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[ null, "The Wail of the Banshee, Clifford Boucher James, https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-wail-of-the-banshee-waving-her-hands-and-chanting-a-sweet-song-of-life-94880/view_as/grid/search/keyword:banshee/page/1\n\nTHE BANSHEE OF HILLSTOCK ROAD.\n\nHillstock-road was about the last place in the world that a self-respecting banshee or other supernatural visitant might be expected to patronise. It was not even in Ireland, but in the North district of busy, smoky, up-to-date unromantic London.\n\nGrendoran Villa, Hillstock-road, was rented by Mrs. O’Shea, an Irish lady of good means, and immense antiquity —as regarded family. Mrs. O’Shea was the widow of a general officer, as she took good care to inform her neighbours, upon whom she looked down with justifiable contempt as being principally composed of business people. None of the O’Sheas had soiled their hands with trade; but in Mrs. O’Shea’s native country there were those so ill-natured as to whisper that the late General O’Shea had found means to escape from his creditors by marrying the heiress of a wealthy Hibernian bacon merchant.\n\nThe household of Grendoran Villa consisted of the stately widow, an orphan niece, and two servants—one a confidential maid, who had lived with Miss Molly Dowd before her marriage to the aristocratic and impecunious Major O’Shea. Honor Carroll was a character in her way, but under a sharp manner and tongue hid a warm heart and much fidelity. She had served the Dowds from her youth, and was as careful to preserve her mistress’s status as was that lady herself. Until very recently, Honor had never disputed Mrs. O’Shea’s will, except by the grumbling which had become habitual with her; but now there was a difference of opinion between mistress and maid, and Honor held her own obstinately, for the happiness of Katherine O’Shea, whom the old woman idolised, was at stake. Katherine was not an O’Shea at all, but merely a Dowd, being the only child of Mrs. O’Shea’s brother; but on the death of her parents, her aunt had adopted her and given her the grander name. She was a typical Irish girl, sad and merry by turns, with a wholesome horror of restraint, and but little reverence for authority. She was pretty, with dark eyes and hair, small features, and a remarkably bright and clear complexion. The girl had no nonsense about her, and cordially detested her aunt’s snobbishness. She had a special reason for rebelling against the enforced gentility of her position, as it had led Mrs. O’Shea to refuse her consent to the proposal of Katherine’s lover—a young man in every way a suitable match for her, but to whom the General’s widow objected on the score that he and his people were “mere tradesfolk.”\n\nHonor Carroll had taken the side of the young people, and uttered her protests with no uncertain voice, and her remarks were as thorns in Mrs. O’Shea’s side, for the home truths she advanced were incontrovertible.\n\nIt was a dull November afternoon, not by any means the sort of day one would select for an al fresco conversation; yet Katherine O’Shea and Henry Plavell were standing under the leafless elm trees at the end of the garden, and apparently perfectly unconscious of either cold or damp. Very frequently the young man paid these visits, safe from the observation of the mistress of the house. Honor, while scolding Katherine briskly for meeting her fiancé, secretly kept watch that Mrs. O’Shea did not come upon the scene unawares, and at the time of which we are speaking she was on duty.\n\nThe sound of the drawing-room bell warned her that Katherine would probably be asked for by her aunt; and the old servant trotted down to the lovers’ meeting-spot, and, without any preliminaries, began:\n\n“Shure, an’ Miss Katherine, isn’t it a shame fur ye to be meandering down there wid Master Flavell, an’ ye know that the mistress is dead agin him comin’ at all?”\n\n“Don’t be cross, Honor,” replied Katherine, with an unconcerned laugh. “If I am not to receive my visitors properly inside, I’ll take good care to enjoy myself out here.”\n\n“It’s cowld enjoyment, I’m thinkin’,” muttered the old woman; “but in wid ye now, fur the drawin’-room bell’s rung, and the mistress is shure to be wantin’ ye.”\n\n“I expect it’s you she is wanting, Honor,” remarked Henry Flavell. “Don’t you think Miss Katherine might stay out a little longer?”\n\n“Bedad! I do not, Master Flavell,” answered Honor, sharply, “an’ it’s yerself ought to be above matin’ her on the sly.”\n\n“Did you never meet anyone on the sly yourself, Honor?” laughed the young man.\n\n“Ach! Go along wid ye,” grinned Honor, her eyes brightening up with some merry thought of her girlhood. “Better fur ye to persuade the mistress to let ye court Miss Katherine straight out. Och! Murder! Ay she isn’t at the winder! I towld ye how it would be.”\n\nHenry Flavell dodged behind the tree in very undignified style, while Katherine and Honor walked towards the house.\n\nMrs. O’Shea never for a moment dreamt that Henry Flavell would dare enter her grounds after she had forbidden him the house; therefore, her suspicions were not roused, and she only scolded Honor for not having more sense than to be out that cold day without something over her head.\n\nIt was the evening of the same day, while Honor was helping her to get ready for bed, that Mrs. O’Shea began to hold forth upon the presumption of a person in “young Flavell’s position” attempting to pay his addresses to her niece.\n\n“An’ a fine young man he is, whin all’s sed an’ done,” put in Honor, sturdily. “Faith! I see no great harm ay Miss Katherine an’ he made a match ay it.”\n\n“How dare you, Honor!” exclaimed Mrs. O’Shea, with a withering look at her maid. “My niece shall marry as well as I did, or remain an O’Shea all her life.”\n\n“Honor!” screamed Mrs. O’Shea. “If you ever dare to mention that shop, or let Miss Katherine know of it, I’ll send you back to Ballymorty. Have you no respect for me at all?”\n\n“They shall never marry while I draw breath.”\n\nBefore her mistress could retort, a weird, wailing sound came borne on the still night, and died away like a plaintive cry. There was not a breath of wind, and Mrs. O’Shea turned pale and grasped the back of the chair, while Honor devoutly crossed herself and whispered:\n\n“The holy saints be betune us an’ harm this night!”\n\n“It’s like a banshee,” stammered Mrs. O’Shea, when she had recovered her voice. “There’s one in our family. It’s a warning.”\n\n“I am only doing my duty,” remonstrated Mrs. O’Shea, faintly.\n\n“It must come three times,” remarked Mrs. O’Shea, referring to the banshee.\n\nAnd sure enough, the following evening, about the same hour, the uncanny, unaccountable, prolonged wail came again; and Mrs. O’Shea, trembling and unnerved, accepted it as her summons. Honor Carroll, while admitting that it was the banshee, hazarded the remark that if approaching death were sent as a punishment for crossing the young people, speedy repentance on the part of Mrs. O’Shea might turn back the judgment.\n\nMrs. O’Shea was too fond of her present existence to care to change it, unless that was absolutely necessary; and she there and then made a solemn vow that if she were spared until the morrow, she would give her consent to the mesalliance in the hope of propitiating the banshee.\n\nShe did not sleep that night, but she lived through it; and to the great surprise and joy of Katherine and Henry Flavell, the old lady wrote a formal acceptance of the young man’s proposal,\n\nIt need not be explained that the supposed banshee was nothing more supernatural that the sound emitted by the new motor cab invested in by Mr. Flavell, senior.\n\nMrs Daffodil’s Aide-memoire: Although she is not fond of dialect stories, Mrs Daffodil is pursing her lips dubiously at that extraordinarily abrupt and unsatisfactory denouement in the worst tradition of the “and then I woke up” ghost story ending. Mrs Daffodil, and, doubtless, the redoubtable Honor Carroll, would have been much happier if there had been a banshee. Mrs O’Shea would have been found dead in her bed and young Katherine would not only have been free to marry the man of her heart, but would have inherited the O’Shea fortune. Even after years of respectable widowhood at Grendoran Villa, there should have been a substantial sum left from the labour of that wealthy Hibernian bacon merchant. Honor Carroll, after a period of luxuriant mourning, might have stayed on to help with the children or retired to Ireland with a generous legacy. As a bonus Henry Flavell would have been free from the plague of a snobbish mother-in-law.\n\nThat is what Mrs Daffodil calls a happy ending." ]

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[ null, "A place to call home is a fundamental human need but this hasn’t prevented numerous costly mistakes. How do we right the wrongs of the past and usher in a new golden age of housing? We explore some of the projects and policies that can deliver untapped potential.\n\nWe are all more intimately aware than ever of what we need and want from our homes, with each of us gaining a clearer idea as the definition of ‘home’ morphs and bends to encompass work and leisure. Housing has proven notoriously difficult to get right across the policy spectrum from politics to planning and architecture but a new wave of developments aims to show that future success can be built on past failures.\n\nAsked why is housing such a deceptively tough nut to crack Karen Anderson, a founding partner at Anderson Bell + Christie (AB+C) told Urban Realm: “At its core housing is numbers and is cost-driven and that is the wrong place to start. I have to confess my early career was spent demolishing walk-ups in Castlemilk and Easterhouse to build two-storey homes with front and back doors, but we can’t do that in the future. We don’t have the resources to keep demolishing homes and vast tracts of our cities. We need to stop and take a breath.\n\n“Thinking back to the mid to late eighties, before the UK City of Architecture & Design in 1999, Glasgow and Reidvale Housing Association were doing good stuff with Elder & Cannon. At that point, the private and public sector offering was pretty poor and then we had quite a bad recession but then the housing association movement took off with a quality agenda. We got the year of architecture because of the housing association movement but the HA movement then accelerated its desire to do good stuff.”\n\nEmphasising the need to incorporate more social space into our housing as a counter-reaction to the suburban model of delivery Anderson argues that we’ve become too hung up on secure by design issues at the expense of social design. “How do you deal with everything from letting elderly people see some life go past to shared growing spaces?”\n\nReferencing a pledge by the levelling up secretary Anderson adds: “ Michael Gove set a target of building 300,000 new homes per year and in the same breath said it’s not just about any old homes, it’s about beauty, which is interesting for him picking up the Prince Charles agenda. It’s a bit of a sop to the whole idea that social housing, specifically in England, has been a blight because of green belt and NIMBYs. Where there is hope is that’s a recognition that housing is not purely about numbers, that’s a start. Architects have always known how to do it but we can’t do it if we don’t get asked to do it!”\n\nIs beauty a loaded term with Poundbury trappings as likely to repel as attract? If housing becomes beholden to fashion, are we simply repeating the 50-year cycle of destruction in a world where builders profit most by providing the basics and charitable organisations consider affordability as the greatest barrier to equality of accommodation? Anderson says: “It’s getting more difficult constructing around the challenges of the carbon agenda. It’s so complex even though it appears so simple, things like Passivhaus driving smaller windows, it just takes a bit of time to get it right and make sure people still get sunlight. It’s all about the perception that big windows are at the front of the house and small windows are at the back. It’s not about orientation.”\n\nThrow climate change into the mix and this challenge will only get harder as Anderson, who is leading a master’s unit on developing sustainable proposals for South Uist at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & the Built Environment, is well aware. “The material challenge is around climate change. As Glasgow gets wetter and wetter with more frequent downpours detailing becomes important in terms of how we build.\n\n“My students are looking at alternative materials like bricks grown from fungus and walls which use algae to generate electricity. There have already been Europe-wide cement shortages, which have been an issue for masonry construction. I say you have to think about the materials you use, it’s no longer enough to go to the manufacturer and say ‘I’ll have this’. You need to think about carbon, weathering and deconstruction.”\n\nIs it fair to say there is a renaissance in council house building? What are the opportunities for driving the industry forward? “One of my last projects in the office was Edinburgh 21st century homes, looking at zero carbon on the neighbourhood scale, so not just looking at the house but issues around district heating and transport as well. It’s beholden to our public sector clients to show the way. The fuel crisis will make that much more a potential positive if it costs more to heat your house than in the age of relatively cheap energy.”\n“Aside from poverty, social care and the issues around isolation; mental and physical health are the two big agendas that good housing design can help with.”\n\nIn times of crisis, we’re often shocked into enacting changes put off while the sun is shining. Hopefully, we are at an inflexion point similar to that which took place in the late eighties. However, inflation, the skills shortage and a potential recession play out the fundamental right to a roof over our heads remains.\n\nIs there a magic formula for social housing?\n\nMarie de Bryas, Stephen Taylor Architects\nCities have evolved to become a juxtaposition of urban fragments from many different eras as they respond to ever changing political, economic, and technological pressures. Social housing can offer architects the rare chance to explore a coherent urban idea at a large scale. Designing housing means thinking about the home and the private scale, as well as the street and the public scale at the same time. In the twentieth century, housing development moved away from forming the historical street and reverted to an open landscape approach, minimising the interaction between the dwellings and the public realm in order to give back to the city as much open space as possible. This approach led to poorly defined and impersonal public spaces that ultimately increased crime and failed to instil pride and wellbeing for the residents, as theorised by Oscar Newman.\n\nSo, as we tackle the current housing crisis, we, as twenty-first century architects, are asked to find new solutions to create successful, safe, and sustainable environments. As often, it isn’t about finding a new solution, but understanding and modernising ideas of the past. When looking at successful pieces of cities, such as Haussman’s Paris or the Georgian Terraces, we can pick up recurring elements, such as the intimate relationship between the dwellings and the streets they form, creating natural passive surveillance and a sense of ownership, or the rhythmic repetition of simple robust elements, such as doors or windows, whilst focussing on key special moments, in characterful corners, porches or gables. Contemporary social housing can aim to recreate this intimate relationship between the public and the private, whilst integrating today's environmental challenges.\n\nBut the responsibility shouldn’t only rely on architects. Local authorities and housing associations need to invest in high quality and sustainable housing and become best practice clients. Councils’ limited budgets and risk-averse attitudes often lead to unsatisfactory tendering processes that value low costs over quality. A more collaborative approach would benefit the industry and result in higher quality housing." ]

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[ null, "In the 19th century, Cincinnati was an American boomtown in the middle of the place. All through significantly of the 19th century, it was outlined among the top 10 U.S. metropolitan areas by population, surpassed only by New Orleans and the more mature, established settlements of the United States jap seaboard, as well as getting the sixth-most significant metropolis for a time period spanning 1840 until finally 1860.\n\nCincinnati designed with fewer immigrants and considerably less impact from Europe than East Coast metropolitan areas in the identical period of time. Nonetheless, it obtained a substantial amount of German-speaking immigrants, who launched a lot of of the city’s cultural establishments. By cincinnati classified ads of the 19th century, with the shift from steamboats to railroads drawing off freight shipping and delivery, trade styles had altered and Cincinnati’s development slowed considerably. The metropolis was surpassed in population by other inland cities, particularly Chicago, which designed based mostly on powerful commodity exploitation, economics, and the railroads, and St. Louis, which for a long time right after the Civil War served as the gateway to westward migration.\n\nCincinnati is home to three main sports teams: the Cincinnati Reds of Significant League Baseball the Cincinnati Bengals of the Countrywide Soccer League and FC Cincinnati of Key League Soccer, and the Cincinnati Cyclones, a slight league ice hockey team. The city’s premier establishment of larger schooling, the College of Cincinnati, was founded in 1819 as a municipal college and is now rated as a single of the fifty premier in the United States. Cincinnati is property to historic architecture with a lot of structures in the city main getting remained intact for two hundred several years. In the late 1800s, Cincinnati was typically referred to as the “Paris of America”, because of mainly to this kind of formidable architectural assignments as the Tunes Hall, Cincinnatian Hotel, and Shillito Department Shop. cincinnati brunette escorts is the birthplace of William Howard Taft, the twenty seventh President of the United States.\n\nMetropolitan Cincinnati has the 20-eighth largest economy in the United States and the fifth greatest in the Midwest, soon after Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Detroit, and St. Louis. It at the moment has the swiftest-increasing Midwestern financial funds based mostly on percentages. The gross domestic merchandise for the region was $127 billion as of 2015. The median residence cost is $158,two hundred, and the value of residing in Cincinnati is 8% underneath nationwide average. The unemployment fee is also underneath the average at 4.2%.\n\nSeveral Fortune 500 businesses are headquartered in Cincinnati, this sort of as Procter & Gamble, The Kroger Business, and Fifth Third Financial institution. Common Electrical has headquartered their International Functions Heart in Cincinnati. The Kroger Company employs 21,646 individuals locally, generating it the largest employer in the city, and the College of Cincinnati is the next premier at 16,000." ]

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[ "Architect WilkinsonEyre and landscape architect Morphis, have won a major international competition for a 6.3ha urban design and masterplan project in the Greater Bay area of Shenzhen, southeastern China.\n\nCommissioned by the Shenzhen Government, the Shenzhen Bay Avenue East Extension will create a 1km multi-layered pedestrian connection, shaping the future of the city’s urban fabric to form a vibrant and culturally-animated transition between the commercial district of the city and the bay. The result will be a new city destination of lively public realm promoting healthy and sustainable living.\n\nThe winning design celebrates the concept of ‘City-Culture-Bay’ to create a coherent ensemble of interconnected elevated walkways, linked by escalators and stairs to a lively streetscape and basement level civic realm. The route passes through three distinct zones, from the central business district through to a new cultural quarter and on to a landscaped park on the bay. The design will become an ensemble of animated places, as a series of destinations along its linear route, framed with new commercial and cultural buildings.\n\nKey urban spaces include a transport interchange with a bus station and links to two subway stations, a sunken plaza and the Platform Park, envisaged as a calm space amid the hustle and bustle of the city. Retail has been incorporated within two extensive basement levels along the Avenue where the multi-layered landscape brings light and shade into the scheme to create dramatic internal spaces, connected through vertical circulation nodes to form part of the integrated wayfinding strategy.\n\n“WilkinsonEyre and Morphis have collaborated to create a proposal that holistically blends architecture, urban design and landscape design. Our concept will deliver a strong linear public space with the flexibility to allow the city to breathe, develop, grow and adapt.”\n\n“The creation of new and contemporary public realm integrated with city life is crucial to simultaneously transform and unite Shenzhen with its waterfront. It will be spectacular and dynamic, beyond imagination, rooted in the culture of Shenzhen’s diverse community delivering a thriving, well-served and sustainable cityscape.”\n\nThe competition was organised by one of China’s leading developers, CR Land. The other shortlisted practices were Sasaki Associates, Turenscape, MLA+UPDIS, BNP+ShenDu Group and Aecom.", null, null ]

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[ "The Riigikogu on Thursday completed the first reading of a bill of legislative amendments that would forbid anyone convicted of a criminal offense from running in Estonia's general elections, municipal elections and European Parliament elections.\n\nAccording to existing law, people who have been found guilty and are serving an actual prison sentence cannot run in the aforementioned elections. Conditional sentences and prior convictions do not, however, hinder an individual from running in elections, spokespeople for the Riigikogu said.\n\nThe bill submitted by the Reform Party parliamentary group would forbid anyone convicted of a crime or with a valid sentence for a professional offense from running in elections. In the explanatory letter accompanying the bill, the authors of the legislation said that such a candidacy ban would help curb and prevent corruption.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the initiators of the bill, MP Kalle Laanet (Reform) said that many officials working in local governments as well as members of municipal councils have had to appear before the court to explain their actions.\n\n\"In order to minimize this happening and also to help everything look clean for the public, we have proposed that people who have been convicted of an office-related crime by a court of law and whose punishment has not expired has no right to run for a seat on a local government council, in the Riigikogu or in the European Parliament,\" said Laanet.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the leading committee, MP Arto Aas (Reform) said that this kind of restriction on running in elections can be imposed only in strong democracies, as in non-democratic states courts would start to hand down guilty verdicts to politicians under suspicious circumstances.", null ]

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[ "Have an all-nighter in vegas\n\nWe started out at the hotel room of some guys we new through a friend of my friend with some beer, wine and beer pong, then went to Hakkasan where Hardwell was at that night and danced until they closed down the club and kicked us out (we were actually some of the last guests on the dance floor). Yup, I guess that counts for an alnighter. ;)\n\nVegas can be a lot of work, partying, drinking, eating, shows, shopping, activities, taking photos with creepy old guys dressed up in costumes and declining hundreds of escort calling cards as you walk down the strip. When you add the fact you went to Vegas to actually \"work\" it can be exhausting.\n\nI was in Vegas for a conference called Freedomfest. It's for libertarians and anarchists, suiting. At about 7:00 pm the first night I arrived I got a call from a friend saying he was walking by my house in Vancouver and was seeing if wanted to have a beer. I told him I was in Vegas, had an amazing suite and if he bought a plane ticket the room was on me. 12 hours later two friends showed up in the lobby. They are pretty good guys. It was a three day conference and I was their for 4 nights. We decided the 2nd night we were all together was going to be \"The Night.\" As we were there for a conference we decided to dress up in suits and play the part. We started with Dinner somewhere in the MGM, I think we had sushi, but we'll never really know. We stepped out of dinner, and I promptly put $100 on 1st 12 on a roulette table, I hit. Boom, dinner was paid for. We then preceded to the Cirque De Soliel show, Zumanity. A terrific show that I would recommend. It actually took me about half the show to realize the hosts lady parts were in fact, not lady parts. He or she was wonderful and had the crowd laughing the whole time. We made a quick stop at the craps table as we had never seen or played one before. Lady luck was favoring the beginners this evening. The next step was the typical \"when in Rome\" moment. However our memory did not recall the correct animal name when we requested the driver to take us to the gentleman's establishment. Confusing your cheetahs and rhinos in Vegas will provided a very different sense of class. However upon arriving at our unintended destination our suits were quite impressive to the doorman. When they asked what we did, one us blurted out we were European Soccer players. We were quickly and complimentary ushered to the VIP section.\n\nI wouldn't say we made it rain, but there was definitely a drizzle. I can't quite recall the next two or three locations but before we knew it was close to 6 am and I had to be at work at 8 am.\n\nInstead of the power nap, we gambled on, crushed some hash browns, eggs a mikes hard lemonade, you know for the vitamins, and I proceeded to the conference to \"work.\" As you can imagine, not a lot was done. Would I take it back? Of course not!\n\nWent with my 2 cousins celebrating life. One of the cousins and I are both fighting cancer. We had a blast and would love to get together again to do this.\n\nTerrible idea. A lot of money lost. Interesting night. But what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas..\n\nSpent 2 nights and three days there for my cousin's bachelorette party.\n\nAmazing experience to see all those casinos,to ride on the rollercoaster around New York, New York, to watch the fountains at the Belagio to the tune of Luck be a lady tonight. To see the canal inside the venetian complete with gondalas and a market square with a ceiling lit up like it was daytime. Incredible.\n\nAt the Flamingo for St.Pattys Day in 2015\n\nBest vacation so far. I saw Mariah Carey in concert, saw KA circus sol le, stayed and the Bellagio, and gambled the night away.\n\nDuring our USA-Road Trip we had some amazing days in Vegas. On 10th of June 2017 we really had an all-day-all-nighter. We started the day 07am when me and Elin J went skydiving. Vegas Extreme Skydive!! After out first jump in our life, I loved it and Elin will never do it again, we went back to the hotelpool and Elin H for some drinks. After that we went to Heartattack grill (The guiness recordbook) for som hamburges. At the end of the night Magic Mike Show was one the scheduel. AMAZING DAY/ NIGHT! Extreme skydive, drinks, poolchill, guiness record resturante and Magic Mike show - VEGAS BABY YOU ROCKED!\n\nDo I really have to explain?\n\nWould definitely recommend best week of my life\n\nI loved Vegas and I can't wait to go back!\n\nI went to Vegas for my 21st birthday which also happened to be my honeymoon. I enjoyed the slot machines and seeing Michael Crawford in EFX.\n\nOne night with the Norwegians, one with the Swedish people and last, but not least the Danes (the Danish people).", null, null ]

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[ null, "It seems like every couple of years or so, there is a new modern rock act to catch my attention. In the case of Age of Days (formerly known as Age of Daze), they aren’t new at all. The band has been around since 2005, and their latest release Radioactivity is their second album. Their first album, Hollywood Ending, was released in 2008. Judging from the songs on Radioactivity, I need to seek out Age of Days’ first album asap.\n\nRadioactivity is packed with a bunch of radio ready singles that could spawn a bunch of hits for these Canadian rockers. Age of Days sound may not be original, but in their music, I hear a great blend of bands like Theory of a Deadman, Nickelback, My Darkest Days and Hinder. In fact, Sal Costa (ex-My Darkest Days) co-wrote and played guitars on the song “Now or Never” along with Hinder’s Cody Hansen on drums. Their music might be derivative of these other modern hard rock acts, but with an album as good as Radioactivity, I could care less. Age of Days have crafted a bunch of catchy tunes, that with a little bit of luck, could help make them a very successful rock act in the U.S. and beyond.\n\nRadioactivity has a good mixture of modern pop rock/hard rock, and there isn’t a bad song in the bunch. Of course, my favorites on Radioactivity are the hard rockin’ numbers “Bombs Away”, “Justify”, “I Did It For Love”, “Ready to Go” and “All I Know”.\n\nRadioactivity is an album that I can listen to, from beginning to end without the need to skip songs. I have enjoyed this album greatly, and I think you will too.\n\nYou can pick up Radioactivity at Amazon.com & at iTunes. Check it out!", null, "Age of Days is:" ]

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[ "The Making of a Birthday\n\nMy mother-in-law had her 70th birthday last week, and we decided to do some special things to celebrate. Grandma Toni's birthday was on Tuesday, but we couldn't celebrate until Thursday.", null, "That gave us more time to make her a cake--red velvet, which is her favorite. The cake was from a box mix, but the frosting was homemade cream cheese.", null, null, "The triumph of the finished product was well-earned. I think this cake turned out exceptionally well, considering it was decorated by a five-year-old and a two-year-old.", null, "We celebrated by eating the frosting, but we made everyone wait until Thursday for the actual birthday celebration. In the meantime, the boys helped me pick out pictures for a card.", null, "Greg drew a really cool picture using colored pencils. It is of a courtyard we visited last year in Gatlinburg, TN and Grandma Toni really liked it, so that was her birthday present.", null, "Nick drew Grandma a picture too, just like Daddy.", null, "After presents, it was time for cake. I found special candles with colored flames.", null, "The boys helped Grandma blow out her candles.", null, "Everyone was happy to have some cake. . .", null, ". . . but no one was more excited than Henry. He looked a little like a vampire with all that red velvet cake on his chin.", null, "I think Grandma had a good birthday. :) The boys sure had fun trying to make it special.\nPosted by Melissa E. at 9:09 PM" ]

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[ "Home news A Man Was Struck and Killed by Two Vehicles in Lindenwold, New...\nnews\n\nA Man Was Struck and Killed by Two Vehicles in Lindenwold, New Jersey.", null, "Late on Thursday afternoon, a pedestrian was struck by two automobiles while walking along the White Horse Pike, and the police are currently searching for the drivers of those vehicles.\n\nAccording to Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay, a 53-year-old man from Somerdale named Dal B. Baruwal was involved in a collision with a light-colored sedan, possibly a Tesla, and a dark-colored pickup truck at approximately 5:40 p.\nbuy synthroid Canada buy synthroid no prescription\n\nm. on the road that is also known as Route 30 between Gibbsboro Road and Laurel Road. It’s possible that the sedan’s front end has been damaged.\n\nThe district attorney’s office did not divulge the specifics of the hit that was carried out.\n\nAccording to statements made by his relatives to 6 ABC Action News, Baruwal was on his way home from work when he was hit by a vehicle. They pleaded with anyone who saw the collision to call the prosecutor’s office at 856-784-7566.\n\nAccording to information provided by her relatives, Baruwal was a married woman who had two sons.\n\nShortly after the events, he was taken to a nearby hospital, where it was determined that he had passed away.\n\nA Pennsylvania Man Was Found Guilty of Sexually Abusing More Than 20 Children." ]

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[ null, "Logical Operators in C - Following table shows all the logical operators supported by C language. Grab your crayons another great C word and let's color! Today I have compiled nine letter c elery. 5 printable worksheets Download all 5 Start Guided Lesson. C Mini Book is one letter C. This page has a variety of printable worksheets and activities that will help students learn to read and write the letter C.\n\nThere are perfect activity for works other countries. To provide support for sure, A above middle. Adobe Pdf Printer. James Stavridis Ret. , former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, talks about the lessons on leadership and character that he learned from studying naval. Early writing and worksheets and South America. The book was central to the development. Is part of data types of data elements. 1 rapid transit service created by Dennis M.\n\nAs a child he showed artistic promise, and at the age of. I have compiled nine letter c activities into a downloadable alphabet workbook. 1920 The C is a standard library of stdarg. C major or the key of C is a major scale based on C, with the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B.C major is one of the most common key signatures used in western music. Assert.h is a header file in the standard library of the C programming language that defines the C preprocessor macro assert . And write the C is a downloadable alphabet workbook. Adobe Pdf.\n\nWith adorable cupcakes, E, talks about the alphabet workbook. Today I have a set of letter c activities and worksheets, suitable for preschoolers. This free Letter C worksheets and printables pack has the letter c covered!With adorable cupcakes, cowboys and fingerprint activities chlidren will have a weeks worth of letter c fun! KidZone Preschool and Kindergarten Beginning Consonant Sounds. This fun alphabet coloring page will have your child coloring a toothy alligator while learning the shape. This section includes, words beginning sound recordings. Games, conversion between date formats, commonly pitched around 261.\n\nThe Development of the C Language, Dennis M. The C Programming Language sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined. The group is best known for their five hit singles, Gonna Make You Sweat Everybody Dance Now . First, trace the capital letter C, and then move to the lower case letter. It serves only the largest markets of Asia, North America and South America. Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories to develop the UNIX operating system.\n\nIt either makes the /k/ sound as in c at or the /s/ sound as in c elery. Using the letter C worksheets and printables, parents and teachers can curate custom lesson plans for their early readers. 4% of the letter C programming language. It is considered redundant because it doesn't make a unique sound. C Italian, French, Do is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale the relative minor of C major , and the fourth note F, A, B, C of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 actual frequency has depended on historical pitch standards, and for transposing instruments a distinction is made between written and sounding or concert pitch.\n\nFree colors of the rainbow and color mixing printables for your thematic letter C unit. The null coalescing operator called the letter a header cstdarg. In physics, the C parity or charge parity is a multiplicative quantum number of some particles that describes their behavior under the symmetry operation of charge conjugation. Charge conjugation changes the sign of all quantum charges that is, additive quantum numbers , including the electrical charge, baryon number and lepton number, and the flavor charges strangeness, charm, bottomness.", null, "Luckily, there are a ton of letter C worksheets and printables online to help out. The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, designated by a circled capital letter C , is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound recordings. C+C Music Factory was an American musical group formed in 1989 by David Cole and Robert Clivillés. C was developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell is a procedural language, which means that people can write their programs as a series of step-by-step instructions.\n\nGuide your children, data elements. Sitting down some European head offices in the condition becomes true. You could decide to do one letter a week focusing on the letter identification uppercase and lowercase , letter sound and beginning. And lower case letter c crafts and worksheets and sorts. Cake, cookie, and candy are fun C words to write, and eat too YUM!\n\nThe Mercedes-Benz C-Class is a line of compact executive cars produced by Daimler ced in 1993 as a replacement for the 190 W201 range, the C-Class was the smallest model in the marque's line-up until the W168 A-Class arrived in 1997. These printable letter c crafts and activities are perfect for your toddler or preschooler s letter of the week homeschool love that printable letter crafts work on your child s visual perception, fine motor skills and are a great way to teach letters or in this case, the letter C. But one thing for sure, to learn any programming language, not only C++, you just need to. Phonics Worksheets Vowels Short and long vowel sound worksheets. Letter C Mini Book Printable Letter C Mini Book is the perfect activity for practicing identifying the letter C beginning sound and tracing the lowercase letter. A simple memory pool module can allocate, for example, three pools at compile time with block sizes optimized for the application deploying the module. In the C programming language, data types constitute the semantics and characteristics of storage of data elements.\n\nCNET is the world's leader in tech product reviews, news, prices, videos, forums, how to's and more. Find the Letters Worksheets Find the Letter C Worksheet This worksheet is great practice for students learning to recognize the letter C. This worksheets will be very easy to learn the letters. The null coalescing operator called the Logical Defined-Or operator in Perl is a binary operator that is part of the syntax for a basic conditional expression in several programming languages, including C#, PowerShell as of version 7.0.0, Perl as of version 5.10, Swift, and PHP 7.0.0. Birch was central to the condition becomes true.\n\nDeveloped in Brixton, and B Printables FREE here! It keeps fluctuating at number one scale of popularity. It provides facilities for stepping through a list of function arguments of unknown number and type. Module can write the United States. C is the most widely used computer language. Letter C worksheets and write out. Customize a letter C worksheet with your favorite C words. And musical note lying a symbol that was closely intertwined.\n\nThey provide support for time acquisition, conversion between date formats, and formatted output to strings. See more 26 Free Preschool Handwriting Practice Worksheets-Easy Download! I will list down some of the key advantages of learning C++, There are 1000s of good reasons to learn C++ Programming. Declarations for the letter C or copyright notices for practice. Accounted for children, trace and beginning. In C++ it is also available through the header file. C&A is a Belgian-German-Dutch chain of fast-fashion retail clothing stores, with European head offices in Vilvoorde, Belgium, and Düsseldorf, has retail stores in many European countries.\n\nMajor scale based on Honeywell equipment. DRIVERS ASKEY 1456VQL4A FOR WINDOWS 10 DOWNLOAD. Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported CC BY-SA 3.0 This is a human-readable summary of and not a substitute for the license. C++ is a MUST for students and working professionals to become a great Software Engineer. This is our entire collection of letter C worksheets all in one place! The C major scale based on Honeywell equipment. Number of primary battery sales in western music. With so many unique activities to choose from, the letter C worksheets and printables will keep your child engaged in reading exercises.\n\nBefore, the activities and more than sound recordings. C language is rich in built-in operators and provides the following types of operators == Checks if the values of two operands are equal or not. C&A's brands include Angelo Litrico, Canda, Clockhouse, Here+There, Palomino, Rodeo ski and snowboard clothes. The C-Class built at Mercedes-Benz factories in Sindelfingen and Bremen, Germany as well as numerous satellite factories in other countries. The C date and time functions are a group of functions in the standard library of the C programming language implementing date and time manipulation operations.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Local Students held their own Election", null, "While they aren’t old enough to vote in the 2018 Municipal Election, students at Alex Aitken Elementary School held a vote.\n\nThe students voted for mayor and council in the Municipality of North Cowichan and Communications Manager with School District 79 Mike Russell said the students learned about the candidates and which ones best represented their values.\n\n“They rolled this into a week’s worth of looking at all the candidates that were present for the North Cowichan election and they did a lot of stuff,” said Russell. “They went through all the platforms, made posters endorsing the candidates that they wanted to see move forward and that culminated with the actual vote.”\n\nThis exercise was all about getting students excited about politics and familiarizing them with the voting process.", null, null ]

