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[ "The noble feeling of love comes from salivary glands\n\nItalian biochemists have derived the formula of love. According to specialists from Italy, the most elevated and noble of all human feelings can be defined as a combination of several chemical symbols. It brings up the idea that humans will invent love or anti-love potion or pills in the near future.", null, "The noble feeling of love comes from salivary glands\n\nA senior specialist of the Center for Psychological Health of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Vorobyov, says that the psychology of passion could be analyzed easily, although the biochemical side of love still remained one of the most intriguing mysteries of modern medicine. Scientists do not know and cannot describe the processes happening in a human organism when a person falls in love. Italian neurophysiologists found out that it was only one neurotrophic protein that determined the range of emotions in the beginning of a euphoric love affair. That became the conclusion of a series of experiments which the scientists conducted for five years.\n\nItalian doctors selected a large group of people in love to explore the mechanism of the powerful human feeling. The respondents were compared to two other groups consisting of lonely and happily married individuals. All the volunteers had their blood tested for the level of hormones and proteins. It turned out that there was only one detail that distinguished the “group of romance” from two other groups – the nerve growth factor protein. The protein was discovered in 1986 by US scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini. The sensational discovery earned her a Nobel Prize. This protein is produced by salivary glands and the central nervous system cells.\n\nThe level of the nerve growth factor protein with lovers is 52 percent higher as opposed to single people and those experiencing a stable love affair or marriage. The concentration of all other proteins was similar with all the three groups.\n\nThe volunteers who took part in the first stage of the scientific experiment were asked to come to the university in six months again. The further analysis of their blood samples showed that only one-third of those people were maintaining a love relationship. However, the analyses also showed that the level of the nerve growth factor protein dropped with all the respondents from the three test groups.\n\nThe experiment revealed that passion and ardent love feelings do not last long with anyone. They are usually replaced with deeper feelings that can be defined as love, devotion, affection, etc. It is an absolutely natural chemical process observed with all human beings. The scientists concluded that the process of hormonal changes caused with emotions was reversible. The nerve growth factor regulates emotional experiences in the beginning of a relationship and also evokes the feeling of alarm, improves cordial activities and increases the sensitivity of pain. If a person in love suffers a trauma, the level of the nerve growth factor protein rises in his or her body and eventually causes so-called love fever. A line from Elvis Presley’s song “he gives me fever” is not a metaphor at all. It is a medical diagnosis.\n\nIt is worthy of note that the production of the nerve growth protein subdues the hair growth with men and increases hairiness with women. That is why many nations traditionally believe that bald-headed men or moustached women are extremely loving people.\n\nItalian physiologists believe that their observations mean that people will be able to control and guide their love feelings someday and even invent a medication for love.\n\nBritish scientists found out five years ago that the state of love directly influences basic procedures in the brain. The neurons that are usually responsible for critique of other people are subdued at such moments. That is why the people in love do not usually notice the drawbacks and imperfection of those whom they love.\n\nScientists from the Novosibirsk-based Institute of Cytology and Genetics have been trying to derive the love formula for 50 years already. Unlike their colleagues from Italy, the specialists of the institute work with animals – dogs, foxes and wolves. It is an open secret that dogs love their owners and can be easily tamed, although wolves can always bite the hand that feeds them. Wolves and dogs are genetically similar animals, but they differ greatly for their hormones and proteins which determine their conduct under various circumstances. Needless to say that humans are not the only creatures that can love one another on this planet. There are many animal species that experience similar emotions and feelings." ]

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[ "As America gets closer and closer to becoming a mainline Shin Megami Tensei game and I start to consider how to maintain a Neutral alignment (still the best alignment, no Law or Chaos for me) I’m finding comfort in music. Today I’ll be presenting two works: another old classic and one of my favorite albums ever, and something new I discovered recently. And as usual, I’ll also be featuring excellent articles from around the community in the past month.", null, "I’ve written these short album reviews for nearly a year, yet until now I haven’t talked about one of my all-time favorites: Red. This album was put together by the second (or third, or fourth, depending on how you’re counting) iteration of the prog band King Crimson, which has changed lineups about twenty million times since it started in 1969. Through the years, the only constant in the band has been guitarist Robert Fripp. The other two guys on the cover are bassist/singer John Wetton (formerly of Family and later of Asia) and drummer Bill Bruford (formerly of Yes, and who’s been featured the most out of anyone in these reviews so far, also on The Yes Album, Close to the Edge, and Larks’ Tongues in Aspic.)\n\nRed is extremely heavy, precise rock, full of memorable songs. The atmosphere this album creates is something to experience — it’s dark but not trying to be “evil” in the way some of the 70s heavy rock and metal was going for. This is one to play late at night during a coffee binge. I love every track except for the improv-sounding piece Providence, and even that’s not exactly bad, just kind of messy-sounding and out of place. But then I know people who love 70s Crimson improv works found on albums like Starless and Bible Black as well, so you might love this too if that’s your thing.\n\nSomehow these guys just broke up right after recording Red and wouldn’t return for seven years, reforming into a totally different-sounding (but still good!) early-80s New Wave band sort of like Talking Heads. Weird stuff, but then Robert Fripp is a weird guy. He’s also responsible for the startup sound in Windows Vista if you remember that thing. Anyway, this is an amazing album that you should check out.", null, "Highlights: it’s only three songs long and they’re all good, but I love SWEETSWEETSWEET\n\nIf Red is too dark and stormy to suit your mood, here’s something completely different in tone and style, and something so sweet that it might be dangerous to listen to. Bon Bon Appétit!! is a short EP that I might never have found if not for Muse Dash, the rhythm game I reviewed last month. Ever since learning about future funk a couple of years ago I’ve really liked what I’ve heard of it, and this is in that style, made by Shanghai-based composer ANK and a few other people operating under this Sugar & Co. name. And the name, album title, and pink as hell anime girl cover fit the contents exactly: Bon Bon Appétit!! is all cute vocals over electronic disco/funk tracks.\n\nThere was a time long ago I’d have never listened to this kind of stuff, but not anymore: it’s catchy and addictive like actual sugar is, and I like it about as much. Really nice, and I’m looking forward to seeing what else comes out from ANK and the rest of them. There are a few other tracks in Muse Dash by the same group that I also like, so it seems like they’ve got more material around. I’ll also probably be listening to more future funk in general because of how relaxing I find it — I’ve already gotten a few great recommendations that I’m looking into further.\n\nAnd now for the featured articles (more than usual to make up for my being too lazy to review more than two albums again, one of which is less than ten minutes long. Sorry!)\n\nMega Man 6 (Extra Life) — Red Metal completes his analysis of the original NES Mega Man series with his review of Mega Man 6, a game that gets maligned a whole lot but that maybe doesn’t deserve all of that hate. See Red Metal’s in-depth review for more.\n\nVisual Novel Theater – fault (Lost to the Aether) — Another VN review from Aether, this time of fault, an episodic kinetic novel that I haven’t played. Sounds like an interesting premise, though I don’t think I’d be able to deal with the lack of an ending (at least there isn’t one yet, and it sounds like there might never be one from what Aether says.)\n\nExploring Miyazaki & Aoshima Island at Sunset (Resurface to Reality) — One day I’d like to visit Japan, but for now all I can do is keep reading travel posts like this one, a look at the Kyushu coast from browsercrasher.\n\nAppreciating My Manga Collections More in a COVID-19 World (Objection Network) — Michaela reflects on the dire state of the US and the world as a whole and how it’s made her appreciate manga as a hobby. I’m all about buying physical copies too.\n\nFate/Grand Order Tierlist: Ranking all Caster servants! (Nep’s Gaming Paradise) — I don’t play Fate/Grand Order, but I do like what I’ve played/watched in the Type-Moon universe, so reading Neppy’s character rankings for the game is still a good time. He’s got a whole series of posts on the subject going, so be sure to check it out.\n\nThe Top 5 Animes That Made Me Want to Order Take Out (I drink and watch anime) — Anime often features food that’s incredibly detailed-looking and makes you hungry just seeing it. Irina here recommends five anime series featuring great-looking food. None of these are series you should watch if you’re fasting (also don’t watch Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family, speaking of great-looking food and the Fate series.)\n\nThe Uzuki-Chan Drama – Twitter imposing their morals on a foreign culture (A Richard Wood Text Adventure) — Having just gotten current on the anime Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! I can say it’s fucking weird that this is the show of the season people decided to start fights about. Wooderon addresses the drama surrounding Uzaki-chan and the part moral and cultural superiority is playing in creating said drama, especially on Twitter.\n\nWaifu Wednesday: Rorolina Frixell (MoeGamer) — Anyone with an interest in JRPGs that are a little out of the ordinary should be following Pete Davison’s massive series of Atelier posts covering what looks like the entire series. In this post, Pete highlights some of what’s great about Rorona, the protagonist of Atelier Rorona, one of the few in the series I’ve played so far. And I agree with his assessment — Rorona is easily one of my favorite game protagonists.\n\nI Really Dig Disco Elysium’s Character Building (Frostilyte Writes) — Disco Elysium looks like it has a unique character creation system. I think I can easily get into the mindset of a sad drunken detective already, but Frostilyte’s post about the game got me even more interested in it.\n\nThe Plague of WordPress: AI Generated Posts (Umai Yomu Anime Blog) — Yomu delivers a warning about the rise of AI-generated nonsense posts on WordPress that are currently misusing the anime tag. We’ll have to stay one or more steps ahead of the jerks behind this garbage.\n\nSurgeon General’s Warning: DO NOT WATCH ANIME (Mechanical Anime Reviews) — And finally, Scott delivers a warning about the effects of watching too much anime. Sadly, it came too late for me.\n\nThat’s all for this month. I have more anime reviews and a couple of game retrospectives coming up soon, but before that I’ll be taking on a couple of tag posts. Until then, stay safe as always." ]

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[ null, "In Robert Caro’s multi-volume biography of LBJ, the rising senator, vice president, and president is frequently described as taking time to deal with his correspondence. I have no idea how many staff persons were assigned to helping him respond to letters, but I don’t recall that he ever failed to write back. I began to suspect the duties of JFK’s vice president were not burdensome, but it didn’t stop me from writing." ]

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[ null, null, "Building next to St Paul’s cathedral is not easy. Paternoster Square was the bloody battleground between classicists and modernists for over a quarter of a century while the highlight of the short-lived and notoriously unpopular Lord Holford scheme that preceded it was its appearance in the video for Robbie Williams’ hit Anglels. So, even if it did have to survive a covert attack from Prince Charles, One New Change has got off lightly. Jean Nouvel’s controversial first UK project is a major retail and commercial development that aims to bring shopping and weekend activity to the belligerently monocultural City of London for the first time in generations. Another first is the dramatic public space on its roof offering stunning new views of its venerable neighbour. Yet One New Change mixes deference with provocation and by no means seeks harmony with its historic surroundings. Its impact on its surrounding streetscape is surreal and it assumes the shape of a brown and hulking glass bauble squashed and chamfered into a deformed prism." ]

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[ null, "Rex King of Carnival, Storey Charbonnet, arrives on a train to the RiverwalkÕs Spanish Plaza to meet Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the King of Zulu on on Lundi Gras in New Orleans, La. Monday, Feb. 24, 2020.", null, null, "Rex King of Carnival, Storey Charbonnet, arrives on a train to the RiverwalkÕs Spanish Plaza to meet Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the King of Zulu on on Lundi Gras in New Orleans, La. Monday, Feb. 24, 2020.\n\nNo offense, but who thinks any place other than New Orleans when someone mentions Mardi Gras?\n\nSure, Baton Rouge, Covington, Folsom, Metairie, Monroe and Shreveport have Mardi Gras parades, but they cannot compete with New Orleans.\n\nPeople bus, train, drive and fly into the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport to be a part of the revelry in the Crescent City.\n\nCarnival is a Big Freaking Event that lasts days and days, and it’s time the federal government recognizes it and sends in more troops. I don’t mean that literally.\n\nThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security has risk ratings for special events and that determines levels of support. Think the Super Bowl, the Kentucky Derby and the Indianapolis 500.\n\nApparently, they haven’t realized Carnival is a season. No other city has parades from Jan. 6 with the Krewe de Jeanne D’Arc and the Phunny Phorty Phellows on through to Mardi Gras Day with the Rex, Zulu, Elks and Orleans krewes.\n\nNew Orleans attracts as many as 1.5 million people across the Carnival season. That’s a lot of people. More help is needed.\n\nNew Orleans has more parades in the last few days of Carnival than some major cities have in a decade. And then there’s Mardi Gras. “We call it the world’s greatest free party,” Arnold said. “There’s no ticket. There’s no fee to get in. There’s no door. It’s wide open.”\n\nSEAR 1 events are the highest risk category. That includes presidential inaugurations and national party conventions. In 2020, there were no SEAR 1 events and there were only nine SEAR 2 events. New Orleans had two of those. Of course, much of 2020 was changed dramatically as Rudy Rona launched the COVID-19 pandemic a short time later.\n\nThe January 2020 LSU-Clemson National Championship game got a SEAR 2 rating when President Donald Trump decided to attend. Our last “real” Mardi Gras got a SEAR 2 in 2020. As virus numbers were improving, city officials looked forward to a big Fourth of July event earlier this year and the feds granted a SEAR 2. Then the delta variant ruined everything. It was a no-go.\n\nNew Orleans gets strong local, regional, state and federal support for Carnival no matter what the SEAR designation. It’s just that a strong SEAR means additional help. “A lot of it is intelligence-related,” said Arnold.\n\nSEAR 2 would allow the federal government to bring in people from across the nation to help. They wouldn’t be in uniform on the parade routes. They would be helpful with identifying potentially harmful substances, providing large amounts of medical supplies, monitoring chatter among potential evil-doers. They can provide enhanced river and port protection.\n\nConsider the Zulu Lundi Gras along the Mississippi River the day before Mardi Gras. The city doesn’t want anything bad to happen, but preparation is critical.\n\nHaving more SEAR events helps when the city is applying for counterterrorism and public safety grants and other funding, too. It adds cachet.\n\nThe COVID-19 delta variant continues to do damage. The omicron variant is rising. We’ve got enough to worry about. Send more help.\n\nWith the holidays around the corner and Mardi Gras within sight, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell on Monday pleaded with residents to prepare…" ]

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[ null, "| Alone with an End of the World structure.", null, "The tragedy of 9/11 brought our country closer together with pride in America and a strong belief in our strengths and resilience.", null, null, "The 10 Commandments engraved in English.\n\n| Alone with an End of the World structure.\n\nThe tragedy of 9/11 brought our country closer together with pride in America and a strong belief in our strengths and resilience.\n\nThe 10 Commandments engraved in English.\n\nThe brilliant blue sky was interspersed with voluminous fluffy white clouds floating lazily above us. The stillness was broken only by the faint sound of a lawnmower in the far distance. The 90-degree temperature sounds hot, but a slight breeze kept it quite comfortable. We were alone with nature on an elevated 5-acre knoll to view a very intriguing structure in northeastern rural Georgia. There stands a granite monument with chiseled instructions for those left behind if our present world is destroyed. A macabre thought indeed!\n\nMy longtime friend, Bob Jacob, an Englishman living in a tiny pristine Austrian village, is an avid history buff. Because my wife and I have a cabin tucked away in the beautiful northern Georgia mountains, he incorrectly assumed we knew all about the “Georgia Guidestones,” depicting the end to our present world and often referred to as the “American Stonehenge.” He had come upon it in researching the recent discovery of an additional ring of pits around Stonehenge in England.\n\nAt present, the world is in a conundrum dealing with the Coronavirus Pandemic causing disruption in people’s lives and loss of livelihood. And as if that had not caused enough hardship worldwide, now monuments of American history are being destroyed in our own country as protests continue to upend cities throughout the country due to alleged police brutality targeting blacks unjustifiably. Additionally, we have a nation politically divided right through the middle with no compromise in sight.\n\nAs Americans, we tend to be shortsighted, opinionated and with a limited understanding of the world around us. Some say they want to move to “greener pastures,” to other countries where everything is so much better. With the experience of personally having lived and worked in six different countries and having traveled in many more in all continents, I can attest that even today the United States of America, with its freedoms and opportunities, is still the greatest country in the world.\n\nHowever, there is the “tunnel vision” of some who have not experienced these opportunities. Therefore, it is also no wonder, that there are more people today believing in an end to our world as we know it… Armageddon… Apocalypse. They do have different meanings as the first is a final human fight for mankind, while the apocalypse is the philosophy of the events that bring us to this brink of our extinction.\n\nSo, what better time to take a short leisurely road trip to investigate the Georgia Guidestones. Considering our current pandemic situation, they offer a scary theory about a future that was far advanced for the time this monument was erected. This was most likely a result of the Cold War period some 20-years prior to its construction when people were afraid of a nuclear attack and invasion by the former Soviet Union. Some of you no doubt remember children going through mock bomb scares at school in the early 60s.\n\nElberton, Georgia is a small city in the middle of a line of granite through northeastern Georgia. The city was incorporated in 1803; calls itself the “Granite Capital of the World” and claims to have produced more granite monuments than any other city in the world. There are no statistics to prove the claim, but this city of less than 5000 has created generations of stonecutters.\n\nThat is probably why a distinguished elderly gentleman attired in a suit and tie presented himself in June of 1979 at the Elberton Granite Finishing Company. He said his name was Robert C. Christian and admitted that was not his real name. He explained that he represented a small group of true Americans, who wanted to build a structure out of granite, but who wished to remain anonymous. The stones, Mr. Christian explained, would be a calendar, a clock, and a compass and should be strong enough to withstand storms, catastrophic events, and any other calamity. He explained his group had been working on a model for 20 years.\n\nJoe Fendley, the representative for the granite company, thought the stranger was crazy. He presented him with a price much higher than the actual cost. “I have to hire additional men and get special tools,” was Fendley’s excuse in hopes that Mr. Christian would go away. However, the quote was accepted without discussion. Four months later, the five-acre parcel of land was purchased by Christian from a local farmer and he presented a scale model and numerous pages of astronomic features and specifications. This included a channel through the stone indicating the celestial pole, a horizontal slot marking the annual trajectory of the sun and a sunbeam through the capstone marking noontime throughout the year.\n\nSix months later, on March 22, 1980, the structure was unveiled in the presence of a few hundred guests who were impressed, delighted, or abhorred by the monument. After the ceremony, all documents pertaining to the construction and origin of this multi-stone mystery monolith were destroyed. Later, under total secrecy, the ownership was transferred to Elbert County.\n\nThe monument is constructed 750 feet above sea level, is 19 feet and 3 inches high and is made from six granite slabs at an approximate total weight of 238,000 pounds.\n\nAnother smaller granite stone lies flat in the ground nearby and provides information about the structure and the languages used on it. There also is a reference to a time capsule under it. However, the space for the inscription of the date the capsule was put in the ground and an opening date were left blank. I asked Christopher Kubs, Executive Vice President of The Elberton Granite Association, why no one has checked if the capsule is indeed there. He could not give me a clear answer but did say and I quote: “Often, the mystery is more interesting than the reality.”\n\nThe engraved messages on each side of the columns consist of ten commandments in eight languages: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, and Russian. The flat granite capstone reads: “Let these be the guidestones to an Age of Reason.” Etched around the edges is the translation in additional ancient languages: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit, and Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.\n\nObviously, the message is extremely controversial and open to personal interpretation. Especially, the first instruction giving us images of forced birth control as has been used in China in the past. Or number two suggesting to only let the healthy specimen live, conjuring horrific thoughts of Hitler’s “pure race” Nazism. Someone even spray-painted: “Death to the New World Order” on the granite. Another said: “Just because this does not align with your thinking does not make it evil.” Yet another added graffiti: “I am Isis, Goddess of Love.” Today, the site is surrounded by 24-hour cameras. The day we visited it was in pristine condition gleamingly clean of any graffiti.\n\nA local banker named Wyatt Martin was the agent for Christian and the last person alive involved in the project. It is not known how much he really knew about the people who were behind the creation of the structure or their philosophy. However, he repeatedly stated that he had agreed to complete secrecy and would not break his promise. Indeed, Martin took the mystery to his grave.\n\nPerhaps the mystery will be solved one day, or perhaps not. After all, ancient Stonehenge was already one of the most studied archaeological sites on Earth, and only last month there was a new discovery of 20 shafts built in a ring within a 1.2-mile radius of the existing Heritage Monument. Who knows what could still be found at the “Georgia Guidestones?” While we ponder this more recent mystery, perhaps we should be introspective in learning to be more open to opposing opinions. We should remember how the tragedy of “9/11” brought our country closer together with pride in America and a strong belief in our strengths and resilience." ]

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[ null, "LZ Retailytics\nLidl sees potential for up to 850 stores in Spain - up from 540 at the moment.\n\nLidl ended its 2016 financial year in Spain with sales growth nearing double-digits, the country management has disclosed at a press conference. The Schwarz Group-owned discounter posted net sales of EUR3.335bn in the financial year ended 28 February 2017 – an increase of 9.4% vs. the previous year. The total net number of stores grew only slightly to 540 outlets, as the 39 openings included store replacements and refurbishments. Profits have not been disclosed, but will likely be higher than the EUR104mn achieved in 2015.\n\nLidl invested a record EUR368mn in the 2016 financial year; which will be followed by EUR300mn this year, according to Financial Director Ferrán Figueras. The primary aim is to roll out the new store concept in the country and open new outlets. The management sees room for up to “800 to 850 stores”, according to El País newspaper. Acquisitions would not be ruled out if the opportunity arises, however group policy remains organic growth.\n\nAs in previous years, Lidl Spain has put a strong emphasis on sustainability. For the discounter this includes a high percentage of “locally” (which means nationally) sourced goods, as the number of Spanish producers climbed 8% to 650. Lidl has also increased the minimum wage for company employees, which it claims is the highest in the industry.\n\nOpinion Busy as a Bee\n\nAs Lidl lets off the fireworks in Spain again – it discloses more information than in any of its other countries of operation – the first figure that surprises is the lower investment budget for the current year. As an observer, one is used to ever-growing sums of money, after all. There may be two explanations for this. First, the decision by Schwarz Group boss Klaus Gehrig earlier this year to step on the brakes in terms of spending – the new Lidl concept had reportedly become too posh and expensive in his eyes, resulting in the dismissal of the Lidl boss. Secondly, the imminent launch of Lidl in the USA – a venture that will most definitely devour huge sums that will therefore no longer be available for the European operations. (In general, this is an open question: What will the US venture, or adventure, mean for Lidl’s development in Europe?)\n\nSo why all this public activity? Well, Lidl’s impact on the Spanish grocery market has been rather modest, despite having been present in the country since 1994. Its market share has only reached 3.8%, according to LZ Retailytics data, which is lower than in France, Poland or Austria. Estimated gross sales per store, an important productivity indicator, show EUR6.6mn for Lidl in Spain in 2016, which is in the bottom third of all of its countries, lower than Greece, Italy or Hungary.\n\nThis is reason enough to beat the big drums. Of course, it is market leader Mercadona which exerts massive sales pressure on foreign Lidl, exactly because the Spanish supermarket operator’s concept is so close to Lidl’s: a very price-aggressive, private label-focused, standardised, process-orientated distribution system. One might think that Mercadona could be seen as the perfect supermarket fusion of Lidl and its sister banner Kaufland.\n\nHence all the activity: increasing minimum wages; focus on young employees where youth unemployment is still high at 45%; and implementing the dual education system (which is crucial for Lidl’s management, who are trained in Germany). Furthermore, Lidl stresses that it buys goods valued at EUR3.2bn a year in Spain, of which EUR1.7bn are exported; it has clean labelling for private label ingredients; its been reducing sugars in its soft drinks – even if this is just in reaction to new legislation in Catalonia; and the retailer’s organic food lines have been extended to some 90 products.\n\nFinally – and rather surprisingly – there is another competitor arising that is increasingly prompting Lidl in Spain to become more proactive: Aldi Nord. In no other country has Aldi Nord been as innovative and progressive in terms of marketing as it is in Spain – a blueprint for its international markets." ]

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[ "Jodhpur: Movie star Salman Khan, questioned in a Rajasthan court today on the alleged killing of blackbuck deer during a film shoot 19 years ago, declared, \"I am innocent\". The 51-year-old said he had been \"falsely implicated\", testifying in the presence of his co-stars Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam.\n\nSalman Khan has faced four cases over the years linked to the killing of two blackbucks and two chinkara in the alleged deer hunt while filming the 1998 movie \"Hum Saath Saath Hain\".\n\nThe other actors are accused of instigating him.\n\nSalman Khan, says the prosecution, drove a Gypsy to the forests near Jodhpur on the night of October 1, 1998, with Saif Ali Khan sitting with him and the others in the back. The prosecution alleges that guided by two locals, the group went deep into the forests, in an area where deer are protected and roam freely, and shot the blackbucks.", null, "Mr Khan told the court that he never went on the alleged hunt; he said would return to his hotel room straight after the shoot and never go out at night for security reasons.\n\nHe was reportedly asked 65 questions by the prosecution, based on statements from 28 witnesses. Among the witnesses are members of the Bishnoi tribe who hold deer sacred and reportedly chased the actors after hearing the gunshots.\n\nPromoted\nListen to the latest songs, only on JioSaavn.com\nMr Khan has alleged that the witnesses were \"concocted\" by the forest department for publicity. The Rajasthan High Court had last year acquitted the actor in two cases related to the hunting of chinkara deer.", null, "Blackbuck Case: Tabu arrived at the Jodhpur court to record her statement.\n\nLast week, he was let off in an Arms Act case linked to the poaching. He was accused of keeping and using an unlicenced weapon but the court acquitted him, giving him the benefit of doubt based on weak evidence.\n\nThe other actors have also denied any role in the deer killing. They were asked to appear on Wednesday to record their statement but they asked for more time citing extra security a day ahead of yesterday's Republic Day celebrations." ]

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[ "Streets for Everyone – Gil Penalosa Brings His Healthy Cities Message to St. Petersburg", null, "Elected officials and professionals involved in efforts to improve transportation infrastructure in their communities often talk about mobility and safety being the top priorities. These are necessary pursuits. But the core values of building a quality transportation system are about health and equity. These themes are central to the mission of 8 80 Cities, a Toronto based non-profit organization that helps cities and communities around the world reach their potential as “people places.” The name “8 80 Cities” is based on the idea of the organization’s founder and director Gil Penalosa that cities should work for all people age 8 to 80.\n\nI had the opportunity to join some friends for a conversation with Penalosa on April 21 at a coffee shop on Central Avenue in downtown St. Petersburg. Sitting with me at the table were fellow St. Petersburg Mayor’s Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) members Lee Allen, Jeremiah Rohr and Tom Cason, St. Petersburg Bike Coop Advisory Board member Caesar Morales and sustainability activist Chris Kenrick.\n\n“Bicycling on the streets can be a polarizing issue, but no one is opposed to improving people’s health. That’s why everyone should support public investment in safe bikeways and", null, "walkable streets,” explained Penalosa. He also emphasized the value of equity and community interaction that comes with a connected network of safe bikeways. “Regardless of their race or economic circumstances, on a public bikeway, everyone meets as equals,” he stated.\n\nPenalosa also stressed the need to establish a “minimum grid” of on-street protected bicycle facilities in the City to accommodate all ages and abilities. These facilities include bike lanes or side paths that provide a barrier between the bicyclists and vehicles. “Think of someone you know who is 8 or 80. Would you let them ride their bikes on these streets?” he asked.\n\nA former parks commissioner in Bogota, Columbia, Penalosa was also involved in launching the Ciclovia movement, which started there in 1974. Ciclovia involves closing streets to vehicle traffic and turning them over to people for bicycling, walking and other health-related activities. Ciclovia has made its way to numerous cities around the globe and in the U.S. Morales and Rohr are leading the effort to help St. Petersburg stage its first Ciclovia under the moniker of “Open Streets St. Pete” on October 9, 2016.\n\nAfter our coffee shop meeting, we watched Penalosa present his 8 80 healthy streets concept to St. Petersburg’s Energy, Natural Resources and Sustainability Committee (ENRS). He urged the Committee to aim high and act with a sense of urgency. “There’s no reason why St. Petersburg can’t be the healthiest most physically active city in the world,” he proclaimed. Penalosa shared that sentiment with City Council later in the day shortly before they approved the launch of a new bike share program in the downtown area. It was a major step forward for a City pointed toward the goal of building a network of healthy streets for everyone to enjoy." ]

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[ null, "DELMAR — Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that left one person dead in a Bender Lane residence early Saturday morning, April 17.\n\nThe fire claimed the life of resident Michael Jeram. He was 65.\n\nAccording to a Bethlehem police press release, the cause of the fire is not suspicious.\n\nBethlehem police received a call of a residential fire at 228 Bender Lane at approximately 3:06 a.m. Several fire departments responded to the scene, at which point the home was fully involved.\n\nFire crews from Elsmere, Delmar and Selkirk distinguished the fire. A crew from North Bethlehem responded to provide rehabilitation, and another crew from Coeymans reported to Selkirk Fire 1 for additional coverage. Also assisting at the scene were Albany County Sheriff Paramedics and Delmar-Bethlehem EMS.\n\nAccording to a Bethlehem Police Department press release, one adult was found dead in the house and later removed from the scene by the Albany County Coroner’s Office. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday, April 19.\n\nNo other details were shared." ]

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[ "China tells neighbors to think twice before hosting them", null, "The U.S. is hoping to deploy new ground-based intermediate-range missiles to Asia “sooner rather than later,” U.S. defense chief Mark Esper said of a move that could have huge ramifications for regional security.\n\nEsper’s remarks were likely to raise already-soaring tensions with Beijing and add to fears of a new arms race involving the U.S., China and Russia.\n\n“Yes I would like to,” Esper said late Saturday when asked if the United States was considering deploying new medium-range conventional weapons in Asia now that Washington is no longer bound by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which the U.S. formally withdrew from a day earlier.\n\n“We would like to deploy a capability sooner rather than later,” Esper said, according to a transcript released ahead of his arrival in Sydney for the start of a weeklong tour of Asia. “But with, you know, programs like this, it takes time. You have to design and develop, and test and do all those types of things.\n\n“I would prefer months,” he said in regards to a deployment. “But these things tend to take longer than you expect.”\n\nEsper did not say where the missiles would be based, but experts have said Asian allies such as Japan and Australia, as well as the U.S. territory of Guam, were among possible deployment sites.\n\n“I wouldn’t speculate because all those things depend on our plans,” Esper said. “Those are things you always discuss with your allies.”\n\nU.S. President Donald Trump has pinned much of the blame for Washington’s exit from the INF agreement on Russian violations of the landmark pact. But a closer look shows that China’s buildup of its missile forces — which pose a grave threat to U.S. military bases in Japan and elsewhere in the region — also played a large part in the decision to abrogate the 1987 arms-control deal.\n\nTrump said in October that the U.S. would scrap the 1987 treaty between Washington and Moscow, which banned all land-based missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 km (310 to 3,420 miles). The pact covered missiles, known as short- and intermediate-range, that can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads, but did not ban air- or sea-launched weapons.\n\nChina has warned the United States that it would take unspecified countermeasures if Washington goes ahead with plans to deploy ground-based missiles in the Asia Pacific region.\n\nThe statement from the Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday comes days after US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the US was now free to deploy the weapons following its withdrawal last week from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia.\n\n“China will not stand by idly and will be forced to take countermeasures should the US deploy intermediate-range ground-based missiles in this part of the world,” said Fu Cong, the director of arms control at the foreign ministry.\n\n“And we also call on our neighbours, our neighbouring countries, to exercise prudence and not to allow a US deployment of its intermediate-range missiles on [their] territory,” he added, naming Australia, Japan and South Korea.\n\n“That would not serve the national security interest of these countries,” he said.\n\nFu issued the statement as tensions between the two countries heated up because of an escalating trade war.\n\nOn Monday, Australia ruled out the possibility of the missiles being deployed on its soil, saying Canberra had not even been asked to host them." ]

