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[ null, "Ezri Konsa has put pen-to-paper on a contract extension with Aston Villa which will expire at the end of the 2025/26 season.\n\nThe 23-year-old has featured in 26 of Villa’s 28 Premier League games this season, forming a strong partnership with Tyrone Mings and helping the club to keep 14 league clean sheets to date.\n\n“I’m really grateful that the club have rewarded me with a new contract,” Konsa said on the club’s website.\n\n“It’s a great feeling to know the club really believes in you and has trust in you.\n\n“It’s something I’ve been working towards since I got here, proving myself and playing games week in, week out.”\n\nKonsa, a former Under-20 World Cup winner with England, joined Villa from Brentford in 2019 and has gone on to make 58 appearances in all competitions.\n\nThis season Konsa has moved up a level as Villa seek to hang on to their position in the top half of the table over the final weeks of the campaign.\n\n“It’s been a really good season for us, especially the lads at the back with the amount of clean sheets – we’re only one away from matching the clean sheet record for Aston Villa,” he added.\n\n“We have great chemistry at the back, including (goalkeeper) Emiliano Martinez. For me personally, it’s been a very good season, for my standards and what I wanted to reach this season.\n\n“I’m really proud of what me and the boys have achieved this season.”" ]

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[ null, "Granit Xhaka looks set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines after he was forced off with a nasty knee injury in Arsenal’s 3-1 win over Tottenham at the weekend.\n\nArsenal fans were treated to one of their most enjoyable performances of recent times as goals from Emile Smith Rowe, Pierre Emerick-Aubameyang and Bukayo Saka secured a comprehensive north London derby victory at the Emirates.\n\nBut Xhaka went to ground after Lucas Moura collided with his planted leg in the 82nd minute and the sight of the midfielder being helped off the pitch put a slight dampener on the occasion.\n\nIt had already been a frustrating start to the campaign for Xhaka, with the 29-year-old having to serve a three-match suspension following his sending off against Manchester City. He also struggled with an ankle problem in pre-season and tested positive for Covid-19 during the recent international break.\n\nArsenal are yet to reveal the severity of the injury but an Instagram upload from Xhaka’s long-term partner, Leonita Leka, suggested the Switzerland international could be out of action for some time.\n\nThe post in question shows a glum-looking Xhaka playing with his daughter, Ayana, while wearing a hefty brace around his right leg which is propped up on the sofa.\n\nMikel Arteta seemingly feared the worst and admitted he was ‘pretty worried’ about Xhaka’s injury while addressing the media in the aftermath of Arsenal’s defeat of Spurs.\n\n‘Unfortunately he got an injury and I’m pretty worried because it doesn’t look very positive at the moment,’ the Spaniard told reporters.\n\nA serious injury to Xhaka would come as a major blow to Arteta’s resurgent Arsenal side, who had boasted a fully fit squad for the first time this season prior to Sunday’s derby.\n\nArsenal will look to make it five wins from five in all competitions when they travel to Brighton this weekend and Arteta will likely provide an update on Xhaka’s condition at his press conference ahead of the match.\n\nThe Gunners return to the Emirates for three home games following their trip to the south coast as they prepare to face Crystal Palace and Aston Villa in the Premier League before hosting Leeds in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup.\n\nArteta’s side sit tenth in the table after their victory over Spurs, five points off league leaders Liverpool." ]

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[ "The Tsugaru Strait (津軽海峡, Tsugaru Kaikyō) is a strait between Honshu and Hokkaido in northern Japan connecting the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean. It was named after the western part of Aomori Prefecture. The Seikan Tunnel passes under it at its narrowest point 12.1 miles (19.5 km) between Tappi Misaki on the Tsugaru Peninsula in Aomori Prefecture, Honshu, and Shirakami Misaki on the Matsumae Peninsula in Hokkaido.\n\nWestern maps made prior to the 20th century also referred to this waterway as the Strait of Sangar. [1]\n\nJapan's territorial waters extend to three nautical miles (5.6 km) into the strait instead of the usual twelve, reportedly to allow nuclear-armed United States Navy warships and submarines to transit the strait without violating Japan's prohibition against nuclear weapons in its territory. [2] The part of the Seikan Tunnel that passes under the strait is considered to be under Japanese jurisdiction. The part of the Tsugaru Strait considered to be in international waters is still within Japan's exclusive economic zone. [3]\n\nThe Tsugaru Strait has eastern and western necks, both approximately 20 km across with maximum depths of 200 m and 140 m respectively. [4]\n\nThere are also ferry services that operate across the strait, including the Tsugaru Kaikyō Ferry and the Seikan ferry.\n\nThomas Blakiston, an English explorer and naturalist, noticed that animals in Hokkaido were related to northern Asian species, whereas those on Honshu to the south were related to those from southern Asia. The Tsugaru Strait was therefore established as a major zoogeographical boundary, and became known as Blakiston's Line or the \"Blakiston Line\". [6]", null, "Honshu, historically called Hondo, is the largest and most populous main island of Japan. It is located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island separates the Sea of Japan, which lies to its north and west, from the North Pacific Ocean to the south and east. It is the seventh-largest island in the world, and the second-most populous after the Indonesian island of Java.\n\nAomori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, Iwate Prefecture to the southeast, Akita Prefecture to the southwest, the Sea of Japan to the west, and Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait to the north. Aomori Prefecture is the 8th-largest prefecture, with an area of 9,645.64 km2 (3,724.20 sq mi), and the 31st-most populous prefecture, with more than 1.2 million people. Approximately 45 percent of Aomori Prefecture's residents live in its two core cities, Aomori and Hachinohe, which lie on coastal plains. The majority of the prefecture is covered in forested mountain ranges, with population centers occupying valleys and plains. Aomori is the third-most populous prefecture in the Tōhoku region, after Miyagi Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture. Mount Iwaki, an active stratovolcano, is the prefecture's highest point, at almost 1,624.7 m (5,330 ft).\n\nThe Seikan Tunnel, is a 53.85 km (33.46 mi) dual-gauge railway tunnel in Japan, with a 23.3 km (14.5 mi) portion under the seabed of the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Aomori Prefecture on the main Japanese island of Honshu from the northern island of Hokkaido. The track level is about 100 m (330 ft) below the seabed and 240 m (790 ft) below sea level. The tunnel is part of the standard-gauge Hokkaido Shinkansen and the narrow-gauge Kaikyō Line of the Hokkaido Railway Company 's Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line. The name Seikan comes from combining the on'yomi readings of the first characters of Aomori (青森), the nearest major city on the Honshu side of the strait, and Hakodate (函館), the nearest major city on the Hokkaido side.", null, "Tsushima Strait or Eastern Channel is a channel of the Korea Strait, which lies between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea.", null, "Fukushima is a town located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.\n\nShiriuchi is a town located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.\n\nKikonai is a town located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.\n\nThe Kaikyō Line is an 87.8-kilometer long railway line operated mainly by the Hokkaido Railway Company. The line connects Naka-Oguni Station in Sotogahama, Aomori, through the Seikan Tunnel between Honshu and Hokkaido, to Kikonai Station in Kikonai, Hokkaido. Two stations on the Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line, Tappi-Kaitei Station and Yoshioka-Kaitei Station, were inside the tunnel.\n\nTsugaru (津軽) may refer to:\n\nYoshioka-Kaitei Station was a railway station on the Kaikyo Line in Fukushima, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company. The station was underground and was located within the Seikan Tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait linking the main Japanese island of Honshu with the northern island of Hokkaido. The station was located 149.5 metres (490 ft) below sea level, making it the deepest underground station in the world.\n\nTappi-Kaitei Station was a railway station on the Kaikyo Line in Sotogahama, Aomori, Japan, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company. The station is located within the Seikan Tunnel below the seabed of the Tsugaru Strait linking the main Japanese island of Honshu with the northern island of Hokkaido. It was closed to passengers from November 10, 2013, to make way for the construction of the Hokkaido Shinkansen high-speed train line. It is an emergency escape point.\n\nThe Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line was a railway line in northern Japan that linked Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture and Hakodate Station in Hokkaido.\n\nNational Route 338 is a national highway in the Japanese prefectures of Hokkaido and Aomori. Route 338 stretches 241.3 kilometers (149.9 mi) from National Route 5 in Hakodate, Hokkaido south across the Tsugaru Strait by ferry to Ōma, Aomori, around the western, southern, and eastern edges of the Shimokita Peninsula and finally to Oirase.\n\nThe Tsugaru Line is a railway line operated by East Japan Railway Company. It connects Aomori Station and Minmaya Station on the Tsugaru Peninsula in western Aomori Prefecture.\n\nThe Seikan Ferry (青函フェリー) is a privately owned ferry service crossing the Tsugaru Strait, which separates the Japanese islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. The company, Seikan Ferry Ltd. (有限会社青函フェリー), was founded in 1973 and runs between the cities of Aomori on the northern tip of Honshu and Hakodate in southern Hokkaido.\n\nThe Tsugaru Kaikyō Ferry is a privately owned ferry service crossing the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Hokkaido from Honshu. The ferries run two routes: Hakodate to Aomori and Hakodate to Ōma.\n\nThe Tōya Maru accident is a marine accident that occurred in Japan in September 1954." ]

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[ null, "Many farmers are wondering about spring 2021 after the dry year we had in 2020 and lack of moisture so far this winter across Latham Country. Fall 2020 brought little relief in terms of additional moisture and this winter has been mild in terms of snowfall. What repercussions will we see as we head into this spring? An increase in insect pressure is one thing we will need to keep an eye out for going into spring, especially if we don’t see low enough temperatures to help winter mortality rates in those that overwinter.\n\nCorn Flea Beetles belong in the first group because the warmer-than-normal weather might allow for more of these pests to survive. They typically overwinter in our area, and their survival rate depends on the temperatures in December, January and February. When the mean temperatures for these three months add up to over 90 degrees Fahrenheit, then there will be a greater number of survivors that will be ready to attack corn fields in the spring.\n\nSeed treatments that include an insecticide like Cruiser®, Poncho® or Gaucho® can help prevent these insects from attacking young plants and seeds. We know seed treatments prove to be a good investment during a cold, wet spring. Just because it looks to be a dry spring, don’t be fooled into thinking seed treatments won’t pay for themselves this season!\n\nThe second group of insects includes all species that can or will eventually feed on the crop. If we have a dry spring and early summer, then crops may suffer moisture stress. ANY kind of stress can be greatly enhanced by insects (or any diseases for that matter) that feed upon those plants, including, but not limited to: Corn rootworms, corn aphids, stalk borers, European corn borer, cutworms and armyworm for corn. In soybeans, there would be the 1st and 2nd generation Bean Leaf Beetles, soybean aphids, two-spotted spider mites, Japanese Beetles and Soybean Cyst Nematode (even though they are not an insect).\n\nMost of the pests mentioned above can be controlled by applications of insecticides if done at the proper time; the exceptions to this are rootworms (because they are below-ground) and SCN (also below-ground and not an insect.)\n\nThe good news is that although it takes months for evaporation and evapotranspiration to deplete our heavy prairie soils, it only takes a few weeks to replenish it. With adequate snowfall and early spring rains we should see the rest of those dry regions be back at field capacity and ready for 2021 planting. As we approach the planting season keep in mind which of your fields may be at a higher risk to insect pressure due to minimum tillage, cover crops, or past management practices, and plan ahead with seed treatments, insecticide options, or simply plan to walk your fields a little more to stay on top of insects or other pests.\n\nInvest in a Tissue Test\n\nWalk Fields for a Better Bottomline" ]

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[ null, "Paying bills is never fun, and it’s even more painful when the costs are rising.\n\nSingapore, where BBP is based, will introduce a carbon tax on power generators from 2019, and this will lead to higher electricity prices, economists predict. “Sooner or later you will see the true price of electricity, which includes also the environmental impact,” he says.\n\nGovInsider sat down with Rajamand to discuss how data can help cut energy costs and the new business models disrupting the energy industry.\n\n‘Do more with less’\n\nWith the rising costs of electricity, “what we suggest is to do more with less”, Rajamand says. BBP uses sensors, data and algorithms to improve the efficiency of existing energy systems in large commercial and industrial buildings. It focuses particularly on air-conditioning, which is responsible for 60% of electricity consumption in these commercial buildings.\n\n“What we suggest is to do more with less.”\n\nSingapore has set targets on carbon emissions and energy consumption of buildings. The government has set standards to rate buildings on their energy efficiency through a scheme called GreenMark. It aims to have “at least 80% of the buildings in Singapore to be green by 2030”, according to a masterplan.\n\nHowever, the challenge here lies in buildings with older infrastructure, he says. “Making new buildings green and sustainable is somewhat less of a challenge than getting this massive stock of existing buildings to become more green,” Rajamand says.\n\nBBP fits buildings with sensors and uses its data to optimise the way existing cooling systems run. “Each piece of equipment is continuously balancing, reacting to what is happening inside the building or production line, as well as the outside weather,” he explains.\n\nFor instance, BBP helped Philips save $500,000 in annual energy costs on a 14-year-old cooling system in a Singapore factory, and improved its efficiency by 27%. The traditional option would have been to replace the whole system at a much higher cost, estimated to be $8-10 million.\n\n\nAs companies with new services begin work on real estate, they face what has traditionally been a “conservative” industry. “People or companies with heavy analytics capabilities are moving into a market where the players were fixed for many decades,” Rajamand says. For instance, large software companies like Microsoft are entering this space with their analytics.\n\n“Companies with heavy analytics capabilities are moving into a market where the players were fixed for many decades.”\n\nAt the same time, startups are disrupting with new business models. BBP, for instance, does not charge its clients upfront. Instead, “we take a portion of the savings that we achieve,” he says. The company tracks how much energy has been saved; an independent third party calculates the savings; and BBP gets paid a percentage of this. This ensures that customers are not penalised for trying out a new product – if it doesn’t work, they simply do not pay.\n\nThis year, BBP has helped cut costs for Resorts World Sentosa, an integrated resort that includes a theme park, hotels, a casino and exhibition venues. The company has just been awarded by the government’s National Environment Agency for this project, which led to 10% improvement in energy efficiency. In general, commercial buildings can annually save “hundreds of thousands” and industrial ones can save “millions of dollars”, he adds.\n\nThe public sector can play a crucial role here by helping the building industry keep up with new models, without favouring one particular company. Where there are new entrants in the market, governments can “communicate and help users understand the new products available”, he says.\n\nThe Singapore government’s Accreditation@SGD programme is one example of this. It highlights startups with unique technologies and proven models in the tender process. BBP is one among three energy management startups accredited by this programme.\n\nAs countries come together to tackle the impact of climate change, we can only expect the costs of energy to rise in the future, Rajamand believes. But companies can take a long-term view by using analytics to prepare themselves.\n\nIf you would like to learn more about how analytics can cut energy costs, fill in the form below." ]

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[ null, "Depending on the Android phone that you use, and it’s likely to have a love or hate relationship with the main screen and how it works, where manufacturers are charging their phones with different user interfaces, and not all of them are simple and smooth, this is why we need for Launcher applications.\n\nThe Launcher applications on Android devices not only allow you to adjust the appearance of the main screen, but also allow you to add some stylish shortcuts, not to mention the controls over the full customization.\n\nThe Action Launcher is one of the popular application in the Android system, the new update brings not only experience similar to pixel phones, but also has a great integration with “Google Now” service, furthermore, it nicely blends customization features such as application shortcuts and gestures.\n\nIt’s interesting that, this application also comes with options for media points, where it will be greeted by main screen-oriented information similar to the Android Orio screen, so if your phone manufacturer still hasn’t updated the system, you can taste it with this app.\n\nIf you look around, you’ll see that most of the Launcher applications are usually about screen editing and customization, yet the AIO Launcher is characterize with its unique appearance, where you can get oriented information on main screen.\n\nThe main screen will contain frequently used applications at the top with unread text messages and repeated contacts, the priority is given to time information, weather, and RAM monitor, while the quick drop-down list reveals your email, call record, and news feed.\n\nIf you want to manually search in the application, there’s a great process on hand, click on the search icon and type the first letters, and it will download everything from contacts to applications Immediately.\n\nNot long ago, ADW Launcher was a popular name in the Android community, and its popularity declined over time with low support of the application gradually, in 2016, the second version of the application was launched and since then there were regularly updates, where the new version brings a large group of configuration options, and the interface is characterized as smooth unlike other Launcher applications, and also allows you to download two themes for free.\n\nIf you have a passion for organizing things in stylish little folders, then Launcher EverythingMe is your best bet, it’s the application that accurately arranges all of your applications, contacts, and preferences in smart folders.\n\nThe application has the “Quick Contacts” item, where it brings your frequent contacts on its own, without any Preparation at all. Furthermore, Quick Search lets you search feature for applications and contacts both inside the phone or on the web." ]

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[ null, "Thieves got away with millions of dollars worth of jewelry and gemstones in an armored vehicle from Brink’s in California between trade shows, authorities say.\n\nThe jewelry was loaded onto a truck at an event hosted by the International Gem and Jewelry Show in San Mateo, near San Francisco, on July 10, and shipped overnight to another event at the Pasadena Convention Center .\n\nThe robbery took place at an isolated truck stop in Lebec, Southern California, when the semi-trailer’s armed security officers drove away from the vehicle. It was discovered in the early hours of July 11 when guards noticed the lock had been tampered with.\n\nThe investigation has not yet determined whether it was an opportunistic theft or a targeted robbery, with the thieves watching the vehicle in transit.\n\nA spokesperson for the International Gem and Jewelry Show said 18 victims reported losses worth $100 million from the theft, although Brink’s statement put the value at less than $10 million. .\n\n“We are working with law enforcement, and we will fully reimburse our customers for the value of their property that was stolen, in accordance with the terms of our contract,” the security company said in a statement.\n\nCargo security firm CargoNet said in a recent report that cargo theft losses in the United States and Canada reached $19 million in the first quarter of 2022, representing a 73% increase from the same period of 2021 despite the number of flights remaining fairly stable.\n\nHOMAG: Many personal encounters during the month of July at the fair" ]

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[ "Steve Kerr: Luka Doncic ‘Sure Looks Like an All-Star’", null, "The 19-year-old finished with 26 points, six rebounds and five assists Sunday night in a 119-114 home loss to the Golden State Warriors.\n\nSteve Kerr pre-game still talking about @luka7doncic and his @NBAAllStar chances. “Whether he makes it or not, he’s an All-Star.” #MFFL #Mavs #DALvsGSW #GSWvsDAL pic.twitter.com/bwe924VdNi\n\nStephen Curry, after dropping 48 points on the Mavs, said Doncic is an “unbelievable” talent.\n\n“He’s unbelievable,” Curry said of Doncic. “You can tell he’s just experienced in terms of playing high-level basketball. A guy that’s always at his own pace. I’m sure he had heard all the doubters and people talking about his game who really didn’t know much about him, and he’s made himself known for sure. It’s fun to watch in terms of the future of the league.”\n\nThe Warriors have been singing Doncic’s praises all season, having already seen him three times this season, but it was Warriors coach Steve Kerr who took that praise to a higher level prior to Sunday’s game.\n\n“The guy doesn’t look like a rookie,” Kerr said Saturday. “I didn’t know much about him, I never saw him play until we played Dallas the first time or watching him on TV before that, but he is confident beyond where you would expect somebody in his shoes to be, coming from a different country and being 19 years old. He’s a brilliant player. I think he’s already an All-Star. I don’t know how the vote’s going to shake out, but he looks like an All-Star player to me.”\n\n“I haven’t really done the math,” Kerr said. “I haven’t gone line by line. So I probably threw that out there without truly doing my homework. I do have a vote for reserves. I think what I meant to say is he sure looks like an All-Star. So whether he makes it or not, he’s an All-Star. Certain guys just stand out. You see what they do, you see what they mean to the game. And if he doesn’t make it this year, he’s going to make it soon enough.”" ]

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[ "Home Florida Keys Arts & Entertainment Booktoberfest: Enjoy some of these books this fall\n\nEven though our leaves stay the same, fall is upon us. As the days shorten and the weather begins to cool, let’s celebrate fall and add these fabulous new releases to the top of your list!\n\nOur New Normal\nBy Colleen Faulkner\n\nHazel, a lovely, smart, 16-year-old girl living in Maine, finds herself pregnant. It is not in spite of – but because of – her intelligence and warmth that she insists she will figure out a way to keep her baby. The Ridgley family is turned upside down. The natural order of things would have her mom, Liv, raising the baby while Hazel finishes high school and continues her education. Liv recently packed her son off to college and had plans to start a home renovation business. She loves her family dearly and cares for her aging parents, but Liv has no desire to start over again with an infant. Intense pressure affects each member of the family and begs to ask if we – as mothers, daughters and wives – are allowed to choose ourselves? Thoughtful, well-written and unputdownable family drama.\n\nWhat if when America won the Revolutionary War, instead of George Washington becoming our first president, he became our first king? Imagine our entire American history based on a monarchy? Author Katharine McGee has done just that. Two hundred thirty years later, Princess Beatrice, the eldest of the Washington children, has been groomed her entire life for the throne and America prepares for its first female monarch. Her father, the king, wants her to marry quickly and she is handed a short list of contenders but no one knows that Beatrice’s heart is already taken. Her sister, Princess Samantha, has a crush she must keep hidden and her twin brother, Prince Jefferson, is a handsome rule-breaker every girl in the country wants to snag or shag. Throw in a couple of friends and frenemies and this fast-paced romantic history lesson is the most fun, laugh-out-loud, clever story I’ve read in ages.\n\nThe World That We Knew\nBy Alice Hoffman\n\n1941, Berlin. The streets are swarming with Nazis. Hanni’s husband, the good doctor, has been murdered and her mother is ill. Even though it breaks her heart, Hanni must send her 12-year-old daughter Lea away. Hanni wants to keep Lea safe and far from the nightmare that has seized their world. She secretly enlists Ettie, the rabbi’s daughter, to use her forbidden knowledge and create a golem to protect Lea during her travels. This mystical creature of Jewish folklore looks human but has no soul, and is as strong as one hundred men. Throughout their escape to France and the three years afterward, Ava devotedly guards Lea’s life. From the brave convents that hid Jewish children to the courageous French Resistance that led them through the Swiss Alps, countless heroes saved thousands of lives. This magical story – filled with dancing birds carrying messages of hope and the angel of death eerily filling his notebook – will take you to a fairytale version of a very real atrocity, remembering the many who tragically disappeared and the few who survived. Author Alice Hoffman is the extraordinary talent to bring this story to life.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Plug your ears or prick them up? Photo: Joan Marcus\n\nIs beauty truly in the eye of the beholder? Or can time reveal an unknown or unheard treasure? The new musical, The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, based on the 60’s underground girl band known as The Shaggs, dares you to dream big, rethink what you know about traditional musical theatre, and open your hearts and ears to one of the strangest times in American music history.\n\nMost people arriving at Playwrights Horizons to view a performance of this new musical, that opened on Tuesday night, will probably not know much about this infamous group. The Shaggs were a sister rock group formed in Fremont, New Hampshire in the late 60’s.\n\nAs the musical would have it, the patriarch of this family, Austin Wiggins, employs his talentless daughters to form a band in hopes that this would rescue his family from their poverty-stricken, mill town lifestyle and fulfill his destiny. Armed with two guitars, a drum set, and microphones, Dot, Betty and Helen are ready to rock. There’s only one problem. The girls cannot play instruments, read music, write songs, or even sing. Okay, I guess that’s four big problems when you’re being groomed to be the next big thing since the Beatles!\n\nDepending on what decade you consider, The Shaggs have been appraised as inventive and revolutionary but also as unintelligible and just plain terrible. The trick here then is how do you present a musical about one of the worst bands in history?\n\nWell, unlike a lot of big budget Broadway jukebox musicals such as Mamma Mia, Jersey Boys and the short lived Good Vibrations (one of the worst musicals of all time), the book, music, lyric and story writers of The Shaggs, Joy Gregory and Gunnar Madsen, do not use the preexisting songs of the group and attempt to interlace a cohesive story around those songs. However they do employee the raw, non-traditional, unconventional, fearless temperament of the band to tell their true-life story.\n\nThe result is a completely compelling and engaging piece of musical theatre. The story is as funny as it is haunting and disturbing. At times we hear the band musically at its worst and yet at other times we hear a beautiful blend of harmony, compassion and melody. This is no doubt the daydream that Austin must hear and what compels him to put his family’s life savings, reputation and home on the line to hear his girls on the radio.\n\nDot, Betty, and Helen are fully realized characters portrayed by the immensely talented Jarmey Hood, Sarah Sokolovic and Emily Walton respectively. The three girls begin the show as disillusioned siblings. However, as the intense passion of their father (wonderfully portrayed by Peter Friedman) slowly turns to obsession and into his own disillusionment, each sister goes on her own emotional journey into womanhood as they all find their voice so to speak.\n\nOne of the best performances of the evening comes from the matriarch of the family, brilliantly embodied by Annie Golden. Early in the second act Ms. Golden belts out a tune called “Flyin’” that shows off her powerful fluid vocals but more importantly draws us into the raw emotional center of a women whose husband is losing his grip on reality and driving her family into the ground.\n\nYet at the center of all of these women is the excellent Peter Friedman as Austin Wiggins. Without an emotionally charged, honest, compassionate performance by Friedman this show would not work. There must be a reason this family believes in him and continues to put everything on the line for his vision of success. Friedman’s portrayal of Austin Wiggins provides the emotional heartbeat of the show and the Shaggs.\n\nThis show could easily be as much of a mess as its subject matter. However, there is a strong sense of cohesion here starting with the creative team and branching out to the actors and production team. At the helm of all of this is director John Lang. With his expert guidance and vision this show about a father’s desperate ambition to push his family out of obscurity as his three girls frantically fight for a sense of normalcy is as unsettling as it is emotionally moving and satisfying.\n\nYou may not leave the theatre humming any of these tunes but that is not necessarily a bad thing in this case. The group, the Shaggs, were not remembered for their music either. What you will remember, though, is that you saw a courageous new musical that dared you to think and feel in an unconventional way. You will remember that you saw a piece of musical theatre where the songs, the book, the acting, the design and the direction all seamlessly flowed together to tell a remarkable story and create beautiful music (seemingly out of unintelligible noise)!\n\nJason Wooden is a contributor to Exeunt Magazine\n\nThe Shaggs: Philosophy of the World Show Info" ]

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[ null, "Netflix released the final six episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, including one double-sized Sliding Doors homage, in typical fashion last week. They dropped like Santa gifts in the middle of the night. Some push alerts went out to viewers of prior seasons. Maybe you got an email on Friday reminding you to finish off the series.\n\nBut the episodes themselves fell into the gigantic, billions-of-dollars bucket of Netflix, a rectangular blip on the home screen that will be gone before you blink. Such is the current saturation of streaming TV comedy.\n\nRemember that Kimmy Schmidt got there first. As Netflix’s first successful half-hour comedy (way back in, when was it, 2015 you say ?) it marked one of the first big pulls of talent away from broadcast TV. 30 Rock creator Tina Fey and showrunner Robert Carlock brought their weird alternate-reality New York City to a story about a kidnapping survivor from Durnsville, Indiana, and her damaged new friends.\n\nIt was a show about a how an indomitably sunny woman could get past the most horrible experience of her life without letting the world beat her. With a perfectly-cast Ellie Kemper, breakout scene stealer Titus Burgess, Jane Krakowski and Carol Kane as the leads, it found firm footing fast, with lots of buzz and Emmy nominations for its first season.\n\nKimmy Falls Behind The Times!\n\nSomewhere around Season Three, though, something seemed off about Kimmy Schmidt. A flood of competing streaming comedies, from Netflix’s own BoJack Horseman, GLOW and Master of None to Fleabag and One Mississippi on Amazon, broke out of the sitcom format in more interesting ways. Kimmy Schmidt struggled with too many supporting-character B-stories, which the creators themselves admit led to a touch of bloat. The show’s most-anything-for-a-joke ethos finally went too far for some by doubling down against PC culture.\n\nLike a lot of viewers, I jumped ship somewhere around the third or fourth episode of that season. I had far too many other shows to watch. The Fey-Carlock machine-gun rhythm of the show’s joke writing started to feel overly familiar, especially coming after seven seasons of 30 Rock.\n\nOver the holidays, though, I caught up through the first half of the fourth season. I remembered why I liked it so much in the first place. Kimmy Schmidt stayed light on its", null, "feet, even when tackling the darkest of topics (trauma, gentrification, gender inequality, even rape). It featured a top-notch guest cast, in particular Jon Hamm, Maya Rudolph and the marvel that is Amy Sedaris as perpetually defeated socialite Mimi Kanasis.\n\nAnd it continued to have the best, catchiest theme song of any current TV show. Sorry, don’t fight me on this.\n\nI’d missed, most of all, the writing of Byzantine jokes like this one, delivered by Burgess to his agent: “You got me fired from ‘Cats.’ And now I’m homeless. I can’t live on the street! I’m not a car! I belong inside, like Jerry Seinfeld’s cars!”\n\nThe last six episodes, and the fourth season as a whole, feel like a return to form after a wandering, baggy Season Three. The focus seems tighter. They jettisoned dead-weight love interests (sorry, Peter Riegert and Daveed Diggs). There’s a clear sprint to an ending tying together so many subplots and the show’s prime theme: how to move forward from victimhood.\n\nBut it stays wacky and topical. Titus gets involved in a #metoo scandal involving a dirty old puppet, Kimmy tries to publish a fantasy book about toxic masculinity for young boys. All the characters somehow get involved with a tech startup that uses mobile phones and computers to spy on everyone. Beyond the sometimes slapdash plotting, there’s genuine affection and emotion under it all.\n\n“Sliding Van Doors,” the double-length episode, imagines life if Kimmy hadn’t been abducted and if Titus missed his Lion King audition, both events hinging on a Durnsville screening of the Gwyneth Paltrow movie Sliding Doors. It’s a great showcase for Kemper, who gets to play a career-climbing, fully-grown-up version of Kimmy completely different from the character we’ve been rooting for. It’s an episode that will wear on the patience of some: it’s a long way to go to deliver the message that Kimmy shouldn’t live her life wishing things had gone differently.", null, "But those threads pay off in the finale of the show, allowing a time jump where each of the four leads has let go of the past to end up where they’ve always wanted. Kimmy finds a way to improve the world without exploiting her “Mole Woman” fame and to forgive everyone who’s let her down in the past. Titus stops being selfish long enough to fall in love and find success in entertainment. Jacqueline quits relying on powerful men to define her life. And even Lillian finds a way to make herself an immortal part of New York City without killing anyone.\n\nIt’s a generous end for a show, even for one as perpetually sunny as this one. And the door appears open for one-off movies or specials in the future.\n\nNow’s the time to petition Netflix for more: allow me to request a Titus Andromedon variety special featuring Maya Rudolph returning with her loopy, delightfully wrong Dionne Warwick impression. That’s going to be a uh, you know, uh, fascinating transition.\n\nOne thought on “Farewell, Kimmy Schmidt”" ]

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[ null, "Emanuele Giaccherini's agent has confirmed a deal to take the Italy international to Napoli is \"all done\".\n\nGiaccherini has endured a largely ineffective three-year spell at Sunderland, struggling to adapt to the physicality of the Premier League, after joining from Juventus in 2013.\n\nHaving spent last season on loan at Bologna, the 31-year-old impressed hugely at Euro 2016 with a series of influential displays for the Azzurri.\n\nThat sparked interest from Torino, but it appears Napoli have pipped them to Giaccherini's signature.\n\nHis agent Furio Valcareggi told Radio CRC: \"We're almost there, it's all done for Giaccherini, the last few details are being ironed out with Sunderland.\n\n\"The boy is very happy. It was a choice made by him and his wife.\n\n\"He's finally getting what he deserves after being underestimated for years.\"\n\nOn Torino's interest, Valcareggi added: \"We had an agreement but then came an offer from Napoli.\n\n\"[Torino chairman Urbano] Cairo may not agree with our choice but he will understand why. The career of a footballer is short and everyone has the right to choose.\n\n\"It was inevitable that an offer by Napoli would be answered affirmatively.\"" ]

