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[ "Meiji Shrine (明治神宮, Meiji Jingū), located in Shibuya, Tokyo, is the Shinto shrine that is dedicated to the deified spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shōken.Meiji Shrine is located in a forest that covers an area of 70 hectares (170 acres). This area is covered by an evergreen forest that consists of 120,000 trees of 365 different species, which were donated by people from all parts of Japan when the shrine was established. The forest is visited by many as a recreation and relaxation area in the center of Tokyo. The entrance to the shrine complex leads through the Jingu Bashi bridge. Meiji Shrine is adjacent to Yoyogi Park which together is a large forested area. The entrances open at sunrise and close at sunset.\n\nLife is too short mga Kabiyahero! I promise to travel the world together with my love ones sa abot ng aking makakaya and share with you my experiences . I hope that I get to inspire you to see the world while young and Healthy! Explore. Dream.Discover! never let anyone tell you that you can’t do it because you can!\n\nTHIS VIDEO IS NOT SPONSORED\n\nThe 2017 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness report positioned Japan fourth out of 141 nations in general, which was the most noteworthy in Asia. Japan picked going on generally tall scores in just about the entirety of the included viewpoints, for example, wellbeing and cleanliness, security and security, and social assets and concern travel.\n\nThe roots of in advance customs of visits to pretty destinations are hazy, however an into the future touring journey was Matsuo Bash's 1689 outing to the subsequently \"far north\" of Japan, which happened not long after Hayashi Razan contracted the Three Views of Japan in 1643. During the Edo period of Japan, from regarding 1600 to the Meiji Restoration in 1867, travel was managed inside the nation using shukuba or publicize stations, towns where explorers needed to introduce proper documentation. Regardless of these limitations, watchman stations and pony corrals, just as a skin condition for housing and food were accessible upon every something like voyaged courses. During this time, Japan was a shut nation to outsiders, so no odd the travel industry existed in Japan.\n\nFollowing the Meiji Restoration and the structure of a public railroad organization, the travel industry turned out to be a greater amount of a sober possibility for homegrown residents and guests from outdoor nations could enter Japan legitimately. As ahead of schedule as 1887, handing out authorities perceived the requirement for a coordinated covenant of drawing in unusual vacationers; the Kihinkai, which planned to organize the major parts in the travel industry, was set going on that year later Prime Minister It Hirobumi's favoring. Its initial chiefs included Shibusawa Eiichi and Ekida Takashi. complementary significant attainment in the spread of the travel industry in Japan was the 1907 section of the Hotel development Law, because of which the Railways Ministry started to build freely possessed lodgings every through Japan.\n\nFor a lot of post-World dogfight II history, Japan has been an incredibly disgusting explorer strive for for its populace and GDP size; from 1995 to 2014, it was by a long shot the least visited nation in the G7 in ill will of mammal the second biggest nation in the gathering, and starting at 2013 was one of the least visited nations in the OECD upon a for all capita premise.\n\nHomegrown the travel industry stays an necessary fragment of the Japanese economy and Japanese culture. youth in many center schools believe to be the to be of their years as a visit to Tokyo Disneyland or most likely Tokyo Tower, and numerous auxiliary scholarly understudies frequently visit Okinawa or Hokkaido. The expansive rail network along in the same way as homegrown flights later in a even though in planes similar to alterations to keep the moderately terse separations engaged with intra-Japan travel permits productive and sharp vehicle. Worldwide the travel industry assumes a more modest work in the Japanese economy contrasted gone supplementary created nations; in 2013, global traveler receipts was 0.3% of Japan's GDP, though the relating figure was 1.3% for the allied States and 2.3% for France.\n\nIn inbound the travel industry, Japan was positioned 28th upon the planet in 2007 taking into consideration the nation had the second biggest GDP. In 2009, the Yomiuri Shimbun distributed a sharp edge rundown of competently known sights below the read out Heisei Hyakkei (the Hundred Views of the Heisei grow old frame).\n\nTravelers from South Korea have made taking place the biggest number of inbound vacationers a few time before. In 2010, their 2.4 million appearances made stirring 27% of the sightseers visiting Japan.\n\nVoyagers from China have been the most noteworthy spenders in Japan by nation, spending an acknowledged 196.4 billion yen (US$2.4 billion) in 2011, or just about a fourth of all out consumption by odd guests, as per assistance from the Japan Tourism Agency.", null, "As per the Japan National Tourism organization in 2017, 3 out of 4 odd travelers came from alternative pieces of East Asia, to be specific South Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.\n\nThe Japanese paperwork wants to get 40 million unusual travelers consistently by 2020.", null, null, "There are tens and even hundreds of fascinating tourist destinations in Japan. Because Japan does have a diversity of cultures and lovely tourist attractions. Coupled similar to Japan which has four seasons, suitably it adds to the typical Japanese tourism.\n\nThe Japanese empire, which left many historical sites, is still skillfully preserved. Coupled bearing in mind today's technological advances, tourist attractions are even more complete for teenage people and families." ]

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[ "A report by K24 TV on Monday, December 14, revealed that the results confirmed that the lawmaker had sired a child with his lover identified as Agnes Wangui Wambiri.\n\nIt was revealed that the tests turned out 99.9% positive that one of her two children was fathered by Murunga.\n\n“Based on the DNA profiles generated from the buccal swab sample obtained from XY and Justus Murunga, there are 99.9%+ more chances that Justus Murunga is the biological father of XY,” stated the paternity report.", null, "Wangui’s lawyer Danstan Omari, confirmed to TMZ.co.ke that the results for both the children were out, but declined to reveal further details.\n\nIn court papers, the woman noted that the MP had promised to settle down with her.\n\nSpeaking at the funeral ceremony in Makunda village, Kakamega County, on Saturday, December 5, the MP’s first wife Christabel Murunga had dismissed claims that the deceased had married Wangui.\n\nShe stated that her husband had not introduced the woman who claimed to have two children with the MP to her or to members of the public – because he was happily married.\n\nThe MP had two known wives, Christabel and Grace Murunga, and Wangui sought to be recognized as the third wife in a case that is pending in court.\n\nIn a separate interview, Wangui disclosed that the MP fell in love with her while she worked as a food vendor.\n\nFollowing their courtship, the MP moved Wangui and their two children to a three-bedroom apartment, where she lives to-date.\n\nThe MP would continue to pay the rent until his demise on November 14, at St Mary’s Hospital in Mumias, Kakamega County.", null ]

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[ null, "on the way to Jerusalem? Joe Biden has announced that he intends to appoint Thomas Mobiles as US Ambassador to Israel – a position that has remained vacant since the end of David Friedman’s tenure. Mobils serves as Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley and was previously a senior State Department official.\n\nNiles was deputy secretary of state during Obama’s tenure and is now considered to be linked by many members of the Biden administration and the National Security Council in his administration. Earlier, Niles had been an adviser to House Speaker Thomas Foley and Majority Leader Tony Coelho. In a press release, Biden called him a “respected public servant and business leader.”\n\nAccording to US media reports, Biden was in a dilemma over the choice of ambassadors, as people close to him testified that “he has too many close friends”, a fact that made it difficult for him to make the right decision – but tonight (Tuesday) the US president announced his election.\n\nFormer Ambassador Dan Shapiro praised Niles: “Congratulations to my good friend on his candidacy. It will be one of the best roles he will have, and he will fill it with links and magic. Great choice!”\n\nCongratulations to my good friend Tom Nides on his nomination to serve as US Ambassador to Israel! It will be one of the best jobs he’ll ever have, and he will do it with skill and charm. A great choice!\n\nPlus he continues the Duluth, MN-Israel connection forged by @JulieFisher4." ]

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[ null, "The trio released their debut album in 2016 on ZNK Productions, where Evil Dope has also released a number of others projects, both solo and as part of Terror Crew.\n\nDead Team have claimed to be possessed by the most brutal and insidious Demons, which influences the type of music they create." ]

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[ null, "Heading into the lift at The Adelphi, there was a slight tinge of dread in me. I had signed up for a facial at skincare centre Face of Man on my own accord and was excited in the lead-up to my appointment.\n\nDespite that, a tiny voice in me insisted that a man heading to a skincare treatment centre for a facial was just strange.\n\nBefore I could dwell on that thought, Chris Chua welcomed me into the establishment, which was founded in 1992. After some small talk, the 56-year-old entrepreneur encouraged me to enjoy my facial experience.\n\nThe store’s operations director, Jerome Chen, 45, suggested I give their microdermabrasion and skin infusion treatments a go.\n\nNot knowing what to expect, I agreed while still trying to unravel the bunch of emotions within me at that time. The trepidation was rooted in how unfamiliar the experience felt.\n\nMy usual skincare routine is simple and straightforward — I have a cleanser at home that I use twice a day. I have no qualms with facial masks and will occasionally give them a go but moments like those are few and far between.\n\nHowever, as soon as I settled down on the bed at Face of Man, I realised how silly I was to feel uncomfortable about walking through the front door of a skincare centre.", null, "Despite the stiffness of my body in this photo, I can assure you my one hour at Face of Man was the most relaxing hour I've had for as long as I can remember.\n\nAlso, Jerome’s friendly demeanour helped calm my nerves as he ran through the benefits of each treatment for my skin.\n\n“This treatment is actually excellent for exfoliating the dead skin cells and improving your post-acne scars,” the former fitness instructor explained.\n\nThis non-invasive skin resurfacing procedure lasted 10 to 20 minutes and I learnt it can also be used as a treatment for early stages of photoaging, skin roughness, discolouration, fine lines and enlarged pores.\n\nSo far, so good. Nothing was particularly painful — plus Jerome and I were getting along rather well.\n\nWe connected over our vested interest in — drumroll please — European football. Who says men can't be into sports and skincare?\n\nHere’s where it got quite prickly, in the literal sense. Using a galvanic current, stem cells are infused into the skin to renew and tighten it.\n\nThis treatment is typically used to combat signs of ageing — rather demoralising to hear, given that I've yet to hit thirty, but I swallowed my pride and went on with it.\n\nI was warned beforehand that this would be slightly more uncomfortable and it was. At times, the current felt like mini ant bites on my face. Thankfully, Jerome’s professional and meticulous nature ensured I emerged relatively unscathed.", null, "'Men have a need but are too shy to accept it'\n\nAfter my facial, Chris and I sat down for a chat. From our earlier interaction, I could sense the passion he has for male skincare.\n\nThroughout our interview, the glint in his eyes whenever a word such as \"stigma\" or \"shy\" came up was unmistakable. From Face of Man's early days, Chris understood that he had to destroy the notion that there was any wrong with men indulging in facial treatments for his business to succeed.\n\nBarely five minutes into our conversation, he said to me: “Men have a need but are too shy to accept it.”\n\nI was stumped by how it resonated with my initial uncomfortableness about getting a facial. While dolling oneself up once in a while is great, aesthetic clinics and extensive facial routines always felt like a step too far into the unknown.\n\n“[Men] might think that beauty is for women and not men but they don’t realise it’s all about health. Also, looking good gives you confidence,” Chris said with a chuckle.\n\nHe went on and shared a story of how Face of Man advertised back in the 90s: “We’d distribute pamphlets at Safti (Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute) army camp outside, you know? We give them the pamphlets, they don’t want to collect but when I place the pamphlets on the chair and walk away, they go and take [sic].”\n\nIf I had a small bout of nerves heading into Face of Man in 2021, imagine the male skincare treatment landscape back then. No wonder those army men were terrified to be seen with a Face of Man pamphlet.\n\nFrom aviation to skincare", null, "Before Face of Man, Chris was a cabin crew member at Singapore Airlines.\n\n“At that time, I saw a need for men who actually want to treat their skin, especially scars and acne,” he said.\n\nChris mentioned that at the time, many men struggled to find skincare specialists. So, they would head to the doctor, who would usually prescribe them antibiotic cream. However, that would not always help resolve their skincare problems.\n\nHe saw a gap in the market and was confident in making that switch from cabin crew to skincare entrepreneur. Unfortunately, his first stumbling block came early in the form of access to knowledge. Chris was aware he needed to first find a place to learn the trade.\n\n“I went around the whole of Singapore to find beauty salons and when I approached them they refused to accept me,” Chris recalled.\n\nMost were confused as to why a man would want to be part of the beauty industry. The breakthrough came when a friend mentioned to him that there were aesthetics courses in London that fit his interests and needs.\n\n“When I heard the word ‘London’, I made that trip.\"\n\nShifting mindsets over the decades", null, "Those were the exact words Chris' dad uttered about plans to open Face of Man. Back in 1992, many might agree with Chris’ dad that Face of Man looked like an unwise business venture.\n\nIn those days, men – in their pursuit of masculinity – tended to veer away from activities that were seen as feminine.\n\nAfter being in the game for almost three decades, Chris has seen a drastic shift in men’s mindset when it comes to taking care of their own skin.\n\nIn his eyes, men from the past associated masculinity with being a bit more dirty and unkempt. The typical macho man had to possess those traits and going for a facial would not comply with the persona many attempted to portray.\n\nNowadays though, Chris notices that more men are getting facials and quite a number of them don't seem worried about the supposed stigma attached to it.\n\nIt's hard to deny that Face of Man has played a role in shifting that mindset.\n\nTowards the end of our talk, Chris concluded: \"I think guys should take skincare seriously. Boost your confidence by taking care of the skin.\"\n\nI can only speak on my Face of Man experience but after one appointment, I see why many men have chosen to not tie themselves to the traditional societal ideals of masculinity.\n\nFace of Man has two other outlets at Ang Mo Kio and East Coast. For more information, visit their website.\n\nALSO READ: The best in men's skincare from Sephora\n\nThis article has been edited for clarity." ]

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[ null, "Dindy Vaughan is a writer, educator, environmentalist and composer. A graduate BA (Hons) Sydney and MA Flinders, she has held tertiary lectureships at RMIT and VUT, as well as being an Academic Assessor for Deakin University.\n\nDindy Vaughan's compositions range widely, encompassing vocal, choral, chamber, keyboard and orchestral works, as well as youth music and music for theatrical productions. In 2006 she was commissioned to write a choral symphony, celebrating the Great South West Walk; this was premiered in Portland by Music Glenelg Festival Singers and the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Wailes, and was greeted with a standing ovation. Discovery Symphony is now available on CD/DVD, with visuals by Peter Corbett.\n\nPrior to the writing of this work, Dindy Vaughan had worked with Anne Norman (shakuhachi) and Peter Hagen (harpsichord), producing the CD Up the Creek, works concerned with the the present state, and future, of Australian waterways; with this she was a finalist in the Australian Classical Music Awards in 2006.\n\nRecent compositions include the orchestral work Melbourne Suite - In Memoriam Matthew Krel (2010, requested by Matthew shortly before his untimely death), Sea Shells on Bruny (2010) for soprano and string quartet, for Suzie LeBlanc, Nu Day (2008-2010), twelve pieces for the year of the Apology performed by David Lempriere Laughton at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 2015 during the Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, and Violin Sonata No 2, Montsalvat, written during and after holding an artist in residence position at Montsalvat, and both performed and recorded by Helen Ayres (Violin) and Larissa Cox (piano).\n\nCurrent projects include production of a new CD Homecoming, with works for clarinet, flute, cello and piano, with performers Craig Hill, Mardi McSullea, Rosanne Hunt, Tamara Kohler and Larissa Cox (to be issued in Spring 2016), a CD of the piano suite Nu Day, performed by David Lempriere Laughton, and a CD of Recollections from Childhood, piano music sketches, and poetry by Jane Vaughan Donnelly.\n\nDindy Vaughan has worked extensively in community research and development, including oral history, adult education, Australian social history and environmental programs. Through her business, Gallery Without Walls, she has worked closely with artists, writers and musicians, integrating programs and organising performances, exhibitions and events. Her publications include books, music scores and articles.\n\nIn 1996 Dindy Vaughan was the recipient of the prestigious University of Sydney Alumni Award for Achievement in Community Service. She appears in Marquis Who's Who in the World Millenium 2000 Edition and subsequent editions, as well as other national and international biographies." ]

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[ null, "William Henry Seward was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869. He had earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. He was a strong opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War. He died in 1869 at the age of 83.\n\nAbout William H. Seward in brief\n\nWilliam Henry Seward was United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869. He had earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. He was a strong opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Seward’s strong stances and provocative words against slavery brought him hatred in the South. His firm stance against foreign intervention in the Civil War helped deter the United Kingdom and France from recognizing the independence of the Confederate States. One of the targets of the 1865 assassination plot that killed Lincoln, he was seriously wounded by conspirator Lewis Powell. He remained in his post through the presidency of Andrew Johnson, during which he negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867 and supported Johnson during his impeachment. His contemporary Carl Schurz described Seward as \\”one of those spirits who sometimes will go ahead of public opinion instead of tamely following its footprints\\”. He was the fourth son of Samuel Sweezy Seward and his wife Mary Seward. His father was a wealthy landowner and slaveholder in New York State; slavery was not fully abolished in the state until 1827. The younger Seward left school in 1819 to take a job as rector of a new academy in rural Georgia. He returned to New York in June 1819, where he was accepted as an adult for the first time in his family’s history.\n\nHe died in 1869 at the age of 83. He is buried in Mount Sinai, New York, with his wife, Mary Seward, and their three children. The couple had a son, Alvah, who was born in 1801 in the village of Florida, in Orange County, NY. The family moved to the Central New York town of Auburn in 1820, and he went on to become a prominent lawyer and politician. He later became a prominent figure in the Republican Party in its formative years, and was praised for his work on behalf of the Union as Secretary of state during the civil war. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1849 to 1855, when he was elected by the state legislature to the Senate in 1849. In 1855 he was regarded as the leading candidate for the Republican nomination for the 1860 presidential election, but Abraham Lincoln secured the presidential nomination. He campaigned for Lincoln, who won the election, and Seward later served as the United States secretary of state from 1859 to 1867. He also served as a U. S. Senator from New York from 1855 to 1868. He wrote a book, “Seward: A Biography of an American Statesman,” which was published in 1864, and later wrote a memoir, “A Life in the American Republic” (1870). He died at age 83 in Mount Vernon, New Jersey, and is survived by his wife and two children, Mary and Alvah. His son Alvah was buried in the town of Putnam County, Georgia, in 1871.\n\nYou want to know more about William H. Seward?\n\nThis page is based on the article William H. Seward published in Wikipedia (as of Dec. 08, 2020) and was automatically summarized using artificial intelligence." ]

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[ "Quick and Easy Flayed Ones Conversion\n\nYou are here: Home › 40K › Quick and Easy Flayed Ones Conversion\n\nStage Fright, Go Away, This is My Big Day", null, "Oh the Flayed One, you who have gone from obscure model rarely used to being in the spotlight. When I first got into Necrons, I bought a big lot off of eBay and had a bunch of metal Flayed Ones. My first thought? Sell those suckers as fast as I could! I made a pretty penny off of those models as the new ones had just come out and people were very disappointed at the new models. I just couldn’t see myself using them very much so the money they were worth offset having them in my collection.\n\nThat was a few years ago and people still don’t want the latest Flayed Ones models. They come in at $45 a box for five putting them at $9 a model for a guy carrying a carcass on its back. Yeesh. Now we see people wanting to field twenty or so of these bad boys with their 5 attacks apiece, shred, and infiltrate making them a steal at their low points cost.\n\nMy first introduction with Frontline came with the then new Matt Ward Necron codex and it was their Wraith and Spyder conversion articles that really inspired me to get into Necrons in a competitive way. Now we have come full circle with my easy peasy Necron Flayed Ones conversion article that might get you cracking on a competitive list. Give me a moment, I’m all Verklempf here. This is the proudest day of my life…..(wife, baby, graduation, job)….er my 23rd most proudest day of my life!\n\nThe concept for this monstrosity comes from a series of books by David Wellington in Monster Island, Monster Nation, and Monster Planet. In Monster Planet, a group of smart super powered zombies force a surgeon to operate on some basic zombies, removing their hands and the skin and flesh from their forearms. Then they took the radius (that forearm bone) and sharpened it into stabby daggers of death. Gruesome and terrifying. This was what I was hoping for with my conversion.\n\nI went through my bits and took out some leftover Necron models with Warriors, Lychguard, Deathmarks and the like. These became the basis for my Flayed Ones. I wanted to showcase a ragtag set of models that have fallen to the Flayer virus, showing that no one was safe.\n\nIn searching for an appropriate claw, I came upon the lowly Hormagaunt Scything Talon. These small claws were just the thing for my conversion purposes. I simply cut off the ends of the claw, trimmed up the hands of the Necron models and glued them together.\n\nRunning short on claws I also found another great bit, the extra appendages from the Spyder sprue. Some have just the claws while others have both Spyder bits and claw bits. I think the basic warrior ends up looking the best as you can hunch them over and with the claws it gives them a menacing appearance. Take a look at some of the models I’ve been able to kit bash together to make my Flayed Ones pack. I’m pretty pleased with the end result over all.\n\nI’m also thinking about adding some decay to my Flayed Ones with a Dremel, carving out parts of the body and adding a sort of rust decay look. Then painting them in my normal style, adding rust to the decayed portions and throwing on some blood and gore to bring it all together.\n\nHere are some basically done Flayed Ones from the group above that I finished for an event:", null, null, "So a set of 20 Flayed Ones if purchased from GW retail would set you back $180. Two boxes of Warriors would be $72.50 and many bits sellers have Hormaguant claws for sale. Hoardobits (one of my favs) is out of stock at the moment, but does sell 32 for $13.50. You could even pick up a lot of used Hormagaunts for about a buck a model so you are looking at $80-100 for twenty custom built Flayed Ones. Not bad!\n\nSo there you have it! A quick, easy, and decent looking flayed one conversion that won’t break the bank for a big gob of these flesh eating metal skeletons. Go forth and shred!\n\n8 Responses to “Quick and Easy Flayed Ones Conversion”" ]

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[ null, "I didn’t want to cause a panic, folks – so how could that be wrong?\nInstead, I took the tack, “There’s nothing to see here; please move along.”\nI said the virus would soon disappear, like magic; be kaput.\nBut now it looks as though I’ve shot myself right in my bone-spurred foot.\n\nI chose to play down just how bad this was and so avoid a frenzy,\nwhich I think I then made clear by whom I put in charge: Mike Pence. He\ntook the lead and ran the task force, like a loyal second fiddle.\nDid I ever mislead? Absolutely not. Well… just a little.\n\nYou will recall I said by April that this plague would disappear.\nI told Bob Woodward that the fact is I’m a leader (comma) cheer.\nI kept on reassuring parents: kids are virtually immune,\nso let us open up the schools and send them back this afternoon.\n\nI do not plan to read Bob Woodward’s book, of which the title’s “Rage,”\nbecause the title’s a misnomer – I did nothing but assuage\nall of the fears that people might have had, which I said were unfounded.\nNow you’re learning that I lied, yet just for that I’m getting pounded.\n\nAlthough that’s my voice on the tapes, I’ll still portray it as a hit job.\nI will fiercely try to redirect – but fan has now met shit. Bob\nWoodward took down Richard Nixon with the Watergate connection.\nI’ve completely failed the nation. ¡Adios! to re-election." ]

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[ null, null, "\"So there's this this French defense attorney, played by Fabrice Luchini, who goes to Monaco to argue on behalf of a woman who killed her lover, a man with connections to the Russian mafia. He's assigned a bodyguard by the woman's family - the bodyguard is played by Roschdy Zem - and the lawyer is stunned by how easily his bodyguard falls in and out of quick, meaningless sexual relationships, and asks for advice. It just so happens that the bubbly weather girl he tries out his new tricks on (Louise Bourgoin, plucked from obscurity not unlike that of her character) had a past sexual relationship with the bodyguard, and he instantly distrusts her; he suspects that she might be trying to deliberately distract the lawyer from his case, because Lord knows that's what happens, especially once he falls in love and discovers that she's Monaco's village bicycle.\"\n\n\"No. I mean, no and yes. The situations are farcical, but we never really laugh at them, and given how contrived most of the movie is, there's not any sense that we're supposed to take anything except on face value. If it's melodrama, it's melodrama we're not meant to view ironically.\"\n\n\"Hm. Well, is it a drama about sexual psychology?\"\n\n\"God, know. It's as shiny and easily-popped as a soap bubble.\"\n\n\"Does it have any gravitas, then, or not?\"\n\n\"I don't know. If it were American, it would be a twee little indie that might make a small hit at Sundance, but mostly everyone else would ignore it. But it's French, and there's a certain ineffable Frenchness to it that makes it seem like it's all very serious even when it's plainly all very silly.\"\n\n\"Okay, then does it say anything about the human condition at all?\"\n\nThis is more or less the conversation that's been playing in my brain on a loop since I saw The Girl from Monaco, a 2008 import directed by Anne Fontaine. Here's what I know: I'm glad I saw it. I just can't quite set my finger down on why that is the case. It's certainly not at all the movie that the ad campaign promised, a fluffy sex comedy about an old man and a girl a third his age getting it on under the watchful eye of an unspeaking bodyguard. It is, when all is said and done, a French movie, which means that however fluffy it might be, it also has a healthy dose of \"what a fool the human animal can be in matters of love and lust.\" Since it is French, love and lust are not easily distinguished, nor is there much value in the attempt to do so.\n\nOn one level, the film's pleasures are wholly ephemeral: the lovely Monaco scenery, Bourgoin in skimpy, revealing costumes. Something of a cinematic beach read, you might say. But after a time, the movie twists into darker waters, and I hesitate to use the word \"twist\" at all, because it's all eminently predictable what's going to happen. Which is what keeps the movie from being just a standard-issue sex thriller; because we know what thrilling things are coming before they come, what we're thinking about is not the events depicted in the film but the light they cast on the characters.\n\nAnd it is upon the characters that I ultimately descend, three perfectly-cast actors breathing life into a singularly odd love triangle that is thus granted a certain emotional impact it might not inherently possess. Each of the three people in The Girl from Monaco represents an essentially different way of looking at romance; not that they combine to form every possibility, of course, but they are three extremes, basically. And while Fontaine might be generally content to set them on their courses and let them collide with each other and shoot off in all directions like pinballs, Luchini, Zem, and Bourgoin - the first two more than the last - give a certain weight and solidity to the people they play, making it seem like they are in fact actual players in a game that's a bit larger than they can see (Zem), want to see (Luchini) or have the insight to think about in the first place (Bourgoin). It is a story about being carried up in the heat of the moment and not realising until too late what that means; and in this respect it is fitting, I suppose, that the film is so given over to the sensual pleasures of making a movie in Monaco, with its winding mountain roads and azure water.\n\nAt the same time, Fontaine doesn't just cut the movie adrift; even if she is only casually guiding it to where it ends up, there's still the sense of a strong overriding principal behind the rhythmic editing that drives the movie forward, almost too quickly at times. Fontaine (who has made numerous films, some well-regarded, though I am only now seeing her work for the first time) has an uncanny knack for putting together all of the beats of the story so that they're clearly all part of a whole; she then does not quite entirely manage to execute that complete whole in the most compelling or coherent way. The Girl from Monaco hangs together in a most perilously loose manner, shall we say.\n\nMaybe that's the point. This is a film about the individual moment: living in it, seizing it, regretting the ramifications of doing so. So perhaps it makes sense that it feels more like a collection of moments than a perfectly smooth narrative. Or perhaps I'm doing the movie's work for it. I can't tell. All I know is that for 95 minutes I was captivated, and at the end I was satisfied that there hadn't been a better place to cut off the action, nor would a still better place likely have appeared anywhere in the offing. Sometimes, I think it is enough to let a movie plant its seed and let you know that parts of it haven't quite revealed themselves to you; and while The Girl from Monaco does not have the texture of a masterpiece, it's not at all as disposable as it seems at first glance.\nCategories: arty sex pictures, french cinema, love stories\nIce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)\nSéraphine" ]

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[ null, "The Detroit-area high school where four students were fatally shot reopened Monday for the first time since the November attack, with the school's principal declared “we are reclaiming our high school back.”", null, "Oxford High School students had been attending classes at other buildings since Jan. 10. Everything “went very well\" Monday morning as staff and students returned for classes for the first time since the Nov. 30 shooting, said Oxford Community Schools spokeswoman Dani Stublensky.\n\nFour students were killed and six students and a teacher were injured in the shooting. A fellow student, Ethan Crumbley, 15, is charged with murder and other crimes. His parents also are facing charges.\n\nA temporary memorial set up outside the school was removed before students returned. District Superintendent Tim Throne said experts advised that removing it would help students “further their healing process.” A permanent memorial is planned." ]

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[ "Yamaha Dominant in all World Championship Classes on Sunday at Jerez", null, "Yamaha Dominant in all World Championship Classes on Sunday at Jerez\n\nAlongside this, Yamaha was crowned WorldSSP manufacturers’ champions for the fifth consecutive season, with Yamaha Motor Europe Road Racing Manager Andrea Dosoli sharing his thoughts on the weekend.\n\n“It has been an emotional weekend after the tragic passing of Dean Berta Viñales. What happened on Saturday has affected everyone, and when something like this happens, we all need to try to learn from this and look at ways that we can make a step forward in terms of improving safety. From the sporting point of view, Yamaha showed great performances on Sunday to win every race. Congratulations to all the riders and teams for this fantastic achievement. It was an important weekend in WorldSBK where we enforced our leading position, while it was a very positive result in WorldSSP, as we claimed the manufacturers’ title. Bahattin Sofuoğlu also achieved another victory and we’ve seen a great step from him in these closing stages of the WorldSSP300 championship.”", null, "Pata Yamaha with Brixx WorldSBK’s Toprak Razgatlıoğlu enjoyed a perfect weekend at the Spanish venue, having taken his first pole position of the season on Saturday, before battling to win both races, fighting through to beat Jonathan Rea in the first and holding off Scott Redding in the second.\n\n“Of course, Toprak was just as surprised as all of us, considering the difficulties he was facing on Friday, where he didn’t have the best feeling with the bike. He was also not 100 percent fit on Sunday. The team did a great job improving the set-up of his Yamaha R1, which allowed Toprak to achieve his second WorldSBK pole position. Sunday has been tough, he was not feeling so well, on top of all the emotion from the day before, but he managed it in a fantastic way. In Race 1, he was able to achieve an important win over Johnny. In Race 2, he was clever in his defence against Scott, and he managed to take his 10th race win of the season.”", null, "Elsewhere in WorldSBK, 2021 rookie Andrea Locatelli was narrowly off the podium, claiming a pair of fourth-place finishes, having crossed the finish line less than a second behind third in both races.\n\nAt the GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Team, Garrett Gerloff was twice 10th, with his rookie teammate Kohta Nozane 13th in Race 1, before a fall in Race 2 ended his top 10 challenge. GIL Motorsport Yamaha’s Christophe Ponsson scored a point in the first, with YART Yamaha’s Marvin Fritz just missing out on points in his and the team’s second WorldSBK weekend.\n\n“Another step for Andrea, who was just off the podium with two fourth places. We have seen one of his best performances of the season for him, showing he’s continuing to close the gap to the top guys and I’m sure we’ll see him on the podium again in the coming rounds.\n\n“Garrett has shown that he has the speed, with a promising Warm Up, but he didn’t have the best of starts in both races. He managed to still take solid results, so he knows what he needs to work on to improve the final position in the final few rounds. In Kohta, we have seen another improvement during the weekend. In Race 2, he showed a good performance and was fighting for the top 10, but a small mistake saw him unable to take advantage of this. Christophe was able to score a point, but more important was the fact that the gap to the front shows that he’s continuing to improve. It was nice to have Marvin and YART Yamaha team back for another round. They were unlucky in the races, but we know they are capable of better results.”", null, "In WorldSSP, Ten Kate Yamaha WorldSSP Supported Team’s Dominique Aegerter dominated on his return, taking the lead at Turn 1 from second on the grid, before building a near 10 second lead by the finish to score his 10th win of the season. This result saw Yamaha confirmed as the 2021 manufacturers’ champions with three rounds to spare.\n\n“I would like to congratulate Dominique and the Ten Kate Yamaha team. He did something very special at this track, and no one could match his pace. He really dominated the race, and on some laps was even a second faster than his closest rivals, demonstrating that he is fully deserving of his position at the top of the championship. Manuel Gonzalez showed great speed again, but he wasn’t completely comfortable with the set-up in the race, so just missed out on another podium. I would like to thank all the teams and riders on their contribution towards us taking the manufactures’ title for the fifth time in a row.”", null, "Off the back of a successful Barcelona weekend, Biblion Motoxracing Yamaha WorldSSP300 Supported Team’s Bahattin Sofuoğlu backed up his third-place result in Race 1 with a comfortable victory on Sunday, seeing the bLU cRU rider climb into the top five in the championship ahead of the Portimao finale this weekend.\n\n“Another great result for Bahattin, with a podium and the win clearly showing the level of this rider and the maturity he’s achieving. He’s been unlucky in the first part of the season, but those lessons have been important for his development and his approach during the races. Winning with a gap in the WorldSSP300 is something unusual, but it highlights his talent and the efforts he put in during this race.”\n\nNext up for the world championship paddock is the Portuguese round this weekend at Portimao, which marks the last European leg of the WorldSBK and WorldSSP championship, as well as the 2021 WorldSSP300 finale.", null ]

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[ "Although martens are in the mustelid family with skunks and other powerfully musky species, the marten's odors are barely perceptible to humans.", null, "A stealthy, cat-sized forest carnivore in the weasel family, the Humboldt marten (once/also called the coastal marten) is so rare that it was thought extinct until rediscovered in 1996. Now, due to extensive logging of coastal old-growth forests in Northern California and Oregon — the only places it's found — the marten has been eliminated from 95 percent of its historic range. Other threats to the marten abound, including wildfires and loss of genetic diversity due to population separation and a tiny overall population size.\n\nTo make sure the Humboldt marten never slips out of human awareness again, in 2010 the Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Protection and Information Center (EPIC) filed a scientific petition to protect the species under the federal Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied protection.\n\nAfter a decade of work — including more than one lawsuit by the Center and EPIC challenging the Service for failing to protect the marten — finally, in August 2020, this fierce but furry creature won protections as \"threatened\" under the federal Endangered Species Act.\n\nMeanwhile, in response to a state petition by the Center and EPIC, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has listed the marten under the California Endangered Species Act. Fewer than 200 individuals remain in California.\n\nSaving the Humboldt marten means protecting its habitat and reestablishing population connectivity. Martens are secretive hunters that only move through dense shrub cover or areas with closed forest canopy, so extensive clearcutting has dramatically fragmented their range, isolating populations in Oregon and California. Throughout the species' range, fewer than 400 individual martens survive, in four very isolated fragments.\n\nLuckily, following more than a decade of efforts by the Center and allies, in 2021 the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to designate 1,413,305 acres in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon as critical habitat for Humboldt martens." ]

