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[ null, "Congressmembers Barbara Lee led four other Black congresswomen in announcing on Monday the reintroduction of The Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN Act) in the House of Representatives.\n\n“As a woman of color, we know that you understand personally the ways in which bias – overt discrimination and its equally harmful unintentional and systemic counterparts – shapes so much of the world,” the letter to Vice President Harris from the five bill co-leads reads. “We know that you are deeply committed to ending these biases and using your office to ensure equitable access and opportunity for everyone. We ask that, among your priorities, you advocate for the passage of the CROWN Act.”\n\nThe CROWN Act, which has become law in a number of states and cities nationwide and passed in the House of Representatives in 2019, would help bring an end to race-based hair discrimination and remove a massive and entirely illogical educational and employment barrier facing African Americans.\n\nIn the school setting, Black students are disciplined at a rate four times higher than any other racial or ethnic group, and research has found that 70% of all suspension disciplines are discretionary, many stemming from dress code violations, including “unapproved” hairstyles. Meanwhile, in the workplace, bias against ethnic and natural hairstyles contributes to reduced opportunities for job advancement, particularly for women.\n\nThese concerns and others drew support from the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, which today released a letter to House and Senate leadership urging quick work in both chambers to get the bill to President Biden.\n\nThe CROWN Act would:" ]

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[ null, "A reconstructed detection in the IceCube sensor array of a suspected neutrino with an energy of 252.7 trillion electron-volts. The strings of detectors descend from the surface of the ice to more than two kilometers below.\n\nHot on the heels of detecting the two highest-energy neutrinos ever observed, scientists working with a mammoth particle detector buried in ice near the South Pole unveiled preliminary data showing that they also registered the signal of 26 additional high-energy neutrinos. The newfound neutrinos are somewhat less energetic than the two record-setters but nonetheless appear to carry more energy than would be expected if created by cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere—a prodigious source of neutrinos raining down on Earth. The particles thus may point to unknown energetic astrophysical processes deeper in the cosmos.\n\n“The result right now is very preliminary,” cautions Nathan Whitehorn of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who described the new data May 15 during a symposium in Madison on particle astrophysics. “We’re not totally certain right now that it’s from an astrophysical source.” But it is difficult to explain the number and energy of the detected particles by invoking known processes within the solar system. “If this does in fact hold up with more data, and this does turn out to be an astrophysical source, then we’ll be able to address some questions in ways that were totally inaccessible before,” Whitehorn adds.\n\nThe IceCube Neutrino Observatory makes up for the renowned slipperiness of neutrinos, the lightweight fundamental particles that rarely interact with atoms of matter, by casting a wide net. IceCube consists of more than 5,000 light sensors, buried at depths of up to two kilometers, embedded in enough Antarctic ice to fill several hundred thousand Olympic swimming pools. In such a large volume, one neutrino of the many streaming constantly through space, our bodies and even solid rock occasionally bumps against an atom in the ice, which produces a tiny flash of light.\n\nThe properties of the light emitted by a neutrino strike in the IceCube detector, such as the light pattern registered by the sensor array (Is it bloblike or streaky?) as well as the travel direction of the particle (Was it downward from the sky, or upward through Earth?) can reveal which of three known flavors of neutrino was involved and where it came from. Therein lies a key advantage of neutrino astronomy—unlike charged cosmic rays, whose trajectories bend and twist through the cosmos under the influence of magnetic fields, neutral particles such as neutrinos trace straight back to their sources.\n\nFrom known processes in the atmosphere, researchers expected to register about 10.6 particles over two years with energies measured in the tens or hundreds of tera–electron volts (trillions of electron volts). The 28 detected particles—including the two extremely high-energy particles announced in April—thus indicate an additional neutrino source that has not been accounted for.\n\nSo IceCube physicist Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, also of U.W.–Madison, traced the arrival directions of the newfound energetic particles to look for clues to their origins. “What I tried to do is figure out if they point back to anything that might correspond with cosmic-ray production,” she says. But perhaps because there were relatively few particles to work with, no strong patterns emerged. “Because we have a lot of events compared to before, but still not many, it’s hard to say,” she adds. “My conclusion was that there are no identifiable sources at this time.”\n\nThe researchers used screening techniques to ferret out impostor particles and limit the background noise from atmospheric neutrinos, such as treating the edge of the detector as a red-flag region. A charged particle such as a muon from the atmosphere would light up sensors at the periphery of the IceCube detector as it enters, whereas a neutrino would penetrate cleanly and trigger sensors deep inside the ice. “You don’t want things that have come into the detector, you want things that start in the detector,” says IceCube physicist Claudio Kopper of U.W.–Madison. Nevertheless, proving that the neutrinos indeed originated in high-energy cosmic processes will take time. “The search is always for the source, and we haven’t found that yet,” Kopper says. “That would be the smoking gun.”" ]

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[ null, "We’re back with a new Brew. Joel Embiid is a starter in this year’s NBA All-Star game in Cleveland. Some big names won the Men’s and Women’s Royal Rumble matchups, which is sure to leave a foul taste in some mouths. The Super Bowl is set. It was an enormous weekend with Sports, Social and Culture. Let’s get right to it. It’s Brew time!\n\nThis part of Reigns vs Rollins was just great I can’t get over how well they did 😂 pic.twitter.com/uUGrto0BIw\n\nSince the day I knew my due date to have Pō, I was determined to return to @WWE at #RoyalRumble 4 months postpartum – Watch out bitches, cause #WrestleMania I’ll be 8 #ThisIsntEvenMyFinalForm pic.twitter.com/yb66fyK1bB\n\nThe hometown boy got a huge pop at the Rumble, but this is what it meant to him\n\n“Having the Royal Rumble in St. Louis is huge,” said WWE Superstar @RandyOrton. “I’m a hometown boy. I still live here, and I don’t have any plans to leave. The Royal Rumble itself is special, because I’ve won it twice.”https://t.co/QfLVS26ffv\n\nHow’d the Gambler crew do with their Rumble predictions? Press play and find out.\n\nYou can check out their picks here!https://t.co/v7TU6vdNo8\n\nMaking his 5th #NBAAllStar appearance… Joel Embiid of the @sixers.\n\nThe rest of the starters\n\nCarmelo Anthony gets into exchange with fans in Philly\n\nCarmelo Anthony gets into a heated exchange with a pair of Sixers fans courtside. 👀\n\nCarmelo speaks on the situation\n\n“I’m cool with fans heckling, fans talking trash …. But when you cross certain lines, as a man, that’s what you’re going to see.” @carmeloanthony on the incident with the fan. pic.twitter.com/JRrUlBeP76\n\nOne of my favorite spots to shoot from at the arena. The fans in the foreground really frame the photo nicely pic.twitter.com/yHoZkam7Pg\n\nThe Rams win the NFC\n\nThe Rams complete the comeback\n\nThe #Rams are headed to the #SuperBowl !https://t.co/L1hqTJSAO8\n\nWhat the game is all about\n\nThe Bengals are going to Hollywood\n\nThe field goal that won it\n\nTHANK YOU JOE BURROW FROM SAVING US FROM JACKSON MAHOMES pic.twitter.com/RrvuMQ0clj\n\nThe stage is set\n\nThere will be snow (2-5”) tomorrow during the AM rush hour, so you know the routine: Make sure your tires have good tread, drive slowly & give the same amount of room to nearby cars that the #Bills gave to #TravisKelce with 7 seconds left to get to FG range. #CoWx #BillsvsChiefs https://t.co/JshRVmWwMJ\n\nJUST IN: Longtime #Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels is expected to be hired as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. #NFL #football #NewEngland pic.twitter.com/AHoXnz6scj\n\nJim Harbaugh to the Vikings?\n\nDenver has their guy\n\nBroncos are hiring Packers’ OC Nathaniel Hackett as their HC, as @TomPelissero reported.\n\nMatt Eberflus will be the 17th head coach of the Chicago Bears, according to league sources.\n\nIn his first move as Bears GM, Ryan Poles picked Matt Eberflus from a group of finalists that included Dan Quinn and Jim Caldwell. https://t.co/Tt3NtAB16h\n\nThe Giants look to stop the bleeding\n\nEverything you need to know about our new HC Brian Daboll\n\nWho do you think should get in?\n\nWho is getting in? pic.twitter.com/boy4XklLbS\n\nLock this pig, his family and friends up already\n\nAfter ranting about the prosecutors investigating him, Trump calls the prosecutors racist and says if they do anything illegal, he hopes there are massive protests in DC, New York, and Atlanta pic.twitter.com/RnY6F5OJNv\n\nBecause Donald Trump is a LOSER\n\nTalk about saying the quiet part loud. Trump here admits or rather boasts that what he wanted Mike Pence to do was to “overturn the election.” pic.twitter.com/yo6SIOKlu0\n\nToday, a sea of blue lined 5th Avenue, stood 20 deep and shoulder to shoulder for blocks to honor hero NYPD Detective Jason Rivera. Detective Rivera was killed in the line of duty last Friday while protecting the citizens of #NYC. #RIP #NeverForget pic.twitter.com/vhII68wFtx\n\nPolice officers attend a funeral service for NYPD officer Jason Rivera, who was killed in the line of duty while responding to a domestic violence call. https://t.co/8EAicCOu84 pic.twitter.com/xwHecnxUBF\n\nJust get the vaccine\n\nFormer Washington State trooper Robert LaMay, who went viral when he was fired for refusing to get vaccinated and told the governor to ‘kiss his ass,’ has died of COVID-19 pic.twitter.com/yjX8aeeOGE\n\nA major bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh Friday, injuring at least 10 people and forcing rescuers to form a human chain to save riders of a dangling bus.\n\nBiden is visiting the city this afternoon to tout his infrastructure law https://t.co/3aaUdyAgbw pic.twitter.com/B1LPAGiEpt\n\nWatch the snow pile up as the nor’easter hit our region! https://t.co/Hl7g5X3BHC\n\nDozens of people are accused of selling drugs on LGBTQ dating apps and concealing their sales with emojis and code words, authorities in Florida said. https://t.co/FUB1tMU5Oh\n\nCanada takes down the U.S.\n\nThings are looking up for the Union\n\n.@PhilaUnion‘s manager Jim Curtin finally has the quality of team that he deserves.\n\nThe team now has an elite attacking front four, in front of a defense that’s already proven itself as one of Major League Soccer’s best. @thegoalkeeper breaks it down. https://t.co/NTjomSsQPT" ]

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[ null, "Sophomore forward Luke Pompliano celebrates after scoring what proved to be the winner.\n\nVillanova men’s soccer advanced to the Big East tournament semifinals on Saturday night with a 2-1 win over Creighton in Omaha. It’s the squad’s first win in the tournament since its last appearance in 2016. Sophomore forwards Akinjide Awujo and Luke Pompliano scored the goals for the Wildcats, with Awujo finding the back of the net in the 76th and Pompliano scoring in the 83rd. The win was head coach Tom Carlin’s 115th at the helm of the program, becoming the program’s all-time leader in wins.\n\nThe first half was largely uneventful. The ‘Cats were able to get off to a good start, as they dominated possession for roughly the first 40 minutes of the match. However, nothing of substance came from the extended spells of possession. Then in the final five minutes of the first, the Bluejays’ offense came to life, applying heavy pressure to the Wildcats’ back line. The ‘Cats’ defense was able to hold up, and the two teams went into the half in a scoreless gridlock.\n\n“I thought the first 40 minutes may have been the best soccer we have played all season,” Carlin said to Villanova Athletics. “We had good possessions and movement. But in the last five minutes we got stuck in our end.”\n\nOut of the half, the Bluejays carried forward the offensive momentum they had managed to find in the closing minutes of the first, as they produced a flurry of chances in the first ten minutes of the second. The Wildcats were able to respond with some chances of their own, with one becoming the most dangerous of the night to that point. Junior midfielder Josh Belluz headed a ball toward the frame off a corner that junior defender Viktor Benediktsson was able to redirect with a foot, but Bluejays’ senior keeper Paul Kruse made a stunning effort to block the ball, keeping the game level.\n\nKruse’s efforts were quickly rewarded, as a cross in from the right off the foot of junior midfielder Dominic Briggs found senior midfielder Daniel Espeleta, who was able to slot the ball home past ‘Cats senior keeper Carson Williams in the 63rd minute.\n\nAfter the goal, the Bluejays continued to apply pressure, forcing Williams to step up and make some major saves to keep the Wildcats within striking distance. One such save came in the 67th minute, when Williams dived out to his right to get a hand on a Creighton shot that seemed destined for the back of the net.\n\n“Carson made a bunch of big saves,” Carlin said to Villanova Athletics. “That was a big one. If it goes to 2-0 there it might have been game, set and match.”\n\nShortly after, Carlin made an aggressive substitution, bringing on Pompliano to try and insert some offense for the ‘Cats into the match. The substitution paid off, as the Wildcats started to gain some attacking momentum.\n\n“[Pompliano] changed the game,” Carlin said to Villanova Athletics. “He gave us energy and we just became more aggressive.”\n\nThe aggression paid off in the 76th, as sophomore defender Jack Bonas found Awujo on a long throw. Awujo was able to redirect the ball from the left inside the post past Kruse to bring things level.\n\nAfter the goal, the ‘Cats continued with their offensive pressure, which led to what was ultimately the winner. Junior forward Lyam MacKinnon dribbled in from outside the 18-yard box, and after eluding a Bluejays defender, found Pompliano in the danger area, who took the pass and smashed it home in the 83rd.\n\nThe ‘Cats were able to hold on to their lead for the rest of the match, earning them their first outright victory in the Big East tournament since 2012 (The 2016 win against DePaul came on penalties). It earns the team a chance to take on the Big East one seed and nationally fourth ranked Georgetown on Thursday at 11 A.M. in Washington D.C. The two squads have already met once this year, in a match that resulted in a 3-1 Georgetown victory.\n\nThe squad improves to 11-6-1 on the year with the win, with an RPI rank of 32 before the win over the Bluejays is calculated. That gives the Wildcats a reason to be hopeful for securing a bid in the NCAA’s 48-team College Cup regardless of what transpires on Thursday, although a win over the Hoyas would elevate the ‘Cats’ resume and give them a chance at their first ever Big East conference title.\n\nThe winner of Thursday’s match between the Hoyas and the Wildcats will go on to battle against the winner of the other semifinal between Butler and Providence on Nov. 14 for the Big East championship title." ]

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[ null, "Overview: Aladdin is an orphaned teen running around Agrabah with his best friend and pet monkey Abu. He dreams of a better life inside the palace walls. Princess Jasmine, longing for a normal life outside of the palace walls, runs away from home and meets Aladdin. The two have a romantic moment, before being caught by the palace guards and he was arrested under the orders of Jafar. Jafar is the royal advisor and sorcerer, who is on a quest to find a magic lamp. Inside the lamp is a genie that will grant three wishes (within certain guidelines). Problem is the lamp lies in the Cave of Wonders and only a “diamond in the rough” can enter. Jafar tricks Aladdin into going inside to retrieve it, but Abu gets greedy and the Cave collapses. Aladdin rubs the lamp and becomes Genie’s master. They get out of the cave, and Aladdin starts to make his wishes, but finds that he just needs to be himself to get what he wants. Jafar learns Aladdin has the lamp and attempts to steal it, takes control over everything. Then makes a fatal mistake, that aids in his downfall and giving a happy ending.\n\nOpinion: I love classic Disney. This was one of my favorites growing up. Jasmine has been my favorite Princess because she tried to stand up for herself. She still needed help being rescued, but she had tried to fight. Plus I always thought she was the most beautiful.\n\nThis is probably my first introduction to two of my favorite actors: Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried. I loved Iago’s crotchety anger and frustration, he was such a great comedic relief. Genie was amazing at moral fiber, and friendship. I don’t know why but Robin also brought a bit of a Jewish feel to his role. Maybe it has something to do with his freedom speech and wanting hummus, but I could be wrong.\n\nMy favorite song would have to be “Prince Ali.” Who doesn’t love a parade?\n\nThen of course “Whole New World.” One of the most romantic songs ever." ]

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[ "The Chancellor role is bestowed upon a person of distinction who has made significant contributions to the Institution and usually served as President of the Institution.\n\nThe Chancellor supports the President on a day-to-day basis in advancing the University's interests. One of the primary responsibilities is to serve as an institutional ambassador, expanding the University's reach at the local, national, and international levels and appointing educational and institutional embassies and ambassadors around the world.\n\nAlong with the University President, the Chancellor also confers all degrees, diplomas, and certificates at Commencement Ceremonies and participates in the Board of Directors meetings, Advisory Board meetings, and acts as a counselor to both boards.\n\nDr. Portigliatti is the current Chancellor and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Directors of Florida Christian University. Previously, he served as President of the Institution between 1999 and 2017. Through his leadership, Florida Theological Seminary became Florida Christian University and experienced substantial institutional growth worldwide by offering academic programs from the Associates to Post-Doctoral levels in the areas of Education, Administration, Counseling, Clinical Counseling, Coaching, and Theology. In addition, the Institution began to offer programs in three languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish. During his leadership, Florida Christian University also expanded its physical infrastructure and moved to its current location and international headquarters.\n\nDr. Portigliatti holds doctorate degrees in Business Administration and Education, and is a professor in these areas at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is also an international lecturer in the areas of Human Behavior and Development, Hospitality with a specialty in seniors, Communication, Marketing and Diversity, and has served as a Mentor for business leaders, executives, professionals, and students.\n\nBesides being an educator, Dr. Portigliatti is also an avid entrepreneur, investor and real estate developer. He is the Founder and President of Excellence Senior Living, a group that develops and manages premier senior living communities throughout the State of Florida, with the mission to promote a stimulating and safe environment, with excellent hospitality services, personal care and development, aimed at the well‐being of its residents in their mastery age. Further, Dr. Portigliatti is the President of SOAR Global Institute, American Coaching and Mentoring Association, American Ministers Association, and Lion's Roar International. As a business executive, he has held other noteworthy positions in Brazil and abroad, such as Executive Vice President of Group Formitex, holding conglomerate Formica, and Formiplac Formilaine in Brazil, Formica Formicolor in Argentina and Lamett in the Netherlands.", null, "We would love for you to learn more about us. Navigate the buttons below to see more information.\n\nWelcome to our website. We are happy that you have taken the time to visit us! Please let us know if you have any questions!\n\nJoin our community of students around the world helping you succeed\n\nWe'll do everything we can to make our next best project!" ]

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[ "Today’s message was based on a fresh report by Humans Rights Watch on China’s Tibet Surveillance Programme, named by the Chinese authorities “Benefit the Masses”, which has been indefinitely extended. The report was flagged up on twitter by Malavika Jayaram from Harvard University.\n\nThis is part of a long term strategy to use infiltrated “spies” (“village-based cadre teams”) in the villages of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and minimize the chances of opposition to the Chinese influence in the region.\n\nAccording to the report, “The official slogan used to describe the objective of the village-based teams is ‘all villages become fortresses, and everyone is a watchman.'”", null, "Day 59: China keeps its eyes wide open upon Tibetans\n[thanks to M.J.]" ]

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[ null, "Recommend: Yes. Great views, not too strenuous and easy to follow pretty trail\n\nThe rain drop is unmistakable and equally unexpected. Soon the windscreen wipers are working overtime as I head east in San Diego through a downpour that presumably is another gift of El Nino. I’m trying to read the sky and momentarily find hope from the brighter patch of clouds only to see them turn a deep grey. I’m eighty miles into the journey and keep driving thinking about my rain gear, sitting it out at the trail head or simply stopping at a breakfast diner. Maybe if I had checked the weather reports more closely I’d still be in bed at this point.\n\nJulian lays claim to have produced the highest grade gold in California in its hay day. Now its more of a destination for day trippers from San Diego who probably will correctly tell you that apples are its current claim to fame. Cuyamaca lies just south of Julian and has four six point peaks; two with original names of Middle and North, one with the area’s namesake, Cuyamaca and the last and my destination, Stonewall. The name alone sounds intimidating but fortunately as I arrive in the parking lot the rain is now somewhat south of me. Nobody is here on this wet Wednesday morning as presumably others did read the weather reports. I’m sixteen cents short of the eight dollar parking fee and a chance encounter with a ranger confirms the state of California is OK with my reduced payment. The note and coin filled envelope won’t fit in the slot and I catch my ranger before she disappears on some early morning task and she takes charge of my overstuffed payment envelope.\n\nIts a pretty trail and zigzags up the side of the peak and in parts bounded by an old wooden and weathered guard rail that looks decades old. Fallen and denuded trees occationally flank me and stand in contrast to the wild flowers that beckon to be inspected.\n\nThe last part of the hike is up a set of stone steps and into the bottom of a cloud with uniformly muted views of nothingness.\n\nSetting up is somewhat rote but my external battery caused me to do a double take. That moment of disbelief that what your eyes see can’t and isn’t true is replaced with a moment of panic….the activation is done before its even started. Panic is replaced by anticipation as I remember I have eight far too heavy AA batteries inside the radio that will enable a whopping five watts output.\n\nThe propagation gods know of my battery plight and the ionosphere guides my voice up and down the west coast and across the nation to Florida and points in between. Everyone almost sounds in the next room but I’m on the clock and fifteen minutes after the first contact I’m tearing down the station and then tearing down the mountain." ]

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[ null, "A salesman sells you a tube of toothpaste, claiming it will make your teeth whiter than they’ve ever been in just a week of use. It’s a bold claim, but he wins you over — for twice what you’d normally pay for toothpaste. A week later, your teeth are still yellow, and you’re tremendously ill. Not only was the toothpaste nothing special, but it was also contaminated with a nasty bacteria; apparently, it was cheaper not to sanitize the toothpaste factory equipment. Now your friends certainly won’t buy any of this not-so-miracle toothpaste, but the damage is done. You’re vomiting, and the salesman’s got your money. Herein lies the problem with the profit motive: bad behavior is profitable.\n\nToday, to some degree, bad behavior in the pursuit of profit can be met with a lawsuit, but if indeed the world is moving towards an unregulatable, irreversible currency such as Bitcoin, we can’t rely on reactionary, punitive measures to put a band-aid on this problem; it needs a solution. Fortunately, it isn’t insurmountable. It’s a bug in the system, and bugs can be fixed. To fix a bug, you often have to dig deep to find the root of the problem, deconstructing it — and the system it exists within — to its bare essentials.\n\nDEBUGGING THE PROFIT MOTIVE\nThis is an article in a series on how Zacqary proposes society might debug the profit motive. This is the first article, on the bug of profitable bad behavior. The others are on the “shiny gold coin” bug, and the pressure bug.\n\nThe profit motive emerges naturally in a money-based economy, because money equals power. One needs a bare minimum of money-granted power to pay for essentials (food, water, shelter), and any money beyond that grants more and more freedom: the more money you have, you can acquire more things, do more things, and get people to do more things for you. Therefore, the incentive is naturally to get as much money as possible.\n\nOf course, as our example of the unscrupulous toothpaste salesman shows, “profit” and “good” don’t always intersect.\n\nThe most widely implemented solution to this has been government regulation. Truth-in-advertising laws are designed to prevent, for example, the salesman’s bogus claims of miracle toothpaste. Health and safety laws require the toothpaste factory to sanitize their equipment. The penalties for breaking these laws, in theory, end up costing more than the expenses of disinfecting a factory, or coming up with a truthful marketing strategy. With well-designed, well-enforced regulations, it becomes more profitable to do the right thing.\n\nOther laws, it should be noted, contribute to the problem. Sometimes, should a corporation do the morally right thing, it results in them making only 46 bazillion dollars in a quarter, as opposed to 47 bazillion. This would be all well and good if corporations, in most jurisdictions, weren’t legally obligated to maximize value for their shareholders, no matter what. This tends to result in the mindless pursuit of short-term profit, and total disregard for its effect on the world.\n\nIn some cases, perhaps the regulations which outlaw scummy behavior correct the problem caused by the make-money-or-die laws: they mandate the extra cost of complying (by doing the right thing), thus lowering the “maximum” amount of profit. Therefore, you could argue, that if government got out of the way entirely, businesses would be free to do the right thing of their own accord.\n\nAt which point I would argue, “Yeah, sure they would.”\n\nIn a profit-motivated system, businesses will do what’s profitable. If screwing people over is profitable, somebody’s gonna do it. This is the bug in the system.\n\nBut like lawsuits, government regulation is a kludge, a temporary workaround. Not a fix.\n\nLegal regulations are an ugly way of making bad behavior less profitable. They coerce businesses, with the threat of punishment, into submitting their products and practices to an often inefficient, bloated bureaucratic process, in order to enforce the regulations. This works, in the sense that a car with tree stumps instead of tires “works”, but it’s hardly desirable. More importantly than the fact that regulations require bloated bureaucracies to enforce, coercing businesses into doing things that they wouldn’t otherwise do is akin to mommy and daddy forcing you to turn off the Playstation and do your homework; it breeds contempt and resentment, so it’s no wonder that you’d say, “just five more minutes!”, or that a business would sell “meat” that’s only 35% actual beef.\n\nSo how do we come up with a true fix for the bug of profitable bad behavior? To go back to our toothpaste salesman example, we must ask, why was his bad behavior more profitable? Simple: you didn’t know the truth until it was too late. Free market theory posits that individuals will act in their own rational self-interest, and only make trades and purchases that are beneficial. But without the truth about the salesman’s terrible toothpaste, you had no idea what your rational self-interest was.\n\nFortunately, the truth is easier and easier to come by every day. Wikileaks, Anonymous, and other Robin Hood-esque hacker groups expose the secrets of powerful organizations, including profit-seeking companies. Reviews of most products and services are just a Google search away. This doesn’t yet prevent bad behavior before it happens, but as it becomes increasingly more difficult to hide wrongdoing, then wrongdoing is likely to happen less and less.\n\nUnfortunately, it’s not that simple. Free market theory posits that individuals will act in their own rational self-interest. Reality posits that people often don’t.\n\nEven when completely aware of the truth, human beings still do irrational things. We eat at McDonald’s too much, despite knowing how caloric and non-nutritious it is. We smoke tobacco and sunbathe without sunscreen, despite knowing that it’s going to give us cancer one day. We get hideously drunk, and then drive our cars, despite knowing how dangerous it is. We buy shiny crap that we know we don’t need. We regret it all the next day, vow never to do it again, and then do it again anyway. While we can all learn to be more rational, we’re not robots. To be 100% logical and rational, every day, all the time, is asking far too much of our meaty, fleshy human brains.\n\nThe toothpaste salesman comes back to you. He’s dressed differently, cut his hair, and grown a moustache, so you don’t recognize him. This time, he sells you heroin. He comes back every week to sell you more, and you keep on buying and buying. You know that it’s killing you, but you can’t stop. The salesman doesn’t mind; he’s making lots and lots of money by exploiting your addiction to his product. The bug is not fixed. Bad behavior is profitable.\n\nLike Falkvinge and many others in the pirate community, I’m fond of Bitcoin. And yet I can’t help but feel that perhaps, as a future monetary system, it too is a kludge and a workaround. For all the bugs it fixes in trade, it still falls prey to the main problem with money today: it does not, and cannot, always correlate with happiness.\n\nMuch like how measuring innovation with patents is a fallacy, today’s money — as a system of determining power — measures the wrong thing: how many shiny gold coins each individual has. Just because one individual has managed to acquire more shiny gold coins doesn’t mean they should have more power; they could have gotten those shiny gold coins by lying, cheating, and stealing, after all. Though a combination of market freedom, transparency, and rational behavior can mitigate this problem, it’s not a complete solution.\n\nBut shiny gold coins are just another bug. In part two, I’ll discuss how we might fix it." ]

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[ "In a world were everything is settle in a good fight. Every warrior fight for his personnal reason. But most of them are in the Fighter League to obtains Gold, Gears and Fame! Some have other reasons to fight: To avenge a friend, to find a rare object, for love or just for the fun of the furious battle! The Architect is the master mind behind the Fighter League and the Colosseum. He have both the intellect and the power to build all the differents Leagues and the Hall of Champions where the fighters who have succeeded the test of entry meet and prepare themselfve for the challenge made by the Architect.\n\nYou follow Henry Forge, who just decide to enter the Fighter League. He have a mission he want to accomplish for his family in the League. Fight, learn, and meet comrades on your way to the top leagues. An adventure where choosing and developping the right members of your team really matter to be victorious in battle!\n\nHenry Forge: A high skilled fighter who just by is family name makes monsters and hunters shake their legs and run away from him. The Forge family is one of the greatest who rule over the Fighter League for decades. Henry pass all is time talking and training at combat. He wants to prove to his whole family that he deserve to be in the top spot in the Fighter League. Nothing will stop him to achieve his goal, not even is family.\n\nOld Sage: He is the one who guide the new warrior inside the Fighter League. It is said that when he was young, he was one of the prime fighter inside the Colosseum, but after some event he was banish from the leagues and could only serve the Architect\n\nCharles (Chakal) Titum: An old friend of Henry, who try his chance at the Fighter League to become the youngest warrior to achieve the Elite Striker Rank in the Colosseum. Charles know his good and can make precious allies that will help him to reach the top. He skills are above normal with magics and other powerfull spell.\n\nEmil Langus: He wants to heal the world and make it a better place. But Emil decide to start with the Fighter League where he try to heal as much as he can to help all the fighters who get harm fighting in the Colosseum. Emil don’t like to stay lonely. He always look to meet some new people and get to know them. He have a bright future in front of him if someone is giving him a chance to shine.\n\nRachelle Cold: Rachelle wears her name well, because she not the type to like people and get their attention. But she is determine to keep climbing all the differents leagues and challenges of the Colosseum to find the killer of someones really precious to her. She will not stop her adventure until the one is found and buried for good and ever. Her spear and spells of ice and cold will help her achieve her goal.\n\nKarl Mort : Younger brother of the Explosive Mort Duo Fighter, Karl is a free style fighter who prefer fighting with his fists than any other weapons. He is quite short on temper but he is a nice compagnon to have around you. His goal is to fight the Architect in person and take his place and become the new master mind behind the Fighter League.\n\nSephia Mort: Older sister of the Explosive Mort Duo Fighter, Sephia is a fire warrior who use all the rage and heat she have inside her to fight without fear and win any combat she engage. She want to prove that any female fighter can be has good has any man or monsters. With her sword and rapid abilities she can become a fire tempest that nothing can stop.\n\nArchitect: The one who made everything. The Hall of Champions, the Fighter League, the Elite Striker, the event and everything is the work of this genius. We don’t why he create the Fighter League and if he going to stop creating new challenges for the fighters who come from all around the world to try his tests. Only few have see him in person. Some say his a god other say a ghost.\n\nand a lot of others characters you will need to discover in the Leagues.\n\nIn the Hall of Champions, proceed through the different league and fight monsters to progress to the Top League made by the Architect.", null, null, null, "Media (video, trailers or others)\n\nPlease let me know if you find any bug of that the game crash at certain point. The more info you could give me to point where the crash and the bad behaviour can happen please let me know!\n\nBut I want to say a HUGE thank to Yanfly(go support him) and all his great plugins that makes my game really great. And I want to thank all the community of RPG Maker that help me improving my game to craft the best Fighting RPG we can together! Thank All for your supports!\n\nThx to all the community and a BIG BIG ULTIMATE Thank to Yanfly for his work. Go support him!\n\nContinue working on the next league and some background and story elements. Polish encounters, new NPC, new characters, new Skills. I will update when I push a new version of the game with even more content.\n\nCan’t wait to have your comment about my demo and project in general. I hope I can make something fun for everyone!" ]

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[ null, "Before the show got started we had a surprise visit from everyone's favorite mouse Mickey Mouse! Who looks fabulous for 90 right?", null, "Then it was off to the show! During the show we had to help free Tinker Bell by filling the magic meter. Captain Hook locked her away and stole her wand, thinking that that would keep magic from all of us. Little did he know, magic is found within us and within the Disney stories we all love.", null, "Miguel and the colorful world of Coco have officially joined the Disney On Ice family. It did not make me cry, I know you were wondering, Moana did that. The Coco segment was beautiful. There were performers on bendy poles (not sure the proper term for that) doing some sick acrobatic moves.", null, "Coco wasn't the only skate segment with extra moves. The Green Army Men were flying through the air as they tried to catch that ball!", null, "Belle lifted off the ice during the culinary cabaret.", null, "Not only did Disney On Ice up the skating and acrobatics, they have added high tech projections to their show. It was like watching a mini version of the Walt Disney World projections on the ice and walls. So cool!", null, "The audience also gets involved with the show. Performers come out into the crowd, some children are chosen to get close to or on the ice with the characters! We all had to close our eyes and make a wish.", null, "It was an awesome show start to finish. It is my new favorite Disney On Ice presentation. I can't wait to see what they do next!", null, "Stay in touch with Disney On Ice on social to find out how what they are up to and where Mickey and friends will be skating to next.", null ]

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[ null, "The City Social and Welfare Development Office (CSWDO) of Valencia City joined the national observance of the 18-day campaign to raise public awareness to end all forms of violence against woman on November 25, 2015.\n\nThe celebration started with a motorcade where participants from the local offices wear an orange shirt that symbolizes the support of the campaign.\n\nDifferent streamers and orange flag lets were also decorated in some areas in the city to spread the message of the importance of the celebration.\n\nA ceremonial lighting activity was also held in the evening at the city covered court to commemorate all women who suffered from all forms of violence.\n\nMs. Vickylyn C. Acuesta, Acting CSWDO, said that it was the first time that the city celebrate the said activity which is in support of their advocacy to spread the importance of women in the society.\n\nMayor Azucena P. Huervas, on the other hand, said that women should learn to exercise their rights as there are laws that supports and protects them. She also urged men to love all women and to always give them respect.\n\nHon. Huervas also opened the plan to request the legislative body to make an ordinance making every 25th day of October as an orange day." ]

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[ null, "137Cs source and two detectors, all located on a “skid” (a pad held against the borehole wall by a spring-activated arm). The source emitted gamma rays at an energy of 662 keV.\nThe two detectors (short-spaced and long-spaced) were shielded in such a way that only those gamma rays that traveled through the formation were detected. The use of two detectors reduced significantly the statistical variations and allowed for more accurate readings of the formation density. The detectors were able to distinguish “hard” and “soft” gamma rays (high and low energy rays, respectively). High energy waves were the result of Compton scattering, while the low energy waves resulted from the photoelectric absorption effect, Pe.\n\nPe is strongly related to the nature of the formation matrix. The formation porosity and the nature of fluid in the pores have little effect on Pe, so in simple lithology, the measurement is a good matrix indicator all by itself. In complex lithology, the LDT was often combined with the CNT-G to provide a detailed analysis of three-mineral matrices and porosity.The LDT was used during ODP from 1985-1989. It was last deployed during Leg 128.\n\nLithology and rock chemistry definition. In combination with the neutron log, the density log allows for the definition of the lithology and of lithologic boundaries. Because each element is characterized by a different photoelectric factor, this can be used, alone or in combination with other logs, to determine the lithologic type. Both density and photoelectric effect index are input parameters to some of the geochemical processing algorithms used onshore.\n\nA large borehole and poor contact of the tool pad with the borehole wall adversely affected the quality of the readings.\n\nBulk density was usually displayed alongside the neutron curve. In separate tracks, the density correlation would generally be displayed with the photoelectric effect and caliper alongside the gamma ray:", null, "The LDT was usually run in comination with the CNT-G and NGT tools." ]