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[ null, "Daniel Bard is a 37-year-old American Baseball Player from Texas, United States. He was born on Tuesday, June 25, 1985. Is Daniel Bard married or single, and who is he dating now? Let’s find out!\n\nDaniel Paul Bard is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Chicago Cubs’ organization. He played in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox from 2009 to 2013. He was the ACC Freshman of the Year while pitching at the University of North Carolina.\n\nFun Fact: On the day of Daniel Bard’s birth, \"\" by was the number 1 song on The Billboard Hot 100 and was the U.S. President.\n\nDaniel Bard is single. He is not dating anyone currently. Daniel had at least 1 relationship in the past. Daniel Bard has not been previously engaged. He married Adair Sturdivant in 2010. According to our records, he has no children.\n\nLike many celebrities and famous people, Daniel keeps his personal and love life private. Check back often as we will continue to update this page with new relationship details. Let’s take a look at Daniel Bard past relationships, ex-girlfriends and previous hookups.\n\nDaniel Bard was born on the 25th of June in 1985 (Millennials Generation). The first generation to reach adulthood in the new millennium, Millennials are the young technology gurus who thrive on new innovations, startups, and working out of coffee shops. They were the kids of the 1990s who were born roughly between 1980 and 2000. These 20-somethings to early 30-year-olds have redefined the workplace. Time magazine called them “The Me Me Me Generation” because they want it all. They are known as confident, entitled, and depressed.\n\nDaniel Bard is famous for being a Baseball Player. MLB pitcher who was selected 28th overall in the 2006 MLB Draft by the Boston Red Sox. He spent the first chapter of his career on a Boston Red Sox team led by David Ortiz. Daniel Paul Bard attended Christian (Charlotte, NC) and University of North Carolina.\n\nDaniel Bard is turning 38 in\n\nWhat is Daniel Bard marital status?\n\nDaniel Bard has no children.\n\nIs Daniel Bard having any relationship affair?\n\nWas Daniel Bard ever been engaged?\n\nDaniel Bard has not been previously engaged.\n\nHow rich is Daniel Bard?\n\nDiscover the net worth of Daniel Bard on CelebsMoney\n\nDaniel Bard’s birth sign is Cancer and he has a ruling planet of Moon.\n\nFact Check: We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn’t look right, contact us. This page is updated often with latest details about Daniel Bard. Bookmark this page and come back for updates." ]

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[ null, "Andrea and Zach had the most incredible day on Saturday! Zach was so filled with emotions and I just loved his reaction when he turned around and saw Andrea and her dad walking down the aisle and the tears he had when he opened his Grandma’s bottle of Crown Royal from 1969 and asked everyone that knew her to take a shot. Their wedding ceremony and reception took place at City View Event Center at the Dock’s and International Park area in downtown Toledo and it was absolutely stunning!\n\nTo backtrack a bit, Andrea met her matron of honor, Becca, when the two worked at a bank together in 2009. They became best friends and Becca asked Andrea to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. Zach was asked to be a groomsman for Becca’s now-husband Josh and Andrea was paired with him for the wedding day. They met for the first time at the bachelor/bachelorette party in September 2012. Things kept going between them because they started dating shortly after the wedding of Becca and Josh and have been together since!\n\nIn December 2020, the couple took a trip to Hocking Hills. Andrea said, “One of the walking trails was to Cedar Falls and there wasn’t much traffic on this trail, although we did notice one other couple behind us. When we got to the falls, I took a few pictures and the couple behind us caught up to us and Zach asked the woman to take our picture. She snapped several photos and was going to hand his phone back to him, but then he asked if she could take one more. She looked confused but agreed to take more and he got down on one knee and asked if I would marry him! I said yes (of course) and we have a ton of photos of that moment we can cherish forever.” So cute!\n\nAfter the ceremony, the couple went to Promenade Park for some fun wedding party and couple photos. One thing I love about City View is they provide boat rides across the river as a huge fun perk. We had some fun there before the reception and then went out before we left for some sunset photos. It was such a gorgeous sunset and kept getting prettier by the minute. Congrats, Andrea and Zach! It was such an honor being a part of your day!" ]

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[ null, "CIEF (the Church of Ireland Evangelical Fellowship) has launched its programme for 2015/6.\n\nDetails are as follows:\n\nBrother David Jardine is a Church of Ireland clergyman and also a member of the Society of St. Francis, a religious community in the Anglican Church. He is a former chaplain in Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast.\n\nAlong with a group of others David Jardine founded Interdenominational Divine Healing Ministries in 1992. Since then, on an interdenominational basis they have been praying for the healing of individuals and of our land.\n\nBrother David has led the formation of an extensive team of trained healers, who by invitation have attended many churches and associated venues throughout Ireland. Brother David is also a Canon of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast.\n\nConfidence in the Scriptures\n\nDavid Huss is rector of Donegal, Killymard, Lough Eske and Laghey and is also Archdeacon of Raphoe, where he was installed in November 2013. David has degrees from Oxford University in physics and theology and prior to Ordination taught for five years. His wife Beverly is a GP in Donegal and they have three young boys.\n\nAt the time of his appointment Bishop Good said of his new Archdeacon, “He is a deeply committed pastor in his parishes. As a diocesan team we are looking forward to the contribution he is going to make in fulfilling our purpose, Transforming Community Radiating Christ”.\n\nConfidence for our Future\n\nThe Rt Rev Ken Good is the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. After completing his third level education at Trinity College, Dublin he was ordained in 1977. He began his career as a Curate in Belfast after which he was Chaplain and Head of Religious Education at Ashton School, Cork.\n\nBishop Ken is married to Mary and they have a family of three who live in various parts of the UK.\n\nIn 1984 he became Rector of Dunganstown, Diocese of Glendalough; and in 1990 of Shankill Parish Lurgan in Dromore Diocese. His final appointment before elevation to the Episcopate was as Archdeacon of Dromore. Bishop Ken was elected Bishop of Derry and Raphoe in 2002.\n\nFor further information on the CIEF programme, please contact the Rev Malcolm Kingston on 028 3752 2970." ]

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[ null, "She was born by the name Maya Kazan in Los Angeles, California, United States of American to Robin Swicord and Nicholas Kazan. She was also raised there. She is an American and is of white ethnicity.\n\nWith the completion of her high school graduation, Maya joined Wesleyan University. There she majored in film studies and she also earned her Bachelor's Degree from there in late 2000s. She dreamed to be an actress since she was a child.\n\nAppeared in the movie, Frances Ha\n\nAppeared in the television series, The Knick\n\nMaya Kazan is an actress and director from United States. Till now she has appeared in several movies and TV series. In 2014, she appeared in the TV drama series The Knick where she played the role of Eleanor Gallinger.\n\nMaya is lovely and stunning in her looks and everyone is fascinated in her beauty. Her love affairs and her love circle is the taking point in the media which is kept secret by her. It’s almost inaccessible to access the information related to her boyfriend, married life, spouse and her divorce.\n\nWith the completion of her high school graduation, Maya joined Wesleyan University. There she majored in film studies and she also earned her Bachelor's Degree from there in late 2000s. As most of her family members are active in the film industry, she also got fascinated in acting since a young age. She has been active in acting since 2008. In 2008, she starred the role of Christie Mae in the short movie Christie Mae. She also portrayed the role of Amy in the short movie I'll Never Smile Again. She got her rise in fame after she starred the role of Caroline in the movie Frances Ha. In 2014, she appeared in the TV drama series The Knick. The actual figure about her net worth and salary is unknown.", null, null, "Ray J and Princess Love confirm engagement as they look to stabilize their volatile relationship: Know their married life" ]

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[ null, "People should have known they were being played for fools when Cameron said “the British people have made a very clear decision….” In reality, under 52% of Britons voted to leave the EU in a non-binding referendum. Think about that, because apparently nobody has in these last 5-and-a-bit months. Less than 52% voted to leave and they only represent 37% of the total electorate because 13 million people did not vote at all. There was only a 72% turn-out and roughly half voted on each side.\n\nSo why are people like Cameron and Theresa May so adamant that “Brexit means Brexit”? Why is it only now that the High Court has reminded people that the UK constitution ensures, as lawyers have said all along, that parliament has the final say? Why is a government that largely wanted to remain in the EU putting on this ludicrous show of suddenly needing to uphold the will of the people? Is anyone stupid enough to believe that they care about the will of the people? They refused to allow Boaty McBoatface because of the extreme gravity of naming a ship, but they are honour-bound to redefine international and domestic relation drastically because of a small margin in a non-binding referendum? I do not think so.\n\n17 of the 23 members in the current UK government campaigned to remain in the EU and yet now they are staging a farcical spectacle of girding their loins to fight valiantly for something they don’t want. Brexit Secretary David Davis even upped the hyperbole stakes by claiming that the leave voters had given the government the “biggest mandate in history”. Meanwhile, the most Brexity person in the UK cabinet is the outwardly oafish Boris Johnson, who recently claimed that Brexit will be a “Titanic success”. The obvious thing for people to do is feel good because the buffoon man said something dumb and it feels great to be superior to the idiot toff. But this is a guy who won a scholarship to Eton, won prizes there for English and Classics, and went on to become President of the Oxford Union. Maybe it is a blunder or maybe a Freudian slip, but we must always consider that it could be a witticism. Regardless, he is giving people what they want to see, and every time you laugh at him he is laughing twice as hard back at you. Every time you misunderestimate him, it feeds his contemptuous sense of superiority and power. But I digress….\n\nSome in the government may be genuinely in favour of leaving, but if you think you know what lies in the hearts of people like Boris Johnson then you are fooling yourself. Collectively it should be clear that the exaggerated and silly pantomime currently being played out by the government is little more than B’rer Rabbit theatre meant to bamboozle B’rer Pleb (the public) that they are working incredibly hard and desperately want to get out of that nasty European briar patch. Ohhh, the pain of being held back by that sticky tar constitution and some nasty judges! What can B’rer B’rexit do against secretly European judges, one of whom is an “openly gay ex-Olympic fencer”?\n\nSo what is it all about then? Part of it, at least, is that the art of Western politics has now largely become the art of convincing people to be grateful and relieved to have their face stamped on by a boot covered in dog shit, or to blame themselves if they end up having their face stamped on by a boot covered in cat shit. This is also the essence of the current election campaign in the USA. Stupidity, greed, hatred, parochialism, ignorance, self-righteousness and, most importantly, fear are being harnessed to make people feel that Clinton’s presidency will be a lucky and narrow escape. Trump does a very good job of giving substance to those feelings. Alternatively if he does end up as President the blame, like that for Brexit, will be left firmly on the shoulders of the ordinary people. As with Brexit and the Colombian civil war referendum some elites will quietly but pointedly indicate that this demonstrates the dangers of democracy.\n\nThe UK has been offered two highly repugnant options by it rulers. One is a self-destructive Brexit that is already causing economic disruption, not to mention making the UK a laughing stock and further fueling Scottish secessionism. The other is a Bremain that means people have no right to complain unless they are xenophobes or take the David Cameron position of claiming (like a posh Trump) that the deal is bad and pledging to send the best negotiators to get the best deal out of those cunning foreigners with their greasy unboiled non-Anglo-Saxon ways. Never mind the actual substantive reasons to hate the EU: the inescapable neoliberalism wracking the poor and vulnerable and creating inequality and disastrous social exclusion. Never mind the gulf between the European Commission and the democratic voice of the peoples of Europe. Never mind the clear sentiment against neoliberal “norms” that are embedded in EU governance. Those things only matter to agitators and uppity proles. Real politics is the art of the possible and from an elite perspective the only thing possible is a finance-friendly fiscally-responsible slow painful descent into a new dark age. The elite conversation is dominated by the excuse that “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must”, as evinced by this charming person who reviewed Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake:\n\nUnderwhelmed by I, Daniel Blake. Preachy and poorly made. A povvo safari for middle class people. REVIEW https://t.co/pZiVxnfSS9\n\nA proper Brexit would have been a reclamation of popular sovereignty. It would have been an ultimatum to Brussels emanating from the grass roots: we will no longer comply with these unjust impositions, if you don’t like it then you can do the Brexit. I am being a little ridiculous, of course, because before they can reclaim democracy from Brussels, the UK people would have to reclaim it from the City of London. The obvious answer to this and other impediments that make a left-wing Brexit a current impossibility, is to remain, at least for the time being, and trying to work in solidarity with other Europeans to reform the EU, to make it democratic and to cleanse it of neoliberalism.\n\nI remember now! Yanis Varoufakis launched a European democracy movement just this year, but it was soon overwhelmed by the screaming and shouting over Brexit. Whether you think that Varoufakis has the answers or not, he is at least addressing the problem. Yet no possible solutions to real problems can even be heard over the insincere bellowing of scumbags who want to make people choose between gouging out their own eyes and injecting themselves with syphilis.\n\nThe latest episode of Westworld had a quote that, although aimed at the ultraviolence on our screens, also works for the political discourse in this well-spun world in which we live: “They create an urgency and a sense of danger so they can strip us down to something raw, animalistic, primal.”\n\nSo now we know. Brexit does not mean Brexit, and Project Fear did not die with the referendum. It may not have the same claims of immanent nuclear annihilation, but it is a nagging fear, and the urgency they build is now to end the suspense. Get it over with. That is the point of this current Brexit kerfuffle and drama. With neologisms like “remoaners”, “regrexit” creating a rising tide of twaddle all around, people have rather unsurprisingly started to shuffle back into the remain camp. Polls suggest now that 51% want to remain. The most surprising thing to me is that it has taken so long and shifted so little. Between the polls and the reminder that it was always going to be decided in Parliament, Theresa May and her Voltairesque high-principled crew will now be able to defend “democracy” with every ounce of their vocal chords until they are pulled kicking and screaming back to where most of them campaigned to be." ]

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[ "You can select only upto 4 items to compare. View Order. Free Installation. Hover to zoom. Sold Out! We will let you know when in stock. Thank you for your interest You will be notified when this product will be in stock. I agree to the. Terms and Conditions. How It Works? IMEI Number. Exchange Discount Summary Exchange Discount -Rs. Final Price Rs.\n\n2. How to Track Oppo Smartphone via Google Find My Device\n\nApply Exchange. Other Specifications. The images represent actual product though color of the image and product may slightly differ. Was this information helpful to you? Yes No. Thank You for submitting your response.", null, "\nSold by. Sell on Snapdeal.\n\nMaintaining the reputation of launching newer mobile phones at a regular interval, Oppo introduced the Oppo A The phone sported a 5. In May , Oppo launched the A77 in Taiwan. It is fueled by a 1. It is powered by the 1. The A57 runs on the Android 6. It is powered by a 2.\n\n\nNotable features include the 16MP front camera and the AI facial unlock feature. In January , Oppo had released the Oppo A An initial version of the Oppo F5. The Oppo A3 was made available in Taiwan in June Notable features on the A3s includes a 6. The OPPO A7 adopts the industry-first waterdrop screen design, backed by several technological advances, reflecting nature like a water droplet on the verge of dropping. Corning glass supports an The A7 is based on Android 8. The A5s has some differences as the A3s. The A5s has a waterdrop screen and a fingerprint scanner while the A3s doesn't have a fingerprint scanner.\n\nOppo also introduce Oppo A9 The Oppo Find 5 was released in America in February It featured clean lines, a thin rectangular shape, and an overall elegant appearance. In July , a refreshed Oppo Find 5 launched in China. The processor has been changed to Snapdragon instead of the Snapdragon S4 Pro.\n\nThe Android version was updated to Android 4.\n\nIt was announced on 19 March and was released in April It is similar in design to the OnePlus One released in April The Find X features a design that is different from traditional smartphone designs. A pop up camera allows it to be a full screen smartphone with minimal bezels. It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and it operates on Android 8. On 23 September , Oppo announced the N1, which has a 5." ]

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[ null, "Michelle Rempel Garner is not yet in the United Conservative Party leadership race. But she’s kicking the tires.\n\nIn a series of tweets Wednesday night, the Calgary Nose Hill Conservative MP said she was being encouraged to throw in her hat and confirmed she is “seriously considering a provincial leadership offer”.\n\n“I will make my decision based on the conversations I have with the people I represent – Albertans,” she said.\n\nAs a result, Rempel Garner said she would step down as co-chair of the campaign for the Conservative Party of Canada candidate Patrick Brown.\n\nAccording to Elections Alberta, seven registered candidates are vying for leadership of the UCP, including MLAs Rebecca Schulz and Travis Toews, who have resigned from cabinet positions to run for office. MLA Rajan Sawhney has also resigned from her post as Transport Minister to start her own campaign.\n\nIndependent MLA Todd Loewen, who was kicked out of the caucus after criticizing Prime Minister Jason Kenney, and Amisk Mayor Bill Rock are also in the running.\n\nKenney announced in May that he will resign after receiving only 51.4 percent support in a leadership review.\n\nThe UCP will appoint a new leader on October 6.\n\n— With files from Postmedia" ]

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[ null, "In an ambiguous decision by Britain’s Supreme Court, last week it ruled the holding and disposal of Venezuela’s gold reserves in the British Central Bank, equivalent to about $1,000 million over 13 years. Although the UK’s highest court decision ratified Juan Guaido’s recognition of being in charge of the presidency, it opened the door for the regime to secure and future claims.\n\nThe importance of the British Court’s statement has threefold implications: on the side of official, oppositional and international relations. In the latter, the change of government through constitutional means does not represent any problem, but this is not the case when there is a seizure of power through non-constitutional means; Faced with such a situation, the doctrine and practice of international law considers “government recognition”. In general, it can be defined as a manifestation of the will made by a State or a group of States by which it verifies the constitutionality of a government or not, and which impacts whether or not relations between States are sustainable.\n\nIn this context there are several doctrines in international law: the doctrine of Ecuador Carlos R, Tobar (1907), which says: “The American Republics should intervene indirectly in the internal decisions of the Republics on the continent. This intervention may consist, at least, in the non-recognition of the de facto government arising from the revolution against the constitution”; a doctrine ratified by the Betancourt doctrine, a prelude to the Inter-American Democratic Charter. Years later, Wilson’s doctrine of 1917 stipulated that any Latin American government of revolutionary origin or contrary to the constitution, could not enjoy the support of the Washington government and would not be recognized by it. Furthermore, in contrast to previous doctrines, the Mexican Foreign Minister, Genaro Estrada (1930), based on the principle of “non-intervention”, stated that “Mexico restricts itself to retaining or withdrawing, if it deems fit its purpose. diplomatic agent .. .without qualifying, preemptively, or a posteriori, the right of foreign states to accept, retain or replace their government or authority”.\n\nLast week, Britain’s Supreme Court ruled on the availability of 31 tonnes of gold reserves that Venezuela has in the Bank of England, equivalent to $1000 million over 13 years. While the decision has had little resonance in the official and opposition media, it has far-reaching significance from a political, legal and economic point of view. For the regime, politically, decisions in its favor represented recognition of its government, which would allow it to dispose of it at will, giving it ample bearing on waste and corruption. Fortunately, the Court decided against it and adhered to the regional doctrine of government recognition.\n\nThe court held that British courts were bound by the one vote principle to accept the executive statement stipulating that Guaido was recognized by HMG as constitutional president while Venezuela and Maduro were not. The second element that puts the regime out of the game is that the validity of Guaido’s executive actions in appointing BCV’s board of directors cannot be questioned by British courts; Finally, the justifying arguments conclude that the British courts have not stated or will not state the validity or legality of an executive act of a foreign State, which is carried out within the territory of that State.\n\nThis action internationally has full legal justification, for three reasons: a) very real electoral fraud, where an external structure is maintained, to allege legality emerges, while processes and outcomes are shamelessly manipulated; b) gross violations of human rights in clear violations of the Constitution and international law; and c) has allowed the Cuban regime to intervene politically in Venezuela, turning the country into a vassal state.\n\nHowever, the decision which is politically aligned with the European Union and the 60 governments backing Guaido’s interim government, opens the door for the regime to use commercial courts within the UK’s own jurisdiction, which might make one wonder: 1) Would a UK commercial court conflict with the principle of one vote?; 2) Or does it refer to an international commercial court for dispute resolution such as the Paris International Chamber of Arbitration? Or any of the 27 leading arbitration institutions and dispute resolution centres, worldwide? Which will be the truth." ]

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[ null, "AFL jerseys come in a variety of styles and fabrics. We’ve gathered some information on the fabric and number of NOB’s on each. In addition, we’ve looked at the origin of the various NOB’s on AFL jerseys. Take a look at our article below to learn more.\n\nThe Australian Football League (AFL) is the preeminent men’s football league in Australia. Many of the top Australian football teams wear AFL jerseys, and the sport’s uniforms are extremely popular.\n\nThe fabric of an Australian Football League jersey is one of the most important factors to consider. It can make a huge difference in the durability and comfort of the jersey.\n\nPlayers exert considerable physical exertion while playing football, so it is important that players are comfortable. The polyester fabric used in AFL jerseys ensures full flexibility and comfort for players throughout the game.\n\nIn the past, there were also heritage guernseys that were different from the home jerseys.\n\nMoisture-wicking polyester is also used. This type of fabric is woven as a solid fabric without visible holes and is ideal for warm climates. It allows sweat to quickly evaporate and does not create a sticky feeling.\n\nThis fabric also is often used in practice football jerseys and as an accent fabric for hockey jerseys.\n\nThe polyester fabric is not as breathable as cotton, but it is more pliable than cotton. It can be stretched up to 600% before breaking, making it useful for jersey arms and necks.\n\nIt can also be returned to its original shape. AFL jerseys may also contain polyurethane, which is a synthetic material used in soccer balls.\n\nNumber of NOB’s on AFL jerseys\n\nSome AFL teams have adopted a tradition of wearing a number of NOBs on their jerseys. The San Diego Chargers, for instance, add their first names to the back of their jerseys.\n\nThe Cleveland Browns also use a similar practice. The concept of wearing nicknames on AFL jerseys came to be in part from the PR department at the Atlanta Braves.\n\nThe team’s players don the nicknames as a promotional stunt. In Atlanta, a player known as “Channel” wears a short NOB under his uniform number.\n\nDuring the 1960 season, three teams opted for a nameless uniform. The Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos, and New York Titans did not have NOBs on their jerseys. However, during the first six weeks of the season, the Buffalo Bills wore nameless jerseys.\n\nThen, on October 23, the team debuted their first-ever NOB blue jerseys against the Oakland Raiders. Then, on November 13th, they switched to white away jerseys.\n\nAlthough many people assume that nameplates were the AFL’s policy from the start, research has shown that this is not the case. According to the Gridiron Uniform Database, several teams did not begin the season with NOBs.\n\nFor example, the New York Titans, who were one of the first teams in the league, likely did not have nameplates on their jerseys.\n\nThe concept of player surnames on AFL jerseys has been widely supported by fans. However, there are practical considerations that must be taken into consideration before the idea is adopted.\n\nThe AFL commissioner has not ruled out the idea of introducing player surnames on jumpers, but he has said there must be a compelling reason for fans to support this change.\n\nIn addition to their traditional home jerseys, many AFL clubs have introduced separate away jerseys.\n\nThese separate away jerseys are meant to help fans identify their team more easily. This has led to an increase in jersey sales. The football boots worn by players are typically low-cut turf shoes with studs.\n\nThe Origin of NOB’s on AFL Jerseys is a bit mysterious. Some teams use them in their first year of the league, while others don’t.\n\nSome teams do it for promotional purposes. The NFL allows players to wear their first initials and even add a generational suffix to their NOB. The Cleveland Browns, for example, use this format.\n\nThe Oakland Raiders, on the other hand, did not use NOBs. They did, however, use a combination of first and last names. In addition to the Raiders, the Bills and Texans adopted this practice during the 1960s.\n\nOne popular misconception is that the AFL adopted the nameplate concept from the beginning. However, research by the Gridiron Uniform Database shows that many teams did not start the 1960 season with NOBs.\n\nThe New York Titans, for example, likely didn’t have NOBs. Some of the other teams that were not wearing NOBs included the Philadelphia Eagles, the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Detroit Lions.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, null, "The elderly, vulnerable and very young are warned to take extreme care amid predictions for unprecedented heat. Some weather models warn a weekend surge will push thermometers to 43C, never before seen in the UK.\n\nHowever, this is thought to be an exaggerated computer output with forecasters saying 40C will be ‘just out of reach’.\n\nFierce sunshine will push ground temperatures to 46C–hot enough to soften roads and fry an egg on a car bonnet.\n\nJim Dale, meteorologist for British Weather Services, said: “In the sunshine, with these sorts of temperatures you could easily cook an egg on the ground.\n\n“This is because the ground retains the temperatures, especially after the warm dry spring and the hot weather we have already had.\n\n“The ground will act a bit like a frying pan, and temperatures at ground level can rise much higher than air temperatures predictions.”\n\nBlowtorch heat will be driven by an Azores High pressure system reaching across the Atlantic into Britain.\n\nIt will form a ‘heat dome’ over Britain, trapping rapidly warming air and forcing temperatures up through the week.", null, "Weather charts show hot weather could hold out beyond the weekend with high pressure stubbornly wedged over Britain through the next 10 days.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a level-3 ‘heat-health alert’ across south-eastern Britain and a level-2 warning across the rest of the country.\n\nA brief dip in temperatures on Thursday will give way for another surge ahead of the weekend, it warns.\n\nBritons are urged to avoid alcohol, stay out of the sun, and close curtains to keep indoor temperatures down.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said temperatures will rise through the week before another surge ahead of the weekend.\n\nHe said: “Temperatures will be the big talking point of the weather for the next several days.\n\n“They are set to rise through Monday as that high dominates and will be widely in the mid-20Cs across northern Britain.\n\n“Further south we are likely to peak above 30C particularly across the southeast.\n\n“There is the possibility we see an even hotter spell at the end of the week.”\n\nWarm air will become flattened under a dome of heat pushing temperatures up by compression, he added.\n\n“After that there is some uncertainty, there could be a dip before potentially seeing another rise.\n\n“Some computer models are suggesting quite a big rise in temperatures towards the back end of next week.”\n\nForecasters agree Britain is facing another ‘heat surge’ ahead of the weekend which could push the mercury close to 40C.\n\nExacta Weather’s James Madden said: “There will be a big surge of heat next weekend, and this could push temperatures beyond the 35C-mark.\n\n“40C may be just out of reach, but it would not be out of the question for temperatures to approach the mid- to high-30Cs.”", null, "While most of Britain boils through the coming days, parts of Scotland will wonder what the fuss is about.\n\nA cold front sinking across the far north of Britain will bring much lower temperatures and rain.\n\nWeathertrending meteorologist John Hammond said: “More northern parts of the country won’t see such searing heat, and for western Scotland and Northern Ireland, it will be wet weather rather than warmth that people are talking about.”\n\nElsewhere, while 40C is unlikely, rocketing temperatures will bring the hottest spell of summer so far, he added.\n\nHe said: “Despite much rumour of Britain reaching 40C, temperatures are very unlikely to get that high.\n\n“But in the southern half of the UK, they could reach the low- to mid-30Cs through the early part of this week.\n\n“It is most likely that this week will bring the hottest spell of the summer.”" ]

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[ "Morning Coffee: Bankers less keen to leave Credit Suisse than you think. Deals are going so well there’s a global shortage of Lucite", null, "The stories keep coming; Max Mesny, David Luwisch, Laurence van Lancker and William Young are the latest four Credit Suisse Managing Directors to have left the bank. Credit Suisse is offering pay increases of as much as 30% in order to keep senior deal makers. It’s an exodus … or is it?\n\nWhen you look at these stories with a cynical eye, they don’t always add up. At the moment, every CS news story mentions Archegos and Greensill, and most of them mention the loss of Armando Rubio-Alvarez and nearly the entire European FIG group to Jefferies. It’s undeniable that over the last six months, Credit Suisse has seen serious reputational damage and lost some people and franchises it would really rather have kept. But with a few exceptions like head of industrials Bill Young, a sort of diminishing returns seems to have set in.\n\nTo pick a name from today’s round of departures, Laurence van Lancker has left Credit Suisse to become CFO of Italian gaming company Lottomatica. That’s Lottomatica, which was recently sold by its parent to Gamenet Group. Gamenet Group is an private equity funded rollup, aiming to consolidate the European industry, and Credit Suisse were the advisors on the deal. Without necessarily knowing the details, this looks like a strategic career move on the part of van Lancker, in which push factors might not have played much of a part.\n\nOr look at Max Mesny. He’s gone to be a partner at Perella Weinberg, which always has a substantial pull factor. At CS he was the Chairman of EMEA FIG and Global Fintech. Mesny had recently lost a number of long-term colleagues, so he was always going to be vulnerable to an offer to take his talents to a boutique rather than go through the strain of building a whole new set of relationships with whoever CS hires. It’s a loss for CS, but not exactly new news; this could have been predicted months ago.\n\nEven the stories of big buybacks might be considered a bit underwhelming. “The bank has offered pay rises to some dealmakers looking to depart, often coupled with an increase in responsibility”, according to a well-sourced story in Financial News, but as that story also points out, show us a bank that hasn’t done that this year. It’s the hottest labour market in ten years; everyone’s trying to poach and everyone is trying to hold on to their bankers. Counteroffers are everywhere and the fact that Credit Suisse bankers are presumably being given a large uplift to move - which the bank is presumably matching or exceeding, suggests they're not exactly rushing out the doors after all.\n\nCitigroup analysts said back in June that there was no real evidence that CS’s attrition was any worse than peers. We wouldn’t necessarily take it that far – the FIG team was a major franchise loss, as was Hamza Lemssouguer, and if they hadn’t saved Niron Stabinsky’s SPAC team there really would have been questions asked. But as we said a few weeks ago, Christian Meissner has steadied leaky ships before in his career; when you look at the evidence carefully, Meissner's new vessel might be less rickety than everyone presumes.\n\nElsewhere, if you wanted evidence of how crazy the pace of investment banking deals has got, there is now apparently a serious capacity bottleneck in the niche industry which makes “tombstones”, “deal toys” and general commemorative swag for IBD guys to decorate their offices with. This is partly because transparent acrylic (“Lucite”) is also used for manufacturing face visors and protective screens, two applications that have seemed more essential during the pandemic than immortalising the advisors on a SPAC.\n\nIn the circumstances, it would be easier if deal toys also went virtual, like World of Warcraft armor and Animal Crossing couture. You could even, to be on the very bleeding edge, mint a non fungible crypto token of the deal – it wouldn’t mean anything, but then nor does any other NFT.\n\nUBS has raised first year analyst salaries to $100k, with trickle-up effects all the way up to Director. It now looks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are the hold-outs and this is turning into a real game of Liars’ Poker – if they fall into line with the rest of the industry, it looks slightly weak but if they don’t, they’re paying worse than the Street. (Business Insider)\n\nDeutsche Bank has also done the deed and is now paying first- and second-year analysts in its origination and advisory arms $100k and $105k. (Bloomberg)\n\nIf your boss won’t pay up for alt-data and satellite photos, maybe you should do what Giles Thorne of Jefferies did, and spend a day hiding round an industrial estate to count how many riders were going in and out of an online delivery company’s warehouse. (The Times)\n\nRather than just making equity investments in minority-owned businesses, Citi now has a program to send senior bankers and traders to their management on secondment (Bloomberg)\n\nUBS has launched Carmen, a portfolio of hedge funds managed by women. Let’s hope that it never has to restrict redemptions, or the opera references will switch to La Bohéme – “your tiny hand is frozen”. (FT)\n\nIn Andrea Orcel’s first reorganisation of Unicredit’s investment bank, there’s not so many actual cuts, but lots of people are being made individually responsible for one thing, rather than jointly responsible for a bunch of things. Sales and Trading still has two co-heads, though. (Financial News)\n\nWant to avoid disappointment when you land that dream job in venture capital? A $100,000 basic and $110,000 bonus might sound nice, but if you don’t get “carry” on deals and if the conflict of interest policy interferes with your angel investing, it’s basically chicken feed. (Business Insider)\n\nApparently some male office workers liked their lockdown haircuts so much that they’ve decided to go for the longer look as a full time thing. Expect remarks along the lines of “who do you think you are, Brad Pitt?” (WSJ)" ]

