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[ null, "This is how foreign investors and businesspeople should approach the Nigerian market, according to Chris Newson, the recently appointed director for Africa private markets (covering private equity, direct credit and infrastructure debt) at Investec Asset Management.\n\nHe has significant business experience in Nigeria, having previously held high-profile roles at Standard Bank Group, including CEO for Africa and head of the lender’s Nigerian unit Stanbic IBTC.\n\nNigeria has been facing strong economic headwinds due to the plunge in the price of oil from over US$100 in mid-2014 to lows of about $30 in January 2016. The country is dependent on oil exports for the bulk of foreign exchange earnings and government revenues.\n\nLast year the economy was in recession, contracting by an estimated 1.5%. Although the price of crude has stabilised around the $50 level, Nigeria’s prospects remain muted, with the IMF predicting average yearly GDP growth of 1.6% from 2017 until 2021.\n\nBefore the current crisis, Nigeria was one of the continent’s top performers, expanding by an average of 6.9% from 2005 to 2014. However, Newson pointed out that economies move through cycles and growth doesn’t always follow a smooth curve.\n\nHe told How we made it in Africa that while Nigeria’s attractive fundamentals – such as a large $405bn economy and a population of 184 million – do offer potential in certain sectors, investors need to take a long-term view and be “cautious and careful” about how they participate in these opportunities.\n\nAlthough there are various efforts underway to diversify the Nigerian economy and make it less dependent on oil, Newson doesn’t expect overnight results. “It is not going to happen quickly.”\n\nNigeria is also facing severe shortages of foreign currency, which poses considerable challenges to companies who either need to access US dollars to import products, or convert profits from the local currency into dollars so that they can get it out of the country.\n\nNewson described the situation as a “significant handbrake” on an economy heavily dependent on imports. “If you can’t get access to foreign currency, you can’t import, which means you can’t put stuff on the shelves.”\n\nSouth African packaging company Nampak last year reported troubles converting its naira profits into dollars, while air carriers Iberia and United Airlines were forced to shut down operations in Nigeria as they couldn’t get revenues from tickets sales out of the country.\n\nNewson added that the current economic difficulties will likely slow down the pace of infrastructure development in Nigeria, which could have further knock-on effects for the economy.\n\nSimilarly to Nigeria, other oil and metals producers such as Angola, South Africa and Zambia have all suffered because of the downturn. However, the fact that prices have stabilised should lead to a recovery for Africa’s commodity exporters, according to Newson. An improving global economy is also anticipated to support economic activity on the continent.\n\n“I think the environment is better. I’m not going to say to you that we are rapidly going to get to growth rates of 7% to 9%, but I think we are seeing a recovery across many of the countries.”" ]

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[ "POLITICS ABOVE THE LAW", null, "The mayor of the capital city, José Luis Fábrega, continues to mock justice by displaying his well-known arrogance. He has totally ignored the judicial ruling that granted a protection of constitutional guarantees against the agreement of the Municipal Council of Panama that authorized the call for the tender to build a new seafood market. This decision was known on May 13, 2022, although on April 29 the provisional suspension of the aforementioned agreement had already been ordered. Is not ignoring the express order of a judge an act of contempt? The mayor maintains an open power struggle with the courts and seems to give a damn about what the judges say, think or order, because in this country politics is above the law, simply because the judges and magistrates give themselves little to respect. Yesterday the act of homologation of the public act was carried out with the participation of two companies that also do not seem to have been aware of the suspension of the tender ordered by the courts. Fábrega has crossed the line: he does things his way; he ignores the popular will and does not care what he is forbidden to do. – LA PRENSA, May 19." ]

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[ "Azan Sami Khan is very talented and young composer and singer of Pakistan Film Industry. He is son of two famous celebrities Adnan Sami Khan and Zeba Bakhtiar. He has debuted as a child star in a Ptv Drama many years ago.", null, "Even though he’s young but has achieved a lot of name through his work. He composed Music of Parwaz hay Junoon and Super Star.\n\nHe has recently been interviewed by Urdu point. Talking about Nepotism he said, “I won’t say that I am self made”.", null, "He further said, ” of course I have gotten this privilege that I am son of two big names but eventually it is a biggest responsibility that one has to prove “.", null, "He said that he take pride in being the second generation of two well-known people and he honours it but he believes in struggle.", null, null, "Talking about father Azaan said, ” he is very helpful I always seek his advice but I try to do good work so that he doesn’t scold me, because I know where I go wrong while composing music ”\n\nHe further said that he is focusing on music he has plans to carry on with music that is why he is releasing full album instead of a single.", null ]

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[ null, "Aaron Tveit, you’re the one that Fox wants.\n\nThe Graceland leading man and Broadway actor will play Danny Zuko in the network’s live staging of Grease.\n\n“I’m thrilled and honored to be joining this incredibly talented team of actors in reimagining this classic and beloved musical,” Tveit said in a statement. “Playing Danny Zuko is a dream role and I can’t wait to be a part of all the fun that comes along with performing live on television.”\n\nIn addition to his TV roles on Gossip Girl and currently USA Network’s Graceland, Tveit has plenty of musical theater experience. He appeared in the 2012 film adaption of Les Miserables and starred on Broadway in Catch Me If You Can and Next To Normal. He also played the role of Roger in Rent at the Hollywood Bowl in a production directed by Neil Patrick Harris.\n\nWhat do you think about Tveit as Danny? Hit the comments with your thoughts?" ]

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[ null, "This is book three in a series of cozy mysteries with sprinkles of m/m romance. I found it just as lovely and enjoyable as the first two books. There is really no personal conflict between Mike and Jonathon in this book. I mean they are continuing to figure out their future and that weird complication with Jonathon’s father that occurred in the last book , but it is easily resolved and with almost no problems. Because the mystery took center stage, it held up fine; however, if it had been a romance alone, it would not have held up for me.\n\nA famous mystery author is killed when she comes to participate in a literary festival in the village and, once again, Jonathon and Mike decide to help police investigate. Once again we hear some teasing about murders in the village starting to happen only after Mike and Jonathon got together a la some British TV series, but I would rather this be addressed than not, so I did not mind. I really think this author does a nice job making amateur sleuths feel believable and in this book once again to me it felt organic and believable that this duo were main detectives so to speak. They are just talking to people, you know :). I thought the suspects were lined up nicely and they went through investigating several potential suspects and their motives. I did think the killer was way too obvious in this one. I got this person almost right after they showed up, or at least very soon afterwards. Of course I did not know the motive, but this person was just always there, too much in the reader’s face. Not masked enough I guess?\n\n2. The House in the Cerullean Sea by TJ Klune", null, "Years passed and I saw this book on sale. It was a young adult and it was with Tor, so I was curious and bought it. I have to say, this ended up being my favorite book of his so far. Linus bored me in the beginning of the book, but once he is given his assignment and goes to the island and meets kids and Arthur, things become much better. I thought the kids were absolutely adorable and funny in a way that worked for me. Especially six year old Antichrist named Lucy.\n\nNote, the book is young adult , or maybe even middle grade. (I did not check the publisher classification, I am just saying this is how it felt for me.) There is no explicit romance but what we have was very lovely. There are plenty of great messages in the story about acceptance of the differences which kids and adults always need to hear.\n\nAnd I don’t know if the author’s writing changed so much or if that’s what good editing can do, but it worked so much better for me than what I have read before.", null, "This was very cute, I really like Lisa Henry’s writing and I was happy to see she had a new one on KU. It is a quest as you can see only from reading the blurb and it is also a romance. I would call it romance lite, which was perfectly okay by me. I said many times that I absolutely love SFF/fantasy books which have a main story that has little or nothing to do with romance and gay couples (or creating a gay couple) as a secondary storyline.\n\nWhat left me not very satisfied was that this was characterization LITE too in my opinion. I was charmed when I was reading it, but when I finished it I did not feel like I knew main characters very well besides a very few things about them, if that makes sense.\n\n4. Tigers on the Way by Sean Kennedy", null, "This is book four in Dec and Simon’s adventures and they definitely came a long way. I surely would not advise starting from this book. You will miss well, a lot. Seven or eight years of relationship building, of life lived together , of friendships. Start with book one, basically, you won’t regret that.\nHaving said all that, this was probably the last book I am reading about them. I know that if there ever was a fictional couple for whom talking about their feelings made sense, these guys would be that couple. For Simon’s cracking up jokes and making sarcastic commentary in general had always been his way of dealing with life, but Declan learned to be more open and Simon learned to do the same and not always with jokes. I like that, but there is always a question of when enough is enough and I am sorry but I had reached that point here. I thought the topic of them dealing with impending fatherhood was *great* , I totally think couples should discuss that, but once again how much should they discuss it?\n\nI think the worst part was not even a discussion, but the fact that while after the fact continued conversation was very real, it was also kind of silly because the intrigue was lost. You are having these babies guys, and Simon ‘s struggle has an answer already, it will be fine. I am not explaining myself well. I actually read it pretty fast, and I thought the health scare was done very well – also an important topic, also everybody stressed, but that did not go into overdrive for me as the children topic went even if it blended together eventually." ]

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[ "Women Hold Up Half the Sky at Skirball Cultural Center\n\nWomen Hold Up Half the Sky is a new exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Museum, and we got a sneak peek last week. After weaving around sail-like walled spaces, learning about inspiring women from around the world, we inscribed wishes on blue wing-shaped paper. The wishes, addressed to a woman facing a difficult situation, will be tucked inside a clear plastic sleeve in an elegant Wish Canopy that hangs over the exhibit space. Our wishes, along with those of countless other visitors that will flock to see Women Hold Up Half the Sky will turn the Wish Canopy ‘sky’ from white to blue!", null, "Skirball Women Hold Up Half the Sky\n\nWomen Hold Up Half the Sky, a new exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center through March 2012, was inspired by a book that addresses the worldwide oppression of women and girls as the human rights cause of our time and the exhibit illustrates individual stories of persecution and triumph as well as demonstrates myriad ways that we, too, can be part of the solution. Pulitzer Prize winning writers Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn are convinced that the abuse of women and girls is the central moral issue of our time — they also believe that “the best way to fight poverty and extremism is to educate and empower women and girls”. The authors, the first married couple to win a Pulitzer together, worked with the Skirball’s curators in this landmark exhibit to first heighten awareness of the issues, and then to spur visitors to action. Again and again, throughout the exhibit, we learned how a simple act could help a woman change her circumstances — whether here in LA, or around the globe. We learned how CARE put locked boxes in an African village, allowing a woman to save a few dimes and start a thriving potato farming business. How a Pakistani woman received a micro loan and began an embroidery business that freed her from an abusive relationship and now employs thirty other families. From postcards to California Senators to bookmarks with simple actions that families can do with specific charities, to a wonderful pop-up shop with handcrafts from women’s cooperatives around the globe, we were inspired to take part in simple actions for change. We particularly loved an iPad station where we could make a microloan with a dollar that comes with our exhibition ticket — what a direct way to establish that what might be pocket change to one family could change the lives of another.\n\nDon’t Miss: A large pop-up store at the Skirball features items produced by female artisans and women’s cooperatives from around the world. Each is tagged with a story, and we particularly love the beaded animals and this spectacular necklace made from bullet casings. Shop for the holidays with a clear conscience! The shop can also be found online. (use necklace and beaded animals)\n\nWho Should Go: The subject matter of oppression is not appropriate for small children (sexual slavery, human traficking and genital mutilation are just some of the horrors faced by women around the globe). But, the show is an important one for young adults who can handle global issues of poverty and injustice. Parents who are interested in human rights and globalization issues will find lots to discuss with tweens and teens: an iPod station near the end of the show allows visitors to make a microloan with a dollar that comes with their ticket, establishing the habit that what might be pocket change to one family might change the lives of another.\n\nRead: Nicholas Kristoff is a New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist whose wrote Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Knopf, 2009) with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn. Here is a photograph of Kristoff, at the Skirball, discussing his work ‘giving voice to the voiceless’ around the world. Here is more information about Kristoff. And here the website for the book. (use Krisfof)\n\nFocus for Families: Make a wish for the Wish Canopy (use two photos: notes and sky). Learn more about the power of the written word and the work of journalists such as Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn (who are the first married couple to win a Pulitzer together).\n\nDoing: During the holiday season, we make donations to charity organizations. Why not help your kids get in this habit by giving them a small amount of money (from $25-$100) to make a micro-loan to someone in another country? We’ve found that a one-on-one approach makes giving tangible to kids. Check out Kiva.org and let your child choose a project they’d like to fund. Some kids will want to reinvest their money — the loans are paid back fairly quickly — some will want to recoup their cash! Other interesting approaches include Women for Women International, whose founder Zainab Salbi is featured in the Women Hold Up Half the Sky, and whose model is for donors to become pen-pals with a woman in a war torn country. Sharing simple stories about each others lives helps collapse the international borders." ]

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[ null, "Finnish metallers STRATOVARIUS are back with a new album — with some fresh and some very rare material. Due on September 28 via earMUSIC, \"Enigma: Intermission 2\" features three brand new songs as well as, for the first time in the band's history, four beautifully arranged orchestral versions of popular STRATOVARIUS songs.\n\nThe album is similar in concept to \"Intermission\", released 17 years ago between \"Infinite\" and \"Elements\", in the sense that these seven tracks made in 2018 are completed by nine very rare, very-hard-to-find power metal gems.\n\nWith over 30 minutes of brand new material and 50 minutes of previously rare metal, \"Enigma: Intermission 2\" is definitely more killer than filler!\n\nTake \"Enigma\" and \"Oblivion\", for example, fresh from the studio in 2018. Both combine an epic melody with a bombastic chorus and heavy riffs for STRATOVARIUS's trademark sound and remind of \"Unbreakable\" from their 2013 album \"Nemesis\", the most streamed song in the band's history. Or \"Kill It With Fire\" and \"Castaway\", two epic and full-blown power metal tracks that were previously only heard by Japanese fans.\n\nThe official lyric video for the newly recorded orchestral version of the song \"Unbreakable\" can be seen below.\n\nThe sweeping melodic power metal grandeur of STRATOVARIUS, together with Timo Kotipelto's powerful yet emotional voice, is very much present on all of the 80 minutes of this release. This spirit truly makes \"Enigma: Intermission 2\" closer to a full new studio album than to a mere compilation.\n\nThis autumn, STRATOVARIUS will hit the road in Europe with Tarja Turunen on the \"A Nordic Symphony '18\" tour.", null ]

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[ null, "With May-Johnson back in the dugout, Goler did her best impression of her new teammate, hitting a walk-off home run to give the Bandits a 6-5 victory. The blast capped off a 5-2 rally in the seventh inning.\n\nIn her first game out of retirement, it didn’t take May-Johnson very long to acquaint herself with Rosemont Stadium.\n\nWith the Bandits down 4-0 in the bottom of the sixth, May-Johnson launched a two-run home run over the left field wall, cutting the lead in half, and making her presence felt in the lineup.\n\nShe finished 1-for-3 on the night.\n\nPride pitcher Danielle Lawrie was tough all night on the Chicago bats, holding the Bandits to just two runs through the first six innings. In the seventh, the Bandits came alive.\n\nCaitlin Lever singled and crossed home after an Amber Patton triple into the left-center gap. Two errors by Andrea Duran at third allowed Patton to score and cut the lead to 5-4, putting Megan Wiggins on first base with just one out.\n\nAfter Danielle Zymkowitz popped out, Goler launched her NPF-leading 11th home run of the season, putting her two behind May-Johnson’s 2008 record of 13.\n\nPrior to the excitement, USSSA took the early lead in the top of the first after a two-out double by Jessica Mendoza. Charlotte Morgan drove Mendoza in to grab the 1-0 lead.\n\nChicago would have its chance in the first as well but would fail to score with runners on second and third. Danielle Zymkowitz reached base with a one-out single and Alisa Goler moved her to third with a double.\n\nIn her first at-bat of the season, May-Johnson went down on strikes and Tammy Williams followed with a hard fly out to right field to end the threat.\n\nAlisa Goler hits a walk-off home run in the seventh inning (photo by Dina Kwit).\nLawrie and Donna Bourgeois would pick up the pitcher’s duel until the sixth inning, when the Pride offense struck again. Morgan started the charge again, reaching base via a Williams error at shortstop.\n\nFrancesca Enea roped a double to right-center, moving pinch runner Kelsey Bruder to third. The next batter, Ashley Charters, cleared the bases with a triple, giving the Pride a 3-0 lead. Charters would be driven in two batters later by a Caitlin Lowe RBI single to go up 4-0.\n\nBourgeois saw her night end in the top of the sixth with two outs, the bags packed full of Pride runners, and Mendoza at the plate. Jamee Juarez took the circle in relief and promptly struck Mendoza out.\n\nThe Pride added one more run in the top of the seventh to pad their lead at 5-2 but Lawrie could not hold on in an attempt to grab win No. 10 on the season." ]

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[ null, "Muscat: The Sohar Refinery Improvement Project by Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) has been selected as one of the national winners in the Sultanate in this year’s edition of the MEED Projects Awards, in association with Mashreq.\nThe multibillion-dollar project, which was designed to upgrade the refining capability and maximise Omani crude oil, will now compete to be the best in the region in the oil and gas Project of the Year category.\nThe upgrade will answer the continuing growth of fuel consumption in the Sultanate, which has grown by 10 per cent annually over the past 5 years. At the same time, the feedstock needs of the company’s aromatics and polypropylene plants will be met, and with the increased supply of naphtha, Orpic will be able to reduce naphtha purchases from 75 per cent of its total requirement down to 25 per cent.\nThe product range will be expanded, with Orpic able for the first time to produce bitumen, primarily used to manufacture asphalt, which has been in increasing demand in the Sultanate for infrastructural projects." ]

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[ "Home Entertainment Final Fantasy: The arrival of the remake of VII to Xbox would...", null, "A new way to enjoy a classic\nIn 2020 the highly anticipated remake of Final Fantasy VII arrived on the PS4, after several years of teasers and rumors. This received very good reviews and also had some changes so that fans of the original also had some surprises. In addition, a few months ago Remake Intergrade was released, a new expansion of its history for PS5.", null, "It is normal that Final Fantasy VII Remake arrived first on the Sony console, because it was in the first version of it that we saw the original. However, it was always known that the exclusivity would be temporary and it seems that the retelling of Cloud’s history is already coming to Xbox.\n\nFinal Fantasy VII Remake’s arrival on Xbox was only a matter of time, but we didn’t know when it might happen. Now, thanks to a tweet from the Chinese Xbox account, which was recovered by HazzadorGamin, we might think that it will be a reality very soon.\n\nIn the tweet, which has already been deleted, the Xbox account conducted a survey on the occasion of its close 20th anniversary. In this they asked their followers which was their favorite character on the console and one of the options was Tifa Lockhart, one of the protagonists of Final Fantasy VII.\n\nApparently Xbox China posted an option of FF7 Remake in the thread then deleted tweet….it shows Xbox 20th anniversary so could they announce it at event next month? #Xbox\n\nAs always take it with grain of salt #FF7Remake pic.twitter.com/scFKUlZSWn\n\nThis option, along with the fact that the survey was deleted, has started speculation. Since Xbox has an event scheduled to celebrate its anniversary, some fans are theorizing that this is where they announce Final Fantasy VII Remake for their console.\n\nTechnically it would already be possible for this title to reach other platforms, since its exclusivity would end next December. Maybe Xbox fans can enjoy Final Fantasy VII Remake in the first months of 2022. Would you like it?", null, null ]

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[ "Sauti Sol’s Bien Recalls How He Proposed to Chiki Kuruka", null, "The 31-year-old vocalist and guitarist asked for Chiki’s hand in marriage in a superb proposal in February this year. The surprise marriage proposal played out at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi.\n\nBien recalled the events leading to the intimate proposal saying, “I had previously told some of my girlfriend’s family members and her close friends to do a video saying why they love her.”\n\n“Every one of them said a beautiful thing about her, and I made a collage video from their videos,” added Bien.\n\nChiki’s close friend lied to her that she was having issues with her boyfriend and wanted Chiki to be present when they reconcile. They later proceeded to the cinema hall to watch a movie that turned out to be a proposal.\n\n“It was dark so she could not see where we were seated. The movie started and the first video that appeared was from her father, followed by the other videos of her friends. And that is when I walked over,” Bien said.\n\nBien says he is looking forward to his wedding later this year.\n\n“I will be having the wedding but about the progress, I have left my fiancée to do the planning. I can’t avoid one because I love this lady so much.”\n\nDesagu’s Girlfriend Comes Clean on Reported Pregnancy < Previous\nNyce’s Ex-Hubby Tito Laments Not Being Able to Hug Daughter on her Birthday Next >\nRecommended stories you may like:" ]

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[ null, "We spotted this little beauty this morning – hanging around H’s plot near the damask. The big guy took a photo so we could do some identification back at home.\n\nIt took a little trawling as this one doesn’t tend to make the top 10 list for UK butterflies (whereas comma butterflies and peacock butterflies do feature in such lists).\n\nAnd in case you’re wondering, the females tend to be more white and not as distinctively coloured as the males, so it’s definitely a ‘he’.", null, "Some facts about this little fella.." ]

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[ null, "Power From The Air\n\nBrian Charette wields the Hammond B3 here in a really wonderful way – sometimes using the instrument with a full force that really drives the rest of the group, other times hitting more spacious lines that bring in all these great colors from the horn players on the set – a lineup that includes Itai Kriss on flute, Mike DiRubbo on alto, Kenny Brooks on tenor, and Karel Ruzicka on bass clarinet! Alongside the drums of Brian Fishler, the horns are used almost like a mini-ensemble – filling in next to the organ in the way you might hear on some of the hipper charts used with Jack McDuff at the end of the 60s – although Brian's approach is very much his own. The set includes lots of tasty original tunes – including \"Silver Lining\", \"As If To Say\", \"Fried Birds\", \"Elephant Memory\", \"Power From The Air\", \"Want\", and \"Frenzy\". © 1996-2021, Dusty Groove, Inc." ]

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[ null, "7 Of The Best Bars In Bucharest\n\nBucharest is still a little hidden jewel in Eastern Europe, and the city really comes into its own at night time. Bucharest bars range from craft cocktails the likes of which you would find in any cosmopolitan city to cosy, local beer bars.\n\nThe Romanian capital is still relatively undisturbed by hoards of stag parties, so you can sip on a perfect margarita in peace. This is certainly one city where you won’t want the night to end…\n\nFIX is an ingredient-led cocktail bar with a focus on Eastern European botanicals and other local ingredients. A breath of fresh air and wonderful place to spend time at what’s by far one the best bars in Bucharest.", null, "A small bar that does an incredibly mighty Long Island Ice Tea, QP stays open until the last customer drags themselves out – the sign of a true dive bar. Stick around long enough to join in the dancing and you’ll be a return customer.", null, "Beer O’Clock has one of the most diverse craft beers line-up out of any pub in Romania. They have a set list of beers which you can always find at the bar, alongside a weekly list of rotating draft beers.\n\nDon’t know much about IPAs, porters or Belgian ales? Even if you’re not a craft beer enthusiast, the bartenders here are happy to help you find the perfect brew.", null, "If you want an amazing panoramic view over Bucharest, this stylish rooftop bar is the place to be. It’s open all year-round, so you can bask in the sunshine and cosy up under the heaters when the winter hits. There’s always great entertainment – think live saxophone players for a boozy brunch.", null, "Head to the up-and-coming neighbourhood of Floreasca to this cool cocktail bar that has delicious food and creative drinks. It’s popular with the city’s hip, young crowd who party here before hitting up the clubs.\n\nThere’s groovy dancing on Thursday nights or wine and tapas every Wednesday.", null, "Berăria H, also known as The Lively City, is one of the biggest beer gardens in Europe, so this is a must for sunny afternoons. There’s always some sort of festival or music event happening, making this a buzzing spot. There’s plenty of local and imported beers to choose from as well as good food.", null, "If you’re in Bucharest’s Old Centre and looking for a place to get cocktails, a haircut, clothes and a new tattoo, then eh, this place actually does it all. The Urbanist is a sleek clothes store at the front and a bar at the back. It’s also a barbers and tattoo parlour a few days of the week, so you can make easily two of the worst decisions possible after a few drinks.", null, null, null, null, null, "The 7 Best Coffee Shops In Bucharest", null, "The 7 Best Pizzas In Bucharest", null, "The 7 Best Burgers In Bucharest", null, "The 7 Most Instagrammable Spots In Bucharest\n\n7 Interesting Facts About Mauritius\n18 hours ago\n\n7 Interesting Facts About The Gambia\n18 hours ago" ]

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[ null, "A train in Pakistan smashed into derailed carriages of another train on Monday, June 7, killing at least 36 people, authorities said, the latest accident to highlight the decrepit state of a railway system that dates to the 19th century.\n\nSeveral passengers were still trapped in mangled coaches strewn across the tracks in the southern province of Sindh, according to railway officials.\n\nPolice officer Umar Tufail said at least 36 people were killed and his men could see four more bodies in the wreckage.\n\n“We have not been able to take them out so far, but an operation is underway for that,” he told reporters at the site. “We have saved three more people; they are injured.”\n\nAn injured passenger, who had been traveling on the train that derailed, recounted how one calamity led to another.\n\n“We felt as if we had been thrown away,” the man, who had a bandaged head, told a television reporter from hospital, speaking of the initial derailing of his train.\n\n“The second train then hit our train (and) that caused more damage,” he said, adding most of the passengers were sleeping at the time in the pre-dawn hours.\n\nA Pakistan Railways spokesman said several carriages of the first train spilled across the adjacent track after the derailment in the Ghotki district. Within minutes, the second train, coming from the other direction, smashed into them.\n\n“The driver tried to apply emergency brakes but the locomotive hit the infringing coaches,” Pakistan Railways said in an initial report.\n\n“The track has got issues on several points, the coaches are old, some as old as 40 years,” railway official Tariq Latif told Geo News TV. “I’ve told high-ups several times: ‘Please do something about it’,” he said.\n\nPrime Minister Imran Khan said on Twitter he was shocked by the “horrific” accident and was ordering a comprehensive investigation into railway safety.\n\nInformation Minister Fawad Chaudhry blamed the crash on what he said was corruption by previous government, saying the exact cause of the accident was yet to be known, and an inquiry had been opened.\n\nThe two trains were carrying a total of 1,388 passengers, he told parliament in a speech telecast live.\n\nAccidents on the decaying rail system are common.\n\nIn 2005, in the same district, about 130 people were killed when a crowded passenger train rammed into another at a station and a third train struck the wreckage.\n\nSuccessive governments have for years been trying to secure funds to upgrade the system from a planned laying of a new rail track called ML-1 as part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative of energy and infrastructure projects.\n\nDue to certain technical issues the ML-1 project has yet to get under way despite final approval late last year, said Pakistan Railways Chairman Habib-ur-Rehman Gilani.\n\nHe told Geo News TV that any spending now to upgrade the track where the crash occurred would be a waste of resources.\n\n“I would say that until we get a permanent solution (ML-1), this track can’t be foolproof,” Gilani said. – Rappler.com" ]

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[ null, "And so my two and half years’ association with the Leverhulme Trust Project, Women’s Literary Culture & the Medieval Canon, draws to a close. It’s a good opportunity for me to stop fiddling with spreadsheets awhile and ponder what I have learned as a result of contact, for the first time in my life, with scores of literary medievalists.\n\nWhen I was offered the post of Project Facilitator in the Spring of 2015 I was delighted. I would combine my skills as an administrator with my love of literature and travel, all in nine hours a week. What could be better? There would be three events to organise; two workshops, in Chawton (2015) and Boston (2016), and a conference in Bergen (2017). The workshops would be smaller events, for a core of invited Network members, the conference larger, involving an open call for papers from academics around the world. My remit would be to organise venues, travel, hotels, restaurants, as well as to draft the programme and set up an associated website and blog. One of the main challenges was to book events in cities I had never visited. I am grateful for the support and advice of the Network academics on the ground, Amy Appleford in Boston and Laura Saetveit Miles in Bergen.", null, "It is a truth universally acknowledged that the location of a meeting will affect participants’ output, for good or ill! How could we fail with our first venue, Chawton House Library? It is the former home of Jane Austen’s brother and Jane was a frequent visitor. She sat, perhaps, on that very window seat in our heavily curtained, wood-panelled room. It was an inspiring ambience for a group of literary scholars. There was inspiration of a different nature at our second venue, the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston. A building of leather chairs, polished wood and pendulous chandeliers it spoke straight from the pages of a Henry James novel, in overwhelming contrast to the war-time experiences of its namesake, holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel. Finally to the lofty proportions of the ultra-modern University of Bergen and The Egg, the aptly named conference theatre, suspended white and oval over the void, seemingly without support. This and the superb Norwegian open sandwiches provided fitting inspiration for the sixty or more scholars who presented papers.\n\nStrangely I first began to engage with the subject matter of the project not at work but with friends. From some came waves of polite, thinly-veiled scepticism regarding the nature of the project. Accountants, doctors, engineers, there was little willingness to engage with the subject of medieval literature, let alone the role played by women in the canon. I found myself, with no particular axe to grind, discussing the project over dinners, trying in inarticulate fashion to explain the importance to our culture of literature and the thrill of historic literary discovery. This was first made real to me in a conversation with Nancy Bradley Warren in which she told me she would be rummaging in archives in ancient convents in France, rounding off her trip to Europe with a visit to the manuscripts in the British Library. Conversations with others revealed names of which I had only dimly been aware: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe and the impossibly exotic sounding Mechtild of Hackeborn. These, I discovered, were women of flesh and blood, arguably semi-literate, relying often on male scribes, yet with unmistakable voices that have echoed down the centuries. Surely, I argued with my dinner companions, these faint voices deserved to be uncovered and amplified by experts in the field, much as an archaeologist might sift the sand painstakingly for clues?", null, "I must admit that the concept of the role of women as distinct to that of men in the medieval or indeed any other literary canon had never crossed my mind, except in the broadest of possible terms, when considering the remarkable lives and works of writers such as the Brontës or George Eliot. I had never considered how restricted the lives of women were in medieval times. New to me was the idea that the best (perhaps only) way for high status, intelligent women to maintain their independence and literary pursuits was to enter an abbey as a nun. Some women, for example those who preferred women and wished never to marry, might have done this willingly, for others, torn between marriage and children and the life of the mind, it must have been a tortuous choice. Yet others were no doubt forced into a life of religious seclusion, regardless of their wishes or intelligence. And then we have the Visionaries and those women such as Julian of Norwich who became anchoresses, shutting themselves away for life in anchor-holds attached to churches, dispensing wise words and prayers through an aperture in the wall. Remarkable women, doing remarkable things, some little of which has come down to us via the written word.\n\nOf all that I have discovered and learned on my lay-person’s journey through medieval literature, two aspects have caught my imagination. Firstly, the concept of the anchoress as mentioned above, secondly the research by Michelle M Sauer and others on Christ’s wound and the use of this image in medieval worship and art. My husband and I are frequent visitors to village churches on our travels round the UK and I was recently staggered to find an example at the Church of St Michael the Archangel, Laxton, Nottinghamshire, the oldest parts of which date back to 1190. Here, on the North Aisle Screen, I was amazed to discover the five wounds of Christ, roughly carved into the wood in 1532. These, I read, were carved as an act of rebellion against Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries. One can imagine an angry, frightened wood-smith gouging the wood in haste, creating these secret symbols of rebellion to encourage others. The insurgence was ruthlessly suppressed but the wounds, literally and figuratively, remain to this day. To read Michelle M Sauer’s fascinating blog please click here.", null, null, "There is a poster on the wall near my office which says this: ‘A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads, lives only one.’ Aside from the lazy sexism implicit in these words, I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment. As a child I was Alice, Mary, Roberta, Darryl, Lucy, Gemma, George, Marianne. As an adult I have inhabited countless souls. Now I add more: Birgitta, Margery, Julian, Mechtild and my life is immeasurably enriched.\n\nThe Letter of Cecily Daune: A Poetic Translation" ]

