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[ null, "OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA: Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt granted detainee Julius Jones a pardon and commuted his death sentence Thursday, November 18, just hours before his scheduled lethal injection. Jones was due to be executed in 1999 for the fatal shooting of Paul Howell, an Oklahoma City businessman. According to an executive order filed on November 18, the inmate’s sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment with no parole.\n\nJones was due to be executed at 4 p.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. The last time he and his lawyers were visiting, they learned of the pardon at 12:45 PM CT. For the past two weeks, Jones had been held in a cell outside the execution chamber. He was reportedly given what was considered to be his last meal on Wednesday evening, November 17th.\n\nOne order, however, made it clear that Jones’ sentence would be commuted on condition that he “has no right to seek conversion, pardon or parole for the rest of his life, or be considered. Amanda Bass, Jones’ attorney, said the governor’s decision was “an important step in restoring public confidence in the criminal justice system by ensuring that Oklahoma does not execute innocents.”\n\nBass said Jones’s family and supporters had hoped he would one day be paroled. “While we were hoping the governor would fully accept the Board’s recommendation by commuting Julius ‘sentence to life in prison with the possibility of parole in the face of overwhelming evidence of Julius’ innocence,” said Bass, “we are grateful that the governor made an irreparable mistake. “\n\nJones, 41, has now spent nearly 20 years on death row with numerous questions about his guilt raised. Jones has alleged that he was not guilty of the crime. Howell was shot dead in the driveway of his parents’ home in Edmond, Oklahoma, on July 28, 1999, and his daughter claimed she saw Jones shoot her father in the head. There have been allegations of innocence and controversy surrounding Jones’ trial. The inmate and his defense team have argued that he was home when the murder occurred. They also claimed that his co-defendant, Christopher Jordan, is the real killer.\n\nA number of celebrities have advocated Jones’ pardon, including reality star Kim Kardashian, who had installed Stitt to follow the parole board’s recommendation and grant Jones a pardon. In addition to Kardashian, NBA players such as Russell Westbrook, Trae Young and Blake Griffin had also urged officials to commute the sentence. Jones’ family and supporters had pressured Stitt to commute his sentence to life imprisonment.\n\nWhen Jones was granted a pardon, Howell’s family remains convinced that he killed the businessman. “We know Governor Stitt had a difficult decision to make,” the family said in a statement. “We take comfort that his decision confirmed Julius Jones’ guilt and that he is not entitled to seek or consider conversion, pardon or parole for the rest of his life.” “Julius Jones forever changed our lives and the lives of (Paul Howells) family and friends,” the statement said." ]

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[ null, "While working for Phoenix Fabricators my client’s late husband, Jason, was repairing weld lines on a water tower in Arkansas. He lost his footing and his lanyard and safety clip failed, allowing him to fall to a tragic and untimely death. The surviving spouse and children settled the Illinois workers’ compensation claim, and have a cause of action against the lanyard manufacturer through a wrongful death products liability lawsuit. The employer was found by OSHA to have violated several regulations including failure to have safety nets among several other serious violations. Unfortunately, in most cases and in this current case, workers’ compensation is the sole remedy available to an employee against their employer for injuries sustained on the job. This does not prevent us from filing a lawsuit against any responsible or negligent 3rd party.\n\nGenerally, the location of the injury or death dictates the applicable law, so in this case, Arkansas work comp law presumptively applied. However, under Arkansas law this wrongful death case would be capped at about $200,000, an amount that is disgustingly inadequate for the death of a young man. However, Under Illinois workers’ compensation law the wrongful death the cap is much higher, therefore, the work comp claim was filed in Illinois seeking work comp benefits pursuant to Illinois law. We argued that Illinois work comp law applied because the decedent was an Illinois resident and was hired over the phone while he was at his home in Illinois.\n\nThis allowed us to convince the workers’ compensation insurer to agree that Illinois law may very well apply and lead to a favorable workers’ compensation settlement of $500,000.00 present cash value. The decent was entitled to payments over a number of years which would have amounted to more than $1,000,000.00.\n\nThe 3rd Party Case: We are currently pursuing the manufacturer of the defective lanyard for a negligence and products liability/wrongful death case for the death of our client’s husband. This will allow us to recover damages in excess of workers’ compensation’s limited remedies that are capped by regulation in favor of employers. This case against the lanyard manufacturer is a multi million dollar case to compensate my client and her family for the death of her husband and her children’s father." ]

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[ "Plymouth Valiant - Wikipedia\nOverview1960–19621963–19661974–1976Derivative modelsThe Plymouth Valiant is an automobile which was manufactured by the Plymouth division of the Chrysler Corporation in the United States from the model years of 1960 through 1976. It was created to give the company an entry in the compact car market emerging in the late 1950s. The Valiant was also built and marketed, without the Plymouth name, worldwide in countries including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden and Switzerland, as well as otherSee more on enpedia · Text under CC-BY-SA licenseClass: CompactPlatform: A-bodyManufacturer: Chrysler CorporationProduction: 1959–1976\nElectrical diagrams for Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth cars\nThis is an engine compartment wiring diagram for a 1969 Valiant. B bodies had a horn relay rather than the horn button activating the horn directly. Other than that, they were very similar. This diagram is basically the same as the shop manual, except I simplified it by deleting the V8 distributors and the B body horn relay wiring.\nValiant, Dart, etc. engine list with horsepower ratings\nValiant, Dart, etc. engine list with horsepower ratings . Information collected by Joseph Newhouse and used by permission. He wrote: “My primary source of information is Chrysler-issued specifications from the National Automotive History Collection.\n1974 Dart, Demon, Valiant, Duster, Scamp Wiring Diagram\nThe picture shown is an example of a wiring diagram, but is not the exact diagram for your vehicle. The manual covers all 1974 Darts including the Dart, Demon, Sport, Sport 360, Swinger, Special Edition, and Custom and all 1974 Plymouth Valiant, Brougham, Duster, Duster 360, & Scamp.\nRepair Manuals & Literature for Plymouth Scamp for sale | eBay\nGet the best deals on Repair Manuals & Literature for Plymouth Scamp when you shop the largest online selection at eBay. Free shipping on many items | Browse your favorite brands |\nMopar Wiring Diagrams - MyMopar - Dodge Plymouth\nMopar Wiring Diagrams 1972 to 1976: The wiring diagrams below are from various internet sources and individual contributors. All diagrams are individual files based on model year and vehicle.\nPlymouth Valiant Parts & Accessories, 1974, 1966, 1964\n1975 Plymouth Valiant Scamp 6 Cyl 3 GAS, 29-3/4\" x 19-1/4\" x 10-3/8\", Lock Ring Kit Included; 1975 Plymouth Valiant Scamp 8 Cyl 5 GAS, The second generation Valiant came in 1968 with bigger engine, now at 318 which generated a humble 110,825 units.", null ]

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[ null, "Hugo Ulloa, Civil Engineering & Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics, U. de Chile. Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania.He obtained his undergraduate degrees in Engineering Science and Geophysics at Universidad de Chile. After receiving a diploma in Civil engineering, Hugo pursued a PhD in Fluid Dynamics at the same University. During his PhD, Hugo investigated the Degeneration of internal gravity waves in a stratified rotating basin via numerical and laboratory experiments. After his PhD, Hugo was appointed as Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, where he dove into the fluid dynamics of tropical coral reef aquatic systems. He then got a postdoctoral research position at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where his research ramified towards different topics involving the biogeochemistry and physics of alpine and polar lakes. In 2021, Hugo was appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he leads the Geophysical and Environmental Flows Laboratory. His current research focuses on (i) the fluid dynamics ice-covered water bodies, (ii) mixing and transport of geometrically controlled permeable flows, (iii) competition between convective modes of motion in differentially cooled and differentially heated water bodies, and (iv) the swimming strategies of microorganisms in aquatic environments.\n\nHistorically, ice-covered water bodies on Earth have been considered intriguing, quiescent, wintering, and hard-to-reach aquatic environments. However, driven by striking changes in ice phenology in the last decades, over the last seven years, interdisciplinary research years has revealed the complex biogeochemistry and the active fluid dynamics that seasonally ice-covered freshwaters support. During the seminar, I will overview what we know (in the western knowledge) about under-ice freshwater systems, emphasising the mechanisms that may drive fluid motion and enhance mixing. Finally, I will highlight open topics that warrant research for the next decade." ]

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[ "Founded in NYC in 1998 by Steve Brotman, SAVP is making early and growth stage investments in its fourth fund. Our seed investments that grew into IPOs include LivePerson NASDAQ: LPSN and Medidata NASDAQ:MDSO.", null, "Steve Brotman is the Managing Partner of Silicon Alley Venture Partners which he founded to invest in early stage companies in 1998. Steve advises New World Ventures (www.newworldvc.com), the evergreen venture arm of the Pritzker family, and other institutions on growth and early stage investments. Prior to SAVP, as an entrepreneur Steve founded AdOne, an early venture-backed web company, which he sold to a newspaper consortium led by Hearst. More...\n\nFounded 1998 in NYC by Steve Brotman, the successful Web 1.0 founder of AdOne, SAVP is entrepreneur centric. SAVP is making early and growth stage investments in its fourth fund.\n\nSAVP was the among the first institutional investors in two successful IPOs – Live Person and Medidata – and has many profitable exits in its portfolio. SAVP’s investment focus continues to be on East Coast, post-revenue early and growth stage ventures in business software and information services, health care, e-commerce, and new networks enabled by mobile, social and data. \u0003SAVP makes a handful of North East, early stage investments per year, mostly as a co-investor.\n\nFor Early Stage companies we seek post-revenue companies who have found a lead venture investor where we can co-invest anywhere between $25,000 to $1,000,000. We are not currently leading early stage investments.\n\nFor Growth Stage financings, we can rapidly fill out an “up” round led by a new venture capital source, especially when there are leading early stage investors who already know us.\n\nContact us. Take 2 minutes to submit your plan. We replay within 10 business days.\n\nSince 1998, SAVP has been among the first venture investors in two IPOs - LivePerson and Medidata - and many profitable exits. We seek companies that leverage networks to improve efficiency. Below you can check out selected SAVP Active and Exited Investments.\n\nSEND US A PLAN, WE RESPOND FAST - IN 10 BUSINESS DAYS - WHEN YOU SUBMIT HERE. TAKES 3 MINUTES\n\nNo tweets found from \"stevebrotman\"\n\nNo tweets found from \"bsmiga\"" ]

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[ "James went on the show partially to be able to pay for diapers and other necessities for his son, Hunter. James won our hearts during this year’s ‘Idol’ by constantly proclaiming his love for his son and fiance. Women of America melted when James sang a song dedicated to his family and got visibly choked up just by talking about his love for his son.\n\nGary has been off-and-on with his baby-mama, Amber Portwood for the last two seasons of ‘Teen Mom.’ However, his love has never wavered for his baby daughter, Leah. He’s constantly been a stable front in her life. Plus, any man who’s willing to dress up as the Easter Bunny to make his daughter happy deserves a spot on this list.", null, "Say what you want about his marriages, but this guy loves his kids (all 159 of them). His main concern during the last season of ‘Sister Wives’ was keeping his family and all his kids together in one place. He is always shown trying to make each child feel special, and that’s no easy task!\n\nNot only does he have to keep four women happy, but he also has to care for and support all those kids, and he seems to be doing it well.\n\n5) Derrick Kosinski (Real World/Road Rules Challenge): Derrick won our hearts many seasons ago on The Challenges by being the “nice guy” and always striving to do the right thing. He was a little guy, but had more heart than most of those conceited oafs he competed against.\n\nHe hadn’t done a challenge in a long time, when he became a father, he knew that he needed to support the child, so he joined up again. He made it clear that he was only there to support his kid and didn’t want any of the drama associated with the show. The loving way he talked to the other contestants about his child was heart-warming.\n\nNow I must admit, my feelings for Michael didn’t start out so warm and fuzzy. When he missed the birth of his first child so that he could go to Hollywood Week on ‘American Idol’, I thought he was so selfish. However, I later saw that he knew this was his shot to support his family and he had to do it. Once the baby was born, it was amazing to see his face light up when he talked about her. She was ever-present at the shows and you could tell he just loved being a dad. It was great to see such a big strong man fall to pieces over a little baby.", null, "2) Tyler Baltierra (16 & Pregnant, Season 1): On The Ashley’s list of Top 5 Mothers, she included Tyler’s fiancee, Catelynn Lowell, so it’s only proper that Tyler be included on the Father’s Day list. In a sea of young, ridiculously selfish and immature deadbeat dads on “16 and Pregnant,” Tyler stood out like a shining star. He, like Catelynn, grew up with a less-than-perfect home life.\n\nDespite this, Tyler and Catelynn were level-headed and smart in their decision to place their baby up for adoption. The way Tyler handled the whole thing, being so supportive of Cateynn and doing what he knew was right for the baby, was amazing. His maturity level at only 17 was astonishing. His love for his daughter was so great that he sacrificed his own feelings for her own good.\n\n1) O’Neal (The Biggest Loser): If O’Neal’s love for his daughter, Sunshine, didn’t warm your heart, you’re probably a cold-hearted troll. O’Neal went on ‘The Biggest Loser’ last season because he wanted his daughter to feel good about herself. He was constantly encouraging her, even sacrificing himself when they both fell “below the yellow line” so that Sunshine could stay and continue to lose weight.\n\nIn an interview afterward he said, “I was a father first and a contestant second. Falling below the yellow line with her and having to leave was a bittersweet thing. Bitter was the fact that I had to leave; sweet because it was me instead of her.”\n\nOf course, the most incredible display of love came before this, when, during a challenge, the contestants had a chance to win a brand-new car. In one of the most brutal challenges yet, O’Neal screams and howls through wind and rain to win that car for his daughter. When he does, he promptly hands the keys to his daughter. That guy nearly killed himself so his daughter could have a new Mazda.\n\nHappy Father’s Day to all the non-deadbeat dads out there!" ]

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[ null, "Bender Bending Rodríguez is one of the main characters in the animated television series “Futurama.” He’s something of a comic antihero and is described by a fellow character as an “alcoholic, whore-mongering, chain-smoking gambler.”", null, "H.A.L. (short for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is the antihero of Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction classic “2001: A Space Odyssey.” He has to be shut down after killing crew members on the Discovery One spaceship.", null, null, "Ava, played by Alicia Vikander in the psychological thriller “Ex Machina,” is a feminine humanoid robot with artificial intelligence.", null, "B-9 was a robot with human characteristics in the 1960s television series “Lost in Space.” He was known for his catchphrases “It does not compute” and “Danger, Will Robinson!” (The latter, derived originally from a Mark Twain quote, has come to mean “You’re about to do something stupid.”)", null, "Data made his debut in the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and subsequently appeared in “Star Trek: Picard,” and some of the Star Trek feature films. He has been described as a successor to Spock from the original television series — an outsider with superior mental abilities." ]

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[ null, "Flint made an encouraging start to 2018 with a comfortable 4-0 win over Queens Park, who gamely kept battling on until the end.\n\nThis was Niall McGuinness' first league victory since taking over as manager, and he introduced 2 new signings into the starting line up, Jack Lewis and Jacob Lever, whilst a third, Jack Stewart was introduced from the bench in the second half. All three debutants acquitted themselves well, with composed and measured performances that hopefully bodes well for the future. But it was Luke Tyson who stole the show, putting in a typically tireless performance, alongside midfield teammate Joe Palmer, in what was to be a fitting final appearance for Flint before he departs for Australia next week.\nFlint started the game at a high tempo, with Palmer and Tyson making nuisances of themselves in midfield, with energetic displays, closing down their opposite numbers and not letting them settle on the ball. This put the visitors on the back foot, and they were struggling to clear their lines, as Flint piled on the pressure.\nHowever, the home side were unable to convert this pressure into any decent goalscoring chances in the opening quarter of an hour, as they were guilty of over elaborating or over hitting the final ball. Then, as 15 minutes ticked by, Queens Park put together a good little move which led to them quickly breaking down the right and coming close to opening the scoring. Levi Roberts took the ball in his stride and advanced into the Flint area with purpose, before unleashing a shot that struck the crossbar.\nStung by that let off, Flint hit back through that man Tyson, who shot from just outside the box, and his well judged effort cruelly came back off the post.\nThe home side took the lead on 28 minutes following a long throw into the box by Lewis. Tyson got the slightest of flicks on the ball that propelled it towards the back post, and into the path of Carl Rodgers, who blasted home from a couple of yards out.\nJust after the half hour mark, Alan Bull tried his luck from 22 yards out, and his shot took a deflection which sent it thudding against the bar. Shortly after, Bull came close again, when having jinked his way into the box, he shot from a wide angle on the left, but Queens Park keeper Richard Cowderoy made himself big, and got a good block on the ball to deny the Flint striker what had seemed a certain goal.\nSo, despite the home side's dominance, it was still only a slender 1-0 advantage at the interval.\nThe vital second goal arrived on 53 minutes. Bull was the catalyst, as he once again ran at the visitors defence, before hitting a shot that was well blocked. But the rebound went into the path of Tyson who was following up, and he calmly steered the ball into the corner of the net from the edge of the box.\nThen, on the hour mark, the game was made well and truly safe when Flint struck their third. Rob Jones hit a 25 yard shot that once again took a deflection en route to goal. But unlike the first half effort from Bull, this time it sent the ball arrowing into the top corner of the net and out of Cowderoy's reach.\nBull was denied again on 72 minutes, when Cowderoy pulled off another fine save. Then from the corner, Richie Foulkes rose highest and got a good connection on the ball that sent it over Cowderoy, but saw his effort cleared off the line by a covering defender.\nThe scoring was completed in the 81st minute, following good work by substitute Stewart, who played in Chris Budrys. He ran into the box and as Cowderoy came out to meet him, he produced a cross cum shot from a wide angle that Bull got on the end of, to finally get the goal his persistence deserved.\nBudrys showed a great touch on 90 minutes as he controlled a ball played up to him and laid it off to Stewart who thumped a good shot that struck the Queens Park woodwork for the third time of the afternoon.\nSo, after the disappointment of the Boxing Day derby, this was an encouraging display and a good response from Flint, but it was against the next to bottom side, and there will be stronger challenges to come over the next few weeks. But if we can use this as a platform and the new faces in the squad continue to gel and can build upon their promising initial displays, then we should start making ground on the teams above us in the table." ]

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[ null, null, "The Ekiti State House of Assembly has appointed Olubunmi Adelugba as the new Speaker of the House.\n\nFollowing this, on Monday, Gboyega Aribosogan was removed from office by seventeen of the 25 members of the House.\n\nHere are 10 things to know about the new Speaker:\n\n1. Adelugba is the first woman speaker in the history of the Assembly since the return to democracy in 1999.\n\n2. He is a member of the All Progressives Congress of the State.\n\n3. Adelugba was elected to the Ekiti Assembly in 2019.\n\n4. Adelugba has over two decades of work experience in Audit and Corporate Advisory Services and Financial Advisory.\n\n5. Worked at Olusola Adekanola & Co as Senior Consultant, a team that started Accelerated Revenue Generation as a means of boosting Internally Generated Revenue for State Governments.\n\n7. He was the pioneering State Honorary Commissioner for Work, Productivity and Human Capital Development.\n\n8. He was a special adviser on Revenue and Tax matters in the state.\n\n7. He is currently the Managing Partner of Bunmi Adelugba & Co and Boomade Professional Services and also coordinates the interface with clients.\n\n8. Adelugba has a Masters in Financial Management.\n\n10. He is an accountant and tax practitioner." ]

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[ null, "Biomass is organic material that comes from plants and animals, and it is a renewable source of energy. This old technologies may well nonetheless be proving to be the most effective way to use biomass energy. Biomass Energy Production Price (&M): Via our biomass gasification project development efforts in Florida, the beneath chart is an approximation of the production expense of implementing biomass gasification. On the other hand the 1st contemporary wind energy generators were investigated in the late 1970s and early 1980s when there was a massive international push for renewable power. I do agree with each oxer ang cody but i am doing a project about biomass and i cant look to obtain how biomass energy is distributed.!. Growing biomass is a rural, labour-intensive activity, and can, therefore, build jobs in rural areas and help stem rural-to-urban migration.\n\nThis kind of waste can be employed as a supply of power, such as for electricity, heating or as a fertiliser. The 2 easiest and most efficient systems that I have constructed are primarily based on wind and solar energy systems. Torrefied pellets have 3 to 4 instances the energy density of timber and are water repellent, permitting for storage outside. I did contemplate adding the pros and cons of every single technologies, but felt such a section would make this unbearably lengthy!\n\nThese alterations boost the capability of biomass facilities to compete with other renewables as utilities appear for low-cost non-fossil fuel energy production. Meanwhile, the supply of power itself is virtually totally free, does not encounter any cost fluctuations, and does not will need to be imported like oil or gas. Carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere when biomass is burned, but when biomass grows it binds carbon dioxide by way of photosynthesis. Most of the renewable energy procedures pointed out here are not covered by most publishers on the web and sadly does not get sufficient coverage. But a seismic shift in Oregon’s energy policy may well reverse the fortunes of biomass. Oregon, for instance, has just one biomass facility that solely produces power.\n\nBiomass can be securely sourced on compact scales, but provide of bigger volumes is currently hard to safe. Given that plants and trees absorb and shop atmospheric carbon as they grow, expanding and employing biomass energy crops reduces the level of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere – which could be generating Worldwide Warming Climate Transform.\n\nAccording to a United Nations whitepaper on biochar , the avoided emissions of greenhouse gases are among two and 5 times greater when biochar is applied to agricultural land than utilised solely for fossil power offsets. Using biomass to create electrical energy is done in a plant which is substantially like a coal powered station. As biomass is a organic material, quite a few hugely effective biochemical processes have developed in nature to break down the molecules of which biomass is composed, and quite a few of these biochemical conversion processes can be harnessed. Biomass energy or biopower is the use of biomass to generate electrical energy, or heat and steam needed for the operation of a refinery. Though fossil fuels are the worst supply of energy, corn and soybeans would have to fall in close behind. It is worth noting that these are practically identical to, but not the exact same as, option energy sources." ]

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[ "The Northern Redbelly Dace (Chrosomus eos, syn. Phoxinus eos) is a small-bodied minnow (family Leuciscidae, syn. Cyprinidae) native to the United States and Canada. Individuals have very small scales, an incomplete lateral line, 7–8 dorsal fin rays, and a moderately forked caudal fin (Brown 1971). Northern Redbelly Dace have a small, s-shaped mouth that does not reach below the front of the eye. Coloration is olive/brown on top with two dark stripes running laterally down its sides, from snout to tail. The lower sides and bellies are typically yellow or silver but, during spawning season, turn bright red on adult males. Brown (1971) reported that no individual larger than 2.3 inches had been reported in Montana; however, multiple surveys have since reported Northern Redbelly Dace approximately 4 inches long (FishMT 2020).\n\nThe life history, behavior, and ecology of Northern Redbelly Dace has not been studied in Montana, but they have been observed elsewhere. Northern Redbelly Dace typically spawn from May to August, usually in a mass of filamentous algae. Females lay batches of up to 30 eggs, each batch fertilized by a different male. Eggs hatch in 8–10 days at water temperatures between 21° and 27° C (Brown 1971). Bestgen (1989) found that most individuals in Colorado prairie streams typically only survive to age-2, but longer-lived populations have been reported in Quebec (Legendre 1969).\n\nMontana contains the southwestern periphery of the continental range of Northern Redbelly Dace. In Montana, Northern Redbelly Dace historically occurred in the Missouri, Little Missouri, lower Yellowstone, and Saskatchewan River basins (Figure 1). However, they appear to have been extirpated from the Little Missouri drainage in Montana sometime between 1993 and 2016 (Stringer 2018). Disjunct populations occur in the lower Gallatin and Madison River basins; however, we know little about their abundance or wider distribution in these drainages because no targeted surveys have been conducted.\n\nNorthern Redbelly Dace live in clear, coolwater streams and ponds with slow flowing water and abundant aquatic vegetation, especially filamentous algae (Holton and Johnson 1996). The majority of collections in Montana have occurred at locations with mean August stream temperatures between 13° and 18° C (Clancy, unpublished data). Bestgen (1989) reported that Northern Redbelly Dace only occurred in waterbodies where microhabitats <22° C were available. In the Milk River of north-central Montana, Northern Redbelly Dace were found exclusively in tailwaters below dams (Stash 2001).\n\nExclusion or removal of non-native predators affords the best chance of conserving Northern Redbelly Dace (Stringer 2018). In the Musselshell River, a series of diversion dams probably restrict upstream movement of both native and non-native fishes. Although passage at some diversions is needed to reconnect native Sauger (Sander canadensis) with historical spawning areas, retention of the Stella and Parrot diversion dams will probably prevent the spread of Northern Pike and other invasive species into the upper Musselshell (M. Ruggles, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, personal communication). Ongoing work will prioritize dam removal and retention in areas likely to serve as climate refugia for dace and other native fishes (Clancy, unpublished data). Furthermore, managers should carefully consider the consequences of stocking Northern Pike or trout into drainages containing Northern Redbelly Dace. Establishing a prairie fish monitoring program would allow managers to gain a better understanding of long-term population trends of Northern Redbelly Dace (and other native prairie fishes) and the potential need for a conservation-hatchery option.", null, "Figure 1. Collections of Northern Redbelly Dace and hybrid dace from their historical distribution in a 2015–2017 study of their current status and distributions in Montana (adapted from Stringer 2018)." ]

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[ null, "“Our intent with these changes was to encourage a deliberative process with state agencies in developing policy and legislation.”\n\nTranslation from Government Speak: We needed a means of hiding from view any discussions or actions on policy we take that may be interpreted as politically damaging, unethical, immoral, or illegal.\n\nWisconsin’s government has operated and developed policy without trouble since that Open Records Law was passed. No State official had anything to fear and still does not, if they are avoiding hurting people, using their office merely for personal or partisan gain, or hiding their breaking of State law. This is something Walker and his aides, along with far too many Republicans, wish to do or need to do. What are they hiding?\n\nThe Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that the governor’s office has responded to a number of public records requests over the past couple of months as if the changes were already in effect. The Green Bay Press Gazette took a poll and found 83% of their readers thought Walker was responsible just prior to the acknowledgement Tuesday.\n\n“We tried to put something together we thought that made sense. But it’s not going to be accepted publicly and that’s why we’re pulling it back today.”\n\nIt makes sense to them as they have so much to hide. The manner in which Wisconsin has operated with such Republican control of State government as both houses of the legislature have Republican majorities, the governors’ chair, and a 4-3 majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court leads them to think they can do anything because they have the votes. They can, but should they? In earlier days judges might be more liberal or conservative, but were not as partisan as they are now. When Democrats had too much control via majorities and a Democratic Party governor, they suffered from the same arrogance and overreach.\n\n“I don’t know anyone who has demonstrated that we have a problem with too much openness in Wisconsin.”\n\n-Bill Lueders President of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council\n\nQuite true. This is yet another example of Republican lawmakers looking to fix a problem that does not exist. Democrats have yet to operate this way. (see Voter ID laws to stop waves of fraudulent voting.) The only conclusion a rational and intelligent observer can reach is that they were doing this for their benefit and not ours.\n\nIn related action a budget amendment to the State’s Biennial Budget, ending Wisconsin’s prevailing wage law by units of local government. The move will lower wages in Wisconsin for Wisconsin people who work for a wage for others. That is a big group. It also takes paying the prevailing wage out of the hands of local and county governments, especially Milwaukee County.\n\nWhat impact this might have on national journalists looking for how Walker governs to have achieved his version of the Wisconsin Miracle will find a fertile field to raise questions and deep concerns about Walker’s fundamental honesty, and ability to work with opponents. Struggles for Justice has long contended the Governor simply lies far too much, and demonstrably by the record has sought to harm a large body of Wisconsinites regarding their employment and wages." ]

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[ null, "Nolen led the Lamar Texans to 308 University Interscholastic League (UIL) wins and 19 district championships. In his 33 years, the Texans made the playoffs 31 times.\n\n“Lamar has become part of my identity,” Nolen said. “My students and coaches are my best friends. In some cases, I’ve coached them, their parents, and their grandparents. I am deeply honored to have had the privilege of working with some great athletes at a school as special and diverse as Lamar.”\n\nWhile leading Lamar to the 2012 Texas 5A Division 1 Football Championship game – the first time an inner-city school had made it that far in almost 20 years – Nolen was named Coach of the Year by the Greater Houston Football Coaches Association (GHFCA), an organization which he helped found and for which he served as first president.\n\nNolen’s coaching philosophy is well known for going beyond the football field.\n\n“The most notable thing about Coach Nolen is that with him, it’s always about what’s best for the kid first,” Lamar Principal James McSwain said. “He’s stood up and been an advocate for lots of kids who didn’t have one and has always maintained that it’s about what the extracurricular can do for the kid, not what the kid can do for the extracurricular.”\n\nHis solid coaching style has resulted in numerous athletes who have gone on to play in the NFL, including Brian Orakpo, Brandon LaFell, Joshua Gordon, and Holton Hill. In 2005, Nolen was voted as one of the top five high school football coaches of the year by the National Football League (NFL).\n\n“Tommy has been a cornerstone not for only Lamar High School football, but for HISD Athletics,” HISD Athletic Director Marmion Dambrino said. “His passion for helping kids is evident by the number of players he assisted in getting to the next level. His constant presence in Lamar’s football program speaks to the phenomenal success of the program over the years.”\n\nPrior to coaching football at Lamar, Nolen coached football at Strake Jesuit. He was the first coach inducted into the school’s Hall of Honor after guiding its football team to four Texas Christian Interscholastic League (TCIL) state championships.\n\nThe team’s assistant coach, Michael Lindsey, has been selected as the new head coach for the Lamar Texans. A former Auburn University player, Lindsey has over 15 years of coaching experience, including roles at Churchill High School (San Antonio), Friendswood High School and at Beauregard High School in Opelika, Ala., where he won a state title as a defensive coordinator in 2016.\n\n“I am eager to continue the winning tradition at Lamar that Coach Nolen has set,” Lindsey said. “I am excited to work at developing the student athletes in our program to be champions both on and off the field.”\n\nMedia will be invited to attend a reception in Nolen’s honor that will be held at a later date." ]

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[ "10 Most Unglamorous Things About Attending NYFW", null, "Ah, the illustrious and alluring New York Fashion Week: the pinnacle of every fashion lover’s dream. Except once you actually make it there, you realize it’s not exactly as glamorous as you imagined it. You didn’t think it would be possible to complain about attending fashion shows, drinking free champagne and being around plenty of A-Listers, did you? But the nine days of fashion-related events isn’t always all glitz and glam, despite what those attending project on social media. Here, some of the more unglamorous aspects of the week that don’t make it into attendees’ Instagram feeds:\n\n1.| 90% of your schedule will be sitting in traffic and rushing like crazy from show venue to show venue.\nGone are the days of all the shows held in the same spot. Now you’re essentially embarking on a scavenger hunt through New York City from show to show in shoes that probably weren’t meant for scavenger hunts.\n\n2.| You’ll be waiting for the show to start for longer than the actual show itself.\nChances are you’ll wait 20-40 minutes for the less-than-15-minute show to begin.\n\n3.| Nine times out of 10 you get to enjoy a seat that’s practically on the lap of the person sitting next to you.\nSo many egos, so little seating space.\n\n4.| If you’re not sitting front row, good luck seeing the looks over a sea of iPhones.\nThe good news is you can watch the show on the screen of the phone of someone in the front row—just like you always dreamed.", null, "5.| The only food that’s available at venues are fresh-pressed juices and Kind bars.\n“Yum, another Kind bar for lunch,” said no one ever.\n\n6.| While you’re out at shows and events, your inbox is filling up faster than a street style photographer chasing Leandra Medine.\nMedia alerts, post show recaps, party releases. SO MANY EMAILS. MAKE IT STOP.\n\n7.| The weather is always either too hot or too cold.\nIt’s 90 degrees out but how will you become a street style star without draping a leather moto jacket over your shoulders?\n\n8.| The entire crowd competes in a 100-meter dash for the exit as soon as the show ends.\nYou thought you were going to a fashion show. Nope, these are basically tryouts for high school track & field.\n\n9.| If you don’t have a private car, you might as well throw in the towel now.\nCab and Uber competition is fierce, and we all know you’re not wearing subway-friendly shoes.\n\n10.| By the end of the week (which is actually nine days), you’ll realize you’ve been surviving solely on a diet of free champagne, granola bars and the McDonald’s you ate at Alexander Wang.\nNeed. real. food. ASAP.\n\nBut at the end of all the chaos, you’ll still show up next season because #fashun.", null, null ]

