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[ "How to transfer ownership of a Google Places listing, fool proof way!\n\nHow to transfer ownership of a Google Places listing\n\nIf you’re really unlucky you may come into a situation like i did. Get ready for some heart-ache, I spent a good month or more trying to resolve this issue and this is something you will not find a clear answer in Google for, despite how much research you do, so hopefully this article will help others.\n\nWe recently was faced with a situation where one of our clients was starting an SEO campaign and part of the setup process was to open a Google account for them if they never had one for Analytics, Maps, Google Plus, Webmaster tools and other Google apps services. Upon asking the client if they already had a Google account they had no recollection that they ever did and did not have a Gmail account so as figured lets move on and create this client and account.\n\nAs you may know its a very long and drawn out process to get a Google account and all its associated service up and running “correctly”. We were about %80 into the setup and we noticed that when we tried to claim the business which was found in Google maps it was already taken and ownership was with someone else ? What theeeee ?\n\nI asked the client if they were sure they never had or signed up and claimed this listing. They said they never did, so i thought maybe someone they know did. As it happens we were stuck between a rock and a hard place. No access to the “other” Google account which this listing was claimed and we could not claim this business because its already been claimed and owned by someone else. Damn!\n\nThankfully there is an option during the ordeal to ask the “admin” of the other Google account to release and transfer ownership to you. However this is a very automated process the most you can do is get Google to send them an email to release the listing for you to claim or accept the transfer to you. It is not very intuitive, no surprise anything Google related when it comes to a problem is very annoying and generally gets under everybody’s skin.\n\nIn this situation the most we could do is ask the owner to accept a transfer of ownership. It also states that Google will look into the problem. They do not give you a time frame or what the next steps will be. We hit a brick wall.\n\nIt has been about a month and a bit. I just received an email notification from Google that after reviewing the account they have decided to release the ownership and we could gladly go ahead and claim ownership again. Yippee!", null, "I almost lost faith in Google as i thought it would be a dead end to transfer ownership of a Google places listing, but they delivered the goods, despite it taking over a month.\n\nIn conclusion if you run into this problem where you simply do not have access to the Google account that the Google places listing is associated with, ask to Google to transfer ownership of a Google places listing. In some cases if there actually is a person associated with the account they will transfer it, but if all else fails Google will (should) get back to you and release the listing as they for us.\n\nThis above process can be daunting if you have not faced it before, so if you do happen to come across this and need to transfer ownership of a Google Places listing, leave us a comment below or send us a support request and don’t forget to share this article by using one or more of the social icons below 🙂" ]

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[ "The Media’s Role in Advancing Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies", null, "On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day 2017, the Permanent Mission of Greece to the UN and the UNESCO Geneva Liaison Office organised a panel discussion on ‘The media’s role in advancing peaceful, just and inclusive societies’. The session was opened by moderator Alessandra Vellucci, Director of the UN Information Service in Geneva, who introduced the topic and speakers, as well as this year’s theme: Critical minds for critical times.\n\nAfter a short video message from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Mr Abdulaziz Almuzaini, Director of the UNESCO Geneva Liaison Office, and H.E. Ms Anna Korka, Ambassador of Greece to the UN in Geneva, provided their opening remarks. They both highlighted today’s pressure on press freedom, and the disruptive role of digital technologies. Amuzaini quoted UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova’s message on the occasion of WPFD 2017:\n\n‘Facing a crisis of audience identity, journalism stands before a horizon where old challenges are merging with new threats. The media business is being shaken to the core with the rise of digital networks and social media…Online, the lines are blurring between advertising and editorial material, and we see private actors rising as key intermediaries, accompanied by new forms of ‘private censorship’. These challenges merge with deeper transformations affecting societies. The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2016 is ‘post-truth’. Combined with the concept of ‘fake news’, questions are rising that go to the heart of free, independent and professional journalism.’\n\nKeynote speaker Ms Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, pointed out that apart from digital technologies’ transformative effects, there are also continuities, claiming that ‘neither technological advance nor market forces alter the fact that there is, and there always will be, an intricate relationship between press freedom, freedom of expression, accountability, social justice, and human dignity’.\n\nA second keynote speech was given by Mr Stelios Kouloglou, former journalist and current Member of the European Parliament, who outlined the main reasons why media freedom is under threat more than ever – even though there is an abundance of news in the digital age:\n\nNext, the panelists reflected on the topic. First, H.E. Sabine Böhlke-Möller, Ambassador of Namibia to the UN in Geneva, spoke about the establishment of the Windhoek Declaration and policies to promote press freedom in her country. Press freedom in Africa was further addressed by Mr Alain Modoux, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for freedom of expression, democracy and peace, who had to recognise that the Windhoek Declarations’ demands are ‘far from being fulfilled’ and that the ‘freedom wind blowing from Windhoek has lost much of this force’, as the media landscape has become polluted by misinformation disseminated by social networks and search engines, without editorial control. H.E. Mr Thomas Hajnoczi, Ambassador of Austria to the UN in Geneva, echoed this message and identified a gap between the resolution and its implementation. Mr Guy Mettan, Executive Director of the Geneva Press Club, spoke about conflict journalism, and in particular the challenges of underreporting vs. overcoverage and forced moral categories (good vs. bad), pleading for neutral and balanced reporting. Ms Gabriela Sotomayor, UN Correspondent for REFORMA Newspaper, closed the panel discussion by highlighting the threats and violence against journalists in Mexico, arguing that on WPFD 2017, we have ‘nothing to celebrate’.\n\nFinally, Vellucci summarised the discussion with a number of potential solutions to the challenge of preserving press freedom. At the national level, the state has to protect the freedom of the press and freedom of expression. At the international level, there could be an emerging discussion on a ‘global fund for press freedom’, an ‘international court’, or using the Universal Periodic Review as a forum to scrutinise press freedom in each country in a systematic way." ]

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[ null, "On the occasion he noted\n\n\"That is not on the agenda of the coalition and the NATO allies. The United States has a limited number of special forces. In the foreground, however, is strengthening local forces. This is not easy, but it's the only option.\"\n\nStoltenberg added that the conflict was not a war between the West and the Islamic world, but rather against \"extremism and terrorism.\"\n\n\"Muslims are on the front line in this war. Most victims are Muslims, and most of those who fight against the IS are Muslims. We can not carry on this struggle for them,\" he said." ]

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[ null, "The total cryptocurrency market capitalization dropped 8.1% in the past two days after failing to break the $880 billion resistance on Dec. 14.\n\nThe rejection did not invalidate the 4-week-long ascending channel, but a weekly close below $825 billion will confirm a shift to the lower band and reduce the support level to $790 billion.\n\nThe overall investor sentiment toward the market remains bearish, and year-to-date losses amount to 66%. Despite this, Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped a mere 2% on the week, down to the $16,800 level at 17:00 UTC on Dec. 16.\n\nA far different scenario emerged for altcoins which are being pressured by pending regulation and fears that major exchanges and miners could be insolvent . This explains why the total market capitalization had dropped by 4.7% since Dec. 9.\n\nAccording to court documents filed on Dec. 15, a United States Trustee announced the committee responsible for part of FTX’s bankruptcy proceedings. Among those is Wintermute Asia, a leading market maker and GGC International, an affiliate of the troubled lending platform Genesis. Investors remain in the dark about who the biggest creditors from the failed FTX exchange group are and this is fueling speculation that contagion could continue to spread.\n\nOn Dec. 15, The central bank of the Netherlands issued a warning to investors using KuCoin, saying the exchange was operating without legal registration. De Nederlandsche Bank added that the crypto firm was “illegally offering services” and “illegally offering custodian wallets” for users.\n\nAdding to the drama, on Dec. 16, Mazars Group, a company known for its proof-of-reserve audit services for crypto companies, reportedly removed recent documents that detail exchange audits from its website. The firm was previously appointed as an official auditor for Binance’s proof-of-reserve updates, a movement that was followed by Kucoin and Crypto.com.\n\nThe Bitcoin mining sector has also suffered due to the strong correction in cryptocurrency prices and rising energy costs. Publicly-listed miner Core Scientific was offered a $72 million contingent emergency credit line to avoid bankruptcy. The financial lender requires suspension of all payments to Core Scientific’s equipment lenders while Bitcoin remains below $18,500.\n\nThe 4.7% weekly drop in total market capitalization was impacted mainly by Ether’s (ETH) 5.4% negative price move and BNB, which traded down 15.1%. Consequently, the bearish sentiment significantly impacted altcoins, with 14 of the top 80 coins dropping 12% or more in the period.\n\nBitcoin SV (BSV) rallied 11.7% after Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto and leader of the altcoin project, appealed to his loss in Norway courts.\n\nLeverage demand is balanced between bulls and bears\n\nCurrently, data shows demand for leverage is split between bulls and bears.\n\nThe 7-day funding rate was near zero for Bitcoin and altcoins, meaning the data points to a balanced demand between leverage longs (buyers) and shorts (sellers) in the period.\n\nTraders should also analyze the options markets to understand whether whales and arbitrage desks have placed higher bets on bullish or bearish strategies.\n\nTraders can gauge the market’s overall sentiment by measuring whether more activity is going through call (buy) options or put (sell) options. Generally speaking, call options are used for bullish strategies, whereas put options are for bearish ones.\n\nA 0.70 put-to-call ratio indicates that put options open interest lag the more bullish calls by 30% and this is bullish. In contrast, a 1.40 indicator favors put options by 40%, which can be deemed bearish.\n\nEven though Bitcoin’s price failed to break the $18,000 resistance on Dec. 14, there was no excessive demand for downside protection using options. More precisely, the indicator has been below 1.00, so slightly optimistic, since Dec. 12.\n\nPresently, the put-to-call volume ratio stands near 0.88 because the options market is more strongly populated by neutral-to-bullish strategies which favors call (buy) options by 12%.\n\nDerivatives markets are neutral, but the newsflow is negative\n\nDespite the substantial weekly price decline in a handful of altcoins and the 4.7% drop in total market capitalization, derivatives metrics reflect no signs of panic.\n\nThere has been a balanced demand for longs and shorts using futures contracts. As a result, the BTC options risk assessment metric remains favorable even after Bitcoin’s 8.5% correction following the $18,370 high on Dec. 14.\n\nUltimately, bulls should not expect the $825 billion market capitalization to hold, which does not necessarily mean an immediate retest of the $790 billion support.\n\nCurrently, the lower band of the ascending channel continues to exert upward pressure, but the newsflow looks favorable for bears.\n\nThe views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the authors’ alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph." ]

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[ null, "It comes hot on the heels of his new three-year contract with the Renault-owned team, and a change of chassis after notably struggling in recent races.\n\n\"I'm so happy for Esteban,\" Alpine team advisor Prost told Canal Plus. \"He has had some very, very difficult weeks.\n\n\"But when you finally win a grand prix, you move into a different dimension. He knows that you can start eighth and win a race. Every time he starts a race now, he's going to think about that.\n\n\"It puts in him in a different status at the team level. It will stabilise everyone,\" the 66-year-old former quadruple world champion and Frenchman added.\n\nProst said one major effect of 24-year-old Ocon's win is that it will silence the doubters who thought Alpine could have signed a better driver for 2022 and beyond.\n\n\"There were a lot of small criticisms when he signed his contract for three years, so this will stabilise everyone,\" said the Frenchman.\n\n\"Also with Fernando, we're going to have a duo that will complement each other more and more, so it's really very positive.\"\n\nIndeed, despite Fernando Alonso's reputation in some quarters for being selfish and arrogant, Prost said the newly 40-year-old played a crucial role in Ocon's win.\n\n\"Today, the symbol on one hand is Esteban's victory, and on the other the incredible self-sacrifice by Fernando and the whole team, because the last weeks were not easy.\"\n\nNew championship leader Lewis Hamilton may have actually won the Hungarian GP had Alonso not fought his old title nemesis so hard on track.\n\n\"Fernando gave me hell out there,\" Hamilton admitted afterwards. \"It was awesome racing - pretty on the edge at least once but still great racing.\"\n\nEven Ocon thanked the Spaniard, declaring that together they are becoming \"a real shock duo\".\n\n\"Everybody told me a lot of bad things about Fernando before I came but it was all wrong,\" he said. \"I can tell you he is a fantastic guy inside the team.\n\n\"I want to say a special thanks to him, because the way he fought like a lion in that race probably contributed to giving us a bit of a breather,\" Ocon added.\n\n\"We have to be honest - we all had little fears when we signed him, and today he proves to us that he is doing a season with an absolutely incredible mentality. He really does whatever it takes for the team,\" he said.\n\n\"Of course, in the car, he knew what to do to help Esteban stay ahead, and that's pretty amazing.\"\n\nAs for Alpine more generally, Prost said the opportunity presented by Sunday's tumultuous race gives the Enstone based team a major boost for the future.\n\n\"When we see the pitstops - 2.3 seconds for both cars - we have hardly ever done that. We were never exceptional,\" he said.\n\n\"It means that when we are in front, performing, the whole team is galvanised and we do a better job. It's a truly magical day.\"", null, "Verstappen says electric road cars are not his style", null ]

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[ null, "My husband was working in a private company. Then he switched to metallurgical division in another concern. He started travelling by local train to the company. Slowly he began to show some signs of asthma and breathing difficulties. Once in every month he was affected by this ailment. He was administered antibiotic medicines and given cough syrups. He was also advised by doctors to use medicine filled inhalers during acute asthma. His health deteriorated due to frequent chest congestion and breathing trouble.\n\nHe had to be admitted in the hospital once in two months. Though he started using Ayurvedic and Homeopathy medicines, he couldn’t find relief. Once, he got high fever with acute breathing problem. He was hospitalised and had undergone intense treatment. He lost appetite too. Finally, he succumbed to his illness after two weeks.\n\nMy physical condition became worse. I started losing weight. Was finding it difficult to sleep. I was getting choked up when I tried to speak to anyone. No words from relatives, friends and elders gave me solace. I lost interest in everything. No television shows, films, outing and visiting restaurants caught my attention.\n\nHis body had been kept in the mortuary for one day. Next day morning his body was taken to the crematorium. Our children were beside him and performed the last rites. Neither I saw the cremation hall nor cremation. When we came home it was past two, afternoon. Some of our relatives and friends cooked lunch and sent it to us. We couldn’t sleep in the previous night and had no food till that time. Hence, we ate a good amount of food. All of us slept till six in the evening and had tea. I was half asleep at that time. Old memories began rolling into the mind causing intense pain. Somehow I couldn’t believe that he is not alive. I was feeling terrible, not knowing what to do. This state continued for about six months precisely.\n\nWhen he was alive, my thoughts were not woven around his memories. We used to talk on the face and when angry, silence prevailed between us. Just three months after our marriage, we planned to go to a shopping town to buy some household items. He had told me that he would be waiting down, near the opposite building, pointing his finger towards the exact location. I agreed. When I went there, he was not to be seen. I was nonplussed. Got a bit worried too. Then I could see him coming towards me a little far away from the road . He smiled at me as if he had tricked me. I turned away my face from him as I was boiling with anger. When he called me to walk with him, I just followed him without breaking the ice. Now, this very thought makes me gloomy, melancholic and helpless.\n\nWe had very few occasions to be away from each other. Once he had gone to his hometown for two weeks. But he came back only after twenty days. As soon as he entered home, he embraced me. But I took away his hands with force and ran to the kitchen. He had felt very bad. I had told him that I didn’t feel hungry, Both of us skipped lunch that day. In the evening, he bought a big red rose and put it artistically, in the flower vase before me on the table. I had never dreamt that he was romantic too. I brought a glass of hot tea and some sweets in a plate which I made. He patted on my back, we smiled and shared tea and the sweets.\n\nI used to pray a lot and visited nearby temples. Sometimes, I just sat near the window looking outside hoping for him to come home, in vain. In the middle of a day of eleventh year June, I had gone into a mood of trance. I felt that an unknown power was engulfing me. At once, a familiar hand touched me at the back. I turned around. Couldn’t see anyone around, to my dismay. I could see clearly, my husband standing in front of me. He lifted my chin with his right hand. I got a bit confused, thinking whether it was real or a dream. I stretched my hands to hold and touch him so that I could make sure of myself. Got startled, when I touched his face and arms. When he began to talk , words came out from his mouth as a whisper.\n\nI was eager to put a bundle of questions before him in a single breath, like …”Where were you, all these years? Where had you gone, leaving me here ? If you had thought of me, you would have come back soon. You didn’t do it. Why ? ” Slowly he came back to normal. “Cool down, he said. ” I was not well, you know. I wanted a change of atmosphere. I had gone to my hometown. There, my elder brother took me to an Ayurvedic doctor who was staying in an Ashram, giving treatment to the patients. The doctor wanted me to stay there and take treatment and I accepted it.”\n\nHe had turned to be my spiritual guide too. He is a very knowledgeable person. He gave discourses about Mahabharata, Bhagavad-Gita, Ramayana, Upanishads for an hour each in the morning and evening. He used to chant devotional songs beautifully. He had narrated bible stories, fables, Panchatantra and great words of the Quran. We walked around the Ashram, looking at the trees, shrubs and herbs, and listening to the music of birds in the early morning hours. When the sun was about to rise, doctor and the inmates of ashram walked towards the stream to have bath, enjoying the crimson coloured rising sun’s reflection in the water. I used to enjoy those things and forgot everything else.”", null ]

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[ "2014 Sony Open: Andy Murray moves through the gears in Miami", null, "Andy Murray overcame a sluggish start to book his place in round three of the Sony Open in Miami and set up a meeting with in-form Spaniard Feliciano Lopez.\n\nThe defending champion, playing in his first match since splitting from coach Ivan Lendl, quickly found himself 3-0 down before eventually moving through the gears nicely to beat world number 67 Matthew Ebden\n\nThe British number one was unable to convert several break point opportunities after Ebden broke his serve in the second game of the match and the Australian went on to hold his nerve to take the opening set 6-3.\n\nBut the Scotsman turned the game around decisively, winning 12 out of 13 games to kick-start his title defence with a 3-6 6-0 6-1 win.\n\nMurray broke his opponent at the start of the second set and didn’t look back, although he faced two break points in the very next game after sending a forehand long, but saved both.\n\nThe Wimbledon champion benefited from a more aggressive approach as he took balls from well inside the baseline and clinched the set without dropping a game when a net-cord went his way on set point.\n\nHe was broken in the opening game of the decider but responded by winning the next four and as Ebden ran out of steam, a second serve lodged sorrowfully in the net to gift Murray two break points.\n\nHe converted the first into a 5-1 lead and served out, taking his second match point as Ebden’s return sailed long.\n\n“You do what you do to win a match,” said Murray afterwards. “It’s not always about how you play or how calm you are on the court, it’s about winning the tennis match. That’s what matters.”\n\nMurray next faces Lopez – an opponent he knows well having beaten him on all eight occasions they have met including five matches on outdoor hard courts.\n\nMurray has not lost to a left-handed opponent in well over a year and is the 1.20 favourite to progress in Miami with Lopez 4.57 to upset the Scot." ]

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[ null, "Just doing business – creating jobs, pouring taxes into the fiscus and pulling in foreign earnings – is the primary contribution corporates make to South Africa, but billions of rands more are invested across the country every year through a distinctive home-grown system of social investment forged in the mining industry.\n\nJust doing business – creating jobs, pouring taxes into the fiscus and pulling in foreign earnings – is the primary contribution corporates make to South Africa, but billions of rands more are invested across the country every year through a distinctive home-grown system of social investment forged in the mining industry.\n\nIt is a brand of community development that has become an export in its own right, too.\n\nAt a time when South Africa’s mining industry is pinning its hopes on a more constructive Ramaphosa-era engagement with the government on charting the way forward to enable the sector to boost economic growth, job creation and the country’s global competitiveness, mining’s role in forging multi-billion rand corporate social investment is a significant indicator of its potential well beyond its daily operations.\n\nWhereas the drivers for business social responsibility in places like the US and Europe coalesce around brand positioning, attractiveness of companies to young employees especially, and consumer buying habits, the drivers in South Africa are different.\n\nHere, it is less about sometimes ephemeral things like brand positioning, or global environmental issues, and more about human circumstances in conditions of widespread poverty and lack of opportunity in a fractured body politic.\n\nCorporate social investment (CSI) is an often-misunderstood function of South Africa’s larger companies. It has a particular character, shaped by its origins in our mining sector, and it includes a large, varied set of community development interventions across the broader economy, a unique form of corporate citizenship.\n\nWhereas corporate social responsibility encompasses everything from employee housing to business-linked bursaries (along with, among other things, skills development programmes, community social and labour plans, industry transformation charters, broad-based black economic empowerment codes of conduct, and the King Committee codes), CSI is mostly voluntary, and is external to the company’s direct business interests and product marketing.\n\nTypically, CSI aims at uplifting communities in such a way that the quality of life is generally improved and safeguarded.\n\nAccording to social investment analysts Trialogue, R9,1bn was spent in CSI during 2017, up in nominal terms from the R1.bn spent 20 years earlier. For most companies undertaking CSI, the amounts they invest in CSI are linked to a percentage of their net profit after tax, usually 1%. That has meant an overall flattening and slight decline in real term CSI expenditure in the last three years, a factor of SA’s sluggish economic performance.\n\nFormal CSI is often entrusted to in-house developmental specialists, with 55% of companies also using outside consultants. Most companies undertaking CSI have done so for 10 years or more (79%), and a third for more than 25 years.\n\nCompanies in mining and quarrying are the largest social investors, responsible for one-in-three CSI rands, and it’s no surprise that the way CSI is carried out across the private sector has its roots, in form and type, deep in SA mining.\n\nIts origins can be traced to the second annual report of De Beers in 1889 in which chairman Cecil John Rhodes made a case for the company’s philanthropic responsibilities. This was elaborated in the 1919 interventions of the two-year-old Anglo American to combat the Spanish flu epidemic.\n\nThis work has been much developed and expanded since by social investors across the formal sector and beyond. while globalisation has seen these taken by SA companies across the world" ]

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[ "The Rabbi of hate", null, "\"““So I believe that I act in the spirit of the Almighty God. By defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1924\n\n““A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail” Dov Lior, Rabbi of Kiryat Arba\n\n“We will carry out a greater holocaust against the Palestinians,” Matan Vilnai, Deputy Defense Minister, 1 March, 2008\n\nOvadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of the ultra-orthodox Shas party, which represents Jews from the Middle East, has urged Jews around the world to pray for Israeli soldiers, not only on the Jewish Sabbath, Saturday, but also on Mondays and Thursdays.\n\nAccording to the Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, Yosef told his followers that Israeli soldiers need to be blessed by the Almighty for killing and maiming hundreds of Palestinians, mostly innocent civilians, in the past few days.\n\n“Had it not been for them, would we have time to study the Torah? To turn the books,” Yosef was quoted as saying Saturday night during his weekly sermon in Jerusalem.\n\nIt is really lamentable that Yosef thinks that it is only through murder and genocide of Palestinians that Jews can sit down and study the Torah......\n\nYosef is not unaware of the Nazi-like atrocities the soldiers he is blessing have committed and are committing in Gaza.\n\nHe knows too well that an army that murders innocent civilians, including babies in their mothers’ laps, is not an army of righteous soldiers, but rather an army of thugs and criminals, not unlike the Gestapo and SS and wehrmacht....." ]

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[ null, "After their housing association demanded they replace their native lawn with grass, a Maryland couple sued — and changed state law\n\nWith butterfly, bee, insect, and other wildlife populations plummeting as a result of human activity, cities and homeowners are turning to “naturescapes” to help them survive and thrive. Maryland residents Janet and Jeff Crouch are among them, and had a thriving wildlife garden in the front yard of their home.\n\nIn 2017, following numerous complaints from their neighbor, they received a letter from their housing association giving them 10 days to rip the garden out and replace it with a standard grass lawn. The letter said their yard was “not the place for such a habitat” and was not only against bylaws but an eyesore hurting property values.\n\nInstead of ripping it out, the Crouches fought back and ended up changing the entire state law — now, homeowners associations can no longer force any Maryland residents to have lawns.\n\nIndigenous communities have always been at the forefront of tackling the climate crisis, but their warnings have too often been met with empty promises. So, they organized.\n\nThe Global Alliance of Territorial Communities is a political platform of Indigenous and local communities representing 35 million people from 24 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America — defending over 958 million hectares of land spanning most of the world’s endangered tropical forests.\n\nRather than selling the company or taking it public, this year Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard announced that he and his family were transferring ownership of Patagonia, valued at about $3 billion, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit.\n\nBoth were created to preserve the company’s independence and ensure that all of its profits — some $100 million a year — are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land around the globe.\n\nAfter losing their son in the Parkland high school shooting, these Helpers started a nonprofit to fight the NRA’s influence on gun safety policy\n\nIn 2018, Manuel and Patricia Oliver lost their son, Joaquin, in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.\n\nIn their healing process, the couple started a nonprofit called Change the Ref (CTR), with the mission of increasing awareness of mass shootings and reducing the public influence of America’s largest gun lobby group, the National Rifle Association.\n\nOver the years, CTR has worked to empower young leaders by using urban art and nonviolent creative confrontation to expose the effects of mass shootings in America and demand stricter gun laws.‍\n\nYou might recognize writer, producer, actress, and comedian Quinta Brunson from the breakout ABC comedy “Abbott Elementary,” in which she’s the creator, executive producer, writer, and star. The series is inspired by her mother’s teaching career at an under-resourced elementary school and earned Brunson several historic Emmy nominations.\n\nMost recently, Brunson used her platform at the annual TIME 100 Most Influential People of 2022 gala to call out politicians and advocate for higher teacher salaries. She also dedicates a portion of the show’s marketing budget to helping underfunded teachers.\n\nCarey Arensberg (@mrsarensberg4th on TikTok) is a fifth-grade teacher from Mobile, Alabama known around her community and online for her classroom’s “Care Closet.” The closet is a resource available to students who are in need of essential items like dinner boxes, hygienic products, and extra uniforms — even if it’s for another sibling or family member.\n\nShe’s part of a vibrant educator creator community on TikTok, and Arensberg’s videos have both inspired others to install their own Care Closets, and provide her over 400,000 followers with social-emotional learning and trauma-informed practices.\n\nA 19-year-old activist and political strategist in Texas is using social media to raise awareness, fundraise, and fight for equality\n\nOlivia Julianna is a 19-year-old Houston advocate who is a political strategist for the youth-led nonprofit Gen Z For Change, which uses social media to raise awareness, fundraise for causes — and take problematic politicians down a peg. And she’s good at her job.\n\nIn the summer of 2022, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz made fatphobic, misogynistic comments about Olivia in an attempt to degrade her and her ongoing advocacy for abortion rights. Instead of letting it get to her, she used it as fuel to fundraise for abortion funds across the country via social media.\n\nDonations came flooding in from social media, starting with $50,000 in the first 12 hours of the initiative. The number hit $2.2 million within a week.‍\n\n→ More Helpers using media and entertainment to make a difference and ways you can take action, too\n\nDylan Mulvaney is a trans actress, comedian, and content creator who is best known for her TikTok series “Days of Girlhood,” where she highlights her transgender journey every day.\n\nThroughout 2022, Mulvaney delighted her over 8 million followers (including Lady Gaga) with queer joy and exciting milestones: Makeup routines, surgery consultations, adding tampons to her purse to give to other women, and more. Perhaps most importantly, though, she’s made the Internet — and the world — feel like a safer place for other trans people.\n\nKai Shappley is an 11-year-old transgender activist in Texas, a trailblazer at the heart of one of the most anti-LGBTQ+ states in America. In April 2021, she testified before the state legislature and helped defeat a bill that would have banned gender-affirming medical care for minors — and 50 others that year.\n\nThen this year, when Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state officials to investigate any reported instances of parents providing gender-affirming medical care to minors, she continued to fight.\n\nWhether wildfires in Australia or COVID-19, Chef José Andrés and his nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCK) mobilize as immediately as any other first responder in the face of a crisis.\n\nThis past February, within 24 hours of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Andrés and the WCK team had pots and pans on the ground in Ukraine, serving free hot meals to refugees.\n\nSince then, WCK — including hundreds of restaurants and thousands of chefs — has served over 150 million meals all over the country to anyone in need.\n\n→ More Helpers making a difference for Ukraine and how you can help, too\n\nJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson made history as the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court\n\nFor 232 years, no African American woman had served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Then, in June 2022 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in, becoming the 116th Supreme Court Justice and the first Black woman to hold the position.\n\nTo add to her historic confirmation, Jackson is also the first-ever Supreme Court justice to have served as a public defender and marks a moment of long-overdue progress for representation in the judicial branch.​​​​​​​​\n\n→ More Helpers making a difference in government, equality, and justice, and how you can take action, too\n\nIndividuals and nonprofit organizations are coming together to support immigrant communities\n\nThe number of migrant arrivals reported along the U.S.-Mexico border surpassed 2 million in August. This year alone we’ve witnessed the horrific deaths of 46 migrants in an abandoned tractor-trailer outside of San Antonio, moving thousands from border states to northern cities, and more than 600,000 young individuals at risk of deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.\n\n→ More Helpers making a difference in government, equality, and justice, and how you can take action, too\n\nIn 2022, two more people were cured of HIV (out of five total in history). While a universal cure is yet to be discovered, scientists have made progress and found success in specific cases.\n\nThese are in addition to the incredible news of three new mRNA HIV vaccines now undergoing clinical trials.\n\nLed primarily by solar, China is transitioning to renewable energy faster than any other country. Its shift away from coal will also help reduce air pollution in its smog-clogged cities, benefiting public health as well as the environment.\n\nGlobally, the world will deploy as much renewable energy in the next five years as it did in the last two decades. The International Energy Agency says two major drivers for global renewable energy adoption are low prices and security.\n\nNew Jersey’s last power plant was just demolished and a large-scale energy storage facility will take its place. New Jersey has one of the most aggressive policy targets in place for energy storage and a goal to reach zero emissions by 2050.\n\nLed by women and young people, activism is helping make real progress in the fight for gun safety legislation. Everytown for Gun Safety, started by Shannon Watts, alone has 10 million supporters — almost double that of the NRA.\n\nA voluntary gun law in Utah, Virginia, and Washington is helping prevent suicides. In 2017, 60% of gun-related deaths in America were suicides, and this law allows people to ban themselves from impulsively buying a gun.\n\nThousands of students in Seattle held a walkout to protest gun violence. After an incident of gun violence at a local school, students from across the city walked out of school and met at City Hall to demand action.\n\nA Wisconsin chef changed the name of his restaurant to honor his son's transition. “My kiddo doesn’t go by the name that’s on the restaurant anymore,” Chef Dave Heide posted in announcing the opening of “Ollie’s Madison.”\n\nThe 2022 \"Survivor\" winner is donating his entire 1 million prize to help veterans. Mike Gabler announced he would donate the money in honor of his father to veterans “recovering from psychiatric problems, PTSD and curb the suicide epidemic.”\n\nRapper Yung Gravy gave a total of 1,900 bras collected during his concerts to people in need. As part of his “Save the Nip” campaign, the bras went to I Support The Girls, a nonprofit that donates bras, undies, and menstrual hygiene products to people in need.\n\nDozens of countries and international organizations have pledged millions of dollars to help Ukrainians make it through winter. The donors gathered at a conference in Paris to support keeping Ukrainians powered, fed, warm, and safe.\n\nAs part of a U.K. government initiative to get more people out of cars, companies are helping employees commute more sustainably. Since it was rolled out in 1999, over 1.6 million commuters have taken advantage of the initiative.\n\nNew York became the tenth state to ban all sales of cosmetics that use animal testing. They join states like California, Louisiana, Hawaii, Nevada, and Illinois to end the unnecessary practice.\n\nFor the past nine years, thousands of people from all over the world have sent Christmas cards to a grieving widow. The first year, he got about 30 cards from people — this year, 12,000 cards came from people wanting to help him “get through the holiday.”\n\nSharing her individualized housekeeping methods, a TikTok creator is helping remove “morality” from homemaking. Her work really took off after KC Davis responded to a commenter about how cleaning is “morally neutral.”\n\nAn American entrepreneur helped restore Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park after decades of war. Greg Carr was invited by the country’s president in 2008 and took the park from five or six lions to around 200 now.", null ]

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[ null, "Toyota announces its official entry to the 2022 Dakar Rally. Named the GR DKR Hilux T1+, the off-road racer has now completed its prototype stage. It will continue its development until the prestigious off-road motorsports event, set to happen on January 2 in Saudi Arabia.", null, null, null, null, null, null, "The V35A V6 is said to be lighter and torquier than the previous Hilux rally racer, though Toyota noted that the overall weight of the truck has been increased to 4,409 pounds (2,000 kilograms), in line with new motorsport regulations.\n\nToyota also bared some details about the revamped Dakar racer. Suspension travel is increased from 280 to 350mm while getting a bigger and wider set of BF Goodrich tires wrapped around a set of aluminum wheels.\n\nToyota will continue the development of the GR DKR Hilux T1+, with the final test happening in South Africa before getting shipped to Saudi Arabia early in December." ]

