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[ "How Music Is Harnessed By The Gaming Industry", null, "It would be easy to think that everyone has become a gamer in recent years.\n\nWe’ve gone from it being a niche hobby to something that’s enjoyed by a much wider group of people. This is thanks to the much more diverse range of content available today.\n\nThe popularity has been boosted even more by casinos like 32Red that have been offering bonuses to new patrons when they sign up and make their first deposit.\n\nThese casino games, in particular, are great examples of how diverse gaming has now become. Instead of just a handful of table games and a similar number of slot machines, as was typical in many land-based casinos just a couple of decades ago, modern iGaming brands have developed thousands of unique games for their players to enjoy.\n\nEach one is usually given an individual theme and is used to tell a story. Matching graphics, animations, and sounds are thrown in to bring this theming to life. This isn’t an exaggeration either, you can find slot games themed around everything including idioms like “in the dog house”, Ancient Egypt, space, NFTs, movies, and even famous musicians.\n\nFor example, Elvis Presley, KISS, Motörhead, Jimi Hendrix, and Guns N’ Roses all have their own officially-licensed slot games that include iconic tracks and imagery that relates to their careers.\n\nThis is, however, just one of the many ways that music has been incorporated into games and it is, by no means, exclusive to video slots.\n\nInstead, music has been harnessed for many different purposes in games to augment the interactive multimedia experience.\n\nIn the earliest video games, such as Pong, music was not included. Today, this absence is very noticeable if you play the original version because you are faced with silence that’s interrupted by the occasional beep.\n\nThis wasn’t because the developers of the original video games didn’t think to include a more complex audio element to their work, it was simply because the hardware at the time could not support any more than a few beeps.\n\nThis quickly changed and most games throughout the 1980s had iconic 8-bit MIDI music. You can instantly recognise this by its tuneful beeping sounds which were made popular by games like Super Mario Bros., Punch-Out!!, The Legend of Zelda, and Castlevania.\n\nBut, in almost every case, the soundtracks to these games were not just slapped in because they sounded cool. A lot of thought and effort went into creating them.\n\nMore often than not, the polyphonic musical notes were altered to set the tone of the game, both to distinguish the entire title from others on the market and also to create distinct sections within the game itself.\n\nOne great example of this can be seen in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins for the original Game Boy. The side-scrolling platformer was split into six separate zones, each with a unique theme, such as the Tree Zone, Space Zone, Pumpkin Zone, and Turtle Zone.\n\nAs Mario worked his way through each of them, the changing music helped to set the scene, with the Turtle Zone having tunes that sounded aquatic in nature while the Pumpkin Zone had a more ‘Halloween’ quality.", null, "While there is little realism to be achieved from a game that features a moustachioed plumber protagonist who spends his time jumping on turtles, eating mushrooms, and headbutting solid boxes; there are games that seek to blur the lines between real life and video games.\n\nThere are different ways of achieving this, such as creating graphics that, at first glance, appear to be lifted from the real world, or by creating an open-world map where players have more freedom to explore.\n\nToday, Grand Theft Auto is a game that does both. The graphics served up by GTA V look incredible, especially on the most up-to-date hardware. However, this wasn’t always the case.\n\nIn early releases of the game, the developers were pushing the hardware so hard with their attempts to create living, breathing cities, they had little room for graphics. Instead, they opted to include a 2D top-down view that felt strange at first but gave the player a better perspective.\n\nOne of the features its developers included to create the perception of a living world was to give players access to a number of fictional radio stations. Instead of the constant background music that can usually be found in most video games, players would only be able to listen to tunes while inside a vehicle.\n\nAnd instead of just one set playlist, they could choose a from a selection of them, each interspersed with periods of talking from a supposed DJ. This mimicked radio stations in a car, with the action of picking a playlist designed to resemble the action of changing the dial in your car.\n\nOver time, Rockstar Games has evolved this approach to add in era-specific songs that help to reflect the 1980s, 1990s, or modern day in their productions.\n\nMost people play video games to relax, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t tense moments in the titles that they play. In fact, it is this tension that helps to made them fun and exciting as it usually forms part of the challenge that players are faced with.\n\nDevelopers often use music as part of their efforts to create tension and there are several common ways to do it, though they all involve either speeding up the backing track or simply replacing it altogether.\n\nIn most Mario games, the background music is increased in pitch and tempo as the timer edges closer to running in platformers out or the player begins the last lap of a race in the Mario Kart series.\n\nIn the Driver series, the music would change whenever the player attracted the attention of the police. The original game was inspired by Hollywood car chases and this can be felt through the choice of tension-raising music with its high tempo and heavy beat whenever a police pursuit was in progress.\n\nHorror games like Until Dawn, The Witcher, and Dead Space all use music to create tension by taking lessons from horror movies. Their music may not be as fast as Mario or Driver, but it certainly gets your heart rate up." ]

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[ "Ralph Newman, MD, got a taste of how dangerous medicine could be at age 10, when he witnessed a physician being shot by a patient.", null, "“I was visiting a friend whose father was a psychiatrist,” Newman recalled. “We were playing in the living room when the doorbell rang. My friend went to the door and opened it. Then I heard a shot. I ran to the front hall and saw my friend’s father slumped at the bottom of the stairs. He had come down the stairs to see who was there. It was a patient armed with a shotgun.”\n\nAs a result of the shooting, a large portion of the psychiatrist’s intestines was removed. In spite of this traumatic incident, Newman went on to become a psychiatrist ― who treated many violent prisoners. “I knew it was dangerous,” he said, “but I rationalized that I wouldn’t be attacked because I would be nicer.”\n\nThat attitude seemed to work until 2002, when a prisoner threw boiling oil on him. Newman was working at the Federal Medical Center Butner, a facility for prisoners in North Carolina. “A prisoner I had been treating was denied parole, based on my recommendation,” he said. “From then on, he was looking for a way to exact revenge.\n\n“One day I was sitting in the nursing station, typing up notes,” Newman said. “Two new nurses, who were also there, had forgotten to lock the door, and the prisoner noticed that. He heated up some baby oil in a microwave, which was available to prisoners at the time. Then he walked into the office, threw the oil on my back, and came at me with a sharp pencil.”\n\nNewman said the nurses fled to an adjoining office, locked the door, and wouldn’t let him in. He went into another office and collapsed in exhaustion. He was saved by an inmate who came on the scene, fended off the attacker, and called for help.\n\n“I was taken to the burn unit,” Newman recalled. “I had second- and third-degree burns on 9% of my body. It was extremely painful. It took me 45 days to recover enough to get back to work.” The two nurses were fired.\n\nIt is rare that patients murder their doctors, but when it happens, the news tears through the whole medical community. When orthopedic surgeon Preston Phillips, MD, was killed by a patient in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 1, Jennifer M. Weiss, MD, recognized the potential danger to physicians.\n\nWeiss said the impact of that event prompted her to take a patient’s abuse more seriously than she might have previously. “Before the killing, my colleagues and I might have swept the incident under the rug, but we reported it to the authorities,” she said.\n\n“What happened was I told a parent of a school-aged child that the child wasn’t ready to go back to sports,” Weiss says. “This parent was incredibly triggered ― screaming and making verbal threats. The parent was standing between me and the door, so I couldn’t get out.”\n\nCo-workers down the hall heard the yelling and helped Weiss get out of the room. “The parent was escorted out of the building, and the incident was reported to our risk management team,” she said.\n\nPatients who shoot to kill are very different from agitated patients seen by many doctors on a regular basis ― particularly in emergency departments (EDs), psychiatric units, and pain clinics, said Scott Zeller, MD, a psychiatrist who is vice president of Acute Psychiatric Medicine at Vituity, a multistate physician partnership based in Emeryville, California.\n\n“Agitated patients have trouble communicating their needs and can become physically and verbally aggressive,” Zeller said. He reports there are 1.7 million such incidents a year in this country, but most of the incidents of verbal aggression can be kept from exploding into physical violence.\n\nShooters, however, are very hard to stop because they usually plan the action in advance, Zeller said. He recalled the 2017 murder of Todd Graham, MD, a friend from medical school. Graham, an orthopedic surgeon in South Bend, Indiana, was gunned down by the husband of one of his patients after Graham declined to prescribe opioids for her.\n\nPlaying Down the Risk of Violence\n\nDoctors may play down the risk of violence, even after they have experienced it personally. “Patients can get angry and may make threatening comments,” Weiss said. “A lot of doctors just brush it off.”\n\nSimple remarks can set off violence-prone patients, as happened to James P. Phillips, MD, director of disaster and operational medicine at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He recalled asking a prisoner who was visiting his hospital to “lower the volume,” and the man exploded. “Even though he was handcuffed to the bed, he heaved an oxygen tank into a window,” Phillips said. “He said he would be coming back to kill me.”\n\nSometimes threats or other types of verbal abuse can be as destructive as physical violence. Diann Krywko, MD, an emergency physician at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health in Charleston, South Carolina, has had some tough assignments. She worked in EDs in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, for a decade before coming to MUSC, where she serves as director of wellness, health, and resilience. One of the incidents that has bothered her the most involved a threat.\n\nIt happened when Krywko denied a patient’s request for narcotics. “She was very angry and said she’d come to my home and cut my children’s heads off,” Krywko said. “To this day, what she said horrifies me. I still see her smile as she said that.”\n\nKrywko considered filing for a restraining order against the patient but didn’t because the patient could have learned her address. Phillips said fear of retaliation is one reason many doctors don’t report threats from patients. “The patient you report knows where you work and may come there to take revenge,” he said. “Also, you may have to continue caring for the person who punched you.”\n\nPerfect Jasmine Rice – Once Upon a Chef\n\nOnline threats also may cause a great deal of angst. Phillips said he received many online threats when was a medical analyst for CNN in 2020. “Someone sent my address to his Twitter followers, and they shared it with others, so now the whole world knows where I live,” he said. “I had to upgrade security at my home.”\n\nHow to Deal With Volatile Patients\n\nBeing nice may not always work, but in many cases, it can keep a volatile situation from exploding, according to Krywko.\n\n“When patients begin to show signs of agitation or are already there, we always try to verbally deescalate the situation, which involves listening,” Krywko said. “They want someone to hear them out.”\n\nDoctors speak to patients from a position of authority, but Krywko advises that they should not be too blunt. “Don’t tell patients they’re wrong,” she said. “Even if they may be incorrect, they feel their viewpoint is valid. Encourage a dialog with words like, ‘Tell me more,’ ” Krywko said.\n\nDoctors may have little warning of an impending attack because a patient’s mood can change quickly. This happened several years ago to Jennifer Casaletto, MD, an emergency physician in Charlotte, North Carolina.\n\n“A man was brought into my ED by ambulance,” she said. “He seemed very calm for a long while, but then he became completely unhinged. A male nurse placed himself between the patient and others and was attacked. He got hurt but was able to continue working.”\n\nZeller said healthcare teams sometimes overreact when patients lash out. “The old-fashioned way to deal with an agitated patient is to call in the cavalry ― everyone does a group takedown,” he said. “The patient is put in restraints and heavily sedated. This is not good for anybody. Not only is it likely to injure and traumatize the patient, it can also injure the care team.”\n\nMany hospital EDs have security guards. “I feel safer when a hospital has armed security guards, but they need to be well trained,” Casaletto said. “Many small hospitals and freestanding EDs do not have security officers at all, or the guards are undertrained or told not to touch anybody.”\n\nIn many electronic health record systems, doctors can flag violent patients so future caregivers can be forewarned. However, Zeller advises against writing about patients’ violence or rudeness in the medical record, because patients can have access to it and might take revenge.\n\n“It feels like it has become much more dangerous to work in the ED,” said Hasan Gokal, MD, an emergency physician working in EDs at the Texas Medical Center. “Just last week, a woman pulled out a gun and fired it in an ED near Houston.”\n\nThe statistics back up Gokal’s assessment. Injuries caused by violent attacks against medical professionals grew by 67% from 2011 to 2018, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those levels rose even more during the COVID-19 pandemic ― the assault rate in hospitals rose 23% just in 2020.\n\nWhy is the violence getting worse? “There are no boundaries now,” Torres said. “People are more likely to take offense and be threatening. Then there is the pandemic, with all the isolation. When you’re alone, things just fester.”\n\nKrywko said she had “a patient who said she wanted to hurt the next person who irritated her, and that happened to me. She jumped out of her bed swinging and punching, and I wasn’t ready for it. I yelled for help and the care team came.”\n\n“The rise in violence has to do with a decline in respect for authority,” Phillips said. “Some people now believe doctors are lying to them about the need for COVID precautions because they are taking money from the vaccine companies. The pandemic has exacerbated violence in every way.”\n\nPhillips said that a growing lack of resources had led to more anger among patients. “There are fewer nurses and reduced physician coverage,” he said. “That means longer wait times for patients, which increases patients’ frustrations.”\n\nWeiss said patients have higher expectations. “In sports medicine, the expectations are incredible,” she said. “Parents want their kids to get back to playing as soon as possible.\n\n“Hospitals in particular are soft targets for violence,” Phillips said. “People know you can’t assault a flight attendant, because it’s a federal offense, but there is no such federal offense for violence against healthcare personnel.”" ]

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[ null, null, "The Cost of the Lawfare Surrounding the Steele Dossier Will Vastly Outstrip... Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley Has Spent the Week Cowering..." ]

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[ null, "Former chief software program officer of the Air Drive Nicolas Chaillan — who wrote an explosive LinkedIn submit explaining his abrupt resignation in September — has been making waves together with his vital portrayal of the Pentagon’s data expertise equipment.\n\nChaillan’s newest jab to the U.S. authorities, as quoted in a current interview with the Monetary Instances, was to assert the nation has already misplaced the struggle in synthetic intelligence to China.\n\n“Now we have no competing combating probability in opposition to China in 15 to twenty years. Proper now, it’s already a carried out deal; it’s already over for my part,” he mentioned within the story revealed Oct. 10.\n\n“It’s completely not true,” he instructed Nationwide Protection Oct. 13 throughout a media roundtable on the Affiliation of the USA Military’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. “There’s solely a lot we will say in an unclassified setting, however for everyone that has entry to labeled data when it comes to … the power of our AI capabilities, and the way we truly use them daily — they might … not make that remark.”\n\nMaj. Gen. Matthew Easley, director for cybersecurity and the chief data safety officer within the workplace of the Military chief data officer, mentioned there is just one space the place China surpasses the USA in synthetic intelligence: the digital surveillance of its residents.\n\n“They do a very good job sustaining management of the individuals utilizing AI, and clearly we do not do this [in the] United States,” he mentioned.\n\nThe Pentagon, intelligence group and U.S. business have the perfect synthetic intelligence expertise on the planet, he mentioned.\n\nIyer famous that the Military has made lots of progress on this space and has been in a position to scale the expertise throughout its 31-plus-4 “signature system” modernization priorities.\n\n“Each certainly one of them has AI in it,” he mentioned. “It’s inbuilt from the get-go. It’s how we’re doing enterprise. It isn’t one thing that is off on the aspect. … It is absolutely built-in into our platforms and our technique.”\n\nIn the meantime, one other criticism Chaillan flagged in his LinkedIn submit was not sufficient Air Drive funding into new IT applied sciences and a scarcity of consideration from management.\n\n“There have been steady and exhausting fights to chase after funding,” he mentioned.\n\nFinal month, Air Drive Secretary Frank Kendall mentioned at a press convention that the service has been responding to his points and addressing them.\n\nIyer famous that from his perspective, no such issues exist inside the Military’s IT division.\n\n“We’re nicely positioned and I am not simply, , consuming the Kool-Support right here,” he mentioned. “Our secretary and the chief … have made this a strategic precedence.”\n\nThe Military has a $15 billion funds put aside for IT, he famous. “Cash isn’t the issue.”\n\nNevertheless, the service should make some powerful selections because it pursues joint all-domain command and management and cloud computing applied sciences, Iyer mentioned.\n\nPhotos: Gridlock at L.A. ports as dozens of ships idle off the coast\n\nDurst faces day of reckoning in murder of best friend\n\nDurst faces day of reckoning in murder of best friend" ]

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[ null, "Matt Reeves has been discussing his new take on Batman which is currently in development.\n\n“It’s more Batman in his detective mode than we’ve seen in the films. The comics have a history of that. He’s supposed to be the world’s greatest detective, and that’s not necessarily been a part of what the movies have been. I’d love this to be one where when we go on that journey of tracking down the criminals and trying to solve a crime, it’s going to allow his character to have an arc so that he can go through a transformation.”\n\nNo word as yet if Ben Affleck is still attached or if it is still part of the greater DCEU, but with a 2021 release date pencilled in there is plenty of time to sort out the finer details. For now we get a glimpse into what Reeves is thinking and what to expect." ]

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[ "Secretary of Defense James Mattis arrived in Beijing Tuesday for a “conversation” with senior Chinese leaders.\n\n“I’m going there to have a conversation,” the secretary said prior to his departure. “I want to go in right now without basically poisoning the well at this point, as if my mind’s already made up. I want to go in and do a lot of listening.”\n\nWhen he arrived at the airport in China, he was greeted with a bouquet of flowers.", null, "The visit, the first by a U.S. defense secretary since 2014, comes amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing in both economic and security sectors. The two sides are not only locked in a heated trade war with the threat of hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs on the table, but the situation in the South China Sea has escalated as well.\n\nMattis accused China of “intimidation and coercion” at a public international security forum in Singapore at the start of June. The Pentagon has expressed serious concerns about Chinese militarization in the South China Sea in recent months, as China has deployed jamming systems, anti-ship cruise missiles, heavy bombers and surface-to-air missiles to Chinese-occupied territories in the contested region.\n\n“Despite China’s claims to the contrary, the placement of these weapons systems is tied directly to military use for the purposes of intimidation and coercion,” Mattis said at the Shangri-La Dialogue.\n\nThe Pentagon decided to rescind China’s invitation just over a week before the forum to participate in the American-led Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises, the largest multilateral maritime exercises, over China’s behavior in the South China Sea. (RELATED: US Kicks China Out Of RIMPAC Over South China Sea Militarization)\n\nThe U.S. lashed out at China in May for harassing American military pilots operating in East Africa with military-grade lasers. (RELATED: China Has Reportedly Been Trying To Blind American Military Pilots With High-Powered Lasers)\n\nThere are also tensions over Taiwan, which Beijing believes Washington is emboldening through increased engagement. China’s military has reportedly been drilling off the coast of the self-ruled island for a week.\n\nBeijing hopes that the U.S. and China can “meet each other halfway” and make military relations between the two countries a “stabilizing factor” for broader bilateral ties, according to Ministry of National Defense spokesman Senior Col. Ren Guoqiang.\n\nOne area where the U.S. is expected to push for increased cooperation is on North Korea, as the U.S. needs China to maintain pressure on its old ally until Pyongyang takes real steps toward denuclearization.\n\n“Although it is natural for big countries such as China and the U.S. to have areas of competition, the two should have the wisdom and the political will to control their rivalry so that the worst-case scenario of a full-blown confrontation between them can be avoided,” the state-run China Daily explained in an editorial Monday.\n\nMattis is also expected to visit South Korea and Japan." ]

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[ "As outlined in a GM Authority Opinion Desk report published earlier in this month, General Motors needs a Ford Bronco Sport rival, and badly at that. While GM seems content to let Ford and Jeep slug it out in the rugged compact crossover segment, The General could benefit greatly from offering something to rival the new Ford Bronco Sport. Now, GM Authority is visualizing exactly that with the following next-gen 2025 GMC Terrain rendering.\n\nComing to us from GM Authority reader and friend Brandon L. DeJean, who also gave us a possible future Chevy Impala rendering, 2021 Chevy Traverse rendering, and 2021 Chevy Equinox rendering, this next-gen 2025 GMC Terrain is made to rival the Ford Bronco Sport in the rugged compact crossover segment. As such, the first thing to notice about this 2025 GMC Terrain rendering is the overall length and wheelbase, with the next-gen concept sporting shortened dimensions in both metrics for enhanced off-road prowess.", null, "While a significant departure compared to GMC Terrain models of the past, the shortened length would help to underline the model’s off-roading credentials and set it up to rival the popular Ford Bronco Sport. A raised suspension setup and stance would further pad the 2025 GMC Terrain’s rough-stuff resume, while all-terrain tires would make sense for the options list. All-wheel drive, differential locking, underbody skid plates, and tow hooks should also make the spec sheet, either as standard or as optional extras.\n\nThe 2025 GMC Terrain rendering also boasts revised styling with thin upper lighting signatures and horizontal lighting elements placed on either side of the grille. Lower black cladding helps to ward off errant bits of terrain, while the two-tone paint treatment is complemented by an extended C-pillar line that wraps up and over the roof. Boxy fenders accommodate the taller ride height, while in the rear, we see thin, horizontal taillights.", null, "While this concept would make for a solid 2025 GMC Terrain, it could also make the grade as the GMC Granite, slotting in under the Terrain as a new B-segment crossover. To note, though, the GMC Granite has been something of an on-again, off-again affair for General Motors." ]

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[ null, "Samsung has announced the Galaxy Tab Active 4 Pro today without much fanfare. For the past few months, the tablet’s been through various approval processes, and Samsung is now readying the rugged tablet for a September debut.\n\nThe Galaxy Tab Active 4 Pro is equipped with a 10.1-inch TFT LCD screen with a resolution of 1920 x 1200. It’s powered by an unspecified Octa-Core processor, although early evidence hinted at the Snapdragon 778G SoC.\n\nSamsung will offer the tablet in two memory configurations featuring 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage or 6GB+128GB. Storage is expandable via microSD by up to 1TB.\n\nA rugged tablet with a user-replaceable battery\n\nSamsung’s new rugged tablet is powered by a 7,600mAh battery, which isn’t anything to write home about. But here’s the kicker: unlike other Galaxy tablets, the Tab Active 4 Pro has a user-removable battery (sold separately). This allows customers to swap batteries on the fly without having to waste any time recharging the device. It’s a fantastic feature, especially for enterprise customers who can’t afford any off-time caused by battery life shortages.\n\nOther specs include a 13MP primary camera and an 8MP selfie sensor, 5G, LTE, Wi-Fi 6, NFC, Bluetooth 5.2 connectivity, a USB-C port, and Gorilla Glass 5 protection. Speaking of build quality, the tablet has an IP68 dust and water resistance rating and a MIL-STD-810H certificate, which means it passed standardized tests designed by the US Military.\n\nThe tablet ships with an Anti-Shock Protective Cover; it has Dolby Atmos support, two microphones, Samsung Knox, DeX, a fingerprint scanner, and customizable XCover and Top Keys. The cover has a dedicated S Pen holster, and the tablet + protective cover and S Pen weigh about 833 grams combined.\n\nSamsung will start selling the Galaxy Tab Active 4 Pro in select European countries in September. The company will also release the tablet in Asia, Latin America, North America, and the Middle East at an unspecified date and price “later in 2022.”" ]

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[ "Stick Fight Warriors: Stickman Fighting Game MOD APK is one of the most popular Arcade game created by android-1mod for Android. It includes some advanced features really easy to use. It is a cool free game and is definitely worth having on your phone.", null, "Supreme stickman warriors can be any avengers hero stickman you favor. You love Tony then there’s Ironman skin for you. There’s are Deadpool, Thanos, Joker, Captain America and more stickman waiting for you in Supreme Stickman Fight Warriors: Stick Fighting Game.\n\nMake supreme stickman warriors your friends as you can stick fight anytime anywhere you like with Supreme Stick Fight Warriors: Stickman Fight Game.\n\nIn 2 player game mode, you can stick fight compete with friends as multiplayer gameplay. In each adventure stick battle, you’ll play the stickman warriors who are on a journey of conquering the dark world which filled with a lot of swords, hammers, dagger weapons, skills, and awesome skins.\n\n☀️ Be ready for an exciting stickman game, you can be a hero fighter and master the stickman fighting games. Do you have enough brave, courage & passion to master this warriors stickman game!\n\n💪 2 players mode: Customize your character to fight with your friends\n\n💪 Survival mode: Engage in a never-ending stickman battle, defeating as many enemies as possible to earn the highest score\n\nThe stickman fight game is created to satisfy the passions of those who love the stick fight. Transforms into supreme stickman fight warriors to fight with enemies and regain freedom for the village. Play as a young stickman fighting his way through his old and new enemies to be worthy to earn the title of legend shadow warrior.\n\nComplete supreme stickman missions and beat examiners during your journey to prove your prowess with the belts you won. And don’t worry, you don’t have to rely only on your fists; there is a whole arsenal of weapons and armor to aid you on your way to greatness. Collect the varieties of weapons stick fight to make you stronger and stand out like stick war, stick fight.\n\nGet supreme stickman fighting games now and ready to fight!" ]

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[ null, "Bengaluru May 17: BJP legislature party leader BS Yeddyurappa was on Thursday sworn in as the chief minister of Karnataka for a second time, after an overnight high-voltage legal battle in the Supreme Court.\n\nThe 75-year-old Lingayat strongman was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Vajubhai Vala at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan amid loud cheering by his supporters.\n\nYeddyurappa was administered the oath alone, hours after the Supreme Court refused to stay his swearing-in.\n\nIn a rare post-midnight courtroom battle, the Congress-JD(S) combine made a desperate legal push to stall the government formation.\n\nYeddyurappa has 15 days to prove his majority in the Assembly.The BJP has 104 MLAs in the House, eight short of the magic figure of 112.\n\nPolling was held in 222 of the state’s 224 seats. Election to the Jayanagar seat was countermanded following the death of the BJP candidate, while polling was deferred to May 28 for RR Nagar seat due to alleged electoral malpractices." ]

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[ null, "Q&A with Anthony Lukens of The Donkeys: California Sounds and Late-night Jams\n\nSometimes music chooses to simply be. It is not manifested as a way to thrust an agenda, or push forward an avant-garde envelope. Rather, the music is created simply through friendship, fun and positivity. It is the music that chooses to be an oasis away from the inherent stress that we all reckon with at times.\n\nThe Donkeys, a San Diego rock band consisting of Tim DeNardo, Jessie Gulati, Anthony Lukens, and Sam Sprague, resides within this niche. Their sound is more reminiscent of the misty orange sunset after a perfect afternoon, and designed to go perfect with that cold beer in your hand. Appropriate then, that The Donkeys are coming into Denver in the midst of one of our warmest weeks so far.", null, "All Photos by Wes Frazer\n\nThe Donkeys are playing tonight at the Hi-Dive Denver, with Jason Moorehead and the Guestlist, as well as Forces at Work, for ten dollars at the door. As with most events at the Hi-Dive, it is a 21+ show.\n\n303 Magazine’s Music Desk spoke with Anthony Lukens regarding the band’s history, their recent label change, and what can be found on their newly released album.\n\n303: What is the story behind how the Donkeys came to be as a band?\n\nSo at one point, one of our other bands had a show in San Francisco that we couldn’t make, meanwhile The Donkeys, we didn’t necessarily have a name yet, but we were jamming all the time and had a bunch of songs but we never intended on playing anything official. We were just having fun until this show in San Francisco came up that seemed like a fun excuse to play out, you know? So that is how The Donkeys started pretty much, we decided to take that show for my other band and pretty much call it The Donkeys, and sure enough here we are.\n\nAll Photos by Wes Frazer\n\n303: How then did you all decide on The Donkey as a fitting name?\n\nWell Sam was working graveyard shifts at Denny’s at this point, so we were always keeping really weird hours. Like you would get the call at midnight or 11 p.m. saying, “Do you want to go jam?” So ‘donkeys’ was like the code name we would use. We would call and be like “Donkeys do it!” So it was pretty much whoever could jam, was kind of in ‘The Donkeys’ at this point. It was basically our code name for staying up all night and getting wasted and making music at 4 in the morning. It wasn’t ever actually intended to be a band name, but it became one.\n\n303: So you guys recently switched labels from Dead Ocean to Easy Sound, how is the change working out for the group?\n\nSo far so good, it has been super fun. It is mostly cool because the bands are all like-minded bands. It is fun be fans of all the other bands, and sort of have been friends with everyone before all of these bands really even formed. Before we label-mates, we were already buddies with most of them and were playing shows together, stuff like that. So it is cool to feel like we are more with our peers, and a little more communal. But it is still really fresh you know, they could be total ass-holes… But no, no, it is really great.\n\nAll Photos by Wez Frazer\n\n303: You can definitely hear a surf rock, California influenced vibes in your songs. Has that influence always been a part of the group’s sound?\n\nThe Donkey’s is rock and roll at the core. The thing I think people latch onto is that we all grew up on the same radio stations basically. We can all trace our childhood back to stations like KS 101, and listening to that in the car, and all of the LA oldies. So we all knew the Beach Boys songs by heart before we even started collecting records, just because they were on the radio so often.\n\nOr like certain movies that maybe didn’t hit other parts of the country like they did our neck of the woods, like Endless Summer, were huge for us and our creative life. And even though not all of us surf, we all grew up at Dana Point and can recognize a Hobie surfboard. I think all of us can trace back being little kids and seeing that stuff every. But we all just think of ourselves as a rock and roll band that tries to mix it up as much as possible and keep it fresh.\n\n303: You guys just finished up a new album, Ride the Black Wave. What is a preview of what can be found on this new recording?\n\nWell, we definitely made a conscious effort to make it a California record this time around. That was really fun, so once we got that in, we saw that all the songs kept having this theme about the ocean. There is a total surf guitar song on there that just kind of happened organically, and it felt like it fit to do that.\n\nSo there is definitely a lot of ocean themes and beach themes, but it is not all light and fluffy. We got a little dark on there, cause there is sort of this idea that California music is all sunshine and sun tan lotion and bikinis, so we were a bit darker which is a little more honest. We were really just putting our best songs forward and had the chance to be in a really cool studio and put together a really cool record." ]