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[ "FOOLISH UK NEWS OF THE DAY: SECRET LOVER OF 7/7 BOMBER SAYS HE TURNED HER LESBIAN", null, "A young woman who had an affair with married 7/7 bomber Jermaine Lindsay claims that his betrayal turned her off men for life and she is now a lesbian….\n\nVia The Evening Standard\n\nA teenager who was the secret girlfriend of 7/7 suicide bomber Jermaine Lindsay told today how she has become a lesbian because she “can’t trust men”.\n\nLindsay, 19, was married when he detonated a bomb on the Piccadilly line between Russell Square and King’s Cross on 7 July 2005.\n\nBut he was secretly seeing Nicki Pike, then 17, and tried to convince her to stay with him at a hotel the night before the bombings. Ms Pike, now 23, said: “I can never forgive him.”", null, "I laughed when I came across this story today. Nicki is obviously desperate for her 15 minutes in the spotlight so contacted the newspapers with this ridiculous story. Crawl back under your rock Nicki. Silly woman.\n\nRest In Peace to all those who lost their lives in the 7/7 attacks." ]

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[ "Energy crisis in india essay. Free Essays on Conclusion Of Energy Crisis through 2019-01-19", null, "Even if small percentage of ethanol and Bio-diesel is blended, immense savings on import bill can be affected. In northern areas, Pakistan is surrounded with lofty mountains and glaciers. There is a strain on fossil fuels such as , and coal due to overconsumption — which then in turn can put a strain on our water and oxygen resources by causing. Energy is pivotal in running machinery in factories and industrial units, for lighting our cities and powering our vehicles etc. In many places, villagers who can see the poles and power lines from their homes could wait decades for those lines to reach them. For faster economic growth, Pakistan need more generation.\n\nShort essay on the energy crisis in the world\n\nEssay: Electricity crisis in Pakistan their impacts causes and possible solutions Energy is physical quantity that describes the amount of work that can be done by a force. Common Stand on Climate Change: Both developed and developing countries should adopt a common stand on climate change. Conclusions that the world is heading towards an unprecedented large and potentially devastating global energy crisis due to a decline in the availability of cheap oil have led to calls for a decreasing dependency on fossil fuel. Therefore, it is desirable that power sector should be thrown open for private participation. It has multiple uses and each of them supports life, directly or indirectly. In India, non-conventional sources of energy such as firewood, cow dung, vegetable wastes and mechanical energy derived from animal power and manpower, play a dominant role.\n\nAIR spotlight summary on Crisis in India and Hydro Power\n\nCrisis is declared when something has gone to a level where an action must be taken to avoid complete disaster or breakdown. It has put tremendous strain on our developing economy and there is an urgent need of energy- efficient machines and devices, particularly automobiles, because transport sector is the main consumer of petroleum products. Two, the supply of oil and gas are mainly dependent upon the capacity to pump from the reserves. Causes of Energy Crisis in Pakistan 5. This can be done by reducing or eliminating certain energy-using activities. Despite the abundance of natural resources, the government has failed to mitigate the enormity of energy crisis in Pakistan.", null, "Coal has an advantage over other fuels as it can be suitably converted into other types of energy like electricity, oil and gas. America is again there for the same purpose. The key will be figuring out what works on a state-by-state, city-by-city, village-by-village level. The country cannot sell its products to other countries and has hence suffered from a huge loss financially and. There is no real energy crisis if you are not concerned about life after your time on is gone. Nuclear energy is location independent sources of energy i. By the solar plates, the solar energy converts into electrical energy.\n\nToday people must still walk two kilometers to fetch water. Energy Simulation: Energy simulation software can be used by big corporates and corporations to redesign building unit and. The 20th century and dawn of the 21st century have seen wars fought for oil. In fact, the corruption, inefficient management, and non-serious attitude of ruler, towards energy crisis, are major causes. Allegedly the fuels of the future and a green alternative to traditional fossil fuels, biofuels are made from plants such as sugar cane and.", null, "Gupta would have benefited from the eight steps of crisis management. Government has entered into the agreements with countries like Qatar and Iran to improve the position. Besides, cost of gas development is also lower than that of oil. A solution of Energy Crisis: Scientists and technologists have taken steps to face the crisis In the rural areas people are advised to use more ' firewood, agricultural wastes and cow dung. The report shows that most emerging economies remain for below the energy consumption as well as carbon emission levels of industrialised countries.\n\nCauses and Solutions to the Global Energy Crisis\n\nThe developed nations of world should render every assists to the developing countries to achieve the natural gas as an alternate source of energy. Besides these conflicts, the fossil fuels cause havoc to our environment. Snarls of lines enveloping the tops of leaning electrical poles are a ubiquitous sight in every Indian city. The fossil fuels are also the main source of energy for heating of houses and running motor vehicles and generation of electricity. Nuclear energy is being offered as panacea for energy crisis being faced by India. Rapid demand growth, transmission losses due to out-dated infrastructure, power theft, and seasonal reductions in the availability of hydropower have worsened the situation. Burning coal accounts for 43 per cent of carbon emissions.\n\nAppointment of Employees on Merit basis-ConclusionSince the industrial revolution, the non-renewable energy resources are the economic imperative for the economy of any country. Hydro-power potential should also be developed with a sense of urgency. A number of Indian and foreign providers, including fast-growing companies like Visionary Lighting and Energy and Greenlight Planet, are spreading small home solar systems across South Asia, driven by government incentives, plummeting costs for the technology, and high demand. During the latter crisis it suffered severe damage- to power networks along with diesel and coal shortages. Sudden spurt in the use of private vehicles by these sections of population and the faulty vehicle policy pursued by the Government may lead to a serious energy crisis in near future in the context of shrinking national as well as global reserve of energy." ]

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[ null, "March 21, 2012, is a day that changed my life forever. It started off like any average day. I got up and went to work. Mike was asleep when I left. I called him around 8:30 that morning to let him know I wouldn’t be at my desk, in case he tried to call me. He sounded fine. Then, just by chance, I happened to be at my desk at 10 am when my phone rang. It was Mike … telling me he was having a stroke.\n\nBy the time I got to the house, the ambulance was there. Mike was awake and reaching for me. I didn’t think it was too serious because Mike was alert and talking. But, by the time we got to the hospital, that had changed. The doctor informed me that Mike had a huge blood clot near his cerebellum, and he had to be life-flighted to another hospital because he was too critical to stay at the one he was at.\n\nI had to sign papers for life-saving brain surgery. Mike was in a coma for ten days. We didn’t know if he would wake up, and, if he did, what condition he would be in. When he “woke up,” Mike wasn’t anything like the man I married. He stayed in the hospital for another month, and then he was transferred to a nursing home.\n\nThose days were some of the darkest in my life. They treated Mike as if he were a hopeless case. I wonder what would’ve happened to him if I hadn’t been around.\n\nHe was tube-fed, couldn’t speak (he wrote instead), and couldn’t walk. He was totally helpless. Plus, he was battling infection after infection. I didn’t think things would ever return to normal.\n\nFast forward to January 2017 – almost five years post stroke. Mike passed his barium swallow test, and he is having his G-tube removed! He is walking almost unassisted! He is talking! I told Mike, “You are an inspiration. You give hope to people who have lost it, you have renewed hope for people who are about to give up, and you keep hope alive for people who are just starting this long journey.”\n\nMike wants everyone to know – DON’T EVER, EVER, EVER GIVE UP. No matter if it’s been five, ten, or fifteen years. Keep hope alive! Mike did, and look how far he has come!" ]

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[ null, "Guy Beahm aka DrDisRespect’s Twitch ban is still the talk these days due to the cause still being unknown, according to DrDisRespect. Way back in June DrDisRespect was banned from the platform and Twitch didn’t provide any reason for it as well. It was sudden and it started a big controversy on Twitch. Due to his ban, he started streaming on Youtube instead and he has quickly gained massive followers and subscribers on that platform.\n\nMichael Grzesiek aka Shroud recently discussed while live on stream on Twitch about this issue. During one of his recent streams, Shroud picked up a few questions from his chat that ensued a similar discussion. He stated; “I could watch a Doc video if I wanted to. I just can’t play with Doc or associate with him like, live on stream. But if I watched a video, and it was a compilation and Doc was in it, that’s fine. That’s totally fine”. According to Twitch community guidelines, a Twitch streamer can not stream or play together with someone who is permanently banned from the platform, just like DrDisRespect. Shroud cleared all the doubts regarding this issue. Unless any streamer is directly interacting with Doc or letting his chat do it, they are safe.\n\nShroud also asked the popular streamer a question: Why doesn’t anybody know why DrDisRespect was banned!? He responded and simply stated; “Nobody needs to know”. It is because Shroud believes that the platform cannot go around informing everyone why they ban every single person from the channel. The issue is between the employer and the contractor." ]

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[ null, null, null, "Oscar Tshiebwe had a double-double with 17 points and 14 rebounds for Kentucky (17-4), which also got 12 points from Kellan Grady and 11 from Jacob Toppin.\n\nKentucky dominated the boards, owning a 41-29 rebounding edge, including 12-7 on the offensive end.\n\nKansas coach Bill Self kept searching for combinations that would allow his team to get back in the game, but that search turned up empty. Kansas used a 7-0 run to cut the deficit to 62-48 early in the second half when Kentucky missed seven straight shots, but the Jayhawks never got any closer.\n\nKentucky used an 8-0 run early to grab the lead and then held Kansas at bay. Kentucky led by 12 at the 10:29 mark, with their points spread among seven different players. More telling, the Wildcats held a 13-4 advantage on the boards.\n\nThe Kentucky lead grew to as many as 20 when Kellan Grady hit a 3-pointer with 2:31 left in the half and the Wildcats led 51-31 at the break, Kansas’ largest halftime deficit of the season. They trailed Kansas State by 16 a week earlier but rallied for a 78-75 win.\n\nKentucky: The Wildcats extended their slim lead in all-time NCAA wins to four (2,344-2,340) over Kansas. These are the two winningest programs in college basketball history. Kansas has gained 15 wins in the last two full seasons.\n\nKentucky returns to SEC play, where their 6-2 record is two games behind Auburn. The Wildcats will host Vanderbilt on Wednesday.\n\nKansas, which stands at 6-1 in the Big 12, will return to conference play at No. 23 Iowa State on Tuesday.\n\nHi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: Brooks scores 27, No. 12 Kentucky beats No. 5 Kansas. Here is a link to that story: https://www.portsmouth-dailytimes.com/sports/71777/brooks-scores-27-no-12-kentucky-beats-no-5-kansas" ]

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[ "This steaming pile of Hixploitation magnificence begins with a soldier, in the middle of “God knows where”, hauling a barrel of toxic waste, of course it falls off the vehicle while he’s getting high. The main problem with the movie is the humor almost ruins the whole picture. As the opening credits came on i wondered if this was filmed with a standard hand held 8mm or if they really used real film An error has occured. The first time I saw it was shortly after it’s release and I’ve watched it once every year or two since then. Good film for parties,not for the sober! This is one of the movies I can watch over and over again.\n\nIt’s an odd film. Ever wonder what guts looked like on LSD? This movie may be cheap, but it is very entertaining! The bonus is gore and humor. The barrel is, of course, intercepted by a 4, pound yokel, with a gun, no brain, and a whole lot of curiosity played by the legendary Bucky Santini. Mega kudos to y’all! If not there is always Amazon. For the complete Redneck Zombies experience, check out the new Tromasterpiece Edition, it’s swell!!\n\nAnd as a bonus the music, including some priceless ditties such as “Squirrels from Hell”, is boonus catchy. If anyone ever had fun making a movie, these guys did, which makes me wonder why Pericles didn’t direct anything else for so long.\n\nIf you like outrageous, super campy horror that has fun with stereotypes espwrk contains tons of brutal, ultra gore Redneck Zombies is a cool flick for you to check out. It’s probably the high point of the movie.\n\nIt is a hit or miss for each individual I think. It startes geting good at the last half hour there is tones and tones of Gore,comedy and many more.", null, "For there is nothing which chills the heart with more certainty than the prospect of a tepid remake. With the soldier scared off, and the toxic waste now freshly stolen, from the portly yokel, by the Clemson clan, the town of thirteen rednecks can all now be let in on this curious lookin’ liquid.\n\nRedneck Zombies is not suppose cinma be taken seriously.\n\nThe gore may be low budget but it is still effective in the way that it is disgusting. Heck, I actually own the movie because it actually grew on me.", null, "Woodyanders 10 October Some rednecks get the drum thinking that it is Moonshine because they do not know how to read, or they are just stupid and give it to people and become flesh eating zombies. Mainly Bob, the pre-vet student is starts tripping while doing an autopsy on one of the bouns.\n\nSaid zombies terrorize a group of campers unlucky enough to be poking around their neck of the woods. Even though Movie Branding is not the main medium for marketing of brands, it is cost effective and acts as a bonus value.\n\nIt helps to reduce publicity budget of films. I was gonna give it an average 6 out of 10, but upon seeing how low the average score for the movie was, I decided I’ll bump the score up 1 point, and give it an above average 7.\n\nThe story is simple enough. Lewnes takes every opportunity he gets to take his movie in surreal directions, and there’s enough W.\n\nHome Services In-Film Branding. Espak masterpiece contains an element that is VERY hard to capture on screen. I see other reviews here using the old argument, “I could do better” but all I have to say to that in a situation like this is, “If you can do better, why haven’t you? I wouldn’t recommend seeing it but I could sit clnema and type all day about the bottomless toilet of flaws that this film actually is, like most would, but, for the most part, all that was intentional, so now, all we have left is entertainment value, and if that was all that counted in the film industry, then Mr.\n\nI haven’t seen this much pure gore since Evil Dead.\n\nBut I suggest that you give it a shot. Boy, does this uproariously awful atrocity scrupulously cover all the correct so-utterly-wrong-that-they’re-paradoxically-right schlock cinema bases: I was fortunate to visit the original cabin site for The Evil Dead and would love to find the old barn house that was painted with blood in nonus movie.", null, "I watch it now and find the humor of the movie to be rather lame. And the makeup on the zombies was great and there was tons of gore. Full of fun and quirky spoofs. The script is espar, but funny, playing a group of rednecks who put radioactive waste in their moonshine and become bloodthirsty zombies terrorizing innocent campers with lots of camera clipping But if you are planning to laugh this is the movie.\n\nEsaprk the zombies burping after a heavy meal to the witty one liners that, although sometimes asinine, can still create a chuckle from the lax viewer.\n\nCinems error has occured. This movie, Bad Taste and the voice over of Night of Living Dead are entertaining no thought required pure enjoyment. I looked at the cover and knew that i would like this movie. Not for the weak of stomach." ]

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[ null, "Camm Morton has been involved in commercial real estate sales and leasing for over 30 years. He currently works as a Senior Advisor in Stirling Properties’ Baton Rouge office. With a reputation for integrity and success, Camm brings unsurpassed national market experience managing companies in commercial property leasing, renovation, real estate development and property management. He has established an exceptional record of noteworthy accomplishments including bold mixed-use projects, Traditional Neighborhood Developments (TNDs), and the high-profile and successful renovation of the historic Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana.\n\nCamm has owned and successfully developed real estate in 29 states and Puerto Rico, including his own company and a billion-dollar NYSE-traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).\n\nWorking as the President of Retail Development for Western Development Corporation, Morton served as the developer in charge of creating Potomac Mills, an outlet mall in Woodbridge, Virginia, in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Potomac Mills was later deemed \"one of the most significant developments in retail\" and was the prototype development of the Mills concept.\n\nBefore joining Stirling Properties, Camm worked as a Senior Advisor with SVN | Graham, Langlois & Legendre commercial real estate firm in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is a prior chairman of the Louisiana Lieutenant Governor’s Volunteer Louisiana Commission and has served in a range of volunteer capacities on numerous nonprofit boards including Boy Scouts of America, Junior Achievement and The Baton Rouge Growth Coalition. He has “rung the bell” at the NYSE and appeared on national news outlets including CNN and CNBC as well as the ABC TV news program 20/20. Camm has received many honors over the years, but his most cherished is his Boy Scouts of America “Silver Beaver” award.\n\nBorn in Birmingham, Alabama, Camm was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Richmond, Virginia. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and psychology from Hampden-Sydney College where he played football and made two National Championship appearances. He holds a Master of Science degree in horticulture from the University of Florida and an M.B.A. from East Carolina University.\n\nHe is currently the CEO of VR Baton Rouge, which is affiliated with VR Worldwide, helping business owners create real value for themselves and their families." ]

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[ null, "Meyers, a Saturday Night Live alum, is the host of “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” The Emmy Award-winning writer will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3 at Beasley Coliseum.\n\nMeyers was named one of the 2014 TIME 100, Time magazine’s 100 most influential people. He also hosted the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards.\n\nHis TV career started with “Saturday Night Live” in 2001, where he spent thirteen seasons on cast. He’s been nominated for an Emmy 10 times for his TV writing and won the award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for a musical monologue performed by SNL host Justin Timberlake.\n\nMeyers lends his voice to Hulu’s animated superhero show “The Awesomes.” He’s an executive producer of the show, now in its third season.\n\nTicket sales have yet to be announced but will cost $59.50 for general admission and $54.50 for WSU staff, faculty and students, according to a news release.\n\nThe blazing hot days of summer are almost over. Our slice of the Earth is tilting away from the sun...." ]

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[ "“To me the Festival de Cannes (besides being the most important film festival in the world – no disrespect to anybody) has had a great impact on my film career. You could easily say Cannes changed the trajectory of who I became in world cinema.” He’s the one raising his fist. It was he who paid tribute to Robert Mitchum with the words “love” and “hate” engraved on his rings when he made his remarkable entrance into the great hall of the Palais des Festivals in 2018. In 2018, after a 22-year absence, Brooklyn-based director Spike Lee returned to the Competition with BlacKkKlansman and offered up glaring proof of his still undiminished anger and virtuosity. By turns a scathing comedy, detective thriller and political tract, the film was garnered the Grand Prix followed by the director’s first Oscar for one of his films. Born in Atlanta in 1957 but raised in Brooklyn, New York City, Spike Lee considers himself first and foremost a writer – he works almost exclusively on his own screenplays. The maverick of US cinema stamped his personality on the cinema scene from the very beginning: bold and daring subjects, sharp direction, punchy dialogues, a mastery of sustained rhythm, and the perfect soundtrack to accompany each film. A fascinating mix of genres that his filmography has constantly reflected for nearly 30 years since his first film in 1986, She’s Gotta Have It. A sentimental satire in the guise of a sociological documentary, this inventive treasure trove set a pioneering tone. His subsequent feature films – Do the Right Thing in 1989 followed two years later by Jungle Fever – were shot through with New York’s urban culture. Both were fixtures on the red carpet at Cannes, where they blew audiences away with their brilliant acuity and corrosive humour. Behind his outsize glasses, Spike Lee’s determined gaze captures the issues of his time, such as machismo and the herd instinct (Summer of Sam), the representation of Afro-Americans in the media (The Very Black Show) or the loss of moral values (She Hate Me). Although he situates his stories in American society, he goes well beyond its confines to transcend borders and deliver a universal discourse on tolerance, fraternity (Get on the Bus) or forgiveness (He Got Game). Whether in a biopic (Malcolm X), a poem (The 25th Hour) or a thriller in the purest Hollywood tradition (Inside Man), Spike Lee asserts his expertise not just in fiction but also in documentary (4 Little Girls, Katrina). His work reflects the man who looks like an eternal teenager who’s never seen without his sneakers and cap: facetious and turbulent, voluble and provocative, occasionally enraged, always engaged.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "NEW YORK - Border Patrol agents say a pick-up truck full of marijuana was rafted across the Rio Grande into Texas.\n\nThe Rio Grande Valley-based agents say it happened Tuesday outside of Brownville.\n\nThey say a Ford Ranger was floated across the river. Once the vehicle made landfall in the U.S., agents along with the Texas state troopers attempted to pull over the vehicle but the driver kept going.\n\nBorder Patrol agents say the truck sped back toward the Rio Grande. The driver abandoned the truck and swam back to Mexico.\n\nAgents searched the vehicle and discovered 24 bundles of marijuana weighing approximately 565 pounds and valued at more than $452,000.\n\nAgents found shoe prints leading into the thick brush where several abandoned bundles of marijuana were located concealed under a tarp.\n\nAgents seized 33 bundles of marijuana weighing approximately 380 pounds and worth more than $305,000.\n\nAgents searched the immediate area but did not find any people." ]

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[ "One of my goals as a young poet was to rewrite the Bible from a woman’s point of view. Over the years, I’ve slowly accumulated poems about — among others — Adam and Eve, Noah, Martha and Mary, Lot’s daughter, and Job’s wife. Since ’tis the season, I thought I’d share one of my favorites. It’s based on that moment in Bethlehem when Mary and Joseph are told the Inn is sold out.\n\nListen to the innkeeper’s wife when she comes to grips with who it was her husband turned away. What marketing opportunities were lost that day!\n\nI could spit! I shouted in his face.\n\nHe brushed that couple off without\n\nWhen will he learn? The Census earns\n\nfive years of room and board,\n\nbut lugging wood and curing hay,\n\nlearning isn’t on his mind.\n\nan extra rug to keep her bundle warm.\n\na bed. And when it came her time,\n\nbeyond the barn and hush those wings\n\nand aggravating songs. They could drive\n\na dreamer from his restless sleep.\n\nAnd, the publicity we’d glean!\n\nA destination site, at least.\n\nNot every day do morning stars\n\nand cameled Kings ruckus through\n\nour town. We’d be well-mapped,\n\nnot the butt of half-lame jokes.\n\nWe lost the chance. I’m furious!\n\nwith the rotting manger molding hay\n\nlets strangers muck across his barn,\n\ndropping coins to say they’ve been.\n\nNow he roams his days across the hills,", null ]

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[ "The Moon Is Flat’s ‘Good Trip’\n\nBy Christine Mitchell on December 13, 2017@Housetornado37", null, "The Moon is Flat : The Good Trip\n\nThe Moon is Flat has been in the process of creating their debut album, The Good Trip, for a good long while. This clutch of five songs clocks in at just under 35 minutes (the songs range from six to eight and a half minutes long) and represents the culmination of years of musical maturation for not just The Moon is Flat, but also their sonic home, Soniphone Records. The Good Trip is a triumph for both the label and the band.\n\nFront man and guitarist Kirk Rutherford and drummer Thys Ferwerda have been enmeshed in the Everett scene for years. You may not realize it, but they’ve played Fisherman’s Village Music Festival for several years running, both as TMIF and in their previous band, Shark The Herald. Back in 2014, both Shark The Herald and Soniphone Records popped up on SMI’s radar due to the band’s grungy, heady sound and the sheer audacity that anyone would dare to start a label in Everett. Since that time, Rutherford and label owner Kyle Ledford’s visions have morphed and expanded in ways that have cemented their place in Everett’s local scene and beyond.\n\nWhile the backstory on The Good Trip is informative and interesting, the album itself stands on its own without explanation. It’s an immersive sonic and mental experience from front to back. This album sounds like golden hour, that hazy, lazy time of day when time stands still. The songs fade in and out of the psyche, never rushing headlong but preferring to float, dirge, and occupy space in a way that feels organic and real. The opening track, “Have You Seen My Glasses?,” shimmers like a dewy, foggy morning. The simple lyrics about misplacing one’s specs and musing on mental states (“I’m losing my mind”) are sung by Rutherford and feel almost incidental, but the song is a master class in psych balladry; “Glasses” is flat out (no pun intended) gorgeous, its layers and textures almost visibly shimmer in the air. It isn’t often that songs induce goosebumps, but this is one of those.\n\nAaron Ljunghammar’s work on The Good Trip is integral. Engrossing rhythm guitar that pulls the listener in initially, but Ljunghammar and Rutherford trade intricate solos that turn interest into fascination; this stream of consciousness guitar playing gets sort of mind blowing at times. On the album’s title track, the playing flows between prog territory and pure psychedelic pedal work and knob-twisting without losing a beat. Ferwerda’s drumming pulls us through every wormhole that Ljunghammar and Rutherford dive into. The entire band takes the concept of jamming to a new level, locked in as they are, and the result is an aural painting that is filled out to all four corners with nary a brush stroke missing. Dirges like “A Usual Suspect” find that brush heavy and unrelenting, yet though these tracks explore dark corners at times, the lush, layered sounds remain consistently exhilarating.\n\n“Old Habits Die Hard” closes the album with eight and a half minutes of introspective, maudlin balladry, building like curling arcs of smoke in the air, winding and dissipating and winding again. Rutherford, Ledford, and fellow recording engineer and mixer Matt Houghton have created their best work yet for Soniphone. It’s exciting on many levels: Rutherford’s years’-long vision has come to fruition, and The Moon is Flat’s solid offering here solidifies Soniphone’s reputation in the area and beyond: Rutherford has been bombarded by folks messaging him from Europe since The Good Trip was released last month who love the album and are sharing it with their friends there. Perhaps it’s time to take a . . .”trip?” This time, pun intended.\n\nChristine Mitchell has been poring over album liner notes pretty much since she acquired the skill of reading, and figured out the basic structure of rock songs at an early age. Whether it’s the needle popping into the first groove of the record, the beeps that signal the beginning (or end) of a cassette tape, or digital numbers ticking off the seconds from zero, music brings Christine happiness, ponderous thought, opportunities for almost scientific study, and sometimes a few tears. When she started attending live shows two decades ago, a whole new piece of the puzzle clicked in and she has been hooked ever since.\nRelated ItemsChristine MitchellFeatureSoniphone RecordsThe Good TripThe Moon Is Flat\n← Previous Story Friday: Red Cross Benefit at Barboza\nNext Story → Hot Seat: Kaitie Wade" ]

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[ "Harry Styles cant get over One Direction!\n\nWhile appearing as a guest on the Ellen Show, Harry Played the secret spilling game of “Burning Questions”, where he was put in the hot seat and asked a series of juicy questions. Ellen grilled the singer on his guilty pleasures and after thinking on it for a few seconds, he admitted that he still loves “working out to One Direction.”", null, "Unfortunately he didn’t reveal his playlist, were keeping our fingers crossed that he does though. Harry also revealed some super personal details about his love life, like that eyes, smile, and character are his favorite things about a woman. He also shared that his first celebrity crush was Jennifer Aniston.", null ]

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[ "by Peter Calvert, release date 2001, Politics And Society In The Third World Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Politics And Society In The Third World books, Appropriate for 1st and 2nd year undergraduate courses in Political Science and Sociology e.g. Politics and Society of the Third World/South; Third World Politics; Third World Society; The Third World; The Politics of the Developing World; Third World Studies. Also suitable for courses in Developmental Economics, Development Studies, IR, International Studies, Geography, History and Environmental Sciences. This basic and very popular introduction to the politics and society of the Third World/South is written and presented with the utmost clarity. The authors provide wide-ranging and balanced coverage of the major theoretical and methodological issues of this complex field. Carefully selected case studies support learning in the key areas and the four well-organized parts introduce students with ease to the essential material they need to know.\n\n\nDemocracy And Civil Society In The Third World\n\nby Jeffrey Haynes, release date 1997-12-19, Democracy And Civil Society In The Third World Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Democracy And Civil Society In The Third World books, This book provides an accessible account of popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World. Focusing on poor and marginalized groups within developing countries, it shows how these groups have been stimulated into action by recent demands for political and economic change. Haynes describes the growing interest in democratic change in the Third World during the 1980s and 1990s, and argues that demands for democracy, human rights and economic change were a widespread catalyst for the emergence of hundreds of thousands of popular movements in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Sometimes these took the form of demands for more political representation and greater economic development; others were concerned with environmental protection, the broad position of women and the establishment of Islamic states and societies. Haynes argues that these emerging popular organizations are best regarded as building blocks of civil society that, in time, will enhance the democratic nature of many political environments in the Third World. The book will be welcomed by students and researchers in development studies, politics and sociology.\n\n\nPolitics And Society In The Developing World", null, "\nPolitics In The Developing World\n\nby Peter Burnell, release date 2017-03-16, Politics In The Developing World Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Politics In The Developing World books, An impressive line-up of international contributors provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to politics in the developing world. The first four parts explore the theoretical approaches, the changing nature and role of the state, and the major policy issues that confront alldeveloping countries. The final parts set out a diverse range of country case studies, representing all the main geographical regions. These country case studies illustrate the themes introduced in the thematic chapters and highlight the developing world as a place of diversity and rapidtransformations. Readers are provided with the tools to appreciate the perspectives of developing countries. The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated to address topical issues and themes, including refugee movements; the rise of the so-called Islamic State; organised crime; gender; the role of new forms of communication in political mobilization; and the replacement of Millennium Development Goals bySustainable Development Goals. Two new country case studies have been added: Syria and the Sudan. The text is supported by an Online Resource Centre with the following student resources:* Additional country case studies to encourage students to consider the political situations in different developing countries* A flashcard glossary to allow students to test their knowledge of important concepts* Study questions encourage readers to think critically about each chapter* Web links encourage students to go beyond the textbook and read more widely.\n\n\nPolitics And Society In The Developing World\n\n\nPolitics And State In The Third World\n\nby Jeffrey Haynes, release date 1996-10-08, Third World Politics Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Third World Politics books, Purposefully written for those coming to politics for the first time, this textbook provides an exploration and analysis of the most important political issues affecting the developing world. Offering a different perspective from standard texts in this field, Politics in the Developing World encourages an understanding of the breadth and nature of a range of pressing – and previously understated – issues: the striving for democracy; the political consequences of economic growth and development; the struggle of religious and ethnic minorities; human rights, particularly women's rights ; the impact of globalization; and the politics of the natural environment. In doing so, the interaction of domestic and global factors affecting many of the developing world countries is highlighted and a new, qualitatively different set of concerns is identified. Some have resulted from recent international changes following the demise of the Soviet bloc, including the shift to democracy in South Africa, and the ramifications of the late 1990s Southeast Asian financial crisis. To illustrate the importance of these themes and issues, five developing world regions are examined in detail: Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. While based on Haynes's previous publication, Third World Politics: A Concise Introduction (1996), this is a new book, completely rewritten, with updated regional analyses and data throughout. It concentrates on changes in the developing world in the last decade, with an increased focus on its international relations, complementing those chapters concerned with domestic issues. An ideal introduction as well as an invitation to further study, this text is essential reading for introductory students studying a range of courses including development studies, global politics, world politics, developing world politics, comparative politics, and international relations." ]