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[ "Connor Ryan: Indigenous Joy – on the Land – is Radical | The ACTIONISTS Series", null, "Connor Ryan – the Natives Outdoors wunderkind who’s been making waves across media channels and in the sports world – spoke with Yellow Scene Magazine the same week his new film was premiering in Vancouver. It’s the same week that Natives Outdoors were announcing the winners of their new scholarship to help get Natives, well, outdoors.\n\nLet’s start with the history. He was “born and raised in Boulder,” he tells me. “My grandfather was born on Standing Rock reservation. He was taken by the boarding schools so they, you know, stole him from his family, as a kid. He was sent to an orphanage… served in the Navy, and was a prisoner of war in World War II.” I’m already in pain from the story. As a Native man, myself, I’ve been tracking the boarding school genocide, the horrors of babies and small children stolen – as his grandfather was – and the thousands of bodies found on boarding school grounds this last year.\n\nI recently watched his debuted film, Spirit of the Peaks. In one poignant scene, he says, “If you’re going to be in the present and the future [of the mountain and the land], the only good way to know how to do that is by looking back.” He was talking about knowing how to exist as participants and givers on the land, instead of as takers, but I couldn’t help see the connection to a later scene where a friend sings a Native song on the mountaintop, in full ski gear, and Connor points out that, “someone just like you has stood right there and sang their song. That’s what matters. It doesn’t matter whether they’re wearing buckskin or Gore Tex. That’s what counts; it’s the souls of the people. That’s the victory.” Knowing his family history is part of that victory.\n\nThe victory is real. The story of a boarding school baby surviving, a family line surviving, and Connor being one of the first major Native American skiers, fighting to make way for native folks to live beyond the image of Natives as invisible people, who must uniformly embody tradition to be real Natives. We are real, and exist here, in all spaces, regardless of who wants us where or where we’re expected.", null, "Connor reminds us instead that Natives are diverse, distinct, evolving, and able to embrace the mountains and the outdoors in all ways. “Whatever Natives do on native lands, that’s what Natives do,” he says.\n\nConnor’s mom was raised in Los Angeles, but found her way to Boulder, this beautiful, idyllic base of the mountains town on the edge of “our traditional homelands as Lakota people,” he tells me.\n\n“It’s an interesting place to be Native,” he said, the irony of the fact that it’s his traditional, historic homeland heavy in the spaces between words. “Usually I’m the only Native in each grade, growing up… You get a lot of weird, kinda like, the racism that comes from ignorance, where you tell people you’re Native and they’re like, ‘no, you’re not, you don’t wear feathers on top of your head.’”\n\nRaised without the cultural reference and “traditional” upbringing – never Native enough, never American enough – he learned skiing as a young boy, but it was cost-prohibitive. In his 20’s he felt the call to go back, and he returned to find the spirit of the land, of his ancestors, waiting.\n\nA trip to the Black Hills, with other Lakota folks he met locally, was the first time he really connected with his cultural practices. “They pulled me into ceremony,” he recalls. “Same time I got back into skiing was the same time I went to sweat lodge and started learning my ceremonies, and language, and culture.”\n\nIn his 20’s he felt the call to go back, and he returned to find the spirit of the land, of his ancestors, waiting.\n\nWhile going to fill water in a bucket for the sweat lodge, he realized the connection of his ceremony to the creek, to the water melting from the mountains and flowing down, connecting him to his culture and to the animals and birds that live there. That was at the base of Eldora. “This way that I was falling in love with nature through skiing, it was really about these principles and ideas and themes from my culture. And for me, as a Native person who grew up… removed from the land, it was skiing that gave me the opportunity for the first time to go, ‘oh, this is where I belong. And I had a passion. I couldn’t avoid making that cultural connection. It was also around when I founded Natives Outdoors.”\n\nNatives Outdoors began as people connecting online, and became a Native social media company. They’ve expanded their work. His work with them brought his passion, his culture, and his hope for Native people full circle. The Natives Outdoors scholarship is the outcome. “I feel like I’m so lucky right now…and I just want more native folks to be able to experience that.”\n\nThe scholarship is for five children and five adults. It’s sponsored by Ikon Pass, Salomon, Smith Optics, and Patagonia. The goal is to help other Natives who haven’t had the chance, or the resources, to get out there where they belong, to connect and experience what he has, to reclaim Native space on sacred mountains.”\n\n“After all we’ve experienced,” he says in a defining moment in his film, “Indigenous joy – on the land – is radical.”" ]

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[ "Planning to appeal the case.\n\nPlanning to appeal the case.\n\nIn 2016, the California Institute of Technology sued Apple and Broacom where the two companies were accused of patent infringement related to WiFi technology.\n\nThe patent infringement should have occurred between 2006 and 2012.\n\nThe two are now ordered to pay in excess of $ 1 billion in total, with Apple accounting for $ 838 million. According to Bloomberg, the company plans to appeal the case.\n\nThree out of four patents abused\nPatents should aim to protect the use of IRA / LDPC codes to simplify encoding / decoding in connection with data transfer. The technology should, in Apple's case, have been used in WiFi standards 802.11n and 802.11ac, which have at one time been supported on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac and several Apple devices.\n\nThree out of a total of four patents Caltech is alleged to have brought to court have been used by Apple, according to jurors.\n\nIn the lawsuit, Apple should have argued that Caltech has not claimed compensation for time as this should have been done in 2016. In addition, they pointed out that Caltech itself does not develop or use - or sell for that matter - products with the current patents.", null ]

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[ "Commercial real estate is the bright spot of China’s real estate, in contrast to the gloom and gloom of the residential housing market.\n\nHong Kong-listed real estate group KWG Group Holdings recently said that income from office rents and other commercial real estate grew 6% in the first half of the year, although sales and development revenue in China fell by nearly 37% year-on-year. before.\n\nSimilarly, asset group CIFI Holdings announced home sales in China fell 23% year-on-year in the first half of the year, but reported a 69.5% increase in real estate investment revenue.\n\nIn July, Hong Kong’s Attributes of Hang Lung reported a small increase in profit for the first half of the year, which Vice President Adriel Chan called a “pleasant surprise.” While the company reported lower revenue from malls and hotels due to pandemic closures, premium office rents increased 16%.", null, "“Office has done surprisingly well for us. It now accounts for about 20% of our Mainland China revenue. And it’s been very efficient. I know that not all Developers all have the same experience, and so we’ll continue to review “Chan told CNBC “Squawk Box Asia” at the end of July.\n\nHang Lung, which mainly invests in commercial real estate in mainland China, has seen occupancy rates at its office towers in Wuxi, Kunming and Wuhan continue to rise. , while levels in Shenyang and Shanghai rose amid lackluster new hire prospects.\n\nAdvantages for the commercial industry\n\nChinese commercial real estate investors and their tenants are not facing the same difficulties as their residential counterparts, which are already grappling with slower sales as well as recession and debt pressures. , real estate advisor Lauressa Advisory partner Nicholas Spiro said.\n\nThe commercial sector has not been immune to the confidence crisis that has swept through the housing market. While some investors sell assets to maintain liquidity, Spiro said the commercial sector generally has more supportive government and fiscal policies.\n\nWhile Beijing is looking to reduce the bubble in the residential market without hurting the economy, it is prioritizing investment in infrastructure and the new economy, which is particularly beneficial. specifically for the industrial and logistics real estate sectors.\n\n“While Beijing is looking for ways to reduce the bubble in the residential market without hurting the economy, it is prioritizing investment in infrastructure and the new economy, which is what makes it a priority,” Spiro said. particularly beneficial for the industrial and logistics real estate sectors.”\n\nHe also sees room for growth in China’s commercial sector, with “huge scope for further development in secondary cities.”\n\n“And the conservative mindset of Chinese companies – which has made pandemic-induced changes to working patterns more difficult than in the US and UK – will benefit the sector,” he said. this in the long term,” he said.\n\nIn addition to broader supportive policies, the Chinese government also has more direct plans to help homeowners, such as reducing urban land use taxes and providing subsidies for homeowners to cover the waived rentals.\n\nFor tenants, despite the challenge of China’s lockdown and Covid-zero policy, global real estate investor Hines sees increased demand for retail and office space as businesses Businesses see an opportunity in a down market leading to more office space opening or leasing.", null, "“For the office, we see tenants looking to upgrade to spaces and locations that better suit their needs and work more modern, collaborative.”\n\nOverall, the resilience of China’s commercial real estate sector lies in its ability to recover faster than its residential counterpart.\n\nAccording to the latest update of real estate consulting company CBRE in China, Between the first and second quarters of this year – during the worst China shutdown in Shanghai – new office supply and rentals fell by 56% and 75% respectively.\n\nInvestment data in fixed assets for the first 5 months of 2022 shows that investment in real estate has decreased on a larger scale compared to the first 4 months of the year. Pictured here on May 16 is a development in the city of Huai’an in eastern China’s Jiangsu province.\n\nRetail leasing was also hit hard, with rents in the second quarter down 44% QoQ and 87% YoY.\n\nLogistics performance was better with rents rising in the second quarter, but down year-on-year.\n\nDown but not out\n\n“In 2022, the central and local governments in China have effectively taken aggressive measures to deal with the epidemic and promote stable economic growth,” Brodie said.", null, "Again, unlike the housing market, the transaction recovery has been stronger in the commercial property market as there are many players unaffected by financial constraints still looking to buy and sell. property sales, said Benjamin Chow, head of Asia real estate research at MSCI.\n\nHe said: “Domestic institutions are a prime example – they are the largest group of buyers this year. In this group, insurance companies, banks and financial groups are the buyers of real estate. largest commercial property ever”.\n\n“Another group of buyers includes companies, which made a big splash last year and are still relatively active in 2022.”\n\nBring your 911 Camping with the Porsche Tent on the roof", null, null, "5 things to know before the stock market opens on Tuesday, September 6", null, null ]

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[ "It May Take Longer to Get the Next iPhone\n\nYou may have to wait a little longer than you thought for the new iPhone.\n\nMost of the rumors flying around about the iPhone 7 concern the changes Apple is expected to be introducing for its flagship smartphone, but an actual release date for the much-anticipated device has also yet to materialize as the world still awaits word on Apple’s big annual September product launch event.\n\nPrevious speculation suggested that the new iPhone would officially launch on Sept. 16, following a week of pre-orders. A new report still predicts Sept. 9 as the start-date for pre-orders, but the iPhone 7 might not make it to stores until as late as Sept. 23.\n\nThe bloggers at 9to5Mac point to a leaked AT&T retail schedule that appears to cite “merchandising reset” plans on Sept. 9 and Sept. 23 as evidence of Apple’s plans for rolling out the iPhone 7. That would mean the new smartphones wouldn’t make it to stores until a whole week later than was previously thought.\n\nThe website also notes that Apple has alternated between one-week and two-week pre-order periods for past iPhone launches, with last year’s iPhone 6s launch falling on Sept. 25 following a pre-order period that began Sept. 12.\n\nApple has yet to announce the date of its live-streamed product launch event, where customers and software developers alike will get a look at the latest iteration of its popular smartphone. Among the potential new features being reported for the iPhone 7 are additional speakers and color options, as well as a redesigned home button. Apple could also be increasing the size of the camera on the back of the phone while eliminating the headphone jack that has been present on all previous iPhones in favor of having users connect headphones through the device’s Lightning port.\n\nFortune has reached out to Apple for comment and will update this article with any response.", null, "Review: Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 is Its Biggest Challenge to the iPhone Yet\nNext Up: Editor's Pick" ]

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[ null, "The Grammy winner, who has been busy promoting her Fenty empire in recent weeks, is subtly trying to tell us all how to pronounce her name. While many have referred to the star as “Re-Ah-Na” over the years, her name is actually pronounced “Re-Anna.”\n\nRihanna actually confirmed this in recent videos for Vogue, introducing herself to the camera. After seeing the videos, one social media user noted, “so we’ve been pronouncing Rihanna’s name wrong this whole time.”\n\nIn response, many Twitter users have pointed out it’s mostly Americans who pronounce it “Re-Ah-Na.”\n\n“Only Americans pronounce it as rihaaaaaaana lol,” one social media user wrote.\n\nWhile another Twitter user added, “us brits we BEEN pronouncing her name right since dayyy.”\n\nIn response to one Vogue video, a Twitter user thanked Rihanna for how she pronounces her name.\n\n“Thank you @Rihanna for pronouncing your name, my daughter’s name is Brianna but people pronounce it Brionna, similar to yours,” the tweet reads.\n\nIt turns out, Rihanna actually clarified her name pronunciation during a 2012 interview with reporter AJ Hammer. During their chat, the superstar confirmed it is “Re-Anna.”" ]

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[ "Do You Believe in Centaurs?\n\nMythical creatures have continually been the subject of human fascination.\n\nAnd UT has its own unique piece of mythological history in the John C. Hodges Library—the bones of an adult male centaur.", null, "May marked the 25th anniversary of the installation “The Centaur Excavation at Volos,” which continues to present interested passersby with the same simple question: “Do you believe in centaurs?”\n\n“The centaur has become a standard part of campus tours,” said Beauvais Lyons, Chancellor’s Professor in the School of Art, who, along with Neil Greenberg, helped bring the specimen to UT in 1994.\n\n“Tour guides often use the display to weave their own tales about the origin and excavation of this specimen. It may be the first object lesson that students experience when it comes to the pranks that are so common to college life,” says Lyons.\n\nAnd, ultimately, that is what the display is: a clever prank.\n\nThe centaur specimen, made from the tea-stained bones of a pony and a deteriorating human skeleton, was constructed by Bill Willers, a professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. It was brought to UT in 1994 by Lyons and Greenberg, professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Lyons, self-appointed director of the Hokes Archives and for several semesters an instructor for a First-Year Studies course on pranks, designed the showcase and exhibition text. Bob Cothran, professor emeritus of theatre, painted the fake marble and wood end-panels. Clarence Brown Theatre master carpenter Marty Cooke was commissioned to build the display case.\n\nFew know the centaur’s two-and-a-half-decade history of engaging students better than Greenberg, who teaches an annual spring interdisciplinary seminar, Art and Organism, which uses the centaur to discuss literal versus psychological truths of mythology.\n\n“The centaur is our mascot,” Greenberg says. “It is often the catalyst for one of my favorite questions: ‘Is anything truer than truth?’”\n\nFor Greenberg, one provocative answer is mythology.\n\n“This response typically sparks spirited discussions about art, science, and the nature of belief,” he says. “Every year I teach my seminar, I’m delighted by the rich diversity of creative ideas students in majors from biomedical engineering to business, food science to finance, microbiology to music, bring to the discussion.”", null, "But why all of this fascination?\n\nTo Lyons, mythical creatures from Bigfoot to dragons fulfill a basic human need to express the unconscious through symbols and metaphors.\n\n“From this perspective, the ancient Greek myth of the centaur—a half-human, half-horse creature that inhabited the forests of Thessaly—represents a potent combination of human intelligence and animal desires,” Lyons says. “The centaur becomes even more loaded when it is presented as a scientific fact.”\n\nThe public fascination with the centaur exhibit hasn’t been limited to the university. The display has been written about by scholars, journalists, and bloggers in the United States as well as abroad. It has appeared in stories in USA Today and on the Roadside America and Mental Floss websites. Adrienne Mayor, a research scholar in Stanford University’s classics department and author of The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times, has said the specimen allows observers to experience “something like the awe felt by ancient Greeks and Romans when they listened to tales of Hercules battling centaurs and marveled at realistic sculptures and vivid vase paintings of centaurs galloping across the landscape. . . . The Centaur of Volos embodies the point where mythic imagination and scientific curiosity converge.”\n\nIn order to ensure that the centaur continues to hold its special place as a site for campus-wide curiosity, new track lights were recently installed thanks to private gifts. Along with the display’s faux-marble base and the illusionistic wood end-panels—built to match their surroundings in the Jack E. Reese Galleria—the lights emphasize a point both Lyons and Greenberg hope is clear: the centaur will continue to hold its place as one of UT’s most significant works of public art for years to come.\n\n“Every time we pass it, ‘The Centaur Excavation at Volos’ reminds us to be skeptical,” Lyons says. “Just because something has the trappings of authenticity doesn’t make it true.”\n\nGreat article, small misspelling —\nI built the centaur case 25 years ago and recently saw this article. However my name is misspelled. It should be Marty Cooke, instead of Marty Cook.\nThanks.\n\nThanks for letting us know, Marty! We have fixed the spelling of your name." ]

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[ "We were joined by a schoolboy on work experience experience today and he’s going to be with us for the rest of the week. After catching up with the necessary paperwork and sorting out a few emails, we decided to pack away equipment that we won’t use for the rest of the season before heading out to survey a couple of sites after lunch.\nWe headed to the Purclewan Burn to check the fish population at a couple of sites. The Purclewan Burn is improving following fencing and other agricultural improvements in recent years and the Board stocked it with salmon fry just two seasons ago. Reports reached us last winter that a couple of salmon were viewed in it at spawning time so we were hopeful that we would find both fry and parr. The first site was between Dustyhall and Purclewan Mill and we found two salmon parr but no fry which was a disappointing as this area was stocked. Encouragingly and rather unexpectedly we found good numbers of both trout parr and fry but water levels were so low, we didn’t catch any adults as I expect they have found deeper pool habitat somewhere downstream.\nSurvey complete we headed towards Dalrymple where the Board and Trust erected fencing at a badly poached watering point in 2012. Compare the two photos below showing before and after.", null, "The site on the purclewan Burn prior to fencing. Apart from the silt, enrichment, and bacteria that arose from cattle access, the burn was over wide, shallow and offered no fish cover in this area. Tonnes of soil hade been lost over the years into the burn.", null, "Three seasons after the fencing was erected and the site has changed dramatically. Somewhere in the photo is the burn. The erosion has ceased and the channel narrowed. Trout numbers were excellent and the habitat improved with plenty of marginal fish cover available. This is a great result for fish and water quality.\n\nThe habitat is still recovering and is much improved but better than that, was full of trout. Excluding livestock really works and the fish benefit from cleaner water and less silt entering the watercourse. We failed to find salmon but given more time for recovery and a bit more assistance, I’m sure in time we will. We have one more section of fencing still to erect on this burn and hopefully that will be completed this year.", null, "Daniel and Struan counting and recording the catch.\n\nDaniel, our schoolboy assistant was impressed and more than a bit surprised to see so many trout from such a wee burn." ]

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[ null, "Next up on the blog are some reviews for releases from the last few weeks that I have not yet reviewed. First up is BAE173’s first comeback single, Loved You. This one in particular is one I really wanted find time to write a standalone review for, for a number of reasons. Firstly, this is the first time I am reviewing a BAE173 release. They made their debut earlier this year with Crush On U (which I have yet to review, I will definitely get to it soon!). Other reasons will become apparent as I review this release. But as this is the first time I am reviewing BAE173, I will need to provide a little introduction to the group. BAE173 is a nine-member male group under Pocketdol Studio, consisting of J-Min, Hangyul, Yoojun, Muzin, Junseo, Yongseo, Doha, Bit and Dongpyo. Members Hangyul and Dongpyo may be familiar as they debuted as part of X1 and later formed duo H&D, before disbanding to re-debut as part of BAE173.\n\nWhat really excited me about Loved You when I first heard, and even now, it is how much it reminded me of Big Bang’s works. To be able to pinpoint that exact feeling is something that is extremely hard, given Big Bang’s vast array of songs under their belt. But as I, like many, miss Big Bang greatly, this puts Loved You in a very favourable light. What I also like about Loved You is that it is a satsifyingly cohesive track. It made for a good listen and nothing felt out of place for me. From the piano work we get in the pre-chorus, to the strumming of guitar in the background of the verses, to the simple instrumental break that we get as part of the bridge. Instrumentally, the song is quite sound and memorable for me. Sure, Loved You could use some improvements in the vocal department. I do admit that they are not as memorable as they could have been. In fact, one might describe their vocals and rapping as rather dull, especially for an instrumental as good as this one. But I think that thought might be a bit extreme as I felt the members were going in the right direction with what they had going on in Loved You. They just could have been a bit more energetic with their delivery in retrospect, especially as the rappers felt very subdued. I think Loved You could have really benefited from something that was more dynamic as this potentially uplifted the song to a whole new level. Overall, Loved You is a really solid song for BAE173, putting them on the radar for new artsists to look out for in 2021.\n\nWhen I watch the music video for Loved You, I can’t help think that PocketIdol Studio is holding back an extended version. I feel like there is a more fulfilling story to be told, but it had to be cut down to fit the parameters of a music video (even though this one did go for a longer than usual amount of time). As a result, I don’t think I can really form a storyline. But I think there is enough to take a stab at a guess. It seems like the music video revovles around one member, as in one scene the members disappeared leaving only one behind. Similarly, there is one member lyring over his desk in the swimming pool, whereas evertyone is standing around him. My best guess is that the music video talks about the struggles of being alone. But I am not sure what the giant big cat and the flames around the members suggest. Maybe I will revisit this video in a Music Video Theory post (which I planning doing again in the future, but just don’t have the time to restart at the moment). I also like how the music video features an extended version of the song, which I think adds appeal to continually rewatch the video.\n\nThe performance that accompanies Loved You is pretty good. My favourite bit has to the be the instrumental break that features the performance’s dance break. Though brief, I felt that it really delivered and showcased the group’s performance skillset. Similarly, I felt the same with the rest of the performance. I just wished the rest was a little more memorable.", null, null, null ]

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[ "The definition of a startup must consider the short-term aspect. After startups implement their basic goal of finding an optimal business model, they transform into other types of enterprises usually within 5 years after their inception. This definitional regularity is reflected in the obtained empirical data. Among 158 surveyed enterprises, 3/4 operated for no more than 3 years and 87,3% of them operated on the market for less than 5 years.\n\nThe startups that took part in the survey have their headquarters in 16 Ukrainian regions, 55,1% of them are located in the Kyiv region. Every second surveyed enterprise was located in the capital city. This makes Kyiv not only the largest industrial, cultural and research center of the country, but also the central place of the Ukrainian startup ecosystem.\n\nKharkiv and Lviv regions are also important points on the startup map of Ukraine. 10,8% and 8,2% of enterprises participating in the survey have their headquarters there. On average two out of three startups are located in the largest Ukrainian cities with more than 1 million inhabitants — Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa. Less than 4,5% of the surveyed enterprises have their headquarters in cities with a population equal to or less than 100,000 people. 29,1% of startups are located in cities with a population of 101,000 to 1 million (14,6% in cities with up to 500 000 inhabitants and the same amount in cities from 500 000 to 1 million people).\n\nThe largest number of startups choose the form of a limited liability company or operate legally as a sole proprietorship. Another analytically important category is enterprises organized in the form of limited partnerships. The rest of legal forms (non-governmental organizations, partnerships, civil partnerships, joint-stock partnerships and limited joint-stock partnerships) account for a small percentage of the amount of surveyed startups. Almost a quarter of all enterprises that participated in the survey (and nearly 1/3 of those were founded in 2021) do not have an established legal form at the moment of participating in the survey. Among companies with an unspecified legal form, 36,8% were established in 2021, and as much as 50% in 2020 or 2019. This shows that their development direction is not very dynamic and specific. Some startups that took part in a survey operating without a specific legal form since 2012.", null, "Over 4/5 of startups plans to develop in the following directions:\n\nAn important factor of the Ukrainian startup market development is investment support and the involvement of private and institutional investors. In 2019, USD 510 million was invested in this sector in Ukraine (over 50% more than the year before). In over 80% of cases, the investors were represented by foreign investment funds. Among the startups participating in the survey, three entities were financed entirely by business angels (2 – foreign, 1 – local), two had private grants only, and one received funding from foreign venture capital.\n\nDue to the need of bootstrapping the founders have limited resources in the development of a startup. That’s why the procuring of the income from business activities is very important for them. It makes it possible to survive on the market long enough until the optimal business model is found. However, more than half of the surveyed enterprises do not generate any income yet. Which makes them completely dependent on external financing sources and exceptionally susceptible to development barriers described in the following sub-chapters of this report. Another 19,6% of enterprises generate some small income (up to EUR 10,000), which obviously cannot cover the costs of activities related to the development of products and services. Only one in 10 startups generates an annual income of over EUR 50,000.\n\nRead the full report via the link" ]

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[ "Historical Justice in the Age of Finance", null, "Historical Justice in the Age of Finance is a sequel to After Evil, arguing that injustice, not merely trauma, is the aftermath of evil and presenting an historical account of democratic politics a the extraction of a price for rolling over the option of justice now. To make this case, I connect a Marx-inflected language of historical justice to the technical language of valuing financial options. and show that historical justice is itself an option that has value today even though it is not an option that can presently be exercised. In summary form, my argument is that political democracy in an age of finance is best understood as a project of increasing and realizing the present value of historical justice as an option in non-revolutionary conjunctures. Political democracy can do this, because within contemporary global finance capital market liquidity is inherently at risk. Through a critical appropriation of the language and practices of financialization, progressive movements can leverage finance’s theoretical reduction of class power to an absence of political risk in capital markets by introducing a political risk that the state will not restore liquidity to capital markets. I argue that the liquidity guarantee that the state provides in such situations, most recently in 2008, can be priced using options theory–and that this is the political premium available to fund greater justice that can be extracted for allowing the cumulative gains from past injustice to remain.\n\nRobert Meister is 3CT’s visiting scholar. A professor of social and political thought in the department of the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, Meister’s research interests include political and moral philosophy, law and social theory, Marxian theory, institutional analysis, and financialization. His most recent book is After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights (Columbia University Press, 2011). His essay, “Liquidity”, in Derivatives and Wealth of Society (University of Chicago Press, 2016) will be part of the new book.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "PARIS – August 19, 2019 – Fans looking forward to playing Streets of Rage 4 next year will be able to do so on their platform of choice as publisher and co-developer Dotemu (Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, Windjammers 1 and 2) with co-developers Lizardcube (Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap) and Guard Crush Games (Streets of Fury) today announced that the title will make its way on to PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. A brand new gameplay trailer released today also introduced the latest character to join Blaze Fielding and Axel Stone: a badass guitar-playing warrior named Cherry Hunter.\n\nCherry Hunter is the daughter of Adam Hunter from the original Streets of Rage.\n\nTrained by her father and Axel, Cherry learned self-defense from a young age. Her interest in following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a cop soon faded out, replaced by her love of music. Nowadays, she plays with her electro progressive rock band in some of the most dangerous places in Wood Oak City. She may look young but make no mistake – she is a seasoned veteran of kicking ass and taking names.\n\nThe new trailer also reveals several more levels in the upcoming game at different times of day: neon lighted urban rooftops, elevator, seedy airport hangars, dirty sewers, thumping music stage and many more are all yours for the taking – lay the smackdown and don’t look back.\n\nStreets of Rage 4 will be the first entry to the core series in 25 years, standing as Axel and Blaze’s glorious return to serving up side-scrolling beatdowns. With lush hand-drawn animations, new combat abilities, and fresh tracks from an amazing team of composers, Streets of Rage 4 will be a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.\n\nStreets of Rage 4 is being shown at Gamescom 2019 by appointment only in the business area of the conference center. Fans looking to play the latest build of Streets of Rage 4 can do so at the upcoming PAX West event in Seattle in booth 6802.\n\nTo keep your skull-cracking combo on the latest Streets of Rage 4 news going, head over to www.streets4rage.com, visit www.facebook.com/StreetsofRage4, and give the follow button a devastating high kick on Twitter @Dotemu, @Lizardcube and @Guard_Crush." ]

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[ null, "David Hanson's eighty-two photos provide a fascinating look at Colstrip as it was in 1982 to 1985. Put it into Google maps and you'll see that the mine has expanded since then though the place is small enough not to be worthy of their Street View facility. Obviously the mine and power station are dominant in the area but it's still a bit less than .04% of Montana's surface area. However with more than 120 billion tons of the black stuff just under the State's topsoil the town's residence are assured of a continuous future (so long as the water supply lasts).\n\nThe photos, especially the aerial ones, give a very graphic description of strip mining but like all extractive industries it's just not going to look neat and tidy. For a real polluted mess have a look at OIL with coverage of that industry by Ed Burtynsky. His photos of the oilfields in Baku, Azerbaijan, when it was part of the Soviet Union, show environmental damage on a colossal scale.\n\nThirty of these photos originally appeared in Hanson's first book: Waste Land: Meditations an a Ravaged Landscape, which I thought was a much stronger expose of how industry savages the land. In four sections: Colstrip; Minuteman missile sites; Waste land; Montana 1889-1989. Waste land is the longest section, devoted to sixty-seven of the most polluted sites across the Nation (in the early eighties) and it has a rather clever editorial format (see my uploads). Each spread has a large aerial photo on the right-hand page of a polluted site and opposite a map with the site indicated and some text relating to the site owners, extent of the pollution and clear-up solutions and in many cases, how the owner's have attempted to wriggle out of their responsibilities. All the information is taken from EPA material and it seems the military is the biggest polluter overall. Hanson's aerial photos in both of his books work so well and really point out the problems in explicit detail plus they have the added bonus, when showing waste water, of looking quite beautiful, in an abstract sense.\n\n'Colstrip, Montana' is a handsome production in the classic photo book format of having one large plate on the right and a blank page facing it, though here fortunately, the left page does have a caption. America's top art book printer Meridian of Rhode Island brought out the best in the photos with a 200 screen on a good matt art paper. I think this could become a classic environmental photo reportage book." ]

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[ null, "As has been the case for some time now, Patek Philippe modernly offers the perfect Patek Philippe Aquanaut replica watches with a chronograph movement. This sporty complication fits perfectly in the company’s increasingly youthful, dynamic collection. But how does it perform in real-life conditions?\n\nThe Patek Philippe Aquanaut was first launched in 1997 and is one of the newest collections at Patek Philippe, alongside the Twenty-4 introduced in 1999. The CH 28-520 C caliber that powers the top US Patek Philippe fake watches is almost 10 years younger still – the first chronograph movement for the Nautilus-inspired watch with its rounded octagonal bezel.\n\nThe Aquanaut Chronograph, our test watch, has a striking orange “Tropical” strap made of modern composite rubber that’s resistant to wear, saltwater and UV rays, and is combined with a new double folding clasp. With four independent catches and two side buttons, its patented design offers extreme reliability and ease of operation. It is attached with two spring bars at the strap ends so the strap must be trimmed to the wearer’s individual wrist size – a powerful move that doesn’t allow for mistakes. And in the event of a different occasion, Patek Philippe also delivers the high quality replica Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph watches with an additional black strap.\n\nFor added stability on the wrist, the strap ends on the case are secured not only by conventional spring bars but also by two pins that lead from the strap ends into the body of the case. Therefore, Swiss made Patek Philippe copy watches recommends having the strap changed by an authorized service person, which limits its ease of use.\n\nBut why change the strap at all? We found that the orange strap highlights the colorful accents that mark the chronograph functions on the dial; the long, slender chronograph hand that extends from the center of the dial; the minutes hand over the subdial at 6 o’clock; the markings of the 4-Hz chronograph track around the dial as well as the elapsed-minutes track around the subdial. This adopts the same shape as the rounded octagon of the bezel. On the other hand, the design on the surface of the strap blends nicely with the relief embossing on the 2022 replica Patek Philippe Aquanaut watches’ main dial, which references the Earth’s coordinate system. Light plays on the dial’s sunburst finish so it sometimes appears deep black and sometimes light gray. Applied Arabic numerals, 12 markers, and the two bold baton-shaped hands for the hours and minutes are all made of white gold and have luminescent coating so the time is easy to read, day or night, thanks to the strong black-and-white contrast and the glowing green luminescence at night. The orange brass hands of the chronograph function are painted, and have no luminescent accents, but they point precisely to the chronograph scales on the dial.\n\nSelf-winding Caliber CH 28-520 C ensures a high level of accuracy, combining a classic column wheel with a modern vertical-disk clutch control. It is the only chronograph movement at 1:1 online Patek Philippe fake watches with this type of clutch. Its design prevents any forward or backward jumping of the stopwatch hand when the chronograph is engaged and it runs so smoothly that the centrally mounted chronograph hand can also be used as a permanent sweep seconds hand, which is why the Aquanaut Chronograph does not have a separate seconds hand. The flyback function makes it possible to set the Patek Philippe super clone watches wholesale shop precisely, to the second. The stopwatch hand can be set to zero from an ongoing measurement without a reset and restarted immediately. Of course, this also works by starting the chronograph precisely at a time signal. The only drawback: the movement has no hack mechanism so it may be necessary to reset the minutes hand.\n\nCaliber CG 28-520 C has undergone some design changes for use in the Aquanaut. The hour counter has been omitted completely. But what young, dynamic person today needs such a thing? Elapsed minutes are easy to read on the large subdial counter, since it extends almost to the center of the dial and is intuitive – the 60-minute counter mirrors the standard minutes display on a watch dial (instead of a more commonly used 30-minute counter). A minute counter wheel rotating below operates with a direct transmission ratio to the chronograph runner, which allows the elapsed minutes display to run continuously and does not jump when the second hand passes “zero.” This mechanism is placed on the dial side of the chronograph.\n\nThe date is also noteworthy. It advances at midnight within a fraction of a second – so fast that the human eye cannot register it. It can be adjusted (with some effort) via an integrated pusher at 8 o’clock. Cheap replica Patek Philippe watches supplies a correction stylus made of ebony and white gold, but a crown-based function would be more convenient.\n\nThe self-winding movement has a 21k gold rotor and can build up a power reserve of up to 55 hours. Verifying the power reserve was part of our testing program, which was analogous to Patek Philippe’s quality control in its Munich workshop. When fully wound, the movement is specified to run 56 hours. Our test recorded 57 hours and 48 minutes. A second test simulating actual wear examined the efficiency of the winding mechanism. After winding for one hour and 34 minutes the luxury fake Patek Philippe watches should run for 18 hours. Our Aquanaut Chronograph clocked in at 24 hours.\n\nIn the simulated wearing test – while the chronograph is engaged – the Swiss made Patek Philippe replica watches ran with virtually no deviations at all. When fully wound and with the chronograph running, the timing machine recorded an average daily rate of -0.4 seconds per day, and after 24 hours of running time, without additional winding, the rate was -0.7 seconds. The values were similar when the chronograph function was not engaged. Amplitudes differed by about 10 degrees.\n\nSpecifications from Patek Philippe – within the framework outlined by its own quality seal – lie between -3 and +2 seconds per day. Our test watch remained reliably in this tolerance range. Caliber CH 28-520 C easily achieved these rate results with a system consisting of the long-standing Gyromax balance wheel (patented in 1949 and 1951) and the Spiromax hairspring made of Silinvar (introduced in 2006).\n\nThis new, patented material is based on a monocrystalline form of silicon, which is temperature-compensating, lightweight, hard, wear-resistant, anti-magnetic, elastic and resistant to corrosion and impacts. It is produced using the DRIE (Deep Reaction Ion Etching) process with a precision of 1/1,000th of a millimeter. When combined with the fine regulation using the asymmetrical regulating weights on the balance wheel, rate accuracy is optimized and isochronism is improved, as our tests showed.\n\nThe China fake Patek Philippe watches mechanism is housed in a stainless-steel case that sports both polished and brushed finishes and is water resistant to a depth of 120 meters. The crown guard gives it a slightly asymmetrical look. All screw-down operating elements functioned perfectly. Manual winding and setting operations are both extremely smooth. The wide, faceted chronograph pushers require firm pressure due to the jaws that hold and release the vertical clutch. Start and stop functions using the pusher at 2 o’clock work a little bit easier than the flyback and reset pusher at 4 o’clock. All these actions work reliably and consistently, aided in no small part by the brushed finish on the top of both chrono pushers.\n\nThe Swiss movements replica Patek Philippe Aquanaut Chronograph watches lies snugly against the wrist thanks to downward sloping lugs and the attachment of the rubber strap. The clasp closes softly and securely and the crown has a solid and sumptuous feel. Both are exceptional in their operation. The youthful, dynamic spirit of this sporty timepiece extends to every last detail." ]