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[ null, "To return to the theme of reissues that i was exploring recently, another composer whose work has hitherto been languishing relatively unheard is the Canadian John Oswald. i first encountered his music around 25 years ago, at a Birmingham Symphony Hall concert where the Kronos Quartet included his astonishing electroacoustic piece Mach, which left me buzzing with excitement for weeks after, and which i’ve subsequently been hoping – so far, in vain – that i might someday encounter again. In the years since, i’ve got to know his output quite well, though in many ways i still find it among the most discombobulating stuff i’ve ever encountered.\n\nThere’s more to Oswald than just this, but a great deal of his work has been articulating a compositional approach that he initially described as ‘plunderphonic’. As the name implies, and to put it somewhat crudely, plunderphonics involves the literal plundering of extant musical materials as quotational creative building blocks – and even as i write those words i’m forced to reflect on how trivial and unproblematic that idea seems in 2020, when so much music (across so many genres) begs, borrows and steals from other music, with varying quantities of courage, openness and/or shame. Many years ago Oswald summarised his outlook in conversation with David Toop:\n\nI was really interested in that idea of legitimate quotation, which isn’t built into the system […] You don’t have quote marks in musical notation or in recordings, for that matter. But you can annotate your sources. I tend to call the portions of things that I use Electro-quotations. The thing that’s perhaps perverse in the analogy with literature is that I’m very rarely just quoting. Although I tend not to filter or distort the sound, I transform it so much in time that it’s not just free quotation. It’s some sort of elaboration. It’s like the commentary is built in. What you usually get in journalism or literature is that the quotation doesn’t usually represent the whole essay. It’s something that’s used as a trigger point for a commentary or elaboration. In music, I think you can do those kind of things simultaneously. You can have all sorts of things happening where the quotation is recognisable as itself, even though it’s been transformed in some way. So that’s when you get into this Electro-quotation thing, when the source is still familiar. It’s Electro-quotation if you’re making an electronic quote of something and it’s Plunderphonics if you’re screwing around with that quote.\n[David Toop, Ocean of Sound, pp. 262–3]\n\nOver the years Oswald’s work has often met with a great deal of litigious hostility due to his fondness for plundering the work of prominent pop and rock artists, resulting in much of his output lurking at the fringes of accessibility and, depending on your outlook, legality. (It would be nice to think this is an outdated issue, yet in just the last few years when Marco Ciciliani was putting together the lavish CD/book of his glorious 24-part epic Pop Wall Alphabet – each movement of which acts as a superimposition and distillation of a single pop album – he decided to avoid releasing it ‘officially’ due to the possibility of legal action resulting from copyright infringement, instead issuing it on a private basis. The apparent threat, whether real or imagined, has not yet gone away.) Until recently, almost everything that i had by Oswald in my collection had been obtained from a number of official and unofficial places on the web, but it’s an absolute delight to report that Oswald is now currently working through his back catalogue making it available via Bandcamp in pristine new reissues.", null, "Among the earliest of these are the Mystery Tapes, which Oswald began to create in the mid-1970s. These were home-made cassette tapes with hand-written inserts that provided hints and descriptions of what was going on. The presence of these is, no doubt, a small mitigating concession due to the titular ‘mystery’ of these recordings, which each comprise a disorienting journey through an implausibly diverse welter of improbably juxtaposed cut-up slivers, morsels and slabs of recordings. The inserts thereby act as something of a navigational listening aid as well as an upfront confession of at least some of the sources to have been plundered. These tapes were subject to revision and reissue themselves, so all of them exist in a number of different iterations; the new digital reissues are of the latest versions. i’m not sure exactly how many Mystery Tapes saw light of day, but the most well-known of them (by which i mean the ones most widely-shared around the internet), Jesus Kissing in the Dark (1986), X1 and X2 (both 1987) are all among the new reissues. It’s important to stress that these reissues are not, in the usual sense of the word, remastered. Oswald described them to me as being\n\nextensively restored from analogue tapes in a variety of conditions, and in some cases segmented for online presentation. This involves in all cases mostly unnoticed ‘remastering’ or in other words, the final polishing of a master tape to fit in a medium or a genre; and usually, a final attempt to sound better. A very few of the Mystery Tape segments have been modified (mostly ‘editing’); in which case a new version number is applied, which is a process that has been true for these xTapes since the beginning.\n\nMy reading of this is that for the most part they’re simply digital captures of the original tapes, subject to a little minor tinkering – which is entirely in keeping with the occasional tweaks and reissues that have always been characteristic of the Mystery Tapes. Considering the age and nature of these analogue sources, the sound quality is absolutely superb, though to a large degree the same can also be said of the official and unofficial mp3s that have been doing the rounds for the last couple of decades – reinforcing the fact that minimal remastering has been applied here.", null, "i said that the inserts to the Mystery Tapes serve as a form of navigation, but to my ear – and this applies to pretty much all of Oswald’s plunderphonic work – navigation seems to be somewhat beside the point. This is, after all, surely the ne plus ultra of music that can be described as being more than the sum of its parts. From a superficial perspective, plunderphonics might seem to be all parts and no sum – yet it doesn’t take long to realise that the opposite is true. Knowing something of the lineage and provenance is of anecdotal interest, but the more time i’ve spent with John Oswald’s output over the years, the less those details seem to matter. It’s not unlike looking through a kaleidoscope; what makes the effect so engaging aren’t all the individual motes and slivers of colour but the broader connections, collisions and patterns formed between the multiplicity of colours. As an acknowledgement of this, while the digital reissues have been divided up into short segments, they each also include the whole thing as a single uninterrupted track. In my experience it’s these that make for the best listening experience, encouraging longer-term listening scope as well as getting closer to the original (undivided) cassette format.", null, "The abrupt shifts and contortions to which Oswald subjects his materials are often downright hilarious, highlighting the mischievous tone that pervades pretty much his entire output. For example, on Kissing Jesus in the Dark, a christian evangelist is punctuated by percussion fills, fittingly transforming his in(s)ane drivel into a series of punchlines, while ‘ends meet’ compiles a collection of retro stings to create three minutes of music that constantly sounds like it’s just trying to end. X1 features a rehearsal for Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring that gets hijacked by a small wind and brass group who repeat the same two-bar oom-pah phrase (to the occasional accompaniment of birdsong) for minutes on end; importantly, it’s not a loop, it’s clear that this banal fragment is literally being played again and again and again, full of little inadvertent variations and inaccuracies due to tiredness or boredom. There’s also a disconcertingly fluid rendition of ‘Jolene’, the playback speed shifting by huge amounts, causing Dolly Parton to apparently switch genders between phrases.", null, "Yet mischief and humour are only a part of what Oswald is doing. i spoke before about focusing away from the track-by-track form of listening towards a broader scope, and this is reinforced by the longer sequences on the Mystery Tapes, which are less concerned with jump cuts and collage than with far more ambitious forms of assemblage. It’s in these that the humour falls away to reveal an impressive sensitivity to how seemingly incongruous materials can be brought together in such a way that the different kinds of friction, tension and sympathy they cause are nonetheless cohesive, even complementary. Some of the best examples of this occur in ‘WX2’ on Kissing Jesus in the Dark. Early on an ostensibly non sequitur collection of sources are presented – choral music, a folk jig, something Eastern, loud drums, some brass – from which a synthesis is fashioned, combining them into an uproar that sounds enormously joyous, in no small part due to how united it all seems. Some time later (around 13 minutes in), the music has shifted to an overall Indian tone but comprising multiple discrete layers, superimposed yet acting in complete sympathy with each other, forming a dreamy kind of incense-clouded sonic fug. Likewise, the 9-minute opening of X2 throws together Stravinsky with the Seven Dwarfs’ ‘Heigh-Ho’ before opening out into a beautifully still dronal expanse that only gradually allows in more active elements, including gentle percussion and tinkling chimes. It sets up an oscillation between blissful reverie and modest playfulness that’s deeply engrossing and in some respects a paradigm for the Mystery Tapes as a whole." ]

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[ "The most common question I get asked is “Will my child get Alzheimer’s disease?” In my experience, this concern is one of the biggest worries for sufferers, and given the devastating effects of the disease, it is not hard to see why it is a difficult thought to contemplate.\n\nFor those people with a familial form of Alzheimer’s disease, the answer is quite straightforward. This type of disease is caused by one or more mutation(s) in one of three genes: the amyloid precursor protein (APP), Presenilin 1 (PSEN1) and Presenilin 2 (PSEN2). All of these genes are involved in the production of the amyloid protein. This protein accumulates to form sticky buildups known as plaques, which are found between the cells of the Alzheimer brain and are characteristic of disease.\n\nThose of us who are concerned that they may be at risk from familial Alzheimer’s disease can get a definitive answer through one of the many genetic tests available. A single copy of the mutated gene inherited from an affected parent will ultimately cause disease, with symptoms likely to be noticed before the age of 65 and typically between 30 and 60 years of age. Anyone concerned that they may suffer from this form of Alzheimer’s should seek a referral to a genetic counsellor.\n\nFortunately, families with a familial form of disease represent less than 1% of all families afflicted by this debilitating disease. For the remaining Alzheimer’s disease families, the answer as to the inheritance of disease is much less clear, and disease onset is certainly not inevitable.\n\nA combination of both genetic and environmental factors, such as age and gender, contribute to non-familial (also known as sporadic) disease risk, but how these risk factors interact and how many risk factors are required to cause disease is still unknown.\n\nThe genetics of non-familial Alzheimer’s is complex: we know that nearly thirty genes, common in the general population, influence disease risk, with potentially hundreds more involved. Additionally, two genes of low frequency have consistently been identified, with an imminent publication by the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project, showing another two rare genes have a relatively large effect on disease risk.\n\nPerhaps most excitingly for researchers, genetics scientists have shown that four biological processes in Alzheimer’s disease – that were not previously thought to play a casual role in disease onset – are actually involved. The first process is the immune response, in particular the actions of immune cells and how these potentially dysfunction, attacking the brain, which results in brain cell death.\n\nThe second is the transport of molecules into the cell, suggesting that there is a mechanism for the movement of damaging proteins into the brain. The third process that has a role in the onset of Alzheimer’s is the synthesis and breakdown of fatty molecules. And the fourth is the processing of proteins that alters protein breakdown, movement, activity and interactions – all of which are essential for normal protein function.", null, "Age is the greatest risk factor for disease, with the likelihood of developing Alzheimer’s roughly doubling every five years over the age of 65. Women also have more chance of developing the disease than men, potentially due to a reduction in female hormones after menopause.\n\nMedical conditions that increase risk for dementia include cardiovascular factors (type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and obesity), and depression. While lifestyle factors such as physical inactivity, a diet that increases cholesterol, smoking and excessive alcohol intake, have all been shown to influence disease risk.\n\nEven for those with a high number of genetic, environmental and lifestyle risk factors, Alzheimer’s disease is not inevitable. Likewise, individuals with a low number of risk factors for disease are not precluded from developing Alzheimer’s.\n\nGiven this lack of certainty and the lack of effective treatments for Alzheimer’s, most experts don’t recommend genetic testing for non-familial disease. This thinking may well evolve in the future, however, when research identifies new risk genes and improves our understanding of the dysfunctional processes in Alzheimer’s disease.\n\nAnswering the burning question, whether you will pass Alzheimer’s disease on to your children, is therefore still a near impossibility. But, as early diagnostic techniques improve, and with the prospect of a number of vaccines and therapeutics currently in clinical trials, risk prediction for Alzheimer’s disease may become mainstream and part of a developing precision medicine culture." ]

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[ null, "Paris St-Germain scored two late objectives in a thrilling rebound against Atalanta to arrive at the Champions League semi-finals without precedent for a long time.\n\nA night of dissatisfaction for PSG forward Neymar looked set to guarantee more mainland disillusionment for the French bosses as unfancied Atalanta drove through Mario Pasalic.\n\nIn any case, the Brazil forward then laid on a 90th-minute equalizer for Marquinhos and substitute Kylian Mbappe teed up previous Stoke striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting to slide in the victor.\n\nOn the 50th commemoration of the club’s establishing, it looked like being a recognizable story of disappointment for PSG on European club football’s greatest stage.\n\nNeymar, the world’s most costly player, was very frequently the main brilliant sparkle for Thomas Tuchel’s side, but at the same time was blameworthy of two glaring misses.\n\nHowever, the presentation of Mbappe – the world’s second-most costly player – demonstrated vital as his pace and quality at last fixed the obstinate Atalanta rearguard to give an amazing finale to the first legged quarter-last in the re-molded rivalry.\n\nPSG will currently confront either RB Leipzig or Atletico Madrid in the main semi-last next Tuesday night.\n\nFootball Daily digital recording: Euro Leagues: Will Man City cause it, to can Barca show signs of improvement of Bayern?\n\nPSG have made a propensity for finding implausible approaches to lose in the Champions League since their development as a worldwide power off the pitch – with Barcelona’s rebound from 4-0 down three years back maybe the most outstanding.\n\nWhat’s more, Tuchel could well have joined Unai Emery, Carlo Ancelotti and Laurent Blanc in paying for that disappointment with his activity with another setback in Lisbon.\n\nChampions League debutants Atalanta without a doubt commenced as dark horses yet have been magnificent all season, scoring 98 objectives in Serie An and playing alluring, liquid, assaulting football.\n\nNeymar had just botched one radiant opportunity – running clean through on objective however shooting wide – when Pasalic topped an ordinarily slick Atalanta assault with a splendid left-footed styler to give the Italian side the lead.\n\nNeymar – whose compensation was accounted for this week to be equivalent to that of the entire Atalanta crew – bursted wide again when all around put.\n\nBe that as it may, surprisingly the previous Barcelona man, brought to Paris to a great extent to convey in this opposition, kept on buckling down for his side, driving them forward throughout the night.\n\nHis 16 finished spills were the most in a Champions League game since Lionel Messi for Barcelona against Manchester United in April 2008.\n\nHe was in every case prone to create PSG’s conclusive second in the event that one showed up, and Marquinhos jumped on the finish of his hazardous ball across objective to jab in the equalizer similarly as a drained Atalanta looked ready to record an immense stun.\n\nTheir heads naturally went down as extra-time lingered yet the fit-again Mbappe – superb from the second he ventured onto the pitch – floated past their barrier again to lay on a tap-in for Choupo-Moting, a free exchange from the Potteries two years prior.\n\nIt was just a third win in 11 quarter-last matches in the European Cup for the French side. Would they be able to now go as far as possible and guarantee the prize they pine for most?\n\n‘It’s difficult to dispense with us’\n\nNeymar: “I never thought of returning home. From the warm-up to the end, we had confidence in it. We never surrendered. Nobody will take this longing to go to the last away from me.\n\n“We are an extraordinary gathering, we are a family, so we realize that with this perspective, it is difficult to dispense with us.”\n\nThomas Tuchel: “I considered disposal, following 88 minutes at 1-0, I am reasonable. Yet, I didn’t have the inclination that we weren’t going to score.\n\n“I told my aides that on the off chance that we scored an objective we would win. After this match, these endeavors are completely merited.”\n\nAtalanta manager Gian Piero Gasperini: “We came close, it was close. It looked as though we could do it, pull off an incredible accomplishment.\n\n“Mbappe coming into the game, joined with the nearness of Neymar, changed things for PSG. He gave a vitality to PSG, who were losing the match – it was essential as a result of what he brought to the game.”" ]

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[ "Temperate Glimpse Into a Warming World\n\nFor the past six years, multidisciplinary researchers from across the world have been probing northern Minnesota peat bogs in an unprecedented, long-range study of climate change supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. They set out to answer complex questions, including one big one – will future warming somehow release 10,000 years of accumulated carbon from peatlands that store a large portion of earth’s terrestrial carbon?\n\nSo the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) partnered with the USDA Forest Service to develop a one-of-its-kind field lab in the Marcel Experimental Forest, where below and above ground heating elements are gradually warming the bog in greenhouse-like enclosures big enough to include trees. The enclosures are roofless so that rain and snow can get in.\n\nIt’s called the SPRUCE (Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments) experiment, and it was designed as a window into what would happen to peat bogs in a warmer world. A recent study, headed by Georgia Institute of Technology microbiologist Joel Kostka and published June 14 in the journal PNAS, provides a sobering outlook.\n\n“The real concern and one of the major conclusions of this paper is that the ecosystem we’re studying is becoming more methanogenic,” said Kostka, professor and associate chair of research in the School of Biological Sciences, who holds a joint appointment in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and focuses on microbial ecology. “In other words, the warmed bog is enhancing the rate of methane production faster than that for carbon dioxide. This is what we think is going to happen in a warming world, based on our results.”\n\nMethanogens are microbes that produce methane, a harmful greenhouse gas that traps up to 30 times more heat than carbon dioxide. Warming the peatland, the researchers found, basically creates a methane production line.\n\n“This occurs because the plant community changes in response to warmer temperatures – mosses decrease and vascular plants increase,” said the paper’s lead author, Rachel Wilson, a researcher with Florida State University’s Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, where she works in the lab of professor Jeff Chanton, co-author and co-principal investigator of the study.\n\nThe process forms a complete cycle: Vascular plants – shrubs and grass-like plants – produce more simple sugars, which are broken down by fermentative bacteria, and the breakdown products then fuel methane-producing microbes use to produce more methane.\n\nWhile peatlands comprise just 3 percent of the Earth’s landmass, they store about one-third of the planet’s soil carbon. The thinking goes, as global temperatures rise, microbes could break into the carbon bank and the resulting decomposition of the ancient, combustible plant biomass would lead to increased levels of carbon dioxide and methane being released into the atmosphere, accelerating climate change.\n\n“Methane is a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide,” said Wilson. “Warming the climate stimulates methane production, which will contribute to more warming in a positive feedback loop.”\n\nIt’s a scenario that Chanton called, “a critical ecosystem shift. Peat soils that have been stable for thousands of years are giving up the ghost, so to speak. It’s a testy little process.”\n\nThat unpleasant outcome is being delayed somewhat by the extreme conditions found in many peat bogs around the world, including at the SPRUCE experiment site.\n\n“Although most peatlands are in northern regions undergoing some of the most rapid warming on the planet, we’re talking about generally cold, acidic soils where there’s no oxygen,” Kostka noted. “Methanogens grow really slowly under these extreme conditions. We do see their activity increasing with warming, but they’re not yet growing that fast.”\n\nHe has a good idea of what could happen, though. Several years ago, Kostka took soil samples from the Minnesota site and tested them in his lab at Georgia Tech, exaggerating the temperature to a much greater degree than would be possible in a large-scale experiment like SPRUCE.\n\nRaising the temperature by 20 degrees Celsius, about twice the temperature range used in the field experiment, “we saw huge increases in methane and large changes in the microbes that break down soil carbon into greenhouse gases,” he said.\n\nIt's a sped-up version of what they’re seeing in the field where the research team, Kostka explained, “and it is just beginning to scratch the surface of the changes we’re seeing in this ecosystem.”\n\nThe SPRUCE site experiment involves two kinds of treatment, warming and also elevated carbon dioxide. The warming treatment started in 2014. All of the data sets for the PNAS paper are from 2016. The elevated carbon dioxide treatment began in the final days of data collection, so it wasn’t particularly relevant for this study. “Going forward, we’re thinking the effects of elevated carbon dioxide will be one potential future story to tell,” Kostka said. “This is a long-term experiment and many of these large scale climate change field experiments do not observe substantial changes to microbial communities until 10 years after they start.”\n\nSo far, the evidence is pointing to a grim possibility: Warming enhances the production of carbon substrates from plants, stimulating microbial activity and greenhouse gas production, possibly leading to amplified climate-peatland feedbacks. Think, gasoline on a fire.\n\n“That would be the worst case scenario,” Kostka said. “We don’t really know yet how plants and microbes will exchange carbon and nutrients in a warmer world. Will that carbon be locked up by the plants and stored in the soil? Will it be respired by microbes and released as a gas?\n\nWe are just beginning to see major changes in the microbes and plants at the SPRUCE peatland. Although the first few years of the experiment indicate that a lot more methane will be released to the atmosphere, we will be looking to see if these changes are sustained over the long term.”\n\nNSF Supports Research on the Microbes in Peat Moss", null, null ]

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[ null, "Climate change is certainly an urgent challenge. Rising levels of greenhouse gases are raising temperatures worldwide, leading to shifting weather patterns that are only expected to get worse, with increased flooding and heat waves, and drought and wildfiresafflicting millions. The task of reversing that accumulation of greenhouse gases is vast, and progress is painfully slow. The idea of a moon shot for climate has been gaining supporters. Beto O’Rourke and Kirsten Gillibrand use the idea in their presidential campaigns, as did Michael Bloomberg in unveiling his recently announced $500 million Beyond Carbon campaign. In a commencement speech this year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he said, “It is time for all of us to accept that climate change is the challenge of our time.” He concluded, “It may be a moon shot — but it’s the only shot we’ve got.”\n\nDoes the enduring metaphor fit the task of countering the grinding destructiveness of a warming planet?\n\nClimate presents more complicated issues than getting to the moon did, said John M. Logsdon, historian of the space program and founder of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. In 1970, Dr. Logsdon wrote a book, “The Decision to Go to the Moon,” that laid out four conditions that made Apollo possible. In the case of the space program, the stimulus was the first human spaceflight of the Russian cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin, which filled Americans with dread of losing the space race. In an interview, Dr. Logsdon said it has to be “a singular act that would force action, that you couldn’t ignore.” Other moon shot prerequisites, he said, include leaders in a position to direct the resources necessary to meet the goal on “a warlike basis,” with very deep national pockets — people like President Kennedy, who began the program, and Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, who brought it to fruition. Finally, Dr. Logsdon said, “the objective has to be technically feasible.” Scientists and engineers had told Mr. Kennedy that “there were no technical show stoppers in sending humans to the moon — it would just take a hell of a lot of engineering.”" ]

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[ "Joey Defrancesco, the munificent Jazz Organist, saxophonist, and trumpeter of America died on...\nHomeEntertainmentGinny And Georgia...", null, "Hey reader! Gear up! In the year ahead, Netflix is getting ready to appear on your television. Yes, it’s true! The creators have already announced the release of a sequel to one of Netflix’s blockbuster comedy series. Are you excited? Yes, we are. And we can’t wait to binge-watch the next episode.\n\nRight? That is what most individuals want to see. Fans are eager to learn about any changes after its 2021 renewal. Don’t worry, we’re here to help! We’ve covered all the most important changes for the near future in this post, so you’ll never be caught off guard again.\n\nJust keep reading until the end of the book, and we’ll deliver on our promise. Release, Casting, Writing, and More of the SERIES!\n\nNetflix commissioned a new comedy-drama series from American screenwriter and producer Sarah Lampert, who created the popular comedy program “Orange Is the New Black.” The program’s initial season premiered in February 2021. It’s been a long time since this series first premiered, and it has received a lot of adoration from the audience. Right now, the interest is at an all-time high, isn’t it?\n\nDivorce is the subject of this heartbreaking series, which follows two women, Ginny and Georgia respectively a 15-year-old high school student and her 30-year-old mother through their quest for personal authenticity as they leave behind their families and friends. The last portion of the script for which has been completed, and production may begin at any time.\n\nToronto and Cobourg, Ontario are the filming locations.\n\nWhat’s Brewing For The Upcoming Sequel- Run Hide Fight? We’ll Make Sure You Don’t Miss Anything!\n\nIs The Ginny And Georgia Season 2 Trailer Released?\n\nThe creators have not yet released the official trailer for the Ginny And Georgia Season 2 series, leaving us with no trailer at present. Netflix published a fantastic and enjoyable video, in which the cast gathered to announce the arrival.\n\nIsn’t it amazing? Right? I mean, we definitely have a greater appetite for the sequel now that we’ve seen this first trailer. If you are new to the series check out the trailer for the first season and make yourself familiar with the characters.\n\nWill Ginny And Georgia Season 2 Hit The Screen This Year?\n\nThe sequel was first announced in the month of April 2021, following the show’s tremendous popularity. However, filming has not yet begun. Due to the worldwide pandemic as well as a scarcity of fuel, production was delayed.\n\nWhen can we expect to hear more? Because there has yet to be an official release date announced, we may anticipate the second season to premiere around the middle of 2022 based on current developments in the series. Nothing will be able to match what it gave in the first season!\n\nThe cast of the Ginny And Georgia first season is expected to return for the sequel, and while they were quiet about the second season’s production, they certainly seemed eager to reprise their roles. There is no word on whether or not we’ll see any new characters.\n\nThe last few pages of the script will list all of the characters and their roles. Let us have a look at it.\n\nWe can be heroes! Get a sneak peek into its cast, plot, reviews, and more!\n\nThe Ginny And Georgia Season first season chronicled a number of themes, including the title characters’ love lives, new friendships, an election, and even a criminal case. With that in mind, the first season came to a conclusion with a lot of loose ends that need to be tightly knitted.\n\nThe story of the main characters Ginny and Georgia, in which one is a girl in England in 1823 who becomes Sir Percival’s apprentice, will be told. You’ll be able to see the sequel in 2020 when there is information regarding the plot. Did Ginny and Austin really flee? What happened to her friendship with Marcus? Is it possible that Georgia’s wedding will proceed as planned?\n\nThe creators of the series have already stated that a lot will happen towards the conclusion of Ginny And Georgia Season one, and it’s possible that they’ll come up with a surprise twist in the narrative. You never know, right?\n\nThe series has been highly anticipated, and we can see how much interest there is among the fans. Are you looking forward to the sequel?\n\nTill then stay tuned with alphanewscall for more updates about Ginny And Georgia Season 2." ]

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[ null, "A group of well-intentioned but ill-informed hikers carried a foal for over an hour in Dartmoor when they believed it had been abandoned. The foal was bottle-raised for five days but ultimately died.\n\nAs reported by Horse & Hound, on May 27 a group of hikers out for a walk in the moorland of Dartmoor in Devon, England came upon a day-old foal who appeared to be alone. Concerned that the foal had either been abandoned or that something serious had happened to its mother, the hikers carried the foal for an hour, leaving him beside a distinctive hill and then continuing on to a nearby inn to get help.\n\nThe inn put the group in touch with Charlotte Faulkner, who operates the Friends of the Dartmoor Hill Pony website; Faulkner and her daughter, however, were unable to find the foal in the location described by the hikers. The foal was finally located just before dark and was then transported to Faulkner’s home in a car. At this point, the foal was quite dehydrated and was immediately bottle-fed.\n\nDespite Faulkner’s care, as well as an unsuccessful two-day search for the foal’s dam, “Billy” died after five days.\n\nThis story parallels the recent headline in the United States in mid-May, when a pair of tourists in Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park picked up a bison calf that they too believed had been abandoned, and placed it in their car. Efforts by park rangers to reintroduce the calf failed, and the animal needed to be euthanized. Yellowstone’s bison are wild animals; they are not a domesticated species.\n\nThe ponies living in a semi-feral state on Dartmoor are considered Dartmoor Hill Ponies, and cannot be registered as a purebred with the Dartmoor Pony Society. Several hundred weaned foals become available for purchase or adoption in the fall, with about 10% of those weanlings returning to the semi-feral herds, which are owned by the local farmers. The ponies are protected by law and allowed to free-range on Dartmoor, and it is illegal to feed them.\n\nFaulkner of the Friends of the Dartmoor Hill Pony told Horse & Hound that this was the second recent incident of the public believing a foal had been abandoned. It’s important to note that horses, as compared to other species such as the white-tailed deer, do not typically “hide” their foals and forage, but keep their foals at their sides at all times. However, even if a feral foal seems to be abandoned, it’s critical that he not be handled or moved from the site at which he is found — this increases the chances of finding the foal’s mother and minimizes his risk of dehydration or injury while being moved.\n\nThe public at Dartmoor is being reminded not to touch the ponies or foals, and to notify the Dartmoor livestock protection officer if they are concerned about the well-being of a pony. The officer will then identify the pony and contact the farmer who owns it. While the public, including this group of hikers who moved Billy the foal, has good intentions of helping animals perceived to be in distress, the choice of action is often not in the animal’s best interest.\n\nThis sobering story reminds us that in a rapidly-changing world, the general public is growing further and further away from the kind of knowledge of livestock and animals that used to be common in the days in which a majority of our society might have been rural-based and involved in agriculture. The knowledge we take for granted in our life as equestrians is totally foreign to many members of the general public. While this kind of ignorance is mostly harmless, sometimes even amusing (“doesn’t your horse get cold in the pasture in the winter?”) it can also be dangerous (“that horse is hanging his head and looks sad, he might be abused”).\n\nThis heartbreaking story is a reminder that while we might love the exclusivity that naturally arises in the equestrian world, a sort of secret society we share only with other horse lovers, it’s also our duty to help educate animal lovers who might act out of the best of intentions. Perhaps this foal’s life could have been saved if these hikers had known just a little bit more.\n\n[‘It was devastating’: death of foal ‘rescued’ by well-meaning walkers]" ]

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[ null, "© 20th Century Fox/Estudios Picasso/Origen ….\nViggo Mortensen is on a movie mission. He's so keen to spread the word about his new film, Alatriste that when he runs out of time and has to catch a plane, he rings back when there is a delay at check-in because there's just so much more he wants to say.\n\nThe movie, screening at ACMI's La Mirada Spanish film festival, was made in Spain, and in Spanish - which Mortensen speaks fluently. It is based on a phenomenally successful series of historical novels, and was a big hit in its homeland. Now Mortensen hopes it will find an audience worldwide, although he's more than a little frustrated by its slow progress into overseas markets.\n\nHe is passionate about every aspect of Alatriste: not only the film itself, its central character, and the experience of making it, but also about what it has to say of history and culture. This is a sore point for him. Everyone, Mortensen says ruefully, has heard about the Spanish Inquisition - usually via Monty Python or Errol Flynn swashbucklers - but, too often, that's where general knowledge of the Spanish Empire of the 17th century begins and ends. With a cliche.\n\nEven in Spain, he says, the situation is not much better.\n\nAlatriste draws on material from the first five of the Captain Alatriste novels by Arturo Perez-Reverte, two of which have been translated into English. They revolve around the adventures of the title character, a soldier in the first half of the 17th century, who becomes a sword for hire after leaving the army.\n\nThere's a swashbuckling element with action, swordplay and combat. And the swordmaster on the film, Bob Anderson, also worked on The Lord of the Rings. But there is also a good deal about character and individual relationships, about art, intrigue and court politics.\n\nAt the beginning of the movie, Alatriste is entrusted with the care of a dying soldier's young son, and he takes this charge seriously, bringing the boy up as best he can, and also trying to help him appreciate art and literature: he does not want him to have a soldier's fate. Alatriste has a relationship with a beautiful actress - played by Ariadna Gil (the mother in Pan's Labyrinth) who loves him, but is ambitious.\n\nOne of Alatriste's good friends is the poet Quevedo, a historical character: a fine performance, says Mortensen, from Juan Echanove. One of the things that was great about the film, he says, is the size of the cast: \"Normally I would have had to have made half a dozen films in Spain to work with so many great actors and actresses.\"\n\nAnother cast member is Blanca Portillo, who can be seen as the short-haired neighbour in Pedro Almodovar's Volver. She plays, in an interesting twist, a male character, a member of the Inquisition. There's something ambiguous and intriguing about the performance. There was criticism of the casting in Spain, but Mortensen regards it as another example of the director's willingness to do things differently, to find a less obvious way to depict a character who exercises power behind the scenes.\n\nMortensen, who has already made two movies in Spain, lived in Argentina until the age of 11. But he had to work hard, he says, to modify his Argentine accent, to make his Spanish appropriate for the time and the character. As part of his research into Alatriste and his origins, he went (after first checking with Perez-Reverte) in search of a location that would help him with authenticity.\n\n\"I found an area in the north in the mountains of Leon province, in north-central Spain, where people seemed to be like this character. They're a little cautious, they don't say much, the rhythms are slower, and when you go into one of these towns and you walk into a bar, it feels like you're in a Sergio Leone movie. Everyone shuts up as soon as you come in, and you need to go back several times over a period of days until anyone will really speak to you very much.\"\n\nAnd, to deepen his understanding of the period, he read widely, in history, poetry and drama. This is the time, after all, of an extraordinary flowering of Spanish culture. Theatre was universally valued and people in Madrid, no matter how poor, took themselves off to the theatre every day, Mortensen says. The film spans the eras of Lope de Vega and Calderon, Spain's equivalents of Shakespeare\n.\nMortensen also went in search of art. He visited galleries, going to the Prado and further afield, because he also wanted to look at Flemish and Dutch art of the time. One of the best Flemish and Dutch collections, he says, is in Denmark, so he took himself there as well. The paintings of Velazquez are a touchstone for the design and lighting of the film. Alatriste's director, Agustin Diaz Yanes, was an academic before he became a filmmaker, specialising in history and art of the 17th century.\n\nResearch and the opportunity to make discoveries, Mortensen says, is what he appreciates about acting: his work is about \"what you make of it after you're lucky enough to get the job\".\n\nIt's not just the details of performance, it's much more.\n\n\"Do you want to focus on mannerisms, or do you want to keep expanding?\" Making a film such as Alatriste is \"like going to a specialised university and getting paid for it. It was a great education for me.\"\n\nMortensen would like to work with Diaz Yanes again. In the meantime, he has just finished a second film with director David Cronenberg, titled Eastern Promises. Cronenberg, he says, is a wonderful director, \"and he just gets better and better.\n\n\"I think this one will surprise people a little bit. It's an ambitious bit of narrative filmmaking. I've been very lucky, in the last few years, with the directors and actors I've worked with. I hope to get to work with him a third time.\"\n\nTo his delight, he was able to introduce Alatriste's director, Diaz Yanes and Cronenberg, when he and Cronenberg were in Spain to publicise their film A History of Violence. The two directors have a similar dark sense of humour and he knew they would hit it off.\n\nThere is one more thing that Mortensen wants to add, right at the end of the conversation. He would like to send his best wishes to a longtime Melbourne resident. His greetings - and his congratulations, for a Spanish Academy Award nomination - go to the head of make-up for Alatriste, Jose Luis Perez, who lives in East Bentleigh, and who worked on The Lord of the Rings. He's glad to know Perez and his family can see the film in their home town. Now he just wants to do whatever he can to help it travel further afield." ]

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[ null, "The Nigerian lyricist became very famous with his pro political song titled ‘Jagbajantis’ which he released in the 2001 under the Kennis Music record label.\n\nOn the song, Sound Sultan comments on social issues in Nigeria on an Afrobeat-influenced production.\n\nThe 41-year-old singer has also put out another single, ‘OSAC’ which means ‘Orginal Situation, Artificial Concern’." ]

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[ null, null, "RSO: Richie Sambora + Orianthi are pleased to announce they have partnered with Legacy Australia for their upcoming national tour, providing the opportunity for Veterans’ family members to join their team as “RSO Roadies For A Day”.\nWorld-class guitarists Richie Sambora and Orianthi have worked passionately with a range of programs and charities over the years, demonstrating their unwavering support for the armed forces. They are ecstatic to support such a respected organisation in Orianthi’s home country.\n“I’ve supported the military for so many years, in many different ways. We are both delighted to be working with Legacy on our Australian tour, to show our support for Australia’s military and their families.” said Sambora.\nIn Australia, Legacy’s main priority is the welfare of the families of servicemen and women who gave their lives or health while serving their country. It is fitting then that veterans’ families around the country will be given the unique opportunity to become an “RSO Roadie For A Day”.\nWhen made aware of the incredible work Legacy does in Australia for war widows and their families, Richie and Orianthi were determined to offer something special to acknowledge their strength and courage.\nAt each of the band’s four Australian concerts starting in Adelaide on Monday 26 September, Legacy Australia has selected some of their beneficiaries for this once-in-a-lifetime experience. The Legacy people will work with the RSO team in the VIP Packages area. They will play an important part in pulling the show together for the fans from helping prep the area at each venue, to managing the VIP photo opportunities. And of course, after all that hard work, sit back and enjoy the show!\nThe Legacy Roadies are of various ages and have lost parents, husbands or partners in different conflicts, including Shay-Leah Martin who lost her husband Jamie, a veteran of Afghanistan and East Timor, to a very rare form of bone cancer in 2016 while still serving in the Australian Army. She was left with two young children, Kayla (14) and Liam (11). Legacy is assisting Shay to re-settle into civilian accommodation and to ensure that the children are supported through their schooling and further study to become the best people they can be, in spite of the tragic loss of their father.\nShay-Leah will be accompanied by her Legatee Brian Hollins, a former serving army officer who served for 23 years. Like so many other Defence personnel, Brian did not think that his service ended when he left the military. He has served in Legacy for 10 years now ‘Keeping the Promise’ made on the battlefields of France during WWI to ‘look after the missus and kids’ of those who did not make it home or died subsequently from their war service.\nShay-Leah will be the RSO Froadie (female roadie) working at the Eatons Hill Hotel show in Brisbane next Friday September 30.\nThe first RSO Roadies, who will attend the Adelaide concert, are brothers Mackinley and Perrin Krause, whose parents both served in the Royal Australian Navy and are suffering from physical and psychological injuries. Their dad is a Gulf War veteran. Perrin is a budding musician and ‘apprentice rock star’ looking to pick up a few tips from RSO on the night! Legacy helps these young people to develop their talent.\nLegacy Australia Chairman, Mr Tony Ralph, said the organisation was grateful for the support of a legendary performer such as Richie Sambora in providing a fantastic opportunity to help raise awareness for the work of Legacy, whilst giving some very special Legacy family members a “money can’t buy experience”.\nRSO: RICHIE SAMBORA + ORIANTHI AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES\nMonday 26 September – Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre\nTuesday 27 September – Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne\nThursday 29 September – Enmore Theatre, Sydney\nFriday 30 September – Eaton Hills, Brisbane" ]