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[ null, "Watches, perhaps because they are so much more personal than almost any other artefact, have a knack of telling stories that bring the past vividly into the present. Here’s one of them…\n\nIn the gathering darkness of the evening of September 28th 1944, a group of 12 German Kampfschwimmer (military frogmen) slipped into the Waal river in Holland and began swimming silently towards the road and rail bridges at Nijmegen.\n\nBy 0630 they were confident they had made it back into German-held territory, and so swam towards the riverbank. But instead of being greeted by their own side, they found themselves surfacing under the noses of Sgt George Rowson and his men of the 43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment. They’d swum the wrong way.\n\nUnderstandably, Sgt Rowson and his men were keen to ensure the next stop for the group of Kampfschwimmer was a prisoner of war camp, but only after (as was customary) they’d relieved them of their watches and any other spoils of war.\n\nRowson explained, “They were wearing these rubber suits and also each had a watch on one wrist and a compass on the other.” It’s likely the compasses that had led them astray were made by Panerai. The watches in question were the rather more reliable ref. 3646 diving models made by the same Italian manufacturer for the Decima Flottiglia MAS, or underwater unit of the Royal Italian Navy.\n\nBefore the Allies liberated the city in 1944, German forces raided Panerai’s Florence workshops, taking many of the watches. The diving models were shipped to Venice, close to the Italian Maggiore Wolk’s kampfschwimmer training facility on San Giorgio in Alga before they were issued to individual divers.\n\nAnd this one, in turn, now found its way from the wrist of its nameless German owner to Sgt Rowson’s.\n\nAs an early Panerai, Sgt Rowson’s new watch was powered by a ref. 618 Rolex movement, supplied by maker Cortebert. These were chunky, 16 ligne engines, beating at a relaxed 18,000bph and with 17 jewels. Relaxed, but still accurate, reliable and eminently regulatable, they had micro-adjustment screws on the balance and a power reserve of around 36 hours. Sufficient to still be ticking when you get captured because you’ve swum the wrong way, clearly.\n\nThe watch needed to be large (47mm) so it could be legible in low underwater visibility, hence the clear, cutaway and luminous-filled numerals on the dial. Where a modern watch would use phosphorescent luminova, this Panerai uses radioluminescent radium.\n\nOver time, the radium filling in the numerals has faded so as to be barely visible whereas the lume in the steel, blued hands is still much clearer and brighter.\n\nLogically, the 12-sided caseback and brevet-marked crown both screw down tightly to the case to make the watch waterproof. These early ref. 3646 casebacks seem to have hand-applied engine turning on the inside of the caseback, but only around the circumference. They’re still stamped “Rolex”, unlike the later models where Rolex markings were removed.\n\nSgt Rowson was clearly eager to ensure his new watch didn’t find another home by mistake. He carefully engraved the case back by hand with his full name, rank and the year he liberated the watch from its German owner.\n\nSince leaving the bench, it’s been a well-travelled watch. Starting in Italy, the Panerai made its way (via the wrist of the unfortunate Kampfschwimmer) to Holland and thence to the UK and Nuneaton. After the war, Sgt Rowson passed the watch to his son who seems to have barely worn it.\n\nNow the family is selling their WWII heirloom. Although, perhaps unsurprisingly it doesn’t run anymore, the watch comes with its original broad leather strap. Even more unusually, it also comes with a fragment of its original owner’s rubber diving suit.\n\nThis isn’t the first ref. 3646 to turn up in interesting circumstances post-war, although it may be one of the most engagingly storied and best provenanced. In 2016, a Cheshire man found a ref. 3646 in a chest of drawers while he was clearing the contents of his late father’s house. He had no idea of its worth (his father had bought the watch at a car boot sale for £10 some years earlier) and casually strolled into a valuation day at a local saleroom with the watch in his pocket, thinking it might make as much as £500.\nIt sold for rather more.\n\nApparently, post-sale, the auctioneer needed to explain to him exactly how much his father’s car boot £10 Pam had made. ‘When I told the vendor afterwards it sold for £46,000 he thought I had said “£4,000 to £6,000” and had to repeat it three times before he believed me.” Rather better luck than that of a certain kampfschwimmer in 1944.\n\nSince the auction for this watch, another – owned by the same regiment’s Captain Packer – has sold. That still leaves 10 of the original 12 Kampfschwimmer watches unaccounted for…\n\nOne thought on “When a watch tells more than the time”" ]

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[ "Barry Lyndon: Pretty As A Picture – Review by Derek Malcolm\n\nI doubt if there could be a grander looking film than Stanley Kubrick's eagerly awaited three hour adaptation of Thackeray's Barry Lyndon. Stop it at almost any point and you would have something ravishing to look at.", null, "I doubt if there could be a grander looking film than Stanley Kubrick’s eagerly awaited three hour adaptation of Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon. Stop it at almost any point and you would have something ravishing to look at. From first to last it provides an eyeful, with exteriors made on location in England, Eire and Germany so exquisitely frame that they remind you not so much of the real thing but of a landscape painter’s judicious and painstaking approximation of it.\n\nThe interiors too are of a varnished and shimmering elegance several times more propitious than those generally glimpsed through the naked eye. Virtually absolutely nothing has been left to chance, with special lenses conveying every nuance to the watcher during the candlelight scenes. Yet one’s chief recollection of this panoramic vision of the past is not what we see but the lack of what we miss. And that is drama.\n\nIndeed it seems, as we progress minute by fastidious minute along the highways and byeways of this spread-eagled story, that we have in front of us not so much an epic affair of flesh and blood as a ruminative pictorial essay through which the rise, decline and fall of Ryan O’Neal’s cypher-like Mr Lyndon is reflected rather than told. There is a narrator (Michael Hordern) who seems intent on telling us the plot before it happens and often before it does not. In the latter case we are presented merely with the aftermath, the words having sufficed for the action.\n\nIt does not of course matter what a film-maker leaves out—and let’s not worry overmuch about Thackeray, since this is justifiably a very free adaptation of a worryingly unreadable book—provided one can be certain that what he leaves in is resonant enough. But it isn’t, for all those special Zeiss lenses, that superb static camerawork from John Alcott, the immensely proficient production design and art direction from Ken Adam and Roy Walker, those wonderful Ulla-Britt Söderlund and Milena Canonero costumes and that music, ranging effortlessly from Irish traditional (The Chieftains) to Schu­bert’s Piano Trio in E-flat.\n\nIt is Kubrick’s view of things that ultimately counts, not the illustrative talents of others he brings to bear on it. And that seems to me virtually indecipherable. He is like a batsman trying to score a century without anybody noticing, fearful of scoring boundaries lest he awakens his spectators from their perfect day-dreams. He blocks and block and blocks, with unsurpassed care and elegance, while Mr Hordern at the other end hits sonorous sixes that vouchsafe to us the main drift of Thackeray’s moral tale.\n\nBut to the story seen and unseen. Barry’s adventures begin in Ireland when he flees from the law after a duel provoked by the girl who rejects him in favour of a British officer so as to shore up the family fortunes. He enlists in the army, deserts but is pressed into service with the Prussians, remorselessly pursuing the Seven Years War. From there he becomes a police spy, employed to watch a notorious curd-sharper (Patrick Magee in the one notable extended vignette).\n\nDeciding to change sides again, he follows his pomaded master through the courts of Europe, eventually marrying the widowed Countess of Lyndon (Maria Berenson) for her money. But his ill-treatment of his stepson and of her, his debts and the eventual death of his son lead him to ruin in the midst of a society that welcomes the daring ingenue only for as long as his luck holds out.\n\nIf Mr O’Neal had been a better actor, or rather had been able to flesh out the slender resources of the director’s script, if Mr Kubrick had decided to slop bathing our eyes in favour of greater narrative drive, and “if” a great many other things besides, Barry Lyndon would have been a film and a half. As it is, it’s half a film — an interminably beautiful pastiche which, far from punching us into submission like A Clockwork Orange, gently and almost imperceptibly tickles us to sleep.", null ]

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[ "This event began 01/06/21 and repeats every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday forever\n\nBefore the commercial boom of dance music in the 2000s and the 2010s, the 1990s were a formative time for the genre. While house and techno began percolating into the mainstream, dance music's burgeoning popularity also saw new styles such as trance, drum and bass and others find their footing. Here, we're highlighting some of the decade's most memorable songs that helped carry dance music forward and shape what it's become today. Hasta la vista, baby.", null, "We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue." ]

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[ "The Smash Ultimate online lobbies have the potential to make everything a lot better than what Smash 4 had to offer us.\n\nThe best part of playing any Smash game is playing online. There is nothing like the thrill of playing against players of your own caliber, or better yet, players that can teach you more about how to play.\n\nUnfortunately, in Smash 4, getting to that thrilling match is a bit of a process. It takes a lot of lobby jumping and blocking to finally whittle down your potential pool to a group that’s even halfway decent.\n\nOn top of that, there are a lot of major issues plaguing the Smash 4 online experience. Here are all of the ways that playing Smash Ultimate online can make playing Smash online fun again.", null, "There is nothing worse than being forced to finish a match with a slow connection. As frustrating as it is, there’s nothing that you can do to avoid it. When you’re stuck in a slow match in Smash 4, the two-minute match has the potential to turn into a ten-minute one.\n\nIt’s time for Nintendo to make a bandwidth cutoff in their online games. Also, an official ethernet dongle, let alone an ethernet port in the Switch doc, is necessary for the Smash Ultimate online experience. If most of the matches that we play in Smash Ultimate online have a great connection, then the overall experience of playing Smash will improve vastly.", null, "If you want to connect with a friend that lives far away, you don’t really have many options. While you can make a room to play against each other, you can only play against other friends, instead of other random players.\n\nIf Smash Ultimate would finally give us the ability to join random lobbies with a friend, I would be ecstatic. This issue is all bundled up in the hidden servers of Smash 4, and it’s something that holds the Smash online competitive scene back. Give us chosen servers and lobbies or give us death!", null, "This is the least likely request to come true on this list. It would be very, very un-Nintendo to allow random players to talk at will while children play video games in their living rooms.\n\nThe thing is, Nintendo’s crowd has full well grown up, especially within the Smash Bros. fandom. Hey, at least make it an included feature, but something that can be blocked with the parental controls that Nintendo keeps showcasing with Bowser Jr. and Bowser.\n\nPredicting who the two remaining new ‘Smash’ characters will be", null, "Brawl‘s online experience was in a lot of ways worse than Smash 4 (hopefully this improvement trend continues in Smash Ultimate online). However, one of the best parts about Brawl was the wildness of it. Given enough reports, Smash 4 has an alternate server that players can be vanquished to, dubbed affectionately “Smash Hell.” You… don’t want to end up in Smash Hell.\n\nThe Wild West experience of Brawl made it so that you weren’t accidentally reported for “grieving” (Smash 4 often misinterprets this form of targeting a single player in a free for all), taunt parties (God forbid you try to taunt more than three times, let along stall in the same spot for more than 10 seconds in Smash 4), and yeah, spammy play.\n\nThis answer of making a Smash Hell server exclusively full of the deviants of the bottom of the Smash barrel does not work. Plus, reports are never reviewed for their truthfulness. It’s a total mess that needs to be remedied or axed in Smash Ultimate online.", null, "It is an absolute necessity for the Smash Ultimate online servers to include ranked matches. This would be a simple inclusion to give Smash players more incentive to play well, sans spam, taunt parties, and grieving (all things that Nintendo thought they were going to solve in Smash 4‘s reporting system).\n\nPlaying in the ranked matches can be optional, as sometimes, we all want to play in a more taunt party-esque lobby, but without the risk of hurting our ranking. Not having a ranked system in Smash Ultimate online would be a major missed opportunity.\n\nWhat improvements do you want to see in the Smash Ultimate online experience?" ]

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[ null, "EARLY ONE MORNING in August 2005, a small team of game wardens and deputies climbed through coyote brush and manzanita in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve outside San Jose, California, searching for an illegal pot farm. As they crested a ridge, they discovered densely planted rows of cannabis stalks. Suddenly, a high-powered rifle cracked and an officer fell to the ground, shot through both legs. Seconds later, another deputy shot and killed a man wielding a sawed-off shotgun. “It was literally like a jungle firefight,” recalls warden John Nores, who fired at the other shooter before he escaped into the woods. Left behind in a meadow just minutes from the heart of Silicon Valley were 22,000 marijuana plants worth some $88 million.\n\nOver the past decade, marijuana patches known as “grows” or “gardens” have sprung up on public lands across the West, including a third of California’s national parks and nearly 40 percent of all national forests. Where hippies once grew just enough weed to peace out, traffickers now cultivate more than 100,000 plants at a time on 30-acre terraces irrigated by plastic pipe, laced with illegal pesticides, and guarded by men with MAC-10s and Uzis. Grows have turned up everywhere from the deepest backcountry to the edges of suburban subdivisions. Farming pot on public land can be more profitable than smuggling it across the increasingly militarized border. The 3.1 million pot plants seized in national forests in the year prior to last September had an estimated street value of $12.4 billion.\n\nRangers and game wardens say pot growers are a major threat to California’s 23,500 square miles of wilderness (which doesn’t include state or regional lands). “These guys literally create cities within your national forests,” says Laura Mark, a special agent with the US Forest Service. Growers clear land year-round, plant crops in the spring, and haul out the harvest in the fall, often leaving behind mounds of trash and dead animals, denuded hillsides, and streams full of sediment and human waste. Last year, the community of Snow Creek, California, traced feces in its water treatment plant to a grow in the nearby San Bernardino National Forest. Restoring the 10,000 acres of national forest fouled by pot farms could cost more than $30 million.\n\nPot farmers who till public lands avoid the risk of forfeiting their property if they’re busted, but they must also ward off competitors. “They are going to point guns at you first and ask questions later,” says Troy Bolen, the Bureau of Land Management’s head of law enforcement in California. In the past decade, growers have killed two people who have stumbled upon their fields, held nature lovers at gunpoint, and had numerous shoot-outs with cops. Last year, in California’s national forests the state’s anti-grow task force killed one grower and arrested 177, 80 percent of whom were Mexican citizens.\n\nOfficials believe that Mexican drug cartels control the grows, but proving that is tough. Last year, Nores caught a pot grower who revealed almost everything about his operation but said he didn’t know whom he worked for. “They’re kind of set up like terrorist cells,” he observes. After the bloody 2005 ambush, he says, his team now treats raids like potential battles, bringing along medics and keeping air support on standby—just in case." ]

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[ null, "I often avoid the opportunity to watch horror shows or movies, for they make me tremble in my boots. This is one genre which evokes aversion! However, I chanced upon a new web series that seemed quite well-written. ZEE5 has come up with a new horror series ‘Parchhayee: Ghost Stories by Ruskin Bond’ that offers a new story in every episode. The punch line of the show says that the stories are an adaptation of Ruskin bond’s Horror Stories and the writers live up to the expectations. I watched Parchhayee: Ghost Stories by Ruskin Bond Episode 12 and I must say that the writer has done a wonderful job in keeping the story as gripping as possible.\n\n‘Whispering in the Dark’ is the final chapter in the series. It is set amidst the dense forests where a huge mansion hosts plenty of guests (trekkers, travellers and vagabonds). Two sisters live in this alienated house and their perplexing personalities add to the eerie atmosphere of the show. While one seems quite amicable with strangers, the elder one comes across as a conniver. Enter two more characters in the setting- Joy and his girlfriend, Neelam. As the two get lost into the woods, the night beckons the sinful spirits and forces the couple to succumb to their ill fate.\n\nThe story is quite predictable and the desperate attempt to leave the climax at a cliff hanger fails to impress. Other than this, the performances, the script, screenplay, sets and the writing help the series finale pass the muster.\n\nIra Dubey (the younger sister- Reema) aces the test with her inexplicable smile and often persuades the viewers into believing that she is the victim of her circumstances. Her seamless performance adds to the overall enticing premise. While Jay Bhanushali is a well-known name in the television industry, Plabita Borthakur as Neelam does a wonderful execution of her part. I really liked her fluency in the dialogues. Sukhmani Sadana also does justice with Suzi’s character.\n\nHaving seen it, I feel Parchhayee: Ghost Stories by Ruskin Bond is one of the most creative horror series that is available on ZEE5. Unlike other horror shows where distasteful VFX spoil the show, Parchhayee: Ghost Stories by Ruskin Bond offers a mix of thrill, suspense and spine-chilling back-story. These episodes might not prevent you from sleeping in the dark alone but will remain with you for quite some time. Other than the abrupt ending, other aspects are carried out with great finesse. Be it the vintage set that adds the element of realism to the story or the felicitous background score or the props or flawless acting- all of them help in keeping the wheels of the episode rolling smoothly. In certain moments, absolute silence plays a key role in building anticipation among the viewers.\n\nMaintaining the suspense for a long time is not everyone’s forte. The writer’s prowess lies in adding life to the inanimate objects and keeping the secrets under wraps even till the end. However, I think if the ’why’ had been answered more clearly, this episode would have turned out to be a complete pot-boiler.\n\nNevertheless, Parchhayee: Ghost Stories by Ruskin Bond is intriguing and is based on a more contemporary version of this genre. So, watch this show now on ZEE5 and share your views in the comment section.\n\nNot a big fan of the horror genre? Why don’t you watch Comedy Shots on ZEE5?" ]

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[ null, "The first dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine was associated with a “very small” increased risk of bleeding and other rare blood disorders, the researchers said.\n\nWhile the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is not yet approved for use in the United States, an independent committee advising vaccination in the United Kingdom has previously recommended that those aged 1\n\nThe researchers reported an increased risk of abnormally low platelet counts within six days of vaccination with the AstraZeneca product. There were 1.33 more events of thrombocytopenia per 100,000 than expected. The researchers also found a frequency of 1.13 cases per 100,000 of so-called idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) or a blood disorder involving an unusual drop in platelet count, according to Hopkins Medicine. ITP is “most pronounced” about 21 to 27 days after vaccination, but was observed seven days after vaccination.\n\n“This very small risk is important, but should be seen in the context of the very clear benefits of the ChAdOx1 vaccine,” the study authors wrote.\n\nThe study authors reported 22 patients with an unusual drop in platelet count, although almost half had previous prescriptions that could lead to the problem. The study suggested that very few patients with ITP were prescribed ITP therapies after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe researchers noted three deaths after ITP, although not due to ITP, and deaths occurred in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people over the age of 70.\n\n“The first dose of ChAdOx1 was found to be associated with small increased risks of ITP, with presumed evidence of an increased risk of arterial thromboembolic and haemorrhagic events. Given these small increased risks for ChAdOx1, alternative vaccines for individuals at low risk of COVID-19 to be justified when supply allows “, write the authors of the study.\n\nMODERN LOOKS FOR PERMISSION FOR COVID-19 VACCINE FOR TEEN\n\nNo such problems have been found with the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nThe researchers were unable to draw definitive conclusions about a clotting problem, including the rare but deadly cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, CVST. Six cases of CVST have occurred in people vaccinated with the AstraZeneca product, and researchers suspect that the result is likely to be ‘extremely rare’." ]

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[ null, "Let me first disclose that I have only seen this middle part of Chelsea M. Marcantel’s self-produced “(a)Symmetry Cycle,” and so do not intend to deliver any sort of commentary on the trilogy as a whole. But in her series of plays focusing on the nature of human relationships through the lens and language of chemistry, Marcantel poses potentially interesting scenarios that alternately make you want to run home to your tenth-grade chemistry textbook or lean in with wonder and bafflement. “Dumbspeak: The Chemistry of Falling Apart” finds Isaac returning after seven years away to reclaim the love of Alice, who had been seeing Peter. Introduce a younger brother and a lesbian couple, all vying for each other’s affections, and you have the stage version of a Chem 101 experiment. The metaphors are convoluted, the words multisyllabic, and the cast, though game, simply too young for their characters’ lab coats. Marcantel cites entropy—which states that heat will not decrease inside of a system, unless it is not isolated—as a central theme to “Dumbspeak,” and in this case heat dissipates along with interest. (Neal Ryan Shaw)" ]

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[ "Twitter ads are coming to your profile\nTwitter advertising isn’t new, but it’s a first for them to allow advertising to appear on users’ profiles. According to Re/code report, the social network is testing out promoted tweets on some profile pages. While these experimental ads will only be displayed for Twitter users who are logged in, it’s possible that this could change in the future once the company’s recently reported deal with Google officially rolls out.\n\nFacebook shows that it’s serious about mobile\nFacebook’s latest product and feature announcements show the company is finally taking mobile seriously, with its development of mobile-specific standalone platform such as Messenger. According to TechCrunch editor Darrell Etherington, Facebook has moved away from the opinion that what works on the web works on mobile and ‘what it’s doing now on mobile is far more interesting, and engaging, than what it was doing even just one year ago, and that bodes well for the future.’\n\nXiaomi wristband supports mobile payment enabled by Alipay\nHuami, the manufacturer of Xiaomi’s hugely-popular smart fitness tracker Mi Band, has entered into a partnership with Alibaba’s payment affiliate Alipay to develop smart wrist bands that incorporate a mobile payment solution. After connecting the Mi Band with an Alipay account, wearers can make payments without the need to enter a password. Acting as the means of user ID verification, the wristband has to be connected to the wearer’s phone via Bluetooth when the transaction is being made.\n\nChina’s JD creates standalone branch for online-to-offline services\nOnline retailer JD – China’s second-biggest business-to-consumer eCommerce site after Alibaba’s Tmall – announced it would establish an independent subsidiary specifically for online-to-offline businesses. JD recently launched a food delivery service called Pai Dao Jia that detects a user’s location and then lists specific foods and household goods that they can order from within a three-kilometre radius. JD partners with supermarkets and uses either its own or the retailers’ logistics to guarantee delivery within two hours.\n\nMillennials in the driving seat for mobile commerce growth\nAccording to a new quarterly mCommerce report from the Global Web Index, younger internet users are driving growth in this area, with around 40% of those between the ages of 16-24 worldwide using a mobile device to shop online each month (compared to 36% of all online adults). In addition, one-fifth of all internet users are selling something online using mobile devices, and 26% of internet users are active on shopping apps, with 70% of those app users buying a product online.History\nRed Ant is a specialist in delivering multi-device digital experiences and developing enterprise technology to help retailers drive increased sales and operational performance.\nBased in the UK, with offices in China, Hong Kong and Switzerland, Red Ant began as a technology company established in 1999, creating effective ways to help retailers connect with their customers in a rapidly changing digital world.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "And the award goes to…", null, "Saint Francis High School Alumnus Greta Gerwig made a historical run during this year’s award season. She is now the fifth woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. In light of Gerwig’s success, Lady Bird has directed plenty of focus on St. Francis.\n\nYet, reporters have overlooked another influential part of her high school experience. In 2002, Gerwig starred in the Jesuit High School Drama production of The Wizard of Oz, caste (to her surprise) as Dorothy.\n\nIn a personal anecdote about the experience, published as a part of “Starry-Eyed: 16 Stories that Steal the Spotlight,” Gerwig quotes her mother who described the production as “doing something ‘weird.”\n\nJesuit Drama Director Mr. Ed Trafton ’84 took an interesting approach to the show. He had it revolve around a fictitious school, Our Lady of the Reluctant Supplication, and encouraged the cast to get creative, or—as Gerwig put it in Starry-Eyed—“make it our own.”\n\nThis unusual iteration of the musical was one of the events that, as Gerwig comically put it in the story, “put the finishing touches (or nail in the coffin, depending on your perspective) on my lifelong love of being on the stage and behind the scenes.”\n\nAt the end of the anecdote, Gerwig admits that this production, to some extent, added a sense of confidence that helped solidify her decision to become an actress, a writer, and eventually a director.\n\n“Greta was and is a fine actress, an actress that works so well in an ensemble setting,” said Mr. Trafton. “Jesuit Drama tries, regardless of what show it’s doing, to create an ensemble feel, and I know that appealed to Greta.”\n\nAccording to IMDb, after graduating from St. Francis, Gerwig went to New York City intending to study musical theater, but instead she enrolled at Barnard College to study English and Philosophy.\n\nAfter graduating, Gerwig continued acting, along with co-writing and co-directing, in a myriad of films ranging from low-budget indie films to larger budget productions, all while maintaining a sense of individuality and authenticity.\n\nGerwig started filming Lady Bird in Sacramento in 2016. While filming, in some strange manner of circumstance, Joe Courey ‘18 stumbled upon one of the sets for the film on the way home from Jesuit. After returning to the scene the next morning, Joe met with Gerwig, wanting to help out and learn some more about a passion of his, filmmaking. Gerwig welcomed him, and he worked with the set’s chief electrician during his time during shooting.\n\nOverall, what Courey saw on set was some of the best that Hollywood has to offer.\n\nThe friendliness he received shows how Gerwig treats her collaborators, as people who have a passion for filmmaking. It is the way that Gerwig makes her movies that creates a positive environment on her sets, and her movies are, and will be, successful because of it. There’s a lesson for all students, as well, and Mr. Trafton described it the best.\n\n“Be yourself,” said Mr. Trafton, “And be kind. In the world hard work, individuality and compassion are rewarded.”\n\nIn light of her success, Greta Gerwig has become an inspiration for students who want to follow their dreams. And it is still inspiring to think one of the reasons why she started her journey was a zany rendition of The Wizard of Oz performed in Jesuit’s Black Box theatre." ]

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[ "In the second episode of our women in real estate podcast series, associate Emily Chandler sits down with Amanda Lim, Partner, Head of flexible office solutions at Knight Frank.\n\nAmanda moved to London from Singapore in 2016 to start up and lead Knight Frank’s flexible office space team, and has since spearheaded its dominance in the market, achieving a fivefold revenue growth. She has expanded the team from one to seven people and launched the team’s dedicated digital platform, resulting in a 425% increase in deals 6 months following its launch.\n\nAlongside leading the gender diversity board for Knight Frank, she has also been shortlisted for Property Week’s Rising Star Award and chosen as one of EG’s Future Female Leaders. Amanda’s drive, passion and success has made her an outstanding role model within the industry and among her peers.\n\nAll episodes in the series will be available on Spotify and Apple Podcast.", null, "My career advice to other women is take every opportunity, even if you’re not 100% you can do it, take it." ]

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[ null, "To be writing a psychological horror film for William Friedkin, the man who set the standard in the genre by directing what is considered to be scariest and most viscerally disturbing movie of all time, is more than a writer could hope\n\nHope Davis (born March 23, 1964) is an American actress. She has starred in more than 20 feature films, including About Schmidt, Flatliners, Mumford, American Splendor, The Lodger and Next Stop Wonderland.\n\nDavis, second of three children, was born in Englewood, New Jersey, the daughter of Joan, a librarian, and William Davis, an engineer. Davis has described her mother as a \"great storyteller\" who would take Davis and her siblings to museums or to \"something cultural\" every Sunday after church. Davis graduated in 1982 from Tenafly High School in Tenafly, New Jersey, and was a childhood friend of Mira Sorvino, with whom she wrote and acted in backyard plays.\n\nFULL ARTICLE AT WIKIPEDIA.ORG\nThis article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.\nIt uses material from the Wikipedia article \"Hope Davis.\"\nBack to Article\n/" ]

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[ "The Project on the History of Black Writing staff member, Christopher Peace, recently attended the 2021 ZORA! Festival of the Arts and Humanities as a third time graduate intern. Due to COVID-19, the festival was different from past years, taking on a hybrid zoom and socially distanced format. Peace recaps his experience with the festival this year, noting the differences from past festivals, as well as what he learned from this opportunity.\n\nThe 2021 ZORA! Festival of the Arts and Humanities began online weeks before I traveled to Eatonville. It was January 7, Zora’s 130th birthday anniversary. NY Nathiri, the executive director of Preserve the Eatonville Community (P.E.C.), invited me to a Zoom gathering for Zora’s birthday and asked me to give a toast. I received a fancy Zora box with a gluten-free cupcake and sparkling apple cider (this sample got me hooked on sparkling apple cider—I buy it every week now). The DJ really made this event stand-out, encouraging people to groove to the old school and newer musical selections. Zoom did rounds of spotlights where your camera would be highlighted on the main screen for all in the room to see, which was a convincing impetus to get us dancing and smiling. Toward the end of the evening, it was my turn to give a toast. Due to impressive scholars like Valerie Boyd and Trudier Harris being present on Zoom, I was a bit nervous to say my part. I began my toast thankful for my involvement with the ZORA! Festival and for Zora’s guidance in multiple areas of my life and I ended with my favorite quote from Their Eyes Were Watching God:\n\nShe saw a dust bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousands sister calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming on every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!\n\nUnbeknownst to me, this quote would come to represent a different spark, a coming-together, for my engagement with Hurston, Eatonville, and the festival. The drive to Eatonville was smooth, with not as much traffic as the other times I’ve visited the city. My third time as a graduate intern attending the ZORA! festival was drastically different from the previous festivals. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, most of the communal aspects that defined regular festival experiences were held in digital or non-contact spaces. However, the warmth of the people of Eatonville and the dedication of the ZORA! Festivals to highlighting culturally centered engagement remained ever-present as this year’s attendees adjusted to safer protocols of engagement.\n\nWith COVID-19 changing the festival’s environment, Mrs. Nathiri informed me that my work with the festival would be geared toward “art administration.” After my third time at the festival, Mrs. Alice Grant, a long-time participant and curator of events, gracefully offered me a place to stay. For the most part, I worked with statistical data of various festival and P.E.C. audiences on Mail Chimp and on the ZORA! Festival website. I reported on the percentage of individuals opening and reading P.E.C. newsletters. I and others discussed ways in which the festival’s online presence could be more effective. All these tasks were very practical for me due to their attention to statistics and real-time audience participation as digital and public audience involvement are some of the major elements of my studies in the field of rhetoric and composition.\n\nThe “humanities” aspect of this festival has always been my favorite. For the 2020 to 2024 cycle, the theme of the festival is Afrofuturism. This year’s focus was “Afrofuturism—What is the Sound?” To discuss these sonic themes, the University of Central Florida hosted a 2-day conference curated by Dr. Julian Chambliss, professor of English at Michigan State University and ZORA! Festival National Planner. This conference was inspired by Hurston’s legacy of valuing the voices and sounds of Black culture and married elements of futurism or science fiction to the oral tradition and music technology evident in Black history and culture. On the first day of the conference, keynote speaker Dr. Toniesha L. Taylor, associate professor of communication and rhetoric at Texas Southern University, presented “Mocked to death by time: Zora Neale Hurston as the sound of Afrofuture present past to future past.” Dr. Taylor’s insight on time’s cyclical movement between future, past, and present was truly astounding as she connected this concept to Hurston’s ethnographic work. The conference also provided an open-access Afrofuturism syllabus along with a collection of open educational resources (OERs) for the festival’s 2020-2024 Afrofuturism Conference Cycle.\n\nThis year’s festival structure allowed me the time and space to experience parts of Eatonville I’d never seen. Mrs. Cynthia Haywood, who is an Eatonville native and museum secretary, and I led four visitors on a tour to different parts of Eatonville. Our first stop was a beautiful mural wall done by various artists that displayed Zora and other vivid images. Next, we stopped at the Moseley House, the second oldest building in Eatonville which now serves as a museum. A sign on the outside of the house reads “Zora Slept Here.” We left the museum and crossed the street to visit one of the most historic churches in the U.S., St. Lawrence A. M. E. Church. Large paintings of the Lord’s Prayer artistically reimagined were hung around the wall of the church. I purchased postcard versions of those paintings to take with me.\n\nThe festival concluded with a drive-in movie night, featuring Spiderman: Into the Spider Verse and The Best Man. I think drive-in movies should return for the time being because this was a great socially distanced idea that yielded an impressive turn out. Ultimately, this festival was a blast, even in the midst of the pandemic.\n\nInterested in learning more about Zora Neale Hurston? Apply to our NEH Virtual Summer Institute “Hurston on the Horizon; Past, Present, and Future”. “Hurston on the Horizon” will provide an in-depth multidisciplinary reassessment of the works of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), as well as her impact on contemporary practices and central themes within academic and public discourse. Spots available for 25 college/university educators. The deadline to apply is March 1, so apply today!", null ]

