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[ "January 19, 2022 Guns In The News\nHome»Commentary»One Board Member’s Last-Ditch Effort to Save the NRA\nCommentary\n\nOne Board Member’s Last-Ditch Effort to Save the NRA\n\nUSA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Phillip Journey has spent his entire adult life advocating for gun rights. He has been a judge, a legislator, and an activist. He’s served as the president of the Kansas State Rifle Association. Now he’s a member of the NRA board, and he’s taking on one of the gun-rights movement’s highest-profile leaders: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre.\n\nAnd he’s appealing directly to NRA members for help.\n\nHe said members need to choose between two paths. Either stick with LaPierre’s leadership and try to fight the NRA’s dissolution in New York court or go with his plan to get a court-appointed NRA members’ committee to oversee leadership changes and reform the group.\n\n“It’s a pretty easy choice,” Journey told The Reload. “The bottom line is the consequences have such a steep downside that we have to fix things. The future of the Second Amendment and the Republic itself is at stake.”\n\nHe is currently trying to raise $100,000 from NRA members by next Tuesday to appeal a federal judge’s decision last week to dismiss the gun group’s bankruptcy case.\n\nHe’s joined by NRA board members Owen “Buz” Mills and Rocky Marshall. The board members want a judge to appoint a trustee to take over NRA operations and a committee of NRA members to decide on the group’s future.\n\n“The goal is to restore trust in the leadership,” Journey said. “To have sound corporate governance. To stop the financial abuses. To create a set of rules that we can follow and operate efficiently. And to enforce those rules on everybody. A lot of times, they put rules in place and enforced them on everybody but Wayne.”\n\nHe pointed to multiple examples of admitted malfeasance by LaPierre in court, including diverting $300,000 in NRA funds to his personal expenses (though he’s accused of diverting millions more) without punishment and skipping compliance training mandated for all NRA employees.\n\n“That’s just another thing where my jaw hits the floor,” Journey said. “Every day, my jaw would hit the floor.”\n\nThe appeal is the second attempt by Journey and his allies to use the bankruptcy initiated by LaPierre to oust him and reform the group. The first attempt was to get the judge to appoint an examiner to look at the finances of the group and report irregularities to a members’ committee. It was dashed alongside LaPierre’s own plan to move the NRA to Texas and block New York Attorney General Letitia James (D.) from seizing their assets in state court.\n\nExperts said an appeal would be a long shot.\n\n“It’s pretty hard to get a case dismissed as a bad-faith filing, but this always seemed to satisfy the hard-to-satisfy standard,” Matthew Bruckner, a Howard University professor and bankruptcy expert, told The Reload on Thursday. “The decision seems well-grounded in the Fifth Circuit’s legal precedent, and the facts were admittedly ‘cringeworthy.’”\n\nNRA leadership appears to agree since they plan to move forward with their defense against James’s dissolution suit back in New York. NRA lawyers had argued the bankruptcy was necessary to protect them from having their assets seized by James but are now turning back to the state case instead of appealing.\n\nJourney is more confident. He admitted the appeal is a heavy lift but said he believes there is a “reasonable chance at success” and argued it was the least-bad option available.\n\nHe said it is more likely to succeed than either fighting in New York court or trying to reform the group internally. Only about 40 percent of the NRA board has bothered to show up at the two emergency board meetings regarding the group’s bankruptcy. All but four of those who did show up voted to approve the bankruptcy filing despite LaPierre not informing them of the filing, or even the possibility of bankruptcy, until after it happened.\n\nJourney said his confidence that an appeal offers the best possible outcome was driven by the end of Judge Hale’s ruling dismissing the case.\n\n“Should the NRA file a new bankruptcy case, this Court would immediately take up some of its concerns about disclosure, transparency, secrecy, conflicts of interest of officers and litigation counsel, and the unusual involvement of litigation counsel in the affairs of the NRA,” Hale wrote, “which could cause the appointment of a trustee out of a concern that the NRA could not fulfill the fiduciary duty required by the Bankruptcy Code for a debtor in possession.”\n\nIf a trustee is appointed, they are likely to remove LaPierre and other members of NRA leadership facing accusations of self-dealing and impropriety. As the judge noted in his ruling, a trustee is not designed to run a sprawling nonprofit like the NRA. That’s why Journey believes the judge would also agree to set up his NRA members’ committee to oversee the group’s reformation.\n\n“The end of the plan is to create a members’ committee that would ultimately end up having the knowledge and the resources and the desire to restore sound governance and management to the NRA,” he said.\n\nA collection of vocal proponents for the removal of LaPierre have begun to coalesce around Journey’s new plan. Until now, the different activists trying to reform the NRA have had different plans to get to a similar end goal. The last-ditch effort may unite the disparate efforts.\n\nJeff Knox, a former board member who has been pushing to remove LaPierre for decades after he and his father battled LaPierre over accusations of financial mismanagement in the 1990s, dubbed Journey “the leader of the loyal opposition on the NRA Board” last week. He appeared on Gun Talk Radio with long-time host Tom Gresham to talk about his strategy over the weekend. Ron Carter, vice president of Save the Second, praised Journey’s new plan.\n\n“While I cannot say that I entirely agree to his approach, I can say that I support his efforts,” he said in a Facebook post.\n\nNRA leadership did not respond to a request for comment. However, it said in a statement last week the NRA remained strong and committed to its mission.\n\n“Our NRA is pressing forward with its plans, and remains determined to promote constitutional freedoms,” said NRA Second Vice President Lt. Col. Willes K. Lee, USA (Ret). “We will never shrink from the tough and principled stands we take on behalf of our law-abiding 5 million members.”\n\nJourney said the members will determine what direction the NRA takes from here.\n\n“I don’t have a knight in shining armor,” he said. “The level of support we get from the membership is gonna decide.”\n\nStephen Gutowski, an award-winning journalist who has reported on firearms policy and politics for over a decade and now published and writes for TheReload.com.\n\nOne Board Member’s Last-Ditch Effort to Save the NRA", null ]

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[ null, "It escalated to the point where McCain asked the NBC host if he was Omar’s “publicist.”\n\nMeyers brought up McCain’s commentary on ABC’s “This Week” following the deadly synagogue shooting at the Poway, Calif., last month where she invoked the Omar’s tweets, and asserted that both Democrats and Republicans have to tackle anti-Semitism within their own parties.\n\n“I do think it’s fairly dangerous and you brought it up after Congresswoman Omar had some death threats against her,” Meyers said. “Do you think, you know, she has obviously now stated that she needs to be more careful with her language, don’t you think other people who talk about her need to be more thoughtful as well? Or do you stand by those comments of tying her to this, her rhetoric to this synagogue shooting?”\n\n“I don’t think I tied her to it in particular,” McCain responded. “I’m calling out what I see as anti-Semitic language and when you’re talking about — ”\n\n“But even after, you called her out even after she apologized for it,” Meyers interrupted. “I do want to establish the timeline.”\n\n“I think that Democrats are hedging on this and I think it’s very dangerous,” McCain continued. “And I think [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer and I are in alignment about Israel’s stance in geopolitical politics. I think it is of the utmost importance and I think she is bringing her party to extremism on this. And I think we have to look to Europe and what’s happening over there and in British politics. Anti-Semitism is very common and I see it happening over there and I worry about it happening over here. I stand by everything that I’ve said and if that makes me unpopular in this room or in front of you, so be it.”\n\n“Anti-Semitism is very common and I see it happening over there and I worry about it happening over here. I stand by everything that I’ve said and if that makes me unpopular in this room or in front of you, so be it.”\n\nMeyers said he found McCain’s argument “weird” about whether she was being “popular” in the room since he was trying to “find common ground.”\n\n“Were you bothered by her language on 9/11?” McCain asked.\n\n“I thought it was taken out of context,” Meyers answered, “and I think if you watched that whole speech — ”\n\n“Would you give President Trump the same leverage if he had said the same thing?” McCain challenged the NBC host. “I just think you have to give people the same credence.”\n\nMeyers responded by saying President Trump was “in no position” to criticize Omar’s language on 9/11 based on his own language about 9/11. He also argued that Omar has apologized and promised to be more educated “by people who know about this” while the president hasn’t.\n\n“It’s an interesting thing when we have two Muslim women for the first time, they do have a different perspective on things,” Meyers continued. “And I think when we talk about the idea of ‘Let’s all try to meet in the middle on things,’ we have to listen to other people’s perspective.”\n\n“I agree, I work on ‘The View’ with Joy Behar every day,” McCain shot back. “I listen to other people’s perspectives all the time.”\n\nWhen asked if there’s a way to talk about Israel without being considered anti-Semitic, McCain responded by saying don’t talk about “Jews hypnotizing the world” and “all about the Benjamins.”\n\n“You do keep bringing up the two tweets she apologized for,” Meyers told McCain, “and I think it’s a little unfair to her, especially because — ”\n\n“No,” Meyers answered. “I’m just someone who cares about the fact that there’s someone out there who is in a minority, who has had death threats against her, and I think we should all use the same language that you’re asking her to be careful about her language. And I would ask that everyone to be careful about theirs.”", null, null, null, "China Threatens US for ‘Creating Risks’ in South China Sea" ]

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[ "Lawrence Vigouroux was our cover star in Saturday's edition of Red Review and you can read the feature-length interview in full right here...\n\nLet's start with our 3-0 win at Luton Town last weekend, it was a brilliant performance and just what we needed, wasn't it?\nWe had a game-plan going into the game, we stuck to it and in the end everything we did on the training ground bared fruit and we were happy to come away with three points. Losing back-to-back games at home meant that we knew we had to make a statement and there was no better place to do it than at Luton. We can really be proud of what we did and we've got to go into today's game raring to go now. The most important thing for us is to keep going.\nOur form on the road has been superb so far this season, so what do you think that comes down to? What's the secret?\nI don't think there's anything special but the most important thing for us is to embrace the support. The fans at home are desperate for us to do well and we can't get too carried away with that, we've got to keep our heads down and focus on the job at hand and that's winning games. That is the most important thing and that is what will get us out of this league.", null, "It is now about getting that monkey off our backs at home isn't it because once the home form is sorted then we will be a force to be reckoned with, won't we?\nIf you look at any successful team then home form is the most important thing and once we get the monkey off our back, then we will be a force to be reckoned with at this level. As a squad there aren't too many teams in this league that are better than us and I'll be hard pressed to find one. You can have all the names you want but as a unit and as a team you will struggle to find one better than us. If we get a few wins under our belt at home then you could be looking at anything but the most important thing is to take it game-by-game and keep our heads firmly on the task at hand.\nLeague Two is already proving to be a tight league and anyone can beat anyone, but the key is to not get too high or low and focus on ourselves. Would you say that will be important going forward?\nYeah, of course. It is way too early now to look at the league table and any team on any given day can beat anyone, so all we've got to do is focus on winning our games and let everything else take care of itself. When it gets to Christmas that's when you start to see what kind of season you are going to have.\nLet's move on to your personal form, you've kept a couple of clean sheets already but how would you rate your start to the season?\nIt has been okay but it could always be better and I'll always live by that. I'll never ever get too carried away by my performance and if you get too happy then you can suffer a defeat and get really low, so it is about finding that happy medium. One thing that I'll always give is commitment to the club and I have been questioned about that recently, but you can never say that I won't ever give 100% because I don't believe in just turning up and playing for fun, because I always want to win. I love the club, they gave me my first chance in the Football League and the important thing for me is not to be questioned because I will always give 100% for this football club, no matter what.", null, "That's it, anyone who knows you will know that you are committed to this football club and your aim is to achieve something special with us this season isn't it?\nIf you read anything about me going anywhere in the summer, then I never once said that I wanted to leave the club and I don't pay too much attention to the speculation. I never ever once asked to leave the club and I just want to win games and be as successful as I can be, and I wouldn't be able to do that without the manager and without the team here. I've just got to work hard to achieve what we set out to do this season and that is to get straight back up in League One.\nWe saw the arrival of Reice Charles-Cook earlier this month. How has his arrival boosted your game because he certainly adds some competition doesn't he?\nReice has come in, he's been outstanding in training, he's given me a lot of advice and he's really helped me. He's given me advice on how to deal with certain things and it can only help the club to have two hungry goalkeepers who are fighting to start. I've just got to make sure that I keep my standards high because if they are not then the club have got a ready made replacement waiting.\n\n\"It has been okay but it could always be better and I'll always live by that. I'll never ever get too carried away by my performance.\"\n\nThe club have changed their style of play quite dramatically this season so how have you found that transition?\nIt hasn't been that hard for me because the manager has told me since day one that I can really hurt teams with my kicking, in terms of hitting it to the strikers and the wingers. It has been challenging but you've got to embrace it and you can't just play the same style throughout the whole of your career. I'm really enjoying it and as long as we are winning games then the style of play doesn't matter.\nFinally, Stevenage today and it is an ideal opportunity to finally get that first home win and embark on a run, isn't it?\nMost teams in League Two play a similar way and I don't think Stevenage will be any different, but they have got some good players and we are a bit of a scalp in this league so a lot of clubs will see us as their biggest game of the season. We've just got to keep our feet on the ground and we've got to keep our head on it because if you take your eye off the ball then you will be punished. It should be a good game today and I hope the fans enjoy it." ]

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[ null, "SanDisk's new 400GB microSD card is about 50% faster than the old one released half a year ago. Credit: raymond wong/mashable\n> Tech\n\nSix months ago, SanDisk unveiled the world's first 400GB microSD card and made me feel like god having so much data storage on the tip of my finger.\n\nNow, at Mobile World Congress, the storage company's back to explode heads with a newer version that's more than 50 percent faster.\n\nThe new \"Extreme A2 microSD UHS-1 microSDXC\" card's the same physical size and capacity as the old one, and it's red and gold instead of red and silver; however, it's no longer the world's largest microSD card anymore because that honor belongs to the 512GB card by Integral Memory -- but it's still hella fast.\n\nA large amount of storage on a tiny-ass memory card is great for stashing all your data and media, but it's pointless if your devices are spending forever to read and write to them.\n\nThis microSD card is hella fast.\n\nBesides being extremely useful for transferring huge amounts of data in a jiffy, these doubled transfer speeds will be useful for photographers and video shooters who shoot lots of high-megapixel photos or 4K (or higher-resolution footage). Y'all know how slow memory cards can be to save large-sized RAW photos.\n\nIs a 400GB microSD card that's uber-fast nerdy and geeky AF? Hell yeah it is, but that's why we love it so much. Sure, storage isn't ever going to be a sexy thing, but this card -- 400 gigs of storage with even faster speed in the same physical dimensions as the original 32 megabyte released in 2005 -- is what pure technology progress really looks.\n\nAnd if you need a refresher on how much a 400GB microSD card can hold, here's a cheat sheet:\n\nThis super high-capacity and super fast card will cost you a pretty penny, though: $300." ]

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[ "The Queenophone label was established in the Gold Coast by the Lebanese businessman H. Teymani. A comparison of matrix numbers and an approximation of the dates of recordings indicate H. Teymani stated out with His Master’s Voice’s TM series in 1950 and around 1954 established his own labels Queensway and Queenophone, both distributed by the Queensway general stores. H. Teymani was a patron of E.K. Nyame’s Band, he provided the musical instruments and his various labels became the main outlet for the band.\nQueensway and Queenophone have identical “QP” matrix numbers and might be considered one and the same series. Whereas the catalogue numbers on the Queensway 78 rpm shellac discs have no prefix letters (only numerals), the Queenophone shellacs have a “QP” prefix. The highest number identified in the Queenophone “QP” series is 370. When collaboration was initiated with Philips West African Records for recording and possibly manufacture a new “HH” series was introduced. Some releases in the “HH 1000” series seems to be re-releases, whereas new shellac releases came in a “HH/PH” series, only to be substituted by 45 rpm vinyl singles with a “HH/PF” prefix but retaining the overall numerical order of the “HH” series.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "The digital world evolves every second…and those at Google know it, they know it.\n\nIn 2015, mobile traffic exceeded desktop traffic in different countries and that motivated Google to launch “Mobilegeddon” in April, the update of an algorithm that simply eliminated sites that were not optimal for mobile devices, and that of course, marked a clear tendency to minimize traffic to desktop devices.\n\n“Mobilegeddon”: From the Fixed Consumer to the MobileRead More »" ]

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[ "Kidnapping children is legal in the United States. But I’ll bet you didn’t know that.\n\nIn the eyes of the law in New York State and throughout the United States, you are better off bitterly, irrevocably divorced living separately from your children, than married and trying to keep your family together to protect and stay close to your beloved flesh and blood. So, the law recommends that you bust your wife into court fast and divorce now! Administer a short sharp shock, put a chain on the kids’ ankles with your name on it; otherwise you are running a grave risk of losing your children forever. This is the message: the law is definitively not on your side. Children of married parents can be dragged onto an airplane and removed from the United States, and law enforcement officials will tell you so. The New York City DA’s office, the NYPD, the FBI all stand by the same story: unless you are divorced and have a court decree stating that you have won full exclusive custody of your child from a judge … no, it’s worse … unless you have an action of the court preemptively stating that it is ILLEGAL for your particular child to be kidnapped, it is assumed that abduction of your child is a legally protected right, and the agencies of law enforcement will do nothing, absolutely not one thing, to help you. And if out of love you had been trying to keep your children in a whole family, then law enforcement agencies most certainly will not assist you in obtaining any sort of declaration, decree, statement, warrant, NOTHING that states that you and your child are victims of a crime in the event that your child is abducted and taken out of the country. Go ahead. Ask them directly, and see what they say. No prevention is possible, and neither is retrieval, because it’s not illegal to kidnap a child. Abductors have the blessing of The State.\n\nThe law is peculiarly fond of foreign nationals who abduct American children. That’s because political sensitivities exist which must not be disturbed. You wouldn’t want to accuse a country of wrongdoing when all they’ve done is provide safe haven to the hundreds of people who cross over the border each year with children they’ve stolen away from parents in the United States. Is that so bad, really? Opposition to such a culturally sensitive custom might ruffle the feathers of some very important economic and/or strategic partners, so the subject must be broached gently and very discretely, like you need to discuss some unseemly habits someone has. “Would it be too much to ask if you could stop sticking your digits all the way up your nose when you’re talking to people? And oh, if you would also be so kind as to consider a revision of those ever-so-unpleasant kidnapping habits of yours, given the fact that you have taken hundreds of children from my country and are protecting their abductors. That is, if you want to.” As long as the other side makes a nice, sweet, helpful statement, like this one about how they’ve gotten all sincere on us and decided to “study” the issue very carefully, then the representatives of U. S. law will be very, very, very grateful and proceed with normal undisturbed relations. Please, please, dozo, have another child if your belly is not yet full. There are plenty more where that one came from.\n\nSo, the Japanese government says it is carefully studying the issue? As Jesse Jackson once said, and I’m paraphrasing wickedly, “If we look around and find that a whole lot of small fish are disappearing, we don’t need another government study. We need to find a barracuda!“\n\n“According to William Duncan, the Deputy Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, there are approximately 1,300 children in total presently living in Japan that are considered abducted and whose wrongful retention is in violation of criminal kidnapping and abduction laws originating from these children’s countries of original jurisdiction.”\n\nIf the United States wanted to do something about this, it could.\n\nThe United States can revise its own laws to stop assisting abductors in getting away. Right now, if someone wants to leave the United States and go to Japan with a child, that person can decide any time they wish to that they will not return that child to his rightful parents. And that is precisely what they do and have done, hundreds of times.\n\nDon’t believe the hype. Even if the Japanese sign the Hague Convention this evening before bedtime, not one child will be returned to his parent, because as Eric Kalmus at the Japan Children’s Rights Network has so often observed, joint custody is illegal in Japan.\nI have a new proposal. What the United States must do is to prevent children, ANY children, from being taken from the US to Japan, period, until such time as the Japanese have introduced dramatic change to their family law and enforcement apparatus. And the laws on both sides of the Pacific must have teeth, big sharp teeth that will take a bite out of anyone who tries to take a child and bring him or her to Japan. Would a lot of Americans and Japanese, and probably a whole lot more of the world’s people be upset if no one was allowed to take a child out of the US to Japan? Maybe they would. But I ask you, how else does anyone propose to pressure the Japanese into stopping this socio-pathological practice?\n\nNo minors allowed over that border! If the country in question were an official enemy or politically defined site of conflict, like Iran, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the likelihood was that the government of the country in question would prevent children that are citizens of this country from being returned home, would there be a sustainable argument about the practice such that adults would be allowed to continue to put children at risk by taking them there? I don’t think so. It’s a war, and war requires battlefield tactics.\n\nStop children from being taken to Japan today! Let us see some sweat under those suits. I, for one, love my son, and want my son back; and I am deeply sickened by watching the State Department, the state and federal courts, the police, the FBI, and the DA all sit on their hands while my son is being held captive and put at grave risk of severe trauma and long-term emotional damage. He left here a fine little boy. I don’t want him coming back suffering from a freshly-minted personality disorder, courtesy of his mother’s enmeshed family and a pathologically repressed social order. Let the Japanese face the fact of what they are doing. I want to save my child.", null, "Join 282 other subscribers\nFollow For Rui Boy on WordPress.com" ]

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[ "The latest patch notes for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla share that title update 1.1.0. will release on December 15th, getting the game ready for the festive Yule Festival.\n\nThe next patch for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla will pave the way for the most festive time of the year, with the upcoming Yule, a winter solstice festival which is celebrated by many northern European cultures. The real-life solstice festival doesn’t begin until December 21st, but the update will get you in the celebratory mood, with more details to be shared soon from Ubisoft.\n\nThe patch also comes with some changes, such as how NPC power levels work, reducing the difference by 51 points below your current level. Your power level will be automatically be matched by world bosses, alpha animals and zealots, if they are higher than yours, applicable to all difficulty settings.\n\nYou can check out the patch note details below:", null ]

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[ "Ultra-Orthodox Jews had been exempt from army service until last year, when the Israel's parliament passed a law revoking the exemption.", null, "Israeli police have arrested 48 ultra-Orthodox Jews who took part in protests against their conscription by the Israeli army, a police spokesperson said Monday.\n\nPolice spokesperson Luba Sarmri said that hundreds had staged demonstrations in West Jerusalem and Ashdod against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews by the army.\n\nProtesters blocked several streets in West Jerusalem, prompting police to intervene to clear the roads and reopen them to traffic.\n\nMost of the arrests, she said, had come after protesters failed to obtain permits for the rally.\n\nUnder Israeli law, all Israelis above 18 years of age must perform military service unless specifically exempted by the Defense Ministry.\n\nUltra-Orthodox Jews had been exempt from army service until last year, when the Knesset (Israel's parliament) passed a law revoking the exemption." ]

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[ "I was not planning on taking a vacation for at least another month. It's not that I don't want to the time off but that I have more important things to do with my vacation time than sit at home, in pain, with way to much time on my hands.\n\nMy original plan was to take a day or two off after the 20th. On Feb 20th I'm getting two of my wisdom teeth removed and having a crown placed on another tooth. Or, that was the plan. Things come up and wisdom teeth rot, or so the story goes.\n\nOh No! Unexpected Breakage on Tooth #32\n\nLess than a week after my last dental appointment I randomly notice that I'm missing half of a wisdom tooth. It was one of the ones that I planned on having removed anyways. But, now it's mocking me. Oh, you thought you were going to wait until the twentieth to deal with me did you asshole? Ha, I make the decisions here. At first I ignored it because there was no pain, and if it's not bothering me then it can wait for the next two weeks. I'm not purposefully going to go to the dentist more times than absolutely need be after all.", null, "The best laid plans of mice and men. Today things took a turn for the worst. Something happened that irritated my gum (and we'll even go so far as to assume probably a piece of food launching itself between the gum and the missing portion of the tooth) and I started having some pain. As the day went on the swelling got worse, the pain got worse and a headache started to develop. Once I have multiple points of pain I take it as a clue that my body is telling me I probably need to make an appointment to visit the dentist a little earlier than the 20th.\nSo, I call up and get an appointment for tomorrow.\nI talked to the authority figures at work and inform them that I've got some serious ju-ju going on in my mouth and I need to leave early or be even less productive than normal, they shake their heads and comment that they totally understand and send me off with some well wishes.\nI also tell them that I have the appointment for the next day in which they will be violently ripping things out of my mouth which will cause some good pain for a few days and I will need time to recover.", null, "Once again they pretend to be perfectly fine with it while probably cursing me at the same time. That rat bastard using any excuse he can to take a vacation without any advanced notice.\n\nSo the good news is that I'll have a few days off from work in order to sit back and collect my thoughts. Maybe I'll relax and come Tuesday I'll be happy about going back into work and dealing with other peoples created problems. The bad news is that I'm going to be really frigging hungry over the next couple of days without being able to consume actual food. I don't consider drinking my food (this is NOT my idea of a liquid lunch) and being limited to water and Gatorade fun nutritional choices. Hopefully 3 days of not eating will jump start my weight loss and when I start hitting the gym hard and heavy next week I'll have additional incentive.\nI guess until then it's time to read a book or two and play some video games.\n\nPosted by grrouchie at 4:18 PM" ]

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[ null, "Protest challenging various aspects of evaluation is denied. The protester argued that the agency should have (1) rejected the awardee’s proposal for failure to follow a small business subcontracting requirement, and (2) should not have conducted discussions to allow the awardee to correct the flaw. GAO found that the flaw in the awardee’s proposal did not relate to a contract requirement and thus did not require rejection of the proposal. Additionally, the problem with the awardee’ subcontracting plan related to a responsibility requirement; exchanges related to responsibility are not discussions. The protester further argued that one of the awardee’s subcontractors had an impaired objectivity OCI. But the agency had analyzed the subcontractor’s work and reasonably found that it would not create an OCI. The protester alleged that other aspects of the technical and past performance evaluations were flawed, by GAO rejected its contentions.\n\nThe Department of Energy (DOE) issued a solicitation seeking support for its environmental cleanup mission at the agency’s Hanford site in Washington. Hanford Integrated Infrastructure Services Contractor, LLC (HIISC) and Hanford Mission Integration Solutions, LLC (HMIS) responded to the solicitation. DOE awarded the contract to HMIS, finding that it had a technically superior proposal at a minimal price premium. HIISC filed a protest, challenging various aspects of DOE’s evaluation.\n\nHIISC argued that DOE should have found that HMIS’s failure to comply with the subcontracting requirements made its proposal unacceptable. Moreover, HIISC contended, the agency compounded its error by holding unequal discussions with HMIS, allowing it to correct the error.\n\nGAO found that DOE did not err in failing to reject the proposal. The record showed that the small business contracting plans were evaluated as a matter of responsibility, not as a requirement for evaluation in source selection. Thus, failure to comply with the subcontractor plan was not failure to comply with a solicitation requirement. Additionally, DOE found that the issue with HMIS’s subcontracting plan had resulted from a clerical error. The FAR permits an agency to engage in limited exchanges with offerors to clarify clerical errors.\n\nHIISC next argued that HMIS had an unmitigable impaired objectivity OCI. One of HMIS’s proposed subcontractors was already working with DOE to provide small business program support. HIISC contended that working on the Hanford contract would undermine the subcontractor’s ability to provide impartial advice to DOE.\n\nGAO determined there was no OCI. Prior to issuing the solicitation, DOE performed an OCI analysis to assess conflicts that could be created by a company performing other DOE contracts. The agency identified five contracts that created a potential OCI. DOE did not identify the small business support contract that HMIS’s subcontractor was performing as a conflict. What’s more, after HIISC filed its protest, the contracting officer reanalyzed the work scope in the solicitation and compared to the work being performed by HMIS’s subcontractor. The contracting officer determined that the work areas did not overlap.\n\nGAO disagreed, noting that nothing in the solicitation required DOE to document each of the 11 PWS elements. The record showed that evaluators considered overall completeness, feasibility, and effectiveness of the offerors’ technical approaches as they related to the 11 elements. The agency had identified strengths and weaknesses related to each of the elements. The source evaluation board explicitly stated that any aspect of a technical proposal not discussed meant that it was found to constitute neither a strength or a weakness.\n\nGAO found that contrary to HIISC’s allegations, DOE did not identify multiple strengths for each PWS element. Instead, it identified one strength that implicated several PWS elements. Additionally, there was no disparate treatment because HIISC’s technical approach was not similar to HMIS’s. HMIS had proposed a feature that HIISC did not.\n\nHIISC argued that HMISs proposal was unacceptable because the cost proposal of one of its proposed subcontractors had expired before award. GAO noted that the expiration of a subcontractor’s proposal does not by itself invalidate a prime contractor’s proposal. Here, HMIS had specifically extended its offer for an additional period. GAO had no basis to conclude that the agency should have rejected the opinion.\n\nFinally, HIISC contended that award to HMIS could not stand because the SEB had updated its evaluation of HMIS’s past performance after the selection decision had been made, and there was no evidence that the SSA had considered this updated evaluation prior to making award." ]