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[ "All you need to know about Moon – Lunar Phenomenon\n\nThis is the time when the Moon is in its orbit such that the side facing towards Earth is not lit up by the Sun. After this moon phases starts from 1 till next new Moon. You cannot see new Moon. To learn about Moon phases please see below:\n\nFull Moon occurs every month and is a period when Full Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth to that of the Sun. Full moon is the 14th day of the Moon. From observation point of view, Full Moon reflects the most light compared to other phases and the Full Moon shows very less or no craters on the Moon.\n\nSuper Full Moon is the Moon when it is seen the largest in size about 12% bigger than normal. It happens once, twice or thrice in a year. This happens because Moon’s orbit is not circular and the distance between the two extreme points on the orbit is not same from the surface of the Earth. This is also called perigee. If you are interested in learning about the science behind it please visit Moon Apogee and Perigee.\n\nLike there is a biggest Full moon, there exists the opposite that is the smallest Full Moon. The Full Moon looks smaller than normal during that period. The between moon and earth is longest so Moon looks smaller than normal. The astronomical term for this is Apogee. If you are interested in learning about it more, please visit Moon Apogee and Perigee.", null, "Metaphorically, a “blue moon” is a rare event, as in the expression “once in a blue moon”.\n\nThere is a Red moon which is actually reddish (orangish). In Blue Moon, the Full Moon is not actually “blue”. But in Red Moon the Moon is red. It happens due to atmospheric conditions. If it is happening in one city doesn’t mean it is happening in the neighboring city. Whether it is a quarter moon or crescent or Full moon, red moon can appear in any phase. Moon is also red when it is in the Totality during a Total Lunar Eclipse.\n\nWait.. There are other moons Harvest Moon, Hay Moon…. and so on\n\nA video from space.com shows the science behind the Full Moon and the Full Moon related phenomenons. Enjoy the short video. It will increase your knowledge about Full moon.\n\nA lunar eclipse is an eclipse which occurs whenever the moon passes behind the earth such that the earth blocks the sun’s rays from striking the moon. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Total Lunar eclipse occurs more frequently than Total Solar Eclipse. In 2011, Pakistan was lucky to witness 2 TLE, once in June and second one in Dec 2011. There are other types of Lunar Eclipse as well such as partial lunar eclipse. Partial lunar eclipse happens almost every year.\n\nEarth shine on the Moon\n\nSometimes shortly after sunset or before sunrise, the unlit part of the crescent glows as seen in the photo below:\n\nThe waning crescent Moon on 1st Dec 2013 just before the Sunrise at Kalri Lake, Pakistan. Photo by Author.\n\nThis happens 1-5 days before or after the New Moon. One can see the light glow on the dark side of the Moon during a crescent phase. This is called Earth Shine.", null, "Earth Shine on the Moon. Cropped photo of the above photo. By Author.\n\nBig Moon on the horizon – An optical illusion\n\nCommonly said as the optical illusion when the Moon (usually Full Moon) is rising from horizon and seen with a foreground object such as a building, the Moon looks bigger than normal. It is not big in actual but just an optical illusion. You can see a lot of discussion going around on this topic.\n\nFar side and the Dark side of the Moon\n\nMoon has a near side which is faced towards Earth and the side that we always see. This is called the near side. All the photos that I have shared are of the near side. The other side is the far side because it is on the far side and we cannot see it. Never we can see it. Dark side of the moon is the night part of the Moon but it is not the far-side. The dark side is the area which is facing towards us but we cannot see it as it is dark due to absence of Sun light there. If you look at the above photo “Earth Shine”. The unlit part is the dark-side and we can only see it due to the Earth shine phenomenon. We cannot always see it. So don’t confuse dark side with far side, they both are different.\n\n“A 22° halo is a halo, one type of optical phenomenon, forming a circle 22° around the sun, or occasionally the moon (also called a moon ring or winter halo). It forms as sunlight is refracted in millions of randomly oriented hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. The halo is large; the radius is roughly the size of an outstretched hand at arms length.”", null, "I have witnessed this phenomenon myself back first time in 2009 and then later in 2012 and 2013 in Karachi. If you are interested to know more about Moon Halo, please visit Moon Halo.\n\nOne might see an outline around moon on some nights just as in the following figure and sometimes at times when there are too many small patches of clouds.", null, "This is something that most of the amateur astronomers or enthusiasts don’t know about. Transient lunar phenomena (TLPs) are described as short-lived changes in the brightness of patches on the face of the Moon. They last anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours and can grow from less than a few to a hundred kilometers in size. I haven’t seen it myself yet but observations have been done and shows that if you look Moon through a telescope for long period of time, maybe a few minutes or hours.\n\nMoon is dead as there is no activity on the Moon. All the activity date back to thousands of years. Meteorites and asteroids used to fall on the surface of the Moon and create craters. The larger impact caused the land to break and lava came out on the surface and cooled down over the period of time which is are in forms of Oceans, the grey/black patches on the Moon.\n\nCI have been interested in observing Moon and photographing it. Craters are the lunar feature created by impact of meteorites and asteroids. When they fall on the surface of Moon, they hit hard and a hole is created in the surface. Once I got an opportunity to photograph Moon using 100ED refractor and Canon DSLR. I was lucky that it was a good day to photograph Moon. Here is a photographic journey to the Moon.\n\nThe black patches as described above are the oceans of cooled down lava and all of them have names as well. 🙂 I was able to capture them as well. These patches can be easily captured on Full moon or any other Gibbous phase, but craters are not possible to capture on the Full moon and a day before and after Full moon.", null, "I hope you liked the post and I am sure it should have cleared misconceptions and confusions about Moon phenomenons and mysteries. Thank you very much for liking the article and photographs. If you have not watched the video that I have shared, please do now. It is a very short video but gives a lot of knowledge.\n\nIf you are interested in learning moon phases, here is a Moon phase simulator that will clear all your concepts of the changing phases of Moon." ]

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[ null, "Son of Kunti, Yudhishthira, the king blew Ananta Vijay, his conch shell. Nakula and Sahadeva blew their conch shell Sughosa and Manipuspaka respectively. Shikhandi, a great archer and fighter is present along with Dhrstadyumna, Virata, the unconquerable Satyki, and Drupada. Each one of them blew their own conch shells.", null, "Sanjaya informed King tactfully that his unwise policy of deceiving the sons of Pandu and cleverly enthroning his sons is not a good policy. The situation clearly indicated that the whole Kuru dynasty would be destroyed in that great battle. Right from the grandsire, Bhisma, up to the grandson like Abhimanyu and others including Kings from many states of the world, all present there and all doomed. The whole catastrophe was due to King Dhritarashtra because he encouraged the policy followed by his sons.\n\nThe blowing of these different conch shells became uncontrollably noisy. Vibrating both in the sky and on the earth, it shattered the heart of the sons of Dhritarashtra.\n\nPandavas not shaken by the sound of the conch shells of Bhisma and all others from Kaurava’s side because of the presence of Lord Krsna on their side. One who takes shelter from the Supreme Lord has nothing to fear, even in the midst of the greatest calamity." ]

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[ null, "Deputy Prime Minister in charge of security affairs, General Prawit Wongsuwan, has confidence in the security measures for ASEAN leaders, their dialogue partners and delegates attending the 35th ASEAN summit in Bangkok from November 2nd to 4th.\n\nAbout 17,000 police and military personnel, including elite Special Forces, have been employed by the Thai government to ensure security and convenience for all the VIP participants during their brief stay in Bangkok.\n\nGeneral Prawit today (Tuesday) observed a rehearsal of security operations at Impact Muang Thong Thani, the venue of the ASEAN summit. After the rehearsal, he said he is confident that the summit will be a success.\n\nAn informed security source said that there are four levels of security arrangements, beginning with Special Branch police taking charge of escorting leaders and delegates from their hotels to the conference hall at Impact Muang Thong Thani and back.\n\nThe second level of security is arranged for situations which may pose a security risk and this task will be handled by Special Branch police and the Arintharat 26 special police forces.\n\nThe third level concerns interdiction and crackdown on suspected troublemakers and dealing with suspicious objects. This task is handled by metropolitan and Naresuan police paratroopers.\n\nThe final level involves extraction of leaders from the conference venue to safety. This task is to be handled by officials from the Anti-International Terrorists Centre.\n\nAbout 2,600 officers will be deployed in the form three protective rings around Impact Muang Thong Thani.\n\nPol Gen Suwat Jaengyodsook, the deputy police chief, assured that police were 100 percent ready to do their jobs in ensuring safety and security for leaders and delegates attending the summit and related meetings.", null ]

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[ "There are several artists with the same or a similar name: 1) Tatu (meaning \"three\" in Swahili) were an Australian girl trio formed in 2000, the name was chosen as one of the members was born in Kenya. Their single was called Imperfect Girl with B-side Perfect. See the YouTube and other links in the sources. -- 2) A Japanese keyboarder composing symphonic music aka tatu4 on Twitter, released an album called Requiem, see his Soundcloud and TMBox pages in the sources. ead more on Last.fm", null, null, null, null, null, "200kmH in the wrong lane\n\nAll About Us (the remixes)", null, "All the Things She Said" ]

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[ null, "I had an amazing read of Paul Kalanithi’s autobiography called “When Breath Becomes Air.” Kalanithi was a young surgeon (aged 36) and in the final year of his neurosurgical residency when he received the troubling diagnosis of terminal lung cancer. He had none of the risk factors for this cancer, so it was totally out of the blue and arrived right at the time of his life when he’s just about to finish the arduous training and begin his “real” life of being a surgeon. He and his wife are both physicians so they know what the CT scans show, and when they hear that Kalanithi has about one year to live, what to do, what to do.\n\nAnd so this short but powerful read is a meditation on what life means, both philosophically and in real life: Kalanithi is a philosopher as much as he is a surgeon and so this reads as more of an existential meander through those final months. It’s got the medical stuff in there, as well, but it’s more of an intellectual journey than you would expect, and though I am not well-versed in the old serious thinkers of yore, it was still an educational ride through this sad time.\n\nAs Kalanithi has received this terminal diagnosis, what does that mean for him (apart from the physical process of dying)? He mixes intellectual thought with thoughts of a more pragmatic nature (Which treatment should he have? Should he even attempt treatment at this point? What about having a child with his wife?), and so it’s a very thoughtful book best read slowly so you can digest what is being said.\n\nHighly recommend this title if you’re a fan of physician authors such as Abraham Verghese or Atul Gwande – this is the same genre but a less straight-forward read due to philosophical questions Kalanithi addresses. This one definitely makes you think. (Or it did me, at any rate.)" ]

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[ null, "If conventions are for flouting and creative borders for escaping then San Francisco trio Freighter are equipped to lead the exodus though on the evidence of the band’s new album, The Den, there are few others which can rival their voracious appetite for both. Across eight ferociously bold atypical tracks, band and release revel in embracing and disfiguring time signatures, previously defined flavours, and anything expectations can conjure to cast a diabolical web of uniqueness which very often escapes the confines of the listener’s imagination.\n\nFormed years back by lifelong friends guitarist/vocalist Travis Andrews and bassist Jason Braatz and subsequently completed by drummer Matt Guggemos, Freighter weave a technical progressive metal confrontation which soon reveals it goes far beyond those confines. 2008 saw the release of their self-titled debut album but then seemingly came an extremely quiet period as members pursued other projects. Five years on and the original pair reunited and began plotting and weaving the band’s next chapter which is now indelibly marked by the release of The Den.\n\nThemed by ”the endless struggle with sleep and the downstream effects of not getting enough of it,” The Den immediately entangles ears and imagination in its ferocious mania through Psychic Reading ’94; the track harassing the senses with guitar and drums as the bass springs its own dissonant welcome. Andrews’ vocals soon join the sonic pestering with matching relish, the song swiftly stamping its authority on attention whilst twisting its creative entrails. Guggemos’ rhythms continue to coerce as they molest, the bass courting the wild turbulence with its own feral rousing of ears and appetite. Within it all though, an untamed sense of order is established but one which still only echoes the brazen uproar erupting from within the band’s imaginative and inventive dissonance.", null, "With barely a breath drawn, Future Duke burst upon the senses next, its barbarous trespass as infectious as it is fearsome as it descends on beleaguered senses. As with the first track, there is a noise punk ferocity and predation to the assault which instantly grabbed approval and only enhanced its grip as melodic and progressive hues blossomed within the, at times, carnal maelstrom of sound and innovation. Glorious and devastating, the outstanding track is only echoed in temptation and striking prowess by Presto Change-O, its challenge immediate, visceral and inescapably stirring as the guitar feverishly burrowed under skin already battered and bruised by contorted rhythms. From that sonic insurgence a delicious melodic teasing adds its own bait, a riveting concoction which only intensifies as the track bares its unmethodical but skilfully woven drama. Even clutch of seconds brings fresh enterprise and incitement, keys and vocal variety adding to the genius outpouring.\n\nThree tracks in and the uniqueness of release and sound is etched on the psyche but imagine a cauldron boiling up the essences of bands such as Cryptopsy, KEN mode, Art Of Burning Water, Sofy Major, and System Of A Down and you have a whiff of the tempest within The Den as epitomised by Hot Car Death Dad next. With its engine finally engaged, the track takes to the sonic highway with a wonderful groove, another essence conjured which niggles at the psyche like a demented puppeteer as heavier rhythmic tones court its persuasion. The ride as you can rightly assume is upon an undulating road of twists and turns, each an adventure in its own right and all adding up to a nightmarish road trip of enthralling misshapen adventure.\n\nStick Around And Do It Right Until You Get It Perfect shares its brief esurient proposal straight after, springing forward unscrupulous and eventfully unpredictable antics woven together to create another major and seriously compelling moment within the album. Perpetually rabid but equally, at certain times, just calmly mesmeric, the song seduced as it devoured with again within The Den every second bringing an unpredictability and virulent tempting which just consumed the passions before King Pigeon stamped its authority on ears and appetite. Its continuously ruthless attack courtesy of Guggemos initially belies the jazz bred ingredients in waiting; their eventual animation soon beleaguered by the tide of infernal sound led by Braatz’s ever eagerly consumed and rousing gnarly basslines. To be honest as with all tracks we can only give a glimpse of the real invention of the imaginative incidents let alone the striking craft aligned to psychotic songwriting within songs but as proven once more the real fun is in the physical discovery anyway.\n\nTalking of unbalanced and unstable, both apply to the ferocious might and wonder of the glorious Harbor Of Dieppe, a track which simply assaulted as it lustfully ignited a similarly tenacious imagination, and the album closing exploits of the salaciously flirtatious Cimitero. Both tracks fascinated as they burrowed under the skin, the latter a tantalising cacophonous waltz cast in beauty and discord with its predecessor the kind of incessant examining and dismembering of the senses so simple to drool over.\n\nFair to say we consumed and doted on every second of The Den with increasingly open lust listen by listen It may have taken an age for Freighter to return with a second album but its might will have all fans caring little and though it could be too early to suggest the main best album contenders for the year but there is no doubt this ravenous treat will majorly figure here and beyond.\n\nThe Den is out now @ https://freighter.bandcamp.com/album/the-den" ]

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[ "AS ANTONIO CONTE is quickly learning, it never rains: it pours.\n\nThe Real Madrid striker has been a Chelsea transfer target since last summer.\n\nBut now he is happy to remain at the Bernabeu despite being behind Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema in the pecking order.\n\nConte has already informed Diego Costa he was not part of his plans via text earlier in the summer.\n\nAnd now he will have to return to the drawing board to work out who will lead the line for the champions.\n\nOur friends at Football Whispers explore the possibilities open to the Italian coach at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHere are his options:\n\nBak in the sack\n\nChelsea have worked their way through almost every available top European striker already and could now turn to Torino hitman Belotti who bagged 26 Serie A goals last season.\n\nThe 23-year-old has an £89m release clause written into his contract but the Blues are desperate to sign a replacement for Costa and shouldn’t, therefore, be put off by the price.\n\nBelotti began his remarkable run of form in the second half of the 2015/16 season by scoring 12 times from the end of November onwards and has won nine Italy caps, scoring four times, since.", null, "After netting 40 times in all competitions for Borussia Dortmund last season it was inevitable Gabonese striker Aubameyang would be linked with moves away from BVB this summer.\n\nAt one stage the 28-year-old looked set for a big-money move to China. But talk surrounding a £71m switch to Tianjin Quanjian has gone quiet in the last week and he has also been linked with Paris Saint-Germain.\n\nHowever, it has emerged Dortmund have offered the former AC Milan forward to Chelsea. The speedy frontman, who scored 31 times in the Bundesliga, would not come cheap. But he guarantees goals.\n\nNot the sort of signing to get Chelsea fans excited, Swansea City forward Llorente played a huge part in his side’s survival last season by bagging 15 Premier League goals.\n\nAt 32 the Spaniard would only be a short-term option but would benefit from having played under Conte at Juventus. Together the duo won Serie A and the Supercoppa Italiana before the Italian coach quit to take up the Italy job.\n\nHowever, one potential stumbling block is Llorente’s fitness. The former Athletic Bilbao forward is currently sidelined with a broken arm suffered while cycling on holiday. Chelsea need someone who is ready to hit the ground running.\n\nThe Blues might not have to look outside of Stamford Bridge. Although Dominic Solanke and Bertrand Traore have been sold – and Tammy Abraham has moved out on loan – Chelsea still have Batshuayi on their books.\n\nThe 23-year-old, who is a West Ham United transfer target, joined from Marseille last summer for £33m. But he made just one Premier League start for Conte who was clearly not convinced by the Belgian hitman.\n\nDespite that he averaged a goal every 47.2 minutes in the Premier League and scored the all-important late winner art West Bromwich Albion to seal the club’s fifth Premier League title.\n\nIt’s a long shot, but could Costa be the answer to Chelsea’s problems? The Spaniard bagged 20 Premier League goals last season despite a high-profile falling out with Conte in January over a potential move to China.\n\nHe has been left out of Chelsea’s pre-season training camp and is expected to return to former club Atletico Madrid. But he won’t be able to register or play until January owing to Atleti’s transfer ban.\n\nThat could be Chelsea’s in, if Conte can persuade the 28-year-old to remain at Stamford Bridge. A pay rise should smooth things over, then the Italian’s problem would disappear overnight.\n\nFive players Man Utd must sell including Pogba, Lingard and Sanchez\nTopics\nComments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed here." ]

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Watching her pussy lips stretch and wrap around the dick, all the while seeing her big ol' natural tits helicopter around the room.... GOD DAMNS. I Love it. So Will you.\n\nAlex just laughed. Eva's experience is transactional gender inwards its most unvarnished shape - a hurried one-off encounter, driven by desperation. Piece some people are rattling openup about their experiences as a refinedsugar baby , saccharify daddy , or refinedsugar momma, atthatplace isn't a lot of reliable info out atthatplace about what the best apps inadditionto websites are for comingtogether people interested inward this particular dating organisation. Me aswellas my friends Alex aswellas Mitchell were all sleeping over at Alex's house. Havegot you wondered why a MILF is ready to pay something for the right beau fifty-fifty if she knows he is only after her money? The female gave DailyMail. Men have already been playing this role for a long time. I'm thinking of Amateur tight tank fucking a 'sugar mumma'. 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Having chatted in the kitchen, the lady went to wash her beautiful body, and since the shower was not working, she got herself a whole bubble bath, with a side glance noticing how the man was spying on her big boobs! August did not pretend that she slept the guy, but on the contrary began to caress her buffers, in the hope that the poor fellow would be so excited that she would forget about loyalty and fuck her right in the bathroom.", null, "Old teacher fucks student ii huge handfuls of Canela' s large booty. Ass-to-mouth. Unfortunately has been getting a lot of force dorsum from some of the other moms? He fucks her from behind on the kitchen counter. Friend joins inwards by kissing Inga' s rimaoris too having a wild 3some together. Andso rubs her clit inadditionto fucks her missionary style.FALL DOWN DAD Desperate Teen Takes Step- Dad' s Creampie to End Years of Harassment SCENE opens on eggs cracking in a pan of bacon. As the eggs sizzle, the camera leans out to reveal Andi, a petite 18- year- old girl, making breakfast in the kitchen. Frail and timid, she nervously flips the eggs and butters some toast while keeping an eye on the door. The room feels heavy and silent until a kitchen timer goes off and makes her jump. At the same time, a door bursts open and Fred, herscruffy slob of a step- father, staggers into the kitchen demanding his meal. Andi snaps into submission and starts preparing his plate. You can feel the tension between them. Fred looks his daughter up and down before settling on his chair and waiting for his food. He grabs himself and leers: Do you know how hard I am right now? After you' re done in the kitchen, you should come over here and find out. I bet you fuck way better than your ma ever did! How old are you now, eighteen? That' s the perfect age tight little eighteen- year- old pussy. He coughs and wheezes as he talks, catching his breath in between cat- calls. The more he taunts her, the more she tries to ignore him, which sets him off. His comments become accusations: What the hell do you think you' re wearing? I told you I wanted to see some moreskin around this house HEY, are you even listening to me? You better start treating me the way a father deserves to be treated! Under her breath, Andi mutters that he isn' t her real father. When Fred hears this, he slams his fist down. What did you say? Andi nervously stutters that Fred is her step- father. His eyes go wide in rage: Listen here, you little cunt. Your dad skipped out on you when you were a baby and when your mamma died, she left me in charge. So, do you know what that means? That means, if you want your inheritance, you' re gonna have to play nice with me. And that starts with respect. I' m your daddy now and daddy likes his girl to do what she.horny slut stuffing her big pussy on webcam live and loving it.Convicts, Erik Everhard and James Deen escape from prison and enter a gold mining camp, which just happens to employ two sexy parolees, Missy Martinez, and Allie Haze. Their boss, played by Tommy Gunn, has worked these gorgeous girls to the core, since they refuse to succumb to his sexual innuendos. Just when things seem hopeless, the convicts shake things up by giving the girls some much needed pleasure. With criminals on the loose and cops on the lookout, this is a real find, filled with comedy, sex and gold! Also starring Ava Addams, Maddy O’Reilly, Andy San Dimas, Gulliana Alexis, Ryan Driller & Chad White.", null, null, null, null, null, null, "Why only seconds ???Loved the video, she was beautiful, nice pale body aswellas he had such a gorgeous dark penis, it wasnt but everybit of 0, would love to regard morethan of his dark cock . 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[ null, null, "Affleck's win legitimizes toxic masculinity and white privilege; further proving the Academy can only focus on undoing one layer of disenfranchisement at a time.", null, "Bill Cosby Off The Hook In Defamation Lawsuit", null, "There are new developments in the suicide death of aspiring actor Jay Bowdy.", null, "President elect Donald Trump is about to start off his presidency with probably the most controversy of all Presidents. Trump is going into office with the lowest approval rate in decades, and added to that he is headed to the White House with a lawsuit on his back. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Summer […]\n\nThe settlements of lawsuits brought on by individuals who were wrongfully convicted of crimes, families of those killed by police officers, and disability rights activists, equate to millions of dollars in payouts.\n\nIt appears the young woman has convinced the jury of her claims after four days of deliberation.\n\nThe first boy to publicly accuse Michael Jackson of pedophilia has gone missing.\n\nWe Need To Talk About Derrick Rose’s Rape Case", null, "Police are currently on the hunt for a man accused of groping a University of Cincinnati student around 3pm yesterday afternoon. He is described as having a foreign accent, mid 30’s, 6′ tall, about 180lbs. WLWT reported the man as wearing a sleeveless blue-green flannel shirt and khaki shorts. If you have seen this man […]", null, "Police say Cameron Victor Wohl is armed and dangerous, and are asking anyone who sees him to call 911. Wohl confronted the 74 yr old woman in the 6600 block of Tylersville Road. He demanded pain medication, and then sexually assaulted her in her home. CLICK HERE for photo of suspect and more\n\nThe depositions are quite revealing. APennsylvania judge on Tuesday found enough evidence to proceed with the sexual assault case against Bill Cosby. If convicted, Cosby faces up to 10 years in prison, CNN reports. The decision comes nearly a week after it was reported that Cosby’s lawyers requested to have the case against him dismissed. Meanwhile, evidence has […]" ]

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[ null, "ORLANDO, Fla. - Feeling lucky? You could be a billionaire!\n\nThe Mega Million jackpot for Friday grew to $1 billion after lottery officials raised the estimated prize from $970 million when no one matched all the numbers during Tuesday's drawing.\n\nThe estimated jackpot going into Friday's drawing is the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. history. The largest lottery jackpot was a $1.6 billion Powerball prize won in January 2016.\n\nIf you happen to win and want to take the lump sum option, it's worth $739.6 million.\n\nMega Millions is played in 44 states, Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands." ]

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[ null, "In the face of an apparent warning from Acting Commissioner of Police Edvin Martin, American-trained attorney-at-law, Jerry Edwin proceeded to lead a group of protestors outside the U.S Embassy in Lance Aux Epines on Monday in a show of solidarity for Afro-Americans following the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis.\n\nThe killing of Floyd has sparked off widespread protest in several cities across the United States and in countries around the world including Europe and Australia against violence against Blacks and minority groups.\n\nEdwin told THE NEW TODAY that Commissioner Martin indicated to him on the eve of the event that he needed to seek the permission of the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF) to stage the peaceful protest as the island was under a “lockdown” due to an ongoing State of Emergency.\n\nThe defense lawyer said that the thinly veiled threat from the island’s top cop came after he had contacted Martin seeking the assistance of the police to provide security during the protest action and for an ambulance to be sent there in case of an emergency.\n\nAccording to Edwin, he told Commissioner Martin emphatically “no” to any request by him to seek permission since “in the encyclopedia of protests, the organisers never ask for permission”.\n\n“I don’t know what hymn book you (The Commissioner) are reading from but we are on the opposite side,” the lawyer told the COP.\n\nAccording to Edwin, he did not want to be antagonistic towards the head of the local police force but the fact of the matter is he had to inform him as best he can that ”I am not asking you for permission to stage a protest”.\n\n“He (Martin) wrote me a letter, I think he thought that he was going to intimidate me to say, just remember you didn’t get permission and I just ignored him”.\n\nThe attorney said that Martin also told him in the letter, “the police have not authorised this (protest) and be mindful that we are in a COVID situation and read the regulations. I took it to mean that the Police Commissioner misunderstood his role in society”.\n\n“He (Martin) probably believes that his role is to moderate the voice of constitutional freedom … so I think he was a little bit out of his depths,” he added.\n\nAccording to Edwin, the Commissioner of Police did not seem to understand that he had a responsibility to recognise the constitutional right of people to stage peaceful protest action and to assist by providing the necessary support services.\n\n“I would have been very disappointed if he (Martin) took any other step than the one that he took which was to comply with our request for the presence of officers there,” he added.\n\nEdwin spoke of spotting in the area of the protest about four police officers including one holding a very senior rank, as well as three Traffic Wardens.\n\nThe attorney praised the efforts of the police who were present to maintain law and order especially in the manner in which they controlled the flow of traffic along the road and to allow people to exercise their constitutional rights of assembly and free speech.\n\nHe said that the Charge d’Affaires at the U.S Embassy placed a telephone call to him during the protest action to engage him in a conversation.\n\nHe said the American envoy expressed full-throated support for the protest outside the embassy.\n\n“The Charge (D’affaires) gave full support for what we were doing,” he quipped.\n\nAccording to Edwin, the American diplomat indicated to him that he and his wife had watched the video showing the killing of Floyd by the white policeman and ever since kept thinking of how could they get involved in some kind of a reconciliation with the Black Community.\n\n“I expressed (to him) that he will want to be part of any further discussion with respect to reconciling racial inequalities as we perceived them for our communities abroad.\n\nEdwin disclosed that the Charge D’affaires “has invited us to a conversation any time in the future around these issues”.\n\nThe attorney was also asked to comment on the apparent failure of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter David who is also in charge of Diaspora matters to offer any support to the protestors who assembled outside the U.S Embassy to show solidarity to the Black Community in the United States.\n\nHe said: “Speaking for the safety of our Diaspora community is a job left to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is the Minister who should have run out there first and issued a statement …. and Ministers of Foreign affairs across the region with huge Diaspora communities in New York City and in the rest of America to say to the American President, hands off our Diaspora”.\n\nAccording to Edwin this was the message that the protestors took Monday outside the Embassy in St. George in solidarity with the black community in the United States.\n\nThe attorney also threw out a word of advice to his colleagues who stayed away from the protest action.\n\nHe said: “Lawyers are the last real protection for constitutional freedoms in any democratic society. When lawyers believe that they are somehow constrained in expressing or protecting these rights the whole society is in problem – we are in trouble.\n\n“We are at the whim of State actors who could likely exercise their State privileges to the detriment of citizens. Lawyers are critical to ensuring constitutional freedoms are maintained for people.\n\nApart from Edwin, the only other lawyer who took part in the protest was the British-born Dawne DeCouteau of Grenadian parenthood who is now living on the island and practicing her profession.\n\nThe lawyer said that he was determined to stage the protest action because in past years, Blacks in America will stage protest action against injustices and prejudices against them without getting any “fraternal support” from the people back home in the Caribbean.\n\nHe said the intention was to send a message through the action in front of the US embassy to them that “Grenadians love you, we care about you, we care about your safety and we have to say something to the United States government about military force being used in your peaceful protest”.\n\nHe described the artiste as “a cultural tour-de-force” who was quite amazing with the lyrical content of the song performed outside the U.S Embassy as it evoked the Black gospel tradition in the United States." ]

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[ null, "The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) released Tuesday a statement commenting on the cabinet’s national strategy for combating violence against women, which was announced in April.\n\nThe initiative said it appreciates the significance of such a strategy in principle, but expressed reservations over the details of the strategy. The EIPR offered recommendations on how to improve the strategy.\n\nWhile the EIPR applauds the strategy and its overall aims in theory, it has voiced concerns over shortcomings in its approach.\n\nThe initiative contends that the strategy makes efforts to comply with international standards, but falls short of doing so.\n\nThe national strategy is set to be implemented over five years, in the period of 2015-2020. It was drafted by the National Council for Women in cooperation with several ministries, other state and religious institutions, as well as NGOs.\n\nThe strategy opens with a vision, a message, and objectives, which are composed around four main themes; prevention, protection, intervention, and prosecution and litigation.\n\nIt then outlines a summary of executive plans and performance indicators. In addition to this, it contains six appendices.\n\nAmong the main objections to the strategy is its vague definition of sexual violence, often linking it to moralistic perspectives. The EIPR believes this language should be divorced, and the focus should be more on rights-based definitions.\n\nIt believes that the definition should be much broader than it currently is, extending to protect men as well as women from the phenomenon, and that it should transcend the vague charge in the Egyptian penal codes, identified as “moral assault”.\n\nThis charge covers all forms of sexual assault not classified as rape. Rape, in Egyptian law, and also in the strategy, is defined as “[vaginal] sexual intercourse with a female against her will”. This disregards the more broad definition put forth by the World Health Organization, which is “physically forced or otherwise coerced penetration of the vulva or anus with a penis, other body parts or object”.\n\nThe EIPR also voiced discontent with the strategy’s disregard of what it views as the two most dangerous forms of violence against women; violations committed by security personnel, as well as collective sexual violence.\n\nThe initiative recommends opening a transparent investigation into the violations committed by security services. In addition, it advocates recognising the extent of collective sexual violence, and allocating resources to combat it, as well as providing training for health and security officials in how to deal with such cases.\n\nThe statement also recommends incorporating comprehensive sexual education for both sexes in schools and other social institutions, as a method to reduce violence against women at an early stage.\n\nThe initiative adds that there should be more precise, accurate quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure performance. Lastly, they recommend expanded involvement of civil society organisations in the assessment, implementation, and follow-up of the strategy." ]