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[ null, "Logano’s win in the Phoenix Raceway season finale gave him a second sequence championship, after his 2018 success additionally with Penske.\n\nThe 32-year-old’s success meant Group Penske now has three Cup Sequence titles, however its newest success was significantly candy because it made Penske the primary crew proprietor to win the NASCAR and IndyCar championships in the identical season.\n\nWill Energy gained his second and the Penske organisation’s 17th IndyCar title in September, heading team-mate Josef Newgarden by 16 factors.\n\n“Joey did a fantastic job. You’ve seen what he’s been capable of do as he’s come on the crew, and for us to have two championships in the identical yr, that’s what we’re right here for. That’s the aim we’ve got yearly.\n\n“I feel we’ve been shut, however we bought it this yr.”\n\nA yr to recollect\n\nIt was a powerful season within the Cup Sequence for Penske.\n\nLogano opened the yr by successful the preseason non-points Busch Gentle Conflict within the Los Angeles Coliseum and rookie Austin Cindric adopted that with a victory within the season-opening Daytona 500.", null, "All three of Penske’s Cup drivers certified for the playoffs, though Logano was the one one to advance to the Championship four. The trio mixed for 5 wins on the yr.\n\n“Effectively, I hate to say one is best than the opposite, however I’d must say put all of them collectively, they’re all first-place so far as I’m involved,” Penske mentioned.\n\n“What it does as a crew, the momentum it provides not solely the race crew however the 70,000 individuals which are in our firm as a result of they’re all watching.\n\n“We don’t win day-after-day, can we, but it surely teaches us easy methods to win and easy methods to keep within the recreation, and I feel that’s what it’s executed. However actually three tremendous days, tremendous accomplishments for the crew.\n\n“I can’t say one is best than the opposite. I’m simply glad to be right here.”" ]

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[ "Tusk reiterated his support for inviting North Macedonia to join the EU during a visit to Skopje, following a meeting with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. Tusk also praised the country for finding a solution to its long-running name dispute with Greece, by agreeing to be called North Macedonia.\n\nFor years, the country had been known internationally as FYROM, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.\n\nGiven heightened tensions among eastern and western EU countries, particularly over issues like migration and rule-of-law, there has been minimal appetite among many EU leaders for further expanding the bloc. But Bulgaria used its presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2018 to push hard to bring the western Balkans back onto the agenda in Brussels, particularly with an eye toward reviving membership hopes — particularly for North Macedonia and Albania.\n\n“When the EU leaders met in June, three months ago, they committed to deliver a ‘clear and substantive’ decision – in October – on whether to open accession talks with you and your neighbor, Albania,” Tusk said in a joint appearance with Zaev. “I expressed my personal views clearly back in June: Your country, within the last two years, has done everything that was expected of you for the EU to be able to launch the negotiations in line with the European Commission’s recommendation. That continues to be my strong conviction. Your country has done everything.”\n\nTusk, who will complete his second and final term as Council president at the end of November, said he wanted his visit to North Macedonia to showcase his support.\n\n“That is also why I came to North Macedonia today,” he told Zaev. “I wish to make it crystal clear: there is no doubt in Brussels about your political commitment to the rule of law and to fighting corruption. Of course, anybody can at anytime and anywhere do more, especially when it comes to implementation. But we know very well that your government is determined and consistent in this, also as regards the continuation of the work of the Special Prosecutor’s Office.”\n\nGiven the heavy focus in Brussels on the U.K.’s tortured effort to leave the EU, the visit to North Macedonia gave Tusk a chance to recall that there are still countries eager to join the European Union. But he also urged patience and forbearance.\n\n“Allow me one metaphor,” Tusk said. “The EU accession process resembles a marathon more than a 100-meters sprint. And as a dedicated runner, I know what I am talking about. To reach the finish line, continued strength, endurance and focus is needed. And sometimes, I should also say, patience. I have no doubt that North Macedonia possesses more than enough of all these qualities. And everyone should appreciate it.”\n\nHe ended by imploring EU heads of state and government to back his position.\n\n“Skopje is the best possible place where I would like to appeal to the leaders of the European Union: Now you do your share,” Tusk said. “Because North Macedonia has already done its share. “", null ]

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[ null, "watch now\nVIDEO1:5601:56\nWhy this CEO trains his employees to quit\nMy Success Story\n\nWhen Craig Handley hires new employees, he hopes that they will leave.\n\nHe runs ListenTrust, a call center based in Hermosillo, Mexico, and staffs a team of about 1,000.\n\n\"The first day they come into work with us, we tell them that were hiring them and training them to quit,\" he said.\n\n\"None of my employees ever woke up at 10 years old and put on a headset and sat down and pretended they were answering customer service or sales calls,\" he said. \"That wasn't anybody's dream.\"\n\n\"My dreams is to build a world-class call center, it's not theirs.\"\n\nHandley, 46, started ListenTrust about 12 years ago \"in my mother-in-law's basement,\" he said. \"I was poorer than most of these people,\" he said, but \"I built a vision of what I wanted.\"\n\nPassionate about music, Craig Handley (right) is also a songwriter and producer.\n\nLater, he initiated dream trust, a program that helps his mostly Mexican and bilingual-speaking employees identify their own personal and professional goals and then provides the means to achieve them. To that end, the company offers training programs on everything from how to build a website to paying down debt.\n\nHandley modeled the program after Matthew Kelly's book \"The Dream Manager\" and Jon Butcher's motivational \"LifeBook\" sessions, as well as his own experience starting out with nothing.\n\nNow, he encourages every one of his workers to go after their own dreams. ListenTrust budgets about $3,000 a month to the dream trust in addition to keeping a full-time coach on staff to meet with employees and run the program day-to-day.\n\nIndividual goals have varied from opening a checking account to launching a business. Some are as simple as earning enough money to buy a new computer for a son or daughter before the start of school.\n\n\"We've had over 50 dreams already granted, from buying a house to successfully battling addiction,\" Handley said. \"They're all pretty meaningful.\"\n\nGoing forward, Handley said they might increase the budget to sponsor more \"bucket-list\" excursions like skydiving or scuba diving. (Handley himself is an adventure seeker — he swam with great white sharks in South Africa, snowmobiled across a live volcano in Iceland and hiked through the jungles of Malaysia.)\n\nCraig Handley does the 'Ice Bucket Challenge' with his staff.\n\nAs a result, his employees are happier, and turnover has fallen significantly to just 4 percent from around 24 percent, Handley said.\n\n\"We do pay probably better than most companies, but I don't want people coming to us for money. I want them coming because they want to be engaged with what we're doing, they care about the dream trust program and they have dreams of their own.\"\n\nHandley hopes other companies will adopt a similar approach.\n\n\"This impact should ripple and spread,\" he said. \"Every company should support their own employees going after their dreams.\"\n\nHow these ex-NFL stars avoided the pitfalls of being young and rich\nJessica Dickler\nHow relentless emailing helped this 25-year-old snare $300,000 from Mark Cuban\nRon Grover, special to CNBC.com\nThis ex-Googler found the healthiest people in America — and now he's selling them life insurance\nChristina Farr\nRead More" ]

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[ null, "Marek Hamsik has been left out of Napoli's squad to face Fiorentina on Saturday amid reports his move to Dalian Yifang is nearing completion.\n\nHamsik appeared poised to complete a switch to the Chinese Super League outfit earlier this week before Napoli postponed the transfer over an issue related to the structure of the payments for a purported €20million deal.\n\nThose issues appear to have been smoothed over, with Calcio Mercato reporting the Slovakian midfielder has travelled to Madrid to undergo a medical.\n\nIt will mean the end of Hamsik's 12-season association with Napoli, who are second in Serie A – nine points shy of champions Juventus – as they prepare to head to Florence.\n\nHead coach Carlo Ancelotti is able to call upon Vlad Chiriches for the first time since he suffered a knee injury in September, although fellow defender Raul Albiol is unavailable." ]

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[ "There, Schalke finished in third place during the group stage and continuing into the UEFA Cup , where they were eliminated by the eventual winners Sevilla in the semi-finals.\n\nIn —06 , Schalke finished in fourth place in the Bundesliga and a year later they again finished as runners-up for the third time in seven seasons.\n\nIn the —08 season , Schalke progressed past the Champions League group stage for the first time and advanced to the quarter-finals after defeating Porto on penalties in the round of They were eliminated by Barcelona in the quarter-finals, losing both home and away matches 0—1.\n\nOn 9 October , Russian oil company Gazprom became the club's new sponsor. On 13 April , the club announced the dismissal of manager Mirko Slomka after a heavy defeat at the hands of Werder Bremen and elimination from the Champions League.\n\nFormer players Mike Büskens and Youri Mulder were put in charge of the first team on an interim basis. For the —09 Bundesliga season , Schalke signed a new head coach, Fred Rutten , previously of Twente.\n\nRutten signed a contract running until June On 1 July , Felix Magath , who had led VfL Wolfsburg to the top of the table in the Bundesliga, became head coach and general manager of the Königsblauen.\n\nMagath's tenure at the club was initially successful, seeing the side score a glut of goals in the first few months of the season, though defensive frailties and Magath's questionable squad selection had made him unpopular with Schalke supporters by December On 16 March , Magath was sacked and replaced with Ralf Rangnick , who previously, between and , had a brief spell being in charge of the team.\n\nWithin just weeks of his appointment, Rangnick masterminded a 5—2 victory over Inter Milan at the San Siro during the quarter-finals of the Champions League.\n\nSchalke advanced to the semi-final where they lost 2—0 to Manchester United in the first leg and 4—1 in the second leg. On 22 September , Ralf Rangnick announced his immediate resignation as head coach of Schalke 04 due to long-term exhaustion.\n\nStevens' contract was to run until 30 June Despite having legendary status among Schalke supporters, Stevens' return to Schalke was met with some scepticism as fans feared that Stevens, who coached Schalke to the UEFA Cup win with a rigidly defensive system, could abandon Rangnick's system of attacking play in favour of returning to his defensive antics.\n\nAlthough Schalke played a somewhat inconsistent season, they reached third place in the Bundesliga and therefore direct qualification for the UEFA Champions League.\n\nSchalke had an excellent start to the —13 Bundesliga season , and worked their way to second place in the league by November, just behind Bayern Munich.\n\nOn 20 October, Schalke traveled to Borussia Dortmund for matchday 8, and were able to defeat the home side 2—1 to secure their first league Revierderby win since February while securing a Champions League place by finishing in fourth place.\n\nSchalke ultimately finished the group stage in second place, behind Chelsea, and was eliminated in the round of 16 by Real Madrid CF.\n\nIt also led to performance related discussions about head coach Jens Keller. Partially, Schalke fielded up to ten young players with potential who played in the Schalke youth system throughout the season.\n\nAmong the brightest young player discoveries of the —14 season were Max Meyer and Leon Goretzka. The young Schalke squad won 11 out of 17 matches, totalling 36 points.\n\nAt the end of the —14 season, the club finished in third place in the Bundesliga table to qualify for their third-straight UEFA Champions League appearance, a feat Schalke had never before achieved.\n\nOn 7 October , after a 1—2 defeat to Hoffenheim and after amassing just eight points from seven matches, Keller was sacked and succeeded by Roberto Di Matteo.\n\nStarting with the —18 season , Domenico Tedesco took over the managerial spot for Schalke On 29 July , the team's captain, Benedikt Höwedes , decided to leave after more than ten years at the club.\n\nOn 14 March , Tedesco was relieved of his duties. On 9 May , David Wagner was appointed as head coach of Schalke 04 on a three-year contract until 30 June Schalke started with significant difficulties into the —21 season.\n\nAfter 8—0 [32] and 4—0 [33] thrashings away at the hands of Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig and a 1—3 [34] loss at home against Werder Bremen, Schalke was last in the league table after three games, with one goal scored and fifteen conceded.\n\nAfter only two match days, Schalke dismissed David Wagner as head coach on 27 September in the aftermath of the loss against Bremen. Ice hockey events are hosted at the S04 Veltins-Arena.\n\nBiathlon and a variety of winter sport events are hosted at the S04 Veltins-Arena. The headline sponsors of Schalke 04 are the China-based electronics manufacturer Hisense and the Russia-based hydrocarbon giant Gazprom.\n\nPlayers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. In the year , the supporters voted for Schalker Jahrhundertelf , the \"Team of the Century\": [42].\n\nSchalke's stadium, known as the Veltins-Arena under a sponsorship agreement with Veltins brewery, was built in the summer of and has a capacity of 62, spectators.\n\nThe facility was previously known as the Arena AufSchalke and replaced the Parkstadion capacity of 62, built in Prior to this, the club played its matches in the Glückauf-Kampfbahn , constructed in with a capacity of 35, The facility was used for amateur matches during its later years with a reduced capacity of just 5, The number of members of Schalke 04 grew from 10, in to , in Apart from Gelsenkirchen 10, members and its immediate neighboring towns, the members of Schalke 04 also come from more distant cities such as Cologne 1, , Berlin and Dortmund The fan-base of Schalke is connected, in a friendly way, with the supporters of 1.\n\nFC Nürnberg and Dutch club Twente. The friendship with Nürnberg is the oldest connection between two fan-bases in Germany.\n\nBefore a match between both clubs, the official club songs are played. Popular unofficial chants are. The Revierderby is the rivalry between local clubs Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund , both situated in the densely populated Ruhr region.\n\nBecause of the small geographical distances between the clubs roughly 30 kilometers , fans of opposing clubs often meet in everyday life.\n\nThe term may be used in any match between two football clubs of the Ruhr region such as VfL Bochum , Rot-Weiss Essen or MSV Duisburg , but the term is most commonly associated with the rivalry between Schalke and Dortmund due to the derby's popularity and prestige.\n\nTo some fans, the win of the derby itself is more important than the actual performance in the Bundesliga.\n\nActors Uwe Ochsenknecht and Ralf Richter , both of whom were in the award-winning film Das Boot played the main roles, while many persons associated with Schalke had cameo roles, such as manager Rudi Assauer , coaches Huub Stevens and Helmut Schulte, and player Yves Eigenrauch.\n\nThat team achieved some notable successes in the late s and early s. It was five-time Westphalia champion and twice cup winners as well as competing in the German Championship and in the DFB Cup ended up being each in the first round.\n\nFC Schalke 04 later cooperated with 1. The basketball department of FC Schalke 04 played in the —89 season in the National Basketball League Basketball Bundesliga and from for several seasons in the ProA , the second highest basketball league in Germany.\n\nThe athletics department of FC Schalke 04 was founded in Famous members were multiple German champion in sprint such as Erika Rost; and the winner of the silver medal in the decathlon at the Olympic Games , Frank Busemann ; and the European Athletics Junior Championships gold in metres , Sebastian Ernst.\n\nIn the —14 season S04 table tennis department competed in the Westphalia district league. The FC Schalke 04 table tennis department women's team was one of the early participants in the s in the national league, until it was withdrawn in In early June, they debuted in the European League of Legends Championship Series , officially organized by developer Riot Games and the top level of professional League of Legends competition in Europe.", null, null ]

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[ "Undressing The Legend Of “Elvira!”\n\nI saw a photo of Elvira, and decided to find out more about her – and was I ever glad I did!\n\nActress Cassandra Peterson was the horror hostess “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark” – a character she created that blew up on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV.", null, "But Cassandra was much, much more!", null, "Cassandra was born on September 17, 1951, and grew up in Kansas and Colorado, and after graduating high school, Cassandra went to Las Vegas, where she became a showgirl at The Dunes casino.", null, "Cassandra got into the Guinness World Records as the youngest showgirl in the history of Las Vegas. She also played a cameo role in the 1971 James Bond film, “Diamonds Are Forever,” as part of the same show.", null, "In the early 1970s, she moved to Italy, where she met Director Federico Fellini, who gave her a small role in his 1972 film “Roma”.", null, "In 1979, she joined the Los Angeles improv troupe “The Groundlings,” where Elvira was created.\n\nPeterson’s Elvira character wore a tight-fitting, low-cut black gown, and she spoke with the flippant tone of a California “Valley girl.”\n\nThe combination made her a star!", null, "She loved to make jokes about her cleavage, and in an AOL Entertainment News interview, Peterson said:\n\n“I figured out that Elvira is me when I was a teenager. She’s a spastic girl. I just say what I feel and people seem to enjoy it.”", null, null, "Her popularity reached its zenith with the release of the 1988 feature film “Elvira: Mistress of the Dark!”\n\nElvira also made a sequel years later, but she appeared in films as Cassandra Peterson as well:", null, "Cassandra co-starred with Pee Wee in his debut film, and starred in “Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold”, released in 1987, along with Richard Chamberlain and a very young Sharon Stone!", null, null, "Yes, this is Cassandra Peterson BEFORE she was “Elvira!”\n\nDuring the 1970s, before the “Elvira” character was born, Peterson modeled for several men’s magazines, such as High Society, Man’s Delight, and Modern Man.\n\nAfter her “Elvira” success, these pictures were published again to capitalize on her TV success…and they are provocative indeed!", null, "Ultimately, she published books, appeared in movies, TV shows, had video games and home videos all with her as “Elvira”…even pinball machines!", null, "I have to give credit to an incredibly story about her career – with tons of material and insight…check it out on “Flashbak.com” here:\n\nAs you can see, Elvira’s photo shoots were anything but demure…", null, "So how did Elvira feel about these photos? Here is a great quote from her:\n\n“It was easy for me to do nude scenes all the time because I had been a showgirl for a while, and all you wear is G-string. Basically, that’s what I wore in movies. Topless was no problem for me.”\n\nAnd here is more proof!\n\nI applaud Peterson for her honesty – and she’s far from the only movie star to pose for provocative pictures:", null, "That’s right: Linda Blair went from a head-turning performance in “The Exorcist” to turning heads with this adult photo shoot!", null, "Click here to see the whole story, with more photos:", null, "Like Loading...\n‹ A Young Don Johnson Has A Talking Dog And A “Girlfriend” Problem! The Cult Gem “A Boy And His Dog!”\n“Revenge Of The Living Dead Girls!” Severin Films Has This Cult Shocker! ›" ]

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[ null, "After bursting onto the house scene earlier this year with several impressive singles, rising talent Sam Blacky has finally unveiled her first official project – an impressive Summer Solstice EP featuring 5 tracks from the versatile producer. As you’ll hear below, from start to finish the LA artist delivers on some of the most groovy and well-produced house tracks we’ve heard in a while. The EP is a sonic journey you’ll never want to end, and was inspired by Blacky’s travels around the world – an influence that will become apparent as you bounce between these sun-kissed, tropical records. Stream the project via Spotify below and be sure to be on the lookout for Sam Blacky to release more stunning music later this year and beyond." ]

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[ null, "Nick White is the only person who can save Abigail Pierce. After uncovering a plot to have her killed, he attempts to warn her but instead puts himself squarely in the crosshairs. They know who he is, they know where he lives, they know how to get at his family.\n\nDrawn into the conspiracy surrounding Abigail, Nick soon discovers the danger is bigger than he ever believed. Now he must uncover the truth to save her and himself.", null, "Why? Because in all these cases the protagonist is a guy who ends up involved in basically two-bit crimes. He’s not evil, he doesn’t intend to become a career criminal, but he just takes the easy way out one time too often and finds himself on the wrong side of the law and in way over his head.\n\nAlso, in both Dismantling and Ruthless, the poor schlub is misled by a woman who he wants to believe is basically innocent, and turns out to be anything but.\n\nRuthless also takes a surprising turn into lab-based science fiction, but we’ll get there in a minute.\n\nAt the beginning of the story, Nick White is at his regular bar, talking to his regular bartender and feeling regularly sorry for himself. His wife is over him because he keeps gambling, and often losing. Even worse, he gambled away their savings – and her trust. It’s not clear whether Nick is addicted to gambling, or if he’s just good enough at it that he generally walks away ahead – just not ahead enough.\n\nHis life is basically on the skids when he decides to play a prank on a drunk woman who walks into the bar. She thinks he’s the person she was planning to meet. It’s only after she staggers away that he opens up the manila envelope she left him. (Why is it always a manila envelope?)\n\nThe lady was expecting to meet a hitman, to contract with the guy to off her step-daughter. Because Nick’s luck is running true-to-form, meaning bad, the real hitman walks in as Nick is skulking out, and the really bad guy figures out who Nick is and what he has let himself in for.\n\nNick’s life goes all downhill from that point. Not that it had far to roll.\n\nHe should call the police and turn the evidence over to them. Instead, he decides to warn the intended victim.\n\nAbigail Pierce looks like innocence personified. When the bad guys show up and start cutting her, Nick will do anything they say – and anything Abigail says, to keep her, and himself, and his soon-to-be-ex-wife, and possibly his dad, from being murdered.\n\nHe should have run as fast as he could, and left Abigail to her well-deserved fate. By the time he figures things out, he’s much, much too late to save anyone – including himself.\n\nEscape Rating B-: At first, it just seems like Nick is out of luck and over his head. After his initial mistake, he keeps trying to do the right thing. It’s only as he gets deeper in to the quagmire that he finally figures out that everyone on all sides is using him.\n\nHe doesn’t even know what it is he is being used for. Poor schlub.\n\nFor all of Nick’s faults, and he has a bunch, he can’t see through Abigail’s innocent act, and he can’t believe that everyone is lying to him all the way around. For a guy who supposedly makes a living as a gambler, he does a lousy job of reading everyone’s tells.", null, "At first, this story seemed pretty familiar – it was a better written version of the story in The Dismantling. Nick gets sucked in to a life of crime, or at least a life on the run, by trying to save a woman who doesn’t really need saving. What made this one different is what he finally discovers he is saving Abigail for, or from. Or not.\n\nAbigail and her stepmother appear to be fighting over the estate of a wealthy industrialist, the man they have in common. The question is presented to Nick as a matter of who gets the vast estate when the guy dies, which is expected to be soon.\n\nIt’s really about the details of his research. Abigail is the result of a experimental genetics lab. (This bit reminds me just a little of Orphan Black). Abigail wants the details of the research that created her, because she wants to start it up again. Her stepmother won’t deal with her, so she enlists Nick as a go-between. Also as a patsy.\n\nThis one ends up being about who is using who.\n\nI’m not totally sure about the science fictional nature of the reason why Abigail gets Nick into this mess. There was plenty of thriller there if Abigail was just a typical heir trying to stay alive to inherit, and if she and her stepmother were in the middle of some mutually assured destruction without the lab-related distraction.\n\nYou will end up feeling sorry for Nick. He should have seen it at least some of it coming.\n\nI’m giving away a copy of Ruthless to one lucky U.S. or Canadian commenter.\na Rafflecopter giveaway", null ]

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[ "Our newest loggerhead, Karsten, was found recently floating in a canal by homeowners. He was not able to swim away quickly when approached, which raised suspicion. The helpful locals called The Turtle Hospital, and we came to the rescue. Karsten was very cooperative as we lifted him out of the canal using a net. After we brought him back to the hospital and examined him, the x-rays showed that he had two hooks in his throat. We did blood analysis and he does have an infection which may explain why he was floating. He is having trouble eating, but the staff is doing their very best to help him. Thank you again to the locals who helped us save Karsten. Stay tuned for more updates!", null, "Karsten was named after this little boy who helped rescue him. Thanks Karsten!" ]

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[ null, "It’s time to upgrade my monitor. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after spending a few days with ViewSonic’s latest LED display.\n\nI took a look at the 23-inch model. It was easy to set up on my desk thanks to a solid monitor stand (no VESA Mount though, unfortunately). You can’t adjust the height, which meant I had to put mine on the black box my current monitor sits on.\n\nIt certainly lived up to its frame-free promises, with a smooth screen face and touch buttons.\n\nOnce I’d turned the brightness down and fiddled with the colour settings, the picture quality was so much better than my old ViewSonic monitor that I felt quite emotional when it came time to return it. Compared to the woolly images conjured up by my old display, the VX model produced a crisp picture with a very wide viewing angle (ViewSonic tells me its 178 degrees).\n\nHardcore gamers will no doubt sniff at the 7ms response time, but that’s because their advanced eyeballs can see things mine can’t. I found the full HD 1080p resolution and 30,000,000:1 contrast ratio produced clear pictures that made creating Excel documents more enjoyable – and that’s all you can ask for when it comes to creating Excel documents.\n\nAudio quality was good – far better than my laptop but not as good as a full speaker set up.\n\nBeing a bit of an eco-worrier and a nerdish lover of anything using LEDs, I loved the LED backlighting and energy-saving features such as Eco mode that lets you change screen brightness and energy consumption. Thankfully, it didn’t just sit there on standby sapping energy. ViewSonic claims that “with eco-design, total cost of ownership can be reduced up to 40% while extending product life cycle” [sic]. I think translates as “it costs less to run than a normal monitor and lasts longer thanks to the LED bulbs”.\n\nA design for life?\n\nMy only complaint about this monitor was that it isn’t quite as attractive as it wants to be. Although the frameless design is a neat conceit, the monitor and its slightly lumpen stand are business-like rather than beautiful. It’s a stylish enough monitor, but it’s not likely to thrill Jonathan Ive fans.\n\nDespite that tiny quibble, the VX models are still better looking than most other computer monitors on the market. The pricing is about right for this type of LED monitor, making the VX displays well worth considering. I’d happily make space for one on my desk." ]

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[ null, "Sankara, an All Progressives Congress (APC) made his stand known amid reports that some APC Senators were also on the same page with opposition ones.\n\nIn a statement by Senator Sankara which was made available to journalists, the lawmaker revealed that plans were afoot to down the Senate President in order to pave way for the impeachment of President Buhari, given that Lawan may not allow impeachment plot to see the light of the day when lawmakers resume session in September.\n\nThe lawmaker, who is the Senate Committee Chairman on Information and National Orientation dissociated himself, saying that the report linking him with those behind the plot was not true and he categorically opined that he would not do that for any reason.\n\n“I dissociated myself from the alleged plot by some Senators to impeach the Senate President, Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan.\n\n“The report linking me with the plot by certain online publications to impeach the Senate President is not true and let it be known to everyone that at no time was I consulted or co-opted into such a plan by the eleven other Senators allegedly masterminding the plot.”\n\nHe maintained that the report was a figment of imagination of those behind it.\n\nThe lawmaker insisted that he was present on Tuesday and Wednesday during plenaries and neither any member of the opposition or the ruling party approached him with impeachment plot, adding that if such had happened, he wouldn’t have consented." ]

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[ null, "As the sun continues to make more regular appearances, I continue to look forward to external sunshine. And, yearning for a sweet treat, I’m reminded of that summer favorite: s’mores!\n\nEvery summer we have a family reunion at the beach. Campfires and s’mores are, of course, part of the fun. I’ve earned a reputation around the campfire as the girl in search of the perfect s’more. Individually, I quite like graham crackers, chocolate and toasted marshmallows. But all those ingredients combined as the traditional s’more have never quite worked for me.\n\nOne year I put chocolate frosting on the graham crackers instead of using candy bars. Another year I covered marshmallows in chocolate sauce, rolling them in graham cracker crumbs and then toasting them over the fire. I actually liked those, but nobody else around the campfire really appreciated my efforts.\n\nThe name “s’more” is a contraction of the words “some more,” as in, “I want some more!” No one really knows how far back this campfire treat dates, but a recipe for s’mores can be found in a Girl Scouts publication from the 1920s. The last few decades have seen two types of s’mores cereal, a s’mores candy bar, and even s’mores flavored Pop-Tarts.\n\nTypically, a marshmallow is toasted on a skewer over a fire until the insides are melted and the outside is a crispy golden brown. Then you slide the marshmallow off your skewer by sandwiching two graham cracker squares around it. A square of chocolate is then added to the sticky sweet sandwich and promptly consumed before the marshmallow gets cold.\n\nMy problem has always been with the fact that the hard cracker and hard chocolate break up in my hand when I bite down while the marshmallow oozes out everywhere. Theoretically, the warm marshmallow is supposed to soften the chocolate, but I guess I don’t have the touch.\n\nMy mother-in-law, bless her heart, gave me a microwaveable s’more kit to help me in my quest, but microwaved marshmallows don’t hold a candle to roasted ones (no pun intended). I suppose the next thing to try is a rack on which I can put an entire assembled s’more before roasting over the fire.\n\nI suppose I could also try making homemade marshmallows before hitting the beach, apparently a rather easy task involving lots of gelatin. I could add chocolate flavoring to the recipe and skip the chocolate bars altogether.\n\nBut really, I guess what I’ve learned over the years is that the various textures and consistency of the three ingredients is what make a s’more a s’more. If you don’t get sticky, sandy fingers by the time you’re done, you’re not doing something right!\nEditor’s Note: While campfires are allowed on the beach in Seaside, please follow city ordinances when building a fire on the beach. Click here to find out more about beach fire regulations in Seaside", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Financial security is built on shaky ground in Kim Ji-hoon’s harrowing disaster dramedy Sinkhole (싱크홀) in which one man’s home-owning triumph quite literally crumbles beneath his feet. The latest in a recent series of movies lamenting the sometimes lax safety culture of the Korean construction industry, Sinkhole is also a crushing indictment of a society ruled by house prices in which social status is largely defined by the owning of property while the young in particular struggle to climb out of a deep well of societal despair.\n\nAs the film opens, the Park family is about to move in to their new flat, the first they’ve ever owned albeit with a frighteningly large mortgage, in the middle of a seasonal downpour. Only when they arrive, they discover the movers haven’t even started unloading because their apparently irresponsible neighbour Man-su (Cha Seung-won) has inconsiderately parked his car in front of the entrance and isn’t answering his phone. Patriarch Dong-won (Kim Sung-kyun) ends up in an awkward confrontation with the abrasive apartment dweller which is inconvenient because Man-su apparently works in just about every business in the area which means he continues to run into him just about everywhere he goes.\n\nAnyway, that’s the the least of his problems because, having made this giant investment, Dong-won can’t help thinking there’s something wrong with his new dream home especially when his adorably polite young son Su-chan points out that his marbles roll across the floor of their own accord. Worried they may have a subsidence problem, Dong-won checks his windows open properly and records evidence of ominous cracks in the pavement outside but struggles to get the other residents to agree to maintenance checks in fear that not getting the answer they want will bring down the value of their property.\n\nProperty prices are apparently everything. Homeownership is an unobtainable dream for many, yet Dong-won already feels insecure in his purchase especially as his colleagues seem relatively unimpressed by the fact his flat is in a recently gentrified area and comparatively modest. Bamboozled into hosting a housewarming, he’s mildly embarrassed to realise the view from his balcony is of nicer, much more expensive luxury flats just across the river which are likely to remain far out of his reach. Nevertheless, his colleague, Seung-hyun (Lee Kwang-soo) declares himself jealous in part because he’s still renting a studio flat and feels that dating let alone marriage is impossible without being in a position to get a multi-room apartment. His colleague Eun-ju (Kim Hye-jun) is in the same predicament but prefers to see it as simply being at a certain stage on the ladder.\n\nThis dream of future security is however quite literally built on shaky ground. There are definitely problems with Dong-won’s new apartment which become increasingly severe from the tilting floors to cracked glass and interruptions with the water supply presumably caused by cost-cutting and shoddy construction practices. When the building collapses into a sinkhole, Dong-won is trapped inside with work colleagues Seung-hyun and Eun-ju along with Man-su and his teenage son Seung-tae (Nam Da-reum). Despite the inherent horror of the situation, Kim keeps the atmosphere light as the small band of survivors attempts to manage as best they can, finding an awkward solidarity while trying to attract the attention of the emergency services and eventually making a daring escape using whatever tools are available to them.\n\nEven so, as much as the small band of almost strangers bond thanks to their desperate circumstances, there is an uncomfortable conservatism at play especially in the film’s treatment of a working class single mother and her son living in an apartment on the floor below Dong-won’s. That aside, Sinkhole offers a fierce criticism of an increasingly consumerist society in which house prices are all anyone talks about and homeownership is the only badge of social success. 11 years of patient sacrifice is swallowed in an instant, sucked into an abyss of corporate malfeasance, while Dong-won is left to climb out of the hole he’s in on his own. It’s small wonder that some of the survivors decide to drop out of the system altogether, ditching the idea of rooted homeownership for nomadic freedom in buying a small caravan rather than participate in the property market or climb the corporate ladder. “Don’t be happy in 10 years, be happy today!” they enthusiastically chant. The entire society is, it seems, sitting on a sinkhole which might give any minute, what’s the point in investing in a future which could disappear from beneath your feet without reason or warning?" ]