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[ null, "KABUL: The Taliban have accused the US of outright violation of the February agreement by conducting excessive airstrikes in the wake of recent ongoing clashes in southern Helmand province.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, the insurgent group said that based on the Doha agreement, the US forces could not conduct non-combat zones.\n\nHowever, the US forces conducted several air attacks in Nahr Saraj, Greshk, Marja, Nawa and Naadali districts of Helmand province in the last few days, the source said, adding that the US forces also carried out bombardments in Farah and some other areas, which the group termed clear violations of the agreement.\n\n“All contents of the US-Islamic Emirate agreement are unambiguous, but the opposite side has violated its commitments on numerous occasions, are engaging in provocative actions and bombing non-combat zones,” the statement maintained.\n\nThe group warned the US would be responsible for any negative consequences that result from continuing these acts in the future, the group warned." ]

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[ "Uphold And Defend What?\n\nHHS Secretary and former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius swore an oath to protect and uphold the Constitution. Since then, it’s apparently been out of sight, out of mind.\n\nComments Off on Uphold And Defend What? |\n\nComments Off on Gunwalker: Meanwhile, the cover-up continues. |\n\nIf You Turned On The News Over The Weekend\n\nBy now you probably want to just sit down to a nice dog.", null, "OK, let’s try this. How dumb does Obama think the American people are?\n\nEPA official Al Armendariz who rocketed to infamy last week because of 2010 comments about “crucifying” industry, resigned from the agency.\n\nLOL, when does the EPA resign from America?\n\nIsn’t this what progressives want? Did Justice Ginsburg say this was the goal of abortion all along? Where you been hiding? The NAZIs only mistake is they did it in the open, not behind doctor’s closed doors.\n\nWhat about the morality of it all?\n\nAnd you doubted that misanthropy is the prime motivation of Greenies? Indians are good people who suffered much under Muslim rule then under socialist rule and now this. This is especially grievous to me as I know Indians well and think highly of them. I have been to India three times and there are always brown faces in my house\n\nTens of millions of pounds of UK aid money have been spent on a programme that has forcibly sterilised Indian women and men, the Observer has learned. Many have died as a result of botched operations, while others have been left bleeding and in agony. A number of pregnant women selected for sterilisation suffered miscarriages and lost their babies.\n\nThe UK agreed to give India £166m to fund the programme, despite allegations that the money would be used to sterilise the poor in an attempt to curb the country’s burgeoning population of 1.2 billion people.\n\nSterilisation has been mired in controversy for years. With officials and doctors paid a bonus for every operation, poor and little-educated men and women in rural areas are routinely rounded up and sterilised without having a chance to object. Activists say some are told they are going to health camps for operations that will improve their general wellbeing and only discover the truth after going under the knife.\n\nCourt documents filed in India earlier this month claim that many victims have been left in pain, with little or no aftercare. Across the country, there have been numerous reports of deaths and of pregnant women suffering miscarriages after being selected for sterilisation without being warned that they would lose their unborn babies.\n\nYet a working paper published by the UK’s Department for International Development in 2010 cited the need to fight climate change as one of the key reasons for pressing ahead with such programmes. The document argued that reducing population numbers would cut greenhouse gases, although it warned that there were “complex human rights and ethical issues” involved in forced population control.\n\nThe latest allegations centre on the states of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, both targeted by the UK government for aid after a review of funding last year. In February, the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh had to publicly warn off his officials after widespread reports of forced sterilisation. A few days later, 35-year-old Rekha Wasnik bled to death in the state after doctors sterilised her. The wife of a poor labourer, she was pregnant with twins at the time. She began bleeding on the operating table and a postmortem cited the operation as the cause of death.\n\nEarlier this month, India’s supreme court heard how a surgeon operating in a school building in the Araria district of Bihar in January carried out 53 operations in two hours, assisted by unqualified staff, with no access to running water or equipment to clean the operating equipment. A video shot by activists shows filthy conditions and women lying on the straw-covered ground.\n\nHuman rights campaigner Devika Biswas told the court that “inhuman sterilisations, particularly in rural areas, continue with reckless disregard for the lives of poor women”. Biswas said 53 poor and low-caste women were rounded up and sterilised in operations carried out by torchlight that left three bleeding profusely and led to one woman who was three months pregnant miscarrying. “After the surgeries, all 53 women were crying out in pain. Though they were in desperate need of medical care, no one came to assist them,” she said.\n\nThe court gave the national and state governments two months to respond to the allegations.\n\nActivists say that it is India’s poor – and particularly tribal people – who are most frequently targeted and who are most vulnerable to pressure to be sterilised. They claim that people have been threatened with losing their ration cards if they do not undergo operations, or bribed with as little as 600 rupees (£7.34) and a sari. Some states run lotteries in which people can win cars and fridges if they agree to be sterilised.", null, "Obama names names … Didn’t Nixon do that? And didn’t the press go nuts. What’s up with the press now.\n\nOn Thursday, Kimberley Strassel wrote at the Wall Street Journal that yes, he does, and it appears to include anyone who contributes to Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee.\n\nGuess we just got dump the guy.\n\nRush Limbaugh goes on offense against Media Matters for America\n\nAfter conservative radio talker Rush Limbaugh’s remarks about Georgetown Law School student and contraception activist Sandra Fluke made him a political lightning rod, it was the liberal Media Matters for America that pressured his advertisers in a bid to force his program off the airwaves. Now Limbaugh is taking the fight back to Media Matters.\n\nA new section of Limbaugh’s website, mediamatters.rushlimbaugh.com, is now devoted to combating the activist group.\n\n“Media Matters is a left-wing political operation created to censor conservative media through blacklisting and intimidation of advertisers,” reads the headline at the top the page.\n\nLimbaugh had already launched Twitter accounts and added their reach to his existing radio audience in an effort to return fire against left-wing groups — particularly Media Matters — that targeted his advertisers and affiliates. Some industry observers concluded that the controversy caused only minimal damage to the talk radio king.\n\nBrian Glicklich, a spokesman for Limbaugh, told The Daily Caller that the project was designed to be a central source of information for listeners who want to know what Media Matters is all about.\n\n“The purpose of this page is to act as a point of reference for people looking for the facts about Media Matters — which is, of course, very different than the way they describe themselves,” Glicklich said. “It will be updated frequently.”\n\nWe’re with you Rush." ]

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[ null, "Auction week in Arizona has wrapped up for the 2022 season and the results show that in-person classic car auctions aren’t becoming a thing of the past…yet. Live auctions have seen a decrease in sale numbers and attendance, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the numbers racked up this week in AZ. Yes,… Read More", null, "Are In-Person Live Classic Car Auctions a Dying Breed? Saying they are may be a dramatic statement, but don’t kid yourself, live auctions are certainly seeing a decrease in sales and attendance. It may be too soon to tell with the pandemic still making folks uneasy about public gatherings. Maybe once we are all in… Read More", null, "ClassicCars.com has been bringing buyers and sellers of collector cars together for years. They are regarded as one of the premier places to turn to online when wanting to buy or sell a classic car or truck. Now they are offering free tours of three separate auction venues during Arizona Auction Week 2022. You can sign… Read More", null, null, null, null, "Rush is easily one of the most iconic rock bands of all time. They released their debut album in early 1974. 24 gold and 14 platinum (3 multi-platinum) records later, the band is only third behind The Beatles and The Rolling Stones for the most consecutive gold or platinum albums by a rock band. Sadly,… Read More\n\nBarrett-Jackson in Coming to Texas for Their First Houston Auction", null, "Barrett-Jackson, The World’s Greatest Collector Car Auctions, is making moves towards the Lone Star State to host its very first auction in Texas. September 16-18, 2021 the Houston Auction will take place inside the NRG Center. The inaugural event will feature a wide range of vintage, customs, supercars and late-model vehicles, as well as authentic… Read More", null, "On September 9, a new classic car auction website was launched. It is AutoHunter.com and it was developed by Collector Car Network, the company that brought us ClassicCars.com, the top collector marketplace in the world. AutoHunter.com differs from ClassicCars.com by auctioning off classic cars and trucks rather that just setting a firm selling price. Another… Read More", null ]

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[ "Marijuanaman Delivers the Goods on 4-20\n\nBy: | Comic News | February 14, 2011\nZiggy Marley is a grammy award winning, globally famous reggae musician. A man full of talent, he is going to show off his creative skills yet again and this time in a different medium. This will be his comic character Marijuanaman.\n\nHe's a Grammy Award-winning musician, an irrefutable Reggae star, and staunch environmental and social activist. In April, ZIGGY MARLEY steps into another creative arena with the release of MARIJUANAMAN from Image Comics.", null, "Based on a character conceived of by Ziggy Marley, written by Man of Action Studios JOE CASEY (GØDLAND, BUTCHER BAKER) and illustrated by JIM MAHFOOD (KICK DRUM COMIX, MIX TAPE), MARIJUANAMAN promises to shatter all expectations -- this is not the comic you think it is! The oversized deluxe hardcover graphic novel tells the tale of a noble extraterrestrial champion, who has arrived on Earth to deliver an important message and at the same time save his own planet.\n\n\"MARIJUANAMAN represents the hope of the future... the hope that we will utilize all of the power that the universe has given us to save our planet,\" Marley explained.\n\nCasey spoke of being part of the creative trio, \"Mahfood and I have been friends for over a decade and I've been a big fan of his for even longer. This was the perfect project for us to collaborate on because Ziggy's given us a great concept to go nuts with. This book goes beyond just being a comic... this book is an experience.\"\n\nMahfood added, “It’s been a really unique and thrilling project for me to work on. Ziggy Marley is a visionary and MARIJUANAMAN is his, so he's involved in every step, but he's also been cool enough to let Joe and I cut loose and really spread our artistic wings on this project. Through our collaboration, we are creating something that has a unique flavor and feeling. MARIJUANAMAN is not going to be what people except it to be.”\n\nDiscover a new hero for our times with MARIJUANAMAN, a 48-page oversized full-color hardcover by Ziggy Marley, Joe Casey, and Jim Mahfood. The book will be in stores April 20, 2011, for $24.99." ]

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[ null, "On November 20, 2021, deputies with Constable Mark Herman's Office responded to the CVS Pharmacy located in the 100 block of E Richey Road in reference to a shoplifter. Upon deputies arriving, the suspect was detained and identified as Mary Trahan. Further investigation revealed that she had an open warrant for Injury to an Elderly Person out of Harris County.\n\nThe stolen merchandise was recovered and returned to the business.\"Mary Trahan was arrested and booked into the Harris County Jail for the open Felony Warrant and charged with Theft. Her bond for the warrant was set $30,000.00 and $100.00 for the Theft out of the 183rd District Court and County Court 5.\" - Constable Mark Herman\nReply\n* Reactions disabled on political threads.\nWhat are your thoughts? Log in or sign up to comment Log in » Sign up »\nPost a comment »" ]

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[ "What you need to know about Safaricom Bonga points expiry\n\nSafaricom subscribers will lose any unused Bonga points obtained before December 2019 as the company moves to mop up over Sh4 billion in loyalty points.\n\nThis is according to a leaked draft copy of upcoming changes in the firm’s terms and conditions for its Bonga points loyalty scheme that contributed Sh4.5 billion of the firm’s liability stock in the last financial year.\n\n“Effective 1st January 2023, all non-redeemable Bonga points older than three years (December 2019) will expire and will be unavailable for redemption,” stated the updated terms and conditions.\n\n“This is a permanent implementation where Bonga points accrued will now have a validity period to enable customers to redeem points.”\n\nSafaricom said this was a business decision aimed at encouraging Bonga redemption and customers will not be able to reinstate their expired points.\n\nBonga points is a loyalty scheme for all Safaricom PrePay and PostPay subscribers where they earn one Bonga point for every Sh10 spent on voice calls, short message service (SMS), data and M-Pesa services.\n\nEnterprise Business customers also earn loyalty points upon achievement of their revenue targets and the accumulated amounts are redeemable upon maturity of the underlying revenue contracts set with Safaricom.\n\nAs of the last financial year loyalty points earned by Safaricom customers stood at Sh4.5 billion, up from Sh4.2 billion in the previous year.\n\nEarlier this year Safaricom launched the Pamoja Tuungane campaign, an initiative to complement the Government's initiatives in tackling famine. Subscribers were invited to join in the program by donating their Bonga points to purchase food hampers for distribution to the communities hardest hit.", null, null, "By Xinhua 7 hours ago\nBusiness\n'Our ride experiences in electric buses', Kenyans speak out" ]

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[ "What’s it all about?\n\nThis is Prof Heiko Braak:", null, "Many years ago, Prof Braak – a German neuroanatomist – sat down and examined hundreds of postmortem brains from people with Parkinson’s disease.\n\nHe had collected brains from people at different stages of Parkinson’s disease and was looking for any kind of pattern that might explain where and how the disease starts. His research led to what is referred to as the Braak stages of Parkinson’s disease – a six step explanation of how the disease spreads up from the brain stem and into the rest of the brain (see Braak et al, 2003).\n\nBraak’s results also led him to propose that Parkinson’s disease may actually begin in the gut and then spread to the central nervous system (the brain). He based this on the observation that many brains that exhibited the very early stages of Parkinson’s disease had disease-related pathology in a population of neurons called the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagal nerve. This population of neurons connects to different organs in the body, such as the lungs, heart, kidneys and the gastrointestinal system (or the gut).", null, "Braak and his colleagues went on to examine the nerves fibres around the gastrointestinal system and in those fibres he found large deposits of a Parkinson’s disease-related substance: a protein called alpha synuclein. These deposits were present even at very early stages of the disease, which supported his theory that maybe the disease was starting in the gut.\n\nThis ‘gut to brain’ theory was supported by the fact that people with Parkinson’s disease often complain of gastrointestinal problems (eg. constipation) and some of these issues may predate the onset of other Parkinson’s disease symptoms. In addition, a couple of years ago, a group of scientists in the USA found alpha-synuclein present in bowel biopsies taken from people years before they were actually diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (that study can be found here).\n\nThe ‘gut to brain’ theory received a further boost recently with the publication of a paper by a Danish group, who retrospectively looked at all the people in Denmark that received a vagotomy between 1975 and 1995.\n\nSo what’s a vagotomy?", null, "A schematic demonstrating the vagal nerve surrounding the stomach. Image A. indicates a ‘truncal’ vagotomy, where the main vagus nerves are cut above the stomach; while image B. illustrates the ‘superselective’ vagotomy, cutting specific branches of the vagus nerve connecting with the stomach. Source: Score\n\nAnd what did the Danish scientists find?\n\nThe Danish researcher found that between 1975 and 1995, 5339 individuals had a truncal vagotomy and 5870 had superselective vagotomy. Using the Danish National registry (which which stores everyone’s medical information), they then looked for how many of these individuals went on to be diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. They compared these vagotomy subjects with more than 60,000 randomly-selected, age-matched controls.\n\nThey found that subjects who had a superselective vagotomy had the same chance of developing Parkinson’s disease as anyone else in the general public (a hazard ratio (or HR) of 1 or very close to 1). But when they looked at the number of people in the truncal vagotomy group who were later diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the risk had dropped by 35%. Further, when they followed up the Truncal group 20 years later, checking to see who had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2012, they found that they rate was half that of both the superselective group and the control group (see table below – HR=0.53). The authors concluded that a truncal vagotomy reduces the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.\n\nThe study is an extremely novel approach to investigating the ‘gut to brain’ theory of Parkinson’s disease and the authors can be congratulated on some excellent work. It adds further weight to the idea that something is happening in the gut very early in Parkinson’s disease. It suggests that by cutting one of the main nerves connecting to the stomach, the disease is slowed down if not avoided all together. It might also suggest that the disease is slower and strikes earlier than previously thought (given that some people with truncal vagotomies still developed Parkinson’s disease – maybe the condition started before the nerve was cut).\n\nBut there are a couple of important details that should be considered about the paper before everyone rushes out to get a vagotomy:\n\nIn summary, very interesting study and fascinating result, but please don’t rush to your doctor and ask for your vagus nerve to be cut!\n\n13 thoughts on “A gut feeling”" ]

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[ "Coronavirus 'under control' in South Punjab", null, "MULTAN - Terming COVID-19 situation in South Punjab under control, Punjab Chief Minister, Usman Buzdar Saturday said that it was the responsibility of the government to extend the best health facility to patients suffering from the viral disease in the province.\n\nHe stated this during a meeting with Chairman Multan Dry Port Trust and known industrialist, Khawaja Jalal Uddin Roomi here on Saturday.\n\nAcknowledging the services rendered by doctors nurses and paramedics as front line force, Buzdar said that medical staff battling with pandemic were heroes of the country and the government would never leave them alone.\n\nHe informed that the Punjab government would bring more “good news” for people of South Punjab in days to come. The chief minister appreciated Mahmood Group of Industries for its value contributions by joining hands with the government in the hard times.\n\nHe lauded Khawaja Jalaluddin Roomi for making payments to his employees timely in the challenging conditions.\n\nFormer president MCCI, Roomi informed Chief Minister that his group had not only donated to Prime Minister, Imran Khan Corona Relief Fund but also stood by the government in the troubled times.\n\nHe said that they were supporting deserving and needy people from day one of the outbreaks of the virus in a respectable manner.\n\nHe invited Chief Minister Buzdar to visit Multan after the situation improved." ]

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[ null, "The Colorado Rockies are team No. 21 in the Topps 30 Teams | 30 Weeks countdown to the most legendary card lineup of all time.\n\nWhen you think of the Colorado Rockies you think of one thing: home runs. Playing in the mile-high elevation of Coors Field in Denver, the Rockies saw the ball fly out of the park at a greater rate than any team in the Majors for the first decade. The introduction of humidors has slowed the rate of home runs, but not the amount of runs scored. So, their Legendary Lineup features several sluggers with huge home run totals.\n\nPlayers like Larry Walker, Todd Helton, Nolan Arenado and others have enjoyed seasons of over 40 home runs while playing for the Rockies. What is great for the hitters, of course, makes it very difficult for the pitchers. Being an ace in Colorado is a tough task. Ubaldo Jimenez managed it for a few years, which seems to be about the average lifespan for a dominating pitcher in Denver.\n\nThe Rockies greatest triumph was winning the National League Pennant in 2007 and several key players on that team make the Legendary Lineup.\n\nCheck out the lineup at 30Teams30Weeks.com.\n\nWhat’s Next for Shohei Ohtani Cards?" ]

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[ null, "Police operatives in Anambra State have arrested one Onwele Anayo, 34, in connection with the murder of a three-year-old boy, in Nkwelle-Ezunaka, Oyi LGA of the state.\n\nIt was gathered that the suspect allegedly beat the victim, Divine Eze, to death following a brawl with his father, at their residence in Hillview Estate.\n\nPreliminary information shows that the suspect visited the father of the victim on Wednesday 15/6/2022 and spent the night in the victim’s house. In the early hours of Thursday 16/6/2022, an argument ensued between the father and the suspect.\n\nThe suspect (Mr Anayo) took the child (Divine) as he was sleeping and killed him, by hitting him on the floor several times. Mr Anayo, carried a knife from the room, and pursued the father around the house, threatening to kill him." ]

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[ "On Wednesday, March 30th, the Department of Communication Studies brought in Ralph Schroeder to discuss Big Data Communication. Schroeder is the Director of the Master’s degree program in Social Science and the Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute in the United Kingdom. He is also the author and/or co-author behind a long list of publications and is currently working on a book about digital media and globalization.\n\nSchroeder shared with his audience his perception of how virtual environments, e-science, and technology plays a role in our society today. Apart from talking about the mass technological advancements in today’s world, he focused primarily on big data – how to quantify it, define it, and explore it in different settings. Schroeder acknowledged the ambiguity of the term, but also reminded the audience that data has been studied for decades. As technological advancements have skyrocketed, the ability to track data has increased exponentially. This has opened the doors for an increased amount of social scientists to track, study, and analyze many forms of data.\n\nSchroeder discussed a famous study done in 2013 by Facebook called the “Experimental Evidence Of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks.” This study, conducted by a Facebook scientist and two academics, used Facebook analytics and an automated system to manipulate the type of posts that came up in individuals news-feeds.\n\nThe sample size of the study consisted of 689,003 Facebook users and tracked how the increase in positive Facebook statuses (the hiding of negative posts) impacted the activity on Facebook and vice versa. The study found that more positive posts in people’s news-feeds led to an overall increase in positive postings and vice versa with negative posts. This type of test used big data as a channel to study a massive amount of people. Without a social website like Facebook with an abundance of diverse users, this study wouldn’t have been possible. Studies using big data like Facebook have exploded since the technological boom over a decade ago. Schroeder informed his audience that social scientists are crawling the web to study big data and are thus able to do analysis on large scales. The availability of big data allows for massive digital examination that has the ability to “spot business trends, prevent diseases, combat crime and so on” (economist.com).\n\nAfter discussing the Facebook experiment, Schroeder reminded us that we leave digital traces everywhere, “we google everything, our phones can track where we are, and digital devices know what kind of coffee we drink and our favorite topics to search.” This all accumulates to big data. Everything we do digitally makes up some component of big data information.\n\nAlthough the entire topic of discussion was big data, Schroeder said that no one has concisely defined “big data” on a linear scale. He said that data depends on context and without context there is no data. He left his audience with his own personal definition of big data which follows, “‘Big data’ is the advance of knowledge via a leap in the scale and scope in relation to a given object or phenomenon.”", null, null ]

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[ "To drive a story ahead, you require characters that captivate you from the get-go. Some obtain this feat by way of an excellent backstory, whereas others depend on plot improvement or performing. In video video games, it’s a end result of those qualities, the place gifted voice artists breathe life right into a digital puppet, fabricated from polygons. Your bond with these characters is then strengthened as you get to work together with them or take full management over their actions or selections.\n\nRegardless of the pandemic setbacks, 2021 bore witness to some exceptional video games and characters that had a big impact inside the business and round. So, let’s take a second to go over them earlier than the 12 months ends.\n\nAlcina “Girl” Dimitrescu stole the present at Capcom’s annual occasion, as gamers across the globe have been immediately bewitched by her look. Sporting lengthy retractable sharp claws and an excellent menacing grin, the “tall vampire woman” served as a becoming tyrant to the survival horror nature of Resident Evil Village. Her character design impressed a number of cosplayers, fanarts, memes, and erotica, which led to her turning into the face of the sport.", null, "Her impression isn’t simply attributed to her look, although it performed a key position in her rising fame. Towering at 9 ft 6 inches, Dimitrescu was vicious, chasing us by means of the slim hallways as we held onto our pricey lives. However there was one other facet to her as properly, that of a caring mom. In moments of calmness, you possibly can peer into her bed room as she wept over her nightstand for her lifeless daughters. Daughters that you simply, the participant killed. Her devotion in the direction of the sport’s final antagonist, Mom Miranda was additionally beautifully portrayed, the place her tone would change right into a nervous one at first, after which in the end begin ignoring orders as her rage grew.\n\nHer mutation into her true dragon-like type was fairly absurd however served as an excellent boss battle however. Marking her first online game work, theatrical actress Maggie Robertson delivered an impressive voice performing and movement seize, and even went on to win ‘finest efficiency’ at The Recreation Awards 2021.\n\nSure, we all know Cody and Might are two separate characters, however the whole goal of this sport was to reunite them as a pair. It Takes Two took the miserable topic of divorce and youngster trauma and turned it into one thing magical – a enjoyable co-op platformer the place you play as doll-like interpretations of a clashing husband and spouse. Participating in quite a few challenges and puzzles, you quickly realise how a lot you want one another, and find out about how badly the separation is affecting your youngster’s psychological state.", null, "Clashing couple Cody and Might in It Takes Two. (Screenshot)\n\nThe disputes between the 2 are life like as properly, the place they continually shift blame and refuse to speak. Cody would act all careless and do man issues, whereas Might repeatedly nagged and did girly stuff. It was as much as the gamers to select sides and work collectively to discover a resolution, and in time, rekindle their misplaced love. The truth is, the sport was so impactful that a number of struggling {couples} on-line reached out to the director Josef Fares and thanked him for fixing their relationship.\n\nTo many, dwelling vicariously by means of these digital dolls served as remedy. To others, it may need simply been one other sofa co-op sport from the studio. Both method, it was extraordinarily enjoyable, brimming with unpredictable moments, a vibrant tone, and lovable characters that you possibly can relate to on some degree.\n\nIf there’s one franchise that is aware of the way to glorify villains proper, it’s Far Cry. ‘Breaking Unhealthy’ star – Giancarlo Esposito’s involvement within the newest iteration drove tonnes of followers to purchase the sport at launch. The position of a refined, ruthless dictator searching for final energy very a lot suited him. And as his first time doing movement seize, he did an amazing job.", null, "Antón Castillo’s deadpan nature didn’t take away from his love for Yara. He deeply cared for his land and its folks, to the purpose the place he would twist faith to his liking and get the job accomplished. His relationship together with his son was difficult as properly, the place he needed to present the “correct amount” of affection and strictness to lift him as a worthy successor.\n\nThat chilly character of his even seeped into actual life, the place Ubisoft’s advertising and marketing group made YouTube ads primarily based on his character. These would contain clips of Antón wanting straight into the digicam and taunting customers to skip the 5-second advert break, answering fan mail in character, and menacingly laughing in your face. As you’ll have guessed, many of those grew to become meme-worthy materials for the web.\n\nAs predictable as this appears to be like, one can’t deny that the Grasp Chief had an excellent arc this time. Halo Infinite was closely banking on its marketing campaign side for being extra “humane” than ever earlier than, and so they certain delivered. We obtained to see a brand new facet of him, a talkative one which’s full of remorse and vacancy following Cortana’s deletion. It was a character trait that a number of gamers might relate to. And him sporting a helmet and never realizing what he appears to be like like helped many think about their very own actuality – by placing themselves in his sneakers.", null, "Grasp Chief and The Weapon assembly for the primary time. (Screenshot – Halo Infinite)\n\nThe Chief’s older, wiser nature made him emotionally susceptible, the place he would progressively divulge heart’s contents to his new AI companion, The Weapon. These facets are additional mirrored onto the battlefield, the place his motion, regardless of being medical, felt sluggish. There’s a lack of motivation and lingering concern that hovers over him in each step. It’s tough to place collectively in phrases, however you’ll really feel it once you play it. What’s fascinating is that this new course by no means bothered the longtime followers. They beloved it and needed extra, with many donning their Grasp Chief helmets from Gamestop and chanting tales of 343 Industries’ redemption arc.\n\nHaving the ability to talk tales with no dialogue is an distinctive achievement. The Little Nightmare video games handle to do that by creating an virtually psychological horror state of affairs, the place making any form of noise might immediately get you killed. Donning a light-weight brown paper bag over his head and a khaki trench coat, Mono is actually a shy child who by no means speaks. His character is proven by means of his actions, the place he seems to be a noble and assured boy who would exit of his method to assist others.", null, "His low shallowness stands out like a sore thumb, the place he believes that the world hates him, however that doesn’t cease him from being good. His anxiousness makes him nimble and resourceful, which displays onto the participant as you imagine he gained’t be capable to make a selected leap or maintain onto objects in mid-air. These qualities and particular powers are revealed to you and Mono on the identical, highlighting how a lot potential lurks beneath that masks of his.\n\nAs you full ranges and make a brand new pal (Six), his confidence grows, to the purpose the place he’s in a position to take the bag off his head with no concern of the merciless world. It’s an empowering sight to see, and the sport’s genre-bending climax takes it to a different degree, giving him a creepy, virtually dystopian character improvement." ]

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[ null, "Venezuelan migrants take the road to Peru on foot after resting for a few days in Colombia, in Tunja, Boyaca, in December, 2018.\n\nThe UN estimates that 4.7 million Venezuelans have abandoned the country since 2014, with the total projected to reach 6.5. million by the end of 2020, the UN high commissioner for human rights announced Wednesday.\n\nGiving an \"oral update on the human rights situation\" in Venezuela prior to a Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet said her office welcomed an agreement with the Venezuelan authorities to allow the collection of information from the justice, security and the prison bodies on people detained without trial.\n\n\"In the last three months, my office has carried out nine visits to detention centers managed by the Ministry for Penitentiary Services and the Ministry of Defense,\" said Bachelet, with the high commissioner's office obtaining information on torture investigations, extrajudicial killings and preventive detention.\n\nShe added that her team managed to confidentially interview more than 70 people deprived of their liberty in detention centers run by civilian and military intelligence services.\n\n\"I would like to mention the release in September and October of 28 persons -- 24 men and four women -- deprived of their liberty for political reasons.\n\n\"I encourage the authorities to free unconditionally all persons detained for political reasons, including military staff,\" Bachelet added.\n\nSince the beginning of the year, Venezuela has been embroiled in political unrest as President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido have engaged in a power battle, while the country's economy has been in precipitous decline following a global downturn in the price of crude oil.", null, null, null ]

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[ "THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS\n\nA B-film schematic femme fatale noir, filmed in black and white, that serves as a star vehicle for the ageing, in her forties, Joan Crawford (her last film with Warners and one she hated–calling it the worst film she ever made). Studio journeyman director Felix Feist (“Donovan’s Brain”/”The Devil Thumbs a Ride”) helms this forgettable and unremarkable melodramatic film noir shot in a glossy style but without catching much drama from all the soap opera hokum. But if you’re into B/W cinematography, the cinematographer Ted McCord does good on the filming part. His atmospheric shadows give the noir film just the right kind of dark shots that can sometimes even save a bad film from being that bad.\n\nBeth Austin (Joan Crawford) is a beautiful woman posing as a society dame who plans the robbery at an illegal New Orleans gambling casino. She leads a double life, as she’s the brains behind the notorious Jackson Brothers gang of armed robbers.\n\nWorried about losing her eyesight after learning from a N.O. oculist (Kenneth Patterson) she’s going blind, Beth gets a risky operation from the Indianopolis residing eye surgeon Dr. Ben Halleck (Dennis Morgan), and when she spends a lot a time with him, her madman boyfriend gets jealous and hires the private eye Crossland (Ian McDonald) to follow her.\n\nThe brothers, while back home in their Virginia cabin hide-out, recklessly kill on the road a highway patrolman and are forced to lay low. Instead Matt is so consumed with jealousy, he goes after his unfaithful babe in the eye clinic hospital where she’s recouping. The dame has fallen in love with her handsome and sensitive widower, raising a daughter as a single parent. He’s a healer, while her brutish gangster boyfriend is a destroyer.\n\nThe dull plot is predictable and not believable. But despite Crawford’s dislike of the pic, I thought her performance was very good.", null, "PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, THE\n\nETERNITY AND A DAY" ]

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[ "Day 19 and it was the Best Session Ever\n\nA Southerly Wind was forecast for Kapiti today so we headed to Waikanae in the hope of finding some reasonably calm water and wind. It was very light in the proximity of the Waikanae Boat Club, but we could see the wind out on the water. We drove down to the Estuary area in the hope that the wind would channel through the Estuary. This proved to be the case and we measured approx 9-11kts S.\n\nIt is a bit of a walk from the Waikanae Estuary Car Park to the beach, but today it was worth it. After rigging up we were worried the wind felt like it was dropping but we headed out in the hope that it would pick up again. The first run out felt good. I had moments on the foil but was wobbly. Coming back to shore felt better and the runs on the foil were longer. The wind was picking up but I was still having trouble staying on the foil heading out. I was falling over toeside and couldn't seem to correct this. Stafford was also out on a 6m and I saw him go back in and change down wing size. That was my cue to do the same. He had kindly pumped up the 4m, taken it for a quick run and decided he wanted the 5m. So the 4m was ready for me (thanks babe!).\n\nIt was so good after that. The 4m was the perfect size and I was getting good runs out and back. Still falling a lot but getting more and more time on the foil. Foot position is critical and the feeling of weight distribution while up on the foil is something that you have to experience over and over until muscle memory kicks in. It is starting to happen but it still feels quite surreal. I can't wait to get back out there again to make sure I am really doing it!\n\nBig props to Stafford who has had a lot less time on the water than me, but managed to get on the foil a lot today too! Its so good to be able to share the experience!", null ]

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[ null, "[ADCO] has the balance sheet to facilitate investments in new technology, but applying it will prove the main challenge.\n\nJosé Pereira, country representative of Partex Oil and Gas, talks to TOGY about Abu Dhabi’s efforts to meet the rising demand for natural gas and the development of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques. Portugal’s Partex Oil and Gas is one of the founding partners of Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Petroleum Operations (ADCO) and has worked in the local market for 75 years.\n\nWhat challenges does ADCO face at the end of its first concession agreement with international operators?\nIn January 2014, ADCO’s onshore concessions expired, ending the 75-year partnership between the participating operating companies and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Since then, ADCO has operated the concessions alone, with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company as its sole shareholder. After a procurement period, ADCO began awarding new concession agreements from January 2015, the first of which was awarded to Total.\nThe main challenge facing ADCO is its target of 70-percent recovery, which is significantly higher than the industry average of 40 percent. ADCO must acquire technology either from shareholders or third parties in order to reach its targeted recovery rate.\nADCO is interested in piloting innovative EOR techniques and has considered using chemical EOR for its fields. Financially, the company has the balance sheet to facilitate investments in new technology, but applying it will prove the main challenge.\n\nHow is Abu Dhabi managing the rise in demand for gas in the emirate?\nAbu Dhabi is a net gas importer, and it is considering all possibilities to meet the needs of its growing population.\nIn order to bridge the gap, state-owned EmiratesLNG is building a new LNG import terminal in Fujairah. The facility will have a capacity to regasify 9 million tonnes of LNG each year. The terminal is expected to be operational by the end of 2018.\nAn additional motivation for Abu Dhabi to raise its domestic gas production is its commitment to supply LNG to its Asian customers on long-term contracts. Abu Dhabi has its own domestic gas requirements, ranging from power generation to downstream industrial uses, and its long-term supply contracts to Asian buyers is an additional sink for its production.\nTo manage domestic usage and promote sustainability, the government has also introduced prudent measures to manage consumption, such as smart meters.\nAs Abu Dhabi considers transitioning more of its EOR programmes to utilise carbon dioxide for reinjection, rather than associated gas, this will free up more gas for companies such as Abu Dhabi Gas Industries to produce higher-value natural gas liquids.\n\nHow can international oil companies (IOCs) make additional contributions to the technological advancement of Abu Dhabi’s oil and gas industry?\nDue to the active involvement of IOCs in a number of Abu Dhabi’s largest fields, Abu Dhabi can benefit from IOCs’ operational and technological experience.\nWe have developed an algorithm for geostatistical elastic inversion, called acoustic elastic stochastic inversion, which we believe will lead to improved reservoir characterisation methodology. These techniques have been used at fields such as Asab, Bu Hasa, Sahil and Shah.\nAnother example is microbial EOR, applying bacteria to break down carbon molecules to help mobilise heavy oil. The challenge is not sourcing the appropriate bacteria for microbial EOR, but rather identifying those that can survive at reservoir depths of 1 kilometre.\nFurthermore, the carbonate reservoirs in Abu Dhabi are heterogeneous, so their response to such innovative EOR techniques is not well understood. Before full commercial application can be achieved, additional pilot studies are needed to better understand the impact of microbial enzymes on the properties of the reservoir, the hydrocarbons it contains and the overall impact on its production." ]