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[ null, "Welcome to another edition of Cypher Flicks, where I review a new film that is in theaters now. The difference in this piece is that the following film was a one night only affair. To be honest, it was something I’m still unpacking.\n\nThe Gorillaz have been around for about two decades, and it’s always been a big party. In “Gorillaz: Reject False Icons”, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett basically archive a year-long tour that’s sandwiched between the release of two albums: Humanz and The Now Now. 96 shows are performed across Japan, South Korea, Paraguay, Chile, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe. Here’s where it was confusing and yet good at the same time.", null, "It’s a Party that never ends\n\nDamon Albarn clearly enjoys what he’s doing and he seeks to collaborate with everyone in the world of music. From George Benson to Bobby Womack (R.I.P), Snoop to De La Soul to Pusha T, the artists to list is endless. Pusha T and Mavis Staples together is just one of countless examples of the musical compatibility Albarn crafts.\n\nIt’s honestly very intriguing to see the studio time with Albarn, Seye Adelekan, Gabriel Wallace, Peven Everett and many other core members. The jam sessions are organic and natural, the playfulness of it all keeps the viewers’ attention and it’s something you hope to see from all bands on tour. There are times when things get slightly bumpy, but the members on film quickly deal and stick to making the show go on.\n\nThis is all well and good, but it gets a bit drawn out for a couple of reasons.\n\nPerhaps my own experience with music documentaries and the style I’m used to with Hip-Hop documentaries having a particular narrative is why I’m a bit thrown off. There is no narrator in this film. By default the audience likely takes Albarn as one because he is the principal musical creator. However, I didn’t realize this was an archival capture of the tour and studio sessions and nothing else for far too long.\n\nI kept expecting some kind of narration in terms of a particular story. Sure, the subtitles alert us to where the Gorillaz are touring, how much time they have to finish an album, etc. But there is no direct storyteller. Don’t get me wrong, I am fine with two hours of Gorillaz concert, studio, and music video footage.", null, "It just felt kind of art house, figure it out already this is what it is, kind of vibe. The Gorillaz aren’t that in-depth with their songs. But, it felt very loose and lacking of structure. The creative process is often very open-ended, but storytelling still needs some kind of beginning, middle, and end.\n\nThis movie was very enjoyable once it’s made evident this is tour and studio footage that music fans likely wouldn’t otherwise see. Plus, it kind of felt like the Gorillaz are an odd conglomeration that feels like George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic mixed with a dash of Elton John and 2000s Hip-Hop. Bottom line, if you can find this film online somewhere it’s worth your time. It’s a party captured as a two hour concert of sorts, and that’s what the Gorillaz focus on." ]

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[ null, "A Nairobi based law firm has written to the National Irrigation Board over a court order suspending the appointment of Chief Executive Officer for another three-year term.\n\nIn a letter to the Chairman of NIB, David Riungu a managing partner at the Riungu Muthuri and Co. Advocates wants the NIB Board chairman to note that there is a court order issued on August 11 by Justice Wasilwa which suspended Mugambi's reappointment for a three-year term.\n\nIn his letter dated August 17, he said the court issued orders on August 11 granting leave to the applicant Okiya Omutata to have the chamber summons application to be heard during the High Court vacation, marked the applications as urgent, and granted prayer two of the notice of motion in an application.\n\n“The Court issued Orders on 11th August 2020 granting leave to the applicant Omtatah, to have his Chamber Summons application to be heard during the High Court Vacation, marked the application as urgent and granted prayer two of the Notice of motion n Application”, the letter reads in part.\n\nThe letter says prayer two of the Notice of Motion sought to suspend the letter appointing Mugambi as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Irrigation Authority for a further term of three years effective as of August 1, 2020.\n\nMugambi’s appointment had been recommended by the board of the National Irrigation Authority and the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation.\n\n“As a consequence thereof, the appointment of Mugambi as the Chief Executive officer stands suspended”, Riungu states in the letter.\n\nLast week, the Employment and Labour Relations Court judge Hellen Wasilwa suspended the reappointment of\nMugambi as CEO of the National Irrigation Authority.\n\nJudge Wasilwa, sitting in Nairobi, halted the reappointment pending the hearing of a case filed by activist Okiya Omtatah against Water Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki and the National Irrigation Board.\n\n“The applicant has proved there is an arguable case and therefore directs it be heard interpartes hearing on August 25, 2020,” the Judge ruled.\n\nOmtatah claimed CS Kariuki through a letter dated June 23 purported to act on the Board’s recommendation to reappoint Mugambi.\n\nThe activist asked the court to declare the action as null and void since there is no valid board in office since the terms of members appointed under the repealed Act by the President expired in 2018.\n\nBy Lynette Otwori 12 hours ago\nAccessories\nPremium No tight pants, acres of cleavage: How attire can shape appeal\n\nBy Billow Kerrow 14 hours ago\nOpinion\nPremium CBK assurances aside, could we end up going the Sri Lanka way?" ]

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[ null, "For the first time this year the 2019 field hockey Leopards were together in one place. New recruits joined the current team at a basketball game and the basketball team responded with a hard earned 69-67 win. The game was nationally broadcast on CBSSN as well.\n\nPractice has started for the field hockey team and already our young women are looking forward to the late March and April spring games. Most that had injuries last season looked fit, there is still some rehabilitation to be done and one surgery was recently performed on Kara Tiedtke who hopes to return by the fall season. There is still a chance we may see more recruits before we close out the roster this June.\n\nThe team was into the whole game and during half time Hailey Abbott, one of our goaltenders, was picked for the $1,000 half court shot! Let’s just say it doesn’t look like Hailey has a future as long shot basketball player!! Great effort though!!\n\nThe weather has been kind to the team as they have been able to get on the field already but, as Northeast weather tends to be, snow from last night is covering the ground again as I write this.\n\nSpring is only 5 weeks away, meanwhile its time to get out my tractor to plow away some winter from my driveway." ]

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[ "Home About Beacon Press\nWe Want to Talk about the Right to Stay Home: The Story of Aldo Gonzalez\nRelax, Your Kid’s Troublesome Behavior Is Normal\n\nAt the Core of Everything: A Q&A with Daisy Hernández", null, "In her lyrical, coming-of-age memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed—a heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language now available from Beacon Press—Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Nicholas DiSabatino, publicity assistant at Beacon, recently spoke with Hernández about her new book, her literary and cultural influences, and the process of finding herself, both within her immigrant community and within the new, queer life she created for herself.\n\nDaisy Hernández: My family is at the core of everything I write. Even when I am not writing about them, they are the lens through which I see the world. For example, while writing a story about Chagas disease and Latino immigrants for The Atlantic this summer, I was conscious about how the women in my family interacted with medical institutions. Not speaking English and not having health care, my mother and my aunties had this mix of fear, pride and gratitude toward doctors and hospitals. They also had a lot of silence around illness. I think that family history influenced how I started the story and how I gave it shape.", null, "ND: Growing up in a Colombian-Cuban family, your ideas of love, romance, and relationships came predominantly from your mother and your tiás. How did your own desires not match up with the cultural expectations of your family, who you write, saw romance as something that “happens between seven and nine in the evening on Spanish soap operas”?\n\nDH: Yes, I wanted love to happen before seven at night! I was reading Cosmo and Glamour as a teenager and watching all these romantic comedies that said “love conquers all.” It clashed with my mother’s reality. She was undocumented and worked in factories. So did her sisters. Marriage wasn’t about love, at least not primarily. It was the practicalities of paying rent and getting to stay in this country. I wanted to believe as a teenager that love could exist outside of the reality of race and immigration and class issues, that by virtue of being American-raised I could step outside of that. But as I write in the book, those issues very much shape our identities and who we choose as romantic partners.\n\nAnd of course, there was nothing in my mother’s rule book to cover bisexuality. Being anything other than hetero was not an option in the world of the women who raised me—even though we had an intensely matriarchal home and our primary ties were with each other as women. So coming out as bisexual, I definitely clashed with the women who raised me. At the same time, I think growing up in a female-centric home, and later finding supportive LGBT communities, gave me the confidence I needed to be out as bi Latina.\n\n\nND: Who are some of the writers who helped shape your ideas about gender, culture, and queer identity, and how were they influential to you in writing A Cup of Water Under my Bed?\n\nDH: James Baldwin and Audre Lorde and Goria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga. They were early influences on my work because they engaged directly with the political contexts of their childhoods and that’s the kind of work I wanted to produce. I wanted to write a memoir that addressed issues of race and immigration and queer sexuality and that also made people laugh out loud and want to call their friends and say, “Listen to this…”\n\n\nND: You express such genuine disappointment in the culture of “whiteness” at the New York Times that you leave your prestigious internship there to work for ColorLines magazine. How did working in a predominantly white, male environment affect you not only as a woman of color but as a young writer just starting out with high expectations after landing your “dream job”?\n\nDH: Yes, in the memoir, I write about how at the Times everything I’d read in political theory books was suddenly in my face. The death of a black child made the news because news was slow that day. If I wanted to write about Colombians getting political asylum, I had to be thinking about how bad that was in comparison to Rwanda. I was coming from a working class community. The center of gravity, so to speak, had always been justice. At the Times, I had to look at the world through the lens of how it related to people in power.\n\nThat said, I think reporting for the Times—especially as it went through its biggest plagiarism scandal—made me more resilient and clear about what I wanted as a writer and as a woman of color at that point in my life. I wanted to be around people who were engaging directly with questions of racial justice and social justice. There were great editors and reporters at the Times, and I learned a lot from them, but yes, ultimately I took those skills to a publication that I deeply loved and one that was aligned with my political vision. I also took those skills and used them to write this memoir.\n\nDaisy Hernández is the coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and the former editor of ColorLines magazine. She speaks at colleges and conferences about feminism, race, and media representations, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Ms. magazine, CultureStrike In These Times, Bellingham Review, Fourth Genre, and Hunger Mountain, and on NPR’s All Things Considered.\n\nPosted at 11:30 AM in A Cup of Water Under My Bed, Biography and Memoir, Daisy Hernández, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, Fiction, Literature, and the Arts, Queer Perspectives | Permalink | Comments (0)\n\nAt the Core of Everything: A Q&A with Daisy Hernández\n\nIn her lyrical, coming-of-age memoir A Cup of Water Under My Bed—a heartfelt exploration of family, identity, and language now available from Beacon Press—Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Nicholas DiSabatino, publicity assistant at Beacon, recently spoke with Hernández about her new book, her literary and cultural influences, and the process of finding herself, both within her immigrant community and within the new, queer life she created for herself." ]

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[ null, "Not all that glitters is gold. But still physical appearance does matter in a relationship. There should be a balance between inner and outer beauty. Beauty is like a wrap of a sweet. We choose sweets by its cover, appealing paper and color until we unwrap them. If the taste is as good as its cover, we will stick to this particular type of sweet. The same is with people. We are attracted to beautiful people and stay in touch only if they are as good as they look.\n\nPeople spend more time to make themselves beautiful, influenced by advertising and social media. While scrolling feed in Instagram and Facebook, you come across perfect bodies, gorgeous faces without wrinkles in the age when they are supposed to be there (all thanks to modern technologies). More and more people become health conscious, spending lots of time in the gym, struggling to achieve 6th packs like that guy in Calvin Klein advertisement, thinking that it is the reason why he doesn`t have a girlfriend right now.\n\nWhy does appearance matter?\n\nWhy is physical appearance so important when you see each other for the first time?\n\nFirst impressions are a big deal. People use their “gut reaction”, the first 50 milliseconds can give you the whole vast of emotions about the person. You are going to be X-rayed quickly. Either it is going to be a good or bad impression, totally depends on you. A positive impression will add points to overall satisfaction. The person doesn`t know how smart, interesting or witty you are yet. They will pay attention to your appearance. You don`t have to be a super star (unless you came for the interview to model agency), but you should be prepared and neat.\n\nThe importance of physical attraction in relationships is controversial among ladies. Some of them consider handsome males to be philanderers, who are not able to have serious feelings and long relationships. However, if it comes to beautiful females, their good qualities are mostly taken into an account. Actually, this is how many magazines make money, teaching them to be beautiful.\n\nNevertheless, a handsome, and a well-groomed guy is a desirable partner. His looks are very important, especially at the first stage of relationships, being the factor, which makes them like each other and search for an opportunity to communicate with each other.\n\nIt is worthwhile to say that, probably, every male has asked his girlfriend if looks are important. However, it is impossible to find an unambiguous answer since every girl has her own opinion. More often ladies find men handsome if they are close in ethnic or national status, as well as those who remind them of some close people. Psychologists have proved that there are only two features of male`s looks, which are equally count in different cultures – height and muscles, while other features are strictly individual, what is more, they can vary depending on the country or city.\n\nStill, every community has its own standards of beauty, i.e. an attractive and handsome man is considered to be such by many people, who live in the same area with him. Thus such avowed “dreamboats” are popular with the opposite sex.\n\nHowever, there is a big difference between acknowledging a man handsome and a wish to have love relationship with him. It is proved that men and women who choose themselves beautiful and handsome partners, have a high self-esteem. While, people, who lack confidence and have a low self-esteem are more likely to choose a partner, who is not so popular with others.\n\nHow much do looks matter in relationship?\n\nIt is not enough to have an attractive appearance to turn a simple affection between into a deeper and more serious feeling. It is a well-known fact that some men can be in relationship with a silly and “empty” girl, who has long legs and big breasts. Maybe it is more about trophies. But women are not like this because they lose interest for handsome but silly men very quickly and the break-up is inevitable.\n\nWhen the starting period of relationships finishes, looks stop being the key-factor. It is replaced by common interests and common perception of various life situations. The overall mood of a person is very important at this time. Still it is not the phase of relationships when you can show apathy, sadness or depression. The phase of transformation of liking into mutual attractiveness has to be accompanied by warm relationship, which is a vital part of success. A man’s looks are still important, though it is not the most important thing. That is why it is better not to appear in home or scruffy clothes, having bad mood.\n\nPsychologists mention several phases of love: liking, attractiveness, infatuation and love. In fact, a man’s appearance is important only in the first two phases of love. Later on, when deep feelings appear, it is not a priority, but still plays not the last role.\n\nSo, are there women, for whom looks do matter and is the main criteria of their choice and why? It is a controversial question. In most cases, women who find a male beauty important, have no mean opinion of themselves. What is more, while choosing a partner they are animated by a desire to look more beautiful than they are in reality. So, if a girl has a handsome guy beside, she will be a real queen. Of course, most of people are confused and surprised seeing a handsome guy’s lady, who is not very beautiful, but little by little their opinion changes and they start thinking that if he has chosen her, she is worth it. Consequently, choosing a handsome male as a partner is a social deposit." ]

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[ null, "Prairie dogs in the wild are less likely to succumb to a deadly disease called sylvatic plague after they ingest peanut-butter-flavored bait that contains a vaccine against the disease.\n\nIn an effort to increase populations of endangered black-footed ferrets and conserve the prairie dogs they rely on for survival, it is essential for land managers to control outbreaks of the bacterial disease also known as sylvatic plague. The plague affects numerous wild animal species, and domestic animals and humans are susceptible as well.\n\nThe vaccine, developed specifically for prairie dogs by scientists at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center and the University of Wisconsin – Madison, elicits a protective immune response that can help them fight off infection upon later exposure to the disease." ]

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[ "Home » Software Apps » Tidal Review: What Makes It Stand Out?\n\nTidal Review: What Makes It Stand Out?", null, "Contents hide\nWhat is Tidal?\nHow to Use Tidal?\nFeatures of Tidal\nExclusive Content\nLossless Music\nOffline Music\nTidal X\nHow Much Does Tidal Cost?\nSummary\nQuick PC Scan\n\nStreaming services are having their golden age right now. This is not just true for video streaming, but music streaming as well. With Spotify, Deezer, Slacker Radio, Apple Music, Pandora, and SiriusXM dominating the music streaming industry, another major player, Tidal, has been making quite some noise lately. And it is actually a good kind of noise. In fact, it provides CD-quality music that you won’t find from its competitors. And that’s what makes it stand out from the rest.\n\nTidal was developed by Aspiro in 2014, but it was relaunched when the famous Jay-Z acquired it in 2015. Right now, Tidal is the only music streaming service that is owned by an actual musician. And because of this, Tidal claims that it is paying higher royalties to songwriters and artists.\n\nTidal has been enjoying a rising wave of momentum since its highly celebrated relaunch in March 2015. And after two years, it became the first music service to provide hi-res audio streaming, which was made possible by using MQA technology.\n\nThese hi-res tracks, which are usually around 24-bit/96kHz and are called ‘Tidal Masters’. Tidal has a library of over 60 million tracks and 250,000 videos, with more than a million of the catalogue consisting of Tidal Masters.\n\nTidal promotes itself as a music service that prioritizes the artists and songwriters. Aside from Jay-Z, Beyonce, Usher, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Madonna, and other celebrities also own some shares in the business.\n\nSince August last year, Tidal has incorporated social features in its app to make it easier for mobile users, both iOS and Android, to share the music they are listening to or the video they are watching to their Instagram and Facebook accounts. This is something that Spotify have been doing already, allowing users to post the songs they are listening to to Facebook Story. But with Tidal, users can choose to post individual tracks or the entire playlist, which would appear as still photos on social media.\n\nHow to Use Tidal?\n\nTidal is available for iOS and Android devices, Windows, macOS, Smart TVs and streamers, audio players, and Apple CarPlay. The web player works well on any of the major browsers, including Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Safari. However, FLAC-quality streaming can only be accessed through the web player on Chrome.\n\nTip: To make sure you don’t come across any glitches when using the web player or installing the app, use a PC cleaner to optimize your computer first. It is also recommended that you run a scan using your anti-malware software to ensure that you don’t encounter any errors when streaming Tidal.\n\nWhen you access Tidal using the web player or the app, you will be asked to sign up for an account. Unfortunately, Tidal is only available in 54 countries, including the US, the UK, Turkey, Thailand, Spain, Singapore, Portugal, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Germany, Australia, Argentina, and others. You will need to check Tidal’s website before signing up to make sure it is available in your country.\n\nOnce you open Tidal, you’ll be greeted by an interface that looks similar to other music streaming services. The home screen displays the featured content, with some of them being platform exclusives. Below that, you will see your recently played music or video, followed by new track and album suggestions.\n\nAn exciting feature of this service is the Explore tab. Just like the name suggests, here you’ll find various genres and suggestions based on your previous preferences. Tidal also has a preset playlist for various scenarios under the Moods and Activities tab.\n\nIf you dig deep into the Explore tab, you find another feature, which is Tidal Rising. This tab features lesser known and up-and-coming artists that will give you fresh music content that you’ve never heard of before.\n\nAside from being owned by artists, Tidal has a unique range of features that distinguish it from other music streaming services. Here are some of them:\n\nMost of Tidal’s artist co-owners released their songs, music videos, and other content exclusively on this streaming service. Although most of this content eventually make their way to other services, some remain exclusive to Tidal indefinitely. There are also several podcasts that are available only to Tidal subscribers, including Angie Martinez’s In Real Life and Elliott Wilson’s Rap Radar.\n\nAnother major difference between Tidal and other music services is its focus on audio quality. Most streaming services rely on audio technology that sacrifices the quality of the audio to limit the song’s file size. Tidal, on the other hand, offers FLAC and MQA lossless formats to maintain the audio quality of the source material. These formats are available to Hi-Fi subscribers.\n\nFLAC provides CD-quality audio while MQA tries to match the studio quality of a song. Tidal is the first and only service that offers MQA audio in the world.\n\nAlthough higher-quality music is a big attraction for many music lovers, it usually comes at a price. A single song can be up to six times in size when they are in MP3 format, which means you need a fast internet connection to be able to play high quality music. You also need a larger data cap if you’re streaming lots of music.\n\nThe last major feature that distinguishes Tidal from the rest is Tidal X, which is an initiative that centers on the live side of music. With Tidal X, Tidal users can now live stream exclusive shows, concerts, and events. Some examples include Rihanna’s runway shows in Paris, as well as the 10th anniversary concert for Rick Ross’ Port of Miami. Tidal subscribers are also allowed to buy tickets to these exclusive events and other meet-and-greet parties,which are not available to the general public.\n\nHow Much Does Tidal Cost?\n\nUnfortunately, Tidal does not offer free subscription or ad-supported plans. There are only two plans available, and they are both paid subscriptions:\n\nTidal Hi-Fi – This plan costs $20 a month, giving users access to 48.5 million songs that are available in FLAC and MQA audio quality, plus HD music videos, podcasts, and editorial content.\n\nTidal may not be as popular as Spotify, but it has its own lineup of great features that makes it one of the major players in the music streaming business. It offers fantastic sound quality that you won’t experience in any of the other competing music services, excellent apps, multi-platform support, HD music videos, and easy-to-use interface." ]

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[ "Advancing gender equality in the EU\n\nInternational Women’s Day provides an opportunity to take stock of progress towards gender equality, and 2015 is a pivotal year in this regard. At global level, it marks the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, which set ambitious targets for advancing women’s rights. As well as reviewing these initiatives, the EU is assessing its own ongoing efforts to promote gender equality, one of its founding values, looking to a new Strategy for equality between women and men beyond 2015.\n\nThe EU’s commitment to gender equality\n\nUnder the Treaties (Article 19 TFEU), the EU can enact legislation to combat gender-based discrimination, and is committed to upholding and promoting the principle of gender equality in all its actions (Articles 2 and 3(3) TEU and 8 TFEU). The current priorities are set out in the Strategy for Equality between Women and Men 2010-15, which was reviewed in 2013 and is monitored by the European Commission in annual reports.", null, "The first gender equality index (published by the European Institute for Gender Equality in 2013 on the basis of data to 2010, and due for reissue in 2015) suggests that the EU as a whole is ‘halfway towards gender-equality‘, but with significant variations across the priority areas addressed by the Equality Strategy, and between countries. This comprehensive statistical overview shows the widest gender gaps to be in the areas of ‘power’ and ‘time’, with women still under-represented in political and economic decision-making, and bearing a disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic work. This constrains women’s participation in the labour market, which is still marked by gender segregation and disparity in pay and pensions. Violence is another area where the gender gap is extremely wide. The impact of the economic crisis and policy responses to it has been another area of concern. Whilst research initially highlighted a narrowing of the gender employment and pay gaps, analysts and stakeholders have suggested that women have become increasingly vulnerable as the crisis has progressed.\n\nDuring the period covered by the Commission’s most recent progress report, a number of measures for addressing gender gaps and accelerating gender equality were initiated or pursued, including funding for Member States to invest in childcare, promote women’s participation in the labour market and campaign against gender-based violence. In the key areas of power and time, initiatives also included Commission proposals to update the 1992 Maternity Leave Directive and for a Directive on gender balance on company boards, both of which are awaiting consensus in the Council. On the former, in December 2014, the Commission gave the co-legislators six months to break the stalemate in the negotiations, or else it would propose a ‘more modern initiative’. On the latter, the Italian Presidency suggested a flexibility clause and to extend the deadlines for implementation and reporting.\n\nParliament has taken a proactive stance on advancing gender equality. During the previous term, it adopted resolutions on the impact of the crisis on gender equality and women’s rights and on combating violence against women, and strongly endorsed the proposed directives on maternity leave and gender balance on company boards. An own-initiative resolution on sexual and reproductive health and rights proved controversial and was rejected in plenary and an alternative motion adopted. In January 2015, the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) adopted a Report on Progress on equality between women and men in the European Union in 2013 (rapporteur Marc Tarabella, S&D, Belgium), which is expected to be discussed in plenary on 9 March, the day after International Women’s Day.\n\n« Roma integration strategies in the EU\nEducation and training of women »" ]

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[ null, "This article originally appeared on WORLD\n\nThere’s a global threat to the pro-life cause, but the mainstream media does not report on it. While the United States has some of the world’s most liberal abortion laws, decisions made at the United Nations and the World Health Organization could still have bearing on how the United States crafts laws regarding abortion in the future—or even on how the U.S. Supreme Court considers cases regarding abortion, if it looks to international jurisprudence. The court has done this in the past. A brief for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a case many believe could overturn Roe v. Wade, includes such consideration.\n\nThese decisions are already affecting smaller, often more conservative and highly religious nations around the globe, but most notably in Africa, the Caribbean, and South America. Officials at the UN and the WHO—with the assistance of wealthy, progressive, Western nations—are attempting to export abortion around the world. Conservative countries are being threatened: You either legalize and expand abortion access or forfeit your healthcare funding.\n\nNegotiations around women’s health at the UN often stall on the abortion issue. Ideological negotiators undermine advances in women’s health if unlimited abortion rights language is not included. And the women who would serve to benefit from these resolutions are collateral damage in the fight for total abortion rights.\n\nAnd now, the term is ubiquitous in UN documents. According to Valerie Huber, who participated in international negotiations under the Trump administration, SRHR is introduced in nearly every relevant UN resolution, and some not-so-relevant, such as the recent United Nations Population Fund climate document. SRHR is also a stated priority in U.S. foreign policy under the Biden administration, even though it is illegal to lobby for abortion internationally and that 76 percent of Americans have said they do not want their tax dollars funding abortion in other countries.\n\nTo curb these progressive efforts, the Geneva Consensus Declaration was negotiated and signed by 34 countries on Oct. 12, 2020. The declaration asserts that nations should be able to legislate on controversial issues, such as abortion, as they see fit, without risk of losing their much-needed healthcare funding.\n\nAt a one-year commemoration event for the declaration, Huber, now president of the Institute for Women’s Health and chief architect of the declaration, called out the UN for its part in this pro-abortion crusade: “The UN agency was (and continues to be) dishonest to the nations. The term ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ has no international consensus. Its only uniform definition comes from UN agencies, certain progressive nations, and advocacy groups that define it consistently: to assert abortion as a human right and that all manner of sexual activity is a human right, two assertions that are absent from … every consensus document.”\n\nThe coalition now boasts 36 nations—despite the Biden administration removing the United States from the signatory list on President Joe Biden’s eighth day in office. Though disappointing, this opposition is a sign that the declaration and its coalition are perhaps the most effective defense of life, women, the family, and national sovereignty that exist to date.\n\n“There is no international right to abortion,” Huber stated at the commemoration, backed by flags from each coalition nation, representing every region of the world. And despite this coordinated, international campaign for total abortion rights, Huber is right: There is no such right. And yet, abortion’s eager activists will just keep using the language as if such a right exists. Our job is to prevent abortion’s eager activists from getting away with it." ]

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[ null, "Help! I’ve just realized that Nigel Farage is my fault. In a manner of speaking. When contemplating the European Parliament elections on May 23, I realized that I didn’t know who my MEP was. Shocking, I know. More on that later.\n\nI have just found out – oh, the ignorance – that I live in the area covered by the South East Region for electing MEPs. Ten MPs are elected to represent this region. All of them are supposed to represent everyone in the area, which comprises nine counties, from the Isle of Wight to Oxfordshire.\n\nTop of the list? Nigel Farage. He is my MEP. He represents me. Others include arch-Brexiter Conservative Daniel Hannan, UKIP’s Raymond Finch, former UKIP leader-elect and current Brexit party representative Diane James, and Janice Atkinson, who was expelled from UKIP for bringing the party into disrepute (UKIP!) The others are one more Conservative, one Green, one LibDem, one Labour.\n\nI didn’t vote for Farage, obviously, or for Atkinson, or any of the others. This isn’t a comment on the version of proportional representation which is used to choose the MEPs. I didn’t vote for Farage because I didn’t vote at all. I think I was just busy that day, whenever it was. The European Parliament will probably survive without my vote this time. With hindsight, my complacency was shameful and inexcusable. Although I was all for Europe, and for living in Europe and beyond, and supportive of the European Union as a great peace and collaboration project, and for learning languages – all the while imagining myself wafting around ‘salons’ discussing erudite literature while I studied — it never really occurred to me to follow the nitty gritty or even get minutely involved.\n\nAs a journalist, I was often told that stories about the EU were boring (especially, I suppose, the detailed, nerdy articles I might have been inclined to write about process, compared with the amusing distortions about bendy banana regulations and banning sausages written by a certain other journalist/politician sporting a distinctive thatch of blonde hair).\n\nHaving been used to the UK being a paid-up member of the European Union and its predecessors almost my entire life, I was lulled into a sense of security. Europe and the EU were always part of our lives and always would be, so we could safely mock it, laughing at Yes Minister asides ridiculing Brussels as a place where bureaucrats had their ‘snouts in the trough’ of unearned indulgences, and sniggering at the Sun’s “Up Yours Delors!”-style headlines. Even some of the war-related analogies and insults seemed just funny and harmless.\n\nIt was only, I realize, once the referendum was announced and I was asked to write properly about the EU for the first time, that I began to really learn what it was all about, and see how wrong all those clichés were. Now I belong to what I expect is a sizeable proportion of the British electorate which is becoming more expert on the issue by the day. But even so, it was only in recent weeks that I decided to take a look at the MEP situation and realize that Farage wasn’t simply the product of a mythical far-off xenophobic utopia, but one of those pro-Brexit wreckers elected partly thanks to my failure to turn up on the day. I was always too busy, not thinking. There is always an excuse. Except there is no excuse. Certainly not now.\n\nThe election for MEPs on May 23rd may be a pointless exercise. It could be that they go to Brussels for a few months and are sent back once the UK has left the European Union. But that may not be the case. If Brexit is somehow stalled long-term or abandoned, these MEPs we elect this month will continue to represent us in Brussels as well as enjoy their 70,000-odd pound salary thanks to our support. I don’t think I can stand by and let the surge in British anti-EU MEP happen again. It may be a small and futile gesture, given the support the Brexit Party seems to have across the part of the electorate that does bother to vote in these things, but trying is better than leaving them to it.\n\nThere is another point, made this week by Sky’s Adam Boulton, that actually the results of European Parliament elections have been nationally important for decades. The rise of UKIP was cemented when they came top in a nationwide election for the first time when they secured nearly 27.5 percent of the vote and 24 MEPs (Labour was on 20, the Conservatives on 19) in the 2014 European Parliament Elections. This was followed by a spooked David Cameron allowing his party to edge further to the right and ultimately giving in to the demand for a referendum on EU membership. All this for a vote decided on a turnout of just 35.6 percent. A greater turnout would almost certainly have harmed UKIP.\n\nAlthough there is much disillusion among Remainers that anti-Brexit parties, including the Liberal Democrats, Change UK and the Greens, are not forming pacts in this election, a large total share of the vote for those and for other anti-Brexit parties elsewhere in the UK could at least mean something. It could show that, even though we might not be able to stop him taking his destruction back to Brussels, we are standing up to be counted. Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage is already billing this as a de-facto referendum.\n\nSo, for goodness sake – vote." ]

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[ null, "The end is nigh, my friends. The 100 Greatest Books Challenge is drawing to a close. But you know I’d never abandon you without saying good-bye—not even if we were out clubbing and Hugh Jackman was like, “Hey, girl…” Not even if I had a plane to catch on my way to my own elopement. Not even if the Apocalypse came, and I had the only fallout shelter.\n\nBecause, well, you know. I’m not a monster.\n\nI’ll save my final send-off for another post, if only to keep a loose lid on word count. But in the meantime, here are all the best excerpts from The 100 Greatest Books of All Time. Every one of these quotes has stuck with me for one reason or another, for better or for worse. They are among the finest literary encounters I’ve ever made. And if I could fall in love with a word or a sentence, these would be my soul mates.\n\nLet me introduce you:\n\nLong ago, I learned how to be brave, how to go forward always.\n\n-Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence\n\nAs the years passed, she replied only: “I’m going away from here.” And it hung, this determination, like a heavy jewel between her breasts; it was written in fire on the dark sky of her mind.\n\n-James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain\n\nI am writing a curse, yet I adore you! I hear it in my heart. One string is left, and it sings.\n\nI don’t want every one to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.\n\n-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady\n\nWith thee it was not as with many that will and would and wait and never do.\n\nWho then may trust the dice, at Fortune’s throw?\n\nHer heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia.\n\nI saw within Its depth how It conceives\nall things in a single volume bound by Love\nof which the universe is the scattered leaves.\n\nAnd they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed a boss so often and so completely they had to bring him back to life to pulp him one more time. Tasting hot mealcake among pine trees, they beat it away. Singing love songs to Mr. Death, they smashed his head. More than the rest, they killed the flirt whom folks called Life for leading them on.\n\nI waited not for light but for that doom which we call female victory which is: endure and then endure, without rhyme or reason or hope of reward—and then endure.\n\nLet me say before I go that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell.\n\nMy theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life — for we possess nothing certainly except the past — were always with me.\n\nAs I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn’t much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.\n\n-Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird\n\nI was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.\n\nLife is strewn with these miracles for which people who love can always hope.\n\nIndulge your imagination in every possible flight." ]