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[ "Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on a few small projects that have been counting towards my stash busting! The first of these was the beanie that I made to send to Cupcake Mummy as part of her drive to collect beanies for cancer patients…It is on it’s way via Airmail now! Here is the finished beanie:\n\nIt went a little wonky because I was stitching in a rush and I miscounted but luckily the handle of my Avon trolley is beanie shaped! I popped it on here over night to straighten it a bit but, as you can see, when it is being worn the wonky-ness isn’t visible luckily!\n\nI have also been busy making some things for a friend of mine who asked me to crochet her two jammy dodgers and a Zingy!", null, "This little bundle will be finding its way to her on Tuesday when we have a seminar together! And I’m glad someone wanted some jammy dodgers because that ‘biscuit’ coloured yarn doesn’t come in very handy for most projects!\n\nI have enjoyed working on some small projects on a while…now that these are complete I will go back to working on James’ surprise Christmas present for a while until I am in need of another break! I am pretty impressed with how my stash busting is going so far though; even though I haven’t used up any whole balls yet, these small projects are certainly shrinking the ones that I have got.\n\nIn other news though, I did buy my first balls of yarn since signing up to the challenge…but in my defence, they are for a specific project! I am taking part in Not Your Average Crochet’s Crochet Along, which is set to start in June. The last CAL that I joined was short lived on my behalf, as I was completely swamped by uni work, but this one will be starting in June, giving me four months to make a reasonable dent in the challenge, which will hopefully motivate me to keep going! (Never mind the fact that I have committed myself to working the first two weeks of June at University and the third week I will be in London…)\n\nThe project for the CAL is a blanket based on these designs:", null, null, "Hannah is currently busy writing the pattern that we will be using, and we will be working on a few rows a week. I have chosen to use a palette similar to one that Hannah put together:", null, "Hannah has chosen the Stylecraft Special DK but, at the moment, I can’t afford to buy the yarn in a bulk order, so it works out cheaper for me to collect a couple of balls of each colour as I walk passed my local craft shop. A lot of the shades are very similar with only the blues differing a bit, but I have decided to use a yellow rather than the ‘spring green’, mainly because I already have an excess of pale yellow yarn so this can double up as stash busting too!\n\nHere is the yarn I have collected so far:", null, "Although it is hard to see in the photo, the pink it similar to the ‘pomegranate’ of the palette and this is the yellow I will be using instead of the ‘spring green’. Next I will be getting the ‘turquoise’ and ‘meadow’ colours, so I am well on my way to being prepared! I am collecting two balls of each (except the yellow of which I have 4 as they are 50g balls) to make a twin sized blanket.\n\nAs I was buying the pink yarn from the craft shop I found this bargain that I just have to share with you too:", null, "This lovely sampler chart was only 50p! How could I resist? Although there won’t be any babies around for a while yet, I thought the characters would look great on cards so I used that as an excuse to treat myself!", null ]

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[ null, "They ran the 39th annual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sunday along Shoreline Drive under blue skies, a warm sun, a capacity crowd and a strong scent of nostalgia.\n\nIt just as easily could have been the 14th Grand Prix, which was held in 1988, a quarter-century ago. In 1988, the legendary A.J. Foyt drove the race for the first time and a young driver named Bobby Rahal finished second.\n\nAs one can imagine, the Foyt and Rahal families were excited about the success of the new day and the links to the past. In the case of A.J. Foyt, it was his team's first win since 2002, bringing a name back to the forefront of a sport A.J. once dominated. Foyt won the Indy 500 four times and won five IndyCar titles.\n\nFoyt, now 78, wasn't in Long Beach because he's scheduled to undergo surgery for a sciatic nerve problem this week.\n\n\"He really hated that he wasn't here,\" Larry Foyt said, relaying the conversation he and his dad had after the race. \"He's still the big boss man, and this is great for him.\n\n\"He said he was actually calm in the race, and pretty glad he stuck around to see a win. He knew our last was in 2002.\"\n\nYou have to go back to 1978 to find a win for Foyt and his team on a street or road course. Foyt has always been an oval guy, which is why he and his team had modest achievements in Long Beach. He or one of his team drivers ran here from 1988 to 1995, the best finish a fourth-place showing by Eddie Cheever in 1995.\n\nWhen the CART/IRL split came, Foyt went to the IRL and had success right away with Scott Sharp and Kenny Brack behind the wheel. The team struggled some the following decade with a plethora of driver changes, and Larry Foyt, who drove on the NASCAR circuit, put his driving career away at his dad's request to learn the business and run the day-to-day operation.\n\n\"It was a slow process,\" he said. \"I didn't make a lot of changes at the start, and even today we don't make decisions without bouncing them off A.J. But he does understand the need for change.\" More at Long Beach Press Telegram" ]

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[ null, "Ok boys and girls, this post announces the winner of the Best Supporting Actor MAJOR Award for 2011.\n\nI put up five actors who I felt contributed the most to their films in spite of a limited amount of screen time. They weren’t the leads, but they made a fantastic contribution to their film.", null, "What does Brooks bring to the mix?\n\nThat’s right, Albert Brooks brings the menace. As Nevertooearly commented last week, perhaps Brooks wouldn’t be getting so much attention for his turn here if he wasn’t playing against type. Instead of trying to argue that, I’m going to outright acknowledge it!\n\nLook, for more than 30 years, Albert Brooks has been entertaining America with some form or another of an affable, relatable guy. To see him here, stone serious, glowering, threatening… deadly… It was shocking! Amazing! I couldn’t shake it, I was like that’s Albert Brooks! He’s such a bad ass here! Far from denying that was a factor here, I’m going to give it its full due.\n\nBut its certainly not the only factor. Brooks was amazing. His Bernie Rose is a coiled rattlesnake of a man. You hear him talking, and perhaps he’s not even saying anything that’s an outright threat… but always just beneath, you can hear his tail rattling. You know you don’t mess with him… far before he starts hurting people. Brooks gets that across in an incredible way. He’s a powerhouse. Power. House. Such a phenomenal addition to this movie.\n\nThe other nominees were all great as well. Forster had the funniest moment of the year and one of the saddest moments (to me) in “The Descendants”. The massive amount of regret Nolte is obviously dealing with in “Warrior” allows the audience to paint their own picture of the upbringing the two fraternal combatants had. And Plummer is amazing in “Beginners” – I’m sure he’s going to collect awards hand over fist this season.\n\nJust not here. I still can’t get over Brooks in “Drive”\n\nSo what do you think Boys and Girls? Did I do a great injustice to Mr. Plummer? Are you glad Paul Giamatti didn’t win because you can’t stand him (LOL)? Was there anyone you were rooting for? Let me hear it!! 😀" ]

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[ null, "Christianity has a problem.\n\nI know what you're thinking, \"Just one?\"\n\nWell... you might have something there, but at any rate I think Christianity has a serious problem that is at the foundation of all the other problems it seems to encounter.\n\nIn my humble opinion.\n\nYou see, so many Christians seem to have all of the right ingredients that it takes to be a \"good\" Christian. You know... Bible reading, prayer, church attendance, volunteerism... that kind of stuff.\n\nBut there seems to be something missing.\n\nI think far too many of us who call ourselves Christians are not living lives that are all that compelling. There aren't that many people knocking down our doors trying to find out what makes us tick, and begging us to tell them what makes us so special. In fact, the opposite seems to be happening. People are turning away from Christianity--believing it to be irrelevant, shallow, too exclusive and pretty much unnecessary.\n\nAnd I think the reason they do is because Christians are missing a passionate, up close and personal, wild abandon relationship with Jesus.\n\nYeah, I know. That was an awkward kind of segue. A non sequitur, if you will.\nBut hear me out.\n\nA couple of years ago, Domino's Pizza was the Pizza of last resort.\n\nIt was the kind of pizza that you ordered when it was too late to order anything else or you had no money.\n\nDomino's didn't reinvent pizza. It's still pizza. It's dough, sauce, toppings and cheese. They had all of these ingredients present in one way or another before their big turnaround. But like the woman in the focus group said, \"Where's the love?\" It was missing something...\n\nIf you would like to read what sort of impact the change had on the Domino's company click here...\nDomino's Pizza\n\nIf you didn't want to read the article---the bottom line was a 14% increase in same store sales and an overall 18% increase in revenue for the 1st Quarter of 2010. This, my friends, is a miracle in the fast food industry.\n\nAnd then they'll say, \"...and then I accepted Christ and became a Christian.\" The end.\n\nWhat will it take for us to change?\n\nJesus told a bunch of people who \"claimed\" to believe in him, \"If you stick with this [belief in Jesus], living out what I tell you, you are my disciples for sure. Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you.\" Not surprisingly, they responded, \"We've never been slaves to anyone. How can you say that we will be made free? We are free!\"\n\nI think that most Christians, when confronted with the hard truth about their commitment to Jesus, don't want to hear that they are trapped and enslaved. They don't want to hear that even though they have the \"right ingredients,\" they are missing what makes Christianity so compelling... a passionate, sold-out, up close and personal, wild abandon relationship with Jesus.\n\nAll of the Bible studies, prayer meetings, worship services and volunteer hours in the world can't make you \"taste good,\" if you are missing the love.\nChristian living Domino's Pizza faith freedom in Christ Jesus" ]

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[ "Nobel win for Swede who unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA", null, "Swedish scientist Svante Paabo stands by a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Leipzig, Germany. Paabo was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries on human evolution. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)\n\nLEIPZIG, Germany -- Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries in human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA that helped us understand what makes humans unique and provided key insights into our immune system, including our vulnerability to severe COVID-19.\n\nTechniques that Paabo spearheaded allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins -- the Denisovans as well as Neanderthals.\n\n\"Just as you do an archeological excavation to find out about the past, we sort of make excavations in the human genome,\" he said at a news conference held by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.\n\nWhile Neanderthal bones were first discovered in the mid-19th century, only by understanding their DNA -- often referred to as the code of life -- have scientists been able to fully understand the links between species.\n\nThis included the time when modern humans and Neanderthals diverged as a species, around 800,000 years ago.\n\n\"Paabo and his team also surprisingly found that gene flow had occurred from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens, demonstrating that they had children together during periods of co-existence,\" said Anna Wedell, chair of the Nobel Committee.\n\nThis transfer of genes between hominin species affects how the immune system of modern humans reacts to infections, such as the coronavirus. People outside Africa have 1-2% of Neanderthal genes. Neanderthals were never in Africa, so there's no known direct contribution to people in sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nPaabo and his team managed to extract DNA from a tiny finger bone found in a cave in Siberia, leading to the recognition of a new species of ancient humans they called Denisovans.\n\nWedell called it \"a sensational discovery\" that showed Neanderthals and Denisovans were sister groups that split from each other around 600,000 years ago. Denisovan genes have been found in up to 6% of modern humans in Asia and Southeast Asia, indicating interbreeding occurred there too.\n\n\"By mixing with them after migrating out of Africa, Homo sapiens picked up sequences that improved their chances to survive in their new environments,\" Wedell said. For example, Tibetans share a gene with Denisovans that helps them adapt to high altitude.\n\nPaabo said he was surprised to learn of his win, and at first thought it was an elaborate prank by colleagues or a call about his summer home.\n\n\"So I was just gulping down the last cup of tea to go and pick up my daughter at her nanny where she has had an overnight stay, and then I got this call from Sweden,\" he said in an interview on the Nobel Prizes homepage. \"I of course thought it had something to do with our little summer house in Sweden. I thought, 'Oh the lawn mower's broken down or something.'\"\n\nHe also mused about what would have happened if Neanderthals had survived another 40,000 years.\n\n\"Would we see even worse racism against Neanderthals, because they were really in some sense different from us? Or would we actually see our place in the living world quite in a different way when we would have other forms of humans there that are very like us but still different,\" he said.\n\nPaabo, 67, performed his prizewinning studies at the University of Munich and at the Max Planck Institute.\n\nAfter the news conference, colleagues threw Paabo into a pool of water during the celebrations. Pääbo took it with humor, splashing his feet a little and laughed.\n\nScientists in the field lauded the Nobel Committee's choice.\n\nDavid Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School, said he was thrilled, fearing the field of ancient DNA might \"fall between the cracks.\"\n\nBy recognizing that DNA can be preserved for tens of thousands of years -- and developing ways to extract it -- Paabo and his team created a completely new way to answer questions about our past, Reich said.\n\n\"It's totally reconfigured our understanding of human variation and human history,\" said Reich, who is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press' Health and Science Department.\n\nDr. Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, called it \"a great day for genomics,\" a relatively young field first named in 1987.\n\nThe Human Genome project, which ran from 1990-2003, \"got us the first sequence of the human genome, and we've improved that sequence ever since,\" Green said.\n\nWhen you sequence DNA from an ancient fossil, you only have \"vanishingly small amounts,\" Green said. Among Paabo's innovations was figuring out methods for extracting and preserving these tiny amounts. He was then able to lay pieces of the Neanderthal genome sequence against the human sequencing of the Human Genome Project.\n\nPaabo's team published the first draft of a Neanderthal genome in 2009, and sequenced more than 60% of the full genome from a small sample of bone, after contending with decay and contamination from bacteria.\n\n\"We should always be proud of the fact that we sequenced our genome. But the idea that we can go back in time and sequence the genome that doesn't live anymore and something that's a direct relative of humans is truly remarkable,\" Green said.\n\nPaabo said they discovered during the pandemic that \"the greatest risk factor to become severely ill and even die when you're infected with the virus has come over to modern people from Neanderthals. So we and others are now intensely studying the Neanderthal version versus the protective modern version to try to understand what the functional difference would be.\"\n\nPaabo's father, Sune Bergstrom, won the Nobel prize in medicine in 1982, the eighth time the son or daughter of a laureate also won a Nobel Prize. In his book \"Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes,\" Paabo described himself as Bergstrom's \"secret extramarital son\" -- something he also mentioned briefly at the news conference.\n\nNobel Prize announcements continue Tuesday with the physics prize, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the economics award on Oct. 10.\n\nLast year's medicine recipients were David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch.\n\nThe prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on Dec. 10. The money comes from a bequest left by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1895." ]

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[ null, "There was a spurt in using drones from Pak aspect over previous few months. (Representational)\n\nA surveillance drone of Chinese language make was on Saturday shot down by Military troops shortly after it crossed into this aspect of the Line of Management (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officers stated.\n\nThe DJI Mavic 2 Professional drone, fitted with cameras, was noticed hovering in air by the alert troops in Keran sector and subsequently shot down, the officers stated. They stated the drone was seized and additional investigation is on.\n\nThere was a spurt in using drones from Pakistani aspect over the previous few months to smuggle arms and narcotics.\n\nEarlier in June, an try and drop weapons by way of drone was scuttled by BSF personnel after they shot down a Hexa-copter with a payload of five-and-a-half kgs together with a complicated US-made M4 semi-automatic carbine and 7 Chinese language grenades alongside the Worldwide border in Kathua district.\n\n(This story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)" ]

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[ "The list also shows that five of the top 10 are handset makers, including the top four, and sixth-place Transsion, known as the king of African smartphones, which shipped 620 million smartphones last year, accounting for 40 percent of global shipments.", null, "Founded in 1987, Huawei is the world's leading provider of information and communications infrastructure and smart terminals.\n\nToday, Huawei employs 194,000 people and has operations in more than 170 countries and regions, serving a population of more than 3 billion.\n\nHuawei is a 100% privately held company owned by its employees. Huawei operates an employee stock ownership plan through its labor unions, with more than 100,000 employees participating.\n\nAccording to Canalys, in the second quarter of this year, Xiaomi was one of the top four smartphone shippers in the world, with a market share of 10.1 percent.\n\n2020 marks the 10th anniversary of Xiaomi's founding, and the company earlier announced that its core strategy for the next 10 years will be upgraded to \"Mobile X AIoT\" to strengthen its AIoT footprint around its core business of mobile phones." ]

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[ "Mario is a character that is in loads of new and old Nintendo games and the newest one Mario kart is out know. Mario kart is a racing game not a racing game like all the others because Mario games are not like real life. when you start you will start with about 4 characters and as you play you will pick up coins that will unlock and also you can buy an add on pack to get more old Mario kart courses.\n\nFIFA 15 is a football game when you start the game will make you play Manchester city vs Liverpool as Liverpool and the winners win the league. After that you can play any game modes you want like online modes and lots more. You can also create your own player and do transfers and change clubs stadiums. After that you should play the most played game mode ultimate team.", null, "Here’s a great video about Messi.\n\nAlpha Wars is a war game. To be good you need to spend lots of money. When you start you will have a base with 2 flags called a main base that other players can’t destroy. You will also have a base with a green line that will say ‘build tanks to conquer base’. When you get the base I would HIGHLY recommend spending money lol. link to web on alpha wars purple writing.\n\nThis is a guide to Minecraft. When you buy Minecraft you will spawn in a random world. When you spawn you will need to punch some wood to make a sword so mobs don’t kill you. When you make a sword you will kill some sheep and then you can make a bed to survive the night.\n\nlink to buy Minecraft on the purple Minecraft sign\n\nWelcome to Purple Eskimo. My name’s Jack, and I love football and video games!", null ]

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[ "In Netflix's Inhuman Resources, Eric Cantona plays a middle-aged HR manager called Alan Delambre; after his job is retrenched, Delambre is forced into underpaid 'menial' wage-labour in the course of which he faces daily harassment.\n\nTwenty-five years ago, during a club football game, the French soccer star Eric Cantona unleashed what came to be known as the infamous flying \"kung-fu kick\", on the racist football hooligan Matthew Simmons, after being taunted by the Englishman on his foreign origins.\n\nCantona was known for his dominant on-field presence, opportunistic goal-scoring ability and his mercurial personality both on and off the football field. \"If I'd met that guy on another day, things may have happened very differently even if he had said the same things. Life is weird like that,\" Cantona had remarked later during an interview, provocatively describing this assault on the fan as one of the \"happiest moments\" of his life.\n\nThe aftermath of this event nearly ended Cantona's fabulous stint of 80 goals and four league victories for Manchester United. His future with the French national team was also threatened because of the incident. After his international career was over, Cantona reinvented himself as an actor and a filmmaker, working in theatre, collaborating with filmmakers such as Shekhar Kapoor and Ken Loach, while independently directing several documentaries.\n\nThe mercurial persona of Cantona has been reinvented recently, albeit in a fictional narrative, in a new miniseries called Inhuman Resources (original title Dérapages) launched by Netflix on 15 May 2020. Cantona plays a middle-aged HR manager called Alan Delambre; after losing his job, Delambre is forced into underpaid wage-labour in the course of which he faces daily harassment.", null, "Amidst the everyday indignities and the threat of losing his apartment, Delambre experiences depression, anxiety, and relationship problems. So, when offered a new HR job by a big corporate, he is desperate to grab the job at any cost. However, he is shocked to learn that the intentions of his employers are sinister and far from honourable. Realising that he is being used to launch a fake hostage drama by the company to flush out potential traitors among its ranks, Delambre takes matters into his own hands, triggering a dramatic showdown.\n\nIn terms of plot and narrative, Inhuman Resources has a strong resemblance to French director Costa-Gavras' Hollywood film Mad City (1997) featuring John Travolta and Dustin Hoffman in the main roles. The five-hour long series combines elements of various other 'hostage dramas' such as John Q (2002) and Money Monster (2016) in which the hostage-takers are portrayed not as villains, but almost as desperate crusaders.\n\nApart from Cantona's angry past, Inhuman Resources successfully manages to plug into the prevailing anti-establishment sentiments in France over the past few years as seen in the gilets jaunes (yellow vests movement) and other working-class protests. Alan Delambre in Inhuman Resources is a product of this agitational milieu.\n\nA working-class man who is driven to desperation by joblessness and is even ready to use a certain degree of violence has been the defining face of contemporary France.\n\nIncidentally, another successful Netflix series, Money Heist (2020), is an attempt to represent a violent robbery as a story of a revolt of the Spanish underclass against an unjust economic system. In its attempt to give a violent action narrative an anti-capitalist spin, Money Heist exploits Italian protest song ‘Bella Ciao’ as a musical motif.\n\nInhuman Resources avoids the shortcuts used by the creators of Money Heist. Alan Delambre bristles with the rage and indignation of an honest person who has been persistently wronged by an unfeeling socio-economic system. For those interested in psychology, Delambre's character is a textbook study of masculinity — an example of male aggression, violence and despondency under extreme pressure — and they can even dig into Cantona's personal history.\n\nThere are other notable performers in the series: Suzanne Clement playing the protagonist's wife Nicole, and Alice De Lenquesaing as his daughter Lucie, give powerful supporting performances. Among the various characters of the series, Nicole's character is the most rounded. Married to an honest, hardworking, but a volatile man, Nicole portrays a combination of bewilderment and anger at her husband's self-destructive streak and grapples with the physical and emotional consequences of his outbursts. Clement manages to deftly capture the emotional complexity and the relational dynamics of the middle-aged couple, compensating for Cantona's raging, masculine presence, with her quiet, feminine strength.\n\nIn a way, the Delambre family’s predicament resonates with what is happening to families across the world during the COVID-19\n\npandemic. Social inequities have widened, amid loss of lives and livelihoods. Loss of jobs, huge cuts in salaries and wages, defaults in rents or mortgage payments have become part of the lived reality of millions across the world. Accompanying it are various kinds of stresses and strains on familial dynamics, as well as anger towards multinational corporations and their relationship with regimes across the world.\n\nIt is ironic and somewhat coincidental that Inhuman Resources was released against this backdrop, and to satisfy the demand of captive audiences binge-watching OTT content. Amidst this despondency, audiences will undoubtedly seek catharsis in Alan Delambre's painful predicament and as well as in his effort to improve his life in the face of tumultuous developments." ]

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[ "When your child starts to ask questions about letters, all of a sudden, you realise how entirely confusing the whole concept can be for a preschooler. There are capitals and lowercase, different fonts and the names of the letters aren’t the same as the sounds they make.\n\nWith so many parents clueless in this area, we asked Barbara from Patchwork Cactus to share the simple Montessori-inspired trick she used to introduce the alphabet to her two children.\n\nBefore having children and beginning my career as a writer, I spent nine years working in Montessori education. If you don’t know much about it, you probably think it’s a hippy, cultish type of school. But it’s actually not like that at all. It’s simply a practical education style developed by an Italian doctor called Maria Montessori.\n\nI am in awe of the education children get in these schools, but most Aussie kids don’t have access to them – my own included. This doesn’t mean they have to miss out on the ingenious ways Montessori classrooms teach children as young as three, to read, do simple maths and generally encourage an early curiosity and love of learning.\n\nWe all know that preschool-aged kids learn with their hands, they are sensory and really love to touch things to understand them. This is why they have to touch EVERYTHING. So keeping that in mind, this activity is a great first step in introducing letters to your kids.", null, "Now sit with your child and show them the letters, one at a time and encourage them first to trace the letter with their finger, and then draw it in the sand.", null, null, null, null, null, null, "BUT, what you actually say when you’re doing this is where it gets a bit contentious.\n\nIn Montessori classrooms, the letters are introduced phonetically, rather than by their names. This means an ‘A’, is referred to as an ‘ah’. When kids start to learn to read and write, they need to know the sounds the letters make, rather than their names so they can sound things out.\n\nUnfortunately, most kids’ TV shows and talking toys use the letter’s name, so the whole thing can be super confusing for children who are getting their information from a bunch of different places.", null, "To get around this, as you are showing the child each letter, use its name, and the sound it makes.\n\nDon’t start saying, “A is for apple,” or putting any more concepts on the table. Just introduce them to the letter and encourage them to draw it in the sand.\n\nDepending on the age, they will probably only trace some sort of squiggly line and look proud. The chances of it actually looking like an ‘A’ are pretty low. But just smile and don’t correct them; it’s supposed to be fun.\n\nMost kids will be good for about four letters the first time you do this exercise. The trick is to pack the activity away before they get bored. You don’t want it to be a chore. It’s always good to start with the letter their name begins with, a vowel and an ‘S’ (because ‘S’ is a fun one and it makes the same sound like a snake.)\n\nLeave the tray somewhere they can see, and hopefully, they will ask to do it again; you can add more letters each time you do the activity.\n\nLater, when it makes sense, you can start to say things like, “Apple starts with an ‘ah’. But remember, easy does it. Adults have a tendency to both over-explain concepts to kids, and try to progress them faster than they can handle. Just potter along and let them ask the questions." ]

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[ null, "Café Society is the latest film by Woody Allen, which is still playing in some countries around the world. It has wrapped up its run in the UK and Australia, and we now have DVD/Blu-Ray and home format release details for both countries.\n\nCafé Society will hit UK home formats on 26th December. The box art (above) reflects the lighter, more star-focussed UK poster with Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively and Kristen Stewart. It also features a quote from UK critic Robbie Collins. No word on special features, but the set is available to pre-order on Amazon.\n\nIn Spain, the DVD and Blu-Ray is out on 4th January. You can pre-order from Amazon.", null, "In Australia, the title will be released on 18th January. So far, only the DVD has been announced, again with no details on features. You can pre-order at JB Hi-Fi.", null, "Café Society is already out in the US and France, the first two countries to screen the film.\n\nIn related news, the global box office has now hit $43 million. As the year winds down, so does the journey of this film, which started back in May in Cannes. With it being released on home formats, you can go and watch it again!", null, null ]

