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[ "Wine House LLC has been established by Garush Samvelyan in 2011. Company is producing exclusive wines using principally its own grapes. Vineyards are located on 10 ha plot of land in village Aghtsk, Aragatsotn province. The Company cultivates ancient indigenous and new generation grape varieties of Armenia on its vineyards.", null, "History of Winemaking in Armenia dates back to the time immemorial which is proved by a wealth of historical discoveries and artifacts. A vast number of karases (clay jars) (1000-1200L) found during excavations around the fortress Teyshebaini, (Erebouni 7C, B. C), which is the current capital of Armenia, Yerevan, come to prove that Wine making was a well-developed industry in Armenia millennia ago. It is hard to imagine that a family would make such huge volumes of wine for family consumption.\n\nPieces of sulphur unearthed in the ancient winemaking site indicate that the Urartian (a state on the territory of Ancient Armenia) winemakers were well aware of the antiseptic properties of the gas extracted from burning sulphur. A remarkably advanced winemaking operation was discovered in Armenia in 2011, in caves, surrounded by wine press, fermentation jars, storage jars, wine cups, dating back 6,000 years.\n\nScientists also found grape seeds, residues of pressed grape and dozens of dried pieces of vine. The study of the seeds indicate that the grapes used for winemaking were Vitis Vinifera (varieties of cultivated grapes used in modern winemaking). The seeds found are identical with indigenous Armenian grape variety Voskehat (Kharji), which is widely cultivated in Armenia now.\n\nArmenia is among the handful countries where vines were not affected by Phyloxera (grapevine pest), to be more exact only a small part of northeastern part of Armenia was affected. Ararat valley is the main winegrowing area of Armenia, located at the foothills of the Biblical Ararat Mountain, which accommodates over 80% of country’s grape growing." ]

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[ null, "Distinction granted for its commitment to peace and human rights. To foster dialogue that enhances understanding, respect and peace between people of different cultures and religions. CONGRATULATIONS!\n\nMr Zakaria El Hamel as a dedicated Human rights and Peace Activist in Morocco, is encouraging a new Generation to stand up for peace and human rights in turbulent Arabic World.\n\nZakaria El Hamel, 36 years old, is so important for Morocco: for almost two decades, Zakaria has dedicated himself to creating a culture of tolerance and understanding by instilling an awareness and appreciation of human rights. Born in the city of Berkane in northwestern Morocco, Zakaria was introduced to equality and religious diversity at a very early age. He studied law in university, and in 2005 he founded ‘‘Youth for Peace and Dialogue between Cultures’’ in Oujda, where he now lives.\n\nAs the President of youth for Peace and Dialogue, Zakaria began to meet and collaborate with national and international active human rights groups to promote intercultural action. In August 2010, he took part in the Youth Summit for Human Rights International (YHRI) at the United Nations in Geneva as the Youth Delegate from Morocco. This event gave him a new inspiration in the following years to help protect the country from the growing threat of fanaticism in nearby lands by promoting all human rights, including freedom of religion and expression.\n\nZakaria reached further for even more help: Working alongside religious leaders from the Catholic, Islamic, Christian and Methodist faiths, Zakaria next staged an interfaith event in the Saint Louis Church in Oujda. This celebrated ‘‘World Interfaith Harmony Week’’- a United Nations initiative to increase peace, tolerance and mutual understanding between different faiths.\n\nWith the contribution of different organizations, he has promoted human rights, respect for freedom of expression, thought and belief, through workshops and conferences. With his message he has reached street vendors, children, young leaders of schools and groups in different towns and cities throughout the country. From the Moroccan Observatory of Education and the National Council on Human Rights to the United Religions Initiative, more than twenty organisations and groups formed alliances. Together, they now work with Zakaria and his Foundation about Human rights education all over Morocco, maintaining the long tradition of peace and tolerance in this North African Kingdom.\n\nZakaria El Hamel is Member of Anna Lindh Foundation and Member of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court too.\n\nThis is the certificate in his language that Public Peace Prize gives him to highlight this honorable distinction:", null, "Leave a reply at the bottom of this page or on our Facebook page at: https://facebook.com/publicpeaceprize.prixpublicpaix/" ]

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[ null, "Livestreams come to 2022 with the live streaming/podcast electronic music series “The DJ Sessions” on Twitch and Mixcloud… and now in Virtual Reality.\n\n“The DJ Sessions” is a live streaming and podcast series featuring electronic music DJs, producers, and industry professionals via live mixes and interviews.", null, null, "“The DJ Sessions” has also launched two new series “Live Interviews” and “Exclusive Mixes”. You can find out who is coming on the series and also watch DJ mixes made exclusively for “The DJ Sessions” from some of the world’s most notable DJ’s.\n\n“The DJ Sessions” also has a Resident team of some best DJs High Season, DJ Disco Vinnie, DJ_Spitfire, Zona, Tripdubb, Synergy, DJ Dangerish, LUZI TUDOR, DA33L€, Avian Invasion, CHRIS138, Orion, Justin Murta, Machine Logic, and Serjey Andre Kul, DJ Hey, DarkMark, Killkade, and Blackliquid. If you are interested in getting on the series you can fill out the “Request to Play” form on the site.\n\nThe series is constantly placed in the “Top Ten” on Twitch Music and the “Top Five” in the “Electronic Music“, “DJ“, and “Dance Music” categories. “The DJ Sessions” is rated in the Top 0.11% of live streaming shows on Twitch out of millions of live streamers.\n\n“The DJ Sessions” was just listed in the “2022 Ultimate Directory of Podcasters” in the Music category. It has also been recognized by Apple twice as a “New and Noteworthy” podcast and featured three times in the Apple Music Store video podcast section. UStream and Livestream have also listed the series as a “Featured” stream on their platforms since its inception.", null, "“The DJ Sessions” is available for streaming on a host of platforms including Spotify, ROKU, Amazon Fire, and Google Play. There is also a v3.2 website with past episodes alongside a mobile app and VR Nightclubs on AltSpace. These contribute to a huge weekly audience of over 125,000 viewers.\n\n“The DJ Sessions” is executive Produced by Darran Bruce. He is known to be one of those few people who has been able to bring a truly new and unique concept to the table. With vast years of experience in TV broadcasting and his die-hard love for nightlife led him to the launch of “The DJ Sessions.”\n\nBruce has worked in the film/broadcast tv/internet distribution industry for 30+ years and has now expanded his knowledge base to VR/AR/XR distribution.", null, "His production schedule includes 12 events per month and over 40 interviews with DJ, Producers, and electronic music professionals. His spontaneous broadcasts stream weekly from the “Rooftop”, “On Location”, “Silent Disco”, “Mobile”, “Cab”, and “Secret” studio locations with up to 144 hours of unique programming.\n\nCombining “Silent Concert/Disco” technology, and working with some of the top companies in the streaming community, Bruce figured out a way to septuple, yes that is to increase production/distribution by seven times, “The DJ Sessions” live streaming/VOD distribution and provide multi- genre music events to reach a much larger demographic of electronic music fans.\n\nAll images provided by The DJ Sessions\n\nThe original article can be read at EDMManiac.com\n\nDARRAN BRUCE: THE MIND BEHIND THE DJ SESSIONS STREAMING SITE – ..." ]

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[ "Many mangrove forests in Indonesia have been destroyed by the introduction of shrimp and fishponds. After decades of being considered a nuisance, mangrove trees are now becoming more popular. Fish farmers are increasingly realizing their ability to provide a green belt that protects the coast from erosion. Two projects were visited that aim to preserve the forest’s unique biodiversity.\n\nSri Rejeki is a marine scientist who has a special interest mangrove management and pond management. She is the driving force behind Associate Mangrove Aquaculture. She works with her team to teach local fish farmers how they can create new levees, and lock systems to regulate water flow. This allows mangroves to naturally grow by allowing sediment to be collected. The project is intended to protect nearby villages from flooding and pond facilities, thus protecting fish farmers’ earnings. Rejeki is certain that mangrove forests will be a major part of the country’s recovery if they are supported by the local population.", null, "A lot of the biodiversity along the coasts of Indonesia has disappeared.\n\nEuropean Commission: Ensuring a Resilient, Healthy Environment for All\n\nWasito, a former fisherman started planting mangroves at Kendal more than a decade ago after noticing that coastal erosion was increasing and the coastal strips were becoming smaller. He works with young people and residents to plant mangroves, and to educate others about the importance and benefits of the tree. Since he started the project, hundreds of people have joined him.\n\nIt is vital to connect fragmented wolverine habitats for their conservation\n\nA glimpse into ecology and environment" ]

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[ null, "KABUL conflict will end by Christmas with the pullout of most of its 1500 soldiers from the war-torn country, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said.\n\n“Australia’s longest war is ending not with victory, not with defeat, but with, we hope, an Afghanistan that is better for our presence here,” he told international soldiers in Tirinkot on Monday.\n\nIn a statement from his office, the prime minister called withdrawal a “bitter-sweet” occasion and acknowledged that Afghanistan remained a dangerous place despite all that had been done.\n\n“Sweet because hundreds of soldiers will be home for Christmas. Bitter because not all Australian families have had their sons, fathers and partners return,” he added.\n\nThe statement added: “People have paid a high price. We have lost 40 of our best.” Another 260 soldiers have been wounded since 2001. Hundred of Australians will continue to serve in non-combat roles in Afghanistan.\n\nAfter nine years of operations in the central province, the Australian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Uruzgan was formally closed yesterday." ]

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[ "Mohan Raja will soon release the political action movie Godfather in the Indian Telugu language. It is an official remake of the 2019 Malayalam film Lucifer and was made by Konidela Production Company and Super Good Films. In addition to Gangavva and Sunil playing supporting roles, the movie stars Chiranjeevi, Nayanthara, and Satya Dev in the key roles. Salman Khan makes his Telugu film debut, and Puri Jagannadh makes a long cameo. Well now the latest news regarding the movie has left everyone of us in eager and excitment. The much awaited movie’s teaser will soon be released and the official date is also out now.", null, "Yes you heard it right. Mega fans and movie buffs eagerly anticipated the exciting news surrounding Mega Star Chiranjeevi’s birthday on August 22. Fans were already getting set to celebrate the event in style. The creators of Mega Star Chiranjeevi’s Grandfather came out with an exciting update in the midst of all this. The film’s much awaited teaser will be premiered on August 21.\n\nThe Godfather is scheduled for a movie release in October 2022, Vijayadashami’s festival month. Chiranjeevi’s Konidela Production Company distributed the film throughout all of India through PVR Pictures, and Sarigama Cinemas distributed it internationally through Phars Film.", null, "The movie was a lot in anticipation because of Chiranjeevi and Salman Khan’s collaboration. Well Chiranjeevi is a big name in the industry and he has a massive huge fan following too. His ventures are listed on the top even before the release and is the ruler of box office. On the other hand the Dabbang star is the massive name in the Bollywood industry too. Well this will be his first ever Telgu debut and hence is really anticipated by his fans and followers. The much awaited collaboration’s first ever glimpse will be seen by us in some days and the viewers have hyped their excitement to a great level now.", null, "Disney Plus Hotstar unveils the poster of their upcoming venture Cuttputli.\nNext Article", null ]

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[ null, "James is a successful entrepreneur and business consultant with a heart for mentoring, philanthropy, and family.\n\nJames started his career focusing on engineering and design while attending Portland State University. He transitioned to project management in the wireless industry in 1995 and in 2002, he formed Legacy Wireless Services, Inc. (www-legacy-wireless.com) which continues to operate as the largest privately held wireless contractor in the Northwest generating over $110M in revenue since inception.In 2004, James’ entrepreneurial efforts expanded when he formed a small tower holdings company to purchase a wireless carrier’s tower assets. In 2007 he successfully sold that company to a publicly-traded international tower operator.\n\nIn connection with his love for cycling and accomplishments as top amateur competitor, James launched FASTER (www.ride-faster.com), in 2011 to create the most comprehensive performance center for cyclists and triathletes. Anchored by the world’s first cycling-specific wind tunnel for aerodynamic evaluation and optimization, FASTER was honored to be acknowledged as “Best Pro Road Bike Shop” by the cycling industry in 2014. Within two years, James successfully negotiated a sale of the business to an international bicycle components manufacturer.\n\nJames and his wife of 22 years reside in the Scottsdale area where they have raised three college-age children. They enjoy serving their local church by helping connect new members to a Christ-centered community.\n\nConnect With Us On Social" ]

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[ null, "According to the statement, non-Macau residents – including non-resident workers – who go into quarantine at the Golden Crown China Hotel, which is located opposite the local airport in Taipa, with 300 guestrooms, will have to pay the same fee of 5,600 patacas (US$700) for a fortnight as in Pousada Marina Infante.\n\nMacau residents who go into quarantine at government-designated hotels are exempted from the fee." ]

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[ null, "It is considered a reference to the 'state within the state' - comprising followers of U.S.-based congregation leader Fethullah Gulen - which is accused of trying to topple the government.\n\nWednesday’s meeting also saw a discussion of international developments -- including parliamentary elections in Iraq, a deal between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, and the crisis in Ukraine, the statement said.\n\nMembers of the council expressed hope the elections would help solve ongoing issues in Iraq within the framework of democracy, while calling the Palestinian agreement a necessary element for permanent peace.\n\nThey also expressed concern over the crisis in Ukraine and its repercussions for the Crimean Tatars.\n\nChief Public Prosecutor's Office in Ankara has launched an investigation on Fethullah Gulen, U.S.-based Turkish congregation leader accused of leading an organization that seeks to topple the Turkish government.\n\nAn official from the prosecutor’s office said a process for gathering evidence was under way and it was too early to comment on the investigation.\n\nThe office said the files of the investigation were with Public Prosecutor Serdar Coskun from the department of \"Crimes against the Constitution.\"\n\nSeker told journalists in Ankara that he was there to obtain information on investigations and complaints against Gulen, some of which his legal team were not aware of due to technicalities.\n\nThe Turkish government accuses Gulen of forming and leading an organization that is nestled within state institutions, particularly in the judiciary and police." ]

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[ null, "1. Talk about a newspaper column that is exactly the opposite of the truth! The Times had an essay in its “Review” section this Sunday with a title that gave me a shock: “Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii”\n\nThe headline would have been more accurate if it read, “Want to live in the only state with lawful and open racial discrimination? Move to Hawaii!” Hawaii gives special benefits to residents with full or partial Native Hawaiian ancestry. There is a special Hawaiian registry program which verifies an individual’s Native Hawaiian ancestry, so the favored race can receive such goodies that are unavailable to other racial groups as buying land for a home at only $1 a year, low-interest loans, and admission for their children to the elite Kamehameha Schools.\n\nAnecdotally, I can also state that the only time in my life that I felt I was the target of racial epithets was in college, when the Hawaiian contingent frequently derided me and my white room mates as “howlies,” a disparaging Island term reserved for anyone who is not a native Hawaiian. I will always remember my 6’5″ roommate Dave ending the practice by saying to the two main offenders, “If I ever hear that word from any of you again, I promise that I will shove you, Howie, directly up Reggie’s ass, head first. Are we clear on that?”\n\nDave never bluffed, and seldom joked. That was the last time we were called “howlies.”\n\n2. Nike is not just scum, but cowardly, sniveling scum. Nike Inc. cancelled a U.S.A.-themed sneaker featuring the Betsy Ross American flag because Head NFL Kneeler Colin Kaepernick, a Nike endorser, told company officials that he and others felt that the historic flag is an offensive symbol because of its connection to an era of slavery.\n\nThe Air Max 1 USA had been designed for release in celebration of the July Fourth holiday, and scheduled to go on sale this week. The heel of the shoe featured a U.S. flag with 13 white stars in a circle, the original flag created during the American Revolution and known as the Betsy Ross flag.", null, "Wow! How racist can you get!\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "Oh-oh. The American Family Association is losing it….\n\nThe American Family Association, which holds that it supports “traditional values,” has been feuding with the liberal, diversity and civil rights-minded Southern Poverty Law Center, which designated it a “hate group.” In turn, the AFA has called the SPLC some other nasty things. They really don’t like each other.\n\nNot liking an adversary group is hardly unusual, but detesting one so much that it robs you of whatever common sense, rationality and proportion you have is both self-destructive and unprofessional, and a clear sign that the group’s judgment is poisoned by emotion and non-ethical considerations. This is what the American Family Association is demonstrating now.\n\nIt is difficult to imagine a school program less sinister than “Mix It Up at Lunch Day.” One of the efforts sponsored by Teaching Tolerance, the October 30 nationwide effort has encouraged schools for eleven years to urge students to sit with kids they don’t normally eat lunch with, giving members of different groups and cliques an opportunity to branch out, and to get to know students who are different from themselves. The phenomenon of high school gradually sorting itself into exclusive groups of various levels of social status was neatly captured in “Mean Girls,” where the school’s lunch table cliques were divided into “freshmen, ROTC guys\npreps, J.V. jocks, Asian nerds, Cool Asians, Varsity jocks, Unfriendly black hotties, Girls who eat their feelings, Girls who don’t eat anything, Desperate wannabes, Burnouts, Sexually active band geeks,” and, of course, the dreaded Plastics, the social queens, and the Outcasts. “Mix It Up at Lunch Day,” properly handled, is a splendid idea.\n\nBut, you see, it is the inspiration of the dreaded Southern Poverty Law Center, so the AFA has decided that it must be evil. Pointing out that the Southern Poverty Law Center is a “fanatical pro-homosexual group, ” the association is urging parents to block their children’s schools’ efforts to hold “Mix It Up” day, by complaining, protesting and, if necessary, keeping their children home. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "Jennifer McKendrick is my favorite Ethics Hero of 2011.\n\nAn Indiana County freelance photographer of sensitivity, courage and principle, McKendrick engaged in classic ethical behavior—seeing wrongful conduct that harms others, and taking affirmative action to address it. Her conduct is a template for all of us, and not merely regarding the specific problem she decided to confront: online bullying.\n\nMcKendrick had been hired to shoot the senior photos of several high school girls, then discovered that they had viciously denigrated other students on Facebook. She sent the girls’ parents this letter:\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nSometimes the application of the Golden Rule actually leads us away from an ethical result.\n\nThe suicide of a 15-year-old South Hadley, Mass girls who had been the victim of bullying and web attacks by fellow students continues to be framed as the failure of school administrators to protect the girl. What the school knew and when they knew it is the object of current investigation and controversy, but there is an inherent public and media bias in such cases that is rooted in laudable ethical motivations, indeed, it is rooted in the Golden Rule. But that bias often results in unfairness and injustice. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nAbuse of power comes in all shapes and sizes. Witness the sorority Pi Phi, which apparently is hell-bent on proving that “Mean Girls” was a documentary. The fashion website “Fashionista” got its cyber hands on the sorority’s dress code, which makes West Point look lenient.\n\nHere are some examples from the six page manifesto, the invention of Pi Phi’s rush chair: END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED" ]

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[ null, "“In 2001, exactly 50 years after the Iraqi national team was formed, I made a discovery. I was reading a comment on the old sports forum about a player named Saeed Easho. It was the start to unearthing the story of Iraq’s first national team. Many years later I contacted the ex-footballer, and through him it seemed as if everything fell into place. He had spent the best part of 60 years living outside Iraq so no one knew what had happened to the centre-half of Iraq’s first national side. …”\nGuardian\namazon: Birth of the Lions of Mesopotamia: The early years of football in Iraq\n\nThis entry was posted on Monday, December 6th, 2021 at 12:07 am and is filed under Books, FIFA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site." ]

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[ "Simplified question: I have a dataset of how well certain agents perform on certain tasks, and based on this I've trained a model that can make predictions for newly incoming tasks. I'd like to make an algorithm that distributes tasks amongst agents to maximise performance.\n\nOne way would be to make a prediction for each scenario - each agent assigned to each new set of tasks (note that one agent can work on more than one task at a time) -, thus iterating through all possible solutions, and summing performance and finding the max.\n\nThis, however, would be very complex - to iterate through every possible combination an finding a maximum.\n\nIs there a better way to optimise (maximise performance) without having to iterate through all possible solutions? How could I do that?\n\nLet's take a look at the following setup:\n\nI'd like to know if there's any ML algorithm that can learn how to assign jobs to agents as to minimise time spent working (maximise performance).\n\nI teach an SVM (or a regressor, or a neural net), that will be able to predict how well a certain agent A1 performs on a certain (type of) task T1 (call this performance P1). So when a new task comes in, I'll be able to predict P1 based on A1 and T1. BUT! And here comes the question. Now that I can predict P1 based on A1 and T1, how do I use this knowledge to actually assign ALL the tasks - T1...Tn amongst all the agents A1...Am as to maximise the performance: sum(P1, P2, ..., Pi)?\n\nIn general Genetic algorithms can deal with this kind of optimization problems. The tricky part is to define the population with this particular assignment problem. Assuming a given set of tasks T1...Tn to achieve, an \"individual\" in the population would probably be an assignment A1...An, that is a possible assignment of the tasks to a (subset of) the agents. Thus the tasks play the role of the \"genes\":\n\nThe rest is straightforward genetic learning:\n\nAfter a few generations the population will converge to a set of optimal assignments. Mind that it might end up in a local optimum, you can tune the hyper-parameters to minimize this risk.\n\nSome ideas:1. Could you assign features for jobs and assignments? Performance would be the labels. Then you could simply use an SVM for example. 2. Given a user representation matrix X, each row i is an agent, and a job representation matrix Y, each j is a job representation, and a matrix of performance P, where every row stands for a user and every column how well the agent performed on that job, you could learn X and Y through optimization. Check this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-negative_matrix_factorization I hope this helps.\n\nI just had another idea.\n\nWhy don't you uniformly randomize the assignments. For each randomization of assignments, calculate the cost.\n\nRun this, for I don't know how many times. Pick the configuration with the least cost.\n\nBecause of linearity of expectation, this should give you a good enough answer, might not be the optimal, but more efficient.\n\nI think no-one can solve this analytically, and I cannot model this easily with ML algorithms. Furthermore I think your problem specification is not clear enough. For instance, there are not enough constraints, and you don't say how many types of agents there are.\n\nIn any regard, this seems to be a job for the Netlogo agent-based-modeling software.\n\nAnswer part 1: You could reframe your question, assign it a \"NetLogo\" tag, ask again on stackoverflow.com. I happen to know that the Netlogo developers and other experts hang out there. You could get a much better answer than I could provide here.\n\nMaybe someone has developed a NetLogo Model that is similar to your problem, and you can adapt and study it. (Netlogo has an internal grid-search tool called \"BehaviourSpace\"), you can export data, and there are APIs for connecting Netlogo with other tools such as R.\n\nAnswer part 2: In any case, this reminds me of the \"El Farol\" model included in the Netlogo agent-based-modeling software.\n\nEl Farol is a bar in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The bar is popular — especially on Thursday nights when they offer Irish music — but sometimes becomes overcrowded and unpleasant. In fact, if the patrons of the bar think it will be overcrowded they stay home; otherwise they go enjoy themselves at El Farol. This model explores what happens to the overall attendance at the bar on these popular Thursday evenings, as the patrons use different strategies for determining how crowded they think the bar will be. ... El Farol was originally put forth by Brian Arthur (1994) as an example of how one might model economic systems of boundedly rational agents who use inductive reasoning.\n\nI have included a screeenshot so you'll get an impression what I'm talking about.\n\nIn the screenshot, replace", null, "Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged machine-learning algorithms optimization or ask your own question.\n\n1\nHow to speed up optimization using Differential Evolution?\n3\nWhich algorithm to use to predict the duration of some task\n4\nCatastrophic forgetting in linear semi-gradient RL agent?\n1\nAre there any learner-specific optimizers?\n1\nCan RNN be replaced with non-recurrent classifier for Sequence Classification problem?\n2\nPython - How to use ML to assign best possible weights to final stage of a NLP product title shortening algorithm to pick most descriptive parts" ]

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[ "Windows logo key (also known as Windows key, start key, logo key) is a keyboard key that was originally introduced on the Microsoft Natural keyboard before the release of Windows 95. This key became a standard key on PC keyboards. Tapping this key invokes the operating system’s start menu if it has one. In Windows, Ctrl+Esc performs the same function, in case the keyboard lacks this key.\nHistorically, the addition of two Windows keys and a menu key marked the change from the 101/102-key to 104/105-key layout for PC keyboards.\n\nnow, press “Win + R” on your keyboard to open the Run dialog box, and enter any of the below commands to access the respective tool.\n\n1. cmd – Even Windows users have to deal with the command line sometimes. With this command, you can quickly open the command prompt without administrator privileges.\n\n2. powershell – If the command prompt is too old for you, then you may want to try PowerShell. Just type this command in the Run dialog box, and you will have your PowerShell opened without administrator privileges.\n\n3. netplwiz – The general user accounts option is available through the Control Panel, but if you want to mess with the advanced user account options then use this command to open the Advanced User Accounts window. If you\n\n5. “.” – This is yet another lesser-known Run command. When executed, it opens the current user’s home folder which hosts all the other local folders like the Downloads, Documents, Desktop, Pictures, etc.\n\n6. “..” – When you execute these two dots in the Run dialog box, it will open up the Users folder which is located directly in the C drive.\n\n7. calc – If you want to quickly open the built-in Windows calculator app, typing calc in the Run dialog box is the easiest way to do it.\n\nAlso read: 10 Signs of a Malware Infection on your Computer\n\nwant to deal with the Authorization Manager, then use the Run command azman.msc.\n\n9. lusrmgr.msc – Using this command, you can open the Local Users and Groups Manager where you can edit several properties of all the users and groups.\n\n10. mrt – Every month Windows releases a newer version of Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool through the Windows Update. This free tool helps you in cleaning some of the most popular malicious software from your Windows computer. This tool runs silently in the background but if you want to run it manually then use this Run command.\n\n11. ncpa.cpl – Being an Internet user means that you have to deal with occasional (if not daily) network problems, and one way to troubleshoot your network connection is by accessing your Network Adapters. To access all your Network Adapters, you can use this Run command.\n\n13. sysdm.cpl – If you ever want to access the System Properties window, then using this Run command opens it right up.\n\n14. firewall.cpl – If you want to manage or configure your Windows firewall, then you can use this Run command to quickly access the Firewall window.\n\n15. wuapp – Last but not least, you can use this command to check, manage and configure all your Windows update settings.\n\n17. powercfg.cpl – Windows hosts a wide range of power options to deal with your computer’s power usage, and you can access all those Power Options using this command.\n\n19. devmgmt.msc – Windows Device Manager is where you can manage all your hardware devices, and you can use this Run command to quickly access it. Alternatively, you can also use the command “hdwwiz.cpl.”\n\n20. regedit – Regedit Run command can be used to access the Windows Registry which is a hierarchical database that hosts all the configurations and settings of an operating system and the installed programs.", null, null, null, null, null, null, "Things to Consider Before Buying a New Laptop", null, "How to Backup Firefox Browsing History and Restore", null ]

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[ null, "The Joint Center of Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University recently released their 2017 State of the Nation’s Housing Study, and a recent blog from JCHS revealed some of the more surprising aspects of the study.\n\nThe first two revelations centered around the shortage of housing inventory currently available in both existing homes and new construction.\n\n“For the fourth year in a row, the inventory of homes for sale across the US not only failed to recover, but dropped yet again. At the end of 2016 there were historically low 1.65 million homes for sale nationwide, which at the current sales rate was just 3.6 months of supply – almost half of the 6.0 months level that is considered a balanced market.”\n\n“Markets nationwide are still feeling the effects of the deep and extended decline in housing construction. Over the past 10 years, just 9 million new housing units were completed and added to the housing stock. This was the lowest 10-year period on records dating back to the 1970s, and far below the 14 and 15 million units averaged over the 1980s and 1990s.”\n\nThe biggest challenge in today’s market is getting current homeowners and builders to realize the opportunity they have to maximize profit by selling and/or building NOW!!\n\nfrom Simplifying the Market™ http://ift.tt/2sszVwv\nvia IFTTT" ]

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[ "From Victim to Master – the power of perception", null, "We are not victims or prisoners of our heredity after all. Instead we have the ability, through the power of perception, to free ourselves and evolve into who we truly are – masters of our own lives.\n\nDr Bruce Lipton, a cellular biologist who worked at the University of Wisconsin cloning human muscle cells, is best known for challenging the existing belief which purports that the human body is controlled by genes. In his video, The Biology of Perception, he demonstrates, using basic science combined with research material from his experiments on stem cells dating back to 1967, that contrary to belief, perception controls biology.\n\nTHE PROOF IS IN THE PETRI DISH\n\nDr Lipton explains and I summarise: In one of his experiments a stem cell was isolated and put into a petri dish (a cell-culture dish) where it divided every 10 hours. The cells were then split up into three groups and placed into separate petri dishes. In each of the three dishes the growth medium was changed, representing the constituents of the environment. Surprisingly in the first dish the cells formed bone, in the second dish they formed muscle, and in the third dish they formed fat cells. To boot, all of the cells were genetically identical when they were first separated yet each dish produced different results. Why was this so? Since the genes were all identical, their varied formations were not indicative of control or influence by the genes. The dissimilarities were contained in their environment where each stimulated the genes to spawn different formations. The environment or inconsistent growth mediums were the stimulus to which the cells responded. A scientific breakthrough had been made: our biology and health are not controlled by our genes because genes respond to their environment! It is the genes’ perception of their environment that causes them to behave in a certain way.\n\nWhile we were taught that our genes (which we do not control) determine our lives, i.e. our behaviour, emotions, character, health and biology, we were disempowered. This is because our education suggests that we do not have any control over our lives. We were told that our genes are inherited from our family and so you become a victim of your heredity. If there is cancer in your family, you are likely to feel vulnerable to illness. If your father or mother were prone to addiction, you will to some extent expect to acquire the same results, or feel entitled to justify similar behaviour irresponsibly. This brings about a feeling of powerlessness so that no matter what you do, your life is destined to be in a certain way because of your genes. So a kind of apathy takes over as you nurture a ‘why should I try anyway?’ type of attitude.\n\nDr Lipton’s research is life changing for all of us. It shows that we have the power to choose our destiny at any given point. From victims we have become masters of our lives as we can control how we respond to the environment.\n\nTHE TRUE EVOLVED YOU\n\nThis is where recovery coaching is vital because throughout the process, the client is given the necessary tools and techniques to overcome the perceptions (beliefs) that hold them back in life. You were born into the world without any beliefs, and, since you learned to believe certain things from your parents, education and social systems, you have the ability to unlearn them and try new ones. As you change your thinking, you change your mind and biology, which culminates in an evolved reality.\n\nIn addition to the new science that perception controls behaviour, Dr Lipton goes even deeper in saying that perception not only controls genes, it also rewrites them! Like any living being the cell is a conscious organism. By virtue of its state of consciousness the cell’s perception of the environment is what controls the gene. In his study Dr Lipton provides molecular proof on how a belief actually switches on a gene.\n\nTo demonstrate the power of belief, I have taken an example of our beloved insect the bumble bee. Aerodynamically the bumble bee is not really designed to fly. This is apparent in observing its rounded hairy body that is much larger than the little wings that struggle to carry it. Now imagine that someone repeatedly told the bumble bee from the start that she was not designed for flight; do you suppose she would be flying today? Of course not, and yet the bumble bee flies nonetheless, even though a bit clumsily at times, because she believes that she can! Belief is powerful and at times can often override the most logical reasoning.\n\nThe disease model of addiction refers to addiction as being biologically fecundated by heredity or it is produced within the person during their early years of life. On the high end of the spectrum, research shows a steady degree of alcoholism in the immediate relatives of the family. While the precise biological structure has not yet been discovered, more than 50% of alcoholics are allegedly estimated to have a genetic predisposition for it.\n\nStudies also provide other contributing factors for addiction, such as loneliness, which is due to individuals not having any family or sufficient support systems. Having said that, the latter is a more validating example than the former paragraph which suggests predisposition; because a lonely person can at least join a social club for individuals with similar quandaries.\n\nChanging your circumstances or your beliefs about your circumstances is far more empowering than being biologically infected. Even so, is it intelligible to estimate that one can be genetically predisposed to a substance that is man-made?\n\nC.G. Jung in his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, poignantly describes a patient sent by an American colleague with the accompanying diagnosis, ‘alcoholic neurasthenia: incurable.’ Nevertheless, Jung discovered that the patient was struggling to hold his manhood in a tyrannical relationship with his mother. Due to her power games, he chose to liquor down his inferiority complex that he withheld as a way of self-medicating. Jung took the initiative (behind his back) to give his mother a medical certificate fingering his inability to carry out his work-related responsibilities due to his alcoholism, and with that Jung recommended his redundancy. Although the man was furious with Jung (albeit an unethical move for a medical practitioner), he went on to create a life whence he thrived! By removing himself from a negative situation that did no service to his character, he was empowered to create a new life without the use of alcohol.\n\nUnfortunately, addicts are not always able to change their environment as fluently as in this scenario; however, we can always change our thoughts and attitudes about the situation, that is, your perception. Knowing this you have the power to manifest a beautiful life!\n\nMeditation, visualisation and hypnotherapy are all strong repertoires for holistic health and vitality. In an online article in the Huffington Post, the remarkable benefits of meditation are discussed: Meditation can diminish all kinds of physical diseases and psychological disorders. The immune system, blood pressure, pain response, stress hormone levels and even cellular health, can all be improved. Psychologically, meditation reduces depression and anxiety disorders, ADHD, bipolar mood disorder, addiction and eating disorders among others.\n\nMeditation alters perception and the mind. It is a method for acquainting our minds with virtue. The more familiar our mind is with virtue, the calmer and more peaceful it becomes. When the mind is peaceful, we are free from worries and mental discomfort, and we begin to experience true happiness. In this state of grace and Godliness, healing can be restored. Thus, the practice of meditation confirms the outcome of Dr Lipton’s experiments which state that perception controls the genes and can also rewrite them.\n\nAbout the Author: Lisa Ann Catano\n\nLisa Ann Catano also known as ONATAH is an Entrepreneur of Divine Providence. A Spiritual Life Coach/ Writer, she works solely with the Subconscious Mind to help people overcome the programs that limit their full potential and Abundance. Her work is pro bono and she is looking to be supported in her calling that is to manifest a world without money. This is based on the natural principles of uncompromised abundance, giving and receiving in Love consciousness as opposed to fear and shortage/ lack mentality. Based in Johannesburg, to get in touch with ONATAH to support her vocation and forward thinking, please email or contact her directly. [email protected], 062 869 1100, website: https://onatahlifecoaching.co.za/\nToggle Sliding Bar Area\nGo to Top" ]