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[ "Handcrafted in the USA\n\nThe Friedman Dirty Shirley 1×12 Cabinet is a 1×12”, open-back extension cabinet. It utilizes tongue and groove Baltic Birch construction to deliver the bass, mid response and great sound you would expect from a Friedman cab.\n\nAt the heart of the cab is a Celestion G12M-65 Creamback 16 Ohm speaker. The G12M Greenback is the definitive vintage Celestion ceramic magnet guitar speaker. When the G12M was developed in the mid-sixties, players like Hendrix, Clapton, Beck and Page, who typified the louder and more aggressive blues rock-playing styles that came to characterize that era, quickly adopted it.\n\nThe G12M-65 Creamback used in the Dirty Shirley cab produces the familiar woody G12M tone, but handles greater power. This makes it ideally suited for yesterday and today’s amps, when a vintage and modern tone is desired. The increased power handling brings with it low end grunt complementing the warm and vocal mid range, crunchy upper-mids and sweet, refined highs.\n\nAs with all Friedman cabinets, over-sized 12-gauge speaker wire is soldered between the speaker and terminal, assuring you capture every ounce of valuable tone. The Dirty Shirley 1x12EXT is handcrafted with pride in the USA and designed to withstand the rigors of the road.", null ]

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[ "On April 25-27, Chinese leaders met in Beijing with heads of state and delegations from more than 40 countries to discuss next steps in implementing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s $1 trillion infrastructure investment program.\n\nAn important focus of this year’s forum was sustainability. The word “green” was noticeably more prominent in the drafting of the joint communique, and President Xi Jinping gave a high-profile address in which he declared that BRI investment should be “open, green and clean.”\n\nXi felt the need to emphasize this point because, though infrastructure investments are badly needed across the developing world, poorly planned and debt-laden BRI infrastructure projects to date have drawn the world’s attention to the economic, environmental, and social risks of BRI.\n\nSince BRI’s launch in 2013, the government of China has pledged to create infrastructure investments that will promote ecological protection, climate stability, and attainment of the world’s Sustainable Development Goals. In its first five years, the BRI has included many such projects, like the Sachal Wind Farm in Pakistan and Argentina’s Cauchari Solar Park.\n\nThese environmentally positive BRI renewable energy projects, however, have been overshadowed by such troubling projects as dams in Indonesia that threaten the extinction of Tapanuli orangutans, diminish local livelihoods, and force communities to resettle; coal projects that increase carbon emissions abroad, even as China makes emissions reduction strides at home; and transportation projects that open up frontier forests to settlements.\n\nWhy is China’s stated intention of creating a “Green BRI” not being realized on the ground? While BRI projects are often portrayed as a centrally planned mandate from Beijing, the reality is much more complicated. Many of the 3,000-plus projects linked to BRI stem from decentralized discussions between state-owned enterprises in China and host country counterparts. The state-owned enterprises act more autonomously than commonly believed, research has shown. And far from being centrally commissioned, since 2014 Chinese companies need no approval from the National Development and Reform Commission in Beijing for the vast majority of their overseas projects, except for the very small number worth more than $1 billion.\n\nThe task of making BRI green is daunting, but the tools exist for China to take on this challenge. To do so, China needs to take two steps to make BRI investments environmentally sensitive and sustainable.\n\nFirst, China should ensure that the environmental impacts of its projects are considered by funders at the earliest stages of the investment process. Presently, environmental and social risks are not taken into account until the very end of the project cycle, if at all. At this late stage, significant changes are rarely possible because of the extensive financial and political capital already invested.\n\nBy comparison, if China worked with host country governments and civil society to carry out environmental assessments at the earliest stages in conjunction with BRI economic strategic planning, projects can be selected that avoid environmental and social damage, often at little economic cost.\n\nChina has taken some initial steps in this direction. The environment ministry has started a BRI early-stage environmental assessment process with Southeast Asian governments. Additionally, another agency will soon launch a big environmental data platform that will improve China’s “upstream” planning capabilities. These are excellent first steps, but need to be expanded to empower appropriate ministries to use their early-stage planning to direct and, if necessary, restrict BRI investments.\n\nSecond, China should ensure that its state-owned insurance company and policy banks greenlight only projects that pass an environmental and social review. Because every Chinese company that wants to obtain financing for a BRI project must first obtain political risk insurance, the single company that provides this insurance, Sinosure, is in an ideal position to scrutinize and act on environmental and social risks prior to project financing. Sinosure has a risk-assessment scale to help direct its lending, but as best we can tell from public documentation, it doesn’t include environmental or social considerations — political risk is by far the most important factor that Sinosure considers. This could be remedied by providing Sinosure with an index that identifies environmental risks such as lack of climate resilience, biodiversity loss, deforestation and social unrest — all issues that can undermine the success of a project.\n\nEven more stringent requirements could also be instituted by the two dominant lending agencies for BRI projects, the Export-Import Bank of China and China Development Bank. To date, these funders have relied on limited environmental and social safeguards that fall well short of standards used by the World Bank and others.\n\nIf China were to take these two steps, it could become a true global leader in sustainable development.\n\nDr. Elizabeth Losos is a Senior Fellow at Duke’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions where she works on issues relating to sustainable infrastructure and the Belt and Road Initiative. Earlier this year, she was the head author on a World Bank working paper on the environmental risks of BRI infrastructure. || Erik Myxter-Iino is a Master’s student at the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University and a graduate research assistant at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. He is a former intern at SupChina and is the host of The Belt and Road Podcast.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "You can cry drinking your eyes do you miss the sadness when it's gone?\n\nSecret garden lyrics aurora. Camus, sung by camus, who is voiced by maeno tomoaki. Born in stavanger, aurora released her debut extended play, running with the wolves, in 2015, through decca records. Letra de like a prayer.\n\nHold your hands up to your chest and tell me what you find out of you, a sparrow comes and sees without its eyes. Just like the seed i'm chasing the wonder i unravel myself all in slow motion. With dixie egerickx, richard hansell, david verrey, tommy gene surridge.\n\nYou seem lost within your body and your mind a beam of light can still remind you who you are wounded by the world your fragile nature needed shelter in the night we made a sanctum Later the same year, she provided the backing track for the john lewis christmas advert, singing a cover of the oasis song half the. As said by aurora in 2016:\n\nGet all the lyrics to songs on aurora consurgens and join the genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. The secret garden es una canción de aurora que se estrenó el 3 de septiembre de 2020. 1 lyrics 2 videos 3 trivia 4 references 5 navigation this song was used as an insert song for camus's b route in the game all star after secret.\n\nLetra de like a virgin (en español) letra de papa don't preach. Lost in the moments again stuck where the road has no end keeping the thought in our minds one day life will be kind. • compartilhar aurora critica as consequências da ambição humana em sua nova música, the seed.\n\nThe Secret Garden artdirection in 2020 Studio\n\nSecret Garden by on deviantART\n\nWINTER LIGHT by Linda Ronstadt End Credits song from the" ]

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[ "The Conservation and Refurbishment Project 2015 to 2016\n\nMonths of prior planning went into the project starting as far back as 2012. Visits were made to other churches to see heating and lighting schemes and to hear digital organs, presentations were made by potential suppliers and papers were prepared for discussion by the PCC.\n\nOnce decisions had been made about the type of heating and lighting, detailed plans could be drawn up by the church’s appointed architects, and the wall paintings conservator, Madeleine Katkov, was consulted for information on what work was needed to conserve the chancel wall paintings. Draft plans were again presented for approval by the PCC.\n\nIn 2013 an Appeal was launched to raise the funds needed for the project and a bid was prepared for a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). At the same time work was commenced on applying to other grant aiding bodies for grants to assist with paying for the work needed. A Stage one grant from HLF was received in 2014 allowing us to continue with preparation of the HLF Stage two grant application which was submitted in November 2014. The grant was approved in March 2015 meaning that we could proceed with the project. A short video was produced describing what was planned.\n\nWork began on the project on 1st June 2015 when the building and site were handed over to the contractors Ward & Co, and finished ten months later on 1st April 2016 when they were handed back to the parish.\n\nEven though the old pipe organ had already been removed, as can be seen in this time lapse video, there was still a considerable amount of preparation to be done.\n\nAll the pews and other wooden furniture was removed, the benefactor, creed, ten commandments and Lord’s prayer boards were removed for renovation, as were the brasses in the chancel. All the monuments were boxed in to protect them from damage and the floor was covered with a hard wearing protective covering. Then the scaffolding could be erected while work continued on removing the old lighting, heating and wiring. To protect the wall paintings from dust a barrier was constructed across the chancel archway separating the chancel from the nave. Access to the chancel was then restricted to the priests door only.", null, "Outside the building, scaffolding and protective barriers were erected for work on the stonework and for the site Portacabin offices.\n\nConservation of the Wall Paintings\n\nWhilst the chancel was being prepared for work, conservator Madeleine Katkov surveyed the plaster", null, "in the south porch, and the north and south aisles of the church to see if there were any other hidden paintings. The plaster in the south aisle was found to have been completed renewed, probably in Victorian times, but fragments of paintings were found in the porch and on the walls of the north aisle. Much of the existing plaster was unstable and had to be removed and while this was being done, the workmen discovered the fleur de lys painting over the north door.\n\nIn the chancel the majority of the work consisted of cleaning and stabilising the paintings. In two or threeplaces there were serious cracks in the plaster, which was threatening to fall away from the wall, and this had to be stabilised and the cracks filled to prevent loss of any plaster and the paintings on it. During the cleaning interesting details of the paintings were revealed which had not been noticed previously.\n\nAs part of the brief for the conservators, drawings were made of the existing paintings for future reference by historians and archaeologists. The newly discovered paintings in the south porch and north aisle were also cleaned and stabilised.", null, "Stonework around the outside of the church was in need of repair, as identified in the architect’s quinquennial report, and stonemasons set about replacing worn stones. The south side of the building seemed to need most work, but there were also sections of the other walls including the tower that needed work done. For the final work on the south porch external doorway, the master stonemason gave a demonstration to children from Chalgrove Primary School.\n\nThe wooden louvres in the bell chamber of the tower were also replaced with new oak louvres and the priests door and the north door, with their ironwork, were cleaned and repainted.\n\nThe refurbishment of the chancel, nave and aisles of the church was very thorough from the top down. The wooden ceiling of the chancel and the wooden framework of the nave roof, all in good quality pine, were cleaned and treated. All the stonework, including the tracery of the windows, which had been painted with white emulsion paint at sometime in the past, was cleaned using a steam and vacuum process to take it back to its natural stone colour. Any repairs necessary to the stonework were made and it was finally re-pointed.", null, "The electrical sockets and wiring for the new lighting scheme, the new heaters and the new sound system were installed throughout the building, and covered by metal conduits.\n\nAll the unplastered walls, and those where unstable plaster had been removed, were prepared for re-plastering. A consignment of 31 tons of lime plaster was delivered to the site and re-plastering began. Mixed in a cement mixer outside, the lime plaster was wheel-barrowed into the building and then lifted by winch to the level of the scaffolding where it was required.\n\nThe wooden parquet flooring in the chancel was removed and replaced by new paving squares in black and white, and damaged floor stones were replaced. Damaged floor tiles in the nave wer", null, "e replaced with matching tiles and places, where the spaces for the old metal heating grids had been filled in with concrete, were tiled with similar tiles.\n\nIn the south porch the old wooden seats and panelling was removed and replaced by stone seating. The concrete floor was also replaced by a stone floor and the lintel between the porch and church completely removed to facilitate entrance by wheelchairs.\n\nNew stalls and seats were designed and built for the choir in the chancel and the console of the new digital organ was also designed to match. All the old Victorian pine nave pews were cleaned and refurbished where possible, while some of them, because of untreatable damage, were either red\n\nuced in length or cannibalised to make two small tables. The Jacobean pulpit, lectern and processional cross were all renovated by local craftsman Mick Lomas, who sadly died before the project was completed.\n\nNew LED lighting was installed throughout the building, programmable and controlled by touch pads, with lighting tracks in the chancel allowing each of the 44 wall paintings to be illuminated in turn. The ‘tree of life’ gates to the south porch and the chandeliers installed in the nave, aisles and south porch were all made by local eminent master blacksmith, Michael Jacques, and his apprentices. 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[ "Vikings: Gunnhild swims out to sea to ‘be with Bjorn’\n\nVikings season six, part two, arrived on Prime Video back in December 2020 and fans were curious to discover the fate of Bjorn Ironside (played by Alexander Ludwig). Many believed he had died during the first round of the Rus battle, but he miraculously lived to fight another day and fooled Prince Oleg (Danila Kozlovsky). His body was preserved in a tomb, which was visited by his two wives, leaving fans curious to know what happened to him.\n\nHow was Bjorn Ironside’s body preserved?\n\nViewers were shocked to see the show’s hero, Bjorn, die in one of the very first episodes of the final season.\n\nThe son of Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) had been severely injured during the Rus battle, and he did not have long left to live.\n\nHe came up with a plan to lull the Rus Vikings into a false sense of security, by making them believe he was dead.\n\nWhen Prince Oleg and his men returned to finish off the battle, Bjorn emerged and wielded his sword one last time.\n\nSadly, he was shot down by a number of arrows, and fans were forced to accept his tragic fate.", null, null, "His body was somehow preserved and was stored inside a tomb high up in the mountains.\n\nAn incredibly lifelike figure of Bjorn riding his horse stood in the centre of the tomb, and he was brandishing his sword as if he was about to ride into battle.\n\nBoth of his wives, Gunnhild (Ragga Ragnars) and Ingrid (Lucy Martin), had visited his tomb to grieve.\n\nFans have since taken to Reddit to discuss how the uncanny “statue” of Bjorn was created, with some believing his body may have been “stuffed”.\n\nPrudent_Measurement said: “Did they stuff Bjorn? In his ‘grave’ you see him on a horse holding up a sword… does that suggest they stuffed him? Or a wax figure?”", null, "Sev1nk suggested his body had been supported, saying: “I think he’s being propped up somehow and you can see the chain holding his sword arm.\n\n“His body appeared thinner when Gunnhild entered his barrow, so that might indicate he wasn’t preserved or stuffed.”\n\nOther fans seemed to agree with the theory his body had been tethered in a certain position using ropes or chains, and wooden frames.\n\nPhantomheart added: “His arm definitely was held up with a chain, holding the sword up. I’m pretty sure it is actually him, as that looks like a burial mound.”\n\nSome have suggested the figure was a clay statue, rather than the real Bjorn Ironside.\n\nDON’T MISS…\nVikings season 6 part 2: Why did Gunnhild have to die? [INTERVIEW]\nVikings season 6: What does Skraelings mean? [INSIGHT]\nFreydis Vikings actress: What did Alicia Agneson think of Freydis? [EXPLAINER]", null, "The truth is, there is no knowing for certain what happened to Bjorn after he died, as there does not seem to be any mention of the process in the series.\n\nThe mystery has left fans curious, with some wondering whether his preserved body was a sign that he could never die in spirit.\n\nHe was given the nickname, Ironside, due to his ability to walk away from battles unscathed.\n\nWhenever he was injured on the battlefield, he would always find the power within himself to make a full recovery.\n\nSome fans believe his body was embalmed, however, there is not much evidence of Vikings using embalming techniques to preserve their dead.\n\nJaneDoeNew said on Reddit: “Bjorn can’t be killed. So it seems like the viewer is purposely left to wonder (and be spooked a little) about how Bjorn remains intact without decomposing.\n\n“There’s an imposing, surreal, quality about it. It seems sort of implied that there’s something otherworldly about Bjorn.”\n\nActor Ludwig said his character’s death had been a bittersweet moment as he was sad to say goodbye to his Vikings family.\n\nHe said on Instagram: “This is it. The final season is now streaming on Prime Video. So proud of our incredible cast and crew.\n\n“Thank you to everyone who has supported us on this incredible journey. It has been the greatest honour of my life working on this show. See you in Valhalla.”" ]

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[ "Phnom Penh (FN), Jun. 24 – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said that the government has sent approximately USD 25 million per month to distribute to vulnerable households affected by Covid-19 and USD 125 million have been allocated for a five-month plan.\n\nHis remarks were made at the official launch of the \"Cash Transfer Program for Poor and Vulnerable Households During Covid-19\" on 24 June 2020, at the Peace Palace, Phnom Penh.\n\n“We currently spend only USD 25 million a month, yet it is expected to increase to USD 30 million if needed. The government has to work hard to ensure that Cambodians are not starving to death. We leave no one behind,” said the premier.\n\n“What the government is doing is called a temporary social support; it is only implemented in times of crisis, not a permanent support.”\n\nHe also stressed the differences between feeding and aiding in response to senseless critics.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Liverpool faced North London giants Tottenham Hotspur in a Premier League encounter which was held at the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday with Egyptian international Salah as the leading goalscorer. The ex-Chelsea, AS Roma and Fiorentina attacker was on 15 Premier League goals before the Spurs game, but he was unable to add to the tally during the 2-2 draw with the North London club. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED" ]

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[ "International Superhero Day: The origins of Beeldverhaal, and how Jeanet Scheepers left her mark", null, "Following Charles Kuijpers’ “CIA” and Boris Kousemaker’ “Lambiek”, today we’re thrilled to share with you a part of Beeldverhaal’s story, a famous comic book store based in Amsterdam, managed by Jeanet Scheepers and her family.", null, "Books were always a part of her life. She would always surround herself with books and read anything she could get her hands on. However, everything changed when she discovered graphic novels. To her, the images added layers to the story, the characters were given a face, and one would get a chance to fully emerge into the world of the artist’s imagination. Soon it became her life. Jeanet started with a small van full of unique pieces that she would take to the market every day.", null, "She enjoyed the colorful and lively atmosphere, where each day was different. But as her family grew, it was time to find a home for her books.\n\nAt first, it was hard to find her place in the comic book world, which was predominantly male. Her expertise and taste in the books were often doubted and neglected. The books that came from Beeldverhaal were not part of the popular genre at the time; they were niche, different and sometimes misunderstood. But Jeanet believed what she had to offer was something special, something the world needed to see. The stories she wanted to share were relatable and described places in this world, not some imagined one.", null, "The books told what had happened or could have had, and not all of them were happy. Those that impressed Jeanet most were created by a French artist called Jacques Tardi. His stories of war and horrors committed were not a light read or something to relax by. But they were real.\n\nAlmost every book displayed in Beeldverhaal has been through her hands; she shows the stories that would stay with her visitors. Books that would let the readers tell the story themselves, be inspired from or discover something new.", null, "She also gives the stage to the female authors and artists that are not visible or recognised enough. She has managed to open this world for them as well, and thanks to her, there are more women appearing, creating and being celebrated for their work and craft.\n\nThere is no man who hasn’t heard the name Jeanet Scheepers in the comic book world today. She is a recognised authority, and along with her whole family, she has created a warm environment filled with treasures that remains one of the truly rare and unique places.", null ]

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[ "This meme was started by Books by Proxy, whose fabulous idea was to compare UK and US book covers and decide which is the one we prefer. This week the theme is black and white covers, so I’ve chosen Blackout – Book 1 of the All Clear series by Connie Willis.", null, "This cover produced by Spectra Books in February 2010 is the original. I love the way we get small bubbles of action in amongst the shifting dark pattern – an attractive design that nicely echoes the content of this time-travelling adventure. This one is my favourite.", null, "This offering was produced by Gollancz in June 2011 and is another strong contender. The cloud revealing the London skyline from the surrounding black cover is another strong, simple design that is both eye-catching and effective.\n\nThis French edition was published by J’ai lu in March 2014. The iconic view of Westminster surrounded by smoke smearing the sky would certainly make me look again and though I’m not a fan of solid blocks of colour as a backdrop for the title and author, this time the blue works very well.", null, "Produced in September 2010 by Allen and Unwin, this Kindle edition is another successful effort. The greyscale shading works well as the girl is unmistakeably from the late 1930s/early 1940s. The red tinge near the top of the cover just behind the ruin gives a slight sense of menace – and a big clue as to the setting of the book.", null, "Published in February 2010 by Spectra Books, this hardback edition is the most generic of the covers and my least favourite. It has clearly been taken from a photograph of the time and I think the overall design is further weakened by a rather limp title font. Which cover do you like best – and which is your least favourite?\n\nAfter enjoying the hippo-related mayhem of River of Teeth and looking forward to reading what happens next as the first book left everything on something of a cliffhanger, I was delighted to spot this one on Netgalley.", null, "A few months ago, Winslow Houndstooth put together the damnedest crew of outlaws, assassins, cons, and saboteurs on either side of the Harriet for a history-changing caper. Together they conspired to blow the damn that choked the Mississippi and funnel the hordes of feral hippos contained within downriver, to finally give America back its greatest waterway. Songs are sung of their exploits, many with a haunting refrain: “And not a soul escaped alive.” In the aftermath of the Harriet catastrophe, that crew has scattered to the winds. Some hunt the missing lovers they refuse to believe have died. Others band together to protect a precious infant and a peaceful future. All of them struggle with who they’ve become after a long life of theft, murder, deception, and general disinterest in the strictures of the law.\n\nMy first piece of advice would be – don’t start with this one, go back to River of Teeth as this novella picks up from where the first book left off and there isn’t anything in the way of ‘The Story So Far’. While there is a bit of explanation about what happened, it comes fairly late in the story and in the meantime, I think newcomers to this series could flounder.\n\nAs we plunge straight back into the action only a few weeks after the climactic events at the end of River of Teeth we meet up with all the protagonists once again as they start to count the cost of that dramatic day. It took me a while to get back into this, because not only wasn’t there much explanation, neither did we have any rebonding moments with the main characters. I did care about several of the gang members, but was rather detached from Winslow, whose behaviour wasn’t particularly pleasant. While I understood it, because the reason for it was in the previous book, we didn’t get a chance to see the justification and I think this hampered some of my enjoyment.\n\nI do like the world very much and there was plenty going on – but I wanted more character development and longer to enjoy this interesting, vivid setting. There was a sense that this was a quart-sized story squeezed between pint-sized covers. That said, if I hadn’t liked it so much then clearly I wouldn’t have wanted more – this is really cool idea and was brought to a satisfactory conclusion this time around. I’d love to see a full-length novel set in this world, though… While I obtained the arc of Taste of Marrow from the publisher via NetGalley, this has in no way influenced my unbiased review.\n8/10" ]

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[ null, "Competition between gay dating apps reached a new level today, with the leader in the space, Grindr, accused by competitor Jack’d of doing too little to stop racism on its platform.\n\nJack’d is pushing a new video on its social media and issued a news release today calling out Grindr for including member profiles with messages like “No blacks, no Asians.” Other profiles say they prefer white men. Jack’d called the problem “rampant.”\n\nThe Advocate reached out for comment from Grindr, and its vice president of marketing, Peter Sloterdyk, said \"sexual racism is a larger problem within our community and impacts all dating apps, not just Grindr.\" Grindr, he said, does \"prohibit the use of offensive or racist language and encourage our community to report offending profiles through our app's built-in system.\" A negative report could lead to either censorship of a profile or a ban, he said.\n\nAlon Rivel, director of global marketing at Jack’d, said in the news release that Jack’d has a “zero-tolerance” policy for racism, inviting users to report discrimination to customer service. If the allegations are true, Jack’d promises to delete the profile, even if it’s a paying member.\n\n“There is a difference between being attracted to certain characteristics of a man and spewing hate and/or attacking others for their religion or the color of their skin,” said Rivel.\n\nGrindr isn’t the only dating app that includes profiles called racist, but Rivel notes that Grindr, “whether we like it or not, is the leader in the gay dating app space and they set a tone for the rest of the gay community.”\n\n“Grindr has been highlighted in the press repeatedly as being racist and only profiling men who fit one standard of beauty,” Rivel told The Advocate. “It is not that we are signaling them out, we are just reiterating what the public is writing and experiencing.”\n\nThe Guardian wrote last year, “No Asians, no black people. Why do gay people tolerate blatant racism?” Mic warned, “Here's One Brutal Truth Every White Gay Man Needs to Hear” and wrote about Grindr as a place where “gay men brandish their racial dating preferences” with “unapologetic bravado.” Those are just two examples among many. The website DoucheBagsofGrindr.com catalogs a number of racist examples. There was even a Twitter account @GrindrRacism that had regularly called out racist interactions in messaging.\n\nSloterdyk defended the dating app by noting the “Grindr for Equality” program, which he says works with LGBT organizations that promote social justice, better health, and other issues. He also praised coverage of sexual racism by Grindr’s new digital magazine, IntoMore.com, which will “create a safe space for all of our users to engage in discourse around issues.”\n\nSome dating apps target particular groups of gay men, like bears, or try to convene other communities. Jack’d has sometimes positioned itself as targeted to people of color. Jack'd is part of the company Online Buddies, which reports it has 22 full-time employees, of which nine are people of color. Among its five-person executive management team, two are people of color. Rivel tells The Advocate that fighting racism, though, is everyone’s job at Jack'd.\n\nWatch the video from Jack'd below:" ]

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[ null, "A Mishawaka officer is joining many today expressing his heartbreak for officers shot in Dallas.\n\nHe also says he strives not to think about race, and tries to see everyone equally when in the field.\n\n“It’s just terrible what this country’s come to, and just the overall resentment people are feeling toward the police department and just letting people know we are here to help,” Barthel said.\n\nHe says majority of police officers are good people.\n\n“We are here to support the public, to do the right thing, and i just ask that people understand that is 99.9% of police officers,” Barthel said.\n\nThe shop faced controversy in 2014, entering the national discussion on race and policing, after they released this shirt that says, ‘breathe easy, don’t break the law,’ an obvious play on 'I can't breathe' controversy that unfolded after Eric Garner died from a police choke hold.\n\nThe merchandise is on sale in the shop today.\n\n“Basically ‘breathe easy, don’t break the law,’ was a statement that says that we’re here for you,” Barthel said.\n\nHis input on how to ease any tension between officers and civilians is take color out of how we perceive each other, whether black or blue.\n\n“We as a society need to be equal. Nobody needs to be above everybody else. There’s no such thing as one race or one person being above anybody else. So remove color out of the equation and I think that would go a long way,” Barthel said." ]

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[ "Does a reach weapon allow you to threaten squares 10 feet away or not?\n\nThere is some confusion because PHB p.147 says that a reach weapon adds 5 feet to your reach when you attack with it, which can be interpreted to mean that, if an enemy is 10 feet away on his turn, he isn't actually in your reach (since you aren't attacking with the weapon yet) so you don't get an Opportunity Attack. Is this interpretation correct and you only threaten 5' away, or does a reach weapon always increase your reach for the purpose of threatening distance?\n\nReach (p. 147). This property also determines your reach for opportunity attacks with a reach weapon.\n\nMost creatures have a 5-foot reach and can thus attack targets within 5 feet of them when making a melee attack. Certain creatures (typically those larger than Medium) have melee attacks with a greater reach than 5 feet, as noted in their descriptions. - PHB, p. 195.\n\nSearching through all the creatures in the PHB at no point was Reach 10 ever specified, nor a feature having anything to do with reach. This might be something featured in the DMG or the MM though.\n\nFirstly, there is no concept of \"threatening\" in D&D 5e; you can make opportunity attacks when a hostile creature moves out of your reach.\n\nAs for reach weapons, the errata for the PHB clears this issue up once and for all:\n\nThis property also determines your reach for opportunity attacks with a reach weapon.\n\nSo yes, a reach weapon allows you to make opportunity attacks when a creature 10 feet from you moves away from you.\n\nYou can make an opportunity attack when a hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach.\n\nThis seems pretty clear to me. A creature using a reach weapon has a larger reach than normal for the purposes of weapon attacks, which an opportunity attack with a weapon is. Do recall that you can attack adjacent foes with reach weapons in 5e, so characters with reach weapons no longer get a free attack when a foe moves adjacent to them, since they haven't \"left their reach\".\n\nThe emphasized portion of the above paragraph is a reminder that their barehanded reach isn't any longer than normal, since the grapple rules state they work on someone \"within your reach\" but go on to clarify \"using a free hand\", so no one can say my interpretation allows ranged grapples.\n\nThe Following is an analysis based on a strict reading of the rules, and ignoring designer intent and their use of language. The lead designer for 5e, Jeremy Crawford, had this to say about Reach weapons:\n\n@JeremyECrawford I notice people have different interpretation, does polearm increase reach always or only when attacking with it?\n\n@Plaguescarred The reach property applies only when you attack with a weapon. Any use beyond that is up to the DM.\n\nRules for Opportunity attacks and Reach weapons don't make (narrative?) sense, but they are consistent. Reach is always 5 feet when not actively making an attack, and not the weapon being used.\n\nTo understand how/why this is the case, we must first work with the assumption that it's possible and logical that a person with a 10 foot reach weapon when they attack, is going to have a reach of 10 feet for the purpose of opportunity attacks.\n\nHowever, when using reach weapons, this seemingly falls apart, no matter which way you interpret the rules.", null, "Scenario 1: Reach for opportunity attacks is 5 feet.\nIn this scenario, you have just finished attacking the green monster. It is now the monster's turn. You engaged them in melee combat, but he can now step away from you and go off and do something else without any penalty. Purpose 1 of opportunity attacks has been subverted. It's arguable that this isn't really the purpose of opportunity attacks, but I think it's the basic assumption for most people, and it's consistent with the rules for 5 foot reach weapons.\n\nThat is the situation with your run of the mill opportunity attack. But now let's include the polearm master feat. (Page 168 of the Players Handbook)\n\nPolearm Master\nYou can keep your enemies at bay with reach weapons. You gain the following benefits:\n• When you take the Attack action and attack with only a glaive, halberd, or quarterstaff, you can use a bonus action to make a melee attack with the opposite end of the weapon. The weapon's damage die for this attack is a d4, and the attack deals bludgeoning damage.\n• While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.\n\nAnd now looks more closely at the wording of the opportunity attack rule.\n\nPage 195 of the Players handbook\nThe attack interrupts the provoking creature’s movement, occurring right before the creature leaves your reach.\n\nIf we edit the rule with polearm master in mind it would read as follows:\n\nThe attack interrupts the provoking creature’s movement, occurring right before the creature leaves or enters your reach.\n\nThe alternative is assuming that the rules are wrong and lots of errata is needed all over the place to \"fix it\".\n\nMost creatures have a 5-foot reach and can thus attack targets within 5 feet of them wh en making a melee attack. Certain creatures (typically those larger than Medium ) have melee attacks with a greater reach than 5 feet, as noted in their descriptions.\n\nOf course, if your table decides to play things out differently, you may do so, but be consistent if you do.\n\nAll that being said, in the end, the intention of the rules is that an Opportunity Attack is an attack and so the reach property applies to the conditions that allow you to attack as well. As can be seen from this conversation on Twitter:\n\n@JeremyECrawford Why distance discrepency OA provoke base on weapon? You said earlier reach weapon dont increase if not attacking? #Confuse\n\n@Plaguescarred Yes, OA (an attack) is based on your reach with the weapon you're using.\n\nFor creatures, you will see that different attacks have different reaches, and so an Ancient Red Dragon for example will have one reach domain for it's claws and another for it's bite, giving it a greater \"threat area\".\n\n@maplealmond none - only if you move away, dragon picks which one to use. claws make most sense.\n\nThe question seems to be,\n\n1: Can I opportunity attack things when they go from 10 to 15 feet?\n\nAnd the answer is yes. The errata say so.\n\n\"This property also determines your reach for opportunity attacks with a reach weapon.\"\n\n2: Can I still make an attack when something goes from 5 feet to 10 feet?\n\nThe general consensus is no. Because your reach is now 10 feet, and opportunity attacks only trigger,\n\n\"... when a Hostile creature that you can see moves out of your reach.\"\n\nOpen and shut, right? No, and I'm about to grognard so hard.\n\nYou have more than one reach.\n\n\"Instead of using a weapon to make a melee weapon Attack, you can use an Unarmed Strike: a punch, kick, head--butt, or similar forceful blow.\"\n\nYour unarmed strikes are not reach weapons, and you don't need a free hand to have the option.\n\nOpportunity attacks can be made by any melee weapon attack.\n\n\"To make the opportunity Attack, you use your Reaction to make one melee Attack against the provoking creature.\"\n\nI guess the new question, sense I craked this open, is, if you're a polearm master, do they provoke going from 10 to 5 feet?\n\n\"While wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.\"\n\nI am wielding a polearm. They did enter my reach. As a DM, I'd say no, though I have no real leg to stand on, other than feel.\n\nIt's pretty simple at my table.\n\nScenario: You have a reach weapon and it's your opponent's turn. At what point do you get the Opportunity Attack?\n\nAnswer: When the opponent leaves your threatened area.\n\nProblem: You threaten at two levels, 5' away (1 square) and 10' away (2 squares). So, we count both levels separately, but we don't count going further into your reach as provoking. Thankfully you only have one reaction.\n\nExample 1: If an enemy enters your 10' reach and stays 10' away from you, then when they leave your 10' reach by walking away without using disengage, it provokes an opportunity attack.\n\nExample 2: If an enemy enters your 10' reach, and then enters your 5' reach, they don't provoke an opportunity attack as they are going further into the battle.\n\nExample 3: If an enemy has entered your 5' reach and then leave to your 10' they provoke an opportunity attack.\n\nI houseruled that this is actually your reach rather than 5' it adds a huge protective element to using a polearm that I think is generally lacking.\n\nMany RAW (rules as written) seem to weaken reach weapons. They already deal less damage than most 2-handed weapons. They're heavy so cause disadvantage for small characters. You can't use a shield with them unless you're mounted with a lance. So, most abilities that say 5' I changed to within your reach as a house rule. Honestly, it almost never comes up in my games, but it's something I want.\n\nI rule personally that if a creature moves from inside your square to outside moving through your space as difficult terrain that you provoke an OA, on this basis and other evidence i rule that 10' to 5' is also leaving a reach and entering another so it also trigger an AO. but moving without changing reaches\n\nSo lets look at a polearm. Perhaps it's the same. I know I can attack at 5 feet with halberd. But I also have reach of 5 (threatening 10). So if you leave my area...EITHER at 10 feet or at 5 feet, I should get an opportunity attack. You only get one reaction (right?) so it doesn't matter if you go through both distances in one move (still just one OA).\n\nUntitled image by GMNoob is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0\n\nNot the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged dnd-5e weapons opportunity-attack reach .\n\n51\nWhen are Opportunity Attacks provoked while holding a reach and a non-reach weapon?\n11\nWar Caster, a whip and a dagger, and provoking Opportunity Attacks\n11\nWhich is likely to provide more chances to opportunity attack, Polearm Master or Sentinel (with War Caster)?\n5\nIs a creature's reach linked to the reach of its attacks?\n5\nDoes reach apply to non-attack triggers?\n5\nHelp me optimize a controller-warlock that doesn't just spam Eldritch Blast\n6\nDo you get an Opportunity Attack with an unarmed strike at 5ft. when holding a 2-handed reach weapon?\n4\nHow do opportunity attacks work when wielding weapons with different reach?" ]

