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[ null, "About 50 community members had the opportunity to watch a program presented by Miklos Valdez representing the consulting firm, Counselman-Hunsaker, Aquatics for Life. Afterwards, attendees were able to ask more in-depth questions of local planning committee members at three different stations set up around the room.\n\nThe local committee started after a 2018 survey in which 96% of respondents reported being in favor of a pool for Libby, Valdez explained. Now, after the public’s affirmation through that survey and many committee meetings, the project has entered its second phase, to decide which option to pursue.\n\nThe group commissioned an architectural firm to create schematic drawings of three options for an aquatic center. That phase was funded by contributions from the Libby Park District.\n\nOption one, which is projected to cost approx. $9.8 million, would include a main indoor pool with four lanes and two access assist lifts, a graduated wading pool, and a separate, multi-depth therapy pool with lift that would be heated to 90 degrees. It would also include a lobby, locker rooms and a multi-use community room.\n\nOption two, coming in at approximately $7.7 million, is essentially the same as option one except there are no therapy or wading pools.\n\nOption three would cost and estimated $5.2 million and is equivalent to option two, but the main pool would be outdoors so the facility would only be open seasonally.\n\nFor all options, the main pool would be 3.6 feet at the shallow end and seven feet at the deep end. There would be starting blocks to accommodate competition, and as Valdez explained, they are looking at four main categories of use; recreation, competition, instruction, and wellness.\n\nAccording to research done by Counselman-Hunsaker, about 75% of facility use would be recreational, which could include children, teens and family swim times and, lap swimming in warm water. The pool could also be used for competition, in slightly cooler water, by future school teams. There would undoubtably be youth and adult swimming lessons, senior movement classes, and if the community supports option one, a wellness, therapy pool as well.\n\nThe facility, would initially require two full time employees, one for mechanical maintenance, and one for customer service.\n\nThe facility is slated to be built on land just north of City Hall that is currently occupied by some recycling bins and is owned by the Lincoln County Port Authority.\n\nThe Kootenai Wellness Aquatic Canter planning committee (KWAC) is confident that the initial construction costs will be covered by a group of benefactors, and they are now actively looking for grant programs which will ensure continued operation of the center for years to come.\n\n“In Libby, we’ve been pool poor for so long, we tend to forget how many ways this community can use a pool,” said committee member, Tony Petrusha. “Last time we tried to float a bond for construction and a mill levy for maintenance both failed. After the community chooses the design, we will formalize a business plan, and get some hard numbers. Then we will throw that specific amount back to the voters to approve. Then, we would begin construction, and create a 501c(3) non-profit organization and actively pursue ongoing donations.”\n\nPetrusha also said that the average annual property tax bill increase for a home valued at $100,000 only be about $35 per year.\n\nOne interested local, Levi Harmon, age eight, told The Montanian, “I would use the pool to hang out with my friends and some old people need it to rest. My dad would do back flips off the diving board, and if I was his age, I would too.”\n\nUnfortunately for Levi, there is no diving board planned or the facility.\n\nKWAC will conduct an online survey until Nov. 20 and take all input received into consideration. The survey may be emailed to you, and it has also been shared on The Montanian’s Facebook page.\n\nResidents are encouraged to contact [email protected] for more information or to submit feedback." ]

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[ null, "Led Zeppelin‘s efforts to have a court case centring around claims the band plagiarised their song ‘Stairway To Heaven’ dismissed have been rejected by a judge in America.", null, "The case was brought against the band by lawyer Francis Malofiy stating that his client – the late Randy California, who played guitar in Spirit – should be given a writing credit on the track ‘Stairway To Heaven’ as it resembles Spirit’s 1968 song ‘Taurus’. The two bands toured together in 1968 and 1969.\n\nBillboard reports that the lawyer working for Led Zeppelin challenged the suit yesterday (October 20), saying Pennsylvania courts had no jurisdiction in the matter.\n\n“What happened to Randy California and Spirit is wrong. Led Zeppelin needs to do the right thing and give credit where credit is due. Randy California deserves a writing credit for ‘Stairway To Heaven’ and to take his place as an author of rock’s greatest song,” said the plaintiffs in their complaint." ]

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[ null, "Bitcoin valuation dropped from 50,000 dollars to approx. 30 thousand. Dollars have introduced a lot of confusion in the markets. The main reasons for this situation are the actions of Chinese regulators and the skeptical statements of billionaire Elon Musk.\n\nIn February 2021, Tesla, the Muska company, purchased bitcoin worth $ 1.5 billion, announcing that the electric car manufacturer will be accepting payments in this cryptocurrency. In May, Elon stated that Tesla was “concerned about the surge in the use of fossil fuels, especially coal, to mine Bitcoin,” recalling an earlier declaration. In turn, the Chinese regulator issued statements that digital tokens cannot be used as a form of payment. Is this the decline of virtual money?\n\n“Buy when blood is pouring.”\n\nThe crash wiped out approximately $ 500 billion from cryptocurrency capitalization, which focused the attention of investors and the public on digital currency. Speculators closed leveraged positions that were geared towards strengthening bitcoin. After “clearing” the position, BTC rebounded to around 40 thousand. Dollars, so that its value again fell to approx. 35 thousand. Dollars – we read in the Bloomberg commentary. Many investors pull back from their positions, but just as many hedge funds have used the situation to increase their exposure.\n\nThe old adage “buy while the blood is shed” applies in these circumstances as well. Although a lot of investors withdraw from investing in cryptocurrencies, there is quite a large group of people who are increasing their involvement. BTC has shown that its value can be variable, and after “lows,” it can delight with a significant appreciation of its value. The Chinese regulator has caused a lot of confusion, but has it said anything new? The People’s Bank of China issued a statement reiterating that digital currency cannot be considered legal tender. It seems that this panic is put to good use for purchases. The Bitcoin exchange office is a place where you can replenish your stocks.\n\nIf you want to buy one BTC, you have to pay about 36 thousand. Dollars, which, converted into zlotys, give the amount of over 132 thousand. Zlotys. If you do not have much cash, visit the BTC exchange office, where you can buy only a part of the cryptocurrency. Transactions can be lower than PLN 1,000, which means that you do not need to have hundreds of thousands of dollars to take advantage of the BTC rate changes. Moreover, with small amounts, you can buy bitcoins anonymously.\n\nUsually, transactions up to PLN 1,000 are confirmed with an SMS code and do not require data sharing. In the case of operations from 1,000 to 10,000. PLN, you will need a one-time identity verification without creating an account. KYC data (know your customer) will be assigned to the indicated e-mail address, so the user does not have to undergo verification again. It is an excellent help for investors who are just starting their adventure with cryptocurrencies and want to learn about the market rules.\n\nCryptocurrencies are an electrifying topic that appears in the mainstream media all the time. Often, after large bumps, equally impressive growths appear. Confusion around cryptocurrencies and bitcoin will occur from time to time and is inevitable, and investors can use the confusion to their advantage. It is worth getting to know the mechanisms governing the digital currency market to react on time. One thing is for sure – the current situation is not the decline of bitcoin; it is just another chapter in its history.\n\nAlso Read : The Best Books For Understanding Blockchains (And NFTs)" ]

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[ null, "A woman in Japan has sued the sperm donor who got her pregnant, alleging he was dishonest about her marital status, education and ethnicity.\n\nThe anonymous complainant, a 30-year-old woman from Tokyo, said she and her husband wanted to have a second child but worried after finding out her husband had a hereditary condition, reported Tokyo Shimbun Going through News week.\n\nAfter deciding to use a sperm donor, they found a man in his twenties on social media who claimed to be a Japanese bachelor who had graduated from Kyoto University, one of Japan’s top universities. After having sex with the donor 10 times, the woman finally got pregnant in June 2019.\n\nThe woman eventually discovered later in the pregnancy that the donor was actually a married Chinese man who had never attended Kyoto University. After giving birth, the woman and her husband abandoned the baby, who is currently being cared for at a children’s center in Tokyo.\n\nThe woman accused the donor of misleading her with false information to have sex with her. She is now seeking approximately $2.8 million in compensation for her emotional distress.\n\nUnder Japan’s “right to know” laws, offspring of sperm donors have the legal right to identify both of their biological parents. With many donors choosing to remain anonymous, finding potential sperm donors in the country has become complicated.\n\nMore and more couples in Japan have taken to social media to search for sperm donors, and more than 10,000 children are believed to have been born with the involvement of a third party.\n\nThe institute’s director, Dr. Hiroshi Okada, has warned that unsupervised forms of insemination pose health risks and other dangers.\n\n“Not only is this a security issue, but it can also be criminal and extremely dangerous,” Okada said. “The sperm that is donated may contain infectious agents. We don’t know whether the sperm belongs to the donor or not. When the child is born, it may turn out that the sperm is not Japanese. Such crazy things happen produce.”\n\nAccording to Okada, 96.4% of more than 140 sperm donation platforms are “unsafe”, noting that many of them serve as fronts for people who want to scam others." ]

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[ null, null, null, "Wansheng Stone Forest in Chongqing ranks as the oldest stone forest in China. This large-scale stone forest began to form about fourhundred and sixty-five million years to six hundred million years ago. This long history makes Wansheng Stone Forest got the reputation as the \"ancestor of the stone forest\".\nThis typical karst site is attractive because of the various shapes of the stones. Visitors can find a rock shaped like a tower, a mushroom, a sword peak, a lively bird, etc. During your visit in this forest, your imagination will be enlarged when you see these shaped rocks. Just like its name \"a natural stone zoo\" referred, Wansheng Stone Forest is a leisure house for both human and animals which are alive or just made of stones.\n\nIt is a geological museum experienced trillion years' ocean changes. The ocean biological fossils distributed on many stones have recorded trillion years of changes of the ancient ocean. Furthermore, the place boasts a good number of scenic spots, such as the earthly slit, a group of limestone caves, underground streams and the milk stone in various shapes. Various activities are offered to the guests, which encourage every one to participate, such as ethnic dance show, teahouse and clap the mountain. Sedan chairsare available to take visitors up the numerous stairs to the top when some one feeling tired needs to relax.\n\nIt is a scenic spot for original customs of Miao Nationality. Wansheng Stone Forest belonged to the territory of ancient Yelang Country. Miao nationality, who are skilled in singing and dancing, have been living here generation after generation and the colorful original customs of Miao Nationality has endowed the stone forest with the characteristics of touring for folk customs.\n\n【Surface Stone Forest】\nTypical karst landscape represented by the surface stone forest is very attractive. Here, the peaks rise steeply, mountain cliff stones are in various shapes, like stone gate, stone village, column, etc., which like people to pile it but without artificial trace; Stone animals and birds are vivid and lifelike. The main landscapes are Qinglang Peak, Xianglu Mountain, Huge Fan, Stone Drum, General Stone, etc. It shows the aesthetic feeling of Wansheng Stone Forest landscape and the spiritual.\n【Underground Karst Caves】\nWansheng Stone Forest Scenic Area, not only has fantastic rock peaks but also underground karst cave landscape around. There rare mainly the vertical and horizontal two types of caves. Horizontal caves are Tianmen Cave, Guojielou Cave, Liangfeng Cave, the Fairy Cave, Guanma Cave, Touniu Cave, Nine Dragons Cave, Goddess of Mercy Cave, etc. Among them, Tianmen Cave has unique landscape and modeling, there are stalagmites, stone pillars, rock flowers and stone curtain inside the cave, hanging, stand and clamps, such as jade crystal, such as the palace. It may be said \"created by heaven\".\n【Tiquan Gorge】\nSo far, there was developed three gorge scenic spots, all parallel arranged in scenic area in the east, followed by Lotus Gorge, Birdsong Gorge, Tingquan gorge (Listen to spring gorge). The best scenery is Tingquan Gorge.\nTingquan Gorge is a valley formed by karst collapse and fracture. It is nearly 300 meters long, 1-2 meters wide, about 80 meters deep, and can be accessed by a narrow road. Entering the gorge, the path is extremely narrow and very risk, pedestrians can enter by a single row. But the cliffs of gorge weigh several tons, shape like square stone piles up. To move forward, the deeper the gorge, the darker the light, and the wall is like knife-cutting, and dead trees like ghosts skeleton, vines spread like a snake array cover day, rock on the water like a snake venom.\n\nThe bamboo shoots: Wansheng is one of the main origins of bamboo shoots, due to the unique natural environment and climate; the bamboo shoots are called natural green mountain delicacies. And because it is fresh fragrance, good taste and rich nutrition, convenient and exported to Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Japan, etc.\nWangsheng Tea: Wansheng natural condition is superior, the good ecological environment Wansheng is suitable for growing tea, and it is famous tea producing area in Chongqing. In the tea garden area there is 1200 mu, the annual output is nearly 1000 tons of tea. Wansheng has a long history of producing tea, and has different kinds of tea, such as Chongcha tea, Sichuan tea, Yunnan tea, Fuding tea and other 27 series. Processed tea varieties are: green tea (liquor pan-fried grenn tea, baked green tea), jasmine tea, red tea, oolong tea, and more than 20 varieties.\nMiao Silverware: In Wansheng Stone Forest Scenic Area, visitors will see Miao ethnic youth women carry their basket with silverware inside and they warmly greet visitors to take photo, the silver that they carry is Miao silver. Not only their headwear has rich varieties, their body accessories sort is also various, such as silver sautoir, plastron of silver, silver lock, silver decorative back and other ornaments which is magnificent, beautiful and skillful, shows red Miao compatriots the unique cultural features and aesthetic interest.\n\n\nHow to Get There from Chongqing\n\nEvery 8:00 in Chongqing railway station visitor can take tourist train to Wansheng every day; or to take No.327 bus in Nanping Bus Station to Wansheng, and then transfer to the tourist special line shuttle bus can reach the stone forest." ]

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[ null, "As part of activities to mark the closing ceremony of the year 2020 #16daysofactivism against Gender-Based Violence, GBV, the First Lady of Benue State Dr Eunice Ortom Thursday led participants in an awareness walk in Makurdi, the Benue State capital.\n\nThe First Lady led participants through major streets of the town terminated the walk at Benue Hotels where a dissemination meeting was held.\n\nSpeaking at the dissemination meeting, Mrs Ortom cautioned that the people must not take the end of the #16daysofactivism period as the end of the fight against GBV.\n\nShe said, “This is rather the time to build on the observations and experiences of the period in order to be more determined and committed to ending GBV in Benue State.”\n\nThe meeting evaluated and analysed activities of the last 16 days as well as deliberated on suggestions aimed at seeking effective ways of curbing GBV.\n\nParticipants at the events included the wife of the Deputy Governor, Justice Mary Abounu, wives of the State Assembly members and those of the State Executive Council.\n\nOthers were Local Government Council Chairmen and their Spouses, Religious Leaders, Wives of Traditional Rulers, Development Partners, the Civil Society and Youth Organizations as well as other Stakeholders." ]

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[ null, "Nestor was honoured ahead of the fourth rubber of Canada’s Davis Cup tie with the Netherlands.\n\nIt’s the final day of his 53rd Davis Cup tie, by the far the most times anyone has represented Canada in the international tournament.\n\nNestor’s skill in doubles competition has made him invaluable to Canada over the past 25 years, almost guaranteeing it a win on the second day of the three-day, five-match Davis Cup draws.\n\nNestor won eight Grand Slam doubles titles over his lengthy ATP Tour career with a variety of partners and won gold for Canada at the 2000 Sydney Olympics with Sebastien Lareau." ]

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[ null, "According to a victims, the spirit came in its physical form and started removing underwear and “banged” them before the spirit later deserted them.\n\n“I was sleeping in my room at night. At around 4:00AM local time, somebody sneaked himself inside our room and started cutting off my underwear. I was sleeping and suddenly, I realized that somebody was heavily sleeping on top of me. When I screamed, the spirit ran way; leaving behind six underwear that belong to my neighbours. It is not the first time. Such incident also happened to my neighbour,” the victim explained.\n\nA religious leader residing in the same neighbourhood confirmed a similar incident, saying such spirits are campaigning to destroy families.\n\nAnother victim also said last week she was sleeping with her husband, reaching the middle of the night she saw a ghost re- moving her underwear and later ran away with it. They only found blood and more pants thrown everywhere believed to be of other victims who feared to report to their loved ones.\n\n“Such spirits are common nowadays. These spirits are called husband and wife spirits. They have been sent to destroy families. When I heard about this incident, I went and comforted the victim and helped her repent and accept God. The same thing happened last night in which at the middle of the night, I heard a lot of screams. I heard many people screaming because mass rape is in the making. Sometimes such spirits enter in the houses and sometimes such spirits enter in the houses and start rapping both men and women,” the priest explained.\n\nThe priest also said such incident has happened to many people but the victims fear to reveal it to the public in fear of the implications. The public appeals to the community policing to help organized forces improve security of citizen at night.\n\nWomen have raised concerns over such incidents and have vowed to wear trousers at night to see whether the spirit will undress them again. This incident drew public attention causing panic among the citizens dwelling in Lologo-One, an area located south of Juba town." ]

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[ null, "The Ministry of Economy wants to sell a minority stake in the newly formed energy holding, Complexul Energetic Oltenia, in order to boost its capital and support investments.\n\nThe Government will amend legislation on land expropriation for public utility and on the water law in order to support the power generator. In addition, the state-owned lender Eximbank will offer guarantees for investments at one of the energy units in the Rovinari branch.\n\nThe decision to list a 15 percent stake on the domestic stock exchange is part of a wider structural reform program in the energy sector agreed by Romania with the IMF, European Commission and World Bank.\n\nThe company has an estimated turnover of EUR 900 million and a generating capacity of 3,570 MW. It employs around 5,800 people in the energy sector, while the mining arm has around 13,000 employees.\n\nThe Ministry of Economy has a 77 percent stake in the holding, while the Property Fund owns 21.5 percent. The company has an estimated share capital of EUR 280 million." ]

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[ null, "Manchester United visit Nottingham Forest this evening for the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nThis is United’s first semi-final since a defeat to Manchester City in the same competition two years ago, and the Red Devils are looking to win a first trophy since 2017.\n\nThis match is United’s first visit to Forest’s City Ground this season. The two teams met a month ago in the Premier League at Old Trafford, with Erik ten Hag’s side winning 3-0, with Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Fred scoring.\n\nMartial is not in the squad tonight due to injury, along with Diogo Dalot and Jadon Sancho, with the trio missing out, Ten Hag confirmed.\n\nThis fixture is the latest in the line of a relentless schedule for Manchester United, and there will be some rotation involved.\n\nThis game is followed by a FA Cup fourth round match against Reading on Saturday night, and Ten Hag will look to strike a balance in his team selections.\n\nThere could be as many as seven changes to the side defeated by Arsenal at the weekend, with the fresher players in the United squad ready to step in.\n\nTom Heaton played well when he started the quarter-final and he could return to the side for this fixture, with David de Gea rested throughout the competition.\n\nDalot’s absence means Aaron Wan-Bissaka will continue at right-back, however, he could be the only one of the back four who started against Arsenal to retain their place.\n\nHarry Maguire and Victor Lindelof could return to the side, along with Tyrell Malacia, who was unlucky to drop to the bench after his terrific performance against City.\n\nCasemiro will start after returning from suspension. Christian Eriksen could be rested, with Fred replacing him in midfield, having begun the last two games on the bench.\n\nBruno Fernandes will also start, while Alejandro Garnacho should be fresh after not being used at the weekend. Antony was also substituted and could start on the right wing.\n\nThis would allow Marcus Rashford to lead the line through the middle, with Wout Weghorst being used as an impact substitute rather than as a starter.\n\nWhile there would be changes in goal and in defence, this XI features a strong midfield and pacy attack, which should have enough to win the first leg help United move a step nearer to the final." ]

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[ null, null, "The second involves the transition risks associated with the green transformation of the global economy. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions requires phasing out fossil fuels, which remain one of the key industries of the Russian economy. The question is how the Russian economy will adapt to the new reality. There is also the issue of introducing regulation on greenhouse gas emissions in Russia and starting to reduce them without negatively affecting economic growth and the social sphere.\n\nIn our research, we are mostly focusing on the transition risks. In particular, we are now preparing a joint report with the World Bank on how global decarbonization and more specifically the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to be introduced in the EU in 2023 will affect the Russian economy.\n\nWe are also working on issues related to emission regulation. For instance, as part of this year's applied project, we are providing analytical support for a pilot project to regulate emissions in the Sakhalin Region.\n\nOne of the most important questions we are trying to answer is how to account for the specifics of the Russian economy (in particular, its high dependence on fossil fuels) when designing carbon regulation\n\nAt the same time, we are studying physical risks as well. For example, we analyze the impact of climate change on forest fires, taking into account the socio-economic specifics of Russian regions. Last year, we did a project for the Presidential Administration to analyze the measures taken by the Krasnodar Territory and the Chechen Republic to respond to natural disasters.\n\nSome years ago, we have conducted joint research with MIT on the risks to Russian energy exports under different global climate policy development scenarios. We collaborate with various European think tanks on the implementation of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and carry out joint projects with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the German Historical Institute. We have also partnered with the World Bank.\n\nJust recently, we have hosted Professor Anatol Lieven, a British political scientist, writer, journalist, historian, and professor at Georgetown University, USA, who delivered a lecture entitled ‘Climate Change and Nation State: What is Nationalism in a New Era’ based on his new book Climate Change and the Nation State.\n\nIn the coming year, we will work on analytical support for development of carbon regulation in Russia. After the President of the Russian Federation announced the goal of ensuring carbon neutrality by 2060, it became clear that carbon pricing in Russia is bound to be introduced in the near future. However, this should be done carefully, without blindly copying foreign experience. There are many aspects that require calculation and consideration. This is what we will be studying.\n\nIn addition, starting next year, our Laboratory will launch a Master's programme in Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development. We will train professionals for ourselves, and most importantly, for Russian companies and government bodies that need competent people who understand current green trends and can work in the field of low-carbon development." ]

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[ null, "The first acccuser of Kevin Spacey was mowed down by a Toyota as she stepped into a busy intersection in February.\n\nThe driver was not charged.\n\nThe news first broke in May.\nRadar Online reported:\n\nThe first whistleblower to go public with allegations branding shameless Kevin SpaceyOpens a New Window. a sexual predator is dead — and her grieving family is demanding answers!\n\nNow, in a world exclusive, RadarOnline.com. can reveal investigators have launched a murder probe into Linda Culkin’s mysterious death, while 59-year-old Spacey faces a felony charge of indecent assault and battery for allegedly groping a young man in Nantucket, Mass., in 2016.\n\nOn Feb. 25, Culkin was walking to her home when she was mowed down by a Toyota as she stepped into a busy intersection, Quincy Police Capt. John Dougan told Radar.\n\nNow this…\nThe second Kevin Spacey accuser died recently in the midst of his sexual assault lawsuit.\nVia The Hollywood Reporter:\n\nThe massage therapist was allowed to proceed anonymously in the case. No details yet on the circumstances of death.\nAn anonymous massage therapist who claims to have been sexually assaulted by Kevin Spacey has died, according to a notice filed in court by the actor’s attorneys.\n\nThe individual, suing as a “John Doe,” filed claims in September 2018 with the allegation of being forced to grab the actor’s genitals twice during a massage two years earlier at a private residence in Malibu. In May, a federal judge in California allowed the case to move forward despite Spacey’s objection that the plaintiff’s identity was being shielded.\n\nNow, just a month after the parties came to a plan for proceeding in the suit that detailed prospective discovery and envisioned a seven- to 11-day trial, the plaintiff’s attorney has informed Spacey that the client “recently passed.”" ]

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[ null, "OZ Gaming Contenders KR Rank #13 Kadalis Ra Yeong-hwan dps MELON Shin Jung-ho (신정호) tank Another Kim Kyung-hwan (김경환) tank off tank FR3E has been sentenced to one year in prison and 40 hours of sex offender treatment in South Korea after being convicted for sexual molestation of a minor.\n\nThe sentencing stems from allegations that were made against FR3E in June of last year by an ex-partner when he was signed onto Meta Skyfoxes. The organization dropped him the same day after an internal investigation.\n\nDespite the accusations, he continued to play in professional Overwatch, and was signed onto BATTLICA later that year. The organization later merged with OZ Gaming this June.\n\nOZ Gaming ended their contract with FR3E after his sentencing. In a statement translated by Gatamchun, they said that while they were aware of the accusations, they spoke to FR3E and believed it as a \"misunderstanding during the relationship.\" They planned on making their final decision after the court decided, and apologized for not taking the situation seriously.\n\nHoly crap, I remember when he got kicked off skyfoxes for this but I didn’t realize how terrible this was\n\nposted about a year ago\nreply • link\n#3\nthatagedwell\n1\nFrags\n+\n–\n\nThere aren't really any details in this article concerning what he did, so maybe \"sexual molestation of a minor\" is slightly misleading. When you read molestation you think of violence. Maybe the age diff was 3yrs and the molestation wasnt thaaaat bad. (Dont wanna sound like a rapist, just saying there are levels of bad)\nAlso, depends what the goal of the punishment system is. It's expensive to lock someone up for life. 1year in the slammer is quite a while for a ~20yo (idk his age) and 40 hours therapy, the judge determined that that would be enough for him to turn his life around. Personally I believe reform is much more valuable and efficient than just locking ppl up forever. If you're not going to reform from 1 year jail and 40 hours of therapy, why would you reform after 20 years or whatever large sentence you'd expect.\n\nThis isn't a topic that I'm going to debate on this forum.\n\nposted about a year ago\nreply • link\n#6\nthatagedwell\n0\nFrags\n+\n–\n\nThat gets a yikes from me" ]

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[ null, "Chipper Jones, Jim Thome and Vladimir Guerrero were the top vote-earners elected into the 2018 Baseball Hall of Fame class, which was announced Wednesday.\n\nAlan Trammell and Jack Morris — who were voted in by the Modern Era committee in December — will also be inducted at this year’s ceremony.\n\nJones led all players with 97.2 percent of the vote. Guerrero, in his second year of eligibility, received 92.9 percent, compared to 71.7 percent last year.\n\nHere are the full voting results:\n\nJones was drafted first overall by the Atlanta Braves in 1990, and he played his entire professional career with the team. An eight-time All-Star, he also won the 1999 National League MVP Award and hit 303/.401/.529 in 19 seasons.\n\nAlso inducted this year will be 601-save getter Trevor Hoffman, who is in his third year of eligibility.\n\nAmong the MLB legends notably left off the 2018 Hall of Fame list are Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens. Bonds, the second-greatest hitter of all time by Wins Above Replacement (WAR), earned 238 votes, or 56.4 percent of the total votes. Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young winner, received 57.3 percent.\n\nReminder that Barry Bonds’ career WAR was higher than Chipper Jones’ and Jim Thome’s put together.\n\nThome had 612 homers over the course of 22 seasons with six different teams. That total is the eighth-most in MLB history. His .554 slugging percentage ranks 23rd all-time, and his .402 on-base percentage is 51st.\n\nGuerrero is one of 13 players in MLB history with multiple seasons of at least 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases. He had a .318/.379/.553 slash line with 449 home runs and 181 stolen bases in 16 seasons with four teams. The Dominican native made his MLB debut for the Montreal Expos at the age of 21 in 1996. He finished in the top ten of MVP voting six times, and won the award in 2004 with the American League’s Anaheim Angels.\n\nThe six-man class will be officially inducted into the Hall of Fame at a ceremony on July 29." ]