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[ null, "A pro-life demonstrator holds up a mock human fetus next to a demonstrator supporting keeping abortion legal as two groups chant over one another outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington March 4, 2020. (CNS photo/Tom Brenner, Reuters)\n\nWASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholic leaders, pro-life organizations, Republican members of Congress and several governors are among those on a long list of supporters backing Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy and urging the court to reexamine its previous abortion rulings when it takes up this case in the fall.\n\nThe U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in its friend-of-the-court brief filed July 27, stressed that abortion is not a right created by the Constitution and called it “inherently different from other types of personal decisions to which this court has accorded constitutional protection.”\n\nReferring to the court’s major abortion decisions, the brief warned that if the Supreme Court “continues to treat abortion as a constitutional issue,” it will face more questions in the future about “what sorts of abortion regulations are permissible.”\n\nThe court’s two big decisions on abortion were Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court case which legalized abortion, and 1992’s Casey v. Planned Parenthood, which affirmed Roe and also stressed that a state regulation on abortion could not impose an “undue burden” on a woman “seeking an abortion before the fetus attains viability.”\n\nOther Catholic groups echoed the USCCB, which was joined in its brief by other religious groups and the two dioceses of Mississippi, in their support of the state’s abortion ban after 15 weeks.\n\nThe case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, came before the court last year but the justices only agreed in late May to take it up in the next term.\n\nThe case focuses on an appeal from Mississippi to keep its ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, which was struck down by a federal District Court in Mississippi in 2018 and upheld a year later by the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.\n\nA brief filed by O. Carter Snead, law professor at the University of Notre Dame and director of the university’s Center for Ethics and Culture, and Mary Ann Glendon, former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, said the Mississippi case “offers the cleanest opportunity since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973 for the court to revisit its deeply flawed and harmful jurisprudence,” or theory of law, on abortion decisions.\n\nThey also said the court’s abortion rulings have been “completely untethered from the Constitution’s text, history and tradition” and have imposed “an extreme, incoherent, unworkable and antidemocratic legal regime for abortion on the nation for several decades.”\n\nSimilarly, a brief filed by the National Association of Catholic Nurses and the Catholic Medical Association urged the court to take itself out of the “arbitrary line-drawing that Roe and Casey engaged in while attempting to settle the abortion controversy.”\n\n“There is no nonarbitrary line during pregnancy that the court can draw,” the groups added, emphasizing that “the lives of unborn children are on a continuum toward adulthood from conception forward.”\n\nThe brief also said that “any arbitrary line that the court might seek to replace the viability cut-off with would simply amount to yet another act of judicial legislating,” which is why, they argued, the issue should be returned to elected representatives.\n\nOther Catholic or pro-life groups that filed briefs supporting Mississippi in this case included the Thomas More Society, the National Catholic Bioethics Center, the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, which joined other religious and civil groups, the National Right to Life Committee, Americans United for Life and the March for Life Education and Defense Fund.\n\nOther groups submitting friend-of-the-court briefs included 228 Republican members of Congress — 184 House members and 44 senators — a separate filing by three Republican senators and a brief from 12 Republican governors. The governors specifically urged the court to return the authority to regulate abortion to the state level.\n\nThe case, which is already getting a lot of attention, will be the court’s first look at the right to an abortion since Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the court last year.\n\nThe Mississippi law is being challenged by the state’s only abortion facility, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization.\n\nIn announcing they would take up this case, the justices said they would only review one of the three questions presented to them: “Whether all previability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.”\n\nIn other words, they are focusing on the viability, or when a fetus is said to be able to survive on its own. The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that states cannot restrict abortion before the 24-week mark. The ban on abortions after 15 weeks is more restrictive than current law.\n\nIf the court sides with Mississippi, it would be the first time it would allow an abortion ban before the point of viability and could lay the groundwork for other abortion restrictions, which other states could follow.\n\nKat Talalas, assistant director for pro-life communications for the USCCB, said when the court accepted this case that it was the biggest abortion case to come before the court in almost 30 years.\n\nShe said the justices could establish criteria other than viability, such as fetal pain, to restrict abortions or they could “overturn Roe and Casey completely.”\n\nNEXT: CDC urges continuation of public health rule that keeps out migrants" ]

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[ "Westlife have announced a massive gig in Wembley Stadium, with the boys set to play the iconic venue for the first time ever in their 20-year career.\n\nMirror Online reports that the Irish boyband announced the once-in-a-lifetime show this morning, following the success of their Twenty Tour celebrating their two decades in the music industry.\n\nThe momentous concert will take place on Saturday, August 22, 2020 and will see the global pop stars perform their greatest hits.\n\nSwear It Again, Flying Without Wings and You Raise Me Up are on the setlist, as well as brilliant new songs from their upciming album Spectrum, such as Hello My Love, Better Man and Dynamite.\n\nJames Morrison and All Saints will support the boys, who have achieved phenomenal success during their comeback.\n\nMark Fehily exclusively told Mirror Online: \"Wembley Stadium will be the biggest show of our lives.\n\n\"Twenty years after we started, it is unbelievable that the demand is still there for us to put on a huge show at Wembley. It is going to be absolutely fantastic.\"\n\nMark is expecting his first child with fiancé Cailean O'Neill, mentioning: \"Cailean and I will have our baby with us then. It is likely it will be her first Westlife show.\n\n\"That will make it even more special. 2020 is a big year in so many ways. Wembley will be the icing on the cake as we celebrate starting a family and 21 years in music.\"\n\nManager Louis Walsh says he's over the moon with the achievements of the band;\n\n\"All of the big music greats have played Wembley Stadium so it is a proud moment to announce this news today.\n\n\"I'll be proud of the boys when they take to that giant stage next August. It will be the biggest and best concert of their careers.\"\n\nThe rest of the band told the Irish Mirror: \"Headlining Wembley Stadium is a dream come true for all of us.\"\n\n\"This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and we’re incredibly excited for a show which will be different and more spectacular than anything we’ve ever done before,\" they added.\n\n\"This will be our biggest ever concert in the UK.\" Westlife's new album, Spectrum, will be released on November 15.\n\nTickets for the Wembley Stadium gig go on sale on Friday, September 20 at 9am at LiveNation.co.uk\n\nThis Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July 2019, the band will be performing at the stadium with Irish band Wild Youth and X-Factor winner James Arthur as support.\n\nShane, Nicky, Mark and Kian have also announced that a limited number of extra ticekts for both shows will go on sale this Friday, May 10 at 9am from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide.\n\nTickets for both gigs were immediately snapped up after going on sale, so fans will be absolutely thrilled to hear the latest announcement.\n\nThe global pop kings will perform brand new songs from their latest album, Spectrum, alongside their greatest hits and all 14 number one songs; Swear It Again, Flying Without Wings, You Raise Me Up and Unbreakable.\n\nTheir return to music has resulted in a frenzy of media coverage, not to mention fan hysteria from nostalgic former listeners.\n\nThe stadium shows will be their first as a group since playing Croke Park back in 2012.\n\nWestlife have sold over 55 million records worldwide, and are the sole band to have had their first seven singles enter at No. 1 on the UK chart.\n\nAnother unbelievable record; the lads have the most singles of any artist to debut at No. 1 in the UK, and have had an amazing 33 No. 1 albums worldwide.\n\nSpectrum, and their latest single Hello My Love, were released in September and was the first since 2011.\n\nJust when when you thought your collection was complete, Spectrum announced they're launching a range of Little Mermaid-themed makeup brushes – and they're absolutely magical.\n\nAccording to Cosmopolitan, the beauty brand has teamed up with Disney to spoil us with a series of cuter-than-cute collabs that are due to drop throughout the year.\n\nGet ready for the most mermazing launch you’ve ever seen! Ready for a new collection to be part of your world?! Click the link in our bio for full details\n\nSpeaking to the magazine, a spokesperson for the company said: \"We have always loved Disney so when the potential partnership came about and meetings started to happen, it seemed like a dream come true.\n\n\"With our current Glam Clam being one of our best sellers and our other mermaid-themed products, it made sense to do The Little Mermaid, it is also one of our favourite films, but then we have so many favourites so of course we couldn't just stop at one range…\"\n\nFrom brush sets to makeup 'treasure chests', the entire range is vegan and cruelty free with 1 per cent of the revenue going to Plastic Bank, a charity that pay local communities to clean plastic up from the oceans.\n\nHere's a sneak peek of what to expect:", null, null, null, null, null, "No word yet on what the next Disney collab will be, but we're excited to see what they've got in store.\n\nSo, it's been 13 years since one of the greatest movies of the modern age hit our cinema screens, and yet not a week goes by when we don't consider wearing pink on Wednesdays.\n\nSpectrum, a UK based makeup brush brand, are releasing a Mean Girls brush set, complete with its very own Burn Book.\n\nBut don't worry – this one isn't filled with accusations that anyone made out with a hot dog or has the amazing ability to surpress their gag reflex.\n\nInstead it's filled with a collection of gorgeous pink and purple makeup brushes, and they're like, really pretty.", null, "What's more, Spectrum have confirmed that this is just phrase one of the collection, with more additions expected shortly.\n\nGet in, loser. We’re going shopping.\n\nSometimes, it is the simple things in life that bring us the most joy.\n\nA perfect example of life's simple pleasures would be this AMAZING clutch bag, made by Spectrum cosmetics.\n\nMost of you will associate Spectrum with gorgeous makeup brushes, but they have way more to offer.\n\nThis clutch is literally the epitome of everything I care about in life, as I actually am half-unicorn, half-mermaid (I admit it).\n\nAnyone else shopping the discounted treats online? They're only on promotion until midnight on the 31st October, so if you're tempted now's the time thank you to merbabe @charlottejonsie we love this pic #spectrumcollections #spectrumbrushes #vegan #crueltyfree #mermaid #pink #makeup #makeupbrushes\n\nAnyway, for the very reasonable price of €20, you can be the proud owner of this glorious bag.\n\nThis is on the TOP of my Christmas list!" ]

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[ "Four Aces were All-Stars this year. Three aces have won player of the week awards this year. None of these Aces are called Chelsea Gray. And yet, in their biggest game of the season, Gray was the one walking away with the gear.\n\nOn Tuesday night, the Las Vegas Aces defeated the Chicago Sky 93-83 in the second WNBA Commissioner’s Cup. Gray had 19 points, four rebounds and five assists, plus a steal and a block en route to winning the Commissioner’s Cup MVP award.\n\nHowever, she didn’t run away with the (full size) trophy. Jackie Young scored 18 on an effective 8-13 from the floor. Kelsey Plum led all scorers with 24 points. A’ja Wilson set a dominant stat line, with 17 points, 17 rebounds, six blocks, two assists and two steals.\n\nMaybe Gray isn’t putting up the flashy numbers some of his teammates are doing. Maybe game management is less exciting than shot blocking and 3-point scoring. And perhaps the ever-enigmatic concept of “commercialization” is keeping the eight-year-old vet from getting the recognition she deserves.\n\nBut on an important night in July, the spotlight found Gray. And instead of basking in her glow, she redirected it to her teammates.\n\n“Those are my dogs, man, they support me,” Gray said after the game, “I wouldn’t hold this MVP trophy without them. It could have gone to so many different people. Everyone was locked in and played well. today, so I’m really lucky to be able to hold on.\n\nGray’s numbers this season won’t jump off the page. But its impact goes far beyond the stat sheet. And her teammates and coaches went out of their way to recognize that impact on Tuesday night.\n\n“I mean, Chelsea are a player,” head coach Becky Hammon said after the game, “She’s a big part of what we do. She’s the extension of the coach there. Shit , I’m his assistant. I tell them all the time, ‘If Chelsea call something and I call something, you listen to Chelsea. So when the head coach calls something, you execute it.\n\nHammon also praised Gray’s ability to calm everyone down in high pressure situations.\n\n“To me, she’s the chill factor,” Hammon said, “When things get a little hot, out of control, the pressure starts to build, she’s the coldest.”\n\nGray won a championship in 2016 with the LA Sparks, making her the only Ace with a WNBA title on her resume. She also played in more regular season games than anyone on the roster. Clearly, Gray’s experience is his most valuable asset.\n\nHis passing and his game are on another level. She ranks third in the league in assists this year. At least once per game, she pulls off a pass that seems almost impossible.\n\n“I just want to set the record straight,” Plum said of Gray after the match, “She’s the best point guard in the world.”\n\nthe path @kelseyplum10 immediately brought the microphone closer to give @cgray209 his recognition???????????? pic.twitter.com/jA1rAC3wzX\n\nPREVIEW OF THE FINAL?\n\nAfter the game, many fans talked about the possibility of seeing these two teams in the final. It makes sense; the Sky are the defending champions and have the best record in the league. Vegas leads Chicago by just one game in the standings.\n\nThere’s a reason these two teams ended up with the best records in Commissioner’s Cup qualifiers. Nobody would be surprised if we got a rematch of this game for all the marbles. Plus, the Aces’ win suggests they have the firepower to beat the Sky should that happen.\n\nThe Aces aren’t ready to go that far, however.\n\n“It’s just one game, and we’re happy to win it,” Hammon said, “But it’s not the ultimate goal.”\n\n“I feel like the real season is just beginning for us,” she said, “It’s just the beginning. We’re going to integrate it, but we haven’t finished. We know what’s ahead of us. And we just have to make sure we’re taking care of business the right way.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "In my previous study I wrote of the first four characteristics of a disciple of Christ that need to be added to his walk with Christ. Those four were part of the seven Peter mentions in 2Peter 1:5-7. In this study I wish to point to the final three of that seven, or godliness, brotherly kindness and love. These arise out of the first four and manifest our outer life in Christ. That is, the final three visibly characterize the believer who supplies them to his life in Christ. It is as the world sees him. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nComments Off on Cultivating Christ, Our Outer Life", null, "Peter claims the believer has been given all things pertaining to life and godliness through “divine power” (2Peter 1:3), but is Peter referring to the Father’s power or that of Jesus? In 1Peter 1:1 Peter writes “…our God and Savior, Jesus Christ.” Then in verse-2 he again refers to Jesus with “…the knowledge of God, even Jesus our Lord.” The natural implication of the word divine in 1Peter 1:3 points to Jesus, i.e. Jesus’ divine power. It seems out of place, if Peter intends for us to understand the Father, because up to this point he is writing only of Jesus—our God and Savior and our knowledge of him. Why insert divine in reference to God (the Father)? It wasn’t worshipers of God who were being attacked, but worshipers of Jesus. Knowing Jesus as God was an astonishing revelation in the first century, and the mention of divine in verse-3 compliments Peter’s mention of our God and Savior in the first two verses of his epistle. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nComments Off on Christ’s Divine Power\n\nPosted by Eddie on February 24, 2017 in Epistles of Peter, Gospel of Luke\n\nLeaving the Past Behind", null, "Just after Jesus’ first meeting with the leaders of Judaism, he embarked on a series of events that would cause these same doctors of the Law to question his methods. He seemed to make a point of contradicting everything they stood for. Whether it was the company he kept or his personal lifestyle, as it pertained to God, Jesus challenged all men to rethink what they held as true or righteous living. One day, Jesus was watching Levi, a tax collector who probably worked for Herod Antipas, but he could have been working for the Roman oppressor. Jesus said to him, “Follow Me,” and Levi left his old life with all its worldly rewards and followed Jesus (Luke 5:27-28). Did he know Jesus before his call? Was he at least aware of the miracles folks were saying Jesus had done? Luke doesn’t say, but probably Levi at least knew about Jesus. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "I find it interesting that Paul was blind for three days and nights after he had a vision of Jesus. He was blinded by a light so bright that even at noon the light of the sun paled by comparison. Though all those with Paul were cast to the ground at the flash of the light, only Paul seems to have been blinded thereby. An equally interesting event occurred in the life of Jonah, the prophet. He was told by the Lord to go to Nineveh, a gentile city, and preach repentance toward God to those gentiles, but instead Jonah fled to Tarshish (or Tarsus), the city where Saul, the Apostle to the gentiles, was born. Jonah, too, spent three days and nights of deathly blindness but in the belly of the great fish. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nI think we’ve all seen the commercial were three or four men sit around the campfire one evening drinking beer and one says to the others: “It doesn’t’ get any better than this!” To which many might say: “Oh, really?” After all, not everyone likes beer or even likes camping for that matter. However, the implication of the commercial is “This is life!” Could anyone really sum up life in a commercial? I think we can all agree, if we are really serious, that one could not do such a thing. Life, after all, is rather abstract. Is it not? It is not as tangible as a bottle of beer. It is not something we could place in our hands and say: “Here, this is life!” Nevertheless, we all know life through our own consciousness. We know life exists, because we are able to witness that we live. We may not be able to fully explain it or put it into a bottle and say: “That’s life!” but we can all agree that life is real, because we are conscious of our own existence. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nWhy Seek the Living One Among the Dead?", null, "The women who waited on Jesus during his lifetime (Luke 8:2-3) came to clean his body, to anoint him and to dress his corpse for burial. All the burial preparations on the day of his death were done quickly. Even the tomb where he had been laid was used because it was close by (John 19:41-42). When they arrived at the grave site, the appearance of the tomb was not what they had expected. The stone had been removed from the opening of the tomb, and when they looked into the sepulcher the body of Jesus was no longer there (Luke 24:3)! As the women wondered over these things, two angels stood with them and asked, “Why do you seek the Living among the dead” (Luke 24:4-5)? They reminded the women of what Jesus told them earlier in Galilee concerning his death and resurrection (Luke 24:6-8). Then they remembered his words and ran to tell the disciples and everyone else! END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED" ]

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[ "Did Spurs park the bus? Perhaps. However, you can also say considering that they played on Thursday, it was a very good game plan executed well.\n\nFor Frank Lampard, he will be annoyed, having had a number of chances to win the game, Tammy Abraham going close a number of times.\n\nSpurs move to the top of the Premier League.\n\nThere will be four minutes of added time!\n19:182 months ago\n\nFive minutes to go! Will either side find the winner?\n19:122 months ago\n\nSo close from Mount! Forces a great save from Lloris.\n19:112 months ago\n\nZiyech sends a wild shot over the bar.\n\nSO CLOSE! Tammy Abraham fails to connect with a Werner cross.\n18:492 months ago\n\nChilwell heads over from a Ziyech free kick.\n18:462 months ago\n\nWIth James and Chilwell whipping in deadly crosses, perhaps it's time for Giroud to enter the scene?\n18:452 months ago\n\nA yellow card brandished to Reece James for a swing of his arm at Reguilón.\n18:422 months ago\n\nReece James sends in a cross for Abraham, who can't direct his header on target.\n18:392 months ago\n\nSo close from Werner! Ziyech whips in a devilish cross; Werner controls, turns Zouma and shoots straight at Lloris.\n18:362 months ago\n\nNot a lot has happened, very tetchy affair at Stamford Bridge. Hopefully in the second half, both sides will attack the game.\n18:112 months ago\n\nChilwell links up well with Mount, sending a cross into the box. Lloris comes to claim.\n18:022 months ago\n\nHarry Kane lined up a free-kick from around 30-yards-out, he sends his shot high and wide over the bar.\n17:552 months ago\n\nBoth sides have settled into the game with Chelsea having the clearest opportunity of the opening 20 minutes.\n17:472 months ago\n\nAurier shots from distance but forces a smart save from Mendy.\n17:432 months ago\n\nChelsea have the ball in the back of the net, however, Werner is flagged for offisde.\n17:422 months ago\n\nFirst chance falls to Bergwijn, who fires just over the bar from outside the area.\n17:372 months ago\n\nCagey opening five minuets at Stamford Bridge; neither side willing to show their hans just yet.\n17:322 months ago\n\nBoth sides about to make their way onto the Stamford Bridge pitch!\n17:112 months ago\n\n7 & 8 - Chelsea (7) and Tottenham (8) are on the current longest unbeaten runs in the Premier League, with Spurs one of three sides with a 100% away record in the competition so far this term. Tasty. #CHETOT pic.twitter.com/igroJ4icKa — OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) November 29, 2020\n\nBattle of the left-backs?\n\nTwo summer signings could have a big say in this top of the table clash. Ben Chilwell and Sergio Reguilon have enjoyed their start to life in London, with the pair set to have a large influence on the game this evening.\n16:322 months ago\n\nFollow along with us all the details, commentaries, analysis and lineups for Chelsea vs Tottenham Hotspur!\n\nHow to watch Chelsea vs Tottenham Live TV and Stream\n\nIf you want to watch the game on TV or the internet, your option is Sky Sports Premier League and Main Event.\n\nThe master versus the apprentice, part three. And this is the biggest one yet!\n\nJose Mourinho is embarking on a remarkable personal recovery from the adversity that he was left in after his time as Manchester United manager. The Portuguese had lost the dressing room at Old Trafford, leaving the club in the middle of the table with a tattered reputation. But his more pragmatic style of play is starting to work at Tottenham Hotspur as he seeks to build a steely resilience into his players.\n\nPierre-Emile Hojbjerg has been a revelation since his move from Southampton. The midfielder is a no-nonsense operator in-front of the back four, sweeping up danger and playing the ball forward. One might say he is N’Golo Kante on a budget! He has been a vital cog in Mourinho’s wheel and his understated contributions have often been the catalyst for goals that Tottenham have scored at the other end.\n\nFrank Lampard was backed heavily in the summer with over £200-million splashed out on new arrivals. It was taking the Blues a while to get into their stride because many new signings weren’t initially ready and those that were needed time to settle. Now that they have a full group to choose from, however, we are beginning to see glimpses of this squad’s incredible potential.\n\nThis game will be like chess. Unlike Pep Guardiola, Lampard isn’t tethered to a particular philosophy. We have already seen him tinker with formations and playing style in order to try and win points. Such tactical tinkering is straight out of the Mourinho playbook. Both managers will be keen to outdo the other but, with such intricacies on display, it could well end in a stalemate.\n\n“It’s always difficult to play Chelsea. If I’m not wrong, the last 16 years they won the Premier League five times, and they didn’t finish in the Champions League positions only once, so this is a team that is used to playing for titles, lots of players, big investments, great squad.\"\n\n\"They have an amazing squad, so I’m not even worried about who is going to play, because they only have very good players.”\n\n\"Chelsea against Tottenham is extra special anyway because of the rivalry between the two teams but the fact we’re both in good form and towards to the top of the table definitely adds spice.\"\n\n\"We’re all fighting for those kind of positions so all eyes will be drawn to it. I certainly don’t put anything on the fact we beat them twice last season.\"\n\n\"Every new year brings something else and Tottenham invested heavily in the break to bring in some very good players to strengthen what was already a really strong squad. I’m expecting a tough match - their start to the season has shown that.\"\n\nJose Mourinho has had two days less to prepare for this fixture, having played in the Europa League on Thursday night, running out 4-0 winners over Ludogorets.\n\nSpurs will be without Toby Alderweireld, who is missing due to a groin problem. Therefore, Joe Rodon could make his full Premier League debut this weekend.\n\nFrank Lampard is able to welcome back Christian Pulisic to the matchday squad, after returning from a hamstring injury.\n\nThe main problem for Lampard will be the selection headache caused by having such intimidating forward players - with Kai Havertz, Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner, all hitting the ground running.\n\nTop of the table clash in west London\n\nIt's a mouth-watering tie set up at Stamford Bridge this evening. The narratives are endless!\n\nJose Mourinho, the man behind the early success of Roman Abramovich's reign as Chelsea owner, brings his high-flying, robust Spurs side to take on Frank Lampard's Chelsea.\n\nA win for either side would see them leapfrog Liverpool into first place in the Premier League.\n\nVery much a case of master meets apprentice, with Lampard having learn his trade as a player and no doubt a a manager, under the tutelage of Jose Mourinho.\n\nChelsea vs Tottenham Hotspur will be played at Stamford Bridge; London, England.", null, null, "Danny Rose: A nightmare end for a servant of 14 years 12 hours ago", null, "Gareth Bale set to earn vital minutes against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup  3 days ago\n\nJoe Rodon: One for the Future 4 days ago", null, null, null, "The Warmdown: Spurs diminish demons through Ndombele's moment of magic   8 days ago", null, null, "Sheffield United vs Tottenham Hotspur Preview: Team News, Predicted Line-ups and How to Watch 11 days ago", null ]

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[ "A couple of events took place this week that had a major impact on our trending chart. Xiaomi's new Redmi Note 11 lineup stormed the top with the Pro+, leading from the regular Pro, while Sony's new Xperia Pro-I rounded up the top three.\n\nWe then have the vanilla Redmi Note 11, meaning the entire top 4 consists of newly announced phones. But it doesn't end there - the Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge which is merely the rumored name of the Pro+ in India is in sixth, splitting last week's leading Google Pixel 6 duo.\n\nThe Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max was slipping down from the lead over the past two weeks but the new entries in our database quickly sped it up and the Cupertino flagship only ended up eight this time around. It will probably stage a comeback once the hype around the new phones dies down, but will it have enough in it to return to podium? Tune in next week to find out.\n\nThe solitary remaining Samsung phone in the top 10 is the Galaxy A52s is all the down in ninth, while the Redmi Note 10 Pro rounds up the top 10.\n\nThe Galaxy S21 Ultra doesn't make the cut this time and neither do the Galaxy A12 and the Poco X3 Pro. OnePlus 9 RT also loses out.", null, null, null, "Xiaomi 11i HyperCharge\nRANK: 6NEW IN\n\nNokia black and white is the best\n\nDespite 10000000 phones launch event the rn10 rpo still haven't got away from trending phones let alone it was always number 1 when no new phone released. The s21u also maintained its position in tending phone for alot of time. Goes to shows whi..." ]

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[ "Which Regions Have Recovered from the Great Recession?", null, "This post is the first of a two-part series exploring how nations have recovered from the Great Recession. The second post, “China’s Impact on Global Recovery from the Recession” will appear on Thursday, Oct. 29.\n\nSt. Louis Fed Assistant Vice President and Economist Yi Wen and Senior Research Associate Maria A. Arias used data from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) World Economic Outlook database for the period 2008-2014. The goal was to see how gross domestic product (GDP) fared among broad geographical regions during and after the recession.1 The results are in the table below.", null, "Wen and Arias also looked at overall GDP growth for some of the regions over the full period. As may be surmised from the table above, the Asian Tigers (including China and Japan) have seen continuous substantial growth without experiencing a sharp decline. Latin America and North America have grown past their prerecession peaks. Europe, however, “has not recovered from the crisis and has shown almost no growth since 2012, with output still below its prerecession peak,” according to the authors. (For a figure showing these trends, see The Regional Economist article “Recovery from the Great Recession Has Varied around the World.”)\n\nWhy have recovery rates around the world differed? Thursday’s blog post will discuss some of the reasons for the disparities.\n\n1 The authors split the full period into two parts: the recession (2008-2009) and the recovery (2009-2014). The authors defined the recession period as such—rather than the National Bureau of Economic Research’s definition of December 2007 through June 2009—because they were using annual data aggregated by region." ]

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[ null, "The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has released his economic agenda guiding principle, with a vow to break government monopoly in all infrastructural sectors.\n\nThe former Vice President stated this in his agenda released on his Twitter page on Thursday titled, ‘The three guiding principles of my economic agenda’.\n\nAccording to him, our economic agenda has a comprehensive objective of providing a more hospitable environment for businesses to thrive.\n\nWith thriving businesses, Atiku said, his administration would create jobs and wealth for Nigerian citizens.\n\nThe main opposition presidential candidate said, “And to achieve these, I have three guiding principles to go by:\n\n“Reaffirm the criticality of private-sector leadership and greater private sector participation in development; while repositioning the public sector to focus on its core responsibility of facilitation and enabling the appropriate legal and regulatory framework for rapid economic and social development.\n\n“Break government monopoly in all infrastructural sectors, including the refineries, rail transportation, and power transmission, and give private investors a larger role in funding and managing the sectors, thus emulating the benefits accrued in the oil and gas and telecom sectors.\n\n“Allow the market greater leverage in determining prices. This way we shall eliminate the persistent price distortions occasioned by the current interventionist exchange rate management policy. Government intervention, where absolutely necessary, will be done responsibly and judiciously.”\n\nThe PUNCH reports that Atiku won the party’s presidential ticket during a special national convention held in Abuja on May 28 and 29, 2022, after scoring 371 votes to beat 11 other aspirants.\n\nDuring the PDP presidential primary held at the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Atiku polled 371 votes to defeat Wike, who got 237 votes; a former President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, 70 votes; the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Emmanuel Udom, 38 votes; the Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, 20 votes; a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, 14 votes and an ex-President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, Sam Ohuabunwa, one vote.\n\nBefore his emergence as PDP presidential flagbearer, Atiku had released his five-point plan for Nigeria if elected president during next year’s general election.\n\nAtiku, who was the party’s presidential flagbearer during the 2019 presidential election, promised to tackle insecurity, economic and other challenges bedeviling the country.\n\nHe said his first agenda was to “Restore Nigeria’s unity through equity, social justice, and cooperation”.\n\n“Build a strong, resilient, and prosperous economy that creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty\n\n“Spearhead education reform so it is driven by innovation, science, and technology.”", null, "Atiku Abubakar has deleted a post he made syndicated on his Facebook and Twitter pages about slain Deboral Samuel after coming under a barrage of threats from fanatics of northern origin who asked him to forget his presidential ambition.Mr. Atiku’s posts around 10:20 p.m. Thursday were deleted less than an hour later. Both had garnered thousands of reactions within minutes, according to a screenshot.Most of the comments were from fundamentalists who warned the politician to stay away from condemning the ..." ]

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[ null, "Dick Bess a long-time resident of Jackson, Wyoming, passed away peacefully in his home on April 10th, 2014, after battling stage 4 bone and prostate cancer for the past 11 months.\n\nHe was the oldest of 3 children born to the late Thomas Bess and Faye Stewart. Dick was the beloved husband of Dian Bess who passed away earlier this year on February 13, 2014. They were married for 62 years. He will forever be remembered by his 2 children, daughter Deborah Gabriel and son Dan Bess, along with countless other friends and family whom were blessed to know him.\n\nAt the young age of 16, Dick started riding motorcycles. He was never without his bike. Dick loved the sport so much he went into flat track racing in Southern California at the famous Ascot raceway and Lucerne Valley race tracks. Dick traveled to every race track he could to follow the sport he loved. Often Dick would be published in the New Port news showing off his bike and good looks. Dick loved the outdoors and his father would often take him hunting as a young child.\n\nAfter high school, Dick joined the Air Force as a jet mechanic to take up the fight during the Korean War. While stationed in Louisiana, Dick asked Dian to marry him. They soon married and stayed in Louisiana throughout Dick’s enlistment and eventually moved back to Santa Monica where they started a family.\n\nIn the early 60”s, Dick went on an elk hunt in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He fell in love with the simple life and beauty. When Dick returned from his hunt he was becoming weary of the hustle and bustle of California and was finding himself not happy raising his family there. Dick was offered an opportunity to buy an existing guest ranch 17 miles south of Jackson, on the Hoback River. Dian was not a country girl but wanted to please Dick’s ambition to raise the family in a better environment. Dick and his family ended up moving in 1963 and purchased the guest ranch and named it “The Spotted Horse Ranch”. The life on the ranch lasted for 40 years, although they sold the ranch in the fall of 1999.\n\nDick loved the outdoors, from flying in his own private plane and traveling the world hunting big game in Alaska, Africa, Northwest Territories and Australia.\n\nDick and his late wife Dian, touched the lives of many people and they both maintained their dignity and sense of humour to the end.\n\nThe family would like to thank the endless and selfless care that their Private Caregiver’s, Hospice, Dr. Hayes, The Senior Centre and friends gave to Dick and Dian.\n\nFriends and family are invited to attend a western style Memorial service at the Spotted Horse Ranch As follows: Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 9:30 am viewing and parking 11:00 am Service\n\nHE WILL BE MISSED\n\nTo order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Thomas Bess, please visit our flower store." ]

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[ null, "Rick Miguez advanced from deputy to general counsel at Carnival Corp. & plc with Arnie Perez stepping aside from the role he's held since 1995 yet continuing in certain aspects.\n\nThe high-profile Perez will still serve as corporate secretary and as legal counsel on various ongoing matters to provide a smooth transition and to see through to completion efforts critical to the corporation, according to Arnold Donald, president and CEO.\n\nDonald welcomed Miguez to his new role and acknowledged Perez for his 'many outstanding contributions over the years and his ongoing leadership in guiding Carnival Corporation to becoming one of the world's largest and most admired leisure travel companies.'\n\nMiguez has served as VP and deputy general counsel since 2003, following his tenure as assistant general counsel from 1997. He previously worked in corporate and international maritime law for White & Case, as well as McDermott Will & Emery." ]

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[ "Why Don't You Still Believe?", null, "That's a question that sometimes boggles my mind and gets me in a particular mood.\n\nI get so fed up, because what will it take? Sometimes when I write these blog posts I often ask the Lord, what's it for? Who is it helping? Why even do it? Don't get me wrong, from time to time I will hear great reports about how the blog helped, but very few and very far between. Besides those few who are changing for the better and increasing their faith, it just seems like I'm writing to myself at times. But of course I won't stop unless the Lord tells me to. I'm going to write for Him forever if He says so. And even if I never see or hear about any change in people, God knows what He's doing even if I don't at times. It's all good. Trust and believe that.\n\nAnd although I'm nothing like a preacher or a pastor, I'm starting to understand more and more why some of them get tired and almost weary sometimes. Preparing and toiling for the saints and sinners who, many times, won't even receive the Godly words they have prayed over, again and again. Thank God those apostles never give up on us, huh? 1 Timothy 5:17, says \"the elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching.\" We don't do enough for them. They deserve double honor for sure, but how many of us extend that honor and respect towards them? How many of us at least try to take in their holy words that come from the Lord and at least try to live better lives? How many? Why in the world do you think God called them? It wasn't for themselves. He called them for us. And some of us still won't believe that God is God.\n\nAnyway, I still just don't get why some people are of little faith when God gave His one and only son for us. When His son Jesus died for us so we wouldn't have to. When Jesus covers us continuously when we don't even deserve it. When Jesus opened our eyes today and we didn't even thank Him.\n\nYet I will never lose hope that maybe tomorrow will be different." ]

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[ null, "Nominees for “The 2018 ESPYS Presented by Capital One” were revealed today and fan voting has begun.\n\n“The 2018 ESPYS Presented by Capital One”will be hosted by Danica Patrick and broadcast live on ABC, Wednesday, July 18 (8 – 11 p.m. EDT), from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.\n\nFans can cast their vote at ESPYS.com.\n\nIn Best Male Athlete, three-time nominee Tom Brady is joined by three newcomers to the category – Alexander Ovechkin, James Harden, and José Altuve. Brady was previously nominated for this award in 2004 and 2008.\n\nBEST MALE ATHLETE WITH A DISABILITY\n\nBEST FEMALE ATHLETE WITH A DISABILITY" ]