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[ null, "AMD Ryzen CPUs have been the talk of the town from the day they hit the market. And if you are among people who got a hand on the latest Ryzen processors, then lucky you because you are about to take your gaming experience a step further.\n\nThis chipset doesn’t only offer PCIe Gen 4.0, but it also has some fantastic features that will improve your gaming experience. While there is a wide range of options out there, we today brought you the best budget B550 motherboards.\n\nDespite its affordable price tag, the MSI MAG B550M Bazooka has always been a solid option, especially when considering its high-quality VRM. In fact, it shares the same VRM configuration as B450 Tomahawk. And if you are not familiar with the Tomahawk, it’s simply one of the best B450 boards ever released.\n\nWith its VRM configuration of 6-phase | OnSemi 4C029/4C024, the MAG B550M Bazooka can handle all Ryzen CPUs without any issues. Besides, it has a large heatsink that helps keep the VRM under low temperatures.\n\nThe overall design of the MAG B550M Bazooka is eye-appealing. Its black & white color makes it an excellent option for users to improve their rig aesthetics and performance. In addition to that, it is equipped with stylish heatsinks on the VRM, M.2 slot, and chipset.\n\nAlso, one thing that is great with the MAG B550M Bazooka is that it comes with dual M.2 slots that, even when they are both occupied, the bottom x4 PCIe slot will still be usable.\n\nUnfortunately, better quality heatsinks come at a cost. Unlike the MSI B550M PRO-VDH, the MAG B550M Bazooka is not equipped with built-in Wi-Fi, which we consider a downside since both of these motherboards have the same price range.\n\nWhen looking to spend your money wisely, you should definitely include the ASRock B550M PRO4 on your list, as it represents a great value for money. It has a wide range of feature-set paired with high-quality VRM, ready to handle the most powerful Ryzen CPU.\n\nEven without a discount, the ASRock B550M PRO4 remains a solid value option. It’s equipped with some fantastic features that will be more than enough for most average users.\n\nFurthermore, for those who like tweaking the BIOS settings, the ASRock B550M PRO4 does highlight a user-friendly BIOS interface. Therefore, whether you would like to overclock your system or increase/decrease the fan speed, you shouldn’t face any issues.\n\nUnlike MSI MAG B550M Bazooka, the ASRock B550M PRO4 doesn’t offer any automatic overclocking option for your CPU. Therefore, the only way to get extra free performance out of your processor is by doing the overclocking process manually.\n\nHaving amazing features such as Wi-Fi, quality VRM, double M.2 slots at an affordable price is not common. But thanks to MSI, the B550M PRO-VDH will allow every budget user to enjoy a great experience without breaking the bank.\n\nThe MSI B550M PRO-VDH is equipped with similar features as the Bazooka mentioned above, along with an eye-appealing full black color.\n\nIn addition to that, it comes with both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, making it an unbeatable budget option.\n\nThe MSI B550M PRO-VDH supports the same VRM as the MSI MAG B550M Bazooka, along with a medium-sized heatsink. The heatsink is indeed smaller than the Bazooka’s one, yet, it managed to handle the Ryzen 9 3950X without any problem.\n\nAnother exciting feature of the MSI B550M PRO-VDH is the fact that it allows you to flash the BIOS without the need for a CPU. This feature will be beneficial for users that don’t own an old Ryzen processor.\n\nLikewise, flashing BIOS shouldn’t be your primary concern as it’s compatible with AMD Ryzen 5000 CPUs right out of the box.\n\nThe low-profile heatsink on MSI B550M PRO-VDH makes its VRM slightly warmer than the Bazooka variant. However, the difference is insignificant.\n\nThe Gigabyte B550M DS3H is by far the most affordable yet high-quality B550 motherboard on this list, and If your bank account is your primary concern, we believe we have the perfect solution.\n\nWith the DS3H, you will not only enjoy some great features, but you will also be able to take every juice of performance out of your CPU without worrying about leaving your wallet emptier.\n\nThe GIGABYTE B550M DS3H comes with 4 DIMM slots supporting up to 3600 MHz and dual PCIe x16 slots. Even though Crossfire/SLI isn’t ubiquitous nowadays, it’s still good to have it.\n\nThe heatsink on the VRM does a great job by keeping both VRM and MOSFETs under good temps. It’s indeed a little small, yet, it does the job pretty much well.\n\nBesides, the GIGABYTE B550M DS3H comes with dual M.2 NVMe slots, perfect for those who have lightning-speed storage.\n\nWe highly recommend the GIGABYTE B550M DS3H for users that aren’t looking for premium features. This motherboard will be more than adequate for most average PC builders allowing you to invest the extra cash into another critical component such as a graphics card.\n\nStarting with the VRM’s heatsink; it’s relatively small. It indeed maintains the VRM under good temperature even with Ryzen 9 3950X CPU, yet you can expect a higher VRM temperature when compared to other motherboards mentioned above.\n\nAlso, unlike the MSI B550M PRO-VDH where it features a similar price point, none of the M.2 slots on the GIGABYTE B550M DS3H is equipped with a heatsink.\n\nIf you are looking for a good B550 motherboard for your Small Form Factor build, don’t worry, we got you covered. With the ASRock B550M, you will have the option to have a great motherboard stuffed with outstanding features, and on top of that, it will fit into your tiny chassis.\n\nUsually, Mini ITX motherboards mean sacrificing features in exchange for compact design. However, with the ASRock B550M-ITX, things have changed. With this motherboard, gamers will have the ability to enjoy premium features packed into a Mini ITX board. These features include M.2 slot with a large and thick heatsink, VRM heatsink, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, and much more.\n\nMoreover, the ASRock B550M-ITX features dual DIMM slots that support up to 4733+ MHz memory speed. To achieve such high speed, you will have to OC your RAM modules. But thanks to its user-friendly BIOS interface, overclocking your RAM will be straightforward.\n\nDespite its small form factor, the ASRock B550M-ITX offers enough room around the CPU, allowing you to use mid-sized CPU coolers without any clearance issues.\n\nWith the ASRock B550M-ITX, we found out that the VRM was running slightly warm due to the heatsink not being very effective. It indeed helped reduced the overall temperature, yet we felt like the heatsink could have been better given the price of this motherboard.\n\nRegardless of which motherboard you choose, you should be confident that it will handle your Ryzen CPU with ease. And if you are on a journey where you want to get quality PC components at a budget-friendly price, we recommend visiting our recent review regarding SSD under $50.\n\nWe hope that we can help you protect your wallet from getting emptier. If you decide to purchase one of the motherboards mentioned above, please let us know your experience with it in the comment section below." ]

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[ "Players scramble to come up with the ball during the Jayhawks game against Oklahoma. Kansas lost the contest on the road January 23, 2010.", null, "Oklahoma blitzed the Jayhawks late in the first half on the way to an 81-69 victory Saturday afternoon at the Noble Center.\n\nIt was KU’s 17th loss in its last 18 league road contests over the last three seasons and the Jayhawks’ fifth defeat in their last six games.\n\nFor the second game in a row, Kansas senior standout Danielle McCray was ice-cold. After scoring just six points in Wednesday’s loss at Iowa State, the 5-foot-11 senior managed only seven points Saturday before fouling out with 4:18 remaining.\n\nIn those two sub-par contests, the Big 12’s second-leading scorer missed 18 of 23 shots, including all nine of her attempts from three-point range.\n\n“The bottom line is, if you can’t make a shot, I still need you to rebound and guard,” KU coach Bonnie Henrickson said of McCray, “and she wasn’t guarding.”\n\nAt the same time, Henrickson wasn’t overjoyed with the Jayhawks’ overall performance.\n\nKansas started quickly, bolting to a 16-6 lead before self-destructing. OU guard Nyeshia Stevenson scored 21 of her 22 points during an eight-minute first-half stretch as the Sooners went on a 31-8 run to post a 37-24 lead at the break.\n\nIn the second half, KU outscored OU, 45-44, but never could close the gap to single digits.\n\nIn losing, the Jayhawks may have found a point guard to replace injured Angel Goodrich, who will undergo knee surgery Monday. Sade Morris, playing in her hometown, scored 15 of her team-high 17 points in the second half while operating almost exclusively at the point.\n\nKansas (11-7, 1-4) will entertain Colorado on Wednesday night before hitting the road again for a Saturday date at Missouri.\n\n• KU senior forward Porscha Weddington made her season debut, scoring three points and grabbing two boards in four minutes of work. Weddington was out with mono.\n\n• OU’s 81 points are the most the Jayhawks have surrendered in a game this season.\n\nTough question is whether the team is giving up on the coach?\n\nHave patience, this team is better than last year, and way better than 5 years ago. With 7 top 25 teams in this conference, it is tuff to break into the top half. There are not nearly as many top women's players as men, and most are hoarded by UConn, Tenn, Stanford, Duke, UNC, top of Big 12, and top of Big 10. There is no parity in women's basketball and the rich get richer.\n\nIt isn't over. It's not even half way through conference. Plenty of time to regroup and make a run at the post season.\n\nYeah, right....in other news, the men's team is making a run for 5 straight conference crowns. Let's get our priorities straight. Nothing to see here.\n\nOkjhok, the Men's team is going for their 6th straight.\n\nPlus or minus five big twelve wins? Lynette Woodard campaign meeting following the Colorado loss at home. Good thing we can use the Lynette posters from the Mizzou game for our campaign.\n\nI would love to see Woodard coaching on the sidelines as the head coach or an assistant coach, or involved in the women's program in any capacity.\n\nAt a game the only chants we should be chanting are chants of support and encouragement for the current lady Jayhawks.\n\nIt's difficult enough as it is winning games in the big 12 without people turning Allen into a hostile environment for the home team." ]

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[ "I've searched around here and found a couple of things to try but none of the other questions matches exactly what is happening with my IIS and application setup.\n\nFirst, some background. A client of my company's wanted an internal application of theirs re-written bits at a time. I came into the project with no control over the initial IIS setup and there appear to be some funky things that aren't working correctly, but I'll get to that. The first bit is a custom label application that writes a file to a file share to be printed. In order to maintain parts of the legacy app that were needed, I created a separate site in IIS and moved all of the legacy label application code there. I also create a new sub-application under their default website. So the structure looks something like:\n\nThe sub-application for the new labels can write to the file share without any problems, but the legacy site is getting Access Denied. This is the exact same code base and the only difference between the two is the app pool that is being used. I want to maintain these app pools separately, but currently they are set up identically. So this leads me to believe that something was set up in IIS prior to me getting involved where the ASP.NET v4.0 app pool identity somehow magically has access to the file share whereas the newly created Labels account does not.\n\nThe fileshare is open to the Everyone group so there shouldn't be any issues from the domain level, but from what I understand these IIS accounts that get generated are part of the virtual IIS AppPool domain anyways. So, how is it possible that one app pool identity has access and one does not? What are some steps I can take in the troubleshooting process?\n\nThis is just another manifestation of the IIS bug that I wrote about in this answer. You will find that a reboot fixes it. A hotfix is available.\n\nThe different behavior of your two sites can only be due to the two different application pool identities that they are running under. You didn't clearly mention the identities of the working and non-working pools. \"Labels\" is the name of the application pool. Check pool properties to see what identity it runs under and compare it to the identity of the legacy pool.", null, "This bug has caused our production sites to go down on multiple occasions, with customer impacts. So I don't consider this IIS 7.5 patch optional - as Microsoft appears to be implying for the past 4 years by refusing to address this issue via the standard update channel. Forcing customers to \"discover\" this bug with production downtime is outrageous.\n\nNot the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged iis asp.net application-pools or ask your own question." ]

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[ "14 food and drink brands that are supporting Pride Month 2021\n\nPride Month 2021 officially starts today (June 1). Originally held to commemorate the 1968 Stonewall Riots, the protest has grown into one of the largest collective celebrations of LGBTQ+ culture on Earth.\n\nOver the years, Pride Month Marches have attracted significant support from across the world of business. The food industry is no exception.", null, "As part of their corporate package, the organisers of Pride list and categorise all the companies that pledge support to the movement.\n\nThe inclusion of corporate sponsorship remains an extremely contentious issue, however, Pride organisers see it as instrumental to spreading the message and attracting wider support.\n\nAs preparations start to intensify throughout join, here are a selection of the corporate sponsors from the food and drink industry who are pledging their support in 2021.", null, "Headline sponsors at various Pride Month events enjoy the most significant corporate benefits. According to the Pride in London partnerships information pack, these can include the option to appear on stage as well as the most prestigious spot in the parade.\n\nIn addition, all headline sponsors gain all the benefits of the other packages put together. For a significant investment, these companies guarantee themselves pride of place.\n\nHeadline sponsors at Pride 2021 events include:", null, "Diet Coke has been a Pride sponsor in previous years (Credit: Alamy/Richard Levine)\n\nOnly available as part of the New York celebrations, the Platinum level of sponsorship still represents a significant investment.\n\nJust one rung down from the Official (Headline) sponsor, these brands have also given a significant amount of money to the parade.\n\nPlatinum sponsors in New York include:", null, "For instance, sponsors not only enjoy \"Premium Parade placement\" but are also included in all written marketing material. As is the case with all sponsorship levels, benefits are cumulative.\n\nThis year's Gold Pride sponsors from food and drink include:", null, "Skyy Vodka has been a sponsor on several occasions (Credit: Alamy/Sipa US)\n\nFor their level of sponsorship, Silver members enjoy several significant benefits. Not only do they get extra space in the parade (as well as their logo placed in Trafalgar Square for London Pride), but they also receive tickets to the exclusive Gala Dinner.\n\nSilver sponsors from some of this year's events include:", null, "Pride sponsors differ at the various events around the world (Credit: Alamy/Guy Corbishley)\n\nDespite being the second-lowest level of corporate affiliateship, Bronze members still get some great benefits.\n\nAccording to the London pride information pack, the deal grants lampost branding and a larger group at the Parade. In addition, their branding will appear at all stage and arena entrances.\n\nFood and drink Pride Bronze sponsors for 2021 include:", null, "Some of this year's Pride Month Parades will be changed because of COVID (Credit: Alamy/Michalis Palis)\n\nThe basic level of corporate sponsorship, Pride Partnerships start at £20,000 for the London parade. However, for this investment, companies enjoy Parade space, use of logo, a feature on the website and app, hospitality on the day and a dedicated social media post.\n\nPartners from the 2021 London Pride Parade include:\n\nAlthough the level of their support varies, each of these brands is backing Pride in 2021.\n\nMaking ethical decisions with your dinner isn't always easy. However, if you're looking to buy from brands with a positive and progressive stance on LGBTQ+ rights, this list isn't a bad place to start." ]

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[ null, "Displacement, Dispossession, New Beginning:\nan exhibition on family businesses in eastern Germany from 1945 to today\n\nTo mark the 30th anniversary of German reunification, a new exhibition sheds light on the eventful history of family businesses in eastern Germany. First on display at the House of Family Businesses in Berlin, the exhibition is currently on tour. For more information click here. The exhibition is also available for virtual viewing online.\n\nThe exhibition is based on two studies which provide a comprehensive examination of the history and importance of family businesses in the states of the former East Germany. The study on industrial family businesses in eastern Germany, \"Industrielle Familienunternehmen in Ostdeutschland\" looks at developments in eastern Germany from the imperial period to Socialism and then on to today. The study on the development of family businesses in the new federal states, \"Die Entwicklung der Familienunternehmen in den neuen Bundesländern\" analyses their economic importance in the new states today.\n\nTo the virtual exhibition (German only)\n\nThe Second World War and socialism in the GDR inflicted lasting damage on the economy and corporate landscape in eastern Germany. Many companies were lost because businesses moved from East to West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany), while others were dispossessed or discontinued their operations. This caused huge damage to the economy and to society.\n\nA study authored by historians Dr Rainer Karlsch of the Institute of Contemporary History (Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin, IfZ) and Dr Michael Schäfer of Dresden Technical University (TU Dresden) shows how a landscape once rich in strong family businesses was damaged by war, occupation and socialism – but became once again the driver of growth and employment after the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED) was overthrown.\n\nThe study also analyses the ominous dynamics of the GDR’s socialist planned economy, whose encroachments on business and private property became increasingly severe. To begin with, the SED took a thoroughly systematic approach to ensuring that entrepreneurs in the GDR were worse off, for example through high taxes (“capitalist rates”), which made better performance unprofitable – a phenomenon which the study refers to as a “tax war” on family businesses. The SED allocated the GDR’s scarce means of production primarily to state-run businesses.\n\nDispossession in the GDR's socialist system\n\nThe SED leadership dealt its final blow to the remaining small and medium-sized enterprises in 1972 when the Party decided to nationalise more than 11,800 businesses. Thereafter, entrepreneurial activity could continue only in the trades, the retail sector and hospitality. Between 1971 and 1989, the private economy's share of the GDR’s net product fell from 15 to 4 percent – a result considered politically desirable by the Party.\n\nMany entrepreneurs nevertheless demonstrated huge resilience even during the socialist era and the Cold War years. They were able to secure the continuation of their businesses over a prolonged period through commitment and creativity despite economic and political meddling by the GDR’s leadership. Many entrepreneurs continued to work in their own repossessed businesses as heads of what were now nationally owned enterprises.\n\nFollowing reunification, many business owners reconnected with their pre-socialist activities and revived their businesses. This is evidence of the unshakable trust eastern German family businesses had in their own abilities and of an exceptional will to assert themselves and shape their destinies, all passed on through several generations.", null, "Many family businesses are returning to their roots\n\nOnce the socialist era was over, a number of family businesses which relocated from East to West after the Second World War returned to the very places where they were established. They now have sites in the eastern German states; some even have relocated their head office to the new states in the East.\n\nThe motivations of those returning were rarely of an economic nature alone: emotional reasons and the determination to make a contribution to the rebuilding of the new German states and to society were just as important. A medium frequently chosen in the 1990s was privatisation via a management buy-out or buy-in, and Germans from East and West often came together with this goal in mind.\n\nThe corporate landscape of eastern Germany’s economy has changed considerably as a result of a large number of new businesses established following the rebuilding of the East. New cores of growth and clusters have been created primarily thanks to investments from family-led small and medium-sized enterprises. Examples of this can be found in all federal states in former East Germany.\n\nIn four short video clips, family business owners share their memories and experiences during the GDR era, the fall of the Berlin Wall and thereafter.\n\nAn evaluation of more than 4,500 businesses shows that eastern German family businesses once again occupy a strong position in many industries, numbering among Europe’s leaders when it comes to the production of glass, paper, foils and sweets. A recovery has also been achieved in the manufacture of musical instruments, clocks, toys and eyeglasses. The eastern German construction industry, too, has recorded a positive development. By contrast, large segments of mechanical engineering, consumer goods and electrical engineering/electronics have suffered losses.\n\nThe authors summarise their findings as follows: “All told, small and medium-sized enterprises have led the way in the gradual reindustrialisation of eastern Germany’s economy, which has had a positive effect on the development of the job market”. The German government also acknowledges this achievement in its Annual Report on the Status of German Unity.\n\n“40 years of socialism have left their traces. But the fact that 92 percent of all businesses in the states of former eastern Germany have returned into family hands is evidence of huge creative energy. They form part of our social and cultural DNA in all parts of Germany.”\nStefan Heidbreder,\nManaging Director of the Foundation for Family Businesses\n\nMore than 30 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, the overall picture is a rosy one: the vibrant landscape of family businesses is not the only thing eastern Germany possesses. Since the end of socialism, we have also seen the corporate landscape in the former eastern German states aligning itself to that of the western German states. A study commissioned by the Foundation for Family Businesses and conducted by ZEW provides a clear illustration of this point.\n\n92 percent of businesses in eastern Germany are family businesses – their percentage is thus higher than in the West (88 percent). The federal states with the highest percentages are Thuringia (93 percent), Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Rhineland-Palatinate and Brandenburg (92 percent each).", null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "On Monday morning we said a fond farewell to David and Liz and left Sydney via the harbour bridge, heading north on the Pacific Highway. We’re going to spend the next three weeks on, or just off this road so we’d better get used to it.\n\nWe had a break at The Entrance, a pretty little seaside town that has a resident flock of pelicans which congregate every day for a free feed. Karma put us there just at the right time.", null, "That night we were at the twin towns of Forster and Tuncurry overlooking Pebbly Beach.", null, "In the morning we had a lovely refreshing swim before setting off again. Tuesday was pretty much a driving day, but we got to Coffs Harbour with enough time for a walk along the creek and round the sea wall.", null, "There was an amazing variety of marine life in the harbour, we saw a big ray and a turtle swimming about. Then we watched as a thunder storm came howling across the harbour mouth, making the rigging scream and sandblasting us as we ran for shelter.\n\nIn the morning we walked round the beautiful botanical gardens", null, null, "before taking to the road again.\n\nWe meandered away from the main highway and zigzagged over the big Clarence River on two ferries and a very dodgy looking bridge.", null, "At Lawrence there was a lake beside the river with hundreds of spoonbills, egrets, ibis and herons in the trees.\n\nWe had lunch in Maclean; a Scottish town in the middle of eastern Australia. Every telegraph pole has a different tartan.\n\nWe had Wednesday night in Byron Bay. We walked up to the very famous and very well kept lighthouse,", null, "then had a swim before tea.\n\nOn Thursday morning we were back in the sea again, but out fairly rapidly when the bloke next to us got stung by a little blue jellyfish.\n\nOff we went on Highway 1 to Brisbane. We stopped in the city for a walk along the river boardwalk.", null, "It was very hot and these little guys were out all over the place.", null, "When we got back to the van it was 50˚ inside. Thank God for air-con!\n\nThrough Brisbane and heading north again we stopped at Noosa Heads for the night, did a wash load in the laundrette, had a lovely evening stroll through the little national park on the Noosa headland", null, "and did a bit of Ty Cheat at dolphin point. Never saw no dolphins though.\n\nWe are barely scratching the surface of Oz. We’re doing the equivalent of the length of the UK every three days and stopping six times. We make no apologies; It was always going to be a compromise, but when we go home we will at least know what goes where and what the thin green strip down the right hand side, the red bit in the middle and the top edge feel like.\nat March 04, 2011\n\nWhat a fantastic trip! Enjoy yourselves. Loving the blog\n\n(in the drizzle, but at least the daffodils are starting to come out)" ]

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[ null, "The initiative of Kyiv residents, who placed a petition on the city council’s website for the transfer of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to the Kyiv Patriarchate’s jurisdiction, has virtually no chance of implementation", null, "The initiative of Kyiv residents, who placed a petition on the city council’s website for the transfer of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to the Kyiv Patriarchate’s jurisdiction, has virtually no chance of implementation. This opinion was expressed in the commentary by the head of the Information Department of the Kyiv Patriarchate, archbishop Yevstratii (Zorya), Obozrevatel reports.\n\n\"Speaking of the form, I think it is a kind of reaction to the position of the UOC Moscow Patriarchate on current political events. In particular, the activities of the notorious governor of Lavra, Metropolitan Pavlo. This also applies to his close relationships with representatives of the previous government,” he suggested.\n\nAt the same time, Archbishop is confident: it is impossible to fulfill the petition’s requirements. “Is it real to implement what it says? I have serious doubts. In the present circumstances the municipal or state governments are hardly willing to look for troubles with the Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.”\n\n“We see that in most cases the states concerning the Church trying to work for a particular denomination, and tries to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings,” he added.\n\nUOC (MP) also believes that the petition by Kyiv residents on the transfer of Lavra to another denomination is hopeless. Moreover, they call this initiative for collecting signatures anti-Ukrainian and the one that fuels inter-confessional controversy in the country.\n\nThis is stated in the comment by Chairman of the Synodal Information Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) Bishop Klyment (Vecherya), published on UNIAN religion.\n\n“Kyiv city government is not empowered to decide to which church should the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra should belong. There is some doubt as to who is behind the voices in this petition,” said Bishop Klyment.\n\nIn his view, such actions are beneficial for external forces interested in fuelling the civil conflict and destabilization in Ukraine.\n\n“A huge number of people, who visit daily the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra daily, have learnt with a deep sorrow the news that someone wanted to take away the sanctuary of the currently unique canonical Orthodox Church in Ukraine. An attempt is made again to smear the UOC that it supposedly takes position which is hostile towards Ukraine. In fact it is vice versa: anti-Ukrainian activities are carried out by those who are launching a petition and thus paving the way for inter-religious conflict in the country,” His Eminence Klyment said.\n\nAs it was previously reported, on December 8, a petition was placed on the city council website to transfer the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra from the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate to the UOC Kyiv-Patriarchate.\n\nIt noted that, given the anti-Ukrainian position of the majority of UOC (MP) clergymen, Kyivans asked to consider the possibility of collecting signatures of the Kyivan community to transfer the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to the jurisdiction of the UOC-Kyiv Patriarchate from UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate.\n\nThe e-petition for signature collection of Kyiv community on the transfer of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra from the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate to the UOC Kyiv-Patriarchate has received the vote required according to Decree No. 103/2006 of Kyiv City Council as of 08.10.2015 “On approval of the procedure for submission and review of electronic petitions” and was accepted for review under this Regulation.\n\nThus, the indicated petition received 10,354 signatures, the minimum required being 10,000.\n\nThe text of the petition on the transfer of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra to the jurisdiction of the UOC-Kyiv Patriarchate from UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate (Author: Oleksiy Kononenko).\n\nThe petition text can be found here: https://petition.kievcity.gov.ua/petition/?pid=1253\n\nTags: #Yevstratiy (Zorya) #Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra #Klyment (Vecheria)\nSubscribe to our social networks\nComments\nRead about\nWorld news\nThe Archbishop of Athens tested positive for COVID-19\nYesterday, 21:35\nCommunity\nThe spokesman of the Polish Bishops' Conference refutes TASS reports about the takeover of the Archdiocese of Lviv\n24 June, 16:10\nState\nCouncil of Churches: the Istanbul Convention was ratified in a rush without the public discussion promised\n24 June, 13:45\nUkraine and world\nChurch of England: territorial integrity of Ukraine is indisputable\n24 June, 11:23" ]

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[ null, "It was blood and mayhem in the Sagamu area of Ogun State, where armed policemen alledgedly shot tear gas and live rounds of amunition into a crowd of protesters in a bid to disperse them, leaving three feared dead.\n\nThe Guild gathered that the crowd, which was made up of mostly youths, had taken to streets in protest against the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), asking that alleged cases of extra judicial killings, abuse of power, robbery, torture and flagrant disregard for human rights be investigated, and that offending officers to be prosecuted to full extent of law.\n\nEye witnesses narrated that some of the protesters had gotten restive and began destroying properties as the protest went on, and that the men of the Nigerian Police Force, Ogun State Command, had shown up to disperse the crowd.\n\nSeveral of the protesters sustained varying degrees of injuries, with some, who were alledgedly shot by responding policemen, dead.\n\nThe Guild gathered that the protest was likely in reaction to recent demise of Remo Stars Foot Club’s Assistant Captain,Tiamiyu Kazeem AKA Kaka, who had alledgedly died due to being pushed out of a moving vehicle by SARS operatives.\n\nKaka’s sudden death, which had been described as unfortunate by the Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, seemed to have sparked sentiments amongst fellow players and supporters, and is suspected to have been catalyst behind the protest.\n\nAbiodun, eulogised the late player as a young man with great potential for State development, and strongly stated that his government would never take with levity, the lives and property of citizens and residents of Ogun State.\n\nThe governor stated that proper, transparent and independent investigation would be launched into Kaka’s death, and gave assurance that the guilty officers would be apprehended and brought to justice.\n\nHe urged citizens and residents of the State to maintain peace and calm during investigations, adding that no one should take laws into their hands as his government was responsive, and would not tolerate any breach of peace." ]