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[ null, "Following the success of its performances in Cardiff, Wales and the rest of UK. 'Robert Bowman's portrayal of the eponymous narrator of Gogol's story stood out. Here was acting of raw power and intensity that will long live on in my memory' (Nick Capaldi, Chief Executive Arts Council Wales, in his 2011 review for the Western Mail). 'While it may now be almost 200 years old, the story will resonate with so many, remains timeless ... gripping stuff' (Karen Price, Western Mail). Diary of a Madman features the techniques of Michael Chekhov." ]

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[ "THE BOUNTY - Music from the Motion Picture by Vangelis", null, "BSX RECORDS is proud to announce the release of a new recording of the score for the 1984 film, The Bounty, composed by electronic music pioneer Vangelis (Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner). Vangelis’ music is faithfully recreated by multimedia composer, orchestrator and arranger Dominik Hauser.\n\nThe Bounty is based on Richard Hough’s fictional account of the events that led to the mutiny on the HMS Bounty in 1789, Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian. It was originally intended as a two-part vehicle from famed director David Lean, and was to feature a score by his frequent collaborator Maurice Jarre. After Warner Bros. withdrew their support for the film and Robert Bolt suffered a stroke while writing the film, Lean left the project. Dino De Laurentiis, who had already sunk 4 million dollars into the production, was able to secure a deal from Orion Pictures and hired Roger Donaldson to take over as director.\n\nFor such an epic picture, the choice of hiring Vangelis may seem a bit odd. Respected film music writer Randall Larson, who contributed the liner notes, describes:\n\nVangelis’ Oscar-winning 1981 score for Chariots of Fire had set a precedent in electronic film scoring (even though its primary instrument was, in fact, an acoustic piano). By eschewing music of the film’s 1924 time period and introducing a recognizably synthetic sound design, Vangelis proved capable of underscoring not milieu or period, but subtext, raw emotion, and psychological landscape, laying down an aesthetic musical tableau that expressed much of the story’s purpose and that of its characters. The same approach gave The Bounty a continual pulse of inevitable foreboding in the clash of personalities in conflict while also musically reflecting the dappled rhythm of winds and waves and shipboard sounds that were so much a part of the film’s sound design.\n\nVangelis recorded the score playing freely to the visual image. He wrote nothing down on paper, but created the music on his keyboards. “With every movie I take a very spontaneous approach,” Vangelis told interviewer Dan Goldwasser in a 2001 interview posted on Soundtrack.net. “By this I mean that as I'm watching the footage, I am composing, playing what comes naturally and spontaneously in that moment.”\n\nIn addition to the score for The Bounty, the recording features traditional Irish, Scottish and British folk shanties, along with bonus tracks -- short suites from three other unreleased Vangelis scores: Bitter Moon, Francesco, and La Peste (The Plague), arranged by Hauser." ]

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[ null, "If you pride yourself on your cool head, intellect and reasoning skills, you might not like what we’re about to tell you. Although your brain is a powerful tool, it’s also prone to cutting corners and saving energy whenever possible. Since your attention and focus is a limited resource, cognitive bias—that is, errors in your cognitive functioning—can creep in and influence your perceptions of the world.\n\nCognitive bias can also be related to memory. Our brains remember things differently depending on surrounding circumstances. If you make decisions based on these faulty memories, your conscious processes are based on these biases.\n\nThat’s not to send you into a Matrix-style tailspin, wondering what’s real and what isn’t. Recognizing cognitive biases—your own and others’—can help you overcome them.\n\nWhat is cognitive bias?\n\nIt’s important to understand that everyone has cognitive biases, even when you do your best to overcome them. If you think of cognitive biases as shortcuts to save mental energy, it’s easier to understand. Conscious, logical thinking takes up a lot of brain power, so it’s natural that certain things—like simple math and directions to work—will eventually become “automated” in your brain. The problem only exists when you unconsciously rely on erroneous shortcuts.\n\nThere are all types of biases at play in our everyday lives. Here’s a look at the 10 most popular—instances that you’re likely very familiar with.\n\nYou’ve probably experienced some, if not all of these biases in your life. They’re inevitable, simply based on the way the brain works, and there’s no need to beat yourself up about it. The real trick is to recognize them when they pop up, so that you can dedicate more conscious brain power to overcoming them." ]

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[ null, "Currently, I’m on a boat (sounds like a song!)—a sailboat to be exact—located in the lovely waters of New Zealand. For a number of years now, my family has returned during the northern hemisphere’s winter to the boat we sailed here from California, creating an endless summer of sorts for us, due to the opposite seasons. As one of the many “sparrows” (those whose migratory return from islands in the South Pacific is annual), we feel nearly like locals now (although, with our clearly-Californian accents, the real locals may not agree!).\n\nRecently, I was asked to contribute a t-shirt design for the local school’s fundraising Regatta Day that included rowing, sailing, and fishing competitions along with food booths and games, with a brief for it to look somewhat “old-time-ish” and festive. Time was of the essence, but, we were finally casting off the dock lines for some long-planned coastal cruising to some relatively remote anchorages. Thus, the internet was rather scarce, or, slow if available at all via a USB plug-in mobile stick device. The boat’s power comes primarily from solar panels and a wind generator, unless we run the engine which is avoided whenever possible due primarily to heat, noise, exhaust, and fuel consumption.\n\nThus, my usual connection to cyberspace was severely thwarted—which isn’t necessarily a bad thing (unless you are under a demanding deadline requiring communication with a client)! Working on my MacBook Pro laptop, with the boat’s inverter switched on (which does suck battery power), I was able to create a vector illustration that I hoped would be suitable for the kids and other participants wanting to support the school. Thus, in the middle of “nowhere,” this is the design that evolved, hand-drawn in Illustrator from some sketches that I made, inspired from part of a photo I had taken of our friend rowing his dinghy amongst leaping dolphins. It was eventually squeezed through the interweb tubes to the DTG printer producing the shirts—just in time. Hope they sold a few. Wouldn’t you buy one for NZ$15 (about US$11.25)? After all, it’s for the children!\n\nThis site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed." ]

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[ null, "Northland, Auckland, Waikato & Bay Of Plenty\nCloudy spells, chance of a shower mainly in the east but some areas will remain dry for much of the day. Northeasterly winds.\nHighs: 19-21\n\nWestern North Island (including Central North Island)\nSunny areas and some high cloud, Taranaki may get a shower or two from evening. Northerly quarter winds.\nHighs: 16-20\n\nMarlborough & Nelson\nCloud thickens in the morning, the odd spit or shower from afternoon, more so for Nelson, to a lesser extent Marlborough. North to northwesterly winds pick up in the afternoon.\nHighs: 17-20\n\nCanterbury\nHigh cloud, some sun may break through at times. Rain picks up in the evening about the high country spreading from the west. North to northeasterly winds.\nHighs: 16-20\n\nWest Coast\nCloudy with the odd shower developing in the morning, rain from afternoon, becoming heavy for South Westland then further north in the evening. Northeasterlies freshen.\nHighs: 17-18" ]

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[ "Fighting Pre-crime is a CRIME\n\nA 12-year-old boy on a playground was shot dead by police this weekend.\n\nThis is the 911 call that brought them there.", null, "\"When I was 8 years old, I had a collection of toy guns that I played with regularly with my friends, and yes, even on playgrounds or around the house. That was 49 years ago. And NO, no cop came to shoot us, nor did neighbors call 911 because they saw us play with toy guns. It has become a problem today because of FEAR. People have become fearful of their shadows. Police is now doing crime prevention (even if it hasn't occurred or probably never will), when they should be investigating real crimes and arresting real criminals. Police today are so busy making money for their counties (hidden taxes) via tickets of no crimes ever committed, but laws that have no other intent but controlling the masses. YES, the Police State is here to stay and grow, unless WE start saying: ENOUGH!\"\n\nFighting Pre-crime (name of an agency in the sci-fi movie Minority Report) is very dangerous for our society. All in the name of safety WE are putting each and every one of us at the reach of the \"LAW\". Any one of us can become a potential criminal if we fit the any profile defined by the \"powers that be\". See:\n\nWhat are the differences between CRIME, LAW, Justice, RULES, REGULATIONS?\n\nI was told numerous times by Judges while on jury duty: \"Sir, it is NOT about Justice, we are here to apply the LAW\".\n\n\nI wish WE could say: \"You did not abide by the Rules, Regulations, Laws, therefore you DO NOT get the points, the goal, the reward.\"\n\n\nCRIMES are defined by the \"Powers that be\". (see Patriot Act, NDAA)\n\nWhen in reality, a CRIME is only committed if there is a VICTIM:\n\nBottom line the Larger Rule, Regulation, Law, (some call it Common Law), is: NO VICTIM, NO CRIME! or: IF THERE IS A VICTIM, THERE IS A CRIME.", null, "From where you stand today, what do you believe is the future of America?\nPosted by Flavio Antonino at 5:32 PM No comments:" ]

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[ "What Happened to September?\n\nSeptember has been a really busy month. A week after I got back from Greece, I started a full-time job, my boyfriend and I searched the city for a new apartment, it was restaurant week, we went to New York for a weekend, my mom was in town, and, well... things just seemed busier. When I start listing things, it doesn't seem like so much. To be honest, I have also started watching Mad Men on Netflix and with four seasons to catch up on, relaxing on the couch after work has been beating out writing more often than not.\nI have also run into a bit of an issue in that I've had a lot of ideas of what I want to write about, but none of them have been enough for a whole post. For example, a couple Saturdays ago, I woke up missing the intersection of Main Street and Washington Street in Ann Arbor. I've written before about how I tend to miss specific locations. That intersection is one that I always associate with autumn because of my first off-campus adventure to Washington Street that happened over fall break. If I had tried to write the whole post, it probably would have sounded like a huge sigh and a whine about how much I miss Ann Arbor. Happily, though, this past week I've gotten to slow down a little and have had time to organize some of my ideas. Hopefully I can get back to posting at least once a week again! For now, let me catch you up on something I've been up to lately.\n\nEating My Way Through Autumn\n\nOn Labor Day, my sister and I went apple picking. It was a perfect way to kick off the fall, but since I had just returned from a summer vacation, the idea of autumn starting so soon made me panic a little. September? When did that happen? However, as we picked Macintosh and Gala apples (as well as peaches, strawberries, pears and a few tomatoes - this orchard was massive!) I started remembering why I often consider the fall my favorite season: the beautiful oranges, reds and yellows of the changing leaves; new books and new classes (though not for me this year); the crisp air that seems like a relief after a humid summer. As I imagined myself wearing a puffy vest and crunching leaves under my feet, I also realized that much of my love for the fall has to do with food.", null, "This photo goes along with an article in the UK's Telegraph about \"leaf peeping\" in New England.\nThat makes looking at foliage sound like an unusual, shameful act\ninstead of something that you'd do as you go antiquing in Western Mass.\nRead more »\nPosted by Laura Chanoux at 9:48 PM 1 comment:\n\nI am back from Greece and I have a lot of pictures. In an effort to maintain that on-vacation glow, I thought I'd share a few and give you an overview of my trip! I traveled with my boyfriend's family and we spent sixteen days total on the road/plane/ferry.\n\nAfter a ten hour flight from Philadelphia, we arrived in Athens, a massive city that houses 1/3 of the entire population of Greece. We checked into our hostel, Athens Backpackers. (In addition to normal dorms, they also rent out small studio apartments, which frankly had better kitchens than my house in Ann Arbor.) We hit the major spots around the city - the Acropolis, the Temple of Zeus, the Plaka, and that really good gyro stand in the Plaka. I ate some good baklava and delicious souvlaki. I hadn't tried Greek food very often before a couple years ago, and I'd been missing out. It's really good and more diverse than I had thought.", null, "Ruins of an ancient market", null, "The coolest part of the Acropolis Museum is the actual excavation going on underneath it.", null, "The Parthenon - at night!\nRead more »\nPosted by Laura Chanoux at 10:36 AM No comments:" ]

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[ "The Electromagnetic Field Reader is a handheld device used to detect fluctuations in electromagnetic fields left behind by paranormal activity. It will beep with increasing volume depending on the amount of activity nearby.\n\n\"Some Ghosts will leave EMF traces near them that will show up on an EMF Reader as level 5.\"\n\nThe EMF reader is a purchasable piece of equipment used to read the strength of electromagnetic fields in the nearby environment.\n\nThe EMF reader is required to detect evidence of EMF Level 5.\n\nThe EMF reader is a small black box adorned with five colored LED lights, each one indicating a different EMF level.\n\nThe EMF Reader can be dropped on the floor, which increases its detection range, but due to being a directional tool, it will only be able to detect activities in the direction that it is facing.\n\nIf the ghost has EMF Level 5 as a possible piece of evidence, each EMF occurrence of Levels 2 or 3 has a 25% chance to trigger a Level 5 indication instead. EMF Level 5 does not necessarily indicate strong activity or immediate danger to the player.\n\nEMF Level 5 can prove to be quite location-sensitive, often requiring the player to aim the reader at a specific location within the ghost room during elevated activity, often the place the ghost has been standing in, which may be deduced with the help of ultraviolet footprints made by the Ghost walking through salt.", null, "Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.\nAdvertisement" ]

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[ "Officially Licensed Toxic Avenger and Cannibal! The Musical Prints On Deck For GMA\n\nOn June 27th and 28th, Grey Matter Art will sell two new prints for the Toxic Avenger and Cannibal! The Musical at the 15th Annual TromaDance Film Festival.", null, "The extremely talented Godmachine handled \"The Toxic Avenger\" and did a very cool job with the print. There is also a GID variant, which works perfectly for the subject matter.\n\nBoth the regular and variant are 18x24 5 color screen prints, which are hand numbered. The regular is an edition of 150, while the variant has a run of 75.", null, "Next up, Timothy Pittides handled \"Cannibal! The Musical.\" Pittides did a good job making the print feel like an old fashion, original one-sheet for the film. The landscape design, and the mix of absurd imagery from the film with the more classic design and font works well.\n\nThe print measures 24x18, is hand numbered, and is an 8 color screen print. As a bonus, there will be a Timothy Pittides OG giveaway (12x12 pencil) for all orders that are placed online after the TromaDance Event.\n\nDrop Info: Both prints will be sold at the Grey Matter Art Table at The 15th Annual TromaDance Film Festival on June 27th & 28th. Any additional prints will be sold on Tuesday, July 1st at a random time between 1:00-2:00 PM EST on the GMA shop page. Just look for the tweet before the drop!" ]

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[ "Why You Need to Plant an Heirloom Garden This Year", null, "If you’re a word nerd, you might appreciate that the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “heirloom” as “something of special value handed down from one generation to another.” They also define it as a plant “that has survived for several generations usually due to the efforts of private individuals.” If that doesn’t make an heirloom garden sound special, I don’t know what does.\n\nBut heirloom vegetables get ignored a lot. There’s an assumption that hybrid and new plants grow more easily or they’ve been bred to deter pests. Admittedly, it’s a lot harder (maybe impossible) to find heirloom seeds at the big name home improvement stores where many of us get our gardening supplies. And there are some hybrid varieties that make it possible to grow a garden on your balcony (Hello, On Deck Hybrid corn!). I’m not here to hate on hybrids. But I am here to tell you that if you don’t try your hand at growing an heirloom garden, you are missing out on some of the tastiest, most enjoyable vegetables around.", null, "What is an heirloom garden?\n\nLet’s back things up a bit. What exactly is an heirloom garden? Aside from Merriam-Webster’s definition, what does it mean in real life? When you buy vegetables at the grocery store, what you’re getting is bred specifically for industrial and commercial productivity. The broccoli can all be harvested at once, the lettuce has a longer shelf life, and the squash are all the perfect shade of yellow. On a smaller scale, a lot of hybrids that you may plant in your garden could give you higher yields and they can be more consistent. Again, I’m not here to hate on hybrids. They really do have a place in commercial farming and home gardens.\n\nHeirloom vegetables do have some drawbacks as compared to their hybrid counterparts. They aren’t bred to deter pests or disease. They don’t usually yield as much per plant. And you may get a lot of strange colors and shapes. So why grow an heirloom garden? To me, the perfect example is the tomato. If you’ve ever had a supermarket tomato and an heirloom Black Krim (or any heirloom tomato) side by side, you know exactly why heirloom plants are so desirable. The taste of an heirloom tomato is so much richer and complex than anything you can get in most grocery stores.\n\nAnd if you’re curious, the Black Krim tomato comes from the Crimean Peninsula, along the Black Sea. Legend has it that soldiers brought the seeds home after the Crimean War. The medium-to-large-sized tomato is bursting with a slightly acidic, almost salty flavor and has shades of red that can border on purple. I’d take one of these over a lifetime supply of most produce-department tomatoes. But I digress.\n\nAs with many things, there are some differing opinions of what constitutes an heirloom vegetable. By most standards, these are pre-World War II vegetables that are open-pollinated (thank you very much, bees and butterflies). Basically, they’re the plants your great grandparents would have grown in their garden, back when “organic” was just the way you grew things.\n\nEven though they aren’t bred for it specifically, heirloom varieties are adaptable to their environment, meaning you can save seeds and each year you’ll likely get healthier plants that are more resistant to disease and pests (especially if you practice companion planting). The more you grow them, the better they get.", null, "How to grow an heirloom garden\n\nThere’s not really too much different in growing an heirloom garden vs. any other kind of garden. The hardest part is probably picking which seeds you want to start with. A good rule of thumb for any garden is to grow what you like. Yes, there are plenty of easy vegetables out there, but if you don’t like radishes, it doesn’t really matter how easy they are to grow, does it? Although if you do like them, the crisp Black Spanish Round radish has been around since at least the 1500s.\n\nAs for seeds, there are a number of places that specialize in heirlooms.\n\nIf you aren’t sure whether or not an heirloom garden is right for you, start out small. Try one or two varieties of your favorite vegetable. I can guarantee once you taste these vegetables, you’ll never look back.\n\nWhat kind of heirloom vegetables have you grown in your garden? I’d love to hear about your favorites in the comments below!" ]

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[ null, "World Golf Hall of Fame member and 10-time major championship winner Annika Sorenstam begins her story by taking us back to the northwest suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden where she grew up with sister Charlotta, learning the game under the watchful eyes of her parents. An accomplished multi-sport athlete, Annika eventually settled on golf as her passion, beating balls in her basement during the long, cold Swedish winters as a youngster. Listen in as she recounts her early amateur successes and her college days playing for two years at the University of Arizona where she was won the 1991 D1 individual title and was a 2-time All-American. Annika recalls her experience at the 1992 Women's U.S. Open at Oakmont CC , playing as an amateur, and how it allowed her to measure her game against the world's finest players. Annika Sorenstam shares her early story, \"FORE the Good of the Game.\"", null, "Annika is the greatest female golfer of our generation, and often regarded as the best of all-time. During her 16-year, Hall-of-Fame career, she rewrote the record books, won countless awards, and changed the way women’s golf was played, viewed and covered. Her global, on-course success and knowledge of business helped her become the first and only female golfer to create a successful brand of businesses. The ANNIKA brand has been featured in Duane Knapp’s book Brand Strategy, Inc., as well as in non-golf media outlets like Brandweek, The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, SportsBusiness Journal, Success Magazine, USA Today and Wine Spectator.\n\nPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE\nFrom 1993 to 2008, Annika amassed over 90 worldwide wins. They included 72 on the LPGA and 10 Major Championships. Annika holds a record number of Rolex Player of the Year awards (eight) and Vare Trophies for the lowest season scoring average (six). In 2001, she became the first – and still only – female to break 60 in an official event, earning her the nickname “Ms. 59.” Annika received worldwide media attention in 2003 when she became the first woman since 1945 to play in a PGA TOUR event (The Colonial in Ft. Worth, Texas). She remains the LPGA’s all-time money leader with over $22 million in earnings. After representing Team Europe in eight Solheim Cups as a player and three as a vice-captain, she served as captain in 2017. In 2021, she won the U.S. Senior Women's Open.\n\nPOST-LPGA CAREER\nAnnika stepped away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season to start a family and further establish the ANNIKA brand. As President and CEO of ANNIKA, she oversees a variety of businesses. Most recently, she founded Fizzy Beez, sparkling vodka based cocktails made with organic honey.\n\nANNIKA Course Design has completed three courses globally, with three more under construction. Her first U.S. credit, Royal Golf Club in Elmo, Minn., is a partnership with Arnold Palmer Design and slated to open in 2018. The new course will be aptly named The King and The Queen.\n\nAnnika regularly appears as a television analyst for NBC’s coverage of LPGA major championships. She is a very popular motivational speaker and many corporate executives, CEOs and meeting planners use her talents to entertain important clients, reward top performing employees, and build camaraderie among teams. Annika is a driven leader with a vast network of contacts throughout the worlds of business, sports and entertainment. She continues to represent world-class companies including 3M, AHEAD, Callaway, Hilton Grand Vacations, Revo, Lexus, Mastercard and Rolex.\n\nEDUCATION & FAMILY\nAnnika journeyed from her native Sweden to attend the University of Arizona in 1990. She majored in nutrition, but left school after her sophomore year to pursue a professional golf career. To say she succeeded would be an understatement. Annika and her husband, Mike McGee, split time between residences in Orlando and Incline Village, Nev. with their two children, Ava and Will." ]

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[ null, "According to estimates by the National Electoral Institute, combined with its allies, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is set to gain between 246 and 263 seats in the 500-member lower chamber of the Mexican Congress.\n\nEstimates based on the early results show that the PRI could win between 196 and 203 seats, which is equivalent to between 29.87 and 30.85 percent of the congressional ballots, retaining its simple majority in the congress.\n\n“The message at the ballot box is that this government hasn’t been bad in the past three years,” said Jose Antonio Crespo, a political expert at the Economic Research and Teaching Center.\n\nThe Sunday elections, which also included races for hundreds of mayors and nine governors, saw violent protests in the impoverished southern states of Oaxaca and Guerrero, where angry teachers slamming the president’s education reforms burned ballot boxes in an attempt to disrupt the midterm vote.\n\nAuthorities arrested nearly 90 people for destroying election material in several towns in Oaxaca. The state’s capital was the scene of a massive protest rally.\n\nIn the Guerrero town of Tlapa, a man succumbed to his injuries from an unknown projectile when federal forces stormed into a church to release police officers held by election opponents.\n\nIn September 2014, the 43 students went missing after gang-linked police attacked their buses in the city of Iguala in Guerrero and handed them over to members of the Guerreros Unidos drug gang. The gang members told investigators that the students had been taken to a landfill, where they were killed and burned" ]

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[ "Warburtons is cashing in on responses to its April Fools ‘All Ends’ loaf by creating a limited edition version of the loaf.", null, "Initially launched on the brand’s Facebook page on April 1, the loaf comprises solely of crust ends and was intended as a joke – but the concept generated hundreds of comments and over a thousand likes from duped fans.\n\nWarburtons has savvily responded to the demand by creating the one-off loaf for the brand’s biggest Facebook fans to sample, though just how they’ll be deciding who they are is unclear.", null, "Mark Simester, marketing director at Warburtons, said: “We had no idea that our spoof loaf would receive such an enthusiastic response, so we’re pleased to have baked limited editions for our most discerning crust lovers on Facebook.\n\n“We’re always looking for ways in which we can be innovative and meet our customers’ needs – it’ll be interesting to see what feedback we get on the actual All-Ends Loaf once our fans have had the opportunity to sample it.”\n\nThis is a great example of developing the standard April Fools concept, providing tangible evidence that the brand listens and responds to fans, and utilising social media in a simple and effective way.\n\nHere’s a brief video explaining why it exists:" ]

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[ "Is It Too Late for a ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ Sequel?", null, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo became an international bestseller when the Swedish crime novel about the troubled-but-brilliant heroine Lisbeth Salander was first published in English in 2008. Followed by The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the novels comprise author Stieg Larsson’s posthumous Millennium trilogy. With a classic mystery formula spiced up by an unusual heroine and northern European setting, the books sold millions of copies and were translated into a variety of languages.\n\nLarsson’s native Sweden was quick to turn the entire series into movies starring Noomi Rapace as Salander. The books were also incredibly popular in America, so it only made sense that studios would be interested in making an English-language version of the story as well. Thus came David Fincher’s 2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig.\n\nThat movie earned rave reviews from critics, particularly for Mara’s performance, for which she did things like get several quite sensitive body parts pierced and learned to drive a motorcycle. The role garnered Mara an Oscar nod for her take on the troubled hacker-punk Lisbeth Salander. The timing of the film capitalized on the wild popularity of the novels, but still the movie didn’t make quite as much as the studio had hoped. While the $232 million worldwide Dragon Tattoo made is nothing to scoff at, it wasn’t quite as much as Sony was hoping for a movie that already had a fan base, big name director and actors, and was released at Christmas.\n\nNow it’s been three years and there still hasn’t been a sequel, leading many to think that Fincher and Sony were just dropping the Millennium trilogy. But a new interview with the director is giving fans of his interpretation of the trilogy some hope that he might move forward to make The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.\n\nAccording to a Google translation of a recent interview Fincher did with Swedish publication Afton Bladet via Film Divider, which provided the translation, he still has hopes that those sequels will get made even though it has been so long since the first film. Fincher said that because Sony has spent so much money on the rights to the franchise, he believes the investment will be motivation for the studio to get the movies made.\n\n“I think because [Sony] already has spent millions of dollars on the rights and the script, it will result in something,” Fincher said. “The script that we now have has huge potential. I can reveal that it is extremely different from the book,” he went on to say.\n\nMara has said she’d love to come back and do the sequels, but since getting the Oscar nom for her role as Salander, she’s become an in-demand actress in Hollywood and has a busy schedule to work around. She has also said that the films would need to happen soon due to the physicality of the role and the fact she isn’t “getting any younger.”\n\nWhile it is true Sony has invested in the material, now that the fervor over the books has cooled down, pouring money into a sequel seems even riskier, especially given that the movie will be an R-rated thriller — not exactly a guarantee for great box office performance. The recent flop of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, which was made nine years after the first movie, doesn’t help the odds. People who were once avid fans of the novels might have moved on to something else. Larsson died before the Millennium trilogy was even published, so he hasn’t kept writing books to keep people interested in his fictional universe. It might be well past the time to take advantage of peoples’ interest in Lisbeth Salander’s story.\n\nOn the flip side, Sony’s hefty investment of the rights to the Millennium trilogy is still good motivation for the studio to get the second and third films made, and the brutally honest Fincher would likely say there wasn’t a chance of a sequel happening if there wasn’t a chance of a sequel happening. For now, Fincher seems excited about the current script for Fire, but it remains to be seen if stars Mara and Daniel Craig can get their schedules worked out to do the films even if Sony decides that making them is a risk worth taking." ]