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[ "Pasted 2 videos, I hope. Anyways. The first is where we are, the second is where we were. The thought is to teach my kid to hold his wind up closer to his body, shorten the distance from start to finish. Bring more lower body into the motion. Tail end of last year complained about lower bicep pain. Also attempting to greatly reduce the methodical leg whip. Does this look right\n\nIs there a reason you eliminated his leg lift?\n\nThe reason I’m asking is that his position is much better at both hand break and at ‘equal/opposite’ in the LOWER video.\n\nIn the top video his upper body is leaning back as he comes into foot strike; in the lower video he’s driving down the mound better than in the top video. I think you need to find a middle ground on that leg lift that allows him to still get is posting leg forward rather than being static and that gets his upper body forward rather than backward between hand separation, equal/opposite, and foot strike.\n\nWall drill, for this young man, may instill the feeling he needs to have prior to hand break. Don’t confuse wall drill with Hershiser drill.\n\nYeah the leg lift will not be totally eliminated, just reduced and alternated with a shuttle/glide step and being taught to generate power without it. He has a ways to go on that. Primarily I was asking your thoughts on his arm movement, rather than it moving backwards towards second base it goes about half that distance.( I am not a pitching coach so I may not explain very well). As I understand it,coach is trying to lessen the distance and twisting the arm goes through from glove separation to release of the ball.\n\nThis type of arm motion works well for many catchers, as well as pitchers. He still has full external rotation of the shoulder, as I was able to capture a frame with his forearm fully laid back. Does he still have the biceps pain? It may be something as simple as squeezing the ball too hard in his grip.\n\nCoach just started tooling with his mechanics in November following a September where bicep pain was experienced. There doesn’t seem to be any immediate negative markers to indicate we’re moving in the wrong direction and we are about half way through the adjustments\n\nThere is one pitcher I can think of that actually had early hand break, who is a lefty, and reminds me of the new upper body throwing mechanics your son has and that is Billy Wagner. The one thing that Wagner does and has been eliminated by your son is, a high leg kick. This leg kick helps with early weight shift, momentum, and sitting back into his stride. DId you ever consider leaving the pitching arm alone and go after fixing the lower half?\n\nIf you continue to move forward with this arm action make sure your pitching coach concentrates on teaching your son early momentum with this new delivery. The pitching coach has to get the bottom half working for your son. Sitting back into the stride engaging the back leg and keeping his center (core) of gravity over his driveline to home plate is a must. If he doesn’t start using the lower half properly he messes up the kinetic chain and becomes an all arm pitcher. My concern would be once he learns how to use the lower half correctly, will that compromise his new arm action? Exactly what you don’t want.\n\nMy $.02. Not a fan of the new arm action change. I thought he had a great short and efficient arm action leading up to release. Catchers have more arm issues than pitchers, they just don’t throw with full intent as often. The lower half takes time, shortening the arm action that much could cause major timing issues and kill the sequence and kinetic chain. Shortening it to match a lack of lower half drive may cause worse issues. I’d offer that his bicep issues were more related to his lack of drive leg and kinetic chain forcing the energy to be generated from mostly his arm, that combined with his recoil and poor pronation at the end. He has a great front leg but I’d say that is helping him generate his velocity more than his drive leg. A potential leg issue in the future. Fix the lower half and bring back the original arm action prior to release and fix the recoil with a better follow through/pronation to protect the arm.\n\nAs you see here and probably elsewhere, turfguy2, there are various opinions and suggestions based on observations, techniques and coaching experience(s) that’s for your consumption.\n\nIn the process of educating and enhancing your son’s pitching experiences, consider this:\n\nSo, working on his strong suits, I suggest taking a video of him throwing the ball from … say an outfield position to … say… home plate, as if he was trying to gun down a runner rounding third and heading home.\nJust make sure he’s warmed up with the customary stretching, flexing, and tossing the ball around first.\n\nTake about a dozen throws as I suggested, on video. Play back the video in slow motion and take special note of how and what parts of the body he depends on the most during this movement(s). Pay particular attention to these parts of your son’s body:", null, "You be amazed at how easy it is to recognize with the body has self-taught itself and functions in its natural order of movement, balance, and recovery from movement and recovery.\n\nAll of this mind you, is on a flat surface on the field, no holes, no distressed slanting surface to land on, and no restrictions to what the body can and can not do using the limited space on a pitcher’s mound.\n\nAs you watch your video you and your son will pick out things that you never noticed before - especially with the before and after observations. In fact, the more you watch said video, you and your son will start picking apart every movement - field throwing Vs mound pitching. Every single variance between the two motions will be a chance to ask each other… Why? And in response… “does this help or hurt your son’s pitching experience.”.\n\nBy the way, you don’t need a pitching coach for this. Listen to you son’s , why-n-what-for, as he and you make visual comparisons. It’s that easy.\n\nThere is a lot of benefits of arm action change at a young age. I’m talking only noticibly bad arm action. From I was a kid I had terrible arm action and no one told me that it looked wrong, but after watching so many videos of myself I knew something needed to be fixed. When I was 15 I fixed it and everything went up from there. In only i was from 68-70 to 82-84 and with offers. Of course other things play in like maturing, getting stronger, and mechanical differences, but arm action was a great catalyst for changing other things in my mechanics\n\nNickthebeast, I agree because 99% of coaches teach young kids really bad arm action. Bad: break hands down and immediately swing arm directly up into 90 degree, ball facing center field. It seriously makes me sick to see it. And these same coaches when they throw a ball their arm works nothing like that. The kids that throw well are usually the ones that ignore this coaching and just do what comes natural. the coaches don’t push back because they only see results but don’t really know what is happening. They focus on the kids that don’t throw so well and basically make sure they never will. My point before was that a pitchers arm action is longer to let the bottom half have the time it needs. The catcher pulls straight back, the pitcher breaks down and delays; but both then pull back with the elbow, flipping up maintaining the bend in the arm, the arm does not straighten and then bend up towards center losing the tension. The arm does not windmill.\n\nMy point to the OP was not to shorten the arm action to be like a catcher, in order to make up for a bottom half that is not taking the time to properly drive. From the angle of the video it looked to me like he had a perfectly good arm action to begin with and needed to instead focus on the legs. Without the energy created from the legs and properly transferred out the arm with perfect timing and sequence the arm has to make up for it and that puts a lot of stress on the arm.\n\n… DId you ever consider leaving the pitching arm alone and go after fixing the lower half? …\n\n… The lower half takes time, shortening the arm action that much could cause major timing issues and kill the sequence and kinetic chain. Shortening it to match a lack of lower half drive may cause worse issues…\n\nThe original motion looked pretty explosive. What did the change do to his velocity? I would think that the high hand break and the ball going straight back at break would hurt his velocity. The hands should have some sort of downward breaking motion to them. Take a look at this videos of MLB pitchers on youtube and see how many have this type of arm path. I don’t think you will find very many.\n\n“As I understand coach’s method”. If you lower the ball in the first half of the sequence it must be brought back up and follow through with the release. The arm twists and has to go from loaded to full extension and then back to the loaded then to release. This twisting and at the same time loading then releasing is hard on the tendon going through the elbow. The “tommy John” tendon for lack of a better word. This method is a relatively “new thing” (2 yrs) being taught. I have confirmed this with one or two high school coaches they agree its the way to go right now\n\nI can see why he had lower bicep pain in the first video. It’s like he never really got extended after release…as if he is subconsciously trying to slow his arm down prematurely. With everyone else here…fix the bottom half back the way it was before. New arm action is not good. Go back to normal and fix the follow through in my opinion. Good luck." ]

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[ null, "Is there really a connection between emotions and cancer development? There absolutely is! The way you think, behave, and react to the world around you (and your personal living environment in particular) have a huge impact on your physical wellbeing.\n\nThe Mind, The Body, and Cancer\n\nFor more than four decades, I’ve been talking at great length about the link between the human mind and how cancer begins. It’s only in the past few years that researchers around the world are proving my theories scientifically.\n\nEmotions, personality, and disease are intrinsically linked in ways that may be difficult – even counterintuitive – to believe. However, to keep cancer (and many other serious diseases and conditions) out of your life, it’s critical that you open your mind to the concept.\n\nAfter all, the medical community, pharmaceutical companies, and even big cancer organizations tell you most cancers can’t be prevented. They certainly never, ever talk about cancer being “cured” (it’s like a dirty word in the cancer industrial complex). They tell you it’s in “remission” – leaving patients waiting and wondering if or when it will come back.\n\nThat’s not stressful at all.\n\nSure, these days they’re finally talking about the importance of a good diet, exercise, and even sleep – but they never talk about emotions and cancer prevention. They never talk about how your emotions, how you think and feel, can manifest physically.\n\nYour emotional and mental health is as critical to the prevention of disease as not smoking, eating right, and exercising every day.\n\nThe History of Cancer and Emotions\n\nForty years ago, when I started talking about how your emotions and behavior influence disease development and prognosis, I certainly wasn’t the first to make the connection!\n\nDuring the reign of the Roman Empire, a Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher named Galen once wrote that cancer was the result of too much black bile.\n\nAt the time, black bile was most often found in people considered melancholy (depressed, lethargic, or listless). He lived from 130-200 AD so this thinking has been around a very long time! Galen used the Greek word oncos (meaning swelling) to chart tumor growth. That’s how we now have the word oncology.", null, "Neurophysiologist with the National Institutes of Health, Herbert Spector stated, “The ancients knew that the patient’s attitude was very important to his recovery, but modern medicine wrote it off as trivial. The new research makes it clear. Attitudes can matter. The focus now should be on discovering the mechanisms involved – the question is: what is the biochemistry of all this?”\n\nHow You Think Matters (It’s More Than “Happy Thoughts”)!\n\nToday, science had determined that patients with emotional trauma, depression, anxiety, poor self-control, pessimism, or an inadequate emotional support system (friends and family) generally have a poorer prognosis in their cancer fight.\n\nDiversely, patients with a positive outlook, good self-control, emotional strength, and a stronger support system end up with a better prognosis.\n\nGood coping techniques during treatment for cancer, such as managing stress and having supportive family and friends, improves your odds of survival!\n\nIt should come as no surprise to anyone that negative emotions are a definite side effect of cancer and can absolutely limit recovery…but are they also part of the cause? The answer should have been obvious to medical professionals and scientists for decades.\n\nSo, what’s the link between emotions and cancer? Your immune system (of course)!\n\nMany studies have shown that chronic stress exerts a general immunosuppressive effect. That means it suppresses or withholds the body’s immune response promptly and effectively.\n\nThis isn’t about just “thinking positive.” You can be furious at the cancer, frightened of the outcome, and yet still have a “fighting spirit” that you’re going to beat it, you’re going to win.\n\nMany people dismiss the emotion and cancer theory by arguing that most cancers have been developing for years and are diagnosed only after they have been growing in the body for a long time.\n\nTherefore, the time association between the death of a loved one (for instance) and the triggering of cancer doesn’t hold, according to their logic.\n\nThose people aren’t using logic at all!\n\nTheir entire argument is based on pure speculation. If the cancer was unknown prior to diagnosis, who can say what it was doing or how fast it was growing?\n\nCancer is very much an issue with your immune system and there’s a new field of study that addresses it called psychoneuroimmunology. This area explores how your mental and emotional state affects your immune response.\n\nThere are rogue cancer cells in everyone’s blood at all times. Your immune system spots them and takes them out using natural killer (NK) cells. There comes a point – much of this goes back to my many articles on toxic body burden or toxic overload – where your immune system isn’t catching those rogue cells anymore.\n\nThat’s the part all of us need to focus on. Whether you’ve never had cancer, are fighting it now, or have been in remission – you have to address your immune system health.\n\nThere is so much more ground to cover here but I think you’re seeing the very real links between things like stress management, emotions, and cancer development.\n\nRead my book “The Psychology of Cancer” to learn more as I dig deep into this field of study and show you why how you think, behave, and feel does have an impact on whether you get cancer – and whether you beat it.", null, "5 Strategies to Cope with Depression", null, null, "Mercury Removal and Cancer Is It Dangerous?" ]

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[ "Cohabiting couples and the financial risks they take", null, null, "Cohabiting couples are the fastest-growing family type in the UK, but a YouGov survey of more than 1,000 such couples across England, commissioned by Mills & Reeve and carried out in 2017, highlighted a sobering truth. Many people who aren’t married but live with their partners do not properly understand their legal position, and have no idea what rights they would have on separation.\n\n‘Common-law marriage’ for cohabitants has not existed for centuries. Cohabiting couples do not have the same rights as married couples, and courts do not have the powers to reallocate assets as they can on divorce. Despite this reality, more than one third of cohabitants surveyed either believed they had the same rights as married couples or said they didn’t know.\n\nPeople often believe that they are protected when they own property, assuming that the law provides a ‘fair remedy’ if a cohabiting relationship ends. However, there is no such thing as a common-law spouse – legally, you are either married to your partner or you are not – and the outcome for those who are not married can often feel very unfair indeed.\n\nMost cohabitation disputes are about property. Often couples don’t contribute equally to the mortgage deposit or when splitting monthly bills. These arrangements may work when couples are together, but if the relationship breaks down, disputes often arise over how the property is divided. This is particularly true of couples who own their home as joint tenants, as the majority do.\n\nIn the case of couples who live together in a property owned solely by one of them, the non-owner would have to apply to a court for a ruling that they have an interest in the property on separation, and they could even be forced to leave the property by the owning party.\n\nAnd the situation can have impacts that go beyond the couple to their wider family. Take a situation in which a young woman buys a run-down property to renovate with her boyfriend. They put the house in joint names, as joint tenants. She borrows money from her grandparents for the deposit and from her parents for renovation work, on the understanding that it will be repaid but with nothing in writing. However, if the relationship ends and the boyfriend – having made no capital contribution to the property – demands 50% of the equity, the family’s investments are unprotected and, in all likelihood, the now-ex boyfriend would receive half of the full value of the property.\n\nOn separation, cohabitants – unlike married couples – also have no rights to financial support or to a share of each other’s pension or other assets in one party’s sole name. This means that claims often relate solely to property or financial support for children, leaving the financially weaker party extremely vulnerable, and the stronger in a position of power.\n\nSo what is the best way to deal with these uncertainties? Prevention is better than cure: consider drawing up a cohabitation agreement, which is a legally binding contract between couples. This would cover such issues as ownership of property, personal belongings and pets; who will contribute to mortgage costs and household expenses; how joint accounts would be divided on separation; and what financial provision will be made for children.\n\nOf the couples included in the YouGov survey, more than 75% had never heard of this agreement, despite the certainty and reassurance they would provide.\n\nThe end of a relationship might mean heartbreak, but there are ways to avoid adding financial uncertainty to the mix.\n\n1. Consider buying property in proportion to your financial contribution (a tenancy in common).\n\n2. Get a cohabitation agreement when moving in together.\n\n4. Consider a pre-marital agreement if you go on to marry. Similar to a cohabitation agreement, this helps avoid issues in the event of future marital breakdown.\n\n5. If you are a considering lending to your children as the Bank of Mum and Dad, seek legal advice before you commit.\n\nFor information purposes only. Readers should seek professional advice for their individual circumstances." ]

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[ null, "There’s a lot of anxiety right now regarding the coronavirus pandemic. The health situation must be addressed quickly, and many are concerned about the impact on the economy as well.\n\nAmidst all this anxiety, anyone with a megaphone – from the mainstream media to a lone blogger – has realized that bad news sells. Unfortunately, we will continue to see a rash of horrifying headlines over the next few months. Let’s make sure we aren’t paralyzed by a headline before we get the full story.\n\nWhen it comes to the health issue, you should look to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or the World Health Organization (WHO) for the most reliable information.\n\nFinding reliable resources with information on the economic impact of the virus is more difficult. For this reason, it’s important to shed some light on the situation. There are already alarmist headlines starting to appear. Here are two such examples surfacing this week.\n\n1. Goldman Sachs Forecasts the Largest Drop in GDP in Almost 100 Years\nIt sounds like Armageddon. Though the headline is true, it doesn’t reflect the full essence of the Goldman Sachs forecast. The projection is actually that we’ll have a tough first half of the year, but the economy will bounce back nicely in the second half; GDP will be up 12% in the third quarter and up another 10% in the fourth.\n\nThis aligns with research from John Burns Consulting involving pandemics, the economy, and home values. They concluded:\n\n“Historical analysis showed us that pandemics are usually V-shaped (sharp recessions that recover quickly enough to provide little damage to home prices), and some very cutting-edge search engine analysis by our Information Management team showed the current slowdown is playing out similarly thus far.”\nThe economy will suffer for the next few months, but then it will recover. That’s certainly not Armageddon.\n\n2. Fed President Predicts 30% Unemployment!\nThat statement was made by James Bullard, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. What Bullard actually said was it “could” reach 30%. But let’s look at what else he said in the same Bloomberg News interview:\n\n“This is a planned, organized partial shutdown of the U.S. economy in the second quarter,” Bullard said. “The overall goal is to keep everyone, households and businesses, whole” with government support.\nAccording to Bloomberg, he also went on to say:\n\n“I would see the third quarter as a transitional quarter” with the fourth quarter and first quarter next year as “quite robust” as Americans make up for lost spending. “Those quarters might be boom quarters,” he said.\nAgain, Bullard agrees we will have a tough first half and rebound quickly.\n\nBottom Line\nThere’s a lot of misinformation out there. If you want the best advice on what’s happening in the current housing market, let’s talk today.\n\nThe information contained, and the opinions expressed, in this article are not intended to be construed as investment advice. Keeping Current Matters, Inc. does not guarantee or warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information or opinions contained herein. Nothing herein should be construed as investment advice. You should always conduct your own research and due diligence and obtain professional advice before making any investment decision. Keeping Current Matters, Inc. will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on the information or opinions contained herein." ]

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[ "It’s Now Easier For Men to “Marry Up” Than It Is For Women, Study Finds", null, "Photograph by hkt83000 via iStock.\n\nA couple of years ago, Washingtonian wrote about the reason it’s so hard for a DC woman to find a date: they’re just too educated. And according to a new study published in Demography, the fact that it’s now more likely for women to have a college degree than it is for men may also be changing the marriage market, making it harder for women to “marry up” by marrying someone who is more educated.\n\nBut before we start patting ourselves on the back for women’s empowerment and education, not too fast: while it’s great that more women are getting college degrees, the study also argues that marriage may now be more likely to financially benefit men than women now.\n\n“Ironically, married women’s progress in education and personal earnings has led to greater improvement in the family standard of living for married men than for women themselves,” the abstract for the study reads.\n\nThe study, which was authored by two sociology professors—University of Kansas’ ChangHwan Kim and Texas A&M University’s Arthur Sakamoto—relies on data from the U.S. Census from 1990 and 2000, and the 2009–2011 American Community Survey. After examining the data—which the researchers limited to people and nuclear families between the ages of 35 and 44 due to the reasoning that by those ages people have likely finished their education and gotten married—the researchers found that women’s annual personal income increased three times faster than men’s incomes from 1990 to 2009-2011 (even though, yes, the pay gap still exists). Additionally, the researchers found that the number of women with a bachelors degree or higher increased by 39 percent in the same time span, while the number of men with a college degree or higher only increased by 10 percent.\n\nAnd what’s the result of this progress? According to study author Kim, married men’s standard of living has improved more than women’s. For the purpose of the study, Kim defined “standard of living” as equivalized income, which adjusts income for the number of people in a household. So, if you’re married with one child, and you and your spouse make a combined $100,000 a year, your equivalized income, as these researchers define it, would be $57,735.\n\nThe study explains that in 1990, women used to have an advantage over men in the marriage market, meaning that they were more likely to “marry up” than men. However that was no longer the case in 2010, according to the researchers. Why? According to the study, only highly educated men saw an increase in personal income, while less-educated men’s income either remained the same or decreased. In contrast, the study found that both highly educated and less-educated women’s personal incomes grew. Given that there are more women with secondary degrees than men now, it’s easier for women to hitch their wagons to someone who’s less educated than themselves. But because the less-educated men’s personal incomes haven’t grown like women’s have, the marriage relationship was more likely to financially benefit men rather than giving the women a boost.\n\nWhat does this all really mean? Women are on the way up, but their less-educated partners are dragging down the family income average.\n\nBut all of this isn’t to say that a marriage can’t benefit women more—it’s just that because women are more likely to marry someone with less education than themselves, they’re also less likely to reap as many financial benefits from the union as their partners. Conclusion? If you’ve been looking for a sugar daddy, you’re going to have to look a little harder these days." ]

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[ "The time has come to ask two questions of our oligarchies: Are you being serious? And What TF is going on?\n\nYou see, the thing is, it’s all about geopolitics really. Well…and oil, too. Geoilpolitik as German academics might say. But the major problem with reducing this sauce down to one word is, it doesn’t get us anywhere: we still have no idea what on earth’s going on. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nPosted on May 8, 2014 by lucas2012infos | Comments Off on John Ward – Life Under The Knife For David Cameron, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Nigella Lawson, Rupert Murdoch, And Russell Brand – 8 May 2014\n\n….Ed Miliband is backing David Cameron’s plan for tougher sentencing on the use of knives. “I’m in total agreement with the Prime Minister on the need to reduce knife violence,” he told a press conference this afternoon, “it must be stamped out”. Westminster sources later confirmed that equal sentences would be handed out whether Leaders had been stabbed in the front or the back. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, null, "(Lucas : I mostly have to laugh at the cynicism and sarcasm John accumulates in his posts, it is so much over the top it becomes funny, like a slapstick movie.)\n\nIt’s been a helluva week for royal stories, and a timely reminder that the Murdoch cancer is still among us. But if nothing else, the varietal sweep of history has been both fascinating and hilarious.\n\nOther Windsor soap episodes aside this week, I’m a little suspicious of the one about Richard III having been buried in a car park. I mean for one thing, in those days they didn’t have cars did they? Right then. So that’s all that bollocks deconstructed. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nYesterday a window opened, one quickly closing. Major newspapers and news outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Reuters and others announced and the billionaire gambling “magnate,” some call him “mob boss” who runs gambling from Las Vegas to China where he is fighting bribery charges, is facing a major criminal investigation. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "The 44-year-old former Number Ten mediacomms boss reporting direct to Prime Minister David Cameron was detained in London this morning by officers from Strathclyde Police. He will shortly be arriving in Glasgow to undergo interrogation on suspicion of committing perjury during the infamous Tommy Sheridan trial. The case relates to allegedly false accusations made by Andy Coulson against the Scottish MP while he (Coulson) was editor of now defunct Murdoch newspaper The News of the World. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nSlog Jubilee Special cut out and keep souvenir. In your Hackgate anniversary special:\n\n-Senior Met Police WAGS on how they spend hubby’s cash", null, "Hunt…a lot to explain at Leveson\n\nCulture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has direct and potentially very beneficial partnering links with the Newscorp empire run by Rupert Murdoch. He has never declared these – which, for a Minister of the Crown appointed to independently adjudicate on the success or failure of a crucial Newscorp bid, is an obvious abuse of his position. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nVarious media across the world referred to Rebekah Brooks’s appearance at the Leveson Enquiry on Friday as ‘a grilling’. Bollocks. It was anything but.\n\nThroughout her evidence, this ghastly woman found difficulty in holding back an understated yet utterly twisted smile. At no point in the proceedings was she caught out or ill at ease. She complained constantly that she did not have access to her diaries and notes. I waited in vain for somebody in authority to ask her why not. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nRupert Murdoch sounded off on Saturday about the White House’s rejection of SOPA and PIPA, the controversial anti-piracy bills currently being debated in Congress.\n\n“So Obama has thrown in his lot with Silicon Valley paymasters who threaten all software creators with piracy, plain thievery,” he wrote on Twitter. ”Piracy leader is Google who streams movies free, sells advts around them. No wonder pouring millions into lobbying.”\n\nMurdoch has lobbied aggressively for the bills, which many critics call web censorship. On Saturday, the White House announced that it would not support the legislation.\n\nGoogle is one of the most vocal opponents of SOPA and PIPA. Co-founder Sergey Brin has saidthat the bills “give the U.S. government and copyright holders extraordinary powers including the ability to hijack DNS and censor search results (and this is even without so much as a proper court trial).”" ]

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[ null, "As Vincentians in New York on Sunday climaxed their celebration of the nation’s 35th year of political independence, Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has commended them for their efforts in nation-building.\n\nIn his independence message, read by New York Counsel General Selmon Walters, at a gala Luncheon and Awards Ceremony in at Tropical Paradise Ballroom on Utica Avenue in Brooklyn, Gonsalves said he felt “a tremendous sense of pride in extending warm greetings and congratulations to all Vincentians.\n\n“I commend all for the work that they are doing to advance their personal well-being and our national development agenda, and urge that we use this opportunity to reflect on our nation’s remarkable achievements over the last 35 years,” he said.\n\nConversely, the Vincentian leader urged that a “critical look” be taken at the nation’s “failures and shortcomings with the aim of effecting the necessary improvements and learning the lessons that lived experience and reflection can impart.”\n\nHe noted that the natural disasters of the recent past have “shown yet again that Vincentians in the Diaspora retain a strong sense of nationhood and love for their fellow nationals in distress.”\n\nThe prime minister said the material and emotional support provided in the aftermath of last year’s freak Christmas storm, which he described as “one of the most trying periods in our country’s recent history,” represents an “incontrovertible testimony of the enduring bonds of love and solidarity between our resident and overseas-based populations.”\n\nVincentians in New York, through the Brooklyn-based St. Vincent and the Grenadines Emergency Relief Committee, recently handed over a US$20,000 check to Foreign Affairs Minister Camillo Gonsalves for delivery to the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO).\n\nThe money was a significant part of the amount raised by nationals here in wake of the Christmas storm that killed at least seven people and left millions of dollars in damage and destruction of the country’s infrastructure and housing stock.\n\nThe committee also shipped four 40-ft.-containers of relief supplies for distribution by NEMO to nationals.\n\n“We take this opportunity to thank you for the critical role you played in the recovery, reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts consequent upon the unprecedented floods of Dec. 24, 2013,” said Gonsalves in his message. “You have shown time and time again that the nation of ‘home’ extends well beyond any geographical boundaries.”\n\nHe said his administration is committed to preparing nationals to “take advantage of advance in technology, opportunities for self-development and continuing education, and all the possibilities offered by a transformed global environment,” as it focuses on achieving “even greater success in the coming period.”\n\nThe prime minister also said his government is mindful of the challenges presented by the “prevailing global economic conditions, climate change and its ramifications in the form of adverse weather events which have increased in both frequency and intensity; new and more virulent strains of diseases; war, conflict and the ever-looming threat of terrorism, among others.\n\n“All of these must be decisively addressed even as we redouble efforts to improve the standard of living of all our people through, among other things, poverty reduction, the modernization of the health sector, the provision of education for all, and the robust implementation of policies on housing and infrastructural development, as evident in the ongoing construction of the international airport at Argyle, which is nearing completion,” he said.\n\nBut, in the face of significant challenges, Gonsalves said St. Vincent and the Grenadines remains a “nation of people with abiding faith in the mercy and compassion of God, with a clear vision of the direction in which we wish to go, and confidence in our God-given abilities to attain our national development goals and objectives.”" ]

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[ "“True to the meaning of her name, she will be without borders without a home of her own, resident everywhere and nowhere … She feels overwhelmed by the thought of the move … to a city that once was home and is now, in its own way, foreign.”\n\n— from The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri\n\nThis quote resonates with my military life experience, as did many of the descriptions in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. Some of the characters in this book spend their lifetimes separated from their homes and families forging new identities independent of but influenced by both their origins and their geographic locations.", null, "Lahiri’s writing is captivating, rising to the expectation set by the Pulitzer she won for her debut work, Interpreter of Maladies. In The Namesake, her words drew me into beautifully created characters, their lives and histories, shadowed by The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol. The Russian short story and its author’s name play a central role in Lahiri’s story.\n\nThe Namesake is a family saga about a couple who immigrated from India to the U.S., Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli, and their American-born son, Gogol. There’s a daughter too, Sonia, whose life and character are strangely peripheral to the close-knit family story—one of the disappointing elements of this beautifully written book.\n\nThe Gangulis give their firstborn son his unusual name for an even more unusual reason, and Gogol’s struggle with both his name and namesake are pivotal to his identity conflict, a major theme of the book. Lahiri immersed me in her depictions of Ashima and Ashoke—not quite at home in the in the U.S., nor when they go to visit family in India—caught between two cultures.\n\nGiven the title of the book and early events, I hoped the book would be about the struggle of identity, both personal and cultural, of the various characters. However, the narrative is focused primarily on Gogol’s series of hapless romantic relationships to the exclusion of the rest of his life and the lives of his family.\n\nThe author spends time building up Gogol’s complex and intimate relationships, describing them in detail as they grow, each one with some significance to Gogol’s identity. Then the story turns away when problems develop, without taking the reader along to see why the relationship died. The story arc seemed to have missing pieces. At least once, I thought I had missed a chapter, as when the demise of a key relationship is told in retrospect, from a distance, almost with a shrug. No doubt these losses illustrate how Gogol is unable to connect with his partners because he doesn’t know himself. He’s simply trying on identities and finding they don’t quite fit. This is in sharp contrast to the life-long relationship of his parents, whose marriage was arranged for them by their parents.\n\nThere is an epiphany, of sorts, when teenaged Gogol learns why his father gave him his unusual name—a name that is neither American nor Indian. Yet for Gogol, this revelation was not even seminally transformative. As an adult, he finally takes an interest in the meaning behind the name that has plagued him all his life, but it hardly seems believable that it took him so long to get there. The long and detailed backstory of Gogol’s name and the intricacies of identity it holds—like pockets in The Overcoat—are treated the same way as Gogol’s romances. Carefully crafted but never fully turned out to see what those pockets might hold or hide.\n\nFor me, The Namesake, though filled with beautiful writing, didn’t fulfill the promise of its title or its potential to tell a deeper story about cultural, familial, and personal identity.", null, "Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for In altre parole.", null, "Terri Barnes is a military spouse and mother of three grown children. She is the author of Spouse Calls: Messages from a Military Life and senior editor at Elva Resa Publishing, which specializes in books for military families. Read more about Terri’s work and writing at https://www.terribarnesauthor.com/" ]