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[ null, "But their community impact goes much further. Together, and separately, they volunteer countless hours of their time to the Symphony staff, musicians, patrons and area schoolchildren, as well as their church, and local service club. At their church, Sue and Walt have been founding members of the Pairs and Spares Sunday School Class for 48 years, acted as counselors for the youth choirs, led and participated in multiple Bible studies, provided leadership to the older adult ministry, ushered, painted, and more.\n\n“When I first moved to town, Walt was the President of the Augusta Rotary as I joined. He was an exemplary Rotary President, welcoming me in every way possible. It was easy to see his genuine appreciation for and embodiment of Rotary’s motto, Service Above Self, as well as for the community of civic neighbors that Rotary offered. More recently he has helped Episcopal Day School as the “face” of our school in the front office each morning. In addition to being the epitome of customer service, he brings great good cheer, fun, and affection to everyone who crosses our threshold.”\n\nAdditionally, Walt has been a Rotarian in Augusta since 1991, acting as its President in 2003-2004, and is a Rotary Club Paul Harris Fellow. And, Walt received the University of Georgia System’s Chancellor’s Customer Service Champion of the Year Award in 2009.\n\nSue has tutored or provided some level of learning support for hundreds of children in the CSRA. In addition, Sue is a retired educator from Episcopal Day School, where she spent 47 years as a second-grade teacher, substitute, tester, and tutor – still tutoring children whenever asked. Additionally, Sue received the Volunteer of the Year Award from both Leadership Augusta and the Greater Augusta Arts Council, and Sue was chosen as a Woman of Excellence in the Arts by the Girl Scouts. Sue is also a Rotary Club Paul Harris Fellow.\n\nThey have both been active at Trinity on the Hill UMC as founding members for 48 years of the Pairs and Spares Sunday School Class. Walt has served the class as President, Treasurer, and Program Chair. At Trinity, Sue served as the Chairman of the White Elephant Sale for Missions for many years. Walt has held positions as Treasurer, Finance Chair, and Chair of Pastor Parish Relations. Sue and Walt have been active in the Summerville Neighborhood Association, Walt as President, Sue as Secretary and Tour of Homes chair three times.\n\nSue and Walt have not only impacted the lives of those they serve, they have set a perfect example of servant leadership for the volunteers they recruit and the people they lead. Their work ethic and joyous but silent donation of thousands of hours of time to this community is exemplary. One nominator said,\n\n“Although humble, quiet, unassuming, and uninterested in recognition, they are both, separately and together, a powerful and consistent presence of generosity, grace, and light in our world.”\n\nStay tuned to learn more about the award, the event honoring the Alexandersons in February, and how you may nominate couples for future awards." ]

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[ null, "From the deserts of North Africa, to the waters of Scotland, the Second World War touches the lives of two women from two very different worlds. In Alexandria, Fran finds her world turned upside down as Rommel’s forces advance on the idyllic shores of Egypt. The life of luxury and stability that she is used to is taken away as she finds herself having to deal with loss, heartache and political uncertainty. Meanwhile, in the Firth of Clyde, Catriona works day in, day out nursing injured servicemen. Both have their lives challenged, and both dream of a more certain future with the men they come to love. Their heart-warming story takes them through tragedy to a quiet, hopeful triumph. Tapestry of War is a sweeping, evocative novel which brilliantly captures the second world war period of colonial Alexandria and the west of Scotland and will appeal to readers of Dinah Jeffries, Victoria Hislop and Rosie Thomas.", null, "Tapestry of War is a compelling story of people from different continents, cultures, backgrounds brought together by one denominating factor: war. War wherever it was scarring the landscape is the same all over the world. It affected people all the same whatever background they came from. Lives, livelihoods, hearts, minds and bodies were shattered. Tapestry of War is a story of two women; Fran and Catriona, living thousands of miles apart from very different backgrounds and worlds, are united in friendship, in a shared love and a comradeship for the love of a man that has felt the scars of the war the most.\n\nI haven’t read much about this side of WWII, the conflict in Egypt with Rommel advancing. The story also takes us to the most northern isles of Scotland with their own part in the WWII efforts with medical facilities for the wounded and also ports for the carriers of troops.\n\nFran was a journalist for a paper in Alexandria, she was limited to what she could report with a fear of political backlash. Alexandria was full of foreign troops and Fran soon built up a friendship with many, in particular a shy Scotsman serving in the Navy Jim MacNeill.\n\nCatriona thousands of miles away in Scotland had just finished her nursing qualification and was keen to help with the war wounded. Her father was struggling with grief of his wife and now with his son in the Navy, goodness knows where, he wasn’t keen on his daughter working on the front line. Catriona felt like she had to make a compromise with her father as she was so keen to be involved with the war help.\n\nWith war came great hardship, fear, anguish and many casualties. Casualties that would alter the lives of many.\n\nJane MacKenzie took us to the heat of Alexandria, Egypt to the British people that were living in quite a privileged lifestyle before the war and she then took us to a small community in Scotland with very differing lifestyles to the British occupancy in Egypt. These two communities were very different and the impact of the war on food and livelihoods was felt the keenest in Scotland but the emotional impact was very much the same.\n\nA fascinating, compelling, beautiful and real story, full of hope for a new life, peace and love." ]

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[ null, "On CNN Friday, Dr. Sanjay Gupta warned that the White House's safeguards to protect President Donald Trump from COVID-19 infection are not \"sustainable.\"\n\n\"So now, to this point that you mentioned about the president being negative, and he did mention again that he had another test and he got the results in what, 13 minutes or something like that. And the White House now says tonight that they're going to be giving those same rapid tests to anybody who is going to be coming in close contact with the president or Vice President Pence, that their reasoning is that they want to evaluate for presymptomatic or asymptomatic carriers to limit inadvertent transmission,\" said anchor Erin Burnett. \"I mean, it seems like this makes sense, but what's your take on that?\"\n\n\"You know, it's really interesting,\" said Gupta. \"You may remember some time ago, Erin, the president before he made that trip to the CDC, it was scheduled and they took it off his schedule, and the reason they took it off his schedule at that time was because somebody at the CDC had tested positive, and I remember thinking at that point, I think we even discussed that night, that is this going to become a thing? Is this going to become a thing where everyone around him is going to be need to be tested and proven to be negative before interacting with the president? And it seemed a little far-fetched at that time. They'd take a while to get back.\"\n\n\"You know, I don't know that this is a sustainable sort of strategy,\" said Gupta. \"You do have surfaces that people touch. I noticed him with his hands on the lectern several times during the comments he just made. Other people came up put their hands on the lectern. There's all these different ways that people could potentially spread the virus and, you know, it's a difficult thing to say, by testing every single person, I'm going to guarantee that I will never get the infection. I'm not sure. They can say that and how sustainable it will be in a week or two or three weeks from now.\"" ]

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[ "CASA-Cuba Program on the Today Show, WPRO Radio, and the Atlantic", null, "Brown's CASA-Cuba Program in the News\n\nNBC News' Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Andrea Mitchell, interviewed Brown University students enrolled in the CASA-Cuba program in Havana. In the interview, which was aired on The Today Show, students expressed excitement and curiosity as they witness an undeniable historic moment in time now that U.S. and Cuban diplomats gather to discuss the normalization of relations between the two nations.\nWatch the interview: CASA Cuba Program on the Today Show.\n\nWPRO Radio's Gene Valicenti in Providence interviews recent Brown University graduate and CASA-Cuba Program Assistant, Juliana Unanue Banuchi, while in Cuba. The interview goes over the CASA-Cuba consortium, formerly the Brown-in-Cuba program, and the buzz in and around Havana on developing relations between the United States and Cuba.\nListen to the interview: CASA Cuba Program on WPRO Radio Providence.\n\nCASA's Divisional Program in Cuba (CASA-Cuba) provides students with a unique opportunity to have direct access to Cuba’s leading institution of higher learning, the University of Havana, and to Casa de Las Américas, the Cuban government’s premier research institution – since its founding in 1959 – on Caribbean and Latin American studies, Cuban culture and the arts. For more information visit the Office of International Program's CASA-Cuba Program.\n\nThe Atlantic interviews, Associate Provost for Global Engagement, Sonia Feigenbaum, at Brown University on the benefit of study abroad programs, specifically CASA – Cuba program. Dr. Feigenbaum stated, \"For us to have an informed citizenry in the U.S., for us to be open to multiple cultures, multiple languages, multiple ways of living in the world—whether it’s Cuba or Mongolia or the United Kingdom—students will always benefit from on-the-ground opportunities to live side-by-side with people of another country.\" Read the article: Havana Good Time in College\n\nBrown has offered students the opportunity to study in Cuba since 2008 but, starting this semester, it’s ramped up exchange opportunities through a seven-member consortium that includes Ivy-League universities such as Columbia and Cornell, as well as Johns Hopkins and Northwestern." ]

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[ "Empathy for the Policeman Who Shot Blake\n\nHim: What’s going on in California? Should we be blaming Trump for this, or are there regional considerations that need to be taken into account? I know many states have problems, but California always seems to be a paradise, doesn’t it?\n\nJP: I didn’t blame trump, though I blame police culture in the US. You just wouldn’t get this in the UK.\n\nHim: I was reading a report about low police pay and poor training in the US. However, whilst in Alabama the average pay for a policeman is a shockingly low $46,000, in California it’s $105,000. Still, it’s a dreadful job to have to do. I don’t think I’d have acted differently to the officer who shot Blake. If every opened door suggests a concealed firearm, how far do you let things drift while you ascertain if your life is in immediate danger?\n\nThe media is far less interested in these all-too-common stories:\nhttps://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/31/us/st-louis-police-officer-dies/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2GRfkwGNFDwbs-kBSJTJnopFmMwyWIBofRziFOCLQClTo782jcOWEldW0\n\nJP: Have you seen the footage? You would have shot an unarmed man seven times in the back at point-blank range?\n\nHim: Of course I saw the footage. That’s what I’m saying. I would have anticipated the gun in the car. I’d have been inclined to fire for fear of my life. That may make me a bad US cop, but one that might hope not to get shot. What would you have done?\n\nJP: Oh dear. That’s awful. First of all, it’s illegal for the policeman to have done that. Second of all, that’s a pretty terrible admission. Seven times at point-blank in the back.", null, null, "In fact, these are all worth reading: https://www.upworthy.com/former-police-officers-weigh-in-on-jacob-blake-shooting?fbclid=IwAR10no8_h8jBA3GA6EnQUKwEFbNwt-0i1YHoxGCfs-RadHnV3sa1rifYffU\n\nHim: This is all true, and I don’t pretend to be a suitable candidate for Kenosha’s finest. However, I understand why he did what he did and I think, given the circumstances, perhaps given my lack of training, I’d have done the same. I would have regretted it as well. But you can either seek to empathise with him, or you can just condemn him. If you condemn him then the only explanation left on the field is evil. Evil was certainly at play that day, but invoking it as a motive will only get you so far. You have to understand him and that requires that you love him, that you walk with him in his journey and project your own being into his place. I understand what he did, and what Blake did, because I have walked their steps. I don’t think that’s an awful thing to admit. To understand all is to forgive all.\n\nJP: Well, he did what he did because he is who he is in the situation he was in. Was it good? No. Did it not reach expectations (and even legal requirements)? No. Should he have been trained better? Yes. I can empathise with Hitler, where empathy is understanding why he did what he did in the situation he was in. But I don’t condone his behaviour and I doubt and hope I wouldn’t have done the same in the same situation.\n\nHim: What is far far far more interesting is who you seem to more often want to empathise with. You would rather empathise with a policeman committing murder than a BLM activist or even a protestor. This is interesting.\n\nBack to my commentary.\n\nThe reason I pasted this conversation here is, and this happens on both sides for sure, the propensity to have empathy and sympathy for a particular side. Here, my interlocutor is prepared to seek to understand the policeman who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back from point-blank range, a man who was unarmed and walking away. And yet, in other conversations, was nothing but damning about BLM protestors, happy enough to conflate protesting and looting, to drink in the narrative from FOX and The Daily Mail and to regurgitate it.\n\nThis should be a case of empathy for all, or empathy for none. Don’t cherry-pick understanding the causal influences on only one side of the coin.\n\nDo you prefer to have sympathy for a cop, surrounded by colleagues, following an unarmed black man around a car, and shooting him seven times in the back at point-blank because he admitted having a knife somewhere? Or do you have sympathy for an unarmed black man, surrounded by police and his young family, walking round his car and opening the door? Part of the problem is that we don’t know the motivations for this guy’s actions, and uncertainty never plays out well.\n\nWe see this with Trump’s defence of Kyle Rittenhouse, showing empathy for the white 17-year-old shooter because he was “defending himself”. Well, to be very charitable, at the very least, people were hassling him because he had just shot someone in the head! Of course, Trump has a pathological lack of empathy, so it’s never going to end well with that one.\n\nAs someone who, philosophically speaking, denies libertarian free will, these sorts of events are difficult to navigate. The longer I think about these things, the more I understand PF Strawson’s advocacy for compatibilism and reactive attitudes: that free will does not exist but because we cannot realistically divorce ourselves from our reactive attitudes, we might as well act as though it does. Our propensity to blame and praise others is hard-wired psychologically and the job of offloading such attitudes is just too tricky.\n\nin a perfect world, I would have no anger due to my views on free will; I would have a distanced view, lacking in emotive response, to such events. But, alas, I am human and have been brought up in a society where the culture of blame and praise, of seeing every human action in terms of free will, is front and centre.\n\nThe key to this particular case is an apparently severe lack of training such that guns come out as the first port of call. This will keep happening as long as there is a prevalence of this kind of gun culture.\n\nSeptember 4, 2020 Trump – God’s Punishment?\nRecent Comments\n0 | Leave a Comment\n\"It's true. But comparing them to the Bolsheviks just irritates them that much more, and ...\"\n(((J_Enigma32))) Ginsburg. 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[ null, "The integration of multiple radios and other communications systems on a single platform or in a congested environment causes Radio Frequency (RF) interference which can dramatically reduce the effective radio range. This increasingly operational problem is being exacerbated by the increase of on-board communications systems which can mean they are competing for data and spectrum allocation.\n\nDavid Bulley, VP and General Manager of Cobham Antenna Systems said “Cobham has been at the forefront of RF interference cancellation technologies for over 20 years with proven field performance. As communications systems on platforms have become increasingly complex our expectations of them has also heightened; Cobham’s new ICE products allow users to streamline their communications systems without affecting performance or range which makes a critical difference during operations.”", null, "The ICE 7201 interference cancellation system not only restores radio performance and operational range, it also facilitates enhanced frequency planning for operations, enabling closer separation between channels resulting in a significantly greater number of useable radio channels for a given spectrum allocation. Simultaneously, the GD2049 high performance multi-port V/UHF antenna enables the overall antenna count on land platforms to be reduced through the introduction of two VHF ports with high port-to-port isolation.\n\nThe combination of Cobham’s two new market-leading technologies allows for optimised co-site integration of radios whilst also reducing the number of antennas required on a platform. The result is a significantly improved communication effectiveness and a reduction in the cost and ‘real estate’ of the antennas required." ]

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[ "Who Is Celeste Burgos? Celeste Burgos is popularly known as the girlfriend of the Argentine MP, Juan Emilio Ameri. The MP has offered a resignation after the scandal in the virtual meeting session of Congress. The scandal included them cuddling with each other which unfortunately got caught in the camera.\n\nThis scandal caught everyone’s attention and left them with utter shock and embarrassment. In a virtual meeting of the parliament, disrespectful act as such got him to resign as soon as possible. Juan claimed that they weren’t aware of being caught in the camera.\n\nThere is no information about either her nationality or ethnicity and religion. However, she currently resides in the Greater New York City Area.\n\nShe looks kind of tall with a perfect build body but the exact height and weight are not known yet.\n\nCeleste has been working as Vice President, Senior Relationship Manager at M&T Bank, New York for almost 9 nine years to present. She has a specialty over Real Estate.\n\nAfter getting caught in the parliamentary meeting of Congress performing a “serious crime”, they both were penalized while Juan quit his job.\n\nThere is no information about her legit net worth and salary however she definitely makes a heavy amount of money.\n\nCeleste is not available on any social media handles however she has a LinkedIn profile.\n\nShe obtained her education from Cornell University, a private university in New York.\n\nThe couples were leading quite a healthy and peaceful life until the catastrophe fell upon them. However, Juan denied the consciousness of the returning of the network sobbing all through the interview afterward.\n\nThere is also no information about her family background, parents, and siblings.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Fear, worry, and an overriding need to stay in control are a few of the reasons why No Tomorrow 's Evie may be the most lovable newcomer to the CW stable. By our normalized societal standards, Evie is killin' the game: She's holding down a steady job, has charming, supportive friends, favors organization and preparation over chaos, doesn't take risks and is her own woman. For all intents and purposes, everything should be going great for Evie. She should be happy. Very early on in No Tomorrow, it becomes apparent that something is missing in Evie's life. There's a contemplative frown that seems to be plastered on her face. As a Millenial, I can't tell you how good it feels to see a female character so recognizable and relatable as Evie on television. Her sense of dread corresponds to a very real sense of dread that I (and probably some of my Millenial peers) feel as we try to make sense of adult life.\n\nThe alarm bells that literally and figuratively go off when Evie hears that the apocalypse will occur in eight months struck a big chord with me. Sure, in the real world there is no impending Armageddon-like end being predicted by scientists. Eight months from now, I may very well be eking out the same kind of existence I am at this moment. The same goes for my fellow humans and their own lives. But the fear that comes with hearing everything may end in a major way while feeling as if you haven't accomplished everything you would like to accomplish in this life feels incredibly real to me. Evie's panic is my panic. It's a uniquely Millenial panic. It's the kind of panic that comes with wondering if we're doing things correctly, living in a correct manner, and then suddenly, we're made to question everything we were taught when we get thrown a curveball.\n\nWhen Evie takes a moment to gush over Xavier's trip to Machu Picchu or feels an instant reticence at accepting Timothy's marriage proposal despite her mom and sister saying its the sensible (read: normal) thing to do, it's easy to feel a kinship. Evie's struggle to honor her heart (representative of impulse, spontaneity and primal desire) over her mind (representative of logic, reason, reservedness) perfectly embodies the same kind of Millenial temperament that many of us experience regularly. Are we taking the right steps in our careers and relationships? Are we moving in a direction deemed acceptable by society? When was the last time we did something for ourselves, something impulsive or exhilarating?\n\nOn the plus side, Xavier is a physical manifestation of Evie's heart, not only in a romantic sense but in the possibility of adventure. Xavier acts as an avatar for the real life Millenial's heart and subsequent impulse for adventure and fulfillment. He is simply a fictional representation of the very real possibilities we as young adults have to proverbially (yes, I'm going to say it) carpe diem. We can live vicariously through him whilst watching No Tomorrow. While we're all making a way for ourselves in the world during our 20s and 30s, can we honestly say that if we had eight months to live we'd be happy with what we've created for ourselves? Would we be happy with the lives we've lived thus far? Xavier's presence reminds us of these questions and through Evie, we'll get to see some possible answers.\n\nEvie's fear when she learns of the impending apocalypse is her starting point in No Tomorrow. That fear may make her so readily accessible, but it's her eagerness to seek fulfillment that makes her a compelling character to watch. I, for one, am very excited to see what journey Evie takes; maybe she'll give me better insight on how to quell my own Millenial panic in the process.\n\nMore like this\n'The Simpsons' Will *Finally* Address How They “Predict The Future”\nBy Sam Ramsden\nThe 'PLL: Original Sin' Creators Say A’s Identity Will Be “Very Clear” By The Season Finale\nBy Alyssa Lapid\n'The Sandman’s Ending Is A Departure From Neil Gaiman’s Comic Book Series\nBy Kadin Burnett\nThe Bestselling Novel 'The Doll Factory' Will Be Adapted Into Thrilling TV Series\nBy Catharina Cheung\nGet Even More From Bustle — Sign Up For The Newsletter" ]

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[ null, "Banning Airbnb investor units, as Boston has done, reduces market values by up to 40% – but should other social goals dominate?\n\nRecently Boston decided to ban Airbnb-type rental units, suggesting that the growth of such short-term rentals was reducing the supply of longer-term rentals while adding to the supply of visitor units competing with hotels. It is possible that tourism been increased by such rentals, which are slightly cheaper than staying in hotels and also accommodate seasonal peak demand – cities like Boston might get fewer visitors if hotel accommodation was all that was available. The flip side is that rental housing stock is reduced, and Boston, San Diego, San Francisco and New York have all experienced large rent increases as the supply of net new units has become increasingly limited. Political regulation and a series of more complex development barriers, as well as rising labour costs, have significantly increased in the past few decades across all US cities, resulting in cries of a housing crisis.\n\nFor pure property-rights enthusiasts, any reduction in the maximum productivity of a property is a reduction in value and a taking. From an investor point of view, the bid price on many properties was predicated on being within an area where short-term rentals were permitted. In discussions with investment brokers, we are seeing a differential value impact of about 40% in those markets where significant tourism exists.\n\nA case example illustrates the value impact. Using a well-located one-bedroom unit in San Diego, the current Airbnb rent per week is $888 but the peak season rates are much higher, such that the average weekly rent on a year-round basis is about $1,190. There is a weekly cleaning fee of $100, a service fee of $101 and occupancy taxes of $109, all paid in addition to the short-term rent. The vacancy rate on the short-term rental is 30% of the year at maximum, and often less. If the same unit were rented on a longer-term basis, the rent would be $2,150 per month with 5% vacancy." ]

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[ null, "Felicitations streamed to Lusaka over the weekend when one of the first generation emancipators, Dr Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, celebrated his 95th birthday celebration on Sunday, 28 April.\n\nKaunda was the first President of the Republic of Zambia when it became independent from Britain in 1964, succeeding the former colony of Northern Rhodesia.\n\nLeaders in the Southern African Development Community paid tribute to Dr Kaunda for his selfless attributes that propelled him in the fight against imperialism, colonialism and apartheid. Many citations noted his heroic sacrifices that contributed to several countries in southern Africa’s political freedom and the emancipation of their peoples.\n\nSharing fond recollections of the liberation struggles as they unfolded in various countries, African leaders referred to Kaunda as the iconic founding father of liberation in southern Africa. South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, stated “Dr Kaunda, whose great leadership and formidable conviction remain a source of inspiration to the current and latter generations to jealously guard this freedom gained through many years of struggle.”", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "MANILA – President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has selected the head of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) as well as two other nominees for high positions in the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).\n\nDe Leon, as NICA chief, will join other officials from the Departments of Defense, Local Government, Foreign Affairs, and Justice, as well as the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Philippine National Police, and the National Bureau of Investigation, in Marcos’ security cluster. According to Cruz-Angeles.\n\nDe Leon is a 1971 graduate of the Philippine Military Academy’s “Matatag” class.\n\nHe is presently the president of the Philippine Public Safety College (PPSC), the country’s primary educational institution for police, fire, and jail personnel’s training, human resource development, and continuing education.\n\nGuillermo’s track record, according to Cruz-Angeles, qualifies her to serve as BIR Commissioner-designate.\n\n“Guillermo’s excellent background in information technology (IT) and almost four decades of service at the Bureau of Internal Income (BIR) supports President-elect Marcos’ goal of increasing revenue through effective tax collection,” she stated.\n\nGuillermo is credited with the effective implementation of the Philippines Tax Computerization Project, which gave the BIR and the Bureau of Customs a modern tax collection system.\n\nGuillermo works for the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas as an assistant governor (BSP).\n\nShe also directs the BSP’s IT Modernization Roadmap for 2018-2033 and leads the BSP’s Technology and Digital Innovation Office.\n\nGuillermo will be joined by Lawyer Romeo Lumagui Jr., who will be the BIR Deputy Commissioner for Operations-designate during the Marcos administration, according to Cruz-Angeles.\n\nLumagui is a tax attorney “with decades of expertise who once served as the Regional Investigation Division Chief of Revenue Region No. 7B East NCR,” according to Cruz-Angeles.\n\nEnrile will be Marcos’ Presidential Legal Counsel, Guevarra will be Solicitor General, and Faustino would be the Defense Department’s Officer-in-Charge.\n\nAlmost 70 million Filipinos have been fully vaccinated, with only 12 million needing boosters.\n\nMANILA – Transportation groups and cooperatives expressed their gratitude to […]", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "If you’re looking for a substantial bit of lockdown listening and/or reading, I can heartily recommend Peter Heather’s 2007 study of the collapse of the Roman Empire. I first downloaded it on Audible, but after listening to the whole book I realised that I also wanted a print copy for my collection – and in order to re-read some of the most important sections more carefully, particularly the final chapter in which Heather summarises his thesis about what lay behind Rome’s demise.\n\nI should say at this point that I’m not a historian, so I can’t judge what the current consensus is, if any, on the main reasons for Rome’s collapse. Certainly when Heather first published this book his was – as he clearly states – a dissenting voice. Rather than accepting the thesis that the Empire collapsed as a result of internal weaknesses and divisions (a line that stems ultimately from Gibbon), Heather stresses the role of the barbarian invasions, with the Huns as a motor of those invasions both directly and indirectly. He makes a pretty strong case for this, and in a very accessible way.\n\nThe one aspect of the fall of the Western Empire which I think Heather does rather skirt over, is the impact of the Eastern Empire’s long-standing military contest with the Sassanians on their capacity to intervene in the West. This epic conflict, which ended with the Sassanians and the Romans fighting each other to a standstill, had a catastrophic long-term effect on both the combatants. Persia became easy prey for the armies of the Prophet, while Byzantium was both unable to continue its support for the Western Roman regime and ultimately unable to defend its own eastern possessions. While Heather’s thesis does take the Sassanian wars into account, I’m not sure that it gives them quite enough weight.\n\nThat’s a minor quibble however about what is overall a very solid account and a persuasive argument.\n\nI have no idea whether Heather’s is still a left-field analysis, or whether it has since become the new orthodoxy. Either way his book is a very fine listen/read, with plenty of contemporary source material added into the mix. For anyone interested in this period of history, it’s well worth acquiring a copy.\n\nListening to Heather’s book inspired me to finally purchase the board game ‘Pandemic Fall of Rome’. Playing the original ‘Pandemic’ would just feel wrong in the present situation – too twisted even for someone with my sense of humour – but the ‘Fall of Rome’ variant is different enough to be acceptable. So far Keith and I have played a couple of games, both great fun. We won the first game easily – it’s a cooperative game, so you either win or lose together – but got a complete kicking in the second game! If you’d like to see a helpful overview of the game, check out Marco’s excellent video here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2rOEVkJPp0.\n\nTill next time – happy gaming folks, and keep safe and well.", null ]

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[ null, "If you’re anything like the people under 30 that we spoke to, a secret part of you wonders why we can’t just do away with grown-up things like banks and retirement funds and store all of our extra cash in a pillow case.\nThis isn’t because you’re stupid. You just haven’t been empowered with the knowledge of how to make your money grow. We took social studies and math in high school, not “shareholder services” and “financial public relations.”\nDespite this education gap, it’s important that you grasp the principles of personal finance. The good news is, you don’t necessarily need to hire an investor relations firm to understand the basics. The main basic feature of higher finance we’ll be discussing below is that of the “stock.”\n1. “What is a stock?”\nA stock is the word we give to a part of the company that has been parsed out to the general public for ownership. For example, if a corporation hears from their issuer services guys that they should expand, (issuer services is just a fancy way of saying “people who give corporations money advice), then a company might divide its stock, or total worth, into pieces or “shares,” and then sell them on the stock market. The issuer services people would then cross their fingers as folks like you buy up these shares. If you own 100 shares in a company that has 1,000 total shares, then it’s simple: you own 10% of that company.\n2. “That sounds simple…so why is it so complicated?”\nThe basic principle is simple, but the issue is that we live in an extremely complicated world with an interdependent economy. There are literally entire investor relation firms out there whose job it is to advise the 52% of Americans who own stocks on how to buy and sell them for a profit.\n3. But wait. Why would I sell my shares of stock? Doesn’t that mean that I’m rich and own a company?\nNot exactly and not always. The trick is to buy stock when it’s cheap and then sell it when it’s expensive. That’s how you make a profit. The key is being able to speculate which stock will start off cheap, (maybe a promising start-up or new invention), and then get expensive as the company grows and becomes a more in-demand economic player. These kinds of decisions can be based on a combination of intuition and calculations of varying complexity, but there are thankfully some basic rules that the armchair investor can pick up fairly quickly with just a few read-throughs of the Wall Street Journal.\n\nSo pick up a newspaper and start reading. Ask a few friends about safe stock investments and mutual funds. If you get even sort of decent at it, you could see a yearly average of 10% return on your investment, which is a lot higher than you’d see if you kept your money sitting in a bank…or in that pillow case." ]

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[ "The Round-Table Of Democratic Practice In Ghana", null, "Over the years, political parties who win elections sometimes fail to complete their ideal political intention within the stipulated time of administration. Irrespective, campaigns and elections are always organized after every four years.\n\nWell, how about we ask ourselves some questions, what if choosing another president is not enough? What if majority-rule as often preached has lost its value? Consider the possibility that you didn't get the opportunity to vote in favor of a representative to make your locales' law. Rather, you are the lawmaker? What if everyone got to vote on the speed limit on high way? What if everyone got to vote on the innocence or guilt of a defendant? Imagine a scenario where each and every law that surfaced must cast a ballot by everybody in the general public?\n\nIt is surprising how individuals still see Ghana as an outstanding just nation in West Africa sub-district. Ghana is claiming to be democratic meaning free and equal representation of people and the equal right of every person to participate in the system of government often by the majority.. However, the democratic status of the county has been stained with the blame game. This is true because day after day if you tune to your radio or television, you can not only validate the reality but unquestionably attest to the fact. Apparently, we see political parties charging each other for maladministration. This issue can be seen most clearly in the thinking of Jean-jacques Rousseau (1712-781, who said, \"Thus deputies of the people are not and cannot be its representatives: they are merely its agents and can make no final decisions. Any law which the people have not ratified in person is null, it is not a law”.\n\nThe core contention can be rehashed in various courses: Before African can have political democracy, it must have economic democracy. Ghanaians are more concerned with meeting their economic needs than having abstract political rights. For example, it is estimated that around 3 billion people live on less than $2 a day and 1,3 billion on less than $1 a day. Over 130 million never had the opportunity to go to school and 1.3 billion do not have access to clean drinking water. (United Nation University Study). Sadly, Ghana immovably falls in this classification, thus we are underdeveloped and getting worse. This is because democracy has been touted as a way out of crisis.\n\nThe western like democracy is alien and unworkable to Ghanaian society because the necessary preconditions are not present. Widespread poverty, low per capita incomes, a tiny middle class and the absence of a democratic civic culture render such system incongruous with Africa realities. Africans are too dumb to consider appreciating political democracy. In other words, the Ghanaian masses are keen on the politics of the belly and not politics of the people and their political right. The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth- Petra Kelly.\n\nBy the way, what is a democracy? Simply put, is it the administration by the general population in which preeminent power is vested in the general population and practiced specifically by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral framework. Abraham Lincoln in his famous often quoted Gettbury address called it “the government of the people and for the people’. Modern day democracy is accepted to have its roots from the way Greek city-states were administered in the fourth and fifth centuries. The Athenian democracy of the fourth century is often cited as the most famous and perhaps perfect example of direct democracy.\n\nIndeed, the architects of democracy must be turning in their graves because democracy in Ghana has become anything but democratic. We have been indoctrinated to believe that democracy is synonymous with freedom! We have also been told that democracy is of the people and by the people. Be that as it may, the question is which kind of people is it referring to?\n\nI would conclude with what the Aristocratic Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville said; “the health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens” Ghana claims to be a very small democratic country but does not conform to the true definition of democracy.\n\nI believe something can be done. Thoughts are welcomed.\n\n‘Flouters Of Ban On Public Gatherings Will Be Dealt With’ – ...\n59 minutes ago" ]