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[ null, "Of the around 134,000 vagrants in the city of California, about a third are truly rationally sick. Their ailments can’t be effectively treated on walkways. They should get lodging first. That is the reason the territory of California astutely ordered Assembly Bill 1816 two years back to raise $2 billion to manufacture or safeguard changeless strong lodging for vagrants experiencing psychological instability.\n\nThe securities approved by the program would be satisfied by briefly utilizing a little bit — pretty much 6% — of the income created by Proposition 63, the Mental Health Services Act, which voters affirmed in 2004 to give psychological wellness treatment projects and administrations in the state. The suggestion forced a 1% extra charge on salaries above $1 million, which is relied upon to create more than $2 billion this year alone. In any case, the lodging program — titled No Place Like Home — has been hindered by a claim that battles the Mental Health Services Act were never expected to be spent on lodging.\n\nVoters will have the opportunity to determine this issue in November by passing a poll measure, Proposition 2, that would expressly permit Mental Health Services Act dollars to be spent on the No Place Like Home program. We firmly underwrite it.\n\nRivals contend that lodging rationally sick individuals do not comprise treatment, but rather Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg (a co-creator of the Mental Health Services Act) and different supporters of Proposition 2 say that overlooks the main issue of what treating rationally sick vagrants involves. This isn’t “taking” treatment cash, as the legal counselor who recorded the claim against the state contended for the current year. The polar opposite. This is a viable utilization of the financing.\n\nSpecialist co-ops have demonstrated reliably that rationally sick vagrants are well on the way to enhance when lodging is joined with treatment. Engineers of the lodging worked with this cash would be required to make psychological well-being and case administration administrations accessible too.\n\nA few adversaries are naturally stressed that Proposition 2 will redirect assets from required treatment programs. However, that is impossible, taking into account that the expense is relied upon to be a little and decreasing level of Proposition 63 after some time.\n\nThe assets are dispensed by region, and Los Angeles County stands to get about $700 million for frantically required lasting strong lodging. Similarly as with L.A. city’s destitute lodging security program, the assets give just a bit of the financing, however, they are a pivotal bit of the riddle.\n\nThere are almost 53,000 vagrants in Los Angeles County this year, around 31,000 of whom are in the city of L.A. About 27% are viewed as truly rationally sick. Recommendation 2 will enable them to get housed and treated.\n\nColleges Strain to Keep Up With Students’ Mental Health Concerns" ]

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[ null, null, "New Irish citizens have been urged to take part in the upcoming referendum on divorce on May 24th.\n\nA ceremony conferring citizenship on almost 2,500 people from 90 countries heard from the chairwoman of the Referendum Commission, Ms Justice Tara Burns.\n\nPeople living in Ireland had the right to vote in different types of election, but only citizens of Ireland could vote in a referendum proposing a change to the Constitution, she said.\n\nThe website, checktheregister.ie, gives access to downloadable forms through which to register for the first time, or to change status to reflect your citizenship. If new citizens complete and return these forms by May 7th, they will be entitled to vote in the May 24th referendum on the regulation of divorce.\n\nMs Justice Burns said the referendum about the regulation of divorce had two parts and the second part of the proposal related to foreign divorces.\n\nRetired High Court Judge Bryan McMahon said the oath of loyalty and fidelity to the Irish State made the new citizens equal to those who had been here generations.\n\n“We have no second-class citizens,” Mr Justice McMahon said. “Participate fully in the political system. Vote. You have a right to vote now.”\n\nMr Justice McMahon also urged the new citizens not to forget their old countries, their stories, and their songs and to bring with them their own memories.\n\nThe first thing everyone wanted to do was to apply for a passport, but they should also buy a copy of the Constitution, he urged.\n\n“Gently assert yourselves in your new communities and you will be surprised what welcome you will find there,” he also said.\n\nPoland, with 406 people, was the top nationality, followed by 309 from the United Kingdom and 218 from Romania. Indians are the fourth-highest grouping, and some 68 new citizens originate from the US, the ninth grouping, followed by people from China/Hong Kong.\n\nIn a recorded address, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said his father was Indian, his sister was born in the UK and some of his relatives lived in America.\n\n“My family story, like yours, is very much defined by migration,” he said.\n\nMinister for Justice Charlie Flanagan said since 2011, when large-scale citizenship ceremonies were introduced, some 122,000 people from 180 countries had become Irish citizens.\n\n“It is truly remarkable this tiny island on the edge of Europe facing into the Atlantic has as its citizens people from every country on this planet,” Mr Flanagan said.\n\nLucimeire Da Silva, originally from Brazil and now living in Dublin, worked as an extra on RTÉ’s Fair City for a while. The mother of a two-year old is married to James McClafferty from Donegal and has been in Ireland for eight years. Seated in the front row at the ceremony and waving an Irish flag enthusiastically, Ms Da Silva said: “I love Ireland.”\n\nRavinder Dhingra, from Jaipur, India, who has been living in Glenageary in Dublin for six years, said it was a very big day for him.\n\n“I love this country,” Mr Dhingra said. He lives with his wife and five-year-old son and they have their own house now. Working in IT, he had come to Ireland for an assignment, but stayed. Asked what he liked so much about Ireland, Mr Dhingra said: “It’s really the people.” The values of the Irish in terms of family and community were very much the values of his place of origin, he said.\n\nCarol Gilbert, from near Skibbereen in west Cork and originally from Edinburgh, was among more than 300 people from the UK who became Irish citizens. “Brexit was the trigger,” said Ms Gilbert, a retired journalist and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award by Cork Environmental Forum.\n\nHer father had been Italian and she was born during the second World War and she knew all about racism, she said. She had brought her four sons up to believe everyone was equal. Politically she had never had a full voice here but now she would be able to vote in the referendum. Since coming to Ireland more than 30 years ago, she had discovered most of her ancestors had, in fact, been Irish, dating to the 1700s." ]

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[ null, "It was in 2020 when it became known that Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek had been contacted by Disney to make their debut in the Marvel Universe and star in “Eternals.”\n\nDespite the fact that both Hollywood stars have a long history in film, they have never had the opportunity to work on the same project until now, and the result has been impressive.\n\nAs professional as ever, Hayek and Jolie have taken their respective careers to another level, and Disney did not hesitate to bring them together to the degree of creating not only an invaluable dumbbell, but also a brotherhood.\n\nProof of this was when the two stars appeared together on the Mexican’s Instagram while celebrating Hayek’s 55th birthday.\n\nBut in recent weeks, it has been two young people who have imposed their youth, beauty and great personality, who have stolen the looks of those fans of the actresses, and it is their respective daughters.\n\nIt should be noted that both Salma and Angelina surprised the press and thousands of people when they reached the red carpets of “Eternals” by the hand of their respective daughters, these being the ones who stole the gala.\n\nBoth young people surprised with their incredible transformation, because both appeared very changed in terms of what was remembered of them, because now they arrived as two beautiful 15-year-old flowers.\n\nOn one side is the biological daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Shiloh, who left everyone with their mouths open by looking like a whole little woman after their doubts regarding their gender identity.\n\nAs a child, the young blonde showed her famous parents her taste for being a boy, and being treated, dressed and identified as such, to the point of wanting to be called “John”.\n\nAnd throughout his life, he began to appear next to the protagonist of “Maleficent” looking like a child, with short hair and without a drop of makeup, but everything changed with the separation of his parents.\n\nSince then the young woman began to really see what she thought and wanted, and after a time away from the eyes of the press, she reappeared as a woman next to the Hollywood star.\n\nFor the first time since she was a baby, Shiloh wore dresses that revealed the maturity of her body, because she looked just as beautiful as her mother at that age, her last appearance was a few days ago at an event in Los Angeles.\n\nThe young woman wore a more casual look of jeans and a sweatshirt, but keeping that feminine look, tying her long blonde hair in a bun.\n\nHowever, the Mexicans did not want to be left behind, and in the same promotion of the event, actress Salma Hayek arrived at the premiere led by Valentina Paloma Pinault.\n\nThe now 15-year-old has had to deal with those who have singled her out for being “ugly” and not inheriting good genes from her mother and even compared to her half-sister, Mathilde.\n\nThe young woman has always told Salma that she has no desire to follow in her footsteps, as she wishes to continue out of the public eye and have a “normal” life.\n\nHowever, her appearance a few months ago on the “Eternals” red carpet left everyone with their mouths open, as adolescence has suited her quite well, since she wore a couple of dresses with points.\n\nThe young woman decided to wear loose hair and natural makeup on both occasions but with a smoky black in her eyes that added a touch of rebellion and sensuality to her gaze.\n\nShiloh Jolie Pitt vs Valentina Pinault? This is the style and personality of the daughters of the stars of “Eternals”" ]

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[ null, "Suavecito but I think we have to try it, we are going to look for 45 passes for the central Tottenham that is presumed titular since they arrive with a few low. They face a team that does not like possession with another, quite the opposite. Last season Newcastle finished in this section in 18th place with an average of 43.8%.\n\nTottenham finished 2nd only surpassed by the Guardiola team, with an average of 58.8%. The local Newcastle did not raise much possession as it stood at 44.6%, while the visiting Tottenham, also did not go down much remained at 57.7%. I hope that this season they continue with the same style of play regarding possession. More possession implies more passes, now we go with Aurier's particular statistics. Last season averaged 45.6 passes per game (played 16) just the line they propose, but I think that when facing a team that does not like to have the ball and be the first of the season, the central players will touch the ball more normal and we can overcome this line.\n\nBy the way Tottenham is the only team that has not signed or sold to anyone, so they have the same players, so the statistics are reliable. Presumably the Tottenham will come out with this defense: Davies-Peters (Vertonghem) -davinson-Aurier, since he has 16 casualties for this match, among them Alderweireld, in other places they give him that he plays central right. However it goes, I think that in both positions it can overcome the line. To finish saying that in last season's match in Newcastle, Tottenham got 73% possession and Alderweired made 102 passes, Peters 54 (the two right wing defense) but it is that those on the left side made 87 and 78 respectively.\n\nOur recommendation tip for Newcastle - Tottenham: Tottenham to win @ 2.07" ]

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[ "Police have cordoned off a large area around a Flaxmere pub in Hawke's Bay, after a man found with serious injuries died outside last night.", null, "Police tape outside the Flax Bar and Eatery, where a homicide investigation has been launched. Photo: RNZ / Anusha Bradley\n\nHawke's Bay police are still trying to formally identify the dead man, who was found outside the Flax Bar and Eatery - also known as the Flaxmere Tavern - on Swansea Road at about 10.45pm.\n\nThe man was found outside the Flax Bar and Eatery, also known as the Flaxmere Tavern, on Swansea Road at about 10.45pm.\n\nAttempts by emergency services to revive him were unsuccessful.\n\nPensioners who live in a row of flats opposite the tavern told RNZ they did not see or hear anything last night.\n\n\"Sometimes people argue outside the pub but that's when I just lock my door,\" said one woman, who did not want to be named.\n\nOther neighbours said it was usually a safe and quiet place to live and they were surprised to learn of the incident.\n\nStaff from the Hastings-based security company, HSM Fire and Security, are helping to guard the scene.\n\nThe bar is next to the community centre and pool, and across the road from the Flaxmere police station.\n\nTwo large evidence tents have been erected on a grassed area next to the bar.", null, "Police outside the Flax Bar and Eatery after a man died outside the building last night. Photo: RNZ / Anusha Bradley\n\nDetective Senior Sergeant Marty James said the man's death was being treated as a homicide, due to the nature of his injuries.\n\nCordons are in place between the tavern and Flaxmere Pool.\n\nPolice are yet to formally identify the dead man and want to hear from anyone who was in the area of the tavern/pool between 10pm and 11pm last night." ]

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[ null, "Why people should be taking notice of Yemen\n\nWhile mainstream media focuses on the civil war and huge loss of life taking place daily in Syria, many have turned a blind eye to the devastation taking place in Yemen.\n\nAir strikes by an international coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, against the Huthi armed group began in Yemen at the end of March 2015. The intervention was a response to requests from the Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who fled the country for Saudi Arabia as the country’s civil war threatened to spill over to the city of Aden.\n\nHowever, the intervention only served to worsen the situation and it has received wide-scale criticism from the UN and other human rights groups. In August 2015, the UN Humanitarian coordinator, Johannes Van Der Klaauw described the conflict as a “humanitarian catastrophe”.\n\nBy November the number of killed or wounded since the start of the intervention was staggeringly high, with at least 5,878 dead and another 27,867 wounded. A further 21.2 million people have been left without basic services, such as access to clean water, food and medical care. At least two million children are at risk of malnutrition.\n\nWhile the UK and other western countries are not directly involved in these airstrikes, they are supplying arms and support to Saudi Arabia.\n\nSince the conflict began, Britain has supplied over £2.8 billion in arms to the country, and sales of British bombs and missiles increased to over £1 billion in just three months in 2015, nearly 100 times greater than £9 million in the three-month period prior.\n\nThe sale of arms and other military equipment has been made despite strong evidence that war crimes may have been committed by Saudi Arabia. With evidence showing air strikes have hit civilian buildings including hospitals, schools, markets, grain warehouses, ports and a displaced persons camp.\n\nSignificantly, an investigation by human rights groups claims to show definitively that in at least one of these strikes, a UK-made cruise missile was used destroy a civilian target.\n\nAccording to researchers on the ground and a number of interviews, the missile was used on 23 September to destroy a ceramics factory, which appeared to have no military purpose, in the village of Sana’a.\n\nAs well as boosting arms sales, the UK government has shown a double standard in their response to the conflict, refusing to condemn the Saudi-coalition’s use of internationally banned cluster bombs, while doing so in other global conflicts.\n\nIn an effort to illustrate just how dangerous the arms supply is, the rights groups Amnesty International and Saferworld commissioned an analysis by international law experts.\n\nThey conclude that “any authorisation by the UK of the transfer of weapons and related items to Saudi Arabia… in circumstances where such weapons are capable of being used in the conflict in Yemen, including to support its blockade of Yemeni territory, and in circumstances where their end-use is not restricted, would constitute a breach by the UK of its obligations under domestic, European and international law.”\n\nThese obligations come under the UK’s Consolidated Criteria on arms exports, the EU Common Position on Arms Exports and the Arms Trade Treaty.\n\nThe UK was a leader in bringing about the Arms Trade Treaty, which states that weapons cannot be sold if there is substantial risk that they are likely to be used in serious violations of international human rights or humanitarian law.\n\nPrime Minister David Cameron celebrated in 2013 as a landmark agreement that would “save lives and ease the immense human suffering caused by armed conflict around the world.”\n\nWhen challenged in January by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons, Cameron insisted the UK had “the strictest rules for arms exports of almost any country anywhere in the world”.\n\nSaferworld executive director, Paul Murphy said the UK Government’s policy in Yemen is in “disarray”, because it gives aid to help victims of war while illegally supplying the weapons that cause their misery.\n\n“If the UK seriously wants to sit ‘at the heart of the rules-based international order’ as claimed in the recent National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review, it must itself abide by the rules to which it has signed up.\n\n“It’s time the Government acted as a peace broker, rather than an arms broker. The first step would be to suspend further licenses and transfers of weapons to the Saudi Arabia-led coalition.”" ]

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[ null, "Oliver Martindale has been appointed headteacher of Lyndhurst Junior School in Portsmouth.\n\nIn March last year Lyndhurst became the first UK school to join the King’s Group Academies Trust, which runs British international schools in countries that include Panama, Spain and Latvia.\n\nMartindale has been acting head since January, following the retirement of Margaret Beel. He was appointed permanently at the beginning of this month.\n\nHe joined Lyndhurst as vice-principal two years ago, having previously worked as a deputy head at a primary in Wiltshire. He is also a specialist in maths, and has worked across Portsmouth developing maths mastery classes.\n\nMartindale says his vision is “for our children to leave us literate and numerate, hardworking, able to communicate, confident in themselves and compassionate.\n\n“We work hard to provide a creative and challenging curriculum to build children’s skills, confidence and self-esteem.”\n\nThe trust, which was established in 2013, has 12 schools across the north and north-east of England.\n\nCaroline Towler, who was Ebor’s director of teaching and learning, takes over at Brotherton and Byram Community Primary Academy in West Yorkshire.\n\nShe has also held the posts of vice-principal at Robert Wilkinson Academy in York and deputy head at Brayton CE Primary in North Yorkshire.\n\nShe says she will explore working collaboratively with pupils, staff and the community, following on from her previous work at the trust.\n\n“Learning should be about discovery, where children are fully engaged, sparking curiosity and allowing them to explore for themselves.\n\n“It will be a privilege to lead such a fantastic team. The school has been on an incredible journey and I know that there are exciting times ahead for the whole school community.”\n\nShe starts her new job after Easter.\n\nShe says she has a passion for science, and has collected two Rolls-Royce awards for projects she has undertaken to develop teaching and learning of science and outdoor education.\n\nSpeaking of her appointment, she said: “Having the opportunity to now be headteacher at Camblesforth is very exciting and I cannot wait to work as\na team with staff, children, parents and community to continue to grow as a school.”\n\nShe also takes up her new job after Easter and says she hopes to create a culture of “mutual respect, honesty and trust”." ]

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[ "On November 23, 2022, a man died in a Titusville crash. Apparently, the car the man was driving went airborne and ultimately struck two different poles, according to police.\n\nThe crash occurred sometime around 7 a.m. near the 5200 block of South Washington Ave., and no other vehicles were involved, according to officers.\n\nAccording to police, the man was driving north on the roadway when he lost control of the vehicle, which then entered the grassy median and went airborne and then hit a concrete street light pole and a wooden power pole.\n\nAccording to police, the man was transported to the hospital, where he died soon thereafter. No other injuries were reported as a result of the crash.\n\nIf you or a loved one have been injured in a car accident in Orlando or anywhere in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, or North Carolina, call Spetsas Buist, 24/7 at (321) 352-7588 or you can contact us on our website to schedule your free consultation with a Florida personal injury lawyer.", null ]

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[ "On Saturday-19-December the Bogota Volunteer Fire Department held their annual Chiefs election. This year it was held inside the W. Broad St Firehouse with only a limited number of attendees The meeting opened with Bogota Mayor Chris Kelemen Thanking all the members of the Bogota Volunteer Fire Dept. for their work done over this past year, because of the current health situation.\nMayor Kelemen gave the oath of office to Officer Kenneth Kalman of Engine Co. #1 as the Fire Chief for 2021. This was followed by the Mayor swearing in Officer Joseph Kleiber of Hose Co. #2 as the new Deputy Chief and Officer William Horden of Hook & Ladder Co. #1 as the new Battalion Chief. Outgoing Chief John Greiner then present new Chief Kenneth Kalman the Chief helmet that was worn by his Father. Then Mayor Kelemen swore in the Captains and Lieutenants for 2021.\nCouncilman Robbins presented Chief Greiner with a plaque from the Mayor and Council recognizing his service to the Borough of Bogota. Chief Kalman would then present Deputy Chief Kleiber with his helmet shield, followed by Deputy Chief Kleiber presenting new Battalion Chief Horden with his helmet shield. Chief Greiner would be given the Ex- Chief Badge by his Father, former 3 time, Fire Chief August Greiner. He would also be presented with a Maltese Cross picture frame with photos highlighting his year as Fire Chief for Bogota. Chief Greiner had two last duties to perform. The first was to present Fire Department Photographer Ed Rode an Honorary Chief Badge for his over 40 years of service documenting the Bogota Fire Dept. Then Chief Greiner Announced that Hook & Ladder Co#1 the winner of Company of the year.\nThe Bogota Fire Department, and all the other Emergency Service Companies in Bogota are now currently recruiting new members to become volunteers. This is open to anyone Female or Male who are at least 18 years of age , and are residents of Bogota as well as Ridgefield Park, Teaneck ,and Hackensack. Training, and equipment will be provided. There is also a Junior Firefighter program open to young Women, and Men who at at least 16 years of age. A Junior Firefighter will also receive training , and be a part of the support system to the Firefighters themselves. For more information about volunteering please to: bogotafire.org/ or call; 201-342-1736 ext. 2007. There is also a meeting the 1st Wed. of each month at the W. Broad St. Firehouse from 7:00-8:00p\nTo Volunteer for any of these Department please visit them at the following site;\nBogota Volunteer Fire Dept: http://www.bogotafire.org/\nBogota Rescue Squad: [email protected]\nBogota Auxiliary Police Dept: http://www.bogotapolicedept.org/#!auxiliary-police/c46n\nOn Sunday- 20-December members of The Bogota Volunteer Fire Dept. will be escorting Santa on his Lollipop tour of the Borough. This a final chance for the Bogota Children to show Santa that they have be nice this year. He starts his tour at about Noon with Lollipops being passed out by his helpers. This is scheduled to start at 11:00a. Then on Thursday-24-December Santa will again tour Bogota driven by members of The Bogota Volunteer Fire Dept. This will start with the East side of the Borough at 5:00p and travel all through Bogota, before he makes his way back to the North Pole to begin delivering present for Christmas Morning.\n(it is asked that while attending this event you inform them that you saw it on Bogota Blog NJ)\n( To help support Bogota Blog NJ with it's coverage of Local stories & sports\nplease contribute at: donate to Bogota Blog NJ )", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Of course, he is not actually promoting that people start to eat children; he uses this extreme example as a way to depict how inhumanely the Irish were being treated, as if they were not human, amidst the English \"devouring\" Ireland.\n\nYou can have fun with this. His own writings are lost.\n\nModern critics call the Greek playwright Aristophanes one of the best known early satirists: Of teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants. However, his sensitive side soon transmogrifies as he directs his satirical attack on the papists and politicians.\n\nSome of you older teachers remember the garbage barge full of NYC trash that had no place to dump. After receiving his Master of Arts degree from Oxford University inSwift was ordained into the Church of Ireland in and was stationed as prebendary of Kilroot, a poor town in northern Ireland. A Modest Proposal is considered one of the finest examples of satire in world literature.", null, "They felt the purpose was to give the reader historical perspective, to think about the difficult lives of children in the past. In relative numbers, in just one year,the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda, killed off a total of one million, in a population of 7 million.\n\nSee the information about this essay here on enotes.\n\nFor example, if you chose homlessness, Swift's essay begins: The occasion was the current economy and large number of out-of-work adults—they felt perhaps the author was drawing attention to the fact that times have been worse. Nor the evils of the worldwide Islamic Inquisition which — not in the 16th century but now, in the 21st, condemns Muslim apostates to barbaric execution.\n\nSince cities have to cut back on services, the homeless should all be given guns and deputized and made police officers.\n\nSwift served as the Tory ministry's main political writer, culminating inwhen he was asked to take responsibility for directing the Tory journal The Examiner. While living at Moor Park in England, Swift served as a secretary to Sir William Temple, and it was there that he began his writing career.\n\nAfter the Latin translations of the 12th centurythe term \"comedy\" thus gained a new semantic meaning in Medieval literature.\n\nBowdler gelded it of its satire and transformed it into a children's book. The meat of the human babies may be a bit difficult to swallow, but Swift goes on to add that a certain gourmet American gentleman suggested that a well-fed child can make for ambrosial food that can be easily boiled, baked, stewed, or roasted as well as lend themselves scrumptious in a ragout or fricassee.\n\nHe is also the author of. A Modest Proposal analysis essays\"A Modest Proposal\" by Jonathan Swift is a satirical work that gives an extremely sarcastic solution to the problems that Ireland was having with poverty and overpopulation in the s.\n\nHe gives a series of unrealistic and simply absurd solutions to the p.\n\nAs seen through both “A Modest Proposal” and “Candide”, both Jonathan Swift and Voltaire were committed to exposing the problems inherent to their societies, but instead of making bold proclamations about these issues, they wrote entertaining texts that used irony, especially in terms of characterization, to point them out.\n\nThere on our desks was a thick packet with the cover page facing up, “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift. A Modest Proposal: The Perfect Example of Satire For those of you who have not read this piece, you must.\n\nI enjoy teaching “A Modest Proposal.” I think in many cases it’s the first time students have been introduced to satire on that level. Sometimes my students are appalled at Swift for even suggesting such a thing—and that’s the point, isn’t it?\n\nExcellent answer above concerning your writing an essay in the manner of Swift's \"A Modest Proposal.\".\" One thought comes to mind.\n\nYour satire should have targets, as Swift's does: English." ]

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[ null, "Going Home Again by Toronto writer Dennis Bock is a page-turner, a book so hard to put down I read it in two evenings.\n\nThe plot focuses on Charlie Bellerose, a middle-aged man who long ago left his home-town, Toronto, but has returned, called by business and family.\n\nCharlie has had a very successful career establishing language schools around the world yet his personal life has been troubling and tragic. His parents died when he was a young teenager; his relationship with older brother Nate is emotionally fraught; a long-term romance abruptly ends and the smashing of his marriage to a Spanish woman, Isabel, prompts him to leave their adolescent daughter Ava in Madrid, move back to Toronto and begin the difficult adaptation to long-distance dad.\n\n“I needed some changes in my life,” Charlie explains in the opening chapter of Going Home Again, about the decision to return to Toronto after years of living away. “New schedule, new people, new rhythms. I was hoping for something else but wasn’t at all sure what it might be.”\n\nDespite his seemingly endless disappointments, Charlie never comes across as depressive or bitter yet he does not appear to be deeply self-reflective. His most common characteristic is confusion at the many turns his life has taken. That doesn’t mean he’s unlikeable. He is. Bock allows many sympathetic looks into Charlie’s mind as he tries to work through the dramas that have consumed his life.\n\nAll of the characters in Going Home Again are interesting, if not admirable, including Charlie’s dangerous brother Nate and his two difficult sons, Titus and Quinn. Nate, like Charlie, is going through a divorce but Charlie, who is ambivalent about his brother, notes: “I knew that Quinn and Titus needed to be with their mother. Their dad was a distant second best, and I began to suspect what he was going through was bigger than the end of a marriage, though I really had no idea.”\n\nIn that thought, however, there’s a bit of Charlie’s inability to understand himself, too.\n\nBock has won a series of international awards for his fiction. Not only does the pace of this latest novel speed along, the characters Bock imagines and creates — adults and children, Canadians and Spanish — seem like people we know already with their peccadilloes and charms, even though Bock has such fresh insight into human behaviour. He has an essential eye.\n\nDespite the male protagonist, the women characters in Going Home Again are three-dimensional and very empathetic, despite the occasional misogynistic slight by Nate as he attempts to colour Charlie’s perspective.\n\nThe cities, too, become important players in the unfolding plot: Montreal, Madrid, Paris, and Toronto, which at one point Charlie describes as self-important and “as cold as it was boring in winter.” It was a place to get “the hell out of.” The reader can feel Charlie’s distaste for the city of his youth, although his greatest emotional losses, after his parents’ death, all occur elsewhere.\n\nThe story is sad yet hopeful, brisk yet thoughtful, reflecting Bock’s generous talents as a storywriter." ]

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[ "In 1856, A. P. Salter, a provincial land surveyor, first discovered iron at the site of what is now Creighton. Further analysis also revealed nickel and copper. It wasn(a)t until the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) built a line through the area, in 1883, that prospectors began examining the area.\n\nOn January 24, 1887 the claim was turned over to the Canadian Copper Company. Mining operations did not commence until 1900 but the first ore would not be shipped until July 1901. By this time, the site had approximately 900 miners living in the town. Mining captains were paid $145 a month and a miner received $42. Electricity for Creighton came from the High Falls generating plant (also on this webpage).\n\nA post office was built in 1902. A two room public school was established in 1904. It was briefly closed in 1918 when the influenza epedemic broke out. The school burned down in 1921 but was rebuilt in 1924.\n\nTo ensure their workers remained healthy, the mine also opened a doctor(a)s office in 1911. This eliminated the need for an outside doctor to make house calls. This grew into a two doctor facility by the 1940(a)s. There was also a dentist(a)s office. Creighton was a town with all of the amenities required.\n\nAs Creighton had citizens of religious faith, a Catholic church was built in 1916 named St. Michael(a)s. Beginning in 1936, a priest lived inside the church. It was town down in 1986 as was most of the town.\n\nINCO, not wanting to spend the money on maintaining a town, gave residents until June 30, 1988 to vacate their homes.\n\nINCO demolished the town in 1986 when the cost of upgrading the water/sewer system was found to be too costly. Creighton mine continues to operate to this day. The mine is 1.2 miles deep, making it one of the world(a)s deepest.\n\nTake Regional Road 55 from Sudbury and drive to Lively. Turn north into Lively (Reg. Road #24) and go through the town. You will see the large black/yellow sign which says CREIGHTON MINE as you go around a bend, leaving Lively. Turn into the mine road and park. The remains will be off to the right, down the blocked off dirt road. If you travel a few metres by foot you will soon find old sidewalks and the bare earth where some of the homes once stood.", null, null, null ]

