of existing ones? Those things for which Nigerians held her in high esteem and her colleagues called her “Wahala” simply disappeared overnight?\n\nRumors of widespread corruption in the administration came to a head latest during the presidential campaign in 2015, precisely after the postponement of polls for six weeks. Money was squandered on bribery for votes and many interest groups received gratifications in dollars. Where were these monies taken from? Who authorized their disbursement and from what allocation were they taken? What role did the Minister of Finance play in this respect? Did she cry out?\n\nEven though a lot happened within the government that called for concern, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala did not for once, complain about anything wrong in the system. On the contrary, she joined the bandwagon of soiled hands in attacking whistleblowers. Her voice could not be overheard in her implicit and explicit condemnation of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi for blowing the whistle on $20 billion unremitted fund from the NNPC. She countered the former Central Bank Governor and came up with the figure of $12 billion. Yet her general reaction to the whistleblower as perceived in the public was not one of support but one of disgust and resentment. She was far from being the one that would have blown the whistle on this evil machine of entrenched corruption. On the contrary, she joined or at least felt comfortable in the company of crude politicians who sought the head of anyone that dared to spit on the stolen porridge on which they were feeding fat.\n\nShe floated the idea of a forensic audit of the NNPC accounts citing her international reputation that was at stake. She implemented it and saw key figures refusing to cooperate with the PriceWater auditors. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala did not speak up. The Pricewater House’s haphazard investigation concluded in a report that was submitted and promptly kept under seal. A select section was released for public consumption. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala knew too well that this was a perversion of truth. She did not speak up.\n\nNon-payment of salaries became a routine habit at state and federal levels. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala knew too well, what was responsible for the shortage of funds. She knew too well who had been withholding funds from the NNPC. She knew very well, who had been dipping his hands in foreign reserves and the Excess Crude Account. She did not speak up. What fun was she having being a Finance Minister that could be said to have mainly been coordinating corruption all over?\n\nThere is no evidence in public domain to prove that she amassed wealth within this four-year tenure and thus joined the bandwagon of looters. Yet her general attitude of “not seeing, not hearing and not saying” speaks volumes. Murmurs can now be heard loudly that it is probably a question of time till tales of corruption involving her directly are unveiled.\n\nFormer President Obasanjo counted her among the five Presidents that ruled Nigeria under Goodluck Jonathan. Latest upon the confirmation of her authorship of the infamous idea of fighting corruption with high-tech, the extent of her involvement in governance became clearer. It slowly became obvious that the death of the anti-corruption battle, the dearth of good governance and the complete collapse of systemic sanity all happened with the overt or covert collaboration of a material that many celebrated as a future female President. Thank goodness, it did not come to it.\n\nThe lesson to be learnt: Under President Obasanjo, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala served under a hands-on President. A President who left her in no doubt, what he expected from her and she ended up with a brilliant public perception rating. Under Mr. Jonathan, Dr. Okonjo-Iweala served as a Co-President and messed it all up beyond redemption. She seems to have simply joined the bandwagon and catered for her own welfare and secured her future. Funnily, she didn’t seem to have given a damn that the whole world was watching. Precisely the world, whose regard for her capabilities formed the basis of any credibility that made her a force to be reckoned with.\n\nSo much was expected of her and so much she despised and so many she spat upon through omissions and (at best) indirect collaboration. Coming out in the wake of her principal’s demise, to tell the world that she is a cancer survivor simply smacks of attempts to garner sympathy amid fear of prosecution for wrongdoings.\n\nIn spite of these though, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is to me like an errant Nuhu Ribadu, whose capabilities and potentials can and will benefit any society at any time under the proper conditions. With a hands-on leader, who cages Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and defines the scope of her operations without such limitless laissez-faire powers of “live and let live”, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala can still be a very useful technocrat to any society if she drops the politician in her that she has wantonly fathomed under Goodluck Jonathan. We should only not throw away the baby with the bathwater out of fury and sentimental commitments." ]

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[ "Not a Far Away Place\n\n\nAs they prepared to leave the table around which we had gathered in the synagogue, they presented me with a beaded bag from Jerusalem, a bag filled with gifts. I was embarrassed to receive yet another gift from them. I told them that their presence was itself the greatest gift. I told them that my wife and I had been in Israel this summer in the midst of so much pain and sorrow, and that everywhere I went I asked people where they find hope. In the presence of these young people I found an answer to my own seeking, to the same question that in moments of enough courage I ask myself.", null, "Planning to return for our service that evening, they were a group of ten Israeli high school students, five Jews and five Muslim Arabs. The Jewish students are from the south, all attending a regional school in Kibbutz Yotvata in the Arava region of the Negev desert. I lived on that kibbutz for a time many years ago. The Muslim students are all from a small village in the north near Natzeret/Nazareth. They are travelling together as part of a program called Friends Forever. It is an American based effort to bring young people together from places of conflict, people who could just as easily become enemies rather than friends. Having met each other a few times in Israel as part of the coordinating effort, they now travel and live together abroad, sharing in discovery of each other and themselves as they encounter new places, people, and experiences. Their guides are two teachers, one from each of their schools, and an American coordinator for the program. The goal and the hope of the program is that the friendships fostered will continue at home, and that these new friends will help to prepare new cohorts to engage in becoming friends forever.\n\nWe went around the table, sharing names and a little background. The interplay of names and backgrounds was like music, enveloping all of us with a sense of wholeness, only names, the essence of who we are and where we have come from, names telling of each one’s presence. I had to hold back tears several times. I did not share with them the sudden thought I had that the last time I heard an interspersing of Hebrew and Arabic names was at a peace vigil at which were read the names of all the dead from the Gaza war, Palestinian and Israeli, Hebrew and Arabic. To call each other by name is the beginning of friendship, a way of connection, and so may it be for these young people, and through them for all of us, the beginning of a new way. I asked them why they had chosen to be part of Friends Forever. Their answers showed that a new way was already unfolding through them. Knowing strife so close at hand, their answers were more than untried idealism, but reflected a yearning that is born of urgency and of a struggle not to despair. Several of them spoke of loving peace, of wanting to help bring peace to the world. In their being together, transcending their own fear and discomfort, of which they spoke honestly, they are taking the first steps toward making peace a reality in their own world of strife and separation.\n\nWhen it came time to leave, we walked outside together. Suddenly, one of the Muslim students asked if they could see the Torah. “Ah, of course,” I said, and all turned around and walked back in. We gathered around the reading table and opened the scroll to where it was set from last week. There, jumping out at us, were the words of the Sh’ma, an affirmation of God’s oneness, Hear, O Israel, God our God, God is one (Deut. 6:4). I shared an essential teaching with them, one they already knew in their hearts: if God is one and all people are created in the image of God, then…, and I asked them, and they answered…, then all people are one. And so it was around the table. And then I rolled the scroll to that week’s Torah portion, Parashat Ekev (Deut. 7:12-11:25). I chanted the first few verses for them. Smiling, and making me smile, one of the Muslim students said it sounded like the chanting of Quran. And I asked them, “what does Ekev mean?” One of the Jewish students said right away, though all of them speak Hebrew, “it means because of.” And so it does, and I asked, “and what does akev mean,” and a teacher answered, “it means heal.” I added one more word formed of the same root, ikvot/footsteps. And I explained that this portion is about them. Most often when we speak of following in someone’s footsteps it is younger people or people coming later who follow in the footsteps of those who came before. But it is for us to follow in their footsteps, to pursue the way of friendship and peace in the way that they are modeling and living the ideal now.", null, "There is a beautiful teaching of Rabbi Yitzchok Meir of Rothenberg (1799-1866), the Ri”m, that the first words of the portion, v’haya ekev tish’m’un/it shall come to pass as a result of your hearing…, perhaps on the heals of your hearing, are telling us to listen for the footsteps of the Messiah, ikvot m’shicha. Those are the footsteps that I could hear as we stood around the open Torah, Jews and Muslims together. In the bag of gifts they had given me was a small book of teachings of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810) entitled, Ein Makom Rachok/Not a Far Away Place. Following in the steps of such young people, may that time of peace and wholeness, of swords turned to plowshares, be a little closer, not a far away place." ]

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[ null, "Let’s be clear, our jewish occupied governments have been the biggest terrorists this world has ever known, and they will cause a worldwide Armageddon of Biblical proportions unless stopped.\n\nOnly a few days after ISIS attacked Paris, at the G20 Vladimir Putin stated that ISIS receives financing from 40 countries, including from members of the G20 itself.\n\nI provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) units by private individuals. This money, as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them.\n\nIt is becoming so damn obvious that the Western elite are collaborating with their jewish and Muslim allies, using ISIS to further their geopolitical goals in the Middle East and terrorize White European civilization. This means that the attack on Paris, whether involving mass casualties or mostly stagecraft, was not simply the independent action of a radical Muslim terrorist group. This was financed and directed from powers very high up the ladder (or pyramid).\n\nSome people will wonder why the same powers that push multiculturalism down our throats would then make multiculturalism look bad, which is valid from a certain perspective, but this argument does not take into account the fact that millions of Muslims have already flooded into Europe, will continue to do so, and will not be deported by European governments, especially in the West. In fact, the response from France has been to send more bombs to Syria, inevitability causing more “refugees”, crack down on French dissidents, and install a police state. The “bomb them there so we can bring them here” strategy is insane to anyone actually paying attention. Sure, this will bolster nationalist sentiment, but will it be too little too late? And could this “goy vs goy” clash be exactly what the jewish cabal desires, so as to weaken us for the final death blow?", null, "Regardless, the proxy war continues. After Russia’s aid was enlisted in Syria’s war against ISIS, serious progress was quickly made against the group, showing that the United States’ illegal military efforts in Syria were a complete sham, with American taxpayers apparently paying for both the dessert to be bombed and terrorists to be armed. Now, if we are to believe Russia’s propaganda, ISIS is feeling the heat of serious opposition and on the retreat, which seems to have the backers of ISIS fuming. One such country is Turkey, which has not only funded the terrorists but also ensured their safe passage to Europe, along with millions of other brown demographic time bombs.\n\nPerhaps this is why Turkey just shot down a Russian jet over Syrian airspace.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin said the move was a stab in the back delivered by terrorist accomplices. The Russian president stressed that the plane was downed above Syrian territory with an air-to-air missile fired by a Turkish plane although it did not pose a threat to Turkey. He also said large amounts of oil from anti-Damascus militants in Syria go to Turkey. The Russian Defense Ministry has summoned Turkish defense attaché in Moscow. Meanwhile, Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has also summoned Russia’s charge d’affaires. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says Ankara has the right to all kinds of measures against border violations. NATO ambassadors will hold a special session later on Tuesday to discuss the situation.\n\nPutin says that this act with have serious consequences, which means we could be facing an ever-expanding war throughout the world.\n\nWhether or not Russia is just playing its part in the New World Order plan is up for debate, but it’s quite clear that World War III would be catastrophic.", null, null, null, "Bismark never put on a yarmulke and passed laws to imprison anyone questioning the jewish history.\n\n“After Russia’s aid was enlisted in Syria’s war against ISIS . . .”\n\nThat sentence just hangs me up. — Enlisted by whom? The author’s saying Syria came begging cap in hand to Russia for assistance? That’s the way the world is supposed to work today?\n\nIf Russia is merely playing a part, wouldn’t it already be game over for the West? Why would there need be to any incrementalism at all at this point in time. For me, this is the most credible reason for why all sides aren’t just consciously participating in a game.\n\n“All sides” aren’t clearly defined. This is a war on the world by a very select group of internationalists. They can’t exactly predict reactions to the way they’re nudging events. They have to monitor those reactions and adjust the game plan accordingly. But do you seriously think this shit isn’t nudging towards a major conflagration in the Middle East?\n\nAwesome that they had the guy with the video camera out there to film the plane going down. Makes a great overlay to the English dude who can’t pwonunce his rwars.\n\nNo, this shit is most definitely nudging towards a major conflagration in the Middle East.\n\nIt’s good to see that the vid featuring Obama’s little “gaffe” has already garnered 1,279,119 views (and counting hopefully). In addition, there are other mirrors of this clip, which between them have generated 140,000+ views. …………………………………………………….. Additional related info for those who haven’t seen it: The following article describes some “anomalies” regarding the whole ISIS / Syrian rebels / Free Syrian Army issue: Realities Watch – November 18, 2015: http://realitieswatch.com/mccain-everyone-on-the-national-security-team-recommended-arming-isis/ John McCain: “Hillary Clinton has described already the meeting in the White House over 2 years ago, everyone on the National Security Team recommended arming ISIS.” But… Read more »\n\nI’m convinced Putin is trying the best he can! I can not spot a mistake from him, so far. As a matter of fact, I think he has done great. We should support him. Russia is our only hope, any way.\n\n“if they shoot at us, they are terrorists.” Vladimir Putin. This presumes NATO planes too. Turkey is a NATO member, the rogue plane was U.S manufactured. From here on, Russia’s bombers have a fighter escort. God or Allah help any Turdish fighter in the vicinity.\n\nWho knows, maybe WWIII is what the Talmudic-Masonic Elite wants after all. We can elaborate different case scenarios. It shouldn’t have to be an all-out nuclear war but an state of constant (low-intensity) war with many false flag attacks in between. After that comes world wide State surveillance. Remember the NWO’s ‘idea’ is to create one world to ‘stop all wars’, the ‘End of History’ and the rest of that claptrap. I insist fear is their best weapon.\n\n“In the US every year, 611,000 die from heart disease 41,000 die from suicide 16,000 die from homicide More people died last week from heart disease than terrorist attacks which is to say globally that you and I should spend at least 10x more time worrying about dying from a broken heart than from the risk of violence. In the developed world you and I should spend at least a 100 to a 1000x more time trying to protect ourselves and our loved ones from a broken heart as opposed to a a terrorist act or a… Read more »\n\nVery nice, Katie. I met Katherine once for a minute after a presentation she gave in Palo Alto. She’s a really nice lady and this is good advice. Don’t let the bastards drag you down!\n\nSorry, Catherine. I misspelled her name.\n\nI’m just watching this youtube video and remembering how good she was and still is. It’s hard to believe they let her be. She’s just so professional though, for them it would be like going down the hall and shooting your boss or your buddy.\n\nI don’t know yet if this was staged or done for real yet (why do any of this stuff for real when it’s so goddamn easy to stage it and 99.9% of people buy it no matter how many lies and anomalies are discovered?) but I do know already that it’s total BS. Jews are most likely going to use their puppet Putin to house-train the Turks for getting uppity and not saying “how high?” whenever Jews said “jump,” in the last decade or so. The Jews are famous for holding long, sometimes even centuries long, grudges.… Read more »\n\nHilarious. But totally off on the idea of Holocaust denial laws in America. Why would anyone give a damn what Americans think or what they say? Why would they stir up that pot and risk waking the dumb animals up? They’ve got their Kardashians and Katy Perry and Dancing with the Stars. You think kikes sit around worrying about what fucking Americans think about the Holocaust? Be serious.\n\nNot to forget Black Friday. Best Buy has even bigger buys for you today if you’re one of the lucky ones to kick in the door at 7 AM. I mean, please. America is the very ethos of Jewry come to fruition and life. How are Americans going to rebel against the system that defines them? Where exactly would they turn for inspiration? Around whom would they rally? What would be their battle cry? They still have a First Amendment for the simple reason that they have no earthly use for it. Taking it away is about… Read more »\n\n“And could this “goy vs goy” clash be exactly what the jewish cabal desires, so as to weaken us for the final death blow?” It’s not about if it could, it’s always been obvious all along. That is how they’ve worked their way where they are right now. They openly gloat about it too! Rabi Ron Chaya even made a video about it in “La parabole du petit coq” (French) where he exposes loudly the Jewish strategy. I tried to explain that a bit to other WN but they just don’t care. Calling out niggers and kikes… Read more »" ]

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Two companion novels, A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet (a Newbery Honor book), complete what has come to be known as The Time Trilogy, a series that continues to grow in popularity with a new generation of readers.\n\nHer book A Ring of Endless Light won the Newbery Honor. L'Engle passed away in in Litchfield, by: A Wind in the Door is the second installment in the Time Quartet by Madeleine L'Engle, following the story of the same protagonists from the first novel, A Wrinkle in Time.\n\nThis novel continues the story of Meg Murry and her younger brother Charles Wallace Murry, along with Meg's friend and Calvin O'Keefe, all three characters returning from Author: Madeleine L'engle. With believable characters and a suspenseful plot, this is arguably the best of the sequels to the classic A Wrinkle in Time.\n\nThis is the second of Madeleine L'Engle's Chronos Quartet novels featuring the Murry family and their journeys through time and space.\n\nIn some books in the Quartet, the hypersensitive, loving, and gifted Murry children speak and act like people much older or younger 4/5. A wind in the door starts out much darker than the first book in the installment - A wrinkle in time.4/5. A Wind in the Door by Madeline L'engle at - the best online ebook storage.\n\nThese timeless A Wing in the Door book classics are remarkably ahead of their time in their use of cutting-edge science. L'Engle blends advanced scientific theory with spiritual mythology to create a magical yet oddly sensible world for her characters. A Swiftly Tilting Planet / A Wind In the Door by Madeline L'Engle.\n\nA \"Wind In The Door\" is a fantastic adventure story involving Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe, the chief characters of \"A Wrinkle In Time.\" The seed from which the story grows is the rather ordinary situation of Charles Wallace's having difficulty in adapting to school.\n\nChapters Review Quiz and writing prompts (PDF File) Vocabulary Spelling and vocabulary review (options for multiple keys and pages per key). A Wing in the Door by Peri Phillips McQuay- Hancock House – Hancock House Publishers The story of a red-tailed hawk illegally plucked from its nest and trained to.\n\nThese timeless children's classics are remarkably ahead of their time in their use of cutting-edge science. A Wing in the Door: Life with a Red-Tailed Hawk Peri Phillips McQuay, Author Milkweed Editions $ (p) ISBN Buy this book Ina two-year-old red-tailed hawk, taken.\n\nThe A-wing was one of two new Rebel Alliance starfighters created for Return of the Jedi. It was dubbed the A fighter because it was the first of the two designs created. [7] Ralph McQuarrie 's concept art has blue coloring, but these sections were red on the models because of bluescreen ation: Rebel Alliance, New Republic, Resistance.\n\nGet this from a library. A wing in the door: life with a red-tailed hawk. [Peri Phillips McQuay] -- THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A RED-TAILED HAWK AND HER FAMILY. Here is Stacy's book review over A Wind in the Door by: Madeleine L'engle.\n\nI give this book seven out off ten stars. Hope you guys like it. Book with Wings consists of a massive lead book supported on a steel lectern. The pages of the open book sprout two majestic wings. 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A few stray white bread crumbs lay on the cleanly washed floor by the table; putting the lamp upon a low stool he began to pick up the crumbs, carrying them.\n\nThere's some corner of my brain that is already writing the next book even as I'm finishing my current work in progress. It's an amazing feeling and one I will treasure as I know. A wide variety of wing door options are available to you, such as finished.\n\nYou can also choose from swing, folding, and automatic wing door, as well as from solid wood, glass, and mdf wing door, and whether wing door is entry doors, accordion doors, or revolving doors. 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[ null, "Legal expert believe that the verdict in the bombshell defamation case of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is ‘strange and unexpected.’\n\nEmily D. Baker, lawyer and legal analyst told People Magazine, “It is a strange result. Johnny Depp won all three of his defamation claims, and Amber Heard won one of her counterclaims.”\n\nDavid Glass, family law attorney and former psychologist, is also of the opinion that it was “a very unexpected result,” as he said that it is “relatively rare” that both parties to simultaneously have wins and losses in a defamation trail.\n\nGlass added, “It means that the jury found that each of them were telling the truth enough to get their verdict. But it’s clearly in favor of Johnny Depp because the jury just did not believe anything that Amber Heard had said — other than her expert saying that her career was slightly damaged.”\n\n“What I think spoke very loudly is that the jury awarded $10 million in compensatory damages to Johnny Depp (and) $5 million in punitive, (even though) that was reduced by the court already because Virginia does not allow more than $350,000 in punitive damages,” Barker shared with the publication.\n\nShe went on to say that, “The punitive damages are the punishment damages, saying we don’t like what you did. And that 5 million number is, I think, a message,” adding that Heard was awarded $2 million in damages but “zero in punitive,” which “was the loudest message the jury sent.”\n\nGlass added that awarding punitive damages to Depp means that the jury was of the view that Heard “did this on purpose to try and hurt him,” as Baker said that this means the jury “did not believe” Heard.\n\n“I think Johnny Depp’s legal team had the advantage of knowing how Amber Heard would present to a jury after seeing her testify in the U.K. And I think that they relied on that — they relied on whether a jury’s going to believe her or not, they relied on her past statements,” shared Barker.\n\nTalking about Depp’s legal team, Glass shared with the outlet that they did “a good job with his testimony in preparing him because he came off as a hurt child. And they talked about his own childhood upbringing to bring around some sympathy for him. And that was a brilliant move because they allowed him to act that way.”\n\nHow all 32 rookie first-round picks fared this offseason: Reporters give first impressions\n\n“I think they did the best they could,” he said about Heard’s team. “She wanted to tell her story. She told it in a very dramatic fashion. Perhaps she went too far in bringing up new stories that had never been brought up before, and perhaps that’s what turned the jury.”\n\n“This case boiled down to one (volatile) relationship that lasted about a year and had allegations on both sides. So it’s a very unusual, very unique case,” Glass further added.\n\nGlass concluded his statement, saying that he doesn’t believe the case will have “a lot of influence elsewhere other than maybe in law schools teaching about defamation. Because, honestly when you go to law school, you’re taught that these defamation cases almost never win, and it’s very hard to prove the damages — to link very short, small statements to any sort of real monetary damage to your reputation or your employment.”\n\n“And so this sort of stands out as an outlier that I think will be talked about, but only in terms of it really doesn’t fit the elements of defamation.”\n\nFive myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English language\n\nRevamp And Go Boho With Your Home Interiors\n\nQB Rodgers: This way of winning not ‘sustainable’\n\nU.S. inflation eased to 7.7% in October, raising hopes that high prices have begun to slow down" ]