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[ "If you’ve been following along, you know I already have big love for the state of Florida. I love the weather, and I love the local beer. BUT, I also love that I can subscribe to Tavour. When we lived in Illinois, it wasn’t available. Another reason Illinois sucks.\n\nIf you’re not familiar with Tavour, well it’s basically mail order beer. And who doesn’t love an occasional porch bomb for beer that you can order at your leisure? So, I know nothing about Monday Night Brewing, except they’re located in Atlanta, Georgia. So, as I sit here and watch the NFL Draft (only because my beloved Blue Jays are on an off day as we all await the hyped debut of Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. in the big leagues), I decided this was the first Tavour beer to crack. Why? Well, it was at the front of the fridge and it was cold. 🙂\n\nMonday Night Brewing describe this imperial stout as “Dark Subject Matter is an adjunct-free American Imperial stout. But that doesn’t tell the whole story. With 2-row, Munich and chocolate malts in the mix, this beer is roasty and toasty like most stouts. Chocolate is prevalent on the nose, and this beer is silky smooth. Pair it with a hot fudge sundae, a fine cigar or your favorite true crime podcast.”", null, "Dark Subject Matter pours black as night with a dark khaki head that dissipates quickly to nothing. Swirling the beer in the tulip reinvigorates the foamy, frothy head momentarily before vanishing yet again.\n\nOn the nose there’s a ton of sweet chocolate. Wow! That’s very nice. It’s almost a slightly boozy aroma, which is an interesting treat. Let’s tip it back.\n\nIf you’d like to try out Tavour for yourself, I have a referral code that gets you $10 off your first order. Simply use the code 224345 and you’re set.\n\nWell, my beloved Seahawks have two picks in the 1st round tonight. Let’s hope they pick good ones. And tomorrow night, we’re back to baseball and Vladdy Jr’s Major League debut! Stoked!" ]

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[ "3 edition of Radiocarbon and Indian archaeology found in the catalog.\n\nby International Symposium on Radiocarbon and Indian Archaeology Bombay 1972.\n\nPublished 1973 by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay .\nWritten in English\n\nArchaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley describes an archeological reconstruction of the preced years of an extraordinarily rich environment centered within the largest river system north of the Amazon. This book focuses on the lowlands of the Mississippi Valley from just north of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Arkansas River. Radiocarbon dating in use Radiocarbon dating has revolutionised the study of prehistory. Before it became generally available, dating had depended on two techniques: the use of changes in the form of artefacts over time to establish relative dates; and occasional cross-referencing of artefacts with historically recorded dates.\n\nBrand new Book. This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments of the 14C method in archaeology and analyzes factors that affect the accuracy and precision of 14C-based age estimates. In addition to reviewing the basic. The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania is the definitive reference to the rich artifacts represent years of cultural evolution and includes environmental studies, descriptions and illustrations of artifacts and features, settlement pattern studies, and recommendations for directions of further research.\n\nGregory Louis Possehl (J – October 8, ) was a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of the Asian Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. He has been involved in excavations of the Indus Valley Civilization in India and Pakistan since , and is an author of many books . THE EARLY USE OF RADIOCARBON DATING METHOD IN OLD WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY As many know, the radiocarbon dating method was invented in – by Willard F Libby and his colleagues Ernest C Anderson and James R Arnold; the first paper explicitly describing the method (Libby et al. ) was re leased on 4 March", null, null, null, null, "This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor’s seminal book Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments of the 14C method in archaeology and analyzes factors that affect the accuracy and precision of 14C-based age by: Radiocarbon Dates and Indian Archaeology.\n\nThe inception of the radiocarbon dating method in was immediately supported by many archaeologists. In the following 2 decades, many important archaeological sites in the Old World were dated, marking the beginning of building a reliable chronological framework for prehistoric and early historic cultural complexes worldwide.\n\nThe seminar on Radiocarbon and Indian Archaeology plainly shows the effects of these developments in Indian archaeology.\n\nA combined thrust of newer demands of environmental studies in archaeology on the one hand and the need to classify the enormous amount of data within an environmental frame on the other must have caused the emergence of the. Radiocarbon (14 C) dating is an isotopic or nuclear decay method of inferring age for organic technique provides a common chronometric time scale of worldwide applicability on a routine basis in the age range from about calender years.\n\nThis volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor’s seminal book Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments of the 14C method in archaeology and analyzes factors that affect the accuracy and precision of 14C-based age estimates.\n\nIn addition to reviewing the basic. Between archaeology and text: the origins of rice consumption and cultivation in the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology. Additional Physical Format: Online version: Mandal, D.\n\nRadiocarbon dates and Indian archaeology. Allahabad, Vaishali Pub. House [] (OCoLC) The introduction of radiocarbon dating had an enormous influence on both archaeology and geology—an impact often referred to as the “radiocarbon revolution.” Before Libby’s research, investigators in these fields had to rely on methods of dating that were merely relative, such as comparing the layers of a site in which artifacts were.\n\nRadiocarbon dating isn’t a silver bullet: Context is everything, and it can be hard to determine if there’s a temporal relationship between two objects at an archaeological site.\n\nRadiocarbon and Archaeology by Christopher Bronk Ramsey,available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Prior to the development of radiocarbon dating, it was difficult to tell when an archaeological artifact came something was obviously attributable to a specific year -- say a dated coin or known piece of artwork -- then whoever discovered it had to do quite a bit of guesstimating to get a proper age for the item.\n\nPrehistoric Chronology and Radiocarbon Dating in India by D.P. Agarwal and Sheel Kusumgar. COVID19 Delays: Please note we are accepting orders but please expect delays due to the impact of COVID19 on logistcs and procurement.\n\nAll orders will be processed as soon as possible. BOOK SEARCH: Type some details of the book like a TITLE, AUTHOR or.\n\nThe journal is published quarterly. We also publish conference proceedings and monographs on topics related to our fields of interest.\n\nRadiocarbon dates are reported in a standardized method, as shown in Table convention calls for reporting the provenience of the sample, the laboratory number, the radiocarbon age, and then the calibrated (in this case dendrocalibrated) age at one or two standard deviations (note that most of these dates yielded multiple intercepts).Alice Gorman (born ) Australian; Space archaeology, contemporary archaeology, Indigenous Australian archaeology, stone tools, orbital debris, space as a cultural landscape Ian Graham (–) British; Mayans.\n\nBiblical archaeology - revolutionized by radiocarbon dating and statistical modelling - is leading the way in which archaeologists approach material culture.\n\n'The Bible and Radiocarbon Dating' brings together a leading team of archaeologists, Egyptologists, Biblical scholars and radiocarbon dating specialists to examine the interface between." ]

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[ null, "Former Rangers great Ron Duguay dished on his 1980s romance with Farrah Fawcett — and how being covered in Page Six ended the fling and got him traded from the team.\n\nDuguay recently recalled on “Up in the Blue Seats,” The Post’s podcast that he hosts, that after Andy Warhol put him on the cover of Interview magazine in 1980, famous people lined up to meet him — including Steven Spielberg, who was looking for the lead actor in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”\n\nBut the Hollywood star whom Duguay most wanted to meet was Fawcett — who came to town to star in off-Broadway’s “Extremities.” “At the time I was 25 years old, she was 36, and she was in New York,” Duguay said. “So I caught wind of this one event she was at … She was there with Ryan O’Neal.”\n\nBut at the event, “she came up and introduced herself to me!” She said, “You need to come and see me” in the show. He brought teammate Eddie Mio to the play, and Fawcett invited Duguay out the next night. He picked her up in a limo, and “she was looking stunning. She was so sweet. She was wearing a leather skirt with high heels.”\n\nHe planned to take her to his hot eatery at the time, Sticks, but Fawcett told him, “I’m really under a lot of stress [with my play]; I wouldn’t mind smoking some pot.” That led to a wild goose chase uptown to find some weed.\n\nAfter that, she suggested heading to her place. “We spend some time there and I fall asleep till about 9 a.m. [when] she says, ‘Ron, get up! Get your clothes on … My mother’s here!’”\n\nThe relationship went on “for a couple of months,” Duguay said, when Fawcett and O’Neal were on a break.\n\nA 1983 Page Six item reported Fawcett saw “plenty of” the “tousle-haired hockey star” in her dressing room. But then, “I show up to practice,” Duguay said. “Herb Brooks, the coach, he had this talk with me about ‘staying out of Page Six, being in the sports page,’ and sure enough I was in Page Six once again … It had something to do with me being seen with Farrah … Two months after that, I got traded.”" ]

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[ null, "According to Deadline, Netflix plans to roll out the capability, which it confirmed was in the early stages of development, for its swathe of unscripted shows and stand-up specials.\n\nThere is no timeline and sources caution that it’s early days for the live roll out, but a small group within Netflix is in the preliminary stages of developing the product.\n\nA recent report said that due to slow growth and a diminishing global user base, Netflix has fast-forwarded its plans to bring ads right into its TV shows and movies.\n\nThe streaming platform has shifted its plans to infuse advertisements into its content by the end of this year." ]

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[ null, "NEW ORLEANS — The Orleans Parish coroner has yet to release an official cause of the Aug. 24th death of 56-year-old John Gibson, a beloved professor, at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.\n\nHowever, Trey Gibson, the professor’s son, shared his father’s death appeared to come at his own hand during a chapel service Sept. 8.\n\nDr. Chuck Kelley, president of NOBTS, said he could not comment further on the cause of death until the coroner’s report is complete.\n\n“On the first day of classes, we had the unexpected death of a much loved professor, colleague, and friend Dr. John Gibson,” Kelley told the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary family during a chapel service Sept. 8. “We learned that he made some very sad and unfortunate choices in his life, and his son shared in his memorial service his death appeared to come at his own hand.”\n\nGibson was discovered at his home on the seminary campus at approximately 5:30 p.m., Aug. 24, by his wife when she arrived home from work. After finding Gibson unresponsive, she immediately notified emergency medical service. EMS workers were unable to revive him, and Gibson was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nLeavell College students were notified of Gibson’s death during the first class period Aug. 25. Morning classes were dismissed and students were encouraged to gather in the Hardin Student Center with friends, professors, area pastors and members of the local collegiate ministry staff as they processed the news.\n\nBy Steve Horn, Louisiana Baptists executive director Jesus reminds us that we should always pray and never give up (Luke 18:1). Today’s ruling from the Supreme Court serves as a good reminder of that truth. For almost 50 years, American Christians from various denominational backgrounds have been praying and … END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED" ]

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[ null, "Heavy rain is threatening to create havoc in parts of Sri Lanka over a 24-hour period from 6am today.\n\nThe Department of Meteorology said that over 100mm of rain is expected in the Western, Sabaragamuwa and Central provinces and in the Galle and Matara Districts during this period.\n\nHeavy rain is also expected in the Hambantota District. Showers or thundershowers will occur at a few places in the Uva province and in the Ampara and Batticaloa Districts after 2.00 p.m.\n\nFairly strong gusty winds up to (40-50) kmph can be expected in the western slope of the central hills, Northern, North-central and North-western provinces and in the Hambantota and Trincomalee Districts.\n\nThe public have been requested to take adequate precautions to minimize damages caused by temporary localized strong winds and lightning during thundershowers. (Colombo Gazette)" ]

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[ null, "Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, 1Q84, was Japan’s top selling book when its first two volumes were published last year. A third is out this summer—and Murakami has suggested that he might even write a fourth. Audiences are excited. But how to print such a (potentially) big book, asks Monocle?\n\nAlthough Murakami says the books can each stand alone, the whole novel is already running to over 1600 pages, a challenge for the publishers of the eventual paperback. The standard size for a Japanese paperback is a dainty 15 x 10.5cm, perfect for slipping into a handbag or reading on a crowded train. Keeping things diminutive, however, requires books to be divided into manageable sections. Novels are frequently split in two and published in parts, referred to as the top and bottom (and in the case of chunkier books, top, middle and bottom). 1Q84 could end up being like War and Peace and published in multiple small volumes.\n\nAmerican readers will get a single-volume English translation of 1Q84 in 2011, thus depriving them of the thrill of the tease as well as the probably incredible cuteness of many “dainty” volumes." ]

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[ null, "LAKKI MARWAT: A man was killed and another injured mysteriously during a wedding ceremony in Torlang area in the jurisdiction of Tajori police station.\n\nThe police said that Usman and Fidaullah were shot and injured at a music programme in the village. They were being taken to hospital where Usman died on way while Fidaullah was referred to Peshawar.\n\nThe police fear that rivals have shot them and arrested nine persons on suspicion. The police said that they have banned such programme as such kinds of incidents become a routine matter. They added that they are investigating the incident." ]

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[ "It would have been quite a sight…a young nun dressed in a brown habit driving her fellow Sisters of St Joseph around the streets of Adelaide in the 1950s.\n\nAnd it would have been more surprising to know that inside the car both the driver and passengers were reciting the Rosary, as was expected of them at that time.\n\nPushing her veil back to improve visibility, Sr Joan Mangan rsj would stop at busy intersections and try to continue praying – while avoiding a collision!\n\nWith only a written test required to obtain a licence back then, the extent of her driving lessons included a crash course during the school holidays with the gardener at the Sisters’ property at Cowandillla.\n\nThe first car Sr Joan drove was a Packard. It had three bench seats so held quite a number of Sisters. Later the Packard was replaced with a Kombi van which comfortably and conveniently seated more Sisters. On one occasion as Sr Joan pulled up at a school she heard a couple of young lads refer to them as a “nunnery on wheels”.\n\nAs the first Josephite in Adelaide to learn to drive, 26-year-old Sr Joan had a big responsibility to transport Sisters safely to the various schools where they taught.\n\nHer driving duties also included negotiating the steep and winding road, including the “Devil’s Elbow”, to the Josephite convent and school at Aldgate. Often on weekends she would be called upon to drive Sisters to other convents or to appointments. On these occasions Sr Joan took some of the students’ written work to correct or she would plan lessons for the following week while she waited to take the Sisters back to the convent. Sr Joan said she always carried plenty of books in the boot of the car.", null, "Sr Joan with her parents May and Ray on her profession day.\n\nOne of six children born to May and Ray Mangan, Sr Joan grew up in Cheltenham and was educated by the Josephites at Mount Carmel School, Alberton.\n\n“It was a very happy home and a family that shared and enjoyed each other’s company,” she said.\n\n“I have wonderful memories of us playing in the backyard, singing together around the piano and every evening praying together.\n\n“It was a home where my faith was developed firstly by the example of my parents, and secondly at school by the Sisters, who also made a great impression on me.”\n\nFor these reasons, on February 2 1945 she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph at Kensington and then went to the novitiate in Sydney. After making her profession with 27 other young Sisters, she returned to South Australia in January 1947.\n\nHer first teaching position was at Williams Street, Norwood, heralding the start of a 34-year career at various Josephite schools, including 23 years as a principal.\n\nSr Joan recalled her early days in the convent as being difficult at times but added that it was “a happy life” and she enjoyed being with other young women.\n\n“I think the hardest part was adhering to the timetable,” she said. “We would be in the middle of something and then it was time to go to the chapel to pray together.”\n\nLong periods away from her family and wearing the heavy brown habit in summer were other challenges. She welcomed the introduction of a lighter, white habit and the gradual change to casual clothing.\n\nThe reforms that flowed from Vatican II also brought a greater focus on individual prayer and a shift away from the monastic lifestyle that had crept into the Congregation.", null, "While Sr Joan’s driving ability kept her in the city much of her life, she spent four years on the Waikerie Motor Mission which involved providing religious instruction to children in small towns where there was no Catholic school.\n\nAfter retiring from teaching, she used her skills in administration at the Aldgate Conference Centre for five years and the Flora McDonald Nursing Home for three years, and was a parish worker at St Peter’s parish for nine years.\n\nSr Joan continued to drive until she was 92 and it was only last year that she moved from a unit at Cowandilla to the convent at Kensington.\n\nNow back at Kensington where her religious vocation began, she said it was a “great privilege to live in this convent where our foundress,\nSt Mary MacKillop, lived with many of the pioneering Sisters”.\n\n“I am so grateful that Mary MacKillop and the early Sisters were such strong and committed women, despite the many hardships they encountered,” she added.\n\n“Living in this convent I am very conscious of, and get a very strong feeling that, we are ‘standing on the shoulders of the ones who have gone before us’ and benefitting greatly from their committed love of the Congregation.”\n\nThe anniversary of Sr Joan’s profession was on January 6 but she celebrated with other Josephite jubilarians at a Mass in St Ignatius’ Church, Norwood, on March 19." ]

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[ null, "Dark Touch is an intense and slow burn after the initial scenes that very smoothly transitions into a terrifying revenge tale, even if that revenge is on whomever happens to be about. Niamh is a sympathetic evil character, which makes the viewer torn in the end as to whether they believe her actions are justified by her experiences or if she’s gone to far. The beauty of this is that it makes one feel guilty for feeling happy she obtained some respite in the end, even if it was only temporary. The ending is quite open ended and will likely leave some people feeling unsatisfied without the type of closure they would prefer, but it actually adds strength to the movie as a tied off ending would weaken it. Slow paced until it isn’t, and a drive to an even darker place than where we start make for a good movie that will keep the viewer tense, often expecting things to happen that may or may not. Definitely one of the better evil child movies I’ve seen in quite some time. – 3.8/5 (genre)" ]

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[ "5 Let the saints be joyful in glory; Let them sing aloud on their beds.\n\n6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand,\n\n7 To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishments on the peoples;\n\n8 To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;\n\nAnyone can praise God when they have a good news, had a promotion, pay rise, gotten married after many years of waiting, got a new job or house. However this type of praise is a low praise; there is no sacrifice in it.\n\nThere is another type of praise that is a sacrifice- the type you do at the midnight of your life when all hell has broken loose on you; you are in the pit of life; you have been badly beaten with rods of life and you are bleeding but despite the pain, you begin to pray and praise God, singing with a loud voice, even in your prison, containment, confinement and incarceration. This is a high praise that gets God’s special attention and triggers an immediate divine intervention. You provoke God when you offer such a sacrifice. It also happens when you do it with an offering that costs you a lot. Solomon did it and God visited him at night.\n\nSo learn to give God high praises. The opportunity for this usually comes when you are going through severe tests. Give Him a high praise and see what He will do in your life. Promotion will come the miraculous will come and you will have a lasting, powerful testimony\n\n20 So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.”\n\n21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the LORD, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying: ” Praise the LORD, For His mercy endures forever.”\n\n22 Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.\n\n24 So when Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and there were their dead bodies, fallen on the earth. No one had escaped.\n\n25 When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away their spoil, they found among them an abundance of valuables on the dead bodies, and precious jewelry, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away; and they were three days gathering the spoil because there was so much.\n\n22 Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.\n\n23 And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely.\n\n24 Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.\n\n25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.\n\n26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.\n\n27 And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself.\n\n28 But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.”\n\n29 Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.\n\n31 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”\n\n32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.\n\n33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized.\n\n34 Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household.Acts16:22-34\n\nCHORUS:\nBehold he comes\nRiding on a cloud\nShining like the sun\nAt the trumpet’s call\nLift your voice\nIt’s the year of jubilee\nOut of Zion ’till salvation comes\n\nTo see You high and lifted up\nShinin’ in the light of Your glory\nPour out Your power and love\nAs we sing holy, holy, holy\n\nTo see You high and lifted up\nShinin’ in the light of Your glory\nPour out Your power and love\nAs we sing holy, holy, holy", null, null, null, null, null, "I give myself away\n\nMy heart belongs to you\n\nGod will make a way\n\nI give you my heart\n\nDraw Me Close you", null ]

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[ null, "At first blush, the rally in oil to start 2016 bears some resemblance to the rally at the start of last year, which ultimately ended in tears. This time, though, analysts at Citigroup Inc. led by Seth Kleinman say the rally has legs. “The extra year of low prices has finally derailed the supply resilience that defined markets last year,” writes Kleinman. A big factor differentiating this year from last year is what the markets are expecting a few months from now. Kleinman and his team point out that 24-month West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures are currently around $49 a barrel, versus the $65 a barrel seen in the second quarter of 2015. If the futures market doesn’t expect the price to rise, producers can’t lock in a profit like they might have at $65. If you can’t lock in a profit, you can’t produce as much and thus the supply should theoretically fall. This has led some analysts and economists to say the futures price is far more important than the current or spot price. “To keep all capital sidelined and curtail investment in shale until the market has rebalanced, we believe prices need to stay lower for longer,” Jeff Currie, head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., wrote in early 2015. “As short cycle shale production is a 12-month investment proposition, producers typically hedge out 9 to 12 months…As a result, the market anchor is shifting to this ‘one-year-ahead’ swap which creates the level of investment to balance future physical markets. It is therefore this forward price that needs to remain below full-cycle costs to curtail investment, not the spot price.” While U.S. supply was a big driver last year, it’s time to look at supply outside of America. The analysts note that U.S. production peaked last April, and supply outside the country is now significantly impacted by low prices. This is important because it’s much harder for other countries to get drills back online than in the U.S. Due to the nature of shale, once oil prices start to rise, U.S. producers can quickly ramp up production while other countries can’t. “[T]he list of countries with declining supplies has grown rapidly: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, China, Azerbaijan and others. Total non-OPEC oil production (excluding the U.S.) fell year over year in February and March (-105,000 barrels/day and -142,000 barrels/day, respectively) after rising for the prior 33 months,” Kleinman and his team wrote. “This dynamic is particularly important, because unlike shale, these supply declines are much harder to reverse in the short- or even medium-term.” To be sure, the team at Citigroup doesn’t expect a massive rebound in oil prices either, due to risks such as Saudi Arabia’s continued unwillingness to budge on production: “Saudis are not looking to reduce oil production under the current market conditions and if anything are likelier to be putting more barrels on the market. This is probably the biggest bear risk to oil markets right now.”" ]

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[ null, "The South African Air Force seems to have completed its re-assessment of its future fixed-wing transport aircraft requirement, including that for a strategic airlifter, following last year’s cancellation of the acquisition of eight Airbus Military A400M large transport aircraft last November.\n\nThat is if comments made by Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu at Friday’s media briefing by Cabinet’s International Cooperation Trade & Security cluster were correctly interpreted. She said the defence department is “ready to put before Cabinet the necessary document that will assure that we can get this capacity and proceed with the necessary procurement processes.\n“We are not sure yet what we are going to get in the market so it would be very difficult to say whether we are going back to the A400. We are keeping our options open and we will follow the due processes of tender and come up with the best option in line with our budget and in line with our needs.”\n\nCabinet tasked the flying service with reviewing its fixed wing mobility capability after terminating the A400M contract. Cabinet spokesman Themba Maseko and Sisulu at the time said the SAAF would now re-evaluate its transport requirement and issue a new tender accordingly. “We have as one of our priorities the acquisition of strategic military air transport capability,” Sisulu told the Joint Standing Committee on Defence. “We have terminated the contract with Airbus but we’ve not terminated our quest to ensure we have the necessary capabilities. That is very clear.”\n\nShe made the point again on Friday, saying she was “battle scarred” from efforts to retain the R4.7 billion previously allocated in the medium term for the A400M acquisition in order to fund a strategic air transport capability. “I am battle scared fighting for … this money to come to me because we need this capacity and the reasons why we cancelled the contract had nothing to do with our needs,” she said.\n\nShe also expressed optimism that Airbus would refund SA some R2.9 billion already spent on the plane. The minister was also upbeat the money would come back to her department to augment her air transport war chest rather than revert to Treasury. The latter is the invariable practice.\n“We await the response of Airbus on the cancellation of this contract so that we can facilitate the return of money that been paid out in line with the agreement we have with them,” she said. “In terms of our contract with Airbus on the cancellation before a particular date we can have our money back so this is what we are asking them to do, to give us our money back. We have not had any formal response from Airbus so we do not anticipate that there will be any problem. So that is the matter as it stands now.”\n\nAlthough the SAAF has a nominal fleet of nine upgraded Lockheed Martin C-130BZ Hercules in the medium transport category, at least two have been removed from service, while a further aircraft is damaged, having recently suffered a nose undercarriage collapse. Also in the medium category is a single CASA CN235.\n\nThe average age of these transport aircraft is 42 years, ranging from 75 years for the C-47TP Dakota, through 47 years for the C-130BZ Hercules to the youngest, the Cessna 208 Caravan which itself has been in SAAF service for 21 years.\n\nThe SAAF has a small but diverse VVIP (Very Very Important Person) and VIP (Very Important Person) fleet. The flagship is the presidential Boeing BBJ VVIP jet that was delivered in 2001. Other VIP aircraft in the fleet consist of one Dassault Falcon 900 and two Falcon 50 jets, two Cessna Citation jets, three Beech Super King Air and one PC-12M turboprop aircraft. The average age of this fleet is 20 years.\n\nGagiano acknowledged that it is an ageing fleet and that rejuvenation was urgent. “This is quite a priority for us,” he says. Although the acquisition of a new fleet of transport aircraft is a high priority, Gagiano recognised that SA had many other competing demands. “Definitely the air mobility priority is just one of those many priorities. So my view is that we should have the total picture of what we need and then we buy piecemeal in order to satisfy some of the most urgent needs, which could be strategic airlift, but also the VVIP requirement because, as South Africa emerges as a bigger role player in the world, our politicians and leaders must be able to fly to where they are required to represent this country.”\n\nThe initial plan for the refurbishment of the Waterkloof airbase included the construction of new hangars for the A400M. Says Gagiano: “The hangars, for the moment, are on hold, until there is detailed decision on which way we go.”\n\nBrig Gen Tsoku Khumalo (Director Air Transport and Maritime Systems) told the defenceWeb Maritime Security Conference last year that the SAAF had a requirement for five specialised Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) and eight cheaper general-purpose Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA). The MPA, while having a maritime role, also needed to have a transport function and would also replace the C-47 and Casa aircraft; Khumalo being keen to reduce the number of platform types in use in the SAAF transport environment.\n\nWhile at pains to avoid mentioning manufacturers or aircraft models for fear of creating perceptions, Khumalo did acknowledge that to have the range for maritime operations (the SA SAR region is some 17.2 million square kilometres in size) and to have a useful cargo capacity the aircraft would have to be of the size and capability of the CASA 295. The MSA would be of a similar size to the Beech 350ER.\n\nThe A400M strategic transport, unlike the Hercules, would have been capable of carrying the Oryx helicopter without dismantling the main rotor gearbox, as well as providing an air-to-air refuelling (AAR) capability to the Gripen fighter. There is no direct competitor to the A400M and purchasing a larger and more capable aircraft, such as the American Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, may be prohibitively expensive, whilst still leaving a gap in the air-to-air refuelling environment." ]

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[ null, "” As Americans shop in the health insurance marketplace for a second year, President Obama is depending more than ever on the insurance companies that five years ago he accused of padding profits and canceling coverage for the sick.\n\nThose same insurers have long viewed government as an unreliable business partner that imposed taxes, fees and countless regulations and had the power to cut payment rates and cap profit margins.\n\nBut since the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, the relationship between the Obama administration and insurers has evolved into a powerful, mutually beneficial partnership that has been a boon to the nation’s largest private health plans and led to a profitable surge in their Medicaid enrollment.\n\nThe insurers in turn have provided crucial support to Mr. Obama in court battles over the health care law, including…" ]

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[ "The higher up the income ladder you go, the smaller the proportion of women, and it’s only getting worse, according to a New York Times article, which features new research on the topic. While the number of women in the top 1 percent of income earners increased throughout the 1980s and 1990s, they have accounted for only 16 percent of this group for the entirety of the last decade. And of the 2,500 billionaires in the world, only 12 percent are women, a shrinking number. At this pace, a research paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research predicts, it will take 100 years for women to make up half the population of the 1 percent.\nManaging money has always been a lucrative business, but now if the proposals coming from President-elect Donald Trump’s administration go into effect, that could make money managers and their clients even more wealthy, Russ Alan Prince writes for Forbes. Prince states that Trump’s proposed income tax cuts on the wealthy will put more money into their hands and those who manage their wealth. Lowering corporate tax rates will also help business owners, and a decrease in regulations could lead to lower costs and higher profits. In addition, repealing the estate tax will provide huge opportunities for wealthy families and wealth managers who would help them navigate the process.\nDigital advice provider Betterment is launching a new podcast series, “Better Off,” to be hosted by Jill Schlesinger, an Emmy-nominated business analyst for CBS News and host of the nationally syndicated radio show “Jill on Money.” The robo advisor is working with DGital Media, an audio engagement company, to create the podcasts. Schlesinger will seek unconventional insights on money and life from people in finance, entrepreneurship, sports and entertainment. “I love solving financial problems, and it has always been my goal to help people better understand money, without all of the jargon,” she said, in a statement. The podcast episodes will be available for download from iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and others starting Jan. 5.\nCambridge Investment Group’s long-time CEO Eric Schwartz, who founded the Fairfield, Iowa-based independent broker/dealer over three decades ago, is stepping down from his role to serve as executive chairman of the board. He is not retiring. Amy Webber will take over Schwartz’s CEO responsibilities, in addition to her current role as president. In other senior leadership changes, Chief Technology Architect Ryan Reineke has been named chief operations and technology officer. General Counsel Seth Miller will also serve as chief risk officer, and Senior Vice President Kyle Selberg will become chief business development officer. The changes were effective Jan. 1.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Meghan Markle and Prince Harry live peacefully in their villa in Canada . But they will soon move to Malibu while waiting to find the house of their dreams.\n\nThey have projects in their heads! Since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have renounced their royal functions, the couple resume a normal life. Or almost !\n\nA hard blow for the Windsor family! Prince Charles is affected by the Coronavirus. Thus, his son is very worried about the state of health of his father, 71 years old. He regrets being so far from London!\n\nIn fact, the latter then lived on Vancouver Island, in Canada . But not for very long! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will soon move out . And they will leave the country!\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex and her husband dream of settling in the Petra Manor, a splendid villa in Malibu. According to information from our colleagues in the Daily Mail , they would only put their bags down for a while.\n\nFor the moment, the company that rents this sumptuous villa has not yet confirmed the rumor . However, the director of Stay Awhile Villas, Stuart Heller, admitted being contacted for a very specific reason.\n\nMEGHAN MARKLE AND HARRY TO RENT A HOUSE\nThus, Meghan Markle and her husband do not want to become owners. At least not until they find the home of their dreams . At the moment, they want to rent.\n\nAnd this does not surprise the manager of Stay Awhile Villas . According to him, ” many people come to Malibu to find a house and first become tenants to see if it makes sense for them and their families.”\n\nIn any case, Meghan Markle and Harry have luxury tastes for their next home! Indeed, the Petra Manor rents for more than 13,000 euros per night . Moreover, it is hidden in a neighborhood closed to the public.\n\nAnd the sumptuous villa has already welcomed several stars. This is the case of Kylie Jenner! While her family was going through a difficult period in 2019, the young woman took refuge here.\n\nMoreover, the Petra Manor is located just 50 kilometers from the actress’ mom . At least, the young woman will finally be able to get closer to her own family. And more than that of her husband!\n\nThis is how Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas have fun during..." ]