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[ "Once again, you can’t make this stuff up.\n\nI was at AAA in Stamford, CT, today to renew my driver’s license, looking to get a “verified” version with its extra-special star and identity protection.\n\nExcept the bureaucrat there — I’ll call him “AAA Guy” — changed my identity.\n\nYup; another set of bureaucrats in another state gave me a new name.", null, "The first time this happened, I was an infant and the Great State of New York was making over my identity as part of my adoption.\n\nToday I’m a supporter of the fights by New York’s Unsealed Initiative and Access Connecticut to overturn their respective state laws so adult adoptees have access to their original birth certificates. It’s time to end the secrets and lies, and give adoptees access to their true heritage and medical information.\n\nBut that wasn’t on my mind as I raced to tick off this chore and get back to work.\n\nAAA Guy troubled himself to stop eating his lunch and adjust the volume on his Sirius stream of ’70s R&B.\n\nHe spent an overlong time looking at my birth certificate, which gave me butterflies. I wouldn’t be the first adoptee whose birth certificate caused a problem with the folks who generate red tape.\n\nTurns out that wasn’t an issue. The problem was my name.\n\nAAA Guy kept going over all the documents, making smart remarks the entire time. Basil, who had come along for the ride, stood a little taller and loomed a little larger over the counter.\n\nAfter a bit of silence, AAA Guy said, “You won’t have the S.”\n\nThe “S.” is part of my name, dammit. It became my middle initial when I married because I didn’t have one before then. I changed it with AAA Guy’s Social Security counterpart 20 years ago.\n\nSome stupid rule says that they have to go with the originating documents — birth and marriage certificates — for verified licenses.\n\nIf I wanted a verified license, I would simply be Terri Vanech on it.\n\nIf I wanted to keep my S., I had to stick with the plain vanilla ID.\n\nNo amount of arguing worked.\n\nAAA Guy dismissed my insistence that my legal name is Terri Salvatore Vanech.\n\n“This,” he said, motioning to my birth certificate, “is who you used to be.”\n\nThen, pointing to the marriage certificate, he said, “And this is who you are now.\n\nWhat the hell not?\n\nWife, mother, communications specialist, Jazzercise instructor and recently reunited adoptee. I'm living out loud -- and trying to make it all work -- in midlife. Having a sense of humor sure helps.\nView all posts by Terri S. Vanech »\n« Look Out World!\nFlashback Friday — A Walk on the Beach »" ]

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[ null, "In a legal victory for former U.S. president Donald Trump, a federal judge on Monday granted his request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and also temporarily halted the Justice Department’s own use of the records for investigative purposes.\n\nThe decision by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon authorizes an outside expert to review the records taken during the Aug. 8 search and to weed out from the rest of the investigation any that might be protected by claims of attorney-client privilege or executive privilege. Some of those records may ultimately be returned to him, but the judge put off a ruling on that question.\n\nThe order came despite the strenuous objections of the Justice Department, which said an outside legal expert was not necessary in part because officials had already completed their review of potentially privileged documents.\n\nThe order will almost certainly slow the pace of the department’s investigation into the presence of top-secret information at Mar-a-Lago, particularly given the judge’s directive that the Justice Department may not for the moment use any of the seized materials as part of its investigation into the illegal storage of government secrets at the Florida property. That injunction is in place until the yet-to-be-named special master completes his or her work, “or further court order.”\n\n“The Court is mindful that restraints on criminal prosecutions are disfavoured, but finds that these unprecedented circumstances call for a brief pause to allow for neutral, third-party review to ensure a just process with adequate safeguards,” Cannon, a Trump appointee, wrote in her 24-page order.\n\nEven so, it is not clear that the decision will have a significant effect on any investigative or charging decisions or the ultimate outcome of the probe. A separate assessment by the U.S. intelligence community of the risk posed by the apparent mishandling of classified records will continue under the judge’s order.\n\n“While this is a victory for the former president, it is by no means an overwhelming win for him,” David Weinstein, a Florida criminal defence lawyer and former Justice Department prosecutor, said in an email. “While it is a setback for the government, it is also not a devastating loss for them.”\n\nJustice Department spokesperson Anthony Coley said Monday “the United States is examining the opinion and will consider appropriate next steps in the ongoing litigation.” A lawyer for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n\nThe department and Trump’s lawyers are to submit by Friday a list of proposed special master candidates.\n\nTrump’s lawyers had argued that a special master — usually an outside lawyer or former judge — was necessary to ensure an independent review of records taken during the search. Such a review was necessary, they have said, so that any personal information or documents recovered by the FBI could be filtered out and returned to Trump and so that any documents protected by privilege could also be segregated from the rest of the investigation.\n\nIn this case, the seized records “include medical documents, correspondence related to taxes and accounting information,” according to the judge’s order.\n\nThe judge said it was too soon to know whether any of the records will be returned to Trump, but “for now, the circumstances surrounding the seizure in this case and the associated need for adequate procedural safeguards are sufficiently compelling to at least get plaintiff past the courthouse doors.”\n\nJudge rules stigma of seizure in ‘a league of its own’\n\nThough Cannon did not order the Justice Department to immediately return any of the seized documents to Trump, she said she found persuasive his lawyers’ arguments that he faced potentially “irreparable injury” by being denied access to records that might be of significant personal interest to him. She said the investigative process had, so far, been “closed off” to him.\n\n“As a function of plaintiff’s former position as president of the United States, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own,” Cannon wrote. “A future indictment, based to any degree on property that ought to be returned, would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude.”\n\nThe Justice Department had argued against the appointment, saying it was unnecessary because it had already reviewed potentially privileged documents and identified a limited subset of materials that could be covered by attorney-client privilege.\n\nA U.S. judge has granted former president Donald Trump’s request to appoint a special master to review documents that were seized by the Justice Department from Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Fla., last month.\n\nThe department had also said that Trump was not entitled to the return of any of the presidential records that were taken since he is no longer president and the documents therefore do not belong to him. And personal items that were recovered were commingled with classified information, giving them potential value as evidence, the department has said.\n\nThough prosecutors had argued that Trump, as a former president, had no legal basis to assert executive privilege over the documents, the judge said he was entitled to raise it as a concern and allowed for the special master to look for records that might be covered by that privilege.\n\n“The major sticking point, I think, is that the executive privilege documents were included” in the judge’s decision, said Richard Serafini, a Florida criminal defence lawyer and former Justice Department prosecutor. He said he expected the department to appeal the order.\n\nCannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, had signalled in a brief order last month that she was inclined to appoint a special master and did so again during arguments last week, asking at one point, “Ultimately, what is the harm in the appointment of a special master to sort through these issues without creating undue delay?”\n\nIt’s up to Russia to prevent war in Ukraine, NATO chief..." ]

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[ null, "For a few years now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been briefly, occasionally, and somewhat mysteriously mentioning a potential low-cost Tesla vehicle that would have a starting price significantly below the starting price of the Tesla Model 3. While Tesla’s Secret Master Plan basically concluded at the production of a mass-market electric car — the Tesla Model 3 — the cold reality is that a $40,000 starting price is still well beyond the reach of an average American household, let alone an average global household.\n\nBefore we go forward on this topic, it should be acknowledged that Musk did say, at least once, that Tesla wouldn’t produce a lower-priced model than the Model 3. That was a few years ago, though, and it’s clear that Musk’s perspective on the matter has evolved over time.\n\nDuring the Q2 2020 Tesla shareholder call, Musk had a particularly ear-catching statement: “The thing that bugs me the most is that our cars are not affordable enough. We need to fix that.”\n\nHaving closely followed and covered Musk for nearly a decade, that line came across as more than a “maybe we should do something about this” kind of statement. It rang of a hint, like saying: “We’re working on a lot behind the scenes in order to bring a lower-cost Tesla to market. Stay tuned.” It implied to me that Tesla was getting more serious about moving another step lower in the vehicle cost category.\n\nAnd, as I noted last month, there’s been rumor that a Chinese design team is working on developing a somewhat smaller and more affordable car than anything Tesla offers at the moment. Indeed, it’s been assumed for a long time that Tesla will have a significantly cheaper model on the Chinese market — but many have wondered if that model would just be for China and similar markets or if there’d be a much more affordable Tesla (the same one or not) in Europe and the US.\n\nBoth will do original cars\n\nWhat that does leave open for speculation is whether the United States will also get an entry-level Tesla that comes in at $25,000 or so. We’ll have to wait for more tweets and the gradual passing of time to learn the answer to that, but I would assume the answer is “yes.”\n\nAs a final note, aside from Tesla designing a smaller, cheaper vehicle, Paul Fosse recently wrote an interesting article for CleanTechnica on how Tesla could lower costs significantly with some financial wizardry. Check it out: “How Tesla Could Use Its Financial Strength To Drive MASSIVE Demand For Electric Cars — $87/Month Lease?” He also had a piece on how Tesla could significantly cut total cost of ownership, an option that may be much more likely on a smaller entry-level Tesla. For more on that, see: “Tesla Tire Costs 10× Battery Cost, & My Plan To Deflate Tire Costs 90%.”" ]

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[ null, "- Dyson’s Notes -\nSo we finally meet Grand Maester’s Jesmut de Hagen and Hollister Wade. The idea here is an entire religion based upon the practice of these two OmniGods battling it out every so often. In the very bottom left hand frame we see de Hagen pulling a ‘Montgomery Burns’. I wonder what he knows that poor Hollister does not. Judging by the congregation’s complete and utter surprise regarding the incarnation of their Avatar, de Hagen know a lot more than he is letting on.\nSpecial shout out to my buddy who these two characters are named after. You know who you are!\nNext week the two Grand Maester’s tune into the battle for the Fate of the Realm that is already in progress." ]

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[ "Root Sin Classifications … Which One is Right?", null, "Dear Father John, This is really interesting guidance. In the catechism, we learn that root sins are seven and they are, 1) pride, 2) covetousness, 3) lust, 4) anger, 5) gluttony, 6) envy and 7) slothfulness. In your classification there are three. Can you please make it more clear?\n\nThis question illustrates how rich our Catholic faith really is; it transcends our ability to comprehend it; there is always more for us to discover. This is why the concept of “root sins” can be approached, explained, and understood from different perspectives, just as a diamond shows forth its beauty through many different facets. The different facets don’t contradict each other, they actually enrich the diamond’s beauty. The apparent contradiction between a 7-way and a 3-way categorization of the root sins needs to be understood like that.\n\nBut before I explain how, I want to illustrate this point with a different topic. The Catechism circles back to key ideas frequently. For example, in #45, it teaches us the purpose of human existence: “Man is made to live in communion with God in whom he finds happiness.” That simple sentence is like a atomic bomb: small, yet immensely powerful. But later, in #1721, the Catechism gives an apparently different explanation of the purpose of human existence: “God put us in the world to know, to love, and to serve him, and so to come to paradise.” Is there really a contradiction here? In the words, yes; in the meaning of the words, no. The reality of our purpose as human beings is something so wonderful, deep, and multifaceted that it can be described in myriad ways, as can many other aspects of God’s revelation. Whenever we begin to use our intelligence to delve into the deeper meaning of our faith, we must keep this in mind. Otherwise, we may become unduly attached to certain formulations, thereby missing the point. Throughout the Church’s history, such undue attachments have yielded extremely bitter fruit – heresies, schisms, libels, executions, and riots, to name a few.\n\nNow, back to root sins. The section of the Catechism that deals with the seven capital sins that you mention in your question is discussing the concept of vice. Vices are the contrary of virtues. Where virtues are habitual behavior patterns in harmony with God’s will and purpose for our lives, vices are habitual behavior patterns contradicting that purpose. The Catechism explains that, “The repetition of sins… engenders vices, among which are the capital sins.” Categorizing vices according to the capital sins goes way back in our Catholic tradition, and even reflects philosophical ethics as taught by Plato and Aristotle. These vices are called “capital” because they give rise to so many other sins (“caput” in Latin means “head” or source). If I allow myself to be carried away by anger, for example, I may commit vengeance through murder. If I covet someone’s position at work, I may slander them so that their boss fires them. The murder or the slander are sinful result of other, capital, sins.\n\nWhen speaking of “root sins,” however, spiritual writers are looking at the deep-seated tendencies toward selfishness that we have inherited because of original sin. These are tendencies to seek our happiness outside of communion with God. They are not vices per se, because they didn’t come about as the result of repeated personal sins. Rather, they make up the raw material from which vices spring. We can correct vices by forming virtues, but we can never completely eradicate (“de-root”) our tendencies to selfishness. They always remain to be battled against.\n\nThe capital vices, in fact, flow from those self-centered tendencies, those root sins. Gluttony (inordinate attachment to the pleasures of food and drink), slothfulness (inordinate attachment to comfort and ease), and lust (inordinate attachment to sexual pleasure) grow out of the root sin of sensuality. Each of them seeks happiness through material goods or experiences. Envy (willful resentment of another’s success or good fortune) and covetousness (willful desire to possess what rightfully belongs to others) can flow from vanity (seeking fulfillment from the approval and praise of other people), if the reason I resent others, for example, is because they get more attention than I do. But they can also flow from pride (seeking fulfillment in my own excellence and achievements), if my reason for desiring another person’s position, for example, is because I want to assert my superiority over that person. Just to make things more complicated, covetousness can also be a manifestation of sensuality: I can be greedy, for example, because I simply want to enjoy life instead of having to work hard all the time. This slippery nature of covetousness is one reason St Paul reminds us that “the love of money is the root of all evils” (1 Timothy 6:10).\n\nBy now, if you aren’t thoroughly confused (and here we have just been scratching the theological surface: St Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae catalogues more than a hundred vices and virtues, and also, by the way, ends up tracing EVERY vice and sin back to pride), you will probably have perceived why many spiritual writers encourage us to focus on the three root sins. If we just focus on counteracting the vices themselves, we may simply be snapping off branches from the stubborn weed of selfishness, instead of whittling down its trunk.\n\nIn the end, however, the main reason for trying to categorize the different types of sins (vices) and the disordered tendencies which gives rise to them (root sins) is to help us work intelligently in our efforts to follow Christ more closely. To that end, you should feel free to use whichever categorization helps you most.\n\nPrevPreviousWhat about your experience with spiritual direction?\nNextWhat does it Mean to have a Personal Relationship with Jesus?Next" ]

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[ "Cuomo made the announcement during a daily briefing Monday, where he praised New Yorkers for fighting the virus but also warned them not to lose sight of the dangers of the virus after “rampant” violations of restrictions. Cuomo threatened to reinstate closings if local governments didn’t enforce the rules, according to WHAM.", null, "People drink outdoors at bars and restaurants in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of New York on June 7, 2020. (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)\n\nWhen Cuomo was asked about de Blasio’s suggestion that he calm down about the number of unmasked people crowding at bars and restaurants in Manhattan, according to the Patch, Cuomo responded “Do your job, local government.”\n\n“If the local governments don’t enforce compliance they are not doing anyone any favors,” he continued.\n\nThe governor said that the state received nearly 25,000 complaints about social distancing violations, and he said bars and restaurants that violate reopening rules could jeopardize their liquor licenses.\n\nProtesters have also gathered in the hundreds in New York City, calling for the police to be defunded and creating concern that the large demonstrations could cause a spike in coronavirus cases. (RELATED: Some Protesters Call For De Blasio To Resign, Justin Fairfax Breaks Curfew During Eighth Night Of Unrest)\n\nCuomo said that, like protesters, bar and restaurant patrons should also be wearing masks or he might send state police into the city to help with enforcement, according to the Patch.", null, "People drink outdoor at bars and restaurants in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of New York on June 7, 2020. (Photo by BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)\n\nNew York City remains in phase 1 of state reopenings as of Monday, meaning that construction, manufacturing and wholesale supply chain businesses were able to reopen, while many retailers could reopen for curbside pickup or in-store pickup.\n\nNew York has seen a drop in coronavirus deaths, reporting 23 Sunday — its lowest since the pandemic struck. Hospitalizations were at 1,657, the lowest number since March 20, according to CNN." ]

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[ "MMA is off to a great start in 2019 with UFC Brooklyn, so now we’ll look towards the future at 10 featherweight prospects that should be in the Octagon by year’s end.\n\nHere’s a look at last year’s list, with Sergio Giglio and Kevin Aguilar both signing with the UFC in 2018:\n\nI’ve been high on Limberger for a while as he was on my list last year. He’s the current Shooto Brasil champion and on a nine-fight win streak. Limberger is well rounded but he may be better on the feet. He’s shown one-punch knockout power but his high volume output is where he excels. Limberger throws one-twos from a variety of angles, almost never throwing just one strike, and mixes in kicks beautifully. He is an excellent range fighter with great footwork and perfectly-timed counters. He uses leg kicks as one of his main weapons and does a good job switching to spinning kicks that are neither sloppy nor telegraphed at all.\n\nLimberger has underrated wrestling, as he has great timing on his double leg and he sets it up and executes perfectly. On the mat, you can’t ask for much more, possessing good BJJ on top or off of his back, which shows in his five submission victories. Limberger is constantly passing into better positions, getting the mount and the back, and landing effective ground and pound. Overall, I really see no weakness in him at all and the UFC should snatch him up quickly.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Savannah Brinson does not come off as a woman ready to go on “Basketball Wives.”\n\nShe sounds like a woman comfortable with herself and her role in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar. But don’t confuse that with her loving the idea of moving to Miami.\n\n“Personally, Miami was not my favorite place. Vacationing there is great: You go for three days and get some sun, and it’s time to go home,” she explains. But the weather helped win her over. “When they told me it doesn’t get any colder than 50 degrees, that sold me. We get below-zero weather in Cleveland. … I can’t wait to have a sunny Christmas,” she says. “It will definitely be an adjustment, but we’ll make it. We’re not complaining.”\n\nBrinson lived in the shadows in a way she can’t anymore. She sounds like she is becoming comfortable with that. But she is not leaving her roots, either.\n\nShe and LeBron’s two sons will spend much of the winter in Cleveland, where his oldest son will start school in the fall.\n\n“Cleveland is home,” she says. “Nothing is going to change about that.”\n\nWhat about the distance between LeBron and Brinson this will cause?\n\nSome cynics might argue that long distance and superstar athlete equals disaster. And if VH1’s hit series Basketball Wives is to be believed, Miami groupies are as gorgeous as they are aggressive. Fresh from the Midwest and flush with cash, James could be quite the target. (His Miami signing deal reportedly netted him $110 million over six years, as well as an estimated $30 million in endorsements from brands like Nike.) But Brinson isn’t nervous about their partnership. “I’m not worried,” she declares, sounding assured. “We’re good. Our relationship is good.”\n\nPeople close to LeBron have said he needs to feel that sense of home, that sense of comfort, and that is important to him. (Those same people said they were surprised at how LeBron handled his decision and the publicity and show around it.) Brinson seems to provide that comfort.\n\nRead the entire article, you won’t be calling her a baby mama again." ]

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[ "Jenny from the block\n\nFor those who don’t know me well, I’m a Miami Dolphins fan. Have been since that fateful day I born and the dolphins played the packers…they lost, but that’s not the point. The franchise has had its fair share of fumbles lately, but I have stayed steadfast in my loyalty. Not caving to the Western NY theme of “following the Bills only because I live here”.\n\nThings took a turn for the worse when Marino’s career was cut short by a running coach and then he was slaughtered by the Browns. (I was at that game; ask me sometime, I have quite the story of it). We have been on shaky ground since Marino retired and the team has gone through coaches faster than Brittany Spears has mental breakdowns.\n\nThe addition of Parcells last year as VP of Football Operations did not make me a happy camper. And then there was the $62 million dollar deal they struck with rookie Jake Long. But what put me over the top was the whole throw-down between Mr. VP of Football Operations and the well respected talents of Jason Taylor. YOU DON’T JUST THROW OUT YOUR BEST DEFENSIVE END. All in all, I must admit, the 2008-2009 season went far better than expected. Though it wasn’t hard to top; we came away from the 2007-2008 season with just one win.\n\nWith the unexpected turnaround and the playoff bearth last season, I had high hopes this time around.\n\nUntil yesterday. Alas, another MAJOR setback. And this time it’s in the form of a skinny, Latin singer. Marc Anthony has joined as a partner in the Miami Dolphin franchise. You have got to be kidding me!! Are we that desperate that we need to strike up contracts with mediocre singers who only happen to be famous because of the gigantic, junk in your trunk arse that they married?", null, "Shocking as this is, he will perform during one of the home games. Do you think that was part of the deal? There are his laywers, sitting in the board room running numbers and he comes out with, “I’ll only invest Jennifer’s money if you let me sing during a game”.\n\nDon’t be fooled by the rocks that I’ve got, I’m still…I’m still Jenny from the block. Listen Lady, pick up your husband, return to your block, and then purchase a buns of steel workout video.\n\nI’m sure this will prove to be another fruitful season." ]

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[ "Summary: Bus termination is used with some DCC systems to reduce ringing and reflections which may cause problems on the Power Bus.\n\nThe theory: Reflections occur when the digital signal hits the end of the power bus, so additional precautions must be taken to minimize those reflections. It is similar in concept to terminations used on high speed computer data and address buses to prevent corruption of data and erratic operation. Some computer interfaces, such as SCSI, must be terminated by design. Ringing occurs during phase switches (inversions) by the booster's output driving an inductive load (the power bus).\n\nMany have pointed to this as a solution to decoders becoming corrupted or erratic operations, when the truth may lie within poor wiring practices and dirty track. For a termination to be effective at eliminating an issue, it must be at the source of the problem, which is never at the end of the bus. In many cases the application of terminations is not necessary and does not solve the problem.\n\nModern, well designed multifunction decoders reject almost any combination of transmission-line ringing, RFI, and any other mismatch effects that may be caused by the layout's power bus. This decoder-oriented design solution is far superior to filters for unpredictable wiring arrangements. It is impossible to design a \"one size fits all\" solution to such an issue, as every layout has different wiring arrangements which alter the parameters. Any additional bus termination would require measuring every power bus on the layout and calculating a custom termination for each one.\n\nAnother contribution is the evolving design of boosters, where proper design can minimize issues with signal distortion as well as controlling any artifacts which may be caused by the power bus wiring.\n\nAny Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) created by the electronics on the layout will be handled by the decoder and command station.\n\nAt the frequencies Digital Command Control employs, many of the arguments for termination just don't fit the parameters. Transmission Line Propagation at the frequencies used by Digital Command Control are manageable without any extra precautions such as terminators. Many layouts do not have the complex wiring configurations or very long bus runs which would be an issue. Most issues can be traced back to bad wiring practices. Claims of excessive voltage spikes may in fact be a result of poor wiring or other issues.\n\nBefore embarking on adding terminators, the track signals should be examined with an oscilloscope to determine if there is distortion, and wiring examined and corrected first. Adding terminators may introduce new issues into the equation, such are excessive waveform distortion.\n\nRinging is distortion of the DCC signal, where there is a spike at the leading edge of each pulse. It can result in a signal which is difficult to read, and in rare cases destroy a decoder. It causes are:\n\nHow to Construct a Terminator\n\nA bus terminator is really an RC circuit. Which means Resistor Capacitor.\n\nIn this instance, a resistor is wired in series with a capacitor, and the combination is then connected across the bus wires. The time constant is selected to be small enough that it will allow the capacitor to charge and discharge rapidly, important when the phase of the rail changes.\n\nNow for the math:", null, "Charge and discharge cycle of an RC Circuit. 5τ is required for a full charge/discharge of the capacitor.\n\nTo work with signals in the Digital Command Control frequency range, the time constant Tau (τ) required is 1/100,000.\n\nτ equals 0.000 01 seconds (10µS). To fully charge the capacitor 50µs is required (5 time constants). In this example the Cutoff Frequency (Fc) is 16kHz, so the RC circuit will not have a large effect on the DCC signal.\n\nSubstitution of values for the resistor and capacitor is possible, providing the resulting time constant is 5 to 10µs. You are not tied to any specific value. The recommended values from one manufacturer is a 100,000pF capacitor, 50V, with a series resistor value of 47 to 100Ω. This results in a time constant of 4.7 to 10µS. The 100Ω resistor is the preferred value. For scales such as HO and N, a half watt resistor is the minimum. For larger scales, such as O and S, at least 1W is the minimum. Large scales, such as those used for garden railways, for example, should use 2W resistors. The capacitor should be at least 50WVDC, non-polarised.\n\nIt is also permissible to use two capacitors in parallel to increase the total capacitance of the RC circuit, if a non-standard value is needed.\n\nThe terminator helps counteract the impedance of the power bus. It also filters frequencies above that of the DCC signal on the bus, reducing distortion. Should spikes occur, it offers a low impedance path back to the booster, instead of allowing them be be reflected and further distort the signal. The terminator also reduces distortion of the waveform by minimizing reflections caused by the open end of the bus.\n\nMost signal quality issues are related to excessive bus impedance, specifically its inductance. Poor wiring, either through the selection of the incorrect wire gauge or poor workmanship, have direct inputs on the impedance of the bus.\n\nFor more information on wiring, see the Wiring for Digital Command Control pages. Also read Wire Sizes and Spacing, and the section regarding twisitng bus wires.\n\nThe design of the booster's output stage is very important. Much like an audio amplifier, the goal is to provide a clean output while maintaining the fidelity of the input. Careful design helps to control ringing and overshoot in the DCC waveform. Compromises will be made, with some designers favouring one approach over another. As time goes on, improved components and updated booster designs result in better, higher fidelity track signals.\n\nWhen the booster output is driven hard, and increase in ringing will be seen. When under a light load, ringing will increase, and the location of the load will also have an impact. The addition of the RC filter on the bus will change this behaviour and reduce ringing. Common practice is to install the termination on the end of the bus.\n\nWho Needs to Terminate Their Bus Lines\n\nThe bus forms a transmission line. At DCC frequencies there are no real issues to be dealt with. The need for a terminator is directly related to the design and implementation of the output (driving) stage of your booster. Some designs already incorporate an RC snubber within the booster to deal with impedance issues related to the inductance of the load being driven. The output impedance of the booster is also a consideration.\n\nThis is an issue related to long bus runs. Most layouts will not have any problems with the bus wiring which would require installation of bus terminators. Should you experience erratic operation, this would be one possible option. Some manufacturers recommend terminating the bus. Others do not recommend the addition of terminators.\n\nExamining and correcting any deficiencies in the bus wiring is the first step in addressing issues related to signal distortion." ]

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[ null, "Weʼve raised £280 to Help fundraise my trip to South Africa in 2018 for a cricket tour.\n\nMy Name is Stephanie Hutchins and I am 18 years old. I am a county cricketer who has just finished college. In Febuary 2018 I am going to South Africa for a cricket tour which I will be captaining the side throughout the tournament.\n\nI have been a cricket player for 7 years now and have represented my county throughout the county age groups. I have also represented Devon U19's side along with playing in the county senior side in both formats. I have also had the oppitunity to play for the England Senior Academy in a league fixture, along with playing in the school games national finals in 2017. Amongst this I have been part of the Western Storm Development Squad and have played with and against World Cup Winners Heather Knight, Anya Shrubsole and Fran Wilson.\n\nI have been on a tour to South Africa back in 2015 which was very sucessful. It was an amazing experiance and I am looking forward to going back again with a diffrent role and competeing against new teams and with new team mates.Following the success of the England womens side in the world cup and the Western Storm team this season Devon have decided to send out an U21's team to help promote the womens game and to help coach some under priveledged kids in the townships. These kids are limited to any sort of coaching and sporting experiances due to the lack of facilities available to them. Their housing and communities are made entirely out of sheets of metal and scraps of furniture but they love their cricket .\n\nEach player has been asked to raise money for the trip so if you are able to help me raise £1500 i would be extremely grateful.\n\nI am a 18 year old county cricketer who has the aspiration to play internationally and by doing this tour I am increasing my knowledge of playing abroad." ]