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[ "Why I love the new animal-fat fiver\n\nDon’t have a cow, vegans, this new currency is great.", null, "I have an inherent mistrust of anyone who cannot see the value in the following things: a full English breakfast, a steak dinner, lamb tikka dhansak, southern fried chicken, leather jackets and suede boots. So, as you may have guessed, I don’t trust the current spate of anger rippling through the British vegan community.\n\nOur protein-deprived, flatulent friends are annoyed, because the new polymer fiver contains a tiny bit of animal fat. The new five-pound note has a trace of tallow in it, a rendered form of beef or mutton fat. Tallow is more often used in the production of soap or candles – which also irritates vegans.\n\nThe trace of bovine essence has helped give the new Churchill-bearing legal tender the ability to stand up to a vigorous spin in the washing machine, in a similar manner to the way the old bulldog rebuffed the Nazis. What a fantastic innovation – unlike the old notes, these won’t rip in your wallet, crumble in your pocket or get ruined in the wash. But this, it seems, isn’t worth it. Almost 130,000 of the lentil-loving lunatics have signed a petition calling for the removal of tallow from the new notes, and an eatery in Cambridge, which everyone should avoid, has said it will refuse to accept the new currency.\n\nThe Rainbow Cafe has been runner-up in the ‘best ethical restaurant category’ in the Observer Food monthly award for the past five years (if you needed another reason to give it a miss). And, according to the owner, she has received ‘frightening abuse’ since announcing on social media that she will not be accepting the new fivers.\n\nVice magazine has done some maths, calculating that only half a cow would have to be sacrificed to create all the fivers in circulation. Call me callous, but that’s a price I’m willing to pay.\n\nIf vegans were being forcefed new fivers, that would be a bridge too far. But they’re not; you don’t eat money. We do not need to revoke an entire run of new currency to avoid inconveniencing a tiny minority. If it bothers veggies and vegans that much, they should ask for their change in coins, or leave the tainted note as a tip. The idiotic caterwauling of these meat-dodgers should not influence the rest of us.\n\nAll this talk of meat has got me absolutely Hank Marvin — I’m off to buy a couple of bacon cheeseburgers with my new fivers." ]

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[ "One of my subscribers has his own blog up with links to various custom motorcycles.", null, "Check out the blog\n\nJonathan Rea is one of the nice guys of World Superbikes.\n\nHe’s recently married an Aussie girl from Philip Island. He’s currently filling in for the injured Casey Stoner in Moto GP as well as his Superbike commitments.\n\nRed Bull interviewed him at home on the Isle of Man", null, "As is his custom at races in his home country, Rossi also unveiled a special helmet, designed by Aldo Drudi after an idea concocted by Rossi’s inner circle, together with the legendary Italian designer. This helmet shows Rossi hanging on the ropes, one eye blackened, with the words “Come vado?” or “how am I doing?” in a speech bubble. The helmet is one half of a well-known Italian joke, an Italian journalist explained to me. The joke is that a boxer who is taking a beating returns to his corner, sits down and asks his trainer “How am I doing against this guy?” The trainer, not wanting to discourage the boxer, replies “If you kill this guy, then the judges might just call it a draw.” Rossi’s humor is sometimes incomprehensibly Italian, as humor can so often be (and I say that as someone who has had to explain his own peculiarly British sense of irony to his Dutch friends and neighbors). But this helmet shows that Rossi is still able to laugh at himself. That’s quite an achievement after two very tough years. Fortunately for Rossi, he has only six more races before he can get off the bike he refers to as “the Ducati” and return to the bike he calls “the M1”. From Valencia, that will once again be “My M1.”" ]

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[ null, "Crypto.com, a cryptocurrency platform based in Singapore, has enlisted LeBron James to star in its first-ever Super Bowl commercial.\n\nTitled “The Moment of Truth,” the spot features the NFL star back in 2003 talking to his younger self and telling him about the things that exist in the future. The young LeBron is excited to hear that there are cordless headphones, electric cars and you can watch movies through your phone. When he wants to know if he is going straight to the league, a question published on the first page of newspapers, the LeBron from the future refuses to answer, arguing that he can’t tell him everything. However, he does have a piece of advice for the novice: “If you want to make history, you got to call your own shots”.\n\n“We going to the League,” the two are saying at the end of the commercial, which also sees the tagline “Fortune favors the brave” flashing across the screen.\n\nThe soundtrack music is The Next Episode by Hold Up, Hey, originally performed by Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg.\n\nJames is only one of the many celebrities starring in Super Bowl commercials this year. Among them there also are Doja Cat, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogan, Scarlet Johansson and her husband, Colin Jost, Peyton and Eli Manning, and more." ]

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[ null, "Frankly, Lil Yachty is lucky to be alive. On Monday (June 22), the 22-year-old rapper was driving his red 2020 Ferrari 488 on Interstate 75/85 in Atlanta when he hydroplaned on the wet road.\n\nAccording to WSB-TV Atlanta, Yachty slammed into the left median concrete wall, then spun across seven lanes of traffic before hitting the right concrete wall. The car eventually came to a stop between the right emergency lane and the seventh lane.\n\nYachty told police he didn’t remember anything after he lost control of the vehicle, but witnesses at the scene say he was driving at a high rate of speed before the accident. The crash caused a traffic jam for a good portion of the afternoon.\n\nIn photos of the crash obtained by TMZ, the Ferrari is clearly totaled. Yachty was more fortunate, sustaining only minor injuries to his arm. Although emergency personnel responded to the scene, it’s unclear if Yachty opted to go to the hospital for treatment.", null, "Lil Boat 3 debuted at No. 14 on the Billboard 200 with roughly 30,000 total album equivalent units sold in its first week.\n\n6 Tips To Manage A Large Pet Family In A Small...\n\nDoes Poop Keep Sticking To Your Dog’s Fur? Here Are A...\n\nNot Feeling The Gym Yet? Try These Virtual Hotel Workouts" ]

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[ null, "Not only does this present problems based on the limited supply of raw materials needed to produce such technology, but one Republican governor said the industry could be used as a “a front for the Chinese Communist Party.”\n\nAccording to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, construction of a car battery plant had been planned in his state but he stepped in to halt the process after learning more about who would be in charge of operating it.\n\nAlthough the Ford Motor Company would have been the plant’s titular owner, he said a Chinese company would have handled day-to-day operations. That would put Contemporary Amperex Technology — and in turn the Chinese government — in possession of proprietary information regarding the construction of the battery cells.\n\n“Virginians should also be wary of Chinese Communist intrusion into Virginia’s economy,” Youngkin advised. “We welcome and encourage economic cooperation with international companies. … But let me be clear, ‘Made in Virginia’ cannot be a front for the Chinese Communist Party.”\n\nThe governor went on to cite his prior work in the private sector in touting his ability to understand China’s motives.\n\nAs the former CEO of the Carlyle Group, a financial services firm, he said he was “uniquely positioned to understand how the Chinese Communist Party works,” adding: “They have one objective: global dominance at the expense of the United States.”\n\nYoungkin also took aim at the Biden administration for its focus on green energy production.\n\nHe assailed President Joe Biden’s “maniacal focus on getting rid of all fossil fuel generation, replacing it with solar, wind, or replacing every car immediately with batteries,” which he said ultimately serves the interest of America’s biggest economic rival.\n\n“The reality is that the technology that in fact drives all that is owned and dominated by the Chinese,” the governor concluded.\n\nAs far back as 2021, China had already exerted a firm grip on the industry, selling more than 40% of the world’s electric vehicles and serving as the home to one company that produced roughly 30% of the global EV battery supply. Furthermore, China’s refineries were in control of a staggering 85% of the cobalt being used to produce those batteries." ]

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[ "A few weeks ago, I spent a long weekend at a family reunion. Having focused intently for the last several years on improving my own family’s nutritional standards, I was somewhat aghast to witness the way big-box stores had dictated the menu at this extended-family event.\n\nOn the plane ride home, I napped fitfully and recorded my thoughts, which evolved into a surreal drama played out over several generations of a single ancestral line. . . .\n\nThe players: Members of the Jones family (two aging parents, and their adult son and daughter, who have brought their own children for a visit) — and one gigantic pink ham.\n\nThe curtain goes up on a large kitchen in a well-appointed suburban home. Cucumber Jones, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, peers into the Frigidaire.\n\nMrs. Jones: Isn’t it? I saw that ham; had to have it. Caroline, next door, she has a membership to one of those MegaMart shopping-club stores, and I go with her when I can. The cashiers, they know what we’re doing — they see two ladies and me giving her cash — but they don’t care. And you can’t beat the deal. Practically free, compared to what you used to pay for a chunk of meat that size.\n\nCucumber: Yeah, but what are you going to do with all that ham?\n\nMrs. Jones: What is that remark supposed to mean?\n\nCucumber: Well, there are only four adults here, one’s a vegetarian, and two are on doctor’s orders to avoid processed meats. . . .\n\nMrs. Jones: Clearly, you never lived through the Depression, young lady. You’d do well to remember that our people did not survive 10,000 years of famine by ignoring a beautiful bargain.\n\nCucumber: OK. So what are your plans for that 2-pound block of blue cheese?\n\nMrs. Jones: Oh, that’s just the crazy size they sell them in at that MegaMart. Can you believe it? Sure, it’s probably a bit more than we really need. But when you do the math, it’s maybe a tenth the price of those little packages of blue cheese down at the Stop and Shop.\n\nCucumber: Still, what are you going to do with 2 pounds of blue cheese?\n\nMrs. Jones: Nothing! Nothing, all right? Honestly, you spend the best years of your life raising your kids, you skimp and you save to put food on the table, and then they just pick, pick, pick at you. Out of my kitchen!\n\nCucumber: (sticking head in door of kitchen a few minutes later): Mom, we’re taking the kids to the zoo. Do you want to come?\n\nMrs. Jones (standing in front of the open fridge, wringing her hands, preoccupied): No, no, no! Something’s got to be done about this ham.\n\nYounger cave woman: I’ll say. What with all my stomach rumbling, the light-headedness and burying of starved loved ones, I hardly have time for the finer things in life.\n\nOlder cave woman: Well, I’ve never seen what all that cave painting gets you, anyhow.\n\nYounger cave woman: Gets me? Mom, it gets me ideas! Why, I’ve gotten to thinking, what if I started tracking that pregnant wild boar we’ve seen near the clear stream, and then what if I raised up the wild boar as tame?\n\nOlder cave woman: Funny you call it a wild boar; what else would it be? But anyhow, dear daughter, that’s just crazy talk. If you did that, we’d have enough food. No one we know has ever had enough food, and no one we know ever will. Let’s not waste talk on dreaming.\n\nA sod hut, in the Dark Ages, home of a family very much like the Joneses.\n\nYoung woman (running into hut, breathless, excited): Ham! We’ve got a ham! Christopher stole it from the king’s larder!\n\nOlder woman: He did not!\n\nYoung woman: He did! He disguised himself as a traveling musician, hitched a ride on the wagon carrying plague corpses out of town, spent the night treading water in the castle moat and came back with a whole ham!\n\nThe Joneses’ modern suburban living room. The two adult children, Christopher and Cucumber, are arranging their carry-on bags, preparing to leave. Mrs. Jones sits at a small desk and talks on the phone, irritated.\n\nMrs. Jones: No, I can’t come in this week, and that’s final. (She looks up at her children.) They torture you with these endless medical appointments because they just want to pick, pick, pick at you — sure, I gained a little weight. But who doesn’t, when family visits?\n\nChristopher: Yeah. Say, Cucumber, do you want some ham for the plane?\n\nMrs. Jones (rising, tearfully): I heard that! What I ever did to deserve such elitist, snobby, ungrateful children is beyond me. Not everyone can afford to eat $30 plates of organic vegetables in snooty restaurants, you know! Some people know the value of a dollar! Some people know not to mock their own mothers! (Locks herself in the kitchen.)\n\nCucumber (pounding on door): Mom! Nobody is mocking you! You’re a good person. But your embodiment of classic virtues of thrift, good homemaking and hospitality is going to kill both you and Dad!\n\nPlayers leave. Spotlights illuminate an empty suburban house. No people are on stage. Neither is the ham, for the ham has disappeared. The 2-pound piece of blue cheese is also missing, though it is unknown if it was an accomplice of the ham or a hostage. In the distance, children are singing. It is a cheery, hopeful song — something about the future and the promise of home-cooked kale.", null, "How to Live Healthy on a Budget\n\nBy Joseph Hart\nMoney may be tight, but your health is invaluable. So where can you scrimp, and where should you spend wisely? Here’s how to make the money-saving decisions that are right for your budget — and your body.", null, "How to Stock Up With Healthy Foods\n\nBy Experience Life Staff\nEstablish healthy eating habits by having the right foods on hand.", null ]

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[ null, "The U.S. role in the defeat of leftist Andrés Arauz in Ecuador’s presidential contest on April 11 was not overt because it did not need to be, according to a high-ranking Latin American diplomat. We met with the diplomat and others on an official election observation delegation with CODEPINK. Names of some sources remain anonymous due to a hostile political environment towards progressives.\n\nThis setback for the Citizens Revolution movement, founded by Rafael Correa, will have profound implications for Ecuador and beyond, fortifying the U.S.-allied reactionary bloc in Latin America.\n\nFormer President Correa left office with a 60% approval rating. He had been twice elected president on the first round; unprecedented for Ecuador, which had a turnover of seven presidents in the previous decade. His Alianza País party had won fourteen elections, reflecting the popularity of their wealth redistributive programs, including reducing extreme poverty in half.\n\nHis chosen successor, Lenín Moreno, will exit on May 24 with a single-digit approval rating. Much happened in the ensuing four years. Correa went from being the most popular democratically elected president in the country’s history to having his party rejected by an electoral majority.\n\nIn 2017, Correa had campaigned for his former vice president to carry on their Citizens Revolution. However, once in office, sitting President Moreno turned sharply right against his former colleagues, employing lawfare to decapitate the leadership of the Citizens Revolution. His own vice-president, Jorge Glas, is now in prison and other top officials have been forced to flee Ecuador. Correa, accused of using “psychic influence,” was convicted in absentia in an evidence-weak corruption trial that prevented him from returning to Ecuador.\n\nAccording to Correa’s attorney, Fausto Jarrín, Moreno was assisted by the U.S. in this legal dismantling of his own party. Casting pretenses aside, Moreno was in Washington on the day of the first round of the Ecuadorian presidential elections. Just before the second round, Moreno and his top officials flew to the Galapagos to meet with the U.S. ambassador.\n\nMoreno handed the shop over to the US. He revoked Julian Assange’s Ecuadorian citizenship, allowing Assange to be arrested in the UK. He recognized Juan Guaidó’s bogus claim to the presidency of Venezuela. After U.S. Vice President Pence visited Ecuador, the FBI was welcomed back. Even a U.S. military base in the Galapagos (part of Ecuador) was gifted to Washington.\n\nMoreno expelled the Cuban doctors and withdrew from key regional alliances: UNASUR, CELAC, and ALBA. At a time of COVID, these actions had lethal consequences. Had Ecuador instead maintained its membership in the regional organizations, their collective power could have been used to obtain vaccines and other resources to fight the pandemic.\n\nMoreno imposed an IMF austerity package on Ecuador, only to be partly withdrawn in the face of a massive indigenous-led protest in October 2019. Then under the cover of the presidential election campaign and pandemic, Moreno reinstated the unpopular measures.\n\nThe turncoat Moreno adopted a full-throated neoliberal program and is scrambling to enact additional “economic reforms” before his term is over to prevent the next administration from “putting the toothpaste back in the tube.” But he needn’t worry. Incoming President Guillermo Lasso not only shares the same neoliberal program, but members of Lasso’s right wing political party collaborated with Moreno in the National Assembly.\n\nThis has been a brilliant strategy for the right. Ecuador is in economic crisis with the impacts of austerity measures exacerbated by the pandemic. By putting in place a full neoliberal program before leaving office, Moreno spares Lasso the onus of the unpopular measures while serving international finance represented by Lasso and the US.\n\nEcuador’s electoral authority, the CNE, did not recognize the Arauz campaign until December for a February 7 first-round election. Arauz, who was sick with COVID in December, had spent the last four months battling for party certification while the other campaigns were gaining momentum.\n\nUnlike their rich banker opponent, the Arauz campaign was strapped for funds to build an on-the-ground campaign infrastructure. More importantly, lawfare measures prevented them from even using their party’s name, forcing them to cobble together UNES as their new party.\n\nFurther, Correa with his considerable name recognition and popularity was banned from running as Arauz’s vice president. Worse, the party was prohibited from using Correa’s image, name, or voice in their campaign materials. Yet other parties could invoke Correa to smear the Arauz campaign by falsely accusing Correa of corruption and associating Arauz with Correa as also corrupt.\n\nDespite all these hurdles, Arauz won the first-round election with a 32% vote, giving him a 13-point lead over second-place Lasso, but short of the 40% or more needed to avoid a second-round contest. Arauz also was leading in the polls, but that was to change with a massive disinformation campaign.\n\nThe right-wing mobilized its near monopoly of mass media to spin sworn enemies Moreno and the Citizens Revolution as allied, in what an Arauz campaign leader characterized as the “TikTok and meme-ification” of political discourse.\n\nArauz, an energetic 36-year-old economic wiz, was portrayed as stupid and lethargic. In contrast, the 65-year-old conservative Lasso put on a pair of red shoes and was marketed as hip.\n\nA four-year rightist media campaign portrayed Correa and associates as corrupt. A Citizens Revolution militant explained, “if you repeat a lie ten times, it becomes a truth.” The “NGO left,” funded by the U.S. and its European allies, contributed to this inversion of reality.\n\nStruggle ahead in Ecuador\n\nGuillermo Lasso, owner of the second largest bank in Ecuador, won with a 5-point lead. Arauz said in his concession speech: “This is an electoral setback but by no means a political or moral defeat.”\n\nWith 49 out of 137 seats in the National Assembly, his party remains the single largest bloc. The task of the Citizens Revolution politicians, according to party leaders, will be to maintain unity within their own ranks while forging coalitions with potential allies.\n\nMeanwhile, they will have to fend off continued lawfare attacks and repression from the right. Some militants have already left the country.\n\nThe second largest bloc in the assembly with 27 seats is the ideologically diverse and indigenous Pachakutik. The Citizens Revolution’s relationships with the leadership of some indigenous organizations and, for that matter, certain labor unions have at times been contentious.\n\nCorrea opposed the clientelism of the past and shunned “selling” ministries and other positions to politically influential leaders in return for their support. Correa concentrated instead on serving the interests of their constituents with infrastructure projects for underserved indigenous regions, granting water rights, and promoting multi-cultural education and health policies. Likewise, workers got wage gains.\n\nIn retrospect, the Citizens Revolution is now openly self-critical about running roughshod over some indigenous and labor leaders. Amends will have to be made, according to a former Correa minister.\n\n“Promoting democracy” in service of the U.S. empire\n\nRuling elites hold elections to legitimize their rule, not because they believe in democracy. By the time of the 2021 presidential election in Ecuador, the playing field had been rendered so precipitously unlevel that the U.S. had little need to overtly intervene as it did in Bolivia in 2019.\n\nBut that did not mean that the U.S. was not actively intervening. The websites of USAID, NED, NDI, and IRI make no secret of the imperial hubris of pretending to “promote democracy” in Ecuador. The U.S. laid the groundwork, according to a high-level diplomat, to unify the right and rig the contest against the left.\n\nAs William Blum revealed, U.S. intelligence had prior to Correa and likely since, “infiltrated, often at the highest levels, almost all political organizations of significance, from the far left to the far right…In virtually every department of the Ecuadorian government could be found men occupying positions high and low who collaborated with the CIA for money.”\n\nCommenting on the new Biden administration, Correa’s former Ambassador Ricardo Ulcuango observed that U.S. foreign policy is the same with Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats, he added, are more dangerous because they are better at speaking about cooperation when they are, in fact, intervening." ]

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[ null, "The victims were killed as Saudi military fighter jet targeted trucks loaded with coal travelling along a road linking al-Najibiyah district and Hays region in the neighboring coastal province of al-Hudaydah on Tuesday afternoon, according to Arabic-language al-Masirah television network.\n\nFive employees were also killed on Monday evening when the Saudi coalition bomber launched a strike on Fishery Wealth office in Hudaydah port, according to local sources.\n\nSaudi Arabia has been striking Yemen since March 2015 to restore power to fugitive President Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-led aggression has so far killed at least 15,500 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children.\n\nDespite Riyadh's claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.\n\nThe World Health Organisation has also reported that almost 500 cases of diphtheria are suspected in Yemen.\n\nThe cholera outbreak in Yemen which began in April, has also claimed over 2,200 lives and has infected about one million people, as the nation has been suffering from what the World Health Organization (WHO) describes as the “largest epidemic in the world” amid a non-stop bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia.\n\nAlso Riyadh's deadly campaign prevented the patients from traveling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country." ]

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[ "Visiting Bletchley Park is something I wanted to do for a long time so I was delighted when the opportunity arose to go along and see ‘The Home of the Codebreakers’ for myself.\n\nThe thousands of people who worked tirelessly at Bletchley Park dramatically affected the outcome of World War 2. It is estimated that their work shortened the duration by the war by at least two years. There is no telling how many lives these hard working people saved.\n\nWe started by taking a walking tour round the grounds. The incredibly knowledgeable guide really gave us a feel for what it must be like to have worked at Bletchley during the war. The conditions were far from ideal.\n\nBy 1943 there were nearly ten thousand people working 24/7 on eight hour shifts. There was no central heating, and with rationing in effect food was scarce. Nearly everyone smoked in those days which would have created very unpleasant working conditions. Not to mention the fact that as soon as night began to fall lights had to be kept to an absolute minimum because of the blackout. In the huts containing the Bombe machines (used to help decipher the codes) and Colossus machines (the world’s first computer) the noise would have been relentless.\n\nStep Back in Time at Bletchley Park\n\nVisiting Bletchley Park really is like stepping back in time. Great care has been taken to help you immerse yourself in the experience. Small speakers are situated throughout the grounds. More than once I stepped out of the way of a truck I thought was behind me. In reality, no vehicles allowed on the grounds. We also heard Spitfire aircraft and the sound of voices outside. You can see – and hear – the codebreaking machines at work. Patient guides spend ages explaining exactly how the machines were set so the codes could be broken.", null, "The buildings have been dressed to make it look as though it is still wartime – and as if the people working there have simply stepped away for a moment. A handbag sits by the leg of a desk, a coat is draped over a chair, and a coffee cup sits beside a typewriter. Posters on the walls remind one that “Lose lips sink ships” and “Careless talk costs lives”. Everyone who worked at Bletchley had signed the Official Secrets Act. They were told that if they spoke of what they were doing to anyone that they would be charged with treason. Many of them kept their work secret there for the whole of their lives. They remained silent even after the important work done at Bletchley Park became public knowledge.\n\nWhat seems like miles of corridor – all of it identical – stretches through the many huts built to house the codebreakers and their equipment. A cup of tea sits on a desk beside pieces of paper covered in half deciphered codes, a pencil resting on top of the paper. A blanket is draped over the back of a chair against the cold. An open packet of cigarettes and an ashtray sit nearby. Recorded telephone conversations (voiced by actors) play out as you enter a room. It feels like you are actually back in the 1940’s, in a Britain ravaged by war and fighting desperately for victory.\n\nThe movie The Imitation Game was filmed on site. It’s the story of a story about the work carried out at Bletchley Park, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. There’s a fascinating exhibit of memorabilia from the film available to look at. One of the sets – of the bar at Bletchley – was still intact when we visited. I highly recommend seeing the film before visiting Bletchley. It helps you to feel more connected to the people who worked there, especially Alan Turing. Alan was pivotal in the development of the Bombe machines and who also was one of the people responsible for the development of the first computers.\n\nWe were so enthralled with Bletchley Park that we almost forgot to stop for lunch. When 5.00pm rolled around we were startled to see the guides begin to encourage us to finish our visit. We simply couldn’t believe the time had flown by so fast. Visiting Bletchley Park is a wonderful way to learn more about the history of World War 2 as well as life in 1940’s Britain. The exhibits are set up so that they are accessible for everyone – so it’s a great place to bring children too. (I would suggest it is best suited to children of primary school age and older.)\n\nStep Back in Time at Nuffield Place\n\n🌸I'm a housewife but NOT a tradwife🌸As a h\n\nWhat does it really mean – being a housewife in\n\nToday more than ever, it’s so important to look\n\n🌟How do you feel about hats? 🌟It's Nationa\n\n☀️When you change the way you look at things,\n\nSneaking in dinner for two with @guyjharris66 at o" ]

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[ null, "While Nicki Minaj has a funny way of showing her support of President Obama, Jay and Bey opt for a straightforward appraoch.\n\nAccording to The New York Post, the pop music power couple will host a fundraiser for President Obama at Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club on September 18.\n\nThe Post hears it will be an intimate, 100 guest affair, with tickets going for a staggering $40,000 donation. Earlier that day, Obama is scheduled to attend a reception where photos with him go for a more reasonable $12,500 contribution. A representative for the 40/40 Club had no comment, but it is allegedly the Obama campaign’s last New York stop before the November election.\n\nBefore Jay-Z’s headlining performance at last weekend’s Made In America Festival, the President featured in a pre-recorded spot urging attendees to register to vote. Unfortunately, he did not cover Al Green as Jay (and everyone else) had hoped." ]

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[ "Home›participation›They have had \"Enough\" of it - They say #NeverAgain\n\nThey have had \"Enough\" of it - They say #NeverAgain\n\nLast week I came to Tampa, Florida, for my Easter break. Due to that fact I have felt closer to the news on the current youth movement in the United States with the motto #NeverAgain. As we know, this movement was started as the survivors' reaction after the shootings in Parkland, Florida. The angry survivors, mostly seniors at high school, took the initiative to launch a new movement for strict gun laws and against the corrupt gun lobby (and politicians following its guidance). So, last week I saw a lot of media reports on the 'March for Our Lives' led by these young survivors from Parkland - now supported by hundreds of thousands participating in the demonstrations and celebrities supporting them.\n\nBut this post is not about the numbers or the celebrities, it is about these young activists who have achieved a lot and who are ready to fight for their cause - whoever they have to fight against. Below I try to grasp some key moments of this movement and add some reports (partly delivered by German media who tries to interpret what is going on).\n\nOne of the early events of the movement was the gun control rally on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, days after the gunman entered her school in nearby Parkland and killed 17 people.\n\nHere some quotes of the impressive speech of EmmaGonzalez:\n\n\"If the President wants to come up to me and tell me to my face that it was a terrible tragedy and how it should never have happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, I'm going to happily ask him how much money he received from the National Rifle Association.\"\n\n\"The people in the government who were voted into power are lying to us. And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and our parents to call BS.Companies trying to make caricatures of the teenagers these days, saying that all we are self-involved and trend-obsessed and they hush us into submission when our message doesn't reach the ears of the nation, we are prepared to call BS. Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have been done to prevent this, we call BS. They say tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence. We call BS. They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. We call BS. They say guns are just tools like knives and are as dangerous as cars. We call BS. They say no laws could have prevented the hundreds of senseless tragedies that have occurred. We call BS. That us kids don't know what we're talking about, that we're too young to understand how the government works. We call BS.\"\n\nWhat happened then - of that I have been better informed by the German media. They have given a reports on the interim events and on the growing pressure on politicians. Whilst the first reactions from the White House and from the leading politicians tended to belittle the problems and the activists, the reports on mass engagement to participate in the March for Our Lives (24th of March) got the politicians alerted. This was reflected in the hasty process to tighten the gun laws in Florida just on the advent of the forthcoming March for Our Lives. See on this the report of the news department of the German TV channel ARD (with video and audio reports included):\n\nAnd then came the great day of the mass demonstrations. The report of the German TV channel ZDF informs of the preparations and on the atmosphere on the evening before the marches:\n\nThe speech that silenced the masses\n\nAgain it was Emma Gonzales who delivered the speech that got the most attention. Few but significant words in the beginning, long silence in between and then the concluding statements that delivered a strong messge.\n\nI think this is enough of the events and of the movement that has reached great dimensions. The leaders of the movement are young but not naive. They have stood up against the gun lobby and mighty politicians - and shown that they cannot be intimidated. Instead, the politicians have got the challenge to stand up with them or to enjoy their last term of office. To me these young activists merit to be called as 'profiles in courage'. To be sure, they know what they are fighting for - and they know that the future will be theirs.", null ]