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[ null, "After my grueling workout playing Kinect tennis, I’ve found myself in quite a bit of discomfort. This is usually brought on by Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, or DOMS. It’s perfectly normal, but a bit of a pain to deal with.\n\nYeah, that pun was on purpose.\n\nStill, everything across my upper back and traps are quite sore this morning. And to a far lesser degree, my biceps and chest are feeling it a bit as well. That’s because I strapped weights to my wrist and played tennis for a bit longer than I probably should have.\n\nNot to mention the light soreness in my thighs and calves because of the leg work I do while playing.\n\nEssentially, the soreness is my body’s way of letting me know that I have been neglecting practical fitness for the past few years. I felt the same way when I started up with the Xbox at the beginning of 2018.\n\nWhat's In This Post... hide\nWhat is DOMS, Exactly?\nHow I Often Deal with DOMS\nDoes This Mean I’m Pushing Too Hard Again?\nSome Games Are Just More Intense than Others\nThe Discomfort Isn’t Bad, Just Make Sure It’s DOMS\n\nWhat is DOMS, Exactly?\n\nDelayed Onset Muscle Soreness usually happens several hours after your workout. You’ll begin to feel stiffness and soreness in the muscle groups you targeted in the routine.\n\nIt is believed that DOMS happens due to the tiny tears in muscle fiber that are created during intense workouts. Your body then repairs these tears with a more dense muscle mass to adapt to the new regimen.\n\nIt’s a temporary discomfort that usually subsides as you continue to exercise regularly.\n\nIn reality, the soreness shouldn’t be more than just an annoying discomfort. If you’re feeling some severe pain, you may want to make an appointment with your doctor as you may have injured yourself.\n\nHow I Often Deal with DOMS\n\nI bet you didn’t think you could get an intense workout playing the Xbox Kinect. But, because of how I play, this happens quite often. Thanks to the amount of effort I put into playing and the weights I include, it’s always an intense workout.\n\nUsually, I get sore because I take extended breaks between actually getting in exercise, which is not a very good practice to get into. If I would have kept up with the gameplay, I wouldn’t be suffering from DOMS today…and would probably weigh 30 pounds less.\n\nAt any rate, I deal with muscle soreness by jumping right back into the game. Instead of taking time off or popping a pain killer, I’ve found that pushing through the soreness speeds up recovery.\n\nIn fact, I usually don’t feel or pay much attention to the soreness after about five minutes of my next exercise.\n\nYou don’t want to sit and wait for the DOMS to go away, as you’ll start to stiffen up and it may make the pain a bit worse. By getting back to the game, I keep the muscles moving and feeling loose.\n\nAs long as I maintain a good routine of playing the Kinect or otherwise exercising, the soreness goes away in about two or three days and doesn’t come back.\n\nWell, that is unless I turn up the intensity again. It’s all about taking my workouts to the next level once I adapt. This comes in the form of increasing the weight or time spent playing my games.\n\nDoes This Mean I’m Pushing Too Hard Again?\n\nAlthough I do have a habit of pushing myself way beyond my limits, DOMS is a bit of a different story. As long as it’s not an actual injury, some experts suggest doing cardio to mitigate soreness.\n\nAs I mentioned earlier, getting back to the routine loosens the muscles and helps with easing the discomfort.\n\nI can’t really call it pain, per se. Having an 800-pound horse staple your little toe into the soil because you wore loafers in the field…that’s pain. Soreness in the muscles because you worked out after a year of being lazy…not so much.\n\nTo be honest, this happens every time I go back to intense workouts with the Xbox.\n\nGenerally speaking, you can take up to three weeks off before you start to lose muscle strength and gains. But when you take about a year or so off, it’s going to be a bit rough to get back into the swing of things.\n\nYet, DOMS is a temporary discomfort that will quickly subside as long as I stay active. And that doesn’t mean I have to restrict myself to just playing the Xbox.\n\nVirtually any exercise routine that involves those muscles groups is going to keep them active enough to prevent DOMS. Unfortunately, I haven’t been the most active.\n\nSome Games Are Just More Intense than Others\n\nOne of my favorite games to play for a workout is Avengers: Battle for Earth. And although I felt a bit of DOMS when I started playing again, it’s nothing like I feel now.\n\nThat’s because Avengers doesn’t have the same kind of intensity. Sure, my obliques, chest, and biceps felt sore when I began playing again. But far more muscles are sore this time around after playing tennis.\n\nThat’s because Kinect tennis has the capacity to use over-exaggerated movements to help you burn more calories. So, after jumping around my living room like an idiot, more muscle groups are feeling the impact.\n\nEspecially since I use wrist weights to amplify the workout.\n\nThe different types of movements in some games also work out different muscle groups. This is why my biceps and chest don’t hurt nearly as badly as my back.\n\nSince I’ve been playing Virtual Smash and Avengers again, my biceps and chest already went through DOMS a couple of weeks ago.\n\nBut, Virtual Smash doesn’t add the same intensity to back and trap muscles as tennis does. Even my legs are not nearly as sore as my back because of the squats I do while playing Virtual Smash.\n\nThis goes to show that you shouldn’t just stick to one game. Just like any other exercise routine, you need to mix it up if you want to work out different muscles groups.\n\nNot every pain you feel after a workout may be DOMS-related. It’s actually quite easy to injure yourself during a workout, such as pulling muscles or dislocating joints.\n\nA good way to tell is if the pain is bilateral. For example, if you worked out both of your legs but you feel pain in just one of them, you could have pulled something.\n\nNever underestimate your health and consult your physician. It’s always best to err on the side of caution than to do more damage to yourself.\n\nDid I Find My Weight Lifting Max on Monday?", null, "I’m a Hurtin’ Unit: My Muscles Are Sore After My Workout", null, "2 thoughts on “DOMS Strikes Again, But I’ll Continue to Work Out”" ]

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[ null, "A lot can happen in a week, apparently. We literally just told you that seminal indie rockers Guided By Voices were set to return to Nashville on Oct. 24 for a date at Mercy Lounge, but, as announced yesterday, that show will no longer be happening, nor will any other scheduled performance, because, once again, Guided By Voices have called it quits. Since reuniting with their “classic lineup” four years ago, the Ohio group managed to release six full-length albums and have toured rigorously. No specific reason was provided for the split. We’re extra bummed, because the Mercy Lounge show was set to coincide with our editor Matt Hall’s birthday. Tickets refunds are available at their point of purchase. Our condolences are free." ]

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[ null, null, "At the age of 25, Berg has already become one of the globe’s leading acts—over the course of just four years, when the sonic mixologist first launched his name brand. His ability to bring a crowd to its feet with hands waving in unison, as well as his mad beats, have fans from nearly every nation in the world pleading for him to make an appearance.\n\nAcross the time Berg has been consolidating his own style based on the desire to mix different sounds that brought inspiration, being able to take it to a new level which gave him the opportunity to collaborate with different artists such like Neelix, Symphonix, Capital Monkey, just to name few of them, releasing amazing tunes into well known labels like Spin Twist Records, and so Blue Tunes Records, in which he is currently signed up." ]

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[ "The Independent News\nBusiness & Economy Startups Google wraps up the year with Singapore’s trending list for the past...", null, "Singapore, as noted by Google, was among the many countries that have had a significant year, judged by the top searches on the platform\n\nIt is that time of the year again when Google released a list of the most popular searches of the year in each country it operates in, including Singapore.\n\nThe result revealed that Singaporean users are greatly invested in current affairs, with interests ranging from politics, sports, to Marvel superheroes.\n\nGoogle noted that in 2018 Singaporeans were particularly excited about its neighbour Malaysia’s fierce elections, as reflected in it became number two Trending Searches and Trending International News.\n\nIt was followed by the search for former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak on number four Trending Searches and Trending International News. The beloved Razak made history leading the power shift from Barisan Nasional (BN) to Pakatan Harapan (PH) for the first time in 60 years of Malaysia’s history.\n\nSitting on number eight of Trending Searches and simultaneously number one on Trending Singapore News is the Trump-Kim Summit, the first-ever meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader in the ASEAN Summit 2018.\n\nThe event ASEAN Summit 2018 itself made number nine of Trending Singapore News in the country.\n\nIf Royal Wedding can be categorised as political affair, then it did made an impression when the now-expecting Meghan Markle married Prince Harry and landed on number nine of Trending Searches and number eight of Trending International News.\n\nInterest in football had a spike in the country, marked with the FIFA World Cup 2018 taking the number one spot on the Top Trending Search list this year.\n\nOther sporting occasion that stole Singaporeans’ attentions was the Australian Open 2018, sitting at number three of the Trending Searches and number two of Trending Sporting News.\n\nApple Watch 4 stole the spotlight by emerging on number seven of the Trending Gadgets list, and iPad Pro on number 10.\n\nWith the introduction of quite a number of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-related features in software and hardware, these gadgets have offered many revolutionary experiences based on voice, motion and touch.\n\nThis year, the Singapore Comex 2018 has become the number one Trending Events in Singapore for the first time. Showing up at number two in the same search category was the IT Show 2018, climbing up from its success in the 2017.\n\nA special love for Marvel superhero characters was dominating the search list with four spots on Trending Movies with Black Panther at number one, Avengers: Infinity War at number two, Deadpool 2 at number three, and Venom at number five.\n\nStill in the same universe, the Marvel effect was on full-fledge with number three Trending Viral News turned out to be a fan-created website Did Thanos kill me? that determine if they were a casualty of the deadliest showdown against the supervillain, Thanos.\n\nStan Lee, who was the real hero behind the universe, passed away this year and sat at number five Trending Searches.\n\nThe popular Chinese hit drama Story of Yanxi Palace was at number one Trending TV Shows, just a spot above Korean drama What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim and Meteor Garden 2018 at number three, Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace (如 懿 传) at number four, and Legend of Fuyao 扶摇 at number nine.\n\nThe post Google wraps up the year with Singapore’s trending list for the past year appeared first on e27." ]

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[ "Top Five Wicketkeepers with Most Dismissals in T20 International", null, "T20 cricket is so popular these days that records are broken regularly. Everyone is setting new records, including batters, bowlers, fielders, and wicketkeepers. When it comes to wicketkeepers, there have been some excellent ones who have played the shortest format. People nowadays assess a keeper based on his batting average. However, wicket-keeping is just as essential since a fast stumping or diving catch may shift the game. In this post, we will discuss the wicketkeepers with the most dismissals in the T20’s.\n\nDenesh Ramdin, a West Indian wicketkeeper, ranks fifth on this list with 189 dismissals. He is an excellent wicketkeeper who competes in the CPL. Ramdin also played for St Kitts and Nevis Patriots in the just ended Caribbean Premier League. He has 189 dismissals in 218 matches, which is a respectable figure. He has a total of 139 catches and 50 stumpings to his credit.\n\nWith 205 dismissals, Sri Lanka’s world-class left-handed batter is fourth on the list. Sangakkara has participated in several T20 tournaments throughout the world and has had an effect on nearly all of them. His 205 dismissals in 265 matches include 145 catches and 60 stumpings. Sangakkara has kept wickets from a mystery spinner like Muttiah Muralitharan and classic pacers such as Lasith Malinga, demonstrating his class.\n\nDinesh Karthik may have struggled with the bat in his early years as a batsman, but he has always been a safe pair of hands behind the stumps. He may be viewed as a superhero behind the wickets, demonstrating his dedication. Karthik has been a successful wicketkeeper in all 12 seasons he has played. The KKR captain has 214 dismissals in 288 T20s, including 158 catches and 56 stumpings. As a wicketkeeper, the right-handed batter has at least a few more years in him, so he’ll be trying to break the 250 mark soon.\n\nWith 238 dismissals in T20 cricket, Kamran Akmal is the only Pakistan wicketkeeper on this list, but he is second, which is a significant accomplishment. In 254 games, he has 238 dismissals, including 142 catches and 96 stumpings.\n\nMS Dhoni was unquestionably going to be at the top of the list. Dhoni is the first wicketkeeper in T20 cricket history to have 250 dismissals, a considerable accomplishment. Dhoni has 315 T20s has 250 dismissals that include 167 catches and 83 stumpings. When it comes to stumpings, MS Dhoni possesses the quickest hands. He is the best picket keeper for any spinner. With 315 dismissals in his whole career, he is at the top of the list of wicketkeepers with the most dismissals." ]

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[ null, "Dpa cited politicians focused on domestic policy as saying tha these would be families with children.\n\nMore than 12,000 people, mostly refugees from Afghanistan, Africa and Syria, were left without shelter, proper sanitation or access to food and water after a fire tore through the overcrowded Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos last Wednesday." ]

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[ null, "Since the coronavirus pandemic began, art fairs have gone through a variety of permutations, from online to purely in-person, with several kinds of hybrids.\n\nFor many in the art world, the form and destiny of art Art Basel The fair, which is planned to take place between Friday and Sunday in Basel, Switzerland, is especially important considering that it is the “mother of all art fairs” in the words of the London-based dealer. Pilar Corrias.\n\n“There are too many fairs in the world and not all of them will survive,” said Ms. Corrias. “But we need Basel.”\n\nThe fair first took place in 1970 and now has prints in Miami Beach and Hong Kong.\n\nMore than 270 galleries are scheduled to be exhibited in the Messe Basel exhibition hall, the first such gathering to be held in Basel since 2019, and Hong Kong. fair It happened in May, it’s actually a hybrid, simultaneous online monitoring room.\n\nBut the focus is on the flashback of the real-world event.\n\n“The online component is limited to the galleries physically present at the fair,” said Marc Spiegler, global director of Art Basel. “The logic is that we want to expand the fair digitally instead of two fairs.” (Art Basel will also have an all-digital event in November.)\n\nGiven the circumstances, Mr. Spiegler was particularly proud of the strong number of galleries – 33 countries are represented – especially in Europe. Tracks located around the city of Basel and Unlimited, section for large-scale projects.\n\n“Both require an extraordinary effort on the part of the galleries,” he said. “It is particularly impressive that we have 62 projects for Unlimited.”\n\nFor organizers, exhibitors and collectors who want to participate in the fair, about the pandemic measures. In addition, the capacity of the hall was reduced and mask requirement was introduced.\n\nHe noted that the measures could encourage a more local crowd.\n\n“We assume the fair will have a more European flavor,” said Mr. Spiegler. I think the audience may be younger this year, too,” he said.\n\nThe tone of an event that once took at least some of its appeal from its social scene can also change.\n\n“We expect a very focused crowd,” said Mr Spiegler. “People who come to an art fair under these circumstances are really there for the art.”\n\n“This is more about seeing art than being seen,” he added.\n\nAmerican philanthropist Pamela JoynerKnown for his collection of works by black artists and the African diaspora, he said he plans to attend the fair “to talk to collectors and galleries that I don’t always talk to”.\n\nThere are some things he said “you can’t be online”.\n\nCurrently based in Nevada, near Lake Tahoe, Ms. Joyner travels frequently and serves on several corporate and cultural boards, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.\n\n“I have a particular fondness for Art Basel,” he said. “I think of it as part of my collection toolkit.”\n\nAmong other benefits, it helps her stay ahead of the curve. Ms. Joyner said she bought a work by the painter Jordan Casteel “before it came into the limelight” a few years ago. (A Miss Casteel’s questionnaire At the New Museum in New York last year.)\n\n“It was a figurative painting,” said Ms. Joyner, who often buys abstract works. “And I don’t buy many of those.”\n\nCorrias, which has two galleries in London and plans to expand to Shanghai next year, is among other works by Philippe Parreno’s “Full Times“The series is like a Christmas tree that has outgrown its prime.\n\n“It was complex and delicate and took more than two years to do,” Ms Corrias said, making it a must-see job. Therefore, participation in the fair.\n\n“It’s made of stainless steel but looks real,” he said. “You can’t see that in a photograph. You have to stand in front of it.”\n\nJeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, founder of the gallery hall 94 In New York, “It’s very important to put art before people. People are incapable of looking at art and squinting their eyes.”\n\nMs. Rohatyn will showcase works by Lisa Brice, Lyle Ashton Harris and Huma Bhabha, among others. It will display its photos on its stand. Kwame Brathwaite, including “Untitled” (Adopting natural hairstyles AJASS photo shoott)” (circa 1970).\n\n“She has a very sensitive eye,” said Ms. Rohatyn, adding that it would be fresh material for Basel audiences. “Europeans didn’t see much of this work.”\n\nMiss Rohatyn recently announced In January he would merge his business with those of three other major franchises and create a hybrid gallery and arts consultancy called LGDR. Hall 94 will close the trade show list at the West Bund show in Shanghai in November and Art Basel Miami Beach in December.\n\nA less dramatic and disruptive collaboration is planned for the Basel fair. Speron Westwater and David Nolan Gallery, both in New York. They reserve a booth under the title “Dialogues” and create provocative pairings from their respective exhibitions.\n\n“David Nolan and I were having lunch and we were like, ‘What are we going to do, how can we make this interesting,'” said Angela Westwater, co-founder of Sperone Westwater. “So we play a game and challenge each other.”\n\nSome pairings, such as Susan Rothenberg’s “Red” (2008) and Georg Baselitz’s two oil-on-canvas painting “Cebe” (1993), using the color red, are linked to aesthetics and psychics.\n\nOthers, such as a combination of a Bruce Nauman video and a collage by Barry Le Va, are thematically linked as both look at the psychological effects of architectural spaces..\n\n“We hope it is as fascinating and challenging for others as it is for us,” said Ms Westwater, who has attended Art Basel since the 1970s.\n\nIn addition to veterans like Ms. Westwater, there are 24 galleries in Basel for the first time this year. Isla Flotante It was founded in 2011 in Buenos Aires.\n\nLeopol Mones Cazon, one of the two directors, said the company focuses on young and mid-career artists.\n\nShown at Gallery Art Basel Miami Beach. “We now want to deepen our ties with Europe,” said Mr Cazon, a process that began in early 2020 but was “canceled by the pandemic”.\n\nFeaturing bird sounds, lights, and fine metal sculptures, some of which are star-shaped, the work addresses both environmental degradation and colonization. It was inspired by the 2019 appearance of a guajojó bird fleeing fires and destroying Amazonian habitat in La Paz, Bolivia, and has garnered a lot of media attention as it is traditionally thought to be a bad omen.\n\n“Objects in space are in a sad mood as they stare at this destruction,” said Mr. Cazon. “This is a doomsday scenario. But it’s also poetic.”" ]

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[ null, "Most Recent: Nobody Walks, 28 Hotel Rooms\n\nFall On Your Sword is the multimedia composing entity founded by Will Bates and Philip Mossman. Though originally from London, Bates and Mossman met in Brooklyn where they now record and reside. The duo has gained swift recognition as a rising force in the world of feature film scoring as well as recording/performing artists and viral video mavericks. Together they have amassed over 2 million YouTube hits.\n\nThe duo was recently named Discovery of the Year at the World Soundtrack Academy Awards, making FOYS the latest overnight sensation that took a long time to happen. “I’ve been pounding away at the composer world,” admits Bates. “I’ve wanted to be a composer since I was age 5.”\n\nThis circuitous route started with training as a jazz musician leading Bates to learn both violin and saxophone. Discovering techno at age 19, he went on to release CDs in his native London. He took a turn as a singer-songwriter, put together an indie band and, after learning production, discovered he could put all these pieces together himself and make a career out of playing jazz, scoring films and writing for other artists.\n\nUK commercials led to US commercials. The company hit the prestigious Sundance Film Festival with the independent film While We’re Young. Ultimately, indie film work led to major features including FOYS’s latest two, Nobody Walks and 28 Hotel Rooms, both with attendant score releases.\n\nThe style of FOYS is breaking through. “Being a Brit in New York is sometimes an advantage and sometimes not,” he says.\n\n“I have so many influences. It’s a wide range of styles. What defines everything is music that does something. It shouldn’t be wallpaper.”", null ]

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[ null, "Singer KK was sweaty on stage\n\nSinger KK Death: Since the death of singer KK, his fans are sharing many videos related to the event in Kolkata on social media. Seeing which it is known that KK was very upset with the sultry heat there. In many videos, he can be seen sweating on the stage.\n\nBollywood’s famous singer KK has died at the age of 53. On Tuesday, he went to perform a live concert in Kolkata, where he died of a heart attack. His fans are in shock after KK’s death. He is sharing many videos related to his event in Kolkata on social media. Seeing which it is known that KK was very upset with the sultry heat there. In one of the videos, he can be seen sweating on the stage. During this, he is also seen complaining to some people on the stage about AC and lights. This video is becoming increasingly viral on social media.\n\nThis video has been shared on Facebook by a user named Debojyoti Rai. According to the user, the AC of Kolkata’s auditorium where KK was giving live performance was not working. Debojyoti has written in his post that KK was sweating a lot then, but in spite of that he continued his spirit of singing. The user alleges that KK was repeatedly requesting the management to turn on the AC and switch off some lights, which was ignored. In the video going viral, you can see that KK is covered in sweat on the stage. He is wiping the sweat from his forehead with a towel. Then someone from the side tells him – it is very hot. To which the singer also agreed. After this, KK is seen talking to some people present on the stage, pointing at the lights.\n\n\nAfter the news of the death of singer KK, his fans have gone broke. Everyone is paying tribute to their favorite singer in their own style through social media. Many fans still cannot believe that KK is no longer among them. KK also sang the song Hum Rahe Ya Na Rahe Kal, Kal Yaad Aayenge Yeh Pal in his last concert and see today we are all remembering him." ]

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[ "My BF likes Robbie Williams and has seen him a couple of times live so far. I have never been to one of his concerts, but always wanted to go to one.\nFor his birthday I bought two tickets. Premium level seating, so they weren't the cheapest!\n\nWe arrived at the stadium just 15 minutes before Robbie hit the stage.\n\nI wish I could tell you only awesome things about the concert, but to sum it up: We were TOTALLY disappointed!\nThe show wasn't that good at all and you could see that Robbie Williams is getting older. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of artists out there which can deliver a good show even if they are much older. But it seemed that Robbie lost his spark or is maybe even a bit burned out.\n\nEven more disappointing was the sound. At times it was hard to hear his voice. The whole sound seemed kinda designed to hit only what was in front of the stage, but not the sides of the it.\nBut I just found out, that the sound wasn't even good there as one of our friends spent the concert in the rain on the pitch.\n\nThe layout of the stage wasn't that good either. Robbie seems a bit too pleased with himself as \"sculptures\" of himself were brought onto the stage in different variations. The middle of the stage was under a big big version of Robbies head.\n\nHe played new and old songs and finished the concert after about 1h45 with 'Angels'. He did seemed moved when the whole stadium was singing the song.\nThis was the opening show of his \"Take the Crown\" tour. I really hope that they will work on the sound :-((\n\nAfter getting up this morning I wrote a complaint to the seller of the tickets. Let's see if I will get a response and what kind of response it will be!\n\nThere were two positive things to notice:\nThe supporting act Olly Murs was brought back onto the stage to sing a duet with Robbie.\nSecond thing were to young boys Robbie found on Youtube who sang \"We found love\" (Rihanna). I am sure the boys had the time of their life and they were really good too.\n\nHere are a few pictures I took during the concert:", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest\nLabels: Ireland, Night out" ]

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[ "Force Is with You, Always\n\nThere are competing excuses for the control grid.", null, "As factions of the establishment jockey to wield control over you in a fast-changing world, they have to discard old philosophical rationales and adopt new ones with greater and greater frequency. A few years from now, it won’t necessarily be right vs. left as we have known them—religion and guns on one side, welfare and cultural transgressions on the other, or something like that—but something divisive, and no matter the arguments, all sides will reach the conclusion that you should obey.\n\nBut if not religion or enthusiasm for the welfare state, what are the most likely candidates for taking a turn upon the (philosophical) throne in the next few years?\n\nThe prize to be won, from the rulers’ perspective, is increasingly obvious: a vast control grid of stealthy, omnipresent surveillance tech, fused both to government policing mechanisms and the capitalist provision of everyday commodities (including access to restaurants, bars, and the like from now on). That massive mechanism of potential oppression doesn’t look much like either tradition or equality as we knew them a short time ago, but people eager to rule aren’t going to just toss such nifty, powerful tools to one side because they seem like non-sequiturs in both right-wing and left-wing philosophy.\n\nThe rulers will find new boilerplate to justify their behavior, in short. At the moment, COVID plainly justifies anything in their minds. I doubt one American in 50 has the slightest idea what the law—if any—currently says about where they can freely travel, eat, walk around maskless, or anything else. It’s one big law-suspending “emergency situation” (the sort of thing that purportedly gave liberals in particular nightmares just a few years ago, nightmares full of burning constitutions and the like).\n\nBut COVID’s moral gravitas appears to be fading. The powers that be can plead unpredictable mutant strains and recalcitrant unvaccinated people for a little while yet, but the public will is shifting, and people are tired of the constraints. To be sure, the government, especially aspiring new Fauci-types, will learn from this crisis that they can keep announcing new health emergencies and create a new surge of controls from time to time, using the COVID crisis (and vaccine-requirement rules) as a template. The “infrastructure” of control, so to speak, will be in place for future projects.\n\nBut to keep most of the public accepting the use of force against them, new public relations tools will have to be deployed. It’s not always just one political faction’s tools, either. The right cheered similar surveillance and policing mechanisms 20 years ago with terrorist threats as the rationale (and I’m not claiming terrorists don’t exist), and if there were no COVID in the air now and no Democrats in power in Washington, it’s entirely likely the right would be cheering the control grid and the deployment of force over illegal immigrants, Black Lives Matter vandals, or some other threat. Keeping score to see who activates the control grid more often, right or left, is largely beside the point. It will always be something, as they say.\n\nBut what is it most likely to be? At the moment, I see three likely candidates in this race to seize the levers of power, though you never know what horror is coming over the horizon next.\n\nFirst: the perceived need to defend the sanctity of the political process itself.\n\nA shaky establishment and morally dubious regime will likely obsess more and more over what we used to call “banana republic” issues, like whether Giuliani’s seized laptop also contained information copied from Hunter Biden’s laptop, and which one contained more damning information about dirty dealings in Ukraine. We’re slightly more likely to hear what the FBI learns about the contents of those two laptops than about the contents of Seth Rich’s laptop, I suppose.\n\nAll such raids, assisted by drones and robot police dogs as necessary, will be described as essential to keep democracy running smoothly, democracy being the vital collective decision-making process by which we decide to do things like implement Biden’s plan to improve health in minority communities by training police dogs to sniff out menthol cigarettes (I kid you not; I wonder if that will increase needlessly risky confrontations with law enforcement).\n\nMeanwhile, to ensure civility, more fringe political figures such as the far-right Nick Fuentes will be added to secret no-fly lists as if they’re itching to blow up planes. I shouldn’t have to say it’s not primarily Fuentes I worry about but all of you who may soon live in a world checkerboarded with places you are or are not welcome based on myriad secret, bureaucratic criteria. And you wonder why political figures such as Roger Stone become paranoid that a warehouse explosion near his apartment might be a drone strike meant for him.\n\nThe public isn’t as easily sold on environmental crusades these days as they were in the 1990s when they anticipated having (non-carbon-emitting) money to burn, but that doesn’t stop the rulers from fantasizing about such crusades, and now they have seen how much you can reduce carbon emissions overnight if you’re willing to lock down most economic activity.\n\nPrince Charles has practically called for environmentalism-based martial law over the years. It would be tragic if we walked all this distance away from the castles of kings and lords only to find ourselves vassals again, this time to a greener monarch. Yet you already hear some environmentalists—especially ones close to the centers of wealth and power such as economist Mariana Mazzucato, which is worrying—praising the idea of a “climate lockdown” to follow on the heels of the COVID lockdowns.\n\nDon’t say it can’t happen here. Gov. (for now) Newsom of California is banning gas vehicles as of a mere 15 years hence. (Drive out of California while you still can!) Ambient panic can be redirected to a new target on a dime, so stay skeptical. History suggests that if the public get used to spying on neighbors, following orders without clear factual basis, and fearing unauthorized gatherings, these submissive habits will be repurposed for other political ends.\n\nThe establishment has already done an impressive job of making humans fear all contact with each other, but the real coup de grace would be if they managed to shift to an overt depopulation agenda by making us fear human existence itself. I don’t think they’re bold or evil enough to try anything like that just yet—but I’m going to be less shocked than some mainstream people if a few horrific secrets come out in the impending Bill/Melinda Gates divorce. “The Earth” is the one big, fat thing that can always be used to override the needs of mere humanity, after all.\n\nAh, but paranoid notions like that bring us to rationale #3: Destroy All Misinformation!\n\nA RealClearInvestigations reporter recently dubbed the growing, interwoven private and governmental mechanisms shaping the boundaries of acceptable online content the “digital-intelligence complex.” This, surely, is an area that will be increasingly contested ground regardless of whether the referees are private-sector, public-sector, a little from each, or, worst-case scenario from my libertarian (and increasingly anarchist) perspective, both at the same time, indistinguishably. Regardless of who calls the shots, it’s troubling that we now clearly live in an age that assumes false ideas (however identified) are to be erased so that they go unheard, not merely countered so that they go unbelieved.\n\nRecall how easily the Western world turned its eyes away from recent protests in Hong Kong, likely nudged toward indifference at least in part by the question of how messy a cyber- and media-war with censorious Beijing might get, much the way we used to think about nuclear deterrence. You’d like to stick up for freedom, but gee, think of all those potential malware-sparked hard drive crashes and lost TV contracts.\n\nSpotify removing songs that contain “misinformation,” by contrast, may get filed in the “acceptable behavior” category by most libertarians because Spotify is a private entity, but my pessimistic prediction is that while people rightly debate whether censoring is better done by the private sector or the public sector, we’re soon going to live in a time (if we don’t already) when almost no one questions the assumption that someone should be censoring, an assumption buttressed by the fear we are in terrible mental and moral danger unless someone erases our bad thoughts.\n\nIn the heat of any given current controversy, it’s easy enough to say perhaps some vile tweets or obnoxious voice should go away, but look back at almost any radical upstart from the past you admired—and surely you admired some, at least by one or another faction’s definition of radical upstart—and ask whether that person would be tolerated for long today. Perhaps you say there are too many conspiracy theorists online, for example, but do you wish you could go back in time and erase classics of the genre such as Bill Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse? Even if it influenced some X-Files episodes? Is sanitizing our only option for dealing with mental muss now?\n\nThere will always be the rationale that bad ideas could lead to bad actions. It was the rationale for banning anarchists from using the Post Office to mail pamphlets a century ago, so it’s hardly reassuring that today the Post Office (perhaps for conscious preemptively constitutional-legal reasons, since they can spin it as safeguarding national communications networks) is running a program called iCOP that scours everyone’s social media posts to predict not just specific imminent terror incidents but everyday protests and the like, info the Post Office shares across multiple government agencies.\n\nJust as the tech needed to predict how individual households will vote now exists—and so inevitably gets utilized by political campaigns of all stripes—so too will the COVID-era control apparatus get used by whatever political factions exist in the near future, to ensure your compliance with whatever new plans they formulate. Whether they want to force you to vote, be green, stay unimaginative, or something else, it’s wise to resist. Whatever crowns your rulers wear, they are your enemies." ]

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[ null, "Recently, my colleague Mrs. Shink, showed me this picture. She was baking macrons with her family. She told me she was going to use it with some of her second graders. I asked her if I could use it too.\n\nI brought the picture into a second grade class. I gave each student a color copy of it. I asked, what do you notice? What do you wonder? Here is what they said:\n\nI wonder why there is a spot with no circle.\n\nI wonder if someone ate one.\n\nI notice there are 7 on the top row and 8 on the other rows.\n\nI notice some have holes and cracks.\n\nI notice they are different sizes.\n\nI notice that if you go down there are 5 and the one with no spot, there is 4.\n\nI notice there is a metal thing underneath the cookies. I wonder if they just came out of the oven.\n\nI notice there is one small one and the rest are big.\n\nAt this point, I noticed that some students were thinking about the context of the picture, some were organizing the objects into groups, some were noticing characteristics of the objects. I was particularly interested in the last student who spoke. I wondered if this student was thinking about decomposing the array to make it “easier” to see.\n\nI gave the students more information about the picture. I told them where it came from. I also told them that one was missing because Mrs. Shink had eaten one. Then, I asked them if they could figure out how many macrons were left after Mrs. Shink ate one.\n\nThey got right to work. Many students started counting by ones. Some students organized the cookies into two groups – ones that were darker and ones that were lighter – and then counted each group and added them together. A few students skip counted by groups or added groups. I noticed some students orally skip counting by fives. A different student was adding 8s on the side of his paper. I asked the class if they could somehow show me their thinking so that when I took their pictures with me, I would be able to understand how they counted the cookies. Many students started labeling each cookie with a number: 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. The students who were orally skip counting wrote an addition equation: 5 + 5 +5 +5 + 5 +5 +5 +4 = 39. I wondered, “what is the difference between skip counting and using repeated addition?”\n\nWhen I originally planned this lesson, I was anticipating that the routine would inspire discussion about multiplication. In my head, I remembered a second grade standard about introducing arrays as representations of multiplication. I was wrong.\n\nHere is the standard that I was thinking of:\n\nUse addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.\n\nWhat do I notice?\n\nThe word multiplication is never mentioned. The size of the array is limited to 5×5.\n\nAs I was reflecting about this lesson, I realized that I was remembering the story wrong. Recently, I watched Graham Fletcher’s shadowcon talk about becoming a better storyteller. In it, he challenged us to find one standard in the grade level you teach and discover something new about it. Is there something you currently teach that isn’t in the standards? He suggested:\n\nThis was my chance. I decided to start by re-reading the Common Core Progression for Operations and Algebraic Thinking. I have read this document many times and I will read it many more. I always learn something new. Immediately, this sentence jumped out at me. “In Equal Groups, the role of the factors differ. One factor is the number of objects in a group (like any quantity in addition and subtraction situations), and the other is a multiplier that indicates the number of groups.” We have spent a lot of time in our 3rd grade meetings discussing how three groups of 5 items is different than 5 groups of 3 items, but 3×5=5×3. This is one of the topics we always leave simmering. Our understanding has gotten richer and more dense over time.\n\nRecently, I have been watching a few fourth grade teachers bang their heads against the wall as they try to convince their students that adding 13 forty seven times is not efficient. I have felt helpless. I ask, “Have you tried showing them arrays with smaller numbers? Have you tried using the Number Talks Images site? Have you tried having them compare strategies and articulate someone else’s understanding?” Yes. Yes. and Yes. Commence banging.\n\nAs I write, I am wondering, maybe what we need to do is put these students back on the stove? We keep trying to pull them towards multiplication, but maybe what they really need is to dive a little deeper into their understanding of repeated addition. Last week, one student was trying to use an open array to show 26 x 8. He didn’t want to break the 26 into 20 + 6. He wanted to use 26+26. What should I do with this? Graham Fletcher might say, “Draw it. Use tools to understand it.”\n\nHere is my example of what I see these students doing when they are confronted with a two digit by one digit multiplication problem.", null, "We want them to do this:", null, "When I sat down to draw in an effort to further my own understanding of how repeated addition connets to multiplication, here is what I came up with:", null, null, null, null, "Wow! Graham Fletcher was right. I learned a ton. I realized that decomposing 26 into 20 +6 might not be helpful to students if they don’t understand the 20 as being equivalent to 2 x 10. I also learned that there are a lot of steps in between using repeated addition and using an open array and the distributive property to solve multiplication problems.\n\nLet me be clear. I am NOT suggesting that we teach students all the steps that I just did. The drawings above represent my journey towards understanding the story better. My next step is to go back to the fourth grade teachers. I will retell my story of repeated addition and multiplication. Then, I will listen carefully and unassumingly to their stories. Together, we will map out the next chapter in the book." ]