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[ null, "When car fanatics fret about the inevitable end of the internal combustion engine, they worry that the thrilling roar of a V12 Ferrari will be silenced. What they sometimes forget is that it also means the end of blaring seven-litre garbage truck engines roaring down the street at 5 a.m.\n\nFortunately, a David Beckham-backed company is working to solve the problem of noisy—not to mention pollutant emitting—engines.\n\nLunaz was founded in 2018 with the mission of creating the world’s first electric-powered Rolls-Royce through a process it calls “upcycling”. The famed footballer has a 10% stake in the company.\n\nThe founding moment for the company was Prince Harry’s priceless electric Jaguar E-Type, which he drove toward Meghan Markle on their wedding day in 2018. That eye-catching E-Type sparked an idea in Lorenz, leading him to start Lunaz, and bringing him together with Beckham, who wanted his own all-electric classic, like Harry’s. (Beckham has become something of a regular customer; he gave his son Brooklyn a Lunaz-converted 1954 Jaguar XK140 in April as a wedding gift.)\n\nToday, the Lunaz factory in Silverstone, home of the British Grand Prix, is stocked with beautiful classic cars such as Sophia Loren’s Rolls-Royce Cloud, purchased by a high-end hotel in London to shuttle guests in all-electric style, and a 1950s James Young two-door coupe Bentley with an electric conversion price tag of up to £1 million.\n\nLunaz has set its sights higher than shaping accessories for the rich and famous. Beckham apparently “checks in every few weeks,” according to company Chief Executive Officer David Lorenz, a former founder of London’s Cuckoo Club, and is just as focused on Lunaz’s new mission to electrify the world’s garbage trucks. This is the first step in a far-reaching goal to upcycle 80 million diesel-powered industrial vehicles.\n\nRecently, Lunaz expanded its factory into a 185 000 square metre location that can electrify 1 100 vehicles every year. The new plant will have “dirty” and “clean” sections, says Lorenz, with old garbage trucks coming in and upcycled ones going out. The upgraded trucks, which Lorenz calls the “Bentley of bin lorries,” contain quieter electric motors and batteries, along with such popular tweaks as 360-degree cameras and more comfortable drivers’ seats.\n\nThe so-called “dirty” trucks have diesel engines that average only around three miles per gallon and have to run constantly for 14 hours a day to power the vehicle’s hydraulic, garbage-crushing mechanisms—even when halted. They’re a big source of particulate pollution on runs through residential areas.\n\nIn the UK, the councils that oversee the trucks retire them after 10 years, or when they have clocked as few as 115 000km. After that, they are “probably sold abroad and carry on operating,” says Tanguy Tomes, author of “Ditching Diesel,” a report by environment consultancy Eunomia. Lorenz wants to end this practice—which he disparages as “carbon postboxing” whereby richer countries send carbon emissions to poorer countries, rather than taking them entirely off the road.\n\nLorenz’s longer-term vision is that whenever any industrial diesel-powered vehicle comes to the end of its life, a nearby Lunaz plant will be able to give it an upgrade and keep it on the road, far cleaner.\n\nHe says that fixing the UK’s garbage trucks could make a significant dent in the 330 000 tons of carbon dioxide that trucks operated by local authorities emit annually (more than all the combined CO2 emissions in the City of London and Westminster), let alone the CO2 emissions required to build new vehicles.\n\nThe world’s supply chain problems are also making it harder for UK councils to get new trucks, sweetening the appeal of Lunaz’s trucks. “There’s a 15-month wait time for a diesel Mercedes Econic, let alone an electric one,” Lorenz says.\n\nLorenz’s dream is to turn his company’s name into a verb, like Xerox or Google. He hopes people will say “let’s Lunaz that vehicle,” and that “UEVs,” or upcycled electric vehicles, will become a standard across the motor vehicle industry.\n\nFirst, he has to get his electric trucks on the road. Lorenz says local governments in the UK are “clamuoring” to get his trucks ahead of national legislation that requires all new vehicles to qualify for low emissions by 2030. Without sharing specifics, he says the company is about to announce its first deals with local government and waste management operators in the UK and Europe.\n\nTomes, who spoke to several local councils around the UK for his report—including the City of London, which recently moved to an all-electric fleet—says “there is increasing interest in the 2030 timeline” but that some catching-up is needed.\n\nThe UK “hasn’t yet procured anywhere near as much as cities in Brazil and China, which have ordered hundreds of vehicles,” says Tomes. This compares to the 27 trucks that the Manchester City Council recently bought from a Lunaz rival, Electra Commercial Vehicles, for operation by waste management company Biffa. To help attract local government orders for its electric trucks, Lunaz just added Biffa’s former CEO, Ian Wakelin, to its board, along with Andrew Cope, the founder of Zenith, the UK’s largest independent vehicle leasing company.\n\n“There’s a need for the UK public sector to be leading by example,” says Tomes.\n\nMan drops half a stone while still eating his favourite foods – 'I feel good!'" ]

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[ null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "ACI Marina Vodice is located in the northwestern part of the Vrulje cove in Vodice.\n\nNo wonder that many yachtsmen prefer this marine as their favorite place to moor their vessels.\n\nThe marina is considered to be very safe as the two breakwaters protect it. There are 273 wet berths, 55 dry ones. The mooring spaces are equipped with water and electricity connections. ACI Marina Vodice operates non-stop during the whole year.\n\nIt has got the «European Blue Flag», its recognition of making extraordinary efforts to maintain its beach as well as the marina itself, naturally clean.\n\nVodice marina is excellently connected, without any troubles you can get to the rest of the region via the main road along the coast or use one of the two international airports which are very close.", null, null, null, "4.3\n4.3\nAndrija Bernik\n5\nThis is restaurant inside ACI MARINA VODICE. You can chose between fish menu or meat menu. The pricees are around 10 - 12 € which are half the price of every other restaurant in the surrounding area. Staff is superb, friendly and quite professional. Downside is free wifi which didn't work.\nTibor M. Kovacs\n4\nSmall marina with easy access good toilets and showers. Restaurant is good too. Right in the town.\nMartin Rehak\n4\nVery clean sea and surrounding, sunshades available, beach is made of small stones, very nice place\nPierpaolo Angelini\n3\nMarina is ok but breakfast in the bar was the worst ever: one bad cappuccino and one industrial croissant for 37 kuna, 5 euro\nBest activities in ACI Marina Vodice" ]

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[ null, "Halloween has a lot going for it—it's time for hot cider, candle-lit jack-o-lanterns, an equal mix of scary and silly costumes—but the best perk is obviously the sweet loot. Seriously, what can beat walking door-to-door, simply saying \"trick or treat\" and taking home a sack full of your favorite candies? And this year it's about to get even better, with more households handing out candy than in the last three years.\n\nAccording to a recent nationwide survey, candy will be given out at 78 percent of households this year, up from 73 in 2013. And perhaps the best plus for little ones is that fewer parents will be looting their stash: In 2013, 80 percent of parents admitted to dipping into their children's Halloween candy while this year only 66 percent of parents said they'll be pilfering their kids' haul. Of course we'll have to see if that holds true after the holiday.\n\nThere is a bit of bad news for chocolate lovers. Though chocolate continues to be the top candy given out, 14 percent fewer households will be giving it out to trick-or-treaters this year, dropping from 73 percent in 2013 to just 59 percent. But we guess raking in more loot overall makes up for this dip in the chocolate bounty." ]

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[ null, "The incredibly popular solitaire site, Solitaired, has had a huge boom in players over the past few months thanks to it’s “relaxing” and “easy” gameplay.\n\nSolitaired was launched last year by Neal Taparia and Darshan Somashekar as both a helping hand to those lonely and bored during the lockdown and as a way to “explore how classic games can be tied to education and brain training.”\n\nSince the site’s launch, over 500 solitaire-style games have been released, all of which are entirely free. As someone who is a massive fan of the incredibly popular card-game solitaire, I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve sunk into this, and the sheer range of content is incredible.\n\nIn February, Solitaired introduced several themed cards, including ones centred around “Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement” and now has card designs based around “Notable Women In Computing”, among many others. At the time, co-founder Darshan Somashekar spoke about how they wanted to create not only a fun experience for players but an educational one too.\n\n“Instead of just traditional cards, we saw an opportunity to shake things up and tell a story around fascinating figures. Now, when millions of people play this classic game, not only will they have fun, they’ll learn about individuals who’ve made a difference too.”\n\nSolitaired recently conducted a survey to better understand how and why people were using their site. They discovered some intriguing pieces of information that indicate both the recent lockdowns and the player’s perception of card games. I’ll list below their findings:\n\nSome of the most frequently recorded responses to the question “Why do you play solitaire?” included:\n\nSolitaired is an entirely free site that contains a whole slew of solitaire related content alongside other games. Bear in mind that the site is ad-supported; however, you can remove ads for a monthly subscription fee of $5. How much entertainment you’ll derive from it depends entirely on whether or not you enjoy solitaire.\n\nFrom the site’s survey findings, it would seem that most people who use the site had never played the game. So, perhaps now is the best time to discover your love for solitaire! Head on over to Solitaired.com or download it on your Android device to get playing for free." ]

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[ null, "A mother notices her toddler is not learning to talk the way his brothers did… Is something wrong? Her search for answers is a journey into the mysteries of the human brain.\n\nLydia Denworth’s third son, Alex, was nearly two when he was identified with significant hearing loss that was likely to get worse. Her sweet boy with the big brown eyes had probably never heard her lullabies.\n\nDenworth knew the importance of enrichment to the developing brain but had never contemplated the opposite: Deprivation. How would a child’s brain grow outside the world of sound most of us take for granted? How would he communicate? Would he learn to read and write—weren’t phonics a key to literacy? How long did they have until Alex’s brain changed irrevocably? In her drive to understand the choices—starting with the angry debate between supporters of American Sign Language and the controversial but revolutionary cochlear implant—Denworth soon found that every decision carried weighty scientific, social and even political implications. As she grappled with the complex collisions between the emerging field of brain plasticity, the possibilities of modern technology, and the changing culture of the Deaf community, she gained a new appreciation of the exquisite relationship between sound, language and learning. It became clear that Alex’s ears—and indeed everyone’s—were just the beginning.\n\nAn acclaimed science journalist as well as a mother, Denworth interviewed the world’s experts on language development, inventors of ground-breaking technology, Deaf leaders, and neuroscientists at the frontiers of research. She presents insights from studies of everything from at-risk kids in Head Start to noisy cocktail party conversation, from songbirds to signal processing, and from the invention of the telephone to sign language.\n\nWeaving together tales from the centuries-long quest to develop the cochlear implant and simultaneous leaps in neuroscientific knowledge against a tumultuous backdrop of identity politics, I Can Hear You Whisper shows how sound sculpts our children’s brains and the life changing consequences of that delicate process.\n\nOne thought on “I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey through the Science of Sound and Language”" ]

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[ null, "Volvo’s V60 diesel hybrid has been put in tax band A by HMRC.\n\nIT was a dose of good news for Volvo as Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) declared that the company’s new V60 Hybrid Plug-in will be classified as a hybrid vehicle for tax purposes when it arrives on the UK’s roads in 2012.\nAs a diesel-electric hybrid vehicle it has been placed in tax band A rather than band D as previously, which covers diesels but also has a three per cent levy on the Benefit In Kind (BIK) tax payment. This should translate as a £200 annual saving for company car drivers, but the final figure which depend on the final price, which will be announced nearer the launch time.\nThe move has clarified fears by some manufacturers, including Volvo, that the HMRC rules and guidance would place low CO2 emission diesel hybrids in the same tax band as ordinary diesels.\nThe national corporate operations manager at Volvo UK, Selwyn Cooper, said: “We are delighted that HMRC has both cleared up the confusion as well as acknowledging the rightful banding for diesel hybrids is alongside its petrol hybrid siblings.”\nVolvo says its V60 Plug-in Hybrid integrates the best properties from three different car types into one, single attractive sports wagon. At the press of a button, the driver can choose which ‘type’ of car to drive: Pure electric, hybrid or power." ]

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[ "Greg Murphy Opts For Endurance Drive Only In 2013", null, "Greg Murphy has switched his focus on landing an endurance drive after announcing that he is no longer pursuing a full-time drive in the 2013 V8 Supercars season.\n\nMurphy, a long-time ambassador for Holden, had been in discussions with several Holden teams after Kelly Racing announced he wouldn’t be part of their Nissan-Motorsport team next year, but failed to find a suitable fit.\n\n“It’s been a challenging six months with my back operation, the news that Kelly Racing was switching to Nissan and the annual race to secure one of the last remaining seats available in the championship,” Murphy said.\n\n“While the option to consider another manufacturer presented itself, I was always going to remain loyal to Holden who have been incredibly supportive of my career since I first entered the series as an enduro driver with Craig Lowndes back in 1995.\n\n“The facts are that the right full time Holden seat has not appeared for me despite some encouraging discussions along the way.”\n\n“I know I’m still capable of being very competitive as a full time racer but am comfortable to turn my attention to the right endurance seat for Sandown and Bathurst next year.”\n\nMurphy made his full time debut in 1997 with the Holden Racing Team, finishing fourth in the championship. The New Zealander has since competed in 15 seasons of V8 Supercars, finishing as series runner-up in 2002 and 2003 with Kmart Racing.\n\nThe four-time Bathurst 1000 winner, who was forced to miss five events of this year’s championship due to back surgery, is keen to point out that he’s not retiring from full-time racing and feels he still has plenty to offer.\n\n“I’m certainly not retiring from the main game. Bathurst and Sandown have been very kind to me over the years and with the right enduro seat in 2013, I have no doubt that I will be able to show pit lane and the fans alike, that I still have what it takes to be competitive as a full time racer,” Murphy said.\n\nMurphy will continue to race in the V8 SuperTourers Championship in New Zealand next year for Mike Pero Racing.\n\nAn announcement regarding Greg Murphy’s endurance drive is expected in January." ]

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[ "WFMU Fest, the first festival curated by the ever-present and ever-wonderful WFMU, went down this past weekend at Music Hall of Williamsburg. The fest offered loud sounds by new groups Cold Cave, Pissed Jeans, and Drunkdriver, and reunion shows by Faust and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. Freak Scene writer Jamie Johns hit all three nights. Hit the jump to see Diana Wong's photos (no more puking ones, sorry) and get Jamie's take on the fest's most memorable, if not always best, moments.", null, "Recently, the realization has come to me that music writing should fall into two categories: should you turn it up or turn it down? In the case of Aluk Todolo, turn it the fuck up. The show consisted of a group of occult French long hairs who looked a little nerdy as they made metal postures—hair swinging!—and played their singular brand of nearly black metal, almost krautrock, mostly awesome heavy music. If it sounds weird, it is, but it is a mesmerizing blend none the less.", null, "There is so much to say about Cold Cave, a group loaded with contradictions. They make dance music but once you start dancing, you look around and realize that you are the only loser dancing, which perhaps best represents the cold, isolated synth “pop” the group makes. Joined by Dominick Fernow (Prurient) and Caralee McElroy (Xiu Xiu) leader Wes Eisold led the group through short and controlled bursts of noise and tales of love and lust. In addition to playing now classic (in my mind) songs like “Youth and Lust” and “The Laurels of Erotomania,” there were a few bits of new material. They didn’t give us much: a haunting bit of synth with an odd vocal echo, but it was enough to keep me interested and ready for the next record, whenever it appears.", null, "I love the recorded output of Faust in the ’70s. That being said, in all honesty the Faust live show made me want to gauge my eyes out. These are the people who still think that through 60s happenings and allowing the creative juices to flow – at one point the exclaimed that they did not know what they were going to create yet so we just needed to wait and see - they can change the world. They probably don’t let their kids watch TV. A cement mixer sat onstage and Jean-Herve Peron, one of Faust’s original members, gleefully threw its contents (marbles) into the crowd. Recent recruit, Geraldine Swayne, painted a large portrait on the side of the stage and Peron whimsically proclaimed something about saving yourself for Voltaire with garlic in his mouth. I know they are legendary, but it dragged on and eventually I just went home.", null, "The Pissed Jeans live experience in a word? Sexy. Undeniably sexy, almost erotic. Singer Matt Korvette does everything that we—ladies, the world—are not meant to find attractive: rubbing his sweaty chest, awkwardly dancing, gyrating his hips, eating his foot, doing high kicks, wearing Cheap Mondays—but it works. These are all things I knew before but seeing it, and his crotch, in your face reaffirms them. His onstage swagger, for that it is what it is because he must know the effect he has, stands in stark contrast to the stunted machismo that happens in the pit during most of their shows. This time, a shirtless young man stage dived only to meet nothing but empty floor as the band continued to thrash and hash out its thoughts on the banal minutiae of everyday life. Guitarist Bradley Fry and bassist Randy Huth pushed the group’s brand of undulating, harried, and sludgy hardcore forward while Korvette interjected with humorous tales of ennui (“Half Jesii Part 2”) and the nine-to-five world (“Dream Smotherer.”) Drummer Sean McGuinness yakked all over the stage. Sorry man, but that’s all I can say about you. They stormed through songs from their excellent new album, King of Jeans, and indulged in their own mix of fleshy, visceral raunch. Korvette came onstage, asked the crowd if there were any pregnant women in the audience, and then proclaimed that they might be his, followed by a few swishes of his hips. After that show, there probably were.\n\nTalk Normal\nI had yet to see Talk Normal and while I had checked out their upcoming record, Sugarland, I was not wholly convinced until I saw their dynamic performance on Sunday night. As the duo stood onstage amidst red light, they channeled the spirit of the night’s headliner Teenage Jesus and the Jerks as they joined together to brutally wail out lyrics like You had it coming! You had it coming! The primitive drumming was met with LOUD blasts of guitar noise/sound/something, making for the most unexpected treat of the weekend.", null, "People slam danced during Pissed Jeans’ set the night before but during Drunkdriver it took a darker, more bizarre turn. As the band began, a group of about five to seven people just started losing their shit and a huge Minesweeper-esque hole formed around the stage as everyone backed away to avoid being hit. It was a striking image to see lead singer Michael Berdan storming back and forth onstage, spewing phlegm and screaming to a deserted front of the room. Eventually we all moved back into place and Drunkdriver’s caustic punk took over. Although Berdan commands the stage, guitarist Kristy Greene, wearing sparkles and releasing blown out chords, and drummer Jeremy Villalobos are the real gems. When the group plays, you have to pay attention. The second my mind turned away from the show, Berdan flew off the stage, bumped into my arm and landed in a heap of bodies a few feet away from me. Soon after, the Music Hall staff may or may not have asked Drunkdriver to leave the stage, I could not tell.\n\nTeenage Jesus and the Jerks", null, "Lydia Lunch has been a hero of mine for a long time, even my high school AIM screen name was devoted to her. Thus, I met the Teenage Jesus reunion with both anxiety and excitement. How could the band, now consisting of Lunch, Jim Scalvunos, and Al Kizys, ever live up to the vitriolic, antagonistic performances that made them legendary? More importantly, how would Teenage Jesus fare in a world where they are embraced and adored when so much of their original drive came from being despised? Mostly, however, I was just excited to be breathing the same air as Ms. Lunch. This performance was good, the group stormed through about every song Teenage Jesus had and did a few repeats as well. The erratic, discordant music sounded great over the PA at Music Hall and Lunch glared at the audience the whole time. Happily, I realized that she still hates everyone, especially men. After a man in the front proclaimed his love, she told him to love himself instead of her because “it’s cheaper,” and chastised the whole audience for not being there thirty years ago. When audience members started moshing and head bopping, she mocked their movements. What a relief!" ]

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[ "After wild week, Eli Apple 'happy as hell' to be a Saint", null, "MINNEAPOLIS — In the span of six days, Eli Apple started two prime time NFL games for two different teams, and in between, flew nearly 3,000 miles, from Atlanta to New Jersey to New Orleans to Minneapolis.\n\nApple uprooted his football life Tuesday night, just 24 hours after playing in a Monday Night Football game for the New York Giants, frantically packed everything he could into three suitcases — two large, checked bags, and one smaller carry-on — and by Wednesday he was outfitted in a new gold helmet, and immersed in the Saints game plan for the Vikings.\n\nBy Sunday night, he was starting at left cornerback, opposite Marshon Lattimore, his college teammate at Ohio State, and having to cover Adam Thielen and Stefon Diggs. He played nearly every defensive snap and led the Saints in tackles, with nine.\n\nAfter the Saints’ 30-20 win at US Bank Stadium, Apple was equally exhausted and exhilarated, and it was sinking in that in less than a week he had gone from one of the NFL’s worst teams to a legitimate Super Bowl contender.\n\n“It’s been wild. I’m happy as hell to be here,” Apple said as he zipped up a new black Saints hoodie. “The energy is just electric right now.”\n\nAcross the NFL this month, there are a handful of stories like Apple’s, players receiving a phone call from an agent, telling them to pack a bag and head for the airport. More moves are likely to come by the trade deadline on Tuesday afternoon, judging by what has already been an unusually active trade market this year.\n\nApple was one of two Giants players traded last week, along with defensive tackle Damon Harrison, who landed with the Detroit Lions, and they might not be done. The one-win Raiders last week sent receiver Amari Cooper to the Cowboys for a first-round pick, and could look to move other former draft picks, like safety Karl Joseph, by Tuesday afternoon.\n\nWhile Apple was far from perfect in his Saints debut Sunday night (he allowed Thielen to make catches of 14, 28 and 15 yards, and committed a pair of defensive pass interference penalties), he could provide a model to future traded players of how the transition could go.\n\n“Just go about it like you would anything. Just attack it. Lean on the vets like I am. I’m going to lean on these guys, they’re helping me out,” Apple said.\n\nIn the hours after Apple learned he was traded, he was on the phone with new teammates, like Lattimore, and safety Marcus Williams, and upon arriving in New Orleans, he spent extensive time with defensive backs coach Aaron Glenn. By the end of the week, after three practices at the team’s training facility in Metairie, La., the Saints decided he was ready to start.\n\nDuring the game, it was Williams, the second-year safety, who was primarily responsible for making sure Apple knew the defensive call in the huddle, and that Apple was in the right coverage before the snap.\n\nVikings quarterback Kirk Cousins threw at Apple on the game’s first snap (a 14-yard competition to Thielen), and also heavily targeted nickel corner P.J. Williams. Cousins finished with 359 passing yards, which won’t help the Saints’ pass defensive rankings, but the statistic Lattimore and other Saints focused on Sunday night was the secondary’s two turnovers. Lattimore recovered a fumble (and returned it 54 yards) to set up a touchdown just before halftime, while P.J. Williams returned an interception for a touchdown in the third quarter.\n\nIt was exactly the type of performance the Saints secondary needed after weeks of criticism that it could be the weak link on an NFC contender. Another major test comes next week against the undefeated Rams.\n\nFor his part, Apple is just eager to be part of it, and he is encouraged about getting a fresh start, both on the field and in the locker room after a tumultuous, albeit brief, tenure with the Giants.\n\nHe excelled as a rookie in 2016, but regressed last season. He was suspended for arguing with the coaching staff, and was, famously, called a “cancer” by Giants safety Landon Collins. But he thought those issues were largely in the past this year, with his relationship with Collins repaired and a solidified spot in the starting lineup.\n\nBut then came the Tuesday afternoon phone call from his agent, Joel Segal, that kicked off his whirlwind week. His mother, Annie, met him here in Minneapolis with another suitcase of things he had left behind in New Jersey in his hurried move south. While the extra clothes are nice, what Apple mostly was looking forward to was rest — after one more 1,045-mile flight to his new home." ]

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[ null, "Sign You Were Mistaken begins with a provocation, an impish poem that pokes and prods throughout the rest of the book:\n\nWhat makes you think\nevery little thing of you\ncan be what makes you\neverything that lasts forever?\n\nAnswering—or the attempt to answer—this inquiry is at the heart of Seth Landman’s collection of slim free verse and brassy prose poems. In just the opening volley, he confronts themes of cognition, perspective, individuality, agency, and posterity, which is a sure sign the answer is complicated.\n\nThe speaker of these poems is preoccupied with the boundaries of places both familiar and unfamiliar to him. While one poem might witness him “go atlas / and study the wide world in wonder,” more often than not he can be found “on sofas dreaming of sofas” or otherwise safe within the walls of a comfortable apartment. These poems are domestic, but not for commentary on retiling a bathroom floor or raising children. Rather, their concern is the difficulty in understanding, defining, and securing one’s home in the ever-expanding universe—feathering one’s existential nest.\n\nThe recurring interior/outside dichotomy foregrounds the tension and allure of the unexplored world, the lands beyond the walls of familiar experience. Lines like “Massachusetts stretches out / in the night but I can’t see it / do that, which is called scale” accentuate the smallness of the human body and mind, as well as the curiosity that nevertheless encourages exploration of the big unknown. They are both exuberant in their daring and unapologetic in their repose.\n\nWhile travelling between realms, Landman by extension also comments on the relationship between one’s introspection and the environment of other ideas from which self-reflection separates itself: “When it feels terrible in the interior, maps call the outside into view. I pour over them for hours, never leaving my kitchen. Finally, I am unfamiliar with my own house.” This, too, is a kind of fraught domesticity, albeit an intellectual one. One imagines Landman lounging on the plush furniture of his consciousness, wrapping himself in a threadbare emotional bathrobe, coveting his neighbor’s well-manicured moral lawn. How much of one’s place in existence is purely psychological? he seems to ask. And what does it mean for a home to be intangible?\n\nIf there is one glaring omission from this collection, it is its lack of a social aspect. For all his excursions out of the house, Landman rarely shoots the breeze with his neighbor, so to speak. The reader learns little about the other individuals residing in their own apartments-in-the-universe, the strangers who’ve populated the galaxy of ideas—and how other private and public lives interact with the speaker’s.\n\nBy juxtaposing a house and its surrounding universe to symbolize individual experience and the extent of possible experience, Landman calls attention to the inauthenticity of comparison. “It’s dawn and dawn can be / a ship,” he writes, implicitly suggesting dawn can also be an antique chandelier. Or a longing. Or—why not?—a spiritual awakening. If a symbol functions as a sign for interpretive guidance, then perhaps this collection’s title is a rejection or reconsideration of symbolism’s utility.\n\nThus, Landman employs challenging syntax in some of these poems to avoid watering down complex ideas with symbolism and figurative language. By liberally appending the word “the” before idiosyncratic feelings, circumstances, and relationships, he transforms nuance to “simple” nouns. Phrases like “the here I am, hours early, as always,” “the I am thinking about the suits of travelers,” “the were I mine and tender,” “the that you are my sister / and you entertain me in my strangeness,” and “the is it, what is it, what” are evocative, but certainly defy an easy read. The last example in particular gets at Landman’s poetic vision: the “what” (or, better, “the what”) of his poems is an unruly collection of experiences—gathered, but not necessarily connected; overwhelming, but not necessarily overbearing; telling, but not necessarily narrative. This list-crafting technique makes for a difficult yet differently honest attempt to classify, clarify, and interpret both interior and exterior phenomena.\n\nUpon revisiting the collection’s introductory poem, it’s possible to judge whether Landman has answered his own vexing question. Bearing in mind his ongoing examination of “the what” of human experience, his response might simply be a reiteration of the opening poem, except with one major difference: the question mark would be replaced by a full stop." ]

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[ "How Netflix uses the Big data to increase the customer Satisfaction?\n\nHow Netflix uses the big data as increase in the customer satisfaction. Use of big Data in Netflix in various way. To promote themselves.\n\nNetflix started in the year 1997 founded by ‘Reed Hastings(CEO) ‘ and‘Marc Randolph’. As a company which operated in the DVD-by-rental. In 1999, the company introduced a DVD subscription service, Providing unlimited rentals on a monthly subscription basis. In 2000, it introduced the personalized movie recommendation mechanism that employed subscribers’ ratings to forecast the preferences of all Netflix subscribers.\n\nNetflix was shipping around 1.6 million DVDs on a daily basis by the year 2007\n\nIn 2007, the company also launched its video streaming services in the US, and in 2010, began the global expansion of this business.\n\nNetflix tracked each search that a viewer made, each good or bad rating from the users and not only from third-party providers such as Nielsen. these were an addition to location data, device data, and remarks on social media.\n\nSecondly, Netflix also knows, what subscriber’s is mostly viewed devices like laptop, tablet or phone and even know the viewer’s location zip code. Netflix store data of users like to watch on Saturday on what devices.\n\nWith the help of Big Data, Netflix can able to store all the data from the subscribers. By the third Quarter of 2018 , Netflix adds over 137 million users from all over the worldwide.\n\nAverage amount of video users watch on Netflix per week is 1 billion.\n\nNetflix uses ALGORITHM and HADOOP framework. By which they can track the users Viewing pattern like when the user is pausing and playing the streaming video.\n\nWith the help of Algorithm Netflix is able to collect the rating of the users.\n\nUsing Big data and Algorithm, Netflix can collect the users viewing pattern like user mostly liked the genre, actor, etc. Through which Netflix is able to recommend or suggest to there subscriber, based on collected data.\n\nAccording to observers, Netflix’s big data capabilities received a boost with the shift from the Company’s own Data centers to Amazon Web Services (AWS).\n\nBecause of facing the server problems with own data center, by which downfall of users ratings.\n\nWith the help of the Analytics and because of the collected data of users rating, most liked genre, etc. With a confident Netflix started created there own Series and Movies.\n\nBased on which started with creating “House Of Cards” series, which was a huge success.\n\nBy which Netflix plans to spend on original content in 2018 is $13 Billion.\n\nBy the help of analytics the user’s data analyzed, Netflix started finding the solutions and patch to the fake subscriber.\n\nFake subscriber, are those who are making the more than one account by using a virtual credit card and other sources. By which there is lose for Netflix.", null ]