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[ "Trump to visit U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma next week, along with Phoenix visit", null, "President Trump will be speaking at an event at a Phoenix Church.", null, "YUMA, AZ — Along with the President's Phoenix visit next week, Trump is additionally planning to visit the U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma.\n\nNew plans were released Friday about the President’s return to Arizona. He will arrive in Phoenix on Tuesday to address the “Students for Trump” Convention.\n\nAccording to the White House, Trump will travel from the Valley to Yuma County where he’ll visit and survey the border wall.\n\nHe will be briefed on the overall construction of the wall being built on the southwest border.\n\nThe President will participate in a roundtable discussion in Yuma with local community and elected leaders on border security.\n\nOthers expected to be in attendance for the tour and roundtable include: Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, Acting Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, CBP Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan, and other officials.\n\nThis is the third time Trump has visited the Valley so far this year -- in February he held a rally in downtown Phoenix, and, most recently, visited a local Honeywell mask facility on May 5.\n\nAs Arizona continues to see a rapid increase in coronavirus cases, health experts have discouraged gatherings of 10 or more people and recommended wearing masks if you cannot properly follow social distancing guidelines. Many experts worry that large gatherings like protests and rallies will continue to worsen the spread of the virus.\n\nBefore coming to Phoenix, Trump is holding a rally in Tulsa, where everyone in attendance will have to sign a waiver stating, \"By attending the Rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19.\"" ]

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[ null, "CNN senior legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid reported Wednesday that officials within the Department of Justice are unhappy with President Joe Biden and his team over their handling of the classified document scandal.\n\nHer comments came during “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer”.\n\nU.S. President Joe Biden walks to speak to reporters as he and first lady Jill Biden leave the White House and walk to Marine One on the South Lawn on December 27, 2022 in Washington, DC.\n(Anna Moneymaker)\n\n“A notification wasn’t required, but the lack of advanced notice irritated some Justice officials,” Reid noted.\n\n“Now we’ve also heard concerns about how the White House was not fully forthcoming with the public when the story first broke. They confirmed the discovery of documents at the Penn Biden Center, but they failed to mention that classified documents had also been found in Wilmington,” she continued.\n\n“All of this, Wolf, helped inform the decision to ultimately appoint a special counsel,” Reid said.\n\nSeveral batches of classified documents have been found in Biden’s personal posession.\n\nReid noted that once Special Counsel Robert Hur begins his investigation, it will be a “full-blown criminal investigation.”\n\nShe said that there can be more searches of Biden’s homes and offices for additional classified information.\n\nClassified documents were first found at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. by the president’s attorneys in November. Biden has since dismissed concerns about his handling of classified information, arguing that some were secure and locked away next to his Corvette in his garage in Delaware.\n\nSome have pointed out that Biden was very critical of former President Trump after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home this past summer.\n\nJoe Silverstein is a production assistant for Fox News Digital." ]

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[ "SPHERE, a cybersecurity business, announced a $10 million series A round led by ForgePoint Capital with participation from security leaders.", null, "SPHERE will use the capital to expand the scope of the company’s existing capabilities, with an emphasis on cloud platforms such as Office 365. The company is expanding managed service operations, including its purpose-built automation platform, SPHEREboard, along with targeted SME’s across the SPHERExperts team.\n\nRita Gurevich, CEO and founder of SPHERE, said: “We are excited to partner with ForgePoint Capital to scale our offering to meet the growing demand for automation, supported by a team of experts, by helping organizations simplify reporting and remediation to eliminate risk.”" ]

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[ "Forget who wins the actual awards, we’re more interested in the outrageous fashion, outfits and controversy that happens on the red carpet. Here are the moments that made us gasp at the ceremony…", null, "The World’s Most Famous Hat Was Born\n\nYep, Pharrell William’s now infamous hat made its red carpet debut at the Grammys in 2014. The Vivienne Westwood fedora sent Twitter into meltdown and was compared to Harry Potter’s Sorting Hat and even got its own parody account. You do you, Pharrell, you do you.", null, "Coolest wedding ever? During a performance by Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Madonna, Queen Latifah married 33 straight and gay couples at the 2014 Grammys – and we ordained for the night for the special occasion. “To have your wedding in front of 100 million people is pretty momentous,” Latifah said after and during the performance of ‘Same Love’ she shouted out to the crowd, “we are gathered here to celebrate love and harmony in every key and colour.” All together now AWWWWW!\n\nBut not for his awful hair back in the N Sync days. At the 2004 Grammys the singer made a rather weak apology for the now infamous Janet Jackson nip slip. “What occurred was unintentional, completely regrettable and I apologize if you guys were offended,” he said after winning best male pop vocal performance for ‘Cry Me A River.’", null, "Katy Perry Moved Us All To Tears\n\nBefore her performance of “By The Grace Of God” Katy invited on stage domestic violence survivor Brooke Axtell who gave a moving speech about her own personal ordeal. It had everyone in buckets of tears – and sent out a strong, strong message to the millions watching at home.", null, "Whose team were you on? At 2000’s awards Christina was triumphant in her rivalry with fellow pop princess as she scooped Best New Artist, leaving Britters out in the cold.", null, null, "Jaws literally dropped when Jennifer Lopez rocked this Versace dress to the awards in 2000. Her boyfriend of the time P Diddy couldn’t keep his eyes off her, it became an iconic look and even caused Google to invent the Google Images tab as so many people wanted to see the dress.\n\nEminem and Elton John Sing And Make Up\n\nNow this was one unexpected duet. Eminem was joined on stage by Elton John at the 2001 awards, for a duet of the rapper’s hit ‘Stan.’ It was during a time when Eminem was being hugely criticized for his lyrics which were labeled homophobic, violent and misogynistic – and protesters even stood outside the awards holding signs saying “Awards Music, Not Hate.” But Elton agreed to show support with the rapper and sang the Dido sample from the tune in a seriously memorable duet, and since then the pair have been firm friends.\n\nLady Gaga Arrives In An Egg\n\nForget the meat dress, this has to be one of Gaga’s best looks of all time. Gaga was carried across the red carpet inside an egg by four dancers, and she then proceeded to break out of it during her performance. You really can’t fault her for originality or commitment… she later revealed she’d been in the egg for three whole days!\n\nShe drew comparisons to a loofah, Nicki Minaj’s hair and a Barbie doll but we just loved how Rihanna made sure all eyes were on her at 2015’s awards by showing up in the most epic pink dress ever. We can’t wait to see what she’ll rock this year!", null ]

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[ "Commercial real estate transactions have been on a slow decline since 2016, when more than 100 properties traded hands in the market.", null, "According to Paul Gamberdella of Radius, there are three main causes behind the trend. “The first is a widening gap between buyer and seller expectations regarding value,” Gamberdella, a principal with the firm, tells GlobeSt.com. “This relates mainly to straight investment sales where sellers are expecting the same lower cap rates that existed a few years ago, whereas buyers seem to be seeking higher returns under current market conditions.”\n\nBuyers have also slowed acquisition activity as the market continues to mature. This trend has also contributed to the slow down in commercial deals. “There is this feeling that we may be at the top of the market, and this relates to straight investments and owner-user deals,” says Gamberdella. “Buyers are apprehensive about buying at the top. We often talk about economic downturns coming in cycles, which feeds into this psychology, yet the fact is the economy continues to chug along at a good clip despite the fact that we’ve exceeded the historical cycle, and there are no indications of a weakening market.”" ]

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[ null, "A collection of Lauten Audio microphones were used by Grammy Award-winning Engineer Darrell Thorp during the recording of Foo Fighters’ tenth studio album “Medicine at Midnight”.\n\nRecorded entirely inside a holiday rental home in Encino, California, the unique recording setup surrounding “Medicine at Midnight” came to life after frontman Dave Grohl spent time in “the Encino House” writing and recording demos. The sound of the 1940s house would soon become a key component of the recording process for the album.\n\n“He was just so stoked about the drum sounds that he was getting in there—which were phenomenal” recalls recording engineer Darrell Thorp. “Dave said, ‘What if we just record in here?’ And he took us into one of the bedrooms and said, ‘We can make this the control room,’ and he showed us another and said, ‘And we can put amps in here.’”", null, "With the drum sound in the holiday rental providing the inspiration behind the album’s unusual recording location, it was important that the sounds were recorded faithfully. Amongst the microphones used on the three drum kits across the house were the Lauten Atlantis and Clarion from the signature series, as well as the LS-308 and LA-220 microphones from the Synergy and Series Black ranges respectively.\n\nThe Lauten LS-308 – one of Thorp’s favourite microphones from the Lauten line-up – was chosen as part of the drum recording setup, given its superior noise rejection qualities.\n\n“You can stick one on a tom, and you’ll literally hear cymbals just barely as a ‘ts-ts-ts,’ and the drummer’s bashing the hell out of it. It’s my new favourite tom mic.”\n\nLauten’s Clarion FC- 357 FET condenser was placed in front of the kit, whilst a pair of LA-220 microphones from the Series Black range were called upon as stereo overheads.\n\nAfter four years in the US Navy, Darrell Thorp’s journey in the recording industry began in 1997 as an intern at various Los Angeles studios. He would eventually become an Assistant Engineer at some of the most prestigious studio spaces in Los Angeles, including Track Record and finally Ocean Way Recording.\n\nFast forward to 2003 and his involvement in OutKast’s “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below” and Radiohead’s “Hail to the Thief” would earn Darrell the first of his nine Grammy award wins. Credited for his work as a producer, recording and mix engineer on over 200 titles, Darrell Thorp has worked with some of the biggest recording artists including Jay-Z, Beck and of course Foo Fighters.\n\n“I really do stand behind the Lauten Audio mics”\n\nWhen working with Foo Fighters on their 2017 release “Concrete and Gold”, Darrell Thorp also used an arsenal of Lauten microphones for the recording sessions. With an instrument setup as large as that on “Medicine at Midnight”, Darrell used a large selection of the Lauten range, including the entire Signature Series and Series Black range.\n\n“Part of the challenge was we had 4 drum kits set up at once, a bass station, vocals, keys with 2 keyboards and pianos, and over 20 guitar amps, some in the live room and some in Iso-booths – I was using a lot of Lauten Audio mics.”\n\nLauten’s Atlantis microphone from their Signature Series was Darrell’s choice for miking frontman Dave Grohl’s acoustic guitar, with its “genius” +10dB gain switch making it possible to record even the quietest guitars. Darrell even used the Atlantis for recording acoustic guitar on “Medicine at Midnight”.\n\n“I really do stand behind the Lauten Audio mics, I use the products a lot! I’m not just a face on an ad and a face on the website. We just did a Foo Fighters BBC Live session and I took an Eden for a mono overhead on the drums, which sounded great. I use the mics all the time when recording!”", null, "Offering faithful reproduction of vocals as well as detailed recordings of kick drums and bass guitar, the Lauten Audio Clarion is a modern take on a vintage FET condenser microphone bringing astonishing depth and dimension to any recording. Its custom designed 35mm capsule is hand-tuned to deliver vintage sound with just the right amount of air, whilst three selectable polar patterns and three-way gain staging make it perfect for a wide range of recording situations.\n\nAnother of Darrell Thorp’s frequently used microphones is the Lauten Audio Atlantis. Featuring switchable polar patterns, multi-voicing capabilities and a 3-way gain switch, the Atlantis offers an extremely diverse, unique and modern FET sound. It offers full and rich, low and mid-range frequencies as well as smooth and unique high-mid and high frequencies no matter which voicing setting is selected.\n\nThe multi-voicing feature is an extremely powerful option when recording vocals and many other sources. Each of the three options on the Atlantis gives an entirely different response. From forward, modern sounds to more gentle tones, the Atlantis effectively packs three microphones into one thanks to individual circuitry for each voicing.", null, "Used in “the Encino House” on toms, the Lauten LS-308 from the Synergy Series is the perfect microphone for recording when sound isolation is paramount.\n\nWith 270 degrees of off-axis rejection, the LS-308 allows for the confident capture of loud, impactful sounds live without the need to replace toms or re-track guitars due to bleed. The LS-308 is able to withstand a staggering 135dB of SPL without internal padding, meaning electric guitars can be tracked in front of a live drum kit, or the bottom of a snare drum with astonishing isolation and dynamic range.\n\nLike the Signature Series, the LS-308 features sound shaping filters removing the need to change out microphones in order to get the sound you want.", null, "Part of Lauten’s Series Black range, the Lauten Audio LA-220 is a large diaphragm condenser microphone, built around a US made JFET amplifier. Used by Darrell Thorp as drum kit overhead microphones, the LA-220 is an incredibly versatile microphone that also equally at home on vocals or instruments.\n\nIf the room or source is boomy, or you have low-end rumble from outside sources like road noise, furnace, air conditioner etc., turn on the low-cut filter and eliminate the problem. The high-cut filter helps to roll-off above 12k and remove any “harshness” from the sound source. Both filters also work independently of one other, meaning both can be used at the same time, making the LA-220 incredibly flexible, professional and affordable microphone.\n\nTo read the rest of the Foo Fighters recording feature, check out Mix Online’s article series." ]

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[ "We’ve seen the use of tartan proliferate itself on number of different styles as of late regarding both footwear and apparel alike. The 576 from New Balance is the latest benefactor of this trend with the CM576S. The use of tartan is incorporated with suede to form the upper with hints of metallic gold. Two different colors are available, red and blue. Available at Mita Sneakers.", null, null, null, null, null, "For those looking for something more formal for your grown up look, this new collaboration might suit your needs. For this special project, Artyz has worked with one of UK’s most respected footwear maker, George Cox, and Japanese fashion label Nexus VII to create two footwear models, the G.C. Haraco and the G.C. Tassel. Both shoes are available for pre-order now at Dedue. Now a little about George Cox. Since 1906, they have made shoes that are of high quality and immaculate construction. Their shoes have a sense of tradition that can be worn into 21th century. In addition to their own line, they also produce shoes for other reputable fashion labels including John Moore, Lawler Duffy, Katherine Hamnett and Vivienne Westwood.\nBy HB Team/Nov 26, 2007\nNov 26, 2007\n0 Comments\n\nThe newly established Danish brand Force of Nature was conceived by Copenhagen residents Stine Kinch and Mads Jonassen, each with a background in textile and graphic design. Their brand mission has been to incorporate a Scandinavian approach to their designs in off-beat sense while maintaining a certain degree of relation with Mother Nature. This first collection was a throwback to the early Scandinavian Iron Age with an emphasis on metalwork, woodwork and weapon art. The tees are each printed on high quality t-shirts with 100% environmentally friendly cotton.\nBy HB Team/Nov 26, 2007\nNov 26, 2007\n0 Comments\n\nPuma has recently released the Puma Stealth Pack which includes two models of sneakers including the Puma Blaze of Glory Stealth and the Puma RS 100. Both come in a monotone colorway but features an urban camo pattern and neon highlights. The Puma Blaze of Glory Steath utilizes a Trinomic sole unit that provides comfort and support while the RS 100 utilizes the R-System that provides ultimate motion control. Both are now available at Overkill Berlin.\nBy HB Team/Nov 26, 2007\nNov 26, 2007\n0 Comments\nMore ▾" ]

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[ null, "Amid the increase in number of Covid cases in the district, residents, especially traders, feel the government might announce restrictions on the movement and working hours to deal with the situation. As the fear of the lockdown is growing, residents are anxious.\n\nThe recent development in Delhi, where the state government announced a seven-day lockdown and in Rajasthan, where a 15-day lockdown has been announced, has given rise to such speculations among residents in the city.\n\nNo doubt, ever since the start of pandemic, the Covid situation at present is at its worst as the number of daily cases has seen an exponential rise. Residents said a lockdown would give rise to another set of problems.\n\nSukhwant Singh, a trader, said the way the number of positive cases is increasing daily, a demand for lockdown might be made by a section of society in a few days as they are worried. “It can be in the interest of the general public, but it will be devastating for the traders,” he said.\n\nThe traders expressed that if the neighbouring states such as Rajasthan have announced a lockdown, the Punjab Government, too, might follow suit in the coming days. Residents said the general public needs to be more aware of the health hazards.\n\n“We cannot live our entire lives in lockdown. We all need to change ourselves. Still, a large number of people can be seen flouting guidelines and consider that there is no such disease,” said Bhavna Sharma, a schoolteacher.\n\nAmritsar: The district health authorities on Monday reported 12 deaths due to Covid-19, pushing the toll to 831. Moreover, the district also reported 342 new cases taking the total to 27,365. The deceased have been identified as Narinder Singh (48) of East Gobind Nagar on Sultanwind Road, Paramjit Kaur (60) of Kale Ghannupur village, Chand Rani (70) of Vikas Nagar, Baldev Raj (50) of Pakharpura village, Sukhjit Kaur (55) of Harar village, Gurmej Singh (50) of Ajnala, Surakhsha Gupta (50) of Ram Bagh, Satnam Singh (72) of Ashok Vihar (Ram Tirath), Harjit Kaur (59) of Mehma village, Manjit Kaur (69) of Baba Bakala and Manjit Kaur (71) of Wajir Bhullar village. The new cases include 243 influenza-like illness cases and 99 contacts of positive patients. With the recovery of 300 patients, the recovery count has increased to 22,339 in the district. At present, the district has a total of 4,195 active cases. The district has reported a total of 155 deaths in the month of April so far. It is the second highest number of deaths reported in a single month. The district had reported the highest number of 203 deaths due to Covid in September last year when the first wave of the virus was at its peak. Though the number of positive cases has surpassed the peak of the previous year, the number of casualties is comparatively low. Medical experts stated that in the changed scenario, residents and medical experts are experienced and are well aware of the situation than they were last year. The shortage of oxygen cylinders has been reported from different places. Even Guru Nanak Dev Hospital has started using its buffer stock kept for emergency situations, leading to speculations on social media that the hospital has exhausted its stock of oxygen. However, the hospital authorities later clarified that buffer stock is kept for such situations so that orders for replenishing stock could be made in time. Even the Medical Education Minister clarified that there was no shortage of oxygen. TNS" ]

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[ null, "Dr. Molly Bassett, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, will present a lecture at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University on the topic of Teosinte & Tlacatl: Corn & People in Aztec Religion on Tuesday, January 27 @ 7:30 PM.\n\nThousands of years ago, Mesoamericans domesticated maize from a grass called teosinte, a compound word that links corn to the gods. Dr. Bassett will explore how Aztec mythology articulates maize’s centrality. The Aztecs understood themselves as living in the heart of a world that had been created and destroyed multiple times. During these solar cycles, maize became increasingly important. In the first age, people ate acorns; in the second, pine nuts; in the third, wild plants; in the fourth, a precursor to corn; and in the Fifth Sun, the time in which the Aztecs lived, humans ate maize. The Aztec myth of the Fifth Sun reveals a clear cosmogonic progression: as culture developed, corn developed, and from both religious and agricultural perspectives, culture depended on corn.\n\nSelected works by Dr. Bassett include:\n\nThis entry was posted in General News, Publications and Research, Religious Studies. Bookmark the permalink." ]

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[ "IPL was so important for so many players this year due to T20 World Cup: Pat Cummins", null, "Australia pacer Pat Cummins has said that players tend to learn a lot from playing the Indian Premier League (IPL).\n\nAustralia pacer Pat Cummins on Tuesday revealed that each time he played in Indian Premier League, it helped in fast-tracking his growth as he bowled the last overs of a T20 inning.\n\nCummins also said that he got to spend time with some amazing cricketers like Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and Wasim Akram during his previous IPL stints with various teams.\n\nPat Cummins was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 15.50 crore in December’s auction as the pacer broke the record for the most expensive foreign buy in the history of the league.\n\n“In previous IPL stints I was in a position where I was bowling the last couple of overs in a situation where it could either win or lose the match and that’s just a huge experience, it just really fast-tracked me,” cricket.com.au quoted Cummins as saying.\n\n“Rahul Dravid was my coach, I have played with Jacques Kallis, Wasim Akram was a bowling coach at Kolkata. You get to spend some time with amazing cricketers and get different insights and at the same time be put in some high-pressure situations. Each time I’ve played, I’ve felt like I’ve learnt a lot in those six or seven weeks,” Cummins added.\n\n“The reason it (IPL) was so important for so many players this year was leading into a T20 World Cup and even if that does get moved, it’s still going to be on at some stage. You look at what’s the best opportunity for your cricket and what you’re going to get the most out of,” Cummins said.\n\nThe 13th edition of the Indian Premier League has been suspended until further notice due to the novel coronavirus pandemic that has brought the global sporting calendar to a grinding halt." ]

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[ null, "WASHINGTON (LOOTPRESS) — The Justice Department is suing Walmart, alleging the company unlawfully dispensed controlled substances through its pharmacies, helping to fuel the opioid crisis in America.\n\nThe civil complaint being filed Tuesday points to the role Walmart’s pharmacies may have played in the crisis by filling opioid prescriptions and by unlawfully distributing controlled substances to the pharmacies during the height of the opioid crisis. Walmart operates more than 5,000 pharmacies in its stores around the country.\n\n“Walmart knew that its distribution centers were using an inadequate system for detecting and reporting suspicious orders,” said Jason Dunn, the U.S. attorney in Colorado. “As a result of this inadequate system, for years Walmart reported virtually no suspicious orders at all. In other words, Walmart’s pharmacies ordered opioids in a way that went essentially unmonitored and unregulated.”\n\nClark said Walmart “violated important provisions of the Controlled Substances Act that were meant to prevent such controlled substances, including prescription opioids, from being diverted for misuse and abuse.”\n\nAP reported the news of the lawsuit ahead of the Justice Department’s public announcement, citing a person who could not discuss the matter publicly before the announced move. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.\n\nIn its lawsuit, Walmart said the Justice Department’s investigation — launched in 2016 — had identified hundreds of doctors who wrote problematic prescriptions that Walmart’s pharmacists should not have filled. But the lawsuit charged that nearly 70% of the doctors still have active registrations with the DEA.\n\nWalmart’s lawsuit alleged the government was blaming it for the lack of regulatory and enforcement policies to stem the crisis. The company is asking a federal judge to declare the government has no basis to seek civil damages; the suit remains ongoing." ]

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[ null, "During a wild night of debauchery, a gang of vengeful women plot to massacre a monastery full of corrupt monks who sold their loved ones as slaves. Their plan comes unstuck when a gang of marauding Vikings arrive with an army of vicious, tree-like demons on their tail. Trapped in the monastery, the feuding factions must band together and try to stay alive until dawn when salvation will arrive.\n\nFilled with foul-mouthed monks, brutish warriors on the rampage and a terrifying horde of growling, gruesome half-man half-tree mutants, Viking Siege is no ordinary fantasy adventure film - but a slam bang homage to 1980s sword and sorcery films with a dash of Assault on Precinct 13 and Evil Dead thrown in, as the group are trapped in a monastery at the with merciless monsters prowling outside.\n\nWith a powerful lead performance from Michelle McTernan (Stella) as Atheled, the leader of the formidable females, James Groom as the enigmatic Lord Osmond, it also features an hilarious comic turn by Alastair Kirton (who also co-wrote the script), star of the cult low-budget zombie Colin.\n\nA must for fans of TV shows Vikings, Black Sails and Game of Thrones, and fantasy classics like Conan The Barbarian and Krull, Viking Siege, released on DVD 26th Decemeber 2017 from Altitude Film Entertainment, will have you rooting for Atheled and her warrior women as they find themselves, in a fantastic effects-packed finale, pitted against some of the nastiest, gnarliest foes this side of the White Walkers.\n\nDVD\nTwo lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them in The Banshees Of Inisherin, released on DVD and Blu-ray 30th January 2023 from Walt ... END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\nTop PicksView" ]

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[ "August heat bears down on Turkey with no sign of relief", null, "A heatwave hailing from North Africa is engulfing the entire country and is particularly impacting southern cities known for their warm climate in the summer.\n\nOccasional precipitation may be a relief for northeastern, central and western Turkish cities located near the Central Anatolian region, although only for a brief time.\n\nExperts warn about \"dangerously high\" temperatures in the southern and southeastern cities, including Adıyaman, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa, Mardin, Batman, Diyarbakır and Malatya. The highest temperature for tomorrow is expected in Batman at 42 degrees Celsius. Temperatures will fluctuate at 40 degrees Celsius in the abovementioned cities throughout the week.\n\nAdana, a southern city notorious for its unbearable heat, is expected to experience an unprecedented heatwave, with temperatures rising to 41 degrees Celsius yesterday, compared to 36 C - the highest temperature recorded for the city for the past couple of decades.\nRELATED TOPICS" ]

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[ "The 67 year-old filmmaker can be seen posing with a mechanical, ill Triceratops, which is one of the first dinosaurs seen in 'Jurassic Park.'", null, "When a 22 year-old behind the scenes photograph of 'Jurassic Park' emerged online, many people thought it was real.\n\nIt seems some Facebook users can't take a joke!\n\nJay Branscomb, a user of the social media site, wanted to amuse his 6,300 followers with a funny shot of director Steven Spielberg posing with a dinosaur used in the film series.\n\nThe pic, taken on January 1st, 1992, shows the 67 year-old laid next to an animatronic, ill Triceratops, which is one of the first dinosaurs seen in 'Jurassic Park.'\n\nWhen posting the rare snap on Sunday (July 6th), Branscomb jokingly wrote, \"Disgraceful photo of recreational hunter happily posing next to a Triceratops he just slaughtered. Please share so the world can name and shame this despicable man.\"\n\nAs ridiculous as it seems, many people thought this was a genuine picture, and an outrage was sparked soon after it went viral.\n\n\"One day we realize that we are killing all animals on this planet and we need them to survive,\" one disgruntled user wrote. \"But when we realize it will be too late.\"\n\nAnother added, \"This is absolutely disgusting. I can't believe he would kill an endangered species and then photograph himself in front of it as if this creature was some meaningless trophy. This is why the world is going to hell.\"\n\nHowever, we cannot be sure if these comments are people genuinely angered by the photo, or are just joining in on the joke.\n\nOther users were equally as shocked that people did not recognise the Oscar-winning director and the mechanical dinosaur from the iconic flick.\n\nOne person ruthlessly wrote, \"To ALL NEGATIVE COMMENTORS: Please do not reproduce!! Please do not vote!! As you are all way too stupid to know or accept the truth and apparently you did not research this at all.\"\n\nAfter more than 6 thousand comments and 11 thousand likes to date, in a separate post Branscomb, \"Only a fool decides that's true based on what he really really wants to be true.\"", null ]

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[ "The North American version of TERA will release Lakan's Fury, a new content update, on June 6. This update will introduce new rewards, minor changes to four high-end dungeons and two new end-game dungeons: the solo dungeon Pit of Petrax and a hard-mode version of the Velik's Sanctuary dungeon.\n\nThe Pit of Petrax is a four-star difficulty dungeon in which solo players will have to fight against Petrax. If they get to kill it, they will have a chance to earn top-end accessories.\n\nThe hard mode of Velik's Sanctuary is a five-star difficulty dungeon with four bosses. Players will be able to obtain the top gear in the game.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "The end of the year gets most people in a reflective mood, and Your Old Droog is no different. The New York City rapper has had a strong 365 days thanks to the release of his album Dump YOD: Krutoy Edition, but goes back even further on “Please Listen To My Jew Tape,” released as Droog continues his celebration of Chanukah.\n\n“Tape” recounts the struggle of trying to make it as a rapper with buzz, weighing label interest with the desire to control one’s own destiny. Droog rhymes about rapping to just about anyone including fugazi label executives who urge him to replicate the strategies of the then just-emerging Tyler, the Creator, and A$AP Rocky. It’s not easy to see the train leave the station, especially if you could have bought a ticket. “Watched their success to remind me,” he raps, “seen them living good when I was living grimy.” But Droog persists on his own terms, and the song ends with him discovering kindred spirits in Tha God Fahim and Mach-Hommy. Happy ending? Not quite. Recall the song’s opening line: “Days of trying to get on, remember that shit? I’m still trying on, you dumb bitch.”" ]

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[ null, "Spring break campers at the YMCA of Chilton County help kick off the 2019 A Better Us Campaign. (JOYANNA LOVE/ ADVERTISER)\n\nThe YMCA of Chilton County kicked off this year’s A Better Us Campaign with festivities on March 29.\n\nPlans to raise funds in the coming month include a steak dinner and auction on April 12. The event will be at 6 p.m. at the Wyatt Barn, 6135 County Road 16 in Clanton. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at the Y. The deadline to purchase tickets is April 10.\n\nThe YMCA is still collecting items for both the silent and live auction.\n\n“All funds raised in the month of April go to our scholarships and summer camp,” Patterson said.\n\nShe said scholarships make it possible for children who would not be able to afford it to participate in sports programs, camps throughout the year when school is out and other YMCA programs.\n\nSummer camp will include a number of learning opportunities and fun this year.\n\n“We have a food science component this year where they are learning about food but also cooking and trying different foods,” Patterson said.\n\nThe camp will also include swimming, archery, sports, games and field trips. Patterson said field trips include visiting Lake Mitchell, Lanark in Millbrook and Oak Mountain as well as skating, bowling and going to the movies.\n\nFormer summer camper Maggy Harrleson said the funds would let them do more activities. Her favorite is swimming.\n\n“They take us to the pool, and we get to swim for two or three hours,” Harrleson said.\n\nFormer summer camper Gracie Plier hoped people would give, so the campers could go on more field trips.\n\nHer favorite field trip is to Lake Mitchell “because we got to inner tube and stuff like that.”\n\n“It really is crazy we go out of the county to do different stuff, but just about all of them love the Lake Mitchell field trip the best,” Patterson said.\n\nAbout 40 children receive scholarships to attend the summer camp each year.\n\nAn additional 50-60 scholarships are given for participation in other YMCA programs.\n\nFor tickets to the April 13 fundraiser or to make a contribution to the campaign, contact the YMCA of Chilton County at (205) 755-2382." ]