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[ null, "Front row, from left, Monica West (Miep Gies), Lou Liberatore (Mr. Dussel), Lauren Culpepper (Margot Frank), Steve Vinovich (Mr. Van Daan), Molly Ephraim (Anne Frank); back row, standing from left, Felicity Jones (Edith Frank), Mitch Greenberg (Otto Frank), Mimi Lieber (Mrs. Van Daan) and Ari Brand (Peter Van Daan) in “The Diary of Anne Frank” at Westport Country Playhouse, now playing through October 30. (203) 227-4177. www.westportplayhouse.org Photo by T. Charles Erickson\nBe Prepared to Leave the Theater and Be Transported to a Small Attic During World War II\nBy Lauren Yarger\nThe Westport Country Playhouse production of The Diary of Anne Frank is one of those rare experiences where the fourth wall vanishes and audience members are swept into the drama unfolding on stage so effectively, that in this case, you’d swear you’re hiding in a small attic in Amsterdam where the fear that you might be discovered by the Nazis is palpable.\n\nThe experience is the result of excellence in many elements of the production. Wendy Kesselman’s newly revised adaptation of Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett stage play about Anne’s two years of hiding with her family and other Jews during World War II focuses on emotions felt by the characters. It’s impossible not to feel what they feel.\n\nSecondly, the small attic above her father’s former office is brought to vivid life by designer John Ezellthe. Multiple levels depict the living and common spaces shared by the Franks, the VanDaans and a dentist, Mr. Dussel, who joins the two families later. The walls, furniture and props all are drab. Bedding, linens and even the costumes (Wila Kim, designer) lend no color or life to the plight of those living in the attic and coiled barbed wire, high above in the rafters, is a constant reminder of the prisons that await outside the attic, which is accessed by stairs leading from below in front of the stage, completing the razing of the fourth wall.\n\nFinally, but perhaps most effective in creating the experience, is the direction of Gerald Freedman. He coaxes winning performances from the actors and masterfully separates action taking place in one part of the attic from the day-to-day activities continued by others (the effect is aided by excellent lighting design by Travis McHale). The result is the creation of the audience as another entity in the drama taking place in the attic.\n\nAfter a first act that is so engrossing, the characters stroll back onto stage as audience members return to their seats after intermission, cementing the feeling that we’re all in that attic together. We share the horror of a bombing raid, the chill of a radio address by Hitler, the sweeping joy of news that the Allies have invaded Normandy and the terror that every noise might bring the Nazis up the stairs.\n\nMolly Ephraim’s Anne is a typical adolescent, annoying the Van Daans (Steve Vinovich, Mimi Lieber) with her constant chatter, high spirits and pranks -- all a contrast to her quieter sister, Margot (Lauren Culpepper), who is much more like their mother, Edith (Felicity Jones), against whom Anne rebels. She relates more to her father, Otto (Mitch Greenberg), and teases the Van Daans’ son, Peter (Ari Brand), with whom she shares a budding romance.\n\nProviding supplies, news from the outside world and their only distraction from a life in hiding are Miep (Monica West) and Mr. Kraller (Allen McCullough), Otto’s former business partner. Rounding out the cast are Lou Liberatore as Dussel, Philip M. Gardner, Jack Kesy and Nicholas Wilder.\n\nThis production is a “don’t miss” of the season. It runs through Oct. 30 at the Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, Westport. For information and tickets, visit http://www.westportplayhouse.org/ or call 203-227-4177.\nPosted by LaurenYarger at 1:21 PM" ]

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[ null, "I was present at ATTACK Athletics in Chicago and the Fieldhouse in Merrillville, IN, in the Spring of 2010 because of the buzz surrounding this 6-10 lanky, athletic kid who could supposedly do just about everything on the court.\n\nIt took him about four or five trips up and down the court to make me a believer.\n\nAnthony Davis’ story about his meteoric rise from no-namer with an offer from Cleveland State to the most coveted high school player in the country, NCAA National Player of the Year and Champion as a true freshman—and subsequently becoming the No. 1 overall draft pick to the Pelicans the ensuing Draft has been well-documented.\n\nNow checking in at No. 41 on the SLAM Top 50 leading up to his second season in the League, Davis is no longer the main attraction among his peers, though the intrigue remains ever present.\n\nComing into the League, his shot-blocking ability as well as his general presence in the paint were better than any other amateur. His athleticism for his size allowed him to run, and get off, the floor better than most. The perimeter skills he maintained from his days as a guard prior to his fortuitous growth spurt when he was 15 and 16—including nice form and touch on his shot—could potentially make him as versatile a post player as there is in the League.\n\nThe biggest question mark with Davis coming into the NBA was his slight build and how he would hold up against the grown men—many of which hold the upcoming 40 spots in the Top 50—from the start, and his rookie year showed the hurdles he still has to climb physically.\n\nGiven the other Pelicans in the frontcourt, mainly Ryan Anderson and Jason Smith, Davis probably is the most versatile in regards to being able to guard both post positions. But how effective against each one at this stage in his career is something he still must prove.\n\nWe’d be remiss in overlooking the fact that he’s really only played at this height for just over three years, and could still be getting comfortable with his role on the court as well as the one coach Monty Williams wants him to fit.\n\nDavis averaged 13.5 points on 52 percent shooting, a hair over 8 boards and close to 2 blocks per game during his rookie season, in which he missed 18 games due to injury. Those are encouraging numbers considering he won’t turn 21 until March, and is still developing physically.\n\nAssuming everyone stays healthy this season, it’s as safe a bet as any that Davis will make another stride toward improvement—numbers-wise and in terms of his presence on the court—as there won’t be much pressure on him to produce offensively.\n\nHow Jrue Holiday, Eric Gordon, Tyreke Evans and Austin Rivers can play off each other remains to be seen, but as long as Davis is on the court with any combination of the guards, he will get plenty of opportunities to score just by running with them in transition or making himself available when one of them drives and engages a couple defenders in the half-court.\n\nDavis might not be at the point of being a post who the Pelicans can jam the ball into on the block every possession and expect him to get a bucket or make a good pass—and he may never be (true back-to-the-basket bigs have followed the same trend as CDs)—but his ability to run and beat most big guys down the court every possession will aid the Pelicans’ cause. It’s also safe to assume he’s been polishing his 15-17 footer, and if he can knock that in with consistency off pick and pops or catch-and-shoots, it will make him even more dangerous.\n\nEntering his second season, it’s hard to define Davis’ position on the court as he is part of the wave of hybrid players in the League. The fact he can do a bunch of things well could be negated if he can’t do one thing real well night-in and night-out. The bar is set higher for a No. 1 overall pick.\n\nThe obvious aspect of the game where he’s most likely to show that consistency earliest is on defense. With a year under his belt, perhaps the game will have slowed down for him and he will be more comfortable with how he can excel on the defensive end as he did during his one year in college. Make no mistake, his potential as a game-changing defender, shot-blocker and rebounder is what had college coaches in the summer of 2010, and NBA front office personnel in 2012, salivating.\n\nDavis is just one of many who boast all the attributes that define players with high-ceilings and labeled with ‘star potential.’ When he translates that potential into production on a consistent basis he will begin to re-emerge from the rest of the pack and once again become one of the main attractions in a league stocked with the world’s best players." ]

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[ null, "As the longest running music show on TV enters its 40th season, Austin City Limits has announced its second installment of inductees into its Hall of Fame founded in 2014.\n\n“I am truly honored to be included in this year’s ACL Hall of Fame,” says Asleep at the Wheel frontman Ray Benson. The Texas Swing group has played Austin City Limits a whopping ten times over the show’s run. “After Willie did the pilot in 1974-5, Asleep at the Wheel was selected to do the first regular episode of ACL. Joe Gracey and I were roommates then, and he was booking the show. He asked who we wanted to share the bill with and I said, ‘The Texas Playboys, Bob Wills’ great band!’ That episode is now housed at the Smithsonian. Over the years I have appeared in numerous episodes both as a featured performer and a guest performer, and I cannot imagine our 45-year career without the exposure that ACL afforded us. Many thanks to the great staff who make the show what it is!”\n\nTownes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, who both performed on the show multiple times, symbolize the very heart of what makes Austin, TX an epicenter for some of the best songwriters American music has ever heard. Flaco Jiménez, who also has appeared on ACL multiple times, embodies the diversity of Texas music and the importance of musicianship as well as performance. And the inclusion of Loretta Lynn shows that from the beginning, Austin City Limits was not just about capturing the rich textures of Texas music, but honoring the legends that influenced it.\n\nThe original crew of the Austin City Limits show will also be honored as the 2015’s non-performing inductee.\n\nAs part of the Hall of Fame announcement, it was also revealed that Sturgill Simpson, The War On Drugs, and a special Bob Wills tribute comprised of Asleep At The Wheel and The Avett Brothers among others will be part of upcoming season 41 tapings." ]

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[ null, "This year’s Booker Prize longlist sees what is surely a literary first. In the Acknowledgments at the back of Maggie Shipstead’s 580-page long Great Circle, as well as thanking a long list of people and organisations, she writes: “It may be odd to thank an inanimate entity, but I could not have surmounted the organisational challenges of this novel without the writing application Scrivener.’\n\nIs this the first time a writer has thanked a piece of software? Scrivener is a tool for writers established by the British independent software company Literature & Latte founded by writers for writers in 2004. It is based in Cornwall and released the first version of Scrivener in January 2007.\n\nScrivener describes itself as ‘tailer-made for long writing projects’. It says ‘we provide everything needed to craft your first draft. Used by best-selling novelists, screenwriters, lawyers, students, journalists and more, Scrivener brings together tools familiar to writers everywhere in new and exciting ways’.\n\nIt takes its name from the nineteenth century term for a clerk or scribe who could read and write or who wrote letters to court and legal documents. In the world of literature it is immortalised by Herman Melville’s story Bartleby the Scrivener.\n\nShipstead’s novel has a large cast of characters and spans decades and different settings, ranging from the great days of ocean liners, the world of early aviation pioneers, to the Battle of Britain and modern-day Hollywood. It required a huge amount of research.\n\nScrivener uses a ‘powerful ring-binder metaphor that allows [users] to write, research and arrange long documents by breaking them into smaller sections…Your research is always within reach, because Scrivener allows you to import almost any kind of file and view it right alongside whatever you’re writing’.\n\nIf Shipstead’s novel wins the £50,000 prize then Scrivener will surely benefit from the extra publicity too as more writers are tempted to explore its possibilities." ]

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[ "← I Didn’t Cry at the TRC\nRwanda: The Forgotten Victims →\n\nMy time at the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was one filled with strong Aboriginal women. I loved every minute I got to spend with them, especially one woman in particular – Leading Elder of the All Native Circle Conference of The United Church of Canada, Lorna Standingready.", null, "Me with Leading Elder Lorna Standingready\n\nLorna is a residential school survivor. She spent 10 years in three separate residential schools – Anglican, United, and Presbyterian. On the first day of the TRC, Thursday, Executive Minister of the Aboriginal Ministries Circle, Maggie McLeod, interviewed her after the opening ceremony:\n\nLorna spent a lot of time at the archives section of the Shaw Centre. The four main churches who ran residential schools – Catholic, Anglican, United, and Presbyterian – had archival photos of their schools on display and in binders for survivors, and others, to look through.", null, "Lorna found several photos of herself, and her sister, in those files\n\nHere’s the photo that Lorna is referring to. She’s the one second from the right, in the front row. This is at Birtle Residential School, run by the Presbyterian Church of Canada.", null, "On the Friday, March 28, a United Church delegation consisting of former Moderator Bill Phipps, current Moderator Gary Paterson, and Maggie McLeod, supported by elder Ray Jones (Chair, Aboriginal Ministries Council) and Lorna herself, made a statement to the TRC. After the statement, Lorna shared her views on it:\n\nLater that day, she and General Secretary Nora Sanders had a conversation about it:\n\nLorna was asked to share her story during the Churches Listening Circle. This circle happened each day of the TRC, and was a space for survivors and church officials to sit together, with survivors telling their stories directly to church officials, and the officials responding at the end. There was also an opportunity for survivors to privately speak with a church official of their choice, and to receive a personal apology.\n\nHere is her story, in her own words", null, "Cheryl Jourdain, speaker of ANCC, supports Lorna as she tells her story\n\nIt was difficult to hear. But I can only imagine how difficult it was to share, and for that I am so grateful to the incredibly brave and strong woman that is Lorna Standingready. Not only did she relive the emotional trauma she endured, but she also had the strength to stand behind the next survivor who was having a difficult time getting the words out, holding her and telling her that “Kokum’s (grandmother) here.”", null, "Lorna speaks about her experience sharing her story here:\n\nLorna also wanted to do a short recap of her experience at the TRC in Edmonton:\n\nThis is the photo she refers to in the video – that’s Lorna playing the piano.", null, "The interesting thing is, earlier I was supposed to interview Lorna. I’d asked her previously if she wanted to tell her story and have me record it. She said she did, so long as she wasn’t rushed.\n\nThis was a common sentiment during the TRC, survivors feeling rushed and comparing the TRC process with the residential school system, where they were constricted in rigid timelines (I’m still thinking about this, and hope to devote an entire blog post to it). I told Lorna we could take as long as she wanted, and so we planned to meet in the Survivors Lounge to film an interview, giving ourselves at least an hour.\n\nBut then she was asked to share in the Churches Learning Circle, so we didn’t get to do our in-depth interview. In the end, it worked out better. Lorna was able to give witness in public, to a large group of people. I was able to record it and, with her permission, share it on Youtube, where even more people could hear it.\n\nThere were other things that struck me as I was working throughout the event, that I set aside or jotted down as a note to myself to come back to and reflect on later.\n\nOne was the statement given on behalf of the United Church. It was a good, strong statement, but not one that I wholly agreed with. For starters, the two white men on the 3-person delegation spoke longer than they perhaps should have, leading Commissioner Marie Wilson to interrupt Maggie, the only woman and only Aboriginal person on the delegation, at the beginning of her statement, telling her to hurry up as time was running out.\n\nThe optics were not good.\n\nAlso, part of the statement said that the United Church would include Aboriginal peoples “in all decisions that affect them.” When I heard that, my ears perked up and I wrote the statement down on my iPhone. It just seemed really patriarchal and colonial, not to mention that it wreaked of the whole “women should only be concerned with women’s issues” idea.\n\nYes, I’m critical of my church. Perhaps overly critical. The United Church was the first church to apologize to Aboriginal peoples, in 1986 (see this timeline regarding residential schools). It is trying to make amends. It apologized for its role in the residential schools in 1998, and pushed the Canadian government to apologize as well, which it finally did in 2008. I heard from other people at the TRC who said they wished their churches could deliver a statement as strong and powerful as the one the United Church gave. But while the United Church is trying to live out those apologies, it isn’t there yet.\n\n1986 was the year I was born; the United Church has been working towards right relations for as long as I’ve been alive, yet those apologies have still not been accepted by the Aboriginal population of the United Church, though they have been acknowledged. (This too continues to stay with me, and I’m thinking about a separate blog post to expand on it.)\n\nLorna is a very grandmothery, maternal figure. She reminds me of my grandmother, though Lorna’s about 30 years younger. My grandmother died nearly 10 years ago, in 2004, the week before I turned 18. She would’ve been 100 years old this past November. I was with her when she died, along with most of my immediate family. I remember it vividly. Holding her clammy hand, thinking I felt her squeeze my own even though she had gone into a coma a few hours earlier. The death rattle.\n\nMy grandmother, Nanny as I called her, was like Lorna in stature and strength. She was a small woman, much smaller than the 5 foot 10.5 inches I would grow to be, but I always felt like a child when I was with her, safe and secure. And she was feisty! She’d tell it like it is, just like Lorna does. She’d talk about the Black & Tans in Ireland and the things that they did. I knew that she and her family, and others in rural Co. Cork and elsewhere, were often not allowed to speak their language, Irish Gaelic, in school or outside the house. But she tried to teach me a bit of the language, and I savoured those teaching moments, even as a young child. Today, I can still say things like “Thank you,” “How are you?” etc, but I’m nowhere near reclaiming the language the way many of my relatives who still live in the Gaeltacht regions of Ireland are.\n\nI’m not trying to equate the experience of Aboriginal people with that of the Celtic population, but stories close to my heart help me to better understand the truth-telling of other peoples. I know that some have called the Celts the indigenous peoples of Europe. Even though my ancestors were not forcibly taken from their families and sent to schools where they were abused and beaten for speaking their language, language was still lost in Ireland; names were anglicized. This isn’t just the case with the Irish, but with many different groups both here in immigrant communities in Canada and around the world. It’s something in common that could build a bridge towards solidarity, especially among those people who don’t know much about the residential schools or see this whole thing as an “Indian problem.” Finding personal connections is the first step in recognizing the more systematic and severe experience of Aboriginal peoples here in North America. We shouldn’t only care because something similar happened to our own peoples; we should care because this horrible, horrible Canadian legacy happened to other human beings.\n\nUPDATE: 10 days after the TRC ended in Edmonton, Lorna was in Toronto and we were able to film her speaking with Rev. Maggie McLeod about the importance of Aboriginal Women’s leadership:\n\nPosted on April 4, 2014, in Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.\n\n← I Didn’t Cry at the TRC\nRwanda: The Forgotten Victims →" ]

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[ null, "Pro Bowl outside linebacker taken in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins. He was previously named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year at Purdue University.\n\nHe was an All-State defensive end and tight end at Muncie Central High School.\n\nHe is half deaf as a result of an ear infection suffered when he was a child.\n\nHis brother, Kyle Kerrigan, was a swimmer at DePauw University.\n\nHe has been teammates with fellow Pro Bowler Brian Orakpo in Washington.\n\nRyan Kerrigan Is A Member Of" ]

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[ "So what differentiates the Arduino Pro Mini from the Arduino Uno? Well, the most obvious difference is the form factor. The Pro Mini's pretty...mini, measuring in at just 1.3x0.70\". It's about ⅙th the size of the Arduino Uno. The compact size is great for projects where you may need to fit the Arduino into a tiny enclosure, but it also means that the Pro Mini is not physically compatible with Arduino shields (you could still hard-wire the Mini up to any Arduino shield).", null, "Comparing the size of a standard Arduino Uno with the (aptly named) Pro Mini.\n\nThe Mini packs almost as much microprocessor-punch as the regular Arduino, but there are a few major hardware changes you should be aware of before you start adapting your project to the Mini. The first glaring hardware difference is the voltage that the Mini operates at: 3.3V. Unlike the Arduino Uno, which has both a 5V and 3.3V regulator on board, the Mini only has one regulator. This means that if you've got peripherals that only work at 5V, you might have to do some level shifting before you hook it up to the Pro Mini (or you could go for the 5V variant of the Pro Mini).\n\nAnother major variation from the standard Arduino lies in the speed at which the ATmega328 runs. The Pro Mini 3.3V runs at 8MHz, half the speed of an Arduino Uno. We put a slower resonator on the Mini to guarantee safe operation of the ATmega. That said, don't let the slower speed scare you away from using the Mini; 8MHz is still plenty fast, and the Mini will still be capable of controlling almost any project the Arduino Uno can.", null, "One last missing piece of hardware is the Atmega16U2-based USB-to-Serial converter, and the USB connector that goes with it. All of the USB circuitry had to be eliminated for us to make the Pro Mini as small as possible. The absence of this circuit means an external component, the FTDI Basic Breakout, is required to upload code to the Arduino Pro Mini.", null, "The schematic of the Pro Mini can be broken down into three blocks: the voltage regulator, the ATmega328 and supporting circuitry, and the headers.", null, "The Pro Mini's pins surround three of the four sides. The pins on the short side are used for programming, they match up to the FTDI Basic Breakout. The pins on the other two sides are an assortment of power and GPIO pins (just like the standard Arduino).", null, "There are three different power-related pins: GND, VCC, and RAW. GND, obviously, is the common/ground/0V reference. RAW is the input voltage that runs into the regulator. The voltage at this input can be anywhere from 3.4 to 12V. The voltage at VCC is supplied directly to the Pro Mini, so any voltage applied to that pin should already be regulated to 3.3V.\n\nFour pins are actually not located on the edge of the board: A4, A5, A6 and A7. Each of these analog pins is labeled on the back side of the board.", null, "A4 and A5's location may be very important if you plan on using I2C with the Pro Mini -- those are the hardware SDA and SCL pins.\n\nMore information about pins can be found in our graphical datasheets. The pinout listed on both datasheets are the same. The only difference is the voltage and frequency that the board operates at." ]

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[ null, "Musical satirists Jonny & the Baptists – real names Jonny Donahoe & Paddy Gervers – are among the hottest musical comedy acts on the UK scene, regularly appearing on TV, radio, at festivals and most recently a 50-date UK tour of their hit show “Eat The Poor”. From silly songs to satirical anthems, their riotous live blend of comedy and rock gig has won adoring fans across the country.\n\nWe live in a divided world, and we want to cross that divide. But how can we be popular now ‘populist’ means ‘I’m a shit’? Answer: WE LOVE EVERYONE. Oh, except bastards. Everyone hates bastards, right? We agree.\n\nMulti-award nominated* musical-activist-comedians, Jonny & The Baptists, are sick of being political and divisive. This show is about how everything is definitely fine. Let’s just get along!" ]

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[ null, "The Charleston Music Hall this week announced that owner Bennett Hospitality has signed an operations agreement for the venue with longtime partners Frank Productions & National Shows 2 (NS2). The CMH Team is thrilled about this merger that will give added support and resources for the staff, as well as growth for the venue.\n\nBennett Hospitality built and opened The Charleston Music Hall in 1995 transforming an old train station from 1850 into a state-of-the-art concert facility. Bennett Hospitality hired Charles Carmody as Executive Director in 2012, and gave the support needed to make the Music Hall what it is today: a world class entertainment facility that holds over 250 events a year.\n\nNS2 is a Nashville-based, full-service concert promotion company that is part of Frank Productions’ national operations. NS2 creates, produces and promotes live entertainment events in arenas, amphitheaters, performing arts centers, clubs and other venues across the country. NS2 has exclusively booked the Music Hall for the past six years.\n\nUnder this new agreement, Frank Productions and NS2 plan to increase the number and diversify the type of shows at Charleston Music Hall by modifying the current seating configuration. Beginning in early April 2020, Sections A and B on the main floor of the Hall will be outfitted with state-of-the-art removable seating. This will allow the Charleston Music Hall to host assigned seating shows, general admission (GA) shows with an open-floor area, and a combination of the two (first floor GA and balcony assigned seating). Seats in sections C Rear, D Rear, E Rear, and the entire balcony will not be removable and will remain in place for all shows.\n\n“This agreement solidifies our commitment to connecting artists with fans in the Charleston market, and primes us for our next steps in expanding the NS2 footprint in South Carolina,” adds NS2 President Darin Lashinsky.\n\n“The Charleston Music Hall Team is thrilled to be syncing up with NS2 and Frank Productions. The Hall is still dedicated to producing high quality local and regional content, and we are excited about the opportunities this joint venture will create to bring new and exciting national tours to Charleston,” said Charles Carmody, Venue Director of Charleston Music Hall.\n\nReport: Charleston Has the 7th Biggest Drinking Problem in the U.S." ]

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[ "Bill Learns Steffy Could Be Carrying His Baby\n\nTuesday December 19, 2017: Steffy has a terrible daydream, Wyatt learns Liam’s going to be a father, and Katie and Brooke exchange news about their love lives.", null, "At work, Steffy tears up as she flashes to Liam gushing after learning she is pregnant. Maya and Nicole enter discussing Lizzie.", null, "Maya apologizes for the mommy talk but a clearly distracted Steffy assures Maya she’s not being insensitive. They wonder if Steffy is thinking about what to get Liam for Christmas. Steffy says she’s taken care of that, or so she hopes. Maya and Nicole leave, and Steffy has a disturbing daydream of giving birth and Liam angrily confronting her with the screaming baby, who has Bill’s face.\n\nMore: Holiday schedule for B&B and all soaps\n\nAt Spencer Publications, Wyatt notices Liam is distracted. Liam grins. He has news, though they’re not telling everyone yet, and shares, “We’re welcoming a new Spencer into the world.” Wyatt is thrilled that Liam and Steffy are going to have a baby and embraces his brother. He asks after Steffy, and Liam observes that he’s never seen her so emotional. Wyatt feels the kid will be really lucky to have them as parents, and their dad as a grandpa. He wishes he could see Bill’s reaction. Liam reflects on things being good between him and Bill, and tells Wyatt finding out he’s going to be a father was the greatest moment of his life.", null, "At Bill’s place, Ridge informs his nemesis that he asked Brooke to marry him and she accepted. Bill notes the gloating, and tells him the message has been received – he can go now. Ridge urges Bill to sign the divorce papers. Bill remarks on Ridge’s insecurities, and scoffs that he must have done a number on Brooke to make her forget his infidelities. Ridge counters that Bill’s no stranger to infidelities himself. As Ridge mentions getting along for Steffy’s sake, she phones and asks to come to the house. Later, Steffy arrives, describes her doctor’s appointment, and reveals she is pregnant. Bill marvels about being a grandfather before realization dawns that the baby could be his.\n\nAt Katie’s house, she wonders if there’s a reason for Brooke’s impromptu visit. Brooke giggles that Ridge proposed and she accepted. Katie congratulates her, she always figured they’d end up together.", null, "Brooke sees an article of male clothing in Katie’s laundry that’s too big for Will. Katie says since they’re sharing, she and Wyatt have been seeing each other; they’re involved. Brooke grapples with this information. “How?” she asks. Katie explains how they connected over the success in Monte Carlo, and admits she was hesitant to get involved, but it feels right when she’s with him. Brooke listens as Katie goes on about how good it is to tell somebody. She explains that Eric and Quinn know, though Bill doesn’t. Brooke asks where she sees it going. Katie isn’t sure, and doesn’t care. She ensues to gush about Wyatt being smart and fun. Brooke narrows her eyes and asks if Katie’s sure there’s not more to this relationship. Katie only knows she doesn’t want to give him up. Brooke’s just worried it could get ugly if Bill finds out.\n\nBill urges Steffy to get to the truth." ]

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[ null, "Now, things are really starting to move: silver explorer Lakewood Exploration (CSE LWD / WKN A3CN1X) in the last couple of months secured very promising properties in Idaho and in the \"Silver State\" Nevada (we reported). The still young company is working at full speed to advance these projects as quickly as possible, with the Silver Strand project in Idaho already two steps ahead. There, Lakewood plans to drill ist initial holes in the very near future!\n\nTo prepare for this, Lakewood has now hired Coeur d'Alene Mining Contractors, experts in underground mining, to carry out minor rehabilitation work before the first drilling phase starts. Which is scheduled to begin in the next few weeks at the project located in the Coeur d'Alene mining district!\n\nThe contractor will bring the mine into compliance with United States Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) regulations, complete rehabilitation work, develop 45 feet (13.72 meters) of underground drift and establish a 15-foot (4.6 meters) by 15-foot drill excavation. This will allow Lakewood to use exploration drilling to more efficiently and accurately test the potential of the ore body and its potential to depth.\n\nLakewood is on target to commence its initial 2,500 to 3,000 meter drill program at Silver Strand before the end of the third quarter of 2021, drilling core from both surface and the aforementioned underground drill site.\n\nAs Lakewood's President Morgan Lekstrom stated, the Company's development efforts will continue to open up future drilling and development opportunities while defining the depth extent and dip of the ore body and sub-parallel veins surrounding it. As Mr. Lektstrom further explained, Silver Strand sees depth potential significantly beyond the 90 meter mark where mining ended in the past.\n\nConclusion: Exciting times are beginning for Lakewood Exploration. The first drilling program should at least indicate whether the theories of Lakewood's geologists on the Silver Strand mine prove to be true. Lakewood is initially testing the potential directly below the historic resource blocks with the drilling now announced, followed by a target at greater depth and further west. Considering that other large mines in the region such as Hecla Mining's Lucky Friday mine, which has delivered 89 million ounces of silver to date, extend to over 2,000 meters of depth so far and remain open to depth, there is still tremendous exploration potential - especially since there is also 5 kilometers of untested strike length awaiting drilling!\n\nSure, Lakewood Exploration is an early-stage explorer with correspondingly high risk, but the experienced and reputable management team has been able to secure silver projects with huge potential, which we believe Lakewood also possesses.\n\nDisclaimer: GOLDINVEST Consulting GmbH offers editors, agencies and companies the opportunity to publish commentary, analysis and news on www.goldinvest.de. These contents serve exclusively the information of the readers and do not represent any kind of call to action, neither explicitly nor implicitly they are to be understood as an assurance of possible price developments. Furthermore, they in no way replace an individual expert investment advice, it is rather promotional / journalistic texts. Readers who make investment decisions or carry out transactions on the basis of the information provided here do so entirely at their own risk. The acquisition of securities involves high risks, which can lead to a total loss of the invested capital. The GOLDINVEST Consulting GmbH and its authors expressly exclude any liability for financial losses or the content guarantee for topicality, correctness, adequacy and completeness of the articles offered here. Please also note our terms of use.\n\nAccording to §34b WpHG and according to paragraph 48f paragraph 5 BörseG (Austria) we would like to point out that partners, authors and/or employees of GOLDINVEST Consulting GmbH may hold shares of Lakewood Exploration and therefore a conflict of interest could exist. We also cannot exclude that other stock letters, media or research firms discuss the stocks we discuss during the same period. Therefore, symmetrical information and opinion generation may occur during this period. Furthermore, there is a consulting or other service contract between GOLDINVEST Consulting GmbH and a third party that is in the camp of the issuer (Lakewood Exploration), which means that there is a conflict of interest, especially since this third party remunerates GOLDINVEST Consulting GmbH for reporting on Lakewood Exploration. This third party may also hold, sell or buy shares of the issuer and would thus profit from an increase in the price of the shares of Lakewood Exploration. This is another conflict of interest." ]

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[ "The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) has vowed to penalize any producer of agricultural seeds who fails to meet the minimum standard for quality in seed production, meanwhile emphasizing the importance of cassava in realizing the nation’s efforts to diversify the economy from petroleum to agriculture.", null, "The National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) has vowed to penalize any producer of agricultural seeds who fails to meet the minimum standard for quality in seed production, meanwhile emphasizing the importance of cassava in realizing the nation’s efforts to diversify the economy from petroleum to agriculture.\n\nNASC Director General Philip Ojo made this disclosure in Lokoja during a three-day training workshop organized for prospective licensed seed inspectors under a basic third-party certification.\n\nThe NASC is one of several collaborative partners involved in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project Building an Economically Sustainable Integrated Cassava Seed System, also known as BASICS, which launched in 2016 with the goal of developing a cassava seed value chain for Nigeria in phases by addressing the factors that contribute to low productivity in cassava planting materials.\n\nNASC Set to Distribute 81,000MT of Seeds to Farmers\n\nSpeaking on phase two, Ojo shared that great focus would be placed on escalating the engagement of third-party agents within an additional three states, namely Kogi, Abia and Oyo, and that the workshop is very key for stakeholders.\n\nThe director general went on to explain that 20 candidates had been pre-screened and selected for training as third-party agents in order to carry out private seed certification for cassava in Kogi State, just as 18 agents had done prior in Benue State.\n\nSpeaking with journalists, Gabriel Aina, a participant in the process, commended the council for the training and opportunity, which gave trainees a better idea of what it takes to have a successful bumper harvest.\n\nBank of Agriculture Decries Non-payment of Loans in Kogi State\n\nCattle Colonies: No Plans to Reallocate Community Lands to Herdsmen—FG" ]

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[ "Cosplay lovers put in a big showing during Wondercon 2019.\n\nThe comic book, sci-fi and film convention took place at Anaheim, California between March 29 and March 31.\n\nThe Conjuring spin-off Annabelle Comes Home also made an appearance as did Godzilla: King of the Monsters which features Stranger Things actress Millie Bobby Brown.\n\nElsewhere TV shows such as Legion and Agents of Shield also held panels while Game of Thrones was also represented at Wondercon 2019.\n\nAside from the movies and TV shows at Wondercon 2019, cosplayers were also out in full force.\n\nAmong the cosplayers at Wondercon 2019 was Caelyn Byrne who sported an Ann Takamaki from Persona 5 cosplay.\n\nWhile Fae Black sported a Poison Ivy cosplay and Chris Tom went as Edna from The Incredibles.", null, null, null, null, "You can check out pictures of these cosplay outfits, and many more, in this article.\n\nCosplayers were also out and about at PAX East 2019, which took place between March 28 and March 31 in Boston.\n\nDuring the event there were plenty of great games on display.", null, null, null, null, "Arguably the biggest news to come out of PAX East 2019 was Gearbox Software finally announcing Borderlands 3 after much teasing online.\n\nLike with previous games in the series, Borderlands 3 will see you step into the shoes of a vault hunter that battles bandits, monster and warlords.\n\nMany returning faces from the Borderlands series will appear in the third game including Brick, Lilith and Claptrap.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Dangerous Driving – the spiritual successor to Burnout – also made an appearance at PAX East 2019.\n\nPAX East 2019 also featured games such as Mortal Kombat 11, Streets of Rage 4 and Bloodstained Ritual of the Night.\n\nOther games showcased at PAX East 2019 included Layers of Fear 2 and Katana Zero." ]

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[ null, "Throughout my career in publishing, I have met quite a number of interesting personalities. Some I had personally interviewed; some interviewed via email, others I met and still many others I breathed the same air in the room with, such as Cate Blanchett, Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung. But more than the Michelin-star chefs, international fashion icons and movie star sightings, I am a silly, blushing fan girl most when meeting a fellow writer like me.\n\nWhen my beautiful friend Chris Yam-Daez –whose husband Jamie owns the mega-bookstore Fully Booked –invited me to the Manila send-off party for author Kevin Kwan at Salon De Ning, The Peninsula Manila, I had only read the short introduction to his international bestseller Crazy Rich Asians by way of a free preview on Scribd. I made my way to Fully Booked to buy a copy so as to not look like a total ass if I ever met the author. Kwan was in town from New York to promote the sequel to his book, China Rich Girlfriend.", null, "Sending off Kevin Kwan with Chris\n\nI was halfway into the novel before I realized what a genius Kevin Kwan is. The story is about a young, handsome Singaporean professor living in New York who asks his Chinese-American girlfriend to go home with him for a summer trip. Ultimately, it’s revealed that he’s from one of Asia’s most prominent, richest families. Aside from knowing his Versace from his Giambattista Valli, Kwan’s light take on Chinese culture, Asian mothers and the eccentric behavior of the rich are spot on and totally hilarious. I know exactly what he’s talking about when he describes scenes in Hong Kong or Singapore and his characters remind me of people I know, friends even, who live in Manila – making it even more of a delicious page-turner. There’s the artsy guy; there’s the social climber fashion whore who marries up; there’s a bad boy bachelor who likes to live the good life; there’s the guy who makes his children wear matching Ralph Lauren outfits, there’s your serpent-tongued plastic socialite and so many, many more. Ironically, in the books Kwan always mentions the lifestyle society magazines Singapore Tattle and Hong Kong Tattle and I used to work as a features editor for the Philippine Tatler, so I personally found those scenes, as well as the tongue-in-cheek articles showcasing bold faced names, highly amusing.", null, "Fan girl moment, Kevin Kwan talking about his books and trip in Manila\n\nI bought China Rich Girlfriend during the event and when my number was called, Kevin graciously not only signed both my books but also engaged me in three minutes of conversation. Here’s how that went down:\n\nAs soon as shook hands and I sat down Kevin complimented me on my Saint Laurent gun clutch, which prompted me to say, “You have great taste in fashion!”\n\nKevin Kwan: I was a student at Parson’s School of Design in New York so I kind of know what I’m talking about.\n\nThe Gypsetters Net: Which character in your book do you most associate yourself with?\n\nKK: Alistair Cheng, the creative one.\n\nTGN: When did you move from Singapore to Texas?\n\nTGN: It’s amazing how you were able to identify and differentiate Chinese characters from Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mainland China. How did you do this, having lived abroad most of your life?\n\nKK: Thankfully my father shared a lot of his memories with me which in a large part inspired my books.\n\nTGN: Is there a real life Astrid in your life?\n\nCongrats to you Kevin Kwan, on the release of your new book and it was absolutely amazing to meet you; a big thank you to Chris and Fully Booked for the honor, to Moet Chandon for the free-flowing champagne, Salon de Ning for the food and to our favorite sex writer Bambina Olivares representing Asia Society for a very interesting interview.\n\nI’m now done with Crazy Rich Asians and have been savoring China Rich Girlfriend as slowly as I can….I highly recommend you to buy your own copies for a fun light read, perfect for the airplane or while on your next gypset travel. Virtually romp through vibrant Asia and for just a moment, feel what it’s like how the other half live, while either ensconced in your own private jet or perhaps frugally traveling economy." ]