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[ null, "Philip Roth’s Everyman has many simple, devastating things to say about our mortality, and is one of those books that deserve to be read in their entirety in the course of a day (but not, I think, in a single sitting, as this is good for no one’s digestion). I acquired my copy somewhat fraudulently from the PR department of Jonathan Cape, on the proviso I would write a review, and though I am not about to do that, I consider this post, though several years late, my repayment of this debt, in full.\n\nSome reviewers found fault with the novel for its plainness of style and lack of event, but to my mind this was just churlish disappointment at being denied some of the sexual fireworks that have ensured the popularity of his books (though there is, I’m pretty sure, at least one fairly hot scene slipped in between the lifetime of surgical procedures that are used to structure the book. This kind of thematic approach to structure is to my, and maybe other’s minds, a good approach to the question of how we tell the story of another’s life. One can imagine focusing on sex, betrayal, crimes, marriages, journeys, dogs owned, or great Russian novels, depending on one’s purpose).\n\nHaving just finished that, I serendipitously came across this article by RICHARD FORD, who is without doubt one of the most charming and charismatic writers I have paid money to see. During a Q. & A. in Edinburgh in 2007 he digressed to say, “My grandfather was a suicide,” then proceeded to tell us of how his grandfather had lost the farm and the house whilst gambling, and then was so fearful of telling his wife that he shot himself dead. Ford ended the anecdote by saying, “But you’re probably not interested in that.”\n\nThe piece has some interesting points to make about Character, and makes me think that writing a kind of representative human depends precisely on emphasising that which is particular and specific, as without these elements, no character, however emblematic they are intended to be, can persuade us into identifying with them. And now, a picture of Ford, with dogs.", null ]

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[ null, "Music producer best known for his research on The Wall Of Sound, Phil Spector has died aged 81, according to reports by TMZ. But how did the producer die?\n\nHow did Phil Spector die?\n\nSpector died aged 81 following complications after contracting Covid 19 according to reports by TMZ.\n\nThe news site reported he was diagnosed with the virus four weeks ago.\n\nAmid his diagnosis, he was rushed to hospital but later returned to prison where he was serving a 19-year sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson.\n\nAfter having trouble breathing, Spector was later rushed to hospital again where he later died.\n\nSpector was best known for developing the music production formula The Wall Of Sound which was used by 60s bands including The Ronettes and The Crystals.\n\nThe formula saw a number of musicians perform the same instruments/parts in unison to create an echo effect within a song." ]

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[ null, "Returning this weekend to scare the bejeebers out of the NMU community, the ninth annual “Haunted Theatre” will transform the Forest Roberts Theatre into a house of frights.\n\n\nCustomers in search of a scare will wander through a dark labyrinth of claustrophobic corridors and rooms of spooky scenes featuring tormented souls, like actors impaled on pikes and tortured in an electric chair.\n\n“We have a lot of new and exciting things,” said Bill Digneit, director of theatre communication and performance studies. “Tons of zombies and clowns and things to scare you.”\n\nSome of the new aspects include warming tents outside the FRT to keep the long lines of people waiting comfortably and a limited number of fast passes for customers willing to pay extra money to hop to the front of the line. The show is accessible to everyone\n\nand accommodations can be made for allergies or other possible concerns, Digneit explained.\n\nThe show is a fundraiser for the First Nighter’s Club, which funds scholarships and FRT improvements. About 60 students are participating in the performance as actors and technical crew.\n\nFor Caitlyn Beyer, a senior theater major, this is her second year as an actor in the Haunted Theatre. This year she plays a living doll in a dollhouse scene, in which dolls play with people.\n\nBeyer has done a lot of backstage work at FRT productions and also some on stage. She pointed out the difference between acting in plays and acting in the house of horrors.\n\n“It’s very personal,” she said. “When you’re on stage, they’re off in the audience. But in [Haunted Theatre] we’re right in their face.”\n\nMartyn Martello is the director of the Haunted Theatre and has been since its start. He’s been active in the local theater community, directing and producing shows, including some at the FRT’s Panowski Black Box Theatre.\n\nCustomers can always say the code word “macaroni” if they get too scared and want out of the maze, Martello explained. The actors stop, and someone in plain clothes ushers the scared person out.\n\n“That’s a badge of honor too. We like it when we macaroni people out,” Martello said with a cackle. “One of the fun things is when you have this 5-foot-2-inch girl and this 6-foot-5-\n\ninch guy who’s 2 percent body fat, all muscle, and he’s using her as a human shield because he’s terrified and he’s hiding behind his little girlfriend. It’s awesome.”\n\nTickets are only available at the door and are $5 for children and NMU students, $10 for all other adults. All performances are rated PG-13. Parental supervision is required for kids 7 and under.\n\n“This is the best adult-themed Halloween scare in town. Period,” Martello added.\n\nThe Halloween Spectacle\nBy Kara Toay\n\nPerformers from dancers, to drummers along with community members dressed in costumes ranging from mimes to ghosts will parade once again down Washington Street to Harlow Park for the sixth annual “Halloween Spectacle” on Saturday, Oct. 28.\n\nThough the date is set, the event may be rescheduled for either Sunday Oct. 29 or the next weekend depending on weather conditions.\n\nThe free event will kick off with a sidewalk procession from West Washington to Harlow Park that will take place from 6 to 6:30 p.m. after trick or treating downtown. From there, an hour-long performance of dancers, drummers and other bands will grace the stage on Bluff Street, said City of Marquette Arts and Culture Manager Tiina Harris. Spectators can bring tarps or blankets and place them along the hillside on Bluff Street. An hour long performance will proceed the procession followed by dancing on the stage.\n\nThis year, the U.P. Poet Laureate Marty Achatz will recite a poem he has written based on the theme of this year’s Spectacle, the elements earth, fire, air and water. The queen of each element will have a throne on the stage.\n\n“There’s kind of this interesting theme of the environment, the world, unity and working together, which is really nice,” Harris said.\n\nThere are performers of all ages in the spectacle, Harris said. Most of the performers have graced the stage before, but a lot of the event surrounded by fantastic costuming, and added some people have called it “Yooper Mardi Gras.”\n\n“I would say [it’s] more than scary, it’s more kind of fantastic and magical. [There’s] a lot of really involved makeup, a lot of involved beautiful costumes,” Harris explained.\n\nThe Spectacle also features a lot dancing as well, Harris said. There will also be a lot drumming by the band Log Jam, which has participated in the Spectacle all six years. Other performers will also take the stage, with fire dancers heating things up at the end of the night.\n\nLarge puppets will also be in attendance. The dragon, one of the main puppets, will be red this year after receiving a makeover from students at NMU. The dragon has also been green and blue in years past.\n\nThere has also been a lot of student involvement, from students participating individually in groups, Yooper Hoopers, a group dedicated to hooping and dancing, to dance clubs, such as the NMU Dance Club that participated last year, and cheerleaders.\n\n“The event is about community. It’s about a community having an art experience together, bringing people together. It’s a chance for everyone to get together and have a collective experience,” Harris added.\n\nThe event is funded by the city, Marquette Downtown Development Authority and Rotary Club. For more information about the event visit marquette365.com or the City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center’s Facebook page.\n\nSpectacle goers can expect extravagant costumes like the ones above and are encouraged to dress up themselves.\n\nThe Halloween Hootenanny\nBy Zoe Maki\n\nAre you looking for an excuse to break out your dancing shoes? To socialize and snack on scrumptious foods? Then put on your best costume and drop on by, because the Halloween Hootenanny just might be the place for you.\n\nThe Halloween Hootenanny will be a costume-themed dance party from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28 at Water’s Edge Church on Presque Isle Avenue.\n\nThis event is hosted by students from Northern, Michigan Tech and Finlandia University who are members of the Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru) — a student-led campus ministry.\n\n“I went last year, and it was a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to dancing and having a good time. It’ll be nice to just goof off and dance,” said junior and biochemistry major Shelby Roesner, member of NMU Cru, “There will be no alcohol. It will be just a good time to bring your friends.”\n\nAs stated in the description on NMU Cru’s Facebook page, “There will be square dancing, swing dancing, line dancing and probably a good deal of uncoordinated, awkward dancing!”\n\nAs far as food is concerned, many students from the organization are bringing dishes to pass including plenty of cookies, chips and other delicious snacks.\n\nThough the Hootenanny is led by a campus ministry, anyone who has an interest in dancing, costumes or food is welcome to attend.\n\nNMU Cru is open to all students. All events are planned by students and the group’s weekly 8 p.m. Thusday meetings usually feature student speakers. Bigger events include the Hootenanny and the Snowball, a similar dance and smorgasbord, held in December. Along with dances, there are fall and spring retreats for students. For more information on the Hootenanny or Cru, visit NMU Cru’s Facebook page." ]

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[ null, "When I used to spend a lot of time in France, the first week in September was known as la rentrée because it felt like the whole country returned form its month-long vacation and life picked up at a fever pitch.", null, "France doesn’t shut down as fully as it used to, although Berthillon—arguably the best ice cream parlor in the world—still shuts for August (it also used to close for July). Still, “the return” is remains a big deal.\n\nIt is for me, too. In case you hadn’t noticed, I took a Bertillon style summer off from writing blog posts. Part of it came from spending even more time with the grandkids who were mostly stuck at home which meant that we stuck (happily) with them. More importantly, I needed to spend the summer connecting the dots for new book which strangely enough will be called Connecting the Dots.\n\nThat mean coming close to closure on the overall argument I will be making and deciding on “dots” I want to explore in some depth. It took me the better part of two months because the book also pulls together a lot of the intellectual threads that have defined my career as an activist and an author. I had to make sense of it for myself before I could do it for my readers. And, since this is definitely not going to be an academic book, I had to put the way I write under the clichéd magnifying glass and fight the urge to do such things as dazzle you with how much I’ve learned or end every sentence or paragraph with a footnote.\n\nI’ve now finished drafting the first three chapters which lay out the basic argument about why connecting the dots—or building intersectional movements that focus on constructive solutions—could be a way out of the mess we find ourselves in today. I’m sure they will change for the better as I do the research on the “dots” which I’ll be writing about in the rest of the book. I’m glad to share those chapters with anyone, and regular readers of this blog will have already seen much of what I’ve already written about.\n\nI’m going to use most of my blog posts over the next few months to introduce those organizations and their work to my readers. Of course, I’m also going to be writing them as a nudge to myself to keep researching and writing so that I can get the book done by next summer.\n\nWhoever you are, you will have at least heard of some of these organizations. But I hope to present them in a new and novel way by focusing on the steps they are taking to advance radical change by working within the system in intersectional ways. In other words, I’ll be focusing on the connecting side of connecting the dots.", null, "I also hope that you’ll also see how much fun I’m having doing the research for the story telling part of the book. That should be easy to see in the first two posts which I plan to publish early next week and the week after when I cover Stranger’s Guide magazine and Zebras Unite.\n\nStranger’s Guide is a magazine aimed at hip, cool travelers which an interest in social justice. Its newest issue on Tehran just arrived, and I’ll dig into it before I write next week’s post.\n\nZebras Unite is an amazing grass roots economic initiative run started by four young women who refer to themselves as the movement’s doulas and entitled one of their founding documents, “sex and startups.”", null ]

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[ "The X FACTOR Blog – Week One!\n\nAnd so it is back, ITV1’s biggest talent show and occupier of our Saturday nights for the next two and a half months (along with Strictly of course). The revamp feels a bit pointless, and I can’t help but think they would have been better off stripping it back and making it how it was when it first started and wasn’t the tacky extravaganza it has become. But it’s what people want, so who am I to complain?\n\nWhat’s new? A groovy new catwalk stage, backstage access provided by Caroline Flack, and of course the big twist, whereby the votes are frozen at the end of Saturday’s show and the act with the lowest number of votes is pushed through to the sing-off on Sunday. Apart from that, it was pretty much business as usual, especially the clichés – ‘you nailed it’, ‘you’re the full package’ etc. It’s all so familiar now, it’s gone beyond criticism and the familiarity is quite comforting. The judges were introduced with the usual fanfare, and as it’s so early on in the competition, they’re still quite friendly with each other; but it’s quite disappointing that Nicole and Sharon seem to get on – it’s always fun when the two female judges hate each other. But there’s still time.\n\nThe show opened with 17-year-old Croydon girl Hannah Barrett. Hannah’s a nice girl with a good back-story and a fabulous voice, and this will be enough to see her through to next week. But they gave her a limp Tina Turner song to sing, and a makeover that looked as though they were celebrating the fact she comes from Croydon and had decked her out with the contents of George Street Primark. Hannah was followed by Nicholas MacDonald, a cute little Scottish boy who is instantly forgettable and his performance was not aided by him being given True by Spandau Ballet to sing. A beautiful ballad that was transformed into a poppy affair that sounded like a Rick Astley B-Side.\n\nMiss Dynamix were also victims of what I shall from now on be calling the ‘Croydon makeover’. They are three pretty girls, but were given horrendous brightly coloured clothes and horrible hair, and Girls Aloud’s version of Jump to sing. The judges criticised them for not being active enough. One of them is five months pregnant for goodness sakes – cut her some slack! Next up came Sam Bailey, a truly magnificent singer who has been wasted as a prison officer. Lovely makeover, but I felt they played safe by giving her The Power of Love to sing. This was a celebration of the tacky eighties. Why not try something like Holding out for a Hero? I’m with Robbie Williams in that I’m not quite sure where Sam fits in today’s music scene, but I definitely think she should be sending the Ministry of Justice that resignation letter.\n\nLittle Sam Callaghan seemed better in the audition rounds than he did live, but maybe I was just blinded by his cuteness. I feel some of that had been taken away by them cutting his hair; and I hated the Bryan Adams song. It’s been done to death and I’d have preferred him to sing something like Footloose or Dancing in the Dark by Springsteen. And please, spare us those Glee dancers. Following the annoying dancers were Kingsland Road and their annoying, flickering backdrop. Good choice in song in Wham’s I’m Your Man; but what’s with the styling? They look like rejects from Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine (ask your trendy uncle).", null, "I will never understand why the divine Mrs O chose Shelley the van driver over Joseph the hunky dad, when picking her final three. Shelley is a pleasant, jolly woman who sounds a little like Vicky Pollard, but she is not a pop star. She’s a very good karaoke singer with an act that is just an amalgam of various power singers from the 80s and 90s. I’ve said this all along and the fact that she is in the sing-off tomorrow is proof I’m not wrong!\n\nI fear for Abi Alton too. She’s a sweet little lamb of a girl who rather pales into insignificance compared to the other girls in her group. Her stripped down version of Livin’ on a Prayer (expect her singing the song to the John Lewis Xmas ad next year) was pleasant enough, but I’m a little worried that she’s this year’s Lucy Spraggan. The girl who’s just a little too kooky for this television behemoth, and people will soon view her as a one-trick pony. The twitter reaction was not kind to her as it was. Another victim of negative publicity is likely to be Lorna Simpson. She sang an okay-ish version of Whitney’s So Emotional, and lots of references were made to her being the underdog; but an elephant was in the room in that we all saw the pictures from the film she made and in a society where women are judged on their pasts, I fear her vocal ability will not be able to compete with people’s prejudices.\n\nThe last of Nicole’s girls to sing was Tamera Foster, who is currently favourite to win. She is also a girl with a past, but somehow her attitude and swagger negates it. If she ever made it as a pop star (and that’s quite likely, she’s the first ready-made artist the X-Factor has seen since Cher Lloyd), Tamera would be competing with the likes of Rihanna and Miley Cyrus and being bad hasn’t done them any harm.\n\nThe last two acts were Luke Friend and Rough Copy. Luke is more famous for his hair than his singing ability. The last X-Factor act to have this affect was a certain Harry Styles, but I fear the attention bestowed upon Luke’s locks are more for the fact that they are unwashed rather than thick and lustrous. What did he sing? Er…. oh yeah, that horrible Police song about stalking. Rough Copy to me were mediocre. Their version of In the Air Tonight was inaudible in places and never really got started. But the judges loved them. Maybe it’s because they would appeal to America, I don’t know. They left me cold.\n\nAnd that was it. All those weeks of anticipation have built up to this moment. It was rough in places; Louis Walsh’s clichés are exasperating, Gary is far too earnest and I’ve a feeling Sharon doesn’t take it at all seriously. But Nicole is glorious and I won’t have a word said against her!\n\nSo, what are my predictions for tomorrow night? Well, I would either lay money on Lorna or Abi joining Shelley in the bottom two. Sticking my neck out I say it will be Abi.\n\nKaren Mason is a London-based writer. She has published fifteen historical fiction novels and is currently working on her sixteenth. She is also an avid movie goer, with a particular preference for gritty British cinema and a weakness for Jason Statham films! Her music tastes stretch from Muse to the Cinematic Orchestra and she loves discovering new acts.\nNEWER POST‘CAPTAIN PHILLIPS’ – Ahoy! This Movie Is Making Headway To The Oscars!\nOLDER POSTFILTH! – It Will Make You Feel Dirty!!" ]