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[ "The summit between US President Joe Biden and the Russian President via video conference was the first statement from the league’s Kremlin. At least putin liked this format from the Kremlin when it was cited that Biden had threatened Putin (S.E.) regarding the crisis between Russia and Ukraine,” he said.", null, "Peskov told reporters in the capital Moscow about current issues. Recalling that Putin met with Biden by video conference yesterday, Peskov said, “In fact, this format of the meeting allows for a very clear conversation. At least Putin liked this format,” he said.", null, "THE DATE OF THE NEW MEETING IS NOT KNOWN\n\nPeskov said that no new meeting date has been set. However, the question of when this meeting will take place is impossible to answer,” he said.\n\nPeskov noted that no date has been set for representatives of Russia and the United States to discuss strategic stability in Europe, but said the two leaders stressed that the meeting should be held as soon as possible.", null, "“IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO RE-CREATE THE SOVIET UNION”\n\nU.S. State Department Commenting on the statement by Victoria Nuland, Undersecretary for Political Affairs, that they were “uneasy about the possibility of Russia trying to create the Soviet Union again,” Peskov said, “Nuland has full control over russia-related issues and the entire area of the former Soviet Union. I am sure that Nuland understands that it is impossible to re-establish the Soviet Union, just like us and other experts,” he said.\n\nThe latest platform to step towards becoming TikTok: Twitter\n\nThe U.S. and Israel are on the move! Preparation of intervention against Iran..." ]

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[ null, "On the evening of March 10, 2020, US President Donald Trump made a speech a few would forget. His demeanor was bizarre, his speech halting, confused and his words often hesitant and contradictory.\n\nFew knew that many that Trump and his daughter Ivanka had met with at their Mar-a-Lago retreat, including the president of Brazil, would come down with COVID 19. From the UK Independent:\n\n“Mr. Trump announced he was shutting down “all travel from Europe’, except the UK, in a speech as notable for the underlying tones of nationalism in the president’s reference to a ‘foreign virus’ as it was for his apparent unease.\n\nThe 73-year-old sniffed heavily, suppressed several coughs and appeared to be struggling with the teleprompter throughout his short but labored speech, which immediately saw members of his administration scramble to correct his errors.\n\nFirst, the president risked sending markets tumbling even further when he announced, seemingly by accident, that ‘these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo but various other things as we get approval’.”\n\nWhen the stock markets crashed the next morning, it wasn’t over economic issues but rather a total lack of trust and confidence in Donald Trump the person. You see, two of the nations, Ireland and Great Britain, that were left off the travel ban have very high rates of infection and everyone knows it.\n\nThey also have Trump-owned golf courses. This story spread like wildfire, one of the dozens of such stories, more each day, a total lack of confidence by not only America’s financial sector but the American people as well, in Trump and his family cabal that has been sorely tested and has failed so miserably.\n\nHis callous remarks, poor spelling, lack of knowledge and an endless stream of childish lies, making him the hero of both barroom and bowling alley, has, predictably, done more damage to the US than over 200 years of wars.\n\nThe real “killer” was Trump’s closure of the Office of Global Health Security and Biodefense, part of the National Security Council. Trump has lied about this fact over and over. From Beth Cameron, former Senior Director of that now-defunct agency, published in the Washington Post, March 13, 2020:\n\n“When President Trump took office in 2017, the White House’s National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense survived the transition intact. Its mission was the same as when I was asked to lead the office, established after the Ebola epidemic of 2014: to do everything possible within the vast powers and resources of the U.S. government to prepare for the next disease outbreak and prevent it from becoming an epidemic or pandemic.\n\nOne year later, I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19.\n\nThe U.S. government’s slow and inadequate response to the new coronavirus underscores the need for organized, accountable leadership to prepare for and respond to pandemic threats.\n\nIt’s impossible to assess the full impact of the 2018 decision to disband the White House office responsible for this work. Biological experts do remain in the White House and in our government. But it is clear that eliminating the office has contributed to the federal government’s sluggish domestic response. What’s especially concerning about the absence of this office today is that it was originally set up because a previous epidemic made the need for it quite clear.\n\nIn 2016, after the formidable U.S.-led Ebola response, the Obama White House established the global health security office at the National Security Council and asked me to lead the team. We were to prepare for and, if possible, prevent the next outbreak from becoming an epidemic or pandemic.\n\nOur team reported to a senior-level response coordinator on the National Security staff who could rally the government at the highest levels, as well as to the national security adviser and the homeland security adviser. This high-level domestic and global reporting structure wasn’t an accident. It was a recognition that epidemics know no borders and that a serious, fast response is crucial. Our job was to be the smoke alarm — keeping watch to get ahead of emergencies, sounding a warning at the earliest sign of fire — all with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm blaze.”\n\nTrump closed the pandemic response capability for one reason, it was set up by President Obama. Trump claimed, however, that he saved $150,000,000 in doing so.\n\nThus far, the cost of Trump’s blunder has been $35,000,000,000,000. The ratio expressing negative ROI (return on investment) can only be expressed in scientific notation, to the sixth power. This is a guy who went bankrupt six times, who has now lost more money than, corrected to today’s currency, it would cost to fight World War II eight times.\n\nWhen we heard that Donald Trump, who refuses to be tested after serial exposure to COVID 19, has asked his son in law to take over the effort against the current pandemic, we were flabbergasted.\n\nJared Kushner, a New Jersey slumlord and embarrassment, barely got into college, requiring a massive bribe from his family’s mob-backed enterprises. Now he is responsible for America, and to an extent, the world’s survival.\n\nKushner immediately called a doctor he knows who works in an emergency room, someone with no experience in epidemiology but at least a medical license of some kind. That doctor turned to Facebook and posted: “The person who is advising the president asked me to come up with ideas, can anyone tell me what to do?”\n\nThe last time Trump turned to Facebook, he launched missiles at Syria over a fake gas attack.\n\nChina, it seems, has beaten the disease and is now aiding Italy in its efforts. They did so with leadership and will.\n\nIn the US, the head of the CDC (Center for Disease Control), Dr. Robert Redfield, who has a heavily edited Wikipedia page hiding his history of religion-based treatment for AIDS which may have led to the deaths of many thousands, is partially responsible for the total failure to address the current threat.\n\nHe replaced Brenda Fitzgerald, another Trump appointee, who resigned in 2018 when her ties to drug and tobacco companies were exposed.\n\nThen it gets worse, with the initial appointment by Trump of Vice President Mike Pence to head the US initiative in response to COVID 19.\n\nPence, who as governor of Indiana, advocated prayer to cure “gayness,” also, as governor advocated the same as a cure for HIV, opposing all programs, enacted at the advice of medical professionals, that other states implemented. Thus, Indiana ended up a “hot zone” of HIV under his leadership.\n\nBut then we haven’t heard anything from Pence though 28-year-old Katie Waldman, now married to Trump’s advisor and primary contact to neo-Nazi political groups, Stephen Miller, has made a few nasty comments to reporters who mistakenly have asked pointed questions that Pence is unable to answer.\n\nPence, in fact, hasn’t been seen since a Sunday, March 8, 2020 television interview during which he was unable to answer rudimentary questions on COVID 19 testing.\n\nNow we have something much more insidious than simply an incompetent government. China now accuses the US of bringing the virus to China. As reported in Veterans Today by this author:\n\n“In October 2019, the US brought 172 (really 369) military athletes to Wuhan for the World Military Games. Despite having the largest military in the world, tenfold, the US came in 35th behind nations like Iran, Finland and Slovenia. No video or photos exist of the US team, no records were kept, a huge team but a pitiful performance for the best military in the world.\n\nThe US team did so badly that they were called “Soy Sauce Soldiers” by the Chinese. In fact, many never participated in any event and were housed near the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the disease is said to have originated only days after the US left the area.\n\nThe US team went home on October 28, 2019, and within 2 weeks, the first human contact cases of COVID 19 were seen in Wuhan. The Chinese have not been able to find “patient zero” and believe he or she was a member of the US team.\n\nEvidence of this aspect of China’s claim is scant.\n\nThe Chinese claim, something censored in the US, that the inattentive attitude and disproportionately below average results of American athletes in the game indicates they might have been in for other purposes and they might actually be bio-warfare operatives, and that their place of residence during their stay in Wuhan was also close to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the first known cluster of cases occurred.”\n\nPast this is another observation, also potentially coincidental, that the major outbreaks in China, Iran, and Italy, the primary hubs in the Silk Road that threatens traditional Western controlled world trade, are proof of COVID 19 as a bio-warfare agent.\n\nUnder other circumstances and in other times, such conspiratorial claims could be easily denied, but no longer. From New Eastern Outlook:\n\nSimply put, there are actors out there that can and would unleash a global pandemic as a component in the long term “chaos theory” operation.”\n\nIt is clear that Donald Trump in the US and Boris Johnson in the UK represent a “perfect storm” of bumbling incompetence and paralytic policymaking in the face of the current global pandemic threat.\n\nIt is also clear that both Trump and Johnson are Deep State puppets, an assertion supportable through an examination of their personal history, their paths to power and their unique attributes for theatricality and prevarication.\n\nThe questions that remain relate to solutions. Can there be solutions in the US, Britain as well, when government incompetence and inaction arrives served as a toxic soup of leadership malaise and conspiratorial complicity?\n\n0 thoughts on “COVID 19: Exposing the very worst of America”" ]

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[ "Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said that the state government is planning to float diaspora bonds to source NRI investments to fund its development initiatives.", null, "The diaspora bond would be the new option for NRIs to partner in the state’s development and safely invest their savings, Vijayan added. Photo courtesy: Wikimedia\n\nDuring his weekly television interactive session, Naam Munnottu, Vijayan said that the government was implementing various innovative and productive schemes for NRIs to park their funds.\n\nThe diaspora bond would be the new option for NRIs to partner in the state’s development and safely invest their savings, he added.\n\n“The government has decided to construct a semi-high-speed railway line from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod at a cost of INR 65,000 crore. The savings of NRIs could be utilised for the project and the diaspora bond was a move in this score,” he said.\n\nNRI investors would be given an exclusive slot in various infrastructure and development projects across the state. The government also has plans for NRI investment in small and medium enterprises." ]

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[ "Getting Naked on Mount Kinabalu?", null, "It’s all fun and games until you’re thrown into a Malaysian prison.\n(photo from Mount Kinabula Facebook page)\n\nIf you have been following the seismic news, you have heard that a small group of merry-makers are being held in Malaysia for showing flesh on the wrong mountain. Their antics caused an earthquake, killing at least 13 people. The tourists were allegedly posing nude and/or nearly nude near the summit of Mount Kinabalu. Since the mountain is sacred to the fragile sensibilities of the Malay, such disrespect rankles the righteous. As it should. Personally, I’d be quite irritated if people stripped to their birthday suits on Mount Sinai, for example. Or if they sported a swimsuit while touring Saint Mark’s Basilica on the flooded Piazzo San Marco. Should I be so prudish? Yes. If there is a god guarding such holy places, surely he wouldn’t care. I would hope he has a sense of humour. Besides, he can always burn the miscreants’ souls in Hell later. But my irritation against anyone not following the rules is not because I think it offends any invisible friends, but because it offends people in the local community. Why should a dying grandfather or an aging nun on a pilgrimage in Venice put up with giggling 20-somethings wiggling half-clad bums at an altar of veneration? Should it be different if the people are Malaysian? Whether you believe the spot is sacred or not, it is simply not polite or respectful to other people who are serious about such things.\n\nThe group of foreigners (including two Canadians, which really irks me!) were among an entourage touring Malaysia’s outback when they allegedly slipped away from the other guests, removed all their clothes, and snapped some memorable pictures. Yipee for them! It’s like, “look Dad, no clothes and no common sense”. Perhaps the party-makers will make a defence that they were ignorant of the law. They might argue that this is their normal behaviour whenever they leave their Saskatchewan home and go to the sacred mountains of Banff, Alberta. Or they may say that they’ve done this on the prairies where sweat-lodges make photogenic backdrops. Well, such antics in Canada may be overlooked. But anyone visiting Malaysia should have read the fine print in their Lonely Planet Rough Guide. They would have learned that Malays are even more prudish than I am.\n\nHowever, there is more to the Mount Kinabalu story. The mountain is sacred to to the people who leave around it. They believe that Mount Kinabalu is home to the spirits of their relatives who await entry into a final afterlife. Such spirits are easily disturbed. As a result of the insult against the mountain and its spirits, there was a deadly earthquake. The Malaysian Foreign Minister feels that the 10 foreign tourists offended the spirits, who alerted the mountain, which shook in anger. As a geophysicist, I have other ideas about the cause of earthquakes. However, I am used to religious people rejecting science in favour of inherited myths, so I am not surprised that the honourable minister would say this.", null, "Yeah, they really did this.\n(photo from social media)\n\nThe 5.9 magnitude quake, allegedly caused by the prancing naked tourists, dislodged rocks, killing at least 13 (6 more are missing). The ensuing landslide closed a popular hiking trail, trapping at least 170 others on the mountain.\n\nOne or more of the cheeky participants in the infamous photos posted their dirty deed on Facebook’s unofficial Mount Kinabalu page. (The photos have since been removed.) The two Canadians who posed together nude (or maybe semi-nude) are a brother and sister from southern Saskatchewan. Let’s hope they don’t have to spend more than a couple of years in a Malaysian prison. In fact, a local priest, anxious to calm the disturbed spirits, says that the 10 foreigners should just be required to donate 10 water buffalo. Male or female – the priest said either will be just as effective. (He is undoubtedly right about that.) I presume the animals will be led up the mountain trail, then sacrificed. And that will surely prevent earthquake aftershocks.\n\nRon Miksha is a bee ecologist working at the University of Calgary. He is also a geophysicist and does a bit of science writing and blogging. Ron has worked as a radio broadcaster, a beekeeper, and Earth scientist. (Ask him about seismic waves.) He's based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Ron has written two books, dozens of magazine and journal articles, and complements his first book, Bad Beekeeping, with the blog at badbeekeepingblog.com. Ron wrote his most recent book, The Mountain Mystery, for everyone who has looked at a mountain and wondered what miracles of nature set it upon the landscape. For more about Ron, including some cool pictures taken when he was a teenager, please check Ron's site: miksha.com.\nView all posts by Ron Miksha →\nThis entry was posted in Culture, Religion and tagged Malaysia, Mount Kinabalu, mountain spirits. Bookmark the permalink.\n\n4 Responses to Getting Naked on Mount Kinabalu?" ]

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[ null, "A free exhibition is being held in Brixton to celebrate the presence of Black communities in Lambeth over the past 350 years.\n\nHosted at Lambeth Town Hall, the show will feature the work of the photographer Harry Jacobs which provides an extraordinary visual record of the Black community in Brixton between the 1950s and the 1990s.\n\nHis distinctive studio portraits of families posed in front of an unchanging backdrop were to be found in houses across South London and back in the Caribbean.\n\nMore than 500 of his photos are included in the exhibition, in a reconstruction of the walls of images that used to cover all the wall spaces of his studio in Landor Road.\n\nDespite the significance of the voyage of the Empire Windrush in 1948, there had already been many Black people living in Lambeth, and the second half of this exhibition explores the evidence for this earlier community to be found in Lambeth council’s historical archives.\n\nThe content includes former slaves and servants who were being baptised in Lambeth parish church in the 18th century, African princes and sons of chiefs who were being educated in Clapham and the mysterious, unnamed ‘Black Woman of Brixton Causeway’ who was struggling to bring up her child in Lambeth in the 1720s.\n\nBefore and After Windrush has been curated by Lambeth Archives as part of Lambeth Councils celebrations for national Windrush Day on June 22.\n\nLambeth councillor, Sonia Winifred, said: “We are proud to be able to draw on our rich and varied archives to put on this interesting and engaging exhibition.\n\n“Multiculturalism and the history of our Black communities in Lambeth goes back much further than most people probably realise.\n\n“I am welcoming all our residents to come along to the town hall and take this opportunity to learn more about our collective history at the same time as enjoying some beautiful exhibits and photography.”\n\nBefore and After Windrush: 350 years of Black People in Lambeth is showing at Lambeth Town Hall from now to July 5 on Monday to Friday between 9am and 6pm." ]

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[ null, null, "A traditional paper ballot on the left and a ballot generated by the Freedom Vote Tablet on the right.", null, "“The equipment jammed in Oak Township, throwing the actual count off by three votes,” Robertson said. “We want to make it right because we want it to be accurate when we go into canvas (the election results).”\n\nThe jammed ballots were actually counted by the tabulating machine twice, increasing the final election results in Oak/St. Mary Township by three ballots The final tabulation on Election Day showed 306 ballots being cast at the site, three higher than the actual count of 303 - the number verified by the recount.\n\nDodge said the three ballots that jammed were from a Freedom Vote Tablet (FVT), available at polling sites for persons with disabilities and as an optional means of a casting a ballot. The FVT is a “touch screen” tablet-style voting machine with headphones and an ADA-compliant keyboard available for persons with vision or hearing disabilities. A paper ballot, which has the appearance of a cash register receipt, is generated by the FVT after a person has completed the voting process.\n\nThe FVT was used at the Oak/St. Mary polling site when the location began running low on paper ballots, Dodge said.\n\nRobertson said Oak/St. Mary was the only Mills County polling site to experience issues with ballots jamming but some other counties in the state had similar issues." ]

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[ null, "The Executive and entire members of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Ondo State chapter uses this medium to congratulate our Grand Patron and Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Oduayo Akeredolu on his re-election as governor for another term.\n\nONDO SWAN notes that the victory of Governor Akeredolu will further brings hopes and assurances of a brighter future to the state sports men and women as sporting activities are gradually returning following the outbreak of the COVID -19 pandemic.\n\nFor us, the victory of our Grand Patron at the poll was a clear demonstration of the peoples’ confidence and trust in his leadership quality to steer the ship of the Sunshine State to the promise land.\n\nONDO SWAN calls on all stakeholders to join hands with the present administration to ensure that the state attains it’s full potential in the all round development of the sector.\n\nWe also urge our Grand Patron to ensure maximum support for the state athletes ahead of the National Sports Festival coming up in Benin later in the year and all football teams under the watch of the state football agency (Sunshine Stars, Sunshine Queens and Rising Stars) as the new season is fast approaching.", null, null, null, "My Encounter With Nigeria’s No.1 Female Squash Player Yemisi Olatunji\n\nMy Encounter With Nigeria’s No.1 Female Squash Player Yemisi Olatunji", null, "NIGERIAN WRESTLERS’ READY TO RUMBLE IN ABUJA FOR NATIONAL SECURITY, PEACE AND UNITY" ]

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[ "The Chilling Stories Behind Portlock, Alaska\n\nAlaska is larger than life, with overwhelming landscapes offering adventure. Mountains, forests, and wilderness stretch for endless miles, the scene of many stories happening here. But the stories about Portlock, Alaska, are unlike any other, with characters from a horror movie. For an adrenaline-pumping excursion, look no further than tales of this now-abandoned town on the Alaska coast.\n\nWhere Is Portlock, Alaska?\n\nOn the southernmost region of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula lies the remnants of a small village called Portlock. The town began in the early 1900s as a cannery for salmon. It was on Port Chatham Bay, 16 miles south of Seldovia, near the chromium mining settlement of Chrome.\n\nTraveler’s Tip: Have you ever wondered if you can physically see Russia from Alaska?\n\nThe Aleuts inhabited the area for centuries. Settlers came to the region around 1787 when the British Royal Navy arrived with Captain Nathaniel Portlock, exploring the southern Alaskan coastline.\n\nBy 1910 there was enough interest in opening a cannery at Portlock that the town became official with the opening of its post office in 1921. However, by the 1940s, there were rumors of disappearances and murders and the discovery of giant footprints, and sightings of a hairy, Bigfoot-like creature the locals called Nantiinaq.\n\nSoon, many moved away from the small community, scared for their lives. By 1951, the only local left was the postmaster, and when he closed the post office, he also moved.\n\nWhat Happened to the Town of Portlock, Alaska?\n\nAfter the establishment of a cannery due to massive salmon runs in the area, the citizens of Portlock experienced strange disappearances and deaths. In the 1920s, Albert Petka reported running off a peculiar animal with his dogs before receiving a fatal blow from the creature.\n\nTen years later, a piece of logging equipment hit a logger in the head, even though it would have taken more than one person to lift it. The logger died, and the unusual trend continued when several hunters disappeared a few years later. Their bodies floated in with the morning tide. Something had partially dismembered and beaten them. Over 20 years, people claimed to find more than 30 bodies in the same state.\n\nBy then, locals spoke of a Yeti-like monster that walked the beaches of Portlock, destroying fish wheels and leaving giant 18-inch-long footprints. This Nantiinaq creature wasn’t your usual Sasquatch, but more of a shapeshifter, keeping away from people. Some said when anyone cornered him, he could become violent, changing into an animal.\n\nOthers talked of a woman in a long black dress with a pale face who would appear from the cliffs. She would moan and scream, then disappear into the cliff face.\n\nIn the forests, people reported that someone ripped trees out and shoved them back in upside down. It was enough to send the entire village running to the hills.\n\nAfter so many scary rumors, the population began dwindling in Portlock. Locals moved away to the surrounding villages of Nanwalek and Port Graham.\n\nIs Portlock and Port Chatham the Same Thing?\n\nPortlock, Alaska, is no longer on maps, as there is not much left. Port Chatham is the bay that separates Elizabeth Island from the southern portion of the Kenai Peninsula.\n\nMany people use the term “Port Chatham” when referring to Portlock. It was the only town in the region of Port Chatham Bay, and people sometimes use the terms interchangeably.\n\nA few old cabins, some cannery equipment, and a little graffiti are all that remain of Portlock. The region is full of stunning scenery and abundant wildlife.\n\nHowever, the stories have kept tourists, developers, and settlers away from an otherwise pristine coastline. Maybe that’s precisely what the source of the rumors meant them to do!\n\nHow Many Ghost Towns Are in Alaska?\n\nThere are over 100 abandoned towns in Alaska, and most claim ghosts as their only residents. A few scarier ones would be Ukivok near Nome, the Kennicott Mine in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Portage, near Whittier, the Slide Cemetery in Skagway, and the Treadwell Gold Mine near Juneau.\n\nIs Portlock, Alaska, Worth Visiting?\n\nIt’s a hike to get to Portlock, Alaska, these days, but if you have the opportunity, don’t pass it up. Several residents who grew up there and moved out still talk about its beauty.\n\nHowever, they also suggest that many of the stories about their hometown exist to keep outsiders from discovering what a magical place it is. So enjoy a side trip to Portlock, but be on the lookout for an overly hairy man who wants his privacy.\n\nDo you believe the rumors about Portlock, Alaska?", null, "Abandoned Places in Utah You Need to See", null ]

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[ "Today we observe the great and Holy Saturday when Our Lord “rested” in the tomb on the seventh day of the week, having finished the work of Redemption with His death on the Cross. The sabbath is a continual theme in the Holy Gospels, but contemporary commentators tend to focus on the conflict between the legalism of the scribes and pharisees and the new law of love that Our Lord proclaimed and exemplified. But this perspective overlooks the deeper meaning of Our Lord’s healing miracles on the Sabbath, a meaning that directly relates to the first perfection of the universe and the distinction between the finished supernatural work of creation and the natural order of providence which only began when the work of creation was finished. In the Catena Aurea, St. Thomas Aquinas quotes St. Augustine, who, commenting on the cure of the paralytic in St. John’s Gospel, Chapter Five, writes:\n\nOur Lord openly says that the sacrament of the Sabbath the sign of observing one day out of seven was only a temporary institution, which had attained its fulfillment in Him: But Jesus answered them, “My Father worketh hitherto and I work,” as if He said, “Do not suppose that My Father rested on the Sabbath in such a sense, as that from that time forth, He has ceased from working; for He worketh up to this time, though without labor, so work I.” God’s resting means only that He made no other creature, after the creation. The Scripture calls it rest to remind us of the rest we shall enjoy after a life of good works here. And as God only when He had made man in His image and similitude, and finished all His works, and seen that they were very good, rested on the seventh day: so do thou expect no rest, except thou return to the likeness in which thou wert made, but which thou lost by sin, i.e., unless thou dost good works.\n\nThis statement of St. Augustine is rich in meaning. It reaffirms the universal teaching of the Fathers that God created all of the different kinds of creatures during the six days—whether they were six 24-hour days as the other Fathers held or an instantaneous creation, as St. Augustine mistakenly believed for reasons explained here. He also compares the finished work of creation to the finished work of redemption which He completed on the Cross on Good Friday:\n\nFor He rested in His sepulcher on the sabbath, having on the sixth day finished all His work, inasmuch as He said, “It is finished.” What wonder then that God, to prefigure the day on which Christ was to rest in the grave, rested one day from His works, afterwards to carry on the work of governing the world. We may consider too that God, when He rested, rested from the work of creation simply, i.e., made no more new kinds of creatures: but from that time till now, He has been carrying on the government of those creatures. For His power, as respects the government of heaven and earth, and all the things that he had made, did not cease on the seventh day: they would have perished immediately, without His government: because the power of the Creator is that on which the existence of every creature depends. If it ceased to govern, every species of creation would cease to exist.", null, "As we rejoice in Our Lord’s glorious Resurrection, let us then resolve to work harder than ever to help restore the faith of our Catholic brothers and sisters—and of all human beings—in the perfect goodness of God’s character, as shown forth in His work of Creation and in His work of Redemption.\n\nP.P.S. I have been invited to speak to a chapter of the Chesterton Society in the state of Washington, to a parish community in Montana, and to the newly-founded religious community of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer in Montana during the first two weeks of May. If you know of any parish, school, or other community in Northern California, Washington, Montana or Oregon, that would be interested in hosting a Kolbe presentation during that period of time, please let me know as soon as possible." ]