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[ "Mohan Kapur walks out of Zero Line : The Journey to Wagah", null, "Mohan Kapur who was recently seen as a minister being seduced by the leading lady Paoli Dam in Vikram Bhatt’s erotica thriller “Hate Story” was all gung ho about playing a jihadi fundamentalist in Amar Chitra Productions “Zero Line: The journey to Wagah”. Directed by debutante Gagan Puri, “Zero Line: The journey to Wagah” is based on the director’s own novel “Black Night: The Journey to Wagah Border” based on Indo-Pak relations as well as throws some startling revelations on Bhagat Singh’s life.\n\nMohan who was always keen to experiment with his looks was all keen to do this role as he felt this role would give him something new to experiment with, said an official on condition of anonymity. He was supposed to be playing a beardie jihadi fundamentalist who indoctrinates young guys in the name of Jihad and doesn’t mind issuing orders to kill if they found anyone who didn’t toe their line.\n\nThe shoot is going on at various locations at Nagpur with Manjot Singh, Brijendra Kala, Rehan Tamta and others. However, this being an entirely new production house, mismanagements reigned supreme as neither the contracts were signed nor the travel arrangements made in time. Frustrated by these turn of events, Mohan Kapur eventually walked out of this production at the last moment.\n\nThe film has songs by Jaaved Ali and its music is composed by Raj Verma. Apart from Manjot Singh, Nidhi Jha, Brijendra Kala, Rehan Tamta and Sandeep Mishra, the film has Nandita Puri and Deepti Naval in pivotal roles.\nPosted by Films & TV World at 12:56 PM" ]

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[ "10 Quick Ways to Lose All Your Friends\n\nWant to win friends and influence people? Here are 10 things that ensure you won’t:\n\n1. You thoughtlessly waste other peoples’ time. Every time you’re late to an appointment or meeting says your time is more important. Every time you wait until the grocery clerk finishes ringing you up to search for your debit card says you couldn’t care less if others have to wait unnecessarily. Every time you take three minutes to fill your oversize water bottle while a line stacks up behind you says you’re in your own little world–and your world is the only world that matters.\n\nSmall, irritating things, but basically no big deal? Wrong. People who don’t notice the small ways they inconvenience others tend to be oblivious when they do it in a major way.\n\nHow you treat people when it doesn’t really matter–especially when you’re a leader–says everything about you. Act like the people around you have more urgent needs than yours and you will never go wrong–and you will definitely be liked.\n\n2. You ignore people outside your “level.” There’s an older guy at the gym that easily weighs 350 pounds and understandably struggles on the aerobic and weight equipment. Hats off; he’s in there trying.\n\nYet nobody talks to him. Or even seems to notice him. It’s like he’s invisible. Why? He doesn’t fit in.\n\nHere’s an easy rule of thumb: Nod whenever you make eye contact. Or smile. Or (gasp!) even say hi. Just act like people exist.\n\nWe’ll automatically like you for it–and remember you as someone who engages even when there’s nothing in it for you.\n\n3. You ask for too much. A guy you don’t know asks you for a favor; a big, time-consuming favor. You politely decline. He asks again. You decline again. Then he whips out the Need Card. “But it’s really important to me. You have to. I really need [it].”\n\nMaybe you do, in fact, really need [it]. But your needs are your problem. The world doesn’t owe you anything. You aren’t entitled to advice or mentoring or success. The only thing you’re entitled to is what you earn.\n\n4. You ignore people in genuine need. At the same time, some people aren’t in a position to help themselves. They need a hand: a few dollars, some decent food, a warm coat.\n\nThough I don’t necessarily believe in karma, I do believe good things always come back to you, in the form of feeling good about yourself.\n\nAnd that’s reason enough to help people who find themselves on the downside of advantage.\n\n5. You ask a question so you can talk. A guy at lunch asks, “Hey, do you think social-media marketing is effective?”\n\n“Well,” you answer, “I think under the right circumstances…”\n\n“Wrong,” he interrupts. “I’ve never seen an ROI. I’ve never seen a bump in direct sales. Plus ‘awareness’ is not a measurable or even an important goal…” and he drones on while you desperately try to escape.\n\nDon’t shoehorn in your opinions under false pretenses. Only ask a question if you genuinely want to know the answer. And when you do speak again, ask a follow-up question that helps you better understand the other person’s point of view.\n\n6. You pull a “Do you know who I am?” OK, so maybe they don’t take it to the Reese Witherspoon level, but many people whip out some form of the “I’m Too Important forThis” card.\n\nMaybe the line is too long. Or the service isn’t sufficiently “personal.” Or they aren’t shown their “deserved” level of respect.\n\nSay you really are somebody. People always like you better when you don’t act like you know you’re somebody–or that you think it entitles you to different treatment.\n\n7. You don’t dial it back. An unusual personality is a lot of fun–until it isn’t. Yet when the going gets tough or a situation gets stressful, some people just can’t stop “expressing their individuality.”\n\nKnowing when the situation requires you to stop justifying your words or actions with an unspoken “Hey, that’s just me being me” can often be the difference between being likeable and being an ass.\n\n8. You mistake self-deprecation for permission. You know how it’s OK when you make fun of certain things about yourself, but not for other people to make fun of you for those same things? Like receding hairlines. Weight. A struggling business or career. Your spouse and kids.\n\nIt’s OK when you poke a little gentle fun at yourself, but the last thing you want to hear are bald or money or “Do you want fries with that?” jokes. (Bottom line: I can say I’m fat. Youcan’t.)\n\nSometimes self-deprecation is genuine, but it’s often a mask for insecurity. Never assume people who make fun of themselves give you permission to poke the same fun at them.\n\nOnly tease when you know it will be taken in the right spirit. Otherwise, if you feel the need to be funny, make fun of yourself.\n\n9. You humblebrag. Humblebragging is a form of bragging that tries to cover the brag with a veneer of humility so you can brag without appearing to brag. (Key word is “appearing,” because it’s still easy to tell humblebraggers are quite tickled with themselves.)\n\nFor example, here’s a tweeted humblebrag from actor Stephen Fry: “Oh dear. Don’t know what to do at the airport. Huge crowd, but I’ll miss my plane if I stop and do photos… oh dear don’t want to disappoint.”\n\nOr better yet, don’t brag. Just be proud of what you’ve accomplished. 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[ null, "On Friday, the UK Government announced a review of the Freedom of Information Act, citing the UK’s first-place ranking in our Open Data Barometer.\n\nOur CEO, Anne Jellema, responded by urging the UK Government not to use the UK’s ranking as an excuse to water down the FOIA, and called on the Government to appoint a transparency specialist to the commission panel:\n\n“We were frustrated to learn that the UK Government has used its ranking in our Open Data Barometer in an effort to justify a move that could water down the Freedom of Information Act.\n\nThe ODB primarily measures the supply, use and impact of data in reusable formats and is not a comprehensive measure of government openness in the broader sense. The UK’s first place ranking should not be an excuse to undo progress. In fact, it gives the UK a responsibility to enhance and continually improve as an example to the rest of the world. The fact that the UK Government is taking a step back when the UK still lags behind many other European countries on important measures of transparency and accountability, such as limits to state surveillance powers, and freedom of the press, is of great concern.\n\nOpen data initiatives rely on proactive disclosure, but it is vital that open data is reinforced by strong freedom of information mechanisms to ensure citizens can access what government agencies may not wish to disclose. We urge the Government to uphold its Freedom of Information Act, and appoint a panel member with expertise in government transparency to ensure all points of view are considered.”\n\nRead our blog for further analysis.\n\nPrevious PostWeb Foundation joins global coalition to tackle the data crisis · Jul 15, 2015\nNext PostWorking to increase the availability of ICT data in Mozambique · Jul 21, 2015\nYour comment has been sent successfully." ]

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[ null, "Erling Haaland and Phil Foden shared a moment after Manchester City’s win over Borussia Dortmund that had fans convinced the striker could be on his way to the Etihad. City won 2-1 as the rivals met in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final, with Dortmund striker Haaland expected to be a target for Pep Guardiola’s side in the summer transfer window.\n\nHaaland was unable to add to his incredible scoring record with Dortmund that has made this summer’s hottest transfer property, with Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid and Barcelona all expected to join City in the race to sign the 20-year-old.\n\nHowever, the striker did set up Marco Reus’ equaliser – which could yet prove crucial in the tie with Dortmund taking an away goal into next week’s second leg.\n\nReus’ 84th-minute strike cancelled out Kevin de Bruyne’s first-half goal, but Phil Foden scored in the final minute of normal time to give City the advantage.\n\nAnd afterwards, Haaland could be seen covering his mouth as he chatted to Foden, with both players smiling before sharing an embrace.", null, "It is not known what the two 20-year-olds were saying to each other – but some City fans on Twitter were happy to take it as a sign that Haaland could be on his way to the Etihad this summer to replace departing club legend Sergio Aguero.\n\n“Haaland to ManCity confirmed. Here we go!” joked one fan on Twitter.\n\nA City fan account tweeted a picture of the two players hugging, along with the caption: “Foden and Haaland all over each other at the final whistle. The future of Manchester City.”\n\nHaaland’s dad Alf-Inge played for City, and another fan was perhaps making reference to that fact when he tweeted: “Omg Foden is bringing Haaland home.”", null, "Another supporter predicted City’s potential attack for next season, tweeting: “City be some team next year with KDB, Foden, Sterling and Haaland.”\n\nAnd another fan tweeted in a similar vein, posting: “We’re genuinely going to have a front three of Torres, Haaland and Jesus all in their primes in a few years with Foden in behind, we’re going to be relentless.”\n\nPlenty of fans also pointed out that Foden outshone Haaland on the night, with one captioning a picture of the two of them: “Erling Braut Haaland another victim of the Sir Philip Foden test.”\n\nOf course, while Haaland didn’t find the net on the night, his record of 49 strikes in 51 games for Dortmund stands as testament to his goalscoring ability.\n\nBut it remains to be seen which club will be benefitting from his prolific finishing next season." ]

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[ null, "The Indians Track and field team began their season on Mar. 5. They face off against Anaheim High School at home.\n\nThe team has been running everyday since the end of the Cross Country season in October, and has been working hard to prepare for track season.\n\n“I have made it a goal to run on the weekends to prepare myself” said Sophomore Alexandra Williams, who runs the 800, 400, and 4×4.\n\nFreshman Olivia Roberts, who runs the 4×4 relay team is looking forward to the upcoming season.\n\n“I just want the meet to go smoothly, and not make any mistakes,” said Roberts. “I‘m on the four by four relay team, which is a good team, and I think we can make CIF,” said Roberts.\n\n“Personally, I would like to make CIF again, since I won league last year,” said Williams. “We’ve all worked hard in this offseason and have grown as friends on the team.”\n\nFullerton’s Track team is looking forward to the rest of their season, and have high hopes of competing at CIF. Make sure to go and support the track team!\n\nGood luck to track on their upcoming meets!" ]

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[ "How-to: How the infrastructure of a hosting provider is built", null, "The business of hosting providers is extremely technological - in order to ensure the smooth operation of even the largest and most popular sites, it is necessary to create a powerful infrastructure. Today we will talk about the architecture of the external systems of the 1cloud project .\n\nWhen building the infrastructure, it was decided to maximize the separation of the various components of the product, which can be called \"hosting services\". With an increase in load, this approach will allow us not to split a single application and not to deal with complex migration, but simply transfer the necessary service to a new server.\n\nThe 1cloud system consists of the following components:\n\n\nWhen creating services, C #, ASP.NET MVC 5, Entity Framework 6.1 technologies were used. All of these components are connected by a common software part called DataLayer - it contains information on models, static methods, and general dictionaries. The same decision defines the so-called data facade for working with the database.\n\nSchematically, the infrastructure can be represented in a similar way: By clicking on the image, the image will open in full size .", null, "The main site 1cloud , which we recently talked about redesigning , is used to attract new customers and serves as a kind of showcase that visitors primarily see. To increase the conversion of site pages, important elements were added for users, such as a calculator that allows you to calculate the cost of services (this decision was made based on an analysis of the behavior of visitors to the previous version of the site, where this page was divided into two).\n\nThe internal panel is primarily focused on performing typical operations for managing its servers and paying for services (integration with the MoneyOnline payment gateway has been implemented).\n\nThere is also an “administrative” part of the site, access to which is available to support staff.\n\nAny action performed on an external site, admin panel or control panel is not executed immediately, but is queued for asynchronous processing (in other words, the corresponding task is created - task). Only information entered into the database is instantly recorded.\n\nThe created tasks are handled by a special service. Processing is carried out according to the fifo method in parallel. There are several types of handlers - it depends on the type which handler will interact with the incoming task. This service is responsible for working with the API of third-party systems.\n\nDuring task processing, it is often necessary to send notifications, which are also not sent immediately, but are queued for processing.\n\nThis part of the system was originally designed with the expectation of working under significant loads. In particular, thanks to this, the service does not perform almost any analysis of messages sent (there is only protection against sending duplicate alerts).\n\nAll correspondence parameters (fields to whom, from whom, subject, message body in html / plane text) are determined at the level of the task processing service. The notification service also works on the basis of the fifo principle.\n\nOne of the most important elements of the system from a business point of view. This service is responsible for charging services and debiting money from customers. Every 10 minutes, the service collects the parameters of the ordered services, calculates the cost and, accordingly, deducts from the personal accounts of users. At present, the subsystem is not particularly complex - and this is one of its main advantages, since such an architecture is easier to maintain (although the number of generated operations per day at first made us difficult to deal with separately). In the future, we will have to develop billing, since it is planned to introduce new services and a payment model for actually consumed resources (pay as you go) - during this project, we plan to work with the VMware vSphere API.", null, "The hosting provider has to periodically bother customers with automatic messages (for example, reminders about the removal of a blocked server after 14 days). Such messages can be created only by a “specially trained” service, which receives information from other modules of the system.\n\nThe \"chief diagnostician\" of the system, which mainly monitors its internal health and looks for errors like freezing tasks or failures during their processing, problems with billing, sending messages and parsing logs (the log4net component is used for logging).\n\nIn the future, we plan to launch a load balancing service, which will allow customers to order load balancing for an application that is also running on servers in geographically dispersed data centers.\n\nThat's all for today. Write in the comments about what elements of the infrastructure of the hosting provider would you like to know more?" ]

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[ null, "As I write this I can almost hear people echoing these words of Reverend Brown in the movie Inherit the Wind being uttered by some of my less than happy readers against me: “Oh, Lord of the tempest and the thunder, strike down this sinner, as thou did thine enemies of old in the days of the Pharaohs! Let him know the terror of thy sword! Let his soul, for all eternity, writhe in anguish and damnation!”\n\nBut then, what’s new? Since I have stopped the hijacking of the site by such commentators that is all they can do. I tolerated their crap for too long, my generosity was treated with contempt, so screw them. I totally agree with the words of Frederick Douglass who wrote:\n\n“Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels…He who is the religious advocate of marriage robs whole millions of its sacred influence, and leaves them to the ravages of wholesale pollution. The warm defender of the sacredness of the family relation is the same that scatters whole families, — sundering husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers, — leaving the hut vacant and the heart desolate. “\n\nAccording to some readers I represent and stand alongside a vocal minority that is intent on destroying America, minority that is despised and hated by many people in the name of their God. The group I speak of are homosexuals, and their supporters which include me, as well as those people who actually support the rule of law in this country. The 14th Amendment, which was the basis of the Supreme Court’s majority ruling in the case of Obergfell v. Hodges, the ruling which legalized Marriage Equality in all 50 States says:\n\nSadly, the opponents of Marriage Equality, or for that matter of any kind of civil rights for Gays use the same arguments against the rights of Gays that their Christian ancestors, in both the North and the South did to defend the institution of Southern Slavery. In His book Christianity’s Dangerous Idea, British Evangelical-Anglican theologian Alister McGrath observes how “the arguments used by the pro-slavery lobby represent a fascinating illustration and condemnation of how the Bible may be used to support a notion by reading the text within a rigid interpretive framework that forces predetermined conclusions to the text.” Then he asks a dangerous question, a very important question for modern Christians who might be tempted to support a position using the Bible to deny the rights of others for the same reasons today, “Might not the same mistakes be made all over again, this time over another issue?”\n\nWhen I see the rabid politicians, preachers and pundits supporting the right of a public official to violate the civil liberties of others in the name of their interpretation of scripture, it is troubling. In this case they support Kim Davis, the Recalcitrant County Clerk of Rowan County Kentucky. Mrs. Davis violated the oaths of office that she took, defied the Governor of Kentucky, as well the rulings of multiple courts including the Supreme Court of the United States and was jailed on contempt of court charges.", null, "Sadly I see disturbing parallels in their arguments to the arguments of Christians in the North and the South before the Civil War regarding slavery, and the disenfranchisement of newly emancipated African Americans following the Civil War, during Reconstruction and during the Jim Crow era.\n\nThe supporters of Mrs. Davis view the world through the lens of Manichean dualism. Those who agree with them, agree with God and those who do not, are evil, and deserving of no liberty, nor life. Before the Civil War, Southern theologian James Henley Thornwell presented the conflict between northern evangelical abolitionists and southern evangelical defenders of slavery in Manichean terms. He and many others believed that by arguing for abolition that Christian abolitionists attacked religion itself. It was not just an attack on their belief in validity of the institution of slavery, it was an attack on their faith. Thornwell wrote:\n\n“The “parties in the conflict are not merely abolitionists and slaveholders,…They are atheists, socialists, communists, red republicans, Jacobins, on one side, and friends of order and regulated freedom on the other. In one word, the world is the battle ground – Christianity and Atheism as the combatants; and the progress of humanity at stake.”\n\nThornwell was joined by Robert Lewis Dabney, a southern Presbyterian pastor who later served as Chief of Staff to Stonewall Jackson in the Valley Campaign and at Seven Pines and who remained a strident defender of slavery, and opponent of civil rights for blacks long after the war was over. Dabney’s words remind me very much of the words of the militants speaking up for Mrs. Davis and condemning all who support the rights of Gays. Dabney wrote:\n\n“we must go before the nation with the Bible as the text and ‘Thus saith the Lord’ as the answer….we know that on the Bible argument the abolition party will be driven to reveal their true infidel tendencies. The Bible being bound to stand on our side, they have to come out and array themselves against the Bible. And then the whole body of sincere believers at the North will have to array themselves, though unwillingly, on our side. They will prefer the Bible to abolitionism.”\n\nBut I think one of the most reveling are the words spoken by the Reverend William Leacock of Christ Church, New Orleans declared in his Thanksgiving sermon of 1860:\n\n“Our enemies…have “defamed” our characters, “lacerated” our feelings, “invaded “our rights, “stolen” our property, and let “murderers…loose upon us, stimulated by weak or designing or infidel preachers. With “the deepest and blackest malice,” they have “proscribed” us “as unworthy members… of the society of men and accursed before God.” Unless we sink to “craven” beginning that they “not disturb us,…nothing is now left us but secession.”\n\nThe very personal nature of Leacock’s complaint in his sermon about abolitionists following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 is startling when you compare it to the words of so many anti-LBGT politicians, pundits and preachers, some of who even urge civil war and secession if they do not get their way. Mike Huckabee says that Davis being jailed on contempt of court charges “removes all doubt of the criminalization of Christianity in our country.”\n\nThe invective against Judge Bunning, a Republican who was appointed to the bench by George W. Bush, and all who support the law is reaching the level where frustrated supporters will resort to violence. It has happened before. In fact, one of the leaders, of the protest outside Judge Bunning’s home yesterday on charges of “violating the law of God” was the Reverend Flip Benham. Benham is no stranger to precipitating violence against those he deems violators of God’s law by stoking the fear and anger of his followers. In 2009 one of those followers, murdered a doctor who performed late term abortions in the man’s church. Likewise, Benham has stalked others and he has defended the murderer of others. If he can motivate people to kill abortion providers, why not gays and their supporters? Thus I have legitimate concerns for the safety of Judge Bunning and anyone who gets in the way of Benham and his followers.\n\nMrs. Davis was released jail yesterday, and ordered her not to interfere with the issuing of gay marriage licenses. Judge Bunning released her because he was satisfied that her office is “fulfilling its obligation to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples.” Her supporters will claim this as a victory, but it will not change the law, and I imagine that if she interferes with her subordinates, Judge Bunning says that she will end up back in jail. She and her lawyers and Mike Huckabee exited the jail to the cheers of their supporters. Their words and actions showed a arrogance and defiance of law that only American Christians of our era, as well as the ante-Bellum South, and the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras seem capable. We will see what happens, I am not optimistic so long there is a dollar and political point to be gained.\n\nWith this “victory” the lawyers who led her down the primrose path to jail will move on and leave Mrs. Davis behind if she complies with Judge Bunning’s order. Their “success” will encourage others to do the same. These politicians, preachers and pundits who led this charge want a conflict, and they need a conflict to legitimize themselves. They also need it to make lots of money donated by their followers without accomplishing anything. They hate Gays, and liberals and make their money playing the victim, when it is they who seek to deny the rights of others. One of their most influential writers, an adviser to Rand and Ron Paul expressly said so:\n\n“The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church’s public marks of the covenant–baptism and holy communion–must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel.”\n\nNorth’s words apply to everyone who stands against his interpretation of Christian Dominionism.\n\nBut with Bible in hand they will go forward, and I am reminded of the words of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird:\n\n“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”\n\nThese people are a scary bunch. Their right to discriminate against others based on their religious beliefs matters more than the Constitution, and matters more than bearing a true witness of God’s love to the world." ]

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[ null, "A Baton Rouge woman who bought coffee at a Starbucks at the Mall of Louisiana received a large amount of both humorous and concerned comments after sharing a picture of her two drinks.\n\nWith a matching “666” and pentagram art drawn in caramel, the woman, Megan K. Pinion (so close to the ultra satanic “minion”) wrote that while she was “in no way judging” the beliefs of the barista, she judges his “lack of professionalism and respect for others” and was “appalled” by the imagery.\n\n“I am a teacher in the public school system and if I were to present a child of atheist or pagan believers with a Christian art project I could be sued in a heartbeat,” she stated. END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED" ]

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[ null, "Two diametrically opposed visions of moderate Islam have emerged as major Muslim powers battle to define the soul of their faith in the 21st century in a struggle that is as much about geopolitics as it is about autocratic survival and visualisations of a future civilisation and world order.\n\nWhile the timing of the interviews was coincidental, they neatly laid out the parameters of a rivalry among major Middle Eastern and Asian Muslim-majority powers to dominate the discourse of Islam’s place as the world transits into an as yet undefined new world order.\n\nUnsurprisingly, the visions expressed by the two leaders mirror the struggle epitomised by the Russian invasion of Ukraine between an autocratic, civilisationalist, and a more democratic and pluralistic vision of the world in the 21st century.\n\nAt the heart of the differences between Messrs. Bin Salman and Staquf lie questions about whether Islam needs reform or a return to basics, who has the authority to interpret or reinterpret the faith, and what constitutes proper Islamic governance.\n\nSpeaking to The Atlantic, Mr. Bin Salman left no doubt that the authority to interpret Islam was his and his alone.\n\nA law graduate from King Saud University who prides himself as a student of Islamic jurisprudence who bent Saud Arabia’s religious establishment to his will, Mr. Bin Salman laid out the principle of the autocrats’ notion of moderate Islam: absolute obedience to the ruler.\n\n“In Islamic law, the head of the Islamic establishment is wali al-amr, the ruler,” Mr. Bin Salman said.\n\nFor good order, Mr. Bin Salman added that “Saudi Arabia is based on pure monarchy,” and he, as crown prince, would preserve the system. To remove himself from it would amount to a betrayal of all the monarchies and Saudis beneath him. “I can’t stage a coup d’état against 14 million citizens,” Mr. Bin Salman said. He was asserting that most Saudis supported not only the monarchy but also one-man monarchical rule.\n\nMr. Bin Salman was also insisting that he decided what implementation of Islamic law entailed and that he had the authority and power to interpret the faith as he saw fit.\n\nIn line with accepted dogma, Mr. Bin Salman said he could not change rules enshrined in the Qur’an, viewed as God’s word, but was free to reinterpret the majority of Islamic legal provisions derived from reported sayings and deeds of the Prophet Mohammed.\n\n“He’s short-circuiting the tradition,” Middle East scholar Bernard Haykel told The Atlantic. “But he’s doing it in an Islamic way. He’s saying that there are very few things that are fixed beyond dispute in Islam. That leaves him to determine what is in the interest of the Muslim community. If that means opening movie theatres, allowing tourists, or women on the beaches on the Red Sea, then so be it.”\n\nMr. Bin Salman has no doubt given tradition short shrift. He has introduced social rather than religious changes of traditions that were tribal, not religious in origin, even if they were religiously packaged.\n\nThe crown prince‘s views clashed with an opposed vision of what Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama calls the need to “recontextualise” Islam to bring its legal concepts and philosophy into line with the 21st century.\n\nRecontextualisation would involve revising “obsolete” elements of Islamic jurisprudence that are supremacist or discriminatory. These include concepts such as the kafir or infidel and dhimmi or people of the book like Jews and Christians who enjoy protected but second-class status under Islamic law; and slavery which has been abolished across the Muslim world in secular law but has yet to be removed from the Sharia.\n\nThe clash of visions was evident in Mr. Bin Salman’s definition of authority and his rejection of the notion of a ‘moderate Islam.’ Mr. Bin Salman insisted “that the term would make terrorists and extremists happy.”\n\nIn the crown prince’s mind, it suggests that “we in Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries are changing Islam into something new, which is not true,” he said. “We are going back to the core, back to pure Islam,” as practiced by the Prophet Muhammed and his four successors. “These teachings of the Prophet and the four caliphs—they were amazing. They were perfect.”\n\nMr. Bin Salman’s insistence that 7th century Islam was perfect explains why he has not anchored his wide-ranging social reforms that have lifted major but not all restrictions on women and modern-day entertainment in religious rather than only secular law.\n\nYet, it is religious, not Saudi law, that pious Muslims beyond the realm of Saudi jurisdiction will look at.\n\nIt’s a void that Nahdlatul Ulama hopes to fill. The group says it has started to do so when in 2019, a gathering of 20,000 Islamic scholars declared the legal category of the kafir or the infidel to be obsolete and no longer operable under Muslim law.\n\nThe term was replaced with the word muwathinun or citizen to emphasize that Muslims and non-Muslims were equal before the law. “The word ‘kafir’ hurts some non-Muslims and is perceived to be theologically violent,” Nahdlatul Ulama cleric Abdul Moqsith Ghazali said at the time.\n\nThe movement has since yet to tackle other legal concepts that it has identified as “obsolete.”\n\nNonetheless, Mr. Staquf, who was elected chairman in December noted that Nahdlatul Ulama’s founder, Haji Hasyim Asy’ari, had conceived the movement as a vehicle for “consolidating the universe.”\n\nAt the time, that meant a vehicle to fill the void created by the abolition of the caliphate by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the general-turned-statemen who carved modern Turkey out of the ruins of the Ottoman empire.\n\nFor many Muslims, the caliphate underpinned Islamic civilization. “From the existing records, Nahdlatul Ulama was established to forge a new path for future civilization, to replace the old civilizational construct that was lost,” Mr. Staquf told Indonesia’s Kompas magazine.\n\nRooted in the history of Indonesian Islam and Nahdlatul Ulama, Mr. Staquf branded the group’s religious precepts as ‘humanitarian Islam.’ The group projects it as an alternative to state-backed, less developed, less tolerant, and less pluralistic notions of moderate Islam as propagated by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as well expressions of political Islam represented by Turkey, Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood.\n\nMr. Staquf has one advantage few other Muslim religious reformers have. Indonesia and Nahdlatul Ulama have their own religious authorities that they believe rival those of the Middle East. As a result, Nahdlatul Ulama scholars feel no need to take their cue from seats of Islamic learning like Al Azhar in Cairo or the Islamic University of Medina.\n\nUnlike Mr. Bin Salman, Mr. Staquf sees his role as returning to the vision of Abdurrahman Wahid, a widely respected and visionary former leader of Nahdlatul Ulama and onetime Indonesian president.\n\nAffectionately known as Gus Dur, Mr. Wahid sought to forge “a new path towards the development of a new civilization,” said Mr. Staquf, a prominent Islamic scholar in his own right and disciple of Mr. Wahid. “We must strive to establish a universal consensus that respects the equal rights and dignity of every human being.”\n\nMr. Bin Salman may have more drama to show in his efforts to define ‘moderate Islam’ and control its narrative than does Mr. Staquf in the opening salvos of what amounts to a battle for the soul of Islam.\n\nHowever, in the ultimate analysis, it may be Mr. Staquf as part of a broader endeavour that has a more significant impact on the reform of Islam as such rather than the reform of only one Muslim-majority state." ]

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[ null, "The New Zealand light house service was the first lighthouse service to develop a completely automated service. The smaller beacons were all solar powered but the main lights with 1000 watt lamps and 2 tons of rotating lens needed too much power for effective solarisation. The more accessible lights were powered by mains electricity whilst the more remote lights were reliant on diesel generators. This was a particularly costly solution as the price of fuel was often doubled or more by the transportation costs which often involved both boat and helicopter.\n\nDevelopments in optics and lamp technology made it possible to reduce power consumption to levels where solarisation became feasible. A 50w lamp was capable of achieving almost the same range as the old 1000W incandescent lamps. In addition the old rotating Fresnel lenses were removed.", null, "The new lamps were installed and a solar array was designed to suit the very high wind conditions often experienced at these very exposed sites. Careful consideration was given to the size of the array to ensure the light was never extinguished. The control circuitry for the pre-existing three Lister generators was modified so that one was left in a standby role for emergency use should the solar charging fail for any reason. A smaller emergency beacon with its own self-contained solar power system was also installed.\n\nThe system has proved to be highly reliable. There have been no outages due to loss of power on the site and the back up light has not been needed. The generator very rarely runs outside of its monthly test regime instigated and monitored remotely.\n\nThe installation of solar systems on the major lighthouses around New Zealand has meant a massive reduction in running costs including: the cost of fuel, the cost of getting the fuel to site which was often much higher than the fuel cost, maintenance and overhaul costs for the generators. The systems are more\nreliable as there is less to go wrong so much so the at the provided backups are not really needed at all." ]

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[ "Dr. Rushmore's Mansion: Behind the Door\n\n(Note: This does NOT mean it requires purchase of anything, you may play with free daily tokens.)\n\nDr. Rushmore's Mansion: Behind the Door is one of the challenges added in Update 12.\n\nDr. Rushmore and his band of wanted criminals have suddenly appeared with their Mansion! Can you find them in time?", null, null, "Note: You must complete the first star objective to receive experience & rewards from this Challenge.\n\nYou will earn points for the following:", null, "Subsequent runs the star objectives will provide bonus XP as well, though far less than the first time.\n\nMonster Information Primarily Phantasmal creatures. They count the same as the type they match, but are illusionary and thus gain immunity to mind effects, and should be (but currently are not) vulnerable to dispel magic. Vorpal effects will kill these phantasms." ]

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[ null, "Food Chain Magnate is getting its first expansion next year, the creators of the acclaimed restaurant management game have announced.\n\nSplotter revealed its plans for The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas in a suitably saucy Facebook tease, poking fun at the tough Euro strategy of the original game that makes it hard for players who slip behind in victory points to catch up.\n\nWhether the Ketchup Mechanism will indeed let players of the fast food chain management epic close the gap remains to be seen – as do the mysterious ‘Other Ideas’ of the title.\n\nHowever, Splotter offered a few clues as to the nature of the expansion in response to excited fans, revealing that it had been “considering” if expanding the game’s player count to support a group of six “would be interesting to people”.\n\nIn reply to one commenter’s concern that the already weighty game would become even heavier with the addition of extra mechanics, it added: “We strive to create more diversity of play, not (too much) complexity.”\n\nThere’s plenty of time for The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas to change – Splotter says that although the expansion will be available to playtest at Essen next month, it won’t be released until sometime in 2019. When it does come out, you can expect to find it on Splotter’s website and in shops.\n\nWith its games often notoriously hard – or at least, expensive – to find, Splotter also took the opportunity to update fans on its other projects.\n\nNotably, the studio’s civ-building transportation classic Roads & Boats is “very likely” to be reprinted in 2019 alongside the game’s 20th anniversary, Splotter said.\n\nFans of 2012 economic monument-builder The Great Zimbabwe, however, will need to hold on a little longer, as Splotter confirmed that it currently has no plans for a reprint or an expansion, although “a reprint is more likely than an expansion”.\n\nAs for Food Chain Magnate, it was reprinted earlier this year – there’s no word on whether another run might accompany the expansion next year.\n\nLooking ahead, Splotter mentioned that it had been working on a brand new game, but had put temporarily on hold as the result of working on The Ketchup Mechanism & Other Ideas.\n\n“The new game idea we had in mind stalled,” it said. \"We hope next year.\"" ]