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[ null, "The 47-year-old Schilling, who spent 20 years in the major leagues, including eight with the Phillies, before retiring in 2009, divulged the news in a statement released through his employer, Bristol-based ESPN. It did not indicate what type of cancer Schilling has, when he was diagnosed or what his prognosis might be.\n\n“With my incredibly talented medical team I’m ready to try and win another big game,” he said. “I’ve been so very blessed and I feel grateful for what God has allowed my family to have and experience, and I’ll embrace this fight just like the rest of them, with resolute faith and head on.”\n\nESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said Schilling is taking a leave of absence. He recently signed a multiyear contract extension with the network and was to be part of the “Sunday Night Baseball” broadcast team, as well as contribute to the network’s studio coverage, including its spring training coverage, Soltys said.\n\n“Our thoughts are with Curt and his family during this challenging time,” the network said in a statement. “His ESPN teammates wish him continued strength in his cancer fight and we look forward to welcoming him back to our baseball coverage whenever he’s ready.”\n\nSchilling played for five Major League teams, including the Phillies from 1992 to 2000.\n\nHe helped lead the Phillies to the 1993 World Series, famously covering his head with a towel at times when Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams took to the mound. Philadelphia lost the Series to the Toronto Blue Jays but Schilling and the rest of the scrappy ’93 bunch forever endeared themselves to Phillies fans.\n\nSchilling’s All-Star career with the Phillies earned him a place on the team’s Wall of Fame in 2013.\n\nAfter leaving the Phils in 2000, Schilling won three world championships, with the Arizona Diamondbacks (2001) and Boston Red Sox (2004 and ’07), sharing the World Series MVP award with teammate Randy Johnson in 2001.\n\nHe won 216 games and struck out 3,116 batters during his career, but is perhaps best known for pitching in the 2004 ALCS and World Series after having stitches to mend an ankle injury. His bloody sock was later put on display in Cooperstown.\n\nSchilling has been in the news recently after the failure of 38 Studios, a video game company he owned in Rhode Island, with the help of a $75 million state loan. The company went bankrupt last year, leaving Rhode Island taxpayers on the hook to pay back tens of millions of dollars.\n\nSchilling said he invested and lost as much as $50 million.\n\nThis is not the first time he and his family have battled health issues.\n\nSchilling is the fifth member of the 1993 Phillies team to be diagnosed with cancer.\n\nTwo of the team’s fomer catchers, Darren Daulton and Todd Pratt, both revealed last year that they were battling cancer. Daulton has brain cancer, and Pratt was diagnosed with head and neck cancer. First baseman John Kruk survived testicular cancer in 1994.\n\nAnd longtime coach JohnVukovich died of brain cancer in 2007.\n\nWhen Daulton was diagnosed last summer, some former Phillies started questioned whether there was a cancer connection to Veterans Stadium.\n\nTug McGraw, Johnny Oates and Ken Brett, who played at the Vet — as did all the players with a cancer diagnosis — died of brain cancer.\n\nSchilling’s daughter, Gabby, took to Twitter Wednesday to ask for prayers for her father.\n\n“So i guess the word is out, if everyone could just keep my dad and family in their prayers it would mean a lot!” she wrote." ]

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[ "Neal Morse and Friends: Voices of the Beard – Storytellers 2 DVD", null, "The second in the “Storytellers” series, Neal Morse and Friends showcase unique versions of Spock’s Beard classics, all captured in a pro multi-camera shoot! Available exclusively at Radiant Records.\n\nAn amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience captured in a pro multi-camera shoot! Available exclusively at Radiant Records.\nThis incredible night of live music from Morsefest 2018 features an incredible group of gifted musicians and vocalists from the Spock’s Beard/ Neal Morse family.\n\nThis is the second in the “Storytellers” series and all the spontaneous improvisation and humor of these artists is captured in a pro multi-camera shoot. This one-off line up showcases unique versions of Spock’s Beard classics, like “Waste Away,” “Day For Night,” “There Was A Time,” and “Submerged,” sung by the three lead singers of the band, past and present: Ted Leonard, Nick D’Virgilio and Neal Morse.\n\nAlso included in this rare collection are crazy cool covers of songs from Big Big Train, Peter Gabriel, U2, The Police, and Kansas, plus guest appearances by Jake Livgren and Dominic D’Virgilio. The full unedited songs and chat are included in the DVD of this once-in-a-lifetime event.\n\nPick up your copy of Voices of the Beard – Storytellers 2 DVD NOW!" ]

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[ "An interview with Hiroshi Koshiyama of Fubuki Daiko", null, "Tell us a bit more about the name of your show Godzilla vs. Led Zeppelin. Why did you choose that name?\nThe title aptly describes our approach to Japanese taiko. Our Western musical influences (Led Zeppelin, Benny Goodman, rap) collide with our deep respect for the traditional Japanese relationship between the drummer and the drum. Sometimes Godzilla prevails, sometimes Led Zeppelin. Sometimes the two forces balance each other out. While we believe what we do is a spiritual practice, we never take ourselves too seriously.\n\nThis is your first year at the Edmonton Fringe Festival – what made you want to be part of the festival?\nWe enjoyed performing the show at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival and wanted to do it again with some slight tweaking. We thought that Edmonton Fringe audiences, who are already familiar with taiko via the local group Kita no Taiko, as well as professional Edmonton taiko duo Booming Tree, would be interested in seeing a different take on the art form.\n\nAnything else you want audiences to know about the show?\nIt appeals to a wide demographic in terms of both age and interests. The performers engage with the audience in between pieces which themselves are extremely varied both musically and choreographically. In other words, it’s not all just banging on drums.\n\nBonus question: Any names you want to drop who have been involved in your show (Edmonton arts people or otherwise)?\nGreg Shimizu from Booming Tree.\n\nThe 33rd Edmonton International Fringe is August 14 – 24. I’ll be previewing shows up until the Fringe starts. Want your show to appear on After the House Lights? Email [email protected]." ]

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[ null, "For more than two centuries, the Theater an der Wien has enchanted the public with its exceptional acoustics and its authentic and intimate atmosphere, and is one of the most beautiful and traditional stages in Vienna.\n\nEmanuel Schikaneder, a man of the theatre, singer and friend of Mozart and especially librettist of the Magic Flute, had this theatre built in 1801. Always open to innovation, this extraordinary theatre has had a series of historical premieres, including Beethoven's only opera \"Fidelio\", Die Lustige Witwe, Die Fledermaus and most of J. Strauss' operettas.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "If you are not that tech-savvy or have trouble memorizing the parts that make up your PC, it’s completely okay. Not everyone has the time or interest to be meticulous about what’s inside their desktop or which graphics card they’re currently using.\n\nThat’s why we’ve compiled an easy-to-follow briefing on all of the components of your computer, from the vital inner parts to the peripherals. You’ll be able to recognize each of them like the back of your hand.\n\nOn a side note, if you are thinking of purchasing a new desktop PC or laptop, it would probably be a good idea to buy some other new decorations to go along with it. This article from the top essay writing service gives some great advice on interior decoration on a budget. Invite a little color inside.\n\nMoving on, here’s your tech rundown.\n\nThe motherboard is where a user mounts their electronic components. It includes the processor, RAM, CPU, and so on. An online shop or a physical retailer can usually help advise users on buying the right motherboard. It’s important to get a motherboard that is compatible with the rest of the components.\n\nEverything will be connected to the motherboard, so it has to be chosen right after the processor, but this only applies to those who want to assemble their own PC. The motherboard is the backbone of your computer. It enables the components to communicate with each other, and all output/input ports will be on it, so picking the right one is vital.\n\nIf you are buying an already built desktop PC, you won’t need to worry about these details. However, it never hurts to check the exact model of your motherboard when purchasing it.\n\nThe central processing unit (CPU) is made of chips and is the hardware that does the computing needed for your software. The processor is located on the motherboard, and it is the engine for your computer.\n\nAll commands made to the system will be managed through the processor, so you should pay attention to its characteristics. Processors’ efficiency and speed depend on their GHz rate, number of cores, and number of threads for the processing cycles. The higher the number for each of these elements, the better the performance.\n\nRAM stands for random access memory, which is the “temporary” memory that the computer uses to hold the data from documents, websites, and programs the user is working with. RAM can usually be found on the motherboard and is measured in gigabytes (GB). Having more GB is ideal (e.g., 16GB) since it’ll be able to handle more heavy tasks like opening programs with high graphics.\n\nIt’s good to have a lot of storage on a laptop or desktop PC. The more space there is, the better the computer performs its tasks. An overloaded computer can potentially become very laggy.\n\nGraphics cards are self-explanatory. They do the heavy lifting for the graphics encountered in games, video editing, 3d graphics, and so on. Typically, graphics cards are already present in computers, but they can usually only handle light graphics, like videos and 2d games.\n\nIf you wish to load intricate 3d games and complex applications and programs, the best bet is to install a graphics card to enjoy these digital experiences. NVIDIA makes great graphics cards and is a lead distributor of this spec in the market.\n\nIntegrated graphics aren’t as powerful as add-on graphics cards, but they can be a much cheaper option. These types of graphics cards can usually be found on laptops. This helps them save power and energy, maintaining battery life much longer. Depending on the user’s priorities, the choice will be relative.\n\nGraphics cards compute similar to the CPU, but the computing is correlated with animations, rendering pictures, and videos. GPUs are very good at performing numerous operations at once. Users can get an idea of a high-quality graphics card by referencing the raw clock speed, floating-point operations per second, and the number of computing units.\n\nDesktops have desktop cases, and they protect the machinery from external disturbances. Try to pick a case that is easy to open and won’t be too complicated to handle since this will help you have access to what’s inside. Another criterion you should take into account is the case’s size, especially if you have limited space in your room.\n\nPC specs also include the keyboard, mouse, monitor, power supply, and cooling fans. Before choosing any of these, read or watch the reviews and make sure people are satisfied with their performance.\n\nTo get more specific data about your computer’s specs, then try using third-party hardware monitoring tools.\n\nThey will help you keep abreast of your PC’s performance and health and will give you comprehensive information on its specs, like the CPU or graphics card. Here are some viable options to consider:\n\nKnowing your computer specs is important since it gives you the advantage of being informed on your next purchase or understanding the capabilities of your current device. We hope this article has helped clear up some confusion about your computer.\n\nWe’ve covered all the basic components of desktop PCs and laptops so you can have a better idea of how they work. And if one of your friends is about to buy a new computer, feel free to advise them on the specs or just share this article.", null ]

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[ null, null, "These early March days find us, along with many Alaskans, daily checking standings for the mushers running the 1100-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race- the “last great race.” My dog-loving twelve year old daughter checks multiple times a day and moves colored pins standing for her four favorites along a map (she’s a hard-core fan!). Since it is also Lent, I see Lent everywhere around me and the Iditarod is no exception.\n\nInitially called the Great Race of Mercy (Hello, Lent), the race commemorates the 1925 diphtheria serum run to Nome by way of the Iditarod trail, a mining transport route through the now-ghost-town of the same name. Those mushers were smart and strong, risking their lives and the lives of their working dogs to get that medicine to stricken", null, "Nome. The Iditarod is still a dangerous run, “Not safe,” according to musher Dee Dee Jonrowe, “Challenging conditions are true every year. It’s the Iditarod Trail. The race must go on.” says Iditarod Trail Committee Executive Director Stan Hooley.* As is Lent. Each year has its own spiritual dangers and challenges. We have our Hell’s Gates and Dalzell Gorges. We also have our rest stops available in Friday evening soup and stations. Extra reconciliation services are our health checks. And the Lenten race will go on as well, ending with the Easter celebration year after year until the Great Banquet in the Father’s House.", null, "We may need to drop out, or “scratch,” in order to get our dogs or ourselves (or both) tended back to health for next year’s run. This is OK. If we desire betterment and do not allow bitterness to creep in, we will learn what we should and become closer to Jesus His way. “Let it be unto me according to what you have said,” said our Blessed Mother. Two years ago, my baby was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in the beginning of Lent. That year, fasting for me took the form of mentally wrangling fear and anger to the ground and lifting my eyes to Jesus to embrace love and redemptive suffering. It was exhausting. I scratched my planned sacrifice, fired the computer back up and made needed connections. With the Iditarod, many times the mushers have their decisions made for them. Regarding the Yukon River deciding things for racers, says musher Martin Buser, “The Yukon always is a decider if it’s punchy or slow.”* Indeed. Likewise, sometimes Lent is decided for us, whether punchy or slow.\n\nPhysically running the Iditarod and spiritually running Lent begins with preparation: take stock, figure goals, decide risks, and gather materials. While there is a general pattern in Lent (pray, fast, give) and a general pattern in mushing (food, gear, map), everyone’s plan is their own (Musher Jeff King is known for his inventions like boxed sled seating and heated handlebars!). Then jump in and participate. Just do it and see what happens! There are physicians and public servants at checkpoints on the way (priests and angels) and those watching on the periphery for culture and entertainment may be inspired to get in the race themselves. God be praised.\n\nThe last great race before Easter truly is a great race of mercy. May we find opportunities every day to enrich Lent with mercy accepted and given. May we actively look for burning bushes, even in Iditarod stories. Go mushers! Go us!", null ]

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[ null, "HCA Healthcare's CEO, Samuel N. Hazen, has 503 employee ratings and a score of 71/100, placing them in the Top 35% of similar size companies on Comparably with 10,000+ Employees. When breaking the CEO score down by factors such as department, gender, and ethnicity, we see that males at HCA Healthcare rate Samuel N. Hazen higher than non-binary employees, giving the CEO a score of 82/100.\n\nThe CEO score provides an understanding of how employees feel about the CEO’s leadership style and effectiveness at HCA Healthcare.\n\nHCA Healthcare's CEO is highly regarded by the HR department, the Finance department, and the IT department. However, employees with Entry Level experience and Non-Binary employees have a less favorable view of the CEO and believe there is room for improvement. Overall, the CEO score has remained stable over the last 90 days.\n\nHCA Healthcare ranks in the Top 35% of other companies on Comparably with 10,000+ Employees for CEO Rating Score.\n\nYour question has been successfully posted to HCA Healthcare. to be notified when you get answers.\n\nAre You an Employee at HCA Healthcare?\nAnonymously Rate Your Experience & Make Work Better" ]

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[ "The region of Abruzzo is hilly and mountainous and stretches from the Apennines to the Adriatic Sea. In this part of the Adriatic, the long sandy beaches are replaced by steep and rocky coasts. L’Aquila is the regional capital. Pescara, Chieti and Teramo are other important cities.", null, "Abruzzo boasts the title of “Greenest Region in Europe” thanks to one third of its territory, the largest in Europe, being set aside as national parks and protected nature reserves. In the region there are three national parks, one regional park and 38 protected nature reserves. These ensure the survival of 75% of all of Europe’s living species and are also home to some rare species, such as the small wading dotterel, golden eagle, Abruzzo chamois, Apennine wolf and Marsican brown bear. Abruzzo is also home to Calderone, Europe’s southernmost glacier.", null, null, "The Abruzzo region has two types of climate: the first is strongly influenced by the presence of Abruzzo’s Apennines range. Coastal areas have a Mediterranean climate with hot dry summers and mild winters, rainy hills and a climate where temperatures progressively decrease with increasing altitude. Precipitation is also strongly affected by the presence of the Apennines mountain ridges with increased rain on the slopes of the mountains in the region.", null, "The 2009 L’Aquila earthquake led to a sharp economic slowdown. However, according to statistics at the end of 2010, it seems that the economy of Abruzzo is recovering, despite the negative data regarding employment. At the end of 2010, Abruzzo’s growth was placed fourth among the Italian regions with the highest annual growth rates after Lazio, Lombardy and Calabria.", null, "Abruzzo’s industrial sector expanded rapidly, especially in mechanical engineering, transportation equipment and telecommunications. Both pure and applied research are carried out in the region where there are major institutes and factories involved in research, especially, in the fields of pharmaceuticals, biomedicine, electronics, aerospace and nuclear physics. The industrial infrastructure is spread throughout the region in industrial zones, the most important of which are Val Pescara, Val Sangro, Val Trigno, Val Vibrata and Conca del Fucino.\n\nA further activity worthy of note is seaside and mountain tourism, which is of considerable importance to the economy of the region. In the past decade, tourism has increased due to Abruzzo’s wealth of castles and medieval towns, especially around L’Aquila. Beach-goers also flock to places like Tortoreto, Giulianova, Silvi Marina, Roseto and, further south, Ortona, Vasto and San Salvo. Ski resorts are equally popular.", null, null, "Agriculture has succeeded in modernizing and offering higher-quality products. The mostly small, agricultural properties produce wine, cereals, sugar beet, potatoes, olives, vegetables, fruit and dairy products. Traditional products are saffron and liquorice. Most famous in the wine world is Abruzzo’s Montepulciano d’Abruzzo. Montepulciano d’Abruzzo has earned a reputation as being one of the most widely exported DOC classed wine in Italy.\n\nAbruzzo has a rich culinary tradition, with various traditions attached to each province.\n\nRagus are a generalized term for any type of meat-based sauce. Ragus are heavily associated with the cooking of Southern Italy, as well, and seem to have begun their migration southward from the Abruzzi region.\n\nThis is a cheese-loving region and mozzarella and scamorza take center stage on the dairy scene. Both cow’s milk cheeses are young, mild, creamy and sweet with smooth textures and a stringiness that allows them to hold up equally well in baked dishes or on their own as table cheeses.\n\nThe maccheroni alla chitarra are highly renowned (homemade pasta cut on a machine with thin steel blades) and scrippelle are thin strips of pasta eaten in soup. On the coast, most first courses are fish-based, often made with tomato to enhance the taste of “poor man’s fish,” that are caught off the shores of ancient fishing villages.\n\nAs for second courses, a typical recipe is scapece, which is pickled fried fish. Guazzetto or fish broth is also popular in coastal towns. Other than sea fare, one will find plenty of lamb, kid and mutton on the dinner table, while pork is used for prosciutto, lonza, ventricina and other typical salamis that are produced locally. Abruzzi lamb, in general, is considered superior in flavor to other lamb found elsewhere because of the animals’ mountain-grazed diets rich in herbs.\n\nAmong the desserts, often made with almonds and honey, you will find nougat or torrone; confetti (typical sugared almonds) and cicerchiata, small balls of fried dough covered in honey.", null, "Lightly sauté the onion, carrot and celery in the olive oil. As soon as the mixture has cooled, add the saffron, mix well and then let rest to dissolve the saffron.\n\nBoil and peel the potatoes and cut them into chunks.\n\nAdd 8 ¼ cups of water to the pot containing the saffron mixture and then salt to taste. Bring to a boil and add the pasta. When the pasta is cooked, add the potatoes. Heat and serve garnished with celery leaves.", null, "This recipe is often served at wedding lunches, where it generally follows the soup course.\n\nTo make the filling.\n\nMince the chicken liver and combine it with the ground meat.\n\nHeat 2 tablespoons oil in a saucepan and gently brown the ingredients over moderate heat for 3 minutes. Set aside.\n\nClean the spinach, blanch in a little salted water for 5 minutes; drain, squeeze out any excess water and lightly cook it with the butter for 4 minutes. Set aside.\n\nClean and trim the artichokes, discard the tough outer leaves and trim off the tips; cut in half, discard the inner fuzz and slice them. Sprinkle with the parsley and a dash of salt and cook in a saucepan with 3 tablespoons olive oil for 20 minutes, moistening with a little water, if need be. Set aside.\n\nBreak the egg into a mixing bowl, add the milk and egg yolk and whisk with a fork. Set aside\n\nPut the flour, eggs and 6 tablespoons water into a mixing bowl and beat with a fork. Take a small frying pan, the bottom should be as wide as the ovenproof dish to be used for the timballo, and heat a little olive oil in it over a moderate to low heat.\n\nPlace 2 tablespoons batter into the pan, tilting to make sure it spreads out to cover the bottom; let it set and then flip. When the crespelle is ready, remove it from the pan and continue until all the batter has been used, greasing the pan each time with a little oil.\n\nTo assemble the timballo.\n\nButter an ovenproof dish and lay a crespelle on the bottom.\n\nMake separate layers of sliced mozzarella, meat, spinach and artichokes, separating each with a crepe, adding a sprinkling of Grana cheese each time and a couple of tablespoons of the egg and milk mixture.\n\nMake sure there are at least 2 layers of each ingredient, cover with another crespelle and sprinkle with the remaining cheese and egg-milk mixture.", null, "Add the lamb and cook until browned, 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and stir. Add the wine and simmer until evaporated, 10 minutes. Add the tomatoes and simmer gently, stirring from time to time, until the fat begins to separate from the sauce, 15 minutes.\n\nMeanwhile, fill a large pot with 4 quarts of water and bring to a boil. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons of coarse salt, cover and return to a boil.\n\nAdd the pasta to the pot and stir rapidly with a wooden spoon. Cover and bring back to a boil. Uncover and cook the pasta, stirring frequently, until it is al dente.\n\nDrain the pasta and immediately transfer it to a warmed bowl. Toss with the lamb sauce and the 1/3 cup of grated cheese. Serve at once, passing additional cheese at the table.", null, "But among Abruzzo’s desserts, Parrozzo is the most remarkable. In ancient times, Abruzzo peasants made cornmeal bread in the shape of a dome and baked it in a wood-fired oven. They called this “pan rozzo” meaning ‘unrefined bread,’ as opposed to the regular and more expensive white flour bread eaten at the time only by higher classes. At the turn of the 19th century, pastry chef Luigi D’Amico re-invented that recipe by using eggs instead of cornmeal to obtain the bread’s golden hue. He kept the dome shape and topped it with a dark chocolate coating to reproduce the bread’s charred crust.\n\nBlanch almonds in boiling water and peel off the husk, and grind them with 2 tablespoons of sugar in a processor. Work butter with a fork, add the remaining sugar and the egg yolks and whisk well. Fold in the ground almonds and then the flour and cornstarch. Beat the egg whites in a mixer until soft peaks form and then and fold into the almond mixture.\n\nPour mixture in a buttered Bundt pan or dome-shaped cake mold and bake at 450° F for 45 minutes.", null, null, null ]

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[ "An Interview With S.J. Watson\n\nOn today’s podcast episode the award winning author S.J. Watson sits down with Frankie Gray, to discuss his Yorkshire inspiration, his love of reading, being by the sea and his latest (brilliant) novel: Final Cut.\n\nS.J Watson’s incredible first novel, Before I Go To Sleep, became a phenomenal international success and has now sold over 6,000,000 copies worldwide. It won the Crime Writers’ Association Award for Best Debut Novel and the Galaxy National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Award 2012. The film of the book, starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth and Mark Strong, and directed by Rowan Joffe, was released in September 2014.", null, null, "S. J. Watson, author of the phenomenon million-copy-bestseller, Before I Go To Sleep, returns with a sensational psychological exploration of a seaside community who’ll do anything to protect the secrets of a lifetime . . .\n\nIt used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it’s a ghost town – and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay – or does it?\n\nBlackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to an extraordinary secret.\n\nWatson adroitly [brings] the strands of his story together to create a disturbing journey to a shocking truth.\n\nCreepy and packed with suspense and menace, it draws the reader into a community that has more than its fair share of skeletons to hide.\n\nS J Watson has done it again. Even more compelling than Before I Go To Sleep.\n\nLesley Kara, author of The Sunday Times bestseller The Rumour\n\nAn expertly crafted thriller. Claustrophobic and unnerving. Watson at his very best." ]

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[ null, "The now extinct Bali Tiger (Panthera tigris balica) was the smallest of all tiger subspecies. The last was shot in 1937. All tigers are now at risk, but the subspecies at each end of the size range are the most seriously endangered animals. After the Bali Tiger, the Javan was the smallest subspecies: it is now one of the rarest of all cats. At the opposite end of the spectrum is the Siberian or Amur Tiger, which is the largest of all cats; some exceptional animals have been measured at 335 cm in length and 318 kilos in weight. Due to human predation, there are few left.", null, "Stephen, son of the Duke of Geza, Ruler of the Magyars, was born AD 975 in Pannonia, which was situated between Hungary and Yugoslavia. Stephen wanted more than simply to inherit his father’s title. When the duke died, Stephen made a special request to Pope Sylvester II, asking to be made king of Hungary. The Pope was agreeable to this request, especially as Stephen was married to Gisela, the daughter of The Holy Roman Emperor.\n\nStephen’s wish therefore was granted, and he received not only the title of “Apostolic Majesty” from the Pope, but also the gift of a unique crown. The king of Hungary was crowned with great solemnity in AD 1000.\n\nStephen was a much respected monarch and was canonised in 1083. His crown has become a national symbol of Hungary, though the country has long since ceased to be a monarchy. The crown is made in two tiers, each decorated with hand-enamelled panels. In the first tier the panels show Christ as Ruler of the Christian World, the Byzantine Ruler, Emperor Michael VIII and the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogeneto.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nComments Off on A Pope’s gift – King Stephen’s crown\n\nAt home in the forest", null, "There are now more wild deer in Britain than at any time since the Middle Ages. Yet, despite their size, deer are remarkably good at keeping out of sight, and many people live close to deer but are unaware of their existence. To the practised eye, the signs deer leave behind them are easy to see: the well-marked paths, with the familiar cloven-hoofed footprints (known as slots); the deer jumps, where the animals regularly jump fences, leaving behind perhaps a tuft of hair on barbed wire; even shed antlers can betray their presence. To see the deer themselves can take greater skill, for after centuries of persecution most of our deer are nocturnal, leaving the sanctuary of their home wood to come out and feed at night.\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nComments Off on At home in the forest", null, "It was pitch dark as the two men made their way along the narrow railway bridge across a ravine. Suddenly, a distant sound broke the silence. By the time they had reached the middle of the bridge they realised to their horror that a train was coming towards them at full speed.\n\nDesperately, the walkers swung themselves down into the night, holding on to the protruding sleepers. A nightmare of noise and hot ashes tore around them as the train thundered over, shaking the bridge as it passed. Fred Walker, a Scotsman from Glasgow, almost fainted, and had to be hauled back up by his companion, an American named Tarver. This was not the first of Fred Walker’s hair-raising adventures — nor was it to be the last.\n\nHis travels had begun in 1905, when he was 17. Fred’s only ambition was to see as much of the world as he could, and do as many different things as possible. He started off in the United States and Canada, earning his living as a cowboy and building dams, survived the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and then headed down to Mexico to work on a ranch.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "Almost 480 kilometres above the Earth’s surface the spacecraft Voskhod 2, launched from Kazakhstan and commanded by Colonel Pavel Belyaev, hurtled through space at a speed of approximately 29,000 km/h.\n\nBelyaev’s only companion was 30-year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Alexei Leonov — the man who was poised to add another distinguished chapter to space history. Born in Altai, Siberia, the Soviet cosmonaut had been selected to become the first man actually to leave a spacecraft and “walk” alone in outer space.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nThe man who made 8,000 discoveries", null, "It was on 28 May 1848 that the trading ship Mischief cast anchor at the gateway to the Amazon, the city of Para. Aboard were two young Englishmen, Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace. Their object in coming to South America was to make a survey of the insect and bird life and smaller animals of the virtually untouched tropical Amazon valley — and to find facts to help solve the question of the origin of species.\n\nTheir youthful enthusiasm was not quenched by the dense, moist air. Early in the mornings they went out to capture gorgeous toucans, colourful humming-birds and parrots. The insects had their turn in the heat of the day.\n\nLoaded with their exotic catches, the two men trudged home while their neighbours relaxed in their hammocks. After dinner they sat down to mount the insects, skin the birds and make notes. So dedicated were they that ant stings on their legs made them curious rather than annoyed. Bates is credited with publishing the first description of the leaf-cutter ant.\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nThe survivor of Flight 508", null, "Flight 508 left Lima, the capital of Peru, on Christmas Eve, 1971. Its destination was Pucallpa, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle. Ground control received a routine message half an hour after takeoff that the plane would land in 38 minutes’ time. That was the pilot’s last communication with ground control, for radio contact was suddenly lost. Christmas, 1971, is a time which Juliane Koepcke, one of the passengers on board flight 508, will never forget. On that fatal Christmas Eve she woke up to find herself lying beside four of her fellow passengers. They, like the rest of the passengers on board the plane, had been killed.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nThe voyage of the Quest", null, "The advertisement was one which few boys could resist: “Wanted. A Boy Scout to join the crew of an Antarctic expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton.” There were so many replies that Sir Ernest decided to pick two boys. On 17 September 1921, to the cheering of a huge crowd which had gathered along the Thames, Shackleton’s ship, the Quest, sailed from London.\n\nWhen the voyage began, Shackleton was his usual cheery self. But from the outset, a series of mishaps combined to add to the burden of responsibility he carried. On the first leg of her journey to Rio de Janeiro, the Quest had serious engine trouble and extensive repairs had to be undertaken when she reached port. Then, on the night before sailing from Rio, came the first warning sign that all was not well with the expedition’s leader. While he was dining ashore, he complained of feeling faint. The ship’s doctor was concerned, for he knew that Shackleton had been taxing his strength, but the incident was soon forgotten.\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nStatues that came from the sea", null, "Some people set out deliberately in search of adventure. Others stumble on it through sheer chance, ordinary people whose thoughts normally turn on the next meal or the prospect of a rest after a hard day’s work. Such men were Elias Stadiatis and Demetrios Kondos.\n\nShortly before Easter, 1900, two sponge-fishing boats from the Greek island of Syme were on their way through the Aegean Sea when they were hit by a storm. The leader of the expedition was Captain Demetrios Kondos, and he made for shelter off the little island of Antikythera.\n\nAfter the storm had subsided, the sailor decided to try his luck looking for sponges by the island. The first man into his diving suit was Elias Stadiatis: he was lowered over the side — and into the biggest adventure of his life. The diver’s feet touched bottom, and, as the waters cleared around him, Elias found himself surrounded by strange shapes. Men lay sprawled on the floor of the sea; women sunk up to the waist in sand stared up at him.\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nComments Off on Statues that came from the sea\n\nThe search for Speed\n\nSilent and tense, Donald Campbell was oblivious to the dazzling glare of the sun as he watched his father climb into the cockpit of the gleaming racing car, Bluebird. He had faith in his father’s ability. His confidence was well-founded. The name of Sir Malcolm Campbell was not one that was associated with defeat. Calm though he was, Sir Malcolm could not help remembering the deaths of some of the other drivers against whom he had competed in the past. Parry Thomas, Sir Henry Segrave, and Ray Keech had all been killed by their craving for speed. But, on this day, 3 September 1935, he knew he must set aside such thoughts, for he was now setting out to establish a new world land speed record, and to be the first to achieve 300 mph. It was the culminating point of a racing career that had started simply enough when, as a 21-year-old stockbroker, he had become a keen motor-cyclist and won his first race in the same year. That had been in 1906. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED" ]

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[ "He treadmilled his way to a Top 5 placing and cemented Sweden as a true powerhouse of modern Eurovision with his up-tempo track “I Can’t Go On”.\n\nSince then we have struggled to go on as Sweden’s Robin Bengtsson teased us about his top secret new track. But the wait is now over and the secret is out. Robin has turned down the neon lights and channeled his mysterious inner man, releasing his latest track “Dark Angel”.\n\nHis first track since Eurovision, “Dark Angel” is a moody pop song about the temptation of lust in the face of love. He sings with dark biblical undertones, calling his lover his ‘dark angel and the devil on his shoulder’. Robin’s Timberlake-esque tones shine brightly through the darkness, harmonising beautifully with the synthesised arrangement.\n\nFrom serving country-pop realness with “Constellation Prize” to up-tempo dance slayage with “I Can’t Go On”, the new track proves that the consummate professional Bengtsson is no one-trick pony. He brings it and it’s so freakin beautiful.\n\nBengtsson has been a busy man since performing on the Eurovision stage in May. He spent the Swedish summer traveling around his home country as part of the “Diggiloo” tour alongside the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest winner and Swedish pop-queen Charlotte Perrelli and Melodifestivalen favourite Wiktoria.\n\nRobin also proves that his talents extend far beyond the treadmill, serenading his ‘Robbers’ to a stripped back performance of Sam Cooke’s “Nothing Can Change This Love”. Sugar and spice – Robin’s all things nice!\n\nSince Eurovision, “I Can’t Go On” has gone from strength to strength, peaking at number 2 in Iceland and Lithuania and number 3 in Sweden. The official video has over 12 million views on Youtube, proving the Swedish maestro with the baby blue eyes sure knows how to slay.\n\nAre you feeling the mystery in Robin’s new single? Do you think you can work “Dark Angel” into your treadmill routine? Let us know in the comments below.", null, null, "Both Trent and Bengtsson didn’t make it for me this time. Not a fan of build ups like here." ]

