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[ null, "John B. Bannon, Irish Catholic Jesuit priest who serves as a Confederate chaplain during the American Civil War, is born in Roosky, County Roscommon, on December 29, 1829. He is also renowned as an orator.\n\nBannon is born to James Bannon, a Dublin grain dealer, and Fanny Bannon (née O’Farrell). He goes to the vincentian Castleknock College in Dublin. In 1846 he goes to study for the priesthood at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth in the minor seminary until 1850 and completing his theology course in 1853. He is ordained on June 16, 1853 by Archbishop Paul Cullen for the Dublin Diocese. He soon applies to move to America.\n\nShortly after ordination he moves to the Archdiocese of St. Louis, Missouri. He becomes pastor to St. John the Apostle and Evangelist Church which he builds in 1858. He serves in the First Missouri Confederate Brigade, during the American Civil War. He ministers at the battles of Corinth, Fort Gibson, and at Big Black River Bridge, Vicksburg.\n\nHe is detained on July 4, 1863 when Vicksburg surrenders. After being released by Union forces he goes to Richmond, Virginia in August 1863, where Jefferson Davis and Secretary of State Judah Benjamin ask him to go to Ireland to discourage recruitment for the Federal forces and try to get international help for the Confederacy.\n\nIn November 1863, Bannon returns to Ireland, writing and pamphleting to discourage people from emigrating and joining the Union side of the civil war. He makes two trips to Rome to try, unsuccessfully, to get the Vatican to side with the Confederacy. Following the American Civil War he is banned from preaching in St. Louis, and stays in Ireland, becoming a Jesuit in 1865, spending some time in Milltown Park, Tullabeg College, and in Gardiner Street.\n\nBannon dies on July 14, 1913 in Upper Gardiner Street, and is buried in the Jesuit plot at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin." ]

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[ null, null, "Some secrets are deadly…\n\nWhen the victim of a car crash begs journalist Alex Devlin for help before disappearing without trace, Alex finds herself caught up in a mystery that won’t let her go.\n\nDetermined to find the missing man, she is soon investigating a conspiracy that threatens some of the most vulnerable members of society.\n\nBut will Alex be prepared to put her own life on the line to help those who can’t help themselves?\n\nThis is the fourth book in the Alex Devlin series, and let me tell you Alex Devlin is a character you would want on your side should you really want the truth. A little unusually for a crime fiction series, Alex is a journalist and someone who has investigated the painful truth about the deaths of her niece and nephew. This fact means the reader can be sure that nobody nor anything will stop her pursuing the leads to find the truth…\n\nThis is just as well because when Alex is given a proposal for a story she believes it is going to be relatively straightforward, oh Alex, how wrong can you be? Cora’s brother Rick has gone missing and she believes the fact that he slept rough will result in a lack of interest by the police. Alex was already casting her net in search of a story to write for the local East Anglian paper, and when she finds out that more of the homeless appear to have disappeared she follows the trail.\n\nThis is a bang-on contemporary story which avoids the pitfalls that I find some author’s fall into . This storyline doesn’t feel forced, I didn’t ever feel that the issue came first and then repeatedly shouted from the rooftops. Nevertheless the book necessarily shines a light on those members of society that are often invisible because we do not wish to see them. Fortunately Mary-Jane Riley does what all good authors do, she made me want to find out the truth alongside Alex (and others who she persuades to assist her) so that I became invested in the storyline too.\n\nOne of the reasons why I fell in love with this series, is the characters; Alex Devlin has the qualities I admire but this is an author who is able to create both obvious baddies and villains of the more subtle variety too. Boney in this book was one of the obvious variety but believably so – I know we are always told that criminals don’t have their trade stamped across their forehead but that doesn’t mean that there are those out there that most of us would instinctively give a wide berth to! This creation of a wide range of characters right across the spectrum and ensuring a large percentage have depth means that the whole book is given a backdrop of realism to play out the at times most gripping of scenes.\n\nIf you haven’t read any of the Alex Devlin series, I do urge you to start at the beginning because although each one will read most satisfactorily as a standalone, I know you will want more and all good bibliophile’s know that you really should read a series in order if you are going to read them all!\n\nThe Bad Things\nAfter She Fell\nDark Waters\n\nI want to finish by stating just how delighted I was to be asked to take part in this blog tour; a huge thank you Mary-Jane for ensuring I was included despite my absence from the blogosphere and of course to Dampebbles for putting me at the end of the tour as requested so that I could fit in a wedding and read the book and remember how to write a review…", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Save Crowe’s nest Farm. Our plan is…. Too have a water tower close to Crowes nest farm and run pipes to several lakes and if they run low on water they can get water from the water tower We also have the plan of having a greenhouse so the animals that eat plants don’t run out of water. .", null, "Mr. Kubeny’s Million Dollar Pre$entation - . what are some frequently asked questions about $?. 1. when should i save?\n\nAnimal Farm, by George Orwell - . adapted from version by darren leu. what is the tone of animal farm ? how do you know?.\n\nOne Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey - . the novel. a counter-culture protest novel, which is an allegorical\n\nSerious Farm - . *robust vocabulary*. created by: agatha lee march 2009. acquired. if you own or buy something, then you\n\nAnimal Farm Chapter Ten - Animal farm\" chapter ten. question 3 - throughout the book, there are suspicions about" ]

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[ "Catch ‘Mistaken for Strangers’ before it leaves town", null, "It’s 2010 and indie rock band The National is set to embark on their largest international tour to date. Enter lead singer ’s younger brother Tom, a wannabe horror filmmaker with aspirations to make a documentary film about the band. Starting out with large ambition and grand ideas, and starting with Matt’s full support, it’s not long before Tom’s tour roadie position is hanging by a thread due to his constant by slacking off on the job, getting drunk and overall lack of ability. What starts out as a candid music doc ends up going in a completely different direction, delivering an earnest, behind-the-scenes look at Tom’s endeavours and subsequent departure, but the question becomes will Tom be able to salvage his film?\n\nMistaken for Strangers may be one of the best stories about brothers captured on film. Tom may not have started out wanting to include himself into the film, but eventually his own antics and screw ups became too difficult for the director to ignore and he discovered the real film within his footage. This discovery also plays out over the course of the film’s last act, a rare glimpse into what goes into developing a film beyond the filming stages.", null, "The music is great and the very non-rockstar type of life the National leads , Tom keeps wondering where the trashed hotel rooms and other drunken debauchery is, shows how most real bands determined to make their name on the road operate. This is a real workman like group, rambling down the streets from gig to gig on a deluxe sleeper tour bus, and Tom sticks out like a sore thumb with his heavy metal roots and party lifestyle.\n\nIn the end, Mistaken for Strangers is a story about and older brother’s love for his unmotivated yet lovable schlub of a younger brother and his attempts to help his realize his filmmaker aspirations. Tom’s earlier schlocky low budget horror films may never see the light of day but Mistaken for Strangers, all rough around the edges and unprofessional as Tom is himself, is a special film everyone should be on the lookout for.", null, "This entry was posted on April 15, 2014 by moviejunkieto. It was filed under Documentary, Reviews, Theatrical and was tagged with Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Matt Berninger, Mistaken for Strangers, The National, Tom Berninger." ]

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[ null, "\nOnline Poker now, is gaining prominence as big as any other live game of Poker. Playing Poker online has a few perks which perhaps can never be a part of playing the game offline, using these benefits, a few of the best Online Poker players have been enjoying the luxury of wealth that they earned due to their consistency in playing Poker Online. Let’s learn about the rich, richer and the richest Online Poker players and their respective journeys through this article.\n\nPhil Ivey– Born in California and raised in New Jersey, Phil Ivey is regarded as the best Online Poker player on the basis of his total accumulated wealth. Phil, who is also known as ‘No Home Jerome’ or ‘Tiger Woods of Poker’ began with his Poker journey by playing Poker with his colleagues at the Telemarketing company he used to work for and gradually moved to playing at greater levels which eventually landed him in to partially owning an Online Poker website and a filthy amount of money. Phil owns 7 WSOP bracelets and has finished in the top 25 four time between the frame of 2002 to 2009 in the Main Event.\n\nPatrik Antonius– Finnish born Online Poker maestro Patrik Antonius, who is currently leading a lavish lifestyle in his Monte Carlo haven is known as ‘FinddaGrind’ in the world of Poker. He is also known for his involvement in the much known Durrrr challenge in the year 1980 in the town of Vantaa. Patrik before turning into a professional Poker player was a full time Tennis player and coach and was trained by Marcel Luske and Jennifer Harman before attaining the wealth that he desired by playing Poker online, in fact, Patrick’s major amount of wealth is being derived from playing Poker Online\n\nDan Cates– Dan Cates is a perfect story of Poker- struggle to success, as he portrays a humble yet fool proof way to earn a rich living by playing Poker Online after having a history of working at MacDonald’s due to a major loss of bank roll in a game. But, according to the present stats, Cates is known to be one of the richest Online Poker players between July 2009 and April 2011 as he prefers playing online over offline due to his aggressive edge in the online tournaments. In addition to his mainstream earning through the stakes online, Cates is also a Poker blogger and educator." ]

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[ null, "POTOMAC, Md. - The guy who has been fiddling with putters because he wasn't happy with the results finally saw his share of putts go in.\n\nIf only Tiger Woods could have looked behind him, he might have seen J.J. Spaun match his best score of the year with a 7-under 63 to share the lead with Andrew Landry in the Quicken Loans National.\n\nSpaun, who has gone back-and-forth with putters four times in his last six tournaments, quietly went about his business Thursday while most of the attention was on Woods in the group ahead of him using a mallet-style putter to help him shake out of a slump.\n\nA new putter gave Woods a better feel, but the same middling results. He had six birdie chances from 10 feet or closer and made two of them to offset a double bogey early in his round, and he had to settle for an even-par 70.\n\n''I shot about the score I should have shot today,'' Woods said.\n\nLandry shot his 63 in the morning when the TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm was soft, though still punishing with its thick rough. Spaun did his work in the windier afternoon, even if no one noticed. He played in the group behind Woods, and didn't even get leftovers from thousands of fans watching golf's biggest draw.\n\n''Hell, no,'' Spaun said with a laugh. ''They don't even know who I am. They played so fast, actually. They were a solid hole ahead of us. ... I was kind of nervous, but I was more excited. I was like, 'Oh, I'm going to get to see his second shots from looking back from the tee.' But they played so fast, I didn't even see him at all. I just saw his pink shirt way in the distance.''\n\nHe would have seen solid play early, some wild shots off the tee by Woods in the middle and flawless work from tee-to-green late.\n\nSpaun wouldn't have seen many putts go in.\n\nWoods had five straight birdie chances from 8 feet or closer on the back nine. He made two of them - one of them from 3 feet - and didn't make a putt longer than 10 feet the entire round. Woods kept the round from getting away from him with two big par saves to start the back nine, both times having to chop it back to the fairway. He got up and down from 147 yards on No. 11 by making a 6-foot putt.\n\nIt was the first competitive round for Woods on the TPC Potomac, and his first time playing the tournament since 2015. This also is the last edition, and the field is among the weakest this year on the PGA Tour. Rickie Fowler is the only player in the top 10 in the world, and he also rallied for a 70.\n\nEven when he kept it in the short grass off the tee, Woods didn't have a reasonable birdie chance until No. 5, and he missed from 10 feet.\n\nAnd then he ran into trouble on the par-4 sixth, starting with a tee shot he pulled left that caromed off a tree and landed in the mown path that leads from the tee to the fairway. Woods tried to hit a 3-wood to the green and it came up short and into the hazard. He had to drop it in more rough, came up just short of the green and wound up making a 4-foot putt to escape with double bogey.\n\nGoing with an iron off the tee at the par-5 10th, he pulled that into the hazard but at least was able to chop it back to the fairway, rip a fairway metal around the green and chip it close to save par. On the next hole, he blasted a tee shot well right, over the gallery, and had to pitch out back into play again. That par felt like a birdie.\n\n''That kept the momentum somewhat on my side,'' Woods said. ''I knew I had some birdie holes coming up to try to get back to under par for the day, and I was close.''\n\nThe course was the fourth-toughest on the PGA Tour last year, trailing only three majors, though it was soft enough and the wind was mild so that low scores were available. Kyle Stanley won at 7-under 273 last year. Landry and Spaun shared the lead at 7 under after one round.\n\n''I expect that if we don't get any rain the next few days, the course is going to firm up, greens get firm, get a little bit quicker, but it's not going to be like last year,'' Billy Horschel said after his 64. ''So you're going to have to go out with the mindset that it's a little bit different course, you can't be as conservative, you've got to still try and make birdies.''\n\nAndrew Putnam also was at 64 while playing in the afternoon. Beau Hossler and Abraham Ancer were another shot behind.\n\nWoods has been at least six shots behind - and no better than a tie for 29th - after the opening round of his last six tournaments dating to the Masters.\n\nDoug Ferguson is the national golf writer for The Associated Press." ]

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[ null, "Seven years ago, I wrote a post about which then-current players were Cooperstown bound. Looking back at what I can now admit was an extremely flawed analysis, I realize I was being far too generous. I mean, I had Omar Vizquel as a no-doubt-about it Hall of Famer! I had Johan Santana in the same category. In my defense, it was early in my blogging days; I was bright eyed and eager, not hardened and cynical like I am now.\n\nSo I am taking another crack at it, being far more critical than I was back then. So here we go (all names are alphabetical):\n\nNo Doubt: already played 10 years (minimum for enshrinement) and would get in if they retired tomorrow\n\nA lot of people think some of these players are already shoo-ins — Beltran and Votto in particular. I am not sold yet (especially on Molina). I think all of these players could eventually get in, but I think they need a few more big seasons and may not be first-ballot guys.\n\nI wrote this before Beltran announced his retirement today; obviously, he cannot do more work, but I decided to leave him here. In the end, he will likely get in, but he will not be a first-ballot HOFer. If Vladimir Guerrero couldn’t get in his first try for some insane reason, then Beltran, an inferior player, will not.\n\nOn Hall of Fame Trajectory: Fewer than 10 years played (I only considered men who have played a minimum of five seasons)\n\nIt is more than likely that most of these guys will not make the Hall of Fame. It is just too early to tell (especially for a guy like Kluber, who is about to win his second Cy Young award). Right now, though, they appear to be on possible Cooperstown trajectories. Of course, things could change drastically over the next decade as they fill out the rest of their careers." ]

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[ null, "The CW has a new addition to their DC Comics roster. Deadline reports the network has ordered the TV series Black Lightning for the 2017-2018 season.\n\nBased on the DC Comics character, the drama centers on Jefferson Pierce, a former superhero who returns to crime fighting because of his daughter, Jennifer. The cast includes Cress Williams, Nefessa Williams, China Anne McClain, and Christine Adams.\n\nSalim Akil, Mara Brock Akil, and Greg Berlanti are executive producing Black Lightning, which will be the fifth DC series for The CW. The network’s other DC programs include Arrow, The Flash, Suepergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow.\n\nWhat do you think? Are you a fan of DC Comics? Will you watch Black Lightning?\n\nI believe that iZombie is also a DC Comics TV show as well, right?" ]

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[ null, "Along Phillips Avenue, the main street of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the local theater’s marquee is a tribute to the late Senator and 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern, who was buried last month, and is still regarded as a hero by many here. But with McGovern gone, it seems that the Democratic tradition of decent populism he epitomized was being interred along with him.\n\nIn his landmark 1981 book, The Nine Nations of North America, Joel Garreau deemed the vast region stretching from the southern Plains well past the Canadian border The Empty Quarter. Along with the western strip of the neighboring Bread Basket that stretches up from central Texas through the Dakotas, the Quarter—covering much of the nation’s land and home to many of its vital natural resources—is in open revolt against the Democratic Party, threatening the last remnants of prairie populism.\n\nAlthough long conservative and GOP leaning, the Empty Quarter—containing Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, and most of Alaska, along with inland California and Washington and parts of Colorado, New Mexico, and Oregon—has a proud progressive tradition as well. Over the past half-century, many of the Democratic Party’s most respected leaders —McGovern, Senator Majority Leaders Mike Mansfield of Montana and Tom Daschle of South Dakota, and powerful figures like North Dakota’s Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad—have represented the Plains.\n\nThe tradition is still revered there, but today’s Democrats are becoming an endangered species as the party has become ever more distinctly urban, culturally secular and minority dominated.\n\nWhile Obama lost most of the Quarter in 2008, this year polls show that he’s likely to be crushed there, despite the booming economy in many of the states. Obama’s popularity has dropped more in North Dakota, which has the nation’s lowest unemployment rate, than any other state.\n\nAmidst the growing anti-Obama tide, progressive Democrats in most of the Quarter have been increasingly marginalized, both by their own party and by voters. In the past two years, Republicans picked up a Senate and House seat in North Dakota, and look likely to pick up another this year, along with a Senate seat in Nebraska, and quite possibly another in Montana. They are also poised to claim the only remaining Democratic House seat in Utah, if Mia Love’s lead over Rep. Jim Matheson holds up.\n\nBy the end of this election, it’s possible that only two classic Prairie Democrats—South Dakota’s Tim Johnson and Montana’s Max Baucus—will remain in the Senate, where they once formed a powerful caucus. The Plains states, plus Alaska, account for 50 Congressional seats and an equal number of electoral votes—more than Florida, North Carolina and New Hampshire combined.\n\nWhy has this occurred? One problem, notes former Daschle top economic aide Paul Batcheller, lies with the “nationalization” of the Democratic Party—and its transformation from an alliance of geographic diverse regions to a compendium of narrow special-interest groups, so that under Obama, the Democratic Party has essentially become the expression of urban-dwellers, greens and minorities, along with public employees.\n\nThis, says Batcheller, has “made it easier for Republicans to paint Democrats as in cahoots with the likes of Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, etcetera. And because politics has always been fairly civil here, having those coastal boogeymen to use has made it easier to paint Prairie Dems as having gotten Potomac Fever.”\n\nHe also points to “changes in the media”—especially cable TV—that have made it more difficult for grassroots Democrats to make their case for their own interests, outside of the increasingly polarized national debate. At the same time, Obama’s policies—focused largely on constituents in dense coastal cities—have widened the gap between the Plains and the Democrats. It is increasingly difficult to be a successful Prairie progressive when that means striking out consistently against the very industries, from large-scale agriculture to fossil fuels, at the center of these economies.\n\nAt the same time, the failings of Democratic big states, most notably California and Illinois, are not exactly advertisements for the virtues of modern progressivism. Particularly galling, notes Mike Huether, the mayor of Sioux Falls, have been the huge deficits and expanded welfare spending associated with the Obama Administration.\n\n“This is a fiscally conservative place, we don’t like deficits,” notes Huether, a lifelong Democrat whose city of 156,000 operates with a fiscal surplus. “People here want self-sufficiency. They are happy to give a hand up but they see that as short term and that’s it.”\n\nAnd the region’s self-sufficiency is an increasingly important part of our national debate, especially about energy independence. Although often dismissed as a land of rubes and low-end jobs, a study of the Plains I conducted with the Praxis Strategy Group and Texas Tech University found that, overall, it has outperformed the rest of the country in virtually every critical economic measurement from job creation and wage growth to expansion of GDP.\n\nThe area has also thrived demographically, with population growth well above the national average. Most of this has taken place in the region’s flourishing urban centers, from Ft. Worth and Midland, Texas to Sioux Falls, Bismarck, Fargo, Oklahoma City and Omaha. This growth includes migration from still de-populating smaller towns in the region, but increasingly includes migrants from the coastal areas as well as immigrants.\n\nMore people now arrive in Oklahoma City from Los Angeles than the other way around. And these arrivals are hardly poor Okies pushed back unwillingly; the Plains cities have become magnets for educated people. Over the past decade, the number of people with BAs in Sioux Falls has grown by almost 60 percent; Bismarck and Fargo saw growth of over 50 percent, while Oklahoma City, Omaha and Lubbock enjoyed forty percent increases. In contrast, the educated population of San Francisco grew at 20 percent and that of New York by 24 percent.\n\nAny coastal denizen who spends time in these cities may be surprised by the tolerance and lack of bible-thumping one encounters there. Social issues, notes Mayor Huether, have never been drivers in the Plains as they have been in parts of the Deep South. A quiet Nordic spirituality prevails here, rather than evangelical enthusiasm; people and politicians generally do not wear their faith on their sleeves. The real issue in the Plains centers around the future of the economy, and how best to bolster family and community; the Obama program, with its interest-group agendas, simply does not translate well in this environment.\n\nUltimately, the red tide sweeping over the Plains is bad news, not simply for Democrats but for the country, part of the trend noted by Batcheller in which moderating regional forces within both parties—New England Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats—are losing ground.\n\nPrairie Democrats are crucial for ensuring that producers tangible staples—food, fiber and energy—have a space within their party’s tent, along with the big-city coastal consumers of those resources. Never mind the conservative cliché: If Democrats lose their remaining hold on the Plains, the nation’s parties will truly be split between makers and takers.\n\nThis region is likely to become more important over the coming decades, providing much of the food needed for world markets as well as significant share of our new domestic energy. Its manufacturing, technology and service industries are also growing rapidly, integrating the area more into the national and global economies.\n\nBatcheller, among others, believe that the Plains Democrats may not become extinct, but their future will be limited in the increasingly polarized, and nationalized, political order. On the local level, particularly on key infrastructure projects like Lewis and Clark water project that is being built to meet the needs of Sioux Falls and its environs, Republicans and Democrats are largely in agreement. Neither tea-party extremists nor greens can block progress towards widely accepted local infrastructure goals.\n\nOne can only hope that the Prairie Democrats manage to survive. They have contributed a unique brand of civically minded, decent social democracy that added much to the national debate. Egalitarian in intent, their brand of aspirational liberalism, fully content and compatible with notions of individual achievement and hard work, offers an alternative to the “know nothing” extremism increasingly dominant in both parties. This tradition of progressive decency could be sorely missed in the years ahead." ]

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[ "by AtPerrys Healing Crystals on November 24, 2019", null, "Do you know Moses used red eye agate to represent the spirit of god himself? A popular crystal since 1000 B.C, red variety of agate has many promises and secrets inside it. Moon cleanse is especially powerful with red type of agate as it contains the Moon goddess’s love and energy. Red kind of Agate is seen in shades of red with or without white and red streaks. Red of agate can make you calm and protected. How? We are gonna learn all about red agate meanings in detail.\n\nWhat is Red Agate?\n\nPopular as the Sulemani stone in India, red variety agate is an amulet crystal. Made of silicone dioxide chemically, red type of agate broadens your perspective. You feel like the owner of a new consciousness around agate in red. It is a stone that helps you recoup in life easily.\n\nRed kind of agate gives emotional balance and divination to the user. It can help in finding healing and emotional wellbeing. Oftentimes, I hear about people communicating with angels and nether spirits with agate red too. It is one of the top five powerful crystals for me personally.\n\nThe fist red stone agate I received was a ring from my neighbor friend. We not only became better friends, it helped me understand puberty and my own body better. I think every teenager needs a red eye agate in their life!\n\nAlso called Red Eye Agate, the meaning of red kind of agate is opening up. It is a gemstone that helps you open your heart and welcome new energies into it. When you use or touch a red eye agate, your heart opens and mind welcomes new ideas without hesitance. The meaning of red eye agate is also light. While the name agate comes from the Sicily River Agate, red eye is eponymous with the look of this stone.\n\nWhat Is the Chakra of Red Agate?\n\nRoot Chakra is the first power source of red agate. It is where your balance and stability comes from. When root chakra is in control, your whole life begins to fall into line. Red eye agate brings the power of root chakra located at the end of the spine. It removes pains and toxins by flushing them out into the earth. You also make an intimate connection with nature when you use a red eye type of agate.\n\nSacral Chakra is the second core chakra of this beautiful gemstone. Located in your pelvic region, sacral chakra is where your kundalini energy or the sex drive resides. It is also called the seat of your life force. When you connect and use the energies of red colored agate, you also awaken the life force within you.\n\nWho Should Wear Red Stone Agate?\n\nCapricorn is the first and official birthstone of red eye agate. It brings you optimism and focus in life. The perfect health stone for Capricornians suffering from joint pain, muscle pain and cramps, red eye type of agate works on you like magic elixir. All you need to do is make a crystal patch out of it and your pain will be alleviated.\n\nAnother zodiac sign that must take the benefits of red kind of agate is Scorpio. Your hot tempered aggression will go down and you will find peace. Scorpio born people will find this agate stone to be freeing. If you were possessive, it’s going to change with bonding with the red colored agate gem. Your stubborn and close-minded nature will change.\n\nLibra also finds many powers with red type agate. It will make you more decisive and confident in your actions. With self belief the red type of agate brings release from fears and phobias too. You will become a warm person who is sensitive about yourself and others. It will help you maintain diplomacy at times of anger.\n\nWhere Is Red Color Agate found?\n\nThe chief place where you can find red eye agate is in the United States. It is found in these states such as Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.\n\nHow to Cleanse Red Agate?\n\nWhen you have an agate, you should be careful about rinsing it with water. That’s because agate is mildly toxic with mellow silicosis. Don’t make elixir by dipping the stone in the water. Instead, keep it atop a coaster kept on top of a glass of water. Easy, right?\n\nScrub with a soft cloth once in a month to keep it beautiful!\n\nYou should circle the stone thrice with a purifying wand like clear quartz or selenite to cleanse it before and after every use.\n\nWhen you’re handling one of the world’s most powerful crystals, you should know how well it works. Perhaps you have a long-term, problem that can be resolved with red of agate. As it is a powerful stone, agate in red can open many chakras. Let’s find out the best five benefits of using red stone agate crystal now.\n\nDo you know red gem agate has the ability to calm you down? It is a unique crystal that can dissipate the negative energies from your body and spirit, Red crystal agate also helps to cleanse the bad vibrations to make you feel better. It eradicates negativity and pessimism too.\n\nIF you’re worried you’re under n energy attack, curse or evil eye, red eye agate can help you too. It will repel the attack to the sender when you’re under the protection of red agate.\n\n· Red Agate for Sleep and Relaxation\n\nPeople never disclose how they love keeping red type agate under the pillow or the bed. The truth is, agate red just being in your bedroom can regulate melatonin and your sleep clock in the body. If you’re tense or nervous, red type agate can soothe your nerves and muscles. It connects with lower chakras to make you feel at ease by making you grounded.\n\nYou can enter deep sleep easily if you place a red agate under the bed.\n\nRed of agate has the secret of abundance within it. Whoever touches the stone, creates luck in his endeavors. Red variety of agate can help to attract success into your life. It will invite financial achievements and surprises too. You will feel you’re lucky more than ever with agate red by your side. Feeling easy to win and succeeding is the sign agate red is working for you!\n\n· Red Agate for Divination and Clairvision\n\nOne of a kind gemstone that is excellent to awaken divination and psychic abilities, red stone agate helps you see what you cannot see with the naked eyes. It is a supernatural stone that that helps you see the unseen and hear the unheard. You will connect with other realms with the use of red gemstone agate too. It protects you and wards off danger from your way.\n\nRed style agate protects you by awakening your psychic gifts.\n\nAnother etheric ability of red type agate is opening your mind. It enlightens you and connects you with the underground and the up above. Red healing agate can help you see vivid and vibrant dreams in deep sleep. When you use it in memory of passed away spirits, red agate can help you talk with angels.\n\nThe stone of mysterious happiness and joy, red kind agate can be used in many ways. I have seen a variety of red agates in my life. That’s why I have found numerous ways to make use of it. Today, I will describe seven amazing ways to use red style agate in your life.", null, "Holding this Madagascar red eye agate takes you to heaven. The nirvana stone, this red stone agate stone is ideal to communicate with your subconscious mind too. Bright, dynamic and unique, red stone agate relaxes your muscles and nerves. It helps you find peace and serenity to calm down. All you need to use red gem agate for meditation is to hold it in your palms. It will give you vivid and vibrant visualizations.", null, "A crystal ball made with agate red can invigorate your third eye chakra. It can help you achieve divination powers that make you see ahead into the future or of a past you know not of. Red crystal agate crystal ball can be used to find your heart’s true desire too. It is a stone to communicate with your subconscious mind. Crystal balls also speak fortunes. Watch out!", null, "When you’re worried or anxious, you can always use a red style agate to help you out. Red eye agate palm stones work like worry stones. They absorb all the negative thoughts that’s making you frustrated and replace it with positive thoughts. Red agates palm stone helps you awaken your root and sacral chakras. It helps you harness the life force energy of kundalini to stabilize your mind and body.", null, "From serious stomach disorders to gut problems, red color agate can heal a lot of things because it is ultimately a cleansing stone. It can get rid of pain in the abdomen or stomach. Being a beauty stone, red superior agate can help in weight loss by affecting your solar plexus chakra. This geode is super-cleansing as you can see in its hypnotizing druzy sparkles.", null, "You can also find wins and luck with red colored agate. The best luck happens when you place this red kind agate elephant in an Eastern or Northern direction. Within a day, the energies will manifest and you will find unexpected wealth. The elephant is a sign of progress and victory. It guides your way to success and happiness. Red hue agate elephant can attract good feng shui to the place it is kept.", null, "Keeping this tree of life in the southeast direction of your living room or bedroom will bring abundance into your life. Besides wealth through lotteries and jackpots, you will find winning opportunities everywhere you go.", null, "Skull of red gem agate is a special object. It has a symmetry that echoes with our own subconscious, allowing you to commune with other spirits. All you need to do is stare directly into the eyes of the skull and meditate for directions from your spirit guide. Be prepared for angelic visits!\n\nIsn’t red agate wonderful? It gives you energy and ambition. Share your Date of Birth below to check if red type of agate is indeed good for you!\n\nAbout the author: AtPerrys Healing Crystals\nTell us something about yourself.\nViews: 106" ]

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[ null, null, "BENGALURU: Shares of Twitter Inc fell about 6% in premarket buying and selling on Monday as a authorized tussle between Elon Musk and the social media firm is anticipated to take heart stage after the world’s richest particular person walked away from the $44 billion deal.\n\nMusk, the chief govt officer of Tesla Inc, stated on Friday he was terminating his deal to purchase Twitter as a result of the corporate had breached a number of provisions of the merger settlement.\n\nTwitter is planning to sue Musk as early as this week and drive him to finish the acquisition, individuals conversant in the matter informed Reuters.\n\nOn Monday, Musk took a jab at Twitter’s stance, tweeting that the authorized battle would result in the corporate disclosing data on bots and spam accounts in court docket. (https://bit.ly/3uCUPvd)\n\nThe collection of tweets was Musk’s first public response for the reason that Friday announcement.\n\nTwitter shares ended at $36.81 on Friday and had been at a 32% low cost to Musk’s $54.20 bid, as they’ve been hit by a double whammy of a hunch within the broader fairness market and investor skepticism over the deal.\n\n“We consider that Elon Musk’s intentions to terminate the merger are extra primarily based on the latest market sell-off than… Twitter’s ‘failure’ to conform together with his requests,” Jefferies analyst Brent Thill stated in a notice.\n\n“In the absence of a deal, we’d not be shocked to see the inventory discover a ground at $23.5.”\n\nThe contract requires Musk to pay Twitter a $1 billion break-up charge if he can’t full the deal for causes such because the acquisition financing falling by way of or regulators blocking the deal. The break-up charge wouldn’t be relevant, nevertheless, if Musk terminates the deal on his personal. – Reuters\n\nServant of the People: 'Zelensky's comedy made me admire him more'\n\nKanibongan hit by big flood for the first time in 23 years, say residents" ]

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[ null, "Yes, we admit it. We are guilty of prattling on about Sean Goss a lot, but following yet another stellar display from the on-loan QPR man, we feel compelled to reiterate how much we want the powers that be at Ibrox to persuade Les Ferdinand at Loftus Road to change his mind.\n\nNot only did Goss technically manage two assists (his rasping 25 yarder crashed off the bar for Alfredo Morelos’ technically outstanding finish on top of the cross for Cummings) but as mentioned he was exceptionally close to another utterly sizzling goal.\n\nFrom his immense work deep in the park sweeping up in front of defence and affording cover to the fullbacks whenever they both attacked (when John and Tav rampaged forward Goss covered both by reverting alongside Bates and Martin to produce a three-man defence), to his support in attack assisting and pulling off excellent shots, and his evident string-pulling in the engine room, Goss is getting better with every match and while he has a long way to go before being anything like as good as Barry Ferguson, he is on the right path to becoming that kind of player.\n\nTransfermarkt.com claims Goss to be worth around half a million pounds at current levels. If that is accurate, and we are discussing a player who cannot get a look in for Ian Holloway’s men, then we wonder why the London side are so keen to hold onto him. But Ferdinand has made comparisons with Michael Carrick and says they see big potential in Goss:\n\n“We have high hopes for Sean and his potential. This [loan deal] is just part of educating young players.”\n\nThe problem we have with this is at 22 the lad should be playing regularly – the Championship in England is a good but not stunning level, and if QPR really rated him, he would be in the match day squad. It is not like QPR are top of the league – they languish in the relegation spots, and if they are not selecting him at present, will they ever?\n\nBut he has rarely been used in their first team, last playing in April – at what point does a player leave ‘potential’ and become ‘unfancied’?\n\nIf we take the example of Tottenham’s Harry Winks – two years ago, aged 20, then-manager Mark Warburton was heavily in for the-then youth player from White Hart Lane, but could not pull the loan deal off.\n\nTwo years on Winks is a regular for Spurs, giving some idea why they would not let him go, even on loan.\n\nFor Goss to be around the same age and barely managing bench appearances at his parent club does beg the question of just what esteem they hold him in – and how we feel Rangers’ good relationship with QPR (thanks for Hill too, guys) could see management persuading the English side to part company with the playmaker – for the right fee of course.\n\nGoss is becoming the complete midfielder at Ibrox, something he would not be allowed to do at his parent club.\n\nMaybe Rangers can make the complete signing as well." ]

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[ "It’s that time of year when even the most resolute non-gardeners look out at the spring sunshine and the riot of growth going on outside their windows and feel a pang of curiosity. Yet I think that many of these timid first timers often feel excluded from embracing the joys of horticulture because of a few deep-rooted cultural myths. Whether it’s memorising all the complex rules that daunts you, or the fear of mispronouncing Latin names, here are three ideas that we should liberate ourselves from, so we can all enjoy the wonder of the botanical world.\n\nI’m going to start with this: even as a botanist of over 15 years, I am forever finding the old-guard in horticulture “correcting” my pronunciation of scientific names. It’s weird for an attempt at a power move, because all it displays is a poor understanding of why we use them in the first place. You see, botanical Latin isn’t actually Latin, but a strange mishmash, including ancient Greek and a whole host of other languages from Polish to German, and these days even languages like Mandarin. The whole point of doing it this way was to create a universal naming system to avoid confusion, meaning each plant has one definitive name that anyone in the world can use. So say them however you like.\n\nThen there’s the notion of “rules”. They can feel a bit like horticultural times tables that you have to memorise and which, if deviated from, will result in total death and destruction. The surprising thing is that, when scientifically tested, a huge amount of this received knowledge has been demonstrated to either be ineffective in achieving its stated goals, or even deliver worse results. In fact, as much as text books can portray horticulture as having one universal “correct” answer, all you need to do is get a bunch of plant geeks down the pub to hear a diversity of views, and often a quite spirited debate. With a few notable exceptions, I think, at best, we should see these as “tips and tricks” that might give you better results than strict “rules”. Not least because, I promise you, the plants don’t read the rulebooks.\n\nFinally, there’s this notion of a “proper” gardener. Almost every time I am taught something fascinating by an incredibly skilled grower, they prefix this piece of knowledge with “but I am not a proper gardener”. You might think that accolade could refer to someone who does it professionally, or maybe someone with formal training but, in my experience, the term is usually just deployed to refer to anyone who doesn’t reflect and reinforce a cultural status quo of British class culture.\n\nDon’t have rolling acres in Dorset? Don’t aspire to the aesthetics or ideas of Victorian gardens? Have the wrong skin colour or surname? You are likely not thought a “proper” gardener. However, this is a great thing as it is “improper” gardeners who are more prone to the kind of open-mindedness and experimentation that drives the practice forward, challenging convention and making crucial breakthroughs. So please, don’t let any of these silly psychological barriers hamper your horticultural ambitions. Gardening needs you!\n\nWed May 11 , 2022\nMindy Jensen Mindy Jensen is the co-host of the “BiggerPockets Money” podcast and the co-author of “First-Time Home Buyer, The Complete Playbook To Avoiding Rookie Mistakes.” She’s also a licensed real estate agent in Colorado and has been buying and selling homes since 1998. She is passionate about helping buyers […]", null ]