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[ "England Netball’s CEO Fran Connolly: “This funding has come at such a critical time for our sport, and will allow us to return visibility, momentum and continued opportunities at all levels of the game”", null, "Netball has received £4.2m in grants from the government’s Sport Winter Survival Package, and the funding came at a “critical time for the sport”, according to England Netball’s CEO Fran Connolly.\n\nAt the end of 2020, the government named 11 sports, including netball, which would be eligible for funding from their Sport Winter Survival Package.\n\nAfter going through a further application process to assess the level of investment needed, the government confirmed that netball will receive £4.2m in grants. England Netball says this investment will be used across three key areas.\n\nFirst, it will assist in the central delivery of the Vitality Netball Superleague 2021 season. Second, the funding will provide direct investment into protecting the financial stability of Superleague’s clubs and fund their participation in the league. Finally, it will be used to assist the restart of grassroots netball in order to help rebuild participation levels.\n\n“All of us at England Netball and across the Vitality Netball Superleague are incredibly grateful to the DCMS and Sport England for this investment,” Connolly said on the governing body’s website.\n\n“This funding has come at such a critical time for our sport, and will allow us to return visibility, momentum and continued opportunities at all levels of the game.\n\n“This money has already helped us to restart and deliver the Vitality Netball Superleague 2021 season, which without it wouldn’t have been possible.\n\n“It’s provided vital security and protection for our clubs within the league who are currently without the usual income from ticket sales.\n\n“We have been particularly concerned about the significant impact COVID has had on women and girls who play the game at a community level, particularly on women’s mental health and physical wellbeing.\n\n“Research has shown a clear drop in activity levels amongst women and girls so it’s vital that we get them back on courts as soon as it’s safe to do so, and the Sport Winter Survival Package will help us do that.\n\n“We are delighted we have this support and are excited about the future of our game.”", null, "Upon the announcement of this next tranche of funding, the Culture Secretary focused on the pressures women’s sport has faced in particular.\n\n“We are committed to helping our treasured sports through these challenging times. And today’s announcement is more evidence of our support for them,” Oliver Dowden said.\n\n“In particular, women’s sport has faced acute pressures. The past few years have seen fantastic progress – with greater participation, employment, commercial opportunities and visibility in the media. I am determined not to let it take a back seat again.\n\n“This targeted funding will enable sports to keep playing and inspire many more stars of the future.”" ]

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[ null, "As many of you viewers may have read, our dear friend Brandon Brown has been getting a lot of attention after winning the big NASCAR race. The phrase “Lets go Brandon” has become a theme in many households across America. But some are offended by the idea of cheering on somebody where their soul job is to turn their vehicle to the left while going in a circle super-fast.\n\nThe Associated Press later went on to state that the passengers were fearing for their lives, because everybody knows that NASCAR fans are uneducated hicks from Alabama with about half the brain cells of other more educated folk. In face, nobody on that plane wanted to die in a reckless stunt that this one fan may be about to pull, as if he was reenacting the Dukes of Hazzard.\n\nZach from New York had this to say, “imagine realizing you just entrusted your life with somebody that has such poor judgement.”\n\nIn addition, many passengers were afraid the pilot would then proceed to do “burnouts” in the sky or start revving the engine to show his support for the so called “sport”.\n\nWe reached out to Southwest Airlines for comment, and they had this to say, “we are outraged that passengers had to listen to that NASCAR redirect. One employee’s individual perspective should not be interpreted as a viewpoint for Southwest and its collective 54,000 employees. We are not all stupid hicks from Alabama.”\n\nSouthwest is currently doing an internal investigation on the event and trying to find out if any other employees are going to be shouting this dangerous message. Southwest does not tolerate any behavior associated to NASCAR such as creamed corn, burnouts, and racecars that turn left while going super duper fast." ]

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[ null, "A specter is haunting Indonesia – the specter of communism. Everyone’s freaking out about it, despite the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) having been banned for almost 50 years now.\n\nThe beginning line of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto bears a striking resemblance to Indonesia’s current socio-political situation, in which communism has once again been resurrected as the surreptitious bogeyman aiming to usurp the throne of today’s government.\n\nThe recent surge of communist-phobia can be traced to the 2014 presidential election. In a libelous pamphlet entitled Obor Rakyat, Jokowi was framed as a member of the PKI. Since then, labeling someone as antek PKI (related to the PKI), such as Kivlan Zen’s accusation toward Budiman Sudjatmiko and Benedict Anderson, has become more common.\n\nThis new-found phobia has had multiple agencies starting witch hunts to find alleged symbols of a potential communist resurrection. The Indonesian Military (TNI) has cracked down on people selling and wearing T-shirts bearing the hammer-and-sickle logo. Bank Indonesia had to issue a clarification regarding its signature rectoverso logo on bank notes, which some parties claimed was similar to the communist logo (surely Marx would be turning in his grave).\n\nEither in jest or seriousness, an Islamic cleric tweeted about the Alexis Hotel, claiming that its exterior façade could be read as “PKI”. Even the military continues to push the narrative that the PKI still exists and represents a latent threat to the country, which is used to justify the controversial bela negara program and TNI commander Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo’s “proxy war” agenda.\n\nHow did communist-phobia spread?\nOne interesting aspect to consider in the spread of this communist-phobia is the role of the “marketplace of ideas” in propelling its spread. The egalitarian nature of the internet has allowed people from all walks of life to participate in discussing and spreading information.\n\nThis allows free debate of ideas, with equal exposure to both sides of the argument.\n\nIn the marketplace of ideas, it is expected that equal exposure to debate on communism, the PKI and its role in Indonesian socio-political history will foster greater understanding in the layperson. However, as Cass Sunstein in On Rumors ( 2014 ) argued, the marketplace does not always work because we, as humans, have a tendency to give in to biases and groupthink, which are amplified on social media. A person who has previously held a belief (e.g. “Communism is bad”) will tend to group with those who share similar beliefs and be more defensive when presented with an opposing opinion. This is what Sunstein calls “polarization”. Sunstein also argues that “informational cascades”, which are easily formed through social media, encourage people to believe in things that the crowd already believes in.\n\nAs Nazi leader Adolf Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf: “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”\n\nCommunist-phobia is propagated by iconic figures who are influential with their followers. Their followers then participate in the information cascade through spreading and sharing content from the figure. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough “counter-narratives” that are capable of reaching an equal audience. This is further exacerbated by the formation of echo chambers facilitated by the “block” or “mute” button. Once someone becomes entrenched, it would require tremendous force to dislodge them. In the process, we may end up further galvanizing their beliefs.\n\nHow do we manage communist-phobia?\nA practical measure would be to counter the narrative through the mechanisms of the marketplace of ideas. If there is one loud voice spreading communist-phobia, there should be an equally loud voice debunking communist-phobia. While this may not have an immediate effect, it is expected to gradually build up into a larger force that could bring equilibrium to the marketplace. In other words, it is an endless battle of words. We are starting to see such resistance in the United States, with alternative Twitter accounts being set up to counter President Donald Trump’s denial of science.\n\nAt the systemic level, however, I risk restating an oft-repeated solution: education. That being said, it is the only method that excels in the long run if we were to fully equip citizens with the faculties needed to separate fact from fiction. It is especially important in this post-truth world that we live in right now, where “alternative facts” exist and biases are more prevalent in guiding discussion.\n\nA critical approach to history is desperately needed. Our school textbooks need to be rewritten not to reflect old biases and New Order narratives. Growing up in Indonesia, I was fed constantly with the idea that the PKI was evil and atrocious. It was not until I was exposed to critical interpretations of Indonesian history that I began to question the official version presented to me as a child. Communism is that “monster in the closet” that we feared as children because we didn’t know its true nature.\n\nThere is no easy and fool-proof way to combat communist-phobia. It requires a concerted and concentrated effort on all parts of the country. We need not be worried of the latent danger of communism; we should be more wary of parties trying to conjure a bogeyman to divert our attention from their ulterior intentions." ]

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[ null, "The Cathedral Movie Review: The little Maisie is an innocent bystander and victim of her narcissistic parents’ divorce in Henry James’ 1897 book What Maisie Knew. What Maisie Knew is a “modernist” book (before modernism as a literary movement emerged), and this can be attributed to its point of view. We see Maisie’s six-year-old mind attempting to comprehend since the story is exclusively told from her point of view.\n\nWhat Maisie Knew and Ricky D’Ambrose’s “The Cathedral,” which is presented as fiction but has the ring of autobiography and tells of both his parents’ divorce and the complex adult relationships surrounding him as a child, both succeed in telling the story of adults solely through the eyes of a child. If the narrative were told from the viewpoint of the adults, it would be commonplace. A extremely unsettling and emotional experience, the same event is narrated from the perplexed (but insightful) perspective of a youngster.\n\nIn “The Cathedral,” form and content are strikingly combined. There is a voiceover (Madeleine James), who adopts a third-person “objective” voice, along with still-life images of the locations mentioned (Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Atlantic City), news clips from the era, revisiting previous scandals (Chandra Levy, George W. Bush’s 30-day vacation), or significant events (Desert Storm, the crash of TWA flight 800, September 11). D’Ambrose avoids clogging up the story with flip-book-style editing. While the camera remains on a scene of a sunlit rug, a child’s artwork, food on tables, including a half-eaten birthday cake, and the catered fare offered during events in the child’s life like birthdays, confirmation, high school graduation, etc., adult voices can be overheard conversing. This aesthetic plus the voiceover put a huge barrier between us and the characters. What we see happening as a marriage dissolves is commonplace. Divorce occurs in over 50% of couples. We can lean in and relate on a deeper level because to the intimate point of view and distant style. There are hardly any close-up shots.\n\nLet’s begin where we left off. The narrator explains that Jesse Damrosch was born shortly after his uncle passed away from AIDS when his parents were on vacation in Puerto Rico (the family told everyone he died of “liver disease,” and seem to tell themselves that as well). Uncles, aunts, grandparents, and a great-grandmother are among the names that seem to be accumulating inexorably. Many of them are either not speaking to one another or are about to sever ties. This is a family that harbours resentments on both sides. In the middle is Jesse, a serious young boy who appears to be attempting to blend into the background in order to protect himself from the turbulent emotional lives of the people in care of him (played at various ages by Robert Levey II and William Bednar-Carter).\n\nAlthough Richard (Brian d’Arcy James) and Lydia (Monica Barbaro) get off to a good start, the voiceover lets us know right on that something could be a little “odd,” especially with Richard. It takes a while for Lydia’s father’s disapproval of Richard to become clear. Richard reacts angrily because he is uneasy. Nobody is even sure why Lydia’s mother and aunt are still at odds after years of conflict. Among her grandchildren is a great-grandmother who gets moved around. No one wants to look after her. The union between Lydia and Richard breaks down. They both get remarried. Richard and his wife are very much “sketch,” as they say.\n\nJesse barely speaks at all, and the voiceover, oddly enough, is mainly interested in the adult tragedies. I wanted to say something in response to that cold voice about half the time “What’s Jesse’s condition? What do you think about him? He has buddies, right? What’s his condition? Why doesn’t anyone care about Jesse’s condition?” This is what the faraway style offers, and this is what makes Henry James’ story come to mind. The adults are so self-absorbed and protective that they show the six-year-old all of their ugly selves without ever thinking about the consequences.\n\nJesse was oddly described as “calm and unperturbed” in a review of “The Cathedral.” I witnessed a little youngster who was aware of how unpredictable, greedy, and petty the adults around him were. It seems sense that he isolates himself as a means of survival.\n\n“The Cathedral’s” acting appears to have been “caught on camera” rather than “played.” The acting is similar to what Joanna Hogg’s actors accomplish when she positions the camera at the edge of a room and lets people enter and go while overhearing discussions in the adjacent room. This necessitates a performative reality similar to a documentary. As talks are heard in voiceover, D’Ambrose concentrates on feet, hands, and other incidental features. Sometimes the conversation is pleasant banter, but there is a lot going on below.\n\nBrian d’Arcy James portrays a man filled with resentment and anger who thinks like the world has let him down and who believes that the world ought to be more accepting of him, even with just a few close-up shots. His performance is incredibly perceptive (and disturbing). All the rooms are packed up at one point because he made a last-minute call while on a miserable trip to Atlantic City with his son and his new wife. Nothing is easy, he says as he slams the phone on the ground. Richard can be a dangerous guy. He spoils time spent with family. Everyone cringes in fear of what he might do.\n\nIn a voiceover, likely delivered in class, the young Jesse, who is interested in photography and filmmaking, explains toward the end of the movie what he thinks a picture of his two aunts lounging on his parents’ bed in happier times means to him. Jesse examines the setting, the lighting, and the things that have already been seen in still life throughout the movie. Although the mournfulness is subtext rather than text, there is a sense of melancholy throughout this discourse. Jesse concentrates on the material information. The way the light hits a rug reminds him of the mayhem of his childhood—the suffering brought on by the adults acting in frightful, cruel ways around him. It will always be with him." ]

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[ null, "Uncertainty about spending by U.S. and European clients in a weak global economy will likely weigh on the earnings of Indian outsourcers, dampening hopes that demand will pick up in the second half of the year.\n\nIndia's $100 billion-a-year information technology and IT-enabled services industry earns about three-quarters of its revenues from customers in the United States and Europe.\n\nAnalysts expect Infosys Ltd., India’s second largest IT company and the only top-three vendor to provide a full-year forecast, to pare its revenue growth estimate for the current fiscal year to as low as 5 per cent when it posts quarterly earnings on July 12.\n\nThe company in April had forecast 8-10 per cent growth for the fiscal year ending March 2013, already disappointing investors enough to cut 13 percent of its market value on the day. It has gained about 2 percent since.\n\nThe National Association of Software and Service Companies, or NASSCOM, an industry lobby, expects the industry to grow exports by 11-14 per cent in the current fiscal year that ends in March.\n\nCustomers continue to hold back discretionary spending due to the extended euro-zone crisis and the absence of unequivocal data that an economic recovery is under way in the United States, the biggest market for Indian IT and IT-enabled services providers.\n\n\"Hopes of a recovery in the second half are just that, hopes,\" said Apurva Shah, head of research at BNP Paribas Mutual Fund, which manages investments of about $750 million, including in the top Indian IT companies.\n\nDue to the continued uncertainty in the demand environment and discretionary spending not coming through, the fund was \"underweight\" on the sector, Shah said.\n\nThe sluggish global economy is prompting clients to demand more for every dollar spent. This adds to the pressure on billing rates on a commoditised set of services that Indian firms, competing with Accenture and IBM, rely on for the bulk of their revenues.\n\n\"The depressed situation in the west appears to continue to be of concern, but the hope is that they will recover slowly,\" Tata Consultancy Services Chairman Ratan Tata said at the company's annual shareholder meeting on June 29.\n\nShares of Infosys, which has a market value of about $25 billion, are down about 11.5 percent this year, while those of top-ranked TCS are up about 8.7 percent. By comparison, the Sensex has gained about 13 percent.\n\nA weaker first half may have been factored in by the street, but “hopes for recovery in 2HFY13 are fading fast,” Bhavin Shah, chief executive of Equirus Securities, said in a July 2 report. He has an ‘underweight’ rating on the IT sector.\n\nFor the June quarter, analysts expect little or no sequential dollar-term sales growth for Infosys. The company may say sales grew 0.5 per cent, Deutsche Bank analyst Aniruddha Bhosale said in a note. Bhosale, who advises clients pick TCS, expects it to report sequential growth of 2.6 per cent.\n\nThe companies are expected to benefit from an 8.5 per cent fall in the rupee during the quarter. However, analysts see some negative cross-currency effect due to the move in the euro and British pound versus the US dollar.\n\n“The rupee depreciating is not a reason good enough to play these stocks, as the outlook in terms of overall demand remains weak,” Apurva Shah said." ]

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[ null, "Yesterday, I enjoyed a 90-minute conversation with an engineer and first time patient who has been wanting to try TA-65 for years. We chatted about the problem of dogma in history, economics, and scientific dogma. I realized that there are many people who move easily through topics because as Kant defined illumination, some of us have outgrown a need to not sound stupid as I blogged about recently.\n\nSo today, I write a short blog about how dogma about cancer aneuploidy (or the wrong number of chromosomes) missed the most obvious insight imaginable. I was able to guess it without any fancy lab or publications to my name; how did they miss it?\n\nLet us first agree that a body is a machine in turn made up of trillions of cellular machines, all exhibiting decreasing genomic integrity and stability as we age. Here are some insights which help to explain aging as the result of increasing entropy (or disorder):\n\nWhat is entropy? It is the disorder of system which we are told increases unless there is a reversible reaction. Since typographical errors and mutation are not reversible, the entropy of the system will increase and so we age and get ill. Someday, we will embrace stem cell extraction, grading and classification, autologous infusion after clonal expansion (without cryopreservation and thawing to introduce unknown unknown changes.)\n\nReturning to the cancer aneuplody dogma, I am genuinely astounded by this quote from a Harvard team who finally questioned whether common chromosome mutations could be causally and not just casually related:\n\nFor more than 100 years, researchers have been unable to explain why cancer cells contain abnormal numbers of chromosomes, a phenomenon known as aneuploidy. Many believed aneuploidy was simply a random byproduct of cancer.\n\nThe reason that I was able to intuitively happen upon the unified theory of telomere erosion in stem cells as the common cause in aging and most diseases is that I approached the question with a beginner’s mind and no fixed dogma. For more that 100 years, people just assumed that cancer caused aneuploidy instead of vice versa. This is an error on par with believing that the chicken came before the egg when eggs existed for long before chickens (duh).\n\nThe fancy Harvard brainiacs, like the egghead played by Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park, evoke “chaos theory” and machine models when all they needed to do was read my book, Telomere Timebombs: Defusing the Terror of Aging to understand how telomere shortening drives the process of chromosomal mutation. This in turn leads to cell dysfunction, cell death, and very rarely, cancer. The geniuses declare what should have been really obvious for 100 years:\n\n“Aneuploidy is driving cancer, not simply a consequence of it,” said Elledge. “Other things also matter, such as gene mutations, rearrangements and changes in expression. We don’t know what the weighting is, but now we should be able to figure it out”\n\nHere are the only two pictures you need to understand the process:", null, null, "Dogma tells us that there are many possible explanations for cancer, aging, and disease; I believe there is really only one.", null, "True wisdom comes when you realize that this telomere shortening, mutation of chromosomes, and cell death is morally neutral and enables both efficiency of our machine and extreme longevity. Non-stem cells all mutate and die off in this way. But even stem cells usually kill themselves after they mutate in this manner. So, cancer is not as rare or robust as we might think; it is actually a potentiality enabled by weak immunity and a very rare set of circumstances both within the affected stem cell and amidst the host milieu." ]

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[ null, "Researchers have successfully developed a high-speed quantum encryption system that could prevent hackers from penetrating computers.\n\nThe new quantum encryption system represents a new level in cryptography, which is quite ironic since the advent of quantum computing has been considered a threat to current encryption methods, but it might just hold the key to keeping the internet safe and secure.\n\nAccording to the researchers’ study published this week in Science Advances, the new system can create and distribute encryption codes at a rate of megabits per second, which means it transmits quantum key distribution five to ten times faster than existing methods.\n\nThe team, composed of researchers from Duke University, Ohio State University, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, demonstrates that the technique is immune from common attacks even in a situation where the equipment itself has exhibited a flaw that could open up leaks.\n\n“We really need to be thinking hard now of different techniques that we could use for trying to secure the internet,” said Daniel Gauthier, a physics professor at the Ohio State University.\n\nThe frequency of data breaches is no laughing matter. Just this month, there were two reported high-profile cases of hackers breaching servers: one is the massive Uber data breach last year — which Uber just recently confessed to — that had put 57 million accounts at risk. The ride-hailing company tried to guise it as a bug bounty program achievement. Then there’s the Imgur data breach, which had affected 1.7 million accounts yet went unnoticed for years.\n\nHigh-Speed Quantum Encryption: How Does It Work?\n\nIn a study published in the journal Science Advances, the researchers demonstrated a system that uses quantum key distribution (QKD), creating and distributing encryption codes at megabit-per-second rates. The secret lies in putting more information on the photons — light particles used in QKD and in most of today’s quantum networks — and combining it with high-speed detectors.\n\nThe feat was achieved by adjusting the moment when photons are released, making it possible to encode two bits of information on a photon instead of just one. As a result, their system can transmit keys five to ten times faster than current methods, which only allow for between tens to hundreds of kilobits per second. Running several systems that use their new method in parallel creates current internet speeds.\n\nThis is important, because most of today’s existing “quantum-secure encryption systems cannot support some basic daily tasks, such as hosting an encrypted telephone call or video streaming,” Nurul Taimur Islam from Duke said in a press release.\n\nQKD requires a set of encryption keys sent separately from the encrypted message. In principle, the information becomes “hack-proof,” because tampering with the message or the encryption key would alert both the receiver and the sender. However, QKD cannot work flawlessly, because it requires equipment that is still imperfect. This makes QKD vulnerable to hacking.\n\nAlso read: Why your smartphone’s fingerprint scanner isn’t as secure as you might think ?\n\n“We wanted to identify every experimental flaw in the system, and include these flaws in the theory so that we could ensure our system is secure and there is no potential side-channel attack,” said Islam, explaining how they had to identify and incorporate the limitations of the equipment they used.\n\nIn any case, QKD is still currently the best chance we have for improving today’s cybersecurity measures, which have been proven — time and again — to be inadequate to deal with hacks and breaches. And because this new system used equipment that’s mostly commercially available, it would be easy to integrate into the current framework of the internet." ]

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[ "Good news for hypochondriacs: Worrying about your health makes you live LONGER\n\nHypochondriacs are often told they will worry themselves into an early grave.\n\nBut there's good news at last as scientists have found they have a lower risk of dying.\n\nGenerally, people with neuroticism – who have higher than average feelings of anxiety – had a higher mortality rate, the study found.\n\nBut those who rated their health the poorest – in other words were the hypochondriac types – had a lower risk of dying.\n\nIt is thought 'the healthy neuroticists' take better care of their health and seek medical advice more often.\n\n'Our findings are important because they suggest that being high in neuroticism may sometimes have a protective effect, perhaps by making people more vigilant about their health,' says lead researcher Professor Catharine Gale.", null, "It has been linked to hostility, depression, and excessive drinking and smoking.\n\nBut a 2012 study discovered neurotics displayed lower levels of a biomarker for inflammation and chronic disease – again because they may be more health conscientious.\n\nNEUROTICS HAVE LOWER LEVELS OF INFLAMMATION\n\nA previous study has found physical evidence that neurotic traits could be good for your health.\n\nWith the personality trait usually linked to negative health effects, researchers assumed that neurotics would display the highest levels of a biomarker for inflammation and chronic disease.\n\nHowever, they were surprised to find they displayed the lowest levels.\n\nStudy leader Dr Nicholas Turiano, from the University of Rochester Medical Center, said the result suggested there are a large number of people who are both neurotic and conscientious.\n\nHe said: 'These people are likely to weigh the consequences of their actions, and therefore their level of neuroticism coupled with conscientiousness probably stops them from engaging in risky behaviors.'\n\nIn 2012, Turiano and co-authors tapped into the National Survey of Midlife Development in the U.S. (MIDUS) database, a sampling of just over 1,000 adults to reach their findings.\n\nResearchers from the University of Edinburgh studied UK Biobank data collected from more 500,000 people aged 37 to 73 in the UK.\n\nThey hypothesized that the relationship between neuroticism and risk of death may depend on how people rate their health.\n\nParticipants completed a personality questionnaire and answered whether they thought they were in excellent, good, fair, or poor health overall.\n\nThe data showed that mortality was higher among participants with higher levels of neuroticism.\n\nHowever, when the team adjusted for participants' self-rated health, they found higher neuroticism was linked with lower risk of death.\n\n'When we explored this further, we found that this protective effect was only present in people who rated their health as fair or poor,' explained Professor Gale.\n\n'We also found that people who scored highly on one aspect of neuroticism related to worry and vulnerability had a reduced risk of death regardless of how they rated their health.\n\n'We had thought that greater worry or vulnerability might lead people to behave in a healthier way and hence lower their risk of death, but that was not the case.'\n\nThe researchers plan to further investigate why worry and vulnerability may have specific protective effects." ]

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[ null, "MFA 2017 Naomi Clement’s work is featured on the cover of Ceramics Monthly magazine’s September 2018 issue. She won the Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist Award in 2017, and recently debuted a solo exhibition in California.\n\nNaomi’s work was accepted to the annual “Drink Up!” ceramics contest, so she knew she would be included in the magazine’s September issue. Then she was contacted by Ceramics Monthly’s editor Jessica Knapp, and Naomi was thrilled to learn her work had been chosen for the magazine cover.\n\n“I’ve been reading the magazine since I first got into ceramics almost 25 years ago. In my wildest dreams I’d hoped to be featured on the cover in some far off future, but I thought that would be years from now,” she shared. “It is such an honor to have my work featured on the cover and knowing that thousands of people will get to see it.”", null, "“The show was a culmination of my time there, which was incredible,” Naomi said. “They only bring in two artists in residence a year, and you get a studio, an apartment, and a stipend — all in beautiful Sonoma Valley. Pretty awesome!”\n\nThe show itself was in many ways an extension of her MFA thesis show at LSU titled Trace, she explained. Bound features pots that represent nostalgia for her family, and hope for the future.", null, "“My work is a constant discussion on how things fit together and how they do not,” she said. “In particular, I am interested in points of transition: the space where orange becomes red, the place where glaze meets bare clay, the edge of a handle and the end of the pot.”\n\n“In my process, I continually seek out and create opportunities for these moments to occur: leaving a seam visible in a hand-built cup, cutting a soft line in the rim of a bowl, or negotiating the space between white slip and bare clay. As a maker, I am interested in how these moments record my decisions and become physical signposts left for a future user. These traces of intent and action say: I was here, please bear witness to that fact.”\n\nOriginally from Canada, she got her BFA from Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax in 2003. She worked as a Sales Associate at Barrel Select Wine Merchants and then as a marketing coordinator at a travel company in Toronto before she came to LSU as a graduate student. Ceramics always called to her.\n\n“I make pots because I truly believe that life is different when you choose to surround yourself with objects that already have a story when they reach you,” she stated. “There is a different tenor to your day when you encourage the objects you use to become part of the fabric of your life, rather than mere accessories. I make pots to add my voice to this story—creating useful objects that will hopefully bring joy to people’s daily lives, and go on to forge connections and stories of their own.”", null, "Life after LSU has been busy so far, she said. She spent last fall teaching at a college in Pennsylvania as a sabbatical replacement, before coming to Sonoma, California for the artist residency. (She previously did residencies at Arrowmont School of Crafts in Tennessee, Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine, and Medalta International Artist in Residence Program in Alberta, Canada.) Naomi recently moved back home to Canada and is working on setting up a studio there.\n\n“My goal is always that my pots will introduce a little beauty into the world, and ideally create a space where the user can pause to savor a moment of calm in the midst of a busy day.”" ]

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[ "Man accused of assaulting his wife rearrested for same allegation", null, "Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A man accused of violating a court order when he went to his wife’s house and allegedly assaulted her while he was intoxicated was arrested two weeks ago.\n\nThe defendant, a 37-year-old taxi driver, appeared in District Court two weeks ago. He is charged with third-degree assault, private peace disturbance and contempt of court.\n\nBond is set at $1,000 and if the defendant is able to post bond, he is to comply with all conditions the court set when he appeared last month for a prior case, including the condition that he make no direct or indirect contact with his wife.\n\n“You are not allowed to go back to your wife’s house or place of work. Don’t call her or try to confront her in any way,” the court told the defendant, whose pretrial conference is Mar. 25th.\n\nAccording to the government’s case, the wife contacted police for assistance after she and her two young children arrived home and found her intoxicated husband there.\n\nThe wife said she told the defendant to leave because he’s not allowed to come close to them or visit them anymore; but the defendant got mad and yelled profanities at her and their daughters.\n\nThe defendant then pulled her hair and punched her in the face multiple times, causing her nose to bleed. The man, according to the government, threatened his wife, saying he would kill her if he finds out that she’s still having an affair with her co-worker.\n\nPolice arrived later and apprehended the defendant at his friend’s house.\n\nThe defendant was first arrested three months ago and charged with third degree assault and private peace disturbance for assaulting his wife in front of his two daughters.\n\nThe defendant told police that he was suspicious that his wife was having an affair with a male co-worker.\n\nThe defendant was released on his own recognizance, subject to certain conditions. He was ordered not to make any contact with his wife and kids, and he has to reside elsewhere." ]