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[ null, "Chris Hemsworth prioritizes his health. In an interview with Vanity Fair published on November 18, the Marvel actor said that he will be taking a break from acting after learning that he had genes that may lead to Alzheimer’s disease.\n\nAccording to the site, he discovered two copies of the gene APOE4, one from each of his parents, after undergoing genetic tests while filming his new Disney+ reality program Limitless, which the National Institute of Aging labels the “strongest risk factor gene for Alzheimer’s disease.” Hemsworth’s grandpa has been diagnosed, showing how serious his danger is.\n\n“Since we finished the show, I’ve been completing the things I was already contracted to do,” he said. “Now when I finish this tour this week, I’m going home and I’m going to have a good chunk of time off and just simplify. Be with the kids, be with my wife.”\n\nHemsworth, who shares a 10-year-old daughter India and 8-year-old twin sons Tristan and Sasha with their wife Elsa Pataky, said that finding out he has the gene made him realize how much time he was missing with his family due to his work schedule.\n\n“Doing an episode on death and facing your own mortality made me go, ‘Oh God, I’m not ready to go yet,” he said.\n\n“Then you start talking about kids and family and going, ‘Oh my God, they’re getting older, they’re growing up and I keep slapping another movie on top of another movie.’ Before you know it, they’re 18 and they’ve moved out of the house, and I missed the window.”\n\nHemsworth’s doctor warned him in the episode that the APOE4 gene puts him eight to ten times more likely to acquire Alzheimer’s. The actor, however, took care not to embellish the issue or make it appear like he had been diagnosed.\n\n“I was offered a version of the episode where we didn’t talk about it,” he revealed. “I thought, ‘No, look if this is a motivator for people to take better care of themselves and also understand that there are steps you can take—then fantastic.’\n\nMy concern was that I just didn’t want to manipulate it, overdramatize it, and make it into some sort of hokey grab at empathy or whatever for entertainment.”\n\nWhile he is taking a break from acting, Hemsworth will be back on the big screen soon, since he has already finished filming Netflix’s Extraction sequel and the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa. As Hemsworth himself stated, “It’s not like I’ve been handed my resignation.”\n\nInstead, he’s using this information about his health to prioritize what matters to him and encourages viewers to do the same.\n\n“You don’t know when your time’s up, you don’t know what tomorrow holds,” he said. “Whether or not any of this information helps you live longer, it’s about living better right now. Whatever you do right now to benefit your future self is having a huge benefit in your current self.”" ]

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[ null, "Courtois has attended the media of UEFA in the previous of the Champions League quarter-final tie against Chelsea. The Belgian meta fights one more edition for conquer a title that resists, either in the form of eliminations or in the form of a Lisbon final that slipped out of his hands. In addition, he is seen again with the Chelsea fanswith the wish that the same does not happen to him as with the Atlético.\n\nI hope to win the Champions League before retiring, I don’t have it yet and it will be very special for me\n\n“I hope it’s a happy comeback. Now we’re rivals. They want to win and so do I. So I don’t ask for any applause. I hope I don’t get booed, but you never know. I’m ready for anything and we’ll see how it goes. I’m happy to come back.” go back there with fans since last year the stadium was empty.\n\nThe dream of Madrid\n\n“When I arrive at the training center and see the Real Madrid crest, sometimes I think: ‘Pinch me!’ You must believe in yourself and that one day your dreams can come true.”\n\n“All footballers dream of winning. I’m lucky enough to play for Real Madrid, here every year you’re close to winning. You’re going to play a final, a semi-final or a quarter-final. Last year we reached the semi-finals. This year we played against a great rival in the quarterfinals. I hope we win and get to another semi-final, we’ll see.”\n\nCourtois: “I hope they don’t boo me and that it’s a happy return”" ]

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[ null, "Speaking in a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, the Azeri president said Baku attaches great importance to Tehranˈs support for the issue of Karabakh.\n\nKarabakh is a geographic region in southwestern Azerbaijan internationally recognized as part of that country. Since the end of the Nagorno-Karabakh War in 1994, representatives of the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan have been holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group on the regionˈs disputed status.\n\nPresident Alyev who arrived here this morning at the invitation of President rouhani, stressed the need to maintain Azerbaijanˈs territorial integrity.\n\nThe Nagorno-Karabakh dispute flared up in 1988, when the region’s predominantly ethnic Armenian population began large-scale protests against Azerbaijani rule, seeking first to become part of Armenia and later declaring independence. A war ensued in the early 1990s, ending in 1994 with a shaky ceasefire that failed to resolve the conflict.\n\nAzerbaijan insists on control over Nagorno-Karabakh to maintain its territorial integrity.\n\nPresident Aliyev said that Tehranˈs approach towards the Karabakh issue was fair and well-founded.\n\nEarlier in the day, President Rouhani voiced Tehranˈs readiness to help solve regional problems including that of the Karabakh region within the frameworks of international laws and justice." ]

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[ "Posted on September 2, 2015 by Catherine Tackley\n\nMusic is creative – you’ll learn about how musicians work creatively with sound, and experience this for yourself.\n\nAs we mentioned earlier in this series of blogs, you don’t have to be an expert musician to understand more about music. But in our modules we do spend some time thinking about what musicians do in their work. We encourage students put themselves in the shoes of the professionals to experience something of what it is like to be a performer, a composer or a record producer.\n\nHave you ever stopped to think about the sheer number of creative decisions that are taken in the process of making a record you hear on the radio, for example?\n\nIn our level 2 module A224, you have the opportunity to put your theoretical knowledge of music into practice in a series of songwriting exercises, setting words to music, culminating in a complete song. In this podcast, professional songwriter Danny Cope, who contributed to the module, explains how he writes his songs – from the initial inspiration, through the development of ideas, to the final version – a process which you will follow in your own work.", null, "But often this is only the first part of the process of bringing musical ideas to an audience. In A342, we go behind the scenes at a recording studio to discover more about the process of recording a song, exploring what performers, producer and engineer in this environment – as well as post-production editing and mastering to create the final version ready to release. We also study iconic recordings, for example by the Beatles and Frank Sinatra, to investigate the impact of the recording process on the performances. This involves learning to listen to the sound of the record itself. For example, the use of stereo (placing sounds to the left and right) can give a sonic illusion of space and even movement – for an extreme example, listen to Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Exp’ from Axis: Bold as Love.\n\nEven this brief description has exposed the creative input of many people into a record, all making decisions will have an impact on how the music is perceived by audiences. Listening to, studying and experimenting with music in this way will make you more aware of your own creativity – creative thinking is important in academic study and in the workplace more generally, too.\n\nThis entry was posted in 10 reasons, Performance, Teaching. Bookmark the permalink." ]

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[ null, "Today’s flick is a modern remake of a classic Roger Corman creature feature: Attack of the Giant Leeches, from 2008.\n\nThe visual effects for Attack of the Giant Leeches were provided by Tony Masiello, who has worked on movies like Shrek 2, The Smurfs, Man of Steel, The Amazing Spider-Man, and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.\n\nThe music for the film was provided by Kevin MacLeod, who somehow has nearly 2000 composition credits over his career according to IMDb, primarily on short films and documentary features.\n\nAttack of the Giant Leeches unsurprisingly carries over the same basic plot from the original movie: two giant leeches are living in a swamp, and kidnapping locals to feed off of. The disappearances spike curiosity, and the leeches are inevitably discovered.\n\nThis remake was neither widely distributed nor well-received: it currently holds a 3.0 rating on IMDb from less than 100 voters, and a 43% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes from 52 users.", null, "This movie is basically just total garbage. It looks and sounds like Ben and Arthur mixed with an Ulli Lommel movie (Zombie Nation or Daniel Der Zauberer, take your pick), and the acting is all on par with those movies as well. However, it was clearly made with admiration for the source material, and it perhaps stays a little too loyal to a movie that is by no means a masterpiece to begin with.\n\nI will say that this movie got a genuine laugh from me when the leeches first showed up. Instead of having people in full leech costumes like the original movie, this flick uses obviously rubber leech appendages, which come from off screen to wiggle around and gently rub at the actors. Whenever a movie uses that kind of monster, I can’t help but picture the production assistant that had to wear the monster arm, standing just off screen trying not to giggle at how ridiculous the effect looks. However, to the movie’s credit, these monsters look far more like giant leeches than the squid-like creatures in the original movie.\n\nAttack of the Giant Leeches also features some of the worst day-for-night shooting I have ever seen in a movie, in which there is a light blue filter placed over a scene that is obviously being shot during the day. You can get away with that sometimes if it is done well, but this is one of the laziest implementations of it I have ever seen. Characters are wearing baseball caps that are obviously casting shadows from high sunlight, sun reflections are coming off the water, and the cloud cover makes it obvious that this wasn’t just filmed during the say, but on a pretty bright day.\n\nAs far as positive things to say, this remake did put some effort into making the ending more interesting. Instead of just dynamite fishing to kill the leeches, there is a more tense showdown that involves bait and self-sacrifice. Even though the explosion effects look terrible, it is still a noted improvement on the conclusion of the original movie. They also put in an honest effort to update the underlying fears that motivate the storyline. In the original, the creatures were the result of atomic shenanigans from Cape Canaveral. In this remake, however, the movie takes a Birdemic approach to the villains, attributing their existence to pollution of their ecosystem.\n\nOverall, this movie is amateurish and trashy, and hardly worth spending any time on. That said, this was clearly a fan creation born of affection for the source material, and it does manage to improve on it in some key ways. Regardless, unless you really liked the original movie or have an affinity for this sort of low budget horror, this would be best to avoid." ]

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[ null, "Movie Review: In a key scene in Jeeva, the central character Jeeva tells his girlfriend Jenny that he cannot imagine a life without cricket, and he knows only too well the pain that …\n\nJeeva is gripping with a moving second half, but not as inspiring as Iqbal. The problem being it focuses on a romantic track that completely acts as …\n\nWhat is the name of the director of the movie Jeeva?\n\nJeeva (2014 film) Jeeva is a 2014 Indian Tamil sports drama film written and directed by Suseenthiran, who also produces the film along with cinematographer R. Madhi and art director Rajeevan under the banner of Vennila Kabadi Team. The film features Vishnu and Sri Divya in the lead cast, while Lakshman Narayan plays a supporting role.\n\nWhat is Suseenthiran’s Jeeva all about?\n\nMovie Review: In a key scene in Jeeva, the central character Jeeva tells his girlfriend Jenny that he cannot imagine a life without cricket, and he knows only too well the pain that giving up an ambition causes a person. This should give you a clue about what Suseenthiran’s Jeeva is all about.\n\nWhat is the story of Jeeva Shetty's film'Jeeva'?\n\nThis film is about a young aspiring Cricketer Jeeva, who dreams of playing for the India national cricket team one day. The films begins with Jeeva, sitting in a park bench and starts to narrate his life story.\n\nJeeva dreams of playing for the Indian cricket team someday. But his love life and politics in the game of sports become obstacles to his ambition." ]

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[ "Batman #43, DC Comics. This has been a fun and creepy little story. Poison Ivy claims she wants redemption for past sins. Funny way of showing it, though. By King, Janin and Chung.", null, "The Mighty Thor #705, Marvel. In the finale of The Death of the Mighty Thor, Jane Foster’s journey reaches its climax. Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman wrap up their epic.", null, "Super Sons #14, DC Comics. Talia and Robin together/against each other is always entertaining. Enjoy this title by Peter Tomasi while you can, folks. Line art by Carlo Barberi and Art Thibert.", null, null, null, null, "Batman Animated Joker Expressions Pack, DC Collectibles. This is worth getting just for the duck floaty.", null ]

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[ "A couple of days ago, we ran a short piece about a street artist in los angeles, who goes by the name sabo, who replaced the faces of brad pitt and leonardo dicaprio with those of jeffrey epstein and roman polanski on a giant billboard that advertised quentin tarantino’s new movie “once upon a time in hollywood”. Area with posters depicting the democrat governor as a character out of american psycho. Donald trump has become the center of a new street art campaign, with work that can be seen all around los angeles.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "This has taken place ahead of hillary clinton’s arrival in the city of angels for a democratic fundraiser at the very exclusive brentwood tavern, scheduled for monday night.\n\nSabo street artist los angeles. Protesters are gathering friday in los angeles for something called “united against hate inauguration march,” where sabo posted several fake advertisements for ’24: Area with posters depicting the democrat governor as a character out of american psycho. Los angeles street artist sabo has done it again, making over a billboard for quentin tarantino’s “once upon a time.\n\nAfter a decade of inflammatory guerrilla art which yielded little money or. Street artist sabo has put a name to the “she knew” posters featuring meryl streep and harvey weinstein that mysteriously appeared earlier this week in and around los angeles: Glenn beck seemed all too happy to introduce his viewers to los angeles' staunchly conservative street artist, sabo.\n\nCheck out multimedia artwork from sabo, a staunchly conservative street artist who has taken the streets of los angeles by storm. Working separately but in the same area on a similar theme, a different street artist criticized jussie smollett in several locations over the empire actor's assertion he was the victim of a hate. See more ideas about street artists, street art, la streets.\n\nThe los angeles street artist known as sabo is no fan of gov. When a highly anticipated movie like that hits hollywood, there are advertisements everywhere in los angeles. Sabo replaced michael myers’ infamous mask with a picture of congresswoman maxine waters.\n\nNewsom's handling of the coronavirus lockdown in california, and can be found in venice beach, hollywood, and other hot spots around l.a. His latest series takes a stab at gov. According to a 2015 interview with adland, sabo had been involved in street art since 1999, though he began to take his activity in the scene more seriously around 2008.", null, "Ha! ‘Moving Sale’ Ads Pop Up Around L.A. for Celebs", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "SABO stands before the image that made him famous Ted", null, null ]

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[ "At the moment, Washington mulls sanctions on seven Belarusian officials.", null, "The United States may consider introducing sanctions on Russia if Moscow intervenes in Belarus overtly to suppress protests against what's widely believed was a rigged presidential election.\n\nThat's according to Reuters citing a high-ranking source in the U.S. State Department, who spoke on condition of anonymity.\n\nTogether with the U.S. Treasury, the State Department is working to get a package of evidence to introduce sanctions against at least seven Belarusian officials involved in falsifying election results and slamming down on protesters.\n\nRead alsoRussia seeks to repeat in Belarus moves it made in Ukraine – expertDuring last week's talks in Moscow, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun reportedly warned Russia explicitly against the overt use of force in Belarus, the country that is geographically separating Russia from the NATO Bloc, just like Ukraine.\n\nEU leaders agreed to impose sanctions on Belarus over election fraud and violence against protesters.\n\nLithuania, Latvia, and Estonia declared Alexander Lukashenko persona non grata along with 29 Belarusian officials, as well as decided to sever trade in electricity as soon as a new Belarusian NPP opens.\n\nUkraine has joined EU's declaration on the situation in Belarus. President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the authorities in the neighboring country to set up a revote to ease tensions.\n\nAs a result of a series of phone conversations between Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin the latter promised comprehensive support to Belarus in case any external threat arises, as well as vowed to deploy riot police forces upon request.\n\nIf you see a spelling error on our site, select it and press Ctrl+Enter\nTags:RussiaUSABelarussanctions" ]

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[ null, "Millersville University in Pennsylvania was given prior notice that it could be held liable under Title IX “for its deliberate indifference to known sexual harassment perpetrated by a non-student guest,” a federal appeals court ruled last week.\n\nThe ruling revives a lawsuit filed by the parents of Karlie Hall, a student murdered in her dorm room in 2015 by her boyfriend, who did not attend the university.\n\nIn ruling in the Halls’ favor, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the holding of the district court, which had ruled the university lacked notice that it could have been held liable under Title IX, the statute that prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded educational institutions, for violence perpetrated by a nonstudent guest.\n\n“Title IX’s plain terms notify federal funding recipients that they may face monetary liability for intentional violations of the statute,” the Third Circuit ruling states. “Moreover, it is an intentional violation of Title IX’s terms for a funding recipient to act with deliberate indifference to known sexual harassment where the recipient exercises substantial control over the context in which the harassment occurs and the harasser, even if they are a third party.”\n\nJim Davy, an attorney who represented the Hall family, said the ruling “confirms important protections for students in states that are in the Third Circuit and beyond, where if you’re going to a school and the school has knowledge that you’re facing harassment or dating violence or other sex-based violence and they have the ability to do something about that, they have to do something about it.\n\n“They can’t just excuse any responsibility by saying the harassment is happening by a third party,” Davy said. “When you consider the many third-party interactions that happen on K-12 schools and college campuses, this is a really important decision that will protect student rights going forward.”\n\nJanet Kacskos, a spokeswoman for Millersville, said the university is “thoroughly reviewing the Third Circuit’s opinion and consulting with our attorneys on this matter.”\n\nShe said the university “continues to mourn the loss of Ms. Hall, and our deepest sympathies remain with her family and loved ones.”\n\nThe lawsuit centers largely on Millersville’s failure to act—at least according to the facts as presented in the Third Circuit ruling—in response to an October 2014 domestic violence incident in Hall’s dorm room during which Hall was injured by her boyfriend, Gregorio Orrostieta.\n\nAlthough a university police officer responded, the officer did not initially file a report; an incident report was only filed subsequent to Hall’s murder by Orrostieta several months later.\n\nFurthermore, a report on the incident submitted to the Title IX office by Hall’s resident adviser allegedly was filed away by Millersville’s deputy Title IX coordinator, in violation of the university’s policies.\n\nAlthough Millersville’s Title IX policy required victims of domestic or dating violence to be contacted, Hall was never contacted by anyone at Millersville following submission of the resident adviser’s report, according to the ruling. The ruling also notes that Millersville had other policies outside Title IX to control the comings and goings of a guest, including policies requiring guests to sign in and the ability to issue a no-trespass order.\n\nHall was killed in her room in Bard Hall, a dorm on campus, on the night of Feb. 7, 2015. According to the ruling, Orrostieta killed Hall through “strangulation and multiple traumatic injuries” and potentially sexually assaulted her. Orrostieta was convicted of third-degree murder in Hall’s death and sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison.\n\nIn finding that the district court erred in concluding the university could not be held liable under Title IX for the actions of a nonstudent, the Third Circuit court cited a 1999 Supreme Court case, Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education.\n\nThe appeals court found that Millersville’s own Title IX policies in place at the time Hall was enrolled “contemplated Title IX liability could result from the actions of third parties such as ‘visitors’ like Orrostieta.”\n\nThe appeals court also cited guidance from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights stating that harassment by third parties is covered by Title IX, and the appeals court disagreed with the interpretation of the district court, which had interpreted the OCR guidance to mean that colleges only were on notice they faced liability for harassment by third parties when the harasser was invited by the university, such as in the case of an invited professor or athlete.\n\nThe appeals court further addressed Millersville’s argument that ruling in favor of the Halls “will open the floodgates and subject universities to unwarranted liability under Title IX for ‘anyone’s on-campus conduct resulting in the disruption or outright destruction of a student’s pursuit of her education,’” as the college put it in its brief.\n\nAlexandra Brodsky, a staff attorney at Public Justice, a nonprofit legal advocacy group that joined with the Women’s Law Project in filing an amicus brief in support of the Halls, called the ruling a “clear recognition that schools have an obligation to respond to known sexual harassment that happens within their control regardless of the identity of the harasser. There are no categorical exemptions from Title IX’s protections if the harasser is the student’s own guest.”\n\n“I don’t want to overstate it, in that I don’t want to say this is some kind of expansion of the law, because I think that has been the state of the law for a long time,” Brodsky said. “But it’s still always helpful to have a court explain the contours of the law in such a clear way.”\n\n“The court specifically cites that there’s an argument this will open the floodgates, allowing liability for any random third party that comes on campus,” Sapp said. “The court says, ‘No, they have to fit within the framework of Title IX,’ but then they find that the school had control because they had the option to issue a no-trespass order—but the school also has an ability to issue a no-trespass order against anyone who comes on campus. I think it does potentially expand liability for institutions strictly based on the fact that the line of exercising substantial control is grayed a little bit from this case.”\n\n“It’s not necessarily the floodgates opening,” Sapp added, “but it does beg the question of what is the dispositive factor for control.”" ]

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[ "He flew over the handle bars into the Road", null, "My boyfriend, a triathlete, was on a bike ride when a motorhome made an illegal left turn in front of him. Douglas was traveling downhill between 35-45 mph. He is a good bike handler and was able to avoid hitting the motorhome. However, he braked so hard that he went over the handle bars and landed in the middle of the road.A park ranger in his truck saw the whole thing and called 911. Douglas was unconscious for quite a while. In fact, he has no recollection of the accident or how he got into the helicopter. He was airlifted to the UCLA trauma center. The paramedics saw his Road ID, which he always wears when he's biking or running, and were able to both identify him and get a hold of me. UCLA trauma center used his Road ID to call me and give me an update as to his condition prior to my arrival.\n\nHe sustained a dislocated left shoulder, a fractured right elbow, a compression fracture of T7, 16 stitches in his jaw, and lots of road rash. It will be a while before he can race again but the accident could have been so much worse. I just want you to know how thankful we are for Road ID. Without it, Douglas would not have been identified for a very long time and no one would have known how to contact me." ]

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[ null, "By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press\n\nHOUSTON – A Texas man, rid of a murder charge, was taken back into custody Monday after neighbors found a pet tiger wandering a Houston neighborhood.\n\nPolice said they believed the tiger belonged to Cuevas, but his lawyer questioned the accuracy of that belief.\n\nThe video of the encounter on Sunday evening shows the tiger facing an armed deputy sheriff from Waller County, police said. During the encounter, the deputy Cuevas can be heard shouting to bring the animal back inside.\n\nNo shots were fired.\n\nWhen the officers arrived, Cuevas put the animal in a white Jeep Cherokee and drove off, Houston Police Cmdr. Ron Borza said during a press conference on Monday. Cuevas got away with a brief chase, he said.\n\nPolice said Monday the tiger’s whereabouts are unknown. Borza had said the previous Monday that the main concern was to find Cuevas and the tiger, “because I don’t want him to harm this tiger. We have many places where we can take this tiger and protect him and unite him can give. ” Home for the rest of his life. “\n\nCuevas’ attorney Michael W. Elliott said he does not believe Cuevas is the owner of the tiger or that he cares for the animal. The lawyer also said it was unclear to him whether it was Cuevas, who appeared on videos of the incident.\n\n“In this particular case, people make a lot of assumptions. Maybe he’s the hero out there who caught the tiger in the neighborhood, “Elliott said.\n\nCuevas was charged with the murder in a fatal shootout of a man outside a restaurant in neighboring Fort Bend County in 2017 and was in custody. Elliott said Cuevas alleged the shooting was self-defense and was innocent of the murder charges.\n\nHaving a monkey is not illegal in Houston if the animal weighs less than 13.5 kilograms. Tigers are not permitted within Houston city limits unless the handler, e.g. B. a zoo is licensed to have exotic animals. Texas has no state law prohibiting the private possession of tigers and other exotic animals.\n\nIn 2019, some people who went to an abandoned Houston house to smoke marijuana found a tiger in a cage. The owner of the tiger was later instructed to pay for the care of the animal in a wildlife sanctuary in East Texas.\n\n“Individuals and rescue workers shouldn’t face a lion or tiger in a crisis,” said Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action, a Washington, DC-based animal rights group. “These animals belong in the wild or in prestigious sanctuaries or zoos and nowhere else.”\n\nBorza said residents shouldn’t have such animals because they can be unpredictable.\n\n“If this tiger got out yesterday and caused damage, one of these citizens would have shot the tiger. We have a lot of neighbors out here with guns and we don’t want to see that. It’s not the animal’s fault. It’s the breeder’s fault. It’s unacceptable, “he said.\n\nThe city of Austin is hosting a virtual careers fair." ]

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[ "39 Ceti is a variable and double giant star in the constellation of Cetus.\n\n39 Ceti visual magnitude is 5.41. Because of its reltive faintness, 39 Ceti should be visible only from locations with dark skyes, while it is not visible at all from skyes affected by light pollution.\n\nThe table below summarizes the key facts about 39 Ceti:\n\n39 Ceti is situated close to the celestial equator, as such, it is at least partly visible from both hemispheres in certain times of the year. Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox as well as galactic coordinates of 39 Ceti are provided in the following table:\n\nThe simplified sky map below shows the position of 39 Ceti in the sky:", null, "Visibility of 39 Ceti from your location\n\nToday's 39 Ceti rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom [change] are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):\n\nThe image below is a photograph of 39 Ceti from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins). The proper motion of 39 Ceti is -0.104 arcsec per year in Right Ascension and -0.063 arcsec per year in Declination and the associated displacement for the next 1000 years is represented with the red arrow.", null, "Distance of 39 Ceti from the Sun and relative movement\n\n39 Ceti is distant 255.89 light years from the Sun and it is moving towards the Sun at the speed of 20 kilometers per second.\n\n39 Ceti belongs to spectral class G5 and has a luminosity class of III corresponding to a giant star.\n\nThe red dot in the diagram below shows where 39 Ceti is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.\n\n39 Ceti is a visual double star which can be observed with the help of small or medium telescopes. The table below shows key information about the 39 Ceti double sysyem:" ]

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[ null, "The Asayish is the US-backed Kurdish intelligence agents in Syria. They report to the US forces illegally occupying Syria the locations of armed groups backed by Iran who is fighting ISIS in Syria. The US uses this information by targeting the groups that fight ISIS in Syria.\n\nUS forces relocated ISIS members from the al-Hawl camp in Syria to Iraq in early October. The camp, which acts as a prison occupied by thousands of ISIS men, and their women and children, is run by the US-backed Kurdish militias SDF and YPG.\n\nThe transfers took place under the supervision of the Asayish from the so-called Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava.\n\nLast April, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the US was using ISIS to block a political solution to the crisis in Syria and supporting separatist militants in a flagrant violation of international resolutions.\n\nThe US military transfer of ISIS prisoners to the Iraqi-Syrian border provides a pretext for the US’s continued occupation in Syria.\n\nIn May 2020, several captured ISIS terrorists confessed to close cooperation with US military forces stationed at the al-Tanf base in the central Syrian province of Homs on carrying out various acts of terror and sabotage.\n\nTelevised confessions revealed the terrorists were instructed by US forces to target Syrian government troops in and around the ancient city of Palmyra, the Tiyas Military Airbase – also known as the T-4 Airbase, the Shaer gas field as well as nearby oil wells.\n\n“Once a close aide to our commander Hassan Alqam al-Jazrawi came to me and said he was in contact with the Americans at the al-Tanf base. The man, whose name was Hassan al-Wali, added it was necessary to target Palmyra and T4 Airbase, and that US forces would provide us with rocket launchers and machine guns, besides financial support, cars, and whatever we needed,” one of the terrorists said on TV.\n\nThe US attacks on Iran in Syria\n\nIn February, US aircraft bombed a border-control point in Syria used by Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, who are Iranian-backed militias fighting ISIS. The airstrike was the first military action undertaken by the Biden administration.\n\n“I’m confident in the target that we went after, we know what we hit,” said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to reporters flying with him to Washington.\n\nMary Ellen O’Connell, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, criticized the US attack as a violation of international law. “The United Nations Charter makes absolutely clear that the use of military force on the territory of a foreign sovereign state is lawful only in response to an armed attack on the defending state for which the target state is responsible,” she said. None of those elements is met in the Syria strike.\n\nIn June, the US said it had carried out airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias near the Iraq-Syria border. A Pentagon spokesman said the strikes targeted “operational and weapons storage facilities” at three locations.\n\nA powerful Iraqi militia alliance, the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), said four members of one faction were killed. The PMF is a coalition of mostly Iranian-backed militias that was formed in 2014 to fight ISIS and was incorporated into the Iraqi Government Security Forces three years ago. The US airstrikes killed four fighters carrying out an officially sanctioned mission to prevent ISIS militants from infiltrating Iraq.\n\nSyrian state media reported that a child was killed in the US airstrike near the Syrian border town of Albu Kamal, and accused the US of seeking to undermine efforts to improve stability in the area.\n\nThe Syrian government has had support from Iranian-backed militias during the Syrian crisis, and they have a significant presence in the border region preventing ISIS from re-emergence.\n\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group, said seven militia fighters were killed in US airstrikes near Albu Kamal, where facilities were targeted at two locations in Syria and one inside Iraq that were used by several Iranian-backed groups, including Kataib Hezbollah and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada.\n\nUS media reported that the strikes were the second round targeting Iranian-backed militias in Syria ordered by President Biden, and were carried out by US Air Force F-15s and F-16s using satellite-guided munitions. The locations of the strikes were provided by the Asayish.\n\nWho are the Asayish?\n\nThe Asayish is the Kurdish intelligence agents operating in the Kurdistan region in Iraq. The organization was established in September 1993. Their counterpart is located in North-East Syria, in the so-called Rojava area. The Asayish in Syria operates primarily as the secret agents for the US occupation forces. They report all locations of the Iranian-backed groups fighting to keep ISIS from re-emerging.\n\nIn November 2019, it was reported that Asayish agents had detained an Assyrian journalist named William Bnyameen Adam for nearly two weeks following a report on his trip to Northern Syria. Adam claimed that Asayish had confiscated his equipment, beaten him, and interrogated him about his reporting. An earlier API statement claimed that Adam and his family had previously received death threats from members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party as a result of his criticism of high-ranking Kurdistan Region officials.\n\nIn January, the Asayish besieged the area in Al-Qamishli and Al-Hasakah cities. SOHR activists said that the Asayish continued to prevent food and goods from entering the security zone in Al-Hasakah city and imposed a fine on anyone who violated this decision. The SOHR added that dozens of civil servants of the Damascus-based government staged a protest outside the justice department in the city of Hasakeh, in protest against the continued siege imposed by Asayish for the fifth day in a row preventing the entry of goods and food.\n\nThe market of Al-Qamishli city was closed due to clashes which left four Syrian government soldiers injured, while Asayish snipers were stationed on houses’ roofs.\n\nThe AANES, also known as Rojava, is a region in northeastern Syria. It consists of the areas of Afrin, Jazira, Euphrates, Raqqa, Tabqa, Manbij, and Deir Ez-Zor. The region claimed its de facto autonomy in 2012, during the Syrian conflict. Its’ official military force, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) became the US partner in the fight to defeat ISIS. Rojava is not officially recognized as autonomous by the government of Syria or any state or organization, including the US and the UN.\n\nAANES and the SDF are based on a socialist political ideology, while their alliance with the PKK recalls their communist ideology foundation. The leadership claim they want to be part of a partitioned Syria, rather than have outright independence.\n\nWhy is the US in Syria illegally?\n\nThe US military invaded Syria under the guise of fighting ISIS. The US occupation serves political goals: it prevents the Syrian government in Damascus from repairing their relationship with the Kurds, maintains control over the largest oil fields in Syria, thus preventing Syria from rebuilding after the devastation of a 10-year war, and the oil revenues stolen from the oil field provides financial support for the US-backed “Rojava”, instead of asking the US Congress for funds. The US occupation prevents the Syrian war from concluding and prolongs the suffering of the Syrian people, both inside the borders, and outside. The US occupation of Syria is a project aimed at ‘regime change, which after 10-years of effort, the US has failed at." ]

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[ "The sportscaster shared a sweet photo from the couple's wedding day\n\nErin Andrews has spent another year with her love, Jarret Stoll.\n\nOn Wednesday, the sportscaster, 42, celebrated her third wedding anniversary with her former NHL player husband, sharing a sweet photo of the couple on their wedding day.\n\nSeveral famous friends and fans congratulated the couple on the milestone. Cheryl Burke, a dancer on Dancing with the Stars, wrote \"Happy anniversary ♥️♥️\" in the comments.\n\nAndrews and Stoll, 38, tied the knot in June 2017 in Montana at a sunset ceremony. The duo said their vows in front of an intimate group of friends and family and then celebrated with a reception — all designed by celebrity wedding planner Yifat Oren.\n\nThe pair started dating in 2012, and Andrews confirmed their engagement in December of 2016.\n\nStoll popped the question at Disneyland’s exclusive Club 33 over the holidays. Andrews told Good Morning America in 2017 of the proposal, “We went there for Christmas to see the Christmas decorations, and we had a lovely dinner there, and he did it right there at dinner at Disneyland. I was bawling like a child.”\n\nIn March, they celebrated the pup's birthday, with Andrews sharing some adorable family photos with the pooch.", null, null ]