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[ "Yitzchak Mirilashvili (also known as Vyatcheslav Mirilashvili or Slava Mirilashvili) is an Israeli investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of VK.com (Vkontakte.ru), Russia's largest social network. Mirilashvili lives in Israel, where he oversees his businesses as well as various charitable foundations and causes.\n\nMirilashvili was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1984. He moved to Israel as a child and attended high school there. Mirilashvili attended Tufts University in the United States, graduating with a degree in economics in 2006.\n\nMirilashvili co-founded VK in 2006 with friends Lev Leviev and Pavel Durov, where he served as chairman and majority shareholder. VK became Russia's largest social network. with over 500 million active users.> As of May 2019, VK ranked 16th among Alexa's global Top 500 sites. Mirilashvili, Leviev and Durov raised capital from Digital Sky Technologies, headed by Yuri Milner. In 2013, at the age of 29, Mirilashvili sold his remaining shares in VKontakte for a valuation in excess of $1 billion, making him one of Israel's wealthiest citizens.\n\nMirilashvili was a 35% shareholder in Plarium, an F2P mobile and online gaming company founded in 2009. Mirilashvili held a material stake in Plarium, which in 2017 was sold to Aristocrat, a publicly held Australian company, for an estimated $500 million.\n\nMirilashvili is the sole shareholder and chairman of The Kuf Dalet Group, a holding company that manages his group's investment portfolio and is headquartered in Herziliya. Kuf Dalet invests in real estate and infrastructure primarily within the United States, Israel, Russia and Europe.\n\nKuf Dalet is the controlling shareholder in Rothstein Real Estate Co, Ltd., an Israeli residential real-estate development company traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and a member of the TA Real-Estate Index.\n\nYesodot Private Equity was launched by the group in 2014, creating a fund for investing in energy storage, development and infrastructure projects in Israel and abroad. Yesodot acquired an 18% stake in Israel's IPM Beā€™er Tuvia power plant development project in 2018, which is meant to produce 451 MW and supply 3.5% of Israel's electricity needs. Prior to this transaction, Yesodot completed a private equity investment in an existing solar panel business owned by the publicly- listed Israeli conglomerate Shikun & Binui, which produces 24 MW.\n\nIn addition, Mirilashvili is the controlling shareholder in Israel's Channel 20, a broadcast news channel which began as a Jewish heritage programming outlet that targets the conservative-leaning political spectrum.\n\nIn 2019, Mirilshvili was included in The Marker's magazine list of top 100 influential people in Israel in the field of business.\n\nYitzhak and his wife Vika donate millions of dollars each year, through their charitable foundation, to hundreds of educational and welfare institutions in Israel and around the world.\n\nThe contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 12 Sep 2020. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.\nView Yitzchak Mirilashvili 's image gallery\nImage Gallery", null ]

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[ null, "Billionaires as a whole may have lost a bit of their reach and wealth in 2018, but the heavy hitters are still on top, according to Forbes Magazine, which released its 33rd annual World Billionaires List Tuesday.\n\nThe drop-off is of a piece with how the world’s richest are being viewed, Forbes Magazine Assistant Magazine Editor, Luisa Kroll, told Reuters in an interview.\n\n“I definitely think that we are in a bad moment for the very rich. For the first time, I’ve been tracking the wealthiest for way too long and really for the first time this year we’ve seen a real animosity. There’s always been kind of a voyeuristic mentality in people joking, ‘Oh if I only had a billion, I’d be on the list.’ But you see a vehemence against these people because of the wealth inequality that we see in the world,” said Kroll.\n\nWith a net worth pegged by Forbes at $131 million, Jeff Bezos topped the list for the second year in a row. But he’s been as much in the headlines of late for his saber rattling with the National Enquirer, marital woes and Amazon’s balk in placing its HQ2 in New York as for his wealth.\n\n“His wife MacKenzie, soon to be ex-wife, actually drove cross-country with him when he went to start the company. She was an early accountant at Amazon and given the laws in Washington state, she could end up with half of his stake in Amazon,”\n\nBut at this stage of their careers, neither men are known simply for their business acumen.They “are basically putting their money into potentially for-profit businesses but ones that are going to do good for the world. It’s nobel, and I think they’re all behind it. And quite frankly these people don’t really care if they make a billion dollars or a million,” Kroll said.\n\nAnd reality TV star and makeup mogul Kylie Jenner is now the youngest self-made billionaire in the United States ever according to Forbes magazine.\n\nJenner, aged 21, launched Kylie Cosmetics’ in 2016 which the magazine said is now worth at least $900 million (USD), of which she owns all of it. Forbes estimates her wealth at $1 billion.\n\nHer standing is shaking up the list, Kroll said.\n\n“There’s going to be a lot of debate about what she’s self-made or was she not,” Kroll told Reuters. “She definitely was able to leverage her family’s fame and her personal fame. And she basically started making makeup and sold it through her Instagram account and through online. And sales took off.”\n\nAlso of note was the rising presence of 44 Chinese billionaires, the most of any country.\n\n“I think the Chinese moment is a story that we’re going to be talking about for some years to come,” Kroll said.\n\nDonald Trump has famously monitored his standing in the world’s billionaire’s club, and he stayed at the same $3.1 billion as last year.\n\n“He kind of stayed flat but was able to increase his position,” Kroll said. “What’s interesting is that within that some assets did much better than others and some of the assets that did very well are ones that he has nothing to do with.”" ]

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[ "ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A large plywood crate containing nine kilograms of cocaine, worth millions of dollars, seized by the RCMP in one of the province’s largest-ever drug busts has been tossed from evidence by a provincial court judge.\n\nUpon hearing arguments from the Crown as well as defence lawyers representing five men charged in 2019 as part of the RCMP's Operation Bowman, Judge Lori Marshall excluded the contents of the crate from trial, saying police had violated the accused's rights with an unreasonable search and seizure.\n\nDimitris Andreopoulos, Herbert Albert Lewis, Stephen Parsley, Wayne Kevin Parsley and William Richmond were charged with cocaine trafficking offences in the spring of 2019 after police conducted a warrantless seizure of a crate from a courier warehouse in Mount Pearl.\n\nThe crate had been shipped from Ontario and had sat in the local warehouse unclaimed for two days before the office manager instructed an employee to open it and check for contact information. The crate was found to contain only a few packages of floor tiles, causing the manager to wonder why the sender had paid more than $600 to send them when they could be bought locally at less expense.\n\nThe court heard employees had then resealed the crate and called police, suspicious that the container had a false bottom.\n\nCourier staff testified police had opened the crate when they arrived. Two RCMP officers testified the crate had been open when they got there. The judge said she was satisfied from the evidence that the employees had sealed the crate before police arrived, but she couldn’t determine the officers hadn’t been the ones to reopen it. Police are not entitled to inspect the contents of freight received on the premises of a private company without a warrant, she noted.\n\nThe lead investigator testified he had reason to suspect the crate contained illegal drugs, given discrepancies in the name and address of the shipper, the method of transport, the fact the contents had been described as auto parts and not floor tiles, and the measurements of the inside and outside of the crate. These were practices consistent with drug trafficking, the officer explained.\n\n“It is obvious from his testimony that he subjectively believed he had reasonable and probable grounds to search and seize the crate,” Marshall wrote in her decision. “However, the assessment does not end there. The next prong of the test is to determine whether these grounds are objectively reasonable.”\n\n\"... a reasonable person is unlikely to condone the methods employed, as everyone who ships a crate through a private company is potentially at risk of state invasion if this is to be the standard.\" — Judge Lori Marshall\n\nThey weren’t, she found. There had been no direct evidence that the crate contained drugs, no smell of drugs coming from it, and no verified information that the container was connected to criminal activity. The investigator’s experience with drug trafficking related mostly to packages and not freight, she wrote. He had only been able to take measurements to suggest a false bottom because the crate had been opened.\n\nThe investigator had relied only on a hunch, Marshall determined, thereby breaching the rights of the accused.\n\n“This practice of investigating crates on suspicion and then bootstrapping to justify reasonable grounds when something is discovered is exactly the type of state conduct that the (Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) protects against,” Marshall wrote, acknowledging the exclusion of the evidence would “gut” the Crown’s case.\n\nWithout the cocaine as evidence, police had no basis to get a warrant to install a tracking device in the crate, nor a warrant to search the Empire Avenue home where they later tracked it, Marshall ruled, finding the search of the home to also be a violation of the accused’s rights.\n\n“Although the identification and prosecution of drug traffickers is in the public interest and the amount of cocaine seized in this case is significant, a reasonable person is unlikely to condone the methods employed, as everyone who ships a crate through a private company is potentially at risk of state invasion if this is to be the standard,\" she wrote.", null ]

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[ "I've included details of this festival, along with all the events surrounding Richard's reburial, in the forthcoming edition of Tudor Life magazine which is a special Richard III themed issue (out later this week!), but I wanted to draw your attention to this festival so that you could book tickets and make travel arrangements.\n\nThe Richard III Festival is taking place in Gloucester, UK, between 6th and 14th March, and includes talks from the Greyfriars dig team and authors like John Ashdown-Hill. I hope that some of you will be able to go.\n\nFurther information can be found at http://venues.gloucester.gov.uk/Freetime/Museums/events/Richard-III-Festival.aspx", null ]

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[ null, "Freddy Griffiths’ work spreads across two walls of the MA space. Unrelated images, photographs of photographs, are linked and cross-referenced. A narrative starts to unfold as we navigate this set of images but it is fragmented and efforts at reading the images as a series, a statement or body of work are futile.\n\nIt is soon clear that we are looking for clues in the wrong places. It is not the suggested narrative within the images themselves that will take us further but a recognition of the physicality of the photograph. The work, it would appear, makes a play of the fabric of photographs: the dog-eared pieces of print that get passed around, handed down - or more often - sit together in paper wallets in series of 24 or 36 bundled together from the same point in time. The explosion of digital imagery that can be accessed online combined with the ease of instant sharing loses something of this analogue process. Perhaps loses is the wrong verb, but the high-street photographic print with its curved corners or specific paper stock that fixes it to a definite era had a different function. It is rarified, an icon of a point in time that is carried through to the present day. Of course there is nostalgia at work here, but nostalgia is a powerful force.\n\nThe layout and exhibition style is reminiscent of Wolfgang Tillmans and he is clearly an influence. The non-hierarchical arrangements of unframed photographs are casual seeming in both their subject matter and their dispensation around the walls: some small, some large, some close together in linear runs, some mounted high up, low down and, occasionally given solitary prominence. As in a musical score, the spaces in between the pictures became as important an element in their exhibition as the pictures themselves. There is a plurality of subject matter, just as there is in the style of the installation. Like Tillmans, Griffiths also appears to view the space as a site-specific installation, a responsive larger composition rather than a discrete set of photographs. But there are distinct differences between the two artists and this work feels like an homage rather than an imitation.", null, "Griffiths’ images work on two levels simultaneously. The photographic print pictured against a coloured ground - sometimes painted wood or masonry, sometimes cracked Formica, rarely against standard studio copy-stand backdrops - creates a sculptural form from the prints: they have edges and shadows, they are not flat. Then by re-photographing these, he returns them to the accustomed flatness of that same medium. Photography’s transformation from ‘picture’ to ‘object’ is superbly demonstrated in these works. On one hand he elevates the throwaway snap as something worthy of re-presentation, and on the other he closes the gap between the two images, the snap and the constructed composition with his title ‘Coloured things on other coloured things’.", null, "These titles again provide few narrative clues, but rather a detached and passing reference to the whole process. There is little said by Freddy, the over-structured statements that too often accompany MA work are absent. The little I can find confirms my thoughts on the work. He states that his research has led to an analysis of his status as author, in relation to experience of space and place. \"I look at my work and want to know what the real narrative is, yet I know that it will never fully reveal itself to me. The work I have made moves only on the surface yet in all directions on a lateral plane. This movement is apart from me and defined by the subjective viewer.\" There is a quality in his approach, which does not close the door to possibility or multiple readings, that is generous. There is pleasure in the sense that we are not guided from a to b by this work, but sometimes back to the start.\n\nAnthony Shapland was born in Pontypridd, South Wales 1971. He is one of a generation of artists that are actively engaged in the commission and presentation of work by other artists as well as continuing to produce work themselves. In 1998 he co-founded g39, an artist-run project based in the centre of Cardiff. During this time he has continued to produce work that has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He was profiled in the Contemporary Annual: 50 Emerging artists and had his first solo exhibition in Wales: Suddenly After A Long Silence at Chapter Cardiff in 2007. Recent group shows include Portrait (For a Screenplay) of Beth Harmon at Limoncello, London, Liste – The Young Art Fair in Basel with Tanya Leighton Gallery, and En Residencia at Laboral, Gijon Spain. He is a regular contributor to several magazines and online publications." ]

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[ null, "Hurricane Sally is moving toward the Gulf Coast, threatening to bring possible historic flooding and “extreme life-threatening” flash flooding, according to forecasters.\n\nThe eye of the storm is expected to pass near the coast of southeastern Louisiana on Tuesday before making landfall Tuesday night or Wednesday morning in the hurricane warning area, which stretches from east of Bay St. Louis – a city in Mississippi – to Navarre, Florida.\n\nAs of Tuesday morning, the storm was located about 55 miles east of the mouth of the Mississippi River and about 110 miles south of Mobile, Alabama. Maximum sustained winds were 85 mph, with stronger gusts. It was moving northwest at 2 mph.\n\nHurricane #Sally is slowly moving north and will make landfall tomorrow morning near Mobile, AL. It will quickly weaken after making landfall. A cold front will pick up some of the moisture and bring us some showers Thursday into Friday. The weekend is looking nice! #13Weather pic.twitter.com/q4qag3gPQO\n\n“This could be life threatening … It’s going to drop as much as 30 inches of rain. And there could be a storm surge of up to 7 feet.”https://t.co/5pT6im4maT" ]

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[ null, "President Donald Trump sent Fox News a message Wednesday that he would not tolerate watching hosts on his favorite TV network go easy on Democrats.\n\n“Just watched Fox News heavily promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback by anchor, Sandra Smith,” the president tweeted. “The New Fox News is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!”\n\nJust watched @FoxNews heavily promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback by anchor, @SandraSmithFox. Terrible considering that Fox couldn’t even land a debate, the Dems give them NOTHING! @CNN & @MSNBC….\n\n….are all in for the Open Border Socialists (or beyond). Fox hires “give Hillary the questions” @donnabrazile, Juan Williams and low ratings Shep Smith. HOPELESS & CLUELESS! They should go all the way LEFT and I will still find a way to Win – That’s what I do, Win. Too Bad!….\n\n….I don’t want to Win for myself, I only want to Win for the people. The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!\n\nTrump for years has enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with the conservative news network, with talking points flowing back and forth between the president and Fox personalities, often within minutes. But lately, when Trump sees something he doesn’t like, he publicly lambasts the network and demands that it change its messaging to cater to his tastes.\n\nIn this case, he became irate after Hinojosa was allowed to say things like, “If you’re looking at recent polling, most of the top-polling candidates, head-to-head, would beat Donald Trump, especially in those battleground states.”\n\nRather than berate Hinojosa, Smith engaged in a normal back and forth conversation about the debates:\n\nThe interview that set Trump off is one in which DNC comms director @XochitlHinojosa went on Fox News to talk about the …… [checks notes] …. Democratic presidential debates. Trump apparently wanted host Sandra Smith to blindside her with Trump talking points. pic.twitter.com/RszlzY4Jgg\n\nFor Trump, smiling and giggling with a Democrat on Fox News would not do.\n\n“HOPELESS & CLUELESS! They should go all the way LEFT,” the president angrily tweeted." ]

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[ null, null, "Inspired by the use of comic books to send across messages that couldn’t be transcribed in the written or oral form of communication, John Lewis, with the help of Top Shelf Productions, created March: Book One, an autobiography and first-person perspective of other Civil Rights stories. After laying down much of the framework of who John Lewis was, where he came from and what he believed in, we are thrown right into the deep end as this volume takes us through the evolution of the Movement, and journeys through the history of the Freedom Riders.", null, "Book Two is a noticeable improvement over the first book, where all three creators really got their feet yet. Whether it has to do with Lewis’ personal growth or the nature of the Civil Rights Movement at the time of the events, there is a much more adult tone taken in Book Two. It wasn’t just the increasingly violent reactions from policemen and citizens towards the Freedom Riders, well-meaning white citizens who came to their defense, and dozens of black children. No, there was a constant looming threat of defamation, imprisonment and often times death that each of them had to be constantly aware for. It was a movement so formidable that even Dr. Martin Luthor King, Jr. was hesitant to go on it – or so the book implies. These accounts are directly from John Lewis’ memory of first-hands, and I’ll be damned if I’m the one to tell him that he got it wrong.", null, "Where the books excels is that it isn’t just a collection of stories from Senator John Lewis’ mouth. No, this is a calculated story with purpose. Scenes from the book are not only pieced together to form another successful chapter in his life, and that of the Civil Rights Movement. They are done so with not just the rationalization of a fiery young man, but the clarity of a wise man reflecting on his years as a freedom fighter. It’s refreshing to arrive at the conclusion that even though the courage that it took to actually follow through as a Freedom Rider was monumental, the entire movement was sparked by the simple yet fierce desire to make the situation better.", null, "Technically-speaking, there are several improvements to this volume over the first installment. While the art was satisfactory in Book One, Nate Powell’s pencils are eye-catching and often shockingly-vivid. There were several scenes that convey the brutality and injustice that Lewis saw first-hand. There were other improvements, too, notably how well Powell and co-writer Aydin took advantage of the freedom granted in creating a graphic novel, really using unique ways to display onomatopoeic words and show the tone of a phrase by lettering it in a specific way. It’s a quite interesting way to communicate with readers – one I hope will catch on with other creators.", null, "March: Book Two expertly brings the book to a close by chronicling Lewis’ attendance at Barack Obama’s inauguration in DC, the same city at which Lewis (and several other keynotes, like MLK) marched on Washington DC to give some of the most memorable speeches of the whole Movement. This scene illustrates that while progress towards equality and civil liberty has been astronomical, there is still plenty of work to do. That is why the Denver Freedom Riders have formed. The merging of goals between the generations is something that John Lewis speaks specifically about when describing his time working with senior activists. The capabilities of social media have made us all activists, but nothing really gets done unless the movement starts at the ground floor. I spoke with Hush writer Jumoke about the movement that’s gaining momentum in the Mile High City.", null, "The legacy that connects our generations is a simple one; a group of people of diverse background looked up at something going in the nation and decided that it wasn’t enough for them to simply stay at home. Some of us went as individuals (Anthony [Grimes] and myself), many of us went in later groups, but most of the core group went down to Ferguson during the height of the unrest. As we came back, we realized that there was some work that needed to be done and continued right here from Denver.\n\n“We believe in the inherent dignity of human life. We believe no one is more aware of that inherent worth than those that society has attempted to dehumanize, marginalize and oppress.”\n\nThose two sentences, the first two in the Denver Freedom Rider’s mission statement, could be included in almost every social justice movement creed of the last 100 years. The same fights for human dignity are being waged – only the actors and battlefields have changed. For some, that may be disheartening, but, for me, that actually gives me strength and courage. Although it seems there will always be injustice, oppression, and battles to fight, I take heart in the fact that there will also always be those who ride for freedom.\n\nFor those looking to get involved in the community through the Denver Freedom Riders, here is a link to their Facebook page with more details.\n\nI hope you enjoyed the review. I’d just like to point out that none of the pictures in this work are mine, and should all be credited to the good folks at Top Shelf Productions. You can find March: Book Two on their website, here.", null, null, "A lot of people may not recognize it, but the graphic novel medium, when used correctly, can become a form of literature more descriptive than a novel or moving than the art. In March: Book One, the first of a trilogy leading up the March on Washington in 1963, we are fortunate enough to get that experience. What impressed me so much about March is that it was written by comic book novices. And who would have thought that one of the most powerful comic books (graphic novel, technically, but you get the jist) in 2013 was written by a United Stated Congressman?\n\nOf course, John Lewis may be a comic book novice, but he’s no stranger to the Civil Rights Movement. Making up one of the “Big Six” in the Movement (a list that consisted of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and four others that each contributed to the Movement), John Lewis is the only one living. He is the Democratic Representative of Georgia and has quite the colorful tale to tell in this black and white autobiography.\n\nSo where do we start on our march to freedom? Well, we start at the chicken farm. Lewis begins his story of non-violence and racial tension by explaining his love for chickens. It came off as odd and unexpected, but ultimately won me over as an honest sentiment that foreshadows his love for all livings things – as well as offering some very adorable panels. The way he wanted to save all the chickens, make sure they all got fair treatment, named them and even tried to baptize them was a true ode to childish innocence and naivety.\n\nMarch reads more like a memoir, taking breaks to revisit the current time to move the story along. It’s a method that works for the first few chapters, but ultimately becomes a little too much like a cliché television special for my taste. However, the way the story is presented, you can’t help but get sucked into the time. One of my favorite anecdotes in March is when he snuck off in the morning to run and catch the bus to go to school. The way he deliberately disobeys his father to go to school instead of help at home was a choice made with a gravity that a lot of younger readers can’t really grasp. Lewis’ trip up North with his uncle Otis was also eye-opening to just how different the two regions were in the 1950s.", null, "Much of the visualization can be credited to the fine art of Nate Powell who captures the essence of the moment fittingly for each scene. The shading is perfect, and there is incredible detail when warranted. Even the way that onomatopoetic words are displayed and lettered add to the ambience of the moment.\n\nThe story really starts to kick into high gear when Lewis goes to college, and joins a Non-Violence group preparing themselves for marches and sit-ins by testing each others’ tolerance levels. It’s an amazing part of the Movement that I had never even considered previous to reading March. If you’ve studied African-American History, you know that sit-ins were an integral part of the Civil Rights Movement – but these people, most of which were courageous young adults, literally took turns berating and humiliating each other to see if their resolve for non-violence was strong enough. It’s unreal to imagine college kids banding together to do something like that today, and makes me appreciate every liberty I have.\n\nOverall, March bridges a gap in perspective of the Civil Rights Movement that has formed between writing and film, with great recounts from Lewis that is complemented by the beautiful simplicity of Powell’s art. It falls a bit short in the sense that it doesn’t exactly have a clear direction, and the partitioning can seem a bit choppy with a lack of transitions. Luckily, Lewis’ story is so captivating and earnest that it pretty much writes itself. In the grand scheme of the book, those shortcomings are more like rough edges around an otherwise great read. It’s the best (albeit maybe the only) graphic novel portraying Black History I’ve read, and would recommend it to anybody who would like a different perspective of the Movement.", null, "I hope you enjoyed the review. I’d just like to point out that none of the pictures in this work are mine, and should all be credited to the good folks at Top Shelf Productions." ]

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[ null, "President Barack Obama gave his last State of the Union address last night, where he made note of the country’s progress and shortcomings, as well as a prescription for a better future. Below, Aspen Institute program directors react to Obama’s speech and what it means for the United States, by issue area.\n\nThe jobs picture today is undeniably better than when President Obama took office — there are many more jobs and unemployment is down dramatically. President Obama is right to remind us how much better the economic picture is now. But he also should acknowledge the bad news that too many of the jobs in today’s economy are not good jobs.\n\nThe response to this dilemma for the most part has focused on education — the Obama administration has done much to expand access to education and skills training to help workers get skills to qualify for better jobs. This is a good thing, and we have the best-educated generation ever in today’s millennials. But education will not solve the challenges posed by changing technology, changing business norms, and weakened labor market regulations. In short, education doesn’t make bad jobs better.\n\nIt is promising to hear the president talk about lifting up business models and business leaders who succeed by investing in and rewarding their workforce. We need business leadership and business examples to point the way. But if we believe a strong economy is one that benefits everyone, and not just shareholders, then we shouldn’t shy away from the need for policy to set some standards for work.\n\nA Better Future for Americans\n\nPresident Obama delivered a powerful call for all Americans to commit to one another and to live up to the ideals of the United States. He outlined a 21st century collective compact: “To stand up for others, especially the weak, especially the vulnerable, knowing that each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, stood up for us.”\n\nFor the first time in our country’s history, Americans do not feel that things will be better for the next generation. One priority that does resonate across age, gender, geography, politics, race, and ethnicity is the fundamental desire to ensure the American Dream can pass from one generation to the next.\n\nEducation — from the earliest years when brain development is at its most rapid to higher education that leads to careers — is a critical lever. We must tap the full potential of families and communities as well as hold our systems and elected officials accountable for investing in what works for children and families.\n\nChange is a given, but our values of equality, opportunity, compassion, and hard work are eternal. We are a strong, diverse country. As we confront the challenges ahead let us stay, as the president said, “clear-eyed, big-hearted, and optimistic.” It is time for us to embrace a collective commitment as individuals, communities, and a democracy to tackle inequality head on and build an intergenerational pathway of opportunity.\n\n— Anne Mosle, vice president and executive director of Ascend at the Aspen Institute\n\nDuring the president’s last State of the Union address, Obama made a promise that resonates in both parties and on the campaign trail: He promised to “lift up” businesses that do well for their employees and host communities, and called Wall Street’s fixation with quarterly profits a barrier to “a thriving private sector” that must serve as the “lifeblood of the economy.”\n\nGiving visibility and support to companies that withstand market pressures to externalize costs can inspire others. What else is needed? For one, we need tax policy that rewards patient capital investment and discourages speculation. The capital gains tax can be restructured to reward-long term investment. A modest tax on speculative and machine trading would generate real revenue for basic infrastructure needs and for investment in science, technology, and new sources of energy.\n\nThese things matter to business and would help restore our leadership on the global stage. The goal is tax policy that establishes a level playing field and rewards business investment in the things that matter most to the health of our nation. These are centrist ideas that can appeal to both sides of the aisle.\n\nIn last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama used the theme of technology and innovation to highlight several key accomplishments in the challenge to manage energy and climate change together. In a year that saw the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan finalized to reduce carbon emissions from the power sector by 32 percent by 2030, the Paris Climate Agreement signed, where 195 countries voluntarily agreed to reduce emissions, and a group pledge led by Bill Gates to invest in clean energy research and development, 2015 was certainly a good year for increasing our ability to produce cleaner energy. However, as the president correctly indicated, there is much more work to do.\n\nThe Clean Power Plan by itself gets the US less than halfway to its emission reduction target of reducing carbon 26 to 28 percent by 2025 from a 2005 baseline, and the ambitious goal of reducing emissions 80 percent by 2050 is still far away. Within the energy sector, additional opportunities will need to be vigorously debated and action taken.\n\nThe transportation sector will become further decarbonized as the EPA’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards increase stringency and the adoption of electric vehicles increases. Greater investment will be needed in new technologies, such as advanced nuclear reactors, carbon capture and storage, utility scale electricity storage, and carbon removal technologies. Investment in these technologies, as well as innovation in markets and regulatory policy, will be needed over the coming years to reach our clean energy and climate goals of the future.\n\nThe president’s final State of the Union speech perfectly captures his view of the threats America faces, and how best to combat them. On terrorism in particular, he rightly acknowledged that ISIS, and terrorists in general, poses a serious threat to national security. But he went to some lengths to try to persuade the American people not to be unduly alarmed, and not to overreact. And, to a considerable degree, the president has it right.\n\nBut a line of thought can be true and dangerous at the same time. While true, there is the danger that this tendency to “put things in perspective” can lead to complacency and resignation. Certainly there is no military solution to terrorism. Terrorists are motivated by ideas — perverted and profane ideas — but ideas, and, as such, they can ultimately be defeated only by competing ideas.\n\nBut, I’m not convinced that we have done everything we can do — and should do — to cut off ISIS at its knees. The unwillingness to commit significant numbers of American troops to the fight to retake ISIS’ would-be caliphate in Iraq and Syria without the support of other nations, while understandable, is a serious mistake in my view. Unless and until this is done, it seems to me that the danger from ISIS, and other terror groups, will only grow greater.\n\nOurs is not, and never will be, an ideal world. Absent willing partners (or even reluctant ones, for that matter), we must do what it takes to defend ourselves, and the standard for such action mustn’t be another 9/11. Making that level of destruction the criterion for action only makes the prospect of another 9/11 more likely.\n\nThe themes of American strength and leadership were on full display during President Obama’s final State of the Union speech last night. The foreign policy section, focused mainly on defeating ISIL, was long on America’s commitment to justice and its military reach, but surprisingly short on the other vital tool in our toolbox — diplomacy.\n\nThe word diplomacy appeared only once in last night’s speech — as the president spoke about the Iran deal. Yet it is precisely this vital instrument that likely saw the 10 US Navy sailors arrested by Iran released without incident. The strong rapport between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif, forged over the long negotiation of the nuclear deal, led to new lines of communication that are credited with the quick release of the sailors. In the days and months ahead, it is vital to ensure diplomacy is placed at the front and center of America’s toolbox, as it is a cornerstone of America’s strength and a necessity to ensure America’s continued leadership.\n\nPresident Obama’s last State of the Union speech was notable mostly for his call for “a better politics.” A healthier democracy, he said, isn’t about avoiding disagreements; it’s about having fewer stupid ones. And more important, doing so is our job more than his.\n\nOn the issues of democracy reform — redistricting, campaign finance, voting — the president reminded us that citizens must lead. As candidate Obama said in 2008, “We are the change we’ve been waiting for.” Unless everyday Americans by our actions rebut the storyline that the game is rigged beyond redemption, the game really will be rigged beyond redemption. On this, right and left can agree.\n\nIndeed, Republican South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s response speech was notable for the way it embodied the very qualities Obama was extolling: disagreement that is lucid and principled, but civil and even personable. That was encouraging, as was the president’s forceful pitch for diversity and tolerance — not as a matter of political correctness but as America’s core advantage. In the end, though, what really excited me about this speech is the vision of Barack Obama next year not as Mr. President but as Mr. Citizen. It gives me hope for the state of our union." ]

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[ null, "We all react otherwise when a connection will come to an conclude. Some of us set ourselves a obstacle, like climbing a mountain or jogging a marathon, even though the relaxation of us try to eat ice cream in our pajamas for a month.\n\nBut, 1 particular person displaying us how it really is carried out is 27-12 months-aged model strategist Sydney Pashley, whose husband or wife of eight many years divorced her and left her for somebody else out of the blue.\n\nIn spite of the shock and trauma, Sydney taken care of the scenario by going on the excursion all around Europe that the pair had formerly planned, but solo.\n\nTalking to Newsweek, Sydney said: “I was struggling with a quite unanticipated divorce and heartbreak. There have been lies and betrayal and items I hardly ever imagined acquiring to offer with. I was entirely shocked and devastated. We experienced booked a trip to Europe months prior and, for noticeable good reasons, I was getting ready to terminate it. But then I just felt this calling to go on my very own rather.\n\n“I knew that I would regret it if I didn’t go. The trip was by now booked. It was a desire trip. I had never ever travelled by itself and I knew this was my prospect to experience it. Plus, some of my relatives members were being going to meet up with me towards the close of the trip which designed it all the a lot more motivating. I could encounter the 1st section on my personal and then end the excursion surrounded by beloved types. It was the finest of the two worlds.\n\n“I saw incredible sights, met new mates, and recognized that I never have to have somebody by my aspect to get pleasure from items. Checking out new places alone is a quite liberating encounter and forces you to study a good deal about on your own.”\n\nInspite of the pleasurable of traveling by yourself, Sydney admitted some areas of touring solo all over Europe have been hard, including: “There have been jarring moments for sure. Walking around Paris was magical but it felt like every single sidewalk was stuffed with partners keeping hands and men and women in enjoy. It actually is the metropolis of adore haha! That was agonizing at instances – emotion lonely. But I would try to switch people moments close to by shifting my viewpoint and sensation empowered.”\n\nA further tricky portion of traveling on your own for Sydney was having by yourself, which she claimed was one of the most significant hurdles at initial. She included: “I was so not comfortable just sitting down there on your own. It seems like such a very simple matter but it is really pretty hard if you have never ever carried out it before and have generally experienced an individual to share your meals with. But I pressured myself to do it and eventually it began to truly feel standard! I would get to know the waiters or chat to people at the table upcoming to me and quite a few of those interactions turned into hour-prolonged discussions with persons from all about the entire world. It was great!”\n\nSydney disclosed that traveling by itself produced her realize how a great deal she had to appear ahead to in everyday living, reaffirming that she would be “just great” and that her divorce was “not an ending, it is a starting”.\n\nTwo female travel businesses, Solo Female Tourists and SheFari, partnered in 2020 to start the greatest-scale global survey at any time performed for the solo female travel niche. The models made two on line questionnaires: a person for females who have traveled solo, and just one for all those who have not.\n\nWhen inquiring in excess of 78,000 ladies why they journey solo, 90 percent revealed they travel alone for the reason that of the flexibility and adaptability it presents them, though 86 % travel solo to get away from program and responsibilities, and 84 % do it to challenge themselves.\n\nThe leading solo female journey anxieties integrated, changes in travel constraints and personalized security. Personalized protection was also the amount one particular explanation why people who have never travelled solo, worry about performing so.\n\nTalking about her authentic considerations of traveling solo, Sydney informed Newsweek: “Naturally, just be conscious of your environment constantly. Be watchful who might be listening when you say you’re touring by yourself. There have been numerous cases in which I lied and reported “Oh my close friends are assembly me afterwards” or “My spouse is back at the apartment” and so forth.\n\n“But also, keep your eyes peeled for other solo female vacationers! I found them everywhere you go and would strike up a conversation. It led to so lots of great interactions. I am of the state of mind that any destination can be fantastic for solo site visitors! If you have a vacation spot in intellect, really don’t hold out for someone else, just go!”\n\nHas an infidelity damaged your rely on in your spouse? Enable us know through [email protected]. We can ask professionals for assistance, and your story could be showcased on Newsweek." ]

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[ "Are men allowed to have an opinion on abortion? PART 1\n\nAre men allowed to have an opinion on abortion?\n\nFrom doing street activism as a young man myself within the pro-life movement, I can tell you that the most popular answer to this question is “No”.\n\nFrom my observations, it seems pro-choicers feel strongly repulsed when men have an opinion on abortion. I have been called an “idiot” who is infringing on “women’s rights”. People have sworn at me and even rush away. While doing activism, several men I’ve met on the street told me that they don’t have an opinion on abortion. One middle aged man ventured as far as to say that since he cannot become pregnant, the issue does not affect him personally and therefore he does not care about the slaying of children in the womb.\n\nNo uterus. No opinion. No exceptions. Right?\n\nIf anything, this logic is only consistently applied to pro-life men like myself. It almost never applies to pro-abortion politicians and celebrities. The hypocrisy is real. With the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States, everyone is talking about abortion, especially prominent, pro-abortion men.\n\nHere are a few examples, starting with the epicentre of the debate, politicians in the United States.", null, "It is not shocking that President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama are lamenting the Supreme Court’s monumental decision, nor is it shocking that they believe Americans should have a constitutional right to abortion.\n\nOne of the options proposed by most politicians to undermine the Supreme Court’s landmark decision is to codify Roe. Many politicians in the United States are in agreement on this issue. Here are statements made by President Biden and Senator Joe Machin.", null, "It is really disturbing that two men who claim to be Catholic are speaking in defence of Roe and wish it permanently codified. Worse still, Senator Manchin claims to be “pro-life,” when his opinion directly contradicts all pro-life values.", null, null, "Like most politicians in the States, they parroted the typical pro-abortion talking points and slogans. Both are promising that Canada will never restrict the “right” to abortion like the United States, and Trudeau stated that Americans are encouraged to come to our country to access abortion. Even Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the United Kingdom commented on the decision, stating that it stipulates world-wide “ramifications”, repeating the same messaging and following through consistently with the pro-abortion public relation strategy. He was keen to highlight that he has “always believed in a woman’s right to choose” and he thinks that the decision “is a big step backwards”.\n\nI guess one could make an exception to the rule. It is the job of politicians to ensure that people’s rights are protected, so in that case, even male politicians should have a stance on the “right to abortion”. However, in the inherent hypocrisy that characterizes the left, it seems that outspoken opinions against the overturning of Roe are not restricted to male politicians.\n\nBill Gates, a liberal humanitarian, goes straight for the heart. Instead of attacking the decision for stripping women of their “rights,” he restates the common fears of abortion advocates, specifically that the restriction of “reproductive healthcare” harms lower class, working women.\n\nOther men who agree that the overturning of Roe is counter-progressive include television host James Corden, Prince Harry, and George Soros." ]