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[ "Is there such a thing as \"Play Like an Eagle\" ?", null, "Is there such a thing as \"Play Like an Eagle\" ?\n\nJust spit-balling here… Kinda celebrating a 2-2 record at the quarter mark, realizing how much worse things could be…\n\nCan you imagine being a Cincinnati Bengals fan right now? 0-4 with no end in sight, really. How does that happen with such “proven” talent on the payroll?\n\nThere is an intangible element in the sport of full-contact football which keeps us as fans coming back for more. That would be a combination of “empathy” and “sympathy”. Call it “emsympathy” ?\n\nIt’s like this— most of you reading this have actually played the game at some level, or at least took part in impromptu gatherings of guys (and gals) who broke out the pigskin and agreed to pretend we’re the Kennedy’s.\n\nSo you quickly learned the physicality of the sport at its most basic level. And that level included two primal experiences: my opponent is allowed to run around me, and also over me.\n\nAt some eventual limit of pain tolerance and/or conditioning stress, you decided it was time to stop playing this sport you loved.\n\nNothing wrong with that.\n\nBut here is why you are hooked on the NFL— because somewhere deep in the the most valiant portions of your brain you are responding to the call to arms which every team in the NFL is sounding around about Week 5.\n\nYou are subconsciously wondering, could I in my prime have filled the void?\n\nThat’s the basis of why we identify so closely with our home team. We want to feel a part of a team effort, and we take it as a personal identification.\n\nMaybe that’s the hook of all successful entertainment enterprises— they create the believable illusion that the spectator is involved in the success of the enterprise.\n\nAnyway, “Play Like an Eagle” will need to be defined for some new additions. This roster is turning over faster than my 1998 Montgomery Ward Yardmaster ever could…\n\nThe Atlanta Falcons, in need of safety help, traded linebacker Duke Riley and a 2020 sixth-round draft pick to the Philadelphia Eagles for safety Johnathan Cyprien and a ’20 seventh-round draft pick, the teams announced Monday.\n\nCyprien, 29, had started 70 career games in six seasons, including four years as a starting strong safety in Jacksonville, where the Jaguars run a scheme similar to that of the Falcons. The 6-foot-1, 211-pound Cyprien is known more as an in-the-box safety but has been a liability in coverage. He has played only sporadically in the barest sense for the Eagles this season.\n\nThe Falcons lost their in-the-box safety when strong safety Keanu Neal suffered a season-ending left Achilles tear against Indianapolis. Neal had surgery last Thursday and is expected to make a full recovery. However, the 1-3 Falcons need another body capable of contributing immediately, particularly with tackling.\n\nCoach Dan Quinn said after Neal’s injury he would explore all options at strong safety. The Falcons brought in veterans T.J. McDonald and George IIoka for workouts without signing either of them. Then the team elevated strong safety Jamal Carter from the practice squad.\n\nIn Sunday’s 24-10 loss to the Tennessee Titans, Quinn experimented with different looks, including playing nickelback Damontae Kazee at free safety some alongside Ricardo Allen, who moved from free safety to strong. The trade would indicate plans to utilize Cyprien in the defense, although Cyprien’s role with the Eagles had been limited to 15 total snaps. He was thrust into action last week against Green Bay due to injury. Cyprien also played special teams for the Eagles.\n\nCyprien played some linebacker with the Jaguars and started 10 games with the Titans at strong safety in 2017. Cyprien tore his ACL before the 2018 season while with the Titans.\n\nAs for Riley, the former 2017 third-round draft pick out of LSU could not carve out a role on defense after starting 10 games in 2018. He appeared to be on the roster bubble coming into this season but made a few plays in preseason to impress the coaches. But Riley had to settle for a special-teams role.\n\nSo now you’ve got this guy Duke Riley. Age 25, 6-1, 235…4.6 40-yard dash… He was once ranked the seventh best outside linebacker by NFLDraftScout.com. He’s since drifted into a “got great potential but…” haze. This is a guy who started the 2018 season alongside De’Vondre Campbell and middle linebacker Deion Jones. In Week 3, he collected a season-high 13 combined tackles (nine solo) during a 43-37 loss against the New Orleans Saints. The Falcons eventually restricted his playing time for some performance-related analytics. Hey, it’s a tough league…\n\nBut now the Eagles decided they need him for emergency depth and special teams. They see some “Play Like an Eagle” in him for various reasons (relative youth, affordability, maybe remembering the tackle he made against them in the NFC Divisional Round last year). This is how pro scouts make their money.\n\nTo me “Play Like an Eagle” should mean never give up on a play, even when it looks like you’re stupid to do so. It also means keeping your mind open to making a big play which could turn a game around. Despite all adversity, you live for the chance to make a positive difference in outcome.\n\nWhat makes the trade for Riley more remarkable is he is one of the first NFL clients of Lil Wayne’s sports rep agency, “Young Money APAA Sports”.\n\nRiley’s affiliation with Lil Wayne gives him instant credibility with many of the Eagles’ players who are into the rap/contemporary artist scene. Me, I’m totally ignorant of the Lil Wayne music catalog, but I see his getting commercial exposure on the major sports networks, so I assume his sports agency is actually a thing.\n\nHere’s Lil Wayne’s pitch to NFL players: “He wants to give back to players. He wants to help them when football is over. At the end of the day, we can all identify with this. Lil Wayne doesn’t need this money, this sports money. It isn’t for that. He’s doing it for a bigger purpose, and players love that. They love working with people every day that walk with the same purpose, and that’s superpowerful.”\n\nMaybe Atlanta had difficulty dealing with that Lil Wayne part of Duke Riley. That won’t be a problem in Philly.\n\nGiving your clout toward a bigger purpose is what Lil Wayne is preaching, and on the surface it certainly resonates with Playing Like an Eagle." ]

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[ "Well, the title says it all. It’s the Huawei P9 which has a dual Leica lens. Huawei Partner Leica to take the smartphone competition to entirely different level. Indeed They did it. There a not just one 1.5 micron sensor but 2 of them. One Captures RGB and other captures Monochrome image. The Mono Chrome catches more details and combining both the images gets the best picture. So that’s the concept. They thought almost like a human eye. Also, the dual lens will help us to get the best depth of field. Even we get the best details, clarity, contrast.\n\nThat about the Huawei P9 which mainly focuses on the camera. It isn’t the best flagship of 2016, but it is indeed the best camera of 2016. It can’t compete for the race against the best flagships smartphones regarding the other performance.\n\nIt is currently one of the slimmest phones. Slim doesn’t mean by a large camera hump. It has no camera hump at the back, and the sleek metal design adds an extraordinary beauty to the device. It is indeed the slim form factor. Huawei ‘s each P series phone had won an award for the design Each year. So P9 isn’t exceptional in that case. The software and hardware sync is almost done well by the company.", null, null, "I don’t have the exact camera samples to show out. The camera when I tested in the demo unit indeed showed better details which I hardly seen in an Android phones. The details, the colour, the lighting anything is way better. Of course, there are lot modes and Pro Mode which are going to be used by the DSLR user. A normal person may hardly notice it. It’s like the person who keeps shooting picture would end-up getting one.\n\nThe phone is majorly focused for camera enthusiasts and not on the flagship specs. It has decent specs to do the things run well. You’ve got to spend 39,999rs on a phone, which is only good for camera and not so amazing specs for the price. I would say it isn’t my full review to say. It’s definitely for photographers but who other than photographers I will let you know in my full review until that time waits for my full review." ]

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[ null, null, "I decided to try out the Signature Edition version of the McIlroy Chardonnay (2012) from Costco with my Boudin pasta. The recipe for this is here. This time I forgot to buy shallots, but the finely chopped red onion I used instead was just fine.\n\nI used hen of the woods (maitake) and eryngii mushrooms. The photo also shows French bluefoot mushrooms, which I bought b/c they were amazing looking, but we decided to leave them out of this dish and cook on their own for pasta tomorrow, so we could see what they taste like.", null, "I sliced up about 2/3 of a zucchini and asked D to cook it while I finished off the pasta, which he did. He just cooked it in oil with salt and pepper, which is what I would have done, too. I bought a loaf of Acme Italian to have with this. I thought it was an especially pretty one.", null, null, "I opened both the 2012 Signature Edition and the previous 2014 “regular” McIlroy Chardonnays from Costco so we could compare them side by side, and we both liked the 2014 one better. The Signature was lighter, more delicate, but had less of the flavor I was looking for, the Chalk-Hill-like richness. D said the Signature was oakier, but I wouldn’t have said that. Maybe I don’t know what oaky tastes like. The 2014 was butterier.\n\nD wanted to use up the last of the vegetable curry over an omelette. He made an especially pretty omelette – it folded in half perfectly – and then covered it entirely with curry so you can’t see how beautiful it was. He said this was the wrong omelette to have the curry on, since it was the best one he’d ever done 🙂 But it was yummy, anyway. He put some of the Thai basil over the top. We also had the Acme bread with this (as toast).", null ]

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[ "Lil Nas X says he’s ‘too busy’ for a boyfriend, and the sound you’re hearing is a million queer hearts breaking", null, "Lil Nas X said that he’s too busy for a relationship, much to the disappointment of pretty much every queer person alive.\n\nThe “Old Town Road” rapper made history by coming out as gay last year while atop the Billboard chart, but his success has come at a cost.\n\n“I have met a lot of great people this year,” he told Variety.\n\n“[But] relationships are hard, because either I end up being too busy or fall for another person. I fall super easily.”\n\nSpeaking ahead of the Grammys, where he is nominated for six awards (the most of any male artist this year), Lil Nas X revisited his coming out tweet.\n\n“It could have gone either way,” he admitted.\n\nLil Nas X says he ‘isn’t comfortable bringing a guy’ to his dad’s house yet.\n\nBefore pressing send, the rapper decided not to consult his managers, publicists or his record label.\n\nThe only person who knew what was coming was his father, who he came out to shortly before telling the world.\n\n“We have become closer,” he said of their relationship.\n\n“I mean, especially now because I don’t have anything to hide. It was a shock for him. It’s still the beginning phase. I’m not comfortable bringing a guy around yet.”\n\nLil Nas X lived with his father from the age of nine, and has previously said that he probably wouldn’t have come out were he still living at home.\n\nI never really talk about my mom.\n\nThe 20-year-old rarely speaks about his mother, who divorced from his father when he was five, but he revealed during the interview that she has faced her own demons.\n\n“I never really talk about my mom. She’s an addict so we don’t have the closest relationship,” he explained.\n\n“Even trying to get her better — things didn’t quite work out. But there’s still love.”\n\nHe will take to the stage with BTS, Diplo, Billy Ray Cyrus, Mason Ramsey and other guests to recreate the many remixes of his number one track." ]

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[ "One-Liner Pitch: Kleverbeast makes it easier and more affordable to build your own professional-looking app — whether you know how to code or not.\n\nWhy It's Taking Off: The startup hopes to tap into the millions of consumers out there who might create an app if the bar to doing so were lower.\n\nNot everyone who wants to make an app knows how to code, or has the money to pay someone who does — in fact it's a pretty safe bet that the vast majority don't. That's where Kleverbeast comes in.\n\nKleverbeast, a New York-based startup, launched an app creation tool in public beta Thursday that makes it easier and more affordable for users to build professional-looking apps for iPad and Android tablets without ever having to enter in a line of code.\n\nKleverbeast's service provides users with a browser-based app builder that automates much of the developing process. Users select from one of several themes for the app, including art, fashion, photography and travel, then select different page templates like products, timeline and videos to include in the app. From there, all the user has to do is drag and drop content on their computer directly into the app template.\n\n\"We wanted to design it so anybody could do it,\" Dinesh Moorjani, co-founder and CEO of Kleverbeast, told Mashable. \"There's no switching between back-end and front-end. You just drag content and it automatically identifies aspect ratios.\"\n\nThe service starts at $29/month and goes up in price depending on how many apps the user wants to build and how much customer support is needed. (Moorjani says the company is also considering launching a free product in the future, but for now, users can try it out for free for a week.) On top of that, the startup charges an additional $250 fee if you want help submitting the app to the App Store. Even with that charge, however, it's significantly cheaper than the five-figure fees commonly charged by professional app developers.", null, "Moorjani, who previously ran IAC's mobile app incubator Hatch Labs, founded Kleverbeast in 2011 with two other co-founders. The goal of the service, he says, is to \"democratize\" the ability to publish apps. In particular, Kleverbeast is targeting creative professionals like photographers, artists and bloggers who are looking for a better way to showcase their work on mobile devices.\n\n\"There are probably only 250,000 developers and two billion consumers who have a product, service, hobby or small business that need a way of marketing or monetizing their content,\" Moorjani says. \"Maybe it's an artist who wants to showcase their portfolio, or a blogger who wants to show their content with ads.\"\n\nWhile in private beta, Kleverbeast helped several customers build apps and get them into the App Store, including a recipe app, photography app and a retail app.\n\nKleverbeast isn't the first service to try providing a DIY solution for app creation. Mobile Roadie, for example, lets users build their own apps, but it costs $99/month for smartphone apps and $299/month for iPad apps.\n\nThe startup has raised a little more than $2 million in seed funding and now has 21 people on staff." ]

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[ "That was the opening of Beethoven’s fifth symphony, as played in your head by three letters of the alphabet.\n\nNow imagine it played by an actual orchestra.\n\nOne that’s just a few feet away from you, for a spine-tinglingly intimate experience in a gorgeously atmospheric space. That’s what The Little Orchestra are about. And for 2020, they’re embarking on a year-long journey following Beethoven from childhood to his final symphony, composed nearly 200 years ago.\n\nThe show will start as all their shows do – with a social, fun, and unpretentious vibe deliberately designed to remove the suits and airs normally associated with classical concerts. A couple of drinks at the bar, a little chat with the other guests, and you’ll be invited to take your seat (or, indeed, sofa).", null, "It’s now that you’ll be surprised to find the very talented musicians are settling into their seats a few feet away from you. There’s no stage. No velvet curtain. Just an intimate, low-lit, acoustically fine-tuned space, where you’ll get to listen to some heavenly music, including chamber music from Beethoven’s early influence, Mozart, to his own 9th Symphony (which was first played 195 years ago, when Beethoven couldn’t hear his own music – or the standing ovation behind him at the end).\n\nAfter the show when the non-existent curtain comes down, it’s back to the bar to unwind, and the non-existent barrier between you and the performers gets torn to shreds as they all join in. And we haven’t even got to the best part – tickets start at just £5. And if you’re wondering if that’s a bargain for classical concerts..?\n\nNOTE: The Little Orchestra is next playing at Battersea Arts Centre, 19th-21st March. Tickets cost £5 for the dress rehearsal, or £25-45 for the official concerts in the full setting – you can find out more, and book, HERE.\n\nLike finding unusual events in London? Peruse our hub of all the best things to do in London\n\nA New Music Night With A Highly Original Concept...\n\nAcoustic musicians in a bombed-out church..." ]

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[ null, "CHICAGO - Be’rashett Mitchell was a protector, and that’s who he was trying to be the morning he was killed.\n\nMitchell was coming to his sister’s aid July 16 during an argument between she and her boyfriend in the 200 block of East 107th Street, when the man fired shots at him when he jumped in, Chicago police said.\n\nThe 21-year-old future architect died the next day at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.\n\n“If he was here he probably would do it again, protect his sister,” said his grandmother Anita Tribble, 56, adding that he was a good person who always smiled no matter the circumstances.\n\nWhen she found out Friday morning that the man had been arrested and charged in his murder, Tribble displayed a big smile and thought of one thing: “Justice. Now my grandson can Rest In Peace.”\n\nSteven Davis, 18, faces a first-degree murder charge in Mitchell’s death, police said. He was taken into custody the day before in Galesburg in western Illinois.\n\n“For them to have caught him, I was always thinking when stuff like this happens that people never get caught but they got him,” Tribble said.\n\nMitchell, who would have celebrated his 22nd birthday the day Davis was charged, loved basketball but had his heart set on becoming an architect to help his community, the grandmother said.\n\n“Going to school and getting a degree meant everything to him,” she said. He was a “school first, play later” kind of guy who was a talented artist and could “draw you sitting and it would look like a photograph.”\n\nMitchell was pursuing his master’s degree in architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\n\nThe pair were close and saw each other frequently up until he left for school.\n\n“His life should have never been gone because of this boy’s senseless act. It has hurt, dearly,” Tribble said." ]

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[ null, "Co-created by Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Megan Ganz, “Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet” is a live-action comedy series that follows a team of video game developers as they navigate the challenges of running a popular video game.\n\n“Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet” is executive produced by McElhenney and Day under their RCG banner; Michael Rotenberg and Nicholas Frenkel on behalf of 3Arts; and Jason Altman, Danielle Kreinik and Gérard Guillemot for Ubisoft Film & Television. David Hornsby and Megan Ganz also executive produce. The series is produced by the Lionsgate/3 Arts Entertainment venture and Ubisoft." ]

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[ null, "C.S. Lewis’ story retold in ‘The Most Reluctant Convert’\n\nYou may not know Max McLean’s face, but you may know his rich, baritone voice from the Bible translations he has narrated. His voice is so popular, it’s the default choice on many English Bible apps.\n\nAnd thanks to a new movie that became a hit, McLean’s face, too, is growing in popularity.\n\n“The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis” retells the dramatic conversion experience of Lewis. Lewis enrolled at Oxford University as an atheist before becoming a Christian thanks to the influence of J.R.R. Tolkien and others. McLean stars as a middle-aged Lewis in the movie, a mixture of narration and drama. It was filmed at 18 sites in and around Oxford, England.\n\nOn its opening night last year, the film finished No. 2 at the box office — trailing only “Dune” — and No. 1 in per-theater average. It now is available on home video.\n\n“The Most Reluctant Convert” is based on a stage play of the same name starring McLean, who said he naturally was drawn to Lewis’ story.\n\n“He lost his mother to cancer at a very young age. He had an estranged relationship with his father that got worse when his mother died. He had firsthand experience with the senseless brutality of trench warfare in World War I — he called it the hell where youth and laughter go, only to see horribly smashed men still moving about like crushed beetles.”\n\nLewis came to the conclusion that either God did not exist or is indifferent to good and evil, McLean said.\n\nLogic, reason and the Holy Spirit\n\nEventually, though, logic and reason — and the Holy Spirit — drew Lewis to Christ. He “saw the contradiction in his own beliefs,” McLean noted.\n\nA line can be called “crooked,” Lewis argued, only because a straight line exists with which to compare it. Similarly, he said, “What was I comparing this universe with when I called it cruel and unjust?” McLean recounted.\n\nLewis eventually concluded: “‘If pain is so undeniably real [then] that which overcomes pain is even more real, more essential,’ and that to Lewis was the essence of Christianity,” McLean said.\n\nAll the words in the film attributed to Lewis are his, McLean added.\n\n“People really resonate with [him].”\n\n“The Most Reluctant Convert” debuted as a stage play at the New York City-based Fellowship for Performing Arts, which McLean founded. The theater’s goal is to produce stories from a “Christian worldview to engage a religiously diverse audience.”\n\n“It’s just my feeble attempt of being faithful to the calling that God has given me,” McLean explained. “My life verse is Ephesians 2:10: We were created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. So I’ve always felt that the obligation of a Christian is to listen to the Holy Ghost when He speaks.”" ]

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[ "Getting nominated for an Academy Award is indeed a big thing especially when you share the honor with your better-half that too in the same year. In the year 1932, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne became the first couple to be nominated for an Oscar in the same year. The tradition is ongoing still, however, only a few couples made it to the list. See the couples who were able to make it to the Oscars’ history with their significant other.\n\nThis couple made history by becoming the first couple to be nominated for an Oscar, in the same year. They were each nominated for Best Actor and Actress for starring in ‘The Guardsman’. Even though none of them bagged the coveted statue, they raised the bar high.\n\nThis famous couple collaborated in 11 films and got nominated for Oscar in 1967 for ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Taylor won the title for Best Actress and Burton got a nod for Best Actor – but wasn’t lucky enough to take it home.\n\nThis couple was known to be one of Hollywood’s biggest power couples. For their collaboration in ‘Rachel, Rachel’ they were both nominated in the year 1969. Woodward was nominated for the title of Best Actress and Newman as a Producer for Best Picture – though none of them won.\n\nFor their work on ‘Fargo’, actress McDormand and her writer/director husband Coen won Academy Awards. McDormand won the Best Actress Award while Coen won an Award for Best Original Screenplay.\n\nThis couple got married in the year 2017 after enjoying their Oscar nominations together in the year 2016. Vikander was honored with the title of Best Actress in the ‘Danish Girl’. Fassbender, however, didn’t win the Best Actor award. But he was overjoyed by the amount of recognition he received for his work in ‘Steve Jobs’.\n\nCruz has been nominated for the Best Actress title for her role in ‘Parallel Mothers’ and Bardem is recognized for playing Desi Arnaz in ‘Being the Ricardos’. We will get to know who wins on Sunday, 27 March.\n\nRelated: Hollywood Couples That Have Both Won The Oscars\n\nThis couple has got a lot of excitement and joy waiting around the corner in 2022. Both of them have been nominated as Best Supporting Actor & Actress for their role in ‘The Power of the Dog‘.", null, null, "Read More\nMichael Keaton’s perplexity at how his Spider-Man: Homecoming part appears in both the MCU and Sony Pictures’ forthcoming…", null, "Read More\nFor some, Iron Man is a thing of the past. However, for the real MCU fans, this was…", null, "Read More\nLast year, we discovered this Thai social media star, Benjaphorn “Sine” Chetsadakan. She is not an ordinary role…" ]

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[ "A woman considering an abortion may wonder about any effects on future pregnancies. In most cases, an abortion does not affect fertility and has no impact on other pregnancies.\n\nThere are two methods: medical abortion and surgical abortion. The type that a woman chooses may depend on several factors, including how far along the pregnancy is and personal preference.\n\nResearch suggests that abortions do not affect fertility, and the risks associated with both types are relatively low.\n\nMost of the time, women who have had abortions can go on to have healthy pregnancies.\n\nIt is important to note that a woman can get pregnant soon after having an abortion. Anyone who does not wish to become pregnant within weeks of an abortion should use contraception.\n\nTypically, the answer is no.\n\nThe risks from a medical abortion appears to be lower than that of a surgical abortion, though this may only be true because medical abortions are more common during early pregnancy. Overall, having an abortion early in a pregnancy reduces the risk of complications.\n\nA medical abortion involves taking medication, and women tend to use this method during the first trimester. A combination of the medications mifepristone and prostaglandin, for example, has a success rate of up to 99%.\n\nA medical abortion is relatively safe, and research indicates that it does not increase the risk of future pregnancy complications, such as preterm birth, low birth weight, pregnancy loss, or ectopic pregnancy, which involves the embryo attaching somewhere beyond the uterus.\n\nA surgical abortion, also known as dilation and curettage — or D and C — involves removing the fetus with suction and a tool called a curette.\n\nIn rare cases, a surgical abortion can cause scarring of the uterine wall. Doctors call this Asherman’s syndrome. If scarring occurs, it may become more difficult to get pregnant again, and it may lead to pregnancy loss in the future.\n\nOvulation can occur as soon as 2 weeks after an abortion. This means that a woman may become pregnant again before her next period. However, menstrual cycles vary in length, and women with shorter cycles may ovulate sooner.\n\nAnother factor that influences the timing of ovulation is the duration of the pregnancy before the abortion. If a pregnancy was farther along, a woman may not ovulate for several weeks after the abortion. This can occur when pregnancy hormones linger in the body.\n\nTo avoid pregnancy soon after an abortion, use contraception. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a woman can use any contraceptive method, including an intrauterine device, immediately after a pregnancy ends.\n\nAnyone who wonders whether they have become pregnant soon after an abortion should take a pregnancy test. If the result is positive, see a doctor, who can determine whether there is a new pregnancy, or whether leftover pregnancy hormones are present.\n\nAbortions are safest when they happen as early as possible in pregnancy. Complications are more likely when pregnancy is farther along, regardless of the method of abortion.\n\nIf complications arise, further treatment may be necessary to reduce the risk of problems in the future. A doctor can advise each individual about the risks.\n\nAfter either type of abortion, many doctors recommend waiting until the bleeding ends before having sex again. Bleeding from an abortion can last for 2 weeks or more.\n\nOther doctors advise waiting until at least one menstrual period has come and gone. Delaying sex will help reduce the risk of infection.\n\nIn some cases, it is necessary to delay having sex for longer, especially if the abortion took place later in the pregnancy or if there were complications.\n\nWomen can become pregnant within 2 weeks of an abortion. For those who are ready to get pregnant again, there is generally no medical reason to delay trying to conceive — unless a doctor advises otherwise.\n\nWomen do not need to take extra steps to become pregnant after an abortion.\n\nHowever, some doctors recommend waiting until the first menstrual period has ended. This will make it easier to estimate the delivery date of the next pregnancy.\n\nWomen who have had abortions for medical reasons may want a full medical assessment before trying to conceive again. A checkup can help determine whether they will experience similar issues with future pregnancies.\n\nShortly after an abortion, a pregnancy test may give a false-positive result. This occurs because the body still contains significant levels of the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).\n\nWhile hCG levels tend to fall quickly after an abortion, they can take several days or weeks to return to baseline.\n\nUsually, a home pregnancy test shows an accurate negative result 3 weeks after the end of a pregnancy.\n\nIf a pregnancy test shows a positive result after 3 weeks, it may indicate a new pregnancy. To be certain, see a doctor, who can carry out a blood test or an ultrasound.\n\nIn most cases, an abortion does not affect fertility or future pregnancies. It is possible to ovulate and become pregnant within 2 weeks of an abortion.\n\nIn rare cases, surgical abortion can cause scarring of the uterine wall or damage to the cervix. These complications may make it more difficult to get pregnant again. They can also increase the risk of future pregnancy loss, preterm birth, or low birth weight.\n\nHowever, both medical and surgical abortions are low-risk. The right method will depend on the stage of pregnancy and personal preference. A medical professional can help with this decision.\n\nAnyone who has questions or concerns about pregnancy after an abortion should speak with a doctor.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Posted on April 5, 2016 by Cyclist Australia/NZ\n\nIs a single big mountain ascent more punishing than numerous shorter climbs if the total distance and elevation remain the same?\n\nIf you’ve got a long ride coming up – a sportive, perhaps – then what would be your preferred route profile? Maybe you’d like it to go over a climb such as the Col d’Aubisque, a regular of the Tour de France, which averages a mere 4.2% but weaves its way towards the sky for 29.2km? Or maybe you would prefer something more like the Ardennes Classics, such as the Amstel Gold race, which features 33 categorised climbs, the majority of which are short, sharp and punchy?\n\nPut another way, if two rides are 100km in distance with 2,000m of total ascent, but the two profiles are very different – one looks like a saw blade, the other has just one big hill – is one profile harder than the other to ride?\n\n‘If the average gradient, total distance and metres climbed are the same, and you elicit equal effort, it would balance out completely,’ says Professor Louis Passfield, head of sport and exercise sciences at UK’s Kent University and former lead scientist at British Cycling. ‘Essentially you’ve made the courses identical.’\n\nSo if there’s no difference between those variables, it seems obvious that you’ll expend the same amount of energy and take the same amount of time regardless of which route you ride. Not so fast, says Passfield: ‘Key to this question is pacing, but we know cyclists, even world-class ones, aren’t skilled at this. We did some mathematical modelling of riding an undulating course in a time-trial and asked the cyclists to control their power output to what we considered a perfect strategy – and they couldn’t do it. They simply found it too difficult to hold back on power on the climbs.’\n\nEven if you keep one eye constantly on your power meter, the chances are you won’t be able to maintain consistent power outputs over the course of the ride. The reason primarily comes down to cyclists’ urge to beast themselves.\n\nTo explain, Passfield suggests we ignore the hills for a moment in order ‘to simplify the question’, and instead consider a comparison between a 10-mile time-trial and 10 one-mile efforts with easy recovery.\n\n‘It’s a similar physical profile to the hills,’ he says. ‘As long as fitness allowed, you would push harder on the one-mile efforts, recovering between, than you would in a continuous effort. Yes, the metabolic cost of the intervals would be higher but so would the speed. Breaking the distance into chunks might also be more palatable mentally.’\n\nSo, according to Passfield, most riders would tend to tackle the Classics-style course – multiple small hills – at a faster pace and with greater effort than a route featuring a single, long big hill. But then it might depend on what kind of rider you are.\n\nThere are three main forces a rider must overcome to project the bike forwards. The first is rolling resistance, the energy lost at the wheels through deformation and deflection of the tyre, which is responsible for a loss of about 2-5 watts of power. The second is air resistance, which is affected by the size of a rider’s frontal area, as well as temperature, humidity and speed of the air. The third is gravity, which measures 9.8m/s2. These three forces are represented by possibly our all-time favourite equation: P = krMs + kaAsv2d+ giMs. Simply put, that’s the power required to overcome these forces taking into account further factors such as the rider and bike’s mass.\n\n‘Muscle type makes a difference,’ says Bailey. ‘A guy who has a prevalence of fast-twitch muscle fibres can generate high amounts of power in short periods of time, so might perceive the shorter, sharper climbs as more pleasant. Of course, these fibres fatigue faster but they’d have recovery time between climbs. A rider packed with slow-twitchers might “enjoy” the long, shallower climbs.’\n\nWithout taking Contador and Froome’s muscle biopsy, we can only speculate what the ideal composition of slow-twitch to fast-twitch muscle fibres is for each profile. We can, however, be a touch more exact when it comes to fuelling our rides.\n\nThe respiratory exchange ratio (RER) measures the ratio between carbon dioxide produced and oxygen consumed in one breath. With this ratio, you can calculate which fuel the body is burning to produce energy. An RER of 0.7 indicates that fat is the predominant source of fuel; 1.0 is carbohydrate.\n\n‘I’ve had tests on the bike that have shown my fat metabolism is quite high,’ says Trek Factory Racing’s Bauke Mollema, who finished sixth at the 2013 Tour de France. ‘When riding, other riders started to burn carbohydrate for energy while I was still solely on fat.’", null, "In short, Mollema could cycle at a similarly high intensity to his contemporaries but fuel himself on fat over carbs. As 1kg of fat contains 7,800kcals and the body can only store around 400g of carbs (1,600kcals), the higher the intensity at which you can burn fat the better, allowing you to preserve precious glycogen stores for sprints and breakaways.\n\n‘Out of the two profiles, I prefer the longer, shallower climb,’ adds Mollema. Which makes sense as Mollema is still heavily metabolising fat at this lower-intensity but longer profile. It begs the question: can you manipulate your metabolism to burn more fat?\n\n‘It’s a hot topic at the moment, and it’s why some riders do glycogen-depleted sessions,’ says Bailey. ‘But while training on low carbs is OK for losing weight, it hasn’t been proven to actually improve performance.’\n\nTraining your body specifically for either of the profiles would be of greater value but, as Bailey says, ‘If someone like André Greipel trained on the hills every day he might become stronger, but would he win a climbing stage? No – he doesn’t have the genetic blueprint.’\n\nGreipel may not be a Quintana but his extra mass means he has a potential advantage on the descents. In fact, surely a longer descent would be conquered faster by both riders than a series of shorter descents, which require more shifting of metaphorical and literal gears?\n\n‘Unless the shorter descents are only 30 seconds, I doubt there would be much difference,’ says Bailey. ‘The main effect would be time spent not pedalling [recovering], which might be negligible. The simple fact is that cycling 100km and climbing 2,000m will always favour the lighter rider.’", null ]