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[ "A Market Regains It's Momentum\n\nInventory Continues to Drive the Island Market All in all, 2014 has to be viewed as a very good year for the Bainbridge real estate market. The primary challenge of the year was a lack of inventory, which meant that buyers had too few choices. As we begin 2015, the same low inventory levels that drove the market in 2014 are even more pronounced. So it’s not a stretch to imagine that we may be in for more of the same in the coming months.\n\nThe Availability‐Sales‐Pricing Triangle Fewer homes actually sold in 2014 than in 2013. We began the year with record low inventories– 70 homes available (on the market and not under contract to be sold) – and ended the year with even fewer available (a mere 56!). This actually dampened sales because buyers couldn’t find what they were seeking, so many opted to continue to stay where they were, rent or go elsewhere. Sellers were reluctant to put their homes up for sale because they were afraid they couldn’t find new homes should their houses sell. (Approximately 40% of the sales on our island are from people moving around on Bainbridge.) This created competition for desirable homes, which pushed prices upwards.\n\nThe Story Behind the Prices So what is going on with prices? We are showing an increase of more than 17% in both average and median prices. As with any statistics, it is beneficial to look at the numbers in some detail and in the context of the bigger picture. As we have discussed before, published price changes have as much, if not more, to do in the “short run” (three years or so) with the price ranges buyers are in rather than with the price changes of individual houses. In this regard, there were some profound changes between 2013 and 2014. In 2013, 46% of all sales were $500K or less, but in 2014 that number dropped to 34%. Conversely, in the $500K to $800K range, there were 164 homes sold in 2014 versus 154 in 2013. Above $800K, there were 101 homes sold in 2014 versus 69 in 2013. The demand for homes in the upper price ranges increased, stimulating sales of more expensive homes and boosting both average and median prices. This activity shift was welcome news to our middle and upper market. When looking at the market as a whole, the median price of a home on Bainbridge needs to increase another 13% before we will be at our 2007 peak, but we are getting closer every year to returning to that high mark.\n\nOne Address at a Time\n\nBut what about individual houses? How does this", null, "increased competition affect the marketing strategy for each home about to be listed? There are many factors that determine the best approach for each property, the primary one being the makeup of the buyer pool at any one time and how each home conforms to that group’s wants and needs. This is where a professional real estate agent who is active in the market comes in. There is always a desire to “push up prices,” and a knowledgeable agent can assess how quickly and how high to push. Houses sold about 21% faster in 2014 than 2013. Also, the median sales price percentage of original listing price increased from 97% in 2013 to 97.7% in 2014. Both indicate individual home price increases because they are selling more quickly and closer to list prices than they were before. If you are curious about your home, your professional real estate agent will be happy to give you an idea of where you are.\n\nThe condominium market experienced improvements in almost all areas. The number of sales were up almost 9%, median prices up 8% and there were four sales over $1M. These were the first condominium sales over $1M since July of 2010! The bulk of the sales (67%) were $400K and below, but there were sales in all price ranges up through $1M. Again, inventory has been scarce, especially in some of the middle price ranges. There were times when there was no inventory between $600K and $800K. Even though the median price of $335,000 is well short of the peak price of $464,000 in 2007, the direction is positive.\n\nAn Active Land and Development Segment\n\nAs with homes and condominiums, there was not an abundance of parcels for sale. The number of sales decreased more than 17% from 2013 but that was a particularly active year. Excluding 2013, there were 30% more parcels sold in 2014 than the best year going back to 2007. On the development front, things are quite active. To name a few: Grow Avenue’s second phase is under construction; the Wyatt Way parcel down the street is in feasibility review for approximately 19 new parcels; and Lynwood Center has two projects in the development phase with Pleasant Beach Village Hillside and the “Roost” off Pt. White Drive and Baker Hill Rd. These last two developments alone will represent approximately 50 new homes and both are slated to be active in 2015.\n\nRing in the New Year", null, "The coming year should prove to be an interesting one. Even though it is only January, the “buzz” is positive among buyers and sellers. The markets on both sides of us, Seattle and North Kitsap, are healthy. Seattle has quieted a bit from the craziness of the past couple years, but is still very robust while North Kitsap is experiencing one of the fastest starts ever. The region is looking good, the days are getting longer, no obvious storm clouds are in sight and we are off on the adventure of 2015!" ]

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[ "NOTE: THIS PAGE WAS CREATED IN EARLY 2020, BEFORE THE NFT CRAZE BEGAN AND THE CONCEPT DATES BACK TO 2014. WE HAVE BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY FOR THE RIGHT TIME AND TECHNOLOGY TO LAUNCH 🙂\n\nGovernments used to sell “war bonds” to finance their various wars. Bearers were repaid with interest after the war was (hopefully) won.", null, "But instead of raising money to fight a war, our plan is to sell $1,000,000 worth of “Peace Bonds” to fulfill our Party Revolution and Wage Peace on a truly global scale. To forever eliminate all means of sadness and division!", null, "This will involve the creation of a Documentary Film and Global Activation Campaign that will unite the world in celebration and earn us the Nobel Peace Prize. Whereupon the accumulated $1,000,000 in prize money will be repaid to all Peace bond holders!", null, "And during our Nobel Prize acceptance speech, we will make the suggestion that all the countries of the world allocate one percent of their defense budgets to Partying for a year… JUST to see what would happen.\n\nThat’s 20 BILLION DOLLARS dedicated to repurposed tanks, planes battleships, sound cannons and MORE that are no longer weapons of war, but advanced armaments for creating The Greatest Celebration The World Has Ever Experienced.", null, "We believe this can happen. And we believe it WILL happen. As far as we can tell, this is The Preeminent Plan to Wage Peace on a global scale and have been working nonstop for the past 11 years to ensure it comes to pass 🙂\n\nTo learn more about the history of the Peace Bonds and this film, click HERE", null, "Partying is the opposite of violence. A shared experience with the power to inspire even the bitterest of foes to forget their differences and spontaneously connect on a level that goes far deeper than the thinking mind.\n\nThe Open-Source architecture and ethos underlying the DDP and Greater Decentralization Gambit holds the key to “organizing as effectively as those who love war” and peacefully rendering all Centralized power structures obsolete forever, as outlined in this recent talk:\n\nHere are some of the designs, created by the inimitable Tanna Po!\n(ALL PEACE BOND DESIGNS WILL BE ANIMATED)", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "The higher denomination Bonds will also be physically rendered as beautifully framed collectibles and shipped to the purchasers. All the Peace Bond NFTs will be animated artworks and they can be easily displayed in small digital picture frames as well 🙂\n\nEach Peace Bond will also function as a ticket to the global virtual movie premiere / Party and be ascribed all sorts of other cool features in the future. These are no mere art pieces; these are gifts that will keep on giving!\n\nA breakdown of Peace Bond denominations and quantities\nThe number 1,914 was chosen as an ode to The Christmas Truce of 1914", null, "You may also simply donate to the cause. We are linked to nonprofits in Canada and the USA, which can allow contributions to be written off as a charitable donation.\n\nOr donate in crypto via our CoinTr.ee page 🙂\n\nFor media inquiries or any questions, please Contact us\n\nAre you ready to help us make this crazy dream reality?", null ]

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[ null, "This is book number 475 in the Counterpoints series.\n\nPlaying for Change - performing for money and for social justice - introduces a critical pedagogy of arts-based community learning and development (A-CLD), a new discipline wherein artists learn to become educators, social workers, and community economic development agents. Challenging the assumption that acculturation into a ruling ideology of state development is necessary, this book presents a version of CLD that locates development in the production of subjectivities. The author argues that A-CLD is as concerned with the autonomous collective and the individual as it is with establishing community infrastructure. As a result, a radical new theory is proposed to explain aesthetics within arts movements, beginning not by normalizing music cultures within global capitalism, but by identifying the creation of experimental assemblages as locations of cultural resistance. This book offers a new vocabulary of cultural production to provide a critical language for a theory of anti-capitalist subjectivity and for a new type of cultural worker involved with A-CLD. Drawing from a four-year study of thirteen music festivals, Playing for Change forwards A-CLD as a locally situated, joyful, and creative resistance to the globalizing forces of neoliberalism.\nMichael B. MacDonald (PhD, University of Alberta), is Assistant Professor of Popular Music at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. An ethnomusicologist and ethnographic filmmaker, he teaches courses in ethnomusicology and cultural studies. Michael publishes widely on topics in the anthropology of music learning with special attention to critical youth studies and the critical pedagogy of music; his films explore themes of cultural sustainability." ]

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[ "Kamo Mphela shook! Her name used to release music on a streaming platform", null, "Musician Kamo Mphela was left shook by another Kamo Mphela who seem to be uploading music on a streaming service\nImage: Instagram/ Kamo Mphela\n\nAmapiano singer and dancer Kamo Mphela was left shook after she discovered someone released songs under her name on a streaming service.\n\nTaking to Twitter Kamo shared her ordeal with her followers and said she wondered why someone would do that to her.\n\n“Someone released music under my name, which is wild — like why would you do that, babe?” she wrote.\n\nIn her mentions her followers advised the star on how to make sure this does not happen again.\n\n“As soon as you get into the entertainment business you are supposed to trademark all variations of your stage name to prevent such opportunists.”\n\nTshisaLIVE reached out to Kamo Mphela's management for comment. Any update will be include once received.\n\nKamo burst onto the scene with a bang and has been making waves since.\n\nSomeone released music under my name , which is wild like why would you do that babe ?? 🤦🏽‍♀️\n\nThe amapiano sensation had been doing well for herself and she kicked off the year in a big way.\n\nShe took to Twitter at the beginning of the year and revealed that her music video Nkulunkulu had bagged 10-million views since its release.\n\nKamo said she was grateful for the overwhelming support she's received since making her debut in the industry.\n\n“Nkulunkulu on 10 million views, thank you to everyone who believes in the brand. 2022 may God bless the hustle.”\n\nWhile Kamo has received major love from fans, she's also had her fair share of cyberbullying, including having to put the record straight twice after rumours that she was expecting.\n\n“Guys, I’m not pregnant, yoh! How many times? I just gained weight, OK? It’s those dollars, the dollars are making me look pregnant. Everybody is like ‘Is Kamo pregnant?’ I’m not motherf*%#en pregnant.”\n\nWatch out Hailey Berry, Mzansi has its own Cat Woman and that's Kamo Mphela!\nTshisaLIVE\n4 months ago\n\nBlxckie on his latest project: 'This EP is an exploration of another side of me'\n\nKamo Mphela reacts to being body-shamed after her latest video\n\n\"Gains or not we still winning.\"\nTshisaLIVE\n6 months ago\n\nKamo Mphela is grateful for the support from fans.\nTshisaLIVE\n7 months ago" ]

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[ null, "Easily the saddest episode of the season thus far.\nWell I'm glad the show finally brought about a great episode in what feels like forever. Does it advance the plot? Not necessarily, but it does add some character progression, as well as possibly set up Steven being able to rescue corrupted Gems. Add to all that some nice emotional moments and the show delivers exactly what I've wanted, a heartfelt episode that plays to the show's strengths and doesn't feel like skippable material.\n\nThis episode once again deals with Centipeedle, the first monster fought in the show, as Steven believes he can heal her after his healing abilities become stronger. The Crystal Gems don't believe it to be a good idea, but they allow Steven to do what he believes is right anyway. Things go well at first, but Steven accidentally upsets Centipeedle when he convinces her to draw her backstory out, in what is one of the show's saddest sequences. The eventual reveal here gives further context to the devastating \"Gem War\", while also turning Centipeedle to a full on tragic character. The episode closes on a joyful note, but it does make me wonder about the other corrupted Gems, are there more tragic stories we've yet to learn? If so, will the show tackle those stories, there's bound to be more material to make me cry.\n\nI really liked this episode, the concept, much like the crayon animation sequence, is sad and effectively emotional. I honestly feel like more episodes should take notes, tell a story with important information, know how to get emotional, and when all else fails, just make an episode with an interesting story.\n\nI absolutely adored this episode, it's sad, but hopeful and beautiful. It puts Steven's abilities to good use, while avoiding to go through the usual plot of Steven being unable to figure out how his powers work. Centipeedle's sad tale has come to a close (maybe) with a great episode for the show, I hope this is a turning point for the show, but even if it isn't I'm glad it exists." ]

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[ "A civil court proceeding began Monday in Arizona over fish pedicures\nafter a spa there was ordered by\ncosmetology regulators to stop offering the treatments. The treatment includes using small doctor fish\nto \"nibble\"", null, "Garra Rufa, or Doctor Fish Cleaning Skin (Photo by yamada kazuyuki/Creative Commons via Wikimedia)dead skin away from a client's feet, leaving them soft and\nsmooth. Many areas in the United States are trying to ban the practice\nas being unsafe since the fish cannot be cleaned or sterilized between\ntreatments.\n\nContrary to popular belief, the fish do not eat the dead or diseased skin. Instead it is the natural foraging action of the fish that cause the problem skin to slough away.\n\nIn some Turkish spas the fish live and breed in outdoor pools where they are used to treat psoriasis. The spas are not used to cure the condition, but to alleviate symptoms suffered by the patients. The fish themselves are native to the northern and central Middle East and are a protected species to guard against over-fishing.", null, "Fish Pedicure (Photo by Astrawhitetrash/Creative Commons via Wikimedia)Since 2006 fish pedicures have spread worldwide and grown in popularity. Several states and Canadian provinces have banned the practice, citing it as unsanitary by cosmetology regulators.\n\nThe spa owner in Arizona is defending the practice, saying that no one has ever suffered adverse effects to the treatment, and that she had no complaints from clients. According to her attorney, there has never been an instance of harm from a fish pedicure in the world. All claims based on health concerns are conjecture, not science. Her lawsuit is based on her constitutional right to operate a legitimate business operation having been violated. She is seeking no monetary damages." ]

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[ null, "Continuing where the first season left off, the sudden increase of Thanatos with the disappearance of the Aube Hunters has now left Arcadia in ruin. Desperation reigns high as the Religious Organization fights to battle the Thanatos. Six months had already past since Hidamari mansion burned to ashes, the Aube Hunters, once hailed as heroes, is now blamed for the appearance of Thanatos. Nevertheless, hope still exists for the reappearance of the Queen's Egg one day, who will become the savior of Arcadia. Unknown to many however, the Aube Hunters have actually been silently waiting for the awakening of Angelique, who has been asleep the entire time.\n\nThis series runs 13 episodes ...and is the second of two seasons" ]

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[ "The Police are redfaced after admitting that yes, one of their crack anti riot police (the feared UDI) was pick pocketed during the riots on Wednesday in Almeria. His gun, complete with holder and ammo, was taken off him, and he only noticed after things had calmed down.", null, "Despite carrying out a search of the area, the gun was not found. Police say that if it is voluntarily returned “no action will be taken” (yeah, right) but if they find it “severe measures will be taken against the person in whos possesion it is found”. Right now it’s probably hanging on some farmers wall, a proud souvenir of the rebellion." ]

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[ null, "In order to fly out of the low fare and high fuel price operating environment, SpiceJet is planning to aggressively expand its international networks. The budget passenger carrier eyes deploying its new 737Max aircraft on international medium-haul routes.\n\nAjay Singh, CMD of SpiceJet, said, \"More new destinations will be announced soon. We are looking at destinations in China and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States).\"\n\n\"We are getting the 737Max aircraft which is 14 per cent more fuel efficient. It can fly 20 per cent more than other planes. This will help us in adding a few more international destinations; we will decide on them after a market study is completed,\" he added.\n\nRecently, the airlines announced 10 new flights under the regional connectivity, UDAN, scheme. It is going to places such as Jharsuguda in Odisha, Gwalior and will be operating Bhopal-Udaipur flight.\n\nSingh further stated, \"There has been absolutely terrific growth on the UDAN routes. We have seen that people want to fly to these airports and the demand is only going to get stronger in the years to come. By March-end we will be operating close to 40 daily flights under UDAN.\"" ]

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[ null, "Calculator online for a capsule.", null, "Half of 48. If your mind isnt spinning yet consider the fact that these numbers are all after a multi-year economic recovery. So there are 48 half-hours in a day. Worrying about work on a.\n\nA proposed 48-bed long-term care facility in Hay River will now be reduced to 24 beds with the remainder to be built in Fort Smith instead. To divide a fraction by a whole number you keep the numerator and multiply the denominator by the whole number like this. There are 24 hours in a day.\n\nThus the number halfway between 48 and 56 is 52. And if youre worried you might be one your self. Therefore the answer is 148.\n\nThe nations heartland appears to have much appeal to many Americans at the moment. 4 2. New data from New York City shows white people have gotten nearly half of COVID-19 vaccines so far.\n\n52 – 48 56 – 52 same 4 As you can see the halfway number is 4 higher than 48 and 4 lower than 56. Online calculators and formulas for a hemisphere and other geometry problems. Calculate the unknown defining surface areas height base circumference volumes and radii of a hemisphere with any one known variable.\n\nAlmost half 48 of British respondents to the Global Drug Survey GDS disclosed they were drinking more alcohol than before the coronavirus outbreak while 44 of cannabis users reported. A new Gallup poll reveals that half of Americans — 48 — now say they would prefer to live in a rural area or. Half of these experts 48 envision a future in which robots and digital agents have displaced significant numbers of both blue- and white-collar workerswith many expressing concern that this will lead to vast increases in income inequality masses of people who are effectively unemployable and breakdowns in the social order.\n\n100FPS Twitch VOD and also overall better quality. 12 x 48 24. In this deleted scene from Alice Wus The Half of It Aster Flores Alexxis Lemire confesses that she has feelings for someone who isnt her boyfriend.\n\nTo check that our answer is correct we deduct 48 from 52 and deduct 52 from 56 and compare the two numbers. An Elgin man convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering a 20-month-old girl in 1997 is being released from prison later this month after serving half of his 48-year sentence. Therefore the answer is 148.\n\nConvert 48 ounces to gallons liters milliliters cups pints quarts tablespoons teaspoons and other volume measurements. White New Yorkers received 48 of the nearly 300000 vaccine jabs given to residents so far. Finding half of a number is the same as dividing by 2.\n\n1982 cast and crew credits including actors actresses directors writers and more. Httpswwwtwitchtvvideos671075991The past couple of weeks have been an unimaginable experience and. 96 2.\n\nTherefore half of 14 is the same as 14 divided by 2 which means that this is the fraction math problem we are solving. Nearly half of employed Americans 48 percent consider themselves modern-day workaholics according to new research. Health and social services minister Julie Green made the announcement in the legislature on Friday responding to questions from Hay River South MLA Rocky Simpson.\n\nAstonishingly 13 of workers make less than 5K and nearly half or 48 take home 31561 or less in net compensation the dark red on our visual. Simplest form of 24 over 48.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "READ: How Many Ounces In A Half Pint" ]

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[ null, "A nine-month-old boy charged with attempted murder in Pakistan has been granted bail. The toddler, Muhammad Mosa Khan, was arrested in February along with family members for allegedly throwing stones at police during a raid in Lahore. The residents reportedly failed to pay for electricity. Police arrested the toddler, took his fingerprints, and was made to sit on his grandfather’s lap while in court. Although the judge noted the absurd nature of the case and quickly granted bail for the toddler, he cannot dismiss the case against him. The police officer who arrested the child has reportedly been suspended. The boy’s grandfather told Reuters, “He doesn’t even know how to pick up his milk bottle properly. How can he stone the police?”" ]

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[ null, "Benešov wants to acquire a Piarist dormitory in the city center, which the church is offering for sale. Today, the deputies decided that the town hall could negotiate a purchase agreement with the Prague archbishopric. The price is CZK 40 million and is to be divided into two installments.\n\nMost of the deputies agreed that it is one of the most important buildings in Benešov and the city should acquire it. According to them, it would be irresponsible for someone else to buy it and let it fall into disrepair. Only part of the opposition, YES, expressed concern that the town hall would place a disproportionate burden on its budget by buying the building.\n\nThe building is leased with the exception of two offices, the rental income is CZK 1.9 million. According to Deputy Mayor Roman Tichovský (ODS), the building may remain in its current condition for some time, but it is necessary to gradually replace the windows and repair the facade. In the future, it is necessary to consider a larger investment in connection with the use of the building that the city will choose.\n\nThe representative for YES, Jakub Hostek, was surprised that the town hall has not thought about what to do with the building. He reminded that Benešov is bothered by the poor condition of the Pošta hotel and has no use for the Tábor barracks. \"I find it absolutely irresponsible to buy another such building,\" said Hostek. Jiří Švadlena also criticized the purchase for YES, while Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová took a positive view of it.\n\nTichovský objected that if someone else bought a Piarist dormitory, he could let it fall into disrepair. \"Who else will take care of the monument but the state or the municipality?\" he asked. Hlavnička expressed a similar opinion. According to him, the offer is on the table, and if the city does not react quickly, the building will no longer be available.\n\nThe Piarist dormitory was built in 1708 with the Baroque church of St. Anne, which, however, is to remain the property of the parish. Together they form the dominant feature of Masaryk Square. There are 30 rooms on the ground floor of the dormitory, another 20 on the first floor. In the middle of the main building there is a paradise garden with a fountain. The complex has a total area of ​​almost 3,400 sqm." ]

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[ "Hill’s move to Oakville going ahead", null, "Jahquil Hill's move to semi-professional football team Oakville Blues looks to be going ahead despite being banned for drink driving last week.\n\nThe Bermuda goalkeeper was arrested after his damaged car was stopped by police on Crow Lane in the early hours of May 13. He pleaded guilty to drink driving and has been banned from the roads for 18 months and handed a $1,200 fine.\n\nThe 21-year-old will head to Canada this week to join up with the Ontario League 1 champions, who he impressed during their pre-season trip to Bermuda last month.\n\nHill’s move to Oakville going ahead" ]

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[ "Three days after her wedding, Celina of mother-in-law jets out to make baby number 2\n\nMother-in-law actress and Harpic brand ambassador Catherine Kamau caused a stir on the social media after revealing that she was ready to get a second child.\n\nThe breathtaking mother of one got married to the love o her life in an intimate fairytale-like ceremony on Friday, November 17.", null, "Celina and her husband Phillip Karanja later left to an undisclosed location for their honeymoon after the star-studded event.\n\n\"Enjoy the photos guys, now let me go make a baby,\"she asked her fans in a hilarious message.\n\nCatherine has in the past narrated how she was impregnated at the tender age of 19 and how she struggled as single mother.\n\nHer husband, Phillip has been described as the perfect for the figure for Catherine's son.", null, "Phillip Karanja and his groomsmen during the wedding. Photo: Catherine Kamau/Instagram\n\nREAD ALSO: Kenya's richest heiress on the spot for stealing another woman's man\n\nThe actress has on many occasions explained that although Phillip is her son's step father, he treats him like his own flesh and blood.\n\nThe couple had been together for six years before finally holding their nuptials on Friday, November 17.\n\nMiguna Miguna: Photo of exiled lawyer looking worn out worries netizens\n4 hours ago 31709 views\nBonnie Musambi surprises wife with KSh 1M cheque, iPhone worth KSh 150k on her birthday\n8 hours ago 19649 views\nCity dwellers decry isolation after travelling home following reopening of borders\n5 hours ago 4228 views\nCoronavirus: 1 more Kenyan doctor admitted in ICU as COVID-19 cases escalate\n3 hours ago 4919 views\nPicha ya punde ya Miguna Miguna yawashtua Wakenya, waitaka serikali kumruhusu aje nyumbani\n3 hours ago 3573 views\nStivo Simple Boy impresses fans with video of him learning to skate\n9 hours ago 12174 views\nMC Jessy opens up about his relationship with Nameless, thanks him for always been there for him\n7 hours ago 7565 views\nZari takes a swipe at Diamond Platnumz after he was spotted with his mpango wa kando in dubai" ]

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[ "Only One Bulgarian Citizen Remains in Custody in Zadar", null, "The Bulgarian citizens that were detained yesterday in the incident between supporters of FC Levski (Sofia) and FC \"Hajduk\" (Split) in the Croatian city of Zadar got released in the early hours of the day.\n\nOnly one Bulgarian citizen remains in custody in Zadar, the Foreign Ministry informed. Yesterday, before the start of the football match, 27 Bulgarian fans of PFC \"Levski\" were detained. 26 of them are released, only one is still in the Solin Police Station in the city.\n\nThe Bulgarian embassy in Zagreb is in constant contact with the local authorities, the consul Hristina Bidjeranova is currently traveling to the station in order to clarify the situation." ]

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[ null, "The mirage of cheaper labor\n\nIn their quest for competitiveness many countries are fixated on cutting the cost of labor, in particular by reducing social-insurance contributions. But it that the right solution?\n\nAs French businesses look forward to new reductions in social-insurance charges, a recent study by the Bank of France relativises the effect of such policies on their competitiveness.\n\nOn 1 October the second stage of an emblematic new French labor law came into effect, replacing the Tax Credit for Competitiveness and Jobs (CICE, a conditional tax bonus for businesses which was abolished in 2018). The new measure reduces social-insurance contributions directly, in proportion to the previous mechanism.\n\nBy making the reductions permanent the government is hoping for a more direct effect on job creation. Companies now benefit from the reduction whenever they pay salaries, whereas before they needed to wait a year to obtain the tax credit.\n\n##Improving competitiveness in price and quality\n\nThe idea behind this policy is that the erosion of these two forms of competitiveness explains France’s disappointing external trade balance over the last ten years. But a recent edition of the Bank of France’s Bulletin adds some qualifications to this assumption.\n\nThe first surprise is that France’s changing labor costs do not appear determinate in explaining the fluctuating price competitiveness of French products. This might be expected: with the geographic dispersion of production, the goods produced in one place comprise a growing quantity of intermediate components, and therefore labor, imported from other countries. (The intermediate goods, for example smartphone chips, are not a finished product but just a part of a finished product.) The price competitiveness of an exported product cannot therefore be reduced to its home production costs: it also depends on the production costs in the countries making up its supply chain.\n\nIn France, changes in these imported costs are the cause of three-quarters of the increase in unit labor costs between 2000 and 2014, according to the Bank of France. The main country of this imported inflation: China! Since 2007 the Asian giant’s currency has appreciated and its service-sector wages have increased.\n\nCompared to neighbors such as Spain and the UK, which have experienced big rises in domestic labor costs, the rise in France appears somewhat small.\n\nEven more than France, Germany has also seen its imported costs soar since the middle of the 2000s. The origin of this imported inflation: Germany’s main production partners, within the European Union. The Bank of France economists do not spell it out but we can guess that the countries concerned are those of Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC), heavily involved in German industry’s supply chains.\n\nThe general rise in German unit labor costs has been limited, but at the price of a severe compression of Germany’s domestic costs. Here we see the effect of Gerhard Schröder’s Hartz laws of the 2000s, which stopped wage rises in their tracks. The Bank of France’s data stop in 2014 but it does not appear that the CICE mechanism, effective from 1 January 2013, allowed France to begin a similar process of reducing domestic labor costs. Perhaps the reduction will come from labor-code reforms which, by weakening the negotiating power of workers, should moderate wage inflation.\n\n##The overestimated role of low prices\n\nIn the end, what influence do low prices have on a country’s export performance? And what role do quality and innovation play? The Bank of France data show that, In recent years and across numerous countries, these two forms of competitiveness have influenced exports less than other factors such as the state of the global economy and fluctuations in foreign demand. “These exogenous factors represent between 50% and 85% of the cumulate growth of exports between 2000 and 2014 depending on the country”, say the authors.\n\nAll of this puts the “Made in Germany” miracle into context. Even when ignoring the role of improved competitiveness, Germany’s exports growth remains higher than that of France.\n\nIn other words, German industry owes its export performance above all to global growth rates and to its specialization in sectors which have benefited from strong demand since the early 2000s – luxury cars, chemicals, metallurgy and machine tools. Its efforts to increase competitiveness during this period were secondary. Moreover, the current woes of these particular markets explains why Germany is today close to recession.\n\nThere are only two countries for which competitiveness – in this case the qualitative variety – might be said to have played a role more important than the general economic climate and exterior demand: Spain and China. That is a reflection of their efforts to move up the value ladder since the early 2000s. But then these two countries had much ground to make up.\n\nIn conclusion, an ability to control internal costs is not sufficient to boost a country’s price competitiveness. And improvements in competitiveness, whether the price variety or in terms of product innovation, are only the small bonus which might allow growing exports to grow more still.\n\nThese improvements often play a lesser role than external factors over which governments have little control. Given this fact, and putting aside the debate over how the rebates were used, we can understand a little better why the billions from France’s CICE tax bonus and Responsibility Pact have had hardly any visible effect on the French trade deficit. And we might worry that the same will be true of the much-trumpeted labor-market reforms being carried out over the last few years with the aim – often unspoken – of reducing the cost of labor." ]