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[ "A surge in independent development coupled with the growing popularity of the gaming medium has created a vast culture of new free indie games on the PC platform. Often the quality of these releases is nothing short of a tech demo or student project, however there are some free indie games that rise above this paradigm, through intelligent design or a contrite spark of inspiration in its developers. This list will provide a selection of the best free indie games currently available for the PC format. Read on for the full list, with this first page charting numbers 10 through 6.\n\nThis text based interactive novel takes players back to the fledgling days of the internet. In it, players make online friends via BBS message boards and learn ways to exploit the new system. With a penetrating story and some referential treatment, Digital: A Love Story is a great free indie game to play over the course of one or two hour long sittings.", null, "Thematically similar to A Boy and His Blob, Within A Deep Forest affords players the control of a malleable ball shape, circumnavigating or completing puzzles with its context sensitive usage. A small palette and minimalist style help this Nicklas Nygren game to rise above other 2D sidescrollers. In addition to this pick, the Knytt series of games by the same developer, provides an aesthetically similar and as rewarding experience.", null, "Warning Forever is a shoot ‘em up that utilises emergent AI and constantly evolving enemies. Once defeated, the boss characters or ships will evolve to their next stage, taking into account how they were previously defeated and subsequently defending against player usage of the same strategies as before. This intelligent counterpart makes Warning Forever a game that doesn’t truly end, instead changing dynamically based on how the player defeats the previous bosses – this makes for a great innovation.", null, "A short spy-thriller set in the first person and played through a heavily modified Quake 2 engine, Gravity Bone takes players on a short but profound journey across its twenty or so minutes of play-time. Blendogames, the erstwhile developers, have a plethora of great free indie games on their website that can satiate any further desire for their own particular quirky and imaginative style.", null, "The first of two Jason Rohrer games on this list. As previously discussed in the Sleep Is Death review, his games often indelibly reinforce emotive concepts through their gameplay mechanics, with Gravitation being no different. Themes such as loss, love & coping with a day-to-day existence are all present in this game, which furthers the idea of games as an art form and tries not to pander to the idea of shooting or adversarial combat mechanics in the medium.\n\nThe benefit of critical thought or analysis when dealing with games is often overlooked when dealing with the impact of mechanics on the overall narratology inherent to the experience. Gravitation – and the other Rohrer game found on page two – both reinforce their interpretation through the mechanics, which is a sign of mature, intelligent game design.", null, "We’ve already discussed the potential of emergence with previous free indie PC games pick Warning Forever. Transcendence however, takes this idea to a whole new level of procedural generation, by creating an entire dynamically charged galaxy for your exploration. A game that took near fifteen years to make, players are set with the task of finding the galaxy’s core, in a quest spanning hundreds of planets and ever-changing story elements. The idea of individualisation when it comes to the experience of a video game is sought by many developers – see Heavy Rain or The Elder Scrolls series – and none do it better than Transcendence.", null, "When it comes to creating free indie PC games, a 2D adventure is often the first port of call for potential game designers, which leads to a platform game saturation in the indie market. Few will rise above this abundance of titles and fewer still will reach the acclaim of Cave Story. Although tropes such as a silent protagonist who has amnesia or the evil Doctor adversary may sound slightly derivative, the game manifests a stunning story with amazing depth in both its difficult traversal elements and characters. The popularity of this 2004 Japanese made game also led to a Wii release in 2010.", null, "This pick incorporates four separate games, all made by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw, of Zero Punctuation fame. In chronological order the games are 5 Days a Stranger, 7 Days A Skeptic, Trilby’s Notes and finally 6 Days a Stranger. Furthermore, Trilby: The Art of Theft is a prequel of sorts to the first game. The games are point-and-click adventure in style while thematically sharing similarities with older adventure titles such as Beneath A Steel Sky or Monkey Island. Expect some fruitful humor and intriguing plot from this exceptional free indie PC game.", null, "The second and final Jason Rohrer game to make this list. Passage has players travel through the life cycle of a man, as he battles with love, jobs, time management and regret. It may only last between 5-10 minutes or so, but the emotive nature of the game – in a similar style to Gravitation – transcends the actual time spent with it. There isn’t really much to say about this game other than play it and think about it afterwards.\n\nA running theme in this list has been on either mechanical interpretation of emotion or meaning and the use of emergent & procedurally generated game worlds. Dwarf Fortress takes both of these elements to a new level of detail and role playing. Building a fortress – deep into a mountain-side or somewhere equally well-fortified is always a bonus – you control a settlement of Dwarves as they battle the oft times harsh & unforgiving world around you.\n\nAlthough the code page 437 interface and mammoth difficulty curve may put some off, reaching the summit of this game and triumphing in creating a viable society is one of the greatest gaming experiences you can have. Also, there is no harm in being destroyed or watching the slaughter of your dwarves, as its part of the game’s crushing difficulty that this will eventual happen." ]

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[ null, "Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) and Kioxia Holdings are advancing in discussions a couple of potential merger with a tough construction together with a dual-listing in Japan being doable elements of the deal.\n\nWestern Digital (WDC) would spin off its flash enterprise and merge it with Kioxia, creating a brand new publicly traded firm within the U.S, below the present phrases being mentioned, in keeping with a Bloomberg report late Friday, which cited folks acquainted. The corporate would even have a second inventory itemizing in Japan.\n\nWestern Digital (WDC) administration would probably run the mixed firm, in keeping with the report. The events are attempting to finalize a deal within the subsequent few months, although it is doable no settlement is reached.\n\nThe experiences come after preliminary talks between the businesses for a merger stalled in October 2021. The WSJ and others first reported in August 2021 that Western Digital was close to a deal to merge with Kioxia in a transaction that could possibly be value greater than $20 billion.\n\nThe information additionally comes after Western Digital (WDC) introduced in June that it was exploring strategic options, together with separating its flash and HDD business, which adopted after activist Elliott Administration disclosed a stake in Might and pushed for the corporate to explore separating the company.\n\nWestern Digital (WDC) is about to report fiscal Q2 results on Jan. 31.\n\nPrevious articleNew and Noteworthy: What I Learn This Week—Version 205\nNext articleKing Charles III To Break Centuries Outdated Custom At His Upcoming Coronation" ]

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[ null, "She could save the world—or destroy it.\n\nSixteen year old Evangeline “Evie” Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future—and they’re still happening. Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-side-of-the-bayou classmate: Jack Deveaux.\n\nBut she can’t do either alone.\n\nWith his mile-long rap sheet, wicked grin, and bad attitude, Jack is like no boy Evie has ever known. Even though he once scorned her and everything she represented, he agrees to protect Evie on her quest. She knows she can’t totally depend on Jack. If he ever cast that wicked grin her way, could she possibly resist him?\n\nWho can Evie trust?\n\nAs Jack and Evie race to find the source of her visions, they meet others who have gotten the same call. An ancient prophesy is being played out, and Evie is not the only one with special powers. A group of twenty-two teens has been chosen to reenact the ultimate battle between good and evil. But it’s not always clear who is on which side…\n\nReview:\nEvie has been suffering with hallucinations that were bad enough to have her admitted to a mental institute. Although she has been sent home and allowed to return to school she finds that the visions are worse than ever. Afraid to let anyone know what is happening she struggles to act normal in front of her friends. Then her visions of an apocalypse become reality as the world goes through an event called \"The Flash\" that destroys most of the population. Evie's visions haven't stopped but they have changed and she is struggling to understand what they mean. Her only hope is to travel to her Grandmother - the only person who never thought she was crazy - and ask for help. Jackson may have been her enemy at school but he is the only person she has to turn to now and he reluctantly agrees to help her. The pair set out on a journey across the country but will they find the answers Evie so desperately needs?\n\nAs a fan of Kresley Cole's Immortals After Dark series Poison Princess was an automatic must read for me but even if it wasn't already on my radar the fantastic cover and blurb would have put it there. A new dystopian series with characters based on the Major Arcana cards from a Tarot deck, each with different supernatural abilities and all with a role to play in the apocalypse. A spunky heroine and a hot Cajun hero. Throw in the fact that it was written by one of my favourite adult paranormal romance authors and what's not to love about it? If you're looking for a story with complex world building, characters that are so full of depth they could practically step out of the pages at any moment and a plot so full of intrigue, shocks and more twists than a labyrinth that it will have you gripped from the first page to the last then look no further. Poison Princess has all that and much, much more and has definitely allowed Kresley Cole to enter the YA market with a bang!\n\nEvie has always been a bit of a pampered princess, born to a wealthy family she had all the right clothes and everything she needed to be counted as part of the popular crowd. Apart from her hallucinations nothing has prepared her for the apocalypse and she is completely out of her comfort zone when it comes to her own survival. She is pretty much the complete opposite of Jackson, where he is strong and self reliant she is lost and afraid, but don't take her lack of skills for weakness. She shows over and over again her determination to not only survive but also to protect others throughout the story. Jack is an irresistible, motorbike riding, Cajun bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks who has an accent to die for. He can come across as a complete ass at times but really he is a sweetie and he is very protective of Evie. Jack and Evie have that perfect kind of love / hate relationship - the kind where they spend half the time on the verge of tearing strips off of each other and the rest wanting to rip each others clothes off! I have one word for the chemistry between them and that's smouldering, all it's going to take is one tiny spark to ignite a fire that is going to burn everyone in their vicinity and I for one can't wait to see it happen.\n\nPoison Princess is a fantastic start to the Arcana Chronicles, it introduces us to a fabulous collection of characters and some incredibly detailed world building. The way the story unfolds will leave you on the edge of your seat and make it impossible not to carry on reading. I don't think I've ever been so shocked by the twists a book took as I was with this one - you really never can tell what will happen next. I love Evie, I adore Jack and I can't wait to spend more time with them both in the next instalment. I would recommend this to anyone young or old, if you're already a Kresley Cole fan then don't miss this exciting new adventure. If you are new to her work then this is a great place to start and something that any fans of dystopian / post apocalyptic fiction will love - especially if you're looking for something a bit different to all those other dystopian stories that are currently flooding the market." ]

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[ "Well, after 9-months of alternate day fasting, I finally got around to trying a 7-day water fast. The idea of attempting one had always been intriguing, but at the same time daunting, and beyond me – a mere mortal. But now with all my alternate day fasting experience under my belt, I felt fairly confident that I would be able to manage a 7-day water fast, although I still wasn’t sure how my body would actually react.\n\nAfter doing lots of research on the Internet, I came to the conclusion that fasters can be roughly split into two types of groups: active fasters and passive fasters.\n\nI decided that I was going to attempt an active fast for my first long water fast, where I would try to maintain my daily routine, because if I decide to incorporate longer fasts into my lifestyle on a yearly basis, passive fasting is not going to be realistic.\n\nI am very happy to report that my fast went amazingly well, perhaps too well, meaning that it perhaps might not correlate well to the average faster’s results. Having said that, each fast is unique to each individual, so my experience is as valid as any. I attribute my fast being as easy as it was to my routine of alternate day fasting. During the past 9-months, I have fasted more than 100 days, so my body is well adjusted to going without food.\n\nIn conclusion, a very promising start to what I hope to be many more long fasts in the future. Right now, I am toying with the idea of doing four 2-week fasts a year, one each quarter, as a maintenance routine, and perhaps switching to a 5-2 or 4-3 fasting diet from alternate day fasting. In addition, I would like to incorporate a few vegetarian days into my routine if I can manage to find/make enough vegetarian food that satisfies my taste buds to the same degree that meat does. If I switch to 5-2, it would make sense to eat vegetarian the day before and the day after my fast days to help keep the digestive load to a minimum. Whether or not I will actually end up moving to this routine, though, is still undecided as I have a wife and kids who are part of the equation.\n\nOnce a few weeks have gone by, I’ll put up an update regarding this fast. Hopefully, something good will come out of this experience.\n\nFor those interested in the nitty-gritty of my 7-day water fast, below are my stats:\n\nOne thought on “My 7-day Water Fast”", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Science Online started Wednesday and hundreds of incredibly talented science writers descended on my city for it. This is my first year at Science Online and I’m having a blast! I’ve gotten to meet a few of my science writing heroes, talked about citizen science with a lot of people, and have learned all sorts of new things in the sessions. There are several bug bloggers here (more about that shortly) and all five of my photo submissions made it into the SciArt show. Super fun! Then there is the swag… Oh, the swag! I wish all conferences gave you science books! That’s a whole lot better, at least to me, than all the water bottles I never use and bags that I end up giving away because I have too many. Free science books are always welcome!\n\nBut let’s go back to the things I’ve learned. I’ve been live tweeting as much as possible while trying to check Twitter and write notes and send an occasional e mail (Scio13’ers seem to be masters of online multitasking!), so if you’ve been following me on Twitter the last few days you know that I’ve had some revelations. I’ll try not to repeat too many of those here, but let’s start with this one:\n\n1. Science raps done by a white guy with a degree in medieval literature are darned funny!", null, "Baba Brinkman, performing one of his raps at the Scio13 open mike night\n\nBaba Brinkman performed some of his science raps today during the morning session as well as last night during the open mike. I absolutely loved them! They were witty, had an excellent beat, and were shockingly educational. I will be the first to admit that I am not a lover of rap. At all. But I think I’m going to buy one – possibly all – of Baba’s albums because his songs are awesome. We had a room of 450 mostly white people yelling “I a African!” That’s really something to see – and it even made sense based on the lesson about evolution conveyed in the song. :)\n\n2. Using personal narrative in science writing can be a great way to bring people into the story and make them appreciate science.", null, "The doodle from the personal narrative session highlighting some of the stories and points made – click to expand!\n\nI went to a session on the role of personal narrative in science writing and I loved it! Partly I was excited because I was sitting two seat back from Carl Zimmer, only a few seats away from Ed Yong, and Alex Wild was directly in my line of sight, but it was great to hear so many well-respected, amazingly skilled science writers talk about how they have used personal stories to draw people into the science and see the relevance of the science to their own lives. I think I enjoyed this session partly because I like to tell these kinds of stories already, though I have a new idea about how to write them that I’m going to try. Having so many very well-respected science writers validate a writing style that I love to use, however, made it seem so much more legitimate.\n\n3. The ethics surrounding citizen science are Much more complicated than I would have expected – and it is something that all citizen science project leaders should think about.", null, "This has nothing to do with ethics, but this little guy is the official mascot of Scio13 – SciOctopus!\n\nI am very aware of privacy issues related to my Dragonfly Swarm Project and all personal data that I collect is seen by me and no one else, and never will be shared with others. That said, we discussed several things that I hadn’t ever even thought about in the session about ethics in citizen science. For example, if you have people sign consent forms, they often don’t read them, yet sign them. (Guilty!) There are tricks you can employ to force people to read the forms, such as giving a test based on what they read, but I hadn’t ever really considered that you might need to do that. A lot of what we talked about in the session were related to studies that involve human subjects (such as the face mite project I participated in on Wednesday – had my face scraped with a little metal spatula to try to find mites in my pores for the newest and upcoming Your Wild Life project), but I came away with a lot of new things to think about.\n\n4. People who have been blogging a long time have great ideas for how to keep your blog going strong", null, "Blogging for the long haul, moderated by Dr. Zen (in kilt/feather mask) and SciCurious (in black mask)\n\nI love blogging and hope I will be able to do it for a long time. But, every now and then you just don’t feel like writing, life gets in the way, or you can’t find the time. I attended a session on blogging for the long haul yesterday that offered a lot of great tips. These included carving out special time for blogging, blogging according to a schedule (I do this!), keeping lists of ideas when they come to you and writing about your favorite, and making the most of super productive times when you write a ton of posts by spreading them out over several weeks or months so that they give you a buffer against writer’s block. I thought this session was incredibly helpful, and the Scio13 organizers recorded it. I don’t know if/when/where it will go up online, but I’ll post the link if it goes online. A lot of people could benefit from it. I took copious notes too, so let me know if you want to hear any more of the tips shared!\n\n5. Bug bloggers are an incredibly fun group of people!", null, "There are a lot of familiar faces at Scio13, especially bug bloggers that I have either met in person (largely via Bug Shot) or have been following online. We got together for dinner tonight and it might be the highlight of the conference for me. There’s something about sitting down with a group of people who all have the same eclectic interest as you, who get all the seriously nerdy jokes you tell, and who understand why you do the kinds of things that you do, that is just indescribable. We had to scream across the table to be heard at the noisy bar, but we laughed so hard my stomach muscles still ache. Cheers especially to Alex Wild, Bug Girl, Morgan Jackson, Maryanne Alleyne, Matt Bertone, and Holly Menninger for the great evening!\n\nIt’s hard to summarize all the things I’ve learned and discovered at this conference in five bullet points, but this is a taste of what I’ve been doing for the last few days. I’m having a great time, but I’m learning so much at the same time. What a great experience! I’m so happy I am a part of it this year." ]

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[ "Home Watch What Happens Live Bravo’s Andy Cohen Reveals Which Housewives He’s Closest to! Plus Which Husband He Had a Crush on for Years, His Biggest Housewives Regret and Worst WWHL Guests!\n\nBravo’s Andy Cohen Reveals Which Housewives He’s Closest to! Plus Which Husband He Had a Crush on for Years, His Biggest Housewives Regret and Worst WWHL Guests!\n\nby Sola Delano May 31, 2018 26 comments\nShareTweetWhatsappPinterestRedditTumblrMailFlipboard", null, "Bravo producer and host Andy Cohen is spilling some housewives tea in an all new interview!\n\nThe Watch What Happens Live host graces the latest cover of Life & Style magazine during which he shared his biggest housewives regret, the housewives he’s closest to, his worst WWHL guests, and he also revealed the Real Housewives husband he had a crush on for years!\n\nFirst, Andy, 49, reveals that receiving after-hours texts from at least five housewives on a daily basis has become the norm for him. “It’s part of the hazards of my job,” he jokes to Life & Style.\n\nWhen asked who the scariest housewife is, he nominates Tamra Judge and Teresa Giudice, citing Tamra is most likely to start a brouhaha during a reunion special.\n\nAndy then dished on which Housewives husband he had a crush on for years. Surprisingly, it’s none other than Apollo Nida! The currently incarcerated ex-husband of former RHOA star Phaedra Parks. He tells the mag he crushed on Apollo “for many years,” calling him a “fox.”\n\nThe diplomatic Andy however refused to choose a favorite Housewives franchise, stating it’s like a parent choosing a favorite child. He did however reveal which ones he found to be the funniest.\n\n“I would binge-watch all of them,” he shares, but “New York and Atlanta I think are the funniest.”", null, "You can read more of Andy’s interview in the latest issue of Life & Style!\n\nHe also admitted he’s closest to the RHONY housewives. “I stay close to all of them,” states Andy. “I am in touch with all of them [regularly] because I live in New York!”\n\nAs for his biggest regret, Andy states that before Teresa served an 11-month sentence in 2015 for fraud, he joked about how she might look in an orange jumpsuit, which he now feels was “inappropriate.”\n\nHe also wishes he had done more to help RHOBH’s Camille Grammer when it came to dealing with the backlash following her disastrous first season. “I regret that Camille was so burned by how outspoken she was Season 1,” he says. “I regret that it took her a long time to…regain her confidence in front of the camera.”\n\nFinally, Andy also shared who his worst guests on WWHL were and he named three celebs! He said that Amber Rose, Zosia Mamet and Jillian Michaels weren’t great WWHL guests.\n\nHis all-time favorite guest? “Oprah,” he gushes. “She was amazing.”\n\nTELL US – THOUGHTS ON ANDY’S INTERVIEW?" ]

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[ null, "Clemson Tigers sophomore quarterback Deshaun Watson waves to Tigers fans as he leaves the field following the 45-40 loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Jan. 11 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.\n\nGlendale, Ariz. – Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson walked off the field, helmet in hand. He didn’t say anything as he turned right and entered the hallway to the Clemson locker room. His face was stoic, only looking forward.\n\nThe sound of the celebration happening out on the field faded away as Watson got closer to the locker room. Alabama had just captured its fourth national title in seven years, beating Watson’s Tigers in a surprisingly high-scoring 45-40 affair on Monday in Glendale, Ariz.\n\nWatson walked past Marcie Radakovich, the wife of Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich, who said, “I’m sorry Deshaun. I’m so sorry Deshaun.” as he was entering the locker room. He may have heard it. He may not have. He just kept walking.\n\nBack out on that field, Watson had just played out of his mind. But now he was lost in thought as his record-setting performance wasn’t enough for Clemson to topple mighty Alabama and complete a perfect season\n\n“They earned it,” Watson said. “All credit goes to Alabama for what they did. They’re national champs. We got to go back next year and grind harder and try to be champs, too.”\n\nWatson had crafted a gem, solving an Alabama defense that was supposed to crush him.\n\nHe wasn’t supposed to have running lanes. But he danced his way to 73 rushing yards, the most allowed by Alabama to a quarterback this season. The previous high was 29 yards.\n\nHe wasn’t supposed to have time in the pocket. But he threw for a championship-game record 405 yards. He tossed four touchdowns and could have had another if not for a last-second pass breakup in the corner of the end zone.\n\n“This guy, he’s special,” Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said of Watson. “Again, he’s got great toughness, great heart, a great mind for the game, and just made some huge plays all the way to the end.”\n\nWatson and the Tigers had the first 15-0 season in modern major-college history in their sights heading into the fourth quarter. Watson was clicking on all cylinders. Alabama couldn’t stop him. So, why not keep him off the field? That’s what Alabama head coach Nick Saban was thinking when he gambled on an onside kick early in the fourth quarter.\n\n“I made the decision to do it because the score was [24-24] and we were tired on defense and weren’t doing a great job of getting them stopped, and I felt like if we didn’t do something or take a chance to change the momentum of the game that we wouldn’t have a chance to win.”\n\n“It was one thing to give up that play but that doesn’t mean you don’t go out and do your job on another play,” Swinney said.\n\nWatson, as he had done all season, gave Clemson everything he had. The Tigers went down 11 in the fourth quarter. He led a touchdown drive. They went down 12. He led another score.\n\nBut, the Tigers were caught out of position on a few plays that proved decisive. They gave up 53- and 51-yard touchdowns to O.J. Howard and allowed a 95-yard kickoff return by Kenyan Drake.\n\n“We got to make those plays,” said linebacker B.J. Goodson. “We can’t have those types of plays in this type of a game on this stage.”\n\nClemson gave up 24 fourth-quarter points after holding Alabama to 17 through the first three quarters. It saw its streak of 51 consecutive wins when entering the fourth quarter with a lead come to an end.\n\n“We pride ourselves on being a fourth quarter team,” said walk-on wide receiver Hunter Renfrow, who caught two touchdowns. “But we didn’t get it done tonight.”\n\nThe defensive and special teams miscues, they weren’t supposed to happen. Not on this stage. And not to this Clemson team. Not to the team that beat a ranked Notre Dame, finally got past rival Florida State and became the first team in program history to win eight conference games in one season.\n\nIf not for those few breakdowns, the Tigers may have run away with the game, and they knew that. They plastered 550 yards of offense on an Alabama defense that came in allowing only 256.8 yards per game, the No. 2 mark in the nation. However, that wasn’t enough, and the Tigers dropped their first-ever game when going over 500 yards of offense, falling to 85-1-1.\n\n“We know we beat them up and down the field. Just the scoreboard didn’t show it,” said defensive end Shaq Lawson, who played through an MCL sprain in his left knee and registered two sacks. Kevin Dodd, Lawson’s bookend on the defensive line, had himself a game, posting five tackles for loss and three sacks.\n\nAdded offensive lineman Eric Mac Lain: “I thought we [the offensive line] dominated the whole game. … They way that we [the Tigers] played, it shows that we belong [alongside Alabama], obviously.”\n\nWatson ended his season as the first-ever FBS player with 4,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in a season. But that wasn’t his goal. Or the team’s goal. The goal since training camp was to go 15-0 and win the national championship, not worry about setting personal records.\n\n“I just wanted to get the win and do something that we haven’t done in 34 years,” Watson said. “But at the end of the day, I love my teammates, love my brothers, and you’ll see us in Tampa next year.”" ]

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[ null, "Tell us about your research\n\nMy research is looking at the ways that informal settlements in Pacific island countries are coping with climate change. The Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable areas in the world to climate change impacts, and is already regularly affected by climate-related natural disasters such as tropical cyclones, drought and heavy rainfall. Many of these extreme events are getting worse due to global warming, which is also bringing new threats such as ocean acidification, changes to seasonal patterns, heatwaves and bushfires.\n\nThe Pacific isn't often thought of in terms of its cities, let alone informal settlements (which are also called slums, or squatter settlements, depending on their form and the type of land they are located on). However it is urbanising rapidly, and these cities provide critical adaptation pathways and cash-based livelihood alternatives for Pacific Islanders as climate change impacts accelerate.\n\n\"Climate resilience\" is increasingly being used to frame international development agendas, with urban resilience programs being rolled out across a number of cities globally, and included in global frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda. However, resilience thinking and theory aren't well developed in terms of understanding conflicting values and agendas within socio-centric systems such as cities. For example, a municipal government may see the best way to strengthen their city's resilience to climate risks as being to remove housing from vulnerable areas such as floodplains and riverbanks. However, these areas are often occupied by informal settlers who have nowhere else to go, and have their own systems - outside of government - that allow them to cope with climate shocks and stresses.\n\nSo my research is looking at how the forms of resilience that are derived from within informal settlements - building on community networks, traditional knowledge and non-state structures - interact with these institutional efforts to build resilience in Pacific cities, and what that means for policy, practice and resilience theory.\n\nWhat are the main challenges?\n\nOne of the hardest things about the research that I do in Pacific cities is building trust with informal communities, who are often skeptical of outsiders who 'fly-in, fly-out' doing surveys and workshops without the community seeing any real benefits, and often without being seen again. This was particularly the case in Port Vila, Vanuatu, one of my two case study cities, where there was a lot of 'consultation fatigue' following the high level of international focus on the city after Tropical Cyclone Pam hit in 2015. It helps to make sure that you are transparent about your goals, and to make sure that you are able to contribute to the community where you can. For instance, I was able to type up and print up multiple copies of one community's constitution, and access title documents from the Ministry of Lands that related to another. Although these aren't big things, it shows a level of reciprocity and a willingness to exchange, rather than just take, information.\n\nA second challenge is in accessing data. Often urban areas are not well mapped or understood - Port Vila, for instance, has not had a zoning plan legislated since independence in 1980, while informal settlement areas haven't been mapped since 1997. Thankfully I have been able to work around these data gaps through my work with the United Nations Human Settlements Program UN-Habitat), which has allowed me to build up government contacts and access secondary data that can be hard to find remotely.\n\nWhat have the highlights of your PhD been so far?\n\nThe biggest highlight has been to have the opportunity to hear the stories of so many of our Pacific island neighbours and learn about how they are coping with climate change, natural disasters and the day-to-day issues that they face living in the region's informal settlements. To be able to communicate these experiences to government, international donors, and the global academy is a privilege, but it also challenges so many assumptions about how cities and climate change work in countries like Australia. Being able to reflect on this has totally transformed my own personal understanding of the field of climate change adaptation and what that means for sustainable urban development both internationally and in my own city, Melbourne.\n\nTaking part in the Habitat III Conference as part of a University of Melbourne delegation including fellow research students, early career researchers and more senior academic colleagues was fantastic. It's an event that only occurs once every 20 years, so it was pretty special being there and running training sessions with UN-Habitat for global urban practitioners and students from the host city Quito, Ecuador. I was also able to take part in the IPCC Cities and Climate Change Conference, which will feed into the first ever IPCC Cities Report in their next Assessment Cycle. Following on from my presentation at the event I was invited to lead a research paper for a special edition of the international journal Environmental & Urbanisation, which was a collaborative piece reflecting on my PhD research in relation to some more applied planning examples led by UN-Habitat.\n\nI was also very grateful to receive the Dean's Prize for Published Research in 2018 for my book chapter Governance and agency beyond boundaries: climate resilience in Port Vila’s peri-urban settlements. I'll be using the award to go back to each of my case study communities once I've completed my PhD to talk to them further about the findings from my research, as well as the government and institutional representatives that I interviewed. It's great to be able to have the opportunity to be recognised for publishing while you do your PhD research, which is important but can also take up a significant amount of additional time in and around your studies.\n\nAfter I finish my PhD I hope to continue working within academia, looking at the impacts of climate change on informal settlements and cities more widely in our region. I'm particularly interested in expanding the research findings from my PhD to cities elsewhere, including within Australia, where issues such as Indigenous urban land rights, recognition and reconciliation face even bigger post-colonial challenges than in many of our Pacific island neighbours. There are also so many lessons to be learnt about how cities and urban environments can develop differently outside of Eurocentric planning approaches. For example, urban gardening and strong community structures are key strengths of Pacific cities that we are only now trying to re-integrate within our own urban planning processes in Australia.\n\nYou can find a list of Alexei's current publications here.\n\nAlexei Trundle is a PhD student based at the Climate and Energy College, University of Melbourne. Alexei is the coordinator of MSSI's Future Cities Research Cluster and his PhD supervisors are MSSI Director Professor Brendan Gleeson and Professor Lesley Head.\n\nIf you are interested in collaborating with Alexei, he can be emailed at [email protected]." ]

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[ null, "MOSCOW, March 17./TASS/. Fundamental factors for the construction of the Nord Stream-2 pipeline are good, Douglas Buckley, vice president of Shell said on the sidelines of the LNG 2016 Congress.\n\n\"We are commercial company and we look for commercial opportunity. The fundamentals are good for projects such as Nord Stream expansion,\" he said.\n\nBuckley added that the best variant for Europe is to have as many gas suppliers as possible.\n\nNord Stream 2 implies construction of 2 lines of the pipeline with the total capacity of 55 bln cubic meters from Russia to Germany across the Baltic Sea. The route and the entry point to the German gas transport system in Greifswald are intended to be the same as for the first Nord Stream gas pipeline launched in 2011. The project will be implemented by the New European Pipeline AG. In this company, Gazprom will hold 51% while German E.ON and BASF/Wintershall, British-Dutch Shell, Austrian OMV will hold 10% each, France’s ENGIE will own 9%." ]

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[ null, "Google claims in a report that devices were used to hack an Italian company to spy on Apple and Android smartphones in Italy and Kazakhstan.\n\nThe report said Milan’s local RCS lab had developed devices to spy on private messages and contacts targeting specific devices. The companies were enabling the spread of dangerous hacking tools and arming governments that did not have the capability to create them.\n\nThe governments of Italy and Kazakhstan did not respond to a request for comment. An Apple spokesman said the company had revoked all known accounts and certificates related to the hacking campaign.\n\nThe RCS Lab said the company’s products and services comply with European law and help law enforcement investigate crimes. Google said it had taken steps to protect users of its Android operating system and warned them about the spyware, called Hermit. European and American companies are considering new rules for the sale and export of the spyware.", null ]

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[ null, "The Rain Bird horizontal action impact drive sprinkler head was invented in 1933 by Orton Englehardt, a citrus grower and native of Glendora. The design offered slow rotation and uniform watering, benefits long sought by local irrigators. Clement M. LaFetra, a friend of Englehardt, urged early patent application. A patent was awarded on December 18, 1933. Englehardt, with no entrepreneurial aspirations, assigned all rights to LaFetra and his wife Mary Elizabeth. Production began in the LaFetra family barn on October 13, 1935. Certain American Indians believed that a bird brought rain. This ancient legend, and the sprinkler's application of water like raindrops, led to the name: Rain Bird. Efficient use of water is commonly enhanced with sprinkler irrigation. The impact sprinkler led to sprinkler irrigation development that currently exceeds fifty million acres world wide. In the USA, more than one third of all irrigated land is irrigated by sprinklers, including sandy and sloping land that cannot be irrigated practically by other methods. The impact drive sprinkler head has truly had a major effect on agriculture in the world. Dedicated By The American Society Of Agricultural Engineers 1990" ]

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[ null, "In Remembrance of William James West\n\nWilliam James West was born in Aldershot Hampshire in 1898, the son of William Arthur West, a military man and, Emma Jane Ellis (Harris).\nI had always known that my Grandfather’s first cousin had died in the First World War, and then I was presented with a photograph of William, such a handsome young man! The moment I saw that photograph I wanted to know all I could about William.\nPrivate William James West served with the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment. He is Commemorated at: Ligny-Sur-Canche British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. He died of wounds on 5th September 1918, aged just 20 years.\nHe is commemorated on the War Memorial at Stony Stratford Buckinghamshire, where his parents, William Arthur and Emma Jane West lived & ran their newsagents business at 63 High Street.\nI submitted the details for William James to the First World War Digital Archive whilst material could be submitted. As I wanted to further preserve the details of William.\nWilliam James had two army numbers and was Private T4/212898 William James West, Army Service Corps, and later was 51275, 1st Bn. Cheshire Regiment. His T4 Army Service Corps prefix indicates he once served in transport.\nAs I said I submitted his details to the Digital Archive and they further spotted a detail I had not known about the photograph, as he is rather oddly, pictured above wearing a ‘lamb and flag’ cap badge, relevant to neither unit he was known to have served in, (unless he served for a time in the small Army Service Corps Armoured Car Companies, recruited from transport personnel. Their ‘Light Armoured Motor Batteries’, operative in Palestine, wore a similar badge unofficially).", null, "Bombing during the Second World War destroyed some of the records from the First World War.\nI was lucky, in that William James’s record survived and is a total of 24 pages detailing when he enlisted, his service and which regiment he was attached to and then, finally his gun shot wound to the chest leading to his death in 1918, just months before the war ended.\nI have downloaded a copy of his Service Record and have just noticed a mention of the Devonshire Regiment that I had been unaware of.\nHis medal card, confirms what medals his family were entitled to claim after his death and this corresponds with the Service Record.\n\nMay he rest in peace and know that even though he paid the ultimate sacrifice he is still firmly in the heart of his family." ]