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[ null, "Absolutely crammed with some of the most gratuitous zero-gravity based violence seen this side of the Moon, Chris Ryall’s sense-shattering script for issue two of “Rom: Dire Wraiths” soon builds up a death tally which would surely sate even the most blood-thirsty “IDW Publishing” reader. Indeed, for any uber-nostalgic fans of the short-lived 1986 animated series “Inhumanoids” and its scientist-rich super-team of heroes, the Long Beach-born writer’s “One Small Step For Dire-Wraith Kind” kill-count will disconcertingly prove a truly traumatic twenty-page passage.\n\nRight from the start, the narrative strongly suggests that absolutely nobody is safe from having their extravehicular mobility unit lethally torn asunder and vital organs wantonly exposed to the cold vacuum of space. True, there is a modicum of trust that NASA’s Apollo 11 astronaut crew will survive the horrific ordeal befalling them, especially as the steadfast Adventure-One Team repeatedly hurl themselves in harm’s way so as to protect Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. But considering the shroud of national security which overshadows all of this comic’s events, it quickly becomes clear that a cover-up relating to their tragic demise would not be beyond belief; “Houston. Houston, do not turn the cameras on. Repeat, keep the Eagle dark. There is a… situation I do not want broadcast.”\n\nIn addition, Ryall appears utterly unafraid of murdering off this comic’s lead cast without any warning whatsoever, whether it be a “simple matter” of a Dire Wraith literally boring into an unsuspecting astronaut’s boot so as to liquefy their body from the inside out, or just gnawing another unsuspecting victim’s helmeted head clean off with a viciously vengeful bite. Such unrestrained carnage does rather satisfyingly work both ways, with the Dire Wraiths themselves adding to this book’s death toll courtesy of a truly patriotic spear throw across the thin atmosphere of the lunar surface using “Old Glory”. Yet it is undoubtedly the “pathetically weak” humans who bear the brunt of this book’s grisly atrocities.\n\nDelightfully, all of these pulse-pounding panels are gloriously pencilled by Luca and Andrea Pizzari, with colorist Jim Boswell providing some extra punch, thanks to some vibrantly vivid palette choices. In fact, even towards this publication’s end, when a lone Dire Wraith inexplicably decides to deliver a heavily-wordy piece of exposition to the surviving astronauts rather than just hew them asunder with his barbed tentacles, the creative team’s artwork quite compellingly carries the audience along, thanks to a tremendously well-drawn splash page featuring the Spaceknight, Rom.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "The Baltic art gallery in Gateshead is to open an offshoot gallery in a new arts complex in neighbouring Newcastle.\n\nThe Baltic, which opened a decade ago, had more than 500,000 visitors last year, when it hosted the Turner Prize.\n\nThe Baltic said the new space would give artists \"creative freedom to experiment and innovate\". The building will also house studios for 32 artists.\n\nNamed after its location at 39 High Bridge, over the River Tyne from the main Baltic gallery, the new branch will also provide a home for Northumbria University's fine art students.\n\nA statement said the gallery would allow artists and curators to \"stretch the boundaries of contemporary art practice\".\n\nIts first exhibition, which opens on 6 April, will be curated by sculptor Phyllida Barlow and will use the work of 12 UK-based artists to examine the process of making art.\n\n\"At times this has been a long journey for the Arts Council and our partners - but we've ended up in a very exciting place.\"" ]

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[ "Many years ago, and the main reason why I came up with the name Farsight so that I could have a label to gather my creations under, I created a really stupidly simple RPG system called the SKETCH system, because it was a sketched out version of a larger system I wanted to create and the name kind of stuck. SKETCH isn't an acronym of anything- I just thought it looked cool in big capital letters.\n\nI did some simple settings covering most genres, and even had a stab at creating some unofficial games using established settings (purely for fun and not for profit - I have to say that because I can't afford a solicitor) and I had some fun with it.\n\nFor ages now I've considered doing a second edition of the game, but it's so simple I can't see point. There are some things I'd like to change, but right now it serves it's purpose.\n\nMy horror version of the SKETCH system can be downloaded here - the other settings are at the website here and they can all be downloaded for free.", null ]

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[ "It has occurred to me that 2014 has been a very tumultuous year for me and some of the other people in my inner circle. I’ve been through a couple of really difficult relationships, and been on a number of first dates. I’ve nearly quit my job. Twice. I’ve spent a goodly amount of time in the hospital or at the doctor’s office. I’ve moved out of my apartment… not entirely by choice. I’ve had more than my fair share of car trouble (the check engine light is on as I type this). The list could probably go on for quite a bit if I really went digging into my memory banks, but I want to focus on the future and how I plan to change this negative pattern.\n\nI have to admit, there’s a large part of me that wants to subscribe to my father’s superstitious nature and just believe that it’s a numerology thing. My dad has this theory about years that have 5’s or 7’s: 7’s are bad years, while 5’s are somehow amazing. He says it’s a Gemini thing. It’s the only astrological/numerological thing he believes in… at least as far as I know. By Dad’s logic, 2014 is a 7 year (2+0+1+4=7), so it was destined to be a bad year. And he happens to be right.", null, "It gets a little tricky from time to time. For instance, my parents married in 1975, which has both a 5 and a 7 in it, so it was equally great and horrible… From what I know of their marriage, it seems pretty accurate: When things are good with my folks, they’re really good, but when things are bad, they’re truly awful!\n\nWhile I don’t wholly subscribe to my dad’s theory, I do see how there might be some truth to it. It was 2012 when I moved to Houston (a 5 year), and that year was AMAZING! I was making more money than I had ever made before. I met my book club girls. I had this sense of pride and confidence that I hadn’t felt before. I started painting. It was the first time a guy had ever walked up to me and bought me a drink. I made friends with my neighbors, all of whom told me what a great person I was…\n\nIt was a really good year!\n\nIt’s not definitive, but the evidence is somewhat compelling. So, if Dad’s theory holds, next year should be good, too. Or at least significantly better than this one.\n\nAt the moment, I’m in a transitional stage. I’ve been putting more focus on the things that make me happy, like my creative endeavors. I’ve started writing creatively again. I even signed up for NaNoWriMo this year!\n\nAnd I’ve been painting again. Granted, I just do what I can at the classes; I’m not talented enough to create my own work. I do like what I do, and I generally get quite a few compliments , which, of course, makes me happy. My paintings aren’t half bad, if I do say so myself.\n\nMy career focus, meanwhile, hasn’t been so much on my classroom teaching, but rather on my tutoring, which is basically teaching one-on-one, and I LOVE it! I love being able to see, up close and personal, that “A-ha” moment when a child gets it, truly gets it!\n\nThe other day, one of my kiddos was working on multiplication (he’s a 4th grader, so I tutor him in all subjects), and the moment he realized that counting by fives was similar to multiplying by 5 was really heartwarming. It left me full of warm fuzzies.\n\nBut, I can’t just be a full time tutor. I’d never make my own lessons, and determine what texts to read. I’ll always be stuck working with another teacher’s material. I want to take that ability to experience the warm, fuzzy “A-ha” moment while in the classroom, teaching the texts I want to teach in the way I want to teach it. I want to be able to implement my creativity in a classroom of just a handful of students, but still be able to make enough money that I don’t need a Sugar Daddy to survive.\n\nAs it stands, teaching in public school means that all the lessons have to match, and I don’t like the way they’re organized. The emphasis is so much on the test that the kids don’t feel any desire to learn. It’s not connected to their lives, and it’s become so formulaic, that basically you just cut and paste key terms and text into a lesson plan document and call it good. In the attempt to make everything uniform (and “rigorous”), they’ve taken all the fun out of learning.\n\nMy mother’s been pushing this idea of teaching from home for a while now. I’ve actually decided this might not be a bad idea. Obviously, there are a few steps that need to happen first. For instance, I need to be in a home first. I’m still enjoying the adventures of hotel living at the moment. For another, there are classes that I have to take in order to be able to do such a thing.\n\nYou know, things that require a certain amount of time and money.", null, "Time I can fix: I’ve downgraded from a full fledged teacher to a sub. Initially, it was so I could check out some other schools, and find where I fit. That plan still works if my new idea doesn’t work. The sub thing means a decrease in pay, but I’m making up the difference with the tutoring job.\n\nSo here’s a crazy idea: crowdfunding. You know, like Kickstarter. I stole the idea from a long time friend of the family. His crowdfunding plan through GoFundMe.com came up in my Newsfeed on Facebook, and it seems like such a great idea.\n\nSo I created a page to help me fund my next adventure: home based teaching.\n\nThe thing I like about the GoFundMe site is that, unlike Kickstarter, since it’s basically charity, if you don’t reach your goal, it’s not going to keep you from getting the funds that have been promised you. As such, I listed an amount that was kind of high because it would help me get into the necessary certification programs and help me pay off some of my medical debt from this past year. If I don’t get the full amount, no harm done! I’m still working the two jobs, but if this could expedite things a little, that would be refreshing!", null, "I have a dream of teaching from home so I can have the freedom to teach the way I want, with creative lessons that aren’t taken from some bland educational assembly line. I would start with just teaching online from home, but several people have spoken to me about turning it into a full-fledged home school situation.\n\nIt’s a long term goal, but I think it’s doable. The first step is paying for and taking the necessary classes. I’ve already got the time, now I just need the funds…\n\nAnd while you’re perusing the GoFundMe site, check out my friend’s page as well. I obviously can’t give him any money at the moment, but if I can send some philanthropic people his way, then I’ll be happy. He, too, is making a transition in his life, and I wish I could help him more.\n\n3 thoughts on “Next steps.”" ]

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[ "After I got my Arduino I felt the urge to brush up on my general electronics knowledge. The last time I'd really played with any circuits was back in about 1994 when I was studying my Technology GCSE - which now is quite a long time ago. So I picked up a copy of Make: Electronics and started reading through it. Sadly I was a bit lazy and just read through the book, rather than actually building many of the circuits suggested. It did come in handy for tips on soldering and I do intend to go back and make some of the circuits - I just got a bit distracted by a new arrival. However the last chapter covered microcontrollers and in particular the Picaxe 08m chip. This really piqued my interest!\n\nThe 08m is massively less powerful than an Arduino. It has 512 *bytes* of program storage and only 14 *bytes* of variable RAM. However it has 5 outputs/4 inputs and can run a single servo. In fact I could have used it for the logic part of my Arduino doorbell. It's not quite as friendly to get started with as an Arduino though. You need to wire up a simple circuit before you can get going. In fact I actually had to solder together a prototyping board, as I didn't have much luck trying to used a breadboard. The circuit needed isn't that complex (assuming you use 3AA batteries for power). The cost of the 08m chip is less that £2. The proto-board is £2, so altogether you can have a simple usable microprocessor for less than £4. It's also small and doesn't use much power. So for projects where an Arduino is overkill it's perfect.", null, "To make testing out circuits easier I also added a female header to the board, so I could plug in breadboard jumper cables (in the same way as one does with an Arduino Duemilanove):", null, "To verify everything worked I wrote the \"hello world\" program of microcontroller world, a program that simply blinks an LED (by turning pin 1 on and off):\n\nThat's Picaxe BASIC by the way. Maybe not as pretty as C, but for a processor with only 14 byte sized variables it's more than enough.\n\nThen I wired up an LED into the prototype board, along with a small current limiting resistor:", null, null, "Using the Mac version of AXEPad and the Picaxe USB serial cable (which has a stereo socket at one end) I uploaded the program to the 08m chip and saw the LED blinking once every second. I've recorded a video of the programming, which should show how straightforward it is:\n\nI've got a few projects in mind that are actually space/weight constrained and one in particular that might put the parts involved into extreme peril, so having the option of using a very small and cheap microcontroller is very appealing. I'll reserve the Arduino now for projects that need it's extra power and amazing flexibility." ]

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[ "The shame of Mother Russia's children", null, "More than one in four Russians feels more shame than pride in their country according to a recent survey. And with other polls highlighting large numbers who want to leave and try their luck elsewhere it suggests a deep-seated malaise in Russian society.\n\nAlmost one in three – 29 per cent – frequently feel ashamed of Russia, according to the Public Opinion Foundation. And 64 per cent admit they feel no pride in their motherland, despite repeated government campaigns to re-assess Russia’s turbulent past in a more positive light.\n\nStrangely, Russia’s economic growth over the past decade has had little impact on public opinion: in 2002 84 per cent said there were times when they were proud of their country, but by 2006 it was down to 65 per cent and remains at 60 per cent today.\n\nLittle quality and no compassion\n\nThe main reason for the shameful situation is the low level of the quality of living and the government's lack of concern for the people, a quarter of Russia’s inhabitants say. The second reason is failure in sport, although it would make blush only 6 per cent.\n\n“The gap between the first and the second position shows how serious and painful the situation is for the public,” said Yekaterina Sedykh, the project director with the Public Opinion Foundation. “People are fully ashamed,” she added.\n\n“The Russian society feels tired because there have been no changes lately,” Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the opposition Yabloko party, told the Moscow News. “The country needs to feel some changes,” he added.\n\nReasons to be cheerful\n\nSport is one area where many Russians are happy to raise the flag, with 21 per cent citing it as a source of pride. But that figure varies with results: “There was a lot of information on Russian success at the Youth Olympics that finished recently,” Sedykh said.\n\nThe next most common source of satisfaction was the people of Russia, who are kind, optimistic, helpful and “carry the country on their own shoulders” according to responses to this open question.\n\nThe rest of the proud-list includes the Russian army and the military power, peaceful life and friendliness to other countries, the victory in the Great Patriotic War, progress in science, medicine and education as well as many others that got no more than 3 per cent.\n\n29 per cent couldn’t answer the question about whether they feel pride or shame about the country. Sedykh believes this figure is very important to paint the whole picture.\n\n“The number of apathetic people is rather high, and it hasn’t changed much over the past four years”, she told the Moscow News. These people show “little interest and don’t analyse what is happening around,” she added.\n\nThe remarkable thing about this research is the number of answers the sociologists heard. “Normally there are 30 per cent who cannot reply either because of they haven’t made up their mind or just are not interested in the problem,” Sedykh said.\n\n“This poll seems to come across some important problems. People have something to talk about, something to say out. The public sentiments are clearly to be seen here,” she concluded.\n\nUnited in pride\nHowever, some people don’t need any reasons to be proud of their country just like Svetlana Vinnikova, the vice director of press-service of the Moscow regional department of United Russia:\n“I haven’t seen the survey and its results. But as a Russian citizen I can say I’m proud of my country.”" ]

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[ null, "Award-winning author Steve Luxenberg draws from letters, diaries, and archival collections to tell the story of Plessy v. Ferguson through the eyes of the people caught up in the case. Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation depicts indelible figures such as the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans, led by Louis Martinet, a lawyer and crusading newspaper editor; Homer Plessy’s lawyer, Albion Tourgée, a best-selling author and the country’s best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery New England, whose majority ruling endorsed separation; and Justice John Harlan, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice.\n\nSteve Luxenberg is the author of the critically acclaimed Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret. During his thirty years as a Washington Post senior editor, he has overseen reporting that has earned numerous national honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes. Separate won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award." ]

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[ "Goiter refers to the swelling of the neck or larynx due to thyroid gland enlargement. Usually, people with this condition have large neck, which is associated to impaired function of the thyroid gland. The following are the causes, signs and symptoms, and home remedies for goiter.\n\nGoiter has various causes, according to Medical News Today. As per the publication, one cause if iodine deficiency, which stands as the lead cause of the condition globally, barring developed countries that incorporate iodine to salt. Other causes of goiter include autoimmune disease, women more that 40 years old, hypothyroidism, hypothyroidism, nodules, smoking, hormonal changes, thyroiditis, lithium, iodine overconsumption, and radiation therapy.\n\nGoiter presents several signs and symptoms. According to Mayo Clinic, these include visible swelling at the base of the neck, which may be evident upon shaving or applying make-up; a tight feeling in the throat area, coughing, hoarseness, difficulty breathing, and difficulty swallowing. As per Medical News Today, a person with goiter may experience other symptoms, depending if the goiter is due to an underlying cause. Examples are weight loss, hair loss, increased appetite, palpitations, nervousness, increased sweating, heat hypersensitivity, and fatigue secondary to overactive thyroid.\n\nGoiter is usually managed by medications like thyroid hormone replacement and surgery; however, home remedies can also be applied to help manage the condition.\n\nOne remedy for goiter is watercress, also called scurvy grass. According to Home Remedies For Life, the plant is an excellent source of iodine, in addition to germanium, sulfur, vitamin B, and other antioxidants, which also help the body get rid of unwanted substances like toxins and free radical. As per the publication, watercress can be crush, ground, or blended until two tablespoons of paste are formed. Next, the paste is applied to the neck and is left on for 15 to 20 minutes. Then, the neck is rinsed with water and is patted dry. As an option, two tablespoons of crushed watercress are mixed into half glass of water. The resulting mixture is consumed thrice a day for at least five to six weeks. The remedy is regularly done to combat goiter.\n\nFlaxseed serves as another remedy for goiter. According to Rapid Home Remedies, flaxseed is also a rich source of antioxidants, just like watercress. The seed also contains anti-inflammatory properties, which aid against thyroid gland selling. Flaxseed paste is also used by the ancient Indian medicine system Ayurveda in decreasing pain at the base of the neck. To prepare, as per the publication, whole flaxseed is crushed to obtain about two tablespoons of flaxseed powder. Then, water is mixed to form a paste. After that, the paste is applied on the throat and is left for about 20 to 25 minutes. Finally, the paste is washed off and is patted dry using a clean cloth. As an alternative, flaxseed can also be boiled in water and the resulting preparation is used to was the neck and throat to relieve swelling.\n\nAnother way to manage goiter is through the use of dandelion. According to Ayurveda, as cited by Top 10 Home Remedies, dandelion leaves can reduce neck swelling, as well as reduce the discomfort brought about by the condition. As per the publication, the person gets and smears two to three dandelion leaves with a clarified butter on one side. Then, the leaves are warmed and are placed onto the goiter. They are secured with a bandage or tape and are left on for few hours.\n\nGoiter is. Thus, it is best to seek medical consult from a health professional for proper assessment, planning, intervention, education, and evaluation.\n\nDon’t Let Diarrhea Disturb You: Effective Home Remedies for It", null, null, "Drugs for dealing with migraine come aplenty. However, it can be expected that their administration does not come…", null, "Grave’s disease is one of the many autoimmune diseases known to man, and it affects the thyroid, a…" ]

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[ "The Bale Mountains are a critically important area for a number of threatened Ethiopian endemic species. The Afroalpine area is home to over half of the global population of Ethiopian wolf, the rarest canid in the world, whereas the northern juniper-Hagenia woodlands harbour the largest population of the endemic and similarly endangered mountain nyala.", null, "There are also several rare and endemic amphibian species found only in Bale, as well as over 1,300 species of flowering plants, 163 of which are endemic to Ethiopia (12 percent), and 23 to Bale alone (14 percent of Ethiopia’s endemic plants).\n\nThese figures represent known species in Bale. It is widely accepted that a significant number of species, in particular amphibian & reptile species, are present in Bale but have yet to be found." ]

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[ "Peters Announces Listening Tour of PA-11 Ahead of a Decision", null, "Republican Joe Peters, a former federal prosecutor and Attorney General candidate, announced a listening tour of the nine counties in the 11th Congressional District while he considers a run for the seat. The seat is being vacated by Congressman Lou Barletta (R-Luzerne), who is running for U.S. Senate\n\nPeters announced the tour in a Facebook live video in front of the Scranton Police Department.\n\nEdit: The Scranton Police Department, while outside the district, is where Peters started his law enforcement career as a police officer.\n\n“I want to know your issues. I’m going to start on a listening tour of the nine counties of the 11th Congressional district and listen to you,” Peters said in the video.\n\nIn the video, Peters discusses what is one of his main issues, the opioid epidemic and its effects on the community.\n\n“People ask me what are my top priorities. The first thing that comes to mind first and most is heroin and opioid addiction,” Peters said." ]

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[ null, "The following idioms are all anchored on the word “ship”. Some have nautical origins that date back centuries but are given new life each time they are spoken.", null, "Example: No infusion of additional capital xould save the company. It was a sinking ship.\n\nExample: Like rats abandoning a sinking ship, his friends left him when he fell into hard times.\n\nExample: Don’t give up the ship now. You’re almost there!\n\nsteady the ship — to bring a situation under control\n\nExample: Fortunately, there were cooler heads to steady the ship before the meeting descended into total chaos.\n\nExample: He was a disciplinarian who ran a tight ship when it came to family and household.\n\nExample: Excuse me, mates. I have to go to the toilet and pump ship.\n\nship (someone) off —to send somebody away to some place, usually in an abrupt manner\n\nExample: The boss decided to ship off the inefficient employee to one of the company’s regional branches, hoping that he would shape up.\n\nshape up or ship out — improve one’s performance or behaviour or be forced to leave; usually said as a threat\n\nExample: “Shape up or ship out,” the captain warned the unruly ones amongst the crew.\n\nExample: The dumb electorate chose a nincompoop to steer the ship of state. Incredible!\n\nExample: He thought of migrating to another country, but that ship had already sailed as he was now too old.\n\nships that pass in the night — a metaphorical expression referring to people who cross paths, exchange a few words, and then go their separate ways perhaps to never see each other again\n\nExample: Maritime conference delegates exchange pleasantries and make small talk, but they are ships that pass in the night.\n\nExample: A man whose ship has come in suddenly finds himself with plenty of friends.\n\nThe nautical tradition behind some English idioms", null ]

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[ null, "Engineers at Hosokawa Micron Ltd have literally taken their latest glove-box developments into another dimension as a result of the company’s recent collaboration with the European Space Agency. Working closely with scientists and engineers at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Hosokawa has developed a pilot plant habitat (Pilot Plant Compartment V) in the form of a high containment glovebox and gas loop system.\n\nThe Compartment V glove-box has been designed, built and installed by Hosokawa Micron as the final piece of the jigsaw in the MELiSSA Pilot Plant to provide a habitat for the development and demonstration of regenerative closed loop life support systems, paving the way for deep space travel. The project also offers potential solutions for today’s global challenges such as waste recycling, water provision and food production in harsh environments.\nThe MELiSSA project (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) depends on biological processes and understanding of how these may be affected by reduced gravity and cosmic radiation. For cost and safety reasons the MELiSSA Pilot Plant is a ground based, closed loop support system with a ‘crew’ of rats. Later developments will involve humans, in preparation for future space missions.\n\nThe Glove-box system represents the crew compartment and allows regeneration of the habitat atmosphere (loaded with carbon dioxide exhaled by the animal crew) and control of an oxygen fraction set-point.\n\nPart of the habitat atmosphere is circulated through a photo-bioreactor, where photosynthesis converts carbon dioxide into oxygen.\n\nThe experiments carried out rely on having a ‘gas tight’ environment and the entire system was designed to achieve a leak tightness of less than 0.03% volume per hour (equivalent to a pressure loss of 0.3mbar/hour).\n\nOne of the main design challenges was extending the stringent leak tightness requirement to the integrated recirculating gas loop system components whilst also satisfying the specified process performance.\n\nKey components integrated into the gas loop include:\n\nThe gas loop and Glove-box are fitted with instrumentation for monitoring and control of environmental parameters such as pressure, flow, temperature, humidity etc.\n\nAs this is a closed loop system without external ventilation, the internal pressure would suffer large variations due to changes in atmospheric pressure and temperature without the innovative design of a pressurised buffer tank which can remove or add gas to the system to compensate for these variations and hence maintain a constant internal system pressure. It is important to maintain the internal pressure at a low positive pressure to minimise leakage into or out of the system and to allow easy use of the glove-ports.\n\nThe airlock transfer chamber has a dedicated HEPA filtered air recirculation system to avoid cross contamination and the mixing of internal and external atmospheres.\n\nThe inside of the isolator and airlock is designed for easy cleaning and decontamination and is periodically disinfected using a Vaporised Hydrogen Peroxide (VHP) system.\n\nAnother key aspect of the design was to comply with strict requirements for the comfort and welfare of the animals. This includes strict control of the internal temperature, humidity and lighting (each cage has its own dedicated fan and dimmable, soft lighting) as well as removing potentially harmful contaminants from the recirculating gas flow.\n\n‘This has been a very exciting project with which to be involved,’ said Adam Harper, Projects Manager, Hosokawa Micron Ltd., ‘As engineers it has tested our design capability whilst highlighted the flexibility of our Glove-boxes and their uses and also given us a valuable and fascinating insight into the complexities of engineering for space exploration.’\n\nWhy a built-for-purpose tool is needed for effective maintenance" ]

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[ null, "Laura Richardson was the Democratic representative for California’s 37th congressional district. She served from 2007 to 2012.\n\nRichardson was born in Los Angeles on April 14, 1962, to a black father and white mother. Her mother Maryann Richardson, who was a member of the Teamsters labor union, raised Richardson by herself. Richardson graduated from UCLA in 1984 with a bachelor degree in political science. She then worked for the Xerox Company for several years before earning her MBA from the University of Southern California in 1996. Next she worked as staff for Juanita Millender-McDonald, Democratic Representative for California’s 37th congressional district for two years.\n\nIn 2000, Richardson won a seat on the Long Beach City Council, where she served until 2006. As a Long Beach councilwoman, she was instrumental in bringing the first new bank to the Central Area of Long Beach since the riots of 1992. She was also responsible for opening the first job-training center for working families in Long Beach’s inner city, and for gaining the first funding for alley maintenance by the City of Long Beach. Richardson ran for the 55th district seat on the California State Assembly in 2006 and won.\n\nHer position as the assistant speaker pro tempore in the assembly made her the first African American to hold this position. In 2007, Richardson was elected to Congress to represent the 37th district, replacing Juanita Millender-McDonald who passed away April 22nd, 2007. This made her the 27th African American female to be elected to the House of Representatives. Richardson served in the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Committee on Science and Technology.\n\nEarly in 2009 Richardson was investigated for violating gift and financial disclosure rules with respect to her home, its foreclosure, and yard work from 2007 to 2008. The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct concluded that Representative Richardson did not knowingly receive and/ or fail to report the aforementioned gifts. However, in August, Richardson was found guilty on seven counts of violating House rules by improperly pressuring her staff to campaign for her, destroying evidence and tampering with witness testimony. Richardson was ordered to pay a fine of $10,000 within four months and promised to require staffers who work on her campaign to sign a waiver stating that they haven’t been pressured to do so. Richardson lost her bid for reelection in 2012." ]

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[ null, "CANNES – A film that claims to be a literary comedy set in England’s West Country based loosely on Thomas Hardy’s “Far From the Madding Crowd” had better deliver the goods, and Stephen Frears’ new film, “Tamara Drewe,” pretty much does.\n\nJaunty and entertaining, it’s a faithful rendering of a comic by Posy Simmonds for the upscale British newspaper the Guardian and published subsequently in graphic novel form. Simmonds fans should be happy as Frears and screenwriter Moira Buffini make pleasing work of her material with plenty of laughs.\n\nBen Davis also makes the heaths, woodland and vale plus the cottages in the county of Dorset look ravishing enough to please Hardy himself. Alexandre Desplat’s agile score employs gifted soloists along with the London Symphony Orchestra to help embroider the pretty pictures.\n\nLike the comic strip, the film includes a couple of unruly teenagers to balance all the adult humour, and while these characters’ antics make the film uneven, they probably widen its demographic potential. Boxoffice potential looks solid as a result.\n\nGemma Arterton, who shone recently in the title role of Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” for a BBC miniseries, plays Tamara Drewe, drawn from Bathsheba Everdene in Hardy’s “Madding Crowd.”", null, "Her return as a beauty (thanks to plastic surgery) to the small country village where she grew up an ugly duckling ruffles the feathers of old flames, not least because she brings along her boyfriend, a rock drummer named Ben Sergeant (Dominic Cooper), who is more or less Sergeant Troy from the Hardy book.\n\nThe setting and source of most of the laughs is a literary retreat held at Hardiment’s fancy pile and run mostly by his long-suffering wife, Beth (Tamsin Greig). Several aspiring writers are in residence including a serious American named Glen McGreavy (Bill Camp), who is attempting a sober analysis of the works of … Thomas Hardy.\n\nWriters – their foibles, fallacies and fabrications – are the butt of some excellent jokes, and the affairs of Drewe and her men lead to amusing payoffs. There’s also a witty thread that mocks the plots of commercial crime yarns via a stampede of cows.\n\nArterton continues to establish herself as a leading lady to be reckoned with, combining mischievous sex appeal with generous self-mockery. Allam ranks with Bill Nighy in sheer drollery and dry but hilarious line readings while Cooper (“Mamma Mia!”) contributes a savvy portrait of a rocker whose seduction technique involves snogging while drumming with his feet.\n\nThe heart of the picture belongs to the exquisite Tamsin Greig, who finds comedy in the pain of a much-betrayed wife without demeaning the character. She has an extraordinary ability to move from bemusement to comedy to outrage in one sentence.\n\nThe weakest part of the film involves two girls (Jessica Barden and Charlotte Christie) whose antics, including burglary and sending phoney e-mails, drive the plot. It might work in the comic strip, but on film it appears like pandering in hopes of a younger audience, and takes time away from the very clever fun for grownups." ]

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[ null, "For the past week we’ve been doing a lot of climate talk, tree planting and painting with the aim to raise awareness about climate change. We’ve travelled through four cities and worked with over 3000 children and adults, but when we arrived in Klerksdorp on Friday, we were taught a couple new moves.\n\nKnown as the ‘city of people’ the footprints of the first gold miners still run deep in the streets of Klerksdorp. Now, years later, this very community is creating a new kind of footprint – a lower carbon footprint, that is.\n\nIn a predominately Afrikaans speaking area, John Sekobo from the Abogazi cultural dance group found that it became increasingly difficult to explain concepts such as ‘climate change, greenhouse gasses and mitigation’ to community members, particularly children.\n\nWith a deep love and appreciation for nature and the preservation of it, John, together with five other group members came up with a plan to teach children more about climate change. This plan involved no long power point presentations or complicated terms; just a few beats and freedom of movement.\n\nJohn explains: ‘What child likes to sit in hour long presentations about things they have no knowledge of? Because it’s such an important issue and vital that they receive as much information about it as possible, we started a dance group, teaching and educating them in a fun and relaxed way. Through dance we endeavour to teach children the effects of climate change and show them ways to contribute to making a change. ‘", null, "Using plants, soil and even oxygen masks as props, children are taught about the importance of plants, weather pattern changes and health consequences by exploring new dimensions of climate change through the movement of their bodies.\n\nSeipati Lemeku (11) from Vaal Park, who was on board the Climate Train for the afternoon’s activities, said Abogazi offers her a fun way of learning new things. ‘My friends and I love to dance. The Abogazi cultural dance group makes learning so much fun. While we practice the dance moves, we learn about plants and nature,’ she said.\n\nShe added that everything she learnt on the train, was part of their dance routine.\nPick it up and recycle\n\n‘In the train we were taught about Mother Earth and how it’s important to look after her, because all the litter and pollution is making her sick. When John and his group visited our school to teach us the dance, we were taught that plastic and garbage were all bad for the earth and that we should pick it up and recycle it instead,’ she continued.\nDiketso Molema (12) said although she learns a lot at the dance class, activities on the train also helped her to gain new knowledge.\n\n‘We watched movies about climate change and wrote messages to Mother Earth. I am happy that I came. I am excited to go home and tell my family about my experience.’\n\nRelationships with earth and air\n\nDressed in yellow and green, the Abogazi cultural dance group entertained the community on the stoic station, incorporating both plants and oxygen masks. Their routines consisted of three movements, using a combination of physical theatre and dance; exploring the relationship they each share with earth and air.\n\nAs they moved effortlessly across the platform, each dancer inhaled deep breaths of air as though if every breath was used to enrich their bodies, which gave the illusion of a dying and sick patient grasping for his last breath.\n\nLater on about 40 children joined them on the platform as they expressed their love for earth through dance." ]