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[ null, "In yet another shocking incident of police brutality and custodial death, a Tamil youth arrested on drug related offences had died by in Police detention.\n\nHis family says that the young man was tortured to death at the Batticaloa Police station in Eastern Sri Lanka.\n\nThis is the 11th recorded death in police custody just over a year’s time.\n\nChandran Vithusan (21) was picked up from his home in Iruthayapuram in Batticaloa around 10.30 PM on Wednesday night was reported dead in the early morning today.\n\nAccording to his mother, Vithusan received a telephone call when he was at home and went out to answer it in spite of being asked not to step out. The telephone call was said to be from his friend.\n\n“The Police then picked him in front of the house and hit him with poles on his head and dragged him away from the street. They came back today early morning and said he is dead. They said they are from the Criminal investigation department (CID)” his sister told local journalists.\n\nFamily members say he were taken to Batticaloa Police station and kept in lockup and reported dead in the morning.\n\nHand cuffed to a tree\n\nHis maternal uncle was an eyewitness to his arrest.\n\n“I went and tried to stop him from being arrested. But I was pushed away and said that a case would be foisted against me also. His hands were pulled behind and hand-cuffed to a tree and attacked. Then he was dragged to the corner of the street and taken away to the police station. Again, by midnight they came back and searched the house and went empty-handed. We were told not to come to the Police station now and come in the morning. They asked for a dress but left before it was brought”.\n\nThe district magistrate Karuppiah Selvarani has ordered for an autopsy to be done and the Eravur Police station to inquire into the incident and report back to the court.", null, "The young man had fallen ill while in custody and the post-mortem report says that he died from a drug overdose, Colombo based media reported quoting unnamed police sources, hours after JDS revealed the circumstances surrounding the death.\n\nSri Lanka’s Human Rights Commission (HRCSL) had announced last year that eight deaths in police custody between May and October 2020 had been recorded.\n\nThis May two young men were shot dead by police within two days.\n\nA month ago, HRCSL had requested the police chief Chandana Wickremeratne to provide a report on inquiries conducted into deaths in police custody.\n\nAlthough the deadline was May 30th, JDS has no confirmation that police had fulfilled the request." ]

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[ null, "There were no survivors from an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed this morning carrying 157 people, an airline spokesman has said.\n\nThe plane was carrying passengers from 33 countries, the state broadcaster said on Sunday, citing a source at the airline.\n\nSome 149 passengers and eight crew members were thought to be on board the Boeing 737 that crashed six minutes after departing Addis Ababa on its way to Kenya’s capital.\n\nThe crash occurred around 31 miles south of the capital at around 8.44am local time (5.44am GMT), shortly after taking off, the airline said." ]

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[ null, "Hey friends! I’m excited to be back for another tour with @ TheWriteReads for White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton. Be sure to check out all the other bloggers participating in this tour: here! 😍\n\nSpecial thanks to the author for the gifted copy in exchange for an honest review!\n\nGuthrie was a good place to be from, but it wasn’t a great place to live, not when you were like Adam, in all the ways Adam was like Adam.\n\nAdam Binder hasn’t spoken to his brother in years, not since Bobby had him committed to a psych ward for hearing voices. When a murderous spirit possesses Bobby’s wife and disrupts the perfect life he’s built away from Oklahoma, he’s forced to ask for his little brother’s help. Adam is happy to escape the trailer park and get the chance to say I told you so, but he arrives in Denver to find the local magicians dead. It isn’t long before Adam is the spirit’s next target. To survive the confrontation, he’ll have to risk bargaining with powers he’d rather avoid, including his first love, the elf who broke his heart. The Binder brothers don’t realize that they’re unwitting pawns in a game played by immortals. Death herself wants the spirit’s head, and she’s willing to destroy their family to reap it.\n\nI grew up in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels was pretty challenging and finding fantasy novels with diverse characters was downright impossible. Now I live in Denver, Colorado and write the books I always wanted to read. In addition to writing, I have taught workshops and appeared on panels at Denver Pop Culture Con, the Pikes Peak Writers Conference, the League of Utah Writers Quills Conference, and the Seymour Agency Winter Retreat.\n\nBy day I’m a software implementation consultant. I love connecting with readers, librarians, and booksellers. If you’d like to contact me for a school visit or appearance, you can email me at [email protected].\n\nTL;DR: This was a unique urban fantasy that has a lot more depth to it than I expected. Yes, we get lots of magic and plenty of supernatural beings/creatures that we’re familiar with (elves, leprechauns, gnomes, dragons), but we also explore themes about family, LGBTQ+ identity, and trauma/abuse. I absolutely loved Adam Binder and the complex but weirdly endearing cast of characters. This story was dark, gritty and action-packed but it also has a sweet unfolding love-story and I can’t wait for more! Can has next book naow, plz?\n\nIt admittedly took me a few chapters to get on board with this story but once I did, I didn’t want to put it down and sped through it quickly! This urban fantasy was a very smol step out of my comfort zone with the malevolent spirits and possessions, so I made sure to read it during the day(!), but it had a lot of new-to-me elements that made it unique and entertaining. There were also quite a few twists and turns in the story, only one of which I predicted correctly, and they had me exclaiming out-loud and eagerly reading on!\n\nThe story is set in our existing world, specifically in Denver, but Slayton enhances our reality with the spirit world that exists a thin layer away in parallel to ours. I loved how these two existences were brought together so seamlessly and believably. We get to see the real world that exists under the spirit world simultaneously (as Adam switches his sight on/off) and it was really interesting to see how the usually abandoned ‘real world’ locations would stand in such stark contrast to the spirit world teeming with life. The elves’ location in particular had such a lavish and opulent 1920s vibe that radiated old-school charm and I loved it!\n\nAs much as I enjoyed the setting and the magic, it was the characters that made this book a winner for me. These characters and their dynamics brought such depth to the story as we explore complex family relationships, LGBTQ+ identity and self-acceptance, and a history of trauma and abuse. Adam’s traumatic childhood has shaped him into a young man that’s full of self-doubt and who believes he’s too abnormal to be loved and accepted because he’s gay and has magic. Oh, how I loved Adam’s character. He made for such a realistic protagonist with his flaws and insecurities. The very relatable personal issues that he dealt with made him more personable and it was easy to connect with him. My heart broke for him so many times throughout this read because of his dark upbringing and his family’s treatment of him. He’s such a kind-hearted and gentle soul and it was so heartening to see Adam start to find comfort and acceptance in his own skin, and to believe in his own worth.\n\nAside from Adam, the story actually has quite a large cast of characters but it wasn’t difficult to remember who they were because they had unique traits that set them apart. Argent was a badass elf and I loved her playfulness although she also never let people forget she was a powerful queen. I wasn’t sure of Vic at the start but I came to really like his personality and the sense of normalcy he brought to Adam’s life. Their romance had many heartwarming moments that had me melting with the sweetness and I wanted more of it! The characters I initially struggled with were Bobby and Tilla-Mae, Adam’s brother and mother. I hated how they treated Adam and constantly made him feel less-than because of who he is, and while I will never accept how they treated him, we learn about their side of the story and do come to understand their actions. I wouldn’t say they were “redeemed” but it’s clear that the lack of communication and their misperceptions of each other (including from Adam) continue to colour their interactions negatively.\n\nWhich brings me to the main reason why I didn’t rate this a full five stars: I wanted more development from a few of these characters and events. Vic becomes more involved as the story goes on but, as the love interest, I wanted to learn so much more about his character and I’m sad we only got a small glimpse of his life at the start. Bobby and Adam do eventually speak about the past and ‘resolve’ their issues but it happens off-page and because their conflict was such a big part of this story, I wished we got to see them hash it out. I also wanted to mention how some scenes changed very abruptly and I don’t know if it’s because of the ebook formatting (I’m assuming it is) but it got confusing at times. From one paragraph to the next, scenes would jump in time and/or location and I’d get distracted trying to figure out if I missed something or if the abruptness was intentional.\n\nOverall though, I really loved this book and I’m genuinely so excited for the next instalment and to see where the mystery takes Adam and whether the other theories I have will be correct! This is a great debut and I’m so glad it was put on my radar.\n\nHave you read White Trash Warlock or is it on your TBR?\n\nMy weekend has officially begun and I’m MORE THAN READY to dive back into my Jade War buddy read with @jessticulatesbookblog. I know Fonda Lee is gonna WRECK ME cos you know I’m still reeling from the destruction of my feels in Jade City 🥲🥲🥲\nIt’s my stop on the #blogtour hosted by @tbrbeyondtours for #CastinFirelight! Thanks to @delacortepress for providing an #ARC in exchange for an honest review! It’s also my first time doing a #booklook and y’all really make it look a lot easier than it was 😂\nIt’s my stop on the #blogtour hosted by @tbrbeyondtours for Glimpsed!\nUgh, talk about #mondayblues 🙈 This weekend passed by so quickly I can’t even wrap my head around it!\nWe’ve made it to the weekend, folks! 🥳 What’re you planing on reading?\nIt’s a truth universally acknowledged that when @illumicrate comes out with those #specialeditions this panda will do anything in her power to get her hands on them! Listen, they may take all my monies but I have ZERO regrets! 😂" ]

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[ null, "SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A San Bernardino mother and her 14-year-old son were arrested after the teenager accidentally shot his baby sister.\n\nVeronica Pyatt was driving in the area of 16th Street and E Street with her 14-year-old son and 20-month-old baby when the incident occurred.\n\nAccording to San Bernardino Police, the teenage boy was ‘manipulating a loaded firearm’ while in the back seat of their vehicle. The firearm discharged and a single round struck the toddler in her upper leg.\n\nAccording to a statement from police, the boy told his mother that his gun went off but the woman continued to drive home, claiming she didn’t realize her daughter had been struck.\n\nOnce they arrived home, the teenager tossed the gun in the trashcan along with other evidence while the mother unloaded groceries. Police say Pyatt never removed the gun from the child’s possession or examined her child; they say she failed to notify law enforcement about the shooting.\n\nIt wasn’t until they entered the house that the teenager told his mother that his sister was shot. Pyatt then took the toddler to Community Hospital of San Bernardino where hospital staff notified police.\n\nThe child was then transported to Loma Linda University Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nPolice soon arrested Pyatt and her 14-year-old son for multiple felony charges. The case was turned over to the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office. Child and Family Services was notified of the incident and are conducting an investigation." ]

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[ null, "St Morris Sinners and Fair Maiden are both worth tearing yourself away from your gameboy or masterchef, but as the latter take the stage, I'm still in the smoker's open-air lounge, talking to people I've not seen in ages and agreeing to all sorts of improbable propositions while wearing what appeared to be a most undeserving but rather smelly halo. It's the lemonade and the cigarette smoke, the clouds of which take me back to the ghastly days when I was the only non-smoker and non-drinker, I swear, at the Tivoli where, on Saturday nights, a vast grey-white blanket would descend upon the punters beneath, rendering the heads of anyone above six foot four invisible, rather like punters in the mist. So no protests, please, about not performing my reviewer's duty by seeing the support bands, I was busy.\n\nThe last time Harry Howard was here in Adelaide he was part of Lydia Lunch's Australia-only touring band, Shotgun Wedding. I recall poking my head backstage (security had fled) and found that there was no-one else back there at all. 'Probably frightened of Lydia,' Harry commented later.", null, "The band take the stage (which Harry describes as 'snug'; Clare Moore's cymbals are crashing perilously close to Edwina Preston's bottom, while bassist Dave Graney (tonight looking rather like the kind of a well-travelled chap you meet at a yachting club). Harry's bit of stage is about two and a half feet by two so if he's not careful he'll be joining us at the front.\n\nI tell you, Dave and Clare are some kinda rhythm section. Dave's bass has a sort of liquid funk aspect, and tonight he's steppin' on it, baby. Clare's always been the kind of drummer you never want to argue with (those wrists could snap your vertebrae rather swiftly) but tonight, despite soundchecking as they play (and selecting the songs as they go, no set list), you can't help but be impressed. Powerhouse ain't in it. There are several long-standing and damn talented musicians of some experience in the crowd all agree - this rhythm section is The Business. If they were session musicians in NYC they could clean up.\n\nClare and Dave provide the kind of backdrop of sound Harry and Ed need to dominate proceedings; in the flesh, the band are sexy; a kinda salty, scrapy, jaggery, juddery, fists-in-face kinda sexy.\n\nThe first few songs have the audience excited and lapping it up. If we saw Harry's band more often we'd be making an unruly mess dancing but tonight we're plugged in to the spectacle. Twigging this, and also realising if they play fast songs all night his voice will rip apart, Harry decides to play their slightly slower songs; 'I won't hear a bad word said about mid-pace songs', he later jokes.\n\nMost of the songs are from Pretty, the new bestseller, with only a few from the first lp as an encore. But the interaction between them, and with us, is a wonderful thing, lifting the usual 'band plays songs to audience' thing into an intimate, personal experience. Dave's in Daveland, rippling away, he's steppin', he's apulsin', he's an on-fire dude. Dave barely looks at Harry and Ed during the songs - he's watching his wife, Clare. Clare watches everyone and everything, but she's so much a part of her kit we can also see her lost in her rhythms, playing hard, eyes closed, hair flying. Beautifully tuff.\n\nAt the front we have the double-dose themselves, Harry ('high on a runny nose') apologetic, charming, dangerous and barbed by turns. The audience love him and soak up his charisma as it wells up from a bottomless font. You could say, well, sure, look at his decades of being on a stage... but that's crap. I've seen people who've more or less lived onstage who can be the surliest, piggish characters. Would you get this sort of thing from Ozzy 'don't you know who I am?' Osborne? Alright, I love Harry's 'product', but this is such a special, thrilling kind of gig everyone will remember it for years later with great affection.\n\nBut the real spectacle is the bond-cum-high-jump-bar of Ed and Harry. We're right in front of them, we see the looks they give each other behind their backs. There's a huge love there. They bait each other enough onstage that we imagine we're privy to a small sliver of their home life, to the extent we believe their saucepans have dents (those whose handles haven't broken off). Ed, in fact, is mostly in charge of organising which song comes next, bossing the band around like a school-marm.\n\nThere comes the moment when Harry introduces the band. DG and HH banter for a while, and we're delightedly hanging on every word. Clare is modestly outraged with her introduction, but when Harry introduces Ed as 'the pointiest member', we're frankly pissing ourselves as Ed and Harry genially threaten each other with great love. Harry's final comment about 'angry vegetable chopping' produces quite extraordinary (but familiar) household images.\n\nShortly after, as people are howling for more, Ed snaps, 'Right! one more, and then we have to go! We've got a plane to catch'. Harry notices movement in the front row and accurately observes, 'Steady on, Ed, four burly bear-like men just took several steps backward.'\n\nThe real kicker about this band is not just the banter, nor the spectacle, nor the music, but the whole thing together makes something else. I honestly can't put my finger on it, but it's like viewing a triptych or diptych, and realising that the extra meanings are running around loose inside your head. If you or I were to play these songs, they'd be robbed of something like nine-tenths of their significance. And, make no mistake, this band are onto something.\n\nThe audience loved Harry Howard and the NDE. We loved their music, how they bust a gut getting here and out again, that they appreciated us, that Harry was unconsciously amusing, that both couples love each other and were comfortable showing it to us. All in all, we were drawn into a magical, intimate experience and we simply cannot wait for next time." ]

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[ "When two FTI colleagues from bustling cross-Atlantic capitals had the opportunity to trade places recently, they discovered not just different cultures and ways of working, but similarities too.\n\nAnais Laporte from FTI Brussels and Amber Glenn from FTI Washington D.C. not only traded desks, but homes, for their two-month switcheroo – an experience allowing them to encounter new clients and modus operandi.", null, "“In the U.S. I worked on very different accounts to those I’m used to in Brussels, so it was a huge learning opportunity,” said Laporte. “We all have so much to learn from one another, and I’ve been trying to absorb as much from the team here in DC as possible, to bring back new ideas to Brussels!”\n\nGlenn agreed, noting, “there are so many cultural, language, and business differences between us, but, being able to fully immerse myself with the team and understand other perspectives makes our professional relationships stronger.”\n\nGlenn admits the experience had been somewhat of a culture shock at first, especially for someone who had never before experienced work-life outside of DC.\n\n“It’s interesting to see the way people in different regions of the world approach work,” she said adding, “we all do essentially the same type of work (Strategic Communications/Public Affairs) but our perspectives and cultural differences certainly play a role in the approach and office culture.”", null, "Cultural exchange isn’t always a walk in the park, and homesickness can happen to the best of us. “Being in Brussels without my circle of close friends and family has not always been easy but it’s great to know I have friends within the FTI network that have become like a second family to me!” said Glenn, who even traveled to London with an FTI colleague she met in Brussels to attend the Caribbean Carnival festival. “It was a good time and I was very grateful to be able to spend it with my co-worker and her family.”\n\nLaporte, meanwhile, has immersed herself in Washington’s wealth of museums and exhibitions. “The National Portrait Gallery is 5-min walking distance from the office, so you can always stop by there for lunch, or the Phillips Collection on Thursday nights as it’s open until 8:30 pm,” she said. Laporte’s favorite DC destination, however, is the Newseum: an interactive museum with exhibits showcasing everything related to journalism. The National Museum of African American History, too, is next on her list.\n\nStaying in each other’s houses also helped make the switch feel like home. “When I tell people Amber and I also switched houses, they LOVE it!” said Laporte. “It makes such a difference to live in a ‘real house’ and not an Airbnb or hotel room. It makes things more real and concrete.”\n\nUltimately, both women agree the exchange has been a fantastic experience and that the better they understand their colleagues and clients – globally, as well as locally – the better they will be able to serve them.\n\nLearn more about where a career at FTI Consulting may take you.\n\nThe views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and not necessarily the views of FTI Consulting LLP, its management, its subsidiaries, its affiliates, or its other professionals, members or employees.\n\nThe 2022 electoral calendar promises to deliver box office entertainment for those with an interest in international aff..." ]

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[ "The Most Powerful ever Supernova detected\n\nThe Most Powerful ever Supernova detected", null, "The death of massive star leads to a spectacular explosion, a supernova, that outshine the entire galaxy.\n\nScientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian announced the discovery and study of the brightest, most energetic, and likely most massive supernova ever identified.\n\nSN2016aps is believed to be an example of a “pulsational pair instability” supernova, and may have formed as the result of the merging of two massive stars prior to the explosion. The explosion energy of SN2016aps was ten times that of a normal-sized supernova.\n\n“SN2016aps is spectacular in several ways,” said Edo Berger, Harvard University professor and co-author on the paper. “Not only is it brighter than any other supernova we’ve ever seen, but it has several properties and features that make it rare in comparison to other explosions of stars in the universe.”\n\nThe team—made up of researchers from CfA, University of Birmingham, Northwestern University, and Ohio University—first identified the supernova in 2016 using data from the Panoramic Survey Telescopes and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS). A four-year follow-up study tracked its slow evolution and significant energy release. Archival images retrieved during the study revealed a rising light curve dating back to December 2015, allowing the team to better understand the nature and explosion of the supernova.\n\n“The intense energy output of this supernova pointed to an incredibly massive star progenitor,” said Berger. “At birth, this star was at least 100 times the mass of our Sun.”\n\nScientists don’t believe the explosion got that big on its own. “Spectroscopic observations during the followup study revealed a restless history for the progenitor star,” said Matt Nicholl, of the University of Birmingham and lead author of the study. “We determined that in the final years before it exploded, the star shed a massive shell of gas as it violently pulsated. The collision of the explosion debris with this massive shell led to the incredible brightness of the supernova. It essentially added fuel to the fire.”\n\nSN2016aps also held another surprise for scientists: high levels of hydrogen gas. Massive stars typically lose the majority of their hydrogen to stellar winds long before they begin pulsating. “That SN2016aps held onto its hydrogen prompted us to theorize that two less massive stars had merged together, since lower mass stars hold onto their hydrogen for longer,” said Berger. “The new star, borne of the merger, was heavy with hydrogen and also high enough in mass to trigger pair instability.”\n\nImage: Artist’s conception of SN2016aps, a candidate pulsational pair instability supernova. The explosion energy of SN2016aps, fueled by the shedding of a massive shell of gas, was ten times that of a normal-sized supernova, making SN2016aps the most massive supernova ever identified. Credit: M. Weiss" ]

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[ null, "—-Blogger Ann Althouse, stating nicely in her eccentric way what Ethics Alarms has been pointing out repeatedly….\n\n…most recently in this post. Or this one. That being that there are no trustworthy news sources. None. And since there are none, a democracy that depends on an informed electorate has no way for the electorate to become informed. The news media, and journalists, are 100% responsible for this. It is deliberate, and that is why designating then as “enemies of the people,” while impolitic, is fair and informative.\n\nHere is what Ann found that led to her question above:\n\nHere‘s the list of the top political stories at Real Clear Politics this morning:\n\n20 thoughts on “Ethics Quote Of The Week: Ann Althouse”" ]

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[ "PAUL Mitchell has been elected president of the Langholm New Town bowling club for the 2020 season.\nThe club will remain closed for the foreseeable future because of the COVID-19 pandemic.\nTraditions were kept alive, however, when Paul decided to throw the first bowl of the season on the green last Sunday.\nPaul said a few words on camera, hoping that members were staying safe and there might be some bowling at the end of the season.\nHe also said a few words about the passing of the club’s hard-working member and great friend Scott Morrison.\nMembers of the club, wearing club colours, were among those in the High Street on Tuesday to pay respects to Scott as the cortège drove down the street.", null, "Golf is back on from tomorrow\n\nHelping out is a rewarding way to take and interest…", null, null, "“Bomber” makes it to Dream Team\n\nROBIN “Bomber” Hislop has been named in The Rugby Paper’s…", null, "McArthur’s visit still on the cards", null, "Hartleys keep calm and canter on during crisis\n\nEquestrian UNTIL a few weeks ago the Hartley family were…", null, null, "Rugby The SRU has declared the current rugby season null…\n\nAthletics CANCELLATION of this year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, due…\n\nLANGHOLM RFC has regretfully taken the decision to cancel next…", null, "Rugby RUGBY fans from Langholm enjoyed a double celebration when…", null, null, "Athletics A LANGHOLM athlete, who receives funding from “Welcome to…", null, null, "Rugby A TOTAL of 90 youngsters and their families from…\n\nHorseracing ED CHAMBERLIN will lead the ITV racing team when…", null, null, "Athletics LANGHOLM and Canonbie primary schools competed at Annandale and…\n\nHat-trick but still a defeat", null, "Rugby LANGHOLM Rugby Club was in fine company at the…\n\nA humdinger of a match\n\nHorseracing FATHER Christmas will be greeting young racegoers at Kelso…", null, null, null, "Ellie’s life in the fast lane\n\nCycling AN INTERNATIONAL cyclist with family connections in Eskdale was…", null, "Rugby LANGHOLM Rugby Club has been shortlisted for a national…", null, "TWO young runners from Langholm represented their club at a…", null, null, "Vital point gained with a struggle\n\nTeams try their hardest: An excellent turnout of sides makes for a busy tournament for youngsters\n\nRugby LANGHOLM Lions and Cubs hosted a festival at Milntown…\n\nTHINGS that go bump in the night were much in…\n\nA SUCCESSFUL free family sports day was run in the…", null, "A BIKE trials rider from Newcastleton has won the overall…\n\nBlue Flight in flight at Kelso\n\nHorseracing RACEGOERS will get an early opportunity to see several…", null ]

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[ null, "Seven persons have been arrested for attacking the model-turned-actor and vandalising the vehicle she was travelling in.\n\nSengupta who is the winner of Miss India Universe pageant in 2010, was attacked on Monday night while coming back from a five-star hotel in Kolkata in an Uber cab.\n\nSengupta was travelling with a colleague when, she said, around 15 boys on bikes came and hit the Uber. The miscreants then stopped and started banging the car window and dragged the driver out and began beating him up.\n\nAmidst the commotion, Sengupta stepped out of the cab and started filming the incident.\n\nShe further said the miscreants followed her after they left the place. The boys, she claimed, caught up with her outside her friend’s house and dragged her out and tried to break her phone to delete the video.\n\nShe said the miscreants finally left when she started shouting and the locals came out on the street.\n\nThe actor shared the harrowing the incident on social media.\n\nThe actor also alleged that officers at the nearby Charu Market Police Station refused to take any complaint and advised her to, instead, approach the Bhawanipore Police Station.\n\n“After raising a lot of questions, the officer took my complaint but refused to take the complaint of the driver,” she said in a Facebook post, recounting the incident.\n\nThe Kolkata Police on Tuesday said it has arrested the seven persons and also initiated an inquiry into the alleged non-registration of FIR.\n\n“We have taken this incident very seriously and seven persons have been arrested so far. On the order of the Commissioner of Police, Kolkata, an inquiry regarding the non-registration of FIR has been initiated into this incident, at a very senior level,” the Kolkata Police wrote on its Twitter handle." ]

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[ "Tonight's Takeout: Which Is Worse?\n\nBurrito vs. burger? This nutritionist's advice will help you make better choices—plus show you how to order healthier.\nBy Corrie Pikul", null, "Chicken Tikka Masala vs. Orange Chicken with Rice\nThe preparation for all these dishes will vary, but we asked Janis Jibrin, RD, the lead nutritionist for Best Life, to analyze the basic recipes and track down nutritional info for chain restaurants. She found that although tikka masala has fewer calories than orange chicken (662 versus 871 for a 1.5-cup portion of the chicken dish plus 1 cup of rice), it has almost triple the saturated fat (17 grams versus 6 grams). This is because it's made with cream and, usually, ghee (clarified butter). Jibrin says tikka masala is worse for your arteries and your heart, as well as your waistline.\n\nHealthier Tikka Masala: If you order a creamy curry, Jibrin advises limiting your portion to just 1 cup. Another idea for healthier but still-speedy Indian food: frozen entrées. Jibrin likes Ethnic Gourmet's Tikka Masala, which has only 260 calories and 2 grams of saturated fat.\n\nHealthier Orange Chicken: Jibrin suggests ordering an all-vegetable entrée (such as stir-fried spinach, broccoli or green beans) with your chicken dish and sharing both with friends. Steamed veggies are the healthiest, but even Jibrin admits they get pretty boring. Instead, ask the restaurant to \"go easy on the oil\" when stir-frying, and substitute brown rice for white.", null, "Healthier Burrito: Toss the tortilla and order your burrito \"naked,\" or in a bowl. Scoop on heart-healthy guacamole and skip the sour cream and cheese to bring the total saturated fat down to around 5 grams. If you also substitute lettuce for half the rice, you'll turn your burrito bomb into a meal that's practically good for you.\n\nHealthier Burger: Go with the puny-size patty (a regular burger from the drive-thru is 3.5 ounces, a Big Mac is 7.5 ounces, and classic burgers from family restaurants are even bigger). Add lettuce for bulk and tomato for antioxidants. Ketchup and mustard are negligible in terms of calories, but mayo has 90 calories per packet, so use sparingly. Hold the fries (but you already knew that).", null, "Teriyaki vs. Pad Thai\nJibrin says all the ingredients in pad thai are swimming in oil, which brings calories in the typical takeout box up to 1,140 and saturated fat to 7 grams. You're better off with a similar-size order of chicken teriyaki, which has 30 percent fewer calories than pad thai and about the same amount of protein.\n\nHealthier Teriyaki: Jibrin recommends no more than a cup of rice (about the size of two fists) and another cup of chicken with teriyaki sauce. Order an all-vegetable side, and again, substitute brown rice for white. Inquire about low-sodium teriyaki sauce. (Like all takeout, both these dishes are loaded with sodium: 2,700 to 5,200 milligrams. The recommended amount is only 1,500 to 2,300 milligrams per day.)\n\nHealthier Pad Thai: Request double the vegetables (usually bean sprouts, onions and scallions). The rice noodles are a waste of calories, and there are a lot of them, so aim to eat only about the size of three fists' worth of this dish.", null, "Pepperoni Pizza vs. Spaghetti and Meatballs\nViva Italian Night! What do you feel like? Two slices of Domino's medium hand-tossed pepperoni pizza (440 calories, 8 grams of saturated fat) or a half-portion of Olive Garden's spaghetti with meat sauce and two meatballs (460 calories, 7 grams of saturated fat)? In terms of fat and calories, they're pretty close, but Jibrin recommends the spaghetti as a slightly healthier option. \"Processed meats like pepperoni usually contain nitrites, which studies have linked to cancer and coronary heart disease,\" says Jibrin (they also have tons of salt). The spaghetti has no processed meat and more \"real\" ingredients.\n\nHealthier Pizza: Top your pie with vegetables. If you get thin-crust pizza, you'll cut the calories almost in half. Look for a pizza parlor that serves whole wheat crusts. \"The extra fiber, as well as the phytonutrients from the veggies, would make this your healthiest choice,\" says Jibrin.\n\nHealthier Spaghetti: You've heard it before: Order whole wheat pasta whenever possible. Pair your half-portion size with a side salad with oil and vinegar. (\"Steer clear of the premade dressings, because takeout dinners have enough sodium,\" says Jibrin.)", null, "Healthier Chicken: Go for green beans (25 calories), an undressed salad (15 calories—splash on oil and vinegar at home) or a 3-inch piece of corn on the cob (71 calories).\n\nHealthier Steak: Order a leaner cut of sirloin or tenderloin; calories and fat skyrocket in cuts like rib eye, prime rib, Porterhouse and New York strip. Avoid rich, buttery sides, and have your steak with grilled vegetables and a baked potato.\n\nNext: Recipes for the fastest dinners on the planet\nPublished 02/07/2012\nMore Health and Wellness\nThe Best Drinks for Dieters\n8 Cooking Resolutions for the New Year\nDiet Cheat Sheet: Healthy \"Junk\" Foods\n10 Steps to Help You Realize True Happiness and Inner Peace\nWhat Spiritual Leaders Read Before Bed\nFavorite Authors: The One Blockbuster Book to Read This Fall\n4 Spiritual Practices That Will Get You Through the Roughest Times\n4 Ways We Talk Ourselves Out of What We Want" ]

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[ null, "Another radio silence on my blog. However, I have a pretty good reason for that.\n\nLast year I got involved all of the sudden into a organisation of Polish Oldhammer Weekend. And this year, once again I went for it. With a group of friends we are doing it.\n\nAnd I tell you, it involved a substantial amount of work and creativity. Not so much time left for painting (definitely slower tempo in this area) and for regular blogging. But, man! I wrote so much content for this in recent weeks, that my brain hurts.\n\nAnd there’s a lot to be prepared.\n\nFirst of all, the whole weekend will be constructed as big narrative campaign with lots of battles, plots and twists where all players will be involved. First day will be a set of battles where the players will gaining bonuses for the day two. And day two, little bit easier on the rules and restrictions, but bringing a ton of joy. Day two will be a grand finale – all players on one table playing epic siege scenario.\n\nWe decided to arrange all the games during the weekend, entrapping a gaming freedom a bit, all in order to keep the high level of gaming and hobby standard. Unfortunately, in Poland the habit of playing the games with not finished armies is strong, and we were forced to remind to all the players wanted to play during the weekend – nice looking armies are a must. Not even one unpainted model will be tolerated. Sound harsh, but it’s necessary to achieve top quality.\n\nOk, but let’s cut to the chase.\n\nEach of the player will be playing at least 4 battles. 3 during first day, and as a big conclusion – grand siege battle, during the second day.\n\nWe are all meeting at Adeptus Mechanius Club in Warsaw, where we will be able to use their wide selection of scenery pieces. Big thanks for guys from AdMech for their hospitality.\n\nThe whole campaign is kind of a sequel of last year struggle after The Old Hammer, the ancient artefact of incredible power. The wielder of The Hammer will be able to stop the incoming of End of times and the world as we all know.\n\nFor the Day One, I prepared 9 scenarios, all connected in one major plot. Getting to Dark Lands where The Old Hammer is held in mysterious keep.\n\nAnd to be honest, I’m not good in writing scenarios. The story, ok, no problem with that. But to get the game interesting and balanced in the same time? Well, that’s a way over my writing skills…\n\nSo, I was forced to cheat a bit…\n\nOnly one scenario is the original idea. Andrew, one of Weekender ‘man-behind-the-scenes’ wrote it.\n\nThe rest, 8 of 9 scenarios will be based on articles from White Dwarfs and 5th edition campaign supplements battles. Sometimes they are loosely connected. And sometimes they are almost 100% the same as the original.\n\nI’d love to give you all the details to these scenarios. Background stories, special rules, maps etc. And to be blunt, all is ready – but unfortunately for most of the readers, all is written in my native language – Polish.\n\nFor those who understand this barbaric tongue, here’s the link to all Oldhammer PL information you can get.\n\nWe gathered 16 gamers. We have space for 22 people. And there were many oldtimers, willing to get this nice history lesson, but like I mentioned on the requirement of fully painted army for some may be discouraging, plus we are not teenagers any more. Work and families often collide with the hobby.\n\nSo, a few got out. The other few got in, then the list changed again, and again, and after that AGAIN. Now, the final 16 left, from all around the country. Many different armies. Take a look at the list:\n\n1. Dogs of War\n2. Dwarfs x4\n3. The Empire x2\n4. Skaven\n5. Chaos Warriors x 2\n6. High Elves\n7. Vampire Counts\n8. Chaos Daemons\n9. Lizardmen\n10. Bretonnia\n11. Dark Elves\nAll roosters were created based on 4th and 5th edition Army Books. The best ever released:). To get the rules a little bit less ‘herohammerish’, we decided to use Battle Book rules for tournaments.\n\nArmies are 2000 points. With these limitations, there shouldn’t be too many concerns about overpowered characters wiping the units in go. The game should be more balanced (if we can there’s such thing as balance in Warhammer. LOL:)\n\nAnd one more thing. This campaign has massive story around it. Almost every gamer wrote the background story for his armies.\n\nJust follow this link to read those stories /once again. It’s in Polish. sorry for that/.\n\nBeside that, each player received from me a short outlet with all the story of how his army get into the Darklands, describing the adventures that led him to The Old Hammer.\n\nI put a bit some effort to make this weekend right. To all work perfectly. We’ll see. Soon.\n\nAnd one more thing. I’m aware WHFB 5th edition is not exactly Oldhammer (according to the definition), but this is Poland. Back in the days, when wargaming scene was born- it was mid 1990s, and there was the time of 4th edition. So, most of the old timers in Poland didn’t even lick the scrap of the true Oldhammer. And right now, if we would like to organise the event with anything older than 4th edition, there will just handful of people,\n\nAnd, why 5th edition instead 4th? Let’s face it – it’s more or less the same (with changed magic and just a few rules) and 5th provides us more army books and the better rules explanation.\n\nSo, please forgive me this ‘heresy’ against Oldhammer, and let’s not do this dispute what is old or middle or new again. Leave it be. Let’s just have fun with wargames:)." ]