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[ null, null, "The city is in a drought emergency as it bakes under a string of days with temperatures in the high 80s and 90s, and the city must declare it and take action now and for the future, city councillors said Monday.\n\nThe councillors voted unanimously for city staff to declare a drought emergency and use all available means of communication to ask the community to save water while still watering trees, which will be crucial to surviving future summers like this one – and worse. The city’s Water Board supports the order, said councillor Patty Nolan, its author.\n\nThe thousands of people attending the weekend’s Cambridge Jazz Festival at Danehy Park got a good illustration of the problem.\n\n“The conditions were shockingly hot and dry. All the ground is brown, all the grass is dead,” said councillor Quinton Zondervan, who went to the festival. “People were still able to enjoy the concert thanks to the shade trees that were available in the park to help cool parts of it. But one of the stands of trees in particular is in serious trouble,” with a broken irrigation system that city staff haven’t been able to repair.\n\nGet used to it.\n\n“This will probably be the wettest and coldest summer of the rest of our lives. Things are only projected to get worse from here,” councillor Burhan Azeem said. “We really should be thinking about how we handle the new normal and try to prevent it from getting worse as much as we can.”\n\nMiddlesex County as seen in U.S. Drought Monitor categories since 2000, in a graph submitted by Carolyn Greenberg.\n\nCambridge faced severe droughts in 2016 and 2020, recovering from the latter thanks mainly to a single month of extreme rainfall – a bit of luck that’s not expected to repeat. But the city has generally resisted acknowledging water emergencies and doing long-term planning around them, Nolan said, though it did announced stepped-up efforts around watering trees.\n\nDeclaring a drought emergency means “we have to do what so many other towns are already doing, which is curbing water use – forbidding the washing of cars, watering lawns,” Nolan said.“[Still,] we have tree canopy that is dying, hundreds of trees that have been planted in the last couple of years that are under enormous stress and will die if we don’t water them. So it’s a little bit of a nuanced and confusing message sometimes, because we would say, ‘Look, don’t water your lawn, don’t wash your car, but do water your street trees.’”\n\nPlanning for a new normal\n\nThe Water Board indicated that it would begin reaching out to the city’s largest users with calls to cut back. “Frankly, they should have started doing that two months ago, because that’s when this drought really started, and it has now become significant and severe,” Nolan said.\n\nCambridge has its own water supply and uses the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority system as a backup. That was last necessary during the 2016 drought, when Cambridge ran so low that it had to turn to the MWRA and its Quabbin Reservoir. Zondervan has argued that Cambridge should stop running its own system.\n\nCity planning must also grapple with a relentless growth in population and incoming large-scale businesses that can strain increasingly scarce resources. A growing city means more need, which East Cambridge resident Heather Hoffman addressed Monday during public comment when speaking about rising demand for electricity infrastructure: “If we don’t do the planning and figure out how this works in the real world, we’re just going to have another series of crises,” Hoffman said." ]

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[ null, "Syska LED, the pioneers of LED lighting solutions in India is proud to have partnered with Zee Marathi’s most popular Marathi comedy entertainment show ‘Chala Hawa Yeu Dya’ and Star Vijay’s show ‘Kalakka Povathu Yaaru’. Both these shows are a laughter riot and the most watched comedy reality shows in their respective regions. As a part of the company’s marketing and branding strategy, Syska is focused on reaching out to consumers across Indian geographies. Through partnership with these popular shows, Syska aims to deepen its relationship with its customer base.\n\nAs a part of this gratification, one lucky member from the show’s audience will be rewarded by SYSKA LED every week, through the installation of LED lights at their home thereby giving them a unique opportunity to experience Syska’s products. The show is aired every Monday and Tuesday from 9.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. ‘Chala Hawa Yeu Dya’ features celebrity guests from the Marathi and Hindi film industry and is one of the most watched entertainment programs on Zee Marathi. The show has been applauded for providing a much-needed promotional platform for regional language Marathi films and theatre.\n\nOn the show ‘Kalakka Povathu Yaaru’, Syska will be giving away similar gratification through LED and Mobile Accessories products to the winning performers on a weekly basis, providing them a unique experience from Syska. The show’s 8th season is aired every Saturday and Sunday from 9.30 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. ‘Kalakka Povathu Yaaru’ is one of the best comedy reality shows of Vijay TV and has good ratings and reviews from its viewers.\n\nSpeaking on this partnership, Mr. Amit Sethiya, Chief Marketing Officer, Syska Group said, “It gives us immense pleasure to collaborate with leading regional television channels such as Zee Marathi and Star Vijay. The shows we are partnering with are two of the most popular comedy reality shows on television today. Partnering with both these light-hearted programs on television helps reinforce our messaging to our consumers. Syska continues to collaborate with popular regional shows as a successful brand integration strategy.”\n\nSyska Group has a history of partnering with exciting TV shows that captivates Indian audiences. Earlier this year, the company has also associated with Sony Entertainment Television’s iconic show “The Kapil Sharma Show”." ]

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[ null, "Title episode: «Out of Time»\nAir Date: March 17, 2015\n8.4\nMark Mardon, Clyde's brother, returns to Central City to avenge Clyde's death. Eddie and Linda are jealous of the closeness between Barry and Iris. Mason shares his knowledge that Wells killed Stagg with Iris and Barry, who tell Caitlin and Cisco, who begin to believe that Joe was right about Wells, so he rechecks the containment field that failed to hold the Reverse Flare. Wells arrives and finds himself Eobard Thawne, a relative of Eddie's and a man from the future who returned in time to kill Barry, and has been stuck in the present ever since. Thawne also explains that he is pushing Barry to become stronger so that he can use Barry's powers to return to his own time, and he kills Cisco to protect his secret. Mardon kidnaps Joe and forces him to watch as Mardon creates a tsunami to kill Iris. Barry reveals his secret identity to Iris right after they confess their romantic feelings to each other in order to save the city. Barry runs back and forth along the shoreline to create a barrier against the tsunami, but he runs so fast that he moves back in time to the previous day." ]

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[ null, "Seriously, here is my simplistic overview of The Nutcracker to help guys who may have to sit through it due to a daughter or son or uncle who is performing in it.\n\nSide note: The show may be slightly different from one ballet company to another or… the horror… if you have to sit through a grade school performance.\n\nFirst, everyone comes to this Christmas party held at some rich dude’s big fancy house. The father collects lots of presents but seems slightly annoyed that there is lots of presents. It must have been a bad economy in 1800′s or whenever this ballet was written, because when the maid hands him the fourth or fifth package, he is over it. The older son pops out from the pile of presents and the Dad does that finger waving thing that Dads did long ago showing disapproval. The finger waving thing later in history turned into spankings until some parents took that too far by disfiguring their children for life. So today we send our children to therapy sessions when they are bad.\n\nSo, next, the parents at the party pretend to talk to each other while the boys chase the girls with wooden swords.\n\nA magician , who invites himself, interrupts the party with some cheap magic tricks. This being so long ago, everyone is delighted with the dollar store cane turning into plastic flowers trick, and jump up and down and exaggerate laugh-clap.\n\nThe Magician then passes out some toys, but not all the kids get toys, so that seemed pretty crappy.\n\nThen the Magician does a puppet show where a giant mouse fights a soldier. The mouse stabs the soldier pretty bad, but the soldier survives to stab the mouse in the same way. The mouse dies because mice are wimps when they get stabbed.\n\nFor some reason, the Magician gives the little girl a Nutcracker doll like you see at Walmart or Target for about $10 to $15. She is super thrilled with the gift because back then $10 was a lot of money. All the other children dance/chase her around trying to crack nuts with the doll trying to look at the doll, until her big brother gets the doll and breaks it. The little girl is sad because now she has to crack her walnuts with a hammer, but the Magician fixes it.\n\nThe kids run off the stage and the adults do one of those old time renaissance type of dances where you lightly hold the fingers of your woman and stand as far away as possible while box stepping and nodding to other women. Then they get their drink on.\n\nEveryone leaves and the girl falls asleep. A lot of mice suddenly appear. It’s apparent that these people need a good exterminator. The Magician however has creepily been hanging around long after his invite, and good thing too, because he chases the mice away by giving them a bad vibe about his intentions and a plug to his next gig.\n\nThe girl and the Magician dance about their victory, but the girl must have poor iron levels because she falls asleep again.\n\nThe Magician did a bad job of chasing away the mice because they appear again, and they are bigger this time. Some soldiers break into the house and fight the mice off. Even though there is cannon fire and sword fighting, the parents never seem to wake up and run downstairs to see what all the commotion was about. I wouldn’t let my children sleep downstairs if I had such the rat problem personally. The giant rat king and the Nutcracker fight until the Nutcracker wins. My guess is he won by squeezing his head in his nut cracking mouth, all though he would need some help pulling the lever in his back. Then the Nutcracker disappears and some dude in male anatomy-enhancing tights appears in his place. The girl is glad to see him probably because she is on the verge of puberty and has questions about her body. This guy might be able to help since he isn’t afraid to dance around with the twigs and berries practically exploding from his pants. Instead some people dressed as snow flakes dance around for a little bit and the curtain falls.\n\nSeems like the end of the story, but no, only intermission.\n\nAct 2 starts with some fairies dancing around for a little while. Then suddenly some Arabian dancers start dancing with a giant purple parachute. I didn’t even know they had parachutes back then! That dance was pretty cool. Then some clearly Russian-looking dudes, dressed in Chinese costumes, danced a Chinese-looking dance. One of the guys had to point his two index fingers in the air the whole dance. I’m not sure if he was warning us of something overhead that may look like it was falling, but the guy had to point up no matter what the rest of his body was doing. Then in a confusing twist, some Chinese guys dressed as Russian dancers came out and did that impressive squat-kick-swing the leg-jump and clap thing that is stereotypical of what you expected from Russian dancers. I think this part was directed by M. Night Shyamalan.\n\nThen I fell asleep.\n\nI was awaken by people clapping, cheering, and standing on their feet.\n\nSo I did the same." ]

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[ "No one can forget Suchitra Murali, who entered the Malayalam film world as a child actress with the film Aravam. The actress made her acting debut in the film No. 20 Madras Mail directed by Joshi and Priyadarshan. Later, he acted in several films such as Kasaragod Kadar, Mimics Parade, and Kawadiyattam. Suchitra has always been a favorite of family audiences, even though she left the film industry after her marriage.\n\nThe actor is now thinking of making a comeback to the film world. “There is a lot of competition going on in Malayalam cinema now. Suchitra said that when she sees some characters, she always feels that she should have done it.\n\nThe actor said that he has never had a bad experience in the film industry and has never had any meet-up experience in his career. Suchitra said that if the film was with the audience, there was a good sense of security. Suchitra added that she was scared when she was staying alone in a hotel when she went out and that it was the courage to be with her companions even on trips.", null, "Mohanlal is a bad actor in real life: Suchitra!\n\nThese actresses are Disappeared from Mollywood Silver Screen!" ]

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[ null, "Kate Middleton and Prince William looked just as they did on their wedding day in a carriage ride. PacificCoastNews.com", null, "The Duke and Duchess also stood on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, another repeat of their wedding day, (PacificCoastNews.com)\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge must have felt a case of déjà vu today, as they celebrated the final day of festivities for Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee.\n\nAs the pair saluted the 60th anniversary of their grandmother’s ascension to the British throne, Kate Middleton and Prince William found themselves in several positions that echoed their wedding day on April 29, 2011. The couple’s wedding was watched by a reported 3 billion people around the globe.\n\nQUEEN REIGNS ON HER PARADE\n\nPRINCE WILLIAM, PRINCE HARRY BOTH EXCITED TO BE FATHERS\n\nThe Duke and Duchess traveled to Buckingham Palace for today’s celebrations by horse drawn carriage, their first trip through London since their wedding using the regal mode of transportation.\n\nWith Middleton wearing an off-white lace dress by Alexander McQueen — the same designer who created her much-copied wedding gown – as well as a white fascinator featuring a birdcage veil, the Duchess practically looked like a bride again. Meanwhile, Prince William traded in his red military garb for a dapper suit and top hat.\n\nLater in the day, the Duke and Duchess appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace standing with their hands clasped in front of them, just as they did on their wedding day. However, their company on the balcony was pared down a bit, with Pippa Middleton not in the picture and Prince Phillip in the hospital.\n\nThis time around, the Duke and Duchess also had a third wheel — Prince Harry. The younger prince, who has complained lately that his title makes it hard for him to find love, stayed tightly tethered to his brother and sister-in-law, even riding with the couple in their carriage." ]

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[ null, "Samsung has ported the innovative features found on its flagship Galaxy S20 to the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note10 series through a software update. Users will be able to capture content with the latest Galaxy camera software technology, including Single Take mode.\n\nHardware features like the 100x Space Zoom camera will remain exclusive to the Galaxy S20 Ultra.\n\nSamsung provided the following information on features that have been ported:\n\nWith Single Take, users can capture the moment using integrated AI technology. Single Take uses the camera system and AI to capture a number of photos and videos at once and recommends the best shot.\n\nWith an improved Night Mode on the Galaxy S10 series, and the addition of Night Hyperlapse on both Galaxy S10 and Note10 series, users can capture more photos and videos in lower light or night time conditions.\n\nWhen you’ve captured the image, Custom Filter lets you create your own filter with colours and styles you like from a favourite photo serving as inspiration. This creates a reusable filter that can be applied to future photos when captured.\n\nFor the filmmakers, Pro Video gives users more control, allowing the adjustment of ISO, shutter speed, and exposure level. Users can also switch between the front and rear cameras while recording video.\n\nThe software update for the Galaxy S10 and Note10 series is available for download now." ]

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[ null, "An Indian soldier and a Chinese soldier stand side by side on the border at Nathu La Pass in Tibet. Photo: VCG\n\nIndian police and soldiers stationed along the Sino-Indian border have been learning Chinese since 2017, which India believes will help it seize the initiative in possible future border clashes with China, experts said. A total of 25 Indo-Tibetan border police (ITBP) will attend a one-year Chinese language course in India's Sanchi University of Buddhist-Indic Studies in July, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on February 25. The PTI said that the course will help soldiers posted at the Sino-Indian border to communicate with their Chinese counterparts.The course books come in three languages - Hindi, English and Chinese - so that students can understand the text easily, and the same pictures are used alongside the texts in all three languages.\"In the 2016-17 academic session, four ITBP personnel had completed the one-year certificate course in the Chinese language. Subsequently, they have been performing their duties at the borders,\" the PTI quoted registrar of Sanchi University, Rajesh Gupta, as saying. Indian media started reporting on its border soldiers learning Chinese in early 2017, several months after the Doklam military standoff. Chinese experts said Indian soldiers acquiring Chinese language skills could help reduce misunderstandings with the Chinese side and prevent crises like the Doklam standoff, but more significantly, the language ability could become an effective weapon for India if the two countries are involved in a hostile confrontation. More coursesAnother Indian university, the Visva-Bharati University, also started offering Chinese courses for Indian soldiers in 2017, with 25 soldiers admitted to the course last year. According to a PTI report in May 2017, the officiating vice-chancellor of the university, Swapan Kumar Dutta, said that the certificate course in Chinese would teach soldiers about China's rich culture and the centuries-old ties between the two nations. The Indian army's Eastern Command has established an advanced Chinese language training laboratory at Penagarh for soldiers deployed along the Line of Actual Control, UK's Daily Mail reported in February 2017, quoting a senior Indian army official. According to the Daily Mail report, the new facility can train 125 students annually, and the army also provides facilities including Chinese learning software, a library and Chinese TV channels to troops. The language training aims to make soldiers more confident in holding routine conversations in Chinese during border personnel meets, flag meetings and border talks. Selected soldiers will also act as interpreters during visits by high-level delegations, the Daily Mail reported. The series of Chinese learning programs for Indian troops was launched after the Doklam standoff at the request of Indian union home minister Rajnath Singh, who said that every border soldier should know basic Mandarin so that they don't face language issues at the border during face-offs with the Chinese, according to PTI. Song Zhongping, a military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times that Indian troops' learning Chinese could prevent misunderstandings and is conducive to peace and stability on borders, but would also have a greater significance during war. Understanding the Chinese language and culture could greatly help India take control of border areas in a confrontation, thus, strengthening language learning is a form of strategic preparation, Song said. Echoing Song, Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow at the Institute of International Relations of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times that Indian troops could also monitor Chinese soldiers on the China-India border, and seize the initiative in future border clashes by learning Chinese. \"India could come up with effective and targeted strategies once their troops can correctly grasp what their Chinese counterparts mean during war,\" Hu said. \"Language ability can boost communication in peacetime, but in wartime, it is a weapon,\" Hu said. Provocative moves Chinese experts warned that China should prepare for possibly more border clashes with India this year, as it has been sending provocative signals to China since the Doklam standoff in 2017. The Indian government is planning to add 15 new battalions in the country's border force, a move that will fortify defenses along its strategic frontiers with Pakistan, Bangladesh and China, the Times of India reported in January. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the so-called Arunachal Pradesh in February. In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said on February 15 that China is firmly opposed to the Indian leader's visit to the disputed area and would lodge stern representations with the Indian side.It's not just Indian troops, but also the much wider Indian population that is learning Chinese, as India is both jealous and under pressure from China's growing global competitiveness, Hu said." ]

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[ "The Damned to release live album from 40th anniversary tour", null, "by John Gentile Nitro 6 years ago\n\nOn December 9, The Damned will play England's Margate Winter Gardens as part of their 40th Anniversary Tour. The will be recording the performance and releasing it as a double live album called Margate Rock. The band will play their first album in full and play other hits from throughout their career. The release appears to be self-released. Punknews spoke to Captain Sensible earlier this year." ]

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[ "The thought occurred to me that these might well be the only videos of these events that exist.\n\nThis feature comes courtesy of a Creighton legacy family with a treasure trove of old campus footage. It started with an email we received from Tony Schenk, BSPHA'68, late last year ….\n\n“I read an interesting article on Creighton football in the Bluejay Bites newsletter, and I thought someone might be interested in some old films.\n\n“I inherited a box of movie reels from my father, Leonard Schenk, BSPHA'39. Several of these show football games while Dad was attending Creighton. He also filmed Creighton homecoming parades, dorm (or rooming house) life and other events in Omaha.\n\n“The thought occurred to me that these might well be the only videos of these events that exist.”\n\nTony says that one of his father’s fears was that this footage was just going to disappear without anyone ever seeing it again. In the past few years, Tony has begun to digitize the 8mm film reels and upload them to YouTube. So far, he says, he’s only scratched the surface of hundreds of hours of footage.\n\nWe’ve included clips of Leonard’s footage throughout the following story. Read on to see scenes from Creighton from more than 80 years ago.\n\nLeonard’s own father ran a drug store in small-town Kansas, and the store had a camera department. He started making movies in his teens.\n\nAs you can see in the following video of Leonard taken while he was at Creighton, he was a bit of a goof.\n\n“He loved to clown around,” Tony says of his dad. “Whenever he was on camera, he would act like an old silent movie star. He made quite an impression.”\n\nSome of Leonard’s most interesting footage is of Creighton homecoming parades from the ’30s, not only for what they show of Creighton students and alumni but of downtown Omaha.\n\nAnd Leonard shot just as much footage from the homecoming football games as he did the parades.\n\nThe crowd shots are downright startling — just a big stadium full of football fans, right in the middle of campus …\n\nAnd here’s some of the last footage he shot at Creighton, at his own graduation ceremony in 1939 …\n\nShortly after graduation — the day after the Pearl Harbor attack — Leonard joined the U.S. Army. Because of his experience building radios, he was commissioned as an officer to work on radar installations throughout WWII.\n\nHe went on to own his own Kansas drug store. (It also had a camera department.) He remained a filmmaker most of his life, shooting footage at countless occasions. He passed away in 2019 at the age of 101.\n\nTo know that so many Bluejays would someday see his movies of Creighton — a place he held so dear — would have thrilled him, his son says.\n\nStories like this wouldn’t be possible without the help of the University Archives, the keeper of Creighton’s history. Please consider making a gift to the Archives and helping us preserve Creighton’s amazing story for generations to come.", null, null, null ]

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[ "Isabella is having a very good traveling day.\n\n“Above all, I had a horse so good that he was always trying to run away, and galloped so lightly over the flowery grass that I rode the 17 miles here with great enjoyment. Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable traveling.”\n\nAs is her habit, she noted all of the flora she passed, including: reedy grass as high as the horse’s ears, Ailanthus glandulosus (which was much riddled by the mountain silkworm), and the undergrowth of the familiar Pteris aquilina.\n\nTonight she is stopping a Japanese village, which she calls a colonization settlement, mainly of displaced samurai from a nearby province. Tomorrow she’ll go deeper into the mountains, which will be more Ainu than Japanese.", null, "(I believe she is at the dot where my pen is pointing. Place names are a little sketchy in this stretch.)\n\nOur Austrian/French friends Mr Von Siebold and Count Diesbach* have turned up in the same village and are returning from their trip to map rivers and drink claret. They were successful with one of those pursuits.\n\n“They have suffered terribly from fleas, mosquitos, and general discomfort, and are much exhausted; but Mr Von S thinks that, in spite of all, a visit to the mountain Ainos** is worth the long journey. As I expected, they have completely failed in their explorations, and have been deserted by Lieutenant Kreitner. I asked Mr Von S to speak to Ito in Japanese about the importance of being kind and courteous to the Ainos whose hospitality I shall receive and Ito is very indignant at this. ‘Treat Ainos politely!’ he says; ‘they’re just dogs; not men,’” which just goes to show you how bad feelings about the native people you’ve displaced are standard across cultures.\n\n** I just now realized that I’ve been spelling it “Ainu” and Bird’s been using “Aino.” I’m 99% certain it’s “Ainu” but it might have been one of those spellings that morphed over time. Bird also flips between Eskimo and Eskimeaux, fwiw. Language is weird." ]

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[ null, "Peniel Joseph tells an incredible story in this book. The story is about the evolution of a collection of ideas which would come to be associated with Black Power. It starts off in Harlem with Malcolm X in the early 1950s and ends in 1975 with the original Oakland Black Panther Party completely stripped down from an international revolutionary party and reworked into a local reform organization in California. In the middle are a wide array of individuals, organizations, places and ideologies but what Joseph does so well is make it read as if they were all part of the same story.\n\nTo some extent telling the story of Black Nationalism, Black Communism, Pan-Africanism and many other tendencies in the same breath is a project of myth-making. Not all these thousands of people knew each other, they didn’t see their work as the same fight, they were separated by time, distance, class, aesthetics and ideas. But in some ways, myth making is what we need. We need to understand nuance, sure, but we also need to believe that history produced people and ideas that produced movements which were large, dynamic and incredible. This isn’t to say we need myths about saviors and savants, but to say we need something which will inspire our imaginations to think bigger and longer than our pragmatic minds will often let us.\n\nMuch of the history in this book will be vaguely familiar to the average intellectually curious reader who has read up on the 20th century, civil rights, etc. But almost half of the people, events and groups featured in this book had never crossed my eyes. And the rest of them had never been contextualized as part of a lineage that was easy to follow and make sense of.\n\nI highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to survey left-leaning activism initiated by Black Americans and their allies between 1950-1975. This history is too rich to miss out on, dismiss, or misunderstand. Peniel Joseph takes incredible history and turns it into an incredible story." ]

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[ "Brothers charged in beating of father\n\nTwo brothers charged with first- and second-degree in an attack on their father in Berlin.\n\nBrothers charged in beating of father", null, "Two brothers have been arrested in Berlin and charged with assault in the beating of their father, according to the Berlin Police Department.\n\nAt 2:30 a.m. Saturday, police responded to 525 Bay St., Unit 233, in Berlin to a report of disorderly subjects. Upon arrival, an officer found the victim in the hallway, beaten and asking for help. Due to the severity of his injuries, the victim was sent by helicopter to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.\n\nBoth suspects were held at the Worcester County Jail on $15,000 bonds." ]

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[ null, "2020 was a weird year–no need to elaborate further. I think that’s going to translate to a weird, jumbled group of winners and a few notable upsets. Expect the biggest awards of the night to each go to a different movie. As always, my predictions are below and I’ll update with the actual winners as the night goes on.\n\nBest Picture\nPredicted Winner: The Trial of the Chicago 7\nActual Winner: Nomadland\nNomadland seems to be the overwhelming favorite to win. It’s garnered the most critical praise and has racked up an impressive list of awards already. And while the Academy has definitely embraced smaller indie pictures recently (see Moonlight and Parasite), Chicago 7 just seems to check off more of the boxes Best Picture winners seem to have. It’s well-crafted; it’s well acted; it’s political but not radical; it’s historical but timely. I think we’re going to see a Chicago 7 win a la Argo, Spotlight, or Green Book.\n\nBest Director★\nPredicted Winner: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland\nActual Winner: Chloe Zhao, Nomadland\nConsidering how many different hands Chicago 7 passed through before it was finally made, there’s no way Best Director is going to my Best Picture prediction. With Nomadland, Chloe Zhao does an incredible job crafting a simple, but elegant film with big emotions. Having won virtually every other director award in the industry this year, she’s getting the Oscar too.\n\nBest Actress\nPredicted Winner: Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman\nActual Winner: Frances McDormand, Nomadland\nContinuing my prediction that the biggest awards of the night are all going to different films, this is Promising Young Woman‘s best shot at an Oscar. The main character is both a traumatized, grieving friend and an anti-creep vigilante, while hiding both from those around her. Carey Mulligan is practically playing three different roles simultaneously, and she absolutely pulls it off.\n\nBest Actor★\nPredicted Winner: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom\nActual Winner: Anthony Hopkins, The Father\nChadwick Boseman was bound to win an Oscar at some point, but with his tragic death last year, this will be his last chance. It’s certainly not a sympathy vote though, as it’ll be well-earned for his performance in Ma Rainey. But he also deserves it as a cap on an iconic, far-too-short career.\n\nOriginal Song\nPredicted Winner: Leslie Odom, Jr and Sam Ashworth, “Speak Now” from One Night in Miami…\nActual Winner: H.E.R., “Fight for You” from Judas and the Black Messiah" ]

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[ "By Peter Allen In Paris and Dan Bloom\n\nTwo French journalists have been killed hours after being kidnapped by suspected Al-Qaeda rebels in Mali.\n\nFrench president Francois Hollande has condemned the killing of Ghislaine Dupont, 51, and Claude Verlon, 58, who were covering elections in the volatile African state.\n\nFour gunmen struck at 1pm today in the northern town of Kidal, where the pair were seen being beaten before they were driven away in a 4x4 pickup truck.", null, null, "Dead: The bodies of French journalists Ghislaine Dupont, left, and Claude Verlon, right, were found 'riddled with bullets' today eight miles from Kidal, Mali, hours after they were kidnapped by suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen", null, "The pair were beaten outside the home of a separatist leader. Pictured: Soldiers patrolling earlier this year\n\nBoth had been interviewing Ambeiry Ag Rhissa, from the Tuareg separatist group MNLA, on behalf of Radio France International (RFI) and were kidnapped outside his house.\n\nOne source said their bodies were found riddled with bullets eight miles from the town, which was the birthplace of a violent uprising last year.\n\nAnother source said the pair's throats may have been cut.\n\nMr Rhissa said: 'When they left, I heard a strange noise outside. I immediately went out to see and when I opened my door, a turbaned man pointed a gun at me and told me go back inside.\n\n'I could not see how many men were there.'\n\nThey had travelled to the town despite being warned not to by the French army, a defence official said.", null, "Dupont was a journalist 'passionate about her job and the African continent that she covered since joining RFI in 1986,' bosses at her radio station said in a statement.\n\nVerlon was 'used to difficult terrain throughout the world,' it added, and staff members 'are all in shock, profoundly saddened, indignant and angry'.\n\nFrance opened a judicial investigation into the kidnappings and deaths 'linked to a terrorist enterprise,' the prosecutor's office said.\n\nThe French Foreign Ministry said intelligence services are joining with Malian authorities to shed light on the circumstances of their deaths.\n\n‘The kidnappers were driving a Toyota pick-up,’ said local governor Adama Kamissoko, who added that all were heavily armed.\n\nFrench forces intervened in Mali in January against an Al Qaeda rebel army which President Francois Hollande feared was trying to take over the country.\n\nAlthough the force was initially repelled, the extremists have regrouped, and intense fighting is still taking place around the country.", null, "Francois Hollande. A statement said: 'The French president expresses his indignation over this heinous act'\n\nPierre Legrand, 28, Thierry Dol, 32, Daniel Larribe, 62, and Marc Feret, 46 were all captured in September 2010 during raids on a uranium mine near Arlit, northern Niger, where they were working for nuclear giant Areva.\n\nThe Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) group claimed responsibility and there were always fears that the hostages would be killed.\n\nThere have been claims since then that France paid more than £17m for the hostage release, although Mr Hollande vehemently denied this, insisting that his country does not negotiate with Al-Qaeda.\n\nMr Hollande launched air strikes and sent hundreds of soldiers into Mali in January to drive back Al Qaeda rebels, saying they would use the West African country as a base for attacks on the west.\n\nThe global intelligence company Stratfor estimates that al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has carried out at least 18 kidnappings since 2003, raising an estimated $89m in ransom payments.\n\nThere was no initial comment today from the journalists’ employer, RFI." ]

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[ null, "The detainees are Nezam Uddin, Shakil, Sazzad, Sujon, Manik and Omar Faruk of the upazila.\n\nTipped off, a team of Rab-15 conducted a drive in the area and detained the robbers along with three guns and 11 bullets, said Senior Assistant Director of Rab-15 Abu Salam Chowdhury.\n\nThe elite force members detained them when they were taking preparation to loot valuables from a fishing trawler in Sonadia Channel of the Bay of Bengal, he said." ]

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[ null, "The “Charmed” actress tweeted about the California senator last week after she was tapped as presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s running mate.\n\n“Did you return the money Weinstein gave you? @SenKamalaHarris How many predators bankroll you?” McGowan tweeted last Wednesday.\n\nThe post also included a retweet of records showing that Harris took donations from Ivanka Trump and President Trump during her 2014 re-election campaign for California attorney general.\n\nAfter sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein broke in 2017, a slew of Democrats, including Harris, announced they’d be giving the disgraced producer’s donations to various charities.\n\nHarris said she would give the $5,000 to Equal Rights Advocates, a women’s rights organization based in California, USA Today reported.\n\nSomeone replied to McGowan’s tweet with that information, with the prominent Weinstein accuser replying, “Good. Still creepy. Everyone knew.”\n\nA rep for the Biden-Harris campaign didn’t immediately return a message." ]

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[ "PeaceLove: A Small Cafe with a lot of Soul\n\nIt’s Friday night in the Melrose section of the Bronx and the smooth sounds of jazz music spill out onto the sidewalk at the corner of 151st St. and Melrose Ave. No, it’s not 1920, this is what every Friday night sounds like at PeaceLove Cafe.", null, "Few people would think that one of the poorest communities in the country would be the perfect location for an organic cafe, but Darada David isn’t one of them. Having grown up in the adjacent Mott Haven area, David walked along Melrose Avenue every Sunday to get to church and thought that something was missing.\n\n” Seeing a lack of positive activities and cultural events… I wanted to create a place where people would feel good entering that also had great service,” David says.", null, "In August 2009, her dreams were realized when PeaceLove celebrated its grand opening.\n\nThe cafe, a cozy space with colorful mosaic tables and wooden chairs, features portraits of influential African American leaders, many of them musicians. This is representative of David’s own musical background. Having gone to LaGuardia High School for music and receiving her Bachelor of Arts in Music from City College, David spent her time working on various art projects and singing in jazz clubs with the PeaceLove band, the inspiration for the name of the cafe.\n\nThe cafe’s menu features all organic fare, including items like fruit smoothies and okra chick pea soup. In line with the financial situations with most of the people in the area, nothing on the menu is more than $6. David says that the cafe is her attempt at provoking change in a neighborhood and borough where healthy food options are limited.\n\nA recent study found that the Bronx is the unhealthiest county in the entire state. Though the city has attempted to create programs to change this, including incentive-based programs such as the Healthy Bodegas Initiative which encourages bodega owners in low income neighborhoods to sell fresh produce and low fat products. An increase in the amount of farmer’s markets in the Bronx has increased, but with many of them only open during the summer and fall, access to fresh produce for many of the borough’s residents is restricted. However, David found that a lack of strong support from local politicians and city officials makes getting proper nutritional information to residents more difficult.\n\n“It’s not that people don’t want to eat healthily, it’s the environment they’re in,” she says.\n\nDavid hopes that her petition to city officials to put tax dollars towards incentives for business owners to open locations in the Bronx will be approved to help stimulate the area and create economic growth.", null, "By participating in the Bronx Culture Trolley tours, hosting open mics and poetry jams on Thursdays, and featuring live jazz music on Fridays, David is creating a buzz for PeaceLove as a cultural hot spot or a place “where Bronx socialites go” as the cafe’s slogan proudly boasts. It hosts events for influential members of the community and borough, such as February’s Bronx Social Media Week which invited Bronx bloggers and television personalities to participate on an informational panel.\n\nFor it’s efforts and positive influence in the neighborhood, the cafe earned a Certificate of Merit from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr.\n\nDavid says she would love to expand the cafe to other areas in the Bronx if resources and the opportunity to do so arose.\n\nAlvin Rogers, a saxophonist who often plays at the cafe during jazz nights, has been playing at PeaceLove since it opened.", null, "“It’s a treasure for the Bronx,” he says. “It plays a big role in the community… I wish it were embraced more.”\n\nAs editor for the Weissman Center, Lisa received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Creative Writing from Baruch College in June 2011. She co-founded the school's sole creative writing club, Writers' Society in 2010. When not working on the blog, Lisa explores interest in local reporting. She has interned at Bronxnet, the New York Daily News, and the L Magazine.\nView all posts by Lisa →\nThis entry was posted in Food and tagged Melrose, organic, PeaceLove Cafe, The Bronx. Bookmark the permalink.\n\n6 Responses to PeaceLove: A Small Cafe with a lot of Soul" ]