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[ "Saudi Arabia retained top spot in oil supplies to china for a ninth straight month in August as major producers relaxed production cuts, according to Reuters.\n\nThe Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies decided in July to ease production cuts and increase supply by a further 2 million barrels per day (mmbbl/d), adding 0.4 (mmbbl/d) a month from August until December.\n\nRussia’s oil arrivals recorded 6.53 million tonnes in August, or 1.59 (mmbbl/d), flat versus 1.56 (mmbbl/d) in July. The big gap behind Saudi volumes was due to Beijing’s decision to slash crude oil import quotas to its independent refiners, who favour Russia’s ESPO blend. It is worth noting that Russian ESPO is a pipeline system for exporting Russian crude oil to the Asia-Pacific markets.\n\nAs for Malaysia, Crude oil arrivals more than doubled from a year earlier, reaching 1.75 million tonnes, with traders saying refiners might have rebranded Venezuelan heavy oil previously passed on as bitumen blend into Malaysian crude.\n\nOfficial data has consistently showed zero imports from Iran or Venezuela since the start of this year.", null, null ]

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[ null, "“A horrific car accident happened around 1pm this afternoon. Car totaled at least 5 cars including their own for the length of the block. Neighbor pulled a woman out of the car and they were taken to hospital. I heard a police officer report other cars were hit at 17th and A SE. It’s a miracle no one else was hurt. I stayed long enough to check the license plate when they were turned over…Maryland.”\n\n“Yesterday afternoon at approximately 2:20 PM, First Police District Units were dispatched to 17th and A Street N.E for a hit and run accident involving two (2) vehicles. The striking vehicle that fled the scene was described as a blue color Chevrolet Impala bearing a Maryland tag.\n\nA short time later. 1D Officers responded to 500 block of Kentucky Ave. SE for a major accident involved a blue color Chevrolet Impala bearing Maryland tags and several others vehicles. The driver of the blue Chevrolet Impala was taken to a local area hospital due to injuries sustained in this accident.\n\nFurther investigation of this blue color Chevrolet Impala bearing Maryland tag was linked to the accident at 17th and A Street N.E and the driver was arrested for Hit and Run.”", null, "“Around 7:30 PM this Sunday, MPD responded to the report of a shooting in the 500 block of Oglethorpe Street, NE. Three victims were found to have been injured from gun fire. All three victims sustained non-life threatening injuries and were transported to local hospitals for treatment. It is believed that a dark colored vehicle was involved in the shooting.\n\nEd. Note: Earlier Sunday Morning there was a shooting homicide in the 400 block of Riggs Road, Northeast." ]

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[ null, "Is there anything wrong with watching a woman dance? Is it a crime against manhood to be perfectly content with watching a strikingly seductive lady in heels move to the music before you with minimal conversation, no touch, and no future plans of hooking up?\n\nI was at a lounge with a small dance floor. I had a little Hennessey, shared a few laughs with my friend, and began to relax. The woman was with a friend as well. She was the kind of lady that wasn’t afraid to be goofy. Incidentally the D.J. was on that night; playing every song that you remember and love from the early 90’s. She did The Robocop and The Butterfly for a few songs before she got serious and broke it down slowly.\n\nShe seemed to be O.K. with dancing with her friend the whole night—in a way that only two women can do—but every now and then she would peek at me over her shoulder and I would smile at her. Maybe she wanted me to approach her or maybe she just wanted to see if I was looking but we definitely made a connection. I admired her in the same manner that museum patrons admire the art— from a short distance and without touch.\n\nEarlier this year I got a chance to see Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhone when it was at the Fine Arts Museum in the city. The difference between the original painting and the highly ubiquitous replica was stunning. The colors were so vibrant, the paint was so thick, and the yellow stars actually appeared to glow. I liken it to hearing your favorite song on the radio versus sitting in the front row of an arena when the artist performs it live. They just aren’t the same. So when I saw the painting I really wanted to touch it. I wanted to feel the individual brush strokes, to rub my fingers across the uneven surface, but that would have been distasteful. The natural oils from my skin could have ruined the art; and what would that make me if I were to ruin something so perfect.\n\nI do not wish to objectify this woman but to me she was as sacred as a Van Gogh painting. I didn’t want to touch her or get too close. I only wanted to appreciate her from a short distance.\n\n3 thoughts on “Another Moment”" ]

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[ null, "At seventeen years old, Mariko is sent to the imperial palace to marry a man she did not choose, a man who is the son of the Emperor. But her journey is cut short when her convoy is attacked by the Black Clan – a group of bandits and thieves who were hired to kill Mariko before she could reach the palace. But Mariko survives and vows revenge on those who want her dead. Disguised as a peasant boy, she infiltrates the Black Clan, becoming one of them, impressing them with her wit and ingenuity. But as she gets closer to her enemies, Mariko begins to discover a web of lies and a history of secrets that will change everything she thought she knew.\n\nFlame in the Mist is set in Feudal Japan but there’s also some magical elements in it too. I really in the liked how the historical was entwined with the magic and myths, both seemed very groundedses characters reality. When this book first came out I heard it was a Mulan retelling or inspired by Mulan, and it’s really not. The only similarity to Mulan is that the main protagonist is a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to further her aims. Mariko’s goals are very different to Mulan’s. Mariko is very smart in terms of academia and alchemy, but is incredibly naïve when it comes to life outside her gilded cage. She doesn’t know how to hunt or cook or fight and often gets into verbal sparring matches with those around her to try and hide her failings.\n\nMariko likes to think she’s good at reading people, and has learnt to be underestimated, being a daughter of a prominent Samurai, but when she meets Ōkami she has a much harder time getting a read on him. The dynamic between Mariko and Ōkami is an interesting one and they bounce of each other really well, managing to intrigue and unsettle one another at the same time. Ōkami is just the sort of character I end up really liking. He’s slow to trust but loyal, has a deadly set of skills and is smart. He and Mariko make an unconventional partnership.\n\nFlame in the Mist was a bit slow to pull me in. While it kicked off straight away with the attack on Mariko’s convey, I found it took a while to connect with her and her story. As the story progressed, more characters began to reveal themselves, their political aspirations and loyalty, slowly showing that Mariko was caught up in plots much bigger than herself. The second half of the book sped along though. There was a lot of action, fights and secrets revealed and it became a proper page-turner.\n\nFlame in the Mist is the first book in a duology so natural there’s a lot of threads left hanging, though there was some good character stuff throughout the book. While I won’t be rushing out to get it as soon as it’s released later this year, I will be picking up Smoke in the Sun at some point as I did end up enjoying Mariko as a character and am interested to see how all the plot threads are wrapped up, especially the political ones. 3/5.\n\nMy FairyLoot box arrived over the weekend and I was looking forward to seeing what was inside it. I don’t get a FairyLoot box every month (because of the cost and I have the naïve belief that it’ll give me more unread books on my TBR but I do that myself to be honest) but I had to get this month’s box because the theme, Warriors & Legends, sounded fab.\n\nI think the box was really well put together and had a lot of cool stuff in it. There’s an exclusive blend of loose leaf green tea from The Tea Leaf Co – I don’t drink tea so no doubt I’ll be finding it a good home, but I do love the design on the container. I’ve become slightly addicted to candles lately so I love the box included one. There were two different candles you could’ve ended up with from In The Wick of Time, one called Flame and one called Mist. The Mist candle was in my box and I love the scent, it’s warm stone and woodsmoke and it’s a lovely subtle scent.", null, "The box also included an exclusive wooden Lord of the Rings bookmark from Ink and Wonder, a pair of Celtic patterned socks, a metallic feather pen from Flora’s Wonder Emporium and a chapter sampler of Naondel by Maria Turtschaninoff which sounds like a feminist fairy-tale.\n\nThere were actually two books in this month’s box. The first is World Mythology in Bite-Sized Chunks by Mark Daniel, a cool introduction to different myths and legends from across the world. And the second was the main event – Flame in the Mist by Renée Ahdieh. I’ve heard so much about this book on social media over the past few months but never realised it was a Mulan-inspired story set in feudal Japan. Someone should’ve told me that and then it would’ve been right up my TBR! Flame in the Mist came with a signed bookplate, bookmark and a letter from the author and I do like how FairyLoot put the book in a little bag so it doesn’t get damaged on its journey in the post.\n\nI do like FairyLoot boxes. They always feature cool things that are to a high quality and stuff books that I wouldn’t normally get myself but nearly always enjoy. Next month’s theme is Elementalists and I think there’s still some boxes left if you’re quick." ]

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[ null, "JAKARTA, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Two Indonesian military soldiers were allegedly killed in a gunfight with an armed criminal group in the country's easternmost province of Papua, the local military said in a statement on Wednesday.\n\nThe incident reportedly took place in Sugapa sub district in restive Papua's Intan Jaya district on Tuesday when the soldiers were on a patrol duty in the area after receiving complaints from locals about threats from the armed group.\n\nThe bodies of the soldiers are now being evacuated from Sugapa, while other military members are chasing the armed group which is also suspected of killing three drivers in the same area in October." ]

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[ null, "NITE are a new band from San Francisco, CA (formed by current and past members of Satan’s Wrath, High Spirits, Serpents of Dawn and Dawnbringer) playing a timeless and apparently prehistoric form of heavy metal/NWOBHM in the vein of Dio, Priest, Maiden etc, and in their sound you will also hear various other strains of primordial metal like Mercyful Fate, Thin Lizzy, and more. Nothing new you’d be led to think… Wrong. Because it doesn’t stop here, far from it. This band and their glorious debut LP Darkness Silence Mirror Flame are special beyond words and it’s not only because of the masterful songwriting, the timeless celebration of the ancient heavy metal flame, or for their irresistible razor-sharp riffs and blazing guitar leads, but also for the fascinating atmospheres and the unique aesthetic they have layered over the classic heavy metal foundation of their sound, perhaps making for the most atmospheric and darkest NWOBHM album I had ever heard…\n\nWhile adhering to the old heavy metal book with utmost loyalty using a highly standardized and proudly conservative formula to get the best out of the style, NITE show quite a few traits of daring experimentalism and originality which will leave you mesmerized, especially in the way they have managed to add some alien elements to the mix without diminishing the ass-kicking heavy metal load in the slightest, rather augmenting it and elevating it above itself into something grand, fascinating, majestic and even mystical.\n\nI’m mainly talking about the esoteric and occult atmospheres brought fourth by subtle doom and crust punk influences in certain passages where the music becomes slower, darker and more cryptic and spooky, as well as the evil and malevolent vibes being liberated into the album’s air by the malefic croaked vocals (an unusual approach for old school heavy metal which normally favors powerful and operatic singing), a choice which I hadn’t really ever heard before but which astonishingly seems to work wonders to NITE’s cause. With all its peculiar traits masterfully distilled from various eras of old metal and working together to forge the genre’s future, “Darkness Silence Mirror Flame” is an exaltation of heavy metal’s history and a triumphant celebration of the style because it encapsulates various moments of metal’s history which had rarely met or converged in the past, creating a new and unclassifiable mix of the genre’s most iconic traits from throughout the decades.\n\nThe funnest part of this extremely fun and majestically profound album is looking at it as a whole to see all the marvelous connections the band has weaved into it. As you listen you will hear as we said all the epic and timeless mastery of bands like Thin Lizzy, early Priest, Dio and Maiden, being reshaped through the occult and cryptic lens of Candlemass and Cathedral, with the dark, malefic, and foreboding atmospheres of early heavy punk bands like Amebix and Hellhammer. An astonishing mix that will first lead you from talking about the most classic of classic heavy metal albums, to accepting in the end one of the most contaminated, ambitious and original syncretisms of sounds you will probably hear all year.\n\nSo while we’re here raving about an amazing “classic heavy metal” album, you know you’ve only heard half the story, and you also know that while it would be far too easy to jump to the conclusion that “Darkness Silence Mirror Flame” is trying to take the listener back to the past glory of heavy metal, you soon realize that’s the furthest thing from the truth. The reality you soon learn and accept is that with “Darkness Silence Mirror Flame” NITE have instead tried to bring heavy metal into the the future, and not take the listener to the past. This is what classic heavy metal would be in 2020, we just didn’t know it yet, so thanks to NITE for brining us here.\n\nDarkness Silence Mirror Flame was released back in March 2020 on LP/CD/digital via Creator-Destructor Records, and was recently re-issued on cassette by Sentient Ruin.", null ]

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[ "“Criminal Minds” has cemented itself as a favorite show amongst audiences. The long-running series has been entertaining crime-watching junkies for over the past two decades, having first premiered on CBS in September 2005. The series follows the best of the F.B.I. Behavioral Analysis Unit, agents who seek to understand the most dangerous criminals and killers so they can try to predict when they will strike again and put a stop to it.\n\nPart of what made “Criminal Minds,” which ended in February 2020 after 15 seasons on-air, so great (aside from its nail-biting storylines) was its cast. The series starred actors such as Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Kristen Vangsness, Shemar Moore, and Joe Mantegna. Of course, like any week-to-week crime show, the series was no stranger to guest stars. And, occasionally, those guest stars would be some pretty well-known faces. Among them was an actor who was best known for his role on “Boy Meets World.” Find out who he played on “Criminal Minds” below.", null, "Best known for his role as Cory Matthews on “Boy Meets World,” Ben Savage shocked audiences with his portrayal of Young Gideon on “Criminal Minds.” Savage made his debut on the show in episode 13 of season 10. Per Cinema Blend, Savage played the younger version of Jason Gideon (played by Mandy Patinkin) who was working with a young David Rossi in flashback sequences. The role was different for him because he played a psychopath and helped tie in Gideon’s exit from the show. Patinkin reportedly wanted to be written off the show because he did not like the negative and violent effect it had on audiences; he went on to call his decision to take part in the show “the biggest public mistake I ever made” in an interview with New York Magazine.\n\nPatinkin’s comments didn’t seem to have influenced Savage in any way, as the star seemed to have enjoyed his gig. He reprised his role during the last season of “Criminal Minds.” “Back with my friends on Criminal Minds,” Savage captioned a picture of him with Joe Mantegna on Instagram in February 2020. However, as it turns out, Savage’s role on “Criminal Minds” also helped him secure another role for another television show.\n\nBen Savage has a physical resemblance to Mandy Patinkin", null, "Although Ben Savage may not have had a massive role since his time on “Boy Meets World,” he does have a special connection with Mandy Patinkin — when it comes to his physical appearance, at least. If you look closely, you might notice that Savage bears a physical resemblance to Patinkin when he was young. Producers of “Homeland” noticed too and cast Savage as the young Saul Berenson on the show, two months after Savage last appeared on “Criminal Minds.” Patinkin, of course, played the grown-up Saul.\n\n“There was some talk of trying to make Mandy (who is 67 in real life) look like he was in his late 20s,” Alex Gansa, co-creator and executive producer of “Homeland” told TV Line about the casting decision. “But we did some tests and it just wasn’t believable.” Producers then wanted to hire Patinkin’s two non-actor sons, but held off on the idea, after a member of their casting team remembered Savage’s role on “Criminal Minds.” “I think it was Judy Henderson, our casting director, who was aware of that,” Gansa explained. “And when Ben came in to read, the resemblance is so strong it felt like the smart thing to do. He just bears such an uncanny resemblance to Mandy.”\n\nNow that Savage has played Patinkin twice on TV shows, if a Mandy Patakin biopic ever materializes, we know who to call." ]

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[ "FC Barcelona to discuss “The Barça Way” at Soccerex China!", null, "FC Barcelona Managing Director – APAC, Jordi Camps, will discuss the club’s international business plans in a one-to-one interview at Soccerex China on May 23/24 in Hainan. Camps will form part of the International Club Case Studies session, alongside City Football Group’s Chief Executive – China, Scott Munn, where the pair will share their insights into their perspective clubs’ Chinese and wider Asian market strategies; how they seek to build, engage and ultimately monetise their fanbases there.\n\nJordi Camps – FC Barcelona’s Managing Director, APAC – has worked in various roles for multiple companies, including sports marketing agency UP2YOU, where he was in charge of activating sponsorship deals with Gatorade, Bwin, Mail Boxes and Damm, among others. After being previously employed as Sponsorships Manager, Camps returned to FC Barcelona in August 2017 as the Managing Director, APAC.\n\nAsia, and in particular China, has long been a priority for Barcelona which culminated in the building of the Barça Experience in Mission Hills, Haikou, which opened in November of 2018. The unique venue allows fans to learn more about the club, and includes an interactive 4,000m2 museum along with an FC Barcelona megastore, and a Barça Academy Pro with six pitches. The opening of the Barça Experience – the first of its kind outside of Barcelona in the club’s history – was attended by Board Member Didac Lee, Executive Director-CEO Òscar Grau, Technical Director Eric Abidal and Club Ambassador, Juliano Belletti; alongside Tenniel Chu, Vice President of the Mission Hills Group, various executives from the Chinese Football Association, and local authorities.\n\nJuliano Belletti, World Cup winner with Brazil and Champions League winner with FC Barcelona, will also form part of the conference agenda for Soccerex China. From the impact of social media and digital technologies on and off the pitch to tournament expansion and the possibility of new competitions, Belletti will share his thoughts on how football is developing and what we may see next for the beautiful game.\n\nSoccerex’s Marketing Director, David Wright, comments on FC Barcelona’s involvement in Soccerex China, “FC Barcelona is one of the most successful clubs in the history of football and is globally revered. With the opening of the Barça Experience in Mission Hills Haikou, they are perfectly placed to share expert insights with our delegates into the strategy and process of international expansion in China.”\n\nTaking place at Mission Hills Haikou in the beautiful island of Hainan on May 23/24, 2019, Soccerex China is set to deliver unrivalled networking and learning opportunities for both domestic and international business looking to support the growth of football in China." ]

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[ null, "Home sales are stopping across the country as a spike in price cuts pours cold water on the hot real estate market.\n\nFor almost two years, house prices have skyrocketed: the average house now costs £ 286,079 – an increase of 10.8 per cent in the last 12 months alone, according to Halifax.\n\nBut brokers say they are now seeing lenders apply the brakes and increasingly reduce the cost of homes by tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nThis means that banks and construction companies do not believe that real estate is worth the agreed price, so reduce the amount they are willing to borrow.\n\nIf buyers are unable to secure the mortgage they want, they will need to negotiate a cheaper price with the seller or earn extra money to bridge the gap.\n\nIf neither is possible and the other lender does not offer a larger mortgage, it can lead to the collapse of entire chains.\n\nExperts warn that this may be the first sign that the real estate boom after the pandemic is coming to an end.\n\nEmma Jones, a broker and owner of Alder Rose Mortgage Services, claims that about a fifth of her clients now say their property is worth less than the asking price.\n\n“Over the last few months, we’ve seen about twice as many declines as before,” she says.\n\n“This shows that lenders are more cautious. And that’s what we see everywhere, and in holiday vacations too. “", null, "Maria Ivanova was desperately looking for a bigger home for her family of three. She and her husband, Paul Swede, 43, owned a two-bedroom apartment in Greenwich, London, where they lived with their seven-year-old daughter, Julia.\n\n33-year-old Maria, who runs the pub, says: “We were told that at least two other spectators were interested in the house, so two days later we made an offer of 455,000 pounds.”\n\nHowever, their creditor reduced the value of the property to £ 420,000.\n\nFortunately, after some negotiations, the sellers agreed to accept 427,000 pounds – and Mary and Paul were able to pay an additional 7,000 pounds.\n\nMaria says: “I was shocked to learn that the score was much lower than requested.\n\n“If the sellers hadn’t agreed to a smaller offer, we would probably have left.”\n\nHousing price growth slowed last month, rising 1.1 percent from 1.5 percent between February and March, according to the latest Halifax data.\n\nAnd analysts at Capital Economics predict that next year prices will fall by 3 percent.\n\nExperts say an increasing number of reports of declining ratings are supporting the trend.\n\nDominik Lipnicki, director of Your Mortgage Decisions, says: “Human nature is that appraisers can be more careful when they know there has been such a long period of rising house prices.\n\n“If it’s not a gap, but a general trend, then it could be a sign that rising real estate prices are about to slow down.”\n\nOver the past two years, Wales has been the region with the highest number of downgrades, according to research by real estate buying experts HBB Solutions.\n\nAnd that shows a 63 percent drop in value.", null, "Unrealistic prices: Brokers say they are now seeing lenders apply the brakes and increasingly reduce the cost of homes by tens of thousands of pounds\n\nCarol Pete, managing director of the West Wales Procurement Agency and who has worked in the area for 18 years, says buyers need to secure significant deposits before betting on homes in popular coastal towns because it is difficult to negotiate price cuts.\n\n“And the competition for some properties is so fierce that sellers know they will be able to find another buyer willing to pay the price.\n\n“One of our clients, who was buying a property with a beautiful sea view, had its price reduced by £ 45,000.\n\n“Fortunately, I warned them that it probably would, and they had a large enough cash deposit to cover the difference.\n\n“This is a serious and serious problem for many people who are buying property in Wales and it is leading to the breakdown of chains.”\n\nKate Burns, founder of KB Mortgage Services in Huddersfield, says she has also seen an increase in the downgrade over the past two months.\n\n“They currently have a mortgage loan of 2.29 percent with a 15 percent deposit, but if they need to borrow more, they will be charged a higher rate of 2.5 percent.”\n\nThe average two-year fixed-rate mortgage now stands at 3.03 percent, up from 2.57 percent at this time last year, according to Moneyfacts analysts.\n\nThe Bank of England’s base rate rose to 1 per cent last week – the fourth straight increase in five months – which will further boost the cost of borrowing.\n\nUkrainian troops are preparing for a nuclear disaster at the Zaporozhye...\n\nGlastonbury’s moment goes viral as fans are convinced they see the...\n\nALEX BRAMER: The UK economy is not slowing down yet" ]

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[ null, "PUBG MOBILE version 2.4 is coming on January 6th, 2023 with a bunch of unique updates of outfits, skills, firearm and vehicle improvements, and lots more. The highlights of the 2.4 update should be the Martial Trial themed mode in which players across the globe will have a chance to experience the splendor of eastern martial arts together. Apart from that, Gear Front mode is returning in version 2.4 as well. Check out all the new features and updates in PUBG MOBILE 2.4 below.\n\nAs the Chinese Lunar New Year is arriving, PUBG MOBILE is collaborating with the renowned martial arts master Bruce Lee for its new Martial Trial themed mode. In Martial Showdown, players will get to experience traditional Chinese culture through limited-time martial arts-related items, events, and themed areas across Erangel and Livik. In the new Martial Arts Arenas, the Dancing Lion vehicle is the perfect way to traverse the battleground with a friend. It allows players to quickly jump and dash their way through, conveniently stored in their backpacks for easy access. New items and weapons are also added including an Explosive Bow and Grappling Hook.", null, "Players can now take on revenge missions to get rewards from the new feature Back For Honor. After being recalled from elimination, players can hunt down the one who eliminated them within limited time. If the revenge succeeds, the hunter will get the reward, otherwise, the target wins for avoiding elimination.\n\nApart from that, you will see Blessing Kites and Lanterns scattered around the Martial Arts Arenas and urban areas which will drop crates after being destroyed. And the new Kung Fu Steamed Bun consumable can be used to restore Health and Energy.\n\nThe collaboration event between PUBG MOBILE and the international martial arts master Bruce Lee takes place on January 10th. Players will get access to different iconic looks of Bruce Lee including the Bruce Lee Kung Fu Soul Set, Melee Expert Set, and Mr. Kung Fu Set, as well as a bunch of Bruce Lee-themed emotes, cosmetic skins for vehicles, parachutes, and more items. From Jan 10th to Jan 26th, players can join in the Dreamrealm Apprentice event to get exclusive rewards through challenging trials.", null, "Gear Front is Coming Back with More Updates\n\nGear Front is returning in PUBG MOBILE 2.4! It would be exciting news for players that miss this mode for a long time. In the new Gear Front, two awesome skills are added for more strategic depth. The Player Launcher can launch you in the direction you set in seconds. And Tactical Camouflage will help you hide yourself better in the jungle without being notified by the other players.\n\nPUBG MOBILE 2.4 update also brings new firearms and vehicles. The new AAC Honey Badger is perfect for close-quarters combat with 7.62mm rounds and a high-firing rate will be available in Erangel, Sanhok, and Livik. A new 2-Seat Bike is available in Miramar, Livik, and Erangel, allowing players to ride with friends. Furthermore, Polaris side-by-side vehicles have entered the battlegrounds. Players can expect more selections of weapons and vehicles in the version 2.4 update.\n\nA new map: Misty Port is coming to the revamped Metro Royale mode on January 9th, with more supplies, transportation routes, and NPC enemies and bosses for a better PvE experience. Players can get Draw Packs in Metro Royale's Black Market for the Premium Firearms Pack and Premium Armor Pack which can also be purchased with Metro Cash. New equipment and items are also added in the new map in the 2.4 version.", null, "Also starting from Jan 17th is Royale Pass Month 19: Boiling Blood, which brings updated RP Favourites Crates and new rewards. The Server Golden Chicken, Bonus RP Points, and Group Purchase will also continue to be rolled out, together with new RP Missions that can be accessed in Metro Royale.\n\nDownload PUBG MOBILE from APKPure now to get the latest version when the update is released.\n\nHow To\nHow to Download PUBG MOBILE LITE 0.25.0 Update" ]

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[ "Yeah, “he’s a straight-up guy” alright. One who is currently in the process of weaseling out of his own “fixed election” legislation that he and his MPs were so proudly crowing about not that long ago. A “straight-up guy” who gave Conservative committee chairs a secret handbook detailing ways to disrupt and derail meetings whenever the debate threatens the party’s agenda. A “straight up guy” that’s been implicated in an alleged $1 million bribe made to an independent MP with terminal cancer in an attempt to win his crucial vote and bring down the former government. Well, you can fill in the rest.\n\nHey, if you’re feeling creative (and a little malicious), why not make up your own lines for these so-called “main street Canadians” to spout? I can post the best ones in an update here and then maybe some tech-savvy progressive blogger can use them to re-mix the ad, replacing the groan-inducing originals with your more comical versions.", null, "It’s hard not to speculate about what might have happened had the attempted assassination of Gordon Brown by “Taliban fanatics” on his recent stop-over in Afghanistan not been narrowly averted. It would surely have dealt a huge psychological blow to the NATO campaign, but would it have changed anything?\n\nSeriously not worth the effort, so… what he said.\n\nAnd just for the record, Bob’s always been well regarded here, that’s why he’s on my blogroll. Perhaps if Evans wasn’t a severely retarded dirtbag he might have noticed that instead of relying on his flaccid, impotent, err, faulty memory.", null, "I can’t wait for some feculent “Blogging Tory” to suggest that the anti-Liberal vandalism and sabotaging of vehicles owned by Liberal supporters was the work of agent provocateurs trying to make the Conservative party look bad.\n\nWanna bet? You know they will.\n\nUpdate: More on this at Scott’s place and confirmation of the expected allegations here.", null, "Kory Teneycke, PMO media director, says “this shouldn’t be a huge surprise to anyone” and reiterates Harper’s position of Parliament being at an impasse. He argues there’s a complete lack of common ground with the Opposition and the Liberals developed a (Green Shift) platform over the summer that makes it “very difficult for Dion to compromise with the government because he’s diametrically opposed.”\n\nWell really. I mean how can Stephen Harper possibly be expected to govern effectively with an Official Opposition that’s actually opposed to the Conservative party? Why it’s just simple logic! After all, 36.27% of the electorate gave Harper a “mandate” to rule with absolute, unquestioned authority until he conveniently decides that the other parties don’t have confidence in the Conservatives and is then forced to declare a potentially illegal snap election in order to “crush” them. Yippee!\n\nOn the Liberal Party being just like Communist regimes:\n\n”Conservatives should be marked by realism and the knowledge the Liberal party is one of the most successful parties ever – more successful than the Communist parties in Russia and China and more enduring than Fidel Castro.”\n\nPrecisely, and it’s entirely appropriate to compare a democratically elected party that’s formed the nation’s government in 23 of Canada’s 38 parliaments with an uninterrupted 73 year-long totalitarian regime dominated by the 29 year rule of one of the most brutal dictators in history, responsible for the criminal slaughter of millions.\n\n“Obviously, we’re in uncertain economic times; all the more reason to have the certainty of a mandate so you can address the economic challenges as they occur.”\n\nGlenn Hubbers, the Green Party candidate for Newmarket-Aurora takes an hilarious trip down memory lane with a number of Conservative luminaries speaking out on issue of fixed election dates. Here, for example, is Peter Van Loan from February of last year:\n\nAs I indicated, we have passed Bill C-16 on fixed election dates through the House of Commons. Never again will the government of the day be able to play around with the date of an election for its own crass political motives.\n\nNever again! Well, until now of course, when everything is, you know, different.\nAs I’ve said before, Harper’s broken promise (presuming he goes ahead and does it) neither bothers nor surprises me in the least, but the flagrant hypocrisy of these sanctimonious phonies is still pretty droll.\n\nUpdate: The Globe & Mail has a Rogue’s Gallery of sorts on this.\n\nYay! Sanity to the rescue. Thankfully, the long summer hiatus is finally over.\n\nCatch the rest of the show here." ]

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[ "Politically, Ireland is estranged along with the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is allocation of the associated Kingdom. In 2011, the population of Ireland was more or less 6.6 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after great Britain. Just below 4.8 million liven up in the Republic of Ireland and just higher than 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe geography of Ireland comprises relatively low-lying mountains surrounding a central plain, afterward several navigable rivers extending inland. Its lush vegetation is a product of its serene but short-tempered climate which is free of extremes in temperature. Much of Ireland was woodland until the stop of the middle Ages. Today, woodland makes taking place just about 10% of the island, compared considering a European average of higher than 33%, and most of it is non-native conifer plantations. There are twenty-six extant estate creature species original to Ireland. The Irish climate is influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and appropriately definitely moderate, and winters are milder than received for such a northerly area, although summers are cooler than those in continental Europe. Rainfall and cloud lid are abundant.\n\nThe prehistoric evidence of human presence in Ireland is dated at 10,500 BCE (12,500 years ago). Gaelic Ireland had emerged by the 1st century CE. The island was Christianised from the 5th century onward. with the 12th century Norman invasion, England claimed sovereignty. However, English judge did not extend higher than the mass island until the 16th17th century Tudor conquest, which led to colonisation by settlers from Britain. In the 1690s, a system of Protestant English deem was meant to materially disadvantage the Catholic majority and Protestant dissenters, and was lengthy during the 18th century. taking into consideration the Acts of linkage in 1801, Ireland became a part of the united Kingdom. A battle of independence in the to come 20th century was followed by the partition of the island, creating the Irish release State, which became increasingly sovereign exceeding the similar to decades, and Northern Ireland, which remained a ration of the united Kingdom. Northern Ireland saying much civil unrest from the tardy 1960s until the 1990s. This subsided like a embassy taking over in 1998. In 1973 the Republic of Ireland joined the European Economic Community even if the joined Kingdom, and Northern Ireland, as ration of it, did the same.\n\nIrish culture has had a significant touch on other cultures, especially in the ground of literature. next door to mainstream Western culture, a strong original culture exists, as expressed through Gaelic games, Irish music and the Irish language. The island’s culture shares many features when that of good Britain, including the English language, and sports such as membership football, rugby, horse racing, and golf.", null, null, null, "secretmuseum.net can help you to get the latest information very nearly Map Of Belfast northern Ireland. improve Ideas. We have enough money a top tone tall photo subsequent to trusted allow and all if youre discussing the address layout as its formally called. This web is made to point of view your unfinished room into a clearly usable room in helpfully a brief amount of time. so lets put up with a improved believe to be exactly what the map of belfast northern ireland. is whatever more or less and exactly what it can possibly attain for you. later than making an embellishment to an existing residence it is difficult to develop a well-resolved go ahead if the existing type and design have not been taken into consideration.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Antigua and Barbuda is one of 13 countries set to be targeted as part of a regional effort to reduce the high incidence of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).\n\nThe Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is partnering with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in the project, to develop a framework for ‘Caribbean Moves’ – a program aimed at tackling NCDs.\n\nThe program was launched in Kingston, Jamaica earlier this week, and will support health promotion activities in countries like Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Guyana, Montserrat, and Saint Lucia.\n\nAccording to the CDB, it will build on the success of similar initiatives in Barbados, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, and Trinidad & Tobago, and the bank has pledged more than USD$175,000 in financial and technical resources toward its successful implementation.\n\nVice President of Operations, Isaac Solomon, spoke on the importance of the program, saying – quote – “NCDs result in loss of income, increased economic dependence and burden of care within households…Failure to address [them] undermines sustainable development and will also result in vulnerable and disadvantaged groups being left further behind.”\n\nThe CDB said further, it is anticipated that Caribbean Moves will enable a Caribbean culture that reflects a more active and healthy society, by empowering all residents to be more physically active in their daily lives and to make healthier eating choices.\n\nEach year, 17 million people die from an NCD before age 70; 86% of these premature deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.\n\nOf all NCD deaths, 77% are in low- and middle-income countries.\n\nThese four groups of diseases account for over 80% of all premature NCD deaths.\n\nTobacco use, physical inactivity, the harmful use of alcohol, and unhealthy diets all increase the risk of dying from an NCD.\n\nDetection, screening, and treatment of NCDs, as well as palliative care, are key components of the response to NCDs." ]