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[ "Trees of the Hurst\n\nCroham Hurst is blessed with thousands of beautiful trees. Each is special in its own way, but some are especially well known -- indeed some have their own traditions of local lore and history behind them!\n\nThe map below is contributed by Samantha Focuss, 10, of Langley Road in Selsdon. I understand that the light green areas are grassy areas (not many of those!), the brown is the Beech Plantation (an area of well-spaced beeches which forms a particularly light and pleasant part of the Hurst) and the purple is for heather, on the Hurst's remarkable but tiny mini-moorlands.", null, "A key to the trees:\n\nOne day perhaps there will be time to fully explore the history of each of these trees. For now, here are a few factoids...\n\nLord Eldon was one of the members of the Regency-era Croham Club, a rather violent group of young rakes and blades who spent most of their time on 'Brandy, Baize and Beelzebub' as Eldon himself put it. The disturbing history of this club is now rather obscure. Eldon's connection with the chestnut tree that stands guard over the Hurst's main entrance, looking toward London, is unfortunately hardly printable on a family website!\n\nAn oak and a birch in a tender embrace, the one growing through the other's roots. These days the birch (the lady of the pair) is looking rather ragged, but in the middle years of the 20th century it is recalled that the spot was used for innumerable pre-teen assignations!\n\nThe 'Bad Tree' is not so much a tree as the twisted remains of a tree, a stump standing upright and unpleasantly humanoid in the mist and darkness. In earlier times, children had various frightening stories to tell one another about it. In more recent years, teenagers seem to have acquired the habit of putting clothes on it. My own children won't go near it.\n\nThe origin of this name is unclear, but several local people separately use this name for it and it must once have been a more general term. The tree itself is a small oak with a diagonal hole running through it. It figures in a number of local stories and legends.\n\nDo you like the new dog bins on the Hurst?" ]

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[ "There are two major categories of research I believe that writers need to spend time on.\n\nFirst, the most obvious, is research relating to the story being written. A lack of understanding and knowledge about the selected era, location, subject matter and characters of a story will quickly show. For this category, I will dedicate a future post.\n\nThe second category is where I want to share insights that I’ve recently gained. The script is merely one of several critical pieces to putting together a great film. As a writer, you have probably consulted dozens of books, articles and seminars on how to write a great script. You’ve probably been told that the script is the foundation of film. The importance of character, conflict and story has been drilled home. Perhaps you take this at face value and work to make a great script. But imagine you also explore the other pieces and roles in film making to gain perspective.\n\nThis is something I have been doing recently. I have found it very valuable.\n\nThe first thing I did was take an introductory acting course at a local acting studio. I was fortunate enough to have a Living Social deal come across my Inbox for “Acting for Non-Actors.” It was a four week course, one 90-minute class each Tuesday night, at the Bay Area Acting Studio in San Jose. Not really sure what to expect, I was still surprised at the great turn out as well as the diversity of students (age, background, nationality). Most students were just out to try something new, and a handful were people with previous or current interest in filmmaking roles. I was the only person self identifying as a hobbyist/aspiring screenwriter. I soon learned that at least one other student had also shared the interest. About 2/3 of the class time was spent on games/drills that were pretty fun and effective at bringing up the energy and drawing out the more introverted people of the group. The other 1/3 of the class was spent on very basic Meisner technique and scene work. I have signed up for the next section called “Acting for Fun” to continue gaining the actor’s perspective.\n\nSo far, from just a few classes, the main lessons from this experience, as a writer, were:\n\n1) A speaking character must know who/how/where she or he is focusing their attention and energy. Be clear in your writing.\n\n2) The character really must be unique enough that an actor can channel and use the particular relatable parts of themselves.\n\n3) The dialogue must not get in the way. Keep it simple. An actor can do a lot with a few words. Trust them to communicate the ‘real story.’ Do not write out dialogue that really should come from subtext.\n\n4) If you are doing a good job with the characters and story, you will also reduce or eliminate the need to direct from the page. That is, fewer movement action lines and parentheticals will feel necessary.\n\n5) Make your characters such that actors *want* to play them. Boring (e.g. no personality, no voice) or vague characters (e.g. no real conflict or struggle) will not be educational, pivotal, defining or motivating – they won’t be exciting to study and portray.\n\nThe second step I have taken, is to enroll in the Intro to Film class at local DeAnza Community College. DeAnza is especially recognized in California for its Film/TV program. The tuition is affordable, and the schedule provided several options, including the evening section that I selected. While only a couple of weeks into the class, I have already developed greater appreciation of a great foundational script. Casting, location selection, props, scene framing, camera work, actor positioning – all of this can help tell the story. But the characters and story have to be strong enough and clear enough to allow these important pieces to do so.\n\nIf you haven’t already educated yourself about these aspects of filmmaking, I encourage you to do so. There are a couple of books on my shelf that are great references, and also, one of my course references is the publicly available Yale site on Film Analysis. The textbook for my class is Looking at Movies.\n\nI assure you will watch your favorite (and despised) films with a new perspective in what makes them great or miss the mark. It will challenge you to look at your writing with a critical eye for what is needed to turn your story into reality.\n\nWhat other steps have you taken to gain perspective about the other roles in filmmaking and the importance of the script outside of the writer’s view?", null, "I love books. One of my absolute favorite things to do is to wander through our local independent store – Third Place Books – or even a chain like Barnes and Noble. A latte in hand, meandering, soaking in all of the cover art and titles of hundreds of books. The knowledge to be gained, the stories of wild imaginations and laughs waiting to be made. I also love the newstand section – layers and layers of glossy colorful magazines with that magazine smell, the gifts section with amazing journals and stationery. I also love libraries – especially University libraries. I relished every research paper assignment in all levels of education.\n\nAnyone close to me knows that I have a bit of an obsessive streak that runs through me. Last fall when I decided to take on coaching basketball, my first task was to order a few books online. Then I ordered all sorts of coaching and practice aids. I spent hundreds of dollars and dozens of hours reading and preparing – to coach 8- and 9-year-olds. I had coached before, but that was over ten years ago and the girls were more experienced and easy to manage, being in the sixth grade. This is what I do; I throw myself completely into things and obsess over every detail.\nSo, naturally, within a week or two of deciding that I wanted to put the effort and energy into completing and editing the script I had been writing, I ordered a half-dozen books. Then, as I read the forewords to those books, and received recommendations from people ‘in the biz,’ I added several more.\nIn case you can’t quite make it out in the photo, the titles are:\nLeft:\nJohn Truby – The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller\nTop to bottom:\nStuart Voytilla and Scott Petri – Writing the Comedy Film: Make ’em Laugh\nBilly Mernit – Writing the Romantic Comedy\nRobert McKee – Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting\nFredrick Levy – Hollywood 101: The Film Industry\nKarl Iglesias – The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters\nViki King – How to Write a Movie in 21 Days\nChristopher Vogler – The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers\nJeremy Robinson and Tom Mungovan – The Screenplay Workbook: The writing before the writing\nDavid Trottier – The Screenwriter’s Bible\nJennifer Van Sijll – Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know\nFinally, not pictured, as it’s in my purse for on-the-go-reading – Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat!\nNow, you might be asking “but did you really read all of those, cover to cover?”\nI was surprised, in looking at the stack, that there are really only two books in the stack that I haven’t read – Anatomy of Story and The Writer’s Journey. I’ve really only skimmed the workbook and ‘bible’, but the rest I have read completely.\nThe first (and often only) book I mention, when asked, is Story. It is thorough, has just enough detail but good flow – you can cruise through it and also learn a lot. Remember that I have never had a real creative writing course, so some of it described The Basics, but it covered those in a fun and engaging way. I find myself going back to it, at times, when trying to get through a mental block.\nMy favorite book to pick up and thumb through, even though I’ve read it a couple of times, is the Cinematic Story Telling. The large format and plethora of pictures open your eyes to so much about what visually makes us love films and recognize a great one when we see it. So many “ah-ha!” moments when you connect what you learn with movies that you just love to watch.\nThere are numerous books on writing romance, but only one or two, that I have found, that add in the comedy piece. The one mentioned here does a pretty good job explaining how two genres come together to work well.\nI wouldn’t have normally picked up the too-good-to-be-true 21-days book, but it was one of those unlikely recommendations in the foreward of another book, so I picked it up and found that I appreciate it providing basic structure to a very creative effort.\nEach of the “tips” type books also had various golden nuggets. And golden nuggets are things you need to appreciate, reading multiple books, because there is a lot of repetition and overlap in the books, but sometimes an author will express something in a new way, or use a film example more effectively, and the light bulb goes on.\nI’m currently really enjoying the direct and humorous Save the Cat! and will follow up once through it, as well as the other two books.\n– April" ]

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[ "Balladeer’s Blog presents another look at the legendary tales of two more underappreciated Wild West gunslingers since the Frontierado holiday is fast approaching! Friday August 1st will mark the event, the yearly celebration of the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality. And tonight the American Heroes Channel debuts their series Gunslingers to tie in with the Frontierado holiday!", null, "1. MADAME DUMONT – Decades before Poker Alice and Lottie Deno Eleanore “Madame” Dumont made a name for herself as a blackjack-dealing gambler and gunslinger. Much of the Madame’s early life is unknown but she supposedly was born in France around 1830. In 1854, when the record of her activities becomes more concrete, she arrived in Nevada City, CA as the Gold Rush was still at its peak.\n\nThe charming and aristocratic Madame Dumont had already acquired a small fortune in gambling winnings after playing cards and slinging lead in mining camps throughout northern California. Eleanore’s cash and her nascent reputation for being able to maintain order with her own guns if necessary made it easy for her to immediately open her casino named Vingt- et-Un (“21”) right on legendary Broad Street itself.\n\nMadame Dumont’s casino was hugely successful, with the most popular table being the one where she herself dealt blackjack. No cursing or spitting were permitted and gamblers lined up to compete against “the Madame”, who would treat losers to champagne on the house.\n\nBefore the year was out Eleanore formed a business and romantic partnership with gambler/ gunfighter Dapper David Tobin. The Vingt-et- Un expanded into roulette, faro and other games of chance under the new team and was rechristened The Dumont Palace. A suite of rooms at the National Hotel provided the love nest where Madame Dumont and Dapper David could retreat to during non-business hours.\n\nTwo years later Tobin began making noises that Eleanore should retire and let him run the Dumont Palace alone. This resulted in a series of very public quarrels and very passionate reconciliations until, eventually, the love affair had run its course. Tobin demanded his half of the business be bought out and Eleanore obliged. Dapper David took his proceeds back east to run his own shady gambling network in a fashion more akin to 20th Century gangsters.\n\nWith the end of the great romance of her life Madame Dumont found herself much less fond of memory-filled Nevada City. She sold her “palace” and took to touring casinos throughout California, Oregon and Washington as a celebrity gambler. Eleanore’s charm and skill with a pistol protected her from sore losers and overly amorous admirers.\n\nIn 1860 the Madame opened up a new Dumont Palace in Virginia City, NV during the Silver Rush. Eleanore spent $30,000 on the furnishings and even had a string orchestra providing the music as her usual “no cursing and no spitting” rules were in place once again. Missing her life as a wandering gambler/gunslinger Dumont sold out again in 1863 and began roaming the mining towns and casinos in Montana and Idaho, mixing card-playing in with brief flings with outlaws in Handsome Henry Plummer’s sprawling organization.\n\nIn Bannack, MT Madame Dumont bought into a partnership with an established casinoand brothel owner named McHarney (first name disputed). Legend has it Eleanore conspired to have her new lover John MacFarlane provoke McHarney into pulling his gun during a gambling dispute, during which MacFarlane blew McHarney away. MacFarlane was found not guilty by reason of self-defense and became Madame Dumont’s new partner. His ultimate fate is unknown but Eleanore eventually sold out yet again and returned to life on the road.\n\nOther highlights of Madame Dumont’s checkered career included a brief stint in 1869 as an actual “madam” in San Francisco, using her guns to save Fort Benton, MT from a smallpox epidemic, tutoring a very young Calamity Jane plus using gunplay and persuasion to end a labor riot in Pioche, NV.\n\nThrow in rumored marriages to ladykiller Jack McKnight aka “Jack of Hearts” and Colonel Kai Carruthers, one of whom ran off with all her money. By 1874 Dumont was a gambler in Panamint, CA and by 1876 was dealing blackjack in iconic Deadwood, SD. Like all professional gamblers Eleanore’s luck ebbed and flowed until in September of 1879 two gamblers in Bodie, CA cleaned her out of every penny she had left. The next morning she was found dead in her cabin after having swallowed a bottle of poison.", null, "2. CLAY ALLISON – Robert Clay Allison was born September 2nd, 1840 in Tennessee. When the U.S. Civil War broke out Clay enlisted in an Artillery unit but was discharged after three months because of the excessively wild and violent rages that often consumed him. (“Wolverine in the oooooollld west!”) A head injury from his younger years is often blamed for these episodes that would haunt Allison – and those around him – for the rest of his life.\n\nIn September of 1862 Allison enlisted in the Tennessee Cavalry outfit bankrolled by the repulsive Nathan Bedford Forrest, for whom Clay’s violent tendencies were probably seen as a boon. (Forrest is infamous as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the Civil War) Clay and the rest of Forrest’s cavalrymen surrendered on May 4th, 1865, less than a month after Lee had surrendered to Grant.\n\nBack home in postwar Tennessee Clay Allison found himself in occassional knife fights and fistfights with parties from both sides of the late conflict. Eventually he drew the ire of higher authorities and fled to Texas along with a few of his siblings and their spouses.\n\nIn western Texas Clay’s skill with a handgun was honed by some tutoring from experienced gunslinger Mason Bowman after Bowman got the better of Allison in a clash of weapons. As part of running his ranch in that part of the still-wild west Clay’s six-guns often blazed in action against Native American raiding parties, would-be rustlers and Mexican bandits who thrived in the borderlands.\n\nA terror in the Cimarron Strip, Allison gained much popular acclaim in the fall of 1870 when he led a lynch mob in an armed raid in Elizabethtown, NM to bust out and hang Charles Kennedy. Kennedy was a mass murderer who had killed his daughter and several neighbors in a gruesome killing spree.\n\nThe next years were full of action for the disturbed man. Getting drunk then shooting up towns while naked and on horseback was a favorite indulgence. In addition Allison was noted for blowing away Mexican- Americans and anybody else who clashed with him along with any relatives of his victims who came after him in search of vengeance. Clay’s wealth, spread around in the right circles, helped ensure that he could get off on “self- defense” grounds.\n\nKnife-fights, either for sport or in earnest were a particular favorite of Clay Allison. These were as off-the -record as games of Russian Roulette often were in Europe so no precise count is possible. The combatants would tend to dig a grave together, then fight in the close confines with the loser getting buried in the ready-made hole.\n\nIn 1874 his feud with Zachary and Chunk Colbert over the former’s way of abusing the ferry privileges he controlled across the Brazos River resulted in Clay gunning down Chunk when the man tried shooting Allison during a meal together. December 1876 saw Clay and his brother John raising hell in Las Animas, CO where Sheriff Charles Faber shot John and Clay then gunned down Faber and drove off his two deputies.\n\nBy March 1877 Clay sold his successful ranch to his brother John and moved to Hays City, KS where he thrived in the cattle brokerage business. In nearby Dodge City rancher Dick McNulty and Long Branch Saloon owner Chalk Beeson gained the distinction of getting Allison and some of his rowdy employees to back down and play nice. Years later serial liar Wyatt Earp would claim credit for intimidating Clay Allison in this incident even though eyewitnesses all later confirmed he was not there.\n\nIn 1880 Clay moved back to Texas and resumed ranching. February of 1881 was when Allison married his wife Dora and settled down, comparatively. The couple had two daughters and in 1883 Clay sold his ranch and bought a new one along the Pecos River near the Texas/ New Mexico border.\n\nOn July 3rd 1887 Clay Allison met his unusual end – a freak accident while loading supplies onto his wagon saw a possibly drunk Clay Allison fall under a wheel and get his spine crushed when his wagon rolled a little. An oddball ending for a notorious gunfighter." ]

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[ null, "Carol Knipfel of Kitchener, Ontario, doesn’t usually buy lottery tickets, but she did on the day she retired. This spur-of-the-moment decision won $1 million for the grandmother of 6, which probably made her work leaving party much more exciting.\n\nThe Winning Ticket Was From Kitchener\n\nKnipfel, who is currently 68 years old and has just finished working as a utilities department dispatcher, purchased a ticket for the Lotto Max draw held on June 1 2018. She did this on a whim, as a way of marking the occasion of her retirement, and says she usually only buys Lotto Max tickets when the jackpot is approaching the lottery’s capped maximum of $60 million. She received her prize on 25 July, during a ceremony in which she posed with a giant cheque representing her windfall.\n\nLotto Max is one of the 3 national lottery games open to the residents of Canada, and is coordinated by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation. Introduced in September 2009, its first-ever $60 million payout was to a single winning ticket in 2015. That winner was also in Ontario, though in Brampton rather than Kitchener.\n\nA small and privately owned convenience store on Belmont Avenue in Kitchener, called C & J Variety, was the unassuming site of the lucky ticket purchase. The down-to-earth grandmother didn’t actually check her ticket for a week, waiting to do it until she was going through her grocery store’s checkout line on her next shopping trip. When she discovered she had won, she reports, she was speechless and didn’t believe the news until she saw the validation slip.", null, "Sensible Spending for a Comfortable Future\n\nKnipfel may not have walked away with the maximum $60 million reward, but she is no doubt feeling pleased that she acted on her impulse to buy a Lotto Max ticket anyway. Now that the initial excitement has worn off somewhat, she has had time to decide what to do with the money. Her plan is to pay off her mortgage and purchase a new car, once again reflecting her pragmatic nature.\n\nRead about the 5 IT Consultants that won BIG!\n\nWhile not as immediately thrilling as something like a luxury holiday would be, this will make her retirement far more affordable. She will be able to relax and enjoy her family and leisure time with far fewer financial headaches, as anyone who has put in a lifetime of working deserves to do." ]

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[ "ADL honors Matisyahu for standing up to anti-Israel boycott", null, "Matisyahu relaxing at the Sonos Studio in Los Angeles, California on May 20, 2014. (Jerod Harris/ Sonos via Getty Images)\nAdvertisement\n\n(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League honored the American Jewish reggae singer Matisyahu for standing up against an anti-Israel boycott.\n\nMatisyahu performed his anthem “Jerusalem” on Thursday at the ADL annual meeting in Denver.\n\nIn August, he was slotted to play at the Rototom SunSplash reggae music festival before BDS activists pressured the event’s organizers to disinvite him because of his support for Israel. Matisyahu, refusing to comply with the demand of organizers that he issue a statement in support of the Palestinian national movement and against Israel, was dropped from the program.\n\nAfter a backlash from Jewish organizations and the Spanish government, the festival organizers apologized and reinvited Matisyahu. He performed before a crowd that included people waving Palestinian flags, including “Jerusalem,” which stresses the Jewish biblical connection to the land of Israel.\n\n“It is my honor to stand here today as head of ADL to recognize you for having the courage to stand up against those forces of ignorance and intolerance,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO, who presented the performer with a paper cut made in Israel and inscribed with the words “Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself” in Hebrew and in English.\n\n“As someone who has made a commitment to performing as a proudly identified religious Jew, and as someone whose music is imbued with the words of the prophets, you have inspired a generation of young Jews to take pride in their heritage and to connect to it,” Greenblatt said.\n\nIn accepting the honor, Matisyahu said of ADL, “When everything was happening in Spain, you guys were the first to speak out, so thank you.”" ]

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[ null, "After a long-term focus on increasing on-air reliability and security through an upgrade in equipment, a refining of procedures, and the development of broadcast redundancy, Family Life Radio, Tucson, AZ, has collaborated with LinkUp by adopting SENTINEL, a service developed by the content delivery company to monitor network broadcasting, including transmitter off-air alarms.\n\nAdam Biddell is FLR’s Chief Broadcast System Officer. Responding to a need for a quicker response to signal loss, his department has maintained their own 24/7 operations monitoring team for the past five years.\n\nLinkUp President Mark Johnson says FLR’s monitoring success made them the perfect candidate for SENTINEL. “Adam was getting fewer and fewer calls to his 24/7 in-house operations, so the option of moving to an off-site partnership with LinkUp Communications just made sense.”\n\nTogether, Biddell and his Director of Operations, Joel David Hime, put together a plan with Johnson, LinkUp Vice President of Operations Eric Wiler, and NOC Manager Mike Wolfe to monitor Family Life Radio’s content and, when necessary, alert their staff regarding any first-tier emergencies.\n\nOn October 1, 2022, Family Life Radio turned the 24/7/365 monitor and alert duties for 20 full power stations over to LinkUp’s SENTINEL services. According to Biddell, the results have not been simply adequate, but have exceeded expectations.\n\nWHAT THE CUSTOMER HAS TO SAY\n\n“Making the move has enabled FLR to maximize human resources, and transition current staff into higher levels of troubleshooting, without having to sacrifice eyes and ears on stations 24/7/365.” Biddell also appreciates the responsiveness and expertise of the LinkUp staff. “Eric Wiler, Mike Wolfe, and the entire LinkUp team are very capable and have a robust facility to handle all monitoring needs. They truly listen and work to create solutions. As opportunities for improvement arise, they are responsive and quickly tweak and course correct as needed.”\n\nWHAT LINKUP HAS TO SAY\n\nLinkUp’s Eric Wiler: “Family Life Radio has been a truly collaborative partner with LinkUp, demonstrating that while there are two companies, we’re one team — working to ensure the success of their programming and technical systems.”" ]

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[ null, "Operation Thursday simulates the British gliderborne assault into Burma in March 1944, after Gen. Slim ordered Gen. Wingate to land behind the Japanese lines to support the Allied offensive in Burma, particularly Gen. Stilwell’s advance to the strategic town of Myitkyina.\n\nThe Battle of the Admin Box is a simulation of the Japanese infiltration that surrounded the Indian 7th Infantry Division, and was also moving to trap the Indian 5th Infantry Division in order to annihilate both before the arrival of the Indian 26th and British 36th Divisions from the north. Holding up the entire Japanese plan was the headquarters area of the Indian 7th Division, which formed a defensive perimeter known as the “Admin Box” in the village of Sinzweya." ]

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[ null, "Sushmita Sen is currently in Jaipur shooting for Aarya 2.\n\nSeries Aarya 2 is already under production! Stunning actress Sushmita Sen who made her digital debut with the web series Arya has uploaded a picture from the sets of the second season of the show. Only a few days ago, she confirmed that the show will have a new season. She is currently in Jaipur shooting for it.\n\nIn the photo, she could be seen posing with two security guards dressed in all black with shades on her face. She captioned her post “Hell hath no fury like a woman ‘reborn’ #Aarya #Season2 #Jaipur #KhammaGhani #Private I love you guys #SuperExcited mmmuuuaaah!!!”\n\nThe first season of Aarya released in 2020 on Disney + Hotstar and received great reviews from both audience and critics. The story revolves around a woman who has no choice but to join the mafia after her husband is brutally murdered in order to seek justice. Sushmita Sen also won the ‘Best Actor Female’ at Filmfare OTT awards 2020." ]

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[ null, "Undertale creator Toby Fox first became involved with Game Freak after he composed some music for Little Town Hero. It turns out his contributions didn’t stop there, as he also made a track for Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield. You can listen to the tune here in case you missed it.\n\nFox has now written a piece on his involvement with the new Pokemon Switch games and how he ended up writing a bit of music there as well. Read his full message below.\n\nHi everyone! I’m Toby Fox. Have you heard of me before? Well, that’s ’cause I just said my name. LOL\n\nJokes aside, aren’t you interested in how all of this happened? Well… OK. I’ll tell you, I guess.\n\nOnce upon a time, I created an RPG game called Undertale. For one reason or another, it seems a lot of people from Game Freak ended up becoming fans of this game.\n\nOne day, I noticed Go Ichinose-san, one of the composers for Pokémon, was following me on Twitter, so… I messaged him out of the blue.\n\nEventually, we became friends and I was able to meet many other people from GAME FREAK, too! After eating sukiyaki with members of the company one day, we went to a cafe. There, I ordered a bottled green tea and selfishly, randomly asked if I could make a song for Pokémon someday…\n\n… they said yes! Right there in the cafe, they immediately told me a concept for a song I could make, and, as I walked home, my heart was burning with inspiration… a melody entered my head, and as I stumbled past salarymen in the dark, I sang it to myself over and over so I wouldn’t forget it!\n\nIn the end, that song… became the song you can hear in the game!\n\nIt’s a fierce track full of explosive power. I wanted to show the energy and passion I felt when asked to create a song for Pokémon! Yeahh! Let’s get wild, baby!!! Ah, but wait, wait a second. It’s the only song I made, and you can’t hear it until you beat the game, so… make sure you enjoy GAME FREAK’s music properly first, OK!? Adachi-san and Ichinose-san worked hard…. Don’t rush through the whole game just to hear my song…. (No one would actually ever do that.)\n\nOh, and this goes without saying, but it’s a huge honor to be allowed to make music for GAME FREAK! I’m so, so happy and thankful I was allowed to do this. So please look forward to the song, and to Pokémon Sword and Shield, as well! Yamper yam yam!\n\nPS – If you like it, please let GAME FREAK know. They might treat me to sukiyaki again. (No one would ever actually do that.)" ]

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[ null, "\nWe knew that an addiction to sugar and other bad foods was causing Americans to put on weight faster than ever, and now researchers have found that diabetes, one of the fallouts of poor diet and lack of exercise, has reached alarming new levels, too. A recent study by UCLA says more than half of all residents in Ventura and […]", null, "Travelers can save if they book direct\n\nThe Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Newbury Park is about to take over the Sheraton Agoura Hills. Well, not exactly. But the parent companies of these two hotel giants appear ready to consummate an arrangement in which Marriott International will acquire Starwood Hotels and Resorts for $13.6 billion, pending shareholder approval of the deal. The combined entity would become the […]", null, null, "Will this sequel sizzle?\n\nThe Chargers stormed to their first Marmonte League title in 2015. This year, the road to the top will get tougher for Agoura High’s softball team. The Chargers are pragmatists. They’re not lollygagging in fantasy land, floating on rainbow bridges of cotton candy and feeding unicorns candy apples. Oaks Christian, the only private school in the Marmonte League, is ranked […]", null, null, "Olivia Rox sang her way through weeks of competition that landed her in the top 10 in the final season of “American Idol.” Now that the 17-year-old is back in her hometown of Agoura Hills, she is ready to begin her career in earnest. A singer, songwriter, actress and musician who plays guitar and piano, Olivia is slated to perform […]", null, null, "Jacob Colson grew up playing baseball. Colson, now a Calabasas High senior, played for 10 years on Little League and travel teams as a pitcher and first baseman. During a winter ball game in his freshman year he suffered a partially torn tendon in the right elbow, a devastating injury for a young pitcher. He barely played during the regular […]\n\n\nDear Acorn publisher, staff and friends, I speak from the heart when I say thank you for the beautiful and meaningful tribute you wrote about former first lady Nancy Davis Reagan (March 17). Writer Melissa Simon wrote so movingly about Mrs. Reagan’s life, her family role, her inspiration to and for her beloved husband, “Ronnie,” and the community of Simi […]" ]