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[ "A year ago, Palestinian rioters in East Jerusalem clashed with Israeli police and sparked a wave of Palestinian attacks that have resulted in 42 people being killed in Israel and 577 wounded. 163 Palestinian attackers have been arrested and 196 killed. A year ago analysts were debating whether or not this was a third intifada. But a full-scale Palestinian uprising – with a mass mobilisation of the public and support of the Palestinian leadership – never happened. Despite brutal attacks, the trauma on the Israeli side has not been deep enough to compel the Government and security forces to escalate military operations and alter the modus vivendi of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Attacks have continued for 12 months with varying levels of intensity. An initial surge of stabbing attacks was overtaken by a spate of shootings. But despite the ongoing violence, Israeli-Palestinian relations have largely remained stable.\n\nExtensive research into the motivations of Palestinian attackers has identified two clear themes in material read and shared by them on social media prior to their violent acts. The first theme was the need to defend the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem in the face of accusations that Israel was attempting to change the status quo in the Muslim holy sites, a charge that Israel has refuted. The second theme was the call to avenge the deaths of those killed by Israel subsequently carrying out attacks. Pictures of young Palestinians shot by Israeli soldiers are shared widely on social media without reference to the violent acts they were committing, or attempting to commit, before their deaths. Social media has played a critical role facilitating a fast process of radicalisation. Organisations such as Hamas have sophisticated social media operations deployed with significant effect to target young people. The wider context of ISIS success and their own well-honed social media output has helped to normalise and glorify martyrdom and violence.\n\nThe profile of Palestinian attackers is quite unique. Most of the attackers have been young, often teenagers, with no prior record of involvement or affiliation with violent terrorist organisations. When the first period of violence began, Israeli security agencies struggled. Unable to implement the established strategy of targeting known activists to prevent attacks, they had to rethink. Over time Israeli police have developed an entirely new way of working. Intelligence gathering and surveillance moved online with intensive monitoring of Facebook and social media activity. They developed a bespoke algorithm to identify young people suspected of being close to launching an attack and visited their homes to question or detain them.\n\nStabbing attacks represent very significant operational challenges. Attacks involving automatic firearms and explosives require equipment and skills. Security agencies have time and opportunity to detect and prevent them. An attack with a kitchen knife can be prepared in seconds and executed entirely alone. An illegal firearms market can be disrupted, the market in kitchen knives is open, legal and impractical to disrupt. In addition, there have been 47 incidents of cars being driven into people adding a further challenge in identifying when a law-abiding driver morphs into a potential terrorist.\n\nSince May there has been a marked increase in shooting incidents. The IDF and Shin Bet have launched extensive operations to close down illegal weapons workshops in the West Bank producing replicas of Carl Gustav sub machine guns that were used in the June Sarona Market shooting attack and can be bought for as little as £360. Last week a 39 year old man from East Jerusalem fired an M-16 from a car killing two Israelis. He had a significant amount of ammunition in his possession and the incident highlights that on occasion determined assailants are able to procure top quality weapons.\n\nDespite relative quiet on the Israel-Gaza border, Hamas is working hard to activate operatives on the West Bank and use social media material to radicalise young Palestinians into committing terrorist acts. Israeli security agencies have disrupted a number of plots and attempts but Hamas has claimed responsibility or involvement in some of the most deadly attacks including the June Sarona market shootings in Tel Aviv, the attempted Jerusalem bus bomb in April and the Jerusalem shooting in October. Hamas has stated its intent to facilitate large-scale attacks that will necessitate a heavy response from Israel and put severe strain on the Palestinian Authority. So far that hasn’t happened and it isn’t clear if this is due to operational success on the part of security services or a problem activating terror cells in the West Bank and access to the right equipment.\n\nThe untold success story of the last year is the work of the Palestinian security forces preventing attacks and carrying out arrests. They have worked closely with the IDF and Israeli security agencies during a period of high tension and, apart from less than 10 incidents Palestinian officers have not been involved in attacks on Israelis. Palestinian forces went through a period of rebuilding and reform after the second intifada and their current performance has been assisted by the on-going programme of leadership training provided by the US and UK. Security cooperation with Israel isn’t popular among Palestinians and President Abbas has threatened to end it, even though Israeli and Palestinian forces share a strong mutual desire to tackle Hamas and undermine its operations.\n\nThe Palestinian Authority is in a tight spot politically. Aid has decreased and the Palestinian economy is weak leading to less funding for key institutions and services. President Abbas has scored no major diplomatic achievements, his legitimacy is waning as supporters and opponents are manoeuvring in anticipation of his resignation or retirement. Abbas’s response has been a fudge. He has echoed claims that Israel has changed the status quo on the Temple Mount and repeated inflammatory rhetoric that finds the presence of Jews in the area to be abhorrent. He has accused Israel of extra judicial executions and allowed Fatah and PA institutions to instil a culture that celebrates and rewards ‘martyrdom’ in particular by continuing to provide financial support to convicted attackers and relatives of dead attackers. His security forces are working closely with Israel as he repeatedly threatens put a stop to it. If Abbas leaves the scene his successor would seek to establish a distinct identity and may limit security cooperation with Israel, and thus impair efforts to deter Hamas and prevent further attacks.\n\nPrime Minister Netanyahu has talked tough on terror but has largely followed the advice of the IDF and approved a cautious policy of limited, targeted counter measures to prevent terrorist attacks. The appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as Defence Minister appeared to signal a change of approach but despite vague pronouncements about a carrot and stick strategy, very little has changed. The IDF have implemented measures to ease tensions by increasing work permits for Palestinians and limiting counter terrorist operations in Area A. Netanyahu has repeatedly accused Abbas and his officials of inciting violence against Israelis and condoning attacks rather than publicly condemning them. But Netanyahu has repeatedly offered to meet Abbas for negotiations without preconditions.\n\nThe current situation has defied expectations. No one could have predicted that the attacks would continue for a year without a more serious knock on effect. Instead there is a curious stability in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. There is no likelihood that Israel and the Palestinians will restart serious negotiations over final status issues. The Palestinian Authority is weak and has done little to improve the daily lives of Palestinians. There is disappointment and anger with no outlet for expression as even municipal elections have been postponed. But there has been no widespread revolt against the Palestinian Authority and no full scale prolonged attacks against Israeli forces by large groups of Palestinians. The Israeli response has been cautious and limited. Despite tough talk from both leaders, beneath the surface there is a deep truth of shared endeavour. They are both constrained by their political opponents and need each other to fight Hamas. They know their people are in no mood for bold steps into the unknown and understand the fragility of the status quo. Above all, they recognise the overwhelming desire for stability and security by both Israelis and Palestinians. Their actions are carefully calibrated to maintain that at all costs.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Just noticed that some blog postings from the launch date have either gone AWOL, or were never posted in the first place: just for completeness they’ll get (re?)posted with the original date, just in case anyone wonders what on earth is going on. (A permanent state of mind on Song & Dance these days, we fear…)\n\nSong & Dance is pretty much an identical copy of Toulouse, a boat made about three or four years ago for Mr & Mrs Walker. We saw it at Piper’s annual gathering at Henley, where it turned out they were taking it in part-ex for a shiny new Dutch Barge (called Lautrec – quelle surprise). We liked Toulouse a lot but couldn’t do anything then – ah well. But a few months later Pipers offered to make us a copy at a mutually agreeable price, and there rest is history. We last saw her moored in Thames & Kennet Marina at Reading in early 2014.\n\nAnd then we head up to Cropredy in March to move Song & Dance into dry dock for a day when a long (70ft) boat the other side of the marina moved off, and who did we see hiding behind it: Toulouse. Probably been there all winter, just like us. She’d gone when we set off last week, but who should we find moored at Ayhno with a fancy clothes dryer???", null, "Occasional trips to Cropredy over the winter found us parked next to a car proudly displaying a Yateley Morris Men sticker. We knew Ian & Janet (who run the bar at the estimable Guildford folk club) were having a boat built – called Tuesday Night – and were going moor it at Cropredy. Looked like they’d arrived, and sure enough they had.\n\nAnother “hail fellow” we bumped into at Cropredy was another folkie Ian, who we used to see pretty much every week in the late 70s and early 80s at South Hill Park until he moved to Midhurst or Chichester or somewhere and started a morris side. What is it about narrowboaters and morris dancers? His boat’s called Cuckoo’s Nest but presumably to avoid prosecution under the Obscene Publications act or to avoid upsetting local sensibilities and Ken Kesey fans, the only place her name appears is in very small print on the Canal & River Trust licence.\n\nWandering around the marina, we also saw several other boats that looked familiar from last year, including Red Kite." ]

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[ null, "During the summer (winter there) of 2022 I travelled to Namibia to finally tick off Africa and experience a proper African safari. Usually, I focus on a particular animal and write about the process of finding it but I really had no plan in Namibia with the only animal I really wanted to see being a leopard. (I didn’t see one because you’d be shocked to find out that they’re very sneaky.)\n\nThe first stop on our tour of Namibia took us to Ovita, Namibias first pure game farm a couple of hours from the capital of Windhoek. On the drive there we had passed countless plots of savannah land which, though fenced up, were nowhere near as protected as Ovita or some of the bigger reserves and the difference was stark. We passed a group of 4 kudus which felt surreal to see such the animals from NatGeo just metres away and I thought that was a lucky encounter that wouldn’t be replicated since we hadn’t seen anything on the way there but just pulling into a protected reserve and the difference was clear. Quite notably in Ovita were their populations of impala which would stand in the road and even after their group had been split in two, the two groups on either side of the road looked just as big. The bungalows were the best positioned of all the places we stayed in Namibia as you only had to look out the window to look at the huge plain that surrounded the water hole which allowed you to follow animals for a few minutes as they walked to the water and back at a distance with which they were comfortable enough not to be skittish or nervous. In the 10,000-hectare reserve we were also able to see groups of kudus, which seemed to stay on one specific hill whilst we were there, down the road and turn right from the rooms as well as oryx which we saw twice. The first I spotted as we were driving, and it stopped and looked at us before running up and over an embankment kicking up a lot of dust as it showed us all its strength to run up the steep slope. The second felt quite magical as it was night-time, and we had finished eating when an Oryx began drinking from the watering hole. It was only lit up by the lights from the restaurant so all that could be seen clearly was its iconic silhouette against the water. The final day gave a great insight into the ins and outs of running a game farm. The day we left, a bunch of trucks had parked, and around 30 workers were setting up tents tents ready to stay the foreseeable days since today was the day a helicopter was coming to round up animals in the reserve, of which there were many, for them to be captured and sold live to be released into other game farms that needed to restock on their elands for example. This may seem like wildlife is simply being taken out of its land but this system of restocking animals which is quite unique to the Africa and its tourism funded reserves has meant that wildlife which had previously been hunted out of areas are able to return as reserves which have an excess can sell them off which is a key part of their funding. Ovita is also a hunting farm which to the city dwelling, middle-class, pet lover seems like a horrible thing for wildlife but its places like this where you realise that when nature has economic value, its numbers will explode. We ended our stay with a game drive to see the hippos which had been introduced in a similar way to fill the void of a fat grey animal after elephants and rhinos were poached out of the area in the early 2000s because unfortunately their value alive cannot be matched by the value they have dead in China and Vietnam with ivory as trinkets and rhino horn as one of the unlucky chosen materials written into Chinese medicine along with pangolin scales and tiger bones to name a view which act as magical fairy dust that cures anything." ]

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[ null, "Bizarrely, Eric Cantona has returned to football as director of ‘soccer’ at New York Cosmos.\n\n“I am very honoured to join the legendary New York Cosmos,” said Cantona. “It’s a big project, a wonderful project. The Cosmos are very strong, beautifully made, with a great past. It’s kind of a mix between football and art. I will do everything I can to help us first find our way to regain the No. 1 position in the United States, and then for us to become one of the best clubs in the world.”\n\nNew York Cosmos formed in 1971 but dissolved in 1985, however the team’s youth camps continued to operate. The name was sold in 2009 to a new organization featuring Pelé as Honorary President, who revealed that the club would be back last year with the goal of joining the MLS.\n\nFranz Beckenbauer, Pelé and Carlos Alberto Torres are amongst the famous names who have played for the club. Between 1977 and 1981 their average yearly attendance was between 34,000 and 48,00." ]

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[ "Flint water crisis - will anyone be prosecuted?", null, "last month announced an amendment to the Energy Policy and Modernization Act to help families in Flint, Michigan who have been exposed to lead poisoning through contaminated drinking water. But it will do nothing to put those responsible for the crisis in jail. Photo: Senate Democrats via Flickr (CC BY).\nAmid the growing call for those guilty of causing Flint, Michigan's water crisis to be prosecuted, Jane F. Barrett finds little prospect of criminal charges under the Safe Drinking Water Act. But federal, state and common laws offer prosecutors a range of potential charges, from malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance to involuntary manslaughter.\n\nForty years later, Congress has passed multiple amendments to the SDWA, and regulatory agencies have adopted complex and lengthy regulations designed to prevent crises like the catastrophe now occurring in Flint, Michigan. But Flint's water is still undrinkable and dangerous.\n\nIf allegations prove accurate, government employees of both the city of Flint and the state of Michigan appear to have violated the SDWA by failing to comply with regulatory requirements designed to keep Flint citizens safe from lead-contaminated drinking water.\n\nThe SDWA requires the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish national standards for contaminants, such as lead, in public water supplies that could adversely affect public health.\n\nBoth Michigan law and the SDWA require public water systems to monitor their water supplies and report monitoring results to state regulators. The sampling and monitoring must be conducted according to precise procedures in order to ensure accurate results. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEP) must report on multiple issues to EPA.\n\nFor lead and copper contaminants, the protocols are spelled out in the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR), which EPA published in 1994. The rule's goal is to make water less corrosive and prevent the leaching of lead and copper from plumbing and drinking water distribution system components, including piping that feeds into homes and the taps from which the water flows.\n\nIn this case, it is alleged by plaintiffs in various lawsuits that Flint and MDEP employees broke the law by failing to properly treat water taken from the Flint River. Then, when complaints started to come in from citizens, state and local officials were accused of not only failing to sample properly, but also withholding information about health and contamination levels from EPA and the citizens of Flint.\n\nUnderstandably, critics are demanding criminal prosecution of somebody for this debacle.\n\nEPA's Office of the Inspector General OIG) is investigating EPA's role in the crisis. The OIG, among other responsibilities, investigates fraud, waste and abuse, as well as the efficiency and effectiveness, of the EPA. And on the local level, the Michigan Attorney General's Office (AG) appointed a special counsel who is working with a task force of investigators to determine if any state laws were violated.\n\nBut the question remains: who can be prosecuted and under what law?\n\nHowever, there are numerous, traditional federal criminal statutes, known as Title 18 offenses, that may apply. Specifically, prosecutors will likely evaluate if any person submitted false statements; obstructed EPA's ability to perform its duties; destroyed, altered or falsified records in an investigation; or conspired to do any of the above. These statutes carry significant penalties.\n\nProsecutions under the SDWA are rare. There have been a handful of prosecutions of individuals and one private water services company for submitting false reports related to the operation of a public water treatment system. However, I am unaware of any prosecutions of regulators for failing to enforce environmental regulations.\n\nAt the state level, individuals could be prosecuted for failure to carry out their legal responsibilities or doing so in a negligent way. These common law crimes - malfeasance (doing a wrongful act), misfeasance (doing a lawful act in a wrong manner) or nonfeasance (willful neglect of duty) - all can be prosecuted under the Michigan Penal Code.\n\nGiven the seriousness of the Flint water crisis, multiple federal and state investigative agencies will be combing through documents, interviewing witnesses and evaluating the scientific evidence to determine who knew what and when they knew it - the ultimate question in every criminal investigation.\n\nJane F. Barrett is Professor of Law, University of Maryland." ]

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[ null, "Walk into Evan Williams’ classroom at Clay Middle School in Carmel, Indiana, and you might think you’ve walked into a professional journalism office. There’s not a desk to be seen. There’s a tad of chaos. And there are students clustered around computers, grouped together on the floor and pouring out into the hallway.\n\n“There’s not enough room for a lab and desks,” he said, “so I just got rid of the desks.”\n\nThis is the attitude Williams takes toward everything in his broadcast/newspaper/yearbook space. If it works, it works. If it doesn’t, make it better.\n\n“It took me a while to understand yearbook,” he said. “My first three yearbooks are nightmares. I put them up there and I look through them now. They’re a joke.”\n\nWe’ve all been there. But he found his groove with our industry-leading online software eDesign, and empowered his students to take charge of their work.\n\nThen Square One™ changed how yearbooks take shape.\n\nYou heard him. Middle school students taking on Square One™. And being fancy.\n\n“Having the squares on the page – in eDesign the grid boxes with the internal space – that’s a game changer. Kids want to do two columns of text, and doing that with the old grid was not easy. Now I say, ‘go three boxes across and do four boxes down, there’s your two columns.’”\n\nWilliams had a moment when it all came together. Two of his students sat down to create a day-in-the-life spread. He walked them through Square One™, and they got it.", null, "Musical without Square One", null, "Musical with Square One", null, "Cross Country without Square One", null, "Cross Country with Square One\n\nThis simplified approach to teaching formatting gave Williams some peace of mind, but he doesn’t feel like he sold out teaching design.\n\n“We were getting pages done before Thanksgiving, which was unheard of,” he said. “In the past, I’ve been a little leery about using templates because the students want our book to have a unique look. But I didn’t shy away from the interchangeable modules because they have the freedom to change them. Even if we do use the modules, we’re changing the fonts, adding text and some of the design changes to fit the theme.”\n\n“The modules and grid have been a lifesaver,” he said. “For the kids who aren’t as visual, it gives them a starting point they would not have had without a ton of struggle.”\n\nWith a new sense of pride and with freshly empowered students, Williams made a promise to his staff members.\n\n“I told the kids, this is going to be one of our best yearbooks ever. This one is going to set a new standard.”\n\nEvan Williamshas advised student publications at Clay Middle School for 14 years and teaches Herff Jones and Ball State University journalism workshops. His students’ work has been featured in Herff Jones’ showcase books four times, and the 2016 volume was a Best in Show winner at the fall JEA/NSPA convention.\n\nThe magic of yearbook lives on.We all know the traditional functions of a yearbook. Of course, it’s a memory book, a history book and the year’s consummate photo album. Without a doubt, it serves as a record and a reference tool, too.We’ve asked, “If it’s not in the book, did …\n\nYour time is now. You’ve spent years working hard to help produce incredible yearbooks, but now you’re the Editor-in-Chief. What you may not realize is that this is the most important job you’ve ever had." ]

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[ null, "Korean news site DDaily has reported that Samsung will begin manufacturing its new full HD AMOLED smartphone panel later this month. The five-inch display, which was teased at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas last month, will be mass produced from the end of February and shipped for commercial release in early March.\n\nAside from a five-inch 1080p display, the smartphone is also mooted to feature an eight-core Exynos processor (also showcased at CES) plus a 13-megapixel camera, and built-in wireless charging capabilities.", null, "Meanwhile, other rumours suggest that the design for the smartphone has been finalized and that there will be no major aesthetic changes. Its well-known button is here to stay. Also, it looks like there will not be an S-Pen present, contrary to previous “predictions”.\n\nSamsung is tipped to officially raise the curtain on the Samsung GALAXY SIV/Samsung GALAXY S4 sometime between March 15th and 22nd in a location supposedly right on “Apple’s doorstep”. Meanwhile, here’s a video to (sorta) quench your “thirsty” curiosity:" ]

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[ null, "Now that Playboy magazine has renounced nudity, it’s become an easy target — a misogynist relic of the 20th century — more silicon than substance. Perhaps. I don’t know. Like most people, I don’t actually read Playboy anymore, so I’m in no position to judge. However, I do know this. If you’re over 35 and not dead, you’re part of the massive impact Playboy has on our society.\n\nThe Playboy Interviews read like a history book of our times:\n\nIn one single year, 1964, Playboy interviewed Vladimir Nabokov, Ayn Rand, Jean Genet, Ingmar Bergman and Salvador Dali. And Playboy didn’t just follow what was trending; it tried to understand. It interviewed Martin Luther King Jr. at the height of the Civil Rights Movement in 1965; Timothy Leary, when mainstream drug use was a brand new phenom in ’66 and Steve Jobs, immediately after getting booted out of Apple in 1985. Plus, Playboy took some chances, like sending Alex Haley, the author of Roots, to interview George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party.\n\nYes, Alex Haley wrote for Playboy and so did Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson and Gore Vidal. There were others too, but the list of fiction writers is even more overwhelming:\n\nIn fact, if it wasn’t for the boobs, Playboy would be considered a literary magazine — one of the best.\n\nBut what about those boobs?\n\nSome of the most beautiful women in the world have voluntarily taken their clothes off for Playboy:\n\nFarrah Fawcett, Olivia Munn, Robin Givens, Katarina Witt, Ursula Andress, Tia Carrere, Kim Basinger, Elle Macpherson, Kate Moss, Catherine Deneuve, Shari Belafonte and Raquel Welch among many, many others. The numbers alone take Playboy pictorials beyond sleazy. Besides, is there any great distance between Charlize Theron and Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” or Naomi Campbell and Goya’s “The Nude Maja?” Argue all you want about objectifying women, but if you want a lesson in that go to the pages of Vogue or Fashion or Harper’s Bazaar. Rhetorically speaking, is a pouting, uber-skinny supermodel a more acceptable female image? Or is it just that she’s covered up their naughty bits?" ]

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[ null, "Pete’s students may not have to travel to the British Isles to play hurl, but they do go to South Bend, Indiana.\n\nThe pitcher’s house team made a trip to South Bend last weekend to compete against different teams around the East Coast and Midwest in a tournament hosted by Notre Dame. For emerging psychology pioneer Tyler Auge, it was a fun experience to hit the road and play against some of the top teams in the country – despite Pete losing to the home team in the finals.\n\n“It was a really great experience to be able to bond with the players and also have a lot of great competition against some really good competition,” said Ogi.\n\nAugie is part of the Pete Throwing Team, which includes 24 men and 1 woman. The House Throwing Club competes for the highest level of collective hurling. National Gaelic Athletics Association – and won consecutive national titles 2019 to 2020. While many students may not be familiar with Ireland’s national sport, the Pete team can be found playing on weekend nights occasionally in the Sports Dome on the upper campus, making their mark on specialized sports. .\n\nHurling, not very popular in the United States, is played with a baseball-sized ball and wooden stick that resembles a hybrid between a ping pong paddle and a golf club. Players cannot catch the ball with their hands – instead, they use the stick to control the ball and can hit it through two one-point goalposts, or into a three-point soccer-type net.\n\nThe Pete team usually exercises two nights a week for two hours. In group hurling, there are only 11 or 13 players per team on the field at a time, unlike the game in Ireland where 15 players play at a time. The team plays a few tournaments on weekends throughout the year.\n\nRyan Weinberger, the club’s chief accountant and business manager, said he learned of the slander while studying abroad in Ireland in 2019. Croke Park was one of his stops – The largest stadium in Ireland, which hosts several ejaculation events throughout the year. The stadium seats over 82,000 spectators – a reminder that what may be an obscure sport in the United States is the norm. in Ireland.\n\n“It was great to see the culture they had there,” Weinberger said. “After that, I didn’t actually see myself playing tossing or anything…Then I came to the gym fair.”\n\nOriginally looking to join the club track team, Weinberger found the club’s toss table in the activities gallery I started a conversation with two guys working in the booth. Weinberger decided to give it a try, and is now entering his fourth year with the team.\n\n“They were just two men [at the table]Weinberger said. “They seemed so original, and so down-to-earth… I just started enjoying it and going from there.”\n\nOgi, the team’s social head, also got to know the team during the club fair. Unlike Weinberger, Augi knew nothing of hurling prior to joining the team, but he grew up to really enjoy playing the sport.\n\n“She looked like a great group of guys with a weird looking wand,” Augie said. “I went with my boyfriend, my boyfriend never showed up and the rest is history.”\n\nAugie is responsible for recruiting new players for the next season, giving him a privileged role in explaining the sport to those who may not be familiar with the sport. As Augie and other team members embrace the game’s mystery, it can be difficult to identify others with the slander.\n\n“We have developed a very standard answer throughout our time with the team,” said Augie. “We like to say it’s a cross between hockey, lacrosse, soccer and a bit of baseball.”\n\nGiaco Gentile, chief industrial engineering, said he learned some lessons on how to improve Pete’s South Bend team. While the trip was generally a good experience, he said, he’s learned that Pete needs work on playing on the field.\n\n“It was fun to take a trip with the team and play against other schools for the first time this year, but overall the tournament has been disappointing since we ended up finishing second,” Gentile said. “Now we know what to expect in terms of competition for the Nationals in the spring, and work is a cut out for us, so hopefully if we work hard in the next few months we can still pursue our bigger goal of defending that title.”\n\nHe played tennis and lacrosse in high school, both of which helped him with the hurling, said Gentile, the club’s vice president.\n\nBackhand [in hurling], which is kind of awkward for some people, is the same grip and somewhat the same movement as the tennis backhand,” Gentile said. “And grabbing the ball is a lot like the way you do lacrosse too.”\n\nWhen Weinberger, Augie, and Gentile were asked what their favorite part of being on the team was, they echoed the same sentiment—one of camaraderie.\n\nOn top of meeting a completely new group of people, the students said the offbeat nature of the sport added to the experience. Augie said that while he never envisioned himself as a thrower, he feels at home on the team and that trying something completely new has been a great experience.\n\n“I wasn’t particularly looking for her, but she kind of found me and I fell in love with her pretty quickly,” said Augie. “The thrill of just learning something new and getting better at it was really fun.”" ]

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[ null, "Do you know when the first dog on a leash walked the streets of the capital and in whose hands was that leash?\n\nGoing out on the street was an attraction, a sensation and a fad, which happened in Serbia in the first years of the last century. They say that with this “fashion detail” she lagged behind the modern world. The Belgrade Bazaar, with a large dose, to put it mildly, looked at the first dogs on a leash, which were “walked” by wealthier Belgrade ladies and gentlemen.\n\nSo in the old photo albums you can still find yellowed photos of Belgrade ladies with their pets. Three miracles are enough for every miracle, so the fashion of dogs on the streets of the capital was soon accepted by the bourgeois, slightly poorer, class.\n\nThe city administration followed the events on the streets of the capital, so it introduced special rules for the owners. One of them was a dog on the street, he must be on a leash, wear a muzzle, and if they do not adhere to them, a rigorous punishment followed. This is exactly the story of the beginnings of a joint “public” performance of pets and owners in Belgrade between the two wars. It soon became “chic” and fashionable, which in today’s vocabulary would be – “cool”.\n\nAccording to research, 59.9% of Serbian citizens have one or more pets. Dogs dominate with 76.8%. It should be noted that the research included both urban and rural areas. That is how the data came to be that every third inhabitant of Serbia has a pet.\n\nThey say that today it is the pet industry, because it is also an industry, worth hundreds of millions of euros. Special food, birthday cakes, ice cream, as well as equipment, veterinary services, competitions and fairs, pharmacies, hairdressers and everything else related to them, through the insurance of pets, genealogy, until the first time in the history of Belgrade, the announced pet cemetery, is just part of what makes that industry. And the Belgrade story of dogs as pets began about a century ago. It was a shy appearance in public, shocking for the bazaar, a bit mundane. From sensation to ridicule, but soon a generally accepted fashion trend, almost a status symbol. It was a time of prestige.\n\nThe story of dogs as pets is related to the time between the two wars. The rich people of the capital at the time, a little shy, were the first to start walking dogs as pets on the city streets. Those a little less wealthy quickly began to imitate richer fellow citizens. Until then, the dog was either tied up in the yards and courtyards as a guard, or as part of a pack of strays, which followed and have been following Belgrade until today. They would say that everything that is completely normal today, such as walking a pet at least twice a day, was then in the realm of miracles. They were specially bred dogs, photos from those days show that they were mostly greyhounds or sheep dogs, in accordance with the owners and the prestige they brought with them.\n\nThe owners had to abide by the rules established by the city, and during the street walks, they had to have a certificate that they had paid the communal tax for keeping pets. Because, the tax authorities chased the owners to pay a fee for keeping the dogs, otherwise – a fine! It never occurred to anyone to let the dog off the leash and pay not so small fines.\n\nThe Bajloni family marked a historical epoch not only in Belgrade, but also as one of the founders of modern Serbia. That is why it is not surprising that Gordana Bajloni was among the first to walk the streets with a Russian greyhound on a leash. The heiress and her pet were also immortalized by a photographer. And not just Miss Bylon. Pictures of the then masters of the camera noticed many owners and pets. All in all, both from the photos and poses, but also from the owners and their pets, it can be seen that it was prestige.\n\nThe prestige that included photography, walks as some call them “gentleman’s dogs”, and even then some specialties, such as buying special food. A bazaar like a bazaar. She watched with undisguised attention at that time a real attraction on the streets of the capital. And not even a hundred years have passed since those pioneering dog walks on a leash in the capital, until today, when it seems that there is no citizen of Belgrade who does not have a pet." ]

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[ null, "There are many high technology solutions to help fight climate change, but one of the best is also one of the oldest: to plant trees. According to Wikipedia, the first communal celebration of planting trees happened in 1594 in the Spanish village of Monoñedo, where the mayor organized a planting festival of lime and horse chestnut trees. The first modern Arbor Day was initiated in 1805 in the Spanish village of Villanueva de la Sierra by its priest Juan Abern Samtrés who was “convinced of the importance of trees for health, hygiene, decoration, nature, environment, and customs.” In this country, the original Arbor Days were primarily promoted in the 1880s by the American Forestry Associations to help provide for the replenishment of lumber. Beginning in 1906, conservationist Major Israel McCreight worked to expand the American Arbor Day from a purely commercial focus to a celebration by school children of the beauty and importance of trees. On April 15, 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt, who was a great proponent of National Parks, issued the first “Arbor Day Proclamation” to the children of America.", null, "All of this was, of course, long before there was a widespread understanding of basic human and plant respiration, which are complementary to each other. Animals breathe oxygen (O2) and respire carbon dioxide (CO2), whereas plants take in CO2 and respire O2. This system, where plants and animals worked in counteracting balance with one another, operated for hundreds of millions of years. However, the advent of human industrialization and, particularly in the last hundred years (0.000005% of human history), because of the burning of carbon-based fuels with the simultaneous clear cutting of vast forests, the situation has thrown out of balance. As a result, the amount of carbon dioxide has continued to rise rapidly, causing the heating of the planet.", null, "At first, because the Earth is large and the human population was small (compared to present-day), the effects of this human-induced imbalance were not as obvious. However, as early as the 1970s, the first signs of climate change became evident to scientists and environmental activists. To illustrate how much of an effect each human has, each twenty-gallon tank of gasoline becomes a tractor trailer size volume of carbon dioxide when it is expelled from a tailpipe of a vehicle into the atmosphere. When you multiple this by all the fuel burned in the world, the enormous impact becomes clearer.\n\nRecent UN reports have indicated that with the melting of glaciers and ice caps, the subsequent rise in sea level and the changing growing conditions, thereby prompting mass migration, the world and human population are in for very serious challenges. We now know that trees and forests do much more than provide habitat for animals and beauty for the eye. They are an essential counterbalance for animal life on the planet. That is why the widespread clearcutting of the trees in the Brazilian Amazon rainforests is seen as having such dire consequences for beyond the borders of that country.", null, "Within urban locations, trees also have the power to reduce what is known as the “heat island effect.” They absorb solar radiation, converting that energy into biomass rather than allowing it to heat the pavement of roads and sidewalks. It has been shown that well-planted streets can be as much as five degrees cooler than nearby unplanted streets.\n\nCareful selection of trees that are native to particular areas is essential. Widescale planting of Callery and Bradford pear trees, for instance, has created problems of “monoculture” and to led them to invade native forests. Once favored for its pretty springtime flowers, these particular trees are so weak that they tend to break in wind storms and have come to be considered a plague to communities where they were introduced.", null, "The planting of trees in Newport, Rhode Island has long been supported by the Newport Tree Conservancy, founded as Newport Tree Society in 1987 in order to address the aging population of grand specimen trees that had been planted 100 years earlier with the construction of the Gilded Age mansions along Bellevue Avenue.\n\nSince its formation, the group helped establish The Newport Tree and Open Space Commission within the city government to regulate, manage, and preserve the city’s parks and street trees. They encouraged the hiring of a full-time, trained arborist as the Tree Warden. They established the Newport Arboretum in 2017 and have assisted 32 (and counting) other organizations and property owners to create their own arboreta. According to the Newport Tree Conservancy, Newport now has more recognized arboreta than any other city in the world. The celebration of the beauty of trees has taken on the importance of trying to preserve the earth for human habitation." ]

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[ null, "Reasonably than concentrating on the pretty restricted world of VR gaming, however, the startup has its eyes on skilled capabilities. This know-how will virtually really be worth prohibitive for the foreseeable future, making it one thing of a nonstarter for a majority of home customers (the invoice of provides for the current version is somewhere within the neighborhood of $1.5k). Big companies, alternatively, would love be much more prepared to put money into a technology which may simplify and streamline the coaching course of, notably for harmful and in any other case superior positions.\n\nTalking of the tower, producing the gear used to generate wind energy is cheaper and simpler on the surroundings than normal energy producing gear. Plenty of the power consumed in making wind energy tools is in the turbine and battery processes. Just one -third is used to supply the tower and the concrete to set the tower in place. A wind turbine can get nicely the vitality used to provide it in a yr or much much less. Stylish manufacturing and distribution of garments has created the worldwide assembly line” ( Carr, Chen and Tate 2000).The rise of massive discounters (low worth, excessive volume) and huge retailers has positioned even increased calls for on producers to decrease costs and to ship shortly.Power has shifted from producers to retailers and retailers.\n\nThe primary a part of the first coal seam gasoline is methane in a focus of ninety-ninety five % the gas develops in the middle of the geochemical conversion of natural substances to coal (carbonisation). Coal seam fuel is present every as liberated fuel in fissures, faults and as adsorbed gasoline on the interior ground of the coal and neighbouring rock. Make-to-Order (MTO) permits customers to order merchandise which may be customized-made and manufactured to their specs. The manufacturing course of begins only after the order is received, so the prepared time for the consumer is longer, however the danger of extreme inventory is cut out.\n\nEnterprise 4.0 creates tremendous alternate options for manufacturing industries and nationwide economies. Success will require an in-depth understanding of technological developments and their results on all kinds of jobs. Obtaining this information and appearing on it successfully will seemingly be correctly properly worth the rewards: a thriving nationwide financial system and a productive, empowered, and totally engaged workforce. From administration interfaces to energy and data connections, Bulgin has a various selection of digital solutions preferrred for applications that measure a variety of parameters together with strain, moisture, motion, temperature and vibration.\n\nWe handle initiatives from design to supply. Ready to begin out scaling manufacturing? In quest of a brand new provider? We can assist. Our pleasant U.S.-based mostly engineering and buyer support assist teams put what you’re promoting targets first. DETERMINE 4.three Schematic depiction of the fluctuate of various surface and underground forms of coal mining, illustrating forms of entry to coal deposits and mining terminology. SOURCE: KGS (2006). Whereas we discussed a lot of coal-alternative developments in our present publication, Investing in China’s Vitality Catastrophe,” one has piqued our curiosity as more merely carried out. And it’s also one where China has centered." ]