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[ "“A Muslim in the Midst” addresses Islamophobia", null, "A Muslim in the Midst, written and directed by Anand Rao, was staged on September 8 at the Crescent Underground Theater in Morse College at Yale. Set in Bangalore, India, in the aftermath of 9/11, the play portrays the unexpected encounter of two couples. The simple but resilient Haneef Pasha (portrayed with élan by Ram Kanneganti) and his demure, yet steadfast wife, Shabana Pasha (played with grace and verve by Noreen Quadir), are newly-arrived poor, Muslim migrants to the city from rural India. The world-weary and conflict-averse Raj Sunder (Jay Nambiar is in his element here) and the self-confident and high-minded Priya Sunder (Dipti Mehta delivers an impassioned performance) are an upper-middle class Hindu couple who take pity on the Pashas and decide to give them a ride to their final destination in the city.\n\n“In the car, the conversation breaks down,” Rao tells the MacMillan Center in an interview a few hours before the show. “It takes a rather unexpected turn. The ideologies and worldviews of our protagonists come into direct conflict. The play depicts them struggling to find common ground due to their very obvious religious, socio-economic, and psychological differences.” The play draws out the cleavages of language, class, religion, and gender that have become part and parcel of Indian social life. “These divisions are here to stay, unfortunately,” Rao says ruefully. “They are never going away.”\n\nA Muslim in the Midst has only one act. “It’s continuous action for ninety minutes,” Rao is eager to point out. “But there isn’t much of physical action. The length of the story is the length of the play. It’s a journey from point A to point B of four people and we try to draw the audience in. The actors are stuck in a car and all attention is focused on the car, which defies conventional dramatic and narrative structure.” The intimate setting of the Crescent Underground Theater adds to the feeling of immersion. Rao hand-picked the theater on an earlier visit to Yale. “It’s a lovely space, ideal for such a conversation-heavy play.”\n\nThe play was inspired by a real-life experience Rao had in Bangalore. “I received the inspiration for this story when I impulsively offered a ride to a couple sitting by the road. In hindsight, I kept thinking about all the different ways that could have gone wrong,” says Rao. “However, I highlight the word inspiration. Because inspiration ended when imagination took over.”\n\nPart of this imagination is the political and economic context Rao is able to construct, which amplifies the scope of the play. “It is set three days after 9/11. I set it then because I believe many generations from now we will look back on it as one of the defining moments of modern history. Not just for America but for the whole world.” The global anti-Islamic sentiment produced in that moment is an essential thread in Rao’s narrative. However, he also wants to call attention to the many other ways in which 9/11 affected the lives of people around the world, from political opportunism to economic anxieties. “We are scared of ghosts because we have never seen one. So, one of the things this play very strongly propounds is that if you get to know something you are not going to be scared of it.”\n\nThere is a particularly tense moment near the end of A Muslim in the Midst. Haneef has momentarily lost his cool. He lashes out at Shabana while Priya and Raj, shocked, retreat to the other end of the stage. The audience is caught off guard. The air hangs heavy till Shabana’s voice pierces the silence. The tension slowly subsides. But there is an inescapable feeling that the damage has been done.\n\nIt is a testament to Rao’s writing, and also the sign of our times, that this moment on stage evokes both pathos and familiarity. While it has been billed as a play where the protagonists discover a common fellowship based on humanity, A Muslim in the Midst is in reality a morally ambiguous drama. “It is a story that ends with a question,” Rao says. “We are dealing with an issue where there is no definite answer. That’s absolutely clear in my mind.”\n\nFirst conceived as a short story, a big part of the play’s appeal comes from the many layers of social complexity Rao is able to peel away to reveal the ambivalent nature of modern social life. We want to be good Samaritans yet we cannot overcome our prejudices towards the other. We want others to see from our perspective but we do not necessarily want to change our own. “How far are we willing to go to accept somebody completely different from us as an intellectual equal? That’s the question the play is trying to answer.”\n\nThe moral ambivalence is a necessary part of the play’s narrative force. “It’s less about social difference, and more about how much we are willing to let others into our lives.” It is no surprise to Rao that A Muslim in the Midst might confirm social biases. “The play does not take sides. It’s very neutral. Because of that, what you believe in your heart will be the conclusion you draw. I’ve had people both from the right and the left come and tell me how relevant they found the play.”\n\nRao reiterates that he is not seeking to provide any kind of solution. “I don’t think there can be a resolution for these schisms through the dramatic medium. Anyone who tries to offer it is only lying to themselves.” Lest we forget this important message, A Muslim in the Midst repeatedly injects us with doubt, testing the resolve not only of the protagonists on stage but also the viewer who has by then been reeled in.\n\nAt the talkback after the performance between the audience and the actors Rao wants to underscore that the play tries to portray much more than the social prevalence of Islamophobia. “This is definitely not an American story. It’s definitely not a story about someone trying to escape their religion. It’s a story about real people on the street in India as we might encounter them.”\n\nYet the backdrop of 9/11, and the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, supply A Muslim in the Midst with a remarkably receptive audience in America. But it’s an audience that may also distill the complexities of this multi-layered drama into merely a cultural encounter. “I considered changing Raj and Priya into Roger and Penny, two Americans who try to help Haneef and Shabana,” Rao tells us. “But then it would absolutely lose its original resonance. It would become a story about American Islamophobia.”\n\nIt has been a long journey for Rao. Growing up in Bangalore, he spent his formative years studying the arts, and had a career in copywriting at an advertising agency and then in print and broadcast journalism. He finally moved to public relations and communications, which took him as a consultant to Salt Lake City, Chicago, and finally Jersey City. But writing and acting remained his calling. “In the corporate world I always felt restless,” Rao admits. “I finally decided to put my consulting practice on hold and write full time.”\n\nRao finished writing the play in late 2015 and had a public reading in March 2016 in New York. The play opened in New York on the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11. “Of course, it has gone through many changes in that time.” He is hopeful the play becomes a commercial success. “I would like it if we got a commercial run of 25 days in one venue. But that’s what every playwright and producer wants. Right now, it appears to be getting a lot of attention in academic circles, like here at Yale, from those who are interested in the subject of inclusion and diversity.” But Rao’s drama certainly deserves a wider audience.\n\nAnand Rao and his cast and crew were invited to Yale by the Chaplain’s Office and sponsored by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale and its South Asian Studies Council and the Council on Middle East Studies. Additional support came from the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; the Office of International Students and Scholars, and the Asian American Cultural Center. For more information, visit: https://www.amusliminthemidst.com/" ]

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[ "After nearly two years of anticipation, many of the stores at revitalized Lido Marina Village in Newport Beach opened at the end of the summer. Look for more long-awaited spots to open this winter, including restaurants Nobu and L’Isoletta.", null, "AESOP The Australian company is known for its parsley seed anti-oxidant skin-care line but also sells super-hydrating shampoos as well as plant-based deodorant and mouthwash ($25 to $65). 3424 Via Oporto, 949-673-1995, aesop.com", null, null, "BAILEY 44 Casually elegant tops, dresses, and skirts in sumptuous jersey, silk, and eco-leather ($80 to $350) line the racks at this boutique, which looks more like a stylish-but-comfortable living room. It’s the first stand-alone store for the L.A.-based line. 3424 Via Oporto, 949-612-7833, bailey44.com", null ]

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[ null, "Subaru will include the percentage of Subaru OEM parts used by its certified body shops among the criteria the automaker will use to evaluate its collision repair network of dealerships and independents.\n\nSubaru national wholesale parts manager John Lancaster said Tuesday that his company hadn’t worked out the exact amount of OEM parts that would be necessary.\n\n“We’re still benchmarking this,” he said.\n\nTerms and conditions for certified repairers direct them to do so, but how frequently the parts must be used is still being studied, according to Lancaster.\n\nAsked if this mention of percentages referred to specific classes of parts — for example, an aftermarket oil filter was acceptable, but an aftermarket bumper fascia wasn’t, Lancaster said no. He said nothing was set in stone yet, but offered this insight into Subaru’s possible thought process:\n\nIf a customer came in with a 1999 Subaru Impreza, it might be “maybe unrealistic” to require 100 percent OEM parts, Lancaster said. (It’d probably total, he noted.) However, if the certified shop was working on a 2019 Subaru Ascent, “you better be” installing all OEM components, he said.\n\n“If a collision repair is necessary, Subaru of America, Inc. strongly recommends that any repairs be performed by a reputable body repair facility using Genuine Subaru replacement body parts, mechanical components, and electrical parts including all safety devices such as airbags and seatbelts,” Subaru wrote in 2013. “The use of Genuine Subaru original parts will help ensure the vehicle is restored back to its original pre-collision condition and the structural integrity of the vehicle will perform as it was designed and tested in the event of another collision. Safety of our customers is our number one priority.”\n\nSubaru won’t be directly auditing repair quality by repeatedly examining work in progress or performing a post-repair inspection on a customer’s vehicle, according to Lancaster.\n\n“We’re not doing surprise inspections or anything,” he said.\n\nSubaru will however be able to keep an eye on if some frequently necessary repair procedures are being done, according to Lancaster. The program requires shops to use AutoWatch (Subaru gives them a free subscription), which provides some KPI visibility but also allows shops to upload documentation such as estimates, OEM repair procedures, results of diagnostic scans (required since the 2004 model year), calibration verification and measurement output, he said.\n\n“We can audit remotely,” he said.\n\nSubaru assumes that if a shop is providing the repair procedures, there’s “a lot higher chance” its technicians are actually following them, Lancaster said.\n\nCertification will include an annual inspection of the shop that might capture some repair errors.\n\n“It’s not like a pass-fail,” Lancaster said of such discoveries. “… It’s more educational.”\n\nA problem like seats not covered during the repair or parts being stored in a vehicle would instead be used as a teaching moment for the certified Subaru shop, he explained.\n\nCustomers are asked about their satisfaction, which gives Subaru another insight into the repair besides the come-backs which would appear in AutoWatch.\n\nIf enough customer red flags exist for a particular shop, Subaru might look at the repairs or perform a surprise visit, but hopefully it wouldn’t come to that, he said.\n\nSubaru will give its dealerships the first crack at its certified collision repair program before opening the network to independent collision repairers, possibly as early as this fall, national wholesale parts manager John Lancaster said Tuesday. (Provided by Subaru)\n\nSubaru-certified independent shops will be able to use this logo, according to the OEM. (Provided by Subaru)" ]

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[ null, "The event took place in The Atrium, County Hall, Swords on Tuesday, February 28th. At the event, all three groups who represented Fingal in the 2016 Pride of Place Competition were recognised for their great achievements.\n\nNext up came presentations to the three groups in recognition of participating and representing Fingal. All three groups were invited to say a few words as to their experience of having participated in Pride of Place 2016. Each group were photographed and then group shots were taken.\n\nThe Tower singers entertained and refreshments were much appreciated to round off a very enjoyable evening.\n\nMany thanks to all who organised a very pleasant evening" ]

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[ "I write here a general post about other alphabets. in particular my problem is with greek alphabet (i’ve got quite some greek music…)\n\nso my problem here is that what i see in roon is generally a mix:\n-i can get greek or translitterated (latin) alphabet at track, composition, and artist level\n-it happens that the title is in greek alphabet and the composition is translittereted…\n\nthese 2 examples are from identified albums with NO file tags (except track title, but with settings to prefer roons title). so i suppose the metadata are by roon.\nbut i have a lot of tagged albums (with composer and WORK), so i’m not really sure what comes from my tags and what comes from roon metadata.\n\ni’d like to know from roon staff if there is a general behavoir in roon software. and if there is a suggested tag scheme for these situations.\n\na good option would be to have the composition in greek and the track title in latin.\ni don’t know.\n\nI have to look up Greek tracks for my Greek, computer illiterate, wife and as a non Greek keyboard user I’ve found all of the streaming, metadata, online shop services a mess for finding Greek tracks, artists and albums.\nI see roon doing as good a job as any of them.\n\nFinally, i am retagging my greek files.\nBasically, i’ve seen that roon metadata are actually in greek alphabet, so that to obtain a correct identification, you have to tag in greek.\nor, more precicely, as my files were tagged in latin alphabet, there was a conflict.\n\nanyway, retagging has been not so difficult: in fact discosg is “perfect” on greek metadata, so i more or less automatically retagged via discogs.\n\nafter that, i had to identify albums in room, but it worked plainly.\n\nmy only choice has been to edit artists names in latin … for searching purpose.\n\nso i more or less automatically retagged via discogs\n\nI use generally for tagging 2 (windows) softwares:\nmp3tag\nfoobar2000\n\nboth have a plugin that allows to automatically tag files getting metadata from discogs (and other sources…)\nso, i simply had to edit the album in mp3tag, search the album title (in greek) and after that all the tracks are tagged with greek title. (i use then to create a WORK tag with the title of the composition in greek).\n\nkeep in mind that this procedure changes also the artist tag with the greek name. and that’s ok. i then edited the (identified) artist name using his/her romanized version.\n\nThanks, does mp3tag do batch tagging or is it still one album at a time i.e. apart from retrieving the metadata it’s essentially manual?\n\nwith mp3tag you have to do it one album at a time.\ni think that with foobar you can do it batch: for some reasons, the plugin does not work for me: it used to work perfectly, but…\nin any case, discogs has in general A LOT of different releases… so i think that if you have some kind of control on the tags … it’s better to do it album by album…\n\nThanks, I’ll give it spin and see how it goes. I’m used to puddletag’s masstagger which shows you which files and fields will change and you can deselect a file and /or any combination of fields to avoid those changes being written whilst keeping the stuff you want:", null, "Pity its discogs implementation is for all intents and purposes defunct so I can only leverage musicbrainz." ]

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[ "My kids hate math and sometimes that makes me feel like a failure.\n\nOkay that was a bit dramatic, but not far from the truth. Baloo really hates math and I often feel like I have failed him in that area. He’s not bad at math (although it’s also not his strength) but he does lack confidence in his math abilities. On the other hand, math has always been a strong point for me and I just assumed they would follow in my path. Baloo’s hatred of math has little to do with his abilities and everything to do with people who have made math boring. As I try to work with him on that, I remind myself that Royal and Logi-Bear could easily fall into the same trap. So I go a bit too far on the making math fun side. But they don’t hate math (yet) so I’m not willing to give up.\n\nI’ve been working on LEGO math ideas and making math fun for a few weeks and it’s gotten me excited about teaching math again. The boys are really responding to it.", null, "Today Logi-Bear and I were working on missing addends with a common sum. So we found multiple ways to make 7, 9, 10, etc. He is still very visual so the LEGO sums were perfect for explaining this concept. I’m going to illustrate using LEGO in sets of 5.\n\nWe used DUPLO Lego for this because they’re bigger, I could easily find more of them in our house, and sometimes I like to change things up. I love these sets of DUPLO Lego because they have a lot of basic pieces (unlike many DUPLO sets that have very specialized pieces) and because they both have numbers on the bricks!\n\nFirst, we would look at the sum we were working on (5s) and make one pile with 5 bricks. We could use that one pile to separate 5 into different ways. I wanted to illustrate with colors though, so we worked on this set up with multiple ways to make 5.", null, null, "Putting them into one block helped show that they all equal 5, but there are many ways of making 5.", null, "“If you have 3 yellow blocks and I give you two orange blocks, how many blocks do you have?”", null, "I think working on exercises like this and letting them work out how to make the groups helps them to memorize the addition facts. After a few times Logi-Bear was able to remember some of the facts.", null, "We’ve worked with regular LEGO up until this point and now I’m throwing DUPLO into the mix. Honestly, we have a less variety in DUPLO pieces which means I am able to find tons and tons of the same brick in different colors. It was great for this." ]

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[ null, "It is fitting on this feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of life, that we offer a hearty and warm congratulations to Father Alphonse de Valk who yesterday celebrated 50 years a priest. Father de Valk, a faithful member of the Congregation of Saint Basil, and the founder and editor-emeritus of both the Interim and, until a few years ago, Catholic Insight magazine, which he began in 1993 as a beacon of Catholic culture and hope, is a true Canadian hero. Born in 1932, Father de Valk was ordained (a ‘late vocation’ as he called himself) on December 11 in 1965, three days after the close of the Second Vatican Council. I have known Father de Valk for many years, first meeting him soon after I ‘got off the boat’ from bonnie Scotland and settled in Toronto as a wee lad (with my family in tow, of course), and, looking back, I can say that he truly embodied and lived out the true spirit of Vatican II.\n\nAbout being a priest, in which vocation he never faltered, Father de Valk had this to say:\n\n“Being a priest is a tremendous vocation. It allows you to do so many things for people but always to live on the highest possible level of ideals. It certainly means serving the Lord in the world and for me the intellectual apostolate of teaching, growing in study and doing the will of God. To be a priest is to preside at the liturgy, to teach the faith and to do everything that Christ did as a Priest.”\n\nFather de Valk began a doctorate in the early seventies, but, with the abortion battle just then looming, decided to dedicate his life to the pro-life cause and the victory of the culture of life. As he put it, he did not want to be like the German professor writing ironically in the midst of World War II about the ‘Fall of the Babylonian Empire’ while bombs were reducing his city to rubble.\n\nThus began a very fruitful and productive priestly life, with hundreds of articles, essays, pamphlets and books in the cause of life and true Catholic culture. Again, in his own words:\n\n“As a historian, my entrance into the pro-life movement came from a realization that an er­ror in principle in a grave matter of life and death either has to be reversed or it will destroy society. Anti-Semitism in Germany be­tween 1918 and 1939 should have been redressed because the Nazis made use of it and it destroyed Germany. Likewise, legalized abortion will destroy Western socie­ties unless we redress it.”\n\nAnd redress it he did. Father de Valk did not balk at criticizing our culture and those within it, in the spirit of humility and charity, without which no growth in virtue is possible. His vivid words and lively writing style will stand the test of time.\n\nA true pro-life witness, he put his words and beliefs into action. Father de Valk spent countless hours faithfully praying in front of Morgentaler’s abortuary, being arrested and spending two weeks in jail. He was one of the ‘fourteen’ sued by the immoral and reckless NDP government.\n\nFather de Valk is the co-founder of the Catholic Civil Rights League (1985), the Family Coalition Party (1987) and, as mentioned, Catholic Insight (1993), which he edited until a few years ago.\n\nI myself am humbled and grateful to continue the work editing of the magazine, which sadly had to discontinue print production last spring, now continuing on-line.\n\nAnd we should all be grateful to Father de Valk for his untiring work as a priest, a scholar, a writer and a witness for God and His people, especially the most defenceless. May God reward him far more than we can, with as many more years as a priest in this world as He so wills, before a well-earned eternity.\n\nAnd Our Lady of Guadalulpe, patroness of life, ora pro nobis!\n\n(I am indebted to the Interim article on Father de Valk’s 25th anniversary for much of the biographical material and quotations. Editor)" ]

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[ null, "Goodreads Description:\nCelestine North is Flawed.\nEver since Judge Crevan declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with Carrick, the only person she can trust.\nBut Celestine has a secret—one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground. A secret that has already caused countless people to go missing.\nJudge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for Celestine. With tensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save just herself or risk her life to save all Flawed people.\n\nReview:\nI was surprised about how easy it was to remember everything that came back to my mind from the first book. The ending was very satisfying, Celestine isn't a complete martyr as some main characters can be in dystopian novels and get super annoying super quick. The duo-logy is so packed with story and character that I can't help but wonder how Ahern can fit so much in so little time without it being overwhelming and confusing.\nI really love Cecelia Ahern, shes honestly one of my favorite authors, her stories really pull me in.\nJust thought I would go ahead and mention that.\nThrow it out into the universe.\nCelestine does get a little EXTRA at one point to prove a point to Art, I was like screaming internally, like im extra too but this was a whole nother level of extra. Celestine, even though this might seem contradictory to what I just said, keeps a level head when it comes to bringing the downfall of the guild, she doesnt think of doing everything herself but rather does seek help in carrying out her plan which I guess is the reason why I liked the ending so much. I DO which that there was a bigger epilogue to see how people managed to adjust after everything was over, but I guess being able to imagine our own things is good too, considering how much I grew to care for the character, its not that hard to do.\n\nRecommend it?\nYes, I really do, its a good and solid read." ]

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[ null, "Poolside If We Make It\n\nJason Grishkoff\nPublished:\nJun 08, 2013\nTotal plays:\n18,492\nSaved:\n167 times\nSounds like: Goldroom, Classixx, Body Language\nTags: indie rock, indie pop, dance\nWhy do we like this?\nPoolside's new song \"If We Make It\" was released a couple days back as part of a compilation for Scion (that's right, the car company).\n\nPerhaps it's because it's not for their own release -- but ultimately this track is so-so. Still, I have mad respect for these guys as a band, and given Saturdays are pretty darn slow, figured it wouldn't be so bad to make this the Song of the Day.\n\nWorst case scenario: this kicks off an awesome daytime disco playlist. And who can complain about that?\n- Google Jason Grishkoff\nStreaming source: http://soundcloud.com/poolside/if-we-make-it\nTOUR DATES\nView all X tour dates for .", null, null, null, "Poolside - Why You Wanna" ]

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[ "Tonyboy Cojuangco did not kick out Gretchen Barretto — PEP sources", null, "PEP sources say rumor that Gretchen Barretto was thrown out of the Dasmariñas mansion by her longtime partner Tonyboy Cojuangco is not true.\n\n\"She is still there and she never left.\"\n\nThis was the information that PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal) gathered from three different sources about Gretchen Barretto, who was recently rumored to have been thrown out of the Dasmariñas mansion by her longtime partner Tonyboy Cojuangco.\n\nIn his column published last Friday, September 19, Philippine Star entertainment editor Ricky Lo wrote that Gretchen \"was packing her things and leaving the mansion in [Dasmariñas] which she and her beloved Tonyboy Cojuangco and their daughter Dominique have been sharing even during these past turbulent years.\"\n\nAccording to Ricky's source, \"Tonyboy drove her [Gretchen] away.\"\n\nCurious to find out more, PEP dug into its sources over the next three days. All three reliable sources know and are known to Tonyboy and Gretchen. In separate interviews, each one of the three sources confirmed that Gretchen never packed up her bags, nor did Tony tell her to leave.\n\nOne source said, \"In the first place, Tony is not the kind to kick anybody out. He's really mabait.\"\n\nThe second source said, \"What news it that? She's still there.\"\n\nFinally, a third source today said, \"As far as their friends know, they're still in one house. Pero parang hindi nagpapansinan.\"\n\nOur sources also say that no big fight happened recently between the couple.\n\nStartalk also reported last Saturday, September 21, that Gretchen herself denied the report in a phone conversation with her business manager Boy Abunda. She said, \"Tony and I are okay. I did not leave home.\"\n\nThis year began with talks that Gretchen and Tonyboy, who have been together for close to 14 years, were on the verge of separating because of the alleged affair between Gretchen and businessman Dody Puno.\n\nA few weeks after this report came out, Gretchen showed up at Senator Jinggoy Estrada's birthday party last February 16, held at the Blue Leaf Events Pavillion in Taguig City, with Tonyboy.\n\n\"Ganito ba yung mga pinalayas?\" Gretchen teased the press. She was referring of course to the rumor that she had been told by Tonyboy to pack her bags. The business magnate reportedly had enough of Gretchen's alleged affair with Dody.\n\nThese rumors came after a series of sightings, which said that Gretchen had been with some men in varying degrees of intimacy. In this order: actor John Estrada, when photos published on the Internet and aired on TV showed them kissing; government official Dody Puno, who was seen with her at several high-end places like Serendra, Bonifacio High Streets, and the Puno-owned Alchemy; and businessman Ricky Yabut, who was allegedly seen at a pricey restaurant with Gretchen in a very cozy set-up.\n\nFollowing these, there is buzz of an affair between Gretchen and the government official, which has remained constant. Tonyboy is supposed to know about these rumors, but for unexplained reasons, has not made a move against his partner. The speculation is that he cannot offer marriage, and that Dody has.\n\nThe other speculation is that Gretchen has made amends to Tony, and is now playing the dutiful mistress.\n\nHowever, one of our sources has a simpler explanation. \"Tony simply loves Gretchen.\"" ]

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[ "Walk along Empire Creek through the Cottonwoods\n\nLast night the temperature dropped to 34 degrees. At 3 A.M. I turned on the Wave heater so the RV would remain warm. Around 7 o’clock Yuma and I got up to a bright sun and no wind. Took our normal walk. Actually felt nice, although the temperature was only 39.", null, null, "It wasn’t long after breakfast before the sun felt so good, I just had to lay in the lounge chair and soak it up.\n\nLooking at the weather forecast for this area, I decided I would stick around a few more days. 70s and 80s forecast for the rest of the week. With that decision made, I knew I had to run into Sonoita to pick up some groceries. I’m out of some vital food.\n\nAround 12:30, Yuma and I hopped in the Jeep for the 10 mile run into town. Made a quick stop at the Dollar General and then we drove around and took a few pictures of Sonoita again. Not really a town. Actually, just buildings along either side of the highways.", null, "A local. I don’t feel so bad for the way I’m dressed now.", null, null, "Wasn’t long before we were back at our site. Should have fixed lunch, but I forgot. Instead, Yuma and I made a run up to the Cottonwoods at Empire Creek. Driving up the road, I couldn’t resist taking another picture of the Mustang Mountains across the valley.\n\nThis area is called Empire Gulch and has a path going along and through the creek. It is a favorite place for bird watchers.", null, "Yuma just loved the trail. He took off and was running a hundred miles an hour up and down the trail showing off! Hard to get a picture he was going so fast. A creek and Yuma running fast. I should have known there would be trouble.", null, null, null, "It was sad to see so much fire damage. Many of the large cottonwoods were dead. I could see fire damage everywhere I looked. Fortunately, there are many still alive to carry on future growth.", null, null, null, null, "Interesting. The creek just went underground at this spot.", null, null, null, null, null, "Heard a lot of birds, but this Vermillion Flycatcher was the only one that would let me take a picture.", null, null, null, "The creek side of the newer old Empire Ranch house.", null, "One of many huge Cottonwoods that had to be cut down.", null, null, null, "On the way back to the Jeep, Yuma went wild again, but this time he ran through the creek several times. He was one muddy and wet dog!", null, null, "Is Yuma having fun or what!!", null, "Here he is looking miserable. I yelled at him and his feelings are hurt. Also, he knows he is going to get a bath. Doesn’t like baths.", null, "Yuma got his bath and now he is nice and clean. Got lots of pets and love, so he is one happy and clean dog now. Now I need a bath." ]