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[ null, "How To Screenshot on iPhone X and Higher\n\nThe iPhone X series comes with a host of new features. The home button found on all previous iPhones is gone, the phone can be charged by simply placing it on a wireless charger, you can open the phone with facial recognition – the list goes on.\n\nHow To Take a Screenshot on iPhone X\n\nTaking a screenshot on an iPhone X or higher is just as simple as it was with the old iPhones. Instead of clicking your home button, you just have to use the volume up side button instead.\n\nHere’s How To Screenshot on an iPhone X:\n\nIf you click the thumbnail of your screenshot, you can edit it. If you simply ignore the thumbnail, the screenshot will be saved as is in your photos.\n\nHow To Screenshot with AssistiveTouch\n\nAssistiveTouch makes it easier to perform certain functions on your iPhone, for those who have difficulty touching the screen or using certain buttons. You can also screenshot by turning on AssistiveTouch, either by making “Screenshot” a custom action, or by assigning a certain custom action to screenshot.\n\nOn your home screen now, you’ll see a small orb. Tap that circle, then tap “Device” > “More” > “Screenshot” to take a screenshot of the screen you were on. This screenshot won’t show the AssistiveTouch circle or the menu that came from it.\n\nYou can make this process even easier by making the custom button on assistive touch a screenshot button. To do this, follow steps 1 and 2 from above, and then on the same screen, tap “Customize Top Level Menu”. Here, you can change the “Custom” button to any function. Tap “Screenshot” and the custom button will now say screenshot, saving you two steps.\n\nAnother option is to assign a custom action to screenshot. Follow steps 1 and 2, and then on the same screen you’ll see “Custom Actions”. Choose from “Single-Tap”, “Double-Tap”, “Long Press”, or “3D Touch”, and then choose screenshot. Now, when you perform your chosen action on the AssistiveTouch button, it will take a screenshot.\n\nTaking a screenshot on an iPhone X is just as easy once you learn how to screenshot! For everything tech-related, from the best universal chargers to tutorials, check out iDapt!\n\nHow To Drop a Pin" ]

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[ null, "The award ceremony of the prestigious Sky Travel Awards 2019 was held in Moscow within the IV International SKYSERVICE 2019 Forum.\n\nHeydar Aliyev International Airport is recognized as the best airport with a passenger traffic of less than 10 million, according to travel bloggers.\n\nBloggers rated 10 airports, 6 business lounges and 30 hotels near airports by the level of service and comfort during several months.\n\nBloggers assessed not only the level of comfort and service, but also aspects that no other award evaluates: the smile of the staff, the comfort of the chairs, the availability of food and much more.\n\nIt is the second award of the Heydar Aliyev International Airport during this year. In March, the airport of the capital Baku was named the best among all the airports of the CIS countries according to the British consulting company Skytrax.", null, null ]

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[ null, null, "After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, a ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures. Now, it's up to the planet's toughest, roughest superhero to battle the merciless dictator and his marauders. He may be red. He may be horned. He may be misunderstood. But when you need the job done right, it's time to call in Hellboy (Ron Perlman).\n\nAlong with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development--pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Selma Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Doug Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann--the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal. And Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who's accepted by neither, must choose between the life he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him.\n\nFour years ago, director Guillermo del Toro brought to life a unique comic book hero named Hellboy in the film by the same name. This was a film I ultimately skipped and waited to see on video, only to find that it had its moments but just wasn't my kind of film. Del Toro made no bones about stuffing plenty of violence into 122 minutes, with the worst of it being caused by or involving a character named Kroenen who was the henchman of the evil Rasputin and the \"victim\" of self-mutilation (which we see in all its disturbing glory more than once, albeit briefly). Still, there was something about Ron Perlman's demon-child-turned-rosary-carrying wisecracking hero that was charming and fun to watch. With the release of del Toro's second Hellboy adventure, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, we're reintroduced to \"Red\" and his pals as they are enlisted to save mankind once again... sans the likes of Kroenen and Rasputin, thankfully.", null, "Del Toro loaded Hellboy with all kinds of Christian imagery (and, at the same time, \"balanced\" it out with unnecessary blasphemy), enough to start a few discussions. Hellboy II is a lot less forward with any kind of Christian themes, but you'll find quite of bit of imagery thrown in throughout the film - from large glowing cross-shaped signs on a building in the background of a key fight scene, to uses of \"777,\" and characters wearing crosses during the film. However, any kind of Christian references or similarities end there. As a sequel, Hellboy II: The Golden Army feels partly a natural continuation of the first film and partly a forced, fabricated sequel. When the film begins with a poorly executed flashback to when Hellboy was a child to set up the film's plot (little Hellboy looks about as good and convincing as the little Grinch did in Ron Howard's live action rendition), it's easy to get the sinking feeling you're in for a terrible sequel. However, once Hellboy II gets through its setup and past a few heavy-handed attempts to feel \"bigger and better\" (please, the troll market sequence wasn't necessary), the film hits its stride and finds its footing. When del Toro gets his desire to up the ante out of the way and focuses on the characters and story at hand, he succeeds in delivering some great comedy and some impressively choreographed action sequences. At times it feels like del Toro may be trying too hard to fit too many story ideas into one film - from subplot love stories to life-and-death rescue attempts to Red's desire to be discovered and accepted by the human race. While none of the side trails are left unresolved, it ultimately just feels a bit scrambled in thought and execution - like a bunch of different ideas had been brought to the table and then were all forced into one single script. The result isn't as bad as I'm making it out to sound, but there's still that feeling like del Toro tried to do too much at once this time around.\n\nBut The Golden Army certainly has its moments. The scene where the FBI team investigates a decimated auction only to discover an immense amount of nasty little creatures called tooth fairies is altogether creepy and entertaining. From there, del Toro spends more time trying to show off effects and new creature designs than frighten his audience (which is fine by me), and proceeds to deliver several fun and exciting action sequences - from Red breaking out his gun, \"Big Baby,\" to the film's final showdown. Also, the humor is as very much a part of the film this time around as it was the first time, with the standout scene being when Red and Blue share some lovesick sentiment over a six pack. Even if del Toro options for a cheap laugh or two, they're executed nicely and serve as film highlights.", null, "While Hellboy II: The Golden Army overall feels more toned down than its predecessor (which is an impression you won't get from the first quarter of the film), this sequel is still very much an intensely violent and rough sci-fi action/adventure flick. There are plenty of creatures that are the kinds of things nightmares are made of, so I wouldn't take the kids to this. Also, language isn't atrocious, but there's a few uses of blasphemy, as well a handful of \"d*mn,\" \"cr*p,\" and \"a**.\" There's also a play on the \"f\" word where a character speaking with a german accent says the word \"focused\" but pronounces it in a way that sounds like a profanity, and Red repeats it recommending that he doesn't say it that way.\n\nOverall, Hellboy II is a bit of an improvement over the first movie, mainly in the graphic violence department, but may not be as finely executed. Still, Hellboy II: The Golden Army is an action-packed superhero story that mixes elements reminiscent of Men In Black (for better or worse, but it just barely escapes the kinds of missteps that the MIB sequel took to ruin what should have been a great follow-up) or Star Wars to present viewers with an otherworldly alternate reality where an unlikely hero like Hellboy is keeping us safe from all kinds of fantastical evil. The Golden Army is good enough to warrant a third outing, but if that should come to pass, let's hope del Toro doesn't go the Shrek The Third route to let it all completely unravel in the end. If you have any questions or comments about the film before you see it (if you decide to), feel free to contact me.\n\nSex/Nudity: We learn that Liz is pregnant. We even see her with a pregnancy test with it pink on one side and a white plus sign appearing on it (during this, she's in the bathroom wearing a tank top and black panties, but nothing revealing is shown. We see her in that outfit again later on); We see Hellboy in the shower but steam blocks any nudity below the waist\n\nAlcohol/Drugs: We see Red and Abe get drunk off of beer (we see Hellboy drinking beer a few times during the movie -- and his locker is filled with beer cans) and we see them stumbling around, slurring their words, and acting drunk.\n\nBlood/Gore: During a fight, we see Prince Nuada slicing and beheading men or creatures with large helmets, therefore we see the huge helmets falling to the ground on a couple occasions, but it's nothing bloody or gory - but it's obvious he's decapitating them; We also see Nuada lunge at a human with his sword, presumably beheading him, but we only hear the sound as the scene cuts; When we see little tiny creatures called tooth fairies flying around and gnawing on anyone around them (Abe pulls one off his arm and we see what looks like a blue fleshy wound on his arm), and Abe tells Red that all they do is eat and poop and we find that the goop on the ground under their feet is excrement; As the tooth fairies attack, we see one under a human agent's clothes as he's being bitten (it's quick and it's not definite we see blood). During the attack, we see many tooth fairies squish into goo and we see two human agents overtaken by them. During one attack, they pull at his eye lid and mouth (not gory) while we see the other man is reduced to skeletal remains on the ground; Prince Nuada and Princess Nuala both have bloody noses after a fight; Hellboy has a bloody nose after a fight; Hellboy has a tiny bloody cut on his cheek after being hit with some unseen object; Prince Nuada holds a knife to Princess Nuala's face and slightly cuts her cheek. Both his and her cheeks then show a little blood; Hellboy has a bloody cut on his chest with a blade sticking out of it. We then see a blood soaked bandage around that area; We see some blood on Nuala's arm through her sleeve; A person stabs themselves and we see some blood on their clothing; Hellboy has some blood around his mouth after/during a fight\n\nViolence: Lots of action violence. We hear that the tooth fairies eat people (we learn about 70 or so) starting with their teeth first. We see them attacking people and being blown into goo by gun shots, etc; Nuada slices up a large number of soldiers and stabs the king; Some comedic violence is included, but other violence involves Hellboy fighting a large troll-like beast, a gigantic plant-like monster, huge robots, and a couple one-on-one battles with Prince Nuada, as well as other action violence Disclaimer: All reviews are based solely on the opinions of the reviewer. Most reviews are rated on how the reviewer enjoyed the film overall, not exclusively on content. However, if the content really affects the reviewer's opinion and experience of the film, it will definitely affect the reviewer's overall rating." ]

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[ "What offers can I find in Orlando FL?\n\nFind the best discounts offered by your favourite shops in Orlando FL on Tiendeo. See the flyers from Target, Aldi, Walmart and don't miss out on any online discounts. Here on Tiendeo, we currently have 144 active catalogues in Orlando FL and 3552 shops.\n\nView all the malls\nOrlando FL", null, "There’s always something to do in Orlando, Florida, especially shopping! Nicknamed “The City Beautiful”, it’s a must-see. It has also earned the name of “The Theme Park Capital of the World” due to being the home of Walt Disney World Resort and Universal Orlando Resort.\n\nThe Best Shopping in Orlando\n\nAfter picking up souvenirs from the theme parks, go to the several malls in Orlando known for having it all, including great deals. The Lake Buena Vista area is a nice part of the city that has an outlet mall to visit. Most of the popular and well-known malls are located just outside of the downtown area. The closest to downtown is Orlando Fashion Square, a two-story indoor mall with anchor stores JC Penney and Macy’s. There are also three Walmart Supercenters in the city!\n\nAs a city full of exciting things to do and places to go, Orlando has some of the best shopping deals and discounts around. Perhaps the greatest deals in Orlando can be found at the city’s largest mall: The Florida Mall. Another good place to check out is The Mall at Millenia. Both contain stores whose inside deals can be found on our website, so take a look!" ]

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[ "A different kind of Memorial Day\n\nKATIE ANDERSON Special to The Leader-Herald", null, "The National Cemetery of the Alleghenies in Cecil Township, Pennsylvania, has fewer flags this Memorial Day as the National Cemetery Administration suspended that volunteer service to adhere to social distancing guidelines.Ê(Ogden Newspapers/Katie Anderson)\n\nSpecial to The Leader-Herald\n\nIn most places across America, there may not be mass gatherings with hats off or hands saluted this Memorial Day.\n\nThere also may not be a sea of red, white and blue marking the grave stones that stretch for miles across hillsides.\n\nBut despite the restrictions that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth, cemetery directors across the country said those men and women who served their country will still be honored and remembered this weekend.\n\n“We will still honor our veterans, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice,” said Ed Hajduk, director for the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies in Cecil Township, Pennsylvania. “Speaking for myself as a veteran, this ceremony is very important for all of us.”\n\nHajduk served in the U.S. Navy from 1980 to 2008, spending six years active, and 22 years in the Navy reserves. He took over as cemetery director last fall.\n\nUntil the COVID-19 pandemic, he had been anticipating the usual crowd of close to 1,000 people for the annual Memorial Day service in the cemetery. This year, the service will be closed to the public, in order to maintain social distancing requirements.\n\nStill, the cemetery is open to the public for visitation this weekend, though people are encouraged to consider visiting Saturday and Sunday in order to avoid large crowds of people showing up Monday.\n\n“We cannot stop people from visiting,” Hajduk said. “People want to visit their loved ones.”\n\nIn a news release last week, the National Cemetery Administration said it was a “difficult decision” to not have public Memorial Day services across the nation. Instead, the cemeteries’ staff will have small wreath-laying ceremonies with the playing of “Taps.” The release also stated that pictures of the services will be shared on social media and some may even be live-streamed.\n\nThe NCA also announced last week that they also won’t participate in the mass placement of flags at graves.\n\n“NCA relies largely on volunteers for placement and retrieval of gravesite flags for Memorial Day and these activities attract thousands of volunteers annually,” the release stated. “Limiting the number of volunteers is not practical.”\n\nIn an email, Les MeInyk, chief of public affairs and outreach for the NCA, said visitors to the cemeteries over the weekend are welcome to “place individual flags on graves to honor friends and family.”\n\n“We ask that all visitors adhere to CDC, state and local health, safety, and travel guidelines,” he said in the email.\n\nIn West Virginia, Keith Barnes, the director of the Grafton National Cemetery, said his staff will also do a brief ceremony to place a wreath and perform “Taps.” He said they plan to stream it on Facebook, but they won’t disclose the time.\n\n“The minute we give away the time, we’ll have people showing up,” Barnes said.\n\nIn Grafton, Memorial Day is recognized with a large parade that marches through town to the cemetery, where they hold a service. Barnes said the parade draws about 3,000 people, but this year, it was canceled.\n\nThat in mind, he said he still suspects there will be a lot of folks visiting the cemetery over the weekend.\n\n“Memorial Day is about soldiers who died in combat — that’s the ultimate sacrifice,” he said.\n\n“It’s about combat deaths, that sacrifice and the sacrifice of all veterans,” he said. “It’s a big deal to us. This is a first for everybody.”\n\nMany things that would typically be part of a Memorial Day service are “off the table” for this year anyways, according to Karl Lettow, public information officer for the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs.\n\nHe mentioned not being able to have a color guard, the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and other groups that would normally play a role in their annual ceremony at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery.\n\n“With good reason, it’s just not available at the moment,” Lettow said. “The number of people that would be required for the full program would put you over the limit really quick. We’re not doing a large gathering, but we’ll do a service and live stream it on our Facebook page.”\n\nSimilarly, the Culpeper National Cemetery Complex in Virginia will have a closed, 15-minute ceremony at the Winchester National Cemetery. They too won’t be publishing the time or location of the service to prevent people from gathering.\n\n“This is not going to be a holiday that is forgotten,” said Matthew Priest, director of the Culpeper National Cemetery Complex. “It’s just going to be different this year. The legacy of these veterans will live forever.”\n\nTypically, their “beautiful” Memorial Day service draws about 500 people. This year, it’s going to be virtual. They also usually have hundreds of volunteers placing flags on graves, but that also won’t happen this year.\n\nPriest said the veteran communities have been very understanding about the changes this year in commemorating Memorial Day, and are grateful that some type of ceremony will still take place.\n\n“They understand the importance of what we’re doing,” he said. “We’re all in this together. Our main concern is the safety of the staff, the community members, our veterans, as well as honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice.”\n\nMichael Borishade, assistant director of the Marion National Cemetery in Indiana, said he too has received positive feedback from veteran communities, saying that they understand the pandemic has presented “domestic issues of safety, and it’s our number one priority.”\n\nMemorial Day draws thousands of people to the Marion cemetery, he said, but this year, their service will be closed to the public.\n\n“It’s going to feel different, but we still plan on commemorating Memorial Day and honoring those who served,” he said. “We do expect people will probably come out, and that’s fine as long as they adhere to the CDC guidelines.”\n\nBorishade served in the U.S. Navy in Kuwait and Iraq from 1999 to 2004. As a combat veteran, he said he still plans to honor those who died “in a personal way — probably at home with my family.”" ]

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[ null, "Do you believe that America is a seething cesspool of filth and corruption? If not, you might change your mind after reading this article. Sadly, the truth is that the United States is absolutely corrupt to the core. This is true from the very top of our society all the way to the very bottom. The current occupant of the White House will likely go down in history as the most corrupt president in history, and that is really saying something. Almost every single day he adds something new to his list of corrupt deeds. He is a con man that deserves to be impeached for a whole host of reasons, but that will never happen because we have a Congress that is also deeply corrupt. But it is not just our politicians that are corrupt. Even the men that are supposed to be in charge of protecting the president are corrupt. A whole bunch of them were recently discovered sleeping with prostitutes in Colombia. We also find very deep and very pervasive corruption in our financial institutions, in our judicial system, in our police departments and in our religious institutions. It is almost as if nearly the entire nation is saturated with filth and depravity. It is becoming harder and harder to find men and women of integrity, and our young people have very few positive role models to look up to. How long is our society going to be able to continue to function normally if all of this corruption gets even worse? (Read More...)", null, null, null, "Do you believe that members of Congress and their staffs are working really hard to fix all of the problems that America is facing? Well, after reading this article you might have a much different perspective. The truth is that most Americans have absolutely no idea what goes on in Washington. As our national debt soars, our economy crumbles and our relationships with other nations fall apart, members of the U.S. Congress and their staffs are barely working. Instead, our representatives and their aides spend most of the time enjoying the high life. There is a culture of corruption and decadence that is so pervasive in Washington that it would literally take a miracle to eliminate it. Trust me, I once worked in that city. The things that drunk congressional staffers have been saying on Twitter that you are about to read below are not an aberration. They are entirely consistent with how “business” is usually conducted in Congress. If the American people only knew what kind of things go on in Washington, the entire political landscape would change overnight. (Read More...)", null, null ]

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[ "Jump to content\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nBranch of mathematics\n\nThe subject of Fourier analysis encompasses a vast spectrum of mathematics. In the sciences and engineering, the process of decomposing a function into oscillatory components is often called Fourier analysis, while the operation of rebuilding the function from these pieces is known as Fourier synthesis. For example, determining what component frequencies are present in a musical note would involve computing the Fourier transform of a sampled musical note. One could then re-synthesize the same sound by including the frequency components as revealed in the Fourier analysis. In mathematics, the term Fourier analysis often refers to the study of both operations.\n\nThe decomposition process itself is called a Fourier transformation. Its output, the Fourier transform, is often given a more specific name, which depends on the domain and other properties of the function being transformed. Moreover, the original concept of Fourier analysis has been extended over time to apply to more and more abstract and general situations, and the general field is often known as harmonic analysis. Each transform used for analysis (see list of Fourier-related transforms) has a corresponding inverse transform that can be used for synthesis.\n\nTo use Fourier analysis, data must be equally spaced. Different approaches have been developed for analyzing unequally spaced data, notably the least-squares spectral analysis (LSSA) methods that use a least squares fit of sinusoids to data samples, similar to Fourier analysis.[2][3] Fourier analysis, the most used spectral method in science, generally boosts long-periodic noise in long gapped records; LSSA mitigates such problems.[4]\n\nThis wide applicability stems from many useful properties of the transforms:\n\nIn forensics, laboratory infrared spectrophotometers use Fourier transform analysis for measuring the wavelengths of light at which a material will absorb in the infrared spectrum. The FT method is used to decode the measured signals and record the wavelength data. And by using a computer, these Fourier calculations are rapidly carried out, so that in a matter of seconds, a computer-operated FT-IR instrument can produce an infrared absorption pattern comparable to that of a prism instrument.[9]\n\nFourier transformation is also useful as a compact representation of a signal. For example, JPEG compression uses a variant of the Fourier transformation (discrete cosine transform) of small square pieces of a digital image. The Fourier components of each square are rounded to lower arithmetic precision, and weak components are eliminated entirely, so that the remaining components can be stored very compactly. In image reconstruction, each image square is reassembled from the preserved approximate Fourier-transformed components, which are then inverse-transformed to produce an approximation of the original image.\n\nis a function of time and represents a physical signal, the transform has a standard interpretation as the frequency spectrum of the signal. The magnitude of the resulting complex-valued function\n\nFourier transforms are not limited to functions of time, and temporal frequencies. They can equally be applied to analyze spatial frequencies, and indeed for nearly any function domain. This justifies their use in such diverse branches as image processing, heat conduction, and automatic control.\n\nWhen processing signals, such as audio, radio waves, light waves, seismic waves, and even images, Fourier analysis can isolate narrowband components of a compound waveform, concentrating them for easier detection or removal. A large family of signal processing techniques consist of Fourier-transforming a signal, manipulating the Fourier-transformed data in a simple way, and reversing the transformation.[10]", null, "A Fourier transform and 3 variations caused by periodic sampling (at interval T) and/or periodic summation (at interval P) of the underlying time-domain function. The relative computational ease of the DFT sequence and the insight it gives into S(f) make it a popular analysis tool.\n\nEvaluating this quantity for all values of f produces the frequency-domain function. Then s(t) can be represented as a recombination of complex exponentials of all possible frequencies:\n\nwhich is the inverse transform formula. The complex number, S(f), conveys both amplitude and phase of frequency f.\n\nSee Fourier transform for much more information, including:\n\nThe Fourier transform of a periodic function, sP(t), with period P, becomes a Dirac comb function, modulated by a sequence of complex coefficients:\n\n(where ∫P is the integral over any interval of length P).\n\nThe inverse transform, known as Fourier series, is a representation of sP(t) in terms of a summation of a potentially infinite number of harmonically related sinusoids or complex exponential functions, each with an amplitude and phase specified by one of the coefficients:\n\nAny sP(t) can be expressed as a periodic summation of another function, s(t):\n\nand the coefficients are proportional to samples of S(f) at discrete intervals of 1/P:\n\nNote that any s(t) whose transform has the same discrete sample values can be used in the periodic summation. A sufficient condition for recovering s(t) (and therefore S(f)) from just these samples (i.e. from the Fourier series) is that the non-zero portion of s(t) be confined to a known interval of duration P, which is the frequency domain dual of the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.\n\nSee Fourier series for more information, including the historical development.\n\nThe DTFT is the mathematical dual of the time-domain Fourier series. Thus, a convergent periodic summation in the frequency domain can be represented by a Fourier series, whose coefficients are samples of a related continuous time function:\n\nwhich is known as the DTFT. Thus the DTFT of the s[n] sequence is also the Fourier transform of the modulated Dirac comb function.[B]\n\nThe Fourier series coefficients (and inverse transform), are defined by:\n\nParameter T corresponds to the sampling interval, and this Fourier series can now be recognized as a form of the Poisson summation formula. Thus we have the important result that when a discrete data sequence, s[n], is proportional to samples of an underlying continuous function, s(t), one can observe a periodic summation of the continuous Fourier transform, S(f). Note that any s(t) with the same discrete sample values produces the same DTFT But under certain idealized conditions one can theoretically recover S(f) and s(t) exactly. A sufficient condition for perfect recovery is that the non-zero portion of S(f) be confined to a known frequency interval of width 1/T. When that interval is [−1/2T, 1/2T], the applicable reconstruction formula is the Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula. This is a cornerstone in the foundation of digital signal processing.\n\nAnother reason to be interested in S1/T(f) is that it often provides insight into the amount of aliasing caused by the sampling process.\n\nApplications of the DTFT are not limited to sampled functions. See Discrete-time Fourier transform for more information on this and other topics, including:\n\nSimilar to a Fourier series, the DTFT of a periodic sequence,\n\n(where Σn is the sum over any sequence of length N).\n\nThe S[k] sequence is what is customarily known as the DFT of one cycle of sN. It is also N-periodic, so it is never necessary to compute more than N coefficients. The inverse transform, also known as a discrete Fourier series, is given by:\n\nwhere Σk is the sum over any sequence of length N.\n\nWhen sN[n] is expressed as a periodic summation of another function:\n\nthe coefficients are proportional to samples of S1/T(f) at disrete intervals of 1/P = 1/NT:\n\nConversely, when one wants to compute an arbitrary number (N) of discrete samples of one cycle of a continuous DTFT, S1/T(f), it can be done by computing the relatively simple DFT of sN[n], as defined above. In most cases, N is chosen equal to the length of non-zero portion of s[n]. Increasing N, known as zero-padding or interpolation, results in more closely spaced samples of one cycle of S1/T(f). Decreasing N, causes overlap (adding) in the time-domain (analogous to aliasing), which corresponds to decimation in the frequency domain. (see Discrete-time Fourier transform § L=N×I) In most cases of practical interest, the s[n] sequence represents a longer sequence that was truncated by the application of a finite-length window function or FIR filter array.\n\nThe DFT can be computed using a fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm, which makes it a practical and important transformation on computers.\n\nSee Discrete Fourier transform for much more information, including:\n\nFor periodic functions, both the Fourier transform and the DTFT comprise only a discrete set of frequency components (Fourier series), and the transforms diverge at those frequencies. One common practice (not discussed above) is to handle that divergence via Dirac delta and Dirac comb functions. But the same spectral information can be discerned from just one cycle of the periodic function, since all the other cycles are identical. Similarly, finite-duration functions can be represented as a Fourier series, with no actual loss of information except that the periodicity of the inverse transform is a mere artifact.\n\nIt is common in practice for the duration of s(•) to be limited to the period, P or N. But these formulas do not require that condition.\n\nFrom this, various relationships are apparent, for example:\n\nAn early form of harmonic series dates back to ancient Babylonian mathematics, where they were used to compute ephemerides (tables of astronomical positions).[12][13][14][15]\n\nIn modern times, variants of the discrete Fourier transform were used by Alexis Clairaut in 1754 to compute an orbit,[16] which has been described as the first formula for the DFT,[17] and in 1759 by Joseph Louis Lagrange, in computing the coefficients of a trigonometric series for a vibrating string.[17] Technically, Clairaut's work was a cosine-only series (a form of discrete cosine transform), while Lagrange's work was a sine-only series (a form of discrete sine transform); a true cosine+sine DFT was used by Gauss in 1805 for trigonometric interpolation of asteroid orbits.[18] Euler and Lagrange both discretized the vibrating string problem, using what would today be called samples.[17]\n\nAn early modern development toward Fourier analysis was the 1770 paper Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations by Lagrange, which in the method of Lagrange resolvents used a complex Fourier decomposition to study the solution of a cubic:[19] Lagrange transformed the roots x1, x2, x3 into the resolvents:\n\nwhere ζ is a cubic root of unity, which is the DFT of order 3.\n\nHistorians are divided as to how much to credit Lagrange and others for the development of Fourier theory: Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler had introduced trigonometric representations of functions, and Lagrange had given the Fourier series solution to the wave equation, so Fourier's contribution was mainly the bold claim that an arbitrary function could be represented by a Fourier series.[17]\n\nThe subsequent development of the field is known as harmonic analysis, and is also an early instance of representation theory.\n\nThe first fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm for the DFT was discovered around 1805 by Carl Friedrich Gauss when interpolating measurements of the orbit of the asteroids Juno and Pallas, although that particular FFT algorithm is more often attributed to its modern rediscoverers Cooley and Tukey.[18][16]\n\nMore specific, Fourier analysis can be done on cosets,[21] even discrete cosets." ]

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[ null, "As we begin the new year, we reflect on the changes the legal market has endured throughout 2020, including the drastic reduction in lawyer headcount in Q3\n\nWhile Q1 showed how promising things can look in an undisrupted market, and Q2 reflected how quickly the legal market could adapt and prepare for an uncertain and disrupted future, the third quarter of 2020 portrayed a middle ground. A place where aggressive precautionary measures can be unwound and future growth plans can be put in place on sounder, albeit still uncertain, ground.\n\nDemand continued its decline in the third quarter, down 2.4%, though representing a relative improvement compared to the 5.9% contraction in Q2. Law firms in turn began taking steps to mitigate losses, primarily with reductions in headcount and expenditures. Fewer lawyers and professional staff on the payroll lowered the cost of lost work in the third quarter, while the lawyers who remain returned to workloads that, while still lower, were more comparable to “normal” times. This dynamic was reflected in Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor’s productivity metric or data showing that the hours worked per lawyer contracting by a more modest 2.4% in Q3, compared to the whooping 7.2% in Q2.\n\nWhile many firms didn’t publicly announce any large scale layoffs or reductions of lawyers, results from Thomson Reuters’ Law Firm Business Leaders Report found that “under-performing lawyers” were the second-highest risk facing law firms cited by survey respondents. Further, Altman Weil’s 2020 Law Firms in Transition Survey reported that 84% of firms have chronically under-performing lawyers. With that in mind, we can see how our lawyer (FTE) growth chart below reflects a market where the average law firm reduced lawyer headcount by 0.1% in the third quarter.\n\nThis troubling statistic was the first time this metric had contracted since the beginning of the Great Recession of 2008-‘09. Not surprisingly, this trend continued into October and November of 2020, where headcount reductions stand at nearly 2% on average.", null, "Looking back at 2009 — the last time law firms contracted their lawyer headcount — is illuminating. At that time, law firms were coming off a growth peak (in Q3 2008) that was nearly twice the pace at which firms were hiring in Q1 of 2020. Also, the ensuing contraction low (in Q4 2009) came a year or so later.\n\nIt would be naïve at best to say these two recessionary periods in lawyer growth will have similar extents of decline or length of contraction, but it is difficult to imagine firms returning to hiring in the first quarter of the new year.\n\nIndeed, it’s still worth pointing out that firms quickly ratified a majority of the headcount reductions in the 2008-‘10 range. In Q4 2011, two years after the market’s low, law firms grew headcount at 2.8% on average. That peak hasn’t been topped since, which reflects an overall sense of regret for the over-the-top cutbacks during the Great Recession and ensuing economic crisis. Clearly, this is something that is sure to be on the minds of law firm management as they continue in the current crisis.", null, "What has been similar about the headcount reductions in the past and today, comes from how associates have experienced the brunt of these attorney cutbacks. In the fourth quarter of 2009, each firm on average employed nearly 10% fewer associates than they did in the year-earlier period (Q4 2008), a staggering figure. Firms have been trying to replenish those “lost” associate classes ever since, and they have struggled to do so until 2017, when the “Great Associate Pay Raises” became much more widespread.\n\nFrom 2017 to the beginning of 2020, associate class levels have grown at a much faster rate than any other lawyer title during this time. This reached a peak of 3.6% in the first quarter of this year, a pace that hadn’t been seen since before the Great Recession. If law firms took the time during the second and third quarters of last year to scrutinize each and every lawyer in their firms based on their performance to see if they are under-performing their pay, it would make a lot of sense that Associates as a class would be reduced at a much faster rate than the partners within the firm.\n\nIn addition to the floor-raising pay raises in recent years, most associates don’t carry the relationships or clients needed to maintain billable hours goals during demand downturns, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, where unprecedented uncertainty drove clients to seek out their most trusted partners during the early months. Along those same lines, reducing partners could take much more revenue and fees away from firms’ balance sheets, if their clients remained loyal to those ex-partners. And this doesn’t even touch on the politics or internal issues that are at play with these types of headcount-reduction decisions, which have tended to be a positive for partners. Indeed, partners’ average headcount growth has never contracted more than one-half a percent in a single quarter over the 13 years shown above.\n\nIt is strongly evident that law firms reacted quickly to the near-term effects that the COVID-19 pandemic, just as firms had during the previous global financial crisis. While the reasons behind these trends may be radically different, both results end with firms reducing their “underperforming” lawyers, who often tend to be of the associate class.\n\nThose actions have resulted in 2020 profitability metrics that measure up extremely well given the circumstances. What remains to be seen is to what extent these cuts will continue and for how long; however, it’s hard to believe that firms will make the same mistakes that cost the law firms for years following the last crisis. Indeed, as now-thinner associate classes have begun to emerge, it will no doubt effect succession planning and leverage modeling within firms.\n\nAnd those law firm leaders who combat these issues of the past effectively today will separate their firms from the pack in 2021 and beyond.\n\nYou can download the 2021 Report on the State of the U.S. Legal Market here.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "In a few days, two prestigious theatre awards are to be presented at a ceremonial event: the Europe Theatre Prize and the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities. The leading theatre personalities will get together to honor the winners and to celebrate their considerable contribution to the theatrical arts of the world. Rome is to host the grand event. Meanwhile “the third Rome”—Moscow, that is—has the director who in a few days is to be named among the best in Europe, not only isolated from the world and cut off from all communication (he is under house arrest), but also in fact banished from his profession, the right to pursue which he has proven his whole life. Kirill Serebrennikov is prevented from visiting his own theatre, he cannot complete his film though work left to be done requires only five days, he cannot associate with his actors, cannot supervise the management of his productions even through a proxy.\n\nDirecting is a tenuous business, the dependence on the tools of the trade is great, and besides, as history demonstrates, the tools of the authorities are also something to be taken into account. Neither thinking nor imagining can be prohibited, yet implementing thoughts and images well might be. The director is not forbidden to think, to make up, to envision his future productions–but no production will come to be without trying things this and that way, without talking things over, without the drive of the collective will. In Le Dernier Métro the hero, while hiding from the Nazis in the cellars of his own theatre, still was able to control the staging of the shows. He was cut off from the world, but not from his art. Serebrennikov is allowed to take walks in the vicinity of his residence, but the place where his heart lies–the theatre–is the forbidden grounds for him. Two new shows have already opened in his theatre without the director climbing the stage for the curtain call. Neither will he be on the stage to greet the assembly that will have gathered to present him with the prize. Konstantin Stanislavsky once, in conversation with Solomon Mikhoels, remarked: “To fly, the bird first and foremost needs to breathe freely…” Serebrennikov is denied the access to the air-supply. Yet other theatre people are not all that free-breathing either.\n\nHistory is sarcastic. It was shrewd of Marx, when elaborating on Hegel’s idea about everything in history occurring twice, to specify that it occurs “the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” Only three Russian directors have been awarded by the European Commission before Serebrennikov: Lev Dodin was awarded the Europe Theatre Prize in 2001, and Anatoly Vasiliev and Andrey Moguchy each won the Theatrical Realities prize. I think that Serebrennikov, when his life will have returned to normal, will be glad to have become the number four on this list. Buddhism teaches there are four Noble Truths, the fourth being the way leading to the consolation of all kinds of grieves. In Italy, they are only preparing to remind the public about all the winners of the past years—but in Russia they never forgot…\n\nCOLTA.RU got hold of a memorandum that is believed to have been written by Vladimir Aristarkhov, the Minister of Culture’s First deputy, and addressed to the Secretary of the St. Petersburg Cultural Forum, that lists the unwelcome participants of that Cultural Forum. Among those unwelcome, Dmitry Krymov, Lev Dodin, Anatoly Vasiliev, and Kirill Serebrennikov are mentioned. Presumably, the list features some other names too—several rogues for each art. Russia is so fecund when it comes to bearing talents, but having produced them she mostly rejects them. If she doesn’t devour them Saturn-like outright, she chases them away, expelling them from home. To be proud of them later. Much later.\n\nThis memorandum, quite nasty as it is, looks somewhat absurd for having come from inside the ministry that is supposed to stand for cultural and humanitarian development. The style, the language, the labelling are quite scary, yet the consequences of such memoranda might be even more frightening. What has been written with a pen cannot be wrenched out with an axe, as the saying goes. But one sure can effectively wield an axe over culture, after the manner of Lopachin dealing with the Cherry Orchard.\n\nWhere, in what universities do they teach the art of portraying theatre directors in this particular way?\n\nOn Serebrennikov: “[…] contributes to eroding the traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, and to weakening the unity of the multi-national people of the Russian Federation (including deliverance of the low-class mass-culture produce); there were attempts to falsify Russian history.”\n\nOn Vasiliev: “Considerable part of his creative work are vanguard experimenting, as well as radical interpretations of literary sources, that aim at deconstructing the national theatre artistic tradition, as well as the traditional Russian values. He has a tendency to choose those forms of art that shape the depressive model of mindset.”\n\nOn Dodin: “In his creative endeavors, Dodin tends to erode the traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, as well as to attempt to falsify the history of Russia. He apparently shares the political views of the ‘opposition.’”\n\nThe memorandum really reads like an indictment; so much so that one actually expects a sentence to be passed. And, indeed, texts like this are “guilty verdicts” of sorts. But whether they brand the persons mentioned, or the persons that have written them remains yet to be seen.\n\nIt is quite possible that the ministry will disavow this memorandum, claiming it is a fake. One can only wish they would, and that it were a fake. Yet the very fact that people so easily believe in its authenticity is symptomatic…The way that the cultured community is used to looking at the Minister of Culture makes one wonder whether the words they both have for a modifier are indeed derived from the same root, and it is a significant and alarming fact. Considering “culture” initially meant “tillage,” why, we may well go from digging in the vegetable gardens to digging trenches, and from weeding the grounds to purging the ranks…That’s our theatre reality, our theatre prize. What have we done to deserve it?\n\nConsidering it is all about the Gogol Centre, this calls for quoting Gogol’s work: “Answer me! But no answer comes…”*\n\nAutor’s note: UPD According to the information of the St. Petersburg online newspaper “Fontanka.ru,” the Minister of Culture, speaking at the Cultural Forum, called information on blacklists an “anecdote.” Andrey Moguchy has been reassigned by the director of the Bolshoi Drama Theater, he now leads the “Theatre” section at the Culture Forum. “We are building the second theatre to Lev Dodin (the second stage of the Maly Drama Theatre – Ed.). This is the largest construction of the Drama Theatre in St. Petersburg or Russia. They are handwritten notes (the names of Dodin and Moguchy were added to the list of the Ministry of Culture by hand. – Ed.) Do you seriously think that this is true? Do not laugh,” the minister answered.\n\n* “And you, Russia of mine—are not you also speeding like a troika which nought can overtake? Is not the road smoking beneath your wheels, and the bridges thundering as you cross them, and everything being left in the rear, and the spectators, struck with the portent, halting to wonder whether you be not a thunderbolt launched from heaven? What does that awe-inspiring progress of yours foretell? What is the unknown force which lies within your mysterious steeds? Surely the winds themselves must abide in their manes, and every vein in their bodies be an ear stretched to catch the celestial message which bids them, with iron-girded breasts, and hooves which barely touch the earth as they gallop, fly forward on a mission of God? Whither, then, are you speeding, O Russia of mine? Whither? Answer me! But no answer comes—only the weird sound of your collar-bells. Rent into a thousand shreds, the air roars past you, for you are overtaking the whole world, and shall one day force all nations, all empires to stand aside, to give you way!” Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol.\n\nThis article was first published on conflict-zones.reviews. Reposted with permission of the author. Read the original article here.", null, null ]