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[ "A milliohmmeter is just the tool for checking trace resistance on a printed circuit board, tracking down shorted traces, and measuring the contact resistance of a switch or connector. Its the kind of tool that would come in real handy occasionally, but not often enough to justify shelling out hundreds of dollars. Wanting one anyway, I set out to make my own. It turned out to be not only an exciting project, but a true adventure of discovery as it provided a window into the workings of lock-in amplifiers. With a lock-in amplifier topology, a microcontroller and a little firmware makes the venerable (if somewhat noisy) LM324 bipolar op-amp provide high gain and at the same time reduces noise. Improve analog performance with a microcontroller? Now THIS is a fun project!\nMy main concern in the milliohmmeter design was how to get stable resistance readings with a suitably low test current. After all, I wanted to look at a few or few tens of milliohms, but I wanted to keep the test current low so as not to exceed the current ratings of some of the parts I want to test, and so I can run it all from a battery. For starters, 25 milliamps x 1 milliohm = 25 microvolts. This meant that I would have to be able to measure and display voltages in the range of tens of microvolts per count in a stable and repeatable manor. I also wanted the circuit to be forgiving of my hand wired breadboards, shown in photo 1. That is what lead me to the lock-in amplifier.", null, "Photo1 Because it integrates the signal over 999 cycles, the lock-in amplifier is very forgiving of my layout and wiring. The microcontroller is at the opposite end of the board from the analog circuitry. An additional transistor inverter is an RS-232 receiver left over from an earlier project. The current switching PNP and input shorting pushbutton are on a small daughter board.\nAlso shown is a 100 milliohm test resistance.\nThe Wonder Of Lock-In Amplification\n\nfigure 1 The lock-in amplifier detects and integrates bursts of 1 kHz pulses that result from the IR drop across the resistance under test. The result is 46 db of signal gain while vastly improving the signal-to-noise ratio. The preamplifier doubles as a high-pass filter to remove the DC component of the pulses and reduce flicker burst noise from the op-amp.\nA lock-in amplifier provides gain for the signal at a specific frequency and phase, while reducing noise. Its almost like getting something for nothing, but that’s not really the case. Since you have to effectively average many measurements to improve the signal to noise ratio, what you are really doing is trading way bandwidth and responsiveness to improve the signal to noise ratio.\nIn this circuit, shown in the block diagram in figure 1, a 1 kHz burst of 5 volt peak pulses is applied to a series dropping resistor to establish a pulsing current through the resistance under test. The IR drop across the resistor under test is a voltage proportional to the value of the resistance. After passing through a high pass filter to eliminate the DC component of the signal, it is rectified by a synchronous demodulator. For a period of time corresponding to the burst, the rectified signal is applied to an integrator, which charges up, and then at the end of the burst, the time it takes the integrator to discharge at a constant rate is measured to determine the size of the charge, and that is how the average amplitude of the signal applied to the integrator is determined. Since random noise is not synchronized with the switching in the synchronous demodulator, it is not rectified and it averages out to nearly zero. The longer the integration time, the less proportionate effect a given small pulse of noise has on the integrator’s output, and the more gain the integrator has for the 1 kHz burst. Integration is the wonder of lock-in .amplification\nOne critical part of measuring a very low resistance is developing an IR drop across the resistance, and measuring only that. Getting the IR drop itself was easy, a PNP switching transistor is driven into saturation with the 1 kHz burst, and the transistor’s collector delivers 5 volt peak-to-peak pulses to a 220 ohm resistor in series with the resistance under test (see figure 2). The voltage across the 220 ohm resistor is virtually constant as long as the transistor is always driven into saturation and the resistance under test is very low. A 100 milliohm resistance will have a voltage drop of only 2.3 millivolts maximum, so the error introduced by using a 220 ohm resistor instead of a constant current source is only 2.3 mv/5v = 0.05%, so I think you will agree that this approach is sufficient for a 100 count meter.\nWhile testing the circuit I was surprised that when leaving the input open circuited, the meter gave a very low resistance measurement. I spent a long time looking over the firmware, looking for math errors or register use conflicts, before I decided to take a look at the circuit with an oscilloscope. That’s when I saw that when the meter’s input terminals were unloaded, there was virtually no signal across the input terminals. Without the test resistance in series with the 220 Ohm resistor, there was no signal – the input just charged up to +5 volts and wiggled a little because of capacitive coupling between the transistor’s base and collector. That’s when I added the 10k resistor from the PNP’s collector to ground. I should have taken my early mentor’s advice, “Always look for the simplest explanation first.”\nTo make sure that I am only measuring the resistance of the thing I am trying to measure and not the resistance of my test leads, I used a 4 wire measurement system. In this system, two wires are used to deliver the test current and two separate wires are used to measure the voltage drop. Simple enough, but how did I keep the test current ground return path separate from the voltage sense ground line? There in lies much of the art in circuit layout. Looking at figure 2, the terminal marked “Test Current Return” connects directly to the battery’s negative connection to the circuit. The signal marked “Small Signal Return” connects to the rest of the analog circuits’ grounds, and then joins up with the battery ground at the point in the circuit where the 1.8 volt reference voltage is generated. The overall grounding scheme can be seen in figure 3.\nThe big trick here is to keep the various 1 kHz signals from the synchronous demodulator and say currents from the test current circuit out of the signal from the resistance under test. The circuit is somewhat forgiving in that the unintentional signals end up affecting the integrator’s output as offset and gain errors. The gain error is easily taken care of in calibration. The offset error is automatically take out by the firmware in the microcontroller.\nFor more detail: A Microcontroller Based Digital Lock-In Milliohmmeter using ATtiny2313 microcontroller" ]

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[ null, "The FEI WBFSH Dressage World Breeding Championship for Young Horses should have taken place in Verden from December 9th to 13th. The best five-, six- and seven-year-old horses from all over the world were to compete there. But it is precisely the international nature of the Championships that makes it impossible to hold it. „A few weeks ago additional measures were added to the event protocol for the FEI WBFSH Dressage World Breeding Championships for Young Horses by the FEI and the Organising Committee, in an attempt to further mitigate the risks of the Covid-19 virus. Further to several meetings between the FEI, WBFSH and the OC and despite the updated mitigation plan, the regrettable decision was made that the best and only option, in the face of the pandemic, is to cancel the event. While we are sad that this championship, that is one of the highlights of the year, will not take place, we understand and fully support this decision”, explains Jan Pedersen, President of the World Breeding Federation of Sport Horses (WBFSH).\n\nEven though in Germany there is nothing that speaks against holding a sporting competition under special infection protection measures, there are different and stricter regulations in other parts of the world regarding quarantine and testing requirements, travel through and return travel regulations or other corona-restrictions. When it was decided to postpone the Championship to December, there was hope that the situation would then at least allow for a Championship with a limited number of people. But the news now shows that the corona situation in other countries is sometimes worse than in Germany. \"The safety of everyone involved is paramount and we can't expect anyone to take long detours on their journey or to have problems returning home just before Christmas,\" says event director Wilken Treu, managing director of the Hanoverian Breeding Federation.\n\nParticipants from 23 nations should have started in Verden and be judged by an international judging panel. Before entering the show ground, each person would have had to show a maximum 48-hour-old negative corona test. \"This of course presents us with special challenges,\" Treu continues. \"If several judges could not have arrived due to a positive test, according to the FEI regulations, a German judge could not have simply moved in given that these Championships are World Championships. Moreover, we would have had to expect at any time that entire federations would cancel the participation of their horses at short notice while other nations were already on their way to Verden\".\n\nTogether with the associations involved, the German Equestrian Federation (FN), the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) and the WBFSH, solutions were intensively discussed, but in the end all agreed that a cancellation was unavoidable. \"I feel sorry for all those who put a lot of work into the planning and organization, and especially for the riders and owners of the horses who qualified,\" Wilken Treu emphasized.\n\n“It is very regrettable that these Championships have had to be cancelled, but clearly the travel restrictions have made it impossible for the Organisers to go ahead, even though they had explored every possible avenue to run the Championships safely and behind closed doors”, FEI Director Dressage, Bettina De Rham said.\n\nWe know how disappointed the Dressage and Breeding community will be with this news, especially as this year’s seven-year-old horses will have outgrown their category by 2021, but we must continue to place the utmost importance on ensuring the health and safety of everyone involved.\n\nWe will continue to support Verden as the host of these great championships and thank the Organising Committee for all their efforts. We hope we can alleviate the disappointment by returning to Verden for a wonderful Championships in the future.”" ]

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[ "Whenever nadir is reached, suffering 'continues to sink deeper and deeper before our eyes', says UN aid chief", null, "\"Every time we think we have reached the nadir of human suffering in this crisis, it continues to sink deeper and deeper before our eyes,\" O'Brien said during his monthly briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in the war-ravaged country.\n\nDespite this, the tragedy is \"man-made\" and \"avoidable\" through a political solution, he added. The civil war, which will enter its sixth year in March, has killed more than 250,000 victims and left 13.5 million people in dire need of humanitarian assistance, according to UN figures.\n\nWithin Syria, 6.5 million are displaced and another 4.6 million live as refugees in neighboring countries.\nTalks aimed at finding a solution to the conflict are expected to begin Friday in Geneva.\n\nO'Brien said humanitarian conditions in besieged areas -- particularly the health of civilians in the town of Madaya -- remain critical, with aid access \"severely hampered by the pitiful approval rate for inter-agency convoys by the Syrian authorities\".\n\nHe said a little more than 10 percent of the 113 UN requests for inter-agency aid convoys resulted in the delivery of humanitarian and life-saving assistance in 2015, with 75 percent of requests going unanswered by the Syrian government.\n\n\"On 11 January, the United Nations requested approval from the government of Syria to conduct inter-agency convoys to 46 besieged and hard-to-reach areas during the first quarter of 2016. As of 27 January, 16 days later, we have not received all of the necessary approvals for any of these requests\", he said, adding that an estimated 1.7 million people could have been reached if these approvals had been granted.\n\nO'Brien also said the situation in Madaya is \"only the tip of the iceberg\", with a rapidly increasing number of people \"slipping out of our reach every day as the conflict intensifies and battle lines tighten\".\nApproximately 4.6 million residents live in hard-to-reach areas across the country, with nearly 490,000 of them in besieged locations with little or no access to basic supplies or assistance, according to UN figures." ]

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[ null, "The Suicide Squad trailer has been released. It brings back some of the old cast and introduces several new characters, along with a glimpse of what the story would be. The movie is a follow-up to the 2016 film Suicide Squad directed by David Ayer. The first trailer for the upcoming film, simply named The Suicide Squad, also reveals the villain to be Starro — a giant starfish that first appeared in The Brave and the Bold comic #28 from the ‘60s. And in case you missed it, Sylvester Stallone is voicing the character of King Shark.\n\nThe trailer kicks off with the squad executing a plan to rescue Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) only to find her (already escaped) even before the plan went into motion. It reintroduces the concept of the Suicide Squad —a team of supervillains who are being forced to work together to save the world — and are dispensable. There are some high-octane action scenes, funny quips from some of the characters, and some scenes filled with enough guts and glory to let DC fans have their fill. Also, there seems to be a COVID reference in there as well when Harley Quinn tells Peter Capaldi’s Thinker that if he coughs without covering his mouth, he dies.\n\nThe Suicide Squad brings back Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, and Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, among others from the 2016 film. It introduces new characters like Idris Elba as Bloodsport, Michael Rooker of Guardians of the Galaxy fame as Savant, Alice Braga as SolSoria, Pete Davidson as Blackguard, John Cena as Peacemaker, David Dastmalchian as Polka-Dot Man, and King Shark voiced by Stallone, among others.\n\nThe Suicide Squad has been directed by James Gunn who also helmed the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Gunn also wrote the movie alongside John Ostrander who wrote the comic book that the movie is based on. DC Films, Atlas Entertainment, and The Safran Company have produced The Suicide Squad that will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.\n\nThe movie is slated to release worldwide on August 6 this year in theatres as well as on HBO Max. In India, it will be available in four languages — English, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu." ]

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[ "With iOS 11.3, Apple looks to unite patients and their healthcare data\n\nAfter touting an EMR-sharing feature in its upcoming iOS 11.3 release, Apple said 12 hospitals have signed on to beta test the software, which will allow patients and healthcare providers to interact on iPhones and iPads.", null, "Apple has announced that its upcoming iOS 11.3 release will allow patients to view electronic medical records (EMRs) and other clinical information about themselves on iPhones and iPads.\n\nApple's new Health Records feature uses the existing Health app (released in 2014 on iOS 8) to enable medical facilities to connect via an API to their EMR systems to share data between providers and patients.\n\nThe new Health Record feature is currently available to the patients of 12 US hospital systems via the iOS 11.3 beta, according to Apple.\n\n\"In the coming months, more medical facilities will connect to Health Records offering their patients access to this feature,\" Apple said in its announcement.\n\nThe medical facilities that have signed on to beta test the Health Record feature include:\n\nLast year, building on its health informatics platform, Apple released HealthKit, a developer API that was part of the iOS software development kit; it allowed third-party developers to create applications that can be used through the Health app.\n\nLast week, Apple announced the update to the Health app with the iOS 11.3 beta, enabling mobile users to see EMRs on their iPhone. The updated Health Records section within the Health app brings together hospitals, clinics and the existing app to make it easy for users to see available medical data from multiple providers whenever they choose.\n\nJohn Halamka, CIO at CareGroup Healthcare System and CIO and associate dean for educational technology at Harvard Medical School, said EMR sharing will sometimes be solely between healthcare providers and sometimes be provider to patient and back to provider.\n\n\"Apple is significantly accelerating the provider-to-patient-to-provider approach with iOS 11.3,\" Halamka said via email.\n\nThe Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 required all healthcare facilities to roll out EMRs and prove through Meaningful Use standards that they were functioning as required.\n\nWhile Meaningful Use standards required every EHR have a patient portal, the records were not easily shared between disparate healthcare facilities.\n\n\"If you have 5 providers, you probably have 5 portals,\" Halamka said.\n\nThus, each time a patient wants to see healthcare information, they have to log into multiple portals.\n\nApple’s new Health Records feature will enable consumers to see their available medical data from multiple providers, whenever they choose – eliminating the need for multiple logins.\n\nApple is not the only provider to roll out mobile access to EMRs.\n\nThe application allows patients to not only view their EMRs, send messages to healthcare providers, view lab results and manage appointments and refills, but also allows them to pay bills via a PCI-compliant payment service from TrustCommerce. The features can be used via an iOS and Android mobile app.\n\nWhen Westmed initially rolled out the EMR portal in October, it did come with a few \"glitches,\" according to Merin Joseph, CIO at Westmed. For example, some messaging to patients was getting stuck in spam folders because they were being marked by email apps as vendor lists.\n\n\"As far as the portal itself, it took time to process,\" Joseph said. \"Right now, I think it's working how it's designed to and we'll continue to work with it to enhance features.\"\n\nWestmed expects to begin its marketing campaign this month to let its patients know about the features now available to them via their smart phones, tablets and laptops.\n\nApple's concept is to leverage the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources interface, a set of standards that will soon be available in every major EHR to consolidate lifetime clinical records from different providers on mobile devices, Halamka said.\n\n\"Putting the patient at the center of their care by enabling them to direct and control their own health records has been a focus for us at Cedars-Sinai for some time,\" Darren Dworkin, CIO at Cedars-Sinai, said in a statement. \"We are thrilled to see Apple taking the lead in this space by enabling access for consumers to their medical information on their iPhones.\"\n\nIn the past, consumers have voiced fear around something as personal as a medical record being introduced in electronic form. Healthcare information is arguably the most sensitive data there is because once it's disclosed, it can be used by cyber criminals for nefarious purposes for a lifetime.\n\nA 2016 study by the Brookings Institute showed that since late 2009, the medical information of more than 155 million Americans has been exposed without their permission through about 1,500 breaches.\n\nThe prospect of healthcare data being shared via Apple on mobile devices could exacerbate those concerns.\n\nHalamka pointed out, however, that no data will be stored by Apple.\n\n\"All data will be encrypted and biometrically secured (fingerprint or facial recognition) on your phone,\" Halamka said. \"Patients would decide what data to share with what apps.\"\n\nPatients from participating medical institutions will have information from various institutions organized into one view and get regular notifications about their lab results, conditions, immunizations, medications, procedures and vital stats. Patients will receive notifications when their data is updated.\n\n\"Streamlining information sharing between patients and their caregivers can go a long way towards making the patient experience a positive one,\" Stephanie Reel, CIO at Johns Hopkins Medicine, said in a statement. \"This is why we are excited about working with Apple to make accessing secure medical records from an iPhone as simple for a patient as checking email.\"" ]

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[ null, "On 9 June 2011, Doncaster reinstated their \"Donny the Dog\" mascot after firing her one day previously for participating in a lingerie photo shoot.\n\nTracy Chandler, an unpaid volunteer, had worn the mascot suit for Doncaster for over three years before agreeing to the shoot in exchange for a donation to a children's charity. The photos, which appeared in Sunday Sport, showed Ms. Chandler in lingerie alongside the dog costume. She described the pictures as \"tongue-in-cheek and not seedy.\"\n\nShe had not gotten permission from the club and, when they learned about the photos, they sacked her by email on 8 June. But after word of the firing got out, Doncaster quickly reinstated her, with club chairman John Ryan saying \"we were just a bit concerned about the sexualisation of young children, it's a tricky area these days, we're putting it right, maybe it was a mistake.\"\n\nMs. Chandler was happy to reclaim the suit, calling the club's reversal \"better than winning the lottery.\"\nPosted by Brian Seal at 12:01 AM" ]

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[ null, "Thomas Cook Group Plc has filed for Chapter 15 court protection in the U.S. as part of a broader debt restructuring for the U.K. travel agent, writes Bloomberg.\n\nThe company’s Chapter 15 petition was filed in the Southern District of New York, court papers dated Sept. 16 show. Law firm Latham & Watkins is representing the company, according to the documents.\n\nChapter 15 of U.S. bankruptcy law shields foreign companies from lawsuits by U.S. creditors while they reorganize in another country. The filing may also trigger the payout of default insurance on Thomas Cook debt.\n\nThe travel agent’s creditors are set to vote on Sept. 27 on a proposed scheme of arrangement, a U.K. court procedure that will allow Chinese investor Fosun Tourism Group to lead a planned rescue of the company.\n\nThomas Cook proposed to swap 1.67 billion pounds ($2.07 billion) of bank debt and bonds for 15% of the equity and at least 81 million pounds of new subordinated notes, which will pay interest with more debt, according to the documents. After the injection of at least 900 million pounds of new money, Fosun will hold 75% of the shares of the tour operator arm and up to 25% of the airline, writes Bloomberg." ]

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[ "I wanted to post some pictures from this project I’ve been working on. My friend Ashley, over at The Wine Stain came up with #30DaysofCityLove as a way to explore her city and her relationship with it. It has morphed into a very cool exploration of city dwellers points of view from around the world. Pretty sweet, eh? I will admit, I’m a city basher, but like she talks about in her post, I am one of those people that doesn’t do anything in the city, so I probably shouldn’t bad mouth it. I thought that this exercise would get me out into my city to maybe discover some things that I like and maybe find some new stuff to do. So far it hasn’t. So far I’ve taken pictures of stuff around me, but haven’t made it a priority to get out there and find new things. Mostly because I’ve been working a lot, and like I’ve said before, I bust my ass when I’m at work, so I don’t want to do anything when I’m off. But tonight I’m going out to dinner with some friends downtown, so I’ll take a lap around while I’m out. Here are some of my pictures (follow me on Instagram!) so far.", null, "This is my hospital!", null, "This is a fountain!", null, "This is a backroad!", null, "This is Abe Lincoln!", null, "And here’s some art!", null, "This is Peppermint Patty!\n\nTalk to you soon!" ]

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[ "It will start all over again and yet it never ended nor was it interrupted.\n\n) For me vacations have always been synonymous with punishment. Yeah, I know, that sounds weird. But the adverb is necessary: ​​always1868047 was so. As a child, vacations made it compulsory for me to separate myself from my colleagues – who I thought of as friends. Not to mention the Enciclopédia Barsa that I dreamed of reading while jumping off the trampoline at Harmonia Clube de Campo, in Umuarama.\n\nAn equally uncomfortable feeling took hold of me throughout the month of April, when, as an adult closer to old age than adolescence, I was forced to remain silent, which everyone assured me & the CLT, it was necessary. And maybe it was. To plant to reap, Ecclesiastes teaches with simplicity. Let the earth rest. Passively receive rainwater, with its random nutrients. Sow and wait for plenty. So be it!\n\nAnyway, it was a “punishment” that took him back not only to the small town in northwest Paraná, but also to the glass table in the living room of the house in Bairro Alto, where my mother, in that mood that is still peculiar to her today, covered textbooks and notebooks with the indefectible blue checkered plastic. Me beside her, anticipating everything I would learn in the coming months. Looking forward to finally knowing what a logarithm is (never did).\n\nThe vacation determined by the fascist CLT also made me realize that I still share anguish and dramas with that boy who, amid the reddish sand of the countryside, felt physically isolated from civilization. At that time, I had the impression that life was what happened while I had black cow at the only ice cream shop in town. Or while playing bocce with my uncle’s drunken old friends. The circumstances are slightly different, my hair has thinned and my beard is whiter than ever, but the feeling is the same: life is what happens while I am obligatorily silent.\n\nI don’t need to be the amateur psychoanalyst I once was to melancholically verify the perversity contained in the idea that the world will one day get used to with my absence. It’s as if the stars of a peacefully rustic sky whip me with this absolute truth that I insist on childishly wanting to refute: the importance we give ourselves is an illusion. And, in the proverbial frying pan, silence or word, presence or absence, the silly joke and the carefully constructed concept all have the same limited scope.\n\nThis does not mean that I should, we should or you should opt for the Benedictine exit, isolating us from a world that shrugs its shoulders for everything that happens in his (his) bowels. As long as there is life, the absence must be filled. In addition, there is beauty and a mysterious sense in the act of carrying the rock to the top of the mountain only to have it plummet the next day. It’s just that between the foothills (a word I haven’t used since 1982!) and the summit many more things happen than our vain philosophy.\n\nHere, before concluding the chronicle, the boy again gives the man a hand to share with him the delicious feeling of seeing his friends again. It will start all over again and yet everything never ended nor was it interrupted. For my part, it is as if I were leafing through the textbooks here carefully covered and labeled, and without the donkey ears that would adorn their used sheets at the end of the year. Anxious once again, but not to learn logarithms, but “democracy”, “freedom”, “tolerance” and “justice” – much more difficult subjects, for which there is no scientific calculator possible.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "It was thought to be almost eradicated from the surface of the globe, stored in the archives of Western health authorities. Yet polio has not disappeared. On July 21, the United States recorded its first case of poliomyelitis in almost a decade. A young man hospitalized for paralysis of the leg and tested positive for polio, in Rockland County, a few dozen kilometers from Manhattan. Traces of the virus were later found in sewage from that county and another nearby.\n\nAn isolated case ? Probably not, fear the American authorities. In mid-August, the virus was this time detected in New York’s wastewater, “suggesting that it is probably circulating locally”, warned the city’s health authorities. And in recent months, other regions of the globe have been affected. What raise the specter of a resurgence of this extremely contagious disease in France?\n\nSeveral pockets of resurgence on the globe\n\nIn the United States, “the detection of the virus in samples of New York’s wastewater is worrying, but not surprising,” commented Mary Bassett, a state health official. What worries him is that “for every case of the disease identified, several hundred could remain undetected”. Polio, an extremely contagious disease that affects children under 5 in particular, can cause permanent paralysis of the limbs, and even death in some cases. It is caused by the poliovirus, of which there are several forms.\n\nUnder the impetus of national governments, the World Health Organization (WHO) or UNICEF, the launch in 1988 of the Global Poliomyelitis Eradication Initiative (GPEI), accompanied by a deployment massive vaccination, has practically eradicated it in the world. “The number of cases due to wild poliovirus has decreased by 99% since 1988, from an estimated 350,000 cases in more than 125 endemic countries to only six cases reported in 2021”, reports the WHO. The only exceptions are Afghanistan and Pakistan, where an endemic strain of wild poliovirus is spreading.\n\nHowever, as we have said, since the beginning of the year, several pockets of resurgence have been uncovered. In June, British authorities announced that they had detected traces of a form of polio in eight London boroughs, with “genetic diversity” suggesting “transmission of the virus”, although “no one has been diagnosed with the virus “, reassured the Minister of Health, Steve Barclay. In Israel, nine children have tested positive since March, eight of whom are asymptomatic. However, people who do not develop symptoms can still transmit the disease. And in February, a case was detected in Malawi. “The first case of wild poliovirus in Africa for more than five years” indicated the WHO, specifying that it was “a case imported from Pakistan”. Problem, “as long as the wild polio virus exists somewhere in the world, all countries are exposed to the risk of importing it”, according to Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.\n\nThe oral vaccine in the viewfinder\n\nThe only solution to eradicate this disease for which no treatment exists: vaccination. To date, “two vaccines are available: the oral poliomyelitis vaccine (OPV) and the inactivated poliomyelitis vaccine (IPV), adds the WHO. Both are effective and safe”. But one raises another problem: OPV can cause contamination in unvaccinated people.\n\nHow ? “A vaccine-derived poliovirus is an attenuated strain of poliovirus initially included in OPV and which has evolved over time by genetic mutation to become virulent and behave more like a wild virus, explains Public Health France. As a result, it can be transmitted to people who are not properly vaccinated against poliomyelitis and cause the disease mainly in countries using the oral vaccine. Just like the viruses contained in the oral vaccine, they are excreted in the stools of vaccinated individuals”. And end up in the sewage.\n\nThe case of the patient identified in New York State thus indicates “a chain of transmission from an individual who received OPV”, according to New York health officials. A vaccine that has not been used in the United States since 2000, which suggests that the origin of the virus could come “from a place outside the United States where OPV is administered”. Moreover, in London, the traces of polio found in sewage samples do not correspond “either to a strain of virus in the wild state, but to a “derived” version which is used to vaccinate against the disease ” , according to the British authorities.\n\n“The risk for New Yorkers is real, but defending yourself is simple: get vaccinated,” said Ashwin Vasan, city health officer. There, as in London, the vaccination of children has been reinforced and the authorities have urged residents who are not vaccinated to do so. And there is urgency: only 86% of young New Yorkers aged 6 months to 5 years have received three doses of the vaccine, according to the authorities.\n\nAnd the Big Apple is far from the only one concerned. The Covid-19 crisis and the lack of access to care and information have caused the largest continuous decline in childhood vaccination for nearly thirty years, the UN worried when it published in mid-July. a joint report by WHO and UNICEF. According to the document, the proportion of children who received all three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and poliomyelitis (DTP), the benchmark for global vaccination coverage, fell from 86% in 2019 to 81% in 2021.\n\nSome 25 million children missed one or more doses of DTP in 2021, i.e. 2 million more than in 2020, and 6 million more than in 2019. Almost three quarters did not even receive any dose, the majority being in countries of the South with medium or low incomes such as India, Nigeria, Indonesia, Ethiopia or the Philippines. Hence the importance of setting up vaccination campaigns “to catch up with the children missed out”, urges Dr. Kate O’Brien, WHO Director for Immunization, Vaccines and Biological Products.\n\nAnd in France, are we sufficiently protected? “The country benefits from a very high vaccination coverage against poliomyelitis: 99% for the primary vaccination and 96% for the booster in infants in 2019”, reassures Public Health France. A vaccination that relies on the use of IPV, which does not present the risk of mutation and transmission of the virus associated with OPV.\n\nHowever, “vaccination coverage has its pockets of heterogeneity, emphasizes Antoine Flahault, epidemiologist and director of the Institute of Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva. Thus, in 2004, it was only about 75% at the age of 2 years, and not 96%, in the departments of Creuse, Lot-et-Garonne and Guyana. This puts these populations at risk in the event of re-emerging viral circulation”. Many French people are not up to date with their reminders.\n\nFaced with the potential risk, “the health authorities remain vigilant with regard to the risk of introduction of strains of poliovirus derived from the vaccine linked to people from countries in which OPV is still used, assures Public Health France. Clinical and biological surveillance coordinated by the National Reference Center for Enteroviruses and Parechoviruses makes it possible to detect any clinical suspicion”. For Antoine Flahault, there is “urgency, even in France, to search for the virus in wastewater, in order to possibly be able to relaunch the vaccination of insufficiently covered children if the virus were to be detected there”. According to Public Health France, “the last case of autochthonous poliomyelitis dates back to 1989”." ]

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[ null, "Glaucoma is a chronically progressive condition that can lead to permanent blindness. It is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world. Blindness from glaucoma is due to chronically raised intraocular pressure that results in damage to the optic nerve.\n\nA sub-category of glaucoma is referred to as normal tension glaucoma (NTG) because the intraocular pressure of these patients remains within a normal range, but damage to the optic nerve occurs by some other means. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has become a recent topic of study in relation to NGT, because of their similarities as chronic, progressive conditions.\n\nIn a new study, researchers compared the incidence rate of Alzheimer’s in patients with normal tension glaucoma to those without NGT in order to help clarify inconsistent findings of similar studies performed in the past. They gathered data from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) in Taiwan and analyzed it for patterns between the two conditions over a period of 13 years.\n\nNGT Increases the Risk of Dementia\n\nThe analysis showed that, when compared to citizens without glaucoma, patients with normal tension glaucoma had a significantly higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s by the end of the study period. The results were true after adjusting for age, gender, and comorbidities.\n\nThey noted that in the participants who had NGT, those who were older, female, and had suffered a stroke were more likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s later on. They did not find any difference in incidence of AD based on the type of glaucoma eye drops that the patients were using to treat their NGT, however.\n\nIn the past, when similar studies have been conducted, NGT has been lumped in with other forms of glaucoma and considered one disease. The researchers behind the current study believe this to be a mistake, as different forms of glaucoma have different symptoms and mechanisms and should, therefore, be viewed as individual conditions.\n\nIn this new study, the researchers ensured that NGT was analyzed on its own, without the potential bias to the results that could be caused by combining it with other conditions under the glaucoma umbrella of diseases, making these results much more reliable and valid.\n\n“The findings from our study have both clinical and public health implications. Clinically, when treating patients with NTG, ophthalmologists need to focus not only on the medical aspects of NTG but also on changes in cognitive function or memory. Patients with NTG at a higher risk for AD, such as older patients, female patients, and patients with stroke, should be referred to a neurologist or psychiatrist if early signs of AD become apparent. From a public health perspective, policymakers are encouraged to enforce screening for AD risk in patients with NTG and to provide more substantial and integrated care,” conclude the researchers.\n\nThey hope that these findings will be used to improve the screening for, and diagnosis of, Alzheimer’s in patients with NGT and vice versa so that treatment plans can become that much more effective." ]

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[ "Column: Finding Hope in the Heartbreak for FSU", null, "Is it basketball season yet?\n\nFlorida State football has seen better days. The program is in year four of a rebuild that started when head coach Jimbo Fisher left to coach at Texas A&M at the end of the 2017 season. Firing head coach Willie Taggart after two years, whether it was the right choice or not, reset that rebuild timer.\n\nSo the Seminoles are in year two of a coaching reset, with the first year seeing an extremely limited offseason due to COVID-19.\n\nEvery year since the rebuild began, the Seminoles have flirted with losing to an FCS team or dismal Group of 5 program. In 2018, defensive back Levonta Taylor had to seal the 36-26 comeback win against Samford with a last-minute pick-six.\n\nThe following year, Louisiana-Monroe rallied from 21 points down and forced the Seminoles into overtime, but lost on a shanked extra point attempt. In 2020, quarterback Jordan Travis had to come in and lead the team back from a two-score deficit against Jacksonville State.\n\nThis year, the unthinkable happened. Florida State experienced its first loss to an FCS team in program history. The Seminoles fell to Jacksonville State on a miracle deep ball for a touchdown on the game’s final play.\n\nThere is no way to sugar coat this one; this loss was the most embarrassing in school history. This is rock bottom.\n\nHold on, now. Step back from that ledge, my friend. Let’s try to find some hope amidst the heartbreak.\n\nFocusing on the Positives\n\nThere’s a lot of football and coaching left this season, so it’s still possible to right the ship and have a solid season. That being said, the 2021 football season has not treated FSU well so far.\n\nOften major change is not made without a catalyst. Losing to an FCS team for the first time in school history is a heck of a catalyst.\n\nThis loss is a major wake-up call for both the players and the coaches.\n\nFlorida State could see major personnel changes from here on out, for the better. If the backups have the fire and energy to play, anyone and everyone can earn more playing time.\n\nThe Seminoles are also still an incredibly young team, with only 24 upperclassmen on the roster. This team has a lot of potential, but it needs to develop.\n\nThe last sprinkle of hope is that the transfers that head coach Mike Norvell has brought in so far are actually producing.\n\nFlorida State’s defensive end transfers already have more sacks through two games than the position tallied during the entire 2020 season. Simply looking at how many transfers are starting and producing is telling.\n\nHow Does FSU Fix This Mess?\n\nThe simple answer as to how to climb out of this low point is recruiting. A healthy percentage of Florida State’s starters are transfer players. The team makeup is still essentially one full recruiting cycle, one rushed recruiting cycle without proper evaluation, and leftover players from the last two head coaches.\n\nThis is going to take time.\n\nThe ‘Noles currently have the 10th-ranked 2022 recruiting class, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings, and are still in the mix for a lot of good recruits who have yet to commit. Losses to FCS teams can tend to shake up the recruiting process, but also every single recruit in the country should see FSU as a place to get immediate playing time. Recruits want to play — not sit on the bench.\n\nNext year, all of the underclassmen will be players this coaching staff has brought in. The following two years will finally be where nearly the entire roster consists of Norvell-recruited players. Then fans will see the Norvell that everyone knew at Memphis. That 2019 Memphis squad would hand this Florida State team a blowout if the teams played each other.\n\nNow, as for this year, this mess is only fixed by accountability. Any player that is consistently catching penalties, giving up on plays, or missing assignments has to be benched. Everyone’s position should be on the line at this point. This group of starters delivered FSU its first loss to an FCS team ever, so they need to be held accountable.\n\nIt will be telling to watch how this team responds on the upcoming road trip to face ACC opponent Wake Forest. The ‘Noles need to use this loss to wake up and fuel some wins, and fast.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "The $51 billion plan includes $5.2 billion to avert a catastrophic shutdown of Choice. The program is slated to run out of money as early as May 31, causing disruptions in medical care to tens of thousands of patients.\n\nIt paves the way for passage of the long-sought bill after previous failed attempts including in March, leading in part to Trump’s firing of former VA Secretary David Shulkin. Nearly 40 organizations, including Veterans of Foreign Wars and the conservative Concerned Veterans for America, support the measure.\n\nThe plan, passed 20-2 by the House Veterans Affairs Committee, would mean that veterans could see private doctors at taxpayer expense when VA medical centers are unable to provide timely treatment or the care is deemed inadequate. Still, it may take years to assess the full impact on veterans who turn to private doctors over government-run VA care, due to uncertainty in how the rules will be interpreted and how VA determines what is “quality” care.\n\nBuilding on legislation passed in 2014 in response to a wait-time scandal at the Phoenix VA medical center, where some veterans died while waiting months for appointments, it seeks to steer more patients to the private sector to relieve pressure at VA hospitals.\n\nOriginally a pilot program, Choice would become a longer-term fixture at the VA, with room for expansion based on veterans’ demand for private services. Patients could access private walk-in clinics, such as MinuteClinics, to treat minor illnesses or injury if they used VA health care in the last two years.\n\nThe bill was expected to be approved by the full House over the objections of some Democrats. It would then go to the Senate, where key Republicans and Democrats said Tuesday they back the measure.\n\nTrump has said he would sign Choice legislation if Congress acts by month’s end.\n\nU.S. Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., the committee’s chairman and bill sponsor, praised the measure as a “doubling down” on lawmakers’ commitment “to build a stronger VA for our nation’s heroes and ensure veterans are receiving the care and benefits they deserve.”\n\nThe bill mirrors an agreement that key Republicans and Democrats had sought to include in a spending measure in March but failed after House Democrats expressed concerns about a presidentially appointed commission to review the closure of underperforming VA facilities. On Tuesday, Democrats led by U.S. Rep. Tim Walz also raised questions about the VA’s ability to address rising costs of the newly combined “community care” program that includes Choice and other VA programs of outside care, leading to unexpected budget shortfalls next year.\n\nThe legislation would also expand a VA caregivers program beyond just the families of veterans were seriously injured in the line of duty since Sept. 11, 2001.\n\nSeveral major veterans groups, who strongly back the caregiver provisions, described the bill as a reasonable compromise.\n\nVeterans would be able to access private care when VA does not offer the services they need or a veteran and his VA health provider agree it is best to receive care with a private doctor. It would loosen Choice’s restrictions that limit outside care only when a veteran must wait 30 days for an appointment or drive more than 40 miles to a VA facility.\n\nStill, the bill leaves room for interpretation from top VA leadership, who would have the power to further loosen restrictions if a veteran feels unhappy with VA care.\n\n“The tone for how much outside care a veteran receives will be set at the top, with the next VA secretary,” said Carrie Farmer, a senior policy researcher at Rand Corp.\n\nTrump has yet to nominate a new VA secretary after ousting Shulkin in late March, citing his lack of progress in improving VA care. Trump’s first pick for the position, Ronny Jackson, abruptly withdrew amid allegations uncovered by an investigation led by U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., that he loosely handed out prescription drugs and got drunk on duty.\n\nThose being considered for the VA secretary job serving 9 million veterans include former Florida Rep. Jeff Miller, a strong proponent of expanding private care for veterans; and acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie, a former Pentagon undersecretary appointed by Trump to the acting position.\n\nBoth U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, the Republican chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and Tester, the panel’s top Democrat, have pledged to steer the bill through its narrowly divided chamber." ]