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[ "In Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World, Krishan Kumar analyses five key historical empires – the Ottoman, the Habsburg, the Russian/Soviet, the British and the French – making the case for how the ideas and ideologies of each shaped their mode of imperial rule and enduring influence. Due to a lack of clarity in the book’s central thesis and its reliance on secondary rather than primary sources, Sumit Guha is left unconvinced.", null, "The history of empires, and of the states that founded them, formed the core of world history from the nineteenth century onward. The field has thrived ever since. Decolonisation after World War II, the Cold War and the rise of many new nationalisms answered empire-centric histories with nation-centred ones. Paradoxically, the unravelling of what was revealed to be a nakedly imperial system in the Soviet Union renewed interest in empires. The apparent place of the United States as the new world empire has enabled many facile analogies. Delusions of empire had clearly percolated to the George W. Bush White House too, where a senior official told Ron Suskind in 2004 that empirical study was now obsolete:\n\nWe’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors […] and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.\n\nThis mentality arguably contributed to the US invasion of Iraq, which quickly bogged the country down in a bloody and expensive quagmire.\n\nMany have indeed studied empires and now Krishan Kumar has written a near 600-page work which is, broadly speaking, sympathetic to the empires he considers. The author is a professor of sociology, not a historian, and so one expects analytic rigour, if not archival depth. I also realise that a reviewer should not demand a book that the author did not intend to write: I will therefore assess Visions of Empire in terms of what Kumar declares that it will achieve.\n\nThe subtitle, ‘Shaped the World’, indicates that the book will tell us about empires’ lasting global effects. The preface shifts that a little, describing the book’s purpose as being ‘to show how empires were ruled, in particular how their ruling peoples conceived their task in running these vast, rambling, and diverse enterprises that we call empire’. Kumar declares that he aims not to detail the mechanics of imperial rule, but to ‘examine the ideas and ideologies that governed the thinking and at least to some extent, the policies of imperial rulers’. He then qualifies further that ‘how far they were able to carry these out, how far indeed they intended to do so, varied from empire to empire…’ (xii-xiii, my emphasis). A few pages later the ‘main concern is the outlook and attitudes of the ruling peoples during the period of actual imperial rule’ (6, my emphasis).This introduces a persisting confusion between ‘rulers’ (who may be a foreign family, like the Hanoverians or the Habsburgs) and ‘ruling peoples’ – a much larger number of people, defined, it appears, by speaking the same language. This involves a silent merging of two very different sociological categories: ‘dynasty’ and ‘nation’. A dynasty is composed of its founders and those recognised as legitimately begotten descendants. The marriage of two dynastic heirs, if followed by the birth of (usually) a son, would unite two dynastic domains regardless of how far apart they were geographically or ethnically. Dynasties long preceded nations and disregarded their boundaries. Nations only emerged as political entities across Europe and America around 1750-1800.\n\nSetting such confusions aside, we may see this as a comparative project in the history of imperial ideology. The book is highly reminiscent of Anthony Pagden’s Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500-1800, which appeared over twenty years ago. That book laid out the ways in which the ideologies of empire had been debated across the early modern world. Pagden presents a lucid thematic analysis of ideas of conquest and rule held by leading intellectuals and policymakers across three empires and several centuries. But Pagden’s work wisely ended in 1800, just when the intermingling of nationalism and empire began.\n\nKumar’s project is similar but more grandiose. He analyses five empires (not counting the Roman, which occupies 36 pages in the book). Unlike Pagden, however, Kumar looks at each of the five in separate chapters. He begins with the Ottoman Empire (c.1400-1919), followed by the Habsburg dynastic realms, the ‘Russian and Soviet’, the British and, finally, the French empires. The choice, as he acknowledges, is to some degree arbitrary, but he believes these five are ‘the most important of the modern empires’ (xv, my emphasis). That is a shaky historical claim: it implies that their shaping of the world was more significant than that achieved by the American or Chinese empires, each of which expanded over vast territories between 1700 and 1900 and assimilated or destroyed large populations in the process. Nor should we fail to mention that these two are still with us and increasingly rivals for world dominance.\n\nNow, logically, the first step in studying the ideas of the ‘ruling peoples’ is to identify those peoples. Let us start with the Ottomans. The specialists such as Kemal H. Karpat have long established that ‘Ottoman was the name of the dynasty and that was synonymous with the state, which was considered to be the Sultan’s mülk or propert […] Turk was the name given to a great variety of tribes and commoners speaking one of the Turkic Oguz dialects’. The Sultan ‘owned’ his state and empire and named it after his founding ancestor ‘Osman’; he constantly recruited followers and servants from across his domains. Osman was but one of many such Turkish chiefs. Once his lineage prevailed, however, it built on the Inner Asian heritage of the Turks. The clue is in the (unmentioned) fact that the empire consistently conducted its administration in Turkish, even if this was strongly inflected with Arabic and other languages. One might have made the argument that Sunni Muslim Turks were the ‘ruling people’. If so, it is in the enormous archive that they left behind that Kumar might have found their ‘ideas and ideologies’. But instead he largely paraphrases what western Europeans said about the empire. The contrast of Ottoman marital and reproductive politics with those of its neighbour in Habsburg Austria is also left unexplored. The Ottomans ceased to marry into other ruling families. They instead begot heirs from select enslaved women who might then be manumitted. Male heirs had, however, to fight their way to the throne against other sons. The loss of a kingdom by default of heirs (as happened to the Habsburgs in 1700) was not possible.\n\nThe Ottomans’ immediate neighbour was the long-surviving Habsburg dynasty, which at one time governed the entire Spanish empire as well as much of Europe. Here the focus shifts entirely to a ruling family. But this succession of kings and one notable queen cannot be defined as a ‘ruling people’. The power politics of early European states were impossibly entangled with accidents of biology and the Roman church’s ban on divorce and polygyny. There is no other way to account for the same dynasty (for a time) ruling Chile and Croatia. If the English Queen Mary I (1553-58) had borne an heir while married to the Habsburg Philip II of Spain (Consort 1556-58), then England too might have been part of that empire. Provinces, cities and states often changed hands not because of the wishes of any ‘ruling people’, but purely as a result of the sterility or fertility of a dynastic marriage. Kumar quotes the saying ‘tu felix Austria, nube’ (‘Thou, happy Austria, marry’) twice (163, 173), but does not acknowledge that the way the empire took shape by marriage and inheritance shatters the idea of this empire having ‘a ruling people’. The major rupture, for example, between the kingdoms of two branches of the Habsburg dynasty occurred because of the death, without heirs, of Charles II, the last Habsburg king of Spain, in 1700.\n\nStill, if any single empire of Kumar’s set of five is judged to have enduringly ‘shaped’ the modern world, it would be either the British or Spanish one in the Americas. The first shaped the United States and Canada; the second, the vast lands south of the US border. But Kumar devotes a single chapter to the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs together. In the last part, he slides solely into a discussion of Austria as centred on Vienna. Contrary to his announced agenda, thinkers cited here are scarcely ever the imperial elites or policymakers: they are largely later historians, novelists like Robert Musil and figures such as Karl Renner, who had something positive to say about the Austro-Hungarian empire. This chapter is followed by chapters on the Russian-Soviet, British and French empires. With these three at least, we may find an arguably identifiable ‘ruling people’: the speakers of Russian, English and French respectively.\n\nThe book periodically returns to the concept of ‘imperial nationalism’ in a Hegelian mode. This is something present when ‘a nation – not always consciously – gets its sense of itself and its purpose in the world by becoming the vehicle of a principle that is larger than itself, typically in an empire with a ‘‘world-historical’’ or universalist mission’ (287). With the French and British empires, we do get some presentation of elite views of their empire and its future – the original agenda of this book. Britain and modern British society are Kumar’s particular area of study, and this chapter is therefore the best documented. Here he cites major English thinkers of the imperial period, including Edmund Burke, James Mill, Thomas Macaulay, John Seeley and Winston Churchill. Kumar however bridles at Bernard Porter’s argument that the empire concerned only a few upper-class men and the masses cared little for it. But he has no real criticism of the very specific evidence that Porter put forward, beyond saying that empiricism ‘can be a crude thing’ (322). He presents many caveats about how evidence should be assessed, but little reference to or assessment of the evidence itself.\n\nMuch of the book reads like a digest of notes from select secondary sources rather than a sustained argument. Apart from ‘cherry-picking’ evidence, the book also never develops a consistent response to specific critics (Edward Said or the aforementioned Porter, for example). The comparative and analytic frame found in works as diverse as Niall Ferguson and Pagden is lacking as well. The Epilogue offers an unconscious acknowledgement that the book has not been a good vehicle for its own ‘world-historical mission’. An Epilogue is where one would expect to find the distilled evidence for how these five empires shaped the world; instead, it ends weakly with a plea for the continued study of empires.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Throughout 19-year-old Cora Patterson’s life, her father had been in and out of jail.\n\nBut when Cora, from Bolton in the UK, told her father she was pregnant in February, he was over the moon and said it had inspired him to pursue a fresh start.\n\nLess than a month later, Cora spotted her father, Colin Patterson, and her aunt, Janine Patterson, in CCTV footage police had released to help find the people who had burgled the home of a retired woman.\n\nWithout hesitation, Cora knew what she had to do: she told police the names of her family members involved, knowing that when she did, her father would go to back prison.\n\n\"There was CCTV footage of the burglars and immediately I recognised my dad and his sister, Janine,\" Cora told The Sun of the moment she realised what her father had done.\n\n\"I felt so angry and ashamed and I posted their names and details on Facebook.\n\n\"I was devastated and I felt so bad for the people whose home he had burgled. I felt at rock bottom.\n\n\"I sent my details to the home owner and then I spoke to the police. Dad was arrested soon after.\"\n\nCora said knowing she would be sending her own father in prison was \"the hardest thing\" she has ever done.\n\n\"But it was the right thing to do,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks my heart that my baby will grow up without a grandad.\"\n\nShe said that she \"always wished\" her father, who was absent for most of her childhood, would change, and hoped the prospect of becoming a grandparent would help.\n\n\"I phoned him [to tell him I was pregnant] and he was absolutely thrilled,\" she said.\n\n\"He came round to congratulate me and he told me that the baby would be a new start for him and he wouldn't let us down.\"\n\nWhen Colin and Janine appeared in court last month, the judge praised the teen for her bravery.\n\n\"It does take some serious courage to do that. A far as I'm concerned, [Cora] should be commended,\" Judge Timothy Stead told the court.\n\nColin and Janine had stolen a number of items from the woman's home, including gifts she had received from her parents for her 21st birthday before they died, and a swimming medal that belonged to the woman's mother.\n\nColin was sentenced to four years in prison, and Janine to 30 months behind bars.\n\n\"Dad has let me down once too often. He doesn't deserve to be in my baby's life at all,\" she said.\n\nBizarre title. Irrelevant she was pregnant, and while she mentioned it on FB that's not what sent him to prison." ]

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[ null, "The semifinals are set for the New York City Gold Series event with seeds 1, 2, 3 and 5 set to vie for the title in both the men's and women's events. Current Photo via AVP\n\nThe semifinals are set for the New York City Gold Series event with seeds 1, 2, 3 and 5 set to vie for the title in both the men’s and women’s events.\n\nAllen/Doherty dropped to the contender’s bracket, where they bested No. 7 Jeremy Casebeer/Reid Priddy in straight sets. Brunner/Hyden played their way back in with a straight set win over No. 10 Chase Budinger/Sean Rosenthal.\n\nDalhausser/Lucena won the season-opening Austin Open, May 20, while Allen/Doherty were fifth and Brunner/Hyden were ninth.\n\nOn the women’s side, the semifinal field is led by top seeded Sara Hughes/Summer Ross. No. 2 Kelly Claes/Brittany Hochevar, No. 3 Alix Klineman/April Ross and No. 5 Nicole Branagh/Brandie Wilkerson round out the group.\n\nThe semifinals pit Hughes/Ross against Claes/Hochevar at 12:15, while Branagh/Wilkerson and Klineman/Ross face off at 1:15. The first match will see former collegiate partners Hughes and Claes battle it out.\n\nKlineman/Ross took the Austin Open title on May 20, while the other three pairs did not compete in the event." ]

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[ "The parents of a woman who died in a crash involving a duck boat headed to the Massachusetts State House to push for new safety rules for the amphibious sightseeing vessels.\n\nIvan and Martha Warmuth testified Thursday at a public hearing before the Legislature's Transportation Committee in favor of a bill that would prohibit duck boat drivers from simultaneously serving as narrator and tour guide.\n\nThe bill also would mandate that vehicles be equipped with blind spot cameras and proximity sensors.", null, null, "Twenty-eight-year-old Allison Warmuth was riding a scooter when she was struck and killed April 30 near Boston Common.\n\nThe operator of the duck boat, Boston Duck Tours, said after the crash that safety was its top priority and that it had begun taking steps to address the concerns." ]

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[ null, "Clement: Tammy call is pleasing for us all\n\nPaul Clement reckons Tammy Abraham’s England call is reward for the progress he is making at Swansea City.\n\nAbraham hopes to become just the second man in history to be capped by England at senior level while playing his club football for the Swans having been summoned for the upcoming friendlies against Germany and Brazil.\n\nAs things stand, Jonjo Shelvey is the only player to have represented England while on the Swans’ books.\n\nNow Abraham is poised to follow Shelvey’s lead, and Clement has welcomed Gareth Southgate’s decision to promote the young striker from the England Under-21 squad.\n\n“It’s very pleasing news, particularly for Tammy but also for our club and for his parent club Chelsea,” said the Swans manager.\n\n“It’s a pleasant surprise for us to see someone who we have brought in and who has done well rewarded with his first call-up at that level.\n\n“His goalscoring is the big thing, but I think in recent games he has shown that his all-round game is developing too.\n\n“He got a lovely assist against Arsenal. His back-to-goal play is improving and so is his defensive work.\n\n“He is making positive steps. He has been picked on merit and we wish him well.\n\n“I don’t see it as a hindrance for us at all. It’s a very positive thing that a young player has been recognised and now has the chance to become only the second Swansea player after Jonjo Shelvey to be capped by England.”\n\nAbraham has scored four goals in 10 Premier League appearances for the Swans, while he also netted in the Carabao Cup win at MK Dons.\n\nHe has taken the switch to the top tier in his stride having excelled while on loan in the Championship with Bristol City last season.\n\nAnd Clement reckons Abraham now has a chance to book a place in Southgate’s squad for next summer’s World Cup.\n\n“I think he will cope well with being in the England senior squad because he is a confident young man,” he added.\n\n“He needs to make sure he takes it in his stride and stay grounded, and I am sure the people around him will help him do that.”" ]

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[ null, "Jean Toomer (1894–1967) was born in Washington, D.C., the son of educated blacks of Creole stock. Literature was his first love and he regularly contributed avant garde poetry and short stories to such magazines as Dial, Broom, Secession, Double Dealer, and Little Review. After a literary apprenticeship in New York, Toomer taught school in rural Georgia. His experiences there led to the writing of Cane.\n\nRudolph P. Byrd (Ph.D. Yale University) is the Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and the Department of African American Studies and the founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University. He is the author and editor of ten books, including Jean Toomer’s Years with Gurdjieff; Essentials by Jean Toomer with Charles Johnson; Charles Johnson’s Novels: Writing the American Palimpsest; The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson; and with Alice Walker The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker. Among Professor Byrd’s awards and fellowships are an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at Harvard University; Visiting Scholar at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center; and the Thomas Jefferson Award from Emory University. He is a founding officer of the Alice Walker Literary Society.\n\nHenry Louis Gates, Jr. (Ph.D.Cambridge), is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University. He is the author of Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513–2008; Black in Latin America; Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora; Faces of America; Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the Racial Self; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism; Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars; Colored People: A Memoir; The Future of Race with Cornel West; Wonders of the African World; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man; and The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. His is also the writer, producer, and narrator of PBS documentaries Finding Your Roots; Black in Latin America; Faces of America; African American Lives 1 and 2; Looking for Lincoln; America Beyond the Color Line; and Wonders of the African World. He is the editor of African American National Biography with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and The Dictionary of African Biography with Anthony Appiah; Encyclopedia Africana with Anthony Appiah; and The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts, as well as editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com.\n\nBooks by Jean Toomer published by The Library of America" ]

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[ null, "[Photo by Wonderlane on Unsplash]\n\nSince Clubhouse has gained traction, narratives are emerging of every other social media entity latching on to audio so people can engage with each other orally. Everybody wants to do it. But is everyone equipped? Chris Anderson’s TED Talks: The Official Guide to Public Speaking has some pointers to offer.\n\n“Unlike challenging explanations or complex arguments, everyone can relate to stories. They typically have a simple linear structure that makes them easy to follow. You just let the speaker take you on a journey, one step at a time. Thanks to our long history around campfires, our minds are really good at tracking along.\n\n“And a natural part of listening to stories is that you empathize with the experiences of the characters. You find yourself immersed in their thoughts and emotions. In fact, you physically feel what they feel; if they’re stressed or excited or exhilarated, so are you. And that makes you care about the outcome. Your attention is held.\n\n“What are the elements of a great story? The classic formula is: A protagonist with goals meets an unexpected obstacle and a crisis results. The protagonist attempts to overcome the obstacle, leading to a climax, and finally a denouement. (There can also be interruptions and plot twists.)\n\n“When it comes to sharing a story from the stage, remember to emphasize four key things\n\nThis is not rocket-science. There is a lot of common sense embedded there.\n\nThe exodus from China\n\nMost narratives have it that China has finally arrived and is locked in a battle with the US for dominance of the global narrative. The abiding narrative also has it that China will do all it takes to keep manufacturing in the country going at full throttle. But a contrarian narrative that manufacturing companies are leaving China, published in the Arabian Business Forum, was brought to our attention by Devangshu Dutta, our valued contributor.", null, "[Photo by Li Yang on Unsplash]\n\n“In November 2020, the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai (AmCham) released its annual China Business Report, which published the results of a survey of 346 of its members, highlighting findings that 71% percent of manufacturer respondents indicated ‘they will not shift production out of China’ as evidence that foreign ‘[c]ompanies remain committed to the China market.’\n\n“The narrative examines other data points as well such as a report published in the September 2020 of Forbes magazine that argued ‘[a] mixture of longstanding issues… such as high tariffs, Covid-19 and increased geopolitical tensions have resulted in a mass exodus from Chinese manufacturing, and triggered the start of the downfall of the country’s manufacturing dominance.\n\n“So who’s right and who’s wrong about whether global supply chains are shifting away from China? One possible way to clear up the confusion is to examine who AmCham Shanghai polled. In the AmCham survey, only 200 of 346 members who responded were manufacturers, and of those, 141—or 71%—said they had no plans to leave China. But the remaining 58 manufacturers—29%—said they were moving some or all of production out. That amounts to nearly one-third of manufacturers polled by AmCham who were thinking about or already planning to exit China. Hardly insignificant.”\n\nThis report speaks to others and drills deeper. “AmCham’s survey was conducted prior to the US total ban on Xinjiang cotton in response to forced labour allegations. On January 13, 2021, US Customs issued a ‘region-wide withhold-release order on products made by slave-labour in Xinjiang,’ which sent the fashion industry racing to extricate its supply chains from cotton-growers in China’s western-most province.”\n\nIt goes on to point out that “the Chinese government is working desperately to slow down the exodus of foreign manufacturers to mitigate its effects on China’s post-Covid-19 economic recovery, which has been beset by rising unemployment, especially among new graduates, and declining domestic demand.”\n\nYesterday, we tuned in to a livestream on YouTube that had Yuval Noah Harari and Daniel Kahneman in conversation, moderated by Kara Swisher on global trends shaping humankind. The 90 minutes just went by. Swisher opened the conversation by asking Harari and Kahneman for their quick thoughts on the future.\n\n“This is the first time in human history where we don’t know what will happen in such a short time.”\n\nHarari, who is a philosopher, historian and best-selling author, was in his element and got the ball rolling by making two observations. One, that leaders of countries must choose between co-operating globally or turning inwards and becoming nationalistic. It is already happening. He insinuated that those who choose the nationalistic route are damned in the longer run. And that as the pandemic runs its course and economies begin to emerge out of it, some countries and people will come out of it richer and more powerful while others will go into bankruptcy. There will be no single outcome. “The outcome depends on who you are and where you live. There is no single outcome,” he said.\n\nWhen Swisher probed Kahneman, the acclaimed psychologist and economist who is one of our favourites, chose to maintain a studious silence. “I don’t really believe in forecasting. My sense is that if we come out, the changes will not be very profound from where we are now.”\n\nIn a two-part essay after visiting China, G Venkat Raman made a few observations. First, that the Sino-US tech battle is a matter of concern for India because it will impact India too. Imagining China as a nation that used to filch technologies from the West is a thing of the past. It now has the prowess, wants a seat at the high-table, and it is a matter of time before its battle for dominance spills over into India as well. Read The US-China war for tech supremacy is splitting the world in two\n\nDaniel Kahneman has earned his reputation as the grandfather of behavioural economics. In this interview, he speaks about how the field came to be and the impact it has had. Read this CKGSB special: Less-than-rational-actors: An interview with Daniel Kahneman", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "I think the latest trend on social media is an office desk tour so I figured why not? A good place to show off where the magic happens. I spend quite a bit of time in the office, so why not make it cozy and aesthetic to help make it a little inspirational too?", null, "I’ve really been anxious about setting up an office again after 10.5 months in my parents basement on a temp set up. A lot of the pieces that I have are items that I’ve been collecting and hoarding for some time with a final vision that kind of came together nicely after all.\n\nThe desk top is the IKEA Pinnarp 98″ kitchen top. It’s not the more popular Karlby model – I wasn’t a big fan of the larger patterned chunks so the Pinnarp stood out to me more.\n\nThe desk mat and the wrist rest (Carpio) is from Deltahub. I’m sure if you’re into office aesthetics, I’m sure you’ve seen them pop up on your social media ads once or twice.", null, "I currently have two set ups for work. This is as clean as I could get it without making it look cluttered and full. I previously had my dual work monitors front and center and my widescreen off to the side but it was bugging me because it looked ugly as hell. So instead, I’ve just hooked both my work and home computers to the one monitor and that’s worked well.\n\nFor keyboards, currently I’m using a Keychron K6 for my home and a Ducky 2 for work. However, I’ll be bringing the Ducky 2 to work and I’ve got a Keychron K4 V2 to match the K6 at home. Technically I could’ve just got a K4 to begin with for one set up at home but I didn’t know what my WFH situation was going to be back when I ordered it.", null, "It ends up working well with the K6 being bluetooth/wireless so I just gotta grab it whenever I use my main computer. Over on the right, I keep my iPad Pro handy for when I do work for jtooned.", null, "On the sides are two IKEA Alex drawers that fit neatly on the ends and I’ve created a hybrid set up with the Autonomous standing desk frame, which I’ve bolted to the table top for the option to stand whenever I want.\n\nAll cables have been ziptied and tucked behind or underneath the desk. I also bought the Autonomous cable tray organizer that also bolts underneath the desk. Some people have mentioned that they didn’t like it, but I enjoy it. It’s big enough to hold a few power bars and tuck away a bunch of other cables.", null, "What would an office be without some personal decorations to go with it? Two of my jtooned colorings books – both the prototype and the final version. Maybe it’ll be worth a lot some day LOL!\n\nSpoon sports mask to remember the hype train we all jumped on for masks, miscellaneous FK8 diecast toys. Also a pretty dope RAYS USB battery pack I picked up at Wek Fest Chicago a few years ago.", null, "The monitor arm is from Amazon (thank god for Amazon) and is the Huanuo gas arm. Super sturdy and easy to adjust. I love it. On the side wall there, I have the IKEA peg board with cool little trays and cups to hold pens and headphones and stuff.", null, "On the desk, I’ve got an Advan Datsun Z. This thing was tough to find and as soon as I stopped looking/caring, I ended up finding it at Wal Mart of all places…", null, "Last but not least, one of my favourite things in the office is the Ubiquiti Alien router recommended to me by Dallas. I wasn’t initially planning on getting this until later to see how well the Shaw router performed but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that it performed like poop LOL.\n\nThe router is in the basement so getting any decent reception in the upstairs bedrooms is pretty slim or non-existent. I had the house wired for CAT6E to futureproof and Diana’s brother, Victor, capped all the ends for me and ran the rest of it. So hardwiring CAT6E from the basement to this router in the office has made a HUGE difference. I’m initially rated for 300mb/s download with Shaw – prior to the router, I was getting maybe 150mb/s on the main floor and if I was lucky, I’d get 20mb/s upstairs. Now, I’m easily getting 280mb/s in our master bedroom which is the furthest room from the router.\n\nThe coolest thing about this router is the display. It’s touchscreen and shows all the devices connected, the speed, the WIFI efficiency, etc all in real time. You can also perform a speedtest right on the router itself and it’ll show you the current download and upload. Definitely a piece worth displaying on the desk lol. I glance over at it sometimes pretending I know what it’s showing me on the graph." ]

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[ null, null, "Are there enough Thomases and Johns to confuse you yet? Me, too! That’s why I’m going to leave the relationship between me and Thomas 2nd Lord Culpeper up to you. He’s either a cousin or an uncle or something, but it makes my head spin.", null, "The most important part is Lord Thomas had no sons, so the Culpeper family crest died with him, as a crest is traditionally given to a son. I figured since nobody was using it, nobody would mind if I did, so here’s my Culpeper tat on my back. The bottom is French and means “I hope.”\n\nOkay, on to Lord Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron of Thoresway…", null, "Lord Thomas Culpeper, 2nd Baron Thoresway (left), was the son of Judith and John Culpeper, 1st Baron of Thoresway. As a royalist, his father left England at the end of the English civil war following the execution of King Charles I. Lord Thomas lived with his father in the Netherlands and there on 3 August 1659 married the Dutch heiress Margaretta van Hesse. (pictured below)", null, "(On a weird note, my trophy husband’s last name is Hess, but I’m sure he’s German, not Dutch.)\n\nIn July 1677, upon the death of Virginia Governor Sir William Berkeley, Lord Thomas became governor of Virginia but did not go there until 1679. While in Virginia, he seemed more interested in maintaining his land than governing, and he soon returned to England, though he did continue to serve as an absent governor until 1683.", null, "Culpeper’s marriage to Lady Margaretta was not a happy one. She lived at Leeds Castle (photo), and Lord Thomas lived in London with his mistress Susannah Willis and their two daughters. He died in his house in London on St. James Street and left a will in favor of Willis, which Lady Margaretta had suppressed. I assume Lady Margaretta didn’t even find out about the death for quite some time after it occurred. I also have reason to believe her daughter Catherine (mentioned below) may or may not be the child of her husband, but you can read about that scandal in my book “John Culpepper, Esquire,” the third book in the Culpepper Saga.", null, "Lord Thomas’s only child with Lady Margaretta was a girl, Catherine Culpeper (pictured as a child), and thanks to her mother’s diligence getting the will suppressed, young Catherine inherited much of her father’s wealth. A year after his death, in 1690, Catherine married Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord of Cameron (pictured below – look at those pouty lips!), thereby transferring the Culpeper wealth into the Fairfax family. The Culpeppers and Fairfaxes shared a long history of clashes, beginning with battling in the English Civil War in the 1640s when 3rd Lord Fairfax (Thomas Fairfax’s grandpa) was a General in the parliamentarian army and the Culpeppers (Catherine’s great uncles) were Royalists in the service of the King. You can read one of those stories here. I imagine a Fairfax/Culpepper marriage was quite a scandal in both families, so he either married her for her castle or for true love. Either way, you can imagine I’ll turn it into a book someday.", null, "In Virginia, both Culpeper County and its county seat, the town of Culpeper, Virginia, are named for Lord Thomas Culpepper 2nd Baron of Thoresway.", null ]

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[ null, "Hayes, Jeff W. (John Uriel Hayes). TALES OF THE SIERRAS by J. W. Hayes. With illustrations by John L. Cassidy. Portland, Oregon: F. W. Baltes and Company, Publishers, 1900. 20.5x12.5 cm (octavo), pp. [1-4: blank] [5-12] 13-136 [note: first and second leaves used as front paste-down and front free endpaper; true endpapers at rear], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of the author and his son), drawings in the text by John L. Cassidy, original pictorial red cloth, front and rear panels stamped in black, plain spine. First edition. One of the stories, \"The Hermit of Telegraph Hill,\" pp. 27-33, set in Tuolumne Meadows near Mount Dana, is an account of the discovery of the Sheepherder, the most famous lode in Tioga Mining District. Other stories are set in the Sierra and in eastern Nevada. \"In presenting 'Tales of the Sierras' to the public, I do so in the belief that it will find general favor with its readers ... The stories are founded on facts, with just enough elasticity of the truth to render them interesting and entertaining\" (preface, p. 13). John Uriel Hayes (1853-1917) was born in Cleveland. He taught himself Morse code and got a job as a telegraph operator on the Lake Shore Railroad in Pennsylvania. In subsequent years, Hayes worked in Buffalo, N. Y., Cleveland, Chicago, New York, St. Louis and Omaha. In 1877 he hooked up with the Western Union Telegraph in Virginia City, Nevada. According to the PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF PORTLAND, 1903, \"... A year later (he) helped to organize the Nevada & California Telegraph Company, superintending the construction of the telegraph from Carson City (Nev.) to Bodie, Cal.\" Eighteen months later he made a small fortune as one-third owner of the Great Sierra Mine, which was sold for $100,000 ... He took his profits to San Francisco, played the stock market and lost them all. He worked for Western Union and the U.S. government in various locales, then came to Portland as Western Union office manager in 1882. In 1889, he switched to the Postal Telegraph Co. In 1894, he suffered an ear infection; a botched treatment left him blind. He quit his job and spent more than $30,000 traveling the East in search of a cure. Nothing worked. He repaired to Cleveland, learned to type and took a job as a press operator for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Six months later he returned to Portland, applied at The Oregonian and was told there were no openings. He turned to writing. His first book, TALES OF THE SIERRAS, was a best seller, thanks largely to John W. Mackay, a silver mining and telegraph tycoon and an associate from Hayes' Nevada days. Mackay saw to it \"copies of the book (were) sent to every cable station and office in the world ...\" (1903 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD). Hayes published at least six books, including AUTOGRAPHS AND MEMOIRS OF THE TELEGRAPH (1916) that includes an account of telegraphing in the early days of Virginia City and elsewhere in eastern Nevada. Hayes died in a November 1917 train wreck in the Chicago area. (Most of this reading note is based on an account of Hayes life and work by John Terry, The Oregonian, online, posted 21 August 2010; to date I have not been able to document his association with the Great Sierra Mine.). Cowan (1933), p. 272. Paher 808. Baird and Greenwood 1141. Wright (III) 2610. Large contemporary gift inscription on the recto of the second blank leaf. Cloth lightly soiled and stained, one gathering partly sprung, several pages creased at fore-edges, small stain on title page, a good reading copy. (#166908)." ]

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[ null, "— The path to debauchery is strewn with good intentions. —\n\nBenjamin Snowley is trapped in a most distressing predicament. He’s been feeling poorly and after having recently recovered from influenza, he knows that the fault for his declining health lies in a vice he wouldn’t dare mention in polite conversation.\n\nFor Benjamin, it all started back at school, where he first encountered the immoral Frederick Cory. Ever since then, the man has been plaguing Benjamin’s dreams and causing most unnatural urges.\n\nNow is the time for all the infatuation nonsense to stop. With the help of an unorthodox doctor and an indecent proposition to a young stablehand, Benjamin will rid himself of the vile addiction.\n\nBut can the experimental treatment be enough to make him forget his feelings for Frederick?\n\nWarning: Contains a clueless young man on a futile quest for chastity and a libertine artist eager to rid him of that goal.\n\nThis was an interesting story. While regency style stories can be hit or miss with me I was happy with the ending to this story, I will admit that it took a bit of endurance for me to get through the first part of the book but the last third makes up for all the things that made it hard for the story to keep my attention. Benjamin is quite disturbed by his self-pollution and seeks out even the most radical of help as he sees so other way to cure himself. To make it worse he finds that the doctor is a fraud and even worse that he enjoys the “treatments”. Frederick has always been intrigued by Benjamin but took his icy and prudish exterior as a sign to back off, which he does until he sees Benjamin at a brothel in all his glory and can’t stop thinking of him as his.\n\nThe beginning of this story is a bit heart breaking with Benjamin pretty much torturing himself in fear that what he is doing is bad and will end up hurting him. We could just see how much this hurt Benjamin’s confidence and self worth as he fully thought it was slowly killing him and that he would only get worse. When we first see Frederick I wasn’t impressed, but he really redeems himself when he finally gets thru to Benjamin and shows him what love and pleasure can feel like.\n\nThroughout most of the story we see it through Benjamin’s eyes, so we know how he is feeling even when he tries to deny it to himself as much as all those around him. He continues to worry even while getting his “treatments” even if he begins to feel better. There is hope for Benjamin when we see how much Frederick wants him to feel and experience on the positive spectrum together. While they are open in their relationship they are fully committed to each other and they both have to be comfortable with what is going on. The abundance of self doubt made it hard to get into the story, but the end with Benjamin and Frederick’s relationship and life made up for all that in the end.\n\nThe cover art by Natasha Snow is a wonderful sensual view of Benjamin." ]