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[ "The advent of 2013 also marks the end of my second full month as a published author. It’s time to check on how sales went during the month, and make some predictions for the future. Also–graphs!\n\nIf I didn’t enjoy playing with Excel so much, I estimate I would get 7% more writing done. Hmm. Maybe I should work it out in a spreadsheet…", null, "Slightly fewer sales in December than November, but…", null, "…I actually earned more, as a greater share of the sales were ebooks. (They give me a better royalty rate than paperbacks, by about 2:1.)\n\nFinally here’s a nice pie showing where each of my total sales has come from.Too early to draw any conclusions yet, though I’d expect the Paperback UK section to grow more slowly for a while, after it’s initial explosion in November when friends and family grabbed their copies.", null, "As in November, I didn’t do a huge amount.\n\nA new year, a steady start, and another book on the way. Pleasing stuff. All the best in 2013, folks!\n\n5 thoughts on “December Sales Report: Steady As She Goes”" ]

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[ "Day 8 and a supermodel volunteers for a day, a bird visits the sanctuary for drink, a turtle loses part of it’s shell and Pash searches for Harry…all in a day’s work at the Olive Ridley Project!\n\nThe day started rather bizarrely with a non-turtle patient. One of the resort staff rushed in with a small parrot-like bird (not a native species!).", null, "Many Maldivians keep birds as pets, as dogs are forbidden in the Maldives, and most resorts don’t allow cats. The", null, "bird had been found in the sea – in the shallows and was in a bit of bedraggled state.\n\nThe first thing Minnie did was to try the bird with some fresh water as it was most likely dehydrated. It seemed pretty keen to drink from the tap, and after this Minnie took the bird into the clinic to dry it off and assess it. Several people claimed the bird, but one member of staff actually had photos of it, so we knew we had found the correct owner, and it went back home!\n\nWe had a special volunteer helping today. Supermodel Birgit Kos was visiting the island with her boyfriend Sven, and they were completely smitten with the turtles and in awe of the project .\n\nWanting to get involved, Birgit was not afraid to get busy, and started off with a turtle spa for Honu.\n\nWhilst Dr Minnie and lead vet Dr Claire Petros attended to wound care, Birgit was tasked with scrubbing Honu’s shell to remove algae. Dr. Minnie injected some anti-inflammatory medicine into Honu’s nose where the flesh was inflamed to try and settle it down a bit. Then Honu was back in her tank and it was time for wound care for Seaheart, Sunan and Maadhu.", null, null, null, null, null, "Sunan was found again entangled in ghost net (in fact another patient, Maadhu was also found in the same net) in North Male Atoll. Sunan had been at the centre for just under a month, and sustained such serious injuries to his front left flipper that it needed to be surgically removed. He also had significant damage to the skin around his back legs, and the back edge of his shell.\n\nWe call him a “he”, although we actually do not know his sex, he is a sub-adult and it is difficult to tell the sex of a sea turtle until they reach maturity. Sunan is responding well to medication, and it is hoped that he will be able to be released in a few months. While attending to his wounds, it was noticed that his shell which was damaged by entanglement in the net, was beginning to come away on the underneath side (the plastron).", null, "That afternoon Zein the intern and I went on a turtle seeking expedition at a nearby island. This is the reef where our rescued Hawksbill turtle Harry had been released a few days earlier.\n\nI donned a head to toe turtle rash vest and legging combo in the desperate hope that it might convince turtles to come and take a close look.\n\nSadly we didn’t spot a turtle, but it was a good opportunity to spot other reef inhabitants and take some photos.", null, null, "Back at Coco Palm it was time for Minnie’s next freedive session. We warmed up with some Free Immersion (pulling down a line – a good warm up to make sure ears and sinuses are equalizing ok) before moving on to more duck dive practice.\n\nDr. Claire also joined us, and although already a competent freediver I was able to give her some tips to improve her technique. We freedived until the sun set, and with fading light decided it was time for a quick shower and dinner." ]

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[ "Yesterday I ate a blueberry muffin, some popcorn (a lot of popcorn) and some tomato soup. Campbell’s Slow Kettle Tomato and Sweet Basil Bisque. I love that stuff. I don’t know what was up with that eating, though. I did drink a lot of water.\n\nAlso yesterday, I met with my trainer. We discussed my terrible shoulder, then did a lot of lower body-core work. I can do a lot of things I would never have tried. including Downward Dog and then you raise one leg behind you — I’m sure there’s a name for this in yoga, but I don’t know any yoga names beyond Dog and Lotus. We did some yoga stretching, too. It felt pretty good, and again, I was surprised I could do it. I underestimate my strength and flexibility, especially my flexibility. We are also working on balance, to prevent, I hope, my little habit of keeling over. I rarely hurt myself, but’s unnerving.\n\nWednesday I spent hours at my “job” writing the foreword Our Founding Director posts on the website each month. Obviously, she doesn’t do the actual posting — that’s what students are for! — and she doesn’t write the Words from Our Founding Director posts, either (I did not write this one for March). I put words into her mouth for May, June, July and August, and fixed April up a little. It was fun, although it was so quiet in that room that I thought crunching my salad must sound like machine gun fire. I said so, breaking the apparent no-talking rule. Everyone laughed. They were probably astonished that I could be amusing. I otherwise have all the personality of recessed lighting. It’s a weird place to work, but it was fun to do all that writing.\n\nAnd speaking of writing, I FINISHED CHAPTER 1! I wrote about 15 pages on Tuesday. There’s so much more to the story now. It’s deeper, not moving faster. I got her to her big decision, to run off pretending to be her dead sister. Chap. 2 starts, in a little while here, I hope, with her getting to the train. I think the train ride will take a lot longer than it did in the first draft. I know more, and I just can see how to up the tension in several layers at once.\n\nI think it’s better, but can’t really tell. Maybe it will just be a bigger flop than before. It’s hard for me to make things sufficiently creepy, but maybe that’s because I haven’t really tried to imagine finding yourself face to face with someone who has no face.\n\nWhoops, I just got distracted by considering where Emmy and the other VADs and nurses live and how she could hear the ambulances so clearly. It’s hard to sleep, can be hard to sleep, when I’m writing. I get started planning a scene, then I act it out in my head, then it won’t let me alone for another hour.", null ]

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[ "Approximately 200 retailers will occupy the space inside the massive Tsawwassen Mills indoor shopping centre next to B.C. Ferries’ Tsawwassen terminal.\n\nAhead of the scheduled grand opening on October 5, 2016, mall developer Ivanhoe Cambridge has announced the first 27 retailers that have decided to set-up a presence inside the 1.2-million-square-foot complex.\n\nMore retailers will be announced in the months to come before the shopping centre’s opening, according to a news release. Ivanhoe Cambridge owns and operates Metropolis at Metrotown, Oakridge Centre, Richmond Centre, Guildford Town Centre, and Victoria’s Mayfair Shopping Centre.\n\nWhen complete, the mall is expected to tap into the Vancouver Island market through the adjacent ferry services, Vancouver, Richmond, other south of Fraser communities, and even visitors from Washington State.\n\nThe Tsawwassen shopping centre could even provide McArthur Glen Vancouver Airport Outlet Mall with some competition given its scale and duplication of brands already found at the Vancouver International Airport location. This includes Nike and Calvin Klein outlet stores, which regularly see large crowds and even lines outside the store.\n\nBut there are plans to double the size of Vancouver Airport Outlet in the short-term. A large vacant greenfield site immediately adjacent to the Arthur Laing Bridge could add another 140,000 square feet of space for about 50 stores.\n\nTsawwassen Mills is located at Highway 17 and 52nd Street. A 550,000-square-foot outdoor strip mall dubbed Tsawwassen Commons next to the indoor mall will feature 100 tenants, including anchor tenants Walmart, Canadian Tire, and Rona. It is also expected to open this fall.\n\nBoth Tsawwassen shopping centres are projects in partnership with the Tsawassen First Nation on lands granted to the band by a 2007 treaty.", null ]

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[ "Drinking and Star Wars all with a DD? or my wife rules part deux? Awesome.", null, "Rachel and I went to Pittsburgh for Star Wars in Concert a few weeks ago. Before we went I learned a little about the city because, honestly, I knew nothing. Pittsburgh is in the middle of the mountains? Why did I not know this? It’s only 4.5hrs away. Really? Why have I not been there before? It takes longer to get to Camp sometimes (driving up route 81 across the Tug Hill Plateau in the middle of the winter is no fun), and we go there almost every weekend. It’s easy to get to also, just take Interstate 90 to Interstate 79 south right into the city.\n\nWe stayed at the Wyndham Pittsburgh University Place which we highly recommend, partly because of the quality of the accommodations at their price, but mostly because they include a DD. They have a shuttle which takes you anywhere within a 5 mile radius every hour on the hour. Our car didn’t move once we got there until we were headed home which was nice.", null, "First thing we did when we got there? We headed to the only place (I know of) where you can get your drink on inside a Church, the Church Brew Works. A little silly for Rachel, but they served an excellent dinner too! Surprisingly enough, on top of the great atmosphere, their beer and their food were amazing!\n\nA few suggestions from our list of favorite spots for when you go to Pittsburgh. Be sure not to miss the Monongahela Incline, it provides simply stunning views of the city and it’s cheap. Or you can just drive to the top of Mount Washington, but what fun is that?\n\nPittsburgh might be the only place in the world where you can see a real live Transformer, or at least a sculpture of a fake transformer named Arch. Don’t miss that while it’s there.", null, "The ice rink at PPG Place looks like another Rockefeller Center amidst a beautiful crystal (glass) Palace (office complex). You can rent skates and skate amongst the palace towers around a ginormous Christmas Tree. Unfortunately we didn’t discover it until a few minutes before the concert or else we would have partaken.\n\nOur favorite part of the trip was (obviously) the reason we were there. Star Wars in Concert was amazing! What an interesting new way to experience the Star Wars story. Narrated by none other than C-3PO himself (Anthony Daniels) and performed by a live orchestra. Hearing the Imperial march live along giant HD images of Vader raised the hair on the back of my neck. Yes, before anyone asks, there were lots of people in costumes around (I sat next to Obi-Wan) but no, we were not among them. Overall we’d highly recommend the whole Star Wars in Concert experience.", null, "An incredibly enjoyable weekend. Pittsburgh is an awesome city and we WILL be back.\n\n2 thoughts on “Pittsburgh is an Awesome City”" ]

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[ null, "The missing Gustav Klimt painting 'Portrait of a Lady' is displayed after being stolen 23 years ago.\n(Image: © Antonio Calanni/AP/Shutterstock)\n\nA famous painting by Austrian Gustav Klimt had been missing for 23 years. Now, it turns out, the painting was hidden in the walls of the gallery from which it was stolen.\n\nThe 1917 Klimt, known as \"Portrait of a Lady,\" was found missing from the Ricci Oddi modern art gallery in Piacenza, Italy, on Feb. 22, 1997. It's still unknown who took the artwork, but now it appears that the painting may have never left the gallery grounds. A gardener at the gallery said he was clearing ivy on Dec. 10, 2019, according to the Associated Press, when he found a bag in a gap in the walls. That bag contained the portrait, in remarkably undamaged condition.\n\n\"It's with no small emotion that I can tell you the work is authentic,\" Piacenza prosecutor Ornella Chicca said during a Jan. 14 press conference, according to the Associated Press.\n\nThe only major sign of wear, according to the AP, is a small mark on the side of the painting where it may have been hurriedly removed from its frame.\n\nKlimt, an Austrian painter best known for his colorful, patterned portraits of women, produced works that now command enormous sums on the open market. According to the AP, Oprah Winfrey recently sold Klimt's \"Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II\" for $150 million.\n\nIt's possible, according to Anne-Marie O'Connor, an expert in stolen Klimt art who was interviewed by the AP, that the thieves stashed \"Portrait of a Lady\" in the gallery wall – hoping to return to recover and sell it once news of the theft died down. But in the 1990s, the values of Klimt's works were climbing sharply; the thieves may have concluded it would never be possible to sell the artwork to a private buyer.\n\nO'Connor is the author of a book, \"The Lady in Gold,\" which documents the successful effort to recover five other stolen Klimt works. The paintings desribed in the book — the most notable of which was \"Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I\" — were stolen by Nazis during the Holocaust from the Jewish Block-Bauer family. The works ended up in the possession of the Austrian government. Adele Bloch-Bauer's niece Maria Altmann filed a lawsuit in 2000 demanding the paintings' return. The suit ended up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the paintings were returned to Altmann in 2006." ]

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[ null, "Profile:\nThe Ivory Boy is the pseudonym behind which Italian born DJ and producer Luca Spinogatti operates. Now based in the welcoming city of Berlin, Germany, he regularly performs in the city’s many club venues. His personal and musical growth traces back to the years in Bologna, Italy, between the late nineties and the beginning of the millennium. There, he collaborated with several artists from the local and national hip hop and funk scene, promoting one of the city’s hottest parties, weekly appointment FunkyVag. During the same period he released tracks with London based Jazzman Records UK, Record Kicks, and Soupy records IT, using the pseudonym DJ TIB, and collecting a series of shows in Italy and Europe. After a crucial stay in NYC in 2008, to complete his musical background, Luca now lives in Berlin, where he started his new project.\n\nIn composing his tracks, he still taps into his large collection of old vinyl records, obtained through extensive crate digging in the shelves of record shops from all over the world. He then favors analog old school machinery to process the sound before the mixing process, to give his sound a distinct modern ‘vintage-sample’ flavor.\n\nBesides his solo project, Luca is also one half of the Peanuts (No Nore Hits) and Nero Jaxx with Andrea Benini and Alex Trebo (Mop Mop).\nAliases:\nDJ. Tibb\nIn Groups:\nThe Peanuts (2)\nVariations:\nViewing All | The Ivory Boy\nIvory Boy" ]

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[ "Home » Understanding the markets this week: May 8th", null, "If you’re invested, don’t panic as the dividends and long-term outlook continue to look pretty solid. Check out my final thoughts on “Canada’s Top Dividend Stocks” to see how the railroad compares to other dividend favorites. Be sure to read MoneySense’s “Best Dividend Stocks for 2022” list by Mark Brown.\n\nThe tide is turning for US technology stocks – what have recent gains revealed?\n\nAs interest rates rise, companies that took on large amounts of debt to generate breakneck growth rates are coming under closer scrutiny. This includes many of the big tech names. As the market has reacted to recent earnings news, we are seeing a real compression in the P/E ratio for several companies. While stocks like Netflix (NFLX) are still making a significant amount of money, the earnings forecast isn’t nearly as rosy as it once was. Consequently, investors are not willing to pay such high prices to buy those future income streams.\n\nHere’s a quick look at how big tech has performed in the wake of recent earnings reports:\n\nAlphabet (GOOG): narrowly missed estimates, mainly because YouTube revenue came in lower than expected. Overall, there’s not much movement up or down as the company continued to show real confidence in its future prospects by announcing $70 billion in share buybacks. (All figures below are in US dollars.)\n\nApple (APPL): Apple continues to live up to expectations as revenues grew 8.6% year over year, and all major product lines showed strength. Apple’s services segment has been a real growth area for the company. It announced a small dividend increase and a $90 billion share repurchase commitment, rewarding shareholders who pay a significant P/E premium for the high-quality company.\n\nMicrosoft (MSFT): Microsoft had arguably the strongest performance in the first quarter of 2022, as profits rose 18%, led by the growth of Azure cloud computing and significant gains by its LinkedIn and Xbox segments. Investors continue to expect great things from this company as the P/E ratio hovers around 30.\n\nMeta (FB): Shares of the much-maligned social media giant (formerly known as Facebook) rocketed after earnings per share came in significantly higher than expected. Interestingly, this increased profitability was the result of efficient cost reductions rather than higher revenues. The company appears to have reassured investors that it will make a profit for the foreseeable future, even if it will not grow as quickly as it has in recent years. With a P/E between 14 and 15, Meta is even on some value stock lists these days.\n\nI wouldn’t worry too much about some of the weekly noise around these stocks. These are companies with huge competitive advantages that operate with huge economies of scale. The pandemic caused many of these big tech companies to reach skyrocketing valuations, and there’s a chance profits would someday rise fast enough to justify those prices. These recent moves are just kind of showing a return to the mean, and the stocks are all much closer to their long-term average P/E ratios going forward.\n\nThis post Understanding the markets this week: May 8th\n\nwas original published at “https://www.moneysense.ca/save/investing/making-sense-of-the-markets-this-week-may-8/”", null, "Structure Plans: A Guide For Anyone Who Needs To Read Them\n\nThe Many Benefits Of Cannabis: From Pain Relief To Treating Cancer\n\nWhich Company To Work With As A NVOCC Service", null ]

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[ null, "KARACHI: SBP data revealed that country’s current account deficit in the first three months of 2014-15 remained $1.33 billion, expanding by $62 million as compared to the same three-month period of the preceding fiscal year.\n\nAs a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), the current account deficit stood at 1.8% in July-September as compared to 2.1% in the same period of the last fiscal year.\n\nIn September alone, the current account balance recorded a surplus of $3 million. In contrast, it remained negative in August with a deficit of $560 million.\n\nPakistan exported goods worth $5.96 billion in July-September against exports totaling $6.27 billion in the same period of 2013-14, reflecting a year-on-year decrease of over 5%.\n\nThe value of goods exported in September increased by $288 million on a month-on-month basis to $2.17 billion, which is 15.27% higher than the exports of $1.88 billion recorded in August.\n\nOn a month-on-month basis, however, the value of goods imported remained almost flat, as Pakistan imported goods valuing $3.91 billion in September.\n\nBalance of trade in both goods and services at the end of the first quarter of 2014-15 clocked up at -$6.3 billion against the deficit of $5.19 billion recorded in the same period of the preceding fiscal year.\n\nWorkers’ remittances remained $4.69 billion in July-September, up 19.5% from the same three months of the last fiscal year when they totaled $3.92 billion. Workers’ remittances in September increased $768 million from the preceding month, registering a rise of almost 30% on a month-on-month basis.\n\nThe country’s balance of payment (BoP) position weakened in 2013-14, as foreign exchange reserves held by the central bank decreased to only $2.8 billion in February.\n\nWith an import cover for less than a month, a low level of foreign exchange reserves prompted federal authorities to force exporters to bring their dollar-denominated revenues into the rupees before the stipulated limit of 120 days.\n\nSBP-held reserves improved following alleged intervention from policymakers into the foreign exchange market, resulting in a year-on-year increase of more than 50% by the end of the fiscal year in June. SBP-held reserves currently stand at $8.8 billion." ]

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[ "Terry McMillian Thinks the Smiths are \"Pimping Their Children\"\n\nYou might be familiar with Ms. McMillian from books such as, How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale. McMillian has also gone through an extremely public divorce with her husband. Through it all, the one thing that has remained constant , is that McMillian has always spoken her mind. Recently, she took to twitter to share her thoughts On Will Smith and two of his now famous children.", null, "There can be no doubt that Willow and Jayden both know how to rock a red carpet. There has also been a lot of conversation about how the Smith's are handling their kids education. Just typing in Willow Smith and education in a Google search window, will reveal many hits. Given that their parents are celebrities, it really is unsurprising that acting and music is a big passion for them. Because the Smith family are extremely public, people also feel that they have the right to dissect how they parent their children. There is also the issue that children don't have the power to be able to speak for themselves and don't exist with maturity to always be able to make the decisions that are in their best interest. Fame comes and goes, but an education lasts a lifetime.\n\nAre you in agreement with Ms. McMillan? Do you believe it is the right of the public to publicly comment on the Smith children? Further, given the tendency for child stars to have multiple issues before reaching adulthood, do you believe the Smiths are really doing their children a service by giving them a push in the industry?\nPosted by Renee at Friday, January 28, 2011" ]

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[ null, "A meeting of the National Vaccinations Committee to discuss administering a booster shot of the Covid-19 vaccine to under-50s, to be given six months after the second dose of the vaccine, was to be held on Tuesday.\n\nIf the committee gives the go ahead, according to Primary Healthcare Secretary General Marios Themistokleous, this will soon be followed by announcements and the opening of the appointments platform for younger age groups.\n\nHe said that the platform will open on November 5 for people that were given the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, allowing them to get a booster shot just two months after their vaccination date. They will have the option to be vaccinated with either the Johnson & Johnson or the Pfizer vaccine, and later also the Moderna vaccine.\n\nMore than 6,380,000 people in Greece have fully completed their vaccination, with 60.8 pct of the general population and 70.1 pct of the adult population fully vaccinated. The EU average is 65.2 pct and 75 pct, respectively. In the last seven days, 60,000 people have booked appointments for a first dose and 94,000 for a booster shot, while 350,000 people have already received a booster.", null ]

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[ "To put this Cary event in its global historic context: When Kemal Atatürk turned the old Ottoman Empire into modern day Turkey back in the 1920s, he also decided that the National Independence Holiday should be a “Children’s Day”. (Just one of his revolutionary and unique ideas for modernizing his country.)\n\nTo this day, Turkey celebrates its Independence Day basically as a children’s party – and so is the American-Turkish Association of Cary. But this celebration is not just for and by Turkish kids; there are performances by Taiwanese, Lebanese, Chinese, Filipino and other kids, as well as international foods and other fun things to do and see.", null ]

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[ null, "Apps have become an integral part of our everyday lives. They are used for all manner of things, including photo editing, socializing, music streaming, and personal finance management.\n\nThere are millions of apps currently on the market, but some prove to be more popular than others. Developers employ a range of means to push their apps up the download charts. Some implement extensive marketing campaigns, while others buy app installs. What were the most downloaded apps in 2022? Let’s find out.\n\nTikTok, the video-sharing sensation, took the app world by storm this year. Once seen as somewhat gimmicky, the platform saw an explosion in popularity and has now cemented its place among the social media titans. In Q3 2022, TikTok reported an astonishing 196.5 million installs.\n\nFor several years, Instagram has ruled the digital media landscape as the undisputed image-sharing king. Its popularity certainly hasn’t waned over time. It still records some of the highest numbers of downloads in the app industry. Since 2010, Instagram has been downloaded 3.8 billion times and the app sees 500 million daily users. Despite this, many people have questioned Instagram’s future with the arrival of rivals like TikTok. However, Instagram surprised these critics and became the most downloaded app in Q3 2022, driven primarily by a surge in users based in India and Brazil.\n\nWhatsApp is an encrypted chat app that allows for free communication between users. It is currently the most popular chat app worldwide, used in over 180 countries by a user base of over 2 billion. In 2022, WhatsApp was one of the most downloaded non-game apps, recording 11 million downloads in August for iOS devices alone.\n\nSnapchat is a multimedia-sharing app that is enormously popular among younger demographics. The app has gone through numerous redesigns and sees regular updates and changes which have worked to keep it at the forefront of the social media world and hold a secure place in the download charts. As of September 2022, Snapchat had been downloaded 15.3 million times on the Google Play Store, making it the fifth most popular app on that platform.\n\nFacebook was the first true social media giant, and the platform paved the way for followers and worked to herald a new dawn of digital technology. In recent times, it would appear that Facebook has somewhat fallen by the wayside, overtaken by newer, cooler apps such as TikTok. However, Facebook is still an extremely popular platform, as evidenced by its sustained strong performance throughout 2022. It ended the year among the top five most downloaded apps, proving that Facebook is still a serious player in the social media landscape.\n\nThe world of apps is constantly changing. As technology develops and new apps are released, we see user habits and preferences shift considerably. New apps like TikTok have exploded in popularity, but, as the stats demonstrate, the established platforms don’t look like they are set to go away any time soon.\n\nHow To Prioritize Health And Safety In The Business For 2023" ]

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[ null, "The Constitutional Court has set March 7 as the date to decide the fate of Thai Raksa Chart Party which is facing the prospect of being dissolved for nominating Princess Ubolratna as its prime minister candidate.\n\nThe court this afternoon spent about three hours deliberating the request from the Election Commission for it to consider disbanding the pro-Thaksin party on charge of “engaging in undertaking that might be hostile to the democratic system under the constitutional monarchy.”\n\nThe court said in a press release that it found sufficient grounds to the charge and can reach a decision without having to hold any hearings.\n\nThai Raksa Chart has denied any wrongdoing and has submitted a list of 19 defence witnesses. The party nominated Princess Ubolratna as its prime minister candidate on February 8 before it was objected by HM the King’s Royal Command the same night.\n\nThe court said it has scheduled March 7 to announce its ruling.\n\nIf found guilty, the newly-formed party faces a strong possibility of being dissolved and its executives banned from running in elections. The party, which is known to have the support of self-exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was set up as an off-shoot of Pheu Thai, a former ruling party also backed by Thaksin.", null, null ]

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[ "Konya is a place situated in Central Turkey famous for its ecclesiastical and cultural supremacy. Our well-established Konya Tour Packages are exclusively formulated based on the preferences of the tourists. One of the most sought-after packages is the Konya Tour Packages from India which are not only reasonably priced but are also equipped with modern cutting-edge technologies ensuring a continual-fun trip to Konya. The packages are designed in a way that makes sure, all the attractions- history, culture, nature and adventure vibe like a melodious symphony when in Konya.", null, null, null, null, "Konya resides on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau. Famous for its religious and cultural richness, Konya has over 3000 mosques. With a cold semi-arid climate, Konya is the best place to find one's lost peace. The best place to visit the land is between June and August. The most common mode of transport that tourists prefer is by air. It has its own airport, Konya Airport and the currency is Try.\n\nStarting from the Mevlana Museum and the archaeological site of Çatalhöyük, all the historical relics that the city holds are worth a watch. Some of them are Azizia Mosque, Selimiye Mosque, Alauddin Qayqubad Mosque, etc. Coming to the parks and garden, the two sites that should never be missed are Kultur Park and Aladdin Hill. When the gut calls for some food, these are the famous foods of Konya etli ekmek, cebic, tip-tandoor kebabs, and bıçakarası sweet. Shopping in Konya is fun. If you are more of a mall-person, Kent Plaza is the best option. It is the most contemporary and largest shopping mall in Konya. The next best options are Kulesite Alisveris Merkezi and Novada Outlet. Konya is famous for handmade carpets. The famous shops that sell the best quality carpets are Karavan Carpets and Firat Hali. Kapali Carsi is the famous traditional market in Konya. Kardelen Kestane Sekeri Satıs Magazası is a famous name to taste the desserts of Konya.\n\nKonya is a place where one can experience spirituality and culture to its ultimatum. Konya is a divine place if you choose to activate your root chakras and devote some of your time to meditation and tranquility. During Ramadan, one can enjoy a completely new experience full of vibrancy and festive climates. Konya is also a good place if you want to spend some quality time with your family along with fun.\n\nKonya is the land of great Sufis. There is a spiritual aura in the air of Konya. The top attractions of Konya include the numerous mosques and the great history behind their construction. The various parks that are an example of pure bliss, the bazaar of Konya where one can get for themselves the traditional identities of Konya. Finally, witnessing the infamous Turkish whirling dance of the dervishes is the best of all.\n\nPlan A Trip To Konya\n\nKonya is a land of Sufi heritage. It has numerous religious sites, parks, and museums. The central Turkian city is a living example where culture plays an important part, irrespective of the presence of modernization in the air. If you want to uncover your spiritual side, Konya is one of the best places to start with. Konya Packages vary depending on the preference of the tourists. On your trip to Konya, whatever packages you opt for, all the Konya Tour Packages include myriad attractions comprising many historical edifices, mesmerizing gardens, parks, and museums.\n\nStarting with the Mevlana Museum. This is one of the top iconic sights in Konya. Built during the 13th century, the museum is the tomb of the infamous religious leader, philosopher, and poet Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi. The green conical dome pleases the eyes of every tourist. Along with the mausoleum, the archaic tekke for Sufism, built by Mevlana’s followers is another attraction of Konya. The tekke or the lodge was built, after the death of the great Rumi, in the 16th century. Apart from the tomb of the pre-eminent Sufi poet, there are eight other tombs dedicated to his wife, children, and the six dervishes famously known as ‘Soldiers of Horasan’. It also has various precious artefacts that were part of the Mevlana legacy.\n\nThe next best thing to do in Konya is to hike to the top of Aladdin Hill. Located in the heart of Konya, it gives a panoramic view of the city and bestows the tourists a chance to vibe in the calm aura idling around. This artificial hill is a favourite place for couples. This place is also the resting place of the great personalities of the Seljuq dynasty. These tombs are placed inside a mosque with outstanding architecture.\n\nThe Ince Minarelli Madrasa is the wood and sculpture museum of Konya. The minaret was known for its gigantic height. It stood in its aboriginal composition till the early 20th century. At present, only the lower portion stands. The lower minaret is carved with stone and brick and is in the shape of a square. It is said that the cylindrical brick was once wrapped in green tiles. The minaret, the madrasa and its entrance showcase the calibre of the Seljuk stoneworkers, especially the geometric trimming and the knots. The inscription visible in the madrasa entrance is ornamented with beautiful natural and floral motifs.\n\nThe Sircali Madrasa comes next on the list. It is famous for its decorative mosaics and well-preserved mesmerizing architecture, especially the vaulted room which overlooks a rectangular facade, known as the 'Iwan'. Built in 1242, it is an open-air institute designed especially for Islamic teaching.\n\nKonya is famous for its innumerable synagogues. It is in fact listed as the city with the most mosques in the whole of Italy. The total number of mosques in Konya is close to 3000. Though visiting each and every mosque is not conceivable, here are a few of the mosques, worth visiting on your Konya Tour - Alaeddin Mosque, Kapu/Kapi Mosque, Selimiye Mosque, Aziziye Mosque, Serafeddin Mosque, and the Haciveyiszade Mosque.\n\nThe succeeding attraction in the listicle is the ancient village of Sille Subasi. It was one of the few villages where the Greeks peacefully cohabited alongside the Turks. It is the city where the Karamanli Turkish writing originated.\n\nApart from sightseeing, another interesting thing to do in Konya is to attend a Turkish dance demonstration. Konya is the niche where the order of swiveling dervishes laid the first stone. Everyone has witnessed a Turkish man dancing and wearing a large white dress, this is the place where you can witness it live. This dance of the dervishes is a significant cultural jewel of the Sufis. It is a part of the ecclesiastical movement that was carried out in the 8th century. Jalal al-Din Rumi was a great Sufi personality who introduced this dance, and it was during the reign of the Ottoman Empire. Gradually, it spread to the Balkans followed by Egypt.\n\nOne of the famous historical facts concerning the dervish dance, known as Samas, is that it was banned in 1925 after the country was declared secular by Atatürk. The glorious dance was again enjoyed in the 1950s and continues to do so. The motive behind the dance is a form of meditation to get closer to the higher one. It is performed on the music orchestrated by various traditional instruments, along with prayers or traditional songs under the guidance of a spiritual master, called the shall.\n\nKonya is a famous shopping hub for those who are fond of local goodies. The whole city of Konya has around 40 streets. In those streets, there are over 2500 streets set up selling authentic and traditional merchandise. Out of all, the most interesting thing to do when looking for a wonderful shopping experience is strolling in the Bedesten Bazaar.\n\nThe nightlife in Konya is a completely different experience. The best thing to enjoy a night in Konya is ambling in Kultur Park. Located next to the Aladdin Hill, the place comes to life even more during the nighttime. As you sit near the illuminated fountain of the park, the view of the Haciveyiszade Mosque through the lights is beyond explanation. When the azan starts the atmosphere around the park releases that serenity and peace that can only be elucidated when felt.\n\nKonya is more of a religious place, and each monument and relic has its own rules and regulations. Thus, to witness the beauty and feel the cultural vibrancy without any discomfort, a tour guide is a must. Dook International provides myriad Konya Tour Packages that are all-inclusive and customizable as per your need. From airport transfers and accommodations to tours, everything is included in the packages along with ensuring your utmost safety and comfort." ]