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[ null, "I’m in the process of putting the finishing touches on several talks that I will be giving the week of July 18, 2011 in the southern part of the state of Michigan.\n\nThanks to the combined financial support of the INETA Regional Speakers Program and the Telerik Insiders Program, I can afford to make the trip to visit user groups in Detroit, Lansing, and Grand Rapids later this month!\n\nOn Tuesday evening, I’ll be delivering my Refactoring to a S.O.L.I.D. Foundation talk for the West Michigan .NET User Group in Grand Rapids. If you’re in the Grand Rapids area, I’d love to have you come out and join us and your fellow developers in the community for the talk!\n\nOn Wednesday evening, I’ll be again (re)delivering the same Refactoring to a S.O.L.I.D. Foundation talk for the Great Lakes Area .NET User Group in the Greater Detroit area. If you’re in the Detroit area, I’d love to have you come out and join us and your fellow developers in the community for the talk! And if you’re some kind of a weird S.O.L.I.D. groupie come see the talk again tonight even if you were just at the talk in Grand Rapids the night before!\n\nOn Thursday evening I will be delivering my Introduction to Agile Principles, Practices, and Processes talk to the Greater Lansing .NET User Group in Lansing, MI. If you’re in the Lansing area, I’d love to have you come out and join us and your fellow developers in the community for the talk!\n\nThe Last Time I Saw Michigan…\n\nSomewhat humorously, the last time I was in the state of Michigan was over 20 years ago when I was an undergraduate at The Ohio State University and came to cheer against the University of Michigan Wolverines in what we in Ohio always called “the annual scrimmage between two teams from Ohio” (owing to the fact that usually a significant percentage of the Wolverines’ Team was made up of residents of Ohio) but whose official name is of course “the Ohio State-Michigan game at the end of the Big Ten College Football Season”. FWIW, I’m pretty sure that the Buckeyes soundly trounced the Wolverines that cold November day, but I’m hoping the folks I see in Michigan in another week don’t still hold a grudge against me over that. Disappointingly, some of them probably weren’t even born when I was last in Michigan so they wouldn’t be able to hold a grudge anyway!\n\nThe last time I visited the Great Lakes State I’m pretty sure that I was wearing a shirt much like this one on the left, but rest assured I won’t be bringing it with me on this trip so that I can avoid getting the shit beat out of me in the parking lot as I’m leaving the user groups each night\n\nOf course, with the recent news on the moral and ethical collapse of the Ohio State University football program, I suspect that the Wolverines have a bit more to laugh about these days than the Buckeyes (and now I probably need to get me a brand new shirt that reads “The Fuckeyes Bucked Themselves”" ]

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[ "Experience BiCE’s chic and upscale dining experience, along with an authentic warmth and hospitality that Italy is known for.\n\nUpholding BiCE’s exceptional reputation worldwide, we’re dedicated to re-introducing Italian excellence to your palate and all your senses.", null, "With more than 25 years of culinary experience, Chef Mario Cassineri uses his natural and refined talent to create authentic and innovative Italian cuisine at BiCE Ristorante, located in the heart of the Gaslamp District in downtown San Diego. Cassineri serves as Executive Chef and Partner of the restaurant, and was born and raised in Milan, Italy. He infuses each flavorful dish at BiCE with a taste of cultural flare and deep Italian tradition. Driven by a desire to both delight his guests as well as put a modern spin on contemporary dishes, Chef Mario credits his success in the kitchen to two defining attributes: palate and passion. The latter is shown not only in the meals he creates, but also in his amiable and electric personality that fills BiCE’s dining room nightly with positive energy.\n\nChef Mario discovered his love of cooking at just 15 years old while helping prepare food for a charity event. It was then that he realized his culinary creations had the power to bring smiles to the faces of hungry people. Chef Mario went on to graduate from culinary school in Milan, and work with a variety of renowned chefs in Italy and around the world. It wasn’t long before he was running his own kitchen, landing his first chef position at the young age of 23 years old. Mario later went on to join three of Italy’s most celebrated chefs to create a successful restaurant and hotel consulting business. He also shared his love of food with others by teaching culinary arts at the internationally renowned culinary school Costigliole d’ Asti in Piedmont, Italy.\n\nChef Mario joined BiCE Restaurant Group as Executive Corporate Chef in 2005, opening several restaurants internationally and in the United States with his longtime Sous Chef and friend Francesca Penoncelli. Both Mario and Francesca found a home at BiCE San Diego, where Chef Mario has taken the helm of the kitchen and runs the restaurant with an expert team. Here, Chef Mario remains inspired by a community of appreciative diners and enjoys implementing natural and fresh ingredients into a skillful mix of contemporary Italian dishes. One of his proudest accomplishments has been traveling to New York City with Chef Francesca to cook at the legendary James Beard Kitchen on behalf of BiCE San Diego. More recently, he had the honor of leading BiCE to win the 2014 Gold Medallion award for “Best Italian Fine Dining” from the California Restaurant Association. When not in the kitchen, Chef Mario enjoys giving back to the community by participating in charity events and fundraisers, particularly ones that benefit childhood and cancer related charities." ]

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[ "Until recently, this instrument had the highest mass resolving power in the Intermountain Wes (see above why it is no longer #1). Fourier transform mass spectrometers serve as electromagnetic \"test tubes\" in which charged molecules can be trapped and broken apart, revealing their structure, or reacted with neutral gases to reveal their chemistry in unprecedented detail. This instrument's data acquisition system was upgraded 3 years ago to state-of-the-art capabilities. It is currently being used to study supramolecular systems (complexes of two or more molecules held together by weak, non-covalent interactions to build larger structures) in the gas phase using experimental and computational methods synergistically, and in developing new techniques specialized for their characterization. The characterization methods being developed as part of this work will not only impact supramolecular mass spectrometry directly, but they will enable applications of supramolecular chemistry that may impact manufacturing, computing, and medicine in the long term. New experiments use this instrument in conjunction with BYU's National Science Foundation-funded tunable laser facility to probe how molecules trapped and characterized in the FTICR absorb infrared radiation, yielding snapshots revealing how the molecules are folded. This kind of shape information is vital for understanding how molecule-sized machines might function. The techniques we are developing will also be immediately useful to biomolecular studies. Graduate students will gain valuable training in advanced techniques for high performance mass spectrometry that are vital for the biotechnology industry and the emerging field of proteomics and giving them breadth beyond biochemistry.\n\nThis machine is a combination of two instruments (GC and MS). It uses gas chromatography to separate samples and then uses mass spectrometry to analyze and identify small and medium-sized molecules. The GC-MS is mostly used to identify organic molecules but can also identify small, volatile inorganics, such as the permanent gases, and small inorganic complexes that are not ionic.", null ]

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[ "Honda SUV RS Concept, reportedly codenamed ZR-V- is a mid-size SUV that will first launch in Indonesia before being taken to other markets.\nBy : HT Auto Desk\n| Updated on: 11 Nov 2021, 19:12 PM\n\nHonda Cars India currently has no SUV in the lineup but all of that could change if it opts to bring in the production version of the RS Concept showcased in Indonesia on Thursday. And by the looks of it, the SUV has enormous potential to take on some very mighty rivals in the Indian car space, a list dominated at present by Hyundai Creta and Kia Seltos.\n\nThe Honda RS Concept - reportedly codenamed ZR-V - is a mid-size SUV that has been lined up for the Indonesia market but reports suggest that it could eventually find its way to other markets as well. It will sit below the recently-updated BR-V and at least in terms of its visual aesthetics, has the potential to ruffle established feathers.\n\nThe Honda RS Concept looks like a confluence between a muscular SUV and a sporty coupe with a swooping roofline towards the end profile. The vehicle has a smart face which is adorned by sharp LED headlight units, a sleek grille and a pronounced bumper.\n\nOn the side, the Honda RS Concept appears to have a very generous ground clearance and shows off circular wheel arches and striking black alloys. The dual-tone paint scheme is also best evident from the side profile.", null, "Honda RS Concept SUV has been developed as a collaboration between Honda R&D Asia Pacific Co and the Honda team in Indonesia.\n\nOver at the rear, the Honda RS Concept SUV adopts a really modern visual cue with LED light units connected with a stretched lit line on the boot door. This lends the profile a stretched-out appearance.", null, "Honda is assuring of a capable drive performance but mechanical details of the RS Concept have not been revealed yet.\n\nAt present, Honda has not revealed cabin details but expect the car to be loaded to the brim with new-age features to help it battle rivals better. The engine and transmission details are also as yet unknown but even then, the SUV appears to have potential to be a strong player in India, if and when brought here.\n\nAs mentioned previously, Honda currently has no SUV in its India lineup after it discontinued CR-V here. The BR-V had been discontinued even earlier as it had failed to make any impact in the Indian car market. At a time when SUVs remain a rage, the RS Concept could come as a massive shot in the arm for the company." ]

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[ null, "The talented actress took to her Instagram page and lamented that it has been a long time since someone called her a baby.\n\nThe mother of one, in her post, stated that she doesn’t mind if she is called a baby lotion, a baby bottle, or baby food, all she wants is to be called a baby.\n\n“I haven’t been called baby in a long time, even if it’s baby lotion, baby bottle or baby food sef make a person just call me”.\n\nIn another news, Yvonne Jegede bagged multiple awards at the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, (TINFF), for a movie she co-produced, ‘Marrying A Campbell’.\n\nThe star-studded actress recently took to her Instagram page and showed off the awards she won for her movie titled ‘Marrying A Campbell’.\n\nCelebrating her success Yvonne Jegede, shared the awards and wrote;\n\nALLOW ME TO BRAG because I BRAG DIFFERENT" ]

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[ "This Bike Comes With a Gas Mask, Might Soon Be Trendy", null, "In three years, Beijing will have 6 million cars on the road. Pollution levels some days already reach what the New York Times has called in highly technical terms, “crazy bad.”\n\nBeijing-based artist Matt Hope has used some basic mechanical engineering skills and a number of recycled materials — an old fighter pilot mask and an Ikea waste bin among them — to fabricate the “breathing bike” in response, as seen on Hyperallergic. The bike uses electricity generated by pedal power to actively filter out smog and feed the rider with clean air.\n\nOne caveat: the bike currently produces 5,000 volts of electricity and isn’t exactly weatherproof, so it is more of a sculpture at this stage.\n\n“If you ride it in the rain you could actually kill yourself, so im a little hesitant to use it,” Hope says in the video above. “But in theory it works.”" ]

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[ null, "The Game Developers Association doubts the usefulness of NFTs\n\nThe International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is going to take action to raise awareness among gamers about the issues that may arise from NFT gaming.\n\nIGDA is one of the largest associations of video game developers and programmers. Association interim director Jakin Vela told Ars Technica in an interview that association members have big doubts about the introduction of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) into video games.\n\nNow the association is trying to clearly articulate its position on the NFT, and so far the team still does not have an unequivocal opinion. There are, says Vela, many ethical issues surrounding NFTs.\n\nFirst of all, developers are concerned about the fact that many NFT projects can eventually turn out to be pyramid schemes. Some of the Play-to-Earn (P2E) projects may need an ever-growing user base to keep their economy self-sustaining, Vela says.\n\nAlso, gamers can be affected by the unregulated nature of the industry: they can give all their time to earn money through such games and end up with nothing or even remain in the red. According to the director, now there is no official regulation that would spell out the rights of the players. This can lead to a socio-political explosion, Vela is sure.\n\nPreviously, IGDA members took a much more radical position. In July last year, the association issued a statement urging against the use of NFTs in games, as tokens consume a huge amount of energy, and advised studios to use the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, as it is more energy efficient.\n\nRecall, according to a recent survey conducted by Balthazar, more than 30% of gamers from the Philippines are ready to give up a permanent job in order to earn money in P2E games." ]

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[ "So, I don’t make posts like this very often. Okay, I lied–I’ve never written a post like this. I’m one of those bloggers that can’t ever stick to one topic. My posts topics range from fiction to poetry; from relationships to travel destinations. But, like they say, there’s a first for everything.\n\nBefore I get into the story, let me start by saying I’ve never really been much of an animal person. I know–that may make some of you dog lovers reading this gasp, but the story gets better. I promise.\n\nSo, for whatever reason, my parent’s backyard seems to be something of a popular attraction for the hummingbirds here in Southern California. Out back, there’s an outdoor kitchen area with a thatched roof made from dry straw. Hanging from the wooden columns holding it up is a string of lights, and hanging from said lights are several–3, to be exact–hummingbird nests.\n\nWe don’t ever bother them or try to get rid of the little guys. Aside from the little pellets of poop they leave all over the tile countertop, my mom genuinely likes them.\n\nAbout a week or two ago, a hummingbird momma came along and had two little hummingbird babies.", null, "Yesterday, we were in the backyard cleaning up the debris left from our house party the day before when my mom noticed the two birds were no longer nestled in their cozy nest like usual. Instead, they were hanging to the outside of the nest by their feet, almost like bats. Now, I know less than jack-shit about hummingbirds, so I wasn’t sure if this was something they just do, or what. We left them alone and continued cleaning up spilled margaritas and deflated balloons.\n\nA few minutes later we were inside, wiping up in the kitchen. My mom looked out the back window, her eyes slightly widened. She hurried through the sliding glass door and back to where the birds had dangled from their nest. I followed along. She gasped lightly as we got close. “Oh, no,” she said and bent down.\n\nFor whatever reason, when I peeked around the corner of the counter and saw that baby bird lying helpless in a crack in the concrete, my heart broke a little. Remember: I’ve never been much of an animal person.\n\nTogether, my mother and I carefully lifted the bird and put it back in its nest with its sibling. But the nest wasn’t holding well; it was tiling at an awkward angle, causing the birds to spill out.", null, "My mom had an idea to put the nest in a flower pot and put it as close to where the nest originally was as possible. We did that–but both of us were plagued with a fear that the momma might not be able to find her little feathered babies. I did some research and found that, luckily, mother hummingbirds won’t abandon their young like other animals just because a human touched them. As it turns out, hummingbirds don’t have a sense of smell.\n\nAs my mom and I went back to cleaning up the backyard, we stayed on the lookout for momma bird… but she didn’t seem to be coming back. Hours passed (we were inside at this point, finally done cleaning), and when I still hadn’t seen her, I began feeling a bit antsy, and like I needed to do something. But what the hell am I supposed to do, I asked myself. Not knowing how to care for a baby bird, I did what any other clueless doofus would do. That’s right, I asked Google.\n\nGood ol’ Google suggested I mix 1 tsp of sugar with 4 tsp of water, and feed the birds 1-3 drops every 30 minutes with an eyedropper. So that’s what I did. Sorta. I had a movie to go to, so that cut into feeding time by a couple hours, but I kept feeding them once I got back.", null, "Look at them! I’d be lying if I said they weren’t cute.\n\nIt was interesting to say the least, playing momma bird and nurturing these little guys. Though I’d never really cared for animals, I quickly began feeling an odd sense of responsibility for these fuzzy little balls with beaks. The feelings persisted even after they both shit on me multiple times. Hey, fun fact: did you know that hummingbirds actually shoot their poop?\n\nAnyway, I just wanted to share this experience with you all. Today is day 2, and I still have yet to see the momma bird. I got up at 6 AM today and fed them breakfast. It was super chilly over here in SoCal and the temperatures made me a little worried. I’m, of course, hoping the momma comes back and finds her babies soon… But I’ll let you all know how it goes.\n\n8 thoughts on “A Hummingbird Fell from its Nest in my Backyard!”\n\nFind me on Etsy!" ]

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[ null, "Muslims across the world have spent June observing the religious month of Ramadan. In Gaza, where reconstruction after three wars in six years has stalled, the celebrations, fasts followed by feasts, and prayer has brought a welcomed sense of normalcy.\n\nAt night the landscape is set alight with festive lanterns. Charity drives are organized at this time of year to provide dinner iftar meals. Some families picnic at the sea for breakfast and in the late evening, others take to barbecue joints where grilled meats are served with salads.\n\nPalestinian photographer Mohammed Asad brings a glimpse of how Gazans enjoy the month of Ramadan with many smiles and decorations.", null, "Palestinian youth in Gaza fly kites at the seaside during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, June 2016. (Photo: Mohammed Asad)", null, "Al-Qasas brothers barbecue in preparation of the iftar meal at a “mashawi” restaurant in Gaza, June 25, 2016. (Photo: Mohammed Asad)", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "Muslims in Gaza pray inside of a mosque during the religious month of Ramadan, June 2016. (Photo: Mohammed Asad)", null, null, "Mohammad Asad is a photo journalist based in the Gaza Strip where he has covered three wars, and nearly a decade of blockade. He is the 2015 winner of the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit photography “Spirit of Humanity” award, and the 2014 winner of the Abdel Razzaq Badran Photography Award, among other accolades\n\nOther posts by Mohammed Asad." ]

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[ "Huawei working on a smartphone with under display camera and bezel display, reveals a new patent\n\nHuawei has applied for a new patent for its upcoming smartphone that features an under-display camera technology with a bezel display for the status bar, according to LetsGoDigital. As per the reports, the patent is filed with CNIPA (China National Intellectual property Administration).\n\nAfter taking a look at the patent image, Huawei is planning for a bezel like strip of display on the top of the smartphone that will show status for network, battery, time, etc. Further, the patent also mentioned for the UDC (Under Display Camera), this feature can be estimated as the patent images do not have any camera locations on the smartphone such as the pop camera cut out or any other.\n\nThe status bar on the top in a little bezel will reduce the disturbance for the users while watching videos, playing games, or doing any other work. Users can always check the information on the top without getting disturbed.", null, "Furthermore, the patent images also show a giant camera module at the rear, which equips a quad-camera setup along with an LED flash, and also there is Huawei branding at the bottom. In the side angle images, the camera bump looks very big. While on the left we can see the volume buttons and power button and the right side remains empty. At the bottom, there is a USB Type-C port and no 3.5mm audio jack.\n\nThis is what the new patent from Huawei suggests, but as of now there are no official confirmations regarding this patent and also there are questions over this technology to be used in the real device. We’ll keep you updated on this matter as soon as we receive something new on this matter.", null ]

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[ null, null, "NEW YORK (AP) — Indiana struggled to score, make a string of stops or even rely on its trusty free-throw shooting. Somehow, a game after a crushing first loss of the season, the Hoosiers were headed back home winners.\n\nIndiana failed to have a double-digit scorer and still rebounded from its first loss of the season to beat UConn 57-54 on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.\n\nThe Hoosiers (9-1) won their first eight games under coach Archie Miller and were on the brink of cracking the Top 25 until a 20-point loss at Wisconsin earned them only a few votes.\n\n“You don't need to get drilled like we get drilled. but you've got to take your medicine,\" Miller said.\n\nBeating a so-so UConn team may not earn IU any style points but it gutted out a win down the stretch in front of a wild Huskies crowd. UConn gave the Garden an old Big East feel in the Jimmy V Classic.\n\nAlterique Gilbert buried a 3 for UConn with 14.3 seconds left that pulled it to 56-54 but it coughed up the ball on a game-tying possession.\n\nThe Huskies had 22 turnovers.\n\n“I just thought it was some carelessness from a couple of individuals,\" coach Dan Hurley said. “Mostly, it was just guards trying to do things with the ball they shouldn't be trying to do.\"\n\nEarlier, the crowd erupted into chants of \"Let's go Huskies!\" when Sidney Wilson finished a thunderous alley-oop that made it 38-all. Josh Carlton's two-handed jam gave the Huskies the lead and Tyler Polley thumped his chest and pointed at the UConn bench when he connected on a 3 that sent the fans into a frenzy. That small surge, though, couldn't be sustained.\n\nIU never had one player step-up as a scorer, and caught a break with 36.7 seconds left when it got possession after a review on a tipped ball out of bounds. Rob Phinisee sank a pair of free throws with 20 seconds left to stretch the lead to five. Aljami Durham led the Hoosiers with nine points.\n\n“If we're about the right things and we play the right way, this team has a chance to be pretty good,\" Miller said.\n\nCarton led the Huskies with 18 points and Polley had 12.\n\n“You want to have a great season, you've got to win games like this,\" Hurley said.\n\nThe Huskies played their 120th career game at MSG, and they'll add so many more to that total once they return to the Big East. The Huskies were a charter member 40 years ago and set to return in the 2020-21 academic year. UConn is moving basketball and most of its other athletic teams from the American Athletic Conference to the Big East.\n\nThe return to the Big East is designed to energize the school's fan base by renewing some of the old rivalries with St. John's, Georgetown, Seton Hall and Villanova.\n\nThe Huskies and Hoosiers were long considered two of the top programs in the sport, combining to win nine national championships. But IU hasn't won a title since 1987 under former coach Bobby Knight. The Huskies did win a fourth title in 2014, only to make one NCAA Tournament since that span while the program was reeling from NCAA sanctions levied under former coach Kevin Ollie.\n\nHurley, in his second season, was tasked with making a smooth transition for the program to the Big East and for the Huskies to become winners again. It's going to be a work in progress.\n\n“We just revert to a way that isn't going to allow you to beat good teams,\" Hurley said. “It's going to be a season full of excruciating losses if we can't fix that.\"\n\nUConn: The Huskies hope a three-game homestand can get them back on the winning track.\n\nThe Hoosiers have a quick turnaround and host Nebraska on Friday night.\n\nUConn returns to the XL Center to play Saint Peter's on Dec. 18." ]

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[ null, "Crashes are common in the Midcoast, especially on the arterial highways of routes 1, 17 and 90 in Rockport. Firefighters and ambulances are frequently at the scene together. (File photo of a 2013 Rockport crash. Photo by Lynda Clancy)\n\nCAMDEN — Fire chiefs and municipal managers in five Midcoast municipalities have talked about forming a regional community-owned ambulance service, and are now ready to take the idea before elected leaders. The idea will debut formally on Tuesday, Feb. 26, when Camden Fire Chief Chris Farley will ask the Select Board in that town if it wants to pursue joining Rockland, Rockport, Hope and Lincolnville town-owned emergency medical service.\n\nCurrently, Rockland’s fire station and EMS operates as one system, and that would not change under the proposed structure; however, the four other towns would organize and tangentially join Rockland to streamline EMS services throughout the region.\n\nIn doing so, the four towns of Camden, Hope, Lincolnville and Rockport, would discontinue its annual contract with the privately-owned North East Mobile Health Services, which is based in Scarborough and has a regional presence, with a local base on Route 1 in Rockport.\n\nThe four towns have been contracting with North East since 2013, when voters endorsed at their individual June town meetings to contract with the Scarborough company, following an arduous decision to break ties with the struggling, and now dissolved, local nonprofit, Camden First Aid.\n\nWhat holds for future price increases is an unknown variable, he said.\n\n“Are we better off making the investment ourselves and controlling the level of service,” he asked.\n\nThose are the questions that the five fire chiefs discussed two weeks ago, in preparation for a broader community discussion about what the vision looks like, and what it might cost taxpayers.\n\nCamden Town Manager Audra Caler-Bell and Rockland City Manager Tom Lutrell first broached the idea last year, as the Camden-Rockport-Rockland portion of the Midcoast continually refines its local response to fires, crashes, medical incidents and the need for medical transports to the larger hospitals in Portland and beyond.\n\n“The city has been discussing regionalization for many years and I think this is the start of more to come,” said Luttrell.\n\nLutrell had asked Rockland Fire Chief Whytock to sketch an initial plan and initiate talks with other fire chiefs.\n\nCurrently, Rockland EMS tends to its citizenry in Rockland, as well as Owls Head, and occasionally helps out with other area towns, especially when a trained paramedic is needed or when North East is short handed and is transporting a patient to another hospital in the state.\n\nAll the chiefs “were positive and enthusiastic” about initial plan, said Farley, indicating, “it is something we can get behind and support.”\n\nMunicipally-owned ambulance services are not uncommon; Bangor, Bucksport, St. George and Warren, as well as South Thomaston, Thomaston, and Union, all have their own EMS systems. Some work better than others, and the model is long-ingrained in Maine.\n\nOrganizing a consortium of towns is not as common, but the four towns in this instance — Camden, Hope, Lincolnville and Rockport — already work side-by-side with the handling of municipal waste, and in sharing the cost of a regional high school.\n\nThe goal is to establish an EMS system whose roots are grounded in service, and not focused primarily on the bottom line.\n\nCamden Select Board member Taylor Benzie agrees with that and says the idea is long overdue. He has worked at Knox County Regional Communications Center, the area’s dispatch, and is a firefighter.\n\n“The private, for-profit system hasn’t been working as well as it could,” he said. “It is an apples to oranges approach to municipal business.”\n\nFire departments in the area already operate together by virtue of mutual aid. Just the sounding alarm of a structure fire automatically sends the current of high alert throughout municipal fire departments in neighboring towns, as they rush to their own departments, get into gear, and respond to the scene.\n\n“This proposal with Rockland would help to bring EMS essentially under the same roof, which could mean working and training much more closely with the fire departments, and add additional Fire/EMS personnel in stations that did not previously have them,” said Benzie.\n\n“Fire and EMS work so closely in tandem that you need the next level of coordination,” he said. “This would alleviate a lot of problems.”\n\nThe community EMS structure would entail purchasing two new ambulances of the same layout and design as the two that Rockland already owns.\n\nThose two ambulances could be moved around the towns as needed, but with each of them more consistently and strategically parked, one at the Camden Fire Station and one at the West Rockport Fire Station.\n\nThe latter is due for a rebuild, which the Town of Rockport is currently addressing.\n\nFarley said Camden has no need to expand the public safety building on Washington Street to accommodate an ambulance; instead, the fire department would downsize its current engine fleet.\n\nThe town doesn’t need all the fire engines it has, he said, and by downsizing, Camden can more efficiently train firefighters, as well as school them in basic EMT skills.\n\n“I've heard discussion about it being an effective recruiting tool for new on-call/volunteer firefighters,” said Benzie. “The number of volunteers and on-call personnel have been declining over the years nationwide. I think if there's a young person living in the community who is interested in volunteering with a fire department, but is especially interested in the emergency medical side, this could give that young person easier access to EMS training and work right in their community. It could be a really effective tool for the fire departments to recruit and retain new volunteers directly from their communities.”\n\nThe proposed plan, still in a preliminary phase, calls for hiring six firefighter/EMTs, each with salary and benefits. The positions would require paramedic training, as well as relevant firefighting credentials. This model already exists at the Rockland Fire Station, and would be replicated by the community EMS service.\n\nThe five municipalities would work together under one EMS supervisor, who would work a 40-hour week.\n\nFarley said the community ambulance service would not transport patients to other hospitals in the state, as North East currently does. That would leave the business door open for other ambulance services to pursue, he said.\n\nAccording to the initial plan outline, when a call is made for an ambulance, Knox County Communications Center, in Rockland, would alert the community EMS service, which would, in turn, decide what manpower to dispatch to an incident.\n\nThose range from vehicle fires to crashes that require extrication, to search and rescue on mountains and lakes, boat fires, and medical emergencies.\n\nIf the Camden Select Board endorses moving forward with this idea, then the fire chiefs would discuss a more detailed implementation plan, including fiscal which Caler-Bell would talk more concretely with the town administrators and managers of the five town towns.\n\n“It is a quality of community effort,” said Farley. “We hope they give the idea a chance. We think it would be good for everyone.”\n\nThe Feb. 26 meeting of the Camden Select Board begins at 6:30 p.m. in the John French Meeting Room, and is streamed live and televised on local cable Time Warner Channel 1303." ]