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[ "May 10, 2021\nHome\nArticles\nNews\nEducation\nHigher Ed\nAfter rogue investigation of ECU scandal, UNC Board of Governors mull sanctions against one of their own\n\nMembers of the UNC Board of Governors publicly condemned member Tom Fetzer’s secret, independent investigation of East Carolina University’s former interim chancellor of ECU Thursday, with some, including the board’s chair, saying consequences for his actions should be discussed.\n\n“I don’t think it’s appropriate for any member to operate outside of the board, regardless of whether it’s the chair of the board or whomever,” board Chairman Randall Ramsey said in an interview with Policy Watch at Elizabeth City State University, where the board is meeting Thursday and Friday.\n\nRamsey also said the board “certainly” should consider consequences when members step outside of the board’s rules and procedures. “We’re going to have serious discussions on that matter,” Ramsey said.\n\nBoard member David Powers, chairman of the influential UNC panel’s University Governance Committee, said Thursday that his committee would be reviewing the board’s own rules and governance, particularly involving sanctions.\n\nRamsey said he understands Fetzer, who was not present for the board’s committee meetings on Thursday, may have had his reasons for stepping outside of the board when his hired attorney conducted a rogue probe — amidst an official board investigation — of former ECU Interim Chancellor Dan Gerlach, but that doesn’t excuse it.\n\nAt the heart of the current conflict: An investigation into the behavior of former ECU Interim Chancellor Dan Gerlach.\n\nGerlach’s been accused of driving while impaired after a night of bar-hopping and drinking with ECU students in September, an evening that spurred Gerlach’s suspension and eventual resignation in October.\n\n“I don’t want to condemn anybody for doing what they believe was appropriate,” Ramsey said. “But I don’t care about what board it is — whether it’s the board of governors or any board in our state or our nation. Board members need to operate as a unit. We need to have a singular voice and a singular mission going forward. In this case that didn’t happen.”\n\nLast week, the UNC System released hundreds of pages related to an investigation by Womble Bond Dickinson, the international law firm hired to investigate the incident.\n\nThe report also delved into efforts by members of the ECU Board of Trustees and UNC Board of Governors to quietly obtain and publicize purported evidence of Gerlach’s intoxication, sometimes at odds with the official UNC investigation.\n\nLast week, multiple outlets, including Policy Watch, reported that Fetzer and a Greenville attorney he hired, Peter Romary, ran their own investigation regarding Gerlach.\n\nFetzer has not responded to interview requests from Policy Watch. In interviews with other outlets, he has said he didn’t trust the investigators and believed it wasn’t being handled properly.\n\nOn the contrary, Ramsey said Thursday that he’s read the entire Womble Bond Dickinson report and had an opportunity to speak with the firm about their work.\n\n“I asked very direct questions,” Ramsey said. “I am positive it was well done and professionally done.”\n\nFetzer and Romary have suggested investigators didn’t request security camera footage that showed Gerlach’s behavior from the city of Greenville until the last minute, putting it in danger of being automatically erased after 30 days. But the Greenville City Attorney’s office disputes that.\n\nE-mails show the Womble Bond Dickinson investigators were the first to inquire about the footage. The City Attorney’s office said, after that inquiry was made, the footage was not in danger of being deleted as interest in it had been expressed. The firm later e-mailed to be sure the footage wouldn’t be deleted and the investigators, Gerlach’s attorney and Romary all petitioned the court for copies of the footage on the same day.\n\nFetzer, Romary and ECU Board of Trustees members Phil Lewis and Robert Moore did not fully cooperate with the official investigation, according to the report. They did not allow their phones to be examined as part of the investigation, and, at several points, they called into question the methods and legitimacy of the investigation. The probe was also questioned by former UNC board Chair Harry Smith, who abruptly resigned from the board last month.\n\nRamsey said all board members and trustees should have cooperated fully.\n\n“I personally think it’s our fiduciary duty,” Ramsey said. “If we take the oath of office and we become a board member on any of our boards of trustees or our governance board here, I absolutely think it’s incumbent on us to do anything we can to help the investigation and absolutely not do anything to harm it.”\n\nSmith said Thursday that the report clears him of any wrong-doing. He maintains he never hired Romary to do anything for him or for the board, and was not involved in the Gerlach incident. Smith said Fetzer’s independent investigation, which he sought to keep from other board members and UNC System Interim President Bill Roper, was the wrong way to handle things.\n\n“I would never operate like that in any way, form or fashion — in terms of having an alternative investigation going on,” Smith said. “It’s my hope the board will get behind Bill.”\n\nRoper declined to comment Thursday. The press conference with the system president and UNC Board of Governors chairman, which traditionally follows board meetings, was cancelled for this week’s meeting.\n\nMultiple board members, who had been reticent to speak on the Fetzer matter in the last few weeks, are now publicly addressing it.\n\n“It’s not appropriate,” said board member Steve Long, a former board liaison to ECU, of Fetzer’s actions in the Gerlach matter.\n\n“It’s not a positive thing,” Long said. “We had an investigation ongoing. If board members had questions, the responsibility is to go to the president, the chairman and if need be the legal counsel to express their viewpoints.”\n\nThe problem, Long said, comes when board members don’t understand the limitation of their roles or respect anyone else’s authority.\n\n“I have gone to the president before and gotten a ‘no,’” Long said. “I’m a board member — we have limited authority to do anything individually. You have to work through the board. And so, you’re limited. I have been limited because of that.”\n\nAsked whether Fetzer should face consequences for his actions, Long said, “Our policy and the law say ‘yes.’”\n\nOther board members said they would rather see the board move on from the entire matter.\n\n“Whenever you have a board, you’re going to have dynamics on the board and different people happy with what’s going on, unhappy with what’s going on, in power, not in power,” said board member Marty Kotis. “I think you’ll have some people out there who, frankly, are just complaining to anyone who will listen about different things that are going on.”", null, "Kotis added he is “frankly sick of hearing about ECU. I think part of that problem is there are a lot of people very closely connected with the school.”\n\nKotis said he hopes the board will come together and act. “Hopefully, at some time, we’ve got everyone confident in the system and the board’s abilities to come together to solve problems.”\n\nNow, Byers said, the board should move on.\n\n“We’ve got chancellors to replace, we’ve got a presidential search going on,” Byers said. “There are lots of good things that we need to concentrate on doing.”\n\nThe Board of Governors meets in full session Friday morning. Fetzer is expected to attend." ]

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[ "Computer science meets big data and healthcare: a journey from PhD in machine learning to Associate Professorship in labour monitoring\n\nThis talk will focus on both the career journey and the science behind it, building up to the Oxford Labour Monitoring group that Georgieva is leading. She journeyed from a BSc in Applied Mathematics in Sofia (Bulgaria), through a PhD in Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks in Portsmouth (UK), to a junior post-doc at Oxford in fetal monitoring based at the JR Hospital, to now as a successful leader of a multidisciplinary research group, which is about to test for the first time at the bedside her data-driven decision support tool for triage at the onset of labour (the Fit for Labour test). Oxford Labour Monitoring is committed to preventing injury of babies during labour and delivery, caused by lack of oxygen in utero – rare but devastating events. Our work will potentially benefit families, clinicians and healthcare systems by reducing brain injuries, the deaths of babies during labour or after birth and unnecessary medical interventions in childbirth.\n\nI have developed my career in biomedical research, building on my expertise in machine learning, computing and mathematics, but specialising in intrapartum (in labour) fetal monitoring. I am now leading an ambitious programme to develop data-driven decision-support software in this clinical field. I am uniquely positioned to achieve this by working with the world’s largest and most complete birth cohort of routine labour data (100,000 deliveries). I obtained a BSc(Hons) in Applied Mathematics from the Technical University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and a PhD in Computer Science from Portsmouth University. I joined the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Oxford for a post-doctoral position in 2007. In 2016 I was awarded a NIHR Career Development Fellowship to grow my independent research group. In the same year, I became a Research Fellow at Wolfson College and also joined the newly formed Big Data Institute at Oxford.", null, null, "Diego is co-founder and CEO of PasanaQ. a fintech product helping financially excluded communities save. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, null, "Sign up for IDEA's Engaging with Entrepreneurship Programme to gain practical experience, learn transferable skills for the workplace, ... END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED" ]

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[ "Note: See important update at the bottom of this article.\n\nIn 2016, the FDA approved nuplazid as the first therapeutic specifically to treat severe psychiatric symptoms that can occur in Parkinson’s Disease, specifically hallucinations and delusions. This is a big deal, because most existing anti-psychotics, such as those commonly used to treat schizophrenia, work by blocking dopamine signaling. This is, of course, exactly the opposite of what Parkinson’s patients need. In fact, some of these drugs can actually cause ‘drug-induced parkinsonism‘. The inappropriateness of these drugs for Parkinson’s patients has been well known for many years, but they continued to be prescribed to many patients, resulting in significant patient harm, including a substantially increased risk of death.\n\nThe key innovation with nuplazid is that it exerts its anti-psychotic actions without interfering with dopamine signaling (it instead targets serotonin signaling, which is also targeted by many common anti-depressants). As such, no worsening of Parkinson’s disease symptoms was observed in the clinical trials, in contrast to other anti-psychotics. The best summaries I could find of data supporting efficacy of the drug are from the FDA summary packet. This first one shows improvement on the measure of Parkinson’s Disease psychosis used in the study. As with many studies of psychiatric conditions, there is a large placebo effect, i.e., improvement seen on average in patients not given the drug, but the impact of the drug is clearly statistically significant at 6 weeks.", null, "This second graph is a little more complicated to interpret but is nicely annotated with key conclusions.", null, "The FDA approval was not without controversy (e.g., this commentary, which I don’t completely agree with). The criticisms centered primarily on the relatively short duration of the clinical trial, the relatively modest effect vs. placebo, and the fact that two previous clinical trials had failed to achieve their primary endpoints (in my view, the earlier trials had methodological flaws). A number of commentaries focused on the so-called “Black Box” warning that the FDA required, but this warning is the same as those applied to all other anti-psychotics, i.e., it is based on the drug class and not the specific drug.\n\nMy view: [Note that I wrote this shortly after the drug was approved; I have not edited it based on the initial patient reports discussed below.] This is the rare example of a truly novel drug, in terms of the way it works. That’s the good news — there clearly needed to be a new option, especially for PD. But it’s also the bad news; it will probably take years of the drug being on the market before its true cost/benefit is clearly understood. At this time, I think it’s fair to conclude at this point that nuplazid is the best therapeutic option for Parkinson’s patients for whom symptoms of pyschosis are debilitating. That doesn’t mean that it’s risk-free, but I think the FDA’s conclusion that the benefits outweigh the risks is very reasonable based on the data.\n\nUpdate (April 2018): CNN published an alarming report suggesting both that many patients fail to benefit from the drug, and that a number of deaths may be attributable to the drug’s use. The CNN report was based, in part, on a post-approval analysis published by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices which, in turn was based largely on the FDA’s adverse events database (accessible here). Indeed, there are hundreds of deaths reported. The ISMP also noted, however, the complexity of analyzing these results:\n\nThe first substantial group of pimavanserin adverse event reports disclosed an additional safety issue: We identified 318 cases where pimavanserin, which blocks serotonin signaling, was combined with quetiapine (SEROQUEL) or other antipsychotics that block dopamine signaling. These drugs are not recommended for use in the elderly, and are not approved for use in Parkinson’s. Also in this subset of patients, each was taking a median of 10 different drugs.\n\nFinally, it is important to keep in mind that the FDA’s data comes from patients and doctors reporting the adverse events, so unlike a clinical trial, it is impossible to obtain rigorous statistics; in a response linked to the CNN article, Acadia, the company marketing Nuplazid, presents an analysis based on the Medicare Claims Database and other data suggesting that Nuplazid actually lowers mortality compared to untreated patients with Parkinson’s Disease psychosis. Additional clinical trials are on-going and may help to clarify the serious concerns about this new drug.\n\nIn the absence of new guidance from the FDA, patients and their doctors will need to evaluate the risk/benefit tradeoff given the incomplete information available and given the patient’s specific circumstances. Concerns about nuplazid should not, however, be used to justify treating Parkinson’s patients with typical antipsychotic drugs that are specifically contraindicated for Parkinson’s." ]

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[ "How ‘unreasonable hospitality’ can help career", null, "The hospitality secret that turned an everyday brasserie into one of the world’s top restaurants started with a $2 hot dog.\n\nThat’s according to restaurateur Will Guidara, who discussed his “unreasonable hospitality” strategy in a TED Talk last month. It’s an undemanding way of elevating ordinary experiences, Guidara said — and you can incorporate the techniques into any kind of career or job.\n\nFor nearly a decade, Guidara co-owned and operated Eleven Madison Park in New York City, a Michelin-starred restaurant with multi-course tasting menus and servers decked out in suits and ties. Not exactly the kind of place you’d expect a food cart hot dog to make a cameo.\n\nBut during a particularly busy lunch rush in 2010, Guidara overheard a table of food-obsessed vacationers lamenting the fact that despite going to all of the city’s finest restaurants, they hadn’t had time to get a regular New York hot dog.\n\n“You know those moments in a cartoon where the animated light bulb goes off over the character’s head, signifying they’re about to come up with a really good idea? If you’d been in the room with me that day, you would have seen one appear above mine,” Guidara said.\n\nHe dashed outside to a nearby cart to buy a hot dog, convinced a chef accustomed to preparing four-star meals to serve it and delivered a $2 hot dog with Michelin-level garnishes to a table of unsuspecting tourists.\n\n“No one had ever reacted to anything I served them better than they reacted to that hot dog,” Guidara said. “Each person said it was not only the highlight of their meal, but of their entire trip to New York, and they’d be telling the story for the rest of their lives.”\n\nIt worked so well that Guidara eventually added a new position responsible for those kinds of ideas, from turning the restaurant’s champagne cart into a Budweiser cart — after a guest mentioned that his dad liked Budweiser more than champagne — to creating a replica of a beach in a couple’s private dining room, after their tropical vacation flight was cancelled.\n\nThat’s the takeaway: Nearly every industry is a service industry to some extent, and anyone can find small ways to create memorable experiences for their clients, customers or coworkers, Guidara said.\n\nTo that end, he offered three pieces of advice for incorporating unreasonable hospitality into your own life or business.\n\n“So often, we have such long to-do lists that we aren’t able to slow down enough to actually listen to the people around us, to the things they’re saying and all the things they’re not saying,” Guidara said, adding that he would never have heard the hot dog comment if he wasn’t paying attention.\n\nNext, create room for playfulness. Getting a $2 hot dog onto a plate at a fancy restaurant took a conscious letting-go of self-imposed standards — but it made a difference for that group of diners.\n\nFinally, Guidara said incorporating his model of unreasonable hospitality took “the acknowledgment that if what you’re trying to do is give people a sense of genuine belonging, one size fits one.”\n\nIn other words, a bottle of champagne would have been nice, but nothing could match the exact hot dog those guests craved.\n\n“If you start to look closely enough, you will find opportunities for unreasonable hospitality, to give people more than they could ever possibly expect, all around you,” Guidara said.\n\nWant to earn more and work less? Register for the free CNBC Make It: Your Money virtual event on Dec. 13 at 12 pm ET to learn from money masters how you can increase your earning power.", null, "\nCollapsed crypto exchange FTX has about $1.24 billion of cash in total — but still owes at least $3.1 billion" ]

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[ null, "A summer after fans witnessed the inception of the Big Three in Miami, play came to a screeching halt with the 2011 NBA lockout.\n\nIt was the fourth lockout in league history and would stretch out for 149 days before players and owners finally reached an agreement.\n\nAfter a year of dipping in and out of discussions, NBA owner put in a work stoppage when the 2005 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) expires.\n\nThe league claims that it was losing $300 million a year, with 22 of the 30 teams losing money the previous season.\n\nOwners had proposed a 40% reduction in players’ salary and a hard salary cap of $45 million per team compared to the current $58 million soft cap which allowed teams to spend more but pay a luxury tax.\n\nNBA players wanted to be treated more like Major League Baseball players with larger salaries that were guaranteed to payout regardless of a player’s performance.\n\nNew Jersey Nets star Deron Williams signs a contract to play with a Turkish team while Kobe Bryant flirts with the idea of playing with an Italian club.\n\nTempers flare, and insults are traded, as the two sides duke it out for the financial future of the league.\n\nTalks repeatedly break down, and harsh words are traded on both sides.\n\nThe lockout finally ends as both sides agree to a 49 to 51.2% revenue sharing and a flexible salary cape with a harsher luxury tax. The season was shortened to 66 regular-season games, and the Miami Heat would win there first of two titles with the South Beach version of the Big Three." ]

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[ null, "Today is National Walnut Day, created in 1949 by the Walnut Marketing Board. The holiday was affirmed in 1958 by the official proclamation of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.\n\nAccording to Harpers’ Latin Dictionary, the genus gets its name from the Latin word for walnut tree, jūglans, which is a contraction of Jōvis glans, which translates to “nut of [the god] Jupiter.” Perhaps that explains why many sites claim the arginine found in walnuts dilates blood vessels and increases blood flow, causing erections. (Don’t munch a handful before a business meeting.)\n\nBlack walnut has been hailed by some as a miracle cure because of its alleged ability to kill a parasite that is supposedly responsible for cancer. No word on whether it works: We can’t get anyone who used it to answer our calls.\n\nIn China, walnuts are prized for a different reason. Reuters reported in 2012 that a secondary market in “cultural playthings” had emerged as a result of weak or negative returns in the traditional stock market.\n\nOnce the toys of China’s imperial court, walnuts have become popular among the wealthy, who see them as a status symbol as well as an investment. They are collected in pairs and rotated in one’s hand to improve circulation.\n\nCollector Kou Baojun in Beijing told Reuters that the larger, older and more symmetrical the walnuts are, the more highly they are valued and can cost tens of thousands of dollars. He owns more than 30 pairs, most of which are over a century old and have become burnished from years of being polished in the palm.\n\n“Look how well these have aged,” Kou said. “Playing with these kinds of walnuts isn’t for ordinary people.”\n\nGrab a pair and have a happy National Walnut Day!\n\nMay 18 is I Love Reese’s Day\nScroll to top" ]

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[ null, "Today Qualcomm is announcing that the company has completed the acquisition of NUVIA, a start-up company consisting of industry veterans who were behind the creation of Apple’s high-performance CPU cores, and who were aiming to disrupt the server market with a new high-performance core called “Phoenix”.\n\nThe acquisition had been announced only several weeks ago in mid-January, so the whole process has been extremely speedy in terms of timeline.\n\n“Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., has completed its acquisition of the world-class CPU and technology design company, NUVIA for $1.4 billion before working capital and other adjustments.”\n\nToday Qualcomm even went as far as put out a concrete roadmap for new SoCs using the newly acquired IP from Nuvia:\n\n“The first Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms to feature Qualcomm’s new internally designed CPUs are expected to sample in the second half of 2022 and will be designed for high performance ultraportable laptops. “\n\nSampling in late 2022 would require a tape-out in early 2022, and a design-in essentially as soon as possible following the acquisition today. The whole process seems extremely fast and aggressive in terms of timing, pointing out that Qualcomm is putting a lot of emphasis on the project.\n\nQualcomm had shown a lot of positive reaction to Apple M1, I quote our interview with Alex Katouzian from back in December in terms of their reaction to the competitor design:\n\nAnd people say, imitation is the best form of flattery. Look at look what happened with the [Apple] M1. Their product pitch is almost a duplicate of what we've been saying for the past two or three years.”\n\nNUVIA’s prompt acquisition and immediate disclosure of plans to tackle the high-performance ultraportable laptop market could be seen as Qualcomm’s direct response to the new Apple M1 powered laptops and to compete with their high-performance CPU cores.\n\nWe had the opportunity to have a call with Qualcomm’s Keith Kressin, SVP and GM, Edge Cloud and Computing, answering several questions as for company’s current plans for the NUVIA team. Qualcomm views the acquisition as an important strategic addition to the company’s design capabilities, filling a gap in IP design where the company for several years now had been relying on external IP such as Arm’s Cortex cores. Keith made important note of this ability to have total in-house design control over every IP block in an SoC, allowing the company better flexibility to respond to market demands and creating competitive products.\n\nThe immediate goals for the NUVIA team will be implementing custom CPU cores into laptop-class Snapdragon SoCs running Windows, and enable the company to offer higher performance CPUs than would have been otherwise possible. When asked about plans for other product stacks and the possibility of using both in-house CPUs as well as continuing to use Arm Cortex CPU IP for lower segments, it was stated that Qualcomm will continue to evaluate every metric and choose the best fitting design that makes the most sense for that product category.\n\nWe asked the team if Qualcomm would continue to invest into NUVIA’s original plans to enter the server and enterprise market, with a response that this wasn’t the main goal or motivation of the acquisition, that Qualcomm however would very much keep that as an open option for the future, and let the NUVIA team explore those possibilities. Keith here acknowledged that it’s a tough market to crack, and that Qualcomm had made no definitive decisions yet in terms of long-term planning." ]

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[ "A recent post on the yahoogroups (BEAUTIFULINSTRUMENTALSANDVOCALS) reminded us that WHN programed Beautiful Music in the 1950's...and prepared their own beautiful music LP with these liner notes: \"WHN, beautiful music for the ears and hearts of New Yorkers, recorded especially for radio station WHN and the 50,000 watt sound at 1050 on the New York radio dial. WHN is New York at its best.\" This is from the liner notes on a custom LP played by Roy Ross and the WHN orchestra. DJs included Lonny Starr, Jim Ameche, Hans Anderson, Dick Shepard, Dean Hunter. \"", null, "Earlier, in the late 1930's as Richard O'Connor posts on his website: A Brief History of Beautiful Music Radio Music To Read By on New York City's WHN (later WMGM) began in August 1938 as a nightly hour (midnight to 1 A.M.) of classical and light classical recordings. With the addition of a few Andre Kostelanetz and orchestral popular transcription discs early in 1943 the program came to be advertised as \"an hour of songs without words\". A variation of 'slumber music', the show's selections were orchestral, melodic, and not necessarily subdued, chosen more to inspire than for soporific effect. Well established by the end of the war, Music To Read By became the beloved prototype of many late night programs featuring a similar musical mix before, and after, its demise at summer's end in 1949. WPAT, & WRFM are best known for maintaining the popular beautiful music format in the NYC metro area for many years in the mid 20th century.\nEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest\nNewer Post Older Post Home" ]