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[ "Jake’s moving again! From San Diego back to Texas. He’s been on the Chargers practice squad and today the Houston Texans signed him to their roster after Owen Daniels (TE) was injured. Daniels will be on injured reserve for quite some time.\n\nJake was on the Texans practice squad at the end of last season then called back preseason before getting cut and picked up by the Chargers.", null, "We’re all proud of Jake! Thanking God for this news and praying for continued blessings for Jake in Texas! Go JAKE! GO TEXANS!!!!! Follow Jake https://twitter.com/sugarfreejb82", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "My latest transition from Java to C# left me scratching my head and scrambling to find the differences.\n\nDon’t get me wrong — they are very similar.\n\nBut some key syntax and philosophical differences set these two languages apart. Below are my top 10 differences that I wish someone told me before I pulled out yet more hair.\n\nGotcha #10 – Give me my standard output!\n\nThis may not seem like a big deal, but when I’m first getting my head in a language, I want to be able to debug.\n\nWith everything so new and shiny, I don’t want to hear about the debugger yet, I don’t care about the fancy message boxes, just tell me how to get something on standard output!\n\nThis made sense to a degree, but then why didn’t Sun just auto-derive the package structure?\n\nAnyway, Microsoft has freed us from this constraint.\n\nThe C# package structure is defined using namespaces (just like Java), but the namespaces do NOT have to reflect the directory structure.\n\nGotcha #8 – What happened to super?\n\nSlight renaming of keywords drives me bonkers! Substitute Java’s super keyword with base.\n\nIn Java, I often created a set of constructors with differing parameters that all reference a common all-powerful constructor.\n\nI created a set of overloaded constructors that basically just called a constructor that did the bulk of the work. This is called constructor chaining and normally leads to easier to maintain code.\n\nIn Java, the this(…) statement is used to call the constructor. In C#, this is done right up in the method signature.\n\nIn C#, the distinction does not exist and it’s all done in the method signature.\n\nWell of course they do! Just not among different languages.\n\nIn Java, I normally defined global constants using public static final. In C#, the static keyword does exist (final does not), but you can define constants like this:\n\nWhen the constant needs to be initialized at run-time (for example in a constructor), use the readonly keyword instead of const.\n\nGotcha #4 – Where is ArrayList, Vector or Hashtable?\n\nIn Java, these guys were my staples.\n\nPre-built dynamic arrays and look-up tables decrease development time and makes my life a whole lot easier, but where are they in C#?\n\nC# has an ArrayList, but it doesn’t make use of generics.\n\nUnfortunately, List<> is not thread-safe (C#’s ArrayList and Java’s Vector are thread-safe).\n\nC# also has a Hashtable; the generic version is:\n\nGotcha #3 – Of Accessors and Mutators (Getters and Setters)\n\nAs long as methods exist in classes, accessors and mutators will exist. However, C# largely replaces them with class properties. Instead of the traditional getSomeInteger() and setSomeInteger(), we use properties!\n\nthis.someInteger is a class variable, and value is the new integer.\n\nAt this point, we’ve transcended the syntax differences and we’ve entered into more philosophical choices that the Microsoft team made.\n\nIn Java, all methods are by default virtual and you can override them.\n\nIn C#, all methods are non-virtual.\n\nIn the child class, the method must use the override keyword.\n\nI remember when I first learned Java, and everyone was saying how Java made everything an object. How Java forced you to make classes for everything.\n\nThis turns out to be partially true.\n\nIt is necessary to make classes. However, primitives are not objects.\n\nIn C#, even what were considered primitives in Java are objects in C#.\n\nAbsolutely everything descends from System.Object. This choice by the C# team allows for greater consistency and for such things as a cleaner implementation of automatic boxing/unboxing." ]

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[ "Mother of baby left in hot car charged with murder\n\nMother of baby left in hot car charged with murder", null, "ZANESVILLE - The mother of an infant who died after being left in a hot car last month has been charged with murder.\n\nIf convicted, she faces life in prison, according to Muskingum County Prosecutor Mike Haddox.\n\nAt 6:25 p.m., on Sept. 4, authorities responded to a 911 call at 80 Eagleview Drive Apt. F. Upon arrival, deputies found an unresponsive baby and CPR had been started. Deputies continued CPR until EMS arrived.\n\nThe baby could not be resuscitated and was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\n\"The child was taken to Licking County where an autopsy determined the child died as a result of hyperthermia,\" Haddox said.\n\nThe investigation revealed that the child had been left in the car but Haddox could not say for how long.\n\nThe prosecutor's office took the matter to grand jury last Wednesday, where an indictment was issued.\n\nMuskingum County prosecutor Mike Haddox on the charges brought against a mother who's child died while unattended in a hot vehicle. Zanesville Times Recorder\n\nIn 2017, Donohoe lost a 1-month-old daughter to asphyxiation. Through the investigation, it was determined that Donohoe had fallen asleep on the couch with the infant. When she woke up, the infant was deceased.\n\n\"We looked at that case last year and it appeared to be an accident,\" Haddox said.\n\nDonohoe will appear in court Wednesday for arraignment. She is currently being held in Muskingum County Jail.\n\nHaddox said in his years as a prosecutor in Muskingum County, he does not recall another case locally where a child died after being left in a car." ]

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[ "Algerian born Irish citizen Ali Charaf Damache has been sentenced to 15 years in US prison after pleading guilty to terror charges.", null, "Algerian-born Irish citizen Ali Charaf Damache has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on terrorism charges.\n\nRTÉ reports that Damache, 53, was sentenced in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania after he pleaded guilty to charges in July. He was arrested in Spain in 2015 and later extradited to the US in 2017.\n\nPrior to living in Spain, Damache reportedly resided in both Cork and Waterford.\n\nDamache was arrested in Spain in 2015 on suspicion of plotting to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks who had published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. The Irish High Court initially denied a US extradition request that same year.\n\nIn 2017, Damache was extradited to the US on accusations of him being the ringleader for a group of jihadists who were plotting attacks in Europe and Southern Asia. Colleen LaRose - nicknamed Jihad Jane - was allegedly also part of this same terror cell. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2014.\n\nUS Attorney William McSwain said in a statement that Damache’s sentencing “marks the end of a long and arduous prosecution that has spanned more than nine years, involved four defendants and five unnamed co-conspirators, and required multiple coordinated international arrests and two extradition applications.”\n\n\"Damache and his co-conspirators were motivated by hate and prejudice, and their criminal activities presented a very real danger to our country and the world,\" McSwain said.\n\nIn a statement, the State Attorney and Assistant State Attorney for Philadelphia said: \"Damache, his co-defendant Mohammad Hassan Khalid, and others conspired to support, recruit, and coordinate a terrorist cell, consisting of men and women from Europe and the United States, to wage violent jihad in and around Europe.”\n\nDamache accepted a 15-year prison sentence and renounced any appeals. Additionally, he agreed to extradition to either Algeria or Ireland at the end of his sentence." ]

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[ null, null, "Iran Monday confirmed 43 new deaths due to the Coronavirus with overall death toll now put at 237, the highest outside epicenter China.\n\n“Our colleagues have confirmed 595 new cases across the country,” Kianoush Jahanpour, the health ministry’s spokesman said in a televised conference.\n\n“This brings the overall number of confirmed cases to 7,161 as of today noon,” he added.\nThe Iranian official also indicated that the infection rate is dwindling though “but it is still too early to judge” when the outbreak could be brought under control, AFP reports.\n\nThe country has now registered 237 deaths linked to the fast spreading virus.\n\nHowever, members of the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq, who operate outside Iran, reported much higher numbers Saturday, claiming over 1,800 Iranian deaths from the virus, while tens of thousands have contracted it.\n\nCapital Teheran remains the worst hit with 1,945 cases. Qom city, south of Teheran, which is the epicenter of the virus in the Islamic Republic, is the second city badly affected with 712 confirmed cases.\n\nOver 100 countries have been infected and the number of people diagnosed hit over 110,000. The outbreak also killed 4,011 people globally.\n\nWritten by: KanelkaTagba on March 10, 2020.\nLast revised by: Jaber Ali" ]

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[ "Beth Levison is no stranger to having her films on Independent Lens. Notable producing credits include Women in Blue and the Emmy-nominated Made in Boise. For her latest film, Storm Lake, she partnered with Jerry Risius, the much sought-after director of photography for Anthony Bourdain’s two TV series Parts Unknown (CNN) and No Reservations (Travel Channel), The Kingmaker (Showtime), and Generation Wealth. As co-director alongside Levison, Risius makes his directorial debut with Storm Lake, set in his native Iowa.\n\nStorm Lake is about all things big and small. It’s about a family-run newspaper, still printing in an era when even larger city newspapers are going away, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor/patriarch at the center of it. It’s about small-town farmers struggling in an era when Big Agriculture is enveloping the landscape. And it’s about the importance of independent journalism now more than ever, with the media landscape continuously evolving amid the cruel realities of the times.\n\n“Editor Art Cullen and his family-run newspaper The Storm Lake Times make fascinating subject matter for a portrait of American resilience and unity through fractious times,” wrote David Rooney in The Hollywood Reporter. “Jerry Risius and Beth Levison’s astutely observed doc is a vital celebration of the role of community-based news gathering at a time when media revenues are way down and the credibility of the press has taken a hammering across much of the country.”\n\nThe filmmakers talked to us about the making of Storm Lake, why this film is needed now, and what Art Cullen and his family are currently up to.\n\nWhy did you want to make this documentary? Why tell this story now?\n\nWe made this film, at first, because we felt that the voices of rural America and non-coastal journalists are largely unheard. As the film progressed and we came more deeply to understand the relationship between local news and a healthy democracy, we became even more committed to the film and its themes—it’s worth noting that production took place at a particularly perilous moment in our American democracy.\n\nThe importance of the film continued to reveal itself as so many crises unfolded—around the status of immigrants in the U.S., the heightened COVID risk for essential workers (and in our case, meatpacking workers), and more. Ultimately, we felt that this story, unfolding in the smallest of towns in a corner of Northwest Iowa, touched on not only local themes, but truly national ones.\n\nWhat do you hope PBS viewers take away from experiencing the film Storm Lake?\n\nOur hope is that through the film, viewers come to revisit their own relationship to credible, local news. What are viewers willing to do to support this pillar of our democracy? We also hope that the film is in service to newspapers nationwide, who surprisingly and admittedly are quite poor at telling their own stories.\n\nWhat were some of the biggest challenges you faced in getting Storm Lake made?\n\nThis was one of those films that had so much energy behind it to make it happen. We had the support of ITVS and others. We had a lean and talented team, appropriate for the job.\n\nAt the same time, there were challenges. We very much wanted to film in the Tyson [Foods] factory in Storm Lake and were denied access. It’s very hard to get into those places as a member of the press. Then, there was the challenge of COVID filming; by June 2020, Buena Vista County (Storm Lake is the county seat) Very early on in the virus’s course, we knew that we had to capture its impact.\n\nWe like to think that we were one of the first to start filming, and figuring out remote COVID production through Zoom and with good sound certainly presented a learning curve.\n\nHow did you connect with the Cullen family and become part of their lives to tell this story?\n\nJerry Risius grew up on a hog farm in Buffalo Center, Iowa, less than two hours from Storm Lake. In fact, his parents still live there—it’s home. Having this natural connection to the people and place was meaningful.\n\nAt the same time, the Cullens are incredible people and we simply connected with them. From the get-go, we think we were really clear [about] what we hoped to achieve with the film—we wanted to tell their story— and they were on board. We remain in constant contact with them—they are not just subjects of the film but collaborators and friends.\n\nAny favorite moments that you shot but couldn’t find the space for in the final cut of Storm Lake?\n\nThere were so many fantastic moments in the newsroom that we wish we could have included. We had no idea how bustling, busy, and dynamic a rural newsroom could be (a newsroom with circulation 3,000).\n\nArt was always writing something compelling for the editorial page. Tom was constantly and doggedly on the move, covering local stories and trying to get at their core. Then, Dolores was always finding human interest stories in Storm Lake that showed the depth and creativity of the community. Everyone—from John the publisher to Mary the food columnist, Jamie the sports writer, and Whitney, Jen, and Jenifer in the office—was always busy! We would set out some days for the office and have no idea what we would encounter, then we would come back to our hotel saying, “Wow! How about that?”\n\nIf there was one scene that we wanted to include, it was a scene about a “dangerous intersection” just outside of town. Over the course of filming, there were numerous fatalities there; if The Storm Lake Times hadn’t been there to continually report about it—and pressure the state government to add a stop sign—there might have been more.\n\nFor us, this scene shined a light on the potentially life-saving aspect of local news. What do towns that no longer have a newspaper do when there’s no local newspaper to raise awareness and concern about a dangerous intersection?\n\nWhat was something that surprised you while making Storm Lake? And do you have any favorite scenes from the film, personally?\n\nThe entire process of filming Storm Lake had a huge impact on us, as we’re not sure we had any idea how busy, deadline-driven, and critically important a local newsroom could be. Making the film definitely challenged our assumptions about local news—its gathering and community role—and we hope that the film has this same impact on our audiences.\n\nIn terms of favorite scenes, filming with Art on John Snyder’s farm was a magical day—the corn, the light, the local banter. (“That’s gravy on your taters.”) At the same time, Dolores’s discovery of local singing phenomenon Emmanuel Trujillo was really exciting!\n\nFinally, to have a front-row seat at the Iowa Caucuses was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, if not somewhat deflating; the national news counted Iowa out before the results were even in. Then, to witness the impact of COVID on the community and the Cullens was devastating, and we feared for the family, the newspaper, the full Storm Lake Times staff, and so many people we came to know.", null, "Anything else surprise you, or really stay with you long after leaving Iowa?\n\nWhile director Jerry Risius grew up on a hog farm close by, Iowa was a real revelation for much of our crew. First of all, the place really is full of people from all over the world: Micronesia, Laos, Sudan, Latin America, and beyond. When Julian Castro says at the Heartland Forum, “I never thought before this campaign that I would get great Mexican food in Iowa, but I have!”, we knew what he was talking about. There are about four great Mexican restaurants in Storm Lake, but one in particular—LaJuanita’s—might have the best tacos north of the Rio Grande!\n\nThen, the landscape is extraordinary. Corn fields really do stretch as far as the eye can see. And the grain elevators that rise up into the blue skies are like America’s version of the great pyramids. Another thing is the wind farms! The Buena Vista County Wind Farm is one of the largest wind projects in the world, with over 360 massive turbines stretching as high as 213 feet tall. It’s an aspect of Iowa that’s little talked about.\n\nThen, a funny thing that film simply can’t communicate is the unique smell of Storm Lake. In the film, Dolores describes a trip to Albert City, Iowa, where it “reeked, again,” on account of hog confinements. We have to admit that we encountered that smell a time or two ourselves.\n\nLast but not least, Iowa really does have a front row seat to the American political process and our presidential elections. It was both fascinating and difficult to be there during the 2020 caucus when so much went wrong and cable news was so quick to pounce on Iowa’s failures before the results were in. From the newsroom, Art laments, “Everybody is saying it’s gonna kill the Iowa caucuses.” We’re really curious to see if the Iowa caucuses return in 2024—or not.\n\nFun fact: If you want to speak like a local, say “Byoona” Vista County, not “Buena” Vista County. After about our third trip we managed to get it right. If and when you visit, practice before you get there and then you’ll really get treated with “Iowa nice!”\n\nDo you have any updates on the main characters in Storm Lake—the family—you can share with our audience?\n\nStorm Lake has had a very successful festival run, and Art, Dolores, Tom, John, and Mary are all pretty overwhelmed by the response to the film. They’re all still at the paper, although John is working a little bit less and Art is on social security now. In exciting news, we think that Art is entertaining the idea of a podcast after all. We’ll have to wait and see!\n\nWhen pitching this film, we used to affectionately say that it’s Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) meets The Office (we hope to attract The Office audience!). But other films had an influence, too. For example, the opening sequence with Art’s “Dear Supporters” letter was informed by the opening of Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story. Some of our newspaper moments were informed by iconic films like Alan Pakula’s All the President’s Men.\n\nIn making the film, Jerry talked about Salesman (Maysles brothers) and When We Were Kings (Leon Gast) as references and influences, as in those films, the shooting, editing, and music literally transport you to another land and time. We really wanted the film to draw audiences into both the newsroom and Storm Lake.\n\nMy (Beth’s) work has definitely been influenced by some other classic vérité films—Grey Gardens (the Maysles), The War Room (Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker), Some Kind of Monster, and others. I’m also inspired by independent fiction films. I recently saw Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman), which was fantastic, and so impressive for its restraint and intimacy all at the same time.\n\nJerry is back to shooting all kinds of documentary films and pieces for CNN: United Shades of America, as well as another just-completed independent documentary called To Which We Belong, about soil health and climate change.", null, "Source\nA Family Run Newspaper, “Iowa Nice,” and Nothing Less Than the Precariousness of Democracy | Blog | Independent Lens is written by Craig Phillips for www.pbs.org" ]

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[ "Part 4 of the John Cleaver series\n\nJohn Wayne Cleaver hunts demons. They've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can . . . but the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full scale supernatural war. John doesn't want the life he's stuck with. He doesn't want the FBI bossing him around, he doesn't want his only friend imprisoned in a mental ward, and he doesn't want to face the terrifying cannibal who calls himself The Hunter. John doesn't want to kill people. But as the song says, you can't always get what you want. John has learned that the hard way, his clothes have the stains to prove it. When John again faces evil, he'll know what he has to do.\n\nAfter the events of “I Don’t Want to Kill You”, sociopath teenager John Cleaver made a deal with Agent Ostler of the F.B.I. to collaborate on killing the demons now known as the Withered. John Cleaver has never worked too well with people (except for the now-dead Marci, of course) and now he’s stuck with an F.B.I. team full of agents more than twice his age. The book follows them as they track and kill what demons they can, which doesn’t always work out. I loved this book. The new characters of the F.B.I. team were well written and I enjoyed their places in the plot. It was interesting to read from John Cleaver’s perspective while he was still grieving over Marci, and although John couldn’t interpret the team’s reactions towards him well, it was great to witness how they were unsettled by his habits sometimes. I really loved how John has improved in being a good person but still sometimes does questionable things. While I can’t spoil anything, the climax of the story was brilliantly done. This book explores John Cleaver’s character so well and the new demons introduced here certainly leave John questioning everything he knows about himself and who he wants to be. This is a beautiful, funny, and gruesome story. I think it’s one of my most favorite books of all time. I really enjoyed the narrator, too-- Kirby Heyborne narrates John’s monologues and quips so well! The quality of the audiobook itself was fantastic.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "To Maximize Your Nutritional Study Habits, the first step is to determine your desired results. So let me start by saying that no matter what it is in life that you want to do, or learn, there is a Right Way, and a Wrong Way.\n\nIf you will be building something for your House let's say, a Table, you should have a idea of it's shape and size, it's overall dimensions. So for examples sake, we have seen DIY tables, some turned out Awesome, and some, Not so awesome\n\nThis is our starting point, we, want a Round, Bistro Height, and Level table so now we know exactly what we do not want, we don't want Square, Short, Uneven, or Wobbly table.\n\nA great sculpture once said, \" I didn't carve a great statue, I just removed everything that did not look like the person I was sculpting\". Now let's see how we can apply this simple DIY process to Maximize Your Nutritional Study Habits, as it pertains to Learning.\n\nWhat I Do NOT Want To Learn!\n\nI for one have Zero interest in learning about Junk Science, based on poorly done research, from some skewed interpretation from anyone. It makes no difference if this information comes from the Science Community, the Medical Establishment or the Media, it will always be a waste of my time.\n\nSo how do we know that all these things we read are bad information, we are not Scientist, or Doctors? That is a very good question, and because we have just started our \"Info Quest\" we will get to that in a bit. But for now we can look at all of the failed diets, and misdirection coming from all we see on TV, YouTube, and Blogs.\n\nThere are countless questions you could ask, and get the same No as well.\n\nSo, I think you can see by this questions that we know what does not work. So ask yourself, do I want Diabetes, or to become over weight, then why start with those tired and worn-out concepts?\n\nTo gain knowledge we have to remove concepts that don't work, and never have. this removal process will help in all studies, regardless of topic.\n\nGetting A Historical Perspective​\n\nIf we could set down in a Time Machine, and go back in time 200 Years, would the \"Early Bird\" still get the worm, would the Rabbit still set in the shade of the meadow and nibble on grass, would the Big Cats still hunt their prey, and would the Wolf still hunt in packs?\n\nIf Yes, It is reasonable to believe that the Human Animal should still eat the same foods today as we, ate 200 or a Million years ago.\n\nAs recent as 1946, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, which included a 40-acre display of tropical plants including Bananas. It is said that bananas are so awesome because of their contents, Potassium: 9% of the RDI. Vitamin B6: 33% of the RDI...and blah, blah, blah.\n\nLettuce was first cultivated by the ancient Egyptians who turned it from a weed whose seeds were used to produce oil, into a food plant grown for its succulent leaves and oil-rich seeds. Depending on the variety, lettuce is an excellent source of vitamin K 20% RDI, or higher, and vitamin A 97% RDI, plus 21% pro-vitamin...and blah, blah, blah.\n\nThe fact that if you Google \"Healthy Foods\", most of what appears in the Images will be a lot of Fruits and Vegetables, that did not exist 100 years to 5000 years ago. Of those Fruits that existed back in the Paleolithic Age, the varieties were far less then we see today, they were seasonal, and consumed by birds, critters and bugs before man got to them.\n\nSo it is apparent that if we spend time learning about what Nutritionists say about Healthy eating, due to all the vitamins and minerals, we will be heading in a wrong direction. Not because they are foolish, but because of the simple fact that the human animal has survived long before these items ever became popular or even known to humans.\n\nA Journey Of A Thousand Miles Starts With The First Step​...in the right direction.\n\nSo now we know what our Table should not look like, we know what the experts have said does not work, and we have concluded that their Designs and Ideas have no Historical merits.\n\nFor the sake of this post, we'll stick with the Table oenology, we want it to be Solid, and a good sturdy foundation. So let's build it from what we know to be solid, Biochemistry, and Physiology!!! You're thinking, that sounds VERY complicated, and I will not Lie, it can be, if you listen to all the noise out there.\n\nWe now know what we don't want it to look like, and therefore we have filtered out all the noise that does not work, and is factually inaccurate. As we start to Research information, and watch videos on Nutrition, we now have a Baseline to compare what we learned, to what we Do Not Want. This has shortened our Info-Quest by a hefty factor, and though Biochemistry is complex, we are not going for a Masters Degree.\n\nWhat we are looking for is exactly how the food we eat, is processed, in our bodies, and that is just one of the thousands of thing that go on in our bodies continually.\n\nWhile watching Videos, Reading Books, and Articles, you will continue to compare the newly acquired information against your list of Do Wants, and Do Not Wants. If you read an article on Carb-Loading Pre Workout, does it work with your Design? Carb-Loading is Built on the Paradigm that only Glucose make muscles work, and Gives you Energy.\n\nFact 1: Mountain Men. Like Lewis and Clark's men, each eat 6 to 8 Pounds of meat daily, their Packs weighed an average of 100 Lbs, they carried canoes miles around waterfalls, and those canoes were not the Ultralight REI's new ones.\n\nFact 2: Dr. Stefansson, he documented the fact that the Inuit diet consisted of about 90% meat and fish; Inuit would often go 6 to 9 months a year eating nothing but meat and fish\n\nSome years after his first experience with the Eskimos, Dr. Stefansson returned to the Arctic with a colleague, Dr. Karsten Anderson, to carry out research for the American Museum of Natural History. They were supplied with every necessity including a year's supply of 'civilised' food. This they declined, electing instead to live off the land. In the end, the one-year project stretched to four years, during which time the two men ate only the meat they could kill and the fish they could catch in the Canadian Arctic. Neither of the two men suffered any adverse after-effects from their four-year experiment.\n\nFact 3: The Maasai are a pastoralist tribe living in Kenya and Northern Tanzania. Traditionally, the Maasai diet consisted of raw meat, raw milk, and raw blood from cattle. Note that the Maasai cattle are of the Zebu variety. In the summer of 1935 Dr. Weston A. Price visited the Maasai and reported that according to Dr. Anderson from the local government hospital in Kenya most tribes were disease-free.. Two thirds of their calories come from fat, and they consume 600 - 2000 mg of cholesterol a day.\n\nLearning for me has always been Kinda Fun, in a Sick way, I will watch an hour long video, and Filter out all that is Science Fact, based on what I have previously learned, and consider the rest as just Filler. As I learn more and more this process becomes much easier to filter, based on the known facts gathered over time.\n\nIf you are asking, How do we determine Known Facts?​ Then you get a Gold Star, we know this by testing them. Here is how I know that Fiber is NOT required, and causes Inflammation in the joints. and IBS, because I suffered from Chronic Joint Pain, and had Irritable Bowel Syndrome since the age of 17.\n\nOne of my Go-To Biochemist, and Nutritionist, Dr. Gregory Ellis, he has tons of great videos on YouTube, I Recommend watching as many as you can, finding a starting point.\n\nWhile watching one of his videos, he mentioned Fiber, and that he hasn't eaten Fiber for years, and is just fine. He went on to say that Fiber must Ferment in the Gut, due to it being Cellulose based, and that we don't have the Enzyme to break it down. This fermentation process causes bloating and inflammation.\n\nWell, I thought, I should give this a try, after all it is not illegal, and the Fiber Police won't arrest me, so why not. In the first week I noticed my joints no longer hurt, I also noticed in time that I no longer suffered from IBS.\n\nThat was 4 years ago, I still don't eat Fiber, and all those things \"They\" the Experts said would happen if we don't eat Fiber everyday, Never Happened. So that is now, for me, Science Fact, and with that fact, I now can understand why the Glycemic Index is based on Garbage as well, it is the Fiber that is what they say slows the Insulin Spikes.\n\nYet Science has proven that you will still get a Spike in Insulin, it will just be 30, or more mins later, so It doesn't work, and I get that, because I know that we don't need fiber in our diet, and it is unnatural to eat anything Cellulose Based.\n\nIt is these simple, and small Science Facts that will make their giant House of Cards, built on Myths, Medical Folklore and Agendas, fall down, and help you Maximize your studies." ]

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[ "Our kitchen is probably the most important space in our house. For the fridge, the pantry, and the missing Legos I shoved in a drawer. For the haphazard pile of mail on the counter, and the blue hydrangea in the hand painted jar on the windowsill. For the owl-shaped cookie jar filled with British chocolate, and the day’s newspapers and empty cereal boxes shoved into a Trader Joe’s brown paper bag to be recycled – in which I found the check for the fifth grade school trip and also the homework I thought was scratch paper.\n\nAnd for the large, flat calendar that sits quietly on the counter in the corner.", null, "Amid a tissue box, a tin of Sharpies, and a 13-year-old steadily growing bamboo plant, the calendar displays both the secular and Jewish months, national and religious holidays, and most importantly, where and when we all need to to be on a daily basis. My one and only crafty project, at the beginning of the month I sit with a different color pen for each of us and record all upcoming activities, lessons, appointments, parties and trips.\n\nWithout the calendar, we all have a pretty concrete sense of what is happening in our lives, but the visual representation of the day, the week, the month, laid out in pretty colors and organized by person brings necessary calm and order to a very noisy, chaotic kitchen. Somehow, if it’s not on the calendar, it’s not happening.\n\nYou would think that with my carefully crafted schedule laid out in red, blue, pink, orange and purple, that with this daily, colorful reminder of where, when and who, I would be able to get myself and my people where we need to be with minimal confusion and frenzy, and without frantic yells of, “Come on, we’re going to be late!” Every. Single. Time.\n\nOr maybe you wouldn’t think that. But I would. I do. I think that it is a shame, a sad shame, that a person who used to leave home with plenty of time to drive an unfamiliar route and find a parking spot in a crowded Oakland neighborhood, who prided herself on punctuality and hardly ever kept someone waiting, even when there was traffic, is now always (and I mean always) five minutes late. On a good day.\n\n“I think this is going to be our first fight,” says my dear, non-confrontational friend of 12 years, with undisguised disgust at having to wait for me. Again.\n\nRunning five minutes late I text my sister, as I spy the keys I couldn’t find still in the door. And by five minutes I mean at least 11 minutes, but I’m too ashamed to admit I’m only leaving the house now, at the time we agreed to meet.\n\nI call the dentist on the way to my appointment. Tell my son he should walk home because I’m stuck in traffic. I’m late for the vet, the hairdresser, library duty, dinner. And I know it’s only a few minutes, and people are mostly forgiving and understanding (even my friend who is sick of waiting for me; we didn’t fight). I know that in reality the unpredictability of life creates loud disorder and mayhem out of even the most color-coded, organized moments.\n\nBut I hate that lately, I am always late. No matter what.\n\nMy kids pore over that all-important calendar in the kitchen every day. They delight in the colors, the visual simplicity, the predictable schedule, and mostly in knowing what’s going to happen next: later today, tomorrow, next weekend. One of their favorite days is the first of the month, because they get to rip off the month that was and see the uncluttered potential of the month ahead.\n\nAfter two long winter weeks away from the scheduled days of the calendar, when we returned home on January 5 they went straight to the kitchen. They ignored the happy barking of Pretzel the dachshund, and clamored around the curling page of December.\n\n“Mom, can we rip it?” Their hopeful faces turned to me. They were four days late already.\n\nThe answer left my lips before I even had time to think about it: “No! Just leave it for now. I’m not ready.”\n\nNot ready. Not ready to record the everyday activities into the blank spaces of this month. Not quite ready to jump into January, even though it’s already started. Not ready to let go of 2014, just yet. To leave those moments: those wonderful, difficult, terrifying, incredible, saddest, happiest moments that I will never have again.\n\nI left the kids staring longingly at the stained days of December, in the kitchen crowded with unopened mail and newspapers still reporting 2014, and slowly headed upstairs.\n\nI hate leaving the moment I’m in. Whether it’s a book or the laundry or the conversation I’m having, the quiet of the car, the paragraph I’m writing, the hot shower, or brushing my daughter’s hair into a ponytail. I find it difficult to move smoothly onto the next thing. The next moment. So I linger in this one.\n\nThis is a Finish the Sentence Friday post, inspired by the prompt, “You should vote for me for president because…” Hosted by Kristi from Finding Ninee, and guest hosts Michelle from Crumpets and Bollocks and Anna from Fitfunner. You should vote for me for president of the Let’s Be Five Minutes Late Club, because I will never let you down! Even this post is almost five minutes late." ]