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[ "Monday 7 March 2011 - Tuesday 8 March 2011\nThis is for the repairs to the pump pen stop valves, ground paddle frames and the grouting of the lock.\n\nThe Avon will remain open for navigation during this time but we would appreciate it if all boats could comply with the race marshalls instructions at all times and wait as necessary for short periods to enable racing crews to pass through safely. Your co-operation is much appreciated\n\nWe will have our own area for dining, but not a separate room.\n\nTo enable us to have the separate dining area, a deposit of £10 per person is required in advance.\nPlease send a cheque, dated 8 March, to Andy made out to 'A. James', to be received by him not later than 7th March.\nSend this with a note giving your contact details and the number of persons in your group.\n\nOn the night, open a 'tab' at the bar on arrival for your food and drinks.\nThen pay at the end of the meal (after deducting your £10 per person pre-paid deposit).\nPayment by cash or card (no cheques).\n\nSome of our members are not on e-mail. Please pass these details on to them if you are in touch.\nDetails will also be announced at the next two branch meetings.\n\nAndy's address : Andy James, 3 Caroline Court, Bath Road, READING, RG1 6HW.\nHe will not be contactable between 18 Feb and 7 March.\nPosted by The Kennet Avon Canal Trust at 01:00 No comments:\n\nFriday 21 January 2011 - Sunday 30 January 2011\nReed Thatcham Angling Association, are holding a fishing match around the Kintbury Wharf area on Sunday 23rd January 2011 & Sunday 30th January, start time 9.00am till 15.00pm.\nBoaters are advised to reduce their speed and be considerate to Anglers\n\nPlease find details of latest news from the Trust below\n\nThere are still tickets available for the Canal Art Workshop to be held in the Trust Offices at Devizes on the 29th January from 10am - 4pm\nRelaxed course- learn to draw boats, wildlife, people and focus your observational skills. Very suitable for all abilities especially beginners.\nMinimum age 16 years. Light lunch will be provided.Materials will also be provided and sponsored by HMG Paints in Andover.\nAll proceeds towards the K&A Trust. Tickets are available from the Trust shop in Devizes or telephone 01380 721279\nSee Poster below.", null, "How about nominating the Kennet and Avon Trust, follow the link below for the information on how to nominate the Trust\n\nThe nominations for the 2010 John Gould Award attracted record entries. The closing date was at the year end and the Trustees of the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust were asked to place their votes to choose the worthy winner. Never an easy task!.", null, "The going was close but the winner this year was Richard Snook a hard working K & A volunteer of some 13 years. Richard is a member of the Hungerford Branch committee and the boat manager for the Rose of Hungerford. Always available when something needs to be done, such as doing emergency pump outs and repairs, ensure the boat is re-fuelled, taking on additional skippering tasks, maintaining the lift, showing potential customers around the boat, and doing the huge task of preparing everything for the MCA inspections etc. He also does much to keep the Branch active and writes the regular reports for the Butty. Richard is the very heart and soul of the Rose and is always very willing to take on additional tasks for the Trust.\n\nThe award was an idea in 1997 when John Gould MBE was honoured with a plaque by his ‘second home’ Newbury Lock Island. Nobody can doubt the dedication and example John gave us all in his work for the Kennet and Avon Canal. The award is a way of honouring others who have continued working for our waterway.", null, "All the nominees should have been winners for all are great examples of K & A Volunteer spirit. The other nominees were – Mike Messam, Elaine Kirby, David Inight, and the Avon Vale Crew .\n\nWorthy entrants for next year?\n\nThe Late John Gould MBE at the unveiling of his plaque in 1997 ( picture The Butty Spring 1997)\nPosted by The Kennet Avon Canal Trust at 02:04 No comments:\n\nTuesday 18 January 2011 until further notice\nDue to high water levels on the river sections of the K&A, we recommend craft do not navigate until levels subside\n\nFriday 14 January 2011 until further notice\nThe Water Stand pipe at Crofton has been switch off due to contamination and will closed until further notice. The nearest water points can be found at Great Bedwyn Wharf or immediately below Wootton Rivers Road Bridge\n\nVOLUNTEER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR LOCAL ENVIRONMENT\n\nAs people make their New Year’s resolutions this January to get fit, make new friends and get out and about more, British Waterways is hoping that their new volunteering scheme on the Kennet & Avon Canal will give local residents the perfect opportunity to make a difference to their environment as well as achieving some personal goals.\n\nBritish Waterways’ new volunteering scheme is looking for people to give up a few hours a month to help maintain the much-loved, 200-year-old waterway. The scheme is being set up ahead of the organisations move to become a charity in April 2012.\n\nMark Stephens, British Waterways’ waterway manager explained: “The Kennet & Avon Canal is a beautiful stretch of waterway, unfortunately British Waterways has limited resources to be able to keep the canal looking as good as we would like. We hope that local people will join us to help with tasks such as cutting back overgrown vegetation so the towpath is kept clear, as well as painting lock gates and clearing litter from the canal.”\n\nMonthly working parties are being set-up at locations along the canal including: Reading, Aldermaston, Newbury, Kintbury, Crofton, Bedwyn, Devizes and Bath. Each session will run from 10am – 3pm and volunteers will be supplied with all the safety equipment needed for the towpath tasks. The working parties will be starting in February, and running throughout the year.\n\nKaren Fishwick, British Waterways’ volunteer co-ordinator said: “There is already a brilliant volunteering spirit on the Kennet & Avon Canal, especially with organisations such as the Kennet & Avon Canal Trust. We hope that these working parties will encourage even more people to get out and about on the waterway, meet new people and find out more about their local environment. It’s quite a flexible scheme, as some people may only be able to do a few hours, whilst others might want to take part at more than one location, several times a month.”\n\nAnyone wishing to take part in the volunteering scheme should contact Karen on 07917424590 or email [email protected] for further information. There’s more information about volunteering with British Waterways available at www.waterscape.com/volunteering.\nPosted by The Kennet Avon Canal Trust at 05:25 No comments:" ]

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[ "Motorola: Three smartwatches could arrive this summer, there is also a square model", null, "To the surprise of many tech enthusiasts Motorola could launch three new smartwatches on the market during the summer of 2021, two that take up the classic round design of the Moto 360 (but with a different name) and a brand new model with a square dial: here are the first images released online.\n\nTipster Felipe Berhau, particularly fond of the Motorola brand, so much so that he defines himself as the largest collector of the brand’s products, has in fact published some information regarding these three models via Twitter, including images presumably taken from a PDF presentation.\n\nThe first expected for the presentation on the market will be Moto G, a model with a round dial and a sportier design possibly arriving in June, according to the render he published on Twitter as you can see at the bottom of the article. The supplied operating system should be Wear OS and the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 4100 chip under the body.\n\nThe other two models, on the other hand, are currently called Moto Watch and Moto Watch One and would be expected in July 2021, where the first is the one with a square dial similar to the Apple Watch and the second is the other round but more elegant variant. However, at least for the moment, details regarding the technical specifications are missing. In any case, our invitation remains to take them with a grain of salt.\n\nAmong the other products recently presented by Motorola are the Moto G10 and Moto G30 smartphones for the medium-low range and also the entry-level Moto E7 model for those who don’t want to spend too much." ]

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[ null, "Heather Beach is Founder and Managing Director of The Healthy Work Company and has been running businesses in health and safety for over 20 years. Having run Barbour, SHP and Safety and Health Expo, she is now running her own business. The Healthy Work Company provides solutions which drive the wellbeing agenda to enable thriving in the workplace at all levels. Offering more than simply training, it delivers strategic support for your wellbeing programme. \"We are driving the mental health agenda towards how human beings thrive in life – often through work, not in spite of it!\" Heather can be reached on [email protected].\nMarch 7, 2018\n\nTrauma and suicide – a workplace issue?\n\n100 years ago, the greatest cause of death for young men, was war. Now it is suicide.\n\nAccording to the latest data from ONS (which is considered to be under reported by at least 50%) 5,965 suicides were registered in the UK in 2016 and a person dies by suicide every 107 minutes.\n\nToday at the health and wellbeing conference I have been attending sessions about suicide and trauma because lots of our clients are looking at best approaches, not only for prevention, but also for dealing with the aftermath of an incident which can have terribly detrimental effects on the workforce.\n\nI was aware that there were certain workplaces which were going to be at higher risk of encountering trauma, but what I hadn’t quite appreciated was its prevalence and the level of risk in certain industries.\n\nMartin Coyd, Head of Health and Safety for Mace, looked at suicide in construction and specifically at the statistics which emerged last year which showed that, unlike the Australian statistic which many of us had been familiar with (that you were 6 times more likely to die by suicide than from working at height), in the UK in 2016 you were 15 times more likely to die by your own hand than by an accident at work. There were in fact 30 workplace deaths in construction as opposed to 454 suicides.\n\nNor is it by any mean about only young men. The statistics peak at age 40-44 and Martin lays the blame squarely at the door of modern living – with the purpose and role of men a big part of the issue.", null, "Martin raises an interesting point here. A US study on suicide in construction stated “Historically, no one has really cared about men in the middle years. They’re considered kind of a privileged population, and they have everything going for them,” (Sally Spencer-Thomas, CEO and co-founder of the suicide prevention-focused Carson J. Spencer Foundation,). Obviously the reasons for the high rates among men in construction are multi factorial (use of alcohol, shift working, migratory workforce, money uncertainty) but you can’t help but intuitively agree that this may be at least part of the problem.\n\nThe issue of male suicide was addressed later by Andrew Kinder, head of mental health services for Optima health – the author of a recent book co-authored by Sir Cary Cooper (The Crisis Book: Overcoming and surviving work-life challenges). He identified the following about suicide rates\n\nBoth he and Dr Steven Boorman CBE spoke of the personal impact of having counselled someone who had taken their own life or discovering the person having done so. Steven had not only worked in A and E, dealing with some horrific incidents, but also for Royal Mail. And he spoke movingly of the impact on him and others in the workforce of discovering a young apprentice who had only been with the organisation a few weeks, hanging in the middle of the office.\n\nBoorman pointed to how out of his depth he had felt at the time, in the 1990s, with no processes available to help, and people looking to him as the one with medical knowledge, to come in and wave a magic wand to make it all better.\n\nAftermath of suicide at work\n\nThe improvement in resources and knowledge was a theme throughout these presentations pointing at considerably more nuanced processes in dealing with the aftermath of trauma.\n\nAndrew Kinder recommended in the aftermath of a workplace suicide:\n\nBoorman also indicated that there was far more available in terms of an excellent range of free resources and an alignment about what good looks like from a workplace management perspective.\n\nThe railways provided further food for thought in an area where huge progress has been made over the last few years in dealing with the aftermath of suicide and trauma with Tanya Stacy head of Occupational Health for East Midland trains looking specifically at the number of suicides on the railways and the impact on drivers. Dr Richard Peters from Network Rail the potential for post traumatic stress disorder among survivors and witnesses of workplace accidents and fatalities.\n\nFor East Midland trains, until recently, there had been a one size fits all approach involving automatic leave for 2 weeks on full pay (resulting in the employee being at home alone, with no need to approach a doctor or talk to their manager). This approach had resulted in an average of 66 days sick leave per traumatic event.\n\nProcesses now focus on ensuring that there is preparation in place, on training managers to have conversations, and on an understanding that every individual is different, and that there is no one size fits all approach:-\n\nGiven that every 31 hours someone in the UK throws themselves under a train, East Midland made witnessing suicide an occupational hazard and therefore looked at the hierarchy of risk. Where could they support designing it out for example? Even though Network Rail have been taking steps to make it harder to use common suicide spots, people just use places which are more remote – there are even websites where people share the best points.\n\nAs part of their review they identified good practice in other rail companies. The French railway companies appeared to be particularly proactive with average lost days of 4 so they had a look at what had impacted there.\n\nThe approach looked at ensuring that people were well looked after by the organisation in a way which worked for them and included the watchful waiting recommended by the NHS for the following year. It educated managers on having conversations – signposting facts such as just because someone handled trauma fine the first time around, it may not be the case for second or subsequent episodes. That dealing with trauma is an incredibly individual process. The results of their work include bringing average days lost down to 13.5, but there were clear benefits for motivation and engagement outside of this.\n\nWith responsibility for the health, safety and wellbeing of 39,000 people Network Rail created an internal standard dealing with those who witness or are part of traumatic events. Dr Richard Peters, CMO for Network Rail discussed the prevalence of PTSD and difficulties in diagnosis.\n\nAt Network Rail there was no consistent process for managing traumatic incidents, no tool to identify people suffering from trauma and no pragmatic process until the arrival of the standard (which is available to buy from their website).\n\nThe standard involves identifying the employees at risk after a traumatic event, effective support for them, referral to support services as required and control measures to reduce the risk of development of a mental health condition.\n\nIt involves such practical measures as ensuring the responsible person on site identifies who has been involved or may have witnessed the event, making sure they are accompanied on their way home or back to the depot, making sure, if they wish to stay at work that they are safe to be working and are accompanied. It also involves informal conversations with the line manager between 24-96 hours after the event, talks about lifestyle and resilience, recognition that the event was traumatic, signposting symptoms to look out for and also what other support is available from the organisation.\n\nThe standard combines NICE guidelines with TRIM and uses a combination of watchful waiting and support from the manager involving a staged approach to conversations over the weeks and months to come including looking out for changes in behaviour and worsening mental health symptoms. It also involves the completion of a trauma questionnaire the results of which are shared with the employee and from which recommendations for next steps will be taken.\n\nNetwork Rail are looking at how best to ensure the standard is well communicated internally and whether it can be extended to the families of victims – as not everyone wants to talk to a trained therapist and may prefer to work within their current support system.\n\nAcross the presentations, there was an acknowledgement that dealing with a largely male workforce involved additional considerations such as a macho culture and the use of dark humour. It was necessary to think about language and how a message is communicated – using sporting heroes can be very effective for example.\n\nIn conclusion, for certain workforces it is becoming increasingly advisable, not only to train people in how to have a conversation with someone who may be thinking of taking their own life, but also to consider a protocol for dealing with the follow up to trauma and suicide. However, given that suicide may touch any work place at any time and the impact is huge – from copycat suicides, to anger among the workforce, to general demotivation and distress, any work place may be advised to consider both.\n\nDownload Barbour’s free director’s briefing\nTrauma and suicide – a workplace issue? 100 years ago, the greatest cause of death for young men, was war. Now it is suicide. According to the\nHeather Beach\nSHP - Health and Safety News, Legislation, PPE, CPD and Resources\n\nNear miss between a passenger train and lorry at level crossing\n\nStress, stress, stress, cope, tolerate, adaptation exhaustion, adapt, repeat, persevere and predictably fatigue will ensure you loose any sense of wellbeing, feel ill, exacerbated by self-medication and, if still failing to escape the drip, drip, stressors become seriously ill and die if, you haven’t already succumb to any other longer latency non-communicable disease (NCD) like stroke, heart attack, diabetes, cancer whatever…… Ignoring work/life stressors is a form of self-harming with a predictable “end-game” foreshortening any reasonable work life-cycle and game-over point with no reset button….." ]

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[ "LONDON — Fashion has long been criticized for its wasteful habits and harmful impact on the environment. But as sustainability moves up the industry’s agenda, is it possible for brands and retailers to neutralize their impact — or even move towards leaving a positive mark on the planet?\n\nThe British Retail Consortium certainly thinks so and has laid out a series of ambitious targets for the next two decades, unveiled last week. Its ultimate aim is to completely de-carbonize U.K. retail by 2040, with stores and warehouses being powered by net-zero electricity by 2030 and brands’ and retailers’ supply chains reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.\n\n“The U.K. has an opportunity to rebuild a fairer, more sustainable economy in a post-pandemic era, which starts by cutting carbon emissions,” the organization said in a statement. “We believe that with vital support from the government, the retail industry can de-carbonize stores by 2030, deliveries by 2035 and products by 2040.”\n\nTo reach its targets, the BRC has laid out a climate action roadmap that looks at ways of reducing carbon emissions from shops and logistics operations; incorporating decarbonization in key business decisions, and educating the end-consumer about how to live a low-carbon lifestyle.\n\nUp to 60 British retailers, including the likes of Burberry, Asos, All Saints, Marks & Spencer and Boots, have signed the BRC action plan and committed to delivering on the targets. Many of the fast-fashion retailers that have been heavily criticized for their wasteful practices and worker wellbeing are also involved, included Primark and Missguided. The latter is among the funders of the action plan.\n\n“By 2040, we want every U.K. customer to be able to make purchases — in-store and online — safe in the knowledge they are not contributing to global warming,” said Helen Dickinson, the organization’s chief executive officer, adding that collaboration between “retailers, industries and government” will be fundamental in realizing the BRC’s vision.\n\nDespite the economic challenges imposed by the pandemic on retailers, rebuilding the industry with a greener focus is the only way to ensure long-term survival, according to Dickinson: “Climate change is a threat that none of us can ignore and the retail industry has a key role to play, [as] consumers are demanding change. A recent survey into consumer sentiment conducted by PwC showed consumers are much more likely to shop with sustainable and ethical brands post lockdown than they were before.”", null, "A number of fledgling labels in the U.K. have also been building their businesses around carbon neutral supply chains, reflecting many of the goals laid out in the BRC plan.\n\nOne is Sheep Inc., a sustainable knitwear company that made its debut last October and is going a step further and reaching carbon negative status — a fashion first in knitwear — as a result of its biodiversity investments.\n\nThe company has been able to become the first carbon-negative fashion label by dedicating 5 percent of its revenues to a mix of carbon-insetting initiatives. These investments go toward farms the label directly works with; areas that have been impacted by over-farming by the broader fashion and agriculture industries, as well as areas that require urgent action, like the Amazon rainforest.\n\n“This allows us to offset around 325 kg of carbon per sweater, although our mix of investments means our actual positive impact is in fact far higher,” said the label, whose investments are vetted by an independent advisory panel of climate change experts.\n\nEach Sheep Inc. sweater includes a tag that can provide a full account of the item’s carbon impact, in order to hold itself accountable and provide consumers with the necessary information.\n\n“The big challenge is making the consumer more in touch and aware. The fashion industry has been so opaque for so long that people aren’t conditioned to ask questions or interrogate the provenance of the things they buy,” said Edzard van der Wyck, Sheep Inc.’s cofounder, adding that although awareness around clothing’s provenance is still not widespread, the brand is seeing increased engagement with its content as much as its products.\n\n“We see comments on social and responses to e-mails around this topic. We often find that once you learn this information you don’t forget it, so the first encounter through us leads to more learning, more interest. Starting people on this journey is so key.”\n\nReaching carbon negativity is feasible for fashion brands, according to van der Wyck, provided they work with suppliers that share the same values, be it use of renewable energy and minimal use of chemicals — and are willing to put their money where their mouth is.\n\n“Although [dedicated 5 percent of revenues to biodiversity investments] is a high amount for a young business like ours, we feel that this needs to start becoming the new mind-set. It needs to be baked into the margin structure of the business, as we all need to be doing more than just enough if we are going to divert the path we’re on, in any way,” he added.", null, "The sustainable label Dai, which specializes in wardrobe staples, has been on a similar path. It has just revealed its certification as a B Corporation, joining the likes of Veja, Eileen Fisher and Allbirds. Having scored 97.4 points out of 200 available points, Dai is now second to Patagonia in the apparel sector, by the B Corp ranking.\n\nBy 2021, the label is aiming to become fully carbon neutral.\n\n“We’ve been offsetting carbon on 100 percent of our shipments for the past three years, and this year, we calculated that shipping made up only 25 percent of our overall carbon footprint. The remaining 75 percent came from the manufacturing of our products, from yarn production to finished goods. For 2021, we are eliminating our own impact to global climate change,” said the label’s founder Joanna Dai, adding that the company has been offsetting the carbon impact of its shipments for the past three years and the majority of its remaining footprint comes from manufacturing.\n\n“Once we calculated the greenhouse gas emissions on every style and every unit we sold, we can attribute and commit to a self-governing ‘eco tax’ on every garment sold at Dai by offsetting the carbon through a number of certified climate positive projects. Achieving carbon negative status is completely possible and is our stretch goal in 2021, which I am confident we can and will achieve.”" ]

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[ null, "He made the remarks in the 22nd European Forum on Friday in Vienna, Austria. Former Iranian FM mainly talked about JCPOA, US withdrawal from the international pact and Iran-EU relations after US unilateral sanctions.\n\nThe following is the full text of Dr. Kamal Kharrazi’s speech themed, “EU, Iran, and US Sanctions”:\n\nI am pleased to be here attending this forum at the invitation of the chairman of the meeting, Dr. Werner Fasslabend. While thanking Mr. Chairman for the invitation, my statement will focus on the US withdrawal from Iran Nuclear Agreement and the issues Iran and Europe are faced with.\n\nAs you know, in 2003, when I was still in charge of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, we began negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program with the EU Trio: UK, Germany, and France, which resulted in the suspension of Iran’s enrichment activities before reaching a deal acceptable by both sides. These talks failed due to the avarice of the other parties and as a result, Iran resumed its nuclear activities and achieved significant progress. These technological advances, which were the outcome of the unwarranted position of the other sides and behind-the-scene pressures of the United States, made everyone realize that Iran’s nuclear capability had to be admitted as an irrevocable reality.\n\nWith the change of government in the United States, this time, the Democratic administration, with the mediation of the Sultanate of Oman, voiced a strong desire to engage in serious negotiations with Iran. Despite the deep distrust that existed in Iran towards Washington’s political behavior, due to the assurances which were given by the government of Oman that Iran’s rights would be safeguarded, the talks started with the participation of other world powers, including the European Union, France, Germany, UK, China, and Russia. The partnership was aimed at reaching an agreement that would be endorsed by all the world powers and the other side of the negotiations, namely, Iran.\n\nIn any case, with the intensive negotiations that lasted for nearly two years, an international agreement was reached that almost all negotiating parties were happy with. In practice, however, the other parties, notably the US government, did not fulfill their obligations stipulated in the deal, and the result was a failure to meet Iran’s expectations from this agreement, namely development of European financial and trade relations with Iran.\n\nHowever, with the start of the election campaign in the United States, presidential hopeful Donald Trump announced from the outset of his campaign that he would come out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. After the elections, he practically increased pressure on the European banks and companies to refrain from any kind of cooperation with Iran. Eventually, the US government made its decision on withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that had been endorsed by UN Security Council under Resolution 2231. This occurred despite the fact that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had repeatedly verified Iran’s compliance with the agreement.\n\nBy withdrawing from the nuclear deal, the US government not only increased its outrageous sanctions against Iran but also escalated its overt and covert threats against European and non-European banks and companies and Iran’s partner states in an attempt to cripple the Iranian economy. Washington claims that the sanctions target the Iranian ruling establishment and not the people. But clearly sanctions harm the people because the people are in short supply for their needs, including medicines and medical equipment, and it is the patients, children and the elderly who suffer the most. Of course, experience has shown that the sanctions do not have the required effect and will not achieve the goals of those who impose sanctions and their supporters.\n\nThe sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran before the nuclear deal shifted the 80 million Iranian market from Europe, the first trading partner of Iran, towards the East, especially China. The EU, while losing the economic benefits of the Iran market was turned to its low-rank partner. The JCPOA provided a renewed opportunity for Europe to compensate some of the damage it had inflicted in the course of the sanctions. Nonetheless, the barricades created by America prevented Europe from making good use of the economic and political opportunities of the JCPOA.\n\nDespite all the breach of promise by the United States, the Islamic Republic of Iran decided to continue compliance with the JCPOA and through close and effective cooperation with the European Union and other partners outside the JCPOA did not allow the crisis to escalate. The United States intended to mobilize the international community against Iran, under the wrong assumption that if it withdrew from the JCPOA the Islamic Republic of Iran would follow suit.\n\nWe are pleased to see the subversive goal of the US administration collapsing thanks to the insight of Iranian officials and prudence of European states and their lack of cooperation with the US breach of law and creation of new mechanisms for cooperation with Iran. Of course, unfortunately, the pace of various mechanisms that are being developed by the European Union is slow but essential to implement as quickly as possible for the following reasons.\n\nConsidering that our meeting today is about European security, I will take a look at the security issues the death of the JCPOA could cause.\n\nIt is true that the new mechanisms of European cooperation with Iran are in place to help implement the provisions of the nuclear deal with Iran, but one should look at this European action with a strategic and security approach so that if not realized there would be problems with abundant losses: First in the Middle East and Europe, and then in the world.\n\nHere I would like to mention some of these issues:\n\n1. The current US government, unlike the previous administrations, considers globalization of the economy against its own interests. Therefore, it would fight against all the structures that are not in line with this thinking, including the European Union. They are basically opposed to an agreement such as the JCPOA that has been formed through the consultation and coordination of all the major world powers with Iran. Instead, they believe that this deal should be reached bilaterally between the United States and Iran. Naturally, they are pursuing their political and economic interests in bilateral agreements and others should be dismissed.\n\n2. Given the end of the Cold War and the American perception of Europe as a rival, as Trump in an interview described Europe an enemy, Europe’s interests and security today are meaningless or at least a priority. Therefore, the events that are taking place in the Middle East and the future consequences, which will undoubtedly have security implications for Europe as well, will have no impact on America but Washington will take advantage of it for its own benefit.\n\n3. Obviously, the nuclear deal with Iran would not have taken place without the cooperation of Europe. In fact, the defeat of this agreement will be tantamount to a loss of credibility for Europe. Today’s American establishment does not want others to play a role in resolving regional and global issues, because partnership would make no sense for a powerful country pursuing unilateralism. Today, all the political and economic movements of the United States are in the direction of realizing unilateralism. In this regard, one of the goals of the United States is the weakening of the European Union.\n\n4. Destabilization of the Middle East region is imperative for the American administration and it pursues countless monopolistic material benefits from this instability. For the United States, it is not important how much damage is inflicted on the people and the economies of the region and the security of its surroundings including Europe. As a result, the US government is doing its utmost to strengthen the radical parties in Israel and undermine the Palestinians. They are raising schemes with the help of Israeli hardliners and through threats of certain Arab countries that will have no result but confrontation, instability, and insecurity. We will soon see the Palestinian issue become the most important security matter in the Middle East due to these imprudent measures. On the other hand, the United States is trying to foment differences between Iran and certain Arab states in the Middle East, especially in the Persian Gulf, because the priority of the US administration is to create conflicts and gain material benefits in an atmosphere of Iranophobia. This is to the extent that certain states in the southern Persian Gulf have become slaves in the hands of the US due to the policies of inexperienced young rulers. For example, concerning the war in Yemen, the United States despite the readiness of the Houthis to hold negotiations, not only did not take any action to this effect but also based on authentic information is interfering in this war directly and indirectly.\n\n5. By withdrawing from the nuclear deal and ignoring international laws, `and in particular the UN Security Council resolution, the United States has no goal other than regime change in Iran and turning it into a country similar to some of the Arab states in the southern Persian Gulf. Of course, this line of thinking is due to lack of recognition of the US administration of the people and government of Iran. The Iranian people will show stronger resistance in the face of unjust and illegal pressures. Iran’s history has shown that the Iranians will never compromise on their independence, and will stand up to foreign intervention and domination at any cost.\n\nUndoubtedly, the complete collapse of the JCPOA and Iran’s exit from the deal would have very dangerous consequences. Therefore, European cooperation with Iran and realization of Iran’s rights in compliance with the JCPOA is vital. If the United States succeeds in completely eliminating the nuclear deal, it will impose uncertainty on the region. Naturally, this instability will not be limited to the geography of Iran, but will also affect the countries around Iran, and this will create unpredictable security risks for Europe.\n\nToday you are facing governments in the Middle East which are the main cause of the spread of terrorism, war, and bloodshed in this region. Those who supported the ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra and committed heinous crimes in Iraq and Syria today again brutally murder opponent citizen Jamal Khashoggi and slaughter women and children in Yemen on a daily basis. With regard to what was said above and considering Iran’s stabilizing role in the fight against terrorism, the cooperation of Iran and Europe in this sensitive region is urgent and any delay in this respect would be unforgivable.\n\nIran is an island of stability in this turbulent region and instability in Iran would lead to instability of the region around it. We should also realize the strategic goals of the United States in violating international laws and accords, including the JCPOA. The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to cooperate with the European Union in line with the implementation of the JCPOA and development of stability in this sensitive region, provided that the European Union takes solid and decisive steps in keeping with the interests of Iran.\n\nThank You for Your Patience!" ]

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[ "5 Of The Biggest Upcoming Video Games This Year\n\nHands down this has to be the most anticipated game of 2018, as fans of the game have been waiting for a “sequel” since the first one released in 2010. That’s quite a wait for another installment of one of the most poplar games to come to Xbox and Playstation. This new one looks beyond amazing, with the most recent gameplay trailer showing us what a treat we are in for. The game will follow the story of Arthur Morgan, a member of the Dutch Van der Linde gang. This open-world western will include both single player and multiplayer components, and will work on the same honor system from the first game that will affect how settlements, towns, and other characters react to Arthur Morgan. Get ready to shelve all the current games you play once this game releases in late October.\n\nWell, there you have it, a list of some of the biggest upcoming video games releasing soon. Are then any others you are looking forward to? Game On!!", null, "Everything Coming to Xbox For September 3-6", null, null ]

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[ "The Brinkworth and Swindon District Synod - Hand book from 1932", null, "Stratton: The first building was erected in 1827, and later enlarged. The new church, an imposing and beautiful edifice, was erected in 1884, and the schoolroom added a year, the total cost being £1,600. The building was spoken of by Dr. Arthur Guttery, (President of the Methodist Conference in 1916) on one of his visits, as being a credit to the Connexion.\n\nStratton is famous among 'Prims' as the home of Charles Morse, father of Levi Morse, and coadjutor of John Ride and Thomas Russell. It stands easily first among the 'country' societies in the circuit, with a good staff of workers and a flourishing school.\n\n'Shepherd' Mason and William Cooper two of the original members have recently passed away.\n\nMr W. Bramwell Hill, Junior Circuit Steward, is in great demand as a preacher and as a writer has won Connexional recognition. It is gratifying to note that Mr W. Hill senior, a good local preacher still takes regular appointments. Stratton has inaugurated a Jubilee Fund with proceeds for a new pipe organ." ]

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[ null, null, null, null, "There’s a newcomer to DC, who is sure to fit right into our cosmopolitan community—PAUL. For over 120 years, this renowned French bakery has been serving up artisanal breads, buttery croissants, and delicate pastries. We recently got a preview of the new PAUL location (and U.S. flagship bakery-cafe) set to open here next week, along with a breadmaking class from PAUL’s chief baker and pastry chef, David Dequeker. Maxime Holder (President and CEO of Groupe PAUL) and Philippe Sanchez (President and CEO of PAUL USA) also were on hand to tell us about PAUL’s storied history (In fact, Maxime, who is pictured far right, is a direct descendant of the Mayot family, which started it all with its small family bakery near Lille in 1889.)\n\nPAUL’s traditional bread starts with a few very simple ingredients: organic flour, fresh yeast, sea salt, and filtered water. These are skillfully incorporated together, then slowly proofed to ensure that PAUL’s signature flutes have the nooks and crannies indicative of hearty homemade bread. As chef Dequeker noted, time, temperature, and weight are all key to PAUL’s breadmaking (this is not a pursuit for the impatient!) Once risen, the bread dough is hand formed, docked, and baked until it forms a crusty, golden-brown exterior.\n\nIn addition to getting an up-close look at the breadmaking process, we also sampled several of PAUL’s delectable pastries, prepared fresh daily. French macarons, available in a range of colorful flavors, are sure to guarantee PAUL’s popularity. With their slightly chewy exteriors and creamy fillings, they were impossible to resist! Other standout treats included the Anglaise aux Pommes (sliced apples with just the right amount of sweetness atop light puff pastry) and La Gourmandise (a flaky croissant, filled with pastry cream and studded with chocolate chips). PAUL also will be serving up traditional cafe fare, including quiches, sandwiches, and salads. Given its proximity to the Navy Memorial and the National Mall, PAUL promises to be a hit among locals and tourists alike.\n\nWant an introduction? Then stop by PAUL when it opens at 801 Pennsylvania Avenue NW on May 2—or any day after that (it will be open from 7am to 7pm, 7 days a week). A second area location will open in Georgetown (at Wisconsin and M Streets, NW) in August.\n\nEt faites attention mes amis: rumor has it that PAUL also will be offering breadmaking classes to the public in the future, so keep watching GregsListDC for all the details!" ]

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[ "To say that Gotham has a lot of threads to wrap up whenever it returns from hiatus is an understatement. In short, it has to deal with the escalating Jim Gordon-Penguin-Sofia Falcon situation, Bruce Wayne continuing going off the rails, and the return of Jerome, to name but a few. To put it mildly, the writers have a lot on their plate.\n\nMuch like many of you reading this, my attention is captured whenever Jerome Valeska puts in an appearance. Having already showered actor Cameron Monaghan’s fantastic performances with a litany of compliments in the past, this time, I’ll instead place the focus on his evolving appearance.\n\nWhen we last saw him in season 3, it was obvious that the creative minds behind the series were paying homage to Batman: Death of the Family by having Jerome wear his face as a mask of sorts. But after having it punched off by Jim Gordon (yeah, it actually happened on network television), it was said the young knave was returned to Arkham Asylum where he’d have his face reattached.", null, "Now, we see Jerome looking more Joker-ish than ever as his skin is getting all the more pale: He has a scarred smile permanently affixed to his face, the area around his eyes has become discolored, and he’s sporting a haircut right out of Batman: Endgame, yet another story crafted by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo.\n\nTo help ring in the new year, Fox is utilizing what is perhaps the show’s best ace up its sleeve by circulating promo material featuring Jerome on social media. In this instance, it’s a chilling GIF showing Arkham’s most dangerous resident in the midst of a fit of laughter. Suffice it to say, we can’t wait to see what happens next." ]