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[ null, "Pope Francis addresses a joint meeting of Congress in Washington Sept. 24, 2015. Also pictured are then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-House Speaker John Boehner, both of whom are Catholic. (CNS/Paul Haring)\n\nIn his new memoir, On the House, chronicling his 40 years in public service, former Speaker of the House John Boehner does not mince words about his former colleagues.", null, "Former House Speaker John Boehner delivers an address after receiving the Laetare Medal during the 2016 commencement ceremony May 15, 2016, at Notre Dame Stadium in Indiana. (CNS/University of Notre Dame/Barbara Johnston)\n\nHe describes fellow Republicans who opposed President George W. Bush's stimulus package as being from \"Crazytown.\" The Tea Party is labeled as the \"chaos caucus.\" And when he gets to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, he pronounces him \"Lucifer in the flesh\" and uses other words unfit to print in these pages.\n\nAs for President Joe Biden, whom he's known for 30 years and with whom he shared the 2016 Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame, Boehner is equally succinct. In an interview with NCR, he assessed Biden as \"a good man, a good Catholic and a good politician.\"\n\nBoehner, a former altar boy from Ohio who rose through the ranks of Republican politics, says he has no desire to get dragged into intra-ecclesial politics or criticizing Catholic bishops, so he refuses to weigh in on the debates over whether Biden should be denied Communion.\n\n\"I'm not going to get in the middle of that,\" he says. Yet then he adds: \"But being Catholic is more than about one issue. Let them say whatever they want to say. At the end of the day, Joe's got to answer to the big guy just like we do.\"\n\nAnd just to be clear, Boehner remains unapologetic about his opposition to abortion, describing himself as \"very pro-life,\" and noting that he grew up with 11 siblings. At a time when the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion, is losing support among some politicians, including Biden, he reiterates that it has \"saved millions of millions of kids that wouldn't be on our earth without it\" and he believes efforts to get rid of Hyde will fail.\n\nInterview with John Boehner: Joe Biden is \"a good Catholic\"\n\nBoehner resigned from Congress in 2015, and looking back on his departure as speaker of the House, it is inextricably linked to his Catholic faith, which he says anchored him with a \"sense of purpose and a sense of direction.\" On Sept. 24 of that year, he fulfilled a lifelong dream of having a pope address Congress. Having completed that goal, the next day, on Sept. 25, he announced his resignation.\n\nGetting to that day, however, was no easy feat.\n\n\"Being Catholic is more than about one issue. Let them say whatever they want to say. At the end of the day, Joe's got to answer to the big guy just like we do.\"\n—John Boehner\n\nBack in 1995 when word got out that he had invited Pope John Paul II, he was summoned to then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's office for a meeting. He recalls arriving for the meeting without any advance warning as to why it had been called or who would be there. Upon his arrival, Gingrich turned the floor over to Richard Land, the then-head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm.\n\nLand, and the other non-Catholic religious leaders on hand, had heard about Boehner's invitation to the pope and had a question for him: \"We're just wondering whether you invited him here as the head of the Catholic Church or as the head of state,\" he recalls Land asking him.", null, "When Boehner told them he had invited the Polish pope to address Congress as a head of state, it seemed to put them at ease a bit. Pope John Paul II never accepted his invitations, but fast forward 20 years later, Boehner still gets weepy talking about that September day when Pope Francis arrived at the Capitol.\n\nThe pope's visit was the fruit of a collaboration with Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the then archbishop of Washington, who met with Boehner in February 2015 ahead of a trip to Rome, where Wuerl told the speaker he would raise the matter with Francis. A week later, Wuerl called Boehner from the Vatican, swearing him to secrecy, to inform him the pope had agreed to his request.\n\nSeven months later, after a joint address to Congress, Boehner found himself alone with Pope Francis standing under the Capitol rotunda just before his departure ceremony.\n\n\"I look around and it's the pope and me. There's not another soul. And the pope looks at me, and he gets his glint in his eye and he takes his left hand and grabs my left shoulder and pulls me right up next to him and started saying the sweetest things anybody's ever said,\" Boehner recalled. \"Well, I was like a fire hose I was crying so hard. And then he's still holding me with his left arm and his left hand, and he put his right arm around me and just gives me this giant bear hug. He says, 'Speaker, will you pray for me?' \"\n\nBoehner says he continues to make good on that promise to pray for the pope. But he also recalls having to face the cameras as the two left the Capitol together. \"I looked like a drowned rat. I was emotionally spent.\"\n\n\"I look around and it's the pope and me. There's not another soul. And the pope looks at me, and he gets his glint in his eye and he takes his left hand and grabs my left shoulder and pulls me right up next to him and started saying the sweetest things anybody's ever said.\"\n—John Boehner\n\nIn On the House, Boehner notes that one of the reasons Pope Francis said he was keen to accept the speaker's invitation is that he had heard about Boehner's across-the-aisle collaboration with the Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy, which included working together to support inner-city Catholic school children in Washington, D.C.\n\nWhen asked whether he thinks such collaboration would be possible today, the usually optimistic Boehner is skeptical.\n\n\"They used to call us the political book ends in Washington,\" Boehner says of his late friend. \"Today, there's too much media, whether it's social media or real media. And, secondly, the news is instantaneous and as a result doesn't allow room for things to develop, relationships to develop or agreements to develop without both sides, you know, trying to tear it apart before it's even been hatched, for God's sake.\"\n\nThroughout his book, Boehner offers a bruising assessment of today's Republican Party, although he says some of the recent commentary about democracy being under assault is \"hyperbole.\"\n\n\"America's knitted together much stronger than that a lot of people realize. And I do think that Americans are the most resilient people that God ever put on earth,\" he said. \"We make our share of mistakes, but you know we figure out what our mistakes are and we correct them. Our democracy is going through a bit of a test. I don't think it's as severe a test as some want to believe, but we're going through a test. But frankly, I'm very confident that we'll come through it just fine.\"", null, "Then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-House Speaker John Boehner are pictured in 2013 during a joint meeting of Congress. (CNS/Reuters/Gary Cameron)\n\nSo what does he predict in the years ahead for his old pal-turned-President Biden? Boehner shies away from specifics.\n\nAs for how that might be accomplished, he gives a slight nod to that Catholic principle of working for the common good by trying to find common ground.\n\n\"Ted Kennedy and I couldn't agree on a whole lot. Our policies were very different. Barack Obama and I have very different policies. The issue is, where's the common ground?\" said Boehner. \"Finding the common ground that allowed us to do good things on behalf of the American people. That may be more difficult today, but it's not impossible.\"\n\n\"Our democracy is going through a bit of a test. I don't think it's as severe a test as some want to believe, but we're going through a test. But frankly, I'm very confident that we'll come through it just fine.\"\n—John Boehner\n\nA version of this story appeared in the July 9-22, 2021 print issue under the headline: John Boehner: Joe Biden is 'a good Catholic' .\n\nBlack and brown bodies among us in the body of Christ\n\nSynod's purpose to underline protection, importance of marriage and family as an institution, Marx emphasizes" ]

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[ "Delhi Daredevils could only manage 84 chasing a 178-run target against Chennai Super Kings.\n\nChennai Super Kings (CSK) trounced Delhi Daredevils (DD) by 93 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2014 on April 21. Dinesh Karthik scored 21 and Jimmy Neesham scored 22. Delhi only lost nine wickets but Nathan Coulter-Nile could not bat as he had suffered an injury during Chennai’s innings. Ishwar Pandey and Ravichandran Ashwin took two wickets each. It was a comprehensive victory for Chennai after their opening loss in IPL 7. Delhi have now lost two matches and won one from three.\n\nMurali Vijay and Mayank Agarwal began the run-chase for Delhi. Ishwar Pandey began proceedings for Chennai. It has to be mentioned that this was the first time Pandey had probably bowled under Dhoni. Vijay got the first boundary with a lofted cover drive for four. Ben Hilfenhaus made it two fast bowlers to bowl in the beginning of the innings.\n\nPandey got the breakthrough as Agarwal was dismissed for two runs. He played an inside-out shot but did not get any timing and Suresh Raina took a splendid catch running from cover. New batsman Dinesh Karthik then edged one, but Ravichandran Ashwin at first slip was a little wide and could not take the catch.\n\nMohit Sharma bowled the fourth over and his first ball was full on the stumps. Vijay flicked it towards deep square-leg for a four. Two deliveries later, Vijay hit one in the air, but he too did not get much distance. Faf du Plessis ran backwards from mid-off and took a stunning catch. He fell awkwardly, but was fine. He was up and ready as he took an even better catch to dismiss Manoj Tiwary. He ran backwards and from cover and took the catch airborne. Pandey had got his second wicket.\n\nAfter a few overs of low-scoring, Karthik came forward and played a cut shot to a wide delivery from Pandey and got a four behind point. Looking at the increasing run-rate, MS Dhoni brought Dwayne Smith into the attack. He pitched one on leg-stump and the ball moved slightly away and struck Duminy on the pads. The players appealed and the umpire raised his finger almost immediately. Duminy was out for 15 runs.\n\nHilfenhaus was brought back into the attack in the 10th over. His first delivery was a full-toss and Ross Taylor flicked it away for a four towards fine-leg. That brought up the 50 for Delhi. The next delivery was full and outside off-stump and Taylor edged it to Dhoni behind the wickets.\n\nKarthik guided a wide delivery from Smith through the vacant slip region for a four in the 11th over. Ravindra Jadeja was brought into the attack only in the 12th over. Left-handed Neesham swung at a length delivery and got a four over mid-wicket. Ashwin bowled his first over after that. He came from round the wicket and his length delivery evaded Karthik’s bat and struck the stumps. Karthik was dismissed for 21 off 22 deliveries.\n\nThe wickets just kept falling quickly from hereon. Jadeja got the wicket of Neesham’s wicket in the 14th over. The New Zealand all-rounder slogged one towards deep mid-wicket and straight to Raina at the boundary. Mohammed Shami then fell Ashwin for one run. Shahbaz Nadeem was the ninth wicket to fall as he gave a catch to Raina at cover off Jadeja. Coulter-Nile was unavailable to bat and Chennai had won the match at 15.4 overs.\n\nEarlier, Chennai captain Dhoni had won the toss and elected to bat. After a moderate start, Chennai raced to a competitive 177 for seven in their 20 overs. Raina top-scored with 56 off 41 deliveries. He struck five fours and one six. Dhoni smashed a 15-ball 32 with two fours and two sixes. Dwayne Smith scored 29 and Faf du Plessis scored 24.\n\nJaydev Unadkat was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets for 32 runs. The target for Delhi always looked a challenge as they were without Kevin Pietersen due to his finger injury. In the end, it proved too big a total for Delhi as they slumped to their second defeat in the IPL 2014. Raina was adjudged as the Man of the Match.", null ]

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[ "Sony Xperia M gets priced in the UK and Germany\n\nThe Sony Xperia M has had its price revealed in the UK and Germany.\n\nThe single SIM variant of the handset is available for preorder in Germany from Cyberport.de for €239, while the dual-SIM version is listed at notebooksbilliger.de for €299. The difference seems a bit too big so we assume the latter price is slightly off, though.", null, "In the UK, Handtec has the single-SIM model for £227.99, but it is currently listed as out of stock. Meanwhile, Carphone Warehouse has the M pegged for an August 2013, which coincides with the Q3 launch frame given by Sony on announcement.\n\nThe Sony Xperia M was revealed last week by Sony. Besides offering dual-SIM and single-SIM models, is a midrange handset with a 4-inch display of FWVGA resolution, dual-core 1 GHz Krait processor, 4 GB of expandable storage and 1 GB of RAM. It'll run Android 4.1 out of box, and it also has a slew of connectivity features which include NFC, and a 5MP shooter with front-facer.\n\nvinay why u are saying that dont buy dual sim in sony??? any reason behind that... plzz tell am planning to buy sony M dual\n\nWhen can someone in the US purchase this?" ]

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[ null, "Bhutan, the south of the Himalayas", null, "The kingdom is a landlocked country on the southern slopes of the eastern Himalayas.\n\nIt borders the Indian states of Sikkim in the west, West Bengal and Assam in the south, and Arunachal Pradesh in the east, and it shares a border with China (Xizang - Tibet Autonomous Region) in the north.\n\nWith an area of 38,394 km², the country is somewhat smaller than Switzerland or about half the size of the US state of Indiana. Bhutan's landscape is mountainous and interspersed with fertile valleys; it offers a pristine environment with spectacular biodiversity.\n\nThe country's landscape offers three major regions. South of the outer foothills of the Himalayas along its southern border is the Dooars (Duar). The Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands are Bhutan's very narrow portion of the subtropical and tropical alluvial floodplains of the Ganges-Brahmaputra lowlands (Indo-Gangetic Plain).\n\nTo the north of the plains, the land rises steeply, and the landscape is dominated by the mountains of the Sub-Himalayan Range. The kingdom has one of the most rugged mountain terrains in the world. The 1,000 to 3,000 m high ranges of the sub-alpine Himalayan region (Outer Himalaya) are the main settlement area.\n\nThe high mountain region lies south of the border with Tibet with hundreds of unnamed, unmapped, and unclimbed peaks. The Great Himalaya range is home to Bhutan's highest mountain, the 7,570 m high Gangkhar Puensum, which is most likely the highest mountain in the world that has never been climbed by a human being.\n\nBhutan has a population of 742,000 inhabitants (in 2019); it is South Asia's second least populous country. The capital and largest city are Thimphu. Spoken languages are Dzongkha (official), Tshangla, Nepali, Dzala, Kheng, and other East Bodish languages.\n\nFor centuries the kingdom has remained completely isolated from the outside world. Only in 1974, did Bhutan begins to open its isolated country to foreigners; 287 tourists visited Bhutan in that year. Today, more than 200,000 people visit the kingdom each year. All tourists must book their travel through a licensed Bhutanese tour operator (or international partner).\n\nYou are free to use the above map for educational purposes, please refer to the Nations Online Project.\n\nBhutan's largest town is Thimphu, the capital and largest city of Bhutan is located on the west bank of the Thimphu Chu River (Raidāk River).\n\nPhuntsholing at the India-Bhutan border is the nation's financial, industrial, and trading capital.\n\nParo, the historic town with many sacred sites is also home to the National Museum of Bhutan.\n\nPunakha, the village is known for the Punakha Dzong, a 17th-century fortress at the juncture of the Puna Tsang and Mo Chhu rivers. Behind Phunaka Dzong is Phuntsho Pelri the King's Summer Palace and a royal museum.\n\nGelephu, the third largest town in the kingdom, is located in the Sarpang district in the central south of the country on the Indian border.\n\nSamdrup Jongkhar is another Bhutanese border town in the southeast of the country bordering India's Assam state.", null, null, null ]

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[ "Essays on robert frost and loneliness\n\nAlthough the wall-building persona seems to grudge his task, he collaborates in it. Mordecai Marcus The speaker of \"Desert Places\" also feels lost and tries to orient himself by the stars, but his circumstances and tone are very different. Following on this contrast is another: On his seventy-fifth birthday, the U.\n\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Presumably the quondam field will become lonelier or less expressive than earlier because the snow is now deep enough to hide not only the \"weeds and stubble showing last,\" but also the very contours of the land.\n\nThe \"nothingness\" that Frost fears is not the metaphysical void, it is the void he fears in himself. They applauded vigorously and were evidently much delighted by the prospect. In the third stanza loneliness is in apposition to snow, and just as the snow will cover more and more, will leave nothing uncovered to relieve its smooth unbroken whiteness, so the loneliness will become still more lonely and unrelieved.\n\nOnly a decade and a half after his death, his popular reputation changed totally. The darkness, however, can emerge and ultimately destroy the person if not checked by reason. She belongs to him as a property.\n\nWallace also cites several noteworthy poems from A Further Rangewhich, however, approach social criticism, abdicating the solitary for the disloyal or skeptical. The protestation of the first line appears to Reuben Brower \"a bit flamboyant. What the snow smothers, in addition to everything else, is the vital conflict which the juxtaposition of \"weeds and stubble\" suggests.\n\nLibrary of America, They know of the old hermit and ask him if he has seen a fugitive. Indeed, the discovery of spiritual realities within and behind the natural world is key to the values in both texts.", null, "A wonderful and inspiring message. He is disoriented by his final return to Provence because the area has changed so much: In a letter to Sydney Cox, Frost explained his conception of poetry: Frost had so much loneliness in his life that it ultimately led to his death Sullivan Robert Frost Essay Words words - 3 pages Robert Frost, through the use of simple narratives, is able to reflect deeper meanings and give us an understanding about ourselves and life.\n\nI am a jester about sorrow. The consolations of being \"too absent-spirited to count\" are disallowed and the poem suddenly blinks itself out of reverie into vision.\n\nIn both texts, then, we can see that the narrators arrive at a new sense of reassurance and insight by confronting an initially unwelcome solitude. More specifically, the field no longer a field, properly speaking is known as the emptiness which disturbs the continuity of the woods; similarly, the poet-observer is defined by his absent-spiritedness and thus by his isolation.\n\nHas this traveler made promises that he no longer wants to keep?.\n\nTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. These deceptively simple lines from the title poem of this collection suggest Robert Frost at his most representative: the language is simple.\n\nFrom the publication of his first collections. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco, California, to journalist William Prescott Frost, Jr., and Isabelle Moodie. His mother was a Scottish immigrant, and his father descended from Nicholas Frost of Tiverton, Devon, England, who had sailed to New Hampshire in on the Wolfrana." ]

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[ "Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): Animated series 'RWBY' is set to cross paths with DC Comics. A new spin-off film of the popular animated web series has been announced, which will star characters from DC's Justice League.\nThe announcement was made on Friday during RTX Austin, a convention hosted by digital media company Rooster Teeth. During a panel for 'RWBY,' the cast and crew -- including writers and directors Kerry Shawcross and Eddy Rivas, supervising producer Laura Yates and voice actors Lindsay Jones, Barbara Dunkelman, Arryn Zech and Kara Eberle -- dropped the news for the upcoming film, along with other announcements, as per Variety.\nThe crossover which is to be animated by the same team as the web series will be the first film set in the 'RWBY' universe. The film is being produced by Rooster Teeth in association with Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.", null, "The series follows last year's comic miniseries RWBY x Justice League, written by Marguerite Bennett, with illustrations by Aneke, Stephanie Pepper and Emanuela Lupacchino. As per the announcement, the new movie will feature a new story that is completely different from the original comic.\nFirst created in 2013 by Monty Oum, 'RWBY' is set in the world of Remnant, where warriors called huntsmen and huntresses protect the world from monsters known as Grimm. The story follows four young women -- Ruby (Jones), Weiss (Eberle), Blake (Zech) and Yang (Dunkelman) -- training to become huntresses at the Beacon Academy, as per Variety.\nThe series is produced by Rooster Teeth Animation with Shawcross, Matt Hullum and Burnie Burns as the executive producers.\nApart from announcing the upcoming film, the panel also released a preview of 'RWBY' Volume 9, which is scheduled to release in early 2023. (ANI)", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "I’ve forsaken my roots, Marlena thought as she stood in front of Grayskull. She looked up, and up, to the parapets and beyond. The starfield above held none of the Greek or Roman myths of her youth. Orion didn’t pull his bow in the skies above Eternia. But stars were stars and she felt at home under these.\n\nShe had been an adventurer once, from a child dreaming of space, to an adult that soared beyond boundary. But some part of that had been lost to her once she became a queen and a mother on this strange and wonderful world. Sometimes she missed it, other times she was content. But the disparate versions of herself warred inside her often: Queen, Captain, mother, wife, duty, loyalty, freedom, and adventure.\n\nGrayskull stared stoically beyond her, into the black forests at her back.\n\nRandor would be furious if he knew that she had taken no guards with her. But he was away on one of his royal meetings with a minor lord or two, and a single Wind Raider taken in the middle of the night wouldn’t be missed.\n\nThe jawbridge creaked, as if the skull on the castle’s façade coughed, and then the mouth gaped. The jawbridge lowered itself to the ground in front of her.\n\nMarlena stepped onto the tongue and entered Grayskull.\n\nThe woman she had come to see was waiting inside.", null, "The Sorceress bowed deeply. “My Queen. I am honored.”\n\nMarlena smiled at the sorceress, who radiated light into the shadows of this ancient castle. “Please, I am no queen tonight, only a citizen of Eternia that owes you her thanks.”\n\nThe sorceress tilted her head, spread an arm, and gestured Marlena further into the castle. “I’m sure no gratitude is necessary.”\n\n“You saved my life,” Marlena said as the jawbridge closed behind her, swallowing her whole. “That night when my life changed it could have ended, but you intervened.”\n\nThe Sorceress turned slightly, and gave a small, soft laugh.\n\n“When did you realize?”\n\nMarlena followed the Sorceress to the throne room of Grayskull. This was vastly different than the throne room of Eternos: older, mustier, and sturdier. There was no ornament here. No finery, nor delicacy. This was a hard place, and the throne seemed unwelcoming. Marlena wondered what type of King had been seated there. She wondered if a king would ever sit there again.", null, "“Not for a long time. I think about that night often, but most of it is a blur. I’d remember… bits. I’d wake up shivering, sometimes screaming. I remember space shredding in front of my ship. Stars like mischievous fireflies, exploding around me. I remember my Photog unit’s alarms blaring while he continued to capture the footage. The early-warning system on his chest was at a full run. My controls had stopped responding. I knew I wasn’t supposed to travel that far out. As it was, I was risking serious reprisal, but I was reckless, even then. I had every assurance built into the ship, I had Photog, I was safe.”", null, "Marlena shook her head. “It feels like I’m talking about a different person. Eternia has given me so much, but sometimes I wonder how much of Captain Marlena Glenn I had to leave behind in order to become Queen Marlena of the House of Randor.”\n\n“I know of sacrifice,” the Sorceress said softly. Marlena looked up and caught the woman in the seconds between the stoic, aloof resolve she wore like a funereal shroud.\n\nMarlena was going to reach out and touch the woman’s arm to offer the smallest of human contact, but the Sorceress had already steeled herself and the moment had passed. So Marlena continued.\n\n“My ship was dead as it came through that… portal or whatever it was. I was as good as dead. I was hurtling to the ground at impossible speeds. When I woke, my ship was in pieces, scattered around me. I should not have survived. But I did.”\n\n“Eternia is a land of miracles,” the Sorceress said, supporting her frame with her staff. She looked tired, but her eyes burned with clarity.\n\n“So I’ve seen. There was so much I couldn’t explain, so I didn’t try. For the longest time I didn’t think about it, and figured it to be a miracle, and accepted it. Until I met He-Man.”\n\nThere it was. Marlena caught the flicker in her eyes. The Sorceress looked away, trying to hide it, but it was there. Recognition. “He-Man?” she asked, to deflect.\n\nMarlena continued. “I’ve seen He-man on more than one occasion. Eternia’s greatest champion has had numerous opportunities to be called in front of the throne. And for a while, I saw what others saw: a handsome man, one who exuded power, but those are in no short supply on this world or any world. But then one day, I saw beyond “He-Man” and saw through to the man. I saw what Eternia doesn’t see.”\n\nThe Sorceress did not blink. “What did you see?”\n\nMarlena walked to a window, and stared out over the lands that Grayskull rested upon. “It was as if I were seeing two men. One overlaid onto another. I saw the hero, handsome and charming and brave and ferocious in his loyalty and his dedication. And then, as if looking at a face beneath the water, I saw the other one, the true face.” Marlena turned back to the Sorceress. “It is the face you see, and maybe a few others. Duncan, I suspect. The King does not see. But he wouldn’t. He couldn’t. I think… I think only a mother would see what I saw.”\n\n“I saw that He-Man has his father’s eyes.”\n\nThe Sorceress was very quiet. Grayskull matched her silence. Finally, she smiled. “He-Man is many things to many people: an ideal, a hero, a myth, a warrior, a savior… such a burden for one man to carry. Few could shoulder that burden, could have the strength needed to bear that great weight. You should be proud.”\n\n“I am,” Marlena said.”Once I realized the truth, I knew that there was only one explanation for my being alive today. Eternia needs He-Man. He’s part of this world’s strange, wonderful destiny, and I’ve learned destiny is very important to Eternia’s history. And you are the caretaker of that destiny. And I, in my own small way, was a part of that destiny. It wasn’t hard to connect the pieces. So I thought it was time to offer my gratitude in person.”\n\nThe Sorceress shook her head. “I appreciate your words. But I require no gratitude. I am only a servant to a grand design, as are we all. Your destiny did not end that night, My Queen. You still have stories to tell.”", null, "Marlena took a step forward and placed her hand on the enigmatic woman’s arm. “You have my thanks anyway.” She gave it a squeeze. “Now I’m afraid I must get back or the royal guard will send out a brigade.”\n\nThe Sorceress bowed again. “It was a pleasure and an honor, my Queen.”\n\nMarlena heard the jawbridge trundling open. “Oh, and if it’s not overstepping, I must say, Teela is a remarkable woman. She does the Palace proud. A fine warrior, a fine woman, and a fine person.”\n\nThe sorceress hesitated. Marlena smiled, and gave a small nod. In a soft voice barely audible even in the silence of the castle, the Sorceress said “How did you know?”\n\n“Because she has her mother’s eyes,” Marlena said, and took her leave." ]

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[ "You are here: Home / Features / Resurrection Blues: Welcome Back Breathes New Life Into the Heroic Epic", null, "Seems like we get flooded with apocalyptic headlines on a daily basis these days. Lately it’s centered around climate changing happening faster and harsher than previously anticipated. Scientists say that heat and ice cycles are a natural part of the development of our planet but that we’re amplifying them, locking ourselves into our own loop of cause and effect– human ingenuity outpacing human resources until we invent something that saves us for a little while longer until we do it all again. Like the nuclear fears of the Cold War, this certainty of doom in our lifetimes, at our own hands, has spawned cyclical fiction, works commenting on the devastation we’re on path to receive. You see the doomsday trope in ways blunt and obvious (The Day After Tomorrow, Waterworld, the Mad Max series) as well as more subtle and somber (Melancholia, Another Earth, Upstream Color) but there is a new twist on the trope popping up in current comics, featuring resurrection cycles personified in haunted figures. I don’t mean Highlander-inspired immortality epics, like Valiant’s Eternal Warrior, but bleaker, painful takes on mysterious figures who keep coming back from the dead, like Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning’s Resurrection Man on through to the Luna Brothers The Sword and now in series like Ed Brisson and Brian Level’s The Mantle. But even those works lack a melancholic “why are we doing this?” edge, instead focusing on the inevitability of death, the pain it leaves in its wake, the suddenness and inexplicability of it despite that awareness of it as a constant. Christopher Sebela and Jonathan Brandon Sawyer’s Welcome Back is a refreshing break from that, instead telling a story of war and murder’s inherent stupidity, following a group of eternally resurrected warriors, two of whom have bucked their programming to probe at the reasons why they’re set on the path they walk.\n\nSebela and Sawyer wisely frame their epic with a very human story of twentysomething struggle, honing in on the frustrations of Mali Quinn, a 26 year old woman with ample student debt and not a lot of prospects. Mali is haunted by her direct past, thanks to a murder spree her stepfather went on, as well as by murderous visions of eras she would more closely associate with descendants– mayhem in the Crusades, shootings in the Wild West, conquistador escapades. Sebela’s plotting in Welcome Back is more flexible and also more focused than his prior material, he dares to reach high and give it a monumental scale but he keeps that at the fringes, spending most of his narrative time inside his characters’ heads, teasing out their fears and motivations and suspicions of the role fate plays in lives. This storytelling succeeds because Sebela leaves Sawyer ample room to fill out that narrative ambiguity, attacking the pages with a passionate anger that matches the moods of the characters.", null, "Sawyer’s panels refuse to stay frozen, they bleed out around the edges or switch perspectives with little warning, boosting Mali’s own fitfulness, the restless way she reaches for something beyond the meager life she has been given. Mali is a character who feels that she is perpetually on the verge of realizing her reason for existence but who is held back by shadows and ghosts, visions she knows to be real and those she feels are imagined and Sawyer illustrates this with punishingly heavy inking. Carlos Zamudio’s coloring is essential to the success of this too, as he is able to cot the pages in claustrophobic darkness but manages to avoid the washed out, saturated tones that have made more recent Vertigo works sometimes a slog to get through. Welcome Back’s colors have their own cycle, rising from earthy tones to jagged reds and blacks to brief bursts of vivid blues and yellows. Anyone who has been in a rut, struggling to find their purpose, should be familiar with that cycle, the way the world can seem so beautiful one moment and so ugly and cruel the next.\n\nAll this set-up, which could have bogged down the high concept in lesser hands, gives Welcome Back a refreshingly organic pace. There is a tease of a previous life’s battle to the death at the start, hinting at a story like the gloriously bonkers Japanese film Versus, but by stepping back to paint a portrait of Mali not as an eternal warrior but instead as an uncertain young woman, the larger metaphor is allowed to bloom. Though it’s dressed as an assassin epic and illustrated by Sawyer with intense kineticism, Welcome Back is really a millennial defense, a story about the pressure the world’s youth feel to not only succeed on their own terms but also slip free of the grip of ancestry, to be different from their parents and not fall prey to the same mistakes. Mali and her mysterious arch-nemesis Miss Vos are doomed to stand at opposition to one another because that’s what they were born into, but Sebela asks what might happen if they chose a different path, if they rejected the fate genetics and history have laid out for them?\n\nThe climax of the debut issue even places these two possible paths in direct contrast, with Mali newly aware of her purpose and on the run, attempting to ward off her enemies in non-lethal ways while her antithesis violently tortures a higher up for info on Mali. Sebela and Sawyer split the narrative, frequently framing Mali’s quieter moments between her nemesis’ brasher ones, but they’re both having the same epiphanies, a realization that people they don’t know are forcing them to act a certain way. Mali has taken a more submissive route to awareness, desperately trying to shake her stepfather’s murderous actions and the impact it had on her life while Vos tackles that past head on, using its own artifacts to bring about retribution and info.\n\nLike The Mantle before it, Welcome Back utilizes tropes and signifiers as meta-commentary on the way we’re drawn throughout history to the same stories. The Mantle applied that to superheroes, the mythology of the 20th and now 21st century, but Welcome Back goes with their precursor, the epic hero, figures bold enough to fight against fate, all the while fully aware that historically that never goes very well. It’s too early to tell whether Christopher Sebela and Jonathan Brandon Sawyer will allow Mali to escape her own fate, to defeat the tragic failure of heroes all throughout history but already they’re well on their way to injecting new life into doomsday fiction.\n\nWelcome Back is out now from Boom!" ]

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[ "An Estonian startup is launching a lightweight electric scooter, called “Stigo”, today in Beijing, China; the first of the scooters will reach the customers in June.\n\nThe company claims its product to be “the world’s most lightweight and fastest-folding e-scooters”. According to the CEO of Stigo, Ardo Reinsaly, the scooter is “designed mainly for urban people who need a device that is lightweight (13.9 kg, 30.6 lbs), and can be quickly folded so it can be trailed behind or taken indoors”.", null, "The scooter runs on electricity and costs only “a few eurocents per kilometre”. It can also be “folded in two seconds”, the company claims, adding that the dimensions of the folded package are 48×40 centimetres (19×16 inches).", null, null, "In 2014, the Stigo scooter won the “Electricity and Smart Living” award from the French energy producer, EDF.\n\nCover: Stigo launch in Beijing, China, on 16 May 2016. Photos courtesy of Stigo." ]

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[ null, "Do you ever wonder about the convention of sharing a room with your partner? Okay, sometimes it’s not possible owing to lack of space, but how many of us would prefer separate rooms if we had the option? It doesn’t have to indicate problems in a relationship – here are eight reasons why separate rooms can make sense …\n\nAfter answering the door to a delivery man early one morning this week, and then seeing myself in the mirror afterwards, I have come to the conclusion that I simply should not be seen until I have had the chance to make myself look vaguely human. For those who feel the same (about themselves – not me), separate rooms mean that you have the chance to prepare yourself before facing your other half.\n\nIs there one of us who hasn’t wanted to murder our partner when they snore so loudly that it sounds as though a jumbo jet is parked on the pillow next to you? Separate rooms are the best solution to getting a good night’s sleep – which is something we all need.\n\nDouble beds are pretty small when you’re sharing them. Even king- or queen-sized beds don’t give you as much space as having a double to yourself. So if you like to sprawl, having your own room means you can take up as much space as you like.\n\nHas your other half perfected the Duvet Roll, whereby they turn and pull the duvet with them? If you’re saddled with a Duvet Hog, pack them off to their own room and say farewell to waking up cold.\n\nDo you and your OH appear to have wildly different body temperatures? Do you like lots of covers, while he is warm even in the coldest of weather? You can have separate duvets, but separate beds is even better.\n\nWhat happens if you’re a night owl and your partner gets up at the crack of dawn? You disturb him when you go to bed, and he wakes you up at 5am. End result: two grumpy people. Have your own room each, and you won’t wake each other up.\n\nSome of us simply find it too difficult to fall asleep when sharing a bed. If the other person snores, twitches or talks to themselves, it can be very difficult to get to sleep – and sometimes stay asleep, if they’re restless.\n\nIf you’ve got a young baby or child that’s waking up during the night, separate rooms means that one of you can get a good night’s sleep. Taking turns, of course – the working parent can take over at weekends, or alternate.\n\nDo you love falling asleep snuggling up to your OH? Or does sharing a room drive you mad? What other advantages do separate rooms offer?" ]

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[ null, null, null, "Version 2.0!\nBug Fixes and additions:\nFixed all the Bodygroups to now properly allow you to remove the soldier's hat, change the Sniper's bullets to darts, etc. I had to literally rip the new .mdl and some .vmts files from the TF2 GCF files and re-hex the package in order to fix the issues. I apologize for taking so long with this pack, but it's been worth it.\nIf you downloaded Version 1.5 previously, please delete it and download this new one.\nHey, Comic/Machima makers! Are you tired of endlessly fussing with the TF2 Ragdolls, trying to pose them? Sure, they can stand straight, but that's about all you can do with them. Advanced poses like weapons posing, karate kicks, goose-stepping for the medics, making the spy sit, and others just seem practically impossible with the stock ragdolls.\nWell, now those days are officially over! With this hexed pack of TF2 ragdolls spliced with the TF2 Beta Skin Pack's fixed physics protocols, the possibilities of TRUE TF2 comic creation are now within your grasp! Whether it's to make all of them sit together for a meeting, turning the sniper into a true Karate (not just Jarate) master, or even making a Sham-wow commercial with the Scout, the possibilities are truly endless!\nThe RED team is proudly displaying their newfound abilities while the BLU team is demonstrating the original, buggy poses. However, both teams have the fix! Also, these are hexed, meaning they do not replace the originals, which you can still use for quick stand posing and other minor scenes (which I still find useful for very quick and simple poses.)\nIf there is a similar pack on here created by someone else, then I will take this one down. I just didn't see any physics-fixed ragdolls on here besides the TF2 Beta Skin pack, so I figured I'd splice the packs together and upload it. There may be a few bugs with this, but that is because of the physics files. I am not sure how to fix them. The only thing I can really do is hex mo" ]