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[ "Pie filler, pest or pet of underappreciated beauty, the rabbit is a dumb, gregarious commoner who will nevertheless scream, fight and kill when warranted, says award-winning naturalist writer John Lewis-Stempel.\n\nWould you be a happy bunny if I threw? Or do I pull a rabbit out of the hat and jump on it? Maybe you are caught like a rabbit in the headlights?\n\nThere is no surer sign of an animal’s importance than multiple entries in the national book of idioms. Or places named after the creature. Perhaps you are reading this article about ‘coneys’, as the European rabbit is commonly known across Britain, in Coneygar Hill, Dawlish Warren or Braunton Burrows?\n\nHere again, Oryctolagus cuniculus is surely unique in that it means so many things to so many people. Emblem of Easter and bane of Mr. McGregor everywhere, the bunny is equal parts anthropomorphic hero of children’s books, fur trimmer, pie filler and the nation’s third favorite pet. A million pet rabbits live with us.\n\nHippity jumping on the lawn in the evening, quivering velvet nose, rabbit is a bundle of cute hair.\n\nBut how does such a gentle being conquer the countryside? To understand the success story of the rabbit, you have to, like Alice in Wonderland, go down the rabbit hole.\n\n‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I will be too late!’. Illustration by John Tenniel from the first edition, 1865, of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.’\n\nWhat is the difference between a rabbit and a hare?\n\nDespite the related looks, the rabbit is not a hare; this last lagomorph relies for its survival on speed, clocking 40 mph on the earth’s surface; the rabbit manages a decent 18mph speed, can leap 9ft, has nearly 360° vision and independently rotating ears – not easy prey, but not exactly difficult prey for a fox, weasel or eagle .\n\nHow do rabbits avoid predators?\n\nFor safety, the rabbit goes underground, digging a network of tunnels or warrens (work done by the female of the species, mostly). Here he spends most of his time when he is not grazing, that is, almost all daylight hours.\n\nTo avoid alerting beasts of prey, rabbits tend to remain silent, unless caught, when crying out in distress. Even in the jaws or beaks of death, all hope is not lost for the rabbit; a heavy, startling kick of the hind legs and pinching of the teeth – which, by the way, are constantly growing and are ground by grazing – can defeat the fearsome weasel. Yet despite all their senses and strategies, 90% of rabbits die within their first year and most within the first three months of life.\n\nHowever, new rabbits are always on the way because deep in the earth’s welcoming belly, a doe will give birth to a new litter. And another. Even when the loathsome disease myxomatosis struck in 1953, nearly exterminating the British rabbit, the rabbit jumped back and resumed its munching of Mr McGregor’s garden. Rabbit redux.\n\nA gray rabbit hides in a rabbit hole – the creature’s best refuge from predators.\n\nHow many babies do rabbits have?\n\nFrom the bottom of his dark underground fortress, the Rabbit launches his reign over the world. It replenishes its strength by re-ingesting a specific type of its own feces called caecotrophs, which are packed with protein and vitamin B. Then the rabbit reproduces in proverbially prodigious numbers; a doe or doe can have up to eight litters a year, 14 “kits” per litter – a potential 112 in total every 12 months – and is aided in her mothering efforts by the females of the family.\n\nEndearingly, rabbits are gregarious. They groom each other. They huddle together to keep warm. (All qualities that make rabbits pets.) Yet the rabbit, behind the whiskers, is a fruitful Spartan survivalist. A dominant female—and rabbit society is strictly hierarchical—will kill rival kits, dragging them by the scruff of their necks to the surface to perish. This is how Old Mother Rabbit protects the fate of the warren; too many kittens playing in the place attract predators. In crowded areas, pregnant females can eliminate their own embryos by intrauterine resorption.\n\nTwo European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) playing and jumping in their youth – but one day the fights will be more serious.\n\nIn October 1953, the myxoma virus was discovered in Edenbridge, Kent, and life was never the same for the country’s rabbits – or for our people. Although the British government tested myxomatosis as a means of controlling rabbits in the 1930s, the 1953 outbreak was accidental, crossing the English Channel from France, where the introduction was intentional. Many British agricultural producers were overjoyed at the death of an agricultural pest, but the sight of tens of thousands of bloated, unloaded and dying animals effectively ended rabbit as a national dish.\n\nDespite the discovery of a pro-rabbit champion in Sir Winston Churchill, who criminalized the deliberate spread of the disease, myxomatosis was allowed to run its course, with a 99% mortality rate of rabbits on the south coast of England to the Shetlands. The main vector was the rabbit flea. The shooters lamented the loss of game, the hatters and the furriers the lack of fur.\n\nRabbit populations revived when individuals developed resistance to myxomatosis, which became endemic. However, a new imported plague, viral haemorrhagic disease (VHD), caused a second decline in the rabbit population in Britain, being 80% fatal to infected local populations. Myxomatosis still kills rabbits as well, and their numbers are declining across the country. Even the ever-resilient rabbit requires a bit of conservation effort these days.\n\nIt could only be more endearing if the bunnies did the whole “see no, hear no evil” thing covering the mouth, eyes and ears respectively…\n\nWhat do rabbits eat in the wild?\n\nWhen rabbits venture above ground to feed, they rarely stray more than 80 feet from their burrow – and often with a pre-planned, closer “bolt hole” to escape Mr. Fox. or Old Brown. They graze rapidly for the first half hour of the evening meal, then more selectively for another 30 minutes. They are simple eaters – another reason for the species’ historic boom and geographic spread – with the bulk of the diet consisting of grass, wildflowers and grains. (Warner Bros. notwithstanding, carrots aren’t the Bugs Bunnies’ favorite food.)\n\nAre rabbits spoiling the countryside?\n\nThe rabbit suffers the injustice of all things common, in that its beauty is overlooked – a rabbit’s fur is an intricate marvel of bronzes and silvers – and its value underestimated. After having been a supply of tray, clothing, pest control and pet, the rabbit today carries another portfolio. Environmentalist. Where rabbits have nibbled and scratched over the centuries, they have created a special environment of mowed grass and warm, bare earth that is a haven for rare flowers and basking reptiles.\n\nRare flora encouraged by rabbit browsing include prostrate perennial knawel, Scleranthus perennis ssp. prostrate, which does not exist anywhere on the planet outside of the Breckland moors of Norfolk. The loss of wild rabbits to myxomatosis contributed to the extinction of the great blue butterfly in 1979.\n\nNext time you see that quivering velvet nose, tip your hat to the great survivor, legged prime prey and eco-engineer of the British countryside that is the humble rabbit.\n\nAre rabbits a native species in Britain?\n\nThe rabbit’s record in Britain is astonishing for a relatively recent arrival on our shores – or rather a re-arrival. Britain had its own native population of rabbits before the exterminating Ice Age and the animals were reintroduced by the Romans, but did not thrive, only to be imported in the 12th century by Norman invaders.\n\nOriginating in the Iberian Peninsula and southwestern France, rabbits were widely bred in ancient Rome – where kits were a delicacy – and then by monasteries, probably because the Catholic Church considered young rabbits n were not meat, but fish and could therefore be eaten during Lent.\n\nThe pagan Vikings, by becoming Christian “Men of the North” settled in France, took the habit of the rabbit; the Bayeux Tapestry depicts Norman soldiers transporting rabbits in sacks and crates to England, where the animal was raised in pens or warrens, covering an area of ​​approximately 1,000 acres. (At first the delicate rabbit could not dig burrows in wet, cold English soil, so they were made for it by drilling with augers.) The warren was tended by a “warrener”, who lived in a lodge, often fortified, which he protected his charges against predators and poachers.\n\nThe rabbit was sitting outside a burrow.\n\nRabbit meat was so prized that it could only be bought by the wealthy; in 1465, when George Neville was installed as Archbishop of York, 4,000 rabbits were provided for the celebratory feast. The animal’s fur was also sought after. Henry VII preferred black Norfolk rabbit fur to line his night attire. Over time, the rabbit fur industry developed (notably in East Anglia), notably with the making of felt headgear by gluing rabbit hair with shellac.\n\nThe rabbit proved impossible to contain and, outside the Norman warren, multiplied exponentially, thus reducing its own value. In the 13th century, the market price for a rabbit carcass averaged 3½d luxurious, plus an extra penny for the skin. Two centuries later the price had fallen to 2¼d. In the 18th century it was fodder for the poor, and by the 1950s the British countryside was creaking under the paws of 100 million people.\n\nRabbit Island is a well-kept secret along the Japanese coast, providing refuge for hundreds of wild rabbits and an exciting\n\nBeatrix Potter’s most famous creation, Peter Rabbit, remains as popular as ever, despite its genesis dating back more than a century\n\nPrevious Tajinder bagga is dead? Who is Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga and why was he arrested", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Tom Tweedie was the big winner at the second round of the Shannons Nationals, taking out the 30 lap Formula 3 Superprix presented by Elf Lubricants at Symmons Plains today.\n\nWhile Kiwi Andrew Waite won the Sunday morning event and led much of the feature race, he eventually finishing in third behind Tweedie and pole-sitter Ben Barker.\n\nFor Tweedie, the win added to his victory yesterday and was made all the more sweeter by the fact that he now leads the Australian Drivers Championship heading into the third round at Phillip Island on May 1-2.\n\n“For me and the whole team, it is just unbelievable,” Tweedie said.\n\n“It’s such a great feeling, I had to push very hard, but we have proven that we can win with the older model car.\n\n“Now that we have done it, I hope we can go on and continue the success this season.”\n\nKostera, driving a Team Mitsubishi Ralliart-prepared Lancer Evo 10, nearly lapped the field in the opening race, but he had to work hard in the second heat, stringing together a series of quick laps to leap frog team-mate Inky Tulloch during the compulsory pit stops.\n\n“It was a good weekend, the car was absolutely faultless the whole time,” Kostera said.\n\n“The team was awesome, the car was really hooking up, and I’m really hoping to keep with the series for the season.”\n\nTulloch made a cracking start to the Sunday race, recovering after an engine failure in the first heat which necessitated an engine to be freighted to Tasmania overnight from the mainland.\n\nSecond overall for the weekend was Bathurst 12 Hour winner Garry Holt, who teamed with local ace Greg Crick aboard his BMW 335i, while the giant killing Mazda 3 MPS of Jake Camilleri was third overall for the meeting.\n\nMatt Kingsley was unstoppable in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge presented by Mission Foods, with a clean sweep of the three races, erasing memories of the opening round at Bathurst, where his team left the circuit with a damaged car.\n\n“After Bathurst I really thought it was the end of our season,” Kingsley admitted.\n\n“Fortunately I have really good, dedicated people around me, who put in a massive effort getting the car back together to probably better than what it was before the accident.”\n\nDriving an older model 996 Porsche that was originally constructed in 2002, Kingsley prevailed in the final 40 lap encounter by a whopping 22 seconds.\n\nWith at times damp conditions throughout the weekend, positions rarely remained static, with Roger Lago holding on to be classified second for the weekend, with Sven Burchartz bouncing back in third.\n\nThe first round for the Shannons V8 Touring Cars National Series finished with Terry Wyhoon on top of the point score.\n\nDespite a small grid of Ford Falcons racing in Tasmania, those racing turned on a fantastic show, with Tony Evangelou winning the second of three races on the way to second overall for the weekend, with Chris Smerdon rounding out the podium.\n\nWith the Symmons Plains 50th Birthday celebrations being held in conjunction with the meeting, fans took in many off track displays and parades." ]

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[ null, "Jamie Otis and Doug Hehner are now proud parents of their first child. And the family of two added one another to their family.\n\nThe former even family is now odd and the first time parents are now going to get their hands full of changing diapers on a regular basis is quite a hectic task, for anyone.\n\nIf you don't believe in love at first sight then think again as the couple who just welcomed their first child exchanged vows, seconds after meeting one another.", null, "Jamie and Doug are now parents to their first child, Source: Radar Online\n\nThe pair apparently first met each other on the sets of Married at First Sight. And as soon as they first glanced each other, they decided to tie the knot on March 23, 2014.\n\nNow after nearly three years, the pair welcomed another member to their family. Their daughter came as a blessing for the pair as they lost their first child, a boy just after Jamie was four months pregnant.\n\nI've never been more in love. @henleygracehehner, you're mommy's everything. Thanks, @people for being just as excited as we are to welcome our sweet baby girl. Link to article in my bio. #MyGracieGirl #MyEverything\n\nThey named their daughter, Henley Grace. The pair also paid tribute to their dead son who is watching over them from the heavens.\n\nWe wish the pair to become good parents and hope to see the family of three happy forever." ]

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[ null, "This week’s card is from one of my very first gift decks and continues this month’s theme of “decks I would never have thought to buy for myself” (more about the deck at the end of the post): Ted Andrew’s “Nature-Speak Oracle” deck.\n\nThis week we have our usual regular card plus a “hopper” (one that jumped out of the deck and wanted to be seen) the first of which struck an immediate chord:", null, "This weekend I had an unusual dream about a talking fox. When I awoke, it immediately made me think of Homer Simpson’s “vision quest” visitation (or Guatemalan insanity-pepper induced hallucination) of Johnny Cash as a helpful spirit-guide coyote who pushed Homer to question his reality and re-examine what’s most important to his very soul.\n\nIn times past, indigenous holy-men and shamans the world over would often prescribe “vision quests” for their people to revisit the wisdom of the Ancestors or to touch base with their Spiritual selves in answer to practical problems or pressing needs. The quester would be put through various perception altering challenges in an effort to crack that tough “ego” nut we all carry around and which hides meaning and importance from us. Today we spend our time working, Facebooking and TV-watching and, unless we’re a wealthy adventurer or reality TV participant in a primeval Ecuadorian jungle drinking hallucinogenic Ayahuasca with the Waorani tribe, the closest we get to a “vision quest” might be watching a Simpsons re-run.\n\nThis week’s card invites you to do your own spiritual quest. You don’t need to quaff Ayahuasca, let yourself loose in the woods or eat an insanity pepper, all you need to do is expand your horizons and open your mind enough to let the unusual in. In spite of the card’s appearance, your Spiritual side is not something you have to climb Everest and speak to the holiest Tibetan Monk to access -it’s within and around you all the time. In this context, “Spiritual” does not refer to a religious destination either; it simply means touching base with your own soul, your concept of whatever lies beyond that gnashing, whirring brain and ego of yours and getting a new take on what you think reality is. Take a voyage outside your normal perceptions, be astounded by the infinity of the Cosmos in a viewing of Alfonso Cuaron’s great new film, “GRAVITY” or undertake a unique journey close to your heart, just for you.\n\nChallenge yourself to be ready for messages of the unusual in the unguarded moments between just you and the rest of the Universe and keep your eyes and ears open. If you believe in Spirit , or even if you just believe in the astonishment that breathes and lives in the profundity of planet Earth in all its variance and simplicity, now’s the time to let it “speak” to you. It doesn’t matter whether you’re in New York City’s Times Square or alone in the woods. Don’t turn your attention away from the absurd or powerful messages that might be synchonistically dropping on your doorstep in the form of “signs” or visions from your deepest Self. Pay attention to these winks and nods. Listen to the angels in a piece of music, and don’t be surprised if you see a coyote and hear the voice of Johnny Cash this week.\n\nOur “hopper card” lets us know why all this mind-expanding, soul-finding reality-exam is important:", null, "When those aforementioned indigenous peoples would travel in their nomadic lives from place to place in search of resources and growth, they would sometimes be blessed with a verdant valley with plant and animal life over-flowing, and abundance around every corner, just as you are metaphorically approaching in some form within yourself RIGHT NOW. There’s a lot of WORK to be done when we approach that valley and your fertile new role means that you’re knee-deep in the actions and choices that make this new bounty “home” —whether that’s changing something practical or changing a habit, you have your work cut out for you this week and touching base with your “Guidance” will help you get there.\n\nEven if, like Homer, your quest initially yields a lighthouse keeping robot, keep your eyes open, keep striving and The Universe will help you see just what you need to see so you can step into this fertile new you!\n\nAbout this deck: “The Nature-Speak Oracle” by the late Ted Andrews, published by Dragonhawk 2006 is gentle 60 card deck based on his best-selling book (which I have not read) called, “Nature-Speak: Signs, Omens and Messages in Nature” This deck has bare bones imagery and photographic illustrations that remind me of a grade-school science text-book in its aesthetic sense but I just love it. It may not be as visually stunning as many new decks, but it always seems to have an uncanny message. Because I always concoct new uses for decks, I invented a kind of “Guidance mad-libs” for this deck by laying out a card to fill in each blank: What’s going on is______, and what I can work/act on is_________, so that I can _______ and have __________ as a result. (as an exercise, you can try that with just about any deck if you stretch your imagination).\n\nAll writing © Willow Brilliance in Sight" ]

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[ "I know what you are thinking, “Lady, you don’t have a dog. Why did you buy a dog toy?” Fair question. Let me explain…..\n\nA few months ago, Chad and I were at the grocery store and happened to pass through the pet aisle. I saw these small plastic balls hung on the shelf by another strip of plastic. I had yet to realize they were for dogs, but I was intrigued. Especially after just walking past them made them “talk.” Being in a crowded noisy store, I didn’t exactly hear what they said, but I realized they made a sound. I called Chad over to demonstrate them. After hearing them talk, we both thought it’d be a fun toy to buy to see what our cats would do. It was at this point that we realized it was a dog toy, but bought it anyway because it’s us and we occasionally like to push the boundaries of what is acceptable behavior.\n\nSo we paid for our items and put them in the car for the ride home. This was a quieter environment, but we still couldn’t make out what the toy said, but it kept going off every time we’d go over a bump or stop at intersections. Or drive around corners. Or drive straight.\n\nIt really was the most entertainingly hilarious trip home we’d ever had.\n\nAs soon as we came home, the ball came out of the package and we tried it out with the cats. They really couldn’t have cared less if they tried. When we realized they weren’t really into it, we had decided to gift it to friends of ours with a big dog (and a 3 yr. old). It was only then that we started figuring out what this ball was saying. According to my research (read: dropping the ball several times), it says about a dozen phrases. But some of these phrases are a bit, shall we say, inappropriate…….\n\nI guess the most logical thing is to ask yourself in what context are the phrases, “yeah, baby” and “hey big daddy!” an appropriate way to talk to your dog?? Maybe there is something in dog culture we are missing! 😀\n\nThe Babble Ball can be purchased at your local pet store and through Jet.com for less than $10. According to their website, the phrases I mentioned above are slightly different than my interpretation, but I still stand by this review. Consider this to be like a Teletubby for your dog. We are all familiar with the weird nonsense they spout.\n\nSo I’d pass on this one unless you have a dog, but not a small child that can misunderstand electronic phrases and repeats the misunderstood words later during a Quaker meeting because the Spirit moved them. 😀", null, "Inadvisable costume for your dog appears courtesy of Pinterest.com" ]

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[ null, "Brandon is an unincorporated community in Knox County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.\n\nBrandon was originally called Four Corners, then Hildreth, but the site was never legally platted on account of a land dispute in the 1840s. A post office was first established there under the name Hildreths in 1839. The post office's name was changed to Brandon in 1848, and remained in operation until 1902.\n\nAll content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise. Cite this article:\nBrandon, Ohio Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia." ]

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[ "2 edition of Guide to the archaic Chinese script. found in the catalog.\n\nCompiled by Eric Grinstead. Characters drawn by Gordon To.\n\nPublished 1972 by Studentlitteratur in Lund .\nWritten in English\n\nSeal of Ilkhan Ghazan, over the last two lines of his letter to Pope Boniface VIII. It reads \"王府定國理民之寶\" in archaic \"nine-fold\" Chinese script, meaning \"Seal certifying the authority of his Royal Highness to establish a country and govern its people\". This volume covers the period from the fall of the Mycenaean palaces in BC to the end of the Persian wars in BC and deals with the consolidation of the Hellenic world during the critical stages of the Geometric and Archaic periods. It is the story of the six centuries that shaped the destiny of Greece and laid the foundations of Western civilization.\n\nA great many Chinese characters have 2 components, one to indicate the pronunciation, and one to indicate the meaning. Even the most complex Chinese character, with its 56 strokes, can be broken down into familiar components. (biáng) Components and strokes are the basis on which all Chinese characters are built. Survey of Chinese Historical Syntax Part I: Pre-Archaic and Archaic Chinese Edith Aldridge, University of Washington Abstract This is the first of two articles presenting a brief overview of Chinese historical syntax from the Pre-Archaic period to Middle Chinese. The .\n\nMandarin is written with Chinese characters called Hànzì (漢字 or 汉字) which literally means \"Han characters\". Each Hànzì has its own pronunciation and meaning. An ordinary dictionary will contain ab characters. Spoken Mandarin uses very many compound words, words that combine meanings the way English does in such terms as \"machine gun,\" \"fire truck,\" \"playground,\" etc. Stability of the meaning of characters has allowed the Chinese language to remain remarkably constant through the ages. Calligraphy - script written with brush and ink - on oracular bones, animal bones, and tortoise shell fragments used to predict the future, provide clues about the day-to-day concerns of the early Chinese rulers.", null, "Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Are you an author. Author: Leslie Williamson. Archaic Chinese Script and Ritual Bronzes [Leslie Williamson] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.\n\nOld Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese.\n\nThe earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around BC, in the late Shang dynasty. Bronze inscriptions became plentiful during the following Zhou latter part of the Zhou period saw a Era: Shang dynasty, Zhou dynasty, Warring States period.\n\nArchaic Chinese bronzes of the Shang, Chou and Han periods in the collection of by Berthold Laufer,Mr. Parish-Watson and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.\n\nFrom this period on, many important features of the pronunciation of the Chinese characters have been reconstructed. Other articles where Archaic Chinese language is discussed: Chinese languages: Proto-Sinitic (Proto-Chinese; until bc), Archaic (Old) Chinese (8th to 3rd century bc), Ancient (Middle) Chinese (through ad ), and Modern Chinese (from c.\n\nthe 10th century to modern times). The Proto-Sinitic period is the period of the most ancient inscriptions and poetry; most loanwords in Chinese were.\n\nFunction. When the script was first used in the late 2nd millennium BC, words of Old Chinese were generally monosyllabic, and each character denoted a single word.\n\nIncreasing numbers of polysyllabic words have entered the language from the Western Zhou period to the present day. It is estimated that about 25–30% of the vocabulary of classic texts from the Warring States period was.\n\nThat includes the English alphabet, English and Chinese punctuation, and a big ol’ dictionary of Chinese characters.\n\nTraditional character sets have been known to run to 30, or higher. Non-professional fonts will sometimes squeak by with as few as 2, of the most common glyphs, but these shouldn't be used for base body text, as you'll.\n\nChinese Script Evolution Diagram. The table diagram below, replete with supplementary information, depicts the progression of the Chinese script from its earliest, ideo- and pictographic forms to its final form prior to the leap to a Romanized script, bypassing the somewhat dead-end attempt to create a simplified phonetic script that did not rely on Romanization, namely, the Zhuyin Fuhao.\n\nArchaic This book is all over the place. I'm not sure if I liked anyone in this book. Ava was turning Hue and is now Archaic. Lol, don't ask. Weird ending too. flag 1 like Like see review. Megan rated it it was amazing. Loved this book!. Can't wait to read the next one!!/5(77).\n\nYung-Fu Cheng, Ph.D. Professor & President. Kaishu script was introduced in China in the Sui ( AD) and Tang dynasties ( AD) and is what we now most commonly associate with Chinese writing.\n\nZhuanshu script is a much more angular-looking script that originated on archaic Chinese bronzes in the Shang (c. BC) and Zhou Dynasties ( BC). This style of mark was. Whilst runes may be an ancient system, they are not archaic or outmoded and have as much relevance today as they ever did.\n\nThe runic alphabet (see Figure ) also relates to the system of numerology, as with most alphabetical systems, and also has colour links. Figure The Elder Futhark The Runic Alphabet — Saga And Historical Fact.\n\nInscriptions and marks of varying types appeared on Chinese pottery and porcelain with increasing frequency from the Tang Dynasty ( - CE) through to the Republic in the early years of the 20th century.\n\nFrom imperial marks to the many \"hall\" and auspicious marks used by scholars, collectors, potters and artists this is the essential book for all professional buyers, collectors and. ITC Legacy Serif The ITC Legacy® Serif typeface family was designed by Ronald Arnholm in as an homage to the roman type of Nicolas Jenson.\n\nThe family consists of a range of weights from book to ultra; its condensed weights range from extra light to ultra. About this Item: Ch'eng-Wen Publishing Company JanuaryTaipei, Hardcover.\n\nhinges are a bit shaken but intact; heavy age toning to front and rear free endpapers. Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉语; traditional Chinese: 漢語; pinyin: Hànyǔ; lit.: 'Han language' or especially though not exclusively for written Chinese: 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a family of East Asian analytic languages that form the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan e languages are spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic.\n\nCreate your own Chinese Calligraphy with a character, a word, a sentence or any text. Choose the size, style, orientation, simplified or traditional Chinese characters. Book definition: A book is a number of pieces of paper, usually with words printed on them, which are | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples.\n\n1. I have compiled a database of o ancient and archaic Chinese characters. 2. Shang dynasty BC – BC 31, oracle bone characters XuJiaGuWenBian 續甲骨文编. 3. Zhou dynasty BC – BC 24, bronze characters JinWenBian 金文编. 4. Qin-Han Dynasty BC – AD 11, seal characters and ShuoWenJieZi.Chinese calligraphy was born more than three thousand years ago." ]

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[ null, "Linkin Park - What I've Done (With Lyrics) Created with Sony Vegas Movie Studio Lyrics on Screen and here: In this farewell, There is no blood There is no alibi Cause I've drawn regret From the truth Of a thousands lies So let mercy come and wash away What I've Done I'll face myself To cross out what I've become Erase myself and let go of what I've done. Apr 02, · Linkin Park definately delivers the goods on that part. The only bad thing is they play a lot of music that is filled with teenage angst. Which once again is probably a very good thing because I know when I was a teenage girl and \"no one understood me\" at least the musicians making the songs seemed to and they would soothe my soul and make me. May 05, · Linkinpark What I've Done Audio Preview What I?ve Done - Linkin Park Addeddate External_metadata_update TZ Identifier LinkinparkWhatIveDone Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader plus-circle Add Review. comment. Reviews.\n\nVocalists Mark Wakefield and Chester Bennington are former members of the band. Categorized as alternative rock , Linkin Park's earlier music spanned a fusion of heavy metal and hip hop , [1] while they later transitioned into more electronica - and pop -influenced music. The band continued to explore a wider variation of musical types on their fourth album, A Thousand Suns , layering their music with more electronic sounds.\n\nThe band's fifth album, Living Things , combined musical elements from all of their previous records. Their sixth album, The Hunting Party , returned to a heavier rock sound, and their seventh album, One More Light , was their first pop-oriented record.\n\nIn April , bassist Dave Farrell revealed the band was working on new music. Linkin Park is among the best-selling bands of the 21st century and the world's best-selling music artists , having sold over million records worldwide.\n\nIn , MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium. Billboard ranked Linkin Park No. In , the band was voted as the greatest artist of the s in a Bracket Madness poll on VH1.\n\nThough limited in resources, the band began recording and producing songs within Shinoda's makeshift bedroom studio in , resulting in a four-track demo tape, entitled Xero.\n\nAfter spending a considerable time searching for Wakefield's replacement, Xero recruited Arizona vocalist Chester Bennington , who was recommended by Jeff Blue , the vice president of Zomba Music in March The band still struggled to sign a record deal.\n\nThey turned to Jeff Blue for additional help after facing numerous rejections from several major record labels. Records on three previous reviews, Blue, who was now the vice president of Warner Bros. Records, helped the band sign a deal with the company as a developing artist in Bennington and Shinoda both reported that Warner Bros.\n\nFollowing the success of Hybrid Theory and Reanimation , Linkin Park spent a significant amount of time touring around the United States. The band members began to work on new material amidst their saturated schedule, spending a sliver of their free time in their tour bus' studio. Meteora sold more than , copies during its first week, and it ranked as the best selling album on the Billboard charts at the time.\n\nSupporting bands on the tour included Hoobastank , P. Meteora earned the band multiple awards and honors. Records was deteriorating rapidly on account of several trust and financial issues. Following Meteora' s success, the band worked on many side projects.\n\nThe album, which featured intermixed lyrics and background tracks from both artists' previous albums, debuted in November Shinoda also formed Fort Minor as a side project. Linkin Park also participated in numerous charitable events, most notably raised money to benefit victims of Hurricane Charley in and later Hurricane Katrina in They would later go on to play at the Summer Sonic music festival, which was hosted by Metallica in Japan.\n\nLinkin Park returned to the recording studios in to work on new material. To produce the album, the band chose producer Rick Rubin. Despite initially stating the album would debut sometime in , the album was delayed until Records officially announced that the band's third studio album, titled Minutes to Midnight , would be released on May 15, in the United States. The album's title, a reference to the Doomsday Clock , foreshadowed the band's new lyrical themes.\n\nThe album also took the top spot on the Billboard Charts. Mike Shinoda was also featured on the Styles of Beyond song \"Second to None\", which was also included in the film. The band completed touring on their fourth Projekt Revolution tour before taking up an Arena tour around the United Kingdom, visiting Nottingham , Sheffield and Manchester , before finishing on a double night at the O2 arena in London. Bennington stated that Linkin Park plans to release a follow-up album to Minutes to Midnight.\n\nThis was the first time a Projekt Revolution tour was held in Europe with three shows in Germany and one in the United Kingdom. Linkin Park finished the tour with a final show in Texas. In May , Linkin Park announced they were working on a fourth studio album, which was planned to be released in Shinoda told IGN that the new album would be ' genre-busting ,' while building off of elements in Minutes to Midnight. The band later revealed the album would be called A Thousand Suns.\n\nJoe Hahn created a music video for the song, which featured clips from the film. It featured the band as playable characters, and a new song called \"Blackbirds\" which was unlockable by beating the game.\n\nThe band promoted their new album by launching a concert tour, which started in Los Angeles on September 7. On August 31, , it was announced that the band would perform the single live for the first time at the MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, Linkin Park reached No. The band was No. In July , Bennington told Rolling Stone that Linkin Park aims to produce a new album every eighteen months, and that he would be shocked if a new album did not come out in He later revealed in another interview in September that the band was still in the beginning phases of the next album, saying \"We just kind of began.\n\nWe like to keep the creative juices flowing, so we try to keep that going all the time Create about the album's art, saying that it will \"blow them [the fans] away So there's going to be that\".\n\nLiving Things sold over , copies during its debut week, ranking No. The band also performed at the award ceremony on December 7, but lost the award to \"Cities\" by Beck. On the day of the game's release, Linkin Park made a post on their Facebook explaining that the song used to promote the game would be included on a new remix album, entitled Recharged , which was released on October 29, on CD, vinyl, and digital download.\n\nIn an interview with Fuse , Shinoda confirmed that Linkin Park had begun recording their sixth studio album in May Records and debut at No. The album was produced by Shinoda and Delson, who wanted to explore musical elements from Hybrid Theory and the band's earlier material.\n\nHe elaborated, \"It's a rock record. It's loud and it's rock, but not in the sense of what you've heard before, which is more like '90s hardcore - punk - thrash. Linkin Park performed at Download Festival on June 14, , where they played their debut album, Hybrid Theory , in its entirety. The tour was canceled after only three concerts when Bennington injured his ankle.\n\nLinkin Park performed at the closing ceremony of BlizzCon , Blizzard's video game convention. Linkin Park began working on new material for a seventh studio album in November Brad Delson elaborated: \"We've made so many records and we clearly know how to make a record and we definitely didn't take the easy way out this time. The first single from the new album was revealed to be titled \" Heavy \" and features pop singer Kiiara , the first time the band has featured a female vocalist on an original song for a studio album.\n\nThe album cover was revealed through digital puzzles across social media; the cover features six kids playing in the ocean. Bennington died on July 20, ; his death was ruled a suicide by hanging. An official statement will come out as soon as we have one\".\n\nThe band thanked fans for their support, stating, \"The five of us are so grateful for all of your support as we heal and build the future of Linkin Park\". The event included Linkin Park's first performance following Bennington's death.\n\nIn November , the band announced that a live album compiled from their final tour with Bennington, titled One More Light Live , would be released on December Linkin Park remained on hiatus between Bennington's death and During an Instagram live chat on December 17, , Shinoda was asked whether Linkin Park would perform with a hologram version of Bennington in the future.\n\nI cannot fuck with that. On January 28, , Shinoda replied to a tweet from a fan inquiring about his future with Linkin Park, writing \"I have every intention on continuing with LP, and the guys feel the same. We have a lot of rebuilding to do, and questions to answer, so it'll take time. On February 18, , Shinoda said in an interview that the band is open to the idea of continuing though what form that takes has yet to be decided.\n\nBoth Hybrid Theory and Meteora combine the alternative metal, [] [] [] nu metal, [] [] [] rap rock, [] [] rap metal, [] and alternative rock [] [] sound with influences and elements from hip hop, and electronica, [] [] utilizing programming and synthesizers. William Ruhlmann from AllMusic regarded it as \"a Johnny-come-lately to an already overdone musical style,\" [] whereas Rolling Stone described their song \" Breaking the Habit \" as \"risky, beautiful art\".\n\nIn Minutes to Midnight the band experimented with their established sound and drew influences from a wider and more varied range of genres and styles, a process Los Angeles Times compares to a stage in U2 's work. The vocal interplay between Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda plays as a major part within Linkin Park's music, with Bennington being the lead vocalist and Shinoda as the rapping vocalist." ]

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[ "There’s inspiration out there, not necessarily in ‘them thar hills’, but in the writings of the good and great of copywriting and journalistic writing from bygone days. And I’ve been reminded of a couple of gems that can help everyone who writes for business – including you.\n\nWith the fast-pace of technological change, we’ve become used to computers and phones being out of date the day we buy them. But in the world of business writing, the pace of change isn’t so fast and loads of advice that worked decades (or even a century) ago still holds good today.\n\nYou only need to read Claude C. Hopkins‘ My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising to get this. Amongst other things, Hopkins was the brain behind the famous, and still influential, Schlitz Beer ads that are always being quoted in advertising texts.\n\nI’ve been reading these two books recently and was struck by how simply relevant his thoughts on letter writing, testing and other advertising matters remain some 82 years after his death. No wonder David Ogilvy wrote:\n\nNobody should be allowed to have anything to do with advertising until he has read this book (Scientific Advertising) seven times. It changed the course of my life.\n\nYou can read Scientific Advertising online for free (or buy the combined books in hard copy).\n\nAnother, more recent gem that I’ve been reading is Donald M. Murray’s Writing to Deadline: The Journalist at Work – my copy was published in 2000. In the book, Murray, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, covers topics as diverse as the journalist’s craft, writing before writing and development of journalistic pieces. As well as a healthy dose of experience-based advice, the book also includes a fascinating selection of interviews with journalists where they talk about writing.", null, "Though the book is primarily aimed at professional journalists, there are gems that will transform the way anyone writes for business. In particular, I was struck by the chapter titled ‘DEVELOP: Work on What Works’ where Murray discusses the process of developing a draft document.\n\nIf there was one thing that jumped out from this chapter, it was Murray’s assertion that writing will take a huge leap forward if, when revising a draft, you focus not on what is wrong, but what is working – what is right. By doing so, the improvement on an original draft is accelerated and, interestingly, most of the problems of early drafts will solve themselves. Those that aren’t can be more easily isolated and worked on. It’s a radical change from the idea of focusing on what’s wrong with a document. Murray also advocates thinking about revision, not as a punishment for failure, but as an opportunity. Sounds a bit like the old ‘challenges, not problems’ thing, doesn’t it.\n\nIs this for real? I guess it is.\n\nAnd here’s one last thing which I took away from reading Murray; it resonates with me as someone who regularly has to transform clients’ drafts from ‘we orientated’ to ‘you-oriented’ when writing for website or brochure readers. Here’s what Murray writes:\n\nIt is print journalist tradition to avoid the first person (in fact, the capital letter I had been filed off all the Royal typewriters in the old Boston Herald city room when I arrived in 1948).\n\nAlthough Murray then goes on to state that there is an occasional place for the first person in journalistic writing, I just liked this anecdote and it is a great reminder of the importance of writing directly to your reader – and talking about them much more than about you!\n\nA worthwhile read – even if it’s only Chapter 7\n\nSo there you go, a few thoughts prompted by a trip back in time into my copywriting library. If you have to develop draft documents, you could do worse than invest in a copy – even if you only read Chapter 7, it will be worthwhile.\n\nWhat’s the most important lesson you’ve ever learned about copywriting or editing? feel free to comment below.\n\nAl Hidden is an experienced Gloucestershire based copywriter specialising in Marketing, Web/SEO, technical and PR copywriting." ]

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[ "Viacom rejects a merger with CBS", null, "Mr Redstone has a message for you\n\nNOTHING is ever easy at Sumner Redstone’s media empire. For two months the boards of CBS and Viacom, two entertainment companies controlled by the Redstone family, have explored a possible combination, something long wished for by Shari Redstone, the ailing media mogul’s daughter and anointed deputy. But on March 30th those talks turned to acrimony after CBS made an offer valuing Viacom below its market capitalisation of $12.5bn, and reserved no leadership role at the combined firm for Viacom’s CEO, Bob Bakish. Ms Redstone and Viacom’s bosses regarded the offer as an insult, according to sources.\n\nThe tactics amount to a stunning power play by Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS. It leaves Viacom, owner of Paramount film studio and cable networks including MTV and Comedy Central, in a state of limbo. Viacom’s board made clear the offer was a non-starter, and is expected to make a counter-offer that would include a leading role for Mr...Continue reading" ]