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[ null, "We have received an e-mail from an individual which goes as follows:\n“Hello,\nI was just asking yourself if you could give me your opinion on a query about getting into into the monastic life.\nIf one particular was married in the previous and had a kid, and now the two are divorced and she re-married and he has not can he enter the monastic life? Grow to be a monk?\nThanks for your time!&nbspGod Bless you!”\nRight here is our understanding of the matter.\nWe assume that you reside in the United States. You are topic to U.S. civil and criminal law as a citizen of the state in which you reside. Therefore, what ever you do religiously, you are topic to the civil and criminal laws of your jurisdiction. The matter is the similar, with the essential modifications, for what ever legal jurisdiction you reside in.\nAssuming that there is no impediment in regard to civil or criminal law—for instance a court order regarding kid assistance or some other matter—then according to the tradition of the Orthodox Church and Orthodox canon law (as far as we know we are not an professional in Orthodox canon law), there is no impediment to your becoming a monk getting been as soon as married, getting fathered a kid and then getting been divorced.\nEven so, the query would arise of the status of your marriage in the eyes of the Orthodox Church. This is specially accurate if you initially married in the Orthodox Church but obtained a civil divorce. Historically, the Orthodox Church has treated the monastic tonsure as dissolving an existent marriage, and without the need of the consent of the spouse, but it is doubtful no matter whether now any Orthodox jurisdiction would apply this principle without the need of an investigation of the certain predicament. This is a matter you would have to talk about with the senior members of the Orthodox jurisdiction to which you presently belong.\nThere is also the query of the welfare of the child—whether you have any legal or spiritual duty that would interfere with your becoming a monk in a certain monastery. This is once more a thing you would have to talk about with the senior members of your Orthodox jurisdiction.\nThe subsequent challenge is that to turn into a monk in the Orthodox Church, you have to turn into a monk in a distinct monastery–there is no such issue as an Orthodox monk of nowhere in certain. But that suggests that the superior of the monastery and possibly the council of senior monks of the monastery would have to be happy with your bona fides. They would make their personal assessment of you and your marital history. Usually, a monastery is not obliged to accept any certain postulant so this will be an assessment independent of what ever the senior members of your jurisdiction determine. Even so, if the senior members of your jurisdiction have decided that you have an impediment then the monastery would ordinarily acquiesce and refuse you. This phase of private assessment will differ from monastery to monastery and jurisdiction to jurisdiction and nation to nation. We could only recommend that you talk about the matter with the superior of the monastery which you are interested in getting into.\nLastly, each the senior members of your Orthodox jurisdiction and the monastic superior collectively with the senior members of the monastery will want to assess the significance of your marital history for your private psychological and spiritual situation with regard to the possibility of your getting into the monastic life and of remaining in that state till death. There is no dispensation from vows in the Orthodox Church.\nTherefore, there is no theoretical impediment to your becoming a monk per se, but each the ruling bishop and the monastic superior would have to judge the merits of your certain case prior to you could acquire permission.\nSupply: https://orthodoxmonk.blogspot.com/2008/12/can-divorced-man-turn into-orthodox-monk.html" ]

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[ "Jesse Williams to star in 'Take Me Out'", null, "Jesse Williams will star in the TV adaptation of “Take Me Out”, which will be adapted from Richard Greenberg’s Tony Award-winning play.\n\nRichard Greenberg’s Tony Award-winning play, which tackles baseball and homophobia, is set to be adapted as a limited television series with Jesse in the leading role, Deadline reports.\n\nMuch of the play is set in the locker room of a professional baseball team, and it features an all-male cast with themes of homophobia, racism, class, and masculinity in sports.\n\nIt features main character Darren Lemming, a player for the fictional Empires Major League Baseball team, who comes out as gay.\n\nAt the time of writing the play, no MLB player had ever come out to the public during his career.\n\nJesse will play Lemming in the series as well as the Broadway revival in 2022, which was delayed due to Covid-19.\n\nGreenberg will adapt his own play for the small screen, while Scott Ellis will direct the pilot and the Broadway revival.\n\nMeanwhile, Jesse, 40, is best known for his role as Dr. Jackson Avery on 'Grey's Anatomy', which he left this year after 12 seasons.\n\nProducer/showrunner Krista Vernoff said in a statement before his final episode in May: \"Jesse Williams is an extraordinary artist and activist.\n\n“Watching his evolution these past 11 years both on screen and off has been a true gift.\n\n“Jesse brings so much heart, such depth of care, and so much intelligence to his work. We will miss Jesse terribly and we will miss Jackson Avery — played to perfection for so many years.\"" ]

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[ null, "Anna ended up being a little spooked during today’s play session, but only a little since she didn’t officially see anyone in her room. She did have some eerie feelings a time or two…", null, "There was some fun with the toys for a little while…", null, "Then I saw Davout creeping to the doorway and I rolled some treats his way, and gave Anna some too.", null, "Here’s a closeup of Anna’s clawless paws clenching hard on the toys. Mine!", null, "Soon Rhea was getting close to being in view…instead I sent more treats her way.", null, "Anna started to hear some crunching sounds and started growling. Then she would eat a treat of her own and start again.", null, null, "When I tossed a treat toward Davout, he managed to push it under the door. It took him a while to bang on the door to move it aside, and Anna heard that.", null, "I shooed the kittens out to allow Anna to chill out some." ]

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[ null, "As a writer, one thing I need to stay productive is a deadline. The common meaning of deadline is a measure of the latest time a given project can be completed. Another less known meaning of deadline is an imaginary line drawn around a prison beyond which prisoners are likely to be shot. As a writer I find both types of deadline the most inspirational cattle prods available to force my words out into the world. I like to set my timer and draw a line around my computer. I ask my wife to shoot me if I venture past the line but apparently we don’t own a gun. Instead she shoots me with her evil eye, and I sit my ass back down and get back to work.\n\nAt first I was very good about posting things without a deadline, but now that summer vacation has begun I have lost all motivation to keep up with life. Not just writing, but all aspects of daily living. I can barely get out of bed in the morning to make coffee and use the bathroom, let alone sit at a keyboard and coordinate letters into the sequences necessary to impart meaning. I usually have to do some serious research just to figure out what day of the week it is. I have been quite busy writing, but I’m currently working on much longer pieces (a never-ending 90 page essay, a novel, my manifesto) that don’t really fit into this short form blog format. But I want to change this.\n\nSo in order to keep a consistent flow of words emanating from my keyboard I will be following this self imposed schedule of postings to keep myself moving forward. There may be additional posts if the muse slaps me with her lugubrious smooches of inspiration, but no guarantees. Please keep a look out for my posts, and feel free to shoot me should I wander past any of these deadlines.", null, null, "“The universe is a single flower.” – Thich Nhat Hanh\n\nIf I knew then what I know now, I’d make the same mistakes anyhow.", null, null, "I took these photos at the Cal Academy of Sciences a few years back when they had a Climate Change exhibit. The above quote is from climate scientist Dr. Wallace S. Broecker. Here is a fuller quote:\n\n“The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks,” said Dr. Wallace S. Broecker of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, who was one of the first to raise the alarm about abrupt climate change. ”We don’t know whether it’s going to pay attention to the pokes. But if it does, it might rise up and do something we don’t like.” -via NY Times Archives", null, "In another part of the exhibit visitors were invited to write a small note, to share some idea that could possibly help slow down changes to our atmosphere and help to save the natural environment of our planet.\n\nMy personal favorite: Cut down on Homework. Homework kills trees. Probably written by one of my students. I also like Don’t waste paper by using these.\n\nI love the thought that some small idea from a fresh perspective can save us all. I always tell my students that they are our only hope. The nearsighted practices of the past have gotten us into this mess, and now it’s up to you. What will you do to help save the world?", null, "Don’t waste paper by using these", null, "I bet we could frack something else out", null, "How can two people communicate when the word one says means something different than the word another hears? We take these things for granted, the fact that we are all speaking the same language, but just because we can use the same words doesn’t mean we are really communicating. We package our ideas into words and send them across space to other people, hoping that when they unwrap the present they will see what we intended them to see. But we all package and unwrap our ideas a little differently, and we all find something a little bit different inside the package when we open it. I send you an orange across space, and you peel the layers away to reveal the sweet fruit inside, and instead you discover a lemon.\n\nSo what is really inside the package?", null, "These medusoid euphorbias aren’t as striking as some of the colorful flowers and succulents planted around the Ruth Bancroft Garden. But if you take a closer look and really pay attention to the details, your opinion might be changed.", null, null, null, "Euphorbia\n“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” ― Abraham Lincoln (via Goodreads)\nFollow intrinsickness on WordPress.com", null, null ]

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[ "“Transitioning from an outsourced to an on-premise solution was seamless. Retaining historical data means we can just continue processing with full reporting capability”.\n\nRetail Zoo had been an outsourced payroll services client of Frontier Software since 2004. In 2015, after a period of significant growth and change, Retail Zoo recognised the strategic advantage of re-establishing their payroll team in-house. Having hired competent payroll resources with considerable chris21 experience, the team at Retail Zoo felt confident they could move to an on-premise model. Consulting their Frontier Software account manager, an effective solution was devised; Retail Zoo could simply move their database from Frontier Software servers to one of their own. At Frontier Software, we call it ‘lift and shift’.\n\nNot having to change providers ensured significant savings for Retail Zoo and almost zero downtime during the database transfer process. System performance and flexibility was retained as was all historical data. After the lift and shift of data was completed, Retail Zoo enjoyed a business as usual outcome. Retail Zoo now has a greater degree of control over payroll and has gone on to build a significant reporting capacity across the entire business. Importantly, they are well-aware how easily they could employ the lift and shift technique to revert to an outsourced service model should their needs change in the future.", null ]

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[ null, "Kalani Queypo is one of the lead characters on the hit new show, “Trickster,” that’s being shown on CBC. He’s starring alongside the faces of a few well-known people and some brand-new stars who are doing nothing short of shining with this sleeper hit. He’s one of the men fans might recognize from his older roles, but we thought it might be time to get to know a bit more about him. He’s going to be in the news a lot considering he’s taken on this role, and it seems like everyone on the show is about to become a huge star.\n\nKalani was born on September 6, 1986. This means he just celebrated his 34th birthday in 2020. He was born and raised in Hawaii with his family. He grew up on the islands, and it was a very active, very fun time for him. Aside from the fact that he got to grow up without social media and phones, he was also able to spend his childhood outdoors, playing, and having fun.\n\n2. He’s Always Been a Dancer\n\nHis family has always been into the arts, so it’s not a surprise that he was able to focus on dancing as a child. He’s always been artistic as a hula dancer, and he was classically trained as a hula dancer. Growing up in Hawaii, this is not a shocking surprise. Many people here learn the classic art of hula, and it’s beautiful and customary.\n\n3. He Lost His Father\n\nHis was raised primarily by his mother, who was a single mother after the loss of his father. He was only nine when his father died, which means he spent the bulk of his memorable childhood without his dad. It has to be a crushing situation to lose a parent at that age, but he had his mother there to help raise him, and that was something he appreciated.\n\n4. He Had Different Dreams\n\nGrowing up, Kalani had a dream. He actually had two dreams. He was going to finish school, go to college, and he was going to become a lawyer. Following that, he was going to work as a news anchor for a media outlet. He didn’t realize at the time that he could do anything that he wanted, including being both of those things and an actor.\n\n5. He Moved to New York After High School\n\nAs he got a little older, he began to realize that the arts were calling his name. He wanted to act, but he knew that his opportunities were a little more limited being in Hawaii and not close to auditions and open castings. He decided to take it upon himself to move far away from home, and that’s when he left for New York.\n\nKalan Queypo is one of the founding members of a very important committee. The National American Indian Committee at SAG/AFTRA is part of what he founded. He worked very hard to bring this committee to life with a few other people, and he is very happy that they were able to do so.\n\nGrowing up, he watched movies and television just like anyone else, but he noticed one thing. “I didn’t see a lot of people who looked like me or looked like my family,” on screen, he said. To be able to represent the people who look like him on television and in the movies is a huge deal, and it is not one he takes for granted in any capacity.\n\nHe spent a lot of time in New York. He lived with a friend who offered him a place to stay. He had all of $500 in his pocket, and he didn’t have much else. He immersed himself into acting classes and dance lessons and did all he could to perfect his talent. He later moved to LA and he’s been living and working there for some time.\n\nKalani is nothing if not a positive thinker. He has a lot to offer the world, and he’s aware of it. He’s positive that he will one day have a major role that will allow him to share so much more of who he is and what he’s capable of doing, and he’s not going to give up hope.\n\nWhen he’s not working or spending time with the people most important to him, he’s absolutely in the middle of doing other things he enjoys. However, he mostly keeps that part of his life to himself. He does not feel the overwhelming need to spend his time sharing everything with the world, and that’s refreshing." ]

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[ "\"At the Brandywell you could feel it, we were more than just a club.\" - Richard Moore", null, "Tonight sees the premiere of the EXTENDED version of Different League: The Derry City Story’, which will be shown at the Brunswick Moviebowl for one week only.\n\nThe recent BBC documentary, produced by Guy King, was a tremendous success, taking locals back to the days when Derry City entered the League of Ireland after years in limbo due to the expulsion from the Irish League amidst the ongoing Troubles of the time.\n\nThe extended version will show scenes not seen on the BBC version, including interviews with Owen Da Gama, Father Chris Ferguson, Liam Coyle and Richard Moore.\n\nAfter losing his sight from a plastic bullet in the Troubles, Richard recalls how a match commentator helped him see again.\n\n“I used to play football all the time, I sort of fancied myself as a player. But after I lost my sight I wasn’t able to play the game that I loved. Then there was no football at the Brandywell so I had no team to support and I just couldn’t get into clubs not on this island.\n\n\"At the Brandywell you could feel it, we were more than just a club. It galvanised the whole community. It really did, everybody, man, woman and child were just flocking to the Brandywell.\n\n“I couldn’t go to the matches because I had no commentary. So I would have been going to the matches just listening to the crowd shouting and roaring and I wouldn’t have known what was happening.\n\n\"It’s one thing being at the party but I wanted to know what was happening on the pitch. I was really disappointed.\n\n\"I used to scour the radio, there’s nothing worse than tuning on the match, then ten minutes into the match the commentator comes on and says: ‘We’ll be back to join Derry City shortly, now we’re going to go to Gaelic football.’ I’d say ‘Oh for God’s sake’.\n\n“But then I met Felix. Felix came down to record that song, Derry For The Cup and I remember saying to Felix about my problem and without me being aware of it, Felix went and talked to Jim McLaughlin.\n\n\"They spoke to Online Video, who was recording all the matches at the Brandywell with my old English teacher John Dunne as commentator.\n\n\"So, next thing, they’ve organised for me to go and sit with Mr Dunne in the dugout.\n\n“I remember the day, going into the Brandywell, the players’ entrance, around the side of the pitch and the crowd singing. The atmosphere was electric.\n\n\"I took my seat beside John and his daughter Deirdre – right at the side of the pitch.\n\n“John Dunn was just totally eloquent, a fantastic ability with the English language. He spoke in a way to paint pictures. And it got to the stage with me where I wasn’t hearing what John was saying, I was seeing what he was saying.\n\n\"And in many ways, John turned on the floodlights in the Brandywell for me. I was able to enjoy the matches and that was me then, hook, line and sinker. I went to every home match, every away match. It was brilliant.", null, "An extended version of ‘Different League: The Derry City Story’, will be shown at Brunswick Moviebowl for the next week, starting tonight.\n\n“When I watch football I have all the characteristics of a sighted person, I’ve been told. Like if the other team has a free-kick in a dangerous position against Derry, I cover my eyes. Or else look away. Automatic reflexes, I can’t explain it. It’s bonkers in a way, but if the other team gets a penalty against Derry, I’ll be looking in the opposite direction going, ‘No, I don’t want to see it!’\n\n“Even though I couldn’t see what was happening I became an authority on football. I remember one match John never mentioned Stuart Gauld the whole match, so I said John, Stuarty Gauld really hasn’t been in the match today. And he says, Richard, he's not even on the pitch!\n\n“I think the return to football was a healing experience for people. You know, you’re in the middle of a conflict, there was unemployment. It wasn’t just like returning to football, it was something much, much more than that. Something greater than that.\n\n\"So, maybe in that way, it could equate to a spiritual experience. Almost an out-of-body experience. Without a shadow of a doubt, it brought people together.”\n\nThe filmmakers hope the cinema film brings people together again.\n\nTickets are on sale now at brunswickmoviebowl.com for the premiere (Thursday 9th September) which has a bonus Q&A with Paul McFadden, the Gang of Four, Eamonn McCann, Felix Healy, Liam Coyle, Deirdre Dunne and others.\n\nAlso on sale are tickets for further screenings 11-16th September." ]

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[ null, "\"Manuscript of Great Historic Importance Found in Istanbul\" article written by Marianna Tsatsou and published in the Greek Reporter Europe on May 16, 2012.\n\n\n\"An important manuscript was discovered in Topkapi Palace in Istanbul. Topkapi was the residence of the Ottoman sultans for almost 400 years. The manuscript found is of significant meaning, because it consists of information regarding the years before the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, but it also describes the early years after Constantinople was turned into Istanbul and became capital of Turkey.\nThe document belongs to Michael Critovoulos, a Greek politician, scholar and historian, who lived between 1410 and 1470. His birth-name was Kritopoulos, but he changed it to sound more ancient Greek-like.\"\nREAD ENTIRE ARTICLE" ]

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[ "Dr. Pasco from London suffered an injury to his head and shoulder when he was cycling along the greenway route in London during the period when the Olympic Park in London was under construction.\n\nDr. Pasco collided with a metal barrier used to cordon off a trench that had fallen across the cycle path. Dr. Pasco suffered memory problems as a result of the accident. He contacted Cycle SOS to investigate a legal claim on his behalf. Paul Darlington took on the case and was able to ensure that Dr. Pasco received the compensation that was owed to him.", null, null, "Wishing you a Merry Christmas and…", null, null, "Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a\n\nThe Top 5 European Cities For Cycling", null, "Winter weather to avoid. When to ride", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Feroza Aziz said that she was just raising awareness about Chinese Detention Camps but TikTok instantly blocked her video and suspended her account.\n\nTikTok is now saying that the ban on US teen Feroza Aziz has been lifted after the temporary ban.\n\nTikTok is owned by a Chinese firm ByteDance and is liable to look after anything that goes against Chinese government.\n\nIn a latest interview with BBC News she said she is not scared of TikTok and will continue to talk about Chinese detention camps on Twitter, Instagram including TikTok as well.\n\nTikTok’s head of Safety in US, Eric Han, has said that she had also been banned earlier for sharing a video having Osama Bin Laden’s picture.\n\nTikTok ban means that a person can’t create another account with the same device. To make a new one, a users should get a new device.\n\nTikTok has said that her account was temporarily banned due to speak about a sensitive topic.\n\nVideo posted by Feroza Aziz has been viewed approximately 2 million times before it was removed by TikTok which is later labeled as Human Error by TikTok’s Eric Han." ]

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[ null, "Ronald Allen Harrison, a longtime resident of Jacksonville, FL, returned to his heavenly home on December 9, 2019, after a valiant battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). His love and devotion to family and unwavering belief in God supported him in his struggle, and ultimately gave him peace.\n\nHe found salvation early in life, accepting Jesus Christ as his savior, and enjoyed lifelong fellowship as a practitioner of the Baptist faith.\n\nHis youth was spent in Forsyth, GA where he graduated from Mary Parsons High School before attending Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and later completing his degree at Florida State College at Jacksonville. Ron proudly served the United States of America from 1969 until 1971 as an Army veteran in the Vietnam War. His service in the 57th Medical Detachment (Dustoff) Unit was honored by the State of Georgia with an award.\n\nRon married his best friend, Carol Corbitt Harrison in 1974, and they were blessed with their son, Joel. Ron’s genuine love of people, humility, generosity, quick wit and sense of humor set him apart. He was a southern gentleman who made everyone feel special and never met a stranger. No one enjoyed good music, a funny joke, a lively prank, or a great sports competition more than Ron! He was always ready to explore for the best restaurants in the Southland! His sense of adventure was his hallmark, and his hearty laugh was his calling card. Ron was a man of unimpeachable character whose honesty and loyalty made him much beloved by his family, friends, community, coworkers and customers.\n\nRon began his career in the seafood industry in 1975 and fell in love with the industry. He was a sales professional at heart who relished every day of work or play and served as a mentor to many through his knowledge, positive attitude and gregarious spirit. He was president of Florida Fish Distributors, and owner of JP Sales and C&H Cold Storage in Jacksonville, FL. He was past president of the Southeastern Fisheries Association and a member of the National Fisheries Institute. In 1998, he joined Sysco Company, and though his title was Director of OPCO Sales for North Star Seafood, he was affectionately known as the “Fish-man”.\n\nIn addition to Carol, his loving wife of 45 years he leaves behind Joel, his beloved son, sisters, Diane Tucker (Skip) and Glenda Vincent Sams (Lynn), brother-in-law David Corbitt, many nieces and nephews, and Clarissa Seseberry, who was like family for over 45 years. Ron, though dearly missed, lives on in the memories of his loved ones who celebrate and find comfort in knowing he is once again whole and at peace with his Creator.\n\nThe compassionate caregivers who were an important part of the closing chapter of Ron’s life were: Ertha Daniels, Markedia Daniels, J.R. Williams, Laquanda Williams, Brittaney Winters and members of the Senior Helpers. Their tender devotion will long be remembered by Ron’s family.\n\nA Celebration of Ron’s Life will be held on Saturday, January 4, 2020 at 2:00 PM at Jacksonville Golf & Country Club, 3985 Hunt Club Road N, Jacksonville, FL 32224, where Ron spent decades of happy times with friends and family. The Reverend Rick Blythe and the Reverend Eulie Brookins will preside.\n\nThe family gratefully acknowledges your prayers, condolences and shared memories. Those who wish to honor Ron’s legacy may do so through donations to Ronald McDonald House Charities of Jacksonville 824 Children’s Way, Jacksonville, FL 32207 or online at www.rmhcjacksonville.org, or Seafood Industry Research Fund, “SIRF”, Suite 700, 7918 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, VA 22102-3319, [email protected]\n\n“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” Thomas Campbell" ]

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[ "There is no ‘universal’ immigrant story. It’s an idea that The Good Immigrant USA, a sibling of sorts to the breakthrough collection The Good Immigrant, reflects, resulting in a searing, defiant anthology of essays navigating race, identity and immigration in a country that increasingly devalues and dehumanises black and brown people.\n\nFatima Farheen Mirza writes about the everyday experience of being Muslim in Trump’s America; Yann Demange writes about the identity crisis and erasure that comes with being a mixed race Londoner, with brown skin, a French name, and a London accent; Chigozie Obioma writes about the contradiction between the America he saw from Nigeria and the America he experiences as a Nigerian immigrant. The essays in the collection are absolutely vital to the times that we are living in, and demonstrate the importance of platforming voices that speak truth to power.\n\n“It just made sense to do it,” Chimene Suleyman says. “When the UK edition of The Good Immigrant came out, none of us expected it to do as well as it did. We started to see that it was shaping something. It sort of went beyond being a book, and it did start to affect how people in publishing started to view representation and lend itself to a wider discourse in Britain. It stopped feeling like a singular anthology. The parallels between how things are playing out between British politics and American politics aren’t vastly dissimilar. It just made sense to keep expanding these voices – if I could do one in every country, I would.”\n\nSuleyman, who co-edits the anthology alongside Nikesh Shukla, wrote for both the UK and US editions. Her initial essay considered the rejection she felt in England, despite being born and raised here, while her American counterpart explores the experience of living in America and not being treated as a Turkish Muslim woman, but as a white English woman. “For the first time in my life I was being treated with a level of privilege that I didn’t really experience in England. Writing the American piece was less painful for me,” she explains, “because I didn’t feel like I was disowned by my home. I know this isn’t my home in the same way that London is so I was just more interested by the fact that race here isn’t that nuanced in a lot of ways. There’s a different relationship with race and immigration ever so slightly. I come out here and I tell people I’m Turkish and they’re like ‘Oh, what part of England?’\n\n“They can’t get past the accent. It’s the same thing of pre-conceived ideas people have based on how you dress or how you speak. There’s this very distinct idea of what a Middle Eastern person is out here and they’re running bodegas or selling you kebabs or whatever. But if you present as someone with an English accent and you have tattoos, then there’s no way you can be Middle Eastern, there’s no way you can be Muslim for them. Because you’re not fitting the stereotype that they’ve been told time and again that Muslims only wear hijabs and they hate the West and they’re all terrorist supporters – and when you don’t fit that framework, like most people don’t, they don’t know what to do with it.”", null, "The Good Immigrant USA challenges these assumptions directly, and hits back at a political and social hierarchy that assigns privilege to a select few. As Suleyman talks about the privilege she experiences in the US, being regarded as ‘one of the good ones’, Maeve Higgins writes about the experience of being an undocumented Irish immigrant before 9/11, and feeling very little anxiety about her status. “Maeve’s piece was really incredible because it gave some insight into the fact that there was no fear – and that’s something that’s constantly instilled into brown and black people, to always be fearful. White people have never had to worry about overstepping boundaries,” Suleyman says, comparing Higgins’ piece with the experience of 21 Savage, who having overstayed his visa as a young child, faces risk of deportation.\n\n“It’s really interesting because I read one of the statements from one of his lawyers who actually referred to him as ‘one of the good ones’, like ‘isn’t this what you want immigrants to be doing? He’s a successful one’. I understand that narrative, I understand that its well-intentioned but it’s also dangerous. Because where do you draw the line? If you’re constantly looking for who is allowed in and who isn’t and what is good and what is bad, if everything becomes that binary then they’ll keep pushing those parameters of what makes you good and what makes you allowed to stay – until virtually no one can move or travel, which is essentially where we’re at. British and American politics and a lot of Europe is essentially saying that they really don’t want anybody.”\n\nA triumph of the collection is that it’s not trying to appeal to the white gaze, or explain or validate itself to people who aren’t affected by immigration. “We constantly, even when we’re trying to say positive things about immigrants, centre the white experience. If you truly have any respect for immigrants and see them as people, you would not put yourselves at the centre of their experience. You would just let them be,” says Suleyman. “During the Brexit campaign, the Remain side irritated me as much as the Leave campaign, because when it focused on immigration, it was still incredibly misguided and condescending. There was still this idea of, ‘What would we do without all the immigrants working for the NHS, immigration is wonderful, look at all these exotic, colourful things that have enriched our lives.’ They’re still prioritising themselves in the immigrant experience and basically saying that they have a use for immigrants. It shouldn’t matter whether immigrants serve your life or not – just let them be, and let them live in their homes with the people that they love, in the streets that have become theirs.”\n\nThe Good Immigrant shifted the narrative around race and representation, adding nuance and compassion to conversations around immigration. Suleyman hopes that The Good Immigrant USA does the same thing, but more importantly, she hopes that the collection will reach people who feel othered and alone. “I want the book to comfort people and to hopefully be the beginning of a much wider discussion about not who immigrants are, but about how we need a space to tell our own stories and not be spoken for all the time.\n\n\"I’m not looking to convince people of who is a good immigrant and who is a bad immigrant, or what immigration means. I’m not out here to convince you of my worth or anyone else’s worth. I just want the people who felt so marginalised and so alienated to not feel alone and start to feel like there’s a space for them to tell their own stories and live their own lives the way that they want to. That’s the narrative I want.”" ]

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[ "HTC One A9: First Impressions of latest HTC smartphone in India", null, "The HTC One A9 may be an iPhone lookalike, but it has some things that are distinctly HTC. The smartphone has a 5-inch 1080p display, expandable storage up to 200GB and a 13MP rear camera.\n\nThere’s not much about the HTC One A9(₹ 24999 at amazon) that inspires confidence. That is, till you take the phone in your hand. There are things about the phone that reminded me of the HTC we have all known and loved.\n\nDon't get me wrong, there’s no denying that it is an iPhone lookalike, but while the iPhone’s design includes rounded edges, the A9’s sides are ever so slightly rectangular. It doesn’t accomplish much in terms of ergonomics, but it makes the phones design a distinct mix of the One M8 and the iPhone 6/6S. Yes, the HTC that made the M8 was known for ‘original’ designs, but its designs were loved because of the little things.\n\nThe little time I spent with the phone told me a few other things about it. First, the rear camera on this phone is better than what I’ve seen on the M9 Plus or the E9 Plus. Second, despite HTC’s Ultraselfie marketing tag, the front camera softens images too much. The lights at the demo zone were uneven and quite low, so I’d like to take a second look to be sure, which will happen soon enough.", null, "The phone also has a 5 inch 1080p display, which looks good enough on first glance and I couldn’t find the pinkish hue that I saw on the M9 Plus’ display. The 5 inch display though, combined with the rest of the design, makes for what I like the most about the One A9, and that is how compact the phone is. With the sea shift towards a 5.5 inch and bigger displays, the market has been overrun with phablets. Even HTC announced a phablet alongside the Desire 828, which is considerably large device.\n\nNot once, while I looked over the phone, or twirled it around in one hand while shooting a video, did the One A9 feel bulky or unwieldy. If you’re a compact phone lover, then this is one of the few phones in the market that you can choose from, and amongst the compact ones, it may be the best looking one according to many.", null, "The One A9 though is not a flagship in true sense, meaning that it lacks a top of the line processor. We don’t know much about the Snapdragon 617 SoC right now, but we do know Qualcomm’s not pushing this as its flagship processor for the year. In addition, the A9 has a 2150 mAh battery, which is also somewhat troubling. While the company explained that it has tried to provide a full day’s worth of battery life through software tricks, I’m not quite convince till I see the phone over a longer period.\n\nIt’s a fact that barring Microsoft’s Lumia phones, smartphones have traditionally not been battery friendly. So, the brute force method of putting the largest battery possible seems to be the way to go, until something better comes along. Yes, a larger battery doesn’t guarantee good battery life, but it works somewhat the same way as the megapixel counts in cameras. The number of megapixel may not guarantee quality, but they do play a role.\n\nOverall, there are things about the HTC One A9 that many may like, and the fact that it’s an iPhone lookalike is just one of its properties. Will it revive HTC? Given the right pricing it might, but that’s another thing that you can never be sure of when talking about HTC.", null, "iPhone 12 could be one of Apple's tiniest phones yet", null ]

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[ null, "with an ethnohistorical essay by Gregory E. Smoak\n\nThis compilation of Dale Morgan's historical work on Indians in the Intermountain West focuses primarily on the Shoshone who lived near the Oregon and California trails.\n\nMorgan biographer Richard L. Saunders introduces, edits, and further annotates this collection. His introduction includes an intellectual biography of Morgan that focuses on the place of the anthologized pieces in Morgan's corpus. Gregory E. Smoak, a leading historian of the Shoshone, contributes an ethnohistorical essay as additional context for Morgan's work.\n\nThe Association for Mormon Letters, 2007, by Jeffrey Needle", null ]

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[ null, "Asensio is injured, he is expected to be absent for a few weeks\n\nMarco Asensio suffered an injury against Barcelona in the semi-final of the Spanish Super Cup, and while the final medical tests have not yet been completed, he fears the Spanish player will be out for two to three weeks.\n\nThis absence comes at the worst possible moment for the Real Madrid star, who had just regularly entered Carlo Ancelotti’s starting line-up, showing the potential that was so clear when he first arrived in the Spanish capital.\n\nThe Los Blancos medical team has estimated that the absence period of two to three weeks will be confirmed after an MRI scan is completed, and this will happen on Tuesday.\n\nAsensio was actually playing well against Barcelona in Saudi Arabia, but even the best-case scenario sees him miss the club’s next two games.\n\nThe Spaniard had scored seven goals in 23 games this season, and while he could return to theory for the match against Granada on February 6, Los Merengues will not risk anything at all with PSG’s Champions League match being played on February 15." ]