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[ null, "In this quantity, the writer argues that blood used to be, crucially, a method during which dramatists negotiated moving contours of domesticity in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Early sleek English drama vividly addressed modern debates over an increasing inspiration of \"the domestic,\" which encompassed the domus in addition to intercourse, parenthood, family order, the connection among domestic and nation, and the connections among relations honor and nationwide identification. the writer contends that the family ideology expressed by means of theatrical depictions of marriage and family order is one equipped at the simultaneous familiarity and violence inherent to blood.\n\nThe theatrical relation among blood and residential is much extra difficult than the idealized language of the familial bloodline; the house used to be itself a bloody position, with household bloodstains signifying various studies together with spiritual worship, intercourse, homicide, beginning, therapeutic, and holy justice. targeting 4 bleeding figures—the Bleeding Bride, Bleeding Husband, Bleeding baby, and Bleeding Patient—the writer argues that the family blood of the early smooth level not just expressed the violence and clash occasioned via household ideology, but in addition validated the house as a website that alternately reified and challenged patriarchal authority.\n\nThis assortment discusses British and Irish existence writings by means of ladies within the interval 1700-1850. It argues for the significance of women's existence writing as a part of the tradition and perform of eighteenth-century and Romantic auto/biography, exploring the complicated relationships among buildings of femininity, lifestyles writing varieties and types of authorship.\n\nNew PDF release: Women, Work and the Victorian Periodical: Living by the\n\nMasking a variety of journal paintings, together with enhancing, representation, poetry, needlework guide and typesetting, this e-book offers clean insights into the participation of girls within the nineteenth-century journal industry.\n\nDrawing upon contemporary scholarship in Renaissance reports relating to notions of the physique, political, actual and social, this learn examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance hire the languages of intercourse - together with sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - within the carrier of satiric aggression.\n\n‘Before Einstein’ brings jointly past scholarship within the box of nineteenth-century literature and technology and enormously expands upon it, providing the 1st book-length learn of not just the clinical and cultural context of the spatial fourth size, but in addition the literary price of 4-dimensional idea.\n\nAdditional resources for Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)" ]

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[ "The Victorian Women’s Suffrage Petition of 1891 contains almost 30,000 signatures and addresses collected by members of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the Victorian Temperance Alliance and other women’s suffrage groups, demanding the right for women to vote in the colony of Victoria.\n\nPresented in 1891 with the support of Premier James Munro, whose wife was one of the signatories, it was the largest petition to be tabled in the Parliament of Victoria in the 19th century.\n\nComprising many fabric-backed sheets of paper glued together and rolled onto a cardboard spindle, the ‘Monster Petition’ is approximately 260 metres long by 200 millimetres wide. It bears the statements ‘that government of the People, by the People and for the People should mean all the People, not half’, and ‘that all Adult Persons should have a voice in Making the Laws which they are required to obey’.\n\nIt is a visual legacy of the important efforts of grassroots Australian women’s movements and is representative of the development of Australia’s democracy. It was a catalyst for other Australian states’ women to lodge petitions in their respective parliaments; while South Australia’s suffrage petition was successful sooner than Victoria’s, none was as large as the Victorian petition.\n\nIn December 1894 the South Australian Parliament became the first in Australia, and only the second in the world, to extend the suffrage to women. The 1894 Petition was presented to Parliament on 23 August 1894, just as the third reading of the Constitution Amendment Bill, proposing to extend the suffrage to women, was being debated. It contained 11,600 signatures, two-thirds of them from women, and was the largest of several petitions presented on this matter.\n\nThe Petition was the work of a group of women’s organisations, the Women’s Suffrage League, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Working Women’s Trades Union, which gathered signatures from all over the colony, campaigning for the suffrage as they went.\n\nThe 1894 Petition was recognised at the time as a significant factor in securing the passage of the Constitution Amendment Act (1894/5) and can be regarded as an iconic document of the ‘first wave’ of the Australian feminist movement.", null, "The front page of the Women's Suffrage Petition" ]

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[ null, "Being late to a concert always feels awful, and if the performance is good you can’t help but mourn what you missed. Though I was punctual for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players concert on Saturday evening, I nevertheless felt that I’d missed something: All the performances were strong, but the program seemed to withhold, the four, brief works felt almost incidental. Indeed, this concert wasn’t a standalone event, but the finale of an all-day Lou Harrison festival (he would have been 100 this year) that, likely, would have left a stronger impression had I seen it in full.", null, "Then again, Harrison was, at least as a mature composer, reputedly a gentle and genial personality — so perhaps the short, pleasant works on the evening program were an appropriate tribute. Cellist Stephen Harrison’s restrained sweetness, particularly in the repeating Chorale movement, ideally suited the neo-Baroque Suite for Cello and Harp (1949). He ostensibly had the melody in the slow Aria, which sounds like the child of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time and the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria — yet simply sailed atop harpist Karen Gottlieb’s arpeggios, which were timed with utmost regard for the moving harmonies.\n\nHarrison also gave a polished performance of Gity Razaz’s Shadow Lines for solo cello and electronics. Razaz, one of two young composers highlighted in the program, has been a composer-in-residence of National Sawdust and Chautauqua Opera Company, and develops several attractive ideas in this 2014 work. Soaring lines, performed live against changing chords in the track, are pretty and compelling, as is the sequential layering of live against prerecorded motifs. Given the wealth of material, however, Shadow Lines says little: No one area is very engaging, and after the electronic track fades away, the piece’s impression is as ephemeral.", null, "More commanding is Natacha Diels’s The Colors Don’t Match, for voice, piccolo, clarinet, violin, percussion, and electronics. In a transparent sound-world of colliding single-note planes, soprano Amy Foote presides as a kind of auctioneer, alternately seeming to solicit pitches from the group and reporting goings-on. Humming intermittently, as if deliberating her next calls, she cries out the names of notes, which, absurdly, have no relation to the sounding pitches.\n\nThese vocalizations defamiliarize, with humor, the fundamental task of executing notes in performance. But The Colors Don’t Match isn’t merely theatrical: Diels, who teaches composition and electronic music at UC San Diego, writes many captivating textures. A hocket pairing the glockenspiel (Loren Mach) with collective vocalizations eventually coalesces in a series of unison hits, a dynamic buildup to an exciting ending. Though the piece feels loosely edited — in particular, the opening section overstays its welcome — the playful self-consciousness is rewarding all the same.", null, "Guitarist David Tanenbaum imbued the last Lou Harrison work of the festival, Scenes from Nek Chand (2001–02), with nuanced character. Under his touch, the meditative “The Leaning Lady,” although fully notated, could have passed for a toccata: He seemed to spontaneously devise material specially for the instrument, a metal resonator guitar refretted in just intonation. “The Rock Garden,” a rhythmic dance, was sturdy but never stodgy, and in the finale, Tanenbaum elaborated on the previous characters in a way that created continuity between the movements while still being new. In fact, Scenes from Nek Chand, Harrison’s last completed work, was the first piece of his I heard, performed by Tanenbaum more than ten years ago. Then, the sounds were strange but magnetic; on Saturday, they were as fresh." ]

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[ null, "From left, Ellen Freeman, Medicine Bow Librarian Bonnie Culver and Elle Williams finish some touch up painting before starting on the trim.\n\nBonnie Culver, the branch manager at Medicine Bow Library, put out a call to volunteers to help put a new coat of paint on the library this weekend. It worked. By Saturday afternoon the trim was being finished and the building was completely painted.\n\nCulver said the building has needed the coat for some time.\n\nShe saved money from book sales and was curious about how much it would cost.\n\nCulver reached out to Hanna residents Ellen and Dale Freeman to help. The couple came to Medicine Bow and pressure washed the building, sanded it and got everything ready.\n\n\"Dale came and spray painted it on Thursday and then came back Friday to do a second coat,\" Culver said. \"The sprayer stopped working the second day, and Ellen and I went around the building with rollers.\"\n\nE. Freeman said she was tempted to throw the sprayer off a cliff when it stopped working.\n\nShe added the building needed painting.\n\n\"It needed to happen, especially the far end because it is going rotten,\" E. Freeman said. \"The paint will help stop that.\"", null, "The Medicine Bow Library received funds from the county for a new coat and was painted by volunteers.\n\nThe group of volunteers came early Saturday morning, but were stopped by rain. They waited several hours before finishing up the project by Saturday afternoon.\n\nToni Wickhizer, Lynda Golden and Elle Williams, in addition to the Freemans, helped finish up the trim on Saturday.\n\n\"So five of us got the trim painted and it did not rain on us any more,\" Culver said.\"I am so thankful that Mr. Piche was so good to get us extra paint and caulk that we needed.\"\n\nCulver said the painting of the county building getting completed was due to a lot people's efforts.\n\n\"I am so grateful to Sue Jones,\" Culver said. \"The Freemans did so much work to get it ready to paint and then Dale sprayed it twice. It is so nice to have volunteers that are so helpful. The library looks so much better because of so many peoples' goodwill.\"" ]

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[ null, "Courtney Maher is a student at Roxbury Community College, taking classes to prepare her to apply for a nursing program. She was inspired to return to school and pursue a career in nursing while working in a hospital detox unit. She chose that work because she has witnessed first-hand the struggle of addiction, and she wanted to be able to bring an element of empathy and compassion to others who are at a fragile place in their lives. Courtney is excited to have found her passion and begin working toward her career goals. Eventually, she hopes to become a Certified Addictions Registered Nurse and work at a psychiatric hospital.\n\nCourtney’s volunteer experience includes work with several cat rescues and shelters in her community. She has worked on local political campaigns, both as a volunteer and a staffer. When she has time, Courtney seeks out additional opportunities to volunteer, such as working in a soup kitchen, assembling school desks for underserved children, and serving Thanksgiving dinners to families affected by HIV/AIDS.\n\nLife in foster care was difficult for Courtney, who spent most of her adolescence in the system. She was bounced around in different placements, and by the time she was in high school she had no stable support system to help hold her accountable. Courtney learned that she needed to become that person for herself, earned her GED, and enrolled in community college. She discovered that while many people apply negative labels to young people who experience foster care, she and her peers embody resilience, strength, capability, independence, and so much more. Courtney is grateful for her experiences in foster care, difficult as they were, because she is proud of the woman she has become and recognizes how those experiences shaped her." ]

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[ "States that collect the most in property taxes", null, null, "It's important to note there are 14 states that do not collect property taxes at the state level. And while states with the most expensive properties, such as New York and New Jersey, have some of the highest property tax rates in the country, their revenues are divided among local governments such as cities or counties. In most states, property taxes, which are paid on property (either by an individual or corporation) based on its value, account for only a small portion of revenues. The federal government collected $23 billion in property taxes last year.\n\nSince property tax rates are usually based on assessed value, it may seem counterintuitive that the rate of property tax increases actually slowed in 2021 compared to previous years—despite single-family housing prices staying red-hot across the country. But this effect can be explained by rates staying the same as property values increased. This lag in property taxes catching up with property values will hit homeowners with higher tax bills in 2022. According to Attom Data cited by The Washington Post, the average tax bill on single-family homes in the U.S. was up 1.8% from $3,719 in 2020 to $3,785 in 2021.\n\nNote that the U.S. Census Bureau did not release 2020 data due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All 2019 figures cited in the following list have been adjusted for 2021 rates of inflation and rounded to the nearest dollar.", null, "West Virginia is known for its Appalachian Mountain vistas, as well as the organized labor and environmental legacies of its coal industry. Before the pandemic, West Virginia enjoyed the second-lowest property tax rates nationwide. For remote workers who don't need to drive several hours to their jobs in metro Washington D.C., the Mountain State, with its median property tax bill of $899 in 2019, offers a much lower cost of living compared to adjoining Virginia and Maryland.", null, "Kansas City, Missouri, is often touted as one of the best places in the U.S. for blues and barbecue. The Show-Me State is also one of the most affordable places in the country for down-payment-saving millennials and Gen Zers to buy a starter home. Not surprisingly, lower home prices have also kept property taxes fairly low, at a 2019 median of $1,782.", null, "The Magnolia State is known for Southern cooking and Gulf Shores hospitality. Together with neighboring Alabama, Mississippi has some of the lowest housing costs in the country. Mississippi is #6 for the lowest property tax bill in the U.S., with a median value of $1,249.", null, "The Badger State is famed for its college and Green Bay Packers football, as well as America's Dairyland license plates. Despite being in the medium range of Midwest housing affordability, Wisconsin also has high property taxes paired with above-national-average income and sales taxes. The median household property tax bill for 2019 was $3,643.", null, "Much like its neighbor Florida, South Carolina attracts residents with its sunny beaches and warm winters. The state draws visitors to the colonial mansions of historic Charleston and the world-famous Hilton Head Island golf resort.\n\nIn recent years, affordable living and taxes have drawn thousands to live in the Palmetto State. Pre-pandemic, South Carolina homeowners enjoyed the fourth-lowest property taxes in the country, with a median bill of $1,148 per year.", null, "All-time bestselling horror novelist Stephen King calls Maine home. The Pine Tree State continues to draw less famous New Englanders and other Americans with an affordable cost of living and steady job growth. Some Maine residents also take advantage of neighboring New Hampshire's lack of a state income tax. Because of Maine's much lower property taxes, some residents will commute for work in the Granite State. For 2019, the median property tax bill in Maine was $2,896.", null, "Louisiana ranks as the fifth-most-affordable state in terms of property taxes, but it also has suffered housing shortages following 2005's devastating Hurricane Katrina and the more recent Hurricane Ida. In 2019, the median property tax bill for Bayou State homeowners was a relatively low $1,171.", null, "In 110 years of statehood, New Mexico has been famous for attracting artists to its picturesque mesas of the high desert. In recent decades, the Land of Enchantment has also enjoyed a natural gas boom and tourist influx to its ski resorts such as Taos. A widely publicized event purported to be a flying saucer crash has also drawn UFO believers worldwide to the small city of Roswell since 1947. Similar to neighboring Arizona, New Mexico has a small property tax bill, averaging $1,676.", null, "California has been one of the hardest-hit states in terms of net out-migration, even before the pandemic. The Golden State sits inside the top 10 ranking of highest property taxes in the country. Combined with near-record prices, these factors motivated many residents to sell. Before looking up U-Haul rates from San Francisco to Austin, however, Californians may want to consider the median 2019 property tax bill of $4,536 was just a few hundred dollars more per year than in Texas.", null, "Well before the pandemic, Georgia's low property taxes and coastal getaways were drawing primary residence and vacation home buyers to the Peach State. In 2019, the median property tax bill for Georgia homeowners was $1,982.", null, "There's no question the pandemic hastened and expanded the trend of Nevada luring Californians and other Americans to Las Vegas. With the second-most sunniest days per year of any state (behind Arizona), Nevada has no state income tax and discreet business registration laws, making it a magnet for entrepreneurs and gamblers trying their luck.", null, "The Wolverine State has drawn tourists to its abundant outdoors in recent years with its Pure Michigan ad campaign, voiced by \"Toy Story\" actor Tim Allen. When it comes to moving to the Great Lakes, regardless of the decades-long exodus from Detroit, Michigan has not been spared from housing shortages and bidding wars. A large number of wealthy Chicagoans buying second homes in Michigan has been a factor in housing costs, particularly along the lakes, as has the shortage of construction materials and homebuilding labor in rural areas.\n\nWith a median homeowner tax bill of $2,706 in 2019, Michigan remains in the middle of the pack for property taxes in the Midwest.", null, "The Jayhawk State stands at the geographic center of the U.S., stretching from Kansas City, Kansas, in the east to the High Plains bordering Colorado in the west.\n\nDespite having some of the most affordable housing in the Midwest, Kansas also runs in the middle of the pack for property and state income tax rates, per the Census data. Kansas homeowners' median property tax bill was $2,466 in 2019.", null, "Like neighboring Idaho, Montana has experienced pandemic and remote work-accelerated population growth. Affordable housing for middle- to lower-income residents, particularly those who work in higher education, hospitality, and tourism, has become a major issue in the state.\n\nAmid the housing boomlet, small-government activists have pushed a ballot initiative to cap property tax rates at 2019 levels. The median 2019 property tax bill for Montanans came in at $2,196.", null, "Arkansas is known to current generations as the birthplace and childhood home of former U.S President Bill Clinton. Aside from agriculture and abundant natural gas reserves, the Natural State offers inviting spas and outdoor spaces. Visitors have been enjoying the historic spa baths of Hot Springs since a railroad line was constructed in the 1870s.\n\nWhether you pronounce the name of longtime residents as \"AR-Kansans,\" the state's homeowners enjoy the third-lowest property tax bills, per the Census research. The median Arkansas residential property tax bill was just $992 in 2019.", null, "Alaska is the second-least-populated state and possibly the only portion of the U.S. poised to benefit from expanded shipping through a thawing Arctic ice cap. Since the U.S. purchased the vast territory from Russia in the 19th century, an abundance of natural resources including fisheries, gold, oil, and gas has drawn settlers to the Last Frontier.\n\nHowever, alongside the Northern Lights and breathtaking fjords comes certain drawbacks, beyond jokes about the state's frigid temperatures and geographic distance from the contiguous U.S. Alaska doesn't have enough residents to support a property tax, and thus it funds basic services with sales tax collections and federal transfers. Consequently, with most of Alaska's territory designated as federal or tribal lands exempt from state property taxes, people in the largest cities of Anchorage and Juneau pay more in property tax. Alaska's median residential property tax bill reached $3,692 in 2019.", null, "You might expect a state with a founding motto \"Live free or die\" to have lower property taxes than its famously liberal Democratic New England neighbors Vermont and Massachusetts. Thanks to the trade-offs associated with New Hampshire's lack of a state income tax, that's not the case.\n\nIn part reflecting its high average property values and number of second homes for Massachusetts residents, New Hampshire's 2019 median property tax bill came in at a whopping $6,244, ranking it the third-most-expensive state for property taxes.", null, "Washington State is famous for Seattle's Starbucks, Microsoft, the Boeing assembly line, and the rainy Pacific Northwest climate. But the Evergreen State has persisted as a tech startup hub in no small part due to its lack of a state income tax.\n\nAs with Texas and New Hampshire, the trade-off for no state income tax is higher property taxes, with Washington's 2019 median homeowner bill weighing in at $3,617.", null, "If you're looking for a home with open spaces to roam, Wyoming is the least-populated U.S. state, with slightly fewer residents than Alaska. The Cowboy State is known for its ranching, mining, and winter skiing destinations, including the year-round resort of Jackson Hole.\n\nIn 2019, Wyoming homeowners enjoyed the 10th-lowest property tax bill in the country, with a median bill of $1,483.\n\nAlready one of the most expensive cities in the country, the nation's capital also takes the cake for some of the highest property taxes in the land. Last year, The Washington Post ranked the District of Columbia as having the third-highest property tax rate in the U.S.\n\nThis story originally appeared on ZeroDown and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.\n\nStay Safe As You Get Back Outside" ]

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[ "Why I hope Google+ will make it\n\nPosted by Francois Muscat on Sep 5, 2011 in Social Media Marketing |", null, "For a couple of years now, popular Web 2.0 channels such as Twitter and Facebook has been contending for the number one social network spot. With the arrival of the newest contender “Google+”, this new network has also joined the battle. While Twitter and Facebook differs in services and Facebook has the most members, which one do you use the most for your social media marketing campaign? Do you use both of these networks the same way?\n\nIn my opinion, you won’t always share the same content across multiple platforms so for the last couple of years, Twitter and Facebook has been battling for supremacy, constantly releasing new features, speed of sharing, ease of use, and buying and making deals to better their services to their members.\n\nTwitter and Facebook share a similar problem with their method of content sharing. When you share a new update on Facebook, only your network can see it or people that you specify. In recent Facebook changes, you can now select who views your “status update” when posting a new item. This is very similar to Google+ and it’s definitely one of the best features of this network, but does it help at all? What if I want to share with people I haven’t met yet, but have similar interests as me? The only way I can do that is if I physically met them and added them to my network.\n\nOn Twitter, If I post a new message, it is out there in the public. Anyone can see what I have posted (depending on my privacy settings). I am really not so keen on sharing my latest holiday photos with complete strangers that I don’t know on Twitter. I feel that it is this space that both of these networks are still lacking in sharing options.\n\nGoogle+ to the rescue\n\nWith Google+, you can choose which of your Circles you have added people to can view your updates. You can also choose what permissions these people in your circles have on what they can do with your content. If you added someone to one of your Circles on Google+, they don’t have to add you too. This works just like an un reciprocated follow on Twitter that you can see these peoples posts.\n\nFrom an internet marketing perspective – grouping people together and sharing content with these selected people helps with targeting. Even though it is a risky game for Google to move into social networks once again, I believe Google has hit the middle ground perfectly with their sharing features. I really hope that Google+ will stick around." ]

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[ "\nTwitter went crazy last week when a rumor spread that Days of Our Lives might to kill off Abigail Devereaux Dimera.\n\n\nWhile it has NOT been confirmed, Abigail wouldn’t be the first heroine to suffer an untimely demise. But is the wrath or Abby and Chabby fans worth the dramatic storyline?\n\n\nOur TV Fanatics and avid Days of Our Lives fans, Jack and Christine, are here to tell us what they think of the rumor and debate if killing off the children of legacy characters is worth the backlash.\n\n\nDo you think they’re really going to kill Abigail, and is killing off the adult child of two legacy characters good, bad, or just what happens in Salem?\n\n\nJack: Ugh. I am really hoping this rumor is false. I’m so tired of them killing off legacy characters! It’s uncreative, and in this case doubly so because they killed off Laura fairly recently. Could they not, please? We already had one Abby fake death, so we don’t need this.\n\n\nChristine: Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Although I didn’t care for Laura, they’ve already done a fake Abby death. Do we really need another?\n\n\nGiven how many characters die and come back, is death ever real in Salem?\n\n\nJack: Only if it’s a character they think is a throwaway, like Serena or Paige. I’m half expecting random people to show up on Kristen’s island!\n\n\nChristine: With so many Salemites having been dead at one time or another, viewers have no reason to believe it’s real and permanent.\n\n\nAbby’s own father, Jack, was “dead” for many years before returning to Salem. Other “Salem dead” characters that are once again alive and well include Marlena, Hope, Steve, Roman. There’s probably more that I just can’t recall right now.\n\n\nHave you had a favorite back from the dead story?\n\n\nJack: I liked when Roman came back from the dead. The John/Marlena/Roman story was one of my favorite classic triangles.\n\n\nI also, to an extent, liked when Marlena was being held on an island by Orpheus because that was an interesting story. I wish that when they’d brought Orpheus’ children back as adults, it would have been written better and that they’d had more scenes with Marlena.\n\n\nChristine: Yes, I think they really dropped the ball there. Having Orpheus’ kids feel a connection to Marlena could have been a compelling story.\n\n\nI also liked Roman’s return because it brought so much upheaval. I remember the first time Marlena was “killed” and came back. She and John reuniting on the dock was very emotional.\n\n\nJack: Yes! Those older stories were all emotionally compelling. I think that it’s overdone now. Literally, everyone has been given Rolf’s magic shot or was really on an island.\n\n\nSince Days does this kind of a story so often, has it lost its emotional punch? Do viewers just not believe that a character is really dead anymore?\n\n\nChristine: It almost feels like every Days’ hero or heroine must be presumed dead at least once. It’s like a right of passage or something. But when they “kill” a character, I tend to just shrug my shoulders now because I know the odds are they’ll be back in a few months.\n\n\nJack: It really does seem that way, and I think viewers are mostly waiting to see when the character will come back. At least they didn’t kill off Philip!\n\n\nThough the characters who are endlessly out of town with no good explanation as to why are almost as bad.\n\n\nThe frustrating thing is that if you read spoilers or news, you already know the character is not really dead by the time their death airs, and then having to sit through characters grieving for no reason is tedious.\n\n\nPhilip, Sarah, Hope, now Jack, and Jennifer are all off-screen or have been for extended periods of time. But is that better or worse than having them be “Salem dead”?\n\n\nJack: In some ways, it’s better because at least they CAN come back without a ridiculous explanation. But it’s annoying in the case of a character like Hope, who is conspicuously absent from her daughter’s pregnancy and her father’s presumed dementia. It makes no sense for the character not to be there.\n\n\nChristine: Yes, Hope is one of the more annoying absences, but what’s the alternative. Do they kill off a legacy character, or do they just need to develop a better, more creative explanation for her absence?\n\n\nOr, do they recast?\n\n\nJack: I would be happy with a recast, personally. Hope in limbo makes almost as much sense as when they did it with Bo, and he was “off chasing Stefano” while Stefano was in Salem!\n\n\nBut if they don’t want to recast, they at least need a more creative reason for her absence. Even mentioning that she visited Doug or Ciara off-screen or having a one-sided phone call would be better than her plane having mechanical trouble for the 15th time.\n\n\nChristine: LOL! Very true. Yeah, I grew up watching Hope, but at this point, I might be okay with a recast. With Doug’s recent possession and Ciara having a baby, it doesn’t make any sense for Hope to not be in Salem.\n\n\nIs there a character that’s dead that you think should stay dead?\n\n\nChristine: For me, that character is Stefano. No one can replace Joseph Mascolo in that role. When he died, Stefano died with him. The show needs to let them both rest in peace.\n\n\nJack: I agree — Stefano should stay dead. As should Caroline Brady, sadly.\n\n\nIf the original actor died and the character was “theirs” for YEARS, it needs to stay that way out of respect for the actor.\n\n\nI was also initially against Jack coming back from the dead because I felt like it made a mockery out of JJ’s original storyline, and his emotional problems due to Jack’s death were so well done.\n\n\nAlso, it would be weird after all these years if Isabella turned up alive, so I think they should leave that alone.\n\n\nCircling back to Abigail, if neither Marci Miller nor Kate Mansi is available, would you prefer a third recast to Abigail being killed off?\n\n\nJack: Yes! They used to do this all the time. I recall there being three or four other actors playing Jack besides Matthew Ashford. And Kate Mansi is the second Abigail I remember since she replaced Ashley Benson. So why not just recast again?\n\n\nChristine: Recasting is always a risk. Sometimes it flops, and sometimes it really works. Unfortunately, you just don’t know until they’re on screen.\n\n\nBut I agree that Abigail should be recast instead of killed off. If for no other reason than I’m tired of people just being “Salem dead.” They do it with far too many characters, but then they apparently really killed Adrienne and left us stuck with Bonnie. That was just cruel.\n\n\nJack: Yeah, that really was ridiculous! That’s one time where I would have preferred them to do some sort of “oops, it was actually Bonnie who was killed in the car crash” story. I usually dislike these doppelganger storylines, but I’d make an exception for that.\n\n\nChristine: I think we all would if it meant we’d get rid of Bonnie for good!\n\n\nJack: Recasting is also risky because some fans won’t accept anyone but their favorite actor or actress.\n\n\nChristine: True. But this is a soap, and soap fans need to be adaptable whether they like it or not because nothing stays the same for long.\n\n\nMany actors, especially younger actors, want to spread their wings and try other roles. And if you don’t want your favorite character killed off, sometimes that means they’ll be recast. It’s just the way it works on soaps.\n\n\nJack: Exactly. I’m more open to recasts, but I watch Doctor Who, where the main character is recast every so often, so I’m used to it!\n\n\nChristine: LOL! I like that comparison. But Abigail has turned into an interesting case where two actresses have been swapping the character back and forth for a while now. If we’ve grown to accept that, I think we can be open to a recast.\n\n\nAnd the best thing about recasts is that even if they flop, it buys time to get the previous actor back while still moving the storyline forward.\n\n\nSo what do you think #Days fans? 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[ "Artist John Constable spent many happy hours painting the waterways of his eastern England where he grew up in what is now Essex and Suffolk. Rivers ran past the mills owned by his father in Flatford and Dedham and these feature in a number of his paintings. When away from home, it must have been natural for him to want to capture the distinctive watery landscape of other places, like this scene of water meadows in Salisbury – one of my favourite works of his in our collection.", null, "The painting shows a scene on a river just by Salisbury, with the water and sky dominating the canvas, with landscape between them featuring trees and meadows. The water meadows of the title do not seem to be the focus of the painting, but were in themselves of vital importance to the agricultural economy of the southern parts of England at this time.\n\nWater meadows were almost unknown in Constable’s eastern English countryside, where the soil and waterways were not conducive to this system, but since the 16th century, water meadows were ubiquitous in Salisbury and the surrounding areas in southern England, where they improved the effectiveness of farming corn and sheep that was essential to the local economy.\n\nWater meadows are managed by carefully crafted water channels which run all over the field and were used to maintain a thin layer of water flowing over the base of the grass stems. In winter this stopped the ground freezing, and encouraged early growth of crops. More crops meant larger flocks of sheep could be fed. More sheep produced more manure which fed back into the fields to help produce more corn.\n\nThe water meadow channels are not visible from Constable’s viewpoint in this painting but an overhead photograph of a location in Salisbury in Historic England’s document on water meadows shows these telltale shapes in the surface of the field. This document reports that in Constable’s time there were over 15,000 acres of watermeadow in Wiltshire alone – that’s nearly 20,000 football fields of water meadows.", null, "Water meadows have now almost completely disappeared from the countryside, most were abandoned in the early 20th century as agriculture became more industrial. In the late 20th century, Harnham Water Meadows near Salisbury, have been restored to resemble their original look and purpose and celebrate the role of this technique in the history of the area.\n\nConstable may have been drawn to the beautiful serenity of this scene, but he has also given us a glimpse into the hardworking landscape that was part of Britain’s agricultural economy." ]