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[ null, "Obamacare continues the Obama administration’s social policy agenda of wealth distribution across generational and geographic bounds. Citizens of Georgia will be made to pay:\n\n“I am very concerned that the full implementation of ObamaCare will drastically increase the price Georgians pay for health insurance,” said Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens.\n\nBut officials at the Georgia Department of Insurancearen’t ready to offer any public conclusions while independent actuaries evaluate the plans and premiums seven companies submitted in April. Hudgens has the power to reject rates he considers too high even though the federal government will operate Georgia’s online exchange where they’ll be sold in addition to private insurance agents.\n\n“Insurers cannot expect to hide behind changes in federal law as a pretext for boosting their bottom line,” he said. “My first responsibility is to protect Georgia consumers, and as ObamaCare continues to unfold, I will do my best to…\n\nAmerica’s moral standards have plunged so far that the nation no longer is safe for children, according to a high-profile Christian leader.\n\n“Fifty years after the removal of prayer from America’s public schools in a case brought by my mother, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, there is virtually no safe place in America for children of any age, not in their schools, not even in their homes,” said William J. Murray, chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition.\n\nIt was on his behalf that his mother filed a lawsuit claiming compulsory prayer and Bible reading in public schools is unconstitutional.\n\nThe ruling, released by the U.S. Supreme Court June 17, 1963, allowed God no further place in public schooling, triggering a plunge from a time when chewing gum was a major problem to schools plagued by drugs, violence and sex that need to be protected by armed guards.\n\nMurray tells the story in his book, “My Life Without God.”\n\n“Prayer in the schools 50 years ago had little to do with morality and a lot to do with authority,” he said. “The speaker of the House of Representatives, the second most powerful man in America, has the words ‘In God We Trust’ engraved over his chair in the House Chamber.”\n\nMurray said “In God We Trust” is “more than the national motto; it was meant to be the real source of authority for our government.”\n\nYou’ve probably already heard about the bizarre, Islamist slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in broad daylight on a busy street in London in May 2013.\n\nThe two assailants struck the victim with a car then jumped out and began hacking and slashing him with knives and a meat cleaver. The murderers then strutted around the victim’s body for 15 to 20 minutes until armed police arrived, upon which the self-proclaimed jihadists launched an assault on the police and were shot.\n\nMost strange is the way that the attackers waited around after the slaughter, strutting and bragging, but not particularly threatening or attempting to harm any of the onlookers, until armed police units finally arrived, at which point the murderers commenced what could only be characterized as a suicide attack – having brought knives to a gunfight.\n\nMany have asked why the attackers just waited around for the armed police. Why didn’t they flee or continues attacking others, as one might expect from a couple of crazed murderers? What were they waiting for?\n\nThe answer to that question is very significant. These men were waiting for their tickets to Paradise – and 72 virgins. They engaged in their act of jihad, killing an “infidel aggressor, enemy of Islam,” and then waited around for the armed police to show up so they could die in battle for Allah’s glory, martyrs, and therefore elected for special rewards in Paradise. […]\n\nA company in northern Idaho has come up with a culturally sensitive solution. Jihawg Ammo has developed a proprietary system for infusing ballistic paint with pork. The special pork-infused paint is then applied to the bullets of loaded ammunition. The inclusion of pork in the paint makes the bullets haraam, or unclean. Under Islamic law, anyone who comes in contact with any haraam item is then unclean, and must engage in a cleansing ritual. No unclean person can be admitted into Paradise. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 72 virgins.\n\nIt might not be “Iron Man 3” money ($174 million opening weekend), but the Christopher Nolan produced, Zack Snyder directed “Man of Steel,” is on pace to break a June record for a non-sequel with a $120 million weekend haul. This puts Hollywood’s the third attempt at a Superman franchise way ahead of the second, the pitiful “Superman Returns,” which scored only $84.6 million over a five-day weekend.\n\nAccording to Box Office Mojo, the previous June record holder was “Toy Story 3,” with $110 million. “Tranformers: Revenge of the Fallen” came in second with $108 million. If Nikki Finke’s numbers are correct, there is no question “Man of Steel” will beat the non-sequel record. It might, though, beat all records, which is something even Warner Bros. didn’t dare predict." ]

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[ null, "The popular notion attached with the skill of a basketball player being good is determined by whether the player is able to take that quintessential dunk.\n\nFor many though, if dunking the basketball is little bit of a challenge, it becomes essential to be able to improve their vertical jump so with the sole intention of making their game better and gradually accelerating expertise.\n\nEvery player has a unique way of reaching out to the available goal height and simultaneously maintaining the precision of their shots.\n\nThe jump in basketball, is also essential because it is contingent on the overall strength of the body which help the player build both speciality moves and customise their styles to suit the game.\n\nA vertical jump is in many ways an assessment of your strength.\n\nMoreover, it is an analysis of how well you use that strength.\n\nAll the stamina building can become redundant if it is not put to actual use and declared contingent for a good game from a good team.\n\nThe jump is a measure of a player’s reflexes, agility, dexterity and general speed in the game of basketball.\n\nThe length of a vertical jump can be measured by first marking your height in a regular standing position with the feet set firm on the ground.\n\nThis should be accompanied with a complete stretching of the arms and marking the resulting point.\n\nThe next step is to take that leap and mark the point of elevation as you jump.\n\nThe length of the vertical jump is in fact the different between the higher point and the lower point.\n\nA player’s jump is a lot of times, unconsciously affected by a heavy-duty training undertaken in the course of a practice session or prior to the game as a grit building requisite.\n\nHowever, sometimes, in case of a slackened state of recovery, the jump gets adversely affected.\n\nThis happens clearly because of fatigue and exhaustion thereby making the training have an opposite effect and defeating its own purpose.\n\nAll said and done, the value of rim rattling jump is appreciated as an athletic achievement worth cherishing and treasuring.\n\nThat greater height is actually and literally what the player should be aiming for.\n\nThere do exist some realistic methods if improving the quality of your leap and re-enforcing the indispensability of doing so in the game of basketball.\n\nThe training can be bifurcated into first expounding strength and then shifting focus to working on agility.\n\nIt is the combination and blending of both these elements which determine a superior vertical jump.\n\nThe plyometric or strength training concentrates on particular muscles.\n\nThe routine should usually be inclined towards weight lifting and focussing on the muscles which needs to developed.\n\nThese include the calf, the hamstring and the quadriceps.\n\nLunges and hamstring curls are gradual contributors to strength.\n\nMost of these exercises also help to elongate the extensions of the legs and the arms which in turn, helps to increase the span of the jump.\n\nFor those who have the natural body structure favouring a grand jump, the training should not be excessive for it can affect the state of recovery as mentioned above.\n\nPlus it defeats the entire purpose since there will inadvertently be an unnecessary control over a natural physical skill.\n\nThe other half of the training includes horning one’s agility since that complements the strength, by adding to the length of the leap.\n\nFor this purpose, one must adhere to activities like box jumps and jump ropes, amongst a flurry of other exercises.\n\nActually, a lot is contingent on the ratio of fast twitch muscle fibres and the player’s body composition.\n\nThe body composition is the technical calculation of the body-fat percentage.\n\nAnother aspect pertinent to the player’s vertical jump is the connection between the mind and the muscle.\n\nReflexes are also a factor determining the quantum of the leap and in fact, it is an important one.\n\nThe player can max out all their available potential.\n\nHowever, if the network linking the mind and the muscle is missing or jammed, then all the strength and agility is capable of getting diluted.\n\nThe vertical jump, is thus, a careful amalgamation of a control which must be regulated in a mechanism which involves both physical, as well as mental capacities.\n\nEach motion and movement is unique and no two player’s can adorn the same design.\n\nMoreover, it should not be the same design.\n\nEach needs to be requisitioned separately and it is this that consistently refreshes the standing of a team.\n\nDesigned by ex-basketball professional Adam Folker, Vert Shock is the only proven 3-step jump training program that adds at least 9 to 15 inches to your vertical jump in less than 8 weeks.", null, "Besides being this blog author, Katherine McDolly has been a full-time certified nutritionist, distributor and beautician in both networking company Nuskin Pharmanex and beauty 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[ null, "Justice for George Queens organizers held a protest to demand the removal of the Christopher Columbus statue in Astoria Boulevard. (Photo by Dean Moses)\n\nMore than a hundred people marched toward Astoria Boulevard on June 17 to denounce the Christopher Columbus statue as a “symbol of genocide” and demand for it to be removed.\n\nThe protest, organized by Queens-based group Justice for George Queens, began at Astoria Park’s War Memorial. The organizers hoped to show solidarity with Black and Indigenous people who’ve struggled with colonialism for centuries, as well as to bring attention to Black trans lives lost to hate and police brutality.\n\nTrasonia Abbott, one of the protest’s leaders, began with a meditation followed by a land acknowledgement in support of Black lives in Lenapehoking (the traditional homeland of the Lenape people, which includes New York City) written by writer and photographer Joe Whittle.\n\n“Most of the Lenapeyok and the main political and cultural body of the tribe ended up in Oklahoma after repeated forced removals and relocations spanning over 50 years of exodus and leading halfway across the continent,” the statement read. “It is this storied, shared history of oppression and solidarity, and our love for all of our fellow Indigenous peoples from across the globe, that drives us to stand up for our Black relatives today who face the same ongoing colonial violence that we do as Indigenous ‘Americans.’”\n\nLater in the demonstration, two artists who identify as Muisca, Indigenous people of Colombia, read a poem in Spanish about the intersection of statues that celebrate colonialism and the systemic racism that persists within the United States’ systems.\n\nManuela Agudelo, an organizer with Justice for George Queens, told QNS they wanted to bring closer to home the renewed conversations happening across the nation and world to remove statues of historical figures who contributed to the oppression and violence of Black and Indigenous people.\n\n“We saw that around the world and other nations that there were a lot of people denouncing these bigoted statues, and we felt strongly that this affected our community in Queens,” Agudelo said. “Queens is one of the most diverse places in the world — we should be respecting people who built this country.”\n\nDuring the first half of the protest, another organizer focused on Black trans lives by reading the names of individuals lost between 2015 and 2020, as a violinist played a somber melody. It took well over four minutes for all the names to be read.\n\nThere have been at least 15 transgender or gender non-conforming people fatally killed this year, according to Human Rights Campaign. Some of the most recent high-profile cases include Tony McDade, a Black trans-masculine person, killed by Tallahassee police, and Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, a Black transgender woman found dead in Philadelphia.\n\none of the organizers read “A Land Acknowledgement in Support of Black Lives” about the Lenapehoking and their stolen land, written by Joe Whittle.\n\nanother organizer read the names of the Black Trans lives taken by police since 2015. It took well over four minutes. pic.twitter.com/bAD20837GD\n\nThe organizer also spoke about LGBTQ pioneer, Masha P. Johnson, a Black trans woman known as one of the most important figures in the Stonewall Riots in Manhattan, which served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the nation and is now recognized as Pride month in June.\n\n“So when you’re putting on your rainbow colored t-shirts, dancing to your favorite songs at a gay bar and throwing on your body glitter for a Pride parade, know that none of that would be possible without a Black trans woman placing her life on the line,” the organizer said, as the crowd cheered. “When Black trans women are being killed at alarming rates and beaten in the streets, we must protect and value them because that’s exactly what they did and continue to do for the entire LGBTQ+ community all over the world.”\n\nAnother organizer spoke about how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 afforded so many other rights for immigrants and minority communities, due to that “very tight bill” that gave Black people “some semblance of rights.” The organizer implored others to vote and “bother” their representatives in the local, city and state legislature.\n\nThe protest — a well-organized event with volunteers handing out water bottles, masks, and snacks — then transitioned into a march toward Astoria Boulevard. More than a hundred people marched down Shore Boulevard then Hoyt Avenue, chanting “When Native [interchanged with Black and trans] lives are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!”\n\nso far, the police have stayed away from the demonstrators, blocking traffic. pic.twitter.com/W0XEoKa4lu\n\nPolice maintained distance from the demonstrators throughout the march and protest, blocking off traffic as they marched down the highway and onto Astoria Boulevard by the N and W train where the statue of Christopher Columbus is placed.\n\nWhile there, several organizers and community members spoke about Columbus’ legacy in the Indigenous community.\n\n“For many years a lot of people here in America and throughout the world thought this man was a cool guy, but now with further education and … marches like these, we know the real truth,” said Sanakori Taíno Sagrado, who identified as being of Taíno descent of Boriken, the Taíno (Indigenous) name for Puerto Rico.\n\nSagrado then asked where the markers and new monument honoring Indigenous people are, noting Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “broken” promise to add those throughout the city in response to calls to remove Columbus monuments back in 2018.\n\nOthers talked about the larger movement to defund and ultimately abolish the police, address systemic racism and unlearn the ideals that prevent actual change from taking place.\n\n“It shouldn’t be disheartening because the signs to all this was in front of us the whole time,” said Joseph Martinez, a Queens-based member of Warriors in the Garden, a collective of activists dedicated to non violent protest, as he pointed to the Columbus statue. “The system has not failed us. You know why? Because the system was never designed for us in the first place.”\n\nAfter a few more speakers, the demonstrators sand and danced along to Bill Withers’ uplifting anthem, “Lean On Me.”\n\nBefore ending the demonstration at about 8:30 p.m., the organizers called attention to a petition for the removal of the Columbus statue, addressed to de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.\n\nWhen asked about the calls to remove Columbus statues last week, Cuomo and de Blasio defended the statues as representative of the Italian American legacy.\n\nThis is not the first call to remove the Columbus statue at Astoria Boulevard. In 2017, DNA Info reported of a instance in which the statue was tagged with the words “Don’t Honor Genocide. Take It Down.”" ]

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[ "UFO videos posted by Blink-182 are real and never should have been released, Navy confirms\n\nThe Navy claims the videos should not have been released to the public and are asking questions.", null, "ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Blink-182 once asked in their song lyrics, \"What if people knew that these were real?\"\n\nNow the U.S. Navy is demanding answers after videos the department confirmed are real were leaked by an organization led by former Blink-182 rocker Tom Delonge.\n\n“The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in these videos as unidentified,” an official spokesperson for Naval Operations for Information Warfare reportedly told the Black Vault.\n\nThe Washington Post and The New York Times reported that the video was obtained and released by DeLonge's organization. In one 2015 video in question, two Navy pilots are seen tracking an unidentified object off the East Coast, The Huffington Post reports.\n\nOne of the pilots is heard saying to another pilot, \"Wow! What is that, man? Look at that flying!”\n\nIn another video, an object which looked like a \"Tic Tac\" was seen lowering from 60,000 to 50 feet in seconds off the coast of California in 2004. In a third video, a U.S. Navy Hornet pilot almost hit an unidentified flying object during a mission.\n\nFormer military intelligence official Luis Elizondo reportedly told CNN in 2017, \"My personal belief is that there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.\"\n\nEditor's note: The language in this video might be offensive to some viewers.\n\nTo The Stars Academy of Arts and Science\nAnother exciting day of progress for TTSA and our community of supporters.", null ]

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[ "Still available online under the title “On this Day” is a BBC report from October 6th 1973 which informs readers that:\n\n“Heavy fighting has erupted between Arab and Israeli forces along two fronts.\n\nTo the south, Egyptian armoured forces have broken the Israeli line on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal.\n\nIn the north, Syrian troops and tanks are battling with Israeli defences along the Golan Heights seized by Israel from Syria in 1967.\n\nBoth sides have accused each other of firing the first shots, but UN observers have reported seeing Egyptian and Syrian troops crossing into Israeli-held territory.” [emphasis added]\n\nThe same obviously misleading statement is made in the caption to the accompanying illustrative photograph:", null, "Clearly, both the article and the photograph were uploaded to the BBC website many years after the exact circumstances of the start of the Yom Kippur War had been amply clarified.\n\nPerhaps a clarification is finally in order after forty years?" ]

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[ "Sun Peaks brings out the happy in people\n\nStand in the middle of the village at Sun Peaks Resort and look at the faces of the people walking by. There’s something going on but you just can’t put your finger on it.\n\nOh, wait, you are feeling it too. It’s a feeling of harmony with the mountains, the snow, the people and the village. That may sound corny but ask people that live there year-round. There is something about Sun Peaks that makes it all about the destination and not the journey.\n\nThree mountain faces now host more 130 runs. But back in 1961, it was Tod Mountain that caught the eye of a few developers. Harry Burfield was asked to help build the “Tod Mountain resort,” create some trails and build the ski lodge. He, like many people, fell in love with the valley and envisioned purchasing the resort. Sadly, Burfield died in an airplane crash on the back side of Tod Mountain in 1971. His death had a huge impact on the resort. Today, there is still Harry’s Run and the Burfield Quad lift named in his honour.\n\nThe resort struggled with different owners and limited funds so development was slow for the first 30 years. In 1972, the addition of the Shuswap double chair and seven years later, the Crystal triple chairlift was installed. In 1980, the doors to the Shuswap Day Lodge opened. But still, the resort wasn’t really growing.\n\nIn 1992, the Nippon Cable Company of Japan bought the resort and instantly set out to create a resort with the same concept as Whistler, north of Vancouver. Nippon brought in a master plan to create a village that would flow in the valley, respecting the landscape yet providing a community for the visitors and the people that worked there.\n\nNancy Greene and her husband Al Raine were instrumental in creating the village at Whistler and with that track record, they were hired in 1994 to come and help shape the village at Sun Peaks. When they opened their own hotel at Sun Peaks, the ski industry took notice. If two of Canada’s ski visionaries thought Sun Peaks was worth investing in, it was worth checking out.\n\nBy the 1990s the western Canada ski scene took off. Investments into resorts were happening everywhere and Sun Peaks was no different. Hotels helped shape the village while new lifts and runs enhanced the skiing experience. The construction of the 35-million gallon snowmaking reservoir made sure there would be snow.\n\nAwards started trickling in 1995 and they poured in. Best mountain trail design, best designs for day lodge and best terrain variety were followed by best après ski and best kids resort features. It was pretty heady times for the resort.\n\nWhen the Delta announced it would build the Delta Sun Peaks Resort Hotel and Conference Centre in 2001, it was proof that the resort town was shedding its winter-only label and moving into a four-season destination. Increasing the golf course to 18 holes brought in more summer visitors. Mountain and downhill biking was also welcomed to the resort.\n\nDon’t assume the resort was ignoring the powder hounds. The back country of Tod Mountain was opened to cat skiing, then came a tube park and 17 more trails on Mount Morrisey.\n\nSun Peaks was on the map. International ski teams like the Austrian Ski Team signed deals to use the slopes as its early season training site with hope it would replicate some of the terrain they’d cover at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. The award-winning Nancy Greene International Race Centre, built in 2005, offered dedicated lanes for GS training. It’s still popular with teams any time of the year.\n\nMore people were moving into the valley but there was one problem. There was no school for children and that meant 50-km long commutes to Kamloops 50 km or constructing a school. By 2010, the kids in the community were able to ski to school, ski at lunch and ski home. What a dream! See why everyone is happy there?\n\nThere is an average annual snowfall of six metres during a ski season that lasts from mid-November to Mid-April. Sun Peaks is now Canada’s second largest ski area with 4,270 acres of terrain. Three mountain faces with 12 lifts carry skiers and riders to 135 trails, two alpine bowls and a 10 acre terrain park. For the cross -country crowd, there is almost 40 kilometres of groomed and track set backcountry trails.\n\nAmid the mix of standard to luxurious accommodations are 7,000 beds at hotels, condos, chalets and B&B’s with room in the summer for RV’s and campers. During the summer, almost every weekend, there’s an outdoor concert, to attend - but only after you’ve gone canoeing, hiking, golfing, horseback riding or zoomed down the new Mountain Cross Carts course.\n\nThe village atmosphere, with everything within walking distance, makes dining and heading out for the evening easy. Pubs, restaurants, lounges and cafes line the pedestrian only streets.\n\nAs for Nancy Greene, as in Olympian, Canadian Senator, and Director of Skiing, Nancy Greene - she and Al Raine still call Sun Peaks home. She is still an excellent skier and still hosts visitors on most Saturdays and Sundays for tours of the slopes. Just another reason why the people walking through the plaza have smiles on their faces. They just skied with an Olympian. Pretty cool.\n\nClick here to see what you will be doing at Sun Peaks.\n\nShow your stoke for the awesome history of Sun Peaks Resort by sharing this page with your friends!", null, "As Canada's 2nd Largest Ski Area, Sun Peaks Resort has loads to offer the winter visitor from the...", null, "Downhill fun is only minutes from the heart of Kamloops\n\nKamloops, B.C. – The lineup was already out the door by the time we arrived at Hello Toast, the kind...\n\nFuture ski racers take over the slopes of Sun Peaks\n\nRace for your country at Sun Peaks!\n\nSUN PEAKS, BC – Guests from around the globe will be waxing their skis and getting ready to..." ]

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[ null, "‘Get drunk! Pass the f**k out!’: School dean & wife give underage babysitter weed & booze as she watches their kids [Cops]\n\nA Florida couple were arrested last week for repeatedly providing their 17-year-old babysitter with marijuana and alcohol over the course of two years.\n\nThe Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office announced in a news release that Adam Thayer, 38, and Misty Mitchell-Thayer, 37, were arrested on child neglect charges on Thursday and Friday, respectively. Police’s investigation began on December 26, after receiving a report that the pair were giving marijuana and alcohol to their babysitter and her underage friends at their residence at Palm Harbor.\n\nThayer and Mitchell-Thayer allegedly gave their babysitter alcohol and marijuana between 30 to 40 times in a two-year span. The babysitter was 15 when she started caring for the couple’s 5-year-old twin children, who are now seven. She reportedly admitted to being so intoxicated while watching the children that her speech was slurred and her vision was blurry.\n\nPolice said on some instances, the couple would come home drunk and drink alcohol with the babysitter. They allegedly also let the teen invite her friends over to drink and knowingly allowed them to drive intoxicated.\n\n“Get drunk! Pass the f**k out!” Mitchell-Thayer said in a text message to the teen, according to police.\n\n“If you want to smoke Adam has weed there,” she allegedly said in another.\n\nThayer is the Dean of Students at Pinellas Academy for Math and Science. The Pinellas County School District told The Tampa Bay Times that they were informing students’ parents of his arrest. The district is reportedly also in the process of reaching out to the school to ensure they contact the state Department of Education, who will pursue disciplinary action." ]

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[ null, "Yaga is a Slavic tale about a blacksmith called Ivan who’s cursed with bad luck after a witch, who’s trying to eat him, cuts off his hand. The cruel Tzar then commands the one-handed blacksmith to bring him strength beyond measure otherwise he’ll banish him from the kingdom. This poetic yarn is full of Eastern European charm with plenty of mischievous old hags with hooked noses.\n\nIn Slavic folklore, Yaga means an evil-looking old woman whose preferred mode of transport is a Mortar – not very Aerodynamic, but it’s better than walking I guess. In this videogame, she’s also manipulating the Tzar’s fate with some magical jiggery-pokery. “Yaga the bony, Yaga the great wants to manipulate the Tzar’s fate”. This videogame is full of poetic dialogue which adds an authentic flair to the story.\n\nYaga was created by Breadcrumbs Interactive, a small team of Romanian developers who have used articulated hand-drawn characters and 2D skeletal animation techniques which gives this Indie title a quick and jerky feel. There’s also a traditional soundtrack performed by Subcarpati. It offers an interesting blend of Hip-Hop and traditional Romanian music to bop along to while you’re playing\n\nOnce you set out on your quest you’re told by your Baba (Grandmother) who just wants to see you settled with a wife, that Yaga the witch can help you. But first, you have to bring her some gifts. No, I am not talking about some flowers and a knitting pattern she likes wormy bones and sweat from a poor man. “Eew!” You walk around the town and talk to its occupants quickly find the items you need.\n\nHowever, once you set out on your quest the game loop is established quickly and Yaga feels more like a roguelike adventure than an RPG. There are procedurally generated levels which have NPC’s you have to fight and end of level bosses to defeat. Every time you die the layout changes but its basically the same one with the game assets generated in different locations.", null, "There’s nothing special about this aspect of the videogame until you use Yaga‘s role-playing mechanics which offers a moral choice every time Ivan chooses a specific dialogue option. He can be Aggressive, Foolish, Righteous or Selfish. This affects his personality and skills as the videogame progresses. He can throw his hammer like Thor and have it return like a boomerang or carelessly bludgeon his victims with it.\n\nAs you progress as Ivan you get access to an arsenal of weapons and tools which you can attach to his stump or use with his free hand. You can upgrade items using the forge which is accessible when he’s resting. It also appears to be stowed on Ivan’s body and whipped out when he’s en route – convenient but chafing and also explains why he walks strangely.\n\nEnemies drop loot when they die such as weapons, food and magical artifacts. These are stowed in your inventory and can be added to your quick access menu when you’re in combat. You can throw the chain fork and snag an enemy dragging them towards you for a bludgeoning or use it to drag yourself out of danger.\n\nThe combat mechanics are simple but there are a host of weapons you can customize using ore as your base metal. This is where Yaga shines and offers the most enjoyment as you forge new weapons. The difficulty does vary throughout the videogame from easy to very challenging. Other items include a wheel-shield, a sickle, and a shovel to name a few but Ivan’s hammer is the go-to weapon and the others aren’t really as efficient.", null, "Yaga is a fun videogame which despite its Slavic lineage reminded me of a Grimm’s Fairy Tale. It has some nice environments to explore and a crafting system which allows for great diversity when you’re playing. As a unique story, Yaga is a triumph and the alternate endings offer some nice replay value but the roguelike gameplay feels too repetitive despite its diverse RPG mechanics.\n\nAbout the author: Simon Norman\n\nSimon Norman, AKA Oggie is an avid video gamer whose first computer was a ZX Spectrum, of which he holds a special nostalgic fondness due to its squishy rubber keys." ]

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[ null, "Fear not, hard-rock fans: Dream Theater is still doing its thing — and the prog/metal icons‘ latest song will go a long way toward emphasizing that.\n\n“The Alien,” shared Friday as a preview of the band’s new album, A View from the Top of the World, clocks in at nearly 10 minutes, soaring guitars and jagged rhythmic jumps swirling around throughout. Vocals don’t even kick in until after the two-minute mark, the thunderous beginning setting the tone:\n\n“It’s the first one we wrote together,” said guitarist John Petrucci of the epic track. “It gives people a window into what it was like when we initially met up after all of those months off. It has the adventure, the untraditional structure, the heaviness, and the hooks. It really set the tone for the album. James wrote the lyrics about the idea of terraforming and looking beyond our Earth for alternative settlements. Since we’re going beyond our planet, ‘The Alien’ turns out to be us. I thought it was a cool and creative lyric by James.”\n\n“The Alien” kicks off the record, which will be the 15th full-length from Dream Theater to date and will be released on October 22nd via InsideOutMusic/Sony Music. As you might expect, part of its inspiration came about during the COVID-19 pandemic. Per a news release:", null ]

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[ null, "Everything You Need to Know About the Daily Bite Podcast\n\nThis year dive deeper on all your favorite SHARK WEEK shows with THE DAILY BITE PODCAST! 7 Days of Shark Week, 7 podcasts to take a bite out of. You can find it on Pocket Casts, Anchor, Spotify, Breaker, Google Podcast, and Radio Public. Here's a breakdown of every episode you have coming your way.\n\nClark Gayford and Mark Erdmann talk about their harrowing adventures as the global lockdown lured New Zealand’s biggest great whites out of hiding on SHARK LOCKDOWN.\n\nEpisode 3: Extinct or Alive: Land of the Lost Sharks — August 11\n\nForrest Galante talks about his tireless pursuit to find three unique sharks lost to science for nearly 100 years on EXTINCT OR ALIVE: LAND OF THE LOST SHARKS.\n\nRiley Elliott and Andy Casagrande talk about the mysteries they uncover about the Mako Shark in one of their last strongholds — New Zealand for MAKO NATION.\n\nDr. Craig O’Connell and Marc Payne want to know why the Great White Sharks are so much more aggressive off the coast of Western Australia for LAIR OF THE GREAT WHITE.\n\nAustin Gallagher and Christine de Silva talk about their mission to understand the assault on a 14-foot tiger shark in the Caribbean for TIGER SHARK KING.\n\nIf you love podcasts and you want to learn about sharks (and more!), then check out Discovery’s award-winning Curiosity Daily podcast. Listen and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.", null, "Cutting-edge technology takes a team of scientists at Beneath the Waves (BTW) deeper than they’ve ever gone before by shedding new light on how tiger sharks use our deep seas. Don't miss TIGER SHARK KING, Friday, August 14 at 10P ET on Discovery.", null, "Canada has become the first North Atlantic country to put a longstanding recommendation from conservation scientists to protect Mako sharks into law.", null, "The Jaws Boat is Being Rebuilt, But This Time to Save Sharks\n\n‘The ORCA’ may just be the most famous boat in the film industry. Immortalized by the thriller Jaws in 1975, the vessel relentlessly pursued the 25-foot, three ton-big shark. However a new reincarnation of the old classic boat will take on a new goal: to save sharks, not hunt them.", null, "Dr. Dave Ebert joined Animal Planet’s Forrest Galante in some of the most shark infested waters in the Southern Hemisphere to track down lost species on EXTINCT OR ALIVE: LAND OF THE LOST SHARKS. He let's us in on his experience.", null, "Are Shark Attacks on the Rise? Not Really.\n\nMaine had its first recorded deadly shark attack this week. We talk to experts about what is going on in the ocean and share some tips if you find yourselves in close contact with a shark.", null, "Zen and the Art of Shark Diving\n\nGo swimming with the sharks. From the pages of The Explorers Journal, learn how photographer Amos Nachoum finds zen to capture the ultimate apex predator on camera.", null, "10 Celebrities Who Are Making a Difference in Australia\n\nWith wildfires still blazing through NSW, Australia, celebrities have stepped in to donate what they can to help make a difference.", null, null, "Why Islands Have The Most Unique Creatures on Earth\n\nWhat is it about islands that makes scientists weak in the knees?", null, "How Asiatic lionesses save their cubs, by playing the field." ]

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[ "[dropcaps]Motorola has had an interesting career since the introduction of the smartphone. Before the smartphone, Motorola was king of the communication world. I mean, Motorola was the communications source for the Apollo 11 for crying out loud. Everyone remembers the Motorola Razr flip-phones. All the cool kids had them. Enter the iPhone, and subsequently the HTC Dream, and Motorola quickly dropped to the bottom. Remember the Motorola Atrix (*shudders*)?[/dropcaps]", null, "Then, Motorola was purchased by Google. It is not quite clear exactly how much of a hand Google had in Motorola’s creation of their next smartphone: we’ve seen some reports that they worked very closely, and recently we’ve seen Motorola reps say Google kept them at arm’s length. However much involvement there was, one thing’s for sure: Motorola’s next phone changed the industry.\n\nThe original Moto X was representative of consumer feedback they had received:\n\nWhat’s more, Motorola proved that consumers didn’t necessarily need top-of-the-line specs. While the Moto X was no iPhone or Samsung S in terms of sales, it definitely took the Android community by storm (including myself). They noticed that users loved the lack of a UI overlay, and that devices flew off the shelves when they sold the device at a sub-$400 cost.", null, "This leads to the release of Motorola’s famous budget phone: the Moto G. The Moto G managed to bring a good user experience to an unbelievable price – $180. The phone certainly wasn’t breaking any speed records, but it held favor with consumers. Motorola would later announce the Moto G as their most popular phone, ever. This would lead to the introduction of the even cheaper Moto E.\n\nStill, the Moto X did have its share of problems: poor camera, not great battery life, and while the hardware proved a point, it was still lacking. Further, they saw the trend of phones getting bigger (even though many, including myself, appreciated the smaller form of the original Moto X).\n\nSo, Motorola announced the new Moto X (which, by the way, is owned by Lenovo at this point):\n\nThis, combined with an updated Moto G that had even more unbelievable specs (for the same price of $180) led to one of Motorola’s best quarters – 10 million smartphones sold in Q4 2014.\n\n[blockquote author=””]You can see it through each iteration of the Moto X – Motorola is listening to its consumers.[/blockquote]\n\nEven still, the Moto X wasn’t quite there yet. Many people still complained about poor battery life (although this was mildly solved by the Moto X (2014) being one of the first phones with Quick Charge), and the camera being poor. That being said, many were praising it for its continuance of a slim OS, useful features, and control over its design.\n\nFast forward to present day, and we have seen Motorola’s newest addition to the flagship line: the Moto X Pure Edition. With this announcement, Motorola focused on four things:\n\nThink about it for a second: Motorola is giving all the carriers one nice, big middle finger, all for the sake of the consumers. How else can a mobile phone company place their trust in a company?" ]