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[ null, "As already know, Playstation Now is a service of streaming of video games that already has retrieved a large amount of success. Its owner, Sony, launched the feature so players could get the hands on different video games without the need to go for the corresponding disk. The innovation is that everything is based on streaming, by what the titles or even running on consoles.\n\nAlthough the service was exclusive of the marks Playstation, Sony has announced that are preparing a new version of Playstation Now for PC. Yes, you know what that means: you can play Playstation 3 projects on the computer. That itself, all it will do through streaming. In total will be available 400 titles, among which are included Uncharted, God of War and The Last of Us. A possibility very interesting. Do not forget, that Yes, that it will be necessary to have a good Internet connection.\n\nNext to this launch is put to the sale a adapter USB to the remote control DualShock 4 (with a price of 24.99 euros) that will allow plugging the own device of control to the computer. Also will serve for Mac. In any case, the operation will be very similar to as if were with a Playstation.\n\nThe recommended specifications to run Playstation Now on PC are as follows:\n\nTo take into account the connection to the Internet, which must have a minimum capacity of 5 Mbps. A requirement easy of meet for those users with fiber optic, but complicated to them people that still have connection through ADSL.\n\nUnfortunately, the Playstation Now on PC release date has not been announced, by which we will have to wait. That Yes, it is preferable to have a poor service. On especially when you talk about streaming.\n\n2016-08-24\nG2F\nShare\nPrevious Xbox 360 returns to shine with strength in the games with Gold in September\nNext ToeJam and Earl: Back in the Groove is regular in the first trailer" ]

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[ "Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Being an empath is a person with the paranormal ability to apprehend the mental or emotional state of another individual.(Borrowed from Websters) What is interesting that in the definition, an empath exists only in science fiction. Many people know about that Star Trek episode with the empath. Its not just science fiction.\n\nOnly a couple of years ago, when I was healing others, I came across ’empath’ on the internet. You can search for it and there are several good websites on the subject. Well, they talked about this sensitive person who had a nervous stomach, had problems being in a crowded room, who instinctively had knowledge of others and felt different than other people, and might feel others pain or felt deeply empathetic to people suffering.( to name a few characteristics) I was deeply moved. It explained away most of my life and why I was the way I was. Being an empath directed my life.\n\nWhen I was healing people, I could feel their pain, know some of their history and I would get a sense when they were an empath as well. Like with some I could sense their pain and emotions much more deeply. I started telling these people about characteristics of an empath and most would say, wow, thats me. Then I found that many of people that came to see me had these characteristics. It was like I had this beacon of psychic energy and they tapped into it and searched me out. Many would have experienced trauma as well.\n\nBeing an empath is part of spiritual evolution. Im glad I know this now. Knowledge to me helps calm my mind. Especially since I deal with that ADD-(to me ADD/ADHD is part of the evolution in order to help people that are dealing with energy and are lost)(Having red hair makes you very sensitive too-thats for another blog)(Tom Sawyer had ADD as far as Im concerned-Mark Twain had red hair-possible connection?) Ok Im back-So why don’t we have a school for energy sensitives, esp’s etc, like they did in Star Wars- Jedi training? But for now, its just good to get the word out! Oh last word-that nervous feeling in your stomach is where we feel the energy from others. Protect it! These days, its get difficult being around people because the more I do energy work, the more sensitive Ive become. Its like I have to fix their problem which is difficult in public. (some humor in there)\n\nWhat helps to understand is the nature of yin/yang energy. Empathy is a form of yin energy-receptive and intuitive. Like other senses, we don’t have to actively use it. We don’t try to see, try to hear, try to taste, try to smell etc. Try talking without someone listening, it feels strange or leaving a message on someone’s voicemail. The machine isn’t listening like a human would and it feels empty. Yang-active energy is received-yin energy. Hope it makes sense.\n\nNature of Yin and Yang", null, null ]

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[ "Posted on September 2, 2011 by richardmillett| 11 Comments", null, "Zubin Mehta and the IPO waiting for more protesters to be removed last night.\n\nThe band played on, the audience inside the Royal Albert Hall loved it and screamed “More!”, so then why did the BBC pull last night’s live Radio 3 broadcast of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra at the Proms near to the beginning?\n\nPeople around the world had tuned in to listen, but instead the BBC quickly switched to a recording of a past IPO performance.\n\nThe six or so anti-Israel disruptions (see clips below) didn’t really detract from the evening’s overall enjoyment.\n\nThe BBC would’t pull the live transmission of a big football match because 30 hooligans invaded the pitch, but this is the equivalent of what they did last night to the detriment of those who were not lucky enough to be there in person.\n\nThe BBC is broadcasting recorded exerpts of the concert next Wednesday at 2.30pm (BST), but the main beauty of an event is that it is live.\n\nThen the BBC’s report of what happened handed a complete propaganda coup to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, an organisation that recently invited Sheikh Raed Salah to speak, a man who has called homosexuality “a crime” that starts “the collapse of every society”.\n\nPlease click through for the rest of this insightful article\n\n3 Replies to “So, exactly why did the BBC pull the broadcast of the Israeli concert last night?”" ]

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[ "Martial Wants To Stay In The PL Only With Tottenham And Chelsea Linked: What Now For Jose?\n\nManchester United are no longer dominating the Premier League. Their rivals Manchester City ran away with the league title last season and Jose Mourinho is now desperate to make sure that his side can go toe-to-toe with the Blues next season. However, United have not only failed to land a couple of their top transfer targets this summer but are also in danger of losing a few of their first team stars.\n\nOne such player, who may not be at the club come the start of the season is French international Anthony Martial. The 22-year old joined Manchester United in 2015 as the most expensive teenager and made an immediate impact on the side, living up to his reputation. He scored a total of 17 goals in his first season but seemed to have lost his spark under Jose Mourinho, who joined the club in 2016.\n\nMartial had made just 18 league starts in the last two campaigns and has struggled to cement a place in the United first team. He did register nine goals and five assists in the league last season but was time and again omitted from the first team by the Portuguese manager.\n\nHe has just a year left on his current deal, but United have an option to extend it for a further year. However, the lack of regular playing time has seen Martial look for another club this summer, having already rejected chances of a contract extension.", null, "Mourinho still wants Martial to stay but it is understood that the manager might have given up on keeping him at the club and is now urging him to look for potential suitors outside England. Mourinho does not want Martial to join direct competitors and improve competition in the league but reports suggest that the 22-year old is determined to find a new club in England.\n\nChelsea and Tottenham Hotspur are extensively linked with a move for Martial, who is currently settled in the English league. His lack of progress at Old Trafford cost him a place in the national side for the World Cup in Russia and also a winner’s medal so it is hard to see the youngster take such a risk again in his career. So both London clubs have to promise him enough game time to lure him to their club.\n\nThe only entity helpless in this situation is Manchester United, who can only dictate the price at which Martial leaves. It is hard to see Mourinho reintegrate the attacker into his side so it is best for all involved that Anthony Martial is no longer a Manchester United player, come the start of the next season." ]

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[ "Since the decision of the European Court of Justice (\"ECJ\") in Case C-311/18 in July 2020 - better known as the \"Privacy Shield decision\" or \"Schrems II\" - it has been established in principle that there is no adequate level of data protection in the USA.\n\nSince then, transfers of personal data to US recipients have therefore only been permitted under extremely limited conditions.\n\nWhat seems to have caused confusion since then (or is probably also being used in a deliberately confusing way in some cases) is the question of how the so-called \"EU standard contractual clauses\" can be used. The \"EU standard contractual clauses\" are in themselves a catalog of regulations which, if included in a contract between the transferor and the recipient of personal data, can form a legal basis for transfers outside the EU as well.\n\nThe ECJ also addressed the question of whether these standard contractual clauses can constitute a suitable basis for data transfers outside the EU in its decision. However, what the ECJ had to say about this and what consequences this entails seems to be spreading very hesitantly in practice.\n\nThe core statement on this is first of all: the use of standard contractual clauses can constitute a suitable legal basis for the transfer of personal data from the European Union to third countries. So far so (semi-)clear. However, if you then look at what the ECJ uses to justify the fundamental permissibility of using standard contractual clauses, it becomes clearer what this means for transfers to U.S. recipients.\n\nThe ECJ considers the EU standard contractual clauses to be a suitable legal basis for data transfers to third countries in particular because the clauses themselves provide rules for what must happen if the recipient of the data can no longer meet its contractual obligations. Indeed, the immediate consequence is that any data transfers must be stopped immediately and the transferor has the right to withdraw from the underlying contract.\n\n\"THE CONTROLLER IS OBLIGED TO SUSPEND DATA TRANSFERS AND/OR WITHDRAW FROM THE CONTRACT IF THE RECIPIENT OF THE TRANSFER IS NOT OR NO LONGER ABLE TO COMPLY WITH THE STANDARD DATA PROTECTION CLAUSES.\"\n\nThe standard contractual clauses are therefore a viable legal basis for third country transfers because they themselves provide a mechanism to immediately stop any transfer as soon as the third country recipient is no longer able to comply with its contractual obligations, which are precisely intended to ensure an adequate level of data protection.\n\nIt therefore follows that the use of EU standard contractual clauses is of course permissible - but the permissibility of their use does not mean that data transfers are therefore automatically permissible. Quite the contrary. Especially when using standard contractual clauses, the transferor and recipient must carefully check whether the recipient can also fulfill its contractual obligations. For transfers to U.S. recipients, the ECJ has effectively ruled out the possibility of compliance with these obligations. After all, contractual obligations cannot change the fact that U.S. recipients are forced to hand over data on the basis of national legal rules.\n\nWhat is punishable under these circumstances is the processing of personal data that has been entrusted or accessed on the basis of professional employment or that has been obtained unlawfully.\n\nA problem in this context is the unfortunately widespread use of online tools, which are now generally known to be made available free of charge because they serve as data collection tools in the background for the companies providing them. This applies in particular to tools integrated into many corporate websites, such as Google Analytics or YouTube videos. The quid pro quo for the use of these tools is that data of every website visitor flows to Google or YouTube.\n\nThis data outflow is inadmissible under data protection law in most cases, at the latest since the repeal of Privacy Shield. Apart from the fact that the outflowing data in connection with company websites mostly became accessible in the context of professional employment, this also usually constitutes unlawful acquisition.\nThe crux of the matter, however, is that the use of these tools, which are highly questionable under data protection law, is usually based solely on the fact that they are made available free of charge and thus no costs are incurred for the company's own provision of such resources or the use of data protection-compliant solutions. However, intent to enrich is not only given if the aim is to achieve a profit, but also if the result of the frowned-upon action is to be a saving.\n\nThe use of YouTube videos on corporate websites in particular therefore poses a massive risk for corporate decision-makers, which in the worst case can result in the imposition of custodial sentences.", null, null, null ]

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[ "Palestine Memorial Week to be held across UK “Ongoing Nakhba”", null, "The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) continues its preparations for the second Palestine Memorial week in the United Kingdom and Europe. The annual event will be held from the 15th to the 22nd January 2011. The event commemorates the memory of Palestinian victims of the Nakhba since 1948 until now. It also coincides with the 3rd anniversary of the onslaught in Gaza 2009.\n\n\nPRC key event, “The Ongoing Nakhba Conference”, which will highlight on the latest developments passing the Palestinian cause. The conference will look at the Nakhba as a real and contemporary issue and not an event consigned to Middle East history." ]

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[ null, "\nTottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte confirmed Tuesday that Son Heung-min is expected to be out with a muscle injury until after the international break, seemingly implying that the Korean national team captain will not be available for two World Cup qualifiers at the end of the month.\n\n\"The update on Sonny, for sure, we will have to wait until after the January international break,\" Conte said. \"It’s a muscular problem.\"\n\nThe Spurs manager admitted to being confused by Son's injury, which appeared to come out of nowhere one day after a game against Chelsea on Jan. 5.\n\n\"I repeat, it was strange because he came off during the game with no problem, but the day after he felt a bit of pain, and he was injured,\" Conte said. \"It’s a pity because you know very well the importance of this player for us.\"\n\nSon was substituted off in the second half of Spurs 2-0 loss to Chelsea in the first leg of a Carabao Cup semifinal on Jan. 5. He wasn't an injury concern at the time, Conte confirmed, but started to struggle the following day.\n\nSon's departure comes as a blow to both Tottenham and Korea. Spurs performed fine without the forward in their 3-1 FA Cup win over third-tier club Morecambe on Sunday, but with the second leg looming of the Carabao Cup semifinals still to come on Wednesday as of press time, Son's absence will have been keenly felt.\n\nSpurs still have three difficult Premier League games to play before the international break — against Arsenal on Jan, 16, Leicester on Jan. 19 and Chelsea on Jan. 23.\n\nThe mystery surrounding Son's unidentified muscle injury adds to the uncertainty about his availability for the international break, when Korea will play two qualifiers for the 2022 Qatar World cup, against Lebanon on Jan. 27 and Syria on Feb. 1.\n\nUnder FIFA rules, a club is required to release players for any international fixture scheduled during a recognized international break. However, if the player is injured, they obviously are not required to play.\n\nIn practice, this means that if a player has been out of action for their club for a series of games running up to an international break, the club's medical staff are extremely unlikely to suddenly give the all clear in time to benefit the country but not the club. Unsurprisingly, if Son misses five games in January due to muscle injury, Spurs are not likely to clear him for international duty.\n\n\"Annexe 1\" of FIFA's \"Regulations on the status and transfer of players\" does allow the club to challenge the injury — \"A player who due to injury or illness is unable to comply with a call-up ... shall, if the association so requires, agree to undergo a medical examination by a doctor of that association’s choice\" — although a second opinion is unlikely to change the injury decision.\n\nAs well as Son, Korea's only other Premier League player, Wolverhampton Wanderers' Hwang Hee-chan, is also out with an injury.\n\nIt appeared from replays of the incident that Hwang's toe may have got stuck in the ground, causing a brief hyperextension, likely leading to a hamstring injury. It wasn't until two weeks later that Wolves gave an update on Hwang's status, announcing that he had sustained a hamstring injury and would be out of action until February." ]

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[ null, "THERE are a multitude of reasons to love The African Queen. For a start, John Huston's masterful 1951 adaptation of the CS Forrester novel won Humphrey Bogart his only Oscar.\n\nBogart's turn as the gin swilling, rough and ready captain of a tramp steamer is an undeniable highlight in an acting career creaking under the weight of such moments and Huston's direction of the ebbing and flowing story of an unlikely couple forced to sail together down a dangerous East African river after the outbreak of World War I is note perfect throughout.\n\nThere's also the small matter of the sizzling on screen chemistry between Bogart and his stunning co-star Katherine Hepburn to consider as well. Rarely have a couple combined on celluloid with such obvious spark and crackle. There's a wholly unforced natural quality at play in their scenes that is electrifying to watch.\n\nMore than anything though, it's simply a cracking romantic adventure the like of which you rarely get to see and enjoy on the silver screen. Watch it again, via the recently reissued limited edition release from Eureka Entertainment, and you are reminded of that innate magic in just about every frame: a lush looking beauty of a film it cruises along with the kind of effortless class you simply don't see in cinema today.\n\nHepburn is Rose Sayer, the prim and proper sister of a British missionary, played by the great Robert Morley. When invading Germans raze her village to the ground and kill her brother, the roguish Charlie Allnut (Bogie) offers to take her back to civilisation on his battered old steamer The African Queen. Left with little option, she agrees – and so begins the journey of a lifetime.\n\nSuperficially at least, the two make unlikely travelling companions for the hazardous journey ahead: she can't stand his slovenly, drunken ways and he thinks she's a judgmental and aloof old spinster. Before long though, their natural dislike of each other develops into love as they come to lean on each other as they try to survive their perilous journey and hatch a seemingly preposterous but essential plan to destroy a German gunboat.\n\nA sumptuous experience shot through with a rich colour palette and stunning vistas, it's a gripping old-school adventure that charms and engages from the first moment until the last. Hepburn looks so in the zone it feels as if her entire career has been leading up to this moment and Bogie milks every scene like the grizzled old pro he was.\n\nThis lush and lovingly curated special edition offers up a 60-page bound collector's book featuring fresh and insightful writing on the film and a whole flotilla of exciting extras that include audio commentary from master cinematographer Jack Cardiff, an hour long documentary Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen and an interview with film historian Neil Sinyard.\n\nPresented in a pristine new 4K restoration print and packaged in an elegant hardbound slipcase, this is the perfect way to celebrate one of cinema's best looking films and greatest ever adventures." ]

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[ null, "Frozen became a blockbuster hit among not only children, but parents as well. One of the most beloved characters in the series, was the snowman, Olaf. Well, Olaf is taking the spotlight all for himself this holiday season as he retells Disney movies in an upcoming Disney+ shorts series, Olaf Presents.\n\nIn the series, Olaf, voiced by Josh Gad, will recant Disney stories in his very own special way. Want to know what to expect from the upcoming animation shorts? Check out a brief synopsis below.\n\nOlaf steps into the spotlight and goes from snowman to showman as he takes on the roles of producer, actor, costumer and set builder for his unique “retelling” of five favorite Disney animated tales in “Olaf Presents,” a series of new animated shorts from Walt Disney Animation Studios. The charismatic and versatile Olaf demonstrates his theatrical flair, taking on such iconic roles as a mermaid, a genie, a lion king (and most of the parts in between), as he entertains Arendelle with his delightful abbreviated versions of these beloved tales.\n\nAmong the movies that Olaf will retell in his own special way include: The Little Mermaid, Tangled, The Lion King, Aladdin and Moana.\n\nAccording to Collider.com, these shorts will serve as follow-ups to a number of Olaf-centric projects from Walt Disney Animation Studios. If you remember, Once Upon a Snowman, which premiered on Disney+ last year, follows the “untold origins” of what the snowman was up to before he met Anna (Kristen Bell) and Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) in Frozen. in addition to Once Upon a Snowman, there were a series of At Home With Olaf shorts produced remotely by Osmond and his team for YouTube, after the COVID-19 pandemic shut animation studios down in 2020.\n\nAll episodes of Olaf Presents will debut on Disney+ Day on Friday, November 12th." ]

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[ "Skip to content\nThe Ohio Penitentiary was founded on this location in 1834. It served as a prison for both male and female inmates and closed in 1984. At its peak operation in 1955, it housed more than 5,000 prisoners. It was replaced by the Lucasville facility.", null, "After being decommissioned as a prison, the building was used for a short time as a facility by the Ohio National Guard, and as a movie set.\nThe State of Ohio sold the property to city of Columbus in 1995, who tore down the buildings to make room for the new Arena District.\nFurther detailed information about the history of the prison and the area can be found at the 2 site links below:\nWikipedia Entry\nOhio History Center\nSome noteable inmates:\nO. Henry(Willima Sydney Porter)\nSam Sheppard\nGeneral John H. Morgan\nGeorge “Bugs” Moran\nHarry Pierpoint\nCharles Makley", null ]

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[ "We only have about five weeks left of Ambleside Online Year 10, so while we’re still in progress I thought I’d share some of what we’ve been doing in recent times. I’ve mentioned before that this year Miss 15 yrs had developed a liking for free form poetry. One of her favourite compositions is ‘Home,’ which was published in the latest edition of the Common Place Quarterly.", null, "This year we’ve only done one of Plutarch’s Lives – Alexander, as it’s spread over 24 weeks. We finished it about a month ago and now we are doing Shakespeare’s Henry V. I stopped including both Plutarch and Shakespeare each term some years ago as it always felt a little crammed with everything else we do.\nThe Life of Alexander has been one of the best lives we’ve done since we began studying Plutarch eight years ago with Miss’s three older brothers.\nThe Wilderness by Amy Mack – we finished this last week. It’s only 40 pages but it is a delightful look at a little ‘wilderness’ the author found near her home where she observed Australian native flora & fauna.\nAll Things Wise & Wonderful by James Herriot", null, "We started reading James Herriot’s third memoir about his veterinarian career a few weeks ago. This book contains ‘Vets Might Fly’ and ‘Vets in a Spin,’ and begins with the author’s wartime R.A.F. training in London. As he goes through the misery of rigorous training on a foggy morning, his thoughts go back to another foggy morning in the Yorkshire Dales when he was woken at 5.30 a.m. by a phone call from Lord Hulton whose sow had a prolapsed uterus.\n“It was no good me telling him that I had seen five prolapsed uteri in pigs in my limited experience and had failed in every case. I had come to the conclusion that there was no way of putting them back…\nAnd the journey to the Hulton farm was not enlivened by my memories of those five other sows. I had tried everything; full anaesthesia, lifting them upside down with pulleys, directing a jet from a hose on the everted organ, and all the time pushing, straining, sweating over the great mass of flesh which refused to go back trough that absurdly small hole. The result in each case had been the conversion of my patient into pork pies and a drastic plummeting of my self-esteem.”\nHymn: There is a Fountain\nFolksong: Country Roads\nMusic Appreciation/Composer: This is another area where we’ve diverged from the AO Curriculum and have adjusted to our specific circumstances. Hails is studying the cello at a fairly high level and is also involved in an orchestra so she covers a wide variety of classical music. We tend to focus on listening to the pieces she has to study. This year they’ve included Joseph Haydn, Astor Piazzolla, and César Franck.\nArtist/Picture Study: Charles Condor – An Early Taste of Literature, 1888. We’ve concentrated on some Australian artists this year. We look at about 5 or 6 pieces from the same artist over a term and after about 2 weeks studying one painting Hails write a description of it from memory. In the past she has also done a quick sketch of a composition from memory.", null, "When we finish up the year I’ll write some more about the books etc. we’ve used this year.\nFree Reading\nSome books Hails has read in July & August with her ratings:\nBooks by P.G. Wodehouse – all 10/10:\nA Damsel in Distress\nSomething Fishy\nJeeves in the offing\nThe Small Bachelor\nSummer Moonshine\nThe Adventures of Sally\nLittle Dorrit by Charles Dickens 9/10\nShirley by Charlotte Bronte 9/10\nBooks by Ngaio Marsh – all 10/10\nHand in Glove\nDead Water\nDeath at the Dolphin\nVintage Murder\nOverture to Death\nDeath at a White Tie\nAdam Bede by George Eliot 8/10\nAlex O’Donnell and the 40 Cyber Thieves by Regina Doman 10/10\n\n7 thoughts on “A Peek into Ambleside Online Year 10”" ]

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[ null, "Since optogenetics burst onto the scene in the early 2000s, brain researchers have embraced the technique to study functions ranging from sleep and hunger to voluntary movements and sensory input. The vast majority of these studies have been conducted in rodents, and much has been learned, but extrapolating to humans from a species so different from us poses a challenge.\n\nBrain research in nonhuman primates precedes optogenetics by decades. Attempts to understand the links between brain function and behavior have relied on techniques such as inserting an electrode into the brain to activate or interrupt neural signals, and creating lesions to disrupt pathways. But these approaches only reveal whether the altered brain regions are involved in the functions...\n\nControlling neurons with light (optogenetics) or chemicals (chemogenetics) offers researchers a much more precise way to study brain function. Optogenetics utilizes a microbial protein known as channelrhodopsin (ChR), a light-activated ion channel. When inserted into animal cells under the control of a cell type–specific promoter, the protein is expressed in subsets of neurons, and a beam of light can be used to trigger its activity, spurring those neurons to action. Chemogenetics deploys chemicals rather than light. Cells are engineered to carry DREADD (designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs) pro­teins, which are then activated by a drug that doesn’t otherwise affect animal metabolism.\n\nRodents are often genetically engineered to encode ChR, DREADDs, or other controlling elements. But so far, genetically modifying primates has proven more difficult and expensive, limiting researchers to using viral vectors for delivering genes for these proteins to the brain. These vectors are generally derived from adenoviruses, says Jessica Raper of the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. “Just like humans, nonhuman primates can have neutralizing antibodies for these viruses, so any method must prescreen for antibodies specific to the serotype being used,” she explains.\n\nThe larger primate brain also requires larger amounts of vector to be injected directly into the brain, sometimes in multiple doses that may damage tissue. Furthermore, delivering light deep into the brain requires inserting an optical fiber, and chemicals designed to activate inserted genetic sequences must be able to cross the blood-brain barrier. (See “Getting Drugs Past the Blood-Brain Barrier”) That means much more trial and error than in mouse studies. “There’s no universal solution for primates as there is with the host of genetically modified rodents,” says William Stauffer of the University of Pittsburgh.\n\nNonetheless, several recent studies have managed to probe the function of specific brain regions or cell types in rhesus monkeys, marmosets, and other primates using optogenetic and chemogenetic tools. Here, The Scientist profiles some of these recent efforts.\n\nProblem: Before optogenetics, researchers experimentally manipulated groups of neurons by stimulating them with electrodes or altering their activity with chemical treatments. Cells can be classified into different groups based on their responses to such treatments, but it was difficult to know whether responsive cells within a given brain region differed by subtype, or whether they were all similar but acted differently because they were connected to different neuronal networks. “We couldn’t dissociate the contributions of different cell types in a given brain region to behavior,” Horwitz says. He considers this a major stumbling block in the field. “We need to be able to manipulate cells based on where they project or the genes they express.”\n\nApproach: Previously, Stauffer and his colleagues had targeted dopamine neurons in rhesus macaques using a two-vector strategy: one vector carried ChR in a form dependent on the enzyme Cre recombinase for activation, and the other carried the gene for the enzyme. Expression of Cre was controlled by a promoter specific to dopamine neurons, so ChR would only be activated in these cells. (Cell, 166:1564-71, 2016).\n\nHorwitz and his colleagues built on this approach to design a single-vector system extendable to other cell types. They constructed an adeno-associated viral vector in which ChR was controlled by a promoter known as L7, which is only active in cerebellar Purkinje cells. “Our idea was to use a virus that would infect many types of cells, but use a promoter that would only affect a very specific set of cells,” he says.\n\nThe team inserted an optical fiber near the injection site; activating cells with light produced strong neuronal activity in the Purkinje cells and altered a specific kind of quick eye movements within 15 milliseconds. “To study the kinematics of movement, you need a manipulation that will work fast, and it’s gratifying to see that this one does,” Horwitz says. To see precisely which neurons were being activated and causing the change, the team fused the opsin to a red fluorescent protein, and confirmed that the proteins had localized only to Purkinje cells in the cerebellar region being studied (Neuron, 95:51-62, 2017).\n\nWhat’s next: Investigators will need to identify the best viral vectors and constructs for extending the method to other cell types. Few cell type–specific promoters have been characterized in monkeys; ones from mice or other species can offer some leads. Without well-characterized promoters, “it’s a much harder road,” Horwitz says.", null, "Problem: The orbitofrontal cortex in rhesus monkeys encodes information about properties of and preferences for rewards, while the rhinal cortex carries information about stimulus-reward connections. Previously, Richmond’s team found that disrupting links between these two regions in monkeys led the animals to make errors when estimating the size of an expected reward after a task. But with the conventional method of creating lesions, the researchers could not reversibly disconnect the two regions to further test why these errors occurred.\n\nApproach: The team created a lentivirus vector carrying a gene for a DREADD protein that silenced neurons when treated with a chemical called clozapine N-oxide (CNO). Expression of that DREADD protein is in turn controlled by a neuron-specific promoter. The researchers first removed the rhinal cortex from one side of the monkeys’ brains, then trained them to associate a particular stimulus with a reward. The animals then received injections of the viral vector in the opposite orbitofrontal cortex and were tested on the task. When activity was silenced using CNO, the animals could not discriminate the size of expected rewards and made more errors in calculating reward size, suggesting that connections between these two brain regions help monkeys remember and gauge the relative value of different rewards (Nat Neurosci, 19:37-39, 2016).\n\nThe key to the technique is titrating the optimal amount of drug. The researchers also turned to positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to observe DREADD expression in vivo and see how much CNO was needed to induce silencing. For both optogenetic and chemogenetic methods, getting sufficient penetrance in the monkey brain, which is much larger than that of rodents, is a challenge. With chemogenetics, an additional issue is using drugs that cross the blood-brain barrier.\n\nExtending the method: To apply the method to other brain regions, PET imaging is useful for ensuring that DREADDs are expressed in the correct area or cell type, Eldridge says. But this is expensive, challenging, and requires chemists to synthesize the radio-ligands needed to image tissue. As an alternative, researchers could check DREADD production with histology, he adds.\n\nWhether CNO works in primates and what dose to use needs more testing. Although Richmond’s team found good results with intramuscular drug injections, recent rodent studies have found that CNO’s activity is actually mediated by its metabolite clozapine, which can bind to other receptors. In primates, Raper and her colleagues reported that CNO does not cross the blood-brain barrier as effectively as clozapine does (ACS Chem Neurosci, 8:1570-76, 2017).\n\nProblem: Viral vectors injected into the brain aren’t selective: they infect cells at random. Researchers can use unique promoter sequences to target specific cells, but not all neuronal subtypes are well characterized at the genetic level.\n\nApproach: To selectively target one subtype of neuron and understand its activity, Galvan and her colleagues began by injecting adenoviral vectors carrying ChR into the motor cortex of rhesus monkey brains. The opsins were expressed in cortical neurons projecting into a variety of brain areas, but the team could selectively activate the pathway of choice by altering the placement of the optical fiber. Placing the light source at different points would thus activate different circuits. “So we activated selected brain regions, not specific cell types,” Galvan says.\n\nThey chose to activate the pathway from the cortex to the thalamus. In addition to inserting the optical fiber close to neurons’ cell bodies in the cortex, the researchers placed it millimeters away—closer to the axon terminals in the thalamus where the cells made connections to other neurons. Although light stimulation in the cortex activated excitatory cortical fibers as expected, when only the axon terminals in the thalamus were stimulated, the researchers found a decrease of activity in thalamic neurons, likely because illumination also stimulated inhibitory GABAergic neurons in the region. “In a sense that’s an off-target effect, but it may also be what happens naturally,” Galvan says. “Under normal conditions, this is probably a way for the cortex to exert inhibitory influence on the thalamus.”\n\nTeasing apart these distinct roles would have been difficult with an electrophysiological approach because the cortex and thalamus are reciprocally connected. “If we were to just electrically stimulate, we’d see activation of both pathways simultaneously, so it would be very difficult to see what’s going on,” Galvan says. Most previous studies have focused on sensory areas of the cortex and thalamus, but her study suggests that in the motor areas, these two regions interact in a distinctive way (J Neurosci, 36:3519-30, 2016).\n\nExpert tip: When relying on light to activate specific brain regions, make sure that illumination does not spread out of the brain region of interest and activate ChRs that may be expressed in other areas, Galvan says." ]

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[ "Jump to Recipe Jump to Video\n\nIt's almost Christmas and this Vegan Cinnamon Sugar Star Bread needs to make an appearance. This bread looks impressive and will quite literally be the star of your holiday gathering. While it's appearance is visually beautiful, it's actually very simple to make. This star bread is filled with cinnamon sugar and melted butter and tastes sooo delicious. It's similar to a cinnamon roll but less sweet and slightly delicate. The beauty of this recipe is that it is a blank canvas. I went with cinnamon sugar because cinnamon reminds of Christmas but the filling options are endless. See below for some more sweet ideas!\n\nWhen I say this recipe is simple, I really mean it! Once you make the dough all you have to do is roll it out in to four 10in circles and then brush butter and sprinkle cinnamon sugar on three of the layers and stack them up with the top layer remaining plain. Then, slice and twist!! It's so simple and such a wonderful Holiday treat.\n\nIf you love this version, try the savory version! My Vegan Garlic Parm & Herb Star Bread is perfect for pasta nights or any time you have guests to impress. Get the recipe here.\n\nWhat You Will Need For This Cinnamon Sugar Star Bread\n\nA stand mixer makes bread making a breeze but it's not necessary. You can easily do this by hand, it might just be a bit messier since this is a soft dough.\n\nI don't recommend making any substitutions to the dough itself. This recipe was tested multiple times and this was the best outcome. But the filling is up to you!\n\nHow To Make The Best Star Bread Every Time\n\nDon't add too much flour to your dough. It will be a soft dough but it shouldn't stick to your hands when they are very lightly floured. Remember to lightly flour your work surface and rolling pin but that's all the flour you should need.\n\nDon't stress about having the most perfect twists or circles. It'll look beautiful regardless! Just make sure the circles are 10 inches and use your hands to shape it back in to a circle if it becomes a little wonky during the layering process.\n\nI always use and recommend instant yeast because you can add it straight to the dry ingredients and skip the extra step of activating it. If you want to use active dry yeast, go ahead but don't forget to activate it. The most important part of yeast is the liquid temperature. I always go with 120F-125F and highly recommend using a thermometer.", null, "It's almost Christmas and this Vegan Cinnamon Sugar Star Bread needs to make an appearance. This bread looks impressive and will quite literally be the star of your holiday gathering. While it's appearance is visually beautiful, it's actually very simple to make. This star bread is filled with cinnamon sugar and melted butter and tastes delicious.\n5 from 2 votes\nPrint Pin Rate\nPrep Time: 15 minutes\nCook Time: 30 minutes\n1 hour 30 minutes\nTotal Time: 2 hours 15 minutes\nServings: 8\nAuthor: Liv King\n\nI recommend freezing leftovers and then reheating them in the oven at 350F for a few minutes.\nDid you make this recipe?Please leave a comment on the blog or share a photo on Instagram!" ]