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[ "According to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), there are 135 zoos in the United States alone and another 79 in other countries represented by the AZA. There are approximately 800,000 animals in the care of AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums, with 6,000 species represented. Zoos contribute more than $22.5 billion to the US economy and serve almost 200 million annual visitors. Zoos also house 1,000 types of threatened or endangered species, making them an important player in species preservation, and they facilitate the breeding of these endangered animals so that their population may increase. A zoo misting system can help a zoo achieve its main objective of keeping animals happy and healthy.\n\nMaintaining animal health is a top priority for zoos. Serious health problems can arise if animal’s habitats are not kept in perfect balance. Particularly in warmer areas, heat can pose a serious problem. When zoos decide to take on the care of non-native animals that require specialized climates such as polar bears or snow tigers, they also accept the responsibility of keeping these animals’ in a safe environment. To combat heat, zoos have come up with many solutions, from air conditioning habitats and providing large bodies of water, to more creative measures such as feeding animals “blood pops” with their favorite treat frozen in ice. However, these solutions are not always practical or feasible, especially in larger, outdoor environments. Installing a zoo misting system to bring an animal habitat in balance is a perfect solution to the problem.\n\nThe process is this. Operating at pressures of 1000 psi+ Koolfog produces micron-sized water droplets that, while evaporating and turning to vapor, remove heat from the air, cooling the surrounding area. The dry fog produced by a Koolfog system reduces outdoor temperatures by as much as 35 degrees Fahrenheit, which makes even 100+ degree days comfortable. Each zoo misting system is customizable and can be expanded to fit large animal enclosures or kept minimal to target specific areas of an animal habitat. Our systems have been proven to help keep animals safe and comfortable, even in extremely warm temperatures.\n\nFor species who are native to rainforests, a zoo misting system helps provide the environments that they thrive and helps them feel more comfortable. Other animals simply require the humidity provided by a misting system. At the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Koolfog was included in the bat habitat. Some bat species live in tropical, humid climates, so the Aviary needed to replicate this environment habitat to provide the most comfortable, naturalistic setting for their bats to thrive. Kurt Hundgen, the lead on the project, said “We decided to commit to a Koolfog system because we heard they were the best.” Koolfog was included to precisely raise the humidity level in the habitat and the Aviary has been very pleased with the results reporting that the bats have enjoyed the restorative “spa treatment” for their wings.", null, "Keeping animals healthy is not the only benefit of a Koolfog zoo misting system. Providing misting in an animals’ habitat can draw them out of areas where they might choose to hide from the sun, out of sight. Strategically placing outdoor misting systems draws the animals out of the caves and crevices and makes them more visible to visitors. They are usually more playful and interactive because they are comfortable. Visitors will delight in the chance to see the animals up close and personal.\n\nIt’s not only the animals that require cooling when it is hot. Zoo visitors also require shade, water and areas where they can escape the heat. Zoos who are focused on guest comfort and developing repeat customer visits place misting systems in common areas including dining areas, observation decks, and queue lines. Since repeat visitors are a huge revenue source for zoos, particularly season ticket holders, guest comfort remains a priority considering a competitive landscape that includes other entertainment and educational venues. With zoos relying on ticket sales and special events, Koolfog represents an important piece of the overall picture so that the environment is perfect for people and animals alike.", null, "Fill out my online form.\n\nFog effects help cool the animals as they play." ]

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[ null, "Shafaq News/ The President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, has arrived in the British capital city, London, to the funeral of late Queen Elizabeth II.\n\nAccording to an official statement by the region's presidency, the visit comes per an official invitation from the United Kingdom's government.\n\n\"The President will also attend a reception for world leaders during the two days of the ceremony in London,\" the statement said." ]

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[ "A Harry Kane Exhibition Will Open At The Museum Of London\n\nLondon has a rich history with the beautiful game, currently boasting 13 professional football clubs. It may well be the case, factually, that Arsenal are the most decorated team in this city, but it’s a player from their north London neighbours, Tottenham Hotspur, that is set to be celebrated with a display at the Museum Of London.\n\nRight now, he’s the captain of England and led the country to their first final at a major tournament since 1966, so it’s no surprise that it’s Harry Kane who is being lauded with the honour.", null, "Harry Kane: I Want To Play Football goes on display from May 21, showcasing a hefty collection of memorabilia from the footballer, who grew up in Chingford. These include the England shirt he wore on his debut against Lithuania, in which he scored just 80 seconds after coming on in place of Wayne Rooney; as well as jerseys from his spells at Millwall, Leyton Orient and, of course, Tottenham.\n\nExhibition Curator Zeynep Kuşsan said: “Harry Kane grew up in London, and worked his way through grassroots football. It’s important to highlight this story and how important work is at grassroots.\n\n“With the women’s Euros and World Cup coming up, this is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about a player that has risen through London’s grassroots football and what it takes to play at the highest level of the game.”\n\nFans will also be able to check out the captain’s armband he wore and the golden boot he won at the 2018 World Cup, when England just missed out on the final in an agonising defeat to Croatia in the semi-final.\n\nPlus, visitors can also expect an interactive experience in the form of a recreated changing room blasting out his pre-match playlist and finding out about his journey from youth clubs in east London to the top of the game.\n\nSpeaking about the exhibition, Harry Kane said: “The Museum of London got in touch and wanted a Londoner to inspire young children to be their best so I am delighted to have all my memorabilia on show, with trophies, shirts, golden boots and some personal pieces which haven’t been seen publicly before.\n\n“I’ve got three kids now so I know how important it is to inspire the younger generation and help them understand how far you can go with hard work, dedication and self-belief.\n\n“The display runs until the World Cup and is free to enter so I’d encourage everyone to go down and see it if they have the chance. There are some really special items in there – from my World Cup golden boot and MBE to the shirt and armband from my first game as England captain – which mean a lot to me.”\n\nThis news drops just days before a top-four clash between Spurs and Arsenal, in which Harry Kane is expected to feature. Are the curators trying to sway the result one way, or tempt fate? Hard to tell, but, either way, the Harry Kane: I Want To Play Football exhibition will be on display from May 21 until December, and is free to visit. It will be one of the final displays at the museum before it closes ahead of a move to their new site." ]

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[ null, "Two people were arguing in the Hollywood area of the city on November 6, 2021, when, police say, it escalated and the rapper allegedly fired a handgun. The person who was shot sustained a minor injury and sought medical treatment, police said.\nThe rapper was arrested in April at Los Angeles International Airport and was later released on a $550,000 bond.\n“Discharging a gun in a public place is a serious offense that could have ended with tragic consequences not only for the person targeted but also for innocent bystanders visiting Hollywood,” George Gascón, LA County District Attorney, said in a statement. “My office conducted a thorough review of the evidence in this case and determined that the addition of a special firearm allegation was warranted.”\nCNN has reached out to A$AP Rocky’s representatives for comment. The rapper and his partner, superstar singer Rihanna, welcomed their first child earlier this year.\nA$AP Rocky is scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center." ]

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[ "Masters of the Universe script complete!\n\nKick-Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow has completed his draft of the Masters of the Universe script. The news came to light after a fan asked Senior Vice President of Production at Columbia Pictures Devon Franklin for an update on it. Franklin responded by posting posted a copy of the script’s title page dated Christmas Eve 2014.", null, "The film has gone through a number of writers and directors in the years it’s been in development including director Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation) and Mike Cahill ( I Origins).", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Microcap Board Governance, a study conducted by Board Governance Research LLC commissioned by the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCi), examines microcap board governance at 160 companies. That represents about ten percent of all companies with less than $300 million in market capitalization traded on major U.S. stock exchanges.\n\nMost microcaps are not included in major indices. Many do not have analysts following their performance. As a result, microcap governance practices have not received the same level of scrutiny as larger capitalization companies. In fact, as I attend investor and director conferences, about the only one I hear frequently talking about microcap board governance is Adam J. Epstein, of Third Creek Advisors, LLC.\n\nRegister for a webinar on Wednesday, August 22nd at 4:00 PM ET to review the findings. Leading the webinar I expect will be Jon Lukomnik, Executive Director\nIRRC Institute, as well as Annalisa Barrett, Founder and CEO of Board Governance Research LLC.\n\nThe Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute is a not-for-profit organization headquartered in New York, NY, that provides thought leadership at the intersection of corporate responsibility and the informational needs of investors. IRRCi recently selected the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance (Weinberg Center) at the University of Delaware as its successor organization\n\nMicrocaps are an intriguing and often overlooked corner of the equity market. This report is a much-needed deep dive into the corporate governance of microcaps so investors can better understand the landscape. The findings contradict a number of microcap misconceptions. For example, these aren’t necessarily young companies with the founder at the helm. Instead, about one-quarter of microcaps have been public for less than five years and only 14 percent of microcap CEOs are the founders.\n\nAt the same time, the report suggests some paths microcap companies should consider moving toward consensus best practice for corporate governance. For example, there is nothing associated with size that suggests it is a good idea to have an all-male board or to fail to establish the position of a lead independent director when there is a combined chair/CEO structure.\n\nSaid Annalisa Barrett, report author, chief executive officer and founder of Board Governance Research and clinical professor at the University of San Diego School of Business;\n\nThe smallest U.S. companies play an important role in our economy, so everyone has an interest in how they are governed. Investors, employees, customers and suppliers of these microcap companies all benefit when they are well-governed and their boards have the optimal structure and practices in place to provide effective oversight and guidance to management.\n\nI started going through the list of surveyed companies to find possible investment opportunities. Data on most is scarce. Investment is speculative. However, it looks like I will find about ten good opportunities. Once invested, I will no doubt agitate for better governance." ]

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[ null, "A pastor and director of Light of Hope Orphanage at Akute, Ogun State, Mr. Atunde, was on Wednesday arrested by policemen from Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos State for allegedly raping two minors at his orphanage.\n\nIt was learnt that Zone 2 began investigating Atunde after receiving a petition from Project Alert against him.\n\nProject Alert, a non-governmental organization, said the petition was prompted by a teacher of the school which the minors attended.\n\nOne of the minors (name withheld) had allegedly showed up at school in March with blood dripping down her legs.\n\nWhen questioned by school officials, the minor claimed that Atunde had had sex with her.\n\nProject Alert programme officer, Tobi Asekun, said, “It was the school that brought the case to us. This is not the first time that we have received complaints against Tunde’s activities.\n\n“Last year, one of his neighbours came to us making the same complaints but no one could take action because we needed his victims to confirm the claim.\n\n“So when this case was brought to our attention, we wrote a petition to Zone 2 command,”\n\nIt was learnt that plain-clothes officers from Zone 2 had visited the school and spoken with the minors who are aged 13 and 14 years before picking up Atunde from the orphanage which also doubles as his family home.\n\nThe orphanage, a large one-storey building housing about 12 rooms, is said to have been functioning since 1996.\n\nCurrently about 22 children live at the orphanage, most of whom were male and female minors.\n\nAnother 11 orphans were said to be running various programmes in a private University with their expenses being paid by the orphanage.\n\nA total of 79 children are allegedly being cared for by the orphanage, which is registered with the Ogun State Ministry of Women Affairs.\n\nHe said, “Atunde has been arrested. We will have more details by tomorrow.”", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility\nLog In Help Join The Motley Fool\nFree Article Join Over 1 Million Premium Members And Get More In-Depth Stock Guidance and Research\nBy Anders Bylund - May 24, 2016 at 6:08PM\n\nThe mini-major studio's most important movie titles missed their marks during the fiscal fourth quarter. Investors should focus their hopes on TV productions instead.\n\nLions Gate Entertainment (LGF-A -3.90%) is gearing up for the final report of fiscal year 2016, scheduled to drop after the closing bell on Wednesday evening.\n\nIn early February, Lions Gate shares reacted to the third quarter report by plunging 30% lower in a single day. Can the fourth quarter update patch those wounds? Let's find out.\n\nLions Gate is not known for issuing detailed quarter-by-quarter guidance, or even annual targets. Instead, management set up a three-year plan in March 2014. After this report, two-thirds of that long-term planning window will have elapsed.\n\nThe target calls for at least $1.2 billion in cumulative EBITDA profits over the defined three-year span. So far, the company has collected a grand total of $501 million of adjusted EBITDA earnings since the start of fiscal year 2015. That includes $385 million in 2015 and $116 million in the first three quarters of 2016.", null, "The soft third quarter results were the result of a disappointing final chapter in the Hunger Games saga. That key premiere was disrupted by terrorist attacks in France and a cramped box office slate in China. The film might make up for some of its theatrical issues with a good home entertainment and cable TV run, but that's mostly a question for future quarters.\n\nThe company is changing its business focus away from high-budget theatrical fare toward lavish television content. In fiscal year 2015, Lions Gate TV revenue grew 30% year-over-year to $580 million. In 2017, management expects to land just below $1 billion in TV sales.\n\nThe studio bowed seven theatrical releases during the fourth quarter. The slate was headed by the third title in the Divergent series, which fell far short of the first two installments in terms of box office success. Action tentpole Gods of Egypt also disappointed.\n\nLooking further ahead, Lions Gate will produce 17 movies in 2017, up from 13 the prior year. At the same time, production costs for that full-year slate are $100 million lower than the year-ago budget. In other words, the company is lowering its production costs and execution risks in the film segment, while putting the pedal to the metal in television productions instead.\n\nChief among the TV titles, Lions Gate recently signed a three-year extension for Orange Is the New Black, stretching the Netflix title to at least seven seasons. This is reportedly the most-watched title on Netflix, and Lions Gate also sees it as a major growth driver for years to come.\n\nAll told, the fourth quarter report looks unlikely to impress investors. Any good news delivered on Wednesday would have to be about TV titles, since the movie segment saw several duds this time." ]

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[ null, "Warsaw, Aug 23 (IANS) Four people, including two children, died on Thursday and more than 100 were injured by lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in southern Poland's Tatra mountains, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki traveled there to provide support to the rescue teams.The four fatalities in Poland come after another person died Thursday afternoon when lightning struck the Slovak side of that mountain range, which divides Poland and Slovakia, the Efe news reported.\"The rescue and emergency services are doing everything they can,\" said Morawiecki, who thanked the more than 200 police, firefighters and health care workers who were dispatched to Giewont Mountain, where the electrical storm was especially intense.The search and rescue efforts will be continued until early Friday, Morawiecki said, and he did not rule out the possibility that the number of victims could rise.Meanwhile, about 30 people who were injured in the incident were hospitalized in local medical centres, although none of them is thought to be in mortal danger.As Poland's TVN24 television reported Thursday afternoon, a large group of tourists was hit by lightning when they were on Giewont Mountain and four of them were killed.Giewont Mountain rises 1,894 meters (6,214 ft) above sea level, overlooking the town of Zakopane, and a metal cross is located on the peak, which is reportedly where the group of tourists were when a lightning bolt struck the cross, the current travelling along a metal railing that many of them were touching.Lightning also affected other people in the area, one of the most popular areas in Poland for nature lovers and hikers.One of the tourists in the area told the TV station that they did not have time to take shelter because \"the storm came out of nowhere, on a day when there had not even been any clouds in the sky.\"\"We were hiking when we heard thunder. Someone said that it could be an airplane because nothing indicated that there was going to be a storm, but it was a storm that, immediately, came right over us,\" the tourist said.The most recent tragedy of this kind in the Tatra Mountains took place in 1937, when four people were killed on Giewont Mountain by lightning during an intense thunderstorm.Morawiecki also mentioned spelunkers who went missing last Saturday in a cave in the Tatra Mountains when a sudden rise in the underground water level cut them off from the rest of their cave-exploring group.\"It's a dramatic situation, but I want to assure you that the rescue teams are doing everything possible to locate them,\" the Prime Minister said.\n--IANS rs", null, null ]

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[ null, "February has been a busy time for our Brisbane snake catchers with snakes on the move in all suburbs.\n\nWhile as usual carpet pythons and tree snakes continue to be the most commonly sighted snakes we are beginning to see an increase in a number of other species – both venomous and non-venomous.\n\nThe most common venomous snakes we have been encountering are red-bellied black snakes with plenty being removed from the southern and western suburbs. Eastern browns and yellow-faced whip-snakes have also been turning up more frequently with a number of callouts in both eastern and western suburbs. Other species we have removed this month include a golden-crowned snake from Chapel Hill, a spotted python from Mount Gravatt East and a couple of Keelbacks from Western Suburbs. Our snake catchers were also called out to a couple of ‘snake impersonators’ including skinks in the Anomolopus and Tiliqua genera.\n\nSome notable calls we received during February included; a red-bellied black-snake chowing down on an unfortunate keelback snake; a common tree snake causing a short in an air conditioning unit; four (yes four!) separate callouts to kindergartens followed by a barrage of questions from excited kids and parents; and a carpet python perched atop a very tall palm tree – catching the snake was fine but being perched so high up got the adrenalin going!\n\nSnakes were frequently moving around the Brisbane suburbs in February and it looks set to continue into March so insure your house doesn’t attract them. This can be done by keeping screens closed, tidying your gardens, including cutting back any trees overhanging your roof and ensuring all pet cages are secure!" ]

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[ null, "Nickelback have basically become a walking punchline, but they still have their defenders. The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, for one, has called Chad Kroeger an “incredible songwriter,” and hits like “This Is How You Remind Me” and “Photograph” may or may not actually be really good songs. Another prominent defender? Saturday Night Live, which featured a sketch last night acknowledging the awesome, almost elemental power of butt-rock.\n\nMelissa Villaseñor starred as an aging Nickelback fan on her deathbed whose powerful last words to This Is Us’ Sterling K. Brown, no stranger to moving family drama, consist entirely of the lyrics to Nickelback’s “This Is How You Remind Me.” Brown’s unwavering commitment to the ridiculousness of the bit really sells it, eventually bringing in family members Cecily Strong and Pete Davidson and even paramedics Luke Null and Alex Moffat. Watch the sketch (and probably get “This Is How You Remind Me” stuck in your head for a bit) below." ]

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[ "Christine Baranski & Making The Jump From Tv To Film", null, "Take a look at the strongest, most surefire Best Supporting Actress this year, and what do you see? Most would agree, Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”) and Laurie Metcalf (“Lady Bird”) are out front. Though Janney has worked as a character actor in many acclaimed films over the years, these actresses are primarily known and respected for their work in television. Janney has been nominated for 13 Emmys and has won seven; Metcalf has been nominated for 10 Emmys and has won three. Janney has been nominated for five Golden Globes and Metcalf two, but if they become nominated for “I, Tonya” and “Lady Bird” this year, it will be the first time they are nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press for their cinematic work. It’s also conceivable one of these two women will win this year’s Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.\n\n​Janney and Metcalf could represent a new trend in the entertainment industry: Legendary television actresses finding meaty roles in independent films and collecting acclaim and accolades in another medium, film. If this trend continues into future film awards seasons, it could bring a lot of life to the Best Supporting Actress race, a category that often grows stale, occupied by patriarchal girlfriend-type roles who aren’t developed much outside of their leading male protagonists.\n\nOne actress who could have the potential to follow in Janney and Metcalf’s footsteps is Christine Baranski. Now, if you follow the Next Best Picture Podcast, this statement will come as no surprise to you, because the idea has been floated around in at least two podcasts. Baranski is logical successor to have her turn after these two television veterans; she is certainly equal to them in terms of quality work and the longevity of a career. The actress has racked up 15 Emmy nominations for acting throughout her career, winning once. After seeing Baranski in her most prominent film role in years, in “A Bad Moms Christmas,” this theory deserves more time and attention.\n\nThere’s no possible way Baranski would ever be considered for awards for her performance in “A Bad Moms Christmas” unless we were in an alternate universe where the Golden Globes broke up the supporting actors and actresses by genre as they do lead actors and actresses in drama and comedy/musical. But she’s more than deserving of celebration for her commendable, layered work in the film. Most importantly, her work in “A Bad Moms Christmas” provides evidence that she has the potential and talent to master a supporting role in a film with credibility and humanity.\n\nSadly, Baranski would never be considered for any type of industry accolades for this particular performance, mostly due to “A Bad Mom’s Christmas” as a film itself and its middling quality. “A Bad Moms Christmas” retains about half of the comedy from the fresh and clever social commentary of the original film but takes a beating from a quality standpoint as it is a fairly rushed follow-up film.\n\nBut make no mistake: Baranski is sensational playing Mila Kunis’ mother, Ruth. She seduces you with her charismatic screen presence and dynamite characterization, expressed mostly through comedy in the early half of the film, but later is deepened with pathos as the film reaches its climax. As absurd as it is to think, “A Bad Moms Christmas” allows the veteran actress to give us one of her most impressive, well-rounded film performances with a highly dramatic character arc.\n\nWhile the role caters to Baranski’s role-type – the affected, elitist, wealthy, educated, put-together matriarch – we’ve seen before, she runs the gamut of her performing gifts in the film: she cries, sings, engages in physical comedy, shows vulnerability, and, of course, is quite funny. Baranski is the most memorable aspect of “A Bad Moms Christmas” with a versatile, well-developed character. She also has more screentime in this film than she’s had in any project in her filmography in recent memory; she’s arguably co-lead with Kunis.\n\nIf she’s able to steal the show from five other high-profile, talented actresses and exude range to the level of what she does in this simple chick-flick blockbuster, just imagine what Baranski could do with a role in an Oscar-caliber film. If she could mold her well-developed dramatic and comedic skills, both which we know she has from “The Good Wife”/”The Good Fight” and “Cybill,” respectively, Baranski would be a fascinating actress to watch ascend through the award season and critics reviews, similar to Janney and Metcalf this year." ]

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[ null, "Not all days are picture perfect around here. No. Not all.\n\nBecause sometimes you’re a cowboy, and then other times, well…you’re a D-\n\n…no matter the outfit.\n\nSee, I had a couple days of meetings in town, which helped fulfill the polished career woman that sometimes finds it necessary to make an appearance, but also resulted in lots of car time, computer time, time in high heals and dangly earrings, planning time, hand shaking time, question asking time and one instance of cold coffee being dumped down the back of my dress shirt (don’t ask). So by the time I got home today I was feeling a little pale and clean-cut and itching to put my big girl pants on and whoop it up on a good ‘ol fashioned round-up…you know…get western on the world.\n\nIt turns out I should have had supper first…", null, "So after a change from fancy print to practical flannel, the guys and I saddled up and headed out on a mission to bring all of the cows home.\n\nYes, all the cows that were grazing so oblivious, so innocent, so peaceful in greenish-brownish pastures–all the girls, with their hefty teenagers trailing behind them, blissfully unaware of what was about to shake their world.", null, "Because just like that, over the hill popped two calm, cool and collected cowboys and one cranky woman with a wedgie and an empty stomach on the back of a wild, red bolt of lightning full of burs and oat fueled energy—not as much cool and collected as hot and uptight.\n\nAnd we got right to it. Or at least the men did. After we parted ways to move the unsuspecting cattle from each corner of the pasture, The Red Fury and I began to have our differences.", null, "With hair as bad as his attitude...\n\nBecause I needed to go left and Lightning Bolt Full of Burs most certainly needed to go right—right back to the other horses who were concentrating less on socializing and more on the task at hand.\n\nFor those of you who have had any experience with horses with strong wills and a bit of a spoiled streak, you know the drill. The shrill whinny. The stomp of the feet. The head flail. The snort. The spin around. The side-pass. The crow-hop. The ear perk-up. And, of course, the dead calm that occurs right before they go through the hissy fit process all over again.\n\nYeah, I’ve been there many times. And even if you haven’t been there with a horse, I am sure you can relate anyway: think child without the cookie he really, really needs, your sister during a fight over closet space or your worst boss on his worst day.\n\nAnyway, some days you’re up for the fight. Some days you don’t back down. Some days you laugh it off and slap ‘em on the ass (the horse, not your boss…or your sister I suppose) and move on with your life.", null, "But then some days you just want to rip off your big girl pants and snort and stomp and flail along with them. Or at least light a cigarette (the fact that you do or do not smoke is not relevant in these situations)\n\nWell, contrary to popular belief, the Marlboro Man doesn’t just pop on over the nearest butte around here. At least I haven’t seen him anyway. And out in the middle of this country, the work just has to get done, no matter the mood. No matter the stomach growl. No matter the urge for a martini and a Virginia Slim.\n\nAt least that is what I told The Red Fury. And after a pops prompted swat on the lightning bolt’s rump and a forced gallop up the nearest butte and back, the two pains of the pasture straightened up a bit.\n\nWhen Red Fury accepted that I was just a bitch today (more than likely due to the tight pants and the wedgie) and I accepted that Red Fury was going to take me across the landscape with an attitude that resembled the biggest jock in high school, we were fine.\n\nYes, we did indeed fall in line and the cows made their merry way up hills, across cricks, through the brush and to the sweet gates of home with the two of us finally working together for the greater good. And I was glad I had the sense to “cowboy up.”", null, "And instead I cowered a bit. I crumpled a bit. I gave in a bit. And the beast beneath me? Well, he knew what he was dealing with and it turns out that made him nervous. My attitude, my body language, my frustration revealed to him vulnerabilities and weaknesses that don’t work too well in the important and magical beast-and-master partnership. Because when this animal panicked, so did this human–and all trust was lost.", null, "I guess what happens in real life does happen out here after all.\n\nAnd you know what. That’s ok. Because not all days are picture perfect around here, or anywhere else for that matter. Sometimes you feel like crying and eating macaroni and cheese from the pot and you don’t want to have to explain it. Sometimes you stub your toe and run a red light and get a ticket and come home to a pile of dishes and you don’t feel like looking on the bright side.\n\nSometimes you spill coffee down the back of your nice clothes and have no idea how that happened and then you say the f-word. Loud.\n\nSometimes you just want to run like the wind and don’t want any bitch trying to stop you or trying to hold you up.\n\nBut no matter how dramatically you lose your nerve, the cows always find their way home–especially when calm and collected cowboys have your back.", null, null, null, "Thanks for supper pops.\n\nThanks for the ride Lightning (and making me feel better about my bad hair day.)", null, "And husband, thanks for loving your wife, even when she is a hungry crab with a wedgie.", null ]

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[ "Objective- the study aim to determine the cardiac patient knowledge about anticoagulant medications using and its relationship with demographic data(age. gender. level of education. occupational). Methodology- A descriptive study(quasi-experimental)design was carried out to determine cardiac patient knowledge consider to using anticoagulant medications . Starting from(1th Jun 2017 to5th October 2018).To achieve the objectives of the study, a non-probability sample (a purposive sample) consisted of random sample comprised of (30) patients were taken anticoagulant medications ..The measurement of patient knowledge were collected through the use of questionnaire which is related to patient knowledge toward using the anticoagulant medications. The questionnaire was interview with cardiac patients who were attended coronary care unit at Al-Sadder Teaching Hospital, and Missan Center of Cardiac Disease and in the Medical Consulting after obtaining agreement from the patients throughout using arabic version of questionnaire. The researcher conducted private meeting with each patient who spends about 25-30 minute to respond to the interview which were developed for the purpose of the study. Instrument validity was determined through content validity, by a panel of experts. Reliability of the instrument was determined through the use of Cronbach Alfa which was (0.85) which are strong acceptable for acute myocardial infarction patients'. Analysis of data was performed through the application of descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage) and inferential statistics (t-test and one way analysis of variance) . Result. when we using mean of score the study showed that low level of knowledge for some items and moderate level of knowledge to other items when ( Low 0.0-0.33) (Moderate 0.34-0.76) (0.67-1.0High).and the result study showed no significant differences between cardiac patient knowledge and demographic data (age, gender ,level of education, occupational) . Recommendation-The researchers recommend the implementation of continuous education programs for cardiac patient about using anticoagulant drugs", null ]

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[ null, "New Delhi: BioNTech-Pfizer said Wednesday their vaccine showed 100 per cent efficacy against the coronavirus in 12 to 15-year-olds, as they eye approval for adolescents to get the jabs before the next school year.\n\nPhase 3 trials carried out on 2,260 adolescents in the United States “demonstrated 100 per cent efficacy and robust antibody responses”, the companies said in a statement.\n\n“We plan to submit these data to (US regulator) FDA as a proposed amendment to our Emergency Use Authorisation in the coming weeks and to other regulators around the world, with the hope of starting to vaccinate this age group before the start of the next school year,” said Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla.\n\nChief executive of German company BioNTech said the results showing high protection for teens were “very encouraging given the trends we have seen in recent weeks regarding the spread of the B.1.1.7 UK variant”.\n\nThe BioNTech/Pfizer shot is based on novel mRNA technology and was the first Covid-19 vaccine to be approved in the West late last year.\n\nBoth the United States and the European Union have approved its use for people aged 16 and above.\n\nSince then, it has been used in millions of adults in more than 65 countries.\n\nA real world study involving 1.2 million people in Israel found it to be 94 per cent effective.\n\nWith the world scrambling to inoculate, BioNTech said Tuesday it was on track to manufacture 2.5 billion doses of its vaccine this year.\n\nThe higher output was driven by the recent launch of a new production site in the German city of Marburg, which is now one of the world’s largest mRNA vaccine manufacturing plants, it said.\n\nThe vaccine is also being produced at a Pfizer plant in Belgium and at three sites in the United States.\n\nBioNTech said improved efficiency and new cooperation agreements with outside partners had also helped lift its vaccine target, as had the regulatory nod allowing vaccinators to extract six instead of just five doses from a single BioNTech/Pfizer vial.\n\nBioNTech and Pfizer last week began studies of the jab on children, with the first group of 5 to 11-year-olds getting the vaccine.\n\nA younger cohort of 2 to 5-year-olds are expected to get their first dose next week in the study which will also cover children as young as six months old.\n\nNeed to provide incentives to COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to ramp up production: FICCI" ]

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[ "According to Daradaily, Pope Thanawat is in talk to star in a new movie after 7 years. His first movie was ‘October Sonata’ in 2009 and the last movie was ‘Raklamile’ in 2012 (In the cinema in 2013).", null, "“The production has contacted me and I’m in talk to sign a contract to play this movie. I have never played a movie for a long time. If I agree to play this movie, it will be the first movie after I become an actor under Thai TV3,” Pope Thanawat says.\n\n“I want to play this movie but I have to check out the actors, director, and many other things. I’ll see if the character fits with me or not. After I check, it’s an interesting one. I know the cast but it hasn’t confirmed yet. When I sign the contract to play this movie, I’ll tell about the cast,” he adds.", null ]

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[ null, "Rhema Otabor, already established as one of the top junior female javelin throwers in the region, is heading to Florida International University in Miami, Florida, in August.\n\nOtabor, 17, signed her commitment form on May 12 and she intends to pursue a degree in mathematics with a concentration in statistics.\n\nShe decided to transfer from the University of the Bahamas to FIU. “When I visited the school, I liked the energy from the team and the fact that the school is a very small one,” Otabor said.\n\n“I prefer the small schools.Plus their javelin programme has had some positive outcomes and I believe that I can go there and excel as well.”\n\nOtabor, who sat out one year after she graduated from Nassau Christian Academy because she was a bit too young to compete for college, is the two-time under-18 girls’ javelin champion and current record holder at the CARIFTA Games, the top junior regional competition. She had qualified for this year’s CARIFTA Games in Hamilton, Bermuda, which was called off because of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. She still has one more year of eligibility, but will have to wait to see when she reports to FIU whether or not she gets her release for next year’s team.\n\nOtabor is also the Bahamas junior national record holder with a lifetime best of 47.95 metres or 157-feet, 3-inches, a feat she achieved on January 11 to place her at No. 30 on the World Athletics’ top performance list for 2020. She was looking to improve on her performance this year, but the coronavirus put a dent into her plans as the remainder of the track and field season was cancelled because of the coronavirus that surfaced around the world in March. “It was hard to train because you could get distracted being at home,” Otabor said. “I’ve been doing some small workouts and ensuring that I stay in shape with my javelin drills.\n\n“I was able to put my books down from the University of the Bahamas, but I’ve been watching some videos from some of the top javelin throwers so that I can stay on top of my game.”\n\nAs she prepares for FIU, Otabor said she hopes that she can gel with her team-mates and she can achieve some of the goals on her bucket list.\n\n“When I go to college, I hope that I can break the school record and I can win the NCAA outdoor title for my event,” she stated.\n\nHer coach Corrington Maycock, head coach of the Blue Chips Throwers Club, has been working with Otabor for the past three years and he has been quite impressed with her progression.\n\n“She was ranked fifth in the world as a junior female competitor in the javelin before the coronavirus stopped everything,” Maycock said. “She was going to go to CARIFTA and win the title, but she still has one more year left, so hopefully they will release her next year so she can come back and break the under-20 CARIFTA record and win the gold.”\n\nMaycock said Otabor is eyeing Lavern Eve’s national record in the javelin of 63.73m (209-1) that she established on April 22, 2000 in Nashville, Tennessee, but he admits that it’s a long shot.\n\nOtabor thanked Maycock, as well as Letetia Dean and Tiffany Bullard, who both helped to take care of her and grow her up after her mother passed away. She is sister of Michaelangelo Bullard, also a member of the CARIFTA team, along with Aleah Otabor." ]