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[ "I had said that I wasn’t going to say anything about this, for a myriad of reasons. Fortunately, The Black Snob pretty much said it all, saving me typing time. I can’t imagine being opposed to gay marriage when it’s only been in my lifetime that my own marriage became legal. (And a bill to change the Alabama constitution to remove anti-miscegenist language only passed by a 60-40 margin a few years ago. Despite the fact that the SCOTUS struck that fucknuttery down years ago.)\n\nAnd please, don’t step to me with that ‘civil union’ nonsense. If someone had come to me with that, I would told them to bite me. It’s nonsense, and no I’m not interested in a religious debate. Why? Because when the chips are down, despite W’s attempts to the contrary, THIS IS NOT A GODDAMNED THEOCRACY. And I will die and burn in hell eternally before I’ll let ANYONE turn it into one. The only document this country is governed by is the U.S. Constitution, praise be to God, and the Founding Fathers were more than aware of the dangers of not separating church and state.\n\nThis law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, period. It simply does. Contrary to popular belief this country is not ruled by majority rule. Minority rights are protected, because as Madison said, “Majority Rule is tyranny.” It can’t be any simpler than that. It cannot be a Biblical argument because this country is not governed by the Bible, Koran, Talmud or any other religious document. So people, grow the hell up and stop trying to coerce people to live their lives the way you, and your religion, see fit. This is still America damnit, let’s try, I mean really try, to remember that.\n\nNo state shall… deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Overnight flooding has led to a landslide on a road in southern Scotland and the closure of some roads, including a section of the M74. Police in Dumfries and Galloway were forced to shut the A76 just north of Sanquar due to the landslide. The M74 is closed southbound at junction 11 - the Poneil interchange -and northbound near Crawford. Police said surface water was lying on many roads in the Stirling area and in East Ayrshire.", null, "Central Scotland Police said that because of surface water on the A811, between Kippen and the Ballat Crossroads, the road has been closed in both directions and diversions put in place. The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings for heavy rain and high winds in Scotland. Gusts are expected to reach up to 75mph in the Northern Isles.\n\nCairngorm Mountain Ski Area, near Aviemore, said it hoped the slopes would be open after they were closed on Friday due to too much snow. After a two-day blizzard, the operators had to bring in huge caterpillar vehicles and snow blowers to try to clear the approach road and the slopes." ]

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[ "Yesterday, a colleague told me that she had seen an actual notary public stamp belonging to Emmett Wilson on a legal document dating from 1905!\n\nShe told me it was quite unique; Emmett’s name is part of the official stamp itself. This made me wonder what ever became of the actual stamp device.\n\nNot just anyone could become a Notary Public in 1905: It was a patronage position that only the Governor of Florida could bestow. My colleague told me that the stamps were made by the governor’s own embosser.\n\nI would love to get my hands on Emmett’s Notary Public stamp — if not to possess it, for the chance to examine it.", null, "The notary public stamp from Emmett’s day was not something you would want to schlep around in a briefcase. This model (approximately 110 years old) weighs five pounds. Source: http://www.etsy.com\n\nActually, there are several of Emmett’s personal artifacts I’d love to find. For instance:\n\nThis is my wish list of Emmett Wilson artifacts I hope to uncover in the next year." ]

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[ "The mare appears restless; she might pace up and down, and is often not interested in food. She might flick her tail like something is bothering her and look/kick at her belly. It’s not unusual for her to get up and down several times. The mare’s behaviour can appear similar to the signs of colic. Observe your mare from a distance and call your veterinarian if you have any concerns. This stage can take up to several hours, and ends when the ‘water breaks’.", null, null, "Top: The white membrane that is visible after the water has broken.\nBottom: The emergency ‘red bag’.\n\nEMERGENCY\nWhen you see the membrane bag you should see two feet and a nose within 15 minutes.\n\nEMERGENCY\nIf the white membrane does not rupture, manually open it so the foal can breathe.", null, "Second Stage Labour\nMost mares will lie down by now. She might go up and down a few times to find the right spot. Within 20 minutes after the ‘water breaks’, a white-grey membrane becomes visible. This is the amniotic membrane which contains your foal.\n\nEMERGENCY\nCall us on 6241 8888 immediately, if the white-grey membrane does not appear within 20 minutes or the membrane bag is red as shown in the picture.\n\nThis ‘red bag’ needs to be opened manually as soon as possible.", null, "In the white membrane, a foot should be visible, followed by a second foot and shortly after, the nose on top of both feet (as shown in the picture, right). The mare is having uterine contractions and is pushing while lying down, until the foal is delivered.\n\nThis phase takes about 10 minutes. The foal ends up lying next to the mare’s hind legs (see photo bottom left), and the white membrane ruptures. The umbilical cord ruptures when the mare gets up. Do NOT cut the umbilical cord. Give the mare and the foal some privacy and observe from distance.\n\nThe placenta will hang under the mare’s tail and the mare will continue to have contractions until it passes. You can tie a knot into the placenta so it doesn’t drag on the ground. Do NOT cut any parts off. As soon as the placenta has passed, put it in a bag to the side and let your veterinarian check it the next day.\n\nEMERGENCY\nCall us on 6241 8888 if your mare doesn’t become more comfortable, or if the placenta has not passed within three hours after foaling. Retained placenta is an emergency!" ]

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[ "Home » Health » German Scientists Prove There is Life After Death\n\nA team of psychologists and physicians associated with the Technical University of Berlin, have announced this morning that had proven by clinical experimentation, the existence of some form of life after death. This surprising announcement builds on the findings of a study using a new type of experiences near the death medically supervised, allowing patients to be clinically dead for almost 20 minutes before being brought back to life.", null, "This controversial process that was repeated in 944 volunteers over the last four years, requires a complex mixture of drugs including epinephrine and dimethyltryptamine, intended to allow the body to survive the state of clinical death and resuscitation process without damage. Then the subject’s body is placed in a state of temporary coma induced by a mixture of other drugs that had to be filtered by the ozone layer of blood during the revitalization process, 18 minutes later.\n\nThe extremely long duration of experience was only recently made possible by the development of a new machine cardiopulmonary recitation (RCP) called the AutoPulse. This type of equipment has already been used in recent years to resuscitate people who had been killed by something between 40 minutes to an hour.\n\nThe team of scientists led by Dr. Berthold Ackermann, has overseen operations and have collected testimonies of subjects. Although there are some slight variations from one individual to another, all subjects have some memories of their period of clinical death. and a large majority of them described some very similar sensations.\n\nRelated Post: MASSAGE THIS POINT TO STOP STRESS, SLEEP BETTER AND RESTORE YOUTHFULNESS TO YOUR SKIN\n\nMost common memories include a feeling of detachment from the body, feeling of levitation, serenity, security, warmth, experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of a great light.\n\nScientists say they are well aware of many of his conclusions might surprise many people, the fact that religious beliefs of various subjects seems to have been no impact at all, feelings and experiences They described at the end of the experiment. In fact, volunteers have in their ranks some members are a variety of Christian churches, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and atheists.\n\nclose to the experiences death have been hypothesized in several medical journals in the past, that has the characteristics of hallucinations, but Dr. Ackermann and his team, however, consider them as evidence of the existence of future life and a form of dualism between body and mind.\n\n“I know that our results could disturb the beliefs of many people,” says Mr. Ackermann. “But somehow, we just responded to one of the biggest questions in the history of humanity, so I hope that these people will be able to forgive. Yes, there is life after death and it seems that this applies to all the world. “" ]

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[ "Why Gumi Cryptos doubled down on its My Crypto Heroes investment", null, "It won’t be soon, but the blockchain game explosion will happen\n\nFollowing on from its initial investment in Double Jump.Tokyo, Gumi came back for a bigger bite.\n\nThe Japanese mobile publisher-turned-investor originally acquired 44.7% of the My Crypto Heroes developer in late December 2018.\n\nThe new deal – through its investment arm Gumi Cryptos – sees it gaining an additional 22.6% from Double Jump’s parent company DLE for $1.7 million.\n\nActually, the original deal was a bit more complex as it was made by a different Gumi subsidiary Gumi X Reality. Those shares will now be transfered to Gumi Cryptos giving it a majority 67.3% stake.\n\nAnd if you want to get really semantic, all these companies are officially written in lower case:\n\nNote, as the free-to-play experience combines off and onchain elements, the 3,000 or so users tracked by data sites such as DappRadar underestimates its total user base, although accurately tracks its paying player base. Unsurprisingly they are mainly Japanese.\n\n“We are strong believers in blockchain games,” he says, “And we like that My Crypto Heroes has both good gameplay and token mechanics.”\n\n“But it will happen at some point, and it will be faster than people expect,” he comments.\n\n“We want to be there and help it when it happens.”" ]

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[ null, "BMW has confirmed with Auto Blog Green that it will show off a new i3 concept next week at the LA Auto Show. Originally, it was rumored the new concept was a BMW i4, but BMW says it is not. The concept of the i3 electric vehicle won’t be the production version, but it will be closer to the production version than the last concept we saw.\n\nThere are some items on the BMW i3 concept that wouldn’t be safety-approved for a production vehicle, like the transparent glass doors. This new i3 concept that is set to be revealed next week may have the production, solid doors on it.\n\nThe original concept i3 also had no B-pillar. It looks like BMW has been able to keep this feature due to the use of carbon fiber in the body shell. Carbon Fiber saves the BMW i3 over 660 pounds on it’s final weight, and allows for a body style that is strong enough it doesn’t need a pillar in-between the front and rear passenger doors.\n\nAt the Born Electric Tour stop in New York City, Tom Moloughney of the BMW i3 Forum snapped some pictures of the Carbon Fiber monocoque i3 shell. You can also see the huge space left under the rear trunk space for the range extending engine." ]

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[ null, "The 450-seat chamber voted in favour of the changes by 383 votes with 43 abstentions and no votes in opposition.\n\nRussian senators then overwhelmingly approved the amendments, including the option for Putin to run for two more presidential terms.\n\nThe constitutional reforms were backed by 160 senators in the Federation Council, with one vote against and three abstentions.\n\nUpper House Speaker Valentina Matviyenko called the passing of the amendments “one of the most important issues in modern history”.\n\nShe praised the amendment that would allow Putin to run again when his current term ends in 2024, by resetting the clock on his previous presidential terms.\n\nPutin had been due to step down in 2024 under the law barring anyone from serving more than two consecutive six-year terms. He avoided this rule in 2008 by switching to prime minister until 2012, installing then premier, Dmitry Medvedev, as president.\n\nIt remains to be seen whether Russia will continue with its refusal to sell Belarus oil and gas at domestic prices.\n\nAnalysts suspected that the Kremlin was trying to force its former Soviet colony into a new joint state to enable Putin to avoid the 2024 limit.\n\nPolling suggests Russian voters are increasingly losing trust in Putin. His personal-confidence ratings fell to near record lows last year as poverty levels rose and there were increasing allegations of corruption.\n\nThe constitutional reforms must now be approved by two-thirds of Russia’s regional parliaments.\n\nThe reforms are also due to be put to a referendum on April 22.\n\nRussians will be required to vote on the amendments as a single package, with no option to vote against individual changes.\n\n“All this indecent fuss with the constitution was conceived for the sake of two new terms of Putin,” said Dmitry Gudkov, an opposition politician.\n\n“We have already done a lot to strengthen the country,” Putin told the Duma. “I’m sure that we will do lots more. At the very least, until 2024. And then we’ll see.”" ]

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[ null, "Nadia Turner is a smart girl from California with big ambitions, but with her mother’s unexpected suicide she finds herself in a state of depression and unable to talk to her father. Nadia begins to hang out with Luke Sheppard, a former star football player that had his career cut short with a leg injury and the Pastor’s son. The two begin to spend more time together and begin their own romance, that they believe is one built in love. When an unexpected pregnancy occurs, money exchanged, someone is left alone at the doctors office, and then the pregnancy is no longer there, the secret ends their relationship. Nadia has no idea where Luke got the money from, but she knows that she can’t tell her dad about it and has to keep it a secret. Her father has always been dedicated to the church, and whenever they need to use his truck, he is there to help with whatever task. After the abortion, Nadia decides to go out and party and takes her dad’s truck. On her way home after drinking, she crashes the truck. Her father is not an emotional man, but this was the one thing that could hurt him secondary to his wife’s suicide. Mr. Turner has no idea what to do with Nadia, until the Pastor stops by and says that his wife is willing to allow Nadia to help her in the church.\nWhile working in the church, she meets her soon to be best friend Aubrey, someone who has been through as much, if not more than Nadia, but has found solace in the church. As soon as their relationship is growing, it is time for Nadia to leave for college at the University of Michigan. Nadia has the ability to reinvent herself, instead of hiding from her past. She leaves Aubrey and Luke, but there are still some questions as to what if they had kept the baby? What if she had not become friends with Aubrey? What did the Mother’s of the church know about what happened to her mother, or about her? The three of them find themselves growing up, and in the midst of a love-triangle filled with a lot of what ifs.\n\nI personally have mixed reviews of this book. I liked it, but I did not love it. I feel like it was supposed to bring up so many more topics on a deeper level, but that did not happen. It could be because I was reading it over an extended amount of time, and had to pick it up and put it down. I did not feel like I was reading a story that I have not already read before. I wanted there to be a deeper level of the story. I think it is a fantastic debut novel by Brit Bennett, and if she writes more in the future I would still read them because I think that she writes beautifully. Let me know what you thought of the novel! Until next time,\nKeep Turning the Pages\n90s Born Reader" ]

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[ "Published 1965 by Scribner in New York .\nWritten in English\n\nFind helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Invasion U.S.S.R. (M.I.A. Hunter Book 9) at pacificwomensnetwork.com Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users/5(9). The US Government Bookstore is receiving new print titles on a weekly basis from the US Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, so please check for future available titles on the topics of U.S. national and global security, cyberspace capabilities, combatting terrorism, and political science issues, such as international relations and foreign diplomacy, that will be added to this.\n\nJan 29, · 'The United States is a country of machines. Without the use of these machines through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war.' —Josef Stalin (), quoted in W. Averell Harriman and Elie Abel, Special Envoy to Churchill and Stalin, , Random House, N.Y., , p. 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[ "Stornoway Diamond Corp. is racing to stave off insolvency as it deals with a decline in gem prices that has prevented the Canadian miner from generating positive free cash flow this year.\n\nLongueuil, Que.-based Stornoway said Tuesday it is in talks with backers to secure its long-term financial viability. At the same time, the company launched a major cost-cutting effort and strategic review, which could mean putting itself up for sale.\n\n“We have a cash crunch so that’s why we need to look at our options,” Stornoway chief executive Patrick Godin said in an interview with The Globe and Mail, adding that although diamond pricing is soft at the moment, he remains confident it will recover as global supply decreases over the next several years. \"Given the quality of the asset that we have, we just need to resist during the tough times to be able to take the wave.”\n\nMr. Godin, who took over from Matt Manson this past January, is trying to stabilize the company and get operations at its Renard mine running at a steady level after a couple of early setbacks. Stornoway built Renard, its main asset, in Quebec’s Otish Mountains, a range of hills north of Lac Mistassini, in the summer of 2016 with a $946-million financing package.\n\nRenard’s construction came in under budget and five months ahead of schedule, igniting hopes that it would lead to other resource development in the province’s vast northern territory. But the project has suffered some early snags, notably in the fall of 2017, when Renard diamonds were found to be breaking in processing at a higher frequency than the company expected.\n\nStornoway has since fixed the breakage, but that and other production and pricing problems forced the company to go to its lenders and key stakeholders last year for additional funds and loan flexibility. In all, it received some $129-million worth of new investment and cost deferrals.\n\nNow, Stornoway finds itself caught up in more pricing pain. An oversupply of smaller and lower-quality stones has sent prices tumbling since the third quarter of last year, and weak demand and currency declines in India have amplified the situation. India is the world’s biggest cutter and polisher of diamonds.\n\nStornoway is particularly affected because small diamonds account for about 67 per cent of its production by weight, the company said in a slide presentation accompanying its quarterly results. However, it says prices appear to be stabilizing, echoing comments made by the CEO for miner De Beers last month.\n\nStornoway shares are trading at barely 6 cents a share on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The Quebec government is among the company’s major backers, with some $300-million in equity and loans made to the company since 2012. Institutions such as the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec also have investments at stake in the miner while Caterpillar Financial Services Ltd. is a key equipment financier.\n\nWhether Stornoway’s existing financial partners will extend further funds or provide debt relief remains to be seen. The company had cash and current monetary assets of $36.4-million at the end of March to settle current monetary liabilities of $59.6-million, according to its financial statements released Monday. Its assets also include $50.6-million worth of rough diamond inventory expected to be sold during the second quarter this year. Its debt stands at $327.7-million.\n\n“We are a long-term investor and we evaluate and make our investment decisions on that basis,” said Caisse spokesman Yann Langlais-Plante, adding the Caisse held some 101.9 million shares in Stornoway at the end of 2018 as well as bonds and other receivables in the company with a fair value at the time of between $50-million and $100-million.\n\nLabour fund Fonds de solidarité FTQ “continues to support the company,\" said spokesman Patrick McQuilken, adding the institution holds both shares in Stornoway and loans to the company. Officials with Investissement Québec, the government’s main investment arm, declined to comment on their intentions.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "HCMC – Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) could rack up an estimated loss of around VND31,360 billion this year due to volatile global fuel prices and rising costs of generating and buying electricity.\n\nIf EVN kept operating under the plan approved by the Ministry of Industry and Trade at the beginning of this year, it would have faced a loss of up to VND64,805 billion this year.\n\nGiven this negative situation, EVN has carried out various cost-cutting measures, including a 20-30% reduction in repair and maintenance expenses, temporarily paying salaries equal to 80% of the average level in 2020, and strengthening the management of electricity price reductions.\n\nThe State utility has strived to maximize hydropower generation with low costs, assess cheaper coal sources, and negotiate with the investors of BOT power plants on electricity generation output to optimize the overall costs.\n\nWith the application of those measures, EVN has saved over VND33.4 trillion.\n\nHowever, the high costs of electricity input caused the company to suffer a loss of over VND15.7 trillion in the first 10 months and even an estimated VND31.3 trillion in the whole year, a representative of EVN said.\n\nAccording to the EVN, the company will face lots of challenges in the coming years, comprising difficulties in ensuring a stable cash flow, risks of unsafe operations due to cost-cutting measures in maintenance, and obstacles in capital mobilization.\n\nMeanwhile, the prices of essential fuels like coal, oil, and gas have yet to show any signs of decreasing." ]

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[ "Age is Just A Number\n\nGetting older. It’s not something baby boomers do gracefully. We, after all, were the generation who wouldn’t trust anyone over 30—let alone 60. As we come up to that magical Medicare age, it’s not only been a shock to many people’s system, but I have seen an attitude of fear—fear that’s it’s all over and that Death, with a CAPITAL D, is lurking on their doorstep.\n\nLast year on his birthday, my husband seriously said that if he’d known he was going to live this long, he’d have taken better care of himself. He had no idea he was quoting Mickey Mantle—in his family, all the men die of heart attacks in their fifties so he figured he would too. But because of modern medicine and living close to Eisenhower Hospital’s ER, he had his heart attack and survived. So he could live to be a hundred.", null, "A lot of people are doing that—living to a hundred and living quite nicely. I am playing Words With Friends with Marvin who turned 100 last May. Being a former English teacher and a writer, I am good at this game. Marvin is not only a worthy opponent, he’s giving me a run for my money. And he writes me witty messages, too.", null, "His wife, Rose, will be 100 soon. I’m not saying that they don’t have health issues—they do. But they also have all their marbles and still know how to play. Here they are with their daughter, Barbara.", null, "My friend Earl’s dad just turned 99. He pays his own bills and balances his checkbook. When asked what the secret was to his longevity, he said, “It’s all about family. And if need anything, I call my wonderful son.” He paused, “And then there are my nine different doctors and about 6000 pills.”", null, "He obviously has a great sense of humor and a great sense of center, as well. I think that’s a clue to living long. My dad was that way too. I remember once admonishing him about eating pastrami when he was 91. He looked up at me from his sandwich and asked, “What, if I eat this, I won’t live to an old age?”\n\nA colleague and I taught a memoir writing class to a group of assisted living folks in Seattle last winter. We had no idea who would take the class, but the youngest to show up was 94. You would never have guessed their ages—they looked to be in their eighties, but most were 96 to 98—and excellent writers, too. Getting to share their memories was like history coming to life, and we didn’t need to do much editing.", null, "I have a lot of friends bumping up to the end of the sixties and hitting the big 70. They are in a panic. Many feel that a respirator and walker can’t be far off in their future. Their five-year plan is to cross their fingers and hope they’re still alive. Not good. Studies have shown that you are as old as you think you are. If you think that 80 is old—then that’s when you’ll get old. I’m thinking middle 90’s, myself. As I told my kids, count me in when it’s 2050.\n\nThis entry was posted in Aging with Grace, Babybooming, Searching for Wisdom and tagged aging, babyboomers, feeling young, staying healthy. Bookmark the permalink." ]

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[ "The dealmaking environment has experienced quite a turnaround.\n\nAt the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, some investment banking executives wondered when M&A activity would return. However, it started to accelerate in late 2020, and the momentum carried into 2021.", null, "Executives are often more willing to pursue M&A transactions when they are optimistic about the economic outlook, and in May, the Conference Board noted that its survey results of CEO confidence reached an all-time high. Financing for acquisitions is also readily available with interest rates remaining at historic relative lows. The equity markets have experienced some swings but valuations remain high, giving buyers a stronger currency to pursue deals.\n\nIt's too soon to know if the the Biden administration will find enough support in its pursuit for higher taxes on capital gains, but the threat of the increased rates could also push sellers to accelerate transactions in effort to complete deals before any changes in the taxes would take effect. The need to expand technology remains a catalyst for M&A as companies in many industries are facing disruptive challenges, some of which were sped up by the pandemic.\n\nIncreased private equity activity helped fuel U.S. M&A dealmaking activity in the first quarter, and some firms are exploring different avenues to stockpile dry powder for acquisitions. In the first quarter, a popular way to raise pools of capital for deals was through IPOs of special purpose acquisition companies, which are developed for the sole purpose of buying a private company to take public. Many of those that completed SPAC IPOs are still on the hunt to execute acquisitions, but the growth rate of new blank check companies has slowed after the SEC released accounting guidance on warrants, which give investors the right to buy additional shares at a later date.\n\nThe guidance centers around whether SPACs should account for the warrants as equity or debt. As the industry works through the issue, the SPAC issuance activity will likely find a leveling point below the breakneck pace that boosted U.S. IPO totals in the first quarter.", null, "While SPACs garnered much attention to start 2021, more traditional IPOs were also coming to market. The first quarter generated 75 non-SPAC U.S. IPOs that raised $29.85 billion, and those totals were higher than any single quarter in 2019 or 2020.\n\nThe IPO market has hit speedbumps in the second quarter with some potential issuers such as Genworth Financial Inc.'s mortgage insurance company Enact Holdings Inc. having to postpone deals because of market volatility. But the window is not completely closed. In late May, Flywire Corp. priced its IPO at the top end of the range after upsizing its offering.\n\nHeadwinds do exist in the dealmaking environment. Markets are experiencing inflationary pressures related to government intervention, which has helped keep asset prices high and increased demand at a time when supply is constrained. This has caused some investors to worry that central banks could raise interest rates, and that would lead to higher costs of financing and lower valuations.\n\nStill, there is much greater clarity in the operating environment today and the near-term outlook is certainly better than a year ago." ]

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[ "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Thinks We Could be Living in the Matrix", null, "A popular hypothesis in speculative physics – one that has become a staple of sci-fi – is that our reality is nothing but a simulation. The idea being, the closer we come to being able to manipulate our own reality, the greater the chances that someone has already beaten us to it. Effectively, the hypothesis posits that we’re in The Matrix, and it’s an idea to which US celebrity physicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson subscribes.\n\nSpeaking at the 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate, discussing the question “Is the Universe a Simulation?”, Tyson is open to the idea that a greater intelligence is in control of humanity.\n\nFrom Tyson’s perspective, there’s a good chance that the universe contains an organism more advanced than us, which would look at us in the same way we look at animals.\n\n“What would we look like to them? We would be drooling, blithering idiots in their presence,” Tyson says.\n\nGiven that, such a species could well be capable of creating an artificial environment for us to inhabit.\n\n“And if that’s the case, it is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just the creation of some other entity for their entertainment. I’m saying, the day we learn that it is true, I will be the only one in the room saying, I’m not surprised,” Tyson added.\n\nFellow physicist Lisa Randall, however, considers the chance of “simulation hypothesis” being true as “effectively zero.”" ]

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[ null, "Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant says he “idolized” Kobe Bryant as a player growing up, adding that he was angry at the media for their treatment of the Los Angeles Lakers star.\n\n“I’ve been disappointed this year because you guys [the media] treated him like s—. He’s a legend, and all I hear is about how bad he’s playing, how bad he’s shooting and it’s time for him to hang it up. You guys treated one of our legends like s—, and I didn’t really like it. So hopefully now you can start being nice to him now that he decided to retire after this year.”" ]

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[ null, "The King and the Gifts of Gold\n\nThere was once a powerful king so rich that he was known as the King of Gold. The king took his riches for granted until one day a wondrous star appeared and he was inspired to follow it into the desert. In the small town of Bethlehem, the king bowed to the baby Jesus, the greatest king of all, and offered to him a gift of gold.\n\nThe king was forever changed by his encounter with the Christ child and vowed to give away all his gold to the poor. But not everyone was happy. Determined to keep the riches for themselves, the king’s servants abandon him in the desert. The king becomes a poor storyteller, wandering through towns and villages, dedicating his life to sharing the story of the child king Jesus.\n\nBut when he finally arrives back in his own kingdom, what will he find?\n\nThis is the inspiring story of Melchior, one of the three kings who took gifts to the baby Jesus. Written for children and illustrated with Maren Briswalter’s gentle, detailed drawings of the Holy Land, it shows how true wealth comes not from what we own, but from how we serve God and share what we have.\n\nGeorg Dreissig was born in Germany in 1950, and studied medicine before becoming a Christian Community priest. He spent some years in South Africa, before returning to Germany where he lectured at the Priest Seminary in Stuttgart, where he now lives. Dreissig has written several books for children and has five sons.\n\nMaren Briswalter is an acclaimed German illustrator known for her delicate, detailed illustration style. She grew up in the former East Germany and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden and the Offenbach University of Art and Design. Maren has illustrated many children's picture books, including The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Floris Books), and lives with her family near Mainz, Germany.\n\nJonathan Drake is a translator based in Edinburgh, UK.", null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "An activist group’s appeal to the Environment Court over oil and gas rules proposed in a Taranaki council’s district plan is under way.\n\nTEW’s challenge of the district plan was an effort to stop oil and gas companies from drilling and fracking near homes and schools.\n\nFracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is used to extract oil and gas from rock. The controversial process involves drilling down into the earth before water, sand and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure, allowing gas to flow out to the head of the well.\n\nOn Monday, the hearing began in New Plymouth before Judge Jane Borthwick and Environment Commissioners Jim Hodges and James Baines.\n\nOther interested parties to join the appeal include Federated Farmers and Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand (PEPANZ).\n\nSubmissions were made by Richard Garner on behalf of Federated Farmers, and David Allen who represented PEPANZ.\n\nThe trial has been set down for five days and will include a day visit to a number of relative sites across the South Taranaki District. Following the trip, expert witnesses would be called to give evidence.\n\nThe appeal has been an expensive exercise for the small group of environmental activists, who raised $40,000 themselves and received a grant of $40,000 from the Ministry for the Environment for the appeal." ]