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[ "Read the announcement in Spanish.\n\nANN ARBOR – Lynette Clemetson will be the new director of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships and Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan – two of the nation’s most prestigious programs for journalists.\n\nClemetson, senior director of strategy and content initiatives at NPR, begins her new position on July 1. She will succeed Charles R. Eisendrath, who will retire after three decades. He founded the Livingston Awards and led a $60 million endowment drive to permanently establish the fellowships. Last year, the programs were rebranded as Wallace House.\n\n“Lynette Clemetson will further strengthen the University of Michigan’s engagement with modern journalism,” U-M President Mark Schlissel said. “The Knight-Wallace Fellowships and the Livingston Awards recognize and support journalists who are helping us gain a deeper understanding of the most complex issues facing our world.”", null, "Clemetson’s news career has been as wide ranging as it has been distinguished. Her experiences include reporting about Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule for Newsweek, covering politics and demographics for The New York Times, launching the website TheRoot for the Washington Post Company and guiding multi-platform projects for NPR.\n\n“The programs of Wallace House are vital to journalism, even more so in today’s complex media world,” said Clemetson, a Knight-Wallace fellow in 2009-10.\n\n“It is an honor to build on Charles Eisendrath’s strong legacy, the program’s international focus and its connection to the University of Michigan,” she added. “I look forward to expanding Wallace House’s role in supporting media innovation and experimentation and being a prominent force for good in sustaining journalists of all sorts in their mission, passion and craft.”\n\nEisendrath said, “I came to know Lynette as a Knight-Wallace fellow after having been impressed with her application credentials. By the time she left, I realized that the most impressive thing about her wasn’t the credentials, it was the personal qualities that had earned them.”\n\nSince its founding in 1973, the Knight-Wallace Fellowship program has enabled a total 677 mid-career journalists from 35 countries to step away from their deadline pressures and spend an academic year at U-M, enjoying the freedom to take any courses that interest them.\n\nThe fellows – selected for their exceptional work, leadership and potential – explore new subjects and deepen their understanding of issues they have been covering. They enrich the campus by mixing with students and faculty, contributing immeasurably to U-M’s educational and research milieu. Numerous fellows have gone on to write notable books, win awards, develop and run journalism projects and bring distinction to their news organizations.\n\nThe program is also the only journalism fellowship that involves study tours abroad. In recent years, the fellows have traveled to Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Argentina and Canada.\n\n“As a journalist and a news executive, Lynette Clemetson has brought passion and a commitment to strategic innovation to her work. She is the right person to lead Wallace House as a new generation of journalists seeks the opportunities for learning and engagement that it provides,” said Martha Pollack, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs.\n\nThe Livingston Awards, the largest all-media, general reporting prize in the U.S., are often called the “Pulitzer for the young.” The program offers $10,000 prizes to journalists under the age of 35 for local, national and international reporting.\n\n“At the annual Livingston Awards luncheon in New York, 200 or so leaders of journalism attend. They come not for the chilled salmon but to be reminded that journalism is a noble calling. Many struggle to escape depression. It’s a tough time in the business,” said Ken Auletta, an author and media and communications writer for The New Yorker.\n\n“Yet after watching young journalists humbly step to the winners podium and glancing at their work, the sun shines,” added Auletta, who has been a Livingston judge for three decades. “Beneficiaries of both Michigan’s distinguished programs become part of a journalistic community that pumps oxygen into a profession so vital to a healthy democracy.”\n\nThe fellowship program was founded in 1973 by Ben Yablonky, a journalist, labor activist and educator. It was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and called the Michigan Journalism Fellows program.\n\nThe program’s second director was Graham Hovey, a former New York Times journalist who served in 1980-86.\n\nWhen the federal funding ended and threatened the program’s existence in 1985, a team of prominent newspaper editors gathered a coalition of donors, led by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.\n\nEisendrath, a fellow in the program in 1974-75, was as a TIME correspondent in Washington, London, Paris and bureau chief in Buenos Aires. He joined U-M’s journalism faculty in 1975 and directed its master’s program in journalism for a decade. He became the founding director of the Livingston Awards in 1981 and took over the fellowship program in 1986.\n\nIn 1992, a gift from 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace and his wife, Mary, a former TV producer, allowed for the purchase of the program’s current headquarters. Wallace House is an arts-and-crafts-style home near campus. The fellowship program was renamed the Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan." ]

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[ null, "British architect Norman Foster recalls the challenges of designing the UK’s pioneering high-tech art gallery , in this exclusive video interview filmed by Dezeen as part of our high-tech architecture series .\n\nLocated on the campus of the University of East Anglia in Norfolk, UK, the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts is a 135-metre-long lattice steel structure with glazing at each end.\n\nCompleted in 1978, it was the first public building designed by Foster Associates – the architecture practice founded by Foster and his wife Wendy, which is now called Foster + Partners .\n\nThe gallery takes its name from the supermarket owners Robert and Lisa Sainsbury, who commissioned the building to house their extensive art collection alongside the University of East Anglia’s art faculty.\n\nWith works spanning 5,000 years of creative history and ranging from Henry Moore sculptures to cultural artefacts from Asia and Africa, the collection operates as both an ancillary to the art school and a public exhibition space.\n\n“Originally, that building was conceived as being two or three buildings and it ends up as one,” Foster told Dezeen in an exclusive interview at his offices in London.\n\n“We were able to demonstrate that it will be socially, academically, intellectually, [and] visually more important to bring together everybody under one roof,” he continued.\n\nBeneath the elongated, shell-like roof is an expansive double-height space that runs the length of the building, with low-rising moveable partitions that divide the open plan into a series of flexible enclosures.\n\n“It’s almost like a train if you think about it because you can isolate carriages along the way and you can enter them separately,” explained Foster.\n\n“They have their own identity, but they can all work together,” he added.\n\nThis continuous internal space was made possible by concealing the bathrooms, kitchens and mechanical equipment within the frame of the building – a latticed tubular steel truss designed by engineer Anthony Hunt .\n\nThe interior and exterior surfaces of the truss frame are enveloped in a steel and glass skin, creating a double layer between which the secondary services are hidden.\n\nIn addition to decluttering the interior, the double membrane also helps to maintains the internal climate of the Sainsbury Centre, which makes the building more sustainable according to Foster.\n\n“It wasn’t a hermetically sealed box with pulsing air and refrigeration,” he said. “It was truly the first breathing, naturally ventilated building with filtered air, working with the climate, reducing energy. It was a very early exercise in sustainability in the 1970s.”\n\nWhile this truss frame created design and engineering opportunities, it also gave rise to what Foster describes as a “crisis” in the project as the decision to enlarge the size of the frame happened late in the design process.\n\n“I remember, we had all these beautiful models of a portal frame,” said Foster. “At that point, realising that if that portal frame became a big truss that you could walk through, it would embrace all those embarrassing secondary spaces.”\n\n“Tony Hunt, the structural engineer, had advanced on all the production drawings for the portable frame,” continued Foster. “I remember Tony saying, ‘Norman, you can’t do it. That’s going to be our next building.’ And I said, ‘Tony, they may not be another building!'”\n\nEmerging in Britain during the late 1960s, high-tech architecture was the last major style of the 20th century and one of its most influential. Characterised by buildings that combined the potential of structure and industrial technology, the movement was pioneered by architects Foster, Richard Rogers , Nicholas Grimshaw , Michael and Patty Hopkins and Renzo Piano ." ]

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[ "Optimism For Athletics Fans, Once Again: A Rebuilding Process in Review", null, "The A’s had their fans hopes sky high going into this season after making many moves and signings to acquire talent, instead of their normal MO of trading away talent. One thing led to another, and we found that the guys we signed either weren’t that good in an A’s uniform, or were just plain old. This season has been a disappointment to say the least especially with some of the experts picking them to win the AL West at the beginning of the year. Those dreams were quickly dashed as we saw Matt Holliday consistently getting fooled by pitches, and taking the crown for most fly ball outs since Eric Chavez was healthy and playing. Once his trade to the Cardinals went through Oakland once again had hope for the future.", null, "At the time of the trade all A’s fans wanted was a bag of peanuts for Holliday, but instead we got what looks like a great hitter in the near future with Brett Wallace, and a possible good end of the rotation pitcher in Mortensen.\n\nI’ll be honest, I haven’t been paying that much attention to them since they dipped below the 20 games out of first. Alas, they have been playing very good as of late, which has inspired me to pay attention to them again. Maybe it’s because the games don’t matter, or maybe it’s because they have finally adopted a new style of play since their most recent rebuilding began. Since being swept by Seattle on August 26th, they’ve won or tied every series since, going 16-6, and are currently on a seven game win streak. Once again, A’s fans will be able to go into the off-season hoping that a fresh start will rid us of our recent losing ways.\n\nThe A’s main failings over the past couple season’s have all pointed to their incompetence on offense, and since getting rid of Holliday, Giambi, and Cabrera they’ve surprisingly done much better in that department. Post All-Star break, the A’s have led the league in stolen bases, doubles, and are third in runs scored. For a team that never used to steals bases, and isn’t known for manufacturing runs, it’s refreshing to see them make a change for what suits their players. The always referenced “Moneyball” will finally be an afterthought, as they seem to be turning to a new page. I haven’t read anywhere that they’ve had a change in philosophy, but it’s pretty obvious if you ever pay attention to them. Even Rajai Davis, a guy I never thought I’d like, is tearing it up. He stole his 40th bag of the season last night against Cleveland, and is the first big threat on the base-paths since Rickey Henderson was around. Rex Hudler, the Angels announcer, whom I completely despise, actually made a good point about the A’s and how they have adapted to so called “Angel way” of manufacturing runs. He likes how they are putting pressure on opposing defenses to worry about runners taking off at any given moment, which opens holes in the infield for more of those dribblers to get through. In a post steroid era the A’s can’t rely on power as much as they once did as we all know it was rampant in the Bay Area. So the shift to stealing bases and manufacturing runs has looked like the a good change in their philosophy, and is starting to pay dividends in the win column late in the season.", null, "Chris Carter hits his fourth home run of the playoffs and is tied for most by a Rivercat in one series.\n\nThe greatest part about these late season stats is the fact that this isn’t even the reason I’m optimistic for next season. I’m excited about the guys going to be in our offense of the future. Sure guys like Kurt Suzuki are going to be mainstays in the lineup for awhile, but since everybody digs the long ball, A’s fans should be very excited about the two power hitters coming to Oakland sooner rather than later. 3rd baseman, Brett Wallace (#2 in Baseball Prospectus) and 1st baseman, Chris Carter (#4 in Baseball Prospectus) are the new reasons there is optimism in Oakland. They’ve already contributed to the Sacramento Rivercats (AAA) team during their playoff run for a PCL championship. Carter had three home runs in one game since being called up from AA about a month ago, and he is the closest to Ryan Howard type hitter the A’s have in their farm system. Many point to Carlos Gonzalez as the biggest position player gained in the Dan Haren deal, but Chris Carter has the potential to have much more power than C-Gon. It also looks as though we kept the best pitcher from the Haren deal as well in Brett Anderson, who has had a rocky season, but has shown that he has ace type stuff. Brett Wallace should be on the other corner for the A’s infield solidifying a position that’s been a problem since Chavez went on the DL, about three seasons ago. Personally Wallace reminds me of Troy Glaus, and if we got that I’d be pretty happy. If the A’s can continue to steal bases and hit doubles the way they have been at the end of this season, and add the power of Wallace and Carter to the lineup they will undoubtedly have a chance to challenge the Angels for years to come.", null, "Rookie, Brett Anderson, has won two straight starts for the first time in his career.\n\nTheir pitching has been shaky at times this year, and may continue to stay that way as their under 25 year old rotation learns the ropes. Between Brett Anderson, Trevor Cahill, Vin Mazzaro, Gio Gonzalez, and maybe Justin Duchscherer (if he snaps out of his depressed mental state) we should have a solid rotation come next season. The young guys have taken their lumps this season, but they have also shown that they can shut teams and shown glimmers of domination. This year should have taught them the ropes as they find out what types of adjustments they need to make going into the off-season to prevent those crooked numbers from going up on the score board. Michael Inoa is a long way from being called up, but he’s another young guy I will be keeping my eye on, especially since we gave him a Strausberg like contract for a 16-year-old, which I still feel is kind of ridiculous. All in all I couldn’t ask for much more from our management on a tight budget. You just have to hope it all pans out!\n\nI'm a dude that just hit 30 years old. Pretty much like everything that is funny, insightful, and has to do with the Warriors, A's, and Raiders. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\nThis entry was posted on Sunday, September 20th, 2009 at 10:46 am and tagged with A's, AAA, Baseball, bases, billy beane, brett anderson, brett wallace, Carlos Gonzalez, chris carter, farm system, future, Gio Gonzalez, hitting, Kurt Suzuki, MLB, moneyball, Oakland Athletics, PCL Championship, philosophy, pitching, rajai davis, rebuilding, record, Sacramento Rivercats, stars, steal, trades, trevor cahill, winning and posted in Sports. 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[ null, "Criminalisation of a Dayak community in Long Isun, Kalimantan, Indonesia\n\n“Dayaks can’t be separated from the forest, our lives are spent in the forest. Without her we lose our identity.”\n\nSo-called ‘responsible logging’, which has been brought into the community as part of a larger conservation project, has caused serious conflict between Long Isun and a neighbouring community, Naha Aruq. This is primarily thanks to a flawed participatory mapping process carried out for the conservation project.\n\nHowever, in response, the police arrested village representatives in retaliation. One community member, Theodorus Tekwan, was jailed for 109 days – only to be released without charge. Tekwan noted of his arrest: “I remember boats full of police coming and surrounding me and my wife while we were in our garden … It was like they were arresting a terrorist.” On his eventual release Tekwan was intimidated into signing a document stating he had only spent one evening in jail. The criminalisation of Tekwan deterred the community from putting up any formal resistance for over two years, but the community has now continued their struggle, through engagement with the FSC over the lack of consent for certification of logging in their lands." ]

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[ null, "Introducing a ground-breaking new form of story telling, filmmaker Kenzo Hakuta reveals his latest production entitled City of God’s Son featuring Nas, Jay Z, Biggie Smalls, Delroy Lindo, Ghostface, Raekwon, Samuel L. Jackson, and Laurence Fishburne. The project is a spectacular soundscape into the world of the iconic gangster. Utilizing multiple mediums including 3D audio, original music production, sound design, and dialogue samples Hakuta draws the listener into a mythical world exploring the relationship between a father and son and the struggle to define themselves in this world. More information about this extraordinary release can be found at the official City of God’s Son website complete with a full download and trailer.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Banksy Piece Taken Down in Jamaica\n\nAfter all the countless internet posts and rants regarding Banksy’s work, The Afflicted Yard\nBy L. Ruano/Jan 13, 2009\nJan 13, 2009\n0 Comments", null, null, "For those looking somewhere to spend their hard-earned paychecks, the Stephen Sprouse inspired\nBy L. Ruano/Jan 13, 2009\nJan 13, 2009\n0 Comments", null, null ]

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[ "Medical professionals were put on trial after the war for their participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Holocaust. The trial sparked questions about medical ethics in the aftermath of the brutal experiments on prisoners in the camp system.", null, "On December 9, 1946, an American military tribunal opened criminal proceedings against 23 leading German physicians and administrators for their willing participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity. This case is known as the \"Doctors Trial\" (USA v. Karl Brandt et. al). On August 19, 1947, the judges of the tribunal delivered their verdict. But before announcing the guilt or innocence of each defendant, they confronted the difficult question of medical experimentation on human beings.\n\nSeveral German doctors had argued in their own defense that their experiments differed little from those conducted before the war by German and American scientists. Furthermore they showed that no international law or informal statement differentiated between legal and illegal human experimentation. This argument was a great concern to two US doctors who had worked with the prosecution during the trial, Dr. Andrew Ivy and Dr. Leo Alexander.\n\nAs a result, on April 17, 1947, Dr. Alexander submitted a memorandum to the United States Counsel for War Crimes. The memo outlined six points that defined legitimate medical research. The trial's verdict of August 19 reiterated almost all of these points in a section entitled \"Permissible Medical Experiments.\" It also revised the original six points into ten, and these ten points became known as the \"Nuremberg Code.\"\n\nIn the half century following the trial, the code informed numerous international ethics statements. Its legal force, however, was not well established. Nevertheless, it remains a landmark document on medical ethics and one of the most lasting products of the \"Doctors Trial.\"\n\nFrom the trial transcript1\n\nThe great weight of the evidence before us is to the effect that certain types of medical experiments on human beings, when kept within reasonably well-defined bounds, conform to the ethics of the medical profession generally. The protagonists of the practice of human experimentation justify their views on the basis that such experiments yield results for the good of society that are unprocurable by other methods or means of study. All agree, however, that certain basic principles must be observed in order to satisfy moral, ethical and legal concepts:\n\n1. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.\n\nThis means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment.\n\n2. The experiment should be such as to yield fruitful results for the good of society, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and not random and unnecessary in nature.\n\n3. The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the disease or other problem under study that the anticipated results will justify the performance of the experiment.\n\n4. The experiment should be so conducted as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury.\n\n5. No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also serve as subjects.\n\n6. The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment.\n\n7. Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death.\n\n10. During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has probably cause to believe, in the exercise of the good faith, superior skill and careful judgment required of him that a continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject." ]

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[ "Cucumber Extract Will Give Your Skin a Natural Biochemical Makeover …", null, "When the cucumber became important as a health food in the eighteenth century, it did not take long for people to forget those medical properties which had been well-known first of all to the Greeks and Romans and then later to the Arab physicians.Today we see the cucumber as a provider of a very healthy juice beneficial for its properties as an increaser of the flow of urine and as a complement to the effects of celery and carrot juice for rheumatic conditions, while at the same time being a soothing skin lotion.", null, "Other health benefits of cucumber is derived from the fact that it is very low in calories, about 4 per ounce (54KJ per 100g) being an average figure. Very high potassium contents have been claimed for the plant which from the most up-to-date analyses available would seem to be an exaggeration. The vitamin content is also generally to be found between low and average for the edible vegetable.", null, "The egg white definitely tautened my skin and my face felt wonderfully soft afterwards. The pores were also much smaller, but it was only temporary. But like I mentioned, be careful that this mask will draw out quite a bit of impurities and cause some zits. You may also like to cut up two thin slices and placed them on your eyes to reduce puffiness while you’re having the mask on.\n\nLeave on for 10 to 15 minutes before rinsing off\nI have been using the cucumber juice on my face twice a day after washing. What I did was to apply some juice on my dry face, leave it on for about 10 to 15 minutes before rinsing off. Over the weekend, I also tried this cucumber anti-blemish mask which I picked from The Ultimate Natural Beauty Book by Jo Fairley but I skipped the rosemary essential oil though. It’s a very fun mask to put on but be warned; this mask can draw out quite a bit of impurities and you may end up with some small zits like what I have now on my forehead.\n\nUse organic cucumber whenever you can\nIf you can, use organic cucumber. It doesn’t cost that much especially since you only need to use a little of the juice extract. One cucumber can last me about two weeks actually; including using it once for the anti-blemish mask and cutting up thin slices to reduce puffiness on my eyes a couple of times. And you don’t need a blender to extract the juice. Because a small grater can do the job wonderfully too." ]

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[ "Emergency staff at Community Hospital Anderson in Indiana received an unexpected patient around 5 A.M. Thursday, May 26th. See, these caring folks are used to helping humans with medical issues, and this individual was walking on four legs.", null, "The pup arrived by himself with an injured paw, shoulder, and neck injury, and a laceration above his eye. Doctors suspect he was hit by a car, and they briefly looked him over before making him comfortable with blankets and water.\n\nDr. Thomas Short (a people doctor, mind you) told FOX59, “He literally walked straight up like he knew he was coming to the right place,” adding that the pup was “a super friendly dog and he was excited to see people.” The pup even offered kisses to a small child who wanted to say hello.\n\nDr. Clay Ludlow, who was also on scene, said they took the “quiet, gentle and friendly” black Lab to a vet as soon as their shift was over. The hospital quickly posted a photo of the pup with staff on their Facebook page, in the hopes that the power of social media would help track down his owner.", null, "And that it did. Nick Karagianis responded in complete shock. He commented on the page:\n\nThank you sooooo much to the community hospital team for taking care of my baby boy!!! I’m just waiting to pick him up. I was worried sick about him thank you again!!!\n\nIt turns out Karagianis and his dog, named Capone, were taking a 2 A.M. walk after a long day at work when Capone’s leash got wrapped around a telephone pole. As his human went to untangle it, Capone’s collar slipped off and he ran for the hills. Karagianis searched for him for an hour with no luck in the dark, and reluctantly decided to wait out the night at home.\n\n“Usually he comes right back,” he said. “I yell for him, ‘Capone! Capone!’ and he’s running around.” Karagianis continued, “It was a dog checking himself into the hospital. It blows the mind.”\n\nA veterinarian said Capone’s injuries will heal with time and a lot of love, and in another astonishing gesture of kindness, the hospital staff even paid his medical bills in full—on the grounds that he get neutered and microchipped.\n\nLeave it to a Lab to be so calm and resourceful!" ]