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[ null, "MIKE KROPF | LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY Pierre Tafelski led the Longwood University men’s tennis team to unprecedented success in only his second season as head coach, and both he and two of his standout players received Big South recognition for their accomplishments.\n\nThe Lancers’ season came to a close last week when, as the No. 4 seed, they lost 4-1 to No. 5 Winthrop University in the quarterfinals of the Big South Championships, but their season will largely be remembered for all of the wins that they packed into it.\n\nEarning the title of Big South men’s tennis Coach of the Year was Pierre Tafelski, who, in only his second year as Lancers head coach, led them to a 14-6 record, which represents the most wins in a season in program history.\n\nPrior to this season, the Lancers had not won a single Big South match, but during the 2016-17 regular season, they actually went 4-3 against conference opponents. The No. 4 seed they earned in the conference tournament was the team’s best yet in its time as a member of the Big South.\n\n“It’s definitely a great year for us,” Tafelski said, adding that it took a lot of time and consistent effort to make it happen, with more emphasis put on the process and less on outcomes.\n\nIn reference to the title of Big South Coach of the Year, Tafelski said that “beside(s) having a winning record and (having) a pretty good record overall, being nominated and then actually awarded that title — that means a lot to me because it means other coaches in the Big South are (recognizing) our work and our improvement within only about two years, so it’s definitely a great honor for me.”\n\nIn addition to making the All-Big South first team for singles and for doubles, Amadeo Blasco was named Big South men’s tennis Freshman of the Year.\n\n“It’s great for him,” Tafelski said. “When I recruited him, I obviously had this in the back of my mind. I knew and understood the potential he had, and obviously it took a lot of hard work and a lot of growing up to do on his (behalf) throughout the year.”\n\nSplitting time in the top three singles spots this season, Blasco finished 16-4. In doubles play, he also went 16-4, partnering with senior Florian Uffer, who was named to the All-Big South second team for singles and the conference all-academic team, in addition to sharing the first team doubles honor with Blasco.\n\nUffer went 12-7 this season while splitting time between No. 1 and No. 2 singles.\n\nTafelski praised Uffer for his development, and said his accolades were “the reward of a year and a half or two years of hard work with me.”" ]

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[ null, "\nAnother mixed bag of goodies, this issue:\nOur lead Phantom story is a Falk/Barry classic that hasn’t been seen in a Frew\ncomic since issue #1312 (the 2002 Annual). It’s ‘The Lost City of Pheenix’ -\nthe 8th daily newspaper strip - featuring the second appearance of Old Man\nMozz. Next up is The Panther #7. More feline heroics from the masterly brush and typewriter of Paul Wheelahan. Following is The Phantom Ranger #4. Another golden oldie from Jeff Wilkinson. Catman #4 follows. Another beautifully\ndrawn tale from Australian comic legend, John Dixon.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren reportedly teaming up behind the scenes\n\nMany on social media had some fun at the expense of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after pictures emerged from her visit to an art exhibit in Venice, Italy, inspired by her tenure in office.\n\nThe exhibit at the Despar Teatro Italia, titled “HILLARY: The Hillary Clinton Emails,\" displays a replica of the Oval Office's Resolute Desk and over 60,000 pages of Clinton's emails.\n\nAccording to Kenneth Goldsmith, the artist behind the exhibit, Clinton \"spent an hour\" reading her own emails and shared pictures of her visit.\n\nClinton reportedly told local media that the exhibit \"is further proof that nothing wrong or controversial can be found on these emails.\"\n\nThe failed 2016 presidential candidate was widely mocked on Twitter.\n\n\"Hillary should fire all of her advisors and anyone else who said this was a good idea,\" syndicated columnist Jonah Goldberg reacted.\n\nSome particularly had fun with the photo she took behind the Resolute Desk and compared it to cartoons and films.\n\nOthers, however, also invoked the \"30,000\" emails that Clinton had erased amid her email controversy." ]

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[ null, "Evaristo Vasquez owned a vending and refrigeration company, helped wife with her business.\n\nThere is such a thing as endless love. Evaristo “Daniel” Vasquez shared a love so great with his wife that death could not separate the two, family said.\n\nVasquez died May 20 from pulmonary fibrosis, 47 days after his wife's death from pancreatitis. He was 87. She was 83.\n\nOriginally from Waco, Vasquez came to San Antonio with his parents when he was 10.\n\nHe attended Fox Tech High School, and upon graduating, he joined the Navy. After four years of service, he was honorably discharged with the rank of seaman.\n\nWhile working for RC Cola Co., Vasquez noticed his future wife of 63 years, Elva, at a bus stop.\n\n“It was love at first sight,” daughter Martie Garcia said.\n\nThe couple dated for over a year and a half until they wed Aug. 26, 1950. Three years later, they started a family.\n\nVasquez and his wife instilled a strong sense of work ethic in their family. After leaving RC Cola, Vasquez would open his own business. He and his wife owned and operated their own businesses, and they worked together in real estate, flipping houses and renting them.\n\nVasquez started his business, Dan's Vending and Refrigeration Co., around 1970. His wife had started Elva's Beauty Salon a year earlier. Throughout the 25 years the businesses were open, the couple helped and supported each other.\n\nTheir secret to keeping such a strong, everlasting relationship through work and family was nothing other than passion, Garcia said.\n\n“They weren't perfect, but they had a lot of passion, and they were God-respecting,” she said.\n\nGrowing up, Garcia said, her parents taught her the fundamentals in life. Besides her father teaching her how to fix washing machines and learning how to be a proper University of Texas Longhorns fan, her mother taught her everything to know about beauty. She said they also taught her the importance of family, faith and knowledge.\n\n“Whatever knowledge we acquire cannot be taken away from us, so they encouraged us to learn as much as we could. They taught us to be putting God first and that family is love and family will always be there for you,” she said\n\nThe strong love of their family started her mother and father, Garcia said. “It was because of them, we are strong,” she said.\n\nWatching their parents' love, she added, taught them three things.\n\n“They taught us the importance of forgiveness, tolerance, and appreciation,” she said." ]

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[ null, "A raw, stripped-back club cut, ‘Blessing In This House’ pairs gospel vocals with a deep, grooving bassline – delivering a track that captures the essence of house. It follows December’s ‘It’s Not Over’, a nostalgia-tinged single that channels the sound of French Touch into something fresh and invigorating.\n\nWhile not exactly household names, Picard Brothers have been instrumental in shaping contemporary music since their inception in 2011. First cutting their teeth making beats for French rappers, the Parisian duo would later write and produce tracks for a who’s who of global icons, including Beyonce, Mark Ronson,Miley Cyrus, Burna Boy, Kehlani, Major Lazer and DRAM.\n\nThey also won a Grammy in 2019 for their contribution to ‘Electricity’ by Dua Lipa and regular collaborators Silk City. However the focus is now firmly on their own burgeoning musical project.\n\nBreathing fresh energy into French touch and soulful, golden-era house, their recent output follows a rich lineage of French dance music that can be traced back to Daft Punk, Laurent Garnier and Stardust. Rather than offering a cheap imitation, the Picard Brothers – along with collaborators Myd, Todd Edwards, Fred Falke and Para One – have reimagined and revitalised classic sounds in a way that connects with the masses. “We think we owe it to a past era,” they explain. “But it’s not a basic tribute – it’s combined with another thing: feeling”.\n\nTwo of the most in-demand talents in the game, ‘Blessing In This House’ sees Picard Brothers demonstrate their versatility as producers." ]

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[ "The England national football team has represented England in worldwide football since the 1st international match in 1872. It is controlled by The Football Association (FA), the leading body for football in England, which is allied with UEFA and comes under the global authority of world football’s governing body FIFA. England competes in the 3 main global contests contested by European nations: the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA European Championship, and the UEFA States League.\n\nEngland is the combined oldest national squad in football. It played in the world’s 1st international football match in 1872, in contradiction of Scotland. England’s home ground is Wembley Stadium, London, and its drill headquarters in St George’s Park, Burton upon Trent. The squad’s manager is Gareth Southgate. England is one of 8 nations to have gained the World Cup. England has been capable for the FIFA Cup 16 times.\n\nIt won the 1966 Football World Cup Final, a tournament it also hosted, and ended 4th in both 1990 and 2018. England has never gained the European Championship, with its top performance to date being runners-up in 2020. As an essential country of the United Kingdom, England is not a member of the International Olympic Committee and so does not contest at the Olympic Games.\n\nEngland is currently the only squad to have gained the World Cup at the senior level, but not their main interior title, and the only non-sovereign object to having won the FIFA Cup. The England state football squad is the joint-oldest in the world. It was formed at the same time as Scotland. A typical match between England and Scotland was played on 5 March 1870, having been organized by the Football Association.\n\nA return fixture was organized by councils of Scottish Football World Cup teams on 30 November 1872. This game, played at Hamilton Crescent in Scotland, is viewed as the 1st official worldwide football match, because the 2 teams were independently certain and operated, rather than being the work of a single football association. Over the next 40 years, England frolicked exclusively with the other 3 Home Nations Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the British Home Contest.\n\nAt 1st, England had no enduring home stadium. They joined FIFA World Cup in 1906 and played their 1st games against countries other than the Home Nations on a trip to Central Europe in 1908. Wembley Stadium was opened in 1923 and became their home ground. The relationship between England and FIFA became strained, and this resulted in their leaving FIFA in 1928 before they replied in 1946.\n\nAs a result, they did not contest a World Cup till 1950, in which they were compressed in a 1–0 defeat by the United States, failing to get past the 1st round in 1 of the most embarrassing defeats in the squad’s history. Their 1st defeat on home soil to a foreign team was a 2–0 loss to Ireland, on 21 September 1949 at Goodison Park. A 6–3 loss in 1953 to Hungary, was their 2nd defeat by a foreign squad at Wembley. In the return game in Budapest, Hungary won 7–1.\n\nThis stands as England’s major ever defeat. After the game, a bewildered Syd Owen said, it was like playing men from outer space. In the 1954 FIFA World Cup, England touched the quarter-finals for the 1st time and misplaced 4–2 to reigning champions Uruguay. Although Walter Winterbottom was chosen as England’s 1st full-time director in 1946, the team was still picked by a group until Alf Ramsey took over in 1963.\n\nThe 1966 Football World Cup was held in England and Ramsey directed England to victory with a 4–2 win in contradiction to West Germany after extra time in the final, during which Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick. In UEFA Euro 1968, the squad reached the semi-finals for the 1st time, being removed by Yugoslavia. England fit automatically for the 1970 FIFA Cup in Mexico as leading champions and touched the quarter-finals, where they were knocked out by West Germany. For more know about Football World Cup Tickets.\n\nEngland had been 2–0 up but was finally beaten 3–2 after extra time. They were then unsuccessful to qualify for the 1974 FIFA World Cup, leading to Ramsey’s discharge by the FA. Following Ramsey’s release, Joe Mercer took immediate provisional charge of England for a 7-match spell until Don Revie was chosen as the new enduring manager in 1974. Under Revie, the squad failed and failed to succeed for either UEFA Euro 1976 or the 1978 FIFA Cup.\n\nReview reconciled in 1977 and was substituted by Ron Greenwood, under whom presentations improved. The squad qualified for UEFA Euro 1980 deprived of losing any of their games but exited in the group stage of the final contest. They also fit for the 1982 World Cup in Spain. Though, despite not being behind a game, they were removed in the 2nd group stage. Bobby Robson achieved England from 1982 to 1990.\n\nAlthough the squad was unsuccessful to qualify for UEFA Euro 1984, they touched the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup, losing 2–1 to Argentina in a game made famous by 2 highly conflicting goals scored by Maradona – the 1st being blatantly knocked in by his hand, warning his Hand of God remark, the 2nd being an exceptionally skilful individual goal, involving high speed dribbling past few foes. England picket Gary Lineker ended as the contest’s top scorer with 6 goals.\n\nEngland departed on to lose every game at UEFA Euro 1988. They next achieved their 2nd best result in the 1990 World Cup by concluding 4th losing again to West Germany after a closely disputed semi-final final 1–1 after extra time, then 3–4 in England’s 1st penalty shoot-out. Despite losing to Italy in the 3rd place play-off, the members of the England squad were given bronze medals equal to the Italians’.\n\nDue to the squad’s good routine at the tournament in contradiction to general expectations, and the expressive nature of the narrow overthrow of West Germany, the team were greeted home as heroes and thousands of people lined the streets for an open-top bus parade. The 1990s saw 4 England directors for the Football World Cup team follow Robson, each in the role for a fairly fleeting period. Graham Taylor was Robson’s instant successor.\n\nEngland was unsuccessful to win any games at UEFA Euro 1992, drawing with contest winners Denmark and later with France, earlier being removed by host nation Sweden. The team then failed to succeed in the 1994 FIFA World Cup after losing a contentious game in contradiction to the Netherlands in Rotterdam, which resulted in Taylor’s notice. Taylor faced much newspaper criticism through his tenure for his strategies and squad selections.\n\nBetween 1994 and 1996, Terry Venables was removed from charge of the World Cup team. At UEFA Euro 1996, held in England, they equalled their greatest presentation at a European Championship, reaching the semi-finals as they did in 1968, before leaving via another penalty shoot-out loss to Germany. England striker Alan Shearer was the contest’s top scorer with 5 goals. At Euro 96, the song 3 Lions by Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds became the final anthem for admirers on the terraces.\n\nVenables publicized before the contest that he would resign at the end of it, following soundings into his financial actions and ahead of upcoming court cases. Due to the disagreement around him, the FA harassed that he was the coach, not the manager, of the squad. Venables’ successor, Glenn Hoddle, took the squad to the 1998 FIFA World Cup in which England was removed in the 2nd round, again by Argentina and over on penalties after a 2–2 draw.\n\nIn February 1999, Hoddle was sacked by the FA due to contentious comments he had complete about disabled people in a newspaper. Howard Wilkinson took over as caretaker boss for 2 World Cup matches. Kevin Keegan was then chosen as the new enduring manager and took England to UEFA Euro 2000, but the team exited on the group stage and he suddenly resigned shortly afterwards.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Relationships are in the transformation stage, no doubt about it. We’ve seen it coming, as Saturn approaches the final degree of Libra and is finally ready to move on.\n\nMany of us are going to be finally ready to move on, too. Like, final finally. We’ve been ready. We’ve tried. But something has held us back for one more lesson, one more bit of convincing, and one last hope that maybe we were missing something, the golden bit of light that will wake us up to what’s really going so that we can remain more comfortably in an uncomfortable place. After all, we’re told that we can’t change others, only ourselves. So many of us have been busily working at changing ourselves, like burning the candle at both ends into the wee hours preparing for the final exam.\n\nFour stories came to me last week about difficult relationships, how they’d been ended once or twice already only to be resurrected for another go. Until the Full Moon in Pisces on August 31, they were all doing pretty well, in a place that was more compassionate, accepting, and serene. And all four people, within a few days last week, experienced an unexpected event with their partners that threw them for a loop. One of them, a woman who after a year of struggling finally came to grips with her partner’s Asperger’s, was on her way home from work and saw him going out to dinner with another woman.\n\nI wrote in last week’s forecast that the Full Moon would continue to unfold right up to Friday. Did it ever, and how. Last Tuesday, I came across Michael Lutin’s article on the Full Moon in Pisces, and it suddenly all made sense. We’re heading into the final three degrees of Saturn in Libra. Right. Mikey commented that something drastic will take place. I assume he’s talking about Saturn’s entry in Scorpio, which will place him in mutual reception with Pluto. Those of us who have been up all night studying will go through the final exam and emerge ready to transform. I say “ready to transform” rather than “transformed,” because I believe the process will continue. Evolution doesn’t stop.\n\nI know, it sounds kind of scary, but we’ve known for some time that this wasn’t going to be a period of snuggling into our comfort zones. We’re out of the nest, learning to fly. This is what it feels like.\n\nI’m going to spend the rest of the forecast looking at Saturday’s New Moon in Virgo, which begins unfolding on Monday and will continue to be felt through the weekend. The bigger event, of course, is the Uranus-Pluto square, which will be exact on September 18, the same day Pluto turns direct. Uranus says, “Evolution isn’t fast enough. Mutate!”\n\nThis New Moon is ruled by Mercury, who conjoins the Sun on Monday and then swiftly moves through the end of Virgo to enter Libra on Sunday. In my world, Virgo is co-ruled by Ceres, who is moving through the end of Gemini – in a near perfect square with Mercury and the New Moon and a perfect trine with Saturn.\n\nMercury in his own sign of Virgo wants to pay attention to the details – who did what to whom, when, who owes whom money, and so forth. This is fine for professional relationships, and directly addressing details may be just the solution for moving through issues with co-workers and supervisors. If this is your situation, make sure you have all your ducks in a row and that your arguments are based on sound logic. There’s still room for compromise (especially the following week, with Mercury in Libra), but concessions will be made on logic, not feelings.\n\nCeres has a different agenda. Feelings count, and so does the physical and emotional well-being of everyone involved. There may be a pecking order, but if someone lower down the food chain has the goods, they stand on equal footing with the higher-ups. Her method of compromise is more like Libra: you get half, I get half. If your relationship is ending, this may be a practical matter, and it’s where I see the possibility of a split that, while not necessarily amicable, at least will be civil. I think this is also where we may be able to release some karma, especially if you’ve got ties with someone over several incarnations.\n\nInterestingly, in the New Moon chart, Juno is on the lunar North Node at 29 degrees Scorpio. In Roman mythology, Juno was the wife of Jupiter, the king of the gods. The Greek equivalents are Zeus and Hera. Greek mythology unfortunately stripped Hera of her power by making her the angry and vengeful wife of a philanderer. Her actual history is much older (like Nemesis, about whom I wrote last week). The evolution of the goddess might as well be a story about how male and female energies became imbalanced in the world. We’re on the threshold of righting the balance. In the last degree of Scorpio, Juno is drawing upon all of her power before entering Sagittarius, the sign ruled by Jupiter.\n\nLastly, Venus trines Uranus (the aspect is exact on Thursday). Here’s the big surprise, an event that causes a mutation of thought that leads to a transformation in your external world. This event may concern love or money, two domains ruled by Venus. Because the trine is harmonious, I’m hopeful that this will be a happy surprise. Goddess knows we’ve had enough of the other kind.\n\nMikey suggested reading the Robert Frost poem, commonly referred to as “The Road Less Travelled.” The actual title is “The Road Not Taken.” Think about that for a minute. Frost was writing about one road, but the collective perception was the opposite. There’s a lot to contemplate in the few weeks left of Saturn in Libra. Come to think of it, this is a perfect poem for Libra. Who else could stand so long at a fork in the road, trying to decide which way to go?\n\nRegardless of which road you take, it’s going to be bumpy for the next several weeks. To help you on your way, I just set up the StarGuide Fall forecast, which is now available. I’ve taken some pre-orders already, so if you order now, expect it to take 3-4 days for delivery. I also highly recommend that if you want your report by the first day of fall (September 22) that you order this week. This is my most popular report, and I’m always swamped at the beginning of the new season.\n\nWishing you all much love and courage on your journey," ]

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[ "The Men of St. Paul’s Episcopal put on a mammoth barbecue on the public square in Franklin", null, "Old-time music will fill the public square in Franklin as a 54-year-old tradition continues a few blocks away on West Main Street as the Men of St. Paul’s Episcopal put on a mammoth barbecue.\n\nThe event, which raises money for several charities, also includes a silent auction and a bake sale.\n\nThe event will be 3-7 p.m. Saturday on the church grounds on West Main between Fifth and Sixth avenues.\n\nAfter the men run smokers all night, pulled chicken and pulled-pork plates with side dishes including the secret recipe hot stuff, will be sold for $12. Individual Boston butts, whole chickens, and chicken leg quarters also will be available for purchase.\n\nThe group also will sell at the public square during the Bluegrass Along the Harpeth Fiddler’s Jamboree.\n\nTickets are available in advance for $12. For information about donating to the silent auction or purchasing tickets call the church office at 615-790-0527.\n\nMore events are planned this weekend:\n\nTomatoFest: Franklin Farmers Market will hold its second annual TomatoFest during market hours, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday. . The market is in the shed behind The Factory at Franklin, at 230 Franklin Road.\n\nSpring Hill Summerfest: The third in this five-part fest will feature The Scat Springs Band from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. Music will be followed by “The Lego Movie” on the inflatable screen at 8:30 p.m.\n\nFood and drinks are available to buy on-site. No tents, grills or pets are allowed. Go to www.battleoffranklintrust.org." ]

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[ "NEW YORK, May 13, 2021 – PRSSA, the foremost organization for students interested in the public relations and communications fields, announced today that California State University, Long Beach was named the winner of the 2021 Bateman Case Study Competition. Taking second place in the competition was the University of Nebraska–Lincoln followed by Loyola University New Orleans in third place.\n\nThis year’s Bateman Case Study Competition challenged students to research, plan, implement and evaluate a public relations campaign focused on reversing the corrosion of civility in American life and fostering more constructive and inclusive public discourse in all corners of society.\n\n“Year in and year out, I continue to be impressed with the campaigns students across the country create for the Bateman Case Study Competition,” said Jeneen Garcia, Senior Vice President, Programming, PRSA. “I commend these teams for the important work they did and continue to do to emphasize the significance of civility in their communities. They are shining examples of what is possible when we listen, learn and work together.”\n\nThe Bateman Case Study Competition originated in 1973 as a national case study allowing PRSSA members to exercise the analytical skills required for public relations problem solving. In 1983, the name of the Competition was changed to honor the memory of the late J. Carroll Bateman, APR. Bateman was a past president of PRSA and was instrumental in the founding of PRSSA.\n\nPRSSA received 54 entries from colleges and universities across the nation. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the top three finalists presented their campaigns virtually to a panel of judges comprised of representatives from PRSA.\n\nCalifornia State University, Long Beach’s month-long online campaign was developed and implemented by five students. The campaign's overall goal was to empower individuals to be agents of change, facilitating discussions among CSULB students, parents, community leaders, and the general public on the impact of incivility in public discourse. Due to COVID-19 restrictions on gathering, the CivilityLB team chose to engage these publics through a robust, fully online campaign on Instagram, Twitter, Zoom and its own website, CivilityLB.com. To emphasize its key message of seeing each other “From Another Point of View,” the team relied on partnerships with local organizations and owned, paid and shared media impressions.\n\n“We were thrilled to be part of such an amazing initiative to improve civility as part of the Bateman Competition,” said the CSULB team. “The CivilityLB campaign was rooted in learning to respect and communicate with one another, and it impacted our team on a personal level. We learned just how far-reaching the impacts of incivility are on our families, friends and community members, and truly wanted to make a difference in their lives for the better. We know that our resources will continue to help the Cal State Long Beach and local community far into the future.”\n\nAdded Krista Coriaty, faculty adviser and lecturer at California State University, Long Beach’s Department of Journalism & Public Relations, “It was an honor to work with this group of students on their CivilityLB campaign – not only because of their drive, creativity and impressive results, but because each one of them brought heart and compassion to the project. They saw this campaign as a real opportunity to bring our Long Beach and campus communities together during a time when many of us need it most, pulling from personal experiences to establish relationships and develop impactful materials that will help improve civility for years to come.”\n\nBehind the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s campaign entitled “The Civility Effect” were five seniors who felt the most effective way to promote civility was to show the power of individual choices and their profound impact on the community and society as a whole. In this way, the team designed a campaign that aimed to cultivate an intrinsic value of civility within individuals, motivating them to interact with existing civic organizations, initiatives and resources. To inform and inspire individuals in the community, the team also organized two events — one in-person and one virtual — to not only demonstrate “The Civility Effect” in action but to equip individuals with the tools necessary to succeed.\n\n“Finding the Neutral Ground: It’s More Than Meeting in the Middle” was primarily a virtual public relations campaign organized by Loyola University New Orleans. Leveraging the welcoming hospitality and culture New Orleans is known for, the campaign centered on the idea of respecting different ideas and creating a safe space for solution-driven conversations. To promote civility among college students and public relations professionals in the New Orleans area, the team formed a “Krewe du Civility” — a task of public relations professionals — and also hosted a virtual Open Mic Night to raise awareness around the team’s key messages.", null ]

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[ "Between my mom and Jay I have seen many forms of Moussaka, it is the number one item they order when we eat at a greek restaurant. The best way I can explain it is as a Mediterranean lasagna. I never really tried it until recently and was shocked by what I had been missing. The blend of spices like cinnamon with beef and the creamy sauce was just a wonderful combination. I needed to replicate it both gluten free and a little more guilt free then the normal restaurant version. I promise it won’t disappoint!!!\n\nThe first step is to microwave the potatoes whole for 3-4 minutes. The goal is to begin the potato cooking process but not to make them to soft. Allow the potatoes to cool completely and slice thin ( the thinner the better). Next, slice the eggplant into think rounds, again the thinner the better. Coat the rounds with a heavy dusting of salt and allow it to sit on a baking sheet for a bit, until you begin to see the eggplant start to release some water (could take about 15mins.) While the eggplant is sitting begin to make the meat mixture.\nBegin by browning the meat with chopped onion. Drain the liquid and add tomatoes, tomato paste, wine, nutmeg, 2 tsp cinnamon, ginger, salt and pepper to taste.\nTo make sauce simply combine milk, cream cheese, pinch of salt and 1/2 tsp of cinnamon. Microwave for 10-15 seconds and mix well until smooth. Set aside.\nNow it’s time to assemble the mosuka. Spray a baking dish with non-stick spray. Place a layer of half the eggplant on the bottom. Above the bottom layer place half the potato rounds. Then a layer of half the meat and top meat with all the parm cheese. Repeat the layers of eggplant, potato and meat. Top the whole dish with an even layer of cream cheese sauce. Cook on 350 degrees for 25 minutes cover with foil. After 25 min remove foil and broil on low for an additional 5 minutes until the top layer begins to brown.", null, null, null, null, "Around the World, One Gluten-Free Meal at a Time\n\nLove the blog? Grab a copy of the first cookbook today and start cooking!", null, "Shop online for the best gluten free breads and sweets!", null, "Finally a healthy and easy way to lose weight." ]

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[ null, "Craig Richmond, President and CEO, Vancouver Airport Authority said: “As a community focused airport, we pride ourselves on being a leader in sustainability and this independent carbon accreditation is further proof that our efforts are working. Our primary goal is to build, maintain and operate a safe and sustainable airport. To effectively manage our impact on the environment, we maintain robust policies and procedures aligned with our values. I am so pleased that we are now Level 3 certified and applaud the hard work of not only the YVR team, but also our business partners in helping us to achieve this new level.”\n\nAs YVR looks to build a new Environmental Management Plan, the airport remains on track to fulfil its current target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 33 per cent by 2020.\n\nThe target remains the same despite growth projections now showing 29 million passengers targeted for 2020—in comparison to 25 million, which YVR is now expected to achieve later this year.\n\nACI-NA President and CEO, Kevin M. Burke, said: “Airports strive to be good partners within their communities and in the global aviation system by promoting sustainability and environmentally responsible practices. One of the chief ways North American airports can lower their carbon footprint is by participating in the Airport Carbon Accreditation program. I applaud the airports like Vancouver International Airport that are leading our industry on a path toward continued success in innovation and sustainability.”\n\nLaunched in 2009, Airport Carbon Accreditation is an independent programme administered by WSP, an international consultancy appointed by ACI Europe to enforce the accreditation criteria for airports on an annual basis. An Advisory Board oversees the administration of the program.\n\nYVR’s current 2015-2019 Environmental Management Plan sets the framework for the organisation’s environmental initiatives. In addition to its commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, YVR is working to divert 50 per cent of waste from landfill and reduce potable water consumption by 30 per cent. YVR is also committed to improving ecosystem health and was named the first airport in the world to be salmon-safe certified." ]

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[ "This Acquisition Won’t Hang Workers Out to Dry – Next City\n\nThis Acquisition Won’t Hang Workers Out to Dry", null, "Some of the new owners of Berry Insulation. The decade-old energy auditing and weatherization company just became The Fund for Employee Ownership's first conversion to worker ownership, ensuring that if or when founder Marty Berry retires, the company will carry on. (Photo courtesy Berry Insulation)\n\nBrett Jones plans to arrange at least sixteen acquisitions over the next five years. He just closed on the first one.\n\nSince they became widespread among private equity firms in the 1980s, acquisition strategies, including leveraged buyouts, have become a key part of the playbook leading to the demise of many iconic U.S. companies — including Toys ‘R Us, Sears, and PayLess. Those deals led to the losses of tens of thousands of jobs, and the ripple effects from the loss of a large retailer left some cities’ main streets struggling.\n\nAs is common with strategic acquisitions, Jones created a new legal entity, then he arranged for that entity to take out a loan, which it used to acquire a controlling stake in the target company. In this case, the target was Berry Insulation, a decade-old energy auditing and weatherization company serving the Cleveland metropolitan area, with 15 employees. In other strategic acquisitions, the cash infusion from the loans allowed the private equity firms to charge huge “management fees” to target companies, or pay out huge bonuses to executives whom they hand-picked, saddling the target companies with debts that ultimately bled them dry.\n\nBut in this case, the legal entity that Jones created is actually a cooperative owned by the target company’s existing workers. The cooperative’s loan came from The Fund for Employee Ownership. The fund is a subsidiary of Evergreen Business Services, where Jones leads a two-and-a-half-person team devoted to expanding worker-owned cooperatives. In addition to starting new cooperatives, Jones’ team is using acquisitions to convert existing businesses into worker-owned cooperatives. As an entire generation of baby boomer business owners reach retirement age, Evergreen hopes this strategy can become commonplace as a way to keep those businesses and jobs around.\n\nFor Jones, a Cleveland native who grew up to work in global logistics and later founded and sold several businesses, it feels like redemption. “I get to be who I’ve always been but do it in a different frame and context,” he says. “I still get to be entrepreneurial, I still get to cut deals, I still get to stack capital, create partnerships and alliances, I still get to do all of that jazz. But I could actually go to heaven if I keep this up.”\n\nFor Berry Insulation founder and CEO Marty Berry, it feels like he’s secured a legacy not only for himself, but for the whole team of employees that have really built the company together.\n\n“Even if someone came along and wanted to buy my company, I’m not saying I wouldn’t have entertained it but one of my concerns would be what’s going to happen to our team,” Berry says. “They took a chance on me, some of them have stuck with us through thick and thin and I wouldn’t want to do something that didn’t at least address the future of our team.”\n\nAccording to Project Equity’s research, baby boomers still own half of all privately owned businesses with employees — 2.34 million businesses earning an estimated $5.14 trillion in annual revenue and and paying $949 billion a year in salaries, wages and benefits to 24.7 million workers. Both Accelerate Employee Ownership and Evergreen Business Services are supporting worker cooperatives to acquire those businesses from their baby boomer owners at retirement age or sooner. Each also received initial funding for worker cooperative conversions from the Quality Jobs Fund, a partnership of the New World Foundation and the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco.\n\nThere aren’t a lot of other good options Berry sees out there for small or medium sized business owners thinking about retirement or otherwise moving on from a successful business. “For a smaller business, the pathways for an orderly transition to the next generation, are very limited,” Berry says.\n\nBerry says venture capital firms agree he’s got a great business in a growing market — energy efficiency and weatherization — but his business is still too small, or growing too slowly to attract their interest. His children, meanwhile, haven’t expressed interest in taking over dad’s business. “It’s not a negative on them at all,” he says.\n\nThere’s the possibility of a private buyer, someone in the corporate world who also has that entrepreneurial bug. But a private buyer would probably need a loan from a commercial bank to finance their buyout, and banks just aren’t interested in financing for businesses of this size, in Berry’s experience. Often times a small business acquisition is also seller-financed, meaning the buyer effectively goes in debt to the previous owner for at least portion of the sale price. “But he or she may not know anything about this business, so it could be very risky for me and for the whole team,” Berry says.\n\nBerry knew about employee-stock ownership programs but he didn’t know about worker cooperatives before he heard about Evergreen Business Services. Unlike most ESOPs, in a worker-owned cooperative, workers participate as board members and co-managers, which appealed to Berry because he believes no one knows his business better than the employees who already work there. It was someone from Cleveland’s economic development department, Berry says, who first mentioned Evergreen in a meeting, and passed along Jones’ contact information. Berry sent him an email and got a call back relatively quickly.\n\nJones first started working with Evergreen to develop and project manage a 1-megawatt solar farm. He didn’t know what worker cooperatives were when he first started working on the project. “I was a scoundrel when I came here,” Jones says. “But you talk to different people, you see the impact you have, and you get bit by the bug, you realize there is a way to do well while doing good, and it’s all over after that.”\n\nJones now uses his own personal conversion story to help connect with potential business owners in his pipeline for worker cooperative conversions. Jones’ business background was part of what impressed Berry at first — and it has been essential to getting through the 4-5 months of due diligence.\n\n“[Evergreen is] very thorough, as they should be,” Berry says. “They’ve been very professional and knowledgeable. One thing I knew going into it was they were serious, and if they liked what they saw and everything checked out, they could get the transaction done.”\n\nIn addition to poring over Berry Insulation’s books, Jones also had to do his own market analysis — all to make sure the company was financially sustainable and would have at least a consistent, if not a growing market going forward. “It would be really egregious for us to hand employees a time-bomb while we extract all our value somehow,” Jones says.\n\nBerry, who’s 61, also says there’s a bonus to doing the transaction now versus later when he might have wanted to take all of the sale proceeds and just ride off into the sunset — the company can take the cash infusion from the loan and invest in growth at a crucial moment. The advisory support from Evergreen Business Services also helps with growth. “It allows us to grow the business faster than I could on my own because of Evergreen’s resources,” Berry says. He still owns a 20 percent stake in the company, but there is a plan in place for him to sell that remaining stake in four years, with the workers getting the right of first refusal.\n\nThere are still a few things to work out after closing the deal last month. The newly-vested employee-owners will need to work out how they’ll start accruing equity in the new company. They’ll also need to hash out their profit-sharing process — at the end of every year, how will they decide whether just to split up profits among each other, or make necessary investments in the business, or just leave some “in their ledger,” leaving the money in the bank while increasing the dollar value of each employee’s share of the company. When an employee leaves, the company also has to have a plan in place to buy back the employee’s shares.\n\nMeanwhile, Jones is looking forward to getting more employee-ownership conversions in his pipeline. He hopes to grow The Fund for Employee Ownership from its current $13 million in assets to $50 million by 2025, which he estimates would eventually cover about 40 worker-owned cooperative conversions across the country and 1,000-4,000 new employee-owners. Doing that will require finding more investors. The first few conversions will determine whether that can happen — if the companies perform well by staying on-time with repayments on the loans from the fund, it will help Jones build a case to other investors that the portfolio he’s building is a safe and reliable investment.\n\n“Our job at Evergreen is to create the best transaction for employee ownership we can, so the lowest cost capital at the most favorable terms,” Jones says. “Right now, we can’t get any more favorable capital than from The Fund for Employee Ownership. But if there is more affordable capital available or our fund runs out of cash, we should be stacking capital differently as we can.”\n\nEDITOR’S NOTE: An earlier version of this article contained several errors. We’ve corrected the size of The Fund for Employee Ownership and the number of worker-owned cooperative conversions Jones hopes to facilitate over the next five years and in total. We’ve also removed the adjective “strategic” from describing TFEO’s acquisitions to avoid ambiguity." ]