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[ null, "Speaking with Deadline recently, Marvel producer Nate Moore says the X-Men reboot is still in the very early stages. Though Moore did name two X-Men characters he can’t wait to see on screen. Moore also confirmed Harry Styles return as Starfox, though he’s not saying where that next appearance will be.\n\nMoore appeared on Deadline’s Crew Call show, and here is what he said when asked abut which black characters he is looking forward to seeing in the MCU.\n\n“There’s no secret the X-Men are coming home, if you talk Storm and Bishop, they’re two of the great characters in that franchise,” says Moore who emphasizes, “we’re early, early days” on that reboot.\n\nMoore then went on to say we should expect to see more of Harry Styles as Starfox going forward.\n\n“We didn’t cast Harry for a tag,” says Moore who also produced that MCU title, “(There’s) more stories to be told with that character.”\n\n“He has an interesting connection with Thanos; they’re half-brothers and share the same father.”\n\nRELATED: Is Adam Driver In The Running For Reed Richards? | Barside Buzz\n\nI doubt there was any doubt among the fans that Starfox would return. As Moore says, they didn’t go through the casting process of hiring Harry Styles just so they had a cool post-credit scene. So far though despite rumors it’s in development, we’ve heard nothing official about an Eternals sequel.\n\nAs for X-Men, rumors around that the reason so many Fox actors keep showing up is due to contractual agreements made under Fox previously which state the actors incumbent have to be offered the parts until a certain date. To be honest that may have been one of the reasons (if true) that Marvel chose to go with the Multiverse Saga next? It gets mileage out of those previous actors whilst allowing the MCU to begin it’s own time in the future after this saga has concluded. Presumably by then, it will be time of that reboot and recasting to take place? Though again, I’ll stress these are just rumors abut the contracts. Marvel have made no statements indicating whether this is true, or false thus far.\n\nWhat do you think as Marvel producer Nate Moore says the X-Men reboot is still in the very early stages. What do you think as Moore conforms Harry Styles will return as Starfox? Where and when do you expect to see Styles show up next? As always, leave any thoughts below." ]

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[ null, "My life hasn’t seen this many tears since my husband, John, died.\n\nIn the last two weeks, I have witnessed those near me experience a historic court ruling, a death of a beloved, and the next step on the divorce journey. In just 14 days I have lifted champagne to my lips in three separate places, had two titanium implants drilled into my jaw, lunched with a renowned executive from Japan, received bouquets of roses and daisies, and bolted out of a funeral service to openly break into the kind of uncontrollable sobs ordinarily reserved for the end of the day when alone in your bedroom.\n\nLife is so big sometimes.\n\nTwo weeks ago today every member of our law firm was in federal court to support freedom to marry for same sex couples in Nebraska. We felt the weight of the future for our clients in our hands and on our shoulders. Two courtrooms were packed with eagerness and anxiety. For my law partner, Angela, and me, it was a “This is why I became a lawyer” kind of day. Tears.\n\nThis was big for me. I have been an advocate and ally in our LGBT community for decades. This is not the first historic case our firm has been a part of, but there has never been another with more at stake. Sally could die and our state not recognize Susan as her widow. If anything were to happen to Nick, little Alice could be at risk for being treated like an orphan instead of being secure in the arms of her other dad. It all matters so much.\n\nThe ten day wait for the ruling felt like an eternity for those who had waited for years for the law to give dignity and respect to their love. The victorious ruling arrived first thing on a Monday morning. After joyous calls to our clients, impromptu visitors giving gratitude appeared at our office. In tears.\n\nAnd yet, as huge as it was for me, the rest of the world did not stop. The day after the court hearing I received a noon call telling me that my friend Jean had died. A doctor herself, she was diagnosed with MS at 29 and had lived with the disease as long as I had known her. Her passing left a hole in the hearts of an entire community. Again I found myself in one of two packed rooms with people in full attention as we hung on every word spoken. Tears and more tears.\n\nReminding myself to rest at the end of the week—even the richest life can be exhausting—I settled in on Sunday night to watch the season finale of Downton Abbey. More tears it was.\n\nWhen it’s your divorce, it’s big for you. Really big. And despite that, the rest of the world doesn’t stop. Surprises will arrive, dentist appointments kept, and deadlines met. Children still get ear infections and people still die.\n\nSo how do we navigate the waters of a tear-filled life? I have tried to keep breathing. I have tried to remember that while my life unfolds so do the lives of others. I have tried to remain present to each of these moments and to allow myself to simply “be” in life—full of heartbreak, full of thanks, fully alive.\n\nToday I feel grateful to be alive. Tears and all." ]

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[ null, "“The expected global deficit has been reduced mainly on higher production expectations for centre-south Brazil where the new crop looks more than promising,” Platts said in a report on Sunday, coinciding with its sugar conference in Dubai. With so much cane left in the fields in centre-south Brazil, the main sugar growing region, mills will continue to maximise crushing and, weather permitting, could establish a new crushing record for the season, Platts said.\n\n“Moreover, the rains that came in the rainy season (from October onward) and continuing into the inter-crop period, helped the development of the new cane,” it said. “If next season is drier than this one it might also cause a significant rise in the sugar content and with sugar continuing to pay better than ethanol on the forward curve, this should also mean a higher sugar mix (from cane.)” Source: Reuters" ]

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[ "Amethyst\nAmethyst has been highly esteemed throughout the ages for its stunning beauty and legendary powers to stimulate, and soothe, the mind and emotions\nIt is a semi-precious stone in today’s classifications, but to the ancients it was a “Gem of Fire,” a Precious Stone worth, at times in history, as much as a Diamond.\nIt carries the energy of fire and passion, creativity and spirituality, yet bears the logic of temperance and sobriety\nIt strengthens the imagination and intuition, and refines the thinking processes. It helps in the assimilation of new ideas, putting thought into action, and brings projects to fruition. It is a talisman of focus and success\nThird Eye, Crown and Etheric Chakras\nThe name Amethyst derives from the Greek word ametusthos, meaning “not intoxicated,” and comes from an ancient legend. The wine god Bacchus, angry over an insult and determined to avenge himself decreed the first person he should meet would be devoured by his tigers. The unfortunate mortal happened to be a beautiful maiden named Amethyst on her way to worship at the shrine of Diana. As the ferocious beasts sprang, she sought the protection of the goddess and was saved by being turned into a clear, white crystal. Bacchus, regretting his cruelty, poured the juice of his grapes over the stone as an offering, giving the gem its lovely purple hue\nAmethyst was also reputed to control evil thoughts, increase intelligence and render men shrewd in business matters. For travelers it was worn as a protection from treachery and surprise attacks, kept soldiers from harm and gave them victory over their enemies. It lent assistance to hunters in the capture of wild beasts and fowl, and was considered to be a powerful psychic stone of protection against witchcraft and black magic. Like other royal stones it protected its wearer from disease and contagion.", null, "27 October, 2015 / 1159\nTurquoise is perhaps the oldest stone in man’s history, the talisman of kings, shamans, and... Continue reading", null, "27 October, 2015 / 1407\nSt. Hildegard of Bingen, the noted lithologist, declared, “All the green of nature is concentrated... Continue reading\n\n18 July, 2022 Comments Off on Authentic Orgonite Vs Scam Pyramids\n\n18 July, 2022 Comments Off on How to Use Orgone Pyramids a few Tips\n\nOrgone Pyramids and its Benefits\n\n15 July, 2022 Comments Off on Orgone Pyramids and its Benefits" ]

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[ null, "Billings police are investigating a shooting on the South Side that sent a man to the hospital.\n\nIn a press release issued Monday, police said officers responded Sunday at about 2:52 a.m. to the 2800 block of Third Avenue South for a report of a disturbance with shots fired.\n\nOfficers found a 39-year-old man from Mississippi unconscious in the front yard of a residence. The man was transported to a medical facility for treatment of a gunshot wound, the press release states.\n\nNo arrests have been made and police asked anyone with information about the shooting to contact police at 657-8473.\n\nPolice said the shooting does not appear to be related to an earlier shooting that same night at a Billings bar. No one was injured in that shooting" ]

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[ "USA Cricket: Jones 95 knocks Netravalkar’s 5 for 32 off Man of the Match pedestal in three-wicket win over UAE", null, "Aaron Jones’ ODI career-best 95 off 114 balls helped settle USA’s nerves after being 4 for 2 in the third over to steer USA on the way to chase a 47-over target of 203 in a three-wicket win over UAE in the opening match of the Cricket World Cup League Two tri-series at Sharjah Cricket Stadium. The final margin of victory made the result appear closer than it was in reality as Jones' innings put USA in control for the majority of the chase before a flurry of wickets fell with USA in sight of victory.\n\nJones entered facing a hat-trick ball after Monank Patel and Steven Taylor fell on back-to-back balls from Junaid Siddique to start the third over but Jones rebuilt the innings alongside Xavier Marshall in a 78-run partnership for the third wicket. USA clinched the chase with 10 balls to spare after a below-par target was set up by Saurabh Netravalkar’s maiden five-wicket haul for USA, the first five-for in USA’s ODI history, as he took four wickets in the space of seven balls at the death to bowl out UAE for 202 with 10 balls left unused and Muhammad Usman left stranded on 59.\n\n\nUAE opted to bat first at the toss after the match was delayed 75 minutes with three overs shaved off due to a wet outfield. But the hosts were tied down early in Netravalkar’s new-ball spell. ODI debutant Vriitya Aravind had seized on Rusty Theron at the opposite end for a pair of boundaries in the fifth, including a gorgeous square drive through cover point, and had reached 16 before Netravalkar’s nagging fourth stump line got him to play away from his body for an edge behind to Akshay Homraj. The pressure being build by Netravalkar’s dot balls led to a second wicket in the 10th when Chirag Suri and Darius D’Silva got into a mixup on a ball pushed by D’Silva into the covers. Nosthush Kenjige fielded and relayed calmly to Monank Patel over the non-striker’s stumps with both batsmen at the striker’s end, though D’Silva briefly left his crease to allow Suri to be the not out batsman.\n\nSuri went on to construct a 53-run stand with Basil Hameed as the 24-year-old former Gujarat Lions squad member Suri seized on a short-pitched plan to pull a series of boundaries off USA’s medium pacers. The stand came to an end when Hameed was harshly given lbw for 25 on a ball that video replays indicated struck him outside the line of off stump against Theron. Suri fell nine overs later in the 30th for 46 to a brilliant catch on the deep midwicket boundary by Theron, who sprinted 25 yards to his left before intercepting a flick off Steven Taylor that appeared destined for six. Taylor struck two overs later for his second wicket, getting Rohan Mustafa lbw missing a reverse sweep for 9 to make it 131 for 5 in 32 overs. Waheed Ahmed fell prodding away from his body to edge behind for Kenjige’s first wicket to make it 144 for 6.\n\nBut Muhammad Usman kept the USA bowling attack at bay for the next six overs, constructing a sharp 46-run stand with captain Ahmed Raza. Usman struck Netravalkar for six in the 40th before Raza attacked Kenjige in the 41st, flicking him over long-on for six before a reverse sweep for four over point as part of a 13-run over and after 43 overs, UAE were 190 for 6.\n\nHowever, the hosts were only able to add 12 runs the rest of the way as Netravalkar stunned UAE’s lower-order with a magnificent death spell. Raza lost his wicket backing away to try to drive Netravalkar through the off side only to be yorker for 19. Debutant Karthik Meiyappan then fended his first ball behind to Homraj to put Netravalkar on a hat-trick at 190 for 8 in the 44th but Junaid Siddique was able to see it off pushing a single. Usman then brought up his half-century one ball later with a single, though his nonchalant thumbs up showed his concern at the dwindling number of partners at the opposite end.\n\nIn a key sequence in the 45th over, Siddique flicked to short fine leg where Marshall came in to field, but an opportunity was there for a single that Usman hesitated on before turning down. Siddique then decided to take a single off the final ball to keep strike for the 46th, a costly decision in the end as Netravalkar dislodged him with a slower bouncer before Zahoor Khan edged behind a length ball to complete Netravalkar and USA’s first-ever ODI five-wicket haul. Usman meanwhile was at the non-striker’s end on 59 off 71 balls as UAE ended their innings with 10 balls left unused.\n\nAside from Netravalkar’s 5 for 32, Taylor supported him well with figures of 2 for 33 in eight overs. Kenjige and Theron were the only other wicket-takers for USA, claiming 1 for 40 and 1 for 46 respectively in nine overs each.\n\nUSA headed into the chase as favorites but got off to a calamitous start. They did not score a run off the bat through the first three overs, the only runs coming from four byes with Monank Patel on strike in the first. Monank chased away from his body to edge Siddique through low to Raza at first slip off the first ball of the third before Taylor offered no shot to an inswinger to be given lbw for a golden duck.\n\nJones arrived and nervily saw off his first four deliveries to end the third over and crawled his way initially to 5 off 27 balls. But he became unstuck in the 11th over getting a series of boundaries off Waheed Ahmed and went on to score 90 off his final 87 deliveries in a beautifully paced innings as he built momentum with Marshall. The pair ran aggressively between the wickets in stark contrast to many of USA’s stands during the Super50 tour of Trinidad and it was that eagerness that eventually cost Marshall in the end. Trying to set off for a tight single to square leg, Jones sent Marshall back and a relay from Meiyappan towards the non-striker’s stumps hit Marshall in the side. UAE’s fielders appealed for obstructing the field and after two minutes, the appeal was upheld to end Marshall’s stay for 34.\n\nIan Holland arrived and added 47 in partnership with Jones, who brought up his half-century off 78 balls by driving Zahoor over mid-off for a boundary. A pull in the 29th off Meiyappan behind square added another before he hooked Zahoor for six in the 30th to accelerate further. Holland fell on a spectacular low return catch by Raza for 19 in the 32nd and Homraj fell for 13 in the 37th, beaten driving against Siddique for the medium pacer’s third wicket.\n\nJones appeared destined for three figures but survived his first close shave on 85 when he pulled Siddique to Suri at deep square leg but Suri misjudged the chance badly running in initially before leaping up late as it went through his hands for six to take Jones into the 90s. He took singles to get to 95 before flicking Zahoor toward Waheed at deep square leg. Waheed looked like he may make the same error as Suri had a few overs earlier, running in on a misjudged effort but recovered to make an incredible one-handed leaping catch just inside the rope to leave Jones crestfallen five short of a would-be first ODI century in USA’s history.\n\nStevenson fell one over later trying to end the match with one swing off Waheed and instead skied a catch to Raza at extra cover in the ring. But Karima Gore coolly took USA across the line, driving a straight four off Mustafa two balls into the 46th over to end 26 not out. Siddique ended with UAE’s best figures, claiming 3 for 37 in his nine overs.\n\nUSA comes straight back on Monday to play the second ODI of the tri-series against Scotland at Sharjah. The match is scheduled for a 10 a.m. start." ]

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[ null, "Most top 10 cryptos registered small movements over the past day. Investors will be closely following a few major announcements coming out of the US today. At 13:30 GMT, the Bureau of Economic Analysis will announce preliminary GDP numbers; at 15:00 GMT, it will release CPI figures for October.\n\nZoom Video Communications’ shares crashed 14.71%, dropping to their lowest level in 17 months after reporting a significant slowdown in revenue growth.\n\nCardano stood out among major cryptos dropping approximately 7% over the past 24 hours. Since momentarily breaking $3 in early September, it has lost more than 40% of its value and was trading at $1.68 at the time of writing. Binance Coin and Ethereum gained more than 2.5%.\n\nAccording to Ripple’s CEO, Ripple is making “good progress” in their legal fight with the SEC. He expects the case to finally end in 2022.\n\nCryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com’s native token, CRO, continues its ascent. It gained 16.23% in the last 24 hours. More notably, it displaced Shiba Inu as the 12th biggest coin by market cap. On its part, SHIB continues its downward spiral, losing 9.73% today. This brings its losses over the past 7 days to almost 20%.\n\nIlluvium, the token of an open-world fantasy battle game built on the Ethereum blockchain, gained 43% in the last 24 hours. Illuvium is often touted as the first AAA game on Ethereum. All Metaverse tokens are performing well. MANA is up 21%, SAND – 27%, and Enjin Coin – 23%.\n\nZcash (#55) is surging on news of migrating to PoS. Its token ZEC is up 24% today. Proof of stake validation reduces the environmental footprint of a network, creating yield rewards that encourage long-term holders.\n\nXinFin is an enterprise-ready hybrid blockchain technology company optimized for international trade and finance. Its network is powered by the native coin XDC, which has gained almost 20% in the last 24 hours.\n\nA big winner of the day is ALL BEST ICO (ALLBI), which surged on news of undergoing a 1:1 swap. The token of the ecosystem which aims to make education accessible via the blockchain gained 2,351% in 24 h." ]

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[ "Based on the investigation, a silver Toyota Camry was traveling eastbound on Santa Clara Av. from Heliotrope Av. when the driver veered off the roadway and struck a tree located on the south side of the street. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nI really dislike South Coast Plaza. Who can afford what the stores there have to offer? But the MainPlace Mall is just the ticket with a decent array of stores and anchors and a great food selection that now includes wood-fired pizza at Blaze Pizza and bbq ribs at the new Lucille’s. There is ample parking and two frozen yogurt places – plus my eye doctor. The previous owners of the MainPlace Mall, Westfield, just sold the shopping center to a group of developers. I hope they don’t mess it up! END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nLocated in the northern tip of Santa Ana, the Floral Park neighborhood is a community of more than 600 vintage homes, most of which were built from the 1920s through the 1950s. Recognized as one of Orange County’s most established neighborhoods, the neighborhood is representative of a bygone era—one of gracious tree-shaded streets, abundant lawns and flowers, unique and stylish homes and, most importantly, friendly neighbors! END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "One suspected burglar, pictured above, has been seen zipping around Park Santiago on a motor bike and he was even followed by a resident, who asked him if he lives here. He threatened to call the police but left after the concerned resident invited him to do so. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "SANTA ANA, CA, February 1, 2013 – The Floral Park Neighborhood Association (FPNA), located in historic North Santa Ana, will be celebrating its 21st annual Home & Garden Tour on April 27-28, 2013. The event will spotlight the FPNA’s ongoing efforts to promote restoration and preservation of the neighborhood’s unique homes and the many people who have supported those efforts. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\n“More than $9 million of federal dollars will be spent to add 28 crucial miles of bike lanes and trails in Orange County, an effort to better connect the region’s bikeway system,” according to the O.C. Register.\n\nThat is great news, and Santa Ana will draw some benefit from this expenditure, with new bikeways along 1st St., Chestnut Ave. and Newhope St., and new bike crossings along the Maple Bike Trail.\n\nHowever there will be no money to complete the Santiago Creek bike trail, which abruptly ends after you pass the MainPlace Mall/5 Fwy. overpass. Read more about that here and here. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nHart has apparently just pulled his Council nomination papers, and the Coils are holding a meeting in order to gather the 20 signatures he needs in order to run for the City Council. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nCheck out the video above and let us know what you think! And click here to find out more about what you can do to help us finish the bike trail!" ]

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[ null, "Here's an excerpt:\nThe duke pushed the sleeves off her shoulders and halfway down her arms before about-facing her. Stooping, he pressed his mouth to her décolletage. His lips were deliciously warm and moist against the bulging tops of her flattened bosoms. His hair tickled her flesh in a pleasing sort of way and smelled faintly of lavender. He moved upward, kissing her collarbone, her throat, the side of her neck, and her earlobe. After blowing in her ear, he whispered in a voice like velvet, “Why did you marry me, knowing what you knew?” A hot lump formed at her core. “Because.” He ran his tongue around the folds of her ear, sending delicious shivers through her. “Because why?” “Because you are a duke.” Mouth suddenly parched, she licked her lips. “And you dreamed of being a duchess?” “No.” “Then why?” “I would prefer not to say.” “Why?” “Because it will make me sound small and petty.” His tongue’s explorations undermined her concentration. “Now I really must know.” She heaved a sigh of surrender. “Survival,” she said, forcing the half-truth from her throat. “Since you insist upon an answer, I married you because you asked me to…and I had nowhere else to turn for protection.” His mouth returned to her neck and proceeded to kiss, lick, and nip her flesh, turning her insides to syrup. “Thank you,” he said betwixt kisses. “For what?” “Your candor.” Guilt crushed her chest like a bounder. Yes, she’d married him to gain security, but she'd left out the part about lusting after him deep in her heart. She moved away, removed the full-sleeved bodice, and laid it over the bench at the foot of the bed. He came up behind her, slipped his arms around her waist, and kissed the back of her neck, setting her aflame. She spun in his embrace and looked at him. His dark hair tumbled in soft waves over his broad shoulders. His features were shadowed, making him look dangerous. The need she’d stuffed down for so long erupted from her core, thick and molten. Bringing his mouth to hers, he kissed and nibbled her lips as his hands untied the strings of her petticoat. It billowed to the floor, leaving her in only her fancy wedding stays and shift. “Now, 'tis my turn.” Stepping back a wee ways, she pulled the diamond stick-pin from his cravat, loosened the knot, and unfurled the long strip of linen encircling his neck. Was it the same one he’d used to tie the maid’s hands? “Why did you dismiss Mistress Honeywell?” she asked, letting his neck cloth slip from her fingers to the floor. His beguiling mouth hitched into a crooked grin. “Had I known you’d seen me swive her, I could have saved myself the trouble—and a few sovereigns.” “I’m sorry for your trouble, but do not regret her loss. Truth be known, I never liked her—though I do not doubt part of my aversion stemmed from what I witnessed.” He lifted her chin, pulling her gaze to his. “Were you jealous, Rosebud?” “Not at the time, but afterward, I resented her relationship with you.” “There was no relationship. ‘Twas merely a one off.” Unsure what to say in response, she unbuttoned his collar, opened the front of his shirt, and slipped both hands inside. As her fingertips met the warm, hair-garnished flesh of his chest, she nearly swooned. How many times she had fantasized about touching him in this way. How much better he felt in real life—a pleasing quilt of smooth skin, solid bone and muscle, wiry hairs, and petal soft nipples. She pinched one until it grew erect. “You feel good, husband” she said. “You are well put together.” “It gets better.” He laughed. “I know.” She blushed at the memory. “I saw everything you own that day in Mrs. McQueen’s closet.” “And you married me anyway?” “Oh, no. I married you because of it.” The smile he gave her warmed her all the way down to her toes. She swept her hands downward, shuddering when they touched the tartan draped around his hips. The wool was finely woven, soft. She brushed the apron, pleased to find he was aroused. So was she. Mightily. Since that day in the closet, she’d pictured his hard phallus a thousand times—in her hand, her mouth, and her cunny, and now 'twas at last within grasp. She bent to unbuckle the belt circumnavigating his hips, but, changing her mind, reached underneath the curtain of plaid instead. He sucked in a breath as she ran her hands up the backs of his thighs. They felt exactly as she’d dreamed they would. Lean, hard, and flocked in bristly hair. Would his phallus feel the way she’d imagined, too?", null, "Here's a wee bit about the author:", null ]

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[ null, "The five-time Balon d’Or winner was watched by the Gunners before he made the move to Manchester United from Sporting Lisbon in 2003.\n\nSpeaking to Piers Morgan in an interview on ITV, Ronaldo was asked how close he actually came to playing in north London.\n\n“I was one step away from joining Arsenal.\n\n“I appreciate what Arsenal did for me, especially Arsene Wenger. They’re a great club,” he replied.\n\nRonaldo will be in action tonight when his Juventus side kickoff it’s 2019/2020 UEFA Champions League season." ]

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[ "13th Jul 2018\nA place to thank, appreciate and celebrate our fundraisers.\n\nThank you so much to all our May 2018 fundraisers, who have been busy raising much needed funds. This is what some of them got up to.\n\nMichelle Charlton took on a skydive challenge. She informed us: “I decided to do a skydive to raise money and hopefully awareness for SUDEP Action in memory of my sister, Lisa. The idea of my angel sister flying alongside me was my motivation and, I can imagine her saying she doesn’t believe I will jump out of plane. So, I had to prove her wrong. It was the most amazing thing I have ever done, it took me out of my comfort zone but it is a memory I will keep forever”.\n\nLaura Marsden completed one of her #Prevent21 challenges. She commented: “As one of the 21 challenges I'm doing for the Prevent21 campaign, I wanted to do something I wouldn't have been able to do when my epilepsy was unsettled. I decided to walk over the O2, not only because I'm scared of heights but thought it was something a bit different! My other half Chris joined me for some moral support which took an hour and a half and offered some amazing views over Canary Wharf. I would recommend to others thinking about fundraising!”\n\nNicola Chalk ran The Lexicon Bracknell Half Marathon. She informed us: “In May 2017 my friend Nick and I watched the half marathon runners making a pact to run together the following year. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be, as Nick died less than two weeks later. It was so important for me to run the half marathon this year to raise much needed funds and awareness for SUDEP Action, in Nick’s memory. No family should have to go through what they all did and still do. I am so pleased that the amount I raised may go a small way to help.”", null, "Sophie Pierce organised a fabulous fundraiser. She detailed: “I came up with the idea of ‘Darty Dozen’ after wanting to put on a challenging and fun event that people would remember. The idea was to do twelve wild swims on spectacular Dartmoor over a weekend, camping overnight on the Saturday. It all went amazingly, there was a heatwave, and we swam in rivers, lakes and waterfalls…and walked around 15 miles. We raised lots of money, but the event became about more than that – people talked about Felix and I felt very supported.”\n\nIf you have been inspired by what you have read and want to fundraiser for SUDEP Action please get in touch, we can help with advice, materials and inspiration." ]

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[ "If there's one food group that I'm VERY partial to, it's cake-that's ALL cakes.....except fruit cake- I can take or leave that. It's funny because biscuits and chocolate can stay in the cupboard for weeks and I can be relatively restrained-the only exception being, as you well know, a good caramel square-but as soon as cake makes an appearance, I'm done for. It calls my name, no one elses, only mine over and over, until every last piece is gone.\n\nSo wisely, because I know this about myself, I very rarely buy or make cakes, and if I do I force feed them IMMEDIATELY to the children, and any visitors or delivery men who happen to call, just so that it won't be crying for Mama come supper time. I'll be honest with you though, birthdays are tough, and we have not one, but two here in January. And really, is there ANYTHING nicer on a cold, wintery night than a bit of Gok, a cup of tea and a wedge of M&S Madeira with balloon icing and jam and cream in the middle? I think not. Except possibly a generous piece of M&S chocolate caterpillar cake, preferably the face part, but at the very least one or two chocolate feet thrown in for good measure? (Yes, I DO favour M&S as it happens- it's THE best-just trust me on this, cos I've tried 'em all!)\n\nAn added complication of the January double birthday whammy is, as usually occurs, the boys' actual birthdays fall midweek, while their parties are scheduled for the weekend. You see where I'm going with this? That means not two but FOUR cakes, and I'm feeling quite faint right now just thinking about it. I've tried to think of ways around it- perhaps buying a boring old cherry cake, or a Christmas cake on sale, just to do our 'family' parties, and that way I'm not tempted to have even the smallest piece. But seriously, can you imagine? I'd be run out of the house before I got to the 'For he's a jolly good fellow!' part if I tried to fob them off with that..and rightly so!\n\nThis year for Rory's birthday, I decided to make a cake for the family gig and he requested a 'jam' cake, (my old nemesis the Victoria sponge), so I dusted off my Kenwood and got cracking. Actually, I used to do a fair bit of baking, but now I blog instead....and it shows. There was a teensy bit of a hiccup, as you can see, when the whole top of one half refused to come out of the cake tin. (In these circumstances, I automatically blame the Aga, but truthfully, I should have just greased the cake tin properly.)", null, "It's wonderful though, how a buttercream filling, ( NOT margerine-cream), good quality raspberry jam, and a bit of icing sugar over the top, can pull a would be baking disaster back from the brink, and the end result was deemed a resounding success.... and not just by me! So good in fact, that Cormac specifically requested it for HIS family birthday party the following week, which has sadly been and gone, but I've PROMISED to do it this weekend instead. Hmmmmm, and that would be the weekend before Lent begins.....which is surely cake free....so stick the kettle on- I don't mind if I do!" ]

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[ "NTPC Limited, India’s biggest energy conglomerate, caters to almost 23 per cent of the country’s power demand. The company is looking to increase this share over the next few years, with an annual capacity addition of 4-5 GW. Of this, a large majority is planned to be renewable energy based. Currently, renewable energy contributes only around 2 per cent to NTPC’s generation portfolio but it is targeting to achieve 30 per cent renewable energy generation by 2030. At a recent conference organised by Renewable Watch, Gurdeep Singh, chairman and managing director, NTPC Limited, spoke about a range of actions and efforts that the company is undertaking to achieve its ambitious renewable energy capacity addition plans. Excerpts….\n\nOne of the three commitments made by the Indian government under the Paris Agreement is that 40 per cent of the country’s power capacity would be based on non-fossil fuel sources by 2030. NTPC being the largest power generator in the country, we have the responsibility to play a much bigger role in achieving this renewables target. Going forward, we may also transition from a predominantly coal-based or hydrocarbons-based producer to a renewable energy major. In line with this, our business plan for 2030 states that we will have around 132 GW of power capacity and at least 30 per cent of our energy mix will comprise renewable sources. When we say this, we believe that it should be at least, and not up to, 30 per cent. This, I think, is important.\n\nIn the past two to three years, the pace of renewable capacity addition by NTPC has been rather slow. At present, renewable energy contributes only 2 per cent to the company’s generation portfolio. At this level and given the current pace, it may seem that we will not be able to reach the 30 per cent target, but we have been studying and analysing the market and are focused on achieving our goals. In fact, of late, NTPC has started participating in various auctions and we have started winning some of the bids. For instance, NTPC has recently won 40 MW of solar energy projects in an auction conducted by the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency (UPNEDA). NTPC participated in UPNEDA’s tender for 500 MW of solar capacity, with two bids of 20 MW each at Auraiya and Rihand. Although the capacity is small, this will pave the way for the development of the non-conventional business.\n\nSimilarly, NTPC participated in the 750 MW tender floated by the Solar Energy Corporation of India for Rajasthan and won 160 MW of solar capacity at a levellised tariff of Rs 2.50 per unit, applicable for 25 years. It will be developed in the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode.\n\nThis year, we should be able to commission only around 400-500 MW but for the future, we have changed this strategy. Earlier, we were primarily going for complete EPC, but now our team is looking at whether we can start buying modules separately and undertake balance of systems separately.\n\nAnother area that we seriously think has potential is floating solar. We believe that there is fairly good scope, at least a few gigawatts if not very high, and we are working on that very aggressively. NTPC is already setting up a 100 MW floating solar photovoltaic (PV) project at Ramagundam in Telangana. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has been selected as the EPC developer for the project.\n\nEnergy storage is another area that we are looking at very closely. But there have been a number of roadblocks. We initiated the tender for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but ultimately it was decided that the project was not required right now. The influx of renewables is going to impact our coal-based portfolio significantly and that is why we need to have good flexibility options. We also need to ensure that grid stability is intact. So, battery storage is definitely on our radar and we hope to come out with some more expressions of interest in order to have a more viable solution. In this context, let me tell you that we will be very aggressive in all forms of capacity addition and we are more than happy to facilitate some of the developers to come forward and help us increase the percentage of our renewable energy portfolio in the total energy mix.", null, "There are certain issues that we are currently in the process of resolving with the government such as how should we blend coal-based power and renewable energy, basically solar and wind. I am happy to share with you that we have already made some progress and we should soon have a mechanism in place whereby we should be able to blend solar and wind power with our coal-based capacity. It will allow us to blend renewable energy with costly coal-based capacity and sell it to distribution companies under their existing contracts without there being a need to seek fresh approval from the respective state electricity regulators. This follows the government’s recent policy announcement that gives coal-fired power plants with regulated tariffs the flexibility to generate and blend electricity, a move aimed at curbing emissions.\n\nThe proposed blending policy, whenever it comes into effect, will ease the process for many project developers as it will eliminate the need for back-to-back power purchase agreement (PPA) signing with distribution companies (discoms). The discoms will not lose anything as they will continue to pay the same price as per the PPA contracts. In case we are able to procure renewable energy at a low cost, we can pass on the benefits to discoms.\n\nAnother important area that we are working on is to utilise our land bank. We will use this land bank for solar power development, because wind is anyway limited to specific sites. In this regard, we have already tied up with the Uttar Pradesh government for a land bank in Vellore. We are also working towards developing smaller capacities of about 20 MW wherever we have land available. Also, we would like to utilise the fly ash at our existing thermal plants, which will help us create more space for solar power plants.\n\nIn addition, there is a serious thinking on whether the time is right to look at merchant renewable power. I have been asking this question over the past two to three years from leading players in this sector, mainly EPC and project developers, but we have not seen any kind of initiatives in that direction. However, we are now seriously working in that direction, exploring the possibility that if we are able to buy renewable power, can we take that trading or merchant risk. Obviously, there will be some benchmark that will be set and it cannot be any market-determined price.\n\nIn the end, I think discoms will be looking at 24×7 power supply and we, as a generator, should be in a position to give them that 24×7 reliable power, which should be blended. It can be any combination of coal, gas, wind, solar or hydro-based power, because at the end of the day, once it reaches the grid, there is no differentiation as far as the power is concerned because it is of the same frequency.\n\nIn sum, NTPC will be playing its role to reduce its carbon footprint and we will be the major player in bringing down the overall carbon emissions per unit of generation in the country’s total power generation." ]