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[ null, "Michael Schumacher is one of F1’s legendary drivers. He turned 54 on the 3rd of January, with his legacy still resonating and impacting the sport today. His achievements are illustrious.\n\nSchumacher’s success again raises the age-old question of the car’s influence on success. Whilst Ferrari’s dominance at the turn of the millennium cannot be denied, Schumacher’s ability to wring the neck out of sub-par machinery is the ability that places him in F1 lore.\n\nHe did not just benefit from the dominant steamroller of a team Ferrari became, he helped create it. Three key individuals including Schumacher saw their futures and success become intrinsically linked after starting to work together. Ross Brawn and Jean Todt form the remaining part of this equation, forming an alliance that ruthlessly dominated F1 in the early 200s.\n\nIt is not an exaggeration to say Schumacher’s approach to racing transformed how drivers interact off-track. Schumacher, Brawn and Todt could still be seen at the circuit after 10 pm, analysing data or revising strategies very proof of you reap what you sew, the reasons for his and Ferrari’s success are clear for all to see. The German’s impact on the sport was immediate and quick. Prophetic for his dazzling career.\n\nSchumacher’s debut came in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Jordan driver Bertrand Gachot found himself in a UK prison after assaulting a taxi driver. With a seat now vacant in the iconic green Jordan 191, Team owner Eddie Jordan scouted for a replacement. Under contract to Mercedes at the time, the German manufacturer paid Eddie Jordan a handsome $150,000 to place Schumacher in the seat.\n\nThe German’s speed came to the forefront immediately. Jordan was still in its first season, and while not a slow team still had to find performance before it could become a regular points challenger. Schumacher only had practice and qualifying to get to the grips with the 191, yet still qualified P7. This turned heads in the paddock, with F1 watching with great interest as the grid lined up for the race. Sadly Schumacher’s race would end after only a few hundred yards, his Jordan 191 suffering clutch failure.\n\nHis brief performance attracted interest up and down the grid, as F1 realised a young superstar had just emerged. Eddie Jordan now held the key to Schumacher’s next move. Schumacher signed an agreement in principle with Jordan, but not a contract. Benetton Team Principal wanted Schumacher badly, promptly signing the German on a three-year deal. This infuriated Jordan, with the Irishman attempting to block the move, but losing as he did not have a valid contract.\n\nDriver contract negotiations can take months to resolve, yet Schumacher’s next move had been decided and legally complete within two weeks. At the next round in Italy, Schumacher had changed his green race overalls of Jordan for the yellow of Benetton.\n\nUnder the management of Flavio Briatore, Schumacher spent the rest of 1991 with Benetton. This is the moment Schumacher was introduced to the genius of Technical Director Ross Brawn. They forged a strong relationship from the start, influencing results. He scored for his first three consecutive races with the team with a P5 and two P6 finishes. Retiring from the final two rounds, foundations had been set for a strong 1992 season.\n\nNigel Mansell crushed all opposition in 1992 yet despite this, a changing of the guard felt almost inevitable. Behind Mansell, it was Benetton that provided the opposition in terms of the standings. Schumacher finished in third place in the standings, three points behind Ricciardo Patrese, and three ahead of reigning World Champion Ayrton Senna. Youthful exuberance sometimes hindered Schumacher, including a collision with Senna in France that saw the Brazilian talk to the German about his tactics.\n\nAs the grid arrived in Belgium, Schumacher had four podiums to his name. The first victory was the next goal. He would take his legendary first win at Spa, one year on from making his debut at that very track. Schumacher’s rise was now complete. A second place at the final race in Australia sealed a strong year for the German.\n\n1993 would see a similar performance, with one victory en route to P4 in the standings. While a resurgent Ayrton Senna prevented Bennetton from challenging Williams regularly, Schumacher still managed 9 podium finishes.\n\nThe Benetton B194 proved to be a rocket ship in the hands of Schumacher. Ayrton Senna had now left McLaren and arrived at Williams. The FW16 proved to be a tough car to set up for both Senna and teammate Damon Hill, while the B194’s pace became obvious in early testing. The B194 is a controversial car, with rumours of traction control and launch control being present never proven.\n\nSchumacher lined up P2 in Brazil for a battle with Senna in what promised to be a closely fought season. Instead, Senna would retire from the first two races, spinning out of his home race, and then being collected by Mika Hakkinen’s McLaren in Aida. Schumacher would dominate both races, taking a commanding lead in the championship. Arriving at Imola, Senna needed to get his season back on track.\n\nTragically, Senna was killed during the race, a subdued Schumacher won. The German took his first pole at Monaco followed by victory for a perfect score of four out of four race wins. New Williams team leader Hill would strike back at Barcelona, then again at Silverstone. Schumacher would win the rest in between, making his tally 7 wins from 10 starts. However, at this point, the story changes. The German had been racing under appeal since Silverstone after overtaking Hill on the formation lap, then ignoring a black flag. After his win in Belgium, his underfloor plank was found to be excessively worn. He was disqualified, losing the win, and banned for two races for his Silverstone actions.\n\nHill clawed back into the standings with Schumacher away, the German winning at Jerez on his return. Losing out to Hill in Japan after a Titanic rain-soaked race, Schumacher and Hill’s battle went to the final race. At this point one of the most controversial and legendary moments of his legendary career took place. The German ran wide on lap 36, hitting the wall. He defended his line but hit Hill’s Williams, sending himself into the wall. Schumacher retired on the spot, Hill at the end of the lap. With his competitor out of action, Schumacher became World Champion. To this day questions remain about the German’s actions.\n\nMichael Schumacher seals the first of his seven drivers' titles, but it wasn't without controversy#F1 pic.twitter.com/OV4S2k7Lem\n\n1995 proved to be more of a romp than a battle. The B195 had swapped Ford V8 power for Renault V10 power, resulting in an instantly faster car. Schumacher won 8 races that year to Hill’s 3. The two collided twice, during the year, gifting the victory to the other Benetton of Johnny Herbert on both occasions. Schumacher was beginning to think of the next chapter and signed for Ferrari in 1996. Jean Todt had courted the German, and with Ferrari slowly returning to competitiveness, Schumacher entered this new era seeing it as a project.\n\nWith the legendary team Schumacher, Brawn and Todt now united, work began to transform Ferrari into a winning force. The mode of operation was simple: Todt handled the political heat that can see Ferrari implode, shielding Ross Brawn from negative influences. Michael meanwhile would work with the team unhindered to extract all potential from the car. The results would prove to be devastating in just a few short years.\n\nThe 1996 F310 however was a car that only a mother could love. Bulky and unreliable, the car arrived late for testing. Schumacher worked miracles with his first Ferrari, notably winning at a rain-soaked Barcelona while championship leader Hill crashed out after just 11 laps. Schumacher won two more races in 1996, brilliantly in Belgium again, then took a legendary victory atMonza in front of the adoring Tifosi. It was a strong foundation year as the team worked towards a championship bid.\n\nIn 1997, Ross Brawn arrived from Benetton as a Technical Director, and the forging of one of F1’s most successful relationships began. The F310B was infinitely a better car than its predecessor, though prone to understeering. Schumacher still led a championship charge for the Scuderia. The final race of 1997 saw another controversial moment in the German’s career, driving into the side of Jacques Villeneuve’s Williams.\n\nVilleneuve described the aftermath to formula1.com. Relieving the memory of driving past the stricken Ferrari, he said he saw Schumacher on the sidelines, sweating “he never sweated, but seeing that sweat is a vivid, vivid memory”. Schumacher beached his Ferrari and was subsequently disqualified by the FIA.\n\nThe 1998 F300 once again improved over its predecessor. Ferrari and Schumacher’s challengers changed from blue to silver, with Mika Hakkinen leading the charge for McLaren. An intense psychological battle dominated the year on and off the track. Both drivers were respectful towards the other, but the team rivalry became one of the most toxic and legendary in F1 history. When Schumacher and the second McLaren of David Coulthard collided at a soaked Spa, they had to be forced to sit together on a plane to cool off. Another last race title decider ensued at Suzuka, however, Schumacher stalled his engine on the grid. Carving his way through the field, he hit debris and suffered a tyre blowout. Hakkinen was champion, Ferrari once again agonisingly so close, yet so far.\n\n1999 would prove to be a tough year for Schumacher. He finished P8 at the season opener in Australia after a steering wheel issue, while teammate Eddie Irvine won. A second place and two wins would follow. Then at the British Grand Prix, his Ferrari failed under braking for Stow corner, and hit the barrier hard, breaking his right leg. He would not return until the penultimate round, winning that race despite controversy over the legality of his Ferrari." ]

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[ "Piano Pop In A Hard Place", null, "Back in ´95, when Ben Folds was working on the album that would introduce the Ben Folds Five to the world, he wondered what would constitute success. So he turned to one \"successful\" bandleader he knew, Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann, and popped the question.\n\n\"My measuring stick for success was selling as many records as Archers of Loaf,\" Folds says when I catch him \"decompressing\" in LA after a long flight from Australia, where he now spends most of his time. \"I remember one night Eric dropped me off at my house, and I didn't really know what to say, so I just asked him how many records the Archers had sold. He said something like 40,000, and that number stuck with me - even after we got popular and I became some kind of 90s one-hit-wonder bitch boy - because last year, when I found out I'd sold that many copies of those EPs I released, I was very happy.\"\n\nOh yeah, the EPs. There wouldn't be a Songs for Silverman (Epic) without Super D, Sunny 16 and Speed Graphic, the trio of solo EPs Folds released in 2004. The difficult road that led to Songs for Silverman was full of false starts, breakdowns, and side trips, including a scrapped solo album recorded last year. That one was a follow-up to Rockin' the Suburbs (Epic), his commercially disappointing 2001 solo debut with the unfortunate release date of September 11. Folds' 2004 effort never saw the light of day, though two of its tracks appear on Songs for Silverman. Instead, Folds entered what he describes as a midlife crisis, as he slouched toward 40 with a wife, twins and no band. He did collaborate with Ben Lee and Ben Kweller as the Three Bens; he arranged and produced a solo album for his pal William Shatner, the star-studded Has Been (Shout Factory, 2004); and he recorded those three EPs.\n\nBut, confused by his solo debut's lukewarm reception, Folds struggled with the idea of recording a new full-length.\n\nBut when each of his EPs found its way to the #1 spot on Billboard's then-new downloading chart, Folds became an unwitting pioneer in pop's brave new digital world. The EPs reintroduced wayward fans to the manchild piano prodigy who has a talent for confessional songs (like his early hit \"Brick,\" inspired by a real-life situation involving a girlfriend and an abortion), a quirky \"geek-rock\" image, and a wry sense of humor reflected in song titles like \"Battle of Who Could Care Less.\" The bright piano melody that opens the Sunny 16 EP is undercut by the mixed emotions of the song it kick-starts, \"There's Always Someone Cooler Than You.\"\n\nFolds goes on to attack the perennial ugly American from an amusingly skewed angle in \"All U Can Eat,\" a song peppered with gorgeous background harmonies, tastefully jazzy piano refrains, and more than enough f-bombs to keep it out of Wal-Mart.\n\nThe Super D EP opens with a guitar-less cover of the Darkness's \"Get Your Hands Off My Girlfriend\" that makes for a decent tongue-in-cheek piano ballad. And the Speed Graphic EP offers a straight-faced rendition of the Cure's \"In Between Days.\" Each EP is all over the musical and emotional map: a spare piano-and-voice recording of \"Give Judy My Notice\" (a tune reworked on Songs for Silverman) runs up against the brisk, drum-driven, harmony-laden \"Protection.\" \"Get Your Hands Off My Woman\" gives way to the sobering introspection of \"Kalamazoo.\"\n\nIt's easy to see (or hear) what Folds had in mind when he opted to take the EP route. But in the wake of Rockin' the Suburbs' perceived failure, it was still a risky commercial move.\n\n\"It probably came from the same bad business mind that had the idea to play punk-rock clubs with a piano in the first place,\" he says. \"But the music business should also be about music. A German magazine said that if that the EPs had been released as an album, it would be one of the best American albums of the year. This sounds like such an old-dude thing to say, but they actually signed a petition to bring me back to Germany because of those EPs. I played for 3,000 people in Berlin.\"\n\nSongs for Silverman is full of lyrics that detail the growing pains of a guy wrestling with the downside of domestic bliss. Folks says it has nothing to do with the film Saving Silverman, a Jack Black vehicle that deals with some of the same issues. \"I found out about the film after I named the album,\" Folds says. \"I'm sure I heard of the movie somewhere, but the album is just songs for 'somebody else,' songs for 'blah, blah, blah...\" I was going to use a real person's name, but I was told I couldn't. So it became Songs for Silverman.\"\n\nThe first single, \"Landed,\" nails a morning-after hangover that follows an interlude of misguided romantic intoxication to an exuberant chorus and a piano hook Elton John would be proud to call his own. The mood ranges from shame to sorrow to liberation, as Folds uses a fragile falsetto to put himself on the line: \"And I'm not sorry if you're not sorry/And you're not sorry until I make you...\"\n\nOn Silverman, Folds goes farther than he ever has to define and reveal himself as himself, not fellow piano men John or Billy Joel. And Folds knows it.\n\n\"The Ben Folds Five made a big first impression and it became hard for people to see beneath that. We were 'the piano band that rocks,'\" he says. \"It was something solid you could affix to the band. But as you evolve, it becomes harder to put what you do into one sentence. Now it's 'the 38-year-old piano dad who had one hit in the 90s showing us his fucking diary.'\n\n\"And we came of age in an era when crafting songs about yourself was considered emotionally lewd and pretty fucking dodgy. Irony was in and the singer/songwriter was bad news. So we had to make the songs hard and strong, because I was emotionally lewd on [1997's] Whatever & Ever Amen. The hit song's about my teenage experience with my girlfriend having an abortion. All those songs were as café singer/songwriter as it gets: they just had all kinds of bells and whistles on them to disguise that fact.\"\n\nSongs for Silverman doesn't lack bells or whistles, as the pitch-perfect Beach Boys harmonies that adorn \"Jesusland\" attest. But Folds's lyrics are more direct. There's no mistaking the subject of the Elliott Smith eulogy \"Late,\" because, well, the line \"Elliott, man, you played a mean guitar\" gives it away. \"Gracie\" is a rockabye ballad about Folds's daughter; \"Sentimental Guy\" is unadulterated introspection; \"Give Judy My Notice\" is a bitter, bruised kiss-off to an ex-lover. It's classic and contemporary at the same time. But if confessional songwriting isn't your cup of tea, then no amount of cream and sugar will make Folds palatable.\n\nHe knows that, too. \"I'm a little scared about the way this album is going to hit people,\" he confesses. \"I'm attached to the music world. I don't live in a cave. I hear all this big fucking shiny-ass shit on the radio. But I don't have to do that anymore. The thing that disappoints me about mainstream music is that we don't seem to be moving away from that. Everyone still has their shades on. And then I think about my little album trying to sink or swim out there with all this gaudy stuff, I get concerned.\"\n\nI remind him of his discussion 10 years ago with Eric Bachmann. \"Yeah, I guess it would be nice to sell 40,000 copies.\"" ]

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[ null, "Throughout his book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), professional Islamophobe Robert Spencer misleads the reader by selectively comparing Muhammad to Jesus. Muhammad is portrayed as a “warrior prophet” and contrasted with the (supposedly) non-violent Jesus. Spencer argues on page four of his book that his “Muhammad vs. Jesus” comparisons are intended to “draw a distinction between the core principles that guide the faithful Muslim and Christian.” We are told that Islam’s militancy stems from its founder, as Christianity’s peacefulness traces back to its earliest figure. Although Robert Spencer is a fringe extremist, his sentiments are shared by many average Christians (and even non-Christians). To the average Westerner, Muhammad was a man of violence, whereas Jesus was the quintessential pacifist.\n\nProf. Philip Jenkins explored a similar mindset when it came to the Koran and the Bible. Jenkins explained (emphasis added):\n\nUnconsciously, perhaps, many Christians consider Islam to be a kind of dark shadow of their own faith, with the ugly words of the Koran standing in absolute contrast to the scriptures they themselves cherish. In the minds of ordinary Christians – and Jews – the Koran teaches savagery and warfare, while the Bible offers a message of love, forgiveness, and charity…\n\nBut in terms of ordering violence and bloodshed, any simplistic claim about the superiority of the Bible to the Koran would be wildly wrong. In fact, the Bible overflows with “texts of terror,” to borrow a phrase coined by the American theologian Phyllis Trible. The Bible contains far more verses praising or urging bloodshed than does the Koran, and biblical violence is often far more extreme, and marked by more indiscriminate savagery. The Koran often urges believers to fight, yet it also commands that enemies be shown mercy when they surrender. Some frightful portions of the Bible, by contrast, go much further in ordering the total extermination of enemies, of whole families and races – of men, women, and children, and even their livestock, with no quarter granted.\n\nI have extensively (and painfully) elaborated on this point earlier in this article series.\n\nThe comparisons between Muhammad “the warrior prophet” and Jesus “the pacifist” are equally faulty. For one thing, many were the “warrior prophets” in the Judeo-Christian tradition before Muhammad, including Moses, Joshua, Samson, David, Saul, and so many others. Moses, the prototypical “warrior prophet”, was the key figure of Judaism–would these Islamophobes vilify Judaism as they do Islam? (Nowadays it is often considered socially taboo to criticize Judaism but completely acceptable to malign Islam. Why the double standard?)\n\nFor the record, these Biblical prophets and holy figures are just as much a part of Christianity as they are Judaism. Christian theology holds these personalities in very high regard. Therefore, to suddenly limit the discussion to Jesus alone is misleading. Yet, this disingenuous tactic is critical to the Islamophobic rhetoric. If Islam is to be deemed a violent faith based on the personality of Muhammad, then both Judaism and Christianity must similarly be designated as violent faiths based on the personalities of Moses, Joshua, and all the other myriad of figures in the Bible who engaged in acts of violence far more atrocious than anything Muhammad stands accused of.\n\nLeaving aside this point, it ought to be noted that Jesus as a pacifist is pure fiction. Prof. Reza Aslan recently published a book on Jesus, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, which disproves the myth of the pacifist Jesus. Although Aslan’s message may be news to some lay persons, it is in fact (as Reza Aslan himself points out) “old news” in scholarly circles. Thanks to the viral Fox News interview and Aslan’s addictive writing style, Zealot became a best-seller. Christian Islamophobes wrongfully assumed, without reading the book, that Aslan was attacking the character of Jesus. In fact, however, Aslan reveres Jesus, even while he dispels many of the myths about the man.\n\nOne of the myths that Aslan dispels is the idea that Jesus was a pacifist. Many Christians think of Jesus separately from the personalities of the Old Testament. But, in fact, there is a great deal of continuity in the Biblical narrative. According to the Bible, God rescued Moses and his people from Egypt and promised them the land of Canaan. However, Canaan was occupied by pagans, so God commanded the Jews to completely annihilate the indigenous population. This divinely sanctioned genocide helped establish a Jewish kingdom in the Promised Land. After some time, however, the Jews were conquered by outside forces. By the time of Jesus, the Jews were under imperial occupation by Rome.\n\nWhat many Christians (and others) fail to realize was that Jesus was a Jew. He was in fact one of many different Jews who claimed to be the Messiah. The Messiah, it was believed, would be a conquering king sent down to liberate the Jewish people, “fight Hashem’s [God’s] wars” (Maimonides in Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings 11:4), and then not only conquer but punish (with great vengeance) the enemies of Israel. Jesus’s connection to the war heroes of the Bible is underscored by the fact that he is called “a Davidic king”–the same David who engaged in acts of war and genocide against the Philistines and Amalekites. Aslan writes:\n\n[A] fair consensus about who the messiah is supposed to be and what the messiah is supposed to do: he is the descendant of King David; he comes to restore Israel, to free the Jews from the yoke of occupation, and to establish God’s rule in Jerusalem. To call Jesus the messiah, therefore, is to place him inexorably upon a path–already well trodden by a host of failed messiahs who came before him–toward conflict, revolution, and war against the prevailing powers.\n\nThis was the role Jesus was claiming for himself by saying he was the Messiah. This is why the Romans crucified him.\n\nIn his book, Reza Aslan writes:\n\nIt was a direct commandment from a jealous God who tolerated no foreign presence in the land he had set aside for his chosen people. That is why, when the Jews first came to this land a thousand years earlier, God had decreed that they massacre every man, woman, and child they encountered, that they slaughter every ox, goat, and sheep they came across, that they burn every farm, every field, every crop, every living thing without exception so as to ensure that the land would belong solely to those who worshiped this one God and no other…\n\nIt was, the Bible claims, only after the Jewish armies had “utterly destroyed all that breathed”…only after every single inhabitant of this land was eradicated, “as the Lord God of Israel had commanded” (Joshua 10:28-42)–that the Jews were allowed to settle here.\n\nAnd yet, a thousand years later, this same tribe that had shed so much blood to cleanse the Promised Land of every foreign element so as to rule it in the name of its God now found itself laboring under the boot of an imperial pagan power, forced to share the holy city with Gauls, Spaniards, Romans, Greeks, and Syrians–all of them foreigners, all of them heathens–obligated by law to make sacrifices in God’s own temple on behalf of a Roman idolater who lived more than a thousand kilometers away.\n\nHow would the heroes of old respond such humiliation and degradation? What would Joshua or Aaron or Phineas or Samuel do to the unbelievers who had defiled the land set aside by God for his chosen people?\n\nThey would drown the land in blood. They would smash the heads of the heathens and the gentiles, burn their idols to the ground, slaughter their wives and their children. They would slay the idolaters and bathe their feet in the blood of their enemies, just as the Lord commanded. They would call upon the God of Israel to burst forth from the heavens in his war chariot, to trample upon the sinful nations and to make the mountains writhe at this fury.\n\nJesus was crucified by the Romans before he could mete out vengeance on the enemies of Israel, but–as a I detail in my earlier article Jesus Loves His Enemies…and Then Kills Them All–he will fulfill this task during his Second Coming:\n\nJesus will “will release the fierce wrath of God” (19:15) on them, and “he shall execute the severest judgment on the opposers of his truth”. Because of this, “every tribe on earth will mourn because of him” (Rev. 1:7), and they will “express the inward terror and horror of their minds, at his appearing; they will fear his resentment”. Just as the people of Canaan were terrified by the Israelite war machine, so too would the unbelievers “look with trembling upon [Jesus]”. This is repeated in the Gospels, that “the Son of man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn” (Matthew 24:30). “All the nations of the world shall wail when he comes to judgment” and the enemies of Jesus “shall mourn at the great calamities coming upon them”.\n\nFar from the meek prophet of the First Coming, Jesus on his return will command a very strong military force that will “destroy[] every ruler, authority, and power”. Not only is this consistent with the legacy of conquests by the Biblical prophets, it is actually a fulfillment or completion of the task that Moses initiated: holy war and conquest in the name of God. In First Corinthians (part of the New Testament) it is prophesied that instead of loving his enemies, Christ will subdue and humble them under his feet:\n\n1 Corinthians 15:24 [Jesus] will turn the Kingdom over to God the Father, having destroyed every ruler and authority and power.\n\n15:25 For Christ must reign until he humbles all his enemies beneath his feet.\n\n[T]he Jesus that emerges…[is] a zealous revolutionary swept up, as all Jews of the era were, in the religious and political turmoil of first-century Palestine–[which] bears little resemblance to the image of the gentle shepherd cultivated by the early Christian community.\n\nOnce Jesus is understood as a continuation and culmination of the Biblical narrative, it becomes clear that he was not a pacifist. The Biblical war ethic that Jesus believed in was arguably more violent than the equivalent Koranic discourse Muhammad operated from. (More on this in a future article.) The only difference was that Jesus’s rebellion was cut short by his crucifixion, whereas Muhammad triumphed against his former tormentors.\n\nIt should be noted that Jesus, like Moses and Muhammad, was an enigmatic personality; nobody can know for certain who the real Jesus was. People (including scholars) subconsciously project into Jesus their own self-image. Remembering Jesus as a pacifist is a healthy option for the Christian believer, especially when it forms the basis of a peace-loving theology. But, once that pacifist image is used by right-wing warmongers as a stick to bash Muslims over the head with, it’s time to call foul." ]

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[ null, "AMES, Iowa – When national news media want an expert to explain a science phenomenon, chances are they will call Michio Kaku. The theoretical physicist, who has a knack for popularizing even the most obscure concept, will kick off Iowa State University's Engineers' Week 2014 with a lecture on Sept. 19.\n\nKaku's presentation, \"How Science Will Revolutionize Business, Medicine, Jobs and Life,\" will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19, in Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center. It is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. A book signing follows in the Celebrity Cafe, lower level of Stephens Auditorium, where books will be available for sale.\n\nThe co-creator of string field theory, Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York. He is the author of several New York Times best sellers, including \"Physics of the Future\" and \"Physics of the Impossible.\"\n\nHis latest book, \"The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind,\" merges physics with neuroscience to explore what might be in store for our minds, such as practical telepathy, pills that make us smarter and brains implanted with artificial memories. It is the stuff of science fiction, yet Kaku conveys inspired predictions inferred from respected research in progress.\n\nKaku hosts two weekly radio programs (\"Science Fantastic\" and \"Explorations in Science\"), and has starred in many science programs for television, including the Science Channel series \"Futurescape,\" and the History Channel's \"The Universe.\" His television appearances include \"CBS: This Morning,\" \"60 Minutes,\" \"Nightline,\" \"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,\" \"The Colbert Report\" and \"The Late Show with David Letterman.\"\n\nKaku's presentation is co-sponsored by Engineers' Week, George Gund Lecture Fund, National Affairs Series on Innovation and the Committee on Lectures, which is funded by the Government of the Student Body.\n\n\"How Science Will Revolutionize Business, Medicine, Jobs and Life\"\n\nTickets are not required\nDoors open at 6:15 pm", null ]

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[ "Thinking of Stepping Away From my Beloved Afro-Peruvian Godchild", null, "I am among the few heterosexual, black males who made it well into adulthood without birthing any children. I don't know about the minuses of this experience, but I am certainly aware of the plusses; no hefty child support payments, no “baby-momma” drama, and none of the stresses that comes with raising children as my father, a single parent himself, frequently lamented during my own childhood.\n\nMy trip to El Carmen, Perú, one of the areas of the country where former slaves settled after emancipation, was only my second trip to an Afro-Latino community behind Havana, Cuba.\n\nThere, a three-year-old wandered into the living room from next door. She sweetly told me that her name is Daniela. Immediately, I felt a deep, strong, paternal connection with a girl who appeared to be the daughter I never had. Her mother was deeply touched to see the ecstasy in my eyes when Daniela, then age 7, and I hugged each other so tightly that we both seemed to melt into each other's arms.", null, "Daniela and I chilling out in Chincha Alta, Perú\n\nWords cannot express how honored and loving I felt when Daniela asked me if she could be my daughter. In fact, Daniela was highly pleased to hear me tell her mother who happens to be married to a second husband that she is my only child. Every time I am in Perú that is exactly how I treat her. I take her and her family and friends to parks, recreation centers, the beach, and for dinners and ice cream.\n\nAlthough Daniela declined to let me teach her English, I read children's stories to her in Spanish, taught her to tell time, and play chess, Scrabble, and Monopoly. I even bought her a bicycle, per her request. While here in the USA, I would call her once or twice a month and wire money to her mother and grandmother.\n\nFinally, I began to notice a marked change in Daniela's demeanor over the phone. The closeness I once felt seemed faded. I told myself that I will see what this is all about when I return to Perú on vacation.\n\nSure enough, upon my return, her demeanor was consistent with that which she displayed over the phone—one of polite distance. Obviously, somebody pulled her aside for a heart-to-heart talk making her understand that I am “not” family, only a gringo with money to give away, and that she needed to withdraw from the bond that she and I developed.", null, "The only exception to her withdrawal was when she surprisingly began hustling me, probably motivated by her mother, to take her and her sister to an expensive market to buy the best poultry and fish for the family. She then proceeded to talk me into buying certain gifts for her and other members of her family presumably for her mother to sell just as she sold the bicycle, games, picture books, the clock used to teach her to tell time, and so many other nice things that I bought for Daniela's childhood enjoyment and intellectual stimulation.\n\nHaving grown up in New York City, and traveled to more than 150 cities on three continents, I know a hustle when I see one and was caught off guard to experience it from a nine-year-old with whom I had supposedly bonded. Because of the soft spot I have for her, which her family knows all too well, I complied with most of her requests.\n\nToday, Daniela, now 14, her mother, and other family members friended me on Facebook as they subtly and not so subtly ask for money. I've grown to the point where I stopped responding to their Facebook inbox messages, and yes, even Daniela's.\n\nDespite the spoiling that Daniela received from adult members of her family, I will always keep the fond, joyous memories of our beautiful father-daughter relationship we had in the beginning. That is the Daniela that I know and will always love.\nPosted by W Bill Smith at 3:50 PM" ]

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[ null, "Akkineni Naga Chaitanya is an Indian film actor who is mainly known in Telugu photographs. He is the son of popular Telugu actor Nagarjuna Naga Chaitanya was born on 23 November 1986. He is one of the best known actors of the Telugu industry. He has done many successful films and received many awards. Naga Chaitanya made his Telugu debut in 2009 with a film titled Josh. In 2017, she married actress Samantha Akkineni. Samantha is also a famous actress in the South Indian film industry.\n\nHer debut was released in 2009 in the film Josh and starred as Sathya. After that, in 2010, he starred himself as a guest role in a Tamil film titled Vinnanthandi Varuvaya and also as Karthik in Yeh Maya Chesway. In 2011, 100% love as Vishwa in Dhara, as Balu Mahendra And Bejwara as Shiva Krishna. In 2013, Tadakh, a role named Karthik. In 2014, as Manam, Nagarjuna and Radha Mohan, Autonagar as Surya in Surya, Oka Laila as Karthik in Kosam. In 2015, Dohchi, as Chandu. In 2015, he made a cameo appearance as himself in the film Krishnamma Kalipindi Iradardini. In 2016, Premam made a cameo appearance as Vikram Vatsalya, as himself in Aattukundam Ra and as DCP Rajinikanth Muralidhar in Sahasam Swasaga Sagipo. In 2017, Rarandoi Veduka Chudham as Shiva and Yadum Sharanam as Arjuna. In 2018, Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Shailaja Reddy Alludu as Chaitanya (Chauthu) as Mahavati and Vikram Aditya as Savyasachi. Majily Poorna as Chandra Rao in 2019 Oh! Baby Young as Chunty and Venky Mama as Captain. Karthik Sivaram Veeramachini.\n\nIn 2009, he also received the Best Male Debut Award for the film Josh from the Filmfare Awards South and the Cine Joma Awards. In 2010 from South Scope Cinemas Awards of Rising Star of South for Maiya Chesway. In 2014, Manam for Best Actor (Critics) from SIIMA Awards and Manam as Best Supporting Actor for Nandi Awards. In 2015, as the Youth Icon of the Decade by Zee Telugu 10th Anniversary Award. From TSR in 2016 – TV9 National Film Award as Special Commendation Hero Award. Santosham Film Award as Best Actor in 2017. In 2019 From TSR – Special Jury Award for Shailaja Reddy Alludu, as the TV9 National Film Awards." ]

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[ "Rangers fans have railed against First Minister Nicola Sturgeon after she unveiled plans for Scottish sports stadia when the full country moves to Level 0 of Covid-19.\n\nSturgeon announced the new rule changes which will see only 2000 supporters allowed into football stadiums as of the 19th of July.\n\nNicola Sturgeon outlines what people will be able to do at level 0:\n\n– More people can meet in homes, hospitality and outdoors\n– Up to 200 people at weddings/funerals\n– 2000 at sports stadiums, and organisers can apply to host larger events\n\nThis is a blanket rule which applies to all stadia, giving rise to criticism due to the fact the amount is not calculated proportionally.\n\nThe likes of Dumbarton or East Fife can have 2000 at a game even though their stadiums are considerably smaller than the likes of Ibrox and Celtic Park.\n\nWhilst clubs can appeal for special dispensation – as was awarded to Hampden at Euro 2020 – fans are still heavily critical of the approach.\n\n“From Monday 19 of July all parts of Scotland not currently there will move to Level 0,” said Sturgeon [BBC Scotland].\n\n“However, this move will be made with certain modifications applied consistently across the country to ensure we’re not easing up faster than is sensible.", null, "Rangers fans are eager to return to Ibrox and have been left “confused” by the latest coming from Nicola Sturgeon. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)\n\n“There will still be limits on the size of events and stadia attendances but these will increase outdoors to 2,000 seated and 1,000 standing.\n\n“Like now, organisers will be able to apply to stage larger events.”\n\nWhilst fans might rail against these rules they might not have much longer to wait until there is a full house at Ibrox.\n\nScotland is set to remove most lockdown restrictions by August 9th, with national clinical director Jason Leitch previously claiming that stadiums could be full from this date [Daily Record].\n\nBut given the sizeable jump plenty of fans are sceptical as Rangers supporters railed against the latest guidelines which will see only 2000 fans in Ibrox for Flag Day on July 31st:\n\n2000 can cram into Dumbarton’s stand with 0 social distancing, that’s OK.\n\nYou could have 10,000 in Ibrox, each fan could be spaced roughly 5 seats apart, but that’s not OK.\n\nHave always tried to stay well clear of politics on here for obvious reason but to allow 2000 fans maximum seems ridiculous given that many more were allowed inside Hampden & Murrayfield recently.\n\nNow that we're in level zero only 2000 fans are allowed in stadiums.\n\nOn what planet does that even begin to make sense?\n\nA flat 2000 people in football stadiums in level 0 is a joke, especially after the euros. I know there are considerations like travel etc but no willingness at all to engage on solutions is typical of the Scottish Government’s general contempt for football fans\n\n2000 no matter how big your stadium is? Aye, that makes sense. pic.twitter.com/LWjZlXDC4C\n\nMeanwhile, Rangers fans have been branding Old Firm rivals Celtic “tinpot” for taking a jibe at the Ibrox club as part of their latest kit launch." ]

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[ null, "The govt. fears students have either lost interest in studies or dropped out due to discontinuation of teaching schedule\n\nThe govt. fears students have either lost interest in studies or dropped out due to discontinuation of teaching schedule\n\nAfter the loss of two back-to-back academic sessions due to COVID-19 pandemic, about 30% of students are now found not attending schools in primary, secondary and higher secondary classes in Odisha.\n\nThe disturbing trend came to the fore when the State Government reopened schools after normalcy was restored and started checking attendance sheets.\n\n“On analysis of the daily attendance figure provided by the District Education Officers, it is seen that about 70% of students are attending the classes. However, on detailed analysis the figure, it is seen that the attendance in Class-I to Class-V in case of districts like Malkangiri, Boudh, Gajapati, Sambalpur and Nuapada is less than the State average, ”said Bishnupada Sethi, School and Mass Education (SME) Secretary.\n\nMr. Sethi said this was not at all a healthy sign of students not attending schools despite the government making provisions for midday meal and implementing learning recovery plan.\n\nIn order to compensate for the learning loss, the State Government curtailed summer vacation and rescheduled school timing from 6.00 am to 9.00 am The program is being religiously tracked from block level.\n\n“Similarly, in the case of attendance for Class-VI to Class-VIII, the performance of districts like Malkangiri, Boudh, Sambalpur, Nuapada is also less than the State average,” says the analysis.\n\nAs per the SME department, in the secondary wing, the performance of districts like Gajapati, Balangir, Bargarh, Sonepur, Nuapada, Cuttack, Khordha, Koraput, Ganjam, Boudh, Malkangiri, Keonjhar and Sambalpur is behind the State average.\n\nThe overall attendance in higher secondary classes is abysmally low in Gajapati, Sonepur, Baragarh, Kandhamal and Nuapada which is matter of concern.\n\n“It may so happen that these students who are not attending the offline classes might have dropped out or moved out along with their parents or lost interest in academic activities due to non-continuity of the teaching schedule due to the pandemic situation and many other reasons , which need analysis, ”Mr. Sethi emphasized.\n\nAs a matter of fact, it is observed that many students passing out from Class-VIII are not taking readmission in Class-IX and they might be dropping out.\n\n“Special care should be taken to get them admitted at secondary level in nearby schools. So we have to devise location-specific strategy to bring back the students to the classroom, ”the SME Secretary told District Collectors.\n\nIf the 30% absentees are extrapolated, the number of students not coming to schools could be in the range of 20 lakh. It is not yet known if the same set of students keeps bunking schools.\n\nAs the disturbing trend appears to be scaring, the education department has pressed the alarm bottom, asking field functionaries to conduct a micro-level survey at the school-level to list out the students who are not coming to school.\n\nAs part of a strategy to lure students to schools again, the collectors have been asked to instruct that “the junior teachers who are posted in schools may be sent to the houses of the absentee students to know the reason for their absence from the school.”\n\nThese junior teachers should also motivate the students and their parents to send their ward to the school and explaining its benefit and steps taken by government to provide free books, free uniform, MDM and scholarship to students and bicycles.\n\nSchool Management Committees, Panchayati Raj institution representatives and village-level committees should be roped in to bring students back to schools, Mr. Sethi said.\n\nRecently, the Odisha Government received another jolt when over 43,000 students did not turn up for writing the final examination of Class-X, considered an important milestone in one’s academic career." ]