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[ null, null, "John Roberts Chief Justice is positioning the Supreme Court in a way that has both conservatives and liberals complaining and wondering what exactly Roberts is trying to do.\n\nChief Justice John Roberts is positioning the Supreme Court in a way that has both conservatives and liberals complaining and wondering what exactly Roberts is trying to do.\n\n\nWhat was he thinking? This is the question many are asking on both sides of the political spectrum.\n\nChief Justice John Roberts repeatedly voted with the Supreme Court's conservatives this term, except in one, and only one, 5-to-4 decision. Written by Roberts, the ruling blocked by the addition of a citizenship question on the 2020 census, leaving an attack President Trump desperately trying to find a way around it\n\nIt also left a lot of speculation about the motives of the chief justice.\n\nHe often does appear like he's very focused on his legacy and being popular rather than doing what a judge should do. \"\n\nFor some conservatives, Roberts' vote in the census case was another original, much like his vote in 2012 to keep key provisions of Obamacare. The chairman of the American Conservative Union has even called for Roberts' impeachment.\n\nCurt Levey, president of the Conservative Committee for Justice, doesn't go that far, but he said The census decision means that \"having a conservative majority on the court is rather than a reality.\"\n\nYet, Levey concedes that Roberts has been a reliable conservative vote on the court. Indeed, Roberts racked up an 80% rate agreement with the court's other conservatives in all opinions, the same percentage as the court's most conservative justice, Clarence Thomas.\n\nAs for Liberal, and Moderate Advocates and Activists, While relieved that the census looked – for now – immune to political machinations, they were infuriated by another, and perhaps even more important, Roberts opinion.\n\nWriting for himself and the court's four other conservatives, the chief justice slammed the door to court challenges to extreme partisans. The decision will allow many state legislatures unfettered discretion to draw congressional and state legislative district lines so as to entrench their own political power.\n\nBecause of governmentans now control state legislatures in 30 states, versus 18 controlled by Democrats, the decision is a bean to GOP power. (There are 22 states completely controlled by Republicans, and 14 where Democrats have total control).\n\nIt is not just liberals who have pushed for some court supervision of extreme partisan wrestling in an era of computer-driven hyper-partisanship.\n\n\"There's no doubt there's an agenda here,\" said Harvard Law professor Charles Fried, who served for four years in the Reagan administration as Solicitor General, the government's chief lawyer in the Supreme Court.\n\nHe and other Republican forms Officeholders filed a letter on behalf of those challenging extreme partisans. Alloding to Roberts' famous confirmation hearing comment that the job of a judge is not to one side but to \"call balls and strikes,\" Fried observes caustically, \"This is not balls and strikes. This is a long term, shrewdly played , but persistent program. \"\n\nThe agenda \"is to get the law, whether it's the courts, or the constitution, or the legislators\" out of regulation \"anything to do with elections.\" in this regard. He wrote the court's 5-to-4 decision striking down the Voting Rights Act, a law passed and repeatedly by large and bipartisan congressional majorities. He wrote or participated in a series of decisions striking down longstanding, as well as newer, limits on campaign contributions, also enacted by Congress, and aimed at limiting the role of big money in politics.\n\nAnd when the court, by a 5-to-4 vote, upheld independent redistricting commissions established by voter referendums, Roberts wrote the dissent. The decisive fifth vote in that case was Justice Anthony Kennedy, now retired, and Fried's that the 2015 decision is now in peril, even though Roberts, in the rerouting decision, pointed to the commissions as \"one way\" to take redistricting out of the hands incumbents\n\nWhile they are frightened by Roberts 'deviousness, Roberts' conservative critics are not the least bit appeased. They view him as something of a traitor, mainly for the Obamacare and census decisions\n\nLevey, of the Committee for Justice, sees Roberts as a man more concerned with his image than the law.\n\n\"He often does appear like he's very focused on his legacy and on being popular rather than doing what a judge should do,\" Levey said, adding that \"all the pressure from the mainstream media and the establishment is to move left. \"\n\nMotivated by a\" Solomonic dogma \"?\n\nOthers, like Josh Blackman, a constitutional law professor at Southwest College of Law Houston, have a different view . Though Roberts has been dubbed \"the new swing justice,\" in the wake of Kennedy's retirement last year, Blackman thinks that is a misnomer.\n\nHe sees Kennedy and retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, as \"actually somewhere in the middle , \"whereas\" Roberts is a solid conservative, but for whatever reason, in certain high-profile cases, he takes these very bizarre paths that no one else in the court goes along with. \"\n\nIt is true that nobody on the\n\n\"I think Roberts is motivated by some sort of Solomonic dogma, that in any given case of high note, \"Blackman said,\" that the correct decision is one where he splits the proverbial baby. \"\n\nOf course, chief justices, Republican and Democrat, liberal and conservative alike, have uniformly believed that they have a particular duty to maintain n public confidence in the court as an institution.\n\nFor instance, in 2000, then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist, said opinion upholding a decision he had long reviled [19459040\n\nAnd, in the 1930s Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes worked hard behind the scenes, on and off the court, to prevent President Franklin Roosevelt's court packing plan from becoming law. Some historians believe that he was equally instrumental in persuading one justice to moderate his views to defuse the threat. Amash Leaves The GOP “/>\n\nToday, Roberts faces similar threats: a president who openly and repeatedly casts judgments in partisan and even ethnic terms, and democratic presidential contenders, who think the number of justices on the Supreme Court should be expanded by statute if the Democrats take control of the Senate. They argue that Republicans, nominating President Obama's Supreme Court for almost a year to consider, have stolen the deck that is necessary.\n\nAs some who know Roberts, while this and other such proposals are still in their relative infancy, the chief justice cannot ignore the alarm bells. And he knows that the court moves too far to the right and too fast, those bells will only ring louder.\n\nMothers in the Sacramento area are responding to school reopening plans\n\nAngelina Jolie sells works of art by Winston Churchill for a record $ 11.5 million" ]

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[ "Every once in a while in the rap community you’ll get certain artists that for the most part have a persona or dramatic element that seems to exceed their actual talent in the game; those types are typically written off by the time their albums actually release. In my experience, these rappers drop a dope song, do some touring for a bit and then fade to black of relevancy.\n\nThat isn’t the case with Cardi B. Within the time her album was released it quickly reached gold status based on the success of her singles from the EP which have all topped the Billboard charts. Face it, even if you wanted to dislike her music, the new album makes it almost impossible to reject her come up.", null, "Between her hit features and singles: Bodak Yellow – Bartier Cardi (With 21 Savage) – No Limit (with G-Eazy) – Be Careful – Finnesse (with Bruno Mars) – Motorsport (with Migos and Nicki Minaj) you’d have to like at least one of those songs and that concept is whats so showing about her overall appeal to the industry.\n\nShe can make you a believer of her work even if you really weren’t trying to acknowledge her in the first place.\n\nOverall, i’m thoroughly impressed. I’m something of a non-conformist in hip-hop, mostly, as I rock with Wu Tang, Tribe Called Quest and Run the Jewels on a daily basis with some variations of trap music lamented here and there as needed. Cardi has earned some respect from the culture with such a solid album and proved that her presence in the rap game is more than that of ten minutes of fame. Solidity in the form of a well rounded project that caters to multiple hip hip tastes.\n\nInvasion of Privacy gets 4/5 stars from Play Your Way Network.\n\nThe Good: Great album, excellent production value and plenty of single worthy tracks that’ll stretch this album out on the Billboard charts and streaming numbers for quite a while.\n\nThe Bad: Some of the tracks lack features where they should like “Bickenhead” would’ve been a great opportunity to call in Juicy J or Project Pat. Other songs like “She Bad” just sound like Cardi versions of the same song we’ve heard all over hip hop radio already.", null, "What are your thoughts? Share them with the network by commenting and sharing with friends!" ]

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[ null, "Illegitimate yet thoroughly irresistible, the Renegade Royals are leaving behind their careers as daring spies for the greatest adventure of all…\n\nAt sixteen, Alasdair Gilbride, heir to a Scottish earldom, fled the Highlands and an arranged betrothal. Ten years later, Alasdair must travel home to face his responsibilities. It’s a task that would be much easier without the distracting presence of the most enticing woman he’s ever met…\n\nAfter one escapade too many, Eden Whitney has been snubbed by the ton. The solution: rusticating in the Scottish wilderness, miles from all temptation. Except, of course, for brawny, charming Alasdair. The man is so exasperating she’d likely kill him before they reach the border—if someone else weren’t trying to do just that. Now Eden and Alasdair are plunging into a scandalous affair with his life and her reputation at stake—and their hearts already irreparably lost…\n\nA moment later, Dailey ushered Evelyn Endicott into the room. She halted when she saw Aden, but smoothly recovered, a warm smile curving her lush mouth. Alec got a jolt, both to his brain and to his groin. The latter was an unerring barometer when it came to one person in particular.\nGoddammit.\nThe gorgeous young woman who’d just swept into his library was no more the wife of Wolf Endicott than Alec was the King of Spain.\n“Mrs. Endicott, what a pleasure to see you,” Aden said with a bow.\nThe faux Mrs. Endicott dimpled up prettily and returned his greeting with a brief curtsey. “And you, Captain St. George, although I see I interrupted your meeting. Please forgive me.”\nShe cast what she no doubt thought was a shy, apologetic glance at Alec. He raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms over his chest. Her brows, partly hidden by her spectacles, tilted down in a frown.\nBut a moment later she was directing another charming smile at Aden, who seemed completely taken in by her silly charade. Alec almost laughed out loud at the notion of the outrageous Eden Whitney pulling the wool over the eyes of England’s most accomplished spy.\n“No apology necessary, Mrs. Endicott,” Aden said. He nodded to Alec. “I’ll speak with later.”\nAlec answered his cousin with a polite smile, enjoying the prospect of mocking him at a later date. But when Aden reached the door, he glanced over his shoulder, his eyebrows raised and his gaze glinting with laughter.\nClearly, the little minx hadn’t fooled Aden, after all.\nThe woman who was fast becoming the bane of Alec’s existence flashed him what she probably thought was an innocent, shy smile. It was nothing of the sort, of course. Eden Whitney exuded a mostly unconscious sensuality that could knock a man flat from twenty paces.\n“I’m sure you must be surprised to see me,” she said in a sweet, quiet voice.\nHe had to admit she got the voice right. If he hadn’t been looking straight at her, he would have thought he was listening to Evie and not her diabolical twin.\n“Give it up, Miss Whitney.” He took her by the elbow and steered her to one of the club chairs. “You’re not fooling anyone.”\nShe gaped up at him with astonishment. “Confound it, how do you do that? I haven’t been in the room for more than a minute.”\nIt wasn’t the first time Edie had switched identities with her twin, but it hadn’t worked any better with him this time than it had a few months ago. There were a dozen differences between the sisters, some quite noticeable. For one, Edie carried herself with a degree of confidence and restless energy her twin lacked. She cut a swath through the ton like a sharpened sickle through a field of ripe wheat.\nThere were more subtle signs as well, like the way her clothes hugged her generous curves just a little more snuggly than her sister’s. She might think she was fooling him by choosing a modestly cut carriage dress in dove gray, but Edie’s sense of dash always seemed to bleed through. No cautious ponderings or sober second thoughts for Miss Eden Whitney. To her, life was a challenge and a lark, something to be enjoyed to the hilt.\n“Never mind that, you daft woman,” he said. “Have you no care for your reputation?”\nShe let out a disdainful snort. “Reputation? That’s rich, coming from you. You’re constantly doing outrageous things.”\n“I’m a man. I can get away with it. You, however, cannot.”\n“It’s so unfair,” she grumbled.\n\nVanessa Kelly is an award-winning author who was named by Booklist, the review journal of the American Library Association, as one of the “New Stars of Historical Romance.” Her Regency-set historical romances have been nominated for awards in a number of contests, and her second book, Sex and The Single Earl, won the prestigious Maggie Medallion for Best Historical Romance. Her current series, The Renegade Royals is a national bestseller. Vanessa also writes USA Today bestselling contemporary romance with her husband, under the pen name of VK Sykes." ]

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[ null, "Pushing a health care reform bill through the House on Saturday night was a trickier task than Democrats anticipated.\n\nBut it still wasn’t that suspenseful: Somehow you knew that party leaders – and the White House – would manage to squeeze out the necessary 218 votes, something they ended up accomplishing by killing a plan to peg reimbursement rates for a government-run insurance program to Medicare and by granting a big concession to abortion opponents.\n\nThe real drama was over which particular House members would end up bucking their party leadership – and why.\n\nOn this front, the biggest surprise was the decision of Joe Cao, a freshman Republican from Louisiana, to join the 219 Democrats who voted for the bill. Cao issued a detailed, policy-oriented explanation for his vote, but his political calculation actually isn’t hard to understand: Unlike his fellow Republicans, he has more to gain by cooperating with the White House than by standing with the G.O.P.\n\nThis is because Cao owes his election last December to a fluke: He happened to be on the ballot against Democratic Representative William Jefferson, who was then facing a 16-count corruption indictment (and who was later convicted of 11 charges). Even against that backdrop, Cao won by fewer than 2,000 votes, a testament to the overwhelmingly Democratic nature of the New Orleans-based 2nd District, which gave Barack Obama 75 percent of its vote last year.\n\nCao, for obvious reasons, has been marked as an automatic one-termer since arriving in Washington. Here, a parallel can be drawn to Michael Flanagan, the no-name Republican who eked out a fluke win over the indicted Dan Rostenkowski in an equally Democratic Chicago-based district in 1994. With Rosty off the scene, the district reverted to form two years later and Flanagan was swamped by the (then) scandal-free Rod Blagojevich, 64 to 36 percent. He then returned to anonymity.\n\nFlanagan was probably doomed no matter what in ’96, but he made the Democrats’ task easy by siding with Newt Gingrich and the House G.O.P. in their 1995 quest to cut the growth of Medicare – a push that prompted Bill Clinton to shut the government down rather than sign off on the cuts. Had Flanagan bucked his party on that vote, it might have been tougher for Blagojevich to tie him to Gingrich and the national G.O.P. in ’96.\n\nPerhaps Cao has studied up on the Flanagan example. Siding with the White House – and against the G.O.P. – on its signature legislative effort will make for a helpful talking point for the congressman in 2010, just as it will deny Democrats an easy line of attack.\n\nAnd if his re-election campaign doesn’t work out (and it probably won’t), Cao now has a chit with the White House, which might earn him an appointed position after his House term. This is no small consideration for a man who – like Flanagan before him – was a gadfly before hitting the political lottery last year and who won’t have many options for seeking other elected offices back in Louisiana.\n\nOn the Democratic side, there were 39 defections on Saturday. Most of them were predictable – blue dog or blue dog-like Democrats from Republican-friendly districts for whom bucking the national Democratic Party line is a badge of honor back home.\n\nSeveral Democrats from the New York area fell into this category. Eric Massa, for instance, defeated Republican Randy Kuhl by 4,000 votes in the upstate 29th District last year. Not too surprisingly, he played it safe on the health care vote, echoing Republican complaints about cost, the absence of tort reform, and the constitutionality of the individual mandate, and voted no. Massa’s district is currently rated “Leans Democratic” by the Cook Political Report.\n\n(Interestingly, the districts of three other New York Democrats – Tim Bishop, John Hall, and Mike Arcuri – share this Cook rating, but all of them voted for the bill. And Bill Owens, elected to represent the G.O.P.-friendly 23rd District last Tuesday, voted yes as well.)\n\nScott Murphy, elected this spring to replace Kirsten Gillibrand, also voted no, as did Staten Island’s Michael McMahon. Again, their political calculations are obvious: McMahon’s district was, until his 2008 election, the only New York City-based district to be represented by a Republican and Murphy’s rural 20th District was a G.O.P. bastion for decades prior to his victory. Cook rates their districts as “Likely Democratic,” meaning that they seem safe – for now.\n\nNo members of Connecticut’s all-Democratic House delegation broke rank, but one New Jersey Democrat did: freshman South Jersey Representative John Adler, whose 3rd District hadn’t elected a Democrat since 1884 before his narrow win last fall. As a state senator for 17 years before his election to Congress, Adler represented a safely Democratic district and racked up a solidly liberal voting record. Clearly, he sees the health care vote as a chance to convince his new constituency that he’s no liberal.\n\nNationally, there were few surprise no votes from Democrats.\n\nThe most liberal Democrat to vote no was Ohio’s Dennis Kucinich, who fancies himself some kind of lonely, principled warrior – even if he’s really just an unaccomplished, publicity-seeking irritant with an outsize sense of what it means to chair a Government Reform subcommittee.\n\nAnother (mildly) surprising no came from Alabama’s Artur Davis, who represents a safely Democratic district – but who is trying to move hard to the right in advance of his campaign for governor next year. Charlie Melancon, who is running for David Vitter’s Louisiana Senate seat next year, also voted no – although Melancon represents a red district and has routinely voted against Democratic bills for years.\n\nHere, the examples of Tennessee’s Jim Cooper and Oklahoma’s Dave McCurdy come to mind. 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[ null, "Days of Our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas is a holiday-themed film and an extension of the Days of Our Lives franchise. In this light-hearted Christmas special, Will Horton as Chandler Massey writes a screenplay before his expiration date on Christmas Eve.\n\nInspired by the standard Feel Good Christmas movie, he created a story that shows his family and friends as the main characters. Even in this short script, the fictional city of Salem remains constant, but we have to wonder where this film was actually shot. Days of Our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas.\n\n‘Days of Our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas’ was filmed in November 2021. If you follow the original show, you may be excited to learn more about the Christmas Special. In that case, we would like to say where the film was shot.\n\n‘Days of Our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas’ was filmed at The Burbank Studio on 3000 West Alameda Avenue in Burbank, California. Following its completion in 1952, the facility was renamed NBC Studios until 2014, when it was owned by NBC Universal. After that, the property was taken over by Worth Real Estate Group. Now, it will be acquired by Warner Bros., which is reported to have full ownership by 2023.\n\nBurbank is 12 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Known as one of the largest entertainment centers in the world, the city is home to many world-renowned studios such as Nickelodeon Animation Studios, The Walt Disney Company, Cartoon Network Studios, and Warner Bros. Entertainment. Production in the city began around the 1920s. Similarly, the franchise has been filming at Burbank Studios since its inception in 1965.\n\nDays of Our Lives: Fans were shocked when Blake Berries was added to the cast of A Very Salem Christmas, with the death of his character Nick Fallon in the original series. Therefore, it was naturally speculated that Nick might be part of Will Horton’s Celebrity Holiday Story or that he might appear as Santa Claus. He can decorate costumes and play the role of bringing gifts at Christmas. Blake shared a post taken in the dressing room of the Burbank studio lot.\n\nWhile Blake is wearing Santa pants, Santa is in the background with a hat and beard. The character Nick Fallon visits Salem as part of the “Days of Our Lives” Halloween episode, where he is found dead. In a conversation in December 2021, actor Alison Sweeney said a lot about the filming process, especially the scenes with Sami and Marlena. In addition to justifying Sami’s misunderstood role, Sweeney said he spent a lot of time shooting with Deadrey Hall as Marlena." ]

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[ null, "11 June 2021, New Delhi: Sharp growth in exports of cereals, oil meals, sugar, cotton, fresh vegetables and vegetable oil boosted India’s agriculture exports by 17.34 per cent in 2020-21 to $41.25 billion after hovering around $38 billion or lower in the last three years with the farm sector responding positively to opportunities presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan has said.\n\n“In 2021-22 also the momentum is being sustained with growth in the first two months at 43 per cent. This is a success story we should sustain with some efforts,” Wadhawan said addressing a media briefing on Thursday.\n\nThis is all because of the opportunities that Covid-19 offered that were capitalised upon by exporting a wider variety of products to a larger number of countries, the Secretary said.\n\n“The increase in exports is thanks to the ability of our agriculture sector to respond to the opportunity. It was also on account of various programmes emanating from the Agriculture Export Policy that were implemented in decentralised manner across States, districts and clusters. There are several success stories coming out of various clusters,” Wadhawan added.\n\nIndia’s overall goods exports contracted 7.26 per cent in 2020-21, recording $290.63 billion, but the farm sector was relatively less affected by the disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLargest markets for India’s agriculture products were the US, China, Bangladesh, UAE, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Nepal, Iran and Malaysia with exports posting the sharpest growth in Indonesia (102.42 per cent ), Bangladesh (95.93 per cent ) and Nepal (50.49 per cent).\n\nExport of spices like ginger, pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, turmeric, saffron etc., which have known therapeutic qualities, has also grown substantially during the year, the Secretary said. Export of spices touched the highest ever level of around $4 billion during 2020-21.\n\nOrganic exports posted a 50.94 per cent to $ 1.04 billion as against USD 689 million in 2019-20, registering a growth of 50.94 per cent. Organic exports include oil cake/ meals, oil seeds, cereals and millets, spices and condiments, tea, medicinal plant products, dry fruits, sugar, pulses and coffee.", null, null, null, null, "India will be self-reliant in the production of fertilizers by 2023: Mr. Gowda", null, null ]

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[ "U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres pledged to promote multilateralism in addressing global challenges such as the coronavirus pandemic and climate change as he secured a second term Friday, with the General Assembly unanimously endorsing his bid to continue in the top post.\n\n\"All of this requires a reinvigorated multilateralism for the new era, based on principles of equity and solidarity,\" the 72-year-old said at a press conference.\n\nGuterres is currently in the last year of his first five-year term. His staying on at the helm of the United Nations had been assured after the Security Council adopted a resolution earlier this month supporting his intention to continue.", null, "The U.N. General Assembly unanimously endorsed Antonio Guterres (R) to serve another five-year term as secretary general of the international body on June 18, 2021 (On courtesy of the United Nations)(Kyodo)\n\n\"I am deeply honored and grateful for the trust you have placed in me to serve as the secretary general of the United Nations for a second term,\" he said in a speech.\n\nAt the press conference later, Guterres said, \"The pandemic has revealed our shared vulnerability, our inter-connectedness and the absolute need for collective action.\"\n\n\"Our biggest challenge -- and at the same time our greatest opportunity -- is to use this crisis as a chance to turn things around, to pivot to a world that learns its lessons, recovers fairer, greener and more sustainably, and forges ahead with much more effective global cooperation to address global concerns,\" he added.\n\nIt is customary in the United Nations for a secretary general to serve two terms. Guterres, who indicated in January that he planned to seek a second term, was the only official candidate.\n\nThe global challenges Guterres is expected to address during his tenure as U.N. chief through the end of 2026 also include human rights issues, nuclear disarmament and gender equality.\n\nFollowing the endorsement of his second term by the General Assembly, some countries including Japan, China and the United States sent congratulatory messages.\n\n\"With a high evaluation of the role Mr. Guterres has played in addressing international issues, we will cooperate more closely with him,\" Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a letter sent to the U.N. head.\n\nChinese President Xi Jinping also sent a telegram to Guterres, congratulating him on the reappointment and expressing hope that the U.N. chief will protect multilateralism from a universal and fair position, according to the state-run China Central Television.\n\nCalling the United Nations \"an indispensable anchor of the multilateral system,\" U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press release, \"The United States looks forward to continuing our strong and constructive relationship with Secretary General Guterres as we advance the urgent task of bringing about a more peaceful world and prosperous future.\"\n\nGuterres assumed the top U.N. post in January 2017 after serving as the Portuguese prime minister and the U.N. refugee chief.\n\nIn August 2018, he became the first sitting head of the international body to visit Nagasaki, one of the Japanese cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombing shortly before Japan's surrender in World War II, where he attended a ceremony marking the 73rd anniversary of the attack.\n\nHe has also indicated his intention to attend the 76th anniversary of the A-bomb in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 this year if the situation with the coronavirus pandemic allows him to fly to the western Japanese city." ]

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[ "CAC National Dog Show in Dunaújváros on 18th October of 2020", null, "The CAC Dog Show will be held 18th September of 2020 organized by the Dunaújváros és Környéke Ebtenyésztők Egyesülete in Hungary in Dunaújváros city. The venue of the show is the Szalki-insular camping’s territory.\n\nEntering to the show is in accordance to the FCI and Hungarian Kennel Club’s Show Regulations, the exhibitor by signing the entry form, or by entering in the online-system, the exhibitor is undertake to comply with and be bound by the rules itself.\nConditions:\n• To the show only those dogs can be entered, who has original FCI registeed pedigree, one dog can be entered only to one class.\n• Entry is available by online!\n• The entry fee must be paid also in case of absence.\n• Illegible and incomplete entry form can not be accepted.\n• If you enter more dogs, the Minor Puppy, Puppy and Veteran classes entry fees is not counting as “First dog” in amount!\n\nThe entry fee must paid to the next account number:\nName of the account holder:\nDunaújváros és Környéke Ebtenyésztő Egyesülete\n\nFor show informations, please, you write to the following email address:\[email protected]\n\nI introduce to the city of the dog show, to Dunaújváros\n\nThe city of the CAC show is Dunaújváros, which is on Hungary the second most populous settlement of Fejér county. Dunaújváros is located 116 meters above sea level, on the eastern edge of Mezőföld and on the right bank of the Danube. In the east it is accompanied by the Danube for 10 kilometers, and in the west it is surrounded by gentle hills.\n\nThe history of the town reveals, that the territory already was inhabited in ancient times and played an important role in the life of the Roman Empire in ancient times as Intercisa. The conquering Hungarians settled in the area at the beginning of the 10th century. Excavations from a later age revealed the Pentele, the predecessor of Dunaújváros, which got its name from the patron saint of St. Pantaleon Abbey, St. Pantaleon. The village was under Turkish rule from 1541 to 1688, and during the Fifteen Years’ War the population was completely extinct. After the liberation from Turkish rule, the Hungarian population was replaced by Rác people The Rác population of Pentele took part in the Rákóczi War of Independence, after the defeat of which the village would have been emptied again, if they do not bring Hungarian settlers in the village. After that, the settlement started to develop intensively. During the War of Independence in 1848-49, the people of the town fought under the banner of Kossuth, and then after the fall of the War of Independence, a large part of the population was forced into a line of agricultural wage laborers. During the administrative changes following the compromise, in 1870 Dunapentele was classified as a big village.\n\nToday’s city was built six decades ago by melting the former Dunapentele into itself and surrounding it. In its everyday life, the industrial city character dominates, the Danube Ironworks was built in the southern part of town, the Pentele district is located at the northern end of town, high above of town it is the New Town.\n\nAmong the sights of Dunaújváros, the protected values of the Old Town stand out, especially the more than three-hundred-year-old Baroque Serbian Orthodox Rác Church and the one and a half-century-old Neo-Romanesque Catholic Church with 3 bells in its 27-meter-high tower. A memorial to the Roman era, the Kőtár and Ruin Garden with its many tombstones and landmarks. Almost 60 works of art form the collection of the International Steel Sculpture Park, which is also part of the Cultural Heritage, on the picturesque Danube promenades. During our walk in Dunaújváros, it is worth visiting the Reformed Church, built in the 1980s, the Catholic Church built in 2000, and the Oval Lutheran Church.\n\nOutstanding among the city’s cultural events is the three-day series of events on the Danube bank Parázs-Varázs, which is traditionally held in May every year, where all ages can find a program to their liking.\n\nThe lungs of the city are formed by large, well-kept green areas, protected trees and rows of trees all over the city, and the natural opportunities provided by the Danube make it livable and attractive the town. The determinants of the cityscape are the spacious green areas, flowery parks that soften the monumentality of each building. Industrial areas are also separated from the city by wooded areas. The presence of the natural environment ensures the ecological balance of the settlement.\n\nPart of Dunaújváros is the Szalki isle, which previously had only an industrial role in the city, but has been transformed into a resort area due to the continuous development of the last decade. On Szalki Island you can find the sculpture park, fisherman’s inn, ferry and here is also the Camping, which in this case serves as the venue of the CAC dog show!" ]

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[ null, null, "With the NFL’s free agency and NFL Draft periods officially coming and going, teams are beginning to report to organized team activities (OTA’s) as they set their sights on Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. Who are the top rookies with the most to prove this upcoming NFL season?", null, null, "Super Bowl XXXVIII was played on February 1, 2004 by the New England Patriots and Carolina Panthers. The final score of this game was 32-29 and it was played at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. The head referee of the game was Ed Hochuli. The National Anthem was sung by Beyonce Knowles and the game aired on the CBS network.\n\nThe NFC South produced the NFC’s Super Bowl 50 participant in the Carolina Panthers in 2015. Here’s what the road to Super Bowl LI in Houston looks like for the division.\n\nThe road to Super Bowl 51 in Houston is a long one, and that doesn’t make the NFL’s offseason lull any easier for fans. Luckily, the guys at Bad Lip Reading are back and ready to help provide a light at the end of that tunnel.", null, null, "After 18 years in the NFL, quarterback Peyton Manning made his retirement from the league official on Monday.", null, "The 2016 Players Tailgate was all about creating that VIP experience for the guests! CBS San Francisco’s Mark Kelly was live on site before the party began, detailing anything and everything Players Tailgate!", null, "Aside from the five-star array of food and the over 25 NFL players in attendance, this year’s Players Tailgate created a social experience unlike any other." ]

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[ null, "Thoughts, musings and observations from the Penguins' 4-1 win against the New Jersey Devils at PPG Paints Arena.\n\n* This was the definition of a team victory. Pittsburgh received goals from each of its top three lines (Dominik Kahun, Jake Guentzel, Jared McCann) and even a defenseman (John Marino) to boot. Eleven players recorded a point, and every single player on the roster finished the game with at least a plus-1. It was an even distribution of contribution, from top to bottom.\n\n* You won't see a prettier play than the goal that Bryan Rust, Evgeni Malkin and Guentzel connected for in the second period. Rust chipped the puck to Malkin. Despite it being a hard and bouncing puck, Malkin managed to \"one-time\" a pass ahead to spring Guentzel on a breakaway. Guentzel deked Devils goalie MacKenzie Blackwood to the ice and then easily pulled the puck around and slipped it into the goal.\n\nGuentzel has a career-best four-game goal-scoring streak at home. At this point, the MilkShake Factory has to be losing money on the Jake Shake deal, right?\n\n* All that being said, you won't see a prettier goal and celebration than Kahun's tally to open the game. Kahun collected the puck at the lower circle, cut to the net, pulled the puck around a sprawling Mirco Mueller and went top shelf, near side with a wicked backhander. To add a little pizzazz, Kahun dropped to one knee and did a swooping fist pump.\n\n* The Penguins dominated the opening 40 minutes of the game, yet led only 2-1 entering the third period. That's where they blew the game open. Pittsburgh scored back-to-back goals 25 seconds apart in the opening 150 seconds of the final frame to take a 4-1 lead. Though there was plenty of time remaining, the Devils' spirits were broken.\n\n* Marino has been so phenomenal for the Penguins that it's still hard to believe he's only a rookie that's played a mere 21 games. He picked up his second goal of the season, and extended his point streak to four games (1G-3A).\n\n* Patric Hornqvist has never had a fighting penalty in his entire career. That changed tonight as he \"dropped\" the gloves with the Devils' Damon Severson. Hornqvist took issue with Severson checking Guentzel from behind. Though he went at him, gloves were not dropped, punches were not thrown, but both men were still given fighting penalties. Probably not the way he thought his first fighting major would go." ]

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[ null, "road sign for the town of Truth or Consequences, NM\n© Alamy-Jonathan Larsen\n\nHenry Cloud, in his book, Integrity, writes that many people lie… actually most of us do, in some form or another.\n\nHow about the little “white” lie answer to, “How are you doing?” Do I say “fine” when I’m not really fine? Or if someone asks me, “So… how did I do?”, do I give them honest feedback or do I respond with a generic, “Great”? What about when someone wants me to “fudge” on a recommendation letter, or a stats report, or a financial designation? Do I “help them out“, or do I tell the truth?\n\nCloud states, “People of good character are people who can be trusted to tell the truth.”\n\nWill I pursue the truth?\n\nDo I care enough to tell the truth?\n\nThe world is changing at breakneck speed. If I am not willing to let go of the “way we’ve always done it”, or if I mislead investors with a sugar-coated story that conceals the real numbers, or if I intentionally tell my teammates only a partial truth about my actions, I – and the organization – will never be able to grow to meet the demands of our reality. No growth = death.\n\nAm I willing to respond to the truth?\n\nDo you struggle with telling the truth?\n\nWhat helps you remember that the truth matters?", null, "I have been reading recently about Joseph in Genesis 41, specifically the passage where Pharaoh first calls the magicians and wise-men to interpret his dreams, but they “couldn’t do it”. Reviewing the dreams, the interpretation seems fairly obvious for experienced wise-men. Personally, I think they actually could have interpreted the dreams… they just didn’t want to bear the bad news. They chose diplomacy over honesty. They acted like “nice guys”.\n\nI have experienced this same situation too many times. People who would rather tell me what they think I “want” to hear, rather than the truth. Avoiding direct confrontation and difficult conversations led to gossip behind my back or other’s. The desire to be known as a “nice guy”, liked by all, caused leaders to deny or avoid a problem.\n\nAvoiding the truth is not helpful. By hiding the truth, the supposed wise-men missed the opportunity to help Pharaoh change and prepare for the future. Joseph, on the other hand, spoke the truth… AND he was available to come alongside Pharaoh and help him with the necessary changes. Truth is not the opposite of grace. We don’t pick one or the other. We can choose a “both-and” situation. Tell the truth AND graciously be available to come alongside and bring about change.\n\nI have watched leaders avoid the truth – because of fear, or discomfort, or a desire for acceptance – and it never helped. It always made the problem worse. If it was a person whose behavior was inappropriate, they did not get better on their own. Instead, their negative behavior often increased, and the personal or work relationship deteriorated greatly.\n\nIf it was a policy or integrity issue that was at stake, the situation did not improve as a result of neglect or passivity. Social entropy caused cooperation to move toward conflict and chaos. Procrastination only made problem resolution more costly in the end.\n\nTruth AND grace can be priority in your life and work.\n\nAre you sometimes tempted to act like a “Mr. Nice Guy”?\n\nWhere can you apply grace AND truth today?", null, null, null, null, null, null ]