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[ "To give back to the country that helped launch his career, the Sweden-born star is donating all the proceeds -- $1 million -- from his current House for Hunger tour to Feeding America, a nonprofit that distributes 3 billion pounds of food a year. Not satisfied with just cutting a check, Avicii took a break from his 26-city tour to meet -- and help -- some of the people in New York City that his sold-out concerts are benefitting.\n\n\"Everyone was really grateful. It's a grateful atmosphere,\" Avicii told The Huffington Post while bagging tuna fish cans and Campbell's soup after lunch. \"Seeing it for yourself is important to take with you.\"\n\nWhen his career exploded after just two years of performing (11,000 fans packed into his New Year's Eve show in New York City and he's headlining one night of the Ultra Music Festival in Miami), Avicii vowed to give back to the country where he got his big start.\n\nOnce he learned how vast of a problem hunger is in this country, he knew which cause he wanted to commit his ticket sales to.\n\n\"I had no idea it was such a problem,\" Avicii said. \"That 1 in 6 suffer from hunger, in a country like America, that was what baffled me.\"\n\nThe 22-year-old DJ said he's just as determined to donate to the cause as he is to raising awareness for the issue, a message the people he served Monday heard loud and clear.\n\n\"It sends a message of care,\" said Freddie, 45, who partakes in the resident recovery program at the New York City Rescue Mission.\n\"It's good to have people who have gone up and come back and share their time with us.\"\n\n\"It's feeding the hungry where they are,\" said Joe Little, the mission's publicist. \"It's trying to lift them up into better situation.\"\n\nAvicii hopes that throwing his name behind the issue will help dispel the stereotype of electronic music being all about drugs and will also inspire his young fan base to incorporate charity and volunteering into their routines, he said.\n\nAnd as he heads into the final week of the one-month tour, his tour's mission has definitely elicited a reaction from fans, Avicii said.\n\n\"The vibe on the dance floor is different because almost everyone there knows that it's for charity and knows that they're contributing as well by coming to the show,\" Avicii said. \"It's more love.\"\n\nTo get involved in the New York City Rescue Mission, click here. To learn how you can contribute to Feeding America, click here.", null, "1 / 6\nAvicii's $1 Million House For Hunger Tour\nGrammy-nominated DJ Avicii performs Jan. 21 at Lavo in New York City, one of 26 stops on his House for Hunger tour that will donate $1 million to Feeding America.\nChance Yeh" ]

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[ null, "Getting an interview with Chicago’s classic (and modern) horror host, Svengoolie, isn’t easy. Aside from his numerous responsibilities to his station, WCIU, he is also a local celebrity and active in his city. Worse, I had the nerve to make this request amid one of his busiest months of public appearances (last October) that I had seen to date. I was, therefore, surprised when he agreed and answered my questions within a few short weeks. Rather than ask the usual biographical questions I, as a lifelong fan, already knew the answers to, I decided to go a different route. I asked myself, “If I was ever locked in an elevator with Rich Koz for an hour, what would I ask him?” Below are the questions I, as a devoted Svengoolie fan, really wanted to know. For anyone less familiar and interested in some you can check out his site HERE and my memories of Svengoolie HERE.\n\nDAVE: The highlight of your show has, for me, always been your parody song. On average, how long does it take you to choose the prefect song and re-write the material to fit your presentation? Can you take us through the process?", null, "SVENGOOLIE: Choosing the song is not an exact science. Sometimes, I’ll think of something right away that has a phrase in it that will work perfectly…other times, I will have to wrack my brain over a couple days to come up with something. Most of the time, I come up with a song that has one or two definite phrases that I know will work with the subject matter (with a little sound-alike tinkering)…I’ll then call Doug Graves, who does all the arrangements and instrumentation, tell him what song it is, and how much of it we’ll do…before I actually write it. then, when I sit down to write the whole show, which I usually do in one long session, I’ll write all the lyrics. so, maybe a day or two to choose the song and figure out how much we’ll use- then, pretty much an hour or so to write the song…\n\nDAVE: Of all the parodies you’ve performed, which are you the most proud of?\n\nSVENGOOLIE: Hard to say what I’d be most proud of- I love when I can get the parody words to match the original wording fairly closely. I still love “Boogie Woogie Boogie Man of Berwyn” – as well as “Werewolves of Berwyn”- the parody we did for one of the Mummy flicks of Pink’s “You and Ur Hand”… “Hit the Road, Drac”… wow, the thing is I can’t remember them all right now, so it’s tough to pick favorites. I did like the parody of “Holiday for Strings” that mentioned the titles of a lot of the movies we’d shown…\n\nDAVE: In a few instances, you’ve taken your parodies a step further and made actual music videos (e.g. “Zombie #5 & “Tomb Digger”). How long does it take to put one of those together and are there any plans to do any more?\n\nSVENGOOLIE: The music video type songs take fairly long taping sessions, and often, multiple takes for the various parts, which is what limits us from doing more- we only have so much production time. We have sometimes had to have a separate production day to do one of those.I always liked our Ricky Martin take-off “Putting the Heat on Hope-uh” for GHOST BREAKERS, which required dancers, me made up as Bob Hope, and even a rigged dolly shot…yes, if we have a good video to parody that we can pull off, we’ll do more...\n\nDAVE: You just completed one of your busiest seasons of Svengoolie public appearances. I’ve been to many of these and am amazed at how diverse your fans are. Is it me, or does it seem like the lines are getting longer? Can you highlight some interesting interactions with your fans?\n\nSVENGOOLIE: It does seem the lines have gotten longer! We usually do a two hour signing, and it’s very rare that we don’t have to cut off the line early to make sure that we’ll end on time.The reactions of the fans are amazing to me- they are so sincere, and lately, a lot of them thank me for still doing the show. I hear about how it’s been a bright spot in people’s lives for years, from their childhood on (yes, I AM old!)- how my show is a family viewing tradition- how it has brightened a dark part of someone’s life,or made someone who feels like an outsider feel special. I’ve had interaction with deaf fans, blind fans, people who have gone through or are going through tough physical illnesses, and it’s so touching that they feel like I’m a good friend.\n\nDAVE: Your HD presentation of THE BIRDS was a ratings winner and definitely one of the highlights of 2010. Do you have any plans to do any more HD shows in the future?\n\nSVENGOOLIE: We may do more HD- that’s the way the business is going, obviously. The problem is that a two-hour show shot in HD uses up a lot of space in our servers, as far as editing and storage, so that may limit us from doing too many shows like that for now…\n\nDAVE: If you could gain the rights to show ANY movie which would you choose?\n\nSVENGOOLIE: Wow- the wish list would be sooo long- but one I would absolutely LOVE to show is “Fiend Without a Face”- we’ve had so many requests for it, and people have such vivid memories of it- plus, we’d be able to have a lot of fun doing segments to surround it.\n\nDAVE: I loved watching the “Night of the Svengoolies” where you and Jerry G. Bishop (the original Svengoolie) shared a stage for Q&A. I know you mentioned that in the early “Son of Svengoolie” days Jerry made an appearance on your show. Was he in costume and have the two Svengoolies ever been seen in costume together?\n\nSVENGOOLIE: Yes, Jerry was on, as himself…he was in town to visit, didn’t have his costume with him, nor would he have put it on…he just didn’t want to wear the stuff anymore (and I think he himself said “I can’t even fit in those pants anymore!” -I know the feeling…) especially after we had worked at WMAQ radio and, as an event for radio sponsors , they had a “Svengoolie wake”- with a dummy of him as Sven in a coffin! That was actually kinda creepy… so, no, actually, we never were both “Svenned-up” at the same time on a show…\n\nDAVE: Your latest Svengoolie shirt design has out sold previous designs and I love your button collection. Any plans to expand your merchandising including perhaps DVD’s?\n\nSVENGOOLIE: I have a meeting in the next two weeks to discuss further merchandising…we’ll have to see what comes of that. We discuss doing a dvd all the time, and have some choices to make before we actually do it. Isn’t doing things legally a pain?!\n\nDAVE: Your blog has brightened many a dreary day at work. I am always amazed how you manage to not only post daily but never cease to run out of material to talk about. How do you find the time to do this? Do you plan your entries or do they just come to you?\n\nSVENGOOLIE: I never intended to write the blog daily- until one production manager told me that was what they wanted. I write it even if it means staying up past my bedtime to have enough time to do so. I usually don’t do to much planning- it’s whatever hits me, or that I see or hear about. Naturally, when we have a show or event to plug, that becomes a subject. It’s kind of like writing a daily newspaper column- and shows me that, actually, I could do that! It’s really a matter of keeping your mind open to subject matter, and being willing to do research at times.\n\nDAVE: You are currently sharing a station with The Mistress of the Dark. I know when I met her in March she clearly admired you. I asked her if she had heard of you prior to 2008 Flashback Weekend and she lit up and asnwered, “Definitely!” Any chance we’ll see you share a stage again with the great Elvira again?\n\nSVENGOOLIE: Elvira was absolutely a charmer, and so incredibly nice! I was very flattered that she even knew about me- when we met at Flashback, she – an incredible horror icon- had said, “it’s nice to finally meet you after hearing so much about you”- and I was floored -“YOU heard about ME?!” She was such a good sport to break away from her signing to come up onstage with me. I’d love to do something with her again. I’d love to do some combo promos with her here at the station. She is so cute and funny,and, yes, guys, just plain gorgeous." ]

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[ null, null, "We asked five college students to describe credit unions. Here’s what they said:\n\n“Umm, I don’t know. They’re groups of people that help bring up your credit?”\n\n“Ok these I’m a little bit fuzzier on. Basically, it’s like a bank for people in a certain industry. My mom’s a teacher so she sometimes uses State Employees Credit Union.”\n\n“Credit unions? Umm, I honestly could say nothing about credit unions with any authority or confidence.”\n\n“Umm… I feel like you can get like a debit card with them or probably a credit card too. And you can have a savings account. But I’m not really sure past that. I feel like they’re smaller [than banks] maybe?”\n\nWe then gave them a short description of a credit union:\n\nCredit unions are like banks, but they’re non-profit. When you open an account at a credit union, you become a member and own part of the credit union. So, while traditional banks are run by shareholders whose goal is to maximize profits, credit unions return all profits to their members in the form of reduced fees, higher savings rates and lower loan rates.\n\nAnd here’s how they reacted to it:\n\n“It sounds good. What’s the catch? Is there no catch? Why wouldn’t everyone use a credit union?”\n\n“They seem like a really good solution. I like that fact that it’s a non-profit and that they reinvest in the people. It makes me think highly of them.”\n\n“It’s made me more open to the idea. I don’t think that statement alone will make me change. I think I would have to do more research.”\n\n“I’m sure in theory that they’re great, and I like the idea of a bank where you’re more valued. At the same time, I’m sure there’s a reason that not everyone is doing it. I just don’t know what that reason is.”\n\n“I think it sounds like a better alternative to normal banks. I know like the interest rates for your savings is pretty low, so I don’t know if that’s much different. Yeah, if they’re giving better loans and stuff or better details on that, I feel like it’s a good idea.”\n\nWe have surveyed more than 500 college students; 76% of them don’t know what a credit union is—and we want to help. We are not a research institute or market intelligence company. We are a group of Gen Zers who believe in the credit union movement.\n\nThe majority of credit union members are past their prime borrowing years, well into middle age or older. While this core market is undoubtedly important for your business, it’s important to ensure that your institution is also looking toward the future.\n\nHere are a few things to consider to more strategically reach Gen Z:\n\nTo help credit unions connect with Gen Z authentically, we built Zogo, a reward-based financial literacy app. Since launching in November 2019, our app has garnered 100,000-plus young users who have completed over 2 million modules, some of which teach Gen Z about the credit union difference. Today, over 70 credit unions in more than 35 states trust Zogo as the way to educate, engage and attract younger members.\n\nBy connecting with young adults today, credit unions can build the next generation of members and ensure success for years to come—or they can risk aging along with their oldest members.\n\nBolun Li is the co-founder and CEO of Zogo, and has led the team from an idea to having more than 75 financial institution customers nationwide. As Gen Zers ourselves, we know how to engage this demographic. Visit our website to see how our solution fits your organization and to schedule a demo to learn more from one of our committed onboarding specialists." ]

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[ "If you didn’t know, you know now: gevaaalik.com has gone bilingual. We now cater for Afrikaans and English. We have friends from all the different walks of life and I was getting tired of the sound of my own fucking voice, so I can just imagine how you guys must feel at this stage of the race. So we are spicing this up with some new additions to the team.\n\nOne of these friends is Lorimer Wilmot. No, he isn’t really a lemur, but seeing as his little story references plenty of use of illegal substances, he has decided to go with that name. Let it be know that gevaaalik.com does not endorse the use of any illegal substances, except dagga and mushrooms, allegedly. See you at Oppikoppi Odyssey.\n\nSo this is what happened in April 2003. Some laaities and tjerries from Kempton got a bug in their beetle and decided to make the trek to Northam and check out the April “Chilled” if not tomorrow, then the next day Oppikoppi fees.\n\nFor many of the bende it was the first time making the mission, some of us were veterans already, I’d been to 4, my bok at the time had been to 3, as had 3 of the 11 bende-members. For the rest of the ouens en meisies, they were about to be popped.\n\nWe rocked up on the Thursday night, klapped the tents up and of course, got the fire going and the booze flowing. By 2 the following morning we had made friends and got getrek.\n\nThe interesting thing was that most of the folks we met were Afrikaans, we were all ‘n klomp Souties. This was deemed odd by a lot of revellers, as I found out when I woke up the following morning, hearing Collin (or as he’s affectionately known “Savage”) chat with passers by. The conversation went something like this:", null, "Ok. So what happened the previous night, please help me remember…\n\nAnd this was the start of the weekend.\n\nWe carried on gooing die taal – it’s something us Rooinekke do when we feel a bit out numbered, you know, to try and fit in and avoid a moering – and gooing the dop.\n\nThe friday night rocked, need I say more than “Tidal Waves” as an explanation. Partied hard and passed out, jy weet mos hoe dit gaan. Things had a tinge of normality to them and then saturday snuck up and gave us all the PK from hell…\n\nIt all started with Potjiekos. Yes, Potjiekos. Potjiekos with zol. Die Potjiekos from hell. Okay that’s taking it a bit far, it was very nice. What else are you to do but eat when the munchies nail you and eat we did. We eventually got the “let’s go check a band bug”, missioned to the top stage and found the bar. Mr Jagermeister then made his appearance felt… Die kak het gespat.\n\nLooking through the mist of time I recall when we met the most unfortunate soul and ultimately the funniest oke I’ve ever met at a ‘Koppi. The poor bugger, I forget his name, but he didn’t speak English so add a name for yourself, chatted for us while walking back to the tent. Then it happened. A bakkie passed us and he decided he’d had enough of this walking crap. He chased it and it stopped (to pick up some bokkies) so he thought he could climb on now. One problem though, the driver hadn’t seen him try to get on the back and pulled away, causing our man to fall to the floor and was only able to use his chin as a brake. Yip, he cut that chin good and proper. Luckily there was (as always) the first aid tent and they patched him up. That was Saturday night and we thought we’d never see the ou again.\n\nSunday morning, babalaas and all we woke up and got cracking with breakfast, you know, the usual, a bong and some coffee. The bong was something constructed using a Wheel spanner from the VW Kamper and a coke bottle… Yip, you get the picture, wheel spanner down the bottles neck and a little clutch poked in the side of the plastic bottle. Well then it happened, ou maat from the night before found us. He’d messed his bandage up good and proper, had dust in his cut and somehow he knew we had a first aid kit, telepathy I think. So Bushy patched him up, put the bandage around his head and redressed the wound, when suddenly it was spotted. He saw the bong, yellow water and all and motioned for me to pass it, so I obliged. Next thing we knew, he’d downed half of the bong, no not smoked it but drank the water… He drank the frikking water. All I recall was the chorus of a Dave Matthews song as the ladies all chimed “Don’t drink the… water”.\n\nWell meeting that ou was undoubtedly one of the highlights of that oppikoppi and of course Clint throwing the cleaning ladies kids into the swimming pool, but alas, I only heard about that one. He did make up for it by passing out after way too much whiskey and cheering for King Edward VII High School.\n\nWe trekked back to Kempton with fond memories and thorns in our feet and readied ourselves for the following weekend, when half of the gang would trek to Splashy fen. But that’s a whole other story." ]

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[ null, null, "The president pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkeys \"Chocolate\" and \"Chip\" at the White House.\n\nThanksgiving and the holiday season are a time when people may warn against political discussions as a way to avoid dinner table blow-ups.\n\nHowever, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that complete avoidance might not be necessary if dinner attendees take time to understand each other’s “primal world beliefs” when conversing about politics.\n\nJeremy “Jer” Clifton, a senior research scientist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center, told Fox News Digital that primal world beliefs, or “primals” for short, are a category of “extremely basic beliefs about the world as a whole.”\n\nClifton and his colleagues recently published a paper on primal world beliefs in the context of politics – an avenue of study that belief researchers hadn’t studied in depth.\n\nAT THANKSGIVING, AVOID THESE HOT-BUTTON CONVERSATION TOPICS TO PREVENT ARGUING AT DINNER", null, "Prior established research has suggested that there are 26 primal world beliefs, but the top three revolve around the belief that the world is or isn’t safe, enticing and alive.\n\n“I didn’t come up with safe, enticing and alive,” Clifton said during a phone interview on Tuesday, Nov. 22. “It emerged from the data, and now it’s replicating across different groups, different cultures and different samples.”\n\nClifton and his team also analyzed 80,000 tweets that presented world and life views.\n\nTHANKSGIVING: 12 FUN FACTS ABOUT THE HOLIDAY TO DISCUSS DURING DINNER\n\n“What’s interesting is people are actually really bad at actually knowing the primal world beliefs of different groups,” Clifton said. “So, if you ask a lot of conservatives, and if you ask a lot of liberals, both sides think the other side thinks the world is a bad place.”", null, "Thanksgiving is a time when many say politics shouldn’t be discussed in order to keep the peace among family and friends.\n(iStock)\n\n“What we found is that the belief [that] the world is a dangerous place is one of the least important primal world beliefs when you try to understand the left and right,” Clifton said. “It’s really hard to find someone who sees the world as an objectively ugly, dull place.”\n\nHe continued, “The belief of the world is safe, enticing and alive correlate with each other, and together they make up the general belief that the world is a good place.”", null, "Researchers have found that people generally view the world as “safe” or “dangerous,” according to Clifton.", null, "The safe world belief comes down to whether a person sees the world as safe or dangerous.\n(iStock)\n\nPeople who have a safe worldview see life as cooperative, comfortable and stable, whereas people who have an opposite viewpoint see the world as a place filled with misery, decay and brutality.\n\n“The belief that the world is a safe place versus a dangerous place is about threats of all types. Germs, instability, crime, [and hurtful things] like [a family member] calling you names, all of [these negative factors are] involved in that.”\n\nPeople who have an “enticing” worldview see life as attractive or alluring versus “dull,” Clifton explained.\n\n“This is the belief that the world is a place that’s beautiful, interesting, funny and meaningful. It’s not really related to pleasure, but engagement,” Clifton said.", null, "The enticing world belief comes down to whether a person sees the world as beautiful or dull.\n(iStock)\n\n“Pleasure is actually more involved with the belief that the world is a safe place versus a dangerous place because if the world’s a safe place, it’s a place where you can avoid being miserable,” he continued.\n\nPASTOR ROBERT JEFFRESS: FAITH WILL ALWAYS BE A ‘KEY ISSUE’ IN POLITICS\n\nThe “alive” world belief means when people view life and world events as having a deeper meaning rather than being “indifferent” or “mechanistic,” according to Clifton.\n\nThose who view the world as alive see an “intentional” and “purposeful” relationship with an active universe that carries out plans, reacts to individual actions and communicates its will and desires, Clifton explained.", null, "The alive world belief comes down to whether a person sees the world as active and intentional or indifferent and random.\n(iStock)\n\n“[For example,] an atheist friend of mine who will plan a picnic and then if it rains, they’re like, ‘OK, it’s a sign from the world that I need to call my mom and make up for that fight that we had this morning,’” Clifton added.\n\nTHANKSGIVING QUIZ! HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THESE SURPRISING FACTS ABOUT THE ANNUAL HOLIDAY?\n\nPeople who view the world as mechanistic see life as “indifferent” and “random,” and often themselves as an Interchangeable part of a “mindless machine” that has “no plans or desires,” according to Clifton.\n\nThinking of the 3 primal world beliefs could help", null, "Thanksgiving is a holiday that brings families together for traditional feasts.\n(iStock)\n\nEmpathy, cooperation and respect are key to seeing the world from another perspective, Clifton told Fox News Digital.\n\n“In these politically polarized times, there’s less appetite for doing so,” Clifton said. “We all want our side to win.”\n\nPeople who view the world as safe will often try to assuage and allay fears if they come into contact with someone who thinks the world is a dangerous place, Clifton explained.\n\nHowever, the new primal world belief research paper that covers politics has found that varying political ideology largely takes shape depending on whether a person views the world as hierarchical or non-hierarchical.", null, "One group tends to view differences as a hard line in the sand that commands respect and asks that the drawn line be preserved.\n\nClifton said this way of thinking is usually favored by conservatives while liberals tend to see the world as “a place full of differences” with “superficial and arbitrary lines in the sand.”\n\n“[For example,] we could talk about lines between the rich and poor, between men and women,” Clifton noted. “A lot of the debate on trans rights could well come down to these fundamental assumptions we have about whether the world is a place where differences really matter.”\n\nUnderstanding worldviews on opposite sides of the political aisle can help people navigate sensitive discussions respectfully on Thanksgiving, other holidays and daily life, according to Clifton.\n\n“We can disagree and yes, we can debate, but we can also recognize that all that any of us can do is act on the basis of what we believe to be true,” Clifton said. “And we can realize that if we saw the world in a different light, we too might be more liberal, or we too might be more conservative. It’s an exercise in being patient with the other side.”", null, "Having a positive outlook on the world and life isn’t definitively linked to income or socioeconomic background, according to primal world belief researchers.\n(iStock)\n\nSo far, the assumption that wealthy people or people who live in high-income zip codes have a more positive view of the world because they’ve “probably had an objectively good and abundant life” hasn’t been proven to be true, Clifton said.\n\n“I’m hopeful because once we can get past that and actually really deeply start to care again and want to understand,” Clifton told Fox News Digital. “I think we’ll find that our primal world beliefs help make a lot of sense of why we do the things we do.”", null, "“Do I have empirically tested ways of changing these beliefs? No, I do not,” he said. “Down the road, maybe there will be ways to productively discuss what these primal world beliefs are and try to change them.”\n\nHe went on, “[The research is] on the way. But, I think that just knowing that these beliefs exist, and you have options can be helpful.”" ]

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[ null, "In Hollywood, there's often a fine line between good-natured parody and outright exploitation. You know, should a down-on-their-luck star take the potentially embarrassing \"Celebrity Apprentice\" gig or not? It can be a real grey area.\n\nLuckily for us, though, Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan still haven't figured out the difference, which is probably why they both have such a large presence in the new trailer for \"Scary Movie V.\"\n\nHey, if you can't get people to laugh with you, at least you can still get them to laugh at you.\n\nWhich is kind of too bad, because honestly, the rest of this new teaser for the fifth installment of the horror parody franchise actually looks sorta funny in a good way. Ashley Tisdale, Heather Locklear, Katt Williams and Terry Crews are among the other stars who gamely deliver punchlines in a clip that sets its sights squarely on \"Paranormal Activity\" and its found footage ilk.\n\nStill, all the hype so far has been about Sheen and Lohan, appearing together for the first time since the last cover for The National Enquirer. So if you're the kind of person who still gets a charge of schadenfreude from watching stars brought low, this this clip is just what you've been waiting for. Here it is, courtesy of MTV:" ]

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[ null, null, null, null, "• San Jose Dance Theater Nutcracker–Now in its 47th year, the 2012 staging of the holiday classic marks the 10th year of collaboration with Los Gatos Ballet. Young visitors to the Candy Kingdom on Nov. 30 (and after each matinee performance) can get autographs from cast members and take pictures with the dancers. A limited number of backstage tour passes also will be available at the box office. All performances will be at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd. Runs Nov. 30-Dec. 2. Call 408.286.9905 or visit sjdt.org for ticket pricing and availability.\n\nWang made a list for the Associated Press of 20 nuggets of wisdom she’s gained in her career, not only as her own boss but reaching back to her time as a competitive ice-skater (she was a contender for the 1968 Olympic team), as a Vogue editor, and as a designer at Ralph Lauren, She’s still on alert for new tricks and strategies — I guess that’s tip No, 21, 1, It’s not just about what you design, it is who you dress, Wang tackled the red carpet long before she launched her 100 hand painted watercolor bow ballet shoes clip arts 300 dpi instant download commercial use transparent watercolor princess b runway collection, She was, however, already making bridal gowns and competition-skating costumes, so it wasn’t a huge leap..\n\nBay Area on display / Stanford connection. The Polynesian Bowl also featured a number of Bay Area standouts, including Michigan-bound slot receiver Giles Jackson (Freedom): 1 rush, 13 yards; 3 catches, 4 yards. St. Francis outside linebacker Joshua Pakola — the BANG co-defensive player of the year along with Heimuli — accounted for Team Makai’s lone sack in the win. The 6-3, 255-pound outside linebacker proved to be one of three Stanford-bound players out of the Bay Area at the Polynesian Bowl.\n\nDisneyland’s 100 hand painted watercolor bow ballet shoes clip arts 300 dpi instant download commercial use transparent watercolor princess b Main Street has been divided by eight-foot-tall barricades while the park replaces the track for its iconic horse-drawn streetcars, Visitors won’t hear the clop-clop of horses’ hooves until the project is finished, sometime in early spring, It entails ripping up 3,500 feet of track – about two-thirds of a mile — replacing it and adding 50,000 decorative brick pavers, “That is something that’s been long overdue,” said David Koenig, author of “Mouse Tales: A Behind the Ears Look at Disneyland.” “If you walk around, you can see the wear, People even get their feet stuck inside the tracks.”..\n\nThe Omni takes inspiration in the worker co-ops that flourished in San Francisco and the East Bay four decades ago, stressing mutual aid and the sharing of resources above private profit. But it spawned primarily from the local Occupy encampments of 2011 where the reclamation of public space for public use — such as Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland and Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco — became as important a rallying cry as holding Wall Street accountable for the country’s financial collapse." ]

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[ "Famous veteran Music Director of Hindi and Punjabi films, Mohinder Singh Sarna aka S. Mohinder passed away in Mumbai at the age of 95.\n\nBorn in 1925 in a small town called Sillanwali, S Mohinder belonged to the family of Police Officials. Mohinder started training for music at a very young age and was keen to make this his career.", null, "As years passed, he was offered a singing job at Lahore radio. He moved to Mumbai during the 1947 riots. In Mumbai, he again got the job at a radio station. By then he was already in contact with some film personalities and soon started composing music for Hindi films.\n\nThe turning point in his career came with the 1949 film Neeli, starring Suraiya and Dev Anand. Reporter Raju, Paapi, Shrimati Ji, Naata, Shirin Farhad, Jai Bhawani, Picnic, etc were some of his known films as the Music Director. But ever since he accepted some assignments of small b-grade films, the big production houses stopped signing him for their projects.", null, "He got in to film production with Punjabi film Pardesi Dhola (1962) and then composed music for many Punjabi films like Daaj, Teri Meri Ik Jindri, Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam, Santo Banto, Chambe Di Kali, Sukhi Parivar, etc. But it was the music of Nanak Naam Jahaz Hai for which he got his due as a Music Director. S Mohinder deservingly got the National Award for Best Music for the film Nanak Naam Jahaz Hai.\n\nIn 1983, he moved to the US along with his family where he started doing musical concerts. He would also visit India frequently. In his musical career, Mohinder composed the music for around 100 films in Punjabi & Hindi.", null, "In the year 2015, he returned back to India and started staying in Mumbai, where he re-started his journey as Music Director. The man, even at the age of 90 years, had a very sharp memory. He had given radio interviews in the last few years which validate this fact that he remembered literally everything about his life. In 2015, he was seen attending the event related to the re-release of his film Nanak Naam Jahaz Hai." ]

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[ null, "GONZAGA\nRecord: 29-2, 15-1\nThis tournament should be a little more interesting than prior seasons. While Gonzaga fell in the Championship last year, the tournament as a whole lacked talent.\n\nIt’s the opposite this year in one of the better WCC seasons in recent history as BYU and St. Mary’s are both set to make the NCAA tournament, while teams like Pacific and San Francisco rank surprisingly high in advanced metrics.\n\nThat said, it’s been another dominant season for Gonzaga, which lost its second game a couple weeks ago at BYU. Despite Killian Tillie dealing with nagging injuries, the Bulldogs have dominated the conference with only three of their 15 wins being decided by single digits.\n\nAn issue that could show up in the NCAA tournament is that they run seven players deep, but that doesn’t matter when you’re more talented than everyone else in the WCC. Filip Petrusev (17.8 ppg, 7.8 rpg) and Tillie are a dominant duo in the frontcourt, while Corey Kispert and a slew of guards round out the lineup. This team may not be as talented as prior versions, but they’re playing just as well.\n\nSure, Pacific or San Fran could put up a fight in the semifinals, but that’s not something to bet on. The Dons almost took them down at home, but that was mainly because Tillie didn’t play.\n\nThe biggest test for the Zags will be against BYU in the Championship. The Cougars are the only team that can go blow-for-blow with the Bulldogs and that feels like the only matchup that should happen in the title game.\n\nBYU\nRecord: 24-7, 13-3\nIf BYU can get another win against Gonzaga, it would possibly be looking at a 5-seed in the NCAA tourney. While they don’t have great wins outside of Gonzaga, they don’t have overly bad losses. The other part is that Yoeli Childs may be the best player in the WCC and is a future NBA talent.\n\nHe missed the first nine games of the season and then four more in January. If he was healthy the entire season, you could probably take away two or three of BYU’s losses, if not more.\n\nChilds showed his dominance the last couple games, posting 28 points against Gonzaga and then a ridiculous 38 points and 14 rebounds against Pepperdine. At full strength, BYU is a legit team and one that was competitive against Kansas without Childs early in the season.\n\nIt’s likely BYU will face St. Mary’s in the semifinals and while that should be a competitive game, the Cougars will be favored. If you want an upset pick, BYU makes the most sense, not only because they already beat Gonzaga, but also because they’re playing their best basketball.\n\nSt. Mary’s\nRecord: 24-7, 11-5\nThe Gaels are slated to make the NCAA tournament, but they probably aren’t going to win this one. To do so, they’ll likely have to beat BYU and Gonzaga on back-to-back nights, which seems impossible for a team that is less talented.\n\nSure, this is a quality team loaded with experience, but the road is long as a 3-seed. There’s no doubt they can upset BYU, but taking down Gonzaga less than 24 hours later is unlikely, especially given how those two matchups went.\n\nUpsets rarely happen in the WCC and while the conference is better as a whole than previous seasons, it’s still hard to bet against the best teams.\n\nThe path to a Championship won’t be as easy for Gonzaga, but it should make the title game and set up a rematch with BYU. While any of the top three teams could win this tournament, BYU may be the best value play, especially since St. Mary’s has one extra game as a 3-seed." ]

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[ "Hailing from Old Hickory, Tennessee, Bargatze sells out shows across the world", null, "Fresh off the release of his second highly anticipated Netflix special, The Greatest Average American, The Raincheck Tour features all new material. Hailing from Old Hickory, Tennessee, Bargatze sells out shows across the world. Bargatze’s comedy is both clean and relatable, which is evident in his ten appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and four appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. In March 2019, Nate’s first solo one-hour Netflix special, The Tennessee Kid premiered globally to rave reviews. In July 2020, the comedian teamed up with All Things Comedy to release his new podcast, Nateland. The world is a crazy place, and there's plenty of podcasts out there addressing the tough issues. “Nateland,” however, tackles the meaningless issues that we face every day, giving listeners a much-needed mental break from fighting the good fight. New episodes release Wednesdays, with video available on Nate’s YouTube channel and audio available everywhere you get podcasts." ]