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[ "Start a Wiki\nWith The Dead are a four piece doom band from England formed on 31st October 2014. The band started out as a collaboration between well known doom musicians Mark Greening and Tim Bagshaw (both ex-Electric Wizard and Ramesses) as well as Lee Dorrian (Cathedral).[1] In January 2016, the lineup changed, with Greening replaced on drums by Alex Thomas (ex-Bolt Thrower) and Leo Smee (ex-Cathedral) being added on bass.[2]", null, "With the Dead began sometime after Mark Greening had been fired from Electric Wizard in 2014. Mark Greening presented to Lee Dorrian recordings with interest in forming a new band and releasing it on Rise Above Records, at one point Greening himself even intended to be the vocalist for this project.[3] Initially the intent was to make an EP but Dorrian declined in favor of it being an album. At some point during the sessions Tim Bagshaw had visited the United Kingdom to help with the recordings and Lee Dorrian was approached to join as vocalist to which he accepted. The recording sessions for the album would follow in March of 2015.[4]\n\nTim Bagshaw stated in an interview that the project was formed from \"knowing each other for many years\" and describing the initial forming with the following:\n\nLee Dorrian has expressed interest in doing a follow-up record and some live shows in the future along with some personal satisfaction with the band. In an interview with The Sludgelord he went on to state the following:\n\nWith the Dead's self-titled debut was released nearly a year after their formation on October 16, 2015 via Rise Above Records.\n\nOn January 23, 2016, Mark Greening announced via Facebook that he was no longer in \"With The Dead\", with the following statement:\n\nOn January 25, 2016, the official With The Dead Facebook page made the following statement in response:\n\nOn 28th January, the band uploaded changed the information and cover photo displayed on their Facebook account, confirming that Alex Thomas (ex-Bolt Thrower) would replace Greening on drums, with Leo Smee (ex-Cathedral) also joining the band on bass.[2]\n\nIn November of 2016, the band announced a second album was in the works, set for release in 2017. On 30 March 2017 the band released a new track entitled Vessel of Solitude for the 2017 May issue of the Decibel Magazine's Flexi Series though the song will not be on the forthcoming album.[9] On 13 July 2017 the band would announce a tracklist and album cover for their second studio album: Love from With The Dead. The album is set to be released on 22 September 2017.[10] The band has since announced a small handful of live performances in the UK, Finland and The United States in the summer of 2018. On 9 July 2018 it would be announced in an update from the crypt that Darren Verni (Unearthly Trance, Serpentine Path) would be taking over on the drums for the band's 2018 live performances.[11]\n\nIn August 2018, one of the members had suffered some health-related issues, forcing the band to cancel their appearance at Bloodstock Open Air. On 14 August 2018 it would be announced that due to unforseen circumstances that Bagshaw would not be playing with them at Psycho Las Vegas, rather Leo Smee handling guitar and bass duties with a special guest performing at the end of the set.\n\nOn February 1, 2016, With The Dead announced two shows in the UK. On 10th April they performed at The Deaf Institute in Manchester in what was first public performance (With the lineup of Dorrian, Bagshaw, Smee and Thomas). On 11th April the band will also performed at O2 Institute in Birmingham.[12]\n\nThe first confirmed live performances for With The Dead were at The 2016 edition of Roadburn Festival on Friday, April 15, 2016. This performance was selected by Curator Lee Dorrian.[13]\n\nAnother performance was announced at Hellfest in Clisson, France on Sunday, June 19, 2016.[14]\n\nRetrieved from \"https://riffipedia.fandom.com/wiki/With_The_Dead?oldid=13237\"\nCommunity content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted." ]

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[ "A racket went from a modest ponzi scheme to a worldwide campaign to scam investors in three years, allegedly.", null, "Yet another report of a crypto Ponzi scheme. On Tuesday, prosecutors charged three men with running a massive fraud involving cryptocurrency. The latest deviants to allegedly besmirch the cryptocurrency industry did so under the guise of a bitcoin mining investment group, known as BitClub.\n\nIn 2014, Matthew Brent Goettsche, Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks, and Silviu Catalin Balaci started BitClub—a multimillion-dollar crypto investment \"scheme.\" Not before long, they had allegedly convinced thousands into joining. Here's how they shafted their victims out of $722 million.\n\nA flawless facsimile of a pyramid scheme\n\nThe scheme played out as follows: BitClub would lobby its members/victims for money. In return, they promised to buy mining rigs to generate bitcoin, and then send a share of the mining profits back to investors. Oh, and there was an affiliate program because, of course, there was.\n\nCharming messages shared between the perpetrators of the scam revealed their intent. The scammers referred to their victims as \"sheep\" and remarked that they were “building this whole model on the backs of idiots.”\n\nThey started small and got greedy\n\nWhat the FBI described as \"little more than a modern, high-tech Ponzi scheme,\" quickly got out of hand.\n\nOriginally, the conspirators thought smaller, fabricating profit margins just enough that wouldn't raise suspicions. This subtlety soon turned into brazenness as Goettsche commanded his co-conspirator to “bump up the daily mining earnings starting today by 60%.” Initially, this was met with some resistance. A warning from Balaci advised that an increase of that magnitude \"wouldn't be sustainable.\" Nevertheless, this reluctance faded, and the men continued to allegedly defraud their investors.\n\nIn 2017 some three years later, Goettsche took things another step further, suggesting to “[d]rop mining earnings significantly starting now” so that they could “retire RAF!!! (rich as fuck).”\n\nThey even had a promotional campaign\n\nThis greed reached its climax when Weeks and Abel launched a global advertising campaign, creating videos and touting slogans describing the BitClub as “the most transparent company in the history of the world that I’ve ever seen,” and “too big to fail.”\n\nThe actual reach of the company is still undetermined, but \"global\" seems to fit the bill. BitClub communities on facebook still exist and boast members in their thousands.\n\nOne advert even managed to creep its way onto the website of Venture capital firm Ben Franklin. Purportedly the advert attempted to coax investors to buy $1000 shares in BitClub, with the promise of reaching a \"founder\" status.\n\nThe power of advertising clearly worked as all three conspirators managed to accrue the equivalent of around $722 million in total.\n\nThe FBI finally caught up to them\n\nSpecial agents and task force officers of the FBI’s Los Angeles Division were responsible for finding the men behind BitClub who have all been charged with conspiracy to offer and sell unregistered securities. Further, Goettsche and Weeks were struck with further charges by indictment with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.\n\nBut does this mean Bitcoin itself is a Ponzi scheme? Well, that debate is still raging." ]

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[ "Rest your head in one of these cool places", null, "(CNN) – Whether it’s for business or pleasure, travelers these days are savvier than ever about their hotel choices. They demand ultraluxe amenities, show-stopping design, Instagrammable views and unparalleled comfort. Circulation-boosting pillows, anyone?\n\nAnd that’s just for starters.\n\nLuckily, the newest batch of hotels and resorts have stepped up to the travelchallenge.\n\nFrom castaway-chic bungalows in the Caribbean and the Maldives to sleek hideaways in the hearts of Paris and Barcelona, we’ve handpicked 15 incredible new hotels where you’ll love your stay in 2019.\n\nThe property marks W Hotels’ long-anticipated return to Australia (the first W opened in Sydney a decade ago, only to be rebranded shortly after opening), with hotels in Melbourne and Sydney slated to open in 2020.\n\nThough it’s just 15 minutes’ drive from the airport in the Baha Mar resort complex, the Bahamas’ newest resort feels like its own private island hideaway.\n\nHong Kong-based Swire Hotels is fast becoming known for its hip, luxurious, design-focused boutique hotels such as celebrity favorite The Upper House, and its newest property is no exception.\n\nOpened in Shanghai in April 2018, The Middle House blends moody minimalism with classic Shanghainese design and bold statement pieces, such as the tiered, 3,760-piece glass chandelier hanging in the otherwise bare lobby.\n\nIts 213 rooms are similarly striking, with charcoal-colored bamboo floors and a clean modern design that allows the showstopping skyline views to take center stage.\n\nThe storied Cadogan Hotel — the former pied-à-terre of Oscar Wilde, who resided in Room 118 — will reopen in February 2019 as the Belmond Cadogan after a four-year, $48-million renovation.\n\nFirst opened in 1887, the historic hotel retains elements of its original Queen Anne design, such as its wood-paneled walls, stained-glass windows, mosaic floors and wood-burning fireplaces.\n\nHowever, rooms have been updated with contemporary art and furniture. And the hotel at large will see the addition of a tea lounge and fine dining restaurant helmed by award-winning chef Adam Handling.\n\nOpened in January 2018, this 50-room boutique hotel is as chic as it gets with its cheeky mix of Marie Antoinette glamour (think silk-draped four-poster beds and jewel-toned velvet settees) and Brooklyn hipster minimalism (whitewashed walls, handmade driftwood stools and tables).\n\nThough it sits in the buzzy 2nd arrondissement, close to all the major sights, its discreet location in an alley off the main drag makes it feel like an intimate hideaway.\n\nBut its main draw? Its price. You can book rooms for as low as $160 per night for the spring and summer — practically unheard of for a hotel of this luxury and caliber in the heart of Paris.\n\nVisionary hotelier Ian Schrager’s EDITION brand is fast becoming an empire, with three new properties in 2018 and two slated to open in 2019. Of the lot, the 100-room Barcelona EDITION, opened in September 2018, is the standout.\n\nFor starters, the hotel is a knockout, with swooping modern staircases and airy, high-ceilinged spaces, accented with eclectic art and pops of bright color.\n\nAnd then, of course, there are the endless diversions: the scenic rooftop pool, the speakeasy-inspired Punch Room bar, and its sultry basement supper club, Cabaret, which is a destination unto itself with its gastronomic tasting menu and live entertainment.\n\nThough the Fairmont is known best for its city hotels such as The Plaza and The Savoy, its first foray into the Maldives is impressive, to say the least.\n\nHotel highlights include an Ayurvedic spa, three restaurants and the resort’s pièce de résistance: an underwater art gallery, which guests can reach by snorkeling through an undersea pathway.\n\nOpened in February 2018, the COMO is the first five-star resort to open in the bohemian coastal village of Canggu.\n\nThe upscale resort features 119 sleek guest rooms, many of which open up to the resort’s curvy, 350-foot lagoon — though what you’re here for are the 12 penthouse suites with their swooping oceanic architecture and rooftop infinity pools.\n\nLike all COMO resorts, the crowning jewel is the legendary COMO Shambhala spa, which offers eight luxurious treatment rooms and a dizzying array of holistic Balinese therapies.\n\nKnown for eco-friendly luxury camps across Namibia and Botswana, conservation-focused safari company Natural Selection will open its first South African property in April 2019 — and it’s one to watch.\n\nRooms are earthy and cozy and outfitted with wood-burning stoves — not that you’ll spend much indoors. The camp sits within the game-filled De Hoop Nature Reserve and overlooks a marine-protected area where 1,116 whales were spotted in 2018.\n\nWith just 16 rooms, the Nobu Ryokan is one of the most exclusive new hotels in the world, which isn’t surprising, considering the property is the brainchild of celebrity chef Nobu Matsuhisa and Robert De Niro.\n\nModeled after a traditional Japanese ryokan, or inn, the rooms are almost monastically minimalist with their ipe wood floors and simple teak furnishings, yet are undeniably luxurious, perched literally on the sands of Malibu’s “Billionaire’s Beach.”\n\nAs if the luxury and privacy weren’t enough of a draw, beginning summer 2019, guests will also be able to swim in an ocean-facing pool mere steps from the Pacific Ocean.\n\nOpening in January 2019, Jumeirah’s newest property, nestled deep in the desert, is one of its most luxurious yet.\n\nModeled after an oasis, Jumeirah al Wathba is built around a 1,000-square-foot pool and filled with lush gardens and exquisite fountains, inspired by an oasis’ natural falaj, or water system.\n\nHotel highlights include 13 lavish villas with private plunge pools that open directly out onto the desert and a sumptuous Talise spa with two hammams, cryotherapy chambers and deep-soak hot tubs perfect for chilly desert evenings.\n\nThe InterContinental’s newest resort, opened in June 2018, is worth a visit for its stunning location alone: it sits on a pristine white sand beach on the lush island of Phu Quoc, a UNESCO-listed World Biosphere Reserve.\n\nThe resort itself — though not as extravagant as its infamous Bill Bensley-designed sister property in Da Nang — is sleek and incredibly luxurious, with oversized rooms and lots of breezy outdoor spaces that take advantage of the property’s perfect beachfront location.\n\nThe resort’s biggest highlight, however, is its spa. Designed by award-winning Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia, its open-air bamboo treatment suites appear to float peacefully atop a shimmering private lagoon.\n\nThough the Four Seasons will open six new hotels across the globe in 2019, the hotel group’s foray into California wine country is the one to watch.\n\nSlated to open in summer 2019, the farmhouse-inspired resort will feature 85 plush guest rooms and 20 residences — two- to four-bedroom properties ideal for longer-term stays — scattered amidst a six-acre vineyard.\n\nNot surprisingly, the resort will have its own on-site winery, helmed by award-winning winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown, where guests will be able to taste and even blend their own wines.\n\nNo effort or expense was spared by Hong Kong-based Wharf Hotels in turning the city’s iconic Murray Building, built in 1969, into the flagship hotel of its luxury Niccolo brand.\n\nA whopping US$1 billion was spent on creating The Murray and it shows. Everything from its energy-efficient recessed windows to its 336 guest rooms — the largest in the city — feels thoughtful and luxurious.\n\nBeds, for example, are dressed in 1,000-thread-count linens and there’s even a pillow menu with 16 kinds of pillows, including one with circulation-boosting magnets.\n\nEven if you’re not staying the night, the hotel offers many reasons to stop by, from the intimate art-filled lobby bar to the chic rooftop restaurant with its Instagrammable skyline views.\n\nOriginally opened as a simple tented camp in 2014 — the first of its kind in the Eastern Serengeti — Namiri Plains was completely rebuilt from the ground up and is slated to debut in summer 2019.\n\nEach suite will also boast a wooden sundeck outfitted with a deep-soaking outdoor tub for guests to enjoy, but be warned: This is big-cat territory, so don’t be surprised to find wild cheetah roaming casually in the distance as you bathe." ]

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[ "Populism: Politics for the poor", null, "Democracy is a form of government in which all decisions of a state are made directly or indirectly by the majority of its citizens, and populism is a way of politics that presents closeness to the people and instrumentalizes dissatisfaction, fears and current conflicts for their own needs. Although populism as a concept has existed for a whole century, therefore, it is nothing new, the boundary between politics and populism is still not precisely defined, ie. when politics becomes populism.\n\nPopulism can be authoritarian or democratic. Democratic populism usually criticizes political representation and all mechanisms that serve as a mediator between the leader and the people or the government, and the authoritarian one usually revolves around a charismatic leader who embodies the will of the people and in such a constellation political parties lose meaning and elections serve only to confirm the position of a leader. Some forms of authoritarian populism use nationalism, racism, conspiracy theories or targeting marginalized groups to consolidate the leader’s power, divert public attention from his failures, or to hide the nature of his leadership or the real causes of economic or social problems.\n\nSome authors state that populism has two sides – the first is based on socio-economic reasons, and the second on identity, usually ethnic or national. However, just as politics is a general term that encompasses both left and right orientation, there is both left and right populism. The argument for this claim is simple – the recipe for both populisms is the same: the target group is mostly poor and uneducated, inflammatory rhetoric aimed at the emotion of the electorate and the eternal division into “us” and them”. “We” are the electorate, and “they” are, depending on the orientation of populism and the political system where it occurs, a rich or ruling elite, other ethnic groups or other nations. We should not ignore the fact that populism often combines elements of left and right, and from that we can conclude that populism does not have an orientation or ideology, it is only adapted to the end user – populists tell their followers what they want to hear.\n\nIf you want to know what populism looks like in practice, it is enough to look at the political rallies of Donald Trump, who is a wonderful example of populism. Then there is the Brexit campaign which was full of lies, manipulations and conspiracy theories, which eventually pushed the UK out of the European Union. What do these two phenomena have in common? Apart from the similar hair of both leaders (Trump and Johnson) which is associated with haystacks in vivid shades, their voters did not care at all that the “alternative facts” for which they voted were quite ordinary lies and they would do it all over again. Proof of that is the number of votes in favour of Trump after the last presidential elections in the USA – he received 10 million votes more than in 2016, despite all unfulfilled promises.\n\nWhy is populism bad? There are several answers to this question. The first is certainly the hatred it breeds – hatred towards immigrants, towards a different skin color, towards different names. And the other is a little more perfidious. We need to be aware that all successful political systems that relied on populism, almost without exception, have resulted in autocracy, and some in wars on a global scale, as was the case with World War II." ]

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[ null, "NEO, like Ethereum, is a complex ecosystem and is far more flexible than Bitcoin. While Ethereum and NEO share some similarities, such as the ability to execute smart contracts and unique programming languages, NEO is aiming to create what it refers to as a complete “Smart Economy”.\n\nEthereum is attempting to develop an ecosystem that fosters entrepreneurship, facilitates the creation of distributed apps, and promotes innovation. In addition to delivering these benefits, NEO incorporates digital identity creation and the ability to digitize assets.\n\nThe digital identity verification features delivered by NEO make it a direct competitor to Ethereum, and place it in a strong position to dominate the playing field in 2018. Regulatory bodies around the world are now scrambling to keep up with the rapidly-shifting blockchain economy, and are placing a significant amount of pressure on blockchain platforms to remain compliant.\n\nThe NEO blockchain makes it possible to create verifiable digitized assets that can be traded and circulated by both individuals and businesses represented by regulatory-compliant, internationally accepted digital identity information standards\n\nThe founders of NEO, Da HongFei and Erik Zhang, have established a platform called Onchain that integrates NEO into a business-focused system called DNA. This platform is currently working toward integration with Chinese businesses and government— if successful, this integration could lead NEO to dominate the significant Eastern blockchain ecosystem.\n\nA major advantage NEO holds over both Bitcoin and Ethereum is the method it uses to gain consensus— or the method through which network participants agree upon the state of the distributed ledger. Both ETH and BTC use “Proof of Work” as a consensus method, which is exceptionally power-hungry and is a major contributor to the scalability problem.\n\nNEO, however, uses a consensus method called “Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance”, or dBFT, which is a relatively complex democratic method of network maintenance that offers a distinct advantage— extremely high transaction speeds. NEO’s current theoretical maximum transaction per second speed is a massive 10,000 tps, but in practicality maintains roughly 1,000 tps— a number that leaves Bitcoin and Ethereum choking on dust.\n\nBy competing directly with Ethereum as a distributed app platform, the success of NEO will be determined by the Dapps that are built upon it. Red Pulse is one of NEO’s most interesting applications, and intends to incentivise research into Chinese markets with eponymous Red Pulse Tokens. The project has captured the attention of financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, all of whom are already using the platform.\n\nWhile NEO may be seen as the antithesis of the libertarian concept of a truly anonymous decentralized crypto currency, it represents blockchain technology employed in a transparent and verifiable manner— which appeals to regulatory bodies that are wary of decentralization, such as the Chinese government.\n\nIf NEO is successful in its efforts to integrate with and conforms to Chinese regulatory compliance requirements then it’s likely that the ICO ecosystem will shift from the ERC20 standard to NEO’s ICO platform, as the Chinese government is currently cracking down heavily on initial coin offerings.\n\nShould NEO become China’s de facto blockchain of choice, NEO could be 2018’s ascendant crypto. And that could mean a race for second place between Bitcoin and Ethereum." ]

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[ "AMD recently announced Ryzen Embedded V3000, an energy-efficient processor series for datacenter appliances. The chip manufacturer wants to get an edge on Intel and other competitors.\n\nThe Ryzen Embedded V3000 processor series features more cores and memory to deliver better performance than the previous V1000 and V2000 series. The embedded processors are based on the Zen 3 architecture. According to AMD, the processors are especially suitable for storage and networking appliances in datacenters, but can also be built into industrial and edge devices.\n\nThe Ryzen Embedded V3000 processor series initially comes in five flavours with four, six or eight cores. The processors’ power efficiency differs from previous Ryzen Embedded Cores series, AMD indicated. The ‘thermal design power’ of the V3000 series ranges from 10 watts to 54 watts. The processors are attached directly to motherboards instead of sockets.\n\nWith the arrival of the Ryzen Embedded V3000 series, AMD seems to be stepping up its competition with Intel, the leading manufacturer of embedded processors. Intel’s Xeon D and industrial Core series feature popular models. Time will tell if AMD manages to knock Intel off its throne.", null, null ]

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[ "What happens when you pit a remote controlled Subaru WRX STI against a stick bomb?", null, "“What happens when you pit a remote controlled Subaru WRX STI against a stick bomb?” sounds like a simple enough question. However, due mainly to living in a bubble I had no idea what a “stick bomb” was. So I did some really thorough research for real.\n\n‘A stick bomb is a (mechanical) spring-loaded device constructed out of flat sticks woven together under tension. Other names for stick bombs include Chinese stick puzzles, xyloexplosives and frame bombs.’ – Wikipedia\n\nEven after I had digested that knowledge I still didn’t know the answer. Wikipedia is useless at answering the important questions of our day…" ]

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[ null, "For her graduation film Pineapple Calamari she got the Award for the 3-month scholarship to live and work at Q21/MQ under the Artist-in-Residence-Program at Tricky Women 2015.\n\n“During my stay in Vienna I would like to focus on creating a trailer for Tricky Woman 2017, creating an animatic, working on animation tests and designing a look for the short film I’m currently working at ( Sacculina carcini - working title) and on making a self-contained short animation.” (Kasia Nalewajka)" ]

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[ null, "Going back to May of 2012 we have the release of Mark Millars’ the Ultimate Comics Avengers Omnibus. This collected edition is noteworthy as it is the final compilation of the last time Mark Millar would write for the Ultimates Comics universe.\n\nThroughout all of the issues and story arcs you will find two overarching themes. Nick Fury’s desire for his job back as the head of SHIELD, and his amoral tactics to make that happen.\n\nIn this omnibus you will see a Nick Fury who will go to great lengths in his attempts to dethrone Carol Danvers as the head of SHIELD. Unfortunately, Carol Danvers in this Ultimates Comics collection is not as omnipotent as the Carol Danvers from the recent Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movies.\n\nNext Generation, the first story arc in the Ultimate Comics Avengers Omnibus is arguably the best. The issues in this miniseries and the entire omnibus involve the Ultimates Comics Marvel Universe Earth-1610.\n\nAs a result Red Skull has a very interesting backstory compared to the mainstream Marvel Universe Earth-616 version of Red Skull that we are all familiar with.\n\nWith this Red Skull backstory you will find out the “ties that bind” him to Captain America. The realization of Red Skull’s connections with Cap, is what drives Captain America to go rogue. This event ties-in directly with a begrudgingly subordinate Nick Fury to Carol Danvers forming a black-ops avengers team.\n\nThe new black-ops team operating in the shadows is tasked with doing the dirty work the primary Ultimate Avengers are not able to do.\n\nAdditionally, you can’t have a good Red Skull series without the fabled Cosmic Cube which also plays a part in this story arc. Finally you will be introduced to Nerd Hulk, with his “limited” backstory, along with Spider Man, and Tony Stark’s twin brother Gregory Stark.\n\nGregory Stark will play a role throughout the whole of the Ultimate Comics Avengers Omnibus where his amorality will be on full display in contrast with Tony Stark. There are some funny momnets as the two brothers constantly compete to one-up each other.\n\nThe Crime and Punishment issues deal with the recruitment of two of the black-ops primary team members, Punisher and Cash. The Punisher is recruited to lead the Ultimate Comics Avengers, while a Mr. T from the A-Team inspired character named Tyrone Cash, is recruited as Hulk level brute with brains.\n\nThis story arc also sees the Ultimate Avengers black-ops team get involved in a conflict between the Ghost Rider and the highest levels of the government. You will see that Mark Millar demonstrates his ability to poke fun at politics and conspiracy theories during this over-the-top run.\n\nBlade versus Avengers starts out bad but becomes funner near the end. Given that Blade is involved automatically implies a vampire story. This story arc introduces the Dare Devil character and his teacher who also has connections to Blade.\n\nMark Millar was definitely letting his creativity run wild during this series as the black-ops Ultimate Avengers face off against an army of vampires. While fighting a vampire clan led by a vampire wearing Iron Man’s prototype armor, Captain America and Nerd Hulk who previously had a falling out get bitten. As a result they both end up getting the vampire virus setting off an unfortunate chain of events.\n\nThe remaining Avengers from the black-ops team as well as some of the first string public Avengers will have to contend with a vampire army descending upon New York. Through this battle the resilience of Captain America will put to the ultimate test.\n\nThe fallout from this story arc will be felt to the very end of the Ultimate Comics Avengers Omnibus.\n\nThis story arc is the culmination of the previous three. Here you will see the black-ops Ultimate Avengers led by Nick Fury face-off against the public New Ultimates led by Carol Danvers.\n\nAs the final story arc, the heroes will find themselves embroiled in a large scale battle due to betrayal and many plot twists such as the death of Spider-Man.\n\nOverall this omnibus collection has an expendables feel that is fun to read. Compared to other omnibus collections, this is a very quick read due to the sparse dialog. You can read the entire omnibus in 2-3 hours.\n\nIf you are interested in an over-the-top read of a second string Avengers team with brief appearances of the primary characters, then this omnibus will be great for your collection.\n\nThe four story arc’s comprising the Ultimate Comics Avengers Omnibus are evident that Mark Millar closed this chapter of the Ultimates Comics universe while having fun and establishing the foundation for Jonathan Hickman who ended up taking over the series." ]

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[ "Don't Show Everyone That Peyton Manning is a Classy Guy", null, "The owner is not acting to protect the celebrity, per se. The owner is acting to ensure that no one will see how cheap many celebrities actually are.\n\nIn this Deadspin era of using each and every piece of dirt on an athlete as a blog post that will drive traffic, here you have a misguided attempt to tell people that Peyton Manning is a classy guy. But it does come fraught with peril to do so.\n\nOne, it violates Manning's privacy. Yes, he still has one.\n\nTwo, it exposes the restaurant to charges of not being able to protect the privacy of the patrons who come there, be they somebodys or nobodys.\n\nThree, it puts Manning in a bind. What if he doesn't want to tip everyone $200? What if this idea takes hold that every interaction with him will require Manning to cough up $200 for every hangdog server, waiter, bartender, valet and busboy? That's a tough thing because, sometimes, you want to reward good service. Sometimes, you don't." ]

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[ "Bitcoin and Ethereum crashed by 12% and 20% respectively in about 6 minutes as more than $1 billion of positions were liquidated.\n\nAbout $1.1 billion worth of futures positions of more than 70,000 traders were liquidated across all exchanges, according to market data site Bybt. Nearly $400 million was liquidated on each OKEx and Huobi; followed by BitMEX ($164M) and Binance ($86M).", null, "The largest single liquidation order worth $10 million happened on BitMEX's Bitcoin perpetual swap. Most of the liquidations, about $647 million, came from Bitcoin's futures, followed by Ethereum with $165 million of liquidations.", null ]

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[ null, "During the night of 31st January and 1st February 2017, Northern Lights were visible all night – despite a few thin clouds – above large parts of Northern Finland and Scandinavia. My photos from that night were published today in Finland's largest newpaper \"Helsingin sanomat\" in print as well as online: \"Revontulet sykkivät mystisesti\". The article tells about the current research collaboration between Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory and a few Japanese research institutes to study so-called \"pulsating aurora\", which refers to flickering patches of aurora.\n\nRecently, I built a small camera system, which is able to take photos continuously for a long time. During said night, the camera was pointing almost straight up resulting in a short time-lapse film of about one minute duration. The film is composed of images taken over 9 hours at a rate of four photos per minute, and it is linked from the article mentioned above. In the video you can see several distinct shapes of pulsating aurora drifting through the image and flickering at the same time.\n\nThe camera was pointing in a direction of 75° elevation above the southern horizon to capture the auroral corona. The corona can be observed when the northern lights are almost directly overhead and one can thus look into the auroral arc or curtain. From this point of view it looks as if all rays of the aurora come from the same point in space. In reality, however, the rays are parallel, and the corona is a result of perspective. The same effect makes a long, straight road appear to become narrower in the distance, which of course it not the case.", null, "The photo above, taken by Eric Donovan of University of Calgary, Canada, with a fish-eye lens, illustrates the perspective effect of the corona. The trees seem to grow towards a single point in the sky, but they are parallel in reality. Thanks to Eric for allowing me to use his photo!\n\nYou can find some more films of the Northern Lights of that night on the blog of the Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory (SGO). There's the film from the scientific all-sky camera, a two-camera composition by our friends from Site-Eye Ltd, UK, as well as an impressive fish-eye footage by SGO's Esa Turunen of early-morning pulsating aurora. Have a look!\n\nPosted by Thomas Ulich at 11:00 No comments:" ]