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[ "Hi everyone! Today I’m so excited to have the authors of Summer Crush (Tara Frejas, Jay E Tria and Six de los Reyes) here today to answer some questions. And here we goooo! 😀", null, "You’ve all written several books, do you have a fave? What makes it your favourite?\n\nTARA: I really don’t want to have to pick a favourite (huhu), but Waiting in the Wings is very close to my heart, and I think, of the books I’ve written so far, it’s the one I’ve invested a lot of feelings on. 🙂 I am a fan of local theatre, I am friends with a few theatre actors—I got inspired by their passion in telling stories on stage, and I wanted Waiting in the Wings to kind of be a love letter to them. Additionally, there were some themes in the story that were closely related to my life and the lives of my friends, so writing it was very cathartic to me.\n\nJAY: Every book is the current fave while I’m writing it, which it kind of has to be because if I don’t love the story then I won’t get to the bittersweet moment of typing the end. Summer Crush is extra special because the process was different. It was really a collaboration, and I feel like I got a true sense of what that meant creating this, and I was lucky because I got to create it with authors I love and respect, so it has a special place in my heart.\n\nSIX: Right now it’s Feels Like Summer, if only because of Arabella. I love writing the band, there’s always some kind of mischief involved and they’re just so fun and stress-free no matter what Adrian or Franklin might say about being in the band\n\nFavourite character you’ve written/the one you relate to the most?\n\nTARA: OMG how dare you. HUHU. My favourite character would have to be Fi, from Scandalized. (Shhh, don’t tell the others!) I mean, I know she’s a smart, headstrong young woman who knows what she wants… but she also gets to handle three beautiful band boys and date a gorgeous hunk? She is #goals. HAHA!\n\nJAY: I love Ana. She surprised me. She’s like a new cast member joining a second season when I first wrote her. So we were kind of getting to know each other and figuring out how she fits when I thought of her for Songs to Get Over You. But she turned out to be awesome and determined and just game for life. And that’s amazing to me because it tires me out just thinking about how on she is all the time. I give her hugs a lot.\n\nAnd then ok, you said just one, but Shinta is a favourite. There, I said it. I can’t get over him. So there he is, cropping up as a condom promotional standee even when it’s not his story. Can’t say I relate to him the most or that I’d be able to handle his sparkle in real life, but I like how he’s confident without being invasive, and persistent without being overbearing (I hope?). I mean, climb my balcony already\n\nSIX: My favourite character I’ve written so far, though not necessarily the one I relate to the most would be Adrian from Feels Like Summer. He’s just a big softie and the dynamic he has with his band Arabella is another one of my favourite things to write about. I also really love writing about my OT3 Rhys, Isaiah, and Nico. I can never write them apart, it would be a travesty.\n\nYour characters feel so real and their personalities so distinct, how do you go about crafting them? (do you do character profiles etc?)\n\nTARA: I don’t necessarily do character profiles (like write them all down before I start with a story), but I do have an idea of what kind of people they are, what they like and dislike, and how they’d react to certain things. The other quirks/traits, get “revealed” to me as I write the story, if that makes sense. I get to know my characters more too, as I write them. 🙂\n\nJAY: Thank you for thinking that! I talk to them, heh. They started it! Yes, there are character profiles, like what’s the age, birthday, how many siblings, what music she listens to, how she looks like. But I also spend time freewriting conversations with the character, especially when I’m stuck. It’s usually pages of words spilling out with no apparent order, like a conversation with a friend you’re catching up with. I also ask the characters for their rule, their grounding philosophy. I learned this when I joined this workshop by Bronze Age media called #StrangeLit, from Filipino writer Paolo Chikiamco, and it’s been super helpful.\n\nSIX: I begin with a sketch, a feeling, key words that describe who this character is and what their role is in the bigger picture. I guess the easy (hard) way to think about it is that they’re each the main characters of their individual lives so none of them is set aside as a plot piece. I also write histories and group dynamics for each major character. It’s a long process that includes a lot of daydreaming about how they’d react to certain situations and what in their history brought about this personality.\n\nMusic plays a big role in Summer Crush, if you could choose one role in the music industry would be in the band, the roadie, PR or some other function? Why?\n\nTARA: If I can’t be part of the band (seriously, I am a frustrated musician haha!), I’d like to be in a position where I can do something creative for the band. Maybe do their photoshoot, album jackets, music videos, concert paraphernalia, stuff like that. I think it’d be fun. 🙂\n\nJAY: You mean something realistic, right? Because I want to be in the band but I don’t have the skills or the temperament. So I can be Mars’s assistant instead, helping him out because the manager’s work is a lot of people-ing and it gets crazy. I’d pick up the guitars and stuff, and when it’s a lean day maybe Miki would like to jam to Simply Red or Voxtrot something.\n\nSIX: Songwriter/Producer. I like the science and the math and the music together. I also imagine it would include less peopleing than other functions.\n\nWhat can readers expect from you all next? Any details you can give us on currents projects or what you have planned to release next?\n\nTARA: There are two things on my immediate list at the moment—one is #ProjectPio, which is a spin-off to Waiting in the Wings, and the other is #RR2, which is the next book to Scandalized. I am aiming for either a September or October release for #ProjectPio, and after that maybe I can start working on #RR2.\n\nJAY: There’s one non-Playlist book, and then one Playlist book. It’s the bassist’s turn 🙂\n\nSIX: I’m currently (lol always) working on a couple of things at the same time waiting for one of them to monopolize all my attention. But there is a Rhys, a tinapahan (smoked/dried fish business) novella with the game developer LI, and Phylle’s Field Guide.", null, null, "Jay E. Tria is inspired by daydreams, celebrity crushes, a childhood fascination of Japanese drama and manga, and an incessant itch to travel. She writes contemporary young adult and new adult romance. Sometimes, paranormal fantasy too.\n\nTara Frejas is a cloud-walker who needs caffeine to fuel her travels. When she’s not on work mode, she keeps herself busy by weaving her daydreams into stories.\n\nAside from her obvious love affair with words and persistent muses, Tara is very passionate about being caffeinated, musical theatre, certain genres of music, dancing, dogs, good food, and romancing Norae, her ukelele. She owns a male bunny named Max who sometimes tries to nibble on her writing notes.\n\nSix de los Reyes has been reading and making up stories for as far as she can remember. In fifth grade, she learned to write about the stories she wanted to read. As a pretend grownup, she writes contemporary romance novels. Her day job doing science has something to do with being a part-time mermaid and a part-time labrat. She currently lives next to the sea.\n\nJust for the Record: Or Justifying Betrayal in Three Acts" ]

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[ "Published on August 23, 2013 by danecobain+ in Authors A-E (By Surname), Fiction", null, "Port of Saints is one of Burroughs’ shorter, slightly less experimental stories – it’s easier on the brain than his other work, but it’s still not exactly light reading. Interestingly enough, Port of Saints is pivotal in that it’s the meeting point between many of his earlier characters and a whole host of new characters who were to reappear in later books.\n\nLike many other Burroughs novels, the narrative is episodic, presented in the form of multiple plot-lines which coexist and shuffle together, so that half of the time you’re not even sure which story-line you’re dealing with. Not that that matters – Burroughs work is avant-garde and experimental, and the isolated chapters allow you a quick glimpse in to the hellish dystopia that plagued the writer’s junkie imagination.\n\nWhile it’s short and sweet, Port of Saints probably isn’t the best starting point for someone that’s new to Burroughs – start with Naked Lunch instead, perhaps.", null ]

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[ "Court suspends sentence for offender who reconciled with wife\n\nA man has had his 15-month imprisonment sentence suspended after he was found guilty of intentional assault and malicious damage.\n\nIn 2014 Esrom Mael had assaulted his wife at home with an iron rod, breaking her wrist as well as damaging his wife’s clothes.\n\nThe matter was then reported to police and under investigation the man admitted that he was wrong.\n\nThe defendant had been remanded in custody for a month before being released on bail.\n\nWhile Prosecution submitted a starting point of 3 years imprisonment with discount for mitigating factors including guilty pleas, Defence counsel had submitted that a suspended sentence of 2 years was appropriate in the matter.\n\nThe Supreme Court took into consideration the maximum starting point for intentional assault of 5 years imprisonment and for damaging property a sentence of Vt5,000 or imprisonment for 1 year or both.\n\nJustice Daniel Fatiaki stated: “I am satisfied that despite the complainant’s broken wrist, the present case is not the worst case of its kind nor is it aggravated by planning or repetition.\n\n“Having said that, the use of an iron rod to cause injury is, undoubtedly, an aggravating element as is, the permanent nature of the injury caused.\n\n“The fact that the offence occurred within a domestic relationship where there is inequality of power and control is also an aggravating factor that cannot be ignored.”\n\nThe judge then looked at 11 precedents set by the courts when sentencing individuals involved in ‘domestic violence’.\n\nBearing the previous cases in mind and considering the maximum sentence of 5 years, the judge considered a starting point of 3 years appropriate in this case on the charge of intentional assault.\n\nOne year was deducted for the Defendant’s unblemished record, his cooperation with police enquiries, voluntary admission and his expression of remorse to the probation officer.\n\nAnother 8 months was reduced for an early guilty plea and a further 1 month was reduced being for the period already spent by the defendant in custody.\n\nWhen considering a suspended sentence, the judge took into consideration the lengthy 4-year delay in finalizing the case and the fact that the parties have resumed cohabitation. The man and wife are living as one family and there has been no recurrence of violent behaviour committed by the defendant in the past 4 years.\n\nThe judge said the defendant has reconciled with the complainant and re-established their family and that status quo should not be disturbed if at all possible.\n\nHe then suspended the 15 months imprisonment for 3 years.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Too many people believe that women are the only ones who suffer from harmful gender stereotypes. For every destructive idea about femininity, there's an impossible standard of masculinity to go with it. A recent article in Medical Daily looks into how the idea of \"being a man\" hurts boys as they grow up, and the ways language and education indoctrinate them with patriarchal codes from an early age. However, the author inaccurately suggests that \"Feminism only speaks of one lopsided perspective in the gender inequality story.\" Although 2nd Wave feminism might have been too busy kicking the movement off the ground to pay men much mind, contemporary feminists have been active in discussing the ways feminism can help challenge and ultimately eradicate gender stereotypes for women and men alike.\n\nHanna Rosin's book The End of Men is often cited (usually by those who haven't read it carefully), as an \"in-your-face-dudes\" proclamation of smug feminine triumph, but if anything, it really speaks to how badly men are doing today. There is a \"crisis of masculinity\" that affects so many men in contemporary American society, as gender norms shift and change and women gain new rights while still lacking others. These are just five of many constricting stereotypes that can hurt men — and that feminism actually can address in the movement's efforts to level the playing field for all of us.\n\nYou hear it in casual conversation all the time: \"a real man doesn't cheat\" or \"a real man isn't afraid to fight\" or \"a real man will treat you right.\" As someone who also believes there's no such thing as a \"real woman\" either, this confusing concept is never productive. There isn't one way to be a gender: some of us are assigned the one at birth that we identify with, and others are not. The only thing the idea of realness does is make people feel inadequate when they don't live up to a socially-prescribed behavioral norm.\n\n2. Men are supposed to be the sexual aggressors\n\nThe idea that guys should be sexual aggressors is partly what drives rape culture. If boys were taught that consent and mutual pleasure is better (and safer) and that women weren't prizes to be won or battles to be conquered, 1 in 3 women probably wouldn't experience sexual assault as they do now.\n\n3. Men are supposed to be strong\n\nMen are the \"stronger\" sex, and are assumed to always trump women in terms of physicality — whether in sports, in the gym, or in every day life. Not only does this negate men who are differently abled, but it also makes even the most able-bodied man constantly in competition to prove his strength. This also ties into the male sexual aggressor archetype who takes what he wants through force to prove his masculinity.\n\nMasking emotion is an early directive to boys. Crying makes you \"gay\" and it makes you \"weak\" or \"feminine\" (all of which are seen to be synonymous, unfortunately) so showing emotion just won't do. If I had to deal with all these macho stereotypes I'd probably cry out of frustration alone. Let it out, guys, it's OK. We all have tear ducts and hormones for a reason." ]

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[ null, "Nail fungus, also called Onychomycosis or Tinea Unguium scientifically, are those irritating tiny organisms that lives under our toe and fingernails. It belongs to the dermatophyte family, which also causes athlete’s foot, jock itch, psoriasis, and ringworm. These organisms consume the keratin substance of the nails making it deformed. Sometimes, this infection gets confused with psoriasis of the nails or nail ridges as they normally share the same appearance.\n\nPeople with leukemia or diabetes are more prone to nail fungus because of the weakened immune system and problems in blood circulation. Adults are also among the most likely individuals to acquire the disease due to aging.", null, "It isn’t all about age and illness, though. The nails serve as a very efficient armor to these fungi, which make the infection hardly treatable especially on the foot. These can be acquired through contagion or improper care of the nails. Where there is lesser oxygen supply, the nail fungus survives as they are anaerobic. Public swimming pools, workout centers and toilets are just some of their breeding grounds.", null, "As nail fungi loves to grow in moist areas, the feet become the common victim especially when they are frequently enclosed in shoes and socks. Some other common causes are the application of nail polish and/or artificial nails and misuse of nail instruments.\n\nThe reddening of the toe nails and mild irritation are among the early signs of the developing fungi. The affected areas become sore and itchy. A white or yellowish spot can be found under the nails at some point. As it spreads, bleeding starts with unsightly discoloration accompanied occasionally with white discharges. While the nails gradually thicken and form crack lines, the cuticles also detaches. Besides these, one has to endure the sting that goes with it.", null, "On the other hand, treating nail fungal infection isn’t too much toil. There are handy remedies available over the counter. Oral or topical creams like Lamisil, Tinactin, Penlac and Dermisil prove to work slowly but surely. For a cheaper option, you may try applying Vicks VapoRub on the infected areas. Testimonials say that it performs effectively as well as the more sophisticated brands.\n\nWhile it is safer to follow the doctor’s prescription, some still prefer home remedies such as soaking the contaminated part in vinegar for 15-20 minutes twice daily until the infection disappears. It will take for a new nail to grow three months or more.", null, "Otherwise, stick to professional advice. Your podiatrist can help you eliminate the fungus faster. However, the infection may recur so you are not absolutely fungi-free for life. Prevention is still better than cure. By keeping the nails clean cut and sanitized, you can drive these fungi off your way.\n\nFrequent washing is one way to de-stress those pretty hands and feet. Dry it well and sprinkle moderate amount of foot powder afterwards. If the use of nail polish or artificial nails is necessary, make sure to clean the area before and after removal. Also it is better to sterilize any instruments that you or your favorite salon will be using. Following these simple instructions is the ultimate key in preventing this annoying infection.\n\nAlthough you may need to take medications to help ease nighttime heartburn, did you know…\n\nEczema, a general term describing conditions affecting the skin, has many specific descriptions depending on…\n\nCategories\nCopyright Article on net\nBack To Top" ]

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[ "Having nice tools is a good thing, but it doesn’t take a lot of fancy tools to build a balsa airplane from scratch. This is especially true if you’re building a simple airplane, which is convenient because that’s what you would typically start with. So build yourself a simple plane with simple tools, then buy tools as needed for building the more challenging designs as you go along.\n\nThere are a few basic items that are generally considered essential to any balsa builder’s toolbox. You can build a plane and do a good job with nothing more than a flat surface and what’s shown in this photo. Don’t be afraid to start small.\n\nFirst and foremost is the X-Acto knife, more specifically a #11 blade and holder. There’s no sense fooling around when it comes to this basic tool. Get a knife handle like the one in the photo, where you turn the end of the handle to clamp the blade instead of turning the part right next to the blade. This knife also has a six sided collar that keeps it from rolling off the table. If you can imagine yourself enjoying this hobby for a long time in the future, go ahead and get a box of a hundred #11 blades.\n\nThe X-Acto knife’s best friend is a metal ruler. There’s not much to say about that other than you won’t regret getting one.\n\nThe next most basic tool is the sanding block. You can build a plane with just sandpaper, but when you get a block you’ll wonder how you ever built anything without it. You can see two blocks in the photo, a wooden one that uses a quarter sheet, and an aluminum one that uses adhesive strips. They’re both good.\n\nOne of the greatest innovations ever made in model building is cyanoacrylate (CA) glue. It allows you to build a good straight airplane without even pinning anything to the table. Most things I build in .20 size and smaller don’t involve any adhesive other than CA. Realistically, both CA and epoxy are stronger than the materials they are applied to, so don’t sweat it. CA sometimes has a hard time penetrating into hard plywood, so I tend to use epoxy there. I recently started using good old fashioned Titebond Original, and I like it. I built a Cloud Dancer with about 60% Titebond and 40% CA. It’s cheap and a bottle of it lasts a long time.\n\nOf course you’ll also want a square. For my first 12 years of building airplanes I used CD cases, but I just recently discovered something even better: an expired debit card. I wish I had been using these all along. They’re small enough to fit into tight spaces, and the corners are rounded. You might not think of it at first, but rounded corners are quite convenient. The square in the photo is a pretty nice little unit. You can get them in hobby stores, and they even have balsa thickness and wire size gauges built in.\n\nThe other thing you really need is a saw to cut plywood bulkheads. If you build only square airplanes to start with you can use a razor saw like the one in the photo, but as soon as you build a plane with a rounded top deck you’ll need a coping saw or power scroll saw to cut out a firewall and bulkheads.\n\nThe only other truly necessary tool for building a plane is a drill. Mine was a bit large for the photo, so you’ll have to use your imagination. (You know what a drill looks like, right?) Anyway, you’ll need one.\n\nOnce you officially become an airplane building enthusiast, you’ll want to expand your tool collection. Here’s my best bet for your second stage tool list.", null, "Whoa! Hold everything. I got tired of the shortcomings of my little blue razor plane shown in the above photo, so I did a little bit of research and ended up buying the Stanley 12-101 wood plane. This is a really nice little unit that I recommend highly, and the price is very affordable. Use it for trimming off big strips of wood from the leading edges of wings and control surfaces before moving on to a sanding block. This saves tons of effort and sandpaper. Here’s what the Stanley looks like. You should get one.\n\nThe Dremel tool should be pretty high on your list. I don’t use mine for much besides cutting off landing gear wire and drilling 1/16″ holes for servo mounting, but I wouldn’t want to do without it. Now that I think about it, I also use it for installing strip ailerons, elevator joining wire, and probably a few other things….\n\nYou would think that instant glue is fast enough, but sometimes accelerator comes in really handy.\n\nFoot-long drill bits are more useful than you might expect, especially for wing mounting holes.\n\nThe strange looking tool next to the planer is a T-pin pusher. My preference for a building board is a hollow core door, and this tool is the best way to push those pins into the semi-hard surface. It has a magnet in it for holding the pin, and little slots for pulling them back out.\n\nIf you’re going to build balsa airplanes and you want to buy a really useful tool, get a power scroll saw. A lot of guys use them to cut out wing ribs, and you just can’t beat it for cutting out plywood parts. But the point of this article is to assure you that you really don’t need a lot of fancy gear if you want to try your hand at building a plane. Believe it or not, when I built my first airplane kit I had only a very old X-Acto knife with one blade, a bottle of glue, and a piece of sandpaper with no block. I used my mother’s clothes iron to install the covering film. Just start small and work your way up. You can do it, and it’s a lot of fun!" ]

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[ "Drandersongolfsecrets is the Nom de guerre of a friend, cultural critic, world traveller, and fellow Adventurer. He is the bulwark against the insidious comfort of cultural complacency that can creep into our lives. Through the mirror of his pen, he gives us a raw, unfiltered look at our own flaws and foibles. This is the first of a series of critiques he’s submitting to YusefWateef.com\n\nI have to confess; at one time, I was a Radicalized Muslim, until I changed my life for the better. The recent events in Boston and the subsequent, on-going rumblings of the FBI as well as the Americans’ confusion on Islam makes me chuckle and feel sad at the same time.\n\nThe Boston bombings are a terrible situation that exposed a lot of weaknesses in America’s War On Terrorism.\n\nInadequate, weak racial profiling combined with the FBI’s failure to listen to our allies the Saudi’s that warned us, in writing about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Bombers. The public takes its cues on how to identify danger from our government; this directly resulted in innocent Muslims and people who identified as Arab being assaulted and violated.\n\nThe aforementioned are all serious topics worthy of discussion. Has anyone noticed that so-called “Radical Islam” has achieved what America hasn’t quite achieved? Radical Islam has achieved complete racial diversity. The majority of Americans are ignorant to the “Ummah” (community) of Islam. Americans do not realize that the planet earth is 196,940,000 square miles and that there are over 1 billion Muslims, that 1 billion is composed of every race, size and color you could imagine. Yes, there are Caucasian Muslims, just like Tamerlan Tsarnaev, thousands of them, who have a wide range of beliefs and practices.\n\nThe TSA is busy double-checking Sikhs and mistaking Orthodox Jews for Muslims while the Mujahideen (a term that Muslims use to describe those they see as Muslims who struggle in the path of Allah.) are busy exposing America’s propensity towards racism in any type of so-called terrorist event. The depressing part is that the Boston bombing showed not only our lack of intelligence about sleeper cells and Jihad imitators, but it also exposed our weakness in forming a truly diverse multi-racial America that will aid us in combating this invisible foe called “Radical Islam”. The Mujahideen have used propaganda in saying America is a racist, xenophobic country that has affected Muslim lands throughout the world. The reactions and comments that I saw and read after the bombing only confirmed to the mixed up young idealistic Mujahid that there is no hope other than to kill or bomb random people.", null, "Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the morgue, after his final confrontation with the police. This photo was leaked from an unknown source but has been confirmed as an actual photo of his body.\n\nAt one time, my name was Abdul Aziz Muhammad. I was caught up in a world of irrational hate, paranoia, and simply unrealistic thinking, I was a big mouth kid who thought “Radical Islam” represented the racial paradise that I so desperately wanted America to be. In short, “Radical Islam” has overcome the diversity problem. When will America overcome theirs?\n\nGod Bless us and may the victims of this false premised war, on both sides of the equation, truly west in peace." ]

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[ null, "High-irradiance western provinces, including Xinjiang, will see FiTs cut by 5.56% from next year. The rest of the country will have reductions of less than 5%. It is the first significant tariff alteration since 2011.\n\n“Prices are projected to rise in November and December. However, the market outlook for the end of this year remains uncertain,” said Lin citing uncertainty in the US as a result of the ongoing trade dispute and the unknown impact of major Chinese manufacturers expanding production overseas.\n\nAccording to EnergyTrend, Chinese module manufacturers have experienced an immediate boom in orders as developers look to secure supply for 2016. Price increases have already begun as a result." ]

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[ null, "December 15 and 16 in Donostia – San Sebastian\n\nIn addition to the 24 European national languages, there are a further 90 regional or minority languages in the European Union (Report on Endangered European Languages and Linguistic Diversity in the European Union, 2013) and around 50 million EU citizens, or 10% of the population, speak regional or minority languages (Strasbourg Manifesto, 2014). Currently, the linguistic rights of these language communities and these people are not guaranteed.\n\nThis is the context in which UNESCO Etxea, in collaboration with the Donostia-San Sebastián Foundation, 2016, is organising the European Language Diversity Forum to reflect on and debate the different aspects of the development of minority languages in Europe.\n\nThe Forum aims to create a large-scale opportunity to set up agreements on specific strategies that allow vulnerable languages to be revitalised and standardised. It is also hoped that it will boost collaboration between the public and private sectors, and between the different European levels of participation: social organisations, the world of research and culture, and governmental organisations (regional, national, European and multilateral).\n\nThe European Language Diversity Forum will also work on the attitudes and discourses that have a negative impact on language diversity and contribute to the reduction of non-dominant languages, on the basis that linguistic rights are considered fundamental rights of individuals and their communities.\n\nThis event will be the occasion to introduce the Protocol to Ensure Language Rights." ]

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[ null, "Two suspects are seen here, wanted in connection to a homicide in Oakland on August 1, 2020.\n\nPolice have released photos of the suspects sought in the shooting reported at about 2:50 p.m. on Aug. 1 in the 2200 block of 35th Avenue.\n\nOne male victim died at the scene and another went to a hospital in critical condition, according to police. The name of the man who died was not immediately available.", null, null ]

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[ "From antiquated precipice residences and the most seasoned constantly possessed group in the U.S. to incredibly famous workmanship exhibition halls and temples where supernatural occurrences appear to happen, New Mexico’s history and culture are really stunning.\n\nAlbuquerque Museum of Art and History\n\nSituated in the heart of Old Town, the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History is a fortune trove of Southwestern workmanship, culture and history. Its amazing workmanship gathering incorporates works by famous Taos and Santa Fe specialists Ernest Blumenschein, John Sloan and Georgia O’Keeffe. Its lasting accumulation display, “Shared view: Art in New Mexico,” investigates likenesses and advancements in the Southwest among early Native American conventions, provincial Spanish and Mexican pilgrims and contemporary local craftsmanship. Pieces incorporate Native American gems and earthenware production and additionally Hispanic religious and people workmanship. The exhibition hall’s similarly noteworthy open air mold cultivate has more than 60 pieces, many made by neighborhood artists. The history shows incorporate a Colonial Period European reinforcement gathering that is viewed as one of the top accumulations of its kind in the U.S. Exhibition hall docents consistently lead free strolling voyages through Old Town.\n\nPueblos are scattered all through New Mexico, however the most seasoned one is Taos Pueblo. Ceaselessly possessed for more than 1,000 years, the multi-story adobe structures shape the most seasoned occupied group in the U.S. Found only a couple of minutes from the notable Taos Plaza, the pueblo seems much as it did when Spanish wayfarers initially touched base in Northern New Mexico in 1540. A significant number of the structures have dividers that are a few feet thick, and they were altogether built in the conventional adobe technique for blending earth with water and straw to shape sun-dried blocks. Guests get a look at Native American life and culture from both today and yesterday, and credible Pueblo stoneware and gems are sold at shops nearby. The UNESCO-assigned World Heritage Site is open every day except it’s best to call before going to in light of the fact that it closes for around 10 weeks amid late winter/early spring and now and then for tribal custom functions.\n\nThe range that is referred to today as Old Town Albuquerque goes back to 1706 keeping in mind much has changed, there is still a solid feeling of history there. Comprising of around 10 squares of memorable adobe structures with a tree-lined court in the inside, Old Town remains the social heart of clamoring Albuquerque. Exactly 150 shops, eateries and craftsmanship displays fill the old structures today. San Felipe de Neri Church remains on the north side of the court. The present-day church was inherent 1793 and has dividers a few feet thick. Numerous unique occasions occur at the square consistently, and unrecorded music normally can be gotten notification from its secured gazebo on ends of the week. A few historical centers are situated in Old Town also, including the Turquoise Museum and Rattlesnake Museum. Fun phantom voyages through Old Tour are led daily, and a few different sorts of visits are also accessible.", null, "The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is the main historical center in the U.S. devoted to a universally known female craftsman. The downtown Santa Fe historical center reports the momentous existence of the twentieth century pioneer painter who got to be world acclaimed for her shocking translations of the awesome New Mexico scenes. The gallery, the world’s biggest store of O’Keeffe’s work, showcases 1,149 O’Keeffe artistic creations, drawings and models from 1901 to 1984, including works from her years in New York before she came to live in New Mexico. It likewise has shown works by more than 140 different craftsmen, including Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock. Unique shows regularly incorporate works by O’Keeffe and some of her innovator peers. It additionally introduces a “Living Artists of Distinction Exhibition Series” that distinctions specialists who have made noteworthy commitments to American workmanship. Late arrangement have included remarkable craftsmen, for example, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Anne Truitt, Susan Rothenberg and Sherrie Levine.", null ]

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[ "I only had 48 hours to spend in one of my favorites cities, and I already knew how those two days would play out. Imagine, The Great Race, only with no other contestants but me, and the great wilderness -- the bustling streets of New York with its legions of yellow taxicabs charging through the traffic. With an equal measure of adrenaline and dread, I set out to pack in all I wanted to do against the running clock.\n\nNew York was flushed with tourists and art collectors of course. Perfectly sunny spring days, a blockbuster auction week, and dazzling art exhibitions are some of the biggest draws to the city at this time of the season. The much-lauded Alexander Mc Queen exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, which is now extended for another week because of its popularity, was brilliant. And so was the Picasso and Marie-Therese: L'Amour Fou at the Gagosian Gallery. But then there were other surprises in store that I had not planned for.\n\nTwo exhibitions drew me to MOMA -- The Picasso Guitars, and the German Expressionism prints. Ever since my early twenties I have had a fascination with expressionism, their stark and vibrant colors and motifs. Expressionism is a movement that flourished in Berlin at around 1910, and central to its theme was its depiction of modern urban life, the human body and sexuality in a visually and emotionally charged manner.", null, "There is no question that the Expressionists revolutionized the mediums of etching and lithography. And MOMA presented a broad view of this, but the exhibition included not just etchings, but paintings, and sculptures from many famed artists of the time.\n\nSo, the surprise came a couple of hours later, as I passed by a gem of a gallery on Madison Avenue, that has been consistently showing quality exhibitions over the past three decades. Having just viewed some works by Grosz at the MOMA exhibition, I was taken by his eye-catching watercolor works displayed on the walls of the Soufer Gallery.\n\n\"Grosz was a keen observer of all walks of society -- from high to low -- no one escaped his astute characterization,\" Stephanie Baron, the chief curator of modern and contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum once said about Grosz. \"And, some of his strongest works reflect a German society tired of the humiliation and ravages of the First World War, seeking small pleasures in cafes and exotic nightclubs.\"", null, "Grosz did indeed spend hours in cafes sketching various types of social interludes. His most masterful ones (that you will also see on display at the gallery) are the ones done with pen and ink with layerings of watercolor. Such works, along with the paintings of his fellow in the 20s, gives us an inside look of what life must have been like in Berlin at that time.\n\nBut this unique exhibition will be of particular interest to New Yorkers and New York fans as well. Why? Legend has it that Grosz became associated with anti-war movements and a leader in the radical Dada movement in Germany -- (a risky business to be sure). And in 1932, Grosz left Germany and immigrated to America days before Hitler's rise to power.\n\n\"A great deal that had become frozen within me in Germany melted here in America and I rediscovered my old yearning for painting,\" Grosz noted in his autobiography. So the luminous images on view at the Soufer Gallery provides the continuing story of this artist's journey through different times and continents. The works certainly have a more serene feel to them, but what is most striking is the overall feeling of New York life he manages to capture with his subjects.", null, "Seeing Grosz's watercolors presented as a wonderful surprise to top off my inspiring, albeit hectic, New York visit." ]

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[ "The sportswear brand is simplifying the user experience across all its ecommerce sites over the next quarter to make it easier for shoppers to find and buy products. It it also expanding its online product customisation and customer service offerings.\n\nMark Parker, chief executive of Nike, says the business is bringing “urgency” to how it introduces “more innovation into the shopping experience”. The move is part of a wider effort from the brand to build a portfolio of digital services to forge deeper connections with consumers.\n\nParker adds: “Digital at Nike is really a catalyst for innovation. It’s the currency we use to invest and grow the the business the same way NikeFuel points is the currency of movement we use to inspire athletes. There is a pretty big gap between where ecommerce is today and where we can take it.”\n\nThe better than expected increase was spurred by the company’s 33 per cent growth in online sales across all its brands. Nike has reported double-digit growth from its ecommerce offering for the past five years but says it is still a “relatively small portion” of total revenues.\n\nElsewhere, strong performances in Western Europe (8 per cent) and North America (18 per cent) sent sales for the Nike brand up by 10 per cent. The company is also boosting its innovation pipeline, which has seen products including its Flyknit running shoe technology and Mercurial Vapor IX football boot launch in recent months, to drive growth.\n\nCharles Denson, president of the Nike brand, says it has “even more room to run” in the women’s training market. Nike is launching a major marketing blitz this year to target women as it looks to attract new audiences through its running ranges.", null, null, null, "Last month, the Information Commissioner told a gathering of direct marketing professionals that they must stop sniping from the sidelines about what they see as the apocalyptic impact changes to data protection laws will bring, “get real” and except major changes are inevitable because of legitimate consumer concerns over the use of personal data." ]