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[ "Could dying stars hold the secret to looking younger? New evidence from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suggests that white dwarf stars could continue to burn hydrogen in the final stages of their lives, causing them to appear more youthful than they actually are. This discovery could have consequences for how astronomers measure the ages of star clusters, which contain the oldest known stars in the universe.\n\nThese results challenge the prevalent view of white dwarfs as inert, slowly cooling burned-out stars where nuclear fusion has stopped. Now, an international group of astronomers has discovered the first evidence that white dwarfs can slow down their rate of aging by burning hydrogen on their surfaces.\n\n“We have found the first observational evidence that white dwarfs can still undergo stable thermonuclear activity,” explained Jianxing Chen of the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, who led this research. “This was quite a surprise, as it is at odds with what is commonly believed.”\nwhite sparkles against the black backdrop of space: side-by-side images of M13 and M3 globular clusters\n\nWhite dwarfs have cast off their outer layers during the last stages of their lives. They are common objects in the cosmos; roughly 98% of all the stars in the universe will ultimately end up as white dwarfs, including our own Sun. Studying these cooling stages helps astronomers understand not only white dwarfs, but also their earlier stages as well.\n\n“The superb quality of our Hubble observations provided us with a full view of the stellar populations of the two globular clusters,” continued Chen. “This allowed us to really contrast how stars evolve in M3 and M13.”\n\nUsing Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 the team observed M3 and M13 at near-ultraviolet wavelengths, which is ideal for finding blue and faint stellar objects in the crowded globular clusters. This allowed the researchers to compare more than 700 white dwarfs in the two clusters. They found that M3 contains standard white dwarfs, which are simply cooling stellar cores. M13, on the other hand, contains two populations of white dwarfs: standard white dwarfs and those which have managed to hold on to an outer envelope of hydrogen, allowing them to burn for longer and hence cool more slowly.\n\nComparing their results with computer simulations of stellar evolution in M13, the researchers were able to show that roughly 70% of the white dwarfs in M13 are burning hydrogen on their surfaces, slowing down the rate at which they are cooling. The hydrogen would have been supplied by the star’s outer shells leaking into space.\n\nThis discovery could have consequences for how astronomers measure the ages of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The evolution of white dwarfs has previously been modeled as a predictable cooling process. This relatively straightforward relationship between age and temperature has led astronomers to use the white dwarf cooling rate as a natural clock to determine the ages of star clusters, particularly globular and open clusters. However, white dwarfs burning hydrogen could cause these age estimates to be inaccurate by as much as one billion years.\n\n“Our discovery challenges the definition of white dwarfs as we consider a new perspective on the way in which stars get old,” added Francesco Ferraro of the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, who coordinated the study. “We are now investigating other clusters similar to M13 to further constrain the conditions which drive stars to maintain the thin hydrogen envelope which allows them to age slowly.”\n\nThe Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C.", null ]

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[ null, "The two-tier wage system that the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is pushing for is acceptable to garment exporters in the country, a statement from the Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. quoted Confederation of Garment Exporters of the Philippines (CONGEP) Executive Director Marites Agoncillo as saying.\nThe two-tier system proposes a fixed floor wage or entry-level wage for low-skilled workers or new entrants and a flexible wage for other workers depending on their productivity and performance of the industry or enterprise, negotiable between the employer and the workers.\nCONGEP is pondering over various possible wage flexibilities with DOLE, Mr. Agoncillo said and added that if the proposed wage system is implemented, it would create around 3,000 new job opportunities in the sector.\nLabour charges constitute an important component in production cost for garments, and hence is a major factor for determining whether to make further investments in the sector or not. However, other factors like high cost of power are also a cause of concern for garment exporters, he said.\nBesides wage agreements, the industry is also trying hard for passage of the Save Our Industries Act to boost its export performance.\nOnce passed, the bill would earn duty-free access for Philippine garments made from American fabrics to the US.\nAfter being first presented in the US Congress in 2009, the bill has been set aside several times due to reservations of the US Senators. However, it is now once again proposed to be reintroduced this year.\nAccording to the National Statistics Office (NSO) data, the Philippines exported around US$ 1.573 billion worth of garments last year, around 17 percent less than 2011.\nLikewise, its textile exports also plummeted by 7.26 percent from that recorded in 2011 to US$ 170.362 million in 2012.\nBy end of February 2013, garment exports from Philippines dipped to US$ 244.522 million, a year-on-year fall of 22.96 percent, while textile exports dipped by 4.01 percent to US$ 27.406 million." ]

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[ null, "With Thor: Love and Thunder Premiering this year, fans are eagerly awaiting the return of some of their favorite characters. And it looks like a lot of them will be wearing new costumes. For example, a behind-the-scenes image from the film has surfaced, revealing a new take on Tess Thompson’s new Valkyrie outfit.\n\nThe prior art in the film teased Valkyrie’s new armor, but it’s the best glimpse of reality yet. The outfit appears to have taken elements of his Sakaar armor and Valkyrie uniform in Thor: Ragnarok. The most notable aspect is the return of her sleeveless tunic.\n\nLove and Thunder isn’t the last fans will see of Thompson’s Valkyrie. Based on a new image of the set of Wonders, The Asgardian will appear alongside Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel, Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau, and Iman Vellani’s Kamala Khan.\n\nThe fourth film of the Thor the franchise sees the return of Portman as Jane Foster. Taika Waititi confirms that the actress will also take on the role of Thor in the film’s events at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Hemsworth will also return as Son of Odin. In addition, Ford vs. Ferrari Star Christian Bale will play Gorr the Butcher God in the film. Additionally, the film will star Guardians of the Galaxy, Korg, and Jaimie Alexander’s Lady Sif.\n\nWhat do you think of Tessa Thompson’s new Valkyrie costume? Are you excited about Thor: Love and Thunder? Let us know in the comments below!\n\nThor: Love and Thunder hits theaters around the world on July 8, 2022.\n\n“Circle Back” Appears on Influential College Quotes That Should Be Banned\n\n“No worries”, “turn back” and “you’re muted” among the list of phrases that should be banned, according to the university" ]

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[ "Tindersticks will begin a five-month long tour in January in support of their new album 'No Treasure but Hope' and stop off at The Queens Hall!\n\nFormed in London in 1992 Tindersticks three founder members Stuart A. Staples, David Boulter and Neil Fraser were joined and rejuvenated in the late 2000’s by Dan McKinna and Earl Harvin Jr. After ten studio albums and eight film soundtracks for the renowned director Claire Denis, Tindersticks continue to push at the boundaries and explore the textures and emotion of their music.\n\nNovember 2019 saw the release of the bands 11th studio album ‘No Treasure But Hope’. Over the last 25 years Tindersticks have been regulars in the concert halls of Europe, recently invited to be part of the inaugural programmes of the new Paris and Hamburg Philharmonies. Often collaborating with orchestras, guest musicians and vocalists. Recording duets with artists ranging from Lhasa de Sela, Mary Margaret O’Hara and Isabella Rossellini. Their music has been used variously in art installations, dance and theatre projects, fashion shows, numerous films and TV productions. In 2014 Tindersticks were commissioned to create the evolving orchestral soundscapes for the In Flanders Fields, WW1 museum in Ypres, Belgium. Their last album ‘The waiting room’ (2016) was also a collaboration with the Clermont-Ferrand international Short Film festival where the band curated and were involved in creating a collection of films made specifically for the music. In 2017 Staples directed his first film - ‘Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith’ and in 2018 released the experimental solo album ‘Arrhythmia’. Early 2019 saw the release of the score of Claire Denis latest film ‘High Life’ featuring the single ‘Willow’ sung by the lead actor Robert Pattinson.\n\nOVER 14S ONLY. UNDER 18S MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT.\n\nWhile we take every opportunity to ensure the details for Tindersticks - POSTPONED are accurate, we always advise that you contact the event organiser before setting out for the event to avoid disapointment. All information (whether in text or photographs) is given in good faith but should not be relied upon as being a statement of representation or fact.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Engelbert Humperdinck - The Angel On My Shoulder Tour - POSTPONED", null, null, "Engelbert Humperdinck - The Angel On My Shoulder Tour - POSTPONED\n\n28th May 2020\nThe Queens Hall Edinburgh, Edinburgh South Two short operas ‘The Tumbling Lassie’ and ‘Dandie Dinmont’ are collaborations by the composer, Tom Cunningham, and writer, Alexander McCall Smith and brought to The Queen's Hall.\n\nBelinda Carlisle embarks on a 16-date UK tour in winter 2021 to mark 35 years as a solo artist and stops off at the Usher Hall on Tuesday 12 October!\n\nWhy not join It's Good 2 Give Big Weekend In for a family friendly weekend festival from the comfort of your own home!\n\nOnline lecture: Plague and the emergence of epidemic photography\n\nThis talk examines the emergence of epidemic photography in the context of the Third Plague Pandemic (1894-1959) - a global pandemic that led to 12 million deaths." ]

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[ null, "Qatar Museums has announced an open call for the second edition of the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Project and Single Image Awards to photographers from Western Asia and North Africa.", null, "The open call forms part of Tasweer, a photography festival celebrating photographers from the Western Asia and the North Africa (WANA) region. The award, dedicated to Sheikh Saoud Al Thani (1966-2014) — one of Qatar’s greatest collectors who largely shaped the Museum of Islamic Art’s extraordinary collection — invites photographers to submit their entries before December 20, 2021.\n\nThe initiative is an open call for a single image that best represents the photographer’s experience and personal narrative.\n\nKhalifa Ahmad al-Obaidly, Founding Director of Tasweer, said: “The Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Foundation founded the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Award as a celebration of photography, giving representation to aspiring and established photographers in the Western Asia and North Africa region. Following on the success of the first edition, which saw entrants and winners of phenomenal talent and creativity, we look forward to receiving this year’s entries.”", null, "The annual photography competition is held in partnership with the Sheikh Saoud Al Thani Foundation, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and the Social & Sport Contribution Fund (DAAM). As part of Tasweer’s collaboration with HMC, a selection of the winning images will be displayed on screens for in-patients.\n\nQatar Museums founded Tasweer to nurture and shine an international spotlight on aspiring and established photographers and photographic communities across WANA. The initiative builds on Qatar Museums’ commitment to nurture artistic talent and support the nation’s thriving cultural landscape.", null, "Photographers from WANA are invited to submit their entries at www.tasweer.qa before December 20, 2021. Winners will be announced on March 24, 2022, during the launch of the next edition of Tasweer. Winning photographs will be on view at Doha Tower during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. ✤", null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "(SANITY FAIR) In Syracuse, gay fans have to endure taunts of religious bigots exercising their First Amendment rights to get to the Carrier Dome.", null, "It seems that each time we trudge up the hill to a Syracuse University basketball game at the Carrier Dome, there is more than one nasty wind blowing. I don’t mean the usual winter wind that slices at your face and turns the crowd into a huddled mass moving like hunting dogs with our faces pointed at the ground. That’s a familiar force of nature; we just pull our hoods tighter and keep on climbing.\n\nIt’s that other wind from the guys with the large black signs and the megaphones, shouting about somebody they think they know named God and how this God of theirs wrote to tell them that the rest of us are going to hell, which is presumably a place even less hospitable than the corner of Walnut and University with a wind chill of 20 below.\n\nLast time I looked, that’s pretty much all of us. Their list of the condemned includes a pretty good chunk of all the adults sitting in the Dome at any given time, yet we all have to endure these high-decibel insults to our sensibilities just to get in to a basketball game.\n\nI wonder what convinces a man (no sexism here, just giving credit where credit is due) that shouting frightening consequences out loud to a passing crowd is an effective way to get your message across. I wonder how they think that this will convince anyone to join their group. I wonder how they see this fitting in with a religion founded by someone who was not known for condemnation and was rarely known to raise his voice.\n\nI’ve tried talking to these guys a couple of times, and usually had no success. They are hellbent on shouting into their bullhorns and appear to have been trained, like the righteous men they firmly believe they are, to resist the slings and arrows of the fornicating class.\n\nExcept one guy, who was standing next to the largest sign they ever brought to the SU Hill. The sign was so large he couldn’t hold it. Instead, it was propped up on an easel, which was weighted down with sandbags. The sign posed a challenge I had never before seen posed in print: “Tell me one thing that is natural about the homosexual act,” written in large white letters on the black foam board.\n\nI took this man at face value. Clearly he was seeking information that, in all his years on this earth, life had previously not made available to him. Being somewhat literal in my thinking, I began to compose a list of possible answers.\n\nAs I walked toward the guy he startled, stepped back and kept growling into his microphone about how we were all going to hell. I’m not a very threatening presence, so I just bided my time. He’d have to take a breath at some point. When he did, he glanced over at me, and I quickly asked him a question.\n\n“You know there’s more than one, right?”\n\nHis eyes grew big. What he was expecting I don’t know, but it wasn’t this. Then, to my surprise, he set the megaphone aside and asked me a question.\n\n“More than one what?”\n\n“Um, homosexual act. You know there’s more than one, right? We can’t answer your question. It’s not specific enough.”\n\nThe next few seconds passed slowly as we looked right into each other’s eyes. I tried to read the thought process going on in there. Would I be invited to elaborate? Told to go to hell (which he kind of had already done)?\n\nHe turned away and went back to his prepared text. And I turned my head to the wind, pointed my face to the ground, and joined the sea of condemned Orange fans climbing toward the Dome in search of our own brand of redemption.\n\nFrom Arizona to Uganda\n\nIt’s all relative. In Syracuse, gay fans have to endure taunts of religious bigots exercising their First Amendment rights to get to the Carrier Dome.\n\nIn Arizona, under a bill approved by the state Legislature, they could have been denied access to any place of business where the owner expressed a religious objection to homosexuality. The governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, bowed to pressure and vetoed SB 1062, calling it unnecessary.\n\nIn Africa, things got even worse. President Yoweri Museveni signed a law that would go beyond threatening with hell anyone who has gay sex. He would send them to a Ugandan prison, in some cases for life. Museveni appeared to be competing with Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, who weeks earlier had signed a law that punishes gay sex with prison sentences of up to 14 years." ]

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[ null, "Words are hard to come by. I feel like my words may sound like a broken record in the story of our world. I am sad. I am heartbroken to hear about another terrorist attack. I am devastated to hear about loss of life and injury. I feel terrible for everyone who has been disrupted by this unconscionable act.\n\n…One year ago I remember walking through Southern France. In a small seaside shop in the town of Collioure, I saw a little sign, “Je suis Charlie.” I felt heartened. I wanted to capture that moment. I felt grateful that France was finding its way back.\n\nIt is interesting how we find our travel and how travel finds us. A year ago we pulled the boys out of school for a semester, enrolled them in online school, and decided we should travel. At the time my mom was understandably worried when I told her I was planning to visit Paris. The Charlie Hebdo attacks had just happened and I got it. Instead of Paris, we opted for Rome, Barcelona and Southern France. We have been to Europe three times since that trip.", null, null, "As fate would have it, we found our way to Paris five months later. Paris was better than I could imagine. The French people are kind (yes kind), strong and resolute. I also felt an odd comfort at the site of the occasional “Je Suis Charlie” sign. My first site of the Eiffel Tower was magical and I still dream about the quiet little park we found in the city. A few times we would bring lunch there, find a bench, eat our crazy grocery store mix and people watch. At one point Dave dropped his iPhone and shattered his screen. He had to work so the boys and I found our way to the Apple Store next to the Louvre. I stood in a long, long line. When I showed the Apple guy Dave’s iPhone screen, once he connected that we were REALLY Americans, and not Germans or English (and therefore he couldn’t swap our phone for one of the ones they had in stock), he gave me a very compassionate eye roll and told me (in a very nice French way) that we were boned.", null, "Our journey to Paris actually began in London. After a few crazy fun London days, we took the Chunnel to Paris, where we met up with Dave. After a few days in Paris the four of us hopped on a train to Antwerp, Belgium with a stopover in Brussels. I will be honest. We spent more time in Bruges and Antwerp than we did in Brussels. Antwerp is also the place where I got the worst food poisoning of my adult existence, which led me to my terrible Amsterdam experience: three days of not-stop puking.", null, "My first impression of Brussels was also terrible. We arrived at the Brussels train station. It was cold and rainy. People were peeing in the street. In fact I think people in the area of the train station pee in the streets so so often that Brussels caved and set up an outdoor open urinal system sort of akin to a giant plastic hand washing station. I only wish I had a picture. As we left the Brussels train station for downtown Brussels, we realized that we had no idea where to go. We walked back and forth when I finally suggested we ask someone. So we walked across the street and into a little restaurant. The man did not speak English or German or French. I want to say the shops next to his and his included were vaguely Arabic, but I am not sure. I showed him the map and pointed to where I wanted to go. He kindly directed us toward the downtown area. His shop, along with all the other shops next to his, were also mostly empty. I felt guilty not buying anything.", null, "We left and found our way to historic Brussels. Please know that I am not saying this next part to jump on the bandwagon of today’s sad news. I am saying it because it is true. Here is where I try to make a connection by telling you what a trashy, unkempt hole Athens appears to be. And like my lovely Finish friend, Marika, kept promising:\n\n“Belba (because that is what she calls me), within this trashy hole there is magic.” (She is right, by the way).\n\nAs we walk along dirty, trash-filled streets, littered with abandoned cars and structures, Dave keeps repeating the following phrase (or close to it):\n\n“Once you get out of the historical section, most European cities are like this (“this” meaning trashy, dismal, and 1970’s broken-down-dystopia-like).”", null, null, "Dave is correct and actually Athens has been the worst city so far. Back to Brussels. It was was not much different. The area around the train station felt heartbroken and discarded. Yet, like Dave promised (get to the historical center), Brussels also holds the magic. He was right. The closer we walked to the center of town (which really did not take long), the more inviting Brussels became. The energy changed. The cold, dark, rainy air lifted. Graffiti morphed into beautiful wall art, art depicting favorite comics like the Smurfs, Tin-Tin and Asterix.", null, "Like I mentioned, we spent more time in Bruges and Antwerp. And even though Bruges is literally out of a movie and Antwerp is the diamond capital or whatever, the people in Brussels were friendly and inviting. Dave is right. Brussels is cool, put together and effective. We loved the food. The boys could not get enough of the 1 Euro waffles. We were tired from traveling and cold from walking in the rain. A very nice Greek man welcomed us into his restaurant. Sure, hailing us over is part of their schtick. It didn’t matter. They treated us well. Talked to us and made us feel safe in a town we were only passing through. I remember sitting at this man’s restaurant asking Dave why there were so many Greeks in Brussels. We talked about the poor Greek economy and we talked about established systems and that these immigrants were finding a better way here in Brussels.", null, "A few days ago (while in Athens) I was commenting on how much I loved the Greek Food in Brussels. I said,\n\n“those Greeks were so much happier about serving their food there.”\n\n“It is more prosperous in Brussels. I’d bet that a popular Greek restaurant in Brussels provides them with a comfortable income and they get to live in a country with more effective institutions.”", null, "Between that trip and this trip, another terrible terrorist attack took place in Paris.\n\nNow we are in Greece thinking about Brussels. I am really sad. This is our last day in Athens. We spent our day walking through the city, finding our way to the temple of Zeus, ignoring selfie-stick-sellers, inserting ourselves into traffic (the Greek way, as you have to be a little aggressive or you’ll never get across the street), admiring the graffiti, eating Gyros and potatoes, moving hotels and buying more water. I have been reading Facebook posts about Brussels. I was especially touched by one friend who was born in Brussels. I hope he doesn’t mind me sharing his words here:\n\n“So …. I was born in Belgium … I’ve always had this ‘thing’ with my daughters that whenever they mention Belgium … Usually ordering waffles I yell Belgium loudly … Sometimes they embrace it and laugh and sometimes in the middle of a restaurant they cringe with embarrassment. Today I yell BELGIUM at the top of my lungs for everyone to hear. BELGIUM!! Tout mon amour a mes freses et soeurs de Belgique.”", null, null, "Holly in Belgium. Thank you for letting me post this very cool picture!\n\nAnother friend posted a picture of herself in Brussels in colors representing the Belgium flag. I love how she points out how the photographer specifically arranged this photo. See, the colors she was wearing and the flowers in front of her reflect the Belgium flag. I feel oddly connected to the Brussels tragedy because Mormon missionaries from Utah were injured. I wonder if anyone else feels the same. Several friends are traveling in Europe right now. I was glad to hear one made it safely to Turkey and the other was safely on a plane back to the US from Paris with her daughter and husband. Other friends contacted us to see if we were ok. Selfishly I was grateful they checked in.\n\nOf course we are aware that France, the United States and Belgium are not the only ones who suffer terrorism, tragedy, economic devastation or are fleeing a terrorist regime. As we travel it is beyond clear that people are struggling, suffering, in over their heads, fleeing and simply trying to find a better way of life. It has not gone missed on Dave, the boys and I that our world is not a pretty, well-kept historical village. I wish it were. In this moment I want to turn my thoughts, prayers and love towards Belgium.Life is hard! In all the moments, please know we always lean our love and hope to all those who are suffering and trying to make it better.", null, "Kyle and I, Temple of Zeus, Athens, Greece", null, "Us. The Temple of Zeus, Athens, Greece" ]

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[ null, "Trump Must Make Good on his Promises to HBCUs\n\nIMDiversity 6 years ago Comments Off on Trump Must Make Good on his Promises to HBCUs 1.4 K\n\nWe are mere hours from the end of the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s administration, which has proven to be an administration marred by xenophobia, assaults on the female reproductive system, and the confirmation of an attorney general with a history of voter discrimination and voter suppression.\n\nAnd, perhaps one of the most jarring sentiments is the blatant attempt to discredit or erase the importance, history and impact of historically black institutions of higher learning in this country.", null, "And frankly, we’re not willing to sit around twiddling our fingers to find out.\n\nWhile Trump’s meeting with the presidents and chancellors of History Black Colleges and Universities showed a good faith effort from the White House to hear the concerns of black colleges and universities and the executive order moving the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities under the purview of the president is promising, it doesn’t amend the apathy many HBCU students and alumni continue to feel about this administration making good on its promises.\n\nThe gesture of Trump’s executive order on HBCUs is just that a gesture.\n\nIt is a conversation starter on the many issues the Trump administration is either facing or creating. It doesn’t make Trump more amicable to blacks; it’s a starting point to a larger conversation around how this country handles issues around the black community.\n\nWe can’t dismiss the rift between the black community and the U.S. Department of Justice nor turn a blind eye to black Muslims being impacted by the travel ban nor how proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act would have a crippling impact in healthcare access in the black community. It’s an assault at all fronts.", null, "But the time is ripe for us to act. For us to hold our elected officials’ feet to the fire and to ensure that our issues are included in this “new wave” of grassroots advocacy.\n\nAnd as alumni and students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities we will no longer be silent and watch our institutions become neglected nor erased. Our university presidents and chancellors have done their part, advocating for our historically black institutions of higher learning. But the time is now for us – the alumni and student – to carry the torch. We must do our part in providing a true national voice to call for the preservation of the history of and to grow Historically Black Colleges and Universities.\n\nWhich is why the HBCU Collective was founded.\n\nWe can no longer think about our HBCUs only when it’s time to come back onto the yard every homecoming or Battle of the Bands. We are in a state of emergency.", null, "Krishana Davis, co-leader of the HBCU Collective, met with Senator Tim Scott to urge him to support year-round Pell Grants, financial support for students that can help to close the racial wealth gap. HBCU Collective\n\nThe wealth income gap between black students and their white counterparts continues to expand causing great financial needs for black students vying to obtain a higher education. The median white household has $13 in net wealth for every dollar held by the median black household, according to the Survey of Consumer Finances.\n\nSo when we talk college affordability, we must understand that HBCUs disproportionately graduate first-generation college students from low-income families. Yet HBCUs have one-eighth of the endowment of PWIs. More than 75 percent of all HBCU students rely on Pell Grants to meet their college expenses.\n\nHistorically Black Colleges and Universities like Morgan State University graduate the majority of black engineers, and 70 percent of all black doctors are HBCU grads. Yet many HBCUs are lacking federal funds for state-of-the-art innovation labs and STEM technology to ensure black students can compete in an ever-evolving 21st Century global workforce and economy.\n\nKrishana Davis is a co-founder of the HBCU Collective, a group of alumni and students who attended Historically Black Colleges and Universities advocating state and federal officials to preserve the history of and grow historically black institutions of higher education. Krishana is a writer, recovering reporter seen in the Baltimore Sun and BBC, and communications professional focusing on women’s issues, education and social justice. She is a graduate of Morgan State University." ]

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[ "ECU's Comeback Effort Falls Short Versus USF | Beaufort County Now | David Collins had 16 points and Justin Brown scored all 12 of his points after halftime to lead USF past East Carolina 69-63 inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum on Saturday.", null, "GREENVILLE, N.C. David Collins had 16 points and Justin Brown scored all 12 of his points after halftime to lead USF past East Carolina 69-63 inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum on Saturday.\n\nBrown made three consecutive 3-pointers and Collins added a fourth straight to ignite a game defining 14-2 runs that propelled the Bulls to a 43-34 lead with 14:34 to play. USF (7-5, 3-3 American) stretched its lead out to 13 over the following six minutes and found itself ahead 67-54 with 2:49 remaining.\n\nECU (7-3, 1-3 American) trimmed its deficit to four in a span 1:04, scoring nine unanswered points. Tremont Robinson-White start the run with his third of three 3-pointers on the night.\n\nRobinson-White finished with a career-high 29 points on 9 of 14 shooting from the field, including 3 of 6 outside the 3-point arc, and 8 of12 at the free throw line.\n\nThe Pirates scored their final points on a baseline jumper from J.J. Miles with 53 seconds left, but came up empty on its next three possessions despite holding USF without a point until Brown made a pair of free throws with 1.3 seconds to play to determine the final score.\n\nThe Bulls earned their fourth win in the last five meetings against the Pirates and second straight.\n\nECU led by one at halftime, 26-25, after Robinson-White hit two free throws with less than two seconds remaining in the half. The Pirates shot just 25 percent in the opening stanza, while USF connected on 33 of its field goal attempts.\n\nThe largest lead by each team in the opening half was five points.\n\nPOSTGAME QUOTES \"We've got to give credit to South Florida for that stretch to start the second half. I thought we had a decent enough start. Brown got on a little bit of a roll, they made four straight 3s and we put ourselves in a little bit of pinch. We had some stretches where we did some really good things and some stretches where we played some really bad basketball. We've got to clean that up quickly.\" — ECU Head Coach Joe Dooley\n\n\"It was a slow-paced game, not really our style. They went on a bigger run (in the second half), but then we came back and were almost able to finish up the comeback. But that was a tough one, a tough one.\" — Jayden Gardner" ]