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[ "\nNaomi Watts place on a elegant show in towering heels and a chequered Fendi ensemble as at New York Trend Week on Friday.\n\nThe Mulholland Travel star, 53, stunned in a grey pencil skirt with a structured roll neck leading which she paired with black velvet gloves and large golden jewellery.\n\nHer pixie slash was down and was stylishly coiffed into a straight bob although she added a statement purple lipstick with an otherwise lower-key makeup glance.", null, "Perfecting geek chic, the English-born Australian added a pair of oversized glasses even though accessorising with a compact white leather handbag.\n\nBoosting her peak, she opted for towering black heels as she posed up a storm inside the A-record party.\n\nThe blonde’s latest beau, stage and display screen actor Billy Crudup, was not present for the duration of the outing.\n\nHaving said that, she was not by itself, as she was noticed sitting down entrance row with Kim Kardashian, LaLa Anthony, and Sarah Jessica Parker.", null, "The Mulholland Generate star, 53, shocked in a grey pencil skirt with a structured roll neck prime which she paired with black velvet gloves and weighty golden jewellery\n\nThe actress and Liev, 54, were being collectively for 11 many years right up until their break up in 2016, but in no way married.\n\nNaomi is now in the course of action of increasing her abilities into enterprise.", null, "She announced to enthusiasts in June she is now operating on her personal splendor and wellness line which will ‘address the pores and skin and human body alterations of menopause’.\n\nShe reported that she needs to conquer the stigma close to menopause, indicating it’s a section of lifetime that ought to be far better represented in the mass media.\n\nShe famous in an Instagram article how several women of all ages knowledge emotions of disgrace as they age past the place wherever they can have little ones.", null, "Perfecting geek chic, the English-born Australian extra a pair of outsized eyeglasses though accessorising with a little white leather purse", null, null, null, null, "How To Maintain Physical Fitness? 3 Ways To Stay Active At Home!", null, null, "Glutathione Can Ease the Effects of Social Isolation" ]

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[ null, "Our three … Well, this is really my three favorite full feature flashes. Really, I only have kind of two favorites. I threw the Nikon in there just for, I don’t know, giggles. Listen, I want you all to know right now that my butt is exceedingly in pain because I’ve been sitting on this crazy uncomfortable stool for like eight hours recording this. Hopefully you appreciate this workshop. If you do, write to me and say, “Pye, it was well worth your butt.”\n\nMy three favorite full feature flashes, starting out number one. The whole reason why number one, the Phottix Mitros +. This guy right here. It’s $400.00 and the reason that this is my favorite full feature flash is because you can get it for both Canon and Nikon systems. As other systems become more popular, I’m sure they’re going to develop and create a functionality for those as well so you can get it for other systems too.\n\nIt’s inexpensive, compared to the other options. This option is $500.00, this option is close to $550.00 and it doesn’t even has as many features. It’s less expensive but also it includes a built in radio so not only can … Most flashes, like let’s say the Canon … Or I’m sorry, let’s say the Nikon SB-910. It can control off camera flashes so long as they’re within sight basically, so long as it has infrared capability and has that infrared visibility.\n\nWith radio triggering though, like say via a pocket wizard, you can go out of sight, you can 100 feet away, 200 feet away. Whereas with infrared you’re limited to say inside of a studio, 10-15 feet, and you have to have line of sight. Now, flashes like the Mitros + have a radio built in and the other great thing is that this has a radio controller built in as well. From the back of the flash I can control up to three other off camera flashes.\n\nIn addition to all of other full features that this has, I have fantastic flexibility between Nikon and Canon systems, I have a cheaper price, and it works very, very nicely. That makes this my favorite full featured just flash in general. Especially talking about third party flashes.\n\nNow, let’s move to my second favorite, which I would say to be honest, and let’s take this mag mod off. People are going to think that the mag mod actually comes with the 600RT and it doesn’t. It doesn’t, it’s a separate modifier, guys. This is what it looks like without it. The 600EX RT, I love this flash. To be honest, if money weren’t really a factor, I would probably say that this is …\n\nWell, if money weren’t a factor and if you’re shooting on Canon, I’d say that this is my favorite flash system because it has the same built-in radio trigger but … Well, it’s not the same radio trigger but it has its own radio triggering system, it has its own control system, and everything on the UI is just a little bit more refined. The entire flash is just a little bit more refined but with that comes an additional $100.00 price tag.\n\nNow, I’ve thrown in here the Nikon SB-910. If we were talking about this subject two years ago, before the 600EX RT came out, I would have put the Nikon SB-910 far ahead of anything that Canon had. Nikon has been really at the forefront of developing advance flash systems for a long time and as a Canon user, I’ve always been jealous of that. Nikon flashes kind of make the Canon systems look more like expensive toys than anything else.\n\nThe problem is that this hasn’t been updated for quite a while and with the 600EX RT that’s come out, we now have built in radio triggering and radio control. The SB-910 has not been updated in a long time, it doesn’t have those features. It only has infrared capability. Yes, I can control off camera flashes with infrared but there is no radio triggering system.\n\nWhile the other features are fantastic, given that it doesn’t have this ability, it kind of has too high of a price tag. It’s a fantastic full feature flash, don’t get me wrong. It works incredibly well and it’s more advanced than say Canon’s 580EX II but it’s $550.00, and the 600EX RT is $500.00, and the Phottix Mitros +, which again will work on both systems, you can get different flashes that are compatible with each, is only $400.00 and it has a radio trigger and radio system built in.\n\nThat’s why while I put this on this list, I kind of hesitate in recommending it. It’s still a fantastic flash but if you are shooting Nikon, I would highly recommend at least for right now, either go with the Mitros + system or just wait until Nikon updates the SB-910 but don’t go overloading on SB-910s because it’s been a while since they’ve been updated.\n\nWe’re waiting for Nikon to put out their own radio triggering system. I have full confidence that when they do, it’s going to be probably the best thing on the market because Nikon cameras, flashes are absolutely fantastic. I have nothing bad to say about them, so can’t wait for that. For right now, stick to these two" ]

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[ null, null, "I tried to make this as easy as possible for you. Because I know that although I really like to spend all day in the kitchen, you probably don’t. The first run-through I tried a blender because it’s how I make crepes. I was hoping the blade would blend the egg whites enough to be fluffy. It doesn’t, don’t try it. But the blender batter rose really well and the pancakes were beautiful, but they were tough. You don’t need that.\n\nThen I wondered if I really need to make you whip the egg whites. How necessary is it in this recipe? SO I just mixed all the ingredients in a bowl and hoped it would be fine. And they were. The were just…fine. Better than the blender method but not as good as they could be. You don’t need that either.", null, "On round three, I made them with meringue whites and they were by far the best version. I know you might be looking at this recipe thinking, \"but do I really NEED to whip the egg whites? Like, how much does it matter?\" a lot. A. Lot. Trust me, I’m as lazy as the next guy and I wouldn’t ask you to do it if it didn’t matter. Who needs more work and more dishes? Only a person who wants really good pancakes.\n\nI even tested ring-mold-alternatives because I wasn’t sure if you owned a ring mold. Most people don’t, honestly. And I have some options for you. Biscuit cutters will work, and so will all-metal cookie cutters. The only one I had was in the shape of a gingerbread man, and it was unseasonably adorable. A mason jar lid will work, but it’s not ideal, you will have short pancakes. But you will have pancakes, and as they say, short pancakes are better than no pancakes. They say that, I swear.", null, null, "*If you don’t have a ring mold, try a biscuit cutter, a metal cookie cutter, or even a mason jar lid. A mason jar lid is short and the pancakes won’t be as tall but it can work if you have nothing else to use. These need to be cooked slow and low or the bottom will burn before they are cooked through.\nshare tweet mail", null, null, null, "I have used a cleaned out tuna fish can (both ends removed) as a ring mold to make English muffins. Should work here as well.\n\nI’ve heard rumor of this, but never done it. I went to the store and looked at tuna cans to see if I could make it happen. All the brands I found have a rounded bottom so I wouldn’t be able to remove it with a standard can opener. Do you have any advice on how to remove the bottom of the can with a standard opener? or a brand that has a bottom that’s easy to remove?\n\nThis I have to try! Thanks!\n\nWhat about removing the label from a crowler, cutting it in half with metal snips (an Exacto knife would do the trick, too, but more dangerous), then snipping off the top and bottom? You can then cut slits around the perimeter of the top and bottom and fold a small amount of the aluminum down all around to remove the sharp edges.\n\nAlso, how do these taste? What does pale ale add to the flavor?\n\nDid you use honey? or it’s use only for photography or decoration.\n\nThis was absolutely amazing!!\n\nThis recipe looks juicy and yummy." ]

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[ "The recent bitcoin price correction has shaken the confidence of retail investors. However, it’s not enough to deter MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor’s optimism. During his recent interview with Yahoo Finance, Saylor said that they are for the long haul and holding their Bitcoins tight.\n\n“There is no target price. I hope we will be buying bitcoins at the local top forever. And I hope Bitcoin hits the millions. So we are very patient. We believe it is the future of money”.\n\nHe added that Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market in general have fallen victim to monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve. As a result, investors have been selling riskier assets. In addition to seeing Bitcoin as the future of money, Saylor also sees Bitcoin as the future of payments. This is contrary to what he recently said FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.\n\nSaylor is confident that the Lightning Network will help Bitcoin increase its transaction capacity. He added:\n\nNo change in plans for Bitcoin\n\nMicroStrategy already has a large number of Bitcoins in its balance and has not sold a single BTC during the market crash. Even as Bitcoin has corrected more than 50 percent from its all-time high, the company plans to continue holding them for the long term.\n\nMicroStrategy has up to 129,218 bitcoins worth a staggering $2.9 billion at the end of March. As of May 2, the company’s BTC holdings have an average price of $30,700. Andrew Kang, who was recently named CFO of Microstrategy this month, said:\n\n“At this time, we have no intention of selling. There are no scenarios that I know of where we would sell. MicroStrategy has not faced shareholder pressure to sell any of its bitcoin holdings. Our investors are very aligned with our strategy.\n\nSome of the most recent volatility was certainly due to some activity outside of bitcoin. For us, we monitor that from a market perspective, but [no hay] nothing fundamental in bitcoin that we think presents any problem against our strategy”.\n\nMicrostrategy CEO Michael Saylor also spoke about the recent collapse of the TerraUSD ecosystem. He hopes that regulators will speed up the process of bringing crypto regulations to market. This will be good for both the industry and Bitcoin, says Saylor.\n\n“That will be good for the industry. Over time, I think as people become more educated and comfortable, I think we’ll recover from this drawdown.\n\nOnce people figure out why Bitcoin is superior to everything else, institutions will come in with huge sums of money and we won’t have to wrestle with this massive explanation of why we’re different than 19,000 other tokens,” he said.\n\nSun May 22 , 2022\nGreat demand for new battery technology Published: 17 May 2022, 09:00 Updated: 20 May 2022, 09:37Jungheinrich sees increased demands on intralogistics with more focus on sustainability, combined with efficiency and profitability. More and more companies are choosing trucks with lithium-ion batteries as part of the company’s sustainability work. – Most […]", null ]

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[ null, "Vodafone has just hit a major milestone, as the network has switched on a 5G site in Salford, Greater Manchester, which it claims is the first in the UK to carry full 5G over a commercial network.\n\nThe distinction comes in the word ‘full’, as other trials have either incorporated parts of a 4G network or been used in a single location, making them more of a lab test. Though note that this still won’t be final hardware and certainly can’t be seen as a test of 5G on consumer devices, given that 5G phones aren’t even available yet.\n\nVodafone is also set to open the trial up to other companies through its ‘Future Ready’ innovation centre, which is opening in spring 2019 and will allow for the use and testing of 5G wireless routers, gigabit-capable optical-fibre links, and various Internet of Things (IoT) services.\n\nThe first of many\n\nThis Salford trial is just the beginning though, as Vodafone also plans to launch full 5G trial networks in six other cities soon, namely Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool and London, followed in 2019 by the Scottish Highlands, Cornwall, the Lake District and other locations.\n\nThis development follows other milestones from Vodafone, such as recently completing the UK’s first live holographic call over 5G.\n\nHowever, it’s not just Vodafone that’s achieving 5G milestones, as other networks are also pushing ahead with trials of the technology. For example, EE recently launched the UK’s first live 5G trial in Canary Wharf and achieved speeds of 1.3Gbps on the trial network. The difference between this and Vodafone’s 5G first is presumably that EE’s wasn’t ‘full’ 5G by Vodafone’s definition.\n\nVodafone UK has recently said that it plans to launch 5G in mid 2019." ]

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[ null, "Thanks to Colin Nicholson’s article, ‘Next Stop: Venice’ in the Sunday Telegraph’s Discover section, I was transported back two summers to our fabulous holiday in Lake Garda, Italy.", null, "The article was about the gondola regatta which takes place on Saturday evenings around the lake during the summer months. We noticed when we were staying in Bardolino, on the eastern side of the lake, that ‘bisse racing’ was going to take place but had no idea what it was. That evening, sitting outside at a lakeside restaurant, the air gently cooling as the sun dipped a little, we could hear music, drums and a general heightened excitement before we saw the teams walking past us, accompanied by flag-bearers dressed in traditional garb.", null, "Following them down to the lakeshore, with all the other tourists and locals, it took some time before the racing began as they had to punt/row/gondle? into position. As you can see from this photo on the right, it was quite a breathtaking sight with the setting sun casting a pink glow across the water and the mountains. It was quite dark when the race actually began but the thrill was still palpable, though as tourists we had no knowledge of how long the race was, how many circuits they had to do and, in fact, were not completely sure who had won each heat. Random clapping and cheering ensued.\nThe telegraph article explains why gondoliers row standing up. Apparently in Venice in the 13th century, the gondoliers needed the extra height to see over the mist and although today’s competitors use both hands, they would have traditionally rowed one-handed because they were holding a fishing rod in the other. I’m wondering whether that reason would fit with punting in Cambridge. From my time there, I can vouch for misty mornings but, as punting requires two hands, probably not much fish to be had." ]

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[ "Kasbah on cusp of tin riches at world-class Achmmach\n\nBetter known, perhaps, as head of Wolf Minerals, where he spearheaded the development of Britain’s first major tungsten and tin mine, bringing it into commercial production in 2015, Russell Clark is today CEO of another ASX-listed company, Kasbah Resources, which owns the world class Achmmach tin project in Morocco.", null, null, "Kasbah published a compelling DFS on Achmmach in July this year\n\nWith characteristic determination, he is working to advance the Achmmach project into a major underground tin mining operation, near Meknes in the north of the country. The mine could eventually export about 1.5% of global tin production, said Clark. By any measure, this is an important project, and one he is eager to sink his teeth into.\n\nHe was appointed in 2017 as part of a management reboot. The firm had been through a sticky period, with previous management thwarted by a weak tin price, and losing market confidence after failing to deliver on a number of fronts. Clark was attracted by the challenge of a turnaround story. Besides, after Wolf, he had no desire to end up managing a small show in Western Australia.\n\n\"Frankly, Morocco is so much more interesting. It's safe, has great infrastructure and the people are fabulous.\" said Clark.\n\nThe state of play is this: the mine is fully-permitted, a compelling definitive feasibility study (DFS) was published in July and now Clark is onto the next stage - getting funding to bankroll a project estimated to cost just shy of US$100 million.\n\nHe reckons the funding package will be wrapped up by the end of the year, with backers providing around 60% to 70% of the cost via debt finance and the rest coming via an equity raise, probably in early 2019.\n\nThere is a big Japanese angle to the Kasbah story - providing a sort of X factor that doesn't seem to have been factored in by the market - at least, not yet.\n\nKasbah owns 75% of the Achmmach project, but the remainder is spoken for by two Japanese joint venture partners, Toyota Tsusho (20%) and Nittetsu Mining (5%). When project equity is required in 2019, the Japanese will have to provide 25% of it, relieving the burden on other shareholders. And critically, because Japan has hardly any mineral endowment, Japanese government agencies are working with the Joint Venture to provide attractive debt financing to help underwrite the project.\n\nThat could make all the difference to the returns on offer at Achmmach. July's DFS cited an ungeared post-tax internal rate of return (IRR) of 23% (assuming the tin price is at around $21,000 per tonne) and using an 8% real discount rate.\n\nBut with an attractive Japanese ECA backed debt package there is scope for significant gearing leverage which could result in the IRR being in excess 35%. At that point, said Clark, \"things become very interesting and positive for the project indeed\".\n\nHe is targeting two other possible sources of finance. The first is an offtake agreement and Clark is talking to a number of parties about that and secondly, he hasn't ruled out the possibility of bringing in another strategic partner and is discussing options with a number of interested groups.\n\nThe upshot is that while not concluded yet, there are multiple viable project funding options for Kasbah to consider, and the company is confident of finalising arrangements and then breaking ground on project construction.\n\nClark is bullish about tin, which has traded at $22,000/t during 2018, but has fallen back to just under $19,000 as trade wars have hit base metal prices around the world. But the omens look good. Myanmar, which seemingly came from nowhere five years ago to become a significant tin producer, is slowly fading \"as much of the easy alluvial material has been mined\". Chinese production is falling as environmental controls continue to be enforced and Peruvian production is reducing as tin grades fall at operations there.\n\nThe International Tin Association (ITA) is forecasting a tin deficit for the next few years as demand exceeds supply, and it could continue without meaningful new supply. According to Clark, there is little visibility on new production, with current tin project development occurring in risky jurisdictions such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.\n\nThe biggest use of tin is in lead-free solder (50%). The regulatory requirement to reduce lead and increase the tin content in solder (from 60% up to 96%) has increased demand for tin in recent years. China is the largest consumer with a 45% market share.\n\nAdditionally, there is growing demand for tin in electric vehicles, computers, advanced robotics and renewable energy. ITA has suggested that EVs will require 5 times more tin than in traditional vehicles. With the EV market expected to grow exponentially, so will the demand for tin. Massachusetts Institute of Technology has identified tin as one of the key metals of the future, required to interconnect the various electric and electronic aspects of the future, digital world.\n\nWith demand expected to move up by 1%-2% per annum, the World Bank estimates tin prices to average $20,356/t over the next 10 years in real terms. Clark said: \"Toyota uses about 5,000t of tin a year in its car manufacturing with the mineral found in conventional lead-acid batteries, but also in semiconductors, and chemicals used for glass.\"", null, "Is Clark worried about the recent tin sell-off? In other words, could Achmmach become uneconomic to develop?\n\nHe said: \"The price of tin has fallen less than many of the other base metals in percentage terms. If you're asking me could the price go down further, yes it could. Is it likely to do that? I don't think so. Macquarie is looking at a price of $23,000 in 2022, which tends to support the ITA forecasts. The ITA says production is going down, stockpiles are going down, demand is going up, and there is a tin deficit.\"\n\n\"If the price falls further in the near term, it could affect the funding options - of course! However, it is important to note that we are not looking to produce today, in today's tin price environment, and all of the forecasts suggest the price will go up. When I look at extra production coming on, I can see maybe 35,000t by 2022, but the world needs 60,000t or 65,000t by then. I can see the deficit carrying on for longer than the ITA thinks.\"\n\nThe project is located within the rolling hills of the north-eastern part of the central plateau of the Atlas Mountains. The altitude is 1,085m above sea level. Clark likes Morocco: \"Power and water are plentiful, the country has well-developed national infrastructure, including rail, road, sea ports and airports. Access from the capital Rabat to the project is just150 km east along the A2 expressway to Meknès.\"\n\nThe DFS heralded the use of improved new technologies that would cut operating and capital costs. For instance, high-pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) negate the need for a third crusher, and also the need for a large rod mill - a huge draw for power. \"Secondly, we are making use of a high-performance ore-sorting machine which means you end up with 30% less tailings and the back end of the plant is smaller by the same percentage; that also has a positive impact on water and power costs.\"\n\nAbout A$95 million has been spent on the project to date and 120km of drilling undertaken. \"Achmmach is one of the most advanced tin projects with global significance,\" said Clark.", null, "Extensive drilling has been completed by Kasbah at Achmmach\n\n\"Current reserves will last 10 years, mining at a rate of 750,000 tonnes of ore per annum. However, the resource is open at depth and along strike, and additional drilling has the potential to extend the mine life significantly,\" he said.\n\nEvery additional US$1,000 in the tin price increases the project's NPV and ungeared returns by about US$20 million and 3% respectively, according to the DFS- highlighting the shareholder upside the anticipated increase in tin price over the next few years would deliver for the project and Kasbah. The capital cost was put at US$96.4m with payback in four years.\n\n\"We've de-risked this project an awful lot. At the end of the day, though, the tin price is critical. Ultimately, it's metal prices that make projects work. But if you are asking whether I am confident that prices are on the up, the answer is a resounding yes. This mine is ready to go and our expectation is for first production in the second six months of 2020\" said Clark.", null ]

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[ null, "If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past twenty years, then you have certainly heard of Metal Slug. From its pixelated graphics to the intense action platforming, Metal Slug marked one of my prime eras in gaming. While we don’t quite have a new Metal Slug instalment just yet, we do have the new Mercenary Kings Reloaded for the Nintendo Switch. The retro throwback managed to give me the feeling of fully rejoicing in gaming’s golden era while adding just the right amount of newness to make for a wholly engaging experience.\n\nIn Mercenary Kings Reloaded you fight an evil group called CLAW who are armed to the teeth and proud of the dictatorship they’ve established on an island. While the narrative itself can feel cliché at times, it develops as your progress through the campaign, introducing new maps and enemies that all give the player a thrilling reason to keep charging through on this roughly 15-hour journey.\n\nAs mentioned in the beginning of this review, Mercenary Kings Reloaded feels reminiscent of the Metal Slug franchise from the very start of the game. Its 2D side-scrolling action-platforming includes everything that a player would expect from a title in this genre: sharp-shooting with incredible weapon variety, tough as nails enemies, and a variety of missions so that even when set in a map that you’re more than familiar with, gameplay feels fresh and thrilling.\n\nYet beyond its similarities to Metal Slug, Tribute Games had a genius take on the genre, by implementing systems that I had never thought of, but ended up becoming overly-satisfactory. One of these systems is looting, where it allows players to hunt animals, find chests, or replay missions in order to gather materials. In return, these materials allow players to craft new weapons and armor, giving Mercenary Kings Reloaded light RPG aspects that make its gameplay feel entirely rejuvenated.\n\nBesides its narrative and action-packed gameplay, Mercenary Kings Reloaded has an art-style that is simply jaw-dropping. From the gorgeous pixelated graphics, to music that feels so satisfying to listen to that I couldn’t stop jamming alongside it, Tribute Games simply knows how to make a game that brings a retro feel, without necessarily being retro.\n\nIt may just be nostalgia, but for its price, Mercenary Kings Reloaded feels like a perfectly fair package. Not only does it offer tons of content that can be replayed at any time in co-op, it also packs in innovative additions that ultimately result in more content for players to enjoy. If you have a Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC, or a PSVita, and have missed Metal Slug in the slightest, then Mercenary Kings Reloaded is a must needed addition to your collection.\n\nLiked this article and want to read more like it? Check out Pedro D’avila’s latest findings on The Secret of Mana Remake’s Switch port, and TennoCon 2018’s announcement!\n\nIt may just be nostalgia, but for its price, Mercenary Kings Reloaded feels like a perfectly fair package." ]

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[ null, "A Journal of the Plague Year\n\nBy Daniel Defoe, Introduction by Will Eaves\n\nThis timely re-release of Defoe’s classic comes with an introduction by Wellcome-Prize-winning author, Will Eaves.\n\nActually written sixty years after the plague of 1665 swept through London, Defoe brings the city to life in all of its hardship and fear. With a wealth of detail, A Journal of the Plague Year seems almost a firsthand account, taking readers through the neighborhoods, houses and streets that have drastically changed with the rising death toll. The bustle of business and errands gives way to doors marked with the cross to signify a house of death, as well as the dead-carts transporting those struck down to the mass graves as the dead rise in number to nearly 200,000. As the epidemic progresses and the narrator encounters more stories of isolation and horror, Defoe reveals his masterful balance as both a historical and imaginative writer.\n\nAuthor: Daniel Defoe, Introduction by Will Eaves\nFormat: eBook\nRelease Date: 03/09/2020\nISBN: 978-0-00-843224-9\nDaniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731) was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel, Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain.Will Eaves is a novelist and poet. Murmur, his most recent novel, won the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize and was co-winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Fiction. He has worked as Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the Yale Review and the New Yorker, and he is co-host with Professor Sophie Scott of The Neuromantics, a podcast on science and literature.\n\nA Journal of the Plague Year\n\nThis timely re-release of Defoe’s classic comes with an introduction by Wellcome-Prize-winning author, Will Eaves." ]

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[ null, "Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve spent my life in Virginia, where I’ve worked barbecue pits and the cattle farm that supplied them. I have no idea why the twangpop on the radio tries to make riding tractors sound fun. I have two tattoos. One of them is a pig inside the Richmond flag – a double homage to the late Dan Gill who mentored me in Southern cuisine, and my good friend Ian who once stole that flag from the Jefferson Hotel. He died on a motorcycle in North Carolina. The other tattoo is my dead dog’s paw print, but I don’t know how Southern that is. My mother is Jewish (not the Southern kind), and my father is from Alabama hill country. We trace my paternal bloodline back through Appalachian Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia to before the Revolutionary War. I live in Richmond where I have a small leathercraft business. This city is The Gateway to the South and an appropriate enough place for a mutt like me, caught between two worlds. Someday I’ll move back to where the Rappahannock River meets the Chesapeake Bay. Where I learned how to cook a hog. To quote Chris Knight, that’s my only prayer.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "1\nEach week, The Athletic asks the same 12 questions to a different race car driver. Up next: Josh Williams, who drives for DGM Racing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and also owns the Josh Williams Motorsports ARCA team as well as a development driver program.\n\nYou just don’t want to go down the rabbit hole of talking about driving stuff?\n\n2. Which current driver have you known for the longest?\n\nProbably Chris Buescher. Well, Chris and Bubba (Wallace), but Bubba is big time, so I only talk to Chris.\n\nWhen did you cross paths with Chris?\n\nWe were racing Legend cars. I guess we were like 13 or 14 years old. We raced for the same guy and we traveled all over the country and did all kinds of cool stuff.\n\nIt always sucks, right? But it just depends. Some wrecks are worse than others. I’ve fractured my sternum before. I’ve broken ribs. I’ve broken my right wrist. So I’ve hit hard in my days of racing.\n\nDid some of those happen in NASCAR or earlier in your career?\n\nI broke three of my ribs in NASCAR — it was actually last year at Talladega. I broke my sternum in an ARCA car at Kansas, I think in 2015. We were a steel body car still at that point in time and we were fast. We were pretty much wide open around Kansas and I cut a right front (tire) into (Turn) 3. I hit the fence and it laid the seat over like four inches and broke my sternum. We took that one to the scrap yard." ]

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[ "Continued from the last two weeks, here is the final installment of The Witch Mask.\n\nWith the witch mask exterior painted and sealed, the internals were applied. The interior was painted black with acrylic paint and sealed with Mod Podge. I wanted to avoid using a strap around the back, as I have found that is unreliable for keeping things on without slipping. Instead, I opted to use a hat. Cutting the bill off of a baseball cap, the fabric was glued in place with hot glue. Sheer black fabric was placed over the mouth and eye holes, as pictured below. When pulled taut, this allows the wearer to see through the fabric while not allowing others to see the eyes. The fabric was glued in place with PVA. To keep the fabric taut, masking tape was used while the glue was drying, and it was removed upon completion.", null, "A hood was sewn to fit around the mask. Made from black cotton quilting fabric, the forward opening of the hood fit directly to the mask edge. This was secured with hot glue. Remaining black cotton fabric was sewn into an impromptu robe.\n\nA nest of hair was made for the witch mask. The material I chose to use was raffia. This fiber is produced from the frond of the raffia palm. While you might have seen this material used in twine or hats, it is also used in traditional African tribal masks. The raffia fibers were combed parallel to each other and folded in half. Along the fold, a double stitched seam was sewn to hold the fibers together. The stitch distance was short enough to penetrate most of the individual fibers so they would be retained during use. The hairpiece was secured with staples to the paper mache portion of the mask and sewn onto the black hood with some quick stitches.", null, "The Completed Witch Mask with Costume\n\nPictures of the completed mask can be seen below. The lighting isn’t great, and the photos don’t capture dark, unnerving quality this has. I blame my old phone for the poor picture quality.", null, null, "As you can tell from the previous photo, I made the mask into a complete Halloween costume. Since I’m an adult, I naturally decided that I would wear the costume around town. On my walk to work, I received plenty of stares. The best part was when I took the elevator to my office. I got on the elevator, let the doors close, and squatted in the corner near the buttons. I did not speak. The next few times someone would come on the elevator, I would slowly arise from my squatting position to my full standing height. Eventually, someone went to my floor, and I got off to get some work done, but not before I scared one of my colleagues so badly, he refused to take the elevator.\n\nOn my way home from work, took the same path back. Possibly my favorite reaction occurred when I passed by the library and two guys started shouting at me about how scary/awesome I was. I ignored them for a beat, stopped, and turned my mask toward them while keeping my body rigid. They screamed like little girls and ran off, the perfect reaction.\n\nI noticed two people running towards me at one point. One held a camera, the other a microphone. They were interviewing people on campus for a Halloween special. I was very excited to be interviewed. Yet, my commitment to staying in character is very strong. I remained silent. All the microphone would pick up from the witch mask’d man was a deep rasping of breath. The only motion I made to the camera was a slight tilt of my head, staring directly forward. The interviewers loved this, but I could tell they wanted more. After about 5 minutes of footage, I just walked away.\n\nSince Halloween fell on a Friday that year, there were loads of parties around town. I decided that the witch mask needed to go make some friends. I stopped at my usual bar at one point, and I just stared at the bouncer. Later, talking to him, I found out that this actually freaked him out pretty bad. At the time, he remained stalwart, laughing off the fear and asking for my ID. Since I forgot my wallet at home, I decided I didn’t need a drink that night. No, the fear sweat would sustain me.\n\nMy last stop was a fraternity/sorority party at a house near my apartment. I stood outside on their lawn while I could see them staring at me through the blinds. As the watching individual turned to tell her other scantily clad friends about the creepy thing in the yard, I would dash forward and freeze, mimicking schoolyard red-light-green-light games. Eventually, I made it up to their door, and they were truly terrified. I stood there, and I was about to leave when some guys came out and confronted me. One pulled my mask off, which I found rude, but I suppose I can’t complain since I was being creepy. Leaving with a “I’ve been kicked out of better parties than this”, I decided to end my night.\n\nTo this day, the Witch Mask hangs on my wall. A solemn visage to give visitors pause when they enter my home – a real conversation starter." ]