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[ null, "What Website Can I Watch The Fight Of Manny Pacquiao\n\nWhat Website Can I Watch The Fight Of Manny Pacquiao In the United States, boxing fans can purchase the Pacquiao vs. Ugas main card on Fox Sports PBC pay-per-view for $74.99. It can also be live streamed through FOX Sports App and FOXSports.com.\n\nWhere can I watch live boxing matches? As far as features go, DAZN also doesn’t have a DVR, but has plenty of on-demand fighting sports content to keep you satisfied between live matches. You can also watch DAZN on up to 2 devices simultaneously. You can stream on iOS, Android, your web browser, Amazon Fire, Chromecast, Roku, and much more.\n\nHow to watch Pacquiao PPV?\n\nHow can I watch PPV fight?\n\nStreams can be accessed via the ESPN app on mobile and TV devices, including platforms such as Amazon Fire TV, Apple, Android, Chromecast, PS4, Roku, Samsung Smart TVs, Xbox One, and others. Additionally, you’ll also be able to select favorite channels, teams, players, and more to get personalized news and highlights.\n\nHow can I watch the Pacquiao fight tonight?\n\nThe fight will be streamed and televised through Fox Sports PPV and YouTube PPV. The cost is $74.99.\n\nIt was aired live in free-to-air television network ABS-CBN, worldwide through The Filipino Channel, and through pay per view on In Demand, HBO, DirecTV, and SkyCable. Pacquiao won the fight via unanimous decision, knocking down Larios two times.\n\nHow do I watch Fox PPV?\n\nOpen the FOX Sports app. Tap the device to which you’d like to cast.\n\nBefore you begin casting\nMake sure you meet the minimum requirements here .\nDownload the FOX Sports app on a supported Mobile device.\nConnect your mobile device or tablet to a Wi-Fi network.\n\nHow can I stream sports for free?\n\nHow can I watch tonight’s boxing match?\n\nWhat app can i watch the boxing on tonight?\n\nHow to watch boxing pay-per-view?\n\nWatch Pay Per View Boxing with the Showtime app\n\nShowtime live streams most pay-per-view boxing matches via its app for mainly iOS and Android devices. However, to live stream these matches you would have to be a subscriber to the network via your local cable service, and you’d need to have purchased the PPV too.\n\nIs the Pacquiao fight on HBO?\n\n1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world, Manny Pacquiao, is it appears he will be fighting his next fight against Shane Mosley not on HBO, which he has made his career and home at for the majority of his prime career years but on the Showtime network.\n\nHow can I get free PPV?\n\nYouTube you may or may not be aware. But there are a lot of people who are streaming pay-per-view.More\n\nHow do I order pay-per-view?\n\nTo Order Select Pay Per View Events Online\nView the listings for upcoming Pay Per View events at xfinity.com/pay-per-view.\nSelect your desired event and click Order Now (when available).\nLog in using your Xfinity ID and password.\nReview your order, then click Submit.\n\nWhat channel is pay-per-view?\n\nPay-Per-View events can be found in HD on Channel 550 and in SD on channels 551 and 552. In addition, select events available in español on Channel 553.\n\nHow to watch Pacquiao-Ugas live?\n\nUgas live? You can catch the action from home as part of a FOX Sports PBC pay-per-view live stream. The PPV price is $74.99 and gets you instant access to stream the fight live online via FITE.tv.\n\nHow to buy the Manny Pacquiao fight?\n\nManny Pacquiao vs. Errol Spence Jr. will take place on , at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tickets for the event can be bought from T-Mobile Arena’s official website and on Axs.com. The cost of the tickets ranges from $105 – $10,000.\n\nWhere can I watch the Pacquiao vs. Ugas fight for free?\n\nHow do I watch the Pacquiao fight on Roku?\n\nHow to stream Pacquiao vs. Matthysse on Roku devices: The Pacquiao vs Matthysse fight will be broadcast live exclusively on ESPN+ ($4.99 after a 7-day free trial) in the United States.\n\nHow do I watch PPV on my TV?\n\nCan I watch pay-per-view on my phone?\n\nWatch on Phone or TabletLess\n\nHow can I watch live sports online?\n\nHere’s how to watch: Open the YouTube TV app, or visit tv.youtube.com on a web browser. Search “MLB” and either check out “Live & Upcoming games,” or Schedule on the MLB league page. When games air, you’ll see them on a unique “MLB Game of the Week” channel on the Live tab.\n\nHow can I watch a live match on my phone?\n\nGames you can now watch light football. And other sports on the go so all you have to do is headMore" ]

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[ null, "This largely character-driven thriller-drama is the feature-film debut of British documentary filmmaker Isaac Julien, and provides viewers with an insider's look at the diverse lifestyles of hip, young black immigrants who lived upon the fringes of 1977 London society. The film begins in a colorful park setting where, in the late-night hours, gay men cruise. A stabbing occurs and unbeknownst to the killer, a passerby has recorded it on cassette. The story then jumps to two young aspiring DJs, the heterosexual and flamboyant Chris and his best friend, the gay and rather reserved Caz, as they defiantly broadcast soul music from their ragtag, rolling pirate radio station. With their \"Soul Patrol,\" the two symbolically thumb their noses at the conservative BBC that dominates the airwaves. The murder victim is a friend of Caz, and he becomes a prime suspect in the case. Unbeknownst to him, someone has dropped by the cassette tape with the evidence that will save him. At the same time, his friendship with Chris becomes strained when it becomes obvious that both young men are on the cusp of heading in dramatically different life directions. Caz has been getting increasingly involved with the politics and wildness of the fledgling punk-rock movement, while normally wild Chris has been offered a lucrative contract to work as a DJ at a major, mainstream radio station by his new girlfriend Tracy, a production assistant there. Still, the two try to somehow prepare to co-host a concert protesting the upcoming Queen's Silver Jubilee celebration.\n\nThere are no critic reviews yet for Young Soul Rebels. Keep checking Rotten Tomatoes for updates!\n\nThere are no featured audience reviews yet. Click the link below to see what others say about Young Soul Rebels!" ]

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[ "For the first time in the history of the Swiss National Bank, its losses reached 18 percent of GDP", null, "The main theme of the world's main financial \"pod\", as Switzerland is often called, is the theme of capital dynamics. If for many decades the Swiss banking system was perceived in the world, if not as ideal, then as close to it, now times are changing. One of the reasons for this is the decision of the Swiss authorities themselves to renounce their long-term military-political sovereignty and take part in the sanctions war (against Russia). At the same time, the management of Swiss financial and credit organizations meekly agreed that it was necessary to open customer data when requested by, for example, American intelligence agencies.\n\n\nAt the moment, the total volume of losses incurred by the Swiss National Bank in 2022 is being calculated. According to preliminary estimates, the losses were a record for the entire history National Bank, amounting to more than 130 billion Swiss francs (more than 140 billion dollars). If these amounts are expressed in terms of Swiss GDP, then the losses can reach an incredible 18% of the entire economy for this country. This has never happened in the entire history of the Swiss National Bank, which has been operating as an independent financial and credit institution since the beginning of the XNUMXth century.\n\nThe record losses of the Bank of Switzerland for the first time in a long time will lead to the fact that both the federal government of the country and the governments of the Swiss subjects - the cantons - will remain without due dividend payments.\n\nFrom the press release of the National Bank:\n\nIn accordance with the provisions of the Law on the National Bank and the agreement on the distribution of profits between the Federal Department of Finance and the National Bank, the identified balance loss makes it impossible to distribute for the 2022 financial year.\nThe SNB investors last time remained without dividends in 2014, but then there were no such impressive losses for the National Bank as at the end of the year 2022. This is taking into account the fact that the final loss figures have not yet been calculated. And the loss may be even greater than currently estimated." ]

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[ null, "“They used to say that if man was meant to fly, he’d have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to,” said Captain James T. Kirk when played by William Shatner in the original “Star Trek” series. Like Captain Kirk said in the late 1960s, Shatner discovered he could fly, and he did. On Oct. 13, 2021, William Shatner, along with Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries and Audrey Powers, took to the stars for around a 10-minute span. The group flew in a Blue Origin owned space craft called the New Shepard. Blue Origin is a company owned by Amazon creator, Jeff Bezos. Two of the passengers were paying customers who wanted to go to space, one was a Blue Origin employee and Shatner had his payment comped by Bezos.\n\nThis space launch has made Shatner the oldest person to go to space. “The covering of blue. This sheet, this blanket, this comforter that we have around. We think, ‘Oh, that’s blue sky,’” said the former Star Trek actor, “then suddenly you shoot through it all of the sudden, as though you’re whipping a sheet off you when you’re asleep, and you’re looking into blackness, into black ugliness.” Shatner was very emotional upon his return to his home planet. While near the peak of the shuttle’s orbital travel, the passengers said they experienced weightlessness above the planet. Many Blue Origin employees said it was a dream getting to see one of their childhood heroes go to space including the owner, Bezos, himself. Shatner recommended that everyone goes to space if they can manage it. “Everybody in the world needs to do this. Everybody in the world needs to see,” he said. “To see the blue color whip by, and now you’re staring into blackness, that’s the thing.”", null, null, null ]

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[ "2 edition of Seeding habits of upper-slope tree species found in the catalog.\n\nThat book was \"The Phantom Ghost of Harriet Lou\" [subtitled \"And Other Elk Stories\"]. I've since read the book three times, certain chapters many more times, and both of your books on grizzlies. I have decided to stay in Montana for schooling and plan on making a career working with the land. I came walking into Leadville with snowshoes under my arm, from two weeks' snowshoeing and camping on the upper slopes of the Rockies. The ends of broken tree limbs had torn numerous right-angled triangles in my clothes, my soft hat was unduly slouchy, and fourteen nights' intimate association with a camp-fire, along with only an infrequent.\n\nThe tree and shrub species on a ha watershed in the Coweeta Basin were sampled in and again in to determine the effects of drought on tree species composition and basal area growth. Mortality and radial growth were determined for tree species within three community types that represent a moisture gradient from moist to dry: cove. the national hor ticultural magazine journal of the american horticultural society april,i", null, null, null, null, null, null, "Just a little to remember, but the brain is a. Franklin, J. F., R. Carkin, and J. Booth. Seeding habits of upper-slope tree species I.\n\n[See FA 36, ] Seed traps were set at distances of up to m from the felled E. and W. edges of stands of noble (Abies procera) and Pacific silver (A. amabilis) firs in 4 areas in Oregon and Washington in and There was a rapid decline in seed fall with distance from stand edge.\n\nSound and unsound seed of A. procera travelled similar distances but unsound seed of A. amabilis Cited by: 6. The dispersal of seeds of Abies magnifica var. shastensis and A. concolor in a acre clear-felled area in the Oregon High Cascades was studied in and (very heavy seed-years).\n\nThe number of seeds declined rapidly from the stand edge; indications that seeds were carried further in the direction of prevailing winds were not statistically by: 4.\n\nFranklin, J. and C. Smith. () Seeding habits of upper-slope tree species. Dispersal of a mountain hemlock seedcrop on a clearcut.\n\nDept. of Agriculture, []), by J. Stoeckeler, Darroll D. Skilling, and Minn.) Lake States Forest Experiment. Seed shadows for herbaceous species with devices for wind have flatter slopes and more distant modes and maxima than those of ballists, which in turn exceed those with no special devices.\n\nPathological studies are. GENERAL BOTANICAL CHARACTERISTICS: Subalpine fir is a native, coniferous, evergreen tree. It is the smallest of the eight species of fir native to the western United States. Five growth forms, each apparently an adaptation to a particular environment, are described below [9,54]: typical form is found throughout much of the subalpine zone.\n\nThe different tree species present died in proportion to their frequency in the watershed. A large number of seedlings had established after the burn on Tharp's Creek and had more rapid height growth relative to seedlings in the Log watershed.\n\nThe book comprises good practices in agriculture to cope with extreme weather events like floods and drought Tree crops such as coconut palms and fruit trees will have hardly any impact by.\n\nHalf of the collected species, 27 species (51%) are shared with the KKT area, 22 species (%) are common to the Kuril Basin and the Pacific sites.\n\nAbout 80% of the collected species are new to. The book is structured in such a way that government agencies and aid donors on the one hand, and practitioners and members of NGOs and associations on the other, are able to better understand the scope of climate change adaptation in Africa, with a combination of background research and examples of practical projects.\n\nSpecies diversity was varied at two sites, whereas at the third site, a gradient in functional diversity was created. Tree height was below cm for most of the species, and largest crown projection areas .Tropentag - Book of Abstracts have made this conference possible and affordable especially for young." ]

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[ "One Billion Americans, by pundit Matthew Yglesias, is mostly a book about politics, international relations, and public policy—none of which are a focus of this blog. But as the title indicates, the book is also ostensibly about demographics. Could or should the U.S. try to increase its population to one billion or thereabouts? If so, how long would it take? These are fun questions to think about.", null, "The left half of the graph shows the past, while the right half, from 2022 on, shows the latest projections of the United Nations Population Division. Notice the spike in deaths and dip in immigration from the Covid pandemic, which have combined to take a sizable bite out of our population growth over the last couple of years.\n\nLooking forward and hoping for no more deadly pandemics, the projection shows our population continuing to grow through 2100, but more and more gradually, approaching 400 million by century’s end. Nowhere near a billion.\n\nNotice that we’re currently at around 4 million births and 3 million deaths each year. But the number of deaths is rising rapidly (as our population ages) and is expected to surpass the number of births about 20 years from now. After that, population rises only because of immigration.\n\nIn the book, Yglesias proposes that the U.S. encourage more births by enacting a universal child allowance, guaranteed parental leave, publicly funded child care and preschool, and other pro-family policies. He’s vague about how much difference he thinks all this will make, but others have pointed out that the countries he holds up as good examples for these kinds of policies (Finland, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Japan) tend to have fertility rates that are even lower than ours. (Sweden’s is infinitesimally higher.) In an interview with Kelsey Piper of Vox, Yglesias responded by noting that Americans tend to be more religious than Europeans, and religious people tend to have more children than those who are not religious.\n\nLet’s suppose, then, that through pro-family social programs we can lift the U.S. fertility rate somewhat higher than that of the rich countries in Europe and Asia. Exactly how much higher might that be? Yglesias cites a New York Times summary of data from the General Social Survey, claiming that “The gap between the number of children that women say they want to have (2.7) and the number of children they will probably actually have (1.8) has risen to the highest level in 40 years.” The suggestion, then, seems to be that the social policies listed above might raise the U.S. fertility rate up to something like 2.7.\n\nI think this is a fantasy. For one thing, both the average GSS survey response and the actual fertility rate have dropped somewhat since 2018, when that New York Times article was published. But more importantly, the actual wording of the GSS survey question was not “How many children would you like to have?”, but rather, “What do you think is the ideal number of children for a family to have?”. Some respondents are likely to answer this question from the perspective of a child instead of a parent—especially if they personally have no wish to start their own families—and the number of children in an average child’s family will always be larger than the number of children born to an average adult. The trend in these survey responses over time can still teach us something, but I don’t see how we can use the numerical level of the average response to predict how many children people would have if they could afford them.\n\nNevertheless, let me err on the side of being overly generous and assume that somehow the U.S. might raise its fertility rate from the current value of 1.66 children per woman back up to the replacement value of 2.1. Then the green curve on the chart above would jump up by about another million, and the U.S. would get a boost of a few tens of millions of births over the next few decades. In the long term, though, the green and red curves would merge, and any further population growth would come entirely from (net) immigration.\n\nNext question: How high might we raise the annual U.S. immigration numbers? Yglesias doesn’t say. The average over the last two decades has been about a million a year, and that’s what the U.N. projections assume going forward. At that rate it would take us 600 years to add another 600 million Americans. (The exact time required would depend on how many children the immigrants have after they arrive, which in turn would depend on their distribution in age, sex, and education level.)\n\nHere is a plot (data here) of the annual number of people obtaining lawful permanent resident status in the U.S., as a fraction of the population at the time, since 1820:", null, "In the heyday of U.S. immigration, from 1847 through 1914, we were taking in nearly 1% of our population each year, on average. If we wanted to do that today, we’d need to triple our recent legal immigration rate.\n\nBefore continuing that thought, I should point out that U.S. fertility rates were also much higher in the past. So even when immigration rates were in the vicinity of 1% of our population each year, the high birth rate meant that the fraction of U.S. residents who were born in other countries never exceeded 15%. Today that fraction is about 14%, despite our much lower immigration rate (as a percentage of population), because our birth rate is also much lower. If we were to raise our immigration rate to 1% of population over a sustained period, our foreign-born fraction would rise to a level never before seen in the U.S. as a whole, though familiar in places like California and Australia.\n\nIs this close to what Yglesias has in mind? We can only speculate. He devotes considerable space in his book to arguing that the U.S. can hold a billion people, while neglecting to say how long he thinks it might take us to reach that level. But putting a specific time scale on the target adds clarity to some issues the book raises, while inviting us to ponder some further questions.\n\nFor instance, a hundred years is considerably longer than the time scale—just a few decades—over which the world needs to transition away from fossil fuels. So we needn’t let the prospect of a much higher population clutter our thinking about how to carry out that transition here in the U.S. Then, after a few decades, we’ll have a much clearer picture of what it might take to scale up the fossil-free energy system to meet the needs of the hypothetical one billion Americans.\n\nOn the other hand, a hundred years is about the same time scale over which the world as a whole will (probably) transition from rapid population growth to likely decline. Projections suggest that this transition will be especially dramatic in Asia and Latin America, the origins of most U.S. immigrants in recent years. Meanwhile, a century of further economic development is likely to bring the wealth level of much of the world closer to that of the U.S.\n\nSo although there seems to be no shortage of people who would like to migrate to the U.S. today, we shouldn’t assume that this will be the case a full century into the future, as we (hypothetically) seek the hundreds of millions of immigrants we would need to reach the one billion level. Already we compete with places like Europe, Canada, and Australia to attract many of the world’s migrants. In a hundred years the list of other rich countries that are eager to attract migrants could be much longer.\n\nOf course there’s nothing sacred about a 1% annual immigration rate. Could we raise it significantly higher still? That would shorten the time needed to reach one billion, but would also bring us into truly uncharted cultural territory, with immigrants arriving so fast that they could soon outnumber native-born Americans. And although I said I’d forget politics, I have to draw the line somewhere on such politically far-fetched speculations." ]

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[ null, "· Venezuela’s peer-to-peer bitcoin activity has been extraordinary, whether measured as an absolute or relative to GDP. Bitcoin adoption in nations. · The dramatic rise in bitcoin may seem overly speculative. Yet bitcoin has actually lagged the surges for some other cryptocurrencies.\n\n· Venezuela president Nicolas Maduro says the country is to start using cryptocurrency in both domestic and global trade, as part of efforts to neutralize crippling U.S.\n\n· From immediately, you’ll be able to share with your loved ones and pay with cryptocurrencies in any of the Pizza Hut eating places in Venezuela. The announcement provides that among the many cryptocurrencies accepted at Pizza Hut are bitcoin, ethereum, sprint, litecoin, binance coin, tether, DAI, and Cryptopurchaser’s native token, XPT.\n\n· Petroleos de Venezuela SA, which is seeking to send Bitcoin and Ethereum to the central bank and have the monetary authority pay the oil company’s suppliers with the tokens, according to. · Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC bulls look for a clear break above 19, to retake controls.\n\nBTC/USD remains the bull’s favorite while rising to 19, up % intraday, during early Tuesday. · Venezuela continues to grow its Bitcoin adoption base, as both the private and public sectors are opening up to the asset.\n\nLocal crypto services provider. · Weakening correlation between bitcoin and ether. Some analysts say that as more institutions pour money into bitcoin and push up its price, ether and other cryptocurrencies will gradually decouple.\n\n· The sanctions have severely weakened the country and pushed inflation to unprecedented levels. Venezuela is therefore looking for ways out of the crisis. Cryptocurrencies play a central role because they are not controlled by any central institution in the world. States can enact laws to ban Bitcoin and the like, but they cannot switch off Bitcoin.\n\n· fsan.xn--90apocgebi.xn--p1ai gave out an investigative report, showing that Venezuela, currently under US sanctions, is redoubling its usage of Bitcoin in order to pay. · Ethereum Classic 24h $ %. Zcash 24h $ Venezuela’s Bitcoin Story Puts It in a Category of One.\n\nwhich invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. · Bitcoin price rebounds above $19, despite on-chain metrics turning bearish. Ethereum is struggling to overcome the hurdle at $, as. · In brief Pizza Hut restaurants in Venezuela now support cryptocurrency payments. This is a result of a partnership between Pizza Hut and crypto payments processor Cryptobuyer.\n\nThe firm’s point-of-sale solution supports Bitcoin, Binance Coin, Dash, DAI, Ethereum, Litecoin, Tether, and XPT. The Venezuelan branch of major American restaurant chain Pizza Hut has partnered with crypto. Ethereum Price is Approaching Next Break. This past week, bitcoin and ethereum saw a sharp downside correction below $17, and $ respectively against the US Dollar.\n\nETH price even spiked below the $ support and the simple moving average (4-hours). · The government of Venezuela has floated a new use case for cryptocurrencies, President Nicolas Maduro said during a recent speech, one that highlighted the possibility of using digital assets in trades, alongside the cryptocurrency Petromoneda (or Petro).\n\nThe controversial Petro was launched two years ago to reduce the Venezuelan economy’s dependence on the U.S dollar. The article goes on to explain that the central bank could then make international payments in the “tokens” of “Bitcoin or Ethereum” for the state-run Petroleos de Venezuela SA. Sigh. A better title for that article would be Bloomberg writes about Bitcoin and has no idea what it is.\n\n· Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has decided to include digital currencies or cryptocurrencies for domestic and global trading needs.\n\nThis decision was The central bank is going to include Bitcoin and Ethereum in its reserves. It is estimated that more than $ 8 million worth of Bitcoins are traded each week.\n\n· The increase in the adoption of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has been significant during However, countries with the world’s largest economies have lagged behind less developed ones.\n\nAt least, that’s what a recent report by the research firm Chainalysis reveals. The report is entitled “The Global Crypto Adoption Index” and has been created by Chainalysis to reliably.\n\n· Ethereum, a longtime favorite of tech geeks, has quintupled in value since its month low on March 16, besting Bitcoin’s % increase in the same period. And XRP, a. All Pizza Hut locations in Venezuela now accept a broad range of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, via the payment platform Cryptobuyer. Pizza Hut joins Burger King, Intercontinental Hotel, Traki, and several other major stores in Venezuela that accept bitcoin.\n\nPizza Hut Accepts Bitcoin Cryptobuyer announced on Friday that all Pizza Hut restaurants in Venezuela now accept [ ]. · It is expected that the use of cryptocurrencies will make banking transactions more accessible.\n\nPeople will be able to make national and international bank payments through the account of the central bank. The central bank is going to include Bitcoin and Ethereum in its reserves.\n\nThe Future of Cryptocurrencies\n\nIt is estimated that more than $ 8 million worth of Bitcoins are. · Venezuela’s Holdings Likely From Corruption. Those with firsthand experiences in Venezuela will tell you that the government’s cryptocurrency holdings there are derived from corrupt mining activities, i.e. through equipment seized from citizens. How Venezuela came to own Bitcoin or Ethereum? The Bloomberg article didn't say.\n\nIn brief Pizza Hut restaurants in Venezuela now support cryptocurrency payments. This is a result of a partnership between Pizza Hut and crypto payments processor Cryptobuyer.\n\n· Digital cryptocurrencies have been on fire since March, with the three largest digital tokens by market cap -- bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple --.\n\nEarlier today, Bloomberg reported that Venezuela’s central bank could soon be holding an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin and Ethereum as part of its international reserves. According to Bloomberg’s unnamed sources, the country’s national oil company (and primary source of revenue. More than 10 years since the first bitcoin transaction in Januaryand almost two years since a speculative spike pushed the price per bitcoin to almost $20, cryptocurrencies are moving beyond cypherpunks and anti-government culture into the world of governments and traditional institutions.\n\nThe transition is impossible to ignore. · All Pizza Hut locations in Venezuela now accept a broad range of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, via the payment platform Cryptobuyer. Pizza Hut joins Burger King, Intercontinental Hotel, Traki, and several other major stores in Venezuela that accept bitcoin.", null, "Pizza Hut Accepts Bitcoin Cryptobuyer announced on. · Bitcoin, ethereum, Ripple's XRP, litecoin and chainlink—five of the biggest cryptocurrencies by value—have bounced back from a sell-off this week. The bitcoin price climbed to over $18, per. The state electric company of Carabobo, one of Venezuela’s 23 states, has reportedly disconnected bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining equipment across the region. According to an anonymous crypto miner, the state electric company, Corpoelec did this in compliance with “superior orders.” The miner told a local news company that over the weekend Corpoelec had indeed shut [ ].\n\n· However, on Tuesday, the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro reportedly disclosed that they are studying the possibility of including other digital currencies for domestic and foreign trades. The cryptocurrencies will be used alongside the national digital currency Petro, as both a private and state tool, according to the report by Sputniknews.", null, "This week, Pizza Hut, one of the oldest pizza chains in the country began to accept Bitcoin and other digital currencies as payment. · Given its decentralized and peer-to-peer nature, cryptocurrency transactions in networks like Bitcoin or Ethereum are outside of President Maduro’s control. The implication of these rapidly-emerging grassroots initiatives aligns with international efforts to empower the Venezuelan people while weakening Venezuela’s failing regime.\n\nVenezuelan president Nicolás Maduro says his country is working on an international and domestic payments system that will make use of cryptocurrencies. The troubled Latin American state has seen trade screech to a halt as United States.\n\n· Venezuela and Crypto. As noted, Venezuela’s economy is in shambles, with hyperinflation heading for 1,% by end of according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).\n\nOver the past year the U.S. has imposed increasingly restrictive sanctions on Venezuela’s finances and debt issuance, perhaps in attempts to drive Maduro out of power. The announcement adds that among the cryptocurrencies accepted at Pizza Hut are bitcoin, ethereum, dash, litecoin, binance coin, tether, DAI, and Cryptobuyer’s native token, XPT.\n\nIt further adds that Pizza Hut restaurants are located in Caracas, Maracay, Maracaibo, and Barquisimeto. · Venezuelans have turned to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to escape the inflation. As per the Chainalysis Cryptocurrency Adoption IndexVenezuela ranks third globally in Bitcoin.\n\n· Bitcoin has been consolidating against the US Dollar just under all-time highs, with other cryptocurrencies such as Litecoin and Ethereum, exhibiting Author: Daniel Dubrovsky.\n\nThe bill pointed out private and state-backed cryptocurrencies, such as Venezuela’s Petro, could be used to trade beyond the reach of the economic sanctions.\n\nBitcoin (BTC) · Cryptocurrency · Ethereum (ETH). · From today, you can share with your family and pay with cryptocurrencies in any of the Pizza Hut restaurants in Venezuela.\n\nThe announcement adds that among the cryptocurrencies accepted at Pizza Hut are bitcoin, ethereum, dash, litecoin, binance coin, tether, DAI, and Cryptobuyer’s native token, XPT. As previously reported by EWN, DASH is seeing upwards of two hundred new merchant adoptions per month in the country, with the commerce-minded population benefiting from the greatly reduced transaction times of the coin over competitors like Bitcoin and Ethereum.\n\nWhile Bitcoin continues to hold the lion’s share of the market and nearly all of the brand-recognition of cryptocurrency, DASH. Pizza Hut Now Accepts Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies in Venezuela An endless number of economic sanctions imposed by the United States and an endless number of bad policies imposed by the Venezuelan government have led to an increasing love for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the latin american nation.\n\nBitcoin's growing reputation as an inflation hedge is boosting the price of other cryptocurrencies. Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency platform in the world, rose by more than 6% to.\n\n· Stores are accepting Bitcoin, Dash, Ethereum and Litecoin, among other cryptocurrencies. Beset by delays and new currency controls amid Venezuela’s economic crisis, merchants are trying to create a system that is more liquid, responsive and stable. Venezuela’s deepening economic crisis has led to a massive adoption of cryptocurrency, with more than $8 million worth of bitcoin traded peer-to-peer each week, Coindance data shows.\n\nThe government recently signed a new tax agreement that enabled it to start collecting taxes and fees in the petro." ]

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[ "“연기가 너무 강렬해졌어요, we could hardly breathe,” Bernstein said. “The smoke was making it difficult to see.”\n\nAnne Heche was involved in multiple accidents in Los Angeles on Friday. (Getty/FOX 11)\n\nBernstein noted that his neighbor, 데이브, asked Heche if she was alright and she responded that she was not. The Los Angeles Fire Department arrived on the scene, asked the neighbors if anyone was in the house and they alerted the first responders that a woman was inside.\n\nThe tenant of the house exited her home from a side room and was “충격” by what had happened. “Get out of my house,” the tenant told the group of people outside her home before she realized a car had struck her home.", null, "Dave took the tenant’s two dogs to his home. Bernstein noted that the tenant was “perfectly fine, thank God” following the explosive crash.\n\nBernstein shared with Fox News Digital that Heche was “conscious” but he did not know how “coherent” she was following the crash.\n\nHeche crashed a vehicle into a Mar Vista, 캘리포니아, 집, 금요일, igniting a fire, and was transported to a hospital in critical condition, 긴급 구조원에 따르면.\n\nA resident was present at the time of the accident at the home and escaped injury. 헤체, 하나, sustained burn injuries and was “conscious and breathing” when she was placed on a stretcher.\n\nBrian Humphrey, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Fire Department, told Fox News Digital the person involved in the accident was transferred to a hospital and is in critical condition. (여우 11)\n\nA second witness spoke with Fox News Digital outside the homeowners home where the damage from the crash is clearly seen.\n\n워싱턴 주 여성, 감옥에 갇히다 “scared the entire neighborhood,” Yaroslav Borets told Fox News Digital. “Something we will remember for a longtime.” Borets noted that his neighborhood is “not the kind neighborhood that knows everyone next door.”\n\n“This is generally a safe place,” 그는 말했다, explaining that this type of accident doesn’t often occur in the Mar Vista neighborhood.", null, "“Fifty-nine firefighters took 65 minutes to access, confine and fully extinguish the stubborn flames within the heavily damaged structure and rescued one female adult found within the vehicle who has been taken to an area hospital by LAFD Paramedics in critical condition,” 그만큼 성명은 말했다.\n\nNo other injuries 보고되었다, and the cause of the crash is under investigation, FOX에 따르면 11.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Code found in tvOS 14.5 RC indicates that Apple is working on eARC and ARC support for the newly announced 2021 Apple TV 4K (second gen). The feature is labeled as being in beta in tvOS 14.5 RC and tvOS 14.6 beta 1. ARC (Audio Return Channel) is a feature of HDMI 1.4 so that users can send audio and video to their tv from a set top box or their smart tv and passthrough the audio through an HDMI port (instead of an optical cable) to a receiver or sound bar. ARC also lets users send volume and mute commands from their set top boxes to their receiver or sound bar. eARC or enhanced Audio Return Channel builds on the features of ARC by adding support for sending higher bandwidth audio such as Dolby Atmos, uncompressed 5.1, and 7.1 surround sound to receivers and sounds bars along with support for Lip Sync Correction.\n\nThough oddly Home Theater setup, a feature introduced back in November in tvOS 14.2, only supports the discontinued HomePod and not the HomePod mini. This could be a sign that Apple is working on support for a replacement for the HomePod or home theater setup is coming to HomePod mini soon. Or this could be related to the report by Mark Gurman on Bloomberg that Apple is working on an Apple TV with an integrated speaker." ]

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[ null, "Things change quickly in the world of espionage and clandestine operations. Jude Lyon of MI6 remembers the captured terrorist bomb-maker. He watched him being flown off to Syria, back when Syria was 'friendly'. No-one expected him to survive interrogation there.\n\nYet the man is alive and someone has broken him out of jail.\n\nBad news for the former foreign secretary who authorised his rendition. And Jude's boss Queen Bee who knew he wasn't a terrorist at all, but an innocent bystander. Now she calls Jude back from a dangerously enjoyable mission involving a Russian diplomat's wife.\n\nHe has a new job: close down this embarrassment. Fast.\n\nBut embarrassment is only the beginning. Someone is using the former prisoner to front a new and unspeakably terrifying campaign. Someone not even ISIS can control.\n\nHe is like a rumour, a myth, a whisper on the desert wind. But he is real and he is coming for us ...\n\nHe is the genius known only as ...\n\nFrom the corridors of Westminster to the refugee camps of Jordan, the back streets of East London to the badlands of Iraq, The Stranger is a nerve-shredding journey of suspense as Jude Lyon pieces together the shape of an implacable horror coming towards him - and a conspiracy of lies behind him." ]

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[ null, "The Washington Post’s latest “bombshell” has alleged that a rookie journalist who published on left-wing and fringe websites was actually a Russian troll acting on Kremlin orders.\n\nAlice Donovan, or someone writing under that name, published five stories on the left-wing website Counterpunch along with a handful of other less-known websites, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The Post cited “internal bureau reports” to call Donovan a “pseudonymous foot soldier in an army of Kremlin-led trolls seeking to undermine America’s democratic institutions.”\n\nThe Daily Beast re-published the story under an even more sensational headline: “Kremlin troll wrote for far-left US sites.”\n\nWhile the Post and Beast claimed the curious case of Alice Donovan is part of a Russian disinformation campaign, many social media users were not convinced.\n\nIf you still don’t recognize that Russiagate has become a McCarthyite cudgel to attack leftists who refuse to genuflect to the neoliberal Democratic Party and who criticize murderous US foreign policy, wake up. It can’t get any more blatant at this point.https://t.co/L2NeuKLYmt\n\nViewpoint magazine’s Shuja Haider poked fun at the allegation that Donovan is linked to Russia.\n\nThe Daily Beast’s headline prompted a heavy backlash, too.\n\nSo? If the information is correct, why does it matter where it was written? Xenophobes.\n\nShe only had 48 followers. There was no influence there.\n\nFor its part, Counterpunch could not find clear evidence that confirmed or refuted Donovan’s existence.\n\nAccording to Counterpunch, however, Donovan was never paid. Of the five articles she wrote, “none of these submissions were commissioned and she wasn’t compensated for any of the stories.”\n\nThe New Republic editor Jeet Heer said that even if Donovan were paid, it would be a poor strategy." ]

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[ "\nINTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR\nFISCAL YEAR 2021\nJUNE 17, 2020.—Ordered to be printed\nMr. RUBIO, from the Select Committee on Intelligence,\nsubmitted the following\n...\n\nThe Committee supports the efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval Intelligence to standardize collection and reporting on unidentified aerial phenomenon, any links they have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations. However, the Committee remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the Federal Government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat. The Committee understands that the relevant intelligence may be sensitive; nevertheless, the Committee finds that the information sharing and coordination across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders.\n\nTherefore, the Committee directs the DNI, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of such other agencies as the Director and Secretary jointly consider relevant, to submit a report within 180 days of the date of enactment of the Act, to the congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena (also known as ‘‘anomalous aerial vehicles’’), including observed airborne objects that have not been identified.\n\nThe Committee further directs the report to include:\n\nThe above language is causing great excitement in the UFO community. For example:\n\nNevertheless, a very interesting development, which to a large degree has been one of the main actions which To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA) have been working on in the background. Kudos to them.\n\nThis bill represents years of hard work and the progress it can lead to if passed is very exciting.\n\nThis isn't actually a bill though. It's comments from the intelligence committee regarding the bill. The paragraph isn't a proposed law, it's a directive from the committee.\n\n\nIs this significant? Well, looking at the language of the committee comment it all sounds quite reasonable. They are concerned about airspace incursions that are not identified. They are also concerned that foreign adversaries might have developed aerospace capabilities that put the US at a disadvantage. These are perfectly valid and significant concerns that the military obviously shares and has been investigating, to some degree.\n\nWhat this comment amount to is essentially oversight of the existing processes, to ensure that those concerns are addressed and that improvements are made if needed.\n\nSo why the excitement?\n\nAnd although many of them will deny this, they are frustrated because they think UFOs are something incredible, maybe representing an epochal revolution in physics, possibly even alien visitors from another world. They are frustrated because they really want this incredible thing to be revealed, and they have been thinking that \"disclosure\" is just around the corner for years. But it never happens.\n\nWhat position (#1 or #2) does this report comment support? Really #2, and the serious presenting folk are excited because of this, like Chris Mellon:\nSource: https://twitter.com/ChristopherKMe4/status/1275465099449446401\n\n\nBut really all we've got here is the Senate Intelligence Committee simply carrying out its oversight role. Perhaps colored somewhat by the media attention surrounding the US Navy videos. But really nothing has significantly changed, despite all the UFO folk telling you that it has.\n\nLook at it in either context. If #1 is true, then what's the point of this report? Surely the Senate Intelligence Committee would already know about the aliens. What about the rest of the world.\n\nIf #2 is true, then why isn't this a huge deal? If they really thought there was good evidence that the Chinese had developed anti-gravity or reactionless propulsion, then that would be the most significant development in military terms since Hiroshima. It would need more than this.\n\nFinally, and sadly, it's going lead to another round of nonsense tabloid headlines, like \"Gov admits Aliens are Real\", which will simply fan the #1 flames a little more.\n\nStaff member\nTom DeLonge is claiming that the language actually came from Chris Mellon, a member of DeLong's To The Stars Academy (TTSA).\n\nThis seems plausible. Mellon could have written it for Marco Rubio, who, as I remember, has expressed interest in the subject.", null, "Mick West said:\nI think this whole thing illustrates something of a division within the UFO community. You basically got two options.\n\nAND THAT is one of my biggest problems with TTSA.. The TTSA team Luis Elizondo, Chris Mellon, Steve Justice and Hal Puthoff clearly believe in #2 but Tom DeLonge clearly believes in #1 but it goes deeper, believing in #2 basically requires you to believe that Tom DeLonge is lying about most of his story. So does the TTSA team think Tom is lying? Why would they work with someone who they believe is a liar? From their behavior and what they have said about him it would seem they dont believe he is lying but then that basically discredits the whole \"#2 belief\" they share.. Im so confused..\nLast edited by a moderator: Jul 18, 2020\nJ\n\nGiven the tremendous advances in aviation technology over the past 4 decades, autonomous or directed aerial vehicles pose a significant threat to the US and other nations. Go back to the mid-70s, and look at the Tomahawk cruise missile. Capable of flying way below radar by terrain following, carrying a 450 kg payload, range of 1700 km, it was a pretty formidable thing to have an inventory of. I surely hope the US military is paying extremely close attention to the potential for these devices.\n\nThat was then, and now anyone can have an autonomous or lightly remotely controlled drone for whatever purpose (FAA certification aside). These things are very real, and pose a serious threat. Drug runners have been using variants of this stuff for a long time, as well as the good ol' poor man's submarines that keep the radar profile way down. Lot of this stuff has super low radar cross-section, and terrain-following advances mean this stuff can be just above treetop level for hundreds of km. Pretty darned cool stuff, the stuff of science fiction (at one time). And it's cheap, in that anyone can get their hands on it. If the US military isn't on top of this stuff every moment of every day, then they aren't doing their job.\n\nYeah, there's some pretty trick military tech, but it's all got to behave according to physical laws. Yes, it's always possible that, just like a century or more before the atom bomb, we had no concept of the physics required to imagine or make that kind of thing happen, but since the the atom we've gone a long way in starting to understand the basics of physical reality, and so far it's not just turtles all the way down. Wormholes, dark matter and energy, string theory, etc., all are fascinating, but in some cases there's not a lot of science meat on them bones, and it drifts more into philosophy or worse, pseudoscience, depending on who is speculating.\n\nI worry far more about bad actors on this world's stage wanting to do harm than some \"Independence Day\" alien hi-jinks. By \"far more\" I really mean so far down on the probability scale that the thought rarely crosses my mind unless I a see the reaction to a thing like this. Yeah, I spent an entire summer as a 10-11 year old reading every UFO/paranormal/alien book in the local library, and wrote some amazing stories for my 7th grade English writing class. I also learned a thing or two about science, reality, engineering, physics, chemistry, psychology, medicine, human anatomy, yada yada yada. Some people like to believe that they're right in the middle of all sorts of occult reality if they could just open their eyes or look in the right direction (think Flatland). Me, I have enough of an imagination to be amazed by reality more than having to make something up. I guess I'm just simple-minded.\n\nNonetheless, it's a beautiful Saturday!\n\nIt centers around two different groups...As to your item #1 I think this mainly centers around \"UFO Young Guns\" those who are ignorant of UFO history and are influenced by conspiracy theory...\n\nAs to #2 that encompasses more the older UFO researchers who are familiar with UFO history ...\n\nI agree with this.\nLast edited by a moderator: Jun 1, 2021\nYou must log in or register to reply here.\n\nJan 10, 2021\nParanoidSkeptic2\nP\nU\nThe UAP Policy and Discursive Shift - Changing narratives on UAPs and its effect on policy." ]

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[ null, "At 29 years old, Anna Ewers has this physical status:\n\nEwers first started modeling in Colombia while she was an exchange student, then returned to Germany for school and worked as a cocktail waitress. Ewers was discovered by Alexander Wang when the designer found her photograph on a blog. He sent the image to casting director Anita Bitton who said \"Lets find this girl!\" Since then she has been Alexander Wang's muse.\n\nShe often poses for Vogue Paris editorials : Miss Vogue Hamptons in October 2013, Fatale in March 2014 and another one alongside Natasha Poly for the June/July issue. She received her first cover in August 2014. Her other international covers include the Italian and Chinese editions of Vogue.\n\nShe was chosen by Steven Meisel to be on the 2015 Pirelli Calendar, alongside Adriana Lima and Raquel Zimmermann.\n\nIn 2015, she covered the February issue of Vogue Paris.\n\nIn April 2018, Anna appeared in the David Yurman F/W 2018 campaign, which continued the theme of “Celebration,” and was first established in the brand's 2000 campaign. This campaign were shot by Peter Lindbergh and featured top models Joan Smalls, Ashley Graham, Amber Valletta, and others." ]

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[ null, "Mitch Kupchak played for the University of North Carolina and legendary coach Dean Smith. He was ACC Player of the Year in 1976 as he averaged 17.6 points and 11.3 rebounds. Prior to this, he was the starting center on the gold-medal winning USA team in the ’76 Olympics. He was a first-round draft choice of the Washington Bullets (13th overall) and was named to the All-Rookie team. During the 1977-78 season he posted a career high in scoring average (15.9) as he helped the Bullets win the NBA Championship. Acquired by the Lakers in ’81, Kupchak played in L.A. through the ’86-’87 season and helped the Lakers win an NBA title. Over his career he scored more than 5,000 points and averaged over ten points per game. After retiring, he continued working for the Lakers and is currently the general manager of the club.\n\nGrowing up on Long Island, Mitch Kupchak dreamed of one day playing baseball for his beloved New York Yankees. Little did he imagine that would become a great basketball player, winning NBA titles and Olympic gold. It’s even less likely that he ever thought he would also become a top basketball executive, heading basketball operations for an NBA champion.\n\nMitch was born on May 24, 1954 in Hicksville, New York. He developed a passion for baseball at an early age but, in his words, grew to be “tall, thin and awkward.” He soon lost his awkwardness, and his height drew him to basketball. He played his first year of organized ball in the 9th grade, and his high school coach, Stan Kellner, quickly realized Mitch’s potential. Stan pushed the youngster to improve his game, and before long Mitch was being recruited by some of the nation’s top college programs. In the end, Mitch was most impressed by North Carolina’s legendary Dean Smith. Coach Smith didn’t promise Kupchak that he would start, but just that he’d graduate and become a better basketball player.\n\nMitch was the first freshman to play basketball at Carolina after the freshman eligibility rule went into effect prior to the 1972-73 season. He was a top reserve that year, and then became an alternate starter as a sophomore. By his junior year he was a full-time starter and one of the country’s top players. During his final two seasons he was one of the top players in the Atlantic Coast Conference, averaging double figures in both points and rebounds. Kupchak was an All-ACC selection as both a junior and senior and was an All-American as a senior in 1976. He was also the ACC Player of the Year in 1976 as he led Carolina to a 25-4 record.\n\nWith career totals of 1611 points and 1006 rebounds, it surprised no one when his number 21 jersey was hung from the rafters by the Tar Heels.\n\nMitch had great admiration for Coach Smith. “Loyalty. Family. Discipline. Those are what come to mind when you hear the name Dean Smith,” Mitch once said. As Coach Smith promised, not only did Mitch become a better basketball player, but he earned his degree as well.\n\nA fearless competitor, Kupchak played the game with great intensity despite persistent back pain. After his senior season he battled back from back surgery to start at center for the 1976 US Olympic team, and helped his squad to a gold medal. “It was a special moment having all those who had the greatest influence on me there watching,” he recalled.\n\nIn the 1976 NBA draft the Washington Bullets used a first round selection obtained from a deal with the Buffalo Braves, the 13th overall, to draft Kupchak. Despite joining a veteran front line that included Wes Unseld and Elvin Hayes, Mitch had an immediate impact. Taking on the “sixth man” role as the first player off the bench, Kupchak was a key spark for the team. Despite being about 6-9 and weighing 230 pounds, Mitch was a very active big man, diving for loose balls and running the floor like a guard. In his first season he scored 852 points (10.4 per game) and hauled in 494 rebounds, and his 57.2 percent shooting percentage was second in the NBA only to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He also earned NBA All-Rookie honors.\n\nThe 1977-78 season was a unique one for the Bullets. Kupchak had another great year, averaging 15.9 points. However, the team struggled for much of the year, especially when Mitch sat out 15 games with a thumb injury. When Washington made the playoffs with a 44-38 record, no one expected much.\n\nHowever, the Bullets made it to the NBA Finals against Seattle, and won the championship in the seventh game on Seattle’s home court. Mitch dove for a lose ball and made a key three-point play late in the game to help seal the victory.\n\n“I was young, 24, and totally consumed with the excitement of winning a championship. It’s something I enjoyed being a part of,” he recalled.\n\nWashington returned to the finals the following year, but with Mitch injured, the Bullets lost to Seattle, 4-1. In 1981 Kupchak signed with the Lakers, finally getting his chance to be a full-time starter. However, he severely injured his left knee only 26 games into the season. Mitch underwent 16 months of intense daily therapy, though doctors told him that in all likelihood his career was over. To prepare for his future, he began pursuing his MBA at UCLA. “I had a guaranteed contract with the Lakers and I felt obligated to try and do something just in case I couldn’t play so that I could bring something to the table for the Lakers in case they wanted to keep me around.”\n\nBut Mitch surprised everyone by coming back. “I was half the player I used to be,” Mitch admitted. “I don’t sit around thinking about the great player I was or some great shot or dunk I made. My thoughts are more satisfying knowing I could come back from an injury and be a part of a team.” Although he was no longer as agile as he had once been, Mitch gave the “Showtime” Lakers the physical presence they needed to knock off the Boston Celtics for the 1985 NBA title. He became one of 22 players to win NBA championships with two different teams.\n\nMitch joined the Lakers front office in 1986, and soon received his MBA from UCLA. He soon began working with the man he described as his “mentor and close dear friend,” Jerry West. A former Laker legend as a player, West had guided the franchise five titles as head of basketball operations. Kupchak eventually rose up the ranks, becoming West’s right-hand man. After the Lakers won the 2000 NBA Championship, West decided to step down from the pressures of being executive vice president for Basketball Operations. The 46-year-old Kupchak took on the challenge of replacing a legend, one who had just led the Lakers franchise to a championship.\n\nKupchak’s low-key, soft-spoken style was a direct contrast to West’s high-profile persona. However, Mitch’s educational background, quiet demeanor and analytical mind made him extremely well-suited to run a team in today’s NBA. No longer can teams make trades simply based upon the abilities of the players involved.\n\nInstead, they also have to evaluate the complexities how each player’s salary will impact the team’s salary cap. Mitch’s ability to deal with that aspect of his job has allowed him to acquire the players needed to complement the team’s two superstars, Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant. As a result, the Lakers went on to win two more NBA titles in 2001 and 2002.\n\nAway from basketball, Mitch enjoys spending time with his wife, Claire, and two young children. “Family is great. My wife is very understanding and I love going home to my children. They don’t know if we won or lost. They don’t know who played well and who didn’t play well.”\n\nMitch Kupchak has come a long way, both literally and figuratively, from his early days on Long Island. He is one of those rare talents who not only was a superstar as a player, but moved over to the management side of his sport and achieved equal, if not greater success." ]

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[ "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to navigation Jump to search\nFor the town in Arizona, see Star Valley, Arizona.\n\nStar Valley is located in the United States between the Salt River Range in western Wyoming and the Webster Range of eastern Idaho. The altitude of the valley ranges from 5,600 feet (1,700 m) to 7,000 feet (2,100 m). Three major Wyoming rivers, the Salt River, the Greys River and the Snake River meet near Alpine Junction at Palisades Reservoir. Numerous towns are located in the valley, including Afton, Thayne, Bedford, Etna, Smoot, Fairview, Osmond, Freedom, Grover, Auburn, Alpine, Nordic, Turnerville and Star Valley Ranch. Star Valley was settled in the late 1870s by Mormon pioneers. Primary sources indicate Star Valley was proclaimed the \"Star of All Valleys\" for its natural beauty by a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The name was later shortened to Star Valley. Another less supported theory about the origin of the name comes from Starvation (Starve) Valley, a name the area gained during bitter winters in the late 1880s.", null, "The Star Valley Wyoming Temple was completed in 2016\n\nStar Valley was inhabited mainly by Shoshone Indians in the summer and fall months until the early 19th century. The natives were drawn to the valley for its abundant game and the pure salt deposits found near the present town of Auburn and also to the south of Afton, Wyoming there are more renowned salt deposits.\n\nAmerican explorers are known to have traveled through the area as early as 1812, seeking new routes to the West Coast. Canadian and American trappers followed, frequenting the area through the 1840s. The 1850s and 1860s saw many emigrants passing through the upper Star Valley area via the Lander Road on the Oregon Trail. White settlement of the area did not begin in earnest, though, until the late 1870s when LDS Apostles Moses Thatcher and Brigham Young, Jr. chose the valley for colonization. Archibald Gardner and members of his extended family arrived in 1889, building and operating five mills of various types in the valley.\n\nOn October 1, 2011, Thomas S. Monson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), announced in General Conference that the Star Valley Wyoming Temple would be built in the valley. The location was announced on May 25, 2012, to be just east of U.S. Highway 89 on the Haderlie Farm property just south of Afton.[1] The temple was completed and dedicated on October 30, 2016, by LDS Apostle David A. Bednar, the 154th dedicated temple in operation.[2]" ]

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[ "What Is Bubble Hash And How Is It Different From Hash?", null, "Of all the forms of Cannabis concentrates, Bubble hash seems to be among the most interesting. Some fans of Cannabis are still trying to grapple with the fact that you can make it for yourself at home. Bubble hash has been missing in action for some time now, and it’s high time it was re-introduced. It is hashish in its quality form, and the word ’bubble’ comes from its ability to bubble up when in contact with ice-cold water.\n\nThe confusion comes about when you have to differentiate it from its counterpart, hash. Beginners are usually at a crossroads and may often make several mistakes during their purchase. Bubble hash differs from hash in the way it’s made.\n\n1. Use Ice and Water\n\nThough this method has been around for centuries, some Millennials may only hear about it for the first time. Bubble hash depends on ice and water as solvents rather than heat and pressure like its counterparts. This makes it stand out since no chemicals are involved in this delicate process. Instead, creating an icy environment for the entire process works its magic seamlessly.\n\nThe main ingredient, Cannabis, must be within the ideal frozen range of temperatures. It contains trichomes which depend on the cool temperatures for the retention of its volatile oils. Once you set the conditions right, avoid exposure to direct sunlight as it may only interfere with the rest of the process. Another aim of using ice-cold water is to separate the trichomes from the Bubble hash.\n\nMost importantly, use bubble bags that are specifically designed for this process. They help in storage and also filtering out extracts that are not in any helpful way. Check that the water you use is free from all kinds of impurities. Impure water could be disastrous when it comes into contact with unwanted extracts such as trichomes.\n\nAfter setting the stage for a conducive bubble hash making process, storage is next in line. As mentioned earlier, purchase ideal bubble bags that play various roles in bubble making. The bags come in different sizes to facilitate more effortless layering of each into a bucket. The smallest is usually placed at the bottom of the bucket because it doesn’t allow many filters.\n\nAfter thorough scrutiny of the filtration process, what follows next is the orderly removal of each bag from the bucket. Starting with the bubble bag at the top is easier because it’s managed to filter out unwanted material.\n\nThe second bag follows suit after being rid of the matter that trickled down from the first bag. The same case applies to the third to the smallest bag at the bottom. Note that you will begin to notice a change in color to darker residue due to filtrates accumulating from each bag. The main aim is to carefully and thoroughly remove every trace of trichomes from the Cannabis.\n\nCompared to the hash, bubble hash has various uses under its belt that every Cannabis fan might be willing to explore. Each of them comes about in response to the ever-changing times in the world of Cannabis.\n\nFor instance, bubble hash is widely acknowledged as an edible and takes multiple forms. Cannabis enthusiasts can shop around for bubble hash edibles, mainly in the form of candy. The exciting bit is that you can also consume it by using it as an additive in beverages such as tea. Another viable option is to add some zest into your salad by sprinkling it sparingly.\n\nEven butter cuts since you can add some bit of bubble hash to liven up the flavor. Some people have tried it on honey and can attest to nothing but a uniquely interesting flavor and taste. Another use of bubble hash is to use it along with other joints. Vapers and smokers are free to experiment with just about anything that spells out Cannabis. Bubble hash is not any different since it sparks life into the joints in question. The effects are sure to double or even triple in exciting ways that will want the users to try the mix as often as possible.\n\n4. Use of Modern Processing Techniques\n\nManufacturers have made the bubble hash-making process even more accessible. Automatic machines have been put in place to ensure the agitation or filtration process takes less time. The machines also provide that the process is thorough and that nothing goes wrong. It can be used for commercial and domestic purposes, depending on what you plan to use the bubble hash for.\n\nThey practically play the role of washing the Cannabis material, among other vital ingredients. The drying part doesn’t have to be manual. Technology has evolved and has introduced freeze-drying techniques to replace the air-drying methods.\n\n5. Safer Compared To Other Alternatives\n\nBubble hash is considered to be safer because it contains no chemical concentrates. Instead, the whole process of its formulation works towards the removal of the harmful chemicals in question. It only relies on natural and harmless ingredients such as ice and pure water to bring out the final product.\n\nBubble hash and hash differ in all the above ways, and each has a varying level of audience online. One tends to have more marketable features than the other." ]

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[ "8 edition of Art and religion in Africa found in the catalog.", null, "by Rosalind I. J. Hackett\n\nPublished 1996 by Cassell in London, New York .\nWritten in English\n\nmotivation for making art, particularly sculpture in African society until recently. It revealed that the main motives for making sculpture in Africa particularly Nigeria, until recently, was religion, prestige and festivities. However, religion more than anything else provided File Size: 51KB. Most of the crown colonies are in Africa, and Nigeria, where this book was written, is the largest crown colony of all. Whatever happens in Africa today may be of importance to the whole commonwealth: a mixed marriage in Bechuanaland, a royal funeral in the Gold Coast, a secret society in Kenya, affect people far beyond the countries where.\n\nAfrican art describes the modern and historical paintings, sculptures, installations, and other visual culture from native or indigenous Africans and the African continent. The definition may also include the art of the African diasporas, such as African American, Caribbean or art in South American societies inspired by African traditions. Despite this diversity, there are unifying artistic. A is for Africa: London-based Ifeoma Onyefulu has written and photographed a lovely alphabet book based on her favorite images of Africa. She grew up in Nigeria and presents lots of information about the customs and objects of Africa based on memories from her childhood. 4 and up.\n\nBlack Religious Collection. Our Black Religious Art Collection consists of images of African Americans Christians that are not scared to show their faith, who they believe in nor to publicly express their gratitude for the Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. These art prints, figurines, home decor and other collectibles all feature Biblical. Paris, CNRS Editions, ; Comment Philosopher en islam, Paris, Philippe Rey, ; The Ink of the Scholars. Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, Dakar, Codesria, The African Art as Philosophy is an extract from the book African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson and the Idea of Negritude (The Africa List). Published by Seagull Books,", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "This book is in fact the catalogue for an exhibition entitled Arts of Africa held at the Grimaldi Forum,Monaco from July to September The exhibition covered 7, years and was divided into sections as follows a) ancient art b) African ivories c) traditional art and d)art from - This is the one book on Afican art you will treasure/5(6).\n\nAfrica's religious and artistic traditions constitute a primary example of its intellectual and cultural vitality. Artistic Art and religion in Africa book play a vital role - especially where oral traditions dominate - in communicating ideas about the relationship between the human, spiritual and natural worlds.\n\nThis work is a comparative study of Africa's visual and performing arts, concentrating on their. The artistic and religious traditions of Africa constitute a primary expression of the intellectual and cultural vitality of this vast and fascinating continent.\n\nArt plays a vital role - especially when oral traditions dominate - in expressing and communicating ideas about the relationships between the human, spiritual and natural worlds. : Art and Religion in Africa (Religion and the Arts) (): Hackett, Rosalind I.J., Abiodun, Rowland: Books5/5(1). Art and religion in Africa.\n\nThis comparative study of Africa's visual and performing arts concentrates on their geographical, material and gendered diversity, and focuses on the relation of these arts to African religion.\n\nBy Dr. Christa Clarke, for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources on our website.\n\nIf you're behind a web filter, please make sure that the domains * and * are unblocked. African Religions and Philosophy is a good book and Mbiti is a good man to write it. The similarities of folk beliefs and practices worldwide provide amazing insight into the ible, especially the Old Testament.\n\nAfrica’s geographic and cultural proximity to the Holy Land makes African folk religion even more interesting to a student of Size: KB.\n\nArt and Religion in Africa by Rosalind I. Hackett,available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide/5(3). Religion in Africa is multifaceted and has been a major influence on art, culture andthe continent's various populations and individuals are mostly adherents of Christianity, Islam, and to a lesser extent several traditional African Christian or Islamic communities, religious beliefs are also sometimes characterized with syncretism with the beliefs and practices.\n\nAfrican religions, religious beliefs and practices of the peoples of should be noted that any attempt to generalize about the nature of “African religions” risks wrongly implying that there is homogeneity among all African fact, Africa is a vast continent encompassing both geographic variation and tremendous cultural diversity.\n\nAbout Art and Religion in Africa. Africa's religious and artistic traditions constitute a primary example of its intellectual and cultural vitality.\n\nInterest in the arts of Africa has flourished, and many modern Western artists have rediscovered the enduring qualities of African art.\n\n\"African Religions and Philosophy\" is a systematic study of the attitudes of mind and belief that have evolved in the many societies of Africa. In this second edition, Dr Mbiti has updated his material to include the involvement of women in religion, and the potential unity to be found in what was once thought to be a mass of quite separate /5.\n\nRevelation Through Reason: Reason in the Light of Science and Philosophy (In this book drawn from the Terry Lectures at Yale, a South African Professor of PHilosophy attempts once and for all to dispose of the putative conflict between religion and scientific thinking.).\n\nTarcher / Putnam, An excellent description of the relationship of the Dagara People (West Africa) with This World and the Other World and a thorough comparison with Dagara culture and Western culture. Tempels, P., Bantu Philosophy.\n\nPresence Africaine, A. African Traditional Religion by Parrinder, Geoffrey and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at The traditional African religions (or traditional beliefs and practices of African people) are a set of highly diverse beliefs that includes various ethnic religions.\n\nGenerally, these traditions are oral rather than scriptural, include belief in an amount of higher and lower gods, sometimes including a supreme creator, belief in spirits, veneration of the dead, use of magic and traditional.\n\nThe spirit of art, no less than of religion, can help us to triumph over the evils of life. There are three ways of treating evil successfully: the practical way, to overcome it and destroy it; the religious way, by faith to deny its existence; the aesthetic way, to rebuild it in the imagination.Religion: Africa.\n\nThe modern academic study of indigenous African religions began with the publication of ethnographic, missionary, and travel monographs by Leo Frobenius, R.\n\nAksum’s geographic location, at the southernmost edge of the Hellenized Near East, was critical to its conversion and development. The kingdom was located along major international trade routes through the Red Sea between India and the Roman empire." ]

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[ null, "Scott Lund, an investigative writer and documentary producer, has found Leonardo da Vinci's inspiration for the Mona Lisa in a book by medieval Islamic scholar Avicenna. According to Lund, Leonardo painted his masterpiece based on the writings of Avicenna, who stated that the \"soul gives birth to soul as body to body.\"In his upcoming book and film, the “Mona Lisa Code,” Lund shows that Leonardo gave life to Avicenna's tenet by painting the Mona Lisa. “Leonardo's iconic portrait is his profound vision of a divine soul being shared between a mother and her unborn male child,” he says.“Avicenna's treatise on the soul, 'De Anima', was a popular must read for scholars during the Italian Renaissance. Leonardo apparently borrowed the Latin word Anima from the title of Avicenna's book in order to conceive the anagram ANIMA SOL as a secret code for the name Mona Lisa. It is also from Avicenna's book that Leonardo likely got the idea for painting the 'two faces of the soul',” says Lund.The hidden metaphor of the Mona Lisa is identified by Lund as the Roman god Janus, who was commonly represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. By using Janus as a clever theme to portray the duality of the soul, Leonardo was able to incorporate the doctrine of the \"two faces of the soul\" from Avicenna's book into the Mona Lisa.Anima means \"soul\" in Latin, and the Latin name Sol refers to the Sun-god otherwise known as Janus. Leonardo wrote that the vital force of the soul descended from the sun, which justified his use of the pagan god Janus to depict the Mona Lisa's dual soul, according to Lund.“The secret name 'Anima Sol' is an ingenious construction by Leonardo to succinctly express his symbolism in the Mona Lisa,” says Lund. “It expresses Avicenna's belief in the duality of the soul, and it expresses Leonardo's belief in the role of the sun in making all souls possible.”Scott Lund has announced that on Saturday, September 10th, 2011, he will reveal additional findings about the Mona Lisa to the public and international news media in Rome. “It will change everything previously assumed about Leonardo's masterpiece, and nothing will ever be the same again,” says Lund.Scott Lund is an investigative writer who is producing a documentary about new discoveries concerning the Mona Lisa.POB 3021 Laguna Hills, CA 92654\n\n09-19-2011 | Arts & Culture\nMona Lisa Code\nDA VINCI'S ULTIMATE JEST\nMona Lisa Illusion is Seen Through the 'Eyes' of Two-Faced Janus, Says Mystery Solver Scott Lund Los Angeles, CA - Sept. 16, 2011 The greatest secret in art history was declared by Scott Lund in Rome on the date 9/10/11. It was revealed to be an ingenious optical trick that Leonardo da Vinci used to transform the viewer of the Mona Lisa into the pagan Sun god Janus who looks in opposite\n09-05-2011 | Arts & Culture\nMona Lisa Code\nSept. 10 Presentation in Rome to Finally Solve Mona Lisa Mystery\nThe most conclusive evidence of a secret code hidden in the Mona Lisa will be revealed on September 10 at 3 p.m. in the public square near the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine in Rome. At that time Los Angeles mystery solver Scott Lund will lead a large gathering of people and international news media from the square to the actual place where Leonardo da Vinci envisioned history's most" ]

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[ "A remake of the 1960 movie of the same name, the next Ocean’s Eleven will feature an all-female cast including Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter and Mindy Kaling. While Bullock is said to play Dany Ocean’s sister, Cate Blanchett would play her main sidekick, portrayed by Brad Pitt in the last version of the film. Stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Elizabeth Banks are also rumored to have a part in the movie.", null, "Coming in late 2017 or early 2018, the reboot will feature Sandra Bullock as the lead role.\n\nHunger Games director Gary Ross is going to direct the movie, teaming up with Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney, who played the famous character in the previous trilogy.\n\nAs for the plot of the movie, the group would be tasked to steal a necklace from the Met Gala, a yearly fundraiser hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, so they can frame a villainous gallery owner.\n\nThere are still a few roles to fill, and actresses like Paula Patton or Lupita Nyong’o could perfectly fit in this remake.\n\nWith the Ghostbuster reboot coming out in a few days, it seems that all-female cast is the new way Hollywood has found to proclaim the importance of women in today’s society. Furthermore, movies and TV shows like Supergirl and Wonder Woman are the proof that strong female lead characters are now popular.\n\nEven though the cast is mostly all females, George Clooney, who will work behind the camera, is likely to make an appearance in the movie, maybe in this first installment of the trilogy or not.\n\nWith actors like Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin having played in a different version of Ocean’s Eleven, we can only wish good luck to this new cast.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "2016 NR 2h 1m DVD\nQuite by accident, a film director arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, he stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk. And together, they go to her workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi and Soju. More conversation follow, and drinks, and then an awkward get-together with friends where all sorts of secrets are revealed. All the while, they may or may not be falling for each other. Then, quite unexpectedly, we begin again, but now things appear somewhat different. RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN is a deliciously intricate comedy of manners from a master filmmaker" ]

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[ null, "ITPC-MENA has released a comparative study of intellectual property provisions in Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt. The study was undertaken to assess intellectual property provisions in different bodies of laws (patent laws, pharmaceutical regulations, decrees on pharmaceutical products, free trade agreements, etc) that have an impact on access to medicines in the three countries.\n\nOver the past few years, intellectual property provisions are becoming more numerous and complex, and are having a major impact on access to medicines. The monopoly granted by a patent prevents competition from generic manufacturers and is often responsible for high prices. Policy makers, public health experts and NGOs involved in access to medicines need to be able to understand where provisions exist, and their impact.\n\nThe study has described, analyzed, and assigned a score to each provision. The researcher has assigned each score based on their assessment of its impact on either blocking or facilitating access to medicines. The scores are a subjective assessment and not meant to provide a strict ranking for each country; however, they do offer an indication, and allow comparisons between countries.\n\nThe provisions considered include:\n\nThe provisions that facilitate access to medicines, or, on the contrary, prevent access were identified in the three countries. The results are presented in tables in order to compare the patent landscape of each country. It is a resource to help people understand and improve the legal framework related to medicines in their respective countries.\n\nThe intention is for the methodology to be used by policy-makers, public health experts and NGOs to assess the IP landscape in their country while also comparing their national legislation to others in the region." ]

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[ "Ashely Darby of The Real Housewives Of Potomac fame revealed Tuesday that she was expecting her second child with her husband Michael Darby.\n\nThe 32-year-old reality star shared the happy news on Instagram with a video of her 14-month-old son Dean giving revealing that he would have a new sibling soon.\n\nThe news of their growing family comes following years of scandal involving Michael, 59, and recent claims that he may be carrying on a relationship with a secret boyfriend.", null, "Congrats! Ashley Darby, 32, revealed Tuesday on Instagram that she and her husband Michael Darby, 59, were expecting their second child; pictured together in 2018 in Baltimore\n\nThe clip then zoomed in on a still photo of little Dean looking as if he was caught off guard while sporting a white graphic T-shirt with ‘I’m Gonna Be A BIG Brother’ written across the chest.\n\nIn her caption, Ashley wrote, ‘There’s no hiding this big belly anymore! We are elated to share our news with you! To say we are thankful is an absolute understatement.’", null, "Cute: Ashley shared a clip featuring a still photo of their 14-month-old son Dean with a shirt reading, ‘I’m Gonna Be A BIG Brother’", null, "Coming soon: Black text announced the baby was due February next year. ‘There’s no hiding this big belly anymore! We are elated to share our news with you!’ she captioned it\n\nIn her Instagram Stories, the TV fixture also included a video of Dean adorably babbling about his new brother while sitting in a chair near a window.\n\n‘Dean! Are you excited to be a big brother?’ she asked, before he made an approving noise and beamed widely.\n\n‘You’re gonna be the best big brother ever,’ Ashley continued.\n\nShe and her husband Michael welcomed the to on July 7 of last year.", null, "Sweet: In her Instagram Stories, the TV fixture also included a video of Dean adorably babbling about his new brother while sitting in a chair near a window", null, "He’s excited: ‘Dean! Are you excited to be a big brother?’ she asked, before he made an approving noise and beamed widely\n\nIn August, Ashley hinted to E! News that she was looking forward to having a second baby.\n\n‘Oh my gosh, I’m yearning to have more children. I would say that if I could I would have a Darby dozen and have a whole football team of kids, just a slew of them running around,’ she said.\n\nIn the same interview, she also divulged that Michael ‘made it clear that he would be willing to have one more child.’\n\nShortly after she shared her pregnancy announcement, her RHOP costar Monique Samuels commented with, ‘Congratulations!!!!!’", null, "Infidelity rumors: The baby news followed allegations from her costar Candiace Dillard that Michael was seen in a strip club and claimed to have a boyfriend and a wife; shown in June 2019 while pregnant with Dean", null, "More to come: ‘I took it with a grain of salt… and then it unfolds and boy, does it unfold,’ Ashley said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight from Sunday\n\nMost recently, Ashley’s costar Candiace Dillard claimed that a friend texted her that Michael was out at a strip club.\n\n‘My girl is a bartender at the strip club and I came to see her. He was there with several strippers. He was talking about how he has a boyfriend and a wife. … He was asking who he could take to a hotel nearby,’ Candiace read off from her phone.\n\nIn an interview from Sunday with Entertainment Tonight, Ashley obliquely addressed the allegations.\n\n‘Obviously, Candiace and I have had our share of differences in the past, so I wasn’t really keen on believing her from the beginning, because Candiace has said a lot of things that weren’t true,’ Ashley began.\n\nAshley went on to admit that Michael made a ‘pretty significant’ mistake, though she wouldn’t say just what yet, but viewers will see the confrontation on an upcoming episode.", null, "More misconduct: Previously, Michael was accused of groping a male cameraman on RHOP, though charges were dropped due to a lack of evidence\n\nPreviously, a cameraman on their reality series publicly claimed in 2018 that Michael had groped him during filming.\n\nCharges of felony assault and misdemeanor improper sexual conduct were filed against him but later dropped due to a lack of evidence.\n\n‘When I got the news, I just froze,’ Ashley said on RHOP while delving into the matter. ‘It was not real that something like this was happening to my husband and I. My heart was racing, I was getting light headed. Like, this just can’t be my reality.’\n\nLast year, Michael was alleged to have made a sexual comment about one of Housewives’ husbands.\n\n‘After the night died down, Michael walked past us and said, “Yeah, I would suck his d**k,”‘ Robyn Dixon told Ashley on the show. ‘You were there. You all were walking past us.’\n\nDespite one of her fellow Housewives claiming Michael said it, Ashley adamantly denied he’d made the comment.", null, "Inappropriate comment: Last year, he was alleged to have said he would like to fellate one of the Housewives’ husbands" ]

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[ null, "It’s no accident that college degrees are compared to investments. Choosing between Notre Dame or Duke is no different than deciding whether to bet your money on Pfizer or Apple. Your choice of school and major will determine your initial shares and purchase price. Ultimately, it is how you apply what you learn that governs your returns.\n\nBased on recent survey results from Greenwood Hall, an online education management solutions provider, many wonder if students should forego investing in higher education altogether. Over 55% of college graduates polled expected degrees to yield a lower return than they would have received 10 to 15 years earlier.\n\nThe survey, conducted by Nielsen in January, polled over 2,000 respondents (with 900 being college graduates according to Bloomberg Businessweek). Greenwood Hall also weighted the results “for age, sex, geographic region, education, and race . . . to align them with their actual proportions in the population.”\n\nOLDER AND WEALTHIER GRADS ARE MOST CYNICAL\n\nThe oldest graduates were the most pessimistic. Among 45- to 54-year-old college graduates, 59% believed recent graduates would earn a lower return. And 57% of graduates who were 55 or older agreed. Those aged 18 to 34 weren’t far behind at 56%, with the 35- 44-year-old segment being the most optimistic at 47%.\n\nWealthier grads harbored similar sentiments. Among grads earning $100,000 or more, only 12% expected new grads to see a higher return from their degree than they did. Twice the percentage of people making $75,000 to $100,000 had that optimistic expectation. Even more, nearly two-thirds of the highest earners believed a college degree had lost its value.\n\nHowever, there was an uptick in optimism among minority populations, with 33% of Hispanic and 29% of African-American graduates believing that new grads will get a higher return on their degree.\n\nNot surprisingly, 80% of respondents cited debt as the top reason why recent grads would net a lower return than grads from 10 to 15 years ago. However, lower salaries (75%) finished a close second, followed by poor career placement resources (44%) and school disengagement from students (41%).\n\nIS THIS A ‘PERCEPTION’ ISSUE?\n\nJohn Hall, CEO of Greenwood Hall, attributes some of these results to poor messaging. “What this survey suggests,” he writes in a press release, “is that schools need to maximize their perceived value. One powerful way of accomplishing this is by enhancing student engagement and the overall student experience throughout the student lifecycle.\n\n“We feel that supporting students every step of the way, especially those at risk, during the enrollment process, student services/financial aid inquiries, on-going counseling as well as career placement, is a comprehensive approach that can significantly enhance a school’s real and perceived value.”\n\nThat’s one take. In the wake of the financial meltdown, where household net worth fell by nearly 40% from 2007 to 2010, it’s hardly a shock that older respondents, who bore the brunt of the recession, would view a college degree as a questionable investment. However, recent data doesn’t necessarily follow survey sentiment, particularly for business students.\n\nLet’s start with a November 2014 study from the National Association of Colleges and Universities, which found that nearly 75% of companies surveyed globally intended to hire business-related majors. In fact, business schools produced six of the ten most in-demand majors. In other words, business grads have a great opportunity to get their feet in the door in 2015.\n\nOnce they do, they can make a bundle of money over their careers. Take the financial modeling performed by PayScale, which annually calculates return on investment for various undergraduate business programs. Here, for example, out-of-state business majors at the University of California at Berkeley project to a 20-year net ROI of $1,070,000, with a 10.6% annual return on their degree (with the top 25 undergrad business programs expected to yield a return of $660,000 or more). Often, undergraduate business majors earned the highest starting salaries at several schools, including the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Michigan (where grads made $62,000 to $67,000, on average, to start)." ]

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[ null, "The campus at LIU Post is filled with trees, bushes, and other vegetation that improves its outer appeal. The professors are some of the most accredited professionals in their field of study. This is all appealing to prospective students and even some of those who attend the university, but how is the inside of the campus? What goes into making Post so appealing?\n\nThe major source of income for the university is, of course, tuition. As of now, Post’s undergraduate tuition is at the steep price of approximately $33,000 per year for commuters. The cost rises by the thousands for those who dorm. According to the Admissions Office, tuition typically increases one to two percent every year. The cost of higher education is out of control and it is possible that years from now college degrees will become an unobtainable accomplishment.\n\nHigher education comes with high costs, which could be understood in a capitalist society. If Post’s tuition increases one to two percent each year, Post’s 100th anniversary in 39 years will almost double the current tuition. It is hard to see how many people will be able to afford to come to such a well-known school on Long Island. Of course there are scholarship opportunities to be had. Some scholarships are worth a couple hundred dollars whereas others are a couple thousand. According to LIU’s website, the average amount given for individual scholarships is approximately $17,000.\n\nThis may not seem like a big deal for those who have their tuition paid by wealthy family members, but for those who have taken out loans by the thousands to get them through school, this is a huge deal. Most people who go to college are doing so to earn a degree in a specific field to go further in life. The cost of colleges, and especially universities, are making students who find education valuable to put off schooling. The student loan debt from Post can set people back years into their post- graduate lives because of nearly $100,000+ worth of debt.\n\n“I am not naïve,” said junior Broadcasting major Kaitlin Veygel. “I know that I picked an expensive school to earn my degree at. I just didn’t think of how much more expensive it could get.”\n\nTuition does not even include the amount of money students spend annually on books. At the bookstore on campus, the books needed for courses can range from $9 to more than $180. A full time student taking 15 credits per semester can easily spend approximately $1,000 per year.\n\n“I pay for school myself,” said Leah Fischman, a sophomore Criminal Justice major. “I also do not live at home, so I have rent to pay on top of tuition and books and occasionally food on campus when I have a long day.” For those who already live in the adult world, with bills to pay as well as tuition, universities are making it harder for people to further educate themselves and move up in life." ]

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[ null, "(Bauer Griffin)\nFollowing in her parents' footsteps, Willow Smith has signed up with Jay-Z's Roc Nation label to be the third rockstar in the family. The nine-year-old star-in-the-making has an Internet hit on her hands with \"Whip My Hair,\" and the biggest name in hip-hop noticed.\n\n\"We at Roc Nation are excited to work with Willow,\" Jay-Z said in a statement. \"She has an energy and enthusiasm about her music that is truly infectious. It's rare to find an artist with such innate talent and creativity at such a young age. Willow is about to embark on an incredible journey and we look forward to joining her as she grows in all aspects of her career.\"\n\nJJ Duncan\nI write about movies for Zimbio.com, which means I spend way too much time thinking about the geekiest possible ways to approach the cineplex. I'm also hopelessly addicted to audio books. Follow me: Google\nPREV NEXT\nWillow Smith Pictures and Style\nRelated People\nComments\nFeatured Stories" ]

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[ "About 10 years ago, multi-talented comedian, TV host, and MC Kelvin Mwangi became a household brand under the stage name of Shaniqwa.\n\nThis was occasioned by a role on a comedy show called Jameni which required him to cross-dress and play the role of a slay queen.\n\nIt started when fellow comedian JB Masanduku called him for a gig where he was to mimic President Uhuru Kenyatta, but he was not good enough and was told he has no talent.\n\nLuckily for him, they changed the producer who introduced a scene of a slay queen, but then the lady who was to play that scene didn't show up.", null, "\"I decided to take up the role. I was told that if I did it they would give me a contract. Within 30 mins I was already getting my makeup done, and I owned the character so well and entertained the set a good one,\" said Shaniqwa.\n\nThe actor who was dating Naomi Jemutai at the time grew in love, fame, and money and was known for her slogan 'ntakumurder.'\n\nLife as we know it, however, threw curveballs and the much-loved comedian and all the glamour and glitz faded away, taking him on a downward trajectory he's slowly pulling out of.\n\nAs he continues to rebuild himself out of the doldrums, the young man had a chat with radio host Jeff Kuria whom he opened up to about his darkest period.", null, "He revealed that he went to media school and studied journalism, after which he landed the role of an extra cast at a local TV station, something that opened his doors into the world of acting.\n\nIt was not long before he got his elusive big break and found himself at the top, with a celebrity status he'd never envisioned before.\n\n\"After several episodes, I thought I'd made it and got to a comfort zone. I was fired not long after and things got tight,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the job loss affected not only his finances but also his love life as his wife wasn’t there for him and their child.\n\nAccording to him, things became so bad that agents began to auction his household items.", null, "The couple started arguing a lot, after which she left and went to live with her new lover in Ruiru.\n\nShaniqwa started living alone, a period within which he was stressed and lost weight, throwing him into a state of depression that he tried to suppress by drinking.\n\n\"I was assisted by some of my friends among them Jalang'o and Desagu. Jalango paid my rent. I teamed up with Desagu and bounced back on YouTube,\" he expressed.\n\nShaniqwa noted that at that point in time, things were so bad that he nearly gave up on life but having a son he loves to bits made him hang on longer.\n\nThe 31-year-old is on his path to recovery complete with lessons, experiences, and hope that he will soon find his groove back and hit the heights he rose to in the decade gone by.\n\n7 million in 'desperate need' after Bangladesh floods\n10 hours ago\nWho is John Miller? Background and Jennifer Garner relationship\n12 hours ago\nWilliam Ruto Wonders Why Gov't He Serves in Imports Hospital Water: \"It's Time to Scale Up Manufacturing\"\n18 hours ago\nAt least 16 killed in missile strike on crowded Ukrainian mall\n22 hours ago\nCreepy Video of Creature Moving in Kitchen at Night Leaves Many Stunned, Cat's Reaction Goes Viral\n5 hours ago" ]

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[ null, "The Road to the World Juniors pre-tournament schedule is being amended due to the \"changing epidemiological situation\" surrounding the Omicron variant of COVID-19.\n\nTicket sales for the tournament taking place before the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship have been paused, organizers said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nScott Smith, president and COO of Hockey Canada, said that discussion between Hockey Canada, the International Ice Hockey Federation and Alberta Health prompted the restructuring to a reduced schedule to ensure the health and safety of all participants.\n\n“Although this was a difficult decision that was made with careful consideration, we understand this is challenging for players, coaching and support staff, and fans,\" Smith added.\n\n\"However, it is our goal to host a safe and successful event, and we will continue to take every precaution necessary to achieve that goal and distribute medals on Jan. 5.”\n\nEleven games were originally scheduled for the pre-tournament, with each team playing a minimum of two games before championship play is scheduled to start on Boxing Day.\n\nAccording to Hockey Canada, ticket holders for pre-tournament matches will receive updated information about ticketing options once the new reduced schedule is released.\n\nNo other details were available from Hockey Canada. A finalized schedule is expected to be announced \"in the coming days.\"\n\nAs of Friday, there were no plans to limit spectators at the world junior men's hockey championship with games in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alta.\n\nLast year, the championship for the best hockey players under 20 was hosted in Edmonton without fans due to the pandemic.\n\nOn Friday, 90 per cent of tickets for the tournament proper were sold, Hockey Canada said.\n\nTeams arrived in Canada earlier this week and started their quarantines, in addition to producing two negative tests before arriving in Canada and continuing to test negative every day since their arrival.\n\nPre-tournament play was to start Sunday, with two games, including Canada versus Switzerland in Red Deer." ]

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[ "FIRST DRIVE | The 2021 Toyota GR Yaris is worth every cent", null, "The power-to-weight ratio of the GR Yaris allows for a 0-100km/h sprint in 5.5 seconds and a top speed of 230km/h.\nImage: Supplied\n\nIs the new Toyota GR Yaris Rally worth its R715,600 price tag? Many say you would have to be mad to spend that kind of money on a Yaris. I’m here to tell you that it is the best car the Japanese marque has produced in decades.\n\nThe GR Yaris is a completely bespoke in-house Gazoo Racing product – that’s Toyota’s racing department and the name behind the acronym. This means that the engineering wizards at one of the world’s most successful motorsport outfits were given the task to build a homologation special for the road, of the vehicle that is campaigned in the World Rally Championship (WRC). The result is extraordinary to say the least – especially in the times we find ourselves in, where everyone is prioritising electric and hybrid vehicles, with internal combustion performance being relegated to yesterday.", null, "What the engineers have managed to develop is the world’s most powerful production three-cylinder engine ever. The turbocharged, 1.6-litre unit produces an astounding 198kW and 360Nm. Take into consideration that the GR Yaris only weighs 1,280kg, thanks to lightweight body panels and a carbon fibre roof. The power-to-weight ratio allows a 0-100km/h sprint in 5.5 seconds with a top speed of 230km/h.\n\nThe 18-inch alloy wheels, wide track and flared wheel arches, along with the sleek, lowered roofline gives a distinct, aggressive appearance. The interior is pretty much standard Yaris fare, save for the bucket seats and aluminium pedals. There are some GR plaques as a subtle reminder that you are in something special.\n\nThe standard six-speed manual transmission is a purist’s delight, with a solid, mechanical engagement and short, direct action. The newly developed GR-Four all-wheel drive system is there to make sure the power gets put down to the tarmac, or dirt, as efficiently as possible. And boy, does it do so! It’s not since the original Celica GT-Four that Toyota have implemented their own all-wheel drive system in a car, and that car won four drivers’ and two constructors’ World Rally Championships between 1990 and 1994!", null, "I drove the GR Yaris on Benoni’s Formula K karting track and Red Star Raceway’s short circuit in Mpumalanga, during the launch, to put all the fancy acronyms and marketing lingo into practice.\n\nI expected it to be good, but the first time you attack a corner in anger, you realise that the GR Yaris is nothing short of spectacular. The nose turns in so precisely, so easily. Corner after corner. Whatever the speed. There is just so much grip. The suspension is stiff, but communicates well. Setting the AWD system to Sport mode gives a 30:70 front to rear split, and provides the most entertaining and engaging driving. Track mode offers a perfect 50:50 split and Normal mode is 60:40.\n\nThe brakes are massive for a car this small – 356mm discs up front are clamped with four-pot calipers, while the rear has 294mm discs. This translates into immense braking power. The brake pedal feel is just perfect as well. Firm and direct, with no fade despite plenty of laps.", null, "Interior is standard Yaris fare, save for the bucket seats and aluminium pedals.\nImage: Supplied\n\nAs you gets on the power, way earlier than in almost any other car, you can feel the mechanical limited slip differentials working to catapult the car out of the corner as quickly as possible, and exactly where you're aiming with the steering wheel. The engine is almost always in the power, and even when you drop out of boost on the odd occasion, the three-cylinder has impressive torque to pull you through. The gearing is quite short, and absolutely perfectly suited to the engine’s characteristics. It just makes you want to keep the revs up!\n\nThis is not a car for everyone. It’s a car that shows what modern technology is capable of when adopting old-school principles without cost-cutting measures. You could use it as a daily drive, as it is very adept and civilised on the road, but it comes alive on the racetrack. It is capable of evoking real joy, real passion. It’s a homage to pure driving enjoyment for real drivers, and for that it’s worth a lot more than the asking price.\n\nThomas Falkiner swaps his laptop for some time in the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach 1 – a focussed piece of Americana that turns out to offer a lot more ...\nMotoring\n2 weeks ago\n\nClassy-looking aluminium speaker grilles get your attention as you climb aboard the new Haval H6. Where have we seen these before? Ah yes, the ...\nMotoring\n3 weeks ago\n\nREVIEW | 2021 Land Rover Discovery seems neither here nor there\n\nWe were lucky enough to report on the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2019. Among the highlights was the reveal of Land Rover’s reinvented Defender. It was a ...\nMotoring\n3 weeks ago" ]

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[ "More than 7,000 Iraqis have fled Fallujah in recent days through a safe corridor set up by Iraqi forces, who are working on opening a second protected route, a UN official said Monday.\n\nUN deputy representative to Iraq Lise Grande told reporters that camps set up outside Fallujah to provide shelter are now full and conditions in the city worse than anticipated.\n\n\"The people coming out of Fallujah lost everything,\" she said. \"They are running with absolutely nothing.\"", null, "Members of the Iraqi government forces help people reach a military point as they flee the violence in their village of Saqlawiyah, north west of Fallujah, on June 3, 2016 ©Ahmad al-Rubaye (AFP/File)\n\nThere was \"widespread food deprivation\" in the city, which the Islamic State group has held since January 2014, she added.\n\nIraqi forces launched an offensive to retake Fallujah on May 22-23, but the operation has raised alarm about the safety of tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the city.\n\nThe safe corridor enables civilians to move out of southwest Fallujah while Iraqi forces and tribal fighters set up a second route.\n\nGrande said she did not know when the second safe corridor would be opened.\n\nWith some eight newly built camps now full, UN agencies are working to build new facilities, along with mobile clinics, and providing the displaced with drinking water and food, Grande said.\n\nThe envoy deplored the lack of international funding for the effort, saying some $60 million is needed to help the families fleeing Fallujah \"and that's 60 million that we don't have right now.\"\n\nThe IS group has been using civilians as human shields in the center of the city and some Iraqis have come under fire during their escape.\n\n\"This is the time to stand up in solidarity with the people terrorized by ISIL,\" Grande said." ]

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[ "I don’t think it’s a far cry if I say that Zouk is a household name for most Singaporeans, though our original association with the name and its vibrant nightlife remains put on pause for the foreseeable future. The lifestyle and entertainment brand has expanded its portfolio in the F&B sector to include two new Japanese dining concepts—an omakase restaurant, Sushi Ichizuke, and Here Kitty Kitty, a speakeasy bar reminiscent of a Japanese vice den from the 1950s.", null, "Sushi Ichizuke’s Head Chef Ryoichi Nakatani specialises in Edomae Sushi, a traditional Tokyo-style method of curing fish whilst retaining its raw texture. It’s a promised gastronomic experience with only the freshest of ingredients imported directly from Toyosu Fish Market—every mouthful is better than the last, and that’s a promise.", null, null, "One of Chef Nakatani’s notable dishes is the Ichizuke Don, a bowl featuring a plethora of fresh seafood. Expect a medley of creamy uni, yellow tobiko, ikura, Hokkaido hairy crab, and caviar—the lashings of umami flavours come unyielding and relentlessly in the best possible way.", null, "The Sashimi will be both a sight and taste to behold. Thickly cut slices of kinmedi lightly charred with charcoal will promise an exceptional smokiness that envelops the sashimi without being overbearing. Despite not being nearly as fatty as otoro, the chutoro will melt in your mouth in a wondrous show of smoothness and is juxtaposed lightly with the light grainy texture of caviar.\n\nThis dynamic duo is paired with Mimurosugi Karakuchi Tsuyuhakaze, a dry ­sake that unfolds in a rich aroma of sweet aftertastes to compliment and contrast the savouriness of sashimi.", null, "My personal favourite from Sushi Ichizuke remains the Cooked Dish, a thick nori broth topped with tachiuo tempura and uni. Despite being served in the broth, the tachiuo tempura retained a mild crispiness—its texture diminished slightly to make way for an enhanced savoury and creamy flavour profile both memorable yet with a fleeting lightness. It makes you wish there were more, even if you haven’t finished what’s on your plate.\n\nPaired with this gastronomic miracle of a broth is the Hakugakusen Nurekarasu, also a dry sake similar to the Mimurosugi Karakuchi Tsuyuhakaze, though this one boasts of an unforgettable robust fruitiness.", null, "Whilst Sushi Ichizuke boasts of a minimalist, zen interior, Here Kitty Kitty goes all out on the opposite end of the spectrum. Designed to transport diners back into the 1950s, Here Kitty Kitty is a lushly decorated speakeasy not unlike a Japanese vice den. The maximalist interior boasts dark accents to recreate the vivacious past of illicit courtesan-ship at the Golden Gai, where guests can sip on curated cocktails and soak in the atmosphere with a drink in hand.", null, "The star of the show at Here Kitty Kitty is acclaimed Head Mixologist Alastair Tan—specialising in mixing classic Ginza cocktail techniques with a blend of local and European-style hospitality.\n\nStart off light with Here Kitty Kitty’s Golden Hour (S$22++), which tastes just like the fluttery feeling that its namesake creates when taking pictures. This cocktail boasts of Havana Club 3 Rum, and is combined with earthy notes of hōjicha. The clarified milk it’s mixed with produces a refreshing smoothness, allowing you to savour the cocktail in its multidimensional complexity. Golden hour, indeed.", null, "The Okinawan Summer (S$24++) delivers a stronger flavour in comparison to the Golden Hour, a headier concoction of Don Julio Blanco Tequila, lemongrass, and Okinawan Sea Grapes. The pineapple adds a citrusy edge, truly encapsulating the heat of a glorious summer afternoon by the sea, in liquid form.", null, "My ‘Best for Last’ gold star goes to Here Kitty Kitty’s Haku-Hai (S$24++), a refreshingly light elixir of Haku Vodka, Calpis, matcha, and lemon. Matcha might seem like an unorthodox ingredient to add to a cocktail, but it gives the drink a grounded, earthy flavour that’ll transport you right into one of Claude Monet’s impressionist masterpieces. Coupled with the lemon’s bright zing, this cocktail was truly a work of art.", null, "Both Sushi Ichizuke and Here Kitty Kitty do stray from the spirited nightlife that Zouk is normally associated with, but I have absolutely no complaints. It’s a gastronomic journey of bottled memories and flavour explosions that I wouldn’t mind shelling out a pretty penny on—every bite and sip will transport you back to the clear summery skies and vibrant life of Japan, without having to leave our own sunny island.\n\nPrevious articleXcelyn @ The Patio: “They’ve got it all — even for the most picky eater”\nNext article‘Tapau Please’ by SethLui.com: Epi #052 — Our podcast editor’s thoughts on the current 2-pax dining restrictions", null ]

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[ null, "Radical Islam could be weakened by deploying the moral force of liberal democracy and equality.\n\nAmerica's war on terror was launched when the heroes of United Flight 93 rushed the hijackers over Shanksville, Pa., aborting what would have been al-Qaeda's fourth 9/11 attack. In the decade that began on that terrible day, the goal of disrupting and crushing the Islamist terror network has been pursued with remarkable versatility: The United States has fought this conflict with military, diplomatic, and financial weapons; it has relied on aggressive intelligence-gathering and sensitive counterinsurgency; it has reshaped airline security and rewritten civil-liberties law. Jihadists have been killed with Predator drones abroad, detained as enemy combatants at Guantanamo, and thwarted in undercover stings at home.\n\nYet in the long run it may turn out that more significant than any of these was the war of ideas that followed 9/11.\n\nAlmost from the outset, President George W. Bush recognized that the United States was engaged in an ideological struggle. During the Cold War two decades earlier, Ronald Reagan had argued that the promotion of freedom should be a key priority in American foreign policy. By advancing the ideals of liberty and human dignity, Reagan told the British Parliament in 1982, America and its allies would undermine the Soviet Union and eventually relegate Communist totalitarianism to \"the ash-heap of history.\" In much the same way, Bush saw, radical Islam could be weakened by deploying the moral force of liberal democracy and equality.\n\nJust nine days after 9/11, addressing a joint session of Congress, Bush began to lay out an ideological strategy for defeating the jihadist threat.\n\n\"Al Qaeda is to terror what the mafia is to crime, but its goal is not making money,\" Bush said. \"Its goal is remaking the world -- and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere.\" Terrorism was not caused by the religion of Islam but by the Islamists' political fanaticism. \"They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions -- by abandoning every value except the will to power -- they follow in the path of fascism and Nazism and totalitarianism.\"\n\nThe only way to prevent al-Qaeda and its allies from imposing an \"age of terror\" was for America to sustain an \"age of liberty, here and across the world.\"\n\nThe war on terror, Bush accurately foretold, would be a long struggle fought on many fronts. But ultimately the only way to prevent al-Qaeda and its allies from imposing an \"age of terror\" was for America to sustain an \"age of liberty, here and across the world.\" While Bush would get plenty of things wrong after 9/11, this ideological insight -- that the root of Islamist terrorism was the lack of freedom in the Middle East -- was one of the big things he got right.\n\nThere were plenty who didn't. Many voices insisted that terrorism was fueled by poverty or lack of education. Other analysts rushed to explain 9/11 as the fruit of US \"arrogance,\" or as a reaction to Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In reality, as Princeton economist Alan Krueger demonstrated in a 2007 book, What Makes A Terrorist?, the best predictors of terrorism are \"the suppression of civil liberties and political rights, including freedom of the press, the freedom to assemble, and democratic rights.\"\n\nBush's campaign to democratize the Middle East -- what came to be known as the \"freedom agenda\" -- was rooted in the conviction that the way to break the back of jihadist hatred was to drain the swamps in which it breeds: the dictatorships and theocracies of the Muslim Middle East. \"Terrorists thrive on the support of tyrants and the resentments of oppressed peoples,\" he said in 2003. \"When tyrants fall, and resentment gives way to hope, men and women in every culture reject the ideologies of terror, and turn to the pursuits of peace.\"\n\nFor decades, foreign-policy \"realists\" argued that stability in the Arab world was more important than liberty, and so it was better to tolerate oppressive regimes than to risk the upheaval that democratic change might bring. That was the roadmap that led to 9/11.\n\nToday, 10 years after 9/11, the region is more unstable than it has been in generations. Iraq's dictator is dead, Libya's is on the run, and demands for freedom and democratic reform have shaken regimes from Tunisia to Syria to Iran. Yet who wouldn't prefer today's churn and ferment to the illusory stability of 2001?\n\nNo, Islamist terror hasn't been eradicated. Liberal Muslim democracy has a long way to go. But we have engaged the struggle of ideas. And as we fight not just the terrorists, but the poisoned ideas that motivate them, we are slowly winning the war that began on 9/11.\n\nThis article original appeared in The Boston Globe.\n\nYom Kippur & the Power of Granting Forgiveness\nThe Blue Beyond\nGreat Place to Live\nIs Eating Supposed To Be Spiritual?\nComments\nMOST POPULAR IN Current Issues\nOur privacy policy" ]

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[ null, "The stage was the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and Katie Ledecky was at her finest. A gold-medal trifecta from the 200 freestyle through the 800 free enabled the American distance star to match what only Debbie Meyer (1968) had previously achieved. Each of her performances was scintillating, including a world-record effort of 3:56.46 in the 400 freestyle.\n\nOver eight laps, Ledecky obliterated the opposition. She touched the wall nearly five seconds ahead of Jazz Carlin, the silver medalist from Great Britain. More, she produced a marker that elicited a legitimate question: Other than Ledecky, is anyone realistically capable of going that fast? At the time, the answer seemed to be clear.\n\nEventually, an Aussie teenager had other plans.\n\nApart from redefining what was achievable, Ledecky’s dominance was motivating, and it has triggered one of swimming’s premier rivalries. In Ariarne Titmus, the sport has watched a youthful challenger morph into a middle-distance queen. Obviously blessed with considerable talent and a complementary work ethic, Titmus also possesses a belief that anything is attainable, and it is that mindset which propelled the Aussie to the No. 1 performance of the year among women.\n\nAt the 2019 edition of the World Championships, Titmus initiated her assault on Ledecky’s throne when she prevailed in the 400 freestyle. Although Ledecky was battling illness at the competition in South Korea, Titmus managed was previously impossible: She defeated the American. Two years later, she backed up that triumph by claiming Olympic gold in Tokyo. And this past year, she completed her puzzle with a world record.\n\nRacing in May at the Australian Championships, Titmus clipped Ledecky’s global standard with a swim of 3:56.40. The outing accounted for the only missing bullet point in Titmus’ portfolio and took down a world record that was deemed iconic at the moment of its establishment. But Titmus, with the guidance of coach Dean Boxall, has long thought she could perform at the level of 2016 Ledecky, and this mark proved the belief to be true.\n\nTitmus’ performance is being recognized as Swimming World’s selection for Female World Record of the Year.\n\n“The biggest thing that (Boxall) said to me since the Olympics is that you have this freedom now and the monkey’s off your back,” Titmus said after the race. “I have just loved swimming this last six months, going to training with no pressure, just enjoying the sport. It is underrated just how important that is.\n\n“Coming here with no pressure other than the pressure I put on myself which is still pretty high, it’s fun to come here and swim like that. I could see Dean from the side of the pool, and he has been subdued the whole week. It’s nice that he saved all his energy up for the big one. I’m absolutely cooked, but it’s all worth it.”" ]

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[ "On Thursday, large crowds gathered in Tripoli to mark the 11th anniversary of the Libyan revolution.\n\nIt was is in an easy going atmosphere with music that Libyans marked the 11th anniversary of the revolution. Inhabitants in Tripoli gathered in the Martyrs' Square, on Thursday.\n\nLarge crowds took part in the celebrations with high hopes and aspirations for their country, more than a decade after the rule of Moamer Kadhafi ended.\n\n\"I congratulate the entire Libyan people, people from all cities and villages, on the occasion of the anniversary of February 17, God willing, Libya will be better, greater, more beautiful, and more wonderful, God willing.\"\n\n\"We ask God for a year full of joy and fun, so that people will be live comfortably, and that bonds of brotherhood and honesty will unite our country.\"\n\nDespite optimism, the revolution anniversary comes when the country wretles with political divisions.\n\nPresidential elections planned for December 24 were indefinitely postponed and a commitee has yet to review the 2017 draft constitution.\n\nAmong the challenges awaiting Libya is also the end of leardership quarrels.\n\nLast week, former Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha was appointed to replace Abdul Hamid Dbeibah as head of a new interim government, when he previously said he would only hand over his position once parliamentary and presidential elections are finished. Rival militias have backed the two men.\n\nBashagha is expected to form his cabinet by the end of February.", null, null ]

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[ "Anxiety, the second level of which is known as Moderate Anxiety, using an illustration from the life of Paul. Imagine Saul on a hard ride going to Damascus, with only one thing in mind – to capture and persecute Christian believers. The Bible says, “And Saul, yet breathing out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound into Jerusalem. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou Lord? And the Lord said, I a Jesus whom thou persecutest; it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” (Acts 9:1-5, KJV)\n\nIn the above passage, Paul (then named Saul) at the start had mild anxiety, focusing his attention on just one thing with a zeal that would make him proud. But during that hard ride, his emotion changed abruptly into moderate anxiety when he encountered Jesus Christ personified as a brilliant dazzling light. Imagine him shielding his eyes from the blinding brightness, as he heard the voice speaking directly to him. Perhaps he broke out in cold sweat, his mouth turned dry, and his heart rate swiftly accelerated, causing him to pass out as he fell off his horse. The Bible says “And he trembling and astonished said Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord told him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.”(Acts 9:6, KJV)The men who were with him were astonished and stunned speechless, hearing a voice but couldn’t see anyone, then seeing the change that came over Paul.\n\nLogically, Paul had a decreased perceptual field, losing touch with his original focus; he was literally stripped, so he could learn new behavior; he could solve problems only with the help of another; he needed another person to redirect him to the task. The Bible says, “And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand and brought him to Damascus… (Acts 9:8, KJV) His whole life was turned upside-down, as spiritual blindness translated into physical blindness, and he was no longer the power-hungry, bloodthirsty Christian headhunter and persecutor. He acknowledged the Lordship of Christ, needed someone to help him up, guide him and instruct him in the Lord’s work in the person of Ananias, a disciple of Jesus Christ. (Acts 9:10-17)\n\nChristians, such was our situation at some point in our lives, and as God saw us moving at breakneck speed away from Him, he arrested us through trials and hardships. In his mercy, he sent us caring friends to pray with us and for us, and extend their hand to lead us through the tunnel of darkness into light. Many times God doesn’t move in a theatrical way as he did in the life of Paul, but the life-changing effect is the same. Yes, our mind is muddled while we’re caught up in the midst of the fiery trials and challenges, but we can still function with the help of another. Isn’t that wonderful? You don’t have to go through it alone, for he said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Deuteronomy 31:6, Hebrews 13:5, KJV)", null ]

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[ "As we progress towards a new protocol proposal, Nomadic Labs & other developers involved would like to share some recent updates with the community. Around one week ago, we launched Toynet, an open yet primarily internal test network subject to be reset anytime. Its goal was mainly to test how to release the new protocol environment, which is the set of functions that are not part of the protocol but that the protocol can call (e.g., basic operations, cryptographic primitives, storage, etc.) Upgrading the environment has never been done before and brings many challenges along with it. This new environment will provide more functions for future protocols and requires the node to be compiled with some Rust code. Toynet is public, and anyone can access it. However, it can reset at any time without prior notice. Toynet does not include sapling nor the baking accounts, but it contains standard features of future proposals. Next, we plan on launching a test network called Dalphanet. Its primary objective will be to test new features from all developers that are involved (Metastate, Ligo & Nomadic Labs). We are close to a Dalphanet launch & it will be announced in the coming days (once it's ready). We plan on discontinuing Toynet once Dalphanet is up and running. Once all features are thoroughly tested, we will launch a dedicated 007 test network similar to Carthagenet. Stay tuned & subscribe to the Nomadic Labs newsletter to stay updated: [https://lists.nomadic-labs.com/subscription/AnDEIwStd](https://lists.nomadic-labs.com/subscription/AnDEIwStd).\nGo to self.tezos\ntwitter.com\n\nIf you haven’t seen this tweet, please check it out and support Arthur", null, "Bend - Verb: shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle. - Noun: a curve, especially a sharp one, in a road, river, racecourse, or path. We are witnessing the very beginning of a…\n0\nShare", null, "If you haven’t seen this tweet, please check it out and support Arthur\n\nEthereum deserves praise for a lot of things, but not this. It is still a proof of work network and there's nothing iterative about launching a massive overall as a separate chain after years of devel...\n19\nShare" ]

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[ "Two of the most well known festivals in the Jewish calendar are Purim and Yom Kippur. One couldn’t find two festivals more opposite in their methods of commemoration. Unlike the other chagim, on Purim we feast and drink copious supplies of alcohol to the extent that our sages tell us we should drink to such […]", null, "The community were delighted to welcome The Bishop of Woolwich, Right Reverend Dr Michael Ipgrave OBE to the sabbath morning service at the invitation of our minister. He will be leaving his post shortly after being elevated to become the Bishop of Lichfield. Serving in his capacity as Chairman of the Council of Christians and […]", null, "It is rare that we have a full Synagogue but on this afternoon we had a hall filled with over 200 people including many VIPs. Amongst them was the Bishop of Woolwich Michael Ipgrave (Chairman of Council of Christians and Jews), Ministers of many other religions, MPs, Councillors and High Ranking Military Officers. Also importantly, there were several people who had never […]", null, "We are welcoming our dear friend, the Bishop of Woolwich and honouring him on his elevation to the position as the Bishop of Lichfield. Bishop Michael will join us for the Shabbat Service and then address the community. There will be a savoury kiddush following the service. All are welcome.\n\nThe annual community Seder Night was held on first night of Passover. In spite of it falling on a Shabbat which made organising difficult the seder was a great success. The food was delicious; it was prepared by our Vice Chairman Joan Goldberg and her helpers. The very musical explanation of the festival by our Minister David Rome was very […]\n\nA small but increasing number of women in our community are reciting the mourners kaddish which is something that I would like to actively encourage. The Chief Rabbi has produced a booklet which may well help those women that wish to say kaddish during a period of mourning or yahzeit. Women are as entitled as […]\n\nAs we enjoy the Jewish Festival of Light – Chanukah, we can make a comparison with another festival and learn the following lesson. The two most joyous Jewish festivals are arguably Chanukah and Purim, but there is one significant difference between the two. On Purim we are obligated to make a mishteh – a […]\n\nAs we approach the High Holydays, one of the things that often slips our mind is our remaining or even becoming a cohesive nation. We are frequently either so involved with the minutiae of the religion or not involved nearly enough, we forget how Jewish unity enabled us to overcome some of the worst forms […]", null, "Pesach otherwise known as Passover is the time when Hashem bypassed the houses of the Israelites whilst smiting those containing the Egyptian firstborns. What was so miraculous about the ten plagues? A recent documentary aired on television outlined various scientific theories regarding how and why the plagues were not necessarily miraculous. Let me indulge in […]", null, "Over the last few months there have been numerous events within the community. Simchat Torah was awesome as alcohol flowed into the deepest nooks and crannies of the synagogue edifice. The service included the reading of the law, part of which was conducted by our Chatan Bereshit , Elie Dahdi, who read the Torah with […]\n\nIt is a recognised fact that Jewish people love to argue, sometimes even if no one else is within a twenty mile radius we have been known to argue with ourselves! The Torah describes the Jewish people as ‘Am K’shei Oref hu’ – ‘A stiff necked people’. I would like to mention probably the most […]\n\nShavuot is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the giving of the Torah to the Jews. The Talmud tells us that God gave the Ten Commandments to the Jews on the sixth night of the Hebrew month of Sivan. Shavuot always falls 50 days after the second night of Passover. The 49 days in between are […]" ]

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[ "Fan Feature: Lions fans Nigel and Valerie Burt ecstatic ahead of their own Tour\n\nAlmost as soon as they retired, Nigel and Valerie Burt decided that they deserved to treat themselves – and a once in a lifetime trip to watch the British & Irish Lions was just the trick. [more]", null, "The Burts, who have been married for 43 years and live in the Northamptonshire village of Bugbrooke, will be in New Zealand to watch all three of the Lions’ Test clashes with the All Blacks – as well as the game against the Hurricanes in Wellington on June 27 – after booking their own personal Tour through Lions Supporter Tours.\n\nBoth long-time Northampton Saints fans, the Burts signed up for a Priority Access Pass to guarantee that they were among the first to secure their places on the Lions 2017 Tour, and as part of their package they will be travelling around New Zealand by motorhome.\n\n“We had friends that went to watch the World Cup (in 2011) and they said that a motorhome was the real way to make sure that you get to see everything that you want to see,” said 65-year-old Nigel.\n\n“We want to go there and really do the country justice, and being able to travel around helps us do that.\n\n“We’ve both just retired and when that happens, it’s time to do something for yourselves.\n\n“Both of us love rugby; I’ve been a Northampton Saints supporter for 35 years and I’ve dragged Valerie along for about 12 years.\n\n“We just want to embrace this opportunity.”", null, "The couple, who have two daughters – Claire, 38, and 36-year-old Sarah – won’t just be revelling in the grandeur of a Lions tour as they follow Warren Gatland’s troops to Auckland and Wellington, and mingle with other travelling fans at Lions Supporter Villages.\n\nThey may be due to arrive in Auckland two days before the first Test at Eden Park, but a trip to the Southern Hemisphere also presents the Burts with an opportunity to catch up with some family that have emigrated to the other side of the globe.\n\n“We’re flying to Sydney and staying for ten days to start with, and once the Tests are all done, we’re going to go and visit the South Island for a few weeks,” explains Valerie, 64.\n\n“It’ll be the winter there but we’re not worried about the weather because we think there will be some beautiful places to see.\n\n“Then, we’ll fly back to Australia from Christchurch and we’ll get to spend eight days in Melbourne.”\n\nNigel added: “Back in the day, you could get a £10 ticket to go out to Australia, and I have two cousins that did that and now live there.”", null, "The Burts will certainly be making the most of everything their trip has to offer, and they are also expecting to be enthralled by watching the Lions down under.\n\n“I think that it’s the ultimate opportunity, and I love how people from the four different countries come together,” said Nigel.\n\n“I think that rugby fans are all one big family and we’ve always tried to make sure that our children, and our children’s children, love the game as much as we do.”\n\nMotorhome packages for New Zealand are now sold out, but there are last-minute options for fans keen to get to New Zealand." ]