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[ null, "Buy a license activation key for Windows XP Professional - if you are used to using only high-quality and most importantly proven software for years, then it is best for you to pay attention to the Windows XP Professional operating system, since it has certainly passed the test of time, and there is no need to talk about quality, because it the best! The system was able to achieve such great heights not in a short period of time, but over the decades that it existed on the market. Year after year, the OS won back its place under the sun, exactly until it was able to capture a large share of it and it had absolutely no competitors left. But the developers from Microsoft did not stop there, as they continued to improve their brainchild and as a result, we have the opportunity to use software this hour: incredibly powerful, very versatile and original - which has no analogues in the whole world.\n\nMany of you know that at the moment one of the oldest operating systems in the world is Windows XP, as it has been used by most computer and laptop users over the past three decades… It is for this reason that at this hour it is not so difficult to buy a Windows XP Professional activation key in order to start using such a well-known operating system without much difficulty. It is clear that it may seem to some of the users that at the moment using such an OS is a very stupid activity, since it is outdated, but if you look into it, it is not so! The main advantage of XP is that because of its long stay on the market, it was able to leak wherever it is possible and now, just as there is no way to take and immediately abandon it, because it works: a bunch of servers, ATMs, payment terminals, etc.. Thus, it becomes clear that the use of this type of OS will last for quite a long time.\n\nIt is also worth noting the fact that it is the Windows XP operating system that is one of the simplest and most accessible for any user, because everything is done for \"people\" in it and it is simply not necessary to say that something is not clear here. Here, everything is very simple, both works and is configured, so this is exactly what you need and it will be difficult to argue with it…\n\nDespite the fact that you are looking at a \"Professional\" version of the system, many users decide to buy Win XP directly in this edition, since it is considered that this is the most optimal OS option for training any person on a PC. Of course, there are no over-the-top options that are present in newer versions of Windows systems, but even so, there is a \"foundation\" that will give a foundation to any user to understand how it all functions and how to manage it all.\n\nEveryone who is the first to encounter such a system notes that it is very modern and for the most part, it is incredibly convenient to use in work. And this, as you know, says a lot, because such statements are the opinion of those who were able to work with the OS and are not going to abandon it yet.\n\nDo not forget that this operating system has the ability to work with various software, which is used to this day by a colossal number of users who are not going to abandon it, especially under new OS versions, updated software has not been released and its developers are not going to do it. It turns out that on the one hand, you will seem to have the opportunity to use a system that is not super modern, but on the other hand, it is able to offer you something to launch that its modern colleagues in the workshop will certainly not be able to cope with.\n\nIf you buy Windows XP Professional, you will notice that there will be no restrictions in choosing the direction of work here at all, since the system gives the user 100% freedom for decisions and actions. This is incredibly convenient, because in this scenario, the workspace can be used both for entertainment purposes and for creating any project, and most importantly, the project being created can be both very small and medium, and perhaps very large in terms of its scope. Here, only you decide how and what to create and how it will look in the future. The system is ideal for training purposes and for workers, since the following options are initially embedded in it:\n\nThus, the seemingly outdated operating system is a powerful enough tool that can be useful to any of you. That's why, if you think about buying an operating system that is the most \"proven\", then it's worth Windows XP to buy a license and once and for all forget about what torments users who have not yet decided in their choice.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Abercrombie & Kent has grown in eight years from handling one cruise line to now servicing 17 brands in Australia with award-winning land programmes, David Vass, svp global cruise business and operations, told Seatrade Cruise News.\nVass, who has been holding ‘cruise team appreciation days’ in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane for A&K/Akorn staff, said the company estimates it will handle more than 485 turnarounds in Australia next year.\nHe said this segment of the business generates jobs for 350 people in Sydney and 1,000 around the country.\nVass is also meeting with senior cruise executives before leaving Sydney next Tuesday to attend the annual Cruise Down Under conference in Darwin September 2-4. He is presenting the executives with copies of ‘Safari,’ A&K founder Geoffrey Kent’s memoir, which is currently No. 1 bestseller on Amazon in the travel division.\nVass, who has been discussing best practice standards with staff for Australia’s upcoming 2015/16 wave season, said everyone is excited about A&K’s ‘The Botanical Ark’ being short-listed for the 2015 Seatrade Cruise Innovative Shorex of the Year Award to be announced on September 9 at Seatrade Europe. He is travelling to Hamburg for the conference after leaving Darwin.\nCopyright © 2022. All rights reserved. Seatrade, a trading name of Informa Markets (UK) Limited.\nTAGS: shorex people tour operator\n0 comments\nHide comments\nRelated" ]

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[ null, "Premier Li Keqiang heads a meeting on Sept 22, for a briefing of the report by the State Council investigation team on the Tianjin warehouse explosion on Aug 12.[Photo/China News Service]" ]

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[ "Who says you can't grow raspberries in Florida!\n\nWe've always called them 'black caps' but most people know them as black raspberries.\n\nWhen Ralph and I lived on Cape Cod, picking (and eating!) blackcaps was one of our favorite things to do when the fruit ripened in early summer. Black caps canes grew wild all along the edge of wooded areas. To protect ourselves from the plants' prickly thorns, we'd don long-sleeve shirts and jeans before heading out to the woods to gather our bounty.\n\nAnd what a bounty it was! Small but sweet with slightly tart overtones, wild black caps were the perfect fruit to usher in the start of Cape Cod's short but welcome warm weather season.\n\nFast forward several years. We moved to Florida in 1987 and found ourselves needing to learn a whole new way of gardening. We were told by experts that so many of the plants we loved in New England would simply not grow in Central Florida's semi-tropical climate.\n\nFor a long time we believed the experts, but that changed about four years ago when a friend who knew how much Ralph missed his berry fix suggested we try planting Mysore raspberries.\n\nMysore raspberry is a large scrambling shrub native to the lower Himalayas that has adapted well to Florida's limestone or acid sandy soil. Our friend gave Ralph a young plant to begin with and in just one growing season that small start sent out many new shoots and grew considerably taller.\n\nAt maturity, Mysore raspberries top out between 10 to 15 ft tall, which, after four years of growing, is about the height of the multi-caned plants now thriving in Ralph's garden.\n\nYesterday I went into the garden to check on the raspberries. I brought my camera with me because a few days before when I was there (without my camera) I noticed many bees on the raspberry flowers. I wanted to see if they were there again.\n\nSure enough, they bees were busy buzzing around the pinkish-purple blooms flying from one pretty blossom to another as I followed them with my camera.", null, null, null, null, null, "When I finished taking pictures, I gathered a small handful of ripe berries to give my husband. Mysore raspberries aren't nearly as prolific as their New England relatives but they still provide a tasty treat for Florida berry lovers.\n\nWhile Ralph loves the berries, for me it's all about the wildlife and I was more than delighted to see not only such beautiful flowers on the Mysore plants, but to find so many pollinators attracted to the bushes.\n\nIf you're a northern transplant who misses growing raspberries, consider adding some Mysore raspberries to your garden. Below are two nurseries that sell Mysore raspberries. If you decide to order some or already have a bed of black caps in your garden, let me what you think of the fruit and how they're doing. Experts tell us one thing, but those of us experimenting in our own backyards are the ones who really know what works and what doesn't.\n\nThe more we learn from each other, the better gardeners we all become.", null ]

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[ "How To Be More Charming", null, "Sure, everyone knows blunt, impolite, and even rude people who are somehow extremely successful. But since we're all more likely to do business and build professional and personal relationships with people we like, we're naturally drawn to people who are polite, modest, agreeable, kind. In short, people who are charming. I know a bunch of them too, and here's how they do it:\n\n1. They always show they're genuinely glad to meet you. When you feel someone \"gets\" you, respecting your opinion, your point of view, your experience--whatever you're communicating--then you naturally feel more important. The other person doesn't have to agree with you; they just have to show they respect you. How?\n\nThey maintain eye contact. They smile when you smile. They frown when you frown. They nod your head when you nod. In simple, nonverbal ways, they mimic your behavior--not slavishly, but because they're focused on what you're saying. That feedback loop helps two people bond--and the ability to bond is the essence of charm.\n\n2. They sometimes show a little vulnerability. Two Masters of the Business Universe meet for the first time. Instantly, they play an unstated but nonetheless obvious game of \"Who's More Successful?\" They work hard to one-up the other. After all, life is about winning, right?\n\nCharming people don't try to win any unstated competitions with people they meet. In fact, they actively try to lose. They're complimentary. They're impressed. They're even willing to admit a weakness or a failure.\n\nIt's really easy. Say you meet Admiral Trump and he says, \"I just closed a fabulous deal to build the world's best golf course on the most amazing oceanfront property on the planet.\" Don't try to win. Instead say, \"That's awesome. I'm jealous. I've wanted to build a small recreation facility for years, but can't line up the financing. How did you pull off such a huge deal?\"\n\nCharming people are confident enough to be unafraid to show a little vulnerability. They know that while some people may be, at least temporarily, impressed by what's artificial, everyone sincerely likes and appreciates the genuine.\n\n3. They consistently search for agreement instead of contradiction. We're trained to discuss, to challenge, to advocate for the devil, because exchanging opinions, especially different opinions, is how we separate the wheat from the idea chaff. Automatic agreement doesn't help.\n\nCharming people don't actively (or unknowingly) look to disagree; they look for points of agreement. Then, if it's appropriate, they gently share a different point of view--and in that way, help create an outstanding conversation.\n\n4. They (selectively) use the power of touch. Touch can influence behavior, increase the chances of compliance, make the person doing the touching seem more attractive and friendly, and can even help you make a sale.\n\nFor example, in one experiment the participants tried to convey 12 different emotions by touching another blindfolded participant on the forearm. The rate of accuracy for perceiving emotions like fear, anger, gratitude, sympathy, love, and disgust ranged from 43 percent to 83 percent--without a word being spoken.\n\nSay you're congratulating someone; shaking hands or (possibly better yet, depending on the situation) patting them gently on the shoulder or upper arm can help reinforce the sincerity of your words.\n\n5. They often dine out on their foibles. Charming people willingly admit their mistakes. They don't mind serving as a cautionary tale. They don't mind being a source of laughter, for others and for themselves.\n\nAnd they're also not afraid to look a little silly. Skating in a cowboy outfit may be a little extreme, but charming people don't mind occasionally being in a situation where they aren't at their best.\n\n(And oddly enough, people tend to respect them more for that--not less.)\nWhen you own your foibles, people don't laugh at you. They laugh with you. And they realize it's OK to let down their own guards and meet you at a genuine level.\n\n6. They're masters of social jiu-jitsu. Some people have a knack for getting you to talk openly yourself. They ask open-ended questions. They sincerely want to know what you think, and that makes you open up to a surprising degree. You feel like the most interesting man (or woman) in the world. And you like them for making you feel that way.\n\nAs soon as you learn something about someone, ask why they do it. Or how. Or what they like about it, or what they've learned from it. Charming people ask sincere questions that make it easy to answer in a thoughtful, introspective way. They make you think, in a good way, about yourself, and in the process make you feel charming too.\n\nCharming people treat everyone the same way: as deserving of respect and kindness.\n\n8. They're great with names. If there's anything worse than that sinking feeling you get when you forget someone's name, especially someone's name you really should remember, it's realizing that another person has forgotten your name--and maybe doesn't even remember who you are.\n\n9. They never name drop. I have a friend who somehow manages to squeeze the fact he once met Jeff Gordon into every conversation. \"I'm planning to weather treat my deck this weekend,\" I'll say. \"You know, I was sitting on my deck last weekend listening to the race...Jeff Gordon was leading for a while but he had engine trouble. If I know Jeff Gordon--and I do--I bet he was really disappointed.\"\n\nCharming people may know cool people, but they don't talk about it. And that only adds to their charm.\n\n10. They always say less. Charming people already know what they know. They want to know what you know. And that makes you feel important. Because you are!\n\nGet on the right path to achieve your full potential! Focus on personal development to improve your life. Book a free strategy session today at http://www.denisedema.com\n\nSource: Inc\nEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest\n\nLearn How To Stay Positive\n\nMany studies illustrate the importance of a positive mind for physical health, mental health, creativity, productivity, focus, discipline, fulfillment, imagination, and dedication. All of these benefits have a direct impact on living more fulfilling lives and experiencing better results in business.\n\nBrain scans show that a positive mind is much more active than a negative mind, and active in the areas critical for many of the benefits above. My focus here is on how to be more positive and if you are already in a positive state, how to enhance it further.\n\nBelow are a few approaches that may be helpful for you. Try them out and find what works for you.\n\nAcknowledge the negative thought.\n1. Choose to separate yourself from the negative thought and view it as separate from your true self.\n2. Become aware of your negative self talk and look at what triggers these thoughts?\n3. Determine if these thoughts are based on fact or are you just operating on unconscious reactions to things.\n4. Consciously decide which way of thinking will create a better outcome.\n\nLet go of thoughts that do not serve you.\n1. Don't let excuses control your mindset, let them go and replace them with productive thoughts.\n2. Then focus on what is most important to you and redirect your energy to better serve you.\n\nEnhance your positive mind-set by asking these questions.\n1. What is going well for me right now?\n2. What keeps my energy going?\n3. What values, natural gifts, or talents are present when I am feeling positive?\n4. Who else can I count on to share positive energy with me?\n5. Is there a place in my business or life, where I can tap into positive energy?\n6. How would being more positive at this moment benefit me?\n7. What changes can I make to put more focus on a positive mind-set?\n\nBy focusing on staying positive everyday in your professional and personal life, you will be able to achieve your full potential and enhance your life. Develop a positive mindset and be inspiring to others! Book a complimentary session today at http://www.denisedema.com/\n\nSpread positive energy throughout the world. Please share this with others who may benefit from reading this.\nEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest" ]

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[ "do you know me?\n\nEvery time we talk about something, we tend to talk as if we always know what we are talking about.\n\nFor example, when we talk of someone.", null, "She is such a bitch.\nShe talks like as if she never entered an educational system.\nShe is this.\nShe is that.\noh, my god! and look at her chew at that gum!\nDid you hear about her new boyfriend?\nWhy'dya think he picked her?!\nIt must be the money, the sex, and for whatever it's worth, I won't be like her!\nIt all boils down to one cliche...\"it takes one to know one\".\n\nhow can you say if the fruit is an apple? It's because you have a notion of what an apple is like. And so no matter how your friend insist on calling the orange apple, she just managed to change the name, but not the orange itself. Calling one something does not automatically makes that something into what you called it. Before I get carried away with the apples and the oranges, let me say my point...we can only label and say things that we have known. In the case of judging people, we cannot really know for sure. Human beings are unpredictable and unlike the mentioned fruits, there is no significant category for each and human being. Blame it on our awareness of ourselves. We are aware of who we are and thus, we gained the opportunity to change or enhance that part of ourselves that we think needs it. However, we may have awareness of other things and people, our perspective of our reality is not what they really are -- but we see them as we are.\n\nLet me expound on that.\n\nWe all have backgrounds and we all have our own unique molds. We share the same world and may meet the same people...but we look at them individually. There may be collective agreement on certain things like, the square has four sides and the world is round, however, in closely looking at reality, we all have a myriad of frame and individual understanding making the details of our present, past, and future an individualized reality that each of us can only own.\n\nLet's say marriage.\nSome people hate it.Others are happy with it. Some people, after a failed marriage are willing to try it again, some people would rather be dead than say the words \"I do\". Other people do so for money, others - because of obligation. Others do it as an escape from their current situation, other do it to save someone else's life. Some people marry out of need, others out of greed. Others do so, just because, few do so, for a very important reason. A marriage may take place with or without love, with or without needs, with or without consent...\nand I haven't gotten into the details yet.\n\nand so when we try to judge a person, we really judge ourselves. We get the illusion of knowing who she is when we unknowingly compare ourselves to that other person. The benchmark always, when we look at other people and things, is ourselves. The jewelry is nice. The picture is significant. The man is good-looking.\n\nso let me then be clear -- looking at other people and the world in general is really looking into a mirror...they just reflect a different face.\n\nEver notice something with people who are happy with who they are and what they have? They seldom complain of other people and of little things...it's because, they have nothing to complain about themselves ...\n\ni bid you a happy self-hunting. May you like what you find.\n\nEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest\nLabels: happy, illusion, judging, others, prejudice, reality, self" ]

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[ "With a fully-fledged selection of storage interfaces, smart layout decisions, and support for multiple productivity-enhancing expansion cards, the Asus Z87-Deluxe/Quad is an impressive motherboard that provides a number of worthwhile features for semi-professional users.\n\nFeaturing a pair of Thunderbolt 2 ports which are capable of connecting up to a dozen storage devices, or a number of high-resolution display products, Asus’s Z87-Deluxe/Quad provides users with support for Intel’s up-and-coming high-speed interface. Perhaps the only issue with Asus’s implementation of the 20Gbps ports is the omission of an easy way to link the signal from a discrete GPU to the motherboard-based Thunderbolt 2 connections.\n\nWireless connectivity of the motherboard is also strong, thanks to Asus’s inclusion of a fast 802.11ac WiFi adapter, Bluetooth 4.0 support, and an external NFC device. And when the tried-and-tested wire route is deemed preferable, users can call upon the pair of Gigabit Ethernet adapters from Intel and Realtek.\n\nLayout of the motherboard’s connections and expansion slots is very good. There is space to install a pair of triple-slot graphics cards without causing major interference headaches. The VRM and chipset heatsinks are also short enough to avoid fouling most large CPU coolers. Distribution of the fan headers is excellent and should make cable management a simple task.\n\nAs far as UEFI BIOS interfaces go, Asus’s is one of (if not) the best. The interface is attractive, easy to understand, and well laid out. Most importantly, the interface’s functionality is excellent. I did not encounter any questionable readings or blatant mistakes, nor were any concerns raised regarding voltage and frequency configurations. Thanks to the functional and stable interface, overclocking performance for the Z87-Deluxe/Quad is equivalent to the other Z87 motherboards that we have tested with our retail 4770K.\n\nPriced at £237.76 from Amazon, the Asus Z87-Deluxe/Quad is not a cheap Z87 motherboard by any stretch of the imagination. But given the vast quantity of features crammed into the board, as well as the pair of high-speed Thunderbolt 2 ports, it is easy to understand why the board sells for just under £240.\n\nFor those reasons, we think that Asus’s Z87-Deluxe/Quad is an excellent choice for users who will value the pair of Thunderbolt 2 ports, as well as the host of accompanying features.\n\nKitGuru says: If you’re in search of a feature-heavy, Thunderbolt 2-equipped motherboard, Asus’s Z87-Deluxe/Quad is an excellent choice. And its price tag is competitive too.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Chances are, if you like city builders, then you also like Anno. Ubisoft’s long-running series of historically-themed builders has been reliably good fun, and on June 25, you’ll be able to play four classic entries in the series, updated for modern computers.\n\nThe Anno History collection includes 1701, 1602, 1503 and 1404, all of which have been updated for resolutions of up to 4K, with expanded multiplayer and matchmaking functionality. If you have the original games, then the save game will continue over, and you’ll also get soundtracks and wallpapers as a bonus. Finally, Anno 1503 has been updated to have an official online multiplayer mode.\n\nIn addition, if you just want one of the four titles, you will be able to purchase them separately. The only downside and catch is that the collection will be available exclusively on the Ubisoft Store… A Steam or itch.io version would have been appreciated, folks." ]

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[ null, "Are you an enthusiastic person when matters come to the topic of an old prominent actress? If yes, then you will probably want to read this article. The article concerns a prominent actress of 1940s, Marge Champion. She is an American dancer, choreographer, and stage actress, best known as the former wife of Gower Champion.\n\nWho is Marge Champion? (Bio & Wiki)\n\nThe talented American actress, Marge Champion was born on 2 September 1919 in Los Angeles, California, The USA. As a matter of fact, her birth name is Marjorie Celeste Belcher. Likewise, she belongs to white ethnicity and holds an Ameican nationality, Moreover, she was born under the birth sign, Virgo. She was born to a Hollywood dance director, Ernest Belcher and his wife, Gladys Lee Baskette.\n\nNot to mention, she began dancing at an early age and became a ballet instructor when she was just 12 years old. However, there is no information about her education.\n\nAs an actress, she used to have a slim body figure. Marge Champion height is 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 M) however her exact weight and body measurements are still unknown. Moreover, her eye color is brown and her hair is blonde. Not to mention, she is highly conscious of a balanced diet.\n\nFurthermore, her age is 99 years old as of 2019. Despite her age, she is still energetic and healthy.\n\nMarge Champion started her career as a dancer. She danced in MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s which includes Show Boat (1951) and Everything I Have Is Yours (1952). Likewise, she started her career as an actress when by starring in the 1937 film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, she starred in many films until now. Some of the films that she played are:\n\nShe won The Douglas Watt Lifetime Achievement Award at the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards in 2013.\n\nThe 99 years old actress and dancer is a widow. Marge Champion married Boris Sagal on 1 January 1977 until his death in an accident on 22 May 1981. They don’t have children together but she becomes the stepmother to Boris’ four children, Katey, Jean, Liz, and Joey.\n\nPreviously, she was married to a dancer, Gower Champion in 1919 and divorced in 1980. The two of them shares two sons, Blake and Gregg Champion.\n\nMarge Champion net worth is estimated to be in between $3 Million to $5 Million as of 2019. She collected this hefty sum of money through her career as an actress. Likewise, she adds some of the money to her net worth from dancing and choreography. Being involved in the film industry from the 1930s to present, she has performed in many hit films and Tv series until now. However, there is no information about her exact salary and yearly income." ]

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[ null, "He is trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for mood disorders and anxiety disorders, as well as individual and couple psychotherapy.\n\nHe was appointed as Clinical Adjunct Associate professor in College of Medicine and Health Science of RAK University from 2009 to 2020 and he was actively involved in teaching medical students and interns.\n\nDr. Riadh contributed in research projects in collaboration with members of the Academic Department of College of Medicine and Health Science, RAK University. He has conducted in association with the college of Medicine several research works ended up by several publications.\n\nDr. Riadh was the consultant in-charge and head of psychiatry department in Obeidalla Geriatric Hospital and he was the lead consultant of the Community mental Health Services and Day Therapy for several years.\n\nDr. Riadh been a regular speaker in national and international conferences, increasing psychiatric awareness in media and Journals and has multiple publications in international medical journals.\n\nDr. Riadh is fluent in Arabic and English." ]

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[ "Breaking News\nThe weight of the world\nAmerica has a long history of forced sterilization\nRBI appoints former Union Bank executive as PMC Bank administrator\nThe \"inactive & # 039; the ingredients in your pills may harm you\n26 Sep, 2020\nSkip to content\n\nSales forecasters continue to believe that variable pay is the root cause of poor sales behavior, ie the self-help approach, \"all that is needed\", which would require salespeople to sell to their customers something something that would not be profitable to them.\n\nFor reasons I do not understand, those who write about a misalignment between the salesperson and their client's objectives seem to suggest that the salesperson has practically no moral intelligence and absolutely does not care about his reputation and future sales. By reading them, they seem to believe that the customers these sellers are calling for are not sophisticated and are not able to recognize someone who sells them something that will not be of any benefit to them even they decide it by consensus, with many people on their team looking for the solution – and the salesman and the sales organization soliciting them.\n\nIn a shocking and daring lack of coherent thinking, these same commentators will tell you that buyers have all the information they need to make decisions, that they no longer need sellers and that the balance of power in the relationship is very heavily weighted towards the buyer. , the seller being nothing other than a racing boy or a racing girl. This while the sellers continue to evolve to become something much more than \"the ground man\", and that now creates greater value than ever before in the history of commercial sales.\n\nIt is not variable compensation that encourages salespeople to behave badly. Nor is it the reason why executives behave badly or thieves misbehave. It is a weak moral intelligence, something that is found in all populations, with no evidence of greater representation in sales than in any other human activity, let alone in all B2B sales, where self-orientation is expensive Percentage can be evidence that most sellers are not just money consumers who are willing to do \"all that is needed\".)\n\nIt is unlikely that managers with variable pay will insist that their companies ensure that there is no variable compensation in the form of a purity test before purchasing their products.\n\nWinston Churchill has already described democracy as the worst form of government, with the exception of all others. Whatever the crime committed, one can condemn a variable compensation, when different results are possible, a variable compensation is necessary. If two people produce very different results, paying them the same thing would be unfair, just as situations in which a company produces better results can make them pay better prices than those that their competitor can command.", null, "Learn to sell without a sales manager. Download my free eBook!\n\nYou must make sales. You need help now. We have you covered. This eBook will help you capture your business destiny, with or without a manager.\n\nHow to differentiate your business model – the sales blog" ]

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[ "I’m willing to travel far and wide in search of a good meal, but going south of the river can be a stretch even for me. This can be the only reason why I haven’t tried the burgers from Mother Flipper before now. This stand serves up some highly regarded burgers at Brockley Market on Saturday afternoons, but until the end of November they also have a small pop-up diner inside The Black Heart pub in Camden. Mother Flipper doesn’t accept cards, but the friendly folk behind the bar will happily give you cashback when you buy a drink.\n\nOn my first visit to Mother Flipper, I tried out the intriguingly named Double Candy Bacon Flipper – otherwise known as a double bacon cheeseburger. This two patty burger has the addition of bacon that’s apparently been caramelised, where presumably the bacon has been coated in sugar and then cooked at high temperature so that the sugar melts and breaks down, covering the meat in a layer of burnt sweetness. This sweetness shouldn’t be overpowering, but the sweetness of the meaty rashers here wasn’t as strong as I was expecting and was too subtle for its own good.\n\nThe patties themselves were not bad, but a tad underwhelming. Cooked medium, the thin, moderately coarse patties were moist but lacking in both flavour and texture. The brioche buns did a surprisingly good job of holding everything together with only a minimal amount of pickles spilling out.", null, "Note to the noisy sods at the neighbouring table: please sod off.\n\nThe fries were solid chunks of thinly cut potato and were soft both on the inside and the outside. A touch salty, some still had skin attached giving a slight leathery quality. Not bad, but ultimately forgettable.", null, "-What are you?\n-I’m McDonald’s reckoning…\n\nIf I hadn’t gone back to the Mother Flipper pop up a second time then I would have concluded that its reputation was undeserved. Thankfully the burgers were a lot better the second time around.\n\nThe plain cheese burger had a much thicker patty that was smoothly ground but had a pleasingly chewy edge to it. This is apparently due to the kitchen grinding the meat twice (apparently only half of the beef is ground the second time around in an attempt to maintain a consistent texture).\n\nThe meat was cooked medium rare and it’s certainly juicy with a quivering pink core and is lightly seasoned. It’s complimented nicely by the crisp vegetables, the creamy American cheese and the sweet ketchup. However, the bottom half of the brioche bun, which was noticeably more buttery this time around, was too thin and quickly became soggy from all the meat juices.", null, "The Chilli Flipper is essentially identical to the cheese burger with the addition of jalapeños which are more tart and acidic than spicy. According to the chef, the Chilli Flipper was originally a lot spicier until customer demand for a tamer ‘chilli’ burger gave birth to the current version.", null, "In other words, this is all your fault.\n\nI like Mother Flipper in spite of myself. I’m concerned about the consistency of the cooking, from the patties to the buns, and neutering the chilli burger to suit the lily-livered proletariat doesn’t still well with me. However, when they are at their best the burgers are something to behold. If they can maintain this level of quality then I may find myself in Brockley more often than is good for me. A cautious four stars.\n\nand until the end of November The Black Heart, 2-3 Greenland Place, London NW1 0AP\n\nTotal cost for one person: Approx. £6 per burger." ]

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[ null, "PHOTO BY SYDNEY B. WERTHEIM\n\nThe young women from Youth Options Unlimited had never performed, let alone danced, in front of a crowd before. Yet they found themselves at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, set to perform a number built on their experiences living in Boston.\n\nFor the previous five days the young women had practiced their performance in collaboration with a traveling research residency called “My City, My Body: or if Concrete Could Talk, or for those that might be traumatized.”\n\nWith the guidance of Destiny Polk, founder of the art-activist platform Radical Black Girl, the participants wrote poems, discussed their stories, and vented about problems impacting both Boston and themselves.\n\n“Destiny’s project … gives young females opportunity to explore, and address their experiences as black and brown girls in Boston while developing their muscle of communication and self-advocacy in a deep and protracted way,” D. Farai Williams, the artistic director of Madison Park Development Corporation, told DigBoston.\n\nRead the entire article as it originally appeared in DigBoston here." ]

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[ "Now a writer’s retreat, this lakeside custom home located in Southern England is a restored and remodeled Victorian boathouse.\n\nThe home restoration was designed by London architect Alex Cochrane and and features an open-plan interior and a cantilevered balcony that floats out over the lake. The converted boathouse overlooks a serene lake in the deep South of England where a royal boat keeper once slept centuries ago. The residence was built by home builder Robert’s Building Company, Surrey.\n\nThe Boathouse by Alex Cochrane Architects", null, "The architects made a point to maintain the historical beauty of the boathouse and its original timber structure. When remodeling the interior, the architects gutted everything but the home’s A-frame timber beams, which they sandblasted and restored to pristine condition. The new home features large casement windows and roundel windows that open the roof up to much more natural light than originally allowed. Oak veneer panels and Dinisen Douglas fir floorboards are featured throughout the home, and Carrara marble slabs were used in the kitchen and bathrooms.\n\nThe Boathouse is located on the lake of Virginia Water in Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, England. Windsor Great Park was, for many centuries, the private hunting ground of Windsor Castle and dates primarily from the mid-13th century. Now largely open to the public, the parkland is a popular recreation area for residents of the western London suburbs.\n\nView more photos and learn more about The Boathouse.\n\nAdd Some Coastal Color to Your Custom Home" ]

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[ null, "These are official channels. I wonder how much of money was moved using unofficial and illegal methods like hawala.\n\nIndia has displaced China and Mexico to become the top remittance receiving country in the world, according to latest data released by the World Bank. Indians working in foreign countries sent back over $25.7 billion (roughly Rs 1,28,500 crore) as remittances in 2006, followed by Mexico ($24.7 billion), China ($22.5 billion) and the Philippines ($14.9 billion).\n\nTo put the scale of the remittances in perspective, consider this: money received by India through this route is roughly the same as the country’s total estimated annual expenditure on defence, or about five times the estimated expenditure on education in 2007-08. Total income tax and wealth tax collections in the country are less than the remittances received. And they are over three times the foreign direct investment in the country in 2006.\n\nSheer numbers and relatively higher skill levels appear to be driving the growth in Indian remittances. The World Bank study estimates that the number of Indian immigrants is about 10 million. Mexico and Russia are the top immigrant sending countries with an estimated 11.5 immigrants each." ]

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[ "It is not often in popular media that we come across smart and powerful independent women who don’t play second fiddle to an ultra-powerful patriarch (Wonder Woman and Superman) but comic books are one such place that you have something for everyone. There are queens in this reality that bow to no one, especially not other superheroes and these women are truly the ones standing atop the food chain. So here are 15 queens from Marvel and DC comic books that are so powerful that they’ll scare the socks off ya.", null, "One of the more famous X-men, Storm is revered as a Goddess because of here weather controlling powers. There have been cults that have worshipped her as such. A goddess to a queen sounds like a downgrade, but this woman is no ordinary queen. In the comics, storm and black panther fell in love and got married, making Storm the rightful queen of Wakanda. I mean wasn’t it enough that this country had a panther for a king, now they want a weather controlling deity too?", null, "Born from a statue made by Hippolyta, Wonder Woman was born when Zeus infused the said statue with life. She is not only considered to be a child of Zeus but she’s also Princess Diana, the next queen of Themascara and the leader of the Amazons. It’s not that Wonder Woman needs an army, I mean she’s a planet buster for Christ sake, but it’s more, that a queen has an army and the army goes where the queen says. This powerhouse leader of the Amazons is a worthy addition to our list.", null, "Shi’ar empire is one of those that instantly reeks of feud and conflict whenever you talk about it in the Marvel universe. Until the place was finally taken over by Vulcan aka Gabriel Summers ( the estranged third Summers child) it was a place ravaged by war and evil. It all started when Deathbird (then empress of Shi’ar) murdered her mother and was exiled from her own empire. This is when D’ken took over and shit really went south.", null, "Differing a little from her classical iterations, Medusa still appears in the Inhumans series. She is their queen, their ruler/governor alongside Black Bolt. Before the battle of the kings these two ruled their territory with peace and now Medusa serves her duty as a widow. Her might and wrath are two things that no one in the inhuman community wishes to experience.\n\nIn DC Lore Mera is considered to be an equal (if not better) than Aquaman himself. The woman has nigh-unlimited strength, she controls the seas and even the water recognises her supremacy in every aspect. She is the one true queen of Atlantis and she rules her domain with absolute power. The seas bend to her will as their queen stands atop a beast commanding them to victory in every battle. Mera is one of the few queens on our list that usually outshines the protagonist.", null, "Directly out of Greek and Roman lore, Hippolyta is the queen of the Amazons and the mother of Wonder Woman. She is the woman who crafted the statue we now know as Wonder Woman. Other than being a literal God she also possesses prowess as a warrior on the battlefield and the skill to lead her people. Hippolyta is the true leader of the Amazons and did I mention she is immortal? Geez, talk about overkill.", null, "Born Koriand’r on the planet Tamran. Star fire came to earth while running from her sister. The power of this being is clear as she is arguably the strongest teen Titan. The cosmic level power and energy manipulation truly make Starfire one woman to look out for, not to mention her romance with Dick Grayson aka Nightwing. The chemistry between these two had been clear since the debut of Starfire (it even seeps into the animated movie). Regardless, Starfire is not someone you mess with and get off Scott free because this princess will knock you into the 5th dimension.", null, "Komand’r of Tamaran is the sister of Starfire and also a princess on her native planet. The sisters also share something else besides their royal inheritance, they both are extremely powerful and house deep hatred for each other. They are sworn enemies, the kind of hatred that ends in bloodshed. The impact is exponential because these women are so abundantly overpowered.\n\nOne of the few green lanterns hailing from the royal family. Iolande was a princess on her home planet of Betrassus, under her father King Nol. She is currently the green lantern of her home sector 1417, which she patrols as the part of green lantern corps. The entire premise suggesting of a literal watchful protector. Oh lord please provide us with such proactive leadership in real life too.\n\nIllyana Rasputin (born Illyana Nikolievna Rasputina) was born in the Ust-Ordynski Collective farm, near Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russian SFSR, the Soviet Union to Nikolai Rasputin and his wife Alexandra Natalya Rasputina. Illyana’s two older brothers, Mikhail Nikolaievitch Rasputin and Colossus are also mutants. Colossus’ superhuman powers manifest while saving Illyana from a runaway tractor. Illyana is a mutant who’s brought to the United States to be used as a weapon to put pressure on the x-men. It is only later that she is beckoned into limbo by Blasco (the tyrant demon who rules limbo) where she forges the soul blade, banishes Blasco and takes over limbo as it’s new ruler. Believe it or not but this woman is the most badass character on this list.", null, "Former Empress of the Skrull empire, R’Klll was known for her brutal and totalitarian mode of leadership. It was in her care that the Skrull empire turned into a warring state, constantly at conflict with the Kree empire. The Skrulls are known for their uncanny ability to shapeshift but that doesn’t stop this empress of our from being hideous and scary at the same time.", null, "Namor is known as the first mutant in the Marvel comics. His abilities and powers make him a formidable enemy and his rules over the deep sea make him a useful Ally. If Namor is the king then here we have his superior, the mother of Namor and the true queen of his realm. Only known in the comics as princess fen this is the woman who is attributed with the birth of Namor.", null, "Everyone remembers Ragnarök, right? Now that was a beautiful movie, it captured everything about the hulk and the S’kaar world so well. Maybe that was the movie’s purpose since fans had long been expecting a world war hulk movie. Unlike in the comics the Hulk never actually took over S’kaar. However, when he did in the comics CAIera was the woman who stood beside him as the supreme leader of S’kaar before her world collapsed into the hyperdrive explosion that the incredible hulk brought to the planet.", null, "In the Greek mythology, Artemis was said to be the sister and twin of Apollo. The goddess was known for two things, her prowess in archery and her exceptional medical skills. Albeit the Gods are immortal, but even these eyeball beings need some care. Queen Artemis is a DC iteration of the goddess or probably just a namesake of the Greek deity. The character is a ruler of a magical world and she even met booster gold once. She is arguably one of the more fancier imaginations of the DC comics writers.", null, "DC’s always had ambitious projects in the gamut of its commercial success. Consider them problem children. There was a point in history where DC used to have about 7 subsidiary comic brands under which they published the comics that they thought too ambitious for the main continuity. There was some dark stuff that came out of this arrangement. One such series was Hawkworld, a place full of malice and demons, Hawkwaorld was ruled by Queen shrike and first appeared in the 3 part mini-series published by DC between 1989 and 1993.", null ]