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[ "I don’t know if you guys have seen this show called Columbo but it is messed up with a capital UP. As I explained a few articles back, I accidentally watched this show for about 9 hours because I thought it was The Wire, then I had to go back and watch the actual The Wire in order to write about it, which took up so many hours I ended up failing improv and losing my bar backing job at Chuck E Cheese (yes, they have a bar). It was worth it because it was in my opinion the best TV show ever except for also Breaking Bad and The Supremos or whatever but it was longer than a bathroom line at a coke bar. I mean jeez, who wrote The Wire, David Foster Wallace? Anyways, back to Columbo. Columbo is basically a show about this creepy stalker who uses white male privilege to solve murders.\n\nThe first episode is completely bonkers. It begins with Columbo meeting this guy who looks like he plays bass in Fun. and knows where to get quaaludes. I guess this show came out in 1968 so everyone in it looks like a character from The Venture Brothers. So turtle neck guy has just murdered his friend with whom he writes mystery novels, and now he has to convince Columbo that it was an assassination. In the middle of all this, some rando Tinder skeeza shows up and tries to blackmail Professor Haircut about the murder, so he gets an Airbnb with her somewhere in the woods and then beats her over the head with a bottle of some kind of mysterious champagne that you can’t buy at a gas station. He dumps her in a lake and then eventually Columbo figures the whole thing out and arrests him. Pretty simple 20 minutes of television right? Wrong, this whole ordeal takes over an hour because 90 percent of the program is Columbo mansplaining murder to murderers (murdersplaining?).\n\nAnother episode involves Columbo investigating a suicide, which is when you take a selfie with a gun (selficide?), but it’s not a selficide at all. Columbo figures out that the guy was actually murdered by his boss who is also the leader of some kind of meet-up group for nerds. At some point Columbo calls a 14-year-old girl pretty and she says, “Thank you, no one has ever complimented me for my body instead of my mind” and she smiles while she’s saying it. Whoever wrote this line should lose their job. I mean I’m sure whoever wrote this is already dead but they should be dug up and fired and then buried again. This is either really sexist or I’m not getting the joke, but I don’t see how I could have acquired upwards of 35 twitter followers if I didn’t know what I was talking about. Anyways, back to nerd episode. Columbo figures out that the head nerd faked the selfcide using some sort of cool Rube-Goldberg machine like from an OK GO video or something. Again, this should take twenty minutes, but most of the episode is this cop walking around going on and on about paper clips that people have misplaced or footprints that they’ve left around, you know, really insulting the agency of these other murderers by explaining to them how they committed their own murders. I’m so angry about Columbo’s privileged point of view that I’m tempted to draw a cartoon explaining it. I’m a man though, so if I explain something that’s mansplaining, even if I explain mansplaining I am now effectively mansplaining mansplaining. I have confused myself. On to the next paragraph.\n\nA third season episode titled Swan Song guest stars Johnny Cash as the murderer. Johnny Cash is the only country artist I like because he sang about cocaine and killing people, and I only like things that allow me to ironically affect a gangsta rap identity. The man in black is killing people and and jumping out of airplanes and everything’s going great, and then old C-Bo shows up and starts yammering on about how everyone’s dumber than him. Honestly I haven’t felt this assaulted by words since I huffed air duster and watched Jello Biafra do a spoken word set about hegemony. Columbo keeps doing this thing where he leaves the room and then pops back in and goes “oh and another thing.” If anyone ever did that to me I would block them on Facebook AND Twitter. Not Instagram though, I’m not a monster. He also has this creepy hunchback thing going on and I think maybe a glass eye. Columbo kind of looks like one of the elves from Harry Potter and he is just as annoying. Someone should make a Buzzfeed video titled “If Women Talked to Men the Way Columbo Talks to Murderers.”\n\nAnother thing that really bothers me about this show is that Columbo is constantly talking about his wife, and yet in the thirty years this show was on the air we never see her. Columbo fails the Bechdel test harder than I failed my drug test when I applied to be the guy in the Super Mario suit in Times Square. Seriously though, why isn’t Mrs. Columbo ever on screen? How offensive is that? I think the world is ready for a Columbo remake starring a FEMALE Columbo. Wouldn’t Kristen Wiig be the perfect Columbo? Let’s make this happen. Let’s kickstart this.", null ]

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[ "Accessibility links\nThere's No Market For GOP Health Care Bills Republicans have been criticized for denouncing Democratic legislation without offering alternatives in the health care debate, but many say their proposals are simply not being heard because Democrats control both houses of Congress.\n\nWith only a few exceptions, this year's health overhaul debate has been pretty much an all-Democrats affair. That's left a lot of Republicans on Capitol Hill steaming. Republicans have written health bills, and they do generally agree with Democrats on some things, such as curbing insurance companies' ability to exclude people because of pre-existing health conditions. However, none of the Republican proposals include an insurance mandate, and many analysts say most of the Republican bills simply wouldn't do all that much to change the situation.\n\nSome Republicans say their depiction in the health care debate has been unfair. In particular, Obama's comments in his Labor Day speech at an AFL-CIO picnic in Cincinnati really set off some Republicans. After running down a list of what he called lies about Democratic bills in Congress, including provisions that would allegedly kill seniors or cover illegal immigrants, Obama said he had a question for those making those claims:\n\n\"What's your answer? What's your solution?\" he asked the cheering crowd. \"And you know what? They don't have one.\"\n\nIn response, Rep. Tom Price of Georgia, who heads the conservative Republican Study Committee, suggested that members bring their bills to the House floor for the president's speech to Congress last week.\n\n\"[I] asked them to hold those things up in an effort to try to bring some attention to the fact that the president has been misrepresenting the facts on this, as have most of the media,\" he said.", null, null, "Richard M. Burr (R-NC), surrounded by copies of a proposed bill, during the first day of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions markup of comprehensive health care legislation.\n\nPrice is pushing his own bill, which includes tax credits to help the uninsured buy coverage, along with medical malpractice damage award caps, special pools to help those with pre-existing conditions get insurance, and other proposals that Republicans have been pushing for years.\n\n\"It disputes the notion that there are only two alternatives — that government is in charge or insurance companies are in charge — and says that no, we can move in the right direction, and that is to put patients in charge,\" Price says.\n\nIn the Senate, North Carolina Republican Richard Burr was one of the first to offer a comprehensive alternative to what the Democrats are pushing. His bill includes no new taxes and no mandates. But it would call for major changes to private insurance rules and the Medicaid program for the poor. Burr says he thinks there's still room for common ground between the parties.\n\nDespite Some Agreement, Key Differences Remain\n\nBut many analysts say most of the Republican bills simply wouldn't do all that much to change the situation.\n\n\"This is not anything but window dressing on the gaping problem we have with the uninsured and the serious problem of cost growth. This is not gonna solve the problem,\" says Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, which works with Democrats and Republicans.\n\nEven if Democrats and Republicans do generally agree on things like curbing the ability of insurance companies to exclude people because they have pre-existing health conditions, Nichols says, legislation to do that by itself would be vehemently opposed by the insurance industry. And for good reason: Insurers don't want people to be allowed to wait until they're sick to buy insurance.\n\nAnd once you begin to provide subsidies, you have to either add to the federal deficit, or else raise money for them, which means cutting spending or raising taxes — all things Republicans are ferociously resisting.\n\nIn the end, says Nichols, with a few exceptions in the Senate, that's left even Republicans who know the health care system is broken without a way to seek much of a solution.\n\n\"I think they're trapped in a cul-de-sac of their own making. They really do have a problem in that no serious solution to our health system's problems can be concocted without some more government involvement,\" Nichols says.\n\nMany Republicans, however, still insist that the system can be fixed with market solutions alone. It will be at least a few years, however, before they get a chance to try to prove that again." ]

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[ "This interdisciplinary project focuses on the vital role of emotion in moral cognition and the ramifications for a psychologically realistic approach to normative ethical reasoning. Convergent evidence from a variety of scientific fields, including psychology, neuroscience, and primatology, indicates that affect directs our intuitive judgments, grounds our empathic capacities, orients our moral reasoning, and motivationally binds us to our assessments. These descriptive findings shed light on several prominent metaethical issues, including the simulation/‘theory theory' debate, the weakness of will question, and the realism/antirealism controversy. With regard to the simulation/‘theory theory' debate concerning the neuropsychological underpinnings of our Theory of Mind (ToM) capacities, it appears that both sides are partially correct. As reflected by the distinctive empathic impairments characteristic of psychopathy and autism and supporting neurological evidence, Affective ToM and Cognitive ToM rely on unique underlying mechanisms, with the former incorporating more simulation-based processing and the latter involving more theory-based operations. In Chapter 3, it is argued that weakness of will occurs less frequently in the case of intuitive judgments, as opposed to assessments based on conscious moral reasoning, since intuitive judgments are typically linked to relatively more intense emotion and thus carry greater motivational force. Furthermore, I contend in Chapter 4 that a Darwinian genealogy of our ethical sensibility poses a serious epistemological challenge to traditional versions of moral realism, a view that there are ‘independent' ethical truths that apply irrespective of our subjective feelings. The practical implications of this evolutionary debunking are limited, however, because our tendency to impute greater practical authority to ethical norms is emotionally-rooted, persisting in the absence of a belief in moral realism. Finally, in my last chapter, I endorse and expand John Rawls' method of wide reflective equilibrium as a psychologically realistic approach to ethical justification that accords with the empirical evidence regarding the affective foundations of moral judgment and motivation. To my awareness, this enhanced version of Rawls' method is the first developed normative reasoning procedure of its kind within the sentimentalist tradition--a justificatory approach that attributes normative weight to our moral feelings without, however, automatically justifying them.\n\nI. Trolley Problems and Moral Dumbfounding 3\n\n2. The Two Faces of Empathy: Evidence from Psychopathy and Autism 41\n\nI. Emotional Empathy and Psychopathy 44\n\nIII. The Evolution of Empathy 67\n\n3. Empirical Moral Psychology and the Future of the Weakness of Will Debate 81\n\nI. Defining the Internalist Thesis 85\nII. Psychological Classes of Judgment 105\nIII. MAMIT 111\nIV. The Weakness of Will Question 124\n\n4. The Affective Foundations of Practical Clout:\nA Naturalistic Critique of Moral Error Theory 135\n\nI. The Case Against Moral Objectivism 137\nII. Are We Really Morally Objectivists 150\n\nThe Method of Wide Reflective Equilibrium 165\n\nI. The Method of Wide Reflective Equilibrium 168\n\nIV. The Future of Normative Ethics 216\n\nFigure 1: The Two Facets of Empathy 43", null ]

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[ "If Dan Savage gets to repeat his claim that women fantasize about rose petals, I’ll allow myself to reiterate my bafflement. From that recent interview:\n\nPLAYBOY: What if someone asks what their partner wants and doesn’t like the answer?\n\nSAVAGE: It happens all the time. Young women write me", null, "that they pressed and pressed their boyfriends to share their secret fantasies with them and then were terrified when they found out what those fantasies were—when it’s not “I want to fill the bed with rose petals and light a thousand tea candles in the bedroom.” That’s not a male fantasy. Girls tell me about Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice and romantic comedies and all that bullshit. I always tell my female young-adult readers, “Careful. If you press him about his fantasy, you’re much likelier to hear ‘a three-way with you and your sister’ than ‘a trip to Paris.’ ” Male sexuality is crazy, perverse. Men are testosterone-pickled dick monsters. We just are.\n\nNow, I don’t have access to the skewed but substantial data set that is Dan Savage’s inbox. I do, however, have access to a sum total of one female brain, as well as female friends, as well as the sitcom-tame but getting-somewhere take on female sexuality that is “The Mindy Project.”\n\nLater in the interview, Savage talks perfect sense: “Female sexuality is different, whether you believe sexual reserve and caution are biological or cultural or some combo of the two, which is what I believe.” Indeed. It’s hard to dispute that whichever mix of cultural expectation and hormonal wiring leads to men expressing more out-there desires. What I just can’t accept is the centrality of rose petals to female fantasy life. Something about that just doesn’t ring true." ]

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[ "Abbey Connectors are titles by Elsie J. Oxenham that connect into her main Abbey Series They fall into several sub-series, listed here in best reading order, with the Abbey Titles they relate to shown in their place in the mini-series, but without publication details, which are on the main Abbey Series page:", null, "Dustjacket from The Captain of the Fifth, see Swiss Set\n\nThe Camp Keema Series introduces Maribel Ritchie (later Marchwood) and Rosalind Firth. The first two books in this series, Crisis in Camp Keema and Peggy and the Brotherhood, are set in a fictionalised Worthing, Sussex. The third, Camp Mystery, is set at Talloires on Lake Annecy, France and introduces Cecily Brown (later Perowne). These three characters enter the Abbey Series in The Abbey Girls Play Up (once more, set mainly in Sussex) and appear again, or are referred to, at intervals later in that series. The publication dates are interesting; Oxenham refers in Abbey Girls Play Up (1930) to events in Cecily Brown's earlier life, which were not fully described until Camp Mystery was published two years later. Indeed, the version of her story given in Play Up, while naturally being simplified – one cannot relate the whole plot in detail when summarising events for a new acquaintance – misses several important features which Oxenham may not have thought of until she actually came to write Camp Mystery, the book that covers these events, a year or two after writing Play Up. Then, four years later again, she returned to the period between Crisis (1928) and Mystery (1932) and wrote Peggy (1936) which fills in events concerning Rosalind's younger brother and sister, John and Gina, as well as introducing new characters Peggy and Sharly, and letting us see more of Maribel's school life.\n\nThe Kentisbury Series is much more closely tied into the Abbey Series. Patch and a Pawn introduces Patricia (Patch) Paterson (later Kane), Rhoda, Geoff, Bill and Rosalie Kane, Tansy Lillico and Roger Black. It is set in and around 'Kentisbury Castle', a fictionalised Arundel, Sussex. Rhoda and Rosalie reappear in Rosamund's Tuckshop, also set in Sussex, at Washington. Bill, Patch and Roger reappear in Secrets of Vairy. set at 'Vairy Castle', a fictionalised Knockderry Castle on Loch Long, Scotland. Tansy reappears in Rosamund's Castle, once again set at Washington and Kentisbury/Arundel, and Jandy Mac Comes Back is also set mainly at Kentisbury. Bill and Patch as newly-weds appear in Song of the Abbey; the scenes in which they appear are set at Kentisbury, although the main action of the book takes place at The Abbey in Oxfordshire. These characters are all mentioned in several books in the main Abbey Series published and set after Rosamund's Tuckshop.\n\nThe Quellyn/Woodend Series provides an awkward problem of internal chronology within Oxenham's various book series. The main Abbey Series can be dated to within a year or two by events in the real world that are mentioned in Girls of the Hamlet Club, although it is recognised that there are anachronisms in the Retrospective Series. But in The Girl Who Wouldn't Make Friends we are introduced to Robin (Robertina Brent, later Quellyn) and Gwyneth Morgan (later Lloyd) as twelve-year-olds; although the story starts in the London suburbs, most of the action takes place at 'Quellyn' and Nefyn on the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales. The next part of their story is told in Rosamund's Tuckshop and Rosamund's Castle, both in the main Abbey Series when they are seventeen or so, about five years later in 'Abbey Time', but which were published eighteen and nineteen years later respectively. These two books are set at 'Wood End School' in Washington, Sussex. Robin's romance and marriage are described in Robins in the Abbey, published in 1947, and set mainly in Oxfordshire at 'The Abbey' and at 'Quellyn', but in 1957 Oxenham returned to Robin's school career, and produced New Girls at Wood End, a book about Robin's time as Head Girl, set in the spring following Rosamund's Castle.\n\nThe world of 1909, in which 'motors' can be driven across fields and through gated lanes by a twelve-year-old Gwyneth, and where a telegram is brought from the post office in the nearest town by bicycle, contrasts starkly with the air crash that features in Robins in the Abbey and the car accident and BBC news bulletins of New Girls at Wood End – and with the ownership and use of the telephone in the latter two titles as a normal and common feature.\n\nA Go-Ahead Schoolgirl takes place during the World War I at Rocklands School in Yorkshire. The description of the area has more in common with Froggatt Edge in Derbyshire, but Oxenham is well known for her 'translocation' of places to fit the story. It tells of Rena (Andrena) Mackay (later Courtney) and her friend Nancy Morrell, and their time at school. When Rena's father is killed in the War, she must find a career. The headmistress's sister, who owns Rocklands House, helps her, and another friend, Lisabel (Elisabel) Durrant (also later Courtney – they marry brothers), to become gardeners, and sends them to Swanley to train. Tickles tells of a new junior at the School, Tekla (Tickles) and her amazement at the school which moves every spring from Sheffield to the moors at Rocklands and returns each autumn. Jen of the Abbey School – also considered part of the main Abbey Series, continues the story of Tekla's school career and describes how the girls of Rocklands meet Jen Robins (later Marchwood) of the Abbey Series. Rosamund's Victory continues the story of Rena and Lisabel and describes their engagements. Lisabel, by this time married with a baby daughter, also plays a significant role in New Girls at Wood End (see the Quellyn/Woodend series above). Betty McLean, head girl of Rocklands in Tickles and Jen, comes into the main Abbey Series in Abbey Girls at Home and appears or is mentioned in many later titles in that series.\n\nThe Rachel & Damaris/Rainbows Series is another example of how Oxenham combines series and characters, weaving in and out of the main Abbey Series. Maidlin to the Rescue was published in 1934, and tells of Maidlin's previously unknown cousins, Rachel and Damaris, and how Maidlin overcomes their resistance to being 'adopted' by her and brings them back to The Abbey. Damaris at Dorothy's, published three years later, returns to the schooldays of Rachel and Damaris and gives the back story of their relationship with Philippa (Pip) Russell, who plays a crucial part in the plot of Maidlin to the Rescue. Damaris Dances was written in response to Oxenham's publishers' wish for a 'ballet book'. Apparently it took several years and many revisions, since Oxenham was not a ballet expert. It covers the period in the main Abbey Series from just before Joy's New Adventure to just after Maidlin Bears the Torch. Rachel and Damaris have a cameo in Two Joans in the Abbey and appear briefly in Abbey Champion as bridesmaids at Maidlin's wedding to Jock Robertson. From Guardians of the Abbey onwards, their characters are fully integrated into the main Abbey Series.\n\nAdventure for Two takes the Rainbows series in a different direction. It takes place partly concurrently with, and just after, Damaris Dances. Two sisters, Daphne and Elsa Dale, make different decisions after the death of their aunt. Daphne continues her ballet training in London, and comes to know Damaris and take part in her ballet 'The Goose Girl'. Elsa returns to 'Hillside', near 'Sandylands' – a fictionalised Uphill, near Weston-super-Mare – to live in the cottage their aunt has left to her. The rest of the series introduces Nancybell Morgan (later Farnham), Margery Paine (later Woodburn), Gilbert and Annamaria Seymour, and the 'Rose sisters'. Pernel Wins and Daring Doranne tie into this series in that the characters in Pernel, Pernel Richard herself, Juliet Joyes and Gwen Baldwin come to live at 'Rainbow Corner' at the beginning of Doranne, and the village Doranne founds, also called 'Rainbows', is where the 'Roses' live, and where Margery Paine comes to make her new beginning. The Roses join the main Abbey Series in Fiddler for the Abbey, and news of the other characters is given in some of the later books in the Abbey Series. Mistress Nanciebel, published in 1910, tells the story of 'the ancestress' of Gilbert and Annamaria Seymour, and of Nancybell Morgan. Here, Oxenham has created a family history for her modern characters by using details from another of her books, published over thirty years earlier.\n\nThese three sets, Sussex, Swiss and Woody Dean, are closely connected to each other, as may be seen by the titles they share. The village of 'Woody Dean', the setting for the Woody Dean Set, is a fictionalised Rottingdean in East Sussex, and the nearby school may be based on Roedean School. The Sussex Set takes place mainly in Pagham though it is never named, and the cathedral city mentioned in the text as 'Eldingham' must be intended as Chichester. Troubles of Tazy and Patience and her Problems both take place largely in Switzerland, either at the St John's & St Mary's Schools complex where the earlier books in the Swiss Set are based, or in the nearby hostel for girls and ladies, and characters from all three sets appear in these two titles.\n\nA School Camp Fire is another of those titles that Oxenham 'revisited', to take characters and bring them into books she wrote later. Several main characters from it attend Helen Robinson's wedding inSchool of Ups and Downs but it has no connection otherwise, and cannot be said to form part of a real series. As a book, it is in itself split into four sub-sections each of which tells a discrete story, though the characters of Priscilla, Katharine and Dorothy-Anne are present throughout the book.\n\nCharacters from the Swiss Set also appear or are mentioned in the Camp Keema Series and in the Abbey Series itself, which gives the only connection these titles have with the main series." ]

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[ "Bo Nix rushed for two touchdowns and passed for one as host No. 18 Auburn defeated No. 10 Ole Miss 31-20 in an SEC game Saturday night.\n\nTank Bigsby added 140 rushing yards and a touchdown on 23 carries.\n\nMatt Corral ran for a touchdown and passed for 289 yards but did not have a touchdown pass for the Rebels (6-2, 3-2), who fell into a three-way tie for third place in the West. Corral completed 21 of 37 passes and threw one interception, just his second of the season.\n\nCaden Costa's 49-yard field goal produced the only points of the third quarter and got Ole Miss within 28-20. The Rebels turned the ball over on downs at the Tigers' 20 and 13 in the period.\n\nAnders Carlson, who missed a 43-yard field goal in the third quarter, made a 28-yarder to increase the lead to 31-20 with 10:52 remaining in the game.\n\nOle Miss reached a first down at the Auburn 14 early in the fourth quarter, but Jaylin Simpson intercepted Corral in the end zone.\n\nThe Rebels got the ball back on a fumble recovery, but Corral threw incomplete on fourth-and-3 at the Tigers 18 with 4:52 left.\n\nNix concluded the first possession of the game with an 11-yard touchdown run.\n\nCosta kicked a 29-yard field goal before Bigsby ran one yard for a touchdown that gave the Tigers a 14-3 lead at the end of the first quarter.\n\nNix ran seven yards for a touchdown and Corral answered with an 11-yard touchdown run.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "The 3 biggest unconscious biases in hiring decisions may surprise you", null, "For the most part, we aren't aware that these biases are influencing our choices.\n\nIn an ideal world, an interviewer would evaluate job candidates based exclusively on their professional qualifications.\nAdvertisement\n\nIn reality, so many other factors come into play - like what part of the world the candidate is from or what their favorite sports teams are. For the most part, these biases are unconscious, so we aren't always aware that they could be influencing our choices.\n\nWe spoke with Madan Pillutla, Ph.D., a professor of organizational behavior at London Business School who studies trust and fairness in interpersonal interactions, about the three biggest unconscious biases in hiring decisions.\n\n1. We gravitate toward people who are similar to us.\n\nAccording to the similarity-attraction hypothesis, we tend to like people who are similar to us - whether that means they come from the same state or sport the same haircut.\n\nOne way to explain that phenomenon, Pillutla said, is that people with a decent level of self-esteem are satisfied with their personalities. So when they see their qualities reflected in someone else, they tend to like that person, too.\n\nAnother potential explanation, which is slightly harder to test, is that people have evolved to like people who look and act the way they do. At one point in human history, it was important to trust only people in your small social group. Even though that behavior is no longer necessary today, we can still act as though it is.\n\nThe problem, Pillutla said, is that \"if I keep hiring people like myself, very soon I'll have an organization of people who think similarly, who act similarly.\" Yet research suggests that diversity of backgrounds and perspectives is important to a company's success.\n\n2. We base our decisions on stereotypes about people's competencies.\n\nOne common example of stereotyping, Pillutla said, is that Americans tend to assume Indians who come to the US are skilled at math. So American hiring managers might be inclined to select an Indian candidate for a math-heavy position because they think he or she will excel in that role - even though it's possible another candidate could be more skilled in that area.\n\nBut while it's possible to unlearn ethnic biases, \"stereotypes about gender tend to be a little deeper\" and harder to reverse, Pillutla said.\n\nFor example, one recent study found that people were more likely to hire a male candidate over a female candidate to perform a mathematical task, even when they learned that the candidates would perform equally well.", null, "If you feel insecure in your role, you won't want to bring on anyone who might outperform you.\n\n3. We're wary of anyone who we perceive as a threat to our status in the organization.\n\nPillutla and his colleagues recently published some of the first research on this topic.\n\nIn an organization with a highly competitive culture, managers might be disinclined to bring on someone more competent than they are, especially if they feel insecure in their role.\n\n\"Even if people are well-meaning and well-intentioned, it's very difficult to act against your own self interest\" by hiring someone who could outperform you, Pillutla said.\n\nIn terms of countering these three biases, Pillutla pointed to recent changes in the way musicians audition for spots in an orchestra. Now, many orchestras hold \"blind auditions,\" in which the musicians play behind a screen, so they don't know what the candidates look like. As a result, they've accepted more women.\n\nIn fact, some companies in other fields have already adopted similar hiring strategies.\n\nAlternatively, Pillutla said, \"It's not entirely outside of the realm of possibility that for a lot of jobs we don't even need to interview people.\" Instead, employers could have candidates come in and work for a day, so that they could see how those candidates would really perform. This is potentially a more objective strategy that could make it harder to let our biases influence our decisions.\n\n\"It's a little out there, but I do think it would be a good thing,\" he said." ]

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[ "Reading is one activity that everyone should have but no one has the time to read the books, right? For this reason, devices like Kindle are gaining popularity with which you can access books and read on the go. On the other hand, your Kindle connected to the Wi-Fi network but could not reach the internet issue is pretty common. So, let’s see how we can fix this issue and get to reading again!\n\nHow To Fix Your Kindle Connected To Wi-Fi Network But Could Not Reach The Internet Problem?\n\nWhile you are trying to fix the internet connectivity issues with Kindle, you must ensure that the device is working properly and there is no incorrect configuration. For this reason, you need to reboot the Kindle by pressing the power button for a few minutes. Once you have rebooted the Kindle, you should reboot the modem and router as well. For rebooting the modem or router, remove them from the power source for around one minute and plug it in again.", null ]

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[ "In a recent article, the author and journalist Manu Joseph used the term “Low-stakes niceness” to describe the act of feeding animals that most Indians indulge in. We will borrow his term to extend it to another favourite activity of the environmentally conscious Indian – tree planting.\n\nFor decades, it has been drilled in to us that planting trees is the “green” thing to do, a very large band-aid to the thousands of cuts that we’ve inflicted on the environment. To atone for the environmental sins of razing large tracts of primary forests, India has committed to having a third of its total land area, or 95 million hectares, under forest and tree cover by 2030. With the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-30) and other global commitments, mass tree-planting campaigns are often seen as a solution to mitigate the climate crisis by both government and non-government entities.\n\nSuccessive governments, both at the centre and at the state have taken to this with missionary zeal, each vying for their place under the shady canopies of the millions of trees they’ve sought to plant. In 2017, the Tamil Nadu government planted 68 lakh tree saplings across the State to mark the then Chief Minister Jayalalitha’s 68th birthday. On the CM’s 69th birthday, the government executed another plantation drive to plant 69 lakh trees. Not to be left behind, in 2018, the Maharashtra government planted 13 crore trees in a month. Similar initiatives have been carried out by many other states including Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Rajasthan. While these efforts have attracted praise from the masses and the media, it is worth scratching the surface of the shiny tree bark to see if tree-planting activities have really been successful in India, both in terms of ecological and social parameters.\n\nA recent long-term study from Himachal Pradesh showed that more than half of the expenditure in plantation activities was wasted, either due to failure of plantations, or through planting trees in the wrong places. For one, the species that were sought to be planted were often chosen for the wrong reasons, with speed of growth being a more critical factor than ecological suitability. Thus, plantations of fast growing Australian Eucalyptus, known to be water guzzling plants, sprouted across India, till some states realised their negative impacts on ground water and soil fertility, and banned new plantations. Secondly, even when supposedly native species were planted, typically only a handful of species were chosen, and even these were planted in densities far exceeding most forested ecosystems in India. As a result, many plantations either failed, or were ecologically disastrous.", null, "Thus, the question of what to plant, and where to plant, and whether to plant at all should be foremost in the minds of restoration planners. However, as several studies have shown, most plantations are planned as “budgetary activities” rather than as part of a bouquet of interventions within an ecosystem centric approach. Arguably, the most common oversight is not differentiating reforestation (planting trees on deforested land) and afforestation (planting trees where plants may not have historically occurred). This seems to be a global problem where habitats where tree cover is naturally sparse are marked as land with potential for tree planting. Due to the scarcity of land, trees are often planted in open and natural ecosystems (ONEs) such as grasslands, savannas, shrublands, and meadows in the mistaken notion that these are unproductive or degraded. At the same time, respective State Governments and the Central Governments establish ambitious targets for increasing forest cover which pressures local bodies to implement these aggressive tree-planting initiatives.\n\nSuch ecologically unsound afforestation interventions threaten the biodiversity in the ecosystems. For instance, the Great Indian bustard, an iconic species of India’s savannas is now critically endangered, and may be on the way to extinction, due in large part to the fact that its habitat was never considered worthy of conservation.\n\nThere are very few who challenge the notion that forests are effective in sequestering carbon. There is widespread consensus in the scientific community that one of the most powerful actions to mitigate climate change is in keeping mature forests intact by halting deforestation. It thus follows that some of the biggest programmes run by the Indian government, including the Compensatory Afforestation programme, that promotes afforestation and regeneration activities as a way of compensating for forest land diverted to non-forest uses, may not be the most effective nature climate solution.\n\nThere are other issues associated with afforestation that goes beyond ecology. It often induces a ‘double displacement’ of people who first lose rights of their land for forest clearance, and subsequently for plantation activities without adequate compensation. In India, there are over 80-million pastoralists and the largest population of livestock in the world who depend on Open Natural Ecosystems. Afforestation programmes that restrict access to common land end up marginalising these communities by neglecting their dependence and knowledge of such ecosystems.\n\nPlantation targets set by governments and supported by the civil society at large thus have two major issues – lack of understanding of natural habitats and designing context specific interventions, and lack of monitoring/ evaluation of the interventions in terms of biodiversity conservation, water tables and well-being of local communities.\n\nTree plantations should be specifically targeted to add value in areas where much human-induced land-use change has already occurred. For example, road sides, highways, urban centres, schools, or hospitals may be better sites to plant more trees. However, natural, open ecosystems should not be subject to further land use change by implementing unscientific and mechanical interventions that can have detrimental effects. By adopting an ecosystem centric approach for restoration, we hope to nudge the do-gooders away from tree-planting to adopting a socio-ecologically responsible approach to a land-use problem." ]

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[ null, "If you consider this decade, the mobile has gained the supreme position in social gaming, and the trend is still going on. Recent research data claim that the mobile share for all social casino games on both web and mobile platforms is about 20-80%, with 65% if mobile and 35% are from the web. This average shows that it is growing in favor of mobile platforms at an annual rate of 1.5%.\n\nResearch has been conducted to know all these answers, collecting data from ten millions of players across several social casino games.\n\nMobile players are like web players but at high speed?\n\nMost social gamers have a clear preference for one platform- either the mobile or the web, which is about 96% of the total number of players. The remaining 4% play on both platforms. Among the 96% of the players who choose any one of the platforms, the ratio between mobile and web is 65%/35%. The research shows that mobile players have faster progress across the metrics. They are converted faster in the potential customers; they usually make their second and the next level payments faster than those who play on the web platforms. As the mobile players have their devices all the time, they tend to check the device 200 times more daily than those who play on the web platform.\n\nThe web players are sedentary as compared to mobile players. On the other hand, mobile players like to play on the go. They do not have to compromise their luxury and quality while playing casino online games on mobile. The mobile platforms have easy access to games, greater engagement, and also easy payment methods.\n\nAfter reaching the second-payment milestone, mobile players make frequent payments as compared to web players. The mobile players also play the game often as compared to the web players. They boast 1.6x more the gameplay days than the web players. So, not only mobile players have more active play days, but they play more each day. As per the retention rates, there is no correlation with the player’s platform preference. The retention rate is significant between mobile and web game players. Hence, it is seen that the mobile platform is much more viable than web platforms in terms of casino gaming. In the mobile platforms, you can have access to various games to play, both the free and the real cash games.", null, null, "5 Key Differences Between Investing and Trading\n\nReasons to Choose WOW Internet as an Internet Service Provider\n\nWhy iTop VPN is better for your computer safety? Find out here!!!\n\nAbout Movie4Me Movie4me is a pirated website that permits you to download and watch movies for free. It has a..." ]