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[ "Dak Prescott Has Reportedly Broken Up With Girlfriend Of Two Years", null, "Dak Prescott has had a rough year.\n\nJust a few days ago, the Cowboys were eliminated from the playoffs, and Prescott was given much of the blame for the team’s loss due to his two interceptions in the game.\n\nDak Prescott gave away the ball twice in the narrow loss to the 49ers, in a matchup the Cowboys had a chance to win if they didn’t again generate self-inflicted wounds.#DALvsSF | #DallasCowboys\n\nNow we’re learning that Dak has broken up with his girlfriend of two years.\n\nAccording to a report from Page Six, Prescott and his longtime girlfriend Natalie Buffett broke up some time last March but have been keeping it a secret until now.\n\nMultiple sources confirm the longtime couple actually split around March 2022 but have kept it close to the vest. We’re also told Prescott has been casually dating.\n\nThe athlete, 29, and Buffett, 25, began dating sometime in 2020 based on social media photos, though it’s unclear exactly when they became official. She posted their first picture together in honor of his 27th birthday, captioning the outdoorsy shot at the time, “Happy birthday babe.”\n\nAs for Dak, he’s going to go home and work on his game to make sure he doesn’t throw as many interceptions that he did this year on the field.\n\n“It’s very frustrating,” “It’s something I’ve got to get in the offseason and take a look at, all of them, because they all have their own story. Two tonight, as I said, is unacceptable.\n\n“I can’t put the ball in jeopardy like that; whether they’re tipped up from tight throws or whether I’m late on a stop route — can’t happen. The number that it’s gotten to is ridiculous. I can promise that the number will never be this again. I can promise that.”\n\nDak Prescott on the Cowboys not being able to win a Divisional Round game:\n\n\"I promise you, we will\"" ]

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[ "7 edition of Beethoven studies. found in the catalog.", null, "Published 1953 by University of Oklahoma Press in Norman .\nWritten in English\n\nIndeed, his name now looms large in the world of Beethoven studies. Several years ago, Guevara, in partnership with the American Beethoven Society, purchased a lock . Ludwig van Beethoven (lŭd´wĬg văn bā´tōvən, Ger. lŏŏt´vĬkh fän bāt´hōfən), –, German is universally recognized as one of the greatest composers of the Western European music tradition. Beethoven's work crowned the classical period and also effectively initiated the romantic era in .\n\nBeethoven Who? Family Fun with Music presents a great introductory music education for all ages, and it’s not just about Beethoven. It comes as a PDF book via digital download or on a CD-ROM. You need to read the file on a device with an internet connection since the book is . Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer whose Symphony 5 is a beloved classic. Some of his greatest works were composed while Beethoven was going :", null, null, null, null, "$ Free shipping. No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review. Best Selling in Nonfiction. See all. Beethoven book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. It is well known that Mozart developed his works in his head and then simply tra 4/5(2).\n\nThe aim of this series is to present scholarly work on Beethoven, broad in range as well as meticulous in method. The book includes many music examples, and reproductions of autographs and watermarks, and it is very fully indexed.\n\nThis is a Wikipedia book, a collection of Wikipedia articles that can be easily saved, imported by an external electronic rendering service, and ordered as a printed book. Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies Scots Musical Museum White-breasted Wood-Wren Beethoven Virus. The Ira F.\n\nBrilliant Center for Beethoven Studies serves as a museum, research center, and host of lectures and performances devoted solely to the life and works of Ludwig van is the only institution of its kind in North America and holds the largest collection of Beethoven works and memorabilia outside Europe.\n\nThe center is operated by San Jose State University and the American. This major new study of Beethoven and his music is written as a single, continuous narrative, using a strictly chronological approach that enables each work to be seen against the musical and biographical background from which it emerged.\n\nThe result is a much closer integration of life and works than is often achieved. The approach works particularly well for Beethoven for two reasons.5/5(3). Beethoven’s piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the whole history of music. Spanning several decades of his life as a composer, the sonatas soon came to be seen as the first body of substantial serious works for piano suited to performance in large concert halls seating hundreds of people.\n\nBeethoven Studies 3 includes biographical, critical and analytical contributions, with a special emphasis on Beethoven's working processes. Although some of the essays are for the specialist, others, in particular the biographical ones, require little more than some knowledge and enjoyment of Beethoven's music, or an interest in the man himself.\n\nKaufmann started working with the Center for Beethoven Studies after a writer doing a book on the composer tracked him down in Danville.\n\nThe largest two skull fragments are. \"This book delivers on the implied promise of its title—it provides a lively, readable, and wide-ranging introduction to the quartets.\n\nReaders at many levels of experience will find it profitable.\"—Lewis Lockwood, author of Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process. For a single title: I’d recommend the book titled “Beethoven” by W.J. Turner (published inreprinted a dozen times by many publishers).\n\nIt doesn’ t qualify as scholarly or even very thorough, it doesn’t analyze works. Nevertheless, as Artur. The Society’s primary work is the creation and support of a comprehensive collection of Beethoven materials at the Ira F.\n\nBrilliant Center for Beethoven Studies which is housed at San Jose State University, San Jose, California. The Center is the largest research institution in the Americas devoted solely to the life, works, and accomplishments of Ludwig van Beethoven.\n\nThis collection of articles written by leading Beethoven scholars brings together strands of this mainly Anglo-American research over the last fifty years and addresses a range of key issues.\n\nThe volume places Beethoven scholarship within a historical and contemporary context and considers the future of Beethoven studies. In this provocative account Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context.\n\nShe explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of aristocratic patrons who paved the way for the composer's reconstructs the development of Beethoven's.\n\nThe approach to Beethoven's life and works is pyschoanalytic, and Solomon's theories have been influential in the field of Beethoven studies.\n\nThe book contains a chapter which argues that Antonie Brentano was Beethoven's Immortal Beloved. Russell Martin talks about his book [Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved].\n\nIra Brilliant speaks about obtaining the lock of Beethoven's hair. Mr. Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Studies in the Music of the Classical Period. Essays in Honour of Alan Tyson by Brandenburg, Sieghard and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.\n\nBeethoven’s chronic ill health is a constant theme in the example, “At the time he was composing the Third Symphony he was suffering from recurring fevers, painful and frightening.The book concludes by looking at the ways that Beethoven and his music have been interpreted by performers, writers on music, and in the arts, literature, and philosophy.\n\nThe essays in this volume, written by leading Beethoven specialists, maintain traditional emphases in Beethoven studies while incorporating other developments in musicology. The journey of Beethoven’s hair, its sale at auction, and the medical analysis of it became the subject of a best-selling book, “Beethoven’s Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Author: Dr." ]

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[ "Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com announced the winners of the Twelfth Annual Toilet Paper Wedding Dress contest Presented by Cheap Chic Weddings and Charmin today. I love this yearly contest because it promotes innovation and creativity.\n\nCelebrity judge Mikie Russo,event planner to the stars and member of OK! TV entertaining team, helped with the final judging which took place on Haven Rooftop at The Sanctuary Hotel in Manhattan. VIP judge Vicky Schooler, of Charmin, Edward Meyer of Ripley’s Believe it or Not, and The Sanctuary’s Hank Freid were also on hand as a VIP Judge.", null, "Van Tran is 25. She is a part time designer who works at a restaurant as a hostess, operates an online store and teaches sewing classes. She was born in Viet Nam and went to college in San Francisco. She has been Brooklyn for two years.", null, null, "Laura Gawne and partner Susan Bain who operate the website on saving money on weddings, base the contest on the popular bridal shower game. Cheap-Chic-Weddings.com asked their readers to create wedding gowns using toilet paper, tape and/or glue. Entrants were allowed to sew as well.\n\n“Even after 12 years, our contestants still manage to challenge our expectations,” Said Laura Gawne. Susan Bain added, “They genuinely surprise us and make choosing winners harder every year!”\n\nThe winners were announced at an event hosted by the Sanctuary Hotel on Haven Rooftop in New York City. Dresses were judged on Creativity, Originality, Beauty, Workmanship and the use of Toilet Paper.", null, "Products that help you stay well and beautiful", null ]

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[ null, "After being conditionally reinstated by the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell in early December, Josh Gordon is officially back with the Seattle Seahawks.\n\nIn a post on Twitter Wednesday, Gordon shared that he has cleared COVID-19 testing and joined his team at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center for the first time in 2020.\n\n“1ST day out,” Gordon tweeted. “I’m excited as hell to be back amongst the family like this, you have no idea. Can’t wait to contribute. #Seahawks #thankful.”\n\nWhile Flash is permitted to take part in meetings, individual workouts and strength and conditioning, he will not be permitted to practice, travel with the team or attend games until Dec. 21, following Seattle’s Week 15 game. He can begin practicing and is eligible to play in games starting with Seattle's Week 16 game against the Rams.\n\nSeahawks offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer said last Thursday that he couldn’t wait to have the “unbelievable pro,” back with the team.\n\n“I mean just the way he worked,” Schottenheimer said. “He was awesome to have around...\n\nI can’t wait to have him back and he gives [Russell Wilson] another fun toy to play with.\n\nIt’s been quite the rollercoaster leading up to Gordon’s reinstatement and eventual return. After being claimed off waivers by the Seahawks last season, the 29-year-old appeared in just five games for Seattle before he was suspended indefinitely for the sixth time in his NFL career for violating the NFL's policies on performance-enhancing substances and substances of abuse.\n\nAfter almost a year-long ban, the former All-Pro wideout will be added to a talented wide receiver corps led by DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. Gordon will likely be Seattle’s third or fourth option at wide receiver with David Moore, Freddie Swain and Penny Hart also in the mix.\n\nAfter making seven catches for 139 yards with the Seahawks last season, Schottenheimer is optimistic that Wilson’s connection with Gordon will spark much sooner than last year.\n\n\"When you've got a lot of different players and different spots that the ball could go, you can't always predetermine where the ball is gonna go,\" Schottenheimer said. \"But he made some big-time catches for us on third down, some big plays for us. ... I think that it starts with just the timing and the training and him getting with Russ, and I think this year, we'll be farther ahead because they've actually worked together.\n\n\"So, I think you can see him get involved hopefully even faster than he did last year.\"" ]

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[ null, "I'm a Surface Pro user; that I won't deny. I also own an iPad -- it's an old iPad 2, but it still does the job. It may not have the fancy 'more pixels than you can see without the aid of a microscope' display of newer models, but it's perfectly functional. However I'd still pick the Surface over Apple's tablet for just about everything. I'll admit I was tempted by the idea of an iPad Air when it was launched, but after thinking it over a little, I decided to stick with the old model and continue to enjoy my Surface Pro.\n\nBut the time will come when I am in the market for a new tablet. Having had my attention flagged by the iPad Air, it would seem that it would be a toss-up between the Surface 2 (Pro or regular) and Apple's offering. However much I think about it, I still find myself falling on the side of the Surface. Why? Several reasons:\n\n1. Flexibility. There might only be two different models of Surface 2 available, but that's one more than is the case with iPad Air. Ok, if you want to get technical about it, there are various capacity Airs available as well as the option of a data-enabled model, but they are all essentially the same device. With Surface 2 there are the Pro and non-Pro versions. If you want to do things on the cheap, the RT model is available in the form of the Surface 2, but if you need the full desktop experience, the Pro model gives you the best of both worlds.\n\n2. Storage. The largest iPad Air that's available has a capacity of 128GB -- Surface Pro 2 goes all the way up to 512GB. You might argue that life is lived in the cloud these days, but it is not always the case. Not all types of work are suitable for conducting online -- I wouldn’t fancy editing videos over a flaky Wi-Fi connection, for instance. Local storage is important and the Surface Pro 2 easily wins here. 512GB still not enough? That brings us on to point 3.\n\n3. USB port. It's a little thing, but the Surface has a USB port. Need to charge a phone? Plug it in to the Surface. This is great if you're out in a coffee shop, only have access to one power outlet and want to charge tablet and phone. Need to copy files onto a USB drive? No problem... just plug in an away you go. Oh, there's the microSD card reader too. Like the idea of using a mouse -- plug one in and fling that cursor around the screen.\n\n4. Kickstand. Working with a tablet is meant to be flexible. With the iPad you're restricted to working with the tablet flat on your lap as you hunch over it, having it flat on a table top, or working out some way of propping it up against other things. The Surface has the kickstand which, whether used in conjunction with a keyboard cover or not, offers a far more comfortable working position both on a table and in the lap.\n\n5. It's different. The world and its dog has an iPad. It used to be cool, it used to be something people aspired to own, now it is tired, dull and common. It is very easy to deride something that is different, but this is not the same as trying it out and giving it a reasoned assessment. The idea of Surface seems strange to some people, but this is due, at least in part, to Apple's dominance -- thus far -- of the tablet market. However it is a delightfully well thought out product. To try it is to love it. If more people were willing to break away from the norm, more would realize that. I'm not convinced that the iPad is as popular as it is because it is the best tablet, more than the word iPad has become synonymous with tablets -- for many people other tablets just don't exist. They do. And they are better.\n\nYou can view my colleague Wayne Williams's counter-argument here." ]

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[ "My Class, Classmates and Religion", null, "World Religions and Global Conflict class. Yael on the far left, Famidah on the far right. Vanette in the all-white shirt. Dr. Chesnavage in the middle (wearing glasses) with Don Plunkett next to him.\n\nTwo more meetings and the semester is over. Taking up inter-faith subjects at a theological seminary is like jumping into an ocean. You just don’t know what to expect until you swim in it.\n\nThe World Religions and Global Conflict class is one I look forward to every week, because of the diversity in the study of religious clashes. Additionally, my classmates come from different religious backgrounds, and that makes it more interesting when we engage in the various numerous subjects. Since we deal with religious conflict, Yael, an Israeli Jew, discusses the issue about Palestine and Israel in such a way that sometimes you feel like you are right there. She once said that you don’t have to believe everything when visiting her country (Israel), because sometimes, they are just really for tourists to add special effects which are really just for tourists.\n\nThen there is Famidah, a Filipina Muslim from Marawi (she is now Qatar-based) who shares about Islam. When Yael and I attend the class on Islam, Famidah’s insights add so much more to the picture. In the evening this week, Yael had her MPR (Mid Program Review) with Dr. David Jacob, her adviser and an Episcopalian priest. Famidah and I were giving our opinion about Yael as a student. We learned that Yael loves her Islam class, and so do I. We learn a lot from each other.\n\nI remembered asking some of my Filipino friends what they thought of Muslims when they were growing up. Almost all said that they feared Muslims as they are a savage lot, beheading people, or using violence. Well in my opinion having fear is not the absence of courage, but the absence of knowledge. And the only way to disperse it is through educating oneself about one’s fears.\n\nThe study of religious conflict gets interesting when our professor, Dr. Chesnavage, invites speakers such as a Guru from India who talked about the Hindu culture and practices. Then we welcomed three Turkish nationals who spoke about the clashes in their country during a coup d'etat. As I write this, there is an article that was released stating that the White House is considering extraditing Fethullah Gulen to Turkey in an attempt to reduce pressure on Saudi Arabia over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Interesting to know that in many religious conflicts, the U.S. may have an invisible hand … That’s another relevant topic to contend with.\n\nYesterday, our speaker was from the Baha’i faith which gave us a glimpse into their organization. Although not a widespread religion, it holds an important message of unity for humanity. It is similar to Confucius’s statement on his deathbed: “When the GREAT harmony is achieved, the whole world will become one.”\n\nEvery day in class there is something new to discuss. We have just scratched the tip of the iceberg on religious conflicts and what struck me most in yesterday’s class was a comment that there are three religions that proselytize the most. And they are: Christianity (yes, I agree), Islam (can’t deny it).....and no one guessed the third….which is….Buddhism. I once told my professor (in another class) that Buddhism is a philosophy--and he said, no, it’s a religion because it has rites and temples...so I guess it is...good to know. They proselyte? Hmmm. interesting. Time to research more.\n\nGoing back…..Winter break is around the corner and then comes Christmas ….And I am wondering what the Jews will be doing on Christmas Day...Yael says, “Nothing -work as usual.” As for Famidah, my new beshie, she says that it’s not in their calendar of activities, although Jesus is mentioned in the Quran many times as a prophet. But she says she wants a shirt that says, “I am Muslim, but I accept Christmas gifts.”....I think I'll just give her that. :)\n\nLTR 5513 World Religions and Global Conflict Utilizing a case-study approach, this course examines conflicts around the world and the role of religion in causing, exacerbating or ameliorating them. In seeking to understand religion’s role, students will examine comprehensively the religious, historical, political, economic, cultural and social background of the crises. Particular effort will be made to spotlight religiously grounded activists and leaders who have made a positive difference." ]

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[ null, "Our All Systems Red discussion was an after dinner mint! Martha Wells kicked off her Murderbot Diaries with this well received adventure novella. Weighing in at just under 100 pages, it is reputed to be a potent and accessible gateway drug into her subsequent novels.\n\nDavid: We’re here to talk about murderbots!\nMeg: I chose it for something fun and short to end on. It swept the big awards for best novella: Hugo (judged by fans), Nebula (judged by pro writers), and Locus. So there’s a kind-of consensus across the industry for this one.\nSuhail: Going in as a novella is a good way to not compete against the novels.\nMeg: It’s an interesting publication model. It was published as a series of four novellas, now available as a box set. And now a new full-length Murderbot novel. It’s a good story, plot driven. It works with conventions and does not stretch them. It owes a lot to Dick with a murderbot that has agency. An android forced to deal with humans and to act human.\nSuhail: The murderbot as a narrator is tiring. It never describes visual settings. It doesn’t characterize the humans. (Which makes sense from the character perspective, because it is a murderbot and is uncomfortable around humans.)\nNikita: It reads quickly, with a consistent voice, in low-register language. It didn’t deliver on an ideas level that I like, or on a language complexity level – but it was readable. Granted, I’m a stuffy academic.\n\nClick to read about the (totally unrelated) TV show.\n\nChris: It’s meant to be relatable.\nSuhail: It can be relatable and written better. A character model (the way PKD uses schizophrenia as a character template for Rosen). The character model here that makes the murderbot make sense to me is: “teenager.” The murderbot is a teenager here, an awkward person very uncomfortable with itself, and just wants to be left alone and watch movies.\nMeg: There are gamification elements. Murderbots visual setting becomes the HUD geography of icons.\nSuhail: The groundwork for character complexity is laid.\nMeg: The pain the murderbot feels comes from its human parts. It struggles with that.\nDavid: It’s like a Sliders episode. An alternative universe where Golden Age schlock never happened and people are still writing in the spirit of Asimov and Bradbury, and it’s winning all the awards, and she’s a woman.\n\nChris: She’s being kind to the adolescent reader. A network communications procedural, like a VR Law and Order episode. Emotions and empathy in the book are all expressed toward the murderbot. Reminds me of Kristine Kathryn Rusch, author of “Retrieval Artist.” She’s a very particular proceduralist, which is sometimes a strength, and sometimes tedious. She’s very prolific.\nDavid: Was there a light hearted moment in this story?\nChris: I liked the way it shirked its job while trying to watch TV.\nNowell: I was totally entertained. I’d read more. It’s fun. It kept me interested, like an action movie. I like that it was short. It was like an original series.\nMeg: I’ve read 3 of them, and root for the character more in each one. It has increasingly complex moral problems and dealing with its past.\nDavid: Question: Why robots? Why are so many sci fi stories doing robot?\nChris: It lets us explore caste systems and slavery regimes.\nMeg: Robots explore themes of slavery, ownership, colonialism, and othering; even gender and race exclusivity. But the robot here also internalizes those hated characteristics and feels self-loathing.\nDavid: I think robots in sci fi are about psychology. A metaphor for our own programmatic behaviors and attitudes. Why do they do what they do? How do they deal with pain? Do they make moral decisions?\nChris: Constructing its own subjectivity out of the media it is watching.\nNikita: A lot of body anxiety. Denial of death, anxiety about being in a body. A kind of neoplatonic alienation of the body, just a with to become a disembodied eye.\nSuhail: Like a teenager’s body anxiety.\nMeg: Its emotions are the only thing that cause it pain, and it wishes it didn’t have them. But it struggles because the feelings are there no matter what.\nNikita: Dick gave a new dimension of paranoia to the robot, and it’s so refreshing. That paranoia is here.\nAll: HAHAHAHA!", null, "We took a tangent into the Portland protests and newscasters describing the unidentified federal agents’ activities as something out of a Philip K. Dick novel. David shared a Seth Meyers clip referencing PKD.\nSuhail: If Dick was alive for this, he’d be insufferable right now.\nAll: HAHAHA!\nChris: A Jungian psychologist Robert Moore who identified 4 archetypes: king, warrior, magician, lover.\nDavid: I have an idea for a course called Man Made Man. It’ll rest on Frankenstein and Genesis, etc.\nMeg: Check out the LeGuin documentary. It’s been trimmed for American Masters. It highlights her contribution of making sciences like psychology and social science as the science bases of sci fi instead of technology.\nSuhail: I love sci fi that uses psychology and social science as its science bases instead of just technology.\nRecommendations that followed in that vien:\nAlfred Bester’s short story, “Fondly Fahrenheit”\nUrsula K. LeGuin’s “Vaster Than Empires, But More Slowly”\nTheodore Sturgeon’s “More Than Human”\n\nThank you for reading! Reading rules!" ]

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[ null, "Thunder sticks are placed on chairs and tables for fans. The eMLS Cup tournament was held in-person at the Moody Theater on March 13, 2022. The eMLS Cup is the championship tournament that determines which player is the best FIFA player in North America.Aem Sxsw Emls Cup 2\n\nNieto captured Leg 1 with a 2-1 triumph and then secured a 3-2 win on the second leg.\n\nNeto, the No. 5 seed, will take home $14,000 for his victory. The 19-year-old Brazilian earned Atlanta United its first-ever eMLS Cup.\n\nNeto tweeted after Sunday’s victory: “After hitting the post so many times, the cup is finally with me! Can’t be more happy at the moment”" ]

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[ "Shah Rukh Khan is waiting to kick-start his next project. The speculations about his next were being discussed for several months now, whether he will take up a Rajkumar Hirani film or the one with South director Atlee. In the lockdown period it looks like Raju has won the race. Shah Rukh and Hirani are waiting for the industry to open up so that the two can shoot for their social comedy about immigration set in a village in Punjab. The same will also be shot at a few scenic locales in Canada after the advisory on international travel is lifted by the Government of India. SRK is already preparing for this role by getting his look straight for this yet untitled film.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Publisher Victor Shiblie has dedicated the past 21 years to the The Washington Diplomat, a respected news source for Washington’s political community. The monthly newspaper boasts 120,000 readers and it is distributed to 180 foreign embassies throughout the city. In addition to running a national publication, Shiblie has traveled the world creating in-depth, on-the-scene reports and a international television program airing in the U.S and several countries in the foreign market.\n\nShiblie’s work has not gone unnoticed. On May 26, he was honored along with several media pioneers for their contributions to the field of journalism at the Inaugural Multicultural Media Correspondents Dinner hosted by the Vote it Loud Corporation at the National Press Club. “It’s an honor to receive an award such as this. It means a lot to me. We come in a very small group and are considered a minority, so it’s a great honor and it shows what we do is relevant,” says Shiblie.\n\nHe is extremely passionate about his career and uses his platform to raise awareness on social issues in his community and on an international scale. Shiblie supports civic engagement and voters’ rights. He truly believes in equality for all mankind and although America has made significant progress, Shiblie knows there is still much to do. “We saw the first African American president run the White House for two consecutive terms. This is something I never thought I would witness in my lifetime. What will be inspiring to young people is that we do examples of people who have made it despite these social challenges,” he says.\n\nShiblie also proudly founded and serves as chair for the nonprofit Arab Empowerment initiative, Al Mubadarah, providing assistance to people in the Middle East through development projects. He enjoys giving back to the community and says it’s one of the most important aspects of his occupation. As a father, Shiblie wants his children to see that, they too, can make an impact in the lives of those less fortunate whether big or small. “I want to continue to influence my own environment and encourage other people to do the same. To me it’s part of being American,” he says." ]

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[ "Bivalves and beavers: These landscapers hold the keys to a restored Chesapeake Bay\n\nFor the Chesapeake Bay, oysters and beavers are a lovely pairing, a compelling linkage of water and watershed.\n\nBivalves and beavers: These landscapers hold the keys to a restored Chesapeake Bay\n\nThey might seem an odd couple, Crassostrea virginica and Castor canadensis — the Eastern oyster and the North American beaver.\n\nBut ecologically, for the Chesapeake Bay, the mollusk and the rodent are a lovely pairing, a compelling linkage of water and watershed.\n\nBoth were keystone species, the one’s dense reefs and the other’s ubiquitous damming and ponding create habitat and enhance water quality to the benefit of a host of other species.\n\nBoth have been reduced by overharvesting or pollution to a sliver of their historic abundance. This happened so long ago that today we suffer societal amnesia about how the Chesapeake’s bottom and its landscapes looked and functioned for thousands of years before Europeans shattered the natural order.\n\nThe oyster part of the story has been emerging, with scientific estimates that the bay’s original stocks filtered and cleansed water equivalent to the estuary’s entire volume every several days. Today’s remnant oysters take months or more than a year.", null, "A pair of young beavers perch atop their lodge in a Nanticoke River wetland. (Photo: Dave Harp/Bay Journal News Service)\n\nBut we still scarcely comprehend the immense habitat value for other estuarine life attracted to the countless nooks and crannies of the extensive, vertical reefs that oysters built. That’s because in modern times it has seemed natural for oysters to be spread widely and thinly across the bay’s bottom.\n\nAn 1869 account described a “continuous oyster bed” stretching 140 miles along the Eastern Shore, from Kent Island in Maryland to Cape Henry in Virginia.\n\nBut the current “natural” state is an artifact of more than a thousand dredge boats and many thousands of tongers, breaking apart and scattering the natural reefs before science could even understand their nature.\n\nAnd the new order might have seemed an improvement, as oysters freed from reefs grew faster, shapelier, easier to harvest — never mind the lost habitat and new vulnerability to smothering by sediment.\n\nThe beavers’ tale is similar. For millennia, they inhabited virtually every stream of the 64,000-square-mile bay watershed; and they controlled how the land shed water — cleanly, clearly, slowly — in a manner almost unrecognizable today.", null, "We understand how green the precolonial bay watershed was; we seldom realize how wet it was.\n\nI got a glimpse of that well-beavered landscape on a recent foray with stream restoration expert Scott McGill. He wanted to show me his cutting-edge transformation of a half-mile-long, badly eroding gully that flows through Baltimore County into the Big Gunpowder River, a Chesapeake tributary.\n\nThis Holy Grail of restored streams looked … well, horrible. It was not the picture-postcard babbling brook that meanders, pools and riffles in an eye-pleasing cascade of sparkling water contained by forested banks. That is the stuff of calendars and posters and is “natural” only in our historical and ecological blindness, McGill said.\n\nInstead, he had just bulldozed the gully’s 12-foot banks into the channel, along with all of the surrounding trees, resulting in, its creator said proudly, “a muddy mess.”\n\nWe could mostly hear the water, down there somewhere, gurgling, oozing, glinting occasionally from beneath a morass of mud and decaying logs.\n\nAlmost unwalkable, it recalled the landscapes that often caused the 1804 Lewis and Clark expedition to abandon the stream valleys for the slopes. The reason: Beavers had dammed and ponded everywhere, creating broad, shrubby, soggy meadows. The single channel stream that is today’s ideal was in fact more the exception than the rule.\n\nOn the Chesapeake, it was the same. Rainfall did not rush to the bay. It oozed and seeped, soaked into the ground, then reappeared, its energy dissipated through multiple flow ways.\n\nSediment settled out in ponds behind dams that might occur every 50 yards on some streams. Nitrogen, the bay’s prime pollutant today, was digested in the beaver-created wetlands and turned to harmless nitrogen gas. And the ponded landscape was lush with waterfowl and all manner of amphibians, not to mention otter and muskrat.", null, "As with oyster reefs, those landscapes have been gone so long that we’ve forgotten what they looked like. Also like oysters, the trapping out of beaver — by the mid-1700s on the Chesapeake — likely was seen as beneficial.\n\nSome of the richest farmland was the deep bottom sediments of vanished beaver ponds. Settlers heading west knew the best places to graze their livestock were the fecund oases of grasslands that sprang up where beavers had once dammed.\n\nAs your eyes and your brain adjust to what McGill has done to the Baltimore County gully, you begin to notice his “mess” is aflutter with butterflies, hopping with frogs and ablaze with the flowering of asters, daisies, Joe Pye weed and the new growth of willows.\n\nHe did this restoration, McGill said, for about a tenth of what a traditional job might have cost. Traditionally, you’d bring in rock, engineer a winding channel with stabilized banks. It would all look quite lovely — until a big storm blew it out.", null, "Additions like this “oyster castle” provide a base for oysters to attach and eventually grow into an oyster reef. (Photo: file image)\n\nI saw such blowouts of some of the most pristine streams in Maryland after Tropical Storm Agnes’ historic deluge in 1972. I thought at the time it was just nature’s way, but that was just my amnesia. I realize now that a beavered landscape would have been more resilient.\n\nMcGill said his measure of restoration success may come years after he’s done — if beavers move in, “and improve on anything I can do.”\n\nA restored Chesapeake could use lots more oysters and beavers. Work on the former is well under way, with Maryland and Virginia creating sanctuaries where reef building can once again occur. Watermen, and to a point the Hogan administration, oppose this as a loss of fishing opportunity.\n\nBeavers, meanwhile, are coming back on their own, though they are frequently trapped and killed as nuisances who chew down trees for food and dams and whose dams cause flooding.\n\nNew Englanders, Canadians, several western states and even Mongolia are finding ways to peacefully coexist with all of this, having learned that the benefits of beavers far outweigh the costs.\n\nMcGill is an apostle for how to share the watershed with beavers, using “beaver deceiver” devices such as pipes placed in their dams to control flooding. He is organizing a major conference on beavers (BEAVERCON 2020) near Baltimore this March to spread the good word.\n\nNo doubt there will be limits to re-beavering and re-oystering in a watershed pushing toward 18 million humans; but for now, the main limit is our ecological amnesia.\n\nTom Horton has written about Chesapeake Bay for more than 40 years, including eight books. He lives in Salisbury, where he is also a professor of Environmental Studies at Salisbury University. This article was provided by the Bay Journal News Service. The views expressed by columnists are not necessarily those of the Bay Journal." ]