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[ "In the Stance exercise, the poses were simply depicted and most are captured fairly well. Number 3 is a little upright I feel, although the weight is anchored on the model’s right foot correctly. The shoulders are maybe a little too level and not following the diagonal. With the Energy exercise, as I had a moving target, I think the sketches are representative of what I saw with the exception of the very first one where I was too late to get the arms down convincingly. Also, it would have been good to have realised the brief and gone larger on the paper to try to get feet and hands in all the sketches, although with hind sight, as I was being a little covert, an easel and bigger sheets of paper would have been trickier logistically.\n\nIn the Stance sketches, most are balanced and have the weight distributed as was, however, as before, sketch 3 looks a little unnatural. As does number 2, yet he did look that way in life. With the Energy drawings, although they are moving, waiting for the repetition of a position did allow for fast reworking which probably assisted with correcting any imbalances.\n\nBy using the opportunity to watch and draw while my model was doing a workout, it put me in the right frame of mind to be quick when both observing and drawing. I kept working the lines even when waiting for the position I was drawing to re-present itself so there was energy in the marks and in the “poses”. The first two sketches are the most static as I was a little late with reacting and didn’t have a second chance to get the movement in the mark making I would have liked.", null, null, "Quickly sketch the figure, trying to convey the sense of energy each pose creates.\n\nSlightly misreading the brief where I should have used A4 or A3 sheets per drawing, I took my A4 sketchbook into the garage where my husband was doing his workout. I made a few drawings per sheet except one which was on its own, however, not particularly well placed in the page. As these were to illustrate energy I worked quickly trying to capture the movement without actual posing of the model but catching what I could in the time, with the exception of the Krav Maga poses which were static briefly as difficult to keep for long.", null, null, "It may also be worth noting that these exercise are out of sequence with the course schedule due to availability of a model, rather than waiting doing nothing, have moved on to keep the momentum of work.\n\nMark the central axis in your initial sketches of the standing figure. Ask the model to change poses every 2 to 5 minutes. Draw as many quick poses as you can.", null, "Exercise: Stance\nQuick poses in standing position.\nLiner pen – all on A4 sheet\n\nThe main challenge was thinking up poses for this exercise – hopefully we achieved a good variety of stances. Whilst writing my notes in my sketchbook, it occurred to me how each pose may be interpreted in body language. This would be useful when making a drawing with a specific narrative, when trying to convey an emotion or behaviour, as well as trying to make a figure believable and grounded on the paper using the central axis. The stances above range from a casual open impressions, passive/aggressive, through to despair and arrogance." ]

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[ "We’ve been back in Dublin for four days, and Andrew is running out of things to do. You run out of things to do, here, if you’re not into writing. Or perhaps it’s just that I see all of the writers, and the writing, and the books, and the gravity of the craft that exists here in Dublin. I am anxious but enjoying it. (That’s pretty telling, the way I describe it, isn’t it – the gravity of the craft?) I feel a lot of pressure, like I always do everywhere, but especially here, to write, and be good at it. That’s all it is. But in Dublin, the people value writers like Australians value Ned Kelly, or Bob Hawke, or Ronan Keating. (Yes, I deliberately said Ronan Keating). We have stayed longer in Dublin because, though we were going back to London for the Literary Festival, we found that the Writers’ Festival was here. The chance to see John Banville (‘Cannot pen an unpolished phrase’ The Independent), Roddy Doyle (‘The Best Novelist of his Generation,’ Nick Hornby), and Anne Enright (‘Her novels are mosaics of small but captivating details,’ The Daily Telegraph… not quite as good a comment?) was too good to be true.\n\nI didn’t get tickets to that event.\n\nBut I got tickets to Colum McCann and Jon Ronson.\n\nI am finding that I am getting more writing done, but I feel like I’m getting less. I have pitched to a few magazines, and had a bit of a chat with the features editor from Women’s Health UK, and will hopefully write something for them. I’ve made a few contacts – yesterday, I approached the journalist who was interviewing Colum McCann for the lecture, and asked him about contacts, and he gave me a few. I have written a bit of fiction, but I’m finding that my desire is to write non-fiction. Colum McCan read out, and talked about writing, slabs of prose about real people, in situations completely imagined, but he cannot imagine writing fiction. It’s and odd thing, writing. Jon Ronson talked about a similar thing – the fiction that non-fiction writers create, that’s not fiction, when they use only the ‘gems’ in a person’s life, and discard the rest.\n\nI will write some more about Dublin, but I’m off to see John Banville talk to another writer about Ireland, and I wanted to post. Here, hopefully, are some photos.", null, null, null, "The two men having breakfast with me at the B&B, both from the ‘Stans, but exactly which ‘Stan I’m not sure, are talking to each other in English. As one leaves, I glance up in politeness, and he winks at me. Is that a cultural thing?) They were talking about the Guinness brewery tour, and when it was on, complaining about how cold it was. They were from Eastern Europe. Well… I just found out that one of them was from Portugal but that doesn’t matter because they both had the same mannerisms. As they were looking at the old-school map in a large picture frame above the toaster, trying to find the street the brewery was on, they were pooling the spit at the front of their mouths and sucking it back through their teeth, then blowing air out, looking for the street." ]

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[ null, "Arizona State coach Todd Graham might be the Pac-12 Coach of the Year if he beats Arizona this weekend.", null, "Todd Graham has a 59.2 winning percentage at Arizona State, better than any of his predecessors dating to 1987 — all of whom were fired.\n\nIt’s not the long hours, it’s not worrying that your opponent is stealing your signals and your recruits, and it’s not that TV cameras catch you using language that’d make your mom cry.\n\nIt’s that you’re as dispensable as the returning champion on “Jeopardy!”\n\nIf Todd Graham coaches Arizona State to a Territorial Cup victory over Arizona on Saturday, he’s apt to be selected the Pac-12 Coach of the Year, or no worse than runner-up. But if he loses, he’ll probably be fired.\n\nCan one game mean that much?\n\nGraham’s ASU winning percentage, 59.2, is greater than any of his predecessors dating to 1987 — all of whom were fired. Sun Devils fans, and the administration, may have determined Graham is no Frank Kush, an irascible old-school coach who became the school’s most legendary sports figure.\n\nKush owned Arizona, beating the Wildcats 13 times in 14 years in one period. His bristly behavior played to cheers.\n\nIn 2006, a day after he beat Arizona for the fourth time in five years, ASU coach Dirk Koetter was fired. He had gone 40-34 in six seasons.\n\n“When you meet the new coach,” Koetter said, “make sure you don’t say, ‘you just have to beat the UA to make everybody happy.’”\n\nFiring a college football coach has no boundaries.\n\nCould Todd Graham be No. 13? Over the last 50 years, only five Territorial Cup coaches — Smith, John Cooper, Jim Young, Darrell Mudra and Darryl Rogers — left on their terms.\n\nMudra resigned at Arizona in 1968 because the school wouldn’t give him a multiyear contract.\n\nCooper went to Ohio State, Smith to USC, Young to Purdue and Rogers to the NFL.\n\nIn 1991, ASU fired Larry Marmie after beating Arizona 37-14, ending nine excruciating years in which the Sun Devils had not defeated Arizona.\n\n“There needs to be a place in college football for a man of the character and fiber of Larry,” said ASU athletic director Charles Harris. “But that place isn’t at ASU. I believe we are the kind of program that ought to finish in the top third of the Pac-12 regularly.”\n\nOver the next quarter-century, ASU fired three coaches. Graham would make it 4 for 4. As for the Sun Devils finishing in the “top third regularly,” they won the league once, 1996, won the division once, 2013, and have gone 112-107 in conference games.\n\nASU fired Erickson a day after he lost the 2011 Territorial Cup in Tempe to an Arizona team that had fired Mike Stoops six weeks earlier.\n\n“There is a lot to look forward to at Arizona State,” said athletic director Lisa Love. “We are in a powerful position, with great players returning.”\n\nIt sounded the same way when Erickson’s predecessor, Koetter, was fired.\n\nLooking for a higher platform? The Sun Devils have since spent about $300 million on new football facilities yet produced a 30-23 Pac-12 record.\n\nIf ASU fires Graham it will largely be for his lack of connectivity in Phoenix. He’s not a charmer but rather a loud, isolated, acquired taste. But what does that matter? The same can be said for Arizona’s Rich Rodriguez, who was on the Road to Dismissal before discovering Khalil Tate on his bench.\n\nWhen the Sun Devils fired the brusque Koetter 11 years ago, Love, the AD, was asked if Koetter’s annoying demeanor triggered the decision.\n\n“How charming was Frank Kush?” she asked.\n\nArizona will face SMU on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the second Battle 4 Atlantis game.\n\nUA coach Rich Rodriguez wants Tate to operate ‘within the framework of the offense,’ allowing big plays to develop organically.\n\nThe 53-year-old is in his first year on Rich Rodriguez's staff following 21 seasons as a player and coach in the NFL.\n\nArizona Wildcats coach Rich Rodriguez on the Territorial Cup: 'This one is different'\n\nAfter a stunning defeat for the No. 2 team in the country at the hands of NC State, Arizona will look to bounce back against a 4-1 Southern Me…\n\nGreg Hansen and Star sports editor Ryan Finley get a little nostalgic and relive some of the top moments in Territorial Cup history, including…\n\nNational perception of the Pac-12 is down, and perhaps rightfully so since the conference hasn’t had a true College Football Playoff contender…\n\nTwo bees' nests were each several feet high at the house.\n\nImprovements to restoration plan may help lure rare sparrows back.\n\nOption attack makes Lions one of the state's most effective offenses, at any level.\n\nTucson's high temperature Saturday broke a record that was set in 1894, according to the National Weather Service.\n\nNahe Sulunga is a onetime Colorado State commit who was also being courted by Utah, Oregon State and others.\n\nArizona State coach Todd Graham might be the Pac-12 Coach of the Year if he beats Arizona this weekend.\n\nTodd Graham has a 59.2 winning percentage at Arizona State, better than any of his predecessors dating to 1987 — all of whom were fired." ]

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[ null, "AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #252 FACSIMILE EDITION CGC 9.8\nMARVEL COMICS\n(W) Roger Stern, Tom DeFalco (A/CA) Ron Frenz\nThe stunning debut of Spider-Man's black suit - the alien costume that would one day become Venom! As Spidey makes his homecoming from the super hero Secret Wars, he returns with a miraculous new outfit, a striking black-and-white Spider-Man costume that morphs and responds to his very thoughts - allowing him to change back to Peter Parker at will! But is it possible that this miraculous article of alien clothing may have a mind of its own? With New Yorkers made uneasy by his new look and the Secret Wars photos he took far too alien to sell to the Daily Bugle, can Peter pick up the life he left behind? Relive the issue that set in motion the entire saga of Venom! It's one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all!\nRated T\nFOC: 03/25/19\nSHIPPING STARTS: 07/2019\nShare Share on Facebook Tweet Tweet on Twitter Pin it Pin on Pinterest" ]

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[ null, "This is objectively a four star book, but I’m giving it five stars, because I can. This book was just super fun to read and it was exactly what I needed and wanted. I will be reading it again whenever I need to feel nerdy joy and my affection for humanity needs a boost.\n\nThe title of this book sort of says all you need to know before going into it, but if you need more, here’s just a little bit.\n\nJamie is working for a food delivery start-up in NYC when the pandemic starts, and after being fired in a really shitty way, ends up working as one of their food “deliverators” instead. On one delivery trip, Jamie runs into an old acquaintance named Tom who says that he has a great job that he loves and pays really well working to help endangered animals, and by the way if Jamie needs a job, there is an unexpected opening, and Tom would be happy to put in a good word. This is how Jamie ends up on another world entirely learning about and helping to preserve kaiju.\n\nYou can tell that Scalzi just had a mess of fun writing this book. It has his sense of humor plastered all over it, but some of the stuff is so ridiculous (and it’s ridiculous that he makes it work!) that you can just tell how much fun he had thinking all this crap up. For example SPOILERS the kaiju evolved to get their energy from biological nuclear reactors inside their bodies lol what END SPOILERS. This book is what happens if you gave a nerd a toy box and then told them to tell you a story using their favorite things inside the toy box, and because they’re a fully grown nerd, they make it plausible with real sounding science, even while it’s extremely fun and ridiculous.\n\nI had so much fun.\n\n“So we’re the monster police, too?” I said to Tom.\n“Correct,” he replied. “The only real question is, who are the monsters?”\n“They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It’s an actual trope.”\n“I know,” Tom said. “What does it say about us that it’s relevant every single time they ask it?”" ]

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[ "Two Bit Circus, a mini-amusement park, tumbles into The Shops at Park Lane", null, "A micro-amusement park from Los Angeles is coming this fall to Dallas at The Shops at Park Lane.\n\nTwo Bit Circus is a fusion of interactive technology and the familiar thrills of circus and carnival settings. This will be the venue’s second location and the second step on the group’s mission toward creating a chain of Two Bit locations.\n\nWhen it opens, visitors can expect interactive entertainment, carnival food, molecular mixology drinks and gaming. It will be filled with custom-designed arcade games, carnival games, a game show theater and more.\n\nTo top it off, there are also robot bartenders.\n\n“When we discovered Two Bit Circus in downtown LA three years ago, it was the most dynamic, proprietary entertainment concept we had seen,” Ward Kampf, president of Northwood Retail said in a news release. “Gaming, AR and VR are the future; there are three billion gamers worldwide, and growth in the sector is exceptional. Beyond that, there is a real need for human connection and social diversion.”\n\nThe center also has a variety of rooms including a new take on escape rooms, a room with carnival attractions and private gaming lounge rooms. Two Bit Circus gives back to support young inventors, schools and youth through Two Bit Circus Foundation, which is their nonprofit organization.\n\nFor updates on the opening, visit twobitcircus.com/dallas_preopen/.\n\nAbout the Author: Raven Jordan\n\nRaven is a writer for Lake Highlands Advocate. Contact Raven by email at [email protected]." ]

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[ null, "I keep thinking about the dogs in this film, how Jacques Tati the director makes them the stand-in for Mr. Hulot the character when he’s not around. They are guileless, curious, carefree things, and they don’t always know the destruction they leave in their wake. In the opening of Mon Oncle, we follow them from the old quarter to the suburbs, foreshadowing Hulot’s visit there in much the same way the wind blows through the door creating havoc just before he enters the hotel in Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (1953). There is also a dog at the beginning of that movie, lazily blocking the road leading into the tiny vacation town. We see Hulot’s hand reach out of his car to pet the dog long before we see his face. We can’t help, in either film, but connect Hulot’s simple, innocent energy with the sweetness of animals that also depend so much on the kindness of strangers. There’s a moment in Mon Oncle when Hulot, working for his sister’s husband, Mr. Arpel, at Arpel’s rubber hose factory, lays down flat on the floor to play with a dog that runs away before Arpel rounds the corner, making it seem like Hulot is just lounging there. Hulot never knows Arpel sees this or that he’s making yet another sour assumption about Hulot’s laziness. Likewise, when Arpel’s secretary sees footprints in her office that lead to the window overlooking her bathroom, prints that belong to Hulot via wholly innocent means, he never understands why she’s shooing him out so gruffly. It’s not that Hulot is missing a brain, it’s simply that the world is judging him while he carries an almost determined lack of need to make any sort of impression whatsoever. His sister says his head is in the clouds, but that’s not fair – his head is right here, observing always, absorbing everything, adjusting things for the better (see him move a window pane to move a ray of sunshine onto a singing bird), but forever finding himself in situations that are in baroque contrast to his easily pleased and happily accommodating disposition.", null, "When we see the extreme contrast of Hulot’s unkempt neighborhood and the ultra-modern home of the Arpels, we know that Mon Oncle is a step forward from his previous movie’s simple scheme of sight gag set up and payoff and toward a particular brand of social commentary (though a long stride behind Playtime’s grandly poetic, intricately choreographed perimortem of urban living). Hulot’s is a rustic, unchanged world of unwashed buildings, sidewalk cafés, open-air markets, street sweepers, and horse-drawn carts. Inside Tati’s typically large, deep-focus frame, we see the bustling life of the lower class, stray conversations in the dusty street, haggling over prices – general life, presented as a bubbling ballet of activity. While across town, in the suburbs, the Arpels proudly boast the newest in everything – home design, gadgets, garage doors, cars, clothes… and fish-shaped fountains. We’re presented with these differences and left to deduce the bankrupt tedium of modern straight lines, imposed style, and the illusion that the newer way to do something (like boil an egg) is automatically better. But these trappings of financial success aren’t presented in any malicious or dark way – the Hulot persona won’t let it get that far. We may sense in Hulot’s bemused reaction to these objects and surroundings a kind of curious distrust of the fancy, and we might take away from his awkwardness that, just maybe, the closer we get to clean and streamlined, the further we get from experience itself. But it’s never shown, as far as Hulot is concerned. Where we actually get something closer to pronounced commentary is in the boredom of the Arpels’ young son, Gerard, who, surrounded by the exact opposite of a boy’s ideal playground in this near-empty, soulless home, exhibits a dry, quietly nursing cynicism that takes the form of repeatedly leaning his head onto his palm like a pint-sized Groucho. Gerard is the nephew implied by the film’s title, and he is given over to Hulot’s care for part of the movie. It’s only then that we see the boy come to life. Hulot is essentially the same in all situations, but Gerard changes when released from the confines of his drearily bright and shiny home, making him the film’s truest, if quietest, conduit for the joys of the past, the warmth of nostalgia.", null, "Hulot is socially fixed in amber, a maladroit throwback, never not halting, and it’s fun watching the Arpels spend time and social capital of their own trying to assimilate him into “normalcy” – Mr. Arpel by setting him up with a decent job at his factory and Mrs. Arpel by setting him up with the woman next door. The blind date at the Arpels’ front yard dinner party is a major set piece that at once catalogues the many ways polite society can be a quiet sham and illustrates the impossibility of a man like Hulot ever fitting into that world. He is the epitome of the misfit character: but he’s not possessed by an iconoclastic rage against the system, nor is this a scathing parody of modern life. The film is neither a send-up nor a take-down. It falls somewhere in between: Hulot is just a man so naturally unimpressed with the system that any time he’s standing up next to it, his isolated self-sufficiency is a pointed indictment against it. Hulot could be the past before it ever knew it wanted to be the future.", null, "But, all of these internal themes aside, if you prefer, you can simply soak up the film’s many external joys, meted out via Tati’s brilliant mastery of composition and use of sound. In one of my favorite shots, early in the movie, we see the entirety of the front of the three-story building where Hulot lives – a large, flat, diorama-type shot that could be the progenitor of a million Wes Anderson shots – and we watch through windows as he slowly makes his way from the ground floor, up several flights of stairs, across halls, through walkways, until he finally reaches his apartment on the top floor. By the time we get to this shot, Tati has drawn us well into his way of seeing the world – Hulot’s physical movement, and the behavior of most of the characters in all his films, is an intentional pantomime that invites us to set it apart from reality, and yet his clear enjoyment in showing the character’s unfazed nonchalance at having to take this long course up to his home every day, more than once, infuses the moment with a buoyancy that carries over into the rest of the film. We know instinctively that Hulot is not the kind who will judge others for choosing a fancier life. Instead, we sense he carries his love for movement and life and interaction with the world into even those areas he can’t fathom are necessary.\n\nIf there’s a down side to Tati’s style, it’s that his films adhere so rigorously to this outside-looking-in approach, we’re left always the observer, never a participant, so a Hulot film does not generate pathos. Hulot creates emotions in the characters around him – there are the annoyed hurrumphs of vacationers in Mr. Hulot’s Holiday and the head-shaking disapproval of the Arpels in Mon Oncle – but we, the audience, are at a distance and are not particularly moved beyond knowing chuckles (and sometimes outright laughter). And yet, I would say Tati has constructed films that are perhaps the apotheosis of the observational film, because outside of the laughter created by watching a man so ill-fitted to the world around him, the greatest effect of watching a Tati movie is the way the submersion into his hyper-stylized point of view makes us, for a time, see our own reality differently. After a two-hour stay inside one of his movies, you can look out the window, watch a workman park a little truck curbside and change a light in a lamppost… but you can’t do it without newly realizing the fluidity of his movement and the funny beauty inherent in the tableaux of a small human being interacting with his huge environment. For me, this is Tati’s gift to the world, the gentle imposition of a view of life that is curious about it, aware of its potential to overwhelm, but enchanted by its never-ending poetry.", null ]

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[ "Review: Land of Dragor: The Gift of Charms by Julia Suzuki", null, "Land of Dragor: The Gift of Charms by Julia Suzuki, is the first in a fantasy/adventure series for children ages 8-12, and can you guess what it's about? No? Okay, then I'll be happy to tell you. It's about Dragons. It's mystical and innocent and sweet.\nYoshiko is a red dragon of he Nephan Clan. He and all the other dragons live in Dragor- a place hidden from all humans- a place where they are safe. As Yoshiko grows up, he becomes the blunt of jokes at Fire School, and it doesn't help that he has to hide the fact that his scales change colors. One day after some taunting, he flies off to the forbidden Cattlewick Cave to seek refuge; It is there that Yoshiko meets Guya, a wise old dragon who tells him that if he masters a set of three tasks, he would find out why it is that his scales change color. The young dragon sets to training with a family friend, who is part of the Guard, and he builds his skills so that he can complete the tasks given to him by Guya. Once he has trained for a long period of time, Yoshiko returns to Cattleswick Cave to display his skills. Guya shows Yoshiko a prophecy- his destiny to restore peace in the land of Dragor by returning the lost Charms of the dragon clans- and gives him the instructions he needs to send him on his way. But there's a catch. To bring the Charms back to Dragor would mean the young dragon would have to break the rules of the dragons and leave their safe haven. Has all the training that Yoshiko went through been enough to prepare him for this journey? Will he be able to recover the Charms in time to save his friends and family?\nWith an underlying message about embracing everything that makes you different from others, I recommend this book to children who like fantastical books. It's a series, so there're more to come, and it's an easy read- most children should have no trouble reading this one. Every elementary and middle school library would benefit by adding The Gift of Charms to their collection. It could be that book that sparks a child's interest in reading.", null ]

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[ "The Insider Monkey team has completed processing the quarterly 13F filings for the June quarter submitted by the hedge funds and other money managers included in our extensive database. Most hedge fund investors experienced strong gains on the back of a strong market performance, which certainly propelled them to adjust their equity holdings so as to maintain the desired risk profile. As a result, the relevancy of these public filings and their content is indisputable, as they may reveal numerous high-potential stocks. The following article will discuss the smart money sentiment towards Scorpio Bulkers Inc (NYSE:SALT).\n\nIs Scorpio Bulkers Inc (NYSE:SALT) a buy, sell, or hold? Prominent investors are taking a bullish view. The number of long hedge fund bets inched up by 3 in recent months. Our calculations also showed that SALT isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (see the video below). SALT was in 10 hedge funds’ portfolios at the end of June. There were 7 hedge funds in our database with SALT holdings at the end of the previous quarter.", null, "In addition to following the biggest hedge funds for investment ideas, we also share stock pitches from conferences, investor letters and other sources like this one where the fund manager is talking about two under the radar 1000% return potential stocks: first one in internet infrastructure and the second in the heart of advertising market. We use hedge fund buy/sell signals to determine whether to conduct in-depth analysis of these stock ideas which take days. We’re going to take a peek at the new hedge fund action regarding Scorpio Bulkers Inc (NYSE:SALT).\n\nWhat does smart money think about Scorpio Bulkers Inc (NYSE:SALT)?", null, "The largest stake in Scorpio Bulkers Inc (NYSE:SALT) was held by Renaissance Technologies, which reported holding $7 million worth of stock at the end of March. It was followed by Royce & Associates with a $3.4 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Valueworks LLC, Anchorage Advisors, and Millennium Management.\n\nAs one would reasonably expect, key money managers have been driving this bullishness. Citadel Investment Group, managed by Ken Griffin, created the largest call position in Scorpio Bulkers Inc (NYSE:SALT). Citadel Investment Group had $0.1 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Matthew Hulsizer’s PEAK6 Capital Management also made a $0.1 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The other funds with brand new SALT positions are D. E. Shaw’s D E Shaw and Minhua Zhang’s Weld Capital Management.\n\nAs you can see these stocks had an average of 8.25 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $64 million. That figure was $18 million in SALT’s case. Genco Shipping & Trading Limited (NYSE:GNK) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Red River Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:RRBI) is the least popular one with only 3 bullish hedge fund positions. Scorpio Bulkers Inc (NYSE:SALT) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 24.4% in 2019 through September 30th and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 4 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on SALT as the stock returned 32.7% during the third quarter and outperformed the market. Hedge funds were rewarded for their relative bullishness." ]

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[ "Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: The stalwart Conservative candidate on gay rights, semi skimmed milk and what he would do as Cotswolds MP", null, "Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown has been the Cotswolds MP since 1992 and hopes to be so again, come the General Election on December 12.\n\nBut what about the man behind the perceived safe Tory seat?\n\nThoughts on Sir Geoffrey are mixed after he was ranked as the worst MP in the country by Change.org - something he has angrily denied.\n\nSir Geoffrey, 66, is an Anglican Christian, he likes fishing, long walks in the countryside and reading political autobiographies.\n\nThe Tory stalwart, who was knighted in 2018 for political and public service, is originally from Cambridge and was raised in Suffolk on a dairy farm. He says his favourite type of milk is semi-skimmed.\n\n\"My mother would turn in her grave,\" he said. \"She used to produce very full fat milk. Strong bones, strong constiution.\"\n\nHe lives just outside Cirencester and has two grown-up children.\n\nAsked if his religious views were the reason why he voted against equal gay rights 14 times, Sir Geoffrey denied this.\n\nHe voted against allowing same sex couples to marry in 2013.\n\nHe said: \"I think that gay people have every right to do what they want.\n\n\"That has now been recognised and it is going to happen for everybody. Ordinary couples can have civil ceremonies now as well.\"\n\nSir Geoffrey gave us the following answers to some of the key questions about the election.\n\nWhat I have already started doing and I will continue to build on is providing superb infrastructure.\n\nWe’ve got the A417 improvement. We’ve got the rail redoubled. We’ve now going to have a new schedule with new rolling stock on December 15. I will continue to press for recruitment of more doctors and nurses.\n\nI have already got a huge increase for funding in our schools. Not only our basic school but special needs and further education such as Cirencester College as well - just a few things I’ve done.\n\nI’ve had everything over my political career, you couldn’t believe it, from someone being murdered in a secure institution to someone being flogged in Saudi Arabia for drinking.\n\nThe best way to deal with it is to elect a Conservative government with a majority.\n\nWe will then leave with Boris Johnson’s deal and then we move in to the subsequent next phase of the negotiations - which are the most important phase – to eventually come up with a free trade agreement where British businessmen will know the climate that they’re in, they will still be able to trade with Europe but they will also be able to trade around the rest of the world as well.\n\nThe NHS is facing unprecedented demand, we need to recruit more doctors and nurses. We need to look at the administration of the NHS to cut out waste but I’m pleased to say that it’s now producing some of the best results its ever produced in terms of modern medicine, new treatment, new drugs, which is keeping us alive longer – that’s great, but we need to actually operate that in a sustainable way so that people who work in it are prepared to stay working in it.\n\nThe Conservative Party is the only party that’s really serious about defence.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberals would ruin our nuclear deterrent. The Conservative Party wants to recruit and retain more members of our armed forces but above all give them the very best equipment in the world and we need to look at conditions under which they serve, for example, I’ve been deputy chairman of the public accounts committee looking at the way our defence housing is run. We also want to look at in civilian life, the covenant, looking at housing and schooling for our military personnel.\n\nDo you believe there is a climate crisis?\n\nThere is definitely a climate crisis. We were the first government in the world to legislate to be carbon neutral in 2050.\n\nWe’ve had 25 per cent reduction in our greenhouse gases, the largest of any G20 country. Last year was our cleanest energy generation ever. We’ve increased hugely in the last ten years under Conservative off shore wind and photovoltaics.\n\nWe are now producing up to 30 per cent of all our electricity from renewable sources. We want to plan millions more trees and we also want to look after our oceans.\n\nOne of the advantages of leaving the EU is we will be able to set our own rules for immigration. We will be able to have the numbers and the people that we want under the Australian points system, which is not only fairer but it allows people from all over the world – not just Europe – to come here if they qualify for the permissions that we set and that is important, we need to have a certain amount immigration to help the vital jobs in the public sector in this country." ]