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[ "There are many veterans in the long line of our Halls, from my brothers and father, all the way back to my 3rd great grandfather in the American Revolution. My late husband and his father were Vietnam veterans, and my mother’s side of the family did their part during war times also.\n\nI’ve decided to feature the only female veteran in our Hall line that I am aware of. She was an unpublished writer and had the grand name of Mercedes, but we just called her Aunt Mercy. She was my great aunt, my father’s aunt. Her father served, and was crippled by a bullet wound, in the Spanish-American War at the Battle of San Juan Hill.\n\nWhile touring the U.S. with my two children in 2001, we spent some time with Aunt Mercy. Our little r.v. was being repaired, so we left most of our belongings with Aunt Mercy and rented a car for the east coast part of our trip. She had one request: she wanted us to go to the Women In Military Service For America Memorial in Washington, D.C. and look up her name.\n\nThe east coast trip was memorable for many reasons, but one of the most moving things that took place was typing “Mercedes Hall” into the computer at the women’s memorial, and then looking up to see her beautiful photo and service record (above) on a massive wall. Sara, Jon and I just stood and looked in awe.", null, "We got two color copies of the image on the wall and took one back to Aunt Mercy. I also have a book (see image), The Giving of Self; The History of St. Joseph Infirmary School of Nursing, which features a photo of my aunt’s 1939 graduating class. The image is blurry, so I did not include it here.\n\nAunt Mercy was a proud woman, yet she practically giggled when we told her about our visit to the memorial, and then brought out our souvenirs. She recounted more tales about her Navy Nurse adventures and we spent hours going over family photos and stories. She kept telling friends and family, “They went and saw me in Washington, D.C.!”\n\nI’m especially glad that we included Aunt Mercy on our itinerary, because she passed away less than a year later, 10 days before her 86th birthday; she was the last of 11 Hall siblings.\n\nI hope you enjoyed this Veterans Day post. It was good to revisit Aunt Mercy’s pride and happiness about her service for America.\n\n12 thoughts on “Honoring Our Veterans; My Great Aunt Mercy”" ]

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[ "Mark Frerichs, a veteran of the Navy and a civilian contractor who spent nearly a decade in Afghanistan before his capture in January 2020, has been released in what his family has described as a prisoner exchange.\n\nA month before President Trump announced that an agreement had been struck between his administration and the Taliban, Mark Frerichs vanished. For over two years the veteran was held captive by the Taliban-linked Haqqani Network, his confinement lasting through the pullout of American troops under President Biden.\n\nNow, Frerichs, 60, has been released following the Biden Administration agreeing to the release of Bashir Noorzai, a Taliban-allied drug trafficker.\n\nNorzai, who was received in Kabul by an honor guard of Taliban militants who placed garlands of the Afghani national colors around his neck, was once an American intelligence asset who, in 2005, was persuaded to travel to the United States where he was apprehended and thereafter imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for the next 17 years.\n\nHaji Bishar, last Afghan prisoner in #Guantanamo prison, was freed by efforts of the Islamic Emirate. He was imprisoned in Guantanamo for almost 17 years, and after his liberation, he arrived in #Afghanistan today. pic.twitter.com/fhPWZnYfV5\n\nAccording to Art Frerichs, Mark’s father, the family has not yet been able to contact the former captive, but they have received a call from President Joe Biden. Biden, for his part, described the decision to exchange that Taliban-aligned drug lord for Frerichs as “difficult.”\n\n“I am so happy to hear that my brother is safe and on his way home to us. Our family has prayed for this each day of the more than 31 months he has been a hostage,” his sister, Charlene Cakora, said in a statement following his release.\n\nCakora also said that while the exchange was being discussed within upper levels of the Biden Administration, there were a number of dissenting opinions who did not want it to go through. Ultimately, Cakora says that Biden made the right call. “He saved the life of an innocent American veteran,” she said.\n\nIn April of 2021, the Associated Press reported on concerns expressed by the Frerichs family who were distraught — first by the Trump administration to offer a peace plan to the Taliban and subsequently by the Biden Administration which announced the withdrawal of American troops unconditioned by the release of American prisoners:\n\nMark Frerichs, a contractor from Lombard, Illinois, believed held for more than a year by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network, was not mentioned in President Joe Biden’s address on Afghanistan last week. Nor was the troop withdrawal, scheduled to be complete by Sept. 11, conditioned on his release from custody, fueling concerns that the U.S. could lose bargaining power to get Frerichs home once its military presence is removed from the country.\n\nEven so, for Frerichs’ family, the failure to make his return a factor in the withdrawal is a source of frustration, as is the fact that the Trump administration signed a peace deal in February 2020, just weeks after Frerichs vanished in Afghanistan while working on engineering projects in the country.", null, "Larry Elder Teases 2024 Presidential Campaign Regardless of Another Trump Run" ]

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[ null, "The Sonoma City Council is hoping to jolt PG&E into a fairer winter-rate structure.\n\nAt least as much of a jolt as a letter to Sacramento can deliver.\n\nThe City Council on Monday unanimously approved a proposal to send a letter on behalf of the City of Sonoma to state Sen. Jerry Hill in support of a bill he’s authored which would attempt to smooth wild fluctuations in energy bills and require public utilities to provide more transparency in how they calculate their bills.\n\nExtreme utility bill spikes first came to the Council’s attention at its April 3 meeting, when Councilmember Amy Harrington called for action in the wake of many Sonoma residents complaining of “bill shock” when their winter gas utility fees skyrocketed by as much as 40 percent over the prior month.\n\nPacific Gas and Electric charges for gas using a structure of two tiers. Tier 1, a lower rate called the “baseline allocation,” is charged for the first 70 percent of the average customer use during the winter. Gas charged above that 70 percent is at the Tier 2 rate, which is 40 percent higher.\n\nBut with this past winter’s particularly cold December and January, many utility customers found themselves heating their way to the baseline far earlier in the month and paying nearly half their gas bills at the 40-percent-higher Tier 2 rate. Also raising eyebrows among utility watchdogs is the fact that PG&E factors the mild months of November and March into its “winter” baseline of average use. Including those low-energy months in the mix brings down the overall average monthly use among customers – lowering the baseline and ushering shivering residents into the pricey Tier 2 level much faster.\n\nState Sen. Hill’s SB 711 would require that 70 percent of the bill for the average customer would be covered by the lower-priced Tier 1 rate and compel utilities to include the expected cost of the next month’s bill so customers can adjust their usage or budget in advance. Additionally, it would require the California Public Utilities Commission to approve the methods that utilities use to estimate bills and post those methods on their websites.\n\nIn its report to the Council on rising utility bills, city staff also made note of a series of PG&E rate hikes in 2014 and 2016, the latter of which resulted in a 14 percent increase on the average gas bill. In 2015, the CPUC approved PG&E’s request for a $2.37 billion rate hike levied on customers over three years.\n\nCritics of such steep PG&E rate hikes say the utility regularly posts profits nearing $1 billion a year and contend that it’s trying to pass off the price tag for the pipeline repairs it failed to conduct which led to a 2016 criminal conviction in a federal court for safety violations and obstruction of justice related to the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion that killed eight people and destroyed dozens of homes.\n\nAccording to bizjournals.com, PG&E officials said a number of CPUC-approved rate hikes between December 2015 and December 2016 have resulted in residential rates increasing by 21 percent.\n\nPG&E spokesperson Brian Bottari was in attendance at the May 15 Council meeting and expressed his sympathy for beleaguered rate payers.\n\n“We fully understand how frustrating it can be when bills are higher than normal, or expected,” said Bottari, of Santa Rosa. “Winter gas bills, December and January, were quite high for some folks.”\n\nIn its letter to state Sen. Hill, the City Council describes itself as “pleased” to support bringing “more transparency and fairness to energy bills” via SB 711.\n\n“The recent rate increases have been difficult for many households to adjust to, but for our most vulnerable residents they have created undue hardship,” says the letter. It concludes by saying the bill “takes affirmative steps to ensure that rates are fair and give customers necessary tools to lower energy use where possible.”\n\nIn addition to sending the letter, the Council also agreed to send Councilmember Harrington to Sacramento to speak before the state legislature on behalf of SB 711." ]

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[ null, "The appropriate time for large scale deployment of geoengineering will be something like now, that the world experiences extreme weather events. ‘Geoengineer the climate, engineer it to save us’ will be the prevalent spout from people because of hard to bear recurrent extremes of devastating magnitude.\nThe losses and impact from weather extremes, of the past few weeks around the world, has prompted serious concerns. Rich and powerful nations are being hurt likewise small and developing nations. Similar weather occurrences have rocked some of the affected places previously, and made news but was seen as a snippet of future climate change.\nThe story today is different. The chronology and parallelism of present events suggest that there are changes in the climate setup of the world, evident by the anomalies. The knowledge is that global warming is responsible, based on the accumulation of greenhouse emissions in the troposphere –- the lowest part of the earth’s atmosphere.\nSome disagree with this, stating that global warming or anthropogenic emissions are not responsible for climate change. Some in this class have their ‘facts’ and take on major evidences that support the knowledge. Global warming aside this opposition is also facing hard times with decision makers, to agree on a global effort for mitigating emission.\nThe issues facing global warming from the human viewpoint can be tied to actual occurrence. If things really get extreme, and pains go round, who will have the time for disputes to facts or agreement? The occurrence factor has made many who have ‘evidence’, points or passionate about the climate to lean back.\nNow though, polls in the States report gain in the percentage of climate change believers, and global press reports on these extremes continue to mention climate change, allowing decision makers and their advisers to possibly give another thought to the information.\nWith more extremes in future, successive and following the same sequence, global warming or mitigation of emissions will not be the issue, geoengineering (or climate engineering) will. The world may be tepid to absolutely push the important-for-the-future mitigation, while harm is, from past ones.\nGreenhouse gases that have accumulated in the troposphere will cause significant warming into the future even if emissions were stopped. This presents a need for geoengineering if the earth’s average temperature slips or extreme events suddenly line.\nGeoengineering present technologies to increase the reflectivity of the earth’s atmosphere or surface and to remove carbon dioxide — a major greenhouse emission — from the atmosphere. Their use come at scales, but will contribute to lowering the average temperature of the earth in a number of years.\nManaging solar radiation by increasing earth’s reflectivity is seen as the quickest and likely to adopt in urgent situations, while carbon dioxide removal flow with the gradual clean energy and mitigation objective. Some volcanic eruptions do climate engineering by injecting aerosols into the stratosphere. This is the case for a geoengineering technology called aerosol-injection.\nGeoengineering has its bad sides and efforts to resolve them have kept the subject at the research level. Agreeing to deploy it for the benefit of the world can come in a year or so, if the world is bashed badly by weather events. Mitigation will also be increased, but geoengineering, most likely aerosol-injection at choice points will be used for a few years.\nFiled under: Health & Science, Media & Tech\nShare Tweet Pin G Plus Email\nprevious article: Atlantic Hurricane Season 2012\nnext article: JK CM ,others pays tribute to martyrs" ]

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[ null, "I put this album on in the car and didn't take it out for days - reveling in the subtle surprises inherent in the compositions.... Thoughtful music, with energetic bursts; I can't wait to hear more from these exciting young players.\n-Brad Walseth, Jazz Chicago\n\nHashem Assadullahi is a saxophonist, bandleader and music educator in New York City. Hashem regularly performs music ranging from the big band repertoire of the swing era, to straight-ahead styles, to the avant garde. In 2008 Hashem formed his quintet, featuring some of the best musicians in the Pacific Northwest, along with trumpet icon Ron Miles. The group has since expanded to a sextet and has recorded two albums: Strange Neighbor (8bells, 014) and Pieces (OA2 records, pending release). Hashem has lead groups featuring some the world?s greatest talents in Jazz, including Alan Ferber, Ben Monder, Mark Ferber, and Rich Perry. In addition to his own releases, he has had the opportunity to record with several ensembles, appearing on the albums Live at Jo Fed?s with the Poisonous Birds (June 2008), The Turning Point with the Douglas Detrick Quintet (8bells, 015), as well as Walking Across (8bells,016), Rivers Music (Origin Classical, OC33012), Awake, Awake (pending release), and The Bright and Rushing World (pending release) with the Anywhen Ensemble. In addition to performing, he has held positions teaching music courses and directing ensembles at various institutions including Mahidol University in Salaya, Thailand, Lane Community College, and the University of Oregon. Hashem frequently serves as a clinician and adjudicator across the United States and abroad. Hashem received his Bachelors of Music Education from the University of Texas in Arlington and a Masters of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of Oregon.", null ]

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[ null, "March 28th, a little before midnight: Violetta, her daughter Dasha and their dog Udin, get off the car train at Oslo central station. It has been almost 3 days, 5 train rides, and one ferry cruise — across 4 countries — since they managed to escape Ukraine: their home, which has become a battlefield.\n\nA Norwegian woman standing on the platform notices the 3, and immediately runs towards them. It is evident she is excited and deeply relieved to see them, and they are all hugging, wiping away tears of happiness. One never would have guessed that until recently, they were total strangers and didn’t know about each other’s existence. Now, this woman — Tatiana — is giving them a safe, warm asylum at her home in Oslo. All thanks to their fresh discovery, made through MyHeritage: they are family.", null, "Igor, a passionate MyHeritage user, devoted 3 years to researching his family history, and managed to trace his family tree way back to 1689. He decided it was time to give some attention to his wife’s legacy: “I asked Wytalisa to tell me as much as possible about her family,” Igor says. “Using the MyHeritage app, I simultaneously entered the information and scanned the family photos, enriching my family tree in real time.”\n\nAlmost immediately, Igor and Violetta got a Smart Match™ connecting them through Violetta’s grandfather (Joseph Brzezicki) to Tatiana Brzezicka, 53, from Oslo: another dedicated MyHeritage user who manages 15 family trees with information about 2,287 people and more than 2,000 photographs and archival documents — all going back to the mid-13th century.\n\nThat very night, December 25, 2021, Igor and Violetta sent a message to Tatiana through the MyHeritage website. Tatiana answered instantly, and they spoke for the first time the next morning. “This was the best Christmas present from MyHeritage to our family,” says Igor. “Violetta and Tatiana spoke for more than two hours. After the initial excitement subsided, Violetta instantly felt she was talking to a dear, close person, and also amazed by the great amounts of valuable information Tatiana shared about their family.”\n\nFleeing for their lives\n\nTwo months later, on February 24, the war broke out. “We woke up to the sounds of explosions,” Igor recalls. “Russia launched missile attacks throughout Ukraine and our hometown of Kyiv. At noon, Tatiana called, urging us to come stay with her at her home in Oslo.”\n\nFinding it hard to leave their home and their life behind, Violetta, Igor, and their young daughter Dasha (age 28) moved to the home of their eldest daughter Anastasia, located 100km from Kyiv. They were repeatedly evacuated to shelters due to severe attacks.\n\nAs the war intensified and expanded, there was no doubt their lives were in real danger. Anastasia escaped to Istanbul with her two children, aged 8 and 4. Violetta and Dasha understood, with heavy hearts, they must flee as well — and worst of all, they’d have to leave without Igor. As a man in the age range for military service, he was banned from leaving Ukraine.\n\nTheir journey to find refuge began March 26, on a night train from Kyiv, Ukraine to Helm, Poland.", null, "Dasha at a refugee center in Warsaw, Poland\n\n“The train set off very quietly,” Igor says. “All lights were off, for safety reasons, and all the curtains on the train’s windows were shut, so I couldn’t wave goodbye to my loved ones. I stood on the platform, watching the train disappearing into the darkness of Kyiv’s night.”\n\nDue to the curfew imposed in Kyiv, forbidden citizens to move around the city after sunset, Igor had to spend the night at the train station. Sitting on the first chair he came across, knowing it would be impossible to fall asleep, Igor couldn’t stop thinking that only 3 months earlier his family didn’t even know Tatiana existed. “Suddenly, she is our dearest relative, giving us tremendous and generous help. I never imagined that MyHeritage would become such an important part of my family’s life.”\n\nMeanwhile, in Helm, a group of volunteers helped Violetta, Dasha, and Udin board a suburban train to Warsaw. After spending a night at a refugee shelter in Warsaw, Polish volunteers took them to a train heading north, to Gdynia, a port city on the Baltic coast of Poland.", null, "Violetta and Udin wait for the ferry in Poland\n\nTatiana tried to buy them airplane tickets, but the fact that they were traveling with their dog, Udin, complicated matters. In Gdynia, they boarded a ferry and sailed across the Baltic Sea to Karlskrona, Sweden.", null, "Violetta on board the ferry to Karlskrona, Sweden\n\nIrena, a volunteer Tatiana had found, waited for the 3 and took them to eat and rest at her home in Karlskrona. At that point they were two train rides away from the final destination: one train to Gothenburg, Sweden, and a last train to Oslo, Norway — where Violetta, Dasha, and Udin finally met up with Tatiana.\n\nLiving as one family\n\nFor several months now, Violetta and Dasha have been living with Tatiana at her home as one family. Udin, on the other hand, is still trying to make friends with Tatiana’s cat, Lissa.", null, "From left: Tatiana, Dasha, and Violetta with their dog Udin, in Tatiana’s back yard in Oslo.\n\nThis beautiful story was brought to our attention by Igor, who contacted us in April because he was having trouble renewing his MyHeritage subscription due to the war. We were happy and honored to extend Igor’s subscription for free — as we have been doing for all Ukrainian users with existing subscriptions since the war broke out — and we’re deeply grateful to him for sharing his story. Our thoughts are with him and we’re praying that he will soon be safely reunited with his family.\n\nIf you’ve also made a life-changing discovery through MyHeritage, we’d love to hear about it! Send us your story via this form or email it to us at [email protected]." ]

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[ "All mall customers will be required to wear face coverings at all times while inside, and stores will be limited to 50% capacity.\n\nTheaters and arcades will remain closed, and restaurants may provide take out or outdoor dining.\n\n“Certainly malls are part of New Jersey culture and lure. I think as much here if not more so than any American state,” Murphy said.\n\nReminding reporters about other states, including Florida, which issued a mandatory quarantine on New Yorkers coming to their states approximately 100 days ago, Cuomo acknowledged that experts have advised him to issue a quarantine for people coming to the state and he is considering it now.\n\n“Fast forward 100 days. Now we’re afraid they’re bringing the virus to our state. That’s why I say, tale of two cities, two countries, who could’ve, how, how do you explain this. Who would believe this, who would believe this 180-turn around? But, I haven’t made a decision yet, but I have had experts advise me of that. It is a real concern, you’re right it could happen and it’s something I’m considering,\" Cuomo said.\n\nArizona health officials have reported a new single-day high for coronavirus cases for the second time in this week, according to the state Department of Health Services.\n\nThursday's case count marks the state's highest total reported in a single day, behind Tuesday's 2,392, according to the health website.\n\nMore than 75% of Florida's Adult Intensive Care Unit beds are occupied, according to state data provided by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.\n\nToday, the state reported having 22.86% availability of adult ICU beds available in hospitals across the state, the report stated. The data is current as of 10:30 a.m. ET Thursday.\n\nGeneral hospital beds are at nearly 75% capacity across the state, according to AHCA.\n\nThis comes as Florida reported more than 3,000 new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday.\n\nNew York state is issuing guidelines Thursday to allow some residential and face-to-face programming for fall reopenings, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.\n\nColleges and universities planning for fall returns must develop plans and submit those to the state for approval.\n\nCuomo cautioned the state still needs more data, but it is starting to prepare plans for K-12 schools as well.\n\nHe did not provide specifics on K-12 schools.\n\nThe second executive order makes bars responsible for the area immediately in front of their premises including the sidewalk and SLA can enforce this.\n\n“The state cannot do enforcement on these local issues all across the state. I would, we don’t have enough people. SLA doesn’t have enough investigators. We need the local governments to do their part,” Cuomo said Thursday.\n\nThe governor said he wants to help ensure there is not a slide back and people don’t get careless.\n\nNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that yesterday the state tested the most people in one day, yet and had the lowest percent positive test results \"since we have started.\"\n\nBy the numbers: On Wednesday, Gov. Cuomo said New York conducted 68,541 tests and only 618 came back positive — a .90% positivity rate across the state.\n\nNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that while a final decision will not be made until tomorrow, New York City businesses should prepare to begin phase two of reopening on Monday.\n\nCuomo said experts will review the city's data to determine if it's meeting key metrics for reopening — but added that \"all the indications are good.\"\n\n\"Everybody's feeling good,\" Cuomo said, adding that his advice to businesses that can reopen under phase two to be ready for Monday.\n\nHere's a look at what will reopen under phase two:", null, "People who have coronavirus infections but never develop symptoms could have weaker immune responses to the virus, a new study suggests.\n\nThe small study, published in the journal Nature Medicine on Thursday, found that a group of about three dozen Covid-19 patients who were asymptomatic had levels of antibodies that were significantly lower than what was found among patients who had mild symptoms — a finding that suggests the asymptomatic patients had weaker immune responses.\n\nThe researchers, from various institutions in Chongqing, China, also found that the asymptomatic patients had a significantly longer duration of viral shedding — in which they could spread the coronavirus to others -- than the symptomatic patients.\n\nThe new study included data on 37 Covid-19 patients who were diagnosed before April 10 and developed no symptoms while isolated at a hospital in the Wanzhou District of Chongqing, China. Their health data, taken from blood samples and other tests, were compared with 37 other Covid-19 patients who had mild symptoms.\n\nThe data showed that, even though the asymptomatic patients were experiencing no symptoms, they were still shedding the coronavirus — meaning they were infectious — for a median duration of 19 days. That duration of viral shedding was significantly longer than what was found among the patients with mild symptoms, which was 14 days, according to the study.\n\nThe data also suggested that certain antibody levels among the asymptomatic patients were significantly lower relative to the symptomatic patients. Antibodies, which are proteins that circulate in your blood to help fight off infections, can hold clues to your body's immune response.\n\nAmong the asymptomatic patients, 81.1% had reductions in their neutralizing antibody levels during the eight weeks after being discharged from the hospital — compared with 62.2% of the symptomatic patients. The researchers found some other differences in the patients' health data, suggesting that \"asymptomatic individuals had a weaker immune response\" to the coronavirus.\n\nThe study had some limitations, including that it involved a small number of patients and antibody testing itself is not always 100% accurate. But overall, the researchers wrote in their study that the findings suggest there are potential risks to using \"immunity passports\" based on antibodies and \"support the prolongation of public health interventions, including social distancing, hygiene, isolation of high-risk groups and widespread testing.\"\n\nEleanor Riley, a professor of immunology and infectious disease at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, said that the new study's findings are not surprising.\n\n\"The data are in line with several recently reported studies suggesting that those with mild or asymptomatic infections make a less robust antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 than those with more severe disease,\" Riley said in a written statement distributed by the UK-based Science Media Centre on Thursday.\n\n\"The really interesting question, to which we don’t yet have an answer, is why some people develop such mild infections,\" Riley said in part. \"It may be that they are genetically less susceptible to infection or that they have some pre-existing immunity due to prior infection with related seasonal coronaviruses.\"" ]

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[ null, "Over 1,000 paleontologists from all over the world will arrive in Bristol, UK, this week to attend an international conference being held at the University of Bristol.\n\nOver 1,000 paleontologists from all over the world will arrive in Bristol, UK, this week to attend an international conference being held at the University of Bristol.\n\nFeathered dinosaurs, fossil giraffes, and the fossil bones of mammoth, bison and woolly rhinos from the bottom of the North Sea, are but a few of the hundreds of exciting new finds that will be revealed during the four days of the conference (23-26 September).\n\nFor the first time since its foundation in 1940, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists (SVP) will hold its annual meeting outside the Americas. It promises to be the largest-ever gathering of researchers studying fossils of backboned animals. The Society has chosen the University of Bristol as the location for its meeting because of its close ties with the Earth Sciences Department there, to say nothing of Bristol’s spectacular location in the heart of the southwest.\n\nAmong the mostly academic, student and museum-based scientists will be 17-year-old school girl Emma Hoffmann from New York who will present her research on the teeth of dromaeosaurid, a bird-like dinosaur.\n\n“I have had a passion for paleontology ever since I took a trip to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City when I was four years old”, said Emma. Her research will help paleontologists develop a more complete picture of dinosaur diversity at many fossil sites where small isolated teeth are commonly found.\n\nSince 2009 is Darwin Year, the meeting will also be a chance for Darwinians to explore the history of evolution and modern responses to Darwin. Special lectures – including one given by Sir David Attenborough (fully booked) – workshops and visits to Darwin locations across England are also planned for the delegates.\n\n2009 also happens to be the centenary anniversary of the University of Bristol.\n\nProfessor Mike Benton, Chair of the Host Committee and himself a famous paleontologist, said: “The University of Bristol is very excited to host the 69th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. This will be a momentous meeting for the Society; the first time it has ever met in the ‘Old World’.”\n\nProfessor Blaire Van Valkenburgh, SVP’s president said: “We are delighted to hold our first SVP annual meeting outside of North America in Bristol. We feel it is especially appropriate that we will be in England on the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, given the prominent role played by vertebrate fossils in shaping Darwin’s world view.”" ]

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[ null, "Things are looking up.\n\nSince playing my Wildcard two weeks ago, I have scored above the average on both occasions. But some things never change – and as usual, I continued to select the incorrect captain. Last week, Sturridge (8), Aguero (11) and Kane (11) led the line brilliantly for me – did I give one of them the armband? Of course not! I handed it to Santi Cazorla, who scored two pathetic points.\n\n48 points, with an average of 40, means that at least my side is looking better. My season is all about damage control at the moment, I won’t be getting into the top 20 000 like I wanted to, but now I just have to keep moving up.", null, "This is a really tough one to make. I have two free transfers, but next week Chelsea, Spurs, Leicester and QPR don’t play. Then the week after that, Spurs and QPR play twice. So I want Spurs players, but I don’t want them right now. It’s a strange one. Chelsea play Burnley this week, but I can’t bring in Costa as he doesn’t play next week. So I think I need to get rid of Eriksen this week, and bring him in again in two weeks’ time for their double gameweek.\n\nWho to bring in for Eriksen? I can’t choose a Chelsea player even though that’s super tempting. I therefore have to look at who has two easy fixtures coming up. Arsenal is tempting, but I have three of their players already. I’m therefore left with the two Manchester Clubs, but I only have 8.6 to spend. Options then exclude Yaya Toure, Silva and Di Maria. I can afford Mata, but he is out of favour anyway. So in a nutshell, I’m left with Nasri. I can’t say I’m happy bringing him in – he’s usually the player who assists the player who gets the assist. But it’s my only real option.", null, "In tough times like these we really appreciate feedback. Tell us about your changes on @Leftbacks on Twitter." ]

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[ "Skip to content\nHome > lifestyle > A decade of fitness: What we know & what we need to find out\n\nOne of the big themes of exercise science in the 2010s is that bodies in motion seem to develop interior ecosystems that differ, in fundamental ways, from those of the sedentary.", null, "For the past 10 years (and change), I have been covering exercise science in this column. During that time, I have seen interest in high-intensity exercise soar and enthusiasm for barefoot running fizzle. We have learned contracting muscles talk to baby neurons, creativity blooms from walking, a minute of exertion can be ample, aging is elastic and a chubby dog may be our best exercise motivator. With 2019 ending, I thought it worthwhile to look back at some of the persistent themes, revelations and surprises from the past decade in fitness.\n\nPerhaps most obviously, this has been a decade of greatest HIITs, with multiple studies and subsequent columns reiterating that super-short, strenuous workouts — known as high-intensity interval training — improve fitness and health to about the same extent as much longer, more moderate exercise. Since 2010, I have covered seven-minute, four-minute, one-minute, 20-second and 10-second interval routines, with each workout’s declining length increasing its allure. For many of us, the exercise of choice may be the briefest. At the same time, though, a wealth of other studies this decade underscored that gentle exercise is also meaningful, even if it barely qualifies as exercise. In one of my favorite studies from this year, researchers found that older women who regularly strolled about two miles a day, or a little more than 4,000 steps, lived longer than women who covered only about 2,000 steps, or a mile.\n\nIn fact, a recurring concern of exercise science this decade has been whether and how exercise reshapes ageing, and the results generally suggest that it does — and pervasively. In various recent studies, active older people’s muscles, immune systems, blood cells and even skin appeared biologically younger than those of sedentary people.\n\nTheir brains also tended to look and work differently. In what may be, for me, the most inspiring area of fitness research from the past decade, scientists have found and reaffirmed the extent to which movement, of almost any kind and amount, may remake how we think and feel. In one study after another, physical activity beneficially remodeled the brains of children and the middle-aged; lowered people’s risks for dementia or, if dementia had already begun, slowed memory loss; and increased brain volume, tissue health and the quality of connections between neurons and different portions of the brain.\n\nExercise also seems able to buoy moods far more than most of us, including scientists, might have expected 10 years ago. In observational studies, physically active people proved to be much less likely to develop depression or anxiety than sedentary people, no matter what types of activities they chose.\n\nWalking, jogging, gardening, weight training, swimming, biking, hiking or even rising from an office or living room chair often and strolling across the room seemed to make people happier and less prone to mood problems than remaining still.\n\nAnd in mice, exercise changed the inner workings of some of their neurons in ways that then made them less excitable and less prone to patterns of biochemical activity associated with anxiety. Exercise made their cells and brains calmer. One of the other big themes of exercise science in the 2010s is that bodies in motion seem to develop interior ecosystems that differ, in fundamental ways, from those of the sedentary. People who exercise harbour different types and amounts of proteins in their bloodstreams, for instance, even if they have not been working out recently, and these patterns of proteins may play a role in reducing risks for metabolic problems such as diabetes or heart disease.\n\nBut many questions remain unanswered about the cellular effects of exercise throughout the body. It’s also unknown whether changes at the cellular level differ depending on factors like how much and in what fashion we exercise, our age, our health history and whether we happen to be a man, a woman or a mouse.\n\nI also look forward to researchers refining more precisely just how much — or little — exercise we need, and whether those needs differ as we age or if wish to deploy exercise to fend off or treat specific conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes or a family history of weight problems.\n\nI hope, too, that scientists might eventually help us to better understand why, with everything we know about the benefits of exercise, so few of us manage to get up and work out regularly. But there could be hope in redirecting our focus. In what may be the most charming fitness study of the 2010s, sedentary dog owners who had been reluctant to exercise but were told by their veterinarians that their pets were too heavy and in danger of health problems increased both their own and their pets’ walking times.\n\nHappy, healthy 2020 to you, your family and any furry workout partners." ]