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[ "Jet Airways all set to take off again next year", null, "The consortium led by UAE-based entrepreneur Murari Lal Jalan — which has won the bid to revive plan Jet Airways — said on Monday it expects to relaunch the grounded airline by the summer of 2021.\n\nThe consortium, which includes UK's Kalrock Capital, said in a statement that the airline would continue with “an energised” Jet Airways brand.\n\n“As per the resolution plan, Jet Airways intends to operate all of its historic domestic slots in India and restart international operations. If everything goes as per plan and the consortium receives the to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and regulatory approvals on time, Jet Airways would be back in the skies by the Summer of 2021,” said the statement.\n\nThe resolution plan of the consortium was recently approved by Jet’s committee of creditors. It still awaits approval from India’s bankruptcy court NCLT. The resolution proceedings went on for more than a year before Jet found a new investor in the Jalan-Kalrock consortium.\n\nJet stopped operating in April last year. “The Jet 2.0 hubs will remain Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru like before. The revival plan proposes to support Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities by creating sub-hubs in such cities,” said the statement.\n\nThe consortium plans to start a dedicated air freight service under Jet.\n\n\"Jet Airways has been a brand with a glorious history of over 25 years, and it is the vision of the consortium to put Jet Airways back in the skies at the earliest opportunity. We aim to re-energise the brand by infusing energy, warmth, and vibrancy into it while making it bigger and better,” said Jalan-Kalrock consortium board member Manoj Narender Madnani.\n\n“Over the years, the brand has created loyal customers and we wish to bring in freshness by adding value – an Indian brand with a global outlook, warm yet professional which symbolises the New India, Young India. With the revival of Jet Airways, it will restore the confidence among the Jet customers to fly again and experience its world-class facilities,” said Madnani.\n\nAs per the Rs10 billion revival plan submitted by the Jalan-Kalrock consortium, the new owners would infuse Rs3.8 billion in phases in the first two years after the re-launch of the airline and follow it up with an additional Rs5.8 billion over the next three to five years.\n\nLenders to the carrier will get 9.5 per cent and 7.5 per cent stake respectively in the airline and its passenger miles company. Financial creditors will also reportedly get 10 per cent free cash flows.\n\nThe consortium plans to commence operations with six aircraft domestically, then adding one aircraft each month, and plans to expand the fleet to 120 aircraft in five years. Currently, the airline has 12 aircraft on its books — nine wide-bodied planes and three narrow-bodied Boeing 737s.\n\nJalan is an entrepreneur with investments in the UAE, India, Russia and Uzbekistan among others. Jalan‘s flagship construction company MJ Developers is based in Dubai." ]

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[ null, "Loomis is best known for his guitar wizardry in the progressive power-metal band Nevermore, where he reigned as lead guitarist for 20 years. But, since 2005, he has enjoyed a successful career on his own, resulting in two solo records. He’s currently writing a third, with Portland-based studio guitarist Keith Merrow.\n\nThis show should provide Loomis with the perfect opportunity to showcase some new material, as well as some songs from 2012’s Plains of Oblivion. He plays a seven-string guitar and is known for his intricate style, making tonight’s performance enticing for gearheads and technique junkies alike.\n\nIf seven-string gymnastics are your bag, this is not to be missed.\n\nGo if: You want to see a genuine guitar gladiator go to work on the strings.\n\nDIANA—also known as Joseph Shabason (saxophonist for Destroyer), Kieran Adams (of Bonjay), and Carmen Elle (of Army Girls)—had a banner 2012. That’s not only because it was the trio’s first year as a full band (Adams and Shabason took their time finding Elle to provide the vocals), but also because they quickly became “Toronto’s next band to watch.” Their ’70s-inspired blend of chilled-out grooves, atmospheric tones, Elle’s soft vocals, and some killer brass is worthy of the hype. Be sure to show up early to the CHVRCHES show tonight at the Mod Club for some excellent homegrown chillwave.\n\nGo if: You haven’t given your shoes a good stare in a while.\n\nIf you have the chance to see a legend perform his most critically acclaimed album in its entirety, you jump on it. It’s a no brainer. As a result, we assume everyone will make the annoying trek down to Sound Academy tonight to see Raekwon perform Only Built 4 Cuban Linx from end-to-end. For those of you who are too young to remember, the almost cinematic album has been credited with starting the late-’90s subgenre of Mafioso Rap. It has been hailed as one of the best hip-hop albums of the past 20 years.\n\nGo if: You know all the words to “Incarcerated Scarfaces.”\n\nGo if: You want to mix a bit of Americana with the Canadiana of this music week.\n\nScottish electropop act CHVRCHES is the definition of a buzz band. It hasn’t released anything that even remotely looks like an album. (The group’s debut EP, Recover, isn’t set to drop until next week.) Even so, the British music press is raving. CHVRCHES has received accolades from The Guardian, NME, and Huffington Post UK, and was even compared to Robyn by the BBC.\n\nGo if: You want to see the next big thing.\n\nYou could find “harder” rap acts at CMW, make no mistake (check out our hip-hop guide for some of them), but you’d be hard pressed to find anyone more playful and pop-culture savvy than Halifax-to-T-Dot transplant Wordburglar, or veteran Vancouver collective Sweatshop Union. These rappers are serious about their rhymes, but they don’t take themselves too seriously.\n\nGo if: You like your rap more geek-chic than gangsta.\n\nHip-hop reggae fusionist Chip-Fu kind of peaked in the early ’90s as part of The Fu-Schnickens, who were riding high on the rap charts until someone made the mistake of telling the group to do a hyper-gimmicky single with aspiring rapper Shaquille O’Neal. All that said, Chip-Fu is still a great, genre-bending MC, and he can rap really, really fast.\n\nGo if: You want to hear some rapid-fire rhymes." ]

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[ "This map and meenlock were one I used recently in my 5th Ed. Dungeons and Dragons Campaign. (There’s a few more maps that go along with it that I’ll post as well.) This one was a lone, ruined tower which the PCs sought refuge in on an island across from another island on which a horde of orcs were making camp and which held the Tower of Innisquil the Humourless. Unfortunately for the PCs, the island was home to a nasty little non-traditional family of Meenlocks.\n\nMeenlocks are particularly horrible little guys and I love them for it. They make their homes in caverns connected to the surface or other caverns by long winding moss-packed tubes that smell like rotten corpses. They stalk people, cause them to hallucinate, and eventually kidnap them so as to drag them back to their lairs and turn these victims into more meenlocks. I imagine a meenlock raid on a campsite to steal victims is a romantic outing for these critters, akin to a night of mini-golf with your sweetie that leads to an unexpected firstborn. In my game, we never really got into the psychosocial hows and what-tos of the Meenlocks or what brought them to the remote island. But you can!", null, "Meenlock from the 1st Ed. Fiend Folio (Aww…whose a little abomination? You are!)\n\nHere are the stats I used for the meenlocks (they’re a bit rough and specifically for my game so there’s no challenge rating calculated) and a few ideas that might be of some help to understand things from these poor little buggers’ point of view.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null ]

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[ null, "I decided on reviewing this album just because of the band’s name, AISLING (pronounced: Ashleen), a celtic female name closely related to mysticism I came across a lot when I stayed in Ireland a couple of years ago. According to the info sheet it means ‘oniric (dream-) vision’. So I expected to hear some Pagan Black Metal, probably with a hint of irish or some other sort of celtic influences. But these guys are from Trieste, Italy! How come? Well, their town was founded by a celtic tribe. And indeed, what we get is Pagan Metal with strong folk elements I wouldn’t necessarily consider to be celtic, but I’m just an interested amateur, not an expert. Some of the folk parts are quite good and one can sense that the band put a lot of work and spirit into this, but the Black Metal elements are rather boring. Either this gets a lot better or the band entirely concentrates on the folk elements and recruits their skilled guest musicians. www.infinito.it/utenti/aisling" ]

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[ "February 11th 2019, at The New Beginning in Osaka, ‘Switchblade’ Jay White defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi to become the IWGP Heavyweight Champion. A result that was wildly shocking but somehow expected. Now all we can do is “breathe with the Switchblade” as Jay White’s star could not be shining any brighter and he welcomes us all into the Cutthroat Era. But just 1 year ago, things looked very different for the newly crowned Champion.", null, "The Return of White & Debut of Switchblade\nWhite has risen through the ranks faster than anybody I can recall in recent NJPW memory. He debuted as a Young Lion on 30th January 2015 and “paid his dues” whilst living in the infamous dojo before leaving to go on excursion in June 2016 for well over a year. He returned from excursion to debut at Wrestle Kingdom 12 (January 4th 2018) as the newly created Switchblade, in a unfortunately forgettable match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship against then champion Tanahashi. I’d be surprised if another wrestler in NJPW history has ever been given a chance similar to the one Jay White had at WK12; debuting at the biggest event of the year, against the biggest NJPW star of the past decade, for a prestigious title, all with little wrestling history to backup his positioning. White would be defeated by Tanahashi and the early online consensus was not very supportive for the young upstart. I traveled to Tokyo for the show, I was excited to see White get his moment having previously seen him wrestle numerous times in London (UK) and even I was underwhelmed.\n\nJay White’s Star Begins To Shine\nFast forward to January 28th and White pulled off the first big win of his Switchblade career, pinning Kenny Omega to become the 2nd IWGP United States Champion. Things were looking more promising for the new Champion as he proved himself in this thrilling match. He would go on to hold the title for 160 days (July) before losing to Juice Robinson in San Francisco in a match that created waves among the Internet Wrestling Community. The match was great from beginning to end, Juice is instantly lovable and Jay is easy to hate. But what set it apart was the controversy surrounding White and commentators Jim Ross and Josh Barnett. White inadvertently caused Jim Ross to fall off his chair at commentary and damage his ribs which led to Josh Barnett deciding to go after White during the middle of the match(!). White played the heel perfectly, being cocky and edging Barnett to come after him whilst keeping far enough away from him to not be in danger. Although an unfortunate accident at the time, in hindsight it boosted White onto a new level. Even in defeat, it was apparent that the Switchblade was getting sharper.\n\nThat new level would be on show during the summer G1 Climax 28 as White would beat both Tanahashi and Okada in tournament action and become a legitimate contender to win the entire series. He eventually fell short on the final night, finishing 3rd in A Block but he now had wins over the 2 biggest stars in NJPW, notably being the only man in the tournament to beat Tanahashi which avenged his loss at Wrestle Kingdom 12. The Switchblade persona was almost entirely developed into a complete villain.", null, "The Beginning of the Cutthroat Era\nOver the next few months, White would continue to grow into his devilish Switchblade persona. The biggest twist in NJPW for years came as Gedo betrayed Okada to align himself with Jay White (a story deserving of it’s own article), with the pair going on to join the Bullet Club. With The Elite section of the Bullet Club now being it’s own entity, Bullet Club once again had a pure rouge at it’s helm that Japanese fans loathed in the form of Jay White who had the Judas Gedo at his side. This inevitably led to a match between Okada and Jay White at Wrestle Kingdom 13 (January 4th 2019) in which White surprisingly beat Okada (in record time), even with Okada making a grand return as the Rainmaker. I again was at the Tokyo Dome for this show and the overwhelming support for Okada versus the unanimous abhorrence for White was clear in the arena, a immeasurable improvement from the reaction White received exactly one year earlier.\n\nMaking History\nHot off the heels of his huge Wrestle Kingdom win, White challenged Tanahashi for the title in NJPW at the New Beginning and be victorious, which brings us to the here and now. NJPW and their roster have this uncanny ability to make an audience believe that anybody can win in the big matches, no matter how foregone you believe the conclusion might be. I thought Jay White could win, but there’s no way he’d actually win, right? Tanahashi just won the title a month earlier, White is still very young and this is his first ever challenge for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. I’m sure he’ll win it one day, but not now, it’s too soon. All my theories were shot down when White hit the Blade Runner to pick up the biggest win of his career in a match that gets 5 stars from me. In winning the title, White would become the first New Zealander to win the Championship.\n\nWhite went from an almost let-down of a debut to being the top Champion in NJPW, a remarkable transition that nobody would have expected just 1 short year ago. And incredibly, it doesn’t feel forced or wrong which is a credit to both the wrestler and the company who are unchallenged when it comes to long-term booking.", null, "Being The Top Foreign Wrestler\nWith White’s positioning as the top foreign wrestler in the company comes expected comparisons to the last man who filled that position, Kenny Omega. Whilst the comparisons are justified, they aren’t necessary as they are 2 entirely different wrestlers. There is nobody like Kenny Omega, the athletic freak who rightly earned the moniker Best Bout Machine and broke the Meltzer star rating system numerous times. But there is also nobody like Jay White, the conniving, intelligent heel that can get under your skin with how much you hate him. It’s difficult to be a true heel in this age, but White is thriving. Omega would get cheered whether he was being a good guy or a bad guy, you can’t help but admire just how good he is at wrestling, whether you wanted him to win or lose you respected the work. I don’t think White will have that problem when he defends his title. I expect crowds to be whole-heartedly behind whoever his challenger is, hoping that this menace will be taken down. It’s not “cool” to like Jay White, you’d have difficulty trying to find a Japanese fan wearing his shirt in the crowd.\n\nWhat’s Next?\nPersonally, I love to hate Jay White. Giving him the IWGP Heavyweight Championship is extremely bold of NJPW and I am first in line for the ride that is to come in the following months. His first defense will come as NJPW & ROH join forces to make history by putting on a show at the iconic Madison Square Garden, the first time a wrestling promotion not owned by the McMahon family will put on a show in the venue since 1960. I am firmly behind White and I’m hopeful he will have a unique reign as Champion, as for the first time in a long time, NJPW has a legitimate heel at the top of the mountain. The question now is, who will try to blunt the Switchblade?" ]

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[ null, "March 3, 2022: The NewsGuild-CWA sent a message of solidarity to the striking workers at Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, Lifehacker and The Root, who are members of GMG Union and the Writers Guild of America (East).\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nUnionized workers at media outlets owned by GateHouse Media and Digital First Media (DFM) will mark World Press Freedom Day – May 3 – by sending a message to their employers: “Democracy Depends on Journalism: Invest in Us.”\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nTHE now world-renowned photojournalists at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the gifted Buffalo News editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis and a New York Times reporter, Eric Lipton, who would have made Heywood Broun proud, are among the Guild winners who, as of Monday afternoon, are also Pulitzer Prize winners.\n\nThey are joined by scores of Guild members whose newsrooms won Pulitzers for their collective work in the areas of breaking news (The Seattle Times staff); investigative reporting (The Wall Street Journal staff); and international reporting (The New York Times staff). END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null ]

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[ "It's 1989. Mikhail Gorbachev has been tamping down the tensions between the U.S. and the USSR, and both countries have recently agreed to significant arms reductions. Some American leaders are suggesting that the Cold War is coming to a close. By the end of the year, the Berlin Wall will be rubble and a wave of Eastern European dominoes will have started to fall, a process that will culminate with the death of the Soviet Union.\n\nClearly, it was time to prepare for a war with Russia.\n\nIn the last edition of the Friday A/V Club, we looked back at an official civil defense film about how to survive a nuclear attack. This time we turn to the more freewheeling world of the survivalist subculture, which found its own ways to prepare for wars and other disasters. One survivalist, an eccentric writer who called himself Kurt Saxon, published a series of DIY guides to improvised weaponry titled The Poor Man's James Bond. The books were successful enough that he decided to branch out into home video, with ultra-low-budget tapes like The Poor Man's James Bond Greets the Russians, released the same year the Berlin Wall came down.\n\nWhy was Saxon worried about the Russians in 1989? Near the start of the video, he lays out his argument:", null, "Gorbachev is a realist who would gamble on war abroad rather than relinquish power at home. His present attempts to relax tensions is simply a time-gaining ploy to build up his own Star Wars system.\n\nThe Russians have made a great show of destroying a few nuclear weapons. This is enough to pacify our moronic political hacks. Meanwhile, the Russians are preparing to move on Europe, both as a reason for bringing their own satellites back into line and to gain lootable territory. As we all know, the Soviet Union is far superior to the West in men and conventional armaments. It would take only a short time and a few major losses to force the West to retaliate with nuclear weapons.\n\nThe Russians have always been big on civil defense, while Americans have ignored our own programs. Russia boasts of facilities with which they hope to save up to 80 percent of their population in a full-scale nuclear war. I doubt that capability, but if they only save 50 percent that would still leave 150 million Soviets in a wasteland who could not survive without conquest.\n\nSo in order to survive, they would pour across the Bering Straits into Alaska, then to Canada, then the lower 48 states.\n\nScenario established, Saxon turns to teaching his audience how to make ricin, explosives, and other items that might come in handy if you find yourself transported into the Red Dawn universe. Saxon comes across as a cheerful chemistry teacher with a little too much enthusiasm for his subject, or maybe as the host of a public-access cooking show who has suddenly developed a taste for right-wing literature. (This was back when the fear of a Russian takeover was concentrated on the far right, not the center-left.) I get the impression that Saxon would be whipping up these recipes whether or not he thought an apocalypse was on the horizon. When he isn't suggesting ways to use his products to fight the reds (\"on a crowded street, you just go up in back of some Russian soldiers, you just give him a quick stab and then fade into the crowd, and he'll just rub his behind for a little bit, and then he will die in about three days of pneumonia\"), he's bubbling over about how much fun it is to mix these chemicals.\n\nAnd there may be another motive here too. At the end of video, after waxing a bit about the world's environmental problems, Saxon ruminates about the \"heaven on earth\" we could have once the \"great culling\" is over. The apocalyptic often goes hand in hand with the utopian, and our host turns out to have a vague but heartfelt utopian vision of his own.\n\nYou might not guess it from the video's reverent words for the French Resistance, but Saxon used to be a neo-Nazi. When Saxon testified in 1970 to a Senate committee investigating \"Riots, Civil and Criminal Disorders,\" Sen. Charles H. Percy (R-Ill.) asked him whether he has ever \"been associated as a member of a militant right wing.\" Saxon replied, \"Oh, I was a stormtrooper about a year. I was also in the Minutemen and the Birch Society. But I haven't been in politics for the last three years.\"\n\n(To read about some more sensible preppers, go here. For past editions of the Friday A/V Club, go here. To read the full transcript of Saxon's Senate testimony—and you should, because it takes some gloriously bizarre turns—go here. Sadly, the senators didn't inquire about Saxon's time in the Church of Satan, but one moment in that dalliance is remembered here.)" ]

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[ "From Banked to Broke – Celebrity Bankruptcies", null, "They say money makes the world go round. They also say money is the root of all evil. Regardless of how you think of money, it’s an essential part of life. We need it to provide food, clothing and a place to live.\n\nSo you’d think that with cash being so important, most people would take extra care with their finances. And most people are. The key word being ‘people’.\n\nOf course, we know celebrities aren’t exactly people in a sense. They live by different rules to the rest of us. For them, being a star translates into a bigger payday than the rest of us. Their rules of spending don’t run parallel to the average man on the street. Which can lead to trouble.\n\nHere are a few celebrities who had it all, and then blew it tremendously. It’s interesting to note that it doesn’t matter who you are, what job you have or how much money you make, it only takes that lack of self-control or a bad business decision to topple the mighty.\n\nThe former ‘Atomic Kitten’ singer was a member of a young, popular girl band and had the world at her feet. After the music, she became the face of food store Iceland and even wrote a column in OK! Magazine.\n\nHowever, it was believed that her former husband was partially to blame for Kerry’s financial woes with fragrant spending. Her ex-husband spent her £6 million pound fortune recklessly. He paid over £1 million pounds for cars, with crazy behavior including not using a new Ferrari because it was too wide for a supermarket car park!\n\nThe courts soon came knocking with a bankruptcy order in 2008.\n\nHow celebrity got out of bankruptcy: An appearance on reality television show Celebrity Big Brother paid enough to clear the debt and a return to singing with Atomic Kitten seems to indicate a return to former glory for Katona. She probably doesn’t shop at Iceland now however.\n\nThe film actress was once a Hollywood princess with acclaimed roles in films like Mean Girls. However, her reckless party lifestyle has led to a breakdown in all aspects of her life. Her hard-to-work-with reputation, along with trips to rehab and arrests have meant that she eventually faced bankruptcy in 2012.\n\nShe currently has only a net worth of approximately £6,500 pounds.\n\nHow the celebrity got out of bankruptcy: Allegedly, she hasn’t. An appearance in Playboy magazine, along with appearances in recent movies such as Scary Movie 5 still haven’t completely cleared the debt. She’s having a hard time finding work due to her unpredictable nature.\n\nA country music legend and all-round renaissance men, Nelson was a singer, poet, actor and writer. He was also known as a big spender with large entourages. After all, he could afford to be. His records had sold over 50 million copies after all.\n\nHowever, Nelson also seemed to think that taxes were an expenditure that did not apply to him. His original back tax amount was £3.8million. However, this was nothing in comparison to the £6.3 million that was added as interest. A crippling amount for anyone, even Nelson.\n\nHow the celebrity got out of bankruptcy: In a brilliant move, Nelson played to his talents and made a music album dedicated to the Inland Revenue Service, appropriately named The IRS Tapes: Who Will Buy My Memories? Partial sales went immediately to the IRS to pay off the debt. After a few years, he was back in the black with successful albums and worldwide tours." ]