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[ "Every awful trend that should be left behind in 2016\n\nOur generation spends so much time, money and stress on having the right stuff and wearing it a certain way. For some of us, deciding what to wear is the most important choice we make every day. But as the new year approaches, it’s time to sort out your look and find some originality. Here are some of the items you need to banish from your wardrobe before we hit 2017:\n\nSorry, but it has got to go. Perhaps it was once championed on Sports Night or to an event at LAB11, but the time has come for this gross, awfully designed sportswear to be packed up and given to the charity shop where some other unfortunate opportunist can buy it one day.", null, "Thank god she didn’t buy this\n\nNot to disregard the pragmatism of a puffa wearer, it’s a clever choice of jacket for poor weather and acts as a comfy pillow in the library. But whatever colour puffa you have; shiny silver, blood red or even a daring cream, you can be guaranteed that almost every other student on campus is also wearing one. Unless you’re getting drenched at Glastonbury, maybe it’s time to leave this one at home.", null, "Are you going to the moon?\n\nA distant relative of the Puffa, the bomber jacket’s lifetime has been long lasting. But it’s about time you found something a bit less predictable and dull to wear as your day-to-day uniform. I mean even my Nan has one.", null, "Do you play baseball? No, probably not. Are you hungover? Probably, yes. The signature cover up for the dark circles that arise following a night at Players, it makes going to your 10am lecture somewhat more bearable and less embarrassing. But you should be proud of your achievement of making it to that seminar you never go to – don’t wear the cap, wear the pride.", null, "Usually only making an appearance on a night out, the bum bag signifies your desire to get so smashed that you lose your bag, keys, purse and dignity. Paired with the harem pants you brought from a gap year in Bali you think you’ve nailed the festival vibe. But after first year, maybe second year and certainly third year, the time will come for you to bin the bum bag you bought at Reading fest in 2013 and find something more original.", null, "Sure, the cheap plastic things looked okay when you bought them on holiday in Croatia last year, but then you went and bought a velvet one from Topshop, didn’t you?", null, "Most of us own a pair of Stan Smiths, Nike whatevers, Vans – take your pick. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t, but if they start to resemble those year seven battered trainers that were trashed in P.E., then maybe it’s time to let them go. Get a new pair, you deserve them. A suggestion for clearing out your shoes – burn your New Balance.", null ]

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[ null, "Madikeri: The rescue personnel, involving Garuda Police Command Force and Kodagu District Police, have succeeded in discovering three more bodies trapped in landslides that rocked Kodagu ten days ago. The rescue team recovered the body of a woman from Jodupala near Madikeri on Saturday, even as two more bodies buried under mud and shush were retrieved.\n\nThe body of Gowramma (52), wife of Basappa, was found a kilometre from the Jodupala disaster spot. The body was discovered near a small bridge on the lower side of the falls at Jodupala.\n\nBasappa, a Group ‘D’ worker at the Government Hospital in Puttur, his wife Gowramma, an ASHA worker, their daughter Monisha and niece Manjula went missing after landslides at Jodupala. While Basappa’s body was found on Aug.18, Monisha’s body was found the next day, operations are on to find Manjula, who remains untraced so far.\n\nMeanwhile, the two more bodies retrieved in Kodagu, have been identified as that of 56-year-old Babu, son of Koragappa of Udayagiri, Makkandur and of 58-year-old Chandrappa, son of late Ukrappa Poojari, an estate writer Hebbattageri village. While the body of Babu, which was found buried under mud was retrieved by a Garuda team, the body of Chandrappa was recovered by an NDRF team. With this, the bodies of three of the four persons who went missing on Aug.17, have been recovered.\n\nTen days after landslides at Muvathoklu, 50-year-old Mukkattira Uthappa (Sabu), who is feared to have been trapped under the debris of his house which collapsed, is yet to be traced.\n\nThe house of Uttappa had collapsed and covered by mud and slush, following a huge landslip that occurred at about 4.30 pm on Aug.16. The intensity of the landslide was such that there was no trace of any house having existed there before. Uttappa, who is said have been inside the house during the landslide, is suspected to have been trapped under debris and slush.\n\nAlthough dog squad was pressed into service and loads of mud were excavated by the JCBs, there has been no trace of the missing Uthappa.\n\nAlthough rescue teams have been putting all their efforts to trace the missing Uthappa, their efforts have proved futile so far,\n\nHowever, a box said to belong to Uthappa’s family was discovered yesterday afternoon. The box contained only small articles, it is learnt. Meanwhile, the rescue teams have continued their search for Uthappa, even as his relatives wait in anxiety." ]

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[ "You are here: Home / Activism / (In)visibility on social media in the 2020 election, part 1: Kamala Harris and Higher Heights", null, "Higher Heights is the largest online political organization dedicated to harnessing, organizing and mobilizing Black women’s political power, with over 90,000 members. They’ve been building out the #BlackWomenVote campaign for over a year — and, most political analysts would agree, Black women are a major force in the Democratic Party.\n\nSo even though Higher Heights endorsement of Sen. Kamala Harris wasn’t the only significant endorsement that was announced last week, it’s a pretty big deal.\n\nHere’s what I get when I search Google news for “Kamala Harris endorsements”:", null, "And here’s what I get from doing the same search on reddit:", null, "It’s a great example of a dynamic Courtney Swanson highlighted in White Out: The Unrelenting Quest to Erase Kamala Harris\n\nKamala Harris is empirically mentioned less often than other candidates, even when there is every reason to center her in a news story.\n\nYeah really. And of course it’s not just Harris; Higher Heights is also getting erased here.\n\nIn my next post, I’ll look at another significant endorsement from last week. First, though, here’s Kamala Harris talking with Zerlina Maxwell and Jess McIntosh on Signal Boost on SiriusXM Progress. The tweet has a short video, and a link of to SiriusXM for the full discussion.\n\nMissed @ZerlinaMaxwell & @jess_mc‘s chat with @KamalaHarris from this week? Especially the part where she talked about the ongoing media erasure of her campaign?" ]

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[ null, null, "New charges have been filed against an Eldon man involved in last Saturday’s standoff with police in Rocky Mount.\n\nAccording to the Miller County Sheriff’s office, 57-year-old Terry Ewens is now facing 1st degree murder and assault charges, along with burglary and kidnapping.\n\nEwens was discovered inside a home on Emery Road where a 71-year-old woman was also found unresponsive and later pronounced dead.\n\nPolice say that inside the home, a 51-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man were both injured from an apparent assault.\n\nSWAT from the Highway Patrol along with the Miller and Camden County Sheriff’s offices were eventually able to pull Ewens from the home.", null, "On Friday, September 11th, 2020, Terry E. Ewens, 57, of Eldon, Missouri, was charged in Miller County with 1st degree Murder, 1st degree domestic assault, 1st degree burglary, two counts of 1st degree kidnapping, and unlawful use of a weapon. Ewens bond is set at $500,000 cash or surety and he is currently being held at the Miller County Jail. The charges stem from his involvement in a homicide and hostage situation that occurred at 18 Emery Road on the morning of September 5, 2020. During the incident, a 71 year-old female was killed. Additionally, a 51 year-old female and an 83 year-old male were injured. Officers made entry into the home as Ewens was actively assaulting the male. Ewens was taken into custody at 12:24 p.m. The investigation is ongoing and being conducted by members of the Miller County Sheriff’s Office.\n\nThe above charges are mere accusations and are not evidence of guilt. Evidence in support of the charges must be presented before a court of competent jurisdiction whose duty is to determine guilt or innocence." ]

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[ null, "B and I caught the Smuin Ballet's Dancin' With Gershwin tribute earlier this week down at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. I have to say, it was vastly disappointing.\n\nWe tend to be tough critics in terms of dance and choreography, I'll admit, but I went into this one really wanting to like it. Gershwin is my favorite mid-century American composer, even moreso than Ellington and Berlin and other stars of the Great American Songbook. Chestnuts like Love Is Here To Stay and They Can't Take That Away From Me have long been my defaults, whether it's singing or playing or just walking down the street humming a tune. So I was excited to see what the late Michael Smuin's co. did with its usual mix of classical dance and Broadway-style costuming and choreography.\n\nThere were a few moments of inspired choreography, yes, and the music was stellar, as expected, with a wide range of performers and some new renditions that I hadn't heard (Cher! Sting! Who'd have thought?!). But the costumes were loud and over-the-top, stealing focus from the dance itself; the props were gimmicky and gratuitous (parasols! desk chairs! fake afro wigs!); and the sets were awkward and amateurish. And please don't even get me started on the human-sized Biblical shadow puppets that ruined Cher's surprisingly enjoyable version of \"It Ain't Necessarily So.\" The blue-hairs there that night loved it, but it all seemed somehow crass and cheap to me, pandering to mainstream tastes at the cost of artistry and creativity.\n\nI'll know what to expect next time, but I have to say, it'll take good music like Gershwin's to get me to another Smuin performance, I'm afraid." ]

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[ null, "Born in 1962, Chung-Hua Tou is a senior actor. He made his debut as a child actor in 1972, and has been performing for decades. His performing works are countless,and he is well known to the audience for playing the squad leader in the movie series, Yes, Sir.In 1991, he was nominated for Supporting Actor of Golden Horse Awards with Zodiac Killers, and was then nominated for Golden Bell Awards several times for his performances in TV series, such as Crystal Boys, Love's Lone Flower, etc. He won Best Leading Actor in a Television Series of Golden Bell Awards with Love's Lone Flower and is widely acclaimed for his excellent performances." ]

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[ null, "A question that’s always in the back of my mind is will there be a day in America’s future that private property no longer exists? Ultimately, will the state so encroach on our freedoms that we forfeit our inalienable right to free will and become property of the State?\n\nAsset forfeiture has been on my mind since I saw it happen locally and I’ve been doing some research into the matter. Recently there was a case in the news in which a Pennsylvania family lost their $350,000 home to civil forfeiture when the police caught their teenage son selling $40 worth of heroin at a separate location not on their property. For months they fought it, back and forth. They had no knowledge of their son’s activities let alone any participation in illegal activity and yet the police had the authority to come and take their private property. Not until they contacted the Institute for Justice did they finally get their property back. If you find yourself involved with civil forfeiture keep the Institute for Justice in mind!\n\nThere was also a neighbor of ours that was forced to evacuate his home while police went in and destroyed his property making it uninhabitable even though they never found any evidence of illegal activity. They had no evidence, they had no charges, they had no conviction and before the passage of SF 874 in Minnesota they didn’t have to. There was also an acquaintance that was followed by the Metro Gang Strike Force of Minnesota, disbanded in 2009 for corruption including counting on seized drug dealer money to fund the force after legislators slimmed down state funding, sloppy record keeping and lax financial controls pointing towards fraud and embezzlement. Ultimately a settlement awarded 96 victims $840,000 and returned some of their property. The outrage spurred lawmakers to pass a law requiring forfeiture reporting. The resulting data was later used by IJ in its “Stacked Deck” report. In turn, that research helped catalyze the passage of SF 874. The acquaintance I know had half a million dollars seized and ended up only getting back $5,000.", null, "Here’s how civil asset forfeiture works. It’s a legal tool that allows law enforcement officials to seize property that they assert has been involved in certain criminal activity. In fact, the owner of the property doesn’t even need to be guilty of a crime: Civil asset forfeiture proceedings charge the property itself with involvement in a crime. This means that police can seize your car, home, money, or valuables without ever having to charge you with a crime. It came into more feverish use with the institution of the ‘war on drugs’. There are many stories of innocent people being stripped of their money and property by law enforcement. Also, if an owner wants to get their property back, they have to prove their property was not the instrument or proceeds of the charged drug crime. Owners have to prove a negative in civil court. Being acquitted of the drug charge in criminal court does not matter to the forfeiture case in civil court. In other words, your property is guilty until proven innocent even if you’ve been proven innocent in criminal court. It is disconcerting that a person has more legal right and protection in a criminal case than a civil case after all in a criminal case you are innocent until proven guilty and you’re provided with an attorney if you cannot afford one.\n\nIn Minnesota, not only was there an appalling lack of due process for civil forfeiture proceedings, law enforcement can keep up to 90 percent of the proceeds from forfeited property. That clearly creates a perverse incentive to police for profit. A report by the Institute for Justice found that forfeiture revenue grew by 75 percent from 2003 to 2010, earning police almost $30 million. In 2012 alone, there were 6,851 property seizures that amounted to $6.7 million according to the state auditor’s office. This growth occurred despite the fact that the crime rate was actually dropping in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Last fall, 2014, Governor Dayton of Minnesota signed into law bill SF 874 that rewrites civil forfeiture law so that now the government can only take property if it obtains a criminal conviction or its equivalent, like if a property owner pleads guilty to a crime or becomes an informant. The bill also shifts the burden of proof onto the government, where it rightfully belongs.\n\nYou may think this only happens to guilty people who deserve it, right? After all, this is America and if the police are seizing property it must be for good reason, right? While, for any good society to work we must depend on the police force to maintain justice the police force is not immune to corruption and checks and balances must be in place to monitor their activities. Anywhere there are people there is a temptation for corruption. Civil asset forfeiture profoundly affects the poor since their livelihood desperately depends on the assets that are taken and they can’t afford to be tied up in legal proceedings.\n\nI am personally thankful for the passage of this bill, for the Institute for Justice, and for the whistle blowers that chose not to abet further corruption. I thoroughly stand by the concept of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ as the tenet of our justice system especially if the person in question is cooperative with the investigation.\n\nWhat does this say about encroachment of the State? If you’re a person that believes in freedom, the pursuit of private property, due process, innocence until proof of guilt you should have a HUGE problem with this. Loss of freedom always happens slowly and often under the good intention of social justice and security. Your material property is only the beginning, soon it’s your ability to make choices; your free will. I am suggesting a renewed interest in checks and balances and a strengthening of our foundational principles. If we forget our inception we’re bound to regress.\n\nThe government was once an institute that protected your freedom against the trespassing of other people. More and more it seems that the government is taking your freedoms for ‘your own good’. This is defined as Hard Paternalism (there is also Soft Paternalism which is the passive-aggressive little sister of Hard Paternalism, be wary of both). For example, seat belt and helmet laws negotiated by insurance companies, seizing your earned income for redistribution programs such as welfare, mandatory retirement savings, swim restriction in public waters because there is no life guard on duty, mandatory curfews, etc. Paternalism is objectionable because it violates what the philosopher Immanuel Kant called the equal “dignity” of all human beings. Respect for human dignity implies respect for people’s ability to think and choose for themselves. Paternalism, however, imposes choices based on what someone else thinks is good for a person.\n\nPeople who are interfered with are not treated as equals capable of making their own choices, Kant claims, but are treated as means to someone else’s view of what their choices should be, “like immature children unable to distinguish between what is truly useful or harmful to them.”\n\nJohn Stuart Mill’s warns in his essay “On Liberty”: “He who lets the world . . . choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.” By contrast, the free individual must possess reason and judgment to make his own decisions, “and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.”\n\nWhen we forfeit our individual freedoms for ‘our own good’, it soon follows that the State and all it’s agencies will spread their authority further seizing your property and your freedoms under an ever expanding definition of what’s for our good. The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. Will the citizen, someday, be so small they vanish?\n\nCivil Asset Forfeiture: The encroachment of the State\n\nOne thought on “Civil Asset Forfeiture: The encroachment of the State”" ]

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[ null, "The trailer of Shahid Kapoor starrer ‘Kabir Khan’ got released just a while back in social medias. The movie which is the official remake of the 2017 Telugu hit, ‘Arjun Reddy’, is helmed by Sandeep Reddy Venga, who helmed the original as well. Kiara Advani plays the female lead.\n\n‘Arjun Reddy’ had Vijay Deverakonda and Shalini Pandey in the lead roles. It is the story of an impulsive medical surgeon who falls madly in love with his college junior. He becomes alcoholic post break-up and the rest of the plot is about how he redeems himself. The original was a sensational blockbuster.\n\nFrom the trailer, Shahid Kapoor looks extremely convincing as the hot-headed surgeon. It seems like director Sandeep Reddy has attempted a better version this time as the promos so far have been highly impressive. Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Ashwin Varde and Murad Khetani have jointly produced the movie. It s scheduled to hit screens on June 21.\n\nEnthoram: Here’s the first song from Children’s Park\nCheck out this new song from Oru Yamandan Premakadha\nTo Top" ]

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[ "I have had a baby, it is not going well; sadly because she is sleeping through the night at a freakish 5 weeks old, no one takes any of my problems seriously.\n\nThe baby is knackered but only naps if I rock her on my lap in a dark, silent room. I take to devouring eBooks on my iPhone, the first one I read is Room.\n\nRoom is incredible and, for a book set almost entirely in one room, unexpectedly thrilling. I read it during the hours and hours I am (at least voluntarily) trapped in a dark room with my child, not noticing the irony until it’s over and I start wondering if I could roll myself up in a rug and ask Chris to pop me outside on bin day.\n\nI have been diagnosed with a post-natal hormone disorder and severe anxiety. Much of my hair has fallen out, I have awful skin and I sweat all the time. I am sent to a therapist who makes me download an app called iWorry Lite; I have to upgrade to the paid version after 24 hours because I have too many worries. Chris finds this darkly hilarious. The baby gets her first cold.\n\nI watch a bit of Australia on my phone each night, then fall asleep listening to David Mitchell’s Back Story and Bill Bryson’s The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid on repeat.\n\nI like memoir audiobooks, mainly because you don’t lose the plot when you fall asleep (although I have, arguably, lost the plot). These two are my favourites; I listen to them over and over, Chris eventually buying me fancy low-profile Bluetooth headphones so that the baby doesn’t develop some kind of Pavlovian narcolepsy every time she hears David Mitchell on a panel show.\n\nI am a little better. The baby sits up. I resign from my job and become oddly unmoored. I do an online writing class and read Sarah Crossan’s amazing One, all on my phone. Jim recommends I listen to Hamilton and I buy that too, so the whole month is spent in verse, with weird couplets running around my head.\n\nI manage to make Hamilton’s massive political and ideological themes all about my ridiculous little life; I do need to rise up! I’m not stupid! I do think these pants look hot!\n\nI fail to convince anyone else to get into Hamilton, so I rap Scottishly at the baby. My inner life has become strange but vast as my outer life has shrunk to mashing pears and inspecting poop.\n\nWe have moved to the motherland! On our first afternoon in our new town I run into an aunt, and the following day my dad visits and plays blocks with Ada. We put a tent in the garden and she laughs at the wind and pulls up fistfuls of grass. For the first time, I am parenting solo for most of the week; it’s not as bad as I expect. I get some writing work; Chris builds me a desk but I still do most of it one-thumbed on my phone.\n\nI buy the new Star Wars film. I’ve been holding out for a quiet night to watch it on the big screen TV, but I’ve decided to watch it in snatches on my phone as the poorly baby clings to me in her sleep. It’s fine. It’s fun! Life is easier now I’ve accepted that Me Time comes in minutes and seconds rather than days and hours.\n\nNow I’m watching Lady Dynamite, a hilarious Netflix show about Maria Bamford’s descent into and recovery from mental illness. I recognise her flashbacks like they are mine; the raggedy clothes, the exhaustion, the social awkwardness, the confused friends, the keen attempts to use therapy strategy in real life situations, the staring, the blue winter light. You must watch it! Except you, mum, it’s very rude.\n\nI get a lot of flak, usually from older people, for always having my phone in my pocket or on the counter or in the baby’s drooling maw, but it has honestly saved my sanity many times over during this hardest of hard years. Get a good smartphone, pregnant ladies, you won’t regret it.\n\nOur kid doesn’t get to see much TV, but I do often harness its zombifying power at the end of a day if she’s cranky and I need to trim her nails or brush her teeth or polish her horns. I let her watch Something Special, the Makaton show starring Mr Tumble and his assorted relatives. We are now, as a family, obsessed with the Tumbles. Here’s everything I know so far…\n\nMr Tumble is a grown man with few life skills who lives alone in a stylish Cath Kidstonesque cottage. He has a dangerous number of fireplaces and kitchen appliances for a man who doesn’t know how to operate a bucket. He dresses as a clown but isn’t employed as one; that’s just his look.\n\nMr Tumble is refreshingly open to playing with all kinds of toys; as well as ‘boy stuff’, he owns a toy tea set, a hot pink tutu and the adorable Polly Dolly. You do you, Mr Tumble.\n\nLord Tumble is one smooth bastard. When he shows up at Mr Tumble’s place, Mr Tumble has to serve him like a butler. If I had to shack up with a Tumble, I’d choose Lord Tumble.\n\nChef Tumble used to be northern but is now French. It’s like he was recast, but everyone is played by Justin, so WTF?\n\nHave I missed anyone? I mean, Justin himself – how is he related to the Tumbles? Why does he have to do their bidding? Who is Lord Monkey? More updates as I receive them.", null, "The weather is horrible and I can’t go anywhere because I have to be at home to let my weird kid sleep every 90 minutes. So you know where I get my jollies now? True Christmas, the best channel in the whole world. It runs festive films all day long, and on our massive telly that means cosy fires, candlelight and lovely snowscapes filling my peripheral vision and hypnotising the baby as she sits in her high chair.\n\nEven better, I never have to follow the plot or even turn the volume up, because there are only 5 basic plotlines for low-budget Christmas movies:\n\nSmall town smackdown\nBig city lady loses job and has to move back to her attractively snowy hometown. Learns the TRUE meaning of Christmas by kissing a widowed lumberjack/turkey farmer/football coach under a lamppost or near a tree. His surly teenage son stops being a goth and the little daughter talks for the first time in five years. She says ‘Merry Christmas’. A snowman winks at a crow.\n\nUnexpected talent\nOld people (or homeless people) put on a play (or form a choir) in order to save a theatre (or an old folks’ home) from an evil corporation (or termites). At the dramatic climax, an elderly man throws aside a Zimmer frame and ‘raps’ Joy To The World while a street kid beatboxes.\n\nTart with a festive heart\nShe’s a hooker! He’s an uptight lawyer! He, for some reason, has to bring her home for the holidays! Cagney or Lacey is the horrified mother! A blonde woman wears cashmere! This is an actual movie that’s been trailing for days, it looks AMAZING.\n\nOlde timey Christmas\nLadies in frilly dresses sit around in houses waiting for men to come home from war. The townsfolk band together to overcome a snow-related catastrophe then sneer at a family of grubby outcasts who – SURPRISE! – are actually royalty or something. The men come home missing limbs but remain mentally unscathed. The final scene morphs into a picture postcard with ‘Season’s Greetings’ plastered over the top in a swirly font.\n\nI’ll be home for Christmas\nNo you wont." ]

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[ null, "For the second time in six weeks, a local female realtor has been sexually assaulted and murdered during an open house event. The community is asking: Is this the work of a serial killer?\n\nLocal realtor, Marissa McCall, knew the latest victim, Staci, for most of her life. They were close friends up until the seventh grade when Staci stole her first boyfriend and attempted to steal every boyfriend she'd ever had after that. They had been fierce competitors in the real estate market as well, but she would have never wished her dead...especially not viciously murdered.\n\nWhilst still contemplating the shocking news, Marissa took an unexpected call from her ex-boyfriend, Aaron Mathews, whom she hadn't seen in almost 20 years. He wanted to view a house, which was a standard request to any realtor, but this house was different. Aaron was interested in the house next door to Marissa's.\n\nShe really didn't want to see him again, never mind live next door to him, but she needed the business and wanted to prove that she had moved on with her life. She remained professional and booked the appointment for the following day.\n\nMarissa was shell shocked when she left the office that afternoon. Things like this just didn't happen in her world. Plus, there was the fact that she was going to see Aaron Mathews in the morning. That thought was unnerving and left her feeling shaken. She had to wonder, too, if he had called Staci before he called her. Was it possible he had been involved in Staci's death?\n\nWhat was Aaron's true motive to moving back into town? Would Marissa's feelings for Aaron resurface tomorrow? Was she safe?\n\nWhat listeners say about Risky Business\n\nThriller–I Was On the Edge of my Seat, so to speak\n\n\n🏚 This is a great short romance/thriller. Realtors in the area are being murdered. Marissa McCall is on edge as she hosts open houses. She was very familiar with the 2nd victim, a competitor in school as well as the real estate business. A boy she knew from junior high has recently moved back to the area and Marissa doesn't know what to think.\n\nI'm forgiving of this storyline because it held this incredibly hot book together. It held my interest. If only the 20-something year old main character didn't keep flashing back to \"when we were in 7th grade she stole my boyfriend\" and was a bit more mature, I would have given it 5 stars.\n\n*I received this book in exchange for writing an unbiased review.\n\nI read the reviews of others before I purchase a book. If you found my review helpful, would you please select \"helpful\" directly below this review? Consider 'following me on Audible. Authors and narrators, feel free to share my review on any other media you would like. It's all yours!\n\nIt surprises me to say but this was my least favorite of the Bad Boy Romance series. Not to say it was bad, it just didn't seem as strong a story as the others.\n\nI liked the overall premise and the characters are great. I liked the family aspects as well, for once both families were complete, Mother & Father still married, alive and living together without abuse. I can't say when I read a story where that was the case.\n\nLissa Blackwell did another fantastic job bringing the story to life.\n\nI recieved a free Audible copy of this story, at my request, in exchange for a honest review.\n\nOk, I'm not sure what happened to my original review but I am writing it once again...unfortunately a shorter version this time.\nI enjoyed this story. A serial killer is on the loose killing realtors. Although I had an idea of whom the serial killer was I was still surprised once it was revealed. Aaron &amp; Marissa have some great chemistry, it was a great read...I would love to read the first 2 books. I would recommend this book! :)\n\nThis story pulls you in from the beginning and keeps you listening with chemistry and murder.\nI was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.\n\nI really enjoyed it. Although this story was quick it didn't lack entertainment. The narration was great. It will keep you entertained. The author did a great job with the characters. I have read every book by this author and I look forward to reading more. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.\n\nThis books starts out with a gripping story and keeps you involved until the very end. I loved this story and the suspense towards the end was great! Definitely a book worth listening to.\n\nThis story has romance, suspense, mystery and some action. I loved the re-connection of Marissa and Aaron. However, Marissa does come across as a tad immature when thinking of her long time competitor Staci. Overall though it's a lovely listen and I enjoyed it from beginning to end. The narration was excellently done by Lissa Blackwell. She does a great job of bringing the story to life and helping the listener connect to what's going on. Another great job ladies!!\n\nWhen murders rock the hometown and suddenly is a suspect even and old flame who just happens to move back home in the midst of it all. You've been played before and won't be made again so you're a hard ass when he tries to friendly.\n\nAnother book boyfriend disguised as a player......\n\nRisky Business is the third book in this Bad Boy Romance series, but each book is a complete standalone. In Risky Business, Marissa is a realtor and house-flipper, and she is forced to face her past when in the span of one day she finds out that her childhood menace was murdered and that her first crush has returned home after an 18 year absence. Aaron is a former NFL star player and current writer whose family obligations have brought him back to his hometown. When he contacts Marissa in order to put an offer on one of her listings, he is instantly hooked. However, due to a painful relationship breakup with a former sports star, Marissa wants nothing to do with another player like Aaron. Of course, as always, the author has written a wonderfully sensitive and loving man in Aaron while still keeping him all sexy alpha male. The book contains quite a lot of back and forth and angst, but that just makes the coming together that much sweeter for us listeners. I guessed fairly early in the book the identity of the murderer, but I still thoroughly enjoyed watching the author prove me right.\n\nLissa Blackwell's narration is excellent. She has a very light, almost lilting voice, and she is perfect for the contemporary romance genre. She does not overly differentiate between male and female characters, but she does just enough so that the story is easy to follow. There were a couple editing issues with repeated phrases, but her performance was otherwise flawless.\n\nI received a copy of this audiobook at my request in exchange for this honest review.\n\nI loved the chemistry between Aaron and Marissa. As danger hung close around Marissa, Aaron was never far behind to help her out of sticky situations. While Aaron and Marissa get reacquainted, their love blooms through the story that keeps you hanging on for the next word.\n\nI was provided a free copy of this book by the author in return for an honest review.\n\nRisky Business is the third book in the author's Bad Boy Romance series. I'd not heard of this series before but it sounded right up my street so I was more than happy to listen to the audiobook and review it.\n\nThe story follows Marissa, a real estate agent who is left anxious when fellow realtors begin to be murdered during open house events. She runs into her childhood ex-boyfriend, Aaron Matthews, a former sports player who coincidently wants to buy the house next door to her.\n\nI liked the mystery/crime side of this story, it wasn't just a hot romance, it had parts that started you guessing too. I maybe would have liked a little more guessing to do but I was satisfied.\n\nI really liked Marrissa's character. She was a fairly strong female lead who liked to prove herself as such.\n\nThis was a nice, fairly short story to listen to. It was an easy listen while I was walking the dog in the morning or walking home from work. I looked forward to putting my earphones in and listening to the book at every opportunity.\n\nThe actress was good and really got stuck in the story. She displayed the emotions and goings on really well.\n\n\nAlthough the story behind the murders was good, I guessed the killer as they were introduced. There wasn't really a red herring in the story, One was suggested, however, Marrissa worked out for herself quite early in the story that it couldn't have been them. I'd have maybe liked a little more questioning on that story.\n\nAlthough I liked Aaron, he wasn't my favorite book boyfriend. In some parts, he was quite sulky and manipulative. Probably showing that he's not the perfect man, but at these points, he really annoyed me.\n\nAt some points, the audio did sound a little off. I don't know what was wrong with it, it just didn't sound as clear as some other ones I'd listened to." ]

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[ null, "Ancient Greece gifted us three of the greatest tragedies – Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides. Euripides is the latest and youngest of them. By the time of his writing activity, mankind already knew about the tragedy. He managed to ease and modernize the language, bringing it closer to colloquial speech. This is what brought the popularity of his creations to next generations.\n\nThe motherland of Euripides was Salamis. Here he was born in about 480 BC. Historians believe that his parents were wealthy, but by their origin, they were not famous people. He received a wonderful education. In childhood, Euripides dreamed of becoming a participant in the Olympic Games (he was a capable gymnast), but the young age prevented him from participating in them. Deciding to go the other way, he began to study literature, oratory, philosophy. His works and Euripides innovations eloquently testify that he has succeeded in this business. The worldview of Euripides was largely shaped under the influence of the teachings of Anaxagoras, Protagoras, Prodicus. He collected rare books in his personal library, and once came the momentous moment when Euripides decided to write himself. Euripides began writing when he was 18 years old. And only in 440 BC, he was first awarded the highest author’s rewards.\n\nEuripides is described as a closed, gloomy man and prone to solitude. On the surviving portraits, he looks quite sullen. If we translate the ancient characteristics of Euripides into the language of our concepts, we can say that he was extremely ambitious (however, this is one of the conditions of creativity), acutely impressionable and touchy person.\n\nEuripides stayed far from the Greek political and public life of the city and country but was not completely indifferent. He was married twice and twice unsuccessful. Euripides family life was unsuccessful. From his first wife, Choerine, he had three sons, but divorced her because of her adultery, writing the play “Hippolytus,” where he ridiculed sex. The second wife, Melite, was not better than the first. Euripides won the glory of the woman-hater, which made him joke with the comedy master Aristophanes.\n\nIn 408 BC., the great playwright decided to leave Athens by accepting an invitation from the Macedonian king Archelaus. It is not known exactly the fact what influenced the decision of Euripides.\n\nIt is definitely known that Euripides comprised 75 to 92 plays, and to date, 17 dramatic works have survived. The most famous are Medea, Elektra, Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides creativity, which was formed during the Athenian Democracy crisis, and the strengthening of individualism, is marked by a sharply critical attitude to mythology, ethical norms, and other traditions. The innovation of Euripides in the writing of works was expressed in the fact that more attention was paid to the private life of people, the domestic part, and the spiritual sufferers of people. He was the first to succeed in presenting a psychological drama when the agony and confusion of the characters are transmitted to the audience and cause sympathy, and not just condemnation or admiration. Euripides, whose works were highly valued in society, received four awards for staging in Athens. But this seemed to the playwright little and he, offended, left the city of Pericles.\n\nEuripides died in 406 BC. There are different versions of his death – he died as a result of a conspiracy of envious, who bribed the court, responsible for the royal mosquitoes: and he drove the playwright a pack of hounds. According to the second version, he moved to Macedonia after leaving Athens and died from the severe Macedonian winter).", null, null ]