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[ null, "George Nakashima (American, May 24, 1905–June 15, 1990) was a carpenter, furniture producer, and modeler. He was brought into the world in Spokane, WA. He acquired a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Washington in 1929 and a Master of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1931. George Nakashima furniture investigates the polarity among strength and delicacy. Cut from sublime bits of rich, regularly uncommon, wood, his works are extra and exquisite—the consequence of formal schooling in engineering just as broad openness to European Modernism, Eastern strict way of thinking, and Japanese art customs.\n\nIn the wake of considering, Nakashima ventured out abroad to investigate the world and study compositional styles all alone, investing energy in spots like Paris, France, and Pondicherry, India. One of his initial guides was Antonin Raymond (Czech, 1888–1976), a draftsman he met in Japan and worked with while considering Japanese engineering. In 1940, Nakashima got back to the United States with his American-conceived spouse, Marion Okajima. The couple opened a Seattle furniture workshop, yet it was shut when they announced for interment in a Japanese-American migration camp in Hunt, ID. At the camp, Nakashima met a Japanese craftsman named Gentauro Hikogawa, who showed him the specialty of making customary Japanese furnishings. In 1943, Raymond supported Nakashima's delivery from the movement camp.\n\nAs World War II broke out, Nakashima and his significant other, Marion, gotten back to the United States. In 1940, the couple and their baby little girl, Mira, were shipped off an internment camp for Asian-Americans in Idaho. It was there that Nakashima met an older Japanese craftsman who prepared him in the art of carpentry. Through the sponsorship of Antonin Raymond, the Nakashimas had the option to move to the modeler's ranch in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Nakashima leased a little house and bought a package of land, where he planned and assembled his workshop and house—the two of which are presently recorded on the U.S. Public Register of Historic Places.\n\nIn 1984, the Nakashima Foundation for Peace was begun. Situated in New Hope, PA, this establishment depended on Nakashima's motivation to make Altars of Peace for each landmass. The primary Altar of Peace was committed in 1986 and is situated in New York, NY. Different Altars of Peace have since been committed in Moscow, Russia, and Auroville, India. Instances of his furniture are shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Notwithstanding his numerous works, Nakashima composed The Soul of a Tree (1981), a book about otherworldliness and woodcraft. He got the Order of the Sacred Treasure, an honor in acknowledgment of the social worth of his work, from the Emperor of Japan in 1983. Nakashima passed on June 15, 1990.\n\nNakashima's girl, Mira, who got degrees in engineering from Harvard University and Waseda University in Tokyo, functioned as his associate planner for a very long time. After her dad's demise in 1990, she assumed the errand of delivering multiplied requests. She presently fills in as the top of the Nakashima Studio.\n\nGeorge Nakashima furniture is for all time visible at a wrap of renowned establishments remembering the Metropolitan Museum of Art for New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., and the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania." ]

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[ null, "Beijing: A 33-year-old Chinese man received the shock of his life after learning that he had ovaries and a uterus and that the persistent urinary problems he faced were actually menstruation, local Greek media reported.\n\nChen Li from China’s Sichuan province, had surgery to correct irregular urination during puberty. Since then, for more than 20 years, he had experienced recurrent blood in his urine.\n\nLast year, during a medical check-up, Chen discovered the true cause of his condition. Chen had female sex chromosomes. His monthly experience of blood in his urine and abdominal discomfort were caused by menstruation, reported a Greek Reporter.\n\nAfter 33 years of identifying as a man, Chen went to a Guangzhou hospital that treats genitalia issues as the outcome of the check-up was distressing for him.\n\nChen requested Guangzhou hospital requested to have his female reproductive organs removed. He underwent a three-hour surgery on June 6 and was released from the hospital 10 days later.\n\nAlthough the man had male external genital organs, he was born intersex, meaning that he had female sex chromosomes, ovaries, and a uterus reported Greek Reporter.\n\nThe term “intersex” is used for a variety of conditions in which one’s chromosomes, reproductive organs, and sexual anatomy do not fit into the standard categories of male or female. In the past, intersex people were referred to as “hermaphrodites.” The term “hermaphrodite” is no longer used and is widely considered pejorative.\n\nIntersex people may have any combination of chromosomes and reproductive organs. Because many variations of intersexuality may never be discovered unless some health issue arrives later in life, such as in the case of Li, the true figures of intersex people may be much higher than the current officially reported numbers, reported Greek Reporter.\n\nIn humans, conditions that involve discrepancies between external genitalia and internal reproductive organs are described by the term intersex. Intersex conditions are sometimes also referred to as disorders of sexual development (DSDs). Such conditions are extremely rare in humans.\n\nMost experts believe that the number of intersex births can range anywhere from three in every 200 births to one in every 2,000." ]

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[ "by Mark Alker 8 years ago 1", null, "The GoPro competitor company has been operating out of Seattle since 2004 and was founded by skiing buddies and Washington University students Marc Barros and Jason Green and had reported earnings of $27 million in 2011. Contour cameras feature lasers for accurate aim and alignment and their low profile cylindrical design is popular with many riders who like to helmet mount a camera.\n\nBarros no longer works for the company and was in the dark about the status of Contour when asked by Geek Wire yesterday.\n\nThe news broke when former Social Media manager Jacob Hase posted on his Facebook page that the doors had been locked at the Seattle office and all employees had been told they were no longer employees of Contour. Hase went on to post that he’d wished Geek Wire had confirmed details with him before publishing their story, further adding confusion to the status of the company.\n\nNo official announcement from any company execs has been published, but with the doors locked and all products currently showing as out of stock on their website, the signs do not look good for the versatile camera company.\n\nWe spoke to Matt Taylor at UK online contour retailer Action Cameras who confirmed to us that Contour had temporarily ceased trading. He went on to point out that this could in fact just be a temporary situation while a new buyer is found, so it may not be the end of the brand just yet.\n\nWhen we have anything official from Contour we will update." ]

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[ null, "While Mercedes replaced Red Bull at the top of timesheet with Valtteri Bottas quickest of anyone in FP2 – setting a 1:23.148, two tenths clear of Pierre Gasly who was a surprise P2 – the main focus was once again on wings as Red Bull’s upper flap on the rear was blighted by severe oscillation.\n\nThe Red Bull mechanics spent time addressing the issue on both cars throughout the second session, Verstappen finishing the day in P3 three tenths off the pace set by Bottas.\n\nTitle rival Lewis Hamilton, in P4, was four tenths slower than his team-mate.\n\nWith all the fighting and bitching going on, Oscar Piastri is doing his best to restore some wholesomeness to #F1 ☺️ pic.twitter.com/j6jXqAawkI\n\nAs darkness descended on the Losail International Circuit and temperatures cooled, the FP2 session offered the drivers and teams much more representative conditions of what they can expect once the lights go out on Sunday.\n\nJust 19 drivers would be able to get the vital track experience they needed as Haas’ Nikita Mazepin sat out the session because of an unscheduled chassis change.\n\nVisbility was proving to be a slight issue for some drivers as their eyes adjusted to the dazzling floodlights beaming down on the dark tarmac. Sergio Perez needed to come back into the garage to replace the visor on his helmet.\n\nAfter the opening stints, it was Mercedes who were top of the pile as Bottas held a two-tenth gap over team-mate Hamilton. The latter almost got in Bottas’ way in the early stages but, thankfully for them, they managed to avoid an embarrassing collision between them.\n\nBottas then returned to the track and pumped in a 1:23.154, but that lap was deleted for clearly exceeding track limits at Turn 7.\n\nAt Red Bull, their focus was on rear wings, but their own on this occasion, as there was an issue with the DRS on Verstappen’s car which was soon fixed…or so we thought.\n\nBack on track, Verstappen’s team-mate Perez was starting a flying lap, but soon backed out due to traffic problems in sector two.\n\nVerstappen found a quieter moment to throw down his first qualifying sim run, yet found himself two tenths down in the first sector. That gap extended to four tenths by the time he crossed the line, but there was a suspicion that his car was carrying a slightly heavier fuel load compared to others.\n\nThere was also a firm eye staying fixed on Red Bull’s rear wing, which was still misbehaving with the upper flap oscillating when the DRS was open. The problem kept Perez in the garage for much longer than he would have liked.\n\nMeanwhile, Verstappen’s former team-mate Pierre Gasly found himself sandwiched in between the two Mercedes drivers after an eye-catching lap on the softs.\n\nVerstappen re-emerged for another crack at dislodging Bottas, but again was no match for the Mercedes through the first sector. He did find improvement, but only by a tenth.\n\nWork to do, it appears, for Red Bull ahead of qualifying day on Saturday.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "How Joe Biden Became the Father of the Iranian Nuclear Bomb\n\nBiden’s cowardous has almost halted his agenda, but it’s been a boon to a new project — a nuclear Iran.\n\nAccording to The Intercept, Joe Biden has struggled mightily to pass any part of his domestic agenda. Yet there is one outcome he can take direct credit for, an accomplishment that, because of Washington’s screwed-up political incentives, he pulled off with almost no opposition.\n\nAfter decades of halting progress to develop nuclear weapons capacity, Iran is now turning the final screws to bring them to that threshold. Iran is now closer than ever to developing an actual nuclear weapon — beyond the point where assassinations, sabotage, or even a campaign of airstrikes could significantly hinder its nuclear capacity. Both hawkish and dovish segments of the U.S. press point to a plain fact undergirding this development: The nuclear deal struck in 2015 is toast.\n\nIran’s path to the bomb has been helped by Biden’s stubborn refusal to make the compromises necessary to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.\n\nIran’s path to the bomb is of course of its own making, but it has been helped along the way by Biden’s stubborn refusal to make the compromises necessary to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. Biden’s predecessor Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in a fit of pique, and Biden campaigned on getting back in. When push came to shove, however, Biden refused to undo Trump’s aggressive measures.\n\nIt’s hard to say that the nuclear deal is definitively finished because, in theory, both parties could miraculously come to terms at any time. It could be accurately described as a zombie: not quite dead, but not about to have life breathed back into it either.\n\nWhite House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk reportedly told a group of think tank experts this Wednesday that any return to a deal was “highly unlikely.” Earlier, the European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell Fontelles, said, “I have concluded that the space for additional significant compromises has been exhausted.” Both sides must now sign the deal on the table if they want to move forward, he added. The problem is that both the Americans and Iranians have already said that the deal currently on the table is unacceptable.\n\nBiden set to allow Iranian nukes, but then tries to reassure Israel, “it’s all cool.”\n\nThe Biden administration in recent days has been seeking to reassure Israel that it hasn’t agreed to new concessions with Iran and a nuclear deal isn’t imminent, U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios.\n\nState of play: Iran gave a formal response this week to a “final” proposal from the EU, which has been mediating between the U.S. and Iran.\n\nDriving the news: Over the last week, White House officials assured their Israeli counterparts that despite claims in the press, there have been no new concessions to Iran, U.S. officials said.\n\nBehind the scenes: The press reports surprised the White House, which on Thursday and Friday sought to reassure the Israelis once more that it wasn’t the Biden administration offering concessions but Iran, which dropped its demand the Revolutionary Guards be removed from a U.S. terror blacklist.\n\nWhat they‘re saying: Israeli officials say that even though the discussions with the U.S. on Iran became tougher recently, Lapid has no intention of going on a public campaign against Biden around the nuclear deal with Iran.\n\nBetween the lines: Although the Israeli government’s official position is to oppose a U.S. return to the 2015 nuclear deal, several current and former senior defense and intelligence officials think differently.\n\nWhat to watch: The White House and the State Department are still reviewing and studying the Iranian response to the EU draft agreement. It is not clear when the U.S. will give its response in private and in public.\n\nAccording to Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, “The time has come for Western powers to walk away from talks with Iran on returning to the nuclear deal, top Israeli officials are telling their counterparts in Washington and in European capitals.\n\n“The Europeans sent Iran a final offer, which doesn’t even meet the demands that the Americans committed to, and established that this offer was ‘take it or leave it,’” said a senior Israeli official at the highest level of decision-making on Thursday.\n\n“Iran turned down the offer, and the time has come to get up and walk away,” the official continued. “Anything else sends a strong message of weakness.”\n\nThe senior official, in a briefing to Israeli journalists, said that the world must now discuss what must be done in order to prevent Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon.\n\nPrime Minister Yair Lapid expressed this message in his phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz earlier on Thursday. He also made the case on Thursday to US Ambassador Tom Nides, and Florida congressman Ted Deutch, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism.\n\nLapid will continue to make calls to Western leaders and diplomats, the Israeli official said.\n\nNational Security Adviser Eyal Hulata will head to Washington, DC, next week to conduct a series of meetings with US officials on the Iran nuclear program.\n\nThe briefing came a day after an anonymous Israeli official delivered to local media a seemingly contradictory message — that Jerusalem believes Iran is close to inking an agreement with world powers, and has started preparing for the announcement of a deal.\n\nOn July 26, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell submitted a proposal to Iran on returning to the nuclear deal, with a deadline for it to respond by midnight Monday night.\n\nAccording to a Politico report citing a senior Western official, the Iranian response was received Monday evening Brussels time and focused on remaining questions related to sanctions and “guarantees around economic engagement.”\n\nIran’s state-run IRNA news agency offered no details on the substance of its response, but suggested that Tehran still wouldn’t take the European Union-mediated proposal, despite warnings there would be no more negotiations.\n\n“The differences are on three issues, in which the United States has expressed its verbal flexibility in two cases, but it should be included in the text,” the IRNA report said. “The third issue is related to guaranteeing the continuation of [the deal], which depends on the realism of the United States.”\n\nDuring Thursday’s briefing, the senior Israeli official highlighted a May 30 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency to the effect that Iran was not providing credible responses to the nuclear watchdog’s questions, saying that report should “set off a bright red warning light for the international community.”\n\n“The US knows and recognizes this,” the official said.\n\nIran signed its nuclear deal in 2015 with the US, France, Germany, Britain, Russia, and China. The deal saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment of uranium under the watch of UN inspectors in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.\n\nIn 2018, then-US president Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the US out of the accord and said he would negotiate a stronger deal, but that didn’t happen. Iran began breaking the deal’s terms a year later.\n\nEU-coordinated negotiations on reviving the deal, known as the JCPOA, began in April 2021 before coming to a standstill in March and picking up again in August.\n\nIsrael believes Iran wishes to build a nuclear bomb, and has reportedly carried out sabotage operations within the Islamic Republic to delay the development of such a weapon.\n\nIran has denied any nefarious intentions and claims its program is designed for peaceful purposes, though it has recently been enriching uranium to levels that international leaders say have no civil use.\n\nTwo major roadblocks remain in the negotiations if Tehran does want to return to the deal: Iran is demanding an end to International Atomic Energy Agency investigations into its nuclear program, and wants guarantees to cover the possibility of the US ditching the agreement again in the future.\n\nEarlier this month, Joe Biden forced the European Union put forth a proposal to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.\n\nJournoNews has learned that on Monday, Josep Borrell, the E.U.’s foreign policy chief, said he hoped the United States would respond to the proposal this week.\n\nUnder the 2015 plan, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran agreed to significantly cut back its controversial uranium enrichment program. The E.U., U.S., and other signatories were concerned that the program could be a possible pathway for Iran to build to nuclear weapons. In return, Iran was granted relief from international sanctions. Iran has denied any ambitions to build nuclear weapons and says it wants nuclear power only for peaceful purposes.\n\nIn May 2018, then-President Donald Trump abandoned the JCPOA, calling it “defective at its core.” Trump reinstated all U.S. sanctions on Iran as part of campaign to compel Iran to negotiate a replacement agreement that would further restrict its military efforts, according to the BBC.\n\nBorrell said that Iran had given a “reasonable” response to the new proposal. “There was a proposal from me as coordinator of the negotiations saying, ‘This is the equilibrium we reached, I don’t think we can improve it on one side or the other’… and there was a response from Iran that I considered reasonable,” Borrell said at an event in Spain.\n\nThe proposal “was transmitted to the United States which has not yet responded formally… I hope the response will put an end to the negotiations,” Borrell stated.\n\nAl Jazeera reports that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium is now at 60 percent enrichment, its highest ever and significantly higher than the 3.67 percent limit set out in JCPOA. Ninety percent enrichment is needed to build a nuclear bomb.\n\nLast week, Iran’s negotiating team adviser Mohammad Marandi said, “We’re closer than we’ve been before” to securing a deal and the “remaining issues are not very difficult to resolve.”\n\nOn August 10, the United States charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with plotting to murder John Bolton, a national security adviser to Trump. According to Reuters, U.S. official do not believe the charges should affect the nuclear talks with Tehran.\n\nThe E.U. proposal has not yet been made public." ]

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[ "The new K-State Welcome Center will be named the Berney Family Welcome Center, according to a K-State press release after the Kansas Board of Regents approved the decision Wednesday.\n\nConstruction is scheduled to start on the center in 2015, which will be built on the east side of K-state’s Memorial Stadium.\n\nThe name was chosen in recognition of an $11 million “commitment to advance the university” made by Rand and Patti Berney of McKinney, Texas. Rand Berney graduated from K-State in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, while Patti Berney attended Fort Hays State University.\n\nIt all started when Derek Meek, 54 of Topeka, failed to appear in Jackson County court, according to the Topeka Capital Journal. A Silver Lake police officer tried to make contact with Meek after he stole a parked Jeep Grand Cherokee.\n\nThe chase started east on US-24 at 1:35 p.m. and at one point Meek left Shawnee County and entered Jefferson County. By the time the car broke down at the 2900 block of N.E. Meriden Road, three of the four tires were down to the rim.\n\nMeek was then taken into custody with no incident and was charged with theft of a motor vehicle, fleeing and eluding police, numerous traffic violations and the charges of not appearing in court.\n\nNextel Communications was acquired by Sprint in 2005, making the Sprint Nextel Corp. Nextel was a leader in push-to-talk technology. As part of the sale, Sprint received $10 million of the purchase price in Pacific DataVision common stock.\n\nThe woman, Alice Thomas, was injured at about 1:30 p.m., according to the Topeka Capital Journal.\n\nThe vehicle, a 2003 Ford Taurus, was traveling north on K-13 when it left the roadway, struck a field entrance, rolled and landed upside down. Thomas was pulled from her car by rescue crews and taken to a nearby hospital.", null ]

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[ null, "President Joe Biden is speaking in support of changing Senate filibuster rules that have halted suffrage legislation in Atlanta.\n\nPresident Joe Biden is speaking in support of changing Senate filibuster rules that have halted suffrage legislation in Atlanta.\n\nPresident Biden gave a scathing speech on Tuesday on what he called “the struggle for the soul of America,” and called for a direct rejection of GOP-led efforts to restrict American suffrage.\n\nTalks with Vice President Harris, called on Biden to enforce electoral reform and for the Senate to override its procedural rule known as the filibuster to pass two bills to ensure access to the vote in all states.\n\n“Unfortunately, the U.S. Senate, designed to be the world’s largest deliberative body, has been made a shell of its former self. It gives me no satisfaction in saying so,” Biden said.\n\n“But as an institutionalist, I think the threat to our democracy is so serious that we must find a way to pass these suffrage laws. Debate them, vote, let the majority win. And if the absolute minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster for this. ”\n\nBiden made his remarks in Atlanta, Ga., Home of the civil rights legend, late rep. John Lewis, and one of many places where Republicans have enacted legislation to restrict eligible Americans’ voting rights.\n\nThese restrictions include restricting postal voting and eliminating same-day voter registration – measures that have been particularly burdensome for the poor and colored.\n\nThe president’s remarks were among his most powerful condemnations of both voter repression legislation introduced in a number of Republican-controlled cities and states, including Georgia, as well as for changing Senate filibuster rules.\n\nBiden described this moment in history as “one of the rare moments in a country’s history where time stops and the essentials are immediately torn away from the trivial.”\n\nThe Capitol uprising on January 6, a year ago this month, was a recurring theme throughout Biden’s speech. He pointed to the deadly riots in which pro-Trump extremists tried to undermine Biden’s election certification, and to voter restriction laws introduced by Republicans in the months that followed, as evidence of subversive democracy.\n\nAmericans, he said, “must ensure that January 6 does not mark the end of democracy, but the beginning of a renaissance of our democracy.”\n\nBiden warned that the United States is becoming an autocracy and said lawmakers will be judged on whether they support Democrats’ bills.\n\n“Each of the members of the Senate will be judged by history on where they stood before the vote and where they stood after the vote. There is no escaping. Let’s get back to work,” he said.\n\nBiden supported changing Senate rules “no matter how they change”\n\nThe Democrats’ two bills: the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act – would, among other changes, set new minimum standards for early voting and postal voting. The legislation has broad support among congressional Democrats, but Senate Republicans have used filibusters to push them into the legislative purgatory.\n\nBiden’s call to at least temporarily do away with the filibuster to pass a bill on voting rights marked his hitherto sharpest condemnation of the Senate Republicans’ stone wall.\n\nChanging Senate rules would require all Democrats to be involved. Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona have defended the current filibuster.\n\nDespite the lack of consensus in his party, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that he plans to hold a vote on voting rights next week. If the vote is blocked, as expected, Schumer is considering two options – a return to the speaking filibuster or an elimination specific to voting rights legislation." ]

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[ null, "Annie Leibovitz has put her spin on the 2016 edition of the Pirelli calendar.\n\nEarlier this year, the famed photographer, 65, teamed up with the Italian tire company to shoot a number of influential women including Yoko Ono, 82, Amy Schumer, 34, and Serena Williams, 33.\n\n“I started to think about the roles that women play, women who have achieved something,” explained Leibovitz in a statement. “I wanted to make a classic set of portraits. I thought that the women should look strong but natural and I decided to keep it a very simple exercise of shooting in the studio.”\n\nThe calendar — which dates back to 1964 — normally depicts scantily clad models in exotic locations ranging from the Côte d’Azur to the Seychelles.\n\nPast photographers of the high-concept shoots include Steven Meisel, Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton, but Leibovitz took an admittedly pared down approach to this year’s aesthetic.\n\n“This calendar is so completely different. It is a departure. The idea was not to have any pretense in these pictures and be very straightforward,” explained the photographer.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "And the Unmarried Who Came Afterward", null, "It’s that time of year again. The holy days are upon us. Candles will be lit; hymns will be sung. Many of us will remember the never-married son born to a virgin in Bethlehem, as Christmas began.\n\nGreek poets like Hesiod—who might have beat Homer in a singing contest—were sure Zeus was a prolific breeder. They made him the father of Athena by Metis; of 3 Hours and 3 Fates and 3 Nymphs by Themis; of Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia by Eurynome; of Persephone by Demeter; of 9 muses by Mnemosyne; of Apollo and Artemis by Leto; of Angelos and Ares and Eileithyia and Enyo and Hebe and Hephaestus by Hera; of Hermes by Maia; of Dionysus by Semele; of Hercules by Alcmene; and so on and so forth.\n\nAnd Roman poets like Ovid—who got thrown out of Rome for messing around with the first emperor’s daughter—told stories about Jupiter, the Roman Zeus, as a sexual predator. One had him stumble on Io, who was out for a walk by a river; Jupiter halted her flight, and she was molested. But that made his wife Juno jealous, so Io was turned into a heifer. “She made a lovely cow.”\n\nLater on, Jupiter came across Callisto, one of Diana’s hunters; he made himself look like Diana, and raped her. Callisto’s son Arcas was born 9 months later, so Juno hated her; she turned her into a bear, who became Ursa Major. As Ovid remembered, “Jupiter set them in the sky, as neighboring constellations.”\n\nEventually, Jupiter went after the Phoenician princess Europa; he became a white bull with small horns, and she mounted him of her own accord. “Majesty and love go ill together, nor can they long share one abode,” were Ovid’s words. Europa was carried off to Crete, where she ended up as the mother of King Minos.\n\nAnd Jupiter seduced Semele, daughter of the king of Thebes. “Many a man has made his way into an honest girl’s bedroom by calling himself a god,” Ovid had Juno say. Semele asked her lover to appear as the god that he was, and he did. That reduced her to ashes; so Bacchus, the son in her womb, was sewn into his father’s thigh.\n\nOn earth as it was in myth. The same kinds of things happened in Rome, and in Greece.\n\nThere was a consensus that Alexander, the greatest of all Greeks, had descended from Hercules, who like so many other Greeks had descended from Zeus. Alexander’s father, Philip II of Macedon, put Zeus on his coins; and Alexander’s teacher, Aristotle, compared his student to the king of Mt Olympus. “He ought not to be a subject, as if mankind should claim to rule over Zeus,” instead, “all should happily obey such a ruler, according to what seems to be the order of nature.” Legends proliferated. One had Alexander's mother, Olympias, dream about the thunderclap she heard, and the thunderbolt that hit her in the womb, as her son was conceived.\n\nHer son would take after his divine father. After Alexander won a war in Anatolia with Darius III in 333 BC, he put on a Persian scepter and crown, and filled his palace with 365 concubines. “Each night these paraded around the couch of the king so that he might select the one with whom he would lie that night.”\n\nSo it would go in Rome. Caligula, who was the third Roman emperor, liked to dress up like Hercules, Castor, Pollux, Bacchus, Mercury, Mars, Apollo and Jupiter: “He made this a pretext for seducing numerous women, even his sisters.” He laid the foundations of a palace on the Capitoline in Rome, so that he and Jupiter could live together in town. And he wanted to be a god abroad. In Jerusalem for instance, he ordered a colossus in the temple with his name written on it, and the title of Zeus.\n\nCaligula was sexy wherever he went. Whenever he asked his senators to dinner, he evaluated their wives as they passed his couch. The ones he liked best would be removed from the room, and their performances reviewed when the emperor escorted them back. Some were borrowed for just a few hours. Seneca told a story about how Valerius Asiaticus overheard the emperor’s assessment of his wife. “Ye gods! What a tale for the ears of a husband! What a fact for an emperor to know!” Others were never returned. Caligula took away Ennia Thrasylla, the wife of his praetorian prefect—swearing to marry her but breaking his promise; he took his own sister away from Cassius Longinus—openly treating her as his lawful consort; he sent for Memmius Regulus’ wife—because somebody had told him her grandmother was pretty; he went to the wedding of Calpurnius Piso, but had the bride (“hands off my wife!”) carried off to his own house. And Caligula’s conquests far extended outside of the city. “Because of his adulteries he was frequently styled imperator as well as Germanicus and Britannicus,” as if he’d subdued the barbarians east and west.\n\nAfter centuries of celestial sex, celibacy was encouraged on earth. Paul of Tarsus recommended the unmarried to the Corinthian church, and the evangelists Luke and Matthew encouraged abstinence in Rome. From then on there were virgins in heaven, where they played harps.\n\nRoughly half a century after Jesus of Nazareth was born, and around a decade after Caligula was assassinated by his bodyguards on his way to lunch, Paul sent a letter to friends in the city of Corinth.\n\nAnd it was good to be a παρθένος, or parthenos, or virgin, he said. “Now concerning virgins I have no command of the Lord, but I give my opinion as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy” (1 Corinthians 7:25); and “If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that” (1 Corinthians 7:28); and “He who marries his virgin does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do better.” (1 Corinthians 7:36-38); and “I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to Christ to present you as a pure virgin to her one husband” (2 Corinthians 11:2).\n\nOver the next couple of decades, Paul lost his head in Nero's Rome, and the evangelists elaborated on the importance of abstaining from sex.\n\nAnd toward the end of his ministry, toward the end of his life, as he was being led away to Golgotha to be hung on a cross, the gospel of Luke put these words in Jesus’ mouth. “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never gave suck!’\" (Luke 23:28-29).\n\nThen in the apocalypse of John, who was in exile from Rome, there was a song on Mt Zion, sung by 144,000 virgins. \"It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste\" (Revelations 14:4).\n\nBetzig, Laura. 2020. Every kingdom divided against itself: The evolution of Christianity. In J. Feierman and L. Oviedo, The Evolution of Religion. London: Routledge, pp. 271-284.", null ]

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[ "What does rhino conservation mean today?", null, "Over the past decade, the number of rhinos being poached has soared, pushing some species to the brink of extinction.\n\nNow, many people are wondering what is being done, and how they can get involved to protect one of the Earth’s oldest living mammals.\n\nThere are five surviving species of rhino, two of which (the black rhino and the white rhino) are native to Africa. The remaining three species (Javan, Sumatran, and Indian rhinos) are all native to Asia.\n\nFour of the five species are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.\n\nThe Javan, Sumatran, and black rhino are listed as critically endangered, while the Indian rhino is considered vulnerable. The white rhino is listed as near threatened, making it the only species that doesn’t qualify for threatened status.\n\nThe decline of African rhinos\n\nLess than 200 years ago, over one million rhinos roamed the African continent.\n\nBut, by the beginning of the twentieth century, relentless hunting by European settlers cut this number to less than 500,000.", null, "The population continued to decline steadily until the 1970s, when growing demand for rhino horns (a prized ingredient in several East-Asian traditional medicines) caused a dramatic spike in rhino poaching.\n\nDespite an international ban on the trade of rhino horns, poaching continues to this day.\n\nThe result? The creatures that once roamed much of the African continent are now mainly found in four countries – Zimbabwe, Kenya, Namibia and South Africa.\n\nWithin these countries, very few rhinos live outside of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries.\n\nSouth Africa, which has the largest population of rhinos, is arguably the most important country for rhino conservation.\n\nSince 2014, the number of poached rhinos has been steadily declining in South Africa.\n\nBut, neighbouring countries are reporting an increase in rhino deaths, indicating that poaching activities are moving elsewhere.\n\nWhy are rhinos a target?", null, "Aside from big game hunting, rhinos are primarily killed for their horns.\n\nRhino horns have been used in traditional medicines across parts of East Asia for centuries.\n\nThey are claimed to help treat various ailments such as fever, gout, food poisoning and headaches.\n\nThe horn is ground into a powder and dissolved into boiling water for consumption.\n\nThe horns are made of keratin and are structurally similar to a horse hoof, turtle beak, and even human fingernails.\n\nThe rhino horn is an important part of the animal’s anatomy. Rhinos use their horns for several purposes, such as protecting themselves or their young and digging for water.\n\nAnd much like our fingernails, rhino horns will continue to grow throughout the animal’s life.\n\nWhether or not rhino horn has any medicinal value is up for debate. Studies suggest that there is very little, if any, medical usage for rhino horns.\n\nStill, the placebo effect can be powerful, and as long as people believe that it’s working, the trade will continue until a better alternative is offered.\n\nIs dehorning the answer?", null, "GVI participants assist with the process of dehorning a black rhino at Karongwe Private Game Reserve in Limpopo.\n\nA rhino without a horn is monetarily worthless, so one way of attempting to deter poaching is removing the horn from the animal. This is known as dehorning.\n\nThe problem with dehorning is that the horn is not removed 100%. Just under 10% of the horn is left inside the head of the rhino, which means poachers can still make some money from that rhino.\n\nThere are other reasons why poachers may kill a dehorned rhino.\n\nThey track the animals using the same methods field guides do, and it may take several hours or even days of tracking to find the animal. For these poachers, time is money, so they sometimes kill dehorned rhinos so no time is wasted tracking an animal that has little value to them.\n\nThere doesn’t seem to be any one right or wrong way to deal with rhino poaching – or any other form of animal poaching, for that matter.\n\nBut, the support of communities bordering national parks and wildlife sanctuaries is essential in the effort to conserve the rhino.", null, "Rural villages around national park boundaries are often the starting point for poachers looking to access the parks without being noticed. They try to entice villagers into poaching with the promise of financial security.\n\nBut once these poachers have what they came for, they move on to the next village, leaving very little money behind, if any.\n\nBy working with and developing the communities bordering the parks and reserves, we can assist them to establish themselves as national park outposts – providing employment possibilities for years to come.\n\nThere is no one-size-fits-all solution to stop rhino poaching.\n\nThe main effort right now is to train more field guides and rangers.\n\nWell-trained guides combine their knowledge of the local area with their extensive skills in animal tracking to keep one step ahead of poaching operations.\n\nOnce they have identified high-risk areas, more can be done to protect the animals.\n\nPrograms such as GVI’s Field Guides Association of Southern Africa (FGASA) field guiding internship place emphasis on the anti-poaching aspect of the job, and produce highly qualified guides who can take their expertise to other parks and reserves around the world.", null, "Dogs have been man’s best friend for millennia – from protecting villages from wolves, to sniffing for explosives.\n\nThe amazing nose and tracking skills of a dog can be used in several ways for wildlife conservation.\n\nIn the right conditions, a dog can smell and track a human from up to one kilometre away. They can also be trained to smell and find weapons that may have been hidden.\n\nShould a dog catch the scent of a person, their high speed and agility allows them to chase off suspected poachers. The rangers and field guides can then track these individuals via other methods, such as helicopter, car, or even on foot.\n\nThe use of detection dogs (known as K-9 units) to deter and apprehend poachers has increased over the past few years.\n\nDespite being a low-tech solution, the use of dogs has proven incredibly successful.\n\nIn South Africa, dogs have been reported to have been involved in 80% of poaching-related arrests.\n\nCould technology be the key?", null, "The advancement of technology means that we have new ways to detect poaching attempts.\n\nDrone trials have been held at several national parks and wildlife reserves across Africa.\n\nAs 80% of poaching takes place at night, drones with night-vision cameras could prove useful for finding suspected poachers hiding among tall grass or in bushes.\n\nAlthough the results from the trials have been mixed, as technology continues to advance, there could still be a lot of potential for drone use – combined with other efforts – to stop poaching.\n\nWhat’s the outlook for rhinos?\n\nDespite a lot of negative media attention about the increase in rhino poaching, there is good news too.\n\nWith only 100 (a crude estimation) individuals left, the white rhino was on the brink of extinction just 100 years ago.\n\nToday, there are more than 17,000 white rhinos living in national parks and reserves, demonstrating just how effective wildlife conservation can be.\n\nSadly, the species most at risk of extinction are the Javan and Sumatran rhinos – with both species numbering fewer than 100 individuals in the wild.", null, "Although poaching continues to be a threat for these species, their main threat is habitat destruction – which is happening at a tremendous rate across Indonesia, the last stronghold for both of these species.\n\nWith such low numbers of both Javan and Sumatran rhinos, it’s easy to think they are doomed, but we shouldn’t give up hope just yet.\n\nThe Indian rhino was once reduced to a population of fewer than 100 individuals. Years of hard work protecting their habitats and preventing poaching has helped the species recover to more than 3,600.\n\nIf you want to join the cause and assist in conserving rhinos, there are several things you can do right now.\n\nThe expertise and skills of well-trained field guides still seems to be the best way to deter rhino poaching for now. So if you’re looking to begin an exciting new career, why not head to our website and sign up for the FGASA field guide internship?\n\nFind out more about GVI’s volunteer and internship opportunities where you can contribute towards rhino poaching awareness, and make an impact in rhino conservation today." ]