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[ null, "Every Friday, The News-Press' senior writer and storyteller Amy Bennett Williams shares one of her essays with listeners of NPR affiliate WGCU and on news-press.com.\n\nThis week, she talks about how her 12-year-old wild child learned to survive in the woods with help from small screens.\n\nThe boy crouched over a small mound of pine needles, a toothpick-long metal rod in each hand.\n\nWith a brisk scrape, he drew one against the other, raining a small shower of sparks onto the crumpled brown pile at his knees.\n\nLeaning in, he breathed gently over needles, which flamed to life as he added tiny twigs, then small branches and, finally, a pair of live oak logs.\n\nBefore long, bacon was sizzling in his cast iron pan, its blue smoke drifting across the bright morning sky, as his parents sipped coffee and licked their chops from the deck. Ah, the advantages of having an outdoorsy kid...\n\nNash took to the woods in earnest a couple of years ago.\n\nIt wasn't because of Boy Scouts — he's never been a joiner — and it wasn't in response to anything Roger and I deliberately taught him either, though we have spent much of his childhood afield, sharing what we've picked up over the years. In fact, it didn't take long before 12-year-old Nash was teaching us skills like making game snares, twining rope, carving walking sticks and building fires without matches.\n\nSo while he's inclined by exposure to be comfortable outside, Nash has gone further with it than we'd ever expected, to the point that he's now at home there — \"at home\" as in eating, working and sleeping there.\n\nI think he was partly spurred by the same impulse that caused people to build bomb shelters during the Cold War: fear. After all, with two media-soaked writer parents, he's grown up surrounded by news, much of it grim. Being a thinking kid, Nash's mind spins out what-if scenarios that often lead to the end of life as he knows it. He wanted to be sure that if push came to shove, he'd be OK.\n\nSo he dedicated himself to mastering primitive technology, or bushcraft, the current term of art. He started small, learning the medicinal properties of native plants, taking careful notes and padding through the woods barefoot to find specimens to sketch in his little leather-bound journal.\n\n(You catch the barefoot part? Shoes have always been a losing battle with my kids, all of our scolding and warnings about sand spurs, fire ants and pigmy rattlers notwithstanding. Nash's now 19-year-old brother, D.P., spent as much of his growing-up shoeless as possible, jogging our one-lane road and competing in 5Ks without them, and Nash followed in his footsteps.)\n\nKnife skills came next. Nash learned how to strip bark, whittle tent pegs and keep his blade honed to gleaming sharpness. With a small machete, he hacked trails through the scrub and harvested saplings for shelter supports. His axe enabled him to chop up dead trees and lay in supplies of firewood.\n\nIt also reinforced a lesson that, for all our admonitions, Roger and I failed to drive home: the importance of shoes. One day as Nash was cutting up some well-seasoned citrus wood, his axe glanced off a limb and landed squarely on his right foot, slicing a neat gash through bare skin. Seventeen stitches and a month on crutches later, he's good as new, but now laces up before he heads out to bushcraft.\n\nSome friends have lauded us for raising such an unplugged kid, yet it's more complicated than that. He's not on Facebook yet, though he does have an Xbox and regularly fights me for control of my iPhone. Yes, Nash has picked up a lot of what he knows from books and hands-on trial-and-error, but YouTube gets the credit for a lot of it. There's a vast subculture of like-minded people out there, many of whom set up a tripod or strap on a GoPro to record their adventures.", null, "So when there's no village elder handy to lead him into the woods and show him how to lash together a camp chair with oak limbs and grapevine, the kind folks online are happy to oblige. Another advantage to the medium is that it gives him access to village elders around the world.\n\nIt was a U.S. citizen who taught him to bake bannock bread on a board in front of a fire, but a Brit showed him how to build a lean-to shelter of branches and a Scandinavian took him through the steps of hollowing a spoon from a stout stick with a pocketknife and a few coals.\n\nBut more than creating a sense of safety in an uncertain world, Nash's self-guided study of survival has led to a calm self-confidence. If he can't do something, he knows how to marshal the resources at hand to figure it out. It's also given him a deeper relationship with the wild world. He can read the clouds, navigate saw palmetto scrub and cup his ears to pick up the calls of distant owls.\n\nAnd perhaps best of all, he can cook up a mean pan of campfire bacon for his hungry — and admiring — parents.\n\nAmy Bennett Williams' Field Notes appear Thursdays and Sundays in The News-Press. Listen to her audiocast on WGCU Friday mornings.", null, "Thanks, ax, for teaching Nash about the value of shoes outside. (Photo: Amy Bennett Williams/The News-Press)" ]

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[ null, "A few days back, Skoda revealed some sketches of the upcoming Karoq facelift. The Karoq could be described as a compact crossover which was an indirect replacement of the quirky Yeti. It was the Czech brand’s second best-selling model throughout 2020 as well as in the first half of this year, after the Octavia. The Karoq facelift is set to have a global reveal on 30th November 2021. Although the existing generation was introduced in the country in May 2020 via the CBU route, this time around Zac Hollis, Brand Director, Skoda Auto India has confirmed that the facelift model will not be coming to the Indian shores.", null, "Skoda Karoq facelift: what we know so far\n\nDespite the missing badge on the front wing/fender and judging by the two-tone alloy wheel design, we could be looking at the Sportline trim level based on the fake exhaust tips finished in chrome. Taking a page out of Audi’s book, the 2022 Skoda Karoq has a slightly slimmer lower section of the headlight as it approaches the mildly updated grille. The LED daytime running lights appear to have a split design, reminding us of the previous-generation Octavia with its twin headlights available on the facelifted model. The lower lights are now angled towards the side of the car rather than pointing at the grille as is the case with the current Karoq. The bumper with the wide air intake is likely reserved for the Sportline model and is flanked by a new trim finished in dark chrome to match the grille’s contour.", null, "Skoda has also tweaked the taillights since they extend further on the tailgate and have a significantly different shape on the left side to mirror the headlight design with a narrower lower section. The big “SKODA” lettering on the tailgate where it replaces the company’s logo isn’t new since it was originally introduced for the 2020 model. Details about the technical specifications have not been disclosed, but we are not expecting any significant changes. The 2022 Karoq won’t get a plug-in hybrid version since the company’s boss has previously stated only the Octavia and Superb will offer a PHEV option. Expect the VW Group’s latest petrol and diesel powertrains powering the Karoq facelift" ]

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[ "The weather was bad, the result even worse", null, "After what could be classed as a sunshine result the previous week when beating rated Monkstown, it back to earth with a bang for Kilkenny Firsts.\n\nThey travelled to Dundalk for this J1 Leinster League clash on Saturday, and they suffered a mauling in atrocious weather.\n\nWhereas the win over Monkstown left the Foulkstown outfit looking towards the top of the table, this result sent them crashing down the rankings.\n\nManagement and players will be keen to put this poor showing behind them, and the hope is that things can be turned around when Enniscorthy come visiting on Saturday.\n\nThere is a long way to go in the League!\n\nThe losers travelled without injured hooker, Murt Leahy, and therein lay the root of their problems. They couldn’t get throw-ins to the lineout right, and they were hammered in this area of battle.\n\nOverall, four players who featured against Monkstown were missing.\n\nDundalk opened backed by the wind and driving rain. Although they dominated territorially, the game was still there for the saving at half-time when the winners led 6-nil.\n\nIn fact, with a bit of luck Kilkenny might have registered. They went close with one promising involving Aidan McDonald and Doc O’Connor, but they were stopped short of the line.\n\nDundalk kept the game tight after the turn, rarely feeding the ball to their defence.\n\nKilkenny were drawn into a battle of the forwards, but in one break Rory McInerney was stopped just short of the line.\n\nThe home side burst the field shortly afterwards, and when they went through four phases of forward play they scored a converted try.\n\nWith the score at 13-nil, any rescue act would have to be launched quickly. Jake McDonald kicked Kilkenny into a few good positions later, but the lineout problem was a scourge.\n\nKilkenny will simply have to dust themselves down and get on with things, starting with a win this Saturday.\n\nNormans RFC got their season off to a flying start when comfortably defeating Clontarf in the Leinster League at Knocktopher on Saturday.\n\nNormans were full value for the victory, and silly mistakes cost them more scores.\n\nOpening with the wind, Normans dominated but they were easily turned over and lost good possession.\n\nTheir solitary score of the half came from the boot of full-back, Dean Cleary who converted an penalty.\n\nSkipper William Woodgate gave Normans a good dressing down during the break. It worked.\n\nThey came out with all guns blazing and camped in the Clontarf half.\n\nThey went further ahead after 10 minutes when after a flowing move ended with hooker, Paddy O’Keeffe crashing over for a fine try.\n\nThey put the game out of reach five minutes from the end. Centre Kieran Grace was the provider as touched down under the posts. Dean Cleary added the extra points\n\nThere was a lot to like about this display.\n\nHowever, coach Tim Behan has plenty to work on, especially the line out and retaining possession.\n\nNormans were well served by Dean Cleary at full-back, while fly half Shane Roche and centres Kieran Grace and Edward Tierney performed well. Newcomer Owen Long impressed on the wing.\n\nThe forwards were on top most of the way and here good performers were Ralph Homes, Roger Gough, Tommy Kelly, Ger Murphy and William Holohan.\n\nNext up for Normans is a visit to Donnybrook to play Bective Rangers on Saturday." ]

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[ "Small CUVs Are Hot, So Let's See What All The Fuss Is About\n\nView All Specs\nFrom the moment we first drove Honda's new HR-V, it was clear that this car would be a hit in the now-booming small crossover segment. Through October of this year, Honda moved 33,727 examples of its new HR-V, and last month alone, the CUV outsold its platform-mate Fit nearly three-and-a-half times over.\n\nConsidering its importance not only for the segment, but for Honda as a brand, we knew a longer test of the cute little HR-V was in order. Enter our latest addition to the Autoblog long-term fleet, a mid-level HR-V EX with all-wheel drive.\n\nWe chose EX because it's the volume model, representing the majority of the cars out on the road. Even so, it's incredibly well-equipped with 17-inch wheels, heated seats, a seven-inch infotainment system (that lacks navigation on this model), tinted windows, a sunroof, foglamps, a standard array of tech features, Honda's Lane Watch camera system, and more. Adding all-wheel drive was a no-brainer, considering Autoblog's headquarters in snowy metro Detroit, though this meant being forced to live with the continuously variable transmission. (Front-wheel-drive HR-Vs can be had with a pleasant six-speed manual.) Our car features the light cloth interior, and we'll be interested to see how it holds up over the course of a year.", null, null, null, null, "All in, the Alabaster Silver Metallic car you see here stickers for $24,115.\n\nAll in, the Alabaster Silver Metallic car you see here stickers for $24,115, including $900 for destination. That means the HR-V is the least-expensive car we've ever had in the long-term fleet.\n\nEvery HR-V comes with one powertrain: a 1.8-liter, naturally-aspirated inline-four, good for 141 horsepower and 127 pound-feet of torque. That's adequate considering the 3,094-pound curb weight, and allows the HR-V to return EPA-estimated fuel economy ratings of 27 miles per gallon city and 32 mpg highway. Our car arrived with only 130 miles on the odometer, so we're going to let the engine fully break in before we start tracking our observed fuel economy data.\n\nThat said, the HR-V has been a hot commodity in the Autoblog fleet ever since its arrival. In its first week on the job alone, the Honda handled a road trip to northern Michigan and helped one of our staffers move. (The Magic Seats and 55.9 cubic-feet of cargo space are fantastic, by the way – more on that in a future update.)", null, null, null, null, "\"Control layout is a lot simpler than other recent Hondas. I'm glad it doesn't have a two-screen infotainment.\"\n\n\"It's nicer inside than I expected,\" notes editorial program manager David Gluckman in our first logbook entry. \"Control layout is a lot simpler than other recent Hondas. I'm glad it doesn't have a two-screen infotainment. I did find myself wanting a digital speedometer, though, or at least a more detailed screen in the gauge pod.\"\n\nOther things that impress us so far: the brake-hold feature, the spaciousness of the second-row seats, and just how much content is packed in the HR-V considering its low price point. Gripes? Not many. We don't love the CVT, but find it to be one of the better examples out on the road today. Front passenger legroom has been a common complaint – shotgun-riders over six feet tall commonly feel cramped in the HR-V. For what it's worth, we've heard similar legroom complaints about the Fit, too.\n\nThere will no doubt be a lot more to learn about the HR-V during its year in our fleet, so stay tuned for videos and more updates. Be sure to follow our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram feeds for on-the-fly impressions.", null ]

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[ null, "Just got forwarded a very interesting article from the Daily Telegraph. The article is about a recent study performed at Radboud University in The Netherlands that found that men who spend even a few minutes in the company of an attractive woman perform less well in tests designed to measure brain function than those who chat to someone they do not find attractive.\n\nHere's a little snipet from the article:\n\nStudy recruited 40 male heterosexual students. Each one performed a standard memory test where they had to observe a stream of letters and say, as fast as possible, if each one was the same as the one before last. The volunteers then spent seven minutes chatting to male or female members of the research team before repeating the test.\n\nThe results showed men were slower and less accurate after trying to impress the women. The more they fancied them, the worse their score.\n\nBut when the task was repeated with a group of female volunteers, they did not get the same results. Memory scores stayed the same, whether they had chatted to a man or a woman.\n\nIn a report on their findings the researchers said: ‘We conclude men's cognitive functioning may temporarily decline after an interaction with an attractive woman.'\n\nPsychologist Dr George Fieldman, a member of the British Psychological Society, said the findings reflect the fact that men are programmed to think about ways to pass on their genes.\n\n‘When a man meets a pretty woman, he is what we call ‘reproductively focused‘.\n\n‘But a woman also looks for signs of other attributes, such as wealth, youth and kindness. Just the look of the man would be unlikely to have the same effect.'\n\nThe first thing I said when I read this was, why didn't they test women being in the same room with more attractive women. I bet you they would find similar results. Because I know that it would effect me.\n\nTrust me, when I say I get you. Don't get me wrong, I like men. But the reason I'm good at what I do is because women, especially pretty popular ones, used to intimate the shit out of me.\n\nWould love to hear your thoughts on this article." ]

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[ "Discussions on the small arms used by the Axis forces.\n1657 posts\n\nJust thought that it would be nice to collect some photos of german soldiers with captured weapons. Hope we didnt have something like that yet.\nSo lets start:\n\nI hope you have some other interesting pictures!\n\nThanks for the nice pic!\n\nSo i would be glad if somebody could add any pics! I would be especially happy about pics with american captured weapons!\nLast edited by Maigewitter on 16 Apr 2006 02:19, edited 1 time in total.\nTop", null, null, null, null, "Here is a fantastic image sent in by Jeff Eberle, showing German troops being instructed on functioning and disassembly of the SVT. there are six Svt weapons in the photo!", null, "Another image from Jeff Eberle, showing a German Ski patrol unit and one fellow shows the muzzle of an Svt over his shoulder!", null, "Again, Jeff sends us a photo of perhaps French volunteers on the Ost front. one with an SVT, the other has what looks like a French M-35?! very neat!", null, "another Photo from Jeff Eberle, the start of the brutal Russian winter has not yet beaten down the morale of these Heer troops. there are two SVT weapons in the photo.", null, "Michael Heidler sends us a fine image showing an assortment of weapons including a Bren and an SVT rifle in the bottom left corner.", null, "another nice assortment of weapons on the Ost. front including a Degyartev lmg, and an Svt with the soldier on the left.", null, null, null, "Very nice, keep it up!\nTop\n\nOne correction: This guy is carrying a PPD-40 not a PPSh-41\nTop\n\nCan u explain how u got him to be an luftwaffe unteroffizier??\n(Maigewitter that is ...\n\na reply form another forum -gunboards\n\n\"That photo is in The German Sniper 1914-1945 by Senich and Sniper Variations of the German K98k Rifle by Law. Probably a posed propaganda photo; Law indicates that the rifle is a WWI-era Gewehr 98 sniper and points out that both have their safeties on. The photo is dated 9/15/41.\"\nTop" ]

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[ null, "Drag Race was released by Kee Games in 1977. This game is one of a handful of 70’s games we feature on this site due to the fact that it was around in the early 80’s. Fans of this game will remember that two people, in two player mode, would drag race each other using a pedal, steering wheel, and four-gear shifter. Shifting had to be done just right by watching the tachometer on the screen. If the player shifted to late, the engine would blow, and if too early, the drag racer would bog down.", null, "Simple games like this were a windfall for early home console systems like the Atari 2600. Although Atari did not release this exact game, they had a version called Dragster." ]

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[ null, "Sometimes a good book can be even better than a delicious dessert!\n\nI love reading, and also enjoy sharing my finds.\n\nWhile I read hundreds of books this year, here are my favorite books published in 2019.\n\nThis is the fifth book in a series featuring Jackson Brodie, a private investigator.\n\nThe books in this series are different from some of Kate Atkinson’s other books that I also enjoyed, such as Life After Life.\n\nI hadn’t read any of the books in the series prior to reading this, and I enjoyed it tremendously. Atkinson has a way of writing that is so charming and funny, and so real, that I literally hang on every word.\n\nWhile this book has some great plot lines, the characters are also terrific. The book begins with Jackson Brodie relocating to a quiet seaside village, spending time with his teenage son and an aging dog. He stumbles upon a mystery, and it’s a doozy.\n\nI loved this book so much that I just re-read it — and I read it for the first time five months ago!\n\nI’m currently reading the third book in the Jackson Brodie series — When Will There Be Good News? — and I’m really enjoying that as well.\n\nStrout’s first novel about Olive — Olive Kittredge — was published in 2008 and won the Pulitzer Prize. Olive, Again was published this year, and it’s already one of Oprah’s Book Club picks.\n\nIn the new novel, Olive Kittredge is back. She’s still feisty, but she’s older and more open-minded.\n\nThroughout the book, Olive encounters all kinds of characters and situations. From her late-in-life love interest to helping teenagers, a pregnant woman, or a nun, Olive’s brutal honesty tempered with empathy made me laugh and cry.\n\nWatching Olive grow and change while reading the stories of how she touches others’ lives makes for fantastic reading.\n\n3. The Song of the Jade Lily, by Kristy Manning\n\nI love reading about cultures and places I didn’t know about. Don’t you?\n\nThe historical part of this novel tells the little-known story of Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII (Who knew? Not me!).\n\nIn 1939, two young Jewish refugees meet in Shanghai and become friends. The war forces them apart, and they end up living very different lives.\n\nThe other part of the novel tells the story of Alexandra, who returns to Australia to be with her dying grandfather. Alexandra learns family secrets that tie into her grandmother’s past in Shanghai.\n\nThe combination of drama and learning about Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII make this the perfect book club book.\n\n4. The Testaments (the sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale), by Margaret Atwood\n\nI remember reading The Handmaid’s Tale in college and being blown away. If you haven’t read that book, seen the movie or watched the Hulu series, The Handmaid’s Tale is about a world where men take over and women have no rights. It’s written from the perspective of a “handmaid,” who exists to bear a child of a high-level commander, whose wife can no longer bear children.\n\nThe Testaments was published 34 years later, and the story takes place more than fifteen years after the events in The Handmaid’s Tale. Men still rule the Republic of Gilead, but there are major problems in the regime. By telling the stories of three women affected by Gilead, and how their lives converge, Atwood leads the reader to the shocking conclusion.\n\nThis novel answered questions from the first book and wrapped everything up nicely at the end. It’s another great book club pick.\n\nI decided to read this after it was announced as Jenna’s Today Show Book Club pick.\n\nI love a good mystery, and this one is big.\n\nSylvie is the beautiful, older daughter of the Lee family. She flies to the Netherlands to visit her dying grandmother and then disappears.\n\nAmy, the younger, shy sister, narrates the story, and we learn that while she grew up with her mother and father, Sylvie was raised by distant relatives in another country because her parents couldn’t afford to keep her. When Sylvie goes missing, it’s up to Amy to step up and help the sister who has always taken care of herself. She shares details about their lives as she searches for Sylvie.\n\nThere are some twists, along with a great plot and sympathetic characters. I also learned about different cultures and countries. This was a great read.\n\nThis book won a bunch of awards and is very interesting.\n\nIt takes place in Russia, and again, I learned some new things.\n\nThe book is about two sisters — eight and eleven — who go missing on the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia.\n\nOver the year-long search for the girls, we learn about some of the area’s characters who are connected to the crime. The novel also features beautiful detail about Kamchatka — forests, open land, volcanoes, and seas.\n\nThe ending was unexpected and the perfect conclusion to a great novel.\n\n7. Once Upon a River, by Diane Setterfield\n\nThis is not the type of novel I would typically pick up, but I really enjoyed it.\n\n“On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his arms is the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Is it a miracle? Is it magic? Or can science provide an explanation? These questions have many answers, some of them quite dark indeed.\n\n“Those who dwell on the river bank apply all their ingenuity to solving the puzzle of the girl who died and lived again, yet as the days pass the mystery only deepens. The child herself is mute and unable to answer the essential questions: Who is she? Where did she come from? And to whom does she belong? But answers proliferate nonetheless.\n\n“Three families are keen to claim her. A wealthy young mother knows the girl is her kidnapped daughter, missing for two years. A farming family reeling from the discovery of their son’s secret liaison stands ready to welcome their granddaughter. The parson’s housekeeper, humble and isolated, sees in the child the image of her younger sister. But the return of a lost child is not without complications and no matter how heartbreaking the past losses, no matter how precious the child herself, this girl cannot be everyone’s. Each family has mysteries of its own, and many secrets must be revealed before the girl’s identity can be known.”\n\nThis book offers a great plot, interesting characters, and a unique setting.\n\n8. Us Against You, by Fredrik Backman\n\nOne of my favorite books of all time (A Man Called Ove) was written by this author.\n\nThis book is also wonderful.\n\nAs the sequel to Beartown, this novel continues the story of the small community of Beartown, which lives and dies by its local ice hockey team.\n\nWhen the town finds out that the Beartown ice hockey team might soon be disbanded, tensions rise between Beartown and the neighboring community of Hed, which has a hockey team. Then a newcomer arrives who offers the team a surprising new coach and a chance at a comeback.\n\nAs the Beartown team comes together, some bonds break and new ones are formed. The Beartown and Hed rivalry deepens and a tragedy occurs.\n\nThe characters in this novel are so well-developed and interesting. Even if you’re not a hockey fan, you’ll love this book.\n\n9. Out of the Dark, by Gregg Hurwitz\n\nI read so many books that I rarely buy them. I generally get ebooks and printed books from the library.\n\nAfter reading and enjoying the first three books in the Orphan X series, I was desperate to read this book. I got tired of waiting on my library hold list, so I bought it. And I’m so glad I did!\n\nEvan Smoak was taken from a group home at age twelve and was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, a covert team of assassins. When he decided to leave the program, he used everything he learned to disappear. He then decides to reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can.\n\nWhile he’s helping others, he’s also avoiding getting killed. Someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to destroy every trace of the Orphan Program by killing all the remaining Orphans and their trainers.\n\nYou’ll be rooting for Orphan X while enjoying this ride. If you like thrillers, you’ll love this book!\n\nSo grab these titles and dig into some great stories. And be sure to let us know what you think!" ]