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[ "Andrea, Matteo And Virginia Bocelli Come Together For Their First Album Together A Family Christmas | Shore Fire Media", null, "Andrea, Matteo And Virginia Bocelli Come Together For Their First Album Together A Family Christmas\n\nThis holiday season, internationally renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli is teaming up with his 24-year-old son Matteo Bocelli and his 10-year-old daughter Virginia Bocelli for their first-ever album together, A Family Christmas. Set for release on October 21 via Decca / Capitol Records, the recording showcases their multi-generational musical talent in a range of festive favorites.\n\n“We are offering our small, intimate, and heartfelt gift to anyone who wishes to enjoy the soundtrack of Christmas in the Bocelli home,” the family says.\n\n“The Greatest Gift,” the first single, was released today. The original song, written and arranged especially for this album, celebrates peace and love at Christmas time. Andrea, Matteo and Virginiasing in growing harmony, while the music swells towards a rousing final chorus with a string orchestra and choir accompaniment. Listen HERE. Watch for the lyric video to premiere on Saturday, September 10. Fans who pre-order the digital edition of A Family Christmas will instantly receive “The Greatest Gift.” See below for the full album track listing.\n\nAndrea Bocelli will be joined by Matteo and Virginia on his U.S. tour, which will kick off on December 1 at Chase Center in San Francisco. The run includes shows in such major cities as Las Vegas, Boston, Miami and Columbus with the support of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Andrea will perform for the first time ever in Bridgeport, CT, Savannah, GA, Indianapolis, IN with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and at the new venue UBS Arena on Long Island. He will return to the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 14. See below for itinerary. Tickets are on sale now at https://www.andreabocelli.com/tickets.\n\nA Family Christmas was produced by composer and multi-GRAMMY® and Academy Award® nominee Stephan Moccio (Celine Dion, The Weeknd, Miley Cyrus, Barbra Streisand), who also contributed new arrangements and co-wrote “The Greatest Gift” alongside Amy Wadge, Jonas Myrin and Andrea Bocelli. The album captures the Bocelli festive spirit in full flow, with new renditions of traditional carols arranged for all three voices, including “Away in a Manger” and “Joy To The World” plus popular Christmas tunes from around the globe such as “Feliz Navidad” and the new original song “Il Giorno Piu Speciale,” which was written by Federica Abbate, Cheope, Katoo and Andrea Bocelli. The trio of complementary voices intertwine and echo on the album’s stirring opening track “Do You Hear What I Hear?”\n\nEach Bocelli gets a chance to shine on A Family Christmas with solo tracks, duets and trios. For 10-year-old Virginia Bocelli, this marks her first appearance on an album, having previously joined her father for a spine-tingling performance of “Hallelujah” during 2020’s hugely popular Believe in Christmas concert, livestreamed from the Teatro Regio di Pama (watch here). She provides the tender openings to “Away in a Manger” and “Over The Rainbow” and performs solo on “When Christmas Comes to Town.”\n\nAt 24, Matteo Bocelli has launched his own successful solo recording career after signing to Capitol Records in 2019. He shot to fame in 2018 after duetting with his father on the hit song “Fall On Me” from Andrea’s best-selling album, Sì, which debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. and U.K. charts. The emotive video, which features images of father and son through the years, has now surpassed 100 million views (watch here). Matteo and Andrea reunite on “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”and Matteo duets with Virginia on “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” before taking a solo turn on “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” which closes the album.\n\nFor Andrea Bocelli, the most celebrated classical singer in modern history, the chance to work with Matteo and Virginia on this album has been a source of great joy. He says, “I think there is nothing more beautiful than making music with your kids; I consider it a privilege.” As well as performing with his son and daughter on many of the Christmas songs, Andrea takes the lead on “The First Noël” and “Buon Natale.”\n\nAndrea’s emotive and instantly recognisable voice has earned him millions of fans around the world. In April 2020, he broke records with his emotionally charged Music for Hope performance from the historic Duomo cathedral in Milan. His unforgettable Easter performance ranks among the biggest musical livestreams of all-time and the largest simultaneous audience for a classical livestream in YouTube history. He has earned a Golden Globe, seven Classical BRITs, seven World Music Awards and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\n\nReflecting on A Family Christmas, Matteo concludes, “Singing these songs together, feeling the holiday warmth with my family is something really special. That’s what Christmas is about – making memories together to cherish forever. It’s really exciting to think that people will have a copy of our album sitting wrapped under the tree.”\n\n5. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas\n\n10. When Christmas Comes to Town\n\n13. I’ll Be Home For Christmas", null, "About the Andrea Bocelli Foundation\n\nThe Andrea Bocelli Foundation (ABF) was established in July 2011 by Bocelli family after being inspired by the affection and positivity received from fans and partners around the world. ABF has since grown into an independent non-profit led by world-class professionals that oversee the strategic development of key projects. The Foundation’s core mission is to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, distress due to illness and social exclusion by promoting and supporting national and international projects that promote the overcoming of these barriers and the expression of their full potential.\n\nSince 2011, ABF has raised approximately 46 million Euros in fundraising efforts resulting in the construction of 9 schools in Italy and Haiti that offer daily access to a world-class education to over 3,500 students. Additionally, ABF has created welfare projects that guarantee access to clean water and basic medical treatment to over 400,000 people living in the most remote and impoverished areas of Haiti. The Foundation also implements and promotes education projects that leverages music as an additional tool for social inclusion and talent development, all in line with the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda Goal Number 4.7." ]

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[ null, "It’s easy to forget just how environmentally friendly wild capture fisheries are as a means for providing food. Jessica Gephart and her colleagues remind us.\n\nWater is one such resource. The demand for water has risen over the last century at double the rate of population growth. Recognizing that more than 80 percent of the water we use is for food production, a recent paper by Jessica Gephard and colleagues asked: how much water do we save by eating marine fish? With water usage predicted to increase by 50 percent by 2025 in developing countries and 18 percent in developed countries, it’s a question worth asking.\n\nGephard and her team looked at the amount of extra water per person each country would need to find if it were to replace the marine protein it consumed with terrestrially produced food sources. To calculate the savings, the water required for the average gram of terrestrial protein eaten was multiplied by the grams of fish protein they consumed.\n\nBecause different terrestrial food sources have different water demands, the authors looked carefully at the composition of the diet in each country and calculated the savings accordingly. They also estimated the cost of substituting marine fish with protein solely from terrestrial animal sources which require 8 to 10 times more water than crops.\n\nThe results are striking: the total savings in water we make each from eating marine fish are between 300 and 390 cubic kilometres. This is enough water to produce all the goods and services consumed by 250 million people for a year, equivalent to 5 percent of our total global water usage.\n\nSavings of this order may become increasingly important to the food and water security of certain countries. For example, the Republic of Korea has limited renewable water resources and little ability to increase it’s available agricultural lands; the 12 – 18 percent water savings that could be realized by consuming marine fish is significant. Similarly, Ghana has plenty of available land, but is vulnerable to water shortages, so the 12 – 13 percent water savings that come from eating marine fish is important.\n\nGephart and her colleagues prove that water and food are inextricably linked and that the benefits we gain from marine fisheries and aquaculture extend beyond the obvious. Water savings is yet another reason to invest in ensuring that their contributions are sustained and enhanced." ]

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[ "ASU’s ‘starbirth’ research a top 10 ‘Breakthrough of the Year’\n\nA key discovery on the birth of stars and unexpected conditions in the early universe by Arizona State University cosmologist Judd Bowman and his research team has been chosen by the U.K.-based publication Physics World as one of its top 10 \"Breakthroughs of the Year.\"\n\n“It has been amazing to see the response to our paper over the last nine months and now to have the potential of this research acknowledged by Physics World,\" said Bowman, an associate professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration. \"This is an extremely challenging measurement and we are eager for another team to reproduce it so that we can fully explore its implications.”", null, "Bowman is an experimental cosmologist interested in the formation of structure in the early universe, the great Cosmic Dawn that includes the very first stars, galaxies and black holes.\n\nThe discovery provided the first evidence for the oldest ancestors in our cosmic family tree. But a bigger surprise was the temperature of the gas around those early stars. One possible explanation is that the primordial gas was cooled through extremely weak interactions with dark matter.\n\nThere is five times more dark matter in the universe than normal matter, but it has never been directly seen; instead it is inferred to exist due its gravitational influence on other objects. If confirmed by additional investigations, the discovery by Bowman and his team will have provided the first clues in the decades-long search for the nature of dark matter.\n\nFinding such signals is a painstaking process that took the research team more than a decade to develop technology to accurately separate signal from noise. By necessity, much of Bowman's data collection takes place in the desert outback of Western Australia and in other remote sites around the world where interference from human-generated radio sources like FM radio and TV stations is greatly reduced.\n\nThrough their Experiment to Detect the Global EoR Signature (EDGES) project, the team measured the average radio spectrum of all the astronomical signals received across most of the Southern Hemisphere sky.\n\nThe signals detected by the radio spectrometer for the study came from primordial hydrogen gas that filled the young universe and existed between all the stars and galaxies. These signals hold a wealth of information on the conditions in the early universe that opens a new window on how early stars — and later, black holes and galaxies — formed and evolved.\n\n“It is unlikely that we’ll be able to see any earlier into the history of stars in our lifetimes,” Bowman said. “This project shows that a promising new technique can work and has paved the way for decades of new astrophysical discoveries.”\n\nAnd while further observations are needed to back up this hypothesis, noted Physics World, the research could help resolve one of the most important unsolved mysteries of physics: What is the nature of dark matter?\n\nThe 2019 Roebling Medal, the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America for outstanding original research in mineralogy, is being awarded to Arizona State University Regents’ Professor Peter Buseck, who holds joint faculty appointments in the School of Molecular Sciences and the School of Earth and Space Exploration.“Peter Buseck and his group are widely known for their research in...\n\nThe 2019 Roebling Medal, the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America for outstanding original research in mineralogy, is being awarded to Arizona State University Regents’ Professor Peter Buseck, who holds joint faculty appointments in the School of Molecular Sciences and the School of Earth and Space Exploration.\n\n“Peter Buseck and his group are widely known for their research in solid state geochemistry and mineralogy, geochemistry and cosmochemistry, as well as atmospheric geochemistry,” said Professor Neal Woodbury, director of the School of Molecular Sciences. “They pioneered the use of transmission electron microscopy to study minerals, meteorites and aerosol particles at close to the atomic scale. Peter’s award is great news and highly appropriate. He is an inspiring colleague whose wide range of original and sometimes provocative findings has given our school high stature in the geochemical and mineralogical fields. I am very happy to see him recognized with this prestigious award.”", null, "Buseck received several nominations for this award, including from Michael Hochella, who is a University Distinguished Professor and the director of the Virginia Tech National Center of Earth and Environmental Nanotechnology Infrastructure. Hochella stated in his nomination letter that, \"Peter is one of the most influential electron microscopists in the world — atmospheric, continental and meteorite communities — with the broadest applications and scientific reach.”\n\nAnother nominator is former postdoctoral student and colleague Mihály Pósfai, who is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and currently a professor at the University of Pannonia in Hungary.\n\n“Peter has been active for more than 46 years in mineralogy, and his contributions to our science are tremendous,” Pósfai said. “He pioneered the use of transmission electron microscopy techniques for solving problems in Earth sciences. Throughout his career he managed a large group of talented researchers at ASU who produced many groundbreaking results.”", null, "The recipient of the Roebling medal receives an engraved medal and is made a Life Fellow of the Society.", null, "The medal was designed by Dr. Avard T. Fairbanks, then at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Michigan, and has been struck by the Medallic Art Co. since 1937.\n\nIn addition to the Roebling Medal, Buseck has won the ASU Graduate College Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award and has been named a Graduate College Distinguished Research Fellow. He has had visiting appointments at Oxford and Stanford Universities, the University of Paris (VI, VII), and Harvard University. He was assistant to the director of the U.S. National Science Foundation in 1994–95. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Geological Society of America, the Meteoritical Society and the Mineralogical Society of America. He is a Regents’ Professor and a sustainability scientist.\n\n“Regents' Professor Peter Buseck has a wonderful and sustained history of scientific achievement in mineralogy,” said Ramon Arrowsmith, School of Earth and Space Exploration deputy director. “He and his research group have produced many highly cited papers and led influential investigations. This award is highly deserved.”\n\nThe medal is named in honor of Colonel Washington A. Roebling (1837–1926), an engineer, bridge builder, mineral collector and significant friend of the society. A fund was established and annual additions were made to it from the treasury until the amount was sufficient to make the first award, in 1937.\n\n“I am honored to be recognized by my colleagues and to have made a significant impact on the science in my field,” Buseck said. “Much of the credit is shared with my former students, postdoctoral associates and visiting scientists.”\n\nThe Roebling Medal is the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America for scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific publication of outstanding original research in mineralogy. The science of mineralogy is defined broadly for purposes of the Roebling Medal, and a candidate need not qualify as a mineralogist; rather his or her published research should be related to the mineralogical sciences and should make some outstanding contribution to them. Service to mineralogy, teaching and administrative accomplishment are not to be considered primary merit for the award. The nomination needs to be supported by the nominee’s published work. The award is not restricted to U.S. citizens. Nationality, personality, age of candidate or place of employment shall not be considered for the award; however, current members of MSA Council are not eligible to be considered for the award." ]

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[ null, "Smartphones make it quick and hassle-free to order goods online, or flag a taxi via Uber.\n\nThis always-on, on-demand economy has generated a sense of entitlement to fast, simple, and efficient experiences as it taps into consumers’ appetite for greater convenience, speed, and simplicity. For example, analysis from Uber shows the longer Uber has been in a city, the less willing to wait for a car everyone becomes.\n\nIn the food and beverage industry, ordering and paying for food and beverages via tablet devices has become the new normal at casual dining chains such as Applebees and Chili’s across the USA, while airport restaurateur OTG has installed thousands of food-ordering iPads at half a dozen U.S. airports.\n\nAnd a growing number of airlines – including Virgin America, Air New Zealand, Norwegian, Azul and Finnair – allow passengers to order meals, snacks and drinks via the IFE system in between regular meal services, while passengers onboard leisure carrier TUI Netherlands can order drinks and duty free via their own smartphone.\n\nSaving consumers even more time, Starbucks this fall rolled out an order-ahead mobile application across all of its 7,000 stores in the USA, as well as across 150 Starbucks locations in London.\n\nAs soon as people have ordered, the app gives them an approximate pickup time, and Starbucks estimates customers can save between 10 and 15 minutes using this option. A similar service is being tested by fast food chains McDonalds and Wendy’s.\n\nAt multiple airports in the USA, passenger can pre-order meals from airport restaurants, using mobile apps such as Grab, AirGrub and HMS Hosts’ B4 You Board, which saves them having to queue up for food and drinks, and provides some peace of mind for those who are running late for their flight.\n\nPassengers using these pre-order apps select an airport restaurant, place an order, pay and schedule a time to pick up their meal. When they arrive at the restaurant in the departure hall the freshly made meal is waiting to be collected. Orders can be placed days in advance, or even when passengers are queuing at the security checkpoint.\n\nAll in all, the notion of pre-ordering food and beverages seems to have evolved from a rather dull thing to do towards a smart move that is about convenience and getting the things they way you want.\n\nPreviously reserved for passengers who wish to order a special meal for cultural, religious or dietary reasons, a growing number of full-service airlines let passenger pre-order their meals and drinks before their flight. The service is popular with travellers who fly often and who are looking for a more varied choice.\n\nAs Chris Chamberlin from Australian Business Traveller puts it, “It’s a win-win for both travellers and [airlines]. Passengers can lock-in their preferred meal choice in advance, rather than take a chance on missing out on their first choice. On the other side of the coin, [airlines] can reduce wastage and ultimately its costs by serving every passenger the meal they’d prefer to eat, and by limiting the number of extra servings carried on board to provide a choice.”\n\nWhile most airlines that provide a pre-ordering service offer passengers in Business a limited additional choice, airlines such as Singapore Airlines and Qantas in the past years have raised the standard.\n\nSingapore Airlines’ ‘Book The Cook’ allows passengers in First, Business and Premium Economy to choose their favourite dish from an extensive menu, while those travelling in Business and First can select from sixty menus on outbound routes from Singapore.\n\nWhereas many airlines only allow passengers to pre-order from the airline’s home port – in order to control logistics and quality – Singapore Airlines’ Book The Cook service is also available on many flights departing from outstations – be it that a more limited choice is offered.\n\nQantas’ ‘Select on Q-Eat’ pre-order service is also available in Economy on international flights departing Australia. Passengers can pre-order their choice of meal – including a fourth “online exclusive option – between seven days and 12 hours prior to departure online or using the Qantas app.\n\nAccording to inflight catering expert Nikos Loukas from InflightFeed, “Pre-orders are definitely on the increase, but more so with the ‘free’ pre-order programs of First, Business and Premium Economy class offerings. Paid pre-order still seems to be an issue, and for example Aer Lingus recently cut back the number of their pre-order dishes from around five to one. Just goes to show perhaps Economy passengers aren’t ready to part with their money for paid airline meals.”\n\nThis means airlines have to become more inventive In order to increase paid pre-order take rates.\n\nTaking a cure from the smartphone-based ordering deployed by the likes of Starbucks, Mc Donalds, and airport startups Grab and AirGrub, passengers on Alaska Airlines can reserve their favorite meals on the airline’s smartphone app up to 12 hours before their flight and pay when the flight attendant delivers the meal onboard.\n\nAustrian Airlines is one of a dozen full-service airlines that offer passengers in Economy on long-haul flights the option to upgrade to a premium meal for a fee of 10 to 20 euro. Besides pre-ordering their gourmet meal at the time of booking, passengers can also pre-order a meal in a later stage via Austrian’s mobile app. Furthermore, at Vienna Airport passengers can pre-order their meals at the last-minute at the ‘DO & CO A La Carte’ desk until 1 hour prior to scheduled departure. Passengers who have ordered a paid gourmet meal are served before the regular food service starts in the Economy cabin.\n\nIn an effort to provide passengers who pre-book their meal with even more choice, airBaltic has gained worldwide attention for its novel food ordering system that allows passengers to customize their buy-on-board meal. Passengers placing their order online can virtually ‘drag and drop’ their preferred meal items onto a digital airline tray and create one of more than 70 pre-order meal combinations.\n\nAccording to Janis Vanags, airBaltic’s VP Corporate Communications, the airBalticMeal service has seen a positive uptake because “the option to personalize ones meal is simply a better product than the limited choice that was available before.”", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "For two hours on Friday night, Caetano Veloso invited us into his living room. Well, the Barbican Hall, actually, but that’s how he made it seem. His guests were the singer Teresa Cristina and the guitarist Carlinhos Sete Cordas, who began the evening by performing songs from their recent album, a collection of duets on pieces by the late samba composer Angenor de Oliveira, better known as Cartola (the album is titled Canta Cartola).\n\nCristina sang with grace, controlled strength and great expressive power. Carlinhos (“Sete Cordas” refers, I imagine, to the seven strings on his guitar) was a revelation, embedding the vocal line in a fluid matrix of finger-picked detail featuring liquid runs, caressed chords and subtle bass figurations exploiting that extra string below the regular bottom E. I can’t remember hearing an acoustic guitar played with a lovelier and more natural tone — or with a more engaging smile.\n\nWhen Caetano applauded them from the stage and took over, without a break, it was to present songs chosen, he said, so as not to repeat his regular repertoire. He had selected more obscure material, some of it from his earliest albums, recorded before his arrest by Brazil’s military government in 1968 and his subsequent period of exile in London. The exceptions were “Cucurrucucu Paloma”, familiar from its appearance in Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her, and “London, London”, the charming song written during his enforced relocation.\n\nSince my Portuguese extends no further than bom dia, muito obrigado, boa sorte and dois capirinhas, por favor, I can’t help but feel a sense of regret when I listen to Caetano, an understanding of his lyrics requiring the subsequent effort of seeking out translations. That small disappointment, however, is easily displaced by enjoyment of the elegant lines and structures of his melodies, and the marvellous qualities of his voice, its conversational tone covering great technique. And one of the sweetest sounds to be heard in any concert hall is that of a largely Brazilian audience gently singing his phrases back to him.\n\nFor the finale, he invited his friends to return for a set of encores in which he effortlessly meshed his voice with Cristina’s and his guitar with that of Carlinhos. Nobody wanted them to leave." ]

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[ "\nRoy Hodgson has warned his Crystal Palace players not to get complacent in their bid to stay in the Premier League.\n\nThe Eagles reached the famed 37 point mark with a tight 1-0 win over West Brom at home.\n\nLuka Milivojevic scored from the penalty spot after Darnell Furlong handled in the box.\n\nOPINION: Mendy, Tuchel build a base from which Chelsea can thrive\n\nPalace had a good chance to double their lead through Christian Benteke in the second half.\n\nHis shot was tipped over brilliantly by Baggies keeper Sam Johnstone.\n\nReacting to the victory, Hodgson told Sky Sports (via BBC Sport): “I put it down as a very good, solid win against a team who ask a lot of you. They put lots of balls in and around the penalty area. They get the ball forward and into the box.\n\n“If you don’t plug the gaps or compete as you need to, you pay the price. We didn’t because we did those things particularly well.\n\n“We knew this would be a tough test. It’s one of those games where you don’t get a lot of praise for drawing or winning. Those points for me are very valuable.\n\n“There is 38 games a year and each one of them is very important. It’s watched by millions of people all over the world so I don’t think it’s acceptable for a player to not give everything. Every manager in this league would fear the words ‘complacency’ or ‘safe’.\n\n“Every season is going to be decided in May. If we are in the league in May and above three teams in May then that’s what I’m looking for.”\n\nPalace are now 11th in the Premier League table after 29 matches.\n\nThey could yet be overtaken by Wolves, who play Liverpool on Monday evening.\n\nPalace fans can relax somewhat now that their team has reached 37 points.\n\nThat mark has been enough to remain in the top flight in each of the last four seasons.\n\nTheir next match is against Everton on April 3.\n\nRice should stay at West Ham", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "For I had believed what I was sold, I did all the things that I was told\nBut all that has changed, and now I'm bold.\n\nWhat a beautiful, forgiving child. So loving. So at ease in her own skin.\n\n“Eselda.” Aura repeated slowly, as though trying the name on for size.\n\nIt was a lovely name, classic, unusual – not something Aura would have associated with Poppy. That she was Poppy’s was unmistakeable, now; those copper-brown curls and dreamy blue eyes were a combination which would have been out of place on anyone else. Poppy’s first daughter, the long-lost Nephthys, had had the same features. There was little of Draco in Eselda, except perhaps in the symmetry and line of the jaw.\n\nIn death, the things which had concerned Aura when she was alive had largely fallen away. Even so, she couldn’t think of Poppy and her good-for-nothing husband Draco without feeling a touch of something – apprehension? Sadness? Draco had tried for a relationship with Aura once, but had sold her out to her then-enemy, Gwythr. Draco had eventually married Poppy after the two shared a rather tumultuous relationship, but had gained his come-uppance during the seven curses. When Aura discovered she was pregnant with Thoth, she’d flown into a rage and magically transferred the embryo to Draco, who had carried him to term.\n\nIt was a complicated family, to say the least. Little Eselda had been born after Aura died, so they’d never met.\n\nAs if the day needed any more surprises, the purple phoenix she’d initially mistaken for her familiar, Anneliese, hopped forward and transformed into a familiar figure. Quinn had not given his name when Aura had first met him, but he identified himself now to Eselda. His friendly interactions with the child and her robin only cemented Aura’s impression of him as a decent young man.\n\n“Eselda,” she said again, clutching her scythe tightly. It was damp; her hands were sweating. Why? “My name is Aura. I’m – Poppy’s mother.”\n\nThe words felt alien in her mouth. Aura had never been any kind of mother to Poppy, since she’d disowned her shortly after her birth, and had been an on-off mother to Thoth only for the first decade or so of his life. War and death had stolen time from her.\n\nThe word grandmother felt even more alien, and she couldn’t bring herself to say it.\n\nA u r a\nThey thought I was weak, but I am strong; they sold me the world but they were wrong\nAnd now that I'm back, I still belong.\n\nimage by ankur sharma at flickr.com\n\n\nshort sorry D: if you guys havent already split these, i'm happy to just take 1/3 of the doubloons and let you guys split the items between you. i don't need any of them<3\nReplies:\nThere have been no replies." ]

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[ null, "The Story about Owl and the Mullah\n\nIt only took about 30 minutes to pop my belongings into a shopping bag after cleaning out my temporary office at Vancouver Island University.\n\nIf I’m poor in material artefacts, I am rich in memories and newfound knowledge after 16 weeks in British Columbia.\n\nLest you think my hosts were stingy, don’t. I received many gifts, including handmade items from local elders, and books, scarves, cards, tea, and cookies.\n\nAnd I learned stories and songs, and received permission to bring some home to Oregon.\n\nThe sweetest gift was one of time: the time people took to share their stories.\n\nOne unexpected delight was hearing an elder tell a story about coyote and the bone-needle. As the tale unfolded, I realized I heard the story before, but from a different era and culture: the tale I know is from a book I received as a youngster when I lived in Persia.\n\nI told the elder—an Indigenous raconteuse—that I had heard the First Nations story in a different context as a Persian tale about a wise-and-foolish mullah.\n\nShe wasn’t surprised: seems that other folks know the story, which has made the rounds in cultural circles, in addition to the Middle East and Vancouver Island.\n\nShe gave me permission to share the story about the missing bone-needle.\n\nIn the First Nations tale—set in the time past, the time now, and in the future—owl finds coyote as dusk falls, searching for a lost object near his campfire.\n\nIn the Persian tale, set in the time before electricity–when street lamps were fueled by oil and lit by hand–a neighbor is walking on a dark night and finds the mullah (a religious advisor) on his hands and knees, searching for something underneath a lamppost.\n\nThe mullah has lost his keys, and can’t find them.\n\nCoyote lost his bone-needle while sewing a rip in his moccasin.\n\nIn each story, a visitor passing by—a neighbor in the Persian tale, and an owl in the First Nations story—inquires about the missing object.\n\nWhere did you lose it?\n\nTurns out the mullah and coyote lost keys and needle in a dark part of the forest.\n\nEach decides to look for the missing item—not where it was lost—but near the light: a bright lamppost and a brilliant fire.\n\nIn each story, the protagonist admits he or she may be a little silly for thinking the keys or needle would magically appear near the light.\n\nThe story reminds me of when I first arrived in British Columbia, and a reporter interviewed me about my fellowship.\n\nWhat would I be doing? What was my objective? What did I want to gain?\n\nThe answer has two truths.\n\nThe first truth is that when you apply for any fellowship, you need to craft a clear, compelling and comprehensive plan of action that meets the mission of the funding agency.\n\nI said that I hoped to beef up my research, which looks at conflicts in Indigenous communities over natural resource issues, such as mining and oil pipeline construction.\n\nI write about how different points-of-view are presented, particularly the concerns of Indigenous peoples embroiled in disputes, and concerns of specialists called in to defend mines and pipelines.\n\nHere’s where the second truth comes in.\n\nArmed with a fellowship, I cannot walk into an unfamiliar community and expect folks to share their concerns with a stranger.\n\nWhile I am keen on learning the worries of Indigenous peoples surrounding environmental issues, I would have to be respectful and patient.\n\nI would have wait until they wanted to share their stories with me.\n\nWhat that means is that I can only look in the direction where a light is shining until someone offers me an invitation to hear her perspective.\n\nAnd the best gift: someone who strikes a light to illuminate my path.\n\nUncredited photo from the Helena Symphony\n\nWith gratitude to the Snuneynmuxw First Nation, keepers of the land on which I write this story.\n\nThank you to the students, staff and faculty at Vancouver Island University for hosting my fellowship at their remarkable place of learning.\n\nProfessor and researcher at Portland State University who studies science communication, particularly issues that impact American Indians. Dr. Coleman is an enrolled citizen of the Osage Nation.\nView all posts by Cynthia Coleman Emery →\nThis entry was posted in nativescience. Bookmark the permalink.\n\n2 Responses to Shining the Light" ]

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[ "\"This here could be the next great rock thing to come out of Sweden!’’-artistxite.co.uk\n\nHide The Knives breakthrough came in 2009 with the song Holy Banner on their debut album Savior for Sale. The band was frequently played on Bandit Rock Radio where they topped the charts toured with bands like Corroded and Itchy Daze.The band was also nominated for the Bandit Rock Awards.\n\nThis year Hide The Knives is back and not a minute too soon. The new album titled ’’Silence The Youth’’ was released on October 22nd 2014 and it was the band’s debut release to the world! There is a darker, heavier tone on\u0003 this album and the band has become a rawer, harder and more focused unit.\n\n''SHARP-AS-KNIVES ROCK BETWEEN CLASSIC RIFFAGE AND ALTERNATIVE GUSTO FILLS \"SILENCE THE YOUTH\", THE SECOND ALBUM FROM HIDE THE KNIVES.’’\n\nThe quartet from Gothenburg and Chicago with a sound on their own has just released its second album\u0003 \"Silence The Youth\" with its modern alternative take on traditional rock gestures all played out to a backdrop\u0003 of polite post rock.", null, "Modern classic rock, you could say, with full-bloodied and voluminous vocals thanks\u0003 to Glen Gilbert's sterling work at the microphone. The spirit of Alice In Chains is woven into some tracks, \u0003such as \"Light\", while the mighty climax to \"Brothers\" is a collision between stoner rock and a whole heap\u0003 of distorted minor key rage.\n\nSurefooted in whichever direction it chooses, \"Silence The Youth\" covers\u0003 every corner of the rock 'n' roll soul from youthful petulance to crisis ridden turmoil.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Written by Sharon WilharmPosted on December 30, 2020January 1, 2021Leave a comment\n\nIn today’s episode of All God’s Women we look at Huldah, a prophetess who was sought out by a king for her wisdom and insight.\n\nHuldah’s story takes place in 2 Kings chapter 22. At the beginning of the chapter we’re introduced to King Josiah. He was a child king, appointed to the position when he was a mere 8-years-old, but he was a good king who did what was right and walked in the ways of the Lord.\n\nIn 2 Chronicles 34 we learn that when Josiah was 16-years-old, he sought the God of his ancestors. When he was 20, he got rid of the high places and carved images, tore down Baal altars, and chopped down Asherah poles.\n\nWhen he was 26-years -old, he took to cleaning out the temple and repairing it. In the process, Hilkiah, the high priest, uncovered the missing Book of the Law, an ancient scroll from the time of Moses. Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, the scribe, and Shaphan shared it with King Josiah.\n\nWhen the king heard the words, he tore his clothes then commanded Hilkiah, Shaphan, and other priests and servants to inquire of the Lord for him and gather an understanding of all that the book was talking about.\n\nHuldah’s response began with, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel.” She then told them that just as Josiah had read, God would bring calamity on their land and its inhabitants because they had forsaken God, burned incense to other Gods, and provoked Him to anger with the works of their hands. But because Josiah’s heart was tender and he humbled himself before the Lord when he heard God’s word, the Lord would gather him to his grave in peace and he would not personally see all the calamity that would come.\n\nAfter hearing her words, Josiah gathered together the elders, priests, prophets, and inhabitants of Jerusalem, from the youngest to the oldest, and read to them the complete Book of the Law.\n\n“And the king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.”\n\nThe king went on to clear out from the sanctuary all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and other idols. He burned them in a field outside the city and carried the ashes to Bethel. He got rid of the idolatrous priests that previous kings had appointed. He continued on to the high places east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption and brought out the Asherah pole from the temple and burned it. He tore down the houses of the male prostitutes that were in the Lord’s temple, in which the women were weaving tapestries for Asherah.\n\nHe brought out all the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense. He destroyed Topheth so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech. He got rid of the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun.\n\nHe tore down altars built by former kings and he destroyed all the high places.\n\nWhen he was done, he brought back the celebration of The Passover, since it had not been observed since the days of the judges.\n\nAfter that, he got rid of mediums, spiritualists, and household idols and images.\n\nJosiah abolished all the idols from the land of Israel, and had all the Israel people serve the LORD their God. As long as he was alive, they followed the LORD, the God of their ancestors.\n\nWhat an amazing testimony of a king striving to honor and obey God. And how special that God used a woman to help stir him to action.\n\nWhen King Josiah went in search for a word from the Lord, he called together his high priest and top officials, and they in turn went to Huldah. Why? Why didn’t they inquire of the Lord themselves? Why didn’t they go to other prophets? What was it about Huldah that led them to her?\n\nWe know very little about Huldah other than she was married to the keeper of the wardrobe and she lived in the area of town where the college was located. She could have been a professor, or some think she headed an academy. Perhaps she taught classes for women. Since she is recognized as a prophetess, we can assume she was used to people coming to her seeking wisdom and advice from the Lord. But she wasn’t someone who would expect to have the king’s officials knocking on her door, soliciting her judgement.\n\nAnd yet, when they came, she was ready. It could not have been easy to deliver such words of doom, but she freely shared what the Lord revealed to her.\n\nAs I read about all the corruption in the days of Josiah and Huldah, it sounds, unfortunately, all too familiar. Doesn’t the world of their day sound an awful lot like today?\n\nHave we not lost sight of God’s law? Have we not filled our churches with traditions and practices from the world? Do we not have high places that we call spiritual, but that are far removed from true godly worship? Are we not sacrificing our sons and daughters? Do we not have church leaders who are corrupt and leading their congregations astray?\n\nIn a world where God’s people have lost sight of Him, where do we stand?\n\nIf a young leader today was seeking after God and searching for someone to speak truth and wisdom, would your name come to their mind? Would they know that they could come to you and everything you said would be straight from the Lord?\n\nGod speaks through women. He can speak through you. Are the words you’re uttering leading others towards Him or leading them astray? Can others trust you to speak the truth, even when the truth is hard to hear?\n\nAre you willing to stand for old fashioned, godly truth of our risen Savior in a world that has forsaken Him?\n\nLord God, we come to You humbled by this reminder of how far we’ve drifted away from You. Forgive us for losing sight of You and getting caught up in the world’s false doctrines. Even when we’re at church, so often we’re following worldly practices that have nothing to do with true worship of You. Sometimes it’s unclear who is a true child of God and who is just playacting. May we always go to You for wisdom rather than blindly following those who may be lost. Lord, work in our hearts. Open our eyes to the truth so that we might take action and clean out the evil, corruption, and idol worship that is going on around us. Give us the courage to speak the truth, even when the truth is hard to hear. Use us to impact the lives of those around us. Do a mighty work through us. In Christ’s name we pray. Amen.\n\nDon’t Miss Out On Future Episodes!", null, null ]

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[ "You would think that the stunning faces that grace magazine covers and billboards would feel like the most beautiful women in the world. But their lives aren't all smiles and validation, says Miranda Kerr.\n\nThe supermodel covers the November issue of Cosmopolitan, embodying the picture-perfect image she speaks about in the magazine. \"My life is more balanced than ever,\" she reveals. It wasn't always that way, though:\n\n\"There was so much rejection in the beginning. Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.\"\n\nThis is a sentiment we've heard before, one that model Cameron Russell spoke about during her recent Ted Talk. \"If you ever are wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet,\" she said.\n\nSo how does Miranda Kerr achieve confidence, self-assurance and that aforementioned \"balance\"? She's got tons of confidence boosters now, being the second highest paid model, earning a coveted Victoria's Secret Angel title and covering Cosmo. \"Don't feel like you have to do and be everything,\" she tells the magazine. We're certainly glad she made time to cover Cosmo -- after all, it's nice to see models regain their spots on our fashion glossy covers.\n\nSee Miranda's cover and a photo from the shoot below and tell us: Do you think models are more insecure than the average woman?", null, null, "How Miranda got here:" ]