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[ "ITS is an honors program (similar to National Honor Society) that recognizes student achievement in educational theatre.\n\nThe time a student works with the theatre program corresponds to a number of Thespian Points that can be received. (1 Point = 10 hours of work)\n\nTo be inducted into the Troupe (a great college resume builder), a student must be involved in at least two shows at Central High School and earned 10 Thespian Points.\n\nAll new Thespians are inducted at the end of the year during an awards ceremony.\n\nThe nationally recognized thespian levels are described below:", null, "Established in 2016, the RRT Theatre League Awards were created to recognize outstanding student contributions, on and off-stage in our local high […]", null, "Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount movie which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. […]", null, "My name is Annie Bramlage and I am the theatre teacher and director for Central High School. This is my 23rd year […]", null, "Students must complete the following to Letter in Theatre at Central High School: Full and active participation in a minimum of two (2) productions and a […]" ]

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[ "Achieving the required amount of restful and restorative sleep is crucial in the life of any human being. And, according to the vast amount of research available almost all people go through periods in their lives where they are likely to enjoy the benefits brought on by this aspect of the early life cycle to their fullest extent. Still, this research tends to show that almost all humans will experience an increasing statistical chance that they will not achieve this much required quantity of sleep as they grow past their early stages of development. This fact likely means that once any person matures into adulthood it is far more likely that they will have some experience with one or more extended episodes where they are not achieving the full benefits of a proper night's worth of clinical grade sleep. Plus a number of studies have proven that these negative periods are quite likely to increase in number and length as we age. That means that this will normally reach the point where a successful night's sleep may become almost impossible when most people approach or reach their senior years without the aid of some kind of sleep aid.\n\nBased on what is known through all of the research and study into the reasons for this are rather complicated and quite likely to be a mixture of physical, psychological and environmental circumstances. In particular, one of these reasons has been proven to be nearly exclusive to those of us living in regions which are highly developed economically and centers around the elevated amount of unnatural light which they tend to be exposed to, especially during periods which are naturally supposed to be dark. The tendency is to cause an often subtle but rather often significant disruption in normal circadian rhythms. The end result of this phenomenon can often cause what could be called a toxic mix of short and long term physical and psychological health concerns.\n\nIn response to these issues the science and medical communities have worked diligently to find answers to these problems both in terms of prescription medications and over the counter options. Still, basically all of the options that were created as a result of this research and development in relation to prescription medications still show what many deem to be a rather high rate of negative side effects. Whereas, on the other, man of the newer over the counter offerings, especially those utilizing all-natural elements have displayed a marked decrease in these detrimental side effects.\n\nOne of the more distressing aspects of all this research and development is the fact that the industry as a whole has become deluged with literally hundreds of new over the counter products, many of which have largely been proven to offer far less in efficacy and, in certain cases, a lower level of safety. Reports have concluded that this is mostly due to the fact that more and more entities around the world are producing these products and bringing them to market in order to get in on what has become a multi-billion dollar industry. And, to no one's surprise, this has created a great deal of frustration and confusion among those looking for a safe and effective solution to their sleep issues.\n\nThis being the case we, as a part of our continuing efforts to help our many valued readers find the products that will most likely work best for them, have decided to take a long hard look at one of the most talked about prescription based medications on the market today - it's called Provigil.", null, "As stated, his medication is included in the class of prescription drugs and is most commonly known by its generic name, Modafinil. Its general it is mostly utilized as an agent designed to mitigate the effects of narcolepsy and other common forms of sleep disorders. However, it should be pointed out that Provigil is not considered to be a cure for any known conditions and it has not been clearly defined by scientific testing as to how it achieves its goals in users to positively affect these issues. Still, it is widely thought to produce a regulating effect in relation to the human brain's sleep/wake cyclic functions.\n\nAre There Benefits to Taking Provigil?\n\nTaking note of the established research and long history of use of Modafinil in a wide array of popular prescription based medications there appears to be no real question that has a proven track record which shows that it to be a significantly effective drug with the ability to provide significant relief for a significant range of sleep related disorders. The key problem, as with shown with most of its main competitors, is that it is believed to create a notable array of negative side effects which have proven to induce a long list of rather undesirable health consequences. A high degree of these have been proven to create a profound effect on a number of essential daily activities.\n\nWill Provigil Help You Get Better Sleep?\n\nCredible research has made it abundantly clear that data derived from the development of this pharmaceutical have a form footing in science and that it can and will offer those who tend to suffer from most common forms of sleep related disorders with a notable improvement in their quality of life through a marked increase in the amount of restful and restorative sleep that they generally achieve due its consistent use. Still, it cannot be overlooked as to how many negative side effects continue to be a source of serious concern.\n\nReferring back to an earlier section of this article, we noted that Provigil fits firmly into the category of sleep aids which require the prior authorization of a licensed physician. Suffers of sleep disorders seeking help with determining if Provigil or other sleep aids of a similar nature are likely the best available options are highly advised to seek a consultation with their primary care physician or make an appointment with a sleep specialist.\n\nWith all of these details in mind, sufferers of most sleep disorders must look at the wide range of the issues associated with the use of a prescription based medication of any type and the long list of potential and detrimental side effects that are closely tied to them. Considering these facts many consumers are advised to also consult with their primary physician regarding the use of over the counter sleep aids given that many similar benefits can often be attained with their use and, most often, without most of the expanding list of negative side effects related to the use of prescription options.\n\nA secondary note that should be considered is the fact that there is an ever expanding set of over the counter sleep aids which fit into the category of all-natural sleep aids. Those suffering from most common sleep disorders may find that these options can often offer significant relief and while not inducing many of the negative side effects often associated with the use of prescription medications.\n\nReferencing all of the facts stated herein the abundance of evidence is most clear that Provigil is firmly in the class of leaders within the prescription based sleep disorder medications. It also remains clear that the plethora of negative side effects are likely to lead to a number of serious health issues among users with a notable history of major medical concerns or a history of mental issues." ]

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[ "Prescription for Ethics: An Antidote to the Worship of Scientific Learning", null, "The university where I teach states its mission as “foster[ing] intellectual inquiry and critical thinking, preparing graduates who will serve as effective, ethical leaders and engaged citizens.” It’s a tall order, and I have read this statement to myself many times. I have also read it to my third and fourth year students and asked them to tell me whether they believe this mission to be an accurate representation of how the university engages them.\n\nMost students would agree that university professors do spend a good deal of time teaching critical thinking skills. But students also don’t mind telling me that there isn’t much a professor can do to influence their ability to become ethical leaders. “Morals are instilled at an early age,” the students will say, “the university might change you a little, but things are pretty much set by your family or religion.” One student suggested that exposure to a diverse student body and classmates who come from different backgrounds and who share different perspectives on life was enough to help him develop understanding, acceptance, or at least tolerance of others.\n\nBeyond these suggestions for learning ethical leadership, I find that students struggle with open discussion about ethical issues in the classroom. When it comes to presenting such discussions, I’m afraid that many teachers, myself included, as well as students, find there are certain ethical issues they prefer to avoid. It would seem much easier to concentrate on skills learning or teaching the scientific method and leave ethics or morality to the church, synagogue, mosque, and ultimately to the student’s conscience.\n\nBut what happens when a teacher separates exposure to ethical standards from scientific learning, concentrating mainly on imparting the scientific method? In my experience and from class observation, this modern concentration on science and technology has resulted in the perception, among many religious fundamentalists or anti-intellectuals, that the university creates a class of Godless “humanists” or “cultural elites” who substitute science for religion. Regardless of how one feels about universities being safe havens for cultural elites, the religious fundamentalist or anti-intellectual does raise an important question: can a set of skills or scientific methods substitute for religion or at least a moral code?\n\nWithin the scientific laboratory, this might hold true. Respecting and following a well-established and prescribed set of methods or procedures could be considered a type of morality, and even an artist who spends his or her career perfecting a process that produces valued work could be thought of as a practicing ethicist in some sense. But both scientist and artist find quickly that outside the laboratory or studio, scientific and artistic experimentation is unwelcome. One generally learns science by repeating established scientific experiments in a controlled environment and building on the work of those who laid a foundation. But experimenting in any medium—be it chemistry, physics, or morals—in an uncontrolled environment welcomes only disaster and chaos.\n\nWhen it comes to developing a personal ethics, the university student should not be encouraged to test moral axioms in the real world. A student does not need to plagiarize a paper and be subject to the school’s code of conduct to learn the meaning of “Thou Shalt Not Steal.” Nor does the student need to involve himself in an affair with his best friend’s girl to test the maxim “Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Wife?” And surely no sane professor would recommend that a student murder his roommate to understand the full force of the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Kill.”\n\nMost would agree that teachers, universities, and civil societies are not interested in allowing or encouraging experimentation at this level. But is standing before a classroom and admonishing students for bad behavior or punishing them by enforcing the university’s Code of Conduct enough to build upon a person’s ethics? Most cognitive psychologists say no, and research in this field suggests that learning from punishment is the lowest form of moral development, leading to avoidance rather than principled behavior based on personal choice. So if punishment is not the way, how does a teacher advance and instill a principled ethics alongside a set of technical skills?\n\nAs a teacher of writing and composition, my answer is to expose students to stories and ask questions about the moral issues relevant to those stories. Along with having students learn the mechanics of writing, an English class should involve having students read and listen to stories that can trace the repercussions of questionable decision making. Nonfiction and fiction stories have long served as the reflective waters for real-life ethical failures and corrections. Stories provide a safe place where people can reflect on what happens when social and moral codes break down.\n\nIn fact, recent scientific investigations provide an explanation for why reading, listening, watching, and reflecting on stories might be an essential part of developing human empathy and, by extension, ethics. Dr. Paul D. Zak of the Center for Neuroeconomic Studies has demonstrated that when people listen to stories, they release more of the hormone oxytocin, a neurochemical especially evident in the early stages of mother-child bonding. And as both adult males and females have been shown to produce this hormone when listening to engaging narratives, what better way to strengthen social bonds in our culture than listen to examples from those who have already made mistakes rather than by having students make their own?\n\nNonfiction and fiction stories have long served as the reflective waters for real-life ethical failures and corrections.\n\nAdmittedly, moral lessons, or any lessons for that matter, are learned much better when they are experienced personally and learners gain a visceral connection to the consequences of their actions. But the college teacher can only hope that students have already had some real-life experiences where poor moral decision making has resulted in pangs of conscience. Hopefully, by the college years, many of the worst of those experiences can be put to rest. Building off students’ personal pasts, teachers should encourage their charges to use their imaginations and extrapolate how they might feel about moral failures of greater degree, suggesting that certain behaviors, when practiced in the real world, are clearly more desirable than others.\n\nOutside of learning from past ethical failures, family and religious institutions, or a teacher’s direction, the best teachers of ethics may be libraries, be those book, movie, or music libraries. Such resources are full of moral lessons, not only about stealing, coveting, and killing but lessons about colonialism, sexism, racism, and totalitarianism as well. While teachers have a responsibility to teach marketable skills, they also have a responsibility to expose students to these issues, introducing texts that attempt to tackle modern moral dilemmas head on, or making old texts fresh by reading them as metaphors for modern times.\n\nIn doing so, a teacher engages students’ imaginations, forcing them to anticipate the consequences of their actions. The students begin to understand more deeply how even the best intentions can be met with bad results, or how the worst intentions might oddly have fortunate outcomes. Tackling this conundrum in the classroom can take students even further toward developing a set of principles, forcing them to ask, “Is morality a question of my conscious intent, or do I deserve credit for the consequences of my actions when I never considered my actions or their consequences in the first place?”\n\nAs a teacher, my hope is that students will entertain such questions in our classroom and find conscionable ways to apply their answers, both during their time at the university and when they move on to begin their lives as professionals." ]

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[ "Ed Dimendberg, professor of film and media studies, visual studies and German at University of California-Irvine, opened Cornell's Case Studies in Urban Development (CSUD) 2013 April 12 with a talk on Bunker Hill, a downtown Los Angeles neighborhood razed in the name of urban renewal.\n\nCSUD 2013 examined the development known as the Grand Avenue Project in downtown Los Angeles. The project is the latest, and perhaps grandest, effort to create vital downtown business, civic, and cultural venues for Los Angeles. These endeavors date back to the 1950s when the City of Los Angeles condemned and cleared Victorian homes and regraded the Bunker Hill neighborhood.", null ]

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[ "\"The Origin of Love\" at Spiegeltent\n\nIf you've ever longed to relive the unbridled thrill of seeing either the stage production or film version of \"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\" for the first time, John Cameron Mitchell will be bringing \"The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig\" to Spiegeltent as part of Bard College's SummerScape for a rare one-night-only show on July 27.\n\nMitchell, the Tony Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated cocreator of the renowned musical, will take audiences on an intimate and hilarious journey through just over two decades of life with Hedwig. The performance was described by DC Theatre Scene as \"a punk-rock live 'Behind the Music' episode,\" featuring songs, storytelling and, if we're lucky, crowd-surfing.", null, "\"Hedwig and the Angry Inch\" opened off-Broadway in 1998, following the trials and tribulations of genderqueer glam rocker Hedwig Robinson, the East German immigrant in a flashy band. The musical grew in popularity, moving to London's fabled West End in 2000, with productions staged around the world, before finally landing on Broadway in 2014 with Neil Patrick Harris in the role of Hedwig. A critically acclaimed film version released in 2001 has gone on to achieve cult status and remains popular today. Suffice to say that Hedwig has a great many more fans in real life than in the dramatic story first—and now once again—told by Mitchell.\n\nThe summer-long Spiegeltent festival seems an ideal fit for \"The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig,\" with its fun, bright, glamorous, and theatrical programming. This year, the schedule boasts a wide range of performances and dancing with a strong cabaret lean. Even the history of the Spiegeltent, literally Dutch for \"mirror tent,\" which stretches back to Belgium over a century, seems particularly well-suited to the beguiling excess dripping from every inch of the Hedwig character. \"The Origin of Love\" features a live band, guest vocals by Amber Martin (House of Whimsy), a mutable costume that transforms into different outfits, and, most significantly for some, an updated, gracefully-aged version of the famous Hedwig wig.\n\nAnticipate hearing numbers from the Hedwig songbook, written by Stephen Trask, including \"The Origin of Love,\" \"Wig in a Box,\" and \"Wicked Little Town,\" along with the stories of their inspiration. And if previous performances are anything to go by, expect an encore featuring songs from Mitchell's newest work, \"Anthem: Homunculus.\" The serial musical, written in collaboration with Bryan Weller, concluded last month as a 10-episode podcast on the Luminary app and featured the talents of Mitchell alongside Glenn Close, Patty Lupone, and Cynthia Erivo.\n\n\"The Origin of Love: The Songs and Stories of Hedwig\" comes to Spiegeltent on Saturday, July 27 for two performances, at 7pm and 9:30pm. Tickets range between $45-$100." ]

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[ "Individuals who depend on recalled ventilators and other breathing devices manufactured by Philips Respironics have joined in a letter, along with over two dozen disability organizations, demanding that Philips repair or replace the devices. The recall was announced in June, stating that the devices were found to release potentially harmful particles and gasses, but offering little information and no timeline for corrective action.\n\nI’m among the affected individuals and have been part of a small group of users organizing a response with the support of the New York Law School and its Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic. “Respiratory equipment is not like a car that’s faulty. You can stop driving the car, but you can’t just postpone breathing. So we were given a really ridiculous thing that they called a choice, which was use it or don’t,” I told The Verge.\n\nUpdate: Philips announced a repair and replacement program for one of their recalled models, the DreamStation, on September 1, 2021.", null, "This is a graphic illustration by Haley Brown with a bright cobalt blue background. There are black lungs filled with dark gray puffy clouds. In the left lung is a yellow canary bird with a red eye in a mid-flight attack pose. In the right lung there is a red circle. Around the lungs there is clear white tubing that is entwined. Above this graphic the white text reads: #SuckYouPhilips\n\nThe full text of the group’s press release follows.\n\nOn June 14, 2021, Philips Respironics issued a recall of thirteen models of ventilators, CPAP, and BiPAP machines. The recall advises that users immediately discontinue use of the affected machines due to the degradation of a foam contained inside the devices that can be inhaled or release certain chemicals that are potentially carcinogenic or have other adverse side effects. However, users who require the devices for life-sustaining care were advised to not cease use of them, and instead told to speak to their physicians, who have not been provided with adequate guidance from Philips Respironics.\n\nDevice users had to take it upon themselves to not only get word of the recall out starting in mid-June, but they have also had to organize to push Philips to take basic action.\n\n“Disabled people are once again expected to come up with a contingency plan for ourselves. I am outraged that so little has been done by Philips to recognize, take ownership of, and communicate the urgency that this moment requires for folks like myself who need access to this equipment. This goes far beyond an issue of just replacing faulty medical supplies. Because when we contextualize it during this time of an airborne pandemic, a time of poor air quality in some areas of the country due to climate change, and a time when safe access to services for disabled people is already challenging we see the ways where the system has failed us, again. To leave disabled people without any adequate back-up or an effective course of action was a decision that Philips knew about, and although it is appalling it isn’t shocking to me. This is how ableism works,” Sandy Ho, disabled CPAP user, disability policy researcher and community-organizer.\n\nThe letter today demands that Philips immediately develop and implement a device repair and/or replacement process and timeline that prioritizes users who depend on their equipment for survival or that Philips provide so-affected users with comparable devices from other manufacturers free-of-cost. A copy of the letter is attached.\n\n“As a long-term user of both the DreamStation and Trilogy 100, I am terrified for myself and millions impacted by the recall globally. I am an unwitting character in a real-life horror film,” said Alice Wong, Disability Visibility Project. Wong’s outreach to users via social media just one day after the recall was issued resulted in a groundswell of people learning that they were at risk.\n\nPhilips acknowledged that extreme heat and humidity exacerbate the degradation of the foam particles in the device. However, in the middle of the summer months and more than two months after the issuance of the recall, many users of Philips equipment have been left with their recalled devices in conditions of intense heat, humidity, and even wildfires that further jeopardize their equipment and health.\n\n“People with disabilities have essentially been left to inhale potentially toxic air through kt heir devices for an indeterminate period of time or to pay for temporary fixes that they are uncertain can protect them. This is not okay,” said Professor Britney Wilson, civil rights attorney and Director of the Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic at New York Law School. “We’re calling on Philips to develop, communicate, and execute a repair and replacement plan that prioritizes users who depend on their devices to live and to be transparent about what led to the recall, how Philips is monitoring complaints concerning potential health impacts, and what information about potential risks associated with the long-term continued use of their devices and how to mitigate them has been communicated to healthcare providers and professionals.”\n\n“When I see that many people only found out about the recall by word of mouth or social media, I feel lucky that my local respiratory provider called me. I love my life and have always been pro-active in protecting my health, but they still have no idea when my ventilator will be replaced. The more I learn, the more I’m scared about being harmed by every breath I’m taking,” said Diane Coleman, President & CEO, Not Dead Yet." ]

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[ "Learn what the downfall of Toys R Us teaches us and what you can do to make sure your company doesn’t follow in the same footsteps.\n\nIt’s a bold statement, but the recent Filing of Chapter 11 by Toys-R-Us provides us with a timely example that the failure of businesses to build a position of payment certainty and therefore trust with their suppliers can ultimately lead to their demise.\n\nA recent article by the Financial Times cites the key reason for the failure of Toys R Us wasn’t its ability to keep up with debt repayment but rather “a dangerous game of dominoes” prompted by a CNBC report in early September that said the toy retailer was preliminarily considering a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The result was that nearly half the company’s vendors either stopped shipping or asked for cash on delivery just as the company was preparing for its busiest season. That squeeze led to a rushed bankruptcy filing on September 19.\n\nA marriage of necessity\n\nCompanies, and especially retailers, rely on their suppliers to provide them with products on good payment terms so that they can effectively fund putting items on their shelves. And manufacturers rely on retailers to sell the products they manufacture. It’s effectively a close marriage of necessity. The impact to suppliers of their customers breaking off this marriage by going into bankruptcy can therefore be devastating. In the case of Toys R Us according to the FT Mattel and Hasbro, two of the largest suppliers, are collectively owed $200m in trade debt and Mattel dropped third quarter revenues by a fifth in North America, with half of that fall directly attributable to the fall of Toys R Us.\n\nThe importance of cash in supply chains\n\nIf we put aside the overall long-term ability of Toys R Us to compete in a modern digital marketplace dominated by the likes of Amazon, what led to their unexpected downfall was an inability to manage and optimise the movement of cash through their supply chain for both themselves and their suppliers.\n\nWhat we are seeing in the marketplace is that the companies that are creating winning strategies are those that not only optimise the production and movement of goods in supply chains but also optimise the movement and allocation of cash. These companies recognize that their supply chain is a critical factor in ensuring overall competitiveness and that funding of supply chains through timely payments and access to cash helps ensure trust, builds a sense of partnership and ultimately creates innovation and business growth.\n\nTo give an example, at Taulia we are partnering with a global pharmaceutical company. They have a need for cash to fund R&D – developing a new drug can cost up to $1bn. One mechanism for them to obtain cash is to extend supplier payment terms. However, supply chain collaboration is critical to bring new drugs to market through areas like research, testing and manufacture. It’s simply not a viable strategy to stress their suppliers through reducing their access to cash by paying later. The solution to this apparent dilemma is to leverage a technology-led approach to offer all their suppliers payment from the moment the invoice is approved using funds from the financial markets. At the same time, they can better manage their payment terms to improve their cash position. What they are doing is effectively decoupling when they as a customer pay vs. when their suppliers get paid. The result? Both the pharma and its suppliers build their cash positions and thereby build their overall competitive position.\n\nTechnology – a force for good\n\nThe good news, therefore, is that while on one hand, the ever-increasing rise of technology can appear to be a disruptive threat for companies a.k.a Amazon and Toys R Us, on the other hand, companies can now leverage these new technologies to transform the way cash is managed and optimised through supply chains.\n\nCompanies that understand and take hold of these new technologies – like the pharma company that Taulia works with, are the ones that are building a position of stronger liquidity, trust and collaboration across their supply chain and therefore their overall competitive strength. As the unfortunate example of Toys R Us shows us, it is the companies that take this approach that are more likely to be around for the long run.", null, null, null, "On-Demand Webinar: Supporting smaller suppliers in a time of crisis" ]

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[ "The former Mississippi State head coach was last an assistant at Texas A&M.", null, "Western Kentucky may have its man.\n\nThe Courier-Journal has learned that WKU is working to secure a deal with former Mississippi State head coach Rick Stansbury. A press conference to introduce him as soon as Monday at the Bowling Green, Ky., school remains possible.\n\nStansbury, if hired, would succeed Ray Harper, who resigned last week following a university disciplinary hearing that resulted in the suspension of three WKU players.\n\nStansbury, who spent 14 seasons at Mississippi State, came out of retirement to most recently work as an assistant at Texas A&M. The Aggies advanced to this year's Sweet 16 before bowing out Thursday night to Oklahoma.\n\nStansbury emerged as the favorite to land an offer Thursday after ESPN reported the job was his \"if he wants it.\" He would take over a Hilltoppers program that needs veteran leadership amid recent turmoil. WKU finished 18-16 last season under Harper despite soft non-conference scheduling, and the future of suspended guards Fredrick Edmond, Chris McNeal and Marlon Hunter is unknown.\n\nMississippi State went 293-165 under Stansbury, winning the SEC's regular-season title in 2004, when he was named the league's coach of the year. The Bulldogs also won the SEC tournament in 2002 and 2009.\n\nWKU has yet to officially announce the hire or details of Stansbury's introduction on the Bowling Green campus." ]

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[ "Smaller classes help students, many argue, especially those most “at risk.” Research shows that on average this is true. However, when “risk” is defined beyond ethnicity or socioeconomic status, the picture of who most benefits becomes less clear.\n\nKey Findings\n• Gains in test scores from smaller class sizes are largest for the highest-scoring students.\n• Differences in test scores at nearly every percentile are larger for African American children than for white children.\n• Policymakers should think carefully about the definition of “at risk” when evaluating the distributional effects of education policies.\n\nAs education policies go, class-size reduction has been among the most widely supported policies in the U.S. These policies have often been formulated under the auspices of improving educational opportunities for disadvantaged students.\n\nDuring the 2006-07 school year, California dedicated over $1.7 billion to keep K-3 classes to no more than 20 students. At the federal level, the Clinton administration’s 1999 budget proposal included $12 billion to reduce class sizes. The Tennessee STAR (Student-Teacher Achievement Ratio) experiment was commissioned by the Tennessee state legislature from 1985-89. It involved over 11,000 elementary school students. Most analyses of Project STAR conclude that smaller classes increase average test scores.\n\nThese studies do not focus on low-achieving students per se. Instead, they focus on subgroups that typically have low achievement, such as minorities and children from low-income families. One problem with this approach is that the impact of class-size reduction policies may vary more within subgroups than across subgroups.\n\nTo understand how education policies affect children at different achievement levels is critical to answering one of the center-stage questions in education policy: how can resources be optimally allocated so as to increase achievement for students at risk of failure without compromising the learning opportunities of more advantaged children?\n\nComparing achievement\nProject STAR randomly assigned K-3 students at public schools to either a small class (13 to 17 students), a regular-size class (22 to 25 students), or a regular-size class with a full-time teacher’s aide. The schools were large and small, urban and rural, and from wealthy and poor districts. As a result, the schools included in Project STAR are thought to include most of the educational conditions that exist in the U.S.\n\nThis study focuses on children in kindergarten and first grade. The measure of achievement is the Stanford Achievement Test that includes math, reading and word identification. For their analysis, the researchers combined all subject scores into a single composite score.", null, "Real benefits in smaller classes\nWhile students in smaller classes scored higher overall than those in regular-sized classes, the biggest differences was between students with the highest scores. Among kindergarteners, students at the 90th percentile in a small class scored about 1/3 of a standard deviation higher than 90th-percentile students in regular classes. The differences at the 10th percentile are less than ten percent of a standard deviation.\n\nThese findings seem to be at odds with earlier studies that found smaller classes most benefit disadvantaged children, specifically minorities and children from low-income families who typically score lower on standardized tests. By estimating the differences at all points in the test-score distribution, rather than comparing average differences in test scores between groups divided by ethnicity or socioeconomic status, the researchers found a more complicated picture.\n\nDefining “at-risk” children\nWhy do high achievers benefit more from smaller classes? One hypothesis is that in small classes teachers are better able to identify high achievers and to use instructional approaches that work well for them. However, it is hard to imagine why this benefits high-achieving students more than low achievers.\n\nOne possibility is that high achievers are, on average, more motivated than low achievers, which allows them to take better advantage of targeted instruction. This possibility might be particularly salient if teachers in smaller classes spend less time dealing with disruptive behavior and have more time to devote to on-task learning opportunities.\n\nThis study’s conclusions call into question how we define vulnerable students. This may have implications for how we evaluate education policies such as school accountability, voucher programs, and curricular development. As we see in the case of Tennessee STAR, we might draw different conclusions about who benefits if we use a broader definition of which students are “at risk.”\n\nMeet the Researchers\nMarianne Page is the Deputy Director of the Center for Poverty Research, and Professor of Economics at UC Davis. Her poverty-related research focuses on intergenerational mobility, and the impact of social programs on children’s outcomes.\n\nErika Jackson is Associate Director of Policy and Analysis for the UCD Department of Admissions.", null, "In this video, economist Marianne Page talks about how increasing academic achievement among children in poverty can help them to achieve their potential.", null ]

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[ null, "Tyius Lewis (20) and his Eastside teammates fell to defending state champion A.C. Flora in the second round of the Class AAA playoffs Friday night.(Photo: File)\n\nThe Falcons (22-4), who blew out Wren by 35 points in the first round, host Southside on Tuesday with a spot in the Upper State championship game on the line.\n\nExcept for the fourth quarter, when all of the starters and regular reserves were relaxing on the bench, Flora overwhelmed the Eagles.\n\nThe Falcons jumped to a 7-0 lead in the opening two minutes, hitting three consecutive shots, beginning with a 3-pointer from the right corner by James Murray-Boyles.\n\nFlora scored the first eight points of the second quarter to expand the lead to 25-8.\n\nIf there was any doubt, the Falcons ended it with an impressive third-quarter performance. Flora scored 19 consecutive points on 8-for-9 shooting from the field before Eastside posted a free throw at the 2:48 mark. The Falcons finished the quarter with a 27-3 advantage, converting 11 of 14 from the field.\n\n\"We carry over the intensity of our practices into the games,\" Staley said. \"We don't feel our way around. We know what we want to do on the floor and we get after it.\"\n\nBalanced production is another Flora trademark.\n\nFlora, which dropped a 52-50 decision to archrival Dreher in the regular-season finale, has won 13 of its past 14 games and is riding a seven-game postseason winning streak.\n\n\"We are playing well, but none of that matters now,\" Staley said. \"The only thing that matters is the next practice as we get ready for the next game.\"" ]