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[ null, "“I keep thinking of last Sunday’s showcase and the fantastic music you brought to the stage. Thank you all!!!”\nWarm regards,\n\nCowgirl’s Dream is the dream of singer/bass guitarist Kristi Nebel. The band specializes in western swing interspersed with the Americana songs of her husband, Steve Nebel, with the occasional cowboy song thrown in just to make things interesting. In an evening with “Cowgirl’s Dream” you can expect a little bit of diversity in that you can’t really have an accordion in a band without a polka now and then. Kristi is particularly enamoured of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, a number of their songs in the band repertoire. Kristi’s first solo CD has been nominated by the Academy of Western Artists for both best song and best female artist of 2014. The song, “Swingin’ In Tucson”, written by Joe Weihe, and Greg Scott is has been #1 on the Swingin’ West radio show out of Seymour, Texas.\n\nThe Nebels have been working together as professional musicians since the early 80s. They have done seven tours of UK folk clubs, and made their living playing dance music. Kristi ‘s vocal talents are always recognized immediately as an original voice skilled from years of working as a musician. She is also in demand as a bass player by other musicians, working in the studio as well as on the stage. Her early background as a performer is as an actress, and those talents were recognized in high school, and took her through a college education in theater.\n\nMs. Nebel seems to acquire a special amount of attention when she sings the Americana songs written by her husband, Steve. This doesn’t mean that heads don’t turn when she belts out her own rendition of Patsy Cline’s “Crazy”, or Hank Thompson’s “Six Pack to Go”.\n\nBesides the Nebels, the band is comprised of virtuoso, award winning accordionist/keyboardist Toby Hanson, and the well seasoned chops of drummer Mike Friel.\n\nIn a quick glance at their website one can find a four-year history of bookings including numerous community concerts and festivals.\n\nCowgirl’s Dream is an instant hit with audiences young, and old." ]

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[ null, "The basement of 32 Adams Street, Medford, where the student art show “Nasty Women x Tufts” is on display, is dim, but functional. White light fixtures are placed about the labyrinthine room; some hang from the low ceiling, nearly brushing atop heads. On the right-hand side, near the laundry machines, a projector is displaying School Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) dual-degree senior Oona Taper’s moving imagery: a cyclical, developing sketch of a woman’s face, strikes of color and black flashing through. Behind the projection is a dated television set displaying a surreal, edited compilation of Janet Jackson and Madonna videos by SMFA student Camiel Duytschaever titled janetfan4life. Screenshotted iMessages are printed and taped onto a board against the back wall. They are assorted texts the anonymous artist has received, and the saturation of their words evokes an image of the boys behind the screen as impatient, aggressive, and vulgar. Protest posters from the women’s march are propped near metal pipes. Pieces of embroidery are displayed side by side. One says, “I will not set myself on fire to keep you warm,” and another, “Fuck boys get pizza.” There are two different nude paintings, each with a strong body and an unaffected air. One, by sophomore Emma Herdman, is acrylic on cardboard, titled Not convenient for you not ashamed. It depicts a woman crouching with a hand coolly on her chin, the navy background filling the space of her spread thighs. A full poem on 8.5 x 11 paper hangs along the basement’s post—it is by Libby Langsner, titled, When I’m Alone I’ll Always Have the Moon.\n\nAround 9:45 PM, Angie Lou (A16) orates a harrowing poem, God is a 12-year-old girl. The lone microphone amplifies her deadpan tone over the now-silent crowd. “America is a swimming pool filled with spit,” she recites. Later, senior Céili Hale shares her comedy. In between speakers, the crowd haphazardly shuffles around to both examine the artwork and chat with one another. Naturally, the space becomes dual-functional: both art gallery and, for many, a social gathering.\n\n“Nasty Women x Tufts” was primarily organized by senior Cecily Lo. It was motivated, in part, by other student grassroots initiatives, as well as the Nasty Woman exhibition that started in Queens, and had sister pop-ups in cities across the United States. According to the mission statement on the show’s Facebook page, “Nasty Women x Tufts” was a response to the discriminatory policies of Donald Trump and his administration, as well as the hatred that he and his supporters promote. The statement describes it as an invitation “to join us in solidarity and protest through art. Throughout this event we hope to provide anyone who identifies as a NASTY WOMAN—regardless of age, race, religion, and sexual orientation, gender or non-gender identification, and economic background—with a space for personal expression.” In an interview with the Tufts Observer, Lo stated, “I was taking all the submissions I got in an effort to be as uncensored as possible.” The event was also a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood. According to Lo, the event raised just under $2,500, more than five times the expected amount.\n\nLiza Leonard, a senior who helped organize the event, told the Tufts Observer that “Nasty Women x Tufts” was inspired by Polykhrama’s first art show. Polykhroma is a student-run “independent curating collective,” according to their Facebook page, that “encourage[s] active engagement among our community with the arts.” Seven of the eight members previously worked together at the Tufts Art Gallery on the Students Relation Committee and started the group after realizing there wasn’t a space at Tufts conducive to exhibiting student artwork. The first show was held in a member’s basement in December 2016.\nIn a group interview with the Tufts Observer, Polykhroma members Sarah Kotis, Rotana Shaker, Estelle Tcha, Ella Huzenis, and Eran Sapaner described their intentions for the collective.\n“It’s not trying to be some sort of uptight endeavor; we’re trying to make it fun and accessible. We want to encourage engagement with art, making that a setting that people would want to go to and walk around and be a place to see performances.”\n\nThe group discussed the limitations of curators who are not part of the student body, and how this sometimes leads to lost nuances, and a misunderstanding of how to cohesively manipulate space. The curators prioritized the flow of the event, which reflected the group’s commitment to accessibility. Diverse contributing artists were thrilled with the size of the turnout, and the group was proud of the space they created. According to Kotis, “It was great to have a social event that was focused around something, and an event that was important and can spark conversations.”\n\nWhile “Nasty Women x Tufts” had more of an explicit political message, Leonard noted that Polykhroma’s December show created an atmosphere centered on the experience of the visitors. She said, “I think it was really successful and we saw that this was something at Tufts that was lacking. People are interested in going out and socializing, but not just standing around and drinking. They’re interested in talking about things and are interested in what other people are doing beyond just a frat party or a house party.”\nConflating the college nightlife scene with artist-oriented and expression-based projects is not unusual or ahistoric behavior, particularly in times of societal tension. The stigma of college parties as foolish spectacles has prevented many from recognizing the potential of these social spaces.\n\nHow Booze Built America, a 2012 docuseries from the Discovery Channel, discusses the role of the tavern in its premier episode, “America’s Revolution.” During colonial times, the tavern was an effective way to encourage trade amongst farmers and businessmen. A staple of colonial American culture, the tavern was a respected space that was both politically and socially important. And in Ancient Greece, discussions of the symposium, elite drinking events, were not ridiculed, but memorialized. This connection between alcohol, gathering, and critical thinking has transcended time in important ways. According to Quartz, over the weekend of January 26, 2017, French consulates in 30 cities across the world, including Brooklyn and Los Angeles, held a “Night of Ideas,” which the media referred to as “intellectual rave parties.” New student-focused initiatives led by Boston museums, such as the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art, that involve all-night, booze-incorporated events harken back to this coupling of social activity and provocative idea-sharing.\nUnlike the French consulate or a museum board of directors, the recent events emerging around campus operate independent of institutions. It is important to recognize that places like the cooperative-living Crafts House, the Arts House, and many other pockets of Tufts students, have been hosting art-focused gatherings for decades. In correspondence with the Tufts Observer, Crafts House resident and junior Nicole Joseph describes some of the fun items, from large puppet heads to cockroach murals, displayed at their events. “We like to create a lot of art for the parties, which we think showcase the spirit of the house,” She said. “We like to provide an inclusive and fun time for all. We hope to be a place where people can cut loose and hang out with their friends and get to know new people.”\n\nOn the other end of the spectrum are sororities and fraternities, which no longer occupy the epicenter of campus social life. The recent suspension of virtually all Greek life activity is a historic moment in Tufts’ history, and it is interesting to see which spaces have emerged to fill some of the gaps. Increases in local bar-hopping are now being matched by events like Nasty Women x Tufts, Polykhroma, all-night techno dance parties, and house parties turned into Planned Parenthood fundraisers. Within the Tufts student body, social gatherings are often associated with wealth and exclusivity (just like the school itself), but increasingly, students are seeking spaces to gather in imaginative, welcoming ways.\n\nPolykhroma’s student-oriented, inclusive structure seeks to disrupt convention in a different way. “We’re independent of Tufts, so that’s a really important part,” explained Shaker. “We are just people—we met through the Tufts Art Gallery—but we came together and didn’t want to have restrictions and everything imposed on us by Tufts as an institution. We try to make it clear we are not Tufts affiliated.”\n\n“I wanted it to be an alternative thing to do on campus,” said Lo about “Nasty Women x Tufts.” “Not a party, but also not a movie, or something you would do regularly. I was surprised because it brought together a lot of circles of people who you normally wouldn’t find at the same party. And I also think people are looking for something to do on campus. I felt really good being able to provide that to people, and from the feedback I heard, I feel like it was worth their time.”\n\nFrom art galleries to basement shows, there is a developing trend among Tufts students claiming independence in the spaces they can create. Seeing how a Somerville basement can be transformed into an art gallery, a comedy club, or a Berlin-like light show is a necessary reminder of the valuable potential of social space. In a time of seeming powerlessness, these reimagined spaces offer a meaningful way to harness the power of art and collaboration.\n\nWomen Take the Floor at the MFA" ]

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[ null, "While the main Skywalker Saga of films ended last year with The Rise of Skywalker, fans have considered the future of Star Wars to still be bright thanks to the introduction of The Mandalorian. The Disney+ original series not only helped attract subscribers to the new streaming service, but captivated long-time Star Wars fans with its unique tone and, of course, the gift that is Baby Yoda. The second season of The Mandalorian has already been filmed and confirmed for release this October, but now it seems new Mandalorian novels and comic book spinoffs will be coming as well.", null, "Lucasfilm announced its new Mandalorian novels and publishing program with a post on the official Star Wars blog. Characters from The Mandalorian, including Din Djarin and The Child themselves, will be brought to print platforms through a variety of publishing partners. One of the big highlights is a book, written by Phil Szostak with cover art and a foreward by Lucasfilm legend Doug Chiang, which will contain concept art used in the production of The Mandalorian series. There is also a Mandalorian: Ultimate Visual Guide book by Lucasfilm story member Pablo Hidalgo coming soon.", null, "On the narrative side of things, The Mandalorian novels will include an adult novel written by Adam Christopher and various novels for young adults and children. Also promised is a Mandalorian Marvel Comics series published by IDW Publishing. There will also be activity and coloring books for the youngest Baby Yoda fans released by numerous partners like Crayola.\n\nCurrently, there are no specific details about these spinoffs, but they very well may play into the storylines coming with Season 2 later this year, which is expected to see the return of favorite characters like Ahsoka Tano and Boba Fett. These book spinoffs though should provide some needed distraction during these times, and help build on The Mandalorian’s universe. This is the way.\n\nAre you guys going to check out The Mandalorian novels and comic books when they arrive? Let us know in the comments below! Be sure to stay tuned for the latest Star Wars news, such as Simon Pegg’s interest in reprising his role as Dengar in The Mandalorian, here on Don’t Feed the Gamers! Follow us on Twitter to see our updates the minute they go live!", null, null ]

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[ null, "Citizenship shopping is a growing trend. Many wealthy individuals are looking around the globe for a \"home\" that will give them better passports and tax treatment. Can anyone become Canadian? Irish? Maltese? If you deal with high-net-worth clients, you'll need to understand the issues involved.\n\nThe motives for seeking citizenship can be complex. They include a wish for political safety, freedom of travel, a healthy environment, tolerance, work opportunities and, of course, lower taxes.\n\nWhat are the advantages of citizenship over legal residency? Usually the ability to vote and (more importantly to most) to live there without risk of deportation. You also acquire a new passport, which may be easier to travel with—of great interest to wealthy individuals. On the downside, citizens are sometimes obligated to be available for military service.\n\nAs a general rule, countries award citizenship by tests of “dirt” (born physically in the country) or “blood” (one or more parents in whatever location). Some countries, like the United States, use both.\n\nBut there is a growing trend among governments across the globe to change these birth rules to prevent “less desirable” persons from gaining citizenship and to offer wealthy adults the right to purchase citizenship.\n\nThe United States is active at both ends of the market for citizenship. Donald Trump's popularity is based, in part, on a desire by many to deny citizenship to those born in the United States if their parents aren’t legal residents. At the same time, however, the U.S. is a player in the “citizenship for sale” game to lure wealthy foreigners with money to invest.\n\nWhat are some of the routes people take to change their nationality?\n\nOne of my Saudi friends in Riyadh mentioned that he and his wife would be gone for several months because she was pregnant and they wanted the baby to be born in Canada in order to be a Canadian citizen, ensuring they have the option of moving there in the future if needed. According to one source, only 30 countries give citizenship solely on account of being born there; of those, only two are developed countries: the United States and Canada.\n\nHong Kong also has the same birth destination problem and isn’t happy about it. Pregnant women from mainland China pay a broker for a hospital room so they can give birth in Hong Kong. A Hong Kong passport is much easier to travel with than one from mainland China. Mainland residents actually need a visa to enter Hong Kong. (Hong Kong has a different government from the mainland, using an overall theme of “one country, two systems.”) Increasingly, birth tourism from the mainland has caused tensions.\n\n“Medical care [in Hong Kong] is far superior to what is found in most of China,\" according to the New York Times. \"Chinese children born here automatically receive the right to permanent residency in Hong Kong, entitling them to 12 years of free education and other benefits that are not available to mainlanders, including visa-free travel to many foreign countries. Some parents also sidestep China’s family-planning rules, which limit most couples to one child, by having their second child born offshore.”\n\nHelping individuals shop for a new citizenship has become a big business. A leading firm, Henley & Partners, has 22 offices around the globe. On their website, they offer “citizenship planning: citizenship of choice.” For a direct path to acquiring citizenship through investor purchase programs, Henley promotes six countries: Austria, Antigua and Barbuda, Cyprus, Dominica, Malta and St. Kitts and Nevis. They not only promote those six countries, but also, in three of those cases, they actually created the program at the government’s request (Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis and Malta.)\n\nMalta (an island south of Sicily) has one of the more liberal programs. It requires an upfront cost of just under 900,000 euros (about $1 million). The benefits of Maltese citizenship include: the right to travel and work in the European Union (and Switzerland) and visa-free travel to another 166 countries. There’s a requirement to buy or rent a home (included in the cost), but being forced to buy a home in a beautiful locale isn’t all that tough to swallow for wealthy clients.\n\nFrom the law’s inception, selling potential citizenship to the rich struck many as a corruption of American ideals. But it’s bringing in money, and it should be noted that with the green card comes the obligation to pay U.S. federal income (and estate and gift) tax on all worldwide income - a feature not often mentioned in discussions about the program.\n\nBarbara R. Hauser is an attorney with over 25 of experience as an advisor to wealthy families around the globe.\n\nThis is an abbreviated version of the author's original article, \"Who Am I?\" in the November issue of Trusts & Estates." ]

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[ "A Beginner’s Guide to Poker", null, "Poker is a card game in which each player is dealt five cards. Each card has a rank. The higher card wins. In case of a tie, the high card breaks the tie. Typically, the five cards in a hand are ranked from Ace to King. Depending on the game, each card can be high or low.\n\nThe biggest decision a poker player makes is whether to play a hand. This decision must be based on whether the action has a positive expectation of winning, and if so, will it lead to long-term success. However, short-term luck can make the best decision a losing one. Hence, it is essential to develop good decision-making skills and learn how to be gracious with your losses.\n\nA player can discard up to three cards. For instance, if a player has two aces, he should check his hand. Another player may call his or her bet with three cards. Similarly, if a player holds a pair of kings, it is not bad. But, if you’re playing with two aces, you’re not in a good position.\n\nPoker is a popular game that’s played by both professional and amateur players. While it’s most often played in land-based casinos, there are also a number of people who play poker online. This popular card game originated in New Orleans in the late 1700s as a game of bluffing in which players try to beat the other players. It eventually spread across Europe and the world, and was brought to the New World by French settlers." ]

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[ null, "Japan Airlines (JAL) took delivery of its first Boeing [NYSE: BA] Next-Generation 737, a 737-800 that will seat 165 passengers in a two-class configuration. The airplane, which features stylish and energy-saving Blended Winglets, is one of 30 737-800s that JAL ordered in May 2005.\n\nSEATTLE – The airline selected the 737 because of its confidence in the airplane’s technology, flexibility, reliability, and economic and environmental performance. „This 737-800 represents another significant milestone in our long history with Japan Airlines,“ said Boeing Commercial Airplanes Vice President of Sales Larry Dickenson. „The 737 is the best airplane in its class for fuel efficiency, providing the lowest operating costs, and leads the industry in reliability.“\n\nThe Boeing 737-800 consistently places as the top-rated airplane in a key investor poll.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Disney+’s ‘Rise‘ follows the story of the struggles and success of the Antetokounmpo family. It begins with Charles and Veronica Antetokounmpo leaving their home in Lagos, Nigeria, and traveling to Greece in the hopes of giving a better future to their family. They have to survive many hardships and brave a lot of difficult situations, all the while living in the fear of deportation due to their undocumented status in the country. Growing up in a difficult financial situation, their children learn the life of hard work from their parents, which is what eventually leads them to an incredibly bright future.\n\nThe story of the Antetokounmpo family is deeply inspiring and encourages the viewer to keep at their dreams no matter how tough the road might seem. In the end, the film gives the audience a glimpse of the wonderful future of the family. If you are wondering where the Antetokounmpos and some other important characters in the film are now, we’ve got you covered.\n\nWhere is Giannis Antetokounmpo Now?\n\nHaving earned the name of the Greek Freak, Giannis currently plays for the Milwaukee Bucks, with whom he has stayed since 2013. Within a decade, he has established a rather illustrious career for himself. He is a two-time MVP, becoming the third player, after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James, to win the title twice before turning 26. In 2021, he broke the decades-long dry spell of his team and won the NBA championship.\n\nThe film gives the audience a teaser of Giannis’ budding relationship with Nike, with whom he re-signed in 2017 and released a new line of sneakers called Zoom Freak.\n\nGiannis credits his parents for his success and wears the number 34 in their honor. (His father was born in ’63 and his mother in ’64). In 2017, he started dating Mariah Riddlesprigger. The couple welcomed their first son, Liam, in 2020, and their second child, Maverick, in 2021. They live in Milwaukee, but also spend a lot of time in Giannis’ hometown in Greece.\n\nWhere is Thanasis Antetokounmpo Now?\n\nThanasis plays for the Milwaukee Bucks. He’d previously been drafted by the New York Knicks, but in 2019, he reunited with his brother, Giannis. In 2021, he won the 2021 NBA finals with the team. In June 2022, he exercised the player option on his contract, which secured him a payment of $1.88 million for the 2022-23 season.\n\nWhere is Kostas Antetokounmpo Now?\n\nKostas continued the success streak of the Antetokounmpos in basketball when he was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2018 NBA draft. Later traded to the Dallas Mavericks, he eventually found himself playing for the Los Angeles Lakers and won the NBA championship for the team in 2020. As of 2021, he is signed with LDLC ASVEL of the French Betclic Élite and the Euroleague.\n\nWhere is Alex Antetokounmpo Now?\n\nFollowing in the footsteps of his brothers, Alex Antetokounmpo is on his way to becoming an NBA star. He plays in the G League for the Raptors 905. He already has an NBA title under his belt, winning the Summer League championship for the Sacramento Kings in 2021. Alex also received honorary Greek citizenship in 2021.\n\nWhere is Francis Antetokounmpo Now?\n\nMuch like his brothers, Francis Antetokounmpo has a history in sports. He played semi-professional basketball and professional football. However, he didn’t completely immerse himself in the sports world. Instead, he has turned toward music, a thing that he is most passionate about. In 2020, he released his first single and hasn’t looked back since. He also contributed to the music of ‘Rise’, with two of his original songs featured in it.\n\nWhere is Charles Antetokounmpo Now?\n\nCharles Antetokounmpo died at the age of 54 of cardiac arrest. It happened in 2017, two years before Giannis became MVP. In honor of his father, the basketball player incorporated some unique elements into the Zoom Freak sneakers line. The left strap of the shoes has the phrase “I am my father’s legacy”. Giannis said, “I wanted my dad to be remembered. I wanted people to know that he left a legacy behind. The only thing he cared about was his kids. His legacy lives within us, me and my brothers. We take pride in that. Every shoe I make, that phrase is always gonna be there. It’s not going nowhere. … I know he’s looking from above and really happy with … the way the shoe came out.”\n\nWhere is Veronica Antetokounmpo Now?\n\nVeronica Antetokounmpo has a residence in Greece, the honorary citizenship which she received in 2021. She also spends a lot of time in Milwaukee, the team for which two of her sons play. She spends her time traveling and never misses any game, showing up to support and motivate her children, as she has always done.\n\nWhere is Coach Takis Zivas Now?\n\nCoach Takis Zivas lives in Zografou, Greece, where he trained the Filathlitikos for more than two decades. He retired from the position of head coach in 2016 but continues to foster local talent. With the success that his students, the Antetokounmpo brothers, have had, the coach finds it is easier to motivate children for the sport. “We all dreamed of him having a great career and playing on a high level. Today, he’s the motivation for young kids to be involved in basketball, to be happy, and hopefully, they’ll be able to achieve things wearing Giannis’ shoes,” he said about remembering his former student.\n\nWhere is Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Agent Now?\n\nThe film shows Haris Eleftheriou as Antetokounmpo’s agent. While we didn’t find anyone of that name related to Antetokounmpo, we can tell you about his current agent Alex Saratsis, who is known to have garnered the contract of a whooping $228 million five-year for Giannis with the Bucks. It is the largest NBA contract in history and goes to show just how well Saratsis manages his clients. A couple of years ago, he was promoted to the post of senior director of global basketball operations at Octagon, the company where he has worked for about a decade-and-a-half. The roster of Octagon’s clients also includes other high-profile players like Seth Curry and Dennis Schroder.\n\nSaratsis speaks highly of Giannis and sees better things for him in the future. “The same way that there’s an evolution of an athlete on the court, there’s the evolution of an athlete off the court. For the first few years, we were trying to build a brand. What he’s trying to do now is find companies that he really believes in and [to] put his money where his mouth is. He’s investing in different endeavors, getting equity in companies. The most important thing to Giannis is who you are at your core, and that’s the approach that we’ve taken,” he said.\n\nSKB News Magazineappreciate you a lot for reading! If you enjoyed this, kindly hit the share button and help others to also see it. You can also like our Facebook page so you know when we make new posts or Click to JOINour Telegram Channelwere we post JOBS + TIPS\n\nWhere is Rise’s Veronica Antetokounmpo Now?\n\nMitchell Mhlanga Dropped Out Of Law School goes back to school, Bags Masters Degree at Jiangxi University, Her Story Inspires Many" ]

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[ "A person whose son died when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine has been embraced by Malcolm Turnbull throughout campaign occasion in Sydney.\n\nThe Prime Minister gave Serge Oreshkin a hug in Homebush, in the metropolis’s internal west, on Saturday morning.\n\nMr Oreshkin requested Mr Turnbull to ensure the households of the 38 Australians killed in the crash are remembered.", null, "Mr Turnbull embraced the emotional father, later saying giving him a hug was the ‘neatest thing we are able to do’.\n\n‘You can solely think about the grief that Serge feels after dropping his son Victor in that surprising murderous assault in the aircraft,’ he stated.\n\nVictor Oreshkin died when flight MH17 was shot down over the Ukraine-Russia border in July 2014.\n\nMr Oreshkin acquired the coroner’s report on the demise of his 29-year-old son on Friday, however he hasn’t been capable of open it.\n\n‘It is simply too arduous as a result of I do not know what I’ll learn in there,’ he informed AAP.\n\n‘I’ll open it, I’ll undergo it but it surely’s not straightforward.’", null, null, "Mr Oreshkin was in the space taking his grandchildren to the Russian group college based mostly at Homebush Public School.\n\nMr Oreshkin admits his household is not dealing with Victor’s demise.\n\n‘Men aren’t speculated to cry, however generally you may’t assist it,’ he stated by way of tears.\n\n‘I took him to the airport and I stated “Bye Vic, see you when you get back” and he by no means got here again.’", null, "The father would not need compensation and believes the authorities has accomplished greater than sufficient.\n\nBut he hopes there will be funding into the future to get the households collectively as soon as each few years to deal with their grief and sorrows.\n\nMr Turnbull informed the Regents Park native there was a persevering with funding dedication for Australians impacted by terrorism abroad.\n\nHis workplace took down his particulars to speak additional.\n\nThe key marginal seat for Reid was received by Mr Laundy by 0.9 per cent at the 2013." ]

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[ "The Best Mesh WiFi Routers of 2021", null, "If you want to know more about what a mesh WiFi system is and how it works, check out our previous article here.\n\nThe TP-Link Deco S4 can expand your WiFi range up to 5,500 square feet, but it only delivers download speeds up to 867 Mbps (megabits per second) on the 5GHz band and 300 Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. Each node also has two gigabit Ethernet ports that you can connect directly to a computer for faster speeds.\n\nIf you want to know more about what a good download speed is, check out our guide on how to test your WiFi speed.\n\nThis mesh WiFi system is perfect for beginners because it is very easy to set up. All you have to do is download the Deco app and follow the on-screen to set up your network. Then connect the router to your modem and plug each of the nodes into a power source in other rooms.\n\nThe TP-Link Deco S4 also has technology that will automatically switch to the best node when you walk around your home. It also features a robust set of parental controls, and it works with Alexa, so you can use voice commands to shut down a guest network.", null, "This dual-band system provides up to 5,400 square feet of coverage with speeds up to 1.7 Gbps (gigabits per second) on the 5GHz band and 400 Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. Plus, each node supports beamforming technology, which focuses your WiFi signal to your devices.\n\nIf you want to know more about the difference between the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands and which one you should use, check out our guide here.\n\nSetting up your Nest WiFi through the Google Home app is easy. The app also lets you prioritize devices on your network, so you always have the strongest connection on the device you are using. This mesh WiFi system provides enhanced protection online with the latest WPA3 security protocols and automatic software updates from Google.", null, null, "If you want to find out more about what WiFi 6 is and how it works, check out our in-depth guide here.\n\nThe back of the node features four high-speed Ethernet ports, and it will automatically prioritize connected devices. You can also use the app to further prioritize gaming packets. Plus, it features technology that finds the shortest path to your gaming server, which Asus claims will decrease ping and lag by 45-75%.", null, "The Asus ZenWiFi XT8 is one of the best mesh systems for large homes because it is designed to deliver lightning-fast speeds, even when the WiFi signal travels through multiple walls. Plus, this tri-band mesh system has one band dedicated to backhaul traffic, which allows the nodes to communicate with each other better over long distances.\n\nThis mesh system router supports WiFi 6 technology, and it can deliver max speeds of up to 4.8Gbps on one 5GHz band, 1.2Gbps on the other 5GHz band, and 574Mbps on the 2.4 GHz band. Each node offers 2,750 square feet of WiFi coverage, and the back of each node features four Ethernet ports, including one ultra-fast 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet port.\n\nWhile the ZenWiFi XT8 is super easy to set up, it also comes with lots of high-end features, such as WPA3 security and advanced antivirus tools. In fact, when you purchase this mesh WiFi system, you get a free lifetime subscription to AiProtection Pro, which is Asus’s suite of advanced anti-malware and parental controls.", null, "If you don’t want WiFi “dead zones” for your large home, the Amazon eero Pro 6 is one of the best mesh WiFi routers out there. While the eero Pro 6 only delivers gigabit speeds, it has a very reliable signal that won’t fluctuate as much over time.\n\nWith its TrueMesh technology, it can also intelligently route network traffic, so you won’t experience any interruptions. Each node offers 2,000 square feet of WiFi coverage, so a three-pack will easily blanket your entire house.\n\nUnlike the Asus ZenWiFi XT8, you can add as many additional nodes to this mesh WiFi system as you want, which means you can bring WiFi to any room, no matter how big your home is. However, each node only has two gigabit Ethernet ports, so you can’t connect as many devices.\n\nThis smart mesh system works with Alexa and has a built-in Zigbee smart home hub, so you can use it to control all your smart home devices and more. You can also set profiles for each member of your family and pause or schedule the internet access of a particular device.", null, "If you’re not ready for a mesh WiFi system, check out our list of the top 20 ways to boost your WiFi signal with a traditional router.", null, "The Best Smart Light Bulbs for 2021" ]

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[ "Draft e-commerce policy: A Boon or a Bane for the E-commerce Industry", null, "Home > Blog > Draft e-commerce policy: A Boon or a Bane for the E-commerce Industry\n\nWith large youth demographics, increasing digital literacy and mobile users across India, the Indian e-commerce sector has seen a boom no industry has ever witnessed. Current estimation of India’s e-commerce sector is around $25 billion dollars which are expected to grow to $200 billion over the next 10.\n\nThe e-commerce growth has not only affected the businesses by giving them a virtual space for selling products online and create more avenues for revenue but also led to the creation of a number of job opportunities and eased out lives of modern day consumers. With so many groups getting affected with the introduction of electronic commerce in India, thus the need for clearly laid-down rules apart from the existing norms and regulations to cover all online retailers was felt.\n\nThe union government wants to create a national e-commerce policy to bring all the laws dealing with different aspects of the sector, thus a draft of e-commerce policy line with the recommendations made by the Sri Krishna committee adding new regulations to the e-commerce sector was made public recently. The draft has, however, policy drew a lot of criticism as well as appraisal from different interest groups.\n\nLarge e-commerce firms should phase out discounts within 2 years\n\nAfter the domestic retail stores have opposed deep discounts by online giants, and small retailers have complained footfall dropping because of the online discounts and big sales. The draft e-commerce policy recommends elimination of heavy discounts levied by online e-commerce giants such as Flipkart and Amazon which is likely to disappoint online consumers if this policy comes into force.", null, "The second recommendation in the draft e-commerce policy appears to be of the inventory, this comes with a condition that the e-tailer sells 100% Made-in-India products that is control of such firms will remain with Indians. If this were to happen, it would come as a huge blow to the foreign players. As this rule specifies, the foreign players may only be able to run marketplaces in India, that is, they may not have large warehouses with full inventories. While the several e-commerce companies were hoping that the government would allow a hybrid model of own inventory + third party items, the draft policy is going against the idea. Online giants like Amazon has been working around this problem with ghost companies that hold inventory for the main retailer.\n\nWith the implication of European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law that came into force on May 25th 2018 which mandates the online platforms to store their user data locally, the Indian government has started making move in the same direction.\n\nConsidering data privacy and security as the utmost priority, the e-commerce draft policy mandates the e-commerce companies to store user data in India within two years. Another suggestion in the policy that the data stored by the foreign players be shared with the government under certain circumstances.\n\nSince India does not have a privacy-related law as yet, this can become a PR issue with many foreign companies. Technology giants like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon may lobby the government to ensure that they get as lenient a space as possible.\n\nSpecial responsibility to the CCI, Competition Commission of India\n\nThe Competition Commission of India has been asked to undertake greater regulatory scrutiny and mandatorily examine the mergers and acquisitions of e-commerce. This becomes significant after the recent acquisition of Flipkart by US retail major Walmart.\n\nFor a better understanding of future financial flows, the government wants to promote the use of RuPay. Visa and MasterCard card networks control the major share of payment network in India and having a domestic card network will help the government in the better implementation of its economic and social initiatives and act as a driving factor to extend banking support to the vast unbanked segments in India, especially in the rural areas.\n\nThough there are a lot of challenges associated with the introduction of a national e-commerce policy, but at the same time, it is focused for promoting local businesses, local employment increase and ensuring that our GDP and tax collection improves. In long run, this is going to support the Make in India initiative. Having a regulator (Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA)), e-consumer courts may better address complaints about online financial frauds. It will help many MSMEs to go online and large companies to build a viable business rather than just depending on discounts.\n\nThe Chinese, for example, have successfully ensured that the local strong player emerges by making impossible rules to follow for foreign or by altogether banning them. India may not go down such a strict path, but they seem to be tightening the screws for the foreign players now.\n\nThough the initial draft e-commerce policy has received pushback, including a proposal on foreign investment in some areas and one requiring Indian consumer data to be held locally, Commerce minister Suresh Prabhu tweeted on 11 August that his ministry had received a “few concerns” on the draft e-commerce policy and will reach out to stakeholders to address them.", null, "Till the draft is being reviewed, do let us know your views on, “How National E-commerce Policy is going to affect you and other e-commerce business in India?” in the comments section below." ]

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[ null, "Overpopulation, he says. And the fact that too much of America’s attention is devoted to stuff that goes on overseas. This from a 2008 interview at Georgetown…\n\nSo this is the guy you put in charge of dealing with an African virus for which there is neither a vaccine nor a cure?\n\nEither there is a complete dearth of vetting of White House appointees, or this is a White House poorly-positioned to dispel the myriad conspiracy theories surrounding its rather unusual policy decisions.\n\nRon Klain is not a particularly good spokesman for our effort at fighting Ebola, given this video, and it’s hard to see how he’ll be effective at anything other than playing hatchet-man inside the administration to stop leaks and people talking out of turn.\n\nWhich numerous pundits have said is evidence that the Obama administration doesn’t see Ebola as a public health problem, or national security problem. They see it as a political problem in advance of the midterms, and Klain’s job is to minimize the damage Ebola is causing to the party – or at least minimizing the damage that the administration does to itself by its members going off-message before Election Day.\n\nThat’s why Ron Klain isn’t even attending the Ebola meetings at the White House. His job isn’t Ebola.\n\nHell, based on things Ron Klain has said about overpopulation among brown people in the Third World he might not think Ebola is such a bad thing – it might be a good instrument for fighting his Manichean war against the Third World poor who are using up all our resources. And warming the planet, and so on.\n\nSure, let’s put this guy in charge of saving lives." ]

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[ null, "Sitting on a bed draped with fairy lights, 14-year-old Sophia Grace is ­sharing the secrets of her school make-up ­routine with her 3.1 million ­YouTube fans.\n\nA few years ago, anything more than a subtle slick of lip balm would have been out of the question before the start of the school day. But the Essex-born vlogger shows her young followers how to apply no fewer than 10 different cosmetics to her perfectly youthful and blemish-free face.\n\nDuring the 10-minute clip, this includes primer, two giant triangles of concealer to hide her supposed under-eye bags, as well as \"contouring\".\n\nStep by step, Sophia draws thick brown stripes over her face to show how it's possible to carve cheekbones into her softly rounded checks, define her jawline and slim her nose.\n\nAfter blending this with a sponge, Sophia goes on to apply mascara, lip tint, loose powder and setting spray. She calls this her \"natural\" look.\n\nThe teenager is just one of hundreds of young girls giving make-up tutorials on social media. In one tutorial, a girl no older than six can be seen trying to draw cheekbones on her chubby face with the same concentration another child her age might use to fill in a colouring book.\n\nAs some parents point out - presumably the ones who help their little ones upload such videos - little girls have always wanted to look more grown up. However, experts on girls' body image point out that it's not just that girls are applying make-up sooner than ever - the average age when girls start to use make-up is now 11, three years younger than it was a decade ago - it's that they are wearing so much of it.\n\nSo what has changed?\n\nOne influence is undoubtedly YouTube, where how-to make-up videos are among the most popular clips. Impressionable girls are shown how to re-draw every one of their facial features and cover up every pore with primer, shading and setting powders.\n\nResearch shows that the knock-on effect is that they soon start to believe that they don't look good enough without make-up. A survey commissioned by Simple found that more than half of 12 to 14-year-olds wear make-up most days - and 17 per cent refuse to leave the house without it.\n\nOne such girl is Macie Baugh, who has just turned 13. Her mother, Gemma, 34, from Derbyshire, says: \"The other day we thought she'd broken her arm while she was having an arm-wrestling match with a friend. Before she would go to the hospital to get it X-rayed, Macie insisted on putting on a full face of make-up first. Even though she was applying her make-up in tears, she didn't want to turn up somewhere where someone might see her make-up free.\"\n\nLike Sophia, Macie also has a school make-up routine. She takes 45 minutes to get ready - and often comes home with more make-up than she started with, having applied more in the school loos. Baugh says her daughter then applies another full face to go to the park with her friends.\n\nBaugh, a stay-at-home mother, is also full of admiration for her daughter's skill. \"In the past year she's learnt contouring. When I was her age I didn't wear make-up, and would have looked like a clown if I'd tried, but Macie's really good at it.\"\n\nIt means that almost all of her pocket money is spent on high-end cosmetic products. Whether she needs to use them is another matter. Baugh says: \"Macie has fantastic skin but she doesn't believe it. Even though she has no acne, she uses foundation to even out her skin tone and get rid of the rings under her eyes.\n\n\"She still doesn't think she's pretty, although I think she's beautiful. But if she wants to get up early to put her make-up on and give herself a bit of armour, then that's fine with me.\"\n\nBut does wearing make-up really improve girls' confidence? Or is the deeper truth that it makes girls feel as if they are not good enough without it?\n\nA 2013 survey by the Renfrew Center Foundation - a non-profit organisation for preventing eating disorders - found that at least one in five girls between eight and 18 had negative feelings about their looks when they didn't wear make-up. A fifth felt self-conscious, and 17 per cent felt unattractive. Furthermore, it seems that devotion to full-face make-up may be standing in the way of our daughters living a healthy lifestyle.\n\nHOW TO TALK TO YOUR DAUGHTER ABOUT MAKE-UP\n\nA report for the Women's Sport and Fitness Foundation into why teenage girls drop out of sport found that one reason was \"they don't want to get sweaty and ruin their make-up\".\n\nFeminist make-up artist Katy ­Angelidi, who runs a Facebook group called Beauty, Unfiltered, says that during her 22-year career she has seen a worrying shift in the way that girls talk about their looks.\n\nAngelidi, 40, from Hertfordshire, a mother of two daughters aged seven and two, says: \"I hate to hear young girls talking about how they can see their 'disgusting pores'. These 'flaws' that girls talk about aren't flaws at all - they are part of what it means to have skin. Skin is supposed to have varying tones. Pores are there because skin is porous. We are human beings, not life-size Instagram filters, and we need to teach young women how to tell the difference.\"\n\nEducator Sue Palmer is the author of 21st Century Girls: How the Modern World Is Damaging Our Daughters and What We Can Do About It. She suggests that instead of accepting the claims that make-up makes girls feel more \"confident\", we need to ask why our young girls feel so bad about their looks in the first place.\n\n\"The earlier a girl becomes hooked on make-up, the earlier she starts searching for an identikit image, the more she is deprived at a critical age of developing a fully rounded sense of her own identity.\"\n\nTanith Carey is the author of Girls Uninterrupted: Steps for Building Stronger Girls in a Challenging World, published by Icon, £7.99" ]