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[ "Presented by Salman Khan Films, 'Antim: the Final Truth' is produced by Salma Khan and directed by Mahesh Manjrekar", null, "\nAfter much anticipation and great excitement, the makers of 'Antim: The Final Truth' have unveiled the first poster of the film depicting the daunting rivalry of the robust gangster Aayush Sharma and the fierce cop megastar Salman Khan.\n\nThe intense poster depicts an epic clash between the two leading men highlighting the plot of the movie revolving around a cop and gangster with differing ideologies.\n\nThe poster design is intense and shows an epic clash between the two leading men. The plot of the movie primarily revolves around a cop and gangster with differing ideologies. A two-hero film, 'Antim: the Final Truth' brings two protagonists from entirely two divergent worlds and ideologies in a face-off, leading to a ravening and a nail-biting finale.\n\nThis is the first time that Salman and Aayush will be seen sharing screen space with each other.\n\nPresented by Salman Khan Films, 'Antim: the Final Truth' is produced by Salma Khan and directed by Mahesh Manjrekar.\n\nAlso read: Aayush Sharma shares his hang out spots in lockdown; gives a sneak-peek of his home" ]

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[ null, "“It came as a surprise because the market was expecting a slightly lower CPI increase. It’s a signal for rates this year and an indicator that perhaps borrowers should be more willing to consider fixing their home loan rate,” he said.\n\n“The thing you’ve got to weigh up now is the value of your variable rate over, say three years, against locking in a fixed rate for that same period. The opportunities to lock in a fixed rate under 5 percent are there so it’s attractive for people to be looking into it.”\n\n“Fixed interest rates can shift very fast – expect rates to move by a quarter, or even half, a percent quickly and unannounced. So far this year we’ve already seen 135 fixed rates adjusted up by as much as 0.20 percentage points and we expect this trend to continue,” Parsons said.\n\n“We also would not be surprised to see out-of-cycle rate changes on variable home loans by lenders and for the cash rate to increase before the end of 2014.\n\n“There are some lenders offering very attractive rates on fixed home loans now and it’s worth shopping around for these because the savings can be significant.”\n\nFixing is becoming more popular among borrowers, too, according to Parsons.\n\n“In the last quarter of 2013 the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported month-on-month growth in the number of fixed home loans settled and it’s a trend we’ve noticed at RateCity too, with December being the highest proportion of fixed rate applications on record.”\n\nRefinancing on the rise, as rates stall\n\nRates tipped to hold at 1.5% on Tuesday\n\nYes, it may be possible to get a $1,500 payday loan with bad credit. Some payday lenders give loans to people with bad credit histories if they believe the borrower has the capacity to repay the loan.\n\nUnder Australia’s responsible lending rules, lenders aren’t allowed to approve $1,500 payday loans if they don’t believe the borrower can make the repayments." ]

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[ "7 edition of The Creativity of Jonathan Knight A Visual Dialogue found in the catalog.\n\n“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” In the Metropolitan Museum of Art held an exhibition comparing and contrasting the works of the fashion designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada. The juxtaposition suggested that Prada’s designs had been influenced by the earlier virtuoso, but Prada demurred. Creating Their Own Image The History of African-American Women Artists Lisa E. Farrington. Creating Their Own Image marks the first comprehensive history of African-American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Using an analysis of stereotypes of Africans and African-Americans in western art and culture as a springboard, Lisa E. Farrington here richly details .", null, null, null, null, "His talent is overwhelming. Jonathan Knight appreciates the opportunity to present to you a collection of fine art original paintings, limited and open edition prints, giclées, and fine art coffee-table book titled The Creativity of Jonathan Knight, A Visual Dialogue. Jonathan Knight's mission is to provide the highest quality of fine art available, share his creative vision with all interested viewers and.\n\nKnight is also a juror of numerous national and some international competitions. He is featured in a coffee table book titled, \"The Creativity of Jonathan Knight A Visual Dialogue\".\n\nCreativity is fundamental to The Creativity of Jonathan Knight A Visual Dialogue book experience. In On Creativity David Bohm, the world-renowned scientist, investigates the phenomenon from all sides: not only the creativity of invention and of imagination but also that of perception and of discovery.\n\nThis is a remarkable and life-affirming book by one of the most far-sighted thinkers of modern times/5. The Creativity Code: The Power of Visual Thinking [Alex, Gore, Lance, Cayko] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.\n\nThe Creativity Code: /5(21). The Creativity Project is the perfect name for it, because it is one of the greatest celebrations of creativity, individuality, and uniqueness I've read.\n\nHaving read many of the authors featured, I I decided to read this book to prepare for a workshop I'll be attending in two weeks where this book will be featured during one of the presentations/5. The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators.\n\nThis handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important : James C. Kaufman. A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text.\n\nCreativity, Inc. Summary Septem Ap Niklas Goeke Entrepreneurship 1-Sentence-Summary: Creativity, Inc. is an instruction manual for instilling inspiration into employees, managers and bosses, by revealing the hidden forces that get in the way, based on over 30 years of experience of the president of Pixar, Ed Catmull.\n\nThe so called \"Million Idea Generator\" Matrix is probably the best one, with the Metaphor Maker close behind. The book also contains some mind-bending/expanding exercises, The Creativity of Jonathan Knight A Visual Dialogue book illusions and word games to help you see beyond the obvious.\n\nBetter to get this book used or from a book club/5(11). The Dark Knight Rises effectively communicates the blurred line that exists between heroism and villainy through the collaboration of imagery, sound, dialogue, and other film techniques, which troubles commonly held \"good vs.\n\nevil\" expectations and ultimately reveals to viewers a higher truth about the good and evil that exists within all people. The stages of the creative process—from “unlearning” to beginning again—seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, and others.\n\nAlthough each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process. Creativity, Inc.\n\nwas a selection for the Mark Zuckerberg book club in Marchand was co-written by Amy Wallace. Before her death in Augustshe was famous for her popular series The Book of Lists, which had five installments, as well as for the novel Desire.\n\n(I highly recommend Sawyer’s book Explaining Creativity, if you want to know the state of the art in creativity research (he quotes from the Rogers article a number of times); though I might prefer Nick Udall’s book 'Riding the Creative Rollercoaster' as a.\n\nHow to Promote Creativity. There are limitless ways to activate students’ creative thinking. For example, Drapeau says, a third-grade teacher might ask kids to brainstorm all of the things from the main character’s life in the book Sarah, Plain and Tall that have prepared her for motherhood, citing the text to support their ideas.\n\nI was recently on a panel of creative and tech experts at a Vivid ideas event titled The Artificial Intelligence Debate: Does Creativity Require Humanity?. When we took a vote on that question at the start of the event, 60 per cent of those in the room said they didn’t know the answer.\n\n\"[Jonathan's] approach to aesthetics has really opened our teachers' eyes to the arts and the power of the arts,\" said fellow St. Michael's art educator Ann Author: Rachel Elizabeth Jones. The organization of The Creativity Question is unique: it illustrates the various approaches and basic assumptions underlying studies of creativity throughout the course of history up to the present time.\n\nThe main body of selections appears under the categories of descriptions, attempts at explanation, and alternate approaches. Jonathan Fields calls our bluff in his new book Uncertainty, inviting us to acknowledge and embrace the unknown, “turning fear and doubt into fuel for brilliance”. And Jonathan speaks with the voice of experience – he once quit a six-figure salary as a lawyer to earn $12 an hour as a personal trainer, before launching a yoga studio in the.\n\nThe path to new ideas is often a turbulent one. Few psychological traits are as desirable as creativity — the ability to come up with ideas that are both novel and useful. Creativity: Turning Off Judgment to Turn On New Ideas. By Jonathan Vehar | Updated 8/20/17 \"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible.\" *First published by Alex Osborn in his landmark book about creativity entitled \"Applied Imagination.\".\n\nNo. 3, Maypages “ Creativity & The Economic System” Entry in Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent, edited by Barbara Kerr, SAGE Publications, The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity is a comprehensive scholarly handbook on creativity from the most respected psychologists, researchers and educators.\n\nThis handbook serves both as a thorough introduction to the field of creativity and as an invaluable reference and current source of important information. It covers such diverse topics as the brain, education. Dialogue is an original, practical and world-class journal, which focuses on key issues and challenges encountered by business leaders and managers around the world.\n\nThe content of Dialogue will cover a wide range of topics relevant to leaders in different management functions and geographic locations, drawing on the opinions and research of. Seemingly independent visual or mental images that are considered concurrently may inspire unique ideas.\n\nAccording to his own story (and in contradiction to the story of being hit on the head by a falling apple), Newton conceived the concept of universal gravitation when he observed an apple falling and at the same time noticed the moon in the. InJonathan Lethem sat across from Bob Dylan at a seaside hotel in Santa Monica.\n\nLater, recounting the meeting in a essay for Rolling Stone, Lethem described the. There will be a book-signing following the event.\n\nIn Creative Quest, Questlove synthesizes all the creative philosophies, lessons, and stories he’s heard from the many creators and collaborators in his life, and reflects on his own experience, to advise readers and fans on how to consider creativity and where to find it.\n\nPsychological creativity is where you do something new to you, e.g. this is the first time you painted a still life like that.\n\nHistorical creativity is a special class of psychological creativity where it transcends you, e.g. Einstein was the first person in the history of the world to propose Theory of General Relativity. The book took eight years from conception to publication. In the earliest dummy, the monsters that millions have grown to love actually started out as horses.\n\nLjupco Smokovski/Shutterstock March 8. An Interview with Jonathan Coulton Posted on Ap by Dan Brodnitz • 7 comments Musician Jonathan Coulton talks about his year recording a song a week, why it's good news when his characters start saying ridiculous things, and the value of solitude and boredom.\n\nThe Creativity Killer: Group Discussions. David Sherwin With the emerging dialogue in the popular press and blogosphere about fostering creativity in business, there is no lack of desire for.\n\nLearning & Creativity is your one stop resource for all that is associated with encouraging learning and creativity in children, teens and even adults.\n\nAll Posts of Learning And Creativity Desk. The book’s breezy methodology makes for some problems — it’s often difficult to tell just how representative a study or survey, cited.\n\nKéptalálat a következőre: „angel wood carving”. Introduction: Discourse and Creativity Rodney H. Jones T his collection presents a range of different perspectives on the relationship between discourse and creativity.\n\nIt is divided into four sections, each focusing on a different type of discourse: The fi rst sectionFile Size: KB. NPR coverage of Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer.\n\nNews, author interviews, critics' picks and more. 'Even as media research internationalises and digital convergence shifts earlier assumptions, US television remains a crucial reference-point. In this elegantly written book, Jonathan Gray confirms he is one of our most sure-footed guides through television's complex intersections between politics and entertainment, economics and signification, pleasure and Price: $.\n\nHoughton Mifflin Harcourt. $ April 2, By MICHIKO KAKUTANI What makes the cartoon light bulb of creativity go off over someone’s head? What is the catalyst for groundbreaking inventions and innovative breakthroughs?\n\nIn his illuminating new book, the journalist Jonah Lehrer.Other Traits Associated with Creativity and Highly Creative People Most would agree that, from a practical point of view, creativity is a good thing. Think of all the gadgets and innovations you enjoy today that are a result of creativity and creative thinkers.\n\nIt is also good from an emotional or intrapersonal point of Size: KB." ]

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[ null, "Jennifer Pike writes: 'This recording project of Polish music is one that is particularly close to my heart. The idea for the series arose from an awareness of the sound world associated with Polish music, of the country's long-held fascination with the violin, and of my own Polish heritage on my mother's side. As a successor to the first volume, released in 2019, this album continues to explore a breadth of repertoire that includes some rarely heard gems. The Violin Sonata, one of Szymanowski's earlier compositions, is a work brimming with late-romantic intensity. His Trois Caprices are a tribute to Paganini, and the famous themes are here reinvented in a visionary way: the treatment of them is not only virtuosic in nature, for both violin and piano, but also displays extremes of contemporary technique, texture, and mood that take us a world away from the concept of the originals. Bacewicz is one of the most important figures in twentieth-century Polish music - and it is my hope that the inclusion of her Caprice might serve as an introduction to further exploration of her music in recordings to come. The Kaprys polski is a favourite of mine to perform in concerts, especially as Bacewicz manages to say so much in such a short space of time. As she was herself a virtuoso violinist, it is no surprise that the piece is masterfully written for the violin. The Violin Sonata and Tango by Poldowski (Régine Wieniawska) have been tremendous discoveries for me. Her fascinating background, of mixed Polish and Belgian heritage, and the fact that she became an immigrant to Britain seem to find resonance in her music, particularly in the variety of her use of harmony. Like many other violinists, I grew up performing the music of her father, the famous violinist Henryk Wieniawski, so it was a revelation to discover Poldowski's unique compositional voice, and I hope that her music will become more widely performed.'\n\n\"Pike brings real late-Romantic sweep and panache to all those works, as well as to Grazyna Bacewicz's little solo Caprice, and a tango by Poldowski that closes the disc\" The Guardian Five Stars\n\n\"Pike and Limonov take a relatively expansive view of Szymanowski's Sonata, savouring its opportunities to contrast its agitato and patetico elements, and employing relatively elastic phraseology, not least in the dolcissimo part of the first movement. Their expression in the slow movement is precisely calibrated, their ensemble now well established, and they are resolute and rhythmically vital in the finale.\" MusicWeb" ]

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[ "he IDF’s intelligence on Hamas’s military wing in Gaza has increased greatly over the past two years, and the Southern Command’s war preparations have been enhanced as a result, a senior military source said on 14th April 2016 according Jerusalem Post.\n\nIn Gaza, the military wing is gradually growing in power at the expense of the political wing. Figures like Muhammad Deif, who leads the military wing, Yihye Sinwar, who was released in the Gilad Shalit exchange and Marwan Issa, are taking power away from Hamas’s political wing, as well as from overseas leader Khaled Mashaal.\n\nHamas military wing members receive military training also in Iran and earlier in Syria, in addition Hamas has military training camps for children who also receive hate indoctrination from public media and in schools and camps. The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigade is a separate armed military wing, which has its own leaders who do not take their orders from Hamas. Some cells have independent links with the external leadership, enabling them to bypass the hierarchical command chain and political leadership in Gaza and they do not tell their plans in advance to political wing.\n\nHamas’s military wing is helping terrorist operatives in West Bank as well the ISIS-affiliated Sinai Province group, transferring it funds, and caring for its injured, as well as trying to smuggle weapons through the group. Hamas’s military wing is in charge of police appointments, a task that once belonged to the political wing.\n\nThe Southern Command is carefully monitoring Hamas’s 25 regional battalions and has prepared detailed files on each one as part of preparations for ground forces that could, in the event of a future escalation, be sent in to Gaza to land “painful strikes” on Hamas, according to the source. “We did not have this level of knowledge in Operation Protective Edge [in 2014],” the source said. “Our brigade, battalion, and company commanders are assigned regions, and will know many things that will assist them in destroying their targets,” the high-ranking officer added according Jerusalem Post .\n\nThe Southern Command has spent the past year and a half making intensive preparations for potential future conflicts. Plans include spreading out a “stronger defense” of southern communities, and a better layout of staging areas, that were targeted by Hamas in the previous conflict. All IDF battalion commanders have, in recent weeks, completed courses dedicated exclusively to the topic of “how to defeat Hamas, fighting in populated areas and the rapid build-up of forces.\n\nHamas’s military wing is busy with its own preparations, using the current quiet to build up its own offensive capabilities. This includes an intensified training for Hamas’s elite Nuhba forces, which make up a quarter of Hamas’s 20,000-strong armed members, and who are trained to launch cross-border raids into Israel. The Nuhba Force has increased its size and scope of activities, as well as its training, Hamas is also building up its naval commando unit and has begun assembling a drone unit. [Source: Jerusalem Post ].\n\nHamas remains in a state of distress and economic crisis, unable to pay members in time, and failing to smuggle many weapons from Sinai. Hamas’ economic well-being was in large part dependent on its system of smuggling tunnels snaking underneath the Gaza border with Egypt.\n\nThe tunnels were first constructed immediately after Israel’s disengagement from the Sinai Peninsula, as part of the Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt. But digging got more intense after Israel declared a blockade on Gaza after Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian elections. Hamas’s government started to flourish on what economists called the booming “tunnel economy” until current Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi joined Israel in trying to destroy it.", null, "The supply lines that have fed it cash, arms, goods, luxury items, fuel, and cement for its terror-tunnel industry suddenly were gone. These goods, which were smuggled into Gaza at obscenely low prices at the expense of Egyptian citizens, were no longer flowing in due to the closure of the tunnels. The economy of Hamas is weakening as Egypt has closed main part of over one thousand smuggling tunnels on Gaza border; before that Hamas administration got remarkable income from smuggling activities. [More in Gaza Blockade – It’s Egypt not Israel! ]\n\nSince beginning of March 2016, Hamas has been forced to slash by two-thirds the wages paid to members of its military wing: each fighter now takes home $200 instead of $600 per month, and officers used to earning $1,000 must be satisfied with $350. DEBKA’s military and intelligence sources claims that the terrorist group has moreover halted recruitment for lack of funds to pay, accommodate or train new fighters. The cash crunch has also hit the Hamas government. Most of Gaza’s municipal services are suspended because city officials have not been paid. Iran’s boycott on military and financial assistance to the Gaza Strip was clamped down in mid-2015 over Hamas’ refusal to line up behind Iran’s unqualified endorsement of its allies, Syrian President Bashar Assad and Yemen’s Houthi rebels.\n\nHamas doesn’t currently have a patron in the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood is weak in the region: Jordan recently shut down their branches; they’re being chased out of Egypt; Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have outlawed them. Egypt has strengthened its grip on Gaza and won’t tolerate any violence on Hamas’s part in the near future.\n\nAccording Channel 2 report (March 2016) the Israeli security establishment estimates that Hamas is not presently seeking a military escalation with Israel. The report noted that the assessment stands despite the terrorist group’s continued digging and armament of underground tunnels in the coastal Palestinian enclave.", null, "Over one year Hamas has been negotiating with Israel about its plan to turn the Gaza Strip into a separate Palestinian entity in a bid to reach a long-term calm on the Gaza border. It might be that the international community must define their two-state solution with new content including two Palestinian state – one in the Gaza Strip and an other Fatah-controlled state in the West Bank. With “official” 2-State Solution there is other 2-State options such as Gaza and Palestine option. Related to possible deal between Hamas and Israel there is a risk that internal disagreements between Hamas’ political and military wings could endanger it. (more e.g. in Gaza State Under Construction, West Bank Remains Bystander, Analysis: Resolving The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , Sinai Option again and Hamas and Israel on Verge of the Deal).", null, "This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 19th, 2016 at 12:22 am and is filed under Conflicts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed." ]

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[ null, "Roman Vindobona, from Celtic vindo “white” + bona “foundation, fort.” The “white” might be a reference to the river flowing through it.\n\nCapital of Austria and largest city in the country, located in northeastern Austria on the south bank of the Danube River; Austria’s leading cultural, economic, and political center.\n\nMountainous republic in central Europe, bordered by Germany and the former Czechoslovakia to the north, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. Its capital and largest city is Vienna." ]

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[ null, "He is also known for his work on Predator (1987) and Predator 2 (1990), both of which are considered preeminent examples of action/science fiction film scores. He has also begun a collaboration with director Stephen Sommers, scoring the films The Mummy Returns in 2001, Van Helsing in 2004 and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra in 2009. Silvestri has also composed music for television shows, including Starsky & Hutch, CHiPs, and Manimal.\n\nSilvestri was 21 years old when he started his film/television composing career. His early style is marked by a strong use of the octatonic scale, as well as an eclectic use of different notes and instruments.\n\nHe has also received three Grammy Award nominations, winning one award - Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, for ?Believe? from The Polar Express in 2004. His other two nominations were for Best Soundtrack Album (for Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbitt).\n\nBack To The Future Part III (25Th Anniversary Edition) CD2\n\nBack To The Future Part III (25Th Anniversary Edition) CD1\n\nNight At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" ]

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[ null, "Get Harpy's Escape on your favourite retailer!\n\nWith no one believing them about Ocypete, Harper and her team are left to try and investigate without any official backing.\n\nWhen a couple of new leads come in, they learn that things are a lot worse than they first expected, and if they don't act fast, then they risk something far worse than a new crime boss.\n\nFighting crime might be one thing on Harper's mind, but her growing relationship with Elias is also part of the equation and she finds herself spending an increasing amount of time in his arms.\n\nCan they start building a case against Ocypete that people are going to believe, or is she going to get the better of them?\n\nPosted by Laura Greenwood at 04:11" ]

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[ null, "Lew-Port Middle School 'buzzes' for a good cause\n\nPhotos and story by Janet Schultz\n\nLewiston-Porter Middle School was buzzing Monday, but not with noise, with hair clippers.\n\nIt was the \"Kiss Your Hair Goodbye\" event, with 22 students and 11 faculty/staff members getting their hair buzzed. The group made a pledge that if the students collected more than a certain amount of dollars, they would buzz their hair. Many set the limit at around $2,000 to $4,000. Also some staff agreed to dye their hair, if a certain goal was met.\n\nWell, to Principal Karen Cuddy-Miller's surprise, they reached that goal and exceeded, and she found herself with pink hair for the day!\n\nHannah Mergi, a sixth grader, decided a week ago that she would buzz her hair in advance and found herself the \"poster child\" for others. The money came in and the Middle School surpassed their past donations of $2,700 the first year and $3,300 the second. This event is held every three years.\n\n\"When the students saw her buzz her hair the donations came in in her honor and the students became even more motivated,\" said Cuddy-Miller. \"She is a true leader.\"\n\nDenis Scinta, founder of the event, has a family affected with cancer and wants students to be aware that one out of every two men and one out of every three women are at risk for cancer. The \"KISS\" comes from his love of the rock group, thus the phrase Kiss Your Hair Goodbye.\n\nOne of the highlights of the event was the announcement that several students had been selected at random to make the first \"buzz\" on their teachers.\n\nMergi made the first cut on teacher Walter Cook, as the entire Middle School cheered her on and applauded Cook for his \"courage.\"\n\nCheers rang out when teacher Edward Koban took to the stage with his long locks and had them cut first by Natalia Pantoja and then by Clay. Koban had his haircut for Locks of Love recently and in addition to donating and being buzzed, gave this cutting to Locks of Love.\n\nMore cheers rang out as Maureen Castiglione, a cancer survivor, had the little bit of hair she has remaining after treatments not only dyed pink but buzzed. Castiglione is a staff member in the Middle School. Her daughters were with her to share in the moment.\n\nLast but not least was event organizer Scinta, buzzed ceremoniously by Mergi, and then totally by Clay." ]

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[ null, "Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Slow March in Toronto (the making of a second road movie) 7a*11d 2002 PHOTO courtesy of the artist\n\nThe artist makes her own road movie. A live video relay allows the audience to witness simultaneously the process as well as the finished thing – a hypnotic time-based melody with built-in suspense. This performance concludes the idea of a roadwork I have been developing since 1996 — a journey paradoxically spent endlessly carrying the “baggage” of the road of life that we wander. The idea of fluidity and flux in identity and space has been central to modernity and has, overtly or covertly, found its way into my multidisciplinary art practice.\n\nEmmanuelle Waeckerle is a senior lecturer in visual art at Surrey institute of Art and Design in Farnham.\n\nProject developed with financial support from London Arts. Travel to Toronto funded by Surrey Institute of Art and Design." ]

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[ null, "Herbert Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucester on 17th October 1892. In 1912 he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, studying composition with C. V. Stanford, Herbert Parry and Charles Wood and he went on to teach composition at the RCM for nearly sixty years. Primarily known nowadays for his church music, Howells also wrote extensively in most instrumental chamber genres. The titles published by Stainer & Bell all date from his twenties and include his much-loved carols A Spotless Rose, Here is the little door and Sing Lullaby.\n\nFilter Titles by\nBack To Top\nCopyright © 2020 Stainer & Bell Ltd. - All Rights Reserved\nThe site uses cookies to offer you a better experience and by continuing to browse the site you accept our Cookie Policy. You can change your settings at any time. Find out more." ]

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[ null, "Tokyo Cafe is a Japanese fusion restaurant service western dishes with a Japanese twist. We had a early dinner here before going to the Yamato performance. We arrived here a little before 6 pm, half of the restaurant was filled up, which really surprised me. When we finished, the place was already filled up.\nThe store boasts of a display case on the outside showing replicas of the dishes they serve, definitely a Japanese restaurant style. Too bad I did not get a chance to take a photo of this.", null, "On to the food, we ordered our favorite Creamy Ebiko pasta, shrimps, karashi ebiko(shrimp eggs) and cream. Last time we were here, we were disappointed with the order but being our favorite we decided to order it again. This time it was perfect, the creamy and slightly spicy sauce mixing well with the al dente pasta and the medium sized shrimps. It is something different from your usual italian cream based pasta dishes.", null, "We also ordered Tokyo Boneless Chicken, boneless herbed chicken with their special gravy. This dish was forgettable, the gravy was too salty drowning out the flavor of the chicken. We did not finish this.", null, null, null, "Lauren ordered Pork Cutlet (Tonkatsu); fried breaded pork chop, Corn Soup and Wafu Steak, beef tenderloin cubes with garlic and oyster sauce. I did not taste the pork cutlet but from the looks of the remnants, the breading was too thick. The corn soup was good enough though nothing special except for the tortilla strip topping which is unusual. The wafu steak was a little tangy so Lauren refused to eat it. I tried it and found the beef too tough, don’t think its quality meat, and the sauce was also not good for me. Don’t think we’ll be ordering this again.", null, "My SIL ordered her favorite Kani Crab Sandwich, kani sticks in ciabatta bread, and an extra order of french fires.", null, "Tokyo Cafe is a quick service fusion restaurant and it lives up to this. Though some of their food were misses, there were enough hits to keep us coming back. I’d like to try the Loco Moco, a dish also served in the Facebook game, Cafe World." ]

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[ "experiences and gifts of travel", null, "The seventh inning stretch at every Padres home game at Petco Park is complete with a Top Gun montage, high fives and thousands of people singing about a danger zone. This is a military city and I’m so thrilled to be a part of it. A few weekends ago, we went to the Navy open house and boarded the Wayne E. Meyer Destroyer for a tour. Sailors and officers lined the deck displaying details of the ship and it’s strategic abilities. It was an incredible experience. Last weekend, it was a visit to the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar home of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, the place that used to be the home of the Top Gun school. It was our first air show at a military base…impressive doesn’t do it justice.", null, "My favourite part of the event, is that it’s free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome. Of course, if you want a VIP experience or grandstand seat, there are fees; but, anyone can pack a picnic and spend the day with their family sitting on the flight line being entertained by fearless acrobats of the sky. As we entered the area, we passed fighter jets, aerobatic planes and more. Pilots, support teams, mechanics and many other military elements were ever present. Vendors of all types (food, tourism, souvenirs and military) stood parallel to the flight line to add to the grandeur of the event. The air show shared more than the magic of flight.", null, "Throughout the area there were static displays of trucks and tanks, helicopters and planes, and equipment and memorabilia of the military’s past. There were military men and women (including Wolfpack pilots and Navy Seals) available to explain everything, speak with, thank and answer questions.\n\nAs we wandered past rutters and wheels, propellers and people, the boom of Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit’s planned explosions competed with the roar of jets overhead. One time I looked up and there was a plane carrying a dangling humvee through the air, followed by another that the line dropped from within held ten men. I’m not sure if it matters if you see something like this every day or once in a lifetime…technology, skill and courage continue to amaze me.\n\nThis year’s theme for the San Diego Air Show was ‘A Salute to Veterans and Their Families’. Fully acknowledging sacrifice and support of military families and the long time relationship with the city of San Diego, the spectacle of fast flying formations blended with choreographed sky high maneuvers left mouths agape and eyes wide. According to their program, the annual three day event typically draws more than 500, 000 attendees each year.\n\nWhat is a fun gift?\n\nWrap yourself up in the Boyfriend Body Pillow. This boyfriend arm pillow is a soft and cozy body pillow that resembles the torso of a man with a comforting arm that cuddles and holds you throughout the night. Feel safe and warm in his embrace while comfortably resting your head on his chest.\nThis fun and cozy snuggle pillow is great for people whose partner is away on military leave or work absence. Singles, who wants to feel the touch of a man, without actually having to be with one, love it too.\nThis novelty pillow makes a great gift for a friend or relative with a good sense of hum…\n\n@Travel Italian Style: A2 I like to get friends and family small but fun gifts that are easy to take home! Postcards, stickers, jewelry, etc! #TRAVEX Wed, 7 October 2015 09:09 PM" ]

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[ null, null, "AKWESASNE MOHAWK TERRITORY — Earlier this week, Cornwall City Council considered a proposal to form a special committee that will work upon acquiring federally owned lands on the north shore waterfront located between the neighbouring communities of Akwesasne and the City of Cornwall. The proposal was deferred by City Council in order to determine Akwesasne’s interest in participating in this effort, as recommended by government officials several years ago during previous attempts to acquire lands known as the Port of Cornwall.\n\nAs a result of this development, the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne’s Grand Chief Mike Mitchell has issued the following statement:\n\n“The Mohawk Council of Akwesasne has recently learned that Cornwall’s City Council has expressed its continued interest in acquiring and developing lands owned by the Government of Canada, located on the north shore between the communities of Akwesasne and Cornwall. Since learning of the federal government’s desire to divest the Port of Cornwall in 2003, the MCA has viewed this as an opportunity to partner with the City of Cornwall for joint economic initiatives involving the development of the Port.\n\nThe MCA remains committed and willing to follow the federal government’s divestiture program for the Port that is based on inclusiveness and cooperation. The federal lands would be divested through a similar process experienced elsewhere in Canada that would contemplate a joint partnership that would have representation from the local municipality and the First Nations community.\n\nAs expressed on numerous occasions in this matter, our communities are in a position to collaborate on joint initiatives that will result in economic opportunities and other benefits for both of our communities and the surrounding region. We look forward to working closely with the City of Cornwall to realize the economic benefits of the Port.\n\nIn the same manner as contemplated with the Port of Cornwall properties, the MCA extends its partnership development interest to other north shore lands lying between Cornwall’s Lamoureux Park and the Robert Saunders Dam to the west.”" ]

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[ null, "“Our first season with FloRacing has been nothing short of a success,” explained Stafford COO Paul Arute. “Our goal is always to showcase the teams and drivers that call Stafford home and our production team accomplished that in 2021. We will continue to focus on telling our competitor’s stories on the weekly FloRacing broadcast and through all of our social media content. For anyone who tuned in throughout the 2021 season you saw the Stafford Speedway production team’s continued evolution of the broadcast. We look forward to bringing race fans more of the same for many years to come on the FloRacing platform. New for 2022 FloRacing will boost the point fund for our five weekly divisions replacing the weekly FloRacing bonuses in 2021.”\n\nWith their FloRacing subscription Stafford Speedway fans will continue to have access to an ever growing list of short track racing offerings on asphalt and dirt across the country.\n\n“The team at Stafford have been nothing short of superb, noted Mike Levy, FloSports VP of Global Rights Acquisition. “And, while 2021 was a transformational year for FloRacing on pavement, we plan to bring short track fans substantially more value in 2022. With the Stafford partnership as an anchor property, the best is still to come.”\n\nThe 2022 point fund will reward the top-15 in the SK Modified® division and the top-10 in the Late Model, SK Light, Limited Late Model, and Street Stock divisions with $73,000 in bonuses. This, on top of the nearly $650,000 in prize money awarded to the weekly divisions throughout the season, pushes the total prize money up for grabs in 2022 north of $700,000.\n\n“Adding another $40,000 into the point fund is big for the weekly competitors,” continued Arute. “We say it over and over, weekly racing is our number one priority and the growth of this point fund revolves around that focus. We have to thank FloRacing for supporting our 5 weekly divisions and look forward to continuing to entertain everyone who tunes in with the best weekly asphalt racing in the country.”", null, "The 2022 Stafford Speedway season will kick off April 23rd and 24th with the 50th running of the NAPA Auto Parts Spring Sizzler®. Over $130,000 in prize money has been announced across two days of racing for the Open Modified division culminating with the $15,000 to win 100 lap Spring Sizzler, Sunday April 24th. All of Stafford’s 24 scheduled events will air live on FloRacing." ]

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[ "Sony Ericsson is set to launch the new 2012 Xperia family of handsets.\n\nAt the Consumer Electronics Show 2012, Sony Ericsson is all ready to show a new breed of Xperia smartphones. Just before the actual launch day, images of the Sony Ericsson Xperia family with model number MT27i and codename ‘Pepper’ leaked online.", null, "Xperia Blog showed the images of an Xperia MT27i Pepper prototype handset and also shared details about it.\n\nThe Mobile Indian already reported about the Sony Ericsson Nozomi handset with 720p HD display and dual core mobile processors earlier. From these recent reports we conclude that Pepper and Nozomi will be part of Sony Ericsson’s 2012 Xperia smartphone lineup.", null, "Sony Ericsson Pepper MT27i will feature a 3.7 inch touchscreen display with 480 x 854 pixel native resolution. Under the hood, this smartphone may house an ST-Ericsson NovaThor U8500 mobile chipset. Ideally meant to be the successor of Xperia neo V, this new MT27i Pepper smartphone features a 5 megapixel camera capable of recording 720p HD video. Of course, the front facing camera is fairly visible in the images. There’s no detail about the operating system loaded on this handset but we presume it would be Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.\n\nNext to the front facing camera rests the LED notification and the smartphone carries a design similar to the Nozomi handset except for the LED strip below the screen. The handset in the image is a prototype unit and the actual handset might be a wee bit different from it. The touchscreen panel also accommodates three capacitive buttons for home, back and menu. This handset can easily be slotted as a mid-high range smartphone with a pleasing set of features.", null, "Sony Ericsson can be expected to show some smartphones and other products at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012." ]