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[ null, "Scientists have created hybrid human and rat brains to try to better understand diseases like autism and epilepsy.\n\nPutting human cells into animal brains is a moral grey area, because of fears animals may start to think more like humans as a result.\n\nBut scientists argue that it’s the best way to learn about neurological and psychiatric diseases, by watching what goes wrong with human cells in a living brain rather than the laboratory.\n\nScientists at Stanford used human stem cells, which can become any type of cell in the body, to create brain cells in the lab.\n\nThese cells connected up to form clusters called ‘organoids’.\n\nThe researchers put these organoids into the brains of baby rats, so the cells would grow and work normally, and they could learn about a genetic disease called Timothy syndrome – which causes a form of autism and is linked to severe heart problems.\n\nThis worked so well that when researchers tickled the rats’ whiskers, around 70 per cent of the human cells put into the creatures’ brains responded to the sensation.\n\nIt was even possible to control the rats’ behavior using the human brain cells, which were made to be light-sensitive.", null, "Whenever rats had a thirst-quenching drink of water from a spout, scientists used blue light to activate the human cells in their brains.\n\nAfter two weeks of this, just activating the brain cells made rats go and lick the water spout.\n\nWhat are the signs of autism?\n\nSigns of autism in young children include:\n\nSigns of autism in older children include:\n\nCommon signs of autism in adults include:\n\nThe idea that rats with hybrid brains can be controlled in this way may raise other ethical issues.\n\nBut the researchers say the breakthrough will also help to test out drugs for brain diseases.\n\nSergiu Pasca, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford School of Medicine, and senior author of the rat study, said: ‘We can now study healthy brain development as well as brain disorders understood to take root in development in unprecedented detail, without needing to excise tissue from a human brain.\n\n‘We can also use this new platform to test new drugs and gene therapies for neuropsychiatric disorders.’\n\nThe researchers have drawn the line at putting human brain tissue into primates like chimpanzees or macaques, which have more similar brains to people.\n\nRats, which live far shorter lives than humans, have brains which develop about 20 times faster than our own, limiting the extent to which human brain cells can integrate with rat ones.\n\nThere would be much greater integration in primates, according to Professor Pasca, who said: ‘I think we first have to leverage the technology that we’ve developed, put it into play, see what it can actually teach us about the development of the human brain, about evolution, about disease, whether we can use it systematically to test drugs – and then see what the limitations are that time and think whether any other species would be necessary.\n\n‘In my opinion, at this time transplantation into primate is it’s not something that we would do and that I would encourage doing.’\n\nThe scientists grew their ‘organoids’ for two months in the lab, until they started to resemble the human cerebral cortex.\n\nThen they were transplanted into the brains of rat pups which were only two or three days old – the time when most brain connections are made.\n\nIncredibly, the human brain cells developed similarly to how they would in a person, connecting up to blood vessels in the rat and reaching about six times the size they would in the lab.\n\nA modified harmless rabies, which tends to jump from cell to cell in the brain, showed the human brain cells had linked up to the rat ones, partially integrating with the rodent brain circuits.\n\nResearchers said they had ‘set up shop’ in the rat brains, creating ‘living laboratories’.\n\nSo far, the scientists have transplanted cells from three patients with Timothy syndrome into the hybrid rat-human brains.\n\nWhile the cells from people with this brain disorder looked pretty normal in the lab, they were revealed to grow smaller in a real brain, shedding new light on the condition.\n\nThe work, published in the journal Nature, could similarly advance research into mental disorders such as schizophrenia or autism, without the need for invasive procedures such as extracting tissue from the brain.\n\nThe scientists transplanted up to three million human brain cells into the somatosensory cortex of newborn rat brains – the area responsible for receiving and processing sensory information, such as touch.\n\nProfessor Tara Spires-Jones, deputy director of the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, said: ‘This research has the potential to advance what we know about human brain development and neurodevelopmental disorders, but there is more work to be done to be sure this type of graft is a robust method.\n\n‘I also agree with the experts who wrote a commentary accompanying the paper who point out that these experiments pose several ethical questions that should be considered moving forward, including whether these rats will have more human-like thinking and consciousness due to the implants.’\n\nAs the price of meals rises, we create recipes utilizing a choice of low-cost freezer fundamentals" ]

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[ null, "Manchester United are considering their next move after Crystal Palace rejected their second bid for in-demand right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n\nWan-Bissaka has emerged as United’s primary target for their right-back position, with Antonio Valencia released, Ashley Young’s form deteriorating and Diogo Dalot not considered experienced enough yet to take on the job full time.\n\nUnited have seen their initial £35m approach for Wan-Bissaka knocked back by Palace earlier this month, with Palace apparently responding by placing a £60m fee on his head and amid claims the player is keen on a switch to Old Trafford.\n\nThe Red Devils have reacted by lodging a second bid for Wan-Bissaka – but much like the first one, it has been met with a less than enthusiastic response by the Eagles.\n\nAccording to Sky Sports, United’s second bid compromised of the same £35m, but this time with another £15m in add-ons – taking the total deal to around the £50million mark.\n\nHowever, it’s claimed the Eagles are seeking a larger downpayment and something much closer towards their £60m asking price before they consider selling the 21-year-old, who still has three years left on his Selhurst Park contract.\n\nSaturday’s Guardian also claimed that Palace are exploring other ways in which they can maximise their profit from the deal – with the removal of Wilfried Zaha’s sell-on clause also one of their demands over the sale of Wan-Bissaka.\n\nUnited are now thought to be weighing up whether to launch a third approach for Wan-Bissaka, though reports on Monday claim that PSV star Denzel Dumfries is emerging as their Plan B should efforts to sign the former fail.\n\nHowever, Wan-Bissaka remains United’s No 1 choice and the club are expected to try again in a bid to twist Palace’s arm. The player is currently on duty with England’s U21s but is said to want his future resolved before he enjoys a holiday and prior to his return for pre-season training.\n\nAny deal for the player is likely to break the existing world-record fee paid for a full-back, currently set at the £52m that Manchester City paid Monaco for Benjamin Mendy in summer 2017." ]

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[ null, "Its that time of year again and the show that always seems to signal the beginning of the event season for me. The London Motor Show was about to open its doors for another year!\nThis would be my third year at the LMS and seeing it grow year on year has been great. From its start in Battersea Park to its new home at London ExCel where it moved to last year. Personally I was never a huge fan of the Battersea location and certainly welcomed the move to ExCel last year.\n\n2019 promised to be even bigger and better than previous years and the LMS certainly does seem to be on track to being a permanent fixture on the calendar. I feel we need an official motor show in the UK and whilst LMS is not quite there yet in terms of challenging events such as Geneva and others its promising to see it heading in the right direction.\n\nAfter a stress free journey to London and a quick hop across to Canning Town on the DLR I was met by the guys from Miwhip with their fleet of gold chrome wrapped Smart cars. Miwhip were offering rides to the show on press day and for some lucky competition winners throughout the show. Check out the link at the bottom of the blog to find out more about Miwhip.", null, "Nice easy sign on process, wrist band ready and the show was open for 2019. First impressions were very good! The show floor had a great buzz to it even early on the press day. Immediately I spotted some stunning cars on the HR Owen stand such as the brand new Bentley Continental GTC! More on HR Owen later however as it was time to head to the stage area for Andy Entwistle, CEO of LMS, to open the show for 2019", null, "Andy has been passionate about growing the LMS into a true contender for bringing back an official motor show to the UK and I think the show is in safe hands!\n\nNow the show was officially opened it was time to begin exploring the 3 huge halls on offer for this years event.\n\nI was drawn to a collection of classic cars in the main hall, some Jaguars and a Ferrari... something was very different about these cars though. The Ferrari was converted to full electric by the guys at EVolution! You really would never know the difference between this cars and its original combustion engine version. Whether the drama is still there with an electric motor is another thing though, I expect not....", null, "Next up I headed back to the HR Owen stand I mentioned earlier, they had some stunning cars on display. Everything from the new Aston Martin Vantage, Ferrari Portifino, the GTC I mentioned before and an amazing looking all black Huracan Performante taking pride of place!", null, "Whilst I was strolling around I spotted something I wasn't expecting to see at the show this year.. the Noble M500. This is Noble's entry into the more practical and useable end of the supercar market and if you ask me they nailed the design! Launched at last years Goodwood Festival of Speed this seemed to be the same non working prototype that was shown at FoS but was certainly nice to see it again. Heres hoping we see a fully working version soon and this car is a success for the UK based supercar marque.", null, "I couldn't resist any longer to head into the second hall and check out the supercar paddock where I'd heard about some seriously special cars on display. Past years you could argue that the calibre of hypercars wasn't on par with other large events but you certainly couldn't say that for 2019. With everything from a launch spec Bugatti Chiron to not one but two Aston Martin Zagatos, one of which being the incredible shooting brake. Maybe the best looking Aston ever made? Add to that an Enzo, Koenigsegg, Veyron and more and you can safely say the LMS delivered in terms of rare supercars this year!", null, "After drooling over the supercar paddock and chatting to some of the guys on the stand it was time to explore some more and right next door was a collection of crazy machines from all over the world. From a huge big rig truck to a 6 wheeled Hummer this stand was certainly something different. I even spotted a Mr. Bean car that you don't see every day that's for sure!", null, "Of course at any major event like this there are plenty of exhibitor stands showing off their latest gadgets and automotive themed gifts and more. One that especially caught my eye was the Carvolution stand \"your life in your cars\" this was a really cool idea where you can get a custom made drawing of each of your cars you've owned throughout your lifetime. Check out the link below to learn more about this great idea!\n\nAnother interesting stand that was drawing some crowds was the Back to the Future Delorean car that you could have your photo taken inside for a small donation. The car was so well designed and authentically recreated from the movies. I just had to get a few shots inside the car of all the cool props on show.", null, "After a quick stop for a coffee, edit a few photos and refuel I headed back into the main hall and carried on exploring in there. MG had a huge showing this year with their UK debut of the new ZS EV all electric car. This is a big launch for MG with this promising to be one of the most affordable SUV style EVs on the market. Promising to be around £24k with a 170 mile range when it is launched later this year. The charge point was particularly cool I thought!", null, "Of course the main hall was home to a lot of the regulars at the LMS with great showings from the crazy team at Liberty Walk showing a GTR, i8 and the well known green Aventador. Tesla showed their revolutionary model 3 and the Suzuki Jimny also made an appearance, this car is becoming somewhat of a cult favourite recently with its \"mini G63\" looks..", null, "Lastly was the 3rd hall which was home to the live action arena that over the weekend would play host to supercar parades and stunt displays from Paul Swift and his team! Sadly on the press day we just had some cool Caterham \"taxi\" rides which were more like crazy drift and handling laps around the course. Even on the Thursday the smoke from this hall filled the ExCel so I expect it would be a very smoky over the weekend. As well as the arena area there were also some more display cars and a crazy motorbike wall of death display team!", null, "For me that was the end of the London Motor Show for 2019. This event just gets better and better every year and is really starting to become a major event on the calendar and I can't wait to see how the team improve for next year. See you in 2020!\n\nSpecial thanks to Intro2020 for their continued support and a special mention to Velbon Tripods for supplying me with the superb GEO series carbon fibre tripod and head for this event. You can check out a review of the tripod coming soon on the website." ]

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[ null, "International and NYT bestselling author A. G. Howard lives in the Texas panhandle. She is most at home weaving the melancholy and macabre into settings and scenes, twisting the expected into the unexpected. She's inspired by all things flawed, utilizing the complex loveliness of human conditions and raw emotions to give her characters life, then turning their world upside down so the reader's blood will race. Married and mother of two grown children (as well as surrogate mom to two Guinea pigs and two sweet cats), Howard divides her days between spending time with her family and plodding along or plotting on her next book. When she's not writing, Howard enjoys rollerblading, biking, snow skiing, gardening and family vacations that at any given time might include an impromptu side trip to an 18th-century graveyard or a condemned schoolhouse for photo ops." ]

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[ null, "Netflix’s Stranger Things may be taking the year off, but we’ve got you covered in the meantime. Check out our list of College classes (plus one from our friends in the School of Music!) you can enroll in, and find something to pique your interest, whatever your style is – whether you’re a Steve, a Nancy, a Dustin, or more of a Barb. (We’re still crossing our fingers for a Barb comeback!)\n\nQ: How many classes are we including on our list?\n\nThe Stranger Things crew found their quiet lives in Hawkins, Indiana disrupted by supernatural forces and dangers out of a vivid nightmare – paranormal experiments, Demodogs running loose across town, awkward school dances. If you’re a lover of all things spooky, supernatural, and paranormal in fiction, take a closer look at sci-fi as a literary genre in ENGL 506!\n\nThe development of science fiction as a literary genre, and as a literature of ideas for a future-oriented society. Satisfies: Goal 6 Outcome 1 (AE61) , H Humanities (H)\n\nSpeaking of sci-fi nightmares, if the wait for Season 3 of Stranger Things has left you hungry for a dose of mutants, monsters, and general mayhem, consider taking Aliens & Monsters in French and experience close encounters with the supernatural, the undead, and the all-around strange. Se méfier!\n\nA comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of the treatment of the Other in French culture in different ages that may include vampires, zombies, fairy tales, villains and anti-heroes, the macabre, alien encounters, dystopias and utopias, and deviancy, with particular attention to literature, film and TV, and thought. Taught in English. Does not fulfill any requirement in the French major or minor. Satisfies: Goal 1 Outcome 1 (GE11)\n\nAh, childhood –an interesting time in life for sure, full of life lessons and challenges. It’s all the more interesting when those challenges include: scheming to stop Shadow Monsters, running from the authorities with your psychic posse, and getting to the bottom of top-secret government experiments. Luckily, most of us experience no more than one of those problems growing up (two at most). If you want an overview of childhood development and behavior from birth to adolescence, look no further: Intro to Child Behavior and Development is for you.\n\nDance can move you in all directions – to the left, to the right, backwards, even… Upside Down (Get it?). Get moving with KU Dance Department in Intro to Classical East Indian Dance, and sharpen your dance knowledge and abilities! (We promise it won’t be like an awkward school dance.)\n\nClassical East Indian dance has an extensive movement vocabulary that emphasizes the coordination of rhythmic foot patterns with intricate hand gestures. Students will learn the mudras (hand gestures) and their significance and integration within each dance. Readings will include excerpts from the Natya Sastra and other treatises of East Indian dance and culture. Satisfies: Goal 4 Outcome 2 (AE42) , NW Non-Western Culture (NW)\n\nAfter her escape from the laboratory, Eleven had to develop communication skills and learn the everyday language necessary to connect with others in a society that was new to her. Explore the ways that language connects cultures in Language in Culture and Society.\n\nLanguage is an integral part of culture and an essential means by which people carry out their social interactions with the members of their society. The course explores the role of language in everyday life of peoples in various parts of the world and the nature of the relationship between language and culture. Topics include world-view as reflected in language, formal vs. informal language, word taboo, and ethnography of speaking. Satisfies: Goal 4 Outcome 1 (AE41) , Goal 6 Outcome 1 (AE61) , S Social Science (S) , SC Culture & Society PC (SC)\n\nIt should be obvious that the techniques employed by Martin Brenner (a.k.a. “Papa”) and his team at the military base, which include bizarre bodily and psychological experiments, fall short of what medical experts deem to be ethical practice. But in some cases, the line might not always be so clear, especially in matters of life and death. Develop a better understanding of philosophical arguments on all sides of hot-button medical issues, as well as their implications, in Medical Ethics: Life & Death Issues.\n\nAfter a brief survey of techniques of moral argument and analysis especially as they pertain to the moral impermissibility of murder, particular moral and conceptual issues relating to death and dying in medical contexts will be addressed. Topics such as abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, the definition of death, and the right to refuse life-saving medical therapy will be included. Prerequisite: Two courses in biology or consent of instructor. Satisfies: Goal 5 Outcome 1 (AE51) , H Humanities (H)\n\nYou don’t have to have psychokinetic or telepathic abilities to be considered an outcast from society. Deviancy applies to a wide range of traits, actions, and behaviors that are generally frowned upon and violate social norms. In Being Deviant in America, you’ll explore what exactly it means to be deviant in the United States and society’s ongoing quest to “deal with” deviancy.\n\nIn this course students will study traits, conditions, actions, and behaviors that violate social norms and elicit negative societal reactions. This includes the social, cultural, and individual factors that explain deviance; motivations behind deviant behavior; and efforts by society to control deviants. In short, you will undertake a sociological examination of those on the margins of society and societal efforts to “deal with” them. Satisfies: Goal 4 Outcome 1 (AE41) , S Social Science (S)\n\n“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” by The Clash. “Africa” by Toto. “Elegia” by New Order. “Runaway” by Bon Jovi. The Stranger Things soundtrack is an eclectic mix of greatest hits from the ‘80s, including many notable rock and roll classics. Jam out with KU Musicology and discover the rich, and undeniably cool, history of rock and roll music, man. It’ll put the Rock in “Rock Chalk!”\n\nSurvey of the history of rock and roll, starting with its origins in rhythm and blues and continuing to the present day. Open to both majors and non-majors. Satisfies: Goal 3 Arts and Humanities (GE3H) , H Humanities (H)\n\nStranger Things is jam-packed with ‘80s nostalgia and pop culture references to big-screen blockbusters of the era, from the Goonies, to E.T., Ghost Busters, and Indiana Jones. Grab a big bucket of popcorn and get a front-row seat to the landscape of American pop-culture through cinema with Film and Media Studies. And please, no spoilers.\n\nAn interdisciplinary examination of popular cultural forms and their relationships with the social, political and economic dynamics of America, with emphasis on film, media, music, literature (including magazines and newspapers) and the graphic arts. The decade or other specific topic to be studied changes as needs and resources develop. May be repeated for credit for different decades or topics. Satisfies: Goal 3 Arts and Humanities (GE3H) , H Humanities (H) , HL Literature & the Arts PC (HL)\n\nA broad introduction to religion in American culture. This class emphasizes the well-established religions with large followings (viz. Judaism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism). Some attention is also given to other religions active in America. Other topics covered include the relationship of church and state, religion in ethnic and racial minority groups, and women and religion. Not open to students who have taken REL 172. Satisfies: Goal 4 Outcome 1 (AE41) , Goal 3 Arts and Humanities (GE3H) , H Humanities (H) , HR Philosophy & Religion PC (HR)\n\nOK, how did Dustin’s pet Dart transform from a tiny slug to a giant cat-eating Demadogorgon so rapidly? While it may not address that example specifically, Principles of Organismal Biology will introduce you to the basics of organismal diversity, population biology, and principles of evolution!\n\nNote: These classes are offered across all semesters. Check out the schedule of classes to see what’s available in upcoming semesters." ]

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[ null, "Lucy and I went along to Eala Bhan during the week to try out their Afternoon Tea. I’m a big fan of Afternoon Tea (well to be honest I’m a big fan of food in general!) This was the best Afternoon Tea I’ve ever had. Eala Bhan is a really beautiful restaurant, located along the banks of the River Garavogue in Sligo town. We had a table in the window and were able to relax and watch the swans glide down the river.", null, "When we arrived we were welcomed by our waitress Patricia and Anthony, the owner of Eala Bhan and were looked after so well. We ordered tea and while we were waiting we were served with a lovely amuse-bouche of courgette and butternut squash soup.", null, "What can I say about the Afternoon Tea. I’ve never seen anything like it, it was so beautifully presented and there was so much of it. We were also presented with a complimentary glass of Prosecco, which went down very well with the wonderful food.", null, "There was a wide variety of sandwiches including smoked salmon, smoked ham and cheddar, chicken pesto and goats cheese and tomato, served on a variety of breads including bagels, brown soda bread, white bread and wholemeal. Patricia explained what everything was and told us to let her know if we needed anything else.", null, "Eala Bhan have teamed up with Le Fournil, located just around the corner, and have come up with this winning combination of sweet and savoury delights.", null, "There was really so much choice; cheesecakes, chocolates, macaroons, scones, shortbread and so much more. We were really starting to get full up but Patricia was happy to box up all the goodies we had left so we got to take them home. Not only did we have Afternoon Tea for lunch but it also did us for dinner! Andy and Jono got to try some as well and were very impressed.", null, "Sincere thanks to Anthony and his staff from Eala Bhan for looking after us so well and giving us one of the nicest afternoons we’ve had in a long time. If you are looking for something special to do when you are in Sligo I would highly recommend this wonderful Afternoon Tea. I’ve tried a few and I don’t think this can be beaten.", null, "9 thoughts on “Something Special at Eala Bhan”" ]

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[ null, "For better or for worse, Twitter seems to be the biggest source of local updates for many people today. In the realm of BSM school activities, this is a fact.\n\nSince 2006, Twitter has been beneficial in terms of keeping people up to date on the day-to-day happenings in their immediate communities. In the common opinion, it is the easiest way to figure out what’s going on: just open the application and simply see what’s being tweeted. This comes in handy with helping students to see what’s going on in and outside of school—whether it be dress up days, sporting events, or live updates of games that they miss.\n\nEvery main sport at BSM has some sort of social media for these reasons, some of the more popular ones being: lacrosse, girls’ soccer, football, and even teams outside BSM, like the JGA Flyers (hockey). The BSM activity pages provide dates and times for games and play-by-play updates for followers, while the Flyers page includes not only times and play-by-plays, but also somewhat outlandish tweets for the fans, players, and former flyers to enjoy.\n\nThese twitter accounts are usually run by managers or coaches of the team, and it is pretty easy to guess which is run by which. For example, a tweet from the BSM boys’ lacrosse team twitter, ran by Coach Rob Horn reads: @BSMBoysLax “Varsity brings home a W! Best of luck to the Hawks the rest of the season!” This is overall a very nice and humble way of letting their followers know about the win. To contrast this, a tweet on the Flyers account, which is run by managers, reads: @SLPFlyers “The Ogre returns tonight as the flyers trek to Centennial and look to improve on their 4 game win streak #Buzzin #Stewin #Rollin.” Shameless. Absolutely shameless. This tweet also pictured a Centennial player’s mother. Wow.\n\nNonetheless, Twitter has been the number one source of student news for athletics in the past years. Whether it be for knowing what to wear in the student section, what time to show up for the tailgate, or when the game is, team Twitters have proven themselves to be a great way to keep their followers in the know, while providing the occasional laughs as well." ]

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[ null, "TV review: Cheat; The Choir — Our School by the Tower\n\nIt was so good that I cheated and watched part two\n\nSix minutes into Cheat I was discouraged. I suspected that this would be a potboiler that people would love or hate and I would probably fall into the latter camp. It opened with a joyless act of coitus, climaxing in Adam saying, “Put your legs up,” to aid egg fertilisation, then it progressed to some expositional dialogue, then to an unlikely sex scene in the University of Cambridge’s bogs that turned out to be in lecturer Leah’s head as she had special “me time” in trap three. Oh, please.\n\nBut what do you know? By the end I was sucked in, signed up and plundering the ITV previews account (perk of the" ]

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[ null, "Ah, Malibu. The word evokes images of surf bunnies, movie stars, and languid decadence by the sea. Not the sort of vision that comes to mind on first sight of this new Chevrolet sedan. Maybe Chevy misspelled it. Mallibu sounds more like it, since this car is far more likely to be found circling a suburban shopping center than cruising a glamorous beach town.\n\nBut Chevrolet can be for­given because all car compa­nies succumb to hyperbole at christening time. Substance, not perception, is what's important here, and the Malibu is one of the most substantial cars Chevy has offered up since the 1955 Bel Air.\n\nThis is not to say that this car is the greatest thing since Dijonnaise; the Malibu is made for the masses with all the cost-cutting compromises that entails. But by the standards of its class—a four-mil­lion-sales-a-year bulge in the market—it deserves to stand in the first rank. It's roomy and practical and comes with a lot of stuff for the money: The bill for our top-of-the-line Malibu LS test car is $18,715. This base price includes a cassette stereo, A/C, an automatic transmission, ABS, and power windows. The only options are a sunroof and a CD player. Value enough, but it's the small things that are notable. Chevrolet started from scratch with this car and avoided the temptation to scrounge the seemingly bottomless bin of aging GM parts—pull switches for the headlights and balky heater controls among them—to save some bucks. Instead, it designed new com­ponents that are as modem as anything in the market.\n\nJim Heckert, Chevrolet's brand manager for the Malibu, says the company researched this car more than any other Chevy in the past. \"A lot of people said we've 'clinicked' this thing to death,\" he quips. Groups of plain folks were brought in and asked to try out all sorts of design variations—seats, switches, door handles, whatnot—and their preferences were noted and some of them incorporated. This focus-group approach to design doesn't always work—Ford insists its research showed that customers didn't want a driver's-side rear door on the Windstar—but in this case the clinics were on the mark.\n\nFor instance, we felt that the gearshift lever was too tall and looked out of pro­portion. When we mentioned this to Heckert, he smiled and pointed out that if the driver has his right elbow on the well-placed armrest, the high shift lever pro­vides a perfectly positioned hand rest. Point made, criticism withdrawn.\n\nThe interior is full of such inventive subtleties. That armrest is actually a siz­able bin that pivots out of the way to reveal an extended center console with a tape-storage compartment, a coin holder, and an indentation to hold a pen or two. The outboard front vents have been moved up into the base of the A-pillars, freeing space for a larger glove box and a slide-out cup-holder/trinket tray on the driver's side. (Chevy adds the trinket tag because women said they needed a place to put ear­rings and other little items.) The front-door armrests extend to the B-pillars for the convenience of tall people who have the seat all the way back. Even such minutiae as the door pulls have been considered—they're shaped for an easy grip with indents for fingers and thumb.\n\nThere are many more such touches, but one in particular deserves mention: Chevy moved the ignition switch from the steering column to the instrument panel, just to the left of the radio. In this car, a key fob will not signal every twist and turn of the road with a tap on the knee.\n\nThese individual bits all blend together in a clean and simple design that's not as cozy as a Chrysler Cirrus or as cold as a Toyota Camry. However, even though the switches, the levers, and the controls all click and flick like they should, there's a barely perceptible plasticky feel to them. For example, the mock-wood dashboard trim on the LS model is a needless affec­tation.\n\nStill, with unusually firm, supportive seats front and rear, large windows, and enough headroom for Abe Lincoln's hat, the Malibu feels spacious, comfortable, and contemporary. It's a solid, well-exe­cuted package—except for a flimsy grille that can be flexed between the thumb and forefinger—with doors that close with a solid thunk and a trunk that's as big as a butcher's freezer. If one word can sum up the car, practical would be it." ]

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[ null, "Others said one should not confuse religion and government. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "Crystal Harris has called off her wedding to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner\nJune 15th, 2011\n11:06 AM ET\n\nPerhaps Crystal Harris didn't want bridesmaids wearing bunny ears. Or perhaps she got tired of people suggesting her fiance was the \"old\" in \"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.\" Whatever the reason, it's official: Harris has called off her wedding to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. Since much of the fascination about Hef and the Playboy Playmate centers around their 60-year age difference, today's Gotta Watch looks as some of our favorite May-December romances.\n\nHarris makes \"The RidicuList\" - CNN's Anderson Cooper says he just doesn't get why Hefner's ex-fiancee would call off their big day. He managed to put her on \"The RidicuList\" with references to dogs and hydrants, orthopedic shoes and penicillin.\n\n'Til death do us part - What's the secret to a successful marriage? Selflessly sharing the mic at a press junket? Polishing your spouse's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame without being asked? Here, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore say it's as simple as a Post-It note.\n\nDonald and Melania - Before Donald Trump flirted with the idea of running for president, he was flirting with now-wife Melania. Here, she tells HLN's Joy Behar that she initially didn't want to give Trump her number. No, it wasn't because he wanted to see her birth certificate.", null, "'Blowhard and a phony' – Those are some strong words for Donald Trump from New York Times journalist Christopher Byron. Last night, Trump continued to question President Obama while sparring with CNN's John King . This is Byron's fierce analysis of the feud.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null ]

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