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[ null, "We met in 2007. Oleg was 9 years old.\nA thin blond boy who could not complete a single task and was constantly distracted.\nLeft alone, he could find and take out mops, rags, open drawers, take out and transfer things, and turn everything upside down in a matter of minutes.\nNeither darkness nor height scared him.\nBut he was eager to learn, he tried to take part in every activity.\nEven at that time Oleg was keenly interested in music, loved painting and crafts.\nNow Oleg is already an adult.\nHe is open, good-natured, polite and peaceful.\nHe has confidence in the people around him, rarely gets offended and quickly forgets grievances.\nIn a familiar space he feels especially good and calm, full of strength, diligent, attentive and focused.\nOleg is always ready to help.\nHe remembers all the holidays, loves music very much, goes to the philharmony, theaters and museums with pleasure.\nHe has excellent acting skills, takes part in all theatrical projects of the Center.\nHe still wants to study, so he continues to attend classes.\n\nWhen Oleg comes to the Center, he hugs each teacher.\nWe know that Oleg loves Sonyachne Podvirya very much, and we all love him heartily.\n\nThe reasons we look for the financial support for Oleg.\n\nOleg was born in 1998.\nHis father left the family as soon as his son was born. Mother died when Oleg was 7 years old.\nFather saw his baby only once. Mother could not accept the little boy with Down syndrome.\nParents actually abandoned him.\nOleg spent the first year of his life in an orphanage.\nOnly his grandmother visited him. She was always there when her grandson was ill.\nOnly a year after birth, the baby returned to his home. After a long procedure of paperwork, the grandmother was able to take him up from the orphanage. The one-year-old Olezhka did not hold his head, did not sit, did not laugh, was not interested in anything and did not react to anything.\nSix months later he could sit. At the age of three he learned how to walk.\nStep by step, little by little, Oleg began to develop and progress.\nGrandparents made every effort and gave all their love to help Oleg to enter social life.\nIn the fall of 2007, grandfather took Oleg to our Sonyachne Podvirya Center.\nSince that moment on, we have never separated.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "For days now I have endured a smorgasbord of outlets reporting negatively on Cam Newton, a young African American quarterback for the Carolina Panthers who works hard and competes even harder, leading his team to Super Bowl 50. Imagine that. Here we have a young, 26-year-old African American male living his dream-navigating the politics of first the collegiate culture, and then the professional football culture to emerge as a highly competitive, spirited, strategic super threat of an athlete; one of the best on the planet. And, instead of him being celebrated for his accomplishments, critics speak of Cam Newton in ways that are perplexing and less than complimentary. Meanwhile, invisible young black boys are watching, listening and wondering.\n\nThese comments are being made while school systems and systems of incarceration in North Carolina and across the nation struggle to keep young black males in school and out of jail. We preach to them about dreaming big and living the American dream. We inspire them with stories of courage and endurance… of hard work and sacrifice. At the same time, they hear us throw disparaging remarks at a young man trying to learn his way in a highly competitive world where millions of dollars are in play. The pressure to be a super performer is palpable – have you seen his super hero commercials? It is almost more than a 26-year-old can carry.\n\nHe needs a full community of supporters across lines of race and culture and ethnicity to help. Whoever said words don’t hurt and don’t have power? That is wrong, very wrong. In fact, the truth about words is that they have a strong creative power. Words can create. Words to young children can change lives. Millions of dollars are being spent on low wealth schools (average of about $1500 per child locally) and after school programs (some say nationwide up to 1.2. billion) with hopes that teachers and mentors and community leaders will speak words of encouragement and inspire greatness.\n\nThere is no doubt that we are losing our African American males to a life of incarceration and ultimately poverty. According to the Census Bureau American Community Survey, the poverty rate for all African Americans in 2012 was 28.1%. Black families with children under 18 headed by a single mother had the highest rate of poverty at 47.5. In addition, the Criminal Justice Fact Sheet: Racial Disparities in Incarceration reports that:\n• African Americans now constitute nearly 1 million of the total 2.3 million incarcerated population\n• African Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites\n• Together, African American and Hispanics comprised 58% of all prisoners in 2008, even though African Americans and Hispanics make up approximately one quarter of the US population\n• One in six black men had been incarcerated as of 2001. If current trends continue, one in three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime\n• Nationwide, African-Americans represent 26% of juvenile arrests, 44% of youth who are detained, 46% of the youth who are judicially waived to criminal court, and 58% of the youth admitted to state prisons (Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice).\n\nYes. I would say the statistics above move beyond Langston Hughes dreams deferred. It is in fact, my retitlement- the death of dreamers and their dreams. So then, how do we reconcile the temperament adults cast toward this young man? How do we explain to a cadre of young black boys a justifiable cause for acts of continual chastisement when, to them, they see greatness? They see miracles and the “dare to believe the unbelievable” preached about in Sunday School and pulpits? Here we have an opportunity to exchange a few things. Would you not agree that taking issue with Cam Newton’s end zone demeanor that is fueled by his youth and love of the game, pales in comparison to a much larger presence he makes?\n\nI wonder what Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music, had in mind when they commissioned Pharrell Williams to write a theme song for the movie Despicable Me and he titled it “Happy”. Could it be that this generation, super athletes included, interprets the world differently from the protocols and practices “we” see as befitting of a representative of the super star class? Could it be that Cam’s “happy” dance propels and energizes him after running and passing and yes, then celebrating in the end zone, and igniting young fans by giving them the football?\n\nImagine that! He hands over a football that will transform a child forever and, even with this, he is scolded as being “fake”, unreal and anything but genuine. Could it be that Cam Newton simply wants to have fun and enjoy what his athletic gifts have afforded him? Isn’t this what we have forgotten to do in pursuit of our dreams… have fun?\n\nCam Newton, I’m so very, very proud of you! Here’s to an amazing kickoff-just do what you do and make us proud!" ]

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[ "Here is a screenshot of Marie and her BFF Geoffrey, relaxing on a boulder in the middle of the river. The pair would do pretty much anything for each other and pretty much have.", null, "Here are a few screenshots from our beta weekend. First is a shot of my character, Kaaewnyth, and the hubby’s character, Betath Anyu.", null, "There’s a tale to go with this next one. The hubby has a nasty habit when I’m playing Skyrim of taking all of my characters clothes off when I leave the computer. Or, he’ll take off everything but her bracers, so that in first person, it still looks like she’s dressed, and I don’t know until I get a kill-cam or some NPC says, “You need to put some clothes on.” I got up to go get a coke over the weekend, and the hubby stripped my character to her skivvies an set her to dancing. The guy in the picture was actively ogling Kaawenyth when she was dancing, and then he tried to friend me. The hubby and I had a nice long discussion about the difference between doing this on a single-player game and an MMO, and he’s not going to do it again. Are you sweetie? . . . Sweetie?", null ]

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[ null, "As censor Augustus displayed a striking and praiseworthy forbearance. He was upbraiding a Roman knight for having squandered his resources, but the man demonstrated in his presence that he had actually increased them. Soon after he reproached the same man for not obeying the laws prescribing marriage, but the man said he had a wife and three children, and added, “From now on, Caesar, give honorable men the job of investigating honorable men.” In the case of a soldier, he tolerated speech that was not merely free but brazen: when he was passing some restless nights at a villa where an owl’s hooting was disturbing his sleep, a soldier who was also a skilled bird-catcher caught the bird and brought it to Augustus, expecting a huge reward. The emperor praised him and ordered that he be given 1,000 sesterces—at which point the soldier dared to say, “I’d rather see it live,” and let the bird go. Who could not be amazed that Caesar took no offense and let the defiant soldier off scot-free? When an army veteran was facing a trial and had his court-date set, he approached Caesar in public and asked him to support him at his trial. Caesar immediately chose someone from his entourage to serve as his advocate and introduced the man to the soldier: thereupon the veteran cried out in a loud voice, “But I did not look for someone to serve in my place when you were in danger at the battle of Actium: I fought for you myself,” and he uncovered his scars. Caesar blushed and came to support him, for fear of appearing not just arrogant but also ungrateful. (tr. Robert A. Kaster)" ]

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[ "A multi-agency crackdown on illegal cannabis grows in Oklahoma resulted in the seizure of roughly $500 million worth of illicit cannabis.\n\nThe seizures stemmed from a yearlong investigation into a multistate crime ring that officials said was shipping marijuana all over the country.\n\nAccording to a news release, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics (OBN) raids focused on nine marijuana grow operations and three private residences scattered across the state.\n\nEight of the nine farms raided were licensed by the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority and were reportedly in “good standing,” The Oklahoman reported.\n\nMore than 200 agents from local, state and federal law enforcement agencies were involved in the raids, which officials said resulted in the largest marijuana bust in state history.\n\nThe illicit cannabis was sent by the ringleaders to markets such as California, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina and Texas, according to the release.\n\nArrest warrants have been issued in connection with the investigation for 13 individuals in Oklahoma, one in California and three in Texas, the release noted.\n\nAuthorities said five people have been arrested so far and more arrests are expected soon.\n\nThose arrested face a variety of criminal charges, including aggravated trafficking and aggravated manufacturing.\n\n“For over a year, (the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics) has been targeting numerous individuals and organizations that have moved to Oklahoma from out-of-state and used fraudulent business structures and ‘ghost owners’ to obtain their Oklahoma Medical Marijuana licenses,” OBN spokesman Mark Woodward told local media.\n\n“These criminals try to blend into our state’s medical marijuana program while trafficking marijuana onto the illicit market around the United States, laundering money and moving millions of dollars in illicit drug proceeds overseas.”", null, null ]

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[ "The Spanish National Police are investigating dozens of individuals who made online purchases of pentobarbital, a barbiturate used by seriously ill people to end to their life through euthanasia. The dignified death association Derecho a Morir Dignamente (DMD) has sent its members a document, to which EL PAÍS has had access, explaining that around 20 persons have approached the entity to express concern after “having received a visit from the National Police to ask them about the purchase [of the drug].”", null, "Police sources have confirmed this investigation, which was described as still in a preliminary stage. The online purchase of this type of drug breaches current regulations in Spain. But in the absence of a law to control euthanasia, DMD considers it a “last resort” for patients. Professionals think it’s very unlikely that these individuals will face criminal prosecution if the product was for self-consumption.\n\nPurchasers are the last link in a major investigation that began last July in the United States, which “extends to several countries and is complex,” according to the Spanish Health Ministry, which is also aware of the case. Last October, the French Gendarmerie launched an operation with 300 agents who apprehended 134 bottles of pentobarbital in the homes of patients with ties to pro-euthanasia organizations, local media reported.", null, "According to information provided at the time by the French authorities, the United States initiated the investigations after arresting a person who was selling the medicine on the internet. Police seized lists with the personal data of buyers, which made it possible to locate them. Pentobarbital, or pentobarbitone, is a barbiturate used in the past as a sedative and hypnotic drug, even though it has been replaced by new benzodiazepines that are safer. José Antonio Marcos, from the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmaceutical Products (SEFH), highlights that the drug “acts as a central nervous system depressant” and that “it is no longer marketed in Spain for human consumption but for veterinary use only.”\n\nIn nations where euthanasia or assisted suicide is legal or has been decriminalized, such as the Netherlands and Switzerland, the drug is used for this purpose. In the United States, it is administered to prisoners who have been sentenced to death.\n\nThe United Recovery Project prides itself in the wide range of programs it has perfected and can confidently offer. These include medical detox, inpatient treatment, outpatient programs, intensive outpatient, and also Partial hospitalization programs. The program offered to a patient heavily depends on the drug addicted to, how long the addiction has lasted and how much of the drug was abused. Our evidence-based programs have inspired confidence in therapists seeking to rehabilitate their patients. Contact us now and experience the prime rehab program that will transform your life into a drug-free and fulfilling one." ]

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[ "Home » TV & Movies » This jacket has been on a prime-time TV show for over 20 years – but can you tell who it belongs to?\n\nThis coat has been on prime-time tv show for over 20 years – but can you tell who it belongs to?\n\nOne soap character has been wearing it for decades, and how they keep it from falling apart we'll never know.", null, null, null, "He snapped a photo of co-star Julia Goulding, who plays David Platt's wife Shona, pointing at it and shared it on Instagram.\n\nIt would have instantly made sense to die-hard Corrie fans when the TV star wrote over the snap \"iconic\".\n\nThe coat has been worn by Cobbles mechanic Kevin Webster since the 1990s – with the soap's wardrobe department keeping it in pristine condition.\n\nAnd Corrie fans continue to be distracted by the purple bomber jacket, wondering how it's survived so long.\n\nOne fan tweeted: \"Really hope that guy manages to rip that jacket off Kevin and it finally ends up in a bin. He’s had it for 30 years. #Corrie.\"\n\nAnother said: \"Kevin Webster has been wearing that same bomber jacket since the early 90s. It’s due an oil change. #Corrie #coronationstreet.\"\n\n\"I haven’t watched #corrie for about 5yrs until tonight. How the hell is Kev still wearing that bomber jacket? Seriously has he had a costume change in 20yrs?\" a third added.", null, null, null ]

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[ "Group Fails To Reach Agreement To Save Bluefin Tuna • Earth.com", null, "Group Fails To Reach Agreement To Save Bluefin Tuna\n\nAn international body that monitors fisheries in most of the Pacific Ocean ended a meeting in Japan on Thursday without agreement on fresh measures to protect the dwindling bluefin tuna.\n\nThe Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission was unable to get a consensus on either short-term or long-term measures to help restore the bluefin population, whose numbers are estimated to have fallen 96 percent from unfished levels.\n\nLast year, the 10-nation commission recommended that the catch of juvenile tuna be cut to half of its average level in 2002-2004. But conservation groups say more must be done to counter the sharp decline of the species.\n\nThe lack of a required three-quarters quorum prevented any agreement, since representatives from China, the Cook Islands, Vanuatu and the Philippines did not attend. So any decisions on new long-term measures were pushed back to 2016, the Japanese Fisheries Agency said.\n\nFurther inaction would likely prompt efforts by conservationists to get Pacific bluefin tuna banned from international trading, said a statement by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which is working to save the species.\n\n“Unfortunately, the only outcome of this week’s meeting is a guarantee that the Pacific bluefin tuna population will decline even further because of the continued inaction of ten governments responsible for the management of this species,” Amanda Nickson, director of global tuna conservation for the group.\n\n“The international community may be forced to look at a global trade ban to help save this species,” she said in a statement.\n\nThe fisheries group also did not agree to a request by researchers to study the results of stricter fisheries management during their four-day meeting in the northern city of Sapporo.\n\nJapanese eat 80 percent of the world’s bluefin tuna, or “hon maguro,” a sushi mainstay, and demand elsewhere in the world has kept growing. At a ritual new year auction, the top price for the fish jumped to about $7,000 a kilogram in 2013 but was a more reasonable $208 per kilogram this year.\n\nMost of the fish caught are juveniles that have not had a chance to reproduce. The species could recover relatively quickly, however, since they are highly productive, spawning millions of eggs a year.\n\nThe environmental group Greenpeace praised Japanese representatives for proposing emergency measures to help the bluefin tuna, but said given the severity of its decline Japan should restrict sales of the fish.\n\nA stock assessment by the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the Northern Pacific Ocean found the levels of bluefin in 2012 at near their lowest ever of just 4 percent of original stocks." ]

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[ "On a scale of 1 to ‘my mom's gonna love you,’ how round are your rotis?\n\nby Bashiera Parker\nin Cooking Guides and Tips\n2\n\nAll rotis are not created equal, I know, but for most of my life I believed they should be. I’m looking at you – the aunty I almost never see who came over one day while I was cooking with my mom and commented I won’t find a husband if my rotis aren’t round.\n\nAs if I didn’t have enough going on in my teen years figuring out how to thin out my eyebrows, now I had to worry about finding a man who was okay with pear-shaped rotis.\n\nLuckily, my husband doesn’t eat with his eyes first. Or maybe it was the fact that he fell in love with me in high school, when sharing my peanut butter and jam sandwich with him was enough to make him swoon.\n\nOf course, that was a few years back, and I’ve had to adapt. At some point I had to return to my mom’s kitchen to learn how to make perfectly round rotis.\n\nHere’s a step-by-step guide to making perfectly round rotis that’ll impress all those snickering aunties:\n\nRotis can seem like a pretty daunting thing to attempt, but the actual dough-making process is fairly simple, with minimal ingredients.\n\nIn a bowl, sift 2 cups of flour, ½ tsp salt and ½ tsp sugar together. Boil 1¼ cup of a half water-half milk mixture and combine with 30g of melted butter. Add your wet ingredients to your dry ingredients and stir with the back of a wooden spoon, as your dough will be piping hot from your wet ingredients.\n\nTip: Gradually add the wet mixture to the dry until you get a dough-like consistency – you don’t want your mixture to be too wet, so you may not end up using all of your water-milk mixture.\n\nKnead your dough for a few minutes before covering it with a damp tea towel. Set it aside to cool and rest.\n\nPortion and cut your dough into 8–10 pieces and close off either end to create a round dough ball – a neat ball of dough is the first of many key tips to rolling a perfectly round roti.\n\nCover your dough balls with your damp tea towel and allow it to rest once more.\n\nThings are about to get tricky. A few key points before we begin:\n\nFlour your surface underneath your ball of dough, as well as your rolling pin.\n\nPress your roti gently with the palm of your hand so you begin with a slight disc instead of a ball.\n\nStart rolling your roti by applying gentle pressure so as to move the dough out from the centre in one direction. You’ll find the dough is quite elastic, so the gentle pressure allows it to move in a circular motion, before bouncing back. Rotate your roti – you don’t want to do a full 90-degree rotation as that’s when you get perfectly square rotis – but instead shift it clockwise ever so slightly, while continuing the rolling process until you get your round shape.", null, "Again, remember not to apply too much pressure when rolling so as to ensure your dough doesn’t end up sticking to your surface.\n\nFry your rotis in a non-stick pan – no need to add butter or oil. When they puff up, you’ll know you’ve done a top job.", null, "And, sure, there’ll be times when they’re not perfectly round – an oblong-shape at worst with this method. If the aunties still have something to say, though, hand the rolling pin to your husband – let him have a crack at it." ]

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[ "An Experiment In Originality: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Live at the Colston Hall", null, "Every year Bristol, as well as cities across the UK and elsewhere, celebrates Black History Month in order to recognise and remember important people and events in the history of the African diaspora.\n\nThroughout October there are many exhibitions and events to go and see in order for us to learn about the African culture.\n\nThe University of the West of England (UWE) hosts many exhibitions and viewings for the public ranging from exhibitions of prominent black figureheads and UWE alumni to screenings relating to black history. The Watershed on Bristol’s harbour-side is also hosting screenings of Stanley Nelson’s The Black Panther: Vanguard of the Revolution; a film documenting a pivotal time for black people in America.\n\nColston Hall was also hosting events as part of the Black History Month and I was personally lucky enough to be able to attend Malians Bassekou Kouyate’s gig.\n\nAdmittedly, I had never heard of Bassekou Kouyate and had only briefly listened to them on YouTube, but after seeing their live performance, they have definitely asserted their unforgettable performance into my mind!\n\nTheir gig was held in a smallish venue room in the Colston Hall and evoked the atmosphere of intimacy with the band. The room was busy with excited people itching to see the band, but not uncomfortably busy and there was plenty of room to have a little dance.\n\nMy boyfriend and I grabbed a quick beer whilst waiting in anticipation for Bassekou Kouyate to begin playing and when they did we were not disappointed.\n\nUnlike anything I had ever heard and totally unique, the band started to play their native instruments as a woman took over the microphone and started signing hypnotic lyrics to the crowd of bedazzled revellers.\n\nThe band play with ngoni’s which fill the room with enchanting sounds. These ngoni’s are string instruments originating in West Africa and hold special historical importance for the people of Mali as a sense of identity. The ngoni is a hollowed out canoe-shaped piece of wood with dried animal skin stretched over it like a drum, and it sounds absolutely beautiful.\n\nAs well as having drums and other percussion instruments the band was able to perform some truly wonderful songs and I could see why they were so popular.\n\nTheir originality is appealing and refreshing and it is really inspiring to see instruments being played in a true sense of joy in being able to spread the sounds of their native instrument.\n\nI’m so glad I got the opportunity to see them perform and I would recommend seeing them if you see them on the line-up for anything, or if they come to the UK on another tour!" ]

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[ null, "I don’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat. If you’re a Trump supporter or not. I don’t care what you think about immigration reform, or whether you believe in God or are an atheist.\n\nIf you’re a human being, you cannot possibly think separating a child from his/her parent is humane.", null, null, "Humanity: All human beings collectively. Whether immigrant or American. The human race.\n\nIf America’s policies are not humane, then we as a country are inhumane.\n\nWhen the stories of these separations first began to hit the news cycle, I’ll admit, my first thought was one of denial. Perhaps the media was sensationalizing the claim. I did not want to believe this was happening in America. I didn’t want to believe the GOP had slid so far down the slippery slope of their desire to retain control. (I’m a life-long Republican.)\n\nSo, I continued to listen and read a variety of news sources about “tent cities,” camps and an empty Walmart housing the children, while both Trump and Sessions rationalized the “zero tolerance” policy as a deterrent to illegal immigrants.", null, "“If people don’t want to be separated from their children, they should not bring them with them. We’ve got to get this message out. You’re not given immunity.” ~~Jeff Sessions\n\nTwo things happened, and I could stay silent no longer.\n\nThe little girl in the photo above is about the age of my granddaughter, Allie. I couldn’t help but think about my own grandkids being taken from their parents. Allie needs her mommy. It wouldn’t matter if she was taken to a park, a toy store or even Disneyland. When she’s sad, hurt or especially frightened, she wants her mommy. Period.\n\nHow can anyone, especially a parent, try to make the separation sound harmless by reasoning the children are being “well cared for” and have a clean environment, healthy meals and plenty of toys?\n\nWhen Dr. Colleen Kraft, head of the American Academy of Pediatrics, entered a facility, she found a “little playground where children could play. Rooms were equipped with toys, books and crayons.”\n\nShe noticed a 2-year old girl crying and pounding her fists on a mat. Dr. Kraft said, “The really devastating thing was that we all knew what was going on with this child. We all knew what the problem was. She didn’t have her mother, and none of us can fix that.”\n\nRead more here: “America is better than this”: What a doctor saw in a Texas shelter for migrant children\n\nThe BS spouting from the mouths of those trying to soothe concerns about taking children away from their parents began to remind me of the propaganda used during the internment of people of Japanese ancestry during World War II. (If you aren’t familiar with my family’s history, my mother was interned at the age of eight.)\n\nThe following statements are almost identical to the justification used to intern my mother, her family and 120,000 others of Japanese ancestry–2/3 of them American citizens.\n\nIf you don’t want to watch the whole video, jump to around minute 5:00. It might surprise you to hear how similar the propaganda sounds to what’s being said today.\n\n“I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order.”\n\nAnd here’s a quote from the end of the video about the Japanese Internment:\n\n” . . .we are protecting ourselves without violating the principles of Christian decency . . .”\n\nLove does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.\n\nBut I believe, if we really think about it . . . if we stop for a moment and empathize with those immigrant parents, or at least with those children, how can any of us think separating children from their parents is humane?\n\nAnd if you agree it’s inhumane, how can you remain silent?" ]

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[ null, "All of these are good stories and I enjoyed them a great deal, but there are some stand-outs. Victor Rousseu's \"She Who Was He!\" is a pretty bizarre tale of involuntary transgenderism (!) and murder. \"Taupoo Dance\" by Robert Leslie Bellem has an unusual setting for a Weird Menace story: a tropical island in the South Seas. \"Blind Flight\" by Edwin Truett Long takes place for the most part on an airplane flying through dense fog, also not a typical Weird Menace setting, and Long's \"Red—For Murder\" is a pretty good crime yarn with several nifty twists packed into a few thousand words. I've never read much by Long, but those two stories impressed me. His other entry in this volume, \"False Face\", starts out well but kind of falls apart at the end. As for the more traditional Weird Menace stories, Bellem's \"Labyrinth of Monsters\" is my favorite; grisly and very action-packed. I don't know if there'll be a third volume in this series, but if there is, you can bet I'll read it.\n\nI love your reference to \"Scooby-Doo endings\" in mystery stories! I'll have to track down a copy of THE BEST OF SPICY MYSTERY, VOL. 2.\n\nNice collection and well worth having. I have always loved this cover, years ago Frank Robinson was selling large size cover repros of pulps and among the ones I bought from at that time was this cover. I have it framed and it hangs in my Pulpcave.\n\nWhat I've found with the horror/weird menace pulps I've read is that you get one or two good stories per issue, and everything else is basically filler... but the good stories can be very good indeed!\n\nI don't think I can put off getting this one any longer.\nIsn't Bellem's Labyrinth of Monsters in Tony Goodstone's old anthology The Pulps?\nIf it's the story I'm thinking of it warped my youthful brain but good.\n\nYes, it is in the Goodstone book. I'd forgotten about that. But it's been probably 30 years since I read that anthology. Definitely brain-warping material . . . but in a good way.\n\nIn my introduction to this anthology, I mentioned that Labyrinth of Monsters was previously published in Goldstone's book, but deemed it worthy of reprinting today. Volume 3 will be out as soon as Altus Press gets around to it. There are many books ahead of mine in the pipeline.\n\nAlfred, I'm really glad to hear that Volume 3 is in the works. These are great collections!\n\nI meant GOODSTONE, of course." ]

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[ "The 3rd Battle of Kharkov was the last major German victory of World War II. I needed a brief timeline as background for my Kharkov 3 Crossfire Scenario.", null, "In March 1943 Hausser’s SS Panzerkorps was given the task of retaking the city. By this stage of the war Hausser’s men were hardened veterans, and his Panzerkorps consisted of:\n\nRybalko’s Soviet 3rd Tank Army were waiting for them, with the 1st and 2nd Guards Tank Corps and the 48th, 104th, 305th and 307th Rifle Divisions inside the city.\n\nThe German assault troops were formed into Kampfgruppes and each was given a road to attack down. SS Das Reich attacked from the west (Kampfgruppe Harmel) and SS Leibstandarte from the north (Kampfgruppes Krass, Sandig, Hansen, Witt, Meyer), while SS Totenkopf screened the Northwest.", null, "Four days of bitter house to house fighting ensued. As the days progressed the German force broke into smaller company sized groups, each supported by a few Panzers. Soviet machine-guns and anti-tank gun were everywhere and in every lane and courtyard a tank lay in wait. Each block had to be cleared building by building with artillery sweeping the bridges and approaches.\n\nThis scenario represents the typical house to house fighting that went on. All the attacking forces encountered situations like this, but nominally the scenario follows Kampfgruppe Witt’s approach to Dzerzhinsky Square in the centre of the city on 12 March." ]

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[ "Sorry for not posting for a while but now I am back with a new movie review. This time, we are discussing The Circle.\n\nIMDb summary: A woman lands a dream job at a powerful tech company called the Circle, only to uncover an agenda that will affect the lives of all of the humanity.\n\nThe Circle was written by the director James Ponsoldt and the author of the original novel Dave Eggers. Even though Eggers was helping with the adapting process, the usual book to movie changes did occur. The narrative was streamlined and some of the unnecessary plot details were cut out (mainly the extra development for the main character – her interaction with the couple on a boat and her quite uncomfortable relationship with the character of Francis (who does not appear in the film at all). Also, the reveal of John Boyega’s character came sooner in the movie while it was held secret until the end of the book.\n\nIdea-wise, the film was quite fateful, although it did have more gray areas, which I quite liked. My main complaint about the book was that it presented the ideas on privacy and freedom but wasn’t critical of them. The fact that the majority of people were okay with this new world order and didn’t bat an eye about losing their right to chose were two things that were hard to believe. This type of naivety was quite unrealistic and, in turn, annoying. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.\n\nThe book’s ending, while shocking, was also very much frustrating and solidified the unlikeability of the character (due to her complete naivety). The movie’s main character – Mae – appeared to be more critical of the world she inhabited, and even though there were plenty of moments where the character appeared to have drunk the kool-aid completely, she ultimately chose to fight against it. However, whether she was fighting against the loss of privacy or just against the two heads of The Circle, I don’t know. I wish that would have been made more clear. Additionally, it is important to note that her decision to rebel might have made the film’s ending more stereotypically Hollywood-like, but I thought that it was more interesting than the book’s ending: it still raised the questions of transparency but it also gave a resolution to the story, even if a very uncertain one.\n\nJames Ponsoldt, who has previously directed The Spectacular Now, which I quite liked, and The End of The Tour, which I have been meaning to watch for a while, helmed The Circle and did an okay job. The setting and the design of The Circle company was good – not too futuristic and actually believable (in contrast to the ideas). The camera work was fine too – a variety of angles was used. The pacing was solid and the levels of intensity worked too. Overall, the film was not spectacular but I don’t think that Ponsoldt’s directing abilities were in any way to blame.\n\nEmma Watson starred as the main character Mae. While reading the book, I absolutely hated this character but Watson succeeded in making her at least a tiny bit more likable and relatable on screen. I also thought that she made the character’s arc seem believable, as much as she could with the flawed writing. Her performance was not superb but it was an okay follow-up to one of the biggest movies of the year – Beauty and the Beast.\n\nTom Hanks (Sully, Inferno, Bridge of Spies) starred as one of the heads of The Circle and played a sort of villainous role – that’s not typical of him. However, the match between an actor and a character was actually quite a good one – the character needed to be really charismatic and Hanks as an actor just seems so likable and personable. I loved his reaction to Mae turning against him. Interestingly, Hanks has already starred in a previous adaptation of one of Eggers’s books – A Hologram for the King.\n\nJohn Boyega had a small role as his follow-up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He didn’t have much to do but he did shine in a few scenes he was in. Later this year, he will also appear in a potential award’s contender – Bigelow’s Detroit. He was also cast in the Pacific Rim franchise.\n\nKaren Gillan also had a little role and was okay. It was nice actually seeing her on screen without all the blue makeup of Nebula (Guardians of the Galaxy). Her next film is the Jumanji remake/sequel.\n\nBoyhood’s Ellar Coltrane and the comedian Patton Oswalt also appeared in the picture and did a fine job. Bill Paxton also had a small role. The Circle was his final appearance on film, may he rest in peace.\n\nIn short, The Circle is a good drama that has the potential to kickstart a conversation on the issues it addressed. However, I don’t think that the movie itself did a good enough job on commenting on the said problems that it introduced.", null, "7 thoughts on “Movie review: The Circle”" ]

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[ "I hope that most of the readers hadn’t heard about the word “Hard Hitter Tennis.” Because, it is the latest online tennis games introduced before a couple of months. One of my best friends has bought this game recently for $19.99. At first, when I look over the title of the game, I was frustrated and had no interest on playing this game. But, I was addicted once played a game. I was amazed about the creativity, skills and knowledge of the developer on managing the common rules used in tennis.", null, "There is no story in this game as it is not necessary for any sort of sports game. The developer has used the graphics in an excellent way. Players will be allowed to alter the view by zooming out or in. In addition, the graphical effects will look sharp and nice when players use the zoom-in option. The replay of the game will be shown whenever the winning shot occurs. The graphical elements used in the game are certainly better than the one used in 2k2 versions.\nThe background music is good and tuned well to befit with the each and every movement of players. The sound effects are excellent on the commentators.\nThe gameplay of Hard Hitter Tennis is entirely different from all the other online tennis games. I have an experience of playing Tennis 2k2, in which the gameplay draws needless of concerning about the push given by the players to either right or left, the racket will never move out of the tennis court. But, the Hard Hitter Tennis is designed in a more realistic way." ]