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[ "Connect with our dealer and finance partners through our site and ask for details regarding their at-home car buying services.\nOK\nHomeNewsDriven", null, "Why's the 2009 Audi Q5 the highest-rated compact luxury SUV here at TheCarConnection.com--and even so, why does it get different scores from its 2009 Audi A4 stablemate, when the two share a drivetrain combination, all-wheel drive and lots of other under-the-skin pieces?\n\nAnswers to those questions come from our hands-on road tests. We finally scored an Audi Q5 this past week, and after hundreds of miles cruising Georgia countryside and wandering into Hazzardous territory, we found out the Q5's very nearly the best in its class--pending a deeper look at the new Cadillac SRX.\n\nThe Q5 received a score of 8.4 out of 10 from our editors, with a perfect 10 in safety and a 9 for features. In its class, the Q5 tops the likes of the Mercedes-Benz GLK and BMW X3, its most direct competitors, while tying the Lexus RX 350 and topping trucks like the Volvo XC60, Land Rover LR2, and Acura RDX.\n\nHow does it come out in first place? Hands-down, the Q5 is one of the most attractive utes in its class, along with the Cadillac SRX and Volvo XC60. It's also one of the best performers, with 270 horsepower pushing it to 60 mph in under 7 seconds. With optional Driver Select assistance for steering, shift quality and ride comfort, it's a little too adjustable, but the Q5's essential goodness isn't ruined by too much techno interference. Comfort and seating are high points, and quality of materials is very good--and the Q5 scored five stars in federal crash tests, on its way to a \"Top Safety Pick\" honor.\n\nAnd yet, the Q5 doesn't score as well in performance as the 2009 Audi A4, which also offers Drive Select, the same V-6 and a six-speed automatic. For now, the A4 simply offers a wider range of driving options: a turbocharged four-cylinder version is available, unlike the Q5, as is a manual transmission. Not only do those options lower the cost of entry, our editors also tend to prefer Audi's turbo fours to their six-cylinders, for flexible power and much better fuel economy. Along with the limited performance palette on the Q5, there's the simple fact of physics: its greater curb weight and 7.9 inches of ground clearance leave it with less deft dynamics than the sedan. The four-door sits lower and feels more agile as a result. That said, we're keen to get into a non-Drive Select Q5 or A4, to see how well its standard suspension setting stacks up against the adjustable, electronic option.\n\nWe're also waiting for the day Audi puts its brilliant dual-clutch gearbox (DSG) in these cars. New versions with seven speeds instead of six are in the pipeline, and for both the Q5 and A4, the DSG would align these vehicles better with Audi's sporty image.\n\nYou can read more of our full 2009 Audi Q5 road test, but we've already taken the next step and compared the Q5 with the BMW X3 and Mercedes-Benz GLK.\n\nNext up? We'll pit the Q5 against the 2010 Cadillac SRX to see which small luxury SUV will keep the top ranking for the 2010 model year." ]

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[ "St. Petersburg Pulkovo Airport (LED/ULLI) is the biggest airport of the city and oblast. With its 18 million passenger per year the airport is as well among the busiest in the whole of Russia – to be exact No. 4 (2018). It serves as hub for several Russian carriers and is also used as military airfield and for some very few cargo flights. The airport was opened back in 1932 south of the city center and was recently reconstructed heavily. As it was modernized now the airport is ready to greet more tourists, which is made possible by the governments new rule including easy E-Visa for the oblast of St. Petersburg. One can apply up to four days priot beginning of travel and doesn’t have to prove and hand in as many documents as normally. Thereby the airport got interesting for us spotters as an quite easy and interesting destination, that’s why we decided to finally make this guide gonna happen now…\n\nHowever, LED/ULLI airport is mainly served by Russian carriers, which fly domestic flights and plenty international airlines from Europe and some heavies from Asia/Arabia as well. It offers quite a big variety of airlines and aircraft types and all over an increasing number of flights per year. That’s how the airport was able to handle four times as many people in 2018 than it did in 2004…", null, "Unluckily we can’t offer any example pictures from here, but an example may look like THIS.\n\nExample pictures were – as one can see on the angle/view/backdrop – taken from different positions along the wall/fence here:\n\nSpot itsself can be seen on THIS VIDEO here at 10:40 minutes below the wingtip on the big field literally – examples taken from there look like these pictures:\n\nGreat guide Severin. I think St Petersburg is my favourite Russian airport and it definitely deserves a guide. I’ve only taken photos from the terminal so far; next time I might be more adventurous!\n\nGreat job Severin, lot of thanks." ]

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[ "5 Foods People With RA Should Avoid in Their Diet\n\nAccording to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common type of autoimmune arthritis, affecting more than 1.3 million Americans. It is caused when the immune system (the body’s defense system) is not working properly.\n\nSymptoms for rheumatoid arthritis may include:\n\nFatigue, fever, and weight lossJoint stiffness that is usually worse in the mornings and after inactivityTender, warm, swollen joints\n\nEarly rheumatoid arthritis typically affects smaller joints first — including the joints that attach your fingers to your hands and your toes to your feet.\n\nOver time, rheumatoid arthritis symptoms may spread to the following joints and occur on both sides of your body:\n\nThere are many new drugs, even surgery, to treat rheumatoid arthritis, but don't ignore the simpler ways of reducing RA pain, like lifestyle measures (rest and exercise) and a healthy diet. Though the scientific research surrounding an RA diet and rheumatoid arthritis is still inconclusive, many highly trained doctors recommend avoiding certain foods to see if this helps your joint inflammation and pain.\n\nFor example, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in saturated fats may help some with their rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. Because the fats in meat are more easily metabolized into pro-inflammatory chemicals in the body, some RA patients find that changing to a plant-based diet, including soy, helps to ease symptoms.\n\nA study published in October 2017 in the journal Lipids in Health and Diseaseconcluded that supplementation with polyunsaturated fatty acids may represent a promising option to improve RA symptoms, including:\n\n\"As of now, there is no agreed-upon diet for rheumatoid arthritis, but there are some people who do seem to have food sensitivities,\" says Clement Michet Jr., MD, a rheumatologist and professor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Patients may have different tolerances for various foods, so it's not possible to recommend a single diet across the board. But here are five foods commonly reported to aggravate arthritis symptoms.\n\nEat and Drink Less Dairy on a Diet for Rheumatoid Arthritis", null, "Rheumatoid arthritis symptoms may flare in response to specific proteins found in dairy products. Some people with rheumatoid arthritis who report intolerance to milk have antibodies to milk proteins, Dr. Michet says. The body forms these antibodies to protect itself from what it mistakenly perceives as a harmful substance, but the antibodies attack other parts of the body in addition to the milk. Cut dairy products from your diet to see if that reduces your RA symptoms.\n\n\"Try rice, cashew, or almond milk as anti-inflammatory alternatives,\" says Ulka Agarwal, MD, a staff psychiatrist at George Washington University in Washington, DC, who advocates a vegan diet. Milk may be a food to avoid with arthritis to see if it helps with RA pain.\n\n6 Foods to Avoid During Menopause" ]

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[ null, "Japanese Legend and Yokohoma striker Kazuyoshi Miura scored a goal in the J League before showing off his dance moves during the celebration.", null, "Kazu Miura has broken Stanley Matthew’s record to become the oldest outfield player ever aged 50. He said, “I am always looking for opportunities to score goals. I was feeling particularly good today, and had a hunch that I might score.”", null, "According to reports, The Japanese-born player has intentions of playing till 60. Kazu Miura made his professional debut in 1986 and played for Japan until 2000. He turned out for Yokohama FC in his 32nd professional season football.", null, "He left international game 17 years ago, but still he is going strong with the game.\n\nHe said, “I don’t actually feel like I’ve gone past a legend. I may have surpassed him in longevity but I won’t ever be able to match his statistics and the career he had.”\n\n“It’s not so much about numbers anyway; it’s more about how you play.”", null, "Miura nicknamed ‘King Kazu’ was humble when he broke Sir Matthews record. He scored the only goal of the game as Yokohama FC recorded a 1-0 win over Thespa Kusatsu in J-League 2.", null, "After scoring a goal King Kazu danced on the spot before higging his teammates. Miura is amazingly still going strong, having played over 200 times for the Japanese, scoring 22 times.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Orient Net\nThe Turkish army \"neutralized\" 11 YPG/PKK militiamen attempting to infiltrate northern Syrian territories, the National Defense Ministry said on Monday (March 16).\n\"11 YPG/PKK terrorists, who were attempting to infiltrate the [Operation] Peace Spring region with the intention of disturbing the peace and security established there were neutralized in operations carried out,\" said the ministry on Twitter.\nThe ministry further affirmed its determination to \"continue taking measures to sustain the peace and security in the region.\"\nOn Saturday, the Turkish army \"neutralized\" 10 YPG/PKK militiamen in northern Syria.\nTurkish authorities generally use the word \"neutralized\" to imply the terrorists in question surrendered or were killed or captured.\nSince 2016, Turkey has launched a trio of successful operations across its border into northern Syria to prevent the formation of a terror corridor, enable peaceful settlement by locals, and protect civilians from attacks: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018) and Peace Spring (2019).\nBased on AA" ]

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[ null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Tertiary History [with: Atlas to accompany the monograph on the tertiary history] of the Grand Cañon district\n\n\"One of the grandest publications of the scientific expeditions in the American West… [depicting] the Grand Canyon in a series of magnificent panoramas\" (Reese & Miles. `Depicting America.' ) The work includes illustrations by arguably the two greatest American topographical artists to record this era of westward expansion: William Holmes and Thomas Moran.\n\nThe atlas includes eight beautifully executed maps of the region on twelve sheets, as well as the ten sheets of views. The views include a number of images that are designed to form larger continuous panoramas. The greatest of these is Holmes' view from Point Sublime in the Kaibab; the three chromolithographed sheets (numbered XVI-XVII), if joined, would form a single panoramic view with an image area measuring approximately 17 x 90 inches. It is interesting to note that the first of these sheets includes what may be a self-portrait and portrait respectively of Holmes and Dutton: two figures are visible at the edge of the canyon, one is seated and clearly sketching (Holmes) whilst the second figure bends down to examine his companion's work (Dutton). W.H. Holmes, whom William Goetzmann calls \"the greatest artist-topographer and man of many talents that the West ever produced...his artistic technique was like no other's. He could sketch panoramas of twisted mountain ranges, sloping monoclines, escarpments, plateaus, canyons, fault blocks, and grassy meadows that accurately depicted hundreds of miles of terrain. They were better than maps and better than photographs because he could get details of stratigraphy that light and shadow obscured from the camera...his illustrations for Dutton's Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District are masterpieces of realism and draftsmanship as well as feats of imaginative observation.\" The team assembled to carry out this geological survey of the Grand Canyon included some outstanding talents: C.E.Dutton, the scientist; Jack Hilliers, the photographer and of course Holmes and Moran as artist-topographers. The intention of the survey was strictly scientific, but as Dutton writes in his preface, \"I have in many places departed from the severe ascetic style which has become conventional in scientific monographs.\" This is also true of Moran and Holmes: both were clearly inspired by their subjects. The overall result is of a quality that would not be possible today. As Wallace Stegner wrote in his introduction to the 1977 reprint \"Later specialization has eliminated from scientific publications most of the elements that make The Tertiary History so charming. No report written as this one is written would now be published by any government bureau. No illustrators like Moran and Holmes would be permitted to illustrate it... A great book... The Tertiary History has kept its value precisely because it does not specialize.\"" ]

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[ "Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday (August 14) delivered a privilege speech renewing her call for Congress to pass the SOGIE (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression) equality bill, a day after transgender woman Gretchen Custodio Diez was detained by police when she tried to document the harassment she experienced after she was barred from using the ladies’ restroom by a female janitor inside Farmers Plaza in Quezon City.\n\nThis unfortunate incident resulted in public outrage especially on social media. Celebrities, politicians, netizens rallied behind Diez and called out the mall and their staff for their actions.", null, "Some senators were seemingly uninformed about SOGIE (sexual orientation and gender identity and expression) and LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer) as Senator Koko Pimentel questioned the difference between a transwoman and a transgender. Senator Panfilo Lacson voiced out the possibility of men with voyeuristic intentions using the SOGIE to freely enter women’s bathrooms.\n\nWhile some Senators found themselves lost with questions with the reignited discussion on SOGIE, Senate President Vicente Sotto III suggested, “Why that lengthy letters? Why not just Homo sapiens? We’re all the same. Why do we have to segregate the gays from the lesbians from the straight guys?”\n\nHontiveros answered Sotto’s query that the term would have been unnecessary should there have been no discrimination against the LGBTIQA+ community.\n\n“Hindi po sana kailangan mag-segregate kung ‘yung human civilization natin at mga societies natin ay nag-evolve to the point na walang discrimination, may equality among all, regardless of identity, regardless of expression,” she noted. “Kaya lang hindi ganun ang nangyayari… that is why the community felt it’s necessary.”\n\nSenator Sotto’s manner of questioning didn’t sit well with netizens. Many believe that the Senate President should know better given his history of working with LGBTQIA+ in showbiz especially working with a show like Eat Bulaga with segments for LGBTQIA+ like the ‘Super Sireyna’ pageant.\n\nJust showed that Tito Sotto is only an entertainer and never will be a problem solver..\n\nSen. Hontiveros and Tito Sotto represent two sides of Philippine society. The former explains SOGIE well and is willing to educate others. The latter, on the other hand, needs to be informed, educated, and enlightened. https://t.co/vahA1UOWhE\n\nOk. First of all, you're dumb af I can't even. Idol mo ba si Tito Sotto?\n\nAng issue ko dito is this: part of me, agrees with you that we are not obligated to give the oppressor a venue to defend itself. The other part recognizes that the patriarchy is insidious and that we must engage the perpetrators because they are as unaware as Tito Sotto.", null, null ]

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[ "On Tuesday, July 6, Uhuru met leaders drawn from the Ukambani region to revise his development tour.\n\nA statement from State House indicated that the president had decided to adjourn the tour in line with the ban of super spreader events.\n\nDuring the meeting, the Ukambani leaders and the head of state observed that COVID-19 propagates within and without the Kenyan borders. It was thus important to adhere to all containment measures.\n\nAccording to Uhuru, the 688 million cubic metre Thwake dam is a Vision 2030 flagship project and a key initiative of the government's Big Four Agenda.\n\nAt least 1.3 million people are expected to benefit from the Thwake Multi-purpose Water Development Program (TMWDP).\n\n''We will come back here again to officially launch this project upon completion. I want to urge all the state officials mandated with its implementation to ensure that it is completed on time,'' said Uhuru.\n\nHe said the project is key to the realisation of the Konza technopolis city.\n\n''The modern Konza smart city will create a lot of jobs for our youths. Thwake Dam will also help us realise our Big Four Agenda on food security across Makueni, Machakos and Kitui because we want this region to start feeding our nation,'' Uhuru explained.\n\nUhuru also said that it is the right of every Kenyan to access clean water.\n\n''We will engage the National Environment and Management Authority (NEMA) in ensuring that the ongoing pollution upstream on the dam is something of the past,'' he said.\n\nNeed for a proper infrastructure\n\nThe head of state also lauded Raila and Kalonzo for spearheading calls to have proper infrastructure.\n\nIn light of the COVID-19 threat, the head of state has scaled down his visit to the lower Eastern region.\n\n''The president will still visit the region to cover all the lower eastern counties of Machakos, Makueni and Kitui,'' said State House spokesperson Kanze Dena.", null, "Kibwana welcomed the president's commitment to clean Nairobi/Athi rivers that feed the dam designed to increase water storage for rural and urban domestic use, irrigation, livestock and hydropower with a principal focus on the semi-arid counties of Kitui and Makueni.\n\nKenya Elections: Lawyers Differ on Validity of Presidential Results after IEBC Commissioners Split\n2 days ago\nUhuru Kenyatta Meets US Delegation at State House, Assures Peace and Stability During Transition\n12 hours ago\nWafula Chebukati Clarifies 0.01% Difference in Presidential Results, Says Percentages Were Rounded Off\na day ago" ]

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[ "Sometimes tracing the provenance of an Irish traditional recording can be a Sisyphean task, and take this Tommy Peoples album as a particularly arcane example. According to the date on the CD itself, it was issued by the Galway-based GTD Heritage Recording Co in 1993.", null, "Yet, when Tommy's last album, The Quiet Glen, was released in 1998 it was generally hailed as his newest recording for more than a dozen years.\n\nRegarding the GTD release, according to Tommy himself, \"This was recorded by Seán Walshe in his attic studio in Galway in '82. At that time he had a small cassette distribution going in Clare, Galway and Mayo. I could not say if he is involved in GTD Heritage, or if it was sold to them. The accompaniment was added afterwards. Carl Hession on piano, but not sure of the guitarist, maybe Seán Walshe.\"\n\nOf course, this begs even more questions, such as, firstly, the exact date of the overdubbing and, secondly, why this was even done. A fine pianist Carl Hession might be (and the mystery guitarist is not bad either), but such studio tinkering runs against the spirit of the original solo unaccompanied recording. Equally, once aware that it was a later addition, it's possible to hear the cracks, especially on the King George IV strathspey. A Seán Walsh does figure extensively in the GTD catalogue, but, predominantly, as a Country and Irish singer. The final implication is that Tommy had no involvement in this release beyond laying down his own unaccompanied tunes.\n\nThere is a further mystery. Track 10 features a duet on the reels The Bells of Tipperary with Tommy's daughter, Siobhán. According to Caoimhín MacAoidh's Between the Jigs and the Reels, which was published in 1994, Siobhán was \"born and raised in Clare just over twenty years ago\" which would place her in her late twenties now and about ten or eleven in 1982 when this recording was apparently made. All well and good, but their rendition of The Bells, relatively simple tunes, features some quite remarkable harmonisation and both fiddlers clearly evince the Peoples hallmark, the crisp triplets.\n\nAh, well, does it all matter in the end? Well, yes and no. Knowing the date of a recording is essential in order to trace a musician's development. Here, Tommy's on typically ebullient form throughout, pert and perky on the reels (such as The Star of Munster and Banish Misfortune), characteristically evocative on the slow airs, including Seán Ó Duibhír a Chleanna (unusual spelling there!). Any Peoples album is always welcome and this is another glowing evocation of the man's sheer virtuosity. It's economically priced too, at a mere IRŁ10, but the trappings provide slim fare. What exactly the cover picture is supposed to signify in relation to this wonderful music is beyond credence and there is no photograph of Tommy himself. There are no notes on the tunes and the actual notes on the fiddler himself consist of two brief paragraphs. So, musically, while this will excite and inform, anyone wishing to know more about Tommy Peoples is best advised to seek out Between the Jigs and the Reels." ]

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[ null, "An employee works in a chemical fiber plant in Nantong in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. China's economic growth sank to a new multi-decade low in 2019 as Beijing fought a tariff war with Washington, but forecasters said a U.S.-Chinese trade truce might help to revive consumer and business activity.\nChinatopix via AP\n\nThat's the view of the International Monetary Fund, which foresees world economic growth accelerating from 2.9% last year to 3.3% in 2020 and 3.4% in 2021. The international economy is receiving a significant boost - 0.5 percentage point of growth last year and this year - from central banks’ low-rate policies, the lending organization says in a global outlook report out Monday. The U.S. Federal Reserve, for instance, cut rates three times last year and expects to keep rates low for the foreseeable future.\n\nAnd an interim trade deal signed last week by the United States and China — the world’s two biggest economies — is expected to add 0.2 percentage point to global growth this year by lowering tariffs and improving business confidence. The global economy is rebounding from some temporary stumbles, including a lull in the launch of new technology products and new emissions standards that disrupted car production.\n\nStill, the IMF warns that the global economy continues to face an array of risks, including the possibility that trade tensions will escalate again. And many countries aren't benefiting from the modest upswing in growth.\n\nPresenting the report at a news conference in Davos, Switzerland, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said that after a slowdown in 2019 there should be \"a moderate pickup in global growth this year and next.”\n\n\"We already see some tentative signs of stabilization,” she said. “But we have not reached a turning point yet.”\n\nEven in the United States, the IMF foresees growth slowing from 2.3% in 2019 to 2% this year and 1.7% in 2021, partly because the boost that the economy received from President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts has been fading.\n\nChina's economy will also continue to decelerate, the IMF predicts — from 6.1% last year to 6% in 2020 and 5.8% next year. Though China's economy will likely benefit from the truce with the United States, Beijing continues to manage a difficult transition away from speedy economic growth based on often-wasteful and debt-fueled investments to slower but steadier growth built on spending by the country’s growing middle class.\n\nLikewise, Japan’s economic growth, hobbled by an aging workforce, is expected to decelerate from 1% last year to 0.7% this year to 0.5% next year.\n\nThe IMF’s global forecast is slightly bleaker than the previous one it issued in October, mainly because of an expected sharp slowdown in India: The world’s seventh-biggest economy is expected to grow 5.8% this year, down from the 7% the IMF had expected in October, and 6.5% in 2021, down from a previously forecast 7.4%. In addition, problems in the financial sector have reduced credit, crimping consumer spending in India." ]

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[ null, "It measures 4×48”. It is monochromatic (tan) and has the same stitching pattern from top to bottom. It has no special border or internal design like a cable. It is a scarf, one of the very last things my mother made for me.\n\nMy mother was a knitting machine. She learned how to knit when she was young and never stopped. Whenever things were quiet, my mother would sit herself down in the corner of the couch and knit. There could be a single color or multiple colors that required a small plastic contraption dangling in the air to keep the different yarns from getting entangled. My mother might have to concentrate and count stitches, or she could watch TV like everyone else and work on automatic pilot. The output ranged from sweaters to jackets, to dresses, to afghans, and baby blankets. If you wanted my mother to knit something for you, the first step was just to ask, “Can you make me… ?” Then you would give her a picture of what you had in mind. In the old days, you picked something out from a catalogue of smiling children and adults wearing every kind of knitted clothing imaginable. With time, people downloaded a picture of whatever they wanted my mother to make. This meant you had to go with her to the yarn store where you would get measured and where my mother would get her instructions. You picked your type of wool and color. And then you waited for delivery of the final product.\n\nI was not a huge consumer. Wool felt too warm and itchy to me. But there were two crew neck sweaters — one gray with two horizontal deep red stripes across the chest and another one that was navy blue and the same two red stripes — that I wore out through childhood and adolescence. My mother’s output has been seen and worn far beyond her house in Philadelphia.\n\nMy mother did not proselytize for knitting. She did not push it on any of her children or grandchildren. As far as I know, my niece is her only disciple.\n\nBut as time passed and my mother slowly declined, knitting was the one reliable readout of her clinical status. The sweaters became simpler, smaller, and more uneven. No one meant ill but there were fewer requests. So, my mother changed her product line and moved full scale into scarves and slippers. She became more self-promoting. My mother would ask if you needed a scarf and then tell you she was knitting one for you even if you said you did not need one.\n\nI was slow in answering her requests. It was not out of any sense of irritation but more like, “I already have a scarf. There’s no need to bother.” But finally, I said sure and that is the back story of my tan wool scarf.\n\nAfter my mother gave it to me, it hung in the closet for months. Pre-COVID, when I was riding the subway or a Citi bike to work, it felt like the scarf was strangling me with its warmth. I would have to loosen my jacket and unwind the scarf because I was overheating during the 7-stop local ride. I stuck to my thinner plaid scarf.\n\nThe world two years later is a different place, and my life has also changed. I am not on the subway going to work. Instead, I walk to shul many mornings and most afternoons, around Central Park, along North Avenue. It has been a much colder winter compared to what I remember of the past few years. My mother’s heat generating scarf has become a much more favored part of my winter gear. I have been wearing it every day. But hand-knit scarves are more vulnerable than store bought wool varieties. Hangers get caught more easily in the looser knit stitching and the edges are not tied off as tightly. I worry that my mother’s scarf will not be as durable as I want it to be. Wearing my mother’s scarf more in these dark wintry days may be compromising its longevity.\n\nBut my hard-working scarf is making the most of its time. It is doing more than just helping me fight off the cold. As I near the end of the lengthy period of aveilut, I feel myself figuratively putting my head down and trying to push forward to the finish line and get it all over with. Nothing strictly wrong there. The Rabbis never sanctioned prolonging the mourning beyond 12 months. The impact of aveilut on one’s everyday life is steady, ongoing, and implacable. The human inclination to close the aveilut chapter and move on is understandable. But how you finish off a mitzvah is just as important as how you start. Aveilut for a parent is a period to think about the person who has passed, appreciate all that they accomplished during their lifetime, and recognize how much in debt you are for all that they have done for you.\n\nWaking up in the dark, getting out of your warm bed and getting to shul on time to say kaddish in the dead of winter is much more challenging than in the balmy days of summer. My mother’s scarf has been her last gift to me during these last closing weeks of kaddish. It has been much more than a useful piece of clothing. It has helped me sustain the picture of my capable knitting mother in my mind, the memory of her unquestioning maternal warmth squarely in front of me as I enter the last month of aveilut. The scarf will eventually unravel. But wearing it now reminds me that all the things that I shared with my mother and father are only of value if they keep my mind focused on all the experiences and feelings that are invested in them. Scarves and things are meaningful but only as bridges between the memories of things past and legacies of the future still to come.\n\nAbout the Author\nChaim Trachtman is originally from Philadelphia. He is a pediatric nephrologist and is Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan and founder of RenalStrategies LLC. He retired from clinical practice at NYU Grossman School of Medicine where he was Professor of Pediatrics and chief of the division of nephrology. He is the PI for both NIH- and industry-sponsored observational cohort studies and clinical trials for patients with kidney disease. He is a board member of Yeshivat Maharat and Darkhei Noam. He edited a book entitled \"Women and Men in Communal prayer (Ktav/JOFA)\" that discusses partnership minyanim. His wife is the current President of AMIT and he has three daughters and six grandchildren.\nRelated Topics\nRelated Posts\nComments" ]

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[ null, "“Your greatest failures are your biggest blessings.” — R.L. Adams\n\nLike many others out there, I’ve failed in my life. Failure hurts. It can cut deep, leaving you to lick your wounds for months, and even years to come. But failure is nature’s way of rebooting life. Oftentimes, when we fail at something, we can’t see through the hurt and the pain to uncover the reasons why it happened.\n\nHowever, failure is evolutionary – it helps us to grow, mature, and reach deeper understandings about life, what we want, and why we want it. Failure helps us to become better persons, expanding our minds while deepening our hearts. As much as it can hurt at times, without failure, we couldn’t appreciate our successes.\n\nBut it’s not easy by any means. After we fail, we tend to spend a lot of time doing soul searching. That soul searching usually leads to one of two situations:\n\nAlmost all of us have given up entirely on something after failure, no matter how big or small that failure was. From marriages to careers, and everything in between, something that once meant something to us, after failure, didn’t really mean that much at all anymore.\n\nBut does that mean that if we fail at something we didn’t really want it in the first place? Or, is that the pain of failure forces us to create some dissonance between the old goal and the new post-failure self?\n\nSo, what is it that separates the people that have failed in the past and tried again? How is that J.K. Rowling suffered 7 years through poverty, a divorce, the death of her mother, loss of her job, and 12 separate rejections from major publishing houses, to eventually publish the first Harry Potter book?\n\nHow did Henry Ford go bankrupt twice before finally succeeding with the Ford Motor Company? How did Colonel Sanders, founder of KFC, suffer through 1,009 separate rejections for his chicken restaurant franchise-model, with only $105 to his name, and eventually succeed?\n\nThe way these people did it, and the way countless others have suffered through the hurt and loss of failure to eventually taste success, is first by having a strong enough deep-rooted reason why they needed to succeed. Success wasn’t optional to them; it was a must. Anytime something is a “must,” the only thing that separates you from that goal is time.\n\nIf you want to turn failure into success, here’s what you need to do:\n\nIt’s easy to get dissuaded and sidetracked when you’re pursuing your goals. Find something that inspires you to keep you going. Create an inspirational board at your home or even on your personal computer. Pin photos that you’ve found depicting what you want out of life. Stare at success in front of you; see it, feel it, breath it, and mentally live it.\n\nThere’s nothing that will stop you more from turning failure into success than the lack of organization. If you’re not organized, do something about it. Establish and set some goals, create some good habits, and learn to manage your time effectively. No one can do these things for you. You must develop the skills to accomplish and achieve your goals on your own.\n\nOne of the biggest things that tends to hold us back in the pursuit of all things positive in our lives is the silent killer: procrastination. It acts as the Electro Magnetic Pulse for goals, completely disabling our ability to purse them in our lives. Without overcoming procrastination, there’s absolutely no way to accomplish your hopes and your dreams.\n\nYou’ve heard it before – the proverbial “take action” slogan. But, how many people take action towards their long-term goals every single day? When we don’t take action, we allow those goals to slip further and further into wishes rather than expected destinies. Even if you make only 1% progress each day, the results stack up over time. No matter how little or small, take some action towards your goals, and eventually failure will turn into success." ]

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[ null, "As the plane hummed on the runway at Detroit Metro Airport, 17 anxious teenagers fidgeted in their seats, peering through the drawn window shades.\n\nIt was the third time Leah Ouellet, BA ’13, had heard the same question. And though odd, it was understandable. A number of the Detroit-area students traveling with her had never flown before. And now they were embarking on a 29-hour journey to Africa, where they would spend two weeks building a village school alongside local residents in Malawi.\n\nWhen the plane eventually did take off, some of Ouellet’s companions could see their own school on Detroit’s southwest side, a sight she describes as “a great metaphor” for the adventure they would share.", null, "Since January 2014, Ouellet has worked as a program coordinator for buildOn at Detroit’s Western International High School where she manages after-school learning opportunities focused on community service.\n\nThe school that serves as her home base is adorned with the flags of 16 countries representing its diverse student body. It’s an ideal spot for the programs run by buildOn, an international nonprofit with the stated mission to break the cycles of poverty, illiteracy, and low expectations through service and education. Detroit is one of six U.S. cities in which buildOn runs programming.\n\nThe organization has constructed nearly 800 schools in a number of developing countries, and in July 2015 Ouellet and her diverse group of volunteers (students from her own school and others) set out to build one more. They were participants in buildOn’s Trek for Knowledge program, and Ouellet selected students who were service-oriented, open-minded, and hard-working. In the end, she really needed volunteers who could “accept being uncomfortable the majority of the time.”\n\nOrganizing such an elaborate trip with so many students presented a number of challenges, not the least of which was the 29-hour plane ride. Prior to embarking on the journey, the volunteers trained for six months. Ouellet helped some of the students’ parents navigate the logistics to clear them for travel with Trek, and she helped acquire luggage and sneakers as needed. Some families did not have a car; others rarely visited the doctor.\n\nDespite the obstacles, many of the tight-knit families she came to know defied the common stereotypes of impoverished Detroiters. The parents “work hard to make sure their kids have these experiences even if there are other things they can’t provide for them,” Ouellet says.", null, "When the students finally arrived at their destination in Malawi, a chorus of local women and children welcomed them with song. The normally chatty high schoolers fell silent. They were, Ouellet says, “in a state of reverie, respecting the environment we had just walked into.”\n\nThat environment would soon present challenges. Che’Kenya Goodwin, age 16, faced conditions far different than those in urban Detroit. She slept on a thin floor mat in the home of her host family and used an outdoor latrine. And like many of her fellow students, she experienced stomach aches from the strange new foods.\n\nBut seeing young children carrying other kids on their backs made her feel guilty about complaining. “It gave me the strength to keep moving,” she says. And once she saw how much education means to people who don’t have it, “you don’t take your options for granted.”\n\nBy the third day of the build, the American teenager was walking through the work site singing Disney songs at the top of her lungs, a “joyful presence” on the team, says Ouellet.\n\n“Observing the power of these communities in achieving an education and how much they sacrifice to educate their children” provided an amazing lesson for the American students, she says.", null, "As the Trek concluded, Ouellet witnessed a number of tearful goodbyes. “The students were touched that their host families had grown to care so much,” she says. And she could see how moved the young volunteers were by the community’s transformation, one they’d helped to realize. Many of the students expressed a desire to drive a similar change in their own communities.\n\nFor her part, the graduate of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy has long been fascinated with both Africa and Detroit; at age 19, Ouellet traveled to Tanzania and worked with incarcerated youths. And once she discovered a love for Detroit through a Ford School course taught by Ren Farley, U-M professor emeritus in service, she found that buildOn offered the perfect opportunity to foster community service both at home and overseas.\n\nEventually, Ouellet hopes to apply her passion for social justice toward reforming the prison system, embedding communities in the effort. She currently volunteers at a prison, facilitating a poetry workshop via the U-M Prison Creative Arts Project. Her memories of Trek for Knowledge will stay with her as she moves on to other pursuits. The experience has made her “more sensitive to views different from my own. It will always stay with me.”", null, "Since returning from Malawi, Ouellet has seen a marked difference in her students.\n\n“To hear them telling other people about their trip, they’re really proud of that and have expanded their dreams for what they want their futures to look like,” she says. “Many hadn’t been downtown, let alone outside the state. Now they want to travel more, join the Peace Corps, and study abroad in college.”\n\nAs for the Disney-singing Goodwin? She views Ouellet as both a mentor and a sister. “Leah is the one I look to when I need guidance,” she says. “She always pushed me to become involved in my community and do better.”\n\nGoodwin plans to study psychology in the future and aspires to a career as a pediatrician or nurse.\n\nOuellet, she says, “saved my life.”" ]