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[ "An Opportunity to Respond: Expanding Pathways to Education for Refugee Students", null, "A new RESPONSE campaign aims to build support among universities for a private refugee sponsorship program that would allow refugee students to enter the U.S. and attend university at the same time.\n\nIn February 2021, President Joe Biden lifted the annual refugee resettlement limit to 125,000, well above the cap set by his predecessor. A little more than a year later, the Biden administration announced its plans to welcome 100,000 additional refugees displaced by the war in Ukraine.\n\nThese, and other, moves are part of a renewed push by the United States to increase the number of refugees it admits into the country. But they may not be enough. Some experts have warned that without further adjustments to the country’s resettlement system, the U.S. will be hard-pressed to meet these new goals.\n\nTo increase the number of refugees admitted to the U.S., advocates are promoting the implementation of a new pathway for refugees. In May 2021, the Presidents’ Alliance on Immigration and Higher Education launched the RESPONSE Campaign to advocate for, design, and promote a new university sponsorship program. Under the proposed program, refugee students would be able to enter the U.S. and attend university provided that their institution “accepts primary responsibility for funding and providing core resettlement services.”\n\n“This is a mission we believe in deeply, one that presents an enormous opportunity for higher education, and a model that can change the lives of refugee students,” Miriam Feldblum, co-founder and executive director of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, which is spearheading the campaign, stated during a campaign launch event in December 2021.\n\nBut implementing the program will require significant changes, including adjustments to the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) and the creation of a national entity to coordinate stakeholders and the program’s activities.\n\nThe campaign aims to build support among universities for a private refugee sponsorship program similar to the one outlined by President Biden in a February 4, 2021 Executive Order. It would require that the pathways through which refugees are admitted to the U.S. be expanded. Notably, a new referral category would need to be added to the USRAP: Priority 4 (P-4), which would allow private individuals and organizations willing to provide funding and core resettlement services to sponsor the resettlement of refugees. The students resettled through the program would arrive in the U.S. with refugee status and be eligible to apply for permanent legal status after one year and citizenship after five years.\n\n“College and university sponsorship of refugee students would meet an urgent global need, enrich campuses, and advance core values of higher education. This is the moment for the U.S. to embark on the essential next step in expanding refugee access to higher education,” Feldblum added.\n\nThe need to provide education and safety to forcibly displaced refugee youth is growing. Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, nearly seven million Ukrainians have fled the country and eight million have been displaced internally, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The latest UNHCR data also indicates that more than 100 million individuals around the world have been forcibly displaced, the highest number ever recorded by the agency.\n\nA university sponsorship program could help increase those numbers. “As the global refugee crisis continues to grow, we are excited for the U.S. to embark on this essential next step to create a complementary pathway through private sponsorship. In addition to providing an opportunity for refugees to access higher education, it creates a way for colleges and universities to live out their missions, unleash the talent of refugee students, and expand the diversity and perspectives on campuses across the United States,” Laura Wagner, Presidents’ Alliance Initiative on U.S. Education Pathways for Refugee Students project manager, said.\n\nThe proposed university sponsorship program would supplement both the current student visa system and the USRAP, both of which are ill-adapted to the needs of refugee students. The process of applying for one of the existing student visa categories is complex and does not provide a long-term solution for refugees. The circumstances of refugees often make meeting student visa eligibility requirements difficult. For example, it requires applicants to hold valid passports and provide evidence of sufficient funds to maintain living expenses during their stay. Student visas are also temporary, so students must demonstrate that they will leave the U.S. at the end of their studies or shortly thereafter. At the same time, refugees who arrive under one of the three current USRAP refugee resettlement categories must often prioritize employment and self-sufficiency, leaving limited capacity and funds to enroll at higher education institutions.\n\n“As someone who spent more than twenty years as a refugee, my hope was restored after accessing higher education. University sponsorship will help refugee students obtain a legal residence, increase diversity in different colleges and universities across the nation, and prepare these students for becoming excellent employees,” said Oscar Bahati, project associate for the initiative on U.S Education Pathways for Refugee Students.\n\nEven if the regulatory changes are made, implementing the program will not be easy. It will require close coordination among higher education institutions, the federal government, and overseas partners, among others. “For a small institution like ourselves, sometimes we have all the will in the world, but not necessarily the connection to the students in these crisis zones and\\or to refugee students directly,” Erin Fitzgerald, director of the Center for Global Education and Fellowships at Salve Regina University said during the launch event.\n\nFor this reason, advocates are calling for the creation of an Implementing Organization (IO), a national entity that “would act as a bridge connecting refugee students overseas, higher education institutions (HEIs) in the U.S., and the USRAP.” Among other responsibilities, the IO would identify and match qualified students with U.S. colleges and universities, evaluating their academic skills, including their English proficiency, and their eligibility for admission to the U.S. as refugees.\n\n“What I see the potential in this program is, is through the Implementing Organization— through all the involved parties, non-governmental, and governmental, overseas. And inside the U.S., the opportunity there is for the student, the refugee student to experience this sort of seamless, fully sponsored comprehensive access to education,” Fitzgerald added.\n\nLooking to Our Neighbors\n\nDespite these difficulties, implementation is far from impossible. Similar programs have met with success in other countries. Since 1978, Canada’s Student Refugee Program, which started with one student at Carleton University, has since grown to support more than 2,200 young refugees. Around 85 percent of them found work in their fields after graduation.\n\nA program in the U.S. could work as well. “There are now more than 100 million people who have been forcibly displaced around the world. We need new initiatives to ensure that those seeking refuge can access higher education. The university sponsorship program is an important step for the U.S. in welcoming refugees and helping them thrive here long-term,” said Esther Benjamin, CEO and Executive Director of WES.\n\nBut it will take political will. “We have to show moral leadership, especially as Americans, and we have to find things that we all, in a highly polarized political environment, can agree upon, and helping young people and providing them education is something that can be a common ground between people who otherwise disagree. So it is a necessity, a moral imperative on the part of universities,” Leon Botstein, President of Bard College, said during the launch event.\n\nThere’s Still Time to Sign On to Support Refugee Students.\n\nWe invite college and university presidents, chancellors, and other leaders to join the more than 100 leaders who have already signed on to the Statement of Support for Students and Scholars Fleeing from Violence and Humanitarian Crises. Signing on sends a powerful public message demonstrating higher education leaders’ engagement and interest in supporting displaced and refugee students. Signing on does not commit institutions to enrollment or participation in programs for refugee students, but rather serves as an act of solidarity and support for policies that expand refugee access to higher education. The deadline to sign on is June 10, 2022." ]

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[ "Like many Liberians, entrepreneur Peter Malcolm King knew little about Ebola when the epidemic hit his native country in 2014. But he did understand logistics—and saw that as foreign transportation companies withdrew from the country amid the health crisis, the distribution of medical supplies was under threat, too.\n\nThat’s when King’s company, Global Logistics Services Liberia (GLS Liberia), assumed a lead role in handling incoming airfreight and transporting medical supplies from the airport. Long distances and difficult roads didn’t deter him, but he knew that greater capital and better-trained employees could increase his company’s potential to make a difference.", null, "As a new business owner, King was motivated to grow a competitive company that would perform to international standards and effectively serve the market. So he worked with a local risk capital fund that is part of IFC’s SME Ventures program, and received funding and technical assistance that enabled him to build his fleet and transform the scale of operations.\n\nCivil wars in Liberia created a generation with little or no education, hampering any entrepreneur’s ability to find employees with essential skills. This is a familiar problem in fragile and conflict-affected economies. It contributes to the enormous challenges faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs)—including their need for risk capital, which are forms of loans or equity that involve a higher risk tolerance than bank loans.\n\nIFC’s pioneering SME Ventures program was designed to address some of the key financial and business challenges that hold back high-potential small firms in the world’s most difficult markets. The program provides a unique combination of risk capital and advice to entrepreneurs. Building on the private equity model in which fund managers carefully select and cultivate high-potential firms, IFC provides emerging (and often first-time) fund managers with capital to invest and funding to extend technical assistance to their investee SMEs. The program also works with World Bank Group counterparts to engage governments in developing regulatory frameworks.\n\nSME Ventures now encompasses five funds covering nine fragile and frontier markets—Bangladesh, Burundi, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Nepal, the Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, and Uganda—most of which are countries where no other funds previously existed. SME Ventures has supported more than $50 million in investment into more than 70 high-growth companies in fragile and frontier markets.\n\nBased on these promising results, IFC is expanding SME Ventures into additional fragile and frontier markets, with the goal of investing $500 million in up to 20 funds over the next four years.\n\nIn Liberia, GLS’ growth has already made an impact. New branches throughout the country are expanding the company’s reach as multinational partnerships point toward its even greater potential." ]

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[ null, null, null, null, "The campaign groups, Friends of the Earth and Liberty, has been granted permission to intervene in the case of three anti-fracking protesters who are appealing today against their prison sentences.", null, null, "The justice secretary has been urged to investigate whether the judge who jailed three anti-fracking protesters last month followed an official code of conduct.", null, null, null, "More than 1,000 academics have now signed an open letter supporting a review of last week’s prison sentence given to three men who took part in anti-fracking protests." ]

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[ null, "Three socio- cultural groups, Mdzough U Tiv, Idoma National Forum and Omi Ny’Igede, told reporters at a joint news conference in Abuja that the government failed to prevent the killings of about 20 people.\n\nAccording to them, there was an alleged armed militia build-up and convergence at the Nigeria- Cameroon border and at the Agatu border with Nassarawa State to the Northwest of Benue State.\n\nThe statement said: “We the people of Benue State here represented by the Mdzough U Tiv, Idoma National Forum and Omi Ny’Igede ,the principal umbrella socio- cultural groups of the Tiv., Idoma and Igede nations wish to inform the world of the callous and barbaric unprovoked attack resulting into possible genocide and destruction of lives and properties of the Benue people by Fulani herdsmen which incidence commenced on the 1st January, 2018.\n\n“It was reliably gathered that the leadership of the Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore held clandestine meetings in Nigeria and abroad to visit mayhem and genocide on the people of Benue State.\n\n”The plot was said to be multi- directional and aimed to simultaneously invade and and attack Benue from every angle so that there would be no escape for our defenseless people,” the Organisations said.\n\nThey claimed that over two thousand men, women and children had died since the attacks began five years previously. “Over 500 people are still missing while over half a million people are displaced and the future of almost a million youths truncated.”\n\n“We the people of Benue wish to remind the President that we voted massively for this government to protect us and provide conducive atmosphere for development but the reverse is now the case.\n\n“We also want to remind the President that he swore an oath to defend he citizens of Nigeria but had failed woefully in the discharge of this responsibility in Benue State. The blood of those killed is on the heads of those running the Federal Government,” they added.\n\nThe Presidents of the three organisations: Chief Edward Ujege, Barr. Amali Adoya Amali and Choef Ode Enyi were present at the briefing.\n\nI Got N20k, Phone After Killings – Badoo Member, 18 Years Old" ]

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[ null, "From Liza Minnelli in Cabaret to Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, there are movie beauty looks that define an era. Whether it’s the pencil-thin eyebrows Marlene Dietrich sported in Shanghai Express, or Audrey Hepburn’s signature cat-eye flick in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, they perfectly showcase the trends of the time. In most movies, make-up and hair styling are also an easy way to symbolise the crux of a character and show character development. Take Sabrina for example, the transformation of Audrey Hepburn into a sophisticated woman is indicated at the end of the film with her groomed hair and painted lips. Make-up is still the most powerful tool used in films to show reinvention and truly define a character. Here we pay homage to these Canadian actresses’ most iconic beauty looks in film.\n\nRachel McAdams in The Notebook\n\nOntario native Rachel McAdams pulled off the classic red lip as Allie Calhoun in this weepy romantic drama. Also starring Ryan Gosling, the film tells the story of a young couple who fall in love and after circumstances push them apart, finally rekindle their relationship. Allie is shown noticeably younger at the start of The Notebook, simply by taking away her bold make-up and false lashes. If wearing our hair in a 40s-style curl and applying a long-lasting lipstick gets us our very own bearded carpenter who writes endless love letters, then we’re game.\n\nHailing from Nova Scotia, Ellen Page’s breakthrough role as the titular character in the 2007 film Juno saw her nominated for a BAFTA, Academy Award, Golden Glove and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. Directed by Jason Reitman and co-starring Michael Cera, this film tells the story of her unplanned pregnancy and all the events that follow. Aside from the stripey top and centre parting, the actress’ portrayal as a strong-willed pregnant teen in this indie comedy-drama shows a natural beauty look at its best.\n\nCarrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix\n\nBorn in Burnaby, British Columbia, Carrie-Anne Moss had her breakthrough role when she played Trinity in the science fiction thriller The Matrix alongside Keanu Reeves in 1999. Helping to illustrate the movie’s boundary-pushing, progressive themes, the female lead was clad in a futuristic, black shiny coat, micro sunglasses, sleek cropped hair and bare make-up. Sticking to a gender neutral look, Trinity appearance is designed for the task at hand and with a practicality that shows her mission is her primary focus, rather than that of the male gaze. It became one of the most definitive looks of the decade.\n\nWho could forget this iconic look on Natasha Henstridges in the 1995 science-fiction thriller Species. Playing the genetically engineered alien/human hybrid Sil, she breaks free from the lab and attempts to reproduce. Despite some describing it as a 90s B-movie and being arguably very strange indeed, the actress’ striking natural looks and shoulder-length blonde hair fits right in with the resurgence of 90s trend. Pre transformation in the pool and thumb cutting, of course." ]

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[ "Stopping the Pass in the 4-3 Defense", null, "Utilize press quarters coverage in the 4-3 defense to defend against the pass!\n\nLearn the benefits of the press quarters system and how it can prevent your team from getting beat through the air\nGet a detailed look at how to coach the stance, alignment, technique, and reads of your players in the secondary\nAdjust your coverage to 3x1 formations for when the offense tries to take advantage of favorable match-ups\n\nDo you have a plan to adjust your 4-3 defense to a team that likes to pass the ball? In this video, Pine-Richland High School head coach Eric Kasperowicz shows how he utilizes press quarters coverage in his 4-3 system to ensure his defense doesn't get picked apart through the air.\n\nKasperowicz begins with an overview of press quarters coverage, including his belief of why it is effective against the pass. He also goes in-depth about which type of player he looks for at each position. As an added bonus, you'll get a detailed presentation on the technique of the press corner and what routes they should expect based on the split and type of release the receiver takes.\n\nCoach Kasperowicz diagrams the alignment and pass responsibilities of each player that is involved in pass defense. Additionally, he describes how the linebackers and safeties match up against inside receivers, and how the corners match the outside receivers. You'll get examples of the responsibilities of each player using game footage. Kasperowicz shows:\n\nThe basic alignment and responsibilities for each defender that involved in pass coverage.\nHow to run cover 1 from the same look in order to confuse opponents.\nGame footage examples of each position executing pattern reads and coverage responsibilities against a variety of offensive looks.\nScheme Adjustments\n\nThe presentation concludes with Kasperowicz diagramming how coverage can be adjusted to defend 3x1 formations. He also shows several ways to double cover a receiver, as well as how to add a player into a run fit with common adjustments. You'll learn:\n\nYou just booked \"Stopping the Pass in the 4-3 Defense\"" ]

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[ null, "As they say it’s been a long time between drinks. But in my case there has been many drinks but not much writing. What are the excuses that I can pin it on … broken finger, work and possibly a lack of interest or if I am to be totally honest and say addiction to Asian Teledramas. I know how stupid it sounds but I think it was an escapism. Started with watching Japanese dramas with subtitles with the excuse of learning the language, then I ran out of Jap dramas so I merged to Taiwanese so I started to learn a bit Mandarin. I have now progressed to Korean. Finding Korean hard to learn. Its a bit like French and German, similar grammar patterns but German has a stronger accent making it hard to pronounce than Japanese. The two subjects I started to write about has brought about the writers block. What I am finding out is that travelling is great but writing about it is not so much.\n\nThe other piece that I am currently writing is about my friend whom I lost in the civil war in Sri Lanka. In all my other writings/stories I hardly had to think about the audience. But, somehow in this one I am aware of the audience. Not necessarily because I am scared to upset the Sri Lankan readers, I think the issues that I am touching upon are necessary for reconciliation, it’s an actual snapshot of real life in a war torn country, along with other social issues, in my opinion an unbiased recount of evils of both sides. I am not by any means condoning Terrorism but, I do visit the possible reasons for the birth of one. In this regard feel it’s an important topic for the current climate in the world. Prevention is always better than a cure. My reason for writing this story is probably as most times to heal my heart of losing my dear friend Lalith. I have probably a lot of anger inside me regarding this. But the irony is I come from the clan that killed him. I haven’t settled on a title either. I have changed it so many times “Friendship and war”, “Friend from the other side”, “Friendship across enemy lines” the last one I have come up with is “Ammba Yalluwa” which translates to something like childhood friend/soul mate. I think I might settle with that.\n\nI am usually not worried about offending someone when I write, but in this story I am and that is really having an effect on my writing. Discussing this with my son, he started to say, you can’t really worry about offending people, it’s your thoughts, it’s your reasoning, it’s your point of view. I get that but this subject is a hard one. This is not a subject where I tell a Christian what I think of his Anti Gay sentiments. The wounds go deeper than that in this. As a Tamil who lived amongst the Sinhalese and understood them way better than my own kith and kin from Jaffna (north of Sri Lanka) my so called unbiased views may not sit well with those who were tortured by the Sri Lankan Army. My views on why Terrorism grew in Sri Lanka will not be accepted by the Sinhalese either. My sister-in-laws friend and mum who had to witness her two brothers and her dad being burnt alive will never accept my theories and explanations about the Sinhalese. Lalith’s family never thought that all tamils were terrorists and they all had to die. However, wrong that theory is, I will have to accept that anger. Arj (my son) said something that really hit the nail. “Emotions aren’t rational, there is no way you could explain to kid in Syria that the Americans are nice people” All that kid has, heard, seen and experienced is the opposite. It is such a charged subject, I want to do justice to this story, but I am so torn as well.\n\nI started to write about Goa and I have written two paragraphs of my other project. So, lets start about Goa. Today’s topic is Goan food, music and culture.\n\nMaybe the reason I fell in love with Goa is due to the similarities of Goa and Sri Lanka. They were both Portuguese Colonies and hence the similarities I guess. But it’s just uncanny how similar Goa is to Sri Lanka and how different it is to the rest of India.", null, "The above is stuffed okra. That was one of my favourite dishes (that I took a photo of before digging into it first). I don’t think Sri Lanka has a stuffed okra dish, but similar to stuffed banana chillies. Similar dishes are pan rolls (in sri lanka we call them Chinese rolls not sure why because I don’t think the Chinese are aware of that roll), muscat (Goan’s call it Bibinka) and Thothal", null, null, "The best thing about it is that they view these as possible breakfast items and it is on the hotel breakfast buffet. Yes, of course I thought I was in heaven.\n\nThe curries are so different to the normal Indian Cuisine. A curry with the Rechad spice mix a must try. Fish is big in Goa. Not sure, if the laws have changed in the recent months but at the time we were there, Goa is one of the places in India where you can buy beef and alcohol in Restaurants rather freely. Most places in India have a ban on beef due to the cow being a revered animal as most of them claim to be Hindu’s. Not sure which part of Hinduism says its okay to eat all other meats but not beef, per my understanding of the religion all meats were out as it was considered to be killing another animal. I guess that’s another argument/beef (sorry for the dad pun, couldn’t help myself) for another day.\n\nClothing/culture: Goa is still kind of part of South India. The South India that I know is very conservative. Goa not so much or not at all. It’s a party town. Again very similar to Sri Lanka, Negambo in particular. Night life is very alive, and not just filled with tourists, this is mainly by the locals. Ladies in pretty sexy clothes, having a drink or two or more. Nothing atrocious, but no conservative woman in a saree with flowers in her hair sitting quietly in a corner.\n\nMusic: At these live music places its all English music, the one place we were at was all 80’s gems. But their local music is very similar to the Sri Lankan Baila. Again I think we can thank the Portuguese for that.\n\nOk the above is just a clip from the youtube to give you an idea of the Goan music, next I will post one from the Sri Lankan Baila to show you the similarities\n\nMemories are a bit vague now, but I think the two places that we tried out was Tito’s and Kohi bar. Personal preference is Tito’s but I guess for the young ones Kohi Bar may be more attractive.\n\nJust like in Sri Lanka Goa produces a lot of Spices as well Cashews. Cashew snacks are very similar to Sri Lanka as well. They go one better and have produced an alcohol drink with it as well called “Feni”, Looks clear like Vodka, as a shot it feels pretty potent, but great in a cocktail.", null, "I like to end it here for today. Adeus (good bye in Konkani – Goan language)\n\nI am a beginner to all this blogging. Recently found a passion for writing. Not sure if I am a good enough writer to publish a REAL book. I am probably using this as a testing platform to see if I attract enough interest. I was born in Sri Lanka, now for the last 26 years living in Australia. So am I a Sri Lankan or Australian, it changes time to time. Lets say I am not ashamed to say I am a Sri Lankan but I think my affections lie with Australia. I am a cancer survivor, marriage survivor, war (civil war) survivor and what ever else the world/destiny has thrown at me. So my blog I guess would be about all those things. Humour is Huge for me, fairness is huge for me, I question everything religion, cultural beliefs, Political decisions. So watch out for some some fireworks laced with humour. View All Posts\n\nwe did it our way\n\nWe're Carine and Derek, 2 fun-loving Canadians who quit our jobs and travel the world. We want to inspire you to live your best life and follow your own rules" ]

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[ "The Phillies added some speed to their organization Thursday when they signed outfielder Willie Taveras to a contract.\n\nTaveras is known for his speed on the bases.\n\nThe Dominican native burst onto the scene in 2005 with the National League Champion Houston Astros. He batted .291 that season with 34 steals and 82 runs as he finished second in Rookie of the Year voting.\n\nHe posted a league-high 68 steals with the 2008 Rockies but since then has declined in stints with the Reds and Nationals.\n\nTaveras has had some flashes since then but mostly has fallen off. The Nats released him last month after batting only .200 with one steal and four RBI in 37 plate appearances.\n\nHe has 195 steals and 358 runs in 670 career games so he will likely serve as a stop gap for the Phillies in case a guy like Shane Victorino gets injured.\n\nThe 28-year-old will report to Triple-A Lehigh Valley, according to the team.", null, "After Losing to Russian, US Swimmer Says He's Not Sure Final Was ‘100% Clean'\n\nWillie T basically will replace one-time major leaguer Dewayne Wise who opted out of his deal with the Phillies after middling in Lehigh Valley so far this season." ]

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[ null, "The Elder Scrolls Online will soon expand once more. Morrowind is coming out June 6th and fans of the MMORPG are itching to get their hands on the", null, "expansion. Opening up this classic Elder Scrolls location, long time fans of the series are excited to take a look at the new class and area(s). The Warden, with it’s beast campaign are only a small part of this expansive new addition. Morrowind is expected to bring an entirely new area just waiting to be explored. Let’s take a look at what we can expect to see from the new expansion.\n\nMorrowind’s cinematic trailer begins with an incredible chase scene where the new class, the Warden, makes their first appearance. Showing off the class’s abilities in a dramatic combat sequence, it gives an idea of how the character can be used. Entering the fight with their tell tale bear pet, the Warden eventually shows up swinging a two handed sword. Wearing what seems to be heavy armor but casting spells, this class is sure to bring with it a few surprises. Also, a new enemy rears its ugly head as the trailer fades out which just leads to the imagination going wild. Find the trailer below to get a look at this hype inducing 3 minutes.\n\nToday, 5/23/17 Game Informer held a live stream of Morrowind showing off the new Warden class. This lets fans see exactly how the Warden will handle on PC. Still the question is up in the air what the end-game will look like in this latest addition to Elder Scrolls Online. This glimps into Morrowing is surly just a peak throught he keyhole.\n\nThere will be something a little different with Morrowind besides the in-game content. Morrowind is an expansion rather than a regular DLC. This will means players can expect even more content than a normal DLC but this also comes at a price. Listed on the Playstation store, the Morrowind expansion will cost $39.99 but right now there’s a 10% discount for pre-orders.\n\nAll this information gives the world a pretty good idea of what the final edition of Morrowind might look like and play like on PC and console. Some PC gamers have already been playing Morrowind on early access, but it’s common for developers to add patches and updates to improve the content or gameplay once it is officially released.\n\nBe sure to check back on GigamaxGames.com for the latest coverage on the new expansion. Get ready for new video’s, articles and discussions surrounding this new leg in the Elder Scrolls Online saga. Being huge fans of the serious. this game will take the crew on an incredible journey and they want to take you along for the ride. If you’re still on the fence about spending almost $40 extra dollars on the new ESO expansion, stick around for our impressions." ]

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[ "Sony: These models get Android 11", null, "Android 11 has been around for a while now. Now Sony has announced which of its own devices will be supplied with the update.\n\nThe rollout of Android 11 should begin this month. First of all, only the Xperia 1 II gets the update. The next two models will be on the line at the end of January, these are the Xperia 5 II and the Xperia 10 II. The Xperia 1 and Xperia 5 bring up the rear. These will only get the latest version of Google's operating system towards the end of February.\n\nSony distributes Android 11: this is new\n\nAndroid 11 brings some interesting innovations with it. One of the big topics is the display of notifications. Chats are now displayed as a conversation bubble (similar to Facebook Messenger) and messages can also be better managed on the lockscreen. Among other things, the display of the media playback has been slightly improved, so you can now easily switch between headphones and the integrated speakers, for example. All further details about the changes can be found in the article linked above.\n\nVia: Press release via email" ]

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[ null, "Theodoros II, pope and patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa\nMonastery of Bose, 4-7 September 2013\nXXI International Ecumenical Conference\nFrom Alexandria we pray for the restoration of unity, love, forgiveness, justice, and peace in humanity\n\nTHE AGES OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE\n\nIt constitutes an exceptional source of spiritual jubilation that I have the opportunity to address the organizers of and participants to the XXI International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox spirituality, convened in Bose to contemplate over and discuss about the Ages of Spiritual Life. Your thematic choice amounts to a tangible proof that spirituality is more than ever necessary in our materialistic, consumerist, technocratic times. Thus wholehearted congratulations should be expressed to His Very Reverence Fr. Enzo Bianchi, Prior of Bose, who has creatively worked so as this Conference to take place and enrich Christian theology with its proceedings on annual base.\n\nFor Christian theology, the Church of Alexandria is the one that turned the universality of the world created by Alexander the Great and his Diadochs into a catalytic force for the spread of Christian truth. It is the Church within which the word of God triangulated with the two most ancient civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Egyptian and the Greek.\n\nNonetheless the kudos of a Christian institution is not judged only by the footprint it leaves on the passage of time, while it is in its prime. Much more it is judged by the patience and persistence that showcases to maintain intact Christian tradition in the desert of time. After two millennia, the Church of Alexandria, from the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity, keeps on disseminating the diachronic ecumenical message of Christianity, as this was preserved and proclaimed over time by the successors of the Apostle Mark, in Africa.\n\nFrom Alexandria we pray for the restoration of unity, love, forgiveness, justice, and peace in humanity. We work on the field so as people both in the Middle East and in Africa, citizens and politicians, to build a culture of coexistence based on mutual respect of individual and collective cultural and religious references. We assert the self-consciousness of Orthodoxy that man, as God's image, has roots, incomparably superior to the irrational instincts that trigger senseless violence. We do not lose our hope that soon the harsh reality of suffering and ordeal will give its position to the resurgence of humanity, because God is revealed not in power but in truth; the truth of His love for the crest of His creation; the human being.\n\nTherefore, wishing every success to your Conference, I urge all of you to unite with us in praying, especially now that the drums of war once again vociferously beat and opposing sides once again venture in opening the Pandora’s Box in the Middle East, without being able to predict the outcome of such an action.\n\nFervently praying to the Almighty God,\n\nTheodoros II\npope and patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa" ]

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[ null, "Elinore is a contemporary representational painter who uses real scenes to evoke and celebrate the complexities of disconnectedness and emptiness in a world of global connectedness and a desire for transcendence in a secular world. Reflections, and motion when caught with a camera, create transparencies and multiple layers that become the building blocks from which Elinore’s paintings are constructed. The layers are woven together, creating patterns that become ways of seeing the immediate world in front of us, behind us, and multiple views in between. The reflected reality is often visually indistinguishable from the physical reality, the two blending together in a flattened and collage-like way. Elinore works in a studio in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and in January 2014, she unveiled a triptych mural of the interior of Grand Central Terminal, for the lobby of 4540 Center Blvd, a residential tower in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Her most recent solo show was at the H. Pelham Curtis Gallery at the New Canaan Library in New Canaan, Connecticut in 2014; in 2011 she was one of four artists representing the United States in Nordart 2011 at Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Budelsdorf, Germany. Previous solo exhibitions were at the Atlanta Art Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, Capricorn Galleries in Bethesda, Maryland, and the DFN Gallery in New York City, to name a few. Elinore is the 1986 recipient of the Thomas B. Clarke Award for figurative painting at the National Academy of Design (now, National Academy Museum) in New York and the Second Place Award at the Butler Institute of American Art Midyear in 2002. She also received an NEA Grant and a NYFA fellowship during these years. Her paintings are in museum collections including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Museum of the City of New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, to name a few, and she has paintings in more than 50 corporate collections, such as McKinsey and Co. and Pfizer Inc., and hundreds of private collections in this country and abroad. Elinore Schnurr continues to explore life and art through figurative paintings." ]