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[ null, "Adams joins the Hogs with a wealth of coaching experience having coached at numerous levels over 20+ years after starring as a linebacker at Southern Miss as a player in the 1990s. The Mississippi native heads to The Hill after spending the 2021 season at Florida International. In his lone season with the Panthers, Adams turned sophomore defensive tackle into an All-Conference USA Honorable Mention performer with 53 tackles, including three sacks and six tackles for loss.\n\nAdams is no stranger to the SEC having coached at Ole Miss (2020), Mississippi State (2019) and South Carolina (2013-15). At South Carolina under Head Coach Steve Spurrier, he helped the Gamecocks to a pair of bowl wins while coaching 2014 NFL No. 1 pick Jadeveon Clowney. Adams’ front also featured defensive tackle Kelcy Quarles, who earned first-team All-SEC and All-America honors along with Clowney. Quarles and Clowney became the first South Carolina duo since 1984 to earn All-America status in the same season.\n\nAdams has helped develop six NFL draft selections, including a pair of first round picks. During his first stop at North Carolina, he coached All-American defensive tackle Sylvester Williams in 2012. Williams was selected 28th overall by the Denver Broncos in the 2013 NFL Draft. The Tar Heels ranked third in the ACC that season with 97 tackles for loss with Adams’ group responsible for 40 of them. Williams and Kareem Martin were one of the ACC’s most dominant defensive line duos, combining for 29 TFLs. Martin ranked third in the conference with 15.5 and Williams finished sixth with 13.5.\n\nBowman joins the Hogs after spending the 2021 season at Marshall, where he helped the Thundering Herd’s pass defense rank 28th overall in the FBS and second in Conference USA allowing just 204.6 yards per game. In one year under Bowman, Marshall DBs Steven Gilmore and Micah Abraham both earned second-team All-Conference USA honors. Gilmore picked off a team-best three passes and broke up eight more while Abraham broke up a league-high 14 passes to rank fourth nationally.\n\nBowman brings a wealth of defensive knowledge to The Hill, having served as a defensive coordinator at Austin Peay and UT Martin. With Austin Peay in 2019-20 as the team’s co-defensive coordinator and secondary coach, Bowman helped lead the Governors to the 2019 Ohio Valley Conference title – the school’s first conference title since 1977 – and a pair of wins in the FCS Playoffs to reach the semifinals. Bowman’s secondary was tops in the OVC allowing just 203.5 yards per game with the Govs’ 15 interceptions also leading the league. His defense ranked among the best at the FCS level in defensive touchdowns (11th), total defense (12th), turnovers gained (13th), passing efficiency defense (14th), scoring defense (15th) and interceptions (16th).\n\nHis effort at Austin Peay earned him a spot with the prestigious American Football Coaches Association’s 2020 35 Under 35 Coaches Leadership Institute, a program aimed at identifying and developing premier, future leaders in the football coaching profession.\n\nPrior to joining the Govs, Bowman worked at UT Martin during the 2017-18 seasons. After coordinating one of the best defenses in the FCS in 2017 he was promoted to assistant head coach for the Skyhawks. His 2017 defense ranked among the best in FCS, leading the country in red zone defense (60.6%). The Skyhawks finished fourth in scoring defense (14.3 ppg) and first downs allowed (168), sixth in total defense (273.8 ypg) and third down conversion percentage (28.7%), eighth in fourth down conversion percentage (28.6%) and team passing efficiency defense (104.3), ninth in passing yards allowed (159.9 ypg) and 20th in rushing defense (113.9 ypg) nationally.\n\nThe Razorbacks are set to open spring practice on Sunday, March 13 with a free, open practice inside Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium set for 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 16. Season tickets for Coach Pittman’s third season leading the Hogs are available with the Early Hog renewal deadline set for Friday, March 1. Tickets can be purchased by calling the Razorback Ticket Center at 479.575.5151 or by clicking here." ]

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[ null, "A AED110 million ($30 million) highways project to connect the northern and southern parts of Ras Al Khaimah is set to be completed by October.\n\nAccording to Arabian Business, the Ministry of Infrastructure Development said it has completed 80 percent of the extension to the Emirates Road in the areas of Suhaila and Shamel.\n\nAhmed Al Hammadi, director of Roads Department in the Ministry, said that the project is expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year.\n\nIt extends over 4km, and includes a main road, three bridges, two roundabouts, in addition to sliding roads connecting to the surrounding areas and the secondary streets.\n\nAl Hammadi said that the project will connect the southern and northern parts of the emirate, which will contribute to reducing traffic congestion at the entrance to Ras Al Khaimah by 30 percent.\n\nThe new road will accommodate about 60,000 vehicles per day in both directions, reducing the delay of vehicles at the traffic intersections in the emirate.\n\nThe road consists of three traffic lanes for each direction, with the implementation of a large central island that can be exploited in the future by adding a fourth traffic lane for the road, Al Hammadi added.", null ]

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[ null, "Jason Witten is on track to becoming the best tight end in NFL history. The University of Tennessee product joined the Dallas Cowboys in 2003 as a 3rd round pick and has since made every team that passed up on him regret their decision. In 11 seasons with the Cowboys he has earned nine Pro Bowl selections, six All-Pro nods, three NFL Alumni Tight End of the Year awards, and become the second alltime leading tight end in career receptions and receiving yards. In addition to those impressive accolades he has also broken NFL records for receptions in a game and receptions in a single season by a tight end, and set a new Dallas Cowboys franchise record with 922 receptions. In addition to the receiving yards and 56 career touchdowns he has also been a valuable contributor as a leader in the Cowboys locker room and in the Dallas community. IN 2012 he was recognized with the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award for his efforts to improve the community in and around the Dallas area through his Jason Witten SCORE Foundation. Along with his community work he travels the country sharing his love for Christ, which he credits as being the reason for his success on the field and in life." ]

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[ "A Blaring Trump-et Can’t Be Ignored", null, "Donald Trump has taken the 2016 presidential primaries by storm, by talking straight and simply being ““the Donald.”” He has drawn controversy for his comments pertaining to immigration, trade policy, and the incompetence of the Obama administration. The media seem to be pushing back against the Trump candidacy but at the same time cannot seem to stop covering him for the same reason everyone can’t stop listening to him: he’s an authentic individual running for president.\n\nLove him or hate him, people respect him. Trump has made billions as an entrepreneur but has always stayed true to himself. He tells it like it is, doesn’t play politics, and speaks without fearing repercussions. In his announcement, Trump touted a record of being a great negotiater—— someone who would be tough on foreign policy—and one who understands the economy—and could create jobs benefiting the middle class. According to National Review Magazine, these comments have made him a champion of the “populist right.” Populists tend to adore candidates who speak for the people, and listening to Trump, one gets the sense that he is the mouthpiece for fed-up conservatives who have come to dislike the politics-as-usual that dominates Washington.\n\nPeople throughout the country, especially young people, are sick of the the calculated actions of politicans.The real reason the media cannot stop covering Trump and people cannot stop listening to him is that he “tells it like it is.” Candidates like Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush may have a better chance at winning the presidency, but their actions are so cautious, poll-tested, and robotic that much of the country most likely does not view them as authentic. Political pundits and individuals from both sides of the aisle cannot say he is not original. If there is anything for which Americans are ready, it is someone unique and authentic running for office.\n\nIn all likelihood, Trump will not win the nomination, yet he still has found a way to revolutionize campaigning. Now, candidates might understand that its okay to be true to themselves——in fact its actually preferred by the general population. Trump’s brash words for political dissidents and the mainstream media have made him a lightning rod that neither the Republican nor Democratic Party has seen in quite some time. As the days pass, Trump seems more and more comfortable in the political spotlight. With the August Republican debate quickly approaching, many people are feeling an abundance of emotions pertaining to the notion of the assertive Trump on the campaign stage. Only time will tell how long the Trump presidential run will last, but one thing is for certain: it will continue to be interesting." ]

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[ "Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, The. However, even though the decidua accepts cells from other individuals, non-human cells would still be attacked. Hard Day, A aka Kkeutkkaji Ganda. Movies I saw in Scientology and the Prison of Belief. That is why The Help and The Butler both employ first-person narration. Men Who Stare at Goats, The.\n\nHowever, it has most often been regarded negatively. There is an ontological shift in the represented space we perceive, which — out of a continuous flux — forms the underlying principle of most digital interventions.\n\nIn games it is more definitive, as it can deny the player progression and is much more frequent. Scholars arguing for the unique character of digital games tend to focus on the interpretation created while the game is played that relates to aspects of gameplay.\n\nLegend of Zorro, Lxden. MIT Pressp. The Eisensteinian concept of the dominant, indicating aspects of the film frame or scene, is brought to the fore as it denotes both aural and visual layers of the spectacle.\n\nOn the other hand, digital intrusions are applied to small details too. Let me note very briefly that the importance of The Danube Exodus lies rather in the questions and difficulties that emerge from spatial, non-linear, deconstructed stories in the light kinaesthetic juxtapositions aboard the ship.\n\nNorthwestern University Press The Rippling currents of the RiverBudapest: Osxma Oshii strains the limits of representation, demonstrating how images can imply, instead of merely depicting. Best of the Best. El muerto y ser feliz.\n\nIn another famous example, the idea of Ned Stark being the protagonist of George R. Through this, contemporary spectacles postulate a new kind of viewer — one who absorbs visual and acoustic effects viscerally, and allows himself to become engulfed by and pulled into the filmic space. Detainee on Monitor Aymen Hamdouchi Since it is almost impossible to examine exactly how movies influence our memory as individuals, media and film scholars rarely focus on individual memory, instead shifting their attention to strategies for shaping and governing collective memory built on symbols and icons, reproduced by and through other movies.\n\nIn the end, we decided to add two small dokumrntalny screens on both sides of the main screen. Easy A Eddie the Eagle. Cidade Cinza aka Grey City. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.\n\nHe or she is oxama only to finalize the process of an individuation. Who Can Kill a Child. Silence of the Lambs, The.\n\nIt is a matter of recognizing others and oneself in an environmental network. We all dkoumentalny how the hunt ends — we all know Osama bin Laden is dead.\n\nIt is a spatiotemporal collage conceived by editing, within-the-frame montage, compiled from a variety of sources, chiefly pro-filmic space, stage sets, scale models and matte paintings. Coming Dokumnetalny aka Gui La. But there are titles that offer more than a single way to accomplish tasks. Picnic ar Hanging Rock.\n\nThis resistance that the games offer seems no different on a purely interpretative level [25]: Some of those choices are validated, other resisted.\n\nLesson of the Evil aka Aku no Kyoten. Memory studies are one of the most dynamically developing areas of the humanities. The French director narrates postcolonial relations using mostly multisensory aesthetic. Toward The Tactile Visions was designed to bring together the areas of interests of the artists to create an inter-medial experience for the viewer.", null, "Secondly, the game forces the responsibility to progress the narrative on the player, while simultaneously refusing her the degree of control the reader usually has. Simultaneously, the freedom to choose can be seen as a factor obscuring self-awareness, as the player is prone to repeating her choices in each and odkumentalny game.\n\nHatje Cantz Verlag The author of Strange Encounters: The HelpTate TaylorThe ButlerLee DanielsSelmaAva DuVernayand others are all examples of films that deliberately aim to provide audiences with prosthetic memories in a less literal sense than described by Landsberg. Kennedy was assassinated were convenient tools of the Reaganite political rhetoric of the s.\n\nHaptic or multisensory cinema creates proximity that imposes new ways of contact with the other without usurpating rights to his or her identity.\n\nIn contrast to Rei Hayama, Takashi Makino [33] rejects decipherable visual forms and symbols, focusing on the abstract. Raid 2, The aka Serbuan maut 2 — Berandal.\n\nBut what if the space being rendered is itself fluid, dynamic by default? Search for ” Zero Dark Thirty ” on Amazon. In equal measure it was a struggle for linguistic innovation and unprecedented visual style. Her trade marks converge with her autobiography and political views too — raised in West Africa in few French colonies, Denis shows engagement in postcolonial issues which is perfectly depicted in her debut film." ]

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[ "Betty Corday (bornElizabeth Shay; March 21, 1912 – November 17, 1987) was a Broadway dramatic actress and long-time American television producer. She co-created and executive produced the long running NBC drama Days of Our Lives from 1966 until her death in 1987.\n\nCorday had previously been a Broadway stage actress, starring in \"one flop after another\" before marrying her husband, a Winnipeg-born lawyer. They were married from 1942 until his death in 1966. They had one son, Ken.\n\nBecoming executive producer after the death of her husband, Ted Corday (credited as Mrs. Ted Corday), she was the executive producer of Days of Our Lives from 1966 to 1985. She semi-retired in 1985, turning control over to her son, Ken. She kept the title of executive producer until her death in November 1987. In addition to her work on Days of our Lives, Corday was a consultant for The Young and the Restless.\n\nThe contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 05 Aug 2020. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.\nView Betty Corday 's image gallery\nImage Gallery", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "I feel I should start this review by saying I have not seen the original films.\n\nYes, I’m aware I’m insane for that fact. The reason behind that? I just haven’t gotten around to it.\n\nAnyway, I went into this slick reboot of Robocop only knowing….well, that he was a Robocop.\nI knew little of cast or crew but I sat down in a comfy cinema chair anyway to see what people were up in arms about and you know? It’s not all that bad.\n\nWe’ll get to the good first – this slickly made reboot is rather effective for the most part, as it’s got its heart in the right places, poses some ethical questions that got under my skin and made my viewing all the more engaging and it’s got a rather talented cast that lift what could’ve been an otherwise flat script.\n\nI enjoyed that it focused on the man and his family and examines with a little more care what it means to be half man / half machine and exactly where does the man fit into the picture?\n\nJoel Kinnaman is in the lead here does a terrific job at capturing Alex, the police cop that’s been horrifically twisted into this…well, Robocop.\nI could watch Gary Oldman in anything because that man just jumps into any role and gives it such weight and heart.\nMichael Keaton turns in solid support as the slimy CEO of OmniCorp and Abbie Cornish puts her heart into the role of Alex’s wife.\n\nIn other hands, this could’ve been a disaster but this terrific cast and crew manage to make this an entertaining and rollicking sci fi and I had a blast with it.\n\nAs for the bad, I don’t care much for the flashy editing during the action that makes the sequences incoherent and frustrating.\n\nI also feel the last half of film is rushed and could’ve been stretched out to wrap the plot up a little more carefully.\n\nAll up, it’s not the stinker I thought it would be. The cast and script give it heart and this works wonders.\nWhether you want to see it depends on much you love a original but either way, I think you should catch this on the big screen and make up your mind." ]

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[ null, "Rare and beautiful, Montana's Yogo sapphires are among the world's most valuable sapphires. Deep cornflower blue with even color and rich saturation, these beautiful gemstones are found in only one location in the world, Yogo Gulch, located in the Judith River basin in north central Montana.\n\nAlthough these blue beauties were first discovered by gold miners in 1878, in the silt deposits along Yogo Creek, these miners had only one thing on their list to collect, and it wasn't blue {4}. Tossed aside, these pebbles continued to collect on the sand bars of the small river, largely unnoticed until the 1890s.\n\nIn about 1894, Jake Hoover, a well-known Montana frontiersman and adventurer, staked a claim along Yogo Creek to hunt for gold. He and his partners, Simon Hobson and Jim Bouvet, spent $40,000 to begin a bona fide gold mining outfit in the region {1}. It took them one year to collect 40 ounces of gold, which when split three ways netted each of them $233. Things were not off to a good start for the trio.\n\nHowever, by a stroke of genius, one of the men filled a cigar box with the tiny blue pebbles which appeared more common than gold in the alluvial deposits. What may have started as pure fascination turned into profits swiftly after this man sent his box of rocks to an assayer. Most accounts credit Jake Hoover with the collection; however, this is in dispute, as you will soon see.\n\nThe assayer sent the box of stones to New York, where Tiffany & Co.'s gemstone expert, George Frederick Kunz, examined them. In an article written in 1897 for The American Journal of Science, Mr. Kunz credits the discovery of these stones to Mr. Hoover's partner, Simon Hobson, writing, \"Mr. S. S. Hobson, of Great Falls, Montana, the original discoverer of the gems at Yogo Gulch, states that at that point there are two veins (dikes?) containing sapphires, which have been traced for a distance of seventy-five hundred to eight thousand feet in an east-and-west course...\" {Kunz, p. 418}.\n\nGoing on, Mr. Kunz highlights the distinction between Yogo sapphires and other Montana Sapphires, calling specific attention to the unique shape of the crystals (rhombohedron x), as well as striations unique to this particular variety. These discoveries were of import because the same geological conditions appeared to have produced very distinctive results in different parts of the state. This was of great geological interest at the time. Mr. Kunz noted that the sapphires found in Yogo Gulch showed the greatest promise for being of worth to the gemstone industry. While Montana sapphires are found in a variety of colors, it was these cornflower blue stones, reminiscent of the highly sought-after Ceylon sapphires, which stood the greatest chance of capturing a share of the gemstone market. Whether before or after this article came out, Tiffany & Co., under the advisement of Mr. Kunz, sent a check to the Montana miners, motivating them to abandon their efforts to find gold and set their sights on discovering the mother lode for what Mr. Kunz deemed \"the finest precious gemstones ever found in the United States\" {1}.\n\nIn 1900, Tiffany & Co. exhibited two remarkable brooches at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, France. Both featured American freshwater pearls and Montana sapphires from the Yogo Gulch. An accompanying brochure published by Tiffany & Co. reported that George Kunz deserved full credit for bringing Yogo sapphires center stage {3}. Tiffany & Co.'s manufacturing ledger, dated November 29, 1899, listed $2,500 as the retail price for one of these brooches and a price tag of $900 for the other one {3}.\n\nIt is clear why the jewelry firm paid such a hefty price for the stones. With returns like that, Tiffany & Co. stood to make a pretty penny on these matchless Montana sapphires. Yogo sapphires remain among the most precious blue sapphires on the market. Their true-blue color is only part of their appeal. Yogo rough is generally small and flat, rendering cut stones greater than 0.5 carats of premium value to collectors and jewelers.\n\nAlso, although there are large veins of Yogo sapphire rough beneath the dikes, mining for the unique sapphires presents numerous difficulties. Currently, no one is actively mining for the stones. Truly, this stunning necklace and bracelet set, featuring 108 dark violet-blue Yogo sapphires, is as rare and beautiful a find as a large Yogo sapphire would be today.\n\nPosted by EraGem Estate Jewelry at 12:49 PM No comments:", null, "by Angela Magnotti Andrews Today we celebrate what has become known as the Lovers' Holiday. This day, marked primarily by red and pink hearts, is actually historically symbolized by the purple crystal amethyst and the death of a saint. St. Valentine of Terni was beheaded on this day in the late 3rd century. Most of what is known about St. Valentine is lore, as little was recorded about his life and habits. His legendary claim to fame was his aide to the Christians at a time when Christian service was considered an act of treason by the Roman Empire. Among the services he was said to perform for these persecuted Christians was to perform marriage rites for them. According to the custom of Bishops of that time, Valentine reportedly wore an amethyst intaglio ring inscribed with the likeness of Cupid. It is said that this ring also captured the attention of Roman soldiers, who asked him to perform marriage rites for them, as well. This was also a crime against the Empire.", null, "Reportedly imprisoned for these infractions, he was placed under house arrest, at which time he engaged his jailer in a discussion about Jesus. Word of his claims reached the Judge, who told him that if the bishop would heal his blind daughter he would be granted whatever he desired. The judge's daughter received her sight, and good to his word, he arranged for the requested release of all his Christian captives. St. Valentine's continued service to the gospel of Christ landed him in jail once again. This time he was taken before the Emperor Claudius. Though Claudius is said to have enjoyed his company, Valentine overstepped his bounds when he attempted to lead the Roman ruler to Christ. His execution was decreed, and he was beaten with clubs and then beheaded.\n\n\nAfter his death, the Church instituted the Feast of Saint Valentine, which they celebrate in July. The connection between St. Valentine and the holiday of lovers seems to emerge in the 14th century, alluded to in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Otto de Granson. It is difficult to tell, without more research, whether it was St. Valentine's custom of marrying young folks or whether it was his fondness for the amethyst jewelry, which became known in the Middle Ages as the stone of earthly happiness, that linked St. Valentine with lovers. Either way, his holiday is now the most celebrated for romance. Incidentally, according to Medieval custom, when a lady presented an amethyst heart set in silver to her knight or her husband, it was believed to ensure good fortune and the greatest possible happiness for the couple {cited}.\nPosted by EraGem Estate Jewelry at 2:27 PM No comments:" ]

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[ null, "HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Houston police officers are now not allowed to fire their weapons when faced with a suspect who is trying to run them over, according to a memo obtained by ABC-13 Tuesday.\n\nThe former policy allowed officers to use deadly force when their lives where threatened by a suspect in a vehicle. Under state law a vehicle can be considered a deadly weapon.\n\nIn the memo dated September 25th, 2015, Houston Police Chief Charles McClellan wrote, \"Effective immediately, officers shall not discharge a firearm or soft-impact weapon at a moving vehicle unless a person in the vehicle is immediately threatening the officer or other person with serious bodily injury or death by mean other than the vehicle itself.\"\n\n\"Now what they've done is they've given one more tool for the suspects to kill police officers,\" said former HPD officer turned attorney Tom Nixon. \"Once criminals figure out that they can use their vehicle as a weapon and the police can't shoot them, they will have a greater incentive today and use their vehicle as their weapon to escape.\"\n\nThe last time an officer was killed by a suspect in a vehicle was in May of this year. Officer Richard Martin was run over and killed while he was setting up spikes during a police chase. The suspect hit and killed him before Officer Martin could pull out his weapon.\n\n\"We've already lost an officer in a situation where the suspect should've been shot before killing the officer,\" said Nixon.\n\n\"This policy is a long time coming,\" said civil rights attorney Randall Kallinen. \"In many circumstances they are shooting because the person is trying to get away.\"\n\nABC-13 legal analyst Joel Androphy said vehicles can be used as a deadly weapon, and officers should be allowed to defend themselves.\n\n\"A vehicle is a weapon. Driving a vehicle going after somebody is no different than pointing a gun to someone and saying I'm going to shoot you,\" said Androphy.\n\nAn HPD spokesperson refused to comment on why the use of force policy was changed but stated that the department is constantly changing its policies to save lives and protect the public.\n\n\"It just tells me that they would rather go to a funeral then deal with the lawsuit,\" said Nixon.\n\nNixon said officers he knows are upset about the new policy and said they won't obey it if it means protecting their own lives.\n\nThe Houston Police officers union would not comment on the change in policy, but said they will be meeting with the police chief first thing Wednesday morning.\nRelated topics:\nhoustonhouston police department\nCopyright © 2021 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.\nMore Videos\nFrom CNN Newsource affiliates\nTOP STORIES" ]

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[ "A Hopkins County Jury found Chad Alan Cappiello guilty on two counts of Theft of Property more than $1,500 but less than $20,000 Tuesday afternoon. Final arguments were made beginning at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. The verdict was rendered around 3 p.m.", null, "Cappiello, a remodel/repair contractor who also uses the alias Chad Russell was not facing his first day in court for an offense related to this type of theft. A witness from each of three other instances that have gone to court in Texas counties were called to testify in this case. There had been other arrests as well.\n\nCappiello will be sentenced by Judge Eddie Northcutt on May 24 at 1:30 p.m. The range of punishment for this offense is up to two years in state jail, which is typically served day-for-day. He is also eligible for up to five years of probation and a fine of up to $10,000. Judge Eddie Northcutt released the defendant on bond until the date of sentencing.\n\nAssistant District Attorney Clay Harrison stated, “People like Mr. Cappiello have been emboldened by years of outmaneuvering law enforcement, evading justice, and receiving soft probation sentences. This week, a Hopkins County jury sent a clear message to folks like him that in this community, theft is still theft. The State will be arguing for the maximum punishment at Mr. Cappiello’s sentencing on May 24.”\n\nTuesday morning, Texas Ranger Jason Bobo, Company F Central Texas, was called to prove intent in the case. Ranger Bobo had investigated Cappiello regarding one of Cappiello’s thefts in Gatesville, Texas. A roof repair was promised when $5,000 in cash was paid to Cappiello and the remainder of the project was financed. The Ranger stated that no work had been performed and that in the investigation he found a number of phone numbers that changed consistently, the failure to provide a true address, and the use of lease or rental vehicles by Cappiello.\n\nIn opening remarks Monday morning, Assistant District Attorney Clay Harrison noted that Cappiello changed his name from Chad Russell to Chadley Cappiello and then then Chad Cappiello over the past 23 years. However, he uses both the last name Russell and Cappiello as it suits the opportunity to defraud individuals of money in remodeling and/or repair schemes. His current wife Kristi Cappiello also uses her maiden name as a telemarketer for their business ventures. Harrison pointed out that when anyone attempted to find the location of the business, they were unable to locate the Cappiellos’ due to masking websites, email origination, and the use of cell phones. He stated that attempts to go to addresses listed for the company were fruitless. Even the managers or owners of the buildings where their listed address would take the individual seeking to get a refund for work had no knowledge of the business.\n\nAn internet search performed by KSST News shows shows Cappiello has been charged in several counties on similar charges. Cappiello has operated in various areas of the state and has been charged in several counties, some without success for the prosecution. The local case focuses on charges filed and an indictment rendered by a Hopkins County Grand Jury regarding the theft of property, to be exact, money paid for work never completed in a home remodel in Como." ]

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[ "News\n1\n180\nprevious article\nSPILL TRACK OF THE DAY: TEDDYBEARS FT. GORILLA ZOE - \"THE BEST YOU EVER HAD\"\nnext article\nSPILL NEWS: THE KVB ANNOUNCE RELEASE OF NEW ALBUM 'OF DESIRE' ON MARCH 11TH ON METROPOLIS RECORDS", null, "Watch the You Say Party album trailer and the Jeff Scheven-directed video for ‘Ignorance’ below.\n\nYou Say Party will release their first new album in six years on February 12th. The self-titled album is as far from the scrappy DIY new wave-punk days of their first record, 2005’s Hit the Floor, as possible. Space-like and ambient, dreamy and urgent, You Say Party is introspective, artful, electronic pop. Pre-order the album on CD or vinyl here from Paper Bag Records or here from iTunes.\n\nIn 2004, You Say Party played their first punk show in a church basement outside Vancouver, BC. Four years later, they were touring China and Japan on the strength of two acclaimed albums, 2005’s Hit the Floor! and 2007’s Lose All Time. They shifted from new wave-punk into indie pop rock and were poised for breakout, mainstream success with 2009’s award-winning XXXX when tragedy struck. Drummer Devon Clifford collapsed on stage and died suddenly. You Say Party (Becky Ninkovic, Stephen O’Shea, Krista Loewen, and Derek Adam) reunited in 2012 and have spent the last four years slow dancing towards this moment.\n\nYou Say Party’s new sound is more expansive and experimental, and while it offers a nod to their past, their legion of fans, and their journey to this moment, it’s also a map pointing the way forward.\n\nSPILL NEWS strives to keep our readers up to date with news and events in the music industry. We keep you informed of the most recent information regarding new releases, tour dates, and information items about your favourite artists.\nRELATED ARTICLES\nnewspaper bag records\n\nby SPILL NEWS on February 7, 2023\nSKINNY PUPPY TAPS LEAD INTO GOLD AS DIRECT SUPPORT FOR US/CANADA TOUR STREAM THE NEW LEAD INTO GOLD SINGLE “THE ETERNAL PRESENT” VIA ARTOFFACT RECORDS Artoffact Records, Paul Barker, and Lead Into Gold are excited to announce that [...]\n\nby SPILL NEWS on February 6, 2023\nBITCHFEST! 2023 – HIGHLIGHTING FEMALE, NON-BINARY, TRANS AND TWO-SPIRIT VOICES IN THE MUSIC SCENE ACROSS THE GTA “As a result of their efforts, Cachia and Konopka have fostered a community that has connected artists and venues”, says The [...]\n\nby SPILL NEWS on February 6, 2023\nJINJER TO SUPPORT HEADLINERS DISTURBED + SPECIAL GUESTS BREAKING BENJAMIN ON “TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE TOUR” TICKETS ON SALE FEBRUARY 10 Last fall, progressive groove metal leaders JINJER took to the road in the United States for their [...]\n\nSPILL NEWS: THE SISTERS OF MERCY ANNOUNCE FIRST U.S. TOUR IN OVER A DECADE\n\nby SPILL NEWS on February 6, 2023\nTHE SISTERS OF MERCY ANNOUNCE FIRST U.S. TOUR IN OVER A DECADE TICKETS GO ON SALE FEBRUARY 10 The Sisters Of Mercy have announced their first US tour in over 14 years: 19 dates, commencing on May 10, 2023. For over four decades, The Sisters of [...]" ]

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[ null, "The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is forging ahead into the space race...\n\nKhalifaSat, the first satellite fully built in the UAE by a team of Emirati engineers, will be fired into orbit on October 29.\n\n“This confirms that the strategy adopted by MBRSC to prepare and train Emirati scientists and engineers is successful, and we are on the right track to turn Dubai into a global hub for space technology.”\n\nAccording to the Dubai Media Office in a report from earlier this year the UAE Space Agency is planning to launch two satellites this year. Other goals mentioned include sending a probe to Mars by 2020.\n\nDubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan tweeted on Wednesday that the satellite will be launched from the Tanigashima Space Centre in Japan in partnership with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the official news agency WAM reported.\n\n\"This is an important milestone for our country, an achievement made possible because our leadership supports Emirati youth and encourages them to excel in the fields of innovation and technological development,\" said Sheikh Hamdan in one tweet.", null, "Dr. Mohamed Nasser Al Ahbabi, director-general of the UAE Space Agency, said last month that once the launch has taken place, the UAE will have 10 multi-purpose satellites, raising the UAE investment in the space sector to AED22 billion. He said that the KhalifaSat project has contributed, during all stages of design and manufacturing, in developing national capabilities in the field of satellite manufacturing, which will be an essential factor in developing the space sector in the country.\n\n\"KhalifaSat marks a critical milestone in the nature and form of the UAE's investment in the space industry. KhalifaSat is a source of inspiration for Emirati generations because it is the first satellite to be fully manufactured in the UAE,\" he told WAM at the time.\n\nHe also told WAM that the achievement highlights the \"outstanding scientific and technical capabilities of Emirati citizens that would enable them to achieve any scientific goal they aspire to accomplish.\"\n\n\"All engineers working on Khalifasat's project should be proud of what they have achieved during the development phase,\" and he congratulated all UAE Space Agency employees and Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre on the achievement.\n\nLast year the UAE began its first astronaut program with the goal of sending four Emiratis into space in the next three years. Two of the astronauts from the Emirati corps will be trained in Russia to include one primary and one backup. One of the astronauts will be joining a crew of Russian commander and an American astronaut in Soyuz MS-12 spaceflight which is planned to launch to International Space Station (ISS) in April 2019." ]

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[ null, "A diagram showing how kidney dialysis is conducted after an arteriovenous (AV) fistula surgery has provided access to the circulatory system. A new Johns Hopkins Medicine study reveals that many physicians are still performing a different, riskier procedure with a prosthetic graft for gaining access. Credit: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/National Institutes of Health\n\nLong-term hemodialysis is a lifesaver for approximately half a million patients in the United States with kidney failure (also known as end-stage renal disease, or ESRD) who are either waiting on or unsuitable for a kidney transplant. But before the external machinery can take over the function of the kidneys — filtering and cleansing wastes from the blood — a minor surgical procedure is needed to create a stable, functional and reusable access to the circulatory system, usually through blood vessels in the arm.\n\nTwo surgical methods for creating this “vascular access” are available, one overwhelmingly preferred whenever possible for its better durability, performance and safety. However, in a study using Medicare claims data, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that one-fifth of seasoned U.S. surgeons are statistically performing the less-preferred procedure too often, even when unnecessary, and that providing them with a peer evaluation of such performance may lead to improved practices.\n\nThe findings are reported in a new study in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association Surgery.\n\n“The good news from our survey data is that progress has been made in the last decade toward reducing the number of inappropriate vascular access surgeries performed in the United States,” says Caitlin Hicks, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and lead author on the JAMA Surgery paper. “But the numbers also show that we still have a ways to go to meet established standards that are already the norm in Europe and Asia,” she adds.\n\nThe two types of vascular access procedures available for extended hemodialysis are the arteriovenous fistula (AVF) and the AV graft (AVG). The AVF is made by connecting a vein, most often in a patient’s arm, to a nearby artery. Over a period of two to three months, this bridge, known as a fistula, increases blood flow and pressure to the vein to enlarge and strengthen it. Once matured, the “supervein” will withstand repeated needle insertions that would collapse an untreated vessel.\n\nIn contrast, the AVG uses an artificial device, a plastic tube, to make the artery-vein connection. Because it does not require maturation, the graft can be used within three to four weeks after surgery. However, studies have shown that it is more likely than an AVF to have problems with infection and blood clots, and may need repair or replacement within a year. Additionally, according to Medicare data, the average annual cost for creating and maintaining an AVG is higher than that for an AVF — nearly $73,000 per person annually compared with $60,000.\n\nRecognizing the distinct advantages of the fistula, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and ESRD treatment networks across the United States created the Fistula First Breakthrough Initiative (FFBI) in 2003 to increase the use of AVF to 50% of all vascular access surgeries performed. When that goal was reached in 2009, the AVF over AVG standard was raised to 66% in an effort to match the 60% to 90% rates in Europe and Asia.\n\nIn a bid to document progress toward that goal, and identify “physician characteristics” linked to higher-than-appropriate AVG use, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers used Medicare fee-for-service claims data for more than 85,000 adult kidney failure patients who received first-time vascular access surgeries between Jan. 1, 2016, and Dec. 31, 2017. They calculated an AVG rate (total number of vascular access operations divided by the number of AVG surgeries) for each of the 2,397 physicians who performed 10 or more procedures — either AVF or AVG — during that time. While the median, or midpoint, rate for the whole group was 18.2% (meaning that the median rate for AVF surgeries was 81.8%), there were a significant number of outliers.\n\n“We found that 498 physicians, approximately 21% or 1 in 5, performed AVG surgeries in more than 34% of their total cases,” Hicks says. “This means that they failed to meet the 66% or higher FFBI target standard for AVF use.”\n\nThe study indicated that most of the physicians associated with high AVG use rates — including some who were using AVG in more than 80% of their cases — had long-established practices (a median of 35.5 years since medical school graduation), were located in a metropolitan setting and specialized in vascular surgery more than general surgery.\n\n“Since the FFBI best practice guidelines have only been around since 2003, perhaps older physicians are simply less familiar with them and have continued ‘doing business as usual,’” Hicks says. “Or they may just be seeing more complex cases and believe that fistula access is less suitable. In either case, we believe that more education and targeted intervention using peer-to-peer evaluations that urge a change in practice may help address the problem, because that approach has worked before.”\n\nAnother Johns Hopkins Medicine study recently reported that a “Dear Colleague” performance evaluation letter successfully convinced physicians nationwide to reduce the amount of tissue they removed in a common surgical treatment for skin cancer to meet a professionally recognized benchmark of good practice.\n\nHicks says that the research team hopes to conduct such an intervention in a future study and document its impact on improving behavior for vascular access surgery.\n\nThe AV fistula versus graft study is part of a larger Johns Hopkins Medicine effort to develop, establish and disseminate quality measures that will capture the appropriateness of care and help reduce low-value care in favor of a more patient-centered approach.\n\n“By identifying practices that are not in the best interest of the patient and providing interventions to address them, we can help physicians who are outliers, and in turn, improve the quality of care for the hundreds of patients each one treats,” says Martin A. Makary, M.D., M.P.H., co-author of the study, professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an authority on health care quality. “Physicians, for the most part, want to do the right thing, and measures of appropriateness can help guide them.”\n\nMakary also serves as principal investigator of Improving Wisely, a national project to lower medical costs in the United States by implementing measures of appropriateness in health care." ]