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[ null, "The concluding qualifying round in the IHGF All American Stones of Strength series took place in Dublin, Ohio, at its Dublin Irish Festival; this strength event was the first of its kind, beside the Highland games, to be contested at the gathering and was well-received by the several thousand spectators. The competitive lineup of athletes included Mike Congdon, Brad Ardrey, Ryan Putzulu, Dusty Davis, Frank Quartucci, Jordan Hieber, Trevor Rutkowski, Joshua Eisele and Zac Durr, who engaged in five stone lifting disciplines.\n\nIn the 60-lb. stone putt, Congdon led the way from the first round with a throw of 17’ 4” and then upped the ante, finishing with an impressive 18’ 8”. Second place was very close with Rutkowski inching ahead with 17’ 3”, leaving Ardrey and Quartucci in a tie for third at 17’ 1”.\n\nThe 330-lb. Husafell stone carry had the fans cheering athletes throughout. Putzulu, going first, set a respectable benchmark of 91’. Eisele took off like a sprinter and ripped out a distance of 250’ 6” to take the lead, and just when it looked as if he had it in the bag, Rutkowski surpassed him with a crushing distance of 305’ 3”. Congdon produced a best of 238’ for third.\n\nAthletes had 60 sec. to lift the 350-lb. stone with a handle in the duck walk and carry it over a course of 10 m. Just tenths of a second separated the top three, with Ardrey winning with 6.4 sec., Quartucci in second with 6.6 sec., and Congdon in third with 6.7 sec.\n\nIn the manhood stone, athletes had to lift a stone weighing 200 lb. onto their chest and then press it overhead and repeat as many times as possible within 75 sec. Ardrey did a magnificent 9 reps, followed by Rutkowski, who gave his all for 7 reps. Putzulu was third with 6 reps.\n\nThe top four athletes—Brad Audrey,Trevor Rutkowskie,Mike Congdon,Frank Quartucci—have qualified and will go through to the finals of the IHGF All American Stones of Strength Championships set for the 14th-15th of October in San Clemente California where the winner will go forward to compete in Fefor, Norway in 2018." ]

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[ null, "The Firearm Licensing and Registration Act would establish licensing requirements to posses a firearm and ammunition, including a psychological evaluation and insurance policy. Individuals hospitalized with a mental illness would be denied a license. File photo\n\nOCEANSIDE — The Oceanside City Council is urging Congress to reject a bill that would impose stricter gun control regulations on those who own or wish to own firearms.\n\nOriginally introduced in January to the House of Representatives, H.R. 127 proposes to establish a process for licensing and registration of firearms and prohibits possession of certain ammunition and large capacity ammunition feeding devices.\n\nUnder this bill, the Department of Justice (DOJ) would be responsible for establishing and maintaining a publicly available database of all registered firearms. The DOJ would issue licenses only to individuals over 21 years old or older who complete a criminal background check, a psychological evaluation, a certified training course and who have insurance policies.\n\nCouncilmembers Chris Rodriguez and Kori Jensen came forward to Council requesting to write a letter rejecting the bill and sending it to Rep. Mike Levin (D-San Juan Capistrano) during the May 19 meeting.\n\nAccording to Rodriguez, the bill would greatly impact Oceanside’s legal gun owners.\n\n“In a city like Oceanside where there is a large military presence, where there are about 30,000 to 40,000 residents who are responsible gun owners who want to protect their families, H.R. 127 seeks to do many things that will violate those residents’ rights,” Rodriguez said.\n\n“That database could be accessed publicly, which means the public would know who owns weapons and who doesn’t,” he said.\n\n“At one point or another, every person’s medical record contains exclusionary criteria that could deny them their Second Amendment rights,” Jensen said.\n\nJensen noted that the psychological evaluations would have to be conducted by a licensed psychologist approved by the Attorney General, not independently, and would include interviewing and evaluating other members of the home as well as ex-spouses. She also suggested that the bill would keep people from seeking treatment for their mental and other health issues if it means losing their Second Amendment rights.\n\nDeputy Mayor Ryan Keim also agreed that the bill isn’t good for Oceanside or the country as a whole, calling it an “absolute disaster” of a bill. He said the bill, if passed, would further burden the DOJ and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), thus taking away from their focus on illegally acquired weapons.\n\nKeim, who previously served as an Oceanside police officer, explained that from his experience most gun violence happened with illegal guns. During his time working with gang-related activity, none of the guns he recovered from gangs were registered to the individuals involved.\n\nPolice Chief Fred Armijo told Council that of the 108 violent crimes involving firearms committed in Oceanside in 2020, not a single one of them was registered to a suspect.\n\n“Our problem is that gun violence in our city is committed by people not lawfully registering,” Armijo said.\n\nFor Armijo, the bill would not have an impact in addressing such gun violence in the city.\n\nSome questioned the council’s need to write and send a letter to Levin regarding this bill.\n\nResident Roger Davenport suggested the bill was a means for Rodriguez to push his campaign for the 49th Congressional District seat, currently held by Levin, and said it would be “inappropriate” for the council to take a position on this bill.\n\nDavenport also supported the bill, suggesting that most residents in the city and nation are in support of stricter gun laws.\n\nThough Mayor Esther Sanchez didn’t necessarily see the issue of H.R. 127 as falling under the Council’s purview of issues related to the city, she agreed that the bill went too far and supported writing a letter after seeing her fellow councilmembers’ passion against the bill.\n\nSanchez also noted that the bill has been stuck in committee for months and is not likely to pass. She also urged Council to focus on issues that could improve Oceanside, especially with $32.3 million in COVID-19 relief funds on its way.\n\n“As we go forward it’s important that we focus on things we can do here in Oceanside, but certainly constitutional rights are important to every one of us,” Sanchez said.\n\nWith a unanimous vote of approval, Council directed staff to write and mail an opposition letter to Levin’s office.", null, null ]

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[ "For many young Canadians, home won't be a house", null, "It’s probably time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to tell his young followers that the “Canadian dream” no longer comes with a lawn.\n\nLast week, Statistics Canada reported a big drop in the issuance of building permits for single-family homes in cities with populations greater than 10,000. Municipalities in June granted permissions for such structures at a seasonally adjusted rate that would yield 65,100 units in a year, the slowest pace since April 2009 and one of the weakest on records that date to 1960.", null, "The decline is noteworthy because you’d think the stars were aligned for a boom in the construction of dream homes: the economy has been churning out jobs steadily for a year, real-estate prices are high, and interest rates are low. There should be lots of incentive for everyone involved to build, borrow, and buy. Yet that’s not what’s happening. Those high prices have become too much for normal people, especially in Vancouver and Toronto. Tighter lending standards are also forcing dreamers out of the market. And perhaps more importantly, city officials remain stingy with land and permits in the places where most people want to live. “Toronto is a gateway for new immigrants,” Quentin D’Souza, who runs a couple dozen rental buildings in the Greater Toronto Area, told me earlier this summer. “We don’t produce enough new housing for all of those people.”\n\nSince housing is mostly a local matter, you might be wondering why we need to drag the Prime Minister into this.\n\nThe answer depends on whether you think the federal government can play a catalytic role in forcing local authorities to confront national issues. Most (not all) agree that income inequality is one such issue. Trudeau certainly does. There is little that he or his cabinet ministers do that isn’t justified by supporting the “middle class and those seeking to join it.” More generous childcare benefits, middle-income tax cuts, multi-billion-dollar infrastructure programs, and new free-trade deals all are necessary to keep Canada from becoming an unequal society, the federal government suggests.\n\nAll that is fine. Yet the main thing that is turning Canada into a more rigidly class-based society is the real-estate boom. For whatever reason, most Canadians see a mortgage as preferable to paying rent and maxing out their RRSP deductions and TFSA limits. But in most cities, a decent house is now something only rich people can afford. Vancouver is the world’s third-most unaffordable city, after Hong Kong and Sydney, respectively; and Toronto is now the 13th most unaffordable, behind a group of usual suspects such as Auckland (fourth), San Francisco (ninth), and London (12th), according to the latest Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. This is not the company that a country that believes in spreading the wealth ought to be keeping. If you don’t think the housing boom is causing angst, then you missed the excellent reporting of Joe Castaldo and Catherine McIntyre in Maclean’s earlier this year. As one half of a young couple that had been priced out of Vancouver told them, “You definitely feel like you’ve been left behind.”\n\nDemographia, a St. Louis-based consultancy that opposes top-down urban planning, keeps its analysis of international housing affordability elegantly simple. It creates a “median multiple” by dividing the median house price in a given market by the median household income. Historically, Demographia says a multiple of three or less suggests normal people can afford a home. That’s the base of its affordability scale. The maximum is five or higher, which is the point at which the survey describes housing as “severely unaffordable.”\n\nVancouver’s multiple is 11.8 and Toronto’s is 7.7; both scores are a point higher than 2015, suggesting median homes prices in each city increased by the equivalent of a full year’s income in the span of 12 months. In fact, none of Canada’s major cities is affordable: Montreal, Calgary, and Edmonton all are “seriously unaffordable,” with multiples higher than four. Demographia says Ottawa is “moderately unaffordable,” with a multiple of 3.9. This represents a “sea change,” according to the report; until recently, affordability outside of Vancouver had been fairly stable since the 1970s. “The health of the housing market has been deteriorating rapidly in Canada,” the report states.\n\nTrudeau and his ministers know the urban middle- and upper-middle-class Canadians that form the core of their political constituency are sensitive about housing. At a semi-private speech in Montreal this spring, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said that as a member of Parliament and a Cabinet minister, he felt Canadians were “counting on you to ensure their home keeps its value.” Recall “David,” the everyman who appeared on the first page of Morneau’s first budget in 2016: “Though he loved the community he lived in as a child, when it came time to buy his own family home, [David] had to look elsewhere. His old neighbourhood simply wasn’t affordable.” Among the highlights of this year’s budget was a promise to spend $11.2 billion on affordable housing.\n\nStill, it’s fair to ask whether Trudeau has any desire to bring real-estate prices back down to Earth.\n\nDoing so would please the men and women Castaldo and McIntyre wrote about, and surely would be welcomed by those “seeking” the trappings of the middle class. At the same time, any attempt to depress prices would anger anyone who already owns a home, a massive voting block, considering ownership rates now approach 70 per cent. That could be why Morneau talks of “protecting” home values, rather than making housing more affordable. The federal government’s housing strategy will help some people, but it will do nothing to alter price dynamics, especially as the money will be spent over a decade. Morneau initiated regulatory changes that make it more difficult to get home loans, but he so far has stayed away from sacred housing sops, such as the capital-gains exemption on primary residences and the ability of first-time buyers to use their tax-protected savings to purchase homes.\n\nDemographia says Singapore and New Zealand are the only two countries that appear to be taking the issue of housing affordability seriously. (The organization’s analysis is based on assessments of those two countries, along with Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.) New Zealand is the more instructive example; its politicians appear to have accepted that home prices are off the charts for lack of supply. Space is dear on a tiny island, but New Zealand authorities have constrained it even more by constraining development. Canada is as guilty of this as any jurisdiction, whether it be restrictive zoning requirements in Vancouver or Ontario’s safeguarding of green space in and around the Greater Toronto Area. The response of governments in Ottawa, Victoria, Vancouver and Toronto to the threat of a housing bubble has been almost entirely focused on gently squeezing demand rather than encouraging more supply.\n\nBy no means do I mean to give Demographia the final word on the subject. The outfit submits that sprawling Dallas-Fort Worth is a more livable city than Toronto because Dallas’s inhabitants tend to have shorter commutes to work. That car-loving conclusion gives away Demographia’s ideological bias. No doubt, an interesting argument could be had about whether a future of self-driving, electrically propelled automobiles could be as clean and efficient as better public transit. But only the purest free-market disciples would condemn attempts to make cities denser.\n\nCanada’s bigger municipalities are headed this way. In recent years, they have been encouraging developers to build up, rather than to spread out. Cities issued permits for multi-family dwellings at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 169,600 in June, the fastest since October 2016. If we assume those permits turn into holes in the ground, Canada is putting up apartment complexes at the fastest rate since the early 1970s.\n\nThat’s probably a good thing. It will increase the odds that urban Canadians will at least be able to find a suitable place to live. But will it make people happier? Ideology aside, Demographia has a point when it argues that Dallas beats Toronto also because more people in the Texas city can afford to buy a home. Canadians might prefer urban planning that put “people” ahead of “place.” Take another look at the historical pattern for building permits in that chart above. There was a time when Canada built more single-family homes than multi-family units. The relationship has reversed, and the gap between apartment living and the prospect of backyard barbecues has never been wider in Canada’s cities.\n\nDoes any of this really matter? Robert Shiller, a Nobel laureate in economics, thinks it does. The Yale University professor says societies could rue allowing people to be priced out of their communities. “With people of various income levels increasingly divided by geography, income inequality can worsen and the risk of social polarization—and even serious conflict—can grow,” Shiller said recently in an op-ed for Project Syndicate. Inequality of income begets inequality of opportunity, which begets societal tension and political volatility. See: Donald Trump’s America.\n\nA generation of Canadians that took space for granted is now discovering that their future will be measured in 900 square feet or less. That needn’t be a big deal, except as Castaldo and McIntyre showed earlier this year, it is a big deal for a lot of people. Will those people adapt and make the most of their lawn-less futures? Or will they grow to resent the lucky ones who owned homes at the beginning of the boom and the politicians who failed to keep prices under control?\n\nAt the moment, it appears Trudeau, Morneau and their counterparts in the provinces and on municipal councils are most concerned with helping the lucky ones. That’s good news for the existing middle class. But if you are seeking to join it, you have reason to be disappointed." ]

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[ null, "These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.", null, "The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.", null, "John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops the ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.", null, "Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.\n\nAbout the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Hornsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.\n\nFor further information about any of the artists please contact: Anthony Taylor\nCoordinator for Highgate Gallery: Alison De Cleyn" ]

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[ "ameweek 26 of the Fantasy Premier League season is here, with a double gameweek offering the potential of huge returns.\n\nWith the likes of Man City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Aston Villa and more teams facing two matches across this gameweek, it could well be a turning point in the season for plenty of FPL managers out there.\n\nWith the FPL deadline at 11am GMT on Saturday, 27 February, here are some of the key players you should consider for your team – and perhaps think about handing the armband to…\n\nPicking the No1 of a team who have forgotten how to lose isn’t an inspired differential pick, but a double GW against against West Ham and Wolves offers a decent chance of two clean sheets. A reliable defensive pick given how often Pep Guardiola rotates his other players.\n\nThe Villa No1 is going through peaks and thoughs in recent weeks, with top displays followed by poor ones. Still, he’s the top-scoring FPL keeper and the Villans face two away games in their double GW at Leeds and Sheffield United, so he could rack up the points.\n\nYou could go through a lot of the City squad making a case for FPL picks, but Stones is high on the list. Still a relatively cheap pick, the seventh highest-scoring defender could well play both games and also knows where the goal is at the other end.\n\nThe England centre-back hasn’t had the best season, but Spurs face Burnley and Fulham in their double GW. At that price, and with those fixtures, Dier is a potentiallu high-scoring differential pick on the cheap.\n\nShaw has become one of the League’s top left-backs this season, though his attacking contributions are let down by his team-mates’ defensive mistakes. A tough trip to Chelsea comes first in United’s double GW, but he is going into that game following a midweek rest – and a follow-up game at Crystal Palace also looks enticing.\n\nA more expensive option, but Digne has effectively been playing as a left winger for the Toffees recently, which offers FPL managers the double bonus of potential clean sheet points with high attacking rewards – and a double GW against struggling Southampton and West Brom is surely too temptong to turn down.\n\nOne of the League’s in-form players, Barnes has returned 12 and 13 points in his last two games. Leicester face Arsenal and Burnley over their double GW, and at a very reasonable price, can you afford not to have him?\n\nWe’re stating the obvious here, but Fernandes is almost worth having at this point simply to safeguard yourself against other managers. The Portuguese star will be on penalty and free-kick duty against Chelsea and Palace, and if United get anything on the road in GW26, it’s likely to come through him.\n\nPicking City forwards is a risky business, but Guardiola seems to prefer Sterling rather than risking Sergio Aguero right now. Sterling could well be rested for City’s second match against Wolves, but he’s the most likely player to find the net against West Ham.\n\nAn obvious pick, but he could be a key differential if other FPL managers get cold feet following Liverpool’s poor form. Their first double GW match is at Sheffield United, and Salah will fancy his chances of filling his boots there.\n\nUp next is a home game against Chelsea, and Salah is usually well worth a goal against his former club – so there is every chance he could return 3+ goals for GW 26.\n\nA tempting cheap option as your fifth midfield choice, Lookman returned 11 points from Fulham’s win against Sheffield United. Scott Parker’s side are hitting form and face Crystal Palace before Spurs, so Lookman could be a great cheap differential and also allow you to spend big elsewhere.\n\nLike Salah, his high cost and Spurs’ poor form could tempt plenty to ditch Kane this week – but you can easily see Kane finding the net against both Burney and Fulham, so the returns could be huge if Jose Mourinho’s side find their rhythm.\n\nWatkins hasn’t found the net in his last two League outings, but Villa take on Leeds and Sheffield United. Neither side is known for their defensive prowess, so Watkins should have plenty of chances in behind over the next 180 minutes.\n\nCan Keir Starmer Persuade The Public There’s A ‘Right Time’ To Increase Taxes?", null ]

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[ "Crown, Mitre and People in the Nineteenth Century\n\nThe Church of England, Establishment and the State", null, "Crown, Mitre and People in the Nineteenth Century\n\nThe Church of England, Establishment and the State\n\neBook FAQ\nAdd to Basket\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nISBN: 9781316515976\nNumber of Pages: 350\nPublished: 23/09/2021\nDescription Author Information Reviews\nThroughout the nineteenth century the relationship between the State and the Established Church of England engaged Parliament, the Church, the courts and - to an increasing degree - the people. During this period, the spectre of Disestablishment periodically loomed over these debates, in the cause - as Trollope put it - of 'the renewal of inquiry as to the connection which exists between the Crown and the Mitre'. As our own twenty-first century gathers pace, Disestablishment has still not materialised: though a very different kind of dynamic between Church and State has anyway come into being in England. Professor Evans here tells the stories of the controversies which have made such change possible - including the revival of Convocation, the Church's own parliament - as well as the many memorable characters involved. The author's lively narrative includes much valuable material about key areas of ecclesiastical law that is of relevance to the future Church of England.\n\nG. R. Evans is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge, is a graduate of the University of Oxford and holds higher degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge. She has written many well-received books in the fields of medieval and ecumenical theology, intellectual and ecclesiastical history and public policy in higher education." ]