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[ "I was watching ABC digital TV last night when I happened to notice that the home theatre receiver was indicating that the incoming digital audio was 5.0 channels, rather than the usual 2.0. To double check, I recorded a bit and transferred it over to my computer.", null, "Remember, ABC TV is unusual in delivering two audio streams. There is an two channel MPEG2 stream at 256kbps, and a high bitrate Dolby Digital stream. This runs at 448kbps (the maximum provided on DVDs, although Dolby Digital actually supports up to 640kbps) and last time I checked was in two channel format.\n\nBut now, I see, it is delivering 5.0 channels (same bitrate). You won’t notice this unless you have made your set top box default to the Dolby Digital audio track, if available.\n\nOf course, Dolby Digital 5.0 is merely a delivery system. Whether the sound will be surround or not depends entirely on what is packed into those five channels. The show I checked, for example, was a quite forgettable late night movie called The Wild and the Willing. Forgettable except that it was the debut of a number of fine British actors, including John Hurt.\n\nThe packing of the stream may be five channel, but of course the content was only mono.\n\nThere is one problem with this. I routinely have the input of my receiver to which the set top box is connected switched to Dolby Pro Logic II decoding, so as to extract any surround content that may be encoded into the two channel source. But this won’t work on 5.0 (or 5.1) signals. I doubt that it will with any receivers. So for those shows, it’s necessary to switch back to the MPEG2 audio.\n\nThis entry was posted in Audio, DTV. Bookmark the permalink." ]

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[ null, "Spanish island of La Palma has become a tourist hotspot only recently. This green island can't offer lots of developed beaches or luxurious resorts, but it’s known after its unique natural and historical landmarks. The island has earned its unofficial name for a reason, as it’s widely covered with beautiful wildlife forests. There are also beautiful beaches covered with black volcanic sand for those who prefer to stay near the coastline.\nAuthentic traditions, festivals and lifestyle of La Palma Island inhabitants\nThe inhabitants of the island, as the rest of the people of the Canary Islands, have different mentality from the Spanish. There are two most important words on archipelago: tranquilo and …\n\nnational park is located in the very center of the island and is the main landmark of La Palma. There's a sleeping volcano there; its eruption has created the island more than a thousand of years ago. Volcano crater is more than 2,000 meter deep and is covered with thick pine forest; unusual stone forms create unique charming effect. There are lots of hiking routes running across the park, while viewing points provide an excellent view over surrounding landscapes. The information center with show-rooms at the park arranges daily educational events for park guests.\nRoque de los Muchachos\n\nis the highest point of La Palma; it’s known after observatory of the same name located on its top. Opened in 1985, it is the one of the biggest and modern in Northern hemisphere. The biggest European telescope is set up there, while nature creates perfect conditions to study stars. This large observatory resembles a futuristic complex; it regularly hosts important international events. Copyright www.orangesmile.com\nExcursion over cultural sights of La Palma Island - 'must visit' points of interest\nThe central city of the island, which has the main historical value, is Santa Cruz. Now it is a not very big settlement with narrow streets and Colonial architecture. But during the times of …\n\necoshpere reserve is another point of tourist's interest. It is located in the northern part of the island and regarded as the world's important place. It features unique laurel-cherry forests with rare plants growing within its area. Nowadays the park is open for public access and experienced guides hold interesting daily excursions.", null, "archeological area is highly recommended for fans of history. According to scientists, that’s where the very first island habitants have settled down. Petroglyphs on the cliffs acknowledge that, but their meaning is still a mystery. La Zarza area is probably the most interesting on the island and there are lots of legends and scientific theories associated with it. Belmaco\n\narcheological area is also extremely popular among tourists. Scientists found there ten caves decorated with rock engraving. The interesting fact is that it was the very first finding of such sort on Canary Islands, which was made back in 18th century.\nYour active city break in La Palma Island. Attractions, recreation and entertainment - best places to spend your day and night here\nLa Palma offers the travelers a lot of opportunities for active holidays. The easiest way to explore the island, which also doesn’t require special training, is probably tracking …\n\nOpen\nThere are active volcanos on the island as well; those are Teneguía\n\n. The most recent eruption happened in 1971, but nowadays hundreds of tourists visit both volcanos every day. There are also lots of historical and architectural landmarks in the capital city of Santa Cruz de La Palma\n\n. It’s an excellent place to walk around the scenic streets with unique history and admire lovely old villas and fountains.", null, "La Palma never ceases to amaze fans of beach recreation. Puerto Naos remains the main beach resort of the region. This is also the location of the largest beach on the island. The beach is very unusual – it is covered with black volcanic sand. In recent years, it has turned into a popular entertainment center in the open air. The beach is the location of numerous restaurants, cafes, and shops. To the service of vacationers, there are water sports centers and beach inventory rental offices. This resort will definitely please its guests with a great selection of hotels. Naturally, the most high-class and expensive ones are located close to the beach.\nBest beaches and recreation areas around La Palma Island\nBeaches are spread all over La Palma, while the most popular one is situated in the eastern part of the island. That is Los Cancajos beach with number of luxurious hotels and entertainment …\n\nOpen\nTourists craving for more private and peaceful resorts will be genuinely pleased with the resort of Charco Verde that is located nearby. This resort also has a picturesque sandy beach that is quite flat and, therefore, the sand is always warm there. That is the reason why numerous travelers with small kids. Fans of quality tobacco will be also delighted with their visit to La Palma. There is an old tobacco factory that is still working and an adjacent thematic museum that is named the House of Tobacco. Here visitors can always buy quality cigars and locally produced accessories.\n\nThis guide to iconic landmarks and sights of La Palma Island is protected by the copyright law. You can re-publish this content with mandatory attribution: direct and active hyperlink to www.orangesmile.com.\nLa Palma Island - guide chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9\nReference information\nMap of all parks\n\nNational and city parks around La Palma Island\n♥ Natural Park 'Cumbre Vieja' , 8.6 km from the center. On the map\n\n♥ World Heritage Site 'Garajonay National Park' , 82.8 km from the center. On the map\n\nSearch touristic sites on the map of La Palma Island\n\nLa Gomera\nTourists will find large choice of national parks and nature reserves and other protected places. The island is home to various rare animals. For example, the giant Canary lizard belongs to main endemics of the island. Today this animal is close to extinction. Among other sights of La Gomera are Columbus House, Mirador de Roce Blanco Observation Area, San Marcos Church, San ... Open »\nEl Hierro Island\nHikers should definitely go to the Cape Orchilla which is a layer of lava. This is where the old lighthouse, the most westerly lighthouse in Spain, is situated. More recently, Cape Orchilla has been literally believed to be the end of the world, there was held the prime meridian. The town of El Pinar is ideal to learn about the culture and traditions of the indigenous ... Open »\nLos Gigantes\nLos Gigantes is a town located on the west coast of one of the Canary Islands - Tenerife. The landscape of this region is quite unusual as the town occupies a flat part of the coast. This surprisingly flat area is located at the foot of giant rock formations also named Los Gigantes. Actually the name of the city comes from the name of these rocks. These majestic cliffs are also ... Open »\nCanary Islands\nThe Canary Islands are home to majestic Mount Teide. The most curious travelers can climb to the volcano and enjoy panoramic views there. Another popular activity is high-seas fishing. Every day, yacht trips for tourists are arranged; you can go fishing at the daytime or at night. It’s worth to tell a little bit more about the night entertainment program. There are lots of ... Open »\nPlaya de las Americas\nThe resort will also please the fans of international cuisine. You will find various restaurants and cafes simply everywhere. There are several facilities that specialize exclusively in Canarian dishes, so these are simply best places to try delicious seafood and the main national dish – the rabbit stew. On the territory of Playa Las Americas are located eight ... Open »\n\nAll about La Palma Island, Spain - sightseeings, attractions, touristic spots, architecture, history, culture and cuisine. Prepare your trip together with OrangeSmile.com - find out the 'must see' things in La Palma Island, which places to visit, which excursions to take, where the breathtaking views are waiting for you. Planning your trip with this travel guide will help your to get the most out of La Palma Island in few days." ]

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[ "A deep-time explanation for understanding the diversity of biodiversity patterns\n\nThe idiosyncrasies among taxa that emerge in community-level studies often perplex researchers, but building hypotheses for them may help develop generalities in this field.\nPaola Laiolo\nResearch Scientist, Research Unit of Biodiversity (CSIC, Oviedo University, Principality of Asturias)\nFollow\nLike Liked by Gao Jianguo\n0\n\nThe physiology and life history of organisms, and the way they interact with the environment, are the result of biological evolution, i.e. changes in inherited traits over successive generations in populations of species. This process requires time, thus organisms that are phylogenetically close, sharing a recent common ancestor, look and behave more similarly than phylogenetically distant ones. Resemblance may be maintained for long times, depending on the trait, and involve emergent properties such as speciation rate.\n\nThe assembly of ecological communities is influenced by these conserved properties. The environment determines which species are able to establish and persist in a given community on the basis of heritable traits, and local communities are subsets of larger species pools. Therefore, if closely related clades share part of their evolutionary history, should their communities display similar diversity responses, such as similar species richness shifts in response to environmental changes? To answer this question, we analysed whether dissimilarities in the responses of local ensembles to environmental conditions were related to the phylogenetic distance between the higher level clades that generate these patterns. We analysed dissimilarities within three major taxa—lichens, birds, and insects—and selected the taxonomic resolution of the family to define “higher level clades”, since families correspond to guilds with functional significance. Thus, in birds we compared the diversity patterns of woodpeckers, of buntings, etc.; in insects those of grasshoppers, of bees, etc.; in lichens those of jelly lichens, of parmelioid lichens, etc..\n\nThese patterns were studied in a regional assemblage in Northern Spain, along a gradient spanning from the sea level to the highest peaks of the Cantabrian Mountains. We compiled presence-absence data for species-rich and common families, as these had to form ensembles and be widespread enough to analyse spatial patterns. We analysed how, within these families, species richness shifted along elevation, the elevation at which the richest communities were found, and species replacement across distance, elevation and type of habitats. We also quantified biological properties of member species (body plan, dispersal, interactions) and families (richness of regional species pools). We then calculated pairwise dissimilarities between families and tested for their correspondence with phylogenetic distance, expressed as divergence time between families, and for the correspondence between dissimilarities in diversity patterns and biological properties.\n\nWe found correspondences: the most closely related families resembled each other in the relationship of species richness with elevation (alpha diversity) and in species replacement with elevation (beta diversity). These families retained similar body plans and interactions, which in turn correlated with diversity patterns. As an example, the way in which species richness changed along elevation was associated with the incidence of interactions with autotrophs (plants, green algae). These findings demonstrate that certain traits are associated with the persistence of community patterns over macroevolutionary time.", null, "A deep-time explanation for understanding the diversity of biodiversity patterns\n\nThe idiosyncrasies among taxa that emerge in community-level studies often perplex researchers, but building hypotheses for them may help develop generalities in this field." ]

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[ "Assistance part of broader CITGO Caring for Our Coast Initiative", null, "Marking the start of the 2015 hurricane season and commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, CITGO Petroleum Corporation joined America's WETLAND Foundation as it announced new restoration efforts in Lafourche Parish during its Toast to the Coast celebration on June 1. The annual event honors individuals and businesses making a difference in the fight to save Louisiana's coast.\n\nTo support America's WETLAND Foundation and its upcoming work, CITGO has donated $250,000. This funding will support a shoreline restoration effort along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Lafourche Parish, that seeks to end coastal erosion through the use of green technology.\n\n“CITGO’s ‘Caring for Our Coast’ environmental conservation program helps combat coastal land loss along the Gulf Coast. The company’s resources and volunteers have supported numerous conservation events from New Orleans to Corpus Christi,” remarked Lake Charles Mayor Randy Roach during the Toast to the Coast celebration. “Now, with the new hurricane season upon us, we hope that the projects that CITGO is supporting will help bring greater attention across the private sector to the good that can result from public private partnerships.”\n\nWhen presenting the donation, Rafael Gómez, CITGO vice president of strategic shareholder relations, government and public affairs, said: “For more than 80 years, CITGO has played an integral role in the Gulf Coast community, and we are dedicated to protecting the natural environment here for future generations. He added that: “This region is not only where we do business, it is the place we call home – which is why we have continued to invest in the area in the 10 years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita first tragically struck.”\n\nThe support of America's WETLAND Foundation is part of CITGO’s larger Caring for Our Coast initiative, a series of programs extending the company's ongoing commitment to environmental protection and restoration leading up to the 10th anniversary of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in August and September of this year. After the storms, CITGO was one of the first private organizations to take part in relief efforts, providing funding and fuel to non-governmental organizations and first responders and assisting in evacuating citizens out of harm's way. The operations at the CITGO Lake Charles refinery were brought back online in record time so that fuel and other desperately-needed products could be provided to the region, as well.\n\nFor more information on CITGO’s environmental efforts in commemoration of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, go to www.CITGOCaringforOurCoast.com.\n\nAbout CITGO\nCITGO, based in Houston, is a refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. The company is owned by CITGO Holding, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. For more information, visit www.CITGO.com." ]

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[ "A new ad from The Committee to Elect Janet S. Anderson in PA’s 49th Senate District will begin to air on both broadcast and network television in Erie Wednesday.\n\nThe 30-second ad focuses on Anderson’s dedication to job creation in northwestern PA. Anderson points to her almost three-decade-long career in economic development, throughout which she worked as a staffer in the offices of both former Gov. Tom Ridge and retiring Sen. Jane Earll (R-Erie), whom she hopes to replace.\n\nDuring the ad, the state Senate candidate said, “Everyone running for office talks about creating jobs. The difference is that I’ve spent 26 years of my career helping local businesses create those jobs. Children need to be able to come back to Erie and make a living equal to what they would make in other places.”", null, "Anderson's ad touts her 26 years of experience creating jobs and reaching across the aisle to work with other politicians.\n\nAnderson was the first state candidates to appear in a television ad this cycle when her campaign released a 30-second bio spot in May. Anderson used her airtime in that ad, as well as in this most recent ad, to emphasize her desire to pull away from partisan politics.\n\n“I love to help people. It doesn’t matter what party they’re affiliated with. You get the job done.”\n\nIn the 49th district, which is seen as a top pick-up opportunity for Senate Dems., Anderson’s advertised commitment to bipartisanship may be vital to her success.\n\nIn July, a poll conducted by PoliticsPA revealed that our readers believe the face-off between Anderson and Dem. Sean Wiley will be the second most competitive state Senate race of the cycle, following the race for 37th district seat." ]

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[ null, "Rumors are pointing to Apple holding an event in March to announce several new products, with the iPhone maker expected to unveil its long-rumored AirTags item trackers, updated iPads, AirPods, and more. Here’s what Apple could announce in March, and how they might do it.\n\nFirst things first, is Apple holding an event in March? Leaker Jon Prosser claimed last year that Apple would host an event on Tuesday, March 16th to unveil new products, with so-called “Twitter leakers” backing up Prosser last month by alleging a March 16th event was as good as confirmed.\n\nHowever, reliable Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman has said otherwise, claiming Apple has no plans to host an event on March 16th, which raises the possibility that instead of an event, we may see Apple announce its new products via a press release online, or simply hosting an event on a different date this month.\n\nWhatever way they make the announcement, it is expected that Apple will announce the following:\n\nAirTags have been rumored for almost two years. The Tile-like item trackers are expected to attach to valuables such as wallets, backpacks, keys, and more, allowing users to track their belongings in the Find My app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, that will notify users as soon as they become separated from their valuables, with the exception of when items have been left behind at a pre-defined “Safe Location”, such as at the user’s home or workplace.\n\nWe’ve seen AirTags shown in a leaked pairing video, with Jon Prosser claiming the devices will be “just a tad larger than a bottle cap,” with Apple set to offer a “keychain that has a little leather pouch on it that you can just slip your AirTag into.”\n\nPricing for AirTags is unknown, although rumors have pointed to the trackers being sold in packs of three.\n\nApple is also rumored to be readying an update to the AirPods and AirPods Pro. Reports have suggested the next-generation AirPods may feature a similar design to the high-end AirPods Pro, featuring a smaller stem and replaceable silicone ear tips, touch controls that replace the single and double-tap controls on the current AirPods, and more.", null, "According to a report which shared what is said to be leaked images of the rumored new AirPods, the new earbuds will likely lack Active Noise Cancelation found on the high-end Pro model, and that the battery life will remain the same as the current-generation model.\n\nRumors on what to expect from the next-gen AirPods Pro have been few and far between, with a sketchy report last year suggesting that the earbuds could feature light sensors, which could be used for health monitoring features that could allow for the earbuds to monitor heart rate, step counts, and health conditions, as well as to detect head movements.\n\nMarch could see the arrival of an updated iPad Pro, expected to feature a new mini-LED technology that will offer the device the same quality display as if it were OLED but with less power consumption.\n\nAlleged CAD renders of Apple’s two new iPad Pros leaked in January, suggesting that the new hardware won’t feature any major design changes, pointing to the mini-LED display being one of the main differentiators between it and the previous model.", null, "Rumors have suggested Apple could upgrade the WiFi + Cellular model to support 5G, but no evidence has confirmed this.\n\nRumors have also suggested a new iPad mini could be on the cards for a March launch, featuring a larger 8.4-inch display with the same Touch ID Home button and design as the current model.\n\nApple’s long-awaited iMac redesign is said to be nearing, with the discontinuation of the iMac Pro suggesting that we may see new iMac hardware launching this month.\n\nThe next-generation iMac is said to be “one of the biggest visual updates to any Apple product this year,” with a full redesign with new color options, an edge-to-edge display, major performance improvements, and more.\n\nConcepts last week showed how Apple’s next iMac could look, with Jon Prosser claiming the machine will be offered in Silver, Space Gray, Green, Sky Blue, and Rose Gold color options, noting that while the iMac won’t feature Face ID as previously rumored, the all-in-one will be a mix between the Pro Display XDR and iPad Pro, of course running on Apple Silicon over Intel.", null, "Apple hasn’t confirmed yet if it will make any announcements this month, so be sure to download the theapplepost.com app from the App Store for all the latest Apple news, leaks, and rumors from The Apple Post.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Local author Marya Repko encapsulates information from her previous Brief History books but adds much more as she summarizes the role of women in the settling of South Florida from the east to west coasts and around Lake Okeechobee.\n\nAfter describing the hardships of pioneer life, the book cites examples of how women took a leading role on environmental issues, even before they could vote. There are numerous historic photos, a timeline, a list of further reading, and brief biographies of some of the key people. The book provides a great overview of how rough it was for pioneer women in South Florida: ever persistent mosquitos, eking out an existence, the loneliness and hardships faced by women who not only endured but prospered, and in doing so created the Florida we know today.\n\nWe owe a lot to these strong women and this book, with a glimpse into their lives, opens a door to discovering Florida’s rich history. Craig R. Woodward, Chairman Collier County Historical & Archaeological Preservation Board.\n\nMarya Repko grew up in Hadlyme, Connecticut, but lived most of her adult life in Europe as a software engineer. After retirement, she moved to Everglades City, Florida, where her first book “A Brief History of the Everglades City Area” has sold thousands of copies. Other brief histories of Deaconess Harriet Bedell, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the Fakahatchee, and Sanibel have been well received, as have the children’s version of the Everglades and Sanibel books. Marya is president of the Everglades Society for Historic Preservation and newsletter editor for the Friends of Fakahatchee. “Women in the Everglades” may be ordered online at: www.ecity-publishing.com." ]

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[ null, "Demons are preparing to launch the Final War to destroy humanity.\n\nCan one young woman wielding the Sword of Jesus ensure our survival and redemption?\n\nWill she lose both her love and her soul in the process?\n\nAvailable at Amazon in Paperback and Kindle formats\n\nJonathon Tait, whose demon-enhanced 170-year-old life has helped make him the richest man in the world, secretly renounces his alliance with demons in order to save his twins and redeem himself in the eyes of the two women he loved and lost. Jonathon has visions that his beautiful college-aged adopted daughter, Jennifer Ainsley, may be the key to humanity's survival and works with an underground movement to fight back against both the demons and the human leadership that is guiding our civilization towards total annihilation.\n\nCan Jennifer wield the Sword of Jesus to fulfill her destiny even as the planet hurtles towards its destruction? Is she mankind's only hope and can Jennifer save everyone that she loves; including her destined soul mate Andrew Walker, or are we all doomed?\n\nJennifer Ainsley: The Final Demon War is a gripping, fast-paced fantasy/horror novel grounded in the contemporary world. The characters are extremely likable and engaging, and a great deal of humor is successfully incorporated into the book, despite its often grim and macabre themes. There are several action packed tour-de-force chapters including “Scenes from the End” and “Kasey and Tracey’s Amazing Adventure”.\n\nThe book deftly tackles issues of greed, humanity's neglect for its weakest members, the race for power among individuals and nations, and the ability of love and courage to transcend personal weaknesses. It is a tale that combines horror and fantasy to tell a story of love, loss, sacrifice and redemption. It is the first chapter of an exciting new trilogy that deserves to find a wider audience.\n\nHeather couldn’t believe she was going to die in front of her peacefully sleeping twins, who were oblivious to the unspeakable acts occurring in their nursery. These infants, this life, were all she had wanted, and in those lonely nights before sleep overtook her, she admitted to herself that she had been groomed for this since birth. She had been groomed to be a beautiful, nurturing wife to a wealthy and powerful man and she had been groomed to care for his children and teach them to take their rightful place in the world while she also maintained this lovely home—with a slew of maids, servants, and other staff of course. She threw the best dinner parties and had a special banquet hall included in the new Napa Valley estate just for that purpose. She knew all the right people to invite, and they raised all the right money for all the right charities.\n\nYet here she was in midair, swaying back and forth, seeing herself reflected in the rectangular Craftsman-style floor mirror she personally had picked out for the nursery. The demon Palvakia held Heather by her strawberry-blonde hair, a mane her husband Jonathon Tait called “gorgeously luxurious,” while her lithe and toned, almost split-in-two body, spilled her blood and guts onto the new Berber carpet (a lovely light blue she also had personally picked out for the nursery). How important Heather had thought every design detail of this room was. She had placed so much importance on the mundane materials that now meant nothing. She was escaping into the blackness now, the dark abyss whose passage she hoped ended with a consummating light. Was there light beyond death and beyond this horror?\n\nIt was insane, Heather thought, that her husband, the man she loved and admired, was watching this scene unfold with an expressionless face as Mordock, a repulsive and despised demon, stood next to him. Mordock was in human form right now, unlike the demon who had torn her in half, but Heather still felt the evil lurking underneath. She had tried to banish Mordock from their lives and had pleaded with her husband to stand up to him. Yet Jonathon had done nothing to remove him from their lives or to stop Mordock from carrying out her murder. If there was a light at the end, how could the Keeper of Light cause this to happen or not prevent it in the first place?\n\nAnd what of the twins? Alexander and Sophia were so beautiful and full of life, with old-soul eyes, even as infants. My lovely babies, Heather thought with her last bit of consciousness. Who will keep you from harm? Can your father somehow be your guardian angel? Will he succeed with you where he failed with me? The darkness with the light behind it is approaching. Will I see you in heaven? How long will I have to wait? Hopefully a long, long time…\n\nHeather took her last breaths just as Palvakia began to devour her. To her horror, though, death did not come instantaneously. A morbid trick of the demons is to keep their victims on the cusp of dying so they can witness themselves being eaten. Heather couldn’t even scream as the pain ripped through the ever-decreasing parts of her body.\n\nWhen Palvakia was finished, not one ounce of the physical being that once had been Heather Tait was left in the room. Even the carpet was clean…and the twins continued to sleep peacefully.", null, "Sidney Stone is a hiker, deer whisperer and non-pretentious wine connoisseur. An addicted reviewer on Yelp, he is also creator of affordable housing (although technically he is homeless part-time), thinks The Replacements are the best band of the Eighties and loves to boost his LinkedIn count with people he doesn't know.\n\nHe lives in both Northern and Southern California while constantly traveling to Orange County to visit his son, who can now beat his father at ping pong and chess rather easily (and is charmingly arrogant while doing it). A graduate of UC Irvine and Pepperdine University, Sidney wishes he chose at least one university to attend that had a college football team to root for.\n\nThe first scene Sidney thought of for Jennifer Ainsley: The Final Demon War included a rather large massacre (take that for what it is worth). However, inspired by the works of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Clive Barker; the book's violence is offset by dark humor and deep human emotion just like in real life where Sidney's darkness is offset by creatively placed sarcasm and an overwrought romanticism. For example, while Jennifer Ainsley: The Final Demon War is a Fantasy-Horror novel, Sidney also still tears up at the end of both Field of Dreams and An Officer and a Gentleman." ]

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[ null, "Known for its original and emotional death/doom metal Swallow The Sun reached its peak with their magnus opus “Songs of the North I, II and III”.\n\nAlthough this follow up album walks a slightly different path it doesn’t mean that this follow up album has nothing to offer. On the contrary: “When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light” is loaded with emotion and variety. Especially emotion is being shown here. This seen the terrible fact that writer/guitarist Juah Raivio has lost his partner. Spending many months creating this work all the emotional struggles such as grief, pain and loss are expressed on this album. Admirable that Raivio and his comrades choose this path which makes it an introspective yet intriguing album.\n\nAlthough I mentioned death/doom metal “When A Shadow Is Forced Into Light” is much more soft, restrained and melodic in comparison with its predecessors. It sounds like mixture of gothic rock/metal combined with small doses of doom, death and a pinch of black metal. It reminds a little of later work of Anathema and even Alcest.\n\nOpener and title track “When A Shadow Is Forced Into Light” opens very melodic and melancholic and tends to pick up a little more aggression when some vocal screaming start to take place. It feels that both the dark side and the light side of Swallow The Sun are expressed in quite a lengthy song.\n\n“Crimson Glory” is even longer and reminds me a lot of the previous mentioned bands. Great moody keyboard intro, rich emotions and soft rock elements creates goose bumps on my arms.\n\n“Firelight” and “Upon The Water” starts very slow and melancholy building it up to an emotional outburst of black metal before returning to a more gothic rock based ending.\n\n“Stone Wings” reminds me a lot of the 80’s doom and gloom goth rock music although injected with black and death elements, while “Clouds On Your Side” reminds me of Paradise Lost without losing its own identity.\n\nI am not going to explain all the songs on this album. This album will grow on you after more than five spins. “When A Shadow Is Forced Into Light” isn’t an aggressive album. It is a very melancholy, melodic and emotional piece of work. Craft fully and carefully build. Sometimes fragile, sometimes very powerful. An intriguing album which combines multiple genres. I hope this album has some therapeutic value for mister Raivio and helps him overcome his loss. And for you as a listener: dwell in all the melancholy this album has to offer. It certainly won’t disappoint.\n\nTrack list:\n1. When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light\n2. The Crimson Crown\n3. Firelights\n4. Upon The Water\n5. Stone Wings\n6. Clouds On Your Side\n7. Here On The Black Earth\n8. Never Left" ]

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[ "Fascism's Intimacy By Dora Bleu Is Out Now!!!", null, "Through the echoes of an acoustic guitar and vocal expressions, Dora Bleu explores intimacy as the place where the capitalist war state replenishes itself. Her work is neither fully compositional nor improvisational. The songs follow an inner sense of narrative time, and are simultaneously tonal and atonal. The guitar is sparse, tense, atmospheric, suggestive of without enacting melodies, sometimes droning or dissonant. The vocals contribute to contrasting compositions filled with stark silences and bent notes. The songs intend to violate the concept of genre, to erupt trauma within storytelling, and to evoke vulnerable and dreamlike states.\n\nDora has two sets of recordings with Istanbul/Crete resident electric oud player Periklis Tsoukalas (BaBa ZuLa); the first, Cloned From Ash, appeared on Vienna's Feathered Coyote label in autumn of 2018. Dora and Periklis are also currently working on a second set of recordings together. Other past releases include a full length with Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Sam Shalabi (Shalabi Effect, Land of Kush) via Tequila Sunrise and Fire Museum and another on the Nostress Netlabel with Olga Nosova and Alexei Borisov (Notchnoy Prospekt).\n\nFascism’s Intimacy on Drawing Room Records is Dora’s most recent release and is supported and infused by the work of American guitarist Marc Ribot.", null, "Speaking in tongues is spiritual communication that is both celestial and infernal. Its power is neither wholly human nor otherworldly, and its beautifully positive or damningly negative results lay somewhere in between with the earthly side never having full access. It is not for the faint of heart nor for the unbelieving, but used appropriately, its captured potency is a most effective form of communication.\n\nThe music of Dora Bleu is an apex of the creative form of this practice. It is hauntingly intense and complexly grounded for definite, but its gorgeous enraptured vibrancy transfers the aural senses to gloriously new and unseen colors. It is a heavy and shimmering trip most worthy of taking again and again. Mortal forms of communications have yet to create words to best illustrate this awesome flight.\n\nWith Fascism’s Intimacy, Dora brings this artistic ceremony to the new world to hear and experience. It’s a gorgeous blend of both new and old coupled with songwriting and experimentation. Canonical artists such as Ruth Ann Friedman, Linda Perhacs, and Christina Carter will immediately come to mind alongside many other guitar greats with a list too long to publish here. In addition, the talented American guitarist Marc Ribot provides backing and potion to the album. It’s definitely most required listening.", null, null, "Mastered by Amy Dragon for Telegraph Mastering and pressed on 180-gram vinyl, the LP comes in a gorgeous full-color sleeve accompanied by a full-color inner-sleeve and 11x22 fold out poster.\n\nAll of the artwork is collaboration between E Genevieve Williams and Dora, and it is mesmerizingly unforgettable.\n\nA digital release is also available.", null, null, "Sample and Order Below…" ]