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[ null, "In since-deleted social media posts obtained by the Daily Mail, Brooks reportedly shared a series of memes and messages across social media including anti-cop posts, pro-Hitler sentiments, and calls for violence against white people.\n\nIn other social media posts, Brooks reportedly castigated police officers and compared them to the Ku Klux Klan and “violent street gangs.”\n\nThe report added that Brooks also shared anti-Semitic sentiments via a meme that appeared to sympathize with the Black Hebrew Israelite movement.\n\nAccording to reporting in the Sun, Brooks’ “rap” songs boasted about being a “terrorist” and a “killer in the city.” Brooks shared a variety of his work on Soundcloud, which featured songs with lyrics such as “hope you right with God ’cause casket with you headed for.” He also penned at least one derogatory song about former President Donald Trump in which he declared “f*** the pigs.”\n\nIn another song, Brooks blasted the American justice system and claimed that black people “really built this nation after you stole it from the natives.”\n\nBrooks faces at least five charges of first-degree intentional homicide. Authorities are expected to announce a sixth charge in connection with the recent death of an 8-year-old child who was mowed down in the Sunday melee that injured dozens more.\n\nOther News: Union Slaves: Democrats Boast That Their Donors’ Most Common Profession Is Teacher\n\nEach murder count carries a possible sentence of life without parole.\n\nBrooks is being held on $5 million bail." ]

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[ "Pepperdine officials place the highest priority on the safety of our students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors and remain in close communication with National Parks Service biologists, who have studied mountain lion behavior in the Santa Monica Mountains for many years. University officials have requested the responding government agencies to relocate the mountain lions, but the request has thus far been denied. Government agents continue to assure University officials they see no elevated risk in the lion behavior we are experiencing. Nevertheless, it is very important that all members of the Pepperdine community remain vigilant and follow best practices. University officials will continue to monitor this matter, express our concerns to the agencies, and advise the community to remain alert to wildlife on campus.\n\nPepperdine officials will continue to share confirmed mountain lion sightings near the Malibu campus to ensure the University community is informed of, but not overly alarmed by, the wildlife with whom we share the Santa Monica Mountains.\n\nOver the last few weeks, mountain lion sightings have been reported at the following locations (updates appear in green):\n\nConfirmed sightings are those seen directly by University officials or with photo/video documentation.\n\nAs a reminder, if you encounter a mountain lion:", null ]

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[ "The chief executive of a charity which supports people with learning disabilities has said more needs to be done to encourage victims to report hate crime.\n\nIt follows a surge in the number of disability-related hate crimes being reported to Avon and Somerset Constabulary in recent years.\n\nThe figure has nearly tripled since 2014, making it the second most reported hate crime in the region behind race.\n\nNorth Somerset Council has also highlighted hate crimes as one of its priorities in its Safe and Stronger draft plan with 332 incidents reported to police in 2016/17.\n\nThe plan states: “Race is recorded as the motivating factor in a high number of offences, though proportionally there have been large increases in disability hate crime reports.”", null, "But according to Michelle Burnett, chief executive of North Somerset People First, which supports people with learning disabilities, this increase is probably a result of awareness rather than more crimes being committed.\n\n“There has been a lot of work done over recent years to bring disability hate crime into the spotlight,” added Ms Burnett.\n\n“People are becoming more and more aware that certain behaviour is not acceptable, but I still believe that there’s a large number of people that aren’t reporting these crimes.\n\n“The problem we face is that some of the people we support aren’t aware that they are being made fun or are the victim of a hate crime.”\n\nNorth Somerset People First run a number of speaking up groups which encourages members to report any instances of hate crime.\n\nBut according to Ms Burnett some of the people with learning disabilities say they are used to hearing derogatory terms and are not necessarily aware of the offence.\n\n“Part of our job is to make them aware that this kind of behaviour is not acceptable but we also have a responsibility to educate society,” she added.\n\n“For years people with learning disabilities were known as having a mental handicap and certain legislation has not helped either, such as The Idiots Act 1886.\n\n“There is a lot of historical stuff that has happened which has led to certain terminology being used.\n\n\"People with learning disabilities are some of the most marginalised in society and more needs to be done to support them and give them the confidence to report incidents of hate crime.\"\n\nAccording to the Safe and Stronger plan, it is widely accepted that under-reporting is an issue in hate crime offences and police recorded crime statistics are not an accurate reflection of the true extent of offending.\n\nA statement from the plan said: “Hate crime will not be tolerated in North Somerset and we will continue to work with communities and across the partnership to raise awareness, promote reporting, support victims and bring perpetrators to justice.”" ]

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[ "Years ago, a colleague said to me, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t drown his sorry ass!” She must have been thinking about nonprofit board members when she said that. I’m reminded of that turn of phrase as I think about all of the wake-up calls nonprofit boards have received over the years and all the near misses they’ve been granted. And, yet, so many still act as if they have no clue what it is they are supposed to be doing. Oh! Wait! Too many of them don’t have a clue, while yet too many others do have a clue and still choose not to do their job.", null, "Foolishly, I thought the Penn State fiasco would have been the last wake-up call needed. Unlike some of the previous wake-up calls, most notably Lemington Home for the Aged, that were less widely reported, Penn State was all over the national media.\n\nUnlike other wake-up calls that had localized media attention and required reading judicial decisions to learn of the facts, The Freeh Report (of the investigation by Louis Freeh, hired on behalf of Penn State’s Board of Trustees), is available to everyone just by typing its name into a search engine. While the Freeh report is a key teaching tool in academic governance classes, it has missed the “must read” list of way too many board members.\n\nNor was there widespread publicity on the lessons that should have been learned from the American Red Cross’ egregious violations of fundraising law after both 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina because the body in charge of responding to the situation—the US Congress—didn’t know what should have been done. So, instead of clearing out the boards of the American Red Cross after it mislead American donors with each of the fundraising appeals associated with those major tragedies, it took the step of replacing management each time instead of governance. It should have done both!\n\nIn January 2015, the Third District Court of Appeals in Pittsburgh held the employee officers and board of directors of Lemington Home for the Aged who allowed for the collapse of the organization personally and individually liable to the agency’s creditors. The board, it ruled, had breached its fiduciary responsibilities of duty of care and duty of loyalty. Boards are expected to know, understand, monitor, protect, etc. the organization’s finances and its financial health, well-being and sustainability. The Third Circuit did, however, vacate the lower court’s decision to hold the members of the board liable for punitive damages. So many lawyers wrote about this, raising the warning to nonprofit board members everywhere. Why didn’t people catch on?\n\nThe same year that the Third Circuit was upholding the Lower Court’s finding that Lemington’s officers and board members failed to fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities, the board and officers of Federation Employment & Guidance Service, FEGS, the largest social service organization in New York, were doing the exact same thing.\n\nFEGS closed and within the year, both the Manhattan District Attorney and the New York State Attorney’s General office were interviewing employees, leadership and board members. Word came out this week that creditors are suing FEGS’ former president, executive vice president and accounting firm in an effort to amass as much money as possible to pay creditors, including former employees. (And, yes, both those officers already sued for payment of money they claim FEGS owed them, despite their egregiously high salaries and poor job performance).\n\nCan pulling the board in be far behind? After all, FEGS’ board appears to have breached the same responsibilities of duty of care and loyalty as Lemington’s—and more. FEGS’ board continued to work with, and accept reports from, an accounting firm that was apparently widely known to have been associated with several other well-documented accounting scandals.\n\nAnd for and all of these reasons, and all of the other ways in which board after board fails to do their job, nonprofit boards deserve to be held accountable—accountable by the law, by the good employees who are trying their best, despite the errors of the board, to do their job and fulfill the promises of the mission and by the clients and public to which the board is ultimately accountable." ]

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[ "Cancún, Mexico, has earned its reputation as one of the most popular and peaceful vacation locales for tourists from all over the world.\n\nAfter most of the indigenous Maya people disappeared from the region, Cancún was mostly deserted, home to forests and ecological habitats that were already old when the first conquistadors arrived from Spain. It wasn’t until the 1970s that the city began to emerge as a tourist hot spot on Mexico’s eastern coast, balancing between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, eventually growing and crafting its beaches and hotels into a collective top-ranked tourist destination.\n\nThe area has also long had a presence of various organized crime groups (OCGs), from Colombian cartels to Italian mafia to Mexican cartels, according to Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown, director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors for the Brookings Institution. “Cancún is a place where criminal groups frequently meet,” Felbab-Brown says.\n\nA significant amount of drugs, including cocaine, pass through the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, and OCGs in the Cancún area often supplement their incomes with extortion or protect their interests through corruption. Despite this level of criminal activity, the area remained mostly non-violent, especially toward tourists.\n\nThe locale was already alluring with its beautiful beaches and a variety of resorts. Recently, that attraction was amplified by Mexico’s more lax approach to travel restrictions on foreign nationals in response to COVID-19 variants compared to other countries. In November 2021, the Mexican airline industry recovered to 95 percent of its domestic and international pre-pandemic business, according to the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation of Mexico (SICT). The Secretary of Tourism for Mexico reported a 76 percent increase of passengers on international flights with Mexico between January 2021 and November 2021, compared to the same period in 2020.\n\nBut since late 2021, that appeal was tarnished by negative press coverage of violent incidents either directly involving tourists or occurring near popular tourist areas.\n\nIn October 2021, a shootout between rival gangs broke out in a Tulum restaurant, leaving two female tourists dead, plus another three tourists wounded.\n\nThe following month, another shootout on a beach near the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancún left two gunmen dead, one American significantly injured, and three other people with minor injuries.\n\nThen in January 2022, two gunmen shot and killed two Canadian men on the grounds of the Hotel Xcaret México, leaving the wife of one of the men injured.\n\nLaw enforcement is still investigating a March 2022 incident where at least three men opened fire in a busy downtown Cancún nightclub during the early morning hours. The shooting resulted in the death of one security guard and left three others injured.\n\nCancún is not in the top 25 municipalities with the highest crime rates in Mexico, neither any other city from Quintana Roo.\n\nBy April, the government dispatched more than 6,000 soldiers to the area to help keep tourist areas peaceful, just in time for the major Easter holiday weekend. This wasn’t the first time additional troops were stationed in the area: in December 2021, the Tourist Security Battalion of more than 1,000 soldiers was busy patrolling beaches, nightclubs, and bars.\n\n“Prominent factors raising violence levels in this zone are the control of drug smuggling and territorial disputes between the CJNG [Jalisco New Generation Cartel] and Cartel de Sinaloa,” says Maricarmen Hinojosa, Mexico security manager at International SOS. “There are many factors that ignited the increase in violence in Cancún, including the redistribution of power among the criminal organizations present in the region.”\n\nFelbab-Brown notes that violent disputes between the two groups are likely the result of lower-level cartel members instead of leadership.\n\n“However, it is important to highlight that despite this, Cancún is not in the top 25 municipalities with the highest crime rates in Mexico, neither any other city from Quintana Roo,” Hinojosa adds. The murder rate for Cancún did not change from 2020 to 2021—instead, the perceived increase in violence is actually a stabilization of high levels of violence, making headlines when it intersects with tourists.\n\nBut specific to Cancún, “this violence is specifically targeted against other cartel members, local residents, and local authorities; rarely resulting in injury or death of the estimated 8.9 million U.S. citizens that visited in 2019,” according to OSAC’s Mexico Country Security Report.\n\nBut that violence has crept into nearby areas that were previously considered peaceful.\n\n“While Tulum has been known for years as a quiet resort area on the Mexican Caribbean coast, cartels and the violence associated with their presence have infiltrated the town,” OSAC’s report said. “Official crime statistics show a significant increase of homicides in Tulum (29 percent increase since 2020), going from one homicide registered in January 2021 to 10 in May.”\n\nFelbab-Brown and Mexican prosecutors said that many of the more violent incidents involved a connection to a cartel or at least one person involved in the drug trade. That included occasions that took place within a hotel or resort.\n\nIn the January 2022 incident that resulted in two deaths, one of the victims was linked to organized crime in Canada, according to Óscar Montes de Oca, prosecutor for Quintana Roo. Authorities alleged that the motive for the attack was debts that the victim, Robert J. Dinh, incurred from illegal activities. In 2019, Canadian authorities were seeking information on Cong Dinh, an alleged alias of the victim, who might have been involved with Vietnamese OCGs in Canada, helping them launder millions of dollars.\n\nThe second victim, Thomas Cheruka, was also known to Canadian authorities. In June 2015, Cheruka was charged in connection with the alleged distribution of several drugs in Toronto.\n\nTwo people involved in the Dinh and Cheruka’s murders were arrested, including a Mexican national with a history of kidnapping, and a Canadian woman traveling with the two victims. The alleged gunman was arrested in February.\n\nThe gunman and an accomplice may have entered the hotel, Xcaret Mexico, using a day pass. This has opened up a discussion about whether hotels in the area will continue to offer day passes—which allow entry for guests without a reservation to pay to use a hotel’s facilities—or instead place additional checks or stop participating in a day pass program.\n\n“A couple years ago, all the resorts had day pass programs,” says Ricardo Flores Rodriguez, a security specialist working in Cancún’s hospitality industry. “Now, most of them don’t.”\n\nResorts in the area have shifted their security practices in several ways, both in response to recent events and as a natural evolution over time, according to Flores Rodriguez, a member of the ASIS Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Chapter. With incidents that place both tourists and residents at risk, there is a demand for solutions or improvements that can prevent attacks or violent incidents from occurring within hotels.\n\n“We put very specific controls for persons that want to enter the resorts, but they are not guests,” Flores Rodriguez says. For example, several resorts no longer permit last-minute reservations, reservations without a valid government-issued ID, or reservations made with cash.\n\nAnother checkpoint involves transportation for guests. Hotels can use information from SICT—which regulates and authorizes all shuttles, taxis, and other vehicles of hire—to ensure that incoming vehicles “have been checked and registered by the agency,” Flores Rodriguez says.\n\nThe preparation, the training to have the knowledge of how to respond, training our staff to answer to an emergency are now some of the topics that can help us make a safer environment for our clients.\n\nFlores Rodriguez adds that at least for his resort and security team, there have been changes to their traditional use of surveillance cameras—which now heavily cover the beaches—and staff training.\n\n“We have moved from the traditional training to now we’re talking more about active shooters,” he says. While such incidents have not occurred where he works, Flores Rodriguez knows they can happen anywhere.\n\nWhile resorts in the area previously emphasized location, food, and accommodations as the hallmarks of hospitality, Flores Rodriguez thinks that security has become a modern addition to hotels’ portfolios.\n\n“The preparation, the training to have the knowledge of how to respond, training our staff to answer to an emergency are now some of the topics that can help us make a safer environment for our clients,” Flores Rodriguez says.\n\nWhen he speaks with guests or monitors comments on sites like TripAdvisor, he looks for what previous guests say about security elements, including his team. “That’s one of the points (guests) check before they make a reservation. …For us, we’re very proud when we read a comment that the guests feel very safe. It was a clue that we’re doing something well.”\n\nSara Mosqueda is assistant editor for Security Management. Connect with her at [email protected] or on LinkedIn. Follow her on Twitter: @ximenawrites.", null ]

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[ "24-year-old Devin Gates was confronted by officers on March 22nd, 2015, after entering the 7-Eleven store at 2105 Scott Boulevard with a mask over his face and a sweatshirt hood over his head.\n\nHe pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded money, threatening to shoot if the clerk didn’t comply. The clerk handed him a $20 bill, but Gates demanded the rest of the money and began firing his gun in the clerk’s direction to intimidate him.\n\nArriving officers Josh Craig and Randy Van Diemen saw Gates firing the gun and confronted him just as he was leaving the store, cash in one hand and his other hand in his sweatshirt pocket. When he refused orders to stop and instead ran toward possibly occupied cars in the parking lot, the officers drew their weapons and fired.\n\nAn autopsy found that Gates had been shot three times and had cocaine in his system at the time.", null, null ]

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[ "(To view a representative sample of the types of cases handled by Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. – click here)", null, null, null, null, null, "Referring to Maryland criminal lawyer Robert C. Bonsib, Esq. in his successful defense of an FBI agent charged in federal court with criminal conspiracy to violate civil rights and to the lawyers for co-defendants, the Washington Post reported “jurors were clearly impressed with the criminal defense attorneys” commenting that “they were really sharp” and “you could tell they have been around for a long time.”\n\nMaryland Circuit Court Judge in homicide trial — “This was the finest advocacy that I have seen in many years.”\n\nWashington Post columnist after observing Mr. Bonsib’s successful defense of young man in vehicular homicide trial — “If you ever get in trouble, Bonsib’s the lawyer you want, not because he’s slick…because he’s smart and knows the law and even with a client such as [this young man] Bonsib fights just as tenaciously as if the kid were a big shot.”", null, "“God sent me Bob Bonsib. There’s no doubt about it.” — Public official client speaking to the press after hung jury declared in three-week public corruption trial in federal court.\n\nFederal Court Client — “Mr. Bonsib fought very hard for us. His representation exceeded my expectations. There is no word to describe my gratitude. My children have a bright future because of him. I’m free today, reunited with my children, because of him”", null, null, "“Thanks to Mr. Bonsib’s superior knowledge and skills, he was able to explain my case to the judge and make it simple for the judge to see my innocence. I was found not guilty on all charges and was able to start putting my life back together.” — Circuit Court client\n\n” I love this guy. He’s special. He’s not going to tell you what you want to hear, and he is not going to guarantee you anything other than his BEST effort, which makes him better than the rest in character. He’s a winner!” — Former client" ]

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[ "Aneurysm is a balloon-like bulge in the wall of an artery that supplies blood to the tissue. Aneurysms are commonly seen in the aorta, which is the largest artery of the brain and the body.\n\nThe incidence of brain aneurysms in the community has been reported to be 2 to 3%.\n\nSince the walls of the aneurysms get thiner, they burst and bleed into the brain and between the brain membranes (subarachnoid hemorrhage).\n\nUnfortunately, a great majority of aneurysms do not show any signs before hemorrhage. Too large aneurysms sometimes cause headache, pain behind the eyes, nausea-vomiting, double vision, and ptosis; however, they are usually detected by chance through a brain MRI scan or tomography performed incidentally for usually reasons other than aneurysm.\n\nFor an aneurysm that has not bled (i.e. unruptured), the risk of rupture per year is 1-2%. For a patient taken to the hospital due to a ruptured aneurysm, the risk of re-bleeding is the highest (4%) within the first 24 hours after the first bleeding. In the following days, this rate is 1.5% per day. In other words, the risk of re-bleeding in the first 2 weeks is 14%. Risk of early bleeding is higher in women, at later ages, and in cases involving large aneurysms and hypertension.\nIn 30-40% of patients the bleeding is followed by a disease called vasospasm, which impairs the cerebral blood supply by causing the narrowing of the cerebral blood vessels with the effect of the blood. This disease is the most important factor determining the morbidity and mortality of a patient, who suffered from aneurysm beelding, i.e. whether or not he/she will survive as well as his/her quality of life. Today, the most effective treatment of vasospasm is to increase blood pressure, give a great amount of serum, and increase the feeding of brain tissue. First of all, the aneurysm should be urgently closed because an increased blood pressure increases the re-bleeding risk of the aneurysm.\n\nThe closure of the aneurysm is actually just the first step of the treatment. In the course of vasospasm, it is essential to close the aneurysm, for being able to increase the blood pressure values safely. Clinically, vasospasm is most frequently observed between the 3rd and 12th days after bleeding. The risk of death (mortality) is very high, despite the treatment. Unfortunately, there is still no effective treatment for it.\n\n1. Open Surgery: It is performed by a brain surgeon. Before surgery, the angiographic rocedures called DSA or BTa I sperformed for determining thje localization of the bleeding aneurysm. Afterwards, the skull is surgically opened, the cerebral cortex is half-opened, the site is accessed through the suitable corridor, and then the aneurysmatic vessel segment is closed with clamps called clips, without closing other cerebral blood vessels, and consequently the bulged area with a thinner wall is excluded from the circulation. How is re-bleeding prevented?\n\n2. Endovascular treatment: It is a treatment procedure performed by our neuroradiology specialist with intent to deliver the anjio catheter, inserted through the groin, to the cerebral blood vessels and fill the aneurysm. It is still ineffective on wide-necked giant aneurysms, in which important feeders are found.\nRemoval of blood clots that form on the cerebral tissue after aneurysm rupture, during the surgery and treatment, is an advantage because this will reduce the risk of vasospasm development. In embolization, it is an advantage that there is no need to open the skull.", null, null ]

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[ "Here is another example of newspaper items that can be helpful to finding information for your family tree. If you have a minister or reverend somewhere on your tree that person will be named in many newspaper articles; especially in the old newspapers. The editors of the newspapers wanted to sell their newspaper, despite what they might tell you. They wanted to sell more newspapers than the other editor of the rival newspaper, so there was a competition to put stuff in their newspaper that the other guy didn’t have. What better way of getting readers then to tell them about everything that was going on in the town, not just the BIG news items.", null, "I received a message from Ancestry.com saying that a user had put a newspaper item on a family tree, so I went to see it. It was a tiny item saying that “Rev. Isaac Whicher would be preaching at the Town’s Company’s new office.” Not much news there but it was picked up in a search by the tree owner. I read the item and was about to go off of the family tree when it occurred to me that the name of the newspaper seemed familiar. I went back to my files and sure enough ”The Grand Junction News” was a newspaper that I had used to post an item about “Rev. Isaac Whicher ”, but the item I was looking at from the tree owner was not the same item I had posted. I brought up my link to my item and; since I get the full newspaper I was able to scroll around the newspaper page to see what other things were on it. When one picks up a newspaper off of search engine, it is usually only the one page with the relavent word you were looking for. You do not have the luxuary of viewing the rest of the newspaper. Getting back to my reviewing the page, I saw down to the left on the newspaper page from where my item was, the item the owner captured.\nMy item has two mentions of “Rev. Isaac Whicher ” while the other one was just one mention about him.\n\nI did a screen print of my item and created a fake tree so that I could put the photocopy on it. You see in Ancestry.com message site where you can connect to other users you can only send text data. In order for others to be able to see my newspaper item screen print I have to put it on some tree.\nI contacted the user that Ancestry.com had mentioned (family tree owner Joan) and told her that I had more information about “Rev. Isaac Whicher ” and that I had put it on a fake tree. I also commented on the fact that her item was on the same newspaper; same page, as my items and I didn’t know why her search did not pick those other items when it picked up the one item. She wrote back and said ”…I imagine that Ancestry uses optical character readers for the old newspapers, and sometimes they miss things…”, which makes sense.\n\nSo you see you get what you search for but sometimes there is more out there then what the search engine picks up. If you get a search result and it is a newspaper item then try to find a full copy of that newspaper to see if there is other news items about your relative that were not picked up.\n\nThe above plug for my blog was written by me and I approve this message.\n\nTo View the Original item, [the item is to the right of this link Page 3, Column 2]\nSelect Grand Junction News in box below:" ]

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[ "Chernobyl and the American Left\n\nCALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. So I’ve really enjoyed your comments regarding the Chernobyl miniseries the last few weeks, and at the end of the series, episode 5 this last week, one of the facts in the rolling facts at the very end —", null, "CALLER: — that they kind of used to tie up some of the loose ends, Gorbachev they said believed that the Chernobyl accident actually was the biggest reason for the fall of the Soviet Union.\n\nRUSH: I saw that.\n\nCALLER: — the kind of secrecy – (crosstalk)\n\nCALLER: Yeah, the kind of secrecy that was finally disclosed and reported on throughout the scientific community finally brought down the USSR. My question is, with the liberals creating the fake news with Hillary Clinton and the Steele dossier, the Russian collusion and the media being completely complacent, reporting their opinion and not fact, and their very dangerous policies, could this cause some sort of disaster in the U.S. that could precipitate the fall of liberal progressivism?\n\nCALLER: With so much cover-up and so many lies.\n\nRUSH: Okay. I need to put you on hold and get started on a break. I’m not quite sure — I thought you were gonna ask me about whether Gorbachev was right. I wasn’t prepared for is what happened the Soviet Union possible to happen here. I need you to elaborate on that before I answer. Can you hold on through the break?\n\nRUSH: Okay, back to Monica in Omaha. I get it what you’re saying now. You’re taking Gorbachev at his word. I thought you were asking me if I thought Gorbachev was lying about the reason for the decline of the Soviet Union. So you’re taking him at his word, that Chernobyl — and the fact that the Soviet Union lied about everything and covered up bad stuff and so forth — meant finally the cover, the lid was blown. People saw the truth, and that began the end of the Soviet. You’re asking if something similar to what happened at Chernobyl will happen here to blow the lid off of how stinking and lying the media is. Is that basically the question?", null, "RUSH: Wait a minute. This is fascinating. You are referring to media as “their policy.” Media doesn’t have policy! Media reports on policy. They don’t have policy. But you… This is not a criticism. Do not misunderstand tone much my voice. You are acknowledging the fact that the media has got an agenda and you’re pointing out —\n\nRUSH: Yeah, no doubt. Now, this episode, the last two years? If the real truth of this ever would be widely known like the truths of Chernobyl were? This last two years — this totally fake and phony, made-up collusion story — could blow them out of the water! Because it’s total. Every damn one of them was immersed in this exactly like the Soviet Union was in covering up Chernobyl, even to the expense of its own people. I mean, people needlessly died. People were needlessly exposed to radiation in the Soviet Union, and this show did an amazing job.\n\nCALLER: Amazing. It was wonderful. Hard to watch, but great.\n\nRUSH: It was (chuckles) and they spared no expense on the special effects to depict radiation poisoning and sickness and death. I mean, it was gory. Anyway, I want to answer my own question on this. You know, Gorbachev… I had never heard this before, that Gorbachev said Chernobyl, the whole thing there is what led to the fall of the Soviet Union. Ehhhhh. It no doubt was a factor. But I would bet you that to this day, the vast majority of people watching Chernobyl learned about this stuff for the first time. That wasn’t the reason the Soviet Union imploded. It was a contributing factor, but that’s all to take credit away from Reagan — that comment — and Reagan policy. I gotta go. I wish I didn’t have to, but I’m out of time." ]

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[ "US President Joe Biden has defended his decision to withdraw military forces from Afghanistan, saying that US operations will end on 31 August.\n\nThe fourth US president to oversee the war also defended the speed of the US withdrawal, saying it saved lives.\n\nMr Biden’s speech comes as the Taliban militant group continues to seize territory around the country.\n\nUS forces have fought in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years, following the terror attacks of 11 September 2001.\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Biden set a 11 September 2021 goal of withdrawing all US troops.\n\nDonald Trump had agreed with the Taliban to pull out US troops by May 2021, but that deadline was pushed back by Mr Biden after he took office in January.\n\n“Just one more year of fighting in Afghanistan is not a solution,” Mr Biden said in a White House speech, “but a recipe for fighting there indefinitely.”\n\nHe also denied that a Taliban takeover is “inevitable,” saying that the Taliban force of approximately 75,000 fighters is no match for the 300,000 Afghan security forces.\n\nEven after the total pull out is complete, the US is expected to keep 650 to 1,000 troops in Afghanistan to guard the US embassy, Kabul airport, and other key government installations.\n\nRecent polls have shown broad US support for leaving Afghanistan, with Republican voters more sceptical of the decision to withdraw.\n\nMr Biden also said that efforts are being made to get translators, interpreters and other Afghans that worked with the US government out of the country. He said 2,500 special immigrant visas have been issued to allow them to come to the United States, but only half have come so far.\n\nHe was at pains to say support for Afghanistan wouldn’t stop, but even more adamant that both Afghan politicians and security forces had the capacity to prevent a Taliban takeover. “Will they do it?” he asked.\n\nThat’s what Afghans have asked – repeatedly – in the midst of continuing disarray and disunity in Kabul, and the dramatic Taliban advance in the districts.\n\nThe president’s emphasis on speaking out for women and girls isn’t heard in districts already under Taliban control where they’re not going to school.\n\nAs a president who’s known to study all the scenarios, he made it clear “it’s highly unlikely” there will be a unified government, and not much the US could do, or should do, if Kabul collapses. That’s up to Afghans – and the countries next door.\n\nThe vast majority of remaining foreign forces in Afghanistan have left ahead of the US 11 September deadline, leaving the Afghan military completely in charge of national security.\n\nPresident Ashraf Ghani insists that Afghan security forces are fully capable of keeping insurgents at bay, but there have been reports of thousands of Afghan troops seeking refuge in other countries to avoid the fighting.\n\nEarlier in the week, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the BBC that the group was not responsible for the recent increase in violence. He insisted that many districts had fallen to the Taliban through mediation after Afghan soldiers refused to fight.\n\nUS-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan in 2001. The group had been harbouring Osama Bin Laden and other al-Qaeda figures linked to the 9/11 attacks in the US that triggered the invasion. However, it has gradually been regaining territory in recent years.\n\nFrom 9/11, to intense fighting on the ground, and now full withdrawal of US-led forces, here’s what happened.\n\nAl-Qaeda, led by Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan, carries out the largest terror attack ever conducted on US soil.\n\nFour commercial airliners are hijacked. Two are flown into the World Trade Centre in New York, which collapses. One hits the Pentagon building in Washington, and one crashes into a field in Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people are killed.\n\nA US-led coalition bombs Taliban and al-Qaeda facilities in Afghanistan. Targets include Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad.\n\nThe Taliban, who took power after a decade-long Soviet occupation was followed by civil war, refuse to hand over Bin Laden. Their air defences and small fleet of fighter aircraft are destroyed.\n\nThe Northern Alliance, a group of anti-Taliban rebels backed by coalition forces, enters Kabul as the Taliban flee the city.\n\nBy the 13 November 2001, all Taliban have either fled or been neutralised. Other cities quickly fall.\n\nAfter protracted negotiations at a “loya jirga” or grand assembly, the new Afghan constitution is signed into law. The constitution paves the way for presidential elections in October 2004.\n\nHamid Karzai, the leader of the Popalzai Durrani tribe, becomes the first president under the new constitution. He serves two five-year terms as president.\n\nBritish troops arrive in Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold in the south of the country.\n\nTheir initial mission is to support reconstruction projects, but they are quickly drawn into combat operations. More than 450 British troops lose their lives in Afghanistan over the course of the conflict.\n\nUS President Barack Obama approves a major increase in the number of troops sent to Afghanistan. At their peak, they number about 140,000.\n\nThe so-called “surge” is modelled on US strategy in Iraq where US forces focussed on protecting the civilian population as well as killing insurgent fighters.\n\nThe leader of al-Qaeda is killed in an assault by US Navy Seals on a compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan. Bin Laden’s body is removed and buried at sea. The operation ends a 10-year hunt led by the CIA. The confirmation that Bin Laden had been living on Pakistani soil fuels accusations in the US that Pakistan is an unreliable ally in the war on terror.\n\nThe founder of the Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar, dies. His death is kept secret for more than two years.\n\nAccording to Afghan intelligence, Mullah Omar dies of health problems at a hospital in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Pakistan denies that he was in the country.\n\nAt a ceremony in Kabul, Nato ends its combat operations in Afghanistan. With the surge now over, the US withdraws thousands of troops. Most of those who remain focus on training and supporting the Afghan security forces.\n\nThe Taliban launch a series of suicide attacks, car bombings and other assaults. The parliament building in Kabul, and the city of Kunduz are attacked. Islamic State militants begin operations in Afghanistan.\n\nAfghan President Ashraf Ghani says more than 45,000 members of his country’s security forces have been killed since he became leader in 2014. The figure is far higher than previously thought.\n\nThe US and the Taliban sign an “agreement for bringing peace” to Afghanistan, in Doha, Qatar. The US and Nato allies agree to withdraw all troops within 14 months if the militants uphold the deal.\n\nUS forces are scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by 11 September 2021, exactly 20 years since 9/11. There are strong indications that the withdrawal may be complete before the official deadline.\n\nUS left Bagram at night with no notice, Afghans say", null, null, "Covid: WHO calls for booster pause to vaccinate poorer nations" ]

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[ "Cointelegraph had the chance to catch up with the NXT team to get the scoop on their recent developments and future plans.\n\n696 Total views\nCointelegraph had the chance to catch up with the NXT team. Known for its less resource-intensive mining and 100% proof-of-stake, it is no wonder why NXT recently surpassed the popular Dogecoin by market cap. But exchange rate and speculation aside, the NXT team explains why it is the \"next\" step in the evolution of cryptocurrencies and why Bitcoin is just the beginning.", null ]