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[ null, "\nThere are a lot of people out in the world that are perfectly content to remain single. But there are also a lot of people in the world that want to be with someone. Many of the latter are fortunate enough to find loving, fulfilling relationships. Then some try and fail to start something in the romantic sense. But not everyone who fails is a failure. Some of them are just biding their time until they succeed, and some of them succeed with Manila women.\n\nThere are also a lot of Manila women seeking men, which means that those trying to start a relationship with one can find a good match. All a man has to do is to be sincere and genuine in his intentions, and his chances of finding love increase by a considerable margin.\n\nNow, the chances of success will be dependent on several factors; the man, the woman, the intentions of each party, and the timing. The first three should be easy enough to handle, but timing will be important. Being the right person that a potential partner needs in the chronological point can make or break a relationship. But having good timing is just part of the overall singles experience.\n\nListen To Some Of Our Stories...", null, null, null, "The first one needs to understand about Manila women is that a lot of them are likely found living in Manila. This means that anyone who wants to meet one is going to have to go to the city and possibly the surrounding metropolitan area as well is he wishes to strike a match with one.\n\nOf course, there are plenty of services that offer a Philippines tour. There are many agencies out there that take tourists from outside the metro area and take them around the city to show them sights. But not every Manila city tour is equal. Some are great for sightseeing and others are great for seeing the sights of a different variety.\n\nA Manila singles tour is different from any other type of tour. Instead of seeing landmarks and other normal, tourist things, it’s about finding someone. It’s about finding a partner, a lover, and a friend.\n\nA Manila Women Tour isn’t just about hopping on a bus, making a stop at some landmark of museum, and then hopping off for a few minutes. It’s about more than that. It’s about connecting with the women of Manila in a meaningful, lasting way.\n\nMeet Manila women now. Subscribe now on our site and experience the excitement of our singles vacation!", null ]

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[ null, null, null, null, "Amphigorey Also is the third volume of collected works by Edward Gorey, featuring seventeen tightly focused, darkly humorous pieces. They aren’t in any thematic or chronological sequence but the tone of Gorey’s work was so consistent over almost forty years of creativity that this volume feels excellently curated. The contents of these very small books are rearranged to fit the much bigger pages of this collection but are otherwise unaltered.\n\nThe Utter Zoo is an alphabet of creatures from A for Ampoo to Z for Zote. The Blue Aspic is about Jasper Ankle, an opera fan obsessed with a diva named Ortenzia Caviglia, famed for her peformances in ‘Lizzia Bordena’, ‘La Reine des Iguanes’, and ‘La Vengence Posthume’. The Epiplectic Bicycle has a purpose all its own, as siblings Embley and Yewbert eventually discover. The Sopping Thursday features rain, nervous cats, brave Bruno the dog and an apparently happy ending. The Grand Passion (A novel) is “Englished anonymously from the Conton dialect”. Les Passementeries Horribles are sinister embroidered tassels and braids which are giant-sized. The Eclectic Abecedarium is an alphabet of advice and some observations: “Don’t try to cram the Dog with Jam.” … “Forbear to taste Library Paste.” L’heure Bleue presents two dogs, who both have the letter “T” embroidered on their sweaters, waxing philosophical. The Broken Spoke is a collection of images related to cycling.\n\nThe Awdrey Gore Legacy features a metafictional murder mystery which must be solved by detective Waredo Dyrge. Both title and detective are anagrams of Edward Gorey. Others he uses elsewhere include Dogear Wryde, Ogdred Weary, Raddory Gewe, G.E. Deadworry, Deary Rewdgo and Regera Dowdy (Mrs). Playing with language and exploiting the ambiguities and double meanings of words is at the core of Gorey’s work – even the title of these collections is a play on the word ‘amphigory’, a nonsense verse or composition.\n\nThe Glorious Nosebleed is an alphabet of adverbs: “He fell off the pier Inadvertently.” … “He exposed himself Lewdly.” The individual images have been frequently reprinted as postcards and calendars. The Loathsome Couple are Harold Snedleigh and Mona Gritch. They murder children together until they are caught and punished. Unusually for Gorey this piece was directly inspired by the Moors Murders, and the blurb for the original edition noted “This book may well prove to be its author’s most unpleasant ever.” The Green Beads concerns little Tancred’s fateful meeting with the Baroness von Rettig. Les Urnes Utiles are massive jars, with overwrought names. The Stupid Joke begins and ends with a bed. The Prune People are precisely that. The Tuning Fork is mostly set underwater, about an unhappy woman who is dissuaded from ending it all. Unlike the other selections in this book it is not a reprint, but was first published in Amphigorey Also in 1983.\n\nAmphigorey Also is an enthralling collection, as brilliant as Amphigorey and Amphigorey Too. Many of the books reprinted here are expensive or hard to find, so this is a treasure trove for those interested in the work of this singular man. There is one more, posthumous collection of books and drawings by Edward Gorey: Amphigorey Again." ]

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[ "Windows 10 Xbox app updated, gets leaderboards and hero stats - OnMSFT.com Skip to content\nWe're hedging our bets! You can now follow OnMSFT.com on Mastadon or Tumblr!", null, "The Windows 10 Xbox app offers a number of nifty features, such as following along with your Xbox achievements, streaming Xbox games, and more. Microsoft also offers a beta version of the Xbox app, that pulls in more of the latest features that correlate to what's currently running on the Xbox One itself. Today, Microsoft pushed an update to the production Xbox app that borrows some features from the beta.\n\nIf you're interested in the leaderboards and hero stats, particularly, then you'll be glad to see that Microsoft's work on the beta is making it to the shipping version. The app should already be installed, and so head over to the Windows Store and hit the update button. If it's not installed, you can get it easily enough by clicking the button below.", null, null ]

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[ null, "The United Nations has “condemned” the state of Israel more than any other nation on earth, according to Quora.\n\nIn fact, “Israel has been condemned more than all the other countries in the world COMBINED,” the report explains.\n\n“For example, in 2020, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) condemned Israel 17 [times] compared to a total of 6 for the rest of the world in which there was one resolution of condemnation for North Korea, Iran, Syria, Myanmar and two on Crimea.”\n\nNow the campaign against Israel is being expanded, with a U.N. vote demanding that the Middle East’s leading democracy give up its military defense.\n\nAccording to the Blaze, the vote was 149-6 to demand that Israel surrender its nuclear weapons.\n\nThe report explained, “Only a handful of countries supported Israel’s right to nuclear self-defense in a recent U.N. vote.”\n\nThe international organization, which has moved to extreme leftist positions on many issues, including abortion, in recent years, insisted that Israel “renounce possession of nuclear weapons” and to assent to the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons treaty, thereby placing “all its nuclear facilities under comprehensive International Atomic Energy safeguards.”\n\nThe United Nations General Assembly just voted 149-6 that Israel must give up its nuclear weapons.\n\nThe US, Canada, Israel, Micronesia, and Palau opposed the resolution. The United Kingdom abstained. pic.twitter.com/8F6TdIJsbS\n\nIsrael never has formally acknowledged possessing nuclear weapons, but leaks by those outside of Israel, including ex-President Jimmy Carter, have suggested the nation has several hundred.\n\nThe latest resolution targeting Israel was pushed by Palestine and nearby countries including Egypt, Jordan, Sudan and others.\n\nSix nations that opposed the resolution were Canada, Israel, Micronesia, Palau, the U.S., and Liberia.\n\nIt’s not the first such political ploy by the U.N. It voted in October for Israel to “dispose” of its nuclear weapons.\n\nSuch a move would be tantamount to destruction, as multiple neighbors of Israel have vowed to pursue its total destruction.\n\nIn fact, the U.N. also recently adopted a resolution calling Israel’s establishment as a nation a “catastrophe.”\n\nIn a majority, 90 member countries voted in favor of the move with 30 dissenting, and 47 abstaining from the vote, according to the Jerusalem Post. The United States and most of the European Union came out against the proposal, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.\n\nIn 1948, the British Mandate expired allowing Israel to announce the formation of a Jewish state and its independence. The Palestinians, however, claim the day as a time of mourning due to the displacement of their people following the Palestinian government’s rejection of the two-state proposal put forth by the United Nations in 1947." ]

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[ null, "Frederick Joseph Hegarty was born on January 27, 1927 in New York City, son of William Francis and Margaret Keane Hegarty. He had three younger brothers. He attended St. Joseph Parochial School in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from St. Benedict Preparatory School in June 1944. As a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Newark, he attended Seton Hall College, South Orange, New Jersey, for two years; and then he studied for one year at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, New Jersey. He entered Maryknoll on September 14, 1947 and secured his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy in 1948; his Bachelor of Theology degree in 1953; and his Master of Religious Education in 1953 at Maryknoll Seminary, Ossining, New York. He was ordained a priest on June 13, 1953.\n\nFive days after ordination, Father Hegarty left for his assignment to the Maryknoll Mission in Chile, South America. After Spanish language and cultural studies at Maryknoll Agricultural School in Molina, Chile, he was appointed Assistant Pastor of Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Talca. In 1957 he was transferred as Pastor to Parroquia de Nuestra Senora del Carmen in Chol Chol, a territory of 500 square miles inhabited by 11,000 Mapuche Indians and Spanish-speaking people. In 1963 Father Hegarty was moved to Santiago, Chile and assigned to full-time ministry as national chaplain of Rural Catholic Action and spiritual consultant of the Institute of Rural Education for the formation of lay leaders in Community Development.\n\nThrough his programs, he was able to provide basic education and technical instruction to rural workers over a wide area of Chile; helping them to achieve greater economic freedom and social stability. He was sought after by the Chilean Bishops who recognized him as a leader who understood the mentality and needs of the campesino people. He was full of missionary ideas. His Superior wrote of him: “He is engaged in so many works that it is difficult to know what he is about, but you knew it is good.” Father Hegarty engaged in a period of special studies in New York in 1969.\n\nOn his return to Chile in 1970, Father Hegarty was chosen by the Chilean Bishops to help establish the National Rural Pastoral Institute. Together with a group of peasant leaders, rural professionals (agronomists, teachers, etc.) and rural pastoral agents, he set up investigation and reflection teams, programs in leadership training and training of rural pastoral agents. The Institute’s formative years were during the first years of the military dictatorship. For some years this was the only place for leadership formation in rural Chile. When his contract with the Chilean Bishops terminated at the end of 1983, Father Hegarty returned home and received an assignment to the Development Department in January 1984. He served in the Development House in Washington, D.C. for three years. While serving there he studied at St. Mary’s Seminary and the University of Baltimore, earning a Doctor of Ministry degree.\n\nFather Hegarty was again assigned to the Chile Mission Region on January 1, 1987, where he continued in the ministry of forming lay leaders in the Dioceses of Chillan and Concepcion. He served as Chaplain and Consultant to the “Institute of Rural Education” as well as founder and President of “Rural Missionary Solidarity” (SOLMIRU). Of his continuing work in Chile, Father Hegarty said, “I work with poor farmers. Their greatest challenge is to find a place in the new liberal globalization process. As Children of God, they strive to live with a spirit of solidarity in an organized way. Our essential task is to share the good news of Jesus Christ with rural Chile.” Father Hegarty was named Honorary President of the SOLMIRU Foundation in 2016.\n\nOn February 3, 2010 national Chilean citizenship was given to Father Hegarty with special thanks to him for his service to Chile. And, in April 2010, Father Hegarty was honored by the Episcopal Conference of Chile, for his more than 50 years of ministry to the people of Chile. At the time, Archbishop Pablo Lizama said: “We appreciate the endearing and valuable work you have done for the evangelization of our peoples, especially with people in the rural world and with a testimony that motivates us to live fully our priestly ministry. We thank God for Father’s life, his vocation and mission which he lived intensely in our country.”\n\nFather Hegarty returned to the United States in October 2011 and in July 2012 was assigned to the Retirement Community (now Senior Missioner Community). Father Hegarty was appointed to the Mission St. Teresa’s Prayer Partners Team in January 2016, and to the Pastoral Visitors Team in 2019. Fr. Hegarty continued to reside at the Society Center in Maryknoll, New York.\n\nA Rosary and wake service was held at 4:00 p.m. on October 22, 2019 in the Holy Spirit Chapel at the Maryknoll Society Center. Father Hegarty’s remains were transferred to the Lady Chapel on October 22, 2019 at 9:30 a.m., where his family received condolences and prayers until 10:45 a.m. The biography was read by Father Richard A. Aylward. Mass of Christian Burial followed at 11:00 a.m. and was concelebrated in Queen of Apostles Chapel. Father Ernest C. Lukaschek was Principal Celebrant and homilist. Burial followed in Maryknoll Society Cemetery with Father John J. Moran conducting the graveside service." ]

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[ "If, unlike me, you do not live in the Land of Oblivia, and (like me)you are, or think you may be, a writer, the first Wednesday of the month is the time for the Insecure Writer’s Support Group blog hop. This is the once-a-month blog hop started by Alex J. Cavanaugh .\n\nIWSG = Insecure Writers’ Support Group (click for the link). We share our insecurities and support each other with empathy, sympathy and practical suggestions.\nVisit the site – and visit the co-hosts:\nChemist Ken, Suzanne Sapseed, and Shannon Lawrence!\n\n\nIt is time for admissions. I’ve been mulling things over and maybe I can give some enjoyment and, perhaps, get some nods, if I make a confession or two.\n\nYou see, I have a fundamental problem with ‘bettering’ myself as a writer. That doesn’t mean I will succumb to it. It does mean that once in a while I look up and find that pet…fear, if you like…staring me in the face. It’s like this:\n\n“Each book in the series has its own story that opens up the changes to the MC as the events of the book pertain to them. In the first book, XX is unstoppable in his own sphere. He is assured, capable, brilliant, unflappable… But then a chink develops. Someone loves him and he confesses, however fleetingly, the fear that he only admits to himself when he is drunk awake in the wee small hours of the morning with no one to hear him. The second book sees the widening of that chink until that moment where the unstoppable, unflappable hero is brought to a standstill and realizes that it is he who needs support and protection given by others . And the third book… well, that particular weakness is gone, but there is more. Oh – and the megatheme that over-arches the entire trilogy is the relationship between XXX and YYY.”\n\n…And your listeners look at you and say, “Huh?” and write you off as a nut case.\n\nAll these things we are supposed to do to make ourselves better. Listen, learn, think… Admit it, they can be uncomfortable.\n\nWhat if, for example, I crack open John Truby’s book The Anatomy of Story, which I bought recently, and discover that I have been going about my writing, which I love, which gives me a reason to value myself, which has made of many a wasteland of a bad day a time of enjoyment and increase, all the wrong way, that all I do is wrong or wrong-headed or just plain stupid and inept, and I will need to scrap everything? What if my attendance at seminars and workshops and critique groups leads me to the aghast realization that what I offer for others to read and enjoy not only will not sell, but will be judged laughable by “real” writers and thoughtful readers?\n\nWhat if I conclude that I am a phony? That I only have a dream, and that having it doesn’t mean that it is any good? What if I might as well scrap things and resign myself to holding a place in the might-have-beens?\n\n…We are, after all, talking about insecurities, right?\n\nWe can linger and peer at them and choose not to venture away from our own little patch of endeavor. Goodness knows, the temptation is to just leave well enough alone.\n\nThe movie Notting Hill has a moment that, for me, expresses the fear of failure: Anna Scott, the famous star, has decided to submit an argument about why she should get the last brownie, which is supposed to be awarded to the person with the most pathetic story:\n\nAnna: I’ve been on a diet every day since I was nineteen, which basically means I’ve been hungry for a decade. I’ve had a series of not-nice boyfriends, one of whom hit me. Ah, and every time I get my heart broken, the newspapers splash it about as though it’s entertainment. And it’s taken two rather painful operations to get me looking like this.\nHoney: Really?\nAnna: Really. [indicates nose and chin] And, one day, not long from now, my looks will go, they’ll discover I can’t act and I’ll become some sad, middle-aged woman who looks a bit like someone who was famous for a while.\nThe correct response to this internal dialogue is, as in the movie, ‘Nice Try, Gorgeous.’ And you have a good laugh at yourself and get on with it.\nThat’s what it’s all about , isn’t it? Acknowledging your insecurities and getting on with it? That’s what we’re all doing.\nIn fact, Truby’s book is interesting and while I’m learning from it, I’m also nodding my head and saying, ‘Yep. I’m doing that. Good to know!’ And I’m looking for a seminar or two to go to.\nNow excuse me. I have a megatheme to scrutinize.", null ]

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[ null, "When the USF women’s soccer team stepped onto the field this summer, baking in the blistering Florida heat, one thing was clear: this season would be different.\n\nLast season, USF fell to UConn 3-2 in penalty kicks in the AAC championship game. The following weekend, they fell again 3-2 to Illinois State in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Both losses came at home.\n\nComing off yet another conference heartbreak, this team will come home to Corbett Stadium and wreak havoc.\n\nThis year, the Bulls (15-3-2) have put emphasis on defending their home turf.\n\nWith an undefeated record (6-0-1) in Corbett, USF has been surging toward a second consecutive NCAA Tournament berth.\n\nThe Bulls’ 15 wins are tied for the most in school history, marking the fourth straight year the Bulls have finished with 10 or more wins.\n\nUSF has outscored opponents 19-2 in seven games, allowing a goal in only one game under the gleaming lights of Corbett.\n\nThe Bulls rank first in the AAC in goals allowed (13).\n\nAs if the Bulls’ imposing defense wasn’t enough to have the Eagles cowering in their nest, USF’s high-powered offense isn’t one to overlook.\n\nThe Bulls rank second in the AAC in goals scored with senior Olivia Chance and junior Leticia Skeete both ranking in the top 10.\n\nThe Bulls’ reward? A home matchup with Florida Gulf Coast (13-5-2, 3-4-1 on the road) on Saturday afternoon inside what has come to be one of the hardest venues for opponents to crawl out with a win.\n\n“We’re excited for our home game,” USF coach Denise Schilte-Brown said in a press release. “It’s a great draw for us. They’re a tough opponent, but we’re just going to take this one game at a time.”\n\nThis is the third time in program history USF has boasted an unblemished record at home — the second in two years.\n\nUSF’s only other undefeated season at home came in 1998 when the Bulls went 10-0 under former coach Logan Fleck, losing only one regular season game.\n\nUSF dominated at home showing little mercy, but also proved it was just as lethal on the road, recording only four losses.\n\nComing into the season, Schilte-Brown said she felt her team had the maturity to win on the road.\n\nAfter a three-game road trip in Dallas — USF lost in PKs in the AAC tournament finals — the Bulls will return to the cozy confines of Corbett where they look to rewrite their recent postseason history against the Eagles.\n\nThis will be USF’s third NCAA tournament bid and the Bulls look to surge past the first round for only the second time — USF beat Auburn 3-1 in 2010.\n\nWhen the game kicks off at 1 p.m., it will be USF’s third look at FGCU. The last meeting was a year ago inside Corbett where the Bulls emerged victorious, 1-0.\n\nThey will do it again on Saturday." ]

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[ null, "Policy makers and education leaders may not be quite so unified when it comes to decisions having to do with K and higher education, but there too, some progress has been made.\n\nKey leaders in both parties recently stated their intentions to finally reauthorize the Higher Education Act by the end of this year only five years overdue. Same for her relentless push for school choice at any cost.", null, "\nFranklin was nothing if not a determined free thinker, only limited by his own fortitude and imagination. Nurturing that kind of social and emotional awareness and confidence in children has taken on harsh new meaning in a post-Columbine, post-Sandy Hook, post-Parkland world. Although keeping students physically safe is far and away the top priority for school leaders, there is also a growing consensus that schools need to consider the social and emotional needs of students as well.\n\nThe last two decades saw an intense and single-minded obsession with academics and test scores that would have no doubt have alienated a student as creative and independent as young Ben Franklin. Today, education and child development experts are focused on a broader set of outcomes for children. In addition to high-quality learning opportunities, children also need time, love, support, and some semblance of personal freedom if they are to grow and develop into capable, productive citizens. The idea that rigorous academics alone can somehow compensate for the many things a child needs to develop has never made sense to me.\n\nThat argument was at the heart of the effort to evaluate teacher performance using only test scores a policy that has now been rejected by most state and local leaders. When reminiscing about childhood, none of us should ever forget that in 21st-century America, education and the social and emotional well-being of children are inextricably linked, and all of us have a role to play in tending to both.\n\nWashington view: Lessons from Benjamin Franklin. Your email address will not be published.\n\nSave my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Phyllis L. Administrator unsure how to handle teacher complaints about his own son. Joshua P. Today doctors use electric impulses to stimulate muscles and prevent atrophy. Another experiment and perhaps his most famous was drawing electricity from clouds and storing it in the Leyden Jar.\n\nOne of the letters Franklin sent to Peter Collison was on the Sameness of Lightning with Electricity in which he hypothesized that lightning was an electrical discharge. His letter was read to the Royal Society of London. Connoisseurs of the society laughed and ridiculed his findings and thought it was not worth being printed in their Philosophical Transactions.\n\nHowever, a member of that society, Dr.\n\nFothergill considered his ideas of too much value and advised Collison that the paper was worth publishing. It was printed separately from the magazine in a pamphlet with the preface written by Dr. The kite experiment uncovered unknown facts about lighting and electricity. Before Franklin had the chance to conduct his own experiment, two scientists in France, Dalibard and Delor, had tested his hypothesis proving his theories correct.\n\nThey reported to the King of France that the extraordinary American has shown that you can draw electricity from lightning. Franklin was about to become the most famous American in the world. The presentation of his experiments was in the form of correspondence which gives minute details of his experiments.\n\nWhat gave this book its instant celebrity was one of its experiments, drawing electricity from clouds.", null, null, "Related Benjamin Franklin for Kids! - Amazing People of the World" ]