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[ "How You Can Actually Make a Difference in the World", null, "Everyone has their shit to deal with. Some use it to make a dent in the universe.\n\nAbout a week before my wedding in 2001, I was sitting at the hospital bedside of my dear friend and bridesmaid, Sam Perkins, who was receiving a large cocktail of chemotherapy drugs in an effort to rid her of the Hodgkin’s disease that had returned to her 30-year-old body. To say I was filled with mixed emotions would be a wild understatement. Here I was, a week before my wedding, the most exciting day of my life, filled with sadness that my dear PerkySam was facing uncertainty that she’d even make it to my wedding, let alone to the rest of her life.\n\nI desperately, selfishly wanted Sam’s doctors to give her the green light to leave the hospital in time to make it to the wedding. She was one hell of a laugh at any great party, and we all knew it just wouldn’t be the same without her. Yet as she tried to make light of the fact that her mobile chemo bag would be the perfect accessory for her bridesmaid’s dress, I couldn’t fight off my powerful feelings of sadness and guilt. It just wasn’t fair.", null, "And at that moment Sam looked at me and said, “Sissy, everyone has their shit to deal with. This just happens to be mine.” It’s taken me years of aging to truly understand the reality of that statement, and the other week as I was taking a well-needed summer vacation, it took on a whole new meaning as I was reading my advance copy of the new book The Power of Onlyness – Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent The World. by Nilofer Merchant.\n\nYou see, Sam may have died at the age of 33, but instead of using her illness as a reason to back down from life, to feel like the victim, she embraced the experience that only she was having to face the prospect of death, to recognize the sheer power of truly living in the moment, to spread her new understanding to those around her so that we could all benefit from embracing her worry-free “Fuck it. Let’s do it!” approach to life. Sam not only taught many around her how to live, she also explored and embraced non-traditional alternatives to her medical care. She taught us all about mindfulness and meditation years before it became trendy and became an advocate for the pioneering work of the Gawler Foundation in Australia, spreading awareness of their mission to improve recovery outcomes for cancer patients.\n\nWhat I now understand is that Sam’s “Onlyness” came from finding meaning in her powerful life and death experience and using her unique skills as a trained doctor, a brilliantly witty writer and speaker, and a globally connected friend to so many people to spread her own personal life mission. The funds that have been raised in her name since she passed are all contributing to the wonderful “dent” she has made on the world.\n\n“Each of us has a spot in this world that only we stand in that is a function of our distinct history, experiences, visions and hopes.”\n\nThe idea of “Onlyness” is wildly powerful for those of us who dream of making a positive impact in our community or in the world like Sam did. Each of us has a spot in this world that only we stand in that is a function of our distinct history, experiences, visions and hopes. And now that the internet has liberated ideas to spread and scale through networks rather than hierarchies, the power to make a difference is no longer determined by our status, as much as our sheer force of effort to rally and inspire the like-minded “denters” around us. I can only imagine the kind of impact Sam might have had today, 15 years after her death, with the tools of social media and technology at her fingertips.", null, "Now that I am in my mid-40’s, I find with every passing conversation that there is a lot more “shit to deal with” out there than I was even aware of in my 20’s. We may all post the perfect beach holiday photos on Instagram and tout our latest great work achievements on LinkedIN, but behind those rosy scenes are where the real conversations happen. It seems to me that life and career doesn’t get less stressful with age. Kids grow up and present new challenges; mortgages need to be paid; some marriages fail in mid-life; friends get fired or overlooked at what they thought was the peak of their career – these are just some of the laundry list of challenges that we are all facing in mid-life. And it’s easy to slip into that anxiety that creeps up on you that you’re getting older, likely feeling less “extreme” and potentially less relevant.\n\n“…adversity is a greater launch pad for powerful impact than anything. When challenged, we are often forced to find the fight in us that we didn’t even know we had.”\n\nBut it’s never too late to unleash your own potential and become Extreme YOU. The wonderful stories in Nilofer Merchant’s great book remind me that the mistakes, the failures, and the tough challenges are very often the doorway to unlocking new growth and potential impact. If there’s one thing that inspires me the most, it’s the realization that adversity is a greater launch pad for powerful impact than anything. When challenged, we are often forced to find the fight in us that we didn’t even know we had.\n\nAs you get ready for the autumn months when the days are shorter, the work seems harder, and your worries are not erased by the lazy days of summer vacation, remember that those worries might be the key to unlocking your own kind of Onlyness. Face them head on – fuck it, EMBRACE them – because you might be about to make your dent on the world.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Television host Mike Rowe premiered his new program \"How America Works\" on Monday on Fox Business, opening another chapter in the connection he has forged with America's tradesmen and essential workers.\n\nIn \"How America Works\", the Baltimore native chronicles many of the essential jobs like logging, utility work and those in the infrastructure sector – many of which were brought to the fore during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNo stranger to the trades, the premiere of the newest project for the longtime \"Dirty Jobs\" host, \"Deadliest Catch\" narrator and founder of the nonprofit MikeRoweWORKS centered on the familiar state of Alaska – albeit 2,800 miles east of Dutch Harbor.\n\n\"Lumber: the cornerstone commodity that frames our everyday lives – and keeps the country as we know it heated, furnished and a whole lot more,\" Rowe said in opening the program.\n\nHe noted that it takes, grit, expertise with large and unwieldy machinery and steel nerves to execute a successful lumber operation in America's vast wilderness: a dynamic he remarked was not unlike that of the crab fishermen of the Bering Sea.", null, "Papac Alaska Logging in Prince of Wales, Alaska, is one such company, Rowe said – as his crew chronicled a day in the life of a lumberjack and of other Papac workers in the thousands of acres of \"merch trees\" on the island across the Inside Passage from Ketchikan.\n\nThe spiking commodity demand and ensuing price increases of late have led to a crunch for Papac's workers, Rowe said.\n\nThe workers were trying to beat the clock on a sudden order for 1,000 tons of extra timber for a construction supplier – as a barge would be docking in only 12 hours to pick up the cargo.\n\nMissing that barge could mean a loss in the company's $150,000 commission\n\nDon Schmidt's workday on a shovel logger later ground to a halt as a mystery noise caught his attention as he meticulously gathered some of the necessary timber.\n\nAfter some time diagnosing what the problem could be, he quickly replaced a clogged fuel filter to continue on with his work.\n\nElsewhere on Prince of Wales Island, Joey Linderborg was hard at work as a rigging slinger – collecting timber in an area too steep and treacherous for equipment like Schmidt's.\n\nHe skillfully rigged cables to various logs and signaled to another worker out of sight atop the hillside to pull the logs up after he \"choked\" them.\n\nA 2020 move by then-President Donald Trump helped lead to new speculation in the area, as the Florida Republican opened more than 9 million acres in the Tongass National Forest – which extends from Juneau to the southern tip of the Last Frontier – to logging and development.\n\nIn July however, the Biden administration signaled it would ask the Department of Agriculture – which oversees the U.S. Forest Service – to \"repeal or replace\" the rule and essentially restore the protections that were in effect from about 2001 until Trump's recision." ]

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[ null, "The right to vote may be one that many of us Americans take for granted today (much like trying on shoes at a store—see last year’s post for Black History Month); and yet, it also seems to inspire a certain awe in our children. Or at least it did in me when I was young. My mother would take me along when she voted in major elections. We’d wait in line, hand in hand, and then part of me would cringe in betrayal when at last it was her turn and she would pull the curtain closed around the voting booth, leaving her on one side and me on the other. I would strain to see her shadow beneath the curtain, trying to make heads or tails of what she was doing in there. “Can’t I come in with you?” I’d lament. “Isn’t it unsafe to leave me out here all alone?” I’d try. But her answer was always the same: “Voting is private. What I do in here is nobody’s business but my own.” That night, I’d try harassing my father: “But you did vote for who you said you were going to, right?” “That’s for me to know,” my dad would reply, the corners of his mouth turning up slightly.\n\nEach time I vote, I think of the reverence that I attached to the voting process from such an early age. I wear my “I Voted!” sticker proudly. I talk to my children about how exciting it feels to cast my vote, to have a say in the rules-making of our country; and I take them with me when I can. And yet, I want them to understand that, while we have called ourselves a democracy for centuries, the history surrounding voting in this country has often been hypocritical, unjust, and deeply painful. For poor white men who didn’t own property. For women. For Native Americans. For African Americans. And for countless other marginalized groups across our history.\n\nBrowsing our local bookstore a few weeks ago, I quickly fell in love with Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans’ new picture book, Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Ages 6-12); and my excitement only grew after sharing it with my children. Written on the fiftieth anniversary of Lyndon Johnson signing into law the Voting Rights Act—which for the first time in history ensured that the voting rights of African Americans were protected by federal law—the book opens with a 100-year-old black woman on her way to vote. As she climbs the (literally) steep hill to the polling center, she reflects on the (metaphorically) steep hill that her people have climbed to get to this point, connecting her own family history with pivotal events in American history.\n\nWhat I love most about this book—apart from Winter’s soaring prose and Evans’ emotionally charged mixed-media illustrations—is the compelling chronological presentation. It reads as a kind of lyrical—albeit highly abridged—timeline of black history in America (and what elementary child doesn’t love a good timeline?). Recently, it struck me that, while we may talk to our children about historical time periods, like slavery and the Civil Rights Movement, we usually do so in isolation. Just a few weeks ago at dinner, the topic of the Civil War came up. JP blurted out, “Mommy, the slaves must have been so happy when the war ended and they knew they were free.” I paused. “Well, let’s talk about that,” I said. And then we discussed what it was like to start a life with no money, no rights, no job, no education, and little to no respect, until JP said, “Oh, right, because all that was before the Civil Rights Movement.” A light bulb had gone off. Connections. Bringing together what we have learned: this is our job as parents and educators, and books can be among our greatest tools.\n\nLillian is a fictional character, although the Afterward at the end of the book reveals that she is inspired by an actual woman named Lillian Allen, granddaughter of a slave, who not only voted at age 100 for Barack Obama, our first African American president, but also passionately campaigned to encourage others to vote during that time.\n\nThis is where I have to pause to sing the praises of the book’s cover. How often do we see an elderly person depicted in children’s books, much less on the cover? My five-year-old daughter is fascinated with old people. She is fortunate to have two living great-grandmothers, and one of them was just here at Christmas. A few days after she left, Emily announced, “Great Gock is my favorite person in the family. She is so, so, so wise, because she has lived for practically forever, and can I tell you something? I don’t think she’s ever going to die.”", null, "When we gaze at Lillian—and oh, the art is beautiful—we see dark creases across her face, silvery white hair, and long bony fingers. Her very body exudes age. And history. And wisdom. Lillian’s journey through the ghosts of history begins at a time when only rich white men were allowed to vote. It begins with a vision of her great-great-grandparents, standing on an auction block, holding their baby and waiting to be sold into slavery. The art is staggering and horrifying at the same time: the man is completely naked, his wrists bound. Here, as on every page, there is just enough text to invite an older child’s questions and initiate discussion with a trusting adult—yet not enough to confuse or frighten off younger ones. My eight year old wanted to talk about every single thing he noticed. My five year old just listened and took things in. That’s typical for where they both are.", null, "We then meet Lillian’s great grandfather, Edmund, who grows up in slavery and witnesses both the end of the Civil War and the passing of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, which says that Americans can no longer be denied the right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition to servitude.” Edmund’s wife goes with him to the polling place—except that she, being a woman, cannot vote. Cue more discussion.\n\nBut a happy ending for all black men? Not at all. Here’s where things start to get fascinating, especially if you are a child who assumes that just because the law decrees something, it must be true. Lillian reflects on her grandfather, who twenty years later is charged an exorbitant poll tax that he can’t possibly pay. He is denied his chance at voting. And then there’s Lillian’s uncle Levi, who at a polling booth is asked outrageous questions—like “How many bubbles are in a bar of soap?”—and then turned away when he can’t come up with an adequate answer. “But how could anyone figure that out?!” JP shouted out in horror. (Indeed.)\n\nAnd then there’s Lillian’s own experience: first, as a little girl, being driven away by an angry mob when she goes with her mother to register to vote in 1920, after the Nineteenth Amendment has been passed to allow women the right to vote. That same mob later that night sets fire to a cross on her parents’ lawn (“something she will always see”), a signal to them that they—by nature of their skin color—are somehow outside the laws that promise to protect them.", null, "Years later, as a young woman, Lillian attempts to register to vote and is tested on the US Constitution, asked to write from memory word for word, a test that one again virtually no one could pass.", null, "These injustices don’t just blow my children’s minds. They blow my mind. How could so many officials, so many cities, so many states, have gotten away with turning their backs on the law, with interpreting it to further their own bigotry? We watch as our children trust in things bigger than themselves—in systems and laws and figures of authority—but what happens when all that comes crashing down? How do we show them that they can stand up for themselves amidst this kind of adversity?\n\nThe Civil Rights Movement is one brilliant, though at times exceedingly brutal, answer. As Lillian walks up the hill to vote in 2015, she remembers the thousands who put one foot in front of the other through rain and wind to protest peacefully the unlawful and inhumane obstacles denying African Americans the right to vote. The three attempted marches from Selma to Montgomery are discussed, culminating in President Johnson’s famous speech, which echoed the words of Martin Luther King Jr.: All of us…must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome. (Check out this older post about another chronologically organized book, which highlights the role of the “We Shall Overcome” lyrics in human rights history.)", null, "At last, as per the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which guarantees every American citizen the right to vote, Lillian herself is finally able to cast a poll, to make her voice heard alongside white, black, rich, poor, male, female, and everything in between. We watch as Lillian—fifty years later and now one hundred years old—remembers that moment in 1965, standing before the voting booth. Her younger, more elegant self is juxtaposed against her older, now stooped body, an arresting visual that reminds us how we take our former selves with us, folding them into ourselves and holding on to the memories that have made us who we are.", null, "We are by this point so emotionally invested in Lillian’s story that it almost takes our breath away to turn to the final page, where we find a hand with a single outstretched finger hovering over a depressed lever. One simple movement, loaded with meaning and history and significance.", null, "It was a long uphill battle to get here, and this lovely book gives our children a small taste of what that means. Those old enough to digest the Afterward, however, will learn that this is by no means the end of the struggle. In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down a provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and, in the process, opened the door for individual states to mandate different voting requirements, including state-issued IDs, which are often prohibitively difficult for the poor and elderly to obtain. The book asks, will our children’s generation rise and continue the fight to protect this most basic and sacred of American rights? We can start by taking our children to the polls with us this November.\n\n§ 6 Responses to The Right to Vote\n\nYou are currently reading The Right to Vote at What to Read to Your Kids." ]

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[ "Previous post5 ways adopting the mindset of a UX designer can help grow your business\nIn pictures: London Pride through the years - BBC NewsNext post", null, "Japan’s famous minimalist store Muji, which sells everything from stationery, clothes, to household products, will be opening its first hotel in its home country, and a new global flagship store in Tokyo’s plush Ginza district come 2019.\n\nThe store will span more than 3,300 square meters, with the first six floors of the building occupied by the store, while four more floors above will be occupied by the hotel, according to real estate developers Mitsui Fudosan.\n\nSurprisingly, Muji didn’t turn to its home country to set up its first foray into the hotel business. Instead, that’s an upcoming project in Shenzhen, China, set to be completed later this year.\n\nThe mini model of a room in Muji’s Shenzhen hotel gives a sneak peek of what its 79 rooms will look like:\n\nPerhaps you’ll be able to recreate a version of your own from the Muji store near you." ]

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[ "Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro reacted to the weekend mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio by knocking down the conservative premise that a \"good guy with a gun\" can stop the violence.\nBy David\n\nDemocratic presidential candidate Julián Castro reacted to the weekend mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio by knocking down the conservative premise that a \"good guy with a gun\" can stop the violence.\n\nIn an interview on CNN, Castro said that President Donald Trump is \"making it worse\" by \"fanning the flames of bigotry and of hate.\"\n\n\"The NRA, for years, has said that the answer to these mass shootings is more guns, that a good guy with a gun is the answer,\" Castro added. \"We’re in Texas. That shooter went into a situation where people routinely carry guns.\"", null, null ]

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[ null, "The Hillsborough Clock by Daniel Bagshaw\n\nWigan produced an emphatic demonstration of their play-off credentials with 3-0 victory at Hillsborough tonight.\n\nTwo goals by loanee striker Nicky Maynard in the first half and an injury time strike by Marc-Antoine Fortune secured a valuable three points in their promotion push.\n\nSheffield Wednesday had been unbeaten in eleven games in all competitions prior to the fixture and Wigan were looking to bounce back quickly from Saturday’s disappointing defeat at Huddersfield Town.\n\nWigan were once again without top scorer Nick Powell as Uwe Rosler shuffled his line-up from Saturday’s game with James McClean, Nicky Maynard and Chris McCann coming in.\n\nLatics made the early running with Ben Watson firing wide of the target after good work by James McClean, and the Republic of Ireland winger went close a couple of minutes later when his shot was narrowly wide.\n\nThe Owls wasted a good opportunity on 27 minutes when Atdhe Nuhiu’s tame shot failed to trouble Ali Al Habsi in the Wigan goal.\n\nLatics went ahead on the half hour mark when Waghorn set up the on loan Cardiff striker Maynard and his right footed shot found the bottom left corner of the Wednesday net.\n\nFollowing a spell of pressure Latics doubled their lead on 38 minutes.\n\nWaghorn’s whipped left footed corner evaded the Wednesday defenders and seemed to go straight in at the near post but Maynard was later credited with the goal and must have got the final touch.\n\nWigan went in search of a third goal as McClean drove forward on the left hand side but although his final cross evaded Chris Kirkland in the Wednesday goal, no Latics player could capitalise on the good work.\n\nAs the first half ended the home fans were becoming restless as Wigan went into the break with a deserved two goal lead.\n\nWednesday improved in the second period and started to exert pressure on the Latics goal.\n\nThe double substitution of Antonio and Helan coming on for Maghoma and Afobe seemed to give the home team impetus and almost immediately Helan forced a good save from Al Habsi.\n\nLavery came on for the injured Semedo and started to run at the Wigan defence and Nuhui headed wide from close range.\n\nSubstitute Fortune, on for McClean, was holding the ball up well and Wigan threatened on the counter attack.\n\nAs the match moved into last ten minutes of normal time, the Owls looked like they might pull a goal back but for some wayward shooting and the heroics of Al Habsi.\n\nBut it was not to be for the home team, and it was Wigan who sealed the points in the 92nd minute when Maynard dribbled into the box and his shot was parried by Kirkland and Fortune was on hand to shoot high into the Wednesday net.\n\nThe result moves Wigan up to ninth place in the Championship table with a game in hand on most of their rivals. The play-off spot that looked an impossible prospect in the final days of the Owen Coyle regime now looks like an attainable goal under Uwe Rosler." ]

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[ "The Zune HD is a great little device. As a Personal Media Player it is hands down the best one I have used. The audio and video quality is amazing. Where it all breaks down is in the desktop software, not the actual software as that is well done, but the marketplace. The use of the points system is just outdated and needs to go. Microsoft needs to get over this and move on to a price based system.\n\nStill, there is a good point about this system; that is the Zune Pass. There is nothing like being able to download and listen to as much music as you like for a small monthly fee. They also need to open up the App Store and remove the push ads in the free applications.\n\nThe HD Radio is a feature that Apple will only be able to follow; as it stands right now they have only put a standard FM tuner in the Nano and will not put one in the iPod Touch. This puts the Zune HD out in front in that respect.\n\nOther parts of the Zune HD experience that make it a great product is its social interaction, wireless sync, album art and the Quickplay menu. The web browser in the Zune HD is not as good as it could be as it lacks a history and tabbed browsing. It is also a little slow and still identifies itself as a mobile device. This leaves many sites (including Microsoft.com) out. The lack of Flash at this stage of the game is also disappointing, but we can expect that fairly soon.\n\nThere were some glaringly obvious omissions with the Zune HD, though. The first one is Bluetooth. This feature should have been included; there is no question that by adding Stereo Bluetooth support (and perhaps Bluetooth sync), the Zune HD would have been a much better player. The next is the lack of a camera. When you consider that Tegra can support up to a 12MP camera, a HD camera (say around 3-5MP) would have been a great idea. Sadly, it is not there.\n\nThe last wish is that Microsoft would put in a phone. This would be a great idea and one that I hope MS considers for future versions. Of course, moving this into the Zune HD would require a larger screen which would mean a larger device overall. Still, I think this would make the Zune HD an even better product.\n\nTo wrap it up, Microsoft has done an incredible job with the Zune HD. So far sales have shown that there is a demand for this device. With Tegra under the hood, the Zune HD has plenty of power and room to improve. Microsoft can upgrade the player without the need to change the core hardware. They should be able to just add new parts in as needed (like Bluetooth and a camera). At the very least it should put a serious dent in the market share of the iPod Touch.", null ]

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[ null, "The growth of the cryptocurrency sector has been one of the most significant forces of change in the financial market this year, with the crypto market cap year-to-date increasing 175.6%.\n\nTherefore, with the goal of increasing the popularity and democratization of cryptocurrencies, the Coinmotion cryptocurrency platform, has released the world’s first crypto clip, titled “Bajo tu piel” (under your skin), according to an official press statement.\n\n“We went from being a customer to collaborators in this historic and comforting joint venture of a crypto broker and music,” said the artist.\n\nNotably, both Huecco and Coinmotion are collaborating to bring about innovation in the creative activities they are involved in. CEO and member of the board of directors of Coinmotion Oy, Heidi Hurskainen, stated:\n\n“We like to innovate with “premium on-demand” services, being the first to launch the Private Crypto Banking service in Spain.”\n\n“When Huecco asked us to collaborate on such a pioneering project that apart from being the first video clip in the world financed entirely with Bitcoin, it allows us to contribute to raising awareness and promoting the development of the sector in Spain, we did not hesitate to participate in it.”\n\nWith the United States, China, Japan, and the United Kingdom as the top four countries for Bitcoin earnings in 2020, Spain was the fifth-best performing nation on the global scale.\n\nElsewhere, we had earlier reported that Spain’s banking giant Santander revealed that it is in the process of launching the first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the country. Despite the country tightening regulations for crypto exchanges and custody platforms in 2021." ]

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[ null, "By Rosanne Caron\nIn 2016, online media accounted for 47 per cent of all Canadian advertising revenues. Most other paid media have experienced a decline in their ad revenues due to the overall shift toward online spending. One notable exception, however, is out-of-home (OOH) advertising, which has continued to experience at least modest growth year-over-year.\n\nConsultations with industry stakeholders, including advertisers, agencies and OOH network operators, suggest there are two key barriers preventing OOH from significantly increasing its share of total ad revenue. Both of these barriers will need to be addressed.\n\nFirst, the OOH industry needs to be able to provide both quantitative and qualitative information about its audience. The current numbers being reported are not enough. Agencies and advertisers need further ‘proof’ of and actionable insight into the particular consumer demographics being delivered to them, along with the associated lifestyles\nand behaviours, if they are to justify greater expenditures on OOH ads. Granular data at the location-specific level will provide this assurance, showing how advertisers’ messages are reaching the desired audience at the right place and time.\n\nSecondly, the planning and buying process for OOH campaigns needs to be made easier and more efficient, so the medium as a whole becomes more attractive to advertisers. If OOH is instead seen as a ‘resource hog’ that takes more time than other media to plan, then this will negatively affect the industry’s efforts to increase its share of ad revenue.\n\nThe Canadian OOH Measurement Bureau (COMB), which publishes OOH market data, has been working closely with its member companies to address these barriers. Fortunately, there have been some exciting developments and there are new changes on the horizon.\n\nCelebrating great campaigns\nGiven the rise of online advertising, it may seem ironic how a campaign for Twitter, a social media platform, was the Grand Prix winner at the 2017 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in the outdoor advertising category. Twitter’s use of simple and engaging OOH content, featuring its logo and hashtags alongside images from the news and pop culture, highlighted its ability to provide a forum for political debate and discussion of issues ranging from guns to marijuana.\n\nIt is interesting to note the similarities between Twitter and OOH media. The social media platform restricts the length of messages, forcing it users’ ‘tweets’ to be succinct and focused, rather than allowing a long, drawn-out dialogue. Creating an effective message for a billboard that is only seen for a few seconds also requires a certain singlemindedness, which Twitter understood with its award-winning campaign.\n\n“OOH is a great way to get people to look up,” says Jayanta Jenkins, Twitter’s global creative chief. “You can use less to say more.”", null, "A campaign for Twitter was the Grand Prix winner at the 2017 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in the outdoor advertising category.\n\nYou May Also Like Digital Signage: Seven common pitfalls to avoid\n\nWhat makes the Iris Awards unique from other programs is the judging of quarterly entrants has been handled by a panel of consumers, based on visual impact and appeal, message comprehension and relevance, which will determine 2017’s grand prize winner. The creative team behind the top campaign will be OMAC’s guests at the Outdoor Advertising Association of America’s (OAAA’s) 2018 Obie Awards event in Austin, Texas. The Obies are among the oldest and most prestigious honours for OOH advertising.\n\nOMAC also helped launch Open3, a new book celebrating creativity in OOH advertising, in the spring and is currently distributing 1,000 copies to marketers and creative agencies across Canada to help showcase the creative potential of OOH campaigns. (It can also be viewed online at www.omaccanada.ca/open3[3].)\n\nTo develop Open3, OMAC collaborated with some of its counterparts around the world, including OAAA, the Outdoor Media Association of Australia (OMA), Outsmart UK and the Federation European Publicité Exterieur (FEPE). Together, they compiled more than 150 images of some of the world’s best OOH campaigns, including 16 projects from Canada, along with essays contributed by industry leaders, including Zak Mroueh, founder, CEO and chief creative officer of Toronto-based agency Zulu Alpha Kilo.\n\n“OOH is one of the oldest forms of media, yet few know how to capitalize on its attention-getting power,” says Mroueh. “Open3 will hopefully inspire the next generation of creative OOH thinkers.”\n\n“There’s never been a better time to be creative, to be a game-changer and to reinvent the OOH industry,” adds Philippe Meunier, co-founder and chief creative officer of Sid Lee.\n\nOMAC’s own library includes more than 100 case studies from around the world and across various business sectors that demonstrate the value of OOH in effective communications for audiences on the move. Many of the recent examples show how OOH’s role has been redefined, from building scale and reach to inspiring mobile searches and purchases, among other activities. The searchable library can be found at www.omaccanada.ca/case-studies[4].", null, "Pepsi Canada partnered with Snapchat on transit shelter ads that encouraged commuters to scan codes with their mobile devices.\n\nViewing OOH positively\nIn an era of unprecedented disruption of media, OOH continues to be viewed positively across generations. This is important because consumers’ receptivity to a given form of advertising has a direct effect on the level of attention they pay to it and whether or not they are inspired to take related action afterwards, e.g. buying the advertised product.\n\nStudies have shown people are generally more positive toward traditional advertising and more skeptical about digital forms of advertising. In 2016, for example, advertising market research firm Kantar Millward Brown conducted a global study that showed even consumers born after 1995, who have grown up in an age of high-tech communications and with prolific use of social media, have a more positive attitude toward outdoor ads than they do toward other, newer, digital media.\n\nThis does not mean there is no place for newer technology, of course. Through a recent partnership between Pepsi Canada and Snapchat, for example, transit shelter posters and wall murals displayed a Pepsi bottle with a Snapcode for consumers to scan with their mobile devices to unlock exclusive ‘lenses’ for fun, interactive photographic applications. The concept was a hit.\n\nCreating contextual relevance\nWhen an OOH ad clearly relates to the environment around it, consumers are more likely to notice it and feel it is speaking to them. Digital screens, especially, can increase the contextual relevance of OOH through alignment of content with the mindset and lifestyle of passersby.\n\nA recent Via Rail campaign, for example, displayed messages on digital billboards that were based on the latest traffic conditions and informed drivers about how long it would take them to reach specific destinations in their personal vehicles compared to taking a train.\n\nSimilarly, when the music streaming service Spotify entered the Canadian market in 2015, the company tapped into its own real-time data to identify more than 30 neighbourhoods and develop playlists for them, based on what people in those neighbourhoods are listening to, when and how often. Customized billboards and transit ads then promoted each playlist within its corresponding neighbourhood.\n\nThe campaign was a huge success, with daily registrations for Spotify increasing by 21 per cent. The company jumped from number three to number one in the rankings of app store downloads. Most significantly, Canada’s overall streaming on Spotify increased by 71 per cent over the previous period. The campaign went on to win a silver trophy at the Cassies, Canada’s premier advertising award program, in 2017.", null, "From exposure to purchase\nOOH not only increases brand awareness, but also motivates consumer behaviour. There is a strong correlation between people’s exposure to the medium and their subsequent purchases of the featured products.\n\nYou May Also Like Digital Signage: Linking communications from software to hardware\n\nAccording to a 2016 TouchPoints study—and mirroring the findings of an earlier one—nearly two-thirds of all purchases by consumers are made within the same half-hour as their exposure to OOH, including:\n\nDriving online activity\nConsumers born since the 1980s, i.e. so-called ‘millennials,’ are the most likely to search the web or apps while commuting, at 59 per cent, but even the least likely demographic, late baby boomers, is significant with an incidence rate of 45 per cent. OOH is in a unique position to shape this growing online activity.\n\nA recent campaign for Ovarian Cancer Canada, a charity, showed how OOH can serve as a link with the online world. The bold ads, which used the term ‘ladyballs’ to evoke an emotional response and spark discussion of the disease, resulted in a 118 per cent year-over-year increase in inquiries from women about ovarian cancer, an average increase of 22 calls from donors per week and a 220 per cent increase in social engagement, with 75 per cent of donations received during the campaign coming from new donors. (The work also went on to win a 2017 Cassies award.)\n\nGiving back\nThe Ovarian Cancer Canada campaign is also an example of how the OOH industry is committed to giving back to the community. In 2016, for example, OMAC member companies—including Astral Out-of-Home, Clear Channel Outdoor Canada (CCOC), since renamed Branded Cities Canada, Lamar Transit Advertising, Outfront Media Canada, Pattison Outdoor and Quebecor Media Out-of-Home—donated more than $24 million worth of advertising space to more than 120 charities and non-profit organizations across the country (more details are available at www.omaccanada.ca/community-support[7]). These campaigns have raised awareness of important causes, boosted fundraising efforts, empowered youth and supported arts and culture.\n\nRosanne Caron is president of (OMAC) and (COMB) and a member of Sign Media Canada’s editorial advisory board (EAB). For more information, visit www.omaccanada.ca[8] and www.comb.org[9] or contact her via e-mail at [email protected][10]." ]

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[ null, "In his first year under Holtmann, Williams has averaged 8 points and 2 rebounds in 22 minutes a game. Freshman Musa Jallow, who has started 11 games this year, should fill the void in the starting line up.\n\nBuckeyes vs. Illinois tips off at noon on FS1. Stay tuned with Eleven Warriors, as Holtmann will undoubtedly be asked about the nature of this suspension following the game." ]