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[ "Dealing with the Loneliness of Mental Illness in India\n\nDealing with the Loneliness of Mental Illness in India", null, "There’s a reason many of us have trouble sharing our personal battles with mental illness. The reason is the label our society has put on mental health; that anyone who visits a mental health specialist is “crazy,” or “insane.” Mental illness is treated as a passing phase or a hedonistic lifestyle here in India.\n\nLiving in India and having bipolar disorder, I have faced many such circumstances. In our society, having bipolar disorder or any other mental illness is considered a luxury or a lifestyle choice that someone made. It is a “rich person’s disease.” The treatment is expensive and often inaccessible for most of us.\n\nIn my personal experience, this has become a bigger problem over the last few years. Appointments with mental health specialists — psychologists, psychiatrists and psychotherapists — were still obtainable in the time span of 2005-2009, when I was diagnosed with depression, PTSD, anxiety disorder and bipolar disorder after my mother’s untimely death in 2004.\n\nBut the face of mental health has changed drastically over the last few years in India. Now, we have to make an appointment at least one or two months prior to see a psychiatrist, which makes it extremely difficult for some of us who live with bipolar disorder to know when we would need a change of medication with the ups and downs of our moods.\n\nTreatment is also extremely expensive, making it hard for us to go for regular therapy sessions. Others don’t even get a chance to see a specialist, making them suffer in silence until it becomes unbearable.\n\nEven though people are more aware of mental illness in India, more than they were a few years back, there’s still a taboo attached to it. There’s a general assumption that the person suffering has made it up in their minds and it can be wished away at their own will.\n\nMental illness is seen as a sign of imperfection, humiliation and rejection by family, friends and relatives. It brings an amount of embarrassment and guilt to the person suffering from mental illness, making them keep it a lifelong secret.\n\nIn spite of the taboo in our society, though, celebrities like Deepika Padukone, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma have opened up and spoken boldly about their personal battles with depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety. This changed the minds of many, but not all.\n\nMental illness is still perceived as a flaw in our society. People like being ignorant towards the fact that mental illnesses are very real, just like diabetes or cancer. Suicide takes more lives than any physical ailment.\n\nPeople need to be aware of the fact that mental illness doesn’t discriminate. Pretty, ugly, rich, poor, skinny, fat, privileged, underprivileged, it can happen to anyone, it makes no difference.\n\nPeople suffering from mental illnesses don’t look like their illness because it is not a facial expression; it doesn’t mean it is nonexistent. We have come a long way. It is time for India to start a conversation about mental illness. To understand that it is nothing different than physical pain, and that it should be taken much more seriously.\n\nIt is important to help people in silent agony speak up." ]

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[ "As with the previous franchise shifts in 1950’s, the Washington Senators’ move to Minnesota prior to the 1961 season was driven by socio-economic forces, shifting demographics and an outmoded ballpark. The owner, Calvin Griffith, wanted to move earlier than ’61 but was blocked by the American League owners, who didn’t want to leave the nation’s capital without the “national pastime” and risk the wrath of Congress.\n\nThe AL solved this conundrum by creating two new franchises. Griffith was granted permission to relocate to the “Land of Ten Thousand Lakes,” and a new Senators expansion franchise would fill the void in DC. The Los Angeles Angels were born in ’61 as well, which gave the AL an even ten teams.\n\nTo avoid slighting either Minneapolis or St. Paul, the transplanted squad was christened Minnesota. Plus, Metropolitan Stadium was not located in either city but in the suburb of Bloomington. Thus, baseball’s first team representing a whole state joined the junior circuit. The club adopted a “TC” emblem for the caps to recognize the “Twin Cities.”", null, null, "Unlike the other transplanted teams of the ‘50s, Topps didn’t try to guess as to the uniform design or cap emblem. The Twins cards in the first four series all feature players without caps or with the cap logo airbrushed over. For example, Harmon Killebrew shows off the effects of “male pattern baldness” and future Seattle Pilot Don Mincher appears to wonder what happened to his cap emblem.", null, "The first Twin shows up early in the first series at card #4 in the numerical sequence. A bare headed Lenny Green appears to be “dazed and confused” at the prospect of no longer calling DC home.", null, "But, the “real” first Twin on a card is Italian born and Canadian bred Reno Bertoia. with card #392 in the fifth series. This is obviously an authentic “TC” emblem from a photo taken in spring training in 1961. Other players wearing real caps are: Billy Consolo, Ralph Lumenti and Jose Valdivelso.", null, "My favorite 1961 Twins card is the Earl Battey All-Star card, in the sixth and final series. The card back states that Earl was a participant in the first of the two All-Star games in ‘61. However, Earl wasn’t on the roster for either game. His first AS appearance didn’t happen until ’62. Topps must have guessed Earl would be selected, based on his good first-half of the season. This is the only 1961 card that shows the Twins’ new uniform.", null, "As with the players’ cards, Topps didn’t try to make the ’60 Senators appear as Twins on the team picture card. It is noted on the front that these are the former Senators.", null, null, null, "Interestingly, Topps couldn’t settle on whether to abbreviate “Minnesota” on the card backs or even which abbreviation to use. There are three variations: Minnesota Twins, Minn. Twins or Min. Twins. Interestingly, it doesn’t always appear to be related to the length of the players name. The font size should allow for Minnesota to be printed on all the cards.", null, "Even though it evokes “Grinch-like” responses from readers of this blog, I will soon gift you with another installment of the “first card” for transplanted teams series. But first, I’m going to leave this “Cookie” for Santa.\n\n4 thoughts on “From the Land of Sky Blue Waters”" ]

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[ "After my last weigh in prior to Noah’s birthday, I had promised myself that after a gain, I would be back on plan. As usual, the week started off well but slowly went down hill when it got to the weekend and we went out for N’s birthday meal, so then we had cake, and then we went out for the day on his actual birthday, then we had a picnic style dinner, and then I just kind of continued with the rubbish food as I was feeling really low too and I tend to be an emotional eater… Until it got to a couple of days before weigh in day and I tried to do some damage limitation, as usual!\n\nEven after a gain once again at weigh in, it didn’t really change anything as I was still feeling not up to it and just ate a load of rubbish again, like last week, up until a couple of days before getting weighed and then tried damage limitation, again! I was really kicking myself as I knew I needed to get my head back in the game but I just couldn’t.\n\nSaying that, I did have some meals on plan – here is the Insta evidence…\n\nSo, on to weigh in. Last week I went totally expecting a huge gain, so was actually pleasantly surprised (but still annoyed with myself) when the scales showed a 1lb gain. As I said above, it didn’t really tend to give me a kick up the butt, and so this week I went expecting another big gain. Once again, I was pleasantly surprised that the scales only showed a 1lb gain, but the fact that the number was heading back down into the previous stone loss, did give me that much needed kick up the rear end! I’m now almost the weight I was after Christmas, again, and we are almost one quarter of the way into the year. We have Jacob’s birthday this weekend but apart from going to Pizza Hut, I am going to be on plan as much as I can. I WANT that target now!", null, "How have you been doing recently?" ]

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[ null, "The randomized controlled trial (RCT) may be the gold standard of clinical research, but not all RCTs are created equal. In the December 20, 2017 issue of The Journal, Kay et al. set out to determine the historical quality of more than 400 RCTs relating to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction published between 1985 and 2016.\n\nThe authors evaluated the studies using the Detsky quality index (on which a score of ≥75% is considered “high” methodological quality) and the CONSORT checklist. Fifty-two percent of the studies analyzed were surgical trials (graft choice, femoral fixation method, and single- vs double-bundle techniques), while 48% were nonsurgical trials (analgesic and rehabilitation regimens).\n\nThe authors noted a substantial increase in the number of ACL RCTs over time, although that number has not changed significantly since 2009, which is coincidentally the year that JBJS and many other journals required authors to use the CONSORT flow diagram. Notably, the reporting of methodologically sound randomization processes and the prospective calculation of sample sizes have also improved significantly in recent years.\n\nWhile the authors are encouraged that “close to 50% of trials in this study reported blinding of outcome assessors,” they say areas for improvement include better “descriptions of allocation concealment and intent-to-treat analyses.”\n\nDo you know the answer to the JJBJS Clinical Classroom Challenge of the Week. ⁠\nCervical-Thoracic Epidural Hematoma Associated with a T1 Clay-Shoveler Fracture in a Pediatric Patient⁠\nLooking for CME opportunities? JBJS is always adding new activities and exams, some in single subspecialties and others covering a broad range of topics. Whether you have 30 minutes or a few hours: JBJS has options that fit your schedule. ⁠\nJBJS Classic - Transactions of the American Orthopedic Association, September 1891⁠\nWith over 4,000 learning probes and more added regularly, JBJS Clinical Classroom keeps surgeons current with the latest research, procedures, and information in 11 subspecialties. ⁠\nIn this episode of #OrthoJOE🎙️🎧, Marc and Mo are joined by special guests Ann Van Heest (Professor and Director of Education in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota) and Laurie Hiemstra (Orthopaedic Surgeon at Banff Sport Medicine and soon-to-be President-Elect of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association) in an illuminating discussion on the challenges faced by women in the field of orthopaedics—and, more importantly, what can be done to address these challenges. ⁠" ]

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[ "Bill Cosby out of prison after serving nearly 3 years\n\nBill Cosby had said he expected to serve out his full sentence after his sexual assault conviction because he would not express remorse.", null, "The ruling came down early Wednesday afternoon and within a couple of hours, the comedian once known as “America’s Dad\" was out from behind bars.\n\nCosby had been found guilty of drugging and violating Temple University sports administrator Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.\n\nAt the time of his release Wednesday, Cosby had served nearly three years of a three- to 10-year sentence.\n\nIn 2019, Cosby made it clear he expected to serve out his sentence and would not express remorse saying, “I have eight years and nine months left,” Cosby was quoted as saying. “When I come up for parole, they’re not going to hear me say that I have remorse,\" USA Today reported.\n\nAerial footage Wednesday afternoon showed Cosby being helped from a car and returning to his home in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.\n\nCosby was the first celebrity tried and convicted in the #MeToo era.\n\nThe former “Cosby Show” star was arrested in 2015, when a district attorney armed with the comic's damaging deposition testimony in a lawsuit brought by Constand, brought about charges days before the 12-year statute of limitations ran out.\n\nCredit: AP\nFILE - In this Sept. 24, 2018 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sentencing hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse, in Norristown, Pa.\n\nThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court said that District Attorney Kevin Steele, who made the decision to arrest Cosby, was obligated to stand by his predecessor, Bruce Castor, and his promise not to charge Cosby. There was no evidence that promise was ever put in writing, the Associated Press reported.\n\nIn that same report, it was noted that Justice David Wecht said Cosby had relied on the former district attorney's word, in a decision not to charge him, when the comedian gave his potentially incriminating testimony in the Constand’s civil case." ]

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[ "Christopher Norris, 28, died in an inbounds avalanche while skiing on the Mary Jane side of Winter Park in 2012.\n\nAvalanches within the boundaries of open runs at Colorado ski resorts are an inherent danger, and operators do not have to warn skiers or close runs, even when risk is high, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.\n\nThe 2-1 decision, which immunizes resorts from claims after avalanche-related deaths or injuries, is the first of its kind in the country, said Jim Chalat, a Colorado ski attorney. He said the decision is likely to influence courts in other states with similar ski-safety laws.\n\n“There hasn’t been a prior case where an avalanche (on an open run) is considered a statutory inherent risk of skiing,” said Chalat, who has practiced ski law for more than three decades.\n\nWhile the Colorado ski-safety act — which spells out responsibilities for skiers and snowboarders and grants immunity to ski operators from “inherent dangers” of the sport — does not specifically refer to avalanches, it does include changing snow and weather conditions.\n\n“An avalanche is itself a danger resulting from certain conditions of snow, and the degree of danger is affected by ‘changing weather conditions’ across ‘variations of steepness and terrain,’ “ the majority wrote. “We thus construe the definition of inherent dangers and risks of skiing … to include an avalanche.”\n\n“If the General Assembly wishes to hold ski areas accountable for avalanche-related injuries or deaths,” the judges wrote, “it should amend the act.”\n\nThe ruling, which is expected to be appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court, follows increased avalanche warnings in the state this week and the deaths of two people in backcountry avalanches.\n\nThe wrongful-death suit was brought by the wife of Christopher Norris, a 28-year-old who died in an inbounds avalanche in Winter Park’s Trestle Trees in 2012. The morning of the day that the father of two died, the Colorado Avalanche Information Center warned of “widespread dangerous avalanche conditions” and recommended that skiers and snowboarders “enjoy the powder in the safety of the ski area.”\n\nHis wife, Salyndra Fleury, argued that the ski area was aware of danger warnings and “knew or should have known” that the tree area was unsafe. But Grand County District Court Judge Mary C. Hoak ruled the resort wasn’t required to post warning signs or close the run. Avalanches, she said, are an inherent danger of skiing. The appellate court upheld her decision.", null ]

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[ null, "(UVALDE, Texas) — Uvalde parents are still protesting outside the school administration offices after a full week, in an attempt to get UCISD officers suspended pending the independent review of the shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, in which 19 children and two adults were killed.\n\nBrett Cross, guardian of 10-year-old victim Uziyah Garcia, has not left the building site since last Tuesday morning, sleeping overnight in a cot and receiving food deliveries and messages of support from across the country.\n\n“I am still out here and the plan is to stay,” Cross told ABC News. “The goal is the same since we started this, we will stay here until those officers are held accountable.”\n\nBoth Brett and his wife Niki Cross have posted updates on social media to document their efforts.\n\nOne video shows 19 backpacks and two teachers’ tote bags lined up outside the building in remembrance of the victims, captioned, “These lives are who we are fighting for and I’m gonna make damn sure that this administration remembers them.”\n\nIn another video posted Tuesday, Brett said, “Everything that they’re doing is reactionary instead of proactive,” referring to office security upgrades that have gone into place since he’s been there.\n\nTraffic gates with a combination padlock were installed at the administrative building only days after protestors arrived, while fencing and security measures at the district’s schools are not complete more than a month into the school session.\n\nCross says he has not heard from the school district superintendent or his staff since their 8-minute meeting on Friday morning, which Cross live-streamed on Twitter. During that meeting, Superintendent Hal Harrell told Cross the district was conducting an investigation of the events on May 24 but officers were needed for campus patrol.\n\n“We have had no communication with the school district,” Cross told ABC News. “They’ve made some adjustments on how they enter the building, but that’s it.”\n\nThe school district did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment on Wednesday.\n\nIn a Sept. 30 internal memo to the school district obtained by ABC News, Harrell told teachers, “We do not condone this group’s behavior and are seeking an end to the disruption. We are working to identify state or local partners who are willing to assist us in restoring peace.”\n\nThere have been no reports of violence and no police intervention into the gathering to date, though Texas Department of Public Safety Officers have been present throughout the week.\n\n“At this time, we do not have an expected completion date for the reviews,” she said in an emailed statement to ABC News." ]

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[ "When I walked into Wind River, I had no idea what to expect. I didn’t even know this film existed until I got to the movie theater. I had originally planned on watching Atomic Blonde but instead chose this. The poster intrigued me. Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch together in a film once again? The stars alone made me buy the ticket and check it out. Not only that, but I learned this was a movie by Taylor Sheridan? The man behind Hell or High Water and Sicario? Of course this needed my full attention.", null, "What I loved about the film:", null, "Great performances from both leads!\n\nWhat I disliked about the film:", null, "Such an interesting character, wish they explored him a bit more.\n\nOverall, I thought Wind River had few faults and many amazing things going for it. It was a wonderful surprise and I appreciated all that it had to offer. It was a powerful film and not for the faint of heart. It is definitely something you should go into with a serious mindset and with a strong gut. With all the summer blockbuster fatigue it’s nice to see a great film pop up that doesn’t always deal with end of the world scenarios and instead deals with the lives of people who survive everyday.\n\nI give Wind River a 9.5/10, a seriously great addition to Taylor Sheridan’s repertoire of stellar films and a great drama murder mystery." ]

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[ "The Internet of Things Industry is About to Heat Up\n\nOf the four stages that must be worked through before IoT becomes commonplace, we’re still only in the first one—operational efficiency.", null, "A couple of years ago when companies like Cisco Systems and Sierra Wireless were heralding the arrival of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), visions of automated homes and one-touch changes in manufacturing operations created quite a buzz.\n\nBut as is the case with most sweeping technological advances (like the advent of 3D printers), the rise of the IoT still looms. It’s just taking longer than the earlier outlooks implied.\n\nPavan Singh, of industry-centric website IoT Agenda, says of the four stages we’ll need to work our way through before IoT becomes commonplace, we’re still only in the first one—operational efficiency. The next of the four stages is the launch of actual new products and services, followed by outcome-based initiatives, and finally, the establishment of an autonomous pull-based economy where users of IoT technologies want and expect the availability of these platforms that help make and save money. In the last stage, every aspect of a product is automated, from creation to final consumption.\n\nShow Me the Money: IoT and the Supply Chain" ]

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[ "Cocktail of the Week: Sweet Vermouth on the Rocks with a Twist\n\nHenry Jeffreys\nNo Comments on Cocktail of the Week: Sweet Vermouth on the Rocks with a Twist\n\nToday’s cocktail is inspired by one of the greatest films of the ‘90s, Groundhog Day. Ordered by Andie MacDowell, mocked by Bill Murray, it is, of course, a Sweet Vermouth on the Rocks with a Twist. And to make this cinematic serve, we’re looking at a new range of vermouths from The Aperitivo! Co.\n\nOk, well we’re probably pushing the word cocktail to the limits with today’s drink, a Sweet Vermouth on the Rocks with a Twist. Even capitalising it looks a bit wrong. A serve is probably a better way of describing it as there’s only one liquid ingredient. But there is a bittering agent so let’s just run with it.\n\nWe’re covering it because it features in one of the best drink exchanges in cinema history, between Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell in Groundhog Day. He orders a “Jim Beam, ice, water,” and she orders “a sweet vermouth, on the rocks with a twist.” He makes a face but notes her choice of drink so he can impress her when he lives the day again the following day. I’m sure we don’t have to explain the plot of Groundhog Day to readers.\n\nAnd so next time, to her amazement, he orders “sweet vermouth, rocks, with a twist,” and then follows it up with: “It always makes me think of Rome, the way the sun hits the buildings.” She replies: “That’s my favourite drink.” He then spoils the burgeoning connection by making a toast to “the groundhog” rather than “world peace.”\n\nBill Murray’s expression at 29 seconds in the clip above is one of the funniest grimaces ever captured on camera. Perhaps only bettered by Charlie MacLean’s wince in the advert for Eldorado tonic wine.\n\nSo, what is Murray’s problem? Well, if you’re used to just drinking bourbon on the rocks then sweet vermouth will seem very, well, sweet. Also, you never know, it might have been an old bottle of Martini Rosso that had been hanging about since Ghostbusters came out.\n\nWell, ignore Murray’s expression if you can because a sweet vermouth on the rocks with a twist is a fine drink. We might think of vermouth as primarily a cocktail ingredient in a Martini or Manhattan but as a mixture of wine, botanicals, sugar and alcohol, it is essentially a cocktail in a bottle\n\nDo as the Italians and Spanish do and drink it neat just with some ice and a slice of orange. That sweetness makes it wonderful for all kinds of difficult ingredients like boquerones (anchovies in vinegar). In fact, it’s a great friend with all kinds of tapas-type food. No wonder it’s so popular at aperitivo hour in Barcelona or Venice.", null, "It works as a digestif too\n\nThis is just where the inspiration for The Aperitivo! Co. came from. Founder Richard Tring, a Bristolian restauranter, noticed how many gins there were on the British market, and had what he describes as a “moment of clarity.” It “seemed absurd” to him that when the two most popular gin cocktails, the Martini and Negroni, required vermouth, there weren’t more domestic brands out there\n\nThis was the start of his vermouth journey but in the beginning, things didn’t go particularly smoothly. Despite over 17 years in the drinks business, his experiments were less than successful. “We portioned off three months to make a sweet and dry recipe,” he said, “we got nowhere. It wasn’t recognisable as vermouth.”\n\nHe was running two restaurants at the time, Red Light and a small taqueria, but when the lockdown restrictions came in he was able to concentrate fully on vermouth. In the end, it all came down to trial and error, and having the time to devote to getting it right. “Had we not had all this enforced spare time we would not have got anywhere,” he said.\n\nAfter some experimentation, the base for all his products is a Macabeo/ Airen white wine from Spain. He tried a Bordeaux blend but it didn’t have the acidity and he couldn’t get a consistent supply of English wine. According to Tring, he wanted to make a: “proper consistent product which would be the house vermouth in restaurants and bars”, so it had to be the “correct price and a consistent taste”.\n\nIt was meant to be a side project to supply wine to his restaurants but it has become a full-time business. Tring sold up his share of the business and turned the taqueria into a vermuteria. He described Aperitivo! Co. as “the phoenix from the flames of my restaurants”.", null, "The packaging is pretty tasty too\n\nThere are three versions\n\nLyon is a classic dry French-style vermouth bottled at 18% ABV. “This was the hardest one to crack as there’s no sugar to hide behind.” It was designed to be the ultimate Martini vermouth, “with a major citrus kick,” but also good sipped neat. He settled on a recipe that mixed pink grapefruit and lemon with fennel. It’s rested to allow a certain oxidation and melding of flavours.\n\nThere’s Reus, a delicious medium dry Spanish style blanco at 16% ABV which is flavoured with violets, sage and almond with that nuttiness set off by the addition of a small amount of Fino sherry.\n\nAnd finally, there’s Turin, an Italian style rosso. The kind of thing that Andie MacDowell would enjoy. The aim was to make something that would have the flavour and bitterness to stand up to Campari in a Negroni and bourbon/ rye in a Manhattan. Tring said he wanted to avoid the “cold mulled wine” thing you get in some vermouth so though it does have classic winter spices like cloves, it really majors on the orange. He uses three types of orange plus the holy trinity of bittering agents: wormwood, gentian and cinchona. “The acidity of the base wine stops it from being cloying,” he said.\n\nNevertheless, I’m with Bill Murray here, it is a little too sweet for me just to drink on the rocks with a twist. But it does what it’s designed to do and works beautifully in a Negroni and a Manhattan. Meanwhile, the Lyon dry version melds perfectly into a Martini but I also found myself adding splashes when cooking vegetables to add a zing of citrus and fennel. But it was the Reus, the Spanish version, that was the most successful drunk on the rocks with a twist. Throw in some anchovies in vinegar, and I think even Bill Murray might enjoy it.\n\nThe Aperitivo! Co. range is available from Master of Malt. Click here to buy.", null, "50ml Aperitivo! Co. Turin (or Reus is if you’re Bill Murray)\nA twist of orange peel\n\nAdd the vermouth to an ice-filled tumbler, stir and express a twist of orange over the top and drop in. Raise a glass to ‘world peace.’\n\nA love letter to Dukes Bar" ]

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[ null, "Baron \"Scooter\" Pikes was handcuffed when an officer fired a Taser at him nine times in 14 minutes, say police.\nSTORY HIGHLIGHTS\nRELATED TOPICS\n\nWinnfield, Louisiana (CNN) -- A judge has sealed a potentially explosive videotape taken in the aftermath of a racially charged incident in this small central Louisiana town two years ago.\n\nThe suspect, Baron \"Scooter\" Pikes, was handcuffed during each separate Taser incident, according to the Winnfield Police Department. The officer who fired the Taser, Scott Nugent, is white. Pikes, who was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital, was black.\n\nCNN's account of the incident in the summer of 2008 relied on interviews at the time with the local parish coroner, the police and an attorney for the family of the victim.\n\nWinn Parish Coroner Dr. Randy Williams told CNN that in his opinion, Nugent had violated every police procedure for using a Taser on a suspect. Moreover, contrary to initial police reports, Williams told CNN that there was no trace of drugs in Pikes' system. The coroner ruled the death a homicide. Subsequently, the officer was fired following a long civil service hearing and is now on trial for manslaughter in Winnfield.\n\nAt the time, a lawyer for Nugent, Phillip Terrell, told CNN that his client had, in fact, followed proper procedure and that Pikes was resisting arrest and had fought with Nugent before being struck by the Taser.\n\nThe video sealed Monday by the judge shows the aftermath of Nugent's Taser use, according to sources who have seen the tape. They told CNN that it runs about 17 minutes and was shot by Nugent himself.\n\nThe tape begins with Pikes handcuffed to a chair in the Winnfield Police Department, the sources said. He had already been hit by a so-called \"direct\" stun -- a Taser fired directly into his chest rather than from a distance -- and eight other Taser shots.\n\nOff camera, voices can be heard taunting him, shouting the \"N\" word and demanding to know if he was high on drugs, the sources said. The tape also shows Pikes foaming at the mouth and struggling to breathe. He later slumps to the floor and is ultimately taken to an emergency room with shackles around both of his ankles. CNN has seen still photographs of the lifeless body, still in leg shackles at the hospital.\n\nAt a motion hearing Monday in Winn Parish District Court, both the prosecutor, R. Chris Nevils, and the lead defense attorney, George Higgins, said in open court that the tape existed and asked Judge John Joyce to seal it until it was put into evidence at trial, now set for June 14. Both lawyers said release of the tape would taint the local jury pool and set the grounds for a change of venue. Joyce agreed and ordered that the tape not be disseminated under threat of contempt of court until it is played in open court.\n\nCNN approached Nugent after the hearing and asked him for comment on the tape but his attorneys advised him not to answer. The attorney also had no comment.\n\nAttorneys for Pikes' family have filed a wrongful death suit in a federal court in Louisiana, seeking unspecified damages from the town of Winnfield and each officer involved.\n\nThe lead attorney for the family, Carol Powell-Lexing, told CNN she believes Pikes' death has been subject to a police cover up from the beginning. A spokesman for the Winnfield Police Department said there was no cover-up." ]

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[ "The Lord's Guidance and Divine Fulfillment", null, "Matthew 2:19-23: \"But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, 'Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead.' And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee. And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.\"\n\nJoseph was entrusted with an amazing responsibility to be the earthly father to Jesus and husband to Mary. To prepare Joseph for this divine responsibility, he was visited by an angel in a dream, told to take Mary as his wife, and that her Son would be the fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy of the virgin conceiving and bearing a Son (Isaiah 9:7). Not only did Joseph receive divine guidance through a dream that night, but then he received another when they were to flee to Egypt. In our passage today, the angel directed Joseph to leave Egypt and to settle in Nazareth. This also was a divine fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies.\n\nWith each direction provided, Joseph listened and obeyed. Through his obedience, the Lord fulfilled the prophetic words of the Messiah to come to his people. Like Mary, Joseph is to be commended, admired, and emulated for his faithfulness to the Lord.\n\nMany of us think that Joseph was radically different than us and that God related to him in ways that we could never expect in our simple lives. We must remember that Joseph and Mary were simple people, poor people, uneducated people, the last among those whom the religious leaders of their day would choose to bear and raise the promised Messiah. They were also chosen people just like you and me.\n\nGod has chosen us to be his dwelling place. He doesn't just dwell with us, but he dwells within us through his Holy Spirit. Through the Holy Spirit, the Lord would guide us just as he did Joseph and Mary that we, too, may fulfill his high and holy calling on our lives.\n\nReflection:\nDo you recognize the call that God has upon your life, and do you realize that God's Spirit is within you to empower you to walk out that calling?\nTweet Share Pin It Email" ]