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[ "The personal story behind esthra\n\n“Where did the idea for esthra come from?” is a question people frequently ask. As so often in life, there is a short and a long answer.\n\nThe short answer is:\nHR Orchestration, and thus the link between business and music, is a concise, integrating and above all inspiring approach to leadership and HR. At the same time, it combines my two big passions.\n\nThe long answer relates to my personal story – and that’s what makes the concept so unique.\n\n“Those who wish to sing… always find a song.”\n\nThe story begins in 1973.\nAccording to my mother, I started singing before I talked or walked. Music is something that started very early for me, and through music I was reborn several times in my life.\n\nI found myself in music, especially when it came to singing in front of an audience.\n\n“The whole world belongs to me.”\nThat’s how it felt.\nI was not aware of it then. The importance of music to me was just an instinctive perception: An unlimited, deep source of energy full of surprises that connects me to my feelings, allows me to stand out from the day-to-day and connects me to other people.\nI also realised that music not only has this significance for me, but also for people who just listen to me, who sing or dance with me, as well as for those who do not like the same music as I do – after all, we all have our “own” music!\nOver the years, I became one with music.\n\nNo day went by without music being there to smuggle in new colours.\nOn some days, it was not that easy to sing simple, light and cheerful melodies. Because unfortunately, fate also gave me different, sad melodies to sing – it didn’t matter whether I found that totally unfair.\n\nThere was even a point in my life when music and I nearly became bound to each other for life.\nThe famous choir of the Hungarian state opera was looking for new children.\nI was holding my mother’s hand as we walked into the historic building of the Hungarian radio station to attend the casting. There were many children there, also with their parents.\n\nMost of them were sent in to see the jury with bunches of flowers, chocolates or other gifts. I was surprised. What did they need that for? At the time I didn’t understand it, I only had one feeling: for this “calling” to a new career, genuine talent and a love of music was not enough.\n\nHere, it wasn’t about how the music and I can get better together. I had a feeling that every time I would have to be armed with a bunch of flowers or a gift to conquer the stage. What if I didn’t have these bunches of flowers and gifts ready to hand each time?\nThis time it worked without:\nI was accepted!\nIn Hungary at the time, this was a huge opportunity that everyone would have wanted. For me, it also looked like a chance to learn to play my “instrument” more perfectly. Accepting the offer would have meant fundamentally changing the life of my family for the better (at the time this choir was a stepping stone to a career, international travel and money).\nIn the end, I thanked them and said no.\nMy parents respected my decision – they probably guessed the importance of “freedom” in my melodies. Looking back, I can be laid-back as I tell this story – but this is only because my words contain my life so far and all the music that I have witnessed in that time.\nBut still, I can relive the feeling associated with this decision to this day:\nthe feeling of a conscious decision that ends something and limits the future only on the surface.\nIntuitively, the decision was connected with something bigger – I did not decide against music, but against this type of “career”. As a girl of 8 or 9 it seemed perfectly clear to me and I had an image of the future before my eyes:\n“One day I will be on a big stage that belongs only to me, and I will sing to my audience what I want and how I want to. And I will be successful.”\nHm… well, I only had to wait just under 30 years. That’s when my dream came true. 🙂\nBut a lot happened before then.\n\nAt school, everything was perfect, not just in terms of learning, but also singing. I was a highly valued member of the choir, and later I sang in bands. And everywhere else. Whenever and wherever possible.\n\nWhatever my mood – in good times and in bad, music gave me the right connection to myself. When that wasn’t there, others were able to see it too. My mother would ask me:\n\n“Have you noticed that you haven’t sung for a while?”\n\nThat was always a sign for me to take a look at my inner self. This made me understand:\nThe right music is the music that shapes me on the inside and makes an outward impact.\n\nThe music on the inside shapes the music that is brought to the outside.\n\nThe same is true of silence – when there is no music – and it’s not a deliberate break.\n\nNo matter how or where I encountered music, I enjoyed it. For example, when I and the microphone met in front of others. When karaoke came to Hungary, it was like a catalyst for me. I owe my return to the old building of the Hungarian radio station to karaoke.\nNow I was back in THE place where my almost-career as a singer started – I had come full circle. There was a new radio station called “Danubius” – they hosted a karaoke competition. For the first time, I was in a highly professional and acoustically perfect studio. Here, I came to realise how good music sounds and that other people think I have a great voice.", null, "Headphones on.\nThe music – instrumental – begins to play.\nI still get goose bumps today when I think about it.\nI had never heard music this way before: It was the best sound I had ever perceived. Although I did recognise the song immediately – Whitney Houston’s “Greatest Love of All”– I had never experienced it this way.\nThe second surprise came when I began to sing.\n\nMy voice came back into the headphones and I also heard it like never before. The sound was so well balanced that the music seemed just perfect. This feeling of singing, and sounds of maximum potential that allows me to truly flourish – this motivated me to give it even more, to sing with even more passion. It also made me aware of the following:\nonce you know you can sound like THIS you always want to sound like this.\nOnly then do you know where the outer edge of your own potential, where the North Star, really is.\nThe longing for this perfect sound improves every effort,\neven if you are not singing in a perfectly orchestrated studio with the help of a producer who ensures that the sound is as good as possible and the singer is given “wings”.\nThis experience had a strong impact on me – and it inspired my approach for esthra.\nInterestingly, this good feeling of self-realisation, singing & success kept blending with the experience of situations that were not about talent, fairness & openness to results.\nThe people in the studio of the karaoke competition secretly discussed (I happened to overhear it) whether one of the competitors (who was told that she would win before the competition) should indeed win.\nThank god, the head of the programme was strong and courageous and said NO.\n“Do you have no ears, that’s not possible… we can’t do that…”\nHe rebuked the colleague whose girlfriend should have won the competition. In this case, the audience cheered for me, chose me, and the result was respected.\n\nBang. Silence.\nI became sad and felt ashamed.\nWow, that’s it… I do not have a next dream.\nHow did it happen that I no longer have any big music goals?\nI had tears in my eyes and I couldn’t read the flip chart properly. Or… perhaps I only perceived it properly now? The word PERFORM started to move… the first 3 letters appeared to melt away… And then there was the word – FORM. Form, change – yes!!!!! That’s it.\nThen it became clear:\nIt’s NO LONGER the performance,\nto get my own melody across as an artist, that is important to me,\nit is no longer the goal of achieving a lot and to make sure they listen and think I am great…\nRather, to show\nhow music shapes, transforms, supports, embodies… and how through music positive changes towards success and happiness can be achieved at the same time.\nAnd so this freedom was back, the desire to experience the feeling… And also to show others how they can sound better and happier with support – a little bit like what happened to me in the studio during the karaoke competition.\nAt that time, I was still knee-deep in my career at an international company. I wanted to go in a new direction – but slowly. I wanted to continue to play my instruments, but differently. I wanted to test how it sounds in the “old” orchestra. At the time I even bought a domain – melODyconsulting.com.\nThe “old” orchestra with the very professional instruments, with the very dynamic melody but specific notes, was too narrow. I wanted to improvise more, sing more freely, make music with others – it was not suitable for that.\nEven more importantly, I needed new inspiration for my songs. I found this in my current family. In line with the motto of “I have a dream” – but not following Martin Luther King, but rather ABBA. A Swede came into my life. We have been making “music” together for 6 years, and our little “orchestra” now comprises 4 musicians. When the youngest members were able to play music on their own, the question was – how does this journey continue?\nAt the beginning of this year the time had come to choose this new path and to make the next dream come true through music.\nSuddenly it all came together – the pieces of the puzzle fitted, music and leadership/HR became my new “melody”, which I now want to sing to the whole world.\nAnd so esthra was founded.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Actor, Mike Vogel star of Cloverfield, keeps himself in great shape. Mike takes pride in his celebrity body and has formulated a diet and regiment that he can stick to. Mike is on the cover of Men’s Health’s February 2008 issue. Below are some highlights from the article.\n\n“When I hit 25, my six-pack slowly became a five and a half, then a five.” He consulted his nutritionist: Mom. “At 49, she’s a competitive bodybuilder,” he says. “She’s been a big factor in how I’ve changed my diet.” Out: Big, calorie-packed meals. In: Smaller portions of lean meat and vegetables throughout the day.\n\nMike Vogel on Working Out\n\n“My wife and I had a little girl last February, so going to the gym became impossible.” “We bought a home gym. I roll out of bed, walk into the garage, work out, and go about my day. I’ll bring my daughter out there in her ExerSaucer. I don’t know if I’ll ever go back to a gym.”\n\n“When I graduated from high school, I weighed 125 pounds because of wrestling. Suddenly I realized I could eat whatever I wanted — plus, creatine was new at the time.” “I went from 125 to 175 pounds, working out like crazy. I was yoked.” “But I wasn’t drinking enough fluids and ended up with a kidney stone — and 3 weeks of pure hell.”\n\n“I do things that are very uncharacteristic of a normal workout routine,” he says. “I hate cardio. Absolutely hate it. I grew up as a wrestler, so it was constant cardio, cardio, cardio. The thought of getting on a treadmill…”\n\n“I’m an addict,” he says. He plays in tournaments whenever he can. But the sport didn’t become a fat burner until a trainer friend turned baseball drills into hard-core workouts. Vogel does this routine once or twice a week.\n\n“We start out with Oriole drills.” “First we do an all-out sprint down the first-base line, jog from first to home, sprint from home to first to second, then jog home. Then we sprint from home around to third and jog home. Finally, we sprint all the way around. We rest 30 seconds, and then do it all again.”\n\nAfter that, Vogel takes grounders at “breakneck” speed, scooping up five to 10 at every position, moving around the infield as fast as he can. Then he picks a position in the infield while his friend stands 15 feet away and rapid-fires grounders to Vogel, which he then hurls at the backstop.\n\n“It’s one after another, as fast as we can,” “After a minute, you literally can’t breathe.”\n\n“The experience brought me back to a realistic regimen. Now I do a pretty standard 4-day lifting cycle: chest and triceps on day 1, back and biceps on day 2, shoulders and traps on day 3, and then legs on the fourth day. I’ll do 4 sets of everything, but I’ll start out the first 2 sets doing higher reps, 10 to 12. The last 2 sets I’ll go higher weight, lower rep. Sometimes I’ll take a lot of weight off and do a fifth set until I burn out.”\n\n“My wife is a terrific Southern cook. My favorite of all the great things she cooks is ‘trash potatoes.’ That’s mashed potatoes with sour cream, bacon, cheddar cheese, and horseradish. It’s a total gut bomb. I can’t eat stuff like that whenever I want anymore, so when I have it, it’s a treat.” (Source: Mens Health Magazine)" ]

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[ null, "[Image above] An Airbus A320neo, which contains a ceramic matrix composite turbine shroud in its engines. Research on developing new environmental barrier coatings to protect these composite shrouds from undesirable reactions is an active area of study. Credit: Dirk-Jan Kraan, Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)\n\nIn the last couple decades, significant investment by GE Aviation in ceramic matrix composite (CMC) development and maturation has led to commercial introduction of CMC components into jet engines. However, CMCs themselves are not the only development that allowed for successful deployment—development of environmental barrier coatings (EBCs) was also crucial to this launch.\n\nEBCs are a protective measure that enable CMC operation under harsh conditions. In the 1990s, researchers discovered that the protective silica layer on CMCs reacts with water vapor in combustion environments to form volatile products such as Si(OH)4. Over time, the CMC surface recedes, the component thins, and its mechanical properties degrade.\n\nWhen this detrimental reaction was discovered, NASA joined with GE and Pratt & Whitney to develop new coatings to protect CMCs from water vapor. These new coatings were subsequently termed environmental barrier coatings, and in the years since, several iterations of EBCs were explored to identify a material system that would effectively protect CMCs.\n\nYtterbium-based silicates are a current generation of EBC materials that demonstrate much promise due to their high temperature stability and low steam volatility capabilities. Ytterbium disilicate and ytterbium monosilicate specifically are being studied due to their stability at temperatures below 1,750°C and higher damage tolerance behaviors compared to other rare earth silicates.\n\nThermochemical and thermomechanical stability of both ytterbium disilicate and ytterbium monosilicate in aerospace engine working environments are extensively reported. However, most of the studies were conducted on coatings processed using plasma spray techniques that result in complex coating microstructures.\n\n“Therefore, there is a lack of fundamental studies in the literature about the structural stability of these materials under long-term thermal exposure at high operating temperatures,” researchers write in a recent paper.\n\nBased on experiments, Paksoy and Xiao drew several conclusions about the behavior of these ytterbium silicates, including\n\n“The findings of this study do not only lay the groundwork for high temperature stability of [ytterbium] based silicates for the design and application of EBCs, but also demonstrates that [ytterbium disilicate/monosilicate] composites could be a prospective material system to heal the cracks and increase the lifetime of EBCs,” the researchers conclude." ]

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[ "The eight-part series is created by The Night Manager writer David Farr and is a co-production between the BBC and Netflix.\n\nTroy: Fall Of A City will star Louis Hunter (The Fosters) and Bella Dayne (Humans) as Paris and Helen, the two lovers whose passionate affair plunges Greece and Troy into war, threatening to bring both empires to their knees.", null, "They are joined by Joseph Mawle (Ripper Street) as Odysseus, Chloe Pirrie (War & Peace) as Andromache, Johnny Harris (This Is England 86-90) as Agamemnon, David Gyasi (Interstellar) as Achilles, and Jonas Armstrong (Dark Angel) as Menelaos, the King of Sparta whose marriage to Helen is destroyed when Paris arrives in his city.", null, "Piers Wenger, Controller BBC Drama Commissioning, commented: “We now have the perfect cast to bring David Farr’s extraordinary scripts to life, including – in Louis Hunter and Bella Dayne – two of the most exciting upcoming actors cast as two of mythology’s most iconic figures. Troy: Fall of a City will be like nothing broadcast before; a 3,000 year old tale crafted on a huge scale, ready to enthral and capture the imaginations of BBC One viewers as if it were being told for the very first time.”\n\nWriter David Farr added: “I’m delighted we’ve assembled such a high quality ensemble cast mixing some exciting new faces with experienced actors whom I have long coveted and admired. The story we’re telling has an epic and political sweep but is also deeply human and intimate. I look forward to seeing these actors take you on the journey”.\n\nExecutive producer Derek Wax teased: “These myths may be 3000 years old but they still have an elemental grip on our imagination, resonating through history as current conflicts bring Homer closer to us than ever. I am thrilled that David Farr’s wonderful scripts have attracted such a brilliant cast, breathing new life into these characters, finding the human intimacy within the epic sweep.”", null, "Troy: Fall Of A City will air on BBC One and will premiere Netflix globally outside of the UK.\n\nThe official synopsis reads: “An epic tale of mortals and gods, David Farr’s psychologically rich and sweeping narrative goes back to the story’s origins: to the judgement of Paris, his scandalous love affair with Helen, and the ill-starred prophecy surrounding his birth.\n\n“Told from the perspective of the Trojan royal family at the heart of the siege, Troy: Fall of a City is a rich story of love, intrigue, betrayal and belonging. Combining thrilling adventure with heart-breaking intimacy, it conveys the big themes of human existence and identity; of people battling to retain their sense of humanity and compassion amidst the devastation and destruction of war.”\n\nAre you looking forward to Troy: Fall Of A City? Let us know below…" ]

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[ null, "And they're true works of art\n\nThere has been a huge increase in popularity for Louis Vuitton collaboration handbags lately, and it’s fair to say the hype around Jeff Koons’ latest partnership is to blame! The iconic Louis Vuitton brand has an always been a leader in innovation, having been globally reputed for its contemporary iterarions. Take the Cherry Blossom Monogramm bags by Takashi Murakami for example – these bags are especially made for people who’ve perhaps had enough of the classic monogramm canvas, but still want to stay true to the Louis Vuitton heritage.\n\nWhile the instant buzz of a limited edition handbag is invaluable, demand for very unique or rare bags can fluctuate due to craze or trends in the retail landscape. However, thanks to the large part of its popular LV monogram, with even the most classic styles retaining at least 70% of their average retail value at re-sale, nothing says ‘investment’ better than a brand that remains true to its heritage, whilst also looking to the future.\n\nIn championing the likes of Fragonard, Rubens and Titian on timeless classics such as the Neverfull Shopper, the Speedy Handbag and the Keepall Weekend Travel Bag, the world’s most valuable luxury brand has sparked a renewed consumer interest, with second-hand items sold in under 10 minutes via Rebelle.com just last weekend.\n\nAs Koons’ latest work joins some of the most seminal artists of our time, here are our top five Louis Vuitton collaborations…\n\nBold, playful and not for the faint-hearted, Louis Vuitton unveiled the Yayoi Kusama collection in 2012. Featuring the Japanese artist’s signature bold spots, covering everything from ready-to-wear to handbags and accessories, the collection sought to capture the ‘endless energy’ in an everlasting world. New, the Louis Vuitton Yayoi Kusama Lockit MM retailed at just under £3,000 and resale value could go up to anything near £2,000 depending on size and condition – so it’s worth looking after!\n\nThe very first of the artistic collaborations for Vuitton was with Steven Sprouse in 2001 to create his now-iconic graffiti bags. The collaboration was so successful, the two teamed up for a second time in 2008 to rework the very same graffiti print by splashing it on to anything from neon monogram wallets to handbags and scarves with a spectacular effect. The collection (from £175 to £2,555) marked the beginning of a series of collaborations between contemporary art and commerce, culminating in everything from Chanel’s Mobile Art Project to Dolce & Gabbana’s splatter-painted ball gowns.\n\nTakashi Murakami’s signature cartoon-like motifs are as evident in his wildly successful Louis Vuitton collaboration as they are in his art, seen here in the Cherry Monogram Sac. Murakami collaborated with the French fashion house several times throughout the 2000s, producing many famous Vuitton prints like Cherry Blossoms and the instantly recognisable Monogram Multicolore. Since discontinuing the collection in 2015, the value of the bags has steadily increased – ten years ago you could buy the bag for £1,600. The same bag now retails for just over £1,000 at resale!\n\nOne of Louis Vuitton’s most iconic and successful collaborations to date, the Richard Prince collection was unveiled in 2008 as a nod to Prince’s famous ‘Nurse’ paintings. The bags themselves feature the artist’s water colour and spray painting worked over a reimagined, washed out monogram canvas with ornate snakeskin and leather piping details. In mint condition, the bags could sell for anything up to £1,700, with popularity increasing following a reference to Richard Prince in Raf Simons’ debut campaign for Calvin Klein.\n\nIn 2002, Louis Vuitton teamed up with fashion illustrator and British artist Julie Verhoeven to create a series of mini clutches and tote bags to accompany his spring/summer ready-to-wear collection. Her patchwork prints carefully adorned the boxy style bags, adding a dark kind of whimsy to the already pretty whimsical presentation – think deep Monogram satin with patchwork of leather, fur and snakeskin. While the bags went fairly below the mainstream consumer radar, an original from this collection is extremely rare and makes for a truly unique and vintage accessory.\n\nIn case you hadn’t noticed, these works of art are well worth investing in, especially as we recently found out an iconic handbag can be a better investment than gold or the stock market.\n\nWorth it or not, one thing’s for sure, they’ll totally elevate your wardrobe." ]

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[ null, "A gathering of family and friends will be Saturday from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm at Pellerin Funeral Home.\n\nA native of New Iberia, Mr. Lustman was born October 21, 1947 and was a graduate of Catholic High. He enjoyed watching college sports and was an avid LSU fan. Mr. Lustman loved spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.\n\nHe was preceded in death by his parents, Henry and Eola Lustman.\n\nTo order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Raymond R. Lustman, please visit our flower store." ]

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[ "Chelsea are reportedly set to offer Emerson a new contract after the defender's impressive start to the season.\n\nThe Brazilian-born Italy international has emerged as Frank Lampard's first choice left-back and started all of the Blues' Premier League games so far this season.\n\nAccording to Gazzetta dello Sport, Emerson will be handed a pay raise, which will see his wages rise from £3.5 million to £4.5m plus performance related bonuses.", null, null, "The Blues will reportedly give the Brazilian a pay rise from £3.5 million to £5m", null, "Emerson's current deal expires in 2022, but the Blues are also keen to extend his deal by a further year and secure his long term future at Stamford Bridge.\n\n\nThe 25-year-old joined the club from Roma in January 2018 for £18 million but only became a regular in the first team towards the end of last season.\n\nEmerson starred in the Europa League final as Chelsea beat Arsenal 4-1 in Baku and he carried his good form into pre-season following Lampard's arrival.\n\nEmerson has made five appearances so far this season and played for Italy in their 3-1 victory over Armenia on Thursday.\n\nChelsea news: Chelsea 'keen to tie Emerson down to new deal' after impressing under Frank Lampard" ]

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[ "Location607\nDescriptionModern AI with deep learning poses significant overhead in training over very large data sets, whereby the use of HPC techniques to compute in parallel on a large machine is becoming increasingly popular. However, most of the efforts have been on GPUs at relatively low scale, in the order of a few hundreds, up to a thousand except on fairly limited sets of cases, due to inherent difficulties. On Fugaku we plan on extending the capabilities of deep learning by allowing training to be done on the full machine, or more than 100,000 nodes. This requires various technological underpinnings as well as new algorithms for scalable training, the ongoing effort whose curent state will be described.\nPresenter", null ]

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[ "Big Brother (Hebrew: האח הגדול, Transliteration: HaAh HaGadol, lit. 'The Big Brother') is the Israeli version of the international reality television franchise Big Brother created by producer John de Mol in 1997. The show is broadcast since 2008, following the premise of other versions of the format, the show features a group of contestants, known as \"Housemates\" who live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. The housemates are continuously monitored during their stay in the house by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones. Throughout the competition, housemates are evicted from the house. The last remaining Housemate wins the competition and is awarded a cash prize.\n\nThe show was firstly produced by Keshet and aired on Channel 2 from 2008 to 2017 and ran for eight original seasons and two celebrity seasons.\n\nAfter Channel 2 got closed and split into two new channels at the end of October 2017, it was announced that the show would be produced by Reshet and aired on Channel 13 from 2018. Until now have been aired two originals seasons and one celebrity season. A new original season has been announced and it will be begin airing on 2021.", null, "Big Brother is a reality game show and is based on the international Big Brother series produced by Endemol in the Netherlands which began in 1999. The show's name comes from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which revolves around a dystopia in which dictator Big Brother is the all-seeing leader. A group of people (called the Housemates) live together in a house, where 24 hours a day their every word and every action is recorded by cameras and microphones in all the rooms in the house. Access to television, the Internet, print media, and time is prohibited. In addition, the housemates live in complete confinement; they have no access to the outside world. At least once a week, the housemates nominate two housemates they wish to face a public vote to evict. The two or more housemates with the most votes face the public vote. The viewing public decides which of them gets evicted through text message votes or phone calls.\n\nShould their stay inside the house become difficult for them to bear, a housemate is allowed to voluntary leave at any time during the game. In the event of a withdrawal from the house, a replacement housemate usually enters in their place.\n\nIn the final week of each season, the viewers vote for which of the remaining people in the house should win the prize money and be crowned the winner of Big Brother." ]

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[ null, "Plaque psoriasis most common kind of psoriasis is complained by 85 to 90 percent of the population. Also called psoriasis Vulgaris. Red bordered patches with silvery plaque centers are the characteristic appearances of plaque psoriasis. In India, the prevalence of psoriasis is far more in men than in women. Men in their thirties or forties are more prone to psoriasis.\n\nResearch records in our country showed upto2.8 percent prevalence. Various factors cause psoriasis. Ethnicity, genetics, lifestyle, and medications used. Patients are seen from 28 years onwards. Plaque psoriasis is seen worsening in seasons like monsoons and winters. It is most evident in Indians living in the south and north America apart from the natives. 50 percent of the people living with plaque psoriasis also have scalp psoriasis reportedly. It is also closely diagnosed along with psoriatic arthritis.\n\nSigns and Symptoms of Plaque Psoriasis:\n\nIf the skin affected by the plaque psoriasis is microscopically examined, the epidermis shows layers of cells. Apart from that, the epidermis is seen to develop ridges and produce a lot of protein called keratin. The layers underneath show a lot of neutrophils, lymphocytes, and dilated blood capillaries. Digging deep into the physiology behind these changes in the skin, we can see there is a lot of inflammation and immune system actions happening against the skin cells.\n\nAs we know psoriasis is caused by a mistaken impulse of our immune system. Which is otherwise called an autoimmune reaction. The skin cells receive a signal to produce new cells. So they overproduce cells which form as plaques. The fighter cells of our immune system attack the healthy skin cells. Inflammatory reactions happen in the skin layers. This ends up with red and inflamed skin along with a pile of overgrown skin cells.\n\nLymphocytes, cytokines, activated genes, and neutrophils come to the site and bind with the skin cells to fight them. And this results in increased and irregular keratin production in the skin and the dilation of the blood vessels that run in the skin. Each cell of the immune system outrages chemical and physical changes in the skin. That is why psoriasis is said to be unyielding and does not have a definite cure.\n\nTwin studies and genetics has been greatly investigating the genetic lead for psoriasis. 70 percent of identical Twins, 20 percent of non-identical twins have a risk of developing psoriasis. Reportedly one-third of the people living with psoriasis have a family history of the disease. Scalp psoriasis and psoriasis arthritis are closely associated with plaque psoriasis.\n\nThe other triggers for psoriasis can be long-term usage of nonsteroidal inflammatory drugs, corticosteroids, hormonal therapy, contraceptive pills, malarial medications, antibiotics, and pregnancy.\n\nManaging plaque psoriasis can be easier if followed by the guidance of a dermatologist. The drugs and treatment alone do not suffice.\n\nPsoriasis management demands a disciplinary lifestyle too because it can potentially cause multiple comorbidities.\n\nAlthough, as the treatment takes a good time, and the shedding begins. The medications and care still need to be taken to prevent future remissions.\n\nPsoriasis is not contagious, but it takes a toll on the emotional and mental state of the patient. It disturbs the aesthetics. The right treatment and right care are necessary to prevent the worsening." ]

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[ null, "If Dolly Parton & Flight of the Conchords got drunk and had a baby, you’d get the hilariously irreverent musical comedy duo Reformed Whores! Described as “Southern-Fried feminism with a side of crass and a tall glass of sass,” Katy Frame and Marie Cecile Anderson have toured all across the country, headlining comedy clubs and opening for the likes of musical parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic and bassist extraordinaire Les Claypool. They have over a million hits on their YouTube Channel and their sophomore record “Don’t Beat Around the Bush” debuted in March 2016 in the top 20 iTunes comedy chart. Most recently their show Grand Ole C*ntry premiered in August 2017 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was hailed by the press as “A magnificently bawdy celebration of female sexuality” and “Genuinely endearing and unflinchingly upbeat.” (Adult audiences only)", null ]

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[ "The power of 360˚ Photography in Travel Digital Marketing\n\n360˚ photography has slowly crept out of the realms of science fiction into reality in recent years. This journey has been enabled by innovative devices that can turn any smartphone into a virtual reality headset, to transport consumers to a completely new experience.\n\nBut is it relevant for travel marketers? Yes! Travel marketers have a unique opportunity to use 360˚ photography to showcase their fantastic destinations and experiences like never before, to give travelers the sensation of being there without setting foot outside their house.\n\nThe technology is already out there:\n\nThe technology to enable 360˚ photography (and video) already exists. Facebook supports 360˚ photography – users can look around by moving their smartphone around to change the line of sight. It's available in Instant Articles and live streaming.\n\nThe hardware needed to create the content is readily available, too. Brands including Nokia and GoPro have invested in producing 360-degree cameras to enable you to take advantage of this new medium. The only limit is your creativity!\n\nA chance to stand out from the crowd:\n\nYou might hear some industry experts warning you away from 360˚ photography. It's true, that compared to some channels it's still in its infancy, and not every consumer is set up with the hardware they need to experience it.\n\nWhile for some this is seen as a negative, for the Trailblazers this will be a massive positive. It's a chance to set yourself apart to consumers against an industry saturated with copycat content. By delving into something new you create the opportunity to be memorable, so when the time comes to make a booking it's your site that sticks in the mind.\n\nFor some consumers, actually visualizing a destination is tricky. They can look at a nice photograph but that only gives a window of what it's actually like. 360˚ photographs are perfect for advertising the true beauty of panoramas, the internal artistry of historic buildings and even the full elegance of a hotel room. It gives you the chance to present a far more immersive experience than traditional photos can.\n\nJust like approaching any new channel, you need to ensure that what you create adds value for your user. Does a 360˚ photograph give your user a better idea of your destination or service? If not then it might not be right for you.\n\nKeep them on your site and away from competitors:\n\nWe know that on-site engagement is important in SEO – the less time a user spends on your website indicates to Google they didn't find anything of value. Travel SEO expert Ad-Rank can attest to this. It helped its client Holiday Hypermarket recover from a site migration with engaging content improvements and additions to increase revenue from organic search by 116.47%.\n\n360˚ photography can be your ticket to more time on site, keeping users entertained for between five and 10 times longer than sites without it. As well as being beneficial to SEO, more time spent on your site means less time with your competitors, which can only be a good thing.\n\nWe've already suggested how valuable 360˚ photography could be, but is there any evidence? Search behemoth Google was one of the front-runners of 360 photography, adding virtual tours of popular landmarks, then businesses and art galleries to Google Maps. They commissioned an independent research company to measure the impact of these and found that business listings with a virtual tour were twice as likely to generate interest online.\n\nOn average, 41% of these destination searches lead to an in-person visit, measured by looking at bookings. There was an appetite for more, too – 67% of people who used this medium wanted more companies to use this in their marketing material.\n\nOnce you've dipped your toe in immersive technology, the next step is to go the whole hog and create 360˚ video. As mentioned above, the libraries already exist for this content on sites like Facebook, Vimeo, and YouTube, and much of it is user-generated – a telling sign that the interest already exists. A 360˚ video can give your users an even more compelling experience than mere images.\n\nWhile some people are hesitating about using this new technology, others are already taking advantage. Etihad Airways has produced a five-minute film called Reimagine to showcase the luxurious A380 Airbus. Peter Baumgartner, the airline's former chief executive, said: 'The film demonstrates how, as an innovative brand, we continue to break down the barriers of convention and lead the way in intelligent communication and best practice, not just in the aviation industry, but in marketing, communication, and technology.'\n\nIt's your choice whether you want to give your users the same quality of experience or risk being left behind.", null, "All The 2022 Photography Slangs You Should Be Aware Off", null, "How To Start Your Career In Photography?" ]

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[ "“If Jesus is the truth, that’s what I want!”", null, "Orange County, CA. Many argue that the deepest human desire is to be loved. And that’s true. But another deep human desire is to know the truth. In John 8:31-32, we read “Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him, “If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” In today’s story, our evangelist encounters a non-practicing Muslim man who just wants the truth, and is open to believing in Jesus. That’s all God needs is a willingness to accept Him and His son, and then He can act.\n\nThe following report comes to us from Br. John and the St. Paul Society of Evangelists:\n\nWhile visiting family in California, I decided to go to Mass. As I walked up to the church, I noticed there was a young man outside working. I said hello and continued walking. As I passed by I felt a tug to pray for him so I turned back around and said hi again. “Hey, how you doing? Are you new here?” He said he had been there for a few months. We talked about his job and then I said hey I love to pray for people do you need any prayer for anything today? He said yes, his mother is recovering from cancer and his sisters have illnesses. I said that we can pray to God because I believe God is so good and can do anything. He agreed and I asked him if he goes to a church around here. He said he is actually Muslim. I said, “Hey we believe in God and we believe that Jesus was a real man and that he was a prophet.” He agreed, except with some differences. I responded, “yes we believe that he is the son of God but you don’t and I totally understand that yet God wants us all to live well and be good to each other”, and he agreed. I said we also believe in Mary (Miriam) his mother who is very special, and he agreed. He used to practice strongly but not much anymore now that he is in his twenties.\n\nAt this point he let me say a prayer for his family and then I said, “Can I just pray that if Jesus is who he says he is, that if he is the son of God and that he came to die and rise from the dead for us, that he will reveal himself to you?” He agreed, so we said a prayer, then we talked about how we are all searching for truth and if Jesus is truth then that’s what he wants. I thanked him for being open and was confident that because we prayed Jesus will reveal himself to you. He thanked me for the prayer then we blessed each other and parted in great joy.\n\nPraised be Jesus Christ! May this young man (and all Muslims) receive Jesus into His heart and live in the truth and love that Jesus Christ offers." ]

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[ null, "What are my plans for Saturday 13th April? Well, other than going on a road trip with one uni friend to see another, I’ll be heading out to check out some exclusive Record Store Day releases of course! Last year was my first proper go at RSD. I was foolish enough to think I lived close enough not to worry about be one of the first 50 that would be entitled to a free tote bag. We all know I’m a sucker for that kinda thing, so wanna know what number I was in the queue? 51. Hilariously frustrating to be honest.\n\nThis year I live a little further out and I am nearly tempted to get there way too early for what its worth, but I mean, we’ll see. After all I did hear that last year people were camping out from 11pm the night before. I don’t know about that.\n\nA couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of viewing the release list at Vinilo Record Store in Southampton, and was able to add a tick to the records I was most interested in seeing in store. Seeing as it has been a while since I last wrote about music, I decided to share my RSD wish list with you lot. Now this may not be a list of the best releases overall, but it is a selection of those that stood out to me personally, so here goes – my top 5 most wanted from Record Store Day 2019:\n\n5. Weezer – Dusty Gems and Raw Nuggets: The B Sides\n\nNow, I’m going to be real here, my main attraction to this one is the exclusive translucent blue & white swirl vinyl, that and a short lived mild obsession with the band a few months ago. To be honest I don’t have much to say other than this simply being an instant attraction to me. Due to budget cuts (living on your own is expensive didn’t ya know) I may not end up getting this one, however I would love to lust over a copy if anyone I know does cop one of these beauties…*ahem*.\n\nI mean she just has a beautiful voice right? I’m not exactly a Julien Baker fan girl, but I sure as hell appreciate her. This is probably my go to for if everything else on the list is unavailable. Which I guess by default means I won’t be likely to go straight in for Weezer after all, but hey, it struck a chord so I had to mention it. I guess Baker and Weezer are the ones I wouldn’t mind having but wont be absolutely broken-hearted about missing out on.\n\nBowie. Picture disc. Need I say more? Now the catch is, I want this record, I really do, but deep down I know I only want it so I can show it off. As much as it would look beautiful in my collection, it’s not the be all and end all of what makes my collection ‘me’. To tell you the truth, there are only two records on this list which really showcase my personality, so I’ve decided to rank them highest, soz Bowie. That being said, I’m a sucker for a picture disc and if last year is anything to go by, I’m not great at control – but that is also why I’m making a plan of what I want most. I need a strategy or I’ll just panic and buy the first one I can find. However if this is available I might just have to. Ssshhh, what savings?\n\nThis is one of those records that I want purely for collection’s sake. The Boosh brings me such joy, as does buying records. Why not marry the two? Seems like a good enough reason as any to purchase a splattered vinyl that comes complete with artwork by Noel Fielding and Dave Brown as well as notes from Julian Barratt. Also…it’s a 3 piece? How good is that going to feel to open and swoon over? It’s not exactly the best on the list, but it is probably the most me. Maybe that’s cos I’m watching Boosh as I write this. The point is don’t judge me, I like what I like, and if I’m going to pick Boosh over Weezer or Bowie (yes, really), then so be it.\n\nIf you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, you may have heard me mention this band a few times. If you follow on both then all I can do is apologise. I love them. Mighty Boosh is a bit of me, but Our Girl is that more recent bit of me. I fell in love with their debut album last year, and absolutely adored seeing them live. Also it’s a clear vinyl. Basically it ticks all the boxes. The only thing that would make this release better is if I had heard actually heard them live at St Pancras old Church. This may be another case of collector’s temptation, but I’m pretty damn sure that this one will be leaving Vinilo in my hands; absolutely one that I’d regret not getting, so of course it had to be number one.\n\nIf I had my way (read: If I had all the money) I would probably buy all of the above and more. That being said, as much as I might try and restrict myself, we all know I’m going to end up with at least two records. My budget and desire for takeaways/eating out for lunch might not allow it, but I’m sure I can make some adjustments. After all, if there is anything I love more than food it’s music. Sure sometimes this changes depending on the mood, but I think we can all agree that on a momentous occasion such as Record Store Day, music comes out on top.\n\nWhether you’re hitting up your local record store or venturing further out and making a day of it, let me know what you’re most looking forward to finding in the racks this Record Store Day. Make sure to follow my Instagram if you’re interested in finding out what I buy (I might even do a full feature, who knows?!) and how I might change my mind in the lead up to the big day.\n\nWell tonight’s gig cured my hangover and made me v happy. Bloody love ya @twinatlantic ❤️💚💙 also shout out to @vinilorecordstore for absolutely killing it recently with all these album launch shows 🖤\nYou know when you consider yourself totally against the whole “new year, new me” thing and then all of a sudden you’re faced to make decisions in January which inadvertently lead you on to that very path? Yeah, wrote about it. Link in bio 💁‍♀️\nWell happy that there’s a new bombay album out today 💛\nWell I really bloomin’ loved this one and DID NOT suspect a thing oh lord, very excited for the next one from @lucyfoleyauthor 👀\nClassic converse got me like 🤪\nLeafy McLeaf Face\n💀26💀\nThis book is making me rage so hard and I absolutely love it\nI obviously love my record collection but what about my fave releases this year? LINK IN BIO BBY 🎧\n\nWell tonight’s gig cured my hangover and made me v happy. Bloody love ya @twinatlantic ❤️💚💙 also shout out to @vinilorecordstore for absolutely killing it recently with all these album launch shows 🖤\nYou know when you consider yourself totally against the whole “new year, new me” thing and then all of a sudden you’re faced to make decisions in January which inadvertently lead you on to that very path? Yeah, wrote about it. Link in bio 💁‍♀️\nWell happy that there’s a new bombay album out today 💛\nWell I really bloomin’ loved this one and DID NOT suspect a thing oh lord, very excited for the next one from @lucyfoleyauthor 👀\nClassic converse got me like 🤪\nLeafy McLeaf Face\n%d bloggers like this:" ]