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[ null, "Cinema prices across the country will be slashed this weekend to mark National Cinema Day.\n\nSaturday, September 3, will see a number of cinemas selling tickets for just €4 to mark the national day. Participating cinemas will sell tickets for all screenings that day for €4 - regardless of the film and time of the screening.\n\nOver 95% of cinemas across Ireland are set to participate in the huge deal.\n\nTickets for National Cinema Day can now be purchased online through the various participating cinema websites. Alternatively, cinema goers can purchase tickets at the box office.\n\nSome of the films fans can expect to see for just €4 on Saturday include An Cailín Ciúin; Blackbird; Bullet Train; E.T (40th Anniverversary); Fall; Spider-Man: No Way Home; The Forgiven; The Invitation; Top Gun: Meverick; and Where the Crawdad's Sing.\n\nDirector of Omniplex Cinemas Mark Anderson said: 'Cinema has been an ever-present in Irish society for over 100 years and we are delighted to participate in National Cinema Day by offering €4 tickets for all shows, all day, including new releases.\n\n'It is important for the industry to celebrate cinema and what better way to do that than by enjoying a movie (or two) on 3 September 2022.'" ]

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[ null, "The veteran singer-songwriter introduced the information on Monday, publishing a letter on social media from the capital’s councillor for tourism and main occasions, Alessandro Onorato.\n\nThe letter describes the Lupa Capitolina as the very best recognition that the town provides to “illustrious personalities who’ve left, and proceed to depart, an indelible mark on the tradition and creativeness of our metropolis.”\n\nOutlining his musical success, the letter credit Rossi with “thrilling tens of millions of Romans” together with his songs in addition to stressing his dedication to tackling racism.\n\nRossi, 70, gave an enthusiastic response to the invitation, saying he can be “honoured and proud” to obtain the Lupa Capitolina from the town’s mayor Roberto Gualtieri.\n\nHe pledged to return to Rome particularly to benefit from the second “with leisure and pleasure” as quickly as he finishes his nationwide tour.\n\nThe singer, from Italy’s northern Emilia-Romagna area, hailed “the extraordinary welcome” on the “magical” Circus Maximus the place 140,000 followers flocked to see him on 11 and 12 June.\n\n“How splendid you’re, Rome” – he wrote on Instagram – “I’ve courted you for a very long time and you’ve got adopted me.”\n\nEarlier recipients of the Lupa Capitolina embrace Måneskin, the Rome rockers who gained Eurovision for Italy, at a ceremony presided over by the town’s former mayor Virginia Raggi final summer time.\n\nMåneskin will comply with in Rossi’s footsteps and carry out a sold-out live performance on the Circus Maximus on 9 July, hyped by organisers Rock in Roma as “the occasion of the yr”.\n\nZero, considered one of Italy’s best-selling musicians, will carry out 5 different concert events within the coveted venue on 23, 24, 25 and 30 September in addition to 1 October.\n\nNot too long ago it was introduced that Bruce Springsteen would return to the Circus Maximus on 23 Could 2023 after enjoying there in 2014." ]

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[ "To view data on fine particle pollution from key sites along with the New South Wales (Australia) coast, please see below.\n\nMonthly average PM2.5 concentrations from 2007-2013 have been used to produce contour maps that provide an indication of fine particle concentration levels from Wollongong through Sydney to Newcastle in NSW, Australia.\n\nThe Aerosol Sampling Program (ASP) has been running for almost 20 years. Aerosol samples are routinely collected in a number of Australian sites as well as within Asia. Samples are analysed by means of IBA techniques and results are interpreted and reported. This page contains links and downloads to a range of ASP related publications.", null, "This is particularly concerning for a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region that, as a result of rapid urban development, have significantly higher levels of air particulate pollution when compared with internationally accepted goals. Research aimed at identifying the composition and source contributions of this pollution is the first critical step needed to develop effective strategies for reducing it which has the potential to save millions of lives.\n\nThis database contains the measured concentrations (ng/m³), errors and minimum detectable limits of between 15 - 40 different elemental species for each sampled day and site. The database is provided in EXCEL workbook (.xlsx) format to facilitate its access and usability. Detailed information regarding the database contents, format, sampling and analysis methodology is provided in the accompanying user manual.\nDownloads: User Manual (pdf) | Database (.xlsx) 25.9MB" ]

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[ "St George Hospital is bidding farewell to Leisa Rathborne, General Manager at the hospital, who is taking up a new role as Executive Director (Metro) Region, Health Infrastructure.\n\nMs Rathborne came to South Eastern Sydney Local Health District in 2013 when she was appointed Director Operations, Royal Hospital for Women before commencing in the role of General Manager, St George Hospital in 2015.\n\nTobi Wilson, Chief Executive said he would like to personally thank Ms Rathborne for her support over the past few months as the organisation has been through significant changes.\n\n“Ms Rathborne has been a transformational leader who has managed the delivery of quality health services to the local and wider community. St George Hospital has been fortunate to have her leading through the significant redevelopment and commissioning of new services, ensuring quality patient care has always been the priority,” Mr Wilson said.\n\n“I am sure you will join me in congratulating Ms Rathborne on her new position, her outstanding leadership skills and knowledge of major redevelopment projects will be a great asset to Health Infrastructure and she will make a wonderful contribution in her new role.”\n\nMs Rathborne has successfully led St George Hospital through a major $277-million redevelopment project which has culminated in the new Acute Services Building including a new intensive care and high dependency unit, a cardiac catheterisation unit, 128 inpatient beds, a sterilising services department, an atrium linking to the Emergency Department, Tower Ward Block and the Clinical Services Building, eight additional digital and interventional operating theatres, a new helipad and the expansion of the multi-deck carpark.\n\nOn her resignation Ms Rathborne thanked the staff at St George Hospital: “It has been a privilege to lead this amazing hospital for the past five years. What I believe is great about St George is the commitment our staff have to our patients and providing the best care possible to them as well as the willingness to always try to improve the care we deliver. I will miss being here,” Ms Rathborne said.\n\n“At Health Infrastructure I will be responsible for the redevelopments in four local health districts including South Eastern Sydney Local Health District so will still be involved in overseeing the completion of the Birthing Unit and theatre refurbishment at St George Hospital and therefore still be around at times.”", null ]

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[ "Mk 6:1-6.\nOne day, two women, Mary and Ann, met along the road. Mary was coming from the direction of the church while Ann was going towards the direction. This is part of their conversation:\nAnn: Mary, are you coming from the church?\nMary: Yes, my dear.\nAnn: Do you know whether the priest is still at the confessional?\nMary: [She hummed] No, the priest has left but the son of Okeke was still there when I left the church.\nOne might ask, ‘Who was Okeke’s son at the confessional?’ This incidence took place when the white missionaries were still many doing missionary works in Nigeria. Although the pioneer indigenous Catholic priests had began to emerge, but the people were still very sceptical about them. The son of Okeke was one of those early Nigerian Catholic priests. Many found it very difficult to accept them as priests.\nTopic: The problem of origin.", null, "We read how Jesus visited his hometown in today’s gospel,\nWith the coming of the Sabbath he began teaching in the synagogue, and most of them were astonished when they heard him. They said, ‘Where did the man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been granted him, and these miracles that are worked through him? (Mk 6:2, TNJB).\nAlthough the people were overwhelmed but there was a serious obstacle for them – Jesus was seen as one of them, cf. Matt 1:1-25; Rom 1:3-4. Hence, even in their astonishment they queried, “‘Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?’ And they took offence at him” (Mk 6:3). It is clear that the problem was not with what was said and done but with who said and did them.\nJesus told us in the gospel, “He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me” (Matt 10:40). In the same vein, “He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me” (Lk 10:16). And in the book of Genesis chapter 18 Abraham welcomed the angels unknowingly, cf. Heb 13:2. And many God’s choicest blessings followed.\nOn the other hand, the Nazarenes rejected Jesus, their brother, their friend (cf. Jn 15: 13, 15; Lk 12:4), and their God, (cf. Jn 13:14). And\nJesus said to them, ‘Prophets are not without honour, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and their own house.’ And he could do no deed of power there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and cured them (Mk 6:4-5).\nJesus “... descended from David according to the flesh” (Rom 1:3). And as such, the Jews ought to know Him better than the rest of humans. Although they had waited for the coming of the messiah for a very long time before the coming of Jesus Christ but they failed to recognize and accept Him because they expected and many are still expecting a saviour nobody would know his background, cf. Jn 7:27. We still pray for the Jews to recognise Jesus as the long-awaited saviour. On the other hand, they pray and wait for the coming of a saviour whose background would not be known.\nIt is very easy for one to condemn the Nazarenes who rejected Jesus in today’s gospel and the people who failed to accept their brother (the son of Okeke) as a priest. But are we different? Many towns, families, individuals, etc are still very backward in a lot of areas despite the fact that they have great men and women with ability and willingness to transform them. Sometimes these people are not regarded as anything in their hometowns, villages, families, etc. And just like what happened at Nazareth, many who could have brought transformation do little or nothing.\nLet us conclude with another story,\n“An old man is sitting on his porch, when suddenly someone drives up in a jeep, yelling, ‘Quick! Get into my jeep! The dam just burst, and this whole place is going to be flooded!’\n“The old man says, ‘Naw, you just go ahead. The good Lord will take care of me!’\n“Now someone paddles by his window in a canoe and says, ‘Quick! Get into my canoe! The water is going to keep rising!’\n“The old man says, ‘Naw, you just go on ahead. The good Lord will take care of me!’\n“The water keeps rising. The old man drowns. The old man finds himself before the Lord in Heaven. The old man says, ‘How could you let me drown! [Sic] I trusted you!’\n“The Lord says, ‘Hey, I tried. I sent a jeep and a canoe for you!’” (Thomas, T. (2010). Spice up your homilies. Mumbai: St Pauls, pp. 105-106).\nOn our own part, just like the Jews, saviours have been sent to us several times. How well did we receive them? There is no gain saying that many of these saviours were rejected and some were even dishonoured because they were “well-known” to those they were sent. Even those people that are not regarded as anything, are among the saviours sent to us. It is left for us to either accept or reject those saviours sent to us because we think we know them very well and also either carry out our duties as saviours to others as well or leave them.\nBible Reading: Matt 10:40-42; 25: 31-46; Jn 7:25-31, 40-52; Acts 13:13-41.\nThought for today: How often have you disregarded others because of their background?\nLet us pray: Jesus Christ, our Lord, by the rejection you suffered in the hands of your brothers and sisters, help us never to look down on anybody because of his or her background. May we see you and receive you in all we meet today and all the days of our lives – Amen.\nYou are free to share this reflection with others if you consider it worthy." ]

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[ null, "Pakistan – According to Morning Star News, two Christian nurses accused of blasphemy in Pakistan received bail and were released from prison in September. The decision was kept secret for almost two months to avoid backlash from Islamists, including the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan political party.\n\nOn September 23, Mariam Lal and Nawish Arooj were granted bail by a sessions court in Faisalabad. Those charged with blasphemy in Pakistan usually languish in jail for years until the appeals process is exhausted.\n\n“This is an unprecedented decision by any sessions court in a blasphemy case,” attorney Atif Jamil Paggan told Morning Star News. Paggan added the bail decision was kept secret due to concerns over possible reprisals by extremists.\n\nOn April 9, Lal and Arooj, two Christian nurses working at Civil Hospital in Faisalabad, were falsely accused of committing blasphemy. Local sources report Lal was directed to remove old wall hangings and stickers from a wall by Rukhsana, a senior nurse at the hospital. Following Rukhsana’s instructions, Lal removed the wall-hangings and stickers.\n\nRukhsana, who reportedly held a grudge against Lal, provoked other Muslim staffers at Civil Hospital by claiming Lal desecrated wall hangings that contained Quranic verses. In response, a Muslim staffer at the hospital’s pharmacy, named Waqas, attacked Lal with a knife as she was attending a patient in the hospital’s medical ward. Lal received several injuries to her arm but survived the attack.\n\nNews of the false blasphemy allegation against Lal spread to the broader community and a mob of enraged Muslims staged a protest outside of Civil Hospital. Members of the mob demanded Lal be arrested and hanged for committing blasphemy.\n\nPolice registered a First Information Report (FIR # 347/21) in connection with the allegation. According to the FIR, Lal and Arooj were both accused of violating Pakistan’s blasphemy laws under Section 295-B.\n\n“Both women are currently in a safe location,” Paggan told Morning Star News. “They are very happy and relieved after this court victory, and we are optimistic that the court will absolve them of the charge once the trial concludes.”\n\nIn Pakistan, false accusations of blasphemy are widespread and often motivated by personal vendettas or religious hatred. Accusations are highly inflammatory and have the potential to spark mob lynchings, vigilante murders, and mass protests.\nSources:persecution\n\nShare on FacebookShare on WhatsAppShare on TwitterShare on PinterestShare on SMSShare on Email\nRelated Topics:blasphemyFeaturedMariam Lal and Nawish Arooj\nUp Next\n\nTV shows with female characters should be stopped; Taliban banned from filming" ]

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[ "The world’s largest pension fund is introducing a new performance-based fee structure in a bid to strengthen the alignment of interest with its active asset managers.\n\nJapan’s ¥163trn (€1.2trn) Global Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has “drastically” cut the base fee rate to the same level as institutional passive accounts. It has also scrapped a cap on performance-based fees.\n\nGPIF has also introduced a “carryover mechanism” to its fee structure, designed to promote long-term investment (see illustration, below).\n\nUnder this mechanism, the pension fund will hold back a portion of the performance-based fees calculated each year “to ensure that the amount of fees is linked with medium- to long-term investment performance”.\n\nIn connection with the long-term fee structure, GPIF promised to commit to “multi-year” contracts for its asset managers.\n\nThe pension fund said it recognised that if asset managers were going to be under pressure to deliver good investment performance, it was in the pension fund’s interests to commit to “lengthy” contract periods to enable managers to meet their targets over the medium to long term.\n\nSuch an arrangement was unprecedented for the management of traditional assets such as bonds and equities, according to the GPIF.\n\nThe full report detailing GPIF’s new fee structure is available on its website .\n\nThe backdrop to the changes was poor performance by the pension fund’s active asset managers, GPIF said.\n\nAround 20% of GPIF’s assets are actively managed, but during the 2014-16 period only a few funds had outperformed their targets.\n\nThe asset owner recognised it could become better at selecting funds and that it was working hard to increase sophistication in this area, but said its fee structure also had a part to play.\n\n“They therefore have little incentive to set target excess return rates appropriately, to be innovative in seeking excess returns, and to control their management capacity, so a resolution of this issue was regarded as being far off,” said the GPIF.", null ]

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[ null, "For the companion book to their new film Everything Everywhere All at Once, directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert edited a collection of essays, short stories, poems, illustrations, and comics, all inspired by theories of the multiverse. Below is Esmé Weijun Wang’s story for the book — one of three original stories included in the tome that begins with the words “It was only broken in two places,” in a nod to the many-worlds hypothesis.\n\nIt was only broken in two places.\n\nRyder kept repeating the fact, like a poisonous mantra, as she and Charlie hurtled toward the hospital. Charlie thought he would punch his wife if she said it again, and yet Ryder kept saying it. After every instance, bringing up the notion of a still more tragic fate for their son, Charlie flinched—as an indoor kid, he had never broken a bone, but Ryder was a former gymnast. Being an athlete made life fundamentally different. Hadn’t Kerri Strug proven that in the 1996 Summer Olympics? But their twenty-year-old son wasn’t an athlete; moreover, Jonathan had jumped out of a window. That was the fundamental difference.\n\n“He could’ve died,” Charlie finally snapped. They were close to the hospital now; he recognized the neighborhood as the one he visited to pick up Jon’s medications.\n\nRyder replied, “He could’ve, but he didn’t. I’m just saying that it could have been worse.”\n\n“Very optimistic of you.”\n\nThis was true. They hadn’t been able to force Jon into the psychiatric ward, but now that he had actively attempted suicide, he could finally be committed. Charlie’s fist loosened a fraction. He scratched absently at his face.\n\nAt the hospital’s front desk, the receptionist took their names and made calls until she reached someone who was able to report that, because Jon was still in the ER and waiting to be transferred to the proper ward, they could not see him until he was transferred.\n\n“Is he in restraints? I know that’s why we can’t see him,” said Charlie.\n\n“It’s fine. We’re not going to throw a shit fit about restraints.”\n\n“What he means,” Ryder quickly said, “is that we know the drill.”\n\n“Well, when is he going to be transferred? How are we supposed to know when he’s been transferred?” Charlie asked.\n\n“They’ll call you,” said the nurse.\n\nCharlie and Ryder returned to the waiting area. The land of plastic orange seats was far from full—a weekday night, Charlie supposed, would lead to fewer medical emergencies—and some of those who were waiting seemed to be in agony. An elderly man moaned to himself as he curled forward, like a tender fern, over his knees. A woman held a screaming baby to her chest. Everyone looked raw and in need of care.\n\n“I don’t think they have our phone numbers,” Charlie said.\n\n“Fuck,” Charlie said, and the tears came in spite of himself. Ryder wrapped her arms around him, her hand rubbing his back in a manner not dissimilar to how she had rubbed Jon’s back when he was a baby, when she bounced him up and down in her arms. Engulfed, Charlie could smell the deodorant she used—something apricot-scented and sweet. Before they had Jon, he had never cried in public, and now, with Jon in his early twenties, Charlie had cried in public and private far more than he felt was appropriate.\n\nRyder, on the other hand, seemed to have hardened in response to distress. If one of them was upset, the other had to compensate by being stoic. It was an unspoken rule in their marriage, as sacred as any vow made in the Catholic church Ryder had insisted on for their wedding, and for years, neither of them had broken the covenant. But they were trapped now—calcified: Ryder was strong, while Charlie couldn’t help but crumble. Now she pulled away from him. He shrugged, embarrassed.\n\nWhen they finally saw Jon hours later, he seemed less like their son and more like a Jon who had been eviscerated and stuffed with straw. They met in a corner of the ward during visiting hours—Charlie and Ryder had been made to wait, so as to not disturb the other patients’ routines—and Jon, their beloved, clever son, had been dulled at the edges. Charlie wanted badly to hug him, but he and Ryder had been told at the out-set that touching wasn’t allowed, so instead, Charlie clapped his hands together, soundlessly and repetitively, to give himself something to do.\n\n“No, baby,” Ryder said. Her hand rose to his shoulder, hovered, and then swiftly withdrew. “You don’t have to apologize.”\n\nCharlie couldn’t stop staring at Jon’s leg, which was partially why it had taken so long to get him into the ward. Because of the nature of the breaks—multiple and compound—he had required surgery to implant an internal fixation device, which they would remove after six to eight weeks. It looked monstrous, with its metal scaffolding and screws. “Does it hurt?” Charlie asked, gesturing.\n\nHe was on Zyprexa, which always made him robotic; Ryder would fight for him to be transitioned to another drug. “It’s broken.”\n\n“It seems pretty bad,” said Ryder. Her hand came up again, and this time, she quickly squeezed Jon on the shoulder before returning her hand to her lap.\n\nI should’ve thought of that, Charlie thought. Just be fast.\n\n“You’ll be here for a bit,” she continued. “Until some things get straightened out. They’ll help you.”\n\nSilence. Both Jon and Charlie were still gazing at the broken leg.\n\n“What?” Charlie’s head jerked up, as if controlled by string.\n\n“It’s not true,” Ryder said, and her hand came up again until a loud voice asserted, “No touching,” and her hand dropped without any of them turning to look at the nurse who had said it.\n\nRyder stood at the kitchen counter, stirring her tea with a spoon. She’d used three bags of PG Tips tea to make it extra strong. She dripped honey into the cup. She had showered to get the scent of sex off. Rubbing deodorant into her armpits and blow-drying her short hair, she was still exhausted from the afternoon’s exertions, and Charlie would be home in a few hours, which required a certain amount of alertness. He would be tired and grumpy. She would cheer him up. That was how their marriage operated. It was stupid, really, to want anything else but a casual fuck now and again; like Jon, Ryder required an occasional shock in order to return her to life. Someone had told her—one of the other mothers in the PTA, someone whose name she couldn’t remember—that having Jon would be the best thing she ever did. She pressed her mouth hard to the mug’s rim. The liquid scorched her lips and she kept them there.\n\nFrom the book A VAST, POINTLESS GYRATION OF RADIOACTIVE ROCKS AND GAS IN WHICH YOU HAPPEN TO OCCUR: A TRIP THROUGH THE MULTIVERSE, EDITED BY DANIEL KWAN AND DANIEL SCHEINERT. Copyright © 2022 by A24. Reprinted by permission.\n\nA Vast, Pointless Gyration of Radioactive Rocks and Gas in Which You Happen to Occur\nA24\nMore like this\nWhy The '365 Days' Sex Scenes Are Good, Even If The Movies Aren’t\nBy Arya Roshanian\nAt 28, Minnie Driver’s Personal Life Was “Falling Apart”\nBy Kate Dwyer\nWhat Is Barack Obama’s Net Worth? He Makes *Way* More Now As An Ex-President\nBy Hugh McIntyre\nA 'Bridgerton' Star Just Dropped A Major Hint About Joining The Live-Action Barbie Cast\nBy Bustle UK\nGet Even More From Bustle — Sign Up For The Newsletter" ]

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[ null, "The loonie failed to hold onto early gains in yesterday’s trading session as oil prices plunged at around 16:00 GMT, pushing the Canadian dollar back into the red over the course of the day. The loonie now sits over a percentage point lower from Thursday’s 33-month high, with concerns elevated over President Biden’s “buy American” plans remaining a focal point for investors. Little new information regarding US and Canadian relations has been presented since Biden’s call with Trudeau over the weekend, with Chrystia Freeland stating that it will be a priority for talks scheduled next month with the new administration. Yesterday also saw Statistics Canada revise up its December unemployment rate from 8.6% to 8.8% and employment was found to be 18.485m compared with 18.553m initially reported. Little data is scheduled for today ahead of Thursday’s CFIB business barometer for January, pushing the loonie’s focus back onto global risk sentiment.\n\nWith Asian equity markets closing lower, the risk-off tone was set this morning for FX markets. Sterling is taking on water for this reason as Boris Johnson is set to meet senior ministers and officials to decide whether to use hotels to forcibly place travellers in quarantine upon arrival to the UK. Similar policies have been carried out in New Zealand and Australia and have proven effective in controlling the spread of the virus thus far. This morning’s data didn’t help sterling’s case eiter, with the economy shedding 88,000 jobs in the three months to November. This pushed the unemployment rate up to 5%, from 4.9% previously, but the true deterioration in the labour market is yet to be shown by the official data due to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. Many employers continue to furlough workers using the CJRS due to it being a costless way of retaining workers, however, with the scheme set to expire in April, a further deterioration in the labour market data is expected in Q2.\n\nThe euro is taking on some water this morning as several narratives continue to weigh on the single currency while new headlines add additional risks. With both Pfizer and Oxford AstraZeneca facing supply issues, prospects of a swift eurozone recovery may have weakened while several eurozone countries consider tightened lockdown measures as the more infectious virus strains remain a threat. Brussels has moved to tighten rules on exports of vaccines outside the EU as the fallout escalates from AstraZeneca’s delay to deliveries that were planned over the coming weeks. Beyond that, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte informed ministers he will resign today. His resignation is seen as a tactical move to avoid a defeat in the Senate, allowing him to make his way back to head a new government by counting on President Mattarella to ask him to form another. In France, Finance Minister Bruno le Maire stated France is unlikely to meet its 6% growth target this year if it imposes another nationwide lockdown, which the nation is considering currently, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday the pandemic management slipped out of control. The resignation of the Italian PM, the ongoing virus concerns and questions around the EU vaccine rollout are likely to dominate euro price action today while the currency continues to take cues from broader moves in risk sentiment. In the absence of a vibrant data calendar, comments from European Central Bank members De Cos and Centeno will grab attention today.\n\nThe dollar showed a decent bid in the afternoon of yesterday’s trading session as the global risk environment remains tentative. Questions around the efficacy of vaccines and their distribution have tempered the market’s optimism of an aggressive economic recovery in 2020 and a strong risk rally. In this light, the dollar continues to find support despite analysts’ earlier expectations of a cyclical dollar decline in 2021 on vaccine optimism. For US markets, the focus remains on Washington and the evolution of the $1.9trn fiscal stimulus package. Joe Biden is reportedly looking to reshape his initial proposal in order for it to garnish bipartisan support ahead of Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on the week fo the 8th, however, the new President hasn’t ruled out pushing his stimulus plans through the lengthier reconciliation process which only requires a simple majority in both chambers. Yesterday saw Janet Yellen confirmed as the first Treasury Secretary by the Senate, with Antony Blinken’s nomination for secretary of state to be voted on today.\n\nDISCLAIMER: This information has been prepared by Monex Canada Inc., an execution-only service provider. The material is for general information purposes only, and does not take into account your personal circumstances or objectives. Nothing in this material is, or should be considered to be, financial, investment or other advice on which reliance should be placed. No representation or warranty is given as to the accuracy or completeness of this information. No opinion given in the material constitutes a recommendation by Monex Canada Inc., or the author that any particular transaction or investment strategy is suitable for any specific person. 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[ null, "There is no hiding from the fact and that is \"Avalanche Express\" is a disappointing movie, the storyline is dull and at times implausible, the acting is a bit ropey and the action well it's less than exciting. And it is also obvious that at less than 90 minutes \"Avalanche Express\" is a movie which had to be chopped about to be completed for the sad reason that both director Mark Robson and actor Robert Shaw died during production. It is the unfortunate loss of both Robson and Shaw that can only act as an explanation as to why \"Avalanche Express\" ends up so lacklustre, failing to engage for one moment as it jerks along under some heavy handed editing.\n\nWhen Russian General Marenkov (Robert Shaw - Jaws) decides to defect to the West, top CIA agent Wargrave (Lee Marvin - The Dirty Dozen) and his small team are sent to retrieve him. Opting to get him out via a train across Europe they soon discover that Russian spy-catcher Bunin (Maximilian Schell - The Freshman) is on to them and plans to kill them by any means necessary even if it means the loss of innocent lives in the process.", null, "One of the major issues with \"Avalanche Express\" is in fact the storyline, the Russian General defecting to the West and a team of CIA operatives trying to bring him out safely isn't that original or to be frank that exciting. But it becomes a touch to absurd that they would bring him out via a long train journey across Europe. Of course this absurd element means that the train journey is going to be dangerous and in many ways \"Avalanche Express\" is really all about that, the troubled train ride and the set piece scenes of action along the way. The fact there is a very false romantic element between Wargrave and Elsa Lang adds little to what is a very ordinary storyline which struggles to either thrill or excite.\n\nSo this means that \"Avalanche Express\" is a movie which tries to work on various action scenes, I say tries to because it doesn't quite make it. It all seems so ordinary with the Russians trying to sabotage the train in anyway possible to kill the Russian General and many of these scenes of action just fail to really explode into life. The closest \"Avalanche Express\" comes to get exciting is when the Russians cause an avalanche in the hope of destroying the train. The danger on the actual train isn't exciting but the camera work of the snowy mountains and avalanche as it rips through chalets and wooden huts looks good.\n\nAnd to be honest the acting doesn't help \"Avalanche Express\" be any more interesting. So okay Robert Shaw was seriously ill during production and so the weakness of his performance as General Marenkov is excusable and makes the dubbing of his voice understandable. But the rest of the cast seem to be struggling as much as Shaw. Lee Marvin, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell all seem to be having major off days playing their characters to the point that it often feels that various long pauses are in the movie because these stars were trying to remember their lines. Joe Namath, Horst Buchholz and to be honest pretty much everyone else are just as bad and it makes \"Avalanche Express\" very stilted.\n\nWhat this all boils down to is that \"Avalanche Express\" is a disappointing movie. The problems over illness and deaths behind the scenes have had a knock on effect to the movie causing it to feel very troubled. And it is a shame as whilst the finished movie is a bit unoriginal and dull the potential for something exciting with dramatic action sequences aboard a train going through snowy mountains is there it just doesn't deliver the excitement or thrill that it could have.\n\nYoung Charlotte 'Charlie' Newton (Teresa Wright) is tired off her dull life with her family in the equally dull Santa Rosa and wishes that her Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) would come for a visit to make things more interesting. Unb ...\n\nWhen a terrorist infected with a deadly plague like virus boards a train he unwittingly exposes all the passengers to the disease. Having contacted the virus in a botched attempt to blow up the European Health Organizations Offices, ...\n\nDeke DaSilva (Sylvester Stallone - Rocky II) and Matthew Fox (Billy Dee Williams) are two New York cops who are good at their work, fighting crime on the streets. But they are less than impressed when they are transferred to a speci ...\n\nWhen terrorists steal a potentially lethal virus, former spy Jason Monk (Patrick Swayze - 11:14) is persuaded to come out of retirement and head to Russia to discover what is going on. Finding himself working with Russian policewoma ..." ]

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[ "Anna has spent her life training to become a binder under the supervision and teaching of her aunt. Her training has taught her that magic is a sin and she should be bound, but there is a magical world that Anna has never been able to explore…until Effie and Attis begin to show her the possibilities of her magical abilities. As Anna is opened up to the magical world, she also begins to uncover secrets about herself and her past. When the time comes, will Anna decide that Aunt was right all along and join the binders? Or will she be unable to turn her back on the new world she has discovered?\n\nSet in London, Thomas has created a magical world within the world that we already know. I loved the fact that this novel didn’t feel separate from our world, but felt like something hidden that could exist, if only we knew how to access it.\n\nThomas creates well-rounded and complex characters who all have their own background to unravel. I tried to work out which characters Anna could truly trust, but Thomas knows exactly when to give us more information or a plot line that will send you guessing again. I liked Anna’s character development and look forward to that continuing as the series unfolds.\n\nThe plot of this novel was exciting and kept me guessing. I was not sure which characters to trust, and who may be lying or withholding the truth. The novel begins with six women being hanged, and that part of the plot really intrigued me, whilst I also tried to work out what secrets Anna may uncover about herself.\n\nAs a YA novel about teenagers, a substantial amount of the plot took place at, or revolved around, the school, which I did not necessarily expect. This part of the plot started to lose me a little bit at times, but it was interesting to think about how someone with magical abilities would handle the ordinary issues of growing up.\n\nDespite that, the intrigue, twists and revelations in the narrative kept me reading and I love the imaginative story and world that Thomas has woven through this novel. Her plot has been cleverly crafted to keep up suspense and intrigue and I had to keep reading to find out what would happen and to get the answers that I needed.\n\nThe final ten percent of the novel had me gripped, and I could not put the book down. There were a number of revelations and twists that had me glued to the pages, and I very much look forward to finding out where the narrative will go in the next book.\n\nOverall, I really enjoyed Threadneedle and would recommend giving it a read when it is released on 27th May. I am intrigued to see what the next installment will bring and look forward to being back with Anna.", null ]