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[ null, null, "If there’s one thing we do a lot at airports, it’s waiting. Waiting for upcoming flights, waiting for friends and family to arrive, and of course, waiting for the flight that was supposed to arrive an hour ago. A state of intercontinental limbo, if you will. Under most circumstances, the wait entails seeking refuge by a power outlet, eking out what we can from the terminal’s WiFi—that is, given that you have the good fortune to find yourself at an airport with WiFi. We aren’t always so lucky.\n\nSingapore’s Changi International Airport, however, is a game-changer in that regard. It isn’t just any airport—it’s the airport. While most people could never imagine choosing to spend a day at their city’s local airport without the promise of an impending flight, here, a day out at the airport is as normal as spending a day at the mall. What with all it’s got going for it, it practically is a mall. For years, the airport has held the coveted title of the world’s best airport. Weary travelers in the region breathe a collective sigh of relief when their unappealing layover, at the very least, lands them in Changi.\n\nNowadays, however, the layover at Changi may just be one of the highlights of the trip. Travelers (and locals) can now immerse themselves in the airport’s newest attraction: Jewel Changi. Taking the aviation world by storm at its grand unveiling in April of this year, Jewel Changi houses the world’s largest indoor waterfall, more luxury brands than one would imagine finding at a transportation hub, and the thing that’s got everyone talking: Asia’s first Shake Shack. The last of which may require a lengthier layover.\n\nBuilt on the site of a former terminal 1 carpark, Jewel Changi is the airport’s latest effort to solidify its place as a major aviation hub in the Asia-Pacific region. The star of the show? The giant Moshe Safdie-designed Rain Vortex that pumps 500,000 liters of rainwater from the steel latticework-like roof above. Majestic and surrounded by five stories of forested terraces, it sure is a sight for sore eyes.\n\nAt a place as spectacular, one could expect to find some stellar coffee options. Besides a selection of traditional kopi tiam-style shops, people have the option of unwinding at a familiar chain coffee shop or exploring Jewel’s many other caffeine options. An example of the latter is [email protected] on the second floor.\n\nCompact and well-thought-out, it has everything you’d need for a pleasant layover. Split between the main serving counter and a charming terrazzo-lined seating area, the shop is fitted for people from all over with international power outlets, comfy seats for both the solo adventurer and group travelers, WiFi, and of course, great coffee. Proper coffee.\n\nIt wouldn’t be difficult to imagine kicking back for an hour or two, suitcase propped by your side, book in hand, waiting for a flight. In any case, it’s just as great for a thirty-minute breather before heading out, or for a quick pick-me-up after taking in Jewel’s sights and sounds.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Inori Aizawa, the animated girl is a mascot for Internet explorer 11, she wears short skirt, fights robots and of- course surf web with Internet Explorer.\n\nThe girl has curly blond hairs, blue eyes and wears a sexy short blue skirt in new Internet Explore commercials. In one of the weirdest marketing strategy Microsoft is going all in to portray this ANIME Inori Aizawa as a cool and edgy Internet Explorer girl.\n\nA Singapore based company CACANi has created this animated spokeswoman for Microsoft who is going to give her debut video speech in Asia’s Anime Festival which will take place in Singapore next week. Needless to say that Microsoft is going to launch its new Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 at the same time.", null, "In an effort to make this IE girl real Microsoft has also created a Facebook account for Inori Aizawa which talks a lot about her persona. Inori’s facebook page says\n\nHey everyone! My name is Inori and you can think of me as a personification of Internet Explorer.\n\nWhen I was younger, I used to be a clumsy, slow, and awkward girl. However, just like the story of ugly duckling, people told me that I have really matured and changed over the years.\n\nI feel confident in my abilities now, and I’m eager to show you what I can do. Why don’t you get to know me a little better?\n\nMicrosoft has posted various pictures of Inory showing off Microsoft’s gadgets and surfing the web, Of course with Internet Explorer. The company has profiled the girl as an 18 year old who likes to Surf the Internet and like mint flavored Ice Cream. Like most animated figures she has superhuman ability and could smash internet Robots with her powerful fist.\n\nThe animated girl might help Internet Explorer 11 to get much needed attention but we are afraid that Microsoft would need much more than a pretty face to get loyal IE users. Especially, when people have better options in Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox which are much safer and faster browsers compare to veteran Internet Explorer." ]

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[ null, "Madrid - Diego Simeone’s side are top of the standings with 11 points from five games while Athletic, who are also unbeaten, have nine\n\nAtletico Madrid forward Joao Felix was sent off as the LaLiga champions were held to a 0-0 draw at home to Athletic Bilbao on Saturday.\n\nFelix, Atletico’s record signing, was shown a yellow card for striking Unai Vencedor in the 78th minute and the Portuguese reacted to the decision by shouting at the referee, who instantly produced a second card and sent him off.\n\nFelix had only been on the pitch for 18 minutes when he was dismissed, with Spanish media reporting the Portuguese said “Are you crazy?” to match official Jesus Gil Manzano after being penalised for tangling with Vencedor as they challenged for the ball.\n\nDiego Simeone’s side are top of the standings with 11 points from five games while Athletic, who are also unbeaten, have nine.\n\n“Joao was running and had no intention of hitting his opponent, I don’t know what happened next but people say things in the heat of the moment but they (referees) have to understand that when your adrenaline is running high you sometimes say things you shouldn’t,” said Atletico defender Stefan Savic.\n\nAtletico were fortunate to not lose the game in added time when visiting striker Asier Villalibre met a through ball from Alex Berenguer inside the area but the forward somehow spurned the glorious chance and missed the target.\n\nThe Basque side had wasted another clear opportunity early in the second period when Inaki Williams fired straight at goalkeeper Jan Oblak after some indecision in the Atletico defence.\n\nAtletico created few opportunities in another uninspiring home performance following Wednesday’s 0-0 draw with Porto in the Champions League, with their best moment coming when Marcos Llorente struck the far post with a shot from outside the box.\n\nAntoine Griezmann made his first league start at the Wanda Metropolitano since returning to Atletico on loan from Barcelona but the Frenchman had another poor display and was hauled off in the 55th minute as part of a triple change from Simeone.Joao Felix was sent off and Antoine Griezmann failed to fire again as Atletico Madrid were held to a goalless draw by Athletic Bilbao in a bad-tempered contest on Saturday.\n\nGriezmann started ahead of Luis Suarez but was replaced by the Uruguayan after 55 minutes at the Wanda Metropolitano without registering a shot on target.\n\nFelix came on too as Atletico chased a winner, only to be shown a second yellow card for dissent, the 21-year-old lashing the ball into the crowd in frustration.\n\nThe ball hit an Atletico supporter, who did not appear seriously hurt but left the stadium.\n\nThe stalemate is Atletico’s second in four days after Wednesday’s draw at home to Porto in the Champions League, suggesting Diego Simeone is still to find a formula that makes best use of his wealth of attacking options.\n\n“I have absolute confidence in the team we have and we are going to work to get the best out of those names and to get what we always want, which is goals,” said Simeone.\n\nThey have nine points, two fewer than their opponents.\n\nAtletico were raging at referee Jesus Gil in the latter stages and after the final whistle, a cluster of players picking up yellow cards for their protests.\n\nFelix has cut a frustrated figure this year, unable to justify his 126-million-euro price tag, while Griezmann has made three appearances since his return from Barcelona but is yet to make an impression.\n\nThe Frenchman was whistled in midweek by his own fans and while the reception was slightly warmer this time, he gave little for the Atletico supporters to cheer about.\n\nGriezmann went closest after 57 seconds, when he darted to the front post but his shot flew over, and then he controlled another cross shortly after but was unable to put power into the finish.\n\nInaki Williams volleyed over shortly before half-time and then had the best chance of the match to put Athletic in front, stealing the ball away from Jose Gimenez and racing clear. With only Jan Oblak to beat, Williams sidefooted wide.\n\nSimeone introduced Suarez, Yannick Carrasco, Hector Herrera and Felix around the hour and Carrasco released Suarez but he got the ball stuck under his feet.\n\nWhen Marcos Llorente crashed a shot against the post, Atletico had a headwind behind them, only for Felix to boil over.\n\nThe Portuguese had his shirt pulled back by Unai Vencedor but the free-kick went Athletic’s way, much to the dismay of Felix. He shouted at the referee, tapped his finger against his temple and watched a second yellow card go up.\n\nAthletic should have won it late on but Asier Villalibre blazed high with only Oblak to beat.\n\nAtletico were fuming when Gil blew for the final whistle with Carrasco sent clear, but the six minutes of stoppage time were up.\n\nFormer Atleti striker Radamel Falcao had earlier rolled back the years in a dream debut for Rayo Vallecano as the 35-year-old scored in a 3-0 victory over Getafe.\n\nFalcao came off the bench for Randy Nteka in the 71st minute and scored in the 82nd before saluting the ecstatic home fans at Vallecas.\n\nThe Colombian latched on to a through ball into the right channel from Pathe Ciss and fired a sizzling shot past David Soria and into the far corner.\n\n“He’s come wanting to help the team and to integrate as quickly as possible,” said Rayo coach Andoni Iraola.\n\n“He’s trained well, he’s helped us and scored the goal that ended the game. We have to keep working with him. There are some ideas he has to adapt to but his own condition is very good.”\n\nFalcao has returned to Spain eight years after leaving Atletico Madrid, where he became one of the world’s deadliest strikers and won the Europa League, as well as the Copa del Rey.\n\nBut injuries have curtailed his form since and after scoring 19 goals in 34 league games for Galatasaray across two stop-start seasons, he was released, allowing Rayo to make their move.\n\nRayo are back in Spain’s top flight after being promoted last term and have made an encouraging start, their win over Getafe giving them seven points from their first five games." ]

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[ null, "NASA published in a new paper that provides a map of water ice believed to be as little as an inch below the surface of Mars. This finding will be a key consideration for any potential landing site due to such little room to spare aboard a spacecraft, any human missions to Mars will have to harvest what’s already available for drinking water and making rocket fuel. Liquid water can’t be sustained in the thin air of Mars since due to its minimal air pressure, it evaporates from a solid to a gas when exposed to the atmosphere. Read more for a video and additional information.\n\nMartian water ice is locked away underground throughout the planet’s mid-latitudes, and so far, the regions near the poles have been studied by NASA’s Phoenix lander, which scraped up ice. The MRO has captured many images from space of meteor impacts that have excavated this ice. To find ice that astronauts could easily dig up, the study’s authors used two heat-sensitive instruments: MRO’s Mars Climate Sounder and the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera on Mars Odyssey.\n\nYou wouldn’t need a backhoe to dig up this ice. You could use a shovel. We’re continuing to collect data on buried ice on Mars, zeroing in on the best places for astronauts to land,” said the paper’s lead author, Sylvain Piqueux of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California." ]

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[ null, "Set in the glamour of 1950s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the centre of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutantes and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcocks life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love\n\nReview of Phantom Thread by Eddie @ The Movie Guys\n\nAs is to be expected from the man that has given us some of the great gems of modern cinema, Phantom Thread is another immaculately crafted piece of cinema designed by the original and unpredictable Paul Thomas Anderson and while it may not be the famed director’s best work, it’s one of the more unpredictable and near unclassifiable experiences of the 2017 awards crop.\nCuriously only the second film Anderson has been Oscar nominated for his work as a director, Thread is the filmmaker at his most refined and low-key as he takes over the reigns of the films sole DOP and writing duties to set-up an intimate and slowly paced study of Day-Lewis’s particular and prickly post-war dress maker Reynolds Woodcock and his relationship with his sister Cyril played by Lesley Manville and his budding romance/artistic relationship with Vicky Krieps somewhat mysterious, yet beguiling Alma.\nIt’s an on the surface slight story and one that hardly seems ripe for a cinematic treatment but as is the case with the Anderson we’ve come to know and love, nothing within Thread is exactly as it may first seem and despite Thread’s rather solemn nature as an often bizarre darkly comedic like experience, that flirts the line between unnerving drama and expose of the artistic process, you’re never entirely sure of where Anderson may be taking us on his beautifully captured and expertly scored journey.\nAt the heart of Anderson’s odd tale is yet another award’s worthy turn from Day-Lewis in what is reportedly said to be his last ever film and if that is indeed the case, Woodcock offers the legendary screen-actor a fitting swansong.\nMuch like Anderson’s more dialled back direction, Woodcock offers Day-Lewis a less showy and more stoic character to inhabit than we are used to seeing from the man that gave us turns such as Bill “The Butcher” Cutting and Daniel Plainview but Day-Lewis’s impact on the film is still undeniable.\nWoodcock is a complex and often totally unlikeable creation but Day-Lewis makes him a figure we can’t turn away from, as his artistic process becomes more apparent and his socially awkward intricacies start to rear their ugly heads, in particular in their relationship to Alma’s arrival as Woodcock’s new lover.\nIn what is likely to be a career defining role for the actress, Krieps is Day-Lewis’s equal in Thread and in some ways steals the show from Day-Lewis’s creation as Alma begins to reveal her nature and desires to the audience and with the two actors, we end up having one of the most bizarre, memorable and untypical romances committed to cinema in some time.\nFinal Say –\nNot as instantly ground-breaking or recommendable as Anderson’s best works, Phantom Thread is still a highly original and meticulously constructed feature from the great American director and with the brilliant work by its two main leads; this multilayered experience is a deservedly praised film that’s likely to find a very passionate, albeit modest following.\nSee more from The Movie Guys on their website" ]

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[ null, "The World Tea Museum (Ochanosato) is located on Makinohara Plateau, one of the most famous tea-producing regions in Japan. The facility is composed of a dedicated museum to Japanese tea, a tea house, and garden. In the museum, 90 different types of tea from 30 countries in the world are on display. Travelers can learn about the various teas' production and history, as well as touch the leaves and smell the aroma. Given how popular tea is in Japanese culture, the World Tea Museum is a way to share the knowledge of Japanese teas while educating the populace about the tea from around the world. There also are exhibits on the history of Japanese tea and how it is deeply rooted in the lives of the people.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "The Best 5 U.S. Presidents To Play Pickup Basketball With", null, "I’ve come to realize in the social media world that talking about politics is a dead end. No matter what you do or say, you are never going to please everybody and you are always going to find a way to start a war of words. And to be quite frank, I don’t have a strong opinion on either side of the ball to write an article on actual politics. This is why I want to give people what I think we all want and need on the politics side of things.\n\nWhat better way to do that than to name my ideal starting five among United States Presidents for a game of pick up basketball?\n\nHarry is not going to blow you away with his quickness but sees the floor well and is a guy I think would really understand the X’s and O’s of the game. He worked through a lot of adversity in his tenure with Russia’s new atomic bomb which is the type of leadership you want in your point guard. I need a PG that is going to be able to overcome a 10 point deficit late in the game and isn’t rattled when things aren’t going our way.\n\nBarack has proven in leaked video after video that he can knock down the mid-range jumper. You’ve got to love some Chicago toughness on your side and that is exactly what you’re going to get with Barack here. Democrat or Republican, it does not matter, you have got to be able to knock down jump shots. I believe Barack is a must at shooting guard.\n\nWho wouldn’t want to suit up with honest Abe for a pickup game? Abe is a guy that understands and appreciates the fundamentals of the game. Power forward type height that can run the floor. Big time clubhouse guy. Mel Kiper Jr. would be drooling over the height and wingspan of Lincoln if he just so decided to put away the basketball sneakers and declare for the NFL Draft.\n\nA seasoned vet that understands his role on and off the court. He’s not going to give you 20 points a game but will give you good quality minutes. He plays both sides of the ball and knocks down his free throws from the charity stripe. A true walking bucket when he gets in his rhythm. I think you have got to give the nod to Ronald at the power forward position.\n\nWhen I think of William Taft, I think of a ‘big baby’ Glenn Davis type of guy. An enforcer that doesn’t mind throwing his weight around in the paint. A great mid-range skyhook that’s money off the glass. Not all there fundamentally but the sky is the limit if he is in the hands of the right coach. He’s got Zion Williamson type durability, with no regard for any defender that stands in the way of him and the rack.\n\nI’ll let you be the judge and debate this one, but for me, this Is the team I am rolling up with to my local LA Fitness court any day of the week." ]

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[ "The Pacific Islands Universities Rugby League Team have opened their World Cup campaign with an easy win over Ireland Universities in their opening match at Sydney’s Ringrose Park on Friday.\n\nShrugging off a rushed preparation as a late replacement into the tournament after New Zealand’s 11th hour withdrawal, the Islanders outclassed the Irish to score a 10 tries to one win.\n\nAfter the Irish started brightly in attack for no result, the Pacific Islands worked play downfield in the sixth minute for hooker Nathan Gaga to burrow over from dummy half and score the first try. Jonathan Taefu converted for a 6-nil lead.\n\nCentre Marli Fatuasini extended the Islander’s lead when he dived over to score in the 23rd minute, then Taefu burst through four defenders down the right hand blind side six minutes from half time before feeding the last pass to Vai who dashed away to score under the posts. Vai converted his own try for a 20-nil lead.\n\nAn Irish turnover on the stroke of half time allowed the Islanders field position for Derek Ah Chong to scurry out of dummy half from close range to score. Vai converted to give the Pacific Islands a 26-nil half time lead.\n\nThe Irish came out hard to start the second stanza and were rewarded six minutes into the second half when a pin point Peter O’Neill cross field kick was brilliantly caught by Connolly for a spectacular try. O’Neill’s conversion hit the upright with Ireland on the board at 26-4.\n\nFour minutes later, a long break by a rampaging Taefu down the right touchline saw the final pass go back inside to Fatuasini for his second try under the posts.\n\nThat try opened the floodgates as the Islanders went on with the job in the second half. Winger Joe Tuimavave finished a right side spread to score in the 57th minute, before fullback Daniel Cassone scored from an Irish turnover in the 63rd minute.\n\nSkipper John Faiumu and interchange forward Charlie Latulipe each got tries in the closing stages to round out the easy Islanders’ win.", null ]

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[ "Over the last 40 years, Leica has recognised outstanding photographic talent. The most important aspect of this jubilee year is the group of nominators. The application process that existed up until now has been replaced this year with nominations being proposed by 65 internationally renowned photography experts. They came from around 30 different countries, ensuring great thematic and cultural diversity.\n\nBased on their own criteria and personal evaluation of the photographers’ works, each member of the nominating body selected up to three photographers for the main award, and one for the newcomer award. The only prerequisite was that the photographic work, be documentary or conceptual, and in line with the basic idea behind the LOBA – the relationship of humanity with its environment. A series of between 15 and 20 images had to be submitted.\n\nIn the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Main category, Italian photographer Luca Locatelli and his series “Future Studies” convinced the five-person jury. He was nominated by Alice Gabriner, Photo Editor from the USA. In this series of 20 colour photos, Locatelli researches new ways for humanity to survive on planet Earth. He questions the existing concepts around permanent economic growth and as a result, opens an intense debate about our relationship with nature and with technology.\n\nI would like to congratulate the winners of this year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Awards. I was impressed by the high level of the quality of the submissions. Our sincere gratitude also goes to all our nominators from around the world…\n\nIn his view, “One of the characteristic symptoms of the times we are living in is the growing feeling that we are losing the vision of a better future, of a promising, yet unknown, hypothetical tomorrow. During these tough times of Covid19, when the world seems to have stood still, we have been given a chance like never. We can consider what our behaviour should look like in the future, where efforts should be made to re-establish a healthy relationship with nature and the planet.”\n\nLuca Locatelli was born in Italy in 1971. He worked as a software developer for over ten years, after completing studies in Information Technology, before beginning to work as a documentary photographer in 2006. He has been represented by international agencies, such as the Institute for Artist Management since 2016 and has been a photographer for National Geographic since 2015. Within the framework of his work as a photographer and filmmaker, Locatelli produces stories, in collaboration with journalists, environmentalists, and scientists, to further conceptualise his research.\n\nIn the Newcomer category, for photographers up to the age of 30, the award went to Gonçalo Fonseca for his “New Lisbon” series. He was nominated by Silvia Omedes, Curator and Photo Editor from Spain. With 19 colour images, Fonseca offers insight into the dramatic circumstances currently affecting the housing situation in Lisbon. Because of exploding property prices, many tenants have lost their homes. Making use of individual stories, the Portuguese photographer reveals the consequences of increasing gentrification.\n\nThe artist explains, “My New Lisbon series explores the issue of housing insecurity and reveals the fears and anxiety that arise when you don’t have a stable roof over your head. In recent years, at least 10,000 tenant families have been put out on the streets by their landlords and have no other alternative than to squat in abandoned apartments. This is their story.”\n\nGonçalo Fonseca was born in 1993. He received a B.A. in Journalism followed by postgraduate studies of Photojournalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He was among the winners of the World Press Photo in 2016 and 2019. His subject matter, which he found in Portugal and around the world, deals primarily with human rights, health and stories about housing.\n\nThe works of the winning artists are being exhibited at the Leica Gallery in Leitz Park alongside a comprehensive presentation of the 40 Years of LOBA. In addition to prize money, which has been increased to €40,000 this year, Luca Locatelli receives Leica camera equipment valued at €10,000 euros. As the winner of the “Newcomer Award”, Gonçalo Fonseca receives a photographic assignment, a two-week tutoring course at the Leica Camera AG Headquarters in Wetzlar and a Leica Q camera.\n\nSpeaking of the announcement, Karin Rehn-Kaufmann, Art Director and Chief Representative for Leica Galleries International says: “On behalf of myself and the other jury members (Joel Meyerowitz, Art Director and Photographer; Pauline Benthede, Exhibitions Director for Fotografiska International; Malin Schulz, Art Director of ZEIT; and Klaus Kehrer, Publisher), I would like to congratulate the winners of this year’s Leica Oskar Barnack Awards. I was impressed by the high level of the quality of the submissions. Our sincere gratitude also goes to all our nominators from around the world.”\n\nThis coal and mineral ore storage facility in the port of Hamburg is surrounded by wind turbines extending in the distance. These minerals were shipped for thousands of miles across oceans to arrive here, feeding coal plants and heavy industries throughout Germany.\n\nIn the wake of environmental crisis, Germany is aiming to phase out of coal energy production: by 2022 an estimated 12 coal plants will be shut down, making renewables the main source of power for the country. But at this moment Germany is still producing more than 30% of its energy needs by coal.\n\nWind energy is accounting for about 20% of Germany production and it’s making visible the transition all around the nation.\n\nBy Lavinia Dickson-Robinson Brought up by his father, a strict Lutheran minister and later chaplain to the King of Sweden, …\n\nOne of the best pieces of music every written, when King George II heard ...\n\nOne of the best pieces of music every written, when King George II heard the famous “Hallelujah” chorus during the …", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "An autosomal DNA test of kit 317601 is now pending. Of the living descendants I have located of our earliest known Wright ancestor, Gabriel Wright, this tester is the least number of generations removed (five). With autosomal testing, the amount of shared DNA between two testers is reduced by 50% for each successive generation that the testers are removed from the common ancestor. At a relationship range of third cousins or closer, autosomal testing has about a 90% success rate in correctly detecting a match. However, because of the 50% reduction that takes place from generation to generation, the success rate in correctly detecting a match drops to less than half once the relationship range of third cousins is exceeded, and less than 25% once the relationship range of fourth cousins is exceeded. Therefore, each generation closer you can get to a common shared ancestor significantly increases your chances of discovering matches.\n\nOur shared ancestry to Gabriel has already been established via the Y-DNA tests that my uncle and kit 317601 have taken. With kit 317601 being two generations closer to Gabriel than my uncle, I’m very hopeful his autosomal test may prove to be key in locating matches that help to determine the correct ancestral family of Gabriel. In further helping with determining Gabriel’s ancestral family, the father of kit 293820 has also taken an autosomal test. Triangulation of potential matches between kit 317601 and kit 293820’s father, should prove very fruitful in determining potential Wright families to research further for a connection to Gabriel. As has been shown previously by the Y-DNA testing, it’s likely that Gabriel’s ancestral family has ties to the Wright family of colonial Flushing, Long Island, New York and to George Wright, who signed the Flushing Remonstrance.\n\nWith autosomal testing, the more comparisons that can be made, the better, so if there are Gabriel Wright descendants reading this who have taken an autosomal DNA test (Ancestry DNA, Family Tree DNA Family Finder, or 23andMe), or are interested in taking an autosomal DNA test, please contact me.\n\nA descendant of George Wade (Senior) of Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia), contacted me back in April, after coming across my website while researching his family line. After he clarified his lineage, I realized he was a direct paternal line descendant of George, and asked him about DNA testing. He has been kind enough to agree to help me with testing, and his Y-DNA test is now pending.\n\nThanks to tips from two people who saw my call for a tester from the Stone family of early 1800s Pendleton County, Virginia (now West Virginia), I have now located someone who has agreed to proceed with testing. This particular Stone line is one I’ve considered to be a possible ancestral family for my own Stone line for several months now. There are several bits and pieces of circumstantial evidence that look to perhaps link the two family lines, but I have yet to come across any documentation which shows a conclusive connection. It will be nice to be able to, at long last, hopefully make a firm conclusion as to whether or not there is a close relationship between the two paternal lines using DNA evidence. Results of this pending test are expected to be back by the middle of September.\n\nBesides the Pendleton County family, I have also had similar interest in the Stone family of early 1800s Greene County, Pennsylvania, due to the close proximity to Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia), and there having been at least one intermarriage between the two family lines. There is a contact I’m working with right now in regards to her nephew possibly being willing to test. Should he decide to proceed, I’ll post that a test candidate has been found. In the meantime, if anyone else knows of a direct paternal line descendant of the Stone family of early 1800s Greene County, Pennsylvania, who has taken a Y-DNA test, or may be interested in taking a Y-DNA test, please contact me.\n\nThe DNA test of the Oyster Bay Wright family descendant is in the process of being upgraded to 67 markers. This will help to positively identify which group in the Wright DNA Project is the Oyster Bay group. While it looks very likely that the pink group at the top of the page of Haplogroup R1b1 and Subclades results, starting with kit number 235938, is the correct group, the upgrade to 67 markers is necessary to be certain of this. If the pink group is indeed the Oyster Bay group, these results may help to solve the mystery of the ancestry of at least one Wright family of Virginia, and may clarify the migration of some of the Oyster Bay descendants after they left New York. Results of the test upgrade are due by the middle of August.\n\nUp until now, my branch of the family of Theodore and Julia Ann (Wade) Stone has only had this one photo of them with their eight children who survived to adulthood:", null, "This photo has been a cherished heirloom in our family, and is believed to have been found among the photo albums of my grandfather’s sister, Juanita, who passed away in 1982. From what I recall, the original photo was damaged, so a local photo studio took a photo of the print, did restoration work on the copy negative, and then made new prints which were given to family members. It was extremely helpful to have the individuals labeled on the mat board which housed the print, as we might not have correctly known who was who among the girls, and it was a great help to know their married names and the first names of the husbands of all of the girls except Mary. My grandfather, Larry, had a very striking resemblance to how his father, Arthur (Pearl), appears in this photo. I believe the original photo to have been taken about 1900, based on the apparent ago of Alta, who was born February 18, 1887. For all of the people other than Pearl, this family photo was the only photo we had of them.\n\nSeveral years ago, Diane, a descendant of Mary, made contact with me, and we began exchanging information. It turned out Diane’s family had several old photos that have turned out to be of the Stone family, although several of them were not known to be members of the Stone family as the photos were not labeled. Among the photos was one which looks to have been taken at the same time as the family photo above, considering that Alta is wearing the exact same dress and hairstyle:", null, "The white area in the lower left is some damage that has occurred to the print. I made the mistake initially of thinking that it was a little girl in the photo with Alta, but have since learned that it was fairly common for young boys to be dressed in such outfits. Diane confirmed with her mother that it is Mary’s son, Charles Porter, in the photo with his cousin, Alta. He was born October 2, 1896, which provides an additional estimate of the group photo having been taken about 1900.\n\nThis afternoon, I received another photo from Diane, and it is an absolute gem. It is another Theodore and Julia Ann (Wade) Stone family photo, taken a few years after the previous photo:", null, "Almost everyone is in the same place as the previous photo, with the exception of three of the daughters. My guess as to why they are positioned differently is to balance the black dresses with the lighter, patterned dresses among the daughters (two black dresses and one patterned dress in the front row, and two patterned dresses and one black dress in the back row). Among the three who are in different positions, I believe Anna is in the front row at far right, Kitty/Kittie is in the middle of the back row, and Mary is in the back row at far right. Dating this photo is a bit more of a challenge, although it is known to be before October 29, 1914, as that’s when Theodore passed away.\n\nIt’s very exciting to come across this photo, and I can’t thank Diane enough for sending it to me. It’s a wonderful example of the power of collaborative genealogy. She has also sent me additional photos of some of the Stone daughters later in life, and I plan to make these photos part of my upcoming posts.\n\nBack in March of 2012, I was contacted via the Ancestry.com messaging system by someone who saw my Ancestry Member Tree and noticed that our second great grandfathers were brothers. Since that time, this fourth cousin and I have exchanged many emails and lots of Stone family information. Most importantly, she was able to make me aware of research that her great grand aunt did when she applied to the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1942. Unfortunately, despite our solid paper trails, this fourth cousin and I were not able to verify our relationship with DNA testing since we did not come up as matches to each other’s test, as can be the nature of autosomal DNA testing. As it turns out, though, her great grand aunt’s research provided the foundation for new research this fourth cousin and I have done which has lead to many new discoveries regarding the Stone line.\n\nOne item of much interest in the DAR application was the listing of the names of two spouses of children of Henry Stone. Using this information, it became possible to find census records and other documentation which lead to locating someone about a year ago who was likely a mutual fifth cousin to me and my fourth cousin. I say likely, because while there were many pieces of circumstantial evidence to support the connection, there was nothing which confirmed the maiden name of this fifth cousin’s third great grandmother. We concluded the connection was quite probable, but vowed to keep researching to see if additional information could be found to better substantiate our relationship.\n\nAbout a month ago, Ancestry added a new record collection of Pennsylvania Death Certificates. Within this new record collection were two death certificates for sons of this fifth cousin’s third great grandmother, and the maiden name of their mother in both cases was Sarah Stone. Finally, we had the paper trail link we had been searching for.\n\nAs part of her ongoing genealogy research, this fifth cousin recently took the Ancestry DNA autosomal test. Just yesterday, she sent me a couple emails letting me know she had received her results back, and later, that she had found my test result among her matches. At long last, I now have the first match (outside my immediate family) that I can say is most likely a mutual descendant of my fourth great grandparents, Henry Stone and Margaret Murphy. I still need at least one more match, however, so that the proper triangulation of the matching chromosomes and segments can be done in order to confirm we are matching on the same ancestors.\n\nAll in all, this is a very exciting discovery and first step!" ]

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[ "This early U.S. contract Cavalry Model Colt Single Action Army was manufactured in 1874, sub-inspected by Orville W. Ainsworth, and falls in the serial number range (3421-4499) of 1,000 Cavalry Models issued to the 2nd Cavalry. In his accompanying letter of authentication, noted Colt expert and author John Kopec calls it a \"nice Ainsworth sub-inspected U.S. Cavalry revolver\" that was likely \"issued to one of the 4th Cavalry Troops which did not stamp there revolvers with their unit identifying marks.\" The revolver falls with range of nos. 3830, 3991, 4012, and 4040 which are marked \"CO K 4 CAV.\" Kopec also noted that the revolver is close to serial number 4878 which was returned by Native American \"fools-Bear\" on September 5, 1876, three months after Custer's Last Stand. The revolver has matching serial numbers on the frame, trigger guard, back strap, and barrel (strong blue finish remains under the ejector housing). As noted by Kopec in his letter, the barrel has the correct address featuring a broken letter \"o\" in \"Co.\" and broken serif in the letter \"A\" in \"HARTFORD.\" Ainsworth's \"A\" initial and \"P\" proof appear o the underside of the barrel and cylinder. An additional Ainsworth \"A\" is found on top of the back strap. The frame has the early two-line, two-date patent marking followed by \"U. S.\" on the left. Traces of a cartouche remain on the left side of the grip.\n\nVery good, retaining traces of period refurbished blue in the sheltered areas, otherwise the revolver has a smooth dark brown patina. The grip is also very good with a chip at the toe, high edge wear and some minor dings. Mechanically excellent. This Orville Ainsworth inspected Colt Cavalry Model Revolver is an icon of the Indian Wars that is becoming increasingly difficult to find.", null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "What one of us dog-owners hasn't been afraid of losing our puppy?\n\nThe two times Petey has made a break for it, I was beside myself. Microchipping helps, but only if the dog (or cat) is found and actually scanned.\n\nWe've considered those tiles to hook onto his collar so we can GPS track him should he go missing. But hell, have you tried Sirius / XM? Go under the shadow of a tree and you loose the signal from space. Honestly, I don't know how governments run their military if they have to deal with tunnels or tree cover. Drones should be crashing to the ground right and left!\n\nAnd considering Petey would high-tail it to the woods / ravine, I'm not sure the technology would work for us. Since it is new(er), the service fees are kind of pricey too - not that there should be any amount we would be stingy on when it comes to his safety. ....but he has only broken away twice. So it's a cost / benefit analysis going on here.\n\nAnd this app, Finding Rover, might prove to be nothing, but at least it's free.\n\nTheir website says that 7 million dogs are lost a year. They don't specify what 'lost' means or where they come up with that number. As Petey broke free twice in a year, does he count for two of those 7 million? And does he, since I never 'reported' him as lost.\n\nFinding Rover uses facial recognition technology - or so it claims.\n\nAnd while I love Petey and know I could pick him out of a room of 1000 beagles, honestly, there are only so many looks a beagle might have. I fear the 'facial recognition' would pick up Sparky in Des Moines and not Petey in Cleveland.\n\nSo anyway - after you register, you build your doggie's profile - as such", null, "And you get a picture of him as well, for his profile. This proved difficult as Petey is not a poser. Sure I have lots of pics of him, but not where he's looking right at the cam-ah-rah (say like Jenna Maroney!). This was the best I could do.", null, "It's probably not helping my case that I have a Julia Louis-Dreyfus movie Frontline on in the background. But the app asks you to put geometrical shapes around your doggies facial parts.", null, "Then the app \"scans\" the picture. You know to separate it from all the other beagles with two brown eyes and one black nose.\n\nI suppose it takes into account how close the eyes are together and their diameter. I suppose it could do something like that with the honker too and could weed out those freaky cross-eyed pups who have a nose like Tom Riddle.\n\nThen there is a portion where you can report a dog missing or found. And the matching begins. But of course, one needs critical mass of this app for it to be helpful. I guess I would use it along with any other means of finding a pet, but I can't say I'm hopeful.....though NPR featured it, so maybe it's getting some legs.......or paws, as the case may be.\n\nThe Apple reviews are not glowing - 2.5-3.0 stars. Some of the lower ones were complaints on registering and I feel their pain. It took me four attempts before it would take our information. Not an auspicious start.\n\nAgain - all means necessary to find a missing Pete, assuming he even has the energy to make another escape plan.\n\nDrag the circles onto the eyes and triangle onto nose. Thanks Blobby I have the Halloween costume all picked out for my dogs this year!\n\nReally nice apps, thanks for sharing\n\nthank you for sharing this one; I plan on using it." ]