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[ null, "The cannabis plant is inconsistent by nature, and certain strains have higher potency and different tastes and smells. That’s why there’s such a wide variety of cannabis strains on the market. However, consistency is key to retaining a certain level of quality and standards.\n\nTo produce a consistent cannabis product, the raw product undergoes a process called distillation. It involves isolating the THC and CBD cannabinoids and infusing them into your products. To distill cannabis, you need to use oil.\n\nIf you’re new to the distillation process, you’re in the right place. Here’s an overview of large-scale cannabis oil distillation.\n\nFirst, let’s start with a definition of distillation. It’s a process used to isolate and purify components within a liquid or oil. You’ve probably heard of distillation related to alcoholic beverages, and the process is the same for cannabis—only that it distills an oil instead of alcohol.\n\nTo distill cannabis oil, you need to heat it until it becomes vapor, and then cool it back to a liquid state again. The idea is to separate specific components in the oil using differing boiling points.\n\nIf you want to start distilling oil, you’ll need a cannabis distillation system. The most common type is a short path distillation system, and it’s the most popular because the equipment takes up less space. The vapor travels a short distance before getting recondensed, hence the fast path.\n\nCrude oil gets deposited into the bottom of a flask. To kick off the distillation process, you need to heat the oil. While it’s convenient in that it doesn’t take up much space, a short path system requires a lot of supervision.\n\nAnother distillation system is wiped film distillation. It’s a lot like a short path system, but with one key difference: there’s a wiper blade that sprays the product onto the chamber walls, producing a thin layer. That reduces the amount of time that you need to apply heat. That’s beneficial to obtaining a high-quality final product, as overheating a cannabis product can degrade its quality.\n\nOnce the extraction takes place, the hard part is over. The goal then becomes making additional passes to further refine the oil. The oil is then purified of contaminants or any other undesirable components.\n\nAfter reviewing the overview of large-scale cannabis oil distillation, you should better understand what goes into cannabis distillation. Distillation is the process of heating and cooling oil until it contains pure THC or CBD. If you’re interested in getting into the cannabis business, you need to be familiar with the distillation process." ]

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[ "(CNN)Donald in Mar-a-Lago A search warrant executed at his former President Trump compound is the entirety of the investigation against him. It represents a dramatic change in a dramatic situation. We have long predicted that his legal dangers would deepen, but this puts an exclamation mark on his exposure. moving rapidly towards it.", null, null, null, "However, I do know that on Monday morning a group of FBI agents executed a search warrant and conducted a thorough inspection of assets, including access to safes, according to Trump. increase. Documents, according to CNN sources. Trump responded with predictable fury, claiming that his home had been \"sieged, raided and occupied,\" and said, \"Nothing like thishas ever happenedto a President of the United States.\" I didn't,\" he claimed.\nHis last point is correct. But I've also never seen evidence of this kind of action by the president. CNN reports that the focus of the search warrant is on documents Trump has removed from the White House, including about 15 boxes of materials currently being recovered. It was reported thatthese materials contained classified documents.\nThere are serious penalties, including criminal penalties, for removing, damaging or destroying official government documents. The law treats improper handling of confidential documents even more severely. But even for unclassified documents, penalties for mishandling may includedisqualification from future federal public office (although this is a lengthy process). and Trump could object for multiple reasons: the president's constitutional entitlement).\n\nAs a former prosecutor and defense attorney, in order to conduct this court-ordered search, the government had to go through a rigorous process to establish the probable cause of the crime. I know Search warrant materials had to be approved by multiple senior levels of the FBI and DOJ. Given the target's profile, there is little doubt that Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and possibly Attorney General Merrick Garland were being briefed.\n\nBut that's not the end of the story. A district court judge or federal magistrate will independently review the supporting affidavits and find sufficient grounds to believe that the evidence, product, or means of acrime will be found on Trump's premises. I had to.\nWhile the reported search warrant grounds relate to the deletion or mishandling of official documents, it does mean that these potential crimes are the only ones that prosecutors are focusing on. is not. Nor does it mean investigators must ignore other evidence that may influence other crimes. If they lawfully discover evidence, achievements, or tools of other crimes on the premises in accordance with the terms of the search warrant,those materials may also be seized and used inthe prosecution. .\nMembers of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot believed the evidence they had amassed could form the basis of Trump's criminal investigation. said that Commission Vice-Chair Liz Cheneysaid in a recent interview with CNN's Casey Hunt that if the Justice Department did not prosecute Trump he would be Regarding the role it played in the riotsand the decision that 'the facts and evidence are there' may call into question our ability to 'call ourselves the nation of law'. The commission released much of that evidence at his eight hearings.\nIn March, even before these hearings uncovered a mountain of new evidence, a federal judge ruled that Trump's possible attempt to block Joe's congressional accreditation was \"likely. Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election is due to the former president defrauding the United States by sabotaging the legally elected president's electoral college and attempting to substitute his own fraudulent electoral college.\nIn fact, even before the documents were seized on Monday, Trump's lawyers were in contact with Justice Department officials, CNN Sourceshave discussed executive privilege claims.It is unlikely (if at all) that it is solely related to the mishandling or deletion of Trump's official documents. Instead, it shows a keen interest in issues like fraud conspiracies and fake electoral lists that lead to likely crimes of obstruction of Congress. It iscriticized by those who are disadvantaged relative to the pace of researchers. The selection committee rushed to present possible crimes, and Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis was similarly vigorous,convening a grand jury,at least 16 targeted letters,issued to the False ElectorsEvents in Mar-a-Lago have clearly pushed the AG to move aggressively.\n\nHe went full speed ahead, using the DOJ's powerful nationwide investigative tools, and neither a congressional committee nor the local district attorney had one at his fingertips.\n\nAs Garland recently stated,federal prosecutors are currently \"engaging in the most extensive and most important investigation the Department of Justice has ever conducted. You must do this right.\"\n\nHis intentions are clear. Some thought he was moving slower than he expected, but he's clearly moving faster than we all expected. If you believe that, in the face of possible causes of crime, should be treated in the same way, Garland's new pace of investigation is very encouraging." ]

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[ null, "Islamic Architecture is the entire range of architecture that has evolved from Islam as social, cultural, political and religious phenomenon. Hence the term encompasses religious buildings as well as secular ones, historic as well as modern expressions, and the production of all places that have come under varying levels of Islamic influence.", null, "When the city of Mecca was reconquered by the Prophet Muhammad’s army in 630C.E, the holy sanctuary of Ka’ba was rebuilt and and re-dedicated to Islam, the reconstruction being carried out before Muhammad’s death in 632C.E. by a shipwrecked Abyssinian carpenter in his native style. This sanctuary is considered the first major works of Islamic Architecture.\n\nLater in the 7th century, the religion of Islam spread throughout the region. The Muslim’s first need was a place to worship – a mosque. The simple layout provided elements that were to be incorporated into all mosques and the early Muslims put up simple buildings based on the model of the Prophet’s house or adapted existing buildings for their own use.", null, "Others have introduced new analytic models, for example, by studying the development of certain architectural forms, such as the minaret, or a practice, such as the use of public inscriptions. Taken together, recent scholarship of Islamic architecture presents a more historically contingent and culturally varied approach to the study of Islamic Architecture.", null, null, "The continued use of domes in Islamic architecture, in its various forms, led to the development of domes’ concept among Muslim architects to become one of the most important architectural elements in the Islamic Architecture because of its transcendental symbolism.\n\nSince the ancient times, the architect was able to link architecture to his beliefs, and applied that to serve his intellectual trends by developing the design concept for himself, and the Muslim architect considers it as an important historical record, but it needs to be studied and analyzed to keep up with the current architecture and its developments.", null, "Mosques, as symbol of Islamic architecture must play an important role in reflecting the superiority of Allah the Almighty. There are many ways in making it successful and one of them is through the high quality of aesthetic value.\n\nAesthetic value in Islamic art and architecture is normally portrayed by the highest degree of motifs and ornamentation. Contemporary mosque designers normally focused on the majestic looks of the exterior part of the mosques and leave the manipulation of the interior space to the users.\n\nOrnamentation should be taken as part of mosque components and not as mere decorations done after-thought or filling in the gap.\n\nThe beauty of the existence of motifs and ornamentation that will welcome anybody who enters the physical environment concerned.The first characteristic of Islamic ornamentation puts strength in the infinity of patterns. This includes intricate geometric patterns which clearly portray the infinity of Allah the Almighty.\n\nArabesque is a western word for the Islamic Art Zakhrafa. This type of art is made up of geometric designs and patterns, which are composed of flowers, leaves. Arabesque carvings in stone, wood , and plaster are usually found in doorways, prayer niches, and pulpits of mosques. To Muslims, these forms, taken together, constitute an infinite pattern that extends beyond the visible material world.", null, "This Architecture should give the highest comfort that satisfy the psychological tranquility to the users in different cultural needs. In the Al-Quran, it has been mentioned in about 120 passages describing the paradise (Al Janna) being a beautiful place giving serene sense. As in the following verse;\n\n“For them will be Gardens of Eternity; beneath them rivers will flow; they will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and they will wear green garments of fine silk and heavy brocade; they will recline therein on raised thrones. How good the recompense! How beautiful a couch to recline on?”\n\n2 thoughts on “Islamic Beauty and Grace”" ]

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[ "Content is free to use but usage restrictions apply. Please visit our FAQ for conditions of use.\nIf you click download/embed, you acknowledge that you have read and will respect the terms of use.\nDownload\nBrexit14. January 2020\n\nLondon - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to negotiate post-Brexit trade arrangements with the European Union by the end of this year is unrealistic, making an extension or partial agreement necessary, said the European Commission president.\n\n\"Without an extension of the transition period beyond 2020, you cannot expect to agree on every single aspect of our new partnership,\" Ursula von der Leyen said before holding talks with Johnson in London.\n\n\"We will have to prioritize,\" von der Leyen said in a speech at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).\n\nVon der Leyen was accompanied on by the EU's lead Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, in her first official meeting with Johnson since his election victory in December.\nThe two sides \"looked at the year ahead [and] negotiating a new partnership,\" Barnier tweeted after the talks.\n\nHe said future relations between Brussels and London \"will not be as close as now,\" echoing comments in von der Leyen's speech.\n\n\"Time is short. A new clock is ticking,\" Barnier wrote, adding that Brussels will focus on implementing Britain's withdrawal agreement and preparing negotiations on future relations.", null, "The EU with and without Britain\n\nVon der Leyen said the start of Britain's formal withdrawal from the EU on January 31 will be \"a tough and emotional day.\"\n\nShe added that London and Brussels will remain \"the best of friends and partners\" after Brexit.\n\nJohnson has insisted that he will not extend the Brexit process again and will negotiate an agreement on future relations with the EU by December 31, just 11 months after \"Brexit day.\"\n\nIn Zagreb, Croatia's premier backed von der Leyen's assessment of the timetable. \"This [Brexit] is clearly an unprecedented situation,\" said Andrej Plenkovic, the head of the most recent addition to the club of 28 EU states.\n\nPlenkovic was speaking ahead of opening ceremony for Croatia taking over the EU's rotating presidency, which von der Leyen was scheduled to attend.\n\nThe EU should \"approach negotiations in a realistic manner,\" Plenkovic said. \"That means not to put on a plate too many dossiers that we might not be able to deal with in the adequate time.\"\n\nSources said Johnson would stress to von der Leyen \"the importance of agreeing a confident and positive future relationship\" with the bloc by the end of this year.\n\nHe was also expected to say that negotiations on future relations should be \"based on an ambitious FTA [free-trade agreement], not on alignment [with EU rules],\" the sources said.\n\nAccording to a draft resolution to be voted on by the European Parliament, British concessions on the post-Brexit rights of EU citizens will determine the closeness of the future economic partnership.\n\nFree movement of workers is a key part of the EU single market and the parliament wants to maximize the rights of EU citizens after Brexit, David McAllister, chair of the parliament's foreign affairs committee, told reporters in Brussels.\n\nBritain will have to follow EU rules more closely if it wants greater access to its markets, said McAllister, a member of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU).\n\nMcAllister suggested that Johnson's tight timescale for negotiations could only produce an outline agreement on future relations, and the risk remains that Britain could leave the EU without future arrangements in place at the end of this year.\n\nTransitional arrangements will apply until the two sides reach agreement on future relations, so little will change after January 31 as EU rules continue to apply to Britain." ]

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[ null, "To sustain this pace for that long takes a whole lot of wonderful help and teamwork from a number of people. This year was no exception. We owe a very special debt to:\n\nVictoria Edwards has not missed submitting at least one article, per Issue, over the past three years. For some e-Veritas editions we could fill it up just from her submissions alone. Not only does she provide outstanding caliber articles; her exceptionally high level of professional research experience on a number of diverse topics guarantees the readers with high quality content each and every time.\n\nVictoria has been at this for a while, she’s very good at it and she has a major sense of humour, which helps plenty.\n\nTwo other stalwarts have also made their e-Veritas mark in 2010.\n\nNoelani Shore is wrapping up year two with us. Her regular contributions on current and past staff – civilian and military, mostly Ex cadets but not always gives all of us a personal and inside look at various people. Folks for the most part who have lived the military colleges experience as a cadet, or as a staff member – or both.\n\nWorking with Noelani over the past two years has been an amazing experience for us. We and many readers from whom we often receive feedback, appreciate her high standards, consistent focus, and enjoyable articles.\n\nBrent Fisher a 2010 RMC graduate who is currently pursuing a MBA has been steadfast over the past 12 months on a number of fronts. His articles on cadets and staff are written at a level one would expect to read in any of the major news outlets across Canada.\n\nBrent is impressive for a number of reasons, none more than his work ethic and commitment to excellence.\n\nThese three individuals are our core team volunteers. Without their contribution we would not have published at the consistent high level that we did 50 times this year!\n\nWe have also received a great deal of help from too many in both the Military and the Cadet Wings to mention. Also the contributions from the Public Affairs Officers at both RMC Saint-Jean, Eric Le Marec; and RMC in Kingston, Cynthia Kent have picked up in the latter part of the year and we look forward to even more regular inputs from both these two media professionals in 2011.\n\nReaders will surly notice a great number of photos in most of our editions and especially in #50 to end the year. Brad Lowe from the CFB Kingston Photo Section and like-wise Mario Poirier, from RMC Saint Jean have both provided a steady flow throughout the past 12 months and beyond.\n\nOfficer Cadets – Dan Fleming (left) and Francis Themens (lower left) both of whom had zero previous experience in this type of work. They are in various transitional phases in their military careers which have provided them with the time to help us.\n\nBoth Dan and Francis have made significant contributions with their willingness to get up and in front to “capture the moment” with the lens. It has been a pleasant and enjoyable experience working with them both.\n\nIn addition to the weekly support from volunteers our staff infrastructure is outstanding.\n\nWe can’t close without mentioning the RMC Club, in particular, Peter Dawe and Mary Darlington for their year in and year out support. For the RMC Club BoD we especially like the opportunity they give us to do our thing.\n\nFinally, to all the faithful readers from the Military colleges community we really appreciate the feedback you all provide.\n\nTo everyone we say a big wow and a hearty thank you.\n\nFor those who like us who celebrate the birth of Christ – Merry Christmas. To the rest – Happy Holidays!\n\nLook for the next e-Veritas in early January." ]

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[ null, "Gov. Andy Beshear announced that Kentucky reached a painful milestone on Wednesday as the number of people lost to the coronavirus has reached 1,000.\n\n“Over 1,000 Kentuckians are no longer with us, because of a virus that had its first case in Kentucky just six months ago,” he said during a press briefing at the Capitol.\n\nBeshear noted that compared with some states, the number is very low. ”That’s a testament to the people of Kentucky and the actions they have taken.\n\n“But it’s hard to be proud or excited about the news, when we’ve lost over 1,000 of our citizens, all special people. Over the last six months, we’ve had over 1,000 families going through something that’s far, far too hard, and not being able to do it in that normal way of funerals, with families being able to get together to grieve.”\n\nTo honor the 1,000 Kentucky victims of COVID-19, the governor says he is ordering flags at all state office buildings to be lowered to half-staff for one week, starting Thursday.\n\n“Families across Kentucky are hurting as a result of the tragic losses brought by this pandemic. We are lighting our homes and businesses green and ringing our bells daily for these victims, but this is one more way we can show our support for these members of our community as they mourn their loved ones.”\n\nHe will also have a Kentucky State Police honor guard do a wreath-laying in the Capitol Rotunda Thursday morning at 10.\n\nThere were also 667 new cases reported on Wednesday, which makes it 53,977 since the first one was reported in Kentucky on March 6.\n\nDespite the increase in new cases, the state’s positivity rate dropped from Tuesday’s 3.91 percent to 3.84 on Wednesday, based on a rolling seven-day average. There have been at least 937,153 coronavirus tests performed in Kentucky, and at least 10,725 Kentuckians have recovered from the virus.\n\nState Public Health Commissioner Dr. Steven Stack put some of the coronavirus numbers into perspective. “In the United State of America during the roughly last six months, more than 190,000 Americans have died from COVID-19,” he said. “The city of Louisville is about 620,000, so it’s like 30 percent of the city of Louisville has died across the country.”\n\nStack also noted that while 1,000 deaths in Kentucky is a tragedy, “It’s a smaller tragedy than we might otherwise have had. If we had not taken the steps over the last six months, we would have had larger totals like they’ve had in other states and in other areas. So, I’m grateful that we’ve had the opportunity to blunt the harm, but the harm that’s happened is substantial nonetheless.”\n\nInstead of a 4 p.m. press briefing Thursday afternoon, Beshear says he will be delivering a speech, which can be seen on his Facebook page and YouTube channel, at 5:30 p.m." ]

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[ null, "Northern Irish defender Ben Hall joined the club as a teenager from Dungannon Swifts in 2013. He would progress through the Motherwell youth system where he became a solid performer and cemented himself as a regular in the under-20s side.\n\nAs an 18 year old he was given a surprise debut mid way through the 2015/16 season, starting at centre back in an impressive 3-1 win over Dundee at Fir Park in December. Motherwell over course had plenty defensive options at their disposal but Mark McGhee hadn’t been happy with the performance of Louis Laing and Kieran Kennedy a few weeks prior as the club fell to a dismal 3-0 defeat at Dingwall.\n\nBen of course would enjoy a successful start to his Motherwell career as he would follow up his debut by starting in the fantastic 2-1 win over Celtic at Parkhead, this was followed up by netting his first senior goal where he netted a header against St Johnstone in a 2-0 win. If it weren’t for some suspect refereeing in the Lanarkshire Derby he would have enjoyed winning four straight games.\n\nDespite being thrown in at the deep end, the young defender developed well, the raw centre back certainly had all the credentials required, he struck up a fine partnership with veteran Stephen McManus where he seemed to be learning on a constant basis, but as expected with young players consistency did wane at times. Ben would suffer a few injury set backs during the campaign but finished the season helping the club secure a 5th place finish as well as playing in 19 games, not too bad considering he only made his debut in December of that season.\n\nA fantastic achievement that must be noted, Ben played his part in helping the under-20’s side lift the 2016 Scottish Youth Cup for the first time, the young ‘Well side would record an impressive 5-2 win over Hearts at Hampden Park. Unfortunately for Motherwell, Ben’s progress wouldn’t go unnoticed and he would eventually join Brighton and Hove Albion initially linking up with their development side, Motherwell had been in talks over a contract extension for many months but nothing ever materialised." ]

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[ "Pew States is out with a new study analyzing fiscal federalism trends in the United States. Based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Survey of State Government Finances they found that 30.0% of state budgets funds come from the federal government. The study states:\n\nAs the nation emerged from the Great Recession, federal dollars made up a bigger proportion of states’ revenue from fiscal year 2009 to 2012 than at any other time in the past 50 years. After peaking at 35.5 percent in fiscal 2010, however, the share fell back within its historical range in fiscal 2013, dropping to 30.0 percent.\n\nEven at 30.0 percent, the federal share of 50-state revenue was above its 10-year prerecession average of 28.5 percent. Federal dollars remained the second-largest source of states’ money, accounting for approximately $513.5 billion of the $1.7 trillion collected by state governments in fiscal 2013.\n\nPennsylvania ranked 29th with 30.4% of its budget coming from the federal government. Historically Pennsylvania’s share of federal dollars as a percentage of its revenues has been slightly below average.", null ]

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[ null, "The dog is an itch-bag and so today I’m feeding her a tiny bit of garlic in her food to eliminate any chance of fleas. It’s no problem for me, as I can only smell anything half of the time, but apparently she smells. Brewer’s yeast is effective as well, and won’t kill Mixi if she ingests some of Casey’s food as she tends to do, so that’s next to add to my Cupboard Full of Old People Crap.\n\nToday at Commatose Towers we have access to technology that will convert rickety old VHS tapes to the newer but rapidly declining in popularity science of DVDs. This means I will be watching exclusive video footage of ghost hunts from 10 years+ past, as well as numerous clips of people telling me to turn the [f-ing] camera off. I look forward to it.\n\nThanks to Miklos’s brother, I can now say I know someone whose plane was struck by lightning, probably. Glad it wasn’t me!\n\nI've been writing since I was in kindergarten where I Crayola-markered an epic tale of a tiger and a balloon on a stack of lined papers folded into a booklet and stapled along the edge (carefully, and by my teacher). I love DIY, sewing, folksy music, animals and getting out to look at and listen to nature.\nView all posts by Nikki →\nTagged dog, pets, video.\nBookmark the permalink." ]

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[ "House of Fraser at intu Lakeside to close", null, "HOUSE of Fraser (HoF) is closing four more stores, all based in major shopping centres.\n\nThe department store chain, bought out of administration in August by Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct, will shut its Lakeside, Metrocentre, Norwich and Nottingham outlets in the New Year.\n\nMr Ashley said the landlord, Intu Properties, had been unwilling to reduce rents for the ailing shops.\n\nHe added that there had been “multiple meetings with Intu”.\n\n“We were no further forward after 14 weeks. Unfortunately, these stores now face closing in the New Year. I urge other institutional landlords to be more proactive to help save the HoF stores in their schemes,” he said.\n\nIntu confirmed it had been unable to reach an agreement with Mr Ashley.\n\n“House of Fraser stores in our portfolio will be closing in early 2019, representing around 1% of our secured rent and 526,000 sq ft of retail space.\n\n“We are enthusiastic about the opportunity to re-engineer and re-let this underperforming space to new and exciting alternatives.”\n\n13 Responses to \"House of Fraser at intu Lakeside to close\"" ]

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[ null, "The former queen of daytime television has ignited controversy after her network debuted a six-part docuseries starring a pastor known for his virulently homophobic views. OWN describes “The Book of John Gray,” which premiered on the basic cable channel last week, as an intimate look at the life of John Gray, a pastor with a “uniquely humorous way of helping people.” Gray is the first black pastor at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church, a megachurch in Houston, Texas. The network calls him “loud,” “unconventional” and “hilarious,” but it left out one thing: Pastor Gray really, really doesn’t like gay people.\n\nGray, who commands more than 100,000 followers on Twitter, frequently uses social media to denigrate and mock the LGBT community. Oprah might be trying to sell him as a cuddly firebrand who shoots from the hip — like Violet Weston with a Bible and some stand-up classes — but he is absolutely none of those things. John Gray is a confirmed bigot, and his discriminatory, backward views have no place on television.\n\nThe preacher has a long, inexcusable track record of spewing hate online. In a tweet from April 29, 2013, Gray posted that homosexuality is “no different from fornication, adultery, lying, or any other sin God was clear about.” When the Grammys held a mass same-sex wedding ceremony, presided over by Queen Latifah, on stage during its 2014 broadcast, he claimed that the awards show was “dishonoring people of faith.” Following the suicide of Tyler Clementi, a gay Rutgers student who took his own life in 2010 after he was outed by his roommate, CNN aired a special to raise awareness about school bullying a year after the tragedy. Ever the sensitive type, Gray tweeted, “It better not just be about gay kids.”\n\nMore recently, Gray took aim at Target over its trans-inclusive bathroom policy. After the store announced last year that it would allow all transgender customers to use restrooms that correspond with their gender identity, the pastor said he would boycott the big-box chain. Gray wrote that Target had “overstepped” and would suffer the consequences. “My son is a boy,” he posted to social media. “Boys like certain toys. That’s not a gender or sexuality issue.”\n\nGray’s anti-LGBT views aren’t just limited to his Twitter account. They also inform the gospel he preaches. During a 2013 segment on the Christian-based Trinity Broadcasting Network, Gray claimed that same-sex couples “are trying to redefine marriage.” “I don’t care what the world says,” Gray said, adding: “Don’t listen!”\n\nThis isn’t the first time that Oprah has given a platform to homophobes. T.D. Jakes appeared on a 2012 episode of “Oprah's Next Chapter,” the heir apparent to her daytime talk show, in which he defended his anti-gay views. His argument was some classic love the sinner, hate the sin bullshit. “The perception in our society today is that if you don't say you're for same-sex marriage or if you say that homosexuality is a sin, that you're homophobic and you're not for gay people,” said Jakes, who has since come around on LGBT rights. “That's not true. . . It doesn't mean I have to agree with you to love you.”\n\nOprah has long been an advocate for the LGBT community, notably interviewing Ellen Degeneres after the former sitcom star came out in 1997. Jennifer Finney Boylan, a transgender writer who appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” three times, wrote in a New York Times op-ed that a trans person came up to her on the street and said seeing Boylan on Oprah’s famous couch “literally saved her life.”\n\nBut for someone who has been a trailblazer for LGBT acceptance for decades, Winfrey has a marked blind spot when it comes to religiously based homophobia. During her chat with Jakes five years ago, she barely pressed the pastor when he claimed that his church welcomes everyone. The reality isn’t so warm and fuzzy. The Dallas Voice reports that Jakes, whose son was arrested for indecent exposure in 2009, has referred to homosexuality as a “brokenness\" and “declared that he would never hire a sexually active gay person.”\n\nIf you were Oprah, wouldn’t you ask him about that? Instead she gave Jakes the opportunity to offer PR-friendly falsehoods. It’s disappointing, to say the least.\n\nWinfrey certainly means well, but she should be more mindful about the politics of the faith leaders with whom she shares her giant platform, which made the careers of household names like Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil. Phil McGraw, who spun off his own program after first guesting on “Oprah” in 1998, also has a spotty track record when it comes to enabling anti-LGBT bigotry.\n\n“Dr. Phil,” one of the most popular and enduring shows in daytime TV, was met with controversy in 2009 after the program played host to Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, the father of anti-gay conversion therapy. The episode, entitled “Little Boy Lost,” featured Toni, the mother of a transgender girl who allowed her daughter to begin transitioning at a young age. Nicolosi, who falsely believed that LGBT youth could be “cured,” blamed Toni’s parenting skills for making her daughter trans. Transgender children, he claimed, were the product of a distant father and an overbearing mother.\n\n“People like myself,” Nicolosi said. “We’re trying to help parents. If you feel like this therapy is not for you, that’s fine, but we’re trying to present a treatment that works for other mothers who bring in their children. . . The therapy works for them.”\n\nAt no point during the segment does McGraw mention that conversion therapy — which attempts to “change” the orientation of LGBT youth — has been discredited and condemned by every leading psychological group in the United States. This includes the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association. In addition to the fact that it doesn’t work, the practice has been shown to lead to higher rates of suicide attempts among LGBT youth subjected to such “pray the gay away” programs.\n\nIn fact, the “Dr. Phil” segment presents Nicolosi as being perfectly mainstream. McGraw introduces him as a “psychologist.” What’s worse is that the child’s mother didn’t even consent to be on the same program as people who push a destructive ideology that kills people like her daughter. When Toni lashes out at Dr. Phil, saying that this isn’t what she signed on for, McGraw asks if Toni doesn’t want to share airtime with Nicolosi because he’s “different.”\n\nYou might argue that it’s not Oprah’s job to speak out against what happens on Dr. Phil’s program, but Winfrey has a responsibility to her brand and her audience to take a stand against dangerous hate.\n\nIt seems, however, that the media maven has given a pass to one bigot too many. After “The Book of John Gray” debuted on OWN, outraged members of the LGBT community tweeted at Winfrey, calling for a boycott of her properties — including her monthly magazine — until the show is canceled. Oprah’s heart is clearly in the right place, but if she hopes to win back queer and transgender viewers incensed by Gray’s anti-gay past, good intentions aren’t enough. It’s time for Oprah to do what she should have done years ago: pull the plug on homophobia once and for all." ]

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[ "As I was preparing the previous post here at the ol' Archives, concerning the copying of certain 19th Century artwork by Topps, particularly Indian Chiefs and Pirates, I decided not to use Captain Kidd in the comparison. However, as I was looking at the various examples of his cards, I noticed something neat.\n\nTake a look at this N19 of Kidd, which I cribbed from Cardboard Junkie:", null, "Now, we know form our previous post that the images from this set were used by Topps for X-Ray Roundup in 1949:\n\nI have to say the image of the Captain hanging from the gallows is quite picturesque.....", null, "Wow-it's almost an exact match to the one from '49 but on closer inspection it's redrawn.", null, "\nI thought the chain was broken but then I looked at the flipside:", null, null, "This is actually bad news-now I will have to do a comparison not only of the 1888 Pirates of the Spanish Main set with X-Ray Roundup but of Look 'N' See to Scoop and on to Who Am I? as there are numerous subjects shared by all these sets. Sigh.....\n\n(Apologies again for the vertical spacing. Something strange is happening with Blogger and I can't figure out how to fix it.)\nPosted by toppcat at 5:39 PM\n\nI've been blogging about cards so long I don't even remember posting that Kidd card. I'm also having massive formatting issues with Blogger so it's not just you. I think